4 , THE PITTSBTIRQ- DISPATCH; THURSDAY, MARCH " 19, 1891' ' - ' i i - " i I... . . . r ... i - i .. . . , ....- I,, m- .1 i- n -s Up BiMtl ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S46. Vol. 6i So. 0.-Entered t Pittsburg Fostoffice, NoTembcr U, issr, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. News Booms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM at, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YOKK. where complete files of TE DISPATCH can always be sound. Foreign auvcrtisers appreciate the con venlence. Home advertisers -nd friends of THE DISPATCH, while in New York, are also made welcome. TUB DISPATCH it regularly en tale at Srentantft. 5 Union Square. JS'nc York, aid 17 Are.de VOpeta, Parts, Fiance, uhere anyone who has been disappointed at a hotel newt stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOFTAGE FREE DJ TBS UXXT2D STATES. DAIT.T Dispatch. One Year J SOD Dailt Dispatch, Per Quarter - 00 DAILY Dispatch, One .Month - 70 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 year. 10 CO Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday,3in'tbs 150 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, lm'th so hcxDAT Dispatch. One Year ISO Weekly Dispatch. One lear. 13 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at ;.' cent per weefc, or Including Sunday edition, at Kccnts per week. PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. MAR. 19. 1S9L RAILROAD POLICY RESPONSIBLE. Some free trade and protectionist cotem poraries are reviving the dispute over the connection of the abandonment of New Eng land farms and the tariff. The New Tork Pott refers to the late statistics on the aban doned farm acreage with a sarcasm on pro tection; while the Press rushes to the rescue with the assertion that if protection has this effect in Xew England, it has built up the farming communities of the "West It is evident, however, to an unprejudiced mind that there is no more connection be tween abandoned Xew England farms and the tariff than there is between the prices of iron and the phases of the moon". The reason why agricultural production is de caying in the East and stimulated in the West is that the railway policy of concen trating competition on through freight and denying it to local traffic results in carrying freight so much cheaper in pro portion to the distance from the West than from the Middle and Eastern States, that "Western firms are brought nearer to home markets and to points of export than East ern farms, in proportion to their cost and productiveness. And when we reflect that this policy results in carrying some hun dreds of millions of bushels of gram prod ucts over a thousand miles, when they might be produced within 500 miles of the Ultimate markets, the wasted effort involved in that needless 500 miles of transportation may account for some economic phenomena that have heretofore gone unaccounted for. BRITISH TROOPS TO AWE CANADA. As an echo of the recent Canadian elec tions comes a report that Lord Salisbury is to be asked to station in Canada five or ten regiments, quartering them at Halifax, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, "Winnipeg and Vancouver. It is argued that their presence would do more to overcome the annexation feeling than anythi else. As this an nouncement has been published in the Mon treal World, a Government organ, it is probably authoritative, and no doub. repre sents the ideas of Sir John Macdonald and his followers as to how the annexa i "i spirit is to be treated. It also gives the lie to a recently made statement that the campaign just ended was not fought on the annexation issue. This latter statement was made by the Conservative leaders when they found they had secured a victory, and before they had learned how near their opponents had been to success. Looking at the matter in an entirely un prejudiced light, it seems that the stationing of an army in different parts of Canada would be a mistake on the part of tne Gov ernment. Nothing has yet transpired that calls for such action. It has not been proven that any great organized body of annexa tionists exists, and to send an army into a peaceful dependency would be only a waste of money. Of course, England would be under no expense should the soldiers be quartered in Canada, as the inhabitants of tbe latter country would have to foot the bills. But the mother country in the end would be the loser. One ot tbe items in that famous bill of particulars called the Declaration of Independence was that the English Government had in times of peace quartered troops upon the colonies after wards known as the United States of America, These troops proved one of the most prolific causes of the irritation that was only allayed by the overthrow of Brit ish supremacy. Sir John Macdonald may sot be aware of that fact, and, if be is not, a little study of American history may be in tbe end profitable to him and to the English. THE THIRD COMMON PLEAS. The additional court which the Legis lature proposes for Allegheny County is a necessity, not a luxury. Since the last of the existing courts was established the county has almost, if cot quite, doubled in population, while during the past few years the new duty of dispensing license has also taken up some of the time of the judges to the exclusion of the interests of litigants. Speedy bearing of complaints is desirable in all communities. As a class indeed it might be safely said without a single ex ception the Allegheny county judges whom we now have, are diligent and patient in their labors. There are no idlers among them; but the growth of business urgently calls for help, and the Senate and Governor will find no objection from any quarter to the bill which the House has just passed providing for an additional Common Pleas in this county. THE DOGMA OF THE DEMOCRATS. The disposition in Democratic circles to represent the ballot reform bill as bogus ballot reform is a discreditable evidence of unfair partisanship. The only serious effort to sustain this sweeping impeachment by actual argument is made by the Hon. Chauiicey F. Black in his correspondence to the New York World. His determination that nothing will answer but a constitu tional convention to strike out tbe ballot numbering clause, leads him to make this assertion concerning the clauses of the bill to ensure the secresy of the ballot: The whole system of Election Board espion age would remain precisely as it is. The offi cers would examine numbers and identify bal lots jast as they do cow. They wonld bear tbe numbers in memory, or make notes of them. This proposes a deliberate system and uholesalc violation of tbe law, which, if the supposition is well founded, and.the vio lations can be carried on successfully, would make any system of ballot reform futile. If the election boards will, at the risk of crim inal penalties, keep an extra list lortbesake of telling how voters voted, and will open the numbered ballots, alter counting, to complete the discovery, they will do a great many other things. It would be just as easy, and no more liable to detection under the Aus tralian system pure and simple, to juggle with the ballot before it goes into the box long enough to find out what it is, or for the election officer who is to aid illiterate voters in marking their ballots to mark them to suit himself. And it would be easier, under the abolition of the marking clause, for them to substitute in the country any num ber of ballots, marked as they see fit, for the honestly cast votes. The marking clause in the Constitution was put there by a body composed of some of the best minds of the State, including the Hon. Jeremiah F. Black, whose knowl edge and foresight were beyond party lines. It was framed to prevent wholesale fraud on the ballot, and the present bill combines the preservation of that purpose with prac tical secrecy. If election boards are consti tuted to set deliberately at work to violate the law, no system can do more than to rely on their detection and punishment, and for that purpose the ballot-marking clause is a safeguard that cannot be spared. A FRESH PROBLEM. The position in which the United States Government finds itself as a result of the New Orleans outbreak, reveals a pecul iarity in our form of government, which, in the light it is presented, must be regarded as a weakness. It is ex pressed iu the simplest form to the effect that while the general Government undertakes to guarantee protection to the persons and property of foreign citizens, it has to depend entirely on the good faith of local or State authorities to make the guaran tee good. In other words the United States Government has assumed obligations which, by the letter of the Constitution, are the supreme law of the land; but on the other hand is deprived by the Constitution of the power to discharge that obligation when necessity arises. The division between the functions of the State and the Federal Governments are ad mirably adapted to preserve local self-government. It is a national credit that tbe policy of this country in relying upon the people themselves for the maintenance of law and order has proved, as a rule, not to be misplaced. But it is not a national credit that in instances where people fail to maintain the law tbe Government should be forced to tbe confession that it has no power to make good its treaty obligations or to en force the protection to the persons and property of foreign residents which it has undertaken to guarantee. Yet this is exactly the position revealed by the New Orleans affair, which may be repeated in various forms elsewhere. Un der the Constitution and the present practice tbe Federal Government cannot intervene to suppress domestic violence in any State unless called upon by the Legislature or Ex ecutive of the State. It is very easy to Im agine that the State government may be so negligent or so overcome by popular clamor as to fail to call upon tbe United States Government'with the result that the mob overrides the law and the Government must stand with its hands tied while the nom inally supreme treaty obligations are trampled under foot. It is not necessary to take New Orleans as &w especially flagrant example. It is quite easy to conceive that a similar state of aflairs would arise from "White Capism or riots, resulting from va rious causes. It is possibl: to maintain the theory that treaty obligations, being the supreme law of the land, the Government has the right to interfere to enforce them whether called upon by tbe State or not. But what a trav esty upon the functions of government it wonld be for the United States to maintain a military police to protect foreign citizens from violence at tbe same time, when it confesses its inability to protect its own cit izens 1 The present absence of any efficient means for doing either suggests the very cogentquestiou whether the Constitution and laws should not provide that the Federal Government may step iu to maintain older where State authorities fail to do so. If "White Cap mob law, for instance, should rule an entire State, ought not the national power to be charged with the dnty ot main taining order? Although this would in volve a serious departure from the present constitutional theory, the credit of the na tion and the maintenance of self-government by law demand that when the State powers fail to do their dnty the hands of the United States Government must not be tied to prevent either the fulfillment of its treaty obligations or the protection of its own citizens. Certainly the time has come for a dispas sionate inquiry into the question whether the powers ot tbe United States Government may not be extended so as to afford prompt action, where it is necessary, to prevent domestic violence or to keep the law su preme in the land. A MUNICIPAL AMBITION. "Alexandria, Va.," says a paragrapher, "thinks she should be the commercial and manufacturing center of the Union." This commendable ambition of a Virginia town which for the greater part of the century has been an illustration of sleepiness, calls at tention both to the influences which have controlled the growth of cities in the past and those which-an ambitious community should summon to aid its future growth. Alexandria, in colonial times, was one of theleadingportsof thenew country. But the influences which directed the early estab lishment of routes of transportation located their termini at other cities. Alexandria was left stranded by the ebb and flow of the tides of commerce. Although within easy reach of tbe mineral resources of the Appa lachian range, no development has taken place there until of late years, when the sleepy town has begun to waken and even cherish the lofty hope quoted above. For a small town which aspires to be come tbe rival of tbe great cities there is a great deal to do. Tbe first thing to attract to its harbor the coal and ores of the neigh boring mountains and tbe commerce of the continent is to establish the means of direct transportation. To create these facilities requires a vast amount of capital and enter prise. To call into existence railroad facili ties that will make Alexandria a center necessitates either a revolution in railway policy or the creation of new tfnnk lines.' As either course necessitates the control of hundreds of millions of railway capital and the conquest of tbe corporate powers of the day, we fear it is wholly beyond the power of that ambitious Virginia town. Nevertheless, not to discourage a laudable desire to rise in the world, we will point out to Alexandria in what way she can do most to increase her commercial and manufactur ing importance. If she can summon the capital or political influence necessary to secure the enlargement and extension ot the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the head waters of the Ohio, and then bring a rein forcement to the increment of the Mississippi Valley for an improvement of the rivers, she will be the entrepot for a system of thou sands of milesof internal water navigation, can command tbe coal and ores of Western Pennsylvania and Virginia, can ship the iron manufactures of Pittsburg, and can do a great share of the trade with the interior of the continent Of course this is a large contract for a small town. But ambition only reaches its goattj; undertaking large contracts, and we shall be glad to see Alexandria making an effort for that future greatness which is to be gained by creating a water route between itself and Pittsburg. PRAISE FOR PITTSBURG. ,We publish to-day in another column ex tracts from the report of Consul General Hageman, of Belgium, to his home Govern ment. This report, while it tells nothing not already known to every citizen of Pitts burg, is worthy nt comment for the candor with which the author treats his subject. His words of admiration for the architec tural beauty of this city will be pleasant reading for every Pittsburger, and tbe ac complished Belgian will at once be set down as a man who knows how to use his eyes. His inference that a protective tariff is re sponsible for the bnilding np of Pittsburg's industries is correct, though the McKinley bill has as vet had small chance to work to that end. His words about the effects of natural gas on the industrial development of this city are also true, though the average citizen is now beginning to think about tbe volatile fuel as one of the things that used to be. Taking the report as a whole it shows conclusively that the visit of the British Iron and Steel Institute to this city was not without the expected result of making our industrial and commercial greatness better known to the nations of the world. The New York Trt&wie exultantly an nounces that the Saltan of Turkey has sent all the way to the United States to exercise the privilege ot paying 23 cents for a copy of the Tribune Almanac This may be a trlnmph tor the almanac. Bat tbe picture that it draws of imperial life in Turkey, in which excitement Is to be sought by studying the election returns so faithfully given in that publication, sug gests that a friendly act ot relief for that mon arch's dullness wonld be to present him with a full set of Congressional Records. The divergence of statistics as to the number of ducks shot by President Harrison on his gunning trip, creates a dispnte whether it is to be taken as an example of the unrelia bility of the censns taken by this administra tion, or the impossibility of getting a fair count south ot Mason and Dixon's line. Secretary Busk: is now vigorously as suming the championship of the American hog against the libelous imputations of tbe German Government. This has been a standinz task for the representatives of this country since tbe German officials began to display their un reasonable enmity to oar national and innoc uous porker. Let us hope that the Secretary will succeed in obtaining something like reciprocity for American pork in Germany. By that means he will vindicate both the hog and his own official existence. A theatbicaZi manager in Harlem, who started out on the theory that there was an in satiable demand in upper New York for stage representations of Ibsen's dramas, has found oat bis mistake. He is cow making an earnest search for something in the dramatic line that is giddy and reckless. The Rochester Pott-Expres indignantly repels the assertion that Governor Hill can draw two sets of salaries. It declares that "Mr. Hill cannot get one single red cent from the United States Treasury until bis credentials are presented and be takes the oath of office." If that journal will take the trouble to investi gate, it will probably And that tbe Governor Senator is already on the rolls ot Congress, and that be can draw the sum of 116 66 every month. Likewise Senator-Congressman Robin son, of our own State. Ez-SEKATOB Fabwell may cot con sider the termination of bis political career as especially glorious. Bat he can find consola tion in the fact that he got out of the field in time to escape the Palmer storm. The Republican claim of credit for the coming reduction In tbe price of sugar is met by the Boston Globe with the assertion that "the McKinley bill in that one particular was a free trade bill, and It is free trade that tbe Re publican organs are now praising, though they don't seem to realize it." What becomes,then, of the argument of tbe free traders, when tbe bill was under discussion, that the sugar duty was a reveoue duty, and that no duty should be cut off unless some protected industry was cut off with itt The New Yorker who was ejected from a theater for applauding with too much ve hemence the antics of a high kicker is now doing some lively kicking himself. A "WITNESS before the Sugar Trust in vestigating committee said that be was cot sorry he had joined the trust, but that he did not know anything about the interior workings of the monopoly. As his subsequent testimony showed be had received 11,762,000 more than his plant was worth, he evidently believes in the old saw: "Where Ignorance Is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." The simultaneous breaking out in all parts of the city of the game of marbles is a proot that the juveniles have made up their minds that Gentle Spring is here. The Hon Elijah Horse asserts that the wicked Democrats intend to run thbir next cam paign on the charge of extravagance against the Fifty-first Congress, which beat the record in its amount of appropriations. There is a gratifying evidence of progress in tbe fact that this obvious political issue has at last pene trated the alleged brain of the Hon. Elijah Morse. The degree of intelligence most urgently required of New "Orleans jurorr.. at present, consists of knowing when to get out of town. In view of the fact that the expenses of the Argentine Republic exceed Its receipts by $35,000,000 a Republican cotemporary observes: "Evidently the young Republic sadly needs lessons In bookkeeping and business manage ment." But It falls to cote the obvious infer ence that It has been taking lessons from the Fifty-first Congress. WU?D01PS HAME STBICKEN OUT. Minnesota May Honor General Sibley in Stone, but Not the Secretary. St. Paul, March 18. Three weeks ago Mr. Beeve introduced a bill to appropriate 320,000 for securing and placing in the Capitol statues of tbe late General Sibley and Secretary Windom. It is now proposed to cut Secretary Windom oat of the bill, tbe claim being that he was not for some years previous to his death a resident of this State. , The bill was reported back this morning with the name of Mr. Windom stricken out and the amount reduced to $10,000. What action the House will take cannot now be predicted, A VEE1TABLE EMPIEE SOLS. The Maxwell Land Grant of 1,800,000 Acres Purchased by a Company. Denver, March 18. It Is announced that the famous Maxwell land grant, containing 1,706, 000 acres of land, has been sold. The price is not mentioned. It is the largest deal ever re corded in the West. Some idea of the deal may be gained when it is stated that the company is stocked for Slu, 000,000. The final payment is to be made in three months, when the company will take possession of tbe lands. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. The character of the dark horse in the California Senatorial race has been blackened, at all events. Lovebs ore supposed to like solitude shady nooks, long lanes, isolated stiles, and all that sort of thing, but do tbeyt Barely cot all. Many long for the crowd, of course. lp the crash bands clasp oftener hearts come closer together, eyes loos: into eyes fearlessly, words flow freer. ' What is whispered In the lane is spoken' in the street. In the poetry of motion the song of lore takes on greater volume; in the jolt, and jostle, and push, the realities of life crowd put the romance cultivated by Cupid, and the rooers grow matter-of-fact, methodical, and sorely merrier. Misery, you know, loves com pany, and all lovers are miserable, aren't they? At all events there's more real companionship in the streets than in tbe lanes for the loving as well as the loveless. The poet and the natural ist the student of nature and its mysteries will find i n't ho forest and the field- exactly what he wants. But tbe student of human nature be and she who mast face the world and struggle with the stragglers, tug with the taggers, fight with the fighters must stick to too streets, crush with the crowds, elbow, twist, punch, push and think. The scene there, too, is ever shifting, the colors ever changing. the picture panoramic. You enter the crowd with a pain in your heart and perhaps emerge from it with a laugh on your lips. Had you gone to tbe fields to brood over the sorrow your tears would have fallen on the sod and your eyes would cot have seen the flowers. The burden must indeed be beavy that is not shifted in tbe rush or lost in the noisy throng. Of coarse some carry loads that are tightly lashed on tired shoulders loads that chafe, and crnsb, and choke loads that neither time cor tide can lighten nor wash off. Bat the crowd drops for these an occasional crumb of comfort, wbilo the shadow cast upon their burden by solitude makes it look larger and rest heavier. Keep in the crowd, whether joyous or sad. Hands are closer, hearts are nearer, ears are sharper, tears are fewer, laughs are londer there, you know. A tight hole The speak-easy. The hens of the snowbound lands will soon be scratching gravel. Insect powder is the only kind used by good housewives. Infants always win regulated households. the toss in well Patience is overtaxed, as well as real estate, by the overthrow of the street act. The Prohibitioclsts can justly claim the honor of inaugurating the crusade against tights. Feab ofttimes makes heroes and danger frequently develops cowards. Women who depend solely upon outward appearances should exercise care in handling their skirts. A tolk that galls Tbe one in the bad egg. House hunters who do cot scan tbe to-let lists, nor visit the real estate offices, nor walk around and scan the placards on tbe houses, are looking for a letter that will never come. The horse that trots in 220 goes like sixty. Black bass can be caught in the choirs of colored churches. In New Orleans Justice trayels with a leaden ballet. The Supreme Court decision has knocked the single tax men here silly ior the nonce. It looks like double or treble tax now. Judging from the increase in divorces, there are more victims than beneficiaries in tbe marriage business. Pebfumebs would not get along very well if they believed ons hundred-scents were worth only one dollar. If women would study the science of housekeeping instead of some ot the other sciences there would not be so many dyspeptics in tbe world. The approach of the honse-cleanicg sea son guarantees that more paper money will soon be in circulation. Tennyson is thinking about writing a song for the World's Fair. He'll not write it for a song, though. A revenue cutter The moonshiner. Some tip top men are to be fonnd on all the ships. The other day Ingalls" poked fun at England's navy. One of tbe fleet has sunk a ship in collision, which reverses the American method. Our ships have collided with mud scows, and the scows swam while the ships sank. Civil servants are about as hard to secure as civil service. Gibls cannot wear window sashes, bat they can fill them to perfection daring a parade. Always bless them. np in arms Babies, heaven The granger statesmen seem to he out for revenue only. When is a horse like a doctor? 'When Its a charger, of course. The New York Evening World printed its St. Patrick's Day issue on bright green paper. As the World is desirous of pleasing all, its issue of July 12 can be looked for printed on a vivid orange -colored sheet. A barefaced fraud A beardless bunko steerer. A HAN can always find his home, bnt some fail to find the keyhole after they get there. Doctobs frequently present a bill for at tending a dead person. An autopsy costs money, you know. t The fellow who has the tin is a rattling good fellow in the estimation ot the sycophant. Tank plays have been successfully pro duced on the oil exchanges. New Orleans justice is a trifle swifter than tbe Jersey article. The sweating system tbe Turkish bathrooms. is permissible in Public opinion that indorses the over throw ot law and ordor will overthrow a Gov ernment. England's peers are a rum lot Over 150 own gin mills. Willie Winkle. BILLS BEGULATTSG CAPITAL Quite a Number Introduced In the Lower House at Springfield. Springfield, III., March 18. Tho follow ing bills were introduced in the Legislature for tbe regulation ot corporations and combina tions of capital: Prohibiting combinations to prevent competition among persons engaged in buying and selling live stock; one to regnlate foreign insurance companies doing business in tbe State of Illinois, and to prohibit railroad companies from pooling or dividing1 their earn ings for freight or passenger traffic; levying an annual tax-of 2 per cent of tbe gross earnings on express companies doing business in this State, and requiring such companies to make annual reports to the State Auditor; reciting that, as tho Jacksonville, Southeastern and Chicago and Alton railroads have, in their competition, put into effect a 2-cent-per-mile passenger rate between Chicago and St. Louis, therefore that it be tbe sense of this General Assembly that tbe passenger rate throughout tbe State on all railroads be limited to 2 cents 'per mile. LIFE AT HOT SPRINGS, People One Meets at the Great Arkansas Health Resort Northern Weather Transplanted In the South Pittsburg Visitors Few Rapid Transit In the South. TFBOM A 8TAW COnnXSPONDKNT.l Hot Springs, Ark.. March IS. "This is a cosmopolitan place," was the remark of Dr. Garnett, who may be said to be the Jupiter Medicos of this fount of health, tbiSTnorning. "I have been consulted by the representatives of six European countries in a single morning, and it is safe to say that every State in tbe Union, and Territory, too, has a delegation here." A glance at any of tbe hotel registers here will convince one of the correctness of the statement. There are Englishmen, French men, all kinds of Germans and every stripe of American, Yankee merchants. Southern Colonels, and Majahs, Callfornlans and North western frontiersmen, all more or less seeking for health in the peculiar waters which gush from tbe medicine chest within the Ozark mountains. Bat every one is not an invalid by any means. There are a good many people here who are as stout and hearty as they could wish to be: tney find in Hot Springs a ref age from the ecceatric attacks of oar great North American climate in winter. This year this class of visitorsbas been fooled to some extent. December and January were delightful months here, I am told, but not so February and the first half of March. Rain and chilly winds have washed and blown away the "balmy South" business for the pan six weeks to a great extent, bat all the same, it is my opinion that tbe worst winter weather Hot Springs knows is a good deal better than the best I bave found in some other places no names need be mentioned. Northern Blasts in the Balmy South. On Thursday the climax in bad weather was reached; It snowed all' day. and four inches of tho "beautiful" covered tbe hills and vales, to the astonishment of the natives, who protest with one voice that tbe like has never been seen here before. Well, the snow is going faster than it came under the compulsion of to-day's glorious sunshine. Tbe sky is superbly bine again, tbe air rapidly warming up, and the local prophets are working overtime predicting tbe birth of spring before another week has passed. Stranger even tban the contrasts of nation ality among tbe visitors here are those of social station and calling. Yesterday, at the Hotel Eastman, in one group I noticed Senator Voor hees, a baseball player whose name I don't know, a New York banker, a passenger con ductor from Milwaukee, two estimable young ladies from Minneapolis, a saloon keeper from Chicago and several unidentified Southerners. The grouping was accidental, of coarse, for people range themselves here much as they do at home, although there is tbe usual freedom ot manners that is generally permitted at a watering place the camaraderie born of com mon exile. There is an element here, and a pretty large one, too, that one can see much or little of as one pleases. It Is an element that Is not here for its health, or anybody else's. Its proper field is the green cloth, and its habits are noc turnal. The Gambling Fraternity There. There are lots of gamblers bere, and a sprinkling of people for whom that term were too polite by a jugful. But they do not bother anyone who is of ordinary discretion and not anxious to be led into crooked paths. In this the Hot Springs of to-day seems to be very different from that of yesterday, when tbe gamblers ran tbe town, and the humdrum of faro and poker playing was broken by nightly affrays, and one riot a week, at least Hot Springs to-day is as orderly as Pittsburg, and the town is growing rapidly. Ten years aco there was not a brick bnilding in the town. Now there are a doien business blocks on tbe main street, and two immense hotels that compare favorably with the creat caravansaries at Saratoga. Long Branch', Narragansett or any other resort. There are plenty of smaller hotels, and the his toric Arlington Hotel still holds up its bead. The latest audition to tbe hotels, the Park, was only opened this season. It cost in tbe neigh borhood of 500.000. and as a fire-Drool struct ure, lurnished In the best of taste and in every respect well equipt, it is the equal of the finest hotels in the East. It is curious, however, that tbe architects of tbe Park and Eastman hotels apparently believed tbey were designing pen itentiaries or insane asylums when tbey drew their plans, for the gaunt severity and formal ity of each building's lines wonld only be suit able in a public institution of the kind earned. One Grand Element Remains. But if tbe architecture of these mammoth hotels, I forget bow many hundreds or thou sands each of them can honse, is net pic turesque or grand, tbe prices charged therein are both and be sure not to forget it, or the comelated fact that visitors to the Springs are regarded as gold mines by tbe natives and worked as such with a vigor and insistence seldom encountered elsewhere in the South. It has always been so at the Springs. The Spaniards wbo discovered tbe Springs some hundred) of years ago, were tbe only visitors who have escaped with more than thev brontrht. bnt then tbev were lucky enough to find a gold mine in tbe Ozark foothills at the same time. The Pittsburg contingent is not very large here, and it is somewhat surprising, too, for most resorts of tbe Hot Springs order draw largely from the Iron City. Doubtless there have been more Pittsburgers here earlier In tbe season. Congressman Dalzell's son, Sam, is at tbe Arlington, and Mrs. James Gallery, with her daughter. Miss Rose, and son. Mr. Charles Callery, are staying at toe Hotel Eastman. Mrs. Gallery's friends will be glad to hear that she has heen benefited already by her stay here, although she arrived bat two weeks ago. But it yon do not see many Pittsburg faces in tbe crowded corridors and lobbies of the hotels, the old stagers here, the veteran visitors, and especially the carrulous negroes who rub tbe virtues of the, healing water Into your bones until you howl, are full of reminiscences ot Pittsburg celebrities of one sort or another. Reminiscences of Pittsburgers. "Napoleon," the colored artist whose bathing studio is in the Park Hotel, has a very high idea of Pittsburg humanity, and at very slight provocation bubbles over with personal gossip about divers brokers, Unyers, merchants and manufacturers from Western Pennsylvania wbo bave passed through his hands leaving a golden deposit, doubtless, for Napoleon's words are all kind. Among tbe regulars as tbe men who have been coming here every montb for some 10 to 20 years may be called aname frequently men tioned, and always with a kindly accent, is poor Ben Vandergrift's. who died at tbe Arlington Hotel last year. Mr. Vandergrift's generous traits made nim very popular with tbe big hearted fellows, old and young, who form a large band here, and his memory is likely to be kept as green here for a generation at least. Reverting to tbe contrasts to be seen here in men and tbings.I don't know that I ever saw anything funnier tban an interview that oc curred on the principal street of this town yesterday, between tbe driver of one of the absurd bob-tailed stroet cars and a farmer in an ox-cart. Tbe street was a lake of mud after the rapid thawing of tbe snow of the previous day, and the farmer in his springless cart, which had a tolerably straight, young pine tree for a pole, was urging his team of long horned oxen along tbe car track when the street car met him. Rapid Transit In the Sonth. Neither tbe farmer or tbe oxen liked tbe look of the njuddy depths on either side of the track, and the latter just stopped and stared lazily at tbe diminutive mules which were draw ing the car. "Howdy?" asked tbe sallow, long-haired boy wbo was driving the car. "Howdy," politely replied the farmer whose complexion, beard, clothes and bat harmonized alike In the harmonious scheme of brown of which bis wagon, the oxen and the mud were consistent parts. "Right smart er snow yesterday, remarked the car driver, and the farmer nodded bis bead. Then silence ensued for a few minutes. The passengers inside tlfo car, two young colored omen and a stylish New Yorker, were deeply interested, iu the situation, but they made no protest the former because they were used to such delays, and tbe latter because be had the usual visitor's surplns of sparo time to expend, and bad just as lief get rid of it in a. street car as any where else. I don't know what, the con versation netween tue iarmer anu trie car driver turned upon whllo I went up ice street two blocks and came back again, but some thing interesting, no doubt, for tbe farmer bad not moved from bis seat when I returned, and the car driver was lazily flicking the oil mulo with his whip. I turned around at the next cor ner In time to see the farmer leading bis team into tbe mud, so that the mules and tbe bob tall car mignt resume their walk. Rapid transit is a fanny thing down here. H epbtjbn Johns. WILL SHOW A MINIATURE W0ELD. India Preparing to Make a Grand Exhibit at the "World's Fair. Chicago, March 18. T. W. Hurst has a unique idea for an exhibit in connection with the World's Fair. He would have constructed at Jacksen Park a world in miniature. It would require an area of ten acres, much of which would be tbe shallow bottom of the lake off tbe park. He would reproduce the earth, its continents, oceans, etc., as shown in a pbyical geography. The shallows would d i for Asia, Australia and Oceanics. The diffi culty of showing tho spheroidal earth is to be overcome by makiug tbe miniature on the Mercator system of projection. Advices from India, received to-day by Mr. Bryan, indicate that India will make a great exhibit. Bombay and Calcutta people are creating an exhibit fund. PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED. Anna Dickinson is said to be rapidly recovering her mental faculties. Sitting Bull's two widows are ready to sell tbe dead chiefs cabin to the highest bidder, because they say it Is haunted. ' Joseph Macheca, one of the Italians killed in New Orleans, was a large steamship owner, and his estate is estimated at $2,000,000. Joseph Hoffman, the pretty little boy pianist, who was tho pet of New York ladies three short years ago, has grown tall, lanky and freckled. Senatob Pettiobew will drive a trained moose against a trotting horse for 200 aside at the State fair to be held at Sioux Falls, Dak., next fall. Geneeal Nathan Goff, the ooted West Virginia politician, looks like a clergy man. His face is always smoothly shaven and be dresses in a dark frock suit. In spirits he is as cheerful as a school boy. Miss Emily Hcwabd, director of the First National Bank, at Auburn, is the first person of her sex in the United States to hold such a position. Miss Howard is rich, and for several years has maintained, at her own home, a school for farmers' sons and daughters. Madame Hading, the noted French actress, lives in a beautifully finished hotel near the Plalne Monceaa. in Paris. She is a dilettante in art and literature, and possesses a fine library, in which many rare editions may be found. Her house Is a rendezvous of literary people. Cobnelitjs Bbesnihan, a poor cobbler of New York City, claims to be a'great grand nephew of General Moylan, of Revolutionary fame, and saysrhe will institute proceedings to recover certain property left by the General, who was at one time a resident of Philadel phia. Count Tolstoi is now slowly finishing a new book called "Life." He allows himself to write but two hoars daily, giving tbe rest of the time to physical toil. Every morning he rises at 6, and after a hasty breakfast of tea and home-made bread and cheese, be sweeps away tbe snow from bis garden, and then settles down with his fellow colonists to make boots. Hebb von Gossleb, who retires from the German Cabinet, has for many years fought for secular schools and non-interference by church organizations with govern mental affairs. It is a curious coincidence that Dr. Windthorst, who, as leader of the Ult'ra montanes, had been his antagonist, should die just at the time wnen von Gossler is fqreed to withdraw from office in favor of another Ultra montane, Count Zedlitz Tritzschler. C0MIKQ THEATRICAL EVENTS. People like to be amused, and the merry people ot the world are bright spots in real life. Those who can make us laugh and forget oar woes and troubles are really a benefit to man kind. From oar childhood days up we enjoy a hearty laugh, and our earliest recolloctlons ot amusements of any kind is the clown of the circus. In view of this, the management of the Bijou announce as tbe attraction for the com ing week the farce "McCarthy's Mishaps." one of the funniest of comedies, and presented by tbe Ferguson and Mack Company, one of the strongest of companies in the comedy world. Incidental to the play, a number of specialties are introduced, consisting of the famous acts by Ferguson and Maca. tbe very wonderful dancing by Miss Lizzie Daly, and the child, lit tle Vinie. Sol Smith Russell is justly proud of his position on the American stage, and "points with pride" to the fact that the people go to see bis plays wbo never go in a theater to witness any other production. Critics regard him as one of tbe greatest artists tbe stage has evor produced; and that the public agree with them is evidenced by the crowded houses which have greeted him throughout the country this season. He will be seen at tbe Grand Opera House week of March SO. Ullie Akerstrom will play the "Little Busybody" the balance ot the week. "Old Jed Pboott," of Bccksport, Me., with Mr. Rlchtrd Golden as the star and a capable company in support, is tbe attraction at the Duquesne next week. The piece has been re ceived in tbe East, even in the " 'way down East," where tbe character-type is familiar, as the most trnly drawn of any yet presented during tbe era of realism on tbe stage. Tbe Elks' benefit occurs on the special Friday afternoon matinee. The sale of seats and boxes begins to-day. The Academy will once more welcome Harry Williams' Own Company next week. To say that it will appear to packed houses is hardly necessary. The Runaway Wife" will be the attraction atfHarria' Theater next week. DEATHS OP A DAY. Mrs. Sarah McKec. Mrs. Sarah McKee, relict of the late Thomas McKee, died yesterday moraine at 10 o'cloek, at tbe advanced age of 69 years. De ceased was born lnNenry, County Down, Ireland, in 1302, and came to Pittsburg In 1S27. She was married to her late hnsband In 1330. She lived continuously in the house tbey then built np to the time or her death, a period of W years, seeing Bayardstown grow Xroin a cornfield to a thickly settled dlitrict. Mrs. McKee and her hnsband were industrious and frneal in their lives, and br dint of steady application had amassed a com fortable fortune, much of which was devoted to objects of charity and benevolence. She was a devoted and exemplary member of Trinity Churcb, of 1'lttsbnrg. She leaves three children James and Sarah, who lived with her at the time of her death, and Isaac who resides In Phlladel pbla. She will be buried from her late residence, 37 nice street, to-morrow afternoon. Mrs. Susan WarfeL rSPKriAT. TSLIOBAM TO TB3I DISFATOS. Beading, March 18. Mrs. Susan War- fel was buried yesterday from the homeofber son-in-law, near Safe Harbor, she was in her 99th year, and was the widow of George WarfeL who died in 1391. she was the mother of David Warfel, of this city. MrsJ Warfel was a remark able woman, and up to a few weeks ago enjoyed splenam neaitn ror one oi nerage. At that time she lost her hearing, though she retained all her other faculties. Her relatives bave some sewing she did within the past year that Is a marvel of delicacy and bandfwork. she leaves six children. Dr. Christopher Goodbrake. Clinton, III., March 18. Dr. Christo pher Goodbrake, a distinguished army surgeon during the War of the Kebellion, died here Mon day night, aged 73 years. He was promoted to the post of Division Snrgeoa by General Logan. It Is probable that Surgeon (ioocibrake was the last man to whom General Mcfherson spoke he fore receiving the ratal shot before Atlanta. Jane Christy Fleming. Mrs. Jane Christy Fleming died yester day at the residence of Mrs. J. E. Moffatt, Cum berland, Aid.. In the 89th year or nerage. shewaa the widow of the late John Fleming, and mother of the wife of Rev. Dr. B. D. Harper, of Phila delphia Mrs. Moffatt Is a granddaughter of ilrs. Fleming. Dr. Harper is one ol the most eminent clergymen In Philadelphia. Prof. E. P. Fenno. KittanninG, Pa.. March 18. E. P. Fenno, principal of the Klttanulnr schools, was fonnd dead In bed at his boarding house yester day morning. Prof. Fenno came here from Bradford county In the summer or 1890. He was a graduate of Ueadvllle College. William H. Herndon. Spbingfield, III., March 18, William H. Herndon. aged 72 years, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and author of a "Life of Lincoln," dlertat his residence near this city to-day. or the grip. His youngest son, William, died six hoars cforc from the same disease. Captain Charles Fowler. Galveston, Tex., March 18. Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the Morgan Line in this city, died last night. He was widely known, and during the late war occupied a prominent position in tbe Confederate navy. Celestine Kaltenbach. Dubuque, Ia., March 18. Celestine Kaltenbach, the oldest postma&ter in tbe United States, died this morning, aged 7S years. He was appointed postmaster in 183 by President Frank lin Pierce, and has held the office continuously. Colonel Jacob Nnnge. - rEFECIAI. TILXOUAK TO TO! DISPATCH.l Wheeling, March 18. Colonel Jacob Nnnge, one or the oldest settlers in this city, and a German ploneer.baving emigrated from Alsace Lorraine In 1835, died here to-day, aged U years, Jerome Beecher, Millionaire. Chicago, March 18. Jerome Beecher, a well-known pioneer merchant and resident of Chicago oiiue ISA died here last night, aged 71 )ears. Ills lurtuun Is estimated to be f.!, COO, (XV. John Boles. John Boles, aged 25 years, who resided with bis parents on Forty-second and Butler streets, died at 5 o'clock last night. He' had Ioag been a sufferer from consumption. i i IN SOCIETY'S DOMAIN. Felix Adler Talks in Carnegie Hall to a Large and Fashionable Audience The Days of Miracles Passed and Gone Social Notes and Chatter. A large and fashionable audience greeted Prof. Falix Adler at Carnegie Hall last night when be lectured upon the "Limitations of Religious Radicalism." Prof. Adler is tbe well known ethical caltunst whose reputation Is worldwide. He talked last night nnder the auspices of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa tion. After some musical selections Prof. Adler was introduced by Isadora Israel. The lecturer has a clear, strone voice, wbich be uses without any effort at oratorical display. He plunged at once into tbe heart of his sub ject by saying that radicalism Is broad in spirit, and does not confine itself to any close llne. He said that radicalism has pretty well served its purpose, and having pretty well served its purpose wonld die nut in course of time. Tbe lecturer said be spoke as a man who bad pasted through radicalism, and had not lost all bis be lief in everything in the course of the expe rience. There were many wbo bad never felt the keen edge or skepticism and to thoseihe de sired particularly to speak. Radicalism had 1 uone macn good. It had, saved people from many Ignoble beliefs, and In that had accomp- uiicu great work. Miracles Oat of Date. - The speaker then cited miracles as something that was not believed in nowadays. He said that in former times there were many sensible people who believed the Bible literally, when it told that a voice spoke to Moses oat of the burning bush, that the son once stood still to surprise Joshua, and that many other impos sible things took place in the sight of man. There were many who believed these things without question. Now there were very few intelligent men in the pulpit wbo accepted such stories, and bat few in tbe pews who wualdsay "Amen" if tbe minister did express his belief In them. The disbelief in such things must oe credited to radicalism. And this skepticism was really orthodoxy. The professor went into tbe consideration of what .constituted a miracle, and drew a parallel in tbe case of a chemist who bad been ship wrecked in a tropical region where only savages lived. The chemist was treated kindly by the savages, and partly to amuse them, and partly as an interesting experiment, be mixed certain chemicals and produced ice. The savages saw this, to them, inexplicable substance, and tbey straightway pronounced it a miracle. They had never seen ice before, and they could not understand how water could become hard save through some supernatural agency, so they worshiped the chemist as a god. This was a miracle to them, said tbe professor, and yet we know that it was nothing but a natural product. The Bible Story of Creation. Going back to radicalism, tbe Professor said that it had taught people that 'the Bible story of the creation of the world in six days was not to be taken seriously. The Bible chronology made tee world only about B.000 years old, whereas science had made it apparent that It has existed for at least 100,000 years, and that the solar system has been in being millions of years. Radicalism has enlarged the boundaries of human thought, in religious as well as in other directions. Prof. Adler went into the inhlect of athalam pretty folly. Although a great many of his arguments were not new, they were pnt in such an interestinc: way that they seemed new. He referred to Tom Paine, Voltaire and other famous skeptics, and told many;f acta concern ing them that were enjoyed by the audience. Tbe lecture througbont was pleasing and full of Information. Tbe Lecture Committee of the Young Men's Hebrew Association that had charge of tbe affair last night consists of Messrs. Herscbel Benedict, Ralph Jackson and Isidore Israel. There was to have been a re ception given to Prof. Adler by prominent Hebrews of the city, but owing to his being In disposed, it was dispensed with. He did not feel strong enough to accent a formal recep tion, bat be met a number of the audience in the hall at the conclusion of bis address. Franz Rommel's secoud piano recital in Old City Hall last eight was attended by an au dience wbicb, If limited in numbers, was appre ciative of the high ability ot the performer as an exponent of classical composition. An injury to a finger did not seem in the least to interfere with Mr. Rommel's admirably accurate execution, and his in terpretation of the several numbers com posing the programme met with sympathetic recognition and endorsement. Tbe composi tions selected ten in number afforded the artist opportunity for displaying his great power over the Instrument, and the wonderful phases and changes which tbe character of tbe work required were illustrated in a manner which proved Mr. Rummel as a master in his line. The melodions, yet sombre, "Funeral March" in Chopin's Opus 35 was executed with a feeling, delicacy of touch and accurate inter pretation wbich surprised many people present, and the artist's rendition of Liszt's Venezla e Nopoli a composition in which an Italian lore song is woven into the measure of a weird dance received tbe warm acknowledgment which it merited. The engagement is announced of Miss Margaret Brokaw to J. V. McCormlck. The marriage will take place some time in June when tbe roses are blooming. Miss Brokaw is the accomplished daughter of ex-Chief ot Police N. S. Brokaw. of the Southslde. She is a beautiful young ladv and is prominent In society. Mr. McCormlck is a son or the genial Captain J. J. McCormlck. the steamship agent, and what bis father doesn't know about tbe steamboat business he does. The young man has hosts of friends who will wish him and his bride much joy and prosperity. This evening will witness tbe wedding of Miss Jean Alexander and Dr: W. H. Urling. The ceremony will be performed by Drs. McAl lister and Purve. The attendants upon the bride and croomwill be Misses Lillle Wattles and Bessie Alexander, and Messrs. J. W. Alex ander and Weiser. The arrangements will be unaer tne general uirection oi Messrs. w. a. Corte and Linf ord Smith. AN organ recital Is to be given this evening in the Southslde Presbyterian Churcb. by Prof. C. D. Carter, assisted by Miss Taylor, of Mc Keesport, a former pupil of his. Among tbe vocalists are such well-known artists as Miss Julia Beach. Dr. W. T. English and Messrs. Morris, Stephens, Clifford and Borah. Ethelbebt Neyin will give a piano recital at tbe home of Mrs. Walter McCllntock, Ridge avenue, on Saturday evening. Mr. Nevin is going to Paris to study two years, and this recital is to be a farewell to his friend's here. It will be under tbe auspices of the Al legheny Musical Society. AN interesting Easter-tide wedding will be that of Miss Emma Wettach, granddaughter of J. C. Lappe, and Frank Czarmeekl. The ceremony will take place at the Lappe mansion. North Canal street, on Thursday evening, April 23.- Tbe young people are well-known and popular Alleghenlans. Woman's Belie Corps, No. 60, auxiliary to McPherson Post, No. 117, G. A. R., will give an entertainment at Masonic Hall, East End, this" evening. Prof. Byron W. Kine will be tbe director, .tie win oe assisted Dy bis pupils, Dora Marshal, Bello Davis and Hannah Baxter. Mbs. W. D. Harper and her son, Willie, are to sail for Europe on the Etruria March 2L Tbey will remain in London and other Euro pean cities until next autumn. Mr. Harper, who Is manager at Joseph Horned; Co.'s, will go Europe to bring bis wife and son home. Social Chatter. A literary and musical entertainment will be given to-morrow evening by tbe students or Curry School of Elocution, at the ML Wash ington reading room, to conclnde with "A Box of Monkeys," wbich is billed as ''a sparkling comedy." The annual entertainment or tbe Phi Kappa Pbi Society of the Pittsburg Central High School will be held In tbe school chapel to-morrow night. Anlnterestlng programme has been arranged. The Pennsylvania Railroad Department of tbe Young Men's Christian Association will give an entertainment this evening in tbe rail road ward of the West Penn Hospital. To-mohkow evening, at tbe Allegheny High School, a musical and literary entertainment will be given under tbe auspices of the Hyperion Literary Society. Hon. Henry Hall will deliver his lecture The Gospel of Get There" at the Third United Presbyterian Chnrch to-morrow even' ing. The pupils of W. H. T. Aborn will give a re cital at Carnegio Library this evening. T. J. Bussman and Boss W. Drum will take part. The Allegheny Progressive Union will give a concert in Johnston's Hall, Wilkinsburg, next Tuesday evening. The ladles of the Third Presbyterian Church give a dinner and supper to-day. OPIUM, TOBACCO AND CIGAEETTE8. A Stringent Act Regulating Their Sale I'r.sjed by the Wisconsin House. Madison. Wis.. March lH-Tiie Honse to day passed a bill prohibiting tbe sale of opinm without a physician's certificate, or to sell to. bacco or cigarettes to minors after notice for bidding such sals hat been given by a parent or guardian. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Ohio's grape crop per acre is worth three times that of California. A Snow Hill, Md., man ate half gallon of peanuts at one sitting the other day. It has been rainine in Sumner county, Gx, incessantly for 60 days. Tbe damage to farms is estimated at So0,C00. Among a flock of blackbirds that vis ited Gardner, Miss,, a few days ago was one that was pure white. A woman heavily veiled visited Sher man's grave recently and besought the guard to sell ber some dirt from it, An immense 200-ton piece of granite which will dress to a pillar 6 feet In diameter by 45 feet lone has recently been quarried near Petersburg; Va. A foreign watchmaker has patented a device by which an hour or two before a clook runs down tbe word "wind" will appear at an opening in the dial. A new departure in cremation Is re ported. A patent has been taken out in France for an electric furnace for the rapid incinera tion of human remains. The first game of modern baseball ever seen in Grant parish. La., was played Sunday, March 1. Tbe contestants were railroad con struction and sawmill men. The poundmaster of Oakland, Cal., sold for S12 at an estray auction an unclaimed horse. Tbe animal was subsequently identified as a HOOO thoroughbred trotter. Ingenious engineers suggest that the ar tesian wells may be developed by means of elec trical appliances into a powerful and cheap source of almost unlimited power. A Wisconsin lady, the wife of a Secre tary in the Brazilian War Department, has the somewhat solitary distinction of being the only newspaper woman in South America, A speculator in Oronogo, Jasper County, Mo., advertised himself as a "jack" buyer, meaning zinc ore. Imagine bis astonishment when he had four carloacl3 of asses shipped to him. A Union veteran of Charlotte, N. C, who applied for a Federal pension in 1881, re ceived word last week that it bad been granted. It will be of no use to him. as he died tbe next day after tbe news came to him. It is proposed doing away with the old system of lightning rod protection and replac ing the rods with narrow ribbons of copper, which will use up the energy of tbe lightning and save tbe building from destruction. A tronser button manufacturer at Bar men advertises his willingness to pay S230 to the heirs of any man who maybe killed in a rail way accident, provided be Is shown to bave been wearing at least six of the manufacturer's buttons. The waltz had its beginning In Ger many, and thence was taken to France, shortly after which it was introdnced into England. Hungary was the birthplace of tbe galopade or galop, and from Poland came the stately polonaise or polacca and mazourka. The present postmistress in North Penobscot must be an official who is not an offensive partisan. She has held the office 23 years, and is new 70 years of age. She attends to tbe mails three times every day. and in all sorts of weather, although the postoffice is sit uated about 20 rods from her house. A resident of Lexington, Mo., has what is known as an "A. Bechtler Carolina gold dollar." It contains 27 grains of gold, and was made by A. Bechtler. of South Carolina, wbo had a permit for the purpose from the Govern ment shortly after the end of the Revolution ary War. It contains 51 07 worth of gold. It is strange that the use of points for purposes of punctuation should be such a comparatively modern invention. Of tbe four generally-used points only tee period (.) dates earlier than tbe fifteenth century. Tbe colon (:) is said to bave been first introduced about llSo, tbe comma (,) some 35 years later, ana the semi-colon (;) about 1570. A large block of wooden buildings in tbe Chinatown of Victoria, B. C, has been burned by order of the City Council to make room for a new public market. It was deemed advisable to get rid of tbe old rookeries in this way instead of by removal, so as to avoid all danger of sickness. Tbe Chinese theater was among tbe buildings burned. Nine years ago a resident of California imported the first ostriches from Africa, and from these birds have been bred 483 ostriches now in tbe State. One man, wbo runs an ostrich farm in Santa Monica, and has 4S birds, says tbat each bird-Tields 200. a year., making his gross revenue 1000; deducting expenses, ha has a clear 18,500 on tl5,(XO investment. A professor of the Nor,th Dakota Ex perimental station says that the most prolific, and in his estimation one of tbe most profitable, fruits is the buffalo berry. There flourish in the State three varieties of cherries, two of raspberries, one of currants, one of janeberry, one of strawberry and one of wild grape, the fruitage being tbe largest in North Dakota, where the plants are dwarfed. Among the unusual inventions patented by womeu are improved bottle stopper, im proved method of fastening door knobs to their spindles, an appliance for plucking hair to be nsed in the dressing of furs, improved method of preparing leather for tbe soles of boots and shoes, for improvements in electric arc lamps and for more reliable indicators, specially applicable for use on the rolling stock of railways. When coal was first used in England the prejudice against it was so strong that tbe House ot Commons petitioned tbe King to pro hibit the use of tbe "noxious" fa el. A royal proclamation having failed to abate ti nuisance, a commission was issued to ascertain wbo burned coal witbln tbe city of London and its neighborhood, to punish them by force for tbe first offense, and by tbe demolition of their Iurnaoes if tbey persisted in transgressing, A. law wts finally passed making it a capital offense to burn coal in tbe city, and only per mitting It to be used by forges in tbe vicinity. It is stated tbat among tbe records in tbe Tower of London a documentwas found, according1 to which, a man was banged in the time of Ed ward I for no other crime than having been Kinantrht hnrninp coal. The forces of nature were utilized in a remarkable manner at the West Hartford, Conn., reservoirs during the past winter and a good deal of money was saved to tbe city thereby. The new reservoir, No. 5, was drawn down last summer in order to be cleaned out. The job had not been finished when cold weather came on, about one-third of the bot tom still being untouched. The water was shut out, but a small quantity of rain and melted snow afterward covered the bottom with several inches of water. This froze solid over the muck wbich covered the uncleaned portion of the reservoir bed. Later on the gate was opened ana the reservoir allowed to fill with water. As the water rose the layer of ice on tbe bottom rose also, bringing with it tbe mass ot muck on which it lay and to which it was firmly attached. This operation was per formed gradually, and the ice kept growing thicker. At length tbe water rose to its full beigbtb, and then tbe ice with its burden of muck was hauled ashore, where it now lies. The bottom of the reservoir was perfectly cleaned, and tbe work thus easily done wonld bave kept a large gang of men at work for a considerable period. WITH THE WITTY ONES. "Yon couldn't guess my age, now, eonld you?" said Miss Passlegb to Billy Bllven. No, " was the reply. "I am sure I could not." "I have seen just S years." I say, Billy, " mattered Dick Snlggens, at hi elbow, -ask her bow many Tears shewaabllnd.'J Washington Pott. Goldbacs(Iooking out at the tenements) Alas I It must be very bard to be poor. Whltcman-On the contraiy. It's conloundediy easy to be poor.-Chicago Keus. WINTER LINGERS. Although the birds begin to sing, The frost stUI tingles ears and Angers, For winter In the lap of spring. With all Its old persistence lingers. If spring's as cbarmlnz as is claimed By bards wbo with sweet songs receive her. Old winter cannot well be blamed lor being mighty loatb to leave ber. Sew Xork Pret. Tommy Ma, you must get me a new pair of shoes. 'I've got a hole In one of my shoes. .Mother-Is It a big holer Tommy Well, 1 lost my stocking through It this morning going to school Texas Siftingi. Upson Downes Say, old mac, lend me s five until pay day. Kowne de Bout-Whlch-your pay day, or the day you'll pay me? Spacer Now, my dear, I am prepared to work Kith some comfort. I have bocght a foun tain pen. and there Is no danger of me patting my mucilage brash Into tbe Ink now. Mrs. spacer (ten minutes later)-Dear met What Is tbe matter? What are you kicking up such a row about? - Spacer (savagely I absent-mindedly dipped my fountain sen In the macllazs bottle. ifar-. ftftBatar. 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