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POSTAGE AH persons who mail the Sunday Issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear in mind the fact that the post age thereon is Two (2) Cents. All double and triple number copies ot The Dispatch require a 3-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, FEB. 1, 1S3L VALUES OF LOCAL FARM LANDS. "When 'William L. Scott sounded the key note of Cleveland's disastrous anti-tariff campaign by bis famous speech'against the Carnegie industries, he was almost hyster ical over the damage these protected indus tries -wrought upon the farming interests. The Dispatch then undertook to show the other side of the situation. It insisted that the greatest boon which could belall a farm ing district was the establishment of manu facturing concerns in its neighborhood. To offset Mr. Scott's hyperbole, which de scribed a farmer on the high road to the poorhouse, its reporters traveled the county of Allegheny and part of "Westmoreland to discover the actual condition of the agri cultural classes. It is needless to say none were fonnd in the poorhouse who had been farmers in "Western Pennsylvania, but that, on the contrary, for many miles around there were ex-farmers whose lands had be come so valuable by the creation of manu facturing plants in their vicinity that they no longer needed to follow he plow or dis tress themselves over the dry or rainy sea son. v A curious further illustration is now at hand. The city of Pittsburg was itself in the farming business. It had a Poor Farm up the Monongahela which it bought at a lew hundred dollars or less per acre, and by reason ot the growth of the same Carnegie industry was able last summer to sell at a few thousands per acre. Reeding new quarters, it advertised the other day for an other farm, and r.s the scope of competition was wide, it is interesting to note the bids. They rnn up from $300 to as high as 600 per acre. This shows how valuable farmers' lands become when they have a good home market for their products. In a limited way it is an evidence that the best thing which can befall any section of the country is to have home consumers for the products of the farm. But while these figures illuminate most agreeably the obverse of the dark picture which Mr. Scott painted, they should have a different significance for the city authori ties. We are scarcely so optimistic as to believe that, even with Chief Elliot's best knowledge of the gentle art of husbandry, wheat or corn can be grown upon eTen a three hundred dollar per acre tract as cheaply as it can be produced and afterward bought from the cheaper grounds of the Northwest, where climate, peculiar fertility of the soil and other circumstances of special adaptation incontestably exist. To get back good interest from the high-priced lands of Allegheny county the most profit able use of them would be in the line of market gardening, or the production of such other specialties as best meet local demand. In this view we agree with the idea of Mayor Gour ley, that in place of spreading out over half or a quarter of a township for a Poor Farm the most economical results will be obtained from a tract not exceeding say 100 acres. This would save a great deal on the city's investment. It would also direct attention to the forms of cultivation which yield most productively in money. Councils and Charity Department have the matter as yet wholly in their hands. "We trust they will act wisely about it. FACTS IN THE INDIAN QUESTION. Another chapter is added to the history of a national crime by a well-known corre spondent wno was at Pine Eidge throughout the late Indian trouble. Some of his con clusions are undeniable. The policy of keeping tbe Indian idleis most reprehensible. It is the old proverb about the evil one find ing work for idle hands to do. Reform is necessary. The Government owes this duty to humanity. "Workshops and skilled work men for teachers would be vastly cheaper than soldiers and fighting. But on another point the correspondent may be reasonably held in fault. No doubt the delay in bring ing the Indians in was aggravating and their depredations provocative ot righteous indignation on the part of persons present upon the scene. Still, it was the humane way and can hardly lead to any more harm, at worst, than an attack and general slaugh ter would have been. It is not a lesson of Tengeance the Indian needs so much as a lesson in merciful justice. MIL WANAMAKER'S IDEAL. The programme which Postmaster General "Wanamaker outlines in an interview else where, for the improvement of the postal service, is interesting. It shows that an energetic business man who has been trained to the work of seeking all methods by which he can improve commercial ser vices will, when transferred to public ad ministration, carry tho same qualities far beyond what is possible for any political mind. That Mr. Wanamaker during bis incumbency can realize one-tenth of tho reforms which he outlines, is not to be ex pected ; but the statement of what he regards as possible will be a valuable guide for the future. The most prominent of Mr. Wana maker's improvements are the postal tele graph and postal savings banks. These projects have been so much discussed that no 'comment on his presentation of them is called for here. But it is worth while to note that the minor features which the Postmaster General would introduce combine to form an aggregate change greater than either the postal telegraph or the postal savings bank. He recognizes plainly that such a postal service as he would establish cannot be realized, except by taking the postoffices out of politics. He proposes to do that by putting its actual management into the hands of a permanent secretary of the department, by a fixed tenure for em ployes of the postoffices, and by requiring previous service for appointments in the railway mail service or PostofHce Depart ment. With the changes which that im plies, ot permanently removing the postal service from the spoils of political campaigns, it might be possible to realize Mr. Wana maker's plan not only of postal savings banks and telegraphs within walking dis tance of every home; but a building costing 510,000 or upward for every office where the rental is 500 per year or more, of postoffices connected with their branches by pneumatio tubes, and telephones; of organization into postal districts, and of a free delivery from all except the very smallest offices. "We are a long way off from the realization of this ideal. But it is useful to study it, as something which might be reached by re ducing our governmental system to the basis of actual business efficiency. BISHOP NEWMAN ON "WEALTH. The Kev. John P. Newman contributes to our list of special articles a disquisition on the divinity of riches. Though enumerating some general and important truths, this ar ticle fails to recognize the real causes of dis content at the accumulation of vast fortunes. This is not inconsistent with Bishop New man's character; but it is hardly possible to pass such an exploitation of the nobility of wealth without pointing out what is the foundation of truth in it. It may be presumptuous to dispute with a divine of Bishop Newman's standing the ac curacy of his assertion that wealth is ob tained by a God-given faculty, and the acquisition and management of it "the noblest of missions." But the Bishop does not number among the articles of his de nominational theology the right to render ez cathedra judgments on social topics. It is therefore possible to compare his asser tions with the utterances of the Founder of the religion which he professes. "When we find there such commands to the disciples of Christianity as "Lay not up treasure for yourselves on earth," and "Sell all thou hast, and give unto the poor," it is possible to conclude that the clerical statement of the divinity of wealth is over drawn. It is true, that in one sense wealth is the divinity worship by too great a por tion of our civilization. But it is in ex actly that sense that the Teacher whom the Bishop professes to follow, SDoke of it when he declared the impossibility of serving both God and Mammon. On the other hand the right of the person, who, by industry and foresight has obtained property, to enjoy and control it, is, as the Bishop says, one of the fundamental feat ures of society. "Without it industry and frugality would hare no reward. But it should be noted, first, that the exercise of the right, simply to gain wealth by such qualities, without infringing upon the rights of others, or obtaining any special privileges above the masses, would not create many immense fortunes, such as mark the present social era; and second, that the real com plaint against wealth to-day is against that class of it that is created and exalts itself by violating the right of the common peo ple to enjoy the fruits of their own industry. Thus it is easy to see that the as sociation of capital in the incorporated form, leads a thousand or ten thousand peo ple to unite their savings to the average amount of a thousand dollars apiece, which may be beneficially used in some incor porated enterprise. If some person, by the well-known processes of stock manipula tion, inside rings, railway discriminations, or the alternation of pools and cut-throat wars, succeeds in freezing them out until they sell their stock at one-half or one-tenth its honest value, it is plain that the natural right of property, whether it is divine or not, has been wantonly violated, and that a great fortune has been built up by such a violation. Bishop Newman is quite right in saying that the complaint is against.the aristocracy of wealth, and that a great deal of the com plaint is irrational and unreasoning. But he fails to perceive that the real aristocracy of wealth consists in its use of unjust and illegal privileges for its creation and aggrandisement; and, next, that the com plaints, irrational as they may be, are founded on the dimly comprehended truth, that wealth created by such means takes away from the masses the right to enjoy the fnll reward of their own industry. It is true also that the exercise of the faculties which create wealth, if governed by the well-established principles of law, con fer as great benefit on the public at large as on the person who makes a fortune by his enterprise or invention. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before on a scale mul tiplied by millions is a public beneractor. He deserves the wealth he can gain by that process. But suppose that instead of that he finds a means of saining riches by mak ing only one blade of grass grow where two might grow, what is he? Or to illustrate the same principle, let us take an invention to facilitate the cheap inter-communication of the public like long distance telephony. The wealth gained by putting that invention into operation would be legitimate and a public benefit; but it is not too much to say, that the wealth gained by suppressing it, in the interest of a great monopoly, is a public injury and a wrong. The great fact that should be fully under stood, in this connection, is that when wealthj-epresents no such illegitimate gains at the cost of the masses it will have no reason to fear the attacks of socialism or the discontent of the masses. Bat as the major ity of our notably great fortunes represent exactly snch methods, it may occur to others beside Bishop Newman that the complaints of the masses, though blind and irrational, are not altogether without foundation. THE DRAMA IN POLITICS. It is difficult for the American public to conceive that a play treating of political events should be deemed so 'important that one party must undertake the work of hiss ing it down and the other, of demanding that it be represented, until the conflict of popular opinion develops into a riot. If we add the feature of a Government gravely deliberating whether it will do (o permit I such a stage representation, and actually showing vacillation over it, the matter goes beyond our comprehension. Yet these ara the features of the dispute over Sardou's new drama which agitated Paris last week. In writing "Thermldor" Sardou intended to use the stage as a political engine against the radical republicanism. In drawing a forbidding picture of the Bepublicans of 1793, he has doubtless shown ability to use his imagination for his facts which appears to a marked degree in his other works. No doubt his portrayal of that great historical era im proves every opportunity to misrepresent facts, or to represent only one side of ihem, by which the passionate revolt of the Terror ists can be made to seem the wanton oruelty ot brutal savages. That is the weak point of every attempt to enforce a moral or polit ical lesson by means of works of fiction. It would be just as easy for a Bepublican dra matist like Victor Hugo to produce a stage picture in which the Terrorists should ap pear as heroes and patriots, as for Sardou to make them murderers and savages. There is certainly reason for us to feel gratified that we are, as a nation, far beyond the point where we can get into a riot over a political drama. "We may account for a part of the difference between ourselves and the French by recognizing that there is a less radical demarcation of issues between the parties. If anyone should produce a drama showing the revolutionary characters, of this country to be selfish and besotted wretches, perhaps it would be more closely akin to Sardou's effort But even that wan ton attack on our national beliefs would not create a riot There might be a disposition to hiss such a drama from the stage; but the vast majority of Americans would show their perception of the surest means of suppressing such nonsense by staying away from the performance and letting it die. We have got happily beyond the point of regarding the stage as a means of public instruction. Only the other day, in one of the Pittsburg theaters, an actor took occa sion in a topical song to introduce a verse embodying the stock attack on the McKin ley bill. Of the audience, seven, if not eight-tenths were supporters of that meas ure; but none of them thought it worth while to even show a sign of dissent And they were right. The American public goes to the theater to be interested and amused. The class that can have its views on history or political measures affected by a stage presentation is too ignorant to be catered for by our theatrical managers. The fact that the drama can be taken so seriously in France as to regard it as a po litical engine, furnishes the explanation for another marked difference in the standing which the stage and playwrights have in France as compared with Anglo Saxon countries. If the stage representations have this political importance, it is natural that its elevation should be the first care of a government, and that the successful maker of dramas should occupy the highest rank in literature. But the press and the drama in France occupy nearly a reversed position as compared with the respective power of the two in this coun try. For some reason perhaps because lib erty of the press has been really unknown there before the present generation the newspapers of France are hardly taken more seriously than the drama is here; while the drama there has the political importance as a means of reaching the people that the press has in the United States, with some thing of the direct contact and personal im pression possessed by our political orators of a generation ago. Perhaps our view of these radical differ ences between national characteristics is akin io the feeling of Punch's housemaid who, when told that the French say "Wee" for "yes," replied: "Law, Miss, how tri fling!" Nevertheless we can hardly help re garding it as a matter of congratulation that we are long past that stage of self-government where a political excitement can be produced by the lact that an inventive genius like Sardou sees fit to employ his imagination in remodeling political history. WE HAVE PLENTY OF GAS. All have been sorry in a sense to see the clouds of black smoke hovering over Pitts burg again, and many will respond to the sentiment of a gas man quoted in another colnmn. It is the belief of many persons familial with the gas business that there is still plenty of gas if it was oroperly pros pected for and piped here. The striking of a well of tremendous pressure only 30 miles northeast from the city yesterday, and the existence of two roarers not yet utilized near Coraopolis, tends to fully confirm this view. These fields, if piped to this city, would more than supply the deficiency from which it has suffered this winter. Several move ments are on foot to go after gas as soon as spring opens, and the probabilities are sev eral new lines will be in operation next winter. WASTE PAPER RESOLUTIONS. "We do not know what the Governor will do with that resolution of the Legislature instructing the Pennsylvania Senators to vote for the elections bill. But the discus sion as to his course in the matter exagger ates its importance for one reason. That is, that the resolution will have exactly the- same effective force without his signature as with it; and that is none at all. The attempt of a Legislature to instruct the representatives of a State in Congress is at all times nothing more than a mere ex pression of opinion. In this case it is doubly a spoiling of valuable blank paper. It is, in the first place, an attempt to pacify the disgruntled partisan mind bv in structing the Senators on what is already a dead dog in the pit In the next place if the instruction were upon measures to be settled in the future, it would be utterly without authority. There is no constitutional warrant for Legisla tures to tell Senators how to vote. There is no constitutional requirement that Senators shall obey such instructions. It tbey do so it is simply from political policy. So far as any official weight is con cerned, the electors whose votes elected President Harrison might just as well come together and instruct the President to sign the free coinage bill, or appoint Mr. Jay Gould Secretary of the Treasury. The reso lution passed by the Legislature is simply the expression of combined individual opinions. .Whether that opinion will be weighty with Cameron and Quay or not de pends on whether Cameron and Quay are the creatures ot the individual members of the Legislature or vice versa. But it is cer tain to have just as much effect without the Governor's signature as with it. A DAYLIGHT BOBBERY. Bobbery in broad daylight in a suburb of this city is not a pleasant thing to con template. It has too much of that wild Southwestern flavor we are fond of ridicul ing. There is so little difference between robbing a jewelry store, on a much-frequented striet, in the glare of day, and holding up a Texas stage coach, that it Is 'not worth noting. The robbers got away. Possibly the explanation of so much bold THE PITTSBTTBG- DISPATCH, lawlessness is to be found in the fact that the criminals do get away so often. Senatoe Thomas proposes to hurry up matters a little with a bill requiring all tele graph and telephone wires to be placed under ground in cities of the first and second class, within eighteen months of the passago of the act. If the Senator gets his bill passed and can then cet it enforced, ho will clear the over head atmosphere for the exclusive use of the high tension electric light and electric railway wires. The independence of the esteemed Phila delphia Press is mainly exercised now in de nouncing independence. When the Press gets to kicking over jobbery and corrupt party ma chinery we shall wish it more power to its kick ing apparatus. Geneeal Thomas L. James is respon sible for the statement that we have no more than 83,000 Welshmen in the United States. It was supposed there were as many as that in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio alone. Possibly tho misapprehension arises from the habit which a full-blooded Welshman has, when be gets to bustling, of creating an idea thatt here are half a dozen of him. Both parties in Congress are now re ported to have agreed that exclusive attention shall henceforth be given to tho appropriation bills. As a consequence the snrplns begins to assume a pale and panic-stricken hue. The Philadelphia Inquirer is making good its name with the inquiry, as to the mu nicipal politics of that city: "Shall the Traction syndicate or the people rule this town?" We supposed that question was settled long ago in favor of the vested interests. If the esteemed ihgutrergoesonin this way it may establish the new Philadelphia, but it will get itself dis liked as an enemy ot capital. The Boman Congregation, of Bites has decided not to canonize Columbus. Chicago will therefore have to see what it can do in the line of making it up to his memory by a world wide celebration. The Eastern press is beginning to openly intimate that the boom in sugar refineries stock is a clear speculative manipulation to fleece the public before the new sugar dnties go into effect. What! Is it possible the emi nent philanthropists who operate that combi nation would skin the speculative public when they can no longer squeeze the consumers of sugarT In all the comments over the defeat of. Ingalls, Republican organs should remember that he went down as much under the burden of party errors, as of personal faults. While it is the fashion to turn up the Eastern nose at Ingalls' success, it is worth while to notice that there is as much promise of future greatness in Pf offer's past career, as there was in Ingalls' when he was first elected. Pfeffer was a Judge Advocate daring the war; and Ingalls fought bravely in the same po sition. TniBTT thousand shares of new stock subscribed, form a gratifying assurance to the public that the Westinghouse Electric Com pany is very nearly out of the woods. It is interesting to observe that Ingalls successor is getting the most unfavorable no tices from both Democratic and Republican organs If there is anything which your party organ hates worse than a member of the op posing party it is the man who makes a hit by belonging to neither party. Anyhow, if Eobert Bay Hamilton, or his doable, should tarn up and claim the prop erty, he woull have to prodnce very conclusive evidence that be is not dead. Nine hundred and sixty-eight new build ings in Allegheny City this year, with an appraised valuation of 51, 852,850 or nearly fAOOO to each bnllding, is a very fair showing for the Northside municipality. Put Pittsburg , and Allegheny's growth for last year together and the total will make a good sized town by itself. WELL-KHOWN PEOPLE. Mrs. Lucy Folk Snell, a young artist of some talent, is one of the few surviving rela tives ot President Folk, beinc his grandmece. There is a female revolutionist in Japan who is described as yoang, pretty and wealthy, hat who is hardened with the name Kageamer Hiddo. At tho end of the ballroom. in Mrs. W. C. Whitney's New York home, there is a gem of a stage, very small, but beautifully proportioned, supported by columns of Italian marble. Senator Edmunds is one of the few Con gressional orators who preserve the "town meeting attitudes." He is simple in his lan guage, old-fashioned in his manners, and there are but few flights of fancy or figures of speech in his solid speeches. Miss Charlotte Gregg, recently ap pointed instructor on the piano in the Chicago Conservatory of Music, is said to be the youngest teacher ever assigned to so responsi ble a position. Western people think her the peer of Mme. Rive-King and Fraulein Aus der Ohe. PRO. BEBNHARD BLOCKHORST'S portrait of the Empress Augusta has just been bang in the National Gallery of Berlin. It represents Her Majesty in widow's weed', with a diamond head-dress and a sorrowful expression about the mouth. Her pale and intellectual face is beautif ally represented. Minus C. Keith, a Brooklyn man, is the moving spirit In Costa Rican affairs at present. He owns the railroad and about half the ba nana plantations of the little Republic, and the majority of the inhabitants obey him as if he were a dictator. He is about 40 years of age and is married to a native woman. The Countess Wanda Henkel von Donners mark is said in Germany to own the finest hunt ing grounds in the empire. These are the spoils of a three days' chase: First day, 21 hunters, 700 hares, 101 pheasants, 8 eagles; second day, 25 sportsmen, 1,215 bares, 20 pheasants, 1 falcon; third day, 8 hunters, 138 hares 747 pheasants. Prince Henrt of Prussia and his imperial brother are the bet of friends, and no visitor is more welcome to William II. The Prince is a fine violinist and a good orchestral leader. At private concerts in the imperial family circle he usually takes the baton and arranges the pro gramme. When at Kiel he plays first violin iu the Officers Orchestra, but, of course, so public an appearance wonld not do in Berlin. Rev. Minot J. Savage, tne Unitarian divine of Boston, who has accepted a call to the Church of the Messiah in Chicago, is one of tha best known preachers of New England. He is just 60 years old. and is a man of medium height, with a straight, well-made figure. His head is well formed and his eyes are small. His ser mons are always delivered without notes, and he is a convincing speaker. His voice is low and well modulated, and he speaks with great self-possession. Higher Price at.Mnlno Hotels. Lewltton Journal. Since the hotels In Portland have decided to do business at the old stand on water power, the Christian Endeavor Convention to be held there next wees; is notified that its member! will be received as guests at the hotels, but that they must pay an extra sum because the revenue of the hotel bars is shut off. Christians, it may safely be assumed, wilt not endeavor to encourage bars by Licking at paying hotel rates that will remove all apology for tho illogical alliance of hotels and rumshops. The Chris tians who are to rally in Portland uoxt week, will doubtless reflect with satisfaction that in paying extra for board, they are eating for the Lord instead of drinking for the devil as is the wont of the ungoaly. DEATHS OP A DAY. Rev. Albert Hale. BPnraOFiKLD.lLL., Jan. 81. Kev. Albert Hale, well known as "Father" Hale, one of the pioneer Fresuvterlan preachers of Illinois, died Yesterday, need 91 years. He was for 27 years pistor or tue fcecond Presbyterian Church of Springfield, and had been a resident of this city since 18.3. Speaker A. C. Whittier. HSLEXA, MOST., Jan. SL The Legislature ad journed until Tuesday lh respect to tlje memory of the late Speaker' A. C. "Whittier, who died at, Dillon this morning SUNDAY, PEBRTJART ' 1, FAMOUS STORY TELLERS. . Knights Who Have Won Their Spun In the Charmed Circle Which Baron Mun chausen Founded Samples of the Style Peculiar to Some of the Leaders. CtscE the death of the famous Baron Mun chausen in Germany many years ago, original imitatorshave sprung up and managed to gain more or less fame. The growing insti tutions of America and the many booms that always require a prolific Imagination to back them, have somehow evoluted a crop of racon teurs (that is the polite enphemism for men with vivid imaginations) which bids fair to be come richer as time passes. New York City, as a role, is the Mecca to which these talented men gravitate. There is Ell Perkins whose halo is somewhat dimmer than it was in his young and palmy days; Tom Ochiltree, whose laurels are still fresh; Colonel Patrick Donan, whose sporadic flights of imagination have lost none of their brilliancy; Colonel Dick Wintermitb, whoso letter to "Parthenon Heights" Rogers accepting Pan-Electric stock exhibited his exuberant style; Edgar William Nye, who is a professional and does not count; Chauncey M. Depew, whose after-dinner jokes are often coined from the mint of his own originality; Moses F. Handy, President of the Clover Club of Philadelphia and now Chief of the Promoting and Publicity Department of the World's Fair; Colonel Cbaille Long, whose famous exploits on the Upper Mle.lt pub lished, might make Stanley green with envy; Joseph Mulbatton, who is perennial and care ful about dates; J. Annoy Knox, who fought several dnels down on the beach at Par Rock away, and many other shining lights toonumer ous to particularize. Some of the most aspiring raconteurs in New York are comparatively unknown. Tbey are W. H. Ballon, William Cooper and Colonel Jnlian H. Larke, a veteran of the Crimean War, anoTa member of a number of societies in this city, who are making records that will not cause their posterity to blush. When the charge of the Six Hundred tookplace at Bal aklava Colonel Larke, then an Ensign in the British army, witnessed it from a hospital win dow where ho was lying wounded. Ho served in the Union army during the late Civil War. Just one sample, as he relates it, of his experi ence at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, will serve to Illustrate his broad gauge and rococo stjle: A Sample From Colonel Larke. ipAi.E abont close places in battle, I had an experience that might have turned my bair gray if I had been conscious of my awful position. It was at the battle of Lookout Mountain when it looked rather blue for our side. The Confederates were advancing, and there seemed to be no way to check them. I was an aide on the commanding general's staff, and he had creat confidence in my ability to lead a charge. He ordered me to head the cavalry and charge the Confederates. Mounted on a spirited charger, i piacea myseu at ma head of the cavalry and ordered them to follow me. Tho earth shook almost under the heavy tramping of so many horses. It was a charge into the very jaws of death. As wo rode for ward the Confederate cavalry met us, and a fine battle of sabers occurred. "Every time I cut I emptied a saddle. In. deed, I made a swath for my men to follow me. While parrying a saber thrust from a Confeder ate officer, which made this scar on my fore head, a shell exploded in front of me and a piece of it went through my left shoulder. I fell from my horse, and the entire Federal ar tillery and infantry charged over my prostrate body. This occurred in the afternoon. That night I was buried in a ditch with 100 dead comrades. As luck would have it I was put on top, and the dirt was thinly spread over us. My nose and toes were not covered, bntpointed to the stars. This was a most fortunate cir cumstance, for the early morning dew falling upon me revived me. I called aloud and help came. I do not suppose many men have been buried and live to tell it." Col. Tom Ochiltree's Weakness. 'jTOJl Ochiltree has had more of his lucu brations published than a majority of the raconteurs mentioned. He returned from Eu rope recently and related this episode, which has not yet found . its way into print. This is his free and easy style in narrating theepl: sode: "As it is well known that ever since I went to Europe some years ago with a general letter of Introduction from General Grant and all the crowned heads of Europe made my acquaint ance, it would be superfluous to say that I did not feel perfectly at home over there. Tba Prince of Wales sent his equerry to ask after my health soon after I arrived in London. In Paris I took dinner, en f amille, with President Carnot, and in Berlin I was the guest of the Emperor for several days. By the by, the Em peror is a hard worker and rises early. Often he rode to Potsdam and got back in time for 'breakfast. Q "On my return from the Continent I con cluded to visit all of my friends in London, and not devote anytime to the Prince of Wales and nisset. x on see, tne nnee is a spienaia lei low, roal royal in his nature, but the trnth is he lives at a pace that I wonld not care to keep up any length of time. I had taken the pains not to register at my hotel, and fancied I was doing the incog, act in great shape. One morning at breakfast I received a card that p roved the fu tility of trying to remain Incog. It was from Colonel Ponsonby, the Queen's private secre tary. I stepped into the ball. and. shaking bands cordially with mm ror 1 really think Fon is a capital fellow I asked him to smoke and spend the day with me. I thought if J could cet him to ttay all day I might persuade him not to mention my presence In London to either the Queen or the Prince of Wales. He accepted a oO cent cigar, bnt not my invitation to spend the day with me. Then assuming a grave look, he said I was expected to dine at Windsor Castle that very evening. I said I bad heard nothing about it. He replied that he came to invite me. To be brief, I had to ac cept. Whether 1 was to dine with the Queen, or the Prince of Wales, or the Marchioness of Ely and the Princesses of Teck, ladies in wait ing to the Queen, was what I-could not tell." At this point Colonel Ochiltree came to a halt, as if be had finished, and bis anxious lis teners asked: "Well, with whom did you dine?" "Ob, the Queen, of course." Fat Donan's Gold Mine. ("olonei. Pat Donan, who lives a greater part of his time in this city, is a poetical raconteur, and often soars so high he forgets the thread of bis story. "Gold mines? Why, In Honduras I saw the richest gold mine in existence. Fizarro In his wildest dreams never saw as mnch gold as I did in a certain Honduras mine. Tantalus in all his wonderful illusions never imagined the wealth that lay revealed to the naked eye in huge bonlders in this particular mine. Rider Haggard with his King Solomon's mines could not come up to what I saw. The glittering metal fairly intoxicated the senses. When my guide brought me to the outer world again and I gazed at the sky its blue was gone and in its place was a golden hue, tho reflection of the color my eyes had feated on for hours. -No" that mine with its wondcrtul wealth is Ion to the world. The descendant of Mon tezuma, who was my guide, and who alone knew the way to the cave of gold, died soon afterward and the secret died with him. What is gold, or wealth, to one exalted emotion, one beautiful thought, one gorgeous, dreamy flight of the imagination!" One of Col. Long's Adventures. (")ne night on the Upper Nile Colonel Challle Long was attacked in a curious way. An African chief presented the Colonel with a barem. which he refused. He bad a hand-to-hand encounter with the burly chief and van quished him. The Colonel Is very clear in his narrative. Handy's Effervescent Style. Mi AJOR Moses P. handy has a clean-cut way of reaching a climax through a laby rinth of hyperbole. "Chicago? It is a city so cool in summer the citizens bring out the re frigerators to cool them off. It is just tha place to hold the World's Fair or any kind of a fair. Kresb water breezes constantly play through the streets, and entire blocks can be passed without seeing an ice cream sign. I am glad Chicago was selected as the city to hold the fair in. " Chauncey Bepew's Great Gift. A B AN after-dinner orator Chauncey M. De- pew has trained his Imagination and re vamped many a story to illustrate a telling point. Who has not heard of the many Peekskill incidents which occurred in Chaun cej's boyhood days? The Only Channceynever makes aimless excursions of the tmasina.Ioo, but always points a moral or adorns a humor ous speech. One time a man noted as a high toned, educated beat called upou Mr. Depew to strike him for an honorarium. The railroad President did not give the man time to come to the point, hut started out this way: "Did I ever tell you about a distant relative of mine? Well, ho was noted as a most won derful liar, and at matches in California and other Slates he easily took the prize. He was painstaKlng and added the element ot humor to the uncertainty of facts which made his pro. ductlonsenterttiningit not instrnctivc One day he was sunstrnck, nntl ne wore rrijrlitened for lear that when ho recnverid bis moronity as a liar would bo lost. But arrange t.i .iv. Im powers were greater than ever. He tnld a stury which, before hU Hlnet-", w down in his repertoire as a 15 mluntes' rccitntinu, and emoelli'lieil it soittunU him an hour's time. Well. Ilik'd the euibelll-hnieut cxuerdtni'ly, and If yon don't mind 1 tl rlato it to you." Th hlirii.toned beat acute ai.d said haught ily; "I came up to see yuu on business, not to J 1891 hear an after dinner speech on the affliction of a relatives Good-day." It amused Depew immensely, and he says he has tried several stories since then with good effect. Snake Story by Ballon. A painstaking and careful worker in the well cultivated field of the imagination is a comparatively unknown novelist, W. H. Bal. Ion. He has made no fame yet, but Is very am bitions. This is a specimen of bis best work: "Several years ago I was crossing the Rocky Mountains in company with a party of sur veyors. One day I got detached from the party and descended the side of a mountain. I came to a big cave, the month ot which was filled with rattlesnakes in a torpid condition. They were shedding their skins. I picked up a peb ble and threw It into the cave. Hundreds of rattlesnakes came rushing out. I was trans fixed with terror, and could not move. I was over SO yards from the cave, and my death seemed to he only a question of a few seconds. The rattlesnakes came toward me, and sud denly faced in another direction as U preparing for battle. "Hooked in that direction and saw over 1,000 tall blacksnakes rushing forward on the end of their tails, their beads craned and their forked tongues out of their months. The rattlesnakes, nearly equal in numDer. did not shrink from the encounter, but double quieted, sending forth the most musical rattle noise I ever beard. The big rattles and the little rattles blended in a way that is indescribable. Before the contending forces met they had attained great speed and the shock of contact echoed down the monntalu sides for miles. Some of the blacksnakes were burled hundreds of yards in the air. But they came down game as could be. They twisted around the rattlers and in 20 minutes every rattlesnake was choked to death." Charles T. Murray. New York. Jan. 31. WOMEH AT THE PLAY. Approval of the Desire to Use Vigorous Expletives at Times. Hew York Evening Sun.l An audience of women is wholly sui generis. An andience of men alone ora mixed audience is so different from the individuals composing it. It has a different temper toward the world, and is capable of insights and of actions which in no way represent the capacity or taste otany single person in it. But an audience of women, for its adherence to standards pnrely personal and feminine, might wear a single bonnet on its head and pat out its approval with a single pair of smoothly gloved hands. These reflec tions are suggested by the behavior of the audience of women at Miss Cameron's performance of "The Doll's House" yesterday afternoon. The entire house behaved itself in exactly the same way in reference to the play that any one woman would have done. It cried as a smgln woman, itlaughedasasinglewoman.it applauded as a single woman. And its judgment on the play was pre-eminently that of women. It was evident that the ethical question in the play appealed to them and not its dramatic move ment. No audience of men cares a rap abont the ethical drama; with them the play's the thing. But women have a keen sceut after the ethics of life; and so it was that they filed out of the theater and melted away into twos and threes, discussing, not the artistic qual ity in the composition of the play or in the production of it, but the moral quality In Nora's behavior and tho sacred rights of the individual soul and a great many other split points that were more Bostonese than inter esting. There were four places in the play where the audience was aroused to an expression of ap proval in the line that was purely feminine. Tiro first was when Nora said: "Sometimes I just want to Siy 'Oh. damnl" " A distinct sound of sympathy rustled among the bonnets at this. When Nora set forth the principle that "a woman who has once sacrificed herself for others never does it a second time." the hand clapping was more vigorously approbative than at any other place in the play except where Nora answers her husband's grandiloquence, "A man never sacrifices his honor for those he loves," with the equally grandiloquent re mark, "Hundreds of women do that every day." There was no mistaking the heartiness of their approval at this. The applause was nearly as spontaneous and as ringing as if it struck out from the palms of a lot of men. The other sentiment that won quick recognition on Its merits alone was the profound observation that Belmer makes abont Christina's knitting work: "You should crochet; it looks better." Here the assent was almost as unanimous as in the former case. WTNDOSTS LAST SPEECH. His Sound Views on Coinage and the Cur rency Question. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.! In his last declaration Secretary Wicdom ut tered a protest against the free coinage of sil ver at this time. He regarded it as now unsafe. A believer, as a bimetalist, in plenty of coin to meet the wants of business operations, he would welcome free silver coinage, as well as free gold coinage, were tbe conditions favora ble; bat they are not so and will not be until made so by international agreement. A sys tem of free silver and fiat paper money would prove disastrous. The argument of the Secretary that free sil ver coinage would utterly fail to expand the currency is somewhat noveL Its foundation is the theory that the dollar would have only the value of the bullion contained in it, and tbe In ducement to coin our silver would be small, while there would be no imports from other countries for coinage purposes. At tbe same time tbe market value of our silver would de cline. "How then?" asked this earneststudent of our finances, "will unlimited coinage either expand the circulation or enhance the value ot silver?" The words uttered by this able finan cier at the very threshold of death will doubt less have great weight with our Representa tives in Congress in their consideration of the silver bill. VEEY rACETIOUS. A Press Clnb Delegate Writes While Smok ing a Toby and Longing for Sausage. Frank Raymond In Beading Herald. But the air is very wholesome fur all that and the people are brisk, lively and happy. They breathe tbe air and thrive and so do the laun dries, and Pittsburg babies when taken else where cry for soot, while Fittsbnrg boomers are never happier than when they see more chimneys going up to make more soot. If for any causo the air isn't thick enough they smoke stogies, which are sold everywhere five for a nickel, and one stogy will yield enough smoke to smoke a wheelbarrow load of sausages. The sun shines very brightly on Pittsburg, sometimes, bnt in their large-minded, liberal way they let the electric lights burn all day, for fear tbat strangers might think them mean. In Allegheny City, which is a part of Fittsbnrg, tbey are so liberal and considerate tbat tbey have put the electric lights upon high towers, almost out of sight, so tbat the wild birds can see and fly over tbe town at night. Tbe people down below get along the best they can. Over-Critical bnt Not Broad. Lewiston, Me., Journal. Sitting upon the Hubbard House piazza at Paris Judge Virgin was asked by a member of tbe Oxford bar regarding the legal qualifica tions of a practitioner in another part of Maine. Said be: "Mr. might sit In this- chair while an elephant and a mouse pass up tbe street before his eyes; ot the mouse be could tell you tha length of the tail, the text ure of the coat and the color of the eye, bat It would never occur to Mr. that be had seen an elephant I" BACK FR03I TOWN. Old friends alius Is the best, Halest-like and heartiest; Knowed us first, and don't allow "We 're ao blame much better now! They was standln' at he bars When we grabbed 'the klwered kyars" And lit out fer town, to make Money and that old mistake I We thought then the world we went into bcit "llie Settlement," And the friends 'at we'd make there Wonld beat any -inywheic! And thev do-fcr that's their his: They beat all the friends they Is 't'ept the real old friends like you 'At staid homeV like I'd ort tol , W'y, of all the good things ylt 1 ain't shet of, 1 to quit Business, and git back to sheer These old comforts waltin' here These old friends: and these old hands 'At a feller understands; These old winter nlgnts. and old Young foUa chiscd In out the cold! blng "Hard Times Ml Come Ag'n o Jlnrei" and ndxuhursall Jino in! Here's a frller come from toiyn Wants that-air old drtdle down , Fromthechlinblyl bit the floor Clear fer one cowtillon morel ' It 's poke the kitchen 'lire, says he, And shake a friendly teg with tne! i-lamtt WMtcomt lly,in icbruary Century. AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS. Sights and Scenes of a Two Weeks' Tramp !nj Tour Through Green County Plenty of Room for Road Reform Networks of Oil Pipes Fox Chasing. Minety miles of walking over Green county hills might seem, at first glance, a more bitter pill than a doctor's prescription, but the bill is easier paid and the results surer. The last sheet of manuscript was revised and the publisher's address penned on the express package with a nervous band. The reaction from prolonged strain drives me to the f imily physician. "It isn't pills you need," he advises. "You have overdrawn your vitality and need to go to some quiet place for a couple of weeks where yon will have entertaining company and live in the open air most ot the time. Don't take a note book and pencil along: exercise until vou are tired and go to bed early." Hard conditions to fill, these, with January weather to do it in, but the solution of the problem comes in the shape of a generous invi tation to rusticate and evangelize. "Come stay with me during my protracted meeting." writes a country ministerial friend. "You needn't preach and you will get enough interested in the meeting to drive, away ennui, while my horse is lame and 1 want to see all the people within five miles of tho church and will gvve yon all the walking yon can relish." Arctic overshoes, leather leggins, a water proof coat and away we go to test the value of snoe-leatber friction. It is the "getting there" which hurts worse than the going after one is there. Tbe city man accustomed to railway travel never feels tbat he has gone very far provided he can get back to tbe starting point tbe same day by rati; but put him on a horse and jog him ten miles up bill and down over rough, frozen roads, and he experiences a "cut loose" feeling from all the rest of creation that Is very gruesome until he gets used to it. t Everybody Owns the Road. TF evee you want a striking illustration of a thing that nobody owns, take a section of a Green county roaa. When a farmer wants to build a new fence, he lets the old one stand and sets the new posts a foot or two out Into tbe road. I saw a log stable that had been built directly in the middle of the road, and the wagon track had to turn so close to tha corner of it that it took a pretty good driver to avoid bumping the bub of his wheel against a bottle of spavin cure that was stuck in the crack. If a man owns a thousand acres of land, he will turn his wood-pile oat to commons, and if be wants to build a cow shed be will hew all his timbers and leave tbe chips in tbe county road. Tbe more sleds and wagons and mowing ma chines and stable manure he can litter tbe highway with W fronJ of his place, tbe bigger farmer be is. When be trims his orchard, he piles tbe brush there. It is tbe general impression tbat if the pub lic roads belong to anyone in ptrticnlar In Green county, it mast be to tbe oil men. He tears it up or throws down rail fences and changes it to the meadows at bis own sweet will. Just outside Mount Morris one section of the road looks like a gridiron of a giant. Steam pipes, water pipes, gas pipes and oil pipes make a perfect criss-cross of tubing. In some places the heat from the steam has dried the ground oat and left streaks of summer dost, where tbe chickens go and roll, sand wiched between frost beds. The jets of gas that are left burning at intervals to prevent the pipe freezing keep up a summer temper ature, and the grass grows around these spots as green and luxuriant as in June. The pump station at Monnt Morris has an oasis of this sort of an eighth of an acre or so which would be worth a fortune could it be transported in all Its verdant beauty to the palace of the Czar. They Live In the Past, TJut it is not only in roads there is lack of progress; one does not need to read books of folk-lore to learn how people lived 100 years ago. Tbe last century is located but 50 miles from Pittsburg. In tramping from Mount Morris to Maidsvllle, W. Va.. I ran across a shoemaker pegging away in a little dog-kennel of a shop, making men's boots ny nana irom band-twisted waxed ends to yellow stitches in tbe tops, as though no labor-saving machinery had ever been invented. But tbe boots will last until 1900, whereas the macbine shoes I wore were badly racked by tbe 12-mile tramp. At the bouse which we made our regular lodg ing place, "boarding around" for meals, the old people sat by tbe firelight and smoked the long evenings away. There was not a sign of a lamp about tbe house except the lantern with which they llghted'the way to tbe barn to feed tbe stork before daylight. We were shown oar bedroom wltboat tbe formality of a, candle. "Stir up the fire." suggested the old" gentle man when be saw ns looking for light enough to find a chair by. At 5 o'clock in tbe morning they rapped us out and we had to dress by !mu nf fpplinir and go out to the well and complete our morning's toilet by the aid of a tin washbasin and water from the well bucket tbat had been tboaghtf ally drawn long enough before to acquire the temperature of the frosty atmosphere. The drippings froze in icicles on our beards before tbe kitchen towel could be reached. And yet one of these old farmers would have poob-hood atthe suggestion of any more comfortable way ot doing. I learned that this was about the only home in the community tbatboasted a "spare bed" with a fire in the room. There was another good old lady who bad a flrenlace in her spare bedroom, but tbe chimney smoked so tbat there hadn't been a fire io.lt since tbe war." Women Still Do the Milking. TTrom this rendezvous we sallied forth each day to do from 6 to 15 miles walking per diem. James Whitcomb Riley wonld have found these people, like 'Has Wilson worthy his respect because they are "so common." In tbe course of our tramping we ran across a man who ts the owner of upward of 2,000 acres of the best land in Green county, a former member of one branch of the htate Legisla ture, whose wife takes a tin bucket and goes out to milk the cows iu the barnyaro. It is not parsimony, bat just the way of the coun try. A letter which came for me after my return home was forwarded by the Postmaster. In stead of simply marking It "return." as any postmaster ought to have known enough to do be put it in a stamped envelope andad dressedit to me. A few days after I received a bill for "Envelope, 1 cent; postage, 2 cents: services, 1 cent; total. 1 cents." I didn't want the Coroner to have to report a sudden death Irom broken heart, so 1 sent a check. How the Farmers Strike OIL Occasionally the pipe line between Mount Morris and Washington bursts away up among tbe hills, and before they can get the leak stopped the runs are covered with yellow scum. Tbe farmers take boards, old blankets or carpets, anything tbat will skim and save all thee rude oil they can. What can they do with it? Why tor internal and external medication it has a reputation that threatens to knock allopathy and homeopathy into a cocked hat. It is said to be good for man and beast, for kindling fires, fur killing off chicken lice and for everything but shoe leather. A man who tried the exp-riment of greasing a pair of boots with it was surprised and grieved to find tbat it bad gone through tbe leather like aqua f ortis and left it spongy and worthIess,and tbe boots a size or two too large. At one of the stores I saw a man with a rain barrel full ot tbe stuff be had gathered off the run. trying to trade It at oil exchange prices for muff and calico. They Love Fox Chasing. 'Phe second day's tramp of ten miles lamed tbe country parson so tbat be was com. pelled to invoke tbe aid of a stout hickory stick on the third. Bat there isn' t a man In all tbat country whom the rheumatism or any other disability will affect when there is a fox loose on tbe hills with tbe hounds in hot pur suit. After limping about five miles to our dinin" place, groaning at every stone and ham mock in the road, the parson suddenly and raysteriou-ly disappeared from the dinner ta ble and the hostess with him. For some cause tbe'men bad not made an appearance. in a moment the secret was out; a fox was rnnning full tilt across tbe bottoms, and every one bad gone out to see tbe fun wbo was not already out. The parson was streaking It across .t,. fl.ids at a 250 gait, trying to catch the dogs. I anu there was not a vestige of lameness in bit motions. AU" .iimiiiuuin fox-hunter in 'hose parts wbo can calmly eat a dinner while tbe hounds are baying, and. In fact be is of no account until be has run down a bo'rse or two and all bnt bioLe bis own neck. I have heard a story about a funeral that was postponed because there was a good (ox snow and the chief mourner had a new dog be wanted to try. But tbe communities which we visited In oar two weeks ot tramping, in which we covered 80 miles. Is literally a land flowing with milk and honey. And the peuple aie Abrams in their hospitality, turning no one away from their doors, lest they turn away an angel un awares. They will not soon forget the "man wbo walked everywhere." and the scales show bim indebted several pounds avolrdnpois to their chickens and biscuit. Rambler. The Profession Points With Pride. Washington Post.'. The PiTTsnuuo Dispatch, will shortly move into its nandsoaie new building; and now has one of the heat i qula.i'd newspaper homes in the country. Tuc Dispatch is an Amoriran newspaper to which every member of the -ru-fession points with pride. It nobly deserves its commodious new quarters, and its continued prosperity is inured. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. They had canary-birds flying about dur ing a recent New York dinner party. Philip Griffiths, of Easton, Pa., broke his leg a few days ago by suddenly turning la bed. Muskegon, Mich., ladies are to have the privilege of the Y.M.G. A. gymnasium twico a week. It is computed tbat there are now about 1000 nlckel-in-tbe-slot machines in use in this country. An Atchison man is soon to marry tha woman who stood sponsor for him when he was baptized as a baby. The water to operate the mill at Homos Cltr. Mo., is hauled from Palmyra In an oil tank it a cost of $3 a car. The underground system of telegraphs of the German Empire, it is reported, has a total length of 3,600 miles. Boston's system of parks includes 1,043 acres, and the city has expended npon them for the purchase of land and construction about $6,000,000. T. A. Mann, of Minden, Neb., becom ing enraged at a cow, tied her in a stall and sawed her legs off. He was compelled to flee to escape lynching. When the carpet has been soiled by ink! instantly apply blotting paper, then milk, then blotting paper, and so on until the spot is out, asitwillbe. Don't rub. There has been a heavy fall of snow in the lumber regions of Northern Wisconsin, which is worth hundreds of thousands of dol lars to tbe lumber trade. As Howard Hall was starting an elec tric motor in Bridgeport. Conn., a few days ago, "a bright blaze shot out from the dynamo and burned bis mustache off." The German navy will have 37 more vessels In active service this year than lastyear. Tbe total number to be assigned to duties last ing from three to ten months Is SXL Dr. Sullivan Whitney, the first Ameri can physician to manufacture homeopathic remedies, died at Newton villa. Mass., on Wednesday at tbe age of S3 years. Mrs. John Knox, of Portland, Mich., is dying of paralysis. Sbe was first afflicted three months ago, and has persistently refused med ical aid, being a firm believer in faith cure. There is said to be a railway in Mexico on one section of which the ties are mahogany, simply because in tbat part of the country ma bogary is the cheapest and most available wood. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wohlford, of Roanoke, Id A, celebrated their golden wed ding the other day, and among tbe guests were lire who attended the original ceremony half a century ago. John McQuay, of Talbot county, Md.t brought to Baltimore this week a terrapin fonnd in Wye river. It weighed six pnnnds. At the market rate it would sell for S10 50. "It is the largest terrapin seen in Baltimore in recent years." It is proposed in Paris to do away, as far as possible, with lunatic asylums, and to placo insane persons who are not prone to violence in the homes of couutiy people, who will be suitably remunerated by the State. Charlotte Scott, the colored woman who contributed the first 5 paid toward a monu ment for Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and whose name is on that account inscribed in bronze on tbe base of it, died last Saturday. The discovery of a freak in the shape of a wonderful boy contortionist at Bucksport, Me., wbo "can tie bimself into knots that would astound a professional," is tho latest Maine contribution to tbe multiplied wonders of the world. There died in Wixom, Oakland county, Mich., Tuesday morning, Mrs. Lucy Wixom, widow of tbe late Abijah Wixom. She was 91 years ot age in October last. Her twin sister, Mrs. Wood, died about a week before in Port land, Ionia county. A Chinese laundryman at Jackson, Mich., has in his window a Chinese water lily received a few days ago from the Celestial Kingdom. Tbe plant looks like the bine flag and on tbe end of each leaf bears a cluster of frag rant blossoms. Chesaning, Mich., has a religious fanatic wbo goes into trances and converses with the angels. While in this state he can be lanced to tbe bone without bleeding, the wound beating in a few hours. His name is Kaixsr Hoffman and be is a Roman Catholic, .. Turkish "soldiers are said to be very poor marksmen. Recent target contests in the Turkish army "demonstrated" that not one soldier in 20 ceuld hit a man at 20 paces. A target about four feet in diameter, placed 30 rods away, was bit on an average only once out of 30 shots. Miss Louise Littell, of Saginaw, hzs heroically sacrificed portions of her skin for the benefit of her sister Sarah, who was horri bly burned several weeks ago. Eleven pieces of skin one inch wide and seven inches long have been transplanted from one sister to tbe other with every indication of success. Edward lennon, who carried a pike in tbe Irish rebellion of 1793, died a few days ago in Brooklyn at tbe reputed age of 105 years. According to papers and records, which be bad preserved for many years, he was born in County Derry, Ireland, some time in 1735. He was a mere lad when tbe rebellion was in prog ress, but he went to the front and was placed in a garrison. Near Tang3, in German East Africa, an important series of stalactite caverns has been lately discovered. They are in a system of Juraislclimestone.and.it is said, tbe caverns surpass any similar ones in Europe, both in ex tent and size. Millions of bats seem to be the only present occupants of the interior. Africa already possesses one of the cavernons wonders of tbe world tbe stalactite caves of Wonder fontein, in the Transvaal. A strange accompaniment of a recent snowstorm at Deerfleld, Me., was the appear ance of multitudes of little black bugs tbat spotted tbe surface of the snow as if shaken from a pepper box. They were from one-sixteenth to one-eighth of an Inch long, with two feelers and six legs. "Tbey skipped abont like fleas, and seemed to enjoy burrowing in tbe soft snow." Tbey were drst observed an hour after the storm ended, and disappeared during the night, The schooner D. K. Baker sailed for New York from 'Charleston, S. C on Tuesday with her crew in irons. The men deserted the previous day. .The captain secured police as sistance. arrested them and took them aboard. He hired an extra crew to go across tbe bar and set the sails for him. When the sails were set and drawing, the captain put tbe extra crew aboard a tug and sent them back to the city, remarking that "hunger and mutiny wouldn't sail in the same ship, and they would get nothing to eat till they went to work." , A CORNER IN BMiT.ES. C. TJ. Kious I'd like to see that new device of yours for preventing the theft of a watch. I. N. Ventor-C'an't show It. It was stolen from me yesterday by a pIckpocket,-etcer Weekly. Timothy Father, hain't it 'bout time we was plowln' fer wheat?' farmer Hayfleld-JIng derned tbe pesky wheat. I can't tend this yere farm and stand by tha 'Liancein the Leglslatur' at the same time. Qreensburg Sparks. Benevolent Lady "Well, sir, I have given you a good meal. Arevou going away without saying- anything? Tramp (puttini his hat on)-What do you ex pect me to say. mi.m? I'm no Chauncey Depew. Chicago Tribune. "Weakley Statistics show that men' of brain and thought attain a good old age. and that nincompoops die very young. Miss bharpley-I presume you have your obit uary prepared. Mr. Weakley?-Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. Simpkins Is there no straight, broad road to the United States Senate? TImpklns I gness not. All I ever heard Of werecrooked.-CAicojo Timet. They are actually burning gunpowder in Chile. As the news spread abroad, and eonvle tlon Is evolved from rumor, a deep flush sufiuses tbe nut-brown face of Uuffalo BlIL and he can be heard to grit bis teeth nine blocks away when the wind is right.-S- Paul (Hoot. Lowdown Who is that homely girl over there with Van Broke, De Hardup and Da Lend me around her? Wayup She's the Daughter of MoAstral, the 130,000,000 oil klnx. Lowdown-Wbat a pretty girl, by iotet-Behott of tut )l'. . She Now, how old -apuld you take me to be? Jo flattery, now. He A bout 40. That Is. by striking an average. You talk as wisely as a woman of 80, and look like a girl of VS. Indianapolis Journal. "I thought I'd come to Washington and see Congress make some of our laws," saldtbe visitor, as be act his gripsack down on the hotel counter. -jPS "Bow manv vears da von exeeet to resata. with us?" tnanired thechrek politely.-Wirtfti. tan ron, eH--.
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