THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAT. DECEMBER 7, ' 1890.
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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY", DEC. 7, 1890.
ORGANIC INDISCRETION.
Are not oar esteemed cotemporaries, the
Kepubican organs, committing a vital in
discretion in exclaiming over the action of
the Farmers' Alliance Convention against
the Federal elections bill, as a proof that the
Alliance is only a mask for the Democratic
party? It seems that the action of such a
body on a question concerning which all
citizens of the United States have the right
to express an unprejudiced opinion, might
be treated with a little more wisdom than is
expressed by the attempt to drive a large
independent body of voters in the Demo
cratic ranks.
The action of the Alliance, like the re
cent elections, is an expression of public
opinion. Both are harmonious to the decla
ration that legislation for the purpose of
keeping one party in power, and designed
for special application to one section, can
not expert popular support. An intelligent
perceDtion of public opinion, and its neces
sity in carrying out national legislation,
would indicate the propriety of giving
some heed to such evidences of popular
disapproval of the Reed Etyle of perpetuat
ing party supremacv by act of Congress. In
stead of that, the Republican organs are
uniting in the declaration that the Farmers'
Alliances are Democratic, which is about
the most foolish thing that can be done with
reference to the future of the party.
If the Farmers Alliance is Democratic
the Republican party is in the most hopeless
plight that any party has experienced for
many years. The organic attitude seems to
be that the rulers of the Republican party
do not want any Republican party at all un
less they can have the elections bill with it.
THE rATHI QUESTION".
Two very singular and yet entirely con
tradictory tests of the pow er of faith to pro
duce results apparently beyond the course
of nature, were brought out last week.
One ot them was the case of a colored man
who claimed that by miraculous power he
power he had been taught to read. The as
sertion is that he was entirely ignorant on
one day, but that by faith he was the next
day enabled to read the Scriptures.
"Whether the other two of the three R's were
also miraculously impressed on his mind, is
not stated, owing probably to the unscien
tific nature of the investigation of his case.
Opposed to this case, is the experience of
the Kansas missionaries who went into
"West Africa a few months ago, relying
solely upon faith to protect them against, or
cure them if attacked by, any of the climatic
diseases of that unhealthy land. Four of
them have died by reason of their resolution
not to accept of any other treatment than
the faith cure. The Government of Sierra
Leone has concluded to interfere with such
attempts to demonstrate the power of that
doctrine. It is announced there that here
after white people in that country will,
when they are ill, be compelled by the au
thorities to accept the services of physicians.
The conflict of these two examples is ab
solute. If the power of faith can enable an
ignorant man to grasp, at a single stroke, all
the intricacies and arbitrary significances of
a system of printed language, it onght to en
able men to overcome the attacks of African
fever. Indeed, the latter is in the class of
ailments which ought, perhaps, be offset by
an exceptional strength of will and nerve
power. The experience of the missionaries
whose faith was certainly as devoted and
pure as any human being's could be, proves
that it is not wise to disregard human means
of meeting the dangers of an unhealthy cli
mate. It would be hazardous, however, to
conclude from the reported demonstration of
the power of faith that we can trust to that
supernatural instrumentality for the educa
tion and enlightenment of the ignorant.
ENTORCEVG THE LAW.
The indictment of railroad officials in
Chicago for granting rebates to favored
shippers of grain is an encouraging indica
tion that after words and grass have been
thrown at railroad abuses for something like
five years, the instrumentalities of the law
are going to follow the example of the old
man in the primer and resort to the harder
legal missiles of criminal penalties.
The evidence in these cases leaves no
doubt that railroad officials in Chicago have
been persistently violating the law, with the
evident expectation that they could nullify it
It is practically confessed that favoritism in
rates was granted by a method which was a
very shallow evasion of the law, and the plea
is made in mitigation that this was done only
because rivals were getting .secret rebates.
This is entirely beside the mark. In the first
place there isno necessity toprant special cuts
to meet rebates in favor of other people.
If the Burlington road wants to protect its
shippers against rebates to rivals, it can
do so by a general reduction. The fact that
it adopted the plan of paying a secret com
mission to a favored firm, seems, if the plea
is offered in good faith, to prove the inveter
ate tendency of railroad management toward
illegal methods rather tnan to conduct their
business on open and impartial methods.
If other railroad 'Officials than those in
dicted in Chicago have been discriminating
they should also be indicted without delay.
When we have laws on the statute book,
forbidding such perversions of chartered
powers they must be enforced without fear or
favor. The first step in the way of enforcing
the Inter-State Commerce law is a good one.
Although it has started late, it is to be
hoped that it will be followed up until the
railroads learn that the enactments of the
law are not passed merely for the inn of the
thing.
PUBLIC TOLICT AND THE SMOKE.
The events as well as the atmosphere of
the past month or two brine us face to face
with the prospect of a return of Pittsburg's
smoke. Having clung with our utmost
faith to all the assurances and indications
given in the early fall that a full supply of
gas would continue, the shutting off of the gas
from the mills and the consequent over
casting of our skies with leaden clouds, has
convinced us that though we may still hope
for a supply of gas for domestic consumption,
we can no longer rely upon natural gas in
the mills to keep our skies bright and our
city clean.
But it does not by any means follow that
we must submissively accept the return to
the days of smoke and griminess. Pittsburg
has had the benefit of some years oi ex
perience on the benefits of freedom from
smoke. Since 1885 instead of being
the smokiest of American cities, we
have rejoiced in a clearer atmosphere than
most of other Western ciiies; and we have
learned from actual observation what a vast
difference it makes in city improvement.
We have seen what an impetus it gives
to the erection of handsome build'ngs, the
ornamentation of residence streets, to know
that the improvements will not at once be
made dingy with smoke. We have learned
that the trade in books, pictures and fine
merchandise is capable of the greatest ex
pansion when articles of artistic value and
fine fabrics are not subject to a depreciation
of forty per cent from soiling after they have
been kept in stock for six months. Above
all we have learned the vast difference it
makes when the attractions of life in a city
are sufficient to keep the residents after they
have retired from active business life, in
stead of being such that people work
until they have made money, and then leave
to spend the money elsewhere. After such
experience of the great commercial as well
as social valne of freedom from smoke we
should not permit it to escape from us with
out public and organized efforts to preserve
them by such means as can be brought
within our reach.
Two lines of action are open to Pittsburg
in its effort to prevent the permanent return
of its smoky era. One is v establish the
general and compulsory use of smoke con;
turners wherever bitnminous coal is burned.
The other is to advance by all the means
within the power of public organization the
use of fuel gas in all the mills, as well as
to prepare that supply for domestic con
sumption if the natural supply should con
tinue to diminish. The first method, of
coarse, contemplates the imposition of pen
alties for the use of bituminous coal in a
way that clouds the atmosphere. This is
within the prpper sphere of municipal gov
ernment. It was contemplated in Pittsburg
before the gas era, and has been put into
practice with greater or less success in other
coal-burning cities.
But there is an undoubted advantage in
the resort to methods which will not annoy
the manufacturing industries that form
the foundation of our prosperity, or
increase the premiums already unwisely
created, on locating industries outside
of the city. That danger may
not only be avoided, but there is a possibil
ity of the premium being reversed by sys
tematic effort to develoD the production and
use of cheap manufactured gas. If the
claims made some time ago for certain pro
cesses in turning out cheap gas at from four
to six cents per tbonsand had been well
founded, there would be no need of offering
inducements for their adoption. Bat the
ability to produce gas being demonstrated
and the fact being well known that the
surest way to secure the cheapening of any
product is to test its economies in actual
practice the thing for Pittsburg to do is to
stimnlate the adoption of fuel gas processes.
It would be well worth the money if a pub
lic fund should be established to give a prize
of thousands of dollars for every fuel gas
process which in extended operation can pro
duce gas as cheaply as ten cents per thousand.
The city should be liberal in franchises
which will permit manufactured gas com
panies to distribute their product to the best
advantage. It should not give its franchises
so as to favor a monopoly, but shonld form
them on tbe plan of permitting everyone,
who can manufacture fuel gas the easiest ac
cess to those who will consume that fuel.
By an organized effort in this direction, it
is possible that Pittsburg can secure for her
industries as marked an advantage in the
use of fuel gas as they had four years ago in
the use of natural gas.
The public duty in view of the gathering
smoke clouds is as indicated above to dis
courage the wasteful and smoky methods of
burning coal, and to encourage the use of
fuel gas. The vast importance of keeping
away the smoke certainly calls for the
earnest use of every possible means of con
tributing to that end.
KOCH'S CUBE INDORSED.
The indorsement of the Koch consump
tion cure by Sir Morell Mackenzie, news of
which the cable brings to us to-day, is of
the greatest significance. Mackenzie's ap
proval is unqualified, and as it is based
upon actual experiments with Dr. Koch's
lymph conducted in London, it is the most
important confirmation the discovery has re
ceived outside the German Empire. Evidence
is accumulating to convince the world that
Dr. Koch has found a cure for a class of
diseases that have long afflicted the human
race. Dr. Mackenzie's position in the pro
fession entitles him to speak with great au
thority, and his emphatic and generous ad
mission of his German confrere's success is
in striking contrast to the carping criticism
of tbe French doctors.
THE REGULAR EXFERUN CE.
The experience of Columbus with natural
gas, as reported in a special published else
where, shows that city has reduplicated the
experience of Pittsburg. The gas business
"was commenced on the presumption that the
supply is inexhaustible. Contracts were
made in such form as to encourage the waste
of gas, and the methods of the business were
such that probably half the total' outflow
was thrown away. This class of methods
has resulted in the discovery that the supply
is failing, and first the mills, then steam
boilers, and finally the lareest furnaces, have
been cut off, while the price to domestic
consumers has gone up steadily. The main
difference between Columbus and Pittsburg
has been that wlii'e it took four or five years
to go through aat course here Columbus
has gone through it in half the time, and
has reached about the same stage that Pitts
burg has at preseut. Perhaps, by the time
that the gas companies and the public get
aroused to the value of economy in the use
of the fuel enough gas may be found to keep
up with a fairly economical consumption.
The Bank of England's reduction of its
discount rate to live per cent ought in time to
make things easier here. Tho monetary
squeeze, in London made itself felt In this
country, altbougb it took a couple of weeks for
tbe full effect to be felt. Tbe same lapse of
time onght to bring us the fall effect of the re
verse action. After the opening of the new
year, unless some new contingencies arise, it Is
to be expected that the money market will re
turn to its normal condition.
The report that the bottom dropped out
of an acre field belonging to Senator Ingalls, In
Kansas, lecently, may perhaps be taken as an
evidence that Senator Ingalls' real property
has become intectedby the failing of his- polit
ical belongings.
The report that Buffalo Bill intended to
capture Sitting Bull as a new feature ot the
Wild West show and was prevented from doing
so by the Government, may perhaps explain
tbe exceedingly gloomy view which he takes of
t lie Indian outlook after getting back from the
camp of the hostilcs. The tendency of hu
manity.to regard things as on the road to ruin
when its individual plans are interfered with,
applies to show managers as well as railroad
kings. t '
PITTSBURG yesterday demonstrated that
it has not lost its title of "the Smoky City."
How it will be before the demonstration is
made that wo can conquer tbe conditions
which give us that title is a vital question to
the public
The report of a famine" in Nebraska ap
pears to knock tbe underpinning out from the
argument of the President, that higher prices
for grain means prosperity to the farmers. The
Nebraska farmers who did not get more than
two bushels of wheat to the acre, will not recog
nize any very decided addition to their prop
erty in the fact that the wheat that thoy have
to buy for seed and to live on, has gone up 25
per cent
The Farmers' Alliance Convention took
strong ground for tho absolute prohibition of
lotteries. Let us hope that no party organs
will discover in this action an evidence that the
Alliance is only a cloak for the opposition
party.
It is interesting to learn that Congress
man Joe Cannon was eighteen years in the
House without ever introdnclng a public build
ing bill. If the public had known this sooner.
It might havo produced an overwhelming oat
side demand for his re-election. Bnt the fact
that he introduced one last week shows that he
has made up his mind to save what he can ont
of tbe wreck ot matter and the crash of
worlds.
Two more lives are likely to be added to
the list of the fatalities due to the Liberty
street fire. There is no lack of emphasis to
the demonstration of the need for stronger and
more fireproof construction.
By the way, the announcement that the
Pennsylvania Railroad will construct another
road along the line of the South Fenn road,
which, in language of tbe announcement, "tho
Pennsylvania Railroad now controls," may
suggest to the incoming administration a snit
requiring the Pennsylvania Railroad to show
by what warrant it ignores the constitution and
violates the injnnction of the courts.
It is not an encouraging evidence of the
corporate disposition toward progress to learn
that, after all that has been said and written on
the subject, the car stoye only goes when the
trains do.
It is interesting to learn from tbe financial
news in New York, with regard to tbe anthra
cite coal companies, that "a meeting has been
called at which it is expected that all will agree
to restrict production for December." The
light which this throws upon the degree of re
spect which the big corporations find it advisa
ble to pay to the Congressional enactment, is
instructive if not edifying.
Further remarks about the weather are
to be omitted. The English language fails to
supply adequate force or expression to charac
terize tbe last batch of it
The city officials are beginning to criti
cise each other on the subject of the appropria
tion ordinance with much the same savage
spirit as the African explorers' controversy
concerning tbe Emin Pasha expedition, or that
of the English and Irish leaders on the subject
of party harmony.
Perhaps politics and banking had better
be driven in separate harness for tbe future.
The news that the eastern rivers are
frozen solid indicates that the ice companies
will not have it all their own way next year.
But the blizzards have not yet come to Pitts
burg, to Ion er the pride and prices of our local
lords of the ice wagons.
PEBS0NAL MENTION.
Mrs. Harrison is busily engaged painting
little gifts to be sent to old friends at Christ
mas. They are principally flower pieces.
The death is announced of Mrs. Lemon,
widow of Mark Lemon, late editor of London
Punch. She had survived her husband 20
years.
Cedaeckoft, the home of Bayard Taylor,
will again come on tbe market in January,
owing to tbe death of its recent owner, tbe late
Dr. Levis. Mrs. Levis will make her future
home in this city.
Representative Lewis Stewart, one of
the new Illinois members of Congress, is a man
of many eccentricities of character. He has a
strong antipathy to stoves and carpets, and
there is not one of either In his fine Aurora
home.
Buffalo Bill's cattle ranch In Nebraska
embraces 3,000 acres, lying within three miles
of the town of North Platte. On one of the
larger buildings are painted in big white letters
the words, "Scouts' Rest Ranch." Altogether,
there are said to be 15,000 cattle on tbe grounds.
The proposition to remove General Grant's
remains frbm RlversideXPark to Washington
will probably come up in Congress within a few
days. ' The proposition is embodied in a resolu
tion which has already passed tbe Senate and
is now In the hands of Mr. O'Neill In the
House.
Bill Nye, the American humorist. In an
after dinner speech recently, said what thou
sands have thought, but hesitated to say. "Mr.
President and gentlemen." said Nye, "I don't
mind telling you in confidence that I am tired
of being invited to free dinners, only to be
called on to make a free Bpeech in payment
therefor. It is tiresome, and the compensation
is no equivalent for the mental and vocal
train."
Senator Pettiorew's pasture, where he
herds his buffalo. Is becoming qnite a natural
history museum, owing to the contributions of
various kinds that have been made to it He
has a black tailed deer and a white tailed deer,
a number of red deer, numerous prairie dogs
and three moose calves sent him about a year
ago from Lake of tbe Woods, by a noted North
west character named Jud LaMoore. The
moose are even more rare In this country than
the buffalo, and tbe Senator hopes to be ablo to
propagate the species.
Joaquin Miller's handwriting is said to be
most bewildering. A stereotypes who has
made the plates of several of Mr. Miller's
books, told me the other day that well schooled
as he was in the enormities of caligraphy, Mr.
Miller's was beyond his powers. On one occa
sion he went to interview Mr. Miller about a
certain word which he was unable to decipher.
The author looked at It very attentively, first
in ono'way, and then in another. Finally he
remarked. "Well, my dear sir, I'll be hanged
It I know myself what I mean. If you will
take a seat for a few minutes I'll substitute
something more intelligible." And he did.
THE .TOPICAL TALKER.
The Mud's Lesson.
Qveb the leafless trees -on the hillside hung
the mist Nature seemed to be in a brown
study. What was tot a dingy brown was cheer
less, uniform gray. Stayl the mud in the road
which wound river-ward from tbe scattered
villas UDon the hill was of a rich auburn tint
The two pedestrians who plodded slowly
through the mud noticed every time they raised
their feet that the mad was full ot color. The
mud was also tenacious: it clung to
the wayfarers' shots In a way that would have
been cheering bad real estate so acquired not
been valued at ridiculously low figures. They
did not talk much; walking monopolized their
attention. By and by as the day went on
they arrived at the railroad station, an am
bitious structure of four boards and a railing.
As tbey shooK and scraped the mud from
their feet they were scrupulously honest, you
will observe the younger and more athletic
traveler said: "I think tbe man who induced
you and me to build out here forgot to mention
one of the prominent advantages of a rural
residence!"
"Surely not!" said the other.
"Yes; for he might have said that altera
winter's acquaintance with au Allegheny
county road in its pristine glory tbe pavements
of Pittsburg would seem perfection!"
The Second Coarse.
'TTxe conversation had turned upon course
dinners, and some one had said that as
tbey had had soup, fish ought to be the next
course. Then by one of those sudden turns
conversation, so often takes tbe topic of the
Delamater failure came up. The little daughter
of tbe house broke in here with: "Papa. Dela
mater's in the" soup,' isn't Her' ' c
Papa admitted that the expression was in or
der. "Well, papa," continued Little Miss Bright
eyes, "he was in the soup before, not long ago,
wasn'thef" '
"Yes, my dear, I guess he was."
"Then," said she triumphantly, "he ought to
be in the fish this timer'
A Cruel Blow.
A Democratic Congressman traveled in the
same car with ex-President Cleveland from
Columbus to New York after the Thurman
birthday banquet last month. They were not
fellow-travelers in the ordinary sense of the
word, but after a while the Congressman went
forward and sat down beside Mr. Cleveland.
The Congressman had a hazy idea of making
himself agreeable, bnt he had an uncomfort
able feeling that his anti-Cleveland sympathies
were known to the big man beside whom he
sat Btill the influence of the Columbus love
feast was upon hlm.and he said unhesitatingly:
"Mr. Cleveland, I congratulate you on your
work in tho past you were a good President
andyonr administration one of the best tho
country's ever had."
A large smile stole over Mr. Cleveland's face
and stayed there while the Congressman went
on: "But, Mr. Cleveland, hadn't you better let
ltgoatthaK"
And the smila on the ex-President's face
faded out
Elevated Sidewalks.
(TIow would it do," said Robert Layton. the
United States Immigration Commis
sioner, the other night as he labored up stream
against the great flood of pedestrians on Fifth
avenue, "How would it do to have elevated
sidewalks In addition to those on a level with
the roadway? If Pittsburg's population
keeps on growing at the present rate the down
town streets will become so choked that
locomotion will be impossible. An elevated
sidewalk would double the store front space,
and afford a sheltered way in wet weather; It
could be graceful in design, and made acces
sible by elevators as well as stairways at suit
able intervals. At the principal crossings
bridges might be thrown over the street, thus
enabling pedestrians to avoid dangerous cable
and electric cars. In short, the scheme has so
many practical and beautiful advantages that
I feel I ought to hesitate in giving it to the
public gratis."
""Tiie cable last nigh t brought this bit of gossip
from London: "George R. Sims, England's
favorite writer of melodramas, has this week
confessed that during the past tea yearslhe has
received for only one of his numerous I plays
over $21,000 for the London rights; S33JXX) for
provincial rights; 60,000 from America and
$3,000. from Australia. Against this may be set
the fact that Henry Irving alone receives with
out asking about 300 so-called plays from
dramatic aspirants,- chiefly amateur, of course."
There are several interesting points about
Mr. Sims' confession. His extraordinary good
fortune has all come to him within ten years.
Somewhere about 1679 or JSSO he began to
be known as tbe writer of a lively department
in the sporting and theatrical paper published
on Sunday and called tbe Referee. The depart
ment had a piquant title, "Mustard and Cress"
and there was certainly more mustard than
anything else in it at first It was witty, too,
as well as audacious, and, unlike most English
newspaper literature, it was breezy and light in
touch. The consequence was that it caught on
to a prodigious extent and if it did not make
tbe writer rich and I believe Sims got but a
couple of guineas or so for the work at first it
made the Referee prosperous more than any
other part of it
Then Sims wrote a melodrama. It was, if I
recollect aright "The Lights o' London."
Anyway that was the play that gave him a hear
ing with the London theater goers and brought
the managers to him. It has been played here,
as have "Tbe Romany Rye" and other of Sims'
dramas, and the American public took kindly
to them all. Since then he has written in col
laboration with Pettit and others a nnmber of
melodramas, with varying degrees of success.
But tbey hare all been successful in a financial
way to the author.
Simply Brutal.
uVTOu have taken a severe cold." said the old
family doctor, "and it seems to have
settled in your throat."
"Yes, doctor, you see I can hardly speak,"
said the patient, a vivacious, bright-eyed young
womau.
'-Can you stand heroic treatment, do you
think?" asked the doctor.
"Try me!"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, anything you like: medicine, mustard
plasters, electricity, anything!" said she in a
breath.
"And you want to get back your voice!"
"Yesl"
"It's heroic treatment mind you."
"All right what is UP
"You mustn't talk at all for two days!"
Heprubn Johns.
Yale Graduates In Japan.
There are 60 Yale graduates in Tokio, Japan,
says the New York Tribune, a fact which
clearly indicates that Tokio is a lively and pro
gressive city in spite of its Oriental traditions.
Tbey are now about to form an alumni associa
tion, the result of which will probably bo that
Yale will loom np before tbe Japanese as the
one and only great American institution. The
next thing in order will be a Yale alumni din
ner in Tokio, with Chauncey M. Depew as the
principal orator.
Rare Musical Treat
The congregation it the Bellefleld Presby
terian Church will be treated to some cholco
music to-day. W. G. Carroll, of Louisville,
and a brother of R. W. Carroll, manager of the
American Tube and Iron Company of this city,
will play several cornet solos, of which instru
menthe is a thorough master. He will be as
sisted by J. E. Kurkamp, a well-known violin
ist also of Louisville, and Mr. Ernest Beatty,
the local organist
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Jonn Blschop.
Mrs. Margaret Blschop. wire of John Blschop,
died late Friday night at the age of 98 years. She
was one of tbe best-known old ladies of Alle
gheny. The funeral will occur to-morrow aitcr
noon from her late residence. No. a Union ave
nue, Allegheny.
George Miller.
rSrjSCIAI, TXLXOBAM TO IHK MSPATOH.1
Johhrtown, Dec. 8. George Miller, City
Treasurer, died here this afternoon. He has held
positions of responsibility with the Cambria Iron
Company, bnt on account or railing health, was
Induced to takcthls office with lighter duties.
Itev. J. C. White.
CufCTHNATL. Dec. 8. -The ltcv. J. a White, the
oldest Presbyterian minister In the city, died last
-eight aged 65 years. He had been stationed here
nearly SO years.
SCOTTISH NTJBSEBY S0NG8.
Their Wealth, of Wit and Wisdom Awaken
Echoes in Many Hearts.
The great, all-pervading theme of the Scottish
nursery songs is love for the bairn, says the
Scottish-American, As a general rule, tbe
words are put In the mouth of the mother, and
naturally her little one is the sweetest, prettiest,
best natnred, best bebaved, and in every re
spect tbe most wonderful wean tbe world ever
saw, If the toddler has faults the mother's
lovo looks upon them as virtues, and even
naughty little pranks and thongbtless mischiefs
are passed over with a kindly word.
"Mother's balrnle, mother's dawtle.
Wee, wee steering, stumping tottle,
Bonnie dreamer, guileless glee. "
Here is a wee chap who we suppose in reality
was a tumbling, fighting, mud-building,
greetln noisy ettercap, and yet in his mother's
eyes -he is a perfect paragon ot all the virtues:
Oor Tammy's Just as sweet a balm,
Asane could wish to see.
The smile aye plays around his lips
Wnile blythcly blinks his ee.
He never whimpers, greets nor glrns.
Even for a broken tae.
Bat rlns and gets it buckled np,
Bvne out again to play.
It Is said that the late Dr. Eadie's mother de
scribed him asiust tbe onnosite of the hern of
the above lines "a causeway saint and a hooso,
dell." bnt nnhnriv oIcm wnnln yva o-Arl t. env
so to her.
In these sweet songs tbe laddies do not come
in for all the praise, as tbe girls seem to be
just as precious to the mothers as tbe boys:
Hereen outshluc the violet;
Wat wi' the morning dew
In her bright face tbe graces meet
JSae rosebud era was half sae sweet
Wee Pecgle's kiss o' fondness
Delights balth auld and young:
And charming are the coning notes
That warble from her tongue.
But such a lassie as this is almost too good.
Here is another that somehow comes nearer to
our hearts:
Weeioukydaidles,
Toddlln' out and In;
Oh. bnt she's a cuttle,
Makln'slcadlnl
Aye sae fou o' mischief.
An' minds nae what I say;
My verra heart gangs loup, loup,
Fifty times a day. "
Weejonky daldles,
For a' yeglc me pain,
Te're aye my dariln' tottle yet
Mv ain wee wean!
An'gin I'm spared to ither days
Oh, may they come to nass!
I'll see my bonnle bairnle
A braw, braw lass.
CONCERNING MEN AND WOMEN.
Indications That Women Are Desirous of
Becoming Individuals.
We can notice everywhere, writes. T. W. H.
in Harper's Bazar, that man has taken the
lead, on the whole. In the process of social evo
lution, bnt that sooner or later woman has fol
lowed In each step. Thus a woman can now go
ahout the streets with a freedom which an un
armed man did not always enjoy. It is not 300
years since the toilettes of men implied as
much elaboration, as much expense, and as
much time as did those of women at the same
period, and far more than the toilettes even of
refined women now consume. Men have reduced
all that magnificence to a simple working cos
tume, varied by an evening dress suit ot plain
black, and tbe great mass of women now tend
in the same direction. Even the dangber
of lnxnry lays aside splendor for her tennis
dress. Any great change, within tbe limits of
morality, that comes over tbn social habits of
men is sure to be reflected a century or two la
ter in those ot women. It is a curious fact
pointed out by philologists that many of the
terms now most often applied to women were
once applied with equal freedom to men, as
girl, hoyden, shrew, coquet, witch, termagant,
jade, all of which have now passed out of use
except for women. It is, I believe, the same in
French with tbe word dame. Now the same
thing that has gradually happened to
'these words has taken place with
many social usages tbat have been wholly
changed for men, and only partially changed
for women; but they are undergoing the altera
tion nevertheless. Women are no longer ex
pected to be wholly absorbed in tbelr home
duties any more than tbey are expected to go
veiled in the street Indeed, a larger part of
those home duties have been taken from them;
they are not expected to do any more spinning
or weaving, tor instance, and tbe time which
that once cost, if it is not to be wholly wasted,
may well go to tbe cultivation of their own
minds and the healing of tbe world's sorrows.
They have ceased to be mere dependents or ap
pendages, and there is nothing left for them
but to go on and be Individuals.
KO OFFICES WANTED.
The Only Thing That Mr. Magee Requested
of the Governor-Elect
From the Mew Yjorc i'ress.l
While talking with C. L. Magee, of Pittsburg,
about the recent Pennsylvania campaign, he
said to me: "Pattison didn't make a mistake in
tbe whole course of his canvass. He knew
where his Republican support was coming
from, and he never said a word that his Re
publican supporters conld take offense at.
When tho Democratic national leaders wanted
to fill the btato with Democratic speakers be
cause Blaine and other Republicans were an
nounced to speak on tbe Republican side, he
refused to allow a single speaker to come into
the State. This is a local and not a national
fight' ho told them. I think I know how to
win it In any event, if I do not win it I am tbe
one that will suffer, and I propose to have my
own way about it If you send Southerners in
here the bloody shirt will wave against me. If
you send Northern Democrats In here the
tariff will swamp me. I am running a State
fight and don't want any outside interference.'
Have I seen him sinco election? Ob, yes, and
preferred my one request for his considera
tion. I asked him to promise me that he
would bot appoint a single Republican to office.
I don't-want' the country to think that tbe
Republicans who supported Pattison supported
him to get offices."
WOODS OF N0KTH AMERICA.
A Remarkable and Very Nearly Complete
Collection in New York.
From-the Hew York Star. 3
"There is tbe man who makes trees," Is the
way Superintendent Wallace of the Metro
politan Museum of Natural History describes
S. A. Dill, who has for the past nine years been
with the Museum collecting and preparing for
exhibition tbe various species of woodof North
America.
He is as much of an enthusiast over trees as
the donor of tbe collection, Morri3 K. Jessup.
His day dreams are of trees, and he wastes tbe
midnight oil In the study of trees. Through
his researches specimens ot trees supposed to
have been entirely extinct have oeeu found
and mounted.
It is claimed now that the collection at tbe
Museum contains specimens of the wood of
every tree grown between tbe Rio Grande and
Hudson Bay, with four or five exceptions.
Let Him Come In.
New York World.
Why should not the brother in black have a
place at tbe World's Fair? For the best part
of a century be was tbe axis on which this
country revolved. His presence made tbe
South and bis absence made tbe West; bis
labor hasf enriched the North, and his wrongs
have been the standing solace of that East
which is never happy unless calling attention
to some one else's sins. Talk of Grant and
Lincoln, of Jackson and Lee who made them
but our friend in sable with the corrugated
hair? Behold in blm the father of the tariff
and tbe corner-stone of the pension list Great
in philosophy as in statecraft, he sat snugly at
home strumming his banjo while the white
trash perforated each otber, and when the per
foration was over stepped to the front like a
little man and, giving each side a shell, took the
oyster himself.
A Flag Presentation.
Tbe flag presentation at Margaret A. Da
Shane Council, D. of L.,Thursday evening, was
an affair of considerable interest Tbe National
Councilor, J. W. McCleary, was present and in
an appropriate address presented a handsbme
flag, the gift of tbe lady members, to tbe coun
cil. Mrs. L.M. Huff responded pleasantly on
bebalf of the council. Both speakers were
listened to with much interest A programme
of well-chosen musical and literary selections
was also presented.
Literary Characteristics.
From the London Saturday Review.
One of the mam characteristics of the pres
ent literary period appears to be the demand
for books which contain in a very narrow com
pass an amount ot information which really
can only be acquired by a much greater ex
penditure of time and thonght than is Involved
in the perusal of a short handbook.
No More WhUtHng.
Tbe locomotive whistle must go, announces
the Philadelphia Inquirer. There are plenty
of otber ways of making signals that do not dis
turb tbe public. And the lams maybe said of
the factory whistle.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Changes In the Newspaper Business Within
a Quarter of a Century A Keystone
State Legislator Makes a Mistake The
Football Craze in New York.
tFKOH A STAPr COKIlESrONDBNT.I
'TTniRTT odd years have flown since a small
boy, barefooted and the possessor ot one
suspender which was fastened with a nail, with
hands and face smeared with printer's ink. I
stood on an empty shot-box, roller in hand, and
assisted in getting out a newsnaper. Though I
was only a "sub" the thrill of self-conscious im
portance that ambled up and down my youth
ful back upon tbat occasion will never be for
gotten. That old Washington hand press
seemed to me a living thing. Since that time I
have been identified with the newspaper busi
ness, with brief relapses, bat the constant and
rapid improvement In mechanical appliances
in this particular field have been tbe more in
teresting to me because of that early
experience. Ten years later I sat up
all night in the great pressroom
of tbe New York Htrald to witness
the operation of getting out a metropolitan
newspaper in the highest style of tbe art
Those gTeat eight otten-cyIinder presses stood
in an Immense cellar, 30 feet below ground, in a
grand imposing row of complicated steel. Tbe
small army of feeders with tbelr stocks of cut
sheets occupied little Iron platforms one above
another, and the crash and clatter ot tbe ma
chinery In motion shook the earth for a block
around. Another army of folders and paper
carriers and stereotypers,pressuien's assistant",
etc., made up a formidable array of busy work
ers, while a hundred newsboys, on whom tbe
paper chiefly depended for its circulation, slept
among the paper bundles and wante. The
place was lichted by gas and bot to suffocation.
Tbe outfit was then tbe best aud most ex
pensive that could be obtained, and tbe system
was tbe most complete that experience and
money could suggest and buy. To me it seemed
impossible then that the work ot and appli
ances for getting out a great newspaper could
be improved upon. Tbe other night, with
many otber invited euests, 1 stood In the great
pressroom of the TTorW, in its new home, ap
propriately at the foot of tbat other triumph
of human progress, the Brooklyn bridge.
Twenty-two years bad elapsed, and the contrast
of methods and machinery was, to me as great
as when I sat up that night in tbe Herald
Fressroom and thought of tbe old band press,
t would be just as impossible to get out the
Sunday edition of to-day by the means of 20
years ago as it would have been tben to do the
work of the Herald. on old Washington hand
presses, Tbe little compact machines that oc
cupy no more space than a country jobber,
print from a continuous roll and cut aud fold
as fast as you can count seem to be tbe very
acme of mechanical ingenuity and skill. A
dozon of these machines doing this at once
makes less fuss, sputter and noise than a single
old fashioned ten cylinder. Thev alone make
such a journal as those of New York possible.
And these modern presses form only a part of
tbe newspaper. Tbe pressroom is a model. As
ligbtas day by electricity, roomy and well
ventilated, it makes the life of a pressman
tolerable. The same thing may be said of the
Btereotypers' department, a rare thing in any
newspaper office these men usually labor in a
deathly hole not unlike that in the bottom of
an ocean steamship. Aside from all other con
siderations the designer of tbe new newspaper
quarters has apparently considered the ques
tion of the health and comfort of its employes,
especially those who labor ltb their hands. If
anybody is crowded it is tbe editor and re
porter. Indeed, I think this Is a conspicuous
feature of the Pulitzer building so far as the
newspaper quarters are concerned, though tbe
appointments in every respect are thorough,
handsome and substantial. When tbe paper
sets up Its 100 Rogers typesetting machines it
will be one of the most conspicuous sights of
tbe metropolis.
That Baby Hippopotamus.
There is one man, at least, In Central Park
who is still making money notwithstanding
the close of tho season. He is tbe keeper of
tbe building in tbe zoo which contains the
baby hippopotamus. For some days after tbe
birth of this curious little beast and while tbe
papers were full of him tbe authorities very
properly barred visitors. Otherwise there
would have been a mob, and this mama hippo
wonld probably have resented. There was a
question as to whether be could be "raised,"
as it was. After awhile confidence was
partially restored In tbe latter respect, and it
was decided that a few people might be ad
mitted at a time. This was several weeks ago.
Since that the man In charge has used his
discretion in tbe matter, his discretion being
extended to tbe probable tips. To ordinary
visitors this part of the zoo has not yet been
open. Where the party is pressing and prom
ises money the doors open as if by magic In
asmuch as the same building contains tbe
rhinoceros, tbe lions, tigers, leopards, pumas,
etc., about 'the best of tbe Central Park col
lection, the disappointment of those who go to
the zoo just now is great Those admitted are
usually perfectly willing to give the keeper
a quarter, nnder tbe circumstances, but it Is a
trifle hard on poor people and others who do
not know tbe ropes. Every time I have been
In the building that thrifty keeper has scooped
Jl or more out ot the small party and as tbese
parties succeed each otber every few minutes
on Sundays this park official must turn a pretty
penny.
Brick Pomeroy Turns Up.
xHERE is to be seen on lower Broadway every
x day, a portly, well-dressed gentleman In a
slouched hat that covers a large and shining
bead, who has made a big stir in his time, but
who is lost in the general throng here among
ex-Presidents, ex-Cabinet officers, millionaires
and ex-millionaires, and otber big and little
people. This man is probably known to every
adult in tbe United States as "Brick" Pomeroy.
"Brick" changes very little with years, but is
the same jolly, good-natured, abstemious, cyni
cal gentleman of yore. He runs a paper called
Advanced Thought, and Is. as usual, consider
ably in advance of his constituency and age.
His real business, however, is the completion
of bis great project of boring a bole throngh
tbe Rocky Mountains, and his first and best ad
vanced thoughts are for the scheme. He has
a very pleasant home In Brooklyn, a happy and
charming wife and three of the loveliest chil
dren you ever saw.
A Pennsylvania Legislator's Mistake.
VXTe were coming out of the Eden Musee,
having watched tbe eccentric gyrations
of Otero, and were discussing her points.
There is an unusually fine display of wax
figures on either hand, and tbese are disposed
of in groups, or singly, in clothes character
istic of those tbey are made to represent So
life-like aro many tbat it requires familiarity
not to mistake them for living persons. To aid
this deception, very cleverly made figures of
policemen, visitors, etc., are interspersed here
and there, as at sucb places in Paris and Lon
don. A member of tbe Pennsylvania Legisla
ture was in our party, a bright handsome
young fellow, who had seen tbe great dancer
for the first time.
"She is no more to be compared with Car
mencita," said he as we passed out "than this
wax figure is with me."
The manner in which that supposed wax
figure, which proved to oe a well-known min-aoout-town,
turned upon the astonished and
embarrassed Pennsvlvanian was enough to
sbrivel up a cornfield. The polite apology
stuck in tbe innocent offender's throat and we
fled precipitately I may aad, in tears of exces
sive amusement
The Boys Owned New York.
'T'HE capacity of the boy of the period for en
joyment is practically unlimited. When
tbat boy is a collegian let loose for a day or
two's pleasure along with several hundred
others of the same ilk something has to give
'way or he'll burst That calamity was avoided
here during the recent football match by the
rest of society giving 'way. .If anybody had
told me that it was possible for five or six hun
dred boys between tbe ages of IS and 25 to over
run and take complete possession of a city like
New York for two days and nights. I should not
have believed it Yet tbat is just what these
young fellows did. They made New York
howl. It was generally good humored and un
accompanied by brawling, this pleasure, but it
upset tbe nerves of a good many people. A
shopkeeper on Broadway tells me he did
scarcely any business during the stay of the
students. Tbe performances at half a dozen
theaters were practically broken up two con
secutive nights. All tbe prominent bars bad to
be closed early in the evening to prevent riot
ing. In spite of all tbe fun and deviltry of the
boys tbe authorities looked leniently upon
them and made no arrests, while other people
made the best of it and smiled. i
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Newspapers That Die Early.
INHERE are probably SO alleged newspapers,
daily and weekly, now running in this city
tbat are almost wholly unknown to tho general
public; many of them never heard of outside of
New York. Thero are papers printed in as
many languages as are spoken on this conti
pent in the world right here in the metropo
lis. A number of these are daily newspapers
and have a large circulation among tbose in
whose Interest they are published. But there
are a good many printed in the English Ian.
euaee tbat would sound strangely, even to a
New Yorker, if mentioned. Most of these are
weeklies, though some are dally papers. Tbey
spring up somewhere about town every week
and like the thousands ot little children
brougbt into the world in this great city, after
a few sickly, struggling days of existence, they
collapse under tbe pressure of Life and are
never beard of by the world at large. They are
born only to die.
The temptation to start newspapers In a city
where newsnaptr fortunes have bean made
and are being built up day by day, is too great
to be resisted by the ambitious. There is a
prevailing idea that something like luck is in
volved In this business that by some mysteri
ous way the laws of capital, brains and labor
may be circumvented and supply and demand
be Ignored. The result is inevitably disastrous.
Yet tbe unfortunate experience ot others will
teach fewof tbese vain enthusiasts the lesson
of failure tbey will only learn for themselves
by actual experiment These txperiments are
launched at tbe rate of probably at least two
or three a week tbe year 'round. Some of
tbese are founded noon tbe boldest fraud, and
live, while tbey live at all, by robbery of adver
tisers and by blackmail of tbe timid and un
wary, Tbe number that partially succeed In
maintaining a precarious footing Is sufficient to
tempt other literary speculators to follow in
imitation. So the birth of dallv and weekly
journals goes on. More money has been swal
lowed up in unsuccessful journalism in New
iotk man nas ever oecn maue legitimate. uj
the great newspapers of the day.
Charles T. Murray.
TRAVELING WITHOUT MONEY.
How the Sea Aster Takes His Ocean Trips
at the Crab's Expense.
From the New York Hcrald.l
On tbe table of a downtown flsh market I
saw a curious sight It was a monster crab
witba splendid specimen of tbe sea aster at
tached to its back. Thus wedded they were
caught in a net near tbe Highlands and brought
to tbe city. It is not often that a catch of this
kind is made, for the sea aster, when he finds
bimself in difficulties, Is apt to suddenly release
bis hold and slip away. Why he neglected to
do so in this case b unexplained.
For tbe benefit of the younger readers It may
be well to state that the sea aster is frequently
found off tbe coast of New Jersey. In shape It
resembles a small tufted sheaf of wheat, tbe
tuft itself suggesting the Idea of the familiar
flower from which it takes it name.
Generally its color is a dingy white, but oc
casionally a specimen is found that is bright
yellow in complexion. It Is always striped and
spotted in brown. Its tuft is composed of
feathery tentacles of pink like hue.
By means of numerous powerful "suckers" It
firmly affixes itself to the back of some able
bodied crab or lobster and is conveyed to tbe
haunts of tbose crustaceans, upon whose food
it revels. Of course it is a most unwelcome
guest and passenger, but the crab or lobster
cannot shake it off until it chooses to relax lt3
hold.
FOE STAHLETS C0MF0ET.
Hotel Boarders Victimize Themselves for
the Great Explorer's Benefit
ISrXCIAt. TZXirtBAX to thz pisfatcr.i
Buffalo. N.tY., Dec. 6. During Henry M.
Stanley's stay here he stopped at tbe Niagara
Hotel, and some of tbe prominent boarders
tbere became tbe victims of their own too
hospitable feelings. Tbey felt tbat so great a
hero as Henry M. Stanley and his wire should
have some appartments fitted to their fame
and station. Then, too, Henry was a bride
groom, wbo was spending his honeymoon in
tbe United States and getting SI.000 a night for
it and it was thought that be would appreciate
some finely-furnished abartments.
Acting on this idea, many of tbe kind-hearted
women ol tbe house united in contributing
various rare pieces of bric-a-brac, sucb as
screens, fancy rugs, pictures and other things
wherewith to beautify tbe bridal apartments.
Clocks were taken from the owners' mantles,
easy chairs were polished up and sent to Stan
ley's rooms, walls were bared of their pictures,
and as it was for only one night why the things
would never be missed. The joke lies in the
fact that Mrs. Stanley and her mother remained
for several days, and during that time the orna
ments were greatly admired by them. Mean
while tbe other guests' rooms contained scarce
ly anything they looked rather bare.
STANLEY'S VISIT.
Preparations to Give tho Explorer a Rousing
Reception in This City.
Stanley's lecture on Monday, December 15,
promises to be the most interesting event
among tbe winter entertainments. Now that
it is drawing near, the curiosity to see tbe
great explorer is showing itself in inquiries
about tbe programme laid oat for his visit
He will come in bis special car, in which he is
making this lecturing tour, and will be accom
panied by his wife, tbe charming woman who
won fame as a painter before she
linked her fortunes with his. It is not
intended that his privacy shall be
broken by any formal reception or other cere
mony of welcome, bnt tho andlence in Old City
Hall will of course make Mr. Stanley feel that
he has hundreds of warm friends ana admirers
here. Tbe subject of bis lectnre will be 'The
Rescne of Emin Pasha, tbe Forests, Pigmies
and March Across Africa."
The sale of seats will commence on Monday,
December 8. at Kleber & Bros.' mnslc store.
Tbe reserved seats will be 32 and $3; a limited
number on the platform with Mr. Stanley to be
sold at to. Admission will be SI.
OF THE NEW INDIAN POLICY.
Education of the Indian Children Will Fay
Best and Cost Least,
From the Boston Hcrald.l
There are at tbe outsido 50.000Indian children
within tbe limits of the United States.
If but the will existed to take these resolutely
in band, the instrumentalities are on band for
changing them into orderly, industrious, useful
American citizens, and tbe cost of one military
campaign wonld pay tor it ten times over.
It is a matter of rejoicing tbat so many ben
evolent, resolute and clear-sighted men and
women are to-day awakening to this conviction,
and that the new Indian policy is making such
headway.
BOTH DIED IN A DITCH.
Fatal Accident to" Intoxicated Men Driving
Near a Culvert.
Jackson, Dec 6. At an early hour this morn
ing two men were found In the country lying
in a ditch near a culvert with a horse on top of
them. The dead men were Crittenden Jasper
and Benjamin Richardson, wbo bad been in
town the day before, and bad been drinking
heavily before starting home.
Evidently they bad run off tbe nd of the
culvert and had been pitched into the ditch,
the horse falling on top of them.
THE LONG AND SHOET OF IT.
Marriage of a Giant and Midget In a West
Virginia Town.
ISTZCIAT. TXLXOKAM TO THB niSPATCH.
Parkersruro, W. Va., Dec 8L An anom
aly in the way of weddings took place in this
city last evening. Mr. M. V. Collins, of Dans
viile, wbo is 48 years old and 6 feet 8 inches tall
was married to Miss Martha Farmwortb, of
Walker, who Is 3 three feet 1 inch in height
Tbe wedding took place in the Prosecuting
Attorney's office.
English Financial Lessons.
As for English finance, says tbe LondoniSpee
tator, it requires periodical lessons, and it has
got one. A great deal ot money may sometimes
be made by pure luck; but as a rule, it requires
brains to keep it and resolution to leave off
making it when making becomes risky. If It
were otherwise, commerce and finance wonld
be mere gambling, which they'are sometimes
charged with being; aud mere gambling, except
as a very occasional pastime, is not good for
man, m
LIFE'S PAUSES.
From Blackwood's Magazine.!
A curious stranger environed in doubt
An interrosalion point toddling about
A bundle of questions nothing more
Cooing and creeping upon the floor.
A-comma of sunshine, a playtime to see,
The flower, the bird, the brook, and the tree;
A vision of childhood count one for the
pause
A ripple of laughter, a golden clause.
A stile In the pathway, a rammer day.
A blissful moment too sweet to stay;
Swift semicolon of youth divine
Count two in tracing the raptured line.
An exclamation. "Yon! Oh, yal'
The ame old story forever new:
An arrow's flight to a soul new found,
A volume or love In a vowel sound.
A song, a prayer, a marriage vqw,
A compound word In the chapter now. ,
Only a hyphen, but angels wait
And hash their anthem In heaven's gate.
A gleam of light In the gliding years,
A colon of Joy in the f nt appears;
A point of hope In the fleeting text
Our line continued In tbe next
Tbe sentence finished, a gentle mound
By waving grass encircled ronnd;
A period here, but not complete.
Merely a rest for weary feet
A rest for the night till the morning wakes,
Till the purpling east in glory breaks;
Faith writes a dash for tbe great To Be
BeyondTlmft's'brMtet-rternlty.
CUKI0US CONDENSATIONS.
There has been made a list of 210 birds
which inhabit Alaska.
Nearly one-half of the area of the prov
Ince.of Utrecht. Holland. Is under grass.
There are about 32,000 arrests each year
in Paris, and of those -arrested 35 are assas
sins.
Ic Taris there are' 60,000 gaslights, so
that it is jnst 100 times better lighted than it
was a century ago.
Into the streets of Denver 525,000,000 in
gold and silver coin are shoveled from the
mountains every year.
The shipments of wheat fromAntelope
Valley. Los Angeles county, for 1ES0 was 34.EM
sacks, equal to 1,607,250 pounds.
llaimio persimmons weighing 18 ounces
have been grown on tbe place of Colone
Church, just east of Orlando, Fla.
Over 130 species of fish abound aonj
the coast of Uruguay, and more than 2,000
species of insects have been classified within its
borders.
The Humboldt river, Cal., and some of
Its tributaries are said to be gorged in many
filaces with carcasses of cattle that perished
ast winter.
Nine hundred nnd ninety-two women
registered at Cheyenne, Wy., for the recent
elections. Several women rode 26 miles into
Cheyenne to vote.
Most of the province of Uralsk, in
Southeastern Russia, having an area uf 111,174
square miles and a population of over 500,000,
is below sea level.
There are more evictions for non-payment
of rent in New York and Brooklyn in
one year, says a judge in tbe latter city, than In
Ireland in two years.
Up to the end of October the loss from
fires In the United States and Canada for the
year 1890 was 18.795,805 less than for the cor
responding months in 1S89.
A little armadillo, the mulita, of Uru
guay, is mentioned as the living representative
of those antediluvian giants, the mylodon,
mastodon, megatherium, etc
In one single day lat summer 105
Americans visited Burns' birthplace. Tbe pil
grims during tbe year numbered 20,000 to tha
cottage and 30,000 to tbe monument
A golden eagle weighing 33 pounds was
killed a short time ago on tbe Sisseton reserva
tion. Montana. The bird stood three and a
half feet high and measured nine feet from tip
to tip.
Uruguay has a healthy climate, and,
according to its tables of mortality for 1832, out
of a total of 9,610 deaths. 45 were of persons
over IW ye-irs of age. Its death rate is only
16.510 per 1,000.
About a century ago it was estimated
that Paris bad only about 50 pickpockets: now
the police reports show that their nnmber has
reached 4.000 in the metropolis alone, and
aDout iu.duu in the rest oi r ranee.
Mr. S. F. Hershey says in a recent ar
ticle: "Woman lives longer than man. goes in
sane less numeronsly, commits suicide one
third as often, makes one-tentb tbe demand on
the public purse for support in jail, prisons aud
almshouses.
Tbere are 16,000 public schools in Mis
souri. The new State Superintendents pro
? oses to Introduce a uniform system of instruc
ions and a specified course-of instructions to
De published in pamphlet form and sent to each
teacher of the State.
The Detroit Free Press says: "If a boy
15 years of age should be left ten acres of land
in Michigan, and his guardian should cover it
with hickory trees, the income of the boy when
he came to be 30 years old wonld be from 9,000
to SU.000 clean cash off his little farm."
Occasionally the return of the swallow
or the nightingale may be somewhat delayed,
but most sea fowls may be trusted. It is said, as
the almanac itself. Were tbey satellites re
volving around this earth, their arrival could
hardly be more surely calculated by an as
tronomer. A special train of threj cars arrived in
tbe Union Pacific depot at Walla Walla,
Wash., last week with a ghastly cargo, con
sisting of tbe entire contents ot the military
graveyard at Fort Lapwal, Idaho. There wc- r.
upwards nf 60 caskets, nearly all receptacle U
soldiers' bones.
According lo the latest issue of tha
"Newspaper Directory." tbere wmo no less
than 3,481,610,000 copies of magazines, papers
and periodical issued in this country, ora num
ber more than sufficient to afford every man,
woman and child in the Bnited States one pa
per a week for a year.
The Ural Mountains were anciently tha
abject of various myths. The Slavonians,
wbo in tbe eleventh century frequently visited
the region of the Urals for trade, described
them as mountains reaching the sky. inter,
sected bv terrible precipices, and as being in
habited by a population of cave dwellers.
One woman has made the silk gowns of
the Justices of the United States Supreme
Court for the past 40 years, and she gets $100
for each one of them. They are all made
alike, tbe only difference being in the material,
the Chief Justice wearing black Chinese satin,
while bis associates are robed in black silk.
It has been estimated' that the volume)
of water poured into tbe Rio de la Plata ex
ceeds tbe aggregate discharge of all the rivers
of Europe put together. Its ordinary flow at
some points is 100.0UC cubic feet per second.
The ordinary volume of water in the Uruguay
river averages 11,000,000 of cubic feet per min
ute. Within a few days past, says the Vic
toria Colonist, an Indian burial has taken place
in due and ancient form, and above ground, on
tbe reserve. At the head on either side wero
placed two white flags. Over tbe top of the
wooden cover Is spread a gray blanket; on ona
side of it is a cracked looking glass, and in
front tbere is gilt framed mirror, near it be
ing disposed handkerchiefs and pieces of gay
colored chintz.
The work of constructing the cut-off on
the Southern Pacific Railroad west of San An.
tonio, Tex, from Sbnmla to Flanders, will be
gin in a short time. The cut-off is to be only
seven miles long, bnt will cost not less than
II.OCO.00C. The bridge that is to be thrown
across the Pecos river will, it is said, be tho
highest in the United States, the centerspan to
be"S78 feet above the water. The entire length
of the bridae. from cliff to cliff, will be 1.200
feet Tbe 15 miles to be abandoned cost $4,000,.
000, and tbe track runs alonghighciiffs,throusb!
two tunnels and over 25 bridges.
MAKING LIGHT OF IT.
"Why did the soprano leave?"
She said the preaching interrupted her conver
sations with the tenor." Keio lork Sun,
Sanso There are as good fish in the sea
as ever were caught
ltodd Better, If yon believe the fishermen. It is
always the big ones tbat getaway. Jfeto Jorklltrm
aid.
He I love you passionately, my darling.
She Ah I That remark has the gennine engage
mentring. Toum Crier.
"They say Dr. Koch's lymph is dutiable
under tbe McKlnley bill. Now, why should it
be?"
"It Interferes with home consumption." Aintf
XorkSun.
He What would you do if a man should
Kiss yon?
She I'd give him as good as he sen t
He I'd kiss you for a cent
Bhe How dare you? And without assont JiU
lor Herald.
One of the curiosities sent to the Patent
Office last week Is the model of a "typewriter that
can be held on the knee." .There's nothing spe
cially new abont that if we may believe the funny
papers. Sew Kork Press.
Jeames (to Mr. Montmoragnnv, wbo has
called upon Mrs. Bentbousand Mrs. Benthoa
sand has sent me down to say that she is not at
home. sir.
Mr.Montmoragony (having swallowed his grief)
Say to Mrs. Bentbousasd that I didn't call.-
Christmas Puck.
Brown That was a curious 'blunder you
made In your note to Miss Smith. Ton dated it
1S80 instead oriSSO.
Fogg-That wasn't a binnder at all, old fellow.
It was a One touch of gallantry on my part She
told me tbe other clay she was only 3S, and when I
wrotctoherlthougiit I couldn't do less than
make the year correspond with her statement
Motton Transcript.
Mr. Wredink (the old bookkeeper To
day marks my fortieth year of service with you,
sir.
Mr. Hides-I was aware or It Mr. Wredink. and
I have arranged a little surprise for you. Take
this alarm clock, with my best wishes for jout
eoatlnned promptness. Christmas Puck.
A MAIDEK OF COSCOHB.
A philosophic maiden she,
Made opof umsnndloms: i
She sees tha world through glasses Mae,
Her lips aroD prunes and prisms.
1 met her at the Concord school
When begged to share my lot
Bhe raised her soulful eyes and asked,
Xbe.whlchneis of the what!"
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