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"0 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 year. JO 00 Daily Dispatch, lncludingSunday,3in'ths 150 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, lm'tu 90 fcl'MAY DISPATCH, One Year ISO AVUiKLY Dispatch, One Year J 15 Tiie Daily DisrATcn li delivered by carriers at -cents per ncet, or Including Sunday edition, at Iicents per week. P1TTSEURG. TUESDAY. MAR. 17, 1S9L THE STREET MUDDLE. Tbe Supreme Court wipes out the street acts of 18S7 and 18S9 in toto, and directs the city of Pittsburg to straighten up matters and start again with a clean sheet. That is the brief summary of the weighty opinion in the test cases handed down yesterday. 'While the Court plainly points out that legislation can be passed by which work to be done in the future may be carried on, we are unable to find in the ruling any escape from the conclusion that all the street and sewer improvements lately finished or in process of completion must be paid for by the general taxes. The Court says that the assessment of damages "by the Board of Viewers is the in itial step in all improvements, and tbe unconstitutionalitvof that body taints all the subsequent proceedings. "All the pre liminary reports made by it fall, and no improvements can be ordered under them; all the assessments of damages and benefits fail, and all the uncollected liens entered upon" the assessments go with t'ae assess ments; all work done or to be done upon these improvements, as the law now stands, must be paid for by the citv." It follows, of course, that while "curative legislation" may provide for street improvements in the iuturc, all work which has gone so far as a preliminary assessments damages and ben efits by the Board of Viewers must be paid for by general taxation, including the com pletion of what is unfinished. The actual condition in which the city and the taxpayers find themselves is well nigh iuestricable. There is one large class of property-holders who have recently paid in the aggregate millions for improvements in which they were interested, and must now have their burden of general taxation largely increased in order to pay lor the im provements affected by this decision. There is again the large class of property-owners for whom no improvements at all have been made, but who must help to pay for work the benefit of which goes elsewhere. Such hardships in multiiarious forms, are the re sult oi the disposition of the Supreme Court to wipe out the classification of cities, so far as it affects methods of judicial procedure. The law of course cannot be questioned, but the situation is highly embarrassing. Where tbe whole svstem of improvements is reduced to chaos, it is impossible at once to outline a plan of -action. It seems that practical justice cannot be done, except by the adoption of a policy which shall under take the universal improvement of streets at the cost of the whole city, so that all tax payers shall share equally the benefit of improvements for which all have to pay. Even that course will not make matters even unless it includes apian for recompens ing those who have paid special assessments of late years; and that would involve such heavy taxation that it qannot be done other wise than by a gradual operation extending over the course of years. This will hardly be thought of. .For the present it is plain that the public must make up its mind to a decided en largement of the general tax levy. ,Tbis burden may be somewhat alleviated by a radical cutting down of other lines of ex penditure that have been proposed, and which must wait until the fiscal course of the city is made clear. The present condi tion gives pertincuce to the proposition to issue a loan for park and bridge expendi tures, which, except by some such course, must be postponed indefinitely. OPINIONS ON" JUDGE LYNCH. The massacre at New Orleans is seized upon by the foreign press as a text for scornful comment upon American pretense of sound and safe government, of liberty and protection to the citizen intermingled. Tbe worst of it is there would be a basis of truth for these comments if the opinion of the whole country were to be formed on what has happened at New Orleans. More terrible and lar more menacing than the massacre itself is the condition of affairs which has been publicly set up in New Orleans as the sole excuse for the lynching. The leaders of the mob, the newspapers of the town, and tbe mercantile and industrial exchanges unite in asserting that tbe courts of justice were corrupted, and that this was no phenomenon of a da', no casual happening, but something which had naturally grown nut of conditions long pre-existing. The question arises, what is tbe state of the com munity which permits such conditions to exist, and must relapse into mob law for a remed? Certainly the sort of sell-government which so results is not calculated to win respect. But, happily, what has hap pened at New Orleans is not typical either of the conditions or public temper in many other cities. There is of course a fallacy in the at tempted excuse for the lynching. If the courts were corrupt, if the jurymen were be lieved to have accepted bribes, there might have been some sort of rude logic in hanging the guilty jurors for their offense against the State, which was as far-reaching in its evil consequences as that for which the Italians were indicted. To sboot down six of these latter who had been acquitted by the State's own tribnnal, and three others who bad not yet been tried, while the jury and the agents of the alleged bribery were allowed to go unmolested, was doubtless tbe easiest way for tbe mob to assert itself, but it was far from the most radical or courageous. As long as it is only the acquitted defendants who are bung or shot, the curative influence upon corrupt jurors will be Tery slight in deed. Toe affair in New Orleans will bear a good deal of reflection, but there is no con-J sideration bv which it can be justified at this staee of the ninetecth century. THE ANTHRACITE, CO At, CASE. The recent careJully prepared ruling of the Inter-State Commerce Commission on anthracite coal rates marks an interesting stage iu the progress of railroad regulation. It illustrates the principle that is generally adopted by a governmental supervision of rates where the ordinary influences of com petition are suspended. The case turned on that regular device of tbe anthracite companies, in whieh the usual operation of railway discrimination is reversed. The device is that of each rail way company operating at its own cost coal mines which furnish a large share oi its traffic Nominally high freight rates are imposed on the shipments of these mines so high that they are rnn at a loss; and the railway makes good the loss from tbe freight earnings. So far as the railroads are concerned this is simply taking money out of one pocket to cut it in another. But to the independent mine operators who have to pay the same rates, it amounts to confis cation. The commission recognized tbe in justice of this practice. As it has no power to enforce the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which forbids railway companies to engage in mining enterprises, it concluded the best it could do was to order a reduction of rates, with the intimation that if by actual experience this did not make matters even it would order another. This is, as we have said, the best the com mission could do. But it is a very unsatis factory settlement of the question. When great industries must depend for their very existence on their ability to convince a set of public officials that freight rates should be raised or lowered, their stability rests on an insecure basis. The onlysecure and ade quate regulation for prices and charges is Such a condition of competition as makes prices regulate themselves. Tbe inadequate regulation which comes of a governmental supervision of monopolies is sufficiently illustrated by the fact that the rate of 51 50 per ton which the commission tentatively fixed in this case is for an actually less ser vice than tbat for which the railroads be tween Pittsburg and the lakes charge 95c a ton; and is about double the rate for a little over half the service as compared with tbe charges on Hocking Valley coal. If every one could enter into the transportation of coal by rail as they can by water, it is safe to say that the rates on anthracite coal would be half of those fixed by tbe commission. A striking illustration of Wall street opinion is furnished by the assertion of the money column of a New York newspaper that the decision can be evaded, as follows: Tariff rates can be advanced higher than they were before, and while Coxe Bros. 4 Co., or any other individual miner, are placed upon tbe same footing with tbe collieries of tbe road which is patronized, tbe extn. profit in hauling ill amply compensate for tbe apparent loss in mining coal. As this is exactly what the anthracite roads have been doing, the Wall street idea is that these companies can exaggerate tbe abuse; that when ordered to reduce their rates can advance them. There is more sim plicity and directness in tbe declaration of one of the railroad officials that they will not obey the orders of the commission until the courts make them. That directly raises the issne whether the regulation provided by Congress is to be obeyed by the great corpo rations. FOR AND AGAINST GAMBLING. Coincident with the news that an English syndicate was attempting to break the bank at Monte Carlo, came word that the Chris tian youth of London had started an anti betting crusade. Both have undertaken big contracts, though the latter is the more land able one. Any success of tbe syndicate can only be temporary, as there is always plenty of money ready to back the game at Monaco, and the syndicate if it persevere will in the end meet the fate of the individual panibler who has a system. The successes alreadv won cannot fail to have a bad effect, as many will be tempted to risk their money in the hope that they too can do as well. It is a knowledge of human frailty in this matter that leads the authorities of Monte Carlo to allow the publication of the sums won by the syndicate. But tbe dupes will be blind to this, and will struggle to get at the tables on which to throw away their gold. The endeavor of the Christian youth of London to stop betting will hardly have much perceptible effect at first, though in time their efloris may be rewarded with a modicum of success. The only fault t) be found with their society is that it has gone to work among the lower classes and has been afraid to commence where the gambling evil in England is at its worst. An attack on the high society of London might, how ever, be looked upon as an impertinence, and no well regulated Englishman would be guilty of such a crime to his hereditary rulers. This view of the matter may make some people think that the members of the aristocracy have a right to do as they please, while the lower classes are always proper subjects for reform. As this is exactly the opinion held by the English aristocracy, there may not be much satisfaction in point ing out.its .absurdity. Some time this opinion may change, and the endeavors to stop gambling among the lower classes may be the means to that cud. The poor will naturally wonder at the teaching which makes their sin a legitimate pleasure for others. Then the popular verdict will be that gambling by both classes must cease. and in tbat way the efiorts of the Christian youth be finally successful. CONFUSION ON THE COKKENCT. The discussion on coinage and currency questions leads even the advocates of a sound system into some remarkable assertions. An example is presented by the esteemed Philadelphia Ledger, in an article on the effect of a depreciated currehcy on the peo ple of Kansas, as follows: Cheaper money would certainly put up tbe price of things Kansas has to bny. , But the prices ot products which Kansas has to sell are to a great extent fixed in foreign markets, be cause this country has an immense surplus for export. Tbe market value of these products being known at Liverpool, expressed in tbe best money used in.any country, the amount is then known which anybody can afford to pay In tbe same money at New York or Chicago. Cheaper money here would not make these products worth more by a single cent in Liver pool, and consequently not more at New York or Chicago, unless in a depreciated currency. Kansas would, therefore, pay more real money for things purchased, but would get not a cent more real money for things sold. Here we have a deliberate formation of the idea that the effect of depreciating the measure of values would be to make tbe people of Kansas pay more ior what they have to buy while it would not bring them more for what they have to sell. The sup port of this thesis leads our esteemed and generally accurate cotemporary into the as sertion tbat while the translation of a given amount in gold into a depreciated currency, will increase the nominal amount, the re verse of tbe operation will sot produce the reversed result, which is self-contradictorv and contrary to well established experience. It is a practical assertion tbat if tbe nation should make tbe change of fixing the dollar at Ajbat is now eighty cents, one class of goods, worth eighty cents now, would be worth the new dollar which is only a nom inal change of value, while another class would not rise with the change in the standard or would really suffer depreciation in actual value. All such assertions are dogmaticjnonseue. If silver coinage should put gold to a pre mium of 20 per cent, all the operations of "exchange will adjust themselves to the new standard. The amount of labor neoessary to earn one dollar will earn $1,20, but there will be no gain in it, because tbe purchasing power of the 51 20 will be exactly what the dollar was before. The gold, or its equiva lent in foreign goods, which comes to our ports, will be worth 20 per cent more ex pressed in our currency than it was before; and the total amount of coinage or American products that We can exchange for that sum of gold or foreign goods will likewise be worth 20 per cent or more" We do not change the relative values of staples in ex change for each other by either shortening or lengthening the yardstick which measures both. A much clearer view of the subject can be obtained if all those who are trying to in culcate sound views on tbe financial ques tion will bear in mind tbat to lower tbe measure of values will, after the readjust ment is made, make no difference either to producer or consumer, or anyone else with one exception. That exception is in the settlement of debts made before the change. To raise the measure of values makes tbe debtor pay more than be has agreed to; to lower it, makes bim pay less. It is the in- I justice and public injury of either that should show the false policy of depreciating tbe standard by the free coinage of silver. There is besides, of course, the additional consideration against free coinage that the United btates could cot offer a market at its mints for all tbe depreciated silver of the world but that, while conclusive, does not enter into the Ledger's argument. The Trustees of the Western University meet to-day to choose a Chancellor. It will occur to a great many people tbat tbe time is auspicious for making a vigorous start in the good work of giving tbe University tbat rank among the educational institutions of the land whtcn tbe population and resources of tbe vast community in and around Pittsburg warrant. Among tbe names which it is understood have been more or less favorably considered Is that of Br. Holland, of Bellefield; and certainly sbould be be chosen it will be a good omen for the University's future. Combining with expe rience as a teacher the qualifications and reputa tion of a scientific investigator, the enthusiasm of youth and a thorough knowledge of tbe community and its environment, tbe new ambi tion and energy of such a bead as Br. Holland would Invest the University with a fresh inter est for the public. That snch considerations are worth taking Into account is sufficiently shown by the opportunities which exist here for a University in fact as well as in name. When those eminent experts in warfare, John James Ingallj and Mara: Halstead, are fighting over our new navy, who will dare to affirm tbat tbis country is behind tbe rest of tbe world in the knowledge of naval warfare? The device of getting party control by unseating members of the opposite party is not confined to party lines. The Democrats in tbe Michigan Senate took advantage of tbe ab sence of some Republicans to unseat two Republican Senators and seat two Demo cratic members, thus gaining control of the body temporarily. Tbis adoption of afavorite party device, however, so disgusted one of the Democrats, who believes tbat hon esty Is more important than party interests, that he refuses to act with the Democrats, and so their tncK brings them no real victory. Of course, tbe Democrats aenounce tbe obstinate member as a mugwump which is a practical vindication of the honesty and j as tice expressed by that title. Schoolboakds which bavj not complied with tbe law requiring an annual statement of tbe receipts and expenditures to be published, will do well to amend their methods. THEtendenoy to make a Presidental can didate of every man who wins a political fight crops out anew in Senator Palmer's case. There is no especial reason why Palmer's vic tory should moke him a Presidental possibility; but there is a consideration against bim, which has been recognized as valid in the case of a much greater man. The disqualification of acre, which shut out Allen G. Thurman, can hardly be Ignored in favor of Jobn M. Palmer. Ira bill compelling oleomargarine manu facturers to color their product pink should be come a law, will society people use tbe stuff at their pink luncheons? The scandal with regard to the Hearst funeral grows as the details are made public. Tbe general disposition is to put all tbe blame on tbe roisterons legislators, but an intelligent view will go deeper. Tbe people cannot escape the responsibility until they take some pains to elect legislators with intelligence enough to perceive tbo distinction between coing to a funeral and going on a prolonged and variegated spree. It certainly seems time to take some steps to prevent the mobs in various parts of this country from placing themselves above the law. . A Kentucky court has decided that the great American game of draw poker Is not a game of chance. Of course it is not. With the bands of players entirely great, like Boyd Win chester and tbe Hon. Bill Brown, tbe stacking up and raking down of tbe chips is a scientific achievement. With apologies to a very respectable Virginia town, we respectfully suggest that New Orleans change its name to Lynchburg. A verdict for S10.000 for damages against some Whits Caps Is doing something to uphold tbe -laws, but a more practical and con vincing application ot the lex lalionis would be to givo those outlaws a heroic dose of their own whippings. As TO tbe result of those test cases, the city may now be pardoned for inquiring whether it is on foot or on horseback. Peehafs the late announcements that President Harrison will be the Republican candidate in 1S32, by the logic of circumstances, are founded on the conviction tbat theChauncey M. Depew boom on tbe car-stove platform Is impossible. Significant Street Signs. Chicago Advance.! Street signs I like to read. Tbeyaie signifi cant. I read yesterday on one of tbe cross streets near my bouse tbis: "School supplies, books stationary, candy, chewing gum." I also read at tbe West End lately this sign at tbo portal of a saloon: ."Vacuum Lager." The saloon keeper bad unconsciously expressed a great truth. DEATHS OF A DAT. Martha a Phelps. Martha S. Phelps died yesterday morn ing at her borne on Bluff street at the advanced a?e of 7s years. Mrs. Phelps Is tbe mother of Thomas II. Phelps, who Is Interested with K. 1). Wilt In the Urand Opera House. She villi be buried to-morrow. James Hurley. James Hu'rlev, for 23 years a car inspector ,on the Pennsylvania road, died last, evening at ills borae on C'tton street. He was M years old, and leaves six children to mourn bim. His wife died fccverat years ago. SNAP SH0TSJN SEASON. The tragedy enacted by Judge Lynch at New Orleans was opened with a ball. The calm follows, the storm, of course. After the fit of anger comes the m ello wing wave of conscience alter tbe quick action comes the slow deliberation tbat makes tbe baste look horrible after the passion comes the pen itence. Still we aro a patient people In the main too patient, porhaps and tbe bump of forgiveness is largely developed. We first whisper to each other about our wrongs, throw out bints concerning tbe real or imaginary fail ures of those wbo do our bidding in statecraft, justice and home government. Soon the whisper gathers force and tbe public voice assumes greater volume. Then wa meekly await developments, though beneath the outward calm smoulder bate's fierce fires. Still we pay out the" rope, watch, wait, murmur, wonder why someone does not move yet hesitate to move ourselves. Then the mischief maker applies tbe match of dis cord to tbe powder of prejudice and the ex plosion occurs. Beforo tbe smoke clears away, even before tbe tremor subsides, we stand shocked beside tbe ruin wrought In tbe frenzy. We shriek, and yell, and laugh, wbile tbe blood flows, but tremble and grow weak while washing the red stains off our bands. Tben it is we discuss tbe cause and plan a peaceful remedy destroy first, deliberate afterward; plot to move the mob and plan to check it; 'rush forward with the torch and hasten to throw water on tbe flames; kill in madness and bury tho victims In sorrow; scorn tbe law and hasten to .punish the law breakers. To-day we are very apt to be sinners, to-morrow saints; to-day desperadoes, to-morrow devotees; to-day lawbreakers, to-morrow lawmakers. A little less forbearance ana a lit tle more foresight, a little less patience and a little more prudence, a little less talk and a lit tle more action, a little more enforcement and a little less law would possibly be better for us. Patience that winks at wrong is very apt to blind us to what is right. Jay Gould got a cinch on New York and took an L. Many individuals hereabouts f ectly willing to lose tbeir grippe. are per- The baseball player is the only individual wbo can go out on a fly without getting a swelled bead. People who are after the offices should consult the 'To Let" lists in The Dispatch. It saves making a canvass, too. Italy now demands reparation instead of reciprocity from Mr. Blaine. Some physiognomists aver that black eyed people are impulsive. Some are. at all events, else they would not be wearing them. It only costs an effort to shoo a ben. Most of tbe suicides in Paris are In Seine. The selfish child will eat the candy and and give.the motto to its crying companion. The Italian Government will be pleased to learn that our navy is on the rocks off tbe New England coast. Clever wire-pullers Electric railroads. Successful farmen are always forced to seek a wider field for their talents. Happiness is beyond the reach of the envious. Common carriers The shoulder the bod. fellows who Wind seems to be the only thing that can be raised in March north of the equator. A health resort Taking medicine. Too many women prefer spite work to bouse work, and that's where they make a mis take. ' " - Lapland should be tbe paradise of pro fessional walkers and old maids. m Gamecocks, like soldiers, win their spurs in battle. Dumb belles are not popular in drawing rooms, even during Lent. The diamond field of America are more talked about than tbe diamond fields of South Africa, more's tbe pity. Astronomers who go to sea should pick ont berths on tbe starboard side of tbe ship. j; It is easier to judge a woman's wealth than ber age by looking at her teeth. A SPKIMO April. opening Cracking a safe in The liar is the only individual who prospers by conducting business on credit without capital. The aim of the flying machine men is to elevate the classes. Reforms in tbis direction have always been slow, too. Paper hangers should be well fixed, as they always have a roll. This is bracing weather. Weak build ings have to be braced in order to keep the March winds from blowing them down. Play bills Overdue salaries of baseball men. ,. Pointers who do fancy work easily cut a dash. A roruLAK dance would be the heydeguy. for grass widows A sign of success Standing room only. The billing comes after the cooing nowa days, don't it, boys? When the printer is out of sorts he is in aver bad way. The spring fever will soon set in at Sar atoga. A great many people in this city are now preparing to hire a haul. Man proposes, but the girl invariably disposes in this land of female freedom. Ministers frequently obey elders wbj are a good deal younger than themselves. The New Orleans mob made Home howl, at all events. Moles are found on necks of land as well as on the necks of human beings. Willie Winkle. f STRANGLED HIS CLERK. Phipplson, the Copenhagerf s'oapmaker, Sentenced to Death. Copenhagen, March 16. Tbe soap manu facturer Phlppisen. who early in April, 1890, was arrested for participation in insurance frauds, and on April 12 of the same year con fessed tbat be bad strangled a clerk named Meyer, who had been missing since January 7, 1890, and that.be bad -shipped tbo corpse of his victim to New York in a lime caskt, has been tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. The body of the murdered clerk was sent back from New York to this city early in May. The' body on Its arrival here was recognized by means of a ring which Meyer had worn. Praise for Blaine. Ohio State Journal. 1 The English Government did not succeed in abrogating the new trade' treaty between tbe Unite'd States and Brazil under tbe "favored nation" clause of international comity. Br'er Blaine will please stick another feather in his diplomatic cap. Humph! , Washington Post. Palmer and Pattison Is now an Uiinois Presidental alliteration. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, Various Ideas Entertained About the New Orleans Tragedy Just Indignation No Man's Life Is Safe Not Deplored, Prl-vateiy-Mafla Power Broken Wbo Is to Blame? New York World. The reputable citizens of New Orleans who on Saturday put to death tbe persons accused of tbe murder of Chief Hennessey have need to do a good deal of serious thinking. They no doubt believe in all sincerity tbat their act of Saturday was a necessary one for tbe protection of their city against banded lawless ness. But how has it come about that the courts of New Orleans cannot be trusted to administer justice with an impartial band? Whose fault is it that secret and cowardly assassins against whom tbe evidence Is convincing cannot be convicted? How is it tbat courts and jurors are so corrupt tbat the best citizens of tbe town find it necessary to call mass meetings and take into their own hands the work of de termining guilt and inflicting punishment? New Orleans is governed by iu own people. If Its courts are corrupt and its administration of justice a mockery are not these very citizens who so bloodily express tbeir condemnation of this tato of things themselves responsible for it? Just Indignation. New York Press.l We have no desire to join in arousing any sentiment tbat may be dangerous to tbe peace of tho community, but we have no hesitation in saying that in making a public protest against tbe murder of tbeir countrymen in New Orleans tbe Italians ot New York have our bearty commendation. Tbe crime should not be permitted to go unpunished. Italy has a Terfect right ta dpminrl sstiirarhnn fnrthn slaughter of Italian subjects. No Palliation for the Crime. New York Morning Journal.l The momentary madness which fell upon the people ot New Orleans on Saturday has proba bly passed away forever. It was provoked by the feeling that a murderous secret society, which had terrorized New Orleans for a gen1 eration, was about to triumph once more, and in tbe most insolent mauner. Tbe deplorable results of the not and tbe in terference" with law are doubless as 'much re eretted by respectable citizens of New Orleans as by anyone else. Yet there Is a disposition to palliate and pardon the lynchings. because of the indirect good which may accrue from them. This is wrong and dangerous, and sbould re ceive so support. Let New Orleans, for her own safety, go no further that wayl No Man's Life Is Safe. New York Trloune.l The more tbe New Orleans murders are In vestigated, the worse the whole transaction ap pears. It comes to this, that in such a com munity no man's life is safe, if any personal enemy can contrive to excite a popular belief that he is guilty. Irue, in order to make the murder of tho Sicilians appear necessary to tbe public safety, they had first to assume that the jury bad not rendered an honest verdict, and tbe public conviction that the verdict was not honest seems to be general and strong. But it is npt possible to forget how commercial bodies and even churches of New Orleans once upheld and justified tbe massacre of a 'political convention. The people who tben excused the most Infamous of all crimes, in passionate partisanship, are not to be reckoned absolutely unerring and Infallible in their judgment when they declare' that tho jury was bribed. Not Deplored Privately. Sew York Hines. Orderly and law-abiding persons will not pre tend tbat the butchery of tbe Italians was either 'justifiable or proper." There Is no room for argument about that, for beforo the argument begins we must grant tbe postulate tbat our civilization ana our patiently-constructed system of criminal jurisprudence are failures. Yet, wbile every good citizen will readily assent-to the proposition that this affair is to be deplored, it would be difficult to find any one Individual wbo would confess that pri vately he deplores it very much. That is be cause human nature, jn some respects, has been but slightly modified since the days of savagery by civilization and criminal jurispru dence, and "respect for the constable's staff." Not Done for Revenge Alone. New York Kecorder. On the part of those wbo enforced expiation for tbe murder of. Hennessy it is to be said that they were not actuated by a spirit of revenge alone. The failure of justice seemed so abso lute that there was ground tor men, them selves always law-abiaing, to think that at length had come tbe hour of urgent need to supplement, and for the moment to supplant, tbe machinery ot tbe law. No one not resident in a community so menaced can fully realize the force of the exigency tbat converted the quietest and most responsible of citizens into leaders of a force organized for wholesale kill ing. The late that befell the Chief of Police threatened every man prominent in denuncia tion of tbe despotism of tbe stilleto, and no one, high or low, could tell what moment his turn mizbt come to be done to death by decree of a mighty secret tribunal, procured, perhaps, to serve some private grudge. A Dangerous Method. New York Sun.3 In tbe character of tbe men who led the well organized men to the slaughter of the Italians in New Orleans on Saturday, and in tbe force and extent of the public sentiment that sus tains tbe lawless proceeding, tbe affair is with, out parallel in the history of this country. There is to-day a Senator of the United States wbo with bis own bands has helped to string up we know not how many dozens of rascals convicted by no court of law. But in tbe case of snch organizations as the Vigilantes of Calirornia and Montana, lynch law supplied in a rough and sometimes blundering way the entire absence of any constitutional or legal process for the protection of society and the punishment of crime. The mass meeting at tbe Clay statue in New Orleans, on tbe other band, undertook to supplement by unlawful methods failure of justice, and it pronounced the death sentence of 11 men. As between tbe two things, the New Orleans method is Infinitely the more dangerous and destructive. MafU Power Broken. Brooklyn Citizen. The fact Is that, apart from the natural in dignation aroused by the assassination of the law officer simply because he was doing bis duty, the interest of the people everywhere in this case centered on tbe question whether tbe members of a secret and murderous society were to be made to feel that the law ot the land was moro binding on good citizens and more to be dreaded by offenders than the law of tbe Mafia, or vice versa. Now, the vengeance ot tbe mob, executed in disregard ot tbo law, may be thought to leave tbat question still In doubt; but that it has taught tbo lawless ruffians of the.Matla that tbeir organization is powerless to stay the hand of the avenger of any public outrage, tbero need be no doubt. Xue power of the MafU is broken. The Lesson of the Lynching. Brooklyn Eagle. Events In New Orleans are startling. No logician can approve them. No advocate of civil power can indorse tbe in. No adherent to judicial systems can fail to condemn them. No friend of order can omit to deplore them. No respectorof law can refrain from denouncing them. The events, however, are chargeable to the forces which they defy and which umto in reprehending them. They are due to tlML mis deeds of instituted government, whtcir'have instigated a currenco to extemporized govern ment. They are a rude declaration of an emergency, a spasmodic action of a com munity, resolved into its primary elements, to deal with evils which rule was meant to sup press, but'wblch themselves have become rule. Oatbbound secret societies and municipal, legal and local legislative systems controlled by criminals for their cupidity and protection, and against the interests of life and property and peace, create just such revolutions as have broken out in New Orleans and Invite tbeir consequences. Contemporaneous comment may widely differ from the historian, tbo dramatist and tbe moralist in tbe estimate of Saturday's doings in that city. A Menace to Law and Order. Philadelphia North-American. The act of the moD still menaces law and order whatever provocation may have been given, and however it may be executed. But Just now it is of more importance to consider the origin of this tragic affair. A secret society of persons of foreign birth for the purpose of defending criminals exists in tbe city of New Orleans, and perhaps in other cities. That is the "allegation, and it seems to rout In a fact. The civil authorities can li.ivo but one duty lo perform, as respects such an organization. It inust be outlawed, exactly as tho courts, sus tained by tbe Governor, uutlaued tbe Molly Ma"Ulres in Pennsylvania some years ago. But there must be no snuffling. If such a society exists it must be routed and anntbilated, peaceably if possible; but it must be annihilated. Such a society is organized felony. If tbe civil authorities cannot annihilate such organl zatinns. nothing is more certain than that tbe peoplo will. Violence Cannot Be Excused. Philadelphia Tress.' It can be admitted tbat a moD never had strongef incentives for wreaking its vengeance on accused men than this New, Orleans mob had. All security, all confidence in the protection of the law was gone, and tbe community instinctively fell back on the pro tection of brute force. But mob violence can never be excused. Notwithstanding the provocations, which in this case were almost beyond human endur ance, tbe people of New Orleans ought never theless to have awaited tbe slow process ot tbe law rather than to have permitted tbeir resent ment to get tbe mastery of their judgment and to be led into tbe committal of deeds which will blacken tbe fair fame of tbeir city for fen erations. Probably Justifiable. Chattanooga limes, j A mob in New Orleans has dealt out wild 'justice" upou the acquitted Mafia gang ao cused-of tbe cowardly murder of the Chief of Police Hennessey. If tbe mob despatched the guilty nobody need;bave any regrets,and the uni versal popular conviction that the men got off on a technicality after tbe proof bad shown substantially tbeir guilt, goes tar to justify this exercise of irregular judicial process. PEOPLE PABAGHAPHED. Phillips Brooks is now acting Bishop of Massachusetts. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria is having built on tbo Island of Corfu a palace tbat will contain 128 rooms, and will cost nearly 51,000,000. Lord Randolph Churchill says that having experjenced'bear and tiger hunting, be has never found any pursuit so exciting as that of stalking the Grand Old Man. Mrs. "Bill" Nye and children have gone to their new home at Asljeville, N. C. and William will follow as soon as be has launched a few more soul-corroding word pictures upon an innocent and helpless world. The Emperor of Japan is a great lover of art, and has just established a society for its promotion. Tbe members include tbe most eminent sculptors, painters, lacquers and weavers of Japan, all of whom receive a re muneration from tbe Emperor. Mme. Sembeich was 'very successful in St. Petersburg, and she netted the handsome sum of 14,000 roubles by her performance of the "Barblere di Seviglla." Orchestra stalls sold readily for 20 each, and even at tbat price every seat was eagerly purchased. The Crown Prince of Greece has a chapel and altar for use upon the field when he happens to be engaged in warlike operations. Tbe forethought of his mothet provided tbe young soldier with these very necessary ad juncts to the baggage wagons of a brigade of light infantry: Mrs. Sophia Kovalewska, the pro fessor of mathematics in the University of Stockholm, wbo died rocently, was a direct descendant, through ber father, Count Corvin, of Mattheus Corvinus, King of Hungary. She spoke and wrote fluently Russian, English, 'Swedish, German and French. Lady Tennyson, who is known to bean excellent amateur musician, is about to make her first appearance as a composer. She has at various times during tbe past quarter of a cen tury written melodies to no fewer than 15 of the Poet Laureate's hitherto unpublished poems. They will soon be heard at a concert in London. The Czar of Russia has as members of his court 11 officials of tbe first crade, and 110 of tbe second grade, 13 masters of ceremonies, 9 "acting" masters, 174 chamberlains and 258 pages in waiting. There are S3 physicians, 24 ecclesiastics, 8 dames of state, 1 mistress of the court, 2 maids of the chambers and 193 maids of honor. Archbishop Thomson, of England, it is said, once pointed out tbat he had received advancement in the Church for every child born to bim. "it is to be hoped, brother," said Dr. Wllberforce, "your family will not continue to enlarge, for there are only two translations more possible to you Canterbury and heaven." Tbe translation to Canterbury was early barred: Archbishop Thomson bad to rest tbe Second son of the Church. Colonel N. S. Goss, State Ornithologist of Kansas, whose death occurred this week, bad a contract with tbe authorities by which he was given a living room ana office in tbe Capi tol building, and when be died was to turn over to the State his collection of birds, valued at $100,000, and including 777 species and sub species, which he bad discovered himself. It was stipulated that no bird found by any other collector was to be included In this display. THE NATIVES OF UHLAND. They Aro Described as the Most Honest People in the World. Saturday Bevlew. It might be rash, perhaps, to assert that among the criteria of a nation's civilization security of life and property deserve a promi nent place, but It is certainly quite safe to affirm that in no European State, not even in Sweden and Norway, is life and property so secure as in Finland. Tbe confident, matter-of-fact way In which trunks, parcels and port manteaus are left for hours in tbe public streets of cities without any one to look after them could not fail to edify an Englishman or a Belgian, whose portable property often seems to disappear by magic Finnish honesty is proverbial. In trade the Finns, as a rule, are not only scrupulously hon est, they are heroically, quixotically so. A tradesman will tell you the whole truth auour. h'.s wares, even when he knows perfoctly well tbat by doing so he loses a customer whom the partial truth; a slight suppressio ven, would have secured bim. "Tbis -eems exactly the kind of apparatus I am looking for," I said to a merchant in Helsingfors somo months ago, in reference to an article that cot about 15, "and I will buy it at once If, knowing what I. want it for, you can honestly recommend me To take It." "No, sir, I do not recommend you to take it. nor have 1 anything in stock just now tbat would suityou." And I left theshopand purchased what I wanted elsewhere. "Here's your fare." I said to a peasant in tbe interior who bad driven me for three hours through the woods on bis drosky, banding him i shillings. No, sir. that's double my fare," he replied, re turning me half tbe money. And when I told him he might keep it for his honesty, be slight ly nodded his thanks with the dignity of one of nature's gentlemen, from uhicb defiant pride and cringing obsequiousness were equally ab sent. THLNKEES'-BILL OF FABE, A Proper Diet for Sedentary People Is Now Explained. Harper's Bazar. The intellectual worker needs plenty or light, digestible food, such as fish, poultry, ecus, game, fruit and tho succulent vegeta bles. The proper diet for all sedentary people Is an early and entire supply of digestible food, in cluding plenty of cereals and fruit. A cup of some warm drink shonld be taken jnst before rising, or as soon as it can be pre pared, and positively no work should be done until after breakfast. As the digestive oreans are most active early In tho dav, a second hearty but digestible meal can be eaten at noon, if an hour's rest inter venes before continued labor or exercise. The afternoon work should be light, and part of the time pasea out of doors. Alight, dtgesti ulo dinner may follow about nightfall, and the evening be devoted to recreation or social re laxation. When any night wore is contemplated food should be taken about midnight and again at dawn, when the vital forces fail That sad, still hour beforo the dawn, W hen old men die and babes are born. Special care sbould be taken to insure plenty of pure 3lr and light; strong meats and drinks sbould be avoided, aud abundance of milk used, with eggs, fruit and fresh vegetables and saUds. Distinguished Humbugs. The Critic There is a good deal of humbng in the loudly expressed aversion of many distinguished men to the attention of the public They say they want to be let alone, but I do not believe that Is what they want at all. They want the bores to let tbem alone, but they would be very sorry if they received no attention at all from the public The trouble is that there is no way of regulating this attention. Naturally enough, it is disagreeable to know that a crowd of tourists is peeping at yon over your garden wall, or taking "snap shnt" at you with a kodak at the most inopportune moment', but you need not tell me that yonr prick, is not gratified by the plaudits of tbe judicious. ' An Aphorism. Buffalo Courier, Ha serves bis party beat who serye his city best. GLARE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS. Tho Bridge Scene Attracts Attention at the Bijon Minnie Palmer and Her Locomotive at the Duqnesne The Light Fantastic at the Grand. Tbe drawbridge scene in "Money Mad" is a . clever bit ot mechanical work. The brldgo Is swung diagonally across tbe stage, and really appears what it is supposed to be. It swings toward the audience to let a large steamer pass, and is then turned tbe other way to allow a boat to go up stream. Incidentally, a man is thrown Into tbe water, and another jumps in to-save him." But tbe drawbridge is tbe main feature of tbe act and. indeed, of the whole play. "Money Mad" is a disjointed affair in which there are a number of characters and moreen cidents than are usually crowded into even a melodrama. There Is some-sort of a story, but it is so disguised In the irrelevant events and dialogue tbat bubble up in eveiy act tbat one is likely to lose sight of the main narrative. However, it is all interesting enough as far as melodrama goes, and the bowls of the audience last night was proof tbat it pleased tbem. Even the doubtful taste ot a negro woman 'offering a long prayer tbat came dangerously near a burlesque of a most sacred act, only called forth applause. The people seemed to like it, and if they discerned, any Impropriety in it, did not ctve any outward expression ot dis approval. Adolph Jackson, as Jack Adams, "a rogne by force of circumstances," did good work as a happy-go-lucky but noble-hearted young man. William V. Ranous, as Cary Hasklns, a villain ot tbe kid-glove, evening-dress descrip tion, was entirely satisfactory, and Ben Hend ricks as Slink, a German, with very confused ideas as lo'mcum et tuum, kept tbe tun going uproariously all tbe time he was upon tne stage. Lizzy Mulvey, as Teddy, a gamin, sang and danced in good variety style and captured the gallery. "Monev Mad" was orlrinallv called "A Noble Rogue," and its first title seems to be a better fit than the last. Whatever it is called, however, it must be admitted to be a very fair specimen of its kind. It is not a great play, but it pleases tbe people, and tbat is tbe main point, after all. Dnqoesne Theater. Minnie Palmer's latest production, "A Mile a Minute," will be a highly instructive entertain ment to those-who have never seen a locomo tive engine. Tbe one tbat appears on tbestage does not locomote, thus enabling one to feast on tbe graceful outlines of tbe "Iron Horse" in repose. 'After many years, during which tbe good old melodrama bad fallen into 'Innocuous desuetude." it bas been -resurrected at last. and lovers of tbat form of play will rejoice at tbe glad tidings tbat one bas been brought to the city in which no less than four assaults with intent to kill are made upon one man alone. Three times be Is stabbed in tbe neck, and eventually an attempt Is made to suffocate him in a baking oven. Miss Minnie Palmer, as Nelly Sparkle, dis played her old-time versatility that made one regret ber change from "My Sweetheart" to the present play. Tbo British private soldier was happily characterized by Mr. John Bunny (Johnny Atkins). Mr. Charles Coate is well enough able to take care of the role of Nosey Jacobs witbont tbe horseplay which he adds. The part of Agnes Sale was worthily repre sented by Miss Eva Montford. Miss Mortimer (Sallie) enlivened tbe third act by dabcing. Some vocal numbers by a quartet and other musical features met with favor. Grand Opera House. Ullie Akerstroni made her first appearance in'tbis city last nigbt at the Opera House In a four-act comedy drama, "Annette, the Danc ing Girl," and established herself at once as a prime favorite with tbe goodly audience which assembled to welcome ber by ber extremely natural, clever'and winsome impersonation of the leading role. Tbe plot of the play turns on the fortunes of a child who is stolen from the bouse of her wealthy parents in Havana and brought to New Orleans. She seeks a livelihood as a street singer and dancer, and finally through tbe friendly aid of an old negro. Pete, flies from tbe dangers with which she is threatened, and. reaching Havana, is restored to her parents. Annette, the Dancing Girl, turns out to be Laura Weldon, and Herbal Ashton, who was robbed at New Orleans by Dandy Dick, wbo assumed his name and passed himself off to Sanford Weldon as Ashton, arrives on .time to upset tbe scheme of the villain and renew an attachment with Annette, begun in New Or leans. Miss Akerstrom as Annette made an instant impression on tbe audience by the thoroughly natural manner in which she represented tbe untutored young girl. In tbe second, scene, laid on board ship, she is disguised as a boy. and no youngster before the mast could have comported himself more to his surroundings than Gid tbe fair young sailor boy. Tbe quar tet singing introduced in tbis scene was ex cellent. In tbe fourth act Miss Akerstrom recited "Toot Your Horn if You Don't Sell a Clam," an original composition of her own, in capital style, and was obliged to add two others before.the audience was satisfied. She also in troduced several step and skirt dances, exe cuted in a very pleasing manner. Harry F. Adams as Pete, made a bit, and the support generally was good, including Mr. Kerr's Dandy Dick and Francis Powers' Herbert Ashton. Miss Akerstrom as woll as being a starriog comedienne, is tbe author of a series of charming verses of a thonghttul and philosophic character. Harris' Theater. Hoyt's "Tin Soldier" has paid annmoerof visit to Pittsburg, so tbat theater-goers are quite familiar with the satire on plumbers. At this bouse, tbe present week, is to be seen a very good version of tbe, farce comedy. Arthur Dunn, as a diminutive Mats, creates no end of amusement, and Paul Dreser, the well-known elephantine song writer, fills tbo bill as tbe plumber. Vilas Canby. As a neat little son brette. Miss Josie Sutherland can hold her own with almost any of tbem, and the other girls are qnite pretty and graceful. This company is being seen at low prices in Pittsburg. It is playing everywhere else at the bign price houses, so tbat It may be classed here under the bead of "bargains." Harry Williams' Academy. Another attractive and varied programme holds the boards at Harry Williams' Academy of Music this week. Sam Devere's Big Boom Is composed of a number of artists, all of whom are excellent In their line. John E. Drew's char acter singing and dancing is very good, and Harry Kennedy, a most wonderful ventrilo quist, made as much fun from bis puppets as if they were real personages. Ullie Allyn's singing of an Italian song was well received, and pretty Georgia LIngard could not dance too long for ber admirers, which counted every one of a big audience. The Wood family are capital vocalists ami uancers, and Prof. Burke's dog3 are worth traveling to see. They are extraordinarily well trained. The show is a capital all-round entertainment. The Fifth Avenne Museum. The throngs tbat visited Harry Davis' Fifth Avenne Museum last night was something phenomenal. Not only was the amusement hall crowded, but the street was blocked with a crowd, so much so, in fact, that it was necessary for a special police man to keep the crowd moving to keep" a passage open on tbe thoroughfare. The other attractions, however, proved none tbo less interesting. Theconvention of midgets, gathered from every State and clime, elicited no little attention from tbe public Lena Moritz, wbo made her appearance last evening among the lilliputs, is a very cute lit tle body. In the theater a specially iuteresting and amusing performance is on. Baser and Roberts "ive a laughable burlesque aerial comedy and were followed by Prof. Blngbam with a clever ventriloquist performance. Kittle Bingham as the infant prodigy in comedy song3 elicted much applause for ber faithful rendition of ber part. Belie Verna in ber facial act, presenting por traitures of prominent celebrities, was cer tainly a success, and tbe portraitures were simply marvelous. Messrs. Murphy and Mackin as negro comedians are clever personators. World's Museum. Tbo show at the World's Museum is very good this week. There aro almost numberless at tractions, and all are very good. There is Dot Littlefinger, a pretty dwarf; an Indian giantess, an Esquimau chieftain and wife, Frank Alton's mechanical representation of scenes on tbo Mississippi, and a great programme in tile tbeatorinm, of which must be specially men tioned Harry Tnorn and Maggie Willett. a couple that have delighted Pittsburgeis peri odically for years in their neat sketches. Thorn is a reallv good comedian, and Miss Willett is a clever soubrette. There are a number of other talented artists, and the whole entertainment is more than usually meritorious. The Kmnmel Kecitals Postponed. Franz Ruromel, the pianist, did not appear last evening, as advertised, on acconnt of an accident that, disabled, him temporarily. He will give bis first recital tbis evening at Old City Hall, tbe tickets issued for last night be in" good for tbat occasion. He will play again toinorrow evening. Instead of in tbe after noon, but tbe matiueo tickets will be accepted in tbe evening. There is great curiosity to; hear Mr. Rummel, and much disappointment was felt by those who intended to go last even ing, but who will have to curb their impatience jiuiil to-nigbt. Elk.,' ISoncfit. Great preparations aro already going on for the thirteenth annual benefit performance of the Pittsburg Lodge of Elks. It will take place at tbe Duquesne Theater on Friday afternoon, March 29. CURIOUS C0NDENSATI05S. Bay City, Mich., is now clamoring'for a flreboat. Denver is a mile higher than the Missis sippi valley. Thirty-tree steamboats navigate) the Kongo river. A Georgia woman caught 33 rats in ft trap in one day. The largest public park in the world i tbe Yellowstone. The word Manitoba should be accented on tbe last syllable. The highest altitude ever reached by a balloon was seven miles. Petrolenm has been found exuding from a stream in Oklahoma. AMichigander mistook strychnine for smoking tobacco. He recovered, however. Indian elephants cannot live in Central Africa, tbe home of a- larger and more hardy species. In Great Britain there is one elector to about 'six of the population; in Belgium only one to about 46. The Kongo river is 15 miles wide in some places. Steamers often pass each otbert but out ot sight. The greatest ocean depth ever found by measurement was in the Atlantic near Puerto Rico, 4.651 fathoms. A man at Athens, Ga., owns au an tiquity in the form of a water bucket, hewn out of tbe solid rock. A Kansas farmer who announced that he bad discovered a new kind ot chinch bug, narrowly escaped lynching. The most watery county in the United States is Monroe county, Florida. It is chiefly composed of small Islands, or keys. Seal oil and blubber under a French name would be esteemed a luxury in Pittsburg, as it is in Greenland. There Is much in a name. The Maine Debating Society is now wrestling with the question, "Is a Sabbath school superintendent justified in wearing a red necktie?" The buffalo are in no danger of becom ing an extinct species. Since" they have been placed under protection of Government troops tbey have been increasing. A New Hampshire girl who went sleigh- riding with her bean a few nights ago was driven home a corpse, having been frozen to death with the thermometer at zero. A Missouri man bas gone before tbe Legislature of that State advocating tbe intro duction and passage of a bill compelling tbe keepers of railroad restaurants to date their pies. In New York City they have associations of men wbo do not drink during business. In a big city where competition In all lines of buiness is so great, a cool and clear bead is very essential. There is a proposition on footjn Seattle, Wash., to establish there a plant for drying the codfish caught in Alaskan waters ana making Seattle the great distributing point for fish on the Pacific coast. On Tuesday morning, February 24, Nairn, in the north of Scotland, was 18 warmer than London at the same boar. 20 warmer than Paris. 11 warmer than Lyons,and 3 warmer than Nice The amount of Canada's imports from tbe United States in 1889. was joS,36S,990,of which S21.737.625 was o the free list; the imports from Great Britain in tbe same year amounted to $42,21X555, of which 10,097,722 was admitted free. It is authoritatively givSn out that En glish society has expunged the word "lady" from its-vocabulary. Henceforward, la polite conversation, only tbe good, plain and unmis takable word "woman" will bo used in refer, ence to tbe sex. A man was recently arrested in Balti more on'suspicion as he was attempting to sell some antique pearl jewelry. It proved on examination and inquiry tbat be bad stolen the property from a case in the Smithsonian Initl tute in Washington. The wife of a Boston broker sailed for Peru to visit her sister, and when she arrived there she seni him a cablegram which cost him 700 to announce tbe fact. Tbe most of tbe message, however, told bow her dog fell over board and could not be saved. The observers on the top of the Scotch mountain, Ben Nevis, were astonished to find tbat all day on February 21 the thermometer was above 40 on the top of tbe mountain the only instance of such a temperature in Febru ary there since the observatory was opened. ' Some time ago. a woman of Brooklyn, Ind., before selling a few eggs wrote ber name and address on one of tbem.' She has received' a letter from a young lady living in Massachu setts, saying she purchased tbe eggs and was in the act of making a lemon pudding wben she discovered tbe name and address. An Illinois Sheriff, wbo has made a good thing ont of selling tickets to see the scaf fold upon which he bangs his prisoners, on being warned of tbe indecency of so doing said be thought tbe indecency came in in refusing bim the right to sell tickets to see the machine when it was being officially operated. The gross valuation of the county of London will be found to have passed the enor mous figure of 40,000,000,' even it all the Countv Council apooals were to be dismissed. The actual figure stated in the return is 39, 837,147,but ibis is subject to additions in respect of tbe separate assessment of the hamlet of Penge, and to other additions concerning the Government property. It may surprise many to learn that the pnrely American commerce tbat passes through tbo "Soo" Canal between Lakes Superior and Huron is much larger than all the world's com merce that annually finds its way through the Suez Canal, both in tbe nnmber ot vessels and their tonnage, yet figures prove it. During 1889 9-.S79 vessels oi 7,221,935 tonnage passed through the "Soo," against 3,425 vesjels of 8,783,187 ton nage through the Suez. And the American canal is only open a part of the year. According to popular tradition the Island of Manhattan was sold in 1624 for the sum of J25. The conclusion one would natur ally jump to would be that, in the light of sub sequent events, tbe sum was a ridiculously small price. But let us suppose tbat S25 bad been placed out at 7 per cent interest in the year 1624 and bad been allowed to compound up to the year 1S84. how mnch would it then have amounted to? Something in the neighborhood of 1,600,000,000. Is tbe Island of Manhattan worth much more than that to-day? The Marine Hospital Bureau has pub lished a bulletin showing the death rate in a number of the cities in the United States. The compilation is as follows, givine tbe city and tben the annual death rate per 1,000 of;the popu lation: Chicago, 111., 19.6; St. Louis, Mo., 18.3; San Francisco, 22.8: Cincinnati. O- 22.3; New Orleans, La., 29.2: Detroit, Mich.. 18.8; Cleve land, O.. 19.2; Pittsburg. Pa.. 21.3; Milwaukee. Wis., 17.9: Louisville. Ky.. 21.9; Minneapolis, Minn.. 14.7: Kansas City, Mo., 16.5; Denver, CoL. 26.9; Indiauapolis. Ind., 16.2: Toledo, O., 16.4; Nashville. Tenn., 13.03: Galveston, Tex., 20.4; Council Bluffs, la.. 14.6; Altoona, Pa., 15.3.; Rock Island. III.. 114; San Diego, Cab, 10.6; Pensacola, Fia., 10.6. GKINS AND GIGGLES. Angelina Oh, papa, Nellie and 1 art -going to have such a lark! We're going to have our fortunes told. Old Kocks Great heavens! Yon ala't a-goln? ,irt ,,-h thine-. Don't tou know that It's tmosttlmolor the assessor to come along? CAf- j&ji cago Times. - a THE BEAVE ASD THE FAIS. . 'gtB' She was a maiden fair to see, "- As fresh aud blooming as the rose, With beantr, grace and modesty. And sweet as suirar, said the beaux. Tbe youth was bold who won her hand, A circumstance which goes to show It is the man who has We sand Who gets the sugar hers below. K T. Press. "Now," said the Anglomaniao to his valet, "as we are to take the next train yon may ' get the checks." "Which do you mean, sir." Inquired the valet, with respecunl reproof, "your brawses or your trouserj ?" WasMn gtan. Post. 'Clara became old almost in a moment tbe other night." "Nonsensel" "Not at all. She was sitting In the parlor with her young man when her father entered. Her youth denarted Immediately." Kexo Tork San. His hotel had burned to the ground. Someone ventured to condole with him on his "total losi." ""so, you cannot call It a total loss." he an swered. "I think I got my money's wonh of , work out of those fire escapes the authorities f made me put np, at least." jnaiaaavant Juunial. Humor, a kindly little bee. Makes laughter sweet as honey. While Wt Is like a wasp, for he tilings when he'd fain be funaj. J 4$ ' "Ri '-m ;TSL i i
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