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One -Month TO DaiS- Dispatch, Including Sunday, lyear. 10 00 Daily DlFPATCn, lncludtbc Sunday, m'ths 2 50 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, lm'th 90 Scxday Dispatch, One Year 250 Weekly Dispatch, One Year 125 The Daily DiSPATcn is delivered by carriers at It cents per week, or Including Sunday edition, at St cents per week. PITTSBUKG, MONDAY, JAN. 12, 1891. ANOTHER rilASE OF THE QUESTION. A contributor to the Mail Pouch in to day's DisrATCii calls attention to the breadth of wagon tires as a matter materially affecting the condition of country roads. "While recognizing that the point is a perti nent one we can hardly go the length to which our correspondent does in regarding it as the sole remedy and perfect solution of the road question. We doubt if any practicable tread could be made broad enough to prevent a road made of soft ma terial from working up into deep mud under rains and thaws. ' But there is little doubt that when a solid road has been constructed the width of the tires on the wagons hauling heavy loads over it will have a great deal to do with its permanence. As the writer of the letter says, this is a matter which concerns both city and country. "We have seen il lustrations of it in Pittsburg, where wagons carrying heavy loads with comparatively narrow tires have been known to actually plow up paving stones when the ground is loosened by a thaw, while if the breadth of tire had been adjusted to the load as is done abroad, 'the effect would have been that of rolling and strengthening the roadway. On country roads witb a durable surface the comparative effects are practically the same. The narrow tire un der heavy loads will cnt up the road wheD it is nt all soft; the broad tires under simi lar loads will act as a roller and improve it. The improvement of the roads is the first thing; but as soon as a fair start is made in that direction, there will be ac obvions propriety in some legislation to require the use o! broad tires whenever heavy loads are hauled in weather tha makes the roads sus ceptible of being cut up by narrow ones. For the maintenance of good roads, after we have got them, our correspondent's sugges tion is a pertinent one, and for the preserva tion of our paved streets it has an even more immediate cogency. NO CONTRAST AT ALL. Apropos of a lecture by Chauncey M. Depew on the subject of "Contrasts," the New York Telegram amuses itself by point ing out a large number of contrasts which 3Ir. Depew might draw, but presumably, will not. Among them is a contrast be tween the management of public affairs under the present administration and what it would have been if Mr. Depew could have persuaded the 'Western grangers to accept him as a Presidental candidate. "We ob serve that their is no suggestion of the con trast between the attitude of the Harrison administration toward the great corporate combinations and that which the Depew ad ministration would have assumed. There are several good reasons for ignoring this contrast. The principal one is that .there would be no contrast, but that one adminis tration would have been just as amenable to corporate interests as the other. TnE EVIDENT CONCLUSION. A pamphlet with a very flaming cover representing the destruction of New York and "Washington by the shells of British fleets has reached us. Its text is the story of a future war to break out between this country and Great Britain, in which our de fenseless condition and the armaments of the older country result in the burning of all the seacoast and lake cities, the impo sition of an indemnity of f 10,000,000, 000 and the universal smash of things in this country generally. The subject has already been worked threadbare in various ways; hut this especial example of its treatment contains one perti nent suggestion. It represents the war as breaking out because a British vessel has seized an American fishing schooner in en forcing the injustifiabla headland to head land theory. This delicately intimates that the United States should not let itself drift into war which can only be disastrous to it. Dy enlorcing against Canadian scaling schooners the still more absurd phase of the same theory which makes Bering Sea into a more clausvm. If the pamphlet had brought out its bearing on the real inter national issue a little more plainly it would have gone far toward redeeming its literary and artistic crudity. A GAP IN THE TEOOF. The statement that the Indian revolt was caused by the failure of the Government agents to provide them with the stipulated supplies, has caused the New York Tribune to pull itself together and allege in defense of the administration that it is not true. It proves this to its own satisfaction by pro ducing the figures showing that there were purchased for the Sioux nation enough pro visions to give each man, woman and child "nearly two ponnds of beef and a half a pound of flour for each day during the year," in addition to "large but minor sup plies of bacon, coffee, snirar, corn and beans." This was for the year ending June 30, 1890, and for the current year the Tribune gives the figures on which it alleges that the ration is even larger. All of which may be very true, but it still leaves a hiatus in the proof that the Indians are well fed. In fact, as there is strong and unprejudiced evidence that the Indians have not been properly fed it points out an exceedingly different conclusion. "We have the testimony of General Brook, Gen- -I cral Miles, and a large number of disin terested observers, that the banrains with the Indians were not carried out, and that they did not have food enough to keep them from hunger. This evidence, taken in con nection with the Tribune's figures, points to tte conclusion that a large share of these 1 valuable and merchantable supplies went w some other road than the aboriginal ali mentary canal. The hiatus in' the Tribune's proof is in the failure to show that the Indians got the sup plies. The testimony that they did not is conclusive; and the Tribune's efforts suc ceed in making out, in addition to- the charge of neglect and incompetence, a very fair prima facie case of downright stealing. COURTS AND COMBINATIONS. The termination of the receivership in the case of the Sugar Trust, nn Saturday, and the announcement that the organization of that concern will now proceed without any obstacle, adds another prominent case to the long list where great masses of capital have come into collision with the law without serious damage to the combinations. The Sugar Trust was declared to be illegal by the courts of New York on account of its illegal purpose, ot stifling competition and erecting a monopoly. It was not so much the peculiar form of the organization that was denounced by the courts although that was recognized as abnormal and irrespon sible as the utter illegality of its aims. In the Chicago Gas Trust case the use of the corporate form of organization to attain the same illegal purpose was declared to be no less at variance with public policy. But in the teeth of these decisions the Sugar Trust proceeded to reorganization, under one ot these charters which it is the function of New Jersey legislation to furnish to the monopolistic combinations of the country. It was proceeding with this work, avowedly for the purpose of evading the decision of the courts and maintaining its illegal pur pose, when on a question of minor litigation a receivership was constituted. The two out of three receivers who did not belong to the trnst had just prepared to submit a report showing the books of the concern to be with held from them and disclosing an altogether extraordinary state of things, when the Court suddenly makes a lightning change, discharges the receivers, and it is now an nounced that there will be no more interfer ence from the legal authorities, who, it seems, have fully desisted from their rash attempt to make an organization with $50, 000,000 respect the law. Here we have a signal illustration of the respective validity of lecal dicta and cor porate policy. In the first place the de cision of the New York Court of Appeals placed the Sugar Trust 'in the condition of an organization without a legal right to ex ist or 'do anything. All the acts constitu ting it were null and void by reason of their illegal intent. Yet this unwarranted or ganization continued to do business and was preparing to exercise the power which requires full authority, of reorganizing itself into a corporation for the express purpose of maintaining its illegal character. Next, the receivership is appointed, and the trust displays its superiority to the law by re fusing to surrender its accounts to the ma jority of the receivers. "When the receivers are ready to report this, and some other re markable facts, the court obligingly pre vents any such inconvenient disclosure by dismissing the whole business and permit ting the trust to pursue its own policy at its own sweet will. The radical reduction in the sugar duties, which goes into effect on April 1, will very much restrict the power of the trust to im pose arbitrary prices on the public Bet in view of the above facts it becomes an inter esting question, how many millions it takes to render a combination superior to the principles of law and the judgments of the courts. AN ALUMINUM PROCESS. The process which claims the ability to manufacture aluminum at a cost of IS cents per pound is one that naturally presents great attractiveness to adventurous invent ors; but the idiosyncratic accompaniments of the business, as carried on by the concern in Chicago, which professes to accomplish that result, are seen by the statements of a local article to be very peculiar. First we have the feature of large purchases of Pitts burg aluminum by a Chicago' dyer; and if aluminum is an agent in' dyeing it is a dis covery with regard to the valuable qualities of that metal which has so far remained a secret Next we find that the blocks and plates alleged to be prodnced by the cheap Chicago process are identical in chemical composition, size and shape with those sold by the Pittsburg manufacturer to the Chi cago dyer, finally, the claim that the cheap process is an electrical one, turns the mind back to that electric sugar-refining process which furnished a sensation a couple of years ago. Cheap aluminum will be a great boon, if no one has to pay for its. cheapness. STANFORD'S SUCCESS. Some of the Senators whose terms expire with this Congress arc not experiencing the difficulties in getting re-elected which have bothered Messrs. Ingalls, Blair, Butler and Farwell. Senator Cameron's walk-over is a case in point; and it is to be observed that Senator Stanford comes back to "Washing ton with another term in his pocket, despite the opposition of the Huntington influence and the talk of his defeat by putting up a strong Democrat against him. A figure of speech not used, might, according to some talk, be strengthened by saying that he brings back his new term in his pocket, as an exchahge for the contents of a very large pocketbook. The recent remark tha a Senatorship from California is a '$750,000 luxury was apropos of Stanford's canvass. Of course, Stanford does not indulge in indiscreet boasts of that sort concerning his invest ment. On the contrary he carries his Teti cence to such an extent that when invited to testify in a contested election case in which one of his supporters was defendant, he modestly pleaded xhis Senatorial privilege and took an early train for the East. Never theless some inquiring mind has discovered a large preponderance in the vote for Re publican Assemblymen and a correspond ing shortage in th'e Democratic vote for men who might have voted against Stanford, from which the suspicious are prone to argue that Stanford put his money where it would do the .most good before the election. The more we study California politics the more we are likely to find out. The "Western railroad agreement is affirmed by the Philadelphia Press to have "re sulted In the best sketch-plan for a general traffic pool yet proposed." It does not seem worthy of notice either by the Press or the railway magnates that a certain provision known as ah act of Congress forbids pooling. A SORROWFUL tale of loss -and suffering is revealed by a Washington correspondent, who relates that the burning ot the Washing, ton residence ot a wealthy Congressman crushed the hopes of that family for a social campaign of great splendor. Moreover, what Is asserted by the correspondent to be "the most pathetic thing" was the destruction by the cruel flames of a part of the Parisian wardrobe of the young ladies, one of whom was so crushed by the tragic disaster as to go Into hysterics. This is terrible; but It Is to be hoped that time will assuaee the prostrating grief caused by the overwhelming loss. .The political plans tor controlling Legis latures by seating or unseating members with out reirard to the" question whether they are honestly elected or not, continues to demon strate how inimical the present spirit ot par tisanship Is to the-republican system" of honest representation. The urgent deficiency bill appears to have become decidedly urgent, as it appropri ates the neat amount of 30,000,000 in round numbers. This sum added to the total appro priations of tha last session makes a lively total. It also throws a very peculiar light upon the declarations of the Republican leaders and organs last fall, that the man who said there would be a deficiency was.a liar and. a traitor to the State. Lieutenant &oveknob Jones, oi New York, in a speech on Jackson's Day inti mated very plainly that Governor Hill should r?bt have a third term. This is taken to mean that Jones Is anxioas to pay the .freight of a gubernatorial campaign. The formation of the Oatmeal Trnst calls forth an expression of approval from the Buf falo Express, which trusts that "it may send the price of oatmeal so high that no one will ever again be obliged to eat the wretched stuff for breakfast-" This outbreak against a popu lar article of diet leaves us in donbt whether it is prompted by a revolt, against domestic tyranny or an enmity to Scotch customs and food. Concerning the dissolution of the Har vester Trust it is satisfactory to observe that the members of that body recognized their duty to respect the laws when they had to. The attitude of most of the trusts is 'that they do not have to. It is calculated to create surprise In Pennsylvania when we are told by theElmira Advertiser that Senator Cameron "was first elected to the Senate in 1877 to fill the vacancy caused by the death Of bis father." Perbaps the elder Cameron suffered political death In that year; but the Impression is still strong that then, as for many years alter, he was the liveliest dead man tho world has ever seen. The Nebraska rumpus seems to be de signed for a demonstration that when the Farmers' Alliance gets into Congress, it- can play the grab game as recklessly as either of the regular parties. It may be remembered that while Gould's great financial stroke was pending in Wall street, there were some doubts as to whether he was gobbling the Union Pacific or the Atchison roads. Denials as to both were made in Mr. Gould's behalf; but they made no differ ence. The emptiness of tho dispute IS now clear beyond question. He gobbled both of them. Well it can be said In defense of' the weather that the sun actually did shine yester day. There was not very much of it; but what there was, was real sunshine. THE King of Portugal reminds his African contingent that it is charged with the defence of territories that have cost "us" many sacri fice's and much blood. Tho statement would have been more impressive it it had dwelt on the sacrifices and blood which the Portuguese have inflicted on the unfortunate natives and former owners of those territories. PBOJUNEHT PEOPLE. It may be said that probably to deneral Spin ner more than any other single person the coun try is indebted for its National backinc system. Henry George will soon take his departure for Bermuda, to spend the remainder of the winter. He goes by the advice of his physician. TnE photographs representing the Princess Marguerite de Cbartres with tbo Due d'Orleans have been withdrawn from the Paris shop win dows, at the desire of her family, as she is no longer the fiancee of tbo Due Miss Maude Pauncefote.Uo eldest daugh ter of Sir Julian Pauncefote, tbe British Minis ter at Washington, Is tall and graceful. She is fond of out-of-door exercise, and can out-walk any member of the foreign legation. Julian Hawthorne is very much handi capped in his literary career by his eight chil dren. Instead of writing for fame, he is obliged to write for bread for his family, and for this reason Is compelled to do any kind of work that he can get. Koch, mainly by reason of his discovery of the cause of consumption, has for several years been the most prominent figure in medical science that has been known in our generation. His methods have been models of scientific ac curacy, and tbe authority of his statements is now almost unquestioned. Frank Hatton is a typical American; he commenced life as a newsboy, and was Postmas ter General of the United States under Presi dent Arthur. He has been everything on a news paper, from newsboy up to editor, and would rather be tho editor of a live newspaper than President of the United States. George William Curtis is described as "a bland gentleman with a clerical appearance and looking as though he ought to part his hair in the middle. He stands S feet 10, wears En glish whiskers, and darkish light locks shade a handsome face. For 28 years ho has been tbe literary adviser of Messrs. Harper & Brothers, receiving the splendid salary of $25,000 a year." THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. It Extended South 2,000 Miles and From the Pacific to the East. New York Sun.2 Tbe most serious among tbe many ear tha nab 6 shocks that have recently occurred is reported from Texas. It was in the first hour of Thurs day last, and was more alarming than any of the other shocks of the past month. It was ac companied by a loud and long detonation that resembled a roll ot thunder, and It shook some of the buildings of the town of Rush in a dan gerous way. The earthquake shocks heard ot since No vember have extended along the two Americas, in aline running north and south, for a dis tance of over 2,000 miles, and in this country have struck eastwardly from the Pacific Coast to the Allegheny Mountains. It is evident that the subterranean forces have been unusually active dating the past few weeks. A RESORT OF SPOOKS. The Inhabitants of an Illinois Tillage Fear a Haunted House. Fairhury, III., Jan. 1L The citizens of Pontiac, 12 miles north of here, are considera bly worked up over the thought that a haunted house is located in their city. The haunted residence is what is known as the Country mens' house, and is near the Baptist Church. The strange noises are In tbe nature of whistling and scratching, which can be beard all day, but in the dead hour of night it Is the loudest. Parties have investigated tbe strange noises, and when they thought they had got to the place where it was beard the sound could be heard in another part of tbe building alto gether. It is said that, in times past, before tbe place went ont of possession of tbe Coun trymens, many persons visited the residence at unreasonable hours, with the thought to Inter view ghosts or other bad characters. A Canal Suggestion. New York Telegram. 1 Twenty-five millions for.a canal which will unite tho Ohio with the lakes and make West ern Pennsylvania tbe industrial center of the world, is dirt cheap," says The Pittsburg Dispatch, and it says truly. Even if a navi gable waterway from Erie to the Ohio river should cost more than 525,000,000, it would prob ably be a wise outlay. Why does not Pennsyl vania organize tbe work and carry it out, as New York built the Erie Canal? Surely the Keystone State is not waiting for Congress to do it, ehT The Irish War Slap. New York Telegram. Summary of the Irish situation by cable! Paraell JJJ j withdraw. McCarthy ".J meet O'Brien1 Circumstances Alter Cases. Toledo Blade. Suppose England owned Alaska, and Yankee seal hunters were foraging around the seal rookeries; wouldn't the British Hon roar, though It "makes a' 'vast deal of difference whose ox is being gored. raTSBUJlG - DISPATCH;'; SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON, The follies of healthy youth are the sharp pains ot weak old age. A rainstorm in whiter is not a pleasant af fair,, is It? It's unreasonable, unseasonable, Unbearable. Tbe summer shower, the season able downpour, is refreshing. Then the clouds are silver lined, the raindrops sparkling, the patter musical, the air damp but balmy. But in winter time it's different. There's no music in tbe wind-driven drops that cnt through tbe fog which seems to drag tho cold, gray clouds down to the soggy earth. They touch it, too, seemlnsly within the range of vision, bringing the horizon closer and closer, narrowing tbe .circle which is embraced in the sweep of tbe blinking eyes. Dismal, damp, dank, dreary is a rainy winter day. Nature wears a weather beaten, bedraggled look, and humanity is hypnotized in like man ner. The mist goes through the water proof and chills the very marrow. Faces come out of tbe fog with eyes bent downward and lips tight closed, as if holding back dark thoughts and checking unkind words. The un kenneled dogs slink along close to the base lines of buildings, or stand shivering on door step and in dark hallways. Horses' coats send off clouds of vapor while they fretfully paw tbe pavements and champ uneasily under the' flacellation winter's wet whipping. Children ot the alley look like wharf rats just returned from a forage up a city's main sewer grimy, slimy, scared looking. Tots who shout in the April shower pout In tbe 'winter ponr. Tbey see birds, bnds and flowers in one, dead leaves, leaden skies, gray fogs In the other. The boy who owns sled and skates sees tbe snow and the Ice slip out of sight with a sigh. He is the greatest sufferer. Each rain drop falls Into his beating little heart and In his eyes the mist is blinding. Poor little fel low! he does not stop and think that the soft flakes will come again out of a blue-black sky against which big banks of snow clouds may be gathering while he looks at the mud-tainted little ridge below the window running off gut terward, riverward, seaward. He sees what his eyes see, happy little lad no more, no less. Cheerfulness is the lymph which kills the germ of sadness. - THOSE who, use hearts for toys, doubtless imagine they can be mended when broken. At last, accounts Brooke was only seven miles away from the hostile, camp. He Is still safe. The embezzler who is led on by a woman would bo justified if he christened her misap propriation. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania would be appreciated in New York. As a street sweeping machine it's a dandy. Why not ship cigarettes to tbe reservations and allow tho braves to smoke themselves to dcathr Lots of Fish in the Sea. Pray what can a poor maid do When her lover ceases to woo. Must she pine away, Ho no longer gay. Mourn for a heart unttue. What shall the poor maid do? , Pray what must a poor maid say To a lover who flees for aye. Should sbe silent be, Or sing merrily; Hide thorn in heart away. Wear rose on brow alwayr " Fray how shall a poor maid find Love cast on tbe whistling wind If she sits and sighs, Or closes her eyes? Surely love's never blind If tbe maid's so Inclined. This much a poor maid can do When her lover ceases to woo: Sbe can watch and waft. Cherish love, not hate. For whero a thorn once grew A rose can bloom anew! The plotter's motto Come, let us treason together. KlPLlKd was shockediby the spittoons while be was in America. In tils country they swal low what goes into them here, we suppose. It takes an unblushing, damsel to court no toriety. 1 TlQHT-FIS TE J fellows Prize-fighters. George Augustus Sala has written up a soap works for an English magazi ne. It must have been a costly "paid local," and contains a good deal of lye. After the waiter feeds you he expects to be feed. His Visible Means. Don't judge a dude's wealth by the sbv Of the cane he loves to sport, What you see with your naked eyes May be his only support. AN April shower in January is quite a nov elty. But, then, the weather is nothing if not. novel. THE Exposition gas well is scarcely In It. Precocious children attract more attention during tho moulting period than afterward. In the Nebraska and Oklahoma Legislatures the gun is mightier than the gavel. 'Shorthand folk can handle long speeches better than longhand people. Some specialists believe baseball will benefit the insane. It will remind them of old times, at all events. G Rover Cleveland will never vote aye on the question, "Is marriage a failure?" The railroads built on paper are tied with a String. Ireland's bogs may be her salvation. There's gold In the peat .they hold, but some thing else besldcs'polltlcs Will have to be used to bring it to the surface. Torn on the Light. Old Adam was the first man. But, somehow or other. No early historian Tells us of his mother. The people who attend the wedding go out with the tied- In his 'Frisco letter Rudyard Kipling works off a bunko chestnut and rehashes an old' American police court joke. Ruddy must have read the American newspapers between stories in India. If your wife is a typewriter she will stand dictation and allow you to have the last word. WiLHELM evidently Intends to make enongh nut of Koch's lymph to pay tbe expenses of keeping up the German army. It will un doubtedly fatten his treasury. P" A green-haired, rosy-cheeked girl has ar rived in New York from the Green Isle. She carries tbe green above the red. A oenics wants the War Department to stretch a live wire around the hostile camp and let electricity do tbe rest. This is a uniqne in stance of modern wire-pulling. Pugs are supposed to fight to a finish. The finish, like the Pattl farewell tour, goes march ing on, however, ' Self-reliance develops the muscles of the mind and adds to the will power. - Would. Have to Be Tagged!,' Those women who wear the blue stocking Would also like to wear coats. And then where both sexes kept flocking The sheep would resemble the goats. The first feminine monument commem orated "Looking Backward." The step-mother will turn if the members of the first family tread on her. ShipmkO clerks are very forward fellows. A flour mill trnst would Undoubtedly be a' grinding monopoly. ' .Kipling may have English' blood in his J MONDAY?.'' " JANTTAiRT ' veins, but if he had 'not left home early he would not have been so cute as he says he is. Monte Carlo is dotted with villa and is full of villains. i The American young man is dividing the honors with bis fair sister in Paris. Between, the two the gay natives are bating a'splendid time. Yankee blades are destined to cut a wide swath In any community. It Is easier to pick out a winner in the race of life than in a horse race. The smooth-tongued individual is frequently roughly treated. Willtk Winkle. THE DISPUTED STATE ELECTIONS. Editorial Opinions, Both Partisan and Fair, From Representative Papers. The. Democrats Have the Pole. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep. In Montana it mnst be conceded that the Democrats seem to have the one pole long enough to reach the tip-top persimmon. The Rebellious North. Louisville Courier-Journal, Dem.'l It will be noticed that all the turmoil and re bellion Is in tbe Northern Stats, where the defeated party is unwilling to surrender, even whenf commanded by the people. Who Steals My Purse Steals Trash. New Orleans Delta, Dem.J The New Hampshire Legislature chose Tut tle, the Republican candidate, as Governor of JNew Hampshire. While legal, this was as clear a steal as if they bad put their hands into tbe pocket of Ames, the Democratic) candidate, and taken his pocketbook. A Point in Boyd's Favor. -Washington Post, Rep. It may be mentioned in passing that the militia holds itself subject to Governor Boyd's order, which Is a point In his favor, as he is a good, conservative citizen, tenacious, of his rights, but not inclined to resort to revolution ary methods for their vindication. The Fault of the Alliance. Chicago Herald, Dcm. Unfortunately for the cause of good govern ment, tbe Farmers' Alliance party In the Leg islature, by defying tho rights ot the minority and engaging In various violent demonstrations, played into the bands of tho defeated Repub licans and brought additional scandal upon the State. The South and North Contrasted. Atlanta Journal, Dem. The present condition of the State govern ments ot several ot the Northern and Western States affords striking contrast with the peace fulness and order everywhere prevalent at the South. It suggests that if the bayonet or Fed eral interference in State politics is needed or would be justifiable anywhere, It is in these Northern andWestern States. Democrats May Bide Their Time. New.Orlcaas Picayune, Dcm. Tbe growth of Democracy In all of the New England States of late years has been so rapid that the Democrats may console themselves with the hope that a few more campaigns will give them an absolute majority, and thus enable thorn to sweep away tbo laws that have per mitted their political enemies to maintain themselves in power in spite of the clearly ex pressed will of the people. i The Republican Advantage, ft. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dem. So it would seem that the Republicans In power In New Hampshire can count them selves into power acaln after every election, as long as they have the nerve to violate openly their own laws and precedents. Flaying a Dangerou Game. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Hep. , ' There is reason to believe that in the end the Alliance people Will have thelf own way. Tbe power IS in their hands, and they will hardly consent to any sort of compromise. They are playing a dangerous game, however, from a political point of view. Their party has much to lose and nothing to gain by prolonging the present unfortunate contest for the mere purpose of showing that they can do what they please. Signs of Last Falls's UphevaL St. Paul I'loncer l'ress, Rep.i These are all signs of the slngnlar shaking up that the parties and the people received last fall. In tbe Northwest an entirely new element has come to the front an element which Is not accustomed to the exercise of po litical power, which has dreamed of It as the height of human felicity, and which in Ne braska at least Is not especially careful of its methods or its instruments. It is Inevitable that the birth of this new political force, or this unaccustomed ' manifestation of an old one, shonld be attended with unusual phe nomena. Not Go 'ornor Thayer's Fault. New York Tribune, Kep.l It Is undoubtedly a serious thing for Gover nor Thay r to intetfere with the will of tbe people aS expressed lu Mr. Boyd's plurality, but the Governor has sworn to support and maintain the Constitution, and the Constitution plainly says that "no person shall be eligible to the office of Governor who has not been for two years next preceding his election a citizen of the United States and of the State." It is not Governor Thayer's fault if Mr. Boyd has been careless or indifferent witb regard to his rights and duties. The question Is purely a legal one, and some way should be found of determining it in a prompt and lawful manner. Partisan, ship should play no part in such a controversy. A Constitutional Weakness. From Detroit Ncws,'lnd, All these contests serve to illustrate what we have often said about the weakness of Our constitutional system in this country,whlch has no means of referring' all such disputes to the people, and. In consequence promotes In tbe minds of politicians an utter disregard of the people so long as by hook or crook power can be retained. Under the parliamentary system which obtains in other free countries, no government would rotaln Office unless it could obtain a clear majority of the popular branch which in those countries Is the potent branch and if those in office could hot transfer the offices to others who conld obtain sneb legisla tive support, they would refer thewhole subject back to the people In another election. A COMIHG WEDDING. Miss Audenreld and Count Devonno to Be Married on Wednesday. nmoM a staff correspoitdikt.j Washington, Jan. 1L Cards are out for the most fashionable wedding of the season, to take place next Wednesday at St. Matthew's (Roman Catholic) Church. The bride-to-be Is Miss Florence Aodenreld and the groom Count De la Forest Devonne, of tbe French legation. Secretary Blaine, as the head of the diplomatic corps, will bestow the hand ot Miss Audenreld upon Count Devonne. Archbisbop Corrlgan, of- New York, who Is tbe bride's godfather, will officiate. After tbe ceremony there will be a breakfast at 1230 p. M. at tbe residence of Mrs." Audenreld, on Ver mont avenue. Among the guests at the break, fast will be the President and tbe officers of the Cabinet. MIXED SCHOOLS IN KANSAS. There Can Be No Discrimination Against .Colored Children. Topeea, Jan. 1L The Supreme Court has decided, that colored children could not be dis criminated against in tbe mibllc schools. In tbe case of Bertha and Lilly Knox, colored children ot Independence, Kan., against the Board of Education of that city, the conrt holds that the Legislature not having granted to cities of the second class power to establish the separate schools for colored children, tbe action of tbe Board of Education in attempt ing to exclude colored children from the schools and compel them to attend a separate school, was illegal. A writ of Injunction was therefore granted as prayed for. Between Two Fires, Boston Herald. What with the Indian uprising and the blood shed threatened by tbe Farm e is' Alliance, Ne braska Is dark and bloody ground just now. He or His Dollars? Boston Herald .1 Senator Star lord.' of California-, has bean triumphantly renominated. 12, ' 1891. ON THE RIVER BANK. A Visit to RIpon's Cathedral and Fountain's Abbey Rev. George Hodges Writes ' Entertainingly of Spots of More Than Passing Interest. Half way between the cathedral towns of York and Durham, and half way also between the capital cities of London and Edinburgh, Is the quiet little village of Rlpon. It gets its "name from the Latin word for "river bank," and deserves it. The Skelt and tbe Ure meet here to form the Onse. The hills rise gently about the town, and In the midst stands tbe old cathedral The river banks were green with grass, and shady with forest trees, in those ancient days when St. Cnthbert used to journey down here, and build himself a shelter within' hearing of the pleasant water, tnd gather about him the native savages of the wild district to his per suasive preaching. By-and-by, disciples or St. Cuthbcrt built a house here, where (bey might live together, and so began a monastery. And then came the delayed but inevitable con tention between the two great missions, the northern and the southern. For Eng land was converted by swo quite different bands of missionaries. From the continent of Europe, and from its chief city,' Rome, came Augustine", landing in the souta, and establishing himself at Canterbury. From Ireland came Colutnba, landing in the north, and establishing himself In the Island of Iona, off tbe west coast of Scotland. The southern mission was Roman; tbe northern mission Was Celtic that is. It represented that branch of the Christian church Wbich bad been driven out of England, and into Wales and Scotland, by the invading Saxons. Of course, the two great missions met. They were not able to aeree. The only thing upon which they could agree was to disagree. And they went on working apart, presentine somewhat the samo extraordinary spectacle to men and angels as is presented to-day by the foolish divisions of Christian people, even in this land and time of enlightenment. Must Be a Stop Somewhere. But division cannot go on forever. There had to be a stop to it in Englahd. Up In North'umbria tbe King and the Queen bad received conversion and Instruction from different hands; one had been taught tbe old-fashioned Celtic wavs. and tbe other tho new-fashioned Roman wav. One of the differ ences was about the time1' of keebibg Easter. Tbe consequence was that while the King was keeping Easter-tide, the Queen was still prac ticing the abstinences of Lent. And that made trouble. And the trouble was finally adjusted by RIpon's other saint, St. Wilfrid. They had a creat council, tne two branches oi the church, at Whitby, before the King. And Wilfrid as sured the King that St. Peter was on the Ro man side ot this question, and that St. Peter Was the gatekeeper of Paradise, and bore the keys. Thatconvlnced the prudent King. "Let mestand," be said, "upon tbe side of bim who beats the keys, that he may let me in." So the matter was decided. The representatives of the briginal British church Withdrew from Rlpon and their other'ablthbg places, and tbe advocates of the continental fashion possessed tbe land. Wilfrlfl built a cathedral here. You can go down into the cathedral cellar and see some ot tho old stones of It, Queer Epitaphs on theWatls. The present Cathedral of Rlpon is a plain "church, not beautiful, nor particularly inter esting. There are queer epitaphs along tbe walls, and" queer misereres In the choir. The epitaphs are of the kind you read about. You begin to understand the jibes at gravestone veracity as you spell out their remarkable ex aggerations. Here lies the body of William Weddell, Esq.. of Newby, In whom every Virtue That enobles the human Mind Was united With every Elegance that Adorns it. The misereres are among the quaintest In England. The word means "mercy." A mis erere was a merciful contrivance by which a weary monk, saying his daily seven-fold ser vices, might at tbe same moment reverently stand up and comfortably sit down. Tbe seat of tbe choir stall tnrns Up, and discovers a projection underneath, along the front edge of It, which makes a second and a higher sitting' place. In tbe angle be tween the projection and tbe bottom of the seat are tne most curious carvings. Here is a mermaid lookibgat her face In a mirror, the symbol of vanity, and a big pig playing the bag pipes, to which a lot of little pigs are danc inga satire on the minstrels: and a tox steal ing a goose suggesting tho extortions di our enemies, the friars. Under every seat is one of these grotesques. You could spend a day there stndylngtbem. Tbe sign of Rlpon In thelanguage of heraldry is a great horn. You see tbe born Itself, If you stay there Over night. At 0 o'clock tbe Cathe dral bell rings tbe warning curfew, as it has been rung beside these rivers since the days of 'William toe oonquerer. Ana ous into tne midst of tbe public square, where once tho market cross stood, advances a singular figure, dressed in tbe fashion of a century or two ago, carrying a big born, which be proceeds to blow with great force and .solemnity. If you are lodged at tha Unicorn, and the moon Is shining, you can see the sight out ot your chamber window. Thence goes tbe horn-blower to salute the Mayor. Tbe bearer of the horn I found to be a good-looking young fellow, proud of bit posi tion, evidently enjoying bis singular duties. He represents a line of horn blowers going back nobody knows bow far. Once the blow-' mgmeant something. It was tho signal for the setting of the town watch. Now it means noth ing but a pleasant memory" ot old times and a perception of the value of the picturesque. A Little Lord Fauntleroy Palace. You go out across the fields two or three miles, along Kirkgate and Skellgate, over tbe stiles and past St. Wilfrid's Well, and you get to tbo entrance gates of the magnificent estate of Studley Royal, the residence of the Marquis of Rlpon. Studley Royal Is like the place which so surprised "Little Lord Fauntleroy," who was amazed that a man should live "over a mile from bis front gate." You go along a fine avenue of lime trees, straight as an arrow, and a mile long; and then you turn oft to tbe left, along shady' walks, bordered witb great hedges, cut away here and there for glimpses of lake and river; and through the glade where once the "Curtail Friar" of Fountains had a vigorous bout with Robin Hood, and you come in sight of Fount, ain's Abbey, whose ruins are the most e'xtenslvo -In England. The abbey lies by tbe river bank, some of its buildings being extended out across the stream. Here is tho church, with Its square side tower, and its long eastern chapel "of tbenine altars," and Its ancient chancel, and Its majestic nave, roofless, but with Its two rows of great, round, Norman pillars standing like avenues of forest trees. There-is grass where the pictured floor of tbo monks lay. The ivy crows over the broken walls, and all is open to the sky. They broke In here after tbe monastery was "sun pressed," and sold by the "Defender of tbe Faith," and pulled tbo roof to pieces, first for the lead that was in It, and. they had a fine, big bonfire in tbe mid dle of the church, with the wood of the choir stalls for fuel; and tbey melted the lead, and burned Up all that delicate carved work, ana left the- unroofed, desecrated sanc tuary to the birds, and the bats ana the weather, the pious reprobates, tbe cultured savages! The Monasteries of Olden Times. Every mediaeval monastery had fivo roofs, a church, a cloister, a dormitory, a refectory, and a chapter house. If the monastery was rich, as Fountains AhJ)ey was, there were other buildings beside these, guest houses, and an infirmary, and the abbof s lodzmes. The cen ter of all was tbe cloister. The cloister was an open space of green grass about which the main buildings of the monastery were ereated. On the north side of this little square stood the chnrcb: on the south, the refectory:' on the east, tbe chapter-house; and on the west, tbe dormitory. These bulldlnes fenced In the cloister with their great walls. Around the sides, making a covered porch all about tbe green square, ran a low roof, supported by stone pillars. This was the cloister walk. Here tbe monks lived. Tbe cloister roof has long since been broken down at Fountains Abbey, but you can see where tbe pillars stood. The buildings are still about the square, witb brocen walls. Yon sit down in the shadow of them and have a vision, Tbe bell rings in the old tower, ana tbe candles are aflame on the altars of the old chnrcb, and you hear tbe voices of tbe monks chanting the Psalms of David. Presently out marches a procession ot men In cowl and gown, luto the cloister and "a day that is past" comes back. There, In the east walk, sits tbe abbot in solitary state: in the south walk the convent barber Is busy with his necessary labors; in tbe west walk.scbool Is going on, with a company of mischievous mediaeval boys for pnoils,learnlng to read Latin, learning to sing psalms. Here In the north walk, where the face of tbe sun Is pleas antest,tbe monks are gathered who have no other duties. The cellarer Is In tbe kitchen, getting dinner; the chamberlain Is in tbo dormitory, making beds; some are at the mill, and some in tbe carpenter -shop, and some blacksml thing, and some looking after the needs ot tbe abbey's guests. For there is plenty of employment. The abbey is a whole town in itself, with all the industries which minister to human life -included in it. But all who are nowhere else are here In this sunny side of the cloister. Here the books are kept. The account books, minute to the last half-farthing, and fearfully elaborate. ' Beforo the Time of Type. Here is the medieval printing office, where pen and ink must do tbe work ot type; 'here deft-fingered monks are copying service books for use in church, with many a erics and art 'and a taste for color, making the Illuminated missals which we wonder at to-day. Here, again, the monastic chronicle Is being written. Everybody Is busy. When It is the permitted time, much talk goes on here, ot the great .world outslae, and ot the little world Inside bigger than any other, for its closeness. And some read, and some play chess. The bell, every now and then, calls all tbe brother hood to prayer; -and presently to dinner welcome souadl where from the refectory pul pit (you can still see where. It was) a monk reads from the pages of a good book while the others eat and listed. So tbe days pass. Yes, and the cehtnrlos, bringing revolutions, and reformations, and bonfires ot carved oakt There was-a merry company of little children at the abbey, when I bad my sight ot tbe ruins. The day was showery, as most days are In Eng land, and tbe children had taken refnge In tbe ereat pillared cryot Under the old "dormitory of thelay-bretbren."Here they were playing their games, wbero the monks lived their quiet lives! Presently the Marquis ot Ripon came, and his wife, and brought a fiddler with them, and the children fell to dancing with creat glee. It was worthy seeing. Tbe nobleman, busy with that noble occupation tho bringing of happiness Into the hearts ot Utile children, which the old monks never thongbt of. and the recesses of that ancient abbey bright with children's faces and echoing with children's voices. Tbe scene and the background went delightfnlly to gether. The last sortnd whieh I heard as I turned away from Fountain Abbey was the merry jigging of a fiddle. OUR MAIL POUCH, Roads and Wagons. To the Kdltor or The Dispatch S If The Dispatch's County Road Exploring Expedition did not discover the reason why the country roads are so bad, its members lacked necessary observing qualifications. The nar-row-tread wagOns do'tlie bad work; and beforo we- can have good roads the narrow-tread wagons mnst be dispensed with. The tire of the average narrow-tread is, wheh netf, 1 inches. Tne tires soon Wear off at tbe edges and then are oval, and the consequence is our best roads are soon sheared into deep ruts. The rains fill the ruts with water and the mud making process begins. The wagon question shodld be discussed at Farmers Institutes, as well as the road ques tion, and tbe Legislature should be petitioned to declare the narrow-tread wagons, excepting the light springwagnn and pleasure carriages, public nuisances. W hat w neeA n thn hrnarl. tread wagon for alt heavy hauling, whether in' ins cities or in tue country; It would not dam age our streets, neltber would it destroy the country roads. Two inches of well broken stone under a broad-tread wagon would be more benefit to our roads than would 12 Inches tihdenthe narrow tread. Even dirt would make a sufficient roadbed for tbe broad tread It the water would be kept off the road. We are prejudiced against tbe broad-tread wagons, and Say they strike every obstacle in the road. This Is Very far from the truth, for they would have to have very wide tires to do so. Again, we say they are too heavy. Neces sarily the tire ot broad treads does no: need to be heavy, for a very thin ire will do. If tho tires of wagons were even 10 or 12 inches wide they would not strike as many obstacles as a narrow tread strikes in ruts iU or 12, inches deep. With broad treads our roads would become smooth and even, without ruts 'and witbonl mud. They would roll over the roads, but tbe narrow tread is dragged through the reads. For a two-horse wazon we shonld have a Six-Inch tire; for a fottr-borse wagon ad eight Inch. Witb such Wagons our roads can be put in order with a great deal less money than would be required to put them in order for the narrow treads. Even if once made good tbey are soon sheared up by this latter class. All that would he required to keep them in repair for broad treads would be little besides keeping the water off. Tbe sole remedy for our roads and streets is in the broad-tread wagon. Our legislators should see that tbe remedy is administered without delay. But It will require backbone in them to administer the potion. Tbey must not qnibble about quarter inches in tbe width of tires,- but strike for full round numbers. It they could but see tbe unevenness of the bottoms of ruts cut by narrow-tread wazons they could .easily dispel all their prejudice against broad treads. JAN. Hooversville, Pa., Jan. 10. The Future of the Party. To the Editor of The Dispatch. This is to congratulate you upon tbe posi tion The Dispatch has taken against tbe Federal elections bill. You are thus helping the Rpublican party much better than those blind guides who, having themselves stumbled into the ditch, insist that their party shall con tinue in the mistaken course they have led it into. I left the Republican party In 1S72 nn tho issue of local self-government for the South; voted for Greeley, Tilden and Hancock on that issue, would not vote for Cleveland in ISSi; but did not work as hard for Blaine as I onght to nave aone, consiuering tue iiurcnard incident. Two years ago I did my best ror Harrison, re lying on some such tariff bill as the Senate sub stitute for tbe Mills bill, and no interference with local Self-government in the South. II the plank In Republican platform abont "pre serving autonomy of the States" means any thing, it is a promise that bo Federal elections bill will be passed. It looks as If Blaine and Cleveland wonld run again in 1892. If tbey do, it is important that Republicans do not handicap their party So as to make Cleveland's election a certainty. If the Federal elections bill is given a quietus. Re publicans nan recover lost cround and elect Blaine In '82 against Cleveland. William J. Fowler. Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 8. Lots of McKlnleyltes In Ohio. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I am a newspaper man. I travel, hate been over a large portion of Ohio, have talked with many Republicans from all sections of Ohio. 1 know what the Republicans think and say, I notice in your Issue of to-day an article head lined thus, viz: "A Few of Them Left Mc Klnleyltes Scarce in tbe West" Under tbls bead you quote What that prince of Democrats Al. Carlisle says of McKihley.ln his usual style. His statement is false and he knows it. The most pnpular man in Ohio to-day is Hon. William McKmley. Yes: "the man who once baa a bill" Is the strongest man In Ohio to-day. Tbe Democrats fear him and bis popularity. They know it he is nominated "their goose is cooked," and that him majority will be immense over anyone they can nominate. They have been trying in every way to kill him politically for years, but hare only succeeded in making bim more popular each year. If McKlniey will accept the nomi nation he will be the next Governor of Ohio. You will oblhte your Eastern Ohio readers hv giving this truth tbe same prominence as you did Al. Carlisle's falsehood. Adena, O., Jan. 9. Thomas V. Deary. Concerning the Heresy Trial. To the Editor or The Dispatch: Allow mo as a clergyman and a constant reader of your paper, to call your attention to some exuberant sentences at the beginning of tbe article on tbe MacQueary trial yesterday. We are not disposed to class the youthful vaporings ot Mr. MacQueary as great thinking. The P. E. Church is not in any sensa on trial lu this instance, it is Mr. MacQueary who is on trial. His con viction 'or acquittal will not in the least affect the church, whose doctrines ate forma lated by general councils, and not by indi viduals, and which charges her individual priests with the duty of Interpreting them In accordance with their ordination oath and by no other standard, and sbe especially charges them in those vows "to drive awav all strange and erroneous doctrines." Mr. MacQueary may be affected in bis own opinion, or in tbe opin ion of tbe advocates of tbe so-called "higher criticism," but the cburch will be whblly un affected by tbls incident, and will go on her way just as the ocean goes on over the opening made by tbe casting of a pebble through its liquid snrracs. Jesse C. Taylor. New Lisbon, O., Jan. 9. Improvement of the Mississippi. To tbe .Editor of The Dlsoatch: Your series ot articles on the improvement of tbe Mississippi river contain more practical suggestions, exhibit more real engineering con ceptions and aro broader in their scope and grasp tba anything that has hitherto appeared on that subject. Not only this, but they rise into tbe domain and amply cover the plane of the highest statesmanshlp.- By comparison, tbe ship canal project sinks into absolute nothingness. I am awaiting tbe report of the commission to see by what Jug dory thev propose to canal over a dry hill. Pleasantyillk, Pa., Jan. 8. xT. A Couple of Corrections. To tbe Kdltor of The Dispatch: In a telegram published this morning I notice that a grandson of Field Marshal Blucher has taken out naturalization papers at St. Louis. The telegram adds that the Field Marshal commanded at tbe battle ot Leipsic This is an error. The allied army opposed to Napoleon was commanded by Marshal Schwartzepburg. Tbe battle lasted three days, and ended in tbe retreat of the French. The name Blucher is misspelled in tbe tele grams, which error I also coirect. Citizen. Pittsburg, J an.. 10. An Ares of 32,531 Square. Miles. To the Editor Of The Dispatch: Please let me know the number of sauare miles in Ireland, to decide a bet. TEwetTrrRER Islewoos, PJl, Jan. 10, CDEIO0S C05DENSAT105S. ' The cutting of veneers is now done by electricity. Steamboats will soon he running on tha Sea ot Galilee. rThe Chinese do not permit their women to be photographed. An Ionia, Mich., concern is shipping corn cob pipes to England. An idol collector in San Francisco, who has just died, bad a collection of 500 little gods. A St, Louis justice has decided that young woman is bound to return tbe gifts made by a rejected lover. Colonel Debanse and M". Schneider, the directors ot the Call and Creusot Works, re spectively declare that it is unnecessary to re place steel guns by bronze cannon, in view of tbe adoption ef smokeless powder. Charlie Griffith, of Athens, Ga., has a curiosity in tbe shape ot a pipe. The bowl of tbe pipe is fashioned out of a costly variety of briarwood, while the stem was taken from the leg Of some lordly gobbler of the days of long ngo. Of the 1,100,000 Lutheran communi cants In the United States, about three-fourths are Germans: tbe others are Scandinavians, English, etc In no fewer than 12 lanzuages do Lutheran pastors preach the Gospel to this country, Now, in advanced civilization, love and care prolong life to a great age. This ts not an unmixed good. Almost the very exist ence of slow decay and long disease has been brought about by tbe lore and care that dis tinguish humanity. Blankets are loaned to the poor, during the winter months, tree of cost, by a kind hearted citizen In Brunswick, Germany. They are stamped, to prevent them from being sold or pawned, and tbey are returned at the close oi me com weather. One of the essentials to a good photo graph Is a clean face not a relatively but an absolutely clean one and It is said that pho tographers have much trouble because tbey do botlike to make a suggestion which might be resented by their sitters. The strength of spider silk is incredible. Size for size it Is considerably tougher than a bar or steel. An ordinary spider's thread is capable of bearing a weight of three grains, while a steel thread of tbe Same thickness wonld support less than two. An old colored woman living in Atchi son used to prepare herself every night for death by dressing In a bine grown, and sbe was always surprised to find herself alive the next morning. Sbe kept this up until she wore out three or four blue dresses and then she quit. The Alabama Sentinel, a labor paper published at Birmingham, is running a "dally strike edition," for the benefit of tbo striking miners and iron workers. The paper is not only keeping up tbe courage of the men but procuring a good bit of revenue for their support. Last June a covey of 17 partridges was found dead in Southern Prnssla, with their heads together. It was discovered that the whole covey must have been struck by licht nlnc. One could plainly see where the flash bad strnck a little mound and from thence pro ceeded along tbe ground. The true French plum large, jet-black, soft and juicy comes from the shores of the Garonne and its affluent tbe Lot, and Is the fruit ot the tree known as the prnnier d'ente. or grafted plum. The center of the district is Clairac, a quaint little old-fashioned town built on a steep hillside overlooking the Lot. The garbage scow in the Seattle harbor attracts vast multitudes of sea gulls. When ever tbe boat is towed ont from 1,500 to 2,000 follow It to its destination, and the men em ployed on It claim that they scarcely have room to work, as the gulls cluster around them In swarms, all fighting one another to get on the scow and select their food. Probably the most unique Christmas present given tbls year was received by tbe editor of a Missouri newspaper. It was the left hind foot of a common gray rabbit, which bad. been killed in a graveyard at midnight is the dark of the moon by a cross-eyed negro Tbe charm is warranted to keep away all mis fortune and bad lack. i It is stated that While foreigners irl France number 3 per cent of tbe population! tbey are 11 per cent of the convict class. In 18S7, 1.217, and in 1883 L279 foreigners were con- victed. the number of English being 53 and 51 respectively. Italians head the list m 1888 with tii. then come 218 Belgians. 192 Germans, 0 opaniaras, oo owiss ana a Austrian. Though much is said about the de cadence of New England, during thelastten years the population has increased more than during any other decade in all its history. The onlr State in wblcb there has been no increase Is Vermont, and tbo conditions In Vermont are such as make It probable that the State never will have more population than now. The Department of Justice of Canada has decided to purchase a newly patented photographic apparatus ot great value in de tecting crime. The Invention will enable a copy to be taken of the imace In the retina of the eye of a dead person. This Is regarded as very important, especially In cases where there Is no other clew to tbe perpetrator of tbe mur der. Spiders differ from insects in five mi nnte'particnlars; their eyes are simple instead otcomponnd, they have eight legs instead of six. thev do not pass thringh the metamor phoses which are characteristic of Insects, they have no antennas, and their breathing is accom plished by means of organs which combine tbe functions of lnngs and gills. Instead of by tubes pervading their bodies. Scientist! have by no means abandoned tbe attempt to reach tbe North Pole. Tbe prospects are fair that another year will see an expedition ihto Antarctic regions for purposes of exploration and discovery. It is quite prob able also that our Government will, dnring the coming year, send out an expedition which shall penetrate Into tha yet unknown interior of our own Territory of Alaska, Tbe first goldfish brought to Europe, from where this country received Its earliest supplies, were of tbe poorest and commonest breed: they Were of a golden color, hence tbe name for the entire cenus: and it will thus ba understood why people speak of black, white, red or blue goldfish. The old-fashioned gold- nsh lives now in a wild state in tnis country, and Is in fact connted among the native fishes of North America. Mrs. John 51. Weigle, of Augusta, Ga., excitedly called tbe attention of her husband to a little animal which was sporting on her sitting room hearth one night. Mr. Weiglo soon saw tbat it was a pretty flying squirrel. He tried to capture it but it escaped from the room and was overhauled by the dogs. There was no possible way for the little fellow to eet into tbe room except down tbe chimney in tbe tace of a hot burning coal fire. We are first indebted to Herodotus for the discovery of the pigmies, and. secondly, to Andrew Battel, of Leigh. Then Moffat and Livingstone Introduced us to the Bushmen of South Africa. Bat the earliest knowledge of the pigmies of Central Equatorial Africa was eiven us by Schwelnfurth and Piazgia, who had traveled to Nlam-Nlam and Monbutta land, wbich countries are situated on the northern edge of the Great Forest. At Straubing, in Bavaria, soma Celtic tombs have been opened and found to contain most interesting bronze ornaments and iron weapons belonging to the people of Rbstia be fore tbe Roman conquest, Tbe long-sought-for Roman cemetery has also been discovered through tbe uneartbine of a Roman tomb con taining cinerary urns flanking the old military road from Serriodurum (Straubing to Abo sma, both situated on the Danube. WISDOM OF THE WITS. They say the dude's harmless. He isn't, yon bet; But tbe very reverse he Is found. Tor oft bis discarded, half-burned clgaretta Burns a building or block to the ground. Ktto Xor Prut. It is thought the Interior Department at Washington, combined with tbe Interior depart ment of the red men, is the cause ef the Indian war. Atlanta Constitution. CurwinThe Indians don't teem to be holding any more ghost dances. Dogberry-No. they're indulging now la rifle balls. Toledo Blade. Justice Duffy Were you not intoxicated on New year's Day? Pat How can 1 tell, sor, wben I was not In a condition to know? -Texat Sittings. "Does your sister play the violin as much as sbe used to?" said young Sapples, si he sat In tbe parlor. ".No, sir; she said yesterday she guessed yoa had quit coming altogether, and she might as well throw the violin away." Washington Post. Caller How perfectly devoted yon are to yoar husband 1" Young Wife Yes. I am trying topetand spoil hl'n. so that HI die. and be marries again, no other woman can live with htm. Svarf Moments. "Anything new.nnder the sun to-day?" . . "Yes, that paint you're' sitting agalsit. tr t pamiea tnoseraiungs taismarnlnc." Jfnou jtxenange A.eV . r .r t. . .. t jw&asSakkS . miL-'kUii, na3Bas eajKswatHKS csea
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