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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, JAN. 4, 1S9L
GENERAL MIXES' TESTIMONY.
While the first thing to accomplish with
the Indians is to pet them back under con
trol, the sense of the nation is aroused to
the demand that humanity, mercy and
justice shall enter into their future treat
ment much more than these qualities have
teen exhibited in the past. General Miles
has just published a strong article in which
he directly charges the present and pre
ceding troubles upon the gross dishonesty,
incompetency and want of foresight with
which the Indians have been treated by the
Government agents. He points out that
they have been kicked about from pillar to
post, moved off their lands, cheated out of
their supplies and regarded with contempt
by the agents rent to dea' with them. One
of his first acts when he got upon the ground
is, as told by yesterday's telegrams, to rec
ommend the removal of a number of these
agents and the appoinimen; of army oflicers
in their place.
Seeing the continuous bungle that has
been made of this Indian business, the public
cannot but conclude that, unless the admin
istration has some new plan of management
to offer, it should lose no time in transferring
the control of the Indians to the "War De
partment. In auy event, this chapter of
national history, so far as it has gone, will
not be read with pride by generations to
come. Belore it is closed by the utter ex
termination of the unfortunate race, there
should be some effort to redeem the disgrace
which has ensued lrora permitting the fate
or the wretched Indians to remain so long
in incompetent and unworthy hands.
Since the outbreak has gone so far, it is at
least some satisfaction to know that General
Miles is now personally in control, and that
he approaches the responsibility with a
vivid sense of the mistakes that have been
made in the past.
EASY KUNNENG FOK SENATOR.
The opposition to Senator Cameron for re
election is still loudly voiced by the Phila
delphia rress, but has not yet taken any
organized shape. In Erie it has been dis
cussed to the extent of bringing a strong pres
sure upon the local Representatives to vote
against Cameron. Here and there at other
points through the State there have been
mutterings of intended opposition. The
leading fact in the situation, however, is
that Senator Quay alone would have the in
fluence to hold out the necessary twenty
seven Republicans against the caucus which
Cameron will otherwise easily control.
Considering that the Beaver statesman has
made no sign of antagonism to his former
chief, the prospect of any change in the Sen
atorial representation is not particularly
bright No other candidate has been named
or formally entered the lius. Cameron can,
therefore, regard the situation with tolerable
complacency. He may sot feel flattered by
some of the criticisms upon the quality or
quantity of his Senatorial service, bnt so
long as he gets the votes the criticisms will
hardly disturb his composure.
JANUARr WEATHER rROPHECr.
The varieties and species of weather sched
uled by the different weather prophets for
the month of January exhibit a family re
semblance, while differing as to details.
According to the goosebone's vaticinations,
as interpreted by Joel Stillman, of "Wood
stock, Connecticut, January is to open with
warm weather, with a gradual decrease in
temperature, until, during the last two
weeks, several days of freezing weather will
ensue. The coldest day of the winter is to
be January 27, but the whole season is be
milder than last winter. Bcv. E. S. Hicks
starts out the month with fair, cold weather
and a reactionary wave about the 3d, raising
the temperature and causing "rain, snow,
and stonniness;" next come an alternation
ot cold waves and storms, with a very cold
-wave predicted for the 12th, and
after that warmer skies and softer
winds on the 26th and 27th. The
hydrographio office predicts plenty of
etormy weather along the coast north of
Cape Hatteras, with strong westerly and
northwesterly gales to be expected every
five or six days, accompanied by heavy
enow squalls and followed by clear and cold
weather.
It will be seen that the prophecies of
Hicks and the hydrographic office agree in
predicting a succession of cold waves and
storms for January. Come to think of it, it
does not require a wonderful quantity of
prescience to predict cold waves and storms
for January. The prophet who undertakes
that January shall contain neither, would
certainly get a reputation for daring origi
nality, whether his prophecies were vindi
cated by time or not. The gootebone sooth
sayer comes the nearest to making that
attempt, but unfortunately bis forecast is
hopelessly discredited by the contrariness of
MOTrtJ.
Hiy
the weather in already bringing to naught
his assertion that this winter will be milder
than the last one. Hicks, who sticks more
closely to the conventional January weather
has equally bard luck in having the weather
turn out 'just the opposite.of his prediction,
so far as the first three days of the month
are concerned. This gives us the lesson
that the only safe rule of weather prophecy
is to abjure dates ajnd stick, as the hydro
graphic office docs, to the general probab ility
ot snows and blows during the midwinter
month. The man who observes that Jan
uary has opened with excessive humidity
and sloppiness and then turned into a cold
wave, and then asseverates that the month
will contain a greater or less variety of
freezing and thawing weather, will estab
lish his reputation as a cautious .weather
prophet who may be depended on not to
stake his reputation too rashly.
ConservativeTiction has its uses in certain
provinces of action, such as prices, labor dis
putes and banking. In none of these fields,
however, is there likely to be more value in
abstaining from rash or novel courses, than
in the profession of weather prophecy. As
illustrated in the above predictions, it is
also the safest rule of conservatism not to
descend to too much particularity of details.
IMPORTS NOT YET CHECKED.
The views of various consuls of the United
States on the new tariff and theforeign trade
of the "United States, as printed elsewhere,
puts matters in a different shape from what
most people would expect. It is contrary
to what would be looked for to find most of
the'consuls testifying that the trade of the
ports at which they are stationed has not
undergone any material change. Only Jar
rett at Birmingham and Brown at Glasgow
find a material falling off; and the report of
the latter contains the expectation that there
will be a reactionary gain of part of the loss
by shipments of preferred sugar when the
new schedule on that staple goes into effect
Of course, the determining value of this
evidence as to the effect of the law is ma
terially modified by two considerations.
First, a conclusive test is not afforded by the
statistics of one or two months' shipments.
The movement of trade for two years would
be conclusive: and hardly less than a year's
statistics could be held to be a reliable in
dication. Then it is the fact that some of
the reports are from cities whose trade with
the United States is so inconsiderable, or is
in staples so little affected by tariff duties,
as to afford no criterion. "With these allow
ances made, however, it is still somewhat
surprising to learn that, in the month after
the new tariff went into effect, little change
was made in our imports from such cities as
London, Dublin, Paris, Liege, Prague, Leip
slc and Basle.
This showing, if sustained by future sta
tistics, cuts both ways. It answers some of
the arguments of the free traders; but at the
same time it casts a doubt upon the success
of some of the leading purposes of the policy
of the tariff bill. These purposes were.-first
the reduction of revenue; and next, in cer
tain cases where high protection was de
sired, to reduce revenue by raising the duty
so as to check imports. O.f course, the
repeal of the sugar duties was expected
to result in increased imports of that staple,
but if advanced duties on certain English,
French and German products do not de
crease tne importations of the articles, the
revenue will be increased by the advance of
duties, and ..the protective purpose of the
change will be at least postponed until
domestic competition has come in to reduce
prices to the point that will check the im
ports. This test of actual workings of the tariff
is an interesting one, and will be observed
with close attention until it has proceeded
so far as to give a decisive -indication of the
results of the new schedule. We think the
main factor yet to come, which will put a
different aspect on the situation abroad, is
the competition which a protected market in
the United States will cause to spring up
here. New American producers will come
to the front The time since the passage of
the Tariff act has been too brief for the full
development yet upon this line.
A MAT MUSIC FESTIVAL.
We are to have a Hay music festival
this year. Tins will be grateful news to the
many who enjoyed the feast of harmony and
melody two years ago. Especially as this
festival is promised ta be greater and
grander than the former one. Pittsburg has
risen to the dignity of being one ot the mus
ical and art centers of this great country,
and it has fully earned its reputation as
such. The great exhibit of art in the Car
negie Hall and the subsequent grand musical
treat not only demonstrate the cultivation
of the community, but they will add impetus
to further progress.
A NOVEL EFFECT OF POPULARITT.
A very remarkable view of the reasons
which are supposed to sway commercial ac
tion is furnished by a recent announcement
to the Philadelphia coal trade. The an
nouncement was made by the Beading Coal
and Iron Company that from the 1st of the
year, it would discontinue the supply of the
size oT anthracite coal known as small stove
coal. This is for the novel reason that this
size of coal is too popular with consumers.
Merchants and manufacturers at large
would be thunderstruck if told that the ex
ceeding popularity of anygrade or size of an
article is a good reason for refusing to let
the public have any supply at all ol what it
wants. Fashionable shoemakers, for in
stance, may have observed, among their
patrons of the softer sex, an extraordinary
demand for Nos. 2 or 3 in shoes; but.
but it has never occurred to the
members of that craft that this affords
a reason for telling the ladies. that they can
not have any shoes of those sizes at all. 'On
the cdntrary, the enterprising shoe merchant
will make an extraordinary effort to supply
that demand, even proceeding to the length
of marking down 4s and 5s into the grade of
2s and 3s. The iron manufacturer, if he
finds a certain size of bar iron leading in the
demand, will set his mills to running on that
size. But the coal corporation in this case is
so superior to the ordinary commercial rules
that it adopts the Draconian rule, when it
finds the public running after a given size of
coal, of telling the public that such a vagary
of popular opinion will be corrected by
taking away the supply altogether.
Of course a detail is added on the part of
the coal company that modifies this remark
able position somewhat It is that as the
coal company produces a certain proportion
of each size of coal this excessive demand
for one size causes inconvenience "by leaving
an excess of the other sizes on the hands of
the company. But that hardly furnishes an
adequate reason for discontinuing the supply
ot that size altogether. It might furnish a
reason for raising the price of the popular
size, or, as merchants often do, in
creasing the sales of the unpopular
sizes by lowering the price on them. The
truth is the explanation of this peculiar at
titude is furnished by the fact that there is a
partial monopoly in supplying anthracite
coal to Philadelphia. If the competitive
forces were freely at work any coal com
pany would readily perceive the necessity of
furnishing the size of coal the public wants,
even if they. bad to go to the length ot
altering their breakers so as to turn out
more of the size that is wanted. But as this
company has at least a partial monopoly, it
is able to inform the public, when it finds
itself burdened with an excess of the un-
pdpular sizes, that consumers cannot have
what they want until they have relieved the
company by buying a considerable amount
of the sizes they do not want We can
imaginoWhat if a grocer bad a monopoly be
would be likely to nuke the public buy less
popular grades of tea, coffee or sugar in
much the same manner.
Thus wo have a new illustration of the
rule laid down "as a'fundamental principle
of law by the New YorkxCoun of Appeals
years ago, that where by the obstruction of
competition any line of business is "safe
against the reduction that would otherwise
follow mean accommodation and want of
skill and attention." The inevitable result
is that the public is ill-served in proportion
as the interests thus freed from competition
are well paid.
A GOOD PARK SUGGESTION.
That is a good suggestion made to Chief
Bigelow that the arches over the five en
trances to Schenley Park be built by sub
scriptions for that purpose. The idea of
naming them for celebrated persons or
events is not entirely new. It has been
adopted elsewhere. But it -is none the less
good on that account. The suggestion hav
ing been made, the next thing is to act on
it There ought to be many citizens with
pride enough in making our park one of the
most delightful in this country to start the
subscriptions for this purpose and fill them
out properly.
The intimation by Judge Stowe, in his
decision on the oil well case last week, that the
Blue Laws ot 1791 must be constrned in the
light of common sense, and with some refer
ence to public judgment is a disappointment,
no doubt, to a few ultra-Sabbatarians. Yet
there is not tho slightest' reason to expect tnat
the broader interpretation which the bench
puts upon works of "necessity" will result in
riecdless violation bf the Sabbath. Any nar
rower view would logically call for stoppage of
railroads, street cars, telegraph, electric lighting
companies, newspapers and other incidentals
of modern progress, which were not "necessi
ties" in 170 1 because they were not then known,
and which can only be conceived to bo exempt
ed by tho judicial interpretation that what is
necessary must be judged in some degree by
the evidence of public requirements and special
circumstances. The suit against tho oil wells
was very much like drawing a microscopic
signt for a fraction of the strictest letter of the
law. It was an answer to no public demand.
Eastern money, fearful of uncertain,
investments on account of tho late flurry, is
coming hero to be pat in Pittsburg real estate.
This investment is quite, as popular as Govern
ment bonds, and has been far more profitable
for several years past
A political truth of great value is
brought out by the remark of the St Paul
Pioneer-Press that "the issuos ot 1892 are not
in tho hands of Grover Cleveland or any other
Democrat, bnt in those of the Republican ma
jority and the Republican administration."
This is worth remembering, but the trouble is
that the Republican leaders seem to be very
busy in furnishing the Democrats with plenty
of good issues by their excessive appropria
tions, their neglect of needed public measures
and their passionate devotion to the policy of
trying to preserve party supremacy by act of
Congress.
ANY scarcity in the ice supply next sum
mer can safely be attributed to the ice men
and not the weather. But it is notable that the
ice men are usually ablo to bull tlie markot as
much in summer as Jack Frost can bear it in
winter. ;
Silver men, weary of waiting for a free
coinage law from Congress, are going to try to
establish a right to free coinage in the courts.
Should they suceed in establishing consti
tutional authority the wonder will grow why
Congress and financiers bave wasted so much
time squabbling over tho matter of silver legis
lation. Ballot reform will loom up at Harris
burg about as soon as the Speakership contest
is settled, and the politicians may as well un
derstand it is going to stay up until it is an ac
complished fact even if the politicians have to
go down.
GOVEKNOR-ELECT Pattison, it is an
nounced, will resign the presidency ot the
Chestnut Street National Bank when he goes
to Harrisburg. He is wiso in thus catting
loose from private interests. The Governor,
elected as a people's candidate, is expected to
do his whole duty by a great public trust
It is now noted that the three members
of Governor-elect Pattison's chosen cabinet
are named William. This has no political sig
nificance. Unfortunately the Bering Sea dis
pute is as far from settlement as ever. It is
again reported that a second proposition for
arbitration has been rejected at Washington.
Had the first proposition-been accepted the
matter might now be amicably and satisfactorily
adjusted.
The cold wave has certainly succeeded in
reforming the previous damp, moist unpleasant
ness with which 1S91 was ushered into exist-
Unless the muddy condition of some
cities in this country is greatly exaggerated,
they may furnish a partial explanation of the
manner in which ancient Silesia and Troy were
buried so quickly. Those cities probably had
poodle politicians for Street Commissioners.
Geeiiany, having failed some time ago
in getting control of Samoa, is now trying to
gobble some of the smaller Pacific islands.
The report that the thermometer went
down to sixty degrees below zero in Aroostook,
Maine, may be a hyperbolical way of express
ing the tact that since the veto of that Bar
Harbor postoffice appropriation it is exceed
ingly cold weather for Maine men.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Hello! Superintendent Metzgar.
lo the Editor of The Dispatch
In your Mail Pouch on Thursday of this week
appeared a complaint from a Hazelwood sub
scriber about the poor suburban service
afforded by the Telephone Company here.
That complaint is no doubt correctin the main,
it being verified by my own experience, but a
poor memory must have misled your corre
spondent into saying that last week he held any
communication whatever with the city, as all
the Second avenue telephones (save those be
longing to the city of Pittsburg, which were
promotlv put in order), bave been useless since
the great snow storm, now more than two
weeks ago. The company's officers, when ap
pealed to, have made frequent promises to put
these lines in order so far with no results ap
parent How much longer subscribers are to
bo without the means of communication for
which they have paid in advance, remains to
be seen." Possibly the publicity ion are kindly
giving this matter may hasten the repairs more
than personal appeals have done It not, those
living and doing business beyond Tenth street
are in a bad way. Hello Central.
PlTTSBtTBO, Jan. 3.
A Difference In "Volts, Perhaps.
Scran ton Republican.
The olectric light wire instantly killed a man
in Philadelphia the other day. If he bad been
a murderer condemned to death by electrocu
tion half the newspapers ot the country would
assert that he died in great agony, but having
been an innocent man who accidentally came
in contact with a live wire it is freely 'admitted
that his death was instantaneous and therefore
painless.
THE T0P1CAI TALKER.
A Pagoda Built in Vain.
The lire-year-old autocrat whose will' is law
in a certain East End household has shown a
singular liking of late for the celestial king
domthe very earthly one we know mostly by
the fans, tea-cups and laundrymen we get from,
there. His parents, in whom the enthnsiasm
of youth still booms, thought to gratify the
child and encourage him to become a Chinese
specialist, as it were, by giving a Chinese tone
to tho Christmas tree. They rigged up a sort
of one-story pagoda though in China, by the
way.pagodas mnst be at least three and not more
than thirteen stories high or vale the archi
tect's head with curtains and gilt paper and
bells galore. If it didn't look exactly Chinese
it looked crazy, which is nearly the same
thing, by the time midnight on Christmas Eye
came. While the malo architect was putting
the finishing touches to the pagoda he fell off
the stepladder, and brought the whole struct
ure to the ground. This was discouraging, but
in the bright lexicon of the father of one child,
and that a boy, there is no such word as fail,
and so he went to work again to rebuild the pa
goda. With his wife's assistance fie had
the' temple completo onco more by
half past four In tho morning. Under it where
the bones of Buddha or some other respectable
person would have lain had Fekin been the
location instead of Pittsburg, tho Christmas
tree gaily decorated spread its glittering
branches.
The beneficiary of all this expenditure of tho
midnight oil did not postpone the hour of his
levee. He m as awake at 7-30. and saw to it that
his parents did not waste any time in slumber
alter he was out of bed. To cut the story short
the trio, the parents and the slightly blase babe
of five, presently came to where the pagoda with
its tree shrine stood. The small boy let go ot
hismother's hand and cooly inspected the whole
outfit Then he turned bis little back upon it,
and with deliberate scorn exclaimed: "Ohl
you made a great mistake with that tree
you've got no moss under it!"
A painful silence ensued, under cover of
which the small critic retired to the kitchen to
show the cook a two-cent Christmas card the
milkman had given him. In the subsequent
proceedings he took more interest as the
spankee in a lively encounter he could not
help doing so.
A Vocal Raise.
The tariff according to McKmley has been
the subject ot many good-natured debates
between Mr, B and Mr. S both ot promi
nence politically and otherwise in Pittsburg.
The other night Mr. B who is a Democrat
called up his Republican friend Mr. S on
the telepbone. Mr. B purp'osely disguised
his voice and then upbraided Mr. S for not
recognizing it
"Well-say! hello!" replied Mr. S through
the telephone, when he found out at length to
whom ho was talking, "your voice is over so
much higher than it was!"
"Of course it's higher," B answered,
"Everything is since you fellows passed the
McKinley bill."
Judge Brown Actually Smiled.
More practical jokes and Indeed jokes of all
sorts are attributed to General Pearson than
any other Pittsburger alive to-day. Some of
them happened so long ago that it is almost a
cruel joke upon the General to toll them again.
But one that was told in a gathering of lawyers
the other day may be related here it for bo
other reason than to show how early the pro
pensity for extracting fun out of everything
developed itself in tho General.
Judge Brown, who was the last lay Judge
elected in the Allegheny county courts, was ac
cording to tradition a very austere man and ex
tremely economical in the distribution of
smiles in fact it was said that he was a per
fect prohibitionist and never smiled. Mr.
Pearson, who had then but recently been
called to the bar, was not exactly in sympathy
with Judgo Brown. Onoday he entered Judgo
Brown's court, and went to tho water cooler
which was back of and above tbo
jury box. A bald juryman was sitting immedi
ately under tho water cooler, placidly snoozing.
The court was charging the jury. Mr. Pearson
took a drink of water and then, observing the
bald head below him, deliberately left the
water rnnning. The stream struck tho center
of the shining cranium, and its pwner jumped
three feet into the air. It was instantaneous
and intensely. ridiculous. J udge Brown smiled,
and then actually laughed. The scene was un
precedented, and it is related by veracious eye
witnesses that one of the tipstaves fainted.
A Widow's Mite.
On a Troy Hill car. by the way the little
green hearses with the melancholy mules are
the last of the boDtalls, yesterday a very
fashionably dressed woman took the usual
paroxysm a3She approached Penn avenue and
made a wild effort to stop the car. As has so
of ten happened in bobtail cars she got hold of
the wrong cord and began to ring up fares on
the dial. The first tug luckily took mnst of
her strength and the succeeding ones were
not powerful enough to register. Then
somebody stopped the car. As the finely
dressed woman made cor way to the door a lit
tle woman in a painfully thin shawl and a
shabby dress, said: "Excuse me, ma'am, the
driver will have to pay the 6 cents you ring up."
A smile, just enough to show the teeth, and a
shrug of the two high sealskin-covered
shoulders were all the reply the high born dame
vouchsafed. She got off the car without delay.
Then the little woman took a thin pnrse out of
her pocket and found a 6-cent piece easily
enough for thero was very little money there.
She dropped it quietly into the box, and the
driver was puzzled, doubtless, to account for
the nickel when he found it there later on.
A Jeweled Question.
One of the oddest little bits of jewelry I have
seen lately is a stickpin or more properly a lace
pin made in the form of an interrogation point
'thus T). The body of the pin is gold filagree
and it is crusted with diamonds. A deep blue
sapphire formed the tip of the npper curve.
They are the fashion, it is said, in New York,
but the objection raised to them by one fair
critic is that only questionable poople could
wear them. The dancer of sending one as a
present to a lady seems to be that the query in
the bauble might be interpreted to be a pro-,
proposal. Hepburn Johnsi.
BEF0EHIHG THE BALLOT BOX.
The New League Organized in Chicago
Adopts Its Constitution.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3. A preliminary meeting to
effect tho permanent organization of the
Chicago Ballot Reform League was held last
night, a numDer of prominent citizens being
present A constitution' was adopted by the
meeting, which declares that the objects of the
league "Shall be to employ all honorable
'and lawful means to seenre for the city of
Chicago and the State of Illinois what is known
as the Australian ballot"
The draft of the bill to be introduced in the
Illinois Legislature at Its next meeting was
considered. The bill is modeled after the Minne
sota one. with some changes providing for the
three tickets red, white and blue, in color
corresponding to the colors of the ballot boxes
to be preoared by the State, county and city
officers. The reformers agreed that the pres
ent city election law was a bad one, and tho
primary system was denounced as "Infamous,
gutter-snipe politics." in which lay the founda
tion of the evils in the body politic Some
methods were suggested to take the place of
primaries, but nothing definite was agreed
upon. Judge Tuley was elected President, and
Charles Bary Corresponding Secretary.
THE FAHt AHD SPAHISH AMERICA.
The Commissioners to Be Sent to Those
Countries Malting Preparations.
Chicago, Jan S. The officers of the army
and navy detailed to lay before the Govern
ments of Central and South America, the desir
ability of their being suitably represented at
tin Columbian Exposition, reported to Direc
tor General Davis this morning for instruc
tions. An extended conference was held.
They will remain in the city for some time,
loading up with the effects for use in their
work, and will -take with them illustrated
pamphlet covering the points in relation to
Chicago and the Fair, which, it is supposed,
will aid them in their work. They will be abroad
at least a year and a half. Each officer is
familiar with the language of the country to
which he is assigned, and most of the naval
oflicers have done duty in the places which
they will again visit
Be Will Probably Keep It
Philadelphia Press.
It it said that Grover Cleveland's Hew "X ear's
resolution was to stop telling school-girls "the
tariff is a tax,"
PERSONAL NOTES.
Dr. Jakes Croix, the first to explain the
movement of tho Gulf Stream, has died at the
age of OS, a distinguished Fellow of the Royal
Society.
James P. Scott, son of Thomas A. Scott,
late President of the Pennsylvania railroad,
proposes, by way of experiment, to plant 1,000
acres of nee near Kissimmee, Fla.
RnoDA Broughtoit lives at Oxford, whore
she took up her abode just ten years ago. In
all the has written about 30 books, but she has
allowed only half of them to be published.'
ScnLiEHANN was 34 years old before he
knew a word of Greek, and it was not until he
was 41 that he began the study of archaeology,
in which he was destined to achieve so much
distinction.
Goyebkob Wattebman. of California, has
surpassed all previous Governors of the State
in pardoning criminals. In the last 40 days of
bis term he has pardoned 62 convicts, including
murderers, robbers and others.
Archduchess Maria Dorothea is one of
the beauties ot the Austrian Imperial family.
She is above medium height with dark hair
and eyes, and a fresh complexion. She is
noted for her charities and for her skill in
piano playing.
Ellsworth Ingalls, the eldest son of the
Kansas Senator, is a lawyer who has built up a
lncrative practice in his native town. The
Senator's second son, Ralph, is a student at the
Colombia College Law School. He will take
his degree in the spring.
Bismarck's inseparable companions are
two large Danish hounds. At dinner they eat
beside their master, and be occasionally feeds
them with his own bands. After dinner the
Prince smokes three pipefuls of tobacco, that
being the amount allowed htm by the doctors.
Judge William P. Ltoit, of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court, who will become Chief Justice
on the retirement of Judge Cole a fewweeks
hence, has held his present office 20 years. He
is a native of Columbia county, N. V., and won
a brigadier's stars in the Volunteer army dur
ing the civil war.
Governor Hiix, of New York, has, been
obliged to decline the invitation sent him to be
tho guestof the Young Men's Democratic Clnb,
of Philadelphia, for the evening of Jannary 8.
The Governor's official duties will necessitate
his presence in Albany on account of the con
vening ot the Legislature.
Bbaytox Ives, the .New York millionaire,
is going to sell his famous collection of old
manuscripts and rare pottery 'at public sale in
March. The collection, an unrivaled one in
this country, is worth abont $600,000, and much
curiosity is manifested as to the price the gems
will bring at auction.
Bookless Simpson, having been sent a
present ot hosiery from Jersey City, returned
the bundle with a note which read: "Sir, our
f orefatbers refused to drink tea because it was
taxed 3 per cent, and held a tea party in Bos
ton to get rid of the stuff. I have just finished
figuring up the tax upon those stockings, and I
find thatit amounts to 70 per cent. I will wear
no socks until the tax is taken off."
Senora Mendonca, wife of the new
Brazilian envoy to the United States, Is an
American woman, daughter of a down east sea
captain. Captain Redman, ot Thomaston, Me.
When her father sailed for Rio Janeiro 23
years ago he took his daughter with him to
keep him company on board his schooner.
Scnor Mendonca was then a young editor in the
Brazilian port and a chance introduction of
the youngpeople ripened into a romantic court
ship that led to marriage, lime, Mendonca
has a son 25 years old and four daughters rang
ing from 18 to 22 years in age.
TEE EASTERN DANCE.
It Is a Product of Physical Endurance Be
gun in Early Youth.
Julian Hawthorne, in Dress.
One of the most attractive features of the
recent Exposition in Paris was the Eastern
dancing girls. In half a dozen or more booths
or tents, scattered about tho grounds, these
strangers ot another world and civil
ization held their unique receptions. The
spectacle, to Western eye3, is so entirely new
and unprecedented that the first effect ot it is
mere astonishment After further experience,
its strangeness begins to resolve itself into
beauty; wo can discriminate between .the com
parative merits of dancers, and dispense ap
plause judiciously.
A narrow stage occupies one end ot the room,
which may be 30 feet square. On the stage, in
a semi-circle, sit the dancers and the musicians.
The latter produce a concert; chiefly with a
sort of drums, and pipe3 that emit a noise not
unlike the scream ot a bagpipe. It is a bewil
dering, exciting noise, which, after a while,
begins to heat the brain and hurry the pulse.
In the midst of it a young woman rises.swathed
about in silks and muslins, and with bangles and
necklaces jingling and sparkling at every move
ment. Her body sways easily between her
haunches, and her air is partly indolent and
partly suggestive of latent vigor. As she faces
the audience, undulations pass through her
body: and these undulations are not only
lateral, but vertical. Anyone who has observe 1
the belly of a snake in motion has seen the
counterpart ot this movement
While the undulations are going on, the gitl
is in other respects performing a slow, graceful
and languid dance. Iler arms rise and fall and
wave about her head: she turns her face from
side to side, and occasionally smiles as it in a
voluptuous dream; her feet shifting rhythmic
ally and without baste: and ever and anon she
turn; completely round, but always slowly and
deliberately. The marvel and singularity ot
tho performance lies in the undulations of the
front of the body. It is impossible for a Eu
ropean to produce svcn the germ of such a
movement These girls have been trained,
from early childhood, in the use of groups of
muscles of tho very existence of which we are
ignorant Their control ot them is absolute.
The oxtent and power of the contractions is as
tonishing. In a European it would be almost revolting,
but in these Oriental damsels the effect is dif
ferent. We recognize tht the "dance" is nat
ural to them: that it belongs to their race and
genius, and that it has come down to them from
an epoch as ancient as the sides of the pyra
mids and the infancy of Buddha. It is not to
lie criticised by our crude cotemporary stand
ards of convention, fashion or morality; it is to
be accepted, wondered at for what it is, and
has been since the East was the East
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Charles Thomas Swift
rsrrciAi. txixobau to tbe dispatch.!
Atlasta, Jan. 3. The remains of Charles
Thomas swift were laid to rest In this city yester
day. He died last Tuesday arter an Illness of
nearly a year. He was a warm-hearted man of
unimpeachable Integrity and untlringln business
and was once President of the Swift Specific Com-
fiany. the recognized prosperity of which is
argely due to his efforts.
Mrs. Emma Sledle.
Mrs. Emma Sledle, wife or A, E. Sledle, the
well-known East End Jeweler, died yesterday
morning at her home on Frankstown avenue.
She -was universally loved and respected and had
an exceedingly large circle of friends. The rnncr
al will take place to-morrow morning. Bequlem
mass will be celebrated at S9. reter's and Paul's
Church, Larimer avenue, at 8 A. M.
Ex-Sheriff Bethel.
Zanksville, Jan 3. Ex-Sheriff Bethel died
suddenly at his home here this morning of heart
failure. He was a member of tbe Seventy-eighth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and as First Sergeant
at the battle of Atlanta protected tbe colors with
his fists when cut off from his regiment. For this
gallantry he was promoted to a lieutenancy. He
was elected bherlffof Muskingum county In 1SS8.
Clement Butler, Jr.
rSFECTAI. IBLXOHAH TO THI DISPATCH. 1
COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. J. Mr. C. C. Butler
and wife, nee Miss Florence Hefllck, formerly of
Allegheny City, have Just lost their promising
son Clement Butler. Jr. He was taken with
catarrhal croup and died In three days. Mr. But
ler is the agent at Plkevlew station. Many friends
In Allegheny City will deeply sympathize with the
bereaved parents.
Senator A. J. Robertson.
Sidney, O., Jan. 3. State Senator A. J.
Kobertson, of the Twelfth dlstriet died at 4
o'clock this morning of cerebral hemorrhage.
He had been sick two weeks. He was born in
Preble coMnty In IKS: was elected In 1337 ami re
elected in 18S9 to the State Senate. He leaves six
children.
J. Hannach, Sr.
IM-ECUX. TX1BOBAJI TO THB DIBFATCIM . ,
GnEEKViLm. Jan. 8. J. Hannach, Sr., who
owned several large clothing stores in Greenville
and other places, died to-day after a short Illness
of heart disease. Tbe remains were taken to fltts
burg to-night
Henry Ilnckesteln.
Henry Huekesteln, one of the best known citi
zens of Allegheny, died yeslerdar at his residence
on Center street, at the ace of 71 )cars. The
funeral has not been arranged for.
Isaac Walker.
Isaac Walker, a well-known resident of Walk
er's Hills, died yesterday at the advanced age of
73 years. His funeral -win occur from au lata
rssldence on Tuesday at 10 A. n.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Hard, Coal Monopoly and Fogs Frighten
New Yorkers Everything Begrimed
With Soot An Heiress on a Hunt for a
Chivalrous Dude Mrs. Cleveland's
Health.
IFItOH A STAYS' COIU-XSPOHD-CXT.
Mew Yorkers are very much concerned as
to the future climate they may be expected
to endure. This is notwhollyon account of the
recent London fogs that have visited Man
hattan Island, but chiefly because of the in
creased consumption of soft coal. It has been
the boast for a good many years that the clean
ness and bracing qualities ot the atmosphere
of the Atlantic coast made this section more
delightful to live in than any other. This boast
had considerable foundation in fact in this
particular latitude between the two extremes.
Unlike the conditions of other large American
cities, we could from any prominent point in
New York overlook almost the entire me
tropolis from border to border. Of recent
years, however, the increased consumption of
soft coal has brought about a material change
in this respect It is only within the last year
or two that this change has been particularly
noticeable. Of course it is nothing like tbe
evil complained of in Chicago anil formerly in
Pittsburg before the introduction of natural
gas, but it is an evil which is growing.
That is what now scares New Yorkers. They
see in the near future an atmosphere clogged
with floating coal soot and the beautiful archi
tecture spotted and" besmeared by the grimy
refuse of metropolitan chimneys. Ten jears
ago there were no more than half a million tons
ot soft coal used per annum between the cities
of Brooklyn andlew York. Now, there are on
a close estimate about three and one-half mil
lions tons used. The tight grip of the railroad
and coal barons of Pennsylvania upon tbe an
thracite regions and the consequent high price
of hard coal, while tbe bitumluous or soft coal
is to be had at little above half the price of the
former, are the conditions under which this
result has been reached. That tbe decrease of
the use of bard coal and tbe Increase in the use
of soft coal will rapidly grow Under such con
ditions is unquestionable. Tbe probability is
that the anthoritis of New York will be forced
to begin the battienowinprogres3in Chicago to
force a curtailment of the soft coal uuisauce
or tbe introduction of smoke consumers. At
any rate the outlook for the New Yorker is not
altogether a pleasant one.
What Torty Dollars Went For.
YXJ35 come across some very amusing things,
and see some very amusing people in
our business," said a theatrical agent the other
day. "I remember one time while with the
Patti.company in Chicago a rather funny thing
occurred. There was, of course, a great de
mand for seats for Patti, and tbe prices were
very high, as usual. We received a telegram
the day before one of her performances asking
for four seats. The telegram came from
Quincy, 111. Tne seats were all taken by pur
chasers and speculators, and I replied that they
conla not obtain them at the regular price, bat
that I could purchase from the speculators for
10 a seat Money is no object to some of those
people out there, and they immediately wired
me to buy tho four seats. I gave S10
for the outfit, and found at tbe
hotel where I was instructed to deliver
them that the four purchasers were ladies. Of
course they went to tbe opera, and after tbe
performance I saw the ladies and inquired
what they thought of Patti. They were per
fectly delighted, and all tried to talk at once.
Curious to know what a Qnincy girl knewabout
tbe Patti style of music. 1 pressed one particu
larly as to what single part of tbe performance
gave her the most pleasure.
'Ohl It was perfectly delightful." she said.
"There were exactly 82 people on the stage at
one time because I counted them."
"What struck me as the funniest thing." put
in another, "was the fact that although that
big chandelier burned candles, they did not
seem to be any nearer burned out at the close
of the performance than they were when it
began. 1 was looking every minute to see the
grease drop down the people's necks, but no
body else seemed to mind it"
"She was speaking ol the porcelain imita
tion candles about the gas burners. With
these opinions of the Patti performance wbicn
cost them 40, I went away feeling almost
dead."
A Financial View of a Snow Storm.
"Qo you know what snow means in a great
city like New York? It means the almost
total blocking of the lines of travel for a time,
the greatest inconvenience to every man, wom
an and child, the loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars to employers and employed and a
total paralysis ot business of all kinds. On the
morning after tbe recent great snow the streets
were wellnigh impassable for hours to the
ordinary means of conveyance. "Even the
elevated roads which are supposed to be above
the snow line were Irregular, and so uncertain
of movement were tbe trains that all business
calculations were upset for the day. .
There are probably in this city and Brooklyn
overSOO.COO men and women who go out in th9
morning to shops, factories, stores and counting
houses to work for a living. It Is putting a
very small estimate upon the value of their
services to say that tbe loss of a singlo hour
costs each one of them 50 cents. This is au
average of a skilled workman. The loss of one
hour therefore to these people alone, amounts
to S25li,000. That is a direct loss to tbe em
ploye. It docs not embrace any of the greater
Joss by tbo general paralysis of trade. On this
particular day mentioned, it was not a question
of one hourbut a matter of two. three and
four hours for the people concerned. It is true
that tbe fact that no people go shopping Is not
to be counted as a los, for if people buy not on
one day they will boy the same things on an
other day, so the tradesman makes an average.
But tbe loss of labor of all kinds is direct and
positive and has nothing in the future to make
It good.
This is a lesson which ought to be valuable to
the street cleaning department and to tbe gen
eral city authorities of New York. From the
niggardly appropriation for tbe operations of
tho street cleaning department that feature of
city government here has been a clear failure
and has evoked very little beyond incessant
abuse for each successive commissioner. The
city spends over 11,250,000 every year in tbet
tempt to clean streets which cannot be cleaned
for less than donblo tbe money. If we take the
case of a single snow storm like this last it
will be seen that the financial loss to all classes
of business from the blockade of a few hours
would more than doubly repay the necessary
expenditure to make such a blockade practi
cally impossible.
.
Babies In a Sleigh.
A novelty in baby carriaces, inspired by
the holiday snows is a double ender sleigh
in ivory white and gold. When two little twin
cherubs, their noses and cheeks pink with the
frosty air, are stowed away in either end
wrapped in soft furs, and a good-looking
French maid in a white cap is at the other end
of the string, the whole, cavorting along the
walks, it forms a sight for the gods.
Stories Abont Mrs. Cleveland.
T see a paragraph floating around concerning
Mrs. Cleveland which does that distin
guished lady a great injustice. It is to the1 effect
that for some reason or other, presumably social
dissipation, she is looking pale and peaked,
and showing tbe worse for wear. There is not
the slighest reason for this statement beyond
the imagination of the writer. I saw Mrs,
Cleveland recently, and never saw her looking
better since she was a bride entering tbe White
House at Washington. In fact she was visibly
improved in physical beauty since that memor
able event.
Speaking of Mrs. Cleveland's health, reminds
me that her august spouse is also apparently
enjoying a new lease on life. He is by no means
as fleshy as he was when confined to the White
House. Whether this reduction in flesh comes
from the use ofapatent flesh reduclcgmacbine,
anti-fat, exercise or the continuous attacks of
Charles A. Dana, the reader will be qnlte as
good a judge as the writer.
A Fact About tho L Trains.
A cubiots thing may be observed at any of
the elevated stations. Women, as a rule,
stand in a bunch in the middle of the station
and crowd Into the middle can as long as they
can fincProom to get Inside the gate or pack the
platform. Of course men who are just in time
are compelled to take the first car opposite tbe
gate. This has tbe effect to pack the middle
cars almost to suffocation while tbe first and
last cars of every train are usually but half
fall. No amount of counsel or experience
seems to do these people any good. The old
stagers who have time enough will always he
found at one end of the platform or the other,
taking advantage of the general pigheadedness
ot the public
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The Sequel of a Rescue.
TTIERE is some romance still left in ordinary
every-day life. In evidence of this is an
occurrence of one day last week in which a
young man figures as having rescued a lady
and some children from the hoofs of a passing
team. It was an express wagon driven by the
usual reckless Jehu of New York, who deems
the right ot way exclusively that of horses and
wheels. He bad well nigh driven over tbe lady
in question, when a dude young man In a cape
overcoat and derby bat and the customary
cane pushed forward and slapping the nearest
horse on the nose brought the vehicle to such a
standstill that it nearly threw the driver from
the box. Tbe acr gave the lady time enough to
fretbut of the way, andif it did not save her
ife or ber limbs, she at least thinks so, which
isjust as good, so far as tho romance of the
affair i concerned.
Now. thus far the story la one of almost com-
mon everyday notoriety; out unlike hir sort.
practical sisterhood of this modern era, the
lady is not only grateful, but is advertising far
and wide her gratitude together with a descrip
tion of this young man, in the commendable
desire to reward him for hi heroism. She
says, after this personal description of ber hero:
"I am a lady of means and an only daughter,
and if I can find out the whereabouts or this
young man I will reward bim, and he will not
know from whom it comes."
Now. if thi3 youth should come across that
advertisement and does not respond with an
ardent desire to meet this heroine ot his adven
ture, andiavtng met her does not at once pro
pose matrimony, he will not answer tbe require
ments of the knight of olden times. To be
sure, tbe description of a young man in a cape
orercoar, brown derby, big cane and horse-shoe-and-whip
pin is not accurate enougn to
distinguish a young New Yorker ot a certain
class from a good many young men ot his set,
and wo may look for an active competition on
the part of all the dude young men so dressed,
for the band of the heroine and her "means."
Charles T. Murray.
New Yonu; Jan. 3.
WHIM BABBABIAKS AHDBED SAVAGES.
Chicago Qlobe; Tbe conflict is a disgraceful
episode of our "civilization," is costly in blood
and money and wholly wrong to the Indians.
Kansas CUy Star: The present hostilities
in the Northwest are tbe legitimate outgrowth
of conditions which will continue to exist until
the Government adopts an intelligent policy.
It has been temporizing with this question for
a hundred years, and has not yet bit upon a
practical solution of it
Chicago News: Tho loss of a few brave
soldiers in quelling an Indian outbreak, or in
protecting tbe lives and property of settlers,
may sit lightly on tbe consciences of those who
are responsible lor Indian maladministration.
But the blood of every soldier sacrificed in
such ignoble warfare calls for retributive jus
tice. Evffalo Express: That it was necessary for
tbe soldiers in order to defend themselves to
shoot the warriors was a misfortune: that the
women" and children were also killed was
barbarous: that wounded Indian men and
women and babes too young to care for them
selves are left lying on the battlefield to starve
and freeze is Inhuman. This is a poor example
of white civilization to set the friendly
Indians.
Minneapolis Journal: General Miles' article
on the Indian policy of tbe Government
in the North American Review should be
widely read. He shows conclusively that the
agency and reservation system must be
abolished as soon as practicable, so far, at
least as tbe disturbing element among the reds
is concerned. The little array is called out to
deatbf ui campaigns to punish Indians for re
volting against a shipsbod kind of civilian
management which ought not to be tolerated
an instant The system is really more to blame
than the Indians.
Brooklyn Citizen: The trouble began when
the Indians were permitted to possess arms on
the reservations, and it culminated when Sit
ting Bull was arrested and then slain, and the
attempt was made to disarm Two Strike's
band. But it is too late to remedy the blunders
or to make recompense for the crimes of the
past The Indians havo been pursued into the
Bad Lands, and. as ws havo f orseon from the
first war has followed, and soldiers have been
wantonly murdered and men, women and chil
dren butchered among tbe Sioux in a frenzy
born of present rage and past memories.
SU Paul Pioneer-Press: And then, when we
have got so far is It too much to hope that we
might finally so progress in justice and decency
as to treat tbe Indian just a little is we would
treat the white man! Shall we coddle all these
fellows who have gone off into the gullies of
the Bad Lands, and fill them with beef and
cover them with blankets, while we let our
faithful allies starve as usual? Cannot this
great nation, in tbe intervals of leisure from
debates on the tariff and silver and the election
bill that is to do so much for tbe negro, con
sider the possibility of keeping just a few of its
solemn promises to the Indians?.
BL Paul -Dispatch: Tho method finally
adopted for the arrest of Sitting Bull which
of itself now appears to have been criminally
inexpedient was hardly less foolish. It has
already provoked and produced endless blood
shed, and Its latest rcsnlt appears in the report
that 3,000 Indians, heretofore peaceful enough,
have escaped from the agencies and taken to
thewapath. Unless such unhappy occurren
ces are destined, to become sporadic the Indian
must be reserved from the clutches of the
thieves and vampires that have swarmed
around tbe Interior Department as tbe product
of spoils politics, and have consumed every
thing in sight that was intended for tbe use ot
the rod man.
PEEPABDIG FOB THE FRAY.
Rov. H. MacQuarey, to Be Tried for Heresy,
Preaches His Farewell Sermon.
-ST CTAX. TXIGBAU TO THX DIBPATC1Z.1
CANTOX, Jan. 3. Rev. H. McQucarey, the
Episcopal minister whose trial for heresy takes
place in Cleveland next Wednesday, announced
to-day that he would preach in St Paul's
Church Sunday, probably for the last time.
He has fully prepared his defense, and will
make a strong fight He will leave early next
week for Cleveland to arrange the prelimi
naries. CEBTAE?LY GBEAT.
One Prompt Visitor YYhlch Is Welcomed at
Over CO.00O Firesides.
From tbe Greensburg Sparks.
The PrrrsBUKO Sunday Dispatch is cer
tainly one of the great newspapers of the
country. It has been almo3t a constant visitor
to our borne ever since tbe first number, and it
would be a sore trial indeed to be obliged to
do without Tiie Dispatch. Its popularity
and circulation are both constantly increasing.
An Encouraging Sign. ,
Washington Star.'
A significant development of the census of
1890 is the fact that the increase of wealth and
manufacturing in tbe South wjs greater than
the increase of population. In the decade from
1880 to 1800 the Southern States gained in popu
lation, 19.9; in actual wealth, 62.5, ana- ot capi
tal Invested in manufacture; 20.7 per cent
I
A Valuable Book of Reference.
Bradford Dally Becord.
The Pittsburg Dispatch of January I
contains a chronological review, comprising 33
columns of nonpareil, of important events of
the year 1890, and is a veritable and valuable
book of reference, which all who are so fortu
nate as to possess should preserve for future
use.
At the Top of the Ust
Philadelphia Call.
A' good reform for 1891: Ballot Reform.
DISENCHANTED.
wmrrzN ron Tire dispatch.1
She was sitting at the'eonnter
lira store:
Customers were plenty.
Quite a score
or people, stood about
Wishing, without doubt, '
There were more
To do their bidding,
O'er and o'er.
Patiently I waited also,
And I let
Unimproved no chance to vlewher
Our eyes met.
O, I thought her face the sweetest, '
And her -inalenp" the completes,
I had yet
Beheld, 'raong tne mortals, out or
In our set.
Bo my eyes I gladly feasted
As I sat.
When my charmer thoughtlessly
Arranged ber hat;
And alas! My admiration
Proved to be of short duration.
After that;
Tor Instead of tapering fingers
White and fat
Or a hand well gloved
And tended,
Be the glove well worn
Or mended
I should not have a care
The hand I saw was red and bare.
My Intended
Adoration fled, befort It was
Xxteadtd.
A.M.B.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Berlin is the only city in Germany that
has an excess on.OOO,000 population. Only X
have over 100,000 inhabitants.
2 Australia has begun to seed eggs to
England. They must be at least six weeks old
before they can be nut on tbe market
There is said to be a strong sentiment in
Arkansas against the convict lease system, and
the Legislature will be asked to abolish It.
The Corean alphabet is phonetic, and so
simple that any one can learn to read in a
day. Nearly all the women In Corea can read.
In digging out an old well at Murphy's,
-Calavcars connty. Cat., tbe other day, a skele
ton with handcuffs on was found. Its history Is
unknown.
Americns, 6a., reaps a rich harvest
from the dry counties near by. Last week a
single firm shipped something over 1,000 gallons
of whisky to those counties.
As a young woman was entering the
Methodist Church at Dover, N. H., on Sunday
last about 1,200 pounds of snow fell from the
roof npon her. She was taken home In a dazed
condition.
A Kansas man was injured in a rail
road wreck at Breckinridge the other day, and
be wouldn't believe be wasn't killed until the
other passenger dragged him to to the mirror
and made hint look at a small wound on hi
head.
The Mediterranean is comparatively
shallow. A drying up of C60 feet would leave
three different seas, and Africa would be
joined to Italy. Tbe British Channel is more
like a pond, which accounts fflr its choppy
waves.
The directors of the English Great
Western Railway intend to run an express
train, constructed on tbe American system, as
an experiment It will consist entirely of long
cars, having communication all through, from
one end to the other.
One of the latest crazes in St Louis Is
that of riding upon the electric cars to cure
rheumatism, and hundreds of victims of the
dreaded affliction, who bave borne their suffer
ings in silence are now eagerly seeking for in
formation and testing tbe new cure.
The Committee on School Management
of the ChicagoBoard of Education, to whom
had been referred a petition tor placing the
Bible or extracts thereof in tbe public schools,
reported last week that "for tbe general wel
fare of the public schools" it was not advisa
ble to grant the petitioners' request The
general board unanimously adopted the com
mittee's report
A man named Simon has been arrested
at the request of the1 Austrian Government at
Leschnitz, Silesia, where ho owned a handsome
villa and lived in great style, his neighbors sup
posing him to bo a wealthy speculator on the
European Bourses. Evidence was secured
which showed that he was the head of a secret
robbery society, having agents in London, Ber
lin, Altona and Vienna.
A great forest fire is raging on the
mountain range ot Batoom, Russia, so that the
smoke is spreading many miles around. Beside
the loss of the finest timber which this fire in
volves, tbo destruction of the forest will bo
fatal to the irrigation of the entire district; for
that forest was the only preserver of the
brooks and rivulets flowing from the range of
mountains which it covered.
In a Main street window in Pawtucket,
R. L, there is a fine specimen of the cat owl
alive and apparently ugly. It was caught last
week In a rather curious manner. A gentle
man was in tbe woods with his dog, a Gordon
setter, when tbe owl attacked tbe dog, catch
ing it by tbe throat. The owl succeeded in kill
ing the dog. but its beak and talons got caught
in tbe dog's hair or flesh, and its capture was
easy.
The village of Little City, in the town
ship of Haddam, Conn., has a fine schoolhouse
which has been without a pupil for two years.
Time was when Little City had a prosperous
school with SO children, but now there is not a
child in tho small hamlet to educate. The cause
is a general abandonment ot tbe town by all
the young men, who seek a better chance in
the larger towns, while tbe women remain un
married. A visitor in New Orleans says that
there are three features of the life in tbe
Creole City that are sure to impress the
stranger forcibly. They are the cemeteries,
which are veritable flower gardens; tbe
language of the French residents, which is
spoken everywhere and has the pure Parisian
accent and tbe fact that the negroes on tbe
lower river still sing tbe old tuneful songs that
were heard in slavery days.
Another Russian officer is going to
make long-distance experiments on a bicycle.
This is Baron de Kellerkraus, staff Captain ot
thoKovne Artillery, who has already distin
guished himself by a ride from Kovno to
Tobolsk. He Is now waiting for the warmer
weather, and will then travel from Warsaw by
way of Vienna, Stuttgart Paris, Lyons, to
Cannes. Here be will take ship for Algiers,
and thence continue his tour into Africa.
Mr. and Mrs. Todd, Christian Scientists
end graduates ot Toronto (Ont) Metaphysical
Institute, say that "anything can be cured, from
a corn on the foot to heart disease, if tbe pa
tient to be treated will but have faith m our
doctrine." No material medicine is used. -Dr.
Todd says he has many patients, and has made
many cures. Those who are not cured are the
rebellious ones, who will not have faith. The
doctor was formerly a Methodist Sunday school
superintendent near Toronto.
While excavating in front of the Chi
nese Consnlate in San Francisco, a few days
ago, workmen found six old flint-lock pistols In
tbe clay soil, about five feet beneath the sur
face. One of the pistols, which was taken to
the Alia office, is about 15 inches long, and
several marks are dlscernable on tbe barrel.
Including "J. H." with "P." underneath, and
the figures "6L" The soil at tbe place where
the pistols werefoundis believed to have been
not disturbed since the present city was built
Tbe pistols are thought to have been cached
by Spanish buccaneers.
The renowned composer, Rubinstein,
who has been the director of the St. Peters
burg Conservatorium for many years, has re
solved to resign his post and to quit Russia. He
openly declares that the anti-Semitism that bas
prevailed in Russia for tbe last ten years is
more than be can bear, and that he wishes to
spend the last years of his life in peace. E. en
tbe most virulent Judeophobic publications
like Novoyt Vrcmya and Syn Otetchestvo ex
press their regret at this resolve of the great
composer and virtuoso, and hope that he may
yt be persuaded to stay.
Bueno Guasa, a Mexican planter who
arrived in New York the other day on the
Aguan from Vera Cruz, told a reporter a story
of a fight between a woman and an eagle
which occurred on bis estate at Canon Jalico.
The father had gone out to work in the fields
and his 4-year-oId child was playing before the
door. A great eagle came swooping down from
the mountains and caught the child in its
talons. The mother rushed to save ber child,
when tbe great bird turned on her and with its
wings and beak threw her to the ground and
fractured ber skulL Then it seized the child
aain and was trying to rise with it into the
air, when the father came up and shot the
eagle. The mother died.
ITCCre MEN'S FANCIES.
To faint dead away after a Busiian bath
is to be clean gone, at least. Seta Orleans Picay
une, Have you got that resolution with you?
Or dld-you break It by taking too goodeareoflt
Buffalo lime.
"Charley Naivyo is a sort of go-as-you-please
boy. Isn't he?" said one Washington girl
to another.
"It has been my observation that he never
pleases to go, "was the sadly-spoken reply.
Washington Pott.
Mother Mable, when will you learn
something about eoozery: I thought 1 told you an
hour ago to stuff the turkey with chestnuts?
Mable-I don't care, ma, the turkey wouldn't
eat 'em: really. I believe the poor thing is dead
Sao Xork'Heratd.
"I will bet that woman's a terror holding
her own." was remarked at the reception.
-What mates you think so?"
1 never saw one show more backbone. Phila
delphia Tim's- ...... ,
3Irs- Bullion I bought to-day a genuine
Parisian work of art
itrs. lilllsdoo One of Detallle'i paintings.
Mrs. Bullion No.:A bust of some young woman
named Hebe. The dealer assured me It Is real
plaster of Parls.-Vewt" Circular.
With a dancing master it is not only the
flrst 4tep which costs. Yon have to pay for
them all. J'w Jort Evening World.
Dash away I understand that yon were
around to Miss Palisade's last night Did yon see
the old year out together? '
No; I wanted to, but Miss Palisade saw me out
flrst-i'Prt.
Mrs. Dinwiddie (to ber daughter) Lucy,
dear, yon shouldn't say ;Shoot it" That's a
slang exprtssionand unladylike.
Lucy Oh, no, mamma. You remember that the
poet Pope, says, "Shoot folly u It 21ei."-Cflla?
Inter Oesan,
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