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PITTSBURG, THl'KbDAY, "NOV. 20, lS9a
LET THE COURTS DECIDE.
"Praise from Sir Hubert is praise in
deed," so that when the spokesmen of the
Sabbath Reform Association declare that
Pittsburg now presents the spectacle of the
most quiet and orderly Sunday observance
to be found in the country, the compliment
should, we suppose, be taken as a strong
one. But edified though the Association
lias been by this comparison of Pittsburg
with other citie, it seems all are vet not
wholly satisfied, and that their extreniest
desire for Sunday observance can only be
met by a revival and drastic application of
what are commonly known as the Blue
Laws of 1794. liven these appear only to
approximate, and do not wholly reach their
ideal. The contention is that under these
laws the driving of vehicles for hire, the
running of railroads, the work for news
papers, in iron mills and elsewhere in
short, every form of worldlv employment
which does not come under the Association's
idea ol what is necessary or charitable can
be absolutely stopped.
It is certainlv the privilege of those who
entertain these extreme views to educate
the comniuuity to them if they can, thouph
their success is not at all likely to be com
mensurate with their zeal. But upon one
point the advocates of the revival of the
Blue Laws are at least to be commended.
In place of inveighing with rancorous in
vective against the more numerous element
who do not agree in their ultra position,
and who are in no wise liable to be governed
by their views, they seem to have at last
made up their minds to make test cases
under these ancient and long ignored stat
utes. This is entirely in line with the ad
vice which The Dispatch has hitherto
offered when discussing the subject. "We
rather think the result of ultimate judicial
decisions will show that the laws oi 1794
may be taken to be considerably modified as
to their letter by the greatly changed con
ditions since the date of their passage. The
telegraph, the railroad, the newspaper,
and the processes in some of our leading in
dustries are new factors, about whose neces
sity the Courts may be quite apt to enter
tain different ideas from the extremist who
insists that all these are prohibited by the
Blue Laws.
However, the right way to go at the mat
ter is, as the association has decided, to have
complete teste upon every form of employ
ment that the strictest Sabbatarians object
to. If they should be disappointed, and the
Statutes of '94 are found to be much less
sweeping and inclusive than they now
think, they will have the privilege of agi
tating for the severest further amendments
they may desire. On the other hand, should
the public not relish the Supreme Court de
cision, a repeal of the law or other modifica
tion to meet public requirements can be in
sisted upon. A test ot everything that is al
leged to be governed by the laws should be
bad; and it is to be hoped that when the As
sociation undertakes this it will not shrink
from making the test a full and thorough
one. Enougn interest promises to be taken
in the matter to secure that there will be no
omissions; and that the old laws, if revived
at all. will be revived so that they shall have
full effect This will help the public to
early judgment of their expediency.
WELCOME, LITTLE STK ANGER.
Pittsburg has an elephant on her hands
at last, Strange to say it is a source of joy,
for it is a pachyderm in all reality, with a
lough gray hide, a trunk, incipient tusks
and a fashion of blowing its own trumpet at
all seasons. The elephant is but a young
thing from India's coral strand, brought
liere through the generous enterprise of a
leading mercantile house tn play a star part
in the Schenley Park Zjo. In its new
quarters our young friend from Inaia will
prove no doubt an abiding delight to small
Pittsburgers, both now and in the long
years to come. One o the good features of
the elephant is that it has an office holder's
jrrip of lile, and, unlike the dear gazelle,
does not die the moment its owner begins to
love it Dealing in elephant futures is
tolerably safe, and we may look forward to
the day when the little elephant of to-day
will be literally the biggest thing in the
most beautiful park in the land. No longer
can the unregeaerate say that they have to
j;o to X ew York to see the elephant
AN" UNWISE EXODUS.
Reports of cases in which people in the
advanced stages of consumption have caught
at the chances of lile held out by perhaps
too roseate reports of Dr. Koch's discovery,
and have taken passage lor Europe, makes
pertinent a warning against rash action in
spired by hasty hopes. That people under
sentence of lingering death should catch at
CTery straw of hope is natural; but it is
nevertheless wiser and kinder for them to
understand that it is best to wait further ex
periments. In the first place it should be understood
that Dr. Koch has made no claim yet to be
able to cure advanced stages of consumption.
He has been very careful to state that his
discovery so lar consists in fixing the nature
of the tuberculous bacilli and in devising
a remedy which seemingly cures its earlier
ravages. "Whether the relief will be perma
nent or not. Dr. Koch has clearly stated,
must be left for the future to demonstrate.
There has not as yet been any demonstration
of the power of the curative lymph in cases
where the disease has reached an advanced
stage.
A voyage to Germany at this season of the
year would be a perilous undertaking for a
consumptive person at the best; and if he
should reach Berlin alive, it is doubtful
whether, in the crowds of arjulicants seeking
--
relief, he could obtain the care and treat
ment that would be given him at home. It
is ol course bard for those whose lives are at
stake to wait; but it will be wise for them to
remember that if the new treatment gives
them a hope of life, the remedy can be
brought to them more easily and more safely
than they can be taken to the remedy.
CORPORATE KITE FLYING.
That aspect of the recent stock squeeze
which hit Henry Villard and his magnifi
cent edifices in the way corporations with
immensely imposing capitalization and very
little real investment shrink in a panic is
especially interesting and instructive.
There is a great deal about Mr. Yillard's
financiering calculated to call out a tolerant
admiration. His genius in the way of get
ting together an unrivaled collection of
speculative cats and dogs, and by capitalizing
them under a corporation with a new kind of
name, erecting a glittering fabric of credit,
is something phenomenal even among the
fraternity of stock inflaters. Bnt an even
more exceptional feature of Mr. Villard's
genuis, and one which almost reconciles his
victims to him, is that for getting caught in
the collapse of his own bubbles. Jay Gould's
process of getting a worthless properly in
shape to float on the unsuspecting public is
slow and painstaking beside tbc dashing
achievements of Villard in the same line;
but his fiuale to every such work of art, in
the form of quietly unloading and getting
his profits safely in bank before the drop
comes, is almost as certain as the
two proverbial certainties, death and taxa
tion. Mr. Villard, on the other hand, while
floating his bubbles with a dash that leaves
Gould far in the rear, sticks to them till the
catastrophe comes down in the general
smash, and then gets on his feet again, with
a gallantry that almost indicates the belief
on his part that his attractive balloons are
real and solid values.
The especial product of Mr. Villard's art
which came down to the hard earth with a
crash this time was the North American
Company. This is one of those peculiar
corporations whose charters aie turned out
to order by the Xew Jersey Legislature to
permit corporate capital to do whatever its
wildest dreams mar have conceived in the
line of kite flying, combining or monopo
lizing all classes of corporate investments.
Pennsylvania used to do a little something
in the way of turning out special charters
to order, which lelt the corporation at lib
erty for anything it wanted, from building
railroads or running a natural gas line
down to running a bank, bucking the oil
market or dealing in hides and tallow. That
business was cnt off by the constitutional
prohibitions; but New Jersey has been more
than taking the function by inflicting the
country with a brood of corporations of
which the North American Company was
the first, but is by no means the last one.
A New York financial writer says the
North American Company was organized
simply for gambling purposes. The fact
that its officials could buy, sell, hypothecate
stocks, bonds, railroads, electric plants or
terminals, gives a good deal of color to the
statement The fact is that these broad
gauged and unlimited corporations are de
vised simply to permit of the creation of
values out of the real or supposed ability to
combine the control of a number of other
corporations. It would not answer the pur
pose to let the stock of the various corpora
tions remain in individual control, becanse
that might result in running each corpora
tion for its separate interests and would
utterly fail to erect on top of them all a new
edifice of corporate values, on property al
ready capitalized to two or three times its
real value.
"While the North American Company suc
ceeded in temporarily adding some tens of
millions to the total of purely fictitious
values, the bubble was so easily pricked
that it is comparatively a rather harmless
example of the utter uutrustworthiness of
Mr. Villard's favorite methods of wholesale
financiering. Its shares were marked up
into the fifties, but at the first touch of ad
versity they came tumbling down to 7, a
price that much more nearly represents the
real values. It was doubtless intended to
monopolize nil the subsidiary branches of
profit along the Northern Pacific road; but it
did not, as some other of this New Jersey
charters are intended to do, establish a
monopoly which could extort profits from
the public, for any permanent period. It is
simply a case of kite flying on so magnifi
cent a scale as to leave Mr. Villard's pre
vious blind pool achievements wholly in
the shade, and its rise and fall have both
been so striking as to almost beggar the
imagination as to what that meteoric finan
cier will do next in order to keep up his
reputation.
THE GOSPEL OF KINDNESS.
President Eaton of the Humane Society
very rightly thinks the world can be made
kinder to children and dumb animals if
humanity and gentleness are taught in the
schools. The Society is trying to influence
school teachers in "Western Pennsylvania to
this end. But parents can do more than the
school teachers. The idea that it is wrong
and disgraceful to hurt any creature ought
to be one of the first to be planted in the in
fant mind. There is too much toleration of
juvenile cruelty to animals, too great a
tendency to exense wanton unkindness on
some such ground as that "boys will be
boys." No matter how small he be, a boy
who tortnres a cat or a dog ought to be pun
ished and instructed as to the fileness of the
misdeed. No trait in the human character
bears more terrible fruit if allowed to de
velop unchecked than that ot cruelty. It is
latent in most natures, too, andean best be
controlled in its infancy. If parents would
he careful to teach humanity at home, the
work ot our great anti-cruelty societies
would be enormously reduced.
STREET AND ROAD KEFORM.
The suggestion of the Mayor of Boston to
the Secretary of State, that consuls of the
United States should be instructed to report
on the methods of making roads and streets
in foreign countries, and the adoption of the
suggestion by Mr. Blaine, is an Indication
of the general awakening to the fact that
our streets and roads require improvement
Doubtless the consular reports can add
something to the stock of information ou
this subject; but it is an open question if
the net result will not be to add a great deal
of waste matter to the already somewhat re
markable consular literature of this coun
try. It is to be doubted whether a roving com
mission on the subject of streets and roads
will enable the majority of our consuls to
teach the American people. Except at such
cities as Liverpool, London, Paris, Lyons
or Marseilles, it may be questioned whether
there is anything to be learned concerning
street paving that this country does not
know already. Throughout the rural dis
tricts of the more advanced European coun
tries the roads are far better than ours; but
that is not the result of any especial process
to be discovered by our consuls as much as
the steady maintenance of the policy of
keeping up good roads, by a process that
has been known in a meager way and used
in this country for years.
What is needed to solve the road and
street problem, is not information on new
methods, but the application of those
methods to secure good buildingand prompt
repairs for the maintenance of highways.
Thus in this city we have an illustration
that it is not necessary to go abroad to find
durable and smooth pavements. "We have,
as The Dispatch pointed out the other
day, a specimen of asphalt pavement that
has outlasted all the pavements and demon
strated its economy as well as smoothness:
but the difficulty seems to be in keeping
new work up to that standard. As to coun
try road making, we need n6t go ont of
Pennsylvania to find durable and solid ma
cadamised roads. What we have to find is
the reform in the methods oi country road
work which will direct it to the securing of
such results.
It is a demonstrated fact that the wasted
labor in paving and road making for the
past generation or two ought to have pro
vided all our cities with smooth and dur
able pavements and a great share of the
country districts with solid highways. It
is also beyond question that the waste of
motive power on bad highways, together
with loss of time and wear and tear of ve
hicles, would, if reduced to money value,
pnt all our streets and roads in good repair
in ten years. But the failure to save this
waste is not due so much to the lack of
knowledge as to the methods of making good
highways, which are to be found in engi
neering reports, as to the failure to main
tain an administrative system such as will
insist on good work in the nrst place, and
then maintain the improved highways by
vigilant care and prompt repairing.
SAFEGUARDS AGAINST EPIDEMIC.
The presence of an epidemic of diphtheria
on the Southsidc, which has made it neces
sary to close some of the schools, indicates
the necessity of care in, sanitation and
prompt action on the first appearance of the
disease. From the remarks of physicians it
appears that no case of sore throat should be
neglected lest it develop into the serious
form of the prevailing ailment; and the ne
cessity of guarding against infection is made
clear enough by the malignant type of the
trouble. While these points are important
for all individuals in that quarter of the
city, the public duty is no less evident of
investigating closely into the unsanitary
conditions which have been so general on
the Southside as to produce this distressing
ailment
NEW EXPLORERS FOR AFRICA.
The errand of the four young men of this
section who are going to penetrate to the
Upper Congo, if not to the Nyanzas, in or
der to find out the truth of what Stanley
has been doing there, is doubtless inspired
by laudaDle motives; but its practical wis
dom may be doubted. In the first place
after our earnest investigators have strug
gled with the coast fevers and difficult paths
that will confront them before they have
passed the first cataracts of the Congo, and
before they have secured a steamer to take
them along the stretches of the "Upper
Congo or even contemplate penetrating the
forests that lie between the Congo and the
lakes, they may conclude that what they are
after is hardly worth the privation, danger
and disease that is necessary to reach it
In the next place, supposing them to have
followed Stanley's path from coast to coast,
and to have uneartned a large amount of in
terestinginformation.whowillcorroboratethe investigators? It is worth while to remem
ber that Stanley's statements with regard to
his four African expeditions have always
been corroborated in time, and that there is
now no real conflict between the statements
of Stanley, Jephson, Bonny and Ward as
to the facts of the late expedition. We
would not discourage any exploring zeal,
but to simply follow Stanley's path will add
nothing to the results of exploration. As
for finding out what he has been doing, that
can be obtained much more economically by
the investment ot a small sum in the books
of Stanley, Jephson and their comrades.
It is one of the humorous features of the
late political turn that is famished by the
earnest conviction of the New York It orld that
now there is a Democratic House, it is an
anomaly and anachronism that that House
should not meet until over a year after its
election. Consequently the World finds Itself
actually urging an extra session for next
spring. Times as well as conditions change et
nos mulamur in ilhs.
Rtjthiel now calls the attention of the
public to the reasons for thinking that ''the
conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Mars
now occurring and coinciding with the tremen
dous convulsion in the money market of the
world is a circumstance that should not go un
regarded." This seems to be qui'e as good
logic as that of our ultra Republican friends
who are laying it on the elections. None of
them can, however, afford to ignore the fact
that the conjunction of some over-ripe stock
bubbles with a squeeze ou the part of the
money kings had a good deal to do with it
Cornell TJniteksity's Historical and
Fotitical Association has, by tbo generosity of
one of the faculty, offered a prize of fifty dol
lars for the best essay on "Electoral Corrup
tion, Its Causes, Extent and Remedy." The
trouble with that subject is that the men who
know all about its causes and extent will de
cline to make their knowledge public for any
such sum as fifty dollars.
And now the Philadelphia Press wants
the Clearing House of that city to issue certifi
cates to the banks there, although the latter In
stitutlons are in need of no aid and aro resting
on the reserves with the quiet conservatism of
that city. The spread of the idea that the cur
rency must be Inflated for the benefit of the
great capitalists, but never for the benefit of
the ordinary people, is one of the peculiar feat
ures of opinion in alleged financial circles.
The gambling tables ot Monaco pay a
dividend of S2 per cent this year. If the vic
tims of the Louisiana lottery or of Wall street
manipulation coald be informed of the per
centage of profit which is obtained by the
people behind these brace games, it might give
them new light on the advisability of beating
the sharpers by putting their money in the
savings bank.
Down in Georgia the people have made
the pleasant discovery that a murder for which
a man was lynched some time ago was really
committed by other people, who are now under
arrest for the crime. There are people who as
sert that "the wrong man Is never lynched,"
but the truth is that the wrong man Is just as
likely to be lynched as the right one. For ut
terly stupid and brutal criminality the fashion
of mnrder by mob law is unsurpassed.
It ts reassuring to learn that Oklahoma
has settled the site of its capital by making it
the prize of a general and reckless shooting
match. At one time it seemed as if nothing
but the artillery could determine that issue;
but peace won the day, and there is now hope
that the county seat fights, when Oklahoma
gets counties, will not be more than skirmishes.
The intimation that Thomas B. Piatt, of
New York, has suffered a political demise is
laughed to scorn by the New York Tribune,
with the assertion that the announcement of
his death has been made about thirty times
but he still lives. The esteemed Tfilune thus
lays especial emphasis upon ex-Senator
Piatt's possession of those proverbial charac
teristics of the class in which deaths are scarce
and resignations unknown.
SNAP SHOTS JN SEASON.
The man who writes a successful opera
scores a success.
lr you knew as much JThen as you do Now
you would have done so- and so, wouldn't youT
Now haven't you silently or openly expressed
this opinion some time or otheiT It's not
venturing much of a guess to say you have.
All ot us have thoughtlessly uttered this
thought: If 1 knew as much then as I know
now, things would have been different with
me, I can assure you. Oh, of course they
would. But you didn't know as much then as
you do now, and things are as they are, and
that settles it. If knowledge in all its fullness
had been given us then, what use would the
mind he now? If will were given in advance of
the force to apply Jt what use could
we make of the force we now enjoyT If
the pleasures or the pains of to-morrow were a
part and parcel of to-day, to-morrow's sun
wonld set in to-day's cloud. Ut jou could
snatch from the future all its joys or all its sor
rows, ana only live on their memories, in the
full Knowledge that you bavo tasted all the
sweets of the years to come, scentless leaves,
empty shells, flavorless fruits, dead leaves,
stripped gardens, barren fields, noiseless waters
would await you. It's better that we cannot
apply the knowledge we may get to-morrow to
the work of to-day. We would have been worn
out long ago if we conld. We would have no
memories of a careless childhood. Age and
youth would hive met on the same playground.
The grave would have been closer to the cradle.
A good dog irill follow a scent as eagerly as
a miser.
A hunter does not need to be an extraordi
nary marttsmai, to shoot a bare.
Some philanthropic person conld make a hit
by opening a htme for brok en down Wall street
brokers.
Creditors are strongly attached to an in
solvent firm, bat their attachment is of the
money sort
When a stranger enters your home and yuu
desire to test his religious education, just ask
him to say Grace when the table is ready for
the assaulting party.
A great many people imagine that the. mat
rimonial tie is a slip-knot
WHEK, O WHEN?
When weathor always Satisfies,
When politic!) are stripped of Lies;
When all men form a Brotherhood,
When women seek true Motherhood;
When Scandal taints nobody's tongue,
"When Envy to the winds is flung:
When Self is buried fathoms deep,
When Conscience never breaks our sleep;
When we no Uecrets have to tell.
When Hatred in no heart doth dwell;
When but for Love all couples mate,
When Hope 1b no more linked to Fate;
When Friendship lasts up to the grave,
When Vice has freed its every slave;
When Churches join and Creeds combine.
When Water takes the place of Wine;
When all men seek the common weal.
When all a common impulse feel;
When king? are Men and men are Kings,
When Labor sweetest comfort brings;
When swords are rusty in their sheaths.
When bloodluss hands weave laurel wreaths;
When cannoiis boom on festal days,
When soldiers only strut in plays;
When jails bocome the training school.
When all obssrve the Golden Rule,
Then we will gaze on cloudless skies,
Then Earth will be a Paradise.
There is a heap of difference between a bank
firm and a firm bank.
A clause in the will frequently makes the
heirs claw each other.
The memory is the phonograph which retains
the voico of a true friend.
Cablegrams are well seasoned.
lr some scientist could discover a remedy to
cure the consumption of whisky, humanity
would be benelited immensely.
The Wall street firms no longer fall with a
dull thud. Stuck speculation and legitimate
business no longer go hand in hand.
Minnie Palmer stood the rutting remarks
of her husband, but she drew the line at a
butcher knife.
It is said that a pint of hot water taken just
before retiring will induce sleep. Don't put
any whisky and lemon in it
Bankers c in stand a draft without catch
ing cold.
A she is at the bottom of the Farnell-O'Shea
trouble, of course.
The kosher meat shops are multiplying with
the growth of our Hebrew population. New
synagogues are also springing up. Only those
who live in the districts peopled by the new
comers can form a correct idea of the great in
crease in Pittsburg's Hebrew colony.
We have laws for fish and game,
Laws that fit between the Mondays;
But these laws are very tame
When compared with laws for Sundays,
The Indians now preparing for the warpath
are mixing their war paint with whisky.
A creditable business cannot be carried on
jjith credit
Ip you want to pick your teeth visit a good
dentist
It's only a question of time until a few folk
shall gather together and decide to reform the
weather.
Ton Cooper says the Farmers' Alliance has
broken the Solid South. If Tom will ro back
over tbo newspaper files andpetuae some of the
platforms adopted when they put up their can
didates he will find that tho Southern grangers
are sitting firmly in the saddle.
Popularity Is a very uncertlon quantity.
One day tbe crowd shouts "Hosauna," and the
next day "Crucify him!"
AT all events Parnell did not plead the baby
act or attempt perjury.
Beats are found in bars of music as well as
barrooms.
Ik a prominent church last Sunday a Bible
class teacher was upset by a worldly-minded
jou thin his class who, in response to a ques
tion, said: "Jesus was the friend of Repub
licans and sinners." He bad evidently bet on
tbe wrong man.
Never ask a dishonest man for an honest
opinion.
The Empire State is In a funny snarl.
The party now in Legislative power
To end the Senatorial quarrel
Are asked to ehoose between a Weed or
Flower.
Dr. Kocn needs guinea pigs to make his
lymph. This is probably the reason why it costs
a guinea a bottle.
The wild Western Indians seemingly rofuse
to raise anything but hair.
It's a question of a rest or arrest with the
Sabbath reformers.
The distiller always keeps his spirits up.
THE--only enemy who can do you a lasting
injury is yourself.
THE mortgago held by tho Clan Cameron on
Keystone State politics will hardly be lifted
next winter.
THE telephone ring was formed by Bell, and
many belles thrive upon it
The men In the orchestra always faco the
music
The World's Fair bids fair to become a very
disgraceful affair. Why not make it National
and shift it from the Lake Front to tbe Poto
mac Flats?
t
, The hard drinker has a rye face.
Willie Winkle,
THE LAST TEA PARTY
To Be Given for the Benefit of Orphans
Proves a Social and Financial Sucess
The Woman's Guild Bazaar Gossip of
Society Circles.
It Is a possibility that tbe orphans' tea party
at Lafayette Hall last evening will be the last
of the series that have for so many years been
a feature of Pittsburg social lile and of such
great benefit to the wee little ones that make
their home in Sr, Paul's Asylum.
The ladles interested in tbe asylum and the
care uf the inmates are endeavoring to obtain
the names of a sufficient number of gentlemen
who will pledge themselves to give annually a
sum that in tbe aggregate will amount to $10,000
lor tbe support of tbe home. When this
is accomplished the necessary bard work on tbe
part of the benevolent and energetic ladies at
tendant upou tbe tea parties will be dispensed
with and a goodly share of pleasure also on tne
part of tbe many who have regarded tbe affair
as the most notable of tbe year.
Whether it was the last- or not it was a
brilliant success, as all of its predecessors have
been, and $5,000 cash, according to Airs. Charles
Donnelly, tbe President of tbe committee, will
be placed to the credit of the tiny orphans or
those In authority over them. Lafayette Hall
never looked prettier than it did last evening
and never was more ciowded. Tbe walls and
ceilings were almost hidden with an abundance
of gaily colored bunting that in graceful folds
and festoons denied the existence of dinginess
or anything suegestive of aught but brightness
and beauty.
Bowers of Beauty.
The booths, three in number,were marvels ot
perfection. The floral booth was diaped in ex
quisite rose pink, garnished with natural roses
and luxuriant green smllax, and enshrined in
its realm of prettiness and perfume were to be
found Mrs. Charles Donnelly.Mrs. Gilbert Raf
erty. Miss Kate Keating, Misses Mary and
Catherine Keating, Misses Marie anil Collette
Phelan, Miss Rose Callery, Miss Mary Dabbs
and Miss Alice Rafferty,
On tbe same side of the hall and
almost rivaling the floral booth
n point of daintiness and beauty was the fancy
work booth. Pale lavender was used in its
draplngs, and its construction was such as to
excite a great deal of admiring comment. The
goods for sale did likewise, as everything new
and particularly desirable in the line of fancy
work was there to be found, and the sales justi
fied the sweet smiles with which tbe charming
young ladies who presided greeted each and
every purchaser. They were Misses Mamie
O'Connor, Ali?e McCullougb. Blanche bchwarn,
Josephine Rielly, Nellie Duffy, Catherine Mc
Bride, Ella Seafortb, the little Misses O'Con
nor and Mrs. John Rogers.
On the opposite side of the room the lemon
ade booth, magnificent in its drapings or gold
and beautiful in design, occupied considerable
space, and the crowd that patronized it proved
its popularity. Flourishing tropical plants in
exquisite vases of rarest cbina, with numerous
candelabra containing wax candles of tbe same
golden hue as the drapings, completed the
nrettv picture. From immense punch bowls
Mrs. John McCaffery and Mrs. J. K. Canahan
supplied the thirsty with the delicious, thougn
tart, beverage.
Music at the Feast
The platform, thickly massed with palms and
flowering plants, was utilized by Gernert's Or
chestra, and their rendition of numerous, popu
lar and pleasing melodies added much to the
eiijoynient of the evening.
The supper room was a scene alike to inspire
admiration and hunger. Six long tables ar
ranged In the most approved style with decided
colors of yellow, red, blue, pink and white were
ladened with viands of the same high order of
excellence that have made the tea party sup
pers by reputation the most delicious served to
the Pittsburg public
The ladies in charge of the supper table with
the officers were:
President Mrs. Charles Donnelly: Vice Presi
dents, Miss Stafford. Mrs. John McCaffrey. Mrs.
J. K. Lanahan, Mrs. H. Mackiu, Mrs. Gilbert
lJaflerty, Mrs. M. Connolly: Treasurer, Mrs,
John McNultv; Secretary. Miss Jones.
IITable Jio. 1. pink Chairmen, Miss Sue Lynch,
Mrs. William Colbert, Mrs. J. it. Larkln, Mrs.
Krouse; Aids, Miss P. Bropliy, Miss Maggie
Fogarty, Miss Ella Lees, Miss Annie Colbert.
Miss Alice Larkln, Miss Annie lit, Miss Kate
Cassldy, Miss Sadie McMunnlgle, Miss Bella
Gaffney.
Table No. 2, white-Chairmen, Mrs. O'Dougb
erty. Mrs. A. C. Fogo. Miss Kate Uracey, Miss
Jennie McCarthy: aids. Miss Annie Carroll, Miss
itebecca Dougherty, Miss Kite McSwlgan, Mls
Katie Brady, Mis Mamie Tracer, Miss Hannah
Shea. Miss Lcttla McCarthy, Miss Lizzie lie
Nally, Miss Hughes.
Table .No. 3, red-Chairmen, Mrs. M. Connolly,
Mrs. Mary Murphy. Mrs. John McNnlty, Mrs.
Houston; aids. Miss Annlo Briley, Miss Tessle
Krlnkman. Miss Mart Masterson, Miss Marv Ann
lveenan. Miss Lizzie Coffey. Miss Mary Bernan,
Miss Sophia Fedder. Miss Kate Uarvey.
Table o. 4, blue Chairmen. Mrs. H Mackln,
Mrs. C. sauers, Mrs. A. Kennedy, Mrs. C. O.
Dixon, Miss Hose Curran: aide. Miss Lizzie 91 II
llean, Miss Maggie Ford, Miss Jennie Sule, Miss
Kate Exler, Miss Curran, Miss Annie Geary, Miss
Aggie McNally. Miss 'Ihercsa Devlne, Mrs.
Charles llolsky. Miss Lizzie Greeley.
Tabic No. 5. yellow Chairmen. Mrs. J. J. Tow
lev. Mrs. 1". Smith, Mrs. McKeevcr. Mrs. Blanch
urd: aids. Miss Jean Devlin, Miss Childs. Miss
Costcllo, Miss Weber. MIs Elltabth iriel, Ulss
SallleFriel, Miss McDonald, MissMaloney.
BEAUTY AT A BAZAAR,
Successful Entertainment Given for tho Ben
efit of the Woman's Guild.
Cyclorama Hall has seldom been graced with
as pretty a bazaar and as stylish an assemblage
as that which yesterday afternoon and even
ing made the place a realm of beauty and en
joyment. It was the trinity bazaar for the
benefit of the Woman's Guild. One of the
most uniqne foatures of the bazaar was the old
woman who lived in the shoe, and from her
multitudinous family nf dolls of all sizes kind
hearted people were not slow in making
adoptions.
The fancy table was beautifully arranged in
pale pine, and the variety and artistic finish
of the display made upon it was beyond com
petition. At the children's table everything to delight
a childish heart, from bonbons, candies and
cookies to toys ot every description, were to be
found. Its drapings were of yellow.
Lemonade was dispensed from a cool-looking
canopy of green. Punch and Judy, a
phonograph, weighing scales and a grab bag
formed tbe other attraction', with ice cream
served continually, and a supper by Luther be
tween the L rsof 6and8.
Those instrumental in the unparalleled suc
cess of tbe bazaar and in charge of the various
departments were:
Fancy Table and News Stand Mrs. Harry Dar
lington, Mrs. James B. McFadden, Mrs. Chris
tian Ilimsen, Miss Catherwood.
Children's Table Mrs. William U. Singer,
Chairman. Aids -Miss Amey Watson, Miss
Agnes Dickson, Miss Kosalind Smith. Miss Louise
Wood, Miss Willa Forsythe. Miss Mary Laugh
Un. Miss Anna hcalfc. Miss Marcuerlte singer.
Lemonade Booth Mrs. Haworth and Mrr.
Doubleday, Chairmen. Aids Miss Alice 11a
worth, Mfss George Gormlr. MHs Mary Brown,
Miss Alice Tiiidle, Miss Lois Bally. Miss Alice
Painter. Miss lEoma Uuselton.
Tealablc Mrs. W. It Bliir, Chairman. Aids
Miss Watson, Miss Bessie Howe, Miss Madie For
syth. Miss Louise Speer.
Grabbag Mrs. V. G. Park, Chairman.
Punch and Jud Mrs. George McBride, Chair
man. Aids Mater George McBride, Master
liirry siebeneck.
Weighing Scales and Phonograph Mrs. J. T.
Patterson, Chairman. Aids Kenneth Painter,
Marshal Bell. BcnJ. McCora, Bedell Suydam.
bupner Chairmen. Mrs. L. M. Harding, Mrs.
Park Painter, Mrs. John s. lliys. Miss Israel and
Mrs. Tschudv. Aids Miss Gormlr, Miss Slar
giret Slacce. Miss Clara Morgan, MUs Julia Mor
gan. Miss lloag. Miss Hattic Iloag, Miss Julia
Hays.
Ice Cream Mrs. Benjamin Bakewell, Chairman.
Aids-Miss Patty Laugblin. Mls Mary Keed. Miss
Mollie Siebeneck, Miss Annie Rhodes. Miss Carrie
Hays, Miss Lvdla McKnlght Miss Ann ltoblnson.
Miss Emma Price, Miss Annie Smith, Miss Nora
Oliver. Miss Margaret Phillips. Miss Fanny Hay,
Miss Bakewell, Miss Eupbemla Bakewell aud Miss
Mj rth Bakewell.
Doll Table Miss Bebecca Darlington, Miss
Madelalne Laughlin, Miss Elizabeth Chambers,
Miss Slav Dllwortu, Miss Virginia Beggs, Miss
Matilda Clarkson.
Doorkeepers Mr. Douglas Stewart, Mr. John
H. Blcketson and Mr. Arthur Bell. -
A QUIET CHUBCH WEDDING.
Marrlago of Mr. George Flaccns to Miss
Minnie "Welse.
? A private wedding last evening at the Trinity
Church. Allegheny, united Miss Minnie Weise,
daughter of tho late A. Wcisc, and Mr. George
Flaccns, of the firm of Flaccns &Son. Rev.
Dr. Goettman. pastor of the chnrcb, was the
officiating clergyman. Tho only witnesses
to tho contract were tbe bridemaid, Miss Lyda
Weise, a sister of the bride, and Mr. P. Har
rington Laufman, the groomsman.
An evening tram Dore thevonng couple to
the East, where the honeymoon will be spent
On their return a residence in the Fast End
will be taken up.
A WEDDINfJ THIS EVEBTNG,
Miss Katherine Shatztnan and Jphn MHvey
to Join Hands.
Miss Katherine Sbatzman and John Milvey,
Mayor Wyman's chief clerk, will bo married
this evening bv tbe Rev. Mr. Roblson at the
Cumberland Baptist Cburcb. Allegheny.
Afte. "ie marriage ceremony tbe guests will
repair to tho home of the bride, 138 East street
where a wedding dinner will be served and con
gratulations will be in order.
On tbe morning following the nuptials the
bride and groom will start on a Southern trip.
Acme Council's Social.
Miss Kitty Hamm. the bright and promising
pnpil of B. W. King's school of elocution, will
recite at an open meeting of Acme Council, Jr.
O. U. A. M., in ddd Fellows' Hall, this even
ing. The meeting will be attended by a large
number of members with their families and
friends, and a good sociable evening is ex
pected. Social Chatter.
Mr. and MRS. Browh. who were married
recently In New York, will be tendered a re
ception this evening at the residence of the
bride's parents on Bluwell street Bast End.
Mrs. James R. Mellon will give a tea on
Tuesday afternoon, November 25, in honor of
Mrs. William Larimer Jones, at tbe Mellon
residence on Kegley avenue.
CARDS are out for atea to be given by Mrs.
Jonas Roup McClintock. Thursday, November
20, from i to 6 o'clock, at the hostess' residence,
Fifth avenue. East End.
THE Lawrenceville Presbyterian Cburcb will
open its bazaar this afternoon and serve supper
this evening, the performance to be repeated
to-morrow.
Mrs. George d. Humphries and Miss
Humphries give a 5 o'clock tea .Saturday, No
vember 22, at their residence on Dallas avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Armstrong, of Wll
klnsbnrg, entertained at their lovely home last
evening.
Mrs. J. E. Porter, of Forbes street will re
ceive her friends this afternoon from 2 to 6
o'clock.
The annual missionary dinner will be served
to-day in tbe First Methodist Cburcb, Fifth
avenue.
Miss Jeanne Eggers, of Allegheny, gives a
cobweb tanele party this evening.
The Moorhead W. C. T. U. served its annual
dinner and supper yesterday.
The Welfer-Robertson wedding In Hazel
wood to-day.
SUGGESTIVE PERSONALS.
Mrs. Florence Finch-Kelly, the Boston
newspaper writer and editor, is a Kansas girl
by birth- She is slight and dark and an inde
fatigable worker.
Probably very few people know that Congressman-elect
Sherman Hoar was the model
for tbe statue of John Harvard, which stands
in the delta at Cambridge.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, wife of the Chicago
capitalist is famous in Chicago as a house
keeper. She is especially expert in all the in
tricacies of tbe culinary art.
Miss Effie Shannon, has at last announced
her marriage to Henry Guy Carleton, another
quite successful American dramatist This
marriage took place some months ago, and not
a few of Miss Shannon's friends had a suspicion
of the fact at the time it occurred.
The most formidable opponent to the pol
ished Senator Ingalls in the Kansas Senatorial
contest is John F. Will its. whom tbe Farmers'
Alliance nearly elected Governor, and who is
thus described: "He dresses in store clothes,
wears a slouch hat and woolen shirt and his
boots aro strangers to blacking and brush. He
makes a favorable impression on the stump,
and is never at a loss for something to say."
John Fiske, it is said, feels more at home in
New York than in Boston. After graduating
from tbe Harvard Law School he opened a law
office in tbe Hub. Six months be waited for
clients, and then concluded to devote himself
literature. Whatever Mr. Fiske may think of
Boston there is no doubt that he loves Cam
bridge, where he lives with a charming wile
and six children.
Miss Pho3be Couzins, lawyer and lecturer,
and who has tbe honor of being the first of her
sex to hold an executive office in the United
States, says the most Important event of the
day, as showing tbe trend of public sentiment,
was the recent action of tbe World's Fair Com
missioners at Chicago in providing for the
creation of a Board of Lady Managers in con
nection with the Columbian Exposition, with
equal representation and powers as the male
members of the commission.
An Important link between the Church and
tbe stage has been severed by the sudden death
of the Rev. Henry White, chaplain of tbe
Savoy in London. Mr. White was scarcely a
familiar figure on first nights; indeed, the Ly
ceum and the Savoy were the only theaters
which knew him on these occasions. But emi
nent actors and actresses were familiar figures
in his chapel, especially on Sunday mornings,
and when they desired it he gave them m mar
riage and christened tbeir babies, one might
almost say, by the dozen. He was absolutely
devoid of priestly pride and occasionally he
gave offense in consequence of his determined
recognition of the equality of all in tbe sight
of heaven.
PREPARING FOR THE ECUMENICAL.
Meeting of Methodist Bishops From All
Parts of the Country.
Philadelphia, November 19. The Gen
eral Committee to make arrangements for the
assembling of the Ecumenical Council of tbe
Methodist Church met in this city to-day.
Those present included Bishops Foss, Bowman,
Hurst, Hendrix, Gorman, Payne. Arnett
Clnnecllnr Garland." of Vanderbilt University,
General Superintendent Gcman and others,
representing all tbe divisions of the church
and all parts of the rountry.
It was resolved that the representation for
tbe churches in America should be 300 dele
gates, and of the foreign conference by 200 del
egates. Washington, Nashville and Baltimore were
tbe contestants lor tbe place of holding tho
Council. It was finally decided to hold tbe
Council at Washington, beginning the third
Wednesday of October, 1891.
A NOTABLE WEDDING.
Dr. Wood Married to the Ward of Justice
Field in Washington.
Washington, November 19. Miss Louise
Condit-Smith and Dr. Leonard Wood, U. S. A,
were married yesterday afternoon at tbe resi
dence of Associate Justice Field, on Capitol
Hill. The bride is the eldest daughter of the
late Colonel Condit-Smith, who was on General
Sherman's staff, and who was Quartermaster
General of the Army of Tennessee. His widow,
who was his second wife, is a sister of Justice
Field's wife, and at the death of her husband,
a few years ago. Justice Field assumed tbe
guardianship of her stepchildren.
The bride did not care for a large wedding
and .he ceremony was witnessed by but a few
dI the large circle of acquaintances of the two
families.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
TV. Laird Black.
There are many in Pittsburg who will be deeply
grieved to hear of the death of William Laird,
Black, who passed away yesterday at ino
o'clock, lie spent his boyhood days In Lawrence
ville, and on reaching man's estate, traveled ten
years through various parts of the West. While
there he founded several newspapers which are
still prosperous. One wis at Walla Walla, an
other at Wtston. Ore., and another at
Bismarck. Dak. For the pat five yr irs liu lias
been in charge of the typographical department
or Best & Co . the printers, and had the reputa
tion of remarkably fine typographical taste. Tne
Pan-American souvenir, which attracted so much
attention, was gotten out under 111 supervision,
and almost his last work was the souvenir or the
iron and steel masters. He was prominent In the
Knights of Pythias, having passed all the chairs
He was highly esteemed and a man of strong
friendships. lie was married about even ears
ago to Miss Maud T. Sheridan, daughter of Mrs.
S. F. Daum. of Stewart's Station. Pa. No chil
dren blessed their union, but their married life
was especially bappv and beautiful. Mr. Black
was 38 years ol age. He suffered irom tubercular
consumption, the seeds of which were sown dur
ing bis exposed life in the West.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher.
rsranAi. tfxepuam to tub DispATon:.!
.NEW YORK, November 19. Elizabeth Fisher,
who was probably the oldest actress In this coun
try, althonglishe had not appeared on the stage
tor about 20 years, died Tuesdiy at her home in
this rity. 139 West Twentieth street or old age.
-Mrs. Plsher was 80 years old. shewas an aunt of
Joseph Jelterson and a sister-in-law by her last
marriage of Clara Fisher Maeder. Mrs. Fisher
made her debut In Philadelphia at the old Chest
nut Street '1 heater when she was 15 J ears of age.
Not long after this she married Sam Chapman,
who was then manager or the old Walnut Street
Tuenter. Philadelphia. She has had two other
husbands, her tecond being a Mr. Bichardson, a
merchant of Baltimore, and her third being
Charles J. B. Fisher.
Of the six children born to Mrs. Fisher by her
three husbands, but one survives. Clara Fisher,
who for the pist few ycaro his been singing In the
cliolrof a St. John's (N. F.) Church. Under the
namcorMrs. Chapman, the dead actress whs for a
number of years the leading lady or the old Park
Theater in this city.
Lady Roseberry.
London, November 19. Lady Koseberry. wife
of Lord Koseberry, the well-known Liberal states
man, died at 6 o'clock this morning. She was tne
only daughter of the late Baron Mayer de Roth
schild, and was married to Lord Boseberry March
20, 1877.
Ex-Postmaster Thomas Jones.
CLEVELAND, November 19. Ex-Postmaster
Thomas Jones died this morning or Injuries re
ceived by falling into a basement of a new build
ing una dart; night.
Iter. Dr. Adams.
London, November 19. Rev; Dr. Adams, leader
of tke Free Church In bcotland, is dead,
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Everything by Express.
"MEIf d0 ba,ln!SS ia a hurry nowadays," said
a Pittsburg manufacturer yesterday, "and
one of tbe most remarkable proofs of tbls is
the growth of the express business. The ex
press companies are carrying not only more
than ever, but merchandise that they never
handled a few years ago Is now consigned to
them. In my business, for instance, machinery
that some years ago fell entirely to the railroads
for transportation now very often goes by ex
press. Last week, for Instance, I shipped some
heavy machinery to New York by express, by
order of the South American firm to whom it
was consigned, although tbe express charges
were between 100 and 00, as compared with
about J00 or J70 that the railroad freight bill
would have be en."
Fashions In House Fainting.
'T'here are regular fashions in house-painting
which change as regularly, though not as
often, as those of feminine dress. Just now
the fashionable color Is yellow, and if you go
into any suburban neighborhood you will find
more than half of tbo new houses painted to
match tbe canary's wing. The most correct
style seems to be to paint the window frames,
cornices and gables,a deeper shade of yellow or
orange, bnt olive green, dark brown or even
black are sometimes used. The effect is cheer
ful, if not always restful to the eye, and yellow
as a prevailing tone in a landscape is infinitely
preferable to tbe dominance of rusty browns
and neutral tints that so many frame bouses
used to endure. Nor was tbe aesthetic craze
for all sorts of combinations of sad sage greens,
which struck the country four or five years ac ,
altogether a joyful thing. It has died away,
and while yellow to-day is the fashionable color,
there are still plenty of courageous citizens who
will paint their houses to please themselves,
and the landscape is diversified and cheered
by eruptions of flame aud carmine on roof and
walls.
Minnie Palmer's Troubles.
Thi family jars of Minnie Palmer and her
husband, "Yours merrily, John A. Rog
ers,"are public property now.and there is no lm
priety in calling attention to some little points
about the affair which distinguish it from the
common run of domestic broils in tbe theatri
cal world. As a rnle, an actress' husband does
not cut a very striking figure in tbe popular
eye. If he is not an actor tbe public usually
hear very little of him, and be is apt to get the
not very honorable name of Julia So-and-So's
husband. There is no need to cite examples of
the few men who have been content with this
condition of things, or of the majority who
have sooner or later found the position calling
to an unendurable degree. But "Yours merri
ly, John A, Rogers," was not this sort of an
actress' husband. Nobody can deny that be
worked for Minnie Palmer more faithfully
than any paid manager could have done.
Doubtless he looked after his own interests in
booming bis wife, but be boomed her with won
derful pertinacity and in all sorts of ways. He
believed in newspaper advertising and no ad
vance agent ever got so much stuff in the
papers as Rogers did about bis star. In fact so
accomplished a fabricator of stories has he won
the name of being, that newspaper men of late
have doubted everything about Minnie Palmer
that appeared in print There are some who
believe that tbe tragic flare-up with knives and
other melodramatic properties in a New York
flat is only a desperate advertising dodge, but
this is not probable. Tbe truth probably is
that Minnie Palmer herself is growing restive,
and that tbe di'mal failure of her operatic
starring scheme has made her dubious of the
future under her husband's management
There are some personal pecnliarities about
Rogers that would disturb any family circle.
Bat Minnie Palmer will not find it easy to re
place tbe skillful advertising agent from whom
she has parted.
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Philadelphia Press: They are raising a
great deal of fuss in Chicago over tbe World's
Fair raising everything. In fact, but the money
necessary to make the show go.
New York Press: The Government ap
propriations should not ba squandered or mis
appropriated, whether made for the World's
Fair, a gnnboat or a public building. More
over, the country wants to know who is run
ning the fair.
Philadelphia Inquirer: 11 anything good
is to come ont of th(s .Chicago enterprise It
must be by hard work'on tbe part of all con
cerned and an utter abandonment of tbls plan
of working at cross purposes. Come, now,
Chicago, do your best
Chicaoo Ifcics: Personal preference and
individual interest must at once and finally be
ignored in the settlement of the World's Fair
question. The row in the directory manllested
the feeling which is to be curbed if the Ex
position is to be made a success.
Toledo Commercial: Wrangling between
the Chicago local directory and tbe National
Commission of the World's Fair may easily de
stroy that enterprise. Matters are approach
ing a crisis between tbe two bodies. An agree
ment about the site was mado some time ago.
but now it i3 charged that the local body is not
acting In good faith by that agreement
Chicago Tribune: It the World's Fair
Board of Directors is wise it will do all it can
to keep on the best of terms with its big
brother, the National Commission. If it is
wise the members will allow nothing to inter
fere with the friendly relations of tho two
bodies, even though it may be necessary, in
order to maintain them, to abandon certain
project and modify darling plans.
Chicago Inter Ocean: It seems to us that
the Commission can have no honest interest
that is antagonistic to the directory. That, on
the contrary, all tbeir interests as promoters of
tbe Fair are In a jine with the action of the di
rectory. Tbe members of tbe directory have
certainly had a hard enough time, between
scheming speculators, corporations and others,
who have endeavored to thwart their purposes,
and they are entitled to all the aid the real
friends of the Fair can give. Certainly the
Commissioners should give theirs.
Chicago Herald: The reopening of tbe site
controversy is deplorable. It was firmly be
lieved that tbe Directors and Commissioners
had reached a settlement of all issues whose
disposal is preliminary to the beginning of
actual plans for the Fair buildings.
The Commissioners, whosejviews are far more
likely to be disinterested than those of local
directors, will not and ought not consent to a
scheme that will waste money and impair the
entire undertaking. With them lies the final
word; and the final word ought to be spoken
authoritatively at tho earliest moment
A E0MANTIC MARRIAGE.
John Russell Young Leaves a Sick Bed for
His Wedding.
New York, November 19. John Russell
Young, ex-Minister to China, and Mrs. May D.
Davids were wedded at tbe Astor House yes
terday afternoon. The groom a week ago was
stricken with typhoid fever. He was able to
dress for the ceremony, but returned to his sick
bed immediately after.
The wealthiest witness present was the
groom's young son. Master Russell Jewell
Young, grandson of the late Marshall Jewell,
of Connecticut who, upon his death, left this
youngster, who at tbe time was a baby in arms
in Paris, over S2,UOO,000.
PLAYS TO COME.
The Bijou announces Annie Pixley, the
charming comedienne, as its Thanksgiving at
traction. Miss Pixley has a strong hold on the
affection of local theater-goers. During her
coming engagement at the Bijou, which begins
Monday. Miss Pixley will appear in four of tbe
most interesting plays in her repertoire, which
is announced as follows: Monday. "22. Second
Floor;" Tuesday. "22. Second Floor;" Wednes
day matinee. "Jl'liss;" Wednesday, "The Dea
con's Daughter;" Thanksgiving matinee, "22,
Second Floor;" Thanksgiving nlghtand Friday,
"Kate, A Romance of the War;" Saturday
matinee, "Tbe Deacon's Daughter;' Saturday
night, "M'liss." All tbe plays are embellished
with new and catchy songs and medleys.
Stuart Robson is the next attraction at the
Grand Opera House. Mr. Robson will present
a three-act American comedy by Archibald D.
Gordon and Ad Corbett. entitled "Is Marriage
a Failure?"' for the first half of tho week, in
cluding Wedncday and Ihursday (Thanks
giving) matinees. Tbe last half of tho week,
commencing Thanksgiving evening, Bronson
Howard's greatest comedy success, "The Hen
rietta," will be given. Seats on sale this morning.
CURIOUS C0NDE5SA1WS.
Over 3,000,000,000,000 envelopes are
manufactured in England annually.
Mr. d'Auria concludes that the force of
the wares which in 1SS! moved three feet tho
superstructure of tbe break-water at Oswego
Harbor. N. Y.. exhibited a force per square
foot of 40,500 pounds.
A new electric lantern has been designed
in Vienna for the use of lecturers and medical
classes. By a combination of lenses tho magni
fied image of an object is projected on a white
screen inlts natural colors.
The expression, "He is a brick," is over
2.000 years old. Agesllaus. King of Sparta, 880
B. C, in showing his army of 10,000 men. point
ing to them, said, "There are the walls of
Sparta, and every man is a brick."
Scott received 269 6s as his share of tha
profits of the "Lay," and then he sold tbe copy,
right for 1500. As many as 41000 copies wero
disposed of before 1830, when tbe edition of hU
works with biographical introduction wa3 pre
pared. Apparently mid-winter! was tlie tlma
when the mediaeval British wolves asserted
themselves most savagely; so at least we may
jndge from the fact that our Anglo-Saxon an
cestors bestowed on January the name of
"Wolf-month."
In the vast majority of luminous ani
mals with which we are acquainted, the phos
phorescent light is useful only in guiding ona
sex in its search for the other, and this is prob
ably the case with deep-sea fish as well as with,
terrestrial creatures.
Ladies were not always excluded from
Parliament In tbo reign of Henry HL and
Edward I. four abbesses were summoned to
Parliament, and In tbe reign of Edward HL a
great many countesses were represented in
Parliament by their proxies.
A patent was issued in "Washington re
cently for a steel fence post. It Is to be made
of steel tubing seven feet high, with a neat cap,
and with bands to hold tbe barbed wire. It ia
said that these posts can be furnished complete
for placing in position at 21 cents each.
The Hobby falcon, a summer migrant
to Britain, hawks tor dragon flies among tha
swiftest of insects which It seizes with Us foot
and devours in mid-air. It cuts down swift;,
larks, pigeons, and, where they are found, bee
birtis all remarkable for their great powers of
flight
In tbe photograph of the heavens, ia
course of preparation in the Paris Observatory,
it is calculated that 61,000,000 of stars will be
represented. In the nebula; of tbe Lyre, M.
Bail land took a photograph four by five and one
half inches, which revealed to the naked eja
4,800 stars.
The large-brained horses are the clever
est In tbe Household Cavalry tbe horses with
broad foreheads learn tbeir drill more quickly
than the others. A gentleman measured tha
heads of all bis hunters and found that tbeir
intelligence and good sense was in proportion to
tbe width of their foreheads.
The large provincial towns of tbe North of
England are the great centtrs of pigeon-flying.
Recently as many as 2,500 birds were liberated
at a flight All these pigeons were out of sight
in one minute from the time they were thrown
up. a fact which shows how strong is the
"homing" instinct within them.
'Whether there may or mav not be
ground for the opinion held by some, that all
dogs are descended from the primeval wolves,
their near kin3hip is proven by the fact that
hybrid offspring are by no means nncommon,
the puns or cubs, as might be expected. Inher
iting more of tbe wolf than the dog nature.
The Spanish mackerel, with its smooth,
cone-shaped body, is among tbe swiftest of
fishes, and for speed only finds a parallel in tha
dolphin. There is a creat similarity in shape
between these two, and both cut the water like
avacht Tbe first follows the fastest steamers
with tbe greatest ease, in its dashes swimming
at tire times their speed.
Vivandieres may occasionally be seen
marching at the head of some French regi
ments of the line on review days, attired as of
yore In tbeir gay costumes, and carrying a
small barrel, painted in tbe national colors,
slung over iheirsbDulders. Tbe race, however,
is fast dying out altbnngh women still assist as
cantimeres In regimental refreshment depart
ments. The idea of attaching a dwelling or
place of worship td a cavern's mouth corre
sponds to the plan of existing ruins in tbo
north Pacific, as at Ponapa and Lele, at tho
latter place one still in use as a temple, having
been erected across and immediately over tha
entrance of a subterraneous passage of great
extent, to which access is afforded by steps de
scending through the foundation.
Juvenile criminals were seen very
early to present tbe most hopeful and tha
most important material for reformation, Tha
first systematic attempt was made by Popo
Clement XI. in 1701 at Rome, in tbe Juvenile
Prison ot bt Michael. In England, the Phil
anthropic Society organized an asylum for
poor children in 1TS8. The United btates fol
lowed with the New York Honse of Refnge in
1823.
The following is given in the "Archiv
fur Eisenbahnwesen" as the railway mileage at
the beginning of I8S9: Europe, 133.900; America,
100,000: Asia. 18.000; Africa, 5.200: Australia,
10.500; total, 337,000, as compared with 293.000 in
1881. Of the increase of 64.000 miles during tha
fonr years, 40,000 is in America and 30.000 in the
United States alone; 11.000 miles were opened
in 1885, 17,000 in 1SS6, 23,000 in 1SS7 aud 13,000 In
1SSS,
A new and valuable practical applica
tion of carbolic acid has been mado in Central
America, where it has been used with gratify
ing success against the leaf-cutting ants, whosa
ravages upon cultivated trees in that country
are so destrnctive. Tbe acid is mixed with
water, and poured down the ant-burrows,
whereupon tbe ants desert their abode: and by
persistent resort to this method of attack, they
may be expelled from the neighborhood of
cultivated plants.
In order to tell tbe day of the week of
any date, take tbe last two figures of the year,
add a quarter to this, disregarding tbe fraction;
add tbe date ot the month, and to this add tho
figure in the following list, one figure standing
for each month: 3-6-6-2-4-0-2-5-1-3-e-l. Divide
the Sum by 7, and tbe remainder will give tba
number of the day in tbe week, and when there
is no remainder the day will ba Saturday. As
an example, take March 19. 1S90. Take 90, add
22, add 19, add 6. This gives 137. which, divided
by 7, leaves a remainder of -L which is the num
ber of the day. or Wednesday.
THE COMICAL fe'lDE.
All history seems to be a pastime. Elf
mira Uuatte.
Reggie Beattie Martin was always a
conundrum to me.
Frieud-1 suppoe that's because you bad to give
her up. Spare Moments.
"Why did your parents call yon Glad
stone Smith?" asked a woman of a little ragged
urchin.
'Cos they thought a good name was better 'n
great ricbe." Miceastle Ctirontete.
Ticks iTou remember young Grabber,
who went West a couple of years ago, don't youf
WIckles Yes: how'd he do?
licks Do? Why. simply great He cleared 5,
00U tbe first year.
W. I want to know! And how did he do tha
second year?
T. V ell, the secsjnd year he cleared the country.
Boston Courier.
Indignant Bicyclist Madam, your dog
snaps at me every time 1 pass. Here he comes
now. (Starts off.)
old Lady Sport, Sport, you foolish dog, come
here. Tnem ain't bones. Them's lezs. New
castle Chronicle.
A "Western man, who owns au immense
estate In Dakota, spent three months in England
during the present year. r"or many weeks be
heard nothing from tbe man whom he had lelt lu
charge of his tarms and he became somewhat anx
ious. He was an illiterate person, though an ex
cellent farmer, and the wording ot a telegram
puzzled him. At last be sent on this message:
'Is things all right at tbe farm?" Impatiently
he awaited the reply. His trusty representativa
was a man of few words and rigid ideas oi econo
my, and the envelope which his employer received
in due coarse contained simply this message:
"Things is." lltustratrd Stic of the World.
The Professor, at the dinner table Oh,
by the way, Mrs. Chopsticks, have vou seen your
little boy, Willie. lately?
Mrs. Chopsticks . o. Professor, I bave not seen
him since 10 o'clock, and 1 can't Imagine what
has become of him. In fact I am very much wor
ried about hlin.
Professor Well, seeing Martha pour me out
that glass of water Just now reminded me of some
thing that 1 had on my mind to tell you some tuna
ago. but which unfortunately escaped my mind.
It was lust about 10 o'clock, 1 think, that I saw
little Willie fall down the -ntll. Boston Courier.
"Papa, I wish you would bay me a little
pony," said Johnny.
"I haven't got any money to buy you a pony,
my son. Yon sbonld go to school regularly, my
son, study hard, and become a smart raw, and
some of Uicsc days, when you grow up, you will
have money of your own to buy ponies with."
"Then 1 suppose, pa, you didn't study much
when you were a little boy like me, or else you
would have had money now to buy ponies wlth
wouldn't you, pa!" Span Moments,
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