X TfiE" PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, TirESC-AX" NOVEMBER 2S," 1890: em - &B$pafti. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S46. Vol.4. No. Ml. Entered at Plttsbnrc rostoffice, November 14. 1S37, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. NewsBooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street F-ASTKits advertising office, room a, TKlHUSi: HUILD1NU, NEW YORK, where complete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers apprc.-iate the con venience. Home advrrt'.scrs and friends of THE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH is regularly on sale' at Jlrenlino's. 5 Union Squire. -Yew York, aid 1? Are. de rOpoa, J'aris, France, u-here anyone trho has been disappointed at a Jto'.cl news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. TOSTACE THEE IN THE united states. Dailt IMsrATcrt. One Year 5 S TO DaILT lUsrATCH, PerQnarter 100 DAILY Dispatch, One -Month TO Daily LiriTcrr, Including Sund-iy, lycar. 10 CO Daily IIisi-atcii, lnc!udliicbunday,3in'tlis 150 Daily Dispatch. Including bnndav, lm'lh 90 Sunday Dispatch. One Year ISO "XVrEKLY Dispatch, One Year 1 J5 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or including Sunday edition, at to cents per week. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY'. SOV. 25, lS9a TAMPERING WITH JURIES. In the Criminal Court, Yesterday, a prima facte case of attempted tampering with the jury was made against an officer of the law. Of course, on the full trial of the case further evidence will be produced on both sides: and comment on this especial case can be reserved until that time. Hut, as such a case is before the courts, it is pertinent to say that the offense, if com mitted, is one which calls for rigid investi gation and severe punishment. It is hard to imagine anything which turns the whole system of Government by law into a more complete mockery than interfering with juries. If that can be done with impunity no man can be secure of justice, and the en tire machinery of the law can be perverted into a lever lor injustice to the benefit of the unscrupulous. If the ofiense has, as alleged in this case, been committed by au officer of the law, his position is an aggravation of the offense which increases the need for sharp inquiry and severe punishment. The instrumentalities of justice must be kept not only free from corruption, but above suspicion of it. If this is not done the public have no assurance that the entire system of government by law is not a hideous mockery. MAKE HASTE SLOWLY. Suicides and disappearances aie indica tive of the btrain which preceded the crisis. This has been recently illustrated by ex amples from both sexes. Americans are proverbial for breaking down suddenly. ""e are noted for living at a high tempera ture. In fact, there are grounds for the cliange that we are prone to carry things to an extreme. This is so whether it concerns play or work. We need to learn how to make haste with moderation. Slow hut sure is the maxim, the wisdom of which we, as a people, do not sufficiently appreciate or practice. "We are prone, as the saying goes, to run things into Hie ground. Moderation an! temper Jnce in all things, whether of work or of pleasure, should be more cultivated by us. A little more time for meals and the social amenities of life, a little more method in all that we do, together with a self-repression of nervousness, a cultivation of open-air freedom and exercise and a better division of the hours ot labor, would make stronger and steadier men and women, fuller purses and happier homes. EARLY WINTER PERILS. This is a dangerous season of the year. The winter has not fairly set in, but its disa greeable envoys, raw winds, logs and night frosts, are here. The sunshine of the last day or two, delightful as it is in itself, is 1 apt to tempt men to be careless about over coats and rebellious against heavy clothing. Pneumonia is on theaiert.acdadozcn lesser physical ailments suddenly blossom out unwelcomely. The Dispatch has already called attention to the prevalence of diphtheria in certain parts of the city, and though the Health IJurcau's returns show that it has not been as frequently fatal this month as during the same month of - recent years, the outlook is not encouraging. Against most of the diseases peculiarly active just now the simplest precautions will avail. Keep on your winter clothing oven though the sun be shining, keep out of draughts, eat plenty of nourishing plain food, and doa't allow your office or home to be overheated, and the bacilli of all kinds, be they never so aggressive and numerous, will not catch vou. THE TRUSTS AGAINST THE LAW. The case which has arisen in Uew Orleans involving the legality of the American Bis cuit Company, a corporation under which the control of a large number of cracker factories in various sections of the country is combined, promises to add another to the long list of trust cases. The firm in New Orleans which became part of this corpora tion, now comes into court asserting that it is an illegal combination, formed to stifle competition, and asking to have their property restored to them from the coutrol of the ttust. If the combination is as al leged there is no doubt that the contract will be declared illegal. That is the uni versal holding of a long line ot decisions, of which the Louisiana Courts have given some of the most radical. There is no trouble in Sliding decisions against the trusts, but the phenomenal feature is the way in which business people goon organiz ing them contrary to law. This is matched by the fact that witli combinations forming in all kinds of industries, we nave yet to hear of a single effort to punish them by ap pealing to the anti-trust law passed at the last session of Congress. BEL3IONTS MANY SIDES. It is not as a banker or a statesman alone that August Belmont will bo remembered, although he will be greatly missed In New York's financial circles and in the councils of the Democratic party. To the last hours ot his life August Belmont was deeply interested in the breeding and racing of horses, and the cold which developed fatally into ptiuemouia singularly enough lie caught at the horse show in New York. He was that rare thing: an honest lover of the turf. No suspicion ever fell upon his racing stables; bis horses carried his colors to victory or defeat with honor. As Presi dent of the American Jockey Club his in fluence was powerfully exerted for honest racing, and some material reforms were the result of his efforts. The diversity of Belmont's attainments -n& tastes has been frequently remarked. Mitfrtiirtfa, It is seldom that financial and political ability are united, as they were in this man, with a love for sport and a refined taste in art. From a picture gallery to a' race track or a political caucus is a far cry, but It was within the range of August Belmont's ac tivity. AN ENTERNATIONAL ISSUE. The record made by Lady Plowden, who rejoices in the somewhat cumbersome title of ex-Lady Mayoress of London, and is traveling with the ex-Lord Mayor under the tutelage of Mr. C. K. Huntington through the Southwest, bids fair to become an international topic The lady, while staying at a hotel in Galveston, gave free play to her housewifely instincts by airing the bed clothes out of the front windows of the hotel. A hotel chambermaid who undertook to interfere got her ears boxed, and the housekeeper of the hotel who tried to investigate, was thrown out of the room. Later on a bellboy with the habitual fatuity of his class, spilled the usual pitcher of icewater over her ladyship's dress, and secured a thorough drubbing until he made good his escape. The same sort of victory is alleged to have attended the lady's collision with the servants of a San Antonio hostelry. This exhibition of the prowess of the Britannic female is seized upon by some cotemporaries as a specimen of English manners. With a somewhat unneces sary haste to appropriate the British flings at the manners of the Yankee nation, esteemed cotemporaries are referring to the achievements of this titled dame as au example of the customs of the British aristocracy, and asking if that is the model which we are to adopt for our guidance. The retort is perhaps fully justified by the lex talionis. As the English predicate our bad manners on strong speci mens whom they find browsing around among European inns, it is a retort in kind to take this belligerent specimen of the British females that is intimidating the hotels of Texas as au example on the other side. Nevertheless, in the interest of the entente cordiale, on this great international issue it is necessary to point out that there is a misunderstanding on both sides. To correct the misunderstanding on our side it is necessary to remark that Lady Mayoresses of the city of London are not members of the aristocracy or necessarily models of-polite British society. Even if they were, it is not the regulation at the Mansion House to air the bed linen out of the front windows, nor is it deemed abso lutely a duty of the mistress of a fashionable household to personally chastise the pam pered menials. "With that correction it is necessary to point out the misunder standing uuder which Lady Plowden labors. She has heard of the domestic service problem of this country and of the wild and uutramnieled life of Texas in which it is necessary to resort promptly to weapons of offense and defense. Obviously she intended to settle both matters at one blow. Her plan for reducing domestic servants to discipline is evidently au effi cacious one, if the head of the house is a suf ficiently good fighter; but it requires a vast amount of physical culture on the part of housewives. As to showing that she can not be imposed upon by the lawless element of Texas, Lady Plowden has evidently got the whole State in a terrorized condition; and as she travels to the Pacific coast, even the robbers will give the train which Car rie i her to the Golden Gate a free track. It is clear that Lady Plowden's course wa. due to erroneous notions caused by loose information, which led to a mistake in her choice of subjects. If she had thumped a hotel clerk or two into a condition of humility the whole country would have risen up and called her blessed. Ex-POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES asserts that, "there was no necessity for the re cent panic in Wall street" Wbatdoesnottho President of the Lincoln National Bank regard the desire of the Rockafellar-Gould combina tion to first squeeze and then gobble the stock ot various railroads as creating a necessity? If the will of the coporate kings is not a necessi ty. It would he interesting to learn what does constitute that condition in Wall street. The army board, which is charged with the duty of Undine a good magazine rifle for the army to use. should discharge that duty carefully. After it is done, it will he a larger task to And a good army to use the magazine rifle. After that mysterious client of Mr. Sherman, of New York, has sent that high priced legal gentleman to tho United States Supreme Court a few times more, in the at tempt to prevent the execution of criminals hy electricity, he, or it, may discover that the death penalty is not always arranged to suit privato interests. When this lesson Is folly taught, the client will have the experience and Mr. Sherman will have the money. The determination of the Department of Public Works to have all the unfinished street contracts finished up before any new ones are let, la a good one. Unfinished streets are at present the bane of Pittsburg. It is undestood that Gilbert and Sullivan arc going to make the American abroad tho subject of their next operatic satire. That may be a good subject for their humor, hut it still remains the fact that the quarrels of operatic authors as recently exemplified by themselves would bo the richest vein they cduld strike at present. But perhaps Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan think their quarrel such a burlesque as to defy satire. Brazil proposes to have a continental fair. After Chicago has divided her Fair a few times oftener, tho fragments of it might be bought up to exhibit at Brazil as an example of American enterprise. Brooks, as a leading candidate for Speaker In the State House of Representatives, suggests the question whether under his Speakership the House will he expected to make good the pledge of that campaign circu lar, in which Mr. Andrews promised the saloon keepers that the Brooks license law will'bo changed by the Republicans. , While the Republicans are discussing what they will do in the next session, they had better consider the inttrcst they have in giving their Democratic opponents a taste of fairness. The present attack on Stanley for injur ing the character of dead men, after the dead men's friends have attacked him, is the most modern example of the fabled complaint of tho wolf because the stream was muddled below whero he was drinking. The American copper syndicate is now finding out that artificially high prices bring their own penalty by Increasing production so that the prices have to como down. BALrotlR'S official declaration that the Irish must not meet to express confidence in Paruell, is likely to move in the wax f con tinuing the Irish leader's hold on his followers more than anything that could be done by his supporters. Iu Honor of Dr. 31 abon. The staff of the Allegheny General Hospital met yesterday and passed a series of resolu tions eulogistic of the llfo and work of Dr. I Thomas Mation. Ho was a member ot the hospitals consulting stall. &&jfcjf&ustofa PB0MTNENT PEOPLE. Mrs. Dorothy Tknnakt Stanley is two inches taller than her husband. Mrs. Shaw, tho whistler, is understood to be making a fortune in Europe. Dr-Storhs, of tho Church -of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, has completed 41 years of service at that church as pastor. B. P. SniLLABER ("Mrs. Partington") is be lieved to be affected wijh a mortal illness at his home in Chelsea, Mass. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of Eng land, is nearly 70 years old, ana rejoices in the receipts of a comfortable salary of 510,000 ayear from the Crowu. Secretary Tracy appeared in court In Brooklyn last week in his capacity as a lawyer for the second tlmo since he took bis place in the Cabinet He won his case. The most attractive feature about Andrew Carnegie's New York residence is its collection of paintings. Extolling his wife's art sense, lie says she is "a Cnristopher Columbus in irt mat ters." Sitting Bull wears an S hat and shaves with a pair of tweezers. Ho is able to write bis name in the English character in a nervous, hut plain hand. He requires a bribe of SI be fore exhibiting this accomplishment, however. Donald G. Mitchell, better known to the literary world as "Ik Marvel," was nearly killed In a ruufevay accident in New Haven on Thursday last and is still in a dangerous con dition on account of injuries ho then received. Dr. Koch was until ten years atro an obscure country physician. His practice and his repu tation did not extend beyond the limits of the little town of Wollstein, a place so small and unimportant that it is only with much difficulty that it can be found upon tho map. One of the three daughters of John D. Rockefeller, while a student at Yassar, had a handsome allowance in tbo way of money from home. Instead of spending this on rich gowns and apartments, she paid for two years the tuition and expenses of a girl from the country who was not able to pay them herself. Edward Everett Hale suggests the ap pointment in some leading university of a Professor of America," who shall stand as an expounder of Americanism. Every good citi zen is aprof essor of America on his own ac count and also an expounder of Americanism, and what is more, will light for it If necessary. A college professor could hardly do more than that, but if a "Professor of America" Is re quired, there is no one better qualified than Edward Everett Hale. THEY COME DOWN TO BUSINESS. Lady Managers of the World's Fair Formu late Their Desires. Chicago. November 21. The Board of Ladyi Managers of the World's Fair resumed its ses sion this morning. Some of the ladies advo cated a separate exhibit for women, but others said that such a course would bo fatal to the interests of the sex which they interested. Mrs. John A. Logan urged that business be hurried through. "Ladles, if we defer action much longer, we shall be the laughing' stock of the Nation," said she. "Every day we stay here costs the Nation over $1,000. Let us do something and savo ourselves from ridicule." Other ladies were of the opinion that they had been brought here. and should take their time to do their work well. A aesolution by Mrs. Ginty that managers go before their respective State Legislature to ask for annrourlations for the workmen's portion ot the exposition, was laid on the table. The board then got to work on the formulation of its ideas of what it wanted to ask from the Commissioners, the presenta tion of resolutions to this end being intercepted occasionally to listen to addresses by Miss Frances E. Willard. Miss Harriet Hos mer and others. Among tbo matters proposed by different members of the board to be requested, are that an administrative build ing for the use of the board be erected on the fair grounds: that there should not be a separate building for the exhibition of woman's work; tbat the salary of the secretary be $5,000; that every exhibit be accompanied with a statement tbat the said exhibit is or is not produced in whole or in part by female labor." TEE WINDOW GLASS SEAL. Prices Announced to Rise in the Immedi ate Future. rtrECTAL TELXORAX TO TBI DtSPATCH.1 Findlay. November 21 The Findlay mem bers of the American Window Glass Company, the great trust which has taken Into partner ship all the window class houses, with a few exceptions, west of the Alleghenies, left for Chicago to-night where to-morrow all the fac tories in the combine will turn their establish ments over to tho American Window Glass Company. The officers are: President, James A. Chambers, of Pittsburg; Vice President, J. CI Hart, of Muncie. Ind.: Secretary, F. L. Fra zer, of Chicago; Treasurer, William Loeffer, of Pittsburz. In addition to these officers, there is a board of directors of 11 members, being one represen tative from each plant in the trust December 1 the price of window glass will advance 5 per cent, the company establishing discounts of EO and S per cent for glass quotations, with a rebate system for the protection of'the jobbers and wholesale buyers. This will permit tho largest among them a fair margin of profit, provided they adhere strictly to these and con fine their purchases exclusively to the Ameri can Window Glass Company, signing an iron clad agreement STANLEY WILL TELL ALL. The Attacks of the Barttelot and Jameson Families Drives Him to It. Boston. November 21 Stanley is so mdie nant at the persistent assaults upon him by the Barttelot and Jameson families that ha has resolved to depart from the course which he had laid out, and to lay bare tho dreadful facts con nected with the fate of the rear guard, demon strating at the same time the truth of tbo only charge which ho has made, and that the fail ure of the real column was due to the indiffer euce of its officers, and to their violation of his written Instructions. The recent charges made by Harry Qnilter, and said to have occasioned much comment In London, aro that Stanley broke open the seals of Jameson's box, took therefrom his private papers, and only gave them up when threat ened with a law suit. In reply to this Stanley showed the reporter a letter which ho wrote Sir Francis DeWln ton from Cairo, on the 5th of March, lb'UO, and which has never before been published, con taining a complete refutation of the charges. His next lecture, which will he In New York, Decembers, will in all probability be the time for this recital. EUGENE FIELD'3 PHIZE. He Returns From Europe With an Ax Used hy Gladstone at Ha warden. rr-CIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.I New York, November 21. On a leatner seat in tbo office of the Sturtevant House this after noon sat a man with an ax balanced upon bis knees. Now and then he lifted the ax, hand ling it awkwardly, yet lovingly. This man with tho ax was Eugene Field, newspaperman, poet, humorist. He had just returned from six months of European travel and seemed glad to he back. The ax is a memento of Gladstone, being one recently used hy the Grand Old Man in felling trees at Hawarden. Mr. Field secured it from Gladstone, through Prof. Oscar Brown ing, of King's College. The axis of great weight. The blado is rusty and the edge is dulled. The heel is chipped. The handlo has many dents in it. Mr. Field regarded his prize with eyes full of tender pride. DISPUTES AMICABLY ABBANGED. Erie Officials and Engineers Come to an Agreement Middi.etowk, N. Y., November 2i From reliable sources it is learned that 12 engineers representing divisions aloug tho line of the Erie railroad held two conferences Friday and two more on Saturday with President King, at which Vice President Felton and General Sucerintendent Thomas wero present Late on Saturday night a cimpromlse was effected and the engineers returned borne perfectly satisfied. It is understood that the engineers want pay for the hours spent along the road, instead of by trips, and also pay for the time engineers are suspended when the men are afterward ex onerated. FINANCIAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Canton Dollars Made LegalTender, and May Lead to Paper Money. Washington, November 21. The United States Minister to China has informed the De partment of State that tho Canton dollars and parts of dollars made bv order of tho late Vice roy, Chang Chik Tung, have been made a legal tender in all parts of China. Ho says the intro duction of this coinage, unless tampered with will ucdoubtcdly work a financial (evolution in China, and it mav possibly result in the estab lishment of a national bank and become the basis oi a paper currency. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Heaven ale no offers a fulfillment of your best and holiest wishes. The village store was a cozy place in the young days, wasn't it ? You.didn't take much notice of tho o.id 'combination, which littered floor, shelves and counter then. O, nol It was a veritablo museum for the youthful fancy in the Idle hours of childhood. It was full of won ders, to be sure. Nuts from a land. far, far away. Cloth, til at catno In ships and cars. Mysteriously marked boxes from Everywhere. Teas from Chinn and spices from Ceylon. Pins from a foreign land and spikes and nails from a big drill where Iron ran like water. Sugar Irom a sunny clime and silks from threads sp an in a land of flowers. Furs from regions ol'ice and snow '.and gauzy, fluffy Btuffs from looms ' worked by' fairy fingers. Everything on the earth above, tho treasures it hid from your young eyes, were spread in a disorder which fascinated, though it makes you softly smilo now, of course. And then in the corner was the postoffice, too. Letters bearing oddly colored stamps, huge wafers, awe-Inspiring writing, soiled in a long journey or fresh with the odor of a perfume which some one would recognized-some bearing a broaa black border, which surely made you shiver then as it does now came ami were carried away by the owners. And you longed for a letter, too, now didn't youf Then the villago head men the preacher, the teacher, the blacksmith, the shoemaker, the doctor, the druggist, tho mil ler, the sawyer gathered there and discussed, to you and to me, the weightiest ques tions. The village needs and tho village health, the village's moral and spiritual welfare, the school's progress and the church's debt, next year's cattle show and tho county's crop out look, the weather as it was and the weather as it should be, all wero turned over by tne group of good old men while you sat there, sharp-eared, open-mouthed, wide-eyed. Then the candles burned low, the wood in the stovo was a handful of hot ashes, purchasers ceased to barter, the glass boxes of tlie postoffice only reflected the flicker of tho mellow lights, the shopkeeper yawned, and soon the iron bar held the bolt that bound the shutters to the window frame, and the country stoi e was given over to the ghosts which came from the distant lands along with the stuffs in the big boxes. There yon first learned that the world was wide. There you first sniffed the odors of the Orient and dreamed of sea and ships. There came the first longing for a peep at tho world , There you decided to become a rover or a recluse. There you formed tho first fancy which brought mist into your mother's nye and caused your father's hand to tremble. A good novel is a novelty in this age of rot and realism. The world will never be without something to talk about so long as the North Pole is undiscovered. Self-hade women are quite numerous, Jbut they are of little use in the world. Time is money, but we get It on tick just the same. The sweetest tongs are tboso still to be sung, Tho finest pictures have not yet been hung; Tho rarest flowers have not yet been born. The brightest Jewels have not yet been worn. But Love will he the same as it is now. Still meeting lips will seal the marriage vow; For so it was, it is. 'twill ever be. Till sweeter bliss comes with Eternity. Soke folk would sooner be beggars in soci ety than leaders In the working world. Envious people should be pitied, but not petted. Buffalo Bill has jumped from the parlor to the plains, and has taken charge of a portion of Uncle Sam's Wild West show. This is the best advertising opportunity Bill has had since he went into the business. The doubter is always generally in the dark. The Steubenville ladies who want to muzzle skirt dancers should give them a little more muslin. The doctor stands at the cradle and the preacher at the grave. Between the two the lawyer manages to pick up a good living. Society prophets predict a gay season in Washington next winter. Thoso who will soon forsake the Capital might as well have a good time whilo they can. A New Jersey woman named Blessing, who was cared for by Plttsburgers, has dis appeared without oven blessing Her benefac tors. What's in a name, after all T AN AFRICAN EPISODE. To the heart of Darkest Africa a missionary went, Bent on telling dusky cannibals tbat they should all repent He was clad in lofty purpose, had neither shot nor shell. Only beads and gaudy calico to please the Afric belle. This missionary left us, and he is still away; His friends have all concluded that he's in the consomme. " In their minds they dtaw a picture of a steam ing copper pot, 'Round which the hungry cannibals at meal time used to SQuat. Since then some other teachersj'tbo of a dif ferent school, Have visited the region where all( relish mis sion gruel. They were scientific fellows, of a literary turn. And the cook'ry of the cannibals they set about to learn. For a bit of painted calico they bought a chubby child. And placed it in a kettle, 'round which dnsky heathens smiled;. Then they watched it simmering nicely, until it was dono brown Saying this is just for science and newspaper renown. Thus they revenged the mission man, the tables neatly turn'd; Whero creamy white skin simmered once black cuticle they burn'd. And now in Darkest Africa many a dusky group Tells howthepalc-facedscientists putdarkfolk in the soup. It's human nature to get all you can and keep all you get, and Jay Gould is working it for all it's worth. This is splendid weather for hunting quail and Indian?. Vessels are running on the Banks of New loundtand, but they have not yet suspended. Wall street is paved with bad investments. The Congressional Itecord will soon resume publication. A large number of new contrib utors will bo added in a short time, and the publishers hopo to offer the public some fresh aud entertaining matter. - The tariff serial has been concluded, and they expect to present the opening chapters of aew story, entitled "The Force Bill; or. How to Ballot With Bullets," if the author has sufficiently recovered from a recent illness to prepare the copy. If you follow a shadow you will only into tho dark. run When the millennium comes it is safe to as sume that bells will not have to ba used to call people to church. The man who Is always saying "I observe" cannot see further than his nose. Sailors always weigh the anchor before the ship gets under way. Stage marriages seem to be about on a par with stage love. "When there's a screw loose on an ocean racer it means a'great deal. , The Spiritualists have ghost dances, but they are perfectly harmless. - Since the Indian has 'been' associating with tho pale-faces he has learned 'how to handlo a gun. Ho is more interesting on tho warpath now than ho used to be. The sinner need not discuss creeds; any ono of them will put him on the right track. The Berllneso have snbscribed only 20 marks toward a charity hospital for Koch's patients. This is rather remarkable. The present spell of weather deserves Our heartfelt thanks. r The best way to treat a rumor is to follow it up and see what there is in it Coal banks are not the safest places for money, after all. How would it do to send some idle baseball batteries to the seat of the ghost dance? The summer girl Is now outgrowing last sea son's bathing suit. Willie Winkle. THEIR FIRST BANQUET. Objects and Aims of tho Pittsburg Academy of Medical Sciences Some Eloquent Toasts Delivered Organized for Original Research. The Pittsburg Academy of Medical Sciences Is a new organization in Pittsburg, which held its first banquot at the Monongahela House last evening. It is composed of physicians of the rogular school, and the objects of the organization aro similar to those of the College of Physicians and Burgeons In Philadelphia. The societywas started for the purpose of original research, and tho various departments of medicine and surgery are carefully investi gated. At tho regular meetings held every Monday ovening papers aro read and questions ot interest to tho profession are discussed. About 10 members and guests sat down at tho banquet last night. Dr. F. H. Edsell de livered the annual address. Other toasts were responded to by Drs. McCann, Chris Lange, Brumbaugh. Scott and Charles Sbaw. Dr. Ed sell is President, R.. W. Stewart, Vice Presi dent; C. O. Cioulding, Treasurer; Dr. Oscar Brumbaugh. Corresponding Secretary, and J. J. Moyer, Recording Secretary. The society at present meets on Webster ave nue, and they hope some day to have a build ing of their own. Gernert's Orchestra fur nished the music at the feast. TO SELL THANKSGIVING CAKES. Plan of tho Calvary Church Sisterhood for Cliristmas Charities. The Sisterhood of Calvary Church will hold a Thanksgiving cake sale In the parish building of the church to-morrow afternoon, from 2 until 0 o'clock. Home-made cakes of every kind, and numerous other Thanksgiving luxuries will be on sale. The young ladles will servo tea and chocolate during: tbo afternoon. The object of the sale is for Christmas charities and as It is the first affair of the kind ever given fn the city, the ladies expect great results. The Beethoven's Concert. The Beethoven Quartet Club will give the first concert of the season to-morrow night, and a very delightful event it Is sure to be. Tho programme has already been pnblished in full, and it Is only worth while to remark ajrain that the appearance of such an accomplished singer as Miss Clementina de Vere will make the con cert even more notable artistically than the many previous efforts of thiR devoted little band of Pittsburg musicians. The concert will be given in Old City Hall, and it is to be hoped thatlt will attract au audience as large as its deserts. The Musical Event of To-Day. The Beethoven Club, at Old City Hall this evening, is the musical attraction of tho day. Signorina Clementina De Vere, tho lovely lady and singer who has sneceeded in creating such a furore over the entire country in the past year, is the soloist of the evening. The "Krentzer Sonata" will be played by F. G. Toerge and Carl Better. War on a White Sheet. Frederic Villlers, the famous artist and war correspondent of the London OrapAic.lectnred last evening, in the M. E. Church of Sewickley, to a large and intelligent audience. His sub ject was "War on a White Slieet." and by lantern slides it was illustrated. It was the second lecture of tho Sewickley Valley course. Social Chatter. Mr. and Mrs. Will Mocullotjoh Grat ton, of Sewickley, will give a large reception this evening at the Park Place Hotel. Miss Chew, Mrs. Grafton's daughter, will assist in receiving. Dancing will be indulged in from 10 to 12. The ladies of the Industrial Exchange are very busy preparing for the sale which takes place to-morrow. Besides fancy goods, sub stantial Thanksgiving eatables will be on ex hibition in great abundance. Miss Lena M. Attll and Mr. William M. Meyers will be married at 8:30 o'clock this morning, in the St. Peter's and St. Paul's Church.on Larimer avenue. Rev. Father Suehr will officiate. In honor of Mrs. William Larimer Jones, the pretty little Dilworth bride, a reception will be given this afternoon by Mrs. James K. Mellon, of Negley avenue. The hours are from 3 to 6 o'clock. Mr. John McGifpin, a well-known business man of Mt. Washington, will be married on Thanksgiving eve to Miss Ida J. Beltzboover. an accomplished young lady, also of Mt Wash ington. REV. S. W. McCorkle, the newly called pastor of the First Congregational Church of Allegheny, with Mrs. McCorkle, will be tendered a reception this evening at the church. Mrs. Thosias Jamison, of Union avenue, Allegheny, gives a 4 o'clock tea tbi3 afternoon, to which gentlemen are invited as well as ladies. CARL Retteb began chorus rehearsals for the May Festival. last evening, in the chapel of the Pittsburg Female College. Miss Maud F. McNutt, a pleasing young lady of Fairmount City, has been visiting Miss Mary Wilson, of Perrysvllle avenue. The Linden Clubhouse will echo with con cert music to-night, under the management of Mr. Henry L. Riuewalt. Mr, and Mrs. E. Ingram, of Chartiers street, will celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary to-day. Mrs. S. L. Fleishman, of 22S Locust street will give a progressive euchre party this even ing. The marriage of Jliss Kate Ratlcan and Mr. Harry Evans occurihis evening. The Allegheny Cotillion Club will dance at the Monongahela to-night The Brown-Boyle wedding this evening. H0N0BS T0B THE BBAVE. Secretary Wlndom Awards Medals to Life Saving Men. Washington. November 21. Secretary Window has forwarded seven gold life-saving medals of the first clas to Hon.George Adams, Member Congress of Illinois, for presentation to Mr. Lawrence O. Lawton. keeper of the Evanston, III., life-saving station, and members of his crew, George Crosby, William Ewing, Jacob Lninlng. Edson B. Fowler, William L. Wilson, Frank M. Kindige. Medals were awarded for saving Hfe at the wreck of the steamer Calumet, which was totally lost near Fort Sheridan, on Lake Michi gan, November 28, 1889. Tills is Turkey Week. From the Hew York Tribune.1 To Democratic newspapers: Hani off your roosters. This Is the great American turkey's week. DEATHS OF A DAY. Joseph Chesnnt Joseph Chcsnut died yesterday afternoon, at the age or 33 years. He was a traveling salesman for D. Chesnnt & Co.. dealers In leather, which position he held 15 years. He was very popular with those who know him, especially the men with whom he did business. The funeral will oc enr to-morrow, from bis late residence on Roberts street. Dr. F. Nodine. HT.tr York, .November 21. The steamer La itonrgogne, Irom Havre, arrived this morning. Dr. F. Nodine, of Cleveland, died or consumption during the voyage, and hla body was brougnt to this port. He was 32 years old. Andres Grcllich. , Andres Urelllcli, one of the best known old gentlemen of the city, died yesterday at tils home on Thirty-ninth street Mr. Urelllcli was S3 years old. The funeral will occur to-morrow from his late residence. ltd. Thomas C. Hartshorn. .ULOOUISOTON, III., Xovemher 21.-Thc Key. Thomas U. Hartsltora, of Pontlae, for 35 year '(Jenrral Aiccnt of the American Jilble Society, Is dead. i COMEDY TRIUMPHANT. Stuart Robson in a Now Comedy Annie Plxley Variety of Several Sorts Ovide Musln The Town's Amusements. A three-act comedy by Archibald D. Gordon and Ad Corbctt entitled, "Is Marriage a Fail ure;" was the vehicle chosen by Stuart Robson for his appearance at the Grand Opera House last night. A large and very friendly audience gave Mr. Robson a pleasant reception and patiently endured the play. "Is Marriage a Failure:" is the old question put into very crude dramatic form. Horace Kent, a rich young New i'orker, marries a Chi cago girl before the play begins. His father-in-law and mother-in-law. detestable charac ters, both descend upon him in the first actand persecute him through the whole play. His wife Is alienated from him by tho flimsiest, silliest accusation imaginable, and her return to him forms tho climax ot the play. The story of the play Is not in the least true to life anywhere, and while Mr. Robson as Hoi ace Kent is a familiar type of an easy-going American, it is not because the authors made the character natural, but because Mr. Robson cannot help being himself. For like reasons Mr. Robson is i xceedingly amusing, and in their degree his fellow sufferers in the play are successful also. The first actot "Is Marriage a Failuref" is conspicuously superior to the rest of the play. The parents-in-law make their appearance in this act and the dialogue and situations show a fresh humor that promised well for what was to follow. The fun ot the little supper was tbo best thing of the whole piece. In this Mr. GeorgeS. Woodward, made up most hideously a3 the father-in-law, Mr. Jasper Jl'ar ren, shared tho honors with Mr. Robson, and if "Is Marriage a Failure?" had been a farce comedy the scenes which followed and in which Messrs. Robson and Woodward made a great deal of laughter, might have been appropriate. If the play wero far stronger in construction, if the motive were not so in tensely disagreeable, if the unnecessary and disgnstingidiot son of an anomalous and nearly impossible Chicagoan had been left out with his father, and If the play had been provided with a few characters like nnto human nature as revealed on this continent, it would still have coveted failure, for it is not the vocation of comedy to he didactic to the extent sug gested clumsily by this play. The company generally was swamped by the play, but not one of them but made an heroic effort to emerge from the slough of despond. In pleasant contrast to the chief item on the hill was tho little curtain-raiser, '-Two pan Play at that Game." which was given for the first time last night by Messrs. Edward J. Ratcliffe and Stanilaus Stange, and Miss Eugenia Lin deman. It is a mere trifle, but it was a triumph for Miss Lindeman. The Bijou Theater. There was fun among the tenants in the "Jlnkerson House" last evening fun to sell; and the occupants ol "22, Second Floor" made themselves superbly ludicrous, not to say ridiculous, not only in the sight of the large audience in the Bijou Theater, but actually the participants in this "modern Comedy of Errors" laughed several times at some ag gravatingly funny situation. Of course Annie Fixley in her dual part of Mrs. John Ellis and JUiss flora Featherstone, twin sisters unknown to each other and to their respective friends does very clever comedy business both whilo sustaining the righteous indignation of the former character wnen confronted by some dreadful mistake as to identity, and as she treats the blunders of herself and others with mirth provoking Inconslderation in her other role of song and dance artist. "22 Second Floor" was played here last sea son and its purpose of making fun In a broad, harmless way was approved then. At that time, however. Miss Pixley was not in the best of health, and'the possibilities of her part were evidently not fully brought out The play and Miss Pixley's dual character in it are much im proved, and the old intrigues with new dresses are very amusinc. Miss Pixley is well sup ported this year. Tho Duquesne Theater. To-day at 12 o'clock choice of seats for the opening performance of the Emma Juch Com pany at the Duquesne Theater will be sold by auction at Hays' music store, 75 Fifth avenue. The performance will be "The Huguenots," besides being the first appearance of the Emma Juch organization In this city for nearly a year. The occasion will be memorable as the dedi cation of Manager Henderson's handsome new theater. The seats remaining unsold at the auction sale will be placed on sale Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the box office of tho Duquesne Theater; also at the branch office which has been located at 75 Fifth avenue. Seats for tberemalningsixnerformances of the engagement will be placed on sale at the same hour. Numerous telezrams and applications by mail have been received, but no seats will be laid aside before the opening of the regular sale. Ovide Musln. Old City Hall was comfortably filled last evening with an appreciative audience for the second entertainment of the Pittsburg Star Course. The attraction was Ovide Musln and his concert company, composed of tbo follow ing eminent solo artists: Ovide Musln, the great ttolin virtuoso; Annie Louise Tanner, the American nightingale; Inez Parmatcr, mezzo soprano: Karl Storr. tho German bari tone; Eduard Scharf, solo pianist. The programme, after considerable delay and audible impatience on the part of the audience, was opened with a valsc-caprice, by Rubenstein, rendered by Eduard Scharf. Fol lowing was a vocal solo, "Undine," sung in the native tongue by Karl Storr. "A Hummer Night" as rendered by Inez Parmater received considerable applause, and Annie Louise Tanner next proclaimed her right to the titlo of nightingale. Ovide Musin, of course, was the attraction, as he is considered one of the greatest of living violinists. His playing was rapturously applauded, his first number being Leonard's "Grand Fantalsle." He after ward played with exquisite effect in ''Waltbers Preisliod"alid" Valse do Concerf'also in a duet for soprano and violin. Tho pleasing pro gramme closed xv I til Souvenir de Strauss bv Annie Louise Tanner, Inez Parmater, Karl Storr, Ovide Musin and Eduard Scharf. Davis Fifth Avcnuo Museum. The attractions at Harry Davis' Fifth Ave nue Museum this week are on a big scale. Hat tie Davis, tbo biggest woman on earth, is still the star of the curiosities, with Colonel Pickett Nelson, the giant, and Princess Nora and Gen eral Turnerwood as tiny colleagues. There are plenty of novelties in the theater and a good performance generally. There is a clever act of Japanese juggling by Yank Oino. Bailey and O'Brien give an Irish comedy sketch. The danc ing of Miss LaRose and t lie ground and Inftv tumbling of the LaRose Brothers are far better than the average. Gilmoro and Morton's sketch is amusing, and the best feature of the whole show Is tho singing, dancing, and harp playing of McCloud and Melville. In addition to tho recular theatrical performance the Ten nessee Jubilee Singers give a tuneful concert in tbe zoological roof garden, and altogether the returns for a dime are about as large as a reasonable person could expect. Harry Williams' Academy. Sheriian & Flynn, authors of "McGinty," opened their Thanksgiving week engagement at the Academy last night before a crowded house. The Nelsons, who have appeared hero so often, are as clever as ever, and tbe Glenroy Mothers avo certainly very lunny. SheOdan and Flynn didn't give the gallery gods an op portunity to cry "chestnuts" at them, but Sang a number of new songs. Maloney closed the performance in a one-act comedy, which far exceeded tbe average "after piece." Manager Williams may feel very confident of doing a big business this wees. Harris' Theater. Two very large audiences yesterday testified their pleasure in a very hearty manner at tho performances given at this houso by tbe Nelson combination of vaudeville artists. This is the first time this season that anything but at Harris', and the change was appreciated. The company isa clever one, thnNelsons being excellent acrobats, and having gathered around tbem a number of gaiety dancers, com edians and specialty performers who give an enjoyable entertainment. Dramatic Notes. The first Pittsburg performance of tbe Will iam J. Gilmore Opera Company will occur at the Bijou Theater Monday evening next, when this organization will produce the operatic suc cess. "The Sea King," which held the stage of Palmet's Theater, Now York City, all last sum mer. It is claimed by competent critics tbat no presentation of comic opera has been mora elaborately presented than has "Tho Sea King." both as regards cast as well as scenery and costumes. The sale of seats for the Gil more Opera Company will open Thursday morning next at 9 A. M. ' Miss Cora Tanner will begin her annual engagement at the Grand Opera House Mon day evening next, presenting her successful play, "Tha Refugee's Daughter," a romantic drama by Martha Morton. The1 character of Ixtene, as portrayed by Miss Tanner, is said to 'show deep and careful study. POSSIBLY PLANTS CAN SEE. Some Curiously Interesting Facts Aro Ad vanced to Prove This. Youth's Companion. The candid observer must admit that many plants act as if they had the faculty of seeing. At any rate, they manage to find food and sup port by somo special sense, which the un scientific mind cannot name any better than to call it .sight Mrs. King describes a very curious instance of this habit of looking out for support on tbe part of a creeping plant in India. My husband has broached a theory tbat I cannot remember to have met with before namely, that creeping plants can see. or at any rate have some faculty equaling sight He was sitting in the veranda with one foot up against a large pillar, near to which grows a kind of convolvulus. Its tendrils were leaning over into tbe veranda, and to Robert's surprise he presently noticed that they were visibly tnruing toward his leg. He remained in tbe same position, and in less than an hour tbe tendrils had laid themselves over his leg. This was In tbe early morhir.g, and when at breakfast be told me of this discovery, we de termined to make further experiments. When we went out into the veranda the tendrils had turned their heads back to the railing In dis gust. We got a polo and leaned it up against the pillar, quite 12 inches from the nearest sprays of convolvulus. In ten minutes tlieyhad begun to curve them selves in that direction, and acted exactly as you might fancy a very slow snake would do if he wished to reach anything. Tbe upper ten drils bent down and tho side ones curved them selves until they touched the pole, and in a few hours were twisted quite round it It was on tbe side away from the light and excepting the faculty of sight, ws can think of nn.other means by which tbe tendrils could be aware that the pole bad been placed there. They had to turn away from tbe light to reach it, and they set themselves in motion visibly within a few minutes ot the pole's being there PLANS FOE THE WINTER Considered by the Local Institute for Sacred literature. The Executive Committee of the Pittsburg branch of the American Institute for Sacred Literature met at the Y. af. C. A. rooms yes terday afternoon. The regular meeting of the institute will be held next Monday to adopt plans for carrying out the coming winter's work. The meeting of the Executive Commit tee was held to arrange the plans and recom mend them for adoption. The committee adopted resolutions to recommend a course of lessons in the New Testament on the life of Christ by Dr. Riddle, of tbe Western Theo logical Seminary, and a second course from tbe Old Testament, covering tho period from the division of the kingdom down to the timeif, the fall of Samaria. The latter course is sim-'-ilar to those In the Sunday schools during tha. flrHairmnnthanf 1VQ1 Prof. McCenahan, of tho United Pretbyte; riuu Aiiuuioicai seminary, win nave cuarge ol the second course if It is adopted. Ways and' means for conducting the winterschool fortKe' stndy of thn English Bible were discussed. Courses in Hebrew and probably Greek will be recommended at the meeting on Monday next A THING OF BEAUTY. The Bine Room of the White House Handsomer Than Ever. IT-BOM A STAFF COBnESFONDENT.1 Washington, November 21 It has been reported tbat tbe new furnishings of tbe Blue Room In the White House cost $12.000. " That is a mistake, as tho entire appropriation for the year was but 525,000, and all tho refurnishing, J cleanlnsr and repairs were paid for out ot that. sum, and there is still enough money remaining to pay tbe expenses of running the Executive Mansion to the end of the fiscal year. The State reception room has been rendered a must harmonions and beautiful apartment through the painstaking care of Mr. Harrison. Tbe scheme of color is baed upon bine, which is relieved by golden hands and lines and the pure white of the lace curtains. The silken tapestry that lines the oval wall was woven in Paterson. N. J., from a special design approved by Mrs. Harrison. The ceiling and frieze is a work of permanent decoration that need never again incur great expense. The room was thrown open to the members of the press this evening and the first formal reception to be held will be tbat to tbe Brazilian Commission ers, who are expected to arrive here this week, and will tender a medal from their Govern ment to President Harrison. A SLIP OF THE PEN. The Case of the Lymph. Patient Is Not a Hopeless One. To the Editor ofThe Dispatch. A due regard for the sensitive feelings of my creditors prompts mo to ask yon for tbe cor rection of a statement in a personal item printed in your Sunday edition. The item read; T. E. Hewitt a well-known notrspaper man of this citr. Is gonijt to Philadelphia to be experl- meiueuunou or ur. iiarewiin mcrroiessorKoct lymnli. Mr. Hewitt Is in the last stages of coil' sumption, and while he hardly expects to be cured, believes that he will be a valuable subject for the experiment It is true that I have made arrangements to test the Koch remedy as soon as Dr. Hare shall be ready to receive me. That part of the Item is correct, but your reporter makes a mistake when ho says that I am in the last stapes of consumption. At least my pbysicians disagree with Dim, and I am with tbem In the belief that the undertaker hasn't as sure a thing on me as your young man seems to think he has. I am still in it T. E. HEWITT. PitTSEURO, November 21. ISOO. THE P00B BEING IMPE0VED Semi-Monthly Report of the Work of the Association. Trie semi-monthly report of the work done by tbo Association for tbe Improvement of the Poor is as follows: Number new applicants, 13; families visited. 193; families aided, 227; persons included, 8G7; visits to tbe poor. CGS; visits for the poor, S3: situations obtained, 5: days' work ob tained, 30: children placed in Sabbath school, 8; children placed lr public school, 2. Groceries distributed: Six hundred and forty-two loaves of bread. 2C6 pounds of rice, 186 pounds of oat meal. 2C3 bars of soap and 191 quarts of corn meal. Diet dispensary: One hundred and nine teen quarts of beef tea, 8 pints of mutton broth, 123 pints of milk, 00 pounds of tea, 28 pints of cream. The regular annual meeting for the election ot officers of tbe society for the coming year will be held next Monday. ADVENTIST-3 TBIAL POSTPONED, Owing to the Absence of His Counsel, Hon. Don M. Dickinson. Memphis, November 21. The November term of the United States District Court con vened here to-day. Judge E. S. Hammond presided. The trial of E. M. King, tbe Seventh Day Adventlst from Obian county, was contin ued over until January owing to the absence or Hon. Don M. Dickinson, counsel for tbe de fendant It will be remembered that King's easels now on a writ of habeas corpus, ho having been arrested, fined and Imprisoned by the State conrt for plowing his Hold on Sunday. Ho Is a member of the Society of Seventh Day Adven tists. THE CONTEOLLEB'3 BEP0ET. Mr. Lacy's Statement in Reference to Affairs or National Banks. Washington, November 21. Tho annual reportof Mr. Lacy, tho Controller of tbe Cur rency, contains full information in reference to the affairs of national banks, and covers the operations ot the bureau fortbe 12 mouths end ing December 13. 1890. During tins period 307 new associations have been organized, 50 having gone into voluntary liquidation, and niuo have been placed in the hands of rccclvors. Tbe net increase is 218, costituting a lamer crowth than during any similar period since 1SG5. The number of active hanks on October 31. 1S90. was 3,507, which is au Increase over any previous date. ANOTHER CONTBACr LET. Wood, Jenks & Co. Get the Joiner Work on Pittsburg's Postoffice. Washington, November2L Tbe Secretary of the Treasury to-day awarded tho contract for joiner's work on the Pltuhurg public building to wioil, Jenks & Co., of Cleveland, at tbelr bid of S122,0U0. and the contract for the heating apparatus for the same building to Samuel J. Pope & Co., of Cbicago, at their bid of $16,850. WILL KEEP SILVSB AT HOME. The Guatemalan Government Levies a HeaVy Export Tax. Washington, November 21. The Depart ment' ot State is informed that the Govern ment of Guatemala has Imposed an export tat of $1 81 per p&und gross weight on silver, coined or in bars. The reason givers, for this action is the in creased price of surer in the United States. j. j. . I - in a.' fiit-JTfiliIiiir il'iMllilhif'fl'umi'ft'iTVi - - .rtiSk' - t . - - CURIOUS C0NDENSATI05S. A man in Chicago the other day took out a lease for 9,992 years. Thoroughbred St. Bernard dogs sell at anywhere from $250 to $1,000 each. In the Puritan day3 a cord of oak wood was worth the same as a bushel of turnips 37 cents. Good mention! the case of a gentleman, who, in his sleep, composed an oda of six stanzas, and set It to music. Some 500. veterinary surgeons or horse doctors in Great Britain have signed a paper condemning tight check reins. The records of insurance companies show that the American man lives longer than men of the same race in the Old World. Two skilled machinists have obtained quite a reputation by converting coins, largo buttons and similar objects into boxes. In Itussia, which is the great horse country of Europe, they never nut blinders on a horse aud a shying horse is almost unheard of. "When yon give a horse an apple or a slice of bread, always feed him from the palm of the hand, so that he will not bite your fingers. The selection by plants of food and re jection of injurious substances, though not al ways performed without errors, indicates the presence of sensation. Some men have done really hard mental work while asleep. Condorcet finished a train of calculations in his sleep which had much puzzled him during the day. The population of foreign descent in North America may be broadly considered as belonging to three races the African, tba Latin and tbe Teutonic Arvau. The successful application of the. art of navigation depends as much on the skill of the artists who construct tbe instruments employed as on that of the observer who uses tbem. Ol the 4,000 and more graduates of tha Girls' Normal College of tbe City of New York, nearly one-half have been teachers in the city schools and one is a Commissioner of Educatiof. Fishermen over a large part of Europe always kill tbe fish as soon as they taka them out of tha water, and do so upon the ground that it is better for the flesh of the fish that it be killed at once. In Switzerland, it is said, they will pay higher wageVto a milkmaid who can sing to the c6ws than to ono who cannot. This is done on tuo-"principlQ tbat bad treatment ot a cow in juriously affects its milk. --From a comparison of the registers of Measurements made for army purposes, it ap pears that A'merican soldiers are, on the whole, aa vcll developed as those who fill the ranks ofEuropean armies. ' Blinders were invented by an English .nbblenran tb-cover up the defect of a wall-eyed bp'rse, and then they were found to be good places to put on the coats of arms of tbe no bility, and so they came into fashion. The form of oath binding on the Mahometan conscience 13 to make the Koran rest on the head while tbe oath is adminis tered. But if tbe Koran is skilfully held just above the head the form is not valid and tbe oath not binding. There are nearly 50,000 colored people in New York City. Some of tnera have built up fortunes in real estate speculation. One of ,them accumulated an estate worth $100,000 in catering btuiness. A number a.-e worth 200, 000 each. A bird seldom seen in New England, a cormorant from Labrador, was shot by E. W. Hazard, of Soutbington. Conn., while hunting along the shore last week. It was sent to Yale ollcge. and has been handsomely mounted and placed on exhibition. An old elm in the Academy yard at Exeter, N. H.. set out by Daniel Webster when a student there, and known to all old students and townspeople as the Webster elm. was cut down on Wednesday last. It was entirely dead. Its wood ia in great demand fo sou venirs. Organized charity, in the form in which we now reoognlze It, has had hardly 20 years of life. In 1862 that is, before the combined action of tbe poor law with charity organiza tionthe proportion of adult able-bodied pau pers in London, indoor and out. exclusiro of vagrants, was B.7 per 1,000; in 133d it was 3.2. Astronomers agree upon three motions ot the earth. Tho rotation on its axis in one day of 20 hours: the revolution around the sun in ono year of 3Boi days; and a very slow gyra tory motion of its poles around and outside of a line at rieht angles to theplaue of the ecliptic, and coinciding with the line of axal rotation at its center, in 25.SCS years. There is a project to construct a ship canal across New Jersey from the Delaware river to tbe Atlantic. The scheme was first suggested by merchants or Philadelphia, who desire ashorter water route to New York and an abbreviation of the journey of hundred of miles down tho bay and around Cape May to strike tbe ocean paths to Europe. The twenty-eighth annual report of the Government cinchona plantation and factory in British Sikkim has been issued. At the end of the financial year 1SS9-90 the plantation con sisted of 1.68.2.101 trees of various ages, and of a nursery stock amounting to 261,000 seedlinzs. The crop collected during the year amounted 301.705 pounds. The products of the factory were 1.S33K pounds of sulpbateof Quinine, aud 6,58 pounds of f obrlf uge. There have during tbe past 17 years been a series of fashionable crazes in Japan. The year 1873 was the rabbit year. The Jap anese went wild over these little quadrupeds. As much as $1,000 was paid for a single speci men, and speculations in (100 and $500 rabbits were of daily occurrence. Cock-llghtlng, print ing dictionaries by subscription, boating, wbtst. waltzing, gigantic funerals and table-turning are among other recent crazes. The females of Ecuador are proverbial for beauty, those am one the aristocracy being said to have the fairest complexion of any in South America, while all possess large, soft and expressive dark eyes, the blackest and most abundant hair, the whitest teeth, well rounded figures and small bands and feet Like all women In the tropics, they mature early and fade quickly, but perhaps tbelr average span of 10 years Includes more heart-bapplness than comes to women of colder climes in threa score vears and ten. for these are harassed by no "carkiug cares" or high ambitions. PLEASANT TRIFLES. The pan-American ot the period the tur key. PMlaittlpnia Record. Some of these days the Sioux Indians will adlnltthatthejlglsup. Sew York World. If there is anything Mr. Jay Gould wants and docs not see, he should ask for It. -Veto lor It'orliL "Is Branson an entertaining talker?" 'Well-he's the sort of a man to to come Into yourotUccon a wet day and tell you It's raining outside." Sea Xork Sun. Pale youth (to dusky brother) Wouldn't 1 be a fool to fight wld you. anyhow? What would betheu3e? Ifl pave you a black eye It wouldn't show. Metropolitan, Branson (in bank) Say, that sign yott have up over there doesn't look very well In a bank. C'lerk-Whlch sign? Bronson-Tuat oue, "Shut the doors." AVt9 York Herald. Landlady Surely, Mr. Diggs, yon can't mean that you are stolnsr to leave us? Dhrgs-Ycs, I'm going to board with Signer Succi, or twenty-third street Uhe tablo Is about thcEsauic, and .it's nearer business. Seto York Snu. "Wine and women are alike, intoxicate us." They both Yes, but they arc very different in another re spect. Wluc is always reported to be older than It Is, and women to be younjer tbau they are. Kew lork llerald. He (desperately) Tell me the truth. Is It not my poverty that stands between ns? She (sadly)-Y-c-s, He (with a ray of hope)-I admit that I am poor, and so, unfortunately, is my father: but I have an aged tncle who Is very rich, and a bachelor. He 1 an Invalid and cannot Ionic survive. She (dellxhtcdly)-How kind and thoughtful you are! Will yuu lntrodnce ine to hhn? Aw York Wetklg. The young man was a rough diamond, a recent Importation from rural districts, and when the carver was ready to serve him, ha asked: And now. Mr. C , what part will yoo talser" The answer was at once forthcoming. "ltnpartlcnlar,"aid Mr. C . "Big piece, auywhar'" loutA' Companion. TRIOLET. From a barrel of ashes The sidewalk adorning Upon my gaze Hashes (From a barrel or Silica!) The boquet from Cash's 1 sent her this morning: 1'rom a barrel or a sues The sidewalk adorning! Botton'Beacon,
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