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POSTAGE AH persons who mail the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear In mind the fact that the post nee thereon is Two (-) Cents. All doable and triple number copies ot The Dispatch require a 2-ccnt stamp to Insure prompt delivery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, JAN. 11, 1S9L A itrrr in the cloud. Oat of the daze into which city officials, contractors and property owners were thrown by Justice "Williams' decision on street im provements, there has within twenty-four Lours been a gradual return to something which looks like a lucid interval. From bewailing the prospect of a debt of several hundred thousand dollars perhaps a million suddenly set upon the shoulders ot the city, there has come a cheerful reaction accompanied by dim bnt consoling percep tions that perhaps not a penny need be laid upon the general treasury after all. The basisfor this newly awakened belief, which falleth as refreshing dew on the lately waste places of the official minds at City Hall, is that in knocking out the Board of Viewers and their paraphernalia the Supreme Court has not really decided that any other part of the act of 1887 is unconstitutional. It is true Justice "Williams seemed to censure severely the provision which permitted one third of the property owners to call for an improvement, but he did not say that this wai illegal. He rather brought it forward as an added reason it by recourse should be permitted to the ordinary law processes fur correction of fraud or injustice, in place of leaving the matter to the city's own tribunal, the Board of Viewers. The contention of Chief Bigelow and the Finance Committee will cow seemingly be that it is cot the doing of the work which has been in any particnlar pronounced ille gal, but the manner of assessing for it; and that, as it is only one mode of assess ment which has been knocked out, others can be authorized by the Legislature until some method is secured which the court can sanction. If this be the case, when it is re membered that the principle of assessing by L met efits has always been in vogue and has had judicial sanction, it would follow that while other methods of applying the princi ple must be adopted, in the end the general result will be the same, viz., the placing of the principal part ,or the whole of the cost upon the abutters whose property has been chiefly benefitted, in place of letting it fall upon the general tax-payer. The unfinished wort and the work lately finished, but upon which the Board of Viewers has not yet sat, it seems reasonable to believe, will come within this new purview. As for the im provements upon which the unconstitutional body made its ineffective assessments, if these can be reached by another and legal assessment, the whole question will be re duced to one ot a few months' delay, in place of the shape in which it was lately ap prehended, of the cost coming entirely upon the city. It seems so entirely reasonable that the denial of one form of assessment as illegal should cot prevent the adoption of other methods of assessment which wonld be legal, that this aspect of the case might ordinarily be taken to carry the solution of the prob lem. It is certainly the best that offers, though we suppose the lawyers with recent experiences in their mind will go slow be fore affirming or denying anything with certainty until the Legislature shall have acted and the court is again heard from. SERIOUS SITUATION IN" LONDON. A very serious condition of things exists in London. Thousands of hungry people are suffering from the cold, and there are muttered threats of violence. The agitators of lawlessness are busy with this miserable multitude urging it to go forth and plunder the rich. The whole lorce of civil police and military is kept in readiness to meet an outbreak. As yet no trouble has occurred. Not so much because the people have any scruples about looting the fine mansions and aristocratic clubs of theWestEnd, but merely because the mob is numbed by cold and cowardly from starvation. Though these suffering mortals declare they must labor and will not starve, they are no match physically for the officers of the law. It may be hoped prompt relief will be given these poor people and -an outbreak averted. HYPNOTISM Itr "WHOLESALE. The last development of the new theories of hypnotism has made its appearance in Baltimore, The cashier of a bank in that city permitted a speculative customer to overdraw his account to the tune of $100, 000. When the hole in the bank's capital made by that act of liberality could no longer be concealed the President of the bank declares himself unable to account for it except on the hypothesis that the cashier was hypnotized. Here we perceive the march of the latest theory for rendering acts denounced by the criminal law free from responsibility or criminality. Twenty years ago the plea of emotional insanity ran the course of an epi- demic. "Whoever committed a crime, par ticularly of the capital degree, was discov ered to be subject to temporary and violent stales of mind, in which, of course, the suf ferer was not responsible for any little acts of murder which bis emotional insanity might dictate. Before and after this theory of irresponsible crime became threadbare, ravages of kleptomania were apparent, and kept on until it was discovered that a regime of prison diet was the only sure cure for that mental disease. But these expert methods of robbing crime of its vice bad their limitations. The emotional lunatic could hardly be expected to systematically accrue to himself the property of others; while the broadest views of kleptomania never rose to the height of expecting' the kleptomaniac to slaughter those who inter fered with his schemes of acquisition. Con sequently, these interesting phases of in sanity fell to the level of common murder and vulgar stealing. It was reserved for the best decade of 'lie century to develop a theory -which covers all grades of crime. Hypnotism explains everything. The subject of hypnotic in fluence may be forced without his volition to pick a pocket, rob a bank, forge a note or entice a victim to murder. In short hypnot ism has usurped one of the functions of charity, by covering a multitude ot sins. In this instance, however, we have an un usually remarkable example of hypnotism in the fact which appears from the statement of the case, that several persons must have been hypnotized. Besides the cashier, the hypnotic influence must have extended to the teller and the bookkeeper, to prevent them from noticing the remarkable dispro portion between checks and deposits nec essary to cover an overdraft of $100,000. The President, who offers this plea, must have got a whiff of the influence to prevent him from looking over the balance sheets suf ficiently to discover the overdraft. The full investigation of the case may lead to the discovery that the whole bank, from di rectors down to messenger, was hypnotized; and perhaps the speculative customer, who presumably lost the money, was put under that dread influence by the manipulators of the especial speculative fancy in which he went to smash. The addition to the comprehensive range of hypnotism, of this power of hypnotizing by wholesale lots, contains the widest sug gestions. One of the most obvious applica tions is its use by lobby agents to put an en tire Legislature under its influence in order to get their bills passed without friction. Of course the hypnotised legislators could never be held responsible by the people for acts done under that superior influence. COMPULSORY VOTING. A paper recently read before the Academy of Political Science at Philadelphia, by Frederick "William Holls, started out on the indisputable ground that the electio i fran chise should be regarded as investing the citizen with a solemn trust and duty rather than with a privilege. From this stand point, the author proceeded to discount Gov ernor Campbell's idea that a man who does not attend the. political primaries shall be disfranchised, by urging that the citizen who does not vote at elections shall be brought before the courts and punished. Governor Hill in his message to the Hew York Legis lature makes a similar recommendation. If these propositions were pu into the form of law they would place a good many independent persons, who are -fastidious 'about the men they vote for, in a rather un comfortable position. The supporters of the measure refer prominently to the absence of 35,000 voters from the polls in New York City last fall. But there is reason to think that a large proportion of that 35,000 took this means of showing that they did not wish to vote either for Tammany Democ racy or Piatt Bepublicanism. In many other cases voters of one party who wished to show their disapproval of its present course but did not wish to vote for the prin ciples of the opposite party, have resorted to the same way, of showing their disaffection. If the law should impose a penalty for not voting, these classes not to speak of our B. P. brethren, who will not vote at all as a matter of conscience will be placed under the uncomfortable necessity of voting one ticket or another, or else getting up a ticket of their own, which, under the regime of ballot reform and official ballots, might be a difficult matter. Still, if this were the only objection to the proposed measure, it would cot be insupera ble. There are a good many people who omit to vote simply from carelessness; and those who make a conscientious determina tion to stay away from the polls could, if brought there by the law, exhibit their dis satisfaction with all parties in the more im pressive way of voting blank ballots. This would show that the voter had after coming to the polls found all the nominations so un worthy his app'roval that he would cot vote for any of them. If there should ever be a predominance of blank ballots, it would also show the dissatisfied voters what they might have done by organizing a party of their own. If there were no other objection it might be a good idea for Pennsylvania to adopt the policy, and as it now makes the citizen pay a tax before he can vote, impose a penalty several times greater if he does not vote, thus making it sure that if he does not vote he shall at least be taxed. Bnt there is another very positive objec tion, which is that a measure of this sort would only be an addition to the category of dead-letter legislation, and would never be enforced except for especial purposes of per secution or revenge. AN ARCHWAY FOB LABOR. The Central Trades Council has made a good move in taking up the matter of arch ways over the entrance to Schenley park. It is fitting above all things that in this hive of industry, labor should be repre sented in such a work. There is no doubt, either, but the labor organizations of this city may build as handsome an arch as any one. The good work is thns moving more favorably than the most sanguine expected, when the suggestion was first made in The Dispatch. a practical demonstration. A very satisfactory report on profit-sharing is given from the Bourne Hills, at Fall Biver, where that system has been in opera tion during the past year- The treasurer's report points out that, independent of the question of dividends, the interest inspired among the hands in good work has been so active that the percentage of second quality in the production is very much decreased and there is less disposition toward waste. The result is that from 'this reason alone those who have shared in the profits have re ceived 6 -per cent more wages in addition to the 3 per cent in the increase of dividends. The purchasing power of the wages in rela tion to the product is shown by the fact that the average weekly wages of one weaver during the last half of 1889 was $9 01, and would have purchased 253f yards of cloth at the close of that year, while the same man's wages during the last half of 1890 was $10 40, and would have purchased 346 yards when the period closed. This differ ence is pa'rtly due to a decline in the price of print cloths; but notwithstanding that decline, the advantage to the company from the increased interest of its employes has been so great that its dividends for the same periods increased from 6 to 8 per cent Here we have a marked illustration of the advantages claimed for profit-sharing under what we may presume to be a favorable test. The laborer cannot depend entirely on the profits of a manufacturing concern for his wages. A fixed income is his necessity and right But it has been claimed in behalf of profit-sharing that giving him a portion of his wages in proportion to the profits would increase his interest in the prosperity of the concern and inspire better work. This work need not necessarily be harder, but it should be guided by more skill and attention, and become, what Edward Atkinson declares to be a factor in manufacturing supremacy, at once the best paid labor and the cheapest labor because it is worth the most These results have been obtained in the operation of the system at the Bourne Mills. In the teeth of a declining market, the im provement in the skill of labor has been so marked as not alone to keep up the old profits, but actually to increase dividends. Indeed the gain to the company has been so great as to suggest that even a larger share of the profits might justly have been of fered to the operatives. In cash the wages of the laborers have increased nine per cent, while the dividends to shareholders have in creased 60 per cent In the case already cited, the increase itrthe purchasing power of one laborer's wages, in relation to the product of the works is figured out at 37 per cent ; but the same way of figuring shows a gain in dividends of over 84 per cent A larger amount of profits might have been distributed among the employes to make the gain both to capital and labor equal in proportion ; and the incentive to better work would have been so much the stronger. Of course, it is not to'be expected that these results will be universal. Profit-sharing will not overcome the evils of bad man agement, of uneconomic methods, of machin ery that is behind the age or of a location that compels production at a disadvantage.. But as a means of clearly putting the interests of capital and labor on the same basis; of inspiring interest in and care for the snecess of the concern, on the part of employes; and of avoiding the immense waste of con stantly recurring labor disputes which con demn both capital and labor to idleness, profit-sharing is demonstrating its value as an effective solution of some cf the most vexing labor problems. IMPORTANT TRIALS FOB COURT. Probably the most sensational, or exciting court trial, in this county, since the cases brought out by the riots of 1877, will be that of the Braddock rioters. The testimony at the hearing yesterday was very strong against twenty-one defendants. Three of these are held on the charge of murder and the rest for riot Witnesses were positive in their identification of the prisoners, more so than was generally expected, considering the excitement and confusion attendant upon the trouble. A SURPLUS OP CANDIDATES. Candidates are wonderfully numerous for Councilmanic positions over in Allegheny, considering that each ward can only have one Select Councilman. The budget of names posted in the Northside City Hall is large enough to indicate, to a stranger, that there are offices enough for ten per cent of the population. However, H is probable that the surplus of candidates is due to the intense interest Alleghenians take in their municipal affairs, every tenth man being willing to devote himself for the good of the community. KIPLING'S VIEWS OF AMERICA. From the first of Mr. Budyard Kipling's articles on America, published elsewhere, it is evident that the talented Anglo-Indian writer will deal with our national peculiari ties in much the same vein as Dickens did a half century sooner. Whatever strikes his fancy as unusual or characteristic, receives the humorous and satirical treatment, which he is probably better fitted to give it than any man since Dickens. That way of look ing at us aroused a great and rather foolish outcry in Dickens' time; but we are less sensitive and more sensible now. We know that we have proved our title to national greatness; and can accordingly take the jokes on our foibles with as much enjoy ment as those who are not so well able as ourselves to estimate their justice. And now Colorado appears to have caught the prevailing infection of the idea that a legislative body, in order to be faithful to its political faiths, must organize itself on tbe model of a taction fight It is stunning to learn from the Fargo, North Dakota, Argus, concerning the condi tion of things iu that favorea locality: "Here the sun shines resplendently as it has ever shown since its luminous rays first gilded the tree tops of primeval Paradise, with light fresh from the throne of God. Here, the skies are bine as the turquoise arch that spins tbe fairy islets of tbe far Caribbean Sea." This attribu tion of peculiar meteorological and semi-tropical qualities to tbe land of blizzards reduces ns to speechlessness until, after wandering through a few more paragraphs of gorgeous verbiage, we discover from the signature at the bottom that Colonel Pat" TJocan's Imagination is at iu old tricks. There is talk -of developing Ireland's material resources. From which it would ap pear that tbe island, dear to many a heart, may produce something beside blackthorn sticks and broken heads. It is stated that in the Government ex hibit to be made at the World's Fair the Indian Bureau will show by illustration the progress of the aboriginal races on this con tlnent, and the industries which the copper colored peoples have learned to pursue- That sounds very well; but it is to be questioned whether the Indian Bureau might not give a mere impressive exhibit by fnrnishicg an illustration not of the progress but of the extinction of the aboriginal races in this country. It is ominous that immediately after that Government Spelling Board made us change Chili to Chile, the first revolution in tbe Yankee land of South America for many years should be reported. One Indian agency has been turned over to the control ot the United States army in order to rectify the results of mismanagement under the Indian Bureau. What is good for ono agency ought to be good for the lot ot them; but a restraint on the universal adoption of the policy may be found in the desire to pre serve tbe refutation of the army. Wall street reports bears as scarce as bulls were a few weeks ago, and tries to explain why this is so: Tbe principal reason is that lambs are more plentiful in that region. The practically unanimous selection of Cameron by the Republican caucus after the Philadelphia Press bad declared that "a wooden man would do as welt," proves that our legis lators could not have understood our cotem- THE' PITTSBTJJRG DISPATCH, porary's remark. They took it as a recom mendation of Cameron for Senatorial timber. The inquiry by a Texas, paper as to whether ".my editor of surplus cash" wants to bet that Cleveland will get the Texas delega tion in 1892, calls for the reponso that there is no editor of surplus cash, because surplus cash is the one thing in the world that does not re quire editiDg. Philadelphia's sugar refineries sell nothing to Camden. The bridal couples which visit that place furnish more than enough sweetness for all purposes. Some of our legislative leaders should be warned that the importation of American political methods into Kilkenny docs not necessitate that Kilkenny methods shall be imported into the United States Legislatures. That sort of reciprocity has cot yet been enacted. The politician of to-day cares not who elects tbe members of a State Legislature, so that they have the clerk of the previous one. Allegheny is now judicially declared to be a city of the second class, and can join Pittsburg in the struggle to find out how in the world a city of that class can get streets im proved in a way that will hold water. While the Delamaters still occupy no public office this year, there is a possibility they may get into a public institution. Joaquix Miller warns tresspassers from bis premises on penalty of being shot It he would post a few columns of his poetry about his domain it would have more effect in Tightening people away. PBOMIUEHT PEOPLE. Governob-elect Russell.of Massachusetts, was 31 years old last Tuesday. Profkssoe Kocn is on bis way to Edin burgh, where ho will be tendered a reception by the College of Surgeons. John G. Whittier's bitthday gifts in cluded a barrel ot pitch-pine kindlings from the Wbittier Colored School at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Victor Zambellt, an Austrian, was the oldest soldier in Europo until recently. He died a little while ago, after having been in service for 82 years. General B. F. Butler, at 74, has a wonder ful memory. He rarely forgets any incident that ever happened to him or came within bis observation. His brain is a gicat encyclopedia of ready reference. Mrs. Chavncey M. Depew is one of the best dressed women in New York. Her tastos are magnificent bat her attire is faultlessly becoming. She has also one of the best ap pointed houses in the metropolis. Allak Arthur, son of the late President has been in England for some time, where he is very popular in society. He has grown portly, and is as handsome a man as his father was. After another year abroad Mr. Arthur will re turn to New York and take up the practice of law. Queen Victoria spends much of her time every day at the writing desk. Not a day passes in which she does not carefully edit and correct with her own hand the Court Circular, and tbe amount of correspondence she disposes of is enormous. The greater part of her corre spondence and official business is attended to in tbe morning after a walk or drive. B. P. Hutchinson, the big Chicago grain speculator, is about 70 years, old. In all his mental characteristics he is a Yankee of Yankees, shrewd and unyielding in a bargain, and most unconventional and democratic in his ways. He is tall and spare, with sharp fea tures, and as a result of bis abstemious mode of life he is the equal of men 30 years his juniors. 1 1 Dr. H. C. Ernst, at the bead of thebacterto logioal department in Harvard University, who is conducting the experiments in the Massa chusetts General Hospital with paratalold, is said to be practically the only laborer in Koch's field in New England, and he is all tbe better qualified to understand and, appreciate this" great discovery by the fact that be has himself been engaged in investigations similar to those of Dr. Koch; ' i K WOMEN IK BUSINESS, Fair Ones Who Are Successful as Bankers and Real Estate Dealers. New York. Jan. 10. A novelty in banking circles is the election of Miss Emily Howard, of Sherwood, N. Y., to a membership in the First National Bank of Aurora. She is a woman of wealth and great intelligence. In tbe old slavery days her family had considerable to do with the famons "underground railway" to Canada, and she herself taucht a. school for colored children in Washington and afterward in Virginia. She has a business rival in this city in Miss A Murphy, who is one of the most active mem bers and the first woman of tbe Beal Estate Exchange. She is considered one of the sharp est real estate experts in the epper part of the city. Her father was a real estate dealer, and daring a long illness, although not yet out of girlhood, s"be had to look after his affairs. When he died she continued the business, much to public surprise, and was soon elected to full membership in the exchange, where she has now been a large and successful dealer for several years. She is yet a young woman. SEISMIC DISTURBANCE. Two Distinct Erthquake Shocks Felt In Texas. Busk. Tex., Jan. 10. Last night at 12 o'clock this town ana immediate vicinity experienced two well-defined shocks of an earthquake, each accompanied by a load detonation, rolling from south tonortb. Several chimneys toppled over, and sleepers In various portions of the town were shaken into wakefulness. J. W. McCord, who is in charge of the county jail, a very strong structure, declares that for fully one minute be apprehended a collapse of the building, and Theodore Miller says that tbe Acme Hotel was shaken to its foundation. During these disturbances there was no wind, though there was a slight rain falling and some electrical force prevailing, bat not of sufficient strength to produce the shock. Several parties here, who were through the Charleston shock of 1S87, pronounce the phenomenon last night a genuine earthquake. TEMPEBAHCE Iff MISSOURI. The Week of Prayer Devoted to Extinguish ing the Saloons. Maryvtlle, Mo., Jan. 10. This week is a week of prayer at the various churches of Maryville, union services being held in one church each day. Tbe main subject before these meetings is the extinguishment of the saloons of this place. A petition was circulated to-day, signed by about 1,000 citizens, and forwarded to the Gov ernor, praying His Honor not to graat a pardon to P. Hamil and A LIppman for violation of the dram-shop law. Tbe licenses of these men were revoked by the City Council about the middle of February last charging them with unlawfully selling Honor to minors ana keep ing open house on Sunday. Tbe liquor sellers are represented at Jefferson City by two able men, and the temperance people to-night sent a delegate to confer with the Governor. About That Storm Long Ago. Minneapolis Journal. The electric railroad barons of the East whose plants were buried under scows have one comfort The horse-power engines that run the lines are not eating their beads off on hay and oats in the barns. After all, the old hay motors were the slowest crnelest and most expensive. Might Bo Willing to Have Alimony. Brooklyn Standard Union. Young John Jacob Astor's engagement to Miss Ava Willing is announced. The strangest thing about the affair is that while she is cow Willing to be Mrs. Astor, should she marry she will be no longer Willing. DEATHS OF A DAY. Count de CaxieL PARIS, Jan. 10. The death of ConntLoals Alex andre Foucher de Carell, a member of tne French Senate, is announced. He was born in this city ilarcn 1, 1828. He was the author of a number or valuable literary works, and held many promi nent positions under the French Oovernment He visited the United States In 18W). John Fltzpatrlck. JobnTltzpatrick, a well-known Soutbilde man, died yesterday morning In ths 6W year of bis age. HU funeral wilt occur to-morrow morning, at o'clock, from his late residence, 2328 Sarah street y&tt SUNDAT, r3ANUAHY, li; MURRAY'S MUSINGS, " Looking Down on a Blanket of Fog Deifi cation of a Flash Banker Why Singers Are Usually Fleshy The Soldiers and the Indians. ' tritOM X STAFF COIIBJCSFOXDXXT. T")n you ever stand on a mountain top and lock upon tbe upper surface of tbe clouds that shut out1 tbe world beneath? The sensa tion is intensified when tbat world is a great city and tbe clanging of bells, sbriekicgof whis tles, rumbling of wheels, escape of steam and all the other innumerable noises of civilization throb continuously npon the tympanum. This was what was experienced by chance passers on the Brooklyn bridge tbe day of tbe densest fog, according to weather sharps. New York has been visited with for many years. This foe hung low oror the city for 24 hours. So dense was it tbat several collisions occurred on the Elevated road, one train after another running into each other a thing quite unknown before. On tbe water tbe ferry-boats felt their way, with whistle and bell, from pier to pier. They freqnently missed their slip by a length, though the ferry house bell tolled unceasingly to guide them on their course. V hile this was going on below there were fleeting moments when the sun gilded the great golden dome of the Pulitzer bnilding and glistened on the waterproofs of the bridge pedestrians from -a sky absolutely cloudless above tbe fog horizon. The boats below were invisible. Up through the fog appeared, the topmasts of the shipping on either side of tbe river and at anchorage in tbe bay; over there were the uppermost stories of the tallest buildings In Now York, while Brooklyn lay shrouded In tbe impenetrable mists that rolled in sun-kissed billowy clouds to leenard. Moisture intensifies sound. And thus from out the black depths below came tbe resonant cries of unseen boatmen, tbe shouts of exasperated ferrymen, puncturing, the gen eral din of belland whistle. Tbe voice of the man at tbe wbeel, tbe curses of the mate, tbe talk of the lively crowds all rose through the fog to the ears of those on the sunlit bridge like sounds from the bottomless pit Those who happened to experience this paused and leaned against the massive cables and doubt less Indulged in many an Idle fancy as they lis tened to tbe struggle going on in the unseen world below. w A Flash Banker's FaU. J Vertbodt who knows Mr. Ccarles E. Coon, late Assistant Secretary of tbe Treasury, is not only sorry that he Is involved financially in the recent failure of Bateman & Co., but wonders how it is tbat so good a fellow and long-headed a business man should get caught in such a business connection. This Bateman was never anything but a flash banker. When he kept a small bucket shop in Washington he made some money through an illicit connec tion witb tbe Treasury Department and this furnished the groundwork for bis subsequent operations. As a member of the select poker club there at one time Bateman figured In a scandal which would have ostracised any man here from the society of gentlemen. It was the same club that caused the downfall of a too trusting Colonel of tbe United States Cavalry a man in every respect Bateman's superior. Another time, during the Garfield fair in the Capitol, when a bandsome desk was put up for tbe most popular newspaper correspondent, and was likely to be voted to a man who haa exposed the Bateman underground wire with tbe Treasury, tbe bucket-shop keeper put up a stool-pigeon against the popular young man and the desk went to Bateman's wife. Tbo stool-pigeon is now in the Auburn penitentiary for horse stealing. "Commodore" Bateman Is still at large, only half a million short but there are circum stances connected with his failure which appear to justify the opinion that his future will be closely associated with a lock and key, or a prolonged residence in a cold climate. A curious feature of metropolitan life Is the prominence tbe bucket shop banker attained through the local newspapers. They made him soem a Wall street Napoleon of finance and, in spite of the warnings of those who wcro thoroughly familiar with his record, boosted him up where be could reach the pockets of many honest people. In this connection it should be said tbat but a single newspaper of this great city dared 'to print and fittingly characterize the outrageous treatment ot Mrs. Bateman's maid the poor and friendless French eirl by those contemptible parvenues. Even the courts connived at tbat iniquity. The Lungs and Adipose. WE HAT is it that makes actors and actresses incline to stoutnessT The question is still more pertinent concerningslngers. "It requires flesh to sing," Bald a dramatic critic But is flesh the cause or effect? According to the latest experiments on physical treatment it is possible to add this flesh by the simple and sys tematic expansion ot the lungs in a pure atmosphere. It has long been the custom of some people to try this scheme of Increasing their weight by wind, but beyond their own sat isfaction it has not untilrecently been suspect ed of material benefit. Now, however, it Is said sbat a pure atmosphere and active and extreme expansion of the longs greatly assist in the assimilation of food, and results in an Increased tendency to fleshiness. The people of tbe ros trum and tbe stage must continually fight fiesh. The War of the Sealskin Sacque. T abt, on elevated train Do you really and truly think there will be war between this country and Great Britain? Escort Warl War about what? Lady Why, about sealskin sacques. Escort Nonsense! Lady 1 don't know about tbat There was a five years' war in our faniIly'over one sacque, and now all the sealskins in the world are in volved. Quaker City Intelligence. A Philadelphia gentleman, writing me on a pension matter, was requested to fur nish the name of his Congressman. He writes: "Since the receipt of your very kind letter of the 12th Inst I have been trying to find where I lire. A short time ago I moved into an ad joining ward, and since receiving your letter I have been endeavoring to ascertain tbe num ber of the ward, together with that of tbe Congressional district, but inquiry among numerous and otherwise intelligent neigh bors, who have been living in tbe ward and voting regularly at each election, failed to develop even one who knew any more than I did about it. Although they have voted for a member of Congress they could not tell who it was. 1 called at one of our largest news paper offices on the first floor and the gentle man addressed told me, after inquiring of an assistant that be would have tn give it up. I then told hlni what a time I had bad, upon which he said, tbat 'it was notbtmr,' because be himself did not know who his Congressman was. although he bad voted for him a number of times. As a last resort I addressed tbe Times editor, and, after another week's delay, received tbe Information through the corre spondent's column tbat I- lived in the Fourth Congressional district, which is represented in Congress uy John B. Keyburn, successor to tbe late Judge Keller, and formerly a State Sen ator." Philadelphia is known as a great town to bide in. It is also an easy city to represent in Congress. Bat when some particnlar one of its citizens makes an attempt to break out or to find where he is, it turns the Quaker City up side down. m No Sympathy for the Soldiers. T ieutenant J. L. Mann, of the Seventh Cavalry, who received a gunshot wonnd through the side in the recent engagement with the Indians under Big Foot is i relative of the late John D. Def rees, for a long time Public Printer, and the late' Joseph Def rees, once a member ot Congress from Northern Indiana. The young man was appointed to West Point from his native btate, was an excellent student standing high in bis class when graduated and is a first-rate fellow. In this connection it Is a subject of wonder tbat amid so much commis eration tbat Is poured out ioc the Indians, scarcely a word of sympathy is expressed in newspapers for the United States soldiers and their gallant officers who have fallen in battle with tne savaires. You can pick up almost anv metropolitan paper and see satirical references to the bad. treatment by the Government of the Indians, but it would be almost Impossible to find one word or line in recognftlon of tbe services of these men who are fighting our battles. As an army officer pithily said in Washington recently every officer in tbe In dian campaign has the savages ahead of him and a court-martial behind him. "VV hether It is true or not that the Indians have been wronged it would seem as if a few of these maudlin tears that are being shed for them might be dropped upon the-graves of the United States soldiers. ' A. Needed Postal Reform. THE New York postofflco is about tbe worst it, tbat could be found in any city of the United States. It Is cot only filthy, sloppy and dirty as to the tiled floors outside of tbo delivery windows, but It is nightly tbe resort of thieves, confidence men, beggars and tramps of both sexes and of all ages. It Is a standing disgrace to tbe Government that such a condition of affairs should be permitted to exist in this metropolitan city. Yet New Yorkers who have become almost reconciled to anything, take it as a matter of course. Once, in a while they are disposed to kick as they do once in a while with regard to tbe abuses of the elevated roads and other corporations; but the kicks are ieeble and far between and are not likely to injure the long coat talis of Uncle Sam. What this city needs about as badly as anything else. Is an entire revision of its present postal system, and tbe substitution of one which will be adequate'to the dtmanda of a city ot 2,000,000 189L Inhabitants. Plans by which this can be effected have already been suggested by Thomas L. James, late Postmaster General, and by other prominent postal officials now connected with tbe department In the meantime. If It would not be too much to ask of the United States Government, a couple of watchmen and a laborer or two might be hired to keep tbe present place clean and free from objectionable characters. If there is not enough money In the treasury, some reciprocal arrangement might be made by which the city of New York could pay the bill. CHARLES T, MURRAY. New York, Jan. 10. THE MOUHD BUIXDEES. A Belief That They Were the Ancestors or the Bed Indian. Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 10.-K. W. Pettl grew, who has spent much time investigating tbe works of tbe Mound Builders, has reached the conclusion that they were not a distinct race, but merely -tbe progenitors of present races of Indians. Following are interesting ex cerpts from a paper read by bim before the State Educational Society: There are about Sioux Falls numerous indica tions of former Indian villages belonging to tbat class of aborigines familiarly known as tbe Mound Builders. These villages were located along the Sioux river, covering a distance of 15 miles north of Sioux Falls and 12 miles north east occupying for tbe most part a high point of orairie overlooking the surrounding country foF many miles. ' i The most prominent and interesting of these villages Is located ten miles sonthwest of Sioux Falls on the west side of the Sioux river. Tbe river valley at this place is narrow, not more than half a mile wide, and the bluffs on either side are bigb. The village was located on a prairie bench two miles in extent. At the north and comprising a part of the embankment is a mound about 30 feet across and i feet bigb. Tbe mound was opened several years ago and tbe skeleton of a man 7 feet in length was taken out. To obtatn a correct diagram of the village I divided tbe land into squares of 100 feet and by measurement was able to place the hut rings and mounds correctly upon tbe plat. There were 76 ot the circles and 27 mounds. Tbe circles are made of stones, varying from 1 to 3 feet in diameter, and were placed around the outside of their lodges to hold the skins In place. This was a permanent village and contained many thousand people. Inside and outside of this plat tbe bouses were bnilt with a view to winter as well as a summer residence, tbe door ways facing uniformly to the southeast. The stone forming the riugs are now half buried, the soil having accumulated about them to tbe depth of eight inches. There seems to have been no great degree of regularity In laying out the village. The smaller circles Indicate tbe lodges, while the four oblong circles the coun cil chambers and places for holding winter sports. "Who were tbe mound boullders?" Is a ques tion that has often been asked. It has been generally believed that they were a people sup planted by tbe present American Indians, who know nothing of tbem. Recent investigations Erove tbe contrary, and the best informed now elieve that they were but tbe forefathers of present races. I opened one mound which was 45 feet in diameter and four feet high. After removing tbe north half, composed of coarse gravel and clay. I came npon a human skeleton six feet two inches in length in a good state of preserva tion. A list of some of tbo articles found eitber on the village site or in tbe mounds is as follows: Three stone axes, three celts, two buffing stones made of coarse sandstone, two grooved sandstone arrow straigbteners, three pipes made of cattinite, two copper serpents, 13 copper beads, one bead of cattinite, one pipestone slab on which is engraved a bird, several small grooved stones for war clubs, and a great num ber of grinding stones, hammers, fragments of pottery, also one bone stiletto, one iron knife, live cupped stones called cup holders. The people of this silent city were peaceful and depended largely on agricultural pursuits for a livelihood. Selecting their location for a village with a view to natural barriers, placing their sentinels in tbe commanding places on the tops of bluffs, building a tort as a place of last resort when forced to retreat by their ene mies. Water was evidently earned in earthen vessels. C0NFEDEBATES IK C0NQHESS. Not So Many Southern Military Men In Public life Now. Washington Post.-; Accepting the Directory as a guide, we find that there are exactly 12 Southern "brigadiers," so-called, holding seats in the Fifty-first Con gress. Of this number tbe State of Alabama contributes three, Morgan, Wheeler and Forney; Georgia one, Colquitt; Florida one, Bullock; South Carolina two, Hampton and Butler; North Carolina one, Kamson: Virginia one, Lee; Tennessee one. Bate; Louisiana one, Gib son and Mississippi one, Walthall. Tbe list of colonels is bardlysolong. Herbert and Oates of Alabama were officers of this grade, and Fool of Arkansas, Hooker of Mis sissippi, Candler of Georgia. Mills and Culber son of Texas and O'Ferrall of Virginia. Houk commanded a regiment of East Tennessee Unionists for a brief period. Five members constitute the whole number of lieutenant colonels who cast their fortunes with the Confederacy Davidson ot Florida, Blount of Georgia, McCreary of Kentucky, Stockdale ot Mississippi, and Cowles of North Carolina. Stockdale Is a Pennsylvanian by birth and emigrated to Mississippi in 185tf just five years prior to the beginning of tbe war yet he seems to have made an admirable mili tary record. It was often remarked during tbe progress of the war that Northern men domi ciled in the Southern States, and ownlnz prop erty there, not only espoused tbe cause of tbat section, but were counted among tbe bravest soldiers who fought on the Confederate side. A single name represents the quota of majors, McCIammy, of North Carolina, one of the two pronounced Alliance men in this Con gress who holds the fort as an advance guard of those who are to follow, Carleton and Stewart, of Georgia, were cap tains, the first having reputation as an artil leryman. Hatch, of Missouri, was entitled to wear three bars, and Cothran, of South Caro lina, Coke and Hare, of Texas, were also of this rank, and Mr. Martin, of tbe same State, tbe inimitable "major" of this day and genera tion. Congressional lieutenants are likewise few as to number. Clarke and Cobb, of Alabama, come first in the Directory, followed by Berry, of Arkansas, and Rogers, of the same State. Jndge Crisp won renown in this subaltern rank, and so did Anderson, of Mississippi; Dibble, of South Carolina, and Richardson, of Tennessee. Abbott of Texas, completes this roster. POETIC GREET? HALE. A Young Lady From Ireland Possesses This Bare Hirsute Adornment. New York, Jan. 10. Miss Emily Maud Hig gins. from Ireland, bound to 424 East Thirty fifth street, this city, landed at tbe barge office to-day from the steamer Britannic She is 21 years old and was born amid tbe green bills and blue lakes of Klllarney. Tbe tints of Killarney's lakes are In ber eyes and tbe bright colors of tbe emerald shine in ber bafr. for she has what may be called green bair, the possession of which is supposed to Insure the . owner health, beauty and wealth. When Miss Hlggins' hair is called green It must be understood tbat it is not a bright vivid green, bnt a sheeny emerald tint such as the sea takes on under tbe shadow of overhanging cliffs, where tbe color comes np from tbe depths. WOOED BY WISE. TwoBomantlo Telegraphers Married After an Electrical Courtship, San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 10. A romantic wedding took place last night at Uvalde. H. H. Hoover, day operator In tbe dispatcher's office at tbe Southern Pacific depot at San Antonio, was married to Miss Nellie Tamsctt, operator and station agent at Uvalde. Thev became acquainted with each other sometime ago over tbe wires and they whiled away their leisure time ticking soft messages. Not long ago Miss Tamsett became sick with typhoid fever and was brought here to tbe Santa Rosa Hospital. Hoover met her then for the first time, and during her long Illness visited the hospital dally. They fell in love and an early wedding followed her recovery. THE OLDEST YET. A Colored Woman Dies In Missouri at the Age of 134 Tears. Coluhbia. Mo.. Jan. 10. Dinah Moseleyr colored, died last night at the home of her son, Robert Moseley, in Cedar township, this county. She bad well authenticated documents to prove tbat she was 134 years old. She claimed to have been born in Virginia in 1757. Sort of Kickapoo Business. Springfield. Mass., Republican. It would make a citizen of Guatemala or Honduras homesick to suddenly find himself in tbe Legislatures of New Hampshire, Connecticut Nebraska or Montana. How long will these States emulate our Central and South American neighbors in their conduct of government? Bachelors Not In It Baltimore American.' Governor Hill Is writing the letters, but ex President Cleveland is Retting the dinners and the applause. Governor Hill ought, to ft married. THE TOPICAL TALKER.- A Memory- of Mulligan. "My honeymoon," said a Pittsburg clergy man to me yesterday, "was marked by an odd incident and one tbat I was reminded of to-day when I beard a band playing tbe 'March of the Mulligan Guard.' We were married In Des Moines and traveled Eastfor our wedding trip. On the cars after we left Chicago I made the acquaintance of a very bright and aggressive man. Those were troublous times, and no body could talk five minutes without getting Into a political discussion. My new acquaintance and I fell to debating of course. I was a strong Lincoln man, and be was equally devoted to Douglass. We did not lose our tempers, but I remember his last words were: Ohl you're a regular abolitionist" Before we parted I found tbat my antagonist was James A. Mulllgak, then a lawyer and clerk in one of tbe Washington departments. You remember what a splendid record as a soldier be made afterwards, at tbe bead of tbe Irish Brigade, as they called the Twenty-third Illinois Regiment and I followed bis career with great interest until its glorious ending on the field of Winchester. The news of his death reached me when we were celebrating our wedding an niversary, and my first meeting with bim was vividly recalled. Tbe story of how he bad begged bis men to leave bim to die upon the field and save tbe colors which were in danger, was. Indeed, the first thing I read in the paper that day." A Grave Subject Joke wbere you will, and when you will, Unless when it be with Deatb; For he's a smile so grim and chill 'Twill take away your breath. Terrapin in Dreamland. "Last night 1 had a very singular dream," said a rather unusually veracious man, yester day. "I dreamt that I met a very pretty girl in fact one of the prettiest I've ever seen and after some conversation I asked ber if she would like some ice cream. She said yes, as naturally as if it hadn't been in dreamland, and we went into a restaurant to get it There she tooknp a bill ot fare, and said at once: 'My! there's terrapin I haven't had any for I don't know how long; do let's have somen "Have you ever eaten a two-dollar dinner In a strange place and then discovered that yon bad only one dollar and two cents in your clothes? Well, that's the way I felt mean, ashamed of myself, and desperate. But in dreamland a little thing like having no money and a girl with an expensive appetite on your hands doesn't flusteryou. 1 said to ber tbat terrapin was just tbe thing I wanted her to eat in large quantities, but tbat she must excuse me while I washed my hands. She did excuse mc, and I was laughing at my shrewdness as I made my escape when 1 awoke." "Kind of a funny dream," somebody re marked. "Yes but the sequel was cot so blank funny. What do you think fractnred that dream pict ure? The milkman ringing the door-bell and asking for that little amount 510 72 due bim. I'd better have stayed and treated that dream maiden to terrapinl" Justice and the Lambs. O Justice, when your babes chastise. Give ear to this appeal: Remove the bandage from your eyesl Don't cse the leaden heel! Aren't Wo All Actors? As Mr. Ben Stern was pursuing tbe path of righteousness and dodging cable cars at the corner of Liberty and Market streets, the shadow of Captain Dan Silvus fell upon bim. A moment later the fineer of tbe big police offi cer touched tbe manager's shoulder. Mr. Stern turned, and a conference between tbo repre sentatives of the theater and the Pnblic Safety Department took place. Captain Silvus inquired if Mr. Stern knew anything about "an actress" who had spent the previous night in Central Station, and was still in durance vile. Mr. Stern didn't for tbe very good reason that bis company is not yet here, and since then It has been developed tbat "the actress." as is generally the case, is a lady who spells Ophelia with an f, and never saw the further side of the footlights. But apropos of this incident, Mr. Stern said: "It is astonishing how many dead beats, swindlers and deeper-dyed rogues of both sexes shelter themselves under the name of actor. The commonest beat of this sort is the man who tries to get into tbe theatres as an member ot 'the profession.' Not long ago I was managing two melodrama companies on the road. The Lights o' London' and 'Romany Rye.' I spent half my time with the one and half with the other. One night I was standing at the door of a theater in Rochester, N. Y., where 'Lights o' Loudon' was being played when two men came up and asked for ad mission on the ground of their being actors. I thought they looked queer and I asked them to what troupe they had belonged. , " 'Obi We've been with the 'Romany Rye," one of them said, and the other named the characters they had played. Tbey had got that all pat but when I asked them who their man ager bad been tbey were floored. They said they'd forgotten bis name. 'Well,' said I. allow me to introduce you to him,' andl bowed to tbem. Tbey got out very rapidly after tbat" A Truthful Mirror. Ufe'S something like a looking glass, It gives you smile for smile; But if you frown at it alas! 'Twill scowl in sorry style. Better Than a Lodge. "I know why so many men want to be Coun oilmen." said a philosopher last night "Why?" "I was hunting Councilmen last nlgbt in Al legheny and at every home tbe Councilman's wife told me without a tremor that her hus band was detained at City Hall I" . Hepburn Johns. HILL'S EOAD SCHEME. " The New York Governor's Plan for Good Country Highways. Philadelphia Press. J Governor Hill's recommendation for a sys tem of State roads so laid oat that each county will be crossed by two as near as may be at right angles deserves more consideration than it has received. No country districts in the world have ever had thoroughly good country roads except when aided by some central au thority. Every European State follows the plan of building State roads in its rural dis tricts. France, which has tbe best country roads in the world, has three systems national, aepart mental and communal; the first the great arter ies, the next tbe leading roads radiating from them in departments, and the third the lesser roads in each township. Our country roads, aside from bad management are bad in gener al because tbe overtaxed farming districts are too poor to pay for them, and under Governor Hill's plan the richer portions of the Stats would pay for tbe roads in tbe poorer to tbe general profit of all. A Hideous, Ghastly Mistake. Leadvllle Herald, Dem. A New York paper calls the Wounded Knee battle a "glorious victory" for the United States troops. Well, hardly. Tbe slaughter of suck ling babes and fleeing squaws was not glorious. Tbe whole business was a hideous, ghastly mis take. Southern Political Prohibitionists. Jackson. Miss., Jan. 10. A conference ot prominent Prohibitionists of this State was held Thursday, with Hon. Samuel Weldick, C. Mean of the National Prohibition Com ic -, presiding, tbe object being to organize a State ticket for tbe Presldental campaign of 1892, 1,'one of That Variety Milling let Toledo Blade. A shark IS feet long was captured at Oahu, Sandwich Islands. It was probably a Wash ington pension agent who bad fallen over board. -With Addition for Lying About It Atlanta Constitution. The policy of taxing incomes is steadily grow ing in public favor, and sooner or later the Government will be forced to give it a fair total. Without a Storage Department Philadelphia Hecord.l Philadelphia's new mint would need to be ten stories high if Congress should give ear to the siren tones of fist coinage. CURIOUS C0NDENSATI0HS. . The cotton crop of Alabama is valued at 50.000,000. A large oak tree known to be 140 years old has been felled at Flint Mleb. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court pay 5100 each for their silk gowns. Geneva, O., think) it has the only horse in the world that can turn a complete somersault. In London 1 woman in every 20 is & Sanper, 1 in every 13 Is illiterate, and 1 in every is a gin drinker. Fourteen Germans and Russians living in Hamilton. Ont, took out naturalization papers one day this week. ii There are In use nearly 0,000 gas stoves which are let on hire by tbe gas companies who supply tbe British metropolis. The wife of Mr. C. Beaupre, of St Ray mond, Quebec, has presented her liege lord, who is 75 years old, with twins. Grand Rapids leads tbe world in its percentage of divorces to marriages. This year tbe ratio was one to fire and last year one to six. A runaway horse attached to a meat a agon dashed through the plate-glass front ot a drugstore at Toledo, O. Tbe horse was badly cut by the glass. Hundreds of weavers in Thuricgia are emigrating to America in the expectation of obtaining employment in New York mills, where they expect to be well paid for their services. A very explicit Connecticut statute pro vides tbat no man shall kiss a woman against her will, and behind it Is a still more rigid old bine law that says a man shan't kiss his wife on the Sabbath. Several ministers of tbe Methodist Epis copal Cburcb. South, have been suspended by tbelr conference for becoming candidates for political offices, and leaving their churches to go on the stump. At Portsmouth O., Kay Lyon, of Cord ing, that State, visited a physician to find out the exact location of his heart and then pro ceeded to a gunshop; purchased a revolver, and deliberately shot himself dead. Carrie Lane Chapman Catt said in her recent speech at the suffrage convention In Des Moines: "But it isn't so easy to get a hus band. There are not enough men to go around at least decent ones. There are a great many thousand-dollar women now. They can't bs expected to marry 10-cent men." Each of the Justices of the Federal Su preme Court isalotteda body servant who Is paid out of tbe contingent fund of the court These servants report promptly every morning at 9 at tbe residences ot the Justices, whom tbey attend constantly during the day. Tbey shave tbe Justices, do their errands and oc casionally act as coachmen for them. Each Justice is also furnished with a private secre tary. Returns from 368 districts of the Metho dist Episcopal Church oC the vote on the ques tion of changing tbe constitution so as to ad mit women as representatives to the General Conference have been received at the Metho dist Book Concern. The total vote of these 363 districts is 3l4,b0 of which 196.W8 were cast in favor and 117,074 against the proposed amend ment, showinga majority to date of 79,254. The districts heard from comprise about thrse-flfths of luo districts in the United States. Bettie Lewis, of Richmoud, will be ths wealthiest colored person in Virginia. There ire a few of her race in the State credited with being worth $50,000. Just what portion of the estate will be paid to the six eminent law yers employed by Bettie Lewis is not known. None ot the attorneys cor John Lewis will divulge the secret, but they will certainly get a good slice. Tbe 813,000 which falls to tbe heirs-at-law of Thomas will no doubt nearly all go to pay the eigat lawyers who represented tbat side. There are many people who, about this time of tbe year, make a trip to the Sandwich Islands, which furnish delightful places of abode in the winter. When there one cajn dream of Paradise while enjoying it. The trip from San Francisco to Honolulu can be madia in a week, and at slight expense. Some vis itors to the islands have been disappointed when they found tbat there were American,' residents in nearly all parts of them. They had hoped to get far away from their own race of mankind. The peculiar and pungent odor that ) arises from the person and garments of habit nal cicar;tte smokers is offensive to many lad!;:, who discern it when passing these smokers in the streets, or when sitting near them In the cars, and can hardy tolerate It in ibe house. Some ladies, it seems, find the fumes of the cigarette more disagreeable than tbose of the cigar and more sickening even than tbose of tbe pipe. There can be no doubt that these facts should be brought within the knowledge ot all concerned. Dr. Orsi has closed his campaign at Locri by excavating the whole front of the ancient walls facing tbe sea, the line of which was hitherto unknown. He has discovered four towers on the heights overlooking the city. If the Italian Government would return to the work.he thinks it might be rewarded by discov ering remains of legal inscriptions of tbe time of Zalueucns, who is said to be the first to hara given written laws to the Greeks, viz., at Loort in the seventh century B. C. Greek inscrip tions in Southern Italy are still very rare. Tbe variety audiences in America ars gradually being educated up to tbe point of tbe people who attend the music halls In London. They now join in confidently in choruses of certain songs and speak tbe replies which are expected from them by tbe singers with great cheerfulness and vigor. A nnmber of popular variety stage singers, particularly tbose of the feminine gender, have recently imported songs which require a good deal of vocal activity on tbe part of tbe audience, and tbe regular attendants of the variety theaters now talk back and sing back as though they had been- accustomed to it all their lives. The National Exposition at Tokio, which has recently Deen brought to a close, af fords interesting but painful evidence of ths change which is passing over the fluo arts of Japan. Of the 1.600 diplomas and prizes dis tributed among the 8,500 ex n I o! tors, only one was awarded for lacquer, a product in the mag nificent manufacture of wbicb Japan basal ways held tbe pre-eminence, and even tn this case It is for a Western adaptation. Photo graphs, table cloths, and alcove ornaments bear away tbe palm from a native manufacture whose death knell wassonnded when cheapness and rapidity of fabrication became a sine qua non ot Its acceptance in the markets of the world. Mrs. Francis Scott Key is the very latest. She Is well-known In Baltimore society, and she is going on the stage. Mrs, Key is a granddaughter of the famous Mary land statesman.? William: Plnckney. who in bis day was regarded as one of the most bril liant lawyers in this country. Some time ago she married Francis Scott Key, who is a grand son of his namesake, the autnor of "The Star Spangled Banner." Mrs. Key was Miss Tiffany before ber marriage, acdis related to tbe Rev. Dr Tiffany of New York. She is a;handsoma blonde, with a beautiful complexion and ex pressive eyes. She possesses a sweet contralto voice, highly cultivated, and she takes the present step because the glamour of tbe foot lights has permeated her very souL It is stage or nothing with ber. PERT AND POINTED. The Window Glass Trust is dead, and singularly enough, is said to have died a paneleis death. Kansas City Timet. Critic I didn't like that last line in your article. Editor-Well, the public did. Critic -Why so? , Edltor-Uecanse It was the las llne.-.4Wanta Constitution. Some of the very best comedy is butchered tragedy. Dallas, lex.. Hews. The strongest point in the Indian ques tion Justnowlsthebayonet. Buffalo Times. Senator Hoar is so mad about the defeat of the force blU that the -services or Pasteur may be required to guard against actual rables.-i(o-Con Globe. However it haps the cold may snap In the winter days or nights. It stops Just there, for tbe fact remains It's always the frost that bites. Philadelphia Timts. "May I not aspire to your hand?"h asked earnestly. Permit me," she said positively, "to assure you tbat this Is a lone hand." Was hington Post That was a remarkable pony on which Sitting Bull was killed. Three museums now have It on exhibition. Philadelphia Zeager. The supply of hasty pudding would run short if it were made from the "Indiau meal" supplied by the Oovernment Aeto XvrK Evening World. 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