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MEANNESS OB IDIOCY?
The apparently indisputable statement of
the discourtesy shown a deputation of
leading members ot the Canadian Govern
ment who had gone to Washington to open
negotiations for reciprocity is of the kind
that beggars comment. It illustrates to an
hitherto unheard of decree the consequences
of permitting the smallest sort of personal
qualities to preside over a national adminis
tration. The Canadians who were at "Washington
were members of the cabinet of a country
second only to the United States in promin
ence and intelligence. The errand on which
they cime was one of the first importance to
our nation, and from the presence of such
leading Canadian statesmen it is evidently
regarded as of equal importance by Canada.
"When inch guests come to the National
capital on such important business, to send
them away and make their errand fruitless
because the President will not make any
chances in his jaunt throughout the coun
try, is most astounding neglect both to
the interests of the country and the first
principles of international courtesy.
It is, of course, impossible to avoid notice
of the general theory that this action was
taken because the President has become
jealous of Secretary Blaine's well-earned
popularity from the success o! his reciprocity
policy. Whether it was this petty personal
motive, or the more supernal idiocy sug
gested in the shape that "no more tariff agi
tation is wanted," it waswholly supereroga
tory. The President had already demon
strated that he was a wholly impossible
quantity for a renomination; aud this ad
ditional evidence is as uncalled for as piling
Pel ion on Ossa.
BALLOT KErOKSTS PERILS.
Tbe Ballot Reform Association has issued
another appeal for public support to the
ballot reform bill, which should be effective
in securing a pressure on the Legislature to
take prompt action on that measure. There
should be no need ot pressure, as both
parties are pledged to it, and the measure
affords the most prompt method of securing
practical and effective ballot reform. But
political complications or politiral negli
gence is letting the bill slumber in a way 4
that cails lcr some action. There should be
so politics against a bill of this sort; but
there is beginning to be a suspicion that
come ot the Republican managers are de
sirous of smothering it, while the more in
discreet among the Democrats are antago
nizing it under an impression tbat it is a
Republican measure. This possibility tbat
the politicians on both sides may kill the
bill calls for an expression of public opinion
that will stop the loolishness.
CRIMINAL EITHER WAT.
Either some parties in the coke regions
are engaged in the utterly contemptible work
of manufacturing false intelligence concern
ing tbe use of petroleum and dynamite for
incendiary purposes, or there is still an ele
ment among the strikers which requires a
repetition of the solemn warning that those
who resort to crime and raise their hands
against the law will be wiped out.
We are more inclined to think that the
uews items published yesterday with regard
to using coal oil and dynamite are due to the
former cause than tne latter. With the
total inability to determine with any cer
tainty which it is, the remark is pertinent
that if anyone is manufacturing reports ol
this sort lor the purpose of injuring tbe
strikers, he must be a being of the sort
whom it is gross flattery to class as men;
while if there haTe been any of the class of
tools who circulate such stories, under the
impression that they are funny, they should
be sharply warned that jokes of tbat sort
qualify the author for residence either in
the workhouse or idiot asylum.
On the other hand, if there are any among
the strikers who contemplate the use of pe
troleum or dynamite for purposes either of
revenge or intimidation, they should be
solemnly notified tbat if they want the whole
power of the State aroused to wipe them
entirely out they can do it by resorting to
such crimes.
NEWSPAPERS AND THE POLICE.
Chief ol Police Borgman, of Detroit, is
the latest man who mourns an over supply
of conceit, and the reporters of that town
have had tho pleasure of bringing him
down a peg. When the abduction of
Joseph Berrien first became known, tbe
Chief belittled it, but the reporters, recog
nizing its importance, had clews aud news.
betore the police department. As a conse
quence Mr. Borgman lost his official head.
From what appears at this distance the
newspapers were in the right, and Mr. Borg
man's loss wifl be Detroit's gain. The
Berrisn case was one of great im
portance, not only from the position of
the abducted man, but also from the means
emploj cd, and after developments. That a
pome official should be so blind to his duty
as to almost entirely ignore it, or so puffed
up with n sense of his own mightiness as to
rcf uc to work upon it, was good and snf
fiwat reason for his removal.
Jealousy of the newspapers seems, how
ever, to be the moving cause of Borgman's
indifference. This conclusion is reached
after reading reports of how be conducted I
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the case: and in allowing himself to become 1
jealous he made his great mistake. There
may be occasional cases on which
the police can work better without the aid
of the newspapers, but experience has shown
them to be Tery few. A reputable news
paper has yet to be charged with interfering
in the legitimate work of the police with the
intention of aiding a criminal to escape.
There are numerous cases in almost every
city in which, had it not been for aid given
by the press, justice would have been
cheated. This is acknowledged by all in
telligent police officials, and the assistance
of the newspapers properly appreciated.
EXAMPLES FOB PITTSBURG.
Two new illustrations of the importance
of internal water navigation have received
attention in the public press during the past
few days. Both are important examples of
what is likely to prwve a matter of tbe
vastest importance to Pittsburg and
Western Pennsylvania.
One is an illustration of "carrying coals
to Newcastle." This indnstrial anomaly
for generations the synonym of commercial
foolishness is likely to prove in the future
a legitimate and profitable enterprise.
Partly on account of the exhaustion of
English coal mines, but more immediately
as a result of tbe construction of adequate
canals, the German coal mines will be en
abled to lay down coal in Newcastle more
cheaply than English coal can be put there.
The Rhine-Ems Canal will give ontlet to
the Westphalian coal, and the widening of
tbe Oder-Spree Canal will do the same for the
Silesian coal. This is what Germany is doing
to aid its industries in tbe line of affording
cheap transportation. Yet, in proportion to
the magnitude of the industries affected and
tbe scope of market reached, the sum re
quired to give Western Pennsylvania the
command of tbe lake and northwestern
markets for her coal, coke, iron and steel,
and the illimitable seaboard market through
the Erie Canal, is small in proportion to the
German expenditures.
Another example nearer home is fnrnished
by the recent annonncement that the first
steamer loaded with produce and manu
factures passed through the Muscle Shoals
Canal from Chattanooga to the Ohio river.
By the construction of that canal continu
ous water navigation is established alon,r
the Tennessee river from its mouth to Knox
ville. The Southern iron region rapidly
rising to the position of a competitor with
Western Pennsylvania is given a water
route that offers cheap transportation all
over tbe Mississippi basin. The "Warrior
coal field, if we mistake not, may thus be
brought into sharp competition with Pitts
burg coal for the trade of the South and
West. In short, the construction of a
twenty-five mile canal has raised the Ten
nessee, Alabama and Georgia fields to a
commanding position which compels the at
tention of the older industries of Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.
We do not think Pittsburg and Western
Pennsylvania have any criticisms to offer on
the work of the Government in constructing
that canal, any more than in proriding free
slackwater, on the Kanawha. It is a
great work, and its value will be amply
proved by tbe growth of the region which
it serves under the stimulus of cheap trans
portation. But as bearing on the interests
of thii section it has two vital aspects.
First, tbe Government has provided im
proved and free waterways for two compet
ing districts: and in comparison with the
magnitude of the interests it would not be
doing relatively more for Western Penn
sylvania, by freeing the Monongahela river
from tolls and materially aiding tbe con
nection of tbe Ohio river with the lakes by
a ship canal. Next, Western Pennsylvania
shonld understand tbat with these ad
vantages secured to rising and rival dis
tricts, it behooves our section to use every
effort to secure equally favorabl transporta
tion. With the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Canal
Western Pennsylvania can meet all rivals
on equal terms. Without it we must ex
pect to find our business circumscribed by
powerful competition on either side, and
our growth restricted by tbe more fortunate
situation of the rival sections.
CHICAGO'S MATORALTY FIGHT.
To an outsider the Chicago Mayoralty
campaign just ended was chiefly interesting
because the successful candidat ) would be
in office during the World's Fair. It was
this fact that brought the unusual number
ot aspirants. Tbat five men, four o whom
belong to the two great parties, should
strive for one office, shows that certain pe
culiar possibilities in it were fully appre
ciated. Always a good thing as to finance
and influence, the position of Mayor of Chi
cago will treble in value if it has goue into
the keeping of a man who wishes to use it
for private rather tban public good.
The most peculiar thing about tbe cam
paign was the manner in which the real
issue was hidden. Barely, if at all, was the
coming exhibitioi mentioned, but it is
hoped that the voters kept it in mind when
casting their ballots; for the man e'ected
yesterday can, if he is so disposed, seriously
mar the enterprise and prevent its complete
success.
HOW TO GET TOGETHER.
The diplomatic dispute with Italy is re
garded by the New Orleans Picayune as an
evidence that Americans should get to
gether and unite for "the maintenance of the
dignity of the Bepublic" "Every Ameri
can," concludes the Picayune, "must
strengthen the hands of the President and
Secretary Blaine."
This is eminently correct. But it should
not be forgotten, especially in tbe locality
where this journal is influential, that the
only ground on which Americans can get
together is that of maintaining the supremacy
of the laws. The dignity of tbe Bepublic
can be best upheld by an honest discharge
of treaty obligations and a scrupulous
respect and obedience for our own laws.
And the hands of the administration will be
most effectively strengthened it the people
sustain them in their position that wanton
attacks on either foreigners or citizens by
mob law are wrongs which call for spon
taneous redress aud punishment.
It New Orleans will get together with the
rest of the country on this platform, the diffi
culty with Italy will not prove incapable of
honorable settlement.
FHLVEAS TAYLOR BAKNUM.
The death of P. T. Barnuin removes a
familiar figure from the coiemporary world.
For years bis name has been a household
word all over the country, and as a caterer
to the amusement-loving public he will un-
doubtedljstand long unsurpassed. To hint
more than to any other man is due the
splendor and completeness of the modern
circus. Blessed with an extraordinarily
large stock of original ideas and tireless
energy, he revolutionized the business and
made it what it is to-day. Some of his
most original conceptions have not proven
as renreiented. bnt. as the nuhlic tru
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.amused, be slwavs claimed that no real
harm was done. Whether be was right or
not in his claim is not for us to discuss.
His varied career before entering the
show business illustrates the indomitable
pluek offcthe man. Failure only spurred
him to rtewed effort, and in that character
istic at least he is worthy of emulation by
the youth of to-day. Bridgeport, Conn.,
will mourn him more as a public 'benefactor
than as a great showman, though It is prob
able that he would have preferred the latter
designation.
The renewal of tbat gratifying compari
son of figures by which It Is shown that we
paid $7,000,000 for Alaska and have taken out
$63,000,600 In various products is highly reassur
ing as far as It goes. But would it not be more
convincing as to tbe return ot profits if it were
shown that the same people who paid the
S7.000.ooo are getting tbe $63,000,000 properly
divided among them? For instance, if the
people at large paid the first sum, and various
mining and sealing companies get the larger
one, how much is the profit of tbe people?
The announcement tbat Michigan has
probably cone Republican by 5,000 majority is
hardly a matter to raise Republican jubilations
over. It is too much like the claim of tbe
doctor of success in saving tbe old man.
The publication in various parts of the
country that there are 100,000 grip victims in
Pittsburg and Allegheny seems to have orig
inated at tbe same sonrce of imagination tbat
asserted tbat Pittsburg Councils would net let
Mr. Carnegie have anything to say arrant the
library site. Perhaps if every man who has
sneezed over thrice a day during tbe past
month is called a grip victim that total might
be made up.
Mr. Geoboe W. Sm alley, the old Tory
'Squire, of tbe New York Tribune, baring
been graciously pleased to approve of Mr.
Blaine's diplomacy, tbe eagle can scream with
out fear of belnir pulled oil tbe perch.
It is remarked in tbe Baltimore American
that "Icicles on tbe blooming peach trees of
the West do not promise well." If any peach
trees of tbe West have been idiotic enough to
bloom during tbe late succession of snows and
blows, icicles on them promise well as an opera
tion of natural justice. Tbe peach crop liar has
broken out in a new quarter.
The conference of railroad miners and
operators for Pennsylvania and Obto, over tbe
scale tor tbe coming year, is a much better way
of settling tbe wages question tban tbe coke
region method of fighting over it.
Making counterfeit nickels for the sole
purpose of putting them in the contribution
boxes of churches seems to be a particularly
profitless occupation, but tbat is just what
some young men of Peoria, 111, have been
canght doing. As to its meanness, tbe English
language does not contain adjectives sufficiently
strong to be applied to it.
Chicago's municipal election went off
yesterday, It may not be quite certain who is
elected; but a result tbat may be hoped for is
tbe temporary return of tbe Chicago papers to
a condition of sanity.
If Senator Fair's sons have been cured
of drunkenness by hypnotism, it still leaves
them susceptlbls to tbe efforts of th saloon in
terest to protect the trade by hypnotizing them
back again. Tbe best hypnotism for cases ot
this sort is the kind tbat can be vigorously ap
plied in early youth with tbe maternal slipper.
When Budini demand reparation for
the publication of certain wood cuts of himself.
Baron Fava, and their royal master, Mr.
Blain will havo nothing to say.
The occurrence of a natural gas explosion
in Braddock, by whioh several men were seri
ously injured, will strike the public at large as
a singular matte-. A large share of tbe popu
lation of Pittsburg will regard it as a remark
able thin: tbat ther" was enough natural gas
at any given point to explode.
If Budini will make all the unnatural
ized Italians in this country demand their pass
ports and use them, the difficulty can be set
tled without delay.
Mb. Depetv objects to Thomas Nast's
caricatures of himself. The principle is plai nly
laid down by tbe once-genial Chauncey tbat no
one has the right to caricature tbe President of
the New York Central. He does tbat job so
thoroughly himself that there is no need of any
outside effort.
The proceedings of the New York conrts
indicate a temporary prevalence of the opinion
that directors will have to direct or take tbe
consequences.
The New York Press wants the women of
New York to sweep tbe streets with brooms
rather than their skirts. Onr esteemed co
temporary is more impractical than the hated
Mugwumps in expecting the women to seek
usefulness betore fashion.
She Would Abolish, Punctuations.
Boston, April 7. Dr. Kate C. Hurd, teacher
of physical training at Bryn Mawr School, was
one of the delegates to tho convention ot the
American Society of Physical Training, which
is in session here. The doctor, in tbe course of
her discourse, touched on the subject of punc
tuation, and said If she had her way sbe would
do away with all punctuating marks, using
spaces Instead. This, she believed, wonld do
away with the alarmingly large and inireasing
number of cases of defective eyesight. It
would certainly have a tendency to stop their
recurrence in the future.
PEOPLE AHD POTENTATES.
Db. Phillips Bbooks will, in all prob
ability, be made tbe Episcopalian Bishop of
Massachusetts.
Queen Victoria's month's sojourn at
Grasse, in the Maritime Alps, will cost some
where between 150,000 and S100,0uO.
Mbs Hopkiks-Seable is said to be
anxious to sell her residence, which is ad
mitted to be tbe finest on the Pacific coast.
Wilhelsikta, Holland's child Queen,
speaks four languages, and is reputed to be the
heiress to tbe greatest fortune in the world.
Mbs. Catherine T. Shipley, who
died in Salisbury, Md.. last week, claimed
direct descent from Lord Bacon, through her
father.
D. M. Habt, one of W. M. Evarts' pri
vate secretaries, is a colored man. He is a
graduate of Harvard College, and a young,
lawyer of more than average ability.
Lavtbence Babbett's will leaves
SL600 per year to each of bis three daughters,
and tbe remaining income from bis estate to
his wife so long as sbe remains a'widow.
Boswell P. Floweb, who is spending
a few days In Jacksonville, Fla., is said to he
passionately devoted to euchre, spending from
six to eight honrs a day at its card tables.
The Czar of Bussia is said to have a
fondness for rising early in the morning and
going about the market places of St, Peters
burg. Not infrequently on these trips be
makes purchases for tbe royal larder.
Lobd Bosse, the British astronomer,
addressed tbe Astronomical Society of tbe
Pacific in San Francisco a few days ago, devot
ing himself mainly to a description of the
great reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, and its
work.
Fatheb Ignatius was prohibited from
holding services in Episcopal churches in
Philadelphia, before he bad applied for a
license, by Bishop Wbltaker; but he lectuted
last week in the Industrial Art Hall afternoons
and evenings.
Boulangeb, instead of renting a modest
villa in the suburbs of Brussels, as at first be
intended to do. has taken a house in the heart
of tbe aristocratic Quartler Leopold in that
city, with Prlnco Victor Bonaparte and several
diplomatists for near neighbors.
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Bow to Avoid the Grip Land Frozen 6,000
Feet Deep Twenty-Four O'clock Idea
A Kentucky Breakfast England's First
Pipe Lines SomeXIorida Karnes.
A Chicago physician writes to the Tiibunt of
that city: aA good many suggestions have
been made in reference to avoiding the 'grip'
during this time of almost unprecedented
death rate in the city. In myjudgment a great
many cases are caused by irritating (mostly
coal gas) vapors in tbe business districts. The
causes of influenza are believed to be miasmatic
or mlcrobic and it is a fact well established
tbat chemical irritation of any tissue or organ
invites infection by weakening the resisting
force or causing a congestion that becomes a
suitable soil for growth ot tbe infecting virus.
The cause, then, generally prevailing is in the
air and cannot be wholly avoided: but the
exciting cause In many cases is the congestion
of tbe respiratory organs brought about by one
cause or another whether tbe coal gas down
town or a chilling ot tbe surface by exposure to
cold, driving tbo blood to the internal viscera.
A rido on a Westside car has no doubt been
resnonsible for a great many cases ot "grip,"
ana it is to bo regretted that tne ordinance
compelling the beating of the cars could not
bave been tested before this epidemic swept
over the city. No doubt there has been a con
siderable population sent to the Soutbslde by
the refrigerating system of tbe Northaido and
Westsidos; and it may be that this year a re
spectable number haye been sent to heaven by
the same cause.
The best means of avoiding the prevaling dis
ease is, so far as possible, to dress warmly and
avoid prolonged exposure to cold or irritating
gases. The characteristic weakness tbat is
present during and after attacks is not sur
prising when wo bear in mind that tbe lining of
tbe air passages is often inflamed tbrougbout
tbe whole extent. Its lunction of admitting
oxygen to tne Mood aqd throwing on waste
products from the system is interfered with.
Severe exertions should be avoided, as sudden
calls on the system for more oxygen while tbe
supply is partially shut off may be disastrous.
The complications are best avoided by con
tinued care after tbe acute attack has passed
off. Pneumonia, another disease now thought
to be of mlcrobic origin, is favored by the same
congestions tbat excite grip and accompany It.
Too great care cannot be taken to avoid ex
posure nntll the strength is fully recovered.
As a further help to ward off the disease may
be mentioned good Hying. The man who takes
care to bare three square meals each day, ob
serve regular habits in every way, and keep up
his reserve force of vitality will in this as in
most other epidemics most likely avoid Infec
tion." Frozen 0,000 Feet Deep.
For many years scientists have been per
plexed over the phenomena ot a certain well At
Yakutsk, Siberia, says tbe Mining and Scien
tific frets. As long ago as 1828 a Russian mer
chant began to sink this noted well, and, after
working on it for three years, gave it up as a
bad jobhavlng at tbat time sunk it to a depth
of SO feet without getting through the frozen
ground. He communicated these facts to tbe
Russian Academy of Science, which sent men
to take charge of tbe digging operations at tbe
wonderful well. These scientific gentlemen
toiled away at their work for several years, but
abandoned It when a depth of 883 feet bad been
reached, with the earth still lrozen as bard as a
rock. In 1843 tbe academy bad the tempera
ture of tbe soil at tbe sides of tbe well taken at
various depths. Prom tbe data thus obtained
the came to the startling conclusion tbat tbe
ground was frozen to a depth exceeding 8,000
feet. Although it is known to meteorologists
that tbe lowest known temperature is in that
region of Siberia, itisconcedod tbat not even
that rigorous climate could force frost to such
a great depth below the surface. After figur
ing on tho subject for over a quarter ot a
century, geologists have at last come to tbe
conclusion that the great frozen valley of the
Lena river was deposited, frozen just as it is
found to-day, during the great grinding up era
of tbe glacial epoch.
The Twenty-Four O'clock Idea.
The 24-bonr notation reform is not dead, al
though it has seemed to be sleeping. The com
mittee of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers which has been long and effectively advo
cating the adoption of the plan of nnmbenng
the hours of the day consecutively has issued
another report, Jn which it shows that a large
majority of the railway companies of tbe
United States and Canada have already ex
pressed themselves In favor of the change.
Tne number of officers, according to the Hail
way Age, wbo are now on record in the affirma
tive is given as follows: Presidents, vice presi
dents and general managers. 135; general
superintendents, 77; superintendents. 111; gen
eral trafflj managers, 12: engineers, 65: total,
401
The report states tbat the advantages of tbe
24-hour notation are also beginning to be recoe-
nized in various branches of civil life, as for J
example in hospitals, in meteorological tables
and other directions where simplicity of
system and accuracy of noting the hours are
essential. The Canadian Railway continues to
nse the system In its time tables, to tbe great
convenience of travelers over this long trans
continental line and to the advantage of those
engaged in handling train-, and it is difficult to
see anything to prevent the speedy adoption of
the reform on tbe other great lines of tbe
country. At tbe Instanea of tbe Society of
Civil Engineers a bill has been presented to
Congress authorizing the nse of the 24-hour
notation and making it equally valid with the
present method of numbering tbe hours in two
series of 12 hours each, and It is to be hoped
that this reasonable legislation will be enacted.
One on Henry Watterson.
Never before had Chef Philips, of the Audi
torium Hotel, been nonplussed when asked to
prepare a meal. From a cold lunch to a Lu
cullian banquet he had been at borne. And tbe
details Of every conceivable dish he had im
agined he pqssessed it his fingers' ends. But
when on the morning following tbe arrival of
Henry Watterson tbe bell boy appeared before
the chef and told him that Mr. Watterson
wanted a Kentucky breakfast tbe chef was
confronted with his Waterloo, says tbe Chicago
Post.
"What's tbat?" he exclaimed.
"A Kentucky breakfast," tbe bell boy re
plied. Not wishing to confess his Ignorance to the
bell boy the chef waved him aside and went
himself to the great editor's room.
"Beg pardon, Mr. Watterson," be said, as In
response to a "come in" he entered and f onnd
the journalist in bed, "but I fear the bellboy
did not correctly understand your order. He
said you wanted a Kentucky breakfast"
"Well, tbat is justwbat I want," said the
journalist, adding a little impatiently, "and I
want it right away."
"What is a Kentucky breakfast, sir?"
Mr. Watterson gazed pityingly at tbe chef,
then settling down in the bed he pulled tbe
clothes over his bead and replied:
"Two drinks of whisky and a chew ot to
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England's First Pipe Lines.
The negotiations wbich bave been taking
place for some time past between tbe River
Wear Commissioners and the Anglo-American
Oil Company havo at length been brought to a
satisfactory conclusion, says the London
Timet, and before long a new and very exten
sive industry will be established in Sunder
land. Tbe Anglo-American Oil Company is
one of the largest coucerns in this country or
America. It owns la-ge oil wells in Pennsyl
vania, besides a fleet ol speoially constructed
steamships for the conveyance of oil across the
Atlantic
The company intends to erect works at Hen
don, near Sunderland, covering about two
acres of grouud, wbich will comprise three or
four tanks resembling gasometers in appear
ance, for the reception or the oil. Tbe liquid
will be pumped from tbelr own ships, as tbey
arrive in the docks, to the tanks referred to,
and thence dispatched to all parte of the king
dom. This is an entirely new industry in tho
Port of Sunderland, ana capable of assuming
large proportions.
Dangeious Cigar Clippers.
A doctor and bis friend went into a Broadway
cigar storo the other day, sajs the New York
Jltcorder. Tbe friend selected a dark Havana,
pntoneend between his lips, rolled it a bit to
moisten It, then put the tip in the metal cutter
on tbe counter and clipped it. He then placed
the cliDned end in his mouth and drewinonca
or twice before lighting. "Pardon me," said
tbe doctor, "you should never do it that way. I
never use tbe clipper tbat is used by the fre
quenters of a cigar store. Tbe majority of men
moisten tbe tip or a cigar, as yon did, before
cutting it Now vou never know the physical
condition of the man wbo preceded you. Some
of the moistnre from his lips remains on tbat
cutter, and your cigar may take on a portion of
it So don't use tbe clipper."
Some Awful Names.
Tbe Florida Times-Union evidently has an
appreciation of tbe Indian names of rivers and
lakes in tbat State, as tbe following from tbat
paper will show:
"Where bave you been?" said a guest atone
of tbe hotels yesterday as a friend walked up
the steps, well laden with souvenirs from South
Florida.
"O !" was tho reply. "I've been down to
'Charlotte harbor and up that river with tbe
nnmentlonaolo name.1
Caloosabafcheel"
"Yes, that's It I spent six days trying to
pronounce it and haven't succeeded yet These
Indian names are beautiful names, but they.
are decidedly bard to pronounce. By the way,
where have you been?"
"Well, I went over to tbe Suwanee river, cut
over tho conntry, and shot 'gators on tbe
Witblacoocbee, fished for bass in Tsala
Apopka, sailed on Thonotosassa, skipped over
to Okonlockbatcbee, walked by tbe shores of
the Weobyakapka, plucked flowers by Hick
pochee's limpid waters, visited the sugar fields
on Tobopekaliga, sailed ou the tortuous Kis
simmee, was buffeted by the waves of Okee
chobee, and have also captured tarpon on the
Caloosabatchee. I expect to visit Istokpogay
oxie, Lockapepka, HatcbeneebaandEcantock
hatcbee before 1 leave tbe State."
"Gosh I" ejaculated his companion, as he
stepped into the hotel.
FOB BALLOT EEF0HSL
The State Association Once More Strongly
Advocates the Baker BUI.
The Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Associa
tion has Issued the following appeal to the peo
ple of the State:
"Tbe ballot reform campaign has been ac
tively carried on during the past three months,
but victory is not yet wholly assured. Tbe
Baker bill has passed second reading in the
House, but has still to pass finally both there
and in tbe Sonate. The mere delay in tbo
progress of the bill hitherto is not of itself
alarming. The importance of the measure
and tho need of carefully adapting and adjust
ing the new system in detail to those parts of
our election law which it is not proposed to
alter, as well as of guarding against every vio
lation of the spirit ot the system, have involved
time for full consideration in committee and in
thoHouse. Any further delay must, however,
bo regarded as most dangerous, and if tbere
should prove to be any real intention to defeat
the bill in tho Senate this will bo effected by
delay.
"The enemies of ballot reform, outside the
Legislature as well as in it, have left no stone
unturned in opposing the bill. The sincerity
ot Its advocates has been challenged, but
mainly by persons outside the State. It has
been stigmatized as a party measure, whereas
nothing less partisan can be imagined. Its
constitutionality has been questioned for tbe
flimsiest reasons, though even if it were con
ceivable tbat its method of dealing with the
present numbering system shonld not be held
to accord fully with tbe true intent ot the Con
stitution, tbat feature alone would fall, tbe
rest of the system remaining Intact. Tbe ex
pense involved has been enormously exagger
ated, and tbe same is true of tbe time required
in voting, tbe sample election at Harrisburg
having proved that, even allowing for some de
lays, votes can be received on an average of
one every 50 seconds. The effectiveness to
prevent intimidation and bribery has been de
nied In the faoe of uniform testimony of over
30 years. The bill has been claimed to be de
signed to prevent the calling of a Constitu
tional Convention to effect a change in tbe
, vu,.o.hvu tan, i, jraiun iu, uuiuuoi,U
system, though it passes comprehension that a
law which cannot be in force till next autumn
should affect the action of tbe present Legisla
ture as to matters outside tbe scope of that
law,ortbata law to give public opinion greater
weight at elections could be adverse to tbe fu
ture accomplishment ot auytbing the people
might wish. Tbls association believes, bow
ever, tbat these misrepresentations and shal
low arguments bave not deceived tbe people.
"Tbe sitnatlon strongly resembles tbat re
cently witnessed in Maine. Here as there, an
element in tbe Legislature is hostile to ballot
roform. Here, as baa been done tbere, tbat
element should be forced to yield to a just
popular demand. Both States are Republican
strongholds, and tbo pariy which has been beld
to its promises there should not be allowed to
break tbem here.
"In a great popular movement the people
must themselves take an active part. We call
npon all citizens, therefore, irrespective of
party, to renew their appeals to both Senators
and Representatives to support the Baker
bill, and we call upon the press to voice the
sentiment ot tbe people as it has already so
ably done. If tbe people are iu earnest tbe re
sult cannot be doubtful."
STATS POLITICAL PORTERS.
Henry Hall Said to Bs the Republican
Choice for Auditor General.
Philadelphia North American.
A prominent Republican politician from up
tbe State wbo was in the city yesterday, said
tbat there was a vsry strong feeling through
tne Eastern counties in favor of the nomina
tion of ex-Representative Harry Hall, of Mer
cer, as tbe party candidate for Auditor General.
The presence of Mr. Hall in Philadelphia yes
terday strengtbened tbe belief that tbere is a
movement of snch a character, and that it is
likely to assnms large proportions before tbe
time of holding the fall conventions. Tbe ex
Representative stated, however, that his visit
was purely a social one and had no political
significance. He came to town on Saturday
and expects to go to Harrisbnrg to-day. One
of tbe local Republican leader wbo knows a
thing or two abont political matters, said tbat
tbe nomination of Hall would be a stroke of
wisdom on tbe part of tbe Republican party.
He is popular in his own county, and was only
defeated for Representative by afew votes, and
then by a combination wbich, it is alleged, was
inspired by tbe old Soldiers' Orphans' syndi
cate. Tbe fact tbat tbe conventions are several
months off makes all talk on the subject more
or less speculative. Tbe name of George
Pearson, wbo was Governor Beaver's private
secretary, has been mentioned in connection
with tbe Auditor Generalship, but it is per
fectly sjfe to say tbat up to tbe present time
Hall Is leading in tbe contest Mr. Hall Is at
present the Harrisburg, correspondent of Tint
Pittsbuko Dispatch.
The candidates for State Treasurer are more
numerous than those for Auditor General.
John W. Morrison, of Allegheny, at present
Chief Clerk of tbe Honse of Representatives.
the most prominent He has been looked npon
as "an available" for some time past Farmer
'Xaggart of Montgomery county, it IS whispered,
would like to make tbe contest but is ratber
inclined to fear tbe opposition of the friends of
Senator Cameron.
The Man in It
Boston Globe.
Miss Frances E. Willard proposes to "lift
woman frum mere sexbood up toward glorious
womanhood." Unfortunately, tbe English lan
guage has no availablo word which quite
eliminates the sex idea except "humanity,"
and even that as Mrs. Partington used to say,
"has got a darned 'man' in it"
DEATHS OP A DAY.
John F. Swift.
Tbe particulars of the death of John F.
Swift United States Minister to Japan, arrived
at Ban Francisco by the steamer Klo de Janeiro.
Mr. Swift had been prostrated by an attack of in
fluenza early In the year, but was supposed to
bave entirely recovered, on March 10 he com
plained of a pain In the region of his heart and
went to bed. That night while talking to Mrs.
Swift, be suddenly expired. Death was attrib
uted to beart failure. The body was taken to
Yokohama, where it was received with great
honors. As tbe funeral procession reached i oko
hama minute stuns were fired from the United
States steamship Alliance. The funeral arrange
ments were made by the American Colony, and
-were participated in by the Japanese officials, the
foreign diplomatic corps, the American Lega
tion, Admiral Belknap and staff.
Balthazar Robe.
Balthazar Bohe died last evening at bis
residence, corner of Grove and Hose streets. He
was In his 80ih year. Mr. Bohe was well known
in the Thlrteentn ward, ana was the father of
Alderman Michael Kohe. or tbat ward. The de
ceased gentleman was born in Germany, whence
ne arrived in hub country in iwu, coming nere
In 18-W. Up to the time of Fremont's campaign
Mr. Kohehad been a Democrat, tmt since has been
strong iienaoiican. iu aaaition it, nts son, the
Alderman,
UI
, Koue leaves four daughters.
Captain J. S. Low.
Carlisle, April 7. Captain J. S. Low,
well known throughout the State, and geneial
manager of the .Rochester Brewing Company.
died suddenly here this evening from heart dis
ease, aged 54 years. He was a gallant soldier dur
ing the late war.
Obituary Notes.
MAJOR ItOBEET I. CLABK, U. S. N., died In
"Washington yesterdav. The remains will bo
buried In Unlontown to-morrrow.
S. S. Parker, Assistant General Passenger
Agent or the Louisville and Nashville Kallroad.
died yesterdayat Cincinnati or the grip.
Lceins Gartrxll died In Atlanta last night.
Be was at one time a member of the V nlted States
Congress, and later or the confederate Congress.
General ZoOLiNBKT, one of the officers of Czar
Alexander I., has lust died in Moscow at tbe age
05 96. He accompanied his royal master on his
visit to the Emperor and Josephine in Prance.
Dr. William P. Smith, an oculist or
National reputation, died In Chlc.iro yesterdav of
Inflammation of the bowels. He was 48 years of
axe, and began thopractlto of his profession In
-jau Francisco In 1870.
Rev. Edward Dorr G biffin Pbiue, D. D
died at his residence in -New fork yesterday. For
more than 33 years he was associated with his'
brother, Kev. s. lrenaens Prime, in the editorial
work of tne flew York Observer, -
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DOMAIN OF SOCIETY.
Interesting Meeting of the Woman's Club
The Byam-Hemphill Wedding Prepar
ations Lecture By Prof. A. Melville Bell
Weddings of Yesterday Social Chatter
of a Day.
The attendance at the regular meeting of the
Woman's Club yesterday afternoon was not
large, but the company made up in bright
ness and brilliancy what it lacked in num
bers. Mrs. C. I. Wade presided, and
read to the club a communication received
from Miss Mary B. Temple, tbe Secretary of
tbe Confederation of Woman's Clubs, which
was decidedly in tbe form ot a catechism, and
included, among a hundred other questions,
more or less, regarding the club, its ancestry,
its orBoers, and finances, the query: "Are you
an incorporated body?" This question was
the signal fora general discussion astowbetber
the club desired to be Incorporated or not and
whether it could be if it did so desire. One
little woman volunteered the information that
under tbe laws of Pennsylvania women could
uui lorra a commercial incorporate body. An
other remarked that it was only the married
women that Pennsylvania tbongbt wise to con
fine within certain business limits, and still an
other said tbat a married woman was not even
a person under the State laws. It was finally
decided to await the outcome of tbe present
bill on the subject In tbe Legislature, wbich
is a sequel to the experiences of tbe
Century CInb of Philadelphia, before tak
ing any action on tbe nutter, A
letter was also read from Mrs. Margaret
Peeke. who, in the recent Press Club Conven
tion In this city, represented a Cleveland paper,
stating that she intended chaperoning a Euro
pean tourist party tbls summer, and extending
an invitation to tbe club, either individually or
collectively, to join the party. Experiences in
Europe, and opinions pro and con as regards
tbe lords ot creation trivintradlirnlrv to x travel
ing party, followed this epistle, and Mrs. Peeke's
address was taken by Beveral ladies wbo were
negative on tbe male escort question. An
Eastern editor wbo aimed to make tho club an
advertising agency for bis remarkably clever
and moral periodical, according to his ideas
and statements, was unanimously squelched by
tbe members of tbe club. His communication
will hardlv be answered, and his d&rllnf-scheme
will fall through. There were .but two papers
read at tbe meeting, one an able, interestine
and exbanstive description of Napoleon's ill
fated Russian conquering expedition by Miss
Cara Reese, and a composite paper, including
Uogal, the Russian founder of literature. Rus
sell, the Ilelsarte exponent and the war over
oleomargarine, as subjects, by Mrs. McCol
lougb. That delightful and fatigning confusion tbat
always precedes a wedding held full sway at
tho Hemphill residence, on Sandusky street
yesterday. Crash was being laid over tbe car
pets, draperies were being arranged, girl
friends of the bride-to-be were calling, and the
door bell jingled continually and heralded
mysterious boxes and packages by the dozen,
the opening of wbich naturally heightened the
general excitement The wedding occurs this
evening at 6 o'clock at the borne. The bride is
aliss Frances Uertrude Hemphill and tbe
groom-elect is Norton Harsford Byam. The
brld' will be attended by Miss Edna
Hemphill, her sister, as maid of honor, and by
Misses Lillian Chisbolm and Bella Chester as
bridemaids. Two little flower girls, nieces of
Miss HenipbilL Lonlse Evans and Anna Her
bert will strew flowers in tbe bridal pathway,
lbe nsbers will be Messrs. Sidney Hemphill, J.
S. Carr. H. C. Stevenson and A. R. Robinson.
Rev. Mr. Baker, of Connellsville, will officiate,
Tbe'brlde will be clad in a full court dress of
white moire, will wear a veil, and carry a
bouquet that will be divided between tbe fair
attendants at tbe conclusion of tbe ceremonv
and contain for tbe fortunate one a handsome
ring. The maid of honor, bridemaids and
flower glrU will all be gowned in white, and the
bridal procession and tableau will be wonder
fully effective. Alter a Chicago trip, Mr. and
Mrs. Hemphill will return to Bellevue, their
future home, and will have Tuesdays after May
1 as reception days.
At 2 o'clock tbls afternoon, in Lexington, tbe
wedding of B. 8. Davis, Jr., son of R. 8. Davis,
of Fifth avenue, and Miss Eleanor Elliott, of
that city, will be celebrated. Tbe event will
be qnlte a brilliant affair, though confined to
relatives and a very few Intimate f needs. It
wilt serve as a sort of a reunion for tbe Davis
family, Mrs. Davis and Miss Davis, who have
been spending tbe winter in Florida, will tbere
meet Messrs. R. S. Davis, both Sr. and Jr.,
and Miss Alice, who, with her father left here
last Saturday for Lexington. Mr. and Mrs.
Davis, the bride and groom, will reside in St
Louis.
"Visible Speech Elucidated" was the sub
ject of a very learned discourse at the Academy
of Science and Art last evening. Prof. A, Mel
ville Bell was tbe speaker and illustrated bis
lecture by cbaractors that to tbe uninitiated
might represent the Choctaw language. It was
a technical discourse, but tbe closest attention
was paid by the audience. Prof. Bell is a rep
resentative man of commanding presence and
the antbor of nnmeron books on elocution,
defects of speech, phonetics and visible speech.
Tbe regular meeting of the Allegheny Board
of School Controllers was to have been held
last night hut a quorum was not obtained. A
resolution was adopted by the members pres
ent however, providing for tbe appointment ot
a Committee of Three to prepare a minute of
regret at tbe retirement ot Mr. John H. Trimble,
ot tbe Sixth ward, from tbe board. Chairman
Young appointed on the committee Hi, Herd,
Dr. Woodburn and Captain Walton.
A suburban wedding yesterday at Wil
mording resulted in the union of Miss Grace
E., dangbter of John Boyle, assistant foreman
of the Westingbouse Airbrake Works, and
Harry M. Emmons, of Washington, D. C. Tbe
ceremonv wa at 3 o'clock in tbe afternoon.
and Rev. B. Keenoy, of Craf ton. Pa., officiated.
The wedding last evening in Allegheny of
Miss K. Echlag and Mr. R. H. Eckert was a
very pretty affair. It was a home ceremony,
and the bridemaids were Misses Kate Hoebn
of Erie, and Carrie Schlag, of Allegheny.
Messrs. 03car and William Eckert officiated as
groomsmen.
Social Chatter.
The Tuesday Night Club gave "A Glimpse
of Paradise" last evening, at tbe Pittsburg
Club Theater.
In St Louis to-day a Pittsburg groom will
claim a Southern bride, when William Speer
Kuhn will be wedded to Miss Kate Hill.
To-iiohp.ow at Sr. Joseph's Church, Sharps
burg, will occur the wedding of Miss Irene
Barton, daughter of Joseph Barton, of O'Hara
township, and Mr. C. Casey, of Sharpsburg.
Shaufsbueo will be the scene this evening
of tbe wedding of M iss Mame Zeigler. daughter
of Colonel E. E. Zeigler. West Penn freight
agent at Allegheny, and E. Walter McBride.
The Fownes-Filloy wedding in Philadelphia
thi. afternoon will bo a very private affair
owing to tbe sad death of Miss Alice Fownes
In tbe East End last week, wbo was to have of
ficiated as bridemald at the ceremony.
The gran d tea party which is to be given by
the members of tbe St John's Church, of the
Soutbslde, on Wednesday, April 15, will be
beld at Turner Hall, on Jane street owing to
the recent destruction of Salisbury Hall by
fire.
Th e semi-annual meeting of the Young Peo-
Ele's Society of Monongahela Presbytery was
eld at the First U. P. Church last evening.
The music was furnished by tbe choir under
the direction of Mr. D. H. Littel. and a large
audience was in attendance.
The regular monthly meeting of the Board
of Directors of tbe Home tor Incurables was
beld at tbe Y. M. U. A, rooms yesterday. There
was no special business transacted beyond
setting May 9 as "donation day" at the home,
ana appointing a committee to make arrange
ments for tbe affair.
THE C0NHECTICTJT SENATE.
It Is Undecided Whether to Adjourn Sine
Die or Contlnne In Session.
Hartford, April 7. In tbe Hcnate to-day
an adjournment was taken until Tuesday next
at 1.30 P. 31., after a motion of Senator Bhum
waytohx the date of adjournment to Novem
ber 11 had been voted down. It is not certain
whether the Senate will continue in session,
adjourning from week to week, until noxt'No
vember is reached, or whether, after finishing
the Senate business on hand, it will go over
until tbe date to wbich the House adjourned.
It is held tbat by holding down a motion to
adjourn umu jovemuer, uisagreeing action
has been reached, whicb will allow tbe Gov
ernor to adjourn the Senate nntll that date.
Whether Governor Bulkeley will try to do this
Is not known.
THE JAKI30KS SUED.
A Bank at fronton, O., Seeks to Recover a
825,000 Guaranty.
Philadelphia. April 7. Before Judge
Acheson and a jury in'the United States Cir
cuit Court to-day, there was put upon trial tbe
suit of the First National Bank of Ironton, O.,
to recover a large sum of money from the bank
ing firm of B. K. Jamison & Co., as guarantors
of a fJo,000 loan mido in March. 1SSS. by tbe
b ink m tho Ktna Iron WorUs ot Ironton.
Too loan wamot paid, and all the bank re
ceived, it is said, on accouut of tbo debt was
14.615. The difference between this sum and
125,000. with interest from March 28, I8S8, is
sought to be recovered from the members or
tbe Jamison firm. Tbe evidence was mainly
unoa depositions taken In Ohio.
HOME, SWEET H0UE,
The Original Copy of the Song May Yet Come
to Light
Athens, Ga April 7. The death of Mrs.
Asa Jackson has brought up once again the
much-talked-of mystery of tbe whereabouts of
the original of John Howard Payne's "Home,
Sweet Home."
Mrs. Jackson was a near relative of Miss
Mary Hardin, who was much admired oy John
Howard Payne. For a long time Miss Hardin
had tbe only known copy of tbe famous song in
tbe handwriting of its author. When sbe was
dying several years ago In Athens it was
rumored tbat In ono of her eccentric moods she
bad willed tbe copy to be burled with her, but
when asked on ber death bed if tbls were true,
sho told Mrs. Jackson tbat sbe had not done so,
but had left tbe manuscript as well as all ber
other earthly goods, as a bequest to her.
After Miss Hardin's death tbe manuscript
was searched for by Mrs. jackson, but was not
found. Only a few days ago a reporter called
On Mrs. Jackson and asked if nothing had ever
coma of the search.
"Nothing yet," was the reply, "but I bopo to
find it before I die. Mary kept tbe copy con
cealed all tbe time while she lived. John How
ard Payne sent it to ber wben he was Consul to
Algiers, and between tbe lines were written
little love messages. Tbey were sweethearts
once, these two. Mary was offered tempting
sums for the manuscript in her lifetime by tbe
Harpers and bj other Northern publishers, but
would never part with it
"Several lawyers bave lately been to me to
get my permission for them to ferret out the
whereabouts of tbe manuscript but I bave re
fused to let them take tbe case. I feel certain
tbat it will come to light before I die."
It is generally believed bere tbat tbe manu
script will some time be found. Some tbink
tbat tbe copy, which was known to be the only
one extant written by Payne himself, was
stolen from the honse by a servant
LAKE NAVIGATION.
The Effort to Heep It Closed Till May Is
Likely to Succceed.
rSrXCIAI. TIXXGBAJC TO TBI DISPATCH.l
Cleveland, April 7. Present 'indications
are tbat the movement begun by tbe Cleveland
vessel owners to keep all boats in port until
May 15 will succeed. The committee of vessel
owners that had the management of tbe work
of securing signatures Las reported that over
90 per cenTof the tonnage of this port has en
tered tbe agreement and more tban 80 per cent
of tbat of Buffalo, Detroit and tbe minor lake
ports. At Milwaukee the canvas is still pro
gressing with chances good for securing 90 per
cent of tbe tonnage there. Chicago is tbe only
point where less than four-fifths of the ton
nage Is represented In the compact.
This does not include tbe railway line boats
running out of Buffalo, which depend on tbe
railroad lines formostof their business and will
not greatly affect the ore and grain business,
wbich are most seriously depressed now. Only
three ot tbe Important ore companies of this
port owning vessels have refused to sign the
agreement but tbey all run to Lake Superior
points, and, as the "Soo" Canal is never open
before May I, and often not until tbe 10th.
their refusal is likely not to disturb the other
owners, who are working to postpone the open
ing of navigation If the vessel men succeed
in keening navigation practically closed until
May 15 they will reduce the effect of tbe con
dition ot the iron ore market and the weak out
look for grain tonnage upon lake freight rates
to a minimum and make tbe most possible out
of very hard and discouraging conditions.
GBATEFOX FBENCHMEIT.
Two Americans Prominent In the Copyright
Movement to Be Decorated.
New Yobk, April 7. Count Emile de
Keratry, the special envoy of tbe French Gov
ernment wbo is instructed to convey crosses of
the Legion of Honor to two distinguished
Americans who have been prominent in the
fight for the copyright law, arrived bere Sun
day from France by the steamship La Gas
cogne, and is now confined to bis bed suffering
from tbe grip at the Hotel Martin, this city.
The crosses and other similar decorations are
usually bestowed through the Consuls of tbe
countries conferring the honors, but in this in
stance tbe French Government after the pass
age of tbe copyright bill, desired to pay an un
usual compliment to the American Copyright
League in order to celebrate tbe victory, it may
be said. Robert Underwood Johnson, of tbe
Ccntu:! Magazine, Secretary of tbe Authors'
Copyright League and of the Joint Executive
Copyright Committee, whlcb represented all
tbe -leagues which advocated tbe copyrigbt
measure, and ex-Representative William E.
Slmonds were tbe gentlemen selected for tbe
honor.
It was originally tbe Intention of tbe French
Government to inelnde Senator Orville H.
Piatt of Connecticut in tbe list of gentlemen
npon whom crosses were to be bestowed, but It
is understood that the French Government was
informed that tbe laws of tbe United States
debarred a Senator from receiving such a deco
ration. However, the Count is also intrusted
with conferring upon Senator Piatt a hand
some medal, specially designed aud Btruck for
the occasion.
HAWLEY Oil COAST DEFENSES.
The Senator Advocates the Expenditure
Gradually of S 125.000,000.
Hartford, Anril 7.-Senator Joseph R.
Hawley addressed tbe HartfordBoard of Trade
tbls morning on the subject of "The Weakness
of Our Coast Defenses." General Hawley
criticised tbe indifference of the people in
recent years to the matter of adequate coast
defence. Tbe recent complications with Italy,
be said, showed the rapidity with which,
trouble might come.
Halifax, less tban two days' journey from
Boston, is a menace to our unprotected coast
tor England, in case ot war, wouled as
semble ber fleet tbere. General Hawley said
the cost of adequate defenses for tbe coast
mlgbt be 5125,00u.000. but this would be ex
tended over a term of years. IS o exorbitant
tax would be made necessary by the appropria
tion of this amount and the investment would
prove wise in all respects.
A LOAN OP $50,000,000.
It Will Be Used In Bolstering Up a Great
Western Railroad.
Boston, April 7. A circular was issued from
the Atchison office to-day to the first preferred
stockholders of tbe St Louis and San Francisco
Railway Company, in which it is announced
that, to provide for certain deficiencies and to
place the company and its properties in sound
financial and physical condition, tho manage
ment of the St Louis and San Francisco Rail
way Company has decided to issue a new con
solidated 4 per cent gold bond covering all of
its properties, equipment lands and realties,
amounting to 30,011(1,000 subject only to prior
liens ot present outstanding mortgages, secur
ing oonas waicn win ue graauany retired by
tbe operation of their respective sinking funds
and maturities, and be replaced by tbe new
bonds.
Here, Too.
Minneapolis Tribune
With occasional assistance from tbe Gov
ernor, tbe Legislature Is likely to go back to
tbe people with a pretty creditable reeord of
what it has not done.
Progress, Indeed.
Buffalo Express.
It is progress wben in a Western State (Col
orado In tbls instance) tbe killing of a China
man is adjudged murder even in tbe second
degree. s
For Pittsburg Bead Allegheny.
Philadelphia Kecord.
Plttsbnrg Conncilmen, following in the foot
teps of Congress, refnsed to give a vote of
thanks to tbelr retiring President
Legislature or Lobby, Whlcl
Cincinnati Commercial Gszette.J
Tbo Ohio Legislature is said to be beset In
Its budding spring days, by a dangerous lobby.
Turn the rascals out.
PI0NEEB WOMEN WOBKEBS.
The Bev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
was tbe first woman ordained to the ministry in
this country. ""
Jliss Hannah Adams, born in Tlassa
chuseits in 175a, was the first American woman
who made literature a profession.
Db. Elizabeth Blackwell was the
first American woman to receive a medical
diploma. She graduated at Geneva, N. Y., in.
1819.
Mbs. Maboabet Cbapeb, of the
Massachusetts Qazetle and iV'ir Letter, was
tbe first American woman to do newspaper
work. She wrote dnrlng the years of the Rev
olution. "JIistbcss Maboabet Beent, sninster
aud gentlewoman," was tbe first American
woman to appear in court as an attorney. She
prosecuted aud defended causes in tho Provin
cial Conrts of Maryland iu 1647. Sbe bad no
Successor until Arabella A. Mansfield was ad-
ijnitted to the Iowa bar IniSta.
C0RI0US C0NDENSATI05S.
A New York restaurant has three cus
tomers who eat eggs shells and all,
Gold-bearing quartz has been discovered
in a stone quarry near New Haven. Conn.
Tennessee has passed a law providing
that school directors must be able to read and
write.
European physicians are now insisting
tbat cows' milk Is deadly when sot boiled be
fore using.
" A Boston man advertises for female
fleas. He is willing to pay a good price for all
he can get
A resident of Beading, Pa., was bitlen
by a pet parrot somo davs ago and after suffer
ing terrible agonies, died.
A bill in tbe Illinois Legislature pro
vides that Coroners' juries holding inquests on
women snau oe composed ot women only.
The prisoners in the Calloway county,
Ky..jal1 have petitioned the pastor of tbe local
Metb odist Church to come and preach to them.
During February the railroad accidents
in this country Included 93 collisions, 93 derail
ments and 100 other accidents, in which SI per
sons were killed and Z75 injured.
A yonng lady who was visiting at Hor
gantown, W. Va.. claims to bave seen near
there a blacksnake 20 feet long tbat had nu
merous rattles on tbe end of its tail.
A resident of Joinville-le-Pont, near
Paris, is said to have 2.000.000 geese, which
produce annually 20,000.000 of quills. He has
tbe largest quill manufactory In the world.
Judge Eve, of Augusta, Ga., had before
him the other day a poor devil named Adam
and sentenced him to the chain gang for three
months. It was the same old spirit over again.
A member of a theater orchestra in New
York recently went to sleep during a perform
ance, and snored so loudly that people in tbe
front seats moved into vacant chairs to escape
the noise.
In the New York drygoods shops both
male andVemalo clerks are compelled to
dress in black or very dark clothes. A sales
man wbo appeared in a gray suit would be sent
home to change it
An ingenious Frenchman has discov
ered a process of recovering the tin contained
in tbe wash waters of silk. In Lyons alone tbe
application of the discovery will effect an an
nual economy ot KO.OOO.
The University of Michigan has 2,420
students in attendance, ot which OS are
women, and ot these 51 are studying medicine.
The attendance) of women has nearly donbled
within the past four years.
Mice and moles are working ruin in
many parts of France at present, and the Min
ister of Agriculture has issued a clrcularwhich
is being generally distributed recommend ing a
certain method for tbe destruction of the little
pests.
A colored man stole eight eggs from a
farmer near Canton, O., and put them in a
basket to take to that town. When be arrived
there and opened tbe basket he round, instead
of the eggs, eight little chicks, alive and
hungry.
A Chinese medical practitioner has been
discoursing in a Shanghai native paper on the
treatment of cholera. Among other medica
ments, be is wont to prescribe "pig's liver
mixed with brickdust from tbe inside of a
furnace."
The best recruiting station for the regu
lar army is In St Paul, Minn. In February it
furnished 25 per cent more men tban any other
station in tbe conntry, and during March also
the number of enlistments is reported as un
precedented in that region.
A German physician proposes that the
manufacturers of preserved meats should be
compelled to stamp their cans with 4 legible
date mark. Fora year or so. he says, canned
meats may remain perfectly wholesome, bnt
after that they deteriorate in a way defying
alike precaution and explanation.
According to a Shasta, Wash., news
paper, a fire broke out In the Mott postofnee
one night last week, destroying that building
and three others. In one of the buildings a
barrel of modern whisky was stored; the head
and stares of tbe barrel wera burned, bnt the
contents stood upright as a monument in tbe
ashes, a solid block of ice.
It appears that tbe grip is not entirely
new In Japan, for there is a full description of
iu ravages between 1773-1780 by a native writer
named Bakin. It was called the Okoma Kose,
Tenkow Koze. Satsnma Koze and Tanlka
Koze, tbe last being the more popular, being
derived from Tanika, a famons wrestler wbosa
boast it was tbat only illness could floor him.
ana wno uiea irom tne &.oze. ,
An electric apparatus supplies a stront;
Hght which attracts the insects and moths; a
suction fan worked by the electric current
draws them in wben they approach the light
and carries them into a small mill, also worked
by the electric current where they are ground
up and mixed with flour, and thns converted
into poultry food of excellent quality. This is
said to be a Bavarian contrivance.
A man-of-war doctor, whose name is
unfortunately lost to posterity, bad a simple
method of locating a man's ailment and
alleviating it (save the mark!) by drastic and
infallible remedies. He would tie a piece ot
tape aronnd the waist of the complaining
mariner, and command him to declare whether
his pain existed above or below tbe tape. It
above an emetic, and if below a dose of salts
followed as a matter of course.
At least one person in three between
tbe ages of 10 and 40 years is subject to partial
deafness. Tbe great majority of eases of deaf
ness are hereditary and due to tbe too close
consanguinity of the parents. Deafness is more
prevalent among men tban among women, be
cause tbe former are more exposed to the
vicissitudes of climate. It is thought tbat
telephones tend to bring on deafness when
one ear is used to the exclusion of the other.
In connection with the equipment for
fire protection, it is recommended that a gallon
pall, filled with fine sand, be always placed
witbin convenient reach of each workman.
Tbls practice might well be followed wherever
tbere is a possibility of fire starting in oils or
oil-soaked materials. Tbere is nothing which
will squelch fire in its inclpiencv more quickly
and effectually than sand and tbere are no
afterclaps in the way of water damage, either.
Hot water is now automatically sup
plied in Paris by penny-in.the-slot machines.
Nine quarts are delivered for this sum, and tbe
water is found useful by the poor and by cab
men for their footpans, or boulllottes. A coil
of copper pipe inside the machine communi
cates with tbe street main, and is beated by
gasburuers; tbe penny allows tbe tap to be
opened on pushing In a "button." A glass ot
hot wine is also sold by similar machines in
Paris.
An instrnctor recently exhibited a lect
ure room device for determining "g." tbe ac
celeration due to gravity, by means of a num
ber of iron balls falling through a certain dist
ance, one starting at tbe instant wben its pre
decessor reaches its destination. This is ac
complished by means of an electro-magnetlo
device, in which tha balls, falling on a key.
make and break a circnlr, eacb ball as it falls
liberating tbe next From the time occupied
bv all the balls, tbe time for one may be found.
The apparatus Is said to give fairly accurate re
sults. MORE WITTY THAN WISE.
Gncgs So you think that Harrison won't
be renomlnated.eh? Wbo stands a better show?
Biggs Don't know bis name, bnt I read in tbe
paper yesterday tbat an Auburn. N. Y.. man
owned a hat tbat bad been in his family ISO years.
Chicago Times.
Tommy Paw, what is a hold-over Sena.
tor?
Mr. Flgg-The qualifications of a bold-over sen
ator vary in different States. In Kentucky he is
expected to hold over half a gallon without stag
gering. Indianapolis Journal.
THE AGE'S IMPROVEMENT.
Some cure-alls of the present time
In age far backward to.
But as a corn-eradlcator none
Is older than the crow.
Philadelphia Times.
Algernon Spoons (who has poetic aspira-tlons)-Alas.
this sordid world! Shall 1 never
know a sympathetic tout? Can I never touch a
responsive chord?
His mother (distinctly practical) Welt there
are about 14 cords out In the woodshed that would
probably respond, if you shonld tonch them right
wllb an ax. Boston Courier.
The Bev. Stiggins Don't forget, young
man, the Bible Injunction, that'the love of money
is the root of all evil!"
,WiU Dotes Haven't you quoted that wrong,
elder?
The Bev. Stiggins In what particular?
Will Dotes-Doesn't it read lack" Instead of
love?"-omHC any a Co.' Monthly.
Customer I'll give you a dollar for that
boo!.. That's every cent It's worth.
CWrk-1-1
Customer (Interrupting) A dollar or nothlnr.
Clerk-Very well, sir. Thanks. Cash! t wasv
trying to say thai tbe retail price of the book was
1i cents, but you wouldn't allow me to. Ionise
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