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Per Quarter - 00 Daily Dispatch, One -Month W Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, lycar. 10 CD Daily Dispatch, lncludinESunday,3in'ths ISO Daily Dispatch. Including fcunda, lin'th 90 MONDAY DispATcn. Out Year 230 "Weekly Dispatch. One Year IS liiLiJAiL Dim"AT u is delivered by carrlirs at :$cent per neck, or Including Sunday edition, at 20 cent s per week. PITTSBURG. FRIDAY. NOV. 2S. 1S9Q. TOE TORY SOMERSAULT. The action of the Tory Government with regard to the land bill, as brought out by the debate and vote on its first reading jes terday, shows that what was said in these columns the other day concerning the readi ness of the Tory leaders to adopt the policy of their opponents has been realized sooner than was expected. The open avowal that Mr. Parnell had been consulted in the preparation of the land bill, and that the measure was practically his measure, proves that so far as the land question is concerned the Tories have made a complete surrender to the Irish leader. It also conveys the in teresting information that the personal scandal which has caused the breach be tween Parnell and Gladstone offers no ob stacle to the Tory leaders in accepting Mr. Parnell's alliance in legislative action. The course of Mr. Parnell, in supporting the Government measure and thus appar ently deserting his late Liberal allies, will doubtless be judged with a wide divergence of opinion; but, personal questions apart, we cannot see how the Irish members could have taken any other course. The case is that of members who have fought a long and sometimes an apparently hopeless fight for a measure to which they are pledged. At last the time comes when their opponents, from motives which may admit of a variety of constructions, propose and support the measure they have been fighting for. It is hardly the duty of the Irish members to in quire into the motives of the Tory leaders in adopting their land measure. The supreme criterion is the character of the measure proposed; and when Mr. Parnell's land bill is introduced and supported by Balfour, it would be self-stultification for the Irish representatives to vote against the legisla tion which has been one of the leading ob jects of their long right. It must be remembered, too, that the alli ance between the Home Rulers and the English Liberals was founded on practically the same basis as the joint vote of the Con servatives and Irish on the land bill yester day, that is, the adoption by the Liberals of the Irish policy. Prior to that time the Liberal leaders had opposed the Irish cause, even to the length of imprisoning the lead ers; and one of the levers in opening their eyes to the rightfulness oi the Irish demands was the discovery that the Home Rule parly had become strong enough to hold the balance of power and overturn Cabinets. It is possible to believe that the Liberal as sent to the Irish policy was more sincere than the Tory adoption of its land measure; nut that hardly changes the right and duly of the Irish members to vote for their own measure, even when it is presented iu a guise strongly redolent of the gifts of the Greeks. It is impossible in this connection to avoid noticing the statement purporting to come from Parnell, which gives evidence of bit ter feeling, concerning the uniortunate breach with the Liberal leaders. This feel ing is perhaps natural, but it is none the less regrettable. "While the Irish are bound to accept success for their cause from what ever quarter it comes, it will not be for their credit to forget that the Liberals have borne the heat of tbe conflict, and have done gallant and vital work toward bringing public opinion to the point where the Irish demands must be conceded. Neither Par nell nor Ireland can justly ignore the efiorts of Gladstone and Morley, however the late events may have turned political divisions and alliances into utter confusion. A QUIET THANKSGIVING. The Thanksgiving festival passed off in Pittsburg in the quiet and almost eventless manner which is evidence of its best ob servance. The holiday is peculiarly a do mestic one, and the absence of noise or roys tering fnrnishes inferential proof that peo ple were enjoying the home pleasures that are suitable to the occasion. In that re spect the almost Sabbath-like quiet that prevailed in the down-town streets was grat ifying; and especial satisfaction is to be found in the comparative absence of visible intoxication, and the small number of drunken fights that are reported as having occurred. The nearest approach to wintry weather that we have had this year was ap propriate to the day; but much more bo was tbe atmosphere of quiet and orderly enjoy ment that pervaded Pittsburg's Thanksgiv ing. A FALLING STAND. The accident at the great football match in Brooklyn yesterday furnishes another il lustration of the recklessness with which careless or incompetent management often exposes the public to the risk of the greatest fatalities. That there was not a wholesale destruction of life as well as numerous in juries by the fall of the stand there is due to good luck and cot to any care that the facilities offered to the public shall have the safety which is the first requisite in all ar rangements for public entertainments. Of course, the immediate managers of the lootball game had no idea that the structures around the grounds they had rented were not of adequate strength to bear the weight put upon them. But when a stand designed to seat a gathering of spectators falls down under its normal load, it is proof presump tive that some one is to blame, and the bur den of proof falls on the proprietors of the grounds to show that they were not crimi nally negligent. As no fatalities are reported from this accident it is not likely that the penalties of criminal negligence will bo inflicted; but we should imagine that every person who unstained any injuries wonld hive a rood basis for a suit for exemplary damages. Beyond that, the duty is made plain of every one who conducts an exhibition of this sort in the future to see that all the structures about the grounds they may rent are of stable and solid construction. PAKTT PROSPECTS. It is not at all singular that the result of the elections with which the present month was introduced, should have produced an extremely exalted state of mind on the part of the Democrats and corresponding de pression on the part of the Republicans. The radical reversal of the control of that branch of Congress where Republican partisanship had its most extreme exhibi tion, is naturally calculated to produce that effect. Nevertheless there are very good reasons why the Republicans should recog nize that they can, by taking the proper course, retrieve thfi lost ground, and why the Democrats should not conclude that be cause they have carried one election they are assured of carrying all future ones for an indefinite period. There is no idea in politics which is more thoroughly contradicted than this by the ex perience of the past twenty years and yet there is none to which victorious parties arc more prone. It maybe remembered that after the election of Harrison there were Republican glorifications to the effect that Republican supremacy was restored for the next twenty five years; and a careful study might find in that opinion the starting point of the late backset. The same principle makes it probable that the Democratic supremacy in the House, though overwhelming, is by no means per manent. The French proverb that the ab sent are always in the wrong, is reversed in our politics by tbe fact that the majority party is always the object of criticism. This is not only because it is the responsible party; but because it is in a position where the reckless partisanship and selfish dishon esty, which form a greater or less element in all large parties, are most unmistakably manifested. This fact at once contains an explanation for the Republican reverse, and gives the best reason for believing that the Demo cratic success in the preliminary fight does not carry with it the winning of the deci sive battle of 1892. The overwhelming Democratic majority in the House contains the greatest probability of the display of violent partisanship and individual insin cerity and dishonesty. The liability of the Democratic party to gross blunders is made apparent in the fact that its members are already beginning to quarrel over the spoils of 1892. Such a course is akin to selling the lion's skin while the royal beast is still ranging the forests; and the very confidence with wbich our Democratic friends are counting on appropriating the fruits of vic tory two years Lence, exclusively to them selves, may prove the cause of their defeat. The same consideration should encourage the Republicans to adopt the wise and public-spirited course which will earn popu lar approval and retrieve tbe lost ground of the present year. They should profit by the experience they have had. They should see that displays of arrogant partisanship are not only wrong but foolish. They should learn that unfair treatment of the minority, the unseating of honestly elected members of the opposition, or the attempt to perpet uate party supremacy by act of Congress will always lose more than it gains. By a proper appreciation of this fact, and a determination to ucite not alone for party success but for party success to secure the public welfare, the Republicans have as good hope, with intelligence and moderation swaying their counsels, for a victory in 1892 as they would have had if they had not been taught the necessity of fairness and honest economy by the lesson of this tall. The Republican party has full founda tion in reason for claiming that the tariff bill is entitled to a fair experiment, and that it cannot bare one until it has been in operation for at least a year or two. The vote in 1892 maybean intelligent expression of popular opinion on the McKinley hill. The vote in 1890 could not. By a careful and sensible course, with an intelligent de velopment of the policy of extending re ciprocal trade, the Republican party can put themselves in a position to claim a favorable verdict. They should not rely on the mistakes of their adversaries, but they can take a conservative attitude that will enable them to profit by whatever blunders the excessive Democratic majority may commit. By such a course the Re publican party will have the best reason to hope for the final success of an intelligent policy of protection for home industries and the reciprocal development of commerce among the nations of the Western Hemis phere. GOULD AND ADAMS. It is rather interesting to find a New York correspondent so impressed with the danger of criticizing the powers of Wall street that he regards Mr. Adams' retirement as due to the indiscretions of his pen. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, a writer who is singularly free from any dis position to criticize the actions of the lords of the corporate domains, finds the following explanation of Mr. Adams' retirement, in the previous relations: It has been long believed that, of all the bitter things ever said to him in print, nothing ever hurt Mr. Gould more than some things which Mr. Adams wrote of him in a pamphlet Issued some years ago. If Mr. Adams' asser tions were well -founded, Mr. Gonld should be to-day a companion of Ferdinand Ward, rather than the master of Wall street. It has hap pened before that men who have run counter to Gould, so as to incur not only his business, bnt personal hostility, have sooner or later had reason to regret such encounter, and therefore it is believed that Mr. Adams and bis friends will hardly fail to be persuaded that the present forcing of them out into tbe cold is not due somewhat to Mr. Gould's recollection of that pamphlet. This paragraph manages to pack into a short space a remarkable display of ignor ance concerning certain salient, and what have now become historical, facts in tbe careers of Messrs. Gould and Adams. As to the implied doubt whether the assertions of Mr. Adams in famous magazine articles not a pamphlet were true or not, anyone with a memory ought to be able to know that the statements of Mr. Adams concern ing the administration of plunder in the Brie directory, by which Mr. jGould started his career, were matters of record, and have been not only undenied by Mr. Gould but practically admitted by him. This correspondent seems never to have heard of that characteristic act of restitution on the part of Mr. Gonld, by which he gave up to the Erie management which had ousted him, securities that he had taken from the corporation to the face value of (9,000,000 and recompensed himself by a bull operation on the stock of the company, in which he made more out of the rise of the stock than the value of the securities which he gave up. That a man who can make a profitable speculation out of his own confession that he had been a wholesale plunderer of corpo rate property should now be indulging in tbe Inxurv of sensitive feeling mark's a de cided advance. Certainly Mr. Gould did not deem it worth while to let bis feelings interfere with business projects, when years alter Mr. Adams had published that famous chapter of Erie, he in company with his as sociates in the Union Pacific placed the management of that corporation in Mr, Adams' hands. The above statement dis plays a remarkable ignorance of the fact that Mr. Adams bad made bis reputation by means of his terrible arraignment of Gould long before he had any connection with the Union Pacific, and that with that record, he was made President of the corporation by Mr. Gould's consent. Yet such is the case; and it ought to be sufficient to absolve Mr Gould of any disposition to let the wounds inflicted on his own reputation interfere with the main chance. The fact was that the Gould party, prior to Mr. Adams' Presi dency, had milked the corporation to the verge of ruin, and had a pressing need of imparting tbe element of honesty into its management in order to let them unload their stock on to the public. Now, with the alliance of the Rockafellars, and his own augmented wealth, Mr, Gould has probably concluded that honor in the Union Pacific management is no longer a necessary qual ity. Possibly, under these circumstances he may deem it time to gratify his long-deferred vengeance. But it is not necessary to waste much time over the amount of respect Mr. Gould may now give to such a refinement as his per sonal reputation. Mr. Gould's course toward Mt. Adams can be accounted for in accord ance with what was not difficult to foresee when Mr. Adams first went into the Union Pacific Mr. Gould used Mr. Adams so long as be had any need lor the cloak of re spectability and character; and is throwing him away when those abstractions are no longer of any value to him. TWO IMPORTANT OFFERS. The ofler of Mr. Henrv Phipps to donate $10,000 worth of scientific books to the Al legheny Carnegie Library is another mani festation of the liberality which that public spirited gentleman has shown toward the Northside city. It furnishes proof also that when a city contains an institution of this sort that is ornamental and creditable, wealthy citizens will always be found to add to its attractions and usemlness. Mr. Phipps' further offer to pay the expenses of keeping the library open for nine hours on Sunday, for three years, is likely to intro duce an apple of discord by raising a Sab batarian issue. Still, when tbe subject is considered impartially, the majority will doubtless agree that few ways of aiding young people withont domestic ties to spend a quiet and pleasant Sabbath afternoon and evening can be better than furnishing them a quiet and attractive place for pleasant and profitable reading. RESULTS FROM KOCH'S DISCOVERT. There is no subject which is charged with a morevital interest to humanity than the amount of success that attends the new dis covery of Dr. Koch in actual experience. Tbe roseate and sometimes rather indiscreet reports of cable correspondents have given rise to a general belief that the new discov ery is presented as a remedy for pulmonary tuberculosis, or consumption; and maturer reports to the contrary cause a reaction in the direction of an impression that the remedy is a failure. It is worth while to bear in mind that tbe discoverer has very conservatively confined himself to stating only what has actually been accomplished. and that the exaggerated expectations have been founded on the assumption that what he distinctly regards as experiments have reached the stage of success. Both for the sake of exact information and to prevent the raising of unfounded hopes it is well to know exactly what has been done by the use of Dr. Koch's lymph. The most remarkable success has attended its administration incase of external tuber culosis or lupus, in wbich the remedy has exhibited an almost miraculously prompt effect. In addition it seems to be demon strated that the lymph can be used for de tecting consumption in its earliest stages, with tolerably encouraging indications that it will be a successful remedy for that dis ease in its incipiency. This is all that has been proved so far. It represents a great gain to science and an immense decrease in the aggregate of human suffering, but it is not wise to take this amount of progress as proof that more can be accomplished than has been shown by tbe experiments. What it is reasonable to expect of the cure, in cases of consumption, may best be judged from the record of the consumptive patients who have been under Dr. Koch's treatment for tbe seventy-five days since the use of the lymph upon human beings was begun. Twenty-five people have been treated for pulmonary tuberculosis, and in fifteen of tbem marked improvement has been shown, some of the fifteen being ap parently cured. On the other hand five, in which the disease had progressed so far as cause cavities in the lungs, show no indi cation that the disease has been checked. The conclusion, therefore, seems to be legitimate that the remedy will be effica cious in the primary stages of consumption, while in the advanced stages there is, so far, no reason to hope that it will do much good. But even this conclusion should be held subject to the knowledge that none of the experiments can be deemed entirely com plete. A marked relief in lupus, and a decided improvement in the early stages of consumption are great achievements; but we have yet to see whether after the tuber culous bacilli have been apparently driven out of the system they will not return. Those who have been apparently cured in the early stages of consumption must wait at least a year before they can count with any certainty on the cure being permanent. The same is true to a certain degree of ex ternal tuberculosis, although in such cases the change has been so marked and the curative process so clearly disclosed that there is better ground for expecting the relief to be permanent. There is no doubt that Koeh's discovery is one of immenseenefit to humanity; but by reason of its value, it is wise to guard against raising false hopes in those whose cases are beyond its reach, or in stimulating them to efforts Jo secure a treatment whicb, so far as present indications show, can only result in disappointment. TnE work of the Christmas letter mission, which, as shown in a local article, now has its headquarters in" Pittsburg, is an interesting and praiseworthy ono. The idea of showing the inmates of workhouses and prisons that there are people who think of and hope for their welfare and happiness at the period of peace and good-will is a pleasant and charit able sentiment. It is to be hoped that the work will be pursued with tbe most successful results. The rather stunning suggestion that Senator Allison should be the next Republican candidate for President because Iowa is a doubtful State, as made by" .two Iowa papers,' can hardly have been in good faith. Wh.en Iowa i a doubtful State on a Pre'i'lental pctl'n Senator Allison will have no use for a nomina tion. A man in Boston evidently desirous of eclipsing the record ofSucci and Dr. Tanner writes to tbe pipers to say that he has never eaten llsh, flesh or fowl, any kind of vegetable or drunk cither liquor, tea, coffee or water, or used any food with salt in it, which record is crowned with the assertion that the ambitions abstainer never sleeps. This remarkable state ment is doubtless explained by the answer to the old conundrum, to the effect that the man lies. The statement of Mr. Cleveland that he prayed for (he success of Governor Pattison is calculated to provoke the comment that tbe prayer test wonld have been much more con clusive if he had put in a few prayers for the success of Black and Barclay. The news from Russia that the newspa pers have been forbidden to publish tbe petitions ot the Hebrews asking for civil equality, and a ministerial edict wbich directs that no public work shall be given them, indicates that tbe in sane and mediaeval crusade against that race continues. It also contains an intimation that Mr. Charles Emery Smith's report that there is no persecution of the Jews In Russia was made to order in tbe Russian foreign office. The Attorney General of Ohio has set out to make a grease spot of the Standard Oil Com pany. The success of the effort ii likely to be hindered by tbe fact that the Standard is now big enough to grease the whole State. The stroke of economy on the part of the Secretary of War in setting up a bicycle mounted messenger. Instead of a horseman, for the War Department, will, after appropriations have been increased o'rer a hundred mlllionstbe gratefully received. Small savings aro thank fully received by the people, even if they are somewhat on the spigot-saving order. That tbe dull season of news is on us once more is abundantly shown by tbe fact that a New York paper of outerpriso and liveliness has produced a sensation to tbe effect that Charlie Ross is found onco more. The assertion that "Grover Cleveland has been a bard file for more than one viper to gnaw at," as made by tbe Boston Herald, has attracted a good deal of sarcastic comment by the Republican papers; but none of them have taken any notice of the singular assertion, as a matter ot natural history, which represents vipers as gnawing tiles. PEES0HAL INTELLIGENCE. The late August Belmont's wealth Is esti mated all tbe way from 2,000.000 to $10,000,000 by the New York papeis. Up to this time the Prince of Wales has drawn altogether $10,590,000, and it is estimated that his debts aggregate half as much again. Julian Hawthorne stands 6 feet high, is broad shouldered, and looks like a short haired, modernized edition of his father, who wrote "The Scarlet Letter." Mrs. Benjamin C. Howard (widow of General Howard), whj died in Baltimore on Tuesday, aged 90 years, was the chief actor among the ladies who organized tbe Southern Relief Fair in Baltimore at the close of the war, netting for suffering soldiers fully $100,000. Senator Evarts remarked to a Washington reporter recently: "I think now that if I wore standing where I was 53 years ago and journal ism was what it now Is, I should choose as the business of my life that ot a journalist. I can see in it greater possibilities than are embraced in other professions." Robert Garrett, since his return to Balti more, is reported to be "looking like himself again." "Mr. Garrett looks so well," said a gentleman who met him on tbe street, "that no ono who sees him can refrain from expressing pleasure at tbe visible proofs of his rapid resto ration to health." Mr. Frederic Rejiinoton, the artist, as much at home in the saddle as any cavalryman, has been out with General Miles to the seat of the Indian troubles, and is now home again. But he enriched his collection of Indian curios and his knowledge of tbe Indian and the horse, tbreo linos in which he is without a rival. Mr. Bancroft goes out for a walk almost daily in Washington, but bo has a muscular valet with him all the time. His snow-white hair is partly hid beneath a black silk cap, the visor of wbich shades his eyes from the sun. His overcoat is buttoned closely around his spare form and his beard shelters bis throat from tbo wind. "William Onglet, a landscape painter, died recently at a hotel in Oil City, Pa., aged 53 years. He was a native ot England, and came to tbis country when a young man. He had lived at Utica for tbe past eight years. His specialty was wood Interiors and Adirondack lake and forest scenery. He was devoted to bis art, and a very conscientious and industri ous painter. His pictures were sought for, and ho was more successful than ordinary artists in selling them. THE OLDEST OBEG0NIANS. A Suggestive Ttecord of the Oldest Native Pioneers of Oregon. From the Salem (Oie.) Statesman.! Miss Helen Leslie, daughter of Rev. David Leslie, was born in what is now Fairfield, Ma rion county, in 1839, She is still living in Salem, aud Is probably the oldest native white person living in the State. Maria Campbell, daughter ot Rev. Hamilton Campbell, now Mrs. Smith, of Portland, was born in tbe fall of IS19, in tbo the old Institute building in Salem. She was the first white child born on Salem prairie. Julia Ellen Waller, daughter of Rev. A. F. Waller, now Mrs. Dr. Stratton, was born in the M. E. parsonage in Oregon City in May 1811, and was doubtless the first white child of either sex born In thatcity. In the autumn of tbe same year. 1811, Abble Beers, daughter of Rev. Alan son Beers, and afterward Mrs. Jesso Parrish, was born in the same house. Early in 1812 George Holman, son of Joseph Holman, was born in or near Salem. So far as tbe informa tion of the writer extends he was born on Salem prairie. In August, 1S13. O. A. Waller, son of Rev. A. F. Waller, was born in Oregon City, and later in tbo antumn of the tame year Charles Par'lsh, son of Rev. J. L. Parrish, on Clatsop plains. This record may omit some names, but it gives the principal tacts, and brings us down to tbe immigration of 1813, into tbe history of which it is not necessary to go. BOASTING OP THEIR BOOTY, Illicit British, Columbian Sealers Return With Their Catch. San Francisco, November 27. Advices re ceived here from Victoria state the sealing schooners Triumph and Adelc, which started for Bearing sea in September, have returned. The steamer Bertha was sent np to intercept them, but failed. The revenue cutter Bear also reported that no sealers had been seen near the rookeries. It is stated, however, that Captain Cox bluffed tbe commander of the Rush and landed men on the seal islands. The Triumph caught 63 seals and the Adele 80. Officers of both of the vessels think tbey have settled nil fears of arrest at the hands of the United State3 Gov ernment. Death to the "Wildcats. Tbe Fo3tcr neighborhood is infested with wildcats, eays the East Oregoman. Several of these animals have been seen lately, and one day last week a large specimen was killed not 250 yards from the house of t,Y. W. Caviness. Mr. Caviness fired twice, and hit the creature both times. Although sorely wounded It fonght savagely with five dogs which were set upon it. It was finally overcomo iu tbe unequal contest, a noble hound fastening its teeth in tbe cat's throat and bearing it to the ground. DEATHS OP A DAY. John Gormly. JohnGormly, aged 43, and s member of Post lis, G. A. B., died yesterday at his late home. No. 25 North Diamond street, Allegheny. The fnneral will take place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late residence. David Strohm. Shaler township lost ono or Us oldest citizens yesterday. David Strohm died at the age of 8". The funeral will tane place to-morrow from the residence orbls son-in-law, Bernard Febror, John M. Iteid. John M. Held, aged n one of the oldest resi dents In the "Fourth ward, Allegheny, died jfes-i tcrdnr nt lil5.hnmc 210 Knlilnion street. SNAP SHOTS -IN SEASON. Football reversed the order of business yesterday. The spectators, not the players, were carried off the field. Well, how do you feel? Does the turkey leave a sour stomach and depress? Or do jba feel feathery bodilv and mentally? Is your headand yourheartheavyor light? Surely not heavy, are they? If so your digestive organs must be defective. Y ou need a mild correc tive, en? Well, never mind. You'll round up in time and get Into good fighting trim. If light-hearted and bright-headed, all's well. No need for regulators under these con ditions, to bo sure. Well, we're off again, arenH we? Wo simply stooped atone of the lunch counters which line tbe road of life and took a bite and a sup between bells. Good idea, this jumpiog off business, isn't It? The long ride in tbe crowded coach cramps us certainly. We must stretch our limbs and take a stand-up snack occasionally. If we didn't we would grow stooped, wrinkled, dyspeptic. Not many stops on the life line, henco we cannot afford to sit in tho cars and look out of the windows while the otbers stretch their limbs on tbe platform. How re freshing the short rest is, too. Only a moment, of course, but in it we nncork the bottle which holds the year's vintage. It's merely a quaff and a laugb, to be sure, but when the whistle toots and we are again under way how the sugary imps in the precious wine tickle tbe mind's palate and paint pictures of the nast on the canTas of the present. A band clasp and a heart beat, a nod and a glance, asmilo and a memory. Tbeso lighten tbe luggage you carry, and tbe long journey grows less tiresome, less dreary. Down tbe line of the year these stops are scattered. Some are for prayerfulness, some are for playfulness some for rasting, some for feasting all for rest and recreation, reflection and retrospection. Make the best of tbem. Shed the tears in between tho stations, scatter the ioys on the platforms. Make them tho silver links in the chain which joins the cradle to tbe grave. A GREAT many old maids evidently never embraced anything, an opportunity not ex cepted. The eagle on tbe trade dollar looks as it he was ashamed of himself. Too much money will break a faro bank, but not a national bank. Hex who itch for office are frequently badly scratched when voting time comes 'round. Soiie charming ladies never grow older in years, only in looks. The last decade of the Nineteenth Century promises wonders, and the beauty of it is a great many now living stand a fair chance of witnessing them. Sitting Bull has been giving the Indians a wrong steer. "WHERE SLEEP THE BRAVE? Where sleep tbe brave to-night? Ask the pines in a sunny land, Ask tbe grases that wave O'er the dust of a gallant band Laid In a hurried crave. There sleep tbe brave to-night. Where sleep the brave to-night? Ask the waves of tho mighty sea. That once the heroes bore: Tbey sing a parting threnody Against tbo rocky shore. There sleep the brave to-night. Where sleep the brave to-night? Ask the winds from tbe starry sky Where holy angels dwell; Tbey have roamed where tbe ashes lie, And they alone can tell Where tbe brave sleep to-night. IF tbe experts arc barred the coming electro cution will undoubtedly be successful. Turn on the volts and shut off tho revolting details. Did yon take too much wine with your turkey? This is a painful subject, however. Now stock np for Christmas, and be pre pared to fill the stockings. Ir yon feel miserable don't mention It. Misery loves company, of course, but shouldn't force itself where It's not wanted. Honesty is the best policy; but tbe policy men don't think so. Parnell does not seem to be of a retiring disposition. Paint on a woman's features only makes her featureless. The first touch of winter made this region shiver yesterday morning. Night weddings are no longer fashionable. Courting is still popular after sunset, however. The turkey's gobbling days are o'er. His work on earth is done; In garbage can beside the door You'll find bis skeleton. Habrisow may yet learn that Matt Quay cannot be used like a door mat. He will not be walked on. A non-tjnion band The wedding ring worn by a divorced woman. Obsolete laws play the same part in re forms as the memories of the men who enacted tbem. Brave men win tbe medals, heroes get the monuments, and tbe strategists live to look at tbem. Dead men tell no tales, but their biographers weave romances. The Hannonyites sbonld take hold of the World's Fair and the baseball business. Both are bunting harmony. Wanamaeer proposes to fight Jay Gould In Congress. Tbe people won't stand personalities of tbis sort, John, even if the man you are after is not a pet of the public Apportionment, the Force Bill, measures purely partisan; Amendment of the tariff, not Intended for the artisan; Laws for corporations, comfort for the favor ites; Subsidies for railroads, taffy for the sllver ites: Nothing for the common weal, nothing for tbe Nation, AH for self advancement and political salva tion. An overdressed woman is criticised, a neatly dressed woman is complimented, and a slovenly dressed woman is pitied. All the parties aro seeking an alliance with the Farmers' Alliance. The Grangers should not placo too much reliance in their promises, however. GOULD reigns and the country still lives. The Parnell scandal is drawing attention away from the starving peasantry in the Green Isle. More potatoes and less politics is needed just now. Hypnotism has cured tho opium habit. Now try it on the cigarette fiend. The punctual man never has to catch on the rear platform of a moving train and dicker with the porter about securing a lower bertb. Meddlesome people struck in their honor. never have medals The hills were white-capped yesterday morn ing, but the streets bore tbe same old muddy tint, Tbe poetry of motion knocks tbe romance out of tho beautiful in the busy city. Wall street didn't record any failures yes terday, simply because the law wouldn't allow the bulls and bears to claw each other. When woman finally selects her sphere man will know definitely what she is here for, Sound sleepers iron railroad ties. Willie Winkle. HOW WOLVES HUNT IN INDIA. They Maneuvered to Surround and Kill a Herd of Antelope. One strongly-marked characteristic common to -dogs and wolves is tbeir skill in hunting, sometimes in couples, sometimes In packs. Such a wolf hunt In India is described by a writer in Temple Bar, who. "while with his tele scope watching a herd ot antelope feeding in a large field, observed six wolves evidently con certing how best to scenre their own breakfast. Having decided on their plan of campaign, tbey separated, leaving one stationary. Four crept stealthily round tbe outer edge of tbe field, and one lay in ambush at each corner, while tbe sixth crept through a f nrrow to tbe middle of the field, and there lay down unob served. When all were thus posted, the first wolf sud denly showed himseU, and. charging tbe ante lopes, drove them right across the great field, when tbey were headed by another wolf, who chased them In a fresh direction, while the first hunter lay down to rest. No sooner had ibe frightened herd reached the further corner of tbe plain than up sprang a fresh wolf, who again turned them and took up the pursuit, leaving bis p anting accomplice to take breath, preparatory to another chase. Thus the luck less, terrified antelopes were driven from cor ner to corner of the great plain, till, slupllied and exhausted, they crowded together, gallop ing In ever-lessening circles round the center of tbe field, where the sixth wolf lay hidden, evi dently waiting till they should be so effectually tired out as to fall an ensvprev. His calcula tions were, bowerer. at fault, not having reck oned on the human presence: and just as he was preparing for tbe final spring, a well directed sbot proved fatal to the nearest wolf, whereupon all the confederates tnk tbe bint, and took themselves off with all possible speed. SWEET SONGS OF SCOTLAND. Extract From a Paper Bead the Other Night by Andrew Carnegie. "Scottish song holds sway over us becanse it is true tbe embodiment of our surrounding?, our hopes and fears, trials and triumphs. It is home-made a product of our hearth and hearts, without foreign mixture or affecta tions. It comes from nature, and has less of art in its development than any other body of song. From within, outward, and from nature, upward, has been its course. The folk song of a romantic, poor, struggling people, harassed by internal and external war, harried, over borne, and yet always asserting Itself as a thing of the spirit: therefore In its life immortal ! A sad, sad song in the minor key. bnt ever with the Hit of hope and a strain oC heroic and in domitable purpose running through it, like a golden thread drawn from tile rainbow of a future, when all should be made glad and the chosen people come to their heritage. "Of all the precious legacies that can come to a nation, such folk-song as Scotland possesses ranks among the best. It refines, softens and itensilies the national character, and makes of every Scotchman two men: one practical, shrewd. level-beaded, tbe other, tonched with the rays of poetry and romance beyond those of any otaer nation. 'Take from that stern land of the north its legacy of song and Scotland would ceaso to be Scotland, and the world would no longer be able to distinguish Scottish traits in its people. The Scotchman would not know himself ; for the folk song of his country has so entered into his being tbat robbed of it he would no longer be Scotch. Tbo burn without its wimple, the heather withont its glow, the breeze without its whisper, and the lark without its trill such would be the Scotchman bereft of poetry and of song!" SOME BEMABKABLE STUMPS. Sampson's Riddle and Topsy's Growth Are Overshadowed in Oregon. Just abreast of Charlie Eaton's house on Puget l6land. In the Westport channel, says tbe Catblamet. (Ore.) Gazette, lies an old stump of a tree, about four feet in diameter. It Is situated 200 yard from the shore, and at low tide the ground that surrounds it is bare. There would De nothing remarkable about this common occurrence save the fact that six dis tinct varieties of young trees are now growing on ibe remains of tho forest monster. A Gazette reporter who recently examined the curiosity found a cedar, chittim, crabapp'e, spruce, willow and alder tree crowing thriftily on ;the stump. It Is supposed that tbe birds had dropped the different seeds at different inter vals, and taking root, like Topsy of old in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," had "Just growed," and there tbey stand to-day, giving evidenco of in time becoming forest monsters. O. H. Ashley lias an old spruce stump on his place at Brook field. This tree is long since dead, and away far up In tbe ethereal heights are growing an alder and salmon-berrvbush as complacently as if on terra firma 200 feet below. FUTURE OF SOUTH AFBICA. Enormous Natural Resources Awaiting Development. From tbe Boston Herald. Tbe resources of South Africa are simply enormous, and all that has been done yet to develop tbem is but a faint earnest of what will be done. Tbe gold Industry Is just be ginning to be placed upon a proper footing, and yet the return already amounts to a couple of millions a year. The greater portion of tbe known gold fields lies as yet un touched, waiting for the railways whicb must soon reach them. Silver mining is being prosecuted with vigor, and promises the most excellent results. Coal of good quality exists almost everywhere in vast quantities, and other minerals abound. Large industrial pop ulations will spring up, and tbe prosperity of those who follow agricultural and pastoral pur suits must, with tbe increase of railway com munication, be assured. The prospect is as suredly a bright one. PARNELL'S POSITION. New Yoke Tribune: Immorality Is some thing to be forgiven, but not converted into a heroic weakness and crowned with honor. Springfield Republican: No doubt Mr. Parnell has decided to retain tbe leadership at tbe express desire of hi3 followers, but there are other elements to be reckoned with. Philadelphia Call: Disorganization would surely follow Gladstdne's resignation, and Salisbury would not be slow to take advantage of tho situation by dissolving Parliament, when the Liberals would not be in a condition to make a successful fight. New York World: It scem3 certain that if Parnell does not retire Mr. Gladstone will, and tbe loss of either will be almost, if not quite, a disaster. Mr. O'Brien said in Cincin nati yesterday that in his opinion the party should at once negotiate with Mr. Gladstone. On the other hand Influential Irish Catholic organizations in tbis country earnestly insist that Parnell shall remain at the helm. Philadelphia Bulletin: There Is a definite rupture between Parnell and Gladstone, and tbe latter has virtually cast off the man for whom he was prepared to do what no other man in the three kingdoms could do. The Na tionalists, with true Irish fidelity to their leader, but also with true Irish imprudence, have resolved to "stick to Parnell, if they de lay home rule 15 years by so doing." They will delay it longer than that if in keeping Parnell tbey lose Gladstone. New Yore Evening Post: As we ventured to predict some days ago, Mr. Gladstone has annonnced. in an admirable letter, that he can not maintain the old political alliance with the Irish party ir Parnell remains in command of it. He will in that case, probably, withdraw this winter from the House of Commons, and leave tho Irish H.omo Rulers to fight thetr own battles. The Liberal party in general un doubtedly approve of this view of tho situation. Philadelphia .Evening Telegraph: This Is doubtless ono of the saddest davs in the life or William E. Gladstone. The result of yes terday's action of the Irish Nationalists in Parliament, with regard to Mr. Parnell's con tinued leadership of their party. Is extremely likely to be the early and final retirement of the great English statesman from publio life. This is, indeed, by far the most important problematical consequence of tbe action of the Irish caucus. The cause of Ireland has been tbo one great object ot Mr. Gladstone's life for several years past. NEW York Commercial Advertiser: The question In Ireland is between a lost leader and a lost cause Tbe loyalty of tbe Irish peo ple to Mr. Parnoll is honorable to them. But it demands from Mr. Parnell corresponding loyalty to tbe Irish-people. He at least should not hesitato when tbe alternativo is between sacrificing his leadership to their cause or sacrificing their cause to bis leadership. It is true tbat tbe offense which he bas committed has no connection with the 'political principle for which he has stood. 'Yet tho character of a political leader is not a thing which can be separated from tho rharacter of the man. MUSIC AND MIRTH. Two Thanksgiving Concerts by Gllmore's IJaml-Somo of the Weddings or the Day, Dinners at Churches Other Ways of Keracmhering a Holiday. Tbonghtfulness and enterprise combined In making yesterday an occasion of especial good furluno and keen enjoyment; but none paid a larger or more acceptable contribution to tbe pleasures of Thanksgiving Day and evening than the Gilmnre Baud concerts, given at Old City Hall by Acme Council No. 219, Junior Order of United American Mechanics. There were members or that bright and vigilant body of young men Ironi points all over the county, and it is certain that the receipts for the coun cil were a gratifying to it as the delightful band imilc was to the many who beard tbat. Gilmorc is nothing if not original In bis ideas to lead in catching tbe public fancy by the introduction of novelties. The trombone wbich Junis rescued from contumely and con tempt wa superseded by Gilmore. who had Signor De C.irlo to show tbat tne piccolo has more in it than shrill squeaks, and bienor Raf faTnlo, who introduced that odd-looking brass instrument, the euphonium, and pUjcd one of bis nn n pieces on ir. Both player were encored and plaied selections from popular operas, which were generously applandod. Tbelatter's rendition of a scene from "II Trovatore" was most artistically performed. Another piece, this time by the band, called forth a persistent demand for more music of a similar character. It was an intermezzo from "Naila," and as an encore ono of Strauss' beautiful and catchy waltzes set beads nodding rythraaticallr. and feet tapping time to the movement. The patrol. "America," andPuer ner's "Tbe Charge of the Light Brigade," gave an opportunity for a display by the band of its fine conception of military music In the evening programme "Tannhaneser" was welcomed, as it deserves, with bearty greeting, and following it came a solo on tbe sexaplinne by E. A. Lepebre. It was Rheln bart's 'The Image ot the Rose," and an accom paniment on four French horns was nlaycd to It by Mcssr. Weston, Casn. lliel and Zilm. They made delightful music, in spite of the odd combination. Vigo Anderson's flute solo was also nicelr given, as was Herr Matus' petit clarionet performance, hut the number marked down by everyone as the gem of both concerts was the "Miserere," from "II Trovatore." by Bodie on tho cornet and Raffa yoln on the enpbonium, with full band ac companiment. The vocal number were bv Miss Ida Klein, soprano, aud Mr. Edward O'Maboney. bass. Miss'Klein'.s rendition of the "Jewel Scene" from "Faust" and Mr. Maboney's interpreta tion of Non Piu Ardrai," from "Le Nozzo de Figaro," were their best numbers. Tbe concerts were very successful, and Acme Council may well feel proud. NOTABLE NUPTIALS IN CONNELLSVILLE. Miss Nannie Johnston Becomes the Bride of Colonel J. M. Kled. A wedding notable for brilliancy and Inter est, took place in Connellsville, last evening, at 8:31 In the First Presbyterian Church had as sembled, previous to tbe hour named, the wealth and fashion of tbe city, who awaited with unsnppressed Interest the entrance of the bridal party. Tho woddlng march, by Gun ther's orchestra, was the signal for all eyes to be turned to the door through wbich tbe bride. Miss Nannie Blackstone Johnston, and her at tendants passed. The groom. Colonel J. M. Ried, with his best man, Sir. Alexander J. Johnson, a brother of the bride, from Butte City, Mont., were stationed at the altar, with Kev. W. A. Edie, who officiated. The ushers were Messrs. John J. Rogers, of Scottdale; Dr. D. R. Torrcnce, of New Haven: Louis R.David son, of Beaver, and E. Wilson Johnston, a student at Yale the first three being cousins of the bride, and the last mentioned a brother. The bridesmaids were Misses May and Lulu Ried, nieces of the groom, and Misses Louise Johnston and Louise Torrence. cousins of the bride. Miss Nettle Reynolds was maid of honor, and two tiny mortals, Helen and May Huston, of Uniontown, were flower maidens, carrying baskets filled with pink chrysanthe mums. Thn hridft's father Mr Jnsenli .Tnhnstftn in. j companied her to tbe altar and gave her into tne Keeping of tbe groom. In her bridal attire of rich white satin, with ostrich feather trim mings and long veil. Miss Johnston looked a pretty picture, gracefully accentuated by tbe pinkness oi the maids' attire, all of them being gowned in crepe de chine of that color, and carrying chrysanthemums to correspond. The bride's bouquet was of.while chrysanthemums. The church was decorated by A. M. and J. B. Murdnck, of this city, with tropical plants and pink chrysanthemums, and a handsome screen of the same concealed tbe orchestra from view. Mr. and Mrs. Ried left on the night tram for the East. IS TKAGEDY AND COMEDY. Mrs. NeUa Brown-Pond Pleases a Large Audience at Carry Hall. NeUa Brown-Pond was in one of her most brilliant moods last evening if that talented lady has degrees ot brilliancy and she enter tained, in a thoroughly charming manner, the audience that greeted her at Curry Hall. In a programme, embracing everything from comedy to tragedy, the beautiful elocutionist was equally pleasing, and rapturous applause was gracefully responded to with delightful humorous selections. Miss Lida J. Low. in several piano solos, and as an accompanist to Miss Voatl, proved herself a pretty performer. The hall was filled and an informal reception was giren the ladies at the conclusion of tbo programme. An Enjoyable Church Concert. A very enjoyable programme was presented at tbe Smltbfield M. E. Church last evening, under the direction of Prof. W. S. Weeden. The local artists who appeared were Misses Agnes Vogel, Tillie Mackintosh, Mittie Weeden, Ella Scrapie, Mary McKelvy, May Grubbs, Nellio Brown and Messrs. H. B. Brocket!. F. G. Beer. O. D. Forney, O. E. But ler. J. O. Creed, Angus Kcim, R. M. Repp and Prof. A. Farland. Wedded in Allegheny. A pretty wedding in tho North Avenue M. E. Church, last evening, united Miss Margaret Siemon and Mr. Edward C. Means, the son of tho well-known druggist. Rev. T. J. Leak officiated, and a large number of guests wit nessed tho ceremony. Bo:h young people are decided favorites in their social relations, and their union Is a matter of much interest. Social Chatter. The wedding of Miss May Lowrie Lyon and Mr. Augustus Pcttibone Murdoch will take place in tbe East Liberty Presbyterian Church on the evening of December II. The day of thankfulness was observed in many of the city churches by evening suppers, concerts and literary entertainments. TnE formal opening of the Union League in its club honse on Penn avenue this evening will be a notablo event. Mr. and Mrs. George Cz.Apr. of Edge wortb, entertained friends at their lovely home last evening. The first evening reception of tho Hiawatha Circle was held last night in St. Clair's Hall. TnE ladies;of St. James' Church, West End, opened their annual bazaar last evening; OUTLOOK FOB PABLIAMENT. Lewiston Journal: Tbe English Parlia ment on Tuesday resumed what Is likely to be an exciting session. Troy Times: Tbe session of the British Parliament which opens to-day is likely to prove of more than ordinary interest, especially to friends of Ireland. Boston Herald: The session that it opened promises to be one of great interest. Indeed, If we are to trust some well informed English writers, it Is likely to be one of the most Im portant sessions tbat tbe English Parliament has ever held. Toronto Empire: The session Is likely to be an exciting one: Parliament is getting near the end of its life, and the turn of circum stances may at any time precipitate a general election; the opposition is stronger in numbers and avowedly determined to force dissolution, so that the debates and proceedings will be fol lowed with growing interest. A BADLY DISGUSTED COYOTE. It Sneaked Down on an Oregon Hunter's Tin Geese Decoys and Died. Tho Eureka flat country abounds in wild geese, says tbo Oregonian, and the hunters in tha section aro having fine sport hunting them. The geese swarm in the stubble fields to eat the scattered heads of wheat, and the hunters dig pits in these fields and lie in tbem, having first set out a number of tin or pasteboard decoys to attract tbe geese. A hunter named Adkins, a day or two since, while sitting in a pit near Fairfield waiting for geese, saw a coyote sneak-r ing down on his decoys. The cunning bruto crept along on bis belly for about 50 feet and then made a spring of about 20 feet, landing on top of one of the tin decoys. He was the most dlsgusted-looking coyote ever seen In tbat sec tion, and Adkins felt so sorryforblmtbathe shot him, breaking two ot "bis legs, and then knocked him on the head with the butt of his gun. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Valcan is said to have been the inventor of lamps. The Komans etched their public records on brass. On the dried skin of serpents were once written the Iliad and Odyssey. Paris can now be reached from London an hour sooner than Edinburgh. There are now 11,000,000 men in Europe; ready to be called into the field. It is said the tourist season brings il.C0O.C0O yearly into Switzerland. The Lstania Borbonica is the largest palm in cultivation in tbis country. From the remotest times men saluted tbo sun, moon and stars by kissing the hand. Seven hundred million oranges are exported every year from Europe to this country. Fire has been worshiped as a divinity. The Platonists confounded it with tbe heavens and considered it as tbe divine intelligence. Baltimore's last bank failure, as the American boasts, was in 183753 years ago. No city in tbe country bas such a record as that. The pumice stone was a writing mate rial of the ancients: tbey used it to smooth the roughness of the parchment, or to sharpen their reeds. Montfancon notices a very ancient book of eight linden- leaves, which on the back had rings fastened by a small linden rod to keep them together. Of 700 boys and eirls who drew books from tbe library of tbe College Settlement in Rlvington street. New York, last year only two had American parents. Fireworks were not known to antiquity. Tbey are a modern invention. If ever the an cients employed fires at their festivals it was only for religious purposes. A man who hit on the idea of popping corn in an attractive stall in the busiest part of Fulton street. New York, in full vfew of tho shopping crowd, is making lots of money. The speech of Claudius, engraved on plates or bronze. Is yet preserved in the town hall of Lyons, France. It was discovered in 1523, on the heights of St. Sebastian above the town. The most ancient mode of writing was on bricks, tiles and oyster-shells, and on tables of stone; afterward on plates of various materials, on ivory, on barks of trees, on leaves of trees. Servius, one of the seven kings of Rome, commanded a great fire of straw to be kindled In tbe public place of every town in Italy to consecrate for repose a certain day in seedtime or sowing. From the latest times of paganism to the early ages oi Christianity, we can but rarely quote instances of fire lighted up for other pur poses, in the public form, than for the cere monies ot religion. There is no surplus and no deficit in the Imperial Treasury of Germany. The receipts and expenditures of the fiscal year balance at 1,131.491,912 marks, or about 3283.623,000. This is very neat national financiering. Ere the invention of recording events by writing, trees were planted, rude altars were erected, or heaps of stone, to serve as memori als ot past events. Hercules probably could not write when be fixed bis famous pillars. Among historic rings is one said to be Shakespeare's signet. Upon the seal, entwined with a true-lovers' knot, are tbe initials Vr. S. It was lost before his death, and found many years after by a laborer's wife, near Stratford churchyard. This is the only authentic piece of bis personal property known to be In exist ence. A rich man in St. Petersburg died, leaving orders that his sealed will should be opened 12 months after his death. When opened It contained another sealed packet, with instructions that it mnstnotbe opened for a year. Tbe will had seven seals, the last or wmen nas only just been broken, aunougn the testator died six years ago. A discovery of petroleum is reported to have been made at the foot of a hill named tbe PuydelaPoix. four miles from Clermont in Auvcrgne. Tbe naphtha whicb exudes from tbe rock is equal to Baku or Pennsylvania oil, and geologists are of tbe opinion that it ex. tends in a subterranean sheet over tbe vase Plain of Limazne. and is probably to be found at a depth of J, COO feet. One of the recent improvements in pbo tographlc telescopes Is an object glass, one of whose lenses is so formed that when one side of it is turned outward the visual rays are brought to a proper focus and yon have a tele scope for seeing with; and when tbe other side of the lens is turned outward the actinic rays are brought to a focus and the telescope is in proper shape for taking photographs. Ararat, Pa., is the abiding place of a man who has lived in Snsquebanna county all bis life, and bas never yet set his foot upon a railroad car. though tbe Erie tracks run through bis farm. When the road was built he declared tbat tbe locomotive was the inven tion of Satan, and be wanted to die beforo one whistled through bis meadows. All attempts to induce him to take a ride upon a train have thus far proved futile. Mr. Stanley's expedition bas brought to light some curious specimens of pipes from equatorial Africa. Snrgeon Park has made careful drawings of them. The simplest speci men of a rough and ready pipe is tbat used by tbe natives of the' Aruwimi and Ituri for ests. Its stem is a perforated banana stock. The bowl is a banana leaf rolled up into a fun nel, like a gTOcer's paper, and Inserted into a hole cut into the stem, and tbe apparatus is complete. The chaperone, once so much ridiculed, Is now an established institution. She bas been followed by the professional escort, who will take unprotected women to theaters, balls, dinners and excursions, for a dollar or upward per night, according to the style demanded. Tbis present season tbe escort has been fol lowed by a riding and driving companion. He is supplied by a first-class stable, dresses in a first-class mannei. is a thorough rider and driver, and perfectly familiar with the city. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News telegraph?: Recently Trof. Virchow had bronght to his notice a man who may probably boast of the possession of one of the longest beards in the world. This remarkable beard, measured from the chin, was slightly under five feet in length, and was of remarkable thick ness. Prof. Virchow examined some of the longest hairs, and found th.1t they were each split at tbe end. This goes to contradict tbe general idea tbat when hair splits at the end it fs a sign of coming baldness. MERRT GLANCES. "Get out of my way, thou bird of omen, thou prophet of evil," said the turkey to the raven. "Hal" laughed the raven. Imaybe a prophet, bat-l'U never be stuffed." Keto Xorlc Sun. Mr. Granger YfiU have seen all the sights of the city. I suppose. Mr. Coeutles Ob, no 1 1 live here, yon know. Puck. At a reception Fleecy (a forgetful man) I believe this is Mr. White. l'erson addressed No. sir; Mr. .Black. Fleecy You must excuse me, Mr. Black. My color-bllndnese Is bothering me again." Judg. "I understand that Miss Primp is really going to be married at last?" 'Yes: after spending several seasons at ths fashionable summer resorts withont catclllnga man, she played her first game of lawn tennis two months ago, and tbe wedding takes place next yteck.i'XorrUtoum Herald. "The Americans play havoc with Turkey-to-day," laughed the Sultan on Thanksgiving morning. Yes, Your Majesty," retorted the Vliler, who also read the pacers, "and they play football with each other." Sew XorX Herald. Little Johnnie Was it right to asi Sambo if he had a turkey for Thankscivlng? Brown Yes; provided yoa didn't go farther and ask him where he got It. Judge. Brown Fenderson is a very entertaining fellow; don't yon think so? Fogs Yes. but the deuce of it Is yoa can't begin to laugh until after he has gone. -Boston Tran script. "I am sorry to learn your mother is ill,' said the sympathizing teacher to tho little girl who bad come in late. "Is she sick abedr" "Not quite," replied the beautiful child. "Sho'sjustslcka-sofa., ' Chicago Tribune. , Daughter (blushing) Mamma, Charlia kissed me last nlgbt. Slamma Why, daushter you shock me. How many times did he kiss yon? Daughter Only once, mamma. Jtanima(siuplclouly) Ura-um-cr-I think my yonng lady that we shall have to have a recount. Washington btar. An old country 'Squire once sent word to his Welsh butcher tbat be wanted to slaughter . soma btasts, and the old butcher replied, "I am '? very sorry I can't come and kill yoa to-day. lam e going to kill myself. Iwfllcomeandklll-TOatO" morrow." yewcattle Chranicls.
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