p' THE -PITTSBUHG DISPATCH, WBJOISDAT,"" FEBRUARY 18, 1891. igpafclj. 2KTABIJSHED FEBRUARY 8, 1846. Vol. &. No. 11. Entered at Pittsburg Fostoface, ,'Sovcmbcrli. 1&S7, as second-class matter. .Business Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street EASTERN A1VEKTISIJG OFFICE. BOOM SI. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, -where complete flies of IKE DlbPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the con venience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, while lnjiew York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH is regularly on sale at Brentmo's, 5 Union Square. Jfew York, aid 17 4fc.de V Opera, Taris, France, where anyone uho has been disappointed at a hotel news .stand-can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE FREE Cf THE UNITED STATES. DAILY DISPATCH. One Year S CO Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter . 2 00 Daily Dispatch. Oneilonth "0 Daily Dispatch. Including fcunday, 1 year. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including bunday.Sin'ths 260 Daily Dispatch. Including bunday, Im'tn 80 tUKDAY Dispatch, One "tear. 160 Weekly Dispatch, One lear 115 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carrier! at ;:cents per week, or including bundar edition, at It cents per wee-. PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. FER 18, 1891. THE JFLOOD TIME. The flood ia the rivers, which formed the principal local topic yesterday, was remark able or the rapid rise under circumstances that rendered it rather unlocked for. "While the raLis of the past tiro days have been heavy, they were not such as' to canse any general expectations of extremely high water. Hat it seems to be the fact that -this rainfall hits been heavy over a large stretch of country, which drains into our rivers, end, falling upon ground already saturated from the rec-ent thaws, it has filled the water courses and produced a flood out of the usnal proportion to-the rainfall. Some apprehensions were expressed yes terday that the flood would rival, if it did not exceed, the great flood of 1884. At present writing it is hoped the water will not reach such a stage, and this hope is sup ported by the difference in the condi-J tions prevailing now and at that time. Then a very heavy snow, the accu mulation of weeks of winter weather, cov ered the whole of this section of country. Oh that a rain lully equal to that of the past two days had the double effect of adding to the water and meltiug the snows. The snows in the xnonntaimi no doubt are con tributing to the present high water; bat by the time that this reaches the public eye, the water should be at its greatest height as the snow must have been Dretty well melted a day or two ago. It takes an immense Tolume of water to add many feet to a thirty-foot stage. The same is trne of the panic created by the high water at Johnstown. With the location of that town subjecting it to fre quent inundations and the experiences that are fresh in the memories of that place, it is not strange the people of Johnstown should get excited when their streams get over their banks. But while the place is subject to periodical inconvenience and loss it can never again be subjected to such devastation as was caused by the tidal wave from South Fork dam. -The principal danger from the flood lies along the river below us. If the storms have extended along the mountains down as far as West Virginia and Kentucky, so as to swell the streams draining that section as our rivers have been swollen, the down river towns may suffer something like a repe tition of their experiences of 1884. KIVER IMPROVEMENT. This is a good time for the public to take a second thought upon the drift and scope of the admirable articles setting forth new plans for river improvement, which recently ap peared in The Dispatch. When Noah was building his ark indifference was shown by his neighbors, but when the waters came there was an immediate, vital and highly diversified interest in naval architecture. So in regard to river improvement plans in our own time. In the midst of the inconvenience which our local communities have sustained from the overflowing rivers, and in the face of the prospect of extensive and expensive devastation through the South, it becomes pertinent to inquire whether the deepening of the rivers and impounding of the waters in a system of reservoirs near their source, as suggested by onr contributor, is not of great importance from a sanitary and property caving point of view, as well as from the standpoint of internal traffic We may be sure that the Ohio and the Missis sippi and their tributaries will continue these periodical inundations until their watery forces are taken in hand, and con trolled so as to be subservient to man's needs, in place ot being agents of destruc tion as they are to-day. Transportation, irri gation and sanitation are united in the prob lem which was recently so ably demon strated in these columns. AN IMAGINARY CASE. The novel question in ethics is raised by the New York Evening Sun whether a horse dealer who announces that "every animal shall be found as represented," and makes the announcement good, is not offending against the received standards of society. The expectation that the horse dealer will sneceed in palming off on his victim a quadruped which turns out to be something radically different from what the deluded victim fondly imagined himself to be buying is a universal one; and public sentiment is grievously disappointed if the aspiring person who marks his rise above the common herd by setting up as the owner of horseflesh is not more or less cheated. Probably on the same basis of reasoning, that makes "Wall street regard an unwatered corporation as an offense against corporate ethics, the Evening Sun claims that the horse dealer in whom there is no guile is a destroyer of the accepted stand ards. But before public opinion agitates itself over the settlement of this knotty point in ethics it will insist on our cotemporary's producing evidence that such a lusus natures in horse dealers actually exists. That an enterprising horse-dealer may advertise "every animal will be found as represented," may be readily believed; but the burden of proof is on that side to prove the announce ment is not a bait for the unwary. The fact of its having been made will cause the pub lic to be particularly strenuous in demand ing proof that the alleged scar on the leg does not turn out to be a case of artistically fixed spavin; that what is represented to be simply tp'nit and life is not 'a disposi tion to run beadlong.down the most crowded street; or that the slight cold is not the tem porary remnant of carefully doctored heaves. Instead of agitating the abstract ethics of the case,' let our New York eotexnporary Mm produce evidence of the existence of the horse dealer who always represents his ani mals just as they are. 'Whenjtjdoes so the fortune of that remarkable individual will be made, and thousands of distrustful .horse buyers will rise up to call it blessed. THE CHANCES OF ESCAPE. A financial journal referring to the way in which its "esteemed cotemporaries are hustling the different railroads under the care of Mr. Gould" is reminded of the physician who reported thai the mother was dead and the child was dead, but he had strong hopes of being able to save the father, and asks if it is possible for any railroad system in the country to escape. This is in reprobation of some of the reports that have been flying around of late; which may be subject to revision. But in view of the distinctive features of Mr. Gould's career the question is one of real significance to investors and stockholders. Is it possible for any railroad system ou which Mr. Gould has fixed his affection to escape his absorbent faculties? Mr. Gould first broke into the public field of vision by a forcible entry into the con trol of a railroad which struggled to escape his grasp with greater or less failure for a sumher of years. He maintained his hold on the JSrie road by employing the printing press to turn out stock certificates for him, and keeping courts in service to issue in junctions against any persons ill-advised enough to interfere. Eventually Mr. Gould made one of his original strokes of genius by surrendering securities to the face value of f 9,000,000 and making more than their market value by a bull operation on the strength of his own restitution and confes sion. At that time it was foreseen that a genius of this peculiarly acquisitive talent, if as unhampered by lack of lunds as he was by scruples, might make things the reverse of secure to the railway stockholders of the country. The latest methods of Mr. Gould's ac quisitions have paid a little more outward respect for the forms of law than his early operations in Erie; but they have the same essential characteristics of employing the most effective means for getting hold of other people's property. It may be a little more in accordance with legal views to de press railway stocks by a cutthroat war of rates, add to that a squeeze in the money market, and in the panic buy up the rail road properties that are wanted, than it is to turn out fresh shares to secure the control. Bnt to the people who wake up at the end of Mr. Gould's operation and find their property in his hands, aB a basis for future operations, the loss is just about as hard to bear in one case as in the other. Now it is pertinent, as bearing on the question whether any railroad can escape, if he wants it, that Mr. Gould's operations are free from the restrictive influence of limited funds, which was his only obstacle in the days ot Erie. He has the funds of the Gould-Sage combination at his back, which for years have been ample for operations in the Wabash, Missouri and Union Pacific, and Manhattan Elevated roads. With them is allied the profuse millions of the Standard OU party, that 14 years ago were powerful enough to give the Pennsylvania Bailroad a staggering blow and are sow many times greater; and finally Mr. C. P. Huntington, with the wealth which the Central and Southern Pacific crowd have securely packed away out of reach of the Government, is ready to join in any scheme of acquisition that may commend itself to the master mind. If there are any people who think a combi nation of the financial power, engineered by Gould's Napoleonic methods, cannot take anything it wants, they have not compre hended the corporate history of the two past decades. The report that Mr. Gould had secured control of the Baltimore and Ohio was one of the subjects of our financial cotemporary's sarcastic remark. The fact is that sundry events in the B. & O.'s history present all the surface indications ot a manipulation to depress what was a few years ago the solid est stock in the country, preparatory to gob bling it in the interest of some one. -But let us suppose that Mr. Gould has not got the B. & O., and that he wants it He con trols lines competing with it over a vast portion of its territory. He controls the Western and Sonthern section, from which it must receive its through traffic. He can start a war of rates which, on the prevailing corporate policy, will oblige the B. & O. to cut down its revenue to a losing basis. When he has produced a general condition of loss and deDression, he can proceed to lock up funds to deny the doomed corpora tion and to create a panic in the stock mar ket, until he gets what stock he wants at his own prices, and has control of the road. If these could be done with the Union and Northern Pacific, why not with the Balti more and Ohio? And if they had been suc cessfully accomplished with all three, what would prevent their repetition with the P. B.K.? Really it seems as if the railway share holders of the country had better digest the lesson which his associates of the Standard Oil crowd have been teaching the .petroleum producers. If he fixes his aim on any, especially railway property, let the owners of it take what he will give without the ex pensive preliminary of a struggle. NOT THE ONLY DELODED ONES. A Michigan farmer lately arrived in one of the Eastern cities with a considerable roll of good money which he hoped to exchange for several times as much in green goods. Of course, he was relieved of his funds, and the newspapers promptly pro ceeded to deride his delusion. Beyond doubt he belonged to the class off which sharpers thrive; but an impartial and wider view might suggest to some of our cotemporaries that they sould distribute their criticisms among other classes with equal justice. A large share of our Eastern cotemporaries devote space to discussing Wall street speculation as a method of making money. Yet the green goods game is not more no torious or scarcely less shallow than the well-known devices of manipulation and squeezing, of railway fights and combina tions by which the lambs are sheared and the manipulators enriched. Yet we fail to observe any general mention in New York exchanges of the fact that the man who tries to make money out of Wall street specula tion is just as delnded and ignorant as the farmer who tries to get rich buying green goods. One of the canons of Wall street policy is that the pnblic must be persuaded into buy ing immense amounts of certain stocks which have about the same value as the green goods which the farmer hopes to get that is, none at elk Combinations, pools and trusts are got up to give the public the idea that by buying these stocks they can share the profits of a monopoly. More al leged trusts have been formed to tempt the lambs into buying dubious shares than to squeeze the actual consumers of the staples supposed to be monopolized. In this day railroad combinations are got up to permit railway kings to unload at sn advantage more frequently-than to put up rates, O ur Eastern cotemporaries might point out the working of this green goods game to ad vantage, and tell the people what infatuated lambs they are to be taken in by it, but we hTe failed to observe that class of comment in the New York, Philadelphia or Boston press. JUSTICE AND THE BARBER. CU!er Justice Paxson's opinion -affirming ihe decision of the Quarter Sessions Court of Philadelphia in the case of the Common wealth against Barber William "K. Wald man leaves the subject of Sunday shaving in much the same condition as it was before the appeal to the Supreme Court. The ap pelant argued he was entitled to a trial by jury, and that shaving was a necessity within the intendent of the act of 1794. The first argument was disposed of on practically the ground of precedent, the Chief Justice claiming that if such cases were tried before juries there could be no settled rule, as one jury would decide one way and another jury the other. With the well-known independence of the average jury in mind, the pnblic will agree with the Chief Justice that a hearing before a minor magistrate should be sufficient to secure either legal conviction or acquittal. But The Dispatch wishes to call atten tion to the disposal of .the second argument. The Chief Justice, after admitting that shaving is "perhaps" as'much a necessity as washing the face, taking a, bath, or perform ing other acts of cleanliness, says: "A man may shave himself or have his servant or valet shave him on the LordU Day without a violation of the act of 1794,hut the keep-' ing open of his place of bnsiness.by a barber and following his worldly employment of shaving his customers is another matter." Here, in the same, sentence, ,are two con flicting decisions. A servant or valet in pursuit of At worldly employment can, to earn, his wages, shave his master; but the following by the .barber of his worldly em ployment is forbidden. The matter resolves itself into one answer to two questions: Is not the -servant or valet who shaves his master for the time a barber? and is not a barber when he shaves a man acting for the time as a servant or a valet? If these ques tions be answered in the affirmative, and we think .they will, the natural deduction is that a barber by closing his shop on Sunday and becoming a visiting valet can do a pretty good business without ."fear of suc cessful prosecution. Toward the end of his opinion the Chief Justice apparently feels called upon to apol ogize, saying: "We do not make the law; our duties are limited to interpreting it." From this we gather that be and his honora ble colleagues are .sometimes in need of a Sunday shave by a servant or.valet. Aftee all it turns out that the members of the House conld not stand the pressure of putting themselves on record by a yea andnay vote In favor ot giving each one of them a clerk. It Is satisfactory to note that respect for public opinion is still a restraint on oar legis lators in some respects. There is no doubt that our Congressmen are obliged to work pretty hard; but the work that takes up their time is not required D) their constitutional duties. Let them .eschew special legislation and office mergering and they will have plenty of time to give to .legislation for tho in terests of the nation. If the Sherman funeral cortege cannot be indnced to stop here, our people will have to be content with such marks ol homage as can be compressed within the short time that the train is passing through the city. Bnt the mourning will not be less sincere because the opportu nities for its expression are abbreviated. The motives of Queen Victoria in calling for a full statement regarding the gambling scandal are not known. Whether she is moved by feminine cunosity,or maternal solicitude is not clear, but the latter motive is probably the correct one. She will lecture her royal son, ihe Prince of Wales, and tell him to stop gambling. He will listen and disobey. Bnt she may suc ceed in impressing upon his mind the fact that the honor ot England's royal family requires him to cat the acquaintance of men who cheat at cards and get caught. Judge Wm. Laweence, of Ohio, is not pleased with the attitude of the Pennsylvania Senators, and says so for publication. Some years ago tne people of Judge Lawrence's dis trict exhibited a similar dissatisfaction con cerning him, with the result of retiring him from Congress. Thebe has been another invasion of the privileges of practical politics in New York City. Mr. Bernard Blglln, commonly known as 'Barney" a practical Republican, who has done yeoman service in connection with the job of doing the cartage at the Custom House has been subjected to the pain of seeing the contract let to the lowest responsible bidder, who happens to be a Democrat. Mr. Biglin is understood to be filled with a plaintive wonder how a party is to be run on this un practical and ungrateful method. Senator Stewart is now industriously correcting a general misapprehension by de claring that he does not own a share of silver mining stock. This only strengthens the more just apprehension of the case that the great mass of silver mining stocks own him. Mb. Powdebly'S attack of heart dis ease while speaking in Kansas is a warning to that energetic labor leader that he mast take the work of life in a less severe and exciting way than he has been doing. Not many men can afford to neglect a warning that the heart can not stand the strain that has been put on by exhausting work. Bnt perhaps Mr. Powderly many think It better to die in harness than to retire to a quiet and easy life with his work half done. In two weeks more Congress will adjourn and the public will be permitted a short breath ing spell before being called upon to give its exclusive attention to the vagaries of the base ball umpires. Other than Democratic Governors with an eye to dark-horse possibilities are keeping a golden silence on the silver Question. A Dem ocratic cotemporary notes that Mr. Blaine has not taken the opportunity to express himself on free silver coinage. But our politicians de sire it to be understood that in acting on the principle that silence is golden, they do not mean to imply any unjust discrimination against silver. News of a defeat of the Government troops In Chile, by way of the Paris Oaulois, is calculated to justify the belief that Chile is enjoying a period ot profound peace. A Bixii has been introduced in the Legis lature of Oregon to prohibit profane language, on which a Philadelphia cotemporary remarks: "Bather a strange sort of bill, isn't it?" It Is the sort of hill that has been law in Pennsyl vania for some generations, bat which is not enforced. The consequence of which is that the ears of ladles on streets and street cars are Oiled with tho vigorous language ot the hood luins. That cold wave promised by the Weather Bureau aid not come to time; but in its place we were given a very creditable effort in the flood line. Mb. Jay Gould's sense of the propor tion of things is Illustrated by the fact that he does not think 200,000 an excessive sum for one to spend on a yacht, but regards $$,000 as the outside limit for a school bouse- in the dis trict where bis Hudson "river villa stands, and which he will have to be taxed to pay for. The Loudon police having saddled the .orardsz of. "Carr-ettyjleiy' in the wjoiteafctjelj district, on a saddler, may find circumstantial evidence to convict in the fact that a saddler's knife would inflict just sneb wounds as those found on the bodies or Jack the Bipper's vic tims. The leather apron, mentioned In earlier reports of the tragedies, may also become a. link in the chain binding the maker ot harness. The theory that Banker JIaoe, of Paris, was insane when he absconded is gaining ground. He left J720.000 behind him. X0T0BI0TS NAMES. Drt. Magee, the new Archbishop of York, is the first Irishman to hold the Dignity of Primate of England. President Gabfield died nearly ten years ago, and his devoted widow still wears mourning as deep as "that she assumed on the day of his funeral. Augustus St. Gandens, the New York sculntor, has been engaged in an advisory ca pacity by the directors of the World's Fair, in connection with the distribution of ornamental sculpture. David Dudley Field, at 86, says that even it the figures standing for his age were reversed they would make him too old for his feelings and the adage says that "a man is no older than lie feels." XadY Londonderry, wife of the ex Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is awarded a high place among English beauties, though her face is said to lack expression. Her hnsband la an enthusiastic turfman, and tbey entertain a good bit. The historical writer, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, seems to be honored above all other American women. She is a member of 25 his torical and other literary societies here and abroad, and her correspondence with the world of culture and learning is very extensive. Cecil Bhodes, whose wealth reaches 2,000,000, is just now the social lion in London. He is interested in South African development and is on a visit to the metropolis. He looks upon Manicaland and Mashonaland as of .greater promise than any other British pos session. Sherman's life during his campaign was a model lor a Roman soldier. From early in the morning till late at nlghthe was out of bed, much of the time in the saddle. In the At lanta.campalgn he set the example of discard ing tents and reducing baggage to the mini mum." His papers and dispatches were carried In a candle box. General John S. Pillsbury, of Min nesota, to present to Sutton, N. H., his native place, a brick townhouse which, in addition to quarters for town offices, will contain an apart ment for a public library, the elver furnishing a supply of books for a foundation. The site for the building has been selected and work will soon he under way. Hon. Jebe Simpson is in Washington. He watches Congress from the public galleries instead of availing himself of his privilege to be on the floor, and expresses disappointment at the undignified bear dance in the House. He wears modest gray clothes, cork-soled shoes and has a modest air. He is dark skinned, bis eyes are deep gray, hidden by gold-rimmed spectacles, and his language Is quiet and well chosen, barring such provincialisms as "neerd" and "hain't." ADMLSALPOETEE'S ITJKEKAL. Thousands of Marines and Soldiers Take Fart in the Parade. WAsniKQTON, Feb. 17. The funeral cere monies over the remains of Admiral Porter took place thisafternoon.at his residence In this city. The event was very imposing, the greatest honors known to naval regulations being paid to the dead hero, The officers of the Govern ment, including tho President, members of his Cabinet,Senators and Representatives, Justices ot the Supreme Court, army officers of every rank. Vice Admirals and numerous naval officers, members of the diplomatic, corps and men distinguished in letters and science were present. It was nearly 8 o'clock when the funeral cortege moved to Arlington Cemetery where the remains were interred with the high est honors. The funeral procession was composed of more than 6,000 troops, consisting of marines, militia, United atates regulars, artillery and cavalry, In-charge of Bear Admiral Kiniberly. Follow ing tuefamily were the President and mem bers' of the Cabinet in carriages and a long line of carriages containing army and naval officers and distinguished people. The pall bearers were: Viae President Morton, Senator JSIander son, of Nebraska; Senator McPherson. of New Jersey: betator Hawley, of Connecticnt; Gov ernor Battison, of Pennsylvania; Major General Hqbofleld, 0. S. A; Rear Admiral Kodgers, U. S. N.: Rear Admiral Howell, U. S.N. Bear Admiral Crosby, U. S. N.: Bear Admiral Stevens, TT. S. N.: Bear Admiral Almys, U. S. N.; Bear Admiral Worden, U. 8. N.: Bear Ad miral Jonett, U. B. N.; Bear Admiral Queen. U. 8. N.: General Joseph E. Johnston, lateC. 8. A.; Representative Boutelle, of Maine. The body bearers were eight sailors from the crew of the United States receiving ship Dale, now at the navy yard here. A MEDICAL TETJST. New Sanitarlum.'to Be Controlled by Promi nent Physicians. New York.Contlnenl.1 A medical trust, or something like it', has put in an appearance. It is said to be an interna tional affair. Drs. McLane Hamilton and For dyce Barker, of this city, are connected with it, and Dr. Pepper, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Coop er, of London, and medical men of equal prom inence and standing in the leading cities of the world are also associated in tho enterprise. This is the scheme which has been reported: The idea was conceived some time ago to build an immense sanitarium at Cumberland Gap, down in Tennessee, for tho benefit of peo ple with weak lungs and other troubles. The sanitarium is being Dalit by a syndicate of doctors, and when It is finished every doctor in the trust will send bis patients to the Cum berland Gap sanitarium instead of Carlsbad, the .Riviera and other health resorts. It is only Intended, so a doctor said yesterday, for the wealthy class of patients who can afford to pay liberally for attendance, etc. It is thought that the sanitarium will be completed and opened by the 1st of October. Medical men will watch the result of tho experiment with interest. POWDEBLyS SUDDEN ILLNESS. He Falls to the Floor After Making a Speech at Topeka. J SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! Topeka. Feb. 17. It has been known for some time that General Master Workman Pow derly is subject to heart disease. Nevertheless this knowledge did not prevent the Knights of Labor who were at the meeting at Representa tive Hall last night from being almost panic stricken when Mr. Powderly was attacked by the disease. It was just as he had concluded a speech that the attack came, and he fell from the chair to the Soor. Instantly there was great confusion, which was allayed, however, when it was learned that the General Master Workman was not dead. He was picked up and carried to an ante-rpom where ho received every attention. In a few minutes he recovered sufficiently to walk slowly to his hotel. To-day he is feeling as well as can be expected, and beyond a cer tain lassitude shows no effects of the attack. Other People's Daughters. T. W. Hlgglnsonla Harper's Bazar. J It is a curious fact that there is nothing which is So wholly unanimous as the desire that other people's daughters should be cooks and chambermaids. We Sever think of It as a thing desirable, or perhaps supposable, for our own; and' this fact seems to damage most of our arguments for others. Now if we draw the line at menial service for our selves and our relatives, why should we speak severely ol those who draw the line at just that point for themselves and their own relatives? The whole difficulty of that much-vexed ques tion seems to He precisely there. t DEATHS OP A DAY. James Duncan. News-was received In thl city, yesterday, of the death during the day of James Duncan, for merly of Pittsburg, at Colorado Springs, Col.. where be had gone to recuperate. Deceases: was father-in-law of Colonel Robert Monroe, of Alle tlienr. and Edward D. Dlthrldge, or ew rlrnton, and brotber of Alex. O. Duncan, or Incram, and tbe late Jackson and Captain Robert Duncan, of this city. Charles H. Jones. frECTAI. TriSOBAM TO THE HISPATTW.V 1 WATfStsauna, 0 Feb. U.-Cbarles H. Jones, late Senior Vice Commander of the G. A. It., of thl place. lied at 1 o'clock to-day. Tho rnncral will take placeTburtdav afternoon. Johamj Barthold Jongklnd. Pahis, jreb, 17.-Thejleth of Jotiann Barthold VoagUnfli-ine Dutch painter, Is announced, SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON, Westtnghouse undoubtedly depends on the Fast toTalse his "dough." Buthless and tremendous are ihe forces of nature. The rain falls and the tiny rills be come rivulets,the creeks swell to rushing rivers, tbe blgjBtreams sweep seaward over hidden banks, cuttingchannels through forest and field, hamlet and city crunching, tearing twisting, drowning. The tongh work of strong arms and skillful hands is crushed without ap parent effort by the water giant, who presses on unchained, unchecked, unheralded. What mites we seem as we stand in speechless wonder andlook.UDon tho ruth And tho ruin of tbe fierce flood. -How weak w feel as we stretch our bands out over the treacherous tide which bears the dying upon Its breast while we are powerless to save. Bo we atandand watch the waters creep ing up on the land, stepping backward ever.for ward never. Out on the flood the drift dances, tbe big pieces shattering the little, the heavy sinking the light, the tiniest washed to the ever shifting shore. Thus from the banks of tbe flood-high river we read life' object lesson. There is tho resistless force, tbe swimmers and tbe sinkers, tbe saved and tbe lost; the swift and the slow, the stragglers in tbe depths and the stranded on the shore. There, too, is the current and tbe counter-current; the treacher ous -whirlpool and the helpful eddy, the ripple that tells el the bidden rock, tbe glassy spot that hides the deep, dark pool. There you see the battle between the strong and the weaksee Force crush and maim, hear a shriek in the noise made by the cracking timbers; the snapped irons, tbe falling bricks and stones. Over tbe rum, too, the sun shines and the smooth waters run, heedless of the weepers whose tears are lost in the muddy waters of tho awful flood. And how the de mon of destruction charms, too. Could you read tbe minds of the lookers on you wonld be amazed at the number who gloat over the de vastation wrought. How eyes sparkle and hearts beat when the giant reaches out for greater prey. The costlier the wreck tbe grander the scene, the richer the ruin the mightier tbe cheer. Natural as life this, too. And tbe stream Tolls on, leaving a trail of slime-covered wreckage, a lesson that Is not heeded, a wet date for ready reference, a story of ruin that soon becomes a remembrance. The men who make their mark will never commit forgery. The cigarette promises to supersede the pipe of peace among the -Indians. If it does the settlers will not tremble for their scalps. A great many of us are forced to culti vate economy in order to raise the rent money. The San Francisco man who hit Mactay the other day certainly struck a bonanza. It is fortunate for the Lenten devotees that fish do not have to hold a convention to adopt a scale. Heavy guns are the only things served on armor plates. You don't use a knife to scale a Ud der. f ' The time furnished by creditors to debtors means money in most cases. Oil pays the piper, and pays him hand somely, too. Judging from the slick robberies in Iion don, some of the Wild Westerners must have been left behind by Buffalo Bill. The shells of the ocean in war-time are found on board men-of-war. If women interpreted the blue laws they would declare shaving to be a necessity. A pier glass The drink taken in the saloon on the dock. Formal receptions are tendered by the masters to art students who study the nude. The flying machine inventors cannot be called upstarts, at all events. The granger statesmen should be experts in the fence fixing business. Victoria proposes to take a hand in that little came of cards which has stirred up Lon don. She will open a "jack pot" with one Queen. Standing Bear has brought back a German bride who wooed him with pies. He Is going West to start a brewery. That promised cold wave was undoubtedly drowned out. The deaf can enjoy the modern drama better than the blind. Monday was wash day both in and out of doors in this section. The fellow who angled for gold fish in tbe silver pool caught censure. i If the hens could go on strike now Lent would be a costly luxury. Children who play hookey in their early school days usually graduate as football players at college. When the girl nestles her head on your Dreast it's time to begin planning the home nest. Wanasiaeer should investigate the Al bany postofSce and settle the Hill-Watterson letter controversy. , You will not be charged with theft if you Bteil a glance or hook a button. Wasp-waisted girls presumably firmly beliere that life is but a span. Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink yesterday. Flood and election day pleased the Prohibitionists. Why are some lightweight pugilists like adulterated sugar; Because they have the sand. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can make a meal out of a pig's foot. The seeds of crime are planted in empty stomachs. Female violinists should not be crossed in love, because tbey know how to handle bows. It wonld be an act of charity to furnish Clothing for naked lamps In the mining region. Women should make good soldiers, as most ot them have smelled powder without flinching. The arrest of Sadler has spurred on the London police, but the "Kipper" seems to be still fh the saddle. Unsupported evidence, like a house built on sand, will fall. The last bituminons tomb Is called the Grace mine, but the miners there did not have time to say grace. The State sinking fand is dropping out of sight. If Hill wasn't a bachelor people wonld say bis wife stole the valentine forwarded by Wattarson. Award healer The doctor chosen by the Board of Charities. The man who lays down In the Oil Ex change doesn't got any rest. The- fellow who, pokes fun tickles other jieople. The rain has peeled the paper off.the bill, boards and the dead walls, and the advertisers feiust suffer. The weather does not affect the newspaper advertiser, however. Ix is perfectly natural to rush the growler to the doggery. The politicians who figure up the State appropriation bills evidently believe the people are made ot money. The twine section of the tariff bill is tangled, but a pending resolution will un ravel it. Dressmakers as well as floods can de lay trains. Willie Winkle. AST0R-WILLING WEDDING. Select Gathering of New "York and Phila delphia Society People Presents the Value of Which. Bank Into Hundreds of Thousands ot Dollars. Philadelphia, Feb. 17. Miss Ava Lowle Willing, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shippen Willing, was married to John Jacob Astor, of New York, at 1 o'clock this after noon. The wedding ceremony, which waa;wlt sessed by about 150 of the immediate relatives and close friends of r the Astor and Willing families, was performed by Bev. William Neil son MoVlckar, rector of the fashionable Epis copal Church Ot the Holy Trinity, at the beau tiful home of the bride's parents, on South Broad Street. The fact that the wedding was celebrated in Lent was no allowed to detract from the bril liancy of the occasion. The bride's gown was ot rich white satin, made in simple fashion, with a flounce ot point lace across the foot of the skirt The corsage was slightly opened at the throat and filled in with lace, which matched ln"pattern the veil. She wore tbe groom's gift, a magnificent tiara of diamonds, made in the shape of the fiear de lis. 1 be bouquet was of orchids, valley lilies and orange blossoms. The Splendid train of the wedding dress was sup ported by pages. The bridemalds were Miss Beatrice Chapman, a, dlrectdescendant of John Jacob Astor; Grace Wilson, sister ot Mr. Orme Wilson, whose wife is a sister of young Mr. Astor; Miss Kthel Cram, Miss Mabel Asaurst and Miss Willing, cousins ot the bride, and Miss Cyntra Hutchinson, "heir gowns were ve.'y simple and beautiful, ihe Hon. LIspenard Stewart was best man and the ushers were Barton Willing, a brother of the bride; Robert L. Hargnus, H. Legrand Cannon. Center Hitohcock, Thomas Howard. Woodbury Kane, Hamilton Fish Webster and Ellsba Duer, No Philadelphia bride ever received presents as magnificent as those sent to Miss Willing. Their aggregate value runs high upin the hun dreds of thousands of dollars. Tbe groom's gift was a tiara of diamonds, possibly unsur passed by any in America. Her father gave a double bow-knot of diamonds from Which hangs pendant a huge brilliant abouttbe slzeof a nickel. He also gave a diamond necklace and a crescent of diamonds and sapphires some four inches in length. The principal gifts of Mrs. Astor were five diamond Stars, each as large as a silver half-dollar. The wedding tour consists of a trip South, the immediate destination being kept secret. On March 25 they sail for Europe. STJEPEISED THE NATIVES. Arabs of Jerusalem Can's Understand the Electric light. New York Sun. A traveler who has recently visited Jerusa lem, tells of the sensation produced there last month by the introduction ot electric light, just four years after gas light was first seen there. The electric plant is used in a large flour mill adjoining the supposed site of Calvary and close to the Damascus gate. It the Arabs and Jews were filled with wonder by the flaming gas jets in 1637, they are confounded when they see the light of electricity in 1S9L Many of them are so alarmed that they hardly dare to look at It, and the Mohammedans call npon theProphet for safety. Thoy ask what It is, where it comes from, and how the magicians make It. When told that it is the same thing as lightning, they -become still more mystified, ask how it can be caught or held, and take eare to keep at a re spectlul distance from it. "Perhaps." says the traveler, "the day is not far distant when the streets and houses of Jerusalem may be lighted by electricity, and even when Palestine, long desolate, shall blossom like the rose." There is reason to believe that, with the com pletion of the railroad line from Jaffa to Jeru salem, and with the construction of other new lines, Palestine will attract far greater multi tudes of pilgrims than have been seen there since the time of the Crusades. According to a recent dispatch In tbe Sun, a steamer out in at Jaffa on Tuesday of a last week with 225 passen. gers, who proceeded to Jerusalem, accompanied by a band ot musicians. In coarse of time- the children ot Israel who once held Palestine, and wbo yet chant the songs of Jerusalem all over the world, may be induced to try to revive the prosperity of the Holy Land. THE GE0EGIA CEACKEE. The Term Not One of Reproach but De scription in the Sunny South. rebrnary Century.! The race that tends the spindles of the cotton-growing States is altogether unique. To 'describe it, geographical boundaries mast be effaced and national peculiarities ignored; for the blood of the followers of cavaliers in Mary land, noblemen in Virginia, Swiss and pala tines in North Carolina, and Huguenots In tbe Palmetto State blends with that of the impe cunious gentlemen brought by Oglethorpe to Georgia, and everywhere crops oat in one quaint, baffling, original, unchangeable type. Even our nomenclature fails under the strain of a classification so difficult. A name must be coined to specify this strange, homely, ungainly native folk that delve in to bacco, cotton and corn, distil whisky in the mountains, and spin or weave in villages and towns. "Crackers" in every mood and tense past, present and future they are; "crackers" in dialect, feature, coloring, dress, manner, doings and characteristics. In their native habitat the term is not a reproach but a scien tific distinction, expressing undisgulsable, stubborn, ineradicable qualities, which isolate that large portion of tbe community whom the epithet embraces hundreds of thousands ot non-slaveholding whites in ante-bellum days and their present descendants. HEATING CABS BY STEAM. Governor Campbell and Others Witness a Successful Experiment. SPECIAL TZLSOBAM TO TBS D 18 PATCH. I Newark, O., Feb. 17. Governor Campbell, with a party of prominent railroad officials, State Bailroad Commissioner Hon. J. H. Nor ton and Secretary of the State Board of Health Dr. CO. Probst made a test of tbe Roberts steam heater lor passenger coaches on the Bal timore and Ohio Bailroad. Tbe Governor is greatly Interested, financially and otherwise, in the heater. The steam is taken from the locomotives and carried through pipes to the headers in the cars. Tbe air In tbe car was run up to 70, which conld have been easily increased. The air was also agitated, thus elving a perfect ven tilation in the car. Dr. Probst and the railroad officials were greatly pleased at the success of the beaters, and said that for safety and health It eouldnfltbe beat. The affair ended with a great banquet at the Baltimore and Ohio House. SHERMAN DEAD. Bumble and grumble, ve drums, bbrill be your throat, O pipes! Writhe, blood-red flag, in your mourning band, Serpent or harlequin stripes! Rut-stars In tbe banners bluel Smile for tbe war chief trne Up from the myriad hearts of the land Comes to your haven comes. Guns that sullenly boom Mourn for the master's band Dreadful, uplifting tbe baton of war Wblleyourhurrlcanei bookthelandl Marching, marchlnjr, battle and raid, Gay and garrulous, unarrald, Sherman drove with his brilliant star A dragon of eld to its. doom. Pass, O shade, without stain I Sunsets that grimly smile Shall paint how your slftnal flags deploy ISattallons, mile ou mile Horsemen and footmen, rank on rank, Sweeping ainlnsl tbe foemau's flank. IHowlIn full oftlie stranjru mad Joy Wslaughterand fear to be slain: Orators, thnnderand ravel Chant ye his dirge, O bards; Ho, cunning sculptors, h! charger design, Grate ye bis proflle on sards 1 But to picture the hero's brain Shall ye ever thereto attain? Can ye utter tne soul or the long blue line And tbe tongue-tied love of tbe slave? Humble and crumble, ye drams iUraln In jour throat, O pipes! .Lal of thu urarrl'jro of oak that were hewn into strength by fallu re and stripes! Last, not least, of the neroesold, Smoke-begrlmedv fervid, crafty, bold Sheridan. Grant, your comrade boon Comes to vour haven comes! ' - - .aiutrltt Jit Xav in thi tTaa Vnv 4v!o ' m -.- -... -.. hv. .wnr SOCIETY SUBDUED, Modest Entertainments ot the Xenten Season The Christaln Endeavor .Meet ing of Last Evening A College Society Seonlon Xlttle Items Trnm Social 'Circles. "For Christ and the Church," that was tbe cause of the-large-meeting-of-yoimg people last night, in the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. It was a thoroughly "Christian Endeavor" countenance that was worn by every person present, and, Indeed, they all had a clear title to that appearance; for it was the quarterly meeting of the Allegheny County Union ot the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. The programme was entertaining. Instructive anu interesting, i-resiaent .uarry btaun, wno presided, Announced the numbers. After a pleaslnz onran voluntary by J. Q, .Evenon, there was a prayer by Bev-Afr. Jones. or Aiiencown. xnutnenine congregation sang hymn 101, which was followed by the readine of a portion of the Scriptures by Rev. F.B-Far-rand. Tho -next number was a vocal solo, Holden'S Wearer. My God, to Thee." sunt with much feeling by Miss Nannie F. Hammer. There was thtn prayer by Bev. J. T. Patter--soa, followed by hymn 107 by the congregation, and Kev. Richard S. Holmes, of tbe Hbadysido Church, delivered abort address to the union. In which he spoke of the historical significance at the meetings of great men-of this country at Fanuiel Hall, to protest against the action of a giant Government; at Independence Hall, to declare the great principles of a -government "of tbe people, for the people and by the peo ple." and at Appomattox, to -receive -a sarren- Uer that insured union forever for tho Land ot Liberty. From those -examples he illustrated serviceandsaerifice.theshlbboleth of the Chris nan, who must, to bear well the name, work for Christ and the chnrcb. As further instances of endeavor, the speaker rather startled some of the young folks by de claring. "Never more comes out of anything tnan is put into it. No boy gets more out ot a page of Latin than he puts into it, and the rea son some young men never "advance along tne lines of promotion in their employers' services, and others pass them to higher positions, is be cause they never pot into their employment any more than is required to earn then- wages." He told a number of stories with affect, and concluded by asking all to remember that the great principles of Christian progress were found in service, sacrifice, willingness, obedi ence, observance, faithfulness, honesty and persistence. Mr. Holmes was followed by Miss Laura Hubbard and C. F. Hawes, who sang a duet, and tben came another address. It was de livered by Bev. H. C. Applegarth, Jr tbe S astor of tbe church in which tbe meeting was eld. who spoke in his pleatsing and entertain ing manner. He said: "A minister ought at an times to be Tettffj to preacn, -and if he has anything to say.heought tosay it." He knows how to strike tbo sympathetic chord in the hearts of young people, and throughout his en tire discourse be held all in rapt attention. Miss Edith Harris then sang Barri's "A Beauteous Song," and after a .hymn the con gregation was dismissed with the benediction. ANNUAL P0W-W0W At Allegheny College to Be Attended try IKany Plttsliurgers. A number of the "boys" aregalng to run up to MeadviUe on the 19th ot this month, for the seventeenth annual pew-wow of Choctaw Chapter, of Allegheny College. It will be the aim of the active members to ont-yell and out eat and out-dress any previous pow-wow, and the most elaborate preparations in tbe way of dress are in order. Feather dusters by tbe dozen have been purchased by tbe young stu dents, and chiefs and warriors alike will have "heap big feathers." it is said that th ghost ot bitting Bull will be present and express in outraged grants his dislike ot the white man. The invitations are unique and read as fol low: "Lodge of Bur Chief Kosh-Gantz The Great Chief Sends Greeting, Ugh: 'Tis many moons since the great mighty Choctaw Chapter met In council of war ugh! Tbe Great Chief wishes all the mighty warriors to assemble iu war paint at the lodge ot -JIartinoka (in Dale face language tbe Commercial Hotel) H days after the wane of the second full moon, where tbe big chiefs Wanne He and Wanne Ho will guide the braves along the great trail toward tbe rising sun and tbe big sea water to the Tete tototata (Academy of Mnslc). where a much big council will be held by the Delta poet. Brotber Carlton. After these council the bucks will retrace rhelr steps to the joining of the two great trails, where tbe ghost dance will be Washisacba, ngbt Then to Martin's Lodge, where the tomahawk will be buried and the peace pipe smoked until the rising ot the sun. Ugh ueh ugh heap big Injun. By or der of Alpha Chapter Dolta. Tau Delta." EUSSELL AS AN AET CB1TIC. The Delsartean Apostle listened to by An other East End Audience. "Art Criticism" was the subject aunonnced npon which Edmund Russell would speak yes terday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. C. L. Magee. The elegant and artistic music room of the. mansion was kindly tendered for the lecture, and was nearly fined by an assem blage ot fashionable ladies, at the hour ap pointed 3 o'clock. It was much later, bow euer, when tbe Delsartean arrived, but with sn apology, explaining his tardiness by tbe erratic non-appearance of an ordered and expected carriage. Mr. Russell began his address. He was attired in a Bait of light gray, and with his usual grace and perfect style of speaking, oc cupied abont one hour and a half in speaking, but to those wbo bad been present at his for mer lectures, little new was disclosed. Tbe assertion made at tho very commence ment of the lecture, that in order to under stand art one must first understand human nature, prepared tbe way tor almost the entire discourse on personality, voice, expression and gestures, as previously given by Mr. Russell. The mental, moral and pbysical nature of tbe human being is symbolic of the form, surface and bulk of sculpture, and tbe expression, color and outline of paintings is the conclusion to be drawn from Mr. Russell's remarks. His two remaining lectures will appear under their old names of "Dress" and "Personality." THE THEAXBICAL TBEATS To Be Enloyed by the People of little Washington Next Week. Washington the lesser is great with excite ment this week-over the evening theatrical per formances on next Monday and Tuesday, under the management of Byron W.King, of this city. The plays to be given are "Macbeth" tbe first night, and "She Stoop3 to Conquer" and "Lend Me Five Shillings" the second evening. The male cast will be filled entirely by the students of Washington and Jefferson College, and the ladies will be imported from this city. Misses Butb Becck. Millie Gardner and Hannah Baxter will appear in "Stoops to Conquer." Dora Marshall. one of the composite Lady Jtaebelhs at the Bijou recently, will assume that character for the Monday evening performance. Special trains will convey Pittsburgers to and from the scene of the theatricals. Social Chatter. The wedding of Miss Nan Case, daughter of Frank P. Case, the well-known City Assessor, and John A. McClain, son of ex-Senator .Mc Clain. of Washington county, will be cele brated in a very unostentatious manner to morrow evening at the residence of the bride's parents. ON the First Presbyterian Church in Alle gheny to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock will occur the marriage of Miss Annie Alberta Mil ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Miller, and Mr. William J. Lowery. Bev. Mr. Ken nedy will perform tbe ceremony. Dr. John Dickson and Mrs. Dickson, who have been out of the city for several weeks past on account of the former's ill health. -returned yesterday morning, the brief recreation having accomplished wonders for the doctor. The next lecture ot the Y. M. C. A. coarse will be given Friday evening in tbe Academy building. "A Trip to Alaska", will be tbe sub ject, and Henry H. Bagaw will be the speaker. Edmbjd Russell will recite at the Kioc's Daughters' entertainment, to be civen Friday evening at Mrs. Marco's, and Mrs. Caster, who was a pupil oILamperti, will sing. The Martha Washington tea party stock is booming, and tickets will be for tale Friday and Saturday. Tbe G. A. R. ladies are the host esses. The regular meeting of tbe Woman's Club was held yesterday afternoon at the Central Board Library. Jlus. James M. Keek. of. Edgewood. re ceived last evening between ihe hours of 8 and 11 o'clock. A SUPPEK will be given at the Third Re formed Presbyterian Church to-morrow even ing. Parnell a Playwright. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Mr, Parnell is the author ot a play known as "Shamrock Green," which lor five years has enioyed great favor in Australia, and which has netted iu proprietor nearly a.C00 sterling. What Timer, Manners and 3Ieu! ban Antonio, Tex.. Express. Millions lor gab, and not on cast for a Chi cago sihinit, flh?KLHt..whtittoes, what raauneriandwaaiteeijl'' CDEIODS CONDENSATIONS The State of Texas ias $772,836 in the treasury after paying every claim. Chris Brown, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has agreed to walk from Aspinwall to Alaska for 310.000. A swan was killed in Trinity county, CaL. recently, whose wings measured seven feet when spread out, It weighed IB pounds. Betting on the rainfall has been carried to such an extent in India that tbe Bombay Government has passed an act forbidding it. A colored woman who kidnaped a child from its parents at San Diego, CaL. was ar rested and explained ber action on the ground that she heard that the child wis "being 111-' treated. A colored woman living near th: Blue river, Indian Territory, is reported to have given birth last week to four children, an of whom are doing well. "Tbe combined weight of the children was 27 pounds." The royal standard of Persia, it Is said, is an apron. Stout old Gao, the Persian black smith, raised a revolt which proved successful, and his leathern apron covered with jewels is still borne at the van of Persian armies. Joseph Alman, the bankrupt painter at San Lean dro, CaL. is an Americanized China man. His Mongolian name is Chang Ah Wung. He has lived in California for 40 years. Some time ago he was an adept bartender. He has forgotten his native tongue. New York contributed 26 Cabinet offi cers, in all. Massachusetts 2-1. Pennsylvania E, Virginia ZL and Ohio 17. Missouri comes well down toword the foot of the list, with 4 to Its credit. AH of the original 13 States except Bbode Island have been represented at one time or other In the President's Ministerial Council. Howard Coleman, a farmer's boy, of Little Britain, Lancaster county, Pa caught in a steel maskrat trap, recently. It is reported, a fine fish of the bass species, which on measure ment was found to be 13 Inches long and one pound six ounces in weight. The creek had raised daring the night and the water flowed over the trap. A meteoric stone resembling granites re cently fell near the mouth of Pistol liver. In Curry county. Ore. It weighs something over 400 pounds, and imbedded itself several feet in tbe earth. Parties who saw lc went to dig it out, but found it so bot nothing could be done wltnlt. After it had cooled It was removed, and will soon be placed on exhibition. It was recommended by the special com mittee of the California State University that Prof. E. J. Wickerson be authorized to hold farmers' meetings in the agricultural centers of the State, fof the purpose uf giving Instruc tion in agriculture and making sensible and practical grangers. Consideration of the proposition was deferred till tne next meeting. The earliest known lens is one made of rock crystal, unearthed by Layard atNlnevah. This lens, the age ot which Is to be measured by thousands of years, now lies in the British Museum, with its surface as bright as when It left the maker's hands. By the side of it are very recent specimens of lens which have been ruined by exposure to London fog and smoke. One of the peculiar features of school life in New York is the reading of the list of contagions diseases in tbe city. The list is furnished to teachers by the Health Board, and when it is read the pupils are asked if any of them live in thst vicinity. When a boy or girl stands np, he or she is taken aside and cross questioned. If danger is suspected theyoung ster is Sent home. Half dimes were first coined in October, 1792, and continued at intervals until 1S0S, then discontinued until IKS. Tbe issue ceased in 1S73. The 3-ceut silver coins, first issued in 1831. ceased in 1873. Tbe S-cent nickel was authorized in 1S66, and has been issued regular ly to the present time. In ISoS nickel S-cent pieces ana a small number ot nickel cents were coined. The 2-cent bronze pieces were issued lnlS&I. and discontinued In 1S72. The bronze cents issued in 1S64 have been coined annually since A singular little incident occurred yes terday in front of tbe Gedney House, New York. A handsome young lady, stylishly attired, was walking down Broadway, and a young man, equally captivating in his way, was coming uptown. They met in front of theafore said hotel, and as they passed the youth deftly slipped his band Into the girl's pocket and drew her pocketbook from it. It was done before the very eyes of 20 astonished guests of tbe hotel, but before they had time even to express their surprise at tbe young man's audacity, be turned with a polite how to the young lady, handed her the parse, gave her a mild warning not to be so careless la1 tho future, and passed on. - Amos Matthews, colored, who was said to be 113 years of age, died Sunday at his home near Catonsville, Baltimore county, Md., from an attack of the grip. He was born in Howard county, and belonged to Thomas Worthington. Prior to his last illness he was able to walk ten miles without fatigue. He was a bachelor and owned a small rarm on the old Catonsville road, above Nunnery Lane. His relatives say they nave the record of his birth in an old Bible, and also in papers that were made out at the time when he was given bis freedom by his master. He had never been outside tbe bound aries of Howard. Baltimore and Montgomery counties. The British warship Thunderer has re ceived f our specimens ot a gun, from which great things are expected. The original arma ment of the Thunderer consisted of two 33-ton and two 33-ton mozzle-loading guns, and one of these burst, in the course of practice. Inside the turret, with fatal results. It was believed that the gun bad been twice loaded before firinz The new guns, two of which are mounted on each turret, are of 10-inch caliber and 20 tons la weight. The total length is 26 feet 10 Inches, the projectile weighs 5UO pounds, and tbe full charge ef powdor is, as is now usual, just half that weicht. At a range of LOOO yaids It is cal culated to pierce 21 inches of wrought-irou plate. The panorama was invented by a Scotchman named Robert Barker, who ob tained a license in London in 1787 and erected a rotunda on Leicester square. He was associ ated with Robert Fulton, the practical in ventor of the steamboat, wbo introduced pano ramas into Fans In 1796. bat resigned in favor of Thayer, perhaps in order to give his atten tion to the application of steam to boats. Thayer raised a rotunda on the Boulevard Montmartre, whence comes the name of the Passage des Panoramas. Bonaparte caused plans to be drawn up for eight panoramas in wbich his conquests were to be shown to the Parisians, whom he always tried to Impress with the magnitude of bis achievements in order to keep them faithful to his star. Bat these projects were never realized. Barker was imprisoned for debt at Edinburgh in a cell with one opening only. In one corner of the roof ot the aunc'eon. It was so dark that he could not see to read, bat he found that by placing tbe paper near the narrow shaft of light tnat fell through the bole In the ceiling tbe letters of the writing became surprisingly distinct. This set him thinking, and after he was released be began experiments on pictures strongly lighted from above in a dark room. FUNNY MEN'S FANCIES. 'Tij a matter yet of wonder H ow in metaphoric tn under The letter sever written promptly came; Thst while Henry never wrote it And while David never goto it. The blamed epistle got there Just the same. OU City Mizzard, Buckskin Pete That tenderfoot gave a bang np dinner last night, bnt he's an awful dude. Lariat Ned How so? Buckskin Pete Why. he gave out Individual toothpicks. Kern Zort Uteaiag &'. ""No, sir," said the coal dealer, whose patronage was solicited for a little "manly art" contest, "Hike sport, but I can't risk my busi ness. The last occasion of that kind 1 attended somebody rot confused and Introduced me as the champion lightweight." WasMngton post. Cora Bellows I believe yon would be trno to a wife. Jake Jlmnson (deUghtedly)-Oh, do you think so? Cora (yawning) IfeJ. You wonld never leave her. Seta Tort Herald. She (on the way to the theater) John, please hold my handkerchief a moment. He Is this the only one yo brought? -Certainly. Why?" (Agbast) "Going to hear Clara Morris with only one handkerchief I" Chicago Tribune Something not on the bills took place at Bernhardt' performance, when her big dog walked onto the stage. This was cur-taUIsg the performance. Sta IorfSvcning World. Tomdik They say that it is very hard for Frakshus to keep his nose above water. McClammv From tbe color of It I should say that he fonnu the feat quite Impossible. Chicago later-Ocean. , It is given ont that there will be no riaj- msnaimticnt of the proposed national convention ' vt lcwilers.-nffio Times. The greatest trouble with city councils is that they do not go Into committee of tfee bole and poll the hole la after stveta oSeao-aesflv-t. iWKif ATGttW, L I jiitttAsV. ss'Bw''astsjis-sa
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