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PITTSBURG. oATUKDAV, MAR. 7. 189L
ro&-ii!iLiTii.. or Tin: canal.
A communication of decided interest ap
pears in this morning's Disr-ATCH on the
possibilities of building up a lame grain
trade in case the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Canal were constructed. Both its recital of
important facts concerning past railroad
compacts, by which the grain trade of
Philadelphia and oil trade of Pittsburg
were strangled, and its correct estimate of
the possinilities ol such a trade if lake navi
gation were brought to Pittsburg are per
tiuLnt at this time.
This means an addition to the possible
Ir.ffie of the canal which, strengthens its
practicability as a commercial enterprise
anil holds out the promise of business
growth winch would be of immense benefit,
not only to Pittsburg, but to Philadelphia
and Baltimore, where these shipments would
be exported. Beond this tnere is the prac
tical certainty that w ith tLe means of trans
ferring gram from the river to the trunk
lines at Pittsburg, a icrv large grain traffic
'would come up the Ohio from Southern
Indiana and Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Missouri. "With this field for euter
ririse propeily developed, Pittsburg might
build up a grain traffic equal in importance
to that which has created such cities as
Uufialo, Toledo or Milwaukee.
Every consideration points to the fact
that the building of the canal would cause
an -expansion of tlie business possibilities of
Pittsburg and "Western Pennsylvania such
as was neer known before, and will not be
known without this increase of transporta
tion facilities. The one thing needful is to
suite all clashes in the effort to push this
wort to realization.
A AKAK lACl'oE.
It is explained that the failure of the
Senate to ratifv the Brussels treaty tor the
suppression of the African slave trade and
the traffic u firearms and rum with that
continfiA was due to tke tear of entangling
alliances. The non-ratification of the
treaty was bad cnougn, but the presentation
of such aa excuse is eien more discredit
iole. Besides the foolishness in an abstract
Jioint of view, of holding up as an "en
tangling alliance" a treaty which did not
j!cdge the United Sutes to n'.v act further
tlian the indorsement of a principle such as
civilized powers have united m upholdingfor
years, the body wtiich turned the cold
shoulder to this measure of humanity
stowed in the same session how much fear
it had of violating the principle agaiust
entangling alliances. It would not assent
to the international law against devastating
Africa by acts of piracy; but it could pro
pose to make the Lmtcd States the guar
antor an.3 owner of a canal in the swamps
of Nicaragua. It could not indorse the
nrtncipls ol stopping a trade in murderous
vecpoas and drink with the sariges; but
the fear of entangling alliances would not
prevent the majority of the Senators from
putting 100,000,000 of tne people's money
into an inespousible State, where the owner
ship of the United States in the canal
created by tins expenditure conld
only be maintained bv the exertion of mili
tary force one or two thousand miles away
from our nearest shores.
The feir of entangling alliances is a good
thing, if exercised with reason. But it
should not be Used so ex i gently as a cloak
for the entanglements between our politics
and the shippers of firearms and rum to
Africa.
HAWAIIAN TltOUBLCS.
Late adwees from Honolulu indicate
all is Lot scicdc in the kingdom of the
late Knlakaua The Queen is blamed for
not showing more decision of character in
tlie appointment of a Cabinet, and serious
treble may jet ensue. The Commander of
liic Honolulu liifles is said to be in consni
r.tcy with Amciican missionaries and Chief
Justice Judd, of the Hawaiian Supreme
Court, to seize the GoMrnnicnt and mace
the Queen a mere figurehead. Tins is a
most deplorable state of affairs, if true, and
it strikes us thcAmerican missionaries could
lie engaged in au occupation more closely
connected with their calling. In (he United
States religion and politics do not mix, .md
Americans away from home should leuieiu
!er the fact and its consequent bum fit.
Il is likely, however, that relig.on I .is
little to do with Hawaiian trouMi. The
Queen would like to appoint a Cabinet com
posed almost entirely of natives, but Claus
Spreckels, the sugar magnate, who was the
virtual ruler of the country during the life
4AtUAl
time of the late King, wants to retain his
hold. He is afraid he would not find a Cab
inet composed entirely of natives so amen
able to his peculiar views as the one com
posed of Ciucasians showed itself. There
fore, through his agents, he opposes the de
signs of the Qneen, and the country re
mains unsettled. Spreckels has done much
forthe developmentof the Sandwich Islands,
but his present course will get htm no
thanks from the natives who wish to govern
themselves.
GEOWTn OF APPROPRIATIONS.
The last estimates of the total appropri
ations for the Fifty-first Congress place
them at 51,000,000,000. At the beginning
of the week they were put at 5990,000,000;
but the legislators evidently thought they
might as w ell be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,
and so stuck on enough scattering appropri
ations to itake the even thousand millions.
It is but just to say that the larger sum is
the Democratic estimate, the Republicans
claiming it to be teu millions below that
total.
The reaching of this mile-post in the
course of .National expenditure warrants
looking back a little. It has already been
pointed out that this total is 190,000,000
greater than the appropriations ol the last
Congress and $254,000,000 more thau for the
preceding one. But in order to see how ex
penditures have been swelling it may be
well to go hick to the early part of the
decade, and take the total appropriations of
each Congress.
Torty seventh Congress. S52b.000.000
Forty sixth Congress. 4u6 000 0jO
Ior:j-fifth Congress 307,000.000
Forty-fourth Congress 209,COJ,000
It thus seems that in a period of less than
fifteen years, starting from a point where ap
propriations had ben brought dowu to
the lowest figure since the war, there has
been not a gradual but a rapid increase in
national expenditures. During the first half
of that period, from the figures given above,
the increase of each was forty to sixty mill
ions, or twenty to thirty millions for each
vear. The Forty-seventh Congress made a
jump of 5120,000,000; but even that record
has been cast in the shade by some of its
successors.
In comparing the figures just quoted from
former Congresses, we must bear in mind
they do not include permanent appropria
tions. Deducting 5223,000,000 from the ap
propriations of the last Congress that leaves
a total of 5777,000,000 for comparison with
the figures quoted. The comparison will
show that the responsibility for this immense
enhancement of expenditures does not rest
entirely on one party. Of the 5230,000,000
increase since 1884, the late Congress has
done the lion's share, but previous Con
gresses in which the Democrats were able to
check expenditures, show 560,000,000 of an
increase over a standard of expenditure
wnich that party had already aided in swell
iug by jumps of fifty or a hundred million
in each Congress Still, it remains that in
the one Congress where the Republicans had
undisputed control the greatest increase of
appropriations ever registered was made
and the high-water mart of expenditure was
recorded.
The significance of this comparison is
stronges. when we put th total of 5307,000 -000
appropriations fo- the Forty-fifth Con
gress against that of 5777,000,000 for the last
one. In other words, during a decade, of
peace, wht i the population has increased
something over 2G per cent, the expenditures
of the Government have increased oer 112
per cent. "Whilj there has been a gratify
ing growth of population, it is not gratify
ing to observ that public expenditure has
grown at a fo-r times greater rate of speed.
It was neer charged prior to 1880 that the
national appropriations were insufficient for
the creditable maintenance of the Govern
ment; but it now appears that we had then
only a faiut idea of what was meant by
laMsh expenditure.
It is an instance of remarkable blindness
that the Bepublican leaders did not see that
one of the influences of 18SS was the weak
ness of the Cleveland administration in not
having cut down expenditures. It will be
more phenomenal stupidity if the Demo
cratic leaders do not see that the Bepublican
levcrses were due to the fact that tne leaders
of that party have exceeded all records in
the dissipation of public funds.
TOOK AIXEGIIEXl!
Allegheny seems to be getting along very
poorly since she first made the attemnt to
get into a higher municipal class. With
the rashness of ignorance she boldly made
a clutch for the coveted honor, calling upon
all the world to witness her qualifica
tions. The knowledge now comes to
her that greatness is not with
out its drawbacks, and her citizens
are made aware that there are other things
more desirable than living in a second
class city under third-class politicians. On
this side of the river we claim that our
politicians are at least equal in rank with
the city over which they rule by the grace
of the people. Herein may lie Allegheny's
escape from the troubles that now close
arouud her. We cannot afford to lose our
rulers, or wc might lend thenr to our sister
city, but there are other ways in which she
can enjoy the benefits of their wise and be
neficent policy. The time may come when
she will consent to adopt one of these ways,
and end forever the troubles attendant upon
municipal old maidenhood. Until then she
has our sympathy.
IIOOKER'S SHARE IX GCITISBURG.
The current issue of the Xorth American
Smew contains a number of "Further
Recollections of Gettysburg," by Generils
Sickles, Newton, Gregg and Butterfield,
inspired by the recent meeting on that field,
at which the Comtc de Paris was present.
The papers contain little that is new con
cerning that fight, except the statement made
by Sickles and Buttcrfieid that its selection
for battle was General Hooker's, made in
the early part of the campaign, before
either of the contending armies had crossed
the Potomac.
This point may have been stated before;
but it has certainly been lost sight of in the
cloud of discussion as to whether the im
mediate selection of the field that is, just
before the bittle-must be credited to
Reynold, Sickles or Hancock, It is put
here in the clearest way. Sickles says that
Hooker's maneuvers before his removal
forced Lee to give or receive battle at Get
tysburg, and thus that battle ''was Hooker's
revenge for Chancellorsville." Butterfield
gives the same assertion with more detail, by
telling of a conversation he had with
Honker early in June, or nearly a month
before the battle, in which Hooker said:
"They are worrying at Washington and
throughout the Xortb, fearing we shall permit
Lee's army to cross the Potomac If he would
not cross otherwise I would lay tuo bridges for
him and giro him a safe pvs acrosj Hie river.
But ho will pass and we must endeavor to guide
his march there."
buitmg the action to the words he. pointed on
the map to the "iYiIliaruiort crossing, and.
running his finger along the west s.de of the
South Mountain range, stopped at the point
w litre tlie shading iud.catcd a break or piss,
saying:
"lie will go on on this route and we will fight
the oat tie here, and beToro wo fight It concen
trate troops enough troni all available sources
to prevent Lee's return. If ho gets away with
his army the country can have iny head for a
football and will be ontitled to IV
The battle point indicated was Gettysburg.
These statements certainly claim for Gen
eral Hooker a foresight concerning the
movements and influences that would force
or prevent battle tnat is Napoleonic in its
military genius. Upon such authority as
this, it is necessary to credit that officer
with the plan of campaign that was demon
strated to be so skillful by the battle which
his successor fought against his will. But
while we credit Hooker with the strategical
part of the campaign that led up to Gettys
burg, it floes not follow necessarily that he
would have fought the battle itself any bet
ter than Meade, or that his promise of never
letting the Southern armv get back into
Virginia would have been fulfilled any bet
ter than by Meade's respectful waiting on
Lee until the latter could transport his
army over the Potomac.
If Hooker could have carried out
his programme beyond the battle as
well as it was followed up to
the battlefield, it would have given him a
rank in the war not second even to Grant's
at that time. But only two or three months
before Gettysburg the country had seen one
of his grand strategical combinations pro
ceed up to the point where successful fight
ing was only needed to insure complete vic
tory, and then go to pieces utterly for an
apparent lack of intelligent and determined
direction. While Meade's cautious style of
campaigning led to some extreme acts in
that stle. it is well known that at Gettys
burg he fought well, not because he liked to
fight, or was determined to stake all upon
the battle, but simply because he had to
fight. Hooker's daring as a corps com
mander and his genius as a strategist com
pletely overshadowed Meade's, but his sole
appearance as the general of agreat army in
a pitched battle was so unfortunate that it
can hardly afford any reliable indications of
what he would have achieved if he had
commanded at Gettysburg.
Senator Stanford did not get Con
gress to adopt his. plan of loaning money to
farmers at two per cent interest. But he has a
pood many millions of his own that he has a
perfect right to invest that way if he chooses.
As The Dispatch quoted a few days
ago some appro lng statements concerning the
Shaw apparatus for the detection of gases in
minesit is necessary to say that an article in
the Collieiy Enamccr of dcranton states the
apparatus is notonlj useless butpositively dan
gerous. It supports this statement with such
strong expert opinion as to demand consider
able credit, although the force of the showing
is somewhat damaged by the fact that it is sent
oy the editors of that journal in circulars
throughout the btate. accompanied by other
articles, which seem to define the platform of
that journal, as opposed to any measures for
the better protection of miners.
"Eiches hath wings" was supposed to
be stated in Scripture merely as a principle of
human philosoph. But it is now perceived to
have been a prophetic forecast of the opera
tions of the i if ty-first Congress on the surplus.
Captain Henderson, of the Pittsburg
and Cincinnati Packet Line, corroborates state
ments recently made In these columns as to the
growth of the Ohio river trade. One assertion
wbicL he makes is particularly significant.
Ho says that his line cones almost as much
freight from Pittsburg that is destined for
Chicago as for Cincinnati. This means that,
Dy combining water and rail transportation,
shippers do better than sending by rail alone.
It is c.is to understand the adantago in
point of cheapness which all-water service
has as compared with all-rail.
Boolanger is now alleged to have in
stigated the commotion in Pans over tho
visit of the Empress Frederick. It seems to bo
about up to the level of "lebrav' general's"
military powers to make war upon a woman.
In all the disputes as to who will be
Hearst's successor in the Senate there is no
question raised but that the California rule of
sending a millionaire will be strictly adhered
to. Moreover, there does not seem to be any
disposition to impeach the testimony of that
etpert tu the eCect that tho cost to a million
aire will be about 400,000
The car stove registered its destructive
qualities in that New York tunnel disaster, but
tho company which caused that slaughter by
defying the Xew York law, still keeps tho car
stove in operation on its daily train'.
The K-.nsas Senate has rejected the wo
man's sutfrag bill wblca passed the lower
branch of th i Legislature last week. Tho Re
publican organs which approve that action, are
certain to have their party assume the function
which they hive long time assigned to the
Democracy, that of a drig on the wheels.
Why should not the Congressional lead
ers follow tho example set by that deceased
beer cndcr, and scatter the ashes of the sur
plus from the Statue of Liberty in Xew York
harbor?
Govkknoe Bulkeley cin now get even
with Dai id Bennett Hill by claiming that the
latter is notGoernor. but a mere pluralist.
Other Governors may join in tho melee if they
choose, bnt it is noticeible that our own Robert
E Pattison is saying nothing but keeps right
on sawing wood.
The settlement of the river miners' strike
will restore activity and plenty to the great in
dustrial region Ijing along the Monongahcla
nvcr.
Messrs. John B. Eouinson and David
B Hill, continue to maintain by their action
that they caunot see anything at all disagreea
ble In having their names on the piy roll of tho
United States and of their respective btates at
one and the same time.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON,
One of the wharf bills seems to have made
a landing, but the others struck a snag
THE darkest shadow is gilded by tne ris
ing sun, and the coldest winds sweep through
the budding tree". Winter seems to fasten
itself moro firmly just on tho edge of spring. It
clutches with icy fingets the sprouting grasses
in the sod lands and hangs on, loath to go.
bun delving, the frost king sits on a crystal
throne, breathing upon the bursting buds as if
bent on prolonging the blight by driving back
to the roots of tho trees tho life-giving fluid
that warms their hearts and covers their naked
ness at tho bidding of the sun god. It is merely
the dirk hour before the dawn the sleeping be
fore the waking, the rest before tho reel. Out
on the edge of wintcrland the birds arc darting
from the snow to the shine. Every day tho
circle narrows. Where itwas white jesterday it
is brown to day and will ho green to morrow.
In the blusterinirand shifting March winds ou
hear the patter of tho April shower, and fnutly
detect the odor of the April flower. Under the
steel-like sheet in tho fields the tough grasses
are taking deep root, gathering strength to
spread a carpet on which Spring can enter with
noiseless tread. Sn winter must go. And
what a grand transformation scene nature is
arranging behind the ice curtain, tool Nothing
devised by human hands can approach It in
splendor, detail, diversity or harmony. There
will be no bitch in the shitting scene, either.
The brooks will dance, the buds will burst, the
fl wers will nod, tho grass will wave, the birds
will slcg, and over all the sun will shine, glid
ing with gold the Master's masterpiece. Wait
for it in the forest and the field. The picture
mi) De delayed in a blizzard, but it will not be
destroyed by the frost.
A oiris auswpr nowadays dipends a
great deal o.i the slza of the suitor's pocket
book. If statesmen could be arrested for putting
bad bills in circulation public printing bills
Would be reduced.
Canadians were not Liberal enough
with their votes Thursday, and that's why Sir
John winks his other eve
A chance acquaintance The one who
is called a professional pamDler.
An Iowa man wauts 520,000 from a rail
road for the loss of two lingers. He must be a
piano or violin expert.
Bull's-eye lanterns are fed on oxygen,
of course.
If a faster should be fortunate enough to
lose his appetite he would rest easier.
Patrons of the turf are course men, of
course.
Mrs. Harrison has painted a Cape May
cottage. The materials she used cost her
more than the cottage, if old rumors are to be
relied unon.
Pittsburo cannot help but lead in the
iron business. She uses Superior ore, you
know.
Satan seems to be a self-made man.
Saint John instead of Sir John would
about fit Canada's Premier jnst now.
As A kicker from the word go Allegheny
stands pat.
When the fire engine makers form a
trust bjgones will be bygones.
Philadelphia his rubbed her eyes and
discovered that her mint bill does not carry an
appropriation. Words to express her disgust
cannot be coined.
The moon can be studied for amusement,
bnt our own planet can be studied with profit.
If the cloture could be applied to the
baseball managers the game of life would bo
easier to play.
The secret is out. Jerry Simpson wears
tights Clowns usually wear bloomers, but
Jerry is eccentric, jou know.
A Bible has been sold in New York for
11,800 It is for exhibition purposes.
Champagne has gone up in France.
French labels and bottles remain the same,
and California is still growing grapes, however.
A rent in a wall knocks the rent off a
house.
It is easier to train a lion than a mouse,
and giants are less troublesome than dwarls.
The oleo dealers are endeavoring to as
certain what sido their bread is buttered on.
The Pennsylvania Cdmpany has sensiblv
decided that Pittsburg can get along without
its final "h." The Dispatch discarded this
superfluity long ago. X ext!
HARRibBURG is now furnishing the most
entertaining snake stories.
Willie Winkle.
PEES0NAL PABAGBAPHS.
Charles Dudley Warner has taken
a villa at Florence, Italv, for the season.
Ex Senator Warner Miller is said
to receive J2o,0l0 a jear as President of the
Xicaragua Canal Company.
Henry GpORGEhas recovered his health
so completelv that ho contemplates returning
from Bermuda in about two weeks.
Bishop Paddock, of Massachusetts, is
confined to his home in Boston by what is re
garded as an exceedingly critical illness.
Prof. Cooke, of Harvard College, has
what is supposed to be the best collection of
valuable minerals and meteoric stones in the
world. '
Minister Phelps denies that he ap
peared at a public reception in Berlin dressed
in knee-breeches and other articles of, court
apparel. j
William Winter has dedicated his
forthcoming book ot verses. "Gray Days and
Gold," to Augustin Daly, "remembering a
friendship of many years."
Miss Dolores Marbourg, who has
been colliborating a novel with George Cary
Eggleston. is a slender, graceful joung girl,
whoso former homo was in Atchison.
Truxton Beale, the new Minister to
Persia, gets his baptismal name from his great
grandfather. Commodore Thomas Truxton,
who helped win tho early fame of the American
navy.
Mrs. Marian Reid, the aged mother
ot Jlinistcr Whitelaw Reid, who resides near
Cedarville, Ohio, has recently received from
her son some leaves from the Mount of Olives
and a marigold from the Garden of Geth
semine. Gfneral Lew "Wallace and Secre
tary Foster are almost doubles in personal ap
pearance, their resemblance being so striking
that they are frequently mistaken for each
other. Each is a man of medium height, weigh
ing about 170 pounds
Elijah Kellogg, the mm who wrote
"Spartacus to tho Gladiators" and "Regulus to
the Carthagenian," once so familiar to every
schoolboy, is still living in Harpswell, Me. He
is a clcrygman, SI years old, and even now
preaches occasionally.
The Hon. H. S. Sanford, the Minister to
Belgium under Lincoln's administration, lives
most of his tune in that country. He spends a
portion of each ear in Florida, where he has
an orange grove. Mr. Sanford, who is Go years
old, is said to have crossed the Atlantic t6
times.
Captain James Carroll, the new
Congressional Delegate from Alaska, was born
in Illinois and was a sailor on the lakes in his
youth, but lor the last 11 ycirs commanded
steamers running from Columbia river to Sitka.
Ho represents a constituency of about 8,000
Alaskans.
Henry Labouchere praises very highly
the late Mr. Bradlaugh, of whom be remarks
"Often and often the Conservatives have, in a
friendly way. said to me 'What a much better
man jour colleague is than you arc.' " And .to
this he mike the truly Laboucherean addition:
"And I entirely agreed with them."
Ben Tillman, the newly-elected Gov
ernor of South Carolina, is visiting Washing
ton for the first tune, under the guidance of his
brother, who is a member of Congress. He is a
typical farmer in appearance, but n conversa
tion he is quick, direct and plain spoken. His
words flow freelr, but there is a cautiousness
abouthlm which indicates shrewdness.
Miss Cynthia M. Westover is Com
missioner Beattfe's deputy in the street clean;
ing department of Xew York city, bile is thow
oughlj capable and posted in the work of the
office, and, though a frail looking, pretty and
polished lady, can boss a thousand laborers so
cleverly that the ordiuiry ganger forgets how
to swear, and tho politician who wants piy
without work finds that he has a hard road to
travel.
Miss Helen Gould, daughter of the
millionaire Jay, often devotes a day to hospital
visiting. Not long ago she made a tour of the
day nurseries. She was accompanied by a
friend, whom she wished to interest in these
charities. "After one of Miss Gould's visits,"
said tho matron of one creche, "we always re
cenefrom her some substantial token of her
interest a package of clothing or a basket of
fruit. Dolls, books, aprons, dresses and blan
kets were ber last contribution."
LEONARD JEROME AT BEST.
Ills Obsequies In London Attended by Many
Eminent Persons.
Lonbon, March 6. Leonard Jerome, of Xew
York, was buried to-diy in Kensal Green Gem
etery. The body was brought from Brighton to
Grovesnor Chapel, where the religious services
were conducted by Rev. W. Foster Elliott.
From the cham.1 the body was taken to tho
cemcten.
Sir.. Jerome, Lord and Lidy Randolph
Churchill. Mr. and Mrs. Moreton Frewcn, tho
United States Minister, Hon. Robert T.Lin
coln: the United States Consul General, Hon.
John C. Xew; tho German Ambassador, Count
von Hatzteidt-Wildenburg, and about 30
friends were present at the funeral ceremonies.
TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL,
Perennial Popularity of Punch and Judy
Making a Corpse Pay for Wine Flos
ting Harvard's Illg Boys Killing for
Cold Cash Hon- to Spell Shakespeare.
Speaking of the perennial popularity of
Punch and Judy shows, a manipulator of pup
pets gavo a Cincinnati Ttmisblar reporter
some interesting information concerning his
comical figures. The showman said:
"For S00 years the world has laughed at tho
trials and temptations of our friend, Mr.
Pnnch, and for SCO ears, night after night, has
the devil carried him off only to replace him in
good season for the next day's performance.
It is really wonderful what a hold that show
has on the people. Xot only children, but old
men, will come again and again to see it. It
seems like a sort ot disease or rather habit,
like that of smoking.
"In America tho show is varied, whi'o in
England, Punch's great stronghold, it is re
produced always in the same way, with Punch
as the murderer of his wife and his colored ser
vant, tho executioner of the Sheriff and finally
snapped ud by old Xirk.
"I am told that tho district about the House
of Parliiment in London is full of traveling
Punches, and tint it is no uncommon thing to
see groups of members about the shows, even
Gladstone, the Grand Old Man, often joining
the croups.
"Iheplay is, I believe, as old as the hills,
something similar being known among the an
cient Egyptians. It took its present form in
tho eaily part of the seventeenth century.
Acerra, an ancient city in tho neighborhood of
Xaples, claims the high honor of being the
birthplace of Mr. Punch, wtrnse family name
is thought to have been I'ulcinclla. Authors
ever siuco have mentioned him, but the mot
pirticular statement we have on the subject is
that mido by Griimua. He says that S)lvii
Fiorillo, a comedian, who pictured himself to
he called Ciutain Matamoros. invented the
Neapolitan Pulcinella, to which Andrea Cal
cese, who had the surname of Cmccio, by study
and natural grace, added much. Calcese was a
tailor, ana died m tne plague ot the year idou.
He imitated the peasants of Acerra, a very an
cient city of lerra di Lavora, not far from
Xaples."
Making a Corpse Pay for Wine.
Ihe Chicago Times tells a story of ghastly
hilarity w Inch, it it were not well authenticated,
would no past belief. According to tho Times
ajoung Englishman suicided in bis room at a
fashionable hotel. The attempt was not In
stantly successful and the lesident physician
and two others were called in and labored with
him in vain for hours. The Englishmin had
no friends in the city. Beside the chief clerk
and the phsicians no one was present at the
death scene. "The case is hopeless; we can do
nothing more," said one of tho latter at last.
"Well, wo at least can have something moro
palatable than that." exclaimed the clerk, point
ing to the empty bottle of morphlno on the
table and ringing the bell for a boy. A bottle
of champagne was ordered. Tho Englishman
was not yet dead, though unconscious. "Well,
old man," cried the clerk, addressing the dying
man, as the nuartet raised the classes to their
lips, "here's hoping you mav have a pleasant
trip to the happy hunting cround." The toast
was drunk with much hilarity, the wine charged
to tne suicide's account, and another bottle
ordered. The Englishman's account was again
increased SI As the glasses were again filled a
faint groan was heard to come from the un
fortunate man's lips, the eyes half opened, and
the glassy eyes glared for a brief second at the
revelers. "Sorry you can't join uson this round,
old fellow," exclaimed the clerk, noticing the
movement of tho Englishman. The body at
this moment stiffened and the rattle was beard
in tho throat. "Ho is dead," said the resident
physician, as he leaned over thebeJ. "Then
let's have ono more; hope that he's fetter off
than wn are," cried the clerk, sounding for the
third bottle of Pommery. It came, was finished
and the dead man paid tor it.
riogglng at Harvard.
Fancy President Eliot flogging one of his
Harvard students I saj s a writer in the Boston
Heiald, wouldn't It be a sight to behold? And
wouldn't it hate a fine sequel in the lmmediite
fortunes of the college?
Of course he won't do it.
He probabl couldn't even it ho wanted to.
But, if he should, it would not bo the first
timo in tho history of the university. For
moro than a century after the foundation of
the college corporal punishments were both
a theoretical and practical part ot its codo ot
regulations.
The flogging was often in public, too.
It was not evolved as a growing need of tho
times. It was commenced right away by tho
very first President,XatlianieI Eaton. The col
lege historians object to his being called Presi
dent, but he was the fiast man that had chargo
ot the infant institution.
He must, indeed, have been a terror, for, as
Dr. Pcabody sajs, "he left for posterity a
record of severity in discipline bevond tho suf
ferance even ot that iron age, and of a parsi
mony in tho dietiry of his scholars from which
Snncors himself might hivo taken lessons."
'iheorder made by the "President and Fel
lows" was that all students' misdemeanors
should bo punished cither by fine or whipping in
the hall openly, "as the nature of the 'onTenso
shall require, not exceeding 10 shillings or teu
stripes for one offense."
The immediate government kept no record
of their proceedings. Tho tutors chastised at
dl cretion, and on very solemn occasions the
overseers were cilled together, either to au
thorize or to witness the execution of tho
severer punishments.
Killing for Cold Cash.
A reporte.- on the San Francisco Examiner
evidently believes that Eastern people are
fond of stones the chief merit ot which is the
imagination exercised in the composition. Im
pressed with this idea.he tells the following:
On Jackson Btreet I observed a sipn In the most
ornate Conrucim hieroglyphics. Eoxllsli duplicate
of which, first underneath, read:
blSO, (UN &CO.. :
PRACTICAL HIGHBIJ.DEKS. :
'. ASSASS'.ATIOV CHEAP FOB CASH. :
Entering the office I beheld an amiable-looking,
well-fed Celestial, who was softly whistling
the "Skirt Dine," as an evidence of Caucasian
culture, while he put an cxtri edge on a bui
ness Iooklncsiab knife with a whetstone.
"How's trade now?' inquired tho visitor.
"Business looking up?"
"Well, it's onl so-so." said the shuffler off of
other men's coils, critically splitting a Inir with
the digger. "Ihere's verv littlo doing in the
city just now. but then we must take the
shadow with the sunshine the thorns with the
roses. On the other hand, however, country
orders aro coming in about as usual. On the
whole, wecin't complain."
"You charge a commission, ell?"
"Asarulowe do. Our oldpiico list cave a
fixed sum, according to the style of killing
selected, but our now spring and summer
schedulu makes it about two and a half per
ccntnfwbat there is in it for the heirs so to
speak."
, "Do our customers generally pay up prompt
ly' ' asked the factr gatherer.
"As a rule the) do. It isn't healthy not to,
you see," said the cutleiy expert, winking in a
manner that made the cold chills run down the
visitoi's spine. "Our collector had a good deal
of trouble over one man at San Rafael, whose
mother-in-law wo pas-eJ through the gates
ijir last summer. As we had originally put the
job down verv low onl 65 part in cash and
part in fuel he kept a coalyaru we thought it
pretty mean In him to dodge the bill every
steiinerdij. Finally be told us to sue for It."
"Which of course you couldn't."
"Vhj, of course not. 1 never felt so cut up
and annoyed in the whole course of rav pro
fessional experience. We just laid for that fel
low as yon may suppose md last W cdnesday
week wo wedged him under the meek eyed
daisies as slick as jou plcisc. 1 took a jab at
him myselr, and I must say I haven't cnj'ojcd a
hit of stabbing better since I was an apprentice,
Ihis trying to piy for good scientific sandbag
ging with kind words don't go. Ot course we
have charity cases, now and thou, just as tho
phjsiclans h ive. Last week we abated a grind
ing old hunks of a landlord for a poor widow
withnlnochlldrpn. Sad case. very. Some peo
ple seem to be born without hearts, 1 olten
think." , , , .
"Have jou innch competition?"
"Well, of courso there are lots of unysters in
all professions," said tho beir helper sadly.
"For instance, there's a little invention of mj
on n in that bottle that some of them havo been
trying to pirato for several yeirs. I call it the
Husband Eradicator.' and it is about tho bet
preventive of expensive divorce suits ever put
on the market."
"Is. eli?"
"Yes, and Its success goes to show how a little
knowledge ot human nature can be utilized in
any business. You see, I combine nitro-glyce-rine
with one other ingredient, and rock and
rye in the proportion of one to three. This
mixture the woman who wants to abolish her
husbind in order to marrv some ono else, as wn
all know most of 'em do, places on the top sbclf
of tho pantry. Then she hires a pretty servant
girl and goes on a visit somewhere, tikiug tho
children, tl e cit, tho canary md mj thing clso
of value. Of cuurse. as son as she's gone the
mild drinks the 'eridicator.' tne husband hugs
the maid, the maid explodes and blows them
both to the sweet hj-and-by. Now. how does
that strike you as an ingenious idea? '
I expressed my admiration, and liter getting
the cadaver furnisher's bed rock terms lor the
taking off of an imaginary trombone amateur
in the next bouse. I pocketed some of the firm's
business cards and drifted out.
IJow to Spell Shakespeare.
There was great latitude taken in spelling
Shakespeare, says W. T. M. Bull in the Boston
Globe. Thus in extant documents, bearing
date from 1450 to 1550, the name Is variously
spelt: Scbakespeire, bebakespere, Scbaks
pere, Cbacsper, shakespeyre, Shakespeyr,
Sbakspere, Shakespere.
From 1330 to 1630, during the lapse ot which
100 years the poet was born (1361), and died
(1610), thcro was great freedom taken in spell
ing the name, as the following table clearly
shows:
bh ikspere fcliackcspeare Shaxpear
Shaksper slnckespear Shaxpeerc
bh ikspcar bhackepere bliaxneer
Miakspecre bliacke&per bliakxspere
bhskspeer bhiklspere bhakxsper
blukspcvre fch iklspcr shaxkpere
bliakspeyr bliakyspare bhaxkper
bhickspcar bhaxpere shaxepcre
bhacospLr bhnxspere Sluxkcspcre
blnckspcere bluxper bhapspere
bhacksplre Muxspcr bh ixeper
Shikcapero baxpere Slnxkesper
bli ikesper bsxspere bickesper
bhakcpLere baxsper Miakysper
bhakespeer bbaxpeare bliakuspcare
bbakesper
In the deed nndcr which Shakespeare pur
chased for tbe sum of 110 the unexpired term
in the titles of Stratford, Old Stratford. Bish
opton and Welrombe, ahakespeare is found
once, Shakespear once: once there is a simple
initial, and in the remaining ten cases tho
name appears with tho second b. viz: Shaciies
phere, three; Shakesphcre. five times; Shacks
pharc, once, and Shakesphere, once
In ther Registers of Smithfield, 1506-7. record
is made of tbe burial of "Margiret bixpere,
widoAr, being times tbe wyif of Henry Sbaks
pere." Hero aro variations enourh from which to
chooso a spelling for the name, but it may as
well be added that the best authorities have
fixed as a standard upon Shakespeare.
LAST OF THE CHEYE5NES.
Tho ricrccst Indians in tho United States
Broken in Spirit.
The Kapid City, S. D , correspondent of the
Minneapolis Tribune says: "Tho remnants of
the once mighty and dreaded Cheyenne Indians
passed through here this morning on their way
to their new reservation in Montana. These,
the most vindictive, independent, stubborn
Indians the whites have ever had to deal with,
when once they came in contact with
trained soldiers and realized that their vaunted
superiority was gone; that their undaunted
bravery was powerless against the skill and
discipline of civilization; when they realized
that they must givo up their lands and
legend haunted hunting grounds, the
storehouses of their finest imagina
tion, and weekly bow to tbo Great Father,
accept his bounty and be at bis bidding ever
after, their spirit was broken and never since
have they been the same. Their independence
and their bravery were the mainsprings ot their
character, and their arms were ever ready to
protect tbe one and give evidence of the other,
but when they found tuese could avail
tbem nothing they were as Xapoleon,
without his legions, or the martyr, without
his religion powerless. Savage as ever,
ugly as ever, milicious. hateful and sinister as
ever, yet tbe fire of deviltry bnrns far less
brightly in their eyes, and though the knife
and rifle are ever ready at their belt and shoul
der, their nervous fingers hang palsied at their
sides. Tho fierce but unsuccessful warfare of
'76 '78 convinced the Chejenue that his struggle
against tbe white aggressor must be in vain,
and once completely crushed, be, a fatalist,
cannot and will never rally again."
PAINTINGS OF POMPEIL
They Are Boantifnl Almost Beyond Powers
of Description.
Edinburgh Review. 3
Of all the remarkable things found at Pom
pen none are more important than tbe pic
tures, on account of tho light they throw on
ancient paintlnc. While many masterpieces
of Greek sculpture and aremtecturo have come
down to us, the Greek paintings, from the
fragility of their mture. have perished, and
it is chieflvln the Roman ruins that we find
some tradition of them left. At Pompeii every
houso and every room was decorated with
frescoes. The best of these were at first re
moved for their preservation to tho museum
atPortici, which was incorporated into the
Xaples museum early in the century.
Descriptions can hardly givo an idea of the
charm of tbeso pictures, of their rich, har
monious coloring, which many art critics have
compared to Titian; of tho serene, joyous con
ceptions of human life.of the grace and dignity
of tbe figures Stately gods and goddesses,
sporting cupids, bacchantes, launs, centaurs,
dolphins, arabesques are multiplied in infinite
variety. Mo-t of the subjects are taken from
the Greek mythology, but some represent
scenes trom the dally life of tbe Pomoenans,
and throw much light on their habits and occu
pations. With few exceptions the subjects
arc treated with taste and delicacy. In a civil
ization whero to tbe gods themselves were
ascribed the passions of mortal men, it is not
to bo wondered that art sometimes ministered
to the licentious ideas of the day.hut those pict
ures which haV6 been removed from public
view are few compared to those which must
delight even the severest moralist.
HONEST CARD PLAYERS.
An English Idea of tho Habitual Gambler's
Rectitude.
London Truth.
On a verv moderate estimate, out of every
hundred men who play high at games of
pure chance, at least three cheat, and out of
every hundred women, at least six. They do
not alwavs cheat, but every now and then,
when they think that no one is looking, they,
as the Americans say, "play with tho advan
tages " If anjono will take the trouble to
count up the number of persons who live jear
after year far above their incomes, and who
plav habitually at games of chance, and yet are
never in debt, be will perceive that thev must
cheat, for at no game of pure chance can a
habitual pliver win year after year. It is sim
ply impossible, if he does not give himself some
littlo advantise over his opnonents. Too ad
vantage, however, need not be above 2 or 3 per
cent for him to make a good thing out of his
plajmg. At baccarat, for instance, a person
pliyiug 10 each c up wonld stake in an hour
at least W, and 2 percenton this would in
sure him 6 per hour. If he plajs frequently
tbe luck of one hour would balance tbe ill luck
of another hour, so tint were he to play 200
hoursm the jeir, his annual revenue from
cards would be 1,200.
Wisdom rroin the West.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. J
General Butler has foolishly departed from
his intention to retire from public life long
enougb to indulge in wild talk about war be
tween this country and Canada. If tho condi
tion of the union of the two countries is con
quest there will be no union. The sent.ment of
the people of the United States would be over
whelmingly against any warinaugurated purely
for tho purpose of extending our territory.
Unacquainted With the Latter.
Philadelphia ews.
Ihe Whisky Trust has been roundly de
nounced by the Anarchists.but for some reason
they have made no outcry over the formation
of a trust in soap.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
lion. William Almy Pierce.
BROViDtNcr, E. I., March C Hon.
AMllnm Almy Pierce, or Johnston, died while
nnkliv a speech at a firemen's celcbrition In that
town last night. The cause of his death was heart
lalliir lit. served sevcril terms In the btitc
I cvisliturc, w is Cnilrmin or the Rhode Island
citltgltlon to the Republican Convention at Cht
cigoinlvO, mil was a member of tho itepublican
national Committee.
Mosos Scott.
Mononoaheea City, March G. Moses
scott, in old citizen or this place, died this morn
ing at his residence In the Third ward. He wis
born in 1S09 and wu the oldest lmn in this vicin
ity, lie was a brother ot Hon. James bcolt who
died recently In Ohio. He had alrcidy provided
his monument atjlinso tcmcterj. with his name
and birth on it, and erected It himself.
John Taj lor Cochran.
The manv friends of James Cochran, of
the firm or Brown Jfc Cochran, coke operators, will
hear with regret orhis bereavement in the loss or
his son, John laylor CoUirau, who died jtsterday
at liawson. Pa. 1 he funeral will take place Ston
day morning at 10 o'clock.
Dr. Lytle.
FrrCtAL TELEGRAM TO Till PISrATCIT.l
MOJ.ONGAHEEA City, March C Word
reached here to-iln that Dr. Lytic. Tormcrly or
this pi ice. hid dlid it On. latin 'Jcim. Ilr
Ljliu was will k low b.r 1ml hl!il r spictui.
lie was onlj about X vi irs irai..
Mamie E. Luwry.
Miss Mamie E. Lowry, daughter of Hubert
It. l.owry, died at the residence or her father. No.
3 laylor street, Allegheny, yesfrday morning,
Med J) ear
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The School System Defended.
To the Editor orTbeDIspatch:
I would like to give tba taxpaj er3, and public
generally, a glimpse of tbe other side of the
question discussed by "A Friend of tbo Public
Schools," who evidently does not writo from
personal experience. I am a scholar of tbe
Higfi School class in one of tbe public schools.
There certainly is system in tho schools, else
how could arithmetic, spelling, history, gram
mar, geography, physiology, music, drawing
and writing in alternate weeks, dally, with
written reviews in at least two studies, every
Friday, and tbe Selsarte system of physical
culture, twice a week, bo taught and under
stood as well as they are?
There are, of course, tbs dull and tbe in
attentive one', who would not learn under any
circumstances. Those who attend school to
learn, aro sure to sneceed in obtaining a good
practical education, if they are only attentive
And could be see the trials and difficulties
which try tbo teachers' patience daily, be
would think their salaries well earned, for
much time is wasted from the annoyance
chiefly caused by those who are not taught at
borne to obey their teachers.
It is true that the so-called "jamborees" take
place; but not fur the purpose, as he supposes,
of "flubdubbery" and "show of bunting," but
to show the parents and friends how tbe
scholars arc progressing, and if he and others
would visit tho schools more and see what is
really being done, be would understand the
question better than from newspaper clippings.
And, moreover, these entertainments are not
prepared during school hours, so that no
studies are omitted. There are, ot course, a
number of studies to be prepared at home; but
it is not tho teachers' fault, for tbey are com
pelled to give the scholars whatever the Board
of Education directs. As for the "high old
links" at night school, I am not prepared to say:
but I am snre the tired brains of those who are
employed during the day need to have their
studies made as pleasant as possible.
I have graduated trom tho cooking school,
which he seems 'to think of so little import
ance, and while, of course, this might have
been learned at home, or, as be sajs, from any
book on tho subiect, the sjstem taught there
makes such an impression as is snre to bear
Iruit in alter years. The "fandangoes in col
ored chalk," as he expresses it. develop what
ever artistic taste there may be in the scholars,
and the "spread eagle penmansaip" is not
taught in the schools, but plain, beautiful
writing, as be would find if be took tbe trouble
to visit and see for himself.
Pittsbukg, March 5. A Scholar.
Color Blindness and mine Iuspectlon.
To the Editor or fhe Dispatch: ,
The suggestion of Mr. Keighley in The Dis
patch of February 28 will cause those dealing
with the miners' old enemy (C H 4) to do some
new thinking. Tbe writer cannot see why color
bIindneS3 would prevent a person examining for
CHI from detecting the smallest or largest per
centage discernible on tbe flame of a lamp. In
tbe first condition mentioned, with a low flame,
the observer depends entirely "on colors." The
intensity of color and length and width of cap,
it is true, determines the percentage otCHi
And this color will vary from a lavender blue
to a bright Prussian blue, according to the
amount of C H 1 contained in the air. As theso
aro colors which persons afflicted with color
blindness cannot confound, they must anpear
to the color-blind examiner as they do to the
normal-eyed. Or, again, if that cap or cons
could assume any othor color to tbe color blind
it wonld not prevent its being seen excepting
in a case whero the examiner was too weak
eyed to see. Color blindness is not caused by
physically weak eyes.
Second If the presence of C H -1 is being de
tected by tbe eloncated flame, and the exam
iner cannot see it moving or spiring upward,
why he must be partially blind, and would be
incompetent to de' ect C il Lbecause of physical
eyo weakness or partial blindness.
A new gauze cylinder, or one that is bigbly
polished, will refract from its cylindrical sides
rays of glancing light which may be mistaken
for a cap, cone or halo above tho flame. As
this is au allusion, tbe flamo of tbe lamp is
never disturbed bv it, as when C H 1 comes into
contact with it. Four per tent ot the male
population are sud to be color blind, while tbo
same condition does not exist with females,
they being to.allv freo from this class of de
lusions. It is well known that persons who do
nut see a color as it is, see some oilier that so
strongly contrasts it as to inaKe tho chances of
detecting C II 4 about certain, even if red or
green was to appear in a safety lamp. With an
active, intelligent and industrious lire bos,
who is blessed with two eyes quick and strong
enough to detect the changes which may occur
in bis lamp, and with a territory in the mine
that he can travel without straining the time,
an air current sufficiently strong and dis
tributed so as to remove the CHI when en
countered, or by dilution render it harmless,
the danger ota repetition of those unaccount
able mine explosions will be greatly reduced.
J. C. MENOIIi.lt,
Supr. Loyalhanna and Pandora Mines.
fiATROBF. JMarch 5.
A XI ins the Bet.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
A bets B that the year 1900 is not a leap year.
B bets it is, and says that February has not 23
difs in that eir. I It a leap year, and ha3
Febrmry, 1900. 29 days? R. HILL.
McKflspokt. March 5i
By the Gregorian calendar tho centurial
years which are not multiples of 400 are not
made leap years. Therefore, 1900 is not a leap
jear. The jear luOO was the last leip year
among tho centurial year", and 2000 will he tho
next one. February has 2!) days in each leap
year. Scleral correspondents have asked this
question, ana this answers alL
Referred to tho Mammoth Committee.
To the Editor ofThe Dispatch: "
' Will you please seud mo tbe address of tbe
committee of the Mammoth shaft explosion
sufferers. Wo have money to send to the
widows and orphms. ANDItFW HOGG.
Xewburo, Preston county, W. Va.
To the Editor of Tho Dispatch:
Please inform me through your paper who
the proper parties are to receive money for tho
Mammoth sufferers. J. Will Mitchell.
Xew Castle. .March 6.
Will tbe committee please comply with the
above requests.
lie Must Pay Toll.
To tbe Editor of rhe Dispatch:
Please answer, to decide a bet. if there is a
law in this State allowing persons without
money to cross a bridge. After waiting ten
minutes can a toll keeper make a man pav or
not let him cross? F. B.
FlTTSurilia, March 6.
Influencing Voters.
To the Idltor or Tlie Dfspatch:
Isthere auy law against influencing voters in
this State at the polls? E. W. J.
SIIARON, March 6
Moral suasion can bo used, but coercion or
force is punishable.
They Arc Correct.
lotlieLditO'orThe Dispatch:
Will you please tell me if the adverbs in the
following sentences are used correctly:
I arrived safely.
ill he sold cheaply.
U ill be sold reasonably
Pittsburg, March b
H.
S. W.
THE MOHON VINDICATED.
The Receivership Will Stand for Final Trial
by the Regular Court.
CniClGO, March 6. A long opinion was ren
dered by Judge Tuley this morning in the suit
of William S. Alley for tho appointment of a
receiver for the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago Railway Company, in which tbe Court
held that complainant was not entitled to a ref
erence before a master or the production of the
company's books for examination.
"An answer bled by the defendant," he said,
"denied specifically all the allegations of the
bill which aro relied Upon as entitling com
plainant to an Injunction and a receiver. If the
answer is true, the company is not insolvent
and not likely to nc. The acts of the Board
of Directors were all authorized, as shown
bv extract from tbo record books. 'Ihese
n cords aro a most compleso vindication of the
President as to bis management of the corpo
rate asets, having been made Under and by tho
necessary authority derived from tho directors
and stockholders. '1 here is much reason to be
lieve that this suit is not brought for the pro
tection o7 tho interest of the complainant or
other stockholders, and it is even made to ap
pear that a majority of the stockholders be
lierti the suit is not in their interest, and tint
it is ignnst their Interest." So the else will
st ind for final trial, and to-morrow luoruintr
jthe court will hear a motion to make 1'rest-
Ueui imam u. ureyiugie a party uoieuuant.
A light May Yet Ensue.
.New York Telegram.
How wide a difference there is between hav
ing a will and making one is exemplified in tbe
case of General Sherman. As he left no arti
cle of tbe kind. Ins soul may go marching on
with a glad consci tusness that tbe lawyers can
find no fl iw in his last testament.
An Albany Aphorlim.
ew nrk Iribuuc.I
The latest Hill aphorism: Ifet mo protect
toe Jailbirds of Connecticut, and I car not
arbd makes the law
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Paris employs 195,000 dressmakers.
A Japanese merchant is said to have
discovered a process for manufacturing cotton
trom straw.
Houses struck by lightning and de
stoyrd in February are among this year's
weather freaks in .Massachusetts.
"Yearly tickets at the chiropodist's, to
be used once a week 10 per cent discount." Is
one of the notices that meet the eye in Boston.
The youngest public schoolma'am in
the world lives at Bernville, Pa. She has 40
scholars, began teaching six months ago, and is
only 13 years old.
A "Eejected Manuscript Club" has
been formed. Its members are people who
have had two or mors manuscripts rejected by
leading periodicals.
It is reported that in the last fiveears
27 American girls have married Chinamen, and
in onlv five cases have thev lived with their
yellow husbands beyond a few months.
Four-fifths of the engines, including
locomotive engines, now working in the world,
have been constructed during tho last 25 years,
and represent a grand total of 49,000,000 horse
power.
A enrious white frog has been exhib
ited in London lately. It is a full-grown speci
men of the ordinary kind, but unique as to
color, while its brilliant ruby eye3 are rimmed
with gold.
Thirty-one thousand individuals own
three-fifths of all the wealth in America.
Twenty-one foreign noblemen own 12,000.000
acres or land in this country, and have bonded
20,000,000 more.
It has been prophesied that in ten yeirs'
time there will be more camphor trees than
orange trees in Florida, and that the camphor
producing industry in thatStato will become of
great importance.
In Germany 5,300,000 women earn their
living by industrial pursuits, in England,
4.000.CGO. in franco 3,750.000. in Anstro-Hun-gary
about the same, and in America,includmg
all occupations, over 2,700,000.
Down near Akron, O., a tramp got into
a field where a fierce bull was feeding. Tha
race wa 80 rods, and at tbe end of it the tramp
made a flying leap over a fence eight feet high
and didn't think he was doing anything won
derful. Five-sixths of the giin in Missouri's
population during the last decade was made in
that portion of tbe State sonth of the Missouri
river. Ten counties have lost in population in
tbe last ten years and eight of tbeui Ha north of
the Missouri river.
At Hamburg 10,500 meals are dis
tributed to tbe unemployed. Four thousand
of these ask tbe Senate that landlords be pro
hibited on next quarter day from evicting
tenants nnable to pay their rents; also that
loans of 50 mark: be advanced to destitute
workmen.
When the Hungarian Government took
tbe operation of the railroads in hand it re
duced rates S2 per cent. By the purchase or
commutation tickets a bO-mile trip costs 5
cents, and more tnan ono can go on a book to
gether. Tho increase in traffic amounts to
1,000 per cent.
A legal firm in Albanv, Ga., was called
upon Saturday by tbreo different men to get a
divorce from their wives. .None of them want
ing them bad any money, however, but one ot
them got the lawyers interested in bis case after
giving them a mortgage on ins mule. Tbe other
two were turned away disconsolate.
In a Detroit saloon were four whisky
barrels elevated to a conspicuous position and
libeled respectively "A," "B," "C" and "D."
Someone, evidently acquainted with the con
tents of the barrels, added a few letters to each
initial and made the significant words, "Alive,"
"Barely," "Comatose" and "Death."
A Lansing, Mich., man applied for a
warrant against himself for assault and bat
tery. He said ho had beeu in a fight, and he
wanted to get himself convicted and fined, be
cause the fellow ho licked wouldn't be abla to
attend to tho ciso for some time, and he
wanted it off his mind. His request was not
allowed.
A Swedish engineer has invented a
novel method of blasling by electricity. He
employs a volta arc produced between two car
bon rods placed parallel. A ben the arc is
moved close to the spot where blasting is to be
effected an intense local beat is created, fol
lowed by cxpanion, which has the effect of
splitting the rock.
The'first goddess of freedom to whom
a temple was erected at Rome was represented
as a Roman matron robed in white, holding in
one band a broken scepter and in the other a
pike surmounted by a cap. At trer feet lay
tat, an animal that is an enemy to all restraint.
The cap alluded to the Roman custom of put
ting one on the head of a slave when freed.
Shell hunters are numerous at La Jolla,
near San Diego, Cal., at low tide. One observant
lady found a bunch of devil fish eggs in a kelp
heap, and while examinlngtbem an egg opened
and the baby horror trotted its eight legs over
her band, 'ihe whole thing, now in pickle, is
not larzer tl.an a pea. She also found a polyp,
resembling a mail pnrple leaf, with hungry,
white tentacles waving all over the exterior.
A pair of curious Sauioan cattle were
exhibited at Kansas City a few days ago. They
are exceedingly small, tho male weighing only
abont "0 ponnds, while the female weighed,
about 2o0 pounds. Both are fully developed
and have very large heads and long borns.
These little cattle are onlv about 2 feet in
height, and are of a reddish mouse color
marked with white. Tbey are destined for
Columbus, u.
Aurora, III., is the home of an 8-year-old
boy who can perform feats of memory tbat
would have staggered Mneiuosyno herself. His
specialty is the memorizing of figures, and he
can call the numbers in order on the longest
train of railroad cars after it has passed. As
tronomy also furnishes this child with a field in
which lie can run -lot. The most complicated
astronomical statistics are rattled off wltb as
much ease as an ordinary child would talk of
bis playthings.
A brougham built by an English firm is
a model of conveniences. It is fitted with elec
tric light sufficient for readme or writing. Op
posite the seat is an ivory plate, on which are
several buttons properly lettered: "Left."
"Right," "Stop," "Go On." "Home." and soon.
On the dashboard, in the coachman's view, is a
case lettered to correspond, so tbat when a
knob is pressed he understands at nnco what is
expected of him. One button brings out the
word "Speak," in which case be will put the
speaking tube in position and receive orders.
Anyone who mingles with the poor im
migrants who have come here from Russia or
Poland mnst be snrpnsed at tbeir ignorance
concerning tbe great men of this country.
Many of tbem stay here a longtime without
over knowing the name of tho President of the
United States, or bearing of James G. Blaine
or any other famous politician. They find it
very hard to catch the sound of American
names, and are apt to pronounce the3e names
in a way tbat would puzzle tbe owners of tbem
who happened to be untamiliar with jargon. If
the names of many of them seem queer to
Americans, the names of many Americana
seem still queerer to tbem, and only tit to be
laughed at.
JOURNEYING JESTS.
.AFTER POPS.
A girl's a siren of such luring mien,
That to be loved needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft this fact Is snre:
e first embrace, tbenpltv, then endure.
Cincinnati limes-Star.
Hokem Haven't you got that office yet,
l'okcra?
I'oem-o. I haven't, and an't llicly to get it.
Hokcm-Don't despair, man. Remember, If
jou want to make port in-a boat when tbe sea Is
rough you must keep up courage and pull with a
will.
I'okcm-Ycs. tint's all rlsht, but it don't go on
tho sen ofpolitics. If you wint an office tou need
towillwlthapnll.-t'Aiwy limes.
"Miss Blank-leigh. the daughter of the
well-known Ktpublicin Kcpresentatlve in Con.
(tress, will Ieaie the capital In a rew days for her
bone, bhe will not return next winter," read
the society reporttr from his notes.
"Hold on there," Interrupted the city editor.
"Don't let tint list sentence pet in. That ain't
society, it's politics. WasMmjton Sstar.
Petted Wife Ob, you darlingl This is
Ju-t the prccnt I wmted. It's seal, of course.
fl Ickcd llusbind A o. It's plush.
" hat! plush? You promised to get me seal."
"I I know It, ray dear, but on account of the
IlerlnK tca difficulties seal has jtone down until
It's as cheap as dirt, and plush has gone up ter
ribly up -costs an awful lot, so I bought plush."
"Oh, how kind and considerate you are. my
dear! 1 never thought of that. Isn't it lovely?"
Ispnie Moments.
Miss Ornhenn Uncle, what stone is most
stiltib'c for an eujr i.rement rlns Mr. bwrldcdhaj
giicn me tlie privilege of nauilui; the stone.
I nrle Cutshort ell, my dear. If you're en
p i;c.l toliim. : think you'd better et a tomb
stone. -.Jeicsler's II etkly.
Hercules I love you; will you be mine?
UmDhale Yes; but you must give up your club, '
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