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l-ITTSBORG. FRIDAY. JAN. 16, 1591.
TUK ESTBGHOUSE INDUSTRIES.
So Ion as there was hope that the Ad
Tisory Committee from our bankers and
business men appointed to help the "West
iughouse industries out of their difficulty
would be able to see the way clear to ren
dering efficient assistance, the press of the
city with a view to local interests has very
jrenerally forborne comment or criticism.
3Iven now, when a climax has been reached
by the Committee's refusal to go on and by
the institution of suits against one of the
companies, what is to be said should be a
ground lor encouragement rather than ap
prehension as to the future of these indus
tries. The fact is reasonably apparent that the
state ot the companies affected is solely
traceable to their methods of financiering
and management and not at all to the ab
sence of ample opportunity for producing
widely different results if more conservative
courses had been pursued. The radical
fault of water capitalization for other con
siderations than cash, and systems of ex
penditure, commensurate with the nominal
large capital rather than the actual re
sources stands out palpably as the root of
the embarrassment. The large actual reve
nues of the electric company and of the gas
company are, on the other hand, the best
evidence of the business opportunities for
both. So long as these opportunities exist
the industries are bounci to go on and ulti
mately prosper. That reorganization on a
new and closer basis seems inevitable is
onlv an incident essential to future success.
It is to be regretted for the time being that
these concerns should have met with vicissi
tudes so productive of loss to the numerous
stockholders. On the other hand the mis
takes of the past can hardlv be repeated;
and the business which they represent,
which, in itself should be profitable, when
put upon more economical basis, ought to
continue as heretofore a factor in the indus
trial welfare of the town. Courage coupled
with strictest conservatism and care seems
to be what the situation calls for. With
water and waste eliminated the two factors
of danger would be removed, and the pros
pects appreciably brightened.
DIXMONT OVERCROWDED.
More space should be provided for the
care ot the insane at Dixmont The over
crowded condition of the asylum is clearly
shown in the annual report, from which it
appears there are more than 100 more
patients intlie institution than it can prop
erly accommodate. There is opportunity
liere for benevolently inclined wealthy peo
ple to do something for suffering humanity.
Of course, the poor people in the asylum,
who are intellectually dead, cannot show
their appreciation of such beneficence. If
there are no benevolent persons ready to be
friend the institution the State should come
to its relief. It is a requirement of civiliza
tion that our insane and helpless poor should
be taken care of, fed, clothed and made as
comfortable as circumstances will permit.
CHANGE THE PRISON SYSTEM.
Some radical changes should be made in
the prisons and reformatory institutions of
this country. Our so-called reformatory
institutions, with some few exceptions, are
not relormatory at all. It is a matter of
record that people "sent up" for minor
oflenses rarely benefit from the warning of
greater punishment, but return in time for
another sentence. It is the almost universal
testimony of persons connected with penal
institutions, and of those who have made
any study of the subject that prisoners are
sot benefited by commitment, but instead
begin again to prey upon the comnlunity as
soon as they are liberated.
There are two explanations of this fully
authenticated fact The one most fre
quently heard is that these persons are nat
urally depraved and not amenable to cor
rective influences. The other is that onr
system of dealing with criminals is radically
w rong, and lowers their moral tone instead
of raising it. There maybe something in
the time-honored claim of natural depravity,
no doubt it applies in some cases in the
fullest degree On the other hand observed
facts leave no doubt of the defectiveness of
our system. Those with depraved tastes
are given the fullest opportunity to develop
them instead of being subjected to influ
ences which tend to weaken such tastes.
Solitary confinement is prescribed in the
worst class of crimes, only, in the case of
those sent to the penitentiary. Those con
victed of minor crimes are herded together,
liven the penitentiary candidate is put in
the county prison, to await trial, with the
prisoner arrested upon suspicion of having
committed some minor offense against the
law. Thus far it is all right. It is pre
sumed that a man is innocent until he is
proven guilty. But innocent and guilty,
young and old, male and female, are thrown
into oue common society in the county jaiL
Here is where the wrong is aone.. If soli
tary confinement was the rule at this end of
the criminal scale some good might result
from the penal system. But the old and
burdened criminal is permitted to poison
the comparatively innocent youth. What
ever of natural depravity there may be in
the young victim, may be there planted
with the seec of wickedness that will inevit
ably bring the culprit back to the bar of'
justice with a graver crime to answer for.
Even if no evil be done during the term
01 confinement, in the way of instruction in
crime, there are serious possibilities contin
gent upon the association and acquaintance
of the prisoners. An innocent boy, arrested
upon suspicion, may become acquainted
with desperate criminals while confined in
jail awaiting the trial which shall vindicate
him. A few months after his liberation, in
want and privation, he may be tempted by
these acquaintances to the commission of
crime. Xven without such possibilities, it is
an injustice to auy innocent man, or woman,
who may be committed to jail through error,
to be known by the other inmates.
Prisons are growing larger in this country
and yet only a small proportion of the crim
inal classes is confined. Crime is increasing
more rapidly than population. This speaks
ill for the present system. Then why not
make a change? It may cost something at
first, but it will be cheaper to pay the
money to prevent crime than in the couvic
tion of the criminal.
WEALTH AND PATRIOTISM.
The great success of the French loan is
somewhat.ot a novelty to other countries.
But it need be no mystery to those familiar
with the French people, particularly oLthe
rural districts. By the rural districts in
France one means outside of Paris.
The whole secret is in thegeneraldistribu
tion of wealth in the hands of the multitude.
This wealth is accumulated by the assiduous'
and economical pursuit of manufacturing
industry on small scale and the excellent
cultivation of small farms. The great bulk
of the wealth of France is in the hands of
the masses, and so long as this is true that
republic will retain its recuperative powers
and ability to rally from almost any catas
trophe. "When the Government wants
money those small capitalists hasten to in
vest what they can spare, partly from patri
otic motives and partly to secure the small
interest The people are the Government,
and what they are taxed to pay interest on
the public debt returns again to the tax
payers. In a country where there are colossal
fortunes and great display of wealth, the
Government depends much on the wealthy
class. Very naturally it gives favors to that
class. All this detracts from the patriot
ism of the people during the emergency and
gives rise to no end of dissatisfaction and
complaint afterward, when the masces are
taxed to pay back the loans advanced by
the few. They feel they are the sovereign
people for purposes of physical defense and
taxation, but have no place in the distribu
tion of benefits.
In this country, where the development
of wonderfully rich resources under favored .
conditions has made it possible for tre
mendous fortunes to be built up in a few
years, this phase of the matter is of especial
interest It has been an observed principle
of political science since the days of ancient
Greece and Home that the stability of a
government is to be gauged by the propor
tion of the well-to-do middle classes to the
whole population. "While the undeveloped
territory and resources of this country shall
bear any proportion to population similar to
that of the present time, the great majority
of the people must belong to the prosperous
patriotic class. But with the rapid growth
of our population the near future may de
mand a settlement of serious questions. It
would seem to be wise to provide measures
now to check the growth of enormous
private fortunes. An easy computation will
show that if conditions are not changed by
the time this country is half as thickly
populated as France now is, the few will
own all the interest drawing wealth of the
country. The converse of this means that
the great mass of the people will be tithe
payirg serfs. Our form of government
could not survive such conditions. Neces
sary changes may be more easily made now
than twenty years hence.
CORAOPOLrS GAS BOOM.
Coraopolis is just now having a boom that
should carry her forward a great ways. Two
tremendous gas wells at her very doors are
the cause of her good fortune. They promise
a supply of good and cheap fuel for a long
time to come. The second well in that
region is one of the largest producers of
natural gas ever opened, and the distance
between the two indicates another great gas
field like those which have made the Pitts
burg region famons. It is a matter for re
gret that the gas companies of this city have
not availed themselves of this opportunity
for securing a plentiful supply of the favor
ite fuel, which has recently been meted out
so sparingly.
COPTKIGHT, OB ROYALTY.
There is a remote prospect that the inter
national copyright bill may be reached in
the Senate this session. There can be no
denying the demand for some measure for
the protection, not only of foreign authors,
but American as well. At present the for
eign author is deprived of auy income from
the sale of his work in this country and the
American author is compelled to sell his
manuscript to the publisher in competition
with the foreign reprint manuscript which
costs nothing.
The bill which has passed the House and
is now before the Senate remedies this con
dition to some extent It provides that all
foreign works for publication in this coun
try must be printed here, and that no for
eign plates shall be sent here for" that
purpose. This provision works chiefly to
the protection of the publisher, who is sup
posed to pay the foreign author for his
manuscript Another bill is pending, in
the Senate Committee, introduced by Sena
tor Teller. It provides simply for the pay
ment of a stipulated royalty to the foreign
author, for the use of his work. It differs
from the copyright in that it leaves the re
production of the foreign work open to as
many American publishers as may be will
ing to pay the royalty. This is in the
interest of the American book-buyer, and in
that much the Teller bill may be considered
superior to the other.
Under the copyright bill the foreign au
thor may demand what he pleases for the
work, and the American publisher who bnvs
it may tax the reading public as much as
the traffic will bear to get his investment
back, with interest Under the royalty pro
vision, the compensation of the foreign au
thor is in proportion to the sale of his work,
and the profit of the publisher is limited bv
the amount of competition with other
American publishers. This latter system
would seem to afford greater protection to
the American author as well as the American
reader. Be could almost certainly secure a
royalty equal to that accorded foreign au
thors, whereas under the copyright, his com
pensation would he measured by the urgency
of his necessity and the competition of
cheap foreign manuscripts.
SENATORIAL CHANGES.
"When all the returns are in, the United
States Senate will hardly recognize itself.
It will not be so badly disfigured as the
House by the political buzz saw which was
set whirring so viciously last November,
but it will show scars. Farwell was beaten
for the nomination in Illinois yesterday by
Oglesby. Senator Farwell spent a great
deal of time and energy, some folks say
money as well, to secure his re-election, but
failed even of nomination. Mr. Blair was
equally unlortunate in New Hampshire,
Mr. Gallinger securing the nomination on
second ballot Every indication from Kan
sas is in the direction of Ingalls' defeat
De. Koch's lymph is now public prop
erty. The disclosure of the composition and
preparation of the lymph may bo taken as an
evidence that Dr. Koch is finally convinced of
Its efficacy as a remedy for 'tuberculosis, in
some of Its forms at least The disclosure may
have been hastened. In come degree, by tho
bluer attack of Prof. Virchow, but It is not
probable even that wonld have moved Dr.
Kocli to make the secret public before ho was
satisfied with bis experiments. The full value
of the remedy must be determined by time. It
is certain It has value. The declarations of
Prof. Virchow may loso some force by being
attributed to feeling engendered during the
quarrels over the late Emperor's malady.
Probably some of the "dead game
sports" who were backing Dempsey feel sorer
mow than Mr. Dempsey himself.
Sensible methods have done wonders
with the hostile Indians. There is every indica
tion that they will all surrender without
further bloodshed, though the troops are keep
ing a share lookout for treachery. When they
shall be peacefully Bettled about the agencies
again it will be worth while to not forget the
lessons dearly learned regarding the proper
treatment of the redskins.
That anti-Cameron movement still has
the appearance of a thing that was started too
late to got in sight of the goat
Some people who plead for free coinage
that they may have more silver, wonld be dis
appointed to find, in the infl atlon which wonld
follow such a law, that a good bit more of the
product of their labor would be required to get
the same comforts they now have.
Alueadt a shower of bills has been pre
cipitated at Harrisburg, and the trouble is
mainly in the future yet
Charging Governors at Harrisburg is
a good bit liko moving day elsewhere, except
the weather.
Democratic Senators at Harrisburg
will do well not to provoke a fight at the in
coming of the new administration. They have
little to gain by such a course and the State has
much to lose by obstructionist tactics.
President Harbison probably thinks
he may accept a renomination, now If it is
offered.
An overwhelming vote in favor of in
creased pay was to be expected from the
miners, and the large vote in favor of an arbi
tration conference instead of a strike evidences
their good sense.
Events at Albany all tend to prove the
eminent "practicality" of Governor Hill's poll
tics. "What has become of the Senate agree
ment; The force bill bobs np on the heels of
the free coinage amendment The result thus
far is to get one bad measure through without
killing the other.
English cutlers are just now finding
out who pays the tariff nnder the McKtnley
MIL
Sekatob Ingalls' speech fell in the
Kansas Legislature with the proverbial dull
thud. The Alliance men could not be convinced
It was eleventh hour repentance, maintaining
it was 11 JO.
McKeb's Bocks finds bowlders in its
pathway to borough-hood.
So thick is the silence with which Gov
ernor Hill surrounds himself on the Senatorial
question, that it can be pared with a cheese
knife without disclosing anything.
"Wateb mixes no better with electricity
than with oil.
Tuen the system of treating criminals
around. Separate the classes at the becicnlng,
not the members of a class at the end.
FAMOUS PEOPLE.
M. Eiffel of tower fame, is a candidate for
a seat in the French Senate.
Campanini has the spirits of a boy since his
voice has been restored to him by a surgical
operation.
Miss Louise Shepard, daughter of Colonel
Elliot F. Shepard, of New York, will be mar
ried on February 6 to Mr. William J. Schleffe
lin. Miss Gertrude Rives, who is now in Rich
mond, says that the reports of the serious ill
ness of her sister, Mrs. Amclie Rives-Chanler,
in Paris have been greatly exaggerated.
Prof. Harriet Cooke, Professor of His
tory in Cornell, is the first woman ever honored
with the chair and equal pay with the men pro
fessors. She has tanght in Cornell 23 years.
Helen Gardener, author of "Is This Your
Son, My Lord?" the novel which is creating
such a furore in the East Is about 30 years old.
She is a really beautiful woman, a little above
medium height of well-rounded proportions,
with an intellectual face, deep brown eyes, full
red lips, and high, broad forehead. She pos
sesses radical views, and is a terse, strong
writer.
William Westale, the novelist, lives at
High Standing, Lougbton, and is a Lancashire
man. He was born in 1835. In appearance he
is slight and slim, about a feet 5 inches high,
with grayish balr. much bewrinkled forehead,
bright blue eyes, straight nose, a soft, silky
grayish beard, which would delight an Eastern
cadi. He speaks very clearly and emphatically,
and it is evident that he has a good deal of re
serve force. When describing a scene bis eyes
light up, and you cannot fail to feel that be Is
seeing the whole thing as he speaks. He has a
great fund of hnmor, and every now and then
some quaint little story comes out. He practic
ally began to write stories when he was in bis
teens. Then he contributed to the local papers.
G. Tateno, the new Japanese Minister to the
United States, has iust reached Washington by
way of San Francisco, accompanied by his wife,
a 5-year-old dangbter, his private secretary and
a law student. The Minister talks English
fluently, and his wife and child are dressed in
Western garb. Mr. Tateno's public career be
gan in November, 1877. as an officer of the im
perial household. In 1878 be was a member of
the commission appointed by the Imperial Gov
ernment to receive General Grant In 18S0 the
Minister accepted the Governorship of Oaaka,
one of the largest provinces in the empire, and
for ten years occnpled that position. He was
appointed to his present office in March, 1890.
after having held a seat in the Senate for nine
months.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Mrs. Elizabeth Downing,
airs. Elizabeth Downing died yesterday at the
residence of her daughter. Airs. Mcbanlcls, in
Philadelphia, at the ape of 83 years. Mrs. Down
ing resided In Philadelphia for 73 years, bhewas
the mother of four children: Mrs. McDanlels.
James T. Downing. Superintendent of the Con
solidated Gas Company: It W. Downing, Con
troller of the Pennsylvania Itallroad Company,
and William Downing, well-known Philadelphia
merchant The funeral will occur at that city
Monday, at 10 A. u.
Mrs. Rebecca Robb Johnston.
Mrs. Eebecca Kobb Johnston died yesterday at
the age of 86 years. She was the mother-in-law or
John D. Carson, of tho well-known wholesale
grocery firm of John A . Eenshaw & Co. The
funeral will occur from SO liarlon avenue, Alle
gheny, to-morrow, at 10 A. M.
Mrs. Susan McKenna.
Sirs. Susan McKenna, widow of the late 'William
McKenna, died yesterday afternoon, at the age
or 72 years. Herfuneral will occur Saturday
from her late residence, No. 56 Crawford street
Major John A. Hart.
CriATTAxooaA, Jan. is John A., Hart Mayor
of Chattanooga and one of the wealthiest of len
ncsseeans, died this morning at 11 o'clock from a
second stroke of paralysis.
W. H. Dills.
Ft. WATNE. Ixd., Jan. 13.-W. H. Dills, on
or the leading Democratic politicians of North
ern Indiana, died at hl home at Auburn, Ind,, or
heart disease this moralu.
,SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
A deess coat is called a swallow-tall presum
ably because a man swallows more when ho
wears it.
Did the carrier on your route ever miss you?
I mean did your morning newspaper ever fail
to put in an appearance while yon were toast
ing your toes and the better half was toasting
the slices? If it did. you didn't enjoy your
breakfast and you felt crusty, ill-tempered,
disgusted. You didn't kiss the baby or pat the
poodle that morning. Something seemed to
haye gone out of jonr life, the light didn't
shine, and you groped and grumbled In the
darkness. A mishap of this sort means a great
deal to the man who keeps up with the proces
sion, of course. Think of it An act in the
drama of lifo cut out a scene- from
tho world's play deferred, perhaps
lost No Yesterday for you to en
joy to-day all old, nothing new. You have
drawn a blank in the lottery for once, at all
events. If your hopes hang on the shifting
figures which are joggled by trade in the four
corners of the earth fear shakes you fiercely.
If you have been following the thread of a
public discourse you hold a broken end now,
and the sudden snapping startles yon. If you
are feeling the pnblic pulse, watching the cur
rent of events, studying the movements of the
world's machinery, the beat ceases, the stream
clogs, the shafting breaks, and you flounder in
the sea of doubt whoso waves wash the shore of
despair. Really a serious matter, this failure
to connect To-day with Yesterday this sudden
halt in the darkness on the world's roadside
for tbo busy man, the thinker, the student, the
observer, the man of the world or the thought
less, idle gossip. Then you realize, too, the
real value of the morning newspaper, ladened
with the sorrows and the joys, the trials and
the tears, the griefs and the laughs of the
ispinnlngand the weaving, the sinking and the
'heaving old world. It Is a welcome visitor,
and the yarn it spins, whether for weal or
for woe, is for you, and for you, and for totj.
Out of tho dark night, freshened by the dews
of morning, it brings the light of tne world
and the story of the fight for tho life thereon
the endless tale of the sea and the shore, whose
last chapter wfll not be finished until the star
pins in the sky curtain are loosed and it falls,
disclosing the Alpha and hiding the Omega.
The detective never casts bis shadow before.
Editorial notes are not negotiable, but
they call for credit just the same.
Tee ousting of Senator Stnhr has created
quite a stir in Jersey.
The scrub-women at Harrisburg will get
down to business before the statesmen.
General Miles, like the Monte Carlo
gambler who has a system which ignores the
black, is watching the Reds.
Prof. Koch has given away the secret of
his lymph. If you try to make some after read
ing it yon will merely consume time.
The One That Went Astray.
When the sheep are counted ere the ev6nlng
shadows fall.
And all bnt one stray lambkin has heard the,
shepherd's call.
Sadness settles o'er tbo flock, the sheep no
longer play.
But bloat in deepest sorrow for the one that
went astray.
When the lamps are lighted in the palace and
the cot
And tired eyes are watching for one who
cometh not
Hands stray to eyes there weeping and wipe
hot tears away.
Lips a prayor repeating for the one that went
astray.
When the sheep are counted and the Shepherd
has been told
That many lamb3 are missing from the prayer
united fold,
Tho angel who records the names of those
who'll live alway
Will snrely drop a silent tear for those that
went astray.
If you are satisfied with your lot you will not
consider life a lottery.
Justice is represented by a female because
it is annoyed by so many suitors.
The Australian pug who almost killed Demp
sey is a blacksmith. He served as a "striker"
and got points on blows from the bellows.
The silver men believe in hard cash and
plenty of it
The men who wear the turn-down collars are
taking preliminary steps to turn dewn some of
the silk-tiled statesmen.
Seine fishing is popular in Paris, but the
fishers angle for corpses instead of finny nib
blers. The United States Supreme Conrt Is at sea,
thanks to H. B. M.
The stomach sympathizes with the pocket
book. When one is empty so Is the other.
Kansas is tho -home of the "original pack
age." Ingalls, the Alliance, sockless statesmen,
grasshoppers and periodical droughts. No
wonder it bleeds.
Blind people never indulge in eight-seeing.
If inebriety is a disease and babltnal drunk-)
ards are ill individuals they should be cared for
like other sick folk.
The shopkeeper who lowers his prices and
lets the public know it hoists his sales.
The advocates of free coinage have secured
the coign of vantage in Congress.
Inqalls believes that the golden bar works
better than the Golden Rule in practical poli
tics. The law is Intended to protect the weak as
well as the strong, bnt Justice is blind and is too
apt to take sides with those who can jingle the
coins in her hearing.
Speech is silver, and both promise to be free
In this land of freedom.
Theatrical snpes are made from stage
hams.
The dressmaker's motto An eye for a hook
and a book for an eye.
The poet frequently idyls away his time.
This has been a squaw winter both here and
in tho woolly West
ACCORDING to Ingalls George Washington,
had he lived to-day. would have been a bloated
bondholder, and. presumably, a liar, to boot
Ritchie BEOS, is the name of the last brok
erage firm to go under in Philadelphia. What's
in a name, anyway?
Political parties never swear off, but they
frequently break the pledge.
It would be useless for the business man who
does not advertise to hold a revival to convert
his goods into cash.
It is a cold world In wintertime, at all events.
PnarLiSTS aro blowhards in more ways than
one.
The bigamist evidently prefers the peniten
tiary to the divorce court
Printers, in speaking of tho New Orleans
fight, would say the Nonpareil was knooked
Into "pi."
The English syndicate has bobbed np in a
new quarter. It is gobbling np the spool and
bobbin works in New England.
When a broker Is cornered he goes to the
wait i
A r ugilist is an artist when be draws blood.
Monet is undoubtedly the root of the polit
ical evil at present
Education and civilization have made
forzers out of a' number ot Arizona Indians.
They graduated at Carlisle for the peniten
tiary. Readers will easily detect a silvery ring in
Ingalls' speech.
The embarrassed lover is destined to fail.
if
The bookkeeper frequently trembles In the
balance.
The bad architect generally spoils a good
story. Willie Winkle.
A GREAT NOVEL
From the Pen of F. Marion Crawford Se
cured by The Dispatch.
The Dispatch has seenred a splendid serial
written by F. Marlon Crawford, author of
"Mr. Isaacs," "A Roman Singer," etc, entitled
"The Witch of Prague." Pnblication begins
next Sunday, January 18.
The leading character ot the story, Unorna,
the Witch of Prague, is a young woman of ex
traordinary beauty who possesses to a remark
able degree hypnotic powers. In fact, in this
character Mr. Crawford has delineated a hu
man being who in her own person is able to
perform as great feats in hypnotism as any char
acter in real life, and she may, in fact be said
to stand for the greatest achievement in this
field.
She meets accidentally, the hero of the story,
called the Wanderer, and falls madly in love
with him. The Wanderer Is so called because
for seven years he has sought and soucht in
vain to find his youthful love. Beatrice, who is
practically the heroine of the story. He cannot
forget Beatrice and is ntterly indifferent to the
charms of the Witch or Prague, who, despair
ing to win him by ordinary means, throws him
Into a hypnotic state and banishes from bis
mind all recollection of Beatrice. But in so
doing she removed from him the power of
loving. She then with great reluctance and
with a keen sense of shame, throws him into a
f nrther hypnotic state and endeavors to make
him say that he loves her, but even in this con
dition the Wanderer simply answers that he
does not understand and does not love her.
During this scene a former snitor of the Witch
of Prague suddenly appears. He has heard her
endeavor to make the Wanderer love her, and
In the presence of the Wanderer taunts her
with her shameful deed and failure.
Among the most interesting of the side issues
of the story is the attempt made by the Witch
of Fracue. and a most remarkable character,
Arabian Keyork, indefinitely to prolong hu
man life by means of hypnotism and all possible
hygienic methods. One of the most extraor
dinary scenes is where, after the rejected snitor,
Israel Kafka, mocks her, when she has failed
to secure the love of the Wanderer, she hypno
tizes him and leads bim to believe he is Simon
Abeies, a youth who at some remote tlm'e had
renounced his faith and becamo a Christian,
who bad been tortured and who finally suffered
martyrdom. The rare powers of Marion Craw,
ford have not failed in making the novel thor
oughly artistic The entire action occurs in a
little over four weeks, and in the city of Prague.
Bohemia.
It is distinctively a pure story. The series of
experiments made to prolonchuman life are of
themselves of extreme interest and wonld give
distinction to the hovel. The series of hyp
notic experiments are also most extraordinary.
The love story, which is intense and all-pervading,
being the story of the love of two women
for one man and of the man for one of the
women, possesses in itself all the elements of a
very striking romance.
The opening chapters of this remarkable
story begin in The Dispatch next Sunday.
FREE COINAGE MEASURE.
Provisions of the Bill That Was Passed by
the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 15. The f nil text of the
free coinage bill. Introduced by Mr. Vest, and
adopted by the Senate last night is as follows:
"A Bill to Provide Against the Contraction
of the Currency and for Other Purposes.
"That from and after the date ot the passage
of this act the unit of value in the United
States shall be the dollar, and the same may be
coined of 412 grains ot standard silver, or 2o
grains of standard gold; and the said coins
shall be legal tender for all debts, public and
private. That hereafter any owner of silver or
gold bullion may deposit the same at any mint
ot the United States tobe formed into standard
dollars or bars for his benefit, and without
charge, but it shall be lawful to refuse any de
posit of less value than $100, or any bullion, so
base as to be unsuitable for the operations! of
the mint
"Section 3 That the provision of section 3 of
'An act to authorize the coinage of the stand
ard silver dollar and to restoro its leeal tender
character,' which became a law February 23.
1S78, is hereby made applicable to the coinage
in tbis act provided for.
"Sec. 3 That the certificates provided for in
the second section of this act shall be of de
nomination of not less than SI nor more than
100, and such certificates shall be redeemable
in coin of standard value. A sufficient sum to
carry out tbe provisions of this act is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated. So much of
the act of July 14. 1890. entitled 'An act direct
ing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue
of Treasury notes thereon, and for other pur
poses,' as reqnlres the purchase of 4,000,000
ounces of silver bullion per month, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.
"Sec i That the certificates provided for
in this act and all silver and gold certificates
already issued, shall be receivable for all taxes
and dnes to the United States of every descrip
tion and shall be a legal tender for the pay
ment of all debts, public and private.
"Sec. 5 The owners of bullion deposited
for coinage shall have tbe option to receive
coin or its equivalent in the certificates pro
vided for in this act and suSh bullion bball be
subsequently coined."
JUDGE HARRY WHITE'S OFFER.
He Makes Another Proposition for a Mon
ument to Judge "Wilson.
IFEOM A STAFF COREESrONDENT.1
Harrisburg, Jan. 15. Judge Harry White,
of Indiana county, offers to go still farther in
his remarkable unselfishness, which was briefly
alluded to in these dispatches yesterday. He
presents the $5,000 to tbo State for a monument
to Judge. James Wilson. But General White's
letter, as read in the House of Representatives
to-day, says ibat if tbe State refuses to recog
nize his claim for interest on the money, then
he will add 2,500 additional, providing tbe
Legislature will appropriate 5.000 more to make
the monument cost 10,000. The Governor ac
companied Judge Wbite's letter to tbe Legis
lature with a message ot bis own. in which ho
says the State cannot be legally bound to pay
Interest on money left deposited in its treasury,
nut he offsets that by recommending that the
Legislature appropriate 7,500 to the erection
of the Wilson monument
Judge Wilson was Scotch, and came to this
country in 1761, practicing law in Philadelphia
in 17f& He afterward lived at Heading and
Carlisle. He was a delegate to the first pro
vincial conventions to agitate the Revolution,
and was one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. Many of his peculiar Ideas
were engrafted in tbe Federal Constitution,
and George Washington appointed him the
first Pennsylvania Justice in tbe United States
Supreme Court Dying under distressing cir
cumstances, his body still lies in an, obscure
spot of tbe Sontb. Judge White stipulates
that tbe monument shall be built on Inde
pendence square, Philadelphia.
"White Savages Dancing.
Detroit Free l'ress.j
The ghost dance in the Nebraska Legislature
goes or goest right on. Tbe troops are there,
but there has been no intervention to check
tbe unholy ceremony. There should not be
any such discrimination between red and white
lunatics.
Enough to Encourage Farther Efforts.
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
The collapse of the proposed agricultural im
plement combine shows that tbe farmers'
movement and recent attempt at true legisla
tion have accomplished something in opposi
tion to monopolistic tendencies.
Stock for Special Purposes.
Savannah News.:
Ohio State prison officials are accused of ex
hibiting virtue 'It isn't likely. But if they
did it was only an infinitesimal quantity that
they keep on hand for that purpose.
Gone Wheref tho Woodbine Twlneth.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The twine that bound up the harvester trust
gave way in short order.
-
Pap, Are We AU Governors, NowT
Omaha World Herald.
There are a few ot us in Nebraska who are not
Governors, but not enough of us to mention.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Some Great Pictures.
The Verestchagin a pleasant word to pro
nounce by tbe way collection is interesting,
and doubtless the art critics who tell us to bow
down before the Russian painter are right As
soon as you emerge from the rather close at
mosphere of the Carnegie Hall gallery the cot
very picturesque vista of Federal street the
dumpy market house and neutral-tinted City
Hall and even the fog. if there be one, and
there was yesterday morning, may strike you
as a relief to tbe eyes after gazing at tbe riot
ous assemblage of colors which Verestcbagin's
brush has summoned together. There is
nothing meager or mean about Verestchagin.
He is a prodigal with paints, a spendthrift in
canvas. So his pictures run to extremes in size,
in color, and sometimes in the choice ot sub
jects. Ido not think his smaller pictures would
attract much attention In a miscellaneous col
lection. The magnificent in every way Is "his
forte One of his greatest combination
of large figures and superb coloring
I take to be the picture ot "The Entry of the
Prince of Wales into Jeypore." and it is to be
noted tbat the artist completely satisfies the
eye and the imagination of the spectator. Bnt
In tbe battle scenes, or tbe much advertised
pictnre of tbe Sepoy execution, to me at least
something considerable seems to be lacking. It
may be the hardness of realism that jars upon
one in these huge pictures, bnt it seems to me
to be rather their theatrical quality, Tbe pic
ture ot the field hospital after Plevna is in
tensely horrible, as many others of the battle
scenes are, but it recalls the spectacular realism
of the panorama. ,
Heresy, Perhaps.
It is a rash thing to say. I suppose, out it
strikes me that there is not a penny-weight of
poetry in the whole collection. Life under
somo of Its most splendid and terrible condi
tions Verestchagin has reproduced with wonder
ful accuracy no doubt as to form, color and the
local and historical externals bnt the spirit in
which he has worked is cold and unsympa
thetic There are warmth of color, richness of
contrast and the inherent attraction of foreign
lands, picturesque people and heroic actions in
his pictures, but tbe painter's sonl is not in
them. Tbe critics of a certain school may de
light in them, but Verestcbagin's pictures can
hardly create any general enthusiasm. Men's
hearts must be touched to do tbat, and the
Russian's work does not appeal to tbe heart
The majority of the pictures seem fitted especi
ally for a final resting place in Russia, to the
patriotic pride of whose people they appeal.
To the Russian, of course, this pictorial narra
tive of tbe most stirring part of the last Russo
Turkish war wonld have a value that we can
hardly appreciate properly.
There is one picture, or rather a series of
three, tbat will be hard for anyone to forget
and to which the foregoing criticism will not
apply. The three small paintings framed
together illustrate tbe terrible fate which over
took full many a faithful sentry guarding the
Shipka pass in the winter of 1877. There is a
qniet patho3 in the story plainly told in color
which one cannot but feel deeply. Somber as
the snowy death scene is, I would rather have
it than the gorgeons paintings, heavens knows
how many square feet in size, upon which
Verestchagin rests his reputation. But fortu
ntely for the artist and his financial supporters,
this is not likely to be the prevalent choice.
It Is Not a Circus Tent
By the way, are not the signs and posters
with which tbe varions concertlecture and re
ligions people are liberally plastering the front
of the Carnegie Hall something of a blemish to
that beautiful building? It may be necessary
to announce entertainments to be given in tbe
Hall, but it surely should be done in a modest
and artistic way, in harmony with the charac
teristics of tbe architecture and high pnrpose
of the institution. The committee of
Councils having charge of this matter will
doubtless see the desirability of restraining the
transient lessees of the Halt Advertising is a
splendid thing in the right place.
The Rat Returned.
Some weeks ago in this column a veracious
account was given of the singular liking for
music shown by a rat who chose the Interior of
a grand piano for its home, and made itself a
bed out of Chopin and Spohr and other classical
sheet music It may be remembered that the
narrative closed with the expulsion of the rat;
tbat was the eni of the rat's tale, so to speak,
for the time
Night before last a gentleman who believes
in extracting his fingers' worth from the keys
sat down at this very same piano in an East
End residence and began to test its sonority.
The response was disappointing, especially in
the bass octaves. They Bounded dull and
woolly and no amount of pounding would in
crease the volume of sound from tbe bass.
"Can that rat have returned?" asked the
pianist
"Nol" was the incredulous chorus.
"I'm going to see all the same," retorted tbe
pianist and he lifted up tbe square cover of the
piano. Over and among tho wires of the piano
and on the left side was a mass of music in
printed form. A poke or two brought ont a
large rat about a foot long and extremely well
fed. Of course the rat escaped, and all that
could be done was to examinu her home tor
the rat had evidently intended to rear a family
in the piano. She had built It firmly with
music, which she had previously torn and
Ifabewed into pnlp, and the fragments of paper
showed that she bad chosen music of a very
solid order for tbe most part The most frivol
ous material that figured in the nest was a
sheet and a half ot "Echoes ot the Ball," and
an imported part song for boys voices called
"Who Killed Cock Robin?" For the rest the
rest tbe rat had accumulated scraps of the
choicest works within reach. But tbis is not
surprising, for an animal that chooses to reside
among the bass wires of a piano, which is con
stantly in use not a little practicing ot scales
mnst be devoted to mnsic to an extent tbat
mortal men can hardly comprehend.
KOI AT AIL EXCITED.
Indian Pupils at Carlisle Attending Strictly
to Their Studies.
imOJC A STAFF COEKESPOSD5XT.1
HARRISBURG, Jan. 15. Two noted women
were at the State Capitol to-day. One was Mrs.
R. H. Pratt, of the celebrated Indian school
at Carlisle, and wife of tbe Superintendent of
that institution. As it is nearly entirely popu
lated by Sioux boys and girls from tbe camps of
Dakota, I asked her what had been their de
meanor in the past few weeks, with the knowl.
edge that their fathers were at war with the
Government and their mothers in danger of
perishing. She said: "While they feel con
cerned, of course, about tbeir parents and
friends, tbey are attending to their duties and
studies quietly, and show no disposition to go
West Tbeir letters from home have all been
cut off for the time being, probably through
tbe dtstnrbed condition of affairs at the front,
bnt tbey expect to hear from them soon
again."
Apropos of this, the matron of tbe Lincoln
Indian School in Philadelphia says she has
made up her mind since the Indian troubles
began to stop sendingtbe Sionx boys and girls
back to tbe West when they finish their
studies, as has been the custom heretofore.
She says she receives letters every day from
returned girls, begging to be brought back
East Now she thinks the ends of civilization
can best be fulfilled by keeping tbe youthful
savages here to grow up with the enlighten
ment of the East get employment among tbe
white people here, ana marry like white
people.
Tbe other lady visitor at the Capitol was Mrs.
Annie Wittcnmoyer. tbe beloved army nurse
of the G. A. R. She is here in the interests of
the new Soldiers' Home at Brookville, Jeffer
son county. Tbis establishment not only takes
tbe old soldier, bnt his wife also, and was
established largely through Mrs.Wittenmeyer's
She said the day was past when tho Govern
ment should take care of tbe aged veteran, and
give the cold shoulder to tbe aged vetorau's
wife.
A "V70MAK SLEEPING TO DEATH.
'a
A- Fanner's Wife In Wisconsin Has Slum
bered for Three Weeks.
EAU Claire, Wis.. Jan. 15. Mrs. Melvina
White, wife ofa farmer of the town of
Wbeaton, has been asleep for three weeks, and
all efforts to awaken her have been In, vain.
She hail been suffering from nervous prostra
tion for some time.
Several physicians from this city have been
called from time to time, but the case has puz
zled them all. Tbe sleeping woman has re
ceived scarcely any nourishment during the
period of somnolence, being forced occasion
ally to swallow a Utile milk. She cannot long
survive.
To Compensate for His Silence.
Washington Post
Senator Quay made a great mistake in not
providing for a brass band in his force bill.
SWEETS OF SOCIETY.
Interesting Amateur Theatricals Several
Weddings That Took Place Yesterday
A Green and White Farewell to Mrs.
l'erln Tho Social Chatter of a Day.
Parthenta, the quaint the naive, the loving,
tbe devoted, the brave heroine in the play of
"Ingomar." was essayed last evening in
Mr. Washington Library Hall by
Miss Edith Smtthson, with an ama
teur support of popular young people.
The hall was comfortably filled with a
charltabl r inclined audience tbat showed its
appreciation of little bits of acting and pretty
scenes savoring of tbe artistic by vigorous ap
plause, and kindly suppressed the laughter and
mirth to which some intensely ludicrous scenes
were conducive. "
Miss Smitbson, as Farther) to, was an interest
ing character, and with cleverness portrayed
the various emotions of the character repre
sented, appearing at all times to advantage,
and occasionally rising far above the ordi
nary. Aclea, her mother. as im
personated by Mrs. Allison Myers, was
less pleasing, tbe lady extinguishing herself as
even an amateur star by tbe swoon she at
tempted in the second act Miss Imogene
Williams, as Theano, was decidedly negative,
even in tbe most thrilling parts of the play.
Sam Williams, as 1'olydor, tbe rich merchant,
failed to Inspire the audience with the same
disgust which Parthenta evinced for him, as
his make-up was not sufficiently disagreeable
or strong to prevent tbe genuine and original
man overshadowing tbe assumed character.
Dr. J. A. Hageman made a very pompous
and dignified 2march of MastiUa, and bad a
rnyal guard equal to his greatness. J. C.
Kober, as Inaomar, was In appearance not the
traditional savage chief of tbe lawless Al
lemani, bnt rather an exaggerated) edition of
Little Lord FawUleroy, with his soft flowing,
gulden locks, that strangely contrasted with
the more properly correct straight black hair
at the members ot his hand. His acting,
however, was quite redeeming, and the meek-'
nessand gullibility wltb which be tumbled
into the compromising state of love with tbe
fair maiden was truly refreshing. R. C. Sbep
lar, however, excepting Miss Smtthson, carried
off the honors of the performance as Myron,
the slave, bis concention ot tbe character be
ing very realistic
The play, as a whole, was an actual testi
mony of what amateurs maydowtth caretul
training, such as Miss Smitbson has given, and
with a few naturalisms, such as "Parthenia, Is
your basket over there?" spoken behind the
curtain and distinctly audible to the audience,
passed off with surprising smoothness. The
orchestra was under tbe leadership of P.
Schwartz, and J. C. Kober was an efficient
stage manager and costumer. Tbe play was
given as a testimonial benefit to MissSmithson,
who has so ably assisted and worked for tbe
library interests, and tbe popularity of tbe
young lady was apparent from the large audi
ence that greeted her appearance. It will be
repeated again this evening.
A ROTABLE SOCIAL EVENT
Was the Afternoon Tea Given Yesterday by
Mrs. Andrew Fleming.
Tbe afternoon tea given yesterday by Mrs.
Andrew Fleming was a notable social event
tbe beautiful borne on Western avenue being
resplendent with floral decorations, and
thronged with ladies of high degree. The
various apartments, each furnished and hung
in distinctive colors, were adorned with cut
flowers of tbe same hue. Tbe parlor, dainty
and elegant in delicate pink and light bine,
was fragrant with the modest violet and pink
carnations, tho library golden in effect with its
canary-tinted paper, carpet and upholstering,
was heavy with the perfume of exquisite yel
low roses in baskets and bouquets. '1 be dining
room was rich and warm, witn its red tints, and
carnations of tbe same color, mingled with ar
tistic carelessness in and among maiden bair
fern.
The affair was given by Mrs. Fleming in
honor of her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Fell, of
Philadelphia, who was. attired in an elaborate
costume of black silk tulle, with handsome
yellow ostrich feather trimming. The hostess
was attired in a magnificent gray silk toilet
trimmed at neck and sleeves with point lace.
A bevy of society ladies assisted in receiving.
Kubn catered.
TWEHTY-FrVE YEARS TOUTED.
Silver Wedding Anniversary of Major and
Mrs. It J. Taggart Yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Taggart of Palo Alto
street, Allegheny, celebrated their silver wed
ding last evening in a delightful manner, hav
ing invited numerous friends to assist them in
the observance. The host. Major Taggart, is a
man associated with both civil and worldly war,
being the son of Rev. Samuel Taggart D. D.,
and a brother of Rev. Samuel Taggart. tbo gen
eral organizer of the Y. M. C. A., and having
served with distinction in the War ot tbe Re
bellion. Mrs. Taggart does not take a back
seat, either, in ancestry; being the daughter of
Colonel W. W. McNulty, of tho First Pennsyl
vania Cavalry, and great granddaughter of
Major General Williamson, a prominent mili
tary figure of early history.
Mr. and Mrs. Taggart were the recipients of
many handsome presents, both from their
friends and their four children, who were pres
ent WEDDED IK HAZELW00D.
Pretty Ceremonies at the Nuptials or Mr.
Bowman and Miss McKibben.
Numerous Pittsburgers were guests at the
Bowman-McKibben wedding in Hazelwood
last evening, when Miss Margaret McKibben
became the bride of William L. S. Bowman.
The wedding was solemnized in the Hazelwood
Presbyterian Church at 8 o'clock, and was wit
nessed by a large and stylish assemblage, com
posed ot friends of the young people, who are
both deservedly popular.
A reception at the home of the bride's
parents followed the wedding, where an abund
ance of flowers, with music, and a supper,
laid by Kennedy, served to make tbe even
ing very enjoyable. Tbe young couple will be
"at borne" after February 15, on Mobile street
Hazebrood.
Social Chatter.
"Sights by tbe Way; or Travel in Europe,"
was tbe subject of a lecture delivered last
evening by William II. Graham, in the rooms
ot the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of
the Y. M. C. A., Twenty-eighth street Mr.
Graham is a pleasing and interesting speaker,
and entertained his large audience in an in
structive and delightful manner.
A lecture by Rev. J. F. Regis Canevin
next Sunday evening is a treat in store Tbe
snbject is "The Catholic Church and tbe Col
ored Race," and It is to be given for tbe benefit
of St Benedict the Moor's Conference of St
Vincent de Paul, at Holy Trinity School, cor
ner Fnlton and Center street
THE Woman's Committee for tho Press Club
Conference met yesterday afternoon and per
fected arrangements for tbe entertainment of
the coming distinguished lady vMtor. 'Mrs.
C. L Wade, as Chairman, and Miss Virginia
Hyde officiated as Secretary.
The growth of Pittsburg as an art center is
shown by tbe fact tbat teachers are locating
here. Miss Malady and Mr. Mallow are the
latest arrivals. The former teaches singing,
while the latter gives dramatic instruction.
A musical aud literary entertainment will
be given in Orpheus Hall Wednesday evening,
January 28. by the East End Musical Club, C.
K. A programme of unusual interest will be
presented.
A skating party from Allegheny, composed
of members of the Pantbopean Literary So
ciety and tbeir lady friends, enjoyed Silver
Lake last evening, aud afterward dined at
Knhn's." , ,
Rev. I. A. Ballanttne and his bride will
be tendered a reception this evening by tbe
members of tbo Blngbam Street M. E. Church,
of which Rev. Mr. Ballantyne is pastor.
ANY number of wee ones will congregate at
Mrs. Dr. Huselton's elegant home this evening,
where merry childhood will be entertained by
the petite of the family.
Mrs. Van Wagonner. of Kingston. N. Y.,
will In all probability accept tbe position of
supervisor of drawing in the Pittsburg schools.
Miss Fannie Young, of Fifth avenue. Oak
land, will give a dancing reception to heryoung
friends this evening.
The United Hebrew Relief Society gave its
first annnal ball last evening at New Turner
Hall.
An enjoyable concert was given in St
Martin's Cuurcb, in tbe West End, last even
ing. The social event of the day is theteagigen
this atternoon by Mrs. William H. Bnrt
A luncheon will be given to-day by Mrs.
3. L. Garner, of Fifth avenue.
Miss Nannie Jones, of Roup, gives a pro
gressive oucbre this evening.
The East End German gave a cotillen at the
Linden Club last evening.
The entertainment at the Second Presby
terian Church to-night
Mrs. A. S. M. Morgan entertains friends
tbis afternoon.
Possible Explanation of the Tote.
S awtucret Telegram. 1
After Mr. Sherman's four hoars argument
against free coinage, the Senate adjourned to
see a man.
CDEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
Gold closed on Monday at 238 per cent
premium in Buenos Ayres.
Nearly 1,600 oMittle hot tomalis, a Mex
ican sausage, are sold npon tbe streets of At
lanta, Ga., every night
The constitution of the New State of
Washington limits the session of the Legisla
ture to CO consecutive days.
There are 26 monarchies and 25 re
publics in the civilized world to-day. Sixteen
republics are in Sonth America.
A teacher of mathematics says that the
simple tearing np or cutting of paper is a great
relief to tbe mind after mental labor.
The widest plank on earth is on exhibi
tion in Humboldt Cat It Is 16 feet in width.
It will be among the Humboldt exhibits at the
World's Fair.
Elizabeth M. Proctor, who died at
Salem. Mass., a few days ago. aged 100 years,
had been for 10 years President ot the Sea
men's Orphan Society.
A crab was caught in the harbor of
Victoria, B. C, that was three feet six inches
around tbe waist It was presented to the
Museum of Natural Science.
It is stated that 1,150,000 Christmas par
cels have been delivered by the British post
office, of which 1,116,000 comprised turkeys,
fowls, game and Christmas puddings.
A small leather bag was kicked about in
tbe streets of New York recently by pedestrians
which, wben opened by a hotel porter, wat
found to contain 8,000 worth of diamonds.
A change in the channel of the river
Stonr, at Sandwich, England, nas revealed the
wreck of a vessel believed to have sunk at
that spot during the reign of Henry VIH.
Arthur "Wnillmeau, of Detroit, has
started on a starvation campaign ot 46 days.
He wants to beat SnccL If be succeeds be will
get 11,500; if be is alive in 30 days be gets 51,000.
There are, according to the State Com
missioner ot Railroads. 7,01473 miles of railroad
in Michigan. Tbe gross earnings for the year
1890 aggregated 96.323, 071 62; net income, 31,
h09,279 51.
John McCloskery and Lawrence Mer
sereau have just died at Sunbnry county. N.
B.. tbe former aged 93 and tbe latter 99. Both
were somewhat addicted to the use of tobacco
and spirits.
Near Liberty, Kan., one day this week
Mr. uarvey and her child were attacked by a
pack of wolves. Mrs. Garvey escaped with
slight injnries. but the boy was fatally man
gled. The wolves were finally beaten off by
men.
The high tides did $10,000 damage in
Digby county, N. S., on Monday. Wharves
were covered, stores flooded, hundreds of
cord of wood carried away, roadways washed
one flour and meal destroyed and other damage
done. ,
Mr. John Kobb, of Kingston, suggests
to the Ontarion Minister of Education that all
public school children of Canada should wear
outer garments of tbe same material, thns
securing uniformity, and checking the dispar
ity between tbe rich and the poor.
Down in the basement of a private
boarding home in Washington street there is
to be found the yonngest married couple in
New York without doubt It is Yussef Gosn
and his wife Malacab, aged respectively 16 and
11 yetrs, and tbey arrived from Beirut on
Sunday last
A Bath, Me., man says the reason he
doesn't smoke is because he can't find a pipe to
suit bim. He smoked one meerschanm steadily,
for 12 years, and then left it on tbe rail of a
steamer on wbich be Is engineer, and somebody
knocked it overboard. That was 12 years ago,
and he has remained so constantto tbe memory
of that pipe that no other would take its place.
On their return from their holiday vaca
tion the Cornell students found at tbe entrance
to tbe college grounds a snow bust of Prof.
Corson. It was more than eight feet high and
an excellent likeness. It was tbe work of Prof.
H. D. Williams and Mr. Willis, of tbe depart
ment of industrial art Two years ago Prof.
Williams constructed a similar bast of Shakes
peare The Pope has appointed a commission
to study the religious situation of the South
American republics with the view to reorgan
izing tbe episcopates on a system similar to that
prevailing in Brazil, which is based on common
law and religions liberty. He is of the opinion
that tbe era of concordats has passed, and tbat
tbe Church has everything to gam by claiming
simply a reign of liberty for all.
The rise in the price of meat in Ger
many has not only increased tbe general 'eon
sumption of horse flesh, but in Western Ger
many has led many ot the peasants, who have
had to forego the meat market altogether, to
draw blood for blond sausages every Saturday
from the living swine. Tbe blood is let Into
sansage skins, is sprinkled with fat and, after
having thickened, is eaten with sauerkraut for
the Sunday dinner.
Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, has
ordained in his official gazette that every one
or his active warriors shall plant during 1891
200 grapevines; every brigadier must plant 20;
every commander and under commander of a
battalion. 10; every drnmmer or color bearer, 5.
Every guide, moreover, must plant two olive
trees, and every corporal one. The gazette
calculates that in conseqnence of this order
Montenegro will have 4.000,000 grapevines and
20,000 olive trees on next January L
The grand jurv at Baltimore reports
that the high license law, as at present framed,
is a complete failure so far as it prevents tbe
sale of snirituous and fermented liquors on
Sunday, and it suggests tbat the law be amend
ed so as to require an unobstructed view from
tbe street to barrooms: tbat only one entrance
be allowed to barrooms; tbat clubs furnishing
liquors to their members be required to have a
license, and that tbe police be allowed free ac
cess to all places where it is thought the law is
being violated.
Baron Haussman, whose death is an
nounced, reconstructed and decorated Paris in
the grand style, not possible under any otber
than an imperial or autocratic government,
and resisted even there. Be determined what
should be done, and then did it without regard
to cost or the inconvenience caused to people
whose homes were destroyed. In his memoirs
he states tbat the reconstruction of Paris cost
5,000.000,000 francs a billion dollars. But it
made it the handsomest city in the world, and
probably paid in tbe end.
One little Indian boy who attends school
at Indian Island, Oldtown, Me., takes an in
telligent interest In his lessons and does not
slmplv learn them by rote. Tbe teanher had
been giving instruction in punctuation, and
closed by saying emphatically: "Now when you
come to a period you mnst stop." A littlo
black-eyed girl then commenced to read and
went on in a reckless manner, regardless of the
Seriod in question, whereupon the fat and
right little Indian boy poked her in the ribs
and electrified the school by yelling lustily,
"Wboaf He grasped the situation.
JCST FOR FUN.
Mother Clara, how did you stand in your
class to-day?
Clara Seventh from head, mamma.
Mother Well, lam glad you are doing better.
By the way, how many were there in the class?
Clara (hesitating) About seven Judge.
"Have you evernoticed howthe last words
of great men cling to our memory?"
"Humpht They don't sticabalf so well as the
last words of small womenI"-fue.
A romantic Southern writer, speaking of
a seine haul of fishes on the Florida coast terms
them "voiceless wretches." Tne romantic South
ern writer has, probably, lived all his lire outside
orUeorjro friable Boar's Old Bay State and never
heard a fish ball. St Paul Globe.
Dr. Tanner has challenged Succi to a 90
days fast or a fast to a finish at the World's Fair,
with waterand coffins on the side. Mlnneorpollt
Journal.
He Are yon intimately acquainted with
Mr. Wilson?
She (rromChleaeo)-Only slightly. I was mar
ried to him oncc-V'trott tree Prut.
"Yon are tbe light of my life," she said
tohimassbetoldblm good night at the front
door.
Tut oat the llgbr," growled her father at the
head of the stairs and the front door lamaed.
IndianapolU Journal.
Youthful Lover A penny for your
thoughts, lphigcnla!
Mature Maiden Ton have guessed then right
Eddie. It was a pinafore 1 was thinking ot You
ought to wear one.-(7Aicaflro Tribune.
"Can I come into the game?" remarked
the McKlnley bill. -
f.o," yelled the chorus of objectors: "No yon
can't You'll raise everybody." WatMngPm
Star.
"Is red one of the complimentary colors?''
asked Trotter of his wife, who is something oran .
artist
No," replied Mrs. Trotter sharply: "red on afc
mau' nose Is a very uneomnllraeutary color, asSv
you ought to know very welt" Chicago Inter- '
Ocean. ., '
No one will know how many Indians Buf-
falo Bill has slain during tbe past two weeks un
til the circus advertisements are printed la the
1 spring. Sochtiter Democrat and Chronicle,
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