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thi: citizens meeting.
The value of public discussion upon mu
nicipal matters was well illustrated at the
meeting called by the Mayor yesterday
afternoon. The entire debate was interest
ing, a great deal of it very warm, and some
of it so persqnal in character that it might
have been omitted. But th? value of the
meeting in tbe public debate of leading mu
nicipal topics and the free expression of va
rious views was very great, and sets a prece
dent which, it is to be hoped, may be fre
quently followed in the future. The useful
ness of such discussion is apparent from the
fact that while the question of indorsing
curative legislation evoked a wide variety
of discussion, after the effect of the measure
had been made clear there was really a very
small dissent to that action.
This indorsement represents about all that
was positively accomplished by the meeting
with regard 'to the pending legislation. As
The Dispatch said ia advance, there was
no doubt as to the vast preponderance of
public opinion in favor of the proposition
that those benefited by the improvements
already made should, if possible, be made to
pay for them. The question whether the
curative legislation will hold water still
remains a doubtful one, only to be de
cided by prompt test cases if the law is
passed. The question of assessments where
property owners were not benefited formed a
leading part of the discussion; but when it
was pointed out that the pending measure
provided for a full trial of such cases in the
courts, that objection was practically over
come. On the practical issue whether the
attempt should be made the indorsement
was a decisive one.
The other point ou which the meeting took
final action was an unexpected and inter
esting enlargement of the scop: of the meet
ing. Mr. Bruce's speech arraigning past
methods in municipal politics, and espe
cially attacking the provision in the charter
vesting the appointment of heads of
departments in Councils, was per
haps the leading feature of the
meeting, and secured the passage of his res
olution calling for an amendment to make
those positions elective. There is not much
likelihood that this amendment will attain.
legislative enactment, and if there were the
proposition would be susceptible of much
more discussion. The experience of the city
has proved that whether officers are elected
by the people, appointed by the Mayor, or
appointed by Councils, the good or bad
influences which prevail over their selection
will be rooted at the polls, and it is there
that any lasting reform must do its work.
There was a large amount ot work left
undone bv the meeting. The question of is
suing certificates of indebtedness was re
ferred to a committee, and is to be acted
upon at an adjourned meeting to-morrow.
The bill for iuture street improvements was
not reached, although there is little proba
bility of dispute over it. Bnt singularly
enough nothing at all was heard of the bills
relating to the wharves, or that legalizing
payments for park property. Are these bills
abandoned, or has it been concluded that
they are not matters on which public discus
sion is deserved?
TETIJlONY ON KOAD EttPKOVEMENT.
A very valuable addition to country road
literature is a pamphlet by Mr. Bipley, no
ticed editorially by the New York Post.
That journal says truly that the necessary
thing lor those who agitate in favor of road
ininrcveuient outside of localities where
good roads are demanded as a luxury is to
convince farmers and rural property owners
that good roads will actually pay. Mr. Bip
ley's pamphlet is the best evidence on that
point since it chronicles the results of a sys
tematic effort in New Jersey.
Mr. Bipley was largely instrumental in
securing tbe passage of a law in New Jer
sey, by which a board in each coun
ty is authorized to designate certain thor
oughfares as "country roads" and to bond
the county for their improvement. Having
secured the passage of the law he led in
stirring up his own county to take advantage
of it, and a year's work in the construction
of Telford roads has demonstrated the value
of the improvement. Heal estate along the
improved highways Las doubled and even
quadrupled in value. The former has dis
covered that the ability to haul a ton where
he could only haul half a ton before ma
terially increases the productive value of his
land. Travel increased ten-fold on the im
proved highways within a tingle year; and
real estate values have increased in the
county adopting this policy $1,500,000, ex
clusive of the advance within the city of
Elizabeth of 5700,000 more.
"With such practical demonstration of the
gain in rural wealth by systematic road im
provement, there should be no doubt about
the adoption of a similar policy for mend
ing the roads of Pennsylvania.
THAT CAPITAL SITE.
The Dispatch must beg the pardon of
the genius who proposes to remove the
capital of the State, as noticed in these
columns some days ago. The apology is
necessary because we did not gain a com
prehension of the full breadth and scope of
the scheme of capital removal. It was sup
posed the proposition was to remove the
capital to -Lock Haven, but a subsequent
article demonstrates that no such modified
transfer of tbe capital from tbe low grades
of transportation will satisfy the author of
this scheme. He proposes to plant the
center of legislation on the lofty level of
the mountain tops, to surround it with a
State forest, and there, amid the elevating
influences ot nature, to turn out legislation
as fresh and pure as the mountain breezes or
the proposer of this great idea.
The latest argument in favor of this re
moval points out that in tbe geographical
center of the State a vircm and un
polluted spot can be found. From tbe
lofty plateaus, expansive and inspiring
views can be obtained. A beautiful moun
tain lake can be created to supply the needs
of the half million people who would gather
to form tbe population of the future cap
ital. Avenues 150 feet wide and twelve
miles long will run np the mountain plateau
with intervening avennes of 120 feet as a
minor attraction. From the summit a
scenic scope of six miles either way is as
sured, and here a site of forty square miles
will be obtained "for a picture chart of na
tional, State and county avenues." But a
greater attraction is to be had at the ten
acre plateau of Kettle Mountain, whence
five counties can be viewed, and "it at
harvest time the fatigue of mountain climb
ing vanishes in enraptured thought."
This description utterly forbids the idea
of soiling so pure and lofty a tract with the
concentration of State politics. The en
raptured thought alleged to be peculiar to
tbe harvest time of the agriculturist, should
not be mixed with the enraptured thought
with which the legislative rooster pursues
his harvest, Hoi Whatever may be done
with the capital, it must not be permitted to
drag down and pollut: this lofty and virgin
tract, to the level of ordinary politics.
THE LONGEVITY PROBLEJ.I.
The advice given elsewhere by certain
prominent men who have attained great age,
as to the best methods of securing longevity,
is interesting rather from the fame of the
advisers than from the authority of the ad
vice. There is the usual variety in the
methods recommended. Von Moltke sug
gests lresh air, plenty of sleep, regularity of
habits and temperance; Bismarck prescribes
bathinc, athletic exercise and the ability to
banish care, and so on. The fact is, exam
ples of longevity will furnish arguments for
almost any prict'.ce and style oi life.
Smokers and non-smokers, drinkers and
non-drinkers, those who have led quiet and
peaceful lives, and those who have plunged
into great conflicts, all have illustrated long
lift?. It may be pertinent, though nut com
plimentary, to quote the dictum of an emi
nent scientific man ;h it the quality which
most contributes to longevity it the placid
selfishness which enables a man to pass
tbrongh all conflicts with a minimum ot ex
haustive drafts on his nervous power. "With
these views before us we may conclude that
the real question is not how a man can live
longest, but how he can live best.
THAT CERTIFICATE PROPOSITION.
The proposition to authorize the issue of
certificate: of indebtedness, which has al
ready been referred to in these columns, was
left in the air, as it were, by tbe citizens'
meeting yesterday afternoon. After a dis
cussion which did not fully reach the real
merits, or, rather, demerits, of the question,
it was referred to a committee and will come
up again at the adjourned meeting to-morrow.
In the meantime, it is proper to re
view the proposition as it stands after a little
discussion.
The proposed measure is framed to meet a
special emergency, and, like most general
legislation drawn to cover an especial case,
it leaves uncovered the vast range of pos
sible contingencies outside of that case. The
necessity of providing payment for con
tractor who have done the work of improv
ing streets is admitted; but it is by no means
clear that this necessity is so imperative as
to call for wiping out the salutary checks
and restrictions on the issue ot municipal
indebtedness. Yet, so far as can be judged
from the study of the proposed measure pos
sible at this time, this is what it amounts to.
Its only check on the issueof indebtedness is
the constitutional limit. It does not even
provide that the issue of bonds at any one
time shall be no greater than the amount
due contractors on the work that has been
done. It permits a rate of interest one or
two per cent greater than the city ought to
pay. Finally, as it is quite possible that
the amount of money due on improvements
might at a given time exceed the constitu
tional limit of indebtedness:, it will in such
cases reduce the practical working of such
a provision to a matter of fear, favor or in
fluence, which will be the reverse of edify
ing. The obvious justice ol providing payment
for the contractors produced a development
of feeling in favor of indorsing this meas
ure only as applying to tbe debts already
contracted. But even that feeling is based
upon a misapprehension of the case. It is
not necessary, because the charter as it now
stands provides a remedy for the trouble. It
is entirely compelent for Councils to prepare
an ordinance providing for a short loan on
the lines of this proposition and to submit it
to a vote of the people. All the features of
the loan can be carefully matured and prop
erly examined. It, after lull discussion, tbe
whole people indorse the proposition, the
transaction will be beyond criticism, and
the salutary and useful check now existing
will have been kept alive. If tbe people
vote down the loan, the contractors will be
justified in calling upon Councils to increase
the tax levy in order that they may be paid.
THE LAND-HUNGRY BUT FOOLISH.
Reports of great destitution among Okla
homa settlers are still received with sadden
ing regularity. From the first legalized
ocenpation of that territory there has been a
continued story of destitution, and, in many
cases, of actual starvation. Colored settlers
are the unfortunates who furnish the latest
installment of the tale of woe. Believing
the country was a modern Eden they went
in droves from all pans of the South only
to find they had been deceived. Poorly
prepared for a struggle iu a new country,
they are now willingly to leave, but the
very circumstance that caused their misery
prevents their doing to. These facta do not
THE
affect the enthusiasm of other men ready to
rnsh upon and occupy newly-opened Gov
ernment land. On April 17 the Omaha
lands will be thrown open, and already over
00 would-be settlers are in Ashland, Wis.,
ready to swoop down upon them. When
opening day arrives their numbers
will probably have been trebled. They are
as poorly prepared as were those
now suffering in Oklahoma. The story that
will come from them will be similar to the
others. Misery, want and starvation will
aid in proving that he who goes unprepared
into a country where at best existence is but
a continnal round of hardships is foolish,
especially if he takes wife and children
along. The innocent victims of thought
lessness and greed suffer more than he, be
cause weaker and younger.
There is no practical plan for the preven
tion of this suffering. The lands are opened
to settlement, and it is desirable that they
should be occupied. The Government, in
declaring them ready for settlers, has
reached the limit of its authority. So long
as a man is a citizen, and agrees to perform
the duties enumerated in the laws pertain
ing to the subject, he cannot be asked to
produce proof that he is able to cope with
the unknown difficulties that may appear
after he has taken out his patent To re
quire such proof would close the lands
against the very people for whom they are
intended. This leaves the matter with the
individual alone. He should see, for the
good of himself and family, that getting a
few acres for almost nothing is not the best
thing that could happen him. A little
capital and some experience are needed, for
if be does not possess both suffering will cer
tainly ensue.
REJOICING OYER A NECESSITY.
The great rejoicing that is said to be
going on in Canadian Government circles
shows how easy it is for people to be pleased
with what they have to take. After the
recent elections in the Dominion, the Tories
busied themselves over tbe circulation of
statements that reciprocity with the United
States bad cut no figure in the campaign.
Their action in opening up negotiations
with'this country on the subject does not
agree with their statements, and the un
biased mind is forced to tbe conclusion that
Mr. Blaine's pet scheme did cut a very im
portant figure. The majority by which Sir
John Macdouald's government continued iu
power was so small that it is thought un
wise to tempt fate by neglecting to enter
into closer commercial relations with the
States.
A definite proposition has not yet been
submitted, but as it is promised to be based
ou mutual concessions which will not sacri
fice any vested interests, it will no doubt
prove to be very like what would have been
proposed had Sir John been defeated.
THE PANIC IN ITALY.
If anything was needed to banish thoughts
of an immediate war between Italy and the
United States, it has come iu the news that
a financial panic has made its appearance
in Leghorn. There is a possibility of the
panic's spreading all over the country, and
if it does the Italians will he too busy with
their intern.il affairs to think of warring
with this country over the expatriated
brigands. Even if the trouble does not
spread tbe chances of war are still materially
lessened. Tbe prime necessity for the carry
ing on of hostilities is good financial credit,
and the present trouble will serionsly im
pair that of Italy. Burdened as they are
with a heavy national debt, Italians will
think twice before trying to add to it,
though that they could do so is by no means
certain now.
It is to be hoped that the Leghorn trouble
will not spread. On the poor the miseries
of such panics rest most heavily, and tbe
Italian peasants are now burdened with
enough suffering. The only cause for
American satisfaction is that it will dissi
pate the remnants of the war cloud.
SOUTHERN REPUBLICS AT CHICAGO.
The news that several Central and South
American Bepublics have taken steps
toward representation at tbe World's Fair
is a stinging rebuke to the unpatriotic
policy of certain sovereign States in this
country. That sectional differences or a
penny-wise financial policy would prevent
anj State from making a creditable dis
play at the fair was not contem
plated when the subject was first
broached, and if any countries were not
expected to participate, those conntries were
some of tbe smaller and poorer Bepublics
south of us. The unexpected, however, has,
as usual, happened, and it has become pain
fully evident that tbe hitherto backward
Bepublics are more alive to the benefits to
be derived from proper representation at
Chicago than are portions of this country.
There is no excuse for the States that have
refused to appropriate money for representa
tion at the Fair, for while there is good
ground for criticism on the way things are
done in Chicago, there is a growing belief
that the enterprise will be successful. If it
is, the States that are not represented will be
the only sufferers from their folly.
Wide approval is given to the remark of
the Minneapolis Tribune that "if we cannot
prove that the victims of tbe New Orleans mob
were assassins, then we owe their families and
tbe nation of which they were snbjects ever;
reparation in onr power. If we do prove it
Italy must abide by the terms which this Gov
ernment, always generous, chooses to extend."
Bnt what puts this country in a hole is tho fact
that tbe chosen and Constitutional method of
determining the guilt of those Italians has
already acquitted a majority of them. It will
be hard for this Government to go behind the
return of a jury, even it it is of the New
Orleans kind.
The London Times calls Chauncey M.
Depew a "professional conversationalist,'' and
thereby makes another display of Its ignor
ance. A conversation is familiar discourse par
ticipated in by two or more parsons, but
Chauncey does all the talking himself.
In California now, a man convicted of
train-wrecking is liable to capital punishment,
while the man who wrecks a whole railroad is
liable to have to purchase a seat In the United
States Senate.
Since Italy has a great navy and no
money to send it to sea, and the United States
no navy by comparison, but lots of credit, it is
suggested that they pool their issues, divide
up their assets on an equal footing, and then
proceed to have a deuce of a time. In view of
the prevalence of combination principles, it is
difficult to see why this course should not be
taken on tbe same philanthropic motives as
those which inspire tbe trusts.
The Jersey City genius who has invented
a locomotive that will travel at the rate of
eighty miles an hour should lend hit machine
to Baron Fava, as that gentleman must be
anxious to leave a country In which be made
such a monkey of himself.
The only thing that Uncle Sam can
guarantee other nations is that he will not
stand much abuse over the killing of men who
left their country for their country's good.
Op all the crazy contests ever gotten up
to draw tbe dollars from the pockets of the
public, the to-called sleep-fasting contest iu J
ITTTSBimG DISPATCH,
Detroit was the craziest. The onlytatlsfactlon
that a sensible person can gain from it Is the
knowledge that- those who became insane
through their own foolisbcess will not long
rema'ln a public burden, as their physical con
dition is such that death must soon ensue.
With James G. Blaine. Jr., in Madrid,
to attend to that reciprocity treaty with Spain,
tbe country can rest quietly in the confidence
that if it becomes necessary he can rnn over
and adjust that little trouble with the Italian
Government.
Pennsylvania claims the unique dis
tinction of havine a lisherman'who went after
Osh and returned with the acknowledgement
that he had caught none.
The regular Democratic papers of Chi
cago are now engaged in telling the public
what a bad citizen Carter Harrison is for run
ning as an Independent Democratic candidate
for Mayor. If half what they say is true, it
amounts to a severe indictment of tbe Demo
cratic parly of Chicago, for havine, in the past,
raised such a bad man to a position of power
and prominence in their city politics.
The rumors of a deal between tbe Have
meyers and tbe Spreckels are not to be taken
as pointing to an advance in tbe price of sugar,
though it is pertinent to Inquire if the recent
drop has anything to do with the proposed con
solidation. Public dircussion of municipal measures
as developed at yesterday's meeting was ex
ceedingly interesting if not instructive.
The press of this country is finding some
solace in the prediction of English experts
that tbe monster guns with which the Italian
warships are armed will be likely to provo a
failure. That may bo true; but before they fail
It might be very unpleasant to have the cities
or fortifications of this country used as targets
for the demonstration of their inability to last
a long time.
Some of the representatives of the Jingo
element among tbe press are taking a bitter
revenge on Baron Fava for the scare he bas
given them, by the conventional efforts of the
wood working artisan in the line ot portraiture.
Healy got a black eye in the early part
of the Sligo contest; but tbe permanent black
eye seems to have rested with FarnelL
Australia's new form of government
is very good, so far as it goes, but it does not
go far enough. As things have been arranged,
the Governor General will prove an irritant
because he will only favor England to whom
he will look for support. The Australians let
slip a good chance to make themselves inde
pendent. The ethereal mildness ot gentle spring
may still be counted among the pleasures of
hope. But a much-enduring public will soon
move for an inquiry whether tbe groundhog is
responsible for this weather.
The pleassntest news received by Pitts
burgers for some time is that La Grippe is
losing its grip.
Signor D'Abco'S radical declaration
that Italy does not propose to let the Constitu
tion of this country stand In the way of what
she wants, looks as if Signor D'Arco has been
studying American politics at tbe same school
as the corporations and politicians of Pennsyl
vania. PERSONAL PEHCILINGS.
Peop. Tyndall is reported to be in a
greatly improved condition.
De. Talmage pleads guilty to a weak
ness for playing blind man's bluff.
Coenelius Vanderbilt has a thor
oughly good face, full of character and radiant
with geniality.
Miss Gabbielle Greeley is a hand
some woman, and possesses all the sweet, gen
tle characteristics of her father.
JoiinL. Waller, of Kansas City, Kan.,
tbe new Consul of the United States at Mada
gascar, is a colored man. He was born a slave
in Missouri and is 11 years old.
Lander, who furnishes dance music for
the New YorkFour Hundred, is a tine-looking,
powerlul man, with iron-gray hair and mus
tache and a dark, lastrons eye.
The Princess of Wales will set an inter
esting example to amateur photographers by
having some views taken of herself employed
in decorating a tea-set of Wedgwood ware.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is every inch a
king. He is tali and well built, with broad
shoulders, a handsome, florid face and gray
hair and beard. Age seems only to add grace
to his person.
The Hon. William Heywood, a lawyer
of Lancaster, N. H., recently attended the 119th
consecutive term of tbe Vermont Supreme
Court at Guildhall, covering a period of 69
years of practice.
DB. Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett's comparatively unknowD husband,
was a physician in a small Tennessee village
when he met and won his future wife. He is
now a specialist is diseases ot tbe eye.
The Marquis Imperiali, now acting as
Charge d' Affaires at Washington for Italy, is
an accomplished mnsician, and played tbe
first violin in the orchestra at a fashionable
operatic performance at the capital this sea
son. Silas G. Pbatt, the American com
poser, who will give his "Allegory of tho War
in Song" for tbe Grant Monument Association,
is a fine-looking gentleman, with hair and mus
tache just beginning to turn gray, and is in his
15th year.
Queen Victoria puts in her spare time
in plying tbe crochet needle, and at an exhibi
tion of women's industries lately held at Glas
gow a 'pair ot wristlets in gray stripes and a
blue and scarlet hood worked by the Queen
were on view.
HAD TO HAVE AN0THEB.
Why a White Woman Refused Her Change
in a Street Car.
Chicago Trlbune.l
She was a well-dressed woman not flashily
dressed, "6ut handsomely and in perfect taste.
She sat in the rear end of tbe street car and
eyed the other passengers not boldly, but
curiously. A quiet, demure little woman sua
appeared to be.
Near tbe middle of the car sat a colored
woman, poorly dressed, but not looking in any
way slovenly.
These were tbe only two in tho car who had
not previously paid their fares. The colored
woman was tbe first tbe conductor approached
and she gave blm a nickel. He gave It to the
other when she banded blm a dime, blio held
it between the tips of her gloved hands and
asked sweetly:
"Can't you give me another!"
'Another?" he asked. "Why?"
She shrugged her stfoulders slightly, glanced
at the colored women, and said:
"I'd rather have another, please."
She got it, but tbe conductor looked at her
pretty hard while he was ilshing up the other
nickel.
"Speaking of snobbery," said the conductor
when he reached the platform; "but, then, why
speak of snobbery Chestnut street!"
TO FILTEB LONDON TOG.
How Air In the House of Commons Is
Made Clear for Members.
Gallenacl Messenger.
Far down in the recesses of tho House of
Commons, beneath tbe feet of unsuspecting
senators, is a spectacle wbioh, if it could be
exhibited in a public place in London, would
send a thrill of horror tbrongh the com
munity. It is a va-t layer of what at first
sight looks like cotton wool that bas been
first dragged through the Thames mud and
finally sprinkled over with ink. Originally
it was a mass of virgin white cotton
wool. For many years tbe resident engineers
have been battling with the fog. Tber have
modified its effects wltbln'tbs House, but never
till now havo they succeeded In absolutely con
quering it. A layer of cotton wool is prepared
and tbe air. drawn from tho outside, is simply
driven through it by force of a steam fan. The
bed of cotton wool is six inches thick, and the
area in use this week bat extended over oOO
feet. The effect of the process is simply start
ling. Jf this filth had not been arresto.i by the
layer of cotton wool it would have passed into
the House and into the lungs of the honorable
members,
SUNDAY, APRIL v 5,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Thoughts Apropos of a Cloakmaker Riot
Assassin Gulteau's Head Women In
Theaters and Street Cars Without Escort
Color Line With the Police.
One ot tbe greatest evils with which New
York has to conteud Is the large body of for
eigners with socialistic ideas, who do not un
derstand the language of tbe country of their
adoption nor appreciate tbe privileges granted
under its laws. A case in point has recently
been attracting considerable attention even
outside of New York. This Is a turbulent
crowd of Poles, who have been kicking up a
rumpus among their own kind for years. The
last outrage perpetrated bj the ringleaders of
this sot was that over in Jamaica, L. L, in
which tbe employing cloakmaker was mobbed,
his stock In trade destroyed, and his child's
eyes put out by vitriol. The chief of this cloak
making gang is named Barondess, who is a
very intelligent man, and may be said to be a
born leader in a small way. This Barondess
bas cut quite a figure in all of the strikes in
which the Poles have been concerned, and
there have been agreat many. He seems to have
a great Influence over them. His utterances
havo been exploited in tbe newspapers, and
these show that he is in all respects superior to
tho men whom be dominates. He has been
getting bis foot in it lately by tbe determina
tion ot the legal authorities, backed by certain
complaints, tu teach these people that thero are
certain laxvs or personal liberty in the United
States that cannot be violated with impunity.
It seems that Barondess has been in the
habit of going to an employing cloakmaker and
demanding i50 or 1100 or more on tbe threat
that he would declare a strike in their ahnns.
Not unfrequently this money was paid, though
it was always done under protest. It is not be
cause of this that the subject is worthy of at
tention, but because of the general ignorance
which teems to prevail among these people as
to tbeir rights and privileges under the laws of
the United States. It has seemed a curious
thing that these foreigners who are driven out
of their native countries by acts of oppression,
real or alleged, on the part ot the ruling
classes, are more intolerant and tyrannical
toward their fellow laborers than any other
class of the American people.
A Scene In a Street Car.
From the front platform of a Broadway car
one can see a good many interesting sights.
This is especially so on pleasant days in the
shopping district. The swarms on the sidewalk
and tbe jam in the cars of fashionable Goth
amites afford no end of amusement and in
struction. Tbe other day, while on the front
platform with a friend, I was strnck by the re
markable beauty of one of those. She was a
lovely blonde, dressed in tbe prevailing quiet
stjle, and just the sort of a woman that every
body turns around to admire. In fact, my
friend admired her so mucb that ho imme
diately threw away his unfinished cigar and
passed within. Thero were about three gentle
men inside, who were seated, and these three
simultaneously arose and offered her a seat.
Sho only occupied two of them the seats, not
the gentlemen. She drew a nickel from her
apparently well-filled pocketbook and held it
daintily between her fingers. The conductor
walked Into the car, stood around in a confused
sort of way and tben walked out, leaving her
still clinging to tbe coin. When she got out of
the car, six blocks farther np, she still bad the
nickel between her fingers, and looked quite
pleased with the idea that she bad beaten Dan
Lamont's corporation out of 5 cents. Verily
tb ways of a woman are past finding out.
"No gentleman on earth would have done such
a thing as that," said my friend, as the mercury
of bis admiration slowly sank to the bottom of
its tube.
Tho Head of Charles Guiteau.
In a Sixth avenue museum tbe other day I
saw displayed in a large jar in tbe center of the
show room, a human head, poised midway be
tween tbe top and bottom. Round tbe neck
were tbe marks of a rope. Across the scalp
wore the stitches of the surgeon. There was a
small crowd continually around this horrible
sight, gazing upon it with morbid curiosity.
From the placards and certificates displayed it
would appear that tbe ghastly exhibition was
the head of the late unlatnented Charles Gui
tcau, who at one timo cut such a conspicuous
figure in tbe public press. It recalled the time
when I saw tbe man In the flesh dragged lrom
the Sixth street station in Washington, after
he had fired the fatal shot into the body of
President James A. Garfield. It reminded me
of the long and anxious season of waiting,
watching and praying that followed upon that
great event. Also of tbe long and sensational
trial, and lastly of the satisfaction with which
I stood at tbe foot of tbe scaffold that this con
temptible wretch expiated bis criminal act
against humanity and his country upon. The last
time 1 had looked upon that repulsive lace was
as it lay in its coffin in tbe chapel of tbe Wash
ington jail the day atter the execution. I saw
it lowered Into tbe basement like a dead cat,
and buried within the stone foundations of the
prison. To be suddenly confronted here in
New York with such a sight certainly recalled
some painful reminiscences. The bead, as it is
exhibited in this dime museum, has nothing in
it to remind me of the man as be was In life.
It might have been the bead ot any dead man
but lor the certificates which are displayed in
oonneotion with It.
Ages Vary With Circumstances.
Speaking of the curious foibles of woman
kind reminds me of another incident of the
street cars. A lady and a little girl sat by my
side. The conductor eyed the woman sharply
as she tendered him the customary nickel, and
requested another coin for the child.
"Why, you don't charge for such a little
child as this, do you ?'"
"How old is the child, madam 7 '
"She isn't four years of age yet," was the
reply.
The conductor looked incredulous hut mur
muring something to the effect that it was all
right went gloomily to bis post looking as if
nis unspoken thought was that the woman had
unmistakably lied. Then tbe little child had
her inning.
"Mamma I"
"What, dear f"
"Ain't I more than four years old to-day J"
"Hush I" She tried to quiet her.
But the scheme didn't work, fortbeobild
came back to the subject in the next block.
"Mamma I"
"What, dear ?"
"You knpw you told Aunt Sally yesterday
that I was six years old next May ?"
This was said in a piping voice that went
througn everybody in tbe car, failing only to
reach the conductor who was on the platform.
The mother mounted a faint blush but it was
very taint indeed to tbe one which crept over
the child's face when it got slapped on the
DacK ana nusuea out oi tno car.
He Was a Judge ot Sparklers.
Tbe jolly one-armed gentleman who presides
over tho cigar case in the bar of the Filth Avenuo
Hotel displays a rather fine diamond stud upon
his manly bosom. The other day some of his
intimates played a joko on him by extracting
the diamond from its customary poking place
without his knowledge. Then they submitted
lttobima few minutes later, asking his judg
ment on tbe quality of the stone. He looked
at it very critically and said he didn't think it
was worth much. It had a flaw; it was off
color; it was probably paste. At each succes
sive criticism the crotul roared with laughter,
somewhat to his confusion. Vv hen the denoue
ment came it cost huu a quart bottle fur tbe ,
rigidly exacted promise tbat tbe joke shouldn't
get out. It dldu't get out.
At the Theater Without Escort
On Wednesday and Saturday afternoons tbe
stranger to New York enstoms might wonder
at the nnmber of young girls to be seen on
Broadway. These are the matinee girls. It
has come to bo a great custom of these young
adies to attend tbe matinees together and go
about without any reference to male escorts;
in fact, indulging in this sort ot pleasure they
prefer to be by themselves. They generally
load UP with bonbons and all sorts of truck, ex
cepting peanuts, before they enter the theater,
and then during the play, not privileged like
their masculine friends to go ont between the
acts to see a man,' they munch these dainties
in their seats. Very often thev Co out into the
foyer and promenade up and down, gossiping
like a regular tea party. When the play is
over they go trooping home in couples and
clusters, as merry and independent a sot of
maidens as can be lound in any city of the
Union.
There is some delightful freedom about this
which U rarely to be found in great cities, and
which is more rarely expected to bo found.
These young people not only have a good lime,
hut they have it without any of tbe compromis
ing features that are often associated with fe
male independence in other cities. It is not an
uncommon thing to see ladles attend tbe various
places of amusement even at night without
male cscorts.though this is not so common as to
attract attention. Women are just as safe, for
that matter, at night as they would be in tbe
daytime in tbat section of New York covered
by the theater-goers. It is hardly the correct
thing for ladies to attend public places alone at
night, but there Is no other than the fashiona
ble reason to prevent it or make it in any de
gree perilous.
A Woman In Man's Sphere.
A woman engaged in roan's outdoor work
would perhaps not attract attention In conti
nental countries, but Is rather a singular sight
here. At the corner of Sixt)-lltlh street and
the Boulevard extensive blasting operations
are in progress, preliminary to the erection of
more flats tho coming season. Among thu men
who are breaking stonas in the vicinity to bo
used as concrete is employed a brawny woman,
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who seems to be making her way in the world
with a hammer. Among the other workmen
she attracts no attention, bnt It is a strange
aigbt for those who happen to pass tbat way.
Tbis woman squata on the stone heap all day
long, through tbe different changes of tempera
ture, snow, rain, cold or sunshine, with her
long-handled hammer, patiently breaking rocks
into walnut bits and cording up the pieces. She
is unable to speak tbe English language, but
she can break rocks lust the same this ac
complishment being a foreign one.
Tho Color Line In the Force.
In a certain precinct in Brooklyn tbe white
policemen aro on a strike because of the ap
pointment of a black man on the force. Tbe
wblte "men feel tbat tbeir dignity has been
affronted. They refnse to sleep in the dormi
tory of the station honse with a black man. It
is not because the black man is not a very de
cent fellow. There would be no objections on
their part to bim If be slept there in tbe capac
ity of a porter or station keener; but as a
policeman, drawing tbe same pay with them
selves and doing the same duty this is horrid I
It is a curious thine tbat just about tbe time
when the color line is being obliterated in all
of tbe recently slave States it should be revived
by that equivocally respectable body, tho
Brooklyn police foice.
The Sale of Bad Tailor Debts.
Tbe Merchant Tailors' Association that car
ried out its threats to sell the judgments against
tbe delinqnent customers of its membership
did not realize mucb money by tbe transaction.
The tailors and delinquent debtors, however,
got any amount of free advertising. There aro
at least a dozen swells and would-be swells of
New York now who will not be able to pur
chase a snlt of clothes unless tbey have the
ready money. There was one of them at least
who was surprised that was tbe man whose
judgment was sold for something like 70 cents
on a dollar. The other fellows were sized np
on tbe average of $2 eacb. It is unnecessary to
say tbat tbe tailor who offered the judgment
was very much surprised also. Perhaps be Is
sorry now that he disposed of so good a cus
tomer at auction. Charles T. Murray.
New York. April 4.
P0WEB
OP IMAGINATION.
A Story That Slakes a Point Against Doc
tors Medicine.
"The power of imagination." said an nptown
druggist to a New York limes reporter, "is
past comprehension. Not long since a domes
tic in tbe employ of a prominent family came
into the store in great baste with a prescrip
tion which called for two grains of morphine in
two ounces of aqua pura, tbat is, distilled
water, the accompanying direotion reading:
'A teaspoontul every hour until the pain is
allayed.' Tho patient for whom it was Intend
ed was the bead of tbe family, wbo was suffer
ing from a severe attack of nervous neuralgia.
"Now, it so happened tbat tbe identical fam
ily physician who had written the prescription
was behind the counter when tbe messenger
arrived, having dropped in, as was his wont, en
tbe way to his office. While I was putting np
the prescription we chatted and laughed and
joked and passed the time of day as only pro
fessional men are capable of doing. I filled tbe
bottle, corked it carefully and labeled it prop
erly, and, when tbe retreating form of tbe do
mestic had disappeared ont of the store door,
returned to my companionable physician vis
itor. As I did so 1 saw to my amazement the
two grains of morphine reposing upon tbe pre
scription scales.
'Good God, doctor,' I ejaculated, 'I've
given that girl nothing but distilled water.
The morphine is here, look at it. What shall
I dot'
" 'Do?' be replied, with admirable sang frold,
dot Why, nothing at all. I'll wager you a
bottle that tbe aqua pura will work as well
witbout the opiate as with it'
" 'Agreed,' said L 'And do you know,' con
cluded tbe pharmacist, 'the doctor was right
and the patient with tho nervous neuralgia an
exceptionally Intelligent and college-bred man
was sleeping as peacefully as a babe after the
second dose ot tbe mixture.' "
THE VALUE OF LABOR.
Suggestions on It In a Theoretical and Prac
tical Sense.
i
According to tbe New York Times, tbe man
wbo carries a watch In his pocket seldom stops
to think of the labor required to make one of
the tiny hairsprings tbat form one of its com
ponent parts. And yet tbat innocent speck of
mechanism f urnlsbes food for thought on an
elaborate scale.
Tbe value of a handful of raw pig Iron, say
five pounds, is 10 051. Convert into steel rails
and tbe five pounds become worth $0 073. If
the same weight of steel be made Into table
knives, such as one ordinarily uses at dinner,
09 blades are turned out, worth $15 at jobbing
rates. Thus it is seen tbat the various evolu
tionary processes through which the material
goes in its transition from raw pig iron to table
cutlery has increased its cost from 6 cents
to 815.
But the comparison might be continued with
even more interesting results. Suppose the
five pounds of material be converted into
watch hairsprings, one of which and by no
means tbe smallest weighs one-quarter of one
grain Troy. In five pounds there would be
110.200 of these little coll?, which, at the rate of
SI 75 a dozen, would be worth 818,070 25. In
tbis way tbe man who stops to think about it is
furnished with an interesting comparison, sug
gesting tbe value of labor in both its practical
and theoretical sense.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Captain Thomas H. Lapsly.
Bbaddock, April i. Captain Thomas
H. Lapsly died at 8 o'clock at his home on Brad
dock avenue. He had been ill for the past three
months with paralysis or the brain. This left him
several days ago, but bis constitution was such
tbat he could not recover. All hl3 family were
around blm at the time of his death except his son
John, who Is in Chicago. Captain Lapsly was in
his 72d year. He was born at fine CreeE, this
county, 1319. He was identified with the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works when It was started 20
years ago, anil has been connected with It ever
6lnce as Sunerlntendent. He was quite a wealthy
man and prominent in all social and political af
fairs. Captain James D. Touhey.
ERIE, April 4. Captain James D. Tou
hey, a well known character throughout Western
Pennsylvania, died to-day at tbe age of 60 years.
Captain Touhey was a native of Cork. It was
soon after tbe time of his arrival here that the
.Mexican war began. In that conflict Mr. Touhey,
then a mere lad, served as a drummer boy. Cap
tain Touhey was among the first to respond at
President Lincoln's call. He entered the navy
and was assigned to the gnnboat service In the
Mississippi river. Captain 'I ouhoy was qnltewell
Known as a contractor. He leaves, besides his
wife, four children.
non. Peter M. Dox.
Huntsville, April 4. Hon. Peter M.
Dox died in this city last night in the 78th year of
hisage. Judge Doxwas born at Geneva. '. Y. He
was in the Legislature ana a Judge of County
Court there. He moved to Alabama In 1SS3. In
1865 he represented .Madison county In the re
vision of the Constitutional Convention, aud he
represented the Kigbtli Alabama district In the
I'orty-flratand Forty-second Congresses.
Rey. John Martin.
Bev. John Martin, pastor of St. Luke's
Church. Mansfield, Allegheny county, died at the
pastoral residence in that place yesterday. He
contracted a severe cold some time ago, which
later on developed Into pneumonia. He was
formerly a resident or Philadelphia. The funeral
will take place to-morrow morning at St. Luke's
Church, and the interment will be in St. Mary's
Cemetery.
Clifton Bell.
DENVER, April 4. Clifton Bell, the lead
IngtDortingmanorthe West, died here last night.
Ills name Is known to the members or the class to
which he belonged from one ocean to the other.
Hell was an Illinois man, but left that State In
18W and went to California. He at one tlmo owned
Harry Ollinore, who won the Long Branch Omni
bus in 182. He also owned Lily It, dam or Chaos,
winner or the Futurity in 1889.
Joseph 0. Gregg.
Joseph C. Gregg died at his residence,
No. 1K Bluff street, yesterday mornIng."He was
62 years old, and had suffered for some time from
brain cancer and lung disease. The funeral serv
ices will beheld to-morrow morning at No. 333
Fllthavenue. the interment taking placelaterln
the day at West Newton. Pa.
M. T. JcwelL
' YOUNGSTOWN, April 4. M. T. Jewell, a
leading druggist and pioneer resldont or this city,
died at the Tod House this morning of pneumonia,
superinduced by la grtpne. Deco.icd was 64
ears old, aud was prominent In politics. He
leaves a wife.
Henry J. Hrubach.
One of tbe best-known residents of Bloom
Held was Henry J. Brubach. who died at bis resi
dence on Cedar street yesterday morning. He
was 82 years old, and his funeral will take place
to-morrow afternoon.
Wilson Forter.
Wilson Porter died at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning from heart lallure at his home In Pleas
ant Valley. Allegheny. He was a c!l-known
painter. He leaves a wife slid small family.
Annuel Cooper.
McKeesPORT, April 4. Samuel Cooper,
- i 7t -,, riliut at Uuena Vista to-dar of the
grip, lie was very well known la this vlcloltr.- J
TALES FROM ARKANSAS,
BUIs of Fare Are Not Always What They
Seem Wealth ia the Mortar and Pestle
Males and Rapid Transit Facts About
Church Debts.
There was antelope on our bill of fare yester
day at dinner. A Minneapolis man wbo sat
next to me smiled when he saw tbe antelope.
"Some weeks aeo," he said, "when I was
traveling on tbe C, M. & St. Paul Ballroad I
chanced to take dinner with tbe Superintend
ent of tbe (fining car service. He Is an old
friend of mine. As soon as we were seated in
the dining car and tbe waiter bad handed ns
tbe bill of fare 1 noticed the Supcrintendent'a
face grow cloudy. He called tbe tteward to
hint and addressed him with: 'You're over
doing it, are'nt you? Here yon have mountain
sheep, venison, antelopo and bear on tbis bill
of fare surely, there's no call for four wild
meats at one meal, and there can't be any
money in such extravagant catering for this
company.'
' 'Well, sir,' replied tbe steward, "it isn't to
bad as it looks. Yon see we've an overstock of
mutton and we're working it off tbe best way
we can.' "
The Drag Business Fays.
A drugstore pays better than a saloon in Hot
Springs. Tbe water of tbe Springs contains
about a score of more or less potent drugs, ac
cording to tbe analysis printed in tbe guide
books, and in the neighborhood of this place
other springs supplement the supply of rnedi.
cine with such things as sulphur and potash
and iron in all sorts of mixtures. Yet the drug
stores do a splendid business. The doctors sel
dom allow a patient to take the waters without
fortification of some kind in tbe shape of pill,
powder or potion. And the druggist has to fill
the prescriptions of conrse.
You may be sure he knows how to make ont
his bill, too, and be has so much practice tbat
he it expert to .a wonderful degree. You can
pay as much here for three or four ounces of
water and a pennyweight of drugs as anywhere
else on this globe. After yon have been here a
week or two it will cease to surprise you tbat
every rich man in tbis region at some time or
other bas been in tbe drug business. With you
it is common to rate a man as rich if he is con
nected with tbe Standard Oil Company, for in
stance, but here it means far more It it be said
tbat so-and-so has a drug store.
Humorous Rapid Transit.
As I have remarked ere this, rapid transit m
the South is humorous all the time. Time
being of no earthly importance in this latitnde,
tbe joke is always cheap and agreeable. Yes
terday, having no thought of anything bejond
a ride in the sunshine, I boarded one of the
open cars which are now running through the
town. At tbe next corner the car stopped, and
remained at a standstill long enough for the
little mules to go to sleep. I was sitting just
behind tbe driver, and tbinklng perhaps tbat
somerule of the road entailed a long wait at
this point, which was outside tbe town proper,
and I asked him if he intended to start again
soon.
"Wal, I dunno, suh," he replied politely.
"Yon see, that ole lady wants to get on this
heab kyar but I can't tell how long it'll take
her to get heab," and he pointed up a road at
right angles to the track leading to three or
four cottages perched on a hill a quarter ot a
mile away. Half way between ns and the cot
tages an old lady was walking toward us. She
did not seem to be in a hurry; neither did she
wave her hands frantically or scream as a
Northern woman would have done under sim
ilar circumstances. She took her time, and the
driver of the street car recognized her sacred
right to go slow. When she had taken her
seat, he unwouod the brake In a leisurely way,
woke the mules and wa went on.
Stopped for Fop Corn.
Btill further South at Dallas, Tex, the other
day, some friends of mine were riding on a
street car when a lady in tbe party saw some
pop corn on tbe sidewalk.
"Oh I what lovely pop corn," she said, "I wish
I had some!"
"I suppose you'd like me to stop the car and
get some for yon," was her husband's ironical
remark. Tbe driver of the car overheard it
and stopped the car at once and said he'd wait
while the poncorn was bought for the lady.
Tbis act of courtesy astounded the Northern
ers. They Go to Church, Too.
Nobody bas ever accused Hot Springs of be
ing too godly, but there Is no lack of churches.
Every denomination of any importance has its
place of worship. The molt pretentious church
and 1 presume the most prosperous belongs to
tbe Episcopalians. It is a handsome building
ot brick, finished in oak within. Tbe incum
bent, tbe Bev. Mr. Miller, it -evidently a high
churchman, and to his and the congregation's
credit it mnst be said that tbe altar and
cluneal filled with creat Kasterand calia lilies.
looked very beautiful on Easter Sunday morn
ing, however questionable the authority for
placing a triple-pointed crown outlined with
small gas jets in the center of the reredos may
have appeared to some Episcopalians in the
church on that occasion. Tbe church wat
crowded with fashionable visitors, and tbe cos
tumes of the ladies showed tbat even in tbis
health resort the Caster bonnet blooms fre
quently. Before tbe collection was taken up tbe priest
announced that there was 51.000 debt on the
church wblch be hoped would be materially
reduced by that morning's offerings. I don't
know how much was collected, but I should
say a large sum. As we were returning from
church a gentleman who bas visited the Springs
every year for a decade past remarked to me:
"It is a singular fact that church debts
down here are most obstinate things.
Last year I went to this very church on Easter
Sunday and tbe debt was stated to be 4,000,
to which we were invited to contribute liber
ally. And we did, for 81,3)0 was collected.
But the HU0O debt bobs up all serene again
this year."
Uonnd to Get Eight Dollars.
Tbe colored population mostly attend the
Methodist church, the pastor of which is a
very ablo man of their own race. On a recent
Sunday three or four white folks from one of
tbe hotel3 attended this church and enjoyed
the heartiness of the worship very mucb. The
collection amused them greatly. Tbe pastor
announced that the sum needed was J8, and
tbat everybody was expected to contribute
something.
"To avoid discommodln' anypusson,"be con
tinued, "who ain't got change, tbe congrega
tion will pass np and leave their offerin's with
Br'er Smith, who will furnish change as de
sired." So everybody, but the little band of whites at
the back of tbe cburcb, stepped up and settled
with Br'er Smith. Than the preacher said :
"If there's any people too bashful to come np
heah, l'se pot too proud to go to dem," and ac
cordingly he trotted down and gathered in the
ducats of the Caucasians. The counting of the
money took some time, and when it was con
cluded tbe preacher antiounced tbat!l75was
still lacking of the desired sum J3.
"Br'erSmitb will now pass aroun' der basket,
while we sing dat beautiful hymn, 'Hark 1 1 Hear
Da t Angel Sing.'"
So tbe basket went around and tbe white
people alone gave SI more. The preacher again
announced tbe result, and, strange to say, he
Insisted tbat the sum now lacking was J2 25.
Again the basket went around, and this time
tbe preaoher was satisfied.
Tbe way the preacher's arithmetic is ex
plained by tbe African aristocrat wbo waits
at our table is that in "our church, snh, dey
alius bus' hab even money and dat's howl"
Hepburn Johss.
Hot Springs, Abe., April a
A HUNGKY CAT.
It Tries to Steal the Bird From a Fraying
Woman's Hat.
Chicago Herald. I
The family was composed of the mother,
three children and a cat. They were very poor,
and when tbeir circumstances were reported
bad nothing in tbe bouse to eat, but the cat
bad remained loyal, and was an honored mem
ber of tbe household. The ladv. who was from
some "mission," knelt down to pray with the
mother and her little ones. Tbe cat was
on the window-sill looking on and blinking
ber eyes respectlully. sbe appeared rather
curious, but did not appear to have any
objection to tbe prayer. All at once sho was on
the alert. Intense interest bad taken the
place of indifference. She stealthily jumped
down from her perch and crept carefully along
the floor nearer and nearer to the lady who was
making an earnest prayer. She did not ttop
when she reached her, but as caref allyor more
so, commenced to creep up tbe lady's back.
She was nearly up to the fur boa around the
nck when tbe xad-faced mother spied her.
Tbe mother, without r.ilalng her head, wblch
was bowed in devotion, reached over anil
clutched Miss Kitty bv the back of her neck.
The cat refused t glv up her position and
fastened Ler claws lu tbe lady's cloak. Her
cyts glared and never unco moved from a bird,
us natural as life, that was poised upon my
lady's bonnet. Strength finally loosened tbe
clutch ot the claws. Tno prayer went on and
was finished. There bad not been a falter In
the voice through the whole of it. Tbe cat bad
not been noticed before tbsfeirayercommenced,
and wat not mentioned afterward.
Always at frimethlnp; TTorse.
St. l'anl rioncer-lrcs.l
It it entirely unnecessary for any journal or
individual to deny that Talleyrand, during his
stay in Amorlca, "sold buttons in a little store
1.. Tlhiluilulnhfa 11 Tn 11 aw vn ,wl vi nrtVffrfln-
gaeed in so innocent a calling (or one moment
fit hit life,
CUKIODS CONDENSATIONS.
A woman's agricultural school it one of
the new English projects.
There are said to be over 50,000 Ameri
can visitors now In Mexico.
An Atchison street car has been painted
black for funeral purposes.
Feathery snowflakes as large as silver
dollars fell in New York the other day.
Texas is to Have "the biggest soap fact
ory in the world," with a capital of J15,000,00a.
There are within the present city limits
of Milwaukee 30,000 lots which are unoccupied.
The very unusual sight of two blind
men fighting on the public street was teen In
New York recently.
A philologist estimates tbat the coinage
of new words goes on the rate of 100 annually
in the English language.
Two acres of land adjacent to the Lon
don Hocsss of Parliament have been advertised
for sale at 1,000,000 sterling.
There is living in Centerville, Ky., a
blacksmith wbo has just learned bis correct
name, though he Is over 50 years old.
An Atchison woman recently refused
tbe present of a handsome set of books because
tbey did not match the color of her front room
furniture.
A Douglas county, Kan., farmer wat
compelled to use four horses the otber day to
haul 20 busbels of corn to Lawrence, but be got
Si a bushel for it.
As a guess at the census taken yester
day, the Registrar General estimates that the
popnlation of the United Kingdom Is about
9,000,009 of sonls.
The day after the last of the whaling
fleet bad departed from San Francisco a large
school of whales appeared in the bay and
"cavorted" audaciously.
The Commissioners of tbe District of
Colombia have been asked to recall all permits
issued to Italian organ grinders, as it is alleged
tbat tbe music may cause trouble.
A needle, altera devious experience ot 38
years in the body of a Springfield, Ma, woman,
came out tbrongh her side tbe otber day. The
needle bad lost its temper and wa) at pliable at
a piece ot wire.
A veritable curiosity has been captured
in Africa. It is an elephant, larger than the
late lamented Jumbo, pea-greenin color, trunk
less, and bas tusks tbat branch out something
like the horns of a deer. It is in possession of a
native King, wbo will not part with it.
A Salina, Kan., family is eating fretb,
ripe tomatoes from a vine which was taken
into the house last tall and carefully nurtured
during the winter. At the prevailing price of
coal in Kansas the tomatoes are supposed to
represent a value of about SI apiece.
Largely because of the electric light,
the average time of transit through the Sues
Canal goes on diminishing steaaily from year to
year. Last year it was 3-t hours 6 minutes,
whereas in 18S9 it was 25 hours 50 minutes; in
1SS3, 31 hours 15 minutes; in 1887, 33 hours 58
minutes and in 18S8 not less than 36 hours.
A dog belonging to a resident of Cordell,
Ga., got his head wedged in a hollow tree one
day while chasing a rabbit, and, falling to re
lease himself, remained in that position lor 11
days without food or drink, when tbe master
found bim and got him out. He was alive, but
it is not known what became of the rabbit.
A physician who died in Philadelphia
on Wednesday, aged 72, was a very eceentrio
citizen, so much so that be regularly paid hit
board at a high-priced hotel but very rarely
lived there. Although himself a dootor. he
would never allow a doctor to be called in
when he was ill and would not take medicine
ot bis own.
A man in Vermont who neglected his
wife finds himself confronted by a petition
signed by over 100 qf the best known women in
the town and addressed to tbe Court, asking
for bi3 dismissal from the office of County
Clerk. This kind of female suffrage made him
sick, and tbe judges have postponed action
until he gets welLJ
Tapping a telegraph pole to get maple
sap is a rather uninviting occupation, but a
certain gentleman did tbat identical thing last
Thursday on tbe New Hartford road, near
Winstead, Conn. The pole stands in a Una
wltb maple trees, and when he came to the tree
be bored it and bung his tap-pall on the pole
and started for the next tree. Happening to
look up after he had passed on he went back
and recovered his pail, but failed to plug up
the hole.
A collector of relics at Tampa, 7Ja.,
has received a halberd head which was lately
unearthed at Memphis. There can be no doubt
of the origin of this interesting relic Tbe
form, with the battle ax on one side, tbe hook
opposite and the spike termination, mark it as
a relic ot the fifteenth century. Throe hun
dred and fifty years ago it was placed in the
grave with the remains of tbe bold cavalier
wbo bore it, and he was unqnestionably one of
De Soto's men. Rust has sadly defaced tbis
reminder ot an age long passed, bnt enough re
mains to identify it with the first white man
who ever walked where Tampa stands.
One of the San Francisco Custom House
inspectors on tbe Oceanic dock discovered two
suspicious looking cylinders near tbe entranoe
yesterday afternoon wbich bore tbe appear
ance of infernal machines. They were con
nected together by wires, and were filled with
a greenish liquid. After reflecting on the ter
rible consequences tbat would happen in case
tbey were exDloded, he deftly poised them on
tbe point of his cane and threw them into the
slip. A moment afterward a telegraph lineman
made bis appearance, evidently on the lookout
for something which eluded his vision. On
making inquiry be learned of tbe inspector's
action, and instantly tbe air was filled with
thunderous execrations. The supposed in
fernal machines were nothing more or less
than the innocent jars of an electric battery,
In the proceedings of the Boyal Geo
graphical Society for January, 1891. it is esti
mated that the popnlation of tba world In 1880
was 1,487,600,000, representing an average of 31
to tbe square mile, and an Increase of 8 per
cent during the decade. Of tbe continents,
Asia has the largest population, 850.000,000. and
the lowest percentage of Increase. 8 per cent.
Australia bas the smallest population, 4.730,000.
aud tho smallest average per square mile. 1.4,
but tbe highest rate ot Increase during the de
cade, 30 per cent. Europe is the most thickly
settled continent, with a population of 330,200,
000, wbich is 101 to the sqnare mile. The popu
lation of North America is estimated at 89.2o0,
000, which is an average of 14 to tbe square
mile and represents an increase of 20 per cent
during tbe past decade.
Our Saxon forefathers had many
methods of rebuking liars and boasters, and
three object lessons in reproof have come down
in proverb to our time. One was the presenta
tion of a cake to a confirmed prevaricator,
whence the proverb, "He takes tbe cake." At
feasts a large wooden knife was sometimes
provided by the host, to bo presented to the
most outrageous boaster of tbe company, and
by bim to be retained until be found a braggart
more Intolerable tban himself. Tbe third wat
the presentation of a whetstone to a man noted
for his lack of regard for tbe truth, as a hint
that he would need to sharpen his Invention If
be intended to continue in the business. A
slanderer was sometimes set in tbe pillory with
a whetstone hnng. about bis neck, tbe whet
stones of three centuries ago being provided
with a bole, and by means of a cord were hung
from tbe belts of butchers and other person!
who were ooliged frequently to use them.
FANCIFUL AND FUNNY.
When two girls meet tbey kiss. When
two men meet thev don't This shows plainly
who want kissing the moiU-Pottsville Bepu.
tican.
She Wasn't that Bavarian lullaby w
heard in the new opera Just perfect?
He-Yes. I lay awake all night thinking about
it. The Epoch.
OOIXO TO DURY THE HATCHET.
The news lrom the West is encouraging1,
very,
Wblch the vigilant scissors man colls;
Tbe Indians again are preparing to bury
The hatchet in palefaces' skulls.
Ssvs Xork Prist.
"Mamma." taid a precocious youngster
at the tea tablethe otber evening, after a long
and yearning gaze toward a plate of doughnuts,
Mamma. I think I could stand another one of
those tried holes." Drake's Magazine.
Mr. Newbridge Fligh's rich wife in
tends to sue blm for obtaining money on false
pretenses,
ilrs. Newbridge Why. how is tbat?
Air. 2 ewbrldge He told her he loved her before
she married him. Whetting Pen Pteturit.
"Did yon ever know that Harry Simp
kins wrote poetry?" said one matinee girl to an
other. (o; 1 don't believe he can."
"Oh. 1 saw some that he wrote." responded the
first matinee girl, as a dath of color came Into her '
Uei: "
"Wattt good?" - -vj3
Well, the rhymes apd meter may not havelSr-.
been so awlully stylish, but (and ber there wa a
I little burt o( empuiJlj) the leatlweat wMjatt
IJoTelT." Washington pott.
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