THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1891. e B$paft!j. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY S, 3S46L Vot 46. No. SI. -Entered at PlttsSurg Postoffice. November 11. 13S7, as second-class matter. Business Offlco Corner Smithfleld and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 75, 77 and 79 Diamond Street FAMTKKS ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM a. TRIBUNE BUILDING. SEW YORK, where complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be Sound. Foreign advertisers appreciate the con venience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, while in New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPATCH is rf0ti tally on tale at Erenlvno't. S Union Square. Jfew Xork, and 17 JLrt. de VOpeia, Paris, France, vhere anyone tcho has been disappointed at a hotel neict itand can obiain it. TERMS Or TILE DISPATCH. TOSTAGE TKrE IS THE rKITBD STATES. Dailt Dispatch. One Year I stf Dailt DiSPATcn, Per Quarter . 100 .Dailt Dispatch. OneJUoutn TO Daily Disr-ATCn. Including Sunday, lyear. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, including Sunday,3m'Uis 180 1HILY DlPATCH. Including fcuuday, lm'lh 90 fcCXDAY DlsrATCR. One Year !50 "Wlekly DisrATCii. One Year )3 The Daily DisrATcn Is delivered by carriers at r; cents per icek, or Including Sunday edition, at Ilcents per -week. PITTSBURG. MONDAY, MAR. 30, 189L DON'T TAKE CHANCES. The bright and clear weather of the past few days creates the hope that the grip epi demic, which assumed such serious magni tude last week, will rapidly disappear under the sunshine aud warmth that was the promise of Easter. There is every reason to hope that the promise may be fulfilled. "While the theories as to the cause of the grip are far from decisive experience permits lis to expect that it will disappear with the advent of sprinir weather. But there should be care against being deceived by the bright ness of the sunshine into undue exposure. Especially should those who have been at all subject to the inroads of influenza or pneumonia exercise great care against going out with a change of clothing. The past reason has afforded abundant proof ot the folly of taking any chances that may affect health or strength. 310HE THAN WAS MHANT. While the decision of the United States Circuit in. Philadelphia the other day against one of those shallow swindles which pretend to be co-operative benefit societies was entirely just, a declaration of the judge is quoted, which taken literally is decidedly extreme. The Judge is reported as saying that a beneficial organization "has no authority to enter into contracts without money on hand to carry them out." , If this statement were to be taken as law, in its full meaning, it would rule out an immense number of legitimate and honestly conducted organizations. Indeed it is hard to see how any form of life insurance or ben efit organization could escape the ban of that judicial utterance. The most reliable ot benefit organizations, when they enter into contracts with their members, do not have the money on hand to carry them all out, but rely on their ability to raise the money as it is needed by assessments. The greatest life insurance companies when they make contracts of in surance rely upon the investment of the premiums to be received from the policy holders, to meet the maturity of the con tracts under the average expectation of deaths, forfeitures and withdrawals. If the learned Judge is correctly reported, he per mitted his stricture upon an obvious fraud to go to the length of an assertion, which, if taken literally, would work wholesale de struction among legitimate organizations. The case under consideration was that of making contracts which there was no possi bility of carrying out, and which was there fore practically obtaining money under false pretenses "What the Judge intended to Bay doubtless was that no organization has the Tight to enter upon contracts, unless by the application of plain business rules it will be able to earn the money to carry them out at maturity. That is a sound principle which will bar out the fraudulent schemes; but it is vitally different from asserting that all or ganizations must have the money on hand at the inception of the contract. M'KINLEYS MISTAKE. There seems to be a very strong point in the charge made by the New York Post against the Hon. "William McKinley, of varying his utterances on the silver question according to the locality in which he is speaking. The Post is apt to be hypercriti cal in its attacks on the Protectionist lead ers; but the quotations of Sir. McKinley's language convey a decided impression that the late leader ot the House has yielded to the temptation to represent different views in accordance with what he imagines to be the sentiment of his hearers. The Post quotes from McKinley's speech at Toledo, to show that he attacked the Cleveland ad ministration for "dishonoring one of our precious metals, one of our great products, discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold" and from his speech at Boston last week, it quotes the assertion that "there is not a Democrat in the State oi Massachusetts who does not fear the free, unlimited coinage of silver, which is sure to come through that Democratic House." It is to be noted that in neither of these speeches did Mr. McKinley put himself squarely on the platform of free silver coinage or against it. But he committed an equal insincerity in attacking the Demo cratic administration for its enmity to silver in one place; and in another holding up the bugbear of free silver as a result of Demo cratic success. A free silver man might consistently attack the Cleveland admin istration because it did not meet his views; an anti-silver man might regard the course of the next Democratic Honse with appre hension. But for the same man to do both is to convict himself of insincerity. Possibly Mr. McKinley got new light on the silver question between his Toledo and his Boston speech; but he should have recognized that when a public leader has to revise the views be has already expressed, he should have the grace to do it in a modest and apologetic manner. Mr. McKinley has earned his prominence as a leader of the Protectionist element by sin outspoken and consistent advocacy of his opinions, without regard to local senti-m-nt. He has sustained that reputation, generally, by acts becoming an honest and sincere man; and these qualities, together with the general conviction that he was treated unfairly in his retirement from Con gress, give him continued prominence in politics. But he will not sustain that repu tation by changing sides on the silver ques tion according to the sentiment of the sec tion in which he is advocating the Repub lican cause. Before delivering himself any further on the silver question Mr. McKinley should decide, once for all, whether he will attack the Democracy for its enmity or its friendship to silver. PUNISHING HABITUAL CRIMINALS. A very queer bili is before the Wisconsin Senate. It says that every person who shall be for the third time convicted of crime, whether in the State or elsewhere in the United States, shall be deemed to be an habitual criminal; and that at the expira tion of his third term of imprisonment be shall not be released, but shall be detained for the balance of his life. The proviso is made that the State Board having control of the prison may allow him to go on parole after the expiration of the time for which he was last sentenced, if in the judgment of the board his conduct was such as to warrant the favor. This is only one of many similar attempts to legislate against confirmed criminals, and will likely never get beyond the committee to which it was referred. There are more reasons than one for such a belief. In the first place, it discriminates against Amer ican felony in favor of the foreign by mentioning conviction in the State of "Wis consin or elsewhere in the United States, leaving the assumption that crim inals who come to "Wisconsin from other countries are not to have their convictions in foreign lands counted against them. This is unjust, because it practically means that a man is not to be considered an habitual criminal until he has been convicted three times in the United States. It has always been the belief that the penal laws of this country, and of the various States, do not discriminate against the felonies of any na tionality, but here we have a proposed law that will overthrow such belief. It makes a felony in the United States worse and liable to greater punishment than if it were committed in Europe, for instance. "We are not proud of the national product in the way of crime, but we cannot rest nnder the imputation that it is always the most heinous in the world. It is not certain where the frame of the bill got its authority for making habitual criminals, and for practically sentencing them to life imprisonment, and should the bill become a law it is by no means certain that any man could be kept in prison after the expiration of bis term. No twisting of any existing law can give a judge the right to send a man to prison for a longer period than the term fixed as the maximum punishment for his crime; and making the third conviction itself a crime is non sense. THE SPANISH SWINDLERS. The news that swindlers tried to make a victim of President Harrison will strike the reader as very odd. Hedged around by the proper respect paid to his office, the Presi dent would seem to be safe from people who make their living by hoodwinking the un wary. He is not, however, any safer than any other person. Men whose brains are tetming with schemes for getting something for nothing do not allow themselves to be come abashed in the presence of the Chief Executive of the nation. Not they. He is but a man who happens to have some money which they want. Therefore, according to their peculiar logic, they have a right to try and get it If tbey succeed, they feel not a bit more exul tation than if they had robbed a Farmers' Alliance official. The existence of an organized gang of Spanish swindlers working various schemes among the prominent people of this country has been suspected for some time. There is every indication that the gang has been successful in a number of cases, but that fear of ridicule has kept their victims silent. Now that the suspicion has become a cer tainty, every effort will be made to capture and punish the members, and Harrison will not say nay. FARMERS AND PERSONAL TAX. In an article criticising the new State revenue bill, the Philadelphia Press enters into a rather extensive argument to im press upon the agricultural element, the idea that its provisions will increase their taxes on personal property. The summary of its views on that point is as follows: We recognize that the taxation in many rural townships is unwarrantably heavy and may bo at times oppressive,even to the point of con fiscation of the annual earnings of farm land, but the farmer is not relieved by taking half this tax off his farm and placing it on his horses, gathered crops, and farm machinery, as proposed in this revenue MIL It may be taken for granted that the farmers are fully aware of the fact that tak ing the tax off their land and putting it all on their personal property will not benefit them. But in view of the fact that these provisions have been incorporated in the bill, by the consent of the farmers' repre sentatives, it is quite possible that they ex pect a tolerably comprehensive scheme of assessing personal property, to bring them compensations from one source or another. They may think that if personal property in cities is assessed equally with their own possessions the tax taken off land will not fall entirely on their personal property, but that a liberal share ot it will be raised from personal property in the cities, and from the manufacturing and corporate forms of possessions. Moreover, judging from the violent efforts which some unknown interests are making against the bill, it is a legitimate conclusion that in entertaining this idea the farmers are entirely right "It is well to remember," remarks the Boston Ttaveller, "that the disappearance of the surplus about which the Democrats prato so mnch has been largely caused by the pay ment of 205,000,000 of the bunded indebtedness of the country." This would be quite re assuring if it were true. But In view of the fact that the appropriations which have no relation to the payment of the public debt show an increase of more than 200,000,000 as compared with those of six years ago, we must conclude that our Boston cotemporary has a very unreliable source of information as to Government appropriations. As official declaration by the Secretary of War is quoted to the effect that the civil war "began April 15, 186L,and ended August 20, 18C0." It would be interesting to have the official authority that makes this statement in form us what acts of war were committed later than the spring of 1805. IN commenting npon the sugar bountv the Philadelphia Ilecord says: "While losings, fiscal revenue of 153,000,060 on sugar the people pay an indirect tax of S3 per cent on bounties to producers of the domestic product" The esteemed Ilecord should be a little more care, ful in its mathematical statements, so as to prevent confusion. If it had said that the indirect tax is to pay bounties of S3 petcent it would hare been more accurate. The net re sult of the change is that a bill which professes to reduce the revenue makes good its pro fession, and the people get the benefit of it in reduced prices on sugar. The rapid succession of bright, warm sunshine to the stormy weather of last week may mako the spring fever a prompt successor to tho grip epidemic. Ik response to an inquiry in the State Senate, the other day, why Gov. Hill ot New York got that State's share ot the "direct tax refunding payment so roach sooner than Got. j Paulson got Pennsylvania's share. Senator x cuiuau auggesieu mat uov. xxm uoius ivd offices, which gave him an advantage. But If that is true, it does not explain the difference. It only raises tho qnestion why Senator and Congressman John B. Robinson did not make himself useful. If it be true that the portrait of George Washington lias been removed from the Ar kansas Houso of Representatives to make room for one of Jefferson Davis, it is only necessary to remark that Washington can stand it better than Arkansas can. The Baltimore American publishes some facts about some young men who left Balti more and went West "to get rich." The fact that they did not do it, is taken by that journal as an argument in favor of Baltimore. But what is the proof that if they had remained in Baltimore they would have got richT If they had gone West, not "to get rich," but to be use ful and industrious citizens, there is a possibili ty that they would have succeeded in their pur pose. Barbados joins the ranks of the "West Indian colonies that wish to establish reciproci ty with the United States. And yet somo of our partisan friends continue to insist that there is nothing in reciprocity. It is interesting to be told that a letter from tho chairman of a committee on uni versity extension remarks that "nobody objects to the measure after they understand its pur pose." It is also plain that with this sentence before them, nobody should object to a meas ure for grammar school extension. The policy of using clubs to make things lively in our politics must now pale its dimin ished light before tho demonstration in that line furnished by the Sligo election. The amendment of the ballot reform act in Hew York, with the avowed object "to pre vent nominations for the purpose of annoying and embarrassing the older political parties," Is a singular declaration of the principle that legislation is now for the benefit ot the parties and not of the people. PEOPLE PABAGEAPHED. Dr. Augustus T. Murry has been ten dered the Colorado College Greek professor ship. Louis Barrett, a brother of the dead tragedian, is a member of tho Margaret Mather Company. Fred Douglas mourns that he cannot celebrate his birthday. He does not know when ho was born. EX-GOVERNOR P. B. S. FlNCHBACK, of Louisiana, is about to become a permanent resident in Washington. Jose de Navarro, father-in-law of Mary Anderson, though in bad financial straits at present, is expected soon to come out all right. Mme. Bernhardt gave some recita tions in Philadelphia last Tuesday to illustrate a lecture by Prof. Wisner on the actress. Rachel. Dr. Seelye, the well-known college President, declares that at tho present rate of progress the women of the country will, at the end of tho present century, be better educated than the men. Hon. John M. Langston is lecturing noon "The Demands of the Colored People." He says the colored man has bad too many spokesmen who knew little about him and less about his desires. Prof. John Fiske is again upon the lecture platform, in such illustrious company as "Alexander Hamilton," "Thomas Jeffer son," "Andrew Jackson and the Democracy of Sixty Years Ago." Judge Hammond, of the Superior Court, Boston, said at a dinner last week that he did not believe there was ever a Judge who felt himself fully competent to perform the duties of his office. Prof. Robertson Smith, of Carlisle, who edited the last edition of "The Encyclo pedia Britannica" in 'conjunction with the late Prof. Baynes, has undertaken the editorship of the new Bible Dictionary. Gilbert A. Pierce, ex-Senator from North Dakota, who has recently been talked about as a possible Minister to Japan, has be come the editor of tho Minneapolis Tribune, which Mr. Blethen recently sold. Miss Helen P. Clark, an Indian girl who was educated at Carlisle, has been sent to Montana as a special agent of the Government Her mission will be to superintend the allot ment of lands to the Indians. Signor Crispi has decided to go to Karlsbad for treatment this summer. Bis marck has also chosen Kissengen for his resi dence during a part of the warm season. It is believed in official circles of Italy and Ger many that the two ex-Premiers will meet at that time. BUT W0MEH WILL TALK. Mrs. n. Gets Llttlo Credit for a Kind and Charitable Act. Detroit Free Press. The sweet, motherly face of Mrs. B who al ways wore decorous black, appeared on the promenade lately in a Rubens hat black, to bo sure but oh "Twenty years too young for her," ejaculated one friend behind her back. To her face she said: "You dear thing! How becoming that hat is to you. Never wear a bonnet aiain!" "Did you see Mrs. B. at church to-day?" asked another lady of her husband. "Yes, she never misses morninc service," he replied. "And did you notice her hat?" "Why, no. I suppose it was tho samo one she always wears." "It was around hat" announced the lady in much the same tonn she might have used if the headgear in question had been a washtuh. That woman will wear a crown somo day," answered her husband. "I do not know her equal in good works." "I am talking about earthly millinery now," answered his wife, as she picked up tho cUs cussion again. Meanwhile Airs. a. naa returned nome ana taken oft the offending bat which she handed to her daughter. "Thank you. Ruby," she said. "I suppose my bonnet has come back." "Yes. dear," answered her daughter; "and Mrs. was so grateful because you lent It to her. She said she could not afford to buy mourning for her boy." "It was a small favor to do for one in trouble." answered the mother gently. And tho wagging tongues novor reached her. Paradoxical Literature Pall Mall Gazette. "Literature," so Mr. John Murray, Jr., told the banqueters at the Booksellers' Trade din ner on Saturday, "was the most paradoxical ot careers. Thoy saw individual authors making larger sums than had ever been known before, and, on the other hand, they had the sad sight of greater poverty and distress. There was greater research on individual subjects, and a greater degree of slovenliness; thero was keener criticism on all that was publishod, and yet more worthless productions appeared; there was greater education and less discrim ination among the public; books were cheaper than ever, and yet individual books sold for fabulous pricos." DEATHS OP A DAY. Elizabeth. Parker. Elizabeth Parker, who died Saturday night at her residence. No. 20 Logan street was for more than CO years a member of Wylle Avenue A. M. E. Church. She was always a strong sup porter or the Woman's CnrlstUn Temperance Union, and her loss will be mourned by many, Mrs. Mary A. Herbert Mrs. Mary A. Herbert died yesterday at her residence, 13 Tremont street in her 89th Tear. Mrs. Herbert was the widow or John Herbert, and was welt known, both In this cltv and Allegheny. The funeral will talte place from the residence to-morrow at 11 o'clock A. ai. Mrs. Jane C. FInley. McKeesport, March 29. Mrs. Jane C FInley died ather home In Klizabeth, yesterday morning. The deeased was the mother of S. F. Klnler, one or the most prominent, merchants in McKcctport, HOT SPRINGS CURIOS. Poor Land but Pare Milk A Burro Swindle Exposed Advantages of Small Horse Car Mules "Where Cavaliers Are Nu merous Equestrianism a Dangerous Pastime. Hot Spmkgs, Aek., March 26. There Is enough grass in this valley to make a breakfast for one Northern cow of moderate appetite. They do not turn out the cows, horses, mules and burros here to graze; they are not so fool ish. About all you can graze upon the rocks and tree stumps are yonr shins. The rocks are picturesque, though; rough and white stone, sometimes slaty and often full of crystal for mations, from which are obtainod tho Hot Springs diamonds, as they are called. The best whet-stones in the United States are made from this rock. Another thing the natives pride themselves upon are their garden rook eries. Up North when a man wants to make his front yard an eyesore he fills it with white washed rocks; bnt here nature gives him the rooks ready whitewashed. This suits the Southerner to a T. But to return to our cows. It has puzzled me to account for the richness of tho cream upon the hotel table, as compared with the poverty of the landscape and the cows here abouts, but to-day the gentle brunette who thinks ho waits at our table explained the seeming anomaly. The milk, cream and butter comes from New Jersey; or about 2,000 miles, packed in ice. Indeed, the great hotels here have to import pretty nearly everything they give their guests to eat and it is as credit able as it is singular that you can get as good a dinner here as you can at the Anderson or Duquesne. The beef steaks are especially cood, for the reason I suppose that we draw at first hand upon the herds of Texas. When Gilbert A. Hays was in Cuba this spring he was somewhat astonished at the ex cellence of tho butter which they served at the Hotel El Tclcerafo. It struck him as remark able that such rich, creamy butter should be procurable in Havana, where the cows, par don the bull, are chiefly asinine. By and by the proprietor of the hotel, as the custom is in Spanish countries, came to Mr. Hays and asked him If everything was satisfactory. With his wonted diplomacy, Mr. Hays replied in the affirmative, though he still had a positive im pression upon bis person of the woven-wirc mattress upon which he bad spent the night a VEspagnole, with only a single sheet interven ing, and added a special word of praise for the butter. "Yes, the butter ought to be good," replied mine host; "we get it twice a week regularly from New Yorkl" The Beautiful Burro Even the burros are imported. There are scores of the poor little beasts here, for the diminutive bnt sure-footed donkey is the best hill-climber going, and there are enough chil dren about the hotels anyhow to keep most of them employed all daylong. Apparently, the donkeys thrive on a diet of rocks I have never seen one eating anything more luscious for though they are not inclined to embonpoint in figure and their coats resemble a moth-eaten buffalo robe, tbey are nimble enough on their feet and a placid air of contentment may be discerned on their lengthy faces. The donkeys I knew in childhood were not so sweet-tempered, and their energies were concentrated al most entirely in their hind legs. Happily, the independent but suave burro of Arkansaw has not been contaminated by intercourse with the rude and restive donkeys of Margate sands I knew twenty years and many thousands ot miles away. If tho protective tariff has kept the bloated donkey of England from our mar kets it is again to be blessed. Mr, McKinley should look into this. It is not surprising that visitors should often carry away a Hot Springs burro as a memento. Last week somo Pittsburgers who were about to depart for homo entered into negotiations with the burro monopolist for one of the little creatures. A comely one was selected and the prico fixed at $20, about $10 50 above the market quotation in Mexico, whence all the burros are imported. Then the Pittsburger inquired about transportation, and discovered that It would cost S35 to carry the 20-dollar donkey to Pittsburg! This seemed a trifle expensive, and when it came out that precisely tho samo burro could be bought for the same price In St Louis, thus saving more than half the lreight charges, the Pittsburger very naturally decided to curb bis desire for a burro till he reached tho Mound City. Mr. Kimball, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who is here with his family, has created a boom in tho burro market by buying no less than four ot them. As a railroad man Mr. Kimball, of course, knew hotter than to pay freight charges from here to St Louis, and his four neddies will be shipped to Philadelphia from tho latter place. Small Mnles In Demand. The mules which draw the street cars here are almost as small as the burros. The cars are bob-tailed, of course, and as rapidity is not a desirable feature in transit here, even if it were possible, the little mules get along very well. Still their diminutive size attracts tho notice of a Northerner, and I mado some re mark about it to a native the other day. "Do you know why they use small mules?" said ho. "Why, if they had bigger ones, they'd never get through the streets in wet weather. A heavier mule would bo out of sight in the mud, sir, in no time," and remembering the lagoons of mud in the chief street after the snow melted the other day, I saw the wisdom of using lightweight mules, and preferably good swimmers. As 1 write I can seo a horso car bobbing along in one direction, in the light of an electric arc lamp, while six oxon, harnessed to a heavy wheeled dray, on which rests a single bale of hay, are slowly and unevenly moving up tho street in the other. The ox-carts and the loco motive rnn side by sido through this valley, but the latter goes somewhat faster it must be con fessed. Cavaliers in Plenty. The groat diversion, and indeed tho only one, almost for the visitor here, is equestrian exer cise. Everybody rides except the very sickest of the invalids. The roads are too rough for driving, ana walking is out of the question if a very few paths up tho hillsides are excepted. For those who don't ride, the sight of those who can't ride, but will mount, is a cheap and constant amusement A man who started from our hotel this morning was thrown four times in 100 yards. This beats the local record, I am told. Somo of the horses are good, and as a general rule superior to the livery stable horses one sees in the East. Even the best riders, how ever, find it hard to stay on some of tho horses, and the reason of this I discovered to-day. A gentleman who hired a horse at the princi pal livery stable here one day la3t week had an expciience that he did not appreciate. He dropped his whip, and in remounting the horse started back and fell, throwing the rider on his face. The horse then ran off and was recap tured by another man in the party with some difficulty. Finally my friend got back to the stable, and ho stayed around until the saddle was taken off. Then he understood why the horse had jumped back when he triea to mount There was a raw place as big as a man's hand on tho horse's back, against which the rider's leg had pressed as he rose into the saddle. He asked the proprietor of the stable why he let a horse go ont m such a state. "The season is so short here," candidly con. fessed the liveryman, "that we have to use all our horses continually. The horses get sore backs because of the bad riding of most of the women. They do not sit square in the saddle, and thus a sore place is soon formod by the pressure. After a horse gets this kind of sore back a woman can't ride it but a man, whoso weight is differently distributed in the saddle, can." Hepburn Johns. Derivation of Hurrah. The North. One familiar English word of ours "Hur rah" says Sarah Orne Jewett in her interest ing work on "The Normans Is said to date from Rolf's reign. "Rou," the Frenchmen called our Rolf; ana thero was a law that if a man was in danger himself.or caught his enemy doing any damage he could raise the cry "Ha Rouf'and so invoke justice in Duke Rolfs name. At the sound of the cry everybody was bound on the instant to give chase to the of fender, and whoever failed to respond to the cry of "Ha Ron!" must pay a heavy fine to Rolf himself. Thus began the old English fashion of "hue and cry," as well as our custom ot shouting "Hurrah!" when we are pleased and excited. , lie Warns Himself. Philadelphia Press. 1 Spring is coming, as are also the poets of the season. But paragraphers should remember that their cbestnutty comments are almost as bad as the poems. THE LAST ROLL CALL. Memorial Services Held by J. C. Hull Post, G. A. It, for tho Seven Comrades Who Died During the Year Touching Ad dress by Judge Collier. No better or more fitting day could have been selected by Colonel J. C. Hull Post 157. G. A. R., to do honor to its dead comrades than yes terday, the day which marked the resurrection, and when the earth is ready to burst forth into new life. The memorltl services wero held in Turner Hall, Forbes street, and were largely attended. The stago was beautifully decorated with national flags, while on the right were seven empty chairs, heavily draped in black and each bearing a boquet of flowers, lovingly placed to tho memory of those gone to answer the last roll call. The programme made out for the occasion was very simple, but the services were of the most impressive character. They were opened with tho anthem, "I Would Not Live Alway," rendered by the choir, consisting of Misses Carrie M. Terrant, Annie Orr and Messrs. F. T. and ChArles J. Becker, after which there was the opening of the Dost bv Commander H. L. Hoburg. Reading the record of the seven dead comrades bv Adjutant X. 8. Rees, and placing of flowers by Comrades H. H. Askin, H. H. Bengough and Ot S. Mcllwaine. came next Then followed solos by Miss Terrant and Miss Orr. Judge Collier's Memorial Address. The address was delivered by Comrade Judge F. A. Collier, whose remarks were brief but touching. He said: "We little think how soon we must follow our comrades whom we memo rialize to-day. Do you ever think of it now when our comrades and the wholo communitv are sick and when within a very short space of time two of our distinguished citizens parsed away from us. Comrades, this is a solemn thought and we should think solemnly of It This is a fitting day for such ceremonies when the earth is ready to burst forth into now life. Young men and women, do you know what these men did in flesh? They wore a decora tion on their breasts which you will never wear. They went our, leaving home and family, to preserve that flag which gives your children and my children the freedom that they have, and when they camoback the country gave them a badze of honor. In conclusion, let us resolve on this great resurrection dav that we will forever stand by God and our country and hold sacred tho memory of our comrades for ever." The choir then sang an anthem, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." after which the doxology Has sung by the audience. Tho Death Roll for a Year. Thero were seven deaths in the post during tho past year, as follows: Nicholas liOWEn Born in Germany; mastered Into service August 10, 1861, as private In Com pany I, Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; honorably discharged September 13, 1864, having served three years and one month; died Novem ber 27, 189. aged 73 years. J. It D. Clbndknning Born In Ohio; mus tered into service August 18. 1862. a Sergeant of Company D. -Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteers; honorably discharged as First Lieutenant Com pany 1), Ninth Ohio Volunteers, June 1. 185. hav ing served two years and ten months; died .March 10, IS90, aged 59 ve.irs. WILLIAM ilcADAMS-Iiorn in Ireland, mus tered Into service August 1, 1861, as private in Company D, sixty-third Pennsylvania Volun teers; discharged as Corporal Company 1, Slxty tlilrd Pennsylvania Volu itcers, August 1, lust. having served three years. Died April 3, 1890, aged 6G years. John it McMillan Horn in Ireland, entered United States service July 1. 1801. as private in Company 1), Tweiitv-seveiilh Ohio Volunteers: discharged as .i private March 14, 18G2, on account of disability, nanng served eight months. Died July 29, 1890. aged 58 years. John Uottiiardt Horn in Pennsylvania: en tered the service Julys, 1861, as private In Com pany II. Slxtv-sccond Pennsylvania Volunteers; discharged as a private December 16. 1862: re enllsted as a private in Ncgley's Independent Jlattallon of Scouts in 1 804. serving 23 months. Died February It 1S91, aged 48 years. Thomas II. Lemon Born In Pennsylvania: en tered the service June 23. 1S61. as Corporal Com pany It. Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers: discharged July 2, 1804. Died February 14, 1S.11, aged 50 years. James AUSTEN-Horn in England: entered the United States service as a seaman October 15, 1861; honorably discharged December 9, 1861, on account of disability. Died March 1, 1891, aged 62 years. THE HEW TBUNK LIHE. Details of the Acquisition Just Made by the Canadian Pacific. New York, March 29. The Canadian Pacific is now a full-fledged trunk line out of New York City. Railroad men have long been watching the maneuvers of President Van Home, wondering whether ha wonld bulla a rival line from across the border or bay or lease one of the established trunk lines. Mr. Van Home, who is regarded as a very clever railroad man, has been on the war path for several years; but he has a faculty for cov ering up his tracks. For this reason very few railroad people saw what he was really after. He neither built nor bought nor leased, but by a series of skillful moves be got what he wanted from the company that has the best terminal hereabouts. Mr. Van Home. Chauncey M. Depew and H. Walter Webb completed the deal yesterday by which the New York Central Railroad lets the Canadian Pacific bring its freight and passen ger trains in over the West Shore and the Cen tral with as good facilities as the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad gets. The Canadian Pacific will come cown from Brockvllle over the new bridces which are to be built at that point by way of the Rome. Water town and Ogilensburg to Utlca. No Canadian Pacific trains will como over the VandcrDilt linos by way of Buffalo or Suspension Bridge at present, although this may follow if the Cana dian Pacific completes its line either to Buffalo or to the bridge. After the main points of tho agreement had been reached at tho conference at the Grand Central station, Mr. Van Homo declared the war at an end, and returned to Montreal on the night train. Tho details of the agreement will be worked ont bv the traffic officers of th two companies, and it will go into effect imme diately. HE SCENTS SNOW. A Blizzard and Four More Flurries Before Spring Fairly Sets In. To the Editor of The Dispatch i Wo had a white Christmas and have a white Easter. This snow I prophesied two months ago would be 18 inches deep. There are four snows to follow this one in April, though not so deep, and one blizzard on the 1st or 2d of April, from the lakes to tho Atlantic Ocean. One windstorm is indicated for the last of March. We will have seven frosts in May, some white and some black, and one or two frosts in June if not in low countries, in the mountains. Plenty of fruit Hay will be a thought I would let you know I am still on top. April will bo windy, cold and rainy, with lew days o'f sunshine. Emantjel Battohman. MYERSDALE. Pa., March 28. KEPT THE HOLIDAY. Corkworfcers Ileld Aloof From tho Factory Yesterday, Leaving It to the Polico. The big cork factory at the end of Twenty fourth street presented a desolato appearanco last evening. It was alike deserted Dy the SOU new workers and the patrol of locked-ont em ployes who have mounted guard about it lately. A couple of officers on special duty had tho vicinity to themselves, but should occa sion have required it a reinforcement of half a dozen could have been had fiom within the next three blocks. SPRING. Thou art coming. Joyous spring I With the sunshine for thv dower. And the love of leaf and flower. And the swallow on the wing, Hark, how tba thrashes sing I Thou art coming in thy mirth. To give rapture to the earth. And cheerful thoughts to mo; Thou art coming In thy glee. And the chestnut buds will burst For the blossom time athlrst And for 'i,hee. Thou art coming, thou art nigh. Voting as in primeval years. Blushing amidst smiles and tears. With a laugh and with a sigh, Fair as in days gone by, Ah! the bliss that once was mine. When this life was half divine, When In innocency strong Loving beanty, hating wrong, And. with wine or April gay, Joyously I welcomed May With a song! Thou art coming on the way! And the primrose's sweet face x Thine advent-hour will grace, And the boys and girls will play As In the olden day, U hen ray lambs could join the rate Hut the years grow dark apace With thadowi of the night; I'et 1 feel thy youthful might And catch the quickening sound Of thy footsteps on the ground With delight. London Spectator, THINGS IN GENERAL, The Art of Dinner-Giving and the Work of Dinner-Gottlng McAllister's Views to Cause Thinking A Bishop Mure Afraid of Capitalists Thau Tramps. Mr. AVard McAllister has been instructing us, in the columns of the New York Tribune, as to the correct way to give a dinner. The art of dinner-giving, he says,.is "an art that every man should cultivate. A perfect dinner is an occasion that will be remembered when the recollection of all other entertainments has faded. It 13 not a trifling matter to give a perfect dinner, aud the host who does succeed in such an undertaking has accomplished a great deal for his guests. There is much that must be understood before one can hope to do so much. The host must know whom to in vite, as well as what to give them. As to the food and wines, they mnstbeof the best that can be had in every particular, and not only must they be the best, but tho food must be cooked and the viands and wines served in a manner with which no fault can be found." Yes, indeed. But suppose you haven't food and wines "of the best that can be had in every particular." Suppose you have no food nor wines of any kind, except a very meagre, and bad, and altogether unsatisfactory kind. Sup pose that you are, of grim necessity, a good deal less interested in the art of dinner-giving than in the art of dinner-getting! There are such people. And the unfortunate thing about Mr. McAllister, and his book, and his newspa per article, and his very existence, is the fright ful and shameful contrast which is thus brought out between these two separated classes the dinner-givers and the dinner-getters. That there shonld be people whose chief occupation is the devising of new ways of spending money in the delights of eating and drinking, sido by side with other people who have no money in their pockets, and no dinners of any sort npon their tables, and starvation for guest and lodger that this shonld be pos sible in this Christian century this is one of the things which Mr. McAllister makes thoughtful people think about. A Rather Unpleasant Fact Tho fact is not a pleasant one to face. But there is no getting away from it What a sig nificant coincidence that these two books should appear at the same time, and bo read by the same people, and be piled np side by side in the bookstores, and be laid together on library tables "Society as I Have Found It," by Ward McAllister, and "Society as I Have Found It" ("In Darkest England")by William Booth The coincidence was happily commented upon, the other day by a writer who entitled his arti cle "The Froth and the Dregs." "A civilization that drives the two poles of society farther and farther apart, that widens the gap and intensifies the jealousy between one class and another, that heightens the con trast in city or country, between tho comforts of the rich and the hardships of the poor, which overtasks or underpays wigeworkers in order to add superfluous affluence and irre sponsible power to the estates of a few, which helps a hundredth part of the population to own half of the property, which exposes innumerable women to moral ruin for a living, which drives pale and emaci ated and rickety children daily from pestilental tenements to factories and mines, which countenances as a con spicuous parisn-leader in the commercial capital of its best community all owner of real estate who has pocketed four millions of dol lars by the rontai of four nests of misery and dens of vice five stories high, which lets fifteen thousand children die within a year after they are born in these cellars and garrets without uttering a sound of indignation or alarm, which robs the citizen voter of his independ ence and manliness at the polls, enslaving him by fear or want to a landlord or employer, which increases the rate of suicide and in sanity every year, which steadily multiplies the influence of money irrespective ot character, which sells offices of trust in the State to the highest bidder, which puts the loftiest trusts in the government nf great cities into the hands of saloon keepers, gamblers, jockeys and their patrons, a social condition where Legislatures are bribed and juries are packed, where in most industries 'one man is master and many serve,' where the magnitude of a fraud is seenrity against punishment this is not a civilization under the command of the religion of Christ" Tho Opinion of a Bishop. That is what Bishop Huntington says. When I talked with blm, the other day, at Syracuse he repeated that and emphasized it He said that as he looked ahead into the future, he bad more fear of the capitalists than he had of the tramps. I asked him what 'n his opinion. the church is really for; what is the supreme purpose which the Founder of it meant the church to get accomplished, and be said, "The church exists to make men brothers." He quoted from the macnificat: "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted tbom of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away." And, again, from the text of Cnrist's.flrst sermon: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preacn tue uospei to tne poor." xnese words, he said, set forth the real spirit of genuine Christianity. Mr. McAllister you and your FonrHnndreo. your name Is Dives. And Lazarus lies on yonr doorstep. You are attired in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Yon know how to dress and how to dine even to per fection. And vonglveyourwholomlndtotbcso things. And Lazarus gets the crumbs which fall from yonr tables, and yonr dogs lick his sores. Dives was not altogether neglectful of Lazarus. And yon are not But Lazarus gets worse rather than better; somehow keeps on lay after day, sick and in rags, and on your doorstep. We have nothing worse to say about you. The Master had nothing harder than that to say about your brother In Jerusalem. What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we bo clothed? Nobody knows so well as you do how to answer these questions. But here is Lazarus on your door step. Where McAllister Is Needed. Really the place where there Is tho most need of Mr. McAllister's instructions in the "art of dinner-giving" is up in heaven. For one day the door stood open and somebody looked in, and, behold, the servants were eating with the family, and "the office clerk and bis wlfo and the blacksmith and bis daughter" were sitting in the best places, and somo of the Four Hun dred were left out altogether I The Professor of Things in General wonders sometimes what the parsons preach about where Dives goes to church. "t he parish priest Of Austerlltz Climbed up In a high church steeple To be nearer God, So that he might hand Ills word down to bis people. "And in sermon script He dally wrote What be thought was sent fromheaven; And he drout tbls down On bis people's heads Two times one day in seven. "In his age God said, Come down and die.' And he cried out from the steeple, Where art thou. Lord:' Ana the Lord replied, Down here amoug My people.' " Spcaklns of parsons and preachins. I see that tho Rev. Howard MacQueary has been found guilty by the ecclesiastical court and has been given six months to come to a better mind, and, without waiting that long, has resigned his ministry. This was the only decision to which any ecclesiastical court could come. The wonder is that they took so long about it The one unfortunate step in the whole mat ter, as was pointed out in these Monday Medi tations some time ago, was the bringing of Mr. MacQueary to trial at all. "Let truth and error grapple." That In the long run, and In spite of the religious papers, is the best way. Truth needs no help from ecclesiastical courts. Mr. MacQueary and his theological vagaries ould have found their own place.soon enough. By all means, let the creeds, as Mr. MacQueary maintains, be interpreted by tho Scriptures. And let the Scriptures be interpreted by all the best study which any man can spend upon them. And let ns know what people are think ing about, aud what the new guesses at truth are aud amount to. The old way of guarding banks was to shut the windows with bars and blinds nf iron. Nowadays they are guarded by electric llsht There Was Nothing Else to Do. But when the question is once forced into attention: is this teaching of this parson the accepted teaching of the church which the parson represents? Why, then, the ecclesias tical court which, by misfortune, has to answer that qnestion, must honestly say "no." That is what tbey did iu Cleveland. There was nothing else to ao. And yet two of the five members of the court sided with Mr. MacQueary. The change of a single vote would bave permitted the rector of the Canton parisn to have preached an Eater sermon yesterday, after his own fashion. Thero has been a good deal of talk about this condition of things, and it is worth while to know exactly what it means. It is evidently unsatisfactory. And it does look as if there must be a good deal of Mac Quearyism In the clinrch when the conviction is only by a majority of one. The fact is. how ever, that the two nut.or.town parsons who dissented from the decistun of their Cleveland brethren in the court, are neither of them m theological agreement with Mr. MacQueary. One of them stood out on a point of law, the other on the ground of sentiment One main tained that there was a legal flaw In the indictment and that. In consequence, the accused could not be legally convicted. The other held that charity is better than theology, even In eccle siastical courts, and that the supreme law of tba church is the law of love, and that tho genius of the church is ihe widest spirit of tol eration. Thlsls very beautiful and true. It In a pity that some of the religious papers could not have been converted to this sort of Chris tianity, and that the accusers had had a zeal more according to love, If not to knowledge. But because a juror does not believe In capital pun ishment he has no business to maintain that a guilty murderer is innocent. These two brethren could not bepreva'.led upon to unite in a unanimous verdict nf guilty. And so the decision was rendered in the unsat isfying shape in which we have it But this docs not mean agreement with ilr.MacQueiry. Not at all. CTJBI0US CEBEMONIES Performed "When the Crown Prince of Slam Became of Age. Hew York Recorder.! Tho Crown Prince of Slam came of ago the other day, and in accordance with the custom of the country be had bis hair cut with great ceremony. The hair in qnestion was in the shape nf a topknot, which had been sedulously cultivated since be was a baby. Every Siamese boy or girl is subjected to this process, the boy when be is supposed to be old enough to be withdrawn from the control of the women of the harem, and the girl when the marriageable age draws near. It is a time of great rejoicing even with the humblest, and in the ease of a scion of royalty there is as much preparation almost as there is for a coronation. The heir apparent Is 14 years old, and for three days pre ceding the great event there were processions to and from and invocations at the principal, temples of the capital. Tho principal feature of these processions consisted of battalions of young rren and wo men in the costumes of the different provinces of the Kingdom. Five hundred girls, keeping exact time in their marching, formed the van, the officers armed with baby swords and the rank and die with toy rifles. "At the sides of the procession," writes a correspondent." went lictors clad in green and blue, soothsayers of all ages and sizes wearing their tail pink and wblto conical caps, pages in gaudy apparel, apparitors clothed from head to foot in Meohlstoohelian scarlet T'oen. in the male contingent were dark-skinned Highlanders in kilts and plaids, diminutive sheiks and stumpy grenadiers, Goorkhas and Sepoys, and a score of other mimic warriors. John Chinaman was there in azure pantaloons, well plgtailed, well hatted, well umbrellaed and well fanned; nor was Japan nor any part of In dia left without representatives in the march. Behind the royal palanquin came white-clad angels crowned with the ringed and pointed crown, and bearing a sort of thyrsus meant for gold and silver flowers. Countless drummers, pipers and trumpeters encouraged the proces sionists on their way, and brass bands thun dered forth European airs at the seasonable moment" The cutting of the top knot took place in the palace jard with consecrated scissors, and then the boy was taken up to the summit ot a mountain that had been constructed specially for the occasion. Here, in an artificial lake, bo underwent the oraeal of a bath and then was Invested with the five insignia of royalty the crown, tne sword, tho fan, the slippers and the five-storied umbrella. THEY OUGHT TO BE PEARLS. An Ohio Girl Whose Tears Seem to Be Turned Into Glass. Chicago Herald. 1 The physicians and oculists of this city are greatly puzzled over a case which is as re markable as any that ever came under obser vation, writes a Findlay, O.. correspondent This was the taking from the right eye of Jennie Sutton, a 13-year-old girl, of 54 pieces of broken glass by Dr. T.C-Tritch. While this ot itself would be very much out of the ordi nary, when it is considered that the eye wm not at all affected by these foreign substances, and that there was no inflammation orobscurement of vision, as well as no paln.it is a fact that these pieces of glass have been coming from the eye of this girl for the past month, and only the day before yesterday Dr. Tritch removed every evidence of glass in the eye, and an nounced that all were taken out Yesterday she came back and bad 51 more pieces removed, and yet no one knows bow tbey came into the eye. The girl is a' domestic in the family of ex-Surveyor Stringfellow, whose wife lias been taking these particles of glass from the girl's eye for a month past but be coming alarmed at their reappearance almost as soon as removed had. Dr. Tritch undertake to cure the young woman ot her peculiar afflic tion. The case puzzles the doctor quite as much as it has the girl and her employers, as she met with no accident by which the glass could get into the eye, and the fact that the particles give her little or no pain is equally as inexplicable. It is estimated that over 100 pieces of glass have boen taken from the eye since the case first attracted attention. The glass bas been tested and found to be pure crystals, and as the clrl bas no means of putting the pieces in the eye, and, as a matter of fact would have hardly Intelligence sufficient to carry out a sys tem of imposition, not to speak of her ability to do so without pain, the matter has aroused the liveliest sort of speculation, aud the only thenrv thus far advanced to exnlain the matter is, that the girl bas some sort of a chemical na ture, and that tne crystals are iormed by her tears. Another examination will be made to morrow, the girl being closely watched in the meantime to prevent any fraud, and the out come of this test will be awaited with interest All in all. it Is a strange case. THBOTJGH THE 6LTJMS. Mrs. Whlttemore, of New York, Tells of Her Work in the Metropolis. Mrs. Whlttemore. so well Known throughout the country as the "Prisoner's Friend," related her experiences as a missionary in tho New York slums before a number of people in tho Bethany Home yosterday afternoon. No one listening to the lady's recital of the miseries, wretchedness and crime she witnessed in her missions of mercy through the poor quarters of the metropolis, and bcr description of the manner iu which, little by little, the weik and fallen were induced to listen to the words which told tbem of a better life through the mercy of the Redeemer, could doubt Mrs. Whittemore's singleness of purpose in devot ing ber life to missionary work, or her intense earnestness in socking to rescue the fallen from a life of sin. Mrs. Whlttemore soucht. in her discourse, to encourage others to undertake similar work. She pointed out the difficulties of the task in visiting rooms where eight or nine in a family occupied a space but a few feet square, in running the gauntlet of ruffianly men, and in braving disease, but on the other hand, pointed to the good results that would accrue in being instrumental in saving any of the souls that so needed rescuing. Mrs. Whlttemore visited the county jail and other local iustitutlons during the day, talking kindly to the inmates. PIHIONED TO A TSEE. How Was This Man Killed and Made Fast Like Caliban? Here is a strange and ghastly story from the Minneapolis Journal: "Freeman P. Lane, who has just returned from Chaska, says that a farmer living near that place, while traversing a copse of heavy oak timber some five miles from Chaska. discovered a human skeleton se curely pinioned to a huge oak. The supposi tion, based upon the surrounding conditions, is that the man must have met with death before cold weather set in last fall. The skeleton was in an upright position, and the entire right arm and shoulder were wedged into a crack in the trunk of the tree. The tree Is badly shattered from top to bottom, and this theory is evolved: "During a heavy thunder shower last fall the man sought shelter beneath the widespreadlng branches of the oak, and a thunderbolt rent the tree from tip to root killing the man and opening a crevice in the tree that immediately closed, pinioning the man. It is narrated that a farm hand employed some four miles from the death trap has been missing since early in November or late in October. It is surmised that ho was the victim of nature's unwonted freak." PENN C0MPAHY MEETDIfi. Tho Successor to J. N. McCallongh Will Be Chosen To-Morrow. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Company will bo held hero to-morrow. The most important business will be the selection of a successor to the late J. N. McCulIough. A. J. Cassatt and Sec ond Vice President James McCrea are talked ot for the place. Mr. McCrea bas been attending to the duties of the office for some time and he Is thoroughly con versant with the business. The chances are he will he elected. A. J. Cassatt is a wealthy man anil wedded to Philadelphia. He probably would drchno If the potitiuu were offered to hi in. The Nominating Committee bas reported favorably on the present Board of Directors and tbey will be re-elected. The report will show a good increase In earnings for some of the lines. Most ot the branches will be In the soup as usual CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. New York has a Japanese carpenter. '.Frisco school boys itruck until a teacher was reinstated. There are 101 life prisoners in the Ken tucky penitentiaries. A Portland, Ore., Chinaman who died recently left property valued at over 200,004 There are a couple of 15-month-oId babies in Missouri who sing "Annie Rooney." Oranges are said to be so plentiful in Grand Rapids, Mich., that dealers sell them for 6 cents a peck. A drainage scheme proposed for Mel bourne by tho Government engineer is esti mated to cost sa.uuu.uu". In a Swiss canton the municipal au thorities have decided that all employers must share profits with the laborers. Tetramethydiamidodiphenylemethane sulpbon is the name of a chemical preparation recently patented by a German. It is curiously noted that girls who work in candy factories lose their taste for sweetmeats after the first week. A company of Russian and Belgian financiers with a large capital has been formed to cultivate cotton on a large scale in Bokhara. The English Xata Times reports gen eral complaint among lawyers of lack of busi ness. "Crime and contention are both declin ing." There is a class of people in Japan who hire the poor to beg clothes from the charity associations, and, dying them, sell them at higher rates for new clothes. So severe is the climate of South Amer ica npon Iron that before railroad ties have shown signs ot decay the flanges of tba rails will bo nearly eaten off by rust To secure uniformity in the painting and varnishing of their passenger and freight cars some railroads employ expert chemists to analyze the paints and oils used. The London County Council reports that the value of rental in London Is 42,500,000. Capitalizing this on tba principal of 20 years' purchase, London is worth 4,250,000,000. In Africa the number of missionaries exceeds 500 and the number of converts 400,000, increasing by about 2o,0GQ a year. During the past Ave years Africa has furnished more than 200 martyrs. There have been 400 systems devised for perfecting the memory, and it Is just as easy to forget what one wants to remember and to remember what one wants to forget as it ever was. The camera shows that the star Vega, one of the brightest in the northern heavens, is apparently a double star, composed of two suns, each revolving around a point midway between them. The picked women typewriters em ployed at the British War Office receive It shillings a week for seven hours' workaday, while the charwomen get 12 shillings for fi7e hours' work a day. The other day a "Windsor, Vt, farmer on going out to his sheep pen noticed a bunch on one of his long wool sheep, and upon exam ination found a rat which had got bis tail woven into tho wool and was unabla to get away. A California inventor has built a boat made entirely out of soap, and will sail itr abont the bay during the reception of Presi dent Harrison. The craft will contain several members of the company and the inventor. This will be the first soap boat ever launched. It is a curious fact that water pipes un der ground will of ten freeze during the warm spell that follows a cold snap. The explana tion made for this interesting phenomenon is that after a cold wave a large quantity of beat is taken from the ground in the work of chang ing the frozen moisture into water, and thus, on the principle of the ice cream freezer, the pipe is chilled, enough heat being taken from ft to freeze it A device has been recently patented in Encland for the purpose ot removing grease from gloves or fabrics. It is called a benzine pencil, and consists of a cylindrical body about the size of an ordinary lead pencil, containing benzine. At each end there is a thick piece of felt One piece is Intended to be moistened by the benzine, wlille the other end of the pencil is kept perfectly dry to take np the superfluous moisture. It is said that for at least five centuries the Bergen fishermen have killed whales by the aid ot the now familiar bacilli. The whales are surprised in narrow inlets, where they are tamed by shooting poisoned arrows into the skin. At last the brute becomes so enfeebled that it can be attacked with harpoons and lances and Is soon dispatched. The poison used to Infect the arrows is the festering mat ter around the wounds. An examination of this deadly material shows that it owes its virulence to a bacillus closely allied to that of "sympathetic anthrax." There is a man from New York taking baths at Mt Clements. Mich., who can bo classified among the curiosities. He bas straight black hair and was a white man until some time ago, when his skin tnrned to the color of mahocany. He was afflicted with jaundice, and the medicine be took is supposed to nave causou ui ujituic ui i-uuipiejuon. ia the morning he is several shades lighter than toward night The medical fraternity have labored in vain to bleach blm, but by taking a course of baths be hopes to be able to again recognize himself. A train in Georgia was lately held np by a lone woman. It had got about 200 yards from a station, when a negro woman was seen running frantically after it The conductor aw ber, pulled the bell and the train came to a stop. A colored brakeman stood on the steps and reached out his hand to help the woman on. Rut she ran on by. and a negro boy hung him self out of the window and kissed her. The conductor was naturally a little wrathy, and told her so. She told him that ber boy was go ing off and tbey didn't give ber time to tell him good-by, and she had to do it if she would have to follow the train ten miles. A farmer living near Strinestown, O., had a calf born on bis farm a few days ago which is a monstrosity. Tho animal's head was shaped like that of a bull dog. The lower jaw was an inch and a half longer than (the upper, and full of teeth like those of a dog. There were no eyes, but creases iu the skull and skin where the eyes oucnt to be. On the left front knee there was a double joint between tbreo and four inches apart All four hoofs were solid like those of a colt It had a hump on its back like that of a camel. The front part of the calf was what It ought to be in size, but the bind part was little more than a skeleton. A few mornings ago, on arising, resi dents of Nashville. Tenn., were surprised and somewhat alarmed to And the ground covered with a yellow deposit resembling powdered sulphur, and which for a time it was supposed to be. The substance was soon found, bow ever, to be the pollen of pines, carried by the winds from a Btrip of pine forest extending from Louisiana through North Carolina to Virginia. The force of the winds is so great and pine pollen so light that the latter is some times carried from the pice regions to Chicago in such vast quantities that the waters of Lake Michigan for miles outside the city limits are covered with a thick, yellow scum. This pol len, although minute in the present age. in prehistoric times was of great size, spores of some species ot lycopodiums and selagenellas, which are allied to the coniferai, having a diameter of one-sixteenth of an Inch, and com posed almost entirely some ot the European coat oeus. FTJNY FRAGMENTS. "Are you good at figures?" said the man ager of the hotel. I have systematically trained xnyseir for hotel accounts, " said the applicant for a position. "How?" "I never studied anything bat addition and multiplication." Washington Pott, BPRINO. Dame Nature now, on pleasure bent, Puts on her gayest dads And introduces to the world, And cnaperones. the bads. JTea Xork Sun. A corset trust is the latest scheme for squeezing the people that is reported. Who wouldn't be a iraMCnatooga Heat. "Cleveland will never see "Washington in 92." l'ltbethewlll; why not?" "He's dead." What! Cleveland dead?" "Naw; Washington."-Harvard Lampoon. Playson You can't kindle much of a fire with poSer chips. AutcNo; bat yoa can create a blaze of exclte mci't with them If yoa have a full hand. i'x cluinrjii. I5igg AYhr did the directors of the Bee Cue Itillroid displace President Close? It was only the other diy that tncy pasrd resolutions co'niiiumllug his management of the road and voted to doable tils salary. Digs Yes, lknow: bnt Close refused to accept the salary, aud thcr decided It was unsafe to trust the road longer In the bands of a luaatlc, Cnicago Timet. ..tJi1J&&ijMt'"",' trssitisfcri-Tff-fn--" - -1- -ti -,,',
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