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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, 'MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1891.
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WISE COUNSEL TO STRIKERS.
"While there is a wide conflict of report
and opinion concerning the prior course
of the labor leaders on the qnestion of pre
serving order, there is no doubt that their
utterances reported on Saturday were of the
right character. The Dispatch has not
scrupled to point out that tne past conduct
of the strike tended in the direction of such
a conflict as has taken place. It is, there
fore, no more than just when the labor lead
ers advise in favor ot law and order to give
them credit for it.
The speeches of the leaders of the strike
on Saturday, as reported by The Dispatch
special telegrams, were very laudably full
of urgent advice to maintain order and re
spect the law. The speech of Mr. Watchorn
was especially timely. He enjoined the
strikers to in no sense violate the law,
warned them that they cannot conciliate
public opinion by illegal acts, and made a
very strong point by telling the strikers
that they must keep sober and that whisky
is their most dangerous enemy. Of similar
purport is the reported intention of Vice
President l'enna to sue the paper
which reported him as declaring
that they would "win the strike,
by fair means or loul." If this report was
false, an undoubted injustice was done to
3Ir. l'enna, and he owes it to himself and
the cause of labor to have it set right in the
most emphatic manner.
"Witn the strike placed squarely upon the
platform of seruoulous respect for the law,
none will question the propriety, although
they may doubt the policy of the strikers
abstaining from work and urging others to
follow their example. It is hardly possible
to avoid the reflection that if this advice had
been adhered to heretofore attacks upon coke
woms and the assaults upon men who had
returned to work, would not have furnished
the excuse lor arming shcriCs' deputies or
calling out the military. That is a matter of
the past, while the responsibility for the
deaths at Morewood will undoubtedly be
determined by legal authority. For the fu
ture, however, it is a gratifying duty to rec
ogniz; the fact that the advice of the labor
leaders is wise and pacific
Obedience to the law and respect for indi
vidual rights is the most thorough safe
guard for the American workman. If the
labor organizations maintain that principle
oi action they can rely upon the public ap
proval and sympathy.
KOCH'S DISCOVERT.
A short time ago the drift of testimony
was against the value of tuberculin, or Dr.
Koch's lymph. New testimony is coming
in which indicates that it has some value,
though not the elixir of life that early re
ports represented it. Dr. Bergmann, of
Berlin, has given the results of his treat
ment with it, which he claims establishes
its value. Several New York physicians
have also concluded experiments which
show that it will be of much use. While
the testimony appears very conflicting it
can really be harmonized as showing that
the lymph is not available for the ad
vanced stages of consumption, but may be
of great use in the earlier stages. Thus it
gradually assumes the character of an im
portant discovery, though not the general
salvation of pulmonary humanity that it
was supposed to be. Further experience is
needed to make this conclusion final; but
the tendency of the evidence is as stated.
PATTISON AND REAPPORTIONMENT.
A report to the effect that unless the
Legislature passes apportionment bills
that the Governor can approve, he will call
an extra session, works the Philadelphia
Tress into a denunciatory fever. It refers
to "the folly of eight years ago" as a con
clusive argument, and while admitting
the constitutional necessity of apportion
ment declares that the Legislature "will
have done its full duty when it has sent to
the Governor bills agreed to by the majority
in each House, and only that can be ex
pected." This is a new version of the theory that
the constitutional method of legislation
need not be observed by the Legislature.
The document which is supposed to be fun
damental in this State, makes the approval
of the Governor just as requisite to legisla
tion as the agreement of either branch un
less the majority in both is large enough to
pass it over his veto. Vet in regard to
legislation the constitutional necessity of
which is conceded by the Press, it asserts
that there is no need for respecting the
veto of the Governor. Since it admits that
this legislation must be enacted by the
present Legislature we are unable
to construe its language as having
any other meaning than that the
provisions of the Constitution on this
point can be wiped out by party policy.
There lias been much ignoring the Constitu
tion by the politicians and corporations of
Pennsylvania, on the principle of the Hon.
Tim Campbell's question: "What's the
Constitution among friends?" but this is
the first proposition we have seen for the
abolition of the veto power by the edict of
the party organs.
As to "the extravagant folly of eight
years ago." the Governor at that time
called the Legislature together to perform
a constitutional duty which it had left un
done. The act was brought up against him
in the last campaign, and it was promptly
answered that when a Governor calls upon
a Legislature to do work required by the
Constitution, the Legislature is responsible
for the extravagances it commits. We have
failed to find in the vote of the people at
the last State election any evidence that
the people condemned the Governor for the
extravagant folly of the party friends of the
Press.
Perhaps our esteemed cotemporary can
draw from the election of Governor Patti
son some cogent reasons which should re
strain htm from repeating the acts on the
record of which he was elected the second
time; but it requires an extraordinary polit
ical genius to do it.
LABOR ORGANIZATION AND CAPITAL.
The interview with Mr. John Downey, of
the Order of Kail way Switchmen, given in
another column, puts the benefits of labor
organization in a light which is not consid
ered so often as it might be. Mr. Downey
dwells upon the work done by his order in
promoting among the men sobriety, careful
discharge of duty and interest in preserving
the property of the employer. He also states
that the great railway capitalists recognize
the value of their work in this respect, as
well as the superior convenience in dealing
with the men as a body, instead of having to
settle wage questions with them separately.
There is no doubt that a labor organiza
tion which promotes sobriety and greater
efficiency and conscientiousness in work,
among its members, is doing a good work.
Any labor organization that makes those
aims a leading feature will vindicate its
usefulness and command ultimate success.
It is also true that employers have largely
recognized the advantage- of dealing
with conservatively managed labor organ
izations for the uniform settlement
of wages. The iron manufacturers of Pitts
burg have long conceded the value of the
Amalgamated Association for that lunction,
and many large coal operators have worked
hand-in-band with the miners' unions for
the establishment of uniform mining scales.
Mr. Depew has in 'his speeches recognized
this point, and we believe that Mr. Jay
Gould has, as Mr. Downey nays, shown a
similar opinion in some of his acts.
Nevertheless it is necessary to note that
the corporations presided over by both these
gentlemen nave found themselves in con
flicts with labor organizations, to escape
from which they used their whole corporate
power to wipe out the organizations. "We
do not allude to this as an impeachment of
either side in these conflicts. But they are
evidences of the fact that there are still con
ditions of antagonism between labor and
capital which might be removed, end which
thinking men on both sides will do their
best to ameliorate.
SUFFERING FOR THE HORSES.
The news that the horses in this city have
got the grip, is a singular instance of the
ills which human flesh is heir to spreading
among the equine race. If the horses could
establish a sanitary bureau it would be
highly pertinent to inquire whether
the disease is produced among
them by the atmospheric conditions
which they have resisted longer
than the men, or whether it has been com
municated from the human sufferers to the
horses. In the latter case the horses would
be justified in putting the human race under
strict quarantine. The infliction has been
severe enough hcretolore without the ad
ditional burden of putting man's noblest
and best friend among the bruts creation
through the same suffering. But if the
horses have to stand the epidemic all that
can be done is to give them good care and
bear it patiently until better weather brings
relief.
REMARKABLE THEORIES.
The international criticisms arising nut of
the New Orleans lynching is leading some
of our writers and, if reports are to be be
lieved, some of our diplomatic minds into
strange and complicated labyrinths of dip
lomatic theory. A remarkable illustration
of this can be found in the views reported
by our special dispatch from Washington,
in yesterday's issue.
When this issue first came up it was sug
gested in these columns that the United
States might ultimately take refuge in the
plea, that as under mob law no protection
was Jafforded to the life and property of any
citizen, therefore the victims of the New
Orleans lynching had the same treatment as
American citizens, and there is no cause of
complaint. This was supposed to be sar
casm, but it now appears with Washington
reports that this plea is to be seriously re
sorted to and that the Gover'nmeutmay take
refuge in that self-drawn impeachment of
the efficacy and supremacy of its own laws.
We may be permitted to express the belief
that Secretary Blaine is not going to take
any such attitude. His course during the
whole matter has been too judicious, and
his reply to Budini's hasty steps far too
cool and clear-headed to make it possible
that he will discredit himself and his
country by the promulgation of any such
international nonsense.
It has been a long-established principle
that strong and civilized governments can
secure protection to their subjects every
where, whether the subjects of the land
where they happened to be were adequately
protected or not The Englishman or Ger
man is guarded by his flag, so as to have su
perior rights in countries where the govern
ment is half-civilized or tyrannical. Here
tofore the American citizen has had an equal
standing; but if this remarkable piece of
international logic is presented to the world,
we not only rank ourselves among the half
civilized countries where life and property is
not secure, but we actually announce that
an American citizen may be lugged off to
Siberia by Bussia, may be bastinadoed in
Turkey, shot down in Salvador, or robbed
in Morocco, because the subjects of those
governments are liable to similar acts of
tyranny.
A refinement on this theory is presented
by an argument that as the Italians were
not lynched merely because they were Ital
ians there is no call for redress. To apply
the principle mutatis mutandis, if a Chi
nese mob murders a lot of American citi
zens, not because they are Americans,
but because they are "foreign devils," sub
verting the civilization and religion of
China, the transaction will be one in which
the United States Government can find no
reason for complaint The Government
which would not repudiate such an idea
when presented against its own citizens
would not be able to stand for a week against
tho protests of an enlightened nation.
It is certainly worth while in this issue
for the United States to take ground upon
the highest and most civilized principles of
international law. We do not believe that
the State Department will expose the coun
try to the ridicule and contempt of civiliza
tion by formulating such theories as these.
"Unfoktun-atelt," remarks the St.
Louis Ulobe-Democral,"tae bribery law of Mis
souri makes the elver of a bribe equally guilty
with the receiver of the bribe and thus shuts
him out from being a witness." The misfortune
from our Western cotemporary's standpoint is
in the difficulty of seenring evidence of bribery.
Bat thn Idea that the people who buy legislators
should be given immunity, and that if they were
they would confess the methods by which they
buv legislation is one of the products of the age
which make us wonder what we are coming to.
It is pleasant to observe that English
public opinion is gradually crystallizing into
the conviction that that nation has got beyond
tho stage of development indicated by Black
stone's declaration that a man may beat his
wife if he does not do it with a stick more than
half an Inch thick.
TnE statement that John Ward, the base
ball player, and Miss Dauvray.the actress, have
compromised their matrimonial differences
comes simultaneously with the assumption of a
more pacific tone by Italy. With this ten
dency toward peace, the hope is revived that
the irrepressible conflict between the Demo
cratic ex-President and the New York Sun
may yet be composed, when the lion shall lie
down with tbe lamb.
IT furnishes rather a striking comment
ary on the need of a little accurate historical
information in connection with war stories to
find one recently published by Mrs. South
worth, beginning: "Tbe time was in the sum
mer of 1853, just after the awful carnage of
Antietam."
The funeral exercises of our dead An
archlst,:Hcrr Fricke, including the address of
Herr Most must be credited with having kept
within the lines of oulogies of tbe deceased,
and the principles of socialism represented by
him. So long as the Anarchists keep within
the bounds of reason, as they did yesterday,the
nation can put up with their craukiness.
Ix view of the recent comments on the
ability of the United States to conduct a for
eign war. who can object to General E. Burd
Grubbs' appearance at the court of Madrid in
a form to over-awe the effete monarchies with
the uniform of the Philadelphia City Troop.
It is asserted by the Philadelphia papers
that notwithstanding the exposures of tbe press
and courts, the bait of those concerns which
offer to give $100 for J30 is catching lots of vic
tims. If that is so, it must be concluded that
the desire ot the people to be swindled is too
unconquerable to be overcome by any ventila
tion of their favorite swindles.
Michigan is regarded as likely to adopt
the plan of electing Presidental electors by
Congressional districts. If a few States should
adopt that clan it would make the next elec
tion a very uncertain proceeding. But if one
State doosso, all should.
Aftee all we may be grateful that the
Italian fuss did not break out while Congress
was in session. The addition of $30,000,000 to
the naval appropriation might have been en
dured; but just thine of the oratory that
would have broken loose In the line of twisting
tbe tall well, of the Italian monkey for lack of
a better impersonation.
Hawaii's modest proposition that Uncle
Earn shall pay a bounty on its sugar production
may be entertained when Hawaii pays taxes
into Uncle Sam's treasury -and not before.
Sieam heat, it is now asserted, is being
introduced in the cars of tbe New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. It seems that
Mr. Depew'sdeclarationsofthodangerof steam
heat were not a corporate ultimatum; but It
required the destruction of several lives and
the indictment ot certain millionaire directors
to effect the reform.
AGAIN the sunshine and the signal ser
vice allow us a gleam of hope that Winter wdl
abandon his unjustifiable and improper linger
ing in the lap of Spring.
The statement that tbe sale of Kipling's
stories has died out since tba publication of
those letters amounts to an assertion that tbe
taste for Kipling was not a literary taste, but a
fad which died out when it was discovered that
tbe young man bad Indulged in some Impudent
but withal very amusing criticisms ot the
United States.
Italy cannot feel truly safe until she
receives information whether Colonel Epops
Shepard has ordered out his troops to march
on "Roma."
The scandals of the German court fur
nish an interesting theme in the cable dis
patches to-day. It might be more instructive
if the correspondents should give their efforts
to discovering some features of the European
courts that are not scandalous; but tbe task
wonld not be half so easy nor the results half
so racy.
At last the return of the sunshine per
mits the hope to spring eternal in tbe human
breast that tbe backbone of winter is broken.
Mk. Watchokn, in pursuit of his con
troversy with Mr. H. O. Fricke, about the re
sponsibility for the presence of the Hungarian
element in the coke region, furnishes a large
amount of Interesting literature to the public
to-day. Doubtless Mr. Frick will in good timn
contribute bis share to the discussion.
HEN AND WOMEN OF NOTE. .
LAST Saturday was the semi-centenary
of the death of the first President Harrison.
Emperor William is writing a life of
his grandfather, and also a book of Norwegian
travels.
Senator Hiscock is a strong man, a
thorongh parliamentarian, fine looking, a con
vincing speaker and a true gentleman.
Bishop Btan, of Buffalo, who has been
seriously ill at Providence Hospital for some
time, has left Washington for his home very
much improved. It is expected that he will be
out and around in good health in a few days.
James Patn is one of the most prolific
novelists ot the day, and three or four works
of fiction per annum are usually turned out by
his busy pen. He is father-in-law to the editor
of the London Times. Mr. Payn is a new ac
quisition to tbe staff of J'unch.
Henry Fielding Dickens, the Re
corder of Deal, England, and the most capablo
of the sons lelt by the novelisthas successfully
defended In court Charles Lyddon, the young
medical student charged with poisoning his
step-brother. Dr. W. R. Lyddon.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the daugh
ter of Horace Greeley, still lives at her father's
old home, Chappaqua, although the house be
built there was burned down some tlmo ago.
She is very benevolent, and is much beloved
by tho poor of tbe neighborhood.
Julias- Hawthorne, the author and
newspaper writer, has a fad in chicken raising.
He owns a chicken farm on Long Island, where
ho indulges his propensity lor roosters and
bens, and from which he makes a neat sum
yearly in soiling eggs and poultry.
The new Archbishop of York is said to
be an amateur photographer. The Bisbop of
Ripon is devoted to football. Bishop Ellicott
is renowned for cood skating. The Bisbop of
Chester, as is well known, has expressed a de
sire to keep a public house. The old staid no
tions of ecclesiastical dignity are evidently de
caying. The elder two of Emperor William's
sons show as yet very little of tbelr imperial
father's cold and domineering disposition. In
their friendliness tbey much more resemble
tbelr gentle grandfather, tbe late Emperor
Frederick. They are ready to make a comrade
of any lad they meet especially if he shows a
lively and dashing spirit
Thomas A. Edison and 100 of his em
ployes visited Harrigan's Theater in New York
one nignt a few weeks ago. Just as Mr. Edison
was taking his Beat all tbe lights in the build
lng went oat for a moment, creating some con
fusion, but as the lights began burning again
almost immediately, tbe cessation of the light
seems to be looked upon as a practical joke.
Miss Frances Willard's long prac
tice in presiding at public meetings has given
her an eaio of manner in the chair that many a
man might envy. She is among the few women
who produce tbe impression of being no more
embarrassed when acting as chairman for a
large assemblythan she would feel with a sin
gle guest in her own drawing room.
THE LAND OF BACKSHEESH,
Waiters, Porters and Chefs Live High at Hot
Springs, Though Their Wages Are Small
They Manage It by Extorting Tips
Rich Fools to Blame.
tritOM A STAFF COBBISPOXDKKT..I
Hor Springs, Abe., April 1. The man who
waits not tbe guest, but his alleged attendant
in tbe hotel dining room is a large figure at
the Springs. They tell me it is hard to get
trained waiters here, though exactly why it
should be I can't see. All the help in the hotels
are colored, of course, with some few excep
tions, such as tho chambermaids and bell
boys.
The waiters in tho three principal hotels
number not much less than 500 men, and they
have their hands full now, for every table in
the immense dininc rooms at tbe Park and
Eastman has its complement. Most of the
waiters have about as much knowledge of the
art of setvlng for it almost approaches an art
to wait upon six or eight people at once and
minister to their several appetites so that their
souls, as well as their stomachs, shall be satis
fied as a rooster has of railroading.
In one particular alone do the colored waiters
hero fully come up to the highest standard of
tbe cultured East they can extort backsheesh
trom the flintiest old skin-flint who falls into
their hands. It is absolutely out of the
question to try to evade the payment
of tbe taxes which tbe waiters levy.
The best plan is to get hold of a good waiter
and compound with him for a weekly stipend.
It Is usually necessary to fee tbe head waiter,
also, and it is even advisable to send a douceur
to the carver in the kitchen if you have a pref
erence for certain cuts or cooking of meat
Even the Rich Complain.
"This business of tipping everyone in the ho
tel," said a gentleman who has tho Standard
Company behind him. "is becoming a very seri
ous nuisance. Everybody expects a tip wait
ers, porters, bell boys, chambermaids, cooks
and the whole establishment must be paid for
doing what you have already paid the pro
prietor for having done. Even the hotel
clerks look for some valuable recognition, if
not in money, in cigars and drinks, and it would
not surprise me in tbe least if the proprietor
himself were to strike me for a V."
Hot Springs is not unusually afflicted. I found
the "tip" as much, or more, in vogue at the ho
tels in St Augustine, at Tampa and Galveston,
and, in fact, wherever we have been among tbe
Southern resorts this winter. But I think the
disease is more acute than ever and tbe scalo of
tips is constantly rising.
Till very lately Americans could truly say
that nothing like tbe Euiopean system of tip
ping existed in this country. The boast can be
made no longer. Tips are extorted as freely
here, in tbe health or pleasure resorts especial
ly, as ever they were in London or Paris; and
what is lamentable, we get nothing like tba
equivalent to tbe European service in return.
We pay tbe toll and get more kicks tban
courtesy tor if.
Golden Galoots to Blame.
Some of the responsibility for the growth of
tbe "tipping" evil undoubtedly belongs to
wealthy fools who play such an important part
in tbe maintenance of the hotels everywhere.
These golden galoots don't care what they pay
for the smallest priveleges and their largesses
demoralize the market and put tbe necessities
of service almost beyond the reacb of those
whose means are more limited. One of these
made-of-nioney men Days his hath attendant $5
every time he bathes that Is daily.
The legitimate pay of a batbman is 1
a week, and he is well satis
fied if be gets twice that sum.
I know that Croesus gets no more attention in
the bathtub than your humble servant, who
perforce lavishes not a penny when it can be
saved, and I overheard tbe attendant telling a
companion as he displayed the So bill that
Croesus had more money than brains; so it is
clear the reckless tipper wius neither extra
service, gratitude nor respect with his boodle.
Excuses for Tips,
The small wages paid' to hotel employes in
tbe great hotels on tbe seashore or at such
places as Hot Springs, which are open for a
limited season, are some excuse for the game
of grab of which the guests are the victims.
Considering the Immense incomes derived
from their property tbe hotel keepers ought to
pay their help better and protect their
customers. It is not likely that the hotel
keepers will do this, because here and there
Bomebody grumbles, and an organized protest
is as little likely to be heard from tbe traveling
public. So tbe waiters will continue to draw
20 a month and their board from the hotel
keepers and as much more as they can from the
gnests.
How much the latter sum usually is depends
a great deal on tbe gall of the waiter, as well
as the condition of Ins prey. I am told that tbe
colored waiters here expect to make from $25
to $50 a month in tips, and the head waiter at
one of the hotels divides with tho cher about
100 a month, and even more. A Minneapolis
man tells me that the bead waiter in that city col
lects $200 a month in fees from tbe guests of a
fashionable hotel, and this sum be divides with
the chef, as seems to be tbe general custom.
By a rough calculation, I find that about 810,000
a week during the best months of tbe season is
expended by visitors to Hot Serines In tips to
various attendants, who are nominally sup
posed to be paid by the proprietors of hotels,
bath bonscs, railroads and other institutions
or individuals. Men whose travels have been
Wider than mine tell me that tbe same extor
tion is practiced in summer or in winter at
everyplace to where men go for pleasure or for
health, from Narragansett Pier to Galveston,
and from Fortress Monroe to Coronado Beach.
Is it a si;n of tho times that citizens of this
great Republic should view with some con
cern? Wiser heads than mine think it is.
One of the Fattened.
It didn't astonish me a bit to hear that a good
many of tho colored attendants in the baths or
dining room's here contrive to live comfortably
all the year on what tbey earn during the sea
son of four or, at tbe most, five montbs during
which time Hot Springs is really busy. A lady
tcllB mo that hor attendant, a comely mulatto.
In the bath house surprised her by saying the
other day:
"We'se made up ouah minds to spen' der
snmmah dis yeah at Saratogab. Lis' yeah we'd
dun got nobody to take caah of der chlllnns,
but now mab man's sistah, she's a gur'ness, 's
come to stay heah, we'll leave der chiliuns wiv
her and travel dis suiumab. Yuh see. mah bus
ban's sistah can play der pianah. an' give der
chlllnns French and German lessons while we'se
away, an' I don' see no objecsbunablecess in
dis heah plan."
Tbe husband of the speaker and father of
"dese bean chlllnns" is beau waiter or some
thing of the sort in tbe cafe which Is a side
show for tbe gambling saloon in the fashion
able Arkansaw Club, and 1 have no doubt that
he makes more in a year tban tbe average pro
fessional man in Pittsburg; for gamblers aro
proverbially liberal, and you can see before you
are here a week that it Is their liberality that
procures for them the very best of all that Is
going in this singular place.
Hepburn JonKS.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Judge Henry Southern.
Erie, April 5. A telegram from Fred
ericksburg, Va., nnnounces the death of Judce
Henry Southern, of Eric, of heart failure. He
was a native of Charleston, .Mass-, and was 64
years of axe. lie was District Attorney of Elk
countv, and a member of the Pennsylvania Senate
In 1835. Ilewasa member of the -National Con
vention that nominated Lincoln, was Surveyor
General or Pennsylvania under General Geary,
and a member of the convention that nominate. 1
Grant and Colfax. He was aUo Judge of Courts
of behuvlkill county. He was conspicuous In
politics up to the time, of his leaving Eric, four
Sears ago, to take up his residence in VredericKs
urg. hllc lie was the possessor of a larse for
tune in Erie and In the oil and lumber regions, he
was engaged In the flour mining business in Vir
ginia, and wss the owuerjof two large vessels on
the .Maine coast.
Rev, S. H. Nesbit.
Rev. S. H. Nesbit, D. D., an aged Meth
odist divine, of New Brighton, died yesterday
morning at bis home. He was 70 years of age.
Funeral services will be held in the Aew Bright
on M. E. Church to-morrow afternoon at 3
o'clock. The body will then be brought to Alle
gheny and taken to the residence or his son-in-law.
J. S. Craig, 151 Irwin avenue, and will be
privately burled Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
W. 15. Miller and E. H. Ames.
Tttusvtlle, April 5. II. E. Miller, president
of the Select Council or this city, died this morn
ing, and Ellas II. Ames, general superintendent
ol the TItusvllle iron Works, died at noon. Both
had been ill but a lew days. La grippe was tho
canso or death in eacn ea&c. Hon. W. if. Abbot,
who has been ill for some time, is better.
Jacob Duerr.
Jacob Duerr, a well-known German cili
7en, of No. 314 Spring Garden avenue, died at 3:35
o'clock yesterday afternoon, aged 39 years. He was
a member or the American Brewing .Masters' As
sociation, tbe Uambrlnus Beneficial SocJetv and
the Allegheny Turnverein. The runeraf will be
bcld to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Ann Hodgson McCartney.
Mrs. Ann Hodgson, McCartney, wife of
Captain Andrew McCartney, a retired river cap
tain and one of the best known residents or Char
tiers, died yesterday. In her 78tu year. The
funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Mrs. Mary A. Hooth.
Mrs. Mary A. Booth, widow of the late
Willis Booth, and mother or Attorney Willis
Booth, died at;her borne, TVylle avenue and
Francis street yesterday alternoon,aged 74 years.
Arrangements for the funeral bate not been com
pleted. '
VALUABLE CONCESSIONS
Granted to Americans in Several South
American Republics.
Washington, April 5. The following In
formation is furnished by the Buroau of Amer
ican Republics: The Government of Honduras
has granted to Messrs. IS. W. Perry and F. M.
Iuiboden, both citizens of the United States, a
con:ession of land covering the entire region
known as Mosquito, the payment for which is
to be made in the construction of expensive
public works, including an army road from
Tegucigalpa to the coast of tbe Caribbean Sea,
more tban 300 miles In lonctb. another a canal
20 miles long, 12 yards wide and 5 deep, to con
nect the Caratasca lagoon with the Gnayapa
river. In addition to these works, Messrs.
Ferry and lmboden agree to erect 100 miles of
telegraph line, establishing communication by
wire between tbe Mosquito region and tbe in
terior of the country. Actlro measures will at
once be taken to induce immigrants to settle
upon tbe lands of tho concession, and liberal
inducements are offered.
'1 ho Government of Honduras has issued a
decree continuing for another term of years the
steamship company maintained by Messrs. De
Leon and Alger between Puerto Cortez, Belize
and New Orleans. The Government of Guate
mala has recently granted a concession to
Messrs. Martin. Koberts & Co. for tbe construc
tion of a canal 52 miles in length irom Foint
Iiengua Do Bucy, near Fort Livingston, on the
Caribbean sea, to Gualan, a city of tbe interior,
about 150 miles from Guatemala City, tbe cap
ital of the Republic The railway is now In
progress of construction between tbe latter
towns. The canal is to be of sufficient length
and depth to accommodatesteamers of 100 tons.
HOT "WHAT IT WAS PAINTED.
Pennsylvania Miners Who Were Lured to
the Indian Territory.
rSr-KCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Scrakton. April; 5. Philip Williams and
Nimrod Edwards, miners, who left with a party
of miners from this and the Pittsbnrg coal
districts for Ardmore, Indian Territory, have
returned, and report things far different in
that place than they have been painted. They
say tbey arrived there three weeks ago, and
for five days received tbe wages promised, $2 50
per day. Then tbe company ordered tbem to
go to work for 80 cents per ton, and they ob
jected, as they could only earn $1 43.per day at
that rato. They were promised $4 per yard for
tbe air way, and $6 for tbe gang way, and that
part of tbe agreement was kept by tbe com
pany. Even at this rate they could not make a
living, and many of tbe miners left as soon as
tbey received orders to work under tbe smaller
wages.
About 32 of tho Eastern Pennsylvania miners
left at once, and many from the Pittsbnrg dis
trict also picked up traps when they learned
tbey had been taken in. Many of the miners
scattered through tbe State, and, others went
down into Texas. So many of them left that
tbe company .became frightened, and began
paying a few of those who were left the
promised wages.
A BABY BRIDE AND QK00M.
They Ran Away From School to Be Mar
ried, bnt Are Captured.
Galveston, Tex., April 6. Last evening
two budding youths, a boy and a girl, just at
tbe'ago when they imagine themseves ten years
older than they really are, made an attempt to
experience the joys of married bliss. Tbey are
pupils in the Ball High School. Sidney Trash,
tbe young man in tbe affair, is a son of Dr.
Trash, of this city, acd Miss Ora Brown is the
daughter ot a reputable widow in the West
Eod.
After school was dismissed tbey concluded to
run off to Houston to get married. They did
not go, however. A younger sister was tbe in
strument in frustrating tbe design. When tho
party reached the depot she appealed to Offi
cer Mealey, who interfered, and after sharply
reprimanding the youtbiul wo aid-be groom he
sent the young girl home to her mother.
Among tbe school children it was the sen
sational event of tbe season. The young man
was arrested on tbe charge of abduction, but
when the case came up this morning the
charge was withdrawn.
FOUGHT TOE HEB HAND.
Her JTather Acted as Timekeeper but Didn't
Flay Fair.
I SPECIAL TEXKOBAM TO THE DISPATCH. I
Erie, April 5. An interesting story comes
from North East, this county. It seems a Mr.
Armstrong has a loving daughter, Gertrude,
who is adored by two young men, George
Johnson and Henry Simmons. The father
favored George, wbilo the girl was partial to
Henry. Some few days ago the two men quar
reled. They met at the house ot the girl, and
it was tben proposed to figbt it out. This was
agreed to and tne father acted as timekeeper.
The father encouraged George, while the
girl applauded Henry, After a fierce fight, tho
latter knocked George clean out and was de
clared the winner. Ihe father still refused to
sanction tbe wedding, and the two ran away
and were married. The crooked timekeeper
withholds the girl's clothes, but they say they
are happy and expect to be forgiven in time.
THE BEIDE CAME NOT.
A Missouri Marriage Is, Therefore, Indefin
itely Postponed.
Sedalia. Mo., April 5. Edward Morgan, a
Missouri Pacific engineer, running between
Sedalia and Kansas City, left last Monday for
St. Lonis, where be was to meet his affianced,
Miss Ethel Mason, of Newport, R. I., and they
were to have been married the following day.
Miss Mason failed to materialize on Tuesday,
so Mr. Morgan remained in St Louis until
last evening, when be became disgusted and
returned home.
On arrival here he found a letter from his
affianced, saying her parents objected to her
going so far from borne alone, and in conse
quence of her action tbe engagement is off.
Morgan is a widower, about 40 yoars old.
TBOTJBLE IN A CHUHCH.
Tho Lutherans of Reading to Form a New
Congregation.
flSPICIAI. TZLXGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Reading, April 5. The trouble in Zion's
Lutheran Church at Manbeim has reached a
climax and it is likely that a band of seceders
will organize a new congregation. Ever since
tbe late pastor. Rev. 3. Peters, resigned and re
moved to Bellwood, the breach between tbe
two factions has been widened.
A general invitation has been issued to the
adherents of the Rev. Mr. Peters to assemble
in tbe church and consider the project of
forming a new congregation.
"WEST VIRGINIA TJNIVEBSITT.
Report That Many Changes Aro to Be Made
in tho Faculty.
fPECIAt, TSLUGhAM TO THE DISPATCH.-.
Wheeling, April 5. Evidences are multi
plying that thore is golnc to be a general shak
ing up in the State University at llorgantown,
and that a number of tbe faculty will lose their
head.
I'icsident E. M. Turner was here yesterday,
and more tban intimated there was trouble
brewing, though what the trouble was he re
fused to say. The graduating class this year
will number the largost in tbe history of the
institution.
PEANTJ1S CAUSED HEB DEATH.
Miss Solt Ate Three Quarts and Burst a
Blood Vessel.
ISrECIAL TKLKOKAM TO THE ntSPATCH.t
PniLLlPSBURO. April 5. Miss Solt, of
Knowdon township, was found dead in
her bed yesterday morning. From a medi
cal examination it was learned that the indirect
cause of tho young woman's death was an over
indulgence in peanuts.
The direct cause was tbe bursting of a blood
vessel caused by the severe pain of an attack
of cramp. caused by tho peanuts. It is stated
that she ate throe quarts tbe preceding evening,
but this i3 probably overdrawn.
Reciprocity Defined.
2Jew York Sun.l
"What's reciprocity!" asked she.
He paused in thought as if to seek
A good reply, tben gallantly
He bent and kissed her cheek.
Starting like some poor frightened deer,
Her cheek aflame with sunset red.
She soundly boxed him on tbe ear
"That's reciprocity," he said.
Happy Maryland.
Philadelphia Publlo Ledger.
Maryland is not worrying herself about coast
defences. She has her own oyster navy, with a
tupply of shells unlimited.
True.
Philadelphia Times. 3
Tho worst reports that could possibly come
from the scene of labor strikes aro those made
by exploding rifles.
THINGS IN GENERAL,
Some Features Brought Oat by the Inter
national Dispute Action of Italy and
tho .Louisiana Mot) Much Alike A
Veneor of Civilization.
IWIUTTIN FOB THE niSPATCH.I
"A hundred thousand Kansas cowboys wonld'
like to spend tbe snmmer in Rome." Yes; and
a hundred thousand Italian brigands would
like to spend the summer in New Orleans.
Tbe rumor of war brings these people into
sight. And tbe sight, though not particularly
pleasant, is exceedingly instructive. It is
worth while that we should realize that a good
deal which we are pleased to call civilization Is
really nothing but veneer. The fact is, that
with all our arts and sciences, with all our fine
houses and good manners, with all our manifold
advances in right thinking and wonderful
achieving, we are still but seml-ctvillzed,
"Mostly fools," Carlyle said of the Inhabitants
of tbe Island of Great Britain. Mostly savages,
one might say in a similarly exaggerated fashion
of the inhabitants of tbe planet Earth. So
many millions of people dwell upon the surface
of this terrestrial ball most of tbem savages.
For civilization, unhappily, Is not effected by
washing tbe warpaint off a man's face, and
plucking tbe feathers out of his hair, and
putting lnm into a pair of trousers, and teach
ing bim to write his name. Tbe difference
between a civilized man and a savage is mainly
in the different way in wbicb they look oat at
human life. And a good test of tbe real depth
of anybody's civilization is bis behavior in the
moment of misunderstanding with bis brother.
The savage wants to hit somebody.
Tho Difference Between Them.
Tbe civilized man wants to talk tbe matter
over and find out where the wrong is, and so
get it righted. It seems quite impossible
for the savage to believe 'that anybody
will do justly unless he is first bullied
and tben beaten. That hnmau beings should
of their own motion desire to do right, and
wish to amend wrong, and listen to reason and
obey the voice of justice, passes the compre
hension of the savage. That is not his way,
and he cannot understand how it cau be any
body else's way. The bundred thousand Kan
sas cowboys see no better answer to King
Humbert's demand for American fairness to
Italy tban the SDendinc of a summer in Rome.
Evidently they have never been in Rome, and
do not at all realize tbe degree to which the
Italian sun would make it hot for them in that
pestiferous neighborhood. Tbey look forward
toward a pleasant season of stealing and mur
deringas a help toward tbe right settlement
of an International question. And the hun
dred thousand Italian brigands can Imagine no
speedier way to the securing of perfect justice
toward their fellow countrymen tban the dis
patching of a fleet of gunboats to tbe mouth of
the Mississippi river.
I say that tbe square described on tbe hypoth
enuse of a rigbt-angled triangle is equal to the
sum of the squares described on the other two
sides. You say "no." What, not Fool, ras
cal, reprobate, thief, darest thou contradict
me? Sirrab, come forward here! away with
pen and paperl here are two swords. Lay on,
Macduff, and damn'd be he that first cries
Hold, enougbl And if I beat you badly enough
over the head, then I am right. But if, on the
contrary, yon brnise me sufficiently about the
body and get tho better of me, why. I yield.
Noble and stout-handed sir, yon are correct.
Tbe square desciibed on the bypothenuse of a
right-angled triangle is equal to the snm of tbe
squares described on the other six (or even 16)
sides. Thus will we arrive at trutb.
One of tho Medlteval Customs.
Everybody knows that not so -very long ago
questions at law were decided after that very
fashion. The accused had tho privilege of
"wager of battle," which meant precisely the
sort of settlement which I have just been im
agining. The lawbooks were shut up; tbe
judge and jury listened no longer to argument
on one side or on tho other; no attempt was
further made to get in a reasonable way at the
rights of the matter. Tbe whole court room
went outdoors and formed a ring, with tbe
udge for referee and the opposing counsel for
seconds, and there the case was fought to a
finish with bare fists, or blackthorns, or sharp
lances. And thus impartial justice was admin
istered! And this is the kind of law which the cow
boys of Kansas and Palermo want in this year
1S91. They propose that two respectable Chris
tian nations should settle a difference by wager
of battle, bv a behavior which, on the part of
two respectable Christian men, would be in
dignantly rejected. Wben disreputable and
un-Christian men undertake that sort of set
tlement of their discussions tbe police take
them away in a patrol wagon, and they are
very properly given a space of quiet days in
jail.
Of course, there will be no war. We are
sufficiently civilized, it seems, to overrnle tbe
savago elements of tbe community this time.
Bnt we see tbat savagery still exists. In a
great nation, where tbe boys who will be tbe
citizens of tbe future are Instructed
'five days every week between the
nours ui v anu 3, mnrnt it not De
well to add to tbe fact that two and two make
four, tbe further and not less import? nt fact
that two wrongs cannot possibly be so added
together as to make a right?
Tbe action of the Italian Government and of
the Louisiana mob appear to have been sincu-
larly alike. Both proceeded hastily, abruptly,
inconsistently, to tbe conclusion that tbe only
way to get a wrong righted was by violence.
Because a wrong was not rigbted, or was not
righted in a day. tbey concluded tbat it could
not be peaceably set straight at all.
The Difficulties of Justice.
There is a very general overlooking of the
difficulties of justice. Setting crooked things
straight is no easy task: cannot well be done
off-hand; sometimes, with tho very best inten
tion, misses of accomplishment. This is admir
ably brought out in tbat capital novel,
"For the Right." Tbe hero is possessed
with an unusually strong sense of justice. Ho
fails of getting justico done in a case which, to
him, is perfectly plain. He is used unright
eously. Gradually he becomes convinced tbat
the courts of bis country are all corrupt; that
tbe judges have no conscience. He sets ont to
administer justice himself. He becomes a self
constituted avenger. Whoever has a wrong
resents nis case ana me avenger rights it.
ut at last he discovers tbat he himself, on
false information, has punished an innocent
man. All his longing after Infinite justice, all
his determination to do the right, has not
availed to keep him out of error. It is a reve
lation to him. At once he surrenders himself
to tbe courts. His career a3 avenger is over.
The business of avenger is one on which any
man or any Government may well hesitate to
enter. Sometimes there must be a loading of
guns, and a grim firingof them afterwards. But
not till every possible endeavor after peaceable
and reasonable justice has been made. Some
times, by tbe neglect of the people, and by tbe
abuse ot men in power, the laws may be so
lawlessly administered that the only remedy is
to shoot the lawmakers. Somebody must be
lynched. Some nation must be assailed with
gunboats. But it is alwas better to wait. Bet
ter wait a year and be sure!
Ninety-nine times ont of 99 the Gospel will
gain more justice than tho guns,
A TBEE WAS HEB HOUSE.
Probably n Mysterious Disappearance Is
NovvAcconnted For.
St. Louis, April 5. A strange woman, who
lives in tbe hollow of a tree, has been discov
ered m the swamps about a mile and a half
from Madison, III. She is described as a blonde,
about 55 years old. with some traces of beauty
still visible in her face. Tbe discovery of her
whereabouts was made by some employes of
the Merchant lerminal Company, who. ap-,
proaching an old dead tree, were surprised to
see tbe woman come forth, look at them in a
scared way and start to walk hastily away.
Wben spoken to sho stopped, maintained a
dogged silence and then walked off. Sho
seemed to be familiar with the ground and
soon distanced her pursuers. The authorities
of Madison county were notified and have com
menced an investigation. The woman will he
taken in band and an effort made to establish
her identity. There have been several disap
pearances this winter from St. Louis and vicin
ity tbat have not been accounted for, and tbis
strange woman may be ouo of the missing
parties.
ACCEPTED THE PAST0BATE.
Kev. W. II. Templo Goes to the United
Presbyterian Church nt Washington, Pa.
:SFICIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISATCn.t
Washington, Pa., April 5. Rev. H. W.
Temple, of Leechburg. preached in the United
Presbyterian Church in this city to-day and at
the close ot tbe morning servico announced
that he had decided to accept the call to the
pastorate of tbe church in this city.
Rev. Mr. Templo is one of the ministers of
the Reformed Presbyterian Church who was
suspended for advocating tbe participation in
the nublic elections by all citizens, contrary to
tho laws of tbat church.
Diplomacy 'Condensed.
Washington Post.
The condensed edition of the recent diplo
matic correspondence will ran about as fol
lows: To the Hon. James O. Blaine, Secretary of Btate:
Get a move on yourself." lie pleased to ac
cept, Mr. Secretary of State, the renewed assur
ance of my blithest consideration. Fava.
The Marquis Imperial!, Charge d' Affaires, etc.;
beat." Accept, sir, the assurance of mr high
consideration. Blaine.
To Ills Excellency, James O. Blaine, Secretary of
btate:
"Fava was rattled." Yonrs In haste.
itrouo.
BUTTONS IN HEB N0STBILS.
ALoolsvlUe Child Carried Them There for
Five Long Xear
Louisville, April 5. The discovery of a
shoo button in tbe head of little Mary M cKier
nan, which was made about one month ago.
proves to be a more remarkable case tban was
at first supposed. Yesterday another button,
larger tban the first, was removed from her
nose by Dr. Allbands. The child is 9 years of
age. When she was 4 years of age Mary was
playing one day on the floor with a lot of but
tons, some of which had been removed from
old shoes. The little child thoughtlessly put
these to her nose and managed to snuft several
of them, as it now appears, into her bead. This
fact was not known to bor parents. During
the Ave years tbat have intervened since then
she has been subicct to violent bemorrbac.es.
Many phvicians were called in, but tbe child's
case battled them all. Her health de
clined witb each succeeding year. J
It was expected tbat after ihe removal of the
foreign substance tbe attacks of hemorrhage
wonld cease. But this was not the case: for
they continued with the usual violence, and
the child's life was despaired or. Yesterday
Dr. Allbands was again called in by Mr. Mc
Kiernan. Another attack bad come on, In the
violence of which Mary complained of some
thing In her nose. It was found to be another
shoe button. Unlike tbe first, it still retained
tbe iron eye, which, however, had almost rnsted
away. Dr. Allbands says tho button bad dur
ing tbe live years been lying alongside tho one
first removed, and be would not bo surprised if
there was still another in her bead.
DISS KEBAB OUT OF SIGHT.
Her Company Is Disbanded and She a Fugi
tive in Jersey City.
New York, April 5. Ann O'Selia Diss De
bar, who has lately been, playing the part of
champion heavy-weight Cupid in "Out of
Sight," is at present out of employment, and is
also, it is believed, outof tbe jurisdiction of.the
courts of this State. Tbe company, which has
been touring in small towns in the Middle and
Eastern States, arrived from Norwalk yester
day, and tbe hapless Cnpid hastened to pay her
respects to her manager, F. W. Hofele. at the
Harlem Theater, before leaving with tbe com
pany for Catsklll to-day.
"You bad better skip the town at once," said
Mr. Hofele, gruffly. "It is reported that your
former maid, Marie Comiskey, has obtained a
warrant for your arrest from Judge Welde.
The best thing you can do 13 to get out of the
jurisdiction of the court."
Mme. Diss Debar is reported to have been
badly frightened at the prospect of being ar
rested. She started at once, ostensibly for
Jersey City, and could not be found in this city
last evening. Tbe company was disbanded, the
actors and actresses were paid what was dne
tbem, and "Out of Sight" is now off tbe boards
as far as Diss Debar's comnany is concerned.
INDIANA'S WILD MAN.
Strange Discovery Made In a Cave by a
Frightened Hoosler.
Columbus, Ind.. April 5. Years ago a man
named Baines claimed to have discovered a
wild man in a cave near Vernon, whom he de
scribed as covered with a growth of hair, but
he was ridiculed so much over bis story that
he would never disclose the location of tbe
cave.
Recently Alexander Shepard and a friend
from Vernon, while strolling through the hills
in tbat vicinity, discovered the opening of a
cave, and providing themselves with a lantern,
they explored the interior until tbey found
themselves confronted with a form resembling
that of a gorilla or a wild man, covered with a
rough coat of brown hair. The strange creature
looked at tbem for a second and then ambled
off, and the gentlemen wero too much alarmed
to follow. While retracing their steps the ex
plorers found a storeroom partly filled witb po
tatoes, corn and wheat, with bones of fowls,
etc Farmers in the vicinity have frequently
complained of tbe loss of farm products, and it
is believed a clew has been found to tbe thiev
ery. A party is forming to explore the cave
and find out something more about its strange
inhabitant.
MICHIGAN'S NEW PLAN
Of Choosing Presidental Electors by Con
gressional Districts.
Lansing Dispatch.
The Miner bill, providing for tbe election ot
Presidental Electors by Congressional districts,
passed the House of Representatives after a
hotly contested battle that continued nearly
all day. Tbe Democrats and Patrons of Indus
try, who are in a majority in the House, voted
solidly for the bill, tbe Democrats because by a
proposed gerrymander tbey expect toseenre
Seven Electors in a Republican State in 1832,
and the Patrons because tbey consider it a step
toward electing President and Vice President
directly by the people, which is one of their
pet ideas. The Republicans opposed the bill
because tbey hold tbat the President Is Presi
dent of tbe States as units, and not of tbe
people in tbe States, but chiefly because they
wanted to prevent; if possible, one of tbe ef
fects of the impending gerrymander. There is
almost no donbt that tbe bill will pass the Sen
ate and be signed by tbe Governor. It is stated
here tbat Michigan will be tbe first State to
adopt this plan In 60 years.
OIL IN NOBTHEBN INDIANA.
A New Discovery That Is Exciting the Good
People of Goshen.
Goshen, Ind., April 5. The county is wildlv
excited over tbe discovery of oil this morning
on the farm of Joseph Paulus, three miles west
of town.
Tbis is the first time any trace of oil orgas
has been found in this part of the State. The
foars tbat this part of tbe State was forever
los tto gas and oil appear not well founded.
The flow of crude petroleum is strong and
steady, and was found at a depth of 75 feet by
Paulus, who was driving a well, and soon found
the oil spoutlnz up over his machinery.
M'KEESPOBT A CITY.
The New Officials Will Enter Upon Their
Duties To-Day.
ISPKCIAL TELEQBAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
McKeesport, April S. This place has been
a city since April 1, and will be under city gov
ernment to-morrow. At 10 o'clock the Select
and Common Councils will be sworn in, after
which they will organize and select chairmen
and clerks.
At noon the city officers will be sworn in, and
Immediately after Mayor Tilbrook will read his
first message to Councils. This will be fol
lowed Tuesday night Dy tho banquet of the
Board of Trade.
DIED ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY.
A Man and His Wife Expire In Different
Cities the Soma Day.
Atlanta, April 5. While Colonel Jack
Brown wa dying in Washington yesterday, his
wife, the motberof bis family, lay on her death
bed at tbe old family home In Americus.
Brown had been colonel of the Third Goorgia
Cavalry during tho war.
Becauso he was not valued at his own esti
mate arierward he became a Republican, lost
caste with his people, and gave bis wife just
cause for divorce. A few months ago be mar
ried Miss Van Lean. Mis. Brown died three
hours after the death of her ex-husband.
NUMBEBS INSTEAD OP NAME3.
A West Virginia Company Enforces the
Bale Upon All Employes.
IKrFCIAL TELEOHAM TO TUS niSPATCH.I
Morgantown, April 5. It has long been
the custom of railroad contractors to give their
men a brass check, so that tbey are known by
their numbers, instead of their names. It is
reserved for tho Wost Virginia Improvement
Company, however, to adont tbis rule, from
the President down to the ofliee boy.
Chief Engineer Flickinger is known bv means
of his watcb-chariii. numbered 2000: Auditor
Buckley Is known as tiu. 11)99, and so on
down tbe list.
Pattison for the Presidency.
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat, l!cp.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, is put
in the race for the Democratic Presidental
nomination by some of Cleveland's enemies.
It is all vain, however. Cleveland is destined
to bo braton at the polls next year, but Patti
sons's Waterloo may come in IS'JS.
A Doubtful Benefit.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Pennsylvania's unemployed labor wonld give
us a large army in case of a war with any
country bnt that of which tbe unemployed
might be natives.
A Clear-Cat Issue.
Boston Traveller.
There's one tblng about the Italian rnmpns.
Everybody understands what It Is about, and
tbat cannot be said often of International com
plications. A Chance for the Colonel.
Washington Post.
Now tbat the crisis has been safely passed,
tbe great American colonel will proceed to ex
prees his opinion of Italy.
CURIOUS C0NDENSATI05S.
The flute is the oldest of musical instru
ments. A Frenchman proposes to walk on stilts
from Paris to Moscow.
The longest single line, of railroad in
the world is tbe new Trans-Caucasian, built by
Russia.
A Kansas farmer is producing maple
sugar from sap furnished by trees artificially
grown.
It is estimated that there are 50,000,000
feet of saw lo-rs moored to tho banks of tbe
river between Cattletsburg. Ky.,and Ironton.
In its half century of business not a
single passenger of the millions who have
crossed tbe Atlantic In tbe Cunarders has been
lost.
About the only farm work that cannot
now be successfully done by machinery, is
husking corn. It is still done about the same
old way.
When the carpet has been soiled by
ink. Instantly apply blotting-paper, then milk,
tben blottinz-paper, and so on until tbe spot is
out, as it will be. Don't rub.
The largest and heaviest building stone
ever quarried in England was taken from the
Plankington quarry, near Norwich, in Febru
ary. 1SS9. It was one piece, without crack or
flaw, and neiehed over 35 tons; It was 15 feet
long, 6 feet high and 5 feet wide.
A farmer of Carrollton, Ga., while cut
ting wood the other day, found something un
expected in a perfectly sound piece of wood.
Ho was cutting wben three live frogs jumped
out. He proceeded to examine the wood, but
found no decay place, no knot near the resi
dence of the frogs.
Flounders replenish the ocean at a very
rapid rate. In a season one flounder produces
many millions of eggs, scattering them broad
cast through the water. The sole produces
1,000,000 ezzs, a plaice not less than 2,000,000,
while a large tnrbot has been credited with the
deposition of 11,000,000 or 12,000,000 of eggs.
A novelty in the washing machine line
has jnst been invented. It is connected with a
child's swing, and after the soiled garments,
with the proper quantity of soap shavings,
have been put in the tub, a child is placed in
tbe swing, wbicb is set in motion, and moves
automatically, and turns the washing machine.
Salmon generally attains a length of
from three to four feet, and an average weight
of from 12 to 30 pounds, bnt these limits of size
and weight are frequently exceeded. Tbe
heaviest Tay salmon recorded weighed 70
pounds, and the biezest fish taken with a rod
and line was a 69-pounder, which fell to a
former Earl of Home.
Tbe smell of paint may be taken away
by closing up the room and setting in tbe cen
ter of It a pan of lighted charcoal, on which ha'
been thrown some juniper berries. Leave
in tbe room for a day and a nizbt, whe
smell of the paint will be gone. Some p
prefer a pall of water m wbich a handful c
is soaking. This is also effectual in remo
the odor of tobacco smoke from a room.
A Georgia veterinary surgeon has per
formed quite a skillful operation on a mule.
The animal's hoofs had grown out about
eight inches long and had remained in
tbis condition so long that it was walk
ing on its hind legs something like
a bear. Tbe surgeon bad three inches of
its hoof sawed off and had it shod in such a
manner as to straighten it up on its feet again.
Some writers in one or two of the En- v
glish papers have been again pointing out the
fallacy of the very common idea that melted
snow is an Ideally pure water. The reverse of
this is true. So far from being pnre.snowis,
practically, a great purifier of tbe atmosphere
from floating particles and noxious gases.
Tbese tbe flakes of snow imprison or absorb as
tbey fall, and, as a matter of conrse, when tba
snow melts it is loaded with this rubbish.
The proportions of the human figure
are six times the length of tbe right toot.
Whether tbe form is slender or plump, tbe
rule holds good on an average. Any deviation
Irom the rule is a departure from tbe beauty
of proportion. It Is claimed that tbe Greeks
mado all tbelr statues according to tbis rnle.
The face, from the highest point of the fore
head, wbere the hair begins, to tbe end of the
chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature; the
hand, from the wrist to the end of tbe middle
finger, is also one-tenth of the total height.
From the crown to tbe nape of the neck is one
twelfth of the stature.
The smallest deposit ever made in
Wichita, Kan., was that of the postmaster,
who placed 1 cent to a special account of a
Camanche county postmaster, In tbe Wichita
National Bank, who, in his quarterlysett'sment
last fall, was found short this amount. The
department will be duly notified of the credit
made. The Second Assistant Postmaster
General will notify tbe Auditor ot the Treasury,
and in turn will demand a receipt trom tbe
Treasurer of the United States at New York,
who will send tbis receipt in triplicate to the
Postmaster General, the Treasurer of the
United States and the Camanche conntv post
master. Great Is the circumlocution office.
A curious story is told by a South
Dakota farmer. Dnricgthe severe storm of
February 7 and 8 be lost two turkey hens. Ha
had long since riven up looking for them, and
thought he would find them dead when tbe
snow went away tbis spring. The snow had
drifted high at one end of his barn. Last Fri
day the farmer, wben running ovor tbe drift,
broke through and fell into a hole. when, be
hold, there were the turkeys. One of them
was alive and as frisky as a kitten; the other
one had evidently been dead a few hours.
Tbey had lived on snow for six weeks. Tho
turkeys were fat wben they were imprisoned,
but very poor when found. Tbe live hen is en
joying life again, but, on being liberated
from its strange prison, was afraid of every
thing and would run away from any lire an
imal. Captain Carrie, of the British ship
Wayfarer, which arrived in Oakland, CaL, a
few (fays ago, 131 days from Antwerp, reports a
weird nhenomenon on the night of November
12. It had been blowing several days, but with
nightfall the air became perfectly calm and the
sea as smooth as glass. Overhead tbe sky was
as black as ink from the dense masses of heavy
clouds, and witb the barometer at 28.50 a rain
storm was looked for. Tbe expected downpour
did not occur, but instead the sea glowed with
a phosphorescence beyond anything tbe oldest
mariner had ever seen. The ship's surround- 4
ings were lit np so tbat it was possible to read
on deck. Nobody cared much for reading, -however;
the contrast between tbe light from
the sea and the inky clouds was so grewsome
that all hands could not help feeling that some
nnnatnral catastrophe was about to occur.
Tbe crow were much relieved wben a breess
dissipated tbe clouds, and tbe pnospnorescenca
disappeared at tbe same time.
PHILOSOPHY LN JEST.
A QUESTION Or PBXCXDENCI.
Mrs. Jones-Brown A society leader.
Mr. Thomas J. Brown Her husband. Harp
4r't Basar.
A lazy man has to work hard to find aa
easy place. Barn's Horn.
Teacher Johnnie, you may explain what
causes the earth to move around the sun.
Johnnie Cos It's cheaper to move than pay
rent. Hew York Sun.
Special cable from Borne:
It is astonishing what popularity the American
sons;, "Fava, Dear Fava, Come Home to Jle
Now," has calned within the past few days. It
can be heard everywhere. Washington tost.
Waiter (at restaurant) They are all com
plaining about your buckwheat caKes.
Cook (in a violent rarej-I told the boss they
would! My orders was to use real buckwheat
flour to-dar, and I'm Boinir to do It If it drives
away every dog-gone customer we've goll
Birdie McGinnis I suppose Cupid aimed
one of his arrows at you at the ball last nicht.
Gus De Smith Aimed one of his arrows at meT
Why, I was hit so often by the shafts of the little
Rod that ray heart must look HVoa pln-onshloa
stuck full of needles and pins. Two Hitingi.
A sick Indiana woman longed so much
for quail the other day that several of the tooth
some birds dashed themselves to death against her
bouse for her accommodation. Chicago Invalids
who long for strawberries need not. bowever, ex
pect that the luscious fruit will come to tbem In a
similar manner. Strawberries come at S3 cents
per qu rt, each put up In a pint basket. Chicago
limit.
Mother (sternly) Why did yon tell that
He to Hie teacher?
Johnny To save somebody from punishment.
Mother (molllHed)-I knew there must be some
extenuating circumstances. Who was it you
wished to save Irom punishment?
Johnny Myself. Boston Xraxtlltr.
Doctor You'd better take an hour off
everyday from your work, ahd dve it to exer
cise. Air. Bnsyman An hour? Wby, man, I haven't
got time.
Doctor (prophetically) Well, you'd better
fifcet.aicuo.v than eternity later.- Washington.
Star.
"I like your cheekl" exclaimed the sirl'4
wben the young man kissed her. i
"So do I like yours, but I greatly prefer your
lips," was tbe audacious reply. BomarW
Journal. i
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