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PITTSBURG. -WEDNESDAY. JAN. 7, 1S9J,
BEATER'S CLOSING MESSAGE.
Governor Beaver's final message to the
Legislature, given elsewhere, is mainly
devoted to the routine matters of State ad
ministration. "With the exception of one or
two subjects the document is given up to re
porting progress throughout the entire range
of State administration with nothing partic
ularly novel in the present status of any of
them.
The State finances, as reported by the
Governor, present the gratifying aspect of
being so large, and the prospect of exceed
ing the necessities of the State so direct
that a reduction is recommended in them by
giving part of the revenue back to the local
governments. This he proposes to do by
letting the whole of the State tax on personal
property go to the counties and the
whole of the license tax in cities
go to the municipalities. At the same
time the lact appears that the
revenue commission to perform the
chronically pending work of rectifying the
inequalities of State taxation has agreed to
disagree, and that subject is not much nearer
settlement than ever. The sinking fund
shows a gratifying prospect of a material re
tirement ot the debt, but the Governor's
effort to justify the commission in failing to
carry out the requirements of the law is not
a glittering succe's
In the conrseof reviewing a large number
of other subjects of State administration, the
message brings out the importance and
progress of the Lake Erie ship canal
work. The feasibility of the project
at a comparatively moderate cost
is stated to be shown by the surveys,
the ample rupply of water for the canal is
referred to, and the importance of the work,
not only for commerce but as a mean4 of
transferring naval vessels to the lakes in
case of war, is madi clear. The Governor
suggests that the United States Government
should be interested in the work, which is
undoubtedly a correct view. It is to be
hoped, however, that the full report of the
Canal Commission will place the matter be
fore the Legislature in such a light as to in
duce that body to take a decided initiative
in a work of such importance to the State.
The attention given in the message to the
subjects of ballot reform, education and the
management of solaiers' orphans' schools
and capitol improvement is consefvativi
and in the line of ordinary expectations.
The Governor apparently has no desire to
signalize the doe of his term by any sensa
tional recommendations.
INDIANS SURELY WRONGED.
Every da adds fresh evidence o empha
size the conclusions drawn in regard to th:
Indian troubles. The official correspondence
which has passed between General Miles
and the authorities at "Washington proves
quite conclusively that the Indian uprising
was first rendered possible by infamous
abuses, and that Colonel Forsythe, in com
mand at "Wounded Knee, was guilty of un
soldierly conduct. General Miies urges the
appointment of certain officers at each of
the seven agencies to inspire confidence, in
the hope of securing peace without much
further bloodshed. "Whilj the best maybe
hoped from General Miles' presence and
wise policy, there is still much doubt whether
the worst results of imposition and mis
management have yet been experienced.
The cautious inquiries sent out by the Gov
ernment to ascertainwhat could be expected
from former army officers in a case of
emergency, indicates a fear that something
serious may happen.
clouds with a golden leung.
The familiar old trade-mark of Pittsburg
its famous smoke-cloud which distin
guished it by day, while the furnace flames
illumined it at night once more begins to
hang over our city. The rugged, brown
hillsides of the Southside are no longer so
clearly visible across the river as they were
a year ago, and the rays of the winter sun
come to us through a gradually thickening
veil. Columns of black smoke pouring out
here and there from tall smoke-stacks in the
business part of the city remind us by their
inky trails of the normal hue and condi
tions of the atmosphere when the reputation
of the city as the smokiest in the whole
world was at its zenith.
Of course, all this is not just as we would
have it. "When, in 18S4, the old smoking
Aladdin's lamp of Pittsburg, which had be
come so famous for its Very soot and grime,
was rubbed up and burnished anew
and fed with natural gap, there came
sot only an effusion of new riches to the
city, but also a luminosity of atmosphere
and a perfect cleanliness, overhead at least,
which to the newly kindled imagination'of
lie community suggested, if not a paradise,
perhaps a future sanitarium. It is hard to
part with this beautiful dream, and so long
as we have still a considerable quantity of
gas for domestie purposes, and inventive
genius striving hard on all sides to use coal
without producing smoke, we do not in
tend to give up the hope that the city will
eventually be brought back to the recent
halcyon condition. The partial relapse we
venture to say is only temporary. The
system of pipes for conveying gas is still
here; the raw material for the making of the
gas is in our hills; the skill to devise a full
supply, and with reasonable cheapness, is
bound to be evolved by our inventors and
shrewd restless business men sooner or later.
Meanwhile, the blackest clouds have
their silver lining; and it is substantial con
solation to know that Pittsburg's clond,
now, as in the past, only very much more so,
will always have linings of cold. It signi
fies that the tremendous industry of the
town is active; that while the seven years of
uninterrupted natural gas were even as the
seven fat kine of Fharoali's dream, no seven
lean kine are next in procession. Never
have our mills been more active, or our mer
cantile business more prosperous. The tem
porary abatement of the cheerful exterior con
ditions of the ample gas supply may be re
gretted, but there is compensation in the
new spur which it applies to the energy and
ingenuity of our local business world.
Pittsburg is still traveling in the seven
leagued boots of the fabled giants progress.
If the smoke above is denser than in other
cities and becomes temporarily once again
her visible trade-mark, it is only because
here Vulcan has set up the forges and the
workshops which are permanently to supply
the demands of the continent.
ORIGINAL rOUTICAL IDEAS.
The messace of Governor Campbell, of
Ohio, differs fronuthe average Gubernatorial
document in containing some very original
ideas and expressing them with refreshing
frankness. It is a striking illustration of
the latter quality when the Governor tells
the Legislature that the Board of Pardons
was "somewhat demoralized" last year but
is now all right; while with rega'rd to ballot
reform he enforces his views, especially on
the minority of the Senate, in a very frank
way, which indicates that he does not care
much for the majority. .
In his advocacy of certain reforms the
Governor is no less original and outspoken.
His views on the subject of municipal self
government are carried out to such a de
gree that he would not only let every city
govern itself under uniform charters as re
gards the whole of them, but would let each
city frame its own charter. This is a de
votion to the theory of self-government that
is logical in the abstract, but in prac
tice it would probably lead to some
developments in large cities fully as remark
able as those produced by the opposite the
ory of not letting the cities govern them
selves at all.
Hardly less radical is Governor Camp
bell's suegestion of compulsory primaries by
which primaries must be held under legal
lorms, and every man who does not vote at
a primary is to lose his vote at the succeed
ing election! This is recommended as a
remedy for the habit of staying away from
primaries; but whether it might not result
in more people staying away from elections
remains to be seen. Such a provision would
put the fractious citizen who does not con
sider himself as belonging to any particular
party in a tight place; unless he adopted
the somewhat heroic measure ot forming a
party and'holding a primary all by himself.
Governor Campbell's recommendation on
the subject of trusts displays a singular
falling off from his radical deliverances on
the other subjects. After referring to the
growth of those combinations he recom
mends that action should be taken to inves
tigate the question whether they are legal or
not. As, among the judicial declarations of
their illegality, is one outspoken decision
of the Ohio Supreme Court, give j some
years ago, declaring all such combinations
illegal, it seems as if an Ohio'Governorwho
is so outspoken in other matters, might have
recommended more positive action in this
particular.
"With this exception the terse and original
character of the Ohio Governor's message
has a character like a fresh breeze blowing
through the usually rather stagnant atmos
phere of State politics.
ALARMIST FIGURES.
In referring to a quotation of the premium
on gold at Buenos Ayres, the Albany
Journal says: "If the free silver devil gets
in his work we shall read instead of the
above: 'ifew York gold to-day was quoted
at 12."i per cent premium.' " The Dis
FA"' "H has heretofore expressed its belief
vt free silver coinage would produce a
prt i"um on gold, and has shown that the
questio i is whether the nation wishes that
result. But In ord-;.-to have an intelligett
disenssion of the question, it is necessary to
have some respect to the actual figures. In
the very same column in which the above
assertiob is made, th Journal states that
the gold value of the silver dollar is 80 cents.
Therefore, if gold went to 125 premium,
silver would have to go to 70 per cent
premium. Or, to put it in another way, if
f tee coinage did not increase the value of
silver by reason of its increased use, the
utmost premium to which gold could rise on
the present ratio, would be 25 per cent. It
is well to have the facts and figures on
financial issues m a state of moderate cor
rectness. NO REASON FOR FAILURE.
It is a singular illustration of the way in
which promising affairs can be turned into
the way of failure that is afforded by the
fact that the work of raising funds for Gen
eral Booth's plan of transplanting the Lon
don poor into colonial industry, atter being
nearly on the verge of success, now seems to
be going to pieces. The statement is that
there was only $500,000 more needed to com
plete the fund of 15,000,000; but the sub
scriptions are now being withdrawn or with
held, and a general attack is made upon the
project.
The turn of the tide seems to have been
caused by the quarrel between General
Booth and Commissioner Smith, who was
understood to be the financial mind of the
Salvation Armv. As a part of the quarrel,
the assertion that the pamphlet in which the
plan was developed, published in General
Booth's name, was not written by him at
all, seems to have had a very unfavorable
effect Commissioner Smith asserts that the
work was his, in which case his assent to
having the work published in Booth's name
pnts him under a discredit almost equal to
Booth's. Another report credits the author
ship of the work to Mr. Stead, of the Pall
Hall Gazette. Finally, the plan is attacked
on the ground that not enough guarantee ex
ists for the faithful devotion of the vast sum
so nearly raised to the purposes for which it
was to be used.
While there maybe some cogency in these
objections if offered solely to the idea of
raising General Booth lotherankof prophet
of a new reform, it is a decided non tequitur
to abandon the plan promising such vast
good, for such reasons. General Booth may
have shown a perverted moral sense in re
gard to literary personation ; but the dis
pute as to the authorship of the plan should
not prevent it from being judged on its
merits. The first proposals may hare lacked
checks and safeguards over the expenditure
of the funds ; but that should not prevent
the work going on with the safeguards pro
vided. The plan has been judged and ac
cepted on its merits. It was recognized as a
feasible project for converting thousands of
miserable half-starved wretches into happy,
industrious and useful producers. The
money necessary to carry it into effect was
nearly raised ; and all of a sudden disputes
and quarrels, which have no more bearing
on the real merits of the plan than the spots
on the sun have on the life-giving qualities of
solar light, inspire the public with distrust,
and sets subscribers to withdrawing their
subscriptions under a rather unreasonable
panic created by the idea that something Is
wrong, although they do not exactly know
what.
It would be a discredit to philanthropic
humanity if, having gone so closely toward
making such -a magnificent social experi
ment for the benefit of the race, it should be
abandoned for any such reasons as those so
far developed. Of course if the plan should
fail, on account of General Booth's little
idiosyncracy of taking the literary credit
for another man's work, no slight share of
the responsibility for it would belong to his
peculiar moral ideas. But a greater
responsibility will attach to those who have
recognized the value of the plan and acted
on their duty to contribute to it, but now
draw back because the man whom they
supposed to have originated it turns out not
to be all that their fancy painted him.
The work should be pursued,, whatever
General Booth's shortcomings may appear
to be upon full investigation. Even if he
were ten times worse than anything that has
been charged, to let the work fail on account
of his faults, would be like tHe abandon
ment of the revolution which gave this
country freedom, because the revolutionary
army contained a Benedict Arnold.
It is an interesting and not unsatisfactory
sign that the failure of certain Republican
Senators to rally to the defense of tbo defunct
force bill has led to sharp talk on the part ot
certain Republican organs about absenteeism.
The Philadelphia Press has pitched into the
Pennsylvania Senators on that score, and the
Now York Tribune now brings Sonator Wol
cott to book with the assertion that he "was al
ways one of the absentees." This development
of outspoken qualities may yet lead to the Re
publican organs actually advancing the theory
that it is the duty of all Senators, without re
gard to party, to attend to the business of the
Senate. ,
It is still aii open question whether these
complaints of Senator Harwell about the way
In which he has been treated by President
Harrison, are more in the nature of a boom for
the President or of a boomerang for the Sena
tor. The intimations that the proposed inves
tigation into that silver pool is being held, in
the House Committee of Rules, as a club to
make members vote as they are ordered, only
add to the necessity for the investigation to be
ordered at once. If the Republican majority
has any desire to preserve its reputation.it must
probe the assertion that members have been
speculating on their own action, without fur
ther delay.
A Minneapolis man recently walked
three miles through one of the city sewers, bat'
the report fails to state what particular can
didacy ho his in training for.
"Democaets in the Senate who rejoiced
over Vice President Morton's decision that an
appeal trom the chair is debatable were un
aware that his ruling was loaded. The appeal
can be laid on the table." remarks tie New
York .Pre of Monday. It also appeared on
the same day that beside the ability to lay an
appeal on the table, the Senate had the power
to lay the elections bill on the shelf.
The Indians ocenpy the Bad Lands for
the distinct reason that if they were good lands
they would long ago have been taken from the
aborigines.
The suggestion is made that the new in
strument used for measuring one-millionth of
an inch might be tested on the progress of the
second term boom. Since tbo event of Mon
day, however, such an instrument would be un
fitted to show the backward progress of that
political movement. A sextant would be neces
sary for measuring long distances like that.
GcBEBNATOBiAi deliverances on matters
of State, occupy a large share of the newspa
pers to-day, and let us hope a corresponding
share of the public attention.
By the way, it is an evidence of progress
that after the winter is hall through, Mr. Bal
four has discovered that the distress in Ireland,
the existence of which he denied last fall, re
quires some relief. Perhaps Mr. Balfour may
yet come to the conclusion that the Irish have
some rights if he can make' any political capi
tal out of it.
The question whether Senators Quay and
Cameron are "triflers" is the grave issne now
raised between the caucus and the Senators.
Racing circles are excited by the report
that one ot the Gould family is going to set up
a racing stable. The excitement is probably
duo to the expectation that the new stable will
discard the traditions of trainine and stick to
the Gould policy, by keeping the stock full of
water.
INTERESTING PERSONALTIES.
KuBlxsiEKf is literally dying ot melancholy.
He pfofesses most profound disdain and dis
gust for life.
Justice Bba.si.et enjoys the reputation of
doing mors work than any other Justice on the
Supreme bench.
H. Rider Haggard and Mrs. Haggard are
passengers for New Yorkbythe Etruria, which
sailed from Liverpool Saturday.
Henry C.Lea, of Philadelphia, has given
$50,000 to the University of Pennsylvania fur
the erection of a building for hygienic instruc
tion. The baptism of the infant son of Emperor
"William has been fixed for the 25th lost. The
King and Queen of Italy will be the child's
sponsors.
George T. Brewster, who designed the
figure "Indiana" for the Soldiers and Sailors'
Monument to be erected at Indianapolis, is a
native of Massachusetts and is not yet 28 years
of age.
Governor Goodell, of New Hampshire,
recently presenteu each of his council with a
handsomely wrouent carving knife and rork,
made especially for them at his factory at
Antrim.
G. N ANOASAKT, Clerk of the Department of
Foreign Exchange of the Bank of Japan, is
visiting this country to study American clear
ing house methods. He is now in, San Fran
cisco on his way East.
Bainbeidge WjAdeeigh, ex-United States
Senator from KewHampshire, Is lying very ill
at the residence of his son-in-law in Boston.
Mr. Wadleigh was in the Senate from 1S73 to
1879, and is almost 60 years of age.
Archduchess Maria Dorothea is one of
the beauties of 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.
Miss Annie Reeve Axdricbt, who is
achieving, some reputation as a poet and story
writer, is a tall, graceful and rather statuesque
girl. Her manners are vary charming, and she
is proud of the fact that she comes of a good
old English family.
Miss Elizabeth Biseand is among the
noted Southern womeq who have sought New
York. Her talent as a writer gave her entree
to literary circles, and as she has many per
sonal attractions her social success was Imme
diate. She was born on a Mississippi planta
tion. Commander D. W. Mullan. United States
Navy, has arrived in New Orleans to take
charge of the Eighth lighthouse district, which
extends from Mobile to the Bio Grande. This
officer saved his ship, tbo NIpsic, at Samoa,
while many others went down In the dreadful
hurricane of 1S69.
Hesry George Savage, who is exploring
some of the unknown lands of Japan, Is a
grandson of W-Jter Savage Landor, and an
artist of note. He has traveled into the in
terior of Hokhaldo and to the Kurile islands,
coins on horseback 2.600 miles and walking
some 400 miles. For TO days he lived entirely
on raw fish, seaweed and rice.
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A Point on Reform.
LonlsTlUc Courier-Journal.
Cigarette laws In a land where tobacco smoke
is encountered on every street, in nearly every
public place, and in almost every home, are not
likely to have much effect. Young people will
always be imitators, and pa may as well make
up bis mind to the fact.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Yon" cannot judge a Governor's message by
the number of words it contains. ,
This is a busy world without doubt. Lulls
there be, of course, but they are tew and far
between. But the busy man is always busy,
and they slip by unnoticed so far as be is con
cerned. Erents crowd and elbow each other in
all lines. Bodies of men come together, discuss,
debate, deliberate and demand attention. They
crowd out of notice that which has been amus
ing or entertaining the masses for a season.
What was new a few hours ago Is stalo now. It
can be shoved aside for the fresher and the
newer, and never will be missed by the masses
who watch the drift that floats along on the
swift current of events. A sudden twist in the
law a tnrn that seems to stagger the blind god
dess and almost knock the bandage off her eyes
startles the nation, and all eagerly watch for
and devour the heavy opinions and wise words of
the men trained to nurse and administer to the
wants ot the fair damsel holding the balance.
The good work is relished for a time. Then ears
hear a newer sound, eyes are drawn off by a
fresher object, and, presto! the excitement of
yesterday Is devoured by and forgotten in the
craze of to-day. ,.no so it goes. Yesterday.
This, to-day That, to-morrow What? Some
thing not very old, at all events. He or she who
cannot cet a sufficiency of subjects nowadays
withont garnering In the graveyard of gos
sip, ghoul-like, and holding an intellectual
ghost dance, must indeed be mind men
aced. For the hours, the days, the
weeks are laden with topics for tongues,
thoughts for the thoughtful, joys for tbo joy
ous, sermons for some, entertainment, amuse
ment, instruction for all. And we all help to
furnish them, too. So we should etrive to make
them as pleasant as possible. We may only
constitute a mite, of course, but many mites
make something mighty when rubbed against
the bier ball called tbo earth. They gather the
grit and are grimy they glisten in the sun and
are shiny. It all depends on the treatment
they receive while being tested in the crucible
called life.
The men who read the stars see earthquakes
and holocausts in January's horoscope. .Hu
manity is compelled to depend on the bright
star of hope.
Ir is stated that Sitting Bull was killed by
order of an Indian agent. Here's another
chance for someone to turn on the light.
A MAN can thread his way through a crowd
better than a woman, but when it comes to
threading a needle she has him at a disadvan
tage. Dead Sea Fruit.
Have you ever met Suzette,
Raven-haired, with eyes of jet,
Breath of flowers T
If you meet her anywhere
She will set for you a snare
In rose bowers. ,
If you ever met Suzette
Surely mem'ry brings regret;
If not sighing;
Visions of fair women's faces,
Bustling silks and fluffy laces,
Flowers dying.
If you ever saw Suzette,
Wreathed in smoke of cigarette.
At you glancing,
You imagined life's best prize
Could be captured from her eyes,
So entrancing.
If you ever let Suzette
Weave around you silken net,
Heart caressing,
You'll recall a pleasant hour;
But a dry leaf, not a flower.
You were pressing.
If you ever met Suzette
You amused a gay coquette
For a season,
Now in every flashing eye.
Black as night, or bine as sky.
You see treasonl
When you wrestle with the world you se
cure a good hold if you grab time by the
forelock.
The brush is mightier than the pen in the
production of spectacular dramas.
Dice Quay read a novel while the hustlers
at Harrisburg hustled in caucus. Sick will
doubtless be a Legislative novelty.
TfiE seals will probably be exterminated bo
fore the Bering Sea correspondence is termin
ated. When a burlesque is burlesqned it becomes
a farce.
A poo in Chicago saved six souls from a hor
rible fate and lost its life. If there Is a dog
heaven, that canine will surely occupy a place
of honor.
A dead issue The force bill.
A watch company has failed. Too much
tick will swamp any concern.
The Grangers are in control at Harrisburg.
If they refuse to farm out their votes to the
bosses, slates will be smashed to smithereens.
Give Her Time.
The world will soem a place of bliss,
Life will become more sweet.
When in the car a standing Miss
Will thank you for a seat.
The newspapers which stick to the super
fluous "h" In Pittsbure are putting the much
abused letter in Bering, in spite of the Govern
ment order to drop it.
A jiixk company has assigned. In this case
the water was in the stock.
The Supreme Court has decided that shoot
ing quail and eatyng quail are not synonymous
terms. Birds shot in Ohio can be served on
toast here at any time.
W omen are clamoring for recognition. Still
they keep changing their dresses so fast that it
keeps a man on the lookout to recognize his
own wife.
A great many reformers imagine that a
new bnman nature can be created by agitation.
Thy are wasting their energies. .
If you work you am a living, and that's all
you have been promised1 in this world
It's better to confine your flourishes to your
signature and be plain in public
Not All for Glory.
Our cup ot woe Is now chock full,
The statesmen are at work;
They will soon pull each other's wool,
Or wield the party dirk.
At Harrisbure the fur will fly;
But, after all, it's play.
They're devlish sly they close our eye.
And draw the usual pay.
The soldiers say sanaws cannot be distin
guished from bucks, and fight just as fiercely
as their husbands. But machine guns are not
respecters ot persons, anyway.
Care must sit lightly on tha shoulders of
women. If It didn't it would soon feel the
sharp ridge of the puff.
Lace of cash is the alleged cause of the col
lapse of the window glass trust. Better say It
was an over supply of common sense, gentle
men. Between the Indian war and the burlesque
craze the red paint makerswlll reap a golden
harvest.
The Indian Commissioner has asked Con
gress to give him money for seeds. He proba
bly imagines seed must be used to plant In
dians. If Uncle Jerry Busk should make a
break like this his farmer friends would shunt
him.
Kerr says Paulson's Cabinet will be Har
rity, Hensel and McClelland. Mr. Kerr takes
The Dispatch.
AiXEGnExr would feel better if somebody
would turn on the light for her.
The weather reports often mention mean
temperature, but pass the woather by without
an epithet.
Miles still lives to part his hair.
City politicians are beginning to realize that
slick statesmen can be raised in the rural dis
tricts as well as turnips.
Wixlie Wnrxxz.
WHERE WOMEN RULE.
Many Society Events of Prominence Yes
terday Afternoon an Evening The
' Woman's Club Elects Officers for the
Young Year of 1891.
There was enough business transacted at the
regular meeting of the Woman's Club the
first of the year held yesterday afternoon in
the Teachers' Library, to make the composite
head ot the club swim. In the first place, the
annuaf election of officers took place, and re
sulted in the following unanimous vote: Mrs.
Charles I. Wade, President; Mrs. George H.
Taylor, Mrs. J. & Collins and Mrs. Harvey
Honderson. first, second and third Vice Presi
dents respectively; Mrs. Dr. Ramsey, Record
ing Secretary; Miss Cora Reese, Corresponding
Secretary: Mrs. H. J. Prentice, Treasurer
Mrs. M. J. Becker. Mrs. George Schlendcrberg
and Mrs. S. L. Fleishman, Executive Com
mittee. Following the election of officers the annual
report ot the Secretary was read, in which were
gracefully embodied by Mrs. Ramsey the facts
that the club was in a very progressive state:
had received 14 new members during the past
rear, making in all an enrollment of 33; the sub
ect of Spain, the one under discussion, bad
)een treated with SI essavs and 3 addresses: and
great interest bad been centered In the meet
ings. With a pretty tribute to the worth and
lovableness of Mrs. Ayers, the only member de
ceased during the year, and the statement that
the club had reached a point in its existence
that defied failure in any project, the report
closed..
Mrs. W. J. Prentice, the Treasurer, In her
last report informed the clnb that the receipts
durlngr the rear had been 43 25, the ex
penditures $37, with some ?6 in the treasury
and S262 71 in the bank.
The subject of a club motto was then resur
rected, and it was unanimously decided to
adopt "Fortis est "Veritas." In compliment to
the President, Mrs. Wade, whoso ancestors in
Englaud had such Inscribed on their coat of
arms. A club badge, with the Inscription
similar to the Delta Tau Delta College pins,
will be worn by the members.
The selection of a subject for study'dunng
the coming year aroused considerable discus
sion, but it was finally decided that Russia
should receive the attention of the club, with
ontional digressions on current topics of the
day.
The only literary paper of the meeting was
an original Cnristmas poem, by Mrs. SI. J.
.Becker, that was beautiful in rhythm and sen
timent. A paper will be read by Mrs. Schlcn
derbergatthe next meeting on Vercstchagln,
the great Russian artist, which will be exceed
ingly appropriate, as the collection of his
paintings will by that time be ready for exhi
bition in Carnegie Library building.
A MINISTER'S BRIDE.
Charming Miss Battle Ford Becomes the
Wife of Bev. J. A. Ballantyne.
Possibly the prettiest home'wedding of the
season and certainly the prettiest one thus far,
was that last evening of Miss Hattle Bower
Ford, daughter of E. L Ford, of the Pittsburg
Plato Glass Company, and Bev. James A.
Ballantyne, pastor of the Bingham Street M. K,
Church. The elegant Ford mansion on North
avenue was the scene of the ceremony, and
with its air of oriental luxuriousness, its
rich hangings of velvet and .ex
quisite furnishing formed an admirable
ground work for the skill of the florist
which transformed it into a veritable
elysium. The handsome double parlors, in
which the wedding tableau was formed and
the important words spoken, by tbeir arrange
ment, permitted the highest artistic effect.
The bow window In which the bridal party took
their position was a perfect bower garlands
and wreaths of bride roses entwined with the
glossy, green smilax were charmingly
effective upon the deep red draperies that out
lined the recess, while clusters and bunches of
the same were suspended from the dense but
feathery green asparagus that formed
the arch above. On either side
the beautiful mantels were burdened
with roses that reared their dainty and f raa
rant beads from vases of exquisite ware. The
ball was unique in its dress of plants, the outer
notch of each step being the support for an
individual plant ot great beauty fastened to
tbo supports of the stair railing with bands of
ribbon.
The dining room was fragrant with the pe
culiar spicy perfume of the pink carnations
that aboauded in every available space.
Toerges' Orchestra announced the bridal party
at 6 o'clock, the guests, 150 in number, having
previously assembled in the parlors. Two
maids of ceremony. Misses Ella Graham and
Erelyn Riddle, the first named in pink brocade
and the latter in white, carrying bouquets to
correspond, held back the drapery at the door
through which the maid of honor. Miss Nellie
Ford, and best man, Robert Jenkins, Jr.,
passed, followed by the bride and groom. The
maid of honor was attired in a lovely creation
of pink, and the bride was a bewitching pic
ture in an elaborate and exquisite- costume of
benealina de sol and corded white silk. It was
fashioned en trace and decollette, with trim
mings of ostrich feathers and lace. Rev. Dr.
Leak was the officiatimr. clergyman, assisted by
Rev. Dr. Mile, Presiding Elder of the Pitts
burg district. Congratulations being offered,
the company repaired to the dining room, where
Lutlter served a supper of great sumptuous
ncss. An Eastorn trip will be made.
BEILLIAKT IH EVERY WAY
Was the Beceptlon of the Young Men's
Hebrew Association.
Brilliant In every particular was the compli
mentary entertainment and dancing reception
given last evening in Latayetto Hall by the
Young Men's Hebrew Association. The hall
was made radiant for the festivities by the
artistic use of tropical plants, and early in the
evening was filled by a wealthy and intelligent
audience, composed of representative Hebrew
families. Five young gentlemen in evening
dress, Messrs. Jacob Adolph, Joseph H. Wein
berg, Nat Eisman,W. Arnfeld and Al. Lazarus,
officiated as ushers, and after the performance
received congratulations, as they formed
the committee having the affair in charge.
Toerge's orchestra occupied the platform, amid
a profusion of towering palms and foliage
plants, and opened the programme with an
overture. Miss Blanche Kaderly, the charm
Ins young sinzer, was warmly ereeted npon her
appearance, and as warmly applauded at the
conclusion of "In Golden Zelte," by Schwartz,
which she rendered in a truly artistic manner.
A z tin r solo by Frank Clement was thoroughly
appreciated, as was also a clarinet solo by W. E.
Jones.
The star of the evening was Kr. Wilezek.
the talented violinist, whose success in New
York City had aroused interest regarding his
playing, to a high pitch, which he sustained
admirably throughout Rieuxtempe's "Caprice."
He appeared a second time in Sarasate's
"Spanish Gypsy Dance." A cello solo
by Charles E. Cooper, always a pleasing
feature on a programme, and a
vocal solo, "My Lover and I," by Dr. W. T.
English, the popular singer and composer, with
several Interspersed overtures by tho orchestra
completed the programme. The hall was then
quickly cleared, and those of the audience of
danceable age were soon keeping time to the
dance-inspiring music of the orchestra. Later,
Kennedy served an elaborate supper iu the
dining hill, and the annual entertainment of
"Tho Young Men's Hebrew Club," 6 years ot
age, and composed of 100 members, was pro
nounced a perfect success. '
' GETTING INTO GOOD SHAPE.
Tho Work of Cataloguing Carnegie Library
Books is Progressing.
"Yes, we have some new books In," said
Librarian btevenson, of Carnegie Library, yes
terday afternoon. "We have received from
Cincinnati Garfield's collective works, in two
volumes, half morocco, gilt-topped, bivel
edged, etc Don't know who donated them,
and in fact am not sure thoy have been
donated. A bill may follow in due time, with
the significant sentence. "Please remit," but
the name ot P. W. Garfield was written on the
wrapper.
"Wo have also received the Encyclopaedia
Brittnnica. direct from Edinburgh. We are
getting along famously with our cataloguing.
Miss Lapsler, here, is doing most efficient
work."
Social Chatter.
AVEKY enjoyable concert was given last
evening in Duquesne Hall for the benefit of
St. Mary of Mercy's new school. Miss Mamie
Reuck, the violinist, and Miss L Malady, so
prano, appeared upon the programme. A large
and intelligent audience filled the hall, and the
proceeds were very satisfactory.
Cards have been issued by Mrs. F. Jacobs,
of Western avenue, for a children's party, to
be given January U, In honor of Miss Kitty's
blrtbday, with which she enters her teens.
"WnAiAM and Washington" will be the
subject of a lecture to-morrow evening In Car
negie Hall by Bev. William Best, of Philadel
phia. THE Ladies' Aid Society of the M. P. Church,
of Bellevue, will hold a fair the first Friday of
next month.
Republics Are Ungrateful.
Philadelphia Press. I
A New York man recently arrested for shoot
ing cats has hanged himself. .No wonder it is
charged that Republics are ungrateful to their
benefactors when a man Is driven to suicide
by despair of receiving human Justice under
such circumstances.
- THE TOPICAL -TALKER.
Captain Gcorce Wallace.
Captain George Wallace, of the Seventh
U. 8. Cavalry, who was killed at the battle ot
Wounded Knee, bad several warm friends In
this1 city. One of them. Lieutenant A. L. Pear
son, Jr., who has entertained Captain Wallace
hero and mado hunting trips with him on
several occasions, spoke most highly of bis
soldierly and manly qualities. All who knew
Captain Wallace in fact agree that he was a
typical Southerner ot the finest kind. He was
born in South Carolina of a good old stock of
Southern chivalry, bis father being a Colonel
in the Confederate army, but ho accepted the
result of tbo war as final, and went to West
Point in 1868. During his four years' course
there he was exceedingly popular. Indeed the
most popular man in bis class. When he joined
the Serenth Cavalry in the West ho rapidly
won the reputation ot being a strict disciplin
arian as well as a good fellow. It may be re
membered that during the recent Investigation
at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, at which
post Captain Wallace was filling a two
years detail, the evidence of the enlisted men
of bis company showed that while his Ideas of
discipline wero rigid, yet his fairness and care
for the general comfort of the men of his com
mand had won for hiin their regard and affec
, tion. It was from Jefferson Barracks he pro
ceeded to join bis troop when the regiment went
north on the campaign, which was fatal to him
and so many other brave fellows.
Talking of bim yesterday. Lieutenant Pear
son said: "He was a magnificent man in every
sense of the word. He was six feet three inches
tall and of athletic build. He will long be re
membered.ln the Seventh as a most fearless
rider and crack shot, as well as a charming
companion. 1 hat Captain Wallace died hard
and fighting to"the last is shown by the latest
reports from the seat of war. There were
found lying around him where he fell five dead
Indians,f or whom fire empty chambers in his re
volver accounted. He was wonderfully expert
with gun or revolver. I remember that on one
little hunting trip we took together in Missouri
he disdained to use a shotgun on small came,
and brought down moro with bis rifle than the
rest of us could with our scattering guns."
The sad postscript to a glorious death Is that
Captain Wallace leaves a wife who was a Miss
Otis and two little children, of whom be was
intensely fond. But, says tho generous reader,
of course Uncle Sam will take good care of hi3
wards, the wife and babes of one who died for
his country. Good caret Oh. certainly a
Captain's widow can draw the princely sum of
S3 a month no less than $96 a year for lifel
Not a Bedskin Left.
"If this Indian war keeps up the United
States will be bankrupt," said Clipper.
"Oh! not so bad 33 all that, is it?" said Dap
per. "Well, it looks asifiUncle Sam would have
'nary a Bed when the war's over."
Honest Little Emma.
Emma Abbott is sincerely mourned in this
city.' She had a great host of friends in all
ranks here, not only as a singer but in private
life. One of the most devoted of her friends
was Colonel W. D. Moore, the eminent lawyer,
and their friendship dates back to the earliest
days of Emma Abbott's professional career.
I believe Colonel Mooro met her first in London
when she was practically unknown to the gTeat
American public He was there witfi his fami
ly, and tbev all took a great liking for Miss
Abbott, which she fully reciprocated. The elo
quent tongue of the advocate has often sounded
the praises of the singer, and you could depend
upon finding him in the audience whenever she
sang here. Aside from these personal ties I
know Colonel Moore acted as her legal adviser,
and enjoyed the confidence of Mr. Wetberell,
her husband, in bl$ lifetime.
When Mr. Wetherell was last here he told
me of somo real estate transactions ot bis
which indicated the way Emma Abbott's
fortune reputed to be over a $1,500,000 was
accumulated. Mr. Wetherell said that he had
made a practice of investing his wife's money
in Western real estate, and at that time be was
selling a piece of land m Kansas City for
40,000, wbich bad cost him originally 10,000.
There is no humbug in the obituary claim for
Emma Abbott that she was kind and generous
in all her dealings. The make-up of her com
pany has seldom been changed, and still less
often at her instigation. Yeari after year the
same singers were to be found jabout her and
she was rarely free from the very common and
contemptible vice of jealousy. As to her
generosity I happen to know that when her
husband died, leaving his entire estate to her
wbich was proper undoubtedly and some
members of bis family complained, honest
little Emma of her own free will gave to them
a round sum of money the' exact figure 1
don'tknow, but something like 350,000. Her
associates always talked pleasantly about her,
and in the tlttletattle and scandal, which Is
forever trickling through greenroom, box
office and lobby, her name was seldom or never
mentioned. Now she is warmly praised by all
professionals, and there is much talk of the
curious coincidence of her death and Mr.
Wetherell's.
She bad some foibles, who hashiot; and one
of them in a measure contributed to her death
although since Mr. Wetherell's death her
health has been palpably on the wane. She
had a great liking for opening new theaters,
and I have heard her manager say that she
would cross the continent for this purpose. It
was the damp walls and stage of the new
Opera House at Denver that converted a cold
into pneumonia and made an end of one of the
best little women that ever trod the stage.
The Sale or the Knee Pants T
Outside one of the stores wbich are given to
generous outbursts periodically, a red pla
card is at the present time informing Pitts
burgers that a 30,000 fire sale is In progress,
and that among other articles practically given
away are:
: 17 CEST KNEE I'ANTS :
CANNOT IjASjT LOKQ.
The last words are intended to refer to the
sale, but it is asortot double give away as it
Btands.
Is This a New Style ?
A lady dropped a .glove at tbe corner of
Smitutleld and Diamond street yesterday, and
a gentleman who saw her drop it picked it up
and ran af tor her.
"You dropped this glove, I think," he ven
tured as be handed over the glove
It was astounding that he did not become a
pillar ot ice instantly, for she gave him a freez
ing look and said in an ammoniac tune:
"Sir III"
But she took the glove all the same.
Nearby Arctic Scenery.
Tbe high water last week brought down some
young icebergs from the upper reaches of the
Allegheny and Monocgahela, and when tho
temperature and tbe rivers fell simultaneously
on Sunday tbe hummocks of ice were stranded
on the Ohio's banks in a most picturesque
fashion. .Between Agnow and Osburn. between
the Fort Wayne tracks and the river, you may
see strange shapes roosting in tho branches of
the trees close to the banks. Chunks of ice a
foot or two thick are lodged in the forks of
many a tree, and tbo shores are covered in
places with huge blocks of frozen snow and ice,
four or five feet thick and ten feet or more in
length. On tbe string pieces and quay of tbe
Government dam at Bellevue, a pack of ice
floes has been left high and dry by the receding
waters, and the whole neighborbood'looks de
cidedly arctic The valley generally looks very
pretty id Its winter dress the snow of the last
two days having filled up all tho little spots
bared by the recent thaw.
BUBAL eOIONS IN NEBBASEA.
The Election of an Illiterate Speaker of
the House Will Mix Matters.
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 6. The Legislature or
ganized at noon to-day, the Farmers' Alliance
having a clear majority and electing temporary
officers without trouble. G. H. Piertle, Secre
retaryoftbe State Central Committee of the
Independent party, was elected Secretary pro
temof tbe Senate by a majority of one S.M.
Elder was elected temporary Speaker of the
House and Eric Johnson Secretary.
The temporary Speaker is without education
or experience, and a turbulent session Is confi
dently expected.
Where the Heavy Fighting Is.
Chicago Timet. '
Report comes from Topeka that Senator In.
galls imagines that all the newspaper dispatches
relating to Indian fights refer to his contest for
re-election.
TEE BOOK 07 THE AGE,
The Americanized Edition of the Great
Encyclopedia Britannlca.
Maurice Thompson, tbe literary editor of the
Independent, and still earlier noted for bis en
trancing little volume on 'The Witchery of
Archery," was asked what book, aside from
tbe Bible, be preferred above all other. He
unhesitatingly replied tbe Encyclopedia Britan
nlca, and then wrote a charming letter in tha
'Independent In illustration of theincalcuable
value and magnificent scholarship ot that mon
umental work, and the reasons for his very
natural choice.
The first edition proper of this encyclopedia
was Issued in 1776; and now, more than 100 years
after, we again celebrate America's Indepen
dence by an Americanized edition of the ninth
and latest issue of the most wonderful literary
work of the century; Another coinci
dence is north noting, viz., that the
firm to whom American readers are
indebted for this exhibition of American
enterprise in adapting this English work more
hilly to tbe needs of our citizens and to tbe
adrances In American topics treated theroln
tbe Belford-Clark Company are from Chicago,
that point to which tbe eyes of the world are
now turning in anticipation of Amerjca's
Columbian Exposition, and tbe assembling
thereof the representatives ot the nations of
the earth.
The question, "Who reads nn American
book?" if now addre'ied to the 63,000,000 Amer
ican citizens of the United States, would have
to be answered in manner something like this:
"Who reads an English book if there is an
American edition which is better adapted to
tbe needs and requirements of Americans T"
This is tbe theory that has led these pub
lishers to prepare this Americanized Encyclo
pedia Britannlca. It retains in a revised and
amended form all tbe Encyclopedia Bri
tannlca's magnificent articles on literary,
scientific and historical subjects articles
written by tbe foremost men ot tbe age, at a
cost of more than 51,000,000. It presents a
series of entirely new articles on distinctively
American subjects, which are but lightly
touched in tbe Britannlca. It condenses within
reasonable limits articles on distinctively
British subjects, on which the Britannic is ex
ceedingly diffuse. It contains 4,000 biographi
cal accounts of prominent living men a
feature which is totally lacking in the Bri
tannlca. And it presents a large number of
new and beautifully executed maps, including
an entirely new map of each and every State
of the Union. In short, it is what its name Im
plies: The I Encyclopedia Britannlca Ameri
canized for use in American homes.
It is published In ten octavo volumes, vary
ing as to style ot binding; at 135. f40 and S45 per
set. To introduce tbis edition In Pittsburg tbe
publishers offer It for 30 days at 230, $30 and 39,
and that, to those who so desire,on monthly in
stalments of J2 50, 13 and S3 25, delivering the
complete set at once.
Tbe books are now on exhibition at Hamil
ton's music store, 91 and 93 Fifth avenue, where
thoy will doubtless attract much attention and
secure many purchasers. The best edition of
the English edition in 23 volumes costs about
$230. It is no small privilege to possess such a
storehouse of literary and scientific worth for
an eighth of its original cost.
EASTERN EXPOSITION HEADQTJABTEBS.
A Resolution for It Introduced In the For
eign Affairs Committee.
New York. Jan. 6. The Foreign Affairs
Committee of the World's Fair Commission
had another meeting at the Gllsey House.
Previous to the meeting Cbairman Chauncey
M. Depew, Director General Davies and Pro
motor General Handy had a consultation,
which resulted In the introduction of a resolu
tion declaring that there shall be an Eastern
headquarters of tbe Exposition established in
the Gilsey House in this city, and that it shall
be In charge of a secretary, with clerical assist
ance, as the Director General shall deem
adequate fof the service. The resolution was
adopted. A Bureau of Promotion and Publicity
will also be established in connection with the
Eastern headquarters.
THE PRESIDENTS' AGREEMENT.
It Will Not Be Jeopardized by the Bock
Island's Bridge Squabble.
New Yohk, Jan. a President Cable, of the
Rock Island, says that the trouble over tbe
Union Pacific bridge contract was not of suffl
cent Importance to be allowed to interfere with
the proposed presidents' agreement. This in
dicates that Mr. Cable has cooled off somewhat
since be left Chicago, and goes to show that
the railway magnates are too much In earnest
In their present movement to permit individual
quarrels to upset their plan.
It is believed that the agreement will be put
into effect, whether the Rock Island and St.
Paul succeed in fixing up their difficulty with
the Union Pacific or not.
Knows Whereof He Speaks.
York Gazette.
Harrisburg has braced itself for the onslaught
of tbe Legislature. Nearly all tbe barrooms
have been renovated and enlarged.
THE SIOUX'S LAST PBAYEB.
No one who saw thatscene will ever be able
to blot out of memory tbe savage fanaticism
with wbich tbe ghost dancers fought to the
death. Every man in the Seventh was
a hero. Report from Wounded Knee.
God of our fathers who hath turned Thy face
So thit their children never see Thee smile
Are there no thunders In the Land of Life,
No lightning swifter than the missile sped
From war's dread Instrument, to shale and blast
The foes of truth and conscience, who assail
With death Thy children, and with worse than
death
Blot oat Thy children's valor? Be Thou kind
To let us die as died the braves of old
With none to smirch their courage with a sneer.
Their heroism term fanatic rage.
Though from the lands Thou gavest us long time.
Like deer and bison from their brakes and plains.
We have been crushed and crowded till tbe voice
That In the morning from the wigwam calls
The sleeping maids Is heard throughout the space
The broken tribes now hardly know their own
Though from bold pride of race we've sunk to be
The scorn ot all the people Thou dost shield
And where we strode as lords now crawl as
slaves
-Thou In Thy wise all-knowing knowest well.
When all thlncs else have leit mm mere remains
Within the Indian's breast the fearless calm
That death mar raffle as the summer wlndi
May shake tLe heart of Shasta!
Come Thou near
In battle's hour to those Thou one time loved
And lend to them so mneh of that'dear love
To make ashamed tbe foe that slights their deeds
And strips them ot their courage as their landsl
We know, oh, God! no longer red man's God.
That Thou hast doomed us, as the tall, rank
grass
ily flame and plow consumed, to pass away
That other life and customs may usurp
The wild, untroubled freedom of the past
But as we fade beneath the sword or yoke
And strike despairing blow In ancient pride
Let not the mockers, scoffing at our wounds,
Belie our spirit, or, ungenerous,
Style heroes madmen, valor savagery.
Tuese are our women and our children here,
Dear as their wives and babes to white men's
hearts;
These and ourselves we offer to thehlaze
Of horrid death that thunders from huge guns.
To slash of saber, and to tramp of horse.
For that we have though stripped of all things
else.
Though steeped lu misery and wretchedness.
Though shorn of all the dignities of men.
Though humbler than the dogs that lick our
feet
The pride orrace that stirred our fathers brave
And made them rather bleed than serve.
If. then, we have the courage so to do
As did the bands tradition honors still.
Let them who sec us perish, them who slay,
lie. when tbe battle's angry voice It hushed.
As Just to us as to themselves they're kind
Ifthey, caressed by death, be "heroes," we.
Embracing death, have title to be "braves."
EA. B in Chicago Inter-Ocean,
DEATHS OF A DAT.
John Cranch, Portrait Artist.
URBAN, O., Jan. 6. John Cranch, aged 84,
died this morning. lie was a celebrated portrait
artist In Washington and New York. He has
painted portraits of tout notable, persons of
America. His rather, William Cranch, was Chief
Justice or the District Court of Columbia for 30
years, having been appointed by his uncle, Presi
dent John Adams.
Bev. Father John Bergen.
SPECIAL TXLXOBAX TO THE DISrATCB.
Wilkesbabke, Jan. . Bev. Father John Ber
gen, pastor or St. Ignatius' Church of Kingston,
died suddenly on the streets there this morning.
Ue was 43 years of ge.
Sirs. Margaret Hall,
SPECIAL TEXXOBAM TO THI DISrATCIM
Whejxihg, Jan. 6-Mrs. Margaret Hall, the
oldest native born citizen of Wheeling, died to
day, aged S3. .
Mrs. Lncinda Gibson.
KPZCMt. TILBOKAJC TO TB DISPATCH. I
WnxiLnia, Jan. I Mrs. Lncinda Gibson, a
survivor of the days of the Kevolntlonary cam
jalgn, died at Clarksburg, to-day, seed 86,
CDRIODS CONDENSATIOHS.
The Speaker of the Japanese Parlia
ment and the Cbairman of tbo Committee of
tbe Whole are Christians.
Baron Hirscb, the wealthy banker of
Vienna, will shortly subsidize schools for Jew
esses in Galicia to the extent of 300.000.
The Persian New Year resembles our
Easter Sunday in the respect that everyone is
expected to put on a now suit of clothes.
The French Grand Orient has declined
the overtures of the German Free Masons for a
closer co-operation of tbe European lodges.
In Germany the law makes servant!
give a month's notice before leaving. The
mistress must give similar word before a dis
cbarge. 31. Dapeaud, a French municipal coun
cillor, has been arrested on the charge of
strangling to death his mother, who was 81
years of age.
Dr. Cheyne, of London, Jhas been for
several weeks testing tbe efficacy of the Koch
lymph in cases of leprosy, and he reports with
satisfactory results.
It is claimed that it will require 3,780
cars to move tbe orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia this season. The value of tbe crop Is
estimated at 2.608,000.
It is estimated that the wealth of the
United States now exceeds the wealth of the
whole world at any period prior to tha middle
of tbe eighteenth century.
A bottle thrown into the Atlantis
November 21, 18S7, from the Cephalonla. about
tCO miles tut from Boston, recently washed
ashore on a little islet In the Caribbean Sea
6,300 miles away.
A most curious indication of the
lingering ot superstition is an agency which
has been inaugurated in Paris for the supply
of the "fourteenth guest" Dinner parties of
13 miy be increased at short notice.
A Kansas newspaper says: "A "Wath
Ington county man played a very sharp trick
npon a neighbor last week. He stole a whole
herd of cattle, 150 head, sold them, pocketed
tbe money and then committed suicide. His
victim has been unable to think of any way ot
getting-even, and is very much disgusted."
Apropos of the agricultural progress of
women in England, it is worthy to note that at
Birmingham there are 41 women and only 3
men candidates for tbe Cambridge higher local
examinations; at Bradford, 24 women. 1 man;
at Leeds. 33 women. 2 men; at Manchester, 43
women, 1 man; at Liverpool, 59 women, 1 man.
Prof. Lenbach has intimated his will
ingness to paint a portrait of Prof. Virchow
for the Berlin National Gallery. He says that
he deems it an bonor to be permitted to paint
tbe famous savant, and would gladly do tha
work for nothing were it not out of considera
tion for the feelings of an old friend. The low
price of 6,000 marks has been agreed npon.
The experiment of -giving the office of
County Superintendent of Schools to a woman
has resulted very satisfactorily in Madison
county, Ky. Hon. Curtis F. Bnruam, In a
recent speech in the Constitutional Convention,
spoke of Mrs. Amanda T. Million as tbe most
faithful and efficient school superintendent
Madison county had ever bad.
Lake Maitland, in Orange county, Fla.,
claims to have the only complete female cornet
band in the soutb, and although It is a purely
social organization, composed of the most
beautiful and accomplished vouDsIadles of that
resort, tbe playlnij of the yo'nng ladies is of tbe
highest merir. There are 13 young ladies and
two young gentlemen in the band.
Mayor Yancey, of Lynchburg, Vs., an
nounced that ho would remit all tbe flues of
citizens for failing to remova snow from their
premises, as he considered it unjust to fine a
citizen for an offense that the city was guilty
of. He then issued rules against the superin
tendent of the city bands and tbe city engineer
to appear before tbe court to show cause why
they did not do their duty in cleaning snow off
the city property.
A French chemist, M. Aime Girard,
has shown that the potato called Ricbter im
perator'tis well fitted for the production of
alcohol by distillation on a commercial scale.
At one operation 78,000 kilogrammes ot potatoes
were treated, and 10. litres ot alcohol, abso
lutely pure, were obtained from every 100 kilo
grammes of the tuber. Another distillation
eave 11 litres for tbe same quantity of roots.
The "draft" which resulted was readily eaten
by cattle. t
From a newspaper printed in the year
1770 Is the following description of a dandy:
"A few days ago a macarroni made his appear
ance In the Assembly rooms at Whitehaven,
dressed In a mixed silk coat, pink satin waist
coat and breeches covered with an elegant silk
net. white silk stockings with pink clocks, pink
satin shoes and large pearl buttons; a mush
room colored stock, covered with flue point '
lace, hair dressed remarkably high and stuck
full of pearl pins."
Such serious defects have been discov
ered In the new French steel cruiser Forbin
that tbe admiralty has ordered her to be taken
into the repairing dock". Her machinery has
been found to be so badly constructed that sev
eral months must elapse before tho necessary
repairs can be effected. Another case of de
fective building is also engaging the attention
of the authorities. The ironclad Requln was
recently dry-docked to have her bottom
cleaned, and the hull was discovered to be in a
most unsatisfactory condition, necessitating
considerable repairs.
The Imperial German census of Secern
ber 1 gave these results: Population of Berlin,
1.547,435; Dresden, 267.000; Munich. 340,000; Co
logne. 232.000: Hambnrp. 570.000; Madgebursr,
203,000; Frankfort, 179,000; htrasburg; 133,000.
Leipsic, which now has 293,000 inhabitants, will,
by enlarging Its limits, have 332,000. and be tbe
third city in size in Germany. Helgoland has
2,086 Inhabitants, S3 more than it had just ten
years ago. The population of Berlin shows an
increase of 432,000 In tbe last ten years, and of
259,000 in the last five years. The average an
nual increase for tbe last five years is about
52,000.
Georgians are said to be of the opinion
that In erecting a statue to the memory nf
Alexander H. Stephens the wheeling chair In
which the lamented statesman lived much of
his lite should not be ignored In tbe modeling
of tbe bronze. This is a question that has come
up freauently In tbe past, and is oue which
should be very freely discussed before a settle
ment is reached either way. It is certainly not
proper to erect statues ot men representing
them as they were not, although the designer
of the stained-glass window to General Gor
don, of Soudan fame, has been very severely
criticised for perpetuating the hero in knicker
bockers and a cork bar. Where to draw the
line it is difficult to see.
The Bussian secret police In Western
Europe has four divisions, with headquarters
at London, Berlin, Paris and Zurich, respect
ively. The chief of all is the Russian Consul
General in Berlin. Each ot the four cities
mentioned, however, has its assistant chief,
who has charge ot some 23 or SO spies. Al
though, of course, all four divisions are in con
stant and cioso communication with each other,
they are otherwise almost Independent of each
other. In view of this organization, the Paris
dailies deny conclusively the truth of the re
port that four detectives were sent from St,
Petersburg to Paris to look for Padlewski.
Tbe Russian police in Paris were entrusted
with the mission.
IN A HUMOROUS "WAY.
He Didn't you regard the medium as a
very pretty girl!
bhe Her face was certainly comely enough, but
the shades she called up didn't match her com-plexlonl-A'eto
York Herald.
The outsider who writes that the year 1891
will be less naught-y thai 1S30, Is Informed tnat
we don't cipher such puns. KorrUtoien Herald.
George 'Washington's birthday is next on the
card
Since New tear's has come and passed by.
And then weary patience may claim its reward;
We can rest till the fourth or July.
Waititngton Pott.
"What a recherche sort of sffliction you
have," said Qoodword to the man with a boll.
"Such a swell gatheringI"-.Mru XorkSxtning
World.
And No Stitch An eminent surgeon says
that with four cuts and a few stitches he can alter
a man's face so his own mother would not know
him. That's nothing. Any newspaper in this
country can do that much with only one cut.
Washington Star.
Druggist I have been trying to make an
imitation of High Bock mineral water, and I think
1 have succeeded at but. Taste that.
Dinwiddle (after a small drink) It needs
another old shoe and two superannuated tomato
cans to the cak.-CMcatf o Intrr-Ocean.
First Detective Bill, I've got a first
rate clew, but I can't follow It up.
Second Detective Why not?
'Cause It doesn't Jloe with the boss theory."
Chicago Tribune.
If "any fool knows that two and two
make four," do the premises warrant the as
sertion that he Is an Incandescent idiot If he is
aware that they sometimes make 52? Chicago
ilalU
Literary Aspirant I can write about
anything.
Bored Publisher-Then please right about fus.
-Chicago Qloti
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