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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, MONDAY, PEBRUART 2, 1891.
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PITTSBURG. MONDAY, FEB. 2, 1891.
CHICAGO AND THE FAIR EXPENSES.
The statement from Chicago that the
official estimate of the cost of the Colum
bian Exposition is 515,000,000 has a smack
about it of 3 raid on the United States
Treasury. The intimation is rather too
obvious that since the hole is so deep, the
Government must help to pull Chicago out.
Nevertheless, the case is not so serious as
is intimated. The President's proclamation
was not to be issued until $10,000,000 was
pledged at Chicago; and therefore unless
there has been some remarkable juggling,
we may conclude that sum to be available.
If the coming Exposition is to so far sur
pass all previous efforts in that line, as to
cost $15,000,000, it may be presumed that
the receipts will make up the rest. The
case does not present any good gronud for
breaking the agreement on which that city
obtained the Fair, namely, that it was to
raise all the money required for the Fair,
outside of the appropriation for the Gov
ernment exhibit.
If Chicago is unable to carry ont that
agreement, as it was originally made, so
much the worse for Chicaco, and, incident
ally, for the rest of the country which put
faith in the Chicago promises.
A LITTLE AT A TIME.
It is interesting to observe that Mr.
Dingley, of Maine, has introduced a bill in
Congress absolutely prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors in the District of
Columbia. Apart from the doubt raised
whether Mr. Dingley has any hope of get
ting a bill passed which is introduced at
this late day of the session, there is decided
pertinence in the suggestion to him that he
had better confine his reformatory zeal io
smaller contracts at a time. The national
reputation would be more directly served
by establishing prohibition within the Capi
tol building, if anything in that line is
possible. Speaker Heed made a heroic
effort in that line last session by shutting up
the bar of t,Ke House restaurant; but it only
. resulted in creating an active trade at the
Senate restaurant until it was discovered
that people who were willing to take their
liquors in the Boston style could still be
served on the House side. Numerous
rules against cold tea have been established
at various times at the Senate end oi the
Capitol; but they have all fallen into des
uetude. If Mr. Dingley can get a law
passed stopping the trade in liquors at both
ends of the Capitol at once, without a
marked growth of speak-easies in the com
mittee and cloak rooms, it will be enough
glory for one session.
ELIGIBLE TO BE KEPT OCT.
"It is to be devoutly hoped that the move
ment reported by the Albany correspondent
of the Springfield SevubUcan to secure the
appointment of Thomas C. Flatt as Secre
tary of the Treasury will not meet with suc
cess. This office was marked by Mr. Piatt
as his own at the time of President Harri
son's accession, and the fact that it went to
Mr. "Windom instead is one of the matters to
be set down to the credit of the President,
The country has been trained by experience
to endure the spectacle of the Treasury as a
political machine; but it is not prepared to
see it operated for that purpose so utterly to
the exclusion of efficiency and care for the
fiscal interests of the nation as Mr. Piatt
would. Until the leopard can change his
cpots, the New York political manager is to
be set down as exactly the kind of man who
is not wanted at the head of the Treasury
Department
THE FACLT OF THE APPORTIONMENT.
The Congressional apportionment bill
which was passed by the Senate last week,
and is now in the President's hands, can be
counted ascertain of obtaining his signature
and is therefore the apportionment of repre
sentatives and electors which will be in
force for the next decade. Although the
increase of 24 members gives but seven of
them to what are generally ranked as Dem
ocratic States, this is so nearly what is
shown by the gain in population, as to be
accepted without any particular dissent The
natural suspicion of a partisan apportion
ment produced some criticism when the bill
was first reported; but full discussion has re
sulted in its passage as a practically just
measure.
Cut while the apportionment on the basis
of 356 members is acquitted of partisanship,
it cannot be held free of another fault
which is almost as grave, namely, the in
crease of an already unwieldy member
ship merely because no politician hasstamina
to propose the reduction of any State's
representation. Mr. Brosius recognized
the force of the principle involved by
a proposition that no future apportion
ments shall increase that membership.
So far as any practical results are con
cerned, however, this proposition is closely
akin to Hip Van Winkle's determination to
swear off, but not to count the present in
dulgence. If the same political influences
prevail in 1900 we may expect to see the
same increase of membership and the same
intimation of a good resolution for the
future.
The fact that the present House is far too
unwieldy for the intelligent transaction of
legislative business is beyond dispute.
Merely as a means of restricting its pro
ductive capacity oi special legislation it
would be well worth while to reduce the
membership of the House to 250. 'When
there were about that number of members in
the House it was possible to do business
with some approach to a clear understand
ing of what was done. As the House has
grown in size, its unirieldiness has increased
in direct ratio, and its capacity has been in
adverse ratio. During the past decade that
body has been swamped by the exuberance,
if not of its verbosity, at least of its fecun
dity in legislative jobs.
This evil will be increased during the
next decade by the addition to the size of
the House. Perhaps they will be so mani
fest as to force a reform in the next appor
tionment Bnt it seems as if the experience
of the last decade should have been enough
to make the lesson manifest to any one who
was susceptible to instruction.
VAST rNTERNAL COMMERCE.
In Secretary "Windom's last speech, he
surprised the New York merchants and
bankers who were present at that fatal ban
quet by pointing out the fact that the com
merce which passes through the Sault Ste.
Marie Canal exceeded by 2,257,000 tons the
entire tonnage of all nations sent through
the Suez Canal; while the tonnage of the
Detroit river was 2,463,000 tons more than
the total tonnage of the ports of London and
Liverpool. This remarkable showing of the
magnitude of our internal commerce has an
intimate bearing on the importance of im
proving our interior waterways, and es
pecially on the project of connecting the
Ohio river with the lakes by the Pittsburg
and Erie Canal.
"While it may bb questioned whether these
statistical statements will hold good in
other than exceptional years, they are
valuable as showing the immense import
ance of the lake traffic. Even with the
necessity of reaching the lakes by a railway
haul, "Western Pennsylvania furnishes a
large share of the traffic that passes
through the Detroit river, and a
still larger one of that which goes
through the Sault If the canal was built
which would bring vessels laden with ore to
Pittsburg and would enable them to return
laden with iron, steel and coal, what an im
mense expansion of that traffic would result 1
Beyond this, when we see what an extraordi
nary tonnage is produced by waterways
which, count an aggregate coast line of be
tween one and two thousand miles, what
infinite volumes of traffic would follow the
improvements recently sketched by the
special articles in The Dispatch, giving
a total of connected internal waterways,
with two or three outlets to the ocean, to be
reckoned by tens of thousands of miles t
The magnitude of the results that will
follow judicious effort to secure these re
sults, cannot be too urgently impressed on
the public mind. When they are fully
understood, it will be the universal conclu
sion that Government expenditute must take
that direction, long before we loan the
Government credit to the charitable task of
building ship canals in foreign countries.
ELECTRicrrr tn mlnes.
There is a valuable suggestion at least, in
the idea that has been revived by the Mam
moth mine disaster, that the perils of gas
explosion may be infinitely decreased by
lighting mines with electricity. This sys
tem was first used in a Hocking Valley
mine some two years ago, and has since
been adopted in several coal mines and
many of the iron and copper mines of the
Lake Superior region.
It is evident as pointed out by The Dis
patch in referring to this subject some
time ago, that the use of arc lamps or high
tension wires would not at all diminish the
danger. But incandescent lamps, which
burn only in vacuo, with low tension wires,
would diminish the danger by a great
factor. That they would absolutely pre
vent explosions is not certain, as
accidents might occur from the breaking of
a lamp or the exposure of wires. It is also
a question for experts to determine whether
they would give the warning of the presence
of gas that safety lamps do. But their light
would be far superior to either of the old
fashioned lamps, while their absolute seclu
sion from the air would avoid a vast num
ber of the explosions which now periodically
work wholesale destruction of life and prop
erty. Of course, the cost of lighting mines by
electricity would be largely in excess of the
old-fashioned lamps. But the entire cost
for many mines would not equal the loss of
such a disaster as those at the Hill Farm or
Mammoth mines. It is well worth the while
of mine owners to investigate the question
of lighting their mines in this way.
New it is heard that President Harrison
will not give Senator Ingalls an appointment
because the latter paired against the closure
rule. The esteemed Chief Exerutive is rapidly
searing the point where he will not allow the
people to vote for him for a second term be
cause they did not support the force bill.
The continued progress reported from the
Westingbouse Electric Company of the efforts
of Mr. Westingbouse to put it upon a sound
finaucial basis is gratifying to Pittsburgers,
who naturally take an interest in having their
manufacturing concerns strong and prosperous.
If the reports are true, affairs are now in shape
where moderate exertion by the stockholder?,
and the continuance of a disposition to as
slit amonc the creditors, promise to bring
around arrangements satisfactory to all. The
course of the head of this enterprise, inputting
up so largely from his own means to back the
company, is certainly proof of bis faith and
earnestness. It is Equally true that his course
in asking assistance in place of letting the com
pany go into court, or amalgamating with for
eign electric companies, has been of benefit in
preventing wider money disturbances, which
during the early stage of the embarrassment
were possible, but now cannot occur.
The news comes from the "West that the
wolves od the plains, being more badly off for
rations than even the Indians, have taken to
devouring the latter. Immediate steps should
be taken to inform the wolves that the Indian
agents are much better fed and therefore more
nourishing as an article of wolfish diet
The Democrats in the lower branch of
the Wisconsin Legislature have passed a bill
repealing the compulsory education law of
that State. They refused amendments offered
by the Republicans, removing the features of
the law which were objected to in the cam
paign but retaining the provision that all chil
dren should be educated. When the repealing
act has'been passed by the other branch and
signed by the ridiculous Peck, the Wisconsin
Democrats will have anchored themselves
firmly to the platform that universal education
will be fatal to a party that can elect a Bad Boy
humorist for Governor.
The German Government telegraph an
nounces a reduction in rates to the equivalent
of four cents per message. An American cor
poration would regard such a rate as proof pos
itive that a combination mnstbc formed to pro
tect the public against the calamity of getting
Its telegraphing done too cheaply.
About as remarkable an example of mak
ing grist of everything that comes to the mill
is the proposition of the Philadelphia Inquirer
that because Secretary Windom recommended
the building of a new mint in Philadelphia
therefore It should be built as a monument to
him. The need for a new mint is indisputable;
but in what respect it would be a monument tu
him, is something that few people except the
enereetic boomer of the New Philadelphia are
able to perceive.
A burglary on Fifth avenue, about
half-way between the Central police station
and the City Hall, shows that the members of
that profession, whether amateur or regular,
find their profit in audacity.
There seems to "be something in a name
after all. Jones has just been elected for the
fourth timeo the Nevada Seuatorablp. Brown
recently got a Supreme Court appointment,
while the best that has been done for the
Smiths is to permit one of them to run for
Mayor of Philadelphia, as the candidate of a
party composed exclusively of himself. This
discrimination against a very large family may
lead to f nture complications.
A chubch, where the congregation rises
up, not to call the pastor blessed, but to cast
doubts on his veracity, is in danger being
ranked like the Oak Alley church of old-time
fame, in the church militant
It is hardly correct for the Boston Globe
to say that Speaker Reed's discourtesy toward
Mr. Lane, the Irish Nationalist member of Par
liament, "has probably destroyed the small
remnant of bis Presidental chances." In the
first place, the matter is a small one to use with
reference to domestic politics. In the second
place, since the last election Speaker Reed has
not had a remnant of bis Presidental chances
left to destroy.
If it will take $15,000,000 to set the Chi
cago World's Fair going properly, Chicago had
better hustle to raise the 15,000,000. That's the
understanding on which the enterprise was lo
cated at Chicago.
The committee on that silver speculation
have been very successful in discovering noth
ing besides Senator Cameron's deal. But the
fact that this one discovery came upon them
unexpectedly, leads some of the carpers to
intimate that the committee has learned cau
tion by experience, and will be able to prevent
anything else from coming on them unawares.
When they get to injecting goat's blood
as a remedy for consumption, we may expect to
see the day como when mule's blood will be in
jected as a cure for weak political backbones.
It is a subject of congratulation that the
banking firm of Barker Bros., of Philadelphia,
have been able to resume operations. With
the late lesson against loading no a banking
firm with wildcat railroad securities, it may be
hoped that this old house will be able to con
tinue indefinitely on a sound and permanent
basis of stability.
BEPBESEHTATIVJ3 PEOPLE.
Me, Cleveland is said to be so supersti
tious that he never writes a letter on Friday.
Queen Victoria clings to some of the good
old ways of speech. To her way of thin King a
bouquet is still a nosegay.
Eiffel, of tower fame, is going into politics.
Be is the workingmen's candidate for the As
sembly from one of the districts in Pans.
Pasteur is a small, solidly-built man, very
pale and rather sickly in appearance. He
limps when he walks. His face shows in every
lineament a high order of intellect.
It is said that Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has re
ceived a letter from a real Lord Fauntleroy, in
which the writer expressed great admiration
for the famous story in which his name is used.
The late William H. Vanderbilt is quoted as
saying, a few weeks before his death, "Too
much money is a nuisance. The happiest time
in my life was when I was worth 8300,000."
Emma Mabellx Baker, wife of George
Broderick, is not to take Emma Abbott's place
in the Abbott Opera Company, although such
an announcement has been made. Mrs. George
Broderick is a contralto, and is now with the
Lotta company. Emma Broderick, wife of
William Broderick, the soprano, is the one who
is to succeed Emma Abbott
Kossuth's physician and former secretary
reports that the patriot is in the best of health,
and that, although 98 years old, Kossuth works
at his desk eight hours daily, and finishes the
day with a game of billiards, which he plays
with a steady band and generally wins. Kos
suth is about to issue the fonrth volume of his
memoirs, covering the period of the Polish
rising in 1601.
Helen Bertram of tho McCaull Opera
Company, is one of the very few women who
look better off the stage wlth'ut paint and
powder than when arrayed with all the skill
and art of the nineteenth century devices. In
personal appearance her face is distinctly oval
with a slight tendency to a pointed chin, her
nose is or the nondescript order, that may be
called saucy, but her chief beauty is her pro
fusion of dark hair and the scintillating dark
eyes. Judge Peffeb is a talker, and quite a
ready talker, and his experiences have been so
varied along the plane of mediocrity that he is
an interesting talker, says the Wichita Eagle.
He will be heard at length and often attempt
ing "the applause of listening Senate to com
mand," but while he will talk sense there will
be no applause If even there is assent Having
belonged to all parties his political views should
be comprehensive, but physically nor mentally,
and by neither experience or appearance will be
look or seem the representative of the farmer.
Uncle Sam to the Britishers.
Chicago Tribune.
So ! You chaps over thera at Jamaica
Concluded to givo me the shake, ahf
And you sent me no card of admission
To your little One-horse Exposition I
Well, now,
I vow.
To slight an old customer this way I call
Mighty stingy, and scurvy, and sneaking, and
small.
And I'm going to swear off from your rum,
By guml
Brains Wins the Cash
Oil City Blizzard.!
It has been philosophically and yet practically
figured by some one that out of every 10 paid
to a man who commands high pay, $1 is for
what he does and the other $S for what he
knows. It Is knowing how that costs, and that
is valuable. The number of hours a man
works is a consideration of minor importance
when salaries go into five figures. Knowing
bow is what such salaries are paid for, and the
fewer the men there are who have the natural
ability to learn bow, the higher the figures go.
The Fate of Manning and Windom.
New York Telegram. I
Manning and Windom from their coffins at
test that the man who tries to discharge con
scientiously the duties imposed on the Secre
tary of the Treasury runs the risk of forfeiting
his life to overwork.
Able to Afford Anything.
Chicago Tribune.
Cholly Old chappie, that's a strange looking
stone in your scarp-pin.
Fweddy That isn't a stone, Cholly. Any cad
can weah a stone. That's a new potato, baw
Jovet
A Happy Coincidence.
Kansas City Star.
By an agreeable and significant coincidence
the first cround was broken for the World's
Fair buildings at Chicaco on the day the force
bill was finally sidetracked.
A Dreadful Possibility.
Chicago Times.
Isn't Harrison afraid that if wings are at
tached to the White House it will be too fly to
let him catch it againT
In Tropical Dakota.
Kansas City Star.
People in North Dakota are trying to get up
a reputation for climate in their State by wear
ing straw hats and linen dusters.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Thomas J. Christian. Joshua Preston.
tSFECIAI. TKLEOBAM TO THE DISF ATCH.
Newark, Feb. 1. Thomas J. Christian, a resi
dent of Newark ever since 1827, one of the wealth
iest retired business men of tbls place, died at bis
borne this morning after a brief Illness. He was
87 years or age. He was a native of Virginia.
Alter coin? to his home from church last nltht,
Joshua 1'reston. a prominent farmer of Alcliein
township, dropped dead from paralysis of the
brain.
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Alexander McClelland
isrsciAL telegram to titi dispatch.
Grove city, Feb. l. Alexander McClelland
died at bis home, near here, last night ot heart
disease, aged 67 years.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
The man who fathers a lie assumes guardian
ship of a false and troublesome heir.
The year is a month old, isn't it? Some old
writer and thinker has said there is no one so
old but that be thinks he may live a year. This
is a pretty wide margin, to be sure, and would
give all or us plenty time to think matters over
before balancine our accounts with this world
and preparing a clean sheet for the next The
old philosopher who penned this liyed in an
age when life was not menaced as now. They
did not take such desperate chances on sea and
shore to get there as we of tbls swift and des
perate ace. A sound being in bis day probably
lasted the allotted time, barring the accidents
of war and party strife. Now there Is less war.
but there's more worry and hurry, and
the ghastly statistics of the one will
hardly overbalance those of the other.
Bat judging from the way in which many,
very many, too, cling, on the very edge of the
shadow, to their follies, their vices, their false
idols, it would seem that the belief in tbe year
margin of the ancients has taken deep root in
tbe minds of the moderns. The miser keeps
on hoarding his gold presumably In the hone
that some day he will enjoy it, but deliberately
putting off that enjoyment because of the be
lief that be is destined to live to a limit on
which he has fixed his warped mind. The
wrong-doer will do to-morrow that which be
did yesterday, heedless of the fact that each
sun shortens hit shadow. In fact a vast portion
of the players in the life drama refuse to re
hearse a new part, but strut tbrougb the old
lines recklessly until tbe curtain falls, and there
is no encore. So tbe scenes seldom change.
It's tbe same old two-and-sixpence all along
the world's highway. There's plenty of time to
do this, plenty of time to do that lots of time to
turn around in, lots of time to think of things
which should be thought of, bnt which are not
thought of until too late. And we take the
chances, desperate though tbey be, and march
right up to tbe spot where the old man with a
bricht spade is turning tbe green sod or pecking
away at tbe cold clay. Perhaps on tbe rim of
the abyss we can lay our load of errors, and per
haps not. Who knows? Better take no stock
in tbe year margin, or the month margin, or the
day margin. But if you are a believer in tbe
twelve-month limit and did not turn over a
new leaf at tbe beginning of the new year, re
member eleven months only remain now. The
great difficulty, however, is to ascertain wben
the year margin begins. We all know when it
ends.
The highwayman always transacts business
on a spot cash basis.
Most people nowadays go to tbe theaters
just for fun, and grumble if they don't get it.
In Stettin the inhabitants never complain to
the health authorities about the Oder.
The Senate is truly a deliberative body, inas
much as it deliberately ignores principles for
party and business for buncombe.
When clouds come and rain falls dust turns
to mud. When tears fall joy turns to sorrow.
The preacher Is forced to respect his elders.
Some of the world's rulers have been any
thing but straight.
Expert gamblers can give each other a help
ing hand without much trouble.
Some Modern Bells.
Hear the patrol bell I
What a tale of human failings its clanging
notes foretell.
How its ding, ding, ding tells you oi the city's
sin:
Gather in, gather in.
Gather in, in, in,
"W e gather in, gather in, gather In.
Heedless of tbe bitter waitings.
Of the mockings, jeers and railings,
Of the curse of human failings
Which brought about the sinl
Gather in! gather in!
'Mid the din, din, din.
We gather in, gather in, gather in!
Hear the mercy belli
What a story full of sufferings its rapid strokes
foretell.
How its bang, bang, bang makes you feel a
twinge of pain:
I have a being slain, a human being slain!
There's a sob lfr every stroke
For the bones that may be broke
Hissing steam and stifling smoke
Sounding in your ears quite plain:
I have a being slain, a human being slainl
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,
I have a being slainl
Hear tbe cash-box beft I
What a tale of joy and sorrow Its silvery sounds
foretell.
How its tinkle, tinkle, tinkle seems to say in
store and bar:
Here we are, are, are, ,
Here we are. here we are.
Visions of fine silts and laces,
Huncry children with wan faces.
Crabbed men with wooden maces
Come to you in store and bar.
How its silvery jingles jar
If your credit's down to par.
While you hear in store or bar:
Here we are, here we are.
Here we are, are, are,
Here we are, here we are, here we are!
How tbe jingle and the chinking
Bets your muggy mind to thinking
Of tbe cost of love and drinking
As you hear in store or bar:
Here we are, here we are,
Here we are, are, are;
Joy and sorrow, here we are, are, are.
Here we are, here we are, here we are !
Why is an unruly child like Jonah? Because
be has to be whaled before he can be brought
Don Cameron evidently believes silence is
silver and disappearance is golden.
RURAL real estate owners seem to imagine
that tax payers should be pauperized in order
to provide tbe poor with a habitation.
The Force bill seems to be in the last ditch,
with Mr. Hoar as chief mourner.
The daring men who leave civilization for
the benefit of geography stand a better chance
of living in the woods than in tho open. Emin
Pasha had a close call in Zanzibar and
Schwatka died after a fall down stairs. Soli
tude is evidently safer than society.
The man with the long arm thanks heaven
he is built that way while eating dinner at a
boarding bouse or courting a fat girl.
When Brlgham Young was in his prime he
was the boss sealer.
Ir you get into a row with some fastidious
folk you are liable to be called out.
The air ships so far have sailed splendidly
on wind.
The organs now calling Don Cameron a
Democrat will praise his patriotism wben
Pennsylvania is asked to do her duty once
more.
Rivers emptying into the sea often froth at
tbe mouth.
The wires might be burled like the Force bill
if Don Cameron could be "sicked onto" Jay
Gould.
Deaf folks are fortunate. They cannot hear
the dull thuds.
Brown, the new Chief Justice, is childless,
and, judging from tbo quiet way in which he
got there, must also be childlike and bland.
A blizzard puts the overhead wires under
foot.
Bio Head is in Washington visiting his
white-namesakes.
When the police charge a mob the tax
payers have to foot the bill.
Jay Gould will get even with Old Probs by
putting up the tolls on weather bulletins after
the wires are straightened out.
Authors are the only ones who subsist on
their tales.
Witt Is a father; who has become famous J
like the earth? Because tbe son revolves around
him.
If Mr. Morton is not careful he will forget
himself some day and put bis feet on the desk.
Lawyers who do the St. Lawrence in sum.
mer feel at home in tbe Long Sault. On the
upper lakes they patronize the Soo line.
It is useless to tip the waiter a wink unless
you show your band.
Women should remember that it's but a step
from naughtiness to naught.
Sous so-called sound advice is merely the
sound of the voice.
Jay Gould wears born? one day and claws
tbe next. He would make a ten-strike in a
dime museum.
Lead trust stocks are quoted as heavy oc
casionally, but they float on linseed oil Just the
same.
When you hear one woman tell another she
was dying to see her you will not go far astray
if you make up your mind that she was dying
with envy.
Astronomers frequently go on starring
tours.
Actors have to make up their forms and
faces instead of their minds.
Turfites are hossifled men.
Willie Winkle.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
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Information Concerning Portraits.
Clarence W. Bowen, Secretary of the Com
mittee on the Centennial of Washington's In
auguration, 251 Broadway, New York, desires
information regarding the portraits of Thomas
Fitzsimons. Thomas Hartley and Thomas
Scott, members of Congress from Pennsylva
nia. These portraits, for the Memorial volume,
are particularly desired to complete tbe list of
portraits of the Penusvlvania delegation in
Congress at the time of Washington's inaugur
ation. Clarence W. Bowen.
New York, Jan. 3L
Bay St. Louis on the Golf;
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
Dear Sir In to-day's issue of your valuable
paper you state in answer to inquiry from
Braddock as to location of Bay St. Louis that it
is in Louisiana on the "Mississippi river. Is it
not in Mississippi on Gulf of Mexico?
A Reader.
Wheeling, Jan. 3L
An error was made in the first statement.
"A Reader" locates the place correctly.
IKGEBSOLIS OPHTIOH OF WLND0M.
A Charming Picture o'f Domestic Happiness
in the Secretary's Home.
I had known Secretary Windom 26 years,
said Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll to a reporter
of the Chicago Times tbe other day. A better
man never lived, nor a happier one. His mar
ried life was like one unbroken spring day.
His was really true happiness. He cared more
for the comforts of home than the glamour of
renown. The truly happy man is be who pre
fers the solitude of the valleys, where brooks
sing of contentment, where repose dwells far
away from the madding crowd and uproar
ious multitude. Tbere it is that true happiness
is found. Such a life did Secretary Windom
live. He loved homo not alone for the sweet
repose it afforded, but also for thn joys unsel
fishly shared with a beloved wife.
Yes I suppose now that he is dead tbere
will be many after his place. They may fight
for it, they can hardly fill it as he did. A bet
ter financier it will be bard to find. Mr. Win
dom knew his topic by heart, and while I did
not in all things agree with him. yet I could
not, and others can not refrain from admiring
the force and power and keen logic with which
he defended his position. Ho was an able
writer and a protund student and thinker. He
defended his principles with all the earnestness
and enthusiasm of youth mellowed by the
soberer judgment of maturer experience. It
will indeed be hard to find a man equally
capable ot filling his place.
IHE PEOPLE BULK
Only Sorrow and Not Alarm Felt When an
Official Dies.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
What a great country it is and what confi
dence its 65,000,000 people have in it when the
bead of tbe Treasury, handling more than
$1,000,000 a day and reeulatinc thousands of
millions of indebtedness, can suddenly die
without even a lipple In commercial confidence
or in tbe stock market I
There is no other land like it.
And why does this come about?
Because the people rule and because they
know that no man is so great that tbere are not
1,000 others fit to fill bis place. ,
Our Navy Is Formidable Now.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Had not the sudden death of Secretary Win
dom stopped all turtberspeechmaklng at the
New York Board of Trade dinner. Secretary
Tracy would have given some interesting facts
and figures relative to our new navy. The
manuscript of his speech is a concise account of
the new ships recently ordered by Congres
and now under contract, most of which will be
Duilt in this city. Ihe fighting ships will be
able to hurl at an enemy 28,400 pounds of steel
during tbe first ten minutes of an engagement,
and, to put it poetically, a single simultaneous
discharge from all the guns on board any one
of them would have eneruy enough to blow a
vessel of her own size and weight 21 feet out ot
water.
Senator Ingalls' Childhood,
"lam the oldest of nine chilaren, of whom
six besides myself now survive, two sisters bav
ins died in infancy," said Senator Ingalls to a
New York Sun reporter. "They said I was a
delicate child, and my father says, precocious
in my intellectual development, and able to
read intelligently when I was two years old. I
can hardly believe it, but he informs me that
my disposition was excessively sensitive, shy
and diffident, and I certainly did not then give
promise of that 'virility and audacity' which
my enemies eay I have displayed in the Senate.
I studied at the public schools until the age of
16, and becan my study preparatory for college
under a private tutor."
A Vaquero Wants a Job.
New York Sun.
A man with long hair and a breezy Western
air sloshed into tbe Mayor's office yesterday
and said in a loud voice that he was a South
American vaquero, and that his name was
Thomas McCormack. He wants a job on the
mounted police, and was willing to show his
ability by riding a mustang around the City
Hall Park and putting a bullet in the eye of the
oil painting of George Washington. Mr.
Speer, the Mayor's private secretary, referred
Mr. McCormack to the Police Commissioners,
and then remarked to himself that such things
made him t-t-tired.
Our Growing Congress.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
We now have 16 times as many people and
5 times as many Representatives as we had in
171)0 population increasing so rapidly as to
force a large tncrea-e in ratio. Were that of
1703 to obtain nor the Fifty-third Congri-sa
would have a House of 1,893 members which
heaven forbidl
Childlike Confidence Not Rewarded.
Philadelphia Times.
One of the newest and most remarkable trnst
schemes yet organized is that financial El
Dorado, which, by the victims puttinc In $20 or
so, allows bim to trust that in a year's time he
will draw $100 out.
An Appropriate State Seal.
Louisville Ccnricr-Journ il.l
The sturdy oi:iz mi ho is holding a plow on
tho State seal of Kansas is probably Mr.Peffer.
Where Closure Is Supreme.
Philadelphia Itecord.')
Germany's "closure" against our national
quadruped betrays few signs of relaxation.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
A Presbyterian Minister and Catholic
Father of Pittsburg Write a Book in
Harmony The Shattering of Ancient
1 Idols The Breakfast Table.
I WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCII.l
They say that at a literary club, held some
time ago. somewhere, somebody read a paper
entitled "The Idiot at the Breakfast Table."
I wonder wby Dr. Holmes chose breakfast as
tbe time of day for his series of charming and
altogether delightful monologues and dialogues.
Now, at dinner, people are in a mood for con
versation. After dinner, the human animal is
said by unkind critics to be in his pleasantest
temper. Tea time is very well, as Dr. Holmes
has just now most satisfactorily proved to us.
But at breakfast, people are sleepy if tbe meal
is early, and in a hurry if the meal is late. In
many households the bread-winners begin the
day witb an exercise In bread snatching. They
hurry downstairs, drink a cup of coffee, witb
one sleeve of their overcoat on, devour a roll
while they are adjusting tbe other sleeve, and
rush away to arable car, a day's business and
sure dyspepsia.
Who converses at breakfast? Who is amia
ble at breakfast? What "professor" is in a
mood for wit, what "poet" for sentiment, at
breakfast?
Next to the professor who so wonderfully
overcame the malign influences of the break
fast table ih the veracious history for which
Dr. Holmes is responsible, I have an admira
tion for the old professor of "Sartor Resartus"
bim of tbe tall percb, and tbe wide overlook
of tbe city streets and houses; bim of the satir
ical vein and the brilliant imagination, I envy
him his professorial chair. You remember
what he gaveMectures In: He was '"Professor of
Things in General." Happy man, who could
follow out whatever interested bim and aban
don whatever bored him. "Things in General"
could anybody ask a wider subject, or more
liberty in the treatment of it?
And so I set this title at the outsat of this
Monday Meditation. And you will see it again
next week if you look for it. And the.week
after next. And so on, until either the reader
or the writer, or both together, agree to break
partnership.
An End to Partnerships.
Most partnerships come to an end, I notice,
some time. Or, if they keep on, they have to
have the word "limited" written after the firm
name. Even Baring Bros, have found that out.
All but the best of human partnerships, inti
macies, friendships, get to be limited. At the
beginning tbere seems no limit, but after a
while tbe thoughts of two people unless they
keep taking in new thoughts get to going in
a narrow round. And the partnership is "lim
ited." Most statements of thought come to be lim
ited after a while, and then go into bankruptcy.
Tbey were true, but now they are true no
longer.
All things are being turned upside down in
these busy days. Tbe old rascals of history are
putting on haloes, and learning to play on tbe
harps of heaven; and tbe saints are belngshown
np in a sad way. As for the theories upon
which the behavior of the universe has np to
this time been sufficiently accounted for, we
are being taught now that they are the merest
moonshine, we have an uncomfortable, rest
less desire in these days to know tbe real truth
about things, and that is as bad as a revolution.
It is made out, somehow, that Henry V1IL
was a pious kin?, with a tender and sensitive
conscience. Nero, they say, instead of fiddling
while Rome was burning, really took part with
his imperial violin in a charity concert which
was given for the benefit of tbe sufferers.
Washington chopped no cherry trees. William
Tell never existed. Nothing seems worthy of
unqualified credence, except "Mother Goose."
One Pet Theory Questioned.
There is the Aryan theory. Those Aryan an
cestors of ours, to whom we have been accus
tomed to look back witb pride (part of the
pride being admiration of our own clearness of
vision in being able to look back so far!) it is dis
covered now. so Prof. Huxley would persuade
us,thatuosuchpeople ever Inhabited the Dlanet.
All that pleasant story about tbe cradle of the
race in Central Asia, and the dispersion into
Northern, Central and Southern Europe, and
tbe variations of tongue and feature caused by
differences in weather, and all the rest of it, is
quite discredited.
They are beginning to claim now that the
nebular hypothesis is a wrong guess. Theysay
that tbe vast reaches of space, instead of being
filled with gaseus matter, out of which worlds
were, and are, and will be formed, are really
filled with flying cobblestonesl Outside our at-
mnflnli... ,. c ava nn!s..a,l Tn, ...(......I
ng on witb missiles hurtling in all di
rections, once in a while one of tbe big stones
comes crashing down here, red :hot, to be
christened a meteor. In this electrical, biolog
ical, neological generation, wh can be abso
lutely sure of anything?
Is it, for example, to absolutely sure that
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare? Nothing can
be plainer than the fact that the man who
wroie tbese plays was a man of education. Of
course be knew human nature like a book, and
that is the most valuable element in education.
But be knew books, also. He had au easy,
familiar, speaking acquaintance with the lit
erature of bis day. You can see that by his
references and Illustrations. He knew so
much aboutlaw that a Chief Justice of England
was amazed at it. The man who wrote this
poetry has indicated In it bis knowledge of
"some of the most abstruse proceedings of
English jurisprudence." And he was well
read in various languages. He talks Latin
and French as if he bad learned their alpha
bets in bis babyhood. He has founded some
of bis plays on plots taken from Greek and
Italian books which had not in bis day been
translated into the tongue ot Stratford-on-Avon.
Plainly a man of letters.
Could Not "Write His Own Name.
But William Shakespeare could not write bis
own name without au exertion and contortion!
of every muscle in his body, from his tongue to
bis toes. Everybody kuows what a disjointed
irregular, lop-sidcu, misshapen, blotted
loose-angled "William Shakespeare" he set
down on paper. It must have taken
bim several minutes of hard labor to
accomplish those two words. I know,
of course, bow often the best writers are the
worst writers; how the more graceful is the
thought, tbe more vagun Is the penmanship.
But Shakespeare's illegibility is of a distinctly
unliterary kind. Tbis is tbe hand of a man
who was unused to tbe manipulation of a pen.
Shakespeare's father and motber, it seems,
had a simpler way of making their sign manual.
They made their "mark." A blotted cross, or
an inky thumb, gave tbem a quick and easy
signature. Theysay that this illustrious name
has been spelled in some 4,000 differ
ent was. Tbe statement seems bevond
reasonable believing, but Shakespearean
statlsticans have somehow counted up
that number. But Shakespeare's father
and mother had no need to choose amidst this
maze of possible signature. Even Shakes
peare's favorite daughter, Judith, when well
entered Into years of discretion, signed her
name in tbis modest, primitive, but not
especially cultured fashion. She made her
"mark."
And Out of the midst of tbls unlettered
family came a man of wide and profound
education, versed in literature, a linguist and a
lawyerl
A Feature of the Poet's Will.
It is not a little remarkable (following tbls
tempting paradox a step or two further) that
we find in Shakespeare's will no mention of
any literary property. He rememberd his
"second best bed," which he bestows as a mean
bequest npon his wife tbe fair Anno Hatha
way, whom be courted in tbe thatched cottage
at Sbottery but somehow be forgets that be
has in bis possession certain unpublished
manuscripts, such as "Macbeth." "Julius
Caesar," and "The Tempest," (possibly of
value). Tbese he quite forgets. Did he ac
count tbem as waste paper, or did tbey really
not belong to him at all?
Look at tbe man's picture any one of the
score of different representations of his face,
A stout, stolid, fat-cheeted, beef-eating
theater manager! That this rotund fellow
wrote "Hamlet," passes imagination.
Oh, well; what matters It? Probably this is
moonshine, too. Which? Tbo old theory, or
tbe new? Either 1 Nothing is is so deceptive
as figures except facts. It can be proved, you
know, that Napoleon never existed. He is a
sun myth. And the gospels were written in the
third or, fourth centuries, and are. myths too.
Yes; nothing Is so fallacious astbe unques
tionable conclusions of logic This Shakespeare-Bacon
business would no doubt amuse
Shakespeare and Bacon hugely. Bacon wrote
the name of William Shakespeare eight times
one day upon a bit of scribbling paper, being
in a scrtbiling mood. And now Ignatius Don
nelly finds Bacon's name t.cribbled all over
Shakespeare's plays.
What nutters it? We have the plays. Who
cares fur the title-page? That, in most books,
is tbe least important page of all.
Harmony of Pittsburg Clergymen.
I wish, though, that the Pittsburg priest and
the Pittsburg parson wbo wrote a book to.
getber. and published it the other day, bad set
their names and their ecclesiastical titles upon
the initial page. As it is, the little book ap
pears with no other sponsor than Messrs.
Stevenson & Foster, the printers. A Presby
terian minister and a Roman father have
written, cn'jointly. a bonk of ihcoioiv, a
caterhiiiu '' liu Christian leligion. Uiuark-
Blllf!
Remarkable from tbe fact of Its curious
authorship. Remarkable, in tbe light of it
origin, for what It says, and doesn't say. The
little book was written for use at Morganza,
and wa adopted by the board of control of that
institution as containing truths to -which no
Christian could objeot. It is set forth -for J
possible adoption in "mixed schools." Exactly
what that verbal adjective denotes Is not clear.
"What is supposed to be "mixed" in these
schools? Probably tbe religious or theological
opinions of the parents of tbe scholars. Espe
cially should it be suited, one would infer from
its authorship, for scbools in which Roman
Catholics and Protestants meet togetber.
I have looked over tbls little pamphlet with
great interest. If this priest and tbis parson'
represent any considerable number ot their
brethren, here is a common meeting place.
Here Is a significant prophecy of what may be
in the f nture. Tbe chief reason why religldn is
not taught to the future citizens of this re
public Is becauseHoman Catholics and Protest
ants cannot agree. But here tbey do agree.
Here is Christianity without Calvinism and
without Romanism. It is true; it is ample; it
covers the ground; it is enough.
Wby teacb this admirable catechism only at
Morganza? Wby not teach it still more out of
Morganza, that tbere may be fewerin Morganza
to need teaching?
CHILE AND ITS DICTATOR.
A Former Diplomat to Peru Throws Some
Light Upon the Man Whom the Chilean
Navy Is Trying to Depose Minister
Trescott's Embarrassing Experience.
Locisville, Feb. L In an interview with a
reporter of the Courier-Journal, Hon. Charles
W. Buck. ex-United States Minister to Peru1.
bas this to say apropos of the revolution now
in progress in Chile:
"1 was in Chile during tbe latter part of 1886.
Then Senor J. M. Balmaceda had but recently
been elected President. Balmaceda had been
Minister of Foreign Relations under President
Santa Maria, and was the Government candi
date for tbe Presidency, representing the Lib
eral party iu opposition to the Conservatives.
I afterward, with Mr. Roberts, United States
Minister to Chile, visited President Balmaceda,
and found him a very accomplished gentleman,
poring tbe Presidental campaign Balmaceda
had made a canvass ot tbe country, and it was
understood had nearly exhausted his private
fortune, which was but small, in the race. He
then appeared to b a man upward of 40, tall,
and of commanding appearance. Balmaceda
had indicated great decision and vigor while in
the Cabinet of Santa Maria.
Minister Trescott's Diplomatic Mission.
This is the man that Mr. Trescott, on his
special mission in 1882; had to deal witb in rep
resenting Mr. Blame's threatened intervention
in the war between Chile versus Peru and Bo
livia. Mr. Trescott sailed from Hew York in
the latter part of November, 1881, with instruc
tions ot a very serious nature from Mr. Blaine,
which looked to a restraint upon Chile's views
of her rights of conquest. This excited great
indignation in that country, and which she did
not hesitate to resent with an implied threat.
Mr. Trescott arrived at Santiago early in Janu
ary, 1882. But meanwhile Mr. Blaine had been
superseded in the State Department by Mr.
Frelmgbnysen, and the views of President Ar
thur and his Secretary were quite different
from those of President Garfield and Mr.
Blaine. The Chilean Government was fully
advised of the developments which meanwhile
had reversed at Washington the disposition of
the State Department.
A Diplomat In a Bad Box.
"But our Government, while changing its in
structions to Mr. Trescott, had failed to advise
him by cable, although the change of policy
bad been allowed to leak out, and tbe astute
Chilean Minister, Mr. Godoy, had cabled his
Government byway of Paris and Buenos Ayres.
When Mr. Trescott. accompanied by Mr."
Walker Blaine, met Senor Balmaceda with the
view of having young Mr. Walker Blaine
present the invitation for the proposed Ameri
can Conference, to Mr. Trescott's ntterastonlsh
ment, Balmaceda expressed the wish that Mr.
Blaine would not read tho communication, and
turning to Mr. Trescott, said: -It is useless;
your Government bas withdrawn the invita
tion.' (This was what Chile desired.) Then
observing Mr. Trescott's astonishment, added:
Your instructions from Mr. Blaine have been
published, and otbers are on their way to you
modifying your original instructions in very
important particulars.' Mr. Trescott replied:
Do you mean. Mr. Secretary, that both my
original Instructions and the instructions from
tbo present Administration are published?
Balmaceda answered: 'Yes; before you have
received them I have a telegram.'
President Balmaceda Is Defiant.
c- "Perhaps never before wasa diplomatallowed
to be placed in such confusion and humiliation
by his own Government as was Mr. Trescott!
His reply was: 'That may all be so, Mr. Secre
tary, but I think that a diplomatist of ordinary
experienco would conclude, when he learns
that his instructions have been communicated
to the Government with which be is negoti
ating before he receives tbem himself, that it is
time for bim to be silent until be does receive
them.' Then, althougb engaged In a war with
two countries, e&ch of whose numerical
strength exceeded ibat of bis own. Senor Bal
maceda went on to say to the representative of
tbe United States, 'that the position was
strair.ed. and he did not know bow
long Chile could bear such interference." And.
in the same connection, on another occasion,
be said: "The United States may overpower ns,
if she can afford to overwhelm a weaker sister
republic, but if she attompts tu impose her will
upon us, we will die bard.' And this is the
sort of a man that the present insurgents in
Chile have to confront.
The President's Quarrel With Congress.
There has been impending trouble for some
years between the President and Congress, and
on a former occasion, when strife was running
high in Congress, and there was talk of Its ex
citing trouble outride, it is said Balmaceda re
marked that 'if Congress wanted to have a row
the members must have it out among them
selves, for he would so dispo-e the police tbat
tbey sbould not get outside with it.'
"From what Igatber f thelittle that bas been
published, it seems tbe action of tbe Cbilean
forces and insurgents is in response to a call
from Congress in opposition to the Executive.
The Cbilean Government, until the recent out
break, bad maintained 'the peace for nearly
40 j ears. The last revolution was In 1SSL"
A HUGE BAIL OF F1EE.
A Phenomenal Sight Caused by an Electric
Wire Accident.
Cleveland, Feb. L About 10 o'clock last
night an uninsulated portion of an arc electric
light wire came In contact with tbe wet wall of
the building on Ontario street opposite Cham
plain, occupied by the Cleveland Drygoods
Company. An arc was formed and a globe of
fire apparently as large as an ordinary football
rolled down the front of the building from the
fourth story.
Before the current reached the pavement the
fire had destroyed it. The pbenomenon at
tracted considerable attention, as the illumina
tion caused by the ball of fire was quite bril
liant. J o damage was done, not even so much
as to extinguish tbe arc lamps burning in front
of tbe dry goods store.
PcOer Nobody's FooL
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
They may laugh as tbey will at Senator
elect Peffer, of Kansas, and say that he grooms
bis bead with a curry comb and brushes his
teeth with a corncob, but tbey will find wben
tbey know him tbat be is nobody's gosling. He
is a man of brains and attainments, and will
disappoint a great many friends in the West if
be does not shine in the Senate.
Sarah and Sardou.
New York Wo'ld.l
About the time these lines are printed Sarah
Bernhardt should be nearing New York. We
bid her welcome, and we wish her all success.
Tbere is bnt one Sardou, and Sarah is his
prophetess.
Adien to Sectional Strife.
St. Louis Itepnbllc
Kansas and South Carolina having got to
getber with a party of their own in the United
States Senate, it is about time to conclude tbat
the war is over.
Both Shaken by the Wind.
St. Paul Pioneer-frees.!
Two bruised Reeds we wot of Whltelaw and
Thomas are still in doubt as to what hurt 'em,
a Western cyclone or a silver brick.
The Only Stumbling Block Left.
St. Louis I'ost-Dispatcb.
The force bill boycott having been lifted,
nothing now stands in the way of the success
of the World's Fair except Chicago.
Bob on the Force Bill.
Robert G. Ingersoll.
I would like to see honest elections every
where; but, after all, we have to trust tbe peo
ple of the States.
Something Dropped.
Atlanta Constitution.
When Senator Iugal!' cblckens came borne
to roost they lit ruht on top of him.
Happy Mr. Sardou.
Washington Post.
Mr. Bardou's-'Thermldor" Is being adver
tised on the Kroutzer Sonata plan.
CDBI0DS CONDEUSATIOHS.
Twenty-nine States have enacted lawl
restricting the sale of cigarettes.
School children in Victoria, Australia,
are carried on the streetcars free.
The United States consumes two-third
of tbe tin plate produced in the world.
Six millions of dead letters are annually
torn and sold as old paper in Washington.
Hebrew women, on the average, ara
said to lire longer than those of any other nee.
A Columbus, Mich., girl split and piled
two and one-half cords of wood tbe other day.
Twenty-one members of the Kansas
House of Representatives are deaf, or partially
deaf.
Pasco county, Fla has a genuine coffee)
tree on exhibition at the Ocala Semi-Tropical
Exposition.
A well of "electrical water" has been
found in Kansas. The man who puts his hands
in it experiences a forcible shock.
The stock raisers of Korthern Mexico
are making efforts to Induce the Federal Gov.
ernment to obtain an increase of duties on
American stock.
The Commissioners of Fisheries for the
State of New York have arranged a plan to
place in tbe water of Lake Ontario 13L00O.0GO
white Bsh. 4,000,000 ciscos and from 8,000,000 to
10,000,000 wall-eyed pike.
The explorations of Southern Africa
are beginning to flood Europe witb zoological
curiosities. In Antwerp and Hamburg they
have now regular sale menageries, where
amateurs can purchase any pet, from a dwarf
parrot to an extra-sized rhinoceros.
Mrs. T. Belleisle, of Cheboygan, Mich.,
gave birth to twins Wednesday, a fine, healthy
boy and girl, and the motber and children are
doing well. The father is somewhat surprised,
however, having in about two and one-bait
years become the father of five children, two
sets ot twins and a fine little girl.
Six Chinamen and two white men were
arrested in Buffalo on Wednesday night,
charged witb violation of the Chinese exclu
sion act. One of the white men. James A. Mil
ler, is believed to manage tbe Canadian end of
an underground railroad that bas been carry
ing Chinamen into tbe United States by the
wholesale of late.
A Georgia man says he has two of the
best policemen in his service in tbe State.
Tbere is one peculiar trait about tbem, and
that is that they never go to sleep and never
get off their beats. Tbey are two enormous
geese. Tbey march np and down a regular beat
in front of his bouse at night, and whenever
anything enters the yard at night they begin
yelling like Commanche warriors.
A Georgia man owns a pet catamount.
It was caught wben quite young, and during
its captivity it bas been reduced to a degree of
docility which enables its present owner to fon
dle and play witb it, not without, however, a
degree of consideration as to which way he
strokes the cat's fur, for the natural fercious
ness of his nature is. even after ayear's impris
onment and training, easily aroused. He is
rapidly clearing his quarters of rats.
Becently there were 700 cases of typhoid
fever at Duluth, and four samples of water
were sent to a university professor for analysis.
From one sample a drop of water was placed in
beef tea. beated to a temperature of the human
body and time was given the fever germs to
grow. A small quantity was then injected into
two rats, and both died in a short time.
Further experiments and analysis are in pro
gress, but tbe unbealtby state of the water of
that city is conclusively proven.
A careful analysis of tbe brain of Laura
Brldgman has been carried on since her death
in May, 1889. at Clark University. Worcester.
Mass. It shows but a slight variation between
tbe brain of tbis wonderful human being and
tbat of tbe ordinary person. Tbis difference,
though slight, is held to be sufficient to explain
Miss Britlgman's lack of sight, hearing and
speech. There is a shrinkage and deformity
noted in those parts of the brain which
phrenologists assert bear a direct relation to
these faculties.
The following great names are enlisted
in dislike of matrimony: Newton, Locke,
Boyle, Gibbon. Hume. Adam Smith, Harvey,
Leibnitz, Bayle. Hobbes. Hampden, Sir E.
Drake. Earl of Essex. Pitt, Michael Angelo,
the three Caracci. Sir Joshua Reynolds,Haydn,
Handel. Wolsey. Pascal. Fenelon, De Henry,
Pope. Akenside. Swift. Goldsmith, Gray, Col
lins, Thomson and Jeremy Bentham. Among
the ancients we find nearly all their great
philosophers: Plato, Pythagoras, Epicurus.
Bion. Anaxagoras, Heraclitus, Democritns and
Diogenes.
The use of electric light in submarine
exploration, by divers and others, bas been
successfully established. Anovel proposal is
the use of an electro-magnet for indicating tha
exact site of submerged torpedoes, lost an
chors, or other iron masses. The magnet is
lowered into the sea, within a few feet of the
bottom, by a line and a delicate strain dyna
mometer. It is excited by a battery, and al
lowed to drift with the boat over the suspected
place, when tbe sunken iron attracts the mag
net, and tbe dynamometer reveals tbe fact by
tbe increased strain.
Isaac Meyers, a leader among the negroes
of the country, bas just died in Baltimore. He
issued the call for the national labor conven
tion of colored men which met In Washington
'JO years ago, Irom which much was anticipated
at that time, and which indeed led to State or
ganization in the South and West, but as a
movement bas now quite disappeared. Meyers
has been a special agent of the postofflce, was
once Secretary of tbe Republican State Com
mittee of Maryland, past Grand Master of
negro Masons ot tbat State and author ot a
Masonic digest.
In booming its candidate for Mayor, the
Anniston (Ala.) Hot Blast made tbe familiar,
though always ludicrous, typographical blunder
of declaring Colonel Miller to be a "battle
scared veteran." In its next issue it explained
and apologized for the unfortunate error, but
in tbe apology a jocose compositor rounded out
and aggravated the offence by making the
Colonel a "bottle scarred veteran." It was a
scumle trick to play, for it bad not the re
deeming merit of originalitr; still it rarefied
the atmosphere of Anniston to a degree which
amply justified the title of tbe Hot Blast.
An American would call an ordinary
Cuban house bare and unfurnished. It has no
carpets, only a rug here and there in front
of a bed or sofa. There are no curtains at tho
windows, for tbe air must not be excluded; the
seats are never upholstered, they would be too
warm and might harbor insects; and tbere are
no mattresses on the beds, for the same
reasons; you sleep on a ploce of canvas covered
witb a sheet, and possibly a light blanket be
neath. There are no stoves or fireplaces. Tbere
is no ornamentation or decoration of tbe in
terior, though tbe exteriors are not only painted
in the brigntest colors, but often elaborately
tiled.
LET TJS SMILE.
Boy,
Snow,
Joy,
Enow.
Hands
Small,
Make
Ball.
Ball,
Flies,
Bat
Dies.
Gent
Mad,
Swears
Bad.
Gent Joy.
tfat, fun.
High Boy
Hat. Bun.
Smith, Gray Co.U Monthly.
A man who married a Boston eirl pre
sented his bride with a pair or diamond earrings
valued at $500. She was greatly disappointed with
tbe girt. She told a friend that she would have
preferred a pair ol gold eye-glasses and the com
plete works of Emerson. Xorristovm Herald.
Professor (interceding for a disgraced stu-i
dent) Does It not seem harsh, doctor, to expe
young McJonkin because bis sense of honor will
not permit him to dlvulie the name of the eul-
Pit?
College President (sarcastically) Oh, yes, it
seems very harsh, especially as lam firmly con
vinced tbat be is tbe culprit hlmseir. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
"Sir!" said the artist who mends kettles
and pans. "I beard yon speak Just now of being
as full as a tinker. Did yon mean to insult me,
sir?."
Becalm, my dear sir," replied tbe gentleman
with the loud vest, "I made no reference to you.
sir. 1 had In mind the honorable gentlemen
in Washington who tinker our laws. "-CAf cay o
Times.
"Florry, dear," faltered the "Washington
yontb. "I I couldn't summon courage to tell yoa
what was in my heart and I wrote It. xoa got my
letter, didn't you?"
"Yes. Ueorgc, I got ltf "
"A d you read It. didn't youl"
Yes. 1 read it. In fact, I-I read it over
twice!."
-And now. l'lorry."he said, growing bolder,
I nave come to learn my fate."
The best 1 can promise you, George," said the
blushing daughter of the distinguished Congress
man, withdrawing her hand from the ardent clasp
of tbo infatuated young man. ! that 1 will ad
vance your letter to a third reading to-morrow."
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