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Including tunda, lrc'th SO fcUNDAl DlsrATClL One ear 150 WEEKLY" DlMMTUL. One lear 13 1 ni Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at ISccnt.-per week, or Including fcunday edition, at 2P cents per week. PITTSBURG. MONDAY. DEC. 1, 1S90. THE OPENING SESSION. Concress will recommence its session to day after an interval which lias been short in time, but replete with instructive events. Probably there have been few greater changes in the political aspect of things than have been wroucbt in the two months and a half since the adjournment of Con gress and its reassembling. The summary of the chance is that the Republican party has just three months lelt of control in all the branches of government to make srood its claim on the popular con fidence in 1S92. It can do this by learning the lessons of the late elections, but not by ignoring them. It is not called upon to stultify itself by throwing its tariff policy overboard; hut it should see that public confidence is not to be obtained either by re versing the political conclusions of the past two decades, or by reckless waste of the pub lic Junds. It should abandon the attemut to per)etuate its power by act of Congress, and ceae to defy public opinion by unfair treatment of the minoritv. More is to be done for the Republican party l)v a conservative and economical atten tion to public business of a non-partisan o 'aracter than in any other way. Let the practice oi increasing public expenditures bv rom fifty to one hundred millions with each administration be reversed. Let the needed business legislation be promptly at tended to and the interest of the public in the Pacific railroads be properlyguarded. Finally let the jobs of special legisla non be religiously eschewed, and exclusive attention be given to getting the business of the whole country done in proper shape. A course of this sort will put the Repub lican party in a good position to demand the public support in 1F92. It remains to be een if the Republican leaders have the in telligence to learn and apply the lesson of last month's election. THE 3IIS5ISirri RIVER orESTION. The question of Mississippi riveriniprove ment is attracting a great deal of attention in the press oJ the region along the lower Missis sippi. The opinion there seems to be strongly in favor of the levee system, some of it being of the peremptory character displayed by the New Orleans Times-Democrat, which con demns the articles in The Dispatch sug gesting another plan, before the plan has been fully developed by the articles. An other class of opinion is presented by Charles G. Johnson, Commissioner for Louisiana, who advocates a straightened river by means of levees, and whose ideas take the daring scope of turning the waters of Lake Michi gan and the Red River of the if orth into the Mississippi. The subject is one of vast im portance to the country at large, and its dis-cu-sion will be profitable if our New Orleans U lends can restrain their conviction that no one has a right to an opinion who has not absorbed the wisdom that permeates the at mosphere about Lake Pontchartrain. DOTH ALIKE NOW. The movement of the Attorney General of the United States during the past week against tbe Central Pacific management, by fi.ing a petition to dissolve the leases of that jnopcrty which have been made contrary to law and with the obvious purpose of defeat- ic the claim of the Government, would be. hichly praiseworthy if there were any rea son to place trust in its genuineness. As it is of that class of innocuous legal missiles which hae long been laughed at by the bad boys of the subsidized transcontinental cor porations, we can only regard it as a tub to the popular whale. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that the course which the Government can take to protect its interest in those corpora tions is a verv obvious one, and has been distinctly pointed out by recent events in the corporate world. In the previous dis cussion of the settlement of the Union Pacific Railroad it has been pleaded with a good deal of force that while the past man agementof the corporate body took a dishon est course toward tbe Government, it would not be fair to punish the Adams' manage ment, which was making an honest effort to put tbe corporation in a condition of solv ency and pay off its debts. The reply that while the corporate form of management is immortal there is no assurance that the in dividual qualities of integrity and icspons ibity was uever so favorable as after it had been demonstrated by the facts. But up to this time the other view has been strongly urged, and it has even extended its protect ing ffigis to the Central Pacific on the plea that one corporation could not be treated differently Irom another. The exception to this view was, ot course, that remarkable one urged in behalf of the Central Pacific, that since it had shown a more persistent disposition to cheat the Government there fore it should be given a more favorable ex tension of its debt, in order to induce it not to cheat the Government out of its claim al together! The late corporate developments, how ever have changed matters. The same management of the Union Pacific, which twelve years ago plundered the corporation by loading it up with worthless properties for the rrofit of the management, uuu ucucu the Government by declaring unearned dividends, has resumed control. Both cor porations now unqualifiedly represent both the corporate and personal policies of dis honestv toward the Government claims and defiance toward the regulative legislation passed concerning them. This leaves the way clearly open for the Government to de fend its interests by giving both roads the EAnie treatment in the shape of the sovereign right of forfeiture defined in the United States Supreme Court's decision on the Thurman act. This conrse hold: out the best chance for the people to obtain the value of their in vestment, which really' created the trans continental lines. The Union and Central Pacific lines together form the most direct route, and constitute a. system of undoubted value. A portion of n is in good condition; a portion has intentionally been lelt to de cay. But if the United States should take possession of both corporations at a valua tion to be fixed by legal process, and should for the rest of its claim pursue the property transferred from these corporations into whatever hands it could be found, it might create a very decided donbt in the minds of certain corporate kings whether their rulership of this countrv is as absolu te as has been alleged. Such a course would be especially desira ble because it would afford a solution of the transcontinental problem in the interest of the people and not in the interest of the Goulds and Rockafellars. If the Govern ment should make the Central and Union Pacific roads actual highways, open to all railway carriers desiring to transport freight to any point along those lines, upon the payment of reasonable tolls, the Gould plan of a combination which shall suspend com petition and force value into fictitious stocks would fall into very small fragments. It is certaiu that under these circum stances it would be a very wild course on the part of the Government to say to the millionaires engaged in the transcontinental combination, that they must pay up or surrender their property. It is necessary to have prompt action, however, lest the old-time policy of the Central and Union Pacific should reduce these lines to the proverbial right of way and two streaks of rust. AN OUTLET FOR THE PRODUCERS. The sucgestion of a petroleum producer, as published in The Dispatch the other day, that the Ohio river furnishes them an outlet, that, if properly utilized, will loosen the crip of the Standard on that interest, has a good deal of sense in it. It recalls the fact that in the early stages of the conflict that route was utilized to hold in check the progress of the Standard to complete monopoly. It was in 1874 and 187C that the independ ent refiners of Pittsburg, finding their direct routes shut ofl by the discriminations of the trunk lines, resorted to the plan of shipping by the Ohio river to Huntington, "West Virginia, and thence by the Chesapeake and Ohio to the seaboatd. So long as they had the competing pipe transportation furnished by the Columbia Condnit Company they were able to compete with the Standard and even do a profitable business. It was when the Standard bought and tore up the Colum bia pipes that they were forced to make a complete surrender. There is little doubt that the river route, if properly utilized, can be again made a support to an independent refining interest which the Standard cannot overcome. It furnishes the cheapest mode of transporta tion to the entire Southwest and Xortnwest; it gives a cheap route for export oil to Europe, on which light draft boats and barges can be used for at least eight months in the year. With this route competing for the shipments of the independent interest, it would be only a question of time until the railroads would begin to solicit the, same traffic, and when that is done the domination of the Standard will be drawing to an end. "What is necessary to accomplish this re sult, is for the producers to organize the in dependent pipe-lines, which shall concen trate the traffic at available points on the river, where not only water transportation, bnt the competing railroads, can be reached. When that is done, and the railroads are brought to realize that their bestinterssts lie in justice to the independent interests com peting refineries will spring up faster than the Standard can buy them up. If it under takes to absorb them it will make the busi ness of building refineries to sell to it the most profitable one in the country. The reason why the Standard rules the pe troleum market is that it controls all the outlets. Let the producers open up the out let of the livers by means of independent pipe-lines and refineries to connect the water route with the wells, and they will find by a little persistence that the problem is solved. prrrsBUKG does TnE tvokk. It is an interesting fact for Pittsburg that is made public in the report of the Secre tary of the Navy, that the Bethlehem works proving unable to furnish the steel plates for the new battle-ships a contract has been made with Carnegie, Phipps & Co. to furnish 6,000 tons of nickel and steel plates during the coming year. This is a natural result of the political efforts to locate the steel manufacture for the Government somewhere else than in Pittsburg. The Bethlehem plant was fitted up for the Gov ernment work under the especial favor of the Government; bnt alter some effort the work falls to Pittsburg by the force of in dustrial gravitation. The increase of the output of the Carnegie works by 500 tons a month will not be a very vital thing; but it is a contribution to Pittsburg's magnificent total of business, and a gratification to the local pride in our manufacturing supremacy. The first reports concerning the exclusion of Dr. Koch's lymph from Franco looked as though the act were due to an unreasonable hate of anything German. It turns out, how cver.to have been done under a law which has a good deal of foundation excluding medicines tho composition of which is unknown. There is also hint that by this action it proposed to force the disclosure of the Koch formula. This is counting too much on governmental power. If Koch's discovery is f urthecvindicsted by actual experiment, no government can afford to shut out of a land where people are waiting to be cured. Me. Jay Gould's assertion that under Charles Francis Adam's management, "that road has been run on principles that have never before been carried into practice. Tbey bave ap peared in books, I believe, and occasionally in poetry," must reler to that barren and unprofit able principle, described in the vernacular as common honesty. Now the report is abroad to the effect that Mr. Porter will publish an amended total of New York City's enumeration giving that city 125,000 more population than his previous announcement on the plea of error in the foot ings. This is hardly creditable. Mr. Porter might be able to stand the effects of prpot that tbe count of New York was insufficient by lay ing in on the incompetence of subordinates; but he could hardly afford to place hlmseir in tbe light of marking population up and down on such shallow excuses as that Since Jay Gould is not able to pickup all he wants on the bargain counter, heisco lng to ask for it He wants pooling legalized in tho Inter-State commerce act, and of course Congress will hasten to gratify the wish of the owner or one-fifth the railway mileage of the United States. The recent frosty weather brings th New YorkTioune to the profound meterolopical conclusion that experience will justify the pub- lie that cold weather may bo expected every year somewhere in the vicinity oi the 1st of December. If the ZVtoune keeps on with its careful observations. It is likely to reach tbe further interesting and valuable conclusion that a thaw may be looked for along about tha 1st of April. The way in which the Republican organs are attacking President Cleveland for express ing his opinion of Ingalls. Is expressive of the belief that Ingall's monopoly of personally abasing political opponents is something that must be defended at alt bazzards. TnE United States Government is making a faint effort to force tho Central Pacific Rail road corporation to live tip to the law. After It lias thrown grass at that corporation a while, it can vary tbe proceedings by tossing a few soft missiles in the direction of the same Union Pa cific management which plundred the corpora tion and cheated the government in tbe sev enties. Lord Rasdolpit. Chukciull hasten ing back from Monte Carlo is concrete expo nent of tbe idea that there is something in the last turn of the wheel for that political para dox known as Tory Democracy. The question whether intemperance causes poverty or poverty intemperance is to be discussed by the Social Science Club, of Binghamton, New York. Alter this ques tion is scientifically disposed of wo may hope that this body will solve that long-agitated puzzle whether the chicken preceded the egg or tho egg the chicken, in tbe order of cre ation. PERSONAL COMMENT. Kixq Kalakatja, of tbe Sandwich Islands, is expected to arrive in San Francisco on the cruiser Charleston next Thursday. Tueee is a well circulated report In Atch ison, Kan., that Mr. Ingalls has a scheme forja iiolitical novel, which has been in course of construction for some time. TnE late Isaac Chambers, of Brooklyn, who was a fellow printer with Mr. Shillaber in his younger days, is said to have been the original of "Mrs. Partington's" "Ike." Representative LAsnAJt, who has been re-elected from the Eleventh Congressional District of Texas probably tho largest in the country represents 97 counties that aro said to exceed in area ten States. It is said of Dr. Kerr, a medical missionary of the Presbyterian Board at Canton, that ho has in the past SG years treated over 620,000 patients, and has prepared 27 medical and surgical book. He has trained 109 medical assistants, chiefly Chinese. TnE Pope has been informed that some ago an Italian lady. Stgnora Aldimlra de Meis, made her will in favor of His Holiness. Her foitnne amounted to nearly 5,000,000 lire. She died recently, but her will cannot be found, and, as the lady leaves no heirs, her money be comes the property of the State. Lv a very short time tho subscription for the erection of a monument to Georges Bizet, the composer of "Carmen," was covered. Tho list of donors includes quite a large number of female names, lime. Patti was one of tho earliest subscribers she sent 1,000 francs. The largest offering was that of the Baronno Salo mon do Rothschild, who contributed 2,000 francs. Inazo Nitoee, a young Japanese or high social standing, has just Joined the Quakers of Philadelphia, and expects shortly to marry Miss Mary Elklnton, of that city, who is also a member of the Society ot Friends. After their marriage tho yonng people will go to Japan to live, where the bridegroom is to occupy a high official position. For this he has fitted him self by six years of travel and study in Europe and America. The widow of Gibres, the celebrated French hatter, after whom crush hats were named died recently at Versailles. It was she who measured the heads of his customers. She said that M. Guizot's head was not at all like the girth of that of his illustrious rival, Thiers. AU tho sons of Louis Philippe, except tbe Due d'Aumale, had small heads. Napoleon III. did not need a big hat. Of all Gibres' customers Victor Hugo and tho Due de Praslln. who murdered his wire, had the largest heads. Kosuth and Count Cavour had very largo and high beads. BELIEVES HE IS CHRIST. Remarkable Hallucination or a Young Man, "Who is Otherwise Sane. ISrECIAL TELEQKAJI TO THE DISrATCU.j Leavenworth, Nov. 30. Deputy Sheriff Nicholson and Charles Nelson, of Bedford, la., aro in the city, having in charge a youug man named Lincoln Wintermute. of Conway, la. Wintermuto has been adjudged insane, and is a man apparently 2S years of ace. He talks in telligently on all subjects but that of religion. He claims that he knows things about the man agement of tbe world, according to tbe Christ theory, that lie has been trying to tell tho peo ple and they laugh at him, deride him and make all kinds of fun of him. He stated to a reporter that he had good will to all mankind, and that itcut liiin to the quick to have the people disregard bis ideas when ho meant everything for their own good. Ho said Mi confinement in tho asvlum was painful to him as a remembrance, and that ho had never tirrr.pd anront When asked if he had a wife. he said be was single, but would have been married if everything had gone alone all right, Wintermute was advised to keep a '"81111 upper lip." He replied: "i don't have to sbavo my mustacho if I don't want to." Officer Nicholson saj s that the idea in young WIntermute's mind is that Christ has been on earth three times and that ho is the fourth representative. The party will make a tour of the South, and will probably co to Europe. BEST HALF OF EXISTENCE. "Whether It Is in Tront of a Man at 40, is Naively Discussed. A medical paper tells u, writes James Payn In the Illustrated H'iws of the World, what is very comforting to those who have passed tbo heyday (or hay day) of life, that "tho best half of existence is. at 40, in front of a man." I wish this scientific authority could have postponed its cheerful assurance to even a later date, but, evenasitstands.it will surprise most people. Name and fame have in most cases, it is true, to be acquired, but tho general viow has hitherto been that The myrtle and Ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, however so plcuty. A doctor, however, it seems, finds at 40, "in the study of one of the organs of the human body, a pleasure and enlightenment It never yielded before." Everyone, it is said, is "either a fool or a physician at 40," but we are "mostly', well, not physicians. It is more generally satisfactory to learn that "tho trained intellect no longer sees men as trees walking, and that the trained temper does not rush at work like a blind bull at a haystack." One has known' however, many young people who do not ruth at work, but even quite the contrary; and, upon the whole, with all deference to science, most persons at 40 would prefer to be two-and-twenty. COLORED MEN WIN. They Gain a Noteworthy Legal Victory Over Aristocratic Whites. rSI-ECIAl. TELECRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.1 St. Louis, Nov. 30. Tbo negroes here have won a signal victory. For several months Henry Bridgewater, a colored man, and his as sociates have been trying to establish a manual training school for colored boys at Kirkwood. an aristocratic suburb or St Louis. A vicor ons fight has been made on him by the citizens of tho town, and the matter was finally carried into tho courts. Judge J. W. Mcfilhenny, who was appointed by Judge W. W. Edwards, of the St Louis County Circuit Court, as amicus curiae in the matter, has filed his report He decides in favor of tho nccrocs. He closes with tho state ment that the undertakinc deserves encourage ment In every way, as tne system oi manual traininc schools is peculiarly adapted to the needs of tbe negro. DEATHS OP A DAY. Rev. It. C. Barrow, Evangelist. LINCOLN, NEB., Nov. 80. Bev. it. C. Barrow, for 25 vcars Bute Evangelist of tne Christian Church, and oce or the most widely known dl lnea In the Western country, died in this city this evening. .He was 53 years of age. Miss Emily McMIllen. Miss Emily McUllleu died .yesterday at her home In Allegheny, blie had only recently re turned from Colorado, where she spent six months la the hope or securing relief from con sumption. She was a daughter of Captain J. ,I. Mcatlllea, a well-known G.iA.Ut. man. THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. The amusement season is now at its height. Congress open to-day. This la the beginning of the end of the year, isn't itt How time flies, to be sure. It is not long since you began to accustom yourself to place a 0 instead of a 9 in the dato line of your letters, Is it? And now you will soon bave to put a 1 in place of the 0. Then you will enter upon the last decade of tho Nineteenth ctmtury. The thought of this makes you feel old. don't ItT But the year is almost dead, and there's no medicine in tho world to save it. Die it must, and on its bier a babe will bo born. Still, it's like losing an old friend. A year doesn't seem long when you look backward, but when you look forward it's different. And the friendship you formed with it makes the acquaintanceship seem longer than the actual time measure ment. Of con rse tbero aro various ways for measuring a year. Some measure it Dy its sor rows, some by Its pleasures: some by what they accomplished, some by what they failed to perform; somo by their conquests, some by their defeats; some by days, somo by months no two seem to apply the same rule or gauge it exactlyalike. If your year has been cloudless you see the beginning as clearly as the end; if murky tbe mists obscure the starting point and "you see the finish thouzh a rent in tho veil. Misery travels Blower than mirth, to be sure. And now that tbe year is going, what's tho use of digging into tbe past for the bones o'J the lost, anywayr Let mem ne there. They would only block up the pathway ahead. 'I he cheerful memories aro all right. They neither bide nor haunt. They will be in at the death and the birth the burial and the christening. Between the erasing of the 0 and tho placing of the 1 you have time to square accounts with your old friend. The Year, and spread a clean set ot books before tbe stranger nearing your gates. Don't refuse to shake hands with the old fel low, even if be did not treat you quite fairly. Don't hold any crudgo against the dying. It's not right. And if you do, perhaps when they die their ghost will haunt you. The Homo Rulers have a Sexton, but they will not order a grave yet awhile The Congressional Record will resume pub lication to-morrow. Subscribers will be pleased to learn that it will contain nothing about the Indian dance, Parnell or the African rear guard. Talk is chejip with dictionaries retailing for less than a dollar. A doo in tbo street gets more out of life than a lion in a cage. The only difference between a secret whis pered and a secret shouted is, that one gets around sooner than the other. . If the Indians were taught football they would soon kill each other and solve the vex atious problem. THE FRIENDSHIP RINO. Love speaks through an emblem or token. Some holding a jewel rare. To be placed when the words are spoken On finger of maiden fair. One tells ua of two hearts united, The other of vows fulfilled. Their absence means love unrequited Or a philtro undistilled. Butthcre is another sweet token, Fasbion'd for friendship's sake; Not a bauble made to be broken, A relic for hearts that ache. It speaks of a soul's warm devotion. When love no comfort can bring; Liko lights on tho shore of life's ocean Gleams the golden Friendship Ring; It recalls a face that is cherished, Tbe clasp of a firm, true band; Perhaps pictures a form that perished In a distant dreary land. Let not time its bright luster tarnish. To that golden circlet cling: If another your finger garnish Still treasure tho Friendship Ring. On March 4 next a great many Congressmen on duty to-day will march forth. Patent grand stands mean that a post mortem will follow the football games of tho future. The crab shells and tho goose bones say cold weather is on the winter bill of fare. Some folks say a tablespoonful of gin in a glass of milk taken before going to bed will cure a cold in tho head. Don't reverse the quantities or repeat the dose, though. THE great national game called securing a quorum will reopen at tbe old stand to-day. If murderers were executed they would not destroy the fixtures in tho State prisons to re gain liberty. A capital crime Committing a burglary In Washington. The year is on tho homestretch, and it will soon be time to shout "Whoa! January." The social outlook in Washinzton is being discussed more earnestly than tho business out look. Pleasure before business is tne motto there, however. TnE President will a tale unfold to-day, pro viding Congress is in a good humor and Reed does not change the old rules. AS between necessity and nonsense.the courts have decided in favor of tho former. The guinea pig market has been cornered, and the lj mph makers are squealing. TnE Dispatch has saved tho Chesapeake and Ohio canal from being wrecked by tho Maryland railroad nnc. Glory enough for ono year, at all events. Eat, sleep. Strive, ply; Laugh, weep. Live, die. Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton will go from tho prison to the footlights. Her manager savs she is a flue emotional actress. Her first appearance was in tragedy, however, and she made a hit. TnE lead men are forming a trust It will be a heavy combination. THE woman who carries a bouquet to a murderer would be the first to cast a stone at a sinner in petticoats. The party that defends flagrant violations of the Constitution or official dereliction is bound to he buried sooner or later. Jay Gould says money will soon be a drug on the market A dollar will always bo worth 100 cents, no matter how many aro in circula tion. Dumas, tho elder, once said: "Art lives on misery: it dies on luxury." This does not apply to the dressmaker's art Motto for the oil driller All's well that ends well. A9 soon as the negro is educated to think and act for himself he will secure some of tho spoils. Freedom without free will is slavery still. Eimer enforce or repeal the laws on tbe statute books. The dead-letter measures only serve to breed discord and unscrupulous spies. This month contains Christmas, and this means a great deal to the yonng men who have not added a wedding ring to the engagement circlet. People bitten by mad dogs have a bitter ex perience, of course. If all the talk does not retire Parnell, It will tire everybody else. The penitentiaries and jails are apparently no safer than some of the speculating banking houses. "On with the dance, let joy be uncounted," is Sitting Bull's war cry now. It's big meters, smoke consumers or soot now. Broken promise sometimes mean broken heartC '""" ' Willie Winkle. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, FOSTER'S FORECAST. A Flerco Storm Sebeduled for Tills Vicinity in About a Week. SPFCIAL TXLCOKAU TO TUC DISFATOtl.t St. Joseph. Mo., Nov. 30. My predictions of pleasant weather after the November North western snowstorms and blizzard were fully verified, and with the exception of the two sharp storms, with tho accompanying cold waves and, two or three lighter storms, I ex pect very pleasant weather during Decomber, followlnc which will bo a winter of much less severity than is usual. I have been calculating next year's crop weather and find that the rains will reach more elevated regions, and therefore countries near sea level, like Texas, will have much less rain, while more elevated region. like Colorado and Dakota, will have a greater rainfall. This will bo favorable to Western Kansas and Nebraska and countries of like elevations, and a more even distribution of rainlall along the Atlantic Coast. It should bo remembered that tho high and low barome ters of tbe storm move eastward near each oth.er, the former gathering up the moisture from trreat bodies of water, and It is tbe depth of the"tlde in the atmosphere that causes the moisture to condense into rain near the sea level, or enables it to float to higher elevations. As Jupiter nears the sun and the earth tbe atmosphere deepens and the rains move to higher elevations. As these tides reach their extremes of high and low. Western Kansas and Nebraska and similar lands midway be tween the high and low lands bave their dry years. Coming Storm "Waves. A storm wave was due to leave the Pacific coast about tbo 23tb. pass the east slope ot tho Rocky Mountains about the 29tb, the great valley from 23th to December 1 and reach the Atlantic coast about the 2d. But the notable storm wave of the immediate future will be due to leave tbo Pacific coast about December 4, pass tho east slope of the Rocky Mountains about the Sth, the great valley from 5th to 7th and reach the Atlantic coast about tho 8tb. It will be a very fierce storm, accompanied by a great variety of weather. As it moves east ward it will probably pass through tbe middle of tho United States; north of it will occur snowstorms and blizzards, south of it heavy rains and very cold weather In tho extreme Northwest. Light, Heat and Electricity. To understand meteorology or the weather, we must understand tbo physical forces. If there were any light outsido of atmospheres that surround the stars and planets we could not seo tbem, because space would be as bright as they are. It is because they are surrounded by darkness that we are able to see the stars. The light of the snn does not reach us. Light heat and electricity are interchangeable, and thn Hc-lit of tho sun chances to electricity on leaving tbe elements that surround the tun. Illustration: Paint an iron rail jet black, and tho rays of the sun will change to electricity and heat in the rail sufficient to turn a licht electric motor. Paint the iron rail white, and it will not produce electricity, and the heat will be much less. Place two cotton kerchiefs, one black, the other white, on snow. The black will heat and melt into the snow, the white will not. White reflects light, black does not, and the light therefore changes to electricity and heat. This electricity may be chanced back into light by running it through an Edison electric lamp. So it is with sunlight. It changes its form to suit the conditions. After sunlight chances to electricity and reaches our earth, it is obstructed on entering our atmosphere, and the rays heat as they de scend into a more dense atmosphere. Tbe Northern light is caused by electricity, occurs when theplanets are in position to cause greatest electric activity and is evidence that our earth is growing into the condition of a sun. Astronomers say that Jupiter and Saturn, to some extent, shine of their own light Tbe electricity from tho dark side of our earth causes tho moon to give a faint light when passing through tho shadow of the earth. Saturn has eight moons revolving around it as our eight planets revolve around our sun. Sometime our earth will catch another comet and then we will have two moons. My theory is that all these bodies began existence through the influence of electricity in buildinc by bring ing together atoms. Electricity is the motive nnvfr nf thft universe, tho builder of every thing, the puzzling pnnciplo of of llle. Light cannot exist except in connec tion with the recognized forms of matter. After the electricity from the sun has changed to light and beat in our atmosphere the light Is obstructed on reaching the solid earth and them it changes back to heat and electricity. All bodies being condensations of electricity that condensing is tbe origin of motion. Tho ether of space condenses into electricity and electricity into gases, the latter to liquids and liquids to solids. This keeps np the motion from space toward solid bodies and will ac count for all motion. All this motion would be steady, gradual, were it not for tbe electric in fluence of the sun and plants on each other; but these Influenced cause periodical changes, to understand which requires a knowledce of the nature of electricity and the movements of the planets. W. T. Foster. LONDON'S OLD SOMAN WALL. Accumulations of Centuries Removed, Lay ing Bare Wall and Ditch. The recent excavations for the new postofflce in St. Martin's-le-Grand, says tbe London Times, have led to the discovery not only of by far tho most perfect piece or the Roman wall laid bare in recent times, but also of a complete outline of tbe old town ditch, wbich defended London during the middle age. It is difficult to draw for ourselves now a pic tnro of Loudon as a walled town washed by a broad moat. Wall and fosse are now in the very heart of the county of London. Not only so, butthetown baseoveredtheni in and grown over them. From the present street level to tho footings of the old Roman wall, the level ot the old moat, is about eight feet and a half. The accumulations of centuries have burled the defenses of the city out of sight, and it needs an owner more anxious than usual to mako tho most of his property,.to bring to light the hidden history of tho place. It is curious that tbe enormous value of city land for commercial purposes, and the burrow ing into the bowels of the earth thereby occa sioned, should lead to the disinterment of relics of London or the Roman period and or tbe middle ages. THE ZONE TAELTF SYSTEM. Its Remarkable Advantages as Illustrated in European Cities. rrom the New X'ork Tribune.! At Vienna some weeks ago a zone tariff sys tem was put in operation on tho railroads con necting that city with its suburbs. This made a decided reduction in fares, both for oc casional travelers and for commutets. The ef fect thereof is already apparent. Thousands of persons have moved from the city to the suburbs, where tbey enioy cheaper rents and moro healthful surroundings, and tho congested quarters of the city aro relieved in a salutary manner. These people, of course, con tinue all their business relations with the city, both as workers and as purchasers, so that there is no loss to Vienna tradesmen. And more than that, many families are being attracted to the city and its suburbs from other parts of the Empire, so that an era nf re markable growth and prosperity has set in. A similar plan is apparently to be adopted at Ber lin, where tbe Government will erect some thousands ot suburban homes for workingmen, and where tho Emperor is agitating lor a re duction of railroad fares. Tbe result there will doubtless be much the same as at Vienna. THE PAETITION OF AFB1CA. Northern Lions Pounce Down Upon the Abodes of the Black Man. Never, probably, in the history of the world, writes the Marquis of Lome in tbe iVbrii ,lnicrtcan. Sevitw for December, was there such a rapid portioning out ot other men's goods (as In the recent partition or Africa), for, of course, the natives bave not been repre sented at any of the Conferences that have been held in the distant capitals of the in vading white men! Yet these natives are in number as the sands of tbe sea, and it is over no scattered series or bands, such as existed In America in tbo case or tbe Indians, that dominion is to be exercised, but over organized pooples and confederacies, some or wbom could placo 200,000 men in dusky array of tattle. Truly it is a wonderful phenomenon this pouncing or Northern eagles and lions upon tbe abodes and realms of tbe black man. And whv is itf Oh, ror their good, or course 1 We shall Btop their mauling and enslaving each other, and they ought tt be grateful, and would bo so If tbey only knew what unselfish intentions we ono and all or us have ! Massacloisetts and Blaine. From the Boston Ifcrald. In this part or the country there is no deny ing that Mr. Blaine is looked upon as tbe most promising candidlto.ror the Republican Presi dental nomination) In 1892, and, unless changos of sentiment occulin the interval, he Is likely to have the strong support of Massachusetts at timtiMt Republican National Convention. To Entei In Its Friends. Reliable Council, 90. Jr. O. U. A. M., of Allegheny, will entei In its friends Wednes- dav eventne. In a n leptlon to be given at uyciorama -. .X.., Hall. Prj if. Brady and tne Mozart Orchestra will be in alendance. The reception committee it M. W. WW. A. G. Parker and C. G. Taylor. 1890. OLD OXFORD. REV. GEORGE HODGES DESCRIBES THE FAMOUS PLACE. The University Scattered All Over the Town A Magnificent Modern Library Some Spots of Moro Than Ordinary His toric Interest. T ondo?! and Oxford lio along the banks of the same river. But the name is changed The Thames at Oxford is called lhe Isls. and almost everything else is changed alongwlth It You go up to Oxford from London tnroush some of the most beautiful scenery In the world. In no other spot ot earth that I have seen bave God and man worked so harmoni ously together. Tho road was between green fields and meadows where the sheep are graz ing. Hedgo rows take the place of fences. Little brooks of smiling water run races with the train. Hore and there are pleasant vil lages, all of stone, not a "frame" "house in them; with red-tiled roof, and in the midst ot each a venerable parish church with square, grey tower, and the green ivy climbing up the walls. Even the names nf the towns bave a sound interestingly different from ours: Wood burn Green and High Wycombe and Tiddlng ton and Littlemore. You cannot possibly imag ine yourself In Pennsylvania. And by and by you come to a place wbich looks in the distance like a town of churches. Everywhere are tow ers and spires above tho trees. And that is Oxford. You go to a hotel which was built a whole century before Columbus adventured upon his voyaze of discovery, and yon aro tacen to your room through the longest and narrowest and crookedest of passages, wbich first goes this way and then that, here a step up and there a step down, now a bend and now a sharp cor ner. And then you go out to seo tho town. Scattered All Over Town. ""The first thing which you discover Is that the University is scattered all over the town of Oxford. It is not gathered into one great group of buildings, like tho universities of Yale and Harvard. It is divided Into many groups, each called a college, and most of them as large as most of our colleges. Imagine 24 colleges with their balls and dormitories set down within tho borders ot a single country town, and you bave an idea of Oxford. You cannot walk four blocks in Oxford without passing a college. The colleges have certain buildings wbich belong to them all in common. One isa theater, another Is a library, another is a church. The theater is not even so theatrical in its appearance as tho one at Oberammerzau. It lacks the very first essential for the production of a play. It Is a theater without a stage. This Is the place where tbe annnal commencement exercises, as we would say, are held. Tho name there Is "commemoration." that is, com memoration of the bonefactors of the univer sity and founders of the colleges, solemnly made upon this occasion. It is a great round building with several tiers of galleries, and is crowded once a year with the students of the University and the great men and fair women of England. From the roof there is a fine view of Oxford. A Magnificent Library. 'The library is that fine collection of books which Is known as the Bodleian. Every publisher in England sends to the Bodleian Library a copy of every book he publishes. So that of modern books, good, bad and indiffer ent, there is creat store. And there aro many old books also. There would bo more, but for the zeal of the Reformers. Tho Reformers were hunting heresy. A book which taught heresy was to them like a garment tainted with the yellow fever. Away with it, burn it! There were two particularly contagious kinds ol heresy wbich they were after. One was Ro manism, the other was magic. But who could read all the books in the Bodleian Library? Not even the zeal of a Reformer could compass that. So they went along the shelves, looking into the great volumes at the rate ot a oooca minute, as tho curate and the barber exam ined the library of Don Quixote, and when they found a book with red letters in it. tbey said. Here is Romanism," and when they found a book with geometrical diagrams in it. they said, "Hero is magic!" And out went the books to tho bonfire. And so, much that was valuable perished. The most Interesting thing wbich 1 saw in tbe Bodleian was a bit oi burnt paper, a roll of charred parchment, brought from Herculaceum, written over once with Latin letters, but now inscribed "Vesuvius, his mark," blackened by that fatal ram of red-hot lava. Tho University chnrch of Oxrord is St Mary's. Here, Irom time immemorial, the university sermons bave been preached. Here the Bampton lectures are delivered. These lectures, provided for by a bequest or the Rev. John tBamptoo. have been given every year for more than a century, upon some toplo of theology. A full set ot tbem has recently been purchased ror the Brewer Alcove ot the Mer cantile Library. Nobodv will ever read them. but what a significant history might be read even in their titles! What a record of the con troversies and changing interests and growth and advancement ot theology. For 20 years the vicar of St Mary's was John Henry New man. I was at Oxford the Sunday before he was burled, and was at service in this church, whlcn win always do associaieu wuu uia iuc St Mary's is a queer church, divided like a cathedral into two parts, choir and nave. Simplicity of the Celebration, is the choir and chancel they have the com- munion service: In the nave the preaching services. The seats in the nave are set length wise, like choir stalls, with the pulpit down about tbe middle of the church on one side, as in tbe Cathedral at Antwerp. I was greatly interested m tbe simplicity of tbe celebration of the Holy Communion. Hero in St. Mary's began that groat religious revival, which has dignified the worship of all Protestant Christendom and given new meanings to the word "reverence." The best of It has become a pa-t or our Christianity, while its non essentials and extravagances are passiuc awav to-dav in that gorgeous sunset or green and purple vestments, and clouds or incense, which we call "ritualism." But Newman and Pusey and Keble were none of tbem ritualists. The yearlings of tho divinity schools know more than those unlearned saints did about the mysteries of ecclesiastical dressmaking. And St. Mary's is as simple in its ritual as one could wish. Surplice for chasable, bread for wafer, flesh stole instead of sections of rain bow, and the north end of the altar instead or tho "eastward position," characterized tho service as I saw it In general plan, the colleges of Oxford are all alike. Everjone of them is liko a coat turned inside out They have their backs to the street You go underneath a great arched gateway and come into a fair green quadrancle and there are the live fronts of the building fanne this inner equare. Sometimes out of this central quadrancle open three or four moro. Often there are smooth trim lawns and shady gardens. There are two rivers in Oxford, the Isls and tbe Cberwell. Christ Church College with its "Broad Walk" is beside the Isis tho meadows of the Werton and the water walks or ilaedalen border upon the Cberwell. Along these narrow rivers run the boats, whose oarsmen are makinc ready ror tbe races. There aro no adequate words for the venerable statellness of the college buildings, with tl.elr great walls, part green with ivy and part rown and grey with stone, with their five towers and carved and sculptured gateways. Of conrse, it was in vacation time when 1 visited Oxford, and it was a good deal like visiting a fine house in the absence of the owner. But here and there a gowned figure, with tasselled "mortar-board" on head, passed along tbe cloister ot somo silent and empty quadrangle or woke the echoes or tbe deserted Btairways. Ana one couiu. imagine ma crowus and stir of term time. And, anyway, thegbosts were all there. Tbe memoirs oi past days, or saints and scholars wto made these colleges their home, were all there. They tako no vaca tion. Tho Dlning-Room and Chapel. T? VERY college, besides its dormitories, has a chapel and a halU In tbe chapel tbe dally prayers are said. The hall is the college dining-room. From the outside you caa scarcely tell which building was erected ror devotion andwhich ror dinner. Ono looks as ecclesias tical as the other. Tbe dining-room is like the refectory of a monastery, tbe windows of stained glass and the celling or carved oak. Alon" the walls are hung fine paintings or the faces'of great men ot the college, an inspira tion one would think, to the young men who dally sit beneath tbem. The tables for tbe stu dents are set lengthwise along the hall. The "fellows" sit at a crosswise table on a raised platform. At Christ Chnrch College I saw tbe kitchen, built by Wolsey, an imposing struc ture with a fireplace as big as a small house. Beside these features, whicn are common to all tbe colleges, eacb has its own peculiar inter est and beautv. At Christ Church, in the bel frey hangs "Great Tom," the big bell on which even to-day tbey ring the curfow every nlcbt at fivo minutes atter 9 o'clock. Great Tom rincs a hundred and one. That was the num- made. And It still means that every scholar in tbe college mnst hear the last stroke or that creat bell from within tbe great gates,not from t!.l.hnn At Maffdalen far Mandlen- as they I call ltTis) the stately tower.the glory of Oxford, - .,.- tlnff a hvmn with th. -linff Tin In wnere mcj oiuh .,., n,.u ...w -.-.- -r ---the sky. at 5 o'clock in the morning, every May day. And In the quadrangle is the creat stone pulpit, out iu the open nlr. where tbey used to nave a sernioiipreached upon tbe annual festi val day ot St John Baptist, with the walls and windows of tbe college building decked with green boughs to represent tbe Jordan wilder ness. At Keble college Is the original ot Hoi man Hunt's familiar picture, 'The Light of the World." At New College are the mostbeanti f nl stained windows in Kngland. tbe christian graces, designed by Sir Joshua Reynolds. A Bit of Ancient History. "-THERE are two buildings in Oxford which belong not only to lhe university, but to the town. Tbeso are the cathedral and the castle. Here at Oxford, more than a thousand years ago, a saxon maiden, named Frldeswytfe found ed a nunnery for holy women. Tbe wooden buildings thrust up their plain roofs amid tho trees, and beside the pleasant rivers, and all about was marsh and forest Gradually a little town grewun around the religious bouses, and was madestrong'and fortified. By and by the Danes came following the Thames banks, looking for plunder, and there were fights at Oxford. One time the defeated Danes rushed for safety into St Frideswyde's Church, and the English shut to the door and made it fast, and set fire to the wooden chnrch and bnrned it, and the Danes together. You can look back through the long curtains, and see the red banners of that fierce fire. Tbe straggling streets about tbe 6hurch are filled with shout ing, turbulent crowds orancry men, dressed in vivid reds and blues, with gold chains about tbeir sunburned necks, with battle-axes slunsr across their backs, and short swords ready in their hands; and within are the imprisoned Danes, sufferlnc the vengeance oflre. There is an old sbrlne or St Fndeswyde in the cathedral, tbe smallest cathedral in England, wbich stands perhaps upon mat very spo. Then came the Conqueror.and the castle was built There is still a great, strong, solitary tower standing. Tntn rhis nnrfont D-rfnrd. where the CaStlO stood at one end of tbe town and the cathedral at the other, scholars began to come in the thirteenth century. That was one of the most notable centnrles in modern history. The crusaders had stirred np everybody in Europe. All people were eagsr for new things. Back came the crusaders, bringing strange stories ot strange countries; and some of them brougbt books. And men began to read these books. And new ideas began to break tbe intellectual mo notony of the Middle Ages. And schools began to multiply. In France spranc up tbo Univer sity of Paris; in England, the University ot Ox ford. The roads were thronged with pilgrims, men and boys in mean attire, seeking these abodes of learning. Beginning of a New Era. 'That was bad for two great powers of the day, one social, tbe other religious; bad for feudalism, bad for ecclesiasticism. Men were brought 'together from many different coun tries, and the old feudal barriers began to be toppled over. A standard was set up in wbich wealth and position counted for nothing, and tbeKingwasthe "kenning." the man who kens, or knows. And men bezan to think. And when men cot to thinking they couldn't Keep within tbe narrow ways which were set down on the ecclesiastical maps and charts. They branched out and adventured after new truth. Everywhere in Paris yon seo three words writ ten together upon the public buildings, and tbe monuments, and the store fronts, till you weary of the sight of them. The words are "Liberty. Equality. Fraternity." Here and in England we do not notice so much display or the words, but we think wo have seen more or the blessed realities which tbe words stand for. It is well that we shonld remember that this great mod ern movement, which more than anything else differences the nineteenth century from tbe Middle Aces, began, at least in part, in the Uni versity of Oxford. G. H. OHIO'S BOUNDARY UNE. Serious Results of a Recent Decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. Columbus. Nov. 30. Last May the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case which may lead to the most serious conse quences to all the towns in this State situated upon the Ohio river, and particularly to the clt; of Cincinnati. It was in a suit between Kentucky and Indiana, as to jurisdiction over Green River Island, and In wbich the court gives the island to Kentucky, and it does so on the ground that Kentucky Is entitled to the Ohio river along her border clear across the low-water mark on tbe north side. This title of Kentucky's comes through Virginia. Both Governor Campbell and Attorney General Watson agree in their estimate ot the immense importance ot this decision, to wbich their attention Ins just been officially called. On Monday Mr. Watson will go to Indianapolis and have a conference with ex-Senator Mc Donald, who was one of Indiana's counsel in the suit jnst decided; then Mr. Watson will go to Washington and anply to tho United States Snpreme Court for permission to interplead in Ohio's behalf. From the records and decision in the Green River Island case, decided last May. it appears that the historical negations set np by Vinton. Chase and by other eminent lawyers and pub licists against Virginia's claims have never been presented to the consideration ot the United States Supreme Court In Ohio's favor it will oe nrced that she has never acquiesced in the claims oi Virginia or oi Kentucky and West Virginia, as would now be. or admitted tbe doctrine laid down by Chief Justice Marshall. H'CLTJEE FOE CLEVELAND. Ho Says tho Ex-President Will Bo Nomi nated Regardless or New York. FP1CCIAI. TXLEGKJI.M TO im DISFATCR.1 Philadelphia. Nov. SO. Colonel McClure, in bis leading editorial in the Times, will say to-morrow that If tho Democratic National Convention had to meet at this time or at any time in tbo near future to select a candidate for President, it would nominate Grover Cleveland by a practically unanimous vote out side of New York, and it would nominate him quite as enthusiastically and overwhelmingly if New Yiirk were against him as ir New York favored him. The swift mutations of Ameri can politics might make Mr. Cleveland less available, or soiup other man more available, 18 months bence, but it is not probable. It was Grover Cleveland who defined, so sharply that none could misunderstand it, the issue of op pressive taxation of the peoplo in tho interest of monopoly greed, and it was Grover Cleve land wbo commanded the trust of his people by his implacable hostility to jobbing profli gacy. The people want tax and Ifcxriff rerorm: they want ballot reform: tbey want civil service re form; they want honest government, and New York leaders who now malignantly revilo Mr. Cleveland aro daily teaching the necessity of his nomination. Unless Inconceivable chances in the political situation shall occur within the next yi.ar, Grover Cleveland will be nominated and elected President In 18B2, and be will be nominated and elected uitbout even the trouble ot an inquiry as to whether New York shall be for him or against him. Tho Political Situation. 1'rom the New York bun.l Class movements in America, tho banding together at mechanics, manufacturers, or land cultivators, do not generally survive more than one victory or ono defeat. That of 1S90 may have more of peril to tne Democrats, whom it seems to favor, than to the Republicans, to whom apparently it is rao3t an taconlstic, be cause tbe former may misunderstand its mean ing, and the latter evidently do not intend to. The New Indian Messiah. The number ol Harper's Weekly, issued on December 3. will contain an article on "The New Indian Messiah." by Lieutenant Marion P. Maus, Aide de Camp or General Miles. It will be illustrated by a double-page picture of 'The Ghost Dance," drawn by Frederick Remington, who also contributes pictorial and literary sketches in regard to the concentration of troops at the Indian Agencies, drawn from his personal observation and experience. The Great African Trade. From the Pall Mall Badcet.l Two or three English ships leave the West Coast weekly with cargoes worth from 200.000 to 300,000. These figures may seem large, but with palm oil at 10 a ton, and with a cargo of 1,000 tons, you account at once for 10,000. India rubber, even in the condition it is at ptesent exported, fetches from 200 to 300 per ton, and when perfectly pure it is worth 500 a ton. The Effects of Arbor Day. From the I'hiladelphia Record. J An Arbor Day is now a national Institution almost as firmly established as Thanksgiving Dav. tbe cumulative effect of its general ob servance in the course of years, say in another decade, should tell not only on the frequency of rainfall the country over, but on tho char acter of the climate in general, and therefore on the public health. Street Can at Night, From the New York World. The suit brought against the Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad Company for failing to run cars at night, has been gained. Judge Goidf ogle decided against the road, and declared its grounds of defense untenable. Tho Shipyards or Maine. From tbe Kennebec Journal. A review of this season's work in tho ship yards of Ualoe is a gratifying exhibit. In tbe 12 districts there bave been built a total of Ho vessols, with an aggregate tonnage ot 61,881. CUEI0DS CONDENSATIONS. Of the307 membeTsof the Stenographers' Association of New York 200 aro women. The microscope shows human hair to be like a coarse, round rasp, with irregular, rag ged teeth. The United States has already referred 33 international disputes to arbitration during the present century. Someone with a fondness for statistics has discovered that the average man drinks 175 hogsheads of liquids dunnc the course ot his lifetime. According to the assertion of the emi nent physiologist. Sappy, the stomach contains 5.000,000 glands by which the gastric juice Is secreted. Labor is cheap in Ceylon. The coolies there can live on SI. or 4 shillings, a month, and are clad to get L cents (about Oil.) a day for their work. An American lady has a brass bed stead inlaid with real pearls. Across tbe top runs a brass rail, on which tbe owner's bame is wrought in pearls. Investigations in Switzerland go to show that on an average students are the tall est men. and the shortest are the tailors and workers m factories. Beggary has been reduced to an art as well as a profession in Rome. In a recent case before tho police an old man admitted that he had as many as 60 lives in dally use. Mr. Gotschalk, or New York, owns the only genuine and perfect holy shekel in the world. Tbe interestinc relic is about 3.100 years old, and was used in King Solomon's temple. Where soil is exposed to the direct ef fect of the sun's rays and unobstructed sweep ofthewlnds.it loses from six to ten times more water by evaporation than when covered by forest growth. All dainty women are fond of scent. Some of tbem use it very extravagantly. They saturate their dresses with perfume, so that when they are taken out of the wardrobe they are as fragrant as a bank or violets. In France at presenUbere are 2,000,000 households in which there has been no child; " Knn (OO In which there was one child: 2.300.000. two children; 1,500.01)0. three: about LOOO.OOO, tour: 5.50,000. Ave; 330.000, six, and 200,000, seven or more. The Biblical Society of London an nounces that if - in its possession a papyrus manuscript whit., is in the handwriting of the great Apostle St Peter. They claim that S100, UOO offered for the manuscript by another British society was refused. Venire is one of the poorest cities in Italy. It has 110.0C0 Inhabitants. Of these no less than 40,000 have their names inscribed on tbe books of the "Concregazione dl Carita" as recipients of relief: that is to say, nearly one fourtb of tbe population are paupers. A cork rope is one of the latest inven tions. It is made ot small corks placed end to end. and tbe whole covered with a braiding of cotton twine: over this is a coarser braiding in heavy strands. According to the inventory 1-inch thick rope will stand a strain of 1,000 pounds. The Dutch have an original way of col lecting the taxes. If, after due notice has been given, the money is not sent, the authorities Elace one or two hungry militiamen in the ousc, to be lodged and maintained at the ex pense or the defaulter until the amount of the tax is paid. France produces annually 20,000,000 tons ot coal, Germany, 70.000,000. England 105, 000.000. The annnal consumption in Germany i. : nm nnnmli for eacb individnal. in Franre L560 nonnds. and in Encland 7,100 pounds. In France wood and charcoal are tar more largely used than in England. It is said that out of every ten clerks, mechanics and men of moderate salaries who have bought homes Tor themselves in Chicago only three have succeeded in meeting the pay ments and eventually securinc a deed. The others have lost from S3U0 to 81,000 eacb, but ia most cases was their own fanlt Stanley says that certain portions of Africa will always be worthless on account of tbe ravages of the grasshoppers. In one in stance he saw a colnmn of young grasshoppers 10 miles broad by 30 lone marchins down a val ley, and when tbe grass was fired against them they were thick enongh to smother the flames, There are now in Paris 42,646 persons who claim tbe designation of "artist." They comprise painters, sculptors, designers, en gravers, wood carvers, painters on porcelain, also actors, sincers, musicians and public per formers of every grade. About 20,000. or nearly half the total number, belong to tbe fair sex. The most famous gems extant are, per haps, the Gemma Augustea in Vienna, a sar donyx nearly a quarter of a yard long, on which tbe triumph ot Augustus is cut in the rarest workmanship by Discorides, or Rome. There are magnificently cot antique amethysts, though rock crystal was, and is. mainly used for vases and cups. In Africa the date famishes food not only for man, bnt for tbe camel and the horse. For tbe latter purpose tbe stones are used in many parts and are said to be more nourishing than the trult itsolf. Tbe Arabs make a creat variety of dishes or which dates form the chief part or the sap of the tree palm wine is pre pared, and the young leaves are eaten like cab bage. Almost every typewriter sooner or later has trouble with her eyes. The typewriting machine is supposed to save the eyes, but tho effect Is quite the contrary. The eyes are all tbe time in motion while writing, and the rapid jerking ot tbe eyo rrom ono point to another on the little keyboard soon tires the muscles and makes tbe eyes and sometimes tbe whole head ache. The Chinese law imposes no disqualifi cations on sex, except in so far as they are necessitated by family institutions. Daugh ters, for instance, do not inherit, as the law giver did not wish that tbe possessions of a family should be scattered; it is obvious, there fore, that marrisges formonoy do not exist in China. A wife can alienate, buy, or otherwise dispose of property, to the same extent as is in the power or the husband. A company has been organized for tha manufacture of soap from corn. It will be con trolled by Council Bluffs capital. From ex periments made during the past week it has been ascertained that tbe new soap can be put on tbe maritei ior ies man u -"- - It is made wholly of corn and alkali, and one bushel of com makes 100 pounds ot first-lass wasbinc soap. It Is claimed by the gentlemen embarking in tbe business tbat;tho finest toilet soaps can be made. FROLICS03IE FANCIES. A great deal of attention is just now belnj attracted to Succl. the faster. But after all. what is there really In him?-PAJfadIpftfa Inquirer. "Papa," remarked Johnny, "I should like to be a pirate when iKrowup." Allrixht, my boy." returned the old gentleman, "we will potyoulacharze of the humorous column on a relhcioas newspaper. "Xtw lorn Sun. "Great joke about the height of the Mc Klnleybll!, isn't It?" "What?" That all wanes are hire In consequence." Philadelphia Tvntt. Tenderfoot I hope you never go so far al to lynch peoole In these parts? , Arizona Citizen Xo, we draw the line at that Sea Xork Press. That woman who found a thief under the bed deserves the unanimous condemnation of every husband In the land. After centuries of fruitless search the laalcs who own us were easing off a little, and now the whole thing is to be dons over. Keio lork World. Tanning being now done by electricity, mlschlevuus small boys should take notice that a cheap and efficient dynamo's being prepared to which a slipper or other Implement can be at tached for spanking purposes. -Yew York Telt gram. "I hear the Socialists held a pretty lively meetlnc last sight. Tbe paper says 3,000 of 'a rent the air with cries for rerorm.'' "Jnst like those Socialists. After abolishing Incomes on land they go to work and rent the air." -Veto i"or Press. Bingo Dear roe, I'm tired. My wife got me np at 8 o'clock th's morning. Klnitley-Wbatdld she get you up so early toil Blnjro bhe wanted to catch the noon train. Sew Xork Sun. I "It's a most remarkable thing," said Stnithcrs, "but 1 never set foot In that place with out there being a verv disagreeable Pe"JJ '"J lde." And Hmltbers wondered why hl meaas lauched so InrernaUy much. Stw Xork Press. In, Illinois a man has been fined $1,500 for kissing a woman against her will, and an Ohio court bas punished a man to the tune or 15.00U for a similar offense. Now, this is out rageous. When these men were infants think .or the women who kissed thcin ajralnst tlielr will: And when a man grows np shall be be lined ir be attempts te retaliate? Mo, atbousand times not No. men and brethren. Insist upon Justice, upon the righteousness of lex tallonU as applied kk kUllili ""'"'f tVI AIUIHVI1'IS r jifcSii..j rJJ&- -&i..-".k . . aagaaaagffia bS
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers