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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 1831.
OF NATIONAL SCOrE.
The ninth of the special articles on the
improvement of our internal water ways,
liuolished elsewhere, cives a comprehensive
view of the plan for furnishing this country
with adequate internal water ways. It is
important that this scientifically planned
fccbeme coincides almost precisely with what
The DisrATCH has pointed as proper ex
ienditure for the funds of the United States
Government before it undertakes the mis
tiouary labor of building ship canals in
foreign lands. This comprehensive plan
includes:
First The enlargement oT the Hudson
river and Eric canal route to the dimensions
of a ship canal.
Second The connection of Lake Erie
with the Ohio river by a ship canal, such as
is under consideration by the canal com
mission of this State. "
Third The connection of Lake Michigan
vith the Mississippi system, by the Heane
iin cinal or similar system st Chicago.
Fourth The improvement of the Missis
sippi and its tributaries giving 17,000 miles
of navigations for vessels of 20 feet draft;
U5.000 miles of 10 to 15 feet navigation; and
00,000 'miles of water-ways open to light
draft steamers and barges. The plan for
the improvement of these streams, which has
been developed in the preceding articles,
would, in addition to the wonderful ex
tension of transportation, reclaim waste
lands, prevent disastrous floods, and improve
the sanitary condition of the Mississippi
valley to an extent which would fully com
pensate for the expense.
This plan viewed in its entirety redupli
cates what The Dispatch has pointed ont
as practicable in the work of internal im
provement, with one exception. It is
possible to add to this plan a connection
from the headwaters of the Ohio to the
ocean, either by the Chesapeake and Ohio
route or by a more southern line, or both.
The presence or omission of this feature is,
of course, not vital to the importance of the
whole project, and can be lelt to depend on
the development of its engineering possi
bilities. Ou the other hand -the plan con
tains a further suggestion in the direction of
a link between the Missouri and Columbia
rivers, which would make the proposed
system of transportation an international as
well as an internal benefit.
The magnitude and importance of such a
project will be evident to every one who
takes time to gain a full comprehension of
it. It would practically bring the ad
vantages of cheap water transportation close
to every farm, mine, workshop and mer
cantile center in the land. It would com
pletely terminate the dangerous control of
commerce which is now illegitimately lodged
in the hands of the railway magnates, and
base the cost of industry and the price pf the
necessaries of life on the foundation of cheap
water transportation. Our contributor is
fully justified in saying that the importance
and desirability of this great work is be
yond dispute, and that the only debatable
questions are which portions of the work
should be first begun; how much can be
spent yearly, and what measures will secure
the greatest and most immediate results.
"When the possibilities of this plan of in
ternal improvement are fully comprehended
by the people there will be no doubt that the
demand will be universal for devoting the
Government funds to such work before
5100,000,000 of Government credit is sunk in
the swamps of Nicaragua.
THE SILVER POOL BUSINESS.
"While Senator Cameron has not yet
thought worth while to reply to the accusa
tion of complicity in the silver pool busi
ness, the witness before the investigating
committee yesterday, David T. Littler,
knocked the props from under the defense
which the Senator's friends seem disposed to
advance. It Mas claimed that Cameron
bought his silver alter he had voted for free
coinage, not before, so that there need have
been no necessary relation between his vote
and his pocket. But witness Littler dis
poses of this plea by bis testimony that he
purchased about $100,000 worth of silver for
Senator Cameron before the bill passed the
Senate.
Whatever criticisms have been visited
upon Cameron for his acquiescence, if not
p-irticipation, in slisdy political transac
tions in Pennsylvania, it was supposed
alike by his opponents and friends that he
was beyond the temptation of mixing his
finances with his votes. Until bis own ver
sion of the silver business is heard, those
who cling to the belief that, if not a brilliant
statesman, he was at least above suspicion of
gaining any private benefit from the meas
ures which came before him are entitled to
hold their judgment.
But at present the aflair lias a sinister
aspect It should help to kill the bill,
which in foolish and unpracticable at best.
It must also compel Cameron to explain
whether it was through density or design he
became implicated in the commercial aspect
of this wild legislation.
PROTECTION EKOM MONOPOLIES.
Both the revised Billingsley bill and the
bill to reduce the exorbitant telephone
charges which prevail through the State
will be attacked on the sole ground that it is
a wrong principle for the Legislature to set
an arbitrary price upon service or com
modities. This is the stock argument It
always comes up from monopolies which,
themselves, have long been arbitrary to the
extremest degree in imposing upon the peo
ple the utmost charges "the traffic will
bear." There is nothing in it at least, ab
solutely nothing m cases such as are now
before the Legislature.
These arc not instances in which the
ordinary laws of demand and supply have
any application. By artificial means a
free market is prevented in each in
stance. The oil producers have but
one buyer and carrier for their oil;
and those who want to use the telephone
must take it at the terms which a single
company dictates, or go without The most
that is asked from the Legislature is to act
as a fair arbitrator to fix a price which,
while giving reasonable profit to the monopo
lies, will check clear and undisguised ex
tortion. I? the public sympathize with
these bills, it is through no desire for in
justice or hardship to the companies. The
oil producers, at least the great bulk of sen
sible men engaged in the business, do not
want their oil carried or stored for nothing.
They would, no doubt, be very willing to
agree to charges which, upon examination
of the actual facts of the case, might be shown
to yield fair and even rich returns to the pine
lines upon all the aclual capital invested.
What they justly protest against and de
mand relief from is charges so grossly ex
orbitant that while creating immense, almost
fabulous, fortunes for their recipients, leave
the producers, who have all their means and
labor at stake, in a most reduced and im
poverished condition. So, too, no one wants
to rob the telephone company of liberal
dividends, but all may well insist tbatthere
must be some just and reasonable relation
between the cost of the service and the
charges for it Such does not now exist
In the exercise of arbitrary nowcrs attach
ing to their monopolistic privileges, the cor
porations now concerned have lost sight of
this principle, and it is very" well and alto
gether timely that legislative action should
bring them back to a sharp realization ot it.
The principle of the bills is unimpeachable.
A FANATICAL MURDER.
Another murder has been added to the
long list in Allegheny county, evidently the
work of a semi-lunatic. The act, attributed
to religious fanaticism, ana explained by the
murderer on the ground that be thought it
necessary to keep Satan out of the house
hold, is' likely to be considered by sane
people of superstitious inclination as
the work of Satan himself. It was a miser
ably cold-blooded crime, shooting a woman
iu the back. And while t,he criminal wili
be given all the benefit of probable mental
unsoundness, his own admission that be
never did get along well with his wife will
have some weight in deciding the responsi
bility. A PKAISEWOKTHT PLAGIARISM.
The discovery is mad- by a Bepublican
organ in Philadelphia that Governor Patti
son's inaugural ad J ss reproduces in great
measure ideas of his inaugural of 1883. The
opposition paper brought out the fact with a
parade of headlines charging him with
plagiarism. The unique spectacle presented
by charging a man with plagiarizing his
own ideas provokes another Bepublican
paper to make fun of the first, and intimate
that its discovery is of no importance.
We must disagree with the latter view.
It is an important thing that the Governor
stands just where he did eight years ago.
The point ou which the charge is made
against him of sticking to his principles is
his declaration that the Constitution should
be enforced against the corporations. It is
information of decided importance to the
people that the Governor maintains his old
position intact That is what the people
elected him for. They have appreciated
the fact that no intervening power
at Harrisburg has done anything to
assert the supremacy of 'the fundamental
law over the corporations. It may have
been feared that the changes in the Gov
ernor's cabinet might indicate a change in
his rigor and independence on this point It
is important and gratifying to learn that
the Governor reproduces his former attitude
on this point at the opening of his adminis
tration. If this is plagiarism, it is to be noted that
the policy of our Bepublican rulers in the
State is an equal plagiarism. They never
did anything before Pattison's first admin
istration to make the corporations obey the
Constitution and respect public rights, and
they have done nothing since. The old
theory that whatever policy the corporations
may adopt is to be accepted, no matter
whether it is in accordance with the law or
not, prevails now among the Bepublicans
who run State affairs to the same
extent that it did formerly. One is as
much plagiarism as the other; but there
is a vast moral gulf between stereotyped
service to corporations and stereotyped as
sertion ot popular rights.
It is to be hoped that Gov. Pattison will
go on "plagiarizing" from his first adminis
tration in every respect, with the exception
of getting to work to make the corporations
obey the Constitution a little earlier. That
is what he is there for.
FOOLING WITH THE FAIR,
The report oT the Candler Committee on
the Chicago Exposition is denounced by
some warm advocates of that enterprise as
an attempt to injure it As the report deals
with the extravagance in salaries, which is
wasting the Government appropriation, and
to that extent injuring the real enterprise,
impartial people will see the matter in quite
another light The real injury is done by
those who direct the Government funds
from the purposes of the Exposition; and the
attempt ot the Congressional Committee to
check such extravagance is a defense of the
.legitimate enterprise from the errors to use
no severer term of those in charge of it
The worst danger to tha Exposition comes
from those who should be guarding its in
terests. Its most aggravated form is shown
in the local determination of Chicago to
make the Fair the excuse and
means of creating new ground on
the Lake Front for the benefit of
the city. A recent editorial In tha
Tribune refers to the attempts of the
directors to make plans by which they can
extend ground six hundred feet into the
lake and use it for buildings. The Tribune
justly points out that if all the conflicting
interests involved in the disputed ownership
of the Lake Front could be harmonized at
once there is not time to do the work. At
present, when the buildings should be under
way, this determination to use time in filling
up the ground for the enrichment of the city
is not ah encouraging sign for the adequate
and complete arrangements.
It is now a year since it was practically
decided that the Columbian Fair should be
located at Chicago.- When we compare the
progress that should have been made with
what has actually been done, It is enough to
create decided apprehensions for the
enterprise. Even now the site question
has not yet been properly settled;
there is a remarkable absence of any ade
quate plans of the buildings; and for aetual
work in the line of putting up the structures
and preparing the ground the first spadeful
of earth is to be turned, according to an
nouncement on next Tuesday. The great
reason for this delay is the disposition in
Chicago to shape the work, not for the suc
cess of the Exposition, but for the enrich
ment of Chicago and her permanent adorn
ment Unless this tendency is sharply cor
rected, the pledges on which that city ob
tained the fair wilt be wholly unfilled.
The press of the country has the right to
speak plainly on this subject. While Chi
cago will profit mostly by tho fair in a pe
cuniary sense, it is an enterprise in which
the credit and good name of the entire na
tion is involved. If the Chicago people are
ready to go to work earnestly and with the
sole purpose of making the fair a great suc
cess, the rest of the nation will yield the en
terprise a hearty and liberal support But
if the work is to be done properly, Chicago
must make a radical departure from the
course which has prevailed during the past
year.
NOT BAD RESULTS.
The comments of The Dispatch the
other day on the value of expert testimony
against the Koch lymph, is replied to by the
Buffalo Express, which is one of the most
active anti-Koch newspapers of the country,
with the assertion: "That argument applies
as well to the expert testimony in favor of
Koch as to that against him."
Of course it does. It is for this reason that
The Dispatch has always insisted that the
full and decisive test of experience must be
awaited before concluding either that the
new discovery is specific for tuberculous dis
eases, or that it is not We do not regard
that the experiments have as yet gone far
enough to fully establish the character of
the lymph as a curative agent But wlten it
is asserted that the results of experience bear
out the dicta of experts against the lymph, it
is necessary to say that there is less founda
tion for that view than for the view thatiit
has valuable properties.
The Express supports the condemnatory
view, with the remark, "A remedy which
causes four deaths and only four cures out
of two hundred and eighty cases has very
little to recommend it" As there have
been over a thousand inoculations of the
lymph at Berlin, we suppose that thrse sta
tistics reproduced from Dr. "Virchow refer '
to the serious cases immediately under Dr.
Koch's treatment. Bat with that view the
results are far from unsatisfactory. Four
cures of diseases which would otherwise be
fatal may be a very good showing when we
reflect on the very large number in which it
is necessary to await results before it can be
said whetn....' they are cured or not, and the
still larger number who show great im
provement but are not yet cured. -But it is
in the other branch of the statistics that the
most significant assertion is' found. The in
oculations have been going on for three or
four months, and in that time out of 281
cases, presumably serious, four deaths are
reported. This is equivalent to au annual
death rate of 42 to the thousand, or is only
a little above the mortality of many of our
cities. If the lymph can reduce the mor
tality in a crowd of men suffering from
fatal diseases to that of a community in-ordinary
health it certainly has a great deal
to recommend it.
It will be well to await the full tests of
experience before trying to make any defi
nite estimate of the value of the new dis
covery. But some of the assaults on it are
of a character to raise our expectations of
important and demonstrated curative powers.
DOLLARS FOR TITLES.
Resentment may be felt against the ad
vertisement of a titled foreigner for an
American heiress. It is certainly1 anything
but a noble ambition for a scion of nobility.
But a calm, unprejudiced consideration
of the subject is apt to dispel
the resentment and bring the blush
of shame. It is a notorious tact that
American girls and the dollars of their dads
have been traded recklessly for European
titles, the counts not always being "ot un
tarnished reputation." There is about as
much to be ashamed of on one side as the
other iu a plain view of the case. The ad
vertising count's brutal way of putting the
matter may possibly lead to some reform.
have we a crrr charter?
The development at the hearing of the
test cases on the street acts of a legal theory
that the entire city Charter is unconstitu
tional, is carrying the principle of test cases
to a length which few people have contem
plated. The idea of the pending cases was
that they were amicable suits designed to
let the public and the city know where they
stand, but if the stunning point raised yes
terday is sustained.by the courts. It will but
deepen the general impression that we do
not know where we are, and the bewildered
city official can but exclaim with Silvus,
"Call you this amicable?"
The discussion of this surprising legal
contingency, so far as its legal aspects may
be reserved, to a time when we are less pro
foundly Impressed with the heights and
depths of the possibilities that it opens be
fore us if, indeed, we do not leave that
branch of the subject with fear and tremb
ling, to the inscrutable decrees of the
Supreme Court But the lay mind may
be pardoned if in view of the inroads which
legal talent has already made upon our
municipal status and the vista of nullified
municipal legislation which this striking
and sensational view opens before us,it could
breathe a faint wish that it were well out
of it Pittsburg has enjoyed more than the
usual adverse experience of getting its street
acts knocked into an inextricable jumble.
If it should be compelled to add to that ex
perience the sensation of having its munici
pal charter wiped out, the community
would be justified in giving itself over to
the despair of the old woman in the nursery
rhyme, and, wondering if the city of Pitts
burg is really the city of Pittsburg at all, or
an overgrown agglomeration ot unorganized
population.
Well, if the worst come to the worst it will
vindicate the foresight of Tub DisPATcn
in one particular. If the benoh and bar
combined should reduce Pittsburg to the
legal status of a township or two, it would
lend new and local value to the efforts
which have been .made to secure a law for
the improvement of country roads.
The movement to make test cases on all
possible phases ot street acts Is a good one. If
the Supreme Court will declare Itself as to
whether there are any pans ot the legislation
for street improvement that suit it, we may
be able to find ont where we stand.
Me. Sullivan refuses to fight his brother
In the profession of bruising, Mr. Slavln, and
declares, in addition, that he has permanently
retired1 from fisuo life, for the reason that
"there is too much money in the theatrical
business." This disposes of the bright hope
that Mr. Sullivan shied his caster into the dra
matio arena for the purpose of elevating the
stage. As to the box office view 6"f theatrical
success it ought to penetrate Mr. Sullivan's far
seeing interest that when he is no longer viewed
as a possible defender of the slugging cham
pionship, the box office receipts dependent on
his histrionic attractions may fall off.
It was high time for that notable and
adventurons speculator of the lobby to come
forward and tell what he knew about that
silver pool. The committee seems to be strik
ing what may be appropriately termed a rich
lode in this silver business.
It is noted by the Philadelphia Press that
the recent sleet ana snow storm in New Eng
land, broke down the overhead wire system in
the cities of that section. Our cotamporary
says: "Such an impressive lesson of the folly of
continuing the overhead wire system has not
been given in some time" We heartily indorse
our cotemporary's statement of the drawbacks
of tho overhead system; but the statement of
tact just quoted is an error. Exactly such an
impressive lesson of this folly and danger was
given in Pittsburg during the storms of last
month.
Among all the influences which are
.working in favor of the new bill to regulate
pipe line charges it is satisfactory to learn that
the public's old friend, Hon. W. H. Andrews,
is giving the measure the great advantage of
his Influence against it.
We observe that some of our esteemed co
temporaries are giving space to extended
editorial oomment on that story from North
Dakota, that the weather ont there has been
luxuriating in an eighty degree temperature,
that spring flowers are blooming and that the
people have been putting on their summer
clothes, agitating palm-leaf fans, and going on
picnics. This sbows an ignorance among the
commentators of the fact that Cot Pat Donan
is running a fake foundry out in that booming,
bnt breezy State.
If the lawyers and the Supreme Court
pull together hard enough they may not only
succeed in depriving our city of street improve
ment laws and charters, bnt they may even cre
ate a harrowing doubt whether we, have got
any streets.
The House fixed up its rules so as to
enable the Speaker to express his devout
gratitude that it was no loacer a deliberative
body; and the poople subsequently gave the
Democratic party a larger majority than it
ever had in that body. The Republican leaders
in the Senate seem to be anxious to have the
process repeated in that branch.
The announcement of Smith M. Weed
as New York's Democratic candidate for 1892,
reveals the sharpening of a knife in revenge
for the late Senatorial deal.
The promotion of Judge Acheson to be
Circuit Judge creates general satisfaction
among the members of the bar. The Judge's
fitness for the promotion is beyond dispute,
and there is the additional fact of interest to
our legal brethren that this appointment leaves
a vacancy on the district bench to be tilled.
In the multiplicity of plans as to what
shall be done with Indians, one course ot con
duct is imperative. We must stop lying to
them and cheating them.
When the Senate refuses an amendment
to the force bill to give both parties represents
tion among the election supervisors, It shows
the animus of that remarkable measure, by
that action as clearly as by the nnrepubllcan
provision making the principal office created
by the bill a life position.
If those test cases should turn out to be
destructive to our city charter we would be
out ot the frying pan into the fire.
TnE call for a ten per cent assessment ou
the $20,000,000 of that Mt Carmel air-ship cor
poration Indicates that a portion at least of
the promises for actual flying, are to be made
good. The projectors will make the money
fly whatever they do with the air-ships.
PBOMIHEHf PEOPLE.
Alfred Mace, a son of the retired English
pugilist, Jem Mace, is conducting a series of
gospel meetings in Indianapolis.
Joel Chandler Harris, James R. Ran
dall and Richard Malcolm Johnston are to be
editors of the new Southern magazine, which it
is proposed to start in Atlanta.
Mrs. Anna C. Fall, whose husband is also
a lawyer, has been admitted to the bar of Bos
ton, Mass. There are two other women law
yers In the city, Alice Parker and Leila Robin-son-Sawtelle.
Baron von Bleichboeskr, ihe famous
banker of Berlin, has an Income of 2,520,000
marks. He is thus the third man in the Em
pire in point of wealth, Herr Krupp, the gun
maker, being the first.
Robert Buchell, the new Mayor of Ox
ford, England, lived for many years in America
and became in that time thoroughly Amer
icanized. For sometime he resided in Terre
Haute, Ind., where he was successful in busi
ness. Herman Hollerith, the Inventor of the
electrical tabnlating-machine with which the
totals of the census of 1890 are being summed
up, is a statistician as well as an electrician,
and has made census work a special study for
several years.
General Geobqe Whichcote, who shares
with Lord Albemarle the honor of being all
that remains of Wellington's army which
fought at Waterloo in Jane, 1815, has just com
pleted his 96th year at Meridew, Coventry,
England.'-where be has long resided.
Dr. Albert Shaw, associate editor ot the
Minneapolis Tribune, is about to sever his con.
nection with tbat paper in order to assume the
editorship of the American edition of the He
view of Reviews, edited in London by Mr. W.
T. Stead, late of the Pall Mall Gazette. This
Is the publication backed by General Booth, of
the Salvation Army.
Too Much Excitement
Philadelphia Times.'
Anotber impending disaster from the slow
was things are moving in Washington is that
the public mind will not have time to get fairly
quieted down before the excitement and tur
moil of the coming baseball season is upon it
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Hon. David Emery.
I8PECIAL TILEQnlM TO TITB DISrATOH.l
TrrusvaLE, Jan. S3. Hon. David Emery died
at hla bome in this city this afternoon. He was a
large producer of petroleum, was State Repre
sentative in 1869, and formerly Mayor of the city.
He was a brother of Hon. Lewis Emery, who
stomped the State in the Interest or Paulson. The
city Is in-mourning.
William Hocking.
Piidmont.W. VA., Jan. 23 WlltlamHocklng,
an old and hlghly-respicted citizen of Piedmont,
diedTuesdav and was burled at Frostburg to-dav."
Sir. Hocking was one of the oldest mine superin
tendents In the Georges creek soal regions.
Henry L. Scott.
Henry L. Scott a clerk In the transfer office of
the Pennsylvania Ballroad Company, died early
yesterday morning st bis home In the Thirtieth
ward, ol pneumonia. He leaves a young wife and
child.
Cardinal Simor.
1STH. Jan. 23. Cardinal Simor. Archbishop of
(Iran and primate or Hungary, died at Grau to
day. Baron Schmidt, Architect
VliwitA, Jan. S3. -The death of Baron Schmidt,
the architect ls announced.
SNAPSHOTS IN 'SEASON.
Ir you leap before you look you will proba
bly fall into an error.
A mystical spot is the Land ot Nod, where
the sleepers go in dreams and the tired go for
rest. Of course you dream. But do yon remember
your dreams? Not a visionary, misty remem
brance, but a remembrance tbat deals with de
tails, bringing along with it out of the fairyland
between the darkness and the dawn a plain
picture of the scene reprodnces the words
spoken, plays over the musical numbers again,
sings the same songs. Perhaps some have been
fortunate in this regard, are constructed on
grand psychophysical lines, and revel in
the beauties of Dreamland while enjoying the
realities of wakefulness. But most of us feel
that the psychic force leaves when the lids
drawn over the windows of the soul are lifted.
Did you ever lie down among the flowers be
side a silvery stream and read a story written
by an author you never beard of, or hear a song
by a sweet singer which was set to music by a
composer whose name was never attached to
any score t And can you follow the thread of
the narrative or reproduce the melody 7 No.
For it yon could the world would bo reading
newer and purer volumes, the singers would be
singing more harmonious songs. I read among
the flowers recently. What I read, there is but
'a shadowy, shimmering dream here, full of
jerky sentences, unmetrical lines, fading words.
Memory only holds a blurred page, a misty
picture. But this I do remember: When the
narrative was most interesting, when the
melody was sweetest, I plucked arose leaf for
a bookmark, placed it on the page and shut the
volume. I rubbed my eyes and reached for it
in the dark, and then realized that it was all a
dream. The thread of the story only united
Here with There. The chord was lost, the
spell was broken, the book was closed. Only
the scent of the flowers, the shimmer of the
stream, the faint voice of tho singer lingers.
But dreams will come again. On the sea of
night we will sail to other shores, never touch
ing the same port twice, never hearing the
same song sung, never reading the same story
over again. Between the pages of the closed
volume the rose leaf will lie and wither and
die, but no breath will ever blow its dust off
the leaves, for no eye will aver gaze into that
book again.
Why are theatrical managers like prize
fighters? Because they live on box receipts.
The force bill organs now call Ingalls a de
s erter. They will now proceed to grind him up.
Inebriates make poor sailors, because they
are afraid of water.
The circus at Harrisburg is well billed, at all
events.
There are no commanding features about
the homely woman.
The cloture rule that will be applied to Con
gress on the 4th of March will undoubtedly be
indorsed by the people.
The American bog is causing nearly as much
trouble in Germany now as the row over the
Rhine did a few years ago.
Summer's Bride.
Soon winter will go,
And the sun will shine.
Then the buds will grbw
Upon tree and vine.
The flowers will bloom.
Little birds will sing,
And In Nature's loom
" Will be" woven Spring.
The weaver will ply
With skillful hand.
Bis woof from the sky.
His warp from the land.
On a carpet green
Spring will softly tread,
Recline like a queen
On aflow'ry bed.
Then on wings of Time
Spring will swiftly glide
To a happier clime.
And be Summer's bride.
Why are colts like rich men's sons? Because
laej.wou kjrui& uutJi iudjt sua vru&u. ,
If you forge a check you will be forced to
wear a check.
Concessional fruit Pairs.
It has been fully demonstrated in the New
York Surrogate Court that Robert Ray Hamil
ton married a Mann. '
When small people fall in love they Increase
their sighs.
When a point of order is raised in Congress
the proceedings become disorderly.
The young lady who powders her face feels
puffed up.
The late election in Pennsylvania developed
some very unique statesmen, and peculiar laws
are sure to follow.
When is the ocean like a band of lawbreak
ers? When it is full of White Caps.
People who are all the while asking for ad
vice are merely begging a living.
When woman chooses man's vocation man
can take a vacation.
HOPE1TL folk never drag their anchors un
der adverse winds or turning tides.
Where Will It End?
Here's a bow-de-do,
A municipal stew.
Bold Lawyer J. MeCleava
Would have us all believe
That our city laws
Are f ul ot legal flaws;
That our charter violates
What the Constitution states.
Here's a pretty mix
In city politics.
Will some one in the land
' Please tell us where we stand 7
We can walk in mud.
But there will be a thud
If the charter's full of flaws.
It we haven't any laws.
If they keep turning on the light
We will soon be out of sight)
.WHY is Philadelphia like a doe after a po
liceman gives it a button? Because it's dead.
The lawyer has opinions for sale, but soma
people persistently ignore this fact.
Weavers can always tell a good yarn.
Why does a man In a leaky boat act like a
person under arrest? Because he hunts ball.
Ir Fow's "bine law" amendments go through
tha Legislature a few of the individuals who
have been living off the sins of our fathers will
feel very blue.
The gamblers will call "Old Hutch" a good
quitter. He played the speculative game until
be dropped 519.000,000. Quite a drop In the
bucket shop.
Why Is marriage like a Are? Because it fol
lows a spark.
A great many "buttes" and any number of
"its" figure in the Indian trouble.
John Brown has been posted as a swindler
in Germany. He will lead the Teutons' a lively
chase, for be Is very numerous.
Thought cannot be publicly presented until
it is properly clothed In language.
Wslika mysteries, and that's why life is so
interesting.
IF the Granger statesmen turn on -the light
soma of them will blow out the gas and deci
mate the ranks.
Statesmen would be "worth more if tbey
adopted the idea that reforms should begin
at home.
A thief is not necessarily lazy, but ha pre-'
fers to take things easy. ,-I
Jay Gould and Rockafellar possess a fine
collection of portraits of American celebrities.
They aia engraved on bank note paper.
A slim man with a fat purse can have bis
pick of tha girls nowadays.
When U a tramp a joker? When he raises a
smile.
The world owes the ministers a living, and
the congregations carry out the contract.
An Allegheny woman becomes deathly sick
when she bears "Annie Rooney." It's the first
case on record where music has acted as an
emetic, and the doctors have made a note of it.
Mills' middle name is Quarles. He is quar
relsome, too. Willie Winkle.
WORLDS IN STAB LANS.
The Awf nl Immensity of Space Illustrated la
a Lecture.
Sir Robert Ball, Astronomer Royal of Eng
land, recently delivered a lecture on the sub
ject. '!The Other Worlds In Star Land," to a
juvenile audience In the theater of the Royal
Dublin Society. In the course of his address he
said: Were an electric wlre wrapped seven or
eight times ax a girdle around this globe, the
current would accomplish seven or eieht
circuits in the Interval between two ticks of the
pendulum of 4 clock. But now let us suppose
that a telegraphic system is abont to be in
stituted throughout the universe; let wires
radiate from this earth, not alone to America or
China, but let us imagine a wire from the earth
to the moon, from the earth to tho sun, and
from the earth to some of the stars.
The moon Is still so near us that the tele
graphic message to our satellite would seem to
pass almost instantaneously; it would not re
quire much more than a single second of time.
To the sun, however, the delay would ba some
what greater; in fact, you would have to wait
nearly eight minutes. A message could not be
sent to the sun and an answer received back in
less than a quarter of hour, in addition to de
lays of the ordinary kind. Bat now suppose
that wa a re to send a message to one of the
nearest of the stars.
As the telegraph clerk made the signal it
would speed alone tha celestial wire with the
frightful pace of 200,000 miles a second; bnt yet.
such is the journey, tbat minutes and hours,
aye, and even days and weeks, will pass- away,
and the message has not reached the goal. The
weeks rise into months, the months spread into
a year, but two years, nay, even three years,
will be necessary before that sicnal arrives at
its destination. Such would be the problem of
telegraphing to the nearest star. But there are
stars In the sky to which tha telegraph, travel
ing with this almost inconceivable speed, conld
not convey its message until after the lapse of
50 years and of 100 years.
There are stars so distant tbat were a tele
graphic message sent to them at the time when
William the Conqueror landed 800 years ago
tho message would not have yet arrived. There
are stars so distant that if the glad tidings of
tbat first Christmas at Bethlehem 1,890 years
ago had been wired off at the time, the message
would still ba on its way. There are stars so
distant tbat bad the first man that ever set
foot on this globe dispatched a telegraphic
message to announce hl3 advent, the intelli
gence would not have yet reached its destina
tion. There are certainlv stars shining In tbat
heaven above us so distant that much-vaunted
telegram would require a million years to com
municate with them. Do you hesitate to ac
cept these facts that I have described? Then
know that the astronomers on whose authority
they are based are those who have devoted
their lives to the study ot the stars, and tbey
have only had one object in the pursuit tbey
hava followed, and that Is the discovery of tha
trutb.
OTJBS BY EIGHT.
The Petroleum Business Has Come Again
to Its Natural Center.
Harrisburg Call.
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, is forging
rapidly to the front as one of the greatest oil
producing counties in the State. "Wild wood is
the name of Jha newest field, and its daily pro
duction is constantly growing, from the number
of fresh wells tbat are being added to the list.
Natural advantages made Pittsburg a leading
center for tho opening and distribution of tb;
best illuminant God ever gave to man in 1861
and 'on, but corporate and individual greed
since tnen directed the trade to Cleveland, O.,
and the city of New York.
In the early days of the business, territory in
close proximity and along Oil creek fed the re
fineries, and the Smoky City was the busiest of
oil centers. New York City and Cleveland, by
the aid of corporate partiality and rank dis
crimination, drove the trade awav. Natuie has
again asserted itself, and in defiance of all the
injustice that has prevailed, Pittsburgh again
favored by the golden-hued old dame knocking
at the commercial door. Will tha latch string
be out? or will she get the cold shoulder? arp
the inquiries that suggest themselves by the
favorable condition of things. There aro
millions of dollars to be made or lost by the de
cision of the enterprising people at the other
end of the State.
THE HOLY CHILDHOOD.
A Work of Rescuing Thousands of Children
From Abominably Inhuman Treatment.
A writer iu the Wexford, Iielaud, Inde
pendent says: All are already aware tbat "The
Holy Childhood" has tor its object the sansom
and the Christian Catholic education of chil
dren born of infidel parents in China and other
Pagan countries. In China a vast number of
deformed children and of those belonging to
poor families are thrown upon the roads.
Every morning, especially at Fekin, the chil
dren who wero exposed during the night are
gathered in the dust carts and thrown into a
ditcb, where tbey are left uncovered. In the
hope tbat a Mahometan when passing by may
take some of them away.
But before the carts arrive to remove them
.from the roads, it too often bapppns tbat the
dogs and even the pigs which abound in the
streets of Chinese towns, devour these still liv
ing children. In tha city of Peklnalonc, in the
course of three years, 9,712 inlants were des
tined for the sawers, and this without speaking
of those who had been crashed nnder the feet
of horses or mules, or of those who were
stifled at their birtb, or of thoso devoured oy
dozs or of those Rrhom the Mahometans bad
carried away. 'The Holy Childhood" procures
for these little creatures tbe life of both soul
and body. Every year it baptizes on an average
more than 400,000 children.
AN OLD LAWSUIT.
A Litigation That Has 'Dragged Its Weary
Length for Twenty-Five) Years.
New Yobe", Jan. 23. A drunken engineer
on the steamer H. S. Hogar, over 25 years ago,
precipitated a lawsuit which is still in tbe
courts. Think of a litigation a quarter of a
century old and still undecided. Tbe interest
on the amount originally involved now
amounts to more than the principal, and tha
costs must make a very large figure.
Through tbe alleged drunkenness of tbe en
gineer the steamer did not reach New Or
leans, in 1865, in time to take a cargo ot cotton
for which H. B. Cromwell & Co. had con
tracted. The firm sued William H. Slater and
tbe other awners of tha steamer for the sum
advanced qn the contract and for the loss in
Sroflts by reason of the failure to get the cargo.
he suit, which has been decided one way or
tbe other two or three times, is now engaging
the attention of tbe United States Circuit
Court in this city.
sib. curiD
Sir Cupid once, as I hare heard.
Determined to discover
What kind of man a maid preferred
Selecting for a lover.
So. putting on a soldier's coat.
He talked of martial glory;
And from the way he talked, they say,
She seemed to like the story!
Then, with a smile sedate and grim,
He changed his style and station.
In shovel hat and gaiters trim.
He made bis visitation.
He talked ot this, discoursed on that,
Of Palestine and Hcrmou:
And from the way be preached, they say,
bhe seemed to like the sermon I
Then changed again, ba came to her
A roaring, rattling sailor,
Heerled, "To ho! Hove you sol'
And vowed be'd never tall her.
He talked of star and compass true.
The glories of the ocean,
Andfromthewayhesang. they say,"
She seemed to llko-thc notion!
Then Cupid, pnziled in bis mind.
Discarded his disguises:
That vou no preference seem to find.
Sly fancy much surprise."
'Why so?" she cried, with roguish smile,
"Why, prithee, why so stupid?
1 do not care what garb you wear.
Bo long as you are Cupid I"
trederick H. Weathertey in Tangle Bar.
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
When Will tlio Wires Bo Barled?
"Abont a year ago somebody in authority,
could It have been .Mr. Bigelowf said a Lib
erty street merchant yesterday, "announced
with solemnity that within a year all the over
head wires should go under ground. I bad
really forgotten all about the matter, although
the wires are so thick in front of my store that
tbe sunlight even finds It difficult to squeeze
tbrongb them, till a man with an axe came
aronnd to-day and chopped down a telegraph
pole which adorns the curb before my door.
Ah I' said I to myself, tbe mills of the gods
grind slow, bnt they are sure.' But I cbnckled
too soon. Presently in tbe place ot the, polo
cat down a taller and a thicker one was set up
with more cross-bars than the former had.
Could there be more painfully convincing evi
dence tbat the telegraph company does not put
much faith in prophecies, official or otherwise,
of burled wires? The liet-work of wires ob
structed the firemen a great deal at the last
big flre on Liberty street, but if things go on as
tbey are going tbe fire department won't ba
able to get at tbe average down-town store' or
warehouse at all when flre breaks out. Just
for fan I ask: 'When are the wires to ba
burled?"
Troubadours, Ahoy!
"Wouldn't It be a good idea to reorganize
the Troubadours?" said a clubman to mejyes
terday. "If I knew what tha Tronbadours were I
could better say."
"Haven't you beard of the Troubadours?
Ten or twelve years ago they were the talk of
the town. They were young V lttsburgers of
musical tastes, who organized for tbe amuse
ment of themselves and society at large and
succeeded amazingly well. Among those who
lent their voices and their comic powers to the
project were Ed Jackman, Frank Dorman,
Thomas McCook, James Scully, Lou Love,
John Earle, Clarence s Schmertz. Harry
Schweitzer. Harry Patton and Harry Hagan.
There were a score of them or mora altogether,
and they gave two or three concerts for charity
at Old Library Hall. AH society went wild
about them, and tbe concerts were really very
entertaining. Some capital voices and two or
three comedians of ability were discovered.
Tbey varied the proeramme now and then for
instance, Harry Hagan and a squad from tha
Duquesne Grays covered themselves with
glory in a drill they gave.
"Now, I don't see why the Troubadours
shouldn't get togetheragalnintbeiroldage.so to
speak they're mostly.cblckens still and wake
up the town with a concert for some good char
itysay tha Newsboys' Home. Nearly all the
Troubadours still are with us, and I understand
that some of them have been talking of reor
ganizing just for the fun of the thinz."
A Phenomenal Gas Well.
A few days ago in this column attention was
called to the pleasant and unusual spectacle of
a natural gas company that had succeeded in
getting through tha winter without earning the
ill-will of Its customers, and some statements
were made in the same connection concerning
the secret of this tbe Ohio Valley company's
good service. Tbe statement of the Ohio
Valley Company's resources, which was ob
tained in tbe first place from its president, Mr.
Ezra F. Young, has since been verified in every
particular, save one, by tbe writer.
It was said that the company possessed a well
of phenomenal productiveness, which showed
tho same pressure to-day that it did when it
first came in. This, tbe statement as to tha
pressure, was an error of the writer. Tbe well
which is on the Anderson farm is a wonderful
producer, and Us pressure has been maintained
toadegreo very seldom met with. lam in
formed that the well showed an initial pressure
of 600 nounds and to-day still snows a pressure
of over 250 pounds.
A New Union Station.
Visitors to tbe city are wont to complain that
the neighborhood of the Union Depot is melan
choly and out of tune with the handsome
streets they find on penetratlne theheart of the
city. Even wa who live here are not inclined
to point to tbe territory named with any over
whelming amount ot pride. There are not so
many eye-sores as there used to ba iu tha
shadow of tbe big station. Tbe cro:gerie3 and
low doggeries have been cleared away and some
fine buildings have risen in their place. But
stall the property is not improved to the extent
its situation seems to warrant.
A railroad officer unofficially gave an ex
planation of this phenomenon the other day.
Said he: "Thero would ba a struggle to sea
who could first put up a big hotel of the finest
kind close to tbe Union Station, if satisfactory
assurrance of the permanence of tbe latter
in its present position could be given. Trades
men would scramble in the sama way to erect
first class stores abutting upon all tha ap
proaches if they were not afraid tbat the sta
tion Is not destined to stay long where it Is. I
think tbe doubtful factor in the premises ac
counts for the absence here of the usual at
tractive surroundings of a great passenjer rail
road station.?'
"Bat are these doubts well founded?"
"Yes, Ibellevotheyare. Tho Pennsylvania
Railroad and the allied lines in the Pennsyl
vania Company some day how close or distant
that day may be only a very few of tha highest
officers in these companies know will have an
elevated terminus at Seventh avenue There
is nothing to prevent the railroads irom erect
ing a splendid passenger station on tbe ground
now given up to freight yards along
New Grant street to Seventh avenue.
Perhaps there is some idea of carrying
the elevated tracks to a terminus at Fifth ave
nne,but tbat is not so likely. For my own
part I am confident that in a few years Pitts
burg will have a Union station not more than
two blocks from, tbe city's center. The grade
crossings in both cities will have to so; the
Pennsylvania's managers are convinced of this.
The Pennsylvania Central and the Pennsyl
vania company will act in concert in this move
ment and the new Union station is a part of
any plans of course that bring all tha roads into
the city above grade. Tbe improvement of
property adjacent to the new station will fol
low." Electric Cars Give Them Bad Dreams.
APittsburgerwhowas in Philadelphia tha
other day says tbat the good peace-loving peo
ple of tbe Quaker City are In a dreadlnl state
of mind over tbe proposed introduction of elec
tric street cars. Plenty of Philadelphlans are
seriously alarmed at tho prospect of the elec
tric' trolly system being established in their
streets. Petitions against the new street rail
roads are being passed around and are receiv
ing lots of signatures.
Some of them asked tbe Pittsburger if he did
not agree with them that the overhead wire
and trolly system was likely to ba dangerous,
and he replied: "No, I can't say tbat I do.
My experience with the electric cars of this
sort in Pittsburg is that they are safe and a
great convenience. Pittsburgers will walk two
or three blocks to get an electric car in prefer
ence to taking a horsecar. As to fatal effects,
no human being has been killed by tbe street
railroads' electric current In Pittsburg or Alle
gheny, and the killing of one or two horses can
hardly be sufficient ground for tbe condemna
tion of so satisfactory a means of rapid transit."
But Philadelphia, to tie sure. Is not Pitts
bare, and electric cars maybe harmful to tha
Quakers' nerves, if not to their lives. There is
still a mule line or two about Pittsburg tbat
Philadelphia is perfectly welcome to. It would
be mutually advantageous to tbe mules and
Philadelphia if tbey could be brought together.
Bare Enough tor Bemark.
Fhlladelpuia Bullctln.J
That corporations are heartless is popularly
retarded as an axiom, but wbat about tbe casa
ofConductor Klrkbndge, ot the Pennsylvania
Railroad's Amboy division? He lost his right
band while coupling cars a short time ago, and
the company has given him $5,000 in cash, with
a promise of a clerical position as soon as ha
has teamed to write with bis left hand. This
looks as if one company, at least, had soma
consideration for its employes.
A Friend of the School Marms.
Savannah News.:
With nothing but powder and soldiers to face,
the Indians were obdurate and defiant But
when assailed by the smiles of tba Boston
schoolmarms they Incontinently surrendered.
Instructive Results.
Klchmond Index Apptal.l
It is a noteworthy fact tbat thns far nono ot
the Republican Senators opposed to tbe force
bill has failed ot re-election.
Common Ownership of Land.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Perhaps the Stoax Indian refrains from farm
ing because somebody has given him a tip on
farm mortgages.
CDEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.-
Seven staters were recently drowned in
Lake Constance, Switzerland, by tha breaking
ot tba ice crust.
A lady's nose has been rebuilt from the)
ribs of a cat. Transfers of one living organism
to anotber have become quite common.
Baltimore had an imposing celebration ,
of General Lee's birthday, and Richmond's dls- '
play and ceremonials were magnificently im
pressive. A committee, of which Herr Joachim,
the violinist, is tbe bead, has been formed in
Berlin for the erection of a monumemt to Mo
zart in Berlin.
Seward Clayton died January 6 at his
home near Clayton. Ga. be was bom October
6. 1799. He raised a large and' respected family.
Each of bis suns, four in number, were 6 feet 3
inches in helsbt.
Ihe bitter cold of tbe present winter has
been bad for trade In Paris as it has been in
London. Tbe toy venders who own the booths,
or baraques, annually erected on the boule
vards, have suffered terribly from slackness ot
trade.
Oranse trees in full bearing are as num
erous as ordinary shade trees in tbe streets
of some inland Florida cities and towns. It is
a common sight just now to see the sidewalks
lined with trees welt loaded with tba golden
fru't. which nobody take's tba trouble to
pluck.
A horse treadmill, grinding sugar-caua
and pressing out tha juice for sale to passers
by ls an odd feature of tbe wayside in Tampa
and one or two other Southern cities. Tba
liquid sells for a nickel a glass, and many peopla
like it. It tastes insipid and sickish sweet to a
Northern palate.
Bert Bliss, 19 years old, white skating
on tba river at Des Moines last week, broke
through the ice and would have drowned bat
tor tbe bravery of a young comrade named
Brewer, who uivea into the freezing waters and
brought to the surface tbe nnconscious body
of his companion.
Maude Deneau, 21 years old and less
than four feet high, was married at Lockport,
N. Y.. to John Argue, a tall, slender young
man, last week. Tha marriage is also chronicled
at Louisville, KyM ot Polly Ann Collins, 12
years and 3 months old, to Jesse Donahue, a
widower, 33 years old, Polly's parents con
senting. Bar Harbor, Me., people are astonished
to find that a young fellow who always passed
as a dude down there, because ha manicured
bis finger nails, has turned up as a bold Indian
fighter in the Bad Lands. In the meantime, it
seems, he has been cultivating his courage by
eloping with an heiress and braving the heels
of tbe bronco of the plains.
The latest fad among equestriennes is to
ride one day to the left side, the next to the right.
Since Mrs. Jencess-Miller sounded a trumpet
and informed women tbey were in danger
of growinz lopsided by not riding man fashion,
there bas been mnch anxiety felt over the sit
uation of affairs. The physicians and the for
eign barons who run our riding academies hava
evolved this panacea for onesidedness.
The Suwanee Canal Company, which,
recently purchased tbe Okefenokee Swamp
from tbe State of Georcia for S63.0U0. was
organized at New York Saturday. The com
pany will issue So.000.000 in stocks and bond3.
Captain Harry Jackson was elected President,
and all the other members of tha company were
retained. The property is considered very
valuable. The contract for tho canal to drain
tho swamp into the St. Mary's river will soon ba
made.
In the park surrounding the old Stata
Capitol at Richmond is a larga colony of cray
squirrels. Many of tha large trees have cov
ered boxes among tba branches, which tba
squirrels nest in, and where they hoard their
food. The little fellows are as tame as kittens.
A visiter has but to stop on the walk, bold out
his hand and whistle, and a squirrel will run to
him fearlessly and search bis palm for a nut or
other tidbit. Self-closinc gates at all tbe en
trances keep out dogs, so tbat tha squirrels
flourish unmolested.
Philip Seibert was married in Ohio, at
tbe close of the war, to the girl who waited for
her soldier's return. In 1863 they were divorced,
Seibert going to California and she to Wiscon
sin, where she again married. Seibert also
married in California. He was widowed a few
years ago and started back east with bis son.
and by the merest accident met his first love
and they were again jnarned, she having been
a widow a number of years, left with a mar
riageable daughter, with whom youngSeibert
fell In love, and Christmas tbey were married.
The question now arises as to how the t vo fam
ilies are related to each other.
A company of wealtby men has been '
formed to open In St. Petersburg a "living
ethnological exhibition." Living specimens of
the various races and tribes that populate tha
dominions of tha czar will be collected for
sbow, together with samples of their dwellings
and the appointment of their houses, their
shrines of worship, their garments, the food
they live on, the products ot their peculiar in
dustries, and even their manners and habits of
life, it possible. Should this exhibition be suc
cessful, it will be carried about to all tbe im
portant cities of tbe empire. Tbe American
show of the "Wild West," in Moscow and St.
Petersburg last summer, gave rise to the plan
of this undertaking.
A new band of religious cranks has
made its appearance in Saxony. Tbe band is
composed of men and women recognizing a
community of goods and living generally like
people possessed. They hold prayer meetings
after dark. Tbe men pray and expound and
tba women indulge in manifestations of hys
terics. A man named Hans Wurzel, who was
at one time an honest and fairly reasonable
bricklayer, ls tha leader of tbe band. He claims
to bava succeeded Moses, and be is now in tbe
Zurckan jail, with 17 of his followers, on the
charge of rioting. Tba act of riot was a de
mand on the jailers for tba opening of the
prison doors.
They have snases in Florida. Tbey are
not mentioned in tbe real estate advertisements,
but tbey go with the real estate just the same,
and likewise with tho water. A youngman who
bad gone down tbere to escape any cool weath
er that may strike here this winter was out
boating on tbe St. John's river with a friend on
a recent evening, and, seeing a little tributary
coming into tbe main stream beneath a pict
uresque aisle of cypresses, they decided to ex
plore it. They had rowed but a short distance
whan the creek narrowed so tbat there was
barely room to propel tbe boat, and none to
turn. it. and an undergrowth of bushes bung
so low as to almost touch their face. A peculiar
rustling caused them to ship their oars and
listen. The noise was overhead. It was made
b v snakes. They nad got into a regular nest of
serpents. The banks were aliva with them; the
undergrowth was festooned with them; they
wero crawling and squirming on every hand;
they were dansline close to their heads; they
were wrigcling tbrongb tho water long snakes,
short snates, harmless snakes, poisonous
snakes, fat suake, lean snakes, ugly snakes,
lazy snakes an arbor ot materialized delirium
tremens. Tbe two oarsmen glanced at each
other for a second, then bending low and
movln" cautiously, they rowed their boat, stern
foremost, back to the St- John's river. Until
they reached tha more open water neither ot
them spoke, and they bava no recollection of
breathing. They do not row there any more.
BITS OF HUMOR.
Appearances induce the belief tbat tha
ghost dancing bas been transferred from the West
to the East-from the Bad Lands of Dakota to the
Bad House or representatives at Washington.
OH City Mizzara.
The political complications in the Nutmeg
State are grating on the iensiDllities of bones
men. Sev Orleans Seta Delta.
Mr. Jay Miss Gay O Carolinel marl. '
hope? do you care forme? ,
Miss Gay I cannot say that I am lndlfierent to
you, Mr, Jay.
Mr. Jay-O darling! don't speak tome like that!
say that you are crazy about me. Puck,
The standard military pace is two and '
halfreet. On a double-quick retreat It Is more
tea Orleans Picayune.
In ancient times the desperate bullies be
came kings, and there was no chance for the light
welgbt. Tbe pistol and party politics bava dona
much for the llghtwe!ght.-JJatoi, Tex., Sews.
"Well," said Mrs. McGadley, after her
visit to a notablo social event, "I have beard
about society people showing each other the cold
shoulder, but from tbe way some that I saw were
dressed I doa't wonder at their shoulders being
chilly." Washington Post.
From the prominent part the navy seems
to nave In tbe Chilean revolution It looks as If
they would sea it through, Neio Xork Evening
World.
"Demi-train," he exclaimed as be stepped
on it and fell over it in two or three places.
"ButitUn't," she said, unconscious of bis pro- .
faultr.and prourtly.for it was her first long gown. '
Washington Star.
Chorus of Boston Girls Tell us all abont
your new frocks, t'allas!
Pallas (with dlgn!ty)-AU I can say ot them, .
young ladles, can be adequately expressed lu'
few words. Tbey are beyond the range of vUloa,' '
-StxoXoTk Herald, v " t,
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