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SALARIES AND ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
A contributor, in another column, pre
sents a series of questions to The Dis
patch, in connection with the projects for
the improvement of country roads, which
are obviously in criticism of the proposition.
Our correspondent also gives his criticisms
a wider scope by referring to the proposed
increase of the salaries ot county officials
under the new census returns.
Without attempting to reply to our corre
spondent's questions seriatim, we will say
that The Dispatch will undoubtedly op
pose any "looting" scheme or one which is
simply for the purpose of multiplying the
list of high-salaried county and State
officials. But there can hardly be any work
in which the expenditure of public funds is
more legitimate, or will yield more direct
returns to the people than in its honest
and economical application to the con
struction of good highways. If that work is
simply to be made a pretext for jobbery
it will be the fault of our politics; hut even
that result ought cot to prevent good citi
zens from favoring the work done in an
honest manner, any more than unpleasant
features in the police system would justify
a proposal to abolish police protection alto
gether. Moreover, it is hardly proper to
take it for granted that the project will be
one for the multiplication of fat offices or
extravagant expenditures, until there is
come evidence to that effect in the measures
proposed.
Onr correspondent makes it a foregone
conclusion that the work of road improve
ment will be placed in the hands of a num
ber of new and highly paid officials and re
moved from the custody of the local authori
ties. Yet the editorial which called out his
communication was a discussion of the clan
reported by a committee of the Road Com
mission which avoids these faults to a re
markable degree. It does not create a sin
gle new salaried county or State position.
It proposes to create township road commis
sions which are to be unsalaried. So far from
taking the work out of the hands of the
township officials, it leaves all the work in
their hands and provides for the payment to
them of the county and State aids to road
construction to be applied by them in the
actual work. This pkn would probably in
crease the dnties of county engineers and
thus warrant an increase in their salaries,
hut with that allowed for, its entire freedom
from the dangers suggested by our corre
spondent seem to afford the most complete
answer to all his questions.
As to the increase in the salaries of Alle
gheny county officials, that is so distinct
from the question of road improvement that
we need cot discuss it further than to say
that when the question comet up in any
practical shape for public decision The
Dispatch will be found to stand against
the payment of extravagant salaries any
where.
THE RAILROAD COMBINATION.
Mr. Gould's railroad presidents have got
down to business and formulated their plan
of action, which is announced as the regula
tion of competitive traffic by a board com
posed of presidents and other officers of each
road. This may not be pooling in the strict
interpretation of the law, but is calculated
to effect pretty much the same results. It is
an evasion of the law and is in the line laid
down beforehand by Mr. Gould as the
spokesman for the Standard Oil-Gould
combination.
The intent of this arraneement is only too
plain. But it is worth while to cote one
feature of the agreement, namely, the pro
Tision that after a certain time any road
may withdraw after 90 days' notice. This
is evidently intended for Mr. Gould's con
venience. If it shonld occur to him that
he needs another railroad in his business at
some time in the near future he can pull out
of the agreement and cut rates until the
property is cheap enough to buy. Stability
of railroad rates is desirable to Mr. Gould
just so long as that stability serves his
purposes. Stability is also desirable to the
public, as the combiners say, but only when
the rates are equitable and moderate.
The contempt shown for the spirit of the
law on the part ol the railroad presidents is
the chief element of strength in the demands
for more and stronger laws to control the
railroads. The presidents may be able to
run things to suit themselves for a time, but
the more arbitrary they are, the sooner will
they be shorn of their power. And this is
about the only consolation the average citi
zen may have in the contemplation of such
movements as those of the Gould party.
SOUND SENSE FROM MICHIGAN.
The action of the Michigan State Grange
in oppoiing the indorsement by the National
Grange and Farmers' Alliance, of the plans
for loaning large issues of Treasury notes
directly to the people, shows that however
the farmers of other Slates may be deluded
by such chimerical schemes, the Michigan
organization is controlled by the principles
of good sense and sound policy.
The resolution adopted by that body is as
compact a summary of the evils of the pro
posed policy as could be made It points
out that the greatest demoralization would
be inflicted on the class the policy is in
tended to benefit It "would lead to a wild
clamor for credit," would necessarily pro
duce partiality and favoritism in the distri
bution of the loans, "first to personal friends
of the loaning agent, and next to his
political associates," would create "a hope
less dependence on the Governmental
aid" finally "leadj to thriftless im
providence" among the recipients
of such loans. These results
are. plain enough to all impartial observers
who have given the subject any thought;
but it is especially valuable to have so
strong and pertinent a statement of them
from a representative body of the farmers
themselves. With this interposition of
sound sense on behalf of the class which is
represented as demanding these measures,
we have no doubt that the turn of the tide
of' economic lunacy will soon become ap
parent. Indeed, the wish might be expressed that
the Michigan farmers could be given the
power to inject the same vigorous and con
servative sense into the rules of financial
policy at New Xork and Washington. As
they have so energetically declared that
Government credit should not be used to
nurse and bolster up their own class,'we
have no doubt that they would be equally
clear-sighted in declaring that it must not
be used to aid and protect Wall street from
the results of its own recklessness or worse
vices. This plain deliverance indicates that
the Michigan farmers would be able to prej
sent a cogent statement why the financial
center of the nation should not continue
its condition of improvidence and depend
ence on its Government credit, and why the
Government should not actually increase its
debt to help the financial magnates of the
country out of their self-woven traps.
Messrs. Windom, Sherman and the Kew
York bankers seem to be wof ully in need of
such instruction as theMichigan farmers
are able to give them.
It is a sound doctrine that so far as
Government credit is concerned each indus
try and interest must learn to stand alone.
If the farmers take the wise resolution that
they will do so, they have the right to de
mand that Wall street and the corporate
financiers shall do the same.
THE PULPIT AND THE STAGE.
The Sev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon has
long earned fame as a clergyman who is 1n
the habit of doing his thinking for himself,
and, when he reaches a conclusion, of show
ing no hesitancy in saying what he thinks.
During his stay in this city his disposition
to carry out that rule of conduct was mani
fested to such an extent as to make it a sub
ject of regret that he did not become a per
manent resident of the city. But in his
present charge at Norwich, Conn., he has
been manifesting the same trait on the sub
ject of the relations of the church to the the
ater in a manner that traverses the tradi
tions and precedents to a remarkable degree.
The matter came up in a manner to at
tract an especial degree of public attention,
because during the process of construction
of an opera house in the little city of Nor
wich the resort to Sunday work to
hasten the completion of the edifice
brought out a protest from Dr. Bacon, from
the pulpit, which without any report of his
language, we may presume to have been
couched in vigorous terms. After this pre
lude, the announcement when the Opera
House was finished that Dr. Bacon wonld
preach a sermon the subject of the theater,
raised expectation of a strong and comment
ary pulpit deliverance. These expectations
were disappointed, but a more novel surprise
was given the congregation. For Dr.
Bacon declared that, as a minister of the
gospel, he was glad to extend an open wel
come to the new theater if it was to be a
place where pure amusement would be pro
vided for the people, under every possible
safeguard against corruption and abuse.
Here are a few of his reported words:
We have got to look tbe facts in tbe face, and
recognize that the old sweeping condemnation
of the theater, once universal among earnest,
pure and faithful men, was founded on a state
of facts which no longer exists; that there has
been a change in the tbeater itself, in its plays,
in its personnel. There was a time, not so very
long ago, when the name of actress was a
synonym for infamy. To-day the man who
should make such a presumption as that against
tbe character of a lady devoted to this trying
and perilous profession would be guilty of a
wicked calumny. In view of these chanees in
the tbeater, for the Church to maintain its old
attitude ot condemning all indiscriminately
would be cot consistent hut bigoted Inconsist
ency. v
Other clergymen have given indications
of holding a similar view; but few in the de
nomination to which Dr. Bacon belongs
have avowed it in the public and vigorous
way which he has adopted. We hardly
need say that his position is the correct one,
and is moreover the only one that is founded
in reason. There are theatrical perform
ances which are as pure and harmless as
any work of literature or art can be, and
there are others which are unwholesome and
demoralizing, with all their gradations be
tween the two extremes. Everyone con
versant with the theater knows that there is
just the same difference between them as
there is between a novel of Miss Yonge's
and one of Zola's. But the importance of a
declaration from the pulpit like Dr. Bacon's
lies in the encouragement that it gives to
the better class of dramas and the influence
that it will exert toward decreasing the cro
portion of unwholesome and demoralizing
theatrical performances.
One of the most gratifying developments
of the stage in' late years has been the
growth in pure and clean performances and
the proof that such plays can command the
most desirable patronage. Without taking
into consideration the question of Shakes
cerean revivals the popularity of comic
operas of the "Pinafore" and "RobinHood,"
class, and tbe steady hold upon the public of
modern comedies with the range from
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" to Hazel Kirke,
nave proved that a pure and wholesome
stage is profitable as well as creditable. If
tbe influence of the Christian Church is
thrown, as Dr. Bacon tries to throw it, m to
the support of such dramas and against the
unhealthy and impure class, is there any
doubt that the desirable tendency will re
ceive a stimulus of the greatest possible
strength ?
Praise is due to this outspoken clergyman
for having disregarded the precedents of his
denomination and drawing the line on tbe
support of the theater by Christians exactly
where it ought to be drawn. If the pro
gressive element among the clergy will fol
low his example it will have the greatest
effect in aiding the elevation of the stage
and in reducing to a minimum its injurious
features.
A PASSE PREDICTION.
In his interview at Chicago, the other
day, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew 'is reported to
have abjured his usual congenial nature
and to have assumed the functions of a Cas
sandra to the following extent:
There will not be an investor or a business man
in this country by June i, 1S92, who will not
have eVery hair on his bead, if he has any,
standing on end; and if he has none the roots
will begin to sprout, on account of the vagaries
of the next Democratic Congress.
It is quite probable that the heavy major
ity of the Democrats in the next House may
betray them into reckless and injnrious
measures, and thus do themselves (he most
harm. Bnt notwithstanding' that probabil
ity there are several considerations which
might suggest to Mr. Depew and other or
gans of straight Republicanism that it will
be discreet to wait until these vagaries have
manifested themselves. Merely as a.matte
of policy,-the idea might suggest iteeif. that
there is no better way of keeping the Demo
crats on their guard against suicidal vagaries
than the trumpeting of such prophecies over
.the country, a year before the Democratic
House can get to work.
But there is a more cogent reason for
keeping such prophecies in reserve. It is
that the habit of predicting hair-raising and
destructive business results from Democratic
supremacy has been indulged in so often by
the Republicans that it has become thread
bare. Every campaign has heard these
predictions, but, so far, the verification has
been far below the most unsatisfactory per
centage yielded by the Signal Service's
vaticinations. Cleveland's election was to
have produced a business panic, if we mis
take cot, on the authority of Mr. Depew;
but singularly enough the troubles not only
escaped the Cleveland administration, but
actually came to pass at the time when the
Republican party controlled all branches of
the Government. The habit ot crying
"wolf 1" on this very point has been carried
so far by Republican leaders and organs
that no one pays any attention to it now,
and will not be likely to, even if there
should come a time when the alarm is well
founded. Beyond that it seems that it would be dis
creet for Mr. Depew to have suppressed this
prediction concerning his political adver
saries, because if the business men and
investors have any hair to raise, it must
already have rivaled the fretful porcupine
from the vagaries that have taken the form
of legislation actually introduced in the
Republican Congress. If the Democrats
can devise aqy more hair-erecting measures
than those precious bills introduced by such
Republicans as Senators Ingalls, Stanford
and Hiscock, "by request," they will cer
tainly deserve credit for a remarkable and
hitherto unsuspected ingenuity. In view of
the vagaries which have found advocates
among the great lights of his own party Mr.
Depew would be wise to pull the beam out
of the Republican eye before giving his
exclusive attention to putative and as yet
unformed motes in the Democratic optic.
The resort to this prediction by Repub
licans is the worst sort of politics, simply
because it has been worn so threadbare that
its force was exhausted long ago.
The Chicago Herald in au article on
"What People Should Read" asserts "very lit
tle poetry is read nowadays." Although this
reads somewhat in the style of an article on the
fashions, it may afford an explanation of tbe
fact that very little real poetry Is written now
adays. Sitting Bull was not a good Indian
while living and in bis case the old saw will
apply. Be gave Uncle Sam a great deal of
trouble at different times, perhaps as much as
he could with the means at his command. It
is probable that bis death will cause the ghost
dances to assume a less warlike aspect. Sitting
Bull's ability was the one redeeming feature
about him and as that was used principally to
stir up trouble it may not appear to have been
any advantage. His death was 2. lawless inci
dent in keeping with bis life. He became fa
mous and execiated through an attempt to set
government authority at caught and he died in
an effort to escape from tbe officers of the Gov
ernment. His sons having been killed in tbe
effort to assist the father's escape tbe Bull
family may be considered, as disposed of and
out of the way. Some of the chief mischief
makers are dead and there is no reason to doubt
f nil rations for the rest of the winter will settle
the threatened Indian outbreak.
Shall the safe blowing and burglary ep
idemic in the vicinity of Saratoga be charged
to the desperation of the impecunious visitor,
or tbe inducements of tbe large profits sup
posed to be made in reducing the opulent to
impecunlosity?'
It is rather surprising to find, in a dis
cussion of tbe loss of population by various
Pennsylvania towns, including Uniontown, by
the Philadelphia Inquirer, that journal saying:
"Lewisburg, Uniontown, West Chester and
some other Pennsylvania towns would no doubt
be much bigger than they are to-day for the
presence of mills, foundries and factories."
This displays a lack of Information to the effect
that while Uniontown was a pleasant though
somnolent country town in 1880, it is now sur
rounded by coke works, with a rolling mill
right on the border of the town. Possibly these
establishments are all ontside the borough
limits, but- still to anyone who visited that
place jn 1880, and has been there of late years,
tbe statement that it has lost over a thousand
.population will be one of the surprising
features of this remarkable census.
The railroad Presidents were at work
yesterday to realize their hope of abolishing
competition, and squeezing tbe public for
higher rates. With Mr. Jay Gould's band on
the lever, the probability that the squeeze will
be vigorous is very tangible.
Rising wheat last week is asserted by the
Philadelphia Press to be "an indication of the
Increasing demand which attends greater pros
perity." Is it so or is it an indication of the
decreasing supply which, as it means dearer
bread, can hardly be deemed prosperity? In
the meantime, the succeeding editorial para
graph oC the Press that "free silver coinage
will mean free rum to the country" is an indi
cation that the doctrine of prosperity from
rising prices only apdles where our cotem
porary wishes it to.
The fire-escape law is cot to be a dead
letter. That is the platform adopted by the
Department of Public Safety, and It is a good
one. Let every building of three stones or
more be provided with these safeguards against
cremation.
The fact that Buffalo Bill's Indians all
turn ont to be good Indians in tbe trouble at
the Sioux reservation cot only gives the lie to
an old proverb, but suggests that notwith
standing reports of their nnfalr treatment,
their travels under the guidance of Hon. Will
iam F. Cody have been of value to them. itb
all due protests against their real-treatment, it
might have a healthy effect on the Indian mint)
to send them all on foreign trips in connection
with circus and Wild West shows.
Of course the object of the mower and
reaper makers' combine is the reaping of the
profits from tbe farmers' harvest.
It is interesting to observe that the New
York Press has joined the New York -Herald
in booming Charles A. Dana for tbe New York
Senatorsbip. One consideration is strongly in
favor of Mr. Dana. Tbere is reason for the be
lief that if he were in the Senate he would edit
the Congressional Record so as to make it one
of the most readable, instead of one of the
dullest, publications of the country.
The policy of eviction in the office of
United Ireland seems to bavebeen harmonized
with a new plan ol campaign.
The Pennsylvania State Grange takes a
commendable stand In favor of the proposition
to Increase the State appropriation for com
mon schools and to make all children under
fourteen years go to school. No better pro
vision for tbe working class of the future can
be made than to found their prosperity on in
telligence and education.
Opinion Is taking firm root lu the East that
the panic is all ont of the financial situation.
Stanley is heartily received by Pittsburg
and tbe great explorer may be glad became
here to tell of the wonders of Africa. Just at
this juncture it might be well to suggest that
this famous visitor might go down to the Point
while here and see something as Interesting, if
cot as dangerous, as an African jungle, namely''
.tbe Eruositlon Eras wall v-j;. .... 'oSLv-va S
THE' PITTSBURG- DISPATOH,
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON,
OxtT two-story buildings escape the fire es
cape edict of the powers that be.
We like mystery, and like to solve mysteries,
don't we? If we could tear the veil away and
get a peep beyond the grave we would rend it
ruthlessly and crush the life out ot each other
to get the first loot, ot course. If it were a
stonewall which could only be removed by
bleeding fingers Instead of steel-tipped bars we
would claw it until tbe bared bones
left big marks on the blood-stained masonry.
Tbe pleasure of seeking the solution would
deaden the pain the solving of the problem
would soothe the suffering. Bnt the veil was
wove in a mighty loom, and the wall was built
so high, so thick, so strong, that the sharpest
and grandest pols at the hand of man will
neither cut a thread cor loose a stone. There
they stand between the Now and the
Then. There they will ever stand
while we pick and peck, peck and
pick, from the light to the darkness, from
the noon to the night. We look Into the dark
depths of the sea and long to read the mystery
there. If the dead eyes which seem to look up
through the green waters could gleam into
ours, if the closed lips under the white waves
could speak, if the cold fingers clutching the
shells and the - sands sould point the
way, we would jump Into the dark
waters and clasp the corpses, de
manding their secret the solution of the mys
tery. If the dwellers in the tombs spoke in
their sleep we would tear away the stones and
the sods, wrench off the coffin lids, and listen, In
tbe hope of clutching the key which would
unlock tbe casket containing the Se
cret. And still some search and strive.
In the gloomy cell. In the study, In
the laboratory, in the silence of tbe forests, in
the depths of the gorge-cut hills the thinker,
the teacher, the monk and the mystic, toll in
the dark for the light. But the dead eyes in
the green waters shine on the sands, the
sleepers dream not silence in sea and on
shore. Nothing breaks it but the cry of the
doubter for proof, and the babbling of the
dreamers who pick and peokat the veil and tbe
wall. Thus it was, it is, it ever shall be a
struggle for a sign, an actual anchorage for
hope, a glimpse of the light which faith feeds
with holy oiL Many are satisfied with the
promise, bnt many, too many, perhaps, clamor
for the sign, the proof positive.
Woken pay more attention
dresses than children.
to training
The punctual man is not cnt out for a waiter.
When a clock runs down it is wound up.
is a bank.
Bo
People who boast about their family tree
point with pride to the branches, but take
mighty good care to keep the roots cleverly
concealed.
Chicago la lull of Fair minded people just
at present.
The good actor always minds his own busi
ness. Sullivan is a striking example of the drift
of the modern drama.
If you don't want to be jostled in life's path
way keep up with the procession.
Evert Saturday we hear something about
the week In Wall street It's a weakly thing
now.
Morn's Bridal.
Out of the Night you come, shaking your
tresses
Till they are dried in tbe shine of the sun;
Back to the dim stars yon fling their caresses,
Rending a night robe the dew deftly spun.
Flowers look up, and the birds begin singing,
Shadowy shapes fade away at your feet;
Loosing the mist veil upon your face clinging
You smile on the spot where night and day
meet.
Fresh as the maiden from early bath leaping.
You rosily glowin th' soft golden light.
Blush when you find that tbe Sun-God is peep
ing. And tremblingly stand 'twlxt the day and the
night.
He greets you with gladness, you smile at
yonr fears.
Then joyous together you wander away;
Only the stars, as the night disappears,
Seem sad at the bridal of Morning and Day.
Sitting makes photographers tired, but
that's how they make their living.
Heroes carry scars made by swords and
cowards carry the scars made by pens.
A geeat deal of pressure is brought to bear
upon bteam boilers.
The dentist is continually cutting a tooth.
-When the force bill is dropped we will prob
ably hear something about a dull thud.
A woman cannot throw a stone successfully,
but, she can casta slur with neatness and dis
patch. Fat people are always looking for something
to lean on.
A huntee in the throes ot deer frignt
loaded his gun with pills instead of shot and
blazed away. He managed to clean out his
gun, at all events.
A close call Telephoning to your next door
neighbor.
Butohees make oo boces about greeting
their customers with cutting remarks.
Two Strikes is the troublesome Indian cow.
He may yet go the happy hunting ground on
balls.
We're Getting On.
How things have changed since we were boys.
Still upward we aspire;
Dolls talk, and add to baby's joys,
And time now comes by wire.
A Lucky man Pittsburg's Superintendent
of Schools. "
The city editors of newspapers have a great
deal ot local pride.
The eye. carries a ball, hence it's always
loaded for dears.
The young Pittsburg cowboys who ring door
bells with bullets are regular socs-of-guns.
Rev. Father Coyne's talk to theB, & O.
strikers has the right ring in it
Allegheny's cri&lnal record last Sunday
was not swollen by keeping the Carnegie
library open on that day after all.
PARNELLtook his kit to Kilkenny, bnt he
left Kitty in London.
When a man ignores water, soap and clean
clothing he's called eccentric, but with sensible
folk this won't wash.
What is home without something to put
initt
A sensational preacher in New York says
'the church is lor the people whoTare saved."
Where does tbe sinner come in T
A Renting Reminder.
Soon you'll get a billet dpux.
Which yon must not tear to pieces,
It will -only remind yon '
To renew your yearly leases.
A Geeman youth Is assaulting women with
a needle. This is a new method of sowing wild
oats.
Peettt soon tourists will not be able to see
Niagara Falls on account ot the bridges.
Progress before pleasure is the cry of the hour.
A dumb waiter is all right, bnt a deaf and
damb waiter will hardly fill tbe hill of fare.
When you retreat discreetly you only lose
ground, and it can be regained.
Don't blame the men who make the bad
books. But don't .spare those who read them.
Ip woman was cot regulated by rigid social
laws there's no telling where she would land.
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TUESDAY. DECEMBER
16,
it Is cot necessary to give her a ring. The ring
in your voice is sufficient.
People who are always looking behind are
afraid of seeing something ahead.
The rnles and regulations of a century ago
will not work now either Inside or outside the
churches.
The careful man feels bis way and is seldom
shocked by the unexpected.
Too much love may ourse the lovers.
A flower from a friend will fade, hut the
dead leaves will keep the memory, green.
You eannot judge people by their sighs.
It's the work ahead, not the work behind
that counts.
When Private Dalzell sets his traps he
usually lands his game. Census Superintendent
Porter bit ravenously, didn't he?
When conscience and faith fall out then
comes the tug of will.
The financial cloud has a silver lining, and Is
gilt edged, too. Willie Winkle.
P EHS0HAL P0IHTS.
Mrs. Jetferson Davis has received 45.000
subscriptions for the life of her .husband.
Jf bof. Sumner, of Yale, Is an Episcopalian
clergyman, though few people are aware of it.
Mrs. Belta Locewood hasltdecided that
she does not waot to be a candidate for Presi
dent. Robert Dale Owen is to be honored with
a $20,000 statue on the Smithsonian grounds in
Washington.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, will retire
from public life at the expiration of his
present term in 1893. He will then be 77 years
old.
Mr. John G. Whittier will spend his 83d
birthday at Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass., but he
says his strength is hardly equal to the fatigue
and excitement of a general reception.
Historian Bancroft is now seldom seen
ontside his residence at Washington, D. O.
Mr. Bancroft is in his 91st year and has aban
doned all literary work. He reads, however
and finds pleasure in it though he cannot re-;
member what hs reads more than 21 hours.
Mr. Ryan, the American Minister to Mexico,
who bas come to Washington in response to i.
summons from Secretary Blame, receives a
salary of $12,000, bnt he spends so imnch in bis
hospitable endeavors to maintain the dignity of
the United States at the Mexican capital that
he derives practically no pecuniary advantage
from the office.
At the recent golden anniversary celebration
ot Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, the wedding
bell, under which Mr. and Mrs. Field stood to
receive their friends, was made of gold-colored
chrysanthemums. Mrs. Field wore her wed
ding gown ot 60 years ago, and there were pres
ent Mr. Field's three brothers, Mr. Justice
Field, Rev. Henry M. Field and Hon. David
Dudley Field, all of whom were witnesses half
a century ago.
Rev. Father Frank Baenusi, who is on
the mission of the Catholic Church in Alaska,
is a native ot Baltimore and a son of the late
Zenus Barnum, proprietor of tbe once famous
Barnnm's Hotel of that city. A brother, when
dying, wishing to perpetuate the family name,
left him 90,000 upon condition that he get mar
ried. This legacy Father Barnum forfeited
when he joined the Jesuits. He is known to
his order as a very learned man and famous
linguist.
HOTEL GUESTS,
A Clerk Who Estimates Them by Their
Writing and Hates Easterners.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.j
Said a popular hotel clerk the other day, "it
is a noticeable fact that the guests from Bos
ton and New York are very egotistic They
seem to thlnK that they come from God's
chosen country and that they are much im
posed upon to .have to spend a few days In
Cleveland. It is this local pride which the Bos
ton and New York people possess that makes
Cleveland people tired. They are forever talk
ing abont the' merits of their own cities and de
predating western localities.
"In "sizing up' a guest we do so by the char
acter of his handwriting. Take a man, for in
stance, with a bold heavy style of penmanship
you will invariably find that he is arbitrary and
hard to get along with. Such men want a great
deal of waiting on and cause us lots of trouble.
You take a man with a oeat handwriting and he
is invariably courteous and affable. His de
mands are modest and he is easy to get along
with. It is tbe dnty of us hotel clerks to study
human natnre and to tell just how to treat
everyone that stops at onr houses."
HIGHWAYMEN IK CHICAGO.
Art That Is Too Common in Many
An
Parts of the Country.
Chicago Herald.
Highwaymanship is becoming altogether too
common in Chicago. Not a day passes that
daring assaults and robberies are not reported.
Some of these have been amazing in the
desperation shown by the offenders and in the
paralysis that seems to have fallen upon the
bystanders. When men can be garroted and
robbed in crowded street cars or upon
streets thronged with people it indi
cates something more than police inactivity.
There is need of a little wholesome attention to
these matters on the part of the people them
selves. If old men and weak women can be
robbed in the presence of scores of bystanders
It Is evident that tbe people of this town need
courage more than they do policemen. Some
of the assaults recently reported have been
particularly disgraceful in that no effort ap
pears to have been made by any one of many
witnesses to defend the victims or to pursue
the thieves.
Polities in the Dominion.
Toronto (Ont.) Empire.
If you told Sir Richard that bis policy was
directly antagonistic to that of the former
leaders of the party he would, no doubt, say it
was "a damnable He." If you quoted docu
mentary evidence to prove the charge, he
would tell you to "go to tbe father of evil."
Pleasant man. Sir Richard)
The Anti-Ghost Dance.
Denver Times.
The Jacarllla Indians at Armajo, N. M., are
dancing, not, however, they declare, as a threat
of war, but simply to keep off tbe smallpox.
They have more faith in dancing than in
vaccination.
Too Many in the Field Now.
Baltimore American.
Whatever may be Mrs. O'Shea's faults, that
part of tbe world which reflects uppn matters
and things will forgive her irjhe maintains her
present purpose not to elevate the stage.
In Woman's Sphere.
Indianapolis Journal.
Kate Field points with pride to the fact that
she has issued her publication 11 months and
only apologized once. Is she proud of the apol
ogy or of its lonesomenessf
Praise From Sir Hubert.
(
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If Mr, McKinley bas taught the Mexicans to
pack their own pork instead of buying Ameri
can meat, he has done a great thing for those
easy-going foreigners.
Surprising He is Not Worse.
Pawtucket Times'.!
Joe Howard states that he never omits to
read In tbe dally papers his own contributions
to their columns. The seoret of Mr. Howard's
poorhealth Is now out;
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Matilda Dodge.
NrwYOBK, Dec. 15. Mrs. Matilda Boast. 78
years of age, who Is the sister of Secretary or the
Davy Benjamin F. Tracy, came from Uwego to
Brooklyn recently to spend the holidays with her
son. .lie appeared to De In good health, bnt ibis
Tnornlng sue died very suddenly or rheumatism of
the heart. "
Florence E. Westlnghouse.
Florence Erskine Westlnghouse, oldest daughter,
if Mr. 9. H. 'tyestlnghonse. manager of tbe air
prake'eostpany, died last evening at her father's
residence. She, was 14 years 'old. The little girl
had-large circle of friends, who. are greatly
HBwaeat-v . iT. ,..
1890.
THREE GOOD PLAYS.
Roslna Yokes in Her Own Realm The
Charity Hall Shenandoah The Old
Oaken Backet Variety and Curiosities.
Rosina yokes', the greatest comedienne on
the English-speaking stage to-day, appeared
last night before large audience attheDu
quesno Theater. Two years have not
changed her In the least, and she
is still a most charming, versatile and
original delineator ot tbe bright side of human
nature. The programme last night began with
"A Game of Cards,"- in which Mr. Felix Morris
repeated that astonishingly exact portrayal of
senile temper and dignity which we wondered
at and applauded a year ago. If Mr. Morris
could do nothing beside the Chevalier he would
be entitled to first rank among contemporary
Character actors. But he showed tbe wide
range ot his powers by giving just as faithful a
Eortralt of an old Scotch butler in "A Double
esson" later on.
The second course on the bill was "Tbe Cir
cus Rider," a comedietta full of delightful op
portunities for Miss Votes, of which she took
advantage to the utmost limit. In this tbe
Messrs. Thorpe and Bell were very happilv
cast. Tbe noveltv here was "A Double Lesson,"
a comedietta by B. u, Stephenson, a bright little
piece, well adapted for Miss Vokes' use, but
not especially valuable in itself. It has tbe ap
pearance of being a much larger cotnedv com
pressed, and 'if it were not for Miss Vokes'
ability to sing, dance and act in
every style under tbe sun. "A Double
Lesson" would not be very amusing. As it is,
however, the short story of the fashionable
woman, married to an aged nobleman and
anxious to taste the forbidden joys of flirtation
And amateur theatricals, is numerous,
broadly farcical and even pathetic by
turns. Miss Vokes plays in a familiar role
that of a burlesque actress off the stage and It
enables her to Imitate a variety song and dance
artist, and to dance a Highland fling
in awaythatconqneredthe "unco guid" Scotch
hUtler and enchanted the audience. The brief
pathetic climax with which the plav closes was
handled with masterly skill by Miss Vokes.
Mr. Thorpe was very clever also; and Miss
Eleanor Lane made as pretty a picture as has
beeiTseen here for a long while The audience
appreciated the performance immensely; the
applause was incessant almost, and among the
most interested of the rpectators during tbe
first two plays was Mrs. Henry M. StanIey,who
occupied a box.
Grand Opera House.
A story that leads up smoothly, quietly, but
Surely, to a denouement la which the mdat in
tense passions of human nature are involved, 13
that of "The Charity Ball."
The authors, Belasco and De Mllle, are gray
beards In their business, if not In years, and the
way they dally with their audience in the first
and second acts, only to strain its nerves to an
extreme tension in the third, is almost a mar
vel of the playwright's art In a word, "The
Charity Ball" is really a Lycehm sdecess. We,
who have enjoyed the simple, but earnest
pathos, intermingled with Innocent fun, of
The Wife," know what this expression im
plies. Dick Van Buren, a Wall street broker, has
betrayed a young girl, Phyllis Lee, whom he
still loves. His brother John, a minister, is
also in love with Phyllis. Dick, in his ambition
to overcome a dangerous business rival, Frank
tin Cruger. determines to marrv his daughter,
Anne Cruger. John learns of thd wrong Dick
has done Phyllis, and persuades his brotber to
give up his ambition and marry her. Dick dies
in the last act, as the result of business excite
ment, and John marries Anne, who
has loved him all along, but whom he
has cared for only as a sister until she has
been away from him for a year or so and
returned to him to prove to him that she is
the one woman to flirt ho sacred place of wife.
There are some amusing comedy love scenes
between an elderly judge and a dashing widow,
while two young people, Bess Van Buren and
Alex Robinson supply the girl and boy love
element that is always a pleasing side-light on
the deeper colors of an emotional picture.
Tbe cast of "Tbe Charity Ball" is as well se
lected as in every Lyceum production, Henry
Herman, as Dick, gives us a clean, cameo-like
representation of tbe man of Wall street. His
cold, gentlemanly exterior, under which we can
always imagine the passions boiling at white
heat, is more effective than any amount of rant
conld possibly be. His artistic rendering of a
hart rn which there is the strongest temptation
to shout and foam cannot be too highly com
mended. It might be said that the character
fits him exactly, were it not that the same re
mark seems to apply to everything he plays.
Boyd Putnam, as the? minister, is a noble
figure. In tbe third act, where he finds that
tbe girl he loves has been married by his broth
er, be rose to grandeur,
Miss Frances Garnot gives us the usual
emotional heroine as Phyllis Lee. Tbe part
does not afford her an opportunity to do any
thing more. Miss Ruth Carpenter Is a bewild
ertngly beautiful woman and a good actress. AS
AnnCi vger, tbe dashing warm-hearted New
York girl, she gives us one of the most pleas
ing figures in the play.
Bessie Tyree is a pretty little ingenue, and
Walter Thomas, as Alex, shows considerable
dramatic ability tbat should bring him to the
front in his profession in due time. Ethel
Grevbrooke, Thomas Burns, Eliza Logan and
A. W. Gregory are all deserving of mention for
conscientious work.
The setting of the first and last acts, tbe
sitting room at the Rectory, is an excellent
specimen of nineteenth century home luxury
in America.
The BIJou Theater. "
"Shenandoah," 'the great war play ot Mr.
Howard's writing, was given before a large
audience at the Bijon last night. The play has
been already criticised at length id this column,
and it need only be said that very few Amer
ican plays have a greater clalrn upon the public
than this stirring, wholesome and patriotic
drama.
A bride Is always interesting. That is why
Miss Nanetta Comstock was the object of so
many eyes and the subject of so many more
thoughts last evening as she acted the part of
Jennie Buckthorn, U. 8. A., in Bronson How
ard's most powerful war play, "Shenandoah."
In that she distanced only Mr. Frank Burbeck,
the General Saverill ot the cast,- for be It
known that he is her husband a recent acquisi
tion; and this state of happy affairs all came to
pass as a sequence of an incident last summer
tbat gave the "General" ibe opportunity of his
life in saving that ot Mis. Comstock.
The Interest generally attached to the com
pany was owing to the fact that it is the
"original company," tbe one which performed
300 nights in New York, and was burned out
last season at Chicago while playing an engage
ment at McVicker's Theater. The names on
last night's programme at the Bijou
contained but that jot Francis Carlvsle,
the Colonel Percival West, as being
on the play bill last season, when the piece was
produced here by the other company. C. Mac
kay makes a splendid Lieutenant Bedloe, and
Miss Netta Guion certainly has one of the most
expressive faces in portraying deep emotion,
as well as the peculiar phases of feeling of a
girl whose heart "will," but whose head
"won't." .Joseph Adelman, as Captain
Thornton, was a splendid scoundrel;
be was almost picturesque In his'
villainy, while Franci3 Carlisle's
exhibition of bow an officer and a soldier ot
honor, unjustly under arrest and in the rear
while bis regiment was in-tbe fight, wonld, or
did, suffer tbe keenest mortification was mag
nificent. His Colonel West is one of tbe most
manly characters on tbe stage. It is a coble
portrayal.
No exception can be taken to the fine work
done by tbe entire company, and it is cot dis
crimination to say tbat Benson grows popu
lar in proportion to C.;L. Elliott's efforts to
make him as dear to the audience as he is to
the bluff old General's daughter.
The "Shenandoah" company goes from here
to Chicago, thence to New York for 12 weeks,
tbence to San Francisco for a sbort stay, after
which it will return to Chicago for the summer.
This company shows only in the large and best
play-going cities such as Pittsburg.
Harris Thfeater.
For the first time since a serious accident that
befell her at Columbus, O.. Miss Minnie Oscar
Gray was able to appear yesterday in her well
known repertoire at this house. She was
greeted by twp very large audiences, and her
wonderful trained dogs were, as usual, as much
admired as any of the rest of the members of
her company. Their work Is nearly perfect.
Few chances have been made in the cast of
characters since the company's last appearance
here. MisBCamllle Towcsend is a statuesque
Louise in "Tbe Old Oaken Bucket," the plav
Rived yesterday, and which will be repeated to
day and to-morrow. A change of bill will be
made Thursday.
Harry Williams' Academy.
At Harry Williams' Academy of Music last
night tbe same old wreck ot tbe Cocemaugh
that has,, been around ever since tbe Johns
town flood, made its annual appearance. He
is perhaps more ragged, but he wears tbe same
whiskers and other makeup, and is easily
recognized. He was greeted as an old friend,
bnt tbe applause seemed more enthusiastic
when the canine actor "Jack" took a firm hold
on his trousers and dragged him off the iQene.
All the specialties of Irwin Bros.' combination
were well received by the large crowd present.
Davis' Fifth Avenue Museum?
The big bears, ttfo monsters of forbidding
aspect, are tbe most Interesting of the at
tractions at this house. They are, trained to
perform some clever1 tricks Md-canwrestle
with tbe best professionals m nee city.
'The wild girl ot Yucatan hi cot at all a
pleasant sigcr,aca it is Terr great pity mat
insti exhibitions, offensive in everv sense, are
MHBWtHUHH-terd'a s-aMpbeM, .eies
musical instrument, is among the novelties, of
,wtilcn tney are many, ine stage penormance
has a few good features; among which is the
knock-about comic act of (Keating and West.
A HEW YORK WEDDIMJ.
Brilliant Gathering at the Marriage of F.
W. Mack and Miss Emillo Hepburn.
New York, Dec. 15. Tbe wedding of Frank
Walsteln Mack and Miss Emllle Hepburn was
celebrated this evening in tbe Church of St,
Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fifth street. The
ceremony was performed by the rector.
Rev. Thomas McKee Brown. The bride
wbro a gown of white India silk, cut
walking length and trimmed with silk
fringe and passementerie. Her hat was ot
white velvet, trimmed with lace and ostrich
tips. She carried a handsome bouquet of
wnlte chrysanthemums. There were no brides
maids nor groomsman. Tbe bride was
eiven away by Hon. Alonzo Welscher.
The ushers were Harry Sbrady, son of
Dr. George E. Sbrady, and Alonzo Hepburn
Welch, Jr., tbe latter wearing tbe uniform of
tbe River View Military Academy, at Pongh
keepsie, N. Y., of which institution he is a
pupil. As the bridal couple entered the church
the organist. Dr. Prentice, played the wedding
march from Lohengrin, and at the close of the
coreraony Mendelssohn's wedding march.
Mr. Mack, the bridegroom. Is well known as
a newspaper man In this city. He was former
ly editor of the livening Aubumian. of Au
burn, N. Y.. and is now eight editor of the
Western report of the Associated Press in tbe
New York office. The bride is a daughter of
Mrs. G. G. Hepburn, of this dtv, and a grand
daughter of tbe late Captain Alexander Var
rennes Frazer. of the Revenue Marine. Among
the many present at the ceremony were Dr.
George F. Shrady, Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Smith, Jr., Mr. Charles R. Williams and Mr.
and Mrs. C. Redfern.
A SMOKES'S EEVEHGE.
The Way French Gentlemen Even Up With
Spunky Women.
Illustrated American.
A Parisian recently chronicled this true tale
of The Smoker's Revenge;"
Scene: A railway compartment. "Madam,
do you object to smoking?" Noteply. The
question is repeated with a similar result.
Thinking the "lady deaf, the male passenger
made a pretense of lighting his cigar.
II"Do It if you dare!" exclaimed Madam
Potln, with an unearthly gleam in her eye.
"Just to see what'll happen, here goes!" he
said, stung by the lady's tone. And he applied
the match.
Ibe lady bounced from tbe seat, and, snatch,
ing tfie cigar from his lips, threw it out otthe
window.
"There is a compartment for smokers I" she
hissed.
The gentleman, quite taken back, thought it
best to be quiet, while secretly bemoaning his
lost Havana.
Five minutes' silence. Madam Potin flushed
with her triumph. Suddenly the lady's muff
appeared to become instinct with life, ana
presently a little poodle pnt out Its bead to take
a breath of air. The gentleman rose, smiling
affably, seized the little dog by the tall, and
tenderly dropped it out ot tbe carriaee window,
saying, in dulcet tones: "Madam, there is a
compartment for dogs!"
BBIQETEKma UP.
The Panic Has Got Ont of Things and Con
fidence Has Returned.
Hew York Times. "
At last the panic has got out of things. Busi
ness in Wall street is nearly back to a normal
basis. Money on call Is easy, gold 13 on the way
here, and time money has again put in an ap
pearance. Round amounts are offered at 6 per
cent, and very soon there will be a pressnre to
lend at less than that. Whether now the Stock
market goes up or goes down. It will be from
otber causes than financial fright. As confi
dence returns, money is lound to be abundant,
because the operation of this change in the
pnhlic mind is twofold it releases the cash
which bad fled to the safe deposit boxes, and it
again gives value to those substitutes for cash
which depend upon credits.
The latter is the chief circulating medium,
as proved by tbe inquiry made by the Treasury
Department, and set forth in the recent report
of the Controller of Currency. Actual returns
made tn the department by 3,500 banks showed
tbat on a given day ot tbe total of their
transactions less than 10 per cent was done in
actual money, the remainder was In representa
tives of it, as checks, drafts, bills of exchange,
certificates of deposit and otber evidences of
credit, of which tbe working value shrinks
enormously In times of panic.
- r DEATH-OS TTJ&QE'IXOBSIS.
The Presiding Justice of Bradford County
Passes Away at Towanda.
tSFICIAL TKLEOEAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
WlLKESBARRE, Dec. 15. Hon. P. D. Morris,
President Judge of Bradford county, died at
his home in Towanda last night, aged 62 years.
After graduating at Hamilton in 1852, Mr.
Morris studied law with tbe late Chief Justice
Mercur, and one year later was admitted to the
bar in Bradford county, where he has since
figured conspicuously. He Was intimately as
sociated with McCollum and Miller, of the
Supreme Bench. Bright'S disease, superin-
.n t.w HPAaietv. eMirlw la iHnn n (Tin naneA
of his demise.
nt hi. Homi.o
Royalty Prevents a Trust.
Indianapolis Sentinel. 1
, It is not often tbat royalty Interferes with a
trust, but the barbed wire people have been
unable to form a combine on account of a dif
ference of opinion in regard to tbe payment of
royalties.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
Buffalo Express: Ireland is at war,
Even
the cats in Kilkenny are fighting again.
Philadelphia Press: Jay Gould bas lately
purchased a tract of 1,000 acres of land. Per
haps he is going to join the Farmers' Alliance.
Rarrisburg Patriot: The difference be
tween the force bill and a stocking is tbat there
seems a disposition to hang one up before
Christmas eve.
Atlanta Constitution: It would be a good
idea for the Government to permit the pension
shares to walk oft with only half of the pension
appropriations.
DuBois Courier: While the DuBoIs water
system ought to be emblematic ot tbe cold
water party. It comes nearer a simile of the red
nosed gentry. It goes dry so much ot the time.
Omaha World-Herald; Mr. Strauss, of
New York, predicts a poor man's panic. The
poor man is always in a panic If Mr. Strauss
desires to predict sometbing novel let him pre
dict a poor man's boom.
St. Louis Republic: The fate of the force
bill is to be decided this week. That is, the
Republican party leaders are about to decide
whether or not they will go to the end of their
rope and stranglethe party with It.
Altoona Tribune: Idle rumor, followed by
senseless panic, is at tbe bottom of many a
wide-spread financial disaster. If people would
only keep their heads and discourage sensation
mongers there would be fewer crashes.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat: It will be much
easier for Congress to revive the grade of
Lieutenant General of the army than to find. a
man for the place who will come up to the
standard ot those who have held it In the pass.
.ZVettf YorkSlar: King Kalakaua denies that
he has come to tbe United States on business,
and says that he has simply come over for a
little rest. If that is all, it strikes us tbat he
better have remained at home, for there is
more chance for rest in tbe Sandwich Islands
than in this country. Probably ho intended to
say that he came over for a little change, and
change of the sort that can be best got by tap
ping Uncle Sam's Treasury. .
PHANTOMS OF THOUGHT.
Sometimes in the night when I sit and write;
1 hear the strangest things.
As my brain grows hot with a burning thought
That struggles for form and wings.
I can hear the beat of my swift blood's feet
As it speeds with a rush and whirr,
From heart to brain and back again.
Like a race horse under tbe spur.
With ray soul's ane ear 1 listen and bear
Ibe tender silence speak.
As It leans on the breast of night to rest.
And prenes his dusky cheek.
And the darkness turns In its sleep and yearns
For somethlngtbat Is kin
And I hear the hiss ot a scorching kiss,
As It folds and fondles sin.
r rf
1C Its harrying race thro' leagues of space
1 can hear the earth cateh breath.
At it heaves and moans and shudders and
groans,
And tongs for the rest of death.
And blgh and far from a distant star,
Whoie'nanje Is unknown to me;
I hear a voice that says, "Uejolcel
Forlkeep ward o'er thee."
O, sweet and strange are the sounds that range
Thro' tbe chambers Of the night;
And the watcher who waits by the dim, dark
dark gates
. May bear If he lilts aright.
SUa .WIHHtr WWeeav ,
CDRiOUS C0NDEHSATI05S.
Dennis O'Day, of Oakland, Cal., was
fined 1100 last week tor wantonly cutting off a
cow's tail.
K The lumber eut for the last season, as
reported from Cheboygan. Mich- amounts to
130.00O.CO0 feet.
Mr. Eyckman, of Brockton, N. Y., has
this year picked from half an acre of ground
nearly 13,000 pounds of grapes.
Way Lee, who has opened a restaurant
in Jacksonville, Fla., claims to be a relative of
the present Emperor of China.
An interesting relic preserved at SU
Helena consists ot two silver hairs that were
Once part of a lock cut from Napoleon's bead.
The proudest boy in Amherst. Me., is a
13-year-old youngster who started out the other
morning before breakfast to try a new rifle and
soon Shot a fine buck.
An alleged serpent, 8 feet long and 6
Inches thick Is frisking about In the Saginaw
river, Mich., and patting a wire edge on the
nerves of bibulous loggers.
In the ocean live a great multitude and
variety of worms, each doing its share ot
nature's work, and among them are many
species of extreme beauty.
Young codfish are very plentiful iq
Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay. Fisher
men ascribe. this as a result of tbe labors of th9
United States Fish Commission.
Given an equal amount to intelligenca
at the start, a dog which nas been welltrained
is worth twice as much as one untaught. It il
as true of dogs as of men. Education counts.
Hiram Ludwig, residing at Boyertown.
Pa., owns a Martin Luther Bible printed lit
Germany In 1520. It is in an excellent state of
preservation and he refused $250 for it recently,
Butcher Sprachlin, of Casper, Wvo.. if
Is reported, made a present a few days ago, of
his wife and household effects to Blacksmith
Buxton, the Constable-elect. "It was ad.
amicable proceeding."
During the season just closed the curi.
ous mountain palaces of tbe late King of Ba
varia have been visited by 80,000 persons, an4
the amonnt received from them in admission
lees has exceeded 60,000.
In the manufacture of gold thread (ot
embroidery, a cylinder of silver is covered with
gold and afterward drawn ont into wire. In
this way six ounces of gold have been made to
yield over 200 miles of gilt wire.
The British cruiser Calliope, of Samoa
fame, is to be refitted by the Admiralty for an
other commission. The cost other refit is esti
mated at 515,000. It is reported that the vessel's
bottom is in a sad condition, and tbat while at
Sydney she leaked like a sieve.
Montana railroad employes should bear
in mind that there Is a law on its statute books
requiring that all cattle killed by the cars shall
be skinned and tbe hides taken to the nearest
station so that the owners can identify, by
brands or marks, missing animals.
The fretful porcupine is said to have an
inordinate fondness for chewing leather, which
it regards as one of the daintiest of esculents,
Jim Gibbons, tbe blacksmith, of Stockport, N.
Y.. declares that a porcupine ate more than
half of his bellows in a single night.
Thousands of oysters are shipped to
England rom tbe region near Greenwich,
Conn. They are packed and rammed Into bar.
rel3 so tbat the shells cannot open. This keeps
the oysters alive and obviates tbe necessity ot
using ice. The oysters reach England In ex
eellent condition.
Tfie report of tbe Ornithological Society
States that "over 5,000,000 song birds are au
nually required by the dealers to ornament tbe
hats of American women. On Cape Cod 40.009
terns were killed in one season; the swamps
and marshes of Florida are nearly depopulated
of their egrets and herons."
A Russian named Balaboukha has re
cently started on a walk which will occupy
about three years. He goes from Kiew to Con
stantinople and Jerusalem, then by the coast
which skirts Syria and Africa, arriving at)
Morocco; thence he will travel through Spain,
France and Germany to Kiew.
There are worms in the ground, which,
at times, work great destruction. The roots o
the clematis vine are sometimes infested by a
minnte kind of worm, which forms little galls
on tbe roots- This noxious creature bas a rela
tive worse than himself the. Tylenchus. wbich
causeshe dreaded disease in wheat known as
"smut."
The old Essex Head. Tavern in the)
Strand In London, where Dr. Johnson used to
resort after the "Mitre" had ceased to attracS
him, is cow in process of demolition. It i3 one
ot tbe many historic houses to fall before te)
march of progress. Until recently it was k.l
by two ladles named Fielding, wbo were be
lieved to be descendants ot the novelist.
A physician of Arsk, in the Govern,
ment of Kazan, Russia, has compiled statistics
which show that the greatest mortality of peas,
ants' children occurs in the spring and summer
months, when tbe mothers go out to work in
tbe field and leave their lit lis ones tn tafrn enrn
I Ot t
oi tnemseives. tie nas planned tbe establish
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sient of day nurseries (vasty) where such Deas.
ant women can leave their children wben they
accepted his plan and committed it to tbe an
u uub hi v,ua. iug autuuriuesoi .nazannavej
proval and revision of the medical council.
A Philadelphia gentleman mourns tha
loss of a rooster which was familiarly known as
"Parnell," and he Is said to have been an uu
usually likely bird and to have been so well ac
quainted with the schedule running time of
trains on American street that many a time he
guided his followers off the tracks just in time
to save their lives. Among his other good
qualities he is said by his admirers to bava
possessed the bappy and valuable faculty ot
knowing where to find tbe places wbere tbe
cars containing tbe best grain were side,
tracked.
The immature Tylenchus lives in tha
ground until the wheat shoots f ortb, when it
crawls up the stalk, enters a young kernel of
grain, and there lays its eggs, which soon batch
out. Tbe grain becomes malformed, small and
black; its interior is filled with a. core of wbite.
powdery substance, the grains of the powder
being each a young Tylenchus. Left alone, tha
kernel of the wheat falls to tbe ground and be
comes moist and rotten: tbe wall breaks open,
and tbe multitude of worms are set free, to
crawl about in tbe earth until another crop of
wheat is ready to be destroyed by them.
A new fashion has been introduced in
Paris by a great Russian princess, whose
patriotism is as great as her wealth, and prob
ably before long the same fashion will find its
way to England and America. It is the Rus
sian lace hitherto used only by Russians, and
practically unknown outside the Empire of thd
Czars. It is made ot the finest linen thread,
and is the only real lace produced in mixed
colors. It is seldom seen in white, but in tha
rich ecru of the unbleached flax mixed with a
pale or a deep blue or a vivid red, the colors
favored by the Russian people.
During the long cruise of the whaling
bark Triton this year Captain Gilford has been
puzzled by a small but persistent leak that com
menced while the vessel was near Honolulu In
the spring, and continued until she was docked
at San Francisco last week. It was discovered
that near the keel a billflsh had driven bis
bony snout through the copper coverings
three-quarter inch pine sheathing, and three
Inches of white oak. The piece of snout which
was imbedded in the timber was five inches
long, and increased from a half inch diameter
at the top to an inch at the point of fracture.
Near by was found another snout sunk about
an inch and a half in the oak planking;
WISPS OF WIT.
Bobby Where's your overcoat ain
yon afraid of catching cold?
Tommy -1 am, and that's the reason I don't
wear It. It's too damp to put on in soak. joo.
know. Atlanta Journal.
The microbe, if he is discreet
And quiet has a cinch.
Be measures in his stocking feet '
One-trllllontb of an inch.
-Atlanta Constitution.
A clothing merchant advertises a $10 suit
fortl It Isn't a lawsuit. A J10 lawsuit costs pa,
Jftifalo Times.
A new book 'is entitled "Statesmen's
Dishes and How to Cook Them." Properly
enough a good deal of space U gives to soup.-
Chicago Mail.
"Did the doctor give your husband solid
advice?"
'No, liquid. Be advised him to stop drinking."
-Detroit Ire rrtss.
Labor Agitator Ever man is the archi
tect of his own fortune
Mite Magnire (from rear of hall) Yls. that's so;
but be stands a poor chance whin he hat sothln
bud a shovel or a hod to dhraw his plans wid.
Kev Xork Herald.
A young man who married a "butterfly of
fashion" was unable a year later to provide
"grub" for his butterfly. Sorristovn Herald.
"Got an hour-glass in her roea? That's
an odd idea."
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