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I'atciu including undaY,3in'ths 250 Daily IHTatch. ircludlng Sunday, lni'tk SO KCKDAY DIM'ATCII. Out Year 150 WEEKLY Dispatch, One Year 123 The Daily DisrATcn is delivered by carriers at 3iccat: per week, or including Sundaj edition, at Iftcents per v-cek. PITTSBURG. MONDAY, DEC. S, lS9a THE MEADVILA.E FAILURE. Tartlier reports from Hie failure of Dela inater & Co.. 6f Meadviile, indicate a sur prising and unsatis'actorr i elation of assets 10 Stabilities. The probability of extended losses to the creditors of the bank is ac companied with lutimations of features that would call for even more positive denuncia tions than are aceorded to a failure that is lue simply to neglect of parties of solvent lianking. With regard to the intimations of crook edness in the failure, it is pertinent to say that public judgment should be held in re serve unless direct evidence of such things are forthcoming. Charges of a discreditable nature are not to lie lightly added to the great mis fortunes of such a bankruptcy; and until talk of that sort is backed bv direct evi dence, it should not be regarded as any thing more than the gossip which nearly always follows such an event. Of course, the liquidation of the affairs of the firm will show the causes of the failure; and The DisrATCii is tree to express the hope that they may be shown to be consisten . with the personal integrity of the members of the firm. A similar hope can hardly be expressed that investigation will show good business management It is hardly credible that a bank so recently synonymous with wealth and stability could come to such complete wreck as is now reported, without a remark able disregard of the principles of safe banking. It also seems that the expenditure of large sums in politics by men whose bank was insolvent was, to take the mildest view, an extremely unwise and foolish proceeding. If the reports of the failure are not wildly exaggerated, the conclusion is inevitable that the failure must be charged to foolish and reckless management. Further than this public opinion will be held in reserve; but the personal reputation ofthe members of the firm requires that as early as possible a full statement be made of its condition and the causes of its suspen sion. UONOltAMLK JJUT UtKKGUlAK. A novelty in thewavof disposition of an estate after death has recently been brought to public attention in connection with the estate of llr. K. W. Shopleigh, of Brook Iltie, Massachusetts. He recently died without making a will, but leaving among Jus papers an unsigned memorandum in the farm of a promissory note, for the payment to various persons of sums of ?5,000 to 510,000 each, amounting in the aggregate to over 300,000. The direct heirs to the es tate of about 700,000 have announced that they will take this memorandum as an ex pression of the wishes oT the deceased and will pay the sums named. The most signifi cant feature of the transaction is the decla ration of the heirs that IJiey place the wishes of the late owner of the estate as of more im portance to them than wealth, and agree to a reduction of their inheritance by nearly one-half, rather than disregard an unsigned memorandum. With regard to the efficacy of that method of making bequests, however, the general rule of the courts is that such a document, even if it had been signed, would liave been invalid. As heirs as a rule are not so scrupulous as these, it will be well for people who wish any portioT of their estates to be distributed beyond the legal heirs to make their bequests in the regular testamentary form. FEION ATTORNEY'S rKOFITS. The action of the House of Eepresenta tives in amending the pension appropria tion bill to as to reduce the fees of pension attorneys to two dollars in certain cases and one dollar in others is a hopeful sign for the removal of one of the features of pension ad ministration which makes a close ap proximation to a scandalous character. It will doubtless arouse the pension attorneys' lobby to the most earnest efforts against its retention in the bill; but as it is in the in terest of the pensioners themselves, the sup porters of the measure can afford to make a determined stand in its favor. The function of the pension attorney is to perform certain clerical work in the prepar ation of applications for which the reduced fees are a liberal allowance, and then to lobby in the Pension Bureau to secure the consideration of their applications in ad vance of the mass of applications. The real work of investigating the claims and pre paring evidence is done by the Pension Bureau itself. The recent disclosures as to the workings of that office show the influences exerted by certain attorneys to get their cases considered out of turn. The effect of the present system is therefore that the pension ers who do not employ these favored attor neys will find their cases indefinitely post poned; and the greater part of the fee of 510 becomes a species of taxation which the at torneys are enabled to levy on the pension ers for their influence in getting their claims considered promptly. As Secretary Ifoble says, the immense in comes, some of them exceeding that of the President of the United States, which the lension attorneys draw from this state of affairs, is not creditable to the administra tion of the pension system. With the very moderate amount of clerical ability re quired to draw up an application, there is hardly any need for pension attorneys at all, and the business of that profession would be slight if it were not for the favoritism which tbey secure in the consideration and allowance of pensions. Whether the xeduc tion of the fees would prevent them from extracting illicit fees from pensioners for the same services, is an open question; but there feB is little doubt that the action of the House of Representatives is a step in the right di rection. It is also probable that this desired dimin ution of the income ot pension attorneys will produce a proportionate decrease of the strennousness with which that interest con tinues to lobby for any and all kinds of new pensions that can be proposed. AN IMPRACTICABLE PLAN. A contributor lrom Oil City, elsewhere, presents his theory of a plan to remedy the depressed condition of the petroleum busi ness. The controlling idea is that what the oil interests need is organization. This is not the organization that is necessary to per form such legitimate industrial or commer cial purposes as the refining of petroleum or taking the products to domestic or foreign markets. Any such plans as those based upon the fundamental conditions of trade are waved aside in a summary and rather dog matic declaration of their unwortbiness. The only remedy that will serve, according to this theory, is the organization of the thousands of producers into an association of such compactness that they can confront the Standard and name their own price for oil, and at the same time order the entire stoppage of new developments. If it were possible to organize the oil pro ducers into a single unit, so that as one seller it would confront the Standard as one buyer which every one with even a super ficial knowledge of the petroleum business knows to be impossible what would he the result? The fixing of the price of crude petroleum would be simply a trial of strength between the two forces. The spontaneous action of demand and supply would have nothing to do with it If the Producers' organization should declare that they would sell no oil at less than a dollar a barrel, the Standard could respond with the assertion that it would buy no oil at more than sixty cents; and the question would be decided in fayor of the side that could hold out longest with the operations of the trade in utter suspen sion. The manifest probability that the Standard would exhibit the greatest power of endurance, joined with the utter impossi bility of bringing all the producers under an organization of such compactness, makes it unnecessary to discuss this ideality any further. As to the organizatio i which is within the range of possibility, it is worth while to note that any attempt to prohibit new operation must be futile while the ability to lease and drill new territory is open to any one, the Standard included, whether inside or outside of the Producers' association. In estimating the ability of such organization to enforce its demands for better prices upon the Standard, any such power is reduced to a figment of the imagination by the fact that the Standard controls about thirty per cent of the production. Any organization of the producing interest must either in clude the Standard production or exclude it. If the lormer is done, all trials of strength, on the subject of prices or pipe line charges, must be made with an enemy in the camp, informing the opposing party of the plans, the weakness or the doubts of the organiza tion; furnishing the lever by which to divide counsels, and providing the facilities by which to neutralize every movement to en force the higher values. On the other hand if the Standard production is exclude-.!, there could hardly be an arrangementwhich the Standard could contemplate with more equanimity than that of the producers with holding their oil for a better price while it drew from its own production all the oil re quired for its present needs, secured all the advantages of the decrease of supply, and the producers kept out of market until tbey were frozen out of the business altogether and were obliged to sell their territory to it at its own figures. Add to these considerations the fact that in any such attempt of a producers' organiza tion to force good prices from the Standard, they would go into the fight with their stocks already in the hands of the Standard, from which, under the conditions of the plan pro posed, they could not withdraw them, except by selling to the Standard, and which the Standard might, as it has done in previous emergencies, draw upon for its pressing needs, and make good when it won the fight. All these factors in such a pro ject as is proposed, show its utter futility. It is impossible of realization in the first place, and if any measure of realization could be obtained, it would only strengthen the hands of the monopoly in its work of absorbing petroleum production at bard-pan prices. We must credit our correspondent with sincerity, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, but it is necessary to say that if the Standard were now seeKing to draw up a plan to divert the producers from the work ot building independent refineries and pipe lines, as the shutdown movement was used for the same purpose three years ago, it could hardly have devised one which would put the producers more completely at its mercy. PERSEVERANCE OF THE BOURBONS. A decided stupidity with regard to politi cal philosophy and an equal foolishness as concerns political policy in the present day, is shown in the inaugural declaration of Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, in order to support his assertion that the whites must have absolute control of the State government, as follows: "We deny that "all men are created equal. It is not true now and was not when Jefferson wrote it." When any school of political thought finds it necessary to deny the political tenets on which the freedom ot this country was first asserted, it is a proof that they are opposed to the principles of freedom and equality on which our Government is founded. Bnt there is an even greater in congruity in this case, when a professed Democratic leader finds it necessary to deny the fundamental principles laid down by the father of American Democracy. In this denial of Jefferson's principles, Governor Tillman represents the Bour bon Southern Democracy. He was elected as a Democrat, but it was hoped that his was a more liberal sort of Democracy than that which made South Carolina the leader in secession. His dec claration is, however, an expression of the most persistent theory of that antiquated school, and by its frankness shows how far removed the ultra-Southern Democracy is from the Democracy of Jefferson. There is even more stupidity in such talk as regards the politics of the present day. The people of the North have again and again shown their readiness to lay aside the old political and sectional issues on the distinct understanding that tbe South ac cepts honestly and in good faith the results of the war. This is the position which The Dispatch has taken. But what encourage ment is given to that view if men ot the Tillman stamp are to be taken as repre sentative in not only rejecting the results of tbe war, but actually denying tbeprinciples of the original document by which this na tion constituted itself a. free country? The Tillman outburst is not to be taken as a proof that the war must be fought over again. But it is a direct proof of the per sistence of Bourbon stupidity and the prob ability, that another generation will be re quired befqre it dies out. Probably the theory that all disease is subject to bacilli would be carrying the princi ple to extreme lengths. Gripes are due to ranch less microscopic causes, and the corn bacillus would be a very hard citizen. lllE increase of the public debt for No vember ot 5,000,000 should be recognized as only meaning an excess of expenses over re ceipts, the bonded debt not having been in creased at all. Nor does the fact that one month shows this adverse balance necessarily signify that the Government revenue has fallen permanently below its outgo. But it would be pertinent to inquire what mystery of Treasury bookkeeping always produces the largest re ductions of the public debt in the months just before an election, and turns the balance the other way after the election is over. When we remember the pre-election boasts of Chairman Andrews, the information that this rocontly ambitious political leader has come down to a clerkship in the Senate, impresses us anew with the efficacy of a little adversity as a remedy tor inflation. ONE of the singular features of the com ments on the indictment of railway officials in Chicago, is tbe unanimity with which tbe cor porate organs state that they are indicted for "cutting rates." Open and above board cutting of rates, that is a general and announced re duction to all sbinpers, is not Illegal, although the railway interest tries to keep up the im pression that it is. The Chicago men were in dicted for granting secret reductions to certain favored shippers. The expression of disbelief on the part of the Farmers' Alliance concerning the accuracy of the census report onfarm mortgages, will, we fear, confirm Mr. Porters's belief that the Al liance is only a mask for Democracy. It is stated that the capital of new enter prises placed in the London market during tbe past three years amounts to 1,750,000,000. When we consider the inflated nature of most of those enterprises, of which the public is informed, it is not a surprising matter that London has snffered a monetary squeeze. Senator Hoar's discovery that one of the sections of the elections bill is in the bill by mistake may perhaps be a prelude to the perception that all the other sections of the bill are there by mistake also. Emin Pasha is back on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza again,?at tbo head of a German expedition. Tliero is a tolerably strong though tacit understanding among the members of the late Emin Pasba relief organization that the next time be wishes to be relieved, he will have to relieve himself. TnE statement that the new hotel which W. W. Astoris to put up in New York will be seventeen stones high, indicates the danger that both style and prices of the hotel will be as lofty as its architecture. Pittsburg's samples of nickel steel armor plate are winning the approval of the Navy Department experts. Within three months Pittsburg will be turning out tho armor plates that reduce the compound armor of the British navy to tbe value of scrap iron. PERSONAL J0TTIAGS. Presides- Hyde, of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was oujo a poor clerk in a rival concern. . Some wag recently started the story that Mrs. Stanley is about to write a book entitled "How 1 Found Stanley." and she is receiving letters from people who think it is true. ConsTvosMoLTKE attributes his attain ment of old age to "God's mercy and modera tion in all things." He specially advises that no one shall ever spend a whole day indoors, not even if the day bo rainy. Ex-Go vekjjob CujtTIN, of Pennsylvania, who has been ill in Philadelphia for several months, is gradually getting better. He retains much of his youthful vigor and alertness, and expects soon to be entirely well again. James WnrrcoMB Riley is a busy literary worker. Some one recently asked tho poet to do a piece of work, and he replied: "I can'tl In tbo writing line, 1 was never so involved be fore. Even the hope of waking to find myself famous is denied .me, since I haven't time in which to tall asleep." In his long life of 80 years P. T. Barnum has had a most versatile career, Before becoming a traveling showman he had been successively the proprietor of an oyster saloon, an editor, a bartender, a negro minstrel, a boarding house keeper, dramatic critic, preacher, bank presi dent, author, and partner in a clock factory. He finally found his true vocation. Let other versatile Americans make a note of this. Admirers of James Russell Lowell will re gret to hear that his health seems to be per manently enfeebled. He bas not accepted in vitations lately to attend public dinners and to join in political celebrations as bo did a few years ago, and he is very likely not to be as strong again. This does not imply any im mediate decline, but ho has been growing feeble for a long time, and it must be remem bered that his years are growing upon him. Those people who are speculating just now on an alleged remark of Senator Evarts that ho would become a journalist under certain con ditions, if he lived his life over again, may be interested to hear that Mr. Evarts did engage in journalism when he first went to New York. He was one of the staff of a weekly literary journal called the New World at thattime. and labored in association upon it with Park Benjamin, Epes Sargent and Henry C. Doming. A STOBMY VOYAGE. The North Gorman Steamer Saalo Experi ences Its Worst Passage. New York, Dec 7. The North German Lloyd steamer Saale, which arrived at her dock in Hoboken this morning, bad tbe stormiest passage she ever experienced. Monday last the strong westerly gale turned into a hurricane. Every wave washed the deck fore and aft. A towering mountain of water swept over tho bridge and deluged the officer in command. This was followed by another of equal size, and shortly afterward by a third. The steam was shut off, and then there occurred a sudden down draft throngh tbe fur naces which forced vast volumes of smoke Into the stokers' compartment. This puffed up the air funnels, and rushed into the saloon and dining rooms. Some excitable person yelled "Fire," and lor awhile a panic prevailed. It was eight boars before tho ship coald resume her course. Battery B's Bazaar To-Nlght. Tbe finishing touches aro being put to the Fifth avenne market ball for tbe opening of Battery B's fair and bazaar to-night. Tbe dingy old bmldingbasundergone a transforma tion, and has been converted into a wilderness of flags, bunting and banners. The boys have worked hard in tbe past 43 hours to get things in trim, and those who patronize tbe entertain ment to-night will undoubtedly be delighted. DEATHS OP A DAY. Homer Chadwlck. Homer Chadwlck, eldest son or Samuel Chad wlchEsq.,diedat bis lather's borne In the Twenty first Ward. Saturday morning. He bad been suffering for some time with throat trouble, and the immediate cause of his death was hemorrhage. The deceased was well-known, to the people of the East End, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his associates. He was one who can be fitly characterized as an honorable, upright man a man ul strict business Integrity and much kind ness or heart. A consistent Christian and a lifelong member and officer of Emory Alethodlst Episcopal Church, the hour of bis departure, though unexpected, was not unprepared for, and his many friends, though feeling deCDly his sud den demise, - -sorrow not as those without hope." His life though brief was useful, and he has left behind an example worthy to be imitated. The luncral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Robert C. Loornis. Robert C. r.oorais, of the well-known real es tate firm or Loomls & Brown, died yesterday morning, afttr having lived over 85 years. Mr. Loomls was one ot the oldest. If not the oldest, member or the iecond Presbyterian Church, and last evening the pastor. Rev. Dr. Sutherland, paid an eloquent tribute to his memory. The funeral will occur to-morrow at 2 o'clock lrom Ins late residence. A o. 419 South Highland avenue. OXFORD, OLD AND NEW. EEV; GE0EGE HODGES WHITES OF THE CENTEE OF liAEHIHG. A Church That is the Representative of All That Is Venerable and Conservative Some Tilings Which Appear in Rather a Sharp Contrast. The old and the new meet in the streets ol Oxford. Of this I bad a curious and Sig nificant illustration. One evening, after a twilight visit to tbe great mined tower of the old castle, there was a sound of church bells in the neighborhood as I came back, and their inviting voices led me to the venerable walls of tbe littlo sanctuary of St. Thomas-ye-Martyr. The canons of Osney Abbey had these black stonos laid in their places in the year clevsn-hundred-and-some-thing, upon land given by Bernard de St. Valery. Ho could afford to be generous, that pious French-Englishman of Oxford, since his fathetjbad stolen no end of acres at the con quest. No doubt, too, ho thought his gift a good investment. Here upon this pieco of ground, theso holy men ot Osney should make their prayers for tho welfare of his soul, Tho church at tho begining was dedicated pleas antly to that good Christian saint whom we call Santa Clans, bnt whose name they wrote out respectfully in full St. Nicholas. But two years after the murder of Thomas aBccket, they put the old saint aside, and set themselves under tbe protection of this newest saint, whose title tbe little church still bears. Such a melancholy little church, behind a high hedge, set about with heavy trees, and covered with dark ivy! And so still and dim inside, where candles flickered here and there, making the darkness visible, and casting black shadows along the ancles of the steep roof I There was a small congregation, and a majority of tbe worshipers were members of a sisterhood connected with the parish, and wore dresses in tho somber and depressing garments of their order. The choir was pathetically weak, and tho voice of the reader rose and died away in lugubrious cadences. Nothing could have been moro quiet and subdued except death itself. Out side and in, tbe church was the representative of all that is venerable, conservative, and of tho past. Tho Music Not Very Ancient. J CAME out again into the world, nnder the shining of tho nineteenth century street lamps, and a few blocks away there was a sound of music. There was no suggestion of ancient history abont that music Xtevi dently proceeded from a brass band, vigorous and enthusiastic Presently the brass baud came in sight, and after it the queerest processionl Here was a company ot men and women march ing down tho middle of the street, waving their arms and swinging their caps and clapping their hands in time to the music, and singing tho words of a religious hymn to the melody or the most hilarious and secular and "nigger minstrel" sort of tune. Tho men woro red jackets and the women had on poke bonnets, and upon their badges were printed in plain let ters the explanatory words, "Salvation Army!" I followed them into their barracks. Hero was a great barn of a room with a high platform and rows of wooden benches, and the walls adorned with warning and inviting sentences from the Bible. The "soldiers" took their places on the platform with the brass band and began a rollicking hymn in which the voices of tbe chorus and the horns of tho musicians vied with each other in a rivalry of noise. "Now all of you that's nicely saved," shouted the leader, "say hallelujah 1" and such a war cry went up from tho people on the platform as may well have scared a regiment of devils. Then a prayer and another prayer queer, familiar, in street language, careless of grammar, punctuated by "amens" from the kneeling soldiers, but straightforward, evidently sincere, earnest, full of faith and really impressive. A converted negro minstrel then camo forward and sang a topical song, first teaching the audience the chorus. The title of the song was, "Isn't It Fnnny They Don't !" and the chorus was : "The Salvation Army they don't understand, And isn't it funny they don't!" It was a clever thing, with capital points in it, and well sung. Then another prayer and the collection, and an address or" two' and tho meeting was over. Typical of the Place. The church of St. Thomas-ye-Martyr and tho barracks of tbe Salvation Army do not look alike, but they belong togther, and are both typical of tbe placo which Oxford has held for centuries in the lifo of England. Every utterance of protest, every proclama tion of discovery, every voice of every new truth in the intellectual and religious history of tbe English people, has been echoed against these old gray walls. How quick they were In the twelfth century to tako up that new move ment which Becket's name represented! And here in the nineteenth century is tbe very latest religious experiment, tho Salvation Army! Every revolution and revival in the records of the English religion has had leaders in this old town of Oxford. A hundred -years ago thev pulled down a queer old tower in Oxford, which went by the name of "Friar Bacon's Study." Thero wasa curious lecend about it, to tbe effect that that cunning: magician had so constructed his tower that if any wiser man than he ever walked be side its walls, tho tower would straightway tumble over upon that unlucky wlso man's learned head. And they used to caution freshmen against verturing too near the friar's tower. This pile of venerable stone marked tho fact of the residence in Oxford of the university's first great scholar. Roger Bacon was an Oxford professor. He had studied in the University of Paris, and had there divided his time between Christian theologians and Mohammedan phil osophers. And be had come to have his opinion about many things. They had an idea in the thirteenth century that pretty nearly every thing was known which could be known. Men like Thomas Aquinas were writing books un der such titles as "Summa Theologia," the "Sum of Theology." All truth, they held, had been discovered. But Roger Bacon knew that truth was only beginning to be found out. He observed that all men were studying tho two great books ol the world, not in tho original, but in most inadequate trans lations. They were reallng the Bible In Latin, and they were looking at nature through the glasses of theology. Bacon knew that there were whole treasures of truth in both of these great volumes, which nobody bad guessed at. But people were not williugto listen. They drove the Professor into a monas tery, then into a prison, and finally into a grave. And the Oxford movement of the thirteenth century seemed to come to an end. A Reformer of Olden Times. A TBalliol College there is an ancient parch ment, yellow with age, sealed with a quaint seal, confemngacollegelivingupou John Wyc liffe. This was in tbe fourteenth century. Wycliffe looked out through thewindowsofhis Oxford study into the world he lived in, and made up his mind that it was a pretty bad world. He took upon himself the righting of it. What a blessed encouragement it Is that there are always men, in all bad times, whose motto is that of the Salvation Army, "All at it, and always at it!" Wycliffe set out upon a career of universal opposition. He was tbe son of Ishmael, with his hand against almost every man. He wasthegieatobstructionist Hebe gan with the Pope, and declared that he had no right to a tribute whicn he was claiming from the English nation, and the Pope, accord ingly, failed to get his money. Tben he attacked the friars. Then he angored the theologians by denying transubstantiation. Then he exasperated the aristocracy by preach ing Socialism. Against all the evils of bis day he found spears and armor in the word of God. And he set about getting that word translated so that everybody might read It. Thus out of Oxford, and as the result of this second Oxford movement, came the first translation of the whole Bible. But Wycliffe. like Bacon, had his reward up above, not down here The wonder is that tbey left him unburned. After be was dead they did dig up his body and burn that. But he died in bis bed, his good works living af ter him. In front of Balliol College there Is a mark in the pavement, which Indicates tbe place where there were two notable fires. Tbcse fires oc curred In the sixtoenth century, and In them several distinguished citizens of England lost their lives. Nearby, in the middle of Broad street, is a monument set up to the memory of these men. One of the men who perished In the fire was ranted Ridley, another was named Latimer, the name of tbe third was Cranmer. The reformation had come, and done a great work, good and ill; and tben. as it seemed.it bad been killed and done away with. After Elizabeth came many. And now the Reformers came in for tbe usual reward of ' the reformer. In tho midst of his sermon, the Sunday I was in Oxford, the preacher at St. Mary's pointed to the pillar just opposite tbe pulpit, beside which Cranmer stood on tho morning of the day of his burning. Tbero he stood and declared that he had done a cowardly and wicked thing by setting bis name to a, denial of his faith. "This right hand," he said, "which signed that false paper, shall burn first." And then they took him out to Broad street, and set him in the midst of the faggots, and you know how he held that hand out without flinching, into the fierce flame. And you remember how Latimer said to Ridley, as the fire grow hot about them: "Play tbe man. Master Ridley, for we shall this day light such a candle in England, as by God's grace shall never be put outl" You think of all that as you stand in that Oxford church and beside that Oxford street. Reformation Always In Order. gUT the work of reformation is one which, in this disordered world, is forever needing to be done over again. Reformation Is always getting out of repair. After the Protestant Reformation came presently the Puritan Revo lution. And that by no means ended the mat ter. Our own century, and the one before it, have seen tho two most recent and notable revivals of religion both beginning here at Ox ford. There are two small colleges in Oxford which everybody goes to see. Thero is not much to see after you get thero. Bnt there is a great deal to think of. In that second-story room, at Lincoln College, whose windows look out upon tho quadrangle, John Wesley had his residence. And in this other second-story room, at Oriel, over whose windows tho ivy clambers, lived John Henry Newman. It was at Oxford that Christians were first called Methodists. Here met Whitefield, tho preacher, and Charles Wesley, the poot, and John Wesley, the leader of tho Oxford move ment of the Eighteenth century. Here in tbcse quiet halls, in tbo catbering of little companies for prayer in these old rooms, began that great Christian communion, which is still going on, growing and helping men, and whose good work In this bad world is altogether be yond measurement. It was at Oxford, too, that Newman, the preacher, and Keble, the poet, and Pusey, after whom their followers were named, began the Oxford movement of the nineteenth century, which has changed the whole look of our wor ship, affected tho services of every Protestant church of our generation, and given new mean ings to the word "reverence," which our fathers knew not. A Recognition of the Mind. N ow, what need we more? Wesley reorgan ized piety; he taught people that they have souls. Newman reorganized worship; he taught people that they have knees. Give us now a reorganization of theology, a recognition of the fact that wo have minds, and that we must use our minds, and that truth to commend itself to men with minds mnst be stated reason ably; let us have a restatement of Christian doctnno which will include in it all the new truth which has been learned since tho creeds wpre set In shape. And give us a reorganiza tion of society, a recognition ot the fact that we havo hands, and that they aro meant to work with, and tbat every one of us ought to have work to do which shall support us and be of value to our fellow men; let us have some kind of change in the conditions of our modern life, some bettering of all the injustice and crnclty and starvation and sin of it. Here are open doors for two new reforma tions. And I saw beginnings of them both at Oxford. The book stores thero were full of copies of "Lux Mundi." And what is that? It is a book of studies in theology, edited by the head of Pusey House in Oxford, and embody ing, an endeavor to commend Christian theology to 30 men, and to show its harmony with all tbe truth which has been discovered in our gener ation. It is a prophecy of the next great move ment in the church, a reformation of theology. And in the barracks of the Salvation Army there to-day tbe soldiers are reading the book which their General has written, "In Darkest England," the only plan which has yet been proposed wbich'seems a possible remedy for our economical distresses, a prophecv of the next great movement in tbe world, a reforma tion of society. Lux Mundi" and "In Darkest England" are the two pre-eminently significant books which have been put forth tbis year. And the two most notable buildings in modern Oxford are Pusey House and tbe Salvation Army barracks, G. H. BATTLESHIPS OF THE WOBLD. Careful Comparison of tho Naval Strength of the Various Powers. from the New York Herald. In tho following table tho nations aro placed in their order as naval powers, in determining which all vessels actually commenced or con tracted for were considered: Name of Nation. ABC Great Britain 430,631 52),;) 81.5 France SO6,0M 481.919 63.5 Jtalv 217,013 179,893 121.0 Russia 163,810 MS,0) 6S.8 Germany 01.C01 130,834 , 6D.5 UnltcdStates 6!,i:3 104.810 611.0 Spain 4(1.703 59,132 78.8 China M,077 37,410 70.0 Austria 50.897 54.9S0 38.0 Turkey 32,874 39.317 32.7 Argentine Republic... 12,157 22,670 5.1.6 Portugal 11,420 20,479 55.8 Greece 11,257 16,229 69.4 Denmark 10.296 24,431 42.1 Brazil 9.665 18,100 53.4 Norway and Sweden.. 8,955 26.553 33.8 Japan 8,954 16,618 53.9 Chill 8.660 12.900 6".l Holland 7,204 33,278 21.7 A-Fightlng strength expressed in tons or the standard battleship. B Total displacement tonnage or all armed vessels. Including those carrying less than six lucnesof Iron. C Average efficiency of the navy, as compared to tbe standard. THIS IS THE ENGLISH OF IT. A Collection RoveaUng the Curiosities of Pronounclation. .The following examples, says the St. Louis Republic, give some samples of English, not as she is spoke, bnt as she is pronounced: Abergavenny Is pronounced Abergenny. Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham. Bolingbroke is pronounced Balllngbrook. Brougham is pronounced Broom. Bnlwer is pronounced Bailer. Cholmondeley i3 pronounced Chumley. Cirencester is pronounced Sissistcr. Cockburn is pronounced Coban. Colquboan is pronounced Cohon. Cowper is pronounced Cooper. Grosvenor is pronounced Grovener. Hawarden is pronounced Harden, Holborn is pronounced Hobnn. Knollysis pronounced Knowles. Leicester is prononnced Lester. Majnrlbank Is pronounced Marcbbank. Marylebone is pronounced Marrabun. Salisbury is pronounced Sawlsbry. Sr. Leger is pronounced Silliger. Wemyss is prononnced Weems. Taliaferro is pronounced Tolliver. Norwich is pronounced Norridge. Talbot is pronounced Torbut. Thames is pronounced Terns. THE ENVOYS TO THE PEESS. They Will Not Incur the Danger of Preju- dicing Their Cause. New York, Dec. 7. Messrs. O'Brien, Sul livan, Dillon, O'Connor and Gill, the Irish envoys to America, have arrived in this city from Chicago. Mr. Harrington did not accom pany them. They signed the following state ment for tbe press: "We regret to be obliged to continue to maintain absolute silence In tho circumstances of the present moment. Wo havo cabled our approval to the choice of Mr. Justin SIcCartby as Chairman or the Irish National party, and our earnest hope is tbat oar colleagues and our people may see the way to acquiesce in that cboice.and thus restore the priceless blessing of unity in our party. Whatever additional com munication we may find ourselves at liberty to make to the public will be made collectively, and will not be made so long as we can see any possibility of saving our country from a ruin ous conflict. We would prefer tbat our views should suffer by our holding our tongues, rather than that tbe possibilities of unity should bo prejudiced by a single injudicious word at tbis painful moment." A United States Marshall HI. Madison", Wis., Dec 7. General Georgo C. Glnty, of Chippewa Falls, United States Mar shal, is critically 111 here, His wife has been summoned. OUR MAIL POUCH. Organization or Annihilation. ' To tbe Editor or Tbe Dlsnatch: A once powerful trade is drifting peacef ally on the current which is carrying it, unresisted, toward annihilation the ship is beading straight for the rocks in broad daylight. To drop all figure, tbe forces that led to tbe great shut-down movement of 18S7 are more powerful to-day than ever, but they seem to bo recognized only to be ignored. Whatever benefits the producer received from that move ment havo completely disappeared, but short lived as they have proved, they were well worth all tbe labor and sacrifice involved in tbem, be cause tbey taught tho producer the need and the value of organization a lesson be was slow to learn, and which, sad to say, he seems to have already forgotten. Along continuance of excessive stocks led to the shutdown. The men who organized it believed that these stocks were the only ob stacle standing between the producer and per manently better prices. Tbe labor and sacri fice, tbe loyalty and patient work, that reduced tbe stocks from 32,000,000 barrels to 10,000,000 barrels are matters of history, and the results of tbe movement may be said to have been operative up to the present year, which ha falsified every hope of the permanence of better prices, and to-day tbe quotation is within 2cents a barrel of tbat current at tbe time tbe shut down was ordered, despite the fact that since then 22,500,000 barrels have been wiped out, and that the present stock of 0.500,000 barrels Is scarcely equal to four months' consumption. Why, then, does the price continue to de cline? Why does the producer stand forth to the world only as a man drifting steadily to ruin without making any visible effort to stem the "evil tide of circumstances" which carries him further and further away from prosperity? The answer to butb of these questions is plain; these evils are tbe result of the lack of organ izationnot organization simply in name, but effective, comprehensive and aggressive organ ization, able to command tbe producer's loyalty and respect by showing that it has sufficient strength to protect bis interests, and ability to devise plans for bis improvement. Tbe great good accomplished by the Producers' Pro tective Association in the past entitles it to lasting respect, but,as it exists at present, it may be 4aid, without intending any offense, that it gives no sign of being aware of tbe crisi3 which Is npon the oil trade; and if the noble spirits who guided it in tho past are from any cause de barred from leadership cow, then let us hope that their mantles will fall on others equally capable and courageous, who will rouse tbe oil producers from tbeir lethargy, and, recogniz ing existing dangers, havo wisdom to devise a remedy and courage to put it into execution. Theso aro days when nothing is so effective as organization, and when nothing can succeed without it. Whatever need there was in 1ES7 for a Producers' Association there is a four fold greater need to-day. Precisely ten months ago oil was selling at 3167; now, with 750, 000 barrels less stock, the price is 64c, and the next week may see It GO cents, or tbe next month SO cents, so far as tbe producer is con cerned, for he is utterly without voice as to the value of his own property. Organization says what pries it will pay him, and for tbe past ten months it has elected to pay him just a trifle less for every fresh purchase, and if to-morrow Organization should say to him that they had decided upon an inflexible price, and tbat price to be 23 cents a barrel, tho producer would bave no more power to get IS cents than he bas to-day to get 70 cent, and as a consequence be would keep on drilling, if he could do it on credit, and sell his oil at the Organization figure of 23 cents a barrel. This hypothesis is perhaps a trifle strained, but it is nevertheless directly in line with existing facts, and is a position which could, as a matter of fact, bo brought about any day. and all the producers from Allegheny to Marietta could not prevent it in their present unorganized helplessness. All talk of new and Independent pipe lines and refineries as a core for the present ills is to be deprecated; even If practicable, any help from itwouldbetoo remote, and as to shipping oil to Europe byway of Mississippi river, the scheme might be worthy of a smile if the sub ject itself were less painful. The only remedy for present ills, and pre ventive of even worse in the future, is through organization headed by able and honest men, to be followed by the entire stoppage of new work tor at least tbree months, and the placing of all production In the bands of the Executive Committee for sale An organized buyer will then be met by an organized seller, who shall not only be a factor in the bargain, but shall have a controlling voice as to bow mucb of his commody shall be produced. Some audi plan as this will change tbe aspect of affairs, and unless it Is adopted speedily the producers had better apply at once to tbo North and Suuth Fenn Oil Companies for a flgnro to sell out upon, and with tbe market in the present shape, tbey will probably find tbat tbeir voice bas no more potence in making prices for oil territory than it bas determining tbe value of the oil itself. Producers and gentlemen! The Standard Oil Company bave shown von the virtnes of crystallization and cohesion. 'Imitate their ex ample, and do it promptly, if yon are at all de sirous of continuing in tbe business. You cut down the new work in tbe field 20 per cent, or nearly so, last month, but although you could sell your product in the exchanges at 80c a barrel in the early part of the month, you can not get 65c on December G at tho close of tho market. You may repeat tbe 20 per cent de cline in new work tbis month, and by the same method of figuring have to tako 60c for your oil 30 days hence. Tbis is the precise ratio for the past 30 days, and it is logical to snppose that like causes will again produce like results; the compression process has brougbt the market down 4.1 cents a barrel In ten months, and you have made no resistance and uttered no audible protest. As a conse quence there is every probability tbat such a pretty and unopposed game will be played for some time longer, in fact it is almost certain. Producers and gentlemen! The remedy for your ills is within your grasp. If you decline to use it you simply invito disaster, and such invitations are generally accepted. Oroanizer. Oil City, Pa., Dec. 0, 1S90. A Statement From tho Other Side. To the Editor or Tbe Dispatch: I noticed in your paper of to-day an article in which Messrs. Turner and Rae, labor agita tors, make some very untruthful statements. Turner says the companies have lost 52,000,000; that tbey operate seven collieries and the out put was 7,000 tons a day; and tbat tbo number of miners employed was 2,700. Also, that 100 men are now employed and 1,300 tons of coal mined per dicin. And Rae says the coal is costing the companies S3 a ton. It would bo very interesting, indeed, to know how they obtained tbis information! Certainly not from tbe companies, who only have the data from which reliable conclusions can be drawn. Rae and Watchorn do not agreo in theirfigures.it seems, because quite recently Watchorn published as a fact tbat the coal was costing 27 a ton. Mr. Rae would have a con tract on hand to provo from the books of the company that tho coal is costing even one-third of $3 a ton in the railroad cars ready for ship ment. Thus they delude their follower. That the companies bave 1o.h $2,000,000 by the strike is the veriest nonsense. However, let the amount lost by tbem be asanmed at any figures, then have not tbe miners been much the greater losers, since the amount tbey re ceive In wages is more than eight times the amount of profit the companies realize on the product of the collieries? But tho miners are not striking now. They have been at work for months. The writer is connected with only one com pany the Westmoreland operating three collieries. As a matter of fact, tbe number of miners employed by this company prior to the strike was fewer than 900, and tbe number of tons of coal shioped each day about 2,500. The Penn Gas Coal Company employed about tbe same number and mined aboat the same quan tity of coal. Yesterday there were 6S8 miners at work in the Westmoreland Company's mines and 1,878 tons of lump coal were shipped, not to mention nut and slack. These are stub born facts. Mr. Turner's figures were given as fancy dictated. There are no miners in want here no cases of destitution. There are no miners idle. All who were not re-employed by the companies have gone elsewhere to work. A. N. Humphreys, Asst. Supt. Irwin. Pa, DecIL Pennsylvania's Ponal Institutions. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Please let me know in The DlSFATcn how many penitentiaries there aro in this State, and where they are. C. Ray Jones. Kane, Pa., Dec. 5. There are three at Allegheny, Huntingdon and Philadelphia. A HEBREW WEDDING Celebrated Last Evening on Watson Street, at the Bride's Home. At the residence of J. Wizansky, No. 40 Wat son street, last evening occurred tho wedding of bis niece. Miss Jeannette Goldstein, and Mr. L. Myers, of Homestead. The ceremony was 'performed in the presence ef a large number of friends, and tbe house was crowded with merry makers. The wedding arrangements were in charge of Messrs. S. Baum and D. S. Pringle. Those present from otberplaces were: Mesrs: Charles Stewart, John F. Cox, 'Squire Oeffner, Dr John Osborn, David Davis, Peter Oeffner andSamuel Matkiwitz, of Homestead; I. Simon and wife, of West Newton, and A. Sklrball, of Jeannette. The Kendalls Beat a Record. NEW York, Dec 7. The Kendalls clnsed their New York engagement of eight weeks at the Fifth Avenue Theater last night The re ceipts exceeded (80,000. Tbis is said to be the greatest engagement ever played by foreign stars in tbat length ot time. FISHING FOB THE ALLIANCE. The Democratic Party May Arrange to Ab sorb the Wily Farmers. Ocala, Fi,a., Dec. 7. There has been a large amount of committee work going on to-day which will facilitate the convention work to morrow, and it Is predicted that more real business will be done than during all the pre vious sessions put together. Before adjournment last night Washington was decided upon as tbe place, and tbe third Tuesday In November as the time, for holding the next annual meeting of the National Alli ance. Strong efforts, it is said, will be made to-morrow to revoke this action and make In dianapolis tbe place, with considerable hopo of success. Prejudice against Washington has been excited by Westerners here. An opinion is gaining ground here that the national leaders of the Democratic party have many lobbyists here in their interest, and that the policy of the Alliance In many respects will be influenced by them, notably In the case of the sub-Treasury bill. That measure is now under consideration by the National Alliance. The Alliance Ocala platform could, it is pre dicted, secure absolute adoption by tbe Na tional Democratic convention and this, with tbe indorsement of a modified sub-treasury bill, would place the Democratic party squarely upon the Farmer's Alliance platform. In tbis way it would gain tbe support of tbe entire Alliance and Democratic votes throughout the country. A CASE OF BEAIN AMPUTATION, A Portion Which Oozed Out of a Child's Wounded Head Is Removed. Chicago, Dec 7. A patient will leave the county hospital this week who bas undergone one of the most remarkable cases of brain am putation tbat has ever taken place in Chicago. Last August 4-year-old Mamie Brown was ad mitted to the hospital, suffering from a fracture of the skull. The entire left side of the bead bad been crushed in by tbe kick of a horse. A trephining operation was performed. No HI effects were noticed for several days, when a curious growth was observed on the head above anti behind tbe right ear. A close Investigation showed that the dura matter, or tough membrane covering the brain, had been fractured and the brain was forcing its way through the aperture and out through tho fractured skull. Enough forced its way oat to form a lump larger than a walnut. It was seen tbat an attempt to replace the brain would be useless, and it was decided to remove it The operation was in every way successful. Little Mamie rallied from tbe operation and was soon able to be running around tbe wards. She lost none of her faculties. THE HERO OF THE CONGO. Explorer Stanley to Lecture Here Under tho Auspices of the Press Clnb. At 10 o'clock this morning tbe sale of seats for the Stanley lecture at Old City Hall next Monday night will open at Kleber's music store. Wood street A rush' Is anticipated, but tbe ball is a large ono and precautions havo been taken to guard against speculators. Stan ley's personal narrative of his wondorfal Afri can adventures bas created a popular sensation wherever it has been delivered, and judging by tbe Interest displayed In Pittsburg thus far in advanco of his coming, it is safe to say tbat a perfect ovation awaits the great explorer. Efforts have already been made to secure Stanley for a return date, bat bis time has been fully booked for months in advance, and there is every reason to believe that Fittsburgers will bave their onlv opportunity to hear the "Hero of the Congo" on the evening of Mon day, December 15. Information concerning the prices of seats, etc. will be found in tbe adver tising column of TnE Dispatch. FOE ags: SI0N W0EK. The Children of St. Mark's Mission GIvo a Pretty Entertainment. An interesting programme of sacred reci tations, dialogues and songs was given last night at the St Mark's English Lutheran Mission, Third street, Allegheny, by the Children's Missionary Society. The special features were a consecration class of 11 of the little girls from the Sabbath school and several dialogues of a number of the little boys. These meetings are held every two months, and last night was tbe third. Sixty members were en rolled at the first meeting, and CO more were added at the second meeting. Last night 28 new members joined. Yesterday morning the pastor. Rev. O. B. King, gave a comparison of tho lives of Esau and Jacob. This was the first of a series of sermons which be will givo on tbe lives of Isaac and Rebeccx THE TEMPEBANCE WOBKEES. Two Enthusiastic Cold Water Meetings Held Last Night In Allegheny. The temperance meeting in tho "Little Jim" Church on Rebecca street, Allegheny, last night was well attended. A. M. Brown was in charge, and was assisted by James Horry, Will iam Caskey, William Blackstono and J. W. Moreland. The music was led by an excellent choir. This was the second of the meetings in this church, and tbe promoters teel greatly en couraged. Tbe work will bo kept up all winter. The attendance at tbo Sons of Temperance meeting at 63 Ohio street, Allegheny, last night, shows tbat the interest in these meetings is growing. The ball was crowded. Speeches were made by H. Hershberger, Parker Marshall, R. Dain and others. A BANKRUPT STATE. San Luis Potosi, In Mexico, in Had Financial Shape. City of Mexico, Dec 7. It is rumored that tho Government of the State of San Luis Po tosi is running behind in its financial affairs. It is also stated that the tamous Conception mine in that State is narrowing down, and that the European stockholders are throwing tbeir shares on tbe market THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. New York Evening Telegram (Dem.): At present their organization is a formidable fac tor in politics; what it will be in 1832 remains to be seen. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.J: The Farmers' Alliance appears to be greasing itself for the purpose of being swallowed by the Democratic party. Boston Herald (Dem.): The Farmers' Al liance was wiso in unanimously denouncing the Lodge force bill. Its well-known object is to count Republicans in, regardless of the way the votes are cast The farmers who have broken away from the Republicanparty would be fools to support any such bill. Atlanta Constitution (Dem.): It Is a matter tbat may be dear to the hearts of certain West ern Alliance men, who have been converted into Democrats, but who dislike the name of Democrat, bat tbe movement is impracticable in all its part. It cannot and will not be en dorsed by tho Southern Alliance men. CHICAGO Tribune tUep.): Thus fartho move ment is Western. The East is not in it The South does not tako kindly to a third party, and will not unless tho Democrats can dominate it It does not need the gift of prophecy to foretell that the third party movement will be ephemeral. Political parties whose organiza tion is limited to a single class, seeking class legislation, bave never succeeded. ALBANY Argus (Dem.): It Is useless to charge the Farmers' Alliance with being In fluenced by Democratic Senators. Tne mem bers of tho Florida convention simply repre sent the overwhelming force of public opinion in regard to tbo force bill. Tbe madness of Republican partisanship in Washington seems to have deprived the leaders of tbe discredited party of tho last glimmering ot common sense. Philadelphia Hecord (Dem.): In regard to tho practicability of organizing a third party on this strange conglomerate of political prin ciples a great deal of doubt appears to exist in the minds ot the Alliance leaders at Ocala. Experience has taught them that a third party has seldom enjoyed much vitality In this coun try unless it has arisen upon the ruins of one of the existing parties, as tbe Republicans suc ceeded the Whigs. New York Sun (Dem.): Whatever political unions it may form, tho 'Alliance is at present a body of farmers who want to get from the Government "what money they need upon tho security ot their real property." Now. tho Alliance farmers cannot expect to enjoy the privilege of borrowing money from the United States at a nominal rate of inter est, and giving their farms as security, unless they give persons in other occupations some equal privilege. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (Rep.): One can faintly imagine the confusion that must have arisen in the mind of Lord Dun dreary had he read the call of the Farmers Alliance people for a new party to decide "who in this country Is tho sovereign, tbe citizen or the dollar." We fancy we hear him exclaim, witn his inimitable stutter and lisp: "How how widiculonth thatitbl A dollar ith about four shllllngtb; ith It not? Th-then howc-can a dollar be a thoTereign?" CURI00S CONDENSATIONS. Opium kills about 160,000 persons an nually In China. There are 500 newspapers published in tbe State of Texas. The factories of England, France, Ger many, and Holland produce about 87.000,000 pins dally. For every 15 yards we descend into tha earth the temperature increases about, 10 Fahrenheit A novel dinner card is a chunk of paper pnlp. with a little flower painted on it in water color, and the name appended. The sewers of Paris are about 2,625,417 feet In length, and the amount expended each year on streets is abont $3,000,000. The latest news from Stratford-on-Avoa Chnrch is that crosses are being sold there, made from tbe woud of tbe old gallery. Tbe engines of the large ocean steamers make about 250,000 turns in crossing the At lantic between New York and Liverpool. The credit of being the first place where tbe lymph was used in this country goes to Yala College The crimson must dip its colors. A West End, London, bootmaker has had an order from an American patroness for several pairs of boots and slippers to be en crusted with precious stones. Soni? German newspapers are venerable with age. The Frankfort Journal is 261 years old; the Madgeburg Zeitung is 212 years old, and 08 others are over 100 years old. There is just one-fifth as much nutri ment in quail on toast as in the same quantity of weak mutton broth; and there is even more difference in the price of tbe two articles. In 1S94 it will be 1.000 years since Hun gary was established as an Independent Govern ment There is a movement among the Hun garians to celebrate tbat anniversary with great pomp. A wet silk handkerchief tied, without folding, over the face is a complete security against suffocation from smoke; it permits free breathing, and, at tbe same time, excludes the smoke from the lungs. Aout 20 years ago the Japanese author, Kioyte Bakin, completed a novel upon which he had been at work for SS years. It comprises 106 volumes, and is said to illustrate all classes of Japanese society and life. The most expensive legislature in the world is that of France. It costs annually about 3.600,000. The Spanish Parliament costs S230.000; the Italian, S43O.000: the Belgian, $200, 000; the Portuguese, SloO.OOO. The Salvation Army has a revenue of 5750,000 a year. The lYar Cry has a circulation of 300.000 a week, and there are close on 30 newspapers at home and abroad attached to the service of tbo organization. There must be an inexhaustible supply of dogs somewhere in Barman. Tbe municipal ity of Manaalay bas been killing tbem at tbe rate of 2,000 in a month, and vet there is said to be no diminution of the numbers. A Russian peasant named KamischeS entered tbe barn of a nsurer to whom he owed niouey. and hanged himself upon tbo door, writing upon it with chalk the words: "This pays off my indebtedness to you." So serious has the plague of rabbits be come in New Zealand that a mercantile com pany connected with tbat country Is paying 7. 6d. apiece for stoats delivered, alive and m good condition, to certain agents in England. La Villa, Fla., boasts a snake charmer. His business is a dangerous one, bnt be pursues his calling day after day and makes consider able money. "He shipped 34 rattlesnakes to Chicago last week and sold tbem for 23 each." Parisians eat about 50,000 pounds of poultry each year; 333,000 oxen are slaughtered for their use, 203,000 calves, 2.000,000 sheen and 400.000 hogs. Sixty million pounds ol fish and 32,000.000 pound! of fruit must also be added to the list Man is the universal animal. It is esti mated that tbero is l,2CO,C0O,0GO of him on tho globe. The sheep rank next with 500.000,000; 3C0.000.OUO cattle; 100.000.000 bogs (the four footed variety), and 60,000,000 horses continue the list An Australian paper alleges that the late Earl of Carnarvon acquired 300.000 acres in Australia daring bis colonial tour o 1S87, that the Dnke of Sutherland owns 200.000 acres, the Duke of Manchester 150,000, and Lord Bras sey 10,000 in the same colony. A .Maine vessel pat into Gloucester, Mass., on Monday Having on board a novel cargo. It consisted of 4,200 Christmas trees. She had a deckload which filled her deck almost completely from stem to stem, present ing a solid mass of evergreen. German subjects are vaccinated in the early months of life, again on attaining the ago of 12, and all males a third time on entering upon their term of compulsory service in the army. Vaccination is always done with calfs lymph; never from arm to arm. Canadian sardines are to be brought to Eorope in hopes of competing with the Medi terranean and Breton product Immense quan tities ot sardines are caught on the New Bruns wick coast, and '.his year tbe yield is so largo that the fish are almost unsaleable. The Cherokees are probably the most in telligent of the American Indians. John Ross, the present Treasurer of the Cherokee nation; Bushyhead. Boudinot and others of them are college graduates or have been educated In tho East, and don't indulge in the Sioux ballet An extraordinary incident occurred in tbe court of the Deputy Commissioner of Hoshangabad. Japan, recently. A man walked up to the dias where tbe magistrate was sitting heanng a case, and banded bim something; wrapped upm a plpalleaf, which, when opened, was found to contain his wife's noe, the bus band having come in to take the consequences of his act The total annual income of the gaming tables of Monte Carlo is about 20,000,000 francs, or in the neighborhood of 54.000.000. A roulette table shows an average daily profit of from 51,000 to 51,230. and occasionally, when a reck less player bas been patting down tbe maxi mum stake-, the table's winnings will amount to 513 000. Eignt of these tables were in action at Monte Carlo throughout the busiest part of last season. The Imperial Court of Leipsic, which is now tbe supreme tribunal in Germany, has just given judgment in a case which has been pro ceeding for nearly 200 years. It is a suit which was commenced early in the last century by tho Free Hanse Town of Labeck against the gov ernment of Mecklenburg with the object of ob taining a declaration that the said town has the sole privilege of free navigation and fishery in several rivers and lakes. Lubeck's claim is founded on a charter of the Emperor Bar-barossa. WIT IN SEASON. A seaside engagement, Alicia, is like politician after election, because It Is always "broke." Boston Traveller. "What was your objection to my prede cessor, King Totem?" asked the missionary. "He was a person of very bad taste," returned the cannibal, making a wry face. Seto York Herald. "This is regular fall weather," remarked the wit: -the leaves are falling, thennts are fall ing, and the rain is railing." "Humph!" growled paterfamilias, "but coal isn't" JJarper's Hazar. Employer On what grounds do yon ask lor a promotion? Employe On the ground that the laborer U worthy of bis higher. Minneapolis Journal. It is a peculiar fact tbat the black sheep or the family almost Invariably leaves borne and gets fleeced. Sew 1'orlc Herald. Swosher Great Scctt. man, you look as though you had been wrestling with a cyclone! Where have you been? Tlnglcr Worse than tbat! I displayed a JI0 bill at a church falr!-ifoto Traveller. The Judge Officer Grady, please arresl Lawyer Case's attention. Grady Yea, sor, av you'll please make out In warrant Spare Moments. Hofltnnn Howes The world owes every one a living, doesn't It?" Temple Court Ol coarse it does. JioUuiiu Howes Well, collect mine from it lot me, and I'll give you hair." Harper's Hazar. A voun? man borne from college, wishing to Inspire bis little sister with awe for bis learn ing, pointed to a star, and said: "Sis. aoyon see that bright little laminarj'I' I bigger than this whole world." 'So 'taint" said Sis. "Yes, It Is, " declared the young colleslan. Then why don't It keep off the rain?" was the triumphant rejoinder. Spare Moments. time Esocan yet. "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "I'm going to Sunday school, sir," she said. "Can I iro with you. my pretty maid?" She laughed and roguishly shook her head. "You've a week ot two to spare, " said she, "And then can be in on tbo Christmas tree?" Sea l'ort Herald; jJ&axxztMmu $!Lk&,:.tMt. '-'Irfciriirit r imiililiMiTliii
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