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- PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. MAE. 29. 188L
FKACE AXD THE BEST OF EUROPE,
Our cable dispatches this morning show
that the turmoil in Europe is increasing in
stead of subsiding. Russia's banble to
Prance has aroused the jealousy of the other
powers, and apprehension grows out of the
fact that the former is massing troops on the
Austrian frontier. The supposition now is
that if war ensue, Piance would bean active
ally of Russia, and events of the past week
do much to surjport it
Any snch action on the part of Prance
is epen to criticism; for while her geograph
ical position is such that more or less
intimate connection with her monarchist
neighbors must be kept up, the fewer treat
ies or alliances into which she enters the
better. As a nineteenth century republic,
the should keep kings and their ilk at a
distance. She shonld have very .little in
common politically with nations that are
forever hungry for territory and seek war
as a means of getting it And her states
men should understand that her present
form of government is far more likely to be
overthrown from without than it is from
within. The fact that an unsuccessful war
means for France a return to monarchy is
admitted, and in some quarter.! it is asserted
that the chief cause of European disturb
ance is a desire on the part of more than
one royal schemer to restore the Prench
throne. As has been said in these columns
before, republican Prance is a menace to
the monarchical governments, and common
sense on their part demands a change. If
she enters into a war they may be gratified.
REMEDIES FOR LA GRIPPE.
It is a popular belief that there should be
at least one remedy for every disease. Some
people even say there is a remedy for every
physical affliction, and if told of a disease
for which there is no kuown remedy, calmly
reply that the remedy exists, but has not
yet been discovered. La grippe, how
ever, is not oat of those dis
eases for which a remedy has not
been offered. In our local columns
this morning we give something less than
half a thousand directions and prescriptions
for its treatment These will be seen to run
all the way from partial electrocution to a
close approach to death by poison Or starva
tion. Some of them appear to be the kind
spoken of as "cures worse than the disease,"
while others are calculated to make a suf
ferer think that if they do no good, they
will do no barm. Just which of the reme
dies belong to each class, we will not under
take to determine. They are given as a
medical symposium and either or all of
them may be. beneficial. The sufferer will
bave to decide for himself.
A DIFFICULT TASK.
"With the view of getting the proper sort
of a candidate for the next State campaign,
the Easton Free Press, after observing that
neither a Quay nor an anti-Quay man can
unite the Republican factions, declares :
"What we want is a No Man's Man."
This principle is a first-class one, and if
it bad been adopted in Bepublican politics
long ago things might have been different
But against its practical application in the
selection of a candidate for the next State
campaign two very great difficulties inter
vene. The first is to find a man who answers
that definition, and who is willing to sur
render the advantages of the position to
become a candidate ; the second is to get a
Pennsylvania State'Convention to nominate
a "So Man's Man."
If the Free Press can perform these two
labors of Hercuies it will demonstrate its
title to political leadership, and also will re
habilitate the Bepublican party.
OUR NEW TREVTX WITH BRAZIL.
Report says Brazil is not altogether satis
fied with the recent treaty between that Re
public and the United States. It is claimed
that this country has taken everything and
given Brazil practically nothing. Either
these claims are without foundation in fact,
or the Brazilians who negotiated the treaty
were remiss in tneir duties. It is probable,
however, that neither of these reasons need
be considered, as the treaty will likely .be
found mutually advantageous. It is
not perfect No work of mankind has
yet possessed that attribute. Bnt
that it is the best that could have
been made for both countries will no doubt
be proven by its operations. Condemn
ing it without trial is foolish and useless.
It is merely an article of agreement between
the two countries, and neither can afford to
repudiate It so soon after the affixing of
signatures.
There is no sentiment about the negotia
tion of treaties. As business and political'
contracts between nations, they are founded
WfeS
upon What are presumed to be the rights
snd Necessities of each country Interested.
If any mistakes are made no one It respon
sible but those who make them; and diplo
mats are not the people to readily admit
making mistakes. This latter fact also
pro Yes that any existing dissatisfaction does
not come from Brazilians best acquainted
frith the provisions of the treaty. People
who know bnt little of the matter hid better
wait.
A BLACK EXE FOB STATE SOCIALISM.
The proceeding of the British Postmaster
General against the company introducing
the district messenger service in London, as
offending against the postal laws, gives a
black eye to the fundamental principle of
the Btate socialists.
That principle is that in certain kinds of
service the Government can perform the
work more cheaply and satisfactorily by
reason of its controlling the whole business
and having unlimited resources at its com
mand. The postal service is held up as a
marked illustration of this principle, and
the developments of the English postal serv
ice are reearded as especially strong evi
dence of its correctness. But here we have
a case which gives a double shock to that
theory. In the first place it wonld be in
sanity for a district messenger company to
start operations unless it can make money
either from cheaper charges or better service
than the postoffice gives. In the Second
place, if it does not do more for thtmoney
than the postoffice it would be wholly; un
necessary for the Postmaster General to ap
peal to the law for protection against the
inroads of the innovating company.
"When the Postoffice Department goes to
the courts to sustain its monopoly it deals a
fatal blow to the theory that the public is
benefited by the ezclnsive governmental
control of any kind of publio service not
essentially connected with the maintenance
of governmental authority. Incidentally
also, it does the same for the special plea by
which trade monopolies attempt to conceal
the real purpose of their existence.
DEATH OF N. P. REED,
The death of Kelson P. Beed, 6F the
Commercial Qatette, from the prevailing ep
idemic, fully noted in our local columns, is
sad news to the wide circle of friends and
acquaintances of that leading newspaper
proprietor. Mr. Beed has been a prominent
figure in newspaper and political workyand
his energy and determination hare made
his career, during all that time, one of con
tinued progress and extending influence.
As a business man he was energetic, pains
taking and vigilant; in newspaper work he
was an active supervisor ot all details,
while in politics he was a warm party man,
but outspoken in opposition to the discred
itable features of party work. It will be
difficult to fill the" place of a man of so
much energy, aggressiveness and industry,
as he who has been so suddenly removed
from an active and successful life.
THE WORK OF ARBOR DAT.
Governor Pattison has fixed April 10 and
May 1 as Arbor Says, for the planting of
trees throughout the State, wherever they
will serve purposes of ornamentation or
shade. The object of naming two different
dales is t6 suit the climatic -conditions of
different parts of the State, The day Suita
ble for planting trees In the southernmost
counties may not be in the northernmost
Of course there is nothing to prevent people
from planting trees on other days; but the
fixing of a day by public authority should
have the effect of indtfeing general work of
that sort
It is to be hoped that on one day or the
other there will be a wide observance by
general tree planting. Pennsylvania has
heretofore done more in the way of destroy
ing trees than of planting them. Yet in
either city or conntry there is no cheaper
waytF beautifying and improving high
ways and public places, as well as
lawn and private grounds, than by
the planting of shade trees. This
consideration applies especially to
Pittsburg. In all the work of street im
provement that has gone on for the past few
years, there has been a remarkable dearth
of tree planting. The few spots where shade
trees have been cultivated attract the ob.
server and commend themselves to every
taste. Tet as a rule property owners neglect
an opportunity within the reach of all to
double the attractive features of their vicin
ity at an expense ot iabor and money that In
comparison with the benefit is really trivial.
This should not continue to be the case.
In the observance of Arbor Day every
citizen has an opportunity to do work that
if kept up would make our streets beautiful
with shade and foliage.
A NOVEL COINAGE PROPOSITION.
Mr. Edward Atkinson has thrown into
the complicated question of silver coinage a
rroposition for the solntion of the pending
dispute. It has the merit of novelty, and if
adopted would settle the question, at least
until submitted to the test of experience. It
can hardly be asserted that it simplifies the
issue much; and with regard to the ma
terial effects of its adoption, it is much more
doubtful that it would simplify our cur
rency system.
In the last .number of Bradstrest's, Mr.
Atkinson, with more detail than we can re
produce .in this summary, lays down the
following indisputable propositions: That
the function of money is to furnish a
measure of rating of values in the ihter
change of products; that the purpose of
coinage is to furnish a Government certlfi
cate that the coin contains a measured quan
tity of the metal which is used as money;
that while varions metals have been and are
used as money, gold and silver are now
practically the only money metals that need
be considered; that commerce can be con
ducted on a large scale'without any act of
legal tender, as is shown by the immense
volume of international commerce without
any act of legal tender; that it is
expedient that the coinage of all kinds of
gold and silver shall be made free, so that
anyone desiring to have his gold coined
can do so and anyone desiring to have his
silver coined can do so; that to reach this
point with justice it is necessary that all
acts of legal tender shonld be repealed, so
that no one shall be forced either tp pay or
receive a gold or a silver dollar he does not
choose to,
Up to this point Mr. Atkinson's argument
has proceeded straight to this original
proposition: Free coinage and no legal
tender laws whatever. The idea is snch a J
radical one that, although, as will be seen
further on, it is not Mr. Atkinson's'tnatnred
proposition, it is Worth while to stop a
moment and consider its significance. It is
a return to natural principles in the matter
of coinage, without imposing legal tender
obligations upon either party to a bargain.
Bat a moment's consideration of its work
ings in actual bnsiness operations. Under
this every transaction would necessitate a
specification stipulation whether payment
should be made In gold or silver. Every
merchant who sold five dollars worth of
goods Would have to notify his customer in
advMee wfasjAer- It m fir dettiw e-f jW
ffiffiS
6r five dollars 'ot silver. Every bant check
or draft would have to stipulate on
its face whether it would have to
bo paid in gold or silver, every
bank deposit would require a separate
account, and the bank would hate to know
how mueh gold and h&tr much silver the
depositor Was entitled to check against. A
man conld not get a twenty dollar bill
changed wi'thbut a stipulation as td the
coin that shonld be given in exchange; and
the same trouble would be entailed through
out every transaction from the highest to
the smallest.
. Of course this is entirely impracticable,
and Mr. Atkinson recognizes that it is to,
by proceeding, as soon as he has formulated
the proposition above quoted, to -modily It
with a proviso that in contracts or bargains
where no express stipulation is made as to
the kind of money to be used in payment,
the gold dollar must be the legal standard.
But this Is practically what was done when
silver was demonetised. -Anyone was then
at liberty to make.contracts for the specific
payment of so many silver dollars. When
gold is made the only legal tender for con
tracts that use the word dollar, that is
practical gold monometallism. There is an
apparent gain for silver in the proposition
that anyone conld get silver dollars coined
for use in transactions where silver is agreed
to on both sides. Bnt experience has
already proved that this would be only an
apparent gain. Some fifteen or twenty
years ago the Government coined trade
dollars, which contain more silver than our
present dollars, for anyone who had the
bullion. It was perfectly legitimate, for
anyone to make a contract in which
trade dollars should be paid ;
bnt a great trouble was created
because these dollars, intended for circula
tion in foreign countries, returned to onr
trade. The country was confronted with the
paradox of silVer dollars, intrinsically Worth
more than our legal tender silver, made the
cause of complaint against the Government
for letting depreciated money get into circu
lation. Mr. Atkinson may 'have presented this
plan as a means of demonstrating the weak
ness in the silver argument; or as a method
of inducing the silver men to accept free
coinage ot silver without the legal tender
provision. But in either light it is not
likely to do much toward settling the dis
pute. While the argument is good as far as
it goes, it entirely avoids the real complaint
of the silver men, that the gold standard has
been changing by a constant appreciation nf
the price of gold. As a possible compro
mise, it is impracticable, because, under the
shadow of free silver coinage, it is evident
that Mr. Atkinson makes gold the sole legal
tender.
Eggs are eggs, notwithstanding the reports
about the production of a successful imita
tion. But the men who imagined they had con
trol ot tne egg market so as to put up prices
out of sight, reckoned without the host of hens.
They went to laying eggslwlth sublime indiffer
ence to the economic theory of the speculators
that eggs ought not to be too cheap, and before
Easter arrived, the egg market got to a reason
able level. Much missionary Work remains to
be done before the bens become converts to
trust principles.
The theory that tramps are useless has
been proven false by a Long Island Jail janitor,
who lodged them in the town hall at a clear
profit of 12 cents each per night. Unluckily for
the janitor, bis efforts in theory-demolishing
are not appreciated by the authorities, and be
will be prosecuted. Such was ever the fate of
daring genius.
The Anaconda copper mine in Montana
has shut down. The copper combination Is
evidently determined to guard the world
against the calamity of having too much
copper.
Ez-Matob Caster Harbison has
found a n?ve: way to establish a political cam
paign fund without costing him anything. He
says that, having made liberal bequests to
charity in bis will, be can take 30,000 from
those bequests for his campaign expenses, and
be none tbe poorer. This is a great Idea, and
it would probably work well it it were not for
the obdnracy of tbe ward workers in refusing
to take checks payable when the bequests are
realized.
"Two weeks from to-day we shall know
it all," remarks the Philadelphia Item. The
interest as to what the enlightening effect of
the date named will be is wholly sunk in the
delight afforaed by the discovery, through this
remark, of one Philadelphia editor who does
not know it all already.
The latest Canadian developments
strengthen the conviction that Sir John Mac
donald is very shrewd and knew what he was
about in holding his election in a hurry.
The report that Cuba is beginning to
ship molasses to this country In tank ships
moves an Eastern cotetnporary to the hope
that some means will be found to thoroughly
clean out the petroleum tank ships before they
are used to carry tbe molasses. To this the
Sugar TruBtwill promptly reply before any
committee of investigation that the remnants
of the petroleum will add flavor and richness
to the molasses.
The Ohio Legislature cut down the ap
propriation for keeping the State canals in
Working c&sdltiOn to one half the necessary
sum. Evidently the railways are after tbe
Ohio canals, to tbe best of their ability and
the ability is no slight one in tbe Ohio Legis
lature. The story that a million dollars was made
out ot a transaction in Allegheny municipal
matters has put every one north of the river on
a trantio hunt for the million.
The appearance of General Grubb, our
Minister to Spain, at one of the court recep
tions in the imposing uniform of the Philadel
phia City Troop,.bas evoked sarcasm from the
organs of tbe opposition. This is unwise. It
is evident thai General Grubb's uniform has its
uses. If he were transferred temporarily to
the Italian court bis uniform might overawe
the rumored belligerent dispositions of that
power.
The latest variation of the stories about
the Duke of Orleans and his passion for an
actress, to the effect that he went into France
in the disguise ot her valet, indicates tbat tbe
actress must be getting ready for an American
tour and has Secured an energetic advance
agent
The Connecticut dea dlock gave out signs of
letting go for a moment, but it was only to spit
ton its bands and take a fresh grip.
The last Congress refused the request of
the Civil Service Commission for power to
Select its'own clerical employes, and, either by
mistake or design, omitted to provide lor the
assignment of two department employes to the
commission. Cohsequehtly if the work of that
body is crippled by its inability to secure
proper clerical force, the spoilsmen will be
jumped upon by tlis spoilsmen.
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THAT La Grippe should be the name of
the horse which so unexpectedly won a race at
Guttenburg tho ether day is a coincidence
worthy of remark when the disease of tbe name
is the pale horse tbat brings Its terrible rider.
Heath, to sd manyfhomes.
Let us bope thjat the sunshine will dispel
the grip as pfonyptly und thoroughly as the
BOW. jf
A TOLEbd jfaper shows mistaken enter
briss in publishing the picture of a mayoralty
MMMate a be- perpd wken by. The
. tonti&sfa' J&&SX&,
baby picture' is t oujwld by oho representing
the candidate as tie brat present, and the mis
take Is in the fact that the paper conld not
complete tbe series by publishing bis picture as
he will appear whenah dia mah.
. .
Mahone and Langston have made up
their differences and are now avowed political
friends. But each bj them is understood to
carry a sharp knife in his bootleg as a prepara
tion for emergencies.
The "White Easter" missed us by a nar
ro w squeak; but a miss is as good as a mile.
The energy with which the Bepublican and
Democratic organs have combined to open their
batteries on Ingalli Is bringing the Farmers'
Alliance around to the point 'of forgiving bim.
Simpson has recently said that Ingalls is
.now pretty nearly right, And if the organs keep
on they will succeed in carrylngthat conviction
to tl;e agricultural heart.
PEOPLE AND POTENTATES.
Ma yob Ghaut, of New York, Is a much
better-looking man thanhls pictures make him
out to be.
Tbuxton- Beale. the new Minister to
Persia, has not vet left California nor found a
secretary of the right "Sort '
Queeit "Vict'obiA. has progressed so
rapidly in tbe stuuy of Hindostknee. that she
now writes It with ease.
Pbesidekt Cabwqt is said to "be very
fond of German sausage andsauer-kraut much
to the disgust of the' French.
ChatjitceY M.-DEPEW is said to hive
.recently refused ah HJffeV- of 100,000 a year to
edit a New York dally .paper.
Secbetaby Tbacy and Senator Aldrich
will be tbe chief speakers at a monster Bepub
lican banquet In Boston on April 8.
Pbof. GhabIiBS A. Younq, of Prince
ton, the greatest ot American astronomers, is
short and very round-sbonldered, with a pair
of very keen, flashing eyes.
The Sultan of Turkey is "said to be im
bued with tbe superstition concerning cross
eyed people. He sad a man In his suite
afflicted with an obliquity of vision In one eye,
and as tbe courtier was too useful to dis
charge, the eye was extirpated.
Mhe. Cabnot had 4,000 guests at the
last ball at the Elyseo in Paris, bhe was attired
for the occasion in a handsome dress of Louis
XV. pekin, vieux-rose stripes on white ground,
broche with Vlenx-rose flowers; vieux-rose
satin tablier, trimmed with point d'Alencon,
and a headdress small rose, feathers and dia
monds. Lawrence -Babbett was unable to
wear a hat not made to order, though on one
occasion he succeeded in finding a tolerable fit
in John Puke's when this cleVer, but absent
mlnded.pbilosoober walked off from Ole Boll's
house in Cambridge with Barrett's brand new
beaver, leaving a less enticing beadgear in its
place.
MB3. maby BBATrrbir Yottno died at
her home In Pall Bfver, he other day, aged 78.
She was the mother of Bradford M. C. Dnrfee,
in whose honor was "erected tbe Durfee Me
morial Hall, at Tale College. She gave ro Fall
River a public high school, costing 8750,000, the
building being formally presented to tbe city in
1887. She was married twice, her first husband.
Major Bradf o rd -Dnrfee, being the richest man
in that section. Her second husband, Joshua
Young, was a clergyman Her estate is esti
mated at 812,000,000 to15V000,fc00.
Db. Peabody, of Harvard, who has just
entered the ranks o'f the octogenarians, is a
little absent-minded at times. One summer
day, having come to Boston from Cambridge,
and having alighted from the car at Bowdoin
square, he turned a "sharp corner and collided
with an elderly gentleman who wis stanaing
with his hat off, wiping the perspiration from
his forehead, who held his hat in snch a way
as to give the appearance of begging. Dr. Pea
body seeing the hat dropped a quarter into it
with his customary kln remark. Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who was holding the hat,
put tbe money in bis pocket, solemnly thanked
his old friend, the giver, and passed on.
WOBK OF THE TABD7F LEAGUE.
Some
Statistics From Its Corresponding
' Secretary.
Wilbur P. Wakeman,JC6rrespohdfngSecretary
ot the American Protective Tariff League, says:
"We have some 10,000 correspondents in all
parts of the Union. They write the1 league letters
frequently and give information as to how pro
tection is spreading. As first we had difficulty
in getting correspondents, but now they are
coming forward rapidly. By 1892 We may have
100,000 correspondents. They help to distribute
tariff tracts and act as educators in theSr sec
tions. So few people understand the tariff the
league is kept busy exp'ainlng it, by means of
pamphlets ot course. Tbe Tariff League is an
institution that has come to stay and propagate
ono idea protection."
Try It on Fifth Avenue Dados.
Philadelphia News. I
Proprietor Gllmore's heroic efforts to rid the
vicinity of tbe Central .Theater of mashers and
star-gazers by turning tbe hose on them,
though well intentioned, has been resented.
Mr. Gilmore is In receipt of a letter from At
torney Charles L. Smith, as representative of
John Bishop, who asks for $150 as indemnity
for loss in having a full smt of clothes, not to
mention hat, shoes, and haberdashery, soaked
on the evening of March 16.
It appears tbat on or abdut the night men
tioned tbe girls in the company found it impos
sible to exit per tbe stage entrance on account
of tbe youths which blocked it up. So the fair
pursued were let out the front way, and with
the nozzle of a fire "hose Mr. Gilmore played
down the alley "It Showered Again" in a way
that would break Dave Braham's heart.
The ram struck John Brshop in tbe left lobe
of the neck, and bis clothln? suffered a severe
strain. The suffering is estimated by the af
flicted party at 1150.
Another Kind of Bust.
St. Loots Globe-Democrat.1
An item is floating around 'to tbe effect that
at the meeting bf the new Congress Vice Presi
dent Morton -will enjoy the distinction of be
ing the first man to face his own bust in tbe
Senate Chamber. It 'strikes us that Mr. Voor
hees and others have frequently looked upon
their own busts in their place.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Mollio "B. Laughlln.
Mollie S. Langhlin, youngest daughter of
Benjamin and CathaVlne LauKhlln. died at the
xhome of her parents, on Au Washington, yester
day at the age of.ll years and S months. Her
many friends will crcatly m(j this little girl,
who was one of the kindest companions in the
little circle. Her death becomes doubly sorrow
ful becanse of the Illness ol both her parents.
The funeral will occur this afternoon.
Eetli C. jTaqufty.
Beth X3. iaquay fifed at his residence,
2f Lacock street Allegheny, yesterday afternoon
at 2:30, In hlsfeith year, Mr. Jaquay was one or
the oldest ironworkers lb the city, having been
employed it ShoenbergeT's mills lorn number of
years. He leaves a lafrfce circle offrlends, both in
this city and Wheeling, who will be sorry tolearn
of his demise. J,
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Mrs. Margaret Brown.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, widow of the late
Kev. 3. H. Brown, died yesterday at her home,
174 Koblnson street Allegheny. Bhe was one of
the best-Vnown old ladles of that city, and will be
mourned by a large circle of friends. Her funeral
Will occur to-morrow auernoou m a o'clock.
Mrs. Christiana Bauer.
Mrs. Christiina Bauer, widow of the late
Helmold Bauer, dies yesterday at her hotne, H
Liberty street Allegheny, at the advanced age of
82 years. Mrs. Bauer was well-known and uni
versally respected. Her funeral will occur Tues
day morning from her late residence.
Colonel ohn SleEnery.
New Obleans, March 28. Colonel
John JlcKnery, who, the Democrats claimed, was
elected Governor of Louisiana in 1872, died to-day,
aged 78. t . i,
Charles si. Mlelgs.
New Yobk, March 28. The death was
reported this morning on theStbck Exchange of
Charles H. Meigs, who had Veen a member Slice
lsen.
-Charles JX. Lettc.
SJMK-gfiM,1. ,3Ca$&. March 28."-Chaa-
b. lette. the.lTeWor,ofbftrtalBte oartxldge,
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Baine Fashion (s Now Sweeping lh& Streets
The Booms ot a Swell club A Type
writer n BaS Thing to Steal Mddern
Entertaining.
ii any fashion could be any more unreason
able and accompanied by filthier and more dis
gusting results than the fashion of long dresses
tbat has recently come in here it would be dif
ficult to name it Bven the women themselves
affect to detest this fashion, but there are
everywhere evidences that they are universally
adopting it Poke all the fuh attbenivdu
may, ridicule and abuse alike fall as harmlessly
upon them as water npon a (luck's
back. Wherever you go np and down
Broadway there, are pavement sweepers In
front bf you kicking up a dust and filth gather
ers behind yon scrapuie up the mud. Wow and
then a glimpse of what onca would tifto beta
dainty underwear proVokes'tne imagination
as td how these same' modern substitutes must
look after their day's sweep about the streets
otifew Ydrk; Fortunately tor "the Unhappy
slaves oilashroh the old type of white Stock
ings and underskirts has become extinct.
Blacks and grays ahd "other colors ido ait so
readily betray the disregard for dirt
This is the rule now and then, however, one
may see a skirt and sometimes a pair of stock
ings that were white when the wearer started
out in the morning, and a sickening sight it
usually is. How in the World A womah, other
wise sensible and dainty of taste and cleanly ot
habits, will submit to this dictation of dress
makers and thus literally wallow in the mire IS
something that a man at least cannot find out
Perhaps Such a woman would be horrified it
she had been accidentally discovered With her
gown or face unwashed, Or in an otherwise un
kempt condition. SO far as we know sho may
be now horrified everv tlmesbe comes home
and shakes off the accumulated filth ot tbe
streets. In the meantime, however, dresses get
longer and longer, and she bows her neck to the
yoke more patiently and even with enthusiasm.
Thank Heaven, there are some women who ate
not afraid to assert themselves. rTheyaretbe
sensible women who live not for fashion's
sake, but for some brighter and more definite
purpose. They believe that cleanliness Is next
to godliness in this matter of dress, to say noth
ing of it3 other features. If they could bear
the warm commendation of the other sex per
haps it would cheer them on, though such
women do not require any extraheous assist
ance Otthls kind. Tfaev am unite as independ-
, ent of male opinion as their erring fashionable
sisters.
A Popular Piece of Nonsense.
One of the newest jokes requires a match
for its successful perpetration. There areptbose
who detest practical jokes, and if this one is
played npon any snch, tbe perpetrator is liable
to get into trouble. It is very slmp!6 and con
sists of an ordinary match on which is some
tnlminating powder that goes off with a sharp
snap something like an electric knap when. tho
enrrect jumps from one metal to another. Tbe
familiarity of the general public with eccen
tricities ot erectile enrrents helps ont the joke
wonaermily. You hand a gentleman a cigar
and at the same time one of these matches,
wbich he proceeds to light in the nsual way,
on the sole of his boot or his trousers, and
about the time It has burned sufficiently
for him to light his cigar from it
the explosion occurs. When you have
given ono of these matches to your maid
with instructions to Mght the gas. and she
climbs a cbair for that purpose, it is perhaps a
funny tblng, and doubtless Is to everybody but
the maid, if she falls off the chair thinking tbat
the wires are crossed in soma place or that a
blast has suddenly gone off in tbe near vicinity.
There are some fellows in New i'ork who carry
nnr AriTv tliaaA maritliM tin Btsrf ftirfi-ra lT
SIVII VUIJ tUWU UiatUI.1), MUM UVU b4Wldt ,1VS J
their Iriends and seem to derive no end of I
amusement from this exhibition of alleged
humor. When yon remember how almost any
one is startled by treading on a match on the
floor, you can readily imagine tbe surprise ot a
man who is taught with one ot these matches
between bis fingers in tbe act of lighting his
cigar. The matches are- sold down on the Bow
ery, and those wbo are familiar with Its pecu
liar properties are exceedingly wary of any
kindly proffer of a light
Stealing tho Typewriter.
Everybody has heard of the man who would
steal aredhot stove. 1 he i newest brand of
thieves in New York Is tho fellow who comes
Into an office and steals the typewriter. Not
the girl who -ordinarily goes under that title
bnt the machine Itself. You could replace the
girl a good deal easier than yon could the ma
chine and for less money. A number of eases
are reported where these office thieves have
stepped into an office m a prominent part of the
city with the ostensible purpose ot asking a
question or selling something, -and having
loundthe occupants out have lugeed away the
Remington or the Caligraph, as the case may
be. Now, the typewriting machine is not an
easy piece of property to dispose of, from the
fact that tbe numbers of the machines are
scheduled at the manufactories ahd salesrooms
and sooner or later, when a particular machine
has to be repaired, the temporary owner is cer
tain to be cornered. Take the nnmber of your
machine and report its loss to tbe main office,
and the chances are that in no part of tbe
city or even a remote country town will tbe pos
sessor find concealment. Aredhot stove will
get cool, but the typewriter never ceases to be
dangerous to the thief until it goes into the
junkshop as old iron.
Managing Rooms In a Club.
There is a rule at the Manhattan Club that a
member can have a room for a limited time,
but when that time expires be must move or
get a special permit to continue its' occupancy.
Very fine quarters are given for a reasonable
consideration and the rooms are thus in great
demand. It it were an unlimited privilege cer
tain men abont town who are members could
keep these rooms all the time, and the rule is
for the convenience of those who indulge la
occasional jags. When the time expires for
which tbe roomcanbe occupied under the roles
the member roust move out for a day or two,
when he can come baek and take it again if it
Is not occupied. This works a good deal like
tbe limitation upon the sale of postage stamps
in many places. You can buy, say, ten stamps
only at a time and if you require more you
must come back again to the counter In a few
minutes and buy ten more. Since the Manhat
tan Club has moved into its new quarters, tbe
btewart mansion, tbe privileges of the club are
more eagerly sought after by its membership
than ever before. One reason is that club life
and club associations are more congenial to
some people tbanabotel existence, and another
reason Is that it is cheaper to live thus than at
a correspondingly swell bostelry in New York,
History Repeats Itself.
"In respect to the nodal fad in the way Of
private entertainments In New York," said a
lady the other day, "we are but returning to a
custom which prevailed a eouple of thousand
years ago, I mean that of hiring professional
people to entertain one's guests at private
houses. During tbe last season this has been
the rage in New York society. Everywhere one
goes it is merely to see reproduced in a private
drawing room what you can see to a great deal
better advantage in a variety theater. Skirt
dancers and singers of all grades, comedians
and professional musicians all go to make up
the sort of exhibition one expects to see for
irom 60 cents to fl 60 by going to the theater.
It is not unusual to find tbe entire evening
taken up by this form of entertainment Now,
tomymindCarmencita and the professional
skirt dancer is all very well on the stage and
hedged in by the traditions of tbe footlights:
but when you come to see such a woman dancing
In aprivaieurawing room ana mingling witn tne
cnestsbetweeb the aetS.ltlSbeither conducive to
pleasure or good morals. When one goes to
Nlblo's to see a spectacular performance In
which some hundreds of more or less beautiful
women appear lu stage costume the mind suf
fers no shock, for there is no contact between
tbe audience and tbe performers. Bnt it one
introduces these same women into private es
tablishments Ih the same Costumes the thing is
quite different When I see such a play as I
have mentioned I bave no desire to hang
around the greenroom among the ballet
dancers and clowns. SWdl New York society
drags tbe air of the greenroom home with it.
and forces it into the nostrils of everybody in
tbe social swim. Tnis fad has been growing
steadily, and I would not be surprised, if it
keeps ou.to see in tbe near future the introduc
tion of acrobats and contortionists aS a moans
of private amnsement Then we shall have
certainly returned to the customs of ancient
Borne."
How an Arab Beauty Makes Money.
There are a Creat many fakirs who wort the
offices abd other places of bnsiness about New
tork, but obe variety at least is interesting.
This is a beautiful Arab girl, of about 17 years
of age, wbo sells lead pencils, cheap jewelry and
notions of all kinds. She bas a dark olive com
plexion, black hair and eyes like midnight in a
coal pit The long lashes that sweep her cheek
wonld enthuse an artist When she came Into
my office the other day She advanced to tbe
desk and taking my hafad in hers bowed grace
fully over It raised It to her lips and theh made
tbe sign of the cross with it Naturally this un
accustomed proceeding secured tbe attention
of everybody ih the room. The Same perform
ance was gone thtouftb wlfliacoUplb of visitors
and the young lady who runs the typewriter.
Bhe could not understand "Anglalse," but all
- A hafnra ehn (rnt illlilv tun ftnM turM-.
three pencils worth about 2 cents for 10 bents
each, a cake of soap and a pair of Batters. It
.,. Mnwrfflsislsfrom Arabia has thn un.
kis4etIfceiwOW8J. as wW84i,will J
hate i fortune before the Is able td Speak the
English language.
The Bargain Counter Catches Them,
bhe ot the most picturesque and amusing
sights is to be seen at the bargain counter in
Macy's establishment oh Fourteenth street
every day in tbe week. Now.a bargain counter
is a bargain counter almost anywhere, but at
Maej's, Where almost everything is sold and
where there are employed somo 1,400 to 1,600
clerks and where the salesrooms are thronged
with thousands ot people every pleasant after
noon, tbe effect is most striking. Fobtieentn
street is famed for its lady shoppers, and few
among them there ate who will not say they de
test Macy's. At the sane time there Is scarcely
a woman in JNew xork but win try the Bargain
counter at such ah establishment eviry now
and then if only as a sort of "flyer."
Charles t. Murray.
New York, March 2S.
PldPLE TALK TOO HTJCH,
Says a Western rhilosoplief Whb Ik Any
thing But Mutn
Chicago Herald.
Did it ever strike you that tbe reason human
beings grow to be eo wrinkled and battle
scarred by the time they get ready to die is be
cause they talk too muehf l'be family cat
goes through trials as great as ever befell a
mortal Rachel in seeing family after family of
blooming kits consigned to tbe water
bucket; the cow bands over one after
another of her frisky offspring to the
bntcber's sbambles; the chicken is chased Into
tbedinber pot; the bird is waylaid by the
small boy and bis sling-shot; the borse Is over
loaded and abnsed to tbe limit of equine en
durance, and yet each arid all from the family
cat to tbe noble borse preserve countenances
ot youthful calm and serenity to the last You
heversiW a tear Stained cheek br a pain-rur-rowed
brow on an animal, and I believe it is
becanse they were mercifully denied the power
to communicate and dilate ttpun their troubles.
If tbey met together to talk over their ail
ments as we do. and filled the hours of a morn
ing browse under the maples with de
tails of a bad digestion or tbe items
of a family funeral, perhaps they
wonld grow old and hollow cheeked
and wizened before their time, as we da What
is mankind's universal form of salutation?
"How are your" Ten to bne the ques
tion launches a full-rigged craft of physical
wretchedness upon the tide of conversa
tion that shonld be devoted to nobler
commerce. How Would it do to change the
form of Inquiry to matters pertaining to the
spirit rather than to the bodyT "How is it with
your soul, sister!" rather than "Have you got
tbeeriiif" "How fares your temper!" instead
of "How is your liverf" Wonld it not be
better to interest ourselves in tbe progress of
the soul on its journey toward the delectable
conntry than to vex ourselves so wildly
about matters pertaining to headaches,
catarrhs and bay feverT Try it
THE MABKUTG OP BO0KB.
The Penciling May Prove an Undesirable
Record.
"What do you think of the habit of marking
booLs?" Kate Field asked an old book worm
ahd book lover.
"Why, I think that if the marker himself
doesn't mind it no one else ought to."
"I do not understand, Why should the per
son who marks books mind it t"
"Because it Is snch a reckless giveaway. It
is bad enough to have to stand by the things
you say yourself, without adopting a lot of
things some bne else has said in addition.
When yciu mark a book you often put on exhi
bition sentiments which you wonld express only
with the greatest reserve, bnt here they are
open to tbe criticism of friend and foe alike.
"I haye always had a private opinion tbat tbB
marking of books showed a lack of proper re
serve and delicacy. It is making the public a
present of what belongs to yourself and your
friend.
'Then, apart from the revelation mads to
other people, you often find marked books an
uncomfortable record of your own past mental
poverty. If you should read the same work,
but in different copies, once a year for five
years, ahd mark at each reading the things
which struck your fancy, the five copies when
Compared, wonld show you some startling
facts. Our appreciative ability grows raster
and surer, I think, than any other. You would
bo heartily ashamed of the things you approved
at a previous stage ot development
"On the whole, it IS a verv dangerous process
for the nerson who cares for his own and his
friends' good opinion to stand sponsor for the
dictum of an author, simply because, on read
ing It for the Brsttlme, he felt ad agreeable re
sponsive glow."
FOOLISH LITTLE LAHBS.
Two Hundred of Them Get Frightened and
Jump into the Sea.
The tendency of sheep to follow their leader
was amusingly illustrated at the Third street
wharf yesterday, says the San Francisco Ex
aminer. A band of about 20U lambs was being
drixen toward Butchertown to be slaughtered.
A four-horse team turned tbe bend from tbe
right course, and the badly frightened lambs
ran down the street in tbe direction of the
Third street wharf, followed by the shepherd
does. Whose barking only Served to increase
their terror.
Tbe wharf gate was opened at tbe time, and
tbe foremost lamb leaped upon the stringer Of
the wharf, and galloping clear to the end,
jumped Into tbe water.
A long string of lambs did exactly the same
thine, and the air seemed to be full of them,
turning somersaults, revolving in the air, and
sprawling in all shapes before they struck the
water. Every boat in the vicinity was called
into use. and after much difficulty the animals
were gathered up without the loss ot one and
firoceeded on the journey, very wet but doubt
ess mueh wiser lambs.
LEAVINGS OF THE FAIB,
The Great Show Is Not an Unmixed Blessing
for Chicago.
Mr. A. M. Brown, of Philadelphia, in an in
terview the other day said: "There are 80,
000 idle men in tibicago to-day. Most bf these
are not legitimate residents of the city, but
bave been attracted there by tbe prospects
ooened np by the World's Fair. Chicazo natu
rally finds that large surplus of idlers, which is
nnfortunately mostly of tbe laboring class, a
difficult problem to deal with. But she will
fibd a greater task in taking care of tho idle
surplus that will be left there after tbe fair Is
over. I know how this thing worked in Phila
delphia. It is a great misfortune that; a scheme
like tbe Centennial Exhibition or tbe World's
Fair serves to stimulate for a time and leaves
the most disastrous results following in its
wake. It is Just like a man who drinks too
much whisky and suffers the consequent head
ache tbe next morning. There will be 103,000
laborers and artisans and fakirs in general left
upon Chicago's bands at the close of the com
ing Exposition. Tbe greater the success of tbe
fair the worse It will be for these people who
bave lived and thrived on it temporarily."
May Beat the Erie. ,
A project to build a canal from Borne to the
sea is being seriously entertained in Italian
circles. The canal will permitthe passage of
the largest ironclads, and it is proposed to build
three forts along the line ot the water way,
thus making Borne Strategically more lmpor
taat than Spezzia or Genoa. The canal will be
about 22 miles long, with a depth of 32 f eotand
where its mouth extends into the sea, stone
embankments will be bnilt on both sides. AS
the canal will pass through tbe deadly
Ostlan marshes, it is proposed to nse the ma
terial excavated for the purpose of filling in the
fever-stricken marshes, and, it possible, bring
tbem nnder. cultivation. The canal, it fs said,
will cost J10.000.000.
A Venerable Goose.
Kingston Freeman.
John Bay, an old and respectable resident of
Croton Landing, and formerly of Putnam
county, says that while residing in Putnam
county he purchased a goose of obe Isaac Bill,
and tbat the goose was 62 years old when he
purchased her for 75 cents. He kept her for
three years. Each year the goose laid over SO
eggs, and the first year raised 11 goslibgs,which
fell over a high wall in tho creek and were
drowned. Tbe second year she raised 22 gos
lings, and the third year 40 goslings. He then
said ber at the end of the third year to one
Amos Austin for $100. Mr. Ray Says to the best
of bis knowledce and belief the- goose Is still
alive, making her 83 years old.
Eggs-aggerated, No Doubt
Philadelphia Public Ledger.1
A Dauphin county clergyman, who knows
how to run a hennery, increased bis income by
over SCO last year, from the sale of eggs alone.
Enterprise like this would be creditable to any
lay man.
MAUD'S EASTER BONNET.
The milliner, with poet's an.
Has made atprlngtlnie softhet
AhtffroW the treasure of AlaTtoe's heart
libit new Easter bonnet.
Bet, beatrtifut thouRb it may he.
And all the things tbstwreath it
'She beauty that sppeatt to me
Is In l& face beneath.lt.
. -,1 ec ,.-J ,, -Owe Qietn. KoK
FROM CAY TO GRAVt:. '
Effect of the Weekly Exodus on Staid Old
HarrbBorz The Town Takes a Two
Days' Nup--How the Time Is SXaughti
ered.
tFEOMA STAJT COBBXSFOirnKKT.l
HABKiifltrfto, March 2$. No one, even in
his wildest flights of. imagination, would call
Harfisburg a lively place that 13 to the pil
grim and stranger whom business may take
there. There Is nothing metropolitan about it
Nor is there any undue rust displayed. On a
Saturday evening, when the Ironworkers from
Steelton pome up town to crowd the gallery at
the Opera Honse, there is a briskness and a
hustle on tbe streets which gives out a sem
blance bt liveliness, but ordinarily candor
must class tbe capital city as decidedly dull.
Every second winter, however, when the leg
islative solons gather there, things begin to
liven, Hotels' and boirtling houses are fur
bished up, the somewhat monotonous bills of
fare blossom with dishes whose names we.set
forth in idiomatic French, ahd the Oyster Ex
press brings in increased supplies bf tbe bl'nlve
whose native lair is In the Waters 61 Chesa
peake Bay. Even the salooiis are said to put
an extra keg on tap, for whilo the legislators
are the most abstemious of mortals, there
are roystermg blades interested in legis
lation whd flock to the capital, and whose bibu
lous tendencies tod frequently "give the place
a bad name."
Transeendently Eminent Busy-Bodies.
And while tbe session lasts things are lively;
at least so far as the 400 or 300 people are con
cerned whom the Legislature brings there. The
committees are all at work, and lafge delega
tlons df eminently respectable and transeend
ently eminent people appear before them in
advocacy of or opposition to certain measures
upon which the fato of the Commonwealth
seems to depend, and who generally succeed in
boring the committee and accomplishing far
less than do otber and smaller delegations ot
not nearlv so eminent ana possibly not quite so
respectable people, but who know the ropes
anu irom wnicn ena to pull them.
Debates are not always dull. Occasionally
some dignified Eenator forgets tbat famous
"Senatorial courtesy" and Jumps' on another
dignified Senator, and for a time there is a
scene which makes tbe painted face of William
Fenn, above tbe President's cbatr, look as
though bo wished he had never settled his
woods, but had left tbem undisturbed to the
copper-colored descendants ot the two Indians
Who, evidently suffering from some severe In
ternal pain, squat ih the background.
But interest centers In the House. There the
debates are more of a "free for all" character.
All the speeches are not directed to the Record
and listened to by it alone. The members size a
man up very sdon and very accurately. He who
talks for buncombe or for "home consumption"
is soon found out, and his impassioned flights
of eloquence fall on heedless ears, and are even
accorded Jrreverent jeers. Bnt the man wbo
has something to say and can say it and, above
all, Is not always saying It never lacks respect
ful attention. And the House is much more re
sponsive to eloquence than is the Senate.
Many a bill has been saved or defeated by a
five minutes' burst of appeal or argument It
is true that when the excitement has some
what cooled down, the House may cruelly re
Consider its action and undo what eloqoehbe
had accomplished, but even then the tempor
ary triumph takes the sung out of final de
feat The Blight That Comes With Friday.
Bnt it is when Friday morning's session has
come and gtine, and with it the Philadelphia
and Pittsburg delegations and the members
from those eastern and middle counties easily
reached by rail, that the loneliness of desola
tion settles like a pall over the Capitol and the
hotels. Then the members f rdm the remote
bounties-, who cannot spend Sunday at home
and get back for the Monday evening's session,
wander around like those "wbo tread alone
some banquet hall deserted.' Tbe Senate is
tenAntless. save and except the Senator from
Erie, Mr. Mccreary, as the President pro tern
rhythmically announces when that 'gentleman
takes tbe floor. He bas remained at the
capital dunng the whole session, not missing
a single roll call, and seems always busy looking
after the interests of his enterprising and
growing bonstitueney.
In the House the score or so of members
gather In lonesome groups of tbtee or four,
smoking and talking and retatinghumorous an
ecdotes redolent of the mould of'tbe Middle
Ages, and are ignominlously driven from their
seats by tbe charge of tbe broom and serub
urnsh brigade, primeval matrons who evidently
exist by prescription, their earthly origin dat
ing back to a "time whence the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary." The industrious
ones write letters to a fractious and critical
constituency, and the ambitions ones mail tbem
copies of tbe .Record containing their speeches,
or write regretting deeply to inform tbem that
it is impossible to send a copy of tbe "Bird
BoOk" nbless the proposed bill for another
edition should become a law, in which event
they may rest assured that they shall be the
first to get-one, etc
A Time lor Snake-Honting.
The newspaper correspondent whom unkind
fates have stranded in the city over Sunday
prowls about like a moody ghost For news IS
Indeed scarce. He interviews stray members
in the bope of extracting "something new or
strange," but not infrequently finds tbat they
rely on him for that which he seeks. He pores
over tbe L00 pages of House bills in search of
"snakes," and after two or three hours' effort
gives it np either in the optimistio belief that
there are no more serpents tbere than there
have been in Ireland since St Patrick arove
them into the sea, or he is seized with legis
lative delirium tremens and find them lurking
in every leaf. Something must be written, and
white be may not "rely upon his memory for
bis wit," it is very hard to resist "depending
npon his Imagination for his facts," and the
temptation to "fake" is perilously strong. The
spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and he
writes careful forecasts of coming legislative
action, and sometimes has been known to hit it.
Evening comes and tbe hotels and restau
rants are deserted. Ross' and Aldlnger's no
longer resound with merriment; the pop bf
cnampigne corks is not heard, and the bar
keeperlooks with dlgniBed severity upon him
whn orders "beer." and frowns In bis face as ha
bands It to him. And so pass Friday and Sat
urday. Under the Minister's Lash.
Sunday dawns, and the weary member goes
tochutcb. Tbe newspaper man doesn't The
former Is met by the sexton, who sizes him bp
for a member at once, and regarding him as "a
brand to be plucked from the burning." shows
him up to a front seat, under the very drop
pings of the sanctuary, and the preacher seems
"onto him,", too, and grows severe over the
misdeeds of those in high places, and the sol
emn responsibilities ot those clothed with
authority by the people, all of which tbe mem
ber not unnaturally takes as highly personal,
and When in tbe offertory It is proclaimed that
tbe Lord loreth a cheerful elver," he drops a
nickel into the box, instead of the quarter he
proposed giving.
And the day drags by, and so does Monday,
and in tbe afternoon the trains come with the
members who have spent Sunday happily at
borne, and the member wbo stayed over greets
them with all the fervor of one embracing a
long-lost brother, ana cheers up at once. Things
grow livelier and hosier and gayer, ahd at 8
o'clock all are in their places to bear tbe Chap
lain announce to the Lord that the Legislature
Is about to resnme its labors, and Inferentially
suggest that He bad better keep an eye on it
as tbere is no telling what it may do before the
week's out Henry Hail.
- Welding Wheels to the-Track.
Scientific Amerlean.3
Ah Ihventlon is how undergoing investiga
tion which promises the improvement of rail
way traffic. The invention consists ot a Small
dynamo and an auxiliary engine placed npon
the locomotive in such a way as to be easily
operated, furnishing a current of small force
but large quantity, wbich is made to pass from
one pole of the dynamo to one pair of driving
wheel", thence along the rail to the other pair
of driving wheels, thence to tho other pole of
the dynamo, thus forming a traveling circuit,
moving at all times with the locomotive. By
means of tbis current an Incipient weld is
caused between the wheels and rails at the
point of contact preventing the slipping or the
wheels. The working model of the device
shows an increase of 400 ber cent in the bant
ing power of the locomotive. The model with
out the application of tho current wonld not
mount a grade of 15 per cent but when the
current "was applied It monnted a grade of 33
percent, a iocoihohtb is now oeing equipped
with tbe invention to test it on the Baltimore
and Ohio Hallway.
It Has Broken loose.
Heir York Continent.
It really looks as if New Yotfc would win the
baseball pennant this year. Her talk Is mueh
more convincing than the mere brag of the
other cities. It is ft peculiarity ot ours that,
while we frequently allude to our own strength
and assert our ability to knock out tbe rest of
the baseball world in three rounds, we never,
never brag. Keep your eye on US.
With Method; in Their Madness.
Buffalo Express,!
Ths attempts, at Incendiarism in New York
tenement houses look Hkothe work or an or.
isuiu sane of lttaattsa.
fcuRlOtJB C0SDEKSixl0J,&. ',
Thirty.thtee steamboats aavisste.tht
Kongo river.
Denver is a mile higher than the Missis
sippi Valley.
Petroleum has been found exuding from
a stream fn Oklahoma.
V Indian elephant cannot live in Central
Africa, tbe home of a larger and more hardy
species.
It is said that the consumption of im
ported beer In Now York City has greatly in
creased of late.
A resident of Wythe county, Va.?
claims to have trapped six ground hogs since
"ground hog day."
Two years ago a Bolivar, Tenn., woman
predicted that ana wonld die on her ninety
fourth birthday, and she did.
At a recent marriage ceremony in Mor
Eab. county, Intt, the bride was exactly twica
the age and twice the weight of the groom.
A petrified. body of a prehistoric mart
has been found about six miles below Eugene;
Ore. IJke the famous Fresno petrification ths
feet are missing.
A foreign watchmaker has patented a
device by which, an hour or twe before a clock
runs down, the word "wind" will appear at an
opening in the dial.
An object of interest in Baleigb, K. C,
the other day, was a blind boy who had climbed
to the top ot a tree, abdut 45 feet high, and
seemed to enjoy it greatly.
The largest amount of mail ever carried
across the Atlantic by anyone vessel was 910
sacks on bound the City of New York, wbich
arrived at Queenstown the other day.
A colored man 103 years or age, died is
Chicago the other day. The most remark
able thing about him was that, though a Vir--glnlan,
be had never heard of George Wash
ington. An old farmer of Monroe county, O.,
was pecked in the hand the other day while
setting eggs under a ben. Blood poisoning has
set in from the wound, and his condition li
critical.
A horse at Alexandria, Ls., which wai
run over by a train and had One of its legs
broken, hobhled to a store near by, knocked at
the door, and by signs and brute language ap
pealed for relief.
A Pettis county. Mo., man had his hair
and whiskers cut the other day by a Sedalia
barber for the first time stncslSSO. When ha
went home his own dogs barked at him and his
wife shnt the door ih bis face.
A circus company paid $20 for a license
to exhibit at Astoria, L. L The Mayor revoked
the license and returned the money on ths
ground tbat the circus was "no good," and he)
did not Intend to have his constituents imposed
upon.
One of the latest exhibits at the quar
ters of the California State Board of Trade is
a set of peach, almond and prune trees selected
from nursery raws. Although only eight
months oiatne tree3 are aireaay xs ieetia
height
Different classes of substances have
been found to effect the organs ot taste in the
following order: Bitters, acids, saline sub
stances, sweets and alkalies. Tbe taste nerve
are nearly 2,000 times as sensitive to quinine as
to Sugar.
The tail of a rat has been sliced off and
transplanted to the forehead of a cat By de
grees the grafted member became1 indissolubly
one with tbe body of the cat though it took, to
itself no fur and failed to swell and lash when
Its new owner began to spit fire.
A Chicago Alderman -who visited Bos-
ton got lost f onr times in two days, and he was
a day and a half trying to find the station by
wbicb fo get a train West He finally hired a
hack and a policeman and had tbe latter bdy
his ticket and put bim on the train.
A doctor of West New-York, N. J., at
tended a patient who had scarlet fever. A drop
of saliva from her mouth struck him in the eye.
He told friends that he feared inoculation with
the fever. His apprehension was realized, and
he died In two Weeks of scarlet fever.
An Illinois sheriff, who has made a
good thing out ot selling tickets to see the scaf
fold npon wbicb he hangs his prisoners, on be
ing warned of the indecency bf so doing said
He thoiicht tbe indecency cams' la in refusing
him the right to sell tlcxets to see tbe machina
when It was being officially operated.
A famous surgical scientist mentions
the case of a railway guard who had met with
so serious an accident that he was compelled to
have his elbow, including the elbow joint, cue
out At tbe place of lesion the bones, with
balls and sockets, membranes and ligaments
were reproduced, and the arm became as good
as ever.
Some months ago the city authorities of
Mexico, Mo., caused the arrest of a man on hid
refusal to work out his poll tax. He was fined
ja 40, which he paid. Later he brought suit for
15,00(3 damages for illegal arrest Judgment
was rendered inhis favor for the amount stated.
Last week, it Is reported, tbe City compromised
by paying $1,000.
A curious phenomenon has been re
ported from the village of Kirnnjarwi, near
Paja, Lapland. Dnnng the winter the earth
became spontaneously heated in many places
to such a degree that the snow and Ice melted
at those places, ana it was impossible to touch
those spots without burning one's hand. Xho
cause of this phenomenon is not yet explained.
A pneumatic chisel has been introduced
into a stone cutting establishment. In Germany.
It resembles id appearance a syringe, which ths
Operator holds with both hands,and as he lets it
slide over the surface of the stono or metal tho
chisel chips off splinters and particles. Com
pressed air acting on a piston imparts a rota
tion of from 10,000 to 22.000 revolutions per
minute.
Americans use an alloy of one-tenth
copper in making coins to harden them. Tha
English nse less one-twelfth. Some time ago
tbe English Government filled two spinning
cylinders with coin, one with ours and one with
theirs, abd set them both revolving. Tbey ac
knowledged tbat theirs wore away much more
under the shaking than ours did, but tbey were
too conservative to change their standard.
Tn the telephone an alteration of
timbre, consisting of a disagreeable snuffling
which distorts words, is said to be due to tho
fundamental note and harmonics of tho
diaphragm being super-imposed upon those ot
the voice, without becoming cenfouuded with
tbem, and producing a disturbance of the elec
tric waves of tbe movements of the diaphragm
molecules and, therefore, of the sound waves
which reach the ear.
s-It is stated that soap in India is re
garded almost in the light of a natural curi
osity, for it is rarely It ever to be obtained of a
shopkeeper there. Of course, it is sold in ths
larger towns; but the amount used by the na
tives must be very small, seeing tbat the total
consumption ot soap ih India last year was
only 5,000 tons. This means that the amount
used Dy each person for tho year was consider
ably less than one ounce.
EASTER ETCHINGS,
"Johnny, is your sister at home?" said
the young man at the front door.
Walt till I light the gas or hold on-Ji you
halrsandj?"
"Why, no," replied the abashed youth.
"Rave you got a mustache that curls apattha
ends?"
"X no. I don't wear a mustache at alL" ,
'Hum. Have you got a large teal ilng on the
fouttb finger of your left hand?"
iio, 1 haven't."
Then." said Johnny, eonfldently, "she ain't '
at borne, "ahd he shut the door without faltosr ',
to io.Washinalon Post.
"Italy wants blood, I'm told."
"Well, let Chicago bars the contract There Is
enoush blood running to waste in the abattoirs
every day to supply all .Europe. Seio Tor ifsr,
aid.
A TWO SIDED?
Now Panny declares that Egypt'i queea "
-Was fair, and almost fat:
While barah says her build was more
On the style of a wooden slat
Bnt both the ladles are perfectly right.
And both of them should rejoice,
For the crowd will rush in the usual way.
Pay its money and take its choice.
Eroostyn Sagls.
Loquacious Dade I wead the othaw day
lhat a Euwopeaa antlsthaj made a wawtchen
tlawlyofpapaw. Jeweler What about the hairspring?
LOqna:lons Sude-Uh, I weckon he made that of
Jute or some othaw imitation otasit,u.Jruter'
Witkl.
tuiinent Citizen Mr. Blaine, I have
been deputed by a large number or .Republican
to askyoa to be our candidate for President
Mr. ilalnel am sorry, bnt ss a Cabinet illn
Ister 1 cannot antajtohlic mr chief. Ihavs been
gserned all my life by one great principle. I
would rather be boss than be PreMldent-CAfcdio
Ttihtt. .
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llttlS WHgziIng fcfili&ati IB IT liutin nT ttrmm tear.
.TTrt sugar U,mltel c&as tee cheese. -JttHH-
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