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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. NOV. 24, 1S90,
I THE GOULD-KOCKAFELLAK ALLIANCE.
From a special article on the recent Gould
and Rockafellar acquisitions of railway
property, it will lie seen that the new com
bination will not only control the transcon-
1 tinental routes, but includes the ownership
of a large share of the Southern railroads
i under the Richmond Terminal organization,
with two of the trunk lines in the Baltimore
t end Ohio and Erie roads. Thus is concen
trated under the control of this combination
of capital one-fifth of the railway mileage
of the United States, with three complete
transcontinental systems.
I The record of the corporate magnates who
' have thus suddenly assumed such a tower
ing prominence in the railway world is such
as to surround their ability to dominate the
transportation interests of the country with
very grave possibilities. That they will
endeavor to establish the rule of no
competition between the railroads, and
ruthlessly proceed to wage cut-throat war
fare on any corporation that dares to
conduct its business solely on its own abili
ties for carrying freight cheaply, is amply
proved by the steps they have taken to
reach their present position, and is indeed
hardly concealed m the statements of their
policy. That is what is meant by their
avowals of conducting their property "in the
interests of harmony." It was in the inter
est of harmonv that the Standard crushed
out competition in the petroleum refining
business, and the harmony which now
reigns in the petroleum trade is equal to
the proverbial reign of good order in War
saw. But this is not all that is possible from
this gigantic alliance. Suppose that, when
Messrs. Gould and Bockafellar get a suffi
ciently commanding influence in the rail
road business, they should take it into their
heads to repeat in the iron or coal business
the policy which yielded such enormous
," gains in the petroleum trade. It is true that
' to freeze out and buy up the iron industries
of the country by means ot railroad dis
criminations would be contrary to law. But
, the inter-State commerce law is already
openly disregarded by the members of this
, combination; and what is the barrier of a
Taper statute sgainst the power of $250.-
i 000,000 of corporate capital in pursuit o
t the methods by which it can expand itself
to $500,000,000?
It is certain that this towering concentra
tion of capital emphasizes the necessity of
improving the internal water routes for
' transportation; and it will not retard the
growth of popular opinion in favor of a
government system of railways, if more
conservative remedies do not prove suffi
cient. GOING AHEAD OXTLV jrAMJrACTURE.
t From an interview with Congressman
2s iedringliaus, of St. Louis, published else
where, it will be seen that this gentleman,
vho is more famous for foresight as a manu
facturer than as a statesman, is not at all
uncertain as to the future of tin plate manu
facture in this country. He has placed a
large order with Pittsburg firms for
machinery, and will cot a tin plate factory
in operation at the earliest possible moment.
His previous experience in tin manufacture
JV -j;ives him confidence in the future of the
industry, and
amNitious We
ad he is not, like some more
t'estern legislators, inclined to
throw up his hands at the first adverse
breath,'befpre the actual effect of the tariff
is understood. This is the only way to
secure the growth of manufactures under
the protective policy. If manufacturing
enterprises are to be abandoned every time
an election goes the wrong way, protection
cannot accomplish any expansion of our
industries.
ANOTHER COMPROMISE VERDICT.
The verdict in the Myers case as rendered
Yesterday is plainly a compromise, and, as is
usual in such verdicts, presents enrious
features. "Tne case was marked by the en
tire absence of evidence tending to show
that the crime was either premeditated or
committed in the heat of passion, except for
the lact that the murdered woman and her
nephew, who was on trial, were constantly
quarreling. The factor in fixing the degree
nf the crime was evidently that some of the
jury did notthink the evidence fixing the
runrder quite strong enough to hang a man,
and so they compromised by sending him to
the uenilentiary.
This, of course, is a partial denial of the
legal rule that if the evidence of a crime is
not clear enough to overcome all reasonable
doubts, a verdict of acquittal must
be given. The miscarriage of jus
tice, however, is not so serious here
as in such cases as the Cronin
trial at Chicago, where it was evident that
if the men on trial committed any crime
tbey committed one orthe most cold-blooded
and fully premeditated murders on record,
and their conviction for short terms of im
prisonment meant either that guilty men
were practically unpunished in proportion
to the heinousness of thpir crime, or that in
nocent men were sent to the penitentiary.
The compromise verdict is an offense against
the principles of law, but jnries will con
tinue to cling to it where there is danger of
hanging an innocent man.
TWO KINDS OF LOANS.
The action of the directors of the Fourth
National Bank of New York, instructing
the officers of the bank to buy freely of com
mercial paper, is generally hailed by the
New York papers as wise and timely; but,
with the explanation that is given, its more
salient characteristic is that of abanaoniog
a course which was extremely unwise for a
return within the limits of legitimate bank
ing. It is stated br the New York Press
that "during the stock flurry the bankt
have generally withheld accommodations
from merchants in order to reserve their
loanable funds for Wall-street borrowers,"
and this action is a return to loans on com
mercial paper.
In other words, according to this state
ment, the banks have turned the cold shoul
der upon the borrowers who furnisbthe most
legitimate and stable of negotiable se
curities, namely, notes created by ac
tual transactions in merchandise, in
order to use their funds for the sup
port of the speculative bubbles which
are the cause of the trouble. It that is the
case the most obvious comment is not the
wisdom of a return to commercial paper
but the unwisdom and bad policy of prefer
ing speculative loans.
This was bad banking for two reasons. In
the first place the bank which sticks to
commercial paper is better off. No institu
tion ever broke up which confined its loans
to a paper made in the regular operations of
business, according to the regulations of the
national banking law; while the danger of
loss upon securities subject to rapid fluctua
tions is constant. On the other hand the
public evil of speculative loans appears in
the fact that if bank funds were not used to
sustain them, the bubbles could not be
blown to any such extent as to involve the
money market in their bursting.
It is satisfactory to know that this back
has returned to the purchase of commercial
paper; but it is necessary to accompany the
expression of satisfaction with the remark
that the bank officers who will neglect
sound and legitimate commercial loans in
order to dump their funds into the specula
tive whirlpools of Wall street, stand in
need of some sharp instruction on the prin
ciples of sound banking.
WEATHERCOCK STATESMANSHIP.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, is now posing
in the character of a statesman who con
fesses that he had no judgment.and wants to
crystallize that confession in the shape of
legislative action. The Senator asserts that
"the McKinley bill will have to undergo
material modification," and having started
in that process he thinks that "the inter
State commerce bill will also have to be
modified." Even that does not satisfy the
Illinois Senator, for he finally gets a full
expression of his idea iu the assertion, "In
short, everything will have to be revamped
politically."
The Senator's passion for making over the
acts of legislation in order that tbey may be
cut in anew fashion is based on the idea
that by so doing his party can win back lost
ground. But the fallacy of any such idea
is shown by considering the position in
which Senator Cullom places himself indi
vidually by this change of front. The
measures which he now says "have
to be modified" were framed and
passed largely by his support. They
were the fruit of ample debate and full con
sideration; and if there is any such thing as
intelligent legislation a vote on them was
the result of careful study and settled con
viction. Yet the Senator is in such baste to
advertise his own Senatorial decisions as
foolish and worthless, that within three
months after he voted in favor of the tariff
bill, by reason of an adverse gust of popular
opinion he declares that the deliberate ac
tion of himself and colleagues must be
swallowed whole. Why he wants the Inter
state Commerce act modified does not ap
pear from any popular demand. Perhaps
some railroad corporations influential with
the Senator may wish it done; but even they
might be satisfied with thegeneral condition
of non-enforcement which surrounds that
measure at present.
Such indecent haste to recant and disavow
his deliberate acts will do anything rather
than rehabilitate the Senator. It exposes
him rather as a politician who by his own
confession is alike destitute of conviction or
judgment It is evident that he has no idea
of claiming the character of a statesman who
acts in accordance with settled principles
or makes up his mind on the merits
of the subject. But even in his
chosen character of a political weathercock
the practical declaration that his action of
last September was all wrong does nothelp
him. It simply gives him the rank of a
weathercock, which has no idea of how the
wind is blowing until it is too late to make
its information of any value.
This applies to the party even more thor
oughly than to the individual. The Kepub
lican parly is completely committed to tha
policy of protection as outlined in the Mc
Kinley bill. A party cannot discard its
policy and convictions like an old shoe,
and for it to attempt to do so ntthe first hasty
expression of popular disapproval would be
to confess itself a humbug, and to declare
itself utterly unworthy of trust Wholly
apart from the merits of the protective
policy, there is much more wisdom and
honesty in the position that the tariff act
has not bad n trial; that its results cannot
be judged until it has been in operation at
least a year; and that the party must stand
by its deliberate acts until their impractic
ability is demonstrated.
INFLATION FOR FINANCIERS.
The appearance, in the financial columns
of the New York papers, of a project to
have the National Treasury issue $200,000,
000 ot 2 per cent bonds "as an adjuster oi
the currency and to induce the national
banks to retain theircirculation" is a singu
lar expression of the Wall street idea that
the function of the Treasury is to support
the banks and the financial cliques at the
costofthe rest of the country. That the
national bank circulation should be re
tained by adopting some other form of exist
ing security for it has often been argued in
these columns; but to have the Treasury
which has a surplus that can be used in no
other way so well as in paying off the debt,
increase its issue of bonds by two hundred
millon dollars apd increase the public bur
dens by four million dollars annually, would
be a most remarkable procednre. This
striking ODinion as it exists in the financial
center is put in a heightened light by the
concurrent declaration that to inflate the
currency for the benefit of the farmers would
be all wrong; while to do it for the
benefit of the financiers is all right The
financial class seems bent on removing what
respect for its opinions on public policy
survives the experience ol its speculative
operations.
The deliverances of Collector Cooper, ol
Philadelphia, concerning the next Presidency,
Indicates that timet or Instrnction convinces
Mr. Cooper of the necessity of conservatism in
his declarations. When in Washington the
hopefnl Cooper was emoted as declaring him
self unqualifiedly for Blaine; bnt when he got
back to Philadelphia, it was discovered that he
only meant that he was for Blaine if Mr. Har
rison should not be a candidate. Of course
this reservation most always be granted in
cases like Cooper's. For tbU are politicians
given Collectorshlps and like trifles.
The King of Holland has at last gone
over to the majority, leaving his little kingdom
u aa additional bone of contention for the
Powers of Europe to get Intoa fight over. The
defunct monarch's demise is likely to be. in
Hibernian phrase, the most important feature
of his life.
"PENNSTLTANlA'sBepublican majority
on Congressmen is 37,371. Who was it that said
Pennsylvania had gone back on protection?"
inquires the New York Press. Pennsylvania
will he the last State to go back on protection)
bnt the esteemed Press Bhould be well-informed
enough to know that a majority of only 37.000, in
a campaign where protection was the main
issue, is proof presumptive of an exceedingly
weak party management on other points.
The Barings are to be reorganized as a
joint stock company after the manner of syn
dicate breweries. The Idea seems to be that in
future complications the investing public shall
bear the loss which is also after the mancer of
the syndicated breweries.
The assertion Is made that it "cost Mrs.
Langtry in a London law court jnst 1750 for
saying that she could not get an American dog
good enough to act with her in Robert Buchan
an's new play." The inquiry what American
dog brought the salt against her would be cal
culated to inoculate Mr. Robert Buchanan, the
real plaintiff in the case, with something very
like rabies.
With Gould and the Rockafellars run
ning this country, the rest of the people will be
likely to Inquire whether their desire for the
earth will leave any corner of the globe where
people who desire to escape the rule of the
financial kings can go.
Governor Hill has decided to stop far
ther disputes by kindly taking the United
States Senatorship, and Governor Hill will not
take the Senatorship under any consideration,
but will reserve himself for the Presidency.
This resume of the New York political situa
tion from the journals of that State give the
public a comprehensive view ot the entire sub
ject
Indian summer is giving us n. slight
compensation for The weather of the past
summer. If this is a foretaste of what we are
to have during the winter things may be made
even, yet
The juryhad not quite finished struggling
to reach its compromise verdict on tbo Myers
case before another speak-easy murder was
committed to furnish occupation for a future
criminal jury. As illicit whisky famished the
inspiration for the crime, it is permissible to
conclude that there is room for another police
attack on the illegal liquor sellers.
The remark that In galls is holding a
ghost danco over the United States Senator
ship may be true; but It is the solemn fact that
this ghost will not walk.
TnE work of the Boad Commission in
preparing a bill that shall lead to the improve
ment of country roads is accentuated by the
report of almost impassable roads in various
parts of the State. The legislation that can
rescue the tanning population from the mud
blockade will be an unqualified blessing.
PERSONAL PEHCHJHGS.
Buffalo Bill will spend the winter on his
ranch at North Platte, Neb.
Mxss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, has a
bath in her home lined with Mexican onyx that
cost $g,ooul
Charles Dudley Warner, of Hartford,
will sail for Europe in a f ow weeks, and will
remain abroad a year.
Messrs. Walter Besaxt, William Black
and Thomas Hardy have written a joint letter
to the AWienamm protesting against the attack
by that paper on Messrs. Harper, apropos of
ilr. Rudyard Kipling.
Count von Moltke is an enthusiastic mu
sician, and In former years played the violon
cello remarkably well. He delights in quiet
musical evenings at borne, where Dr. Joachim
is a frequent guest, among other famous art
ists. Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, as soon as
he is released from the cares of office this win
ter, will fill many engagements to speak on
dairy topics, not only In the Badger State, but
also in Ohio, New York, .Massachusetts and
Canada.
The Boston J'ojl recalls the fact that one
member of tbo eminent Baring family was Al
exander, the first Lord Ashburton, who nego
tiated with Mr. 'Webster the famous treaty
which bears his name, and which settled ami
cably with England the threatening question
of the northwestern boundary of the United
States.
Mr. J. P. Cadiqan, of the Park Avenue
Hotel, yesterday received a letter addressed
with his name and the words: "Stewart's great
big iron hotel, New York City." It was from
Jack Crawford, the Indian scout and poet He
is not so much at home In New York as on the
plains, and he could not remember on what
street the big iron hotel stood.
Mr. James Russell Lowell .has canceled
his engagement to deliver a course of six lec
tures on the "Old English Dramatists" under
the direction of the University of Pennsylvania.
While bis health is greatly improved and be is
able to exercise the pleasures of hospitality to
his friends at Elmwood, as well as to take
walks out of doors, the strain and exposure ot
delivering a course of lectures In midwinter
away from home is considered too great for him
to undergo.
Mr. Kirk Munro, the author, years ago
found what he calls a celestial abode on the tip
end of Florida, next door to Cuba, on the left
band side as you leave the Gnlf. Now some
mercenary and capitalistic blunderers think
they have "discovered" the place and talk of
building a railroad down to it Mr. Mnnro
asked nothing more of literature than for it to
give him the means to live down there almost
alone every year, but it seems he Is not to have
even that small boon.
THE FIELD OF THE CAMERA.
How It Recently Paved tho Way for a
Grand Historic Picture.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer. 1
The camera is becoming, as no donbt the
phonograph Vill soon become, a recognized ac
cessory of any historic scene. The crowning
incident of the Moltke celebration was a pres
entation to him by the Emperor, standing
amid a galaxy of fellow-sovereigns, generals
and statesmen. The Emperor concluded by
asking the Count to accept a new marshal's
baton of silver magnificently inlaid with stars
and crowns of rubies and diamonds. Count
Moltke could only find a few brief and incoher
ent words of reply, but he took the Emperor's
band and imprinted on it a long and fervent
kiss. A photographer in attendance seized the
moment, and the negative will be developed by
Prof. Von Werner's brush Into a grand historic
picture.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Thomas Mahon.M. D.
Dr. Thomas Slabon, one of the best known phy
sicians of Allegheny, died yesterday at his home
on North avenue. He wu 70 years of age, but
was still in the practice of lils chosen proiesslon.
The arrangements for the funeral have not been
announced.
Mrs. Katliarine KHb.
Mrs. Katharine Kill), wife or Christine ,Kllb,
the well-known cigar mannfactnrer of Allegheny,
died yesterday r.iornfns at the age of S3 years,
'the funeral will take place Wednesday morning
with requiem high mass ;it St Mary's Church,
Allegheny,
William Y. Anderson.
William Y. Anderson, eldest son of Captain W.
B. Anderson, of Anderson's Crossing, on the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, died Saturday
morning at 8:30. The funeral services will be held
to-day at if r. it. Interment to-morrow at 10 Jl.'M.
Sirs. Elizabeth A. Dean.
sirs. Elizabeth A. Dean, wife of Joseph A.
Dean, overseer of the Western Penitentiary,
died yesterday In the Mth year or her age. The
funeral will occur to-morrow from her late resi
dence on Hlxoa street, Allegheny.
W. D. Mullen.
rSTXCIAL TZXXQBAX TO THE PISrATCIM
Mt. Pleasant, Ia., November JX W. D.
Mullen, a prominent and wealtny citizen of this
ilaee, died tnls morning of neuralgia of the
ieart, agea 73 years. He leaves a wife and six
children.
Frances Elvira Edwards.
Mils Franca Elvira Edwards, daughter of itev.
John Edwards, D. D., died at her parents' resi
dence, S16 Center avenue, at th fl)rr.
ate funtral will occur to-day at t r. Mi
, SNAP SH0TSlN .SEASON.
' Are you thinking about what you are thank
ful for?
The village shoemaker was a jolly old soul,
wasn't her Did you ever meet himT No?
Well, that's really too bad. And there 1 see him
now leathered, waxy, merry. There beside
the big old-fashioned window he sits and pegs,
and stitches, and pounds from early morn
till evening shadows fall, and generally far into
the night He's an iudustrious fellow, this
village shoemaker. He is light-hearted
but his task is not light, by any means. And
how he does talk, to be sure. Even with a
mouth full of pegs and a wax-end in it he
chatters away. Of course he knows all the peo
ple in the village, even up to the brand
new baby. And how he does love
the children, and bow tho children do love him.
His leather-littered little shop on the sunny
corner is a regular nursery. You can pnnch
holes in the bench with bis aw), stick hit wax
on the windows, play with hfs bristles, pound
with bis hammer, cut with his awfully sharp
knife, and he won't scold, will be? His temper
is as pliable as bis leatbor. His heart is
as tenacions as bis wax. His wit is as keen as
his knife. His eyes areas penetrating as his
awl. And bow he can whistle and sing while
hammering a sole no wail of a lost soul there.
No matter if he does smell of leather and looks
as tongh as his oak tanned bide, all is
forgotten in the sunshine of bis smile and
the shower of his light talk. And bow the boys
seek bis little work room. He knows wnere the
squiirels are thickest, the nnts largest, the
cherries ripest, the berries freshest the fish
gamest He is the children's pleasure-guiding
genius. There ho chats and cuts, whistles and
waxes, talks and pounds, laughs and pegs, sings
and sow. He works while we wear, he
sews while we rip, be mends while we tear.
He's at the christening and the reunion, the
wedding and the weeping, the waking and the
sleeping. I see him now as in the long ago
leathery, waxy, jolly a man who feared God
and loved his fellows hammering, pegging,
pulling, cutting shoving the cloHds away from
a little vine-covered cottage full of sunshine,
love ana laughter.
TnE man who dyes his whiskers evidently
Imagines that everybody else is color blind.
In the Argentine Republic every man must
be his own bankrupt
Is Fitler fit for Senator! We pause for a re
ply. When Sitting Bull is cowed the settlers in
the far West will sleep sounder.
If Prof. Koch bad sought refuge in "medical
ethics," and refused to talk only to editors of
medical journals, the world would not have
been talking abont his discovery, at least dur
ing the present century.
If you take a fly in Wall street you are very
apt to singe your wings.
Wild bears are bunted in the woolly West
And on their juicy steaks the hunters feast;
But strange as It may seem, with equal zest
Bears hunt the people in the bully East
TnE bookbinders aowadays cover a multi
tude of sins.
There is this difference between the late la
mented President Lincoln and Jay Gonld: One
was a rail maker and tho other is a rail taker
or breaker.
Uncle Sam should sit down on Sitting Bull.
WnEN you sea a ghost you have a right to
shoot it If tbo soldiors out West exercise
this privilege and firo at the ghost dancers
there will be some dead Indians at Pine Ridge.
Mince pies mince the mind in dreamland.
Water was the name of Judge Lynch's last
victim in Texas. This js a clear case of water
haul.
The jailed ballot stutters will not knock the
stuffing out of the Thanksgiving turkey this
year.
Philadelphia has a female auctioneer and
a female drummer. Tho girls will do almost
anything there to secure a little excitement
Sarah Bernhardt allows her son 133,000 a
year. Any fellow would be willing to fight
French duels for such asalary.
The fellow who imagines that the world owes
him a living usually owes everybody In bis
circle of acquaintances.
Perhaps the United States will have to fit
nut an expedition to discover the World's
Fair.
Wall street seems to be indulging in a ghost
dance, too.
A whiter opening A hole in the ice.
When the Indians dance Uncle Sam has to
pay the fiddler.
SOUNDS OF THE SEA.
By the sea, 'neath summer sky,
We gathered shells together;
Life was bright to you and I
In that summer weather.
Waves that washed white coral beds
At our feet spun foamy threads.
Far across those waters blue
Lay a land of flowers;
Then our hearts bright pictures drew
Of its groves and bowers.
And we asked the ocean shell
Secrets of that land to tell.
Laughingly wo held it long
'Twas a lover's notion
But it only sang the song
Of that summer ocean.
Then we our secret toid the shell,
Knowing it would keep it well.
Light of heart and merry, too.
Were we by that ocean,
As we talked as lovers do
Of the heart's devotion.
And the music of the shells
Sounded like sweet wedding bells.
It was long, so long ago,
Since we strolled together
Where a wild sea's ebb and flow
Threw spray on the heather.
I still retain an ocean shell;
It mocks, but cannot break the spelt
The festive Red man seems to be laboring
under an overdose of agency whisky.
John Barleycorn and Sullivan have again
met and the slugger came up groggy after the
first round.
People who blow out the gas are sure to
sleep sound. Tnere are a good many sound
sleepers in Philadelphia.
Buffalo robes will soon be costly as seal
skins, thanks to the bison baggers.
Some people live to learn, but many never
learn how to live.
People who send anonymous communica
tions to newspaper offices evidently imagine
that if they furnish the weapon the editor will
complete the assassination.
When you borrow money you'undoubtedly
borrow trouble.
Novels are made to read, not bo believe.
Wanamaker Is raising money on mort
gages, it is reported. Honest business men
who enter politics sooner or latex realize that
the two won't mix.
Force of habit and will powenrun the mind
motor.
ANacbin- void Tho hole in the decayed
tooth.
The hand that rocks the cradle will soon be
stuffing the Thanksgiving turkey.
Souk people imagine that happiness consists
of making other people miserable.
,Tat Gould and Rockefeller don't want the
earth, they only want everything on it
Harvard Is graduating some splendid foot
ball players.
Eve doubtless charmed Adam, butlf she bad
bean a anakw charm M bow different the world
would be. Willis WxkxiiE.
THE FIKAKCIAL SITUATION,
A Decided Improvement Visible, bnt a Re
turn of Confidence Slow.
rSPECTAL teleobam to tub DISPATCH.!
New Yore, November 23. Henry Clews'
circular says: The general financial situation
is improving; but, with the marked conser
vatism that prevails in every direction, the re
covery of confidence must be expected to be
gradual and slow,wtIs an encouraging symp
tom that considerate the past severity of the
crisis, so few failures have occurred on the
Stock Exchange.' It is still more so that the
Vigilance of the Clearing House, with regard
to the standing of its members, has disclosed
such a generally sound condition of the
banks, and that the numerous other financial
institutions have exhibited no signs of weak
ness. This is the most satisfactory evidence
that the speculative derangements from which
we are suffering have not appreciably involved
onr credit establishments, which will prove to
be an element of very great valne In the com
ing process of recovery. Another favorable
factor is that the Course of affairs In Wall
street has not involved any suffering to interior
interests, beyond a partial check to the free
movement of commercial credit
Indeed, the crisis is strictly confined to the
speculative and Investment mteret; in which
respect the situation Very favorably differs
from that of most former upheavals. Nor is
there any reason to apprehend that the 'Indi
rect bearings of tho wall street derangements
will, for any lengthy period, affect commercial
interests unfavorably. For the remainder of
the year, merchants may be inconvenienced
from the stringency of discounts; but it is
reasonable to expect that with the opening of
the new year, the natural reaction from the
present severe strain will bring money to this
city, while the great fall in stocks will reduce
the amount to be borrowed on that important
class of collaterals.
THE UTDIAH WAR.
New York Star: Our Indian wards had
better enjoy their ghost dances while they may.
If they are making ready for war tbey will
find In the end that several thousands of their
ghosts will have the chance to dance over the
river in the happy hunting grounds.
New 1 ore Tribune: If an Indian war is
not presently to be fought, all the signs will be,
belied. The Indian Is a great procrastinator,
and ho will take bis own time for an offensive
movement especially as he knows that the
Government is not likely to strike the first
blow.
Philadelphia Press: The news from the
Indian agencies in Dakota and the Northwest
continues of a threatening character, although
the present prospects of an actnal outbreak
lessen the longer hostilities are delayed and the
more time Government has to concentrate
troops in that neighborhood.
New Yore Journal: The fact is that the
Indian is and has been almost always badly
treated, though it is not directly the fault ot
Government officers, either In civil or military
life. Tbo soldier is his best friend. The
Indian respects him alone. All other men are,
as he calls them, squaws, because they are not
military.
New York Herald: The half-starved, half
clothed Sioux out West have threatened an
uprising. The appropriation for their support
went through Congress, but has somehow got
stuck on the way. Tho agents who handle it
have either diverted it or are holding it back,
and the red man has the audacity to complain.
Shoot him, of couise. He is nothing but an
Indian, anyway, has no vote and therefore no
friends.
THE NEW YOSEHTTE PARK.
It's Far Greater Than the Old One, Which it
Surrounds and Protects.
From the New York Sun.
Probably few people east of the Rocky moun
tains are aware that during the present autumn
a new national pleasure ground, larger than
the State of Rhode Island, has been established
in this country.
This spacious park is in California, com
pletely surrounding the Yosemlte valley grant
of 1861, and about thirty times as large as that
grant It takes iu not only the' entire water
shed of the Merced river region, as defined by
the encircling mountain range which includes
Tuolumne Peak, Unicorn Peak and Cathe
dral Peak, on the north and northeast
Mt. Lyell, with its superb glaciers, on the east
and Buena Vista Peak on the Bouth; but it em
braces also the noble Hetch Hetchy valley.itself
a second Yosemlte, and the magnificent Grand
Canon of the Tuolumne, with its massive walls
and domes, and its cascades unequaled in
volume of water by those in any other canyon in
the Sierra. It crosses the Tuolumne Meadows
and annexes the splendid range that contains
Mt. Dana and Mt Gibbs and the Mono Pass.
It has saved from tho lumbermen and the
saw mill the Mono Pass, the Merced and
Tuolumne groves of big trees, and has secured
Lake Eleanor. In short it has brough within
its protecting area all that nepds to be reserved
In that region of nature's marvels.
THE AGE OF PEESIDEKTS,
It is Thought That Blaine Cannot be Counted
Out as Too Old.
From the New York buri".1
Mr. Blaine is not yet 61 years of age, and is
in the full vigor of life, trim as a Spanish gal
leon when under review. The first President
of the United States was in the 68th year
of his age when elected to that office, and
four years older when elected for the second
time; the second President was in his 62d
year at the time of his first election and In his
66th at the time of his second; the third Presi
dent came to office at about the same age
as the first; and if we were to run down the
line of their successors till the present time,
we would find several of them who were older
when elected thin Mr. Blaine now is, the sev
enth President, for example, and the fifteenth,
not to speak of others.
It is well for the adversaries of Mr. Blaine to
bear in mind that be cannot yet be counted out
on account of bis years.
FISH TO BE EXHIBITED.
Commissioners From Various States Take
Action for the Fair.
CniCAGO, November 23. The Fish Commis
sioners of the United States held a session at
the Palmer House to-day. Nineteen commis
sioners were present at Sunday's session. The
purpose of the Commission was the agreement
to a plan of exhibit to be made at tbo World's
Fair in 1892. Three plans were proposed and
constitnted the discussion of the meeting.
The general opinion was that an aquarium
exhibit of all the Stater, each exhibit retain
ing the identity ot Its State, under one building
adjoining the Government building, would be
the most economical. A committee was ap
pointed to ask appropriations for an exhibit.
The committee will meet in Detroit, Decem
ber!. THE FOOTBALL VICTOBY.
New York Tribune: The spectacle was ex
hilarating in the extreme. An enormous crowd
was present, and the excitement was intense
from the beginning to the end of the conflict
NEW York Star: It is generally conceded
that the teams that fought the battle yesterday
are the best football elevens ever sent out to
represent their respective colleges. That Is
equivalent to saying that they are best college
teams of the country.
New York Pi ess: The nervy, wideawake
team from Harvard scored a victory over Yale
in the splendid football game at Springfield
vesterday, and, away up in Massachusetts as it
was, many a New Yorker went to see it The
sturdy men of Yale will have another tussle
with Princeton on Thanksgiving Day at the
Eastern Park, Brooklyn, and whoever wins
will do so only after the toughest kind of a
fight
PnrLADELPniA Press: Harvard recovered
some of ber lost prestige in the field of college
athletics yesterday by the defeat of her old
enemy, Yale, at football. Whether she can
also beat Princeton will not be definitely
known, that college bolng under a sort of boy
cott by Harvard just now. The Thanksgiving
game between Yale and Princeton will go far.
however, toward settling the relative rank of
Harvard as well as of the two other colleges.
New York Post: The combination of dis
cipline, individual skill and brnto strength
which it calls for; the splendid fierceness ot
the game; the element of personal combat
which delights the savage instinct lingering In
the breasts even of the most civilized among
us these qualities account for its growing pop
ularity, and promise a vogue even wider than
it now enjoys. There would be little rashness
in predicting that within ten years we shall
have in the great cities professional elevens,
like the professional baseball nines, ana that
thousands will gather to shout themselves
boars at the exploits of hired rushers and
back,
LONDON NEWSPAPERS,
REV. GEORGE HODGES GIVES HIS IM
PRESSIONS OF THEM.
The Point on Which They Differ From
the Popular American Journals Some
of the Special Characteristics to be
Noted.
''There are some 400 newspapers published in
London. Thoy are filled chieflv with ad
vertisements. Among these papers there are
three which no visitor can miss seeing. There
Is also a fourth great paper which the visitor
may see it be is willing to take some tronble.
The three popular capers, which lie In great
piles on every news stand, are tha Telegraph,
the Standard and the Daily News. There Is
also a paper published in London, and Kith a
reputation extending outside of London, which
is called the Times. But you never see it in
the streets, and no newsboy ever asks you to
buy a copy. You can get It at a railway station,
at one of that system ot universal news count
eis which Mr. W. II. Smith manages in ad
dition to his cares as head of Her Majesty's
Government If you subscribe for It, it
will he laid upon your table. But a
stranger might live a yearin London and never
once behold a copy of the Times. The reason
Is not far to seek. The price of the Times is
three-pence. The other papers are to be bad
for "tuppence." And the other papers are
much more interesting than the Times, which
Is rather slow and heavy.
The first thing which you sea when you take
up a London newspaper is a great broadside of
advertisements. These advertisementsare not
for the most part, "displayed." , At least there
is none of that variety of type and arrangement
which one linds in an American newspaper. A
"cut" is the rarest sight, except those vrrv
old-fashioned stage coacbes and steamboats
which are set against the notices ot convey
ances by land and water. The boldest thing
which a London advertiser ventures unonin a
London newspaper is to divide -'his advertise
ment into 20 pieces, and have each
piece begin with a word in big capitals,
and run a line across the column between each
division, so that the unsuspecting reader who
begins to read a column of advertising para
graphs, thinking be is going to find variety,
discovers that all this is one man's business.
The Most Interesting Feature.
A good many people read the advertisements
in the London papers, partly because they
are so queer and partly because there is so
little else to read. If you buy a newspaper on
a railroad train you are compelled to read the
advertisements to get your money's worth and
to spend the time. The Telegraph Is a fair
sample. It contains 64 columns of prodigious
length, eight on a cage, like the country .news
paper on this side half-a-dozen years ago,
a "blanket" sheer. Of these 61 columns, 40 are
filled exclusively with advertisements. And six
columns more are given up to markets, ship-
ftlng and financial reports, which are interest
ng only to special classes ot readers.
At the head of the advertising columns, and
thus the very first thing on the very first page
of a London newspaper, aro notices of births,
so that the paper begins with the initial fact in
human life, and In the course of its columns
gets in pretty much everything else of good and
bad which happens In the uncertain career of
man. After the births follow marriages and
deaths. And then come the advertisements ot
the undertakers, who commend their services
by promising "reformed funerals," whatever
tbey may be.
And then we are persuaded into every sort
and condition of scheme, or want or purchase,
which the mind of man has thus far invented.
What a revelation of the life of a great city is
open in its advertisements! What an epitome
of civilization I What a graphic account we
might send to the people of the planet Mars
and will send after we get electricity in better
training by expressing over to that distant sub
urb a bundle of the advertising columns of a
dally paper.
Messrs. Merryweather & Sons have reason
to believe or say tbey have that a fire engine
with their name upon it, but not of their make,
has been supplied to a town in Spain. Tbey
will pay something to be put in the way of an
interview with the author of this felonious
business.
One of the Features.
The Dental Hospital ot London (and what Is
a dental 'hospital? is it a refuge from the
toothache 7) the Dental Hospital, reminding
the pnblic that its president is H. R. H. the
Duke of Cambridge, K. C, who, like all truly
great men, has capital letters at both ends of
bis name, gratefully (and suggestively) ac
knowledges a subscription of 25.
"Helpless, Hopeless, Homeless" Is the watch
word of the British Home for Incurables, which
also reminds the public that some people are
remembering their Chiistlan duties, and con
tributing money.
But here is the Hospital of Hospitals! Here
the philanthropic citizen who wishes to make
the world better for his having lived in it, may
bestow his pence and pounds with perfect sat
isfaction. There are said to be homeless poor
in London. It is even reported that thero are
little children whose habitation is the street
and whose bed is the ash barrel. Well, let ns
at least begin by looking after the poor,
starved, persecuted, homeless and orphaned
cats and dogs. Thus:
THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOGS since Janu
ary 1 (this year) KrCEIVED at the TKM
l'UKAlix HOME for LOST and STAKV1NU
DOGS, Battcrsea.
President The Duke or PORTLAND.
Treasurer and Chairman of Committee B. S.
alcasom. Esq., J. I.
All dogs kept six days for ldentlOcati m. Val
uable dogs kept longer, and where suitable homes
are guaranteed can be purchased at nominal
prices.
CATS BOARDED at the comfortable Cats'
Bouse at toe above Home.
PROPOSED ENDOWMENT OF DOGS' HOME.
A 'upporter offers to give JESO to an endowment
fund if live otbers will do the same. Also to In
crease his annual subscription by X5 if sine oth
ers will do the same.
The c ommlttee urgently appeal to lovers of
dogs to enable them to secure this Important
financial help, so much needed at this time.
JTOND3 "rirentiy NEEDED ror dally supply or
food and shelter for LOODrtogst
Remittances to be sent to
MATTHIAS COLAM. Secretary.
As for amusements, ot course there are at
tractions by the score. Amongst others, the
Knyal yVqnarinm advises the public that
"Panta, the sensation of the season, will subdue
a ferocious alligator (seven feet)" an'd conquer
a whole regiment of small (and probably tame)
alligators, and that Prof. Maxey will swallow
50 needles and "reproduce" them threaded!
"Mile. Hattie B. Downing, the American prima
donna," is another attraction. And Madam
Tussand calls attention to an addition to her
chamber of horrors "A portrait model of
Kemmler as he was executed. Fac simile of
chair and apparatus used at Auburn Prison."
Sermons Placed on Sale.
"These three advertisements not taken, bow
ever, from a daily, but from a London "re
ligious" weekly are of interest to me. Noth
ing Is said about the sermons being lithographed
in script If they are only printed the congre
gation might easily discover their pastor's easy
efforts toward the promotion of their "personal
piety," and the discovery might have a discour
aging effect upon them. Here they are preach
ing made easy.
SERMONS-EIGHTEENTH YEAR Or PUB
LICATION. Upon Sunday Gospel, Epistles,
and U. T. Lessons. Earnest, original, practical.
Aim: To promote personal piety. N. B.More
than COO or the clergy have zlven unsolicited
testimony to the great superiority or this publica
tion. Hncrlmen on annllcatton. Address SI. A.
(Cantab), 76. lvydale-road, Nnnhead. 1'eckham.
MODERN bERMONS-SIS. ORIGINAL. COM
SION sense. All subjects, 2s 6d. Special
Harvest festival MSS.. 5s. Rector, Wakerley,
Stamford.
SOUND CHURCH SERMONS FOREIGN AND
home missions, schools, temperance, hospital,
funeral, flower service, choir, volunteers. G. F.
8., Introductory, farewell, etc.. 2s 6d each.
W eeVly MSS.. no duplicate. 5s. Special to order.
10s 6d. Lecture or paper by arrangement. Rector
M., SMiril'S ADVERTISING AGENCY, IE
Fleet street London, E. C.
The whole look of a London newspaper
differs from the appearance of its cotemporary
on this side of the water. There is no series of
attractive headlines in type of assorted degrees
of emphasis. The London editor is content
with one plain title.
pnERE are no columns of short paragraphs
about all things under the sun. Nearly
all the paragraphs are long. No "personals,"
no little glimpses at great men, no spicy bits
ol gossip, and not a trace nor glimmer nor
smile of anecdotal fun. The London newspaper
Is in earnest It bas the Teutonic seriousness
which came over with Hengst and Horsa and
their battle axes when they landed at Tbanet
It bas no snappy little stories. Even .PuncA,
whose business is to be funny. Is as sober as a
Latin comedy. The London newspaper is
dignified. It cannot see any great humor In
the habit so inexhaustibly amusing to us of
calling eminent meu in public life by their
christian names.
Only a Dim Appreciation. -"THE
London newspaper has but a dim
appreciation of the importance of the
United States of America. France it knows,
and Germany It knows, and Africa and India
and Russia it is aware of, but who is America T
The patriotic pilgrim -looks in vain for news
from home. The American stock-markets get
well quoted. That affects the British pocket
book. But the newspapers do not seem par
ticularly enthusiastic in tbelr Interest in our
dolors and sayings- We have ten times as
much to say abont England as England bas to
say about us. American dentistry and Amen.
can drinks appear to be the only feature of our
national life which has taken hold as yet upon
the British Imagination.
Somehow, the London editor seems to have
no higher ideal of a newspaper than that it
shall be a brief, straightforward, digested,
carefully ascertained and accurate statement
of facsl
The most insignificant paper of any standing
in London is the London edition of the New
Yrk Herald. It is a little tour-page thin
with a full acconnt of the doings of royalty and
a meager and scrappy account or everything
else. I saw only one paper which I liked less,
and that was the Pans edition oftheNewx ork
Herald.
Some Room for Improvement.
Alt the London papers open in the middle.
To get at the rest of the paper you must
cut the leaves. All the interest is gathered
upon the fonrth and fifth pages. The best part
of the paper, and the part which most readers
read first, is the editorial department This is
very well done, indeed, but like that other ex
cellent and characteristic European institution,
the table d'hote, it is very long drawn out The
Daily Ntics, on the day before I sailed from
Liverpool, had an editorial of a column's
length about the Anti-Slavery Congress; an
other on England under tha Regency, being the
bright review of a lste book, more than a col
umn lone: "Matrons and Maidens" is a tunny pa
per on the need of pre-matrlmonial education in
mating gooa Dreaa ana cuuivaimc goon tem
per. "Short Sentences." "Cabbage Forever"
aud "The Anglo-Portuguese Convention," are
the other leaders. Tbey are all ably written
man attractive, literary style and worth read
ing. The titles of these editorials were set into
the text.
The Standard, on the same day, had editor
ials on the Southampton dockers' strike, on
tho opening of the Danube and on the meat
inspection acts passed by onr Congress. These
were allot great length. The 6(ancfarc! was
not pleased with the meat inspection business.
"A more outrageous enactment than this." It
is pleased to say, "has never been framed in a
civilized country."
"Germany and the Slave Trado," "Convict
Prison" and "Indian Railways" are the edi
torials of a similar date in the Times,
while in the Telegraph, the relations of
the clergy to social questions, , the
question of substituting camels for
donkeys on the seashore at Brighton, and the
advantages and disadvantages of "frizzing"
the hair, are discussed at great length. The
smallness of some of the topics and the large
ness of the space which is given to them is an
amazement to the Amoricai, reader.
The leading papers ot the large English towns
are patterned after the newspapers of London.
Tbe Liverpool Meicu y, the Manchester
Guardian, tho ScoUman and the Glasgow
Herald, all show the same broadside of closelv
printed advertisements, the same length and
emphasis ot editorial matter, and tbe same
absence of circus-poster headlines and other
features which are dear to the American heart
Tbe newspapers of England, so far as they
came within my reading, are thoughtful,
accurate, clean, aigninea ana eminently re
spectable.
G.H.
COST OF STANDING ABMIES.
Some Figures That Give an Idea What
Military Expenses Are.
From the Harnsburg Tclegram.1
It costs the "Christian" nations of Europe
something to illustrate their notion of "peaco
on earth, good-will to men." That is it costs
them something to keep themselves all ready
to blow one another into small fragments.
Statistics have beon published in Berlin show
ing the amount of military expenditures of the
great powers during the last three years. The
expenditures in round figures were as follows:
France, SL27u,O0O.OOU: Russia, 5813.000,000: Great
Britain, $613,000,000; Germany, $607,000,000; Austria-Hungary,
5338,000,000; Italy, $313,300,000.
These six powers have expended altogether
$3.59,500.000 for military purposes in the last
three years, or at tbe rate of more than SL
319,600,000 a year. The total for tho three
years considerably exceeds the entire national
debt of Great Britain, and is nearly large
enoneh to nav the mterest-beannir debt ot tbe
United States Bye times over. Tbe correspond
ing expenditure in the United States has been
about 8145,000.000, exclusive of pensions. If we
should add these our total expenditure would
be swelled to about $390,000,000.
AFTEE A WIFE.
Poor Luck of an Illinois Farmer Among
German Female Immigrants.
:SFECIAL TELEOKAM TO T11E DISFATCH.I
New York, November 23. Superintendent
of Immigration Weber received to-day a let
ter from Peter Miller, a German farmer
of Ottawa, 111., asking for a wife. Registry
Clerk SUbersteln announced to a group of
matronly looking German immigrants that
tbere was a husband waiting for any ono of
them ho was not over 40 years of ago and had
no children. The women crowded around Mr.
Silberstein and demanded particular.
Miller furnished a complete inventory of his
possessions. Some of them were a farm of SO
acres, a bank account, two horses and a car
riage to take bis wife to church
in, and a house with six rooms
completely furnished. HeTalo wrote
that he was temperate, good-natured, did not
grumble and would provide a good home for a
good woman. None of the women finally de
cided that she wanted Farmer Miller, notwith
stannirg that be is a childless widower with no
relatives.
The Chicago Fair.
Fronthe Chicago Tlmes.3
The Chicago fair will. In reality, be an Amer
ican exhibition, and the best that can be hoped
for is that it will be truly American and not
chiefly Western. There is danger that the
West will try to do its part on a big scale, so as
to overshadow with size and quantity tbe rep
resentatives of the rest of the country, destroy
ing the symmetry and proportions of thedis
play-
"Wall Street Flays.
From the Boston Herald.
The best patronized play at the theaters In
New York has for its central theme the peril
and escape of a Wall street bank, and a scene
of a meeting between the directors and the
bank examiner. It is a rather cruel bit of
realism just at present
JAY GOULD IN WALL STEEET.
Philadelphia Call: Mr. Gould buys only
what he can pay for, and be has no reason to
complain of his ability to pay.
New York 6"farr The important changes
already assured m the case of Pacific Mail and
of Union Pacific are, it is thought, about to be
followed by other of similar significance.
Chicago Hail: The biggest gobbler in the
country will not be sacrificed on the altar of
Thanksgiving Day. He will continueiat his old
stand in Wall street, picking up railroads as a
turkey swallows shelled corn.
PniLADELPniA Jlecord: Now that Jay
Gonld has obtained controling interest in the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the move
ment upon Congress for steamship subsidy will
be resumed with greater activity than ever.
Detroit Journal: If -ay Gould and the
Standard Oil Company have really joined bands
to take possession of tbe railroads of this coun
try, there will be no room left In It for anybody
else, except perhaps the hostile Indians on the
reservations.
Wall Street Daily Investor: The Union
Pacific and the Missouri Pacific systems have
thus been harmonized by tho vigorous use of
Mr. Gould's tomahawK and scalping knife.
President Adams ba, of course, been slaught
ered. Great is the power of money in a bear
campaign.
New York Tim's: The impending change
in the control of the Union Pacific Railway
system is said to be the result of an "amicable
agreement" between Charles Francis Adams.
Frederick L. Ames and Jay Gould. It Is no
longer denied that Mr. Adams Is to retire from
the presidency and that the Gould interest is
to take control.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The embattled
farmers will have to take their stind against
Jay Gould pretty soon if he keeps on gobbling
up railroads and advancing transportation
rates. By the way, suppose the Farmers' Al
liance captures the Government and undertakes
to put its theories in practice, what will it do
with Jay GouldT
Brooklyn Eagle: Mr. Gould's return to
Wall street after an absence of five years, has
had the effect of stirring things up there gen
erally. With the recovery of his health it is
tbe impression that he has recovered bis ambi
tion and now seeks to carry out some of those
grand designs which the failure of his physical
powers compelled him to abandon.
New York Commercial Advertiser: The
most impressive financial sensation of the time
is the sudden appearance of Mr. Jay Gould in
control of almost every important railroad cor
poration whose possession has been temporar
ily at stake in the recent decline ot values.
The last wees bas developed the fact that, di
rectly or indirectly. Mr. Gould has practically
come Into possession of four of the most exten
sive railway properties whose stocks have been
for sale in Wall street tbe Union Pacific and
Northern Pacific Railroads in the West the
Richmond Terminal railway system in the East
and the Pacific Mail Stiamihlp Company.
CDRIOUS C0NDEKSATI05S.
An old cathedral is still standing about
seven miles from Tucson, where it was erected
by the first missionaries over three and a half
centuries ago.
AdistiDguished Bostonian has been pay
ing an election bet by playing a cornet on the
Back Bay streets and collecting what pennies
ho could for the performance.
A man in Fort Wayne, Ind., was de
tected a few days ago stealing a pair of shoes.
In 20 minutes he had been'committed for grand
jury action, and in 45 minutes he had begun
serving a sentence in jaiL
There are about 73,000 persons in prison
in the Unltea States. There are, at least as
many more persons out of prison who belong
to the criminal class, making 150,000 criminals,
or one for every 400 inhabitants.
The most astonishing novelty in Paris
is a circulating machine, invented by M. Bollee,
of Le Mans. By simply turning a wheel it adds,
multiplies or divides any number of figures up
to lines of 15, and with amazing rapidity.
The saltest piece of water on earth is the
Lake of Urumia in Persia, situated more than
4.000 feet above the sea level. It is much Salter
than the Dead Sea, tbe water being found on
analysis to contain nearly 22 per cent of salt
It is estimated that more than a million
cattle and other animals died last winter. In
the extreme Western and Southern States and
territories, of neglect and starvation, and prob
ably hundreds of thousands were frozen to
death.
The United States mail service and the
express companies carry a great many little
alligators from visitors in Florida to friends in
the North at this time of ye3r, and inexperi
enced persons are troubled to know what to do
with them.
While crlmeis increasing here, therehas
been an extraordinary decrease In Great Brit
ain, the number of convicts serving sentenceof
penal servitude having decreased from 10,500
in 1S83 to 6,400 in 1SS, a decrease of 48 per cent
in six years.
Of all birds the albatross has perhaps
the most extended powers of flight It has
been Known to follow a vessel for several suc
cessive days without once touching the water,
except to pick up floating food; and even then
It does not settle.
Connected with medieval times are tha
very interesting "pilgrim rings," worn by those
who had been on a crusade- Sometimes two
little feet wero cha3ed on the top, emblems of
tho long journey they had trodden under the
banner of tho cross.
In North AmericathePhalangida?, vari
ously known as harvest spiders, harvest-men,
dadcy-long-lcgs, etc.. includes bnt twenty-two
known species. France has a list of 59 of this
family, and those of other European countries
are proportionately large.
The alligator is one of those animals
which'. like tho parrot and tortoise, live for an
indefinite term. It is never full grown at less
than 20 years, and may grow after that. It Is
not known how long it may live, but it common
ly attains the ago at 100 years.
It was recently round, taking the city
or Frankfort which bas a population of 167,
000. and is one of the wealthiest for its popula
tion In Germany, that there were 35,287 self
supporting adults who were earning an annual
income of less than $216 a year.
A beautiful memorial ring worn by
General Washington in remembrance or his
beloved brother is still owned by a Virginia
gentleman; and on the outside, in a "curiously
wrought style, is engraved tho name of Laur
ence Washington, and also the date of bis
death."
It is said that no animal, whether a
hyena or a tapeworm, lives for itself, but for
the beneht of posterity, each creature only
dying in order to benefit its race; so that every
organism, from a wheel-animalcule to a whale,
it unknowingly a sort of zoological Marcus
Curtius.
An Indian lad, aged 9, is in custody at
Jubbulpore, charged with having buried alive
bis younger brother, aged '3. Tbe prisoner, it
Seems, admits having committed the offense,
and states thathe and his brother were orphans.
He had to beg for a living, and as be could not
t.iko the youngster about with him he thought
much trouble would be saved by burying htm,
A careful inquiry in the Minnesota
State Reform School, some time ago, revealed
the fact that a majority of tbe boys committed
forcrimohad attended Sunday school until
near the time of their commitment. Forty per
cent or thera came directly from home: 43 per
cent more bad lived at home until within one
year or their commitment; and only 12 per cent
were entirely homeless.
Underground London is far more won
derful than underground Paris. Take, ror ex
ample. Its 3.000 miles of sewers, its 31,000 miles
of telegraph wires, its 4,500 miles of water
mains, its 3.2C0 miles of gas pipes, all definitely
fixed. Yet not even these compare with tho
vast cellarage area beneath tbe feet of the
pedestrian. In Oxford and Regent streets
alone the capacity is said to exceed 140 acres.
Every advance in the improvement of
the telescope has brought to our knowledge
still closer double-stars, tbe distance between
them being so magnified as to become visible
and measurable. But tho spectroscope has re
vealed to us a double-star so closo that no tele
scope will show the distance between tbo two
stars, altbongh each one of the two stars is
bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.
In London there is a man who follows
the business of tattooing. The majority of his
patients are men who liavo designs of a naval
character pricked into their skin, but tbere aro
also a great many women who employ his art,
if it may be termed such. Witn women the
decoration 13 usually a bee, a butterfly, a spray
of flowers or a monogram. These ornaments
are worn inside the wrist, so that tbey can bo
hidden by tbe glove, if necessary.
The "Man About Town" of the Hew
York Star describes a novelty in public wor
ship introduced in a Brooklyn Methodist
church. It consisted or "five canaries, in as
many bright, new wire cages, hanging in a
straight line across the center of the audito
rium, about 15 feet above the beads of tbe wor
shipers. The birds twittered and sang all
through tbe morning service", but no one
seemed to object to them. Even the preacher
appeared to forget their chirping during tha
delivery of his sermon."
a witty version.
She It's such years since we met that
perhaps you never heard of my marriage?
He-Xo indeed! Is it cr recent enougn for
congratulations?-arper' Magazine.
Teacher How do you spend Sunday,
Tommy?
Tommy I can't spend It at all. 1'a makes us
keep the Sabbath. -Aew 1'urt Herald.
"He is wedded to his art," said Hicks,
apropos or Sketchly. the artist.
You're wrong. He pays too much attention
to Ills art to be wedded at all. He Is engaged to
it, " retorted Mrs. Blcks, scornfully. Sew Xort
Sun.
Bobby (at breakfast-table) Clara, ' did
Mr. Spooner take any or the umbrellas or hats
from the hall last nlgbt?
Clara Why or course not; why should he?
Bobby-That's what I'd like to know. I
thought he did. cos I beard him say when he was
going out I'm going to steal Jnst one, and
Why, what's the matter. Clara? A'eicnstl
ChrtmicU. ,
"But why do you want to marry her?"
"Because I love her."
"My dear fellow, that's an excuse not a rea
son." baturday httning Pott.
"On what did Mr. Hicks preach this
morning?"
"On tbe platform."
"1 mean about what?"
"About 30 minutes."
"Von never understand. I want to know what
was the subject or his discourse?"
"1 don't know. He didn't say." Xew Xork
llerahi.
A company with 820,000,000 of capital
has been organized to navigate the air. Tbe com
pany Is to last 09 years, according to Its charter. If
It doesn't go up before that time. io Xort Com
mercial Advertiser.
Husbaud How did you get along while I
was away, my dear?
"tt ire-Pretty well. Every night I got out some
or your old clothes and strewed them around the
floor, tracked mud all over the stairs and swore at
niyscir occasionally, and It seemed really like
home. .Vein Xork Sun.
First Tramp Where did you get thatfina
overcoat?
Second Tramp In the big house at the corner.
"I went there only dls mornln' shlverin' wld
cold, an they wouldn't give me a rar."
"I didn't ask fer clothes fermeseir. I told 'em
It was ferth' poor heathen In Central Africa."
Epoch.
A follower of the profession of jesting,
having taken occasion to sneak or the vein of
humor, was asked by his flippant vls-a-vls:
"In what part or the body does the vein orhumor
He!"
Without a moment's hesitation, he repllod. "It
starts rrom the runny-bone, skirts the humerus,
and discharges ra theJesfc-iarperU Xagasln,
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