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The confirmation of the report that Jay Gould has secured control of the Union Pacific concurrently with announcements that the Rockafellars have gobbled the Northern Pacific, indicates the true inward ness of the squeeze in the stock market, and is pregnant with indications as to the future course of the transcontinental lines. It was very well known that the reason why the decline in the stock market went beyond the normal extent that would follow the complications of the London market, was that certain powerful manipulators were squeezing the life out of it in pursuit of their own schemes. A natural delicacy has restrained those informed as to who was squeezing the market from making specific, statements; but the appearance of certain capitalists with numerous corporations in their jme-bags, gives the public inlorma tion as positive as the type of a poster. Mr. Gould pinched to such purpose as to gobbl: the Pacific Mail, .Richmond Terminal, Union Pacific and other unconsidered trifles; while the Rockafellars have first squeezed the gas out of the Yillard balloons and proceeded to pocket the property. The declaration that this action of the great corporate financiers was taken in con cert, and that the management of the pro perty will also be in unison, foreshadows a change of policy in the management of the Northern Pacific Mr. Villard's role as a financier has been in the creation of tower inc corporations to the grief of the investing public Mr. Rockafellar's, on the other hand, has been in the direction of squeezing the legitimate interests dependent on the combination over which he presides, and in building a stable edifice of stock values on the foundation of a monopoly. Mr. Gould's talent has not confined itself to any par ticular line. He adopts the broad view of the philosophical "Xihil alienum puto" by regardinc nothing as foreign to his methods which enables him to gobble the money of the public But the alliance of Gould and the Rockafellars in the ownership of the transcontinental lines, with Huntington standing acquiescent in the background, means that, the art of stock manipulation having done its worst, the final ?oal ot the campaign will be reached by the suppression of all competition between the transcon tinental lines. A hile the details of the arrangement by which commerce is to be made to pay tolls on the fictitious capitalization of these lines remain unannounced, the general features of the mo ve are stereotyped. Rates will be put up to a figure agreed upon between the magnates of "Wall street. Any competition by ocean is to be shut off by Mr. Gould's jioisession of the Pacific Mail. The assault will be renewed on Congress to induce it to lorbid the wicked Canadian Pacific to re peat its contumacy in carrying freicht for the people of the United States at less rates than the direct routes charge; and that the millennium of high charges, profits on bogus capital, and squeezing of the public to the extent that it will bear, so long hoped for by the stock interests, will be inaugu rated. Its duration will probably extend till the date of the discovery that the high rates are killing business, when the great capitalists may commence cutting each other's throats with the same determination -which they are now directing to the squeez ing of the stock market and the public. In the meantime the alliance of Gould and Rockafellar is one that may well inspire earnest thoughts on the part of the public, on the desirabilitv of a corporate system which will not be wholly at the mercy of the most merciless and unsciupulous of the great speculators. A LOCAL POSTAL SlsTEM. An interesting proposition has been de veloped in New York lor a metropolitan postal system, which shall not be confined to the political divisions of that citr, but shall put the postal bminess of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and all the other suburbs under the control of a single head, with the center at the New York postoffice, and its branches organized throughout all the suburbs, so as to secure the mort efficient methods. The plan has received the approval of ex-Postmaster General James, whose authority, especially on the postal service of New York, is of the highest rank. The idea has an especial interest for Pitts burg, because we have here presented on a l educed scale the same conditions which have given rise to the proposition in New York. Notice has been taken of the progress made in late years, in the way of increasing the number and promptness of deliveries and collections of mail, in multi plying postal stations and in generally bringing nearer to the people the facilities ol the postal service. But the fact remains that while this progress is gratifying 105,000 people in Allegheny, and probably 40,000 people in the smaller suburbs are excluded from its benefits by the system which con fines it within the arbitrary political divi sions our community exhibits of half a dozen cities and boronghs. The same bene fits which are to be expected in New York from the organization of a single postal sys tem that will embrace the whole community, would be experienced on a proportionate scale here. If the organization ot a metropolitan postal system in .New York is attained, Pittsburg should watch its operation closely and be ready to claim its benefits for this community. A QUESTIONABLE PROPOSITION. The burning anxiety of our energetic co temporary, the New York World, now that an overwhelming Democratic majority is se enred for the next Congress, is one of the un conscious bits of humor with which our poli tics are decorated. That the journal which a few weeks ago was denouncing the proposi tion of an extra session as the other works of the evil one should now be calling for an extra session next spring is but an express ive measure of the extent to which the boot is on the other leg. But when the wide awake World carries its desire to see a Dem ocratic Speaker getting even with Mr. Reed to the extent of going back on constitu tional principles, and asserting that it is "anomaly and injustice that a Congress should not meet until over a year after its election," it is worth while to examine into the justice of this criticism of the Constitu tion. The makers of the Constitution founded their provisions on sound reasons generally. The remarkable wisdom and enduring qual ity of their work is universally acknowledged; but at the same time few attain a complete appreciation of thf fact. A just estimate of the value and lofty wisdom or their provisions may be attained if we ponder the fact that nearly every great abuse of the present day from monopolistic combinations down to patron age squabbles can be traced to either a violation or nullification of the standards et up by the trainers of the Constitution or its early expounders. To say that this one provision of the Constitution by which the House elected in November, 1800, meets on the first Monday of December, 1891, is wrong is not to be taken as an impeachment of the general wisdom of the Constitution; but it may be recarded as a failure to recognize the wise reasons which lie at the bottom of this particular provision. The purpose of the constitutional enact ment was plainly that the representatives of the people might have a space-to consider soberly the issues on which their election was secured before taking the final step of framing it into law, and lo avoid the peril ot hasty legislation that would be likely to attend upon the meeting of Congress while fresh from the heat of the contest. A very good illustration of the sound reasoning at the bottom of this provision is afforded br the present case. There is no doubt that the Democratic majority in the next House will take a mare moderate and con servative course by thinking over matters a year than if they should meet on the 1st of Januar or the 1st of March next, and, while warm from the fray, undertake to make a clean sweep of the last session's leg islation. Possibly our Democratic co temporary can see that there are two sides to the question, if it will lake an illustration as applying to its opponents The Congress whose first session has just ended was elected in 1888, but did not begin its career until a year ago. Suppose that it had been able to put in two full terms before the election which has just taken place, and had thus had time to add to its record the complete enactment of a Federal election bill, of a bill taking away from the States the power of congressional apportionment, and had beyond that ap plied to the late election of Congressmen the apportionment proposed by the census? It is not probable that Democratic opinion would have regarded these results as a vin dication of the criticism on the present pro vision; but beyond that it is worth while to recognize the distressing effect of an election in the middle of a Congressional term. The beginning and the end of the Con gressional session are both unfortunately fixed as to seasons, and make the short term inadequate. Bat it is by no means certain that to make the meeting of a new Congress follow closely on its election would be an improvement on the present arrangement. A CHAJfCE FOR HOMEOPATHT. It was decided by Allegheny Common Councils last night to admit homeopathy to a share in the benefits of Allegheny Gen eral Hospital. Determining the merits of rival schools of medicine is a very delicate problem, and it is hardly to be wondered that some of the councilmen were appalled in its presence. But we think Councilman Thomas, of the Sixth ward, was unnecessarily pessimistic in his view that it will not do to mix homeopaths and allopaths at the hos pital, and that the only result will be in creased mortality. It is true that, accord ing to one version of an ancient adage, "when doctors disagree, the patient dies," but at the Allegheny Hospital it appears that patients will only have to run the risk of one school of medicine at a time. THE INDIAN MESSIAH. Hardly any development of modern times presents a more remarkable mixture of per verted Christian teaching and savage super stition than the excitement at the Indian agencies, and the danger of an Indian out break, from the belief that a Messiah has arisen lor the express leadership of the In dians, and under whose miraculous guidance they can sweep away the whites and regain possession of the country from which they have been driven by degrees during two and a half centuries. The In dian conception of a Messiah whose leader ship should be solely for the benefit of the Indians, and whose mission will be the ex termination of the whites, is a wholly unex pected outgrowth of missionary instruction. Yet when we consider coolly we may see that it is not unnatural or without analogy in some more civilized ideas on the same subject. In the first place it is not hard to see that the savage mind is almost wholly incapable of taking in the idea of a religious Head and Founder whose rule is based on peace and good will toward men; nor has the course of the while race, as a whole, aided the Indians in assimilating what to them must be a wholly foreign rule of action. In giving to the Messiah rather the character of a leader, conqueror and restorer of lost possessions and supremacy, the Indians simply follow the Hebrew analogy, and a curious idea is presented in this connection by the old theories ventilated a generation ago that the Indian races are really the (en lost tribes of Israel. Finally we can hardly regard this savage perversion of the character of the Prince ' Peace as wholly inexplicable; for it is only a little more at variance with the real character of the Founder of Christian ity than the practical course of nations which are avowedly Christian. 'When we contrast the religious system based upon the Golden Bute with the long succession ot force and fraud that has made up ourlndian policy, we may well doubt whether the Indian idea ot a Messiah is more widely astray than the civilized observance of His teachings. It is to be hoped that the delusion of a miraculous restorer of savage supremacy for this continent may be restrained from leading the Indians to an outbreak which would inflict untold miseries on the "West, and result in the extermination of the few remaining Indians. Of course, too, if the outbreak comes, force must be resorted to for the defense of settlers in the vicinity of the reservations. Bnt while resorting to such measures of repression, the nation may well take the Indian superstition re garding the Messiah as a lesson on the way in which it adheres to the real teachings of the Messiah whose leadership it professes to follow. A REASONABLE BEGINNING. The agitation for a free bridge from the Southside to the old city has at last taken a shape in which it can be indorsed. In place of looking to the purchase of existing bridges, which would be impracticable, be cause of the immense price the corporations owning them would be sure to demand, the project is to begin by building one free bridge where it is most needed, and after ward following with others as the public demand and the city finances permit Since the appropriations for Schenley Park aroused the protest of Southside Council men, because the Southside people have no way of getting to the park, it is eminently proper, as has been suggested, that the site tor the new bridge should be fixed either at Twenty-fourth or Twenty-seventh stieet. This opens np a communication between the whole of the residence portion of the city beyond the Court House and the most thickly populated part of the Southside. Such a bridge would cost about $250,000. Part of this cost can be recouped by selling or renting to a passenger railway company the right to run over it from the Southside to the park, so that the net investment to the city would be greatly reduced. There is justice in the claim of the South siders for free access to the main portion of the munici pality whose taxes they help to pay and particularly for a free way to the park. But there is a good deal, too, in presenting the claim in a practical form. To ask for the purchase of all the existing bridges at the fancy prices which their corporation owners would demand wonld be to incur a weighty and inadvisable indebtedness. To begin by building what is absolutely need ful at a point near which no communication of any sort now exists is so far more reason able tnat Southsiders have only to press for it and they will be sure to get it NOT MUCH HEAL WASTE. The comment of our English visitors recently upon the waste of material in Pittsburg mills and factories undoubtedly had a good effect, for it directed the attention of the manufacturers toward . a subject of great importance to them. The same time it is satisfactory to learn by the interviews with manufacturers, which The Dispatch publishes to-day, that the waste which pro voked the criticism of our English cousins is more apparent than real. TAXES ON THE STREET CARS. The demand upon the traction companies to step up and pay their share of city taxes, like individuals and other corporations doing business in the city and enjoying the benefits of municipal government, is so en tirely reasonable that the management of companies should not hesitate about ar ranging for some fair basis. The Dispatch recognizes the benefits of rapid transit and has been in favor of giving the traction com panies liberal facilities; but this is the more reason why it should urge them no w to a fair course in reference to taxes. It would be glaringly unjust, for instance, to oblige the city to pay for the corner policemen who are required to protect traction railway crossings. There was a time when several of the city passenger roads were hard-up, and the slight tax upon cars was abated to help some of them out But that was in the old horse and mule period. Now the companies, we ventnre to say, are making money like lightning, and it behooves them to be fairly liberal. By meeting the demands in a fair and friendly way, they will do better than to trust to the ultimate outcome of adverse public sentiment COLUMBUS' LOG BOOK. A Welsh fisherman has drawn from the depths of the sea the log book kept by Co lumbus during his first voyage to America, This is the story a highly respectable Lon don paper prints and the cable brings to us to-day. For four hundred years the log book which Columbus lost overboard in a storm has lain upon the ocean's bed, and yet we are told that the entries are decipherable and the precious relic well enough preserved gen erally to be reproduced in fac simile. We know not which to wonder at most, the find ing of the logbook itself, or the delicate courtesy shown to Chicago by the veracious Welsh fisherman in making the discovery in good time for the Columbian World's Fair. The Welsh fisherman or his ancestors might have found Columbus' diary almost any time during the four centuries that have elapsed since it sank beneath the Atlantic. But they have waited till now. evidently out of a kindly but somewhat unaccount able regard for Chicago. What the great city by the Lake has done already for this simple fisherman of Wales or his forbears we do not Know, but the discoverer of the log book is certainly entitled to a season pass for the World's Fair. And if the log book is presently sold to an American syndi cate with a view to exhibition at Chicago in 1892, we submit that the Welsh fisherman oueht to be hired also at any price as a com panion exhibit Now that the Emperor of Germany has ordered that the evils ot anarchy shall be taught in the German schools after the man ner ot the instruction in our schools on the evils of alcoholic liquors It would be no more than international comity for us to ship Hcrr Johann Most over there to serve as an awful example This dissatisfaction with the people who are squeezing the money market is generally outspoken after a week like that just passed; but we have not noted a mora radical proposi tion than that of the New York Press, which suggests that the money longs who borrow money in order to lock it np, "ought to be banged to lamp posts. The spectacle of the gentlemen who acquired numerous railway properties by reason of the late squeeze deco rating the lamp post of the metropolis is a. lurid but Impracticable one. At the first hint of such a- thing the manipulators would Tony up all the lamp posts; and even the sanguinary Press would not support such a refinement of cruelty as hanging a capitalist to his own lamp post. The man who discovers a prompt cure for the consumption of our departlnc surplus will earn fame and gratitude. But at prosent there Is no prompter cure than the resort to one or two elections as a means of inoculating the representatives of the people with a little respect for economy. Mb. Olabksdn's renewed announcement that the trouble was all due to the bad news papers, and that more Republican newspapers must be circulated, indicates the necessity of one of two measures. Either the Republican leaders must ordor the organs to display a little more life and Independence and thus secure more readers, or a law must be passed disfran chising every man who voted the Republican ticket during t'je .past decade, and is now caucht reading a Democratic or Independent newspaper. Perhaps, however, if the Repub lican leaders hid studied the independent newspapers a little more carefully, the need of disciplining the tank and file might have been averted. The apparently authoritative announce ment that Jay Gould has got control.-of the Union Pacific property and that Sidney Dillon will take charge as president warrants minor ity stockholders in taking a tight grip or their hair. By doing so in time they will save their scalps, if nothing else. The proposition of the German Govern menth to pay Dr. Koch a million marks for his discovery, and place it at the service of the people, evokes from an exchange the inquiry, "what would be said if the Gov ernment ot the UnitedSutes should undertake to pay any such sum for a patent medicine." The issue has never been raised in the United States; but if the proposition were to make free to the people a demonstrated benefit like the cure of consumption for $210,000, the majority of the people of the United States would be likely to say that it was a much better Invest ment of public funds than keeping the money for salaries to practical politicians. The account of the flood which has been discovered in Batylonian hieroglyphics in the British Museum, once more confirms the pic turesque story in flenesis.and in the absence of negative evidence the Biblical report of the first prolonged wet spell ought to be accepted as correct The statement that a Pennsylvania crim inal who bad escaped from prison has returned after days of being starved, shot at and beaten, while wandering along the roads and sleeping in haymows, is taken as an evidence of the com fort of prisons. But in view of the question whether tne prisoner would have tared much better if be had been formally discharged, it may be asked whether society has no better treatment of human waifs than to have them back in prison? If that new Indian Messiah advised the Indians to go to work and behave themselves, that delnsion over bis leadership will be short lived. The noble savage has the same lofty scorn for working lis the Anglo-Saxon tramp. The mention of Senator W. L. Brown of NewYorKasa compromise Democratic candi date for United States Senator is proof posi tive that the New If ork Democrats are anxious to have a Senator who will make the poker sharps at Washington acknowledge the su premacy of tbo Empire State at the national game. If indomitable strategy in the betting of aces up, is a qualification for Senatorial honors, W. L. Brown will t.ke rank among our loftiest statesmen. DiTEBESTnifi personals. Secretary Pboctob has bought a hand some pair of Morgan horses up in Vermont for President Harrison. The ninetieth birthday of ex-Governor David Merriwetber, of Kentucky, has just been cele brated. He was Governor of New Mexico nnder Franklin Pierce. Me. Chauncky M. Depew, so the gosslpers tell, gives every year three or lour Yale College scholarships to deservlug young men whom he chances to meet or hear about. An elaborate scheme of marble decoration for Baron Rothschild's bouse has just been com pleted by Waldo Story, son of the American sculptor, W. V. Story, of Rome. G. C. Clemens, a brother of Mark Twain, was an orator at an Anarchistic celebration in Kansas City tbo other night and held that the d namite bomb slingers of Chicago were follow, ing out Scriptural teachings. A sensible memorial will be that dedicated toWilkie Collins. It will consist of a small library of choice fiction, to be presented to the "Feople's Palace" in London. Fifteen hun dred dollars has already been raised for this purpose. Miss Mart Aeell, of Baltimore, a daugh ter of the late Arunah S. Abell, owner of the Baltimore Sun, is in a convent and will proba bly take the veil next spring. She has a for tune of over 82,000,000, which, it is expected, she will givo to the Roman Catholic church. The halcyon days of the American Lyceum seem to have come again as one reads tho the names of the lecturers who will be heard in various cities this winter. Among them are Henry M. Stanley. Goorge'Kennan, James Rus sell Lowell, E. C. Stedman, Prof. Bryce, Prof. Thomas Davidson, Alexander Black, R. K. Munkittrick and J. K. Bangs. Back in 1856 a firm of publishers were driven out of Mobile, Ala., for selline one copy each of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Fred Doug lass' life. A member of the firm was Edwin Upson, who has just died at Uummlng. N. Dak., in his 77th year. Among tho four chil dren be has left is Mrs. Kate Upson Clark, the well-known author, and wife of Mr. E. P. Clark, of the New York Evening Post. Miss Cabbie V. Kidwelx, is an American soprano who has just returned from Europe with more than ordinary testimonials of foreign approval. She is a native of West Vircinia, and before her departure abroad tias well known in Washington. She has com pleted ber musical studies under Limperti, and critics who beard her sing at a concert in Dres den say that since Marcella Sembricb, "no snch larklike voice has been beard in Europe." TWENTY-rOTJR Pages to-morrow. Read Pittsburg's Greatest Newspaper, TnE DIS PATCH. OUE INDIAN POPULATION, With the Number of Acres Recently Ob tained From. Them. From Harper's Vf eekly. The Indian popnlation Is about 230,000, a little more than that of the District of Columbia, and less by nearly one-naif than that of the city of Baltimore. This popnlation occupies about 110,000,000 of acres, or 182 250 square miles. Dur ing the last year lS.OUQ,u00 acres have been outlined by cession from the various tribes, and agreements for 4,500,000 acres are awaiting ratification by Congress, aud all upon terms as advantageous to the Indians as to the Govern ment. When the cessions are completed they will comprise 17,000,000 acres, or about a seventh of the Indian lands. The allotment of land in severalty is a cardinal part of the wiser Indian policy. THE Thanksgiving Dinner wIU not be a source of worry to the ladles who read the recipes THE DISPATCH has had prepared. Two menus and suggestions innumerable In to-morrow's issne. Twenty-four big Pages. An unequaled Newspaper. DEATHS OP A DAY. Clara Louise Liggett Little Clara Louise Liggett, the 5-year-old daughter or Mr. 8. It Liggett, Secretary of the Pennsylvania lines west or l'lttsburg. died yester day at the borne of her parents, on Allegheny avenue, Allegheny. The parents greatly feel their bereavement and the child friends of the little one wilt ions remember her as always a pleasant playmate. Mrs. Jessie l1-. Douthitt A telegram from Denver, Col., states that Jessie F wire of A. C Doutnltt, of Ho. 2456 Carsou street died taere Thursday night Funeral ser TlceiwUI be held at the residence of H. II. Fang burn. Beaver Falls, but no time has been set as it ! not known when the remains will arrive. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. He who has reached tha top round of the Masonic ladder is a man of high degree. DoTOUTun easier some das than others? Or Is jour bodily and mental mechanism weather and worry proof? If so you are a walking miracle. Surely some thing loosens somewhere sometimes and throws you out of gear. How the wheels do wobble and the belts slip thenl You feel rusty and crusty, tired and careworn, joggy and foggy. Nothing tits snugly, nothing runs smoothly, nothing sits lightly all is bang, clang, clatter.rattle. And what has derailed you? A light trifle or a heavy trouble? A dyspepsia-breeding dish or a lodged bone? A business care or a. social sorrow? A disappointment or a dream? Ten chances to one it was a speck that did the mischief. The mind is a giant, bnt is easily overthrown. A shadow shifts it from the path of pleasure into the dough of despair. A dust particle caught in tho cogs throws the brain works out of gear. Then the grind is wearing, the grist poor, the miller distrusted. But the heart pumps and bumps away. Finally it forces off the specks, shoves away the clouds, lubricates, warms, gears up. And off we go again. The world smiles and we shake bands with it Nature sings and we loin in the chorus. Life Is at play and we join the players. No more discord and discontent The load is lighter, the earth brighter, the grave only a half-way bouse between a pleasure ground and a Para dise. This is fine weather for keeping cool. When a lunatic carries a pistol he has sense enough to see that it is in good running order and properly loaded. It you borrow trouble you only rob life of its interest. Football is now the national game. It is taught in all the colleges. The Bear is a yigo'-ous squeezer, The Bull skyward everything tosses; But I'm sure you will qnlte agree, sir. Both profit on other folks' losses. If an Indian war breaks out what will Wash ington society do when the epauletted pets are ordered to the front? SnooTLNQ stars Bogardns and Carver. If you want to see a young lady in a delibera tive mood, ask her to choose between a bridal veil and a sealskin sack. O'Shea appears to be the only Irishman who does not place confidence in ParnelL If Koch can find a fluid to kill the parasites which infest society be will add another laurel leaf to bis wreath. The female end of the World's Fair spent a day selecting a President Nothing like keep ing up with the advance guard, girls. Life is but a span to the bridge builder. CleVelakd says we are the people and this is our country. We are glad to see the politi cians admitting that they don't own it A Detroit W. C. T. U. woman stuck her noso in a ginger ale glass and now prays to be for given. She vows it held an alcoholic odor. Strange how fanaticism affects the senses, isn't it? Soon the running rivers will be chained by frost. Soon the summer pathways in the snow '11 be lost; Soon hieh winds will whistle through the branches bare. Soon the world will shiver in the Arctic air. Then the corner loafer will hug the barroom stove, Then the weary tramper on city street will rove; Then the cold policeman will haunt the alley door, Then Yellow Dogs et cetera will occupy the floor. Dana calls Cleveland the Claimant He's only an ex-claimant, but is evidently willing to drop the ex. Seasick people always feel retched. The new comet will soon be visible to the naked eye. The superstitions cranks will then fill the earth with their silly forebodings. Beer Is going up. and drinkers of the amber intoxicant are hopping mad. Sympathy is expressed for the broken Barker bankers. If money is expressed to them they would feel better. IF you have whole lungs Koch's remedy will cure: but if you have holey lungs live a right eous life and be prepared for the Inevitable. The cry of charity gives some people par alysis of the heart A safe Investment Purchasing a burglar proof. When the farmers rule Congress the Speaker will probably call for the Hays and Neighs. When stocks go down a good many brokers go up. SHE flounced herself down In the cable car; All eyes were turned, and she was forced to blush. ' Alas! how false some fnssy women are Her furry sack was only common plnsM The Congress about to expire knew the com bination which opened the Treasuryjaults, if nothing else. Goveunob Pattison isin splendid shape to celebrate Thanksgiving. Gall is the name of one of the warlike Sioux chiefs. He should bury his hatchet and enter pontics. THE Bellamyltes at Topolobampo have to shut their eyes while eating in prder not to see the crawling thinzs they have to devour. This is "looking backward" with a vengeance. Clocks and watches hand us tho time. The dull thud of the Barker failure woke up Philadelphia, and when she gets through rub bing ber eyes we'll Know more about it. A wouan finds mllef In tears, and some men find relief in tears, also. THE World's Fair managers have at last se lected sites. They were blinded by passion when they made their choice, however. When newspaper correspondents visit Sena tor Quay be applies a Leach to them. The Western settlers would not make any mistake if they crucified the Indian Messiah. The Ii & O. folk acknowledge that Pittsburg Is now a model city. Why not let well enough alone, mou. Perhaps the Pennsylvania House of Repre sentatives will have Brooks law during the coming session. The father of high license stands a good chance for becoming Speaker. Allegheny proposes to throw half a million dollars into the streets. This should lay the dust Uncle Sam should take Sitting Bull by the horns without further delay. THE free traders are easing np on the tariff. They have probably decided to give it a fair trlal. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster says the atmosphere about the polls is steeped in iniquity. We always thought it was steeped in ice, THE sun brings out the corner loafer in all his glory. Willie Winkle. An Electric Light Peril. From the Philadelphia Record. "Electric sunstrokes" is the sufficiently ex pressive if rather inaccurate title given to a new ailment of which the first tidings come to us from France. OUR MAIL POUCH, Not an Asphalt Pavement at All To the Editor or The UUcatcni Referrine to your editorial of November 18, "Testimony for Asphalt," permit me to state that the Forbes street pavement is not aspbalt; It is plain tar pavement from Michigan, and the contractors, Barten & Keer.ey. seem to have hit the right mix for a good holiday pave ment It is too soft in hot weather for heavy traffic, bnt is a good pavement as Pittsburg pavements co. It has cost less than J2.000 tor repairs in the 18 years it has been down, bnt It has been used only by llebt vehicle. Where repairs have been made, because of trenching, etc.. the modern asphalt, now beinc applied at whnlesile, has been used and "played oat" quickly. What is the sense then in putting down so much of this poultice. Why. Mr. Editor, ihe Forbes tar of a score of years ago (which cost 16 per cent less than the asphalt of to-day) Is infinitely superior to the 13 65 a fquare jard oa-te now in fashion, as was indicated to me by the fact that it took workmen three times as long to dig npayard of Forbes street (to put down the Duqnesne road) as it did 'o dig np the same area of Hlsh land avenue. Need 1 rfer you to Fifth avenue, astreet upon which repjirs began before it was finished, and which have been Rolng on ever since, now some two years, as au example of this rusbin: of the aspbalt upon alongsuffer me people? "watch closely the specifications," yon say, "and the degree of fidelity with which they are carried out?' How are you point: to watch them? Find out what they are. like Howard Morton nidn'r. and be repelled at City Hall as part of the "officious public?" or If complaint be made to an inspector, as was done on Center avenue by an interested party recently, be asked: "Why don't vou go to Booth iFlinn with your complaints?" There is just about one carriage in the East End to-day to ten there was before the rope roads gave the public rapid transit Why, then, co to an expense far in excess of the carriage driving age for driveways of asphalt? If the property on any street demands that sort of pavement give it, but. as a rule. City Hall sbonld permit a choice of all descriptions of pavements suitable. Some localities cannot well afford the asphalt, nor the block stone (which wear to cobblestone roundness in time); give such a chance at irregular block or block asphalt or cobble. If cobble is adintssable at all: in shorr.the antboritles should decide UDon what materials are approved, and permit property in interest to make the selection. A difference of three or four dollars a foot front is a big thine tomanrofus. M.S. Pittsburg, November 20. 1890. A Claim of Priority Disputed. To the Editor ofThe Dispatch: Will you allow me space in yonr valuable piper to make a correction in reference to St. Peter's Church choir. In a recent issne you welcomed with unfeigned pleasure the fact that St Peter's Church was about to restore woman to her rightful place in the church. We are glad to know that the ladies will be clothed in cap and surplice and bo allowed to march in procession with the men and boys at St.Peter's. This is a departure in the right direc tion and takes ns back to the good old times, when the ancient Drmdlc priesthood solemn ized their rites beneath the shades of the mighty oak, in tha depth of the forest Allow me. however, to Fay that at St James' Church, Penn avenue, corner Sixteenth street we have had this delightful privilege for nearly one year. In our choir we have over 30 voices, half young ladies and half men and boys. We also bave a cornet and orcan, and if you will visit our church you will be pleased with our choir. You will see the young maidens, clothed in white cape and black beretta cap, march in procession with the men and bovs. De. GrNNEB, Secretary St Andrew's Brotherhood, St James' Episcopal Cbnrcb. PlTTSBUBG, November 21, 1590. Majority and Plurality Again. To the Editor or The Dlsnatch: Having noticed in the returns given in the various papers of the election just passed that some of the papers cave Pattison's majority so much, and bis plurality as so much. Now we want to know the difference between the two, plurality and majority, and bow counted. California Voters. California, Pa.. November IS, 1890. (Pattison's plurality is the number of votes he received more than the next highest candi date, which, in this case, was Mr. Delamater. To have a majority the successful candidate must get more votes than all the others put together. This explanation answers several other queries of a similar nature. The word majority is often used, improperly used, how ever, where plurality Is really meant Duties of an Advance Agent To the Editor or The Dlspatcli : What are the duties of an advance agent of a dramatic combination? Does the agent make the arrangements with the opera house man agers in the different cities as to terms, etc.? A bets B that the duty of an advance agent of an opera or dramatic .company Is only to see that the advertising matter is placed in the proper places. B bets that his duties are to make ar rangements as to terms with the opera house managers in different cities, and to seenre rates of boarding at the hotels for the entire com pany. Who wins? Mrs. J. A. B. Johnstown, November 19, 1S90. The exact duties vary with particular com panies. Many advance agents, however, per form all the work mentioned above. Wants to be a Lawyer. To the Editor ot The Dispatch: Ayonng man desiring to become a lawyer and not having the necessary means to become one, how would you advise a young man to start? Could he become a lawyer without attending a law school? Regular Reader. Pittsburg. November 18, 189a; ...S Probably the best plan wonld be to secure a subordinate position in some lawyer's office as a beginning, at least Weaver as a Presldental Candidate. Please publish, to settle a wager, in what year J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, ran for President on the Greenback-Labor ticket, and what vote did he receive? C. M. Elizabeth, November 19, 1890. Weaver was a Presldental candidate in IS89, and his popular vote amounted to 307,306. Thurman as tho Old Roman. To the Editor of The Ulspatcn: Please answer for the benefit of yonr readers how Hon. Allen G. Thurman received tho so briquet of the "Old Roman." J. M. P. Beaddoce, November 17, 1890. The name was given to him by political friends and followers because of their belief that his rugged honesty resembled that of the fathers of early Rome. A Seeker for Information. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Why is it that the Department of Public Safety discontmned striking the hour on the public school bells? The excuse was (riven that the time and fire alarms were sent over the same wire, bnt since a new switchboard has been put in that difficulty shonld be over come. John Smith. PlTTSBUBG, November 21, 1890. No Record of Any Diamonds There. To the Editor or The Dispatch: Were there any diamonds found in Wyoming or Nebraska ? A Reaper. PlTTSBUBG, November 19, 1890. DR. KOCH'S Consumption Cure and Pas teur's Methods will be dbtenssed in THE DISPATCH tc-inorrow. Late medical de velopments are astonishing the world. The best newspaper; always up with tho time. Twenty-fonr Pages. One hundred aud ninety two Columns. PROPOSED SHTP-EAILWAYS. Tho Canadians Are Building an Important One in Noa Scotia. From the New York Ledger. A ereat deal of fun was made by some of our newspapers over the proposed ship-railway of the late Captain Eads, whereby vessels were to be lifted upon iron tracks and propelled bodily across the Istbmns of Tebuantepec As a matter of fact however, a precisely similar project has been undertaken In Nova Scotia, and tbe eminent engineers who have charge ot the execution of tbe plan have no doubt of its success. Tbe Governor General of Canada visited the works the other day and fixed the pedestal for the hydraulic lift intended to raise vessels of 2,000 tons displacement from tbe dock to the level of tbe iron rails. This ship-railway is designed to span the isthmus of 15 miles between Cbignecto Bay, an inlet of tbe Bay of Fundy, and Bay Verte, an inlet of the Gulf of St Lawrence. When completed, it will shorten tbe voyage from New England ports to those of Prince Edward Island and of the St Lawrence by some 600 or 609 miles of stormy water. If this road is fuc cessful tbe Canadians will undoubtedly build another ship-railway, 70 miles In lencib. to con nect the Georgian Bay or Lake Huron with the eastern end of Lase Ontario at Toronto. By such a route, three days would be gained between Duluth and the Atlantic THE TOPICAL TALKER. A Breach of Trust. A fter the service two Sundays ago at a certain church in this eoanty a little girl met tbe pastor on tbe porch. She was a pretty little thing, not over 8, and she was crying bitterly. He stopped, of coarse, and taking one of ber it tie bands in his asked her what was the matter. "It's g-e-g-g-conef she sobbed. "What's gone? Don't cry! What is it you've lost? I'll try to find it for you." said the kindly clergyman, taking out his handkerchief and wining the tears away from tbe little eyes that were still cast down. "Oh, sir! It's g-g-g-gone, I know Arthur says s-s-so," and the sobbing besan afresh, but she managed to proceed with the story. "I gave Arthur my parse to keep in ch-ch-chnrcb, and when the man c c-came 'round with the pl-pl-plate Arthur put in m-m-my f-f-flve-dollar gold piece, and it's gone, I know it is ' "We'll go back and find it, my little maid," said he, and together they went into the little room which answered for a vestry and he took the collection from the safe, found the little gold coin sure enoueh, for it was the only one there, and the treacherous Arthur's sister smiled once more. Referred to the Makers. stbanger from the country, with lots of yellow mud on his shoes, stopped a well known oil operator on Fourth avenue yester day and asked: "Where is the oil marketr" That's a difficult question to answer," said Dave, with a roguish twinkle in his eyes. "Mebbeyou want tbe Exchange; U you do there it i," and he pointed with to the rococo building with tbe bull and bear insignia, "but if you want the oil market my friend, yon'd better Inquire tbe next door below," and he pointed to the Standard's office, "for that's where they make it." At Danger Always. uTT doesn't seem to be Generally known," said a railroad telegraph operator yester day, "that where the block system is in use, travelers are protected at night whether tbe operator in tbe signal tower stays awake or not Every lamp signal has three glass slides to it red, green and white. The red is tbe outer most tbe green next and the white inside that To allow a train to pass the tower tbe operator Las to pull down the red slide by a cord and hold it down. Directly be lets go the red lieht goes in position again. He is not allowed to do anything else. So that if he goes to sleep, or is taken sick, the danger signal always bars tbe way." Jess. nVyoMEX are queer critteis." said the old cirens man, looking grimly at the crowd, mostly of the lair sex, which filled tbe theater lobby, "Are you speaking from experience. Uncle Sam7" asked a young advance agent in a tone of deep solicitude. "I don't claim It as my discovery, young man, bat I repeat that women beat anything in the animal line I know at takin' a man by sur prise," said tho old' showman, '"and that girl yonder with tbe ostrich feathers 'round her neck reminds me of the contrariest obstinatest, best and worst woman the Missouri Valley ever saw. I was out West with the cir cus just after the close of the war and we were playltr small towns along tbe river, kcepin' close to the boat all the time. I'd had some trouble in Jefferson City shot somebody, I guess, for I was handy with a gun in those days, and a SbenS and a posse came aboard the boat the next day to look for me. I rather think they wanted to Introduce me to a rope. "There was a woman in the company named Jess Brown. She'd given me a heap of trouble, for she was quarrelsome as well as a good looker, and as smart a bareback rider as you'd wish to see. The men quarreled about her and she drank, gambled, quarreled and fought with them. I'd made up mymindshahadtogowhen we reached Jefferson City. In fact, I'd given ber notice to pack up ber duds and quit that day the Sheriff came hunting me. "It was Jess Brown who came to tbe berth where I was sleepln' and told me that tbey were lookin' for me. and she says, says she. 'Yon git in a hurry and leave the Sheriff to me there's a boat at tbe stern they're forward and I'll keep 'em back till you're clear.' I made tracks, you bet and Jess stood in tbe narrow gangway with a revolver in ber hind, threatening to shoot tbe fust man who took a step forward. She meant what she said, for she put a ballet through one fellow's bat when the crowd behind pushed him out The bluff gave me ten minutes start and when the" gang found they'd been fooled by a woman she narrowly escaped the fate intended for me. I joined the show again the next day and Jess got all my pile and sbe could have got anythln' sho pleased." and here tbe old man paused aud rubbed hisrlcbteye with his big fist "Jess didn't prejudice yon against tbe sex, surely," said one of the listeners. "Wait a bit." said Uncle Sam, "I haven't done with Jess yer. Sbe stayed with ns about a month, and I tried to make life easy for her. Then one night she stole every cent I had and bolted with a low-down gambler. I didn't care for the stuff though fifteen hundred plnnkers was something and Jess bad a right to cbooe ber companv but it kinder shook my faith in the sex and It's been shooc worse since." THE VISIBLE BECOMING INVISIBLE, Supply of Barley Gradually Melting Away in Different Directions. ALBANY, November 21. The Albany Even ing Journal says: The reported visible supply of barley is a myth. There was no doubt, at tbe commencement of tbe barley season, that over L000.0U0 bushels were brought forward on the books without verifying tne amount. Then again, two-thirds of the barley on the lakes and canals, counted in the visible, has been sold to arrive. More or less reported in the visible is now in malt Thousands of bushels in elevators counted in tbe visible have been sold to maltsters and brewers and never will come on the market except in the way of malt and beer. SOUTHEBB" OPINIONS. Charleston, S. C, yews and Courier (Deni.): Blaine is the biggest man in his party to-day and is the only dependence of "the con servative forces of tbe East." Atlanta Journal (Deni.): It is hard for Southern people to forget that Henry M. Stan ley volunteered into tbe Confederate army and while a prisoner of war joined the ranks of the enemy; but tbey have tried to excuse it be cause he bad no identification with our cause or country, and was bent on adventure. Atlanta Constitution (Dem.): Why not let him alone? The negro has as fair a chance to make a living in this country as his best friends could desire. He Is tbe equal ot the white man. politically and legally. Socially, , he must of course, make his way with his own people, and not with the people of another race. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.): The suc gestion of certain alleged leaders of tbo Farm ers Alliance that a people's party should bo formed for 1892 will hardly commend itself as wise to the mass of Its own members. Should the Democrats prove unworthy of con fidenee it will then be time to talk of a people's party. Birmingham Age Herald (Dem.): The Alliance as a third party will cut no figure in the Southern States. Aoting witbln the Dem ocratic organization, it has already elected three Governors and several Congressmen in this section and may be able to accomplish still more by tbe same methods in 1892; but not a slnglethlrd party alliance elector can be elected in a Southern State. THE Baltimore Sun (Dem.): A correspond ent writing from Laurel, Md., asks the Sun what has become of the Chesapeake-Delaware Snip Canal project The importance of the ship canal has not ceased to command at tention in business circles in this city, but the general feeling is that it is a national work in which tbe great producing States of the West are interested as securing a shorter route to the sea, and that in view of this fact and tbe great cost It shonld be provided for by Con gress. New Orleans Picayune (Dem.): What is wanted now is to expunge the words "North and South" from every national aud public question. We want to see tbe people or the whole country come together as citixensofa common country, and in order to accomplish this the Democracy must first become thor oughly unified. The great bulk of the preju dice was in the North. In order to kill it off it is necessary for the Southern Democrats to waive all claim to a control of tbe next Con gress. Let them offer the first places to their Northern brothers, only stipulating that the best men shall be chosen for every station. Bach course will disarm prejudice, which is the first step toward tbe abolition of sectional feeling and the obliteration of sectional lines. CURI0CS CONDENSATIONS. Ko gold or silver coins are issued by tho Chinese government The expenses of the Pan-American Con ference were within 0 of the total appropria-tion-tl23,OOQ. Tombstone is an Arizona town. Its newspaper 13 called the Epitaph; its sheriff Is Colonel Slaughter. An embalmed hare served after having been shot six weeks was recently pronounced to be as good as fresh. But for the law of heredity, tbe repro duction of animal life would be the sport of chance, and nature would become chaos. Almost 54,000 Frenchmen belong to the Legion of Honor, 32.021 of them being con nected with the army and tbe rest civilians. The Delta Kappa Epsilon, the leading Greek letter society in this country, claims to have 10,000 members at the different colleges. The construction of the newly-opened City and South London Underground Line has occupied four years; its cost has been 200,000 per mile. There arenearly 200cigar manufactories in Haiana, some employing over 400 bands. Each factory is taxed 1 a year for every man employed. In 1801 one person of every three in the United Kingdom professed the Romish faith; now only one of every seven belongs to that communion. War with China cost England between tbe years 1S37 62 upwards of 6,000,000, and tha Abyssinian exneditlon, 1867-70, the enormous sum or 8,300,000. There are some 75,000 native Icelanders still left in their native island, notwithstanding tbe fact that tbe emigration epidemic has been raging for nearly 20 years. Robins, while still in their summer haunts, form roosts which tbey resort to regu larly night after nlcht and season after season by hundreds and even thousands. Of the 12,000 miles which form the land girdle of China, 6,000 touch Russian territory, 4,800 British territory, and only 400 French, while 800 may be described as doubtful. An invention is sec to work in France for indicating the speed of railway trains. Tables are prepared, showing the practical ob server tbe exact relations the readings have to the speed. The skin of the wolf, according to an old superstition, was to be worn either to cure hydrophobia, or to prevent epilepsy, and tbe skin of the bead was a safeguard against all malevolent demons. The group of carbo-hydrates (sugar and starch) are, next to the albuminoids (eggs and flesh), the most important material needed to support animal life. Indeed, the vegetarians would, and perhaps rightly, place them first. In 1848 Garrod showed that gout was due to an excess ot uric acid in the blood prior to and daring the attacks. The modem wave of opiniou was in favor of the nerve origin of gout, the chemical changes being secondary. The highest-priced autograph in exist ence is said to be the signature of Christopher Columbus, which is valued at 800. Next to that is the only letter by Corneille that was ever for sale. This is worth about the same as Columbus' signature. Dr. Ferrari, of Paris, is believed to be the most enthnsiastic stamp collector lu the world. He has abundant means to gratify his whim, and will pay almost any price for a specimen he does not possess, ne nas spent aoout tau,uw, and has a collection which numbers lOO.Oou. In a long series of articles, a native Japanese paper give3 some Interesting figures about tbe students of Tokio. There are 107,312 Btndents in the whole empire in tbe various colleges and other bleb schools (primary schools and ordinary middle schools excepted.) The secret of photographing color has not been discovered yet but some camera pict ures hare recently been brought to New York which bare some color in them and give good cause for tbe hope that before long the photog rapher will be able to reproduce color perfectly. In the bequests of books in the Middle Ages, theology preponderates over fiction. To-day the rivalry continues. In 1885-6 theology was tbe most prolific department of literaturo, bnt it now stands second to fiction, which dar ing the last three years has taken tne place of honor. Nearly all the property along upper Broadway, between Tweniy-seventh and Thirty fourth streets, is In the hands of a quiet old gentleman, who occasionally goes around and lnoks at bis enormously valuable possessions and moralizes upon the changes that bave taken place ot late in New 1 ork. It is reported that the woods between Connecticut and Rhode Island are full of wild cats, foxes and other savage beasts this fait The mild weather of last winter is thought to have been responsible for this condition of af fairs. A trapper at South Killiiigly, Conn., has killed 15 foxes since October L Usually tbe place where an eagle makes its eyrie or nest may be located by watching from the top of some high elevation with a glass. When a brood eaglo has taken prey it courses directly for tbe eyrie, and, after the line of flight has been determined with a fair degree ot accuracy, the hunter ougbtnot to fail in his quest. In that wonderful street, the Bowery, there is an establishment where they mend your shoes while you wait A placard at tha door says that tbe daily papers may be found inside for the benefit of customers, and that all work is done promptly. Another placard says that tboes to wear will be furmsbed to patrons who prefer not to wait while their own are being repaired. In the year 1883 the corn pack in Maine agcrcgated 8,361,000 cans. This so overstocked the market that it was two or three years be fore it fully recovered from tbe effects. In I8S7 the uack was 14,000.000 cans; in 1S4SS it was also Iarce, in V9 and 1880 about 12,000.000 each year, and yet wo hear nothing of ovei-prodoction. It is evident that tbe market for this kind of goods is growing. Dr. Clouston believes that few English men become insane in hot climates in whom sunstroke is not assigned as tbe cause, and that it gets tbe credit for more insanity than it pro duces. Maclean, writlngupon diseases or trop ical climate, states that immense numbers of soldier' were invalided home from India for this affection following sunstroke; but in a larce proportion of cases the attacks disap peared after tbe sea voyage. MAKING MERRY. Sauso A faint heart never won a fair lsdv. Kodd That's a happy dispensation. Think how a faint beart would be henpecked. Htm York Herald. "Funny idea, Enpeck, your calling your wlfcBlackstone." "Ob, I don't know; her word's law, you know!" Hew XorK Sun. A Sunday school superintendent recently found the following chalked on his blackboard: "l'lecs Mr. Superintendent don't arc off stories every Sunday at as boys, with an awful example of a bad boy in each of them. Give as a rest Give the girls a turn." Heweastle ChrontcU. Sentimental Maiden Tnere goes Jack's wife; she is never happy when Jack U out of her sbtbt. is It because she loves him so much? Experienced Widow o. It's because she knows him so well. Life. "My object in calling this evening," he began, with a nervous tremble of his chin, "was to ask you, Katie I may call you Katie, may I not?" "Certainly, Mr. i.onjrrlpe," said tbe tweet young slrl. "Aliof papa's elderly friends call me Katie." And be said nothing farther about his object In calling. Spare Moments. Classicus The ancient P.oraan on hear ing bad news used to tear his toga. Modernus Tbe custom is reversed now. When a Uolhamlte hears bad news his custom is togaoa a tear. Sew lork Herald. "That's a Congressman at Large," said Glim, Indicating a man to his cousin from the country. "Oh, I ain't afraid," replied young Medder grass, "I've only got 17 cents about my clothes." Sew Xork bun. B There, old fellow, cheer up! Never mind lr she has jilted you. Look about for an other. Itemember there are plenty of good fish In the sea yet. C (dolcrully) Yes. but. confound it I don't want to marry a fisb, you know. Aea Castle Chronicle. Indian summer is common enough, but the reported sudden uprlslnc of the Western sav age jnst now may be a slight variation In the way or an Indian spring. Philadelphia Times. "Anything wrong with the coffee this morning. John?" "No, its good enough." "lllscults all right!" "1 haven't any fault to find with the llcuit." "sti-ak cooked all risbt?" "I don't tee anything wrong with the steak?" "No complaint to make about any thing?" "io." "John, I wish you would let me have so cents to buy some ribbon," Snt CastU Chronicd. gfgfrgWw
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