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PITTSBURG. TUESDAY, MAR. 10, 1891
A THIRD ATTE3IPT.
Councils started yesterday their latest
effort to get ice much-sought poor farm.
This time they do not encumber their invi
tation to bidders by specifications of acre
age, but, as we understand the ordinance
yesterday introduced, throw open competi
tion to almost the whole county. This is
right The discussion during the past few
months has displayed a general conviction
that neither a big nor an expensive farm is
needed. From fifty to seventy-five acres
will give full play for all the talent or muscle
that the inmates or the management are
liable to expend upon amateur agriculture.
As for the mode of selection, it is left to
rest ultimately with Councils upon the
basis of a recommendation first from Chief
Eliiott, head of the Charities Department.
As the bids are to be all opened and in
spected by the Controller and the Chief, and
presumably will be laid before the public
immediately thereafter, there will be ample
criterion for comparison and judgment both
by Councils and by the public upon the
Chief's choice before it comes up for ap
proval. At the last bidding the purpose of some
of the bidders to make the city Day a couple
of prices for its whistle was tolerably ap
parent upon an analysis of the bids. In
view of the poor success or that attempt it
will scarcely be tried again, so that a
marked decrease is sure to be noticeable in
the next set of quotations for farm lands.
Till: PROBLEM OI" BAD DEBTS.
The fact that the Is ew Yorktailors' organi
zation has resolved to try that resort against
bad debts of advertising a public sale of
their uncollectable accounts strikes that city
as a new idea. One of the New York papers
discovers in it the germ of a great idea, in
the shape of issuing what may, by a stretch
of the imagination, be termed a catalogue
raisonnec, descriptive of the bills to be sold
and the gilded youth who have cot the
clothing without parting with cash. This
it declares will be "the book of the year."
The idea may be a new one in New York;
but in this respect Pittsburg reverses her
usual character by appearing as a city whose
tailors have tried this plan for some years.
A fidelity to historical truth compels us to
say that the advertised lists of the sales did
not create the sensation expected. The pub
lication of the uncollectable accounts was
made at due intervals, and the sales were
presumably held in accordance with the
notice; but it is doubtlul whether the pub
lications or the sales resulted in any material
enlargement of the sartorial bank accounts.
The makers of the man, from the fash
ionable point of view, have a better remedy
for the trouble of bad debts within their
own hands than the resort to publicity.
The remedy is the simpler one of running
their business on a cash basis. A good
many Pittsburg tailors, after trying the sales
of judgments, decided to adopt the cash
plan, and some of tbem uav they have found
that it enables them to sell clothing cheaper
and to do a larger business than the old
practice of running long accounts and
making paying customers pay for the
raiment of the non-payers.
PUNISHING THE UNSUCCESSFUL.
The sentencing in Philadelphia of a
group of bank wreckers who got control of
two financial institutions and, by convert
ing the assets for their own speculations
brought them to ruin, furnishes a warning
against the use of trust powers for private
profit. It is true, as the Philadelphia Press
savs, "that these men did more harm to the
security of property than any number of
burglaries and highway robberies."
Hut, uith the truth of this assertion recog
nized and the justice of the sentence ap
proved, there is a pertinent consideration in
the fact that the puuishment is only
likely to reach those who fail in
the attempt to secure wealth by the abuse of
trust powers in this way. The men who use
their authority as directors tu enrich them
selves, and succeed in it, are able to ignore
the law which pnmshes those who get
caught in exactly similar practices without
the funds which they have misappropriated.
It is the case of Ives and Staynor over
again. Their stock manipulations deserved
criminal punishment, and no sympathy
need be wasted upon them. But they were
not more criminal than men who haye car
ried exactly similar transactions to great
success and are now rulers of the corporate
world.
The law will make an effective example
of such misdeeds when it takes some man
who is in the possession of millions made by
the misuse of his trust and sends him to
prison despite bis ill-gotten wealth.
THE MORMON HEGIKA.
The statement that the Mormon Church
organization has secured a large tract of
land in Chihuahua, and is rapidly trans
ferring its adherents outside of the United
States, points to two interesting conclusions
besides the general and gratifying one of
the disappearance of this relic of barbarism
from the country. In what light we are to
Tcgard the addition to the Mexican popula
tion of a set of people whom we are glad to
get rid of may be a question; but in view of
the removal of this plague, we may be well
content to let the Mormons and Mexicans
settle that between themselves.
The first conclusion is that the efforts of
tlie Government to wipe out polygamy
vhich thields itself under the cloak
o religion are thus proved to be suc
cessful. For a long time it was held,
not only by the Mormons themselves,
but by many people outside of that
sect, that the attempts of the Government to-
wipe out this blot would be futile. The
policy of attacking Mormonism in its home
has not been vigorously adhered to for more
than ten years; but its success is demon
strated by the act of the Mormons in remov
ing themselves beyond the control of the
Government.
The other conclusion is that the late reve
lation of the Mormon church abolishing
polygamy was intended for local applica
tion only. If it were taken by the Mormons
to be the universal law of their religion
that they should abandon plural marriage,
there would be no need of their moving to
Mexico. The United States has no quarrel
with their remarkable religion except as to
its polygamous features, and with that
abandoned they could maintain their re
ligion in Utah as long as they could find
converts. But the Mexican movement
shows that polygamy is what at
tracts converts; and the revelation
will doubtless be amended in due
time to read that the Mormons must con
tent themselves with one wife apiece while
within reach of United States law, but can
make up for it by expanding their families
to an indefinite decree when they reach
Mexico.
The prospect of this early termination of
the Mormon question by the removal of the
Mormons is a grateful one to the United
States. If there should be any hesitation
about their moving, the nation could well
afford to offer to pay their expenses.
AN INCOMPLETE DEFENSE.
The remarkable increase in appropriations
which appears as one of the achievements
of the Congress just closed has received the
attention of the Republican apologists. The
defense is that the increase is caused by the
enlarged payments for pensions, and the in
creased expenditure for the navy and coast
defenses. The argument is that these ex
penditures are such as no correct public
opinion can object to, and therefore the ac
tion of Congress is justifiable.
Beyond the begging of the question as to
the propriety of the immense increase in
pensions to three times the amount fixed
upoD.by such an authority as Garfield, many
years ago, as the utmost limit for legitimate
pension expenditures, the fault of this ex
planation is that it misstates the facts. It
may be necessary, or at least excusable, to
make a large increase of expenditures in
certain specified directions; but a wisely
economical public policy would, when such
increase amounts to the scores if not
hundreds of millions, try to make up for a
part at least of the increase by cutting down
expenditures in other directions. But so
far from doing this the Fifty-first Congress
did not even hold down the other expendi
tures to their former level.
As compared with the preceding Con
gress which spent larger sums than any
former Congress except in war times the
appropriations of tbe Fifty-first show an in
crease of $196,000,000. Tbe increase in
pensions, in naval appropriations and on
fortifications, which are offered as an ex
cuse, was 587,000,000. This leaves an in
crease of 109,000,000 on the other appro
priations as compared with a standard
which was in itself surely a liberal and
many believed an extravagant one. The
fact is that of the seventeen departments of
appropriations, every one shows an increase
except two the diplomatic and consular
and tbe military academy; and the saving
on these two items is less than half a million
dollars.
The fact can hardly be avoided that the
Congress just closed was the most lavish in
expenditure ever known in the history of
the Government. It completely disposed of
the surplus so that its disposition will not
trouble this country for many years to come.
POVERTY AND "WEALTH.
If it were true that idleness is g source of
poverty, the capitalistic class would not be
possessed of any property, for tbey have been
idle for generations. Or is it not a fact that
those wbo work nowadays acquire nothing,
wbile those acquiring untold wealth do not
work!
The above paragraph is at present making
the rounds of a certain class of papers, and,
though generally published without com
ment, the fact that it is published at all is
proof that the peculiar ideas contained in it
are popular with at least a portion of the
people. This popularity, however, has its
origin in a cursory reading and an unthink
ing acceptance of its propositions. It does
not contain a single statement made as such,
but is skillfully composed of a supposition
and a question, and while the former is in a
measure true, the latter is unqualifiedly
false.
Idleness is a source of poverty, but as
idleness need be only temporary for a man
who is willing to work, it has but a small
influence on the financial condition of the
human race. There is almost always work
for those willing to labor, though every man
may not be able to secure perfectly con
genial employment; and the man who re
fuses to accept a situation because he does
not like the particular business has no one
but himself to blame for empty pockets.
The law of labor is as old as the race upon
which it is supposed to rest as a punish
ment, and it is a law that carries its own
penalties. These penalties do not, or rather
need not, fall on any but those who break
the law, all statements to the contrary not
withstanding. He who will not work should
not eat, and if his relatives or friends are
satisfied to' support him in idleness, any
sufferings which they may endure are noth
ing more than they have a right to expect
This may appear to be a selfish doctrine, but
it is not so much selfish as it is sensible.
That the capitalistic class is idle can be
denied without fear of contradiction. The
life of the capitalist, at present, seems to be
one of unremitting activity, and so long as
his activity is confined to the legitimate
promotion of business enterprises he will be
more of a pnblic benefactor than is the man
who attacks him merely because he has
wealth. Of course, if he uses his capital for
the purpose of crushing competition and se
curing the passage of laws favorable to him
self alone, his action will properly become
the subject of public censure. But it is the
function and within the power of citizenship
to correct tendencies in these latter direc
tions. "With regard to the question about those
who work nowadays acquiring nothing, it is
probably no more than truth to state that op
portunities for acquiring a competence, if
not wealth, were never better thau they are at
present Labor, as compared with years
past, is relatively better paid, and comforts
are in greater variety and probably oa the
whole cheaper. With a moderate economy
nothing short of sickness or like misfortune
should prevent most people from putting by
something for the rainy day. There are
also various safe and profitable methods ol
investment for savings and many workers
become in greater or less degree capitalists
themselves.
People who do not work cannot acquire
untold wealth. They may inherit it, but if
tbey do not use care and judgment in its
management tbey will die poorer than they
were born, and so with their descendants
until the wealth has vanished. The exer
THE'
cise of proper care in handling business or
managing accumulations of money is work,
though probably not so trying as some other
forms of labor; and while every man cannot
have inherited wealth sufficient to occupy
his whole time in caring for it, he can have
the satisfaction of earning his own living
and, if he wishes, of owing a dollar to no one.
The plan adopted In the Argentine Re
public of suspending business for two days in
order to avoid a bank failure awakens the
sarcasms of the press of this country. But Is it
a more remarkable step than that which was
once adopted in the financial center of this
nation of having all the bans suspend pay
ments at onco tor fearsome of them should ho
obliged to do so?
Mk. Chatjncey M. Depew, who is now
engaged in furnishing a large quantity of
reasons why that Coroner's jury is entirely
wrong in holding the New York and New
Haven directors responsible for tbe tunnel
disaster, turns out one of tbem to the effect
that "the best mechanical appliances depend
in the last analysis upon tbe human mind."
This sounds all right in the abstract, but it is
not calculated to convince juries that responsi
bility is avoided by relying on precautions
against disaster in your mind.
The alliance which the Republicans in
tbe Illinois Legislature have made with the
Farmers' Alliance is the first Republican al
liance with the Alliance, and is intended to
send an Alliance man to tbe United States Sen
ate. The Democrats don't like that sort of ar
rangement Mk. Andrew Carnegie thinks that
within two years the improvements in trans
atlantic steamers will enable them to cross in
five days; and the New York Sun dissents from
that view because the ships to perform that
feat are yet to bo built True, but if Mr. Car
negie gets bis star spangled Scotch spirit suffi
ciently aroused by the controversy ho may
build tbe ships himself and show the Bun how
it is done.
The success of the New York Recorder in
its two weeks career. In raising $25,000 for a
monument to General Sherman, indicates that
its journalistic mission may yet prove to be
the heretofore impossible task of raising the
Grant monument fund.
The Liberals in Canada are figuring out
a victory for themselves in view of the fact
that they reduced the Government majority
from about 50 to 29. But this does not take into
account the skill of Sir John Macdonald in the
American political plan of making a small
majority grow into a great one. It is under
stood that the Canadian leader does not need
to take any lessons from Speaker Reed on that
point
The fact that J14.000 was recently paid
for a Bible to take to Chicago is understood
to have raised a serions division of opinion in
the Western city, as to whether that excessive
price is to be charged to the copyright bill or
the McKlnley bill.
The offer is made by a New Hampshire
papertofindmenof means who will pay Will
iam E. Chandler's expenses "if be will go
abroad and stay there until next fall." This
may be intended for a sarcasm on Chandler,
but it amounts to an assertion tbat Chandler's
exposures of New Hampshire politics are hit
ting some men of means so hard that they will
gladly pay to get him out of the country.
The "Whisky Trust is reported to hare
discovered a new process for making whisky.
It is to be hoped tbat they use dynamite and
sulphuric acid in order to make it go to the
spot more promptly and completely.
Comments on the unshaven condition of
Philadelphians by reason of their Inability to
get shaved on Sunday are widely made. Their
pertinence is marred by the fact tbat Sunday
shaving was abolished in Pittsburg years ago
by joint action of tbe barbers, and yet Pitts
burgers manage to keep tbeir faces tolerably
clean by the simple device of getting shaved
on Saturday night
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
In the colonizing chess game now being
played in Africa black moves and white wins.
Did you ever explore the old garret the
lumber room of tbe old homestead? Of course
those of you who belong to the movers, who flit
from borne to home and build a new nest every
year or so, have no old relics stowed away under
the eaves, have no attic for the children to ex
plore. But there be such cob-webhy, dust-littered,
mouldy old nooks in many homes the
old homes. Wha a fascination they bad for
ns in the playtime days, too. Nurse's spook
stories and fear of the "bogie man" did not
keep you from rnmaging there, I warrant Old
books rusty with time tired your fingers and
puzzled your young brain. Little shoes and
stockings, bits of lace and linen, what you be
lieved to be doll clothes, tbat had been care
fully tucked away in the old hair-covered,
heavy-scented trunk were pulled out and crit
ically examined. You couldn't sea the
tear drops underneath the dust warts
on them, of course. They belonged
to one you never saw to a doll
you never dragged over the nursery floor. Tbe
cradle, perchance, stood in a dark corner there
and in it the mice had built a nest Next came
the old packets of letters tied with faded
strings, bearing traces of snakes, anchors,
hearts and arrows on their broken old wax
seals. Some crackled and split under your light
touch; others parted at the time-worn reddish
creases, letting fall bits of dry leaves, and per
haps tresses of hair. Yon read but you didn't
quite understand. The names thoy bore you
did not know then, but later the secrets the old
attic letters held were revealed by time, youth's
greatest gossip. Into the dust you dove deeper,
turning over tbe paDersand the packages, hold
ing a revel In the rubbish. The spidersstopped
tbeir spinning, and tbe only noise yon heard was
the hnzzing of the web-snared flies and the
chirping of the swallows under tbe eaves. And
you sat tbere and wondered why such rubbish
was hid away for tbe dust to defile and the
moths to destroy. Than the time came for you
to shut tbe attic door. As the years gave you
inches the letters, and the leaves, and the bits
of curled hair accumulated in your
pockets, your desk, your bureau drawers. They
are in the attic now, of coarse. Upon them the
dust is settling, into them tbe motbs are bor
ing, over them the fly is buzzing in tbe death
trap set by the spider. Perhaps childish hands
will disturb them; but yonr secret is safe.
When they reach the light that twill let them
see tbe skeleton in the closet tbey will close the
door. And the dust will gather again gather
in lumps where the tears fell and make a pretty
ring where tbe curled tress lies.
The latent skin game is being worked by
Dr. Ege. of Reading. He is trying to turn a
dark man's cuticle white.
FAIR women Legitimate blondes.
Dancers depend more on their feet than
their features.
The Jeansville miners who faced death
have entered a museum, .and are getting a free
"ad" by retelling the old story.
Kentucky Janes make good wives.
The maid who waits will soon be found
in some of the quiet summer hotels.
The airship's first flight will be from
Chicago to New York, providing Pennington
can raise the wind.
The Blarney Stone is merely a sham
rock after all.
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The new Congressmen Are preparing to
act in concert That's -why Jerry Simpson is
now wearing tights, we suppose.
There's too much water in Fhiladel
pbU'smint julep, although it's a mm affair.
The naked truth will have to be draped
in Philadelphia hereafter. . ,
Blaie will not be welcomed to China
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PrDTSBIJBG- 'DISPATCH,
with a blare of trumpets, as he is not friendly
to Ah Sin.
New York should be called the City of
Neglect, for her negligence Is monumental.
"Looking Backward" has turned the
heads of a great many people.
A Connecticut man has not spoken for
60 years, and he's not dumb either. It a woman
to match him could be found what a museum
team they would make.
Brooks babble, but flushed surface
sewers have a sort of gutteral sound.
Codfish balls are the only ones that
should be patronized in Lent
Foul play Raising fancy hens for
amusement instead of profit
The Indian appropriation bill carries
enough money to prosecute another Indian
war.
Dr. Fox has landed to take up a collec
tion for McCarthy. He may succeed in collecting
a crowd or two.
Mrs. "Wheat, of Baltimore, has secured
a divorce, and her big brother thrashed Wheat
into tbe bargain.
Men who lead dual lives are sometimes
forced to fight duels.
It is now claimed that Fruit's corporation
bill is wormy.
The bar of Justice is the only one open
on Sunday in Pittsburg, and the police then
rush the growler.
Coming events seem to be casting their
shadows beforo in tbo Ohio Legislature.
Jack the Pincher seems to be getting
in his work at Harrisburg.
"Wales is supporting Dilke.
feather flock together.
Birds of a
If the Indian Messiah should be caught
and crucified a couple of Congressmen who
voted for the billion haul would supply tbe
sinners called thioves for tbe,side examples.
The attention of the proper officials is
called to tbe beastly condition of tbe brick
pavements on Fifth avenue between Chatham
and Federal streets Pedestrians walk on squirt
gnnd in tbat neighborhood every time it rains.
If Annie Rooney ever marries she shonld
take her wedding trip in a Jo-boat.
Ripping good fellows frequently go on a
tear.
A stay sale Disposing of a pair of cor
sets. The game laws do not interfere with the
shooting of oil wells.
Lawyers do not want a retainer for try
ing a case of champagne.
Succi and his followers might get some
consolation by reading "Stand Fast"
A live corpse The dead languages.
"Water fronts are delaying Pittsburg's
Poor Farm deal and the World's Fail
Willie Winkle.
NAMES KNOWN TO ALL.
Mrs. Isabella Bccher Hooker be
lieves in women being judges, lawyers, jury
men and justices of peace.
Mr. McKee, President Harrison's son-in-law,
is almost as short in stature as the old
gentleman, and slender almost to thinness.
Elizabeth Sargent, M. D., daughter
of our former Minister to Berlin, is an ocnlist
of exceptional skill, bbe lives in California.
Prof. Henry Dkislee, Dean of Colum
bia College, wbo was supposed to have been lost
in a wreck: off tho Island of Zea, Is reported
safe.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, after
fooling the brethren three or four times finally
became a member of tbe Farmers' Alliance on
tbe 0th inst
Senator Sawyer's vest pocket caught
fire while he was sitting in the Senate Chamber
last Wednesday. It is commonly reported that
he had a car stove in it
John McMahon, once a partner of
Flood, Fair and Mackey in San Francisco,
after losing several fortunes, is now attempting
to make another one in the coal fields of Idaho.
Spencer Pratt, Minister to Persia,
now displaced. Is a bachelor of 35. He is tall
and slim with regular features and a "Vandyck
beard. His salary was 3,600, but his opportu
nities great
Senator Higgins, of Delaware, says
they still retain in a modified form the whip
ping post and pillory, because tbe State is so
near three great cities tbat it is in danger of
becoming an asylum for criminals.
Mrs. Florence Balgarnie was the
only foreign delegate to the Women's Council.
She is about 25, with tall fine figure and a smil
ing face. Her statement of facts was clear
and concise and the paper she read attracted
much attention.
Prof. James Geikie, the famous geolo
gist, the author of "The Ice Age," and one of
the deans of the University of Edinburgh, has
arrived in Boston and is at the Tremont House.
Prof. Geikie is to deliver a very important
course of lectures before the Lowell Institute,
beginning this week.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Rev. Christian Sans.
Joliet, III., March 9. Rev. Christian
Sans, expastor of tbe Evangelical Lutheran
Church of this city, died at his residence yester
day, aired 79. The deceased was educated In Ger
many, came to tbls country in 1832, and first en
gaged in missionary work among bis people in
Texas, preaching In both the German and English
languages. In 1840 he moved to New Orleans and
founded a parochial school, which survived tbe
war and Is still thriving. Throughout theiellow
fever scourge In New Orleans Father bans, as he
was called, ministered to the bodllv wants of the
poor and needy, and came near paying for it with
ills life. In 1845 he changed his field of labors to
Calacoosa, N. Y.: In 1843 to Archibald. Vs.., and In
1853 to Watertown, Wis. In each place he built a
church and ralsea the money largely through his
own personal efforts. In I860 he removed to
Joliet and succeeded in bnllding two churches
here. Father bans was noted for his kindness,
generosity and charitableness.
Miss Clara Self.
Miss Clara Seif, daughter of Philip Seif
and sister of William H. Scir, business manager
of the Timtt, dred yesterday at the home of her
parents at 3722 l'enn avenue at the age of 19
years. The young lady was known and loved By
everybody in mat section oi me citv. &ne was an
ardent worker In the Thirty-ninth Street Presby
terian Church and taught a class or little ones In
the work or the gospel. The funeral will occur
to-morrow afternoon from the home of her
parents, the services to bo conducted by Itev. A.
E. Linn,
Mrs. Sarah NewelL
rSrXCTAL TELEQBJLK TO THE PISPA.TCXM
New Castle, March 9. Mrs. Sarah
Newell died at her homo in this city this morning,
aged 8: years. She was the wife of the lato Alex
ander NewelL who was one of New Castle's first
postmasters, and was for years collector for the
Erie canal. Sirs. Newell has a large connection,
and was well known throughout estern Penn
sylvania and Eastern Ohio.
Joseph Morris.
Montgomery, March 9. Joseph Mor
ris, the rlchestjbanker In Alabama, died to-day of
heart disease. He was largely instrumental In
building npBlrmtngbam and developldg tbe Ke
pnbllcan party of that section.
Joseph Oliver. .
Chicago, March 9. Joseph Oliver, man
ager of the People's Theater, expired this morn
ing of lnflammatron of the stomach.
Bishop Benjamin H. Paddock,
Boston, March 9. Rt. Rev. Benjamin
H. Paddock. Episcopal IIMiop or the Diocese of
Massachusetts, died tills afternoon.
Baker Phillips.
prSCIAI. TXX.EORAM TO THT)tSrATCt?.:
Newark, O., March 9. Baker Phillips,
an aged and respected citizen or this city, died to
day, aged 85 years, of pneumonia.
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TUESDAY, MARCH
GATHERED ON ALL SIDES,
The Jury Syttein of bunny France Some
thing About the Chinese Blind People
Are Not Peculiar A Statesman's Mistake
Leather That Is Costly.
To be eligible for the jury In France, says
Mm ray's Magazine, it is necessary to be a
French citizen, not less that 30 years of age, to
enjoy all the political and civil rights, and
know how to read and write; but by exception,
neither magistrates nor Government function
aries, nor salaried domestic servants are eligi
Me, Men of 70 years of age aro dispensed with,
as also those whose labor is necessary for their
daily bread, or those who have served as jury
men during the current or previous year.
Every year a list of eligible jurymen Is drawn
up by tbe Government authorities. Three
thousand are chosen for the Department of the
oeine: in all others the proportion is that of one
to every 600 inhabitants; but fixed residence is
necessary to be eligible. Ten days before the
opening or tbe sessions of the assizes, the
names of SS Jurymen are drawn by ballot
out of the annual list, with the addition of four
supplementary jurymen, to serve dnrlng the
session, which lasts a fortnight. As in England,
it men make up the jury, but in criminal cases
one or two extra jurymen are present during
the trial, in readiness to take the place of any
one absolutely prevented from attending. The
complete list of 36 names is handed to the pris
oner the day before the trial begins. Any jury
man failing to attend without sending notice of
impediment to be submitted to tbe Court is lia
ble to a fine of from 200 francs to 500 francs for
VSJ?I of1. 1.000 francs for the second, and
1,500 francs for the third, which also involves
tho forfeiture of nis right in future to sit in any
lury.
When the trial opens the 38 names are thrown
together Into a jar and drawn one by one. the
prosecution and the defense using the right of
rejection till only 12 names remain. If these
are finally accepted the jury is immediately
called and the trial begins.
Chinese Customs.
Miss Mollie lalmage, a nieco of Rev. T.
DeWitt Talmage, was born on the Island of
Amoy. 300 miles north of Hongkong, China.
Kecently she addressed a missionary society in
Brooklyn, and in the course of her remarks
said:
"Very few native women know bow to read.
It is no unusual thing to find men of 85 and 80
years in the missiohs learning to read. The
crime of infanticide still prevailsln the case of
female children. Infants are smothered or
drowned and more olten exposed to die. Vend
ers may be seen on the streets with baskets of
babies for sale or exchange. In view of this
evil a home has been established where such
are cared for. A native Dorcas society makes
clothing for these children. Foot binding is
much practiced, although an anti-foot binding
society has been formed, whose members prom
ise neither to practice it nor marry a girl with
bound feet. That the barbaric taste for em
bellishment finds expressions in Bible stories
was illustrated by the incident of a woman who
explained tnat wbile Jonah was inside tbe
whale lie 'prayed and sane and played on the
organ.' It is regarded polite for, a native to
degrade hi3 own possessions and exalt those of
another: so that in speaking of a daughter this
dialogu might occur. -How is your 10,000 pieces
of goldf -Oh. the little dog is well.' The
language gives many meanings to the same
word according to its tone. Kui signifies
precious,' and with another intonation 'devil.'
An American gentleman wishing to apply the
endearing term to his wife created a consterna
tion in his household by getting tbe epithets
mixed. 'Four' ana 'dead' are expressed by the
same word. A lady, expectine a party of four,
bade her servant prepare for dead people."
The Blind Not Peculiar.
Some people, said a prominent instructor to
a reporter on tho St Louis Republic, fall Into
the error of believing tbat blind persons are
pre-eminently peculiar: tbat their habits and
manners are not like those of the general run
of mankind. This is a great mistake and has
gained vogue simply because blind people by
tbeir infirmity are conspicuous. This is true of
persons with infirmities ot any kind. If you
take a dozen blind persons and study tbeir
traits of character and single out those that
strike you as being peculiar, and then take a
dozen persons possessing all tbeir senses and
note their peculiarities you will find that there
is but little difference between tbem. One of
the most important points in the education ot
the blind is to Impress upon them tbat they are
not unlike their seeing fellows except that they
cannot see. In fact, the successful teacher of
the blind forgets tbat his pgpils are" sightless.
After 16 rears of active work among the blind
I ought to know that my pupils cannot see. and
yet at this late day if I go into a dark room
where blind children are studying their books
tbe first question tbat will spring to my lips is
likely to be. "How can you study in the darkt"
If lam talking to a class and become deeply in
terested I find myself gesticulating as energet
ically as if I were addressing an audience that
could see. We never use any expression in
talking to the blind tbat reminds tbem of their
condition unless it is done tn a light vein. If a
blind boy or girl stumbles over a chair, I don't
say: "Poor thing, you aro blind, you couldn't
help it," bat instead I rally them on not keep
ing tbeir eyes about them, and tell tbem that
they must be getting near-sighted. This has
the effect of removing embarrassment and
causing a smile, when ill-judged pity would
produce tears. If I go into tbe yard to bunt
one of the boys I will likely inquire of the first
boy I encounter: "John, have you seen Henry f"
The answer will likely be: "No, sir; I saw him
i'nst before dinner in tbe hall, but haven't seen
um since." Now the fact is John never saw
Henry nor anybody else In his life, but be uses
the same expression as he would if blessed with
vision. In tbe classroom when a teacher bands a
model of some kind to a pupil for examination
he does not say: "Feel this,' or "Have you felt
this?" but "Look at this," or "Have you seen
this?"
A Mistaken Statesman.
Tbe Chicago Tribune tells a good'storyas
Illustrative of tbe politician's tendency to
shake bands. It is as follows:
Colonel William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, was
traveling from Madison to Chicago. Colonel
Vilas has somo reason to be jubilant about
this time, and perhaps he has fair reason to
believe that everyone in the State of Wiscon
sin knows him. Perhaps, also, he has heard
of those statesmen and politicians whose won
derful memory for faces and names made
them popular with tbe masses. Atanyrate.it
was apparent that be was going to see -how it
worked, and if It was not a success in one in
stance it can baldly be sala to be the fault of
Colonel Vilas.
He entered tbe smoking car a few miles out
from Madison and recognized the man in tbe
first seat behind tbe stove. He shook hands
with him and asked after the various members
of his family. Then he passed on to the next
His inquiries here were a trine liazy, Duttbo
man evidently knew Colonel Vilas and was flat
tered. That emboldened tbe newly made Sen
ator to co on; in fact, he was afraid to stop lest
lie should offend some one.
Near tho center of the car was an old man
with gray chin whiskers, a fur cap and top
boots, who was an interested spectator of tbe
proceedings. When his turn came Vilas shook
him warmly by tbe hand and asked bow every
thing was at the farm. The man grunted some
thing in reply and the Colonel passed on. After
he had left the car the old man turned to a
neighbor and asked:
"Who's tbat blamed idiot!"
"What?" cried the man addressed. "Don't
jou know him?"
"Never saw him before."
"For heaven's sake, where do you live I"
"Madi'on."
"And don't know Colonel Vilas?"
Tho old man routed himself a little.
"O. that's Bill Vilas, Is it?" be said. "No I
never saw biin before, and what in thnnder
does he wantto make a pump-handle out of my
arm for?"
"Why, he' been elected Senator."
"Humph!" grunted the old man. "I suppose
that's why be asked me about my tarm."
"What's tbe matter with that?"
"Nothing, except that I don't own a farm and
never drd."
And so Colonel Vilas' diplomacy went for
naught
Elephant Leather Is Dear.
A well known Eastern drummer, says the
Louisville Courier Journal, was in that city
lastvtcek, and had with him quite .a curiosity
in tbe shape of a pocketbook made from
genuine elephant hide. He was seen by a re
porter, and in speaking of tbe purse and the
tanning of elephant's hide, said:
"Tbe tanning of, elephant's bide is compara
tively a new Industry. Tbe method! employed
Is practically tbe same as in tbe tanning ot
cattle hides, except tbat a stronger combina
tion of tanic Ingredients is required and a
greater length of time about six months Is
necessary to perform tbe work. When tbo
bide is taken out of the vat it Is about one and
one-half inches thick. Articles made from
elephants' hide are expensive lnxnries. A
small pocketbook of elephant leather, without
any silver or gold ornamentation, costs about
Ma A small satchel made of the same leather
costs anywhere from 300 to WOO.
"Cigar cases, card cases and similar articles
vary from 550 to 100. Floor rugs are also made
out of tbe leather. In finishing the hide no at
tempt Is made to glaze or polish it. Everything
is done to preserve its namral color and appear
ance. It Is very enduring leather, several yars'
wear having hut little effect upon it. Tho
carcltvof elephautsand the gieat expense en.
tailed in the tanning of their hides prei hide- the
possibility of elephant leather over becoming a
thing of popular and general use.!'
Tbe pocketbook was only of an ordinary size,
with very plain trimmings, and cost 333. lie has
carried it about three ye.us, but It preserves its
color and is quite a curiosity,
10, 189L
JEFFERSON AND FLORENCE.
The Opening of Their Week's Engagement
at the Duquesne Theater The Ever
Popular Old Homestead at the Grand
Robert Mantell at the Bijou.
With such a performance of "The Rivals" as
was given in the Duquesne Theater last night
it is not so much tbe province to criticise as to
try and point out tbe merits distinctively. Tbe
comedy is presented by tbe Jefferson-Florence
company. But is it fair to speak of Jefferson's
Bob Acres and Florence's Lucius C" Trigger In
particular as perfect renderings without men
tioning Mrs. Drew, George W. Denham, F. C.
Bangs and all tbe rest of tbe coterie tbat help
to present the harmonious and effective picture
to which Sheridan's autograph is attached?
The charm of the company consists as much In
the masterly attention to detail in the selection
of its members as to the individual excellence
of those tbat play tho leading parts. Each
personage seems to have been chosen all made
up ready for tbe stage. We do not think of
any of them as actors, but as component parts
of tbe representation. Tbe Jefferson-Florence
company Is one of tbe three or four in this
country of which this can be said.
Joseph Jefferson is the ideal Bob Acres.
Good-natured, simple, and a most delightful
coward, we love him in spite of his tremblintr
knees, and, perhaps, for bis bombastic endeav
ors to be brave. The dialogue, if judged by
latter-day standards, is hardly witty certainly
not humorous (tbe lines in tbe mouth of-Jfrj.
Malaprop excepted), and vet how laughable
tbey are as rendered by Jefferson. Tbere is a
twang in his unctuous voice that we have
never beard anywhere else, and shall probably
never bear again when he leaves tbe stage. Tbe
baldest and most commonplace speeches be
come epigrams when he utters them, and be
can throw an andlence into convulsions merely
by shaking bands and saying, "How are you?"
Jefferson is Jefferson throughout, and yet
somehow.be seems to be Sheridan's Bob Acres,
too. His performance is not different from
what it has been any time these ten years, nor
do we wish it to be. We are content to take it
as the standard by wbich all future Bobs sball
be judged.
W. J. Florence has. in Sir Lucius O' 'Trigger,
created a part distinctively bis own. It would
have seemed almost impossible to take a char
acter that had been played by scores of good
actors and yet make a new and original creation
of it Yet this is practically wbat Mr. Florence
has done. We all knew the flre-eatimr Sir
Lucius before, but when we saw Florence play
it we knew that the. author had produced a
character that could be presented in more than
one way, and tbat Florence had hit upon the
most pleasing of all.
The cast of "The Rivals" this season is al
most identical with tbat of last, tbe only im
portant change being that F. C. Bangs is now
tbe Sir Anthony Absolute, instead of Mr. Var
rey. It is needless to say tbat Mr. Bangs plays
the testy old man to tbe life. Such a sterling
actor as this could not fail to make a tradi
tional part all that it should be. In tbe two
scenes with his son. Sir Anthony has plenty of
opportunity to exhibit power, and Mr. Bangs
takes advantage of It as such a grand per
former wonld naturally. He deserved the en
thusiastic recall he received.
Frederick Paulding is graceful and dashing
as Captain Absolute, and Joseph Warren Is a
good Fag. Mr. Denbam's country dialect as
David is as natural as If be bad indeed been
brought up in Devonshire, and his conception
of the honest blnndering sorvant is excellent
Whether Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop
is the cleverest, as she is perhaps tbe most
amusing figure in the performance, is a ques
tion tbat must be left to those that cat and en
joyed "Tho Rivals" last night What could be
more exquisitely humorous than her frightful
distortions of the King's English, delivered In
tbat complacent manner that nothing can dis
turb? When she makes ber first appearance
through the center door in all the glory of a
toilet of a by-gone age, she is like a figure in
old china, or as if sho had stepped out of a
frame in a picture gallery of an old English
country house. She is the Mrs. Malaprop.
We are sure that tho ridiculous misuse of poly
syllables could never sound so funny from any
other lips, and we feel tbat no one could sim
per and ogle so naturally as she. If tbere are
any stars in this company she is one of tnem.
Viola Allen Is a pretty and graceful Lydta
Languish, and Elsie Lombard is a dainty little
Lucy.
Tbe audience last night was a very friendly
one as proved by the warm greeting accorded
nearly every member of tbe company, and the
unstinted applause bestowed upon the per
formance, which culminated Dot only In curtain
calls at tbe close of each act but recalls of the
performers at the end of nearly every scene.
Bijou Theater.
Robert Mantell's performance of the dual
role of Fabian and Louis dei Franchi last
night, was a splendid one. When it is known
under wbat circumstances he played, it was
simply wonderful. He has been suffering from
laryngitK and when he arrived In Pittsburg on
Sunday Dr. DicEson performed an operation
oipon his tbioat. Although the effects of tbe
operation will be beneficial ultimately, they
made the patient very weak last night Dr.
Gentry was on the stage throughout the per
formance, administering cocaine to allay the
pain of bis throat, so that he could his work.
In spite of this physical disadvantage, it may
safely be said that Mr. Mantell rarely gave a
more forciblerepresentatinn of the two brothers
than be did last night His work is always
vigorous and soulful, and no one would have
thought that he was suffering acute pain all
last evening.
Mark Price is a powerful Chateau Benaud,
while Cbarlotte Behrens, as Emilie, repeats
her clever performance of last season.
The supernatural effects are well carried out,
aud one cannot elp feeling a thrill of awe at
each appearance of tbe ghost which is saying a
great deal fora stage ghost
There are some very good specialties in the
masquerade ball scene in tbe third act The
Davenport brotbers are is clever as ever, and
tbe three Lorellag, in their quaint dancing and
posturing help to make tbe interlude enjoy
able. The duel in the fifth act is exciting, both
Mantell and Mark Price being expert swords
men, while in tbe death scene of Fabian Mr.
Mantell has an excellent opportunity to display
his rare qualities as an emotional actor. One
cannot think of another man on the English
speaking stage to-day wbo could so ably fill the
exacting parts of tbe Corslcan brothers. His
performance is an intellectual treat that can
be enjoyed by all classes of theatre-goers.
The Bijou was packed last night and tbe ap
plause was wildly enthusiastic at times.
Grand Opera House.
The "Old Homestead" 13 a chestnut So are
the "Pickwick Papers." But one goes to see
the "Old Homestead" just as one reads "Pick
wick," over and over again. The 'very
biggest audience that the Grand Opera
House has known for several weeks,
greeted the old-time character play
last evening, and everbody laughed
at its humor and grew sad over its pathos, just
as though It bad never been played before.
Archie Boyd was a thoroughly natural Joshua
Whitcomb; as clever an embodiment of a fine
old fellow as one would care to meet Cy
Prime and Seth Perkins, those inimitable bits
of character, were excellently bandied by J. F.
Dean and W. W. Allen. Miss Rena Howard
was delightfully boydemsh as Rickety Ann,
white Miss Henrietta Irving in tbe part of the
elderly spinster, was quite satisfactory. A
double male quartet and a choir of 12 voices
were introduced with happy effect The com
pany is a capable one, and the scenery, if old,
is excellent
Harry Williams' Academy.
Without any doubt the best all-round variety
Bhow seen here in somo weeks was presented at
the Academy last nigbt by Miaco and Morris'
City Club Vaudeville and Burlesque Company.
Harry Morris is well known as one of tbe pro
prictor of tbe May Howard combination,
favorably known here, and tbe association of
bis name nith a show is sufficient guarantee of
its excellence.
"Studies in Black," a most amusing operatic
creation of Harry Morris and Fred Solomon's,
introduces a number of fancifully costumed
girls, and several male performers, who
count among tbem some especially clever
artists. None too good a word can
he said for Miss Phyllis Allen's singing of
"Marguerite" and "Sally in Our Alley." The
young lady possesses a particularly sweet voice
and rendered the old favorites with a care, pre
cision anil feeling which was warmlv recog
nised. William Everett, as the "stage man
ager," was very funny and proved himself a
comedian ol high order.
Tho performance, which was witnessed by
one of tbe largest houses of the season, con
cluded with a burlesque on tbe "Old Home
stead," in which six of tbe prettiest dudos
imaginable made an appearance. In tbe com
pany1 are two Fittsburgers, Messrs. Lowry and
Evans, whose black-face act is well appre
ciated. Harris' Theater.
Snsle. Howard, a new soubrette, essays six
different characters in a play called "Nell, the
Waif," at the above hunse this week. It is not
flattery to tbe young lady to say tbat she ap
pears to equal advantage In all of the half
dozen roles she attempts Tbe company is
equal to the star, and nice versa. As for tbe
play It li neither better nor worse than tbe star
and the company. As for all together well,
there have been better combinations much
better. Still, a fair week's business is doubt
less assured.
DavK' Macum.
The miiUet coucitlo.i iipenvil at Ilarrv
Davis' Kiflh Avcmio .Musi urn ywitnlj) ullu a
boom. At every turn one could see nuthlng
but little men and women. The curio hall was
given over to tbem, except the room occupied
by Elmer Collins, tbe faster. Commodore
Foote and his charming sister, Emma Ncstel,
entertained a large number ol admirers.
Major Atom, as minute as ever, amused
with some of bis songs. The German Rose
evidenced .herself an expert with musical In
struments, and Major Littleflnger and wife, the
newly married couple, were on band with a
troupe of trained birds. Every one of tbe Lilli
putians evidenced talent of some kind. In tbe
tbeatitorium Fred Runtey presented burlesque
juggling, the Eastline Sisters pleased every
body with tbeir dnets, Donavan and Dupols
presented a new character sketch, John Tray
non showed himself a talented Irish comedian
and tbe Downeys closed the bill with something
new in the way of perches, ladder dances and
revolving globe specialties.
World's Mascara.
The performances at the World's Museum
and Theater this week are really good. Tbe
wrestling match between the gigantic Chicago
butcher, who weighs 423 pounds, and the Mil
waukee brewer, at 433 pounds, is very funny.
It Is impossible to say so far who will win the
greater number of falls during the week, tbe
two men bing apparently evenly matched.
Mis: Millie Zuletta. with her troupe of trained
doves, is interesting, as was Frank Hatton,
with his mechanical scenes on tbs Mississippi.
In tbe theater is Mr. Clarence Bennett in a
romantic Mexican drama "A Royal Slave."
He is supported by Mist Maud Bennett and a
good company. The play Is well rendered.
The show at tho World's is good throughout
THE SOCIAL DOMAIN.
Hannibal A. Williams Gave Another of His
Delightful Headings Last Night at Car
negie Hall A Chinese Reception So
ciety Small Talk.
Hannibal A. Williams, of New York, gave
another of his delightful Shakespearean re
citals in Cafnegle Hall last evening. Tbat
beautiful creation of the poet "The Tempest,"
was rendered. Mr. Williams cave a fanciful
and poetic reading of this dainty comedy, tak
ing, all tbe characters as easily as if he were
cast especially for each one. Tho play is so
different from that of last week. "Tbe Taming
of the Shrew," that it enabled the reader to
prove bis versatility as well as his thorough
understanding of the spirit of the bard.
Tbere was a very large and appreciative audi
ence, and the general verdict was that Mr.
Williams bad presented tbe comedy as faith
fully as if it bad been given with all tbe ad
vantages of scenery, costumes and a full com
pany. Mr. Williams is decidedly a genius In
bis way.
Marshall P. Wilder to Lecture.
Bill Nye and company were dated for the
closing of the amusement season of tbe Y. M.
C. A. course, but the hairless humorist is not
on the road at present so his date was can
celed. In his place will be Marshall P. Wilder,
the humorist and tbe OHIe Torbett Concert
Company will appear on March 27. Wilder's
story telling i3 one ot tbe best things ever beard
from the lecture platform, and he will please
his audience beyond a doubt
Close of the Chinese New Year.
The annual dinner of tbe Chinese pupils con
nected with the Fourth Avenue Baptist
Church took place last evening. There was a
well-selected menu.and tbe dinner was enjoyed
by alarge number of members of tbe congrega
tion and their friends. A musical entertain
ment bronght the proceedings to a close. Tbls
dinner winds up the celebration of the Chinese
New Year, wbich lasted for a week.
Dined at the Duqncsne Club.
Captain A. J. Logan entertained a party of
friends at lunch at the Duquesne Club last
night Tbe party consisted of Captain Logan.
James McKean. W. A. Wood. B. L. Wood, Jr.,
8. D. Warmcastle, S. L. Schoenmaker. A. J.
Edwards, J. H. Willock. H. S. Paul, Charles
A. Book. ,
" Social Chatter.
A SMALL dinner was given last evening at the
Duquesne Hotel by Dr. Christy, of Allegheny.
Covers were laid for eight
Miss Lizzie McMillan, of Sewickley, will
sail to-morrow on the steamer Enis for Europe,
where she will remain during the coming year.
A luncheon will be given next Thursday
by Mrs. Chessman, at which Mrs. Biddle Ar
thurs and Miss Wolverton will be the guests of
honor.
The Dramatic Club of tbe Western Uni
versity Is making arrangements to give another
of its enjoyable entertainments lu the near
future.
Rev. T. H. Wilkeson will deliver a lecture
this evening at the Riverside M. E. Church,
Allegheny. His snbject will be "The House
We Live In."
A soiree is to be held this evening at the.
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ewart, on
Center avenue. The guests will be received by
Frederick Ewart and his sister, Miss Ewart
An entertainment will be given In tbe Sixth
ward schoolbouse, Allegheny, next Thursday
evening by a company of jubilee singers. Tbe
proceeds will be devoted to tbe Chartiers
A. M. E. Church fund.
TnE last of the series of public school lect
ures in Wilkmsburg will bo delivered next
Friday evening by Hon. Henry Hall in the
Presbyterian Chnrcb. Mr. Hall's subject will
be "The Gospel of Get There."
The entertainment to be given in tbe Wil
kinsburg Presbyterian Church next Thursday
evening promises to be a unique and pleasant
affair. It is the "C" tea that has been invented
and arranged by the ladles of the congrega
tion. Under tbe reduced rate of admission to tbe
Verestchagin exhibition, tbe largest attendance
of the season was reached Saturday. The at
tendance yesterday was also very great, despite
the unfavorable weather. Tbe exhibition will
close promptly at 10 o'clock to-morrow nigbt
when workmen will at once commence taking
down the great canvases.
Next Tuesday evening (St Patrick's Day)
an entertainment is to be given in tbe C. M. B.
A, Hall. Wilklnsburg, under the auspices of St
James' R. C. Church. Rev. A. A. Lambing will
deliver an address upon the life and works of
St Patrick. An elaborate musical programme
has been prepared In which a number of well
known soloists will take part
The filfty-eighth anniversary of the Third
Presbyterian Church is to be celebrated
on the 19th inst with a reception and an elab
orate dinner and supper. The arrangements
are under the supervision of the Ladies' Aid
and Heart and Hand Societies and prepara
tions are being pushed forward with great en
ergy. Tbore will be two chairmen and eight aids
to each table.
In Despair, Probably.
Denver Times.
The important news is heralded that Senator
Peffer will sit with the Republicans, but will
vote with the Democrats. There was once a
darkey who likened the telegraph to a dog big
enough to reach from Macon to Atlanta. If
you stepped on tbe dog's tail in Macon he would
bark in Atlanta. So Senator Peffer, in tbe
present state of incboateness of tbe Alliance
party, will sit among tbe Republicans, but will
lift up bis voice for Democracy. Now where
does tbe Alliance como in?
Death of James W. Moreland.
James W. Moreland. tbe wholesale 1'quor
dealer at the corner of Frankstown and Fenn
avenues. East End, died very suddenly yester
day morning, at the age of about 43 years. He
was of a very peculiar disposition, and bis
mania was for collecting new money, be at one
time having J17.000 In new bills In bis safe. He
was married about three months ago, but it
was not known by his friends until after his
death.
Bat Will They Be Prosecuted?
New York World.!
The railway magnates seem to be very much
astonished that a Coroner's jury should hold
somebody responsible for a preventable acci
dent in wbich six lives were lost. This unusual
verdict was perhaps due to tbe fact tbat tbe
Coroner was in earnest and tbe jury remarka
bly intelligent
A Sec-ondary EvIL
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
An increase iu tbo price of champagne, at
tributed to fear of future damage by phyllox
era, U much more rationally ascribed to tbe
present existence or an equally galling pest a
trust formed by tbe producers.
Too Valuable to Lose.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
It is to be hoped tbat the Canadian campaign
did not wreck the wily Wiggins. In the midst
of Ibis March mud a real, genuine weather
prophecy nould soothe many a heart that
ache.
A Texas Steer.
New iorL S-uu.J
A cording to all reports tbe Hon. Roger Q,
Mills, of Texas, has not lost confidence in his
on ability to steer the Democratic party dur
ing the. year preceding a President! election.
CUEI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
California farmers sell pumpkins at $1
a ton.
- A ton and a half of bread is eaten every
day in Girard College.
It costs tbe Americans about 1,000,000
a year to stop their teeth. ,
Over 100,000,000 cigars were imported
into this country last year.
In Lapland dress fashions have sot
changed for a thousand years.
According to Chinese reckoning-, the
present year is the year 7.910,3iL
There are seven ex-Speakers of the
House of Representatives living.
It is estimated that Indian wars have
cost tbe Government 700,000,000.
The number of sheep in Australia oa
March J, 1890. was about 105,000,00a
A Savannah professor has a complete
collection of old almanacs, dating from 1835 to
1861
The best harbor in the world is that of
Rio de Janeiro, with Sydney, Australia a close
second.
Hyde Park, a large town recently in
corporated with Chicago, has not a single
saloon.
The Speaker of the Japanese Parlia
ment and tbe chairman of the committee of
the whole are Christians.
The underground system of telegraphs
of the German Empire, it Is reported, baa a
total length of 3.G00 miles.
Statistics show that men of thought live
on an average of three years and a half longer
than men In ordinary vocations.
The Socialists of Germany number
1.400,000. and those of France 1.000,000. They
have 104 newspapers, with 600,000 subscribers.
Tbe British Balloon Society has entered
a sturdy protest against the threatened choice
of Jerusalem as the prime meridian of the
world.
Sixty thousand people are said to be out
of work in the city of Berlin. Ninety thousand
are out of work in the East End of London
alone.
Dentists are peculiarly susceptible to
diseases of tbe kidneys. They stand still so
long at tbeir work that they weaken their vital
organs.
Infant mortality in England and "Wales
during the year 1890 was noticeably large. The
deaths were registered of over 130,000 children
under 13 months of age.
A man who has just returned from
Alaska says tbat several rivers in that country
are richer in gold deposits than the noted
Feather river of California.
Seventeen hundred of the Sioux are
members of the Episcopal Church, and Bap
tists, Catholics and Congregationalists are also
well represented among them.
A San Diego county, Cal., horticultur
ist is going to graft the many live oaks on his
place with chestnuts, which, he has learned,
will succeed well on oak trees.
The amount of nutritive matter afforded
by Indian corn is inferior only to that of wheat
and rice. In the quantity raised and used for
for food. It is Inferior to rice alone.
A French physician has declared in
favor of a "good cry." He says that groaning
and crying during a surgical operation brine
down the pulse and benefit the patient
A battle thrown into the Atlantic No
vember 24, 1S87. from the Cephalonia, abont
400 miles out from Boston, recently washed
ashore on a little islet In tho Caribbean Sea,
6,300 miles away.
In the search for phosphates, many dis
coveries have been made which have added
materially to the wealth of fair Florida, but
probably the most Interesting one is tbe find of
a deposit of genuine meerschaum.
Near Camilla, Gx, tbere is a justice of
the peace who uses tbe oath to -witnesses as
follows: "The evidence you shall give in this
case shall be the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, and pay all the costs, so
help you God."
The largest amount of wild honey ever
taken from one tree was reported from Oregon
recently. A farmer took 700 pounds from the
Cottonwood tree in which a huge swarm of
bees bad stored up tbe annual accumulations
for many years.
The greatest meat eaters in the world
are the people of America, whose average con
sumption -is 175 pounds per annum. The En
glish come next with an average of a little
over 110 pounds. The French eat only half as
much meat as the English.
The directors of the English Great
Western Railway intend to run an express
train constructed on tbe American system, as
an experiment It will consist entirely ot long
cars, having communication all through from
one end of tbe train to the other.
Castor oil, it is said, if regularly ap
plied each day to a wan, will remove it without
leaving a scar. The time It takes may try the
Eatlence of tbe user from two to six weeks
eing required but if faithfully used it will re
move the most obstinate warts.
Tbe first works in the "United States, in
which iron was puddled and rolled into bars,
were built by Colonel Isaac Meason, in 1816-17,
atPlumsock. on Redstone creek, in Fayette
county. Tbls mill continued in operation until
181. when it was destroyed by a flood,
A molder in Bridgeport, Conn., is re
garded as a wonder by bis tellow-workmen on
account of his apparent immunity from burns.
Tbe other day he accidentally sat in a pan of
"molten metal." and, while his clothing was
burned from him. he received no injury.
Tbe first heavy railroad iron of Amer
ican manufacture was made at the Mount Sav
age Rolling Mill, in Allegheny county, Md
which mill was designed expressly for this kind
of work. The first rail rolled was what is known
as tbe U rail, for which tbe Franklin Institute
awarded its sliver medal In October. 1434.
A cablegram of over 1,300 words which
passed through New York from Lima to Lon
don one night recently over tbe liner of the
Western Union Company, cost a pretty penny
to transmit tbe rate being over 2 a word. This
would represent an outlay of over 52,600. and Is
probably tbe largest toll paid by an Individual
or company outside of newspaper corpora
tions. The cells of tbe smallest plants, as soon
as they have assumed tbe green color, assim
ilate their food from the atmosphere, or rather
from the carbonic acid in the atmosphere, and
from water. This is one of the mostwonderful
phenomena of organic life, and our greatest
chemists have striven in vain to imitate the
process. Sbduld tbey ever succeed, they would,
as remarked by tbe celebrated botanist Ferdi
nand Conn, solve the first great social problem,
tbat Is, tbe bread problem.
Dr. Santayana, instructor in psychol
ogy at Harvard University, recently proposed
a curious experiment He claims tbat the ex
citement In the different nerves is probably the
same, but that different sensations are pro
duced in different brain centers. It the optio
nerve and tbe nerve of hearing were to be cut
and the optic nerve connected with the center
of hearing, and tbe nerve of hearing with the
optio center, one might expect to see a sym
phony and bear a landscape. The symphony,
be added, would probably look like a display of
fireworks, and the landscape would sound like
a dull roar.
SMILES AND SATIRE.
"Why do they call these tall building,
sky-scrapers?" asked Elvers. "They don't scrip
anything. They stand perfectly stllL"
"They scrape 53,000 miles or sky with every
revolution of the earth," replied Brooks, pitying
the other's ignorance. Chicago Tribune.
"I say," said the investor, "you advertised
your farm as a fine location for a dairy. It hasn't
a single featnre to recommend it for that pur
pose." "Ualn't It? There is a tremendous ehalk de
posit Just behind that hlU over there." WasX.
ington Post.
HIS MUSTACHE WAS WEAK.
When Madge was kissed by her beau, wh'od
returned
From a long trip through the Santb,
Sho should have been very bappy. Indeed,
But she only got dowa In the mouth.
Xrooklyn Eagle.
Count Le Gagge Mamzelle, take ze ring
and ze fond Ioafd I geefe you.' Ze dlamant
Mamselle's Parrot Pastel Paste. Mlnety-nlna
cents and dear at that.
Count Le Uagge-Zoundil es ze bird voa
aliblel -Jewllers, Weekly. 1
A Texas miser keeps everything under
lock and key, and he even bolts bis food. Texat
Sittings.
'Amelia, darlinj."
Yes. Arthur."
"You know we aro soon to be married."
VW
"And we should Itarn to be economical In small.
things?" -
-Yes." " - -H
"Hadn't you better turn down the tui"-Bf9ttL
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