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PITTSBURG. SUNDAT, FE& 15, 1891.
ALLEGHENY'S "WATER SUPPLY.
The opinion of those who are posted as to
the coming vote of Allegheny City on the
water works extension is that it is doomed
to defeat If this shonld be the result, there
ought to be a clear recognition that it is
due to the form in which the proposition is
put before the people. The understanding
which seems to prevail that a vote in favor
of new water works means an expenditure
of 52.000,000 to 53,000.000 to attain results
which can be reached at much less cost,
will take away from an adverse vote the
significance that the people are content
with their present supply of diluted sewage.
As to the necessity of furnishing pure
water to a city like Allegheny there can be
so dispute. Neither, though the city may
enjoy temporary immunity from epidemics,
can any impartial inquirer hare any doubt
that the present method of supply makes
pure water a practical impossibility.
The investigation of 1885 showed that six
sewers on the north side of the river dis
charged their contents above the influent
ripe of the Allegheny water works. At
that time also ten sewers on the Pittsburg
side assisted in the pollution. Since then
the Herr's Island stockyards afford an addi
tion to the constituents of the water, while
the extension of the Pittsburg sewer system
has added 4,000 acres in the East Liberty
valley to the section whose drainage comes
into the river above the point whence the
Allegheny water is now taken.
It is beyond question that if the present
proposition is defeated it will devolve upon
the municipal legislators of Allegheny to
seek come other and prompt means of secur
ing pnre water for the city. One suggestion
is that an arrangement shall be made for
Pittsburg to furnish Allegheny with water.
Pittsburg's first duty is undoubtedly to the
Southside; but it the resumption of the
original plan of extension shonld give a
capacity to supply both communities this
idea may contain the most economical
method. If we are not mistaken other plans
have been submitted to the Allegheny
authorities by which pure water can be ob
tained at far less cost than that on which
the Allegheny people understand them
selves to be about to vote.
The burden of action will rest upon the
Allegheny city government. It cannot
continue to draw the water supply of a great
city from a point where it is mixed with the
drainings of sewers and stock yards, and
still claim to rank as an example of civilized
city government.
SOME BAD TAX BILLS.
That bill to tax unnaturalized citizens,
for the benefit or the poor fond, partakes of
the same nature as the one which proposes a
tonnage tax on coat for the benefit of in
jured miners or their families. They look
well from one point of view, but they
seek to establish dangerous prece
dents in legislation. They are of
a class that would accomplish
worthy objects by improper means. The
way to provide for injured miners, or the
families of those 'killed by accidents while
st work, is by a liability act If the injury
or loss of life shall be clearly the fault ot
the employer he may be made to pay for it
And the way to prevent foreigners from be
coming a charge on localities which have no
interest in them is to secure proper immigra
tion laws through Congress. The griev
ances complained of are hard to bear.but the
remedies should not be made still more
ccoroas.
beautifying crrr streets.
The proposition recently urged in Phila
delphia for the ornamentation of streets by
preserving spaces on either side for shadr
trees and grass plats has taken the form of
m
an ordinance. The late G. Balston Ayres
was the active supporter of the measure,
which was an adaptation of the plan that
lias produced three of the most beautiful
avenues in the country Euclid, in Cleve
land, Delaware, in Buffalo, and Michigan,
in Chicago. The ordinance having been,
favorably recommended in Philadelphia,
the papers urge its passage. The fact that
a plan which has produced such results
elsewhere has not long before now been
voluntarily adopted in Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, shows how far the leading cities
of mis State are behind the age in the
matter of embellishing highways.
The ordinance pending in Philadelphia
- provides that when a steeet of seventy feet
or more is to be paved or repaved, a space of
five feet on each side of the curb is to be re
served for grass and trees; where the width
is 70 to 80 feet, seven feet, and so on. The
spaces might well be made larger, as on res
idence streets, where this measure would
naturally be expected to take effect; from 40
to 50 feet is ample to accommodate the
actual carriage and foot traffic But the
pertinence of this point for our city is some
what diminished, as Pittsburg has in very
few cases risen to the height of seventy-foot
streets, and in none to 100 or 120. Yet ou
narrow streets the same end can be attained
by setting houses back from the street line,
leaving space next the curb for shade trees.
Such plans are at once the most economi
cal and the most effective method of making
city streets attractive. They give to streets
the park-like characteristics of' shade and
grass, and when the full effect is experienced
they do more for establishing real beauty
than the most costly edifices. Pittsburg will
make a great stride toward grafting attract
ive features on her material greatness when
she adopts some such meant for beautifying
her highways.
A GREAT CAREER ENDED.
After a struggle with death hardly less
obstinate, though not so prolonged as that
of his great friend and companion-in-arms,
William Tecumseh Sherman breathed his
last yesterday. This removes the last of
that world-renowned group of heroio figures
whose military achievements won the tri
umph of the Union cause.
Twenty-six years after the termination of
General Sherman's achievements in arms it
is scarcely possible for the generation which
has sprung up since to appreciate fully the
hold which that commander had in the
affection not only of the soldiers whom he
led, but of the whole nation at the close of
the war. Kor is it easy to fully state the
magnitude of his services. To say that his
military successes were second only to those
of Grant, and were thought by some to
show a higher rank of military
genius, hardly presents a definite idea
either of the magnitude of his position as a
commander or of the success he achieved in
his two great campaigns. Perhaps a clearer
idea of It may be expressed by stating that
he directed military operations over an area
of country greater than the whole of West
ern Europe. The importance of his victories
is also stated in the fact that a little over a
year from the time when he took the field
as an independent commander he had car
ried his armies through the heart of the
Confederacy, which prior to that time had
successfully resisted the attempts of the
Union armies to penetrate further than
Chattanooga. He also captured more im
portant cities and strategio points of the
Confederacy than any other General in the
Union army. This assertion must, however,
be qualified by the recognition that the
captures which resulted from Grant's cam
paigns surpassed Sherman's in vital im
portance. The commander who after three years of
the varying fortunes of war fought his way
step by step from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
and then marched his army through the
Confederacy until its last important army
surrendered to him at Bentonville, was justly
given rank as one of the colossal figures of
our war history. It is not necessary to pur
sue the question whether he was a greater
General than Grant, further than to notice
that it never disturbed the relations of the
two great soldiers. One of the remarkable
qualities of their careers is the constant
friendship and trust which subsisted be
tween them from the time when they came
in contact before Shiloh, and which waa
never betrayed.
The mental characteristics of General
Sherman were markedly different from the
reserve aud self-control that marked Grant's
career and the dash aud brilliancy which
surrounded the figure of the third In the
trio of military heroes, Sheridan. His ec
centricities of temperament which of late
years were really prized by the publio as a
part of his genius subjected him to misun
derstanding in his early career. His impa-r
tient declaration in the first year of the war
that 200,000 men were needed in the depart
ment ot Kentucky and Tennessee was thought
to indicate insanity; but it was subsequently
shown to be correct military judgment
Later in the war, when he cut loose from
his base of operations to march across the
Confederacy, leaving Hood at liberty to fol
low Thomas up to the gates of Nashville,
the fear that he was crazy reappeared; but
the movement was demonstrated by a stroke
of military genius that terminated the re
bellion. Finally in Sherman's career, the
gratifying fact apears eminently, which is
also true of Grant, Sheridan, Hancock,
Thomas and Meade, that m an era when the
nation was devoted in its homage to its
military heroes, not one of them ever cher
ished an ambition inconsistent with the lib
erties of the nation.
The nation may well mourn for Sherman
as one of its greatest characters. He will
stand in our history side by side with Grant
and Lincolnand in his own province hard
ly second to either. He had enjoyed a long
retirement and respect since the days when
he achieved greatness; and died full of
years. In the final honors to his memory,
the nation should show its recognition of
the fact that the last and one of the greatest
of the gigantic figures that rose to the occa
sion of our great struggle has passed away.
AN-ANCEENT LAWSUIT.
A lawsuit is found to have been lingering
in our county courts lor 0 years. It began
about a piece of property worth about $1,200.
During its pendency the value ot the prop
erty has doubled again and again. It is
located in the heart of the city, and now
represents a small fortune. Meantime costs,
fees and incidentals have been lost
track of, though they probably amount
to a nice sum. This beats Dickens'
Jarndyce versns Jarndyce by considerable
odds, and is more remarkable because it
occurs in a comparatively new country. It
is little more than two years since the cen
tennial of the erection of Allegheny county
was celebrated, yet here isfl case at law
nearly CO years old. Legal forms, it is
hoped, have Improved in that time and will
continue to improve so disputes may be set
tled in the courts in something less than a
generation.
WEALTH AND ITS DANGERS.
The latest addition to newspaper en
terprises in New York City, among other
claims to the quality of originality, pre
sented the other day an argument to show
the pleasures of poverty and the drawbacks
of riches. It warns the New Yorkers that
paper currency is a vehicle of disease; that
coins will transfer bacilli; in the writing of
checks lies the danger of pen paralysis, and
the clipping of coupons is calculated to wear:
out the thumbs. The ruin which men have
wrought on their health in trying to spend
their wealth, or tbe moral damage wrought
in hoarding it, with the insomnia produced
by the possibility that in the morning a rate
war or a stock squeeze may have, attacked
your favorite stocks, also constitutes a case
against the evils of Wealth, even if it does
not establish the pleasures of poverty.
All this might be salutary if we could
get anyone to believe it Some centuries
btfore the Christian era an Inspired philos
opher prayed: "Give me -either p'overtof
riches;" but if any people net aeoordisg to
that philosophy in tbk age, "tber are.
promptly tet down as Impracticable, or
placed under suspicion .of crankishness.
Nothing it easier than to escape the dangers,
perils or responsibilities of wealth if any
one so desires. But while this age is notable
for striking examples of the use of wealth
for the public benefit, the munificent million
aires who make such gifts do not so for the
sake of escaping the ills of wealth. -Their
purpose is to exert its power in the highest
aud most gratifying form. The fault of the
age in regarding wealth as the suntmum.
bonurh, the measure of success in life, is not
likely to be cured by representing the evils
of wealth, which no one fears enough
to let go of a single dollar of
profits and which are, after all, less
dreaded them the lightest evils of poverty.
It our cotemporary had magnified the moral
evils of an exclusive aim at money-getting
it would have made a stronger case. It it
had shown how the man who can see no good
in life but the accumulation of riches sets
his ambition on the most sordid object that
he can select; how the practical adoption of
the rule "make money; honestly if you can;
but make money" turns business success
into a competition of dishonesty; and how
in the competition of dishonesty, lying,
cheating and meanness are tbe means to
success, the demonstration of the superior
lot of poverty would have had more force if
not more success.
The reconciliation of the modern pursuits
of business with the abjuration of wealth in
tbe original teachings of Christianity is a
task which most moralists of the present
day do not attempt With regard to a
large share of the pursuits of the present
day this is simply because the
task is impossible. The case as
stated by the Teacher: "x"e cannot
serve both God and Mammon." But we
must see that to suppose the principles of
Christianity to forbid such immense addi
tions to wealth and Knowledge as the devel
opment of navigation and internal com
merce, would be to suppose it opposed to
the benefit and progress of mankind. Busi
ness " enterprise, or the attempt to make
wealth by benefiting humanity, is in har
mony with the spirit of divine teachings,
whether according to the letter or not
No one will ever be driven to abandon
the race for wealth by talk of its dan
gers and worries. But if public opinion
can be brought to see that immense wealth
gained by dishonest or injnst means is a
monument to the greed and unscrupulous
ness that secured it, there may be a more
decided restraint on the methods of money
making than at present
MOKE OP THE B. AND O.
All of the details of tbe Baltimore and
Ohio deal are coming out slowly. Mr. Io
nian, ot tbe Bichmond Terminal, has been
led to deny the report that he holds an op
tion on the stock, and to mate the denial
more explicit, admits that Mr. Bacon has
been securing options on the five-eighths
of common slock, which was put in trust
last summer. This stock is held in trnst
by the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company
of New York until 1893. Prom other sources
it is learned that the necessary capital for
all of Mr. Gould's late acquisitions is fur
nished by Drexel, Morgan & Co., Kidder,
Peabody & Co., and the Standard Oil party.
This brings the matter fully up to the an
nouncement first made in The Dispatch
more than two months ago, and these inter
ests will readily be recognized as the same
that control Western "Union.
the pbobleu of water traffic.
The Dispatch, as our readers are aware,
has lately given much consideration to the
importance of the coming great problem of
internal water traffic. That this is not a
fictitious question, but one which is seen
more clearly every day to have a vital in
terest, is shown in the simultaneous char
acter of thoughts and plans upon the sub
ject While a ship canal from Lake Erie
to the Ohio is being exploited in Pennsyl
vania, the city of Chicago has entered with
more vigor upon the scheme of a ship canal
from Lake Michigan to connect with the
Mississippi. Later yet, the Ohio Legisla
ture passed a resolution for surveys for an
Ohio ship canal from the great lakes to the
Ohio, These movements show how the
wind blows. They result from many of the
railroads being already choked with traffic,
and from the need for lower rates upon
various lines of freight
It is worth while noting in the same con
nection that for several years a steady re
vival of traffic- has been going on upon the
Ohio riyer between Pittsburg and points
below. A regular and prosperous line of
packets going out every day from this port
has now as much, if not actually more, than
it can do to accommodate patrons. Thus the
necessities of the rapidly-growing internal
trade of the country are compelling atten
tion to the utilization of the means which
nature has provided for carrying on the in
ternal commerce of the country.
VERDICT ON THE MINE HORROR.
The Coroner's jury, in the case of the
miners killed in tbe Mammoth mine ex
plosion, concluded its labors at Greensbnrg
yesterday. The finding is a rather non-com
mittal one. None oi the matters in contro
versy are decided. The jury finds that the
explosion was due to the simultaneous pre.
ence of gas and a naked lamp in the mine
a fact not questioned. There is no conclu
sion drawn as to what caused the -ccumua-
tion of gas and everybody knows
the lamp got there. The responslbilit;
not fixed on anyone. The employme
bosses who drink intoxicants in eve
smallest measure is deprecated, an
stringent law to prohibit the use of
naked lamp in any mine is recommended.
Publio opinion was far in advance of the
Coroner's jury on both these pointsso the
rendering of a verdict maybe considered a
mere matter of form. In this case tne ver
dict is not the important part of the in
quest. The public taking of testimony
waa of far greater value, allowing the pub
lic to render its own verdict And it is to
be hoped the popnlar verdict in favor of
better mining laws and more carefdl observ
ance of them will be heeded.
HYPNOTISM IN COOK
There has lately been much discussion of
hypnotism by various classes. It has been
particularly talked of in relation to crime
and criminal practices. It was ilead in de
fense of Gabrielle Bompard, thi s accomplice
of Errand. It has been '; imposed to'
rise hypnotism to secure confessions
from persons arrested for comn itttng crime.
This proposition is bitterly apposed, and
justly so. If it be true that any person may
be hypnotized and made subjc ct to the will
of tbe operator, there would je nothing to
prevent such an operator sect ring a con
fession of guilt from the innocc nt It would
be an exceedingly dangerous iractice, tak
ing away a prisoners right to trial at the
will of the court operator.
PlTTEBUBa ffets Bierbauer Wd Mack.
'This makes the prospect for a Weat vested
Interest lovely once more, and pophlaf content
-will hover over the diamond field, itatil foreign
THE HTTSBTTfiGl- DISPATCH,
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teams commence to knock out our representa
tives. And now it is remarked by the Kansas
City Star with regard to that Watterson letter:
''As a peacemaker 'Henry appears to be a
bigger man than Bill Brown." To judge from
tbe fiery comments which the Watterson letter
has called forth, bis efforts as a peacemaker
have been principally successful in evoking
pugnacity. To assert that this Is more suc
cessful than the harmony which prevails when
Colonel Bill Brown has filled his guests with
wines and viands, is derogatory to the great
achievement of that last addition to the roster
of statesmen.
The discovery-of'tin ore in Virginia will
doubtless be a great thing for tbe discoverers
if tbe pnblic buys tbe shares of that million
dollar corporation which comes to the front
simultaneously with the alleged discovery.
THE Bepubllcan organs are chuckling
over tbe fact that Mr. Cleveland's letter on
silver coinage has alienated from him the sup
port of the Western and Southern Democrats.
Tbe fact must also be recognized that Mr.
Cleveland sticks to bis principles with the
knowledge that be will lose votes thereby. He
does not follow the example of a certain great
party that stuck a strong silver plank in its last
national platform to catch voteswlthal.
It the "Whisky Trust will confine its
activities to blowing up its own distilleries it
may yet earn the indorsement of the Prohi
bitionists. At present it is only figuratively
hoist with its own petard.
The persistence of error is shown by a
recent editorial declaration of the Philadelphia
Mecord which with obvious sincerity asserts that
tbe Pennsylvania petroleum supply Is gradually
falling and that tbe richest field of present pro
duction is in West Virginia. At tbe same time
tbe statistics published in TBE Dispatch
yesterday showed the Wild wood field at tbe
northern gate of Pittsburg to be the richest
ever developed.
The Hon. William B.. Morrison has,
after mature deliberation, concluded that tbe
practice ot universal education which teaches
politicians to write letters is a great mistake.
It IS now asserted that the Hon. Jerry
Simpson, who has presented convincing proofs
that ho is n ot Sockless, is interfering in Illinois
politics as an, "assistant Democrat" If Mr.
Simpson assists the Democrats that will vindi
cate the foresight of the Bepubllcan organs in
jumping ou him; but tbe Democratic organs
will hare" to conclude that he is notsucba
barefooted fraud as he has been painted.
The Hon. D. B. Hill is understood to
stick to his assert! on that the letter that he did
not look for, never came,
The assertion that Tippoo lip was once
Stanley's errand boy is made by the esteemed
Washington Post. As Stanley first metTippoo
Tip on his first march across Africa, when the
Arab was the biggest slave raider on the upper
Kongo, we lear that tbe brilliant Jfott relies on
its imagination for Its facts in regard to African'
matters as much as in connection with civil ser
vice matters.
The Arthur Bue Gorman boom is sprint
ing with a vigor that marks it as a victim for
early sprouts. ,
.
Sekatob Gobdott, of Georgia, after
spending a couple of days in Wall street, was
robbed in Jersey City of bis pockeibook and
SMS. And now the Wall street man are Indig
nantly in quiring bow hebapp 'cedtogetout of
Wall street with a pocketbook.
FAMOUS K.
Joe Jefferson, himself a painter, calls
Corot tbe Shakespeare of landscape painting.
Aechbishop WllLikais, of Boston,
opens the Pilot Famine KeliVS Fund for Ire
land with a 100 contribution.
Mb. Moody declares that if an archangel
should come down from heaven and preacb in
Boston tbe congregation would find flaws of
grammar or logic In tie sermon.
Mb. Sestet, the Brooklyn art patron,
who has just now sop a choice collection, says
he thinks the foWr greatest living painters
are Cazto, KnauB, Ikness and Israels. The last
leads the Dutch sclool.
General SnrfiiMAN has four daughters.
The eldest Eleanor, Is the wiferof Lieutenant
Thackara, of tbjf United States Navy, and an
other is the wife of Mr. T. W. Fltcb, ot Pitts
burg. The two younger daughters, Lizzie and
Rachel, are unmarried.
Ex-CHrcp Justice Mabcus Mobtoit,
of Massachusetts, who died in Lawrence last
Tuesday morning, served $2 consecutive years
as a judge, she last eight ot which were as
Chief Justice, His father ex-Governor Mor
ton was also an eminent jurist
, One ofthe aspirants for Senator Hearst's
seat in Congress Is Major Bonebroke, of Los
Angeles. He is known as tbe Beau Brnmmell
of Southern California, and is a man of curious
and plcraresque ways. He has been known to
wear a far overcoat In summer, and never goes
out without a pair of rubber overshoes.
Th A poet William Morris is one of the
mostifictnresque figures (n England. His dress
is extremely unconventional and is always the
samt a black slonch bat, black sack coat a
bine shirt with a collar to match and nonde
script trousers. In winter be wears a thick,
dark Inverness cape coat He has not worn a
silk bat for years.
MB. JCSTICe Jettne, having been
brought up in an atmosphere of theology, took
naturally to oburch mattei s In his legal prac
tice. They are telling this story now about tbe
npw appointee to tbe bench: Some years
ago be argued a case before Sir E. Kay for an
entire day without being interruDted once.
The matter excited some surprise, bnt It was
explained bv a well-known junior, who ob
served that "Kay was taking his first lesson in
Ecclesiastical law, arid, of course, could not
r nhnw whpn ha crnt nut of his denth''
Edwin Booth, so well known to his in
timate friends as a companionable man and
racy talker, once said to a friend in Detrolti
"People generally look on me as a recluse, and
seem to think me an unhappy ana grumpy fel
low. Tbe fact is, I have long been a sufferer
from dyspepsia: but that's a small matter and
concerns only mjSelf. It Is not true that I seek
Beclusion, but I'm getting along in years, and
while I am alwaj glad not passively and tol
erantly, but ple'asnreably glad to have my
friends drop in and take pot-lack with me, 1
cannot spur myself to tbe performance of con
ventlonal social duties. Tbe fact is, I have ex
hausted all my topics of conversation, ana don't
know what ou earth to say to strangers or for
mal callers."
Adaptation of a Theory.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
A flnoexample of the Honry George theory
of "unearned Increment" was given yesterday
in the sale of Benjamin Franklin's watch. Its
orieinal cost was posslblv $50. It gained noth
ing In actual value by years of servioe and more
years ot silent Inaction; yet It sold for $3,100
Simply because it once belonged to Benjamin
Franklin.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Major C. L. Bedamon.
Natjvoo,, Itiii., Feb. 14. Major C. L.
Bedamon, one of the molt widely kown charac
ters In Illinois. Is dead at the age of 83. Ha was
born in Williamfport W. Va., and came to .Kan
voo In IKS. He Uvea la trnlton eonnty for a time,
and was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Thtrty-ec-ond
Keelment or tbe Illinois Infantry. He was
married four times, bis third wife, whom he mar
ried in 1818, being Mrs. Emma Smith, wireorthe
murdered Mormon prophet. They lived at tbe
historic old Mansion House, which was often vis
ited by relic hunters. Mrs. Brallh-Uedamon died
in 1ST8. subsequently Bedamon married Mrs,
Mancy Abercomble, who survives him at an ad
vanced aje.
Mrs. AnnKearas.
Mrs. Ann ICearut died at midnight yes
terday at the advanced aof 70 years. .Thede
eeascd lady was the moluef of Thomas Kearns.
the wholesale liquor dealer of sis Second aVenne.
from whose residence tho mueral will take place
to-morrow at l:o o'clock v. u.
Cewle Williams,
Nbware;-0., Feb.-U-Tjwls William a
leading farmer, of Washlngtou township' , was
stricken wltb paralysis to-day, and died lu a short
uae. 'Jae was year age,
SUNDAT, MEBKUARY 15,
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MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Experlenoe of an Intelligent JLady 'With a
Dreamy Astrologer Says She "Wa Hyp
notizedOdd Phases of Life in ew York
Temper of Policemen.
"you will be surprised," said a well-known
society woman tbe other day, "when
I confess that I have been consulting an
astrologer a fortune teller." Due acknowl
ment was made, and the lady, whose standing
and veracity are unquestioned by those who
know her, continuedi -'I've always laughed at
people who treated fortune telling seriously!
but I'm not sorry I invested $2 in one of the
smartest women I've seen in a longtime. I've
had tbe worth of tbe money. She lives on
Twenty-third street and does a great business,
t don't see much to interest me in women, as a
rule. 1 prefer the society of intelligent Ben.
But this woman's eyes fairly fascinated me.
I've Seen many eyes more beautiful from an
a.,l,llrt nMntnf vIaw. tt wasn't that It WaS
thn unit dreamr. bottomless deoth In them. I'
just know I shall dream of that women's eyes
to-nlgbt They were tbe eyes of a woman of a
highly nervous temperament Aud she had a
smooth, low. well-modulated voice to match.
' 'Yon would know tbe lutnte, madam? she
said elevating ber delicate brows a trifle.
" Certainly.' I replied. . A ..
Then she turned to a chart spread out atner
right It was covered -with stars and other
heavenly bodies and mysterious hieroglyphics.
"When were you born, madam?'
"I told ber and she wrote it down and figured
on It over the chart. After several other ques
tions she turned those deep blue eyes on ma
and began to tell me ot my past 1 jell your
past madam, said she. that you may Judge of
my power to discern the future,' I tell you
that woman read me like an open booKI Turn
ing to her chart occasionally and looting me
full In the face when she spoke, she repeated
the principal events of my life Just as if they
bad been written in my eyes. The revelations
ttrt hnt nn to a certain point seemed wnat
you call 'glittering generalities. Pretty soon
she said abruptly as If She had Just discov
ered It: .
' 'Yon are happily marneur
" 'lam,' said L
j '"You have chlldrenf
"I bowed.
" 'One child a boy is about i2f
" 'It is true.' . ,
"Her eyes fastened upon mine more persist
ently than ever. 'You have a grown daughter,
a sweet and lovely young lady, of whom ion are
veryfondj . J
" 'I have,' I replied, almost trembling.
'"And a son alio grown a good young
"It is true. A better boy never lived.' I be.
lieve I began to lose my usual nerve. How
could sbe know all this? I -
" 'You' referring again to her figures "have
had other children one, two, now dead?
"True again,' said IrSbe sighed, paused a
moment and began my f dture:
"'You have a happy future ahead of you,
madam. It is in tbe stars, x ou and yours will
be prosperous. You will live 18 years and will
never be a widownor will you bury any of your
family m that tipie.'
" That's (mooch.' said I, getting up. 'I'm
satisfied.' She smiled pleasantly at that and
took my hands in her taper fingers. Some
minor details sbe added, but I confess I was too
much agitated to pay much attention to them.
"Don'tJyou know I believe tnat woman byn
notlzeoXme? 1 think she got control ot my
mtauin someway, for she told me only tho
things 1 thought of and seemed to follow my
thoughts. I can't account for ber knowledge
ofmylamllyaftairs on any other hypothesis.
I 'believe the chart business is a humbug. Bdt
the psychological facts cannot be thus dis-
lposed of. I had quite a Chat with her at ter-
" 'I am going down to Washington City,' sha
said, 'In a fortnight I have enough engage
mentstokeep me a week or ten days. I have
several very prominent people who wish to con
sult me, among them a lady of distinction,
whose buBband has often been mentioned in
connection with the Presidency.' "
life in a Great City.
Ceriotjsly sneaking, the tragedy of every
day in the metropolis presents very little
to laugh at Thero Is so much of it that we
pay very little heed to tha details. In a city
where there-are 2S0 arrests on an average every
21 hours, and whero a single day doveleps every
feature of human crime and every phase of
human sorrow, it is, perhaps, natural that those
not Intimately connected with the particular
cases should feel somewhat calloused and In
different In New York tbe record of a single
day, as recently deploted In on? of our big
dallies, if it conld be made In a smaller towu
Mould throw an entire people into mourning,
On an ordinar,- day of 24 hours ic
is found that there were 10 fires, 23 accidents. 3
sudden deaths. 3 unknown bodies found float
ing In the rivers, 2 persons seriously injured by
falling from street cars, several persons run
over, one man fatally burned by electric wires,
other men by falling down elevator shafts, from
telegraph poles or the roofs of bouses, several
sick and destitute persons hustled off to a hos
pital, besides the 260 above mentioned arrests
for all tne crimes in tbe calendar, from murder
down to a common drunk.
By the side of this everyday record ot fatal
ities and crimes, the imagination of tbe great
est novelist that ever wrote falls short
and insignificant But In a great city like New
York where a man doesn't Know bis next duor
neighbor, and doesn't want to Know him, and
where every fellow is busy looking out for
himself and bis, and kindly permitting tas
devil and the policemen to look alter the rest
it is Lot a matter of much moment There Is a
big policeman near my office who has been on
the force for upward of years, and IS now a
member of the famous Broadway Squad. He is
somstbing ot a philosopher In bis way. I asked
him the other evening, in a pause long enough
to pas tbe compliments of the day, what be
was thinking of. A great throng was sweeping
up this finest thoroughfare In tbe world, occu
pyinc every square foot of superficial flagging.
"I was thinking." aid be, "of alt these people
streaming past hs at tbls hour. WbataStorythe
inner Hie oi eacn one ot mem wuuiu mane u it
were put on paper? And yet how little heed
they give to each other and how selfish every
man. woman and child Of this great throng is
in battling for existence. Among these very
people," be added, "is to be found every phase
of every day human life. Yet how many of us
and of all this crowd ever reach beyond their
own immediate surroundings, their own par
ticular Joys or sorrows? Herd is ohe grand
sweep ot bumanlty for hours, yet as a matter of
fact scarcely one" of tbem knows any of the
rest, cares where they come from or whvre they
go to. In this same crowd is every degree of
virtue and every streak of besotted ignorance
and degradation. I was thinking of my 20 years'
of association with tbe Streets uf New York as
a policeman -and bow Utile I really knew of my
feilowmen."
Enterprise of the Bill Posters.
tt IS amusing and also Instructive to see how
quickly every available medium Is seised
upon by New York advertisers. Astone dropped
In the street Is soon plastered with a bill of
some kind. A prostrate telegraph pole will be
covered from end to end bstore 12 o'clock In
the day with every conceivable placard and in
every Imaginable color. An old ash barrel
placed out over night In any business street
will blossom with small billsbefore mornine.
Where street repairs are In progress not even
tbe law or tbe watchman- can stay tbe brush
and paste oi tbe bill-sticker. This is especially
tbe case on Saturday nights, when the prospect
of the advertisements remaining over Sunday
undisturbed presents "unusual temptations.
Tbe last snow storm left a dead horse In the
drift In front of tha Hoffman House and the
carcass remained there nearly all tbe next day
covered wltb bills. Tbeatrlcal dates, soaps,
baking powder, patent medicines, etc;, fall
upon every inanimate object not protected by
law. And rival bills follow each other two and
three deep, one bill on another before the first
bdry.
A Bale of Bad Debts.
WTitiait a week or two an experiment will be
made in this city Which must inevitably
create a sensation and attract no little atten
tion among tradesmen of other Cities. It is tha
disposal of unsettled accounts at publio ft no
tion by tha Merchant Tailors' Society. Who
will buy bad bills, whether tailors' or grocers'
bills, remains to be seen. And It there Is a
market for tbe dishonored accounts of the
tailors, wbv not a market for the unsettled ac
counts of all other descriptions? Tbe society
claims about $100,000 In these bad debts. As
the threatened publicity that would attendee
offerings at public auction will perhaps have
the desired effect of causing Individual settle
ments, tbls may be considerably reduced before
the first sale comes off. However, there are
many fashionable dadbeats about town who
have been sued time and time again. They are
case-hardened.
An Odd Phasa ot Xlfe.
nyous shoes mended while you 'Walt" 11 a
completion! sign at the mouth ot a stair
Way tbat leads down beneath a Broadway
store. There on fc little bench may be seen an
industrious Italian drawing his waxed ends or
hammering sole leather. Far into the night
he may be seen by tbe light of his dim gas jet
pegging and pounding and stitching. By his
side you will oiteu see men and women ot tbe
lowest conditions of life Waiting patiently for
tbe work in hand. Tbese people, for the most
part have but a single tairof shoes and can
afford but a small fee for tbelr rehabilitation.
Thatr 4 tnrtSa WhO mUSt WSlt WhOtl ItUt HlV4
tbelr shoes mended, and tha very taot cenveyr
an idea or tue many oiuer necessities oi tuis
life for which they must also wait It Is an in
structive picture In dim colors, and one wnicn
greed my eyes every time I pass bis little shop
aud glance Into the cellar. Tbe same reminds
I eve? mad of how mas tlauW bo aMtbtt
Aol
-
waited though ifi"a different sense fir this
work of the bootmaker and the tailor.
Testing the Temper of Policeman.
ClrXAKtMO ot thB New Hot police force. tt
minds md of the severe ordeal thxpugh
which a man must pass to become a member of
"the finest" Every.ttan must pass a risrid
medical examination and be proved to possess
sound limbs, lungs, kidneys, etc. They must
then undergo a test of physical strength and
endurance, this test being usually made in a
gymnasium. All of this comes after tbe pass
age of tbe applicant Of the requirements of
height and general physique. The physical
examination passed, the applicant must un
dergo a mental one. They are tested In read
lng, writing and arithmetic and on various
branches of general information, having a
special reference to tbe city government and
streets of New York-. There is one thing on
which a satisfactory test cannot be obtained.
That is the temper of tbe applicant Men de
velop brutal tempers while actios; in ah cflleul.
capacity which tny were never known to pos
sess belore. With all the tests known to the
civil service it Is impossible to ascertain what
anv man will do in an emergency requiring
judgment and courage. In this respeot the
New York policeman can only be fairly judged
by time and experience.
Bemuneratlon of Literary "Work,
ii ivyHT don't you devote your leisure hours
vv to literature r said General Grant-to
me one day In London." The remark was from
a retired army officer who makes his home at
the Fifth Avenue Hotet "It was right after
Bayard Taylor's death, and the papers were
still fall of tbe traveler-author.
"'What Is there in literature to tempt a
man T' was my answer. Here Is a man who
was successful; who was f smous. His body is
scarcely cold when tbe officers pounce npon
his books, pictures and manuscript to satisfy
his creditors V " Charles T. MCHSaY.
New Yobx, Feb. Is.
AT.T. TTATT. B0TJTH AMEBICA.
The Vast Field Opened for American Prod
ucts by Reciprocity.
Extracts From lit. Tatmaze In Christian Hsrald.J
Tbe President's proclamation swinging wide
open the doors of commerce between Brazil
and tbe Obited States, Is tha beginning of a
movement which will make every dollar in
vested in North American manufactures worth
$2, and lift our laboring Classes Into a greater
prosperity than they bare yet dreamed of.
la a recentyear $5,309,000,000 worth ot goods
manufactured in the United States, aud only 3
per cent taken by foreign markets! Is it not a
marvel that American manufactures are not as
dead as the proverbial door nail?
In South America are regions nearly three
times as large as the United States without
manufactories, without woolen goods. Without
agricultural implements, without telegraphs,
without telephones, without shoes, without
sewing machines, without 10,000 things that we
have and they mnst have. We need thelr's as
much as they need our products. But look,
and then bang your heads at the statement
that while our next door neighbors, tbe South
ern republics, and Brazil and neighboring col
onies import 675,000,000 wortb of goods a -year,
only $126,000,000 worth are from the United
States only one fifth of the trade ours.
Now, this ,1s goibg speedily to be cbanged,
and it is going to be tbe solution of tbe labor
question, of the bread question, of tha Com
munistic question, of tbs OTsr-productidn and
Underconsumption Question, and nearlr all tbe
other questions. It is going to set all tbe mills
on tbe Merrfmac, and tbe Connecticut and tbe
Susquehanna, and the Chattahooche. and the
Alabama running day and night With double
set of hands, and calling for ten factories where
we have one, and putting all the men out ot
employ Into wore at good waees, and it is go
ing to change this story ot dull times into a
prosperity wmen wm roil on in inn uae
until the Mississippi loses iti way to the
Gulf of Mexico.
"While the pessimists have been hunting up
tbe burial service to read at the death ot Amer
ican commerce, and the stops of tbe organ
were being pulled out for the "Dead March in
Saul." I, an optimist both by nature and by
grace, take up In anticipation tbe brlgbt cov
ered wedding liturgy, and as the blonde North
takes tbe brunette booth by tbe hand, Saying.
"With all my worldly goods I thee endow,'
cry, "'Whom God bath Joined together let
neither foreign despotism nor American dema
goglsm ever put asunder.1' Then let all the
organs and Choirs and orchestras make every
thing, from the Montreal Ice palace to tha
balls of tbe lionteiumas, quake under tbe
rolling thunders ot the grand march of North
and South American progress.
In anticipation I nali oa,lho front door ot tha
nation an advertisement: Wanted, 100,000 men
to build South American railroads, as long as
from here to ciau Francisco. Wanted. 6,000
telegraph operators. Wanted, $20,000,000 worth
ofdrygoooa and hardware from New York
City. Wanted, all the clocks you Cab make at
New Haven, and all the brains you cab spire
from Boston, and all the bells yon oan mould at
Troy, and all the UcCormlck reapers you can
fashion at Chicago, and all the bams you can
turn out at Cincinnati, and all the railroad Iron
you ean tend from Booaton and Pittsburg.
Hnx JOB FE SILVEB.
Now York's Governor -Pat Himself on
Record tout Fall.
S, T. Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.:
Governor Hill pat himself on record on the
silver question last September In a speech in
Brooklyn, when he criticised the silver bill
passed by the Bepubllcan Congress as "merely
a temporary expedient It will give permanent
Satisfaction nowhere. It puts a heavier strain
upon our resources than free bi-metalllc coin
age without foreign co-operation would do; ob
structs our progress toward that end which we
all desire to reach, the free coinage of silver
under a proper international ratio." Tbis may
mean a great deal Or very little, according as
one reads it Multitudes of people are in favor
of International bl-metallism who are opposed
to this country establishing free coinage alone
and unsupported.
The Governor went on to explain, however.
that "in ohe act a Republican Congress has
thus usurped a more than doubtful powdr,
which, if lawful, It ha worse than unwisely
used; has repulsed a popular demand for restor
ation of our monetary unit wblcb, till 1S73, was
bimetallic, wltb free coinage alike to sliver and
to gold, and has interposed new hindrance to a
single and fixed weight ratio of parity for tha
gold and silver ot tha world's commerce, which
is a rational Solution ot tbe Silver question, If
commerce remains international and uni
versal." Tbls seems to put the Governor In
line with free-silver sentiment.
Old qtabkel nr.nAT.vvRT),
Donn Piatt and Senator Hale Son's Spook as
They Pais By.
MewrorkCohtineutJ
I saw Donn Piatt at tha Brunswick Hotel not
many days ago. BIS .beard and hair have
whitened a great deal since I last saw him. He
was standing at the bar in the cafe drinking a
Beltzer lemonade. While, standing there a
handsomely dressed gentleman, with iron-gray
hair and steel-colored eyes, rubbed against him.
Tha two men looked each other squarely in tha
face. They did not speak, though they knew
each other well.
The other man was Senator EugeuaHale, of
Maine, tha son-in-law of tha late Zach Chandler,
of Michigan.
Senator Chandler once walked up Newspaper
Row, In Washington, when Piatt was editor of
tbe Capital, viilh a revolver in his hand, in
search of the editor. Hale was then a member
of tha House of Representatives. At tha
Brunswick meeting It was evident that belther
of the two distinguished men had forgotten thn
the unpleasantness at Washington almos 18
years ago.
Congressman Dalzell's Great Speech.
The full text of Mr. Dalsell's argument In the
Barrnndla case, as reported in tbe Congres
sional Record, is a monument to the ability and
eloquence ot the Pittsburg Representative.
nrvEKaiDE.
iwnrrrxir o in cisjatcs.
Tbe suhIdk waters at the bue
Tbelr basalt bounds do oharop.
Upon the hill, wltb measured pace
The silent sentries tramp.
Well ward ye there! xe sentries bold
Tbroujtn, darkest nlxtat and days
A priceless gem yon easket holdsl
Preserve It safe for aye!
Dear to the patriot! Latest shrine'"
Where he the guerdon pays
To him. oar country's noblest nun,
In the Heroic Days,
So need of storied stone or orals,
Tanntlng him or hli deeds.
Oar Union Is hit epitaph,
Oar Liberties, his prowess1 meed.
"LetttlhaTepeacel't from anguish her
He fauna It; and frora strife.
But deathless Jn oartratefuCneatts
.' - The Patriots deeds have life, -.
Pit Ul US. -b. U. '.. j. .L W. XL
-"r-7 -V-"" -iSH -? ' TT -T "" -
THE TOPICAL TALKER,
(Toha fsduamr- Baa St Heart,
A good many people who live. on Pennsyl
vania avenue, Allegheny, know a sunny-haired,
laughing little girl of & Anna, the daughter of
Ik.Glefi'erv Sha is a great favorite with all
who know her, and since sbe has been figbtlnz
bravely with typhoid fever the neighbors have
missed her greatly. Many a bouquet and toy
and picture book reached Anna's bedside in
tbese days, but last Bunday came tbe oddest
gift of all.
On that day, in the afternoon, a ring at tbe
door bell summoned Mrs. Glstfer from tbe sick
room. Sbe opened the door, and to her sur
prise found a long, lank Chinaman, without
He looked at her shyly odt of his small eyes,
and, before sbe could speak, solemnlystretcbed
out both his hands, which he had held con
cealed 'udder his black sllK blouse. In Cach
hand was a big orange. AS Mrs. Glitter look
tbe oranges the Chinaman said t "Oese fordo
tilolt 'lttle girl," or words someAbiwia these,
and, bowing bis head respectfully, be walked
quickly away.
The Chinaman runs a laundry near by, and. It
seems, among tha wash tubs md Ironing hoards,
had learned to ptUa tha charm of a kindly,
gentle oblld.
Assemblyman Smith's First Chance.
One of the braniestnaw men in tbe Legisla
ture at -Harrisburg U Editor Smith, ot the
Ponxsnuwney Spirit. Week before last F.
W, Bowen, tbe well-known oil country news
paper man, visited Mr. Smith at Harrliburg.
They,had rather protracted night session to
gether, and it was not until tbe clock had
reached the time when it could practice strik
ing economy that they started for Mr. Smith's
boarding house. When they reached it Mr.
Smith was.unable to find bis latchkey, ana at
last be remembered tbat it was in his other
trousers a favorite resort of latchkeys, by the
way. There was nothing for it but to ring the
bell and trust to luck that somebody would
answer it ,Ibey rang quite a while. Then a
voice was Beard inquiring from a distapce:
Who Is that? What do you want?" Neither
Mr. Smith nor Mr. Bowen could determine
where the voice came from for a minute. Then
Mr. Smith ehanced to look up and saw some
thing whits moving at a window in tbe third
story, and heard the voice again proceed from
tbat direction. The white objeot resolved ltselt
lbto a woman's head and shoulders in night
attire, and Mr. Smith explained at once who he
"OW it's Mr. Smith, of Panxsutawney?"
asked the landlady.
"Yes. ma'am." replied Mr. Smith, adding
sotto voce to his companion: "Great Scott I
Bowen. that's tha first time I've caught the
Speaker's eye!"
Ha Thought of Vaccination.
Last Sunday In a certain Hill district Sunday
school the teacher asked ena of the boys: "Were
you ever baptized?"
"Yes, sir," replied the boy. In all seriousness,
"once but it didn't take."
A Man ol Millions.
"I met a man yesterday coming down from
Buffalo," said Harry Askm, tbe young impres
sario at tha Duquesne last night "wb B" tna
remarkable record of having owed but never
owned a million dollars. He U a young man,
not much over 30, yet bis hair is already tinged
with gray. One day about six years ago Wall
street awoke to a realization of tbe fact tbat
Mr. Cranston Speneer was short a cool million.
Who he was. where he came from or where be
bad gone, were qnestions Interested parties
asked each other. The announcement ot the
failure said that Mr. Spencer waa a daring
young speculator who had been operating for
about three months, and that he had left for
unknown parts. Five years later he turned up
in New York with a bank account, and settled
all his claims. He had been to South America,
whe'e ha was wonderfully fortunate in making
money: After satisfying bis creditors Spencer
had just $1,500, with wblcb he want to Spokane
Falls. Wash., where ha has succeeded, during
the past year. In making about $40,000."
It Was Not Suicide.
Sbe was one of the most thoughtful of the
great army of thoughtful wives. Ha was one
of the most thoughtless of the greater army ot
thoughtless husbands. To keep him in mind
ot some medicine that he had to take, she put
UIOU9 miurain uu hi uwi w mm - j,-
It in a tiny Vial, and placed the latter tenderly
in his upper right-hand vest pocket Then he
went to work and forgot all about tbe utile
vial and the indispensable medicine till some
hours after tha hour be should have taken the
dosa and ha was sitting on a high stool at a
lunch counter with a savory mess of stewed
chicken before him. Tbe thought of the medi
cine flashed across his mind with fearful
suddenness. Ha sought and found the vial,
pulled the cork, raised the vial to his lips and
had just tasted the medicine, when ker
smacklt the vial was knocked out ot bis hand
violently, and the man sitting next to him ex
claimed excitedly: "Did you swallow any?
What Is It?"
A cure for dyspepsia."
"I thought it was laudanum I beg your par
don, sir."
But no pardons or explanations could re
move the stains from a man's collar and shirt
front and a sensational Scene ended very
meanly.
To An Early Robin.
'You're welcome, red-breitt whistle loud
And break mj slnmbtrs, if you please.
When dawn peeps over hill and cloud.
And gilds tbe rusty orchard trees.
Blng roblnl You may need a song
To cheer your heart, before the day
Shall 1 apse in nltht, so darts aud Ions:.
Srave roblulpipe, ays, pipe awayi
Sut red-breast take this veroum tap:
Don't rash tbe season, gentlcblrd.
While snow and ice are still on tap.
At Jrttco concerts are absurd!
Biraean johxs.
t TBU8T TJUIVEEBirY.
Pointer for Those Who Want to Occupy
th Chair of Synamlo Economy,
Sew Yrk XJmes.J
Someday, when the new Trust University
shall have been added to the list of our educa
tional Institutions, there will be among lu
nchly-endowed chairs one whose incumbent
will devote his attention exclusively to dyn
amic economy, and his lectures will relate to
such Incidents of trust development as that In
which the Whisky Trust and its Secretary just
now art so prominently exhibited, and tbat
other affair at tbe oil refinery of the Buffalo
Lubricating OU Company three of four years
ago.
We shall then be enlightened as to the neces
sity for the use of dynamite bombs, the incen
diary's torch; secret bargains with railroad
companies and Other similar Instruments In
tbe great and charitable work of persuading
ignorant and obstinate manufacturers to enter
"combines" and there to enjoy those "econo
mies ot production" that can be procured, as
wa are told, under no other conditions. Bat
until tbe Trust University shall have been es
tablished and its lecturers shall have entered
npon tbelr wore tbe average honest man In his
Ignorance will persist in misunderstanding the
use ot tbese agencies and will long to see tha
doors of tbe penitentiary close upon the philan
thropists who resort to them.
The professors of Trutlsm should not over
look this Case. They should all be present at
the trial, to obtain every scrap of evldence,f or
It will be very useful in tha new Trust Univer
sity. Tbey did not make enongh use of tbe
trial in tbe case of tbe Buffalo Lubricating Oil
Works, and tbey have neglected the testimony
In tbe case ot George Rice. But here tbey will
have ampla time for preparation, and they
Should feo dispose of their engagements tbat all
of tbem can be on hand. Some of their doc
trines will be exposed to a crucial test and tbe
secretary of tbe Whisky Trust ought to have
the aid of all the experts and authorities In his
trade.
Dangers of etter Writing.
New York Press.!
Watterson's letter to Hill Is likely to ruin
Bill's political chances, just as Cleveland's let
ter on silver bit made it doubtful it Western
and Southern Democrats will permit him to
carry off their nomination In 1892. Letter writ
ing seems to ben dangerous occupation with
Desaocratlo statesmen.
i
Appropriation Wltb a String to It
Useaha World llnld.
Nowtt-t tha force bill u safely shelved, Ala
bama'S-osiilataro makes an appropriation to
the-WorM's Fair. Tbe money will probably
have a striae attached f,o- it; 14 tie- bill is aver
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Glrard Colleee has 1,391 publl,' the)
largest number in its history.
An olive oil factory, to cost $250,000, In
cluding the acreage. Is about to bo built it o)
Guilcps, Sonoma eonnty. Cat
The will of Mrs. Elizabeth So2z, of
New York, making charitable bequests to tho
extent of $H5.G00, Is tu bo contested.
Twel-Da-Ha-Ma-Nine, the oldest In
dian among tbe Umatillas. died last week. Tbs
Indians say be was more tban 12U years old.
The iron cip is being pljced on tha
chimney of tbe Narragansett Electric Com
pany, at Providence, R. L Tha chimney Is 237
feet high.
It is alleged that a treasonable clot has
been discovered in Sofia, the object of which
was tbe overthrow of Prince Ferdinand ot
Bulgaria.
A woman In Mishawa-a, lad., recently
received, through tbe mails, a puppy in a per
forated box. Its presence was not suspected by
the postal clerks.
Emma Bowen, of Atlantic City, known
as tbe "Jersey Lily," was committed to tha
May's Landing jail for three months for the
twenty-eighth time.
The number of Indians in the United
States who can read ngll3h Is stated to bo
over 23,000) tbe number who can read Indian
language is over 10.0UU
There was & priz e wall- for a big billy
goat in Richmond, Va., a few nights ago. Tha
goat broke loose during tbe night ana ate tbs
only high hat in the assemblage.
John T. Barrage, Who died the other day
in Washington, V. C. "was the last of a long
line of barbers, tbat having been tbe business
ot bis ancestors for several hundred years."
The Prince de Eohan, in a bet with
Prince Torlonia. has lately driven a traD and
four down the stone steps of tbe town of
Monaco. Tbe descent was rather steep, but lc
was dona without a stumble.
The report of Isaac TJpton, President of
the San Francisco Board of Trade, made to tba
body, shows the productions of California for
tbe past year to have amounted to (119.415,11s,
an increase of SI.662.S57 over 1SS9.
The Government medical authorities at
Washington have, after many experiments, an
nounced the discovery of a lymph which glreS
immunity from diphtheria and tbey hope to
make it a certain cura for tbat disease.
D. G. Pitner, of TJkiah, Cal., is prepar
ing an Incubator on a large scale. His hop
houe Is to be converted into one, Tbehousa
contains two rooms, each 21 feet square, with a
capacity of 18,000 eggs. He will begin by try
ing 800 eggs in oue of the rooms. It Is to be
betted with wood and kept at a temperatars
of 103.
Austrian census-takers have discovered
a Bcore or more persons in tbe empire who bars
passed their ICOth birthday. The oldestwastho
widowor Peler Hanei. Sbe has a certificate of
Birth dated December 24. 1T78. Of her rour liv
ing sons, tha youngest is 70 years old. Io B2ege
din a man namedlsakshowedabirthcertlficata
lua years old.
Twa physicians of Havana are success
fully inoculatins new arrivals in Cuba against
yellow fever, through mosquitoes that hava
contaminated themselves by stinging yellow
fever patients. Fifty-two cases of mosquito
inoculation have been followed uo. Of tbem
only about 8 per cent subsequently contracted
tbe disease, with a mortality ot less than 2 per
sent
Alfred Mahury, a well-known hermit
of Clark county, Ind is dead. Became frotd
Virginia after the war. in which he was ruined
financially. He left his family and lived in tha
Woods, entering no bouse for 20 years, and sub
sisting ou roots, herbs, and tbe scant proceeds
of basket-making. He bad not cut bis hair or
beard since the war, and both were several
feet long.
A few days ago the 3-year-old son of
John Kennedy, ot Nevada City, Cal., strayed
from home and gnt lost in the mountains near
by. He wandered around Until nightfall, and
then, like tbe babes in tbe story book, scraped
some leaves together and slept on tbe impro
vised couch until daylight. He then made bli
way to a ranch, where be was found by the men
who were searching for him.
Tbe Imperial families of Eussia and
Austria count more members than any other
ruling families in Europe. In Russia there are
to-day 28 Imperial princes and 18 Imperial
princesses. In addition to tbe Czar a nd Ctarlna.
The twenty-seventh Imperial Prince waa bora
on January 1 as the son of Prince Constantine.
jjjj younger '
I fTOJ ot hii
1 poet of merit
the younger, who recently Incurred the die
iajesty. rrince uonstantine Is a
In 18S4 ha married the Princess
Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenbatg.
It has been decided that the East Indian
National Congress wilt hold its session tor 1892
in London. Not more than 100 delegates will
be elected to be present at that session, who
will make the Voyage In a steamer Specially
chartered for tbem. In which arrangements
will be made for the Hindoo delegates to ob
serve tbe casta roles with regard to food and
driot without any difficulty. The expenses for
tbe voyage for the poorer delegates will to de
frayed from a special f und,whlca will be failed
by subscription throughout India.
Mrs. Mary Dailey, of Gibson, Ind., was
married in 1S53 to Frederick Daliey. He was
killed In the war, and she was granted a pen
sion. InlSG9she married William Skiles.and
her pension as the Widow Dailey ceased.
Sklles died In 1873. and. he being a disabled
soldier, tha woman applied for a pension. This
disclosed the fact his first wife was still living,
and that Mrs. Dailey's marriage to the de
ceased waa void- Now she has filed a petition
asking tbe court to annul tba marriage with
Smiles, in order that she may be restored to tba
pension roll as the widow of Dailey.
The origin of the name "America" has
recently been discussed by the Geographical
Society of Berlin. Some held tbat it comes
from a range of mountains in Central America,
called by the natives Amerigo, and tbat Ves
pucci was not called Amerigo, as it is riot a
nameln the saint calendar of Italy. Tbey as
serted that he cbanged his name from Alberigo
to Amerigo after tbe latter was comtoginto uss
as a Bame for tba Western world. Slgnor Govt
however, has proved tbat Alberlco. in tba
Florentine laneuage. Is Identical with Amerigo,
and a letter of Vespucci, dated 15MJ, loand re
cently in the archives of the Suite ot Gonsaga
at Mantua, shows tbat be sometimes sub
scribed himself Amerigo. Moreover, the
natives call tba moahtains Amerisque, not
Amerique, so tbat tbe question may ba con
sidered settled In favor of the personal name.
A CORNER IN SHILE3,
Ethel Don't yon know, dear, that that
last year's boanet of yours is very unfashionable
this year? The fashions change so.
Maud-Yes: and It is so nice for you that they do
change. The same fashions come baa. every
three or rour years, and uow yoar bonnet a In
again io 3' Hatar,
Miss Ongwee (to her Cousin Jonathan
from the country during a spectacular dlvertlM
ment In the opera) Well, cooiln, 1 have observed
your frequent nse of the glasses. What do yon
think?
Cousin Jonathan (bashfatly) Nothln.
Miss Ongwee Ob, yes, yon do! hat U Itt
Cousin Jonathan Wall, I wouldn't hare Bea
con Tubbs know I looked at them folks through a
microscope for tew iMnti.JticelUr't Wtitty.
"After all," remarked Mrs. Hojaek, "It'a
lucky I lost that po gold piece."
-How so?" asked her husband, surprised.
"I read In a newspaper that you lost Scents'
worth of metal off a 0 piece every day you carry
it." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"I feel miserable, and I don't know what
t Is mat makes me so."
"What bare yon been eating?"
"Lobster and cry stalllicd girizer."
"And don't know what males you miserable?"
"Dldl saywhat? I meant which7"-.y. Xnlt
Sun.
The man who in this season of fish and
sackcloth meets a friend wishing to borrow a V
with the statement tbat Iu wonld delight to oblige
him were it not lent may have hopes ot heaven,
but no certainty or lt-CAfcao Times.
"Yon have a head on von this morning,
haren't joa. dear?" inquired bis wife, kindly.
"Gigantic" he gr oaned-
Jaa-ontlc" she echoed, and left him with It
Walhtngton Star.
O, woe ba unto Simpson
A-sInmolttjr gO bis stocks,
Since he doth curtly now assert
Bis feet have Carried socks.
Scu Tort Continent.
Detective Catchem How did you ever get
a confession from Touejh Tobies?
Detective Cjaliem-l gave hla a Connecticut
cigar, and after he'd smoked It he thought he was
jrolng to die, and told me alt be ever did.- VvJWA
Exprttt.
"Prank, have yon ever loved?"
"Count the stars abort, Alice; number tbe sanda,,
sands of the lea, and y6a will have the namber'of
times 1 hate' loved." -
lam yours, Vraak. rerf other One ot ;
million or so of fellows I've twea la lore wist V?
AtA Cll 7ftAVAkn1 1 -f --nnlli -sl i T al.Mnb.C.J
IT - ..w.w uv..r -!- ,.
'em- Here's a um fee tear eauer,'
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