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Including fcundav, lni'tk 90 bDMAT DisrATCH. One lcar :50 Wluli IMtrATCU. One lear IS a he Dailt Dispatch Ii aciiered by carriers at -J cents per week, or including fcunday edition, at 1' cents per wecl.. PITTSBURG. MONDAY, MAR. 16. 1S9L A NATIONAL DISGRACE. The letter of Secretary Blaine to the Gov ernor of Louisiana puts the recent mob mur ders at ew Orleans in their proper light, aud reveals the violation or law and inter i.atiocal obligations erpetrated by such outrages. Under the treaties witli the King of Italy this Government guarantees to Italian sub jects sojourning iu this country protection to person Jnd property, subject to the S3me legal and judicial powers as citizens of the United States. Treaty obligations are made the supreme law of tl.e land by the Consti tution. AVe arc thus confronted with the fact that a protection which the country was bound by the highest obligations to extend has been wantonly violated by an ignorant and murderous mob. The only loophole of escape for this coun try is the plea that where mob law reigns the persons and property of no citizens are sale, and that the Italians had as much pro tection at Xew Orleans as any one else. But that is a plea which is neither to the national credit or likely to satisfy a foreign power w hicb demands that this country shall fulfill its treaty obligations. ciusrrs new kcle. The waT in which the former Prime Min ister of Italy signalized his release from the bonds of Government responsibility the other day indicates that the palmiest days of our own periods of legislative disorders can be rivalled in the parliaments of Europe. In our Congress the energetic kicking qual ities of the Texas member may batter down tbe doors; the Speaker may exercise a re markable facility for letting the members of the minority catch bis eye when they do not wish to, and for not seeing them when they try to address tbe House; but not since the days of Brooks and Kitt has it been re garded as parliamentary lor honorable mem bers to exploittheir shooting irons in debate, as Signor Crispi did last week. Tne Italian reference to the revolver as a parliamentary consideration has an addi tional embellishment, which is ratherabove the American comprehension. Crispi's theory, as stated by him on the floor, was that wlien he was Prime Minister he was prevented from taking any notice of the aspersions of his opponent; but now that he is relieved of the burden of office, be gives notice that he is heeled, and that his oppo nent had better look out. AVe cannot too much applaud the consideration shown in warning his opponent that be was loaded, but otherwise we must regard the distinction as more arbitrary than any of Mr. Eeed's rules. If it is legitimate for honorable mem bers to answer 'heir antagonists by bringing their Email arms into action why should it not be all right for a Minister to do the same? None of the Anglo-Saxon rules ol parliamentary action make this difference between a member and a Minister. AVe must conclude that the rules which give a member the license of concealed weapons, but forbid it to a Minister are an especial product of the politics ot sunny Italy. Nevertheless we must credit the Italian Legislators with one piece of forbearance. Tbey have not jet adopted the French method of making the neighborhood danger ous by going out and shooting at each other on the field of honor, to emphasize words spoken iu debate. SHOULD DIRECTORS DIRECT? Tl.e question which was discussed with so much interest at the time of an epidemic of bank failures several years ago, "Do direc tors direct?" receives a new light from the active efforts which Mr. Depew is mating, in connection with that New York tunnel disaster.io convince the public not only that directors do not direct, but that they ought not to be expected to direct, because they cannot do so. Of conrse this contention is made in some what different terms; but as it is the respon sibility of direction that is sought to be avoided by his pleas, the practical effect is identical. One of the arguments to which the orator of tbe banquets resorts isso singu lar as to deserve attention. He asserts that he ought not to be held responsible for the lailure of corporations to observe the laws or guard against loss of life, because he is a director of thirty railway corporations, and is therefore unable to assure himself that all of these cor porations are doing what they should. It is interesting to observe that if this plea of a multifariousness of corporate duty can be held to exempt Mr. Depew from respon sibility it will do the same for numerous other corporate magnates. Mr. AV. L. Scott, Mr. Jay Gould, Mr. G. P. Hunting ton and others hold directorships in a large number of corporations; while Mr. G. B. Roberts, iu his testimony in the South Penn case, asserted that be was President of more corporations than he could remember. We do not know that any of these gentlemen before Mr. Depeyr have asserted the doc trine of irresponsibility But it is plain in audi a case as that of Mr. Roberts', that if a man cannot remember that he is the President of a given corporation, it is im possible for him to direct its operations. Thus we arrive at the condition in which the exercise of corporate powers is embel lished by an alleged irresponsibility which lias not been rivaled since Mr. Justice Blackstoue developed his theory that "the King can do no wrong." Mr. Depew's plea is sufficiently answered by the reply that it would have some force if there were any legal compulsion upon him to be the director of thirty different railways, or upon Mr. G. B. Eoberts to be President of more corporations than he can conveniently recall to mind. Bat there is no such compulsion. The law does not call upon any man to be a corporate director, but it does require liim to discharge the duties of direction when he undertakes them. The fact is that the policy of having the same men act as directorsof numerous cor porations is opposed to the policy of the law. The intent of legislation in creating separate corporations is to keep them distinct and inde pendent of each other. But for the cen tralization of corporate powers 'and tbe sup pression of competition, the multiplication of the same Bet of men iu numerous director ships has been carried to an extreme de gree. It may be an inconvenience that this feature of corporate policy also multiplies responsibility; but it cannot be avoided ex cept by the final corporate stroke of nullify ing the law. It is true, as alleged by the most indis putable corporate authority, that directors do not direct; but the law, as the guardian of the public intereft, will have to under take the task of seeing that they do direct or take the consequences. THE COKE SITUATION. The situation in the coke trade, as out lined in another column, reflects that in the iron trade and is dependent on it. It has already become manifest that there must be a readjustment in the cost of materials for iron production, in order to stimulate de mand by lowering prices as well as to re taiu the control of the market for AVestern Pennsylvania. Under such a condition of affairs it was peculiarly ill-judged for the cote-workers to inaugurate a strike for higher wages; but we can hardly blame the iron and coke operators if they see in this mistake of the men the opportunity for suspending pro duction until the supply is redured, the de mand improved, and prices readjusted on a basis which will ensure future activity. AVhen the prices of coke, ore and rail way freights are brought into conformity with the changed conditions of the iron trade, a steady activity in all branches of industry can be expected. The coke-workers should recognize this fact aud should see that the true interests of labor lie in making the best terms that will insure it steady employment. CONGRESSIONAL CLAIM AGENTA Congressman Jerry Simpson, erroneously alleged to be sockless, has made an early and promising discovery that the main function assigned to Congressmen by the practical politics of the day, is not to his taste. He objects to being "the errand boy of the people," and declares: "This thing of making a claim agent out of a Congress man must be stopped.!' . "Nevertheless," says the Boston Globe, in reply to and criticism of the Kansas re former's assertion, "the belief still exists that a public office is a public trust, and that public officials are tbe serv ants of the peop'e." This expresses the idea of a journalistic exponent of Boston opinion that tbe trusts reposed in the hands of Congressmen are those of errand boys and claim agents, and the public service re quired of them is whatever anyone with a job to be done at Washington may ask for. According to the same logic, the fact that a Congressman is a public servant, comprises among his duties that of blacking boots or calling carriages for any of his constituents who may visit AVasbington. The Boston uewspaper is in this respect less intelligent than the wild and woolly AA'estern Congressman. The duties consti tuting the trust reposed in Congressmen, and the work they are to do as public serv ants, are set down in that fundamental and definite instrument known as the Con stitution of the United States; and no inti mation can be found there that they are to run on political errands or act as claim agents. The new Congressman is right in perceiv ing that this method of practical politicians for currying favor with their constituents interferes with, if it does not entirely pre vent, tbe discharge of their constitutional duties. I his new political movement can abolish this abuse, it will strike at the root of many political evils and open the way to greater reforms. NEED OF RIVER REGULATION. The floods which were experienced in this section last month reached the lower Mis sissippi last week, and produced the usual demonstration of danger to the low-lying districts that are only protected from in undation by levees. Although the water hardly reached danger line, one levee was broken and the dispatches show the wide spread apprehension of general disaster if the rise had been prolonged a very little more. This only repeats the lesson which 'has been apparent in every big rise along the lower Mississippi, that sole reliance on the levees to preserve the valley lands from dis astrous annual overflows, is futile. The fact has been made clear again and again, that so long as the characteristics of the Missis sippi floods remain unchanged, the levees of earth built upon foundations of loam are in sufficient to restrain them. To build them higher only pens up the current within narrower limits and increases the power which has already proved itself too great for restraint. These periodical demonstrations of the powerlessness of the present levee system, only prove the necessity of adopting further measures. The series of articles recently published in The Dispatch showed how the storage capacity of the upper rivers with auxiliary reservoirs at their head waters can be made to regulate the flow of the rivers, and distribute the outflow of waters over a protracted period so as to con fine the rise and fall of the rivers within moderate limits. In addition to the immense gain to be secured by such an improvement, it comprises the establishment of a compre hensive and reliable system of internal water navigation, which would facilitate and cheapen commerce all over the country. When it is recognized that the adoption of such a plan will confer the greatest benefits on all parts of tbe country, it would seem that these recurring evidences of the neces sity of the improvement should unite the people of all sections in urging the prompt prosecution of the work by the Government. It is now alleged that the lion's share of the glory for defeating ballot reform in Maine is due Congressman and editor Boatelle. That Republican leader took an early stand against any interference with the Maine substitute for blocks of five. Ho has won a victory which may cost bis party more than it comes to. It seems that when Speaker Eeed's methods are adopted by a presiding officer of another party, it makes all the difference in the world. The Democratic Speaker of the New Jersey Honse of Representatives has been counting a quorum and refusing to recognize members on tbe other side, and a Philadelphia newspaper points out that the Democrats did not object to it at all. Bnt it suppresses tbe fact that the Republicans failed to indorse this adoption of tbe Heed precedents and kicked like several yoke of steers. -It always makes a vital difference whose ox is gored. It is to be regretted that Canada did not THE cet her invitation to tbe World's Fair; but the excuse is obvious. The bad luck which promi nent people in this country have had in not getting their letters is explanation enough. Governor and Senator Hill can tell the Canadians how it happened. Some o: our Eastern cotemporaries are surprised to leara from the President of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance,;that Judge Gresham was the first choice of the Alliance lor Senator in Illinois. But tho statement only shows that the Alliance men care more for having public men honest, independent and free from corpor ate control, than for swallowing all their hnan cial vagaries. It also suggests that if the-Republican party had been far-sighted and inde pendent enough io take Gresliam in ISbS, Kan sas might still have been a Republican State. A Paris wood paving company has failed with liabilities of tbree million francs. The lesson of the failure is not obvious, how ever, until we learn whether it was caused by not making the pavements good enuugh or by the vice that is unknown In this country, of making them too good. ll'OW that the Canadian election is over, it If reassuring to learn from tho Tory leaders that all those harsh things said during the fight about tbe United States are to be taken in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Sir Charles Top per declares the affection of the Government for this nation and Us readiness to reciprocate in any way that will not turn Macdonald and Tupper out of office. Possibly by the time that the diplomat ists get that seal question arbitrated, there will not be any seals left to protect by international agreement. But tbe dispute will bo settled by pacific methods; and that Is much better than fighting over a question which is not worth a single day of warfare. Me. Edwakd Steatjss alleges that he suffered during bis trip in this country from 'black servants and temperance people." Pos sibly the chief suffering which he charges to these obnoxious classes was due to his convic tion that they did not swell his receipts by at tending bis concerts. As a sufferer in this country, Ilerr Strauss is trot an especial object of pity. ' The news that France is to enter upon a tariff debate which is expected to take all sum mer, wonld justify tho United States in send ing to tbe French people our commiseration, and Reed, McKmley, Mills andBynurn to make things additionally lively. v The Democratic papers are making a good deal of fuss over the report that Brazil does not want reciprocity; but as tne opposi tion to reciprocity comes from newspapers in Brazil controlled by the British interest, it only shows that tbe English idea of free trade does not Include freer trade between any countries out of which England does not get a profit. Br the way, we must give one weather prophet credit for having bad his predictions verified. The groundhog's term expired yes terday and there is a general impression that his prophecy of winter weather was vindicated. Whether that bank at Monte Carlo ac tually lost the reported $3)0,000 may be doubted, but the energy with which the tact is spread all over tbe world leaves no question that the bank management hopes to get more than that sum back from tbe gudgeons who will Cock to Moute Carlo on account of tbo advertisement. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE. Keely, the motor man, is 3 vears old. Tirrtr Tib is on his way to visit his birth place, Arabia, He is the.son of a half-caste Arab and his mother was a full-blooded negro slave. Pnor. Goss, of Kansas, became an ag nostic by the study Of ornithology. The more he saw of birds the less he believed in the divine origin ot man. Jerry Snirsojr says he was nominated at a bis convention in which there was no lawyer and only two men woro white collars and none wore white shirts. P. T. Baknum has closed a contract for the erection of a building at Bridgeport, Conn., to cost $125.000 a gift from him to the historical and scientific societies of that city. One of Senator Cullom's characteristics is his smile. He smiles when ho is good natured and wben be Is not, when saying unpleasant things as well as pleasant, when praising or damning. Ben Butterwoktii puts his arm around j ou if you stand beside him or walk by his side. Joe Cannon never fails t rest one hand on your shoulder while talking to you, as if to reassure you that he means to do you no harm with the other, which be uses for purposes of gesticula tion. King Menelek II. is now the ruler not only of bis own kingdom, Shoa, but of the far more important country of Abyssinia to the north. He is, therefore, the most powerful ruler Abyssinia lias had forjgenerations, for he has united bis own country with the great bigblands north of him. George C. Jenks, author of the "U. S. Mail," the farce-comedy, was formerly a com positor in Detroit in '71, '75 and '76. Ho also published a labor journal called the Amsi icm Workman, which was a short-lived affair. George was a first-class compositor, but he de tested the humdrum life of a printer and it was like pulling teeth for him to do a full week's work. The country is indebted to an accident for one of Its great editors Henry AVatterson. His musical capabilities as a lad had been quite marked. He played In concerts with Adelma Patti wben she was 11 years old and he 13. His career was changed by hitting bis thumb against a black key whilelpracticing on the piano. A felon came on the thumb, the hand was par alyzed, and the first joint of the thumb lost. Thereafter ha turned his attention to journal ism. W0MEH HEALTH IHSPECT0BS. They Have Police Power and Do Some Very Good Work. Business Woman's Journal. Chicago has five women health inspectors; Mrs. Byford Leonard, daughter nf the late Dr. Bjford, Mrs. Clara M. Dooli'.tlc, Mrs. Marie Owens Mrs. Mary Giennon and Dr. Rachel Hickey. Their salary is $1,000 a j ear. the same as paid to gentlemen for the same work. Their especial duties are to inspect places wheio women and children are at work, and if un sanitary conditions are discovered they aro cm powered to order necessary change?. Iu many places tho conditions they find are sickening and demonstrate the wisdom of the Woman's Alliance, at whose petition they we'e ap pointed. These ladies are clothed with police power, and, if necessary, enforce their recom mendations by pointing to their star, which is usually concealed. Already great good has come from tho work of theso inspectors. Abuses have been discovered and pnt in the way of being remedied or abated. Often tbo terrible conditions surrounding workingmen m shops and factories seem due to ignorance on the part of employers and employed, and are greatly Improved by carrying out the directions of the inspectors. DEATHS OP A DAY. S. W. Kepler. rSPECIAI. TELEOltAJI TO THE DIf PATCn.l Meadville, March 15. S. W. Kenlpr, proprietor of tbe Kepler House, this city, and one oftho best know u hotel men in Western Pennsyl vania, died suddenly at 5:30 this afternoon. He fell lrom a slepladdcr Wednesday, and It was thought he was only slightly Injured, butltseems be was hurt Internally. He was conscious un to a few moments of bis death. Air. Kepler bad long been a hotel man, and was a prominent Odd Fel low, lie leave a wife and large family. Captain J. S. Power. Captain J. S. Power died yesterday at his residence in Patton township. He served during the war In Company li. C3d Regiment, Pennsyl vania Volunteers, and was severely wounded in the left lung at the battle of Charles City Cross roads June 30, 1SB2. He wasaman or line physique aud commanding appearance. He was loved by all who knew Mm. At the time or his death. Captain Power was serving his lourtli term us Justice of the Peace. Prank Parker. Frank Parker died yesterday at bis home on. the Sonthslde. He was a member of rost 151. G. A. K., i'ort Duquesne Lodge. K. or p., and Iiodce Ho. SO, A. O. U. W. Mis fnueral will occur to-morrow at 2 r. M., from the M. E. Church, South Eighteenth street. PITTSBUKG DISPATCH, SELECTED obDITIES. Two Modifications or Sca-Serpont Tarns How Lovers Find Their Affinities The Courting method of the Kaffir An Artificial Florida Cuba's Decay. A reporter In Portland last week, noticed an old sailor seated on tbe deck of a ship busy stuffing the skin of some kind of a nondescript animal which looked like a filing fish which had died before acquiring much of its plumage, says the Oregonian. When asked about the creature, the old salt replied: "I hardly know what it is. It isn't a bird and it isn't a flying fish, but it has some of the marks ot both. It could sing and it lived in tbe water most of the time It came aboard in the Bay of Bengal. I was on the lookout just before daylight one morning and was standing near the heel of the bowsprit wlicu I heard some thing chirping and twittering near me. I could not imagine what it was, as we were far from land, but peeping down in a coil of rope near tho rail. I saw this queer bird-fish sitting on tho deck trying to sing. I bad a large bam boo cage in the forecastle, and so I put the fish in this cage and filled one of the pans with bait water and thought if it was a bird it could get on a perch, and if it was a fish it could go into the water." "Which did it take tor" "Well, it lived most ot tho time in the water, but often, especially at tight, it would fly ont and amuse me and my messmates by trying to mue. une nigut as wo were passing tnrougn the Straits of Malacca we had the cage up ou the caboose, and tbe thing was singing its best, when suddenly flying fish began coming on board by the dozens, and in half an hour wo kadabiscuiUjoxfull, and we had fried flying fish for everybody on board as long as we were in the stiaits. AVhen wc touched at Singapore the native fishermen said it was a kingflwiic fish, and that it would call iho other flying fish on board whenever they were within hearing." The sailor added that ho owned the animal about a year, and that ucither ho nor any of his companions had ever seen another like it. A Chinese Nondescript. A story similar to the one from Portland is contributed to The Dispatch by a Hong Kong correspondent: There is a big lako in the Lincbuen district of Foocbow, China, about 30 li in circumference. Durln winter the farm ers, by the aid of rude and primitive machinery, pump out its water to irrigate their fields. Lately some fishermen, when the water was rather low, were fishing on the lake and saw through tbe clear water a huse animal re sembling an ox in every particular, except that the bead bad no horns. The news of tho discovery of this strange beast caused great commotion, and with much difficulty and excitement it was finally caught. Its hairs, or rather bristles, were bard aud thick, and it weighed several hundred catties. Tbe most learned of tbe village patriarchs failed to designate tbe animal by Its proper name. Xatural Affinities of Lovers. The reader is not obliged to believe the fore going (possibly) fairy tales, but here are some scientific facts which he may find fully as en tertaining: Hermann Fol, one of tho most eminent of living embryologists, while staying at Nice the Mecca of honeymooning had his attention at tracted to the resemblances between young married couples. The popular notion that married people "end by resombling each other" was shared by Fol, but his trained vision de tected amongst crowds of young married couples, characteristics that led him to aupuose a contrary proposition to bo nearer tho truth they begin by resembling each other. To put the matter to scientific test, be engaged in a scries ot observations and researches on the Photographs of onng and old married conples, t.flA rpanlr tuhfl. lin miltltetiac: In th. X...d ScienUfique. Tho following table gives his statistical conclusions: Couples. Ecscmblances. Non-resemblances. Total. percent. percent. Young . Old... . .132 about !. 68 66 about JS. 33.. ..108 .. oiaboutTl.TO 15 about 23.30.... 53 In marriages made at random the number of resemblances would not amount to more than two in a hundred. Among the non-resemblances were included some very curious case, where man and wife, though quite dissimilar in every other respect, yet exhibited in com mon "certain traits constituting an ugliness more or le-s ridiculous." Fol infers from this an argument in favor of the idea that candi dates tor marriage do not fear the particular form of ugliness to which their mirror accus toms them. Fol infers,: 1. In the immense majority of marriages of "inclination," the contracting parties are at tracted by similarities and not by dissimilari ties. 2. The resemblances between aged married couples is not a fact acquired by conjugal life. Love and Marriage In Kaffir-Land. A marriage in Kaffir-Land. South Africa, is a matter of affinity, though one-sided. A Kaffir returns from a hunting, trading or war expedition, and sees a girl he wants for a wife, says (Joldltiuaile's Geographical Magazine. He does not go through the formality of ask ing her consent, but sends an emissary to her father to inquire tbe price. After several days of haggling, a committee of old married women is appointed to effect a compromise between the bujer and tbe seller. The intending Bene dict, if a man of wealth, will pay tbe price and immediately taka possession of bis briae, whose consent to the transaction may or may not have been obtained. Every wife is entitled to a sep arate house for herself and future family. If the bridegroom have not sufficieht cows to pay the entire purchase money he pays a portion of it and the betrothal then takes place. The wedding ceremonies are primitive. A goat is stewed whole, corn is cooked, a plenti ful supply of uauve beer is provided. To this feast, served on the ground in tho open air iu front of the council hut of the village, every one is invited. As in most nations where every able-bodied man is compelled to serve as a soldier, tbe number of temales far exceeds that of the males. A Kaffir is allowed to have as many wives as he can purchase, but It is not etiquette for a commouer to have as many as the chief of tbe kraal in which he resides. Tbe chief again is expected to have a lesser number than the king of tbe tribe. Bad News lor Smokers. It is becoming a difficult matter to get good cigars from Havana, as "Gath," of the Cincin nati L'nguvcr, has discovered. Says his in formant: '"The Spaniard ruins everything ho touches. They have picked that island out of its habits, its money, its pride; in the en deavor to crowd the Ha ana tobacco business they have put upon the limited land which raises the fine cigar tobacco all manner of gu anos and phosphates which spoil tbe tobacco and cause the smokers to exclaim against tbe importers. Now that they have in some places ceased to put on this acid stuff whicb spoils the tobacco leaf, the land, like a drunken man, feels tho want of a stimulus." An Artificial Florida, A well-known physician of New York has originated a scheme which provides for the erection within tho city limits of an establish ment where persons suffering from weak or diseased lungs can pass the inclement season m a mild, healthful climate, kept at an equable temperature throughout the entire winter, says the New York Tclcgi am. This propobed sani tary establishment will practically bo a village of 500 inhabitants enjoying continuous sum mer, with ample accommodation for necessary exercise, and provided with the ordinar means of amusement and recreation. The plans of tho establishment, which is to be known as tbe ' Sanitary AVmter Home and Air Palace." call for tho erection of a brick building 200 feet square, enclosing an open paved courtyard 100 feet square. Thib main structure will be 50 feet in height, divided into four stories. On top of it will be an air garden, 35 feet wide, laid out in grass plots and walks and adorned with trees, shrubbery and flowers. Outside of this garden, and as a continuation of the main build ing, will be two additional stories, 15 feet In width, tho upper ono of which will bo an in closed promenade for the patients. Tbe capitalists interested in the scheme want at the same timo to effect a cure of their ail ments, lhis they expect to do by evaporating into the atmosphere within the building med icaments generally conducive to health, so that tbe patients will breathe medicated air. Illusive Southern Booms. 'I am going back to Kansas," remarked a gentleman to a St, Louis' Globe-Democrat rep resentative, "lrom the Now South. I went down to 'tho New South' wben the boom was on. There was a heap of talk about 'the mlnera belt' of Tennessee ana Alabama. Cardiff was platted as a town near Emery Gap, in alden Kidge, East Tennessee, and prodigious fortunes were to be made, not only In mining coal, mak ing coke and iu making pig iron, but in real estate deals and general speculation. So faras Cardiff is concerned, tho whole business has collapsed. Tbe houses, hundieds of them, which tbe company erected, nice stone build ings and neat cottages, ate vacant and going fast to decay. There is iron all through the Walden Kidge, but the business has been over done, and it did not pay to open up the ore beds or the coal veins on tbe Cardiff property. Indeed, tbe boom in tbe South is as dead or more defunct than tho boom which once elec trified the countrj about Kansas." A HorsoTlmt Can Pull. The proud owner or a valuable horse tells tbe Madison, Me., Mulletin bow he once lost $25 in a bet on that animal's ability. The wager was that the horse could pull a load ot ten tons of hay out of tbe barn, the bay to be loaded on a long sled, tbe sled to be platfed on the bare floor. "Tho sled was so Ion" said the man MONDAY, MARCH 16, who is responsible for tbe story, "that it ex tended the length of the floor, so that tbe horse stood outside the barn doors wben harnessed to the load. The horse pulled three times on the load and failed to start it. I bad all confi dence in that horse's ability to draw tho load, bnt I paid over tbe amount of the wager. That night I had occasion to go around to the rear ot the stable and was surprised to- find that tbe underpinning of the building was not where it should be. and on furtber investigation discov ered that a book on the loose end nf a binding chain on my load of hay had caught in the barn floor and tbat tbe horse in his tbree pulls on tho load bad actually started the barn 18 inches off its foundation." t AFTICS OF THE BED AHX How the Little Creatures Managed to Bridge tho Molasses. Eocky Mountain H ews. Tbe following remarkable story, told by an eye witness, is entitled to a place among the instances of Intelligence among the lower animals. A cook was much annoyed to find his pastry shelves attacked by ant By careful watching it was discovered tbat they came out twice a day in search of food, at about 7 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. How were tho pies to be protected against tbe invaders? Finally be determined to make a circle of molasses around the pies as a barrier and await results. v He did not have long to wait, for at 6:50 o'clock ho noticed that off in the left-hand cor ner of tho pantry was a line of ants slowly mak ing their way in the direction or the Dies. Thev seemed like a vast army coming forth to attack the enemy. In front was a leader, who was larger than any of tho others, and who always kept a little iu front of his troops. They were of the sort known as the medium sized red ant, which is regarded as the most in telligent of its kind, whoso scientific name is formica rubra. About 40 ants out of 500 stepped ont and joined the leader. The general and his aids held a council and then proceeded to examine tho circle of molasses. Certain portions of it seemed to be assigned to tho different ants, and each selected unerringly the point in tbe sec tion under his charge where tho stream of molasses wa6 narrowest Theiitheleadermade bis tour of inspection. The order to march was given, and the ants all made their way to a hole in the wall at which tbe plastering was loose. Here they broke rank and set abont carrying pieces of plaster to tbe place in the molasses which bad been agreed upon as the narrowest. To and fro they went from tbe nail hole to the molasses, until, at 11.30 o'clock, tbey had thrown a bridge across. They then formed themselves inline again and marched over, and by 11:15 every ant was eating pie. CANADA AND ITS C0MHEECE, Macdonald Affects to Belittle tho Import ance of Yankee Trade. Ottawa, March 15. On reliable authority a correspondent says that ho is in a position to state tbat tbe Government regards the estimate of the value tbat has been placed upon the United States market as being far in excess of what it is really worth to Canada, and if it fails to succeed In the approaching negotiations at AVasbington the Government will either be greatly surprised or disappointed. Sir Charles Tupper is going to see not only what Franco will do. but whether Spain will not again con sider the question of a reciprocal trade ar rangement with Canada. It is now stated that, although Sir Charles Tupper will go to Washington shortly, it will be merely to see Sir Julian Fauncefote, and tbat Hun. Mr. Foster and Sir John Thompson will be the delegates sent down to talk limited reciprocity to Mr. Blaine through Sir Julian. THE CHAEGES WEHE FALSE. Kov. T. E. Gallagher, of the Washington Conference, Acquitted by His Brethren. .ErXCIAI. TELEOHAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Triadelphia, 0 March 15. The Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Churcb.which closed here yesterday, acquitted Kov. T. E. Gallagher, a member of the Washington, Pa., Conference. Tbe trial was caused by the pub lication of certain items charging tbat gentle man with gross immorality. Dr. J. A Fuller ton was chosen to act as counsel for tbe de fense and Rev. D. L. Ash for the church. All the witnesses who knew or professed to know anything about the matter were ex amined. Tbe evidence for tho defence was strongly in favor of the minister, it being shown that upon tbe occasions when be was charged to have committed the crimes be was not at tbe places specified. Tbo verdict of ac quittal was unanimous. MAHY HEAV C0BP0BATI0HS. Over Threo Hundred Organized Within the Spaco of a Week. Chicago. March 15. Tho United States Cor poration Bureau, of Chicago, reports the weekly list of new completed corporations in the United States for the week ending March 13. 1891. viz: Total corporations, 839; total capitalization, $74,630,225, distributed as follows: Mercantile and manufacturing companies 173, $23,202,400: banks and investment companies, 9, $1,970,000: gold add silver ard other mining and smelting companies, 13, 4.805,000; coal and iron com panies, 10, $2,087,000; light, heat, power and transportation companies. 28, $8,515,000; build ing and loin associations, 22, $21,991,000; miscel laneous, 84, $12,169,325. THE FIGHT NA2E0WDTG DOWN. Developments of the Day In the California Senatorial Contest. v Sacramento March 15. There were no new outward developments in the Senatorial con test Saturday, beyond the fact tbat Estee had gained one voto, while De Young and Felton lost one and tbree respectively. The rumor is again asserted tbat the De Young and Felton forces will coalesce on Mon day and Tuesday, in which event tho contest will be narrowed practically to two candidates; and if It should follow that ono should receive the majority of the Republican votes in Doth Houses, it is contended that it would be ac cepted as the same as a decision of a party caucus, and would result In the election of the leading candidate. Carnegie on Iron. .New York Journal of fc'lnance.l Andrew Carnegie says that the production and consumption of iron and steel last year broke all records. Mr. Carnegie fears that Iron market prices may go lower, but they will not stay down long. He says there is no reason for asking Northern railroads to cut down freight rates to aid Pennsyhania iron manufacturers. Ho does not think the South is going to monop olize the iron trade right away. A Lecture on Alaska. Rev. J. F. AVhite. who recently rotnrned from Alaska, delivered an address to tho con gregation of the Southslde Presbyterian Church, corner Twentieth and Sarah streets, last evening. His subject was tbe country, the people and church work among them. The speaker gave quite an interesting taik, and was listened to wltn attention by a large audience. A Deadly Insult. Boston Herald. 1 President Harrison's hunting dog down In Maryland answers to the name of Cleveland. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE. Minnie Palmer will shortly return to Lon don, ami, under tho management of Charles Abud, appear in comic opera. W. J. SCANLON will be seen at ono of our local tbea'ers Easter week. He will present the "Irish Minstrel" and "Myles Aroon." The bridge scone in "Money Mad" requires a force of 25 stage hands to work the mam moth steamer in its passage across the stage. Frederick Paulding Is receiving much attention from society peoplo in tbo cities visited by tho Jefferson-Florence Comedy Com pany. Pittsburg Lodge No. 11, B. P. o. ., will benefit at the Duquesno Theater Friday after noon, March 27. "Old Jed Prouty" and other specialties aro on the programme. It will be an interesting event. FOUR stage carpenters from the "A Mile a Minute" company have been at tbe Duquesno Theater all week arranging tho stage for tho reception of the English locomotive used In Minnie Palmir's.new piece. The gallery gods at the Bijou this week will recognlzo an old favorite in Lizzie Mulvey, the well-known song and dauce artist. She plays tho role of a tough young gamin in the play of "Money Mad" and introduces some of tbe pop ular song3 of tho day and also hfr artistic dancing. One of the bcstlrlsn comedians on the boards is Barney Ferguson. He and an excellent co -pany of comedians will follow ".Money Mad" at the Bijou in tbat amusing sketch, "McCarthys Mishaps." Last season an admirable company supported Barney, and Colonel Charles Rice, his manager, writes that tbe company Is stronger than ever. It will be a week of fun at the Bijou. 1891. THINGS IN GENERAL The Disagreements of Scientists as to the Definition of Scatter Swedenborg's Ideas ofthe Future State Tolstoi's Fierce Attack Upon Tobacco. IWEITTtN FOB THE DISFATCU.l It is queer what people will believe. Almost as queer as what people won't believe. The credulities and the scepticisms of the human race) taken together, show up. in a not alto gether flattering light, tho vagaries of tbat which we are pleased to call our mind. What is there that hasn't been believed, or disbe lieved! The other day I beard a paper read npon the ories of matter. For it is a fact npon which we do not often enough reflect, in our considera tion of the "certainties" of science, tbat scarcely any two scientific people agree as to what matter really is. Some of them, called materialists, tell us tbat mind is nothing but matter. Indeed! And what then is matterT Why, matter is is , No body knows what matter is. Some of tbe philosophers say tbat this table on which lam writing is composed of a great many millions of whirling circles, like rings of tobacco smoke, gyrating like a circus dancer, tumbling inside-out nnder my pen. Everything in the world that can be touched andjseen is but a combination. Dig or little, of rings of infinitely microscopic smoke. And there are people sh9 believe that and other peoplo who disbe lievoitt Somo Revelations From Swedenborg. A good friend of mine brought me in, not long ago, a volume of the theological writings of Swedenborg. It is the one which has a good deal in it abont the Day of Judgment, and about the condition of various kinds of people in tbe next world. I was greatly interested to discover in it that our Dutch acquaintances will wear wooden shoes along tbe golden streets ot heaven, and that oar colored brethren will be attired In the celestial country in red bandanna handkerchiefs. Why notf And yet people smile at this while other people hold it for honest fact. Speaking of tho Day of Judgment. I have been reading, in a little bonk entitled "Tbe Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divine Comedy." somo remarkable assertions about the Christian doctrine of hell. Dr. W. T. Harris is the au thor of this very philosophical little treatise the Dr. Harris who is well known in educa tional circles. And he says that the doctrine of hell underlies everything tbat is worth while in modern civilization all tbe progress, all the liberty, all the splendidl huinanitarimism of our day. It all rests he might have said as tbe Court of Areopagus; did in old Athens, upon the cave of the furies, Thlsinayeeem as hard to take in as tbe gyration theory of matter, or as wooden shoes in heaven. But a great many difficult, and seemingly impossible, things look that way only because we don't quite understand tbem. Dr. Harris makes his position very plain. Hell means the return upon a man of tho tnll con sequences of his evil deed". That signifies absolute Dcrsor.al responsibility. A man stands out by himself as a responsible individual, as a man. The emphasis is laid on personality. And the chief element of personality is held to be character. The Teachings of Mythology. Now, see where we are. In the mythology of the world into which tbe Christian religion came, the next life was a shadowy sort of exist ence, in whicb the social and political distinc tions of this life were continued. The inequali ties of human society lasted on. The doctrine of hell set a negative to that "Every man accord ing to his deeds," became the conception of the differences of the eternal world. Tho rich man thirsts intolerably for a taste of cool water. Lazarus is in felicitv. Things are quite turned about in "the first five minutes alter death." Only real kings wear crowns, on the other side. Yon see how that exalts personality, and thus teaches the ideal of personal liberty. And, all tbe hindrances of fatalism being taken away, what an Inspiration to all endeavor to uplift men! Any man is seen to be capable of anything. Everyman may stand upon tbe heights. Jacob's ladder, round upon round, uplifts itself beside the feet of the low-downest human animal that breathes, higher and higher, straight into heaven. And he can climb it, if bo will, with his dead self for tbe steps of tbe celestial stairway, into manhood, and into saint-hood, and hero-hood. It is worth while, after all. to believe in hell. The undue, and untrue, teaching of everlast ing punishment has obsenred tbe Christian doc trine of hell, which has nothing to do with ever lasting pnnishment at all. "Kvery roan accord ing to his deeds." That is true to-day,aod to-morrow, and forever in Pittsburg, and in heaven. Preaching? es. 1 suppose so. And tbe Professor of Things in General is reminded tbat this is Monday morning. Sunday stopped last night at 12 o'clock. And religion must be carefully kept for Sunday, like our best clothes! Some people seem to think so. Count Tolstoi a Pessimist. Well, have you noticed what Tolstoi says now about tbe iniquities of our generation about the cause of themT Count Tolstoi has been for some time upon the pulpit platform of the world preaching to us, in various ways, that things in general are ont of order. He ac counts us pretty far gone from original right eousness. He has bis opinion of us. And it is quite true tbat this is not the very best of all possible worlds, yet. Else there would be an end to progress. There would be notbtog to look forward to, Tolstoi, hotever, lives in Russia. I see that "E. B. Lanin," in the Fortnightly, is still snowing up iiussia as me particular chosen abode of the devil and his angels upon the surface of thi3 planet. I bope that even Russia is not quito so bad a3 taat. Still, it must be a bad place for an optimist. At last, the Russian- reformer has found the root of all evil. It is tobacco. Smoking, be says, begins by destroying the conscience. "People drink and smoke, not merely for want of something better to do to while away tbe time, or to raise their spirits; not because of the pleasure tbey receive, but simply and solely in order to drown the warn ing voice of conscience." There, my tobacco using brethren, you havo It, without mincing of speech or moderation of statement. Your conscience vexes you, ana you nine irom its menacing finger behind a cloud of smoke. This asse vertion is backed up by proof evident to everybody. Behold the smoker! He cares for nobody's comfort but bis own. He rides roughshod over tbe most elementary rules of social life. "No one would take the liberty to flood with water a room in which people were sitting: to scream and yell in it; to turn on hot, cold or foetid air, or to perform any otber acts tending to disturb or injure others; and yot ont of a thousand smokers scarcely one will hesitate to fill with noxious fumes a room, tho atmosphere of which is be ing breathed by women and children who do not smoke." But this is in Russia. Smoking Damaging; to fho Mind. This, however, is not the last note of this counterblast. I was speaking tbe other day in this Monday Meditation about how educa tion damages tho mind. Smoking, it appears, damages the mind still more. Borne minds it stagnates, others it stimulates unduly, lhe man who smokes lannot think. There is as big a cloud inside his head as there is outside. He 13 Irresponsible. He smokes and i3 drunk. brooking, tbe Count maintains, Is the cause of two-thirds of tbo extraordinary transgressions of this century. The rice is drunk. "By far the greatest part of all that is done in this world'if ours, both by those who3o profecsion it Is to guide and leach others, and by those who are thus guided and taught, is done in ,a state of Inebriety. Is it conceivable that people not drunk should calmly set about doing all the extraordinary things that are being accom plished in our world, from the Eiffel Tower to obligatory military service? It is utterly incon ceivable." And yet even this, as I said at the- begin ning, some people so curiously is the human mind constructed will quite decline to credit! FTTHEBAL OF SEKATOE EEAEST. Thousands of Teople View tho Body, Which Is Buried AVlth Mnch Honor. San Francisco, March 15. The funeral services were held to-day over the remains of tho late United States Senator, George Hearst. Since last Thursday, when the body arrived from Washington, it has lain in state at Grace Church, where it was viewed by hundreds of citizens. Tho services were conducted by the Rev. W. C. Foute, of Grace Church, and tbe building waB crowded to the doors with people Among the pall bearers were Governor Mark ham, Mayor Sanderson, Chief Justice Beatly and others of the most prominent men in the State. Although the rain poured down steadily all day thousand of people who could not gain ad mittance to the church lined the streets to view the funeral procession. In the procession wero the Second Brigade of tbe National Guard of California, Congressional and Legislative Com missions. General Gibbons and staff, the Demo crat State Central Committee, tho California State Democratic Club, tbe Iroquois Club and many civic organizations. Judges at a College Contest. Rev. E. R. Donehoo has received an invita tion from the Cumberland Presbyterian Col lege of Waynesburg, to act as judge at its an nual contest I'cxt Wednesday. Hon. Henry Honck and Colonel Clrli W. Kazzard are also to be judges. Mr. Donehoo said yesterday tbat last ear be bad acted in a similar capacity for the college, and that ono of the societies had secured a special teacher for the contest, but wben it was decided the sido that bad tbe teacher was defeated, and lrom tbe way Mr. Donehoo was treated afterward he thought ha , would never hear from them again. IBELANE'3 PATBOH SAINT The Subject of an Interesting Address In Allegheny Last Evening. Rev. Father E. Bnnpby lectured at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. Allegheny, yesterday even ing, on "St. Patrick." The general tenor of tbo reverend gentleman's discourse was to tbe effect which St. Patrick's teachings bad on the subsequent belief of the Irish race. He aid that the saint lauded in Ireland B. C. 432, and tbat be preached throughout, the country for 33 years. Tbe result of his preachings was a general conversion of tbe peoplo to bis doc trines, for 830 years afterward Ireland earned ,the title of the "Isle of Saints," and schools had been successfully established at Lismone and Clanmacmorns. " After tbat period tbe North Danes and North men took possession of tbe island, remaining in control for 300 years, until they were swept from It by Brian liroihu. Then ensued a war fare lasting SCO years between the Anglo-Saxons and tbe Irish, who contended for the faith implanted in them by bt. Patrick. Tbe grad ual pressure of tbe Saxons broke up tbe integ rity of the nation, and the Irish became scat tered over tbe faco of the earth. Father Dunpby closed his historical allusions to the progreis of Christianity in Ireland by a strong appeal to tho congregation. He urged them to remember, above all things to-day, that tbey were Irish; tbat tbey should not forget they were Christians; that they should not for get tbey bad ancient traditions to adhere to, but particularly should tbey sink all clas3 feel ing, and remember tbat they conld honor their patron saint and their country without giving offense to others who might not have sympathy with their sentiments. rOBTY-HVE YEAES Off TEE F0BCE. Changes In Pittsburg Witnessed by Cap tain William Beed. Captain William Reed yesterday celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary of the day he first went on the Pittsburg police force, on which he bas remalnod ev:r since, an honored member of that organization. Captain Reed has seen remarkable changes in this city. When he first undertook to help preserve tbe public peace there were but 25 officers on tbe force, none of tbem in uniform. Tbey called the hours of the day and night, like the old watch, and men who laid awake nights could get pointers on the woatber without looking out of the window. Forty-five years ago Pittsburg was bounded on tbe east by Ross street and on the northeast by Fifteenth street. The extreme limit of the city was at the corner of Seventh ajenue and Coal lane, now Webster avenue. Fifth avenue below SmitBEeld street was lined with lumber yards, a number of small sbantles and a few residences. The site of tbe postofflce and City Hall was then, and for many vears after, occupied by Boldman & Garrison's foundry. The Central station was located on Fonrth ave nue near Wood street. After a time Pittsburg swallowed up Pitt township, which was considered a remarkable event- This carried tbe city out Fifth avenue, then known as the Philadelphia pike, to Stevenson street, and over tbe bill to Fulton street. This district consisted of farms and wild lands, cut up bv gullies. A boardwalk was built out Fifth avenue to tbe city line, but the roadway was nothing but a huge mud puddle. TEE ANDEBS0K CRICKET BEAD. It Had Been Living In the Elevator Since the House Opened. "We have been mourning in this house since the last flood." said Chief Clerk William Crosby, of the Anderson, yesterday, to a com pany of drummers. 'Somebody dead?" suggested one of the sym pathetic commercial men. "Yes," replied the clerk, brushing away a tear, "our cricket, which has never failed to chirp in the elevator, has stopped its singing, and I am afraid tbe water bas killed the little fellow. At least it bas not been beard since the flood. It is strange about this cricket. Nobody has seen it, but it has been living in tbo elevator since tbe honse opened six years ago. It would chirp most merrily on all occasions, and many of our guests who think that the cricket is lucky wonld sit in tbe elevator and listen to it for an hoar at a time. One drummer in particular always asked first abont the cricket's welfare when he arrived, and I thought he would take a fit wben I told him it was dead. 'Well, your good luck is gone, and I am afraid mine bas skipped with It,' be said, sadly. Emma Juch liked to hear the cricket's notes, and while stopping here would often sing in tbe elevator with it. The animal was fond of music and showed its ap preciation by increasing its chirping sounds." COMPLAINS OF STAHLEY. Colonel Sanford Says the Explorer Has Lojaredthe Lecturing; Xlnslness. Colonel Sanford, the lecturer, was at the Union depot last evening with his wife, going to Lancaster, O. The Colonel states that he has had a good season, coming out 2,500 ahead of bis previous records. "Tbe lecturing business in general," he con tinued, "bas been good, but it wonld have been better were it not for such men as Stanley and Stepniak. Neither o! them can express them selves well, and in the main have disgusted the people. Stanley, I am told, goes through the country like an autocrat, seeing no one, and feeling hi3 oats generally. His wife certainly did not treat tbe ladies of Pitts burg very courteously, and tbe women in other cities have been steering clear of her, as a re sult Why. Stanley has not traveled as many miles as Kennan, and bis explorations have been in one direction.' ST. PATBICE73 DAY To Be Generally Celebrated In Pittsburg; and Allegheny. St, Patrick's Day will be observed in Pitts burg to-morrow by all good sons of Erin. Special services will be held in nearly all the Catholic nnrches. In several of tbem interest ing lectures will be delivered. W, D. Mc Auliffe will De Chief Marsbal of tbe parade. He has appointed as his staff the following: Assistant Marshal. P. M. Morrow: Adjutant General. John McFarland; Chief of Staff, John Gilroy, Chief of Line Aids, Philip B. Duffy. Tbe parade will form in front of the Cathe dral, on Grant street, and tbe route will be over tbe principal streets of the city. AFTEB F0STY MILLIONa The Heirs of a Colossal Estate In Germany Hold a Meeting. Kansas Citt. March 15. A meeting of the heirs of Louis Fisher, who died in 1843, being tbe sole heir to an estate of $40,000,000, was held at Independence yesterday. It was decided to press tbe claims of the heirs, and money for tbat purpose was sub scribed. Two Dictatorial Governments. 1st. Louis Republic, Dem.J Connecticut is still nnder the control of a dictator, and civil government hag not yet been re-established in. Guatemala. But in most of the other American States usurpation is below par at present. Wears Socks by the Yard. .Nashville American.: Hon. Jerry Simpson denies that foul aspersion with respect to the nudity of bis nether limbs. Jerry doe wear socks, but we are authorized to state that they are ail wool and a yard wide across the toe. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. . General W. H. KoonU and F. J. Kooser. District Attorney of Somerset county, were in the city for a short time yesterday morning. The General bas mada a game fight to save tbe necks of tbe Nicely boys, but it looks now as if they will swing unless Governor Pattison interferes. AV. P. Black, a prominent operator of Titusville. who has recently purchased large interests In the Wildwood, Coraopolls and McCurdy fields, bas concluded to make Pitts burg bis headquarters in tbe future. At present Mr. and Mrs. Black are domiciled at the An derson. James Hoorhead and Jack Head, the Greensburg lawyers, spent Sunday yesterday with M. J. Alexander at Charleroi. They were surprised at the progress made in the new town. H. Aschoff and F. de MoDlevade, two young men from Rio Janeiro, are at tbe Ander son. They are making a tour ot the country and are armed with kodaks. Greeu B. Baum, Commissioner of Pensions, is stopping at tbe Monongahela House. He is here on business connected with the refrigerator company. A. F. Griswold and wife, of Erie, and C. H. Harvey, a Cincinnati freight agent, are among the guests at the Duquesne. J. J. Miller le't for Nashville last night to attend to some legal business. He ex pects to return on Thursday. A. C. Herbert and wife, of Fairmount, and F. L. Seeley, or Bradford, aro registered at the Monongahela House. Franz Kummel, the pianist, arrived on tbe Limited and put up at the Anderson. He registers from Berlin. J. Scott Ferguson and ex-Mayor An drew Fulton went to Philadelphia last evening. -a V- CURIOUS C0NDENSAiI05S. The Methodist Church needs 1.S0O new preachers every year to keep its pulpits sup plied. There are 603,000 Catholics in Vienna. Tbere are more than that in New York. Next to Paris. New York is the largest Catholic city In the world. A Kansas farmer has decreed that every young man who courts one of his daughters in winter time must contribute a load of sawed wood. An Atchison, Kan., man, during a re dent case of sickness at his house, paid a doc tor $4 for giving the medicine and bis child XI for taking it. The Detroit G. A. B. advertise for 80,000 beds for the accommodation of part of the National Encampment crowd expected tbere this year. Grand Rapids, Mich., leads the world in Its percentage of divorces to marriages. This year the ratio was one to five and last j ear one to six. An Alliance member of the Kansas Legislature who went to see "Tbe Ugly Duck ling" was very mnch disappointed because there was no poultry on tbe stage. It is, said that the blackest man in Glynn county. Go., is named White, the whitest man is named Brown, tbe tallest man is named Lowe, and tbe largest man Small. Twenty years ago some one stole a gold ring from W. S. Needham, of Columbus. Ga. One day recently Mr. Needham received the ring inclosed in an envelope without a word of explanation. A prominent banker at Mexico, Mo., pledged his friends that if General Palmer should be elected Senator at Springfield he would stand on his head. He publicly fulfilled his vow. A Leavenworth domestic has deposited 200 for her funeral expenses, bas her last robes already made, has purchased a site for her grave and planned what kind of a coffin she will have. An official survey shows that Rhode Island's nearest approach to a mountain is an eminence In Glocester which rises 805 feet above sea level and to which the name Durf ee Hill has been given. AKeno county, Kan., man has received a commission to purchase jack rabbits and ship them to England for tbe purpose of stock ing up tbe game preserves of some of the old est estates in Great Britain. Princeton has made a move whicb other institntions of learning sbonld not be slow to follow, She is spelling "Wooster" just as it is pronounced, leaving the "h" off of Pittsburg, and knocking the "c" out of Tucson, Ariz. Early in the century the old church bell on Meeting Honse Hill, in Dorchester, Mass., used to ring at 11 o'clock every forenoon to an nounce to the working people of tbe neighbor hood when it was time to take their 11 o'clock drink. filuegrass grows everywhere iu the temperate zone, but Kentucky bluegrass be longs to that State alone, and tbe bluegrass of Kentucky is as superior to tbe bluegrass of Europe or of otber parts of America as if it were a distinct variety. --There is at least two instances in which streams flow from the sea inland. The little salt lake of Assal. in India, is formed thus, fed; irom tne inoian ucean. xne otner stream is in Cephalonia. an island in the Ionian Sea, and disappears underground. Many years ago some careless map- maker accidentally changed Goblin City, CoL, to Golden City on bis map. The error was widely copied into other maps, and to this day one sees on somo of tbe best maps the name of uoiuen city instead oi uoblin City. The Governor of a Southern State is in correspondence with the Governors "of all otber hanging States, booing to make an arrange ment by which nb one shall be bung on Friday. If other days shall be selected tbe superstition which generally attaches to Friday will soon pass away. In Paris an aquarium is maintained for the purpose of breeding fish for replenishing the rivers of France. A quantity of California salmon are kept in a tank specially constructed for the purpose of artificial breeding. As a re sult, more than 200,000 healthy fish are trans ferred to tbe River Seine every year. The sod hoube on the Kansas frontier and the dwelling of a Greenland Eskimo are very much alike, about the only difference being an overground burrow in the borne of tbe Eskimo. All Greenland houses are of the same size, face the same way, and are built ot the same ma teriallayers of rough granite, sod and mortar. The London Electric Supply Corpora tion has finally succeeded in transmitting a 10,-000-volt current. According to the statement of tbe directors, this current of unprecedented strength was sent from tbe company's gener ating station at Deotford to the Grosvenor sub station ou the 17th" ult. Hitherto the highest tension attained was 2,500 volts. An invention is reported by which it is said the manufacture or artificial fur can be simply and cheaply carried on. Nothing defi nite is yet known of the mode of manufacture, which bas been kept entirely secret, but active stepsareunderstoodtobein progress for its early development. If the advantages claimed for this process can be established it will ef fect a revolution in the great fur industry of the Northwest. About a year ago a young mule was run over by a train at Akron. Ga., and had one leg crushed below the knee. The railroad com pany paid a negro to kill tbe mule. The negro got a pickax and stuck It in the animal's head three times, each time the pick going abont tbree inches deep. Several hours later the mnle was found grazing about and was taken up and cared for by another negro and to-day is plowing regularly on a plantation. The first organized Oklahoma raid was made at night, on April 13. 1880. by 13 men, two of whom, as guides, rode ahead and marked the trail by placing old buffalo skulls at promi nent ridges so tbat the route is known to this day as the Hog's Back trail. A location was selected on April 22. A city six square miles in area was surveyed, and three houses built, and then on May 15 came Lieutenant Pardee with 12 soldiers and 12 Indian scouts from Fort Reno, and arrested the whole party. The Imperial Bank of Germany hai the right to issue paper to the extent of 575,000.000, and as much more as it has gold and silver on hand as security for It, and practically to any extent beyond this; but on tbe excess they must pay interest at 5 per cent per annum to the Government. The bank has not of late availed of this privilege, possibly because it would not pay, and has confined its issue of bank notes to the regular $75,000,000 and the amount ot gold and silver on hand, or say 8225,000,000 in alL A scientific professor who has recently examined some fossil remains from Morehead phosphate beds from Reace Creek, Florida, decides one to be from a Hippotherium hither to undescribed, which he names B. princeps. He concludes that thl3 animal must hava been fully as large as the best specimens of our modern domestic horses, to which it is related. A number ot specimens of rhinoceros also ex isted there In those days, tbe remains of one hitherto undescribed ware also found in the phosphate bed Which the professor names B longipes. FUNNY PHASES. When lovely woman stoops to fasten Her shoestrtsz on the crowded street, Even necks of military training Are turned askew to watch her feet. Texas Sifting t. She "Will yon always love me, dear, juit the same as you do now? lie Always. Bhe You wretched thing! Why didn't yo protest that every year yon would love me more?-a Eomenllle Journal. Frank Should I ask yon to be my wife wonld you offer to be my sister? Mar No, your sister's sister. Nev Tor Ber aid. The Majah Has that fellow answered your challenge. Colonel? Colonel-He has. sah; but 1 shall not tight him. lie refused to meet me, unless I would promlte to bay my coffin of his brother, who is a beastly un dertaker. Indianapolis Journal. "AVhat have you got to plant to get a family tree, anyhow?" asked Wa. Ancestors," returned WIegles. Seie Tort Sun. "Papa, what's the reason you call all these fellen cranks that ride bicycles?" Because'they are, my son." (Alter a panse) "Can you ride a bicycle, uapa?" -no, my son." Chicago Tribune. Dashaway You know AVangle, who treated rue so badly: well. 1 sot even with him the other night, l started to call on Miss sandstone.' and Just as I was about to rln g the bell I looked in through the window, and saw he was there and that she was slujilnfr to bun. Clevertoa And then you went In and sat ou hlin. Dashaway-Ko, 1 didn't. I went awayand Mfr her keep on singing. Marpert Bazar, v
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