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rjS ' PITTSBURG. SATURDAY, APR. 18, 1S8L
THE TROOrS DISMISSED.
The withdrawal of the last regiment of
State troops from the cote region yesterday
indicates the conviction of the State author
ities that the danger of further disorder is
at an end. The suspension of civil power
having been made before the troops were
sent in the region, the only theory on wb,ich
their removal is possible is that the tend
ency toward riot is passed, and that further
settlement of the wage question can be
peacefully effected. There has been a fair
degree of order preserved while the troops
were in the district, and this may have aided
the decision.
In coming to this decision against the
protest of citizens who do not share that
confident view, the Governor has plainly re
lied oa the pledges of the labor leaders that
peace shall be preserved. This puts the re
sponsibility on them for the immediate
future. Tliey have given pledges in public
as binding as any which the Governor may
Lave received. The retirement of the mili
tary gives them the opportunity to redeem
their promises.
Upon the argument that law and individ
ual rights will be fully respected, the further
discussion of the strike in the coke industry
will be left entirely to the domain of reason.
If that is done, the action of the Governor
will be vindicated and the law-abiding
character of the strikers established. But
if the promises are not kept, it will react
very severely both on the labor leaders and
, the Governor. Let us have peace.
WIT SHOULD THET DODGE?
The activity of the corporation members
in the House in staving off a vote on the
motion to give the anti-discrimination bill a
place on the calendar is inexplicable.
Under ordinary circumstances it would be
easy to understand that legislators would be
loth to place themselves on record as refus
ing to carry out Constitutional enactments
they are sworn to support, and to protect the
people agaiust corporate favoritism. If
they had not independence enough to resist
the orders of the great corporations that
such measures shall be suppressed, they
might naturally desire to prevent the call
ing of the yeas and nays. But in this case
the Legislature has already made its record.
It has fully showed its disregard ot the Con
stitution and the public rights. "With that
fact in view, it is rather difficult so assign a
reason for subsequent dodging.
The Legislature has already made up its
record on the anti-discrimination question,
and all the filibustering in the world will
not alter that record.
DISSATISFACTION" IX INDIA.
The indications of disquiet in India pre
viously afforded by the war with the Mani
puris are increased by a popular excitement
in Benares. The Manipuri war was sup
posed to be a mere local struggle, increased
in importance by the fact that a British
force was cut to pieces. The immediate
cause of the Benares trouble was religious
prejudice caused by the proposed destruc
tion of a temple for public improvements.
The two together are taken as indicating a
degree of dissatisfaction among the natives
that may produce a widespread outbreak.
There is a theory afloat to the effect that
this trouble has been stirred up by Bussian
agents. "Whether there is foundation lor
that idea is not known; but it does not im
pute any creditable intentions to Bnssia.
To prosecute war by stirring up a cruel and
semi-civilized people to revolt against
civilization a strife that must produce
rapine and murder would be an offense
against civilization. To adopt such meth
ods in time of peace would be little less than
infernal. The activity of Bussia in the
direction of India should be accounted for
in a way less abhorrent to humanity, if pos
sible. "Whatever the cause, civilization will join
in the hope that there will be no outbreak
liable to reproduce the horrors of the Indian
mutiny. "While there may be much to be
amended in the Indian administration, it is
far superior to the chaos that would result
from an outbreak.
AN UNNECESSARY CONVENTION.
Some time ago The Dispatch pointed
out that the professed need for a Constitu
tional convention was not by any means
adequate to its possible damages. It is
easy to provide practical ballot reform in
accordance with the Constitution. Because
we have an excellent instrument which cer
tain prominent interests would be very glad
to see emasculated is not calculated to
increase confidence in the integrity of the
demand for the convention. In short, The
Dispatch was decidedly of the opinion
that the Constitutional convention is not
wanted.
The statement published yesterday with
regard to Bobinson's bill for a Constitutional
convention is a striking illustration of this
point. If the sole result of the convention
were to give the Legislature annual in
stead of biennial opportunities for self
exposure, it might not oe a very vital ques
tion. But this is not all that would be pos
sible. Senator and Congressman Bobinson
first called attention to himself in the legis
lative halls by a speech in which he termed
an anti-discrimination bill "Jack Cade leg
islation." He quoted Shakespeare to estab
lish his point, and declared he would not
respect all the provisions of a Constitution
which he was under oath to support A
statesman who relies on works of the imag
ination for historical facts, and forms bis
views from a dramatist who never mentions
the participation of the people in political
matters, except in ridicule, may deem the
Constitutional convention so much a fore
gone conclusion as to provide for the elec
tion of its members before the convention is
ordered. But a very respectable preponder
ance of public opinion will take the oppo
site view.
There are a great many restrictions in the
Constitution which have been found of great
value to the public, but are highly incov
venient to certain powerful interests. Cor
porate aggressions are restrained, reckless
extension of municipal debts, and numerous
other practices not unknown in the State be
fore the adoption of the present instrument
are provided against. The ability of the
proposed convention to wipe oat these salu
tary provisions, in addition to giving the
Legislature annual employment, is too man
ifest to permit question. Any of the inter
ests desiring the removal of these restrictions
are at liberty to urge that such amendments
be submitted separately, each to be decided
on its merits. But to do this job iu round
lots is something that the people should
sternly negative.
The present Constitution was framed to
last more than eighteen years. What is
needed now is its enforcement and not its
emasculation.
THE OLD STORY.
The order covering the transportation pf
goods in bond by Canadian railways is ac
companied by a general repetition, in some
quarters, of assertions regarding laws regu
lating railway traffic which are solely the
product of the inventive genius of the rail
way interest.. The Secretary of the Treas
ury bases his order upon the necessity of
properly transacting the business of the
custom houses, which is a valid reason.
But the new outbreak of old misrepresenta
tions is suggestive of corporate influences
behind the whole business.
A sample is afforded, by the Baltimore
American, whioh says:
The Canadian railroads are not subject to
the inter-State commerce law, and can place
American roads at a ruinons disadvantage,
which they have not hesitated to do in various
ways.
The fact is that every Canadian railroad
doing business in the United States, or
transporting goods to and from the United
States, is subject to the inter-State com
merce law on that traffic exactly as much as
any of the United States railroads are. This
appears in the first section of the act, and
has been repeated by the Inter-State Com
merce Commission.
Another example is the following declara
tion of a leading paper with regard to the
traffic across the continent from China and
Japan:
In this great traffic no American railroad can
compete with the Canadian Pacific. Onr roads
are debarred from all competition by the laws
of the United States, which afford to a foreign
corporation the protection which the; expressly
deny to our own common carriers.
There is not a line in the laws of the
United States which debars the transconti
nental roads from competition. The only
reason why the Canadian Pacific carries the
traffic is that it is willing to do so at cheaper
rates. The combinations transconti
nental roads have made among themselves
for illegal purposes may prevent them from
making rates which will attract this traffic,
but the United States law does not
The persistence and energy with which
these threadbare misrepresentations are cir
culated calculated to arouse a curiosity as
to the corporate purpose in keeping them
up.
SINGLE-TAX IDEAS.
The comments of The Dispatch the
other day on a communication from one of
its single-tax friends have evoked two re
sponses in another column. The points our
correspondents make are worthy of at
tention. One presents an illustration of the sweep
ing assertions to which the single-tax logic
is prone. He cays : "If it be possible to
show that increase in the exchange of land
operates otherwise than as an impediment to
production, I will give over the case;" but
he thinks this difficult on account of the
law that "every increase in the exchange
value of land is at the expense of the value
of labor." There may be a quarrel about
terms in this; but taking "exchange value"
to signify what the land will bring in ex
change for other forms of property, nothing
is more eajir than to demonstrate the
entire error of these alleged axioms.
The great majority of influences
which have increased both the economic and
exchange valne of land have done so be
cause they increased production and at the
same time added to the vdlue. Improve
ments in transportation, new inventions and
improved methods in agriculture, irrigation
and a score of other illustrations furnish
evidence to this point Central Africa is a
first-class example of a spot, where there is
little or no exchange value to land, and the
value of labor there is not particularly
exalted.
Both correspondents refer to the assertion
of The Dispatch that if the single-tax
principle of exempting all improvements is
applied faithfully to the degree of exempt
ing street and sewer assessments and taxes
for the support of the city, there would not
be much income left on the single-tax prop
osition. One inquiry is: "Is it true that
the single-tax people propose to exempt
these items?" We do not know that they
do, but the necessity of doing so ap
pears from their own statements of prin
ciple. The essence of their system is that
ail.addilions to value produced by the labor
or money of the owner shall be exempted.
It is indisputable that a man who pays
$1,000 to have a street paved or a sewer
built makes an improvement lust as much
Dsif he paid $1,000 to have a house built
It is also a leading principle of the single
fax school that the growth of a city about a
given piece of land increases its value. It
necessarily follows that the taxes which that
land has paid to support the city govern
ment, to furnish police and fire protection,
to clean and light the streets, are just so
mnch money spent in improvements.
The other correspondent produces, as a
demonstration opposed to our assertion,
some estimated figures from the city ol Buf
falo. Besides the familiar feature of pro
ducing reductions of the rate of taxation by
multiplying the valuation, this statement
need only be criticised as presenting a total
largely made up of what the single
taxers define as speculative value.
Some time ago The Dispatch
pointed out to its friends 'of this
school the natural impossibility of wiping
out speculative value and at the same time
preserving it as a source of revenue. This
point finally elicited from one of them the
frank concession? "I guess we will have to
let the single tax go." Now, what The
Dispatch is calling upon them to bear iu
mind is the fact that after the speculative
value is wiped out, and from the remaining
value is deducted all improvements, includ
ing those specified above, there will be a very
small remnant left as a basis o( revenue.
Alter such a process of exemption has been
faithlully made, the single-taxers would have
to do just what public policy is doing at
present Impose the costot government upon
such forms of property as might prove most
available for taxation.
Recent comments of The Dispatch
on Senator Robinson's ticket-soliciting bill
were based on an Incomplete abstract ot the
measure. Oar attention has been called to the
fact that some of the provisions supposed to
have been left out ot the act are actually in it
This would necessarily modify the criticisms
made, and makes pointless some of the fun at its
expense. The bill is intended to suppress a no
torious nuisance which, we may remark, candi
dates should have backbone enough to sup
press for themselves.
Peesidekt Hakmson has been invited
to Mexico on one side and British Columbia on
the other. There is an evident attempt to
make the Chief Executive believe that the
boundless continent is his.
Secbetaby Tracy has followed out the
announcement of his good intentions by issuing
an order with regard to the New York and
Norfolk navy yards which, if enforced, will
take the foremen and master mechanics entirely
out of politics. The step is a gratifying one,
and will be universally endorsed by the public.
Hut the Secretary should not omit to increase
the warmth of the indorsement by extending
it so that the Portsmouth navy yard shall be
used to build ships and not carry elections.
The warmth of poolroom discussion in
New York City leaves uo doubt as to the fact
that oft-quoted improvement of the breed of
horses consists of malting the horses into first
class gambling machines.
The use of the terms "esquire" and "gen
tleman" in describing tbo status of an indi
vidual has been discouraged by the weight of
official authority. The rules for the taking of
the English census is the authority referred to.
"Such indefinite terms," says Rule 19, as 'gen
tleman and esquire' should not be used"
Americans who desire to claim the social stand
ing supposed to be expressed by those words
will please take notice that they are written for
exceedingly indefinite persons.
That World's Fair squabble is principally
decisive to the effect that Phoebe Couzlns has
made up her mind that she lsnot to be'eozened
out other profitable position.
The trout in the mountain streams of
Pennsylvania aro very much delighted with
the remarkable increase of the bill of fare
offered them this week. It is supposed that
each has bad a large variety of the most tempt
ing bait laid before bim by something like
half a dozen anglers. Perhaps? the fish were so
much sated by the profusion that they con
cluded to restrict themselves to a plain diet.
The $100-for-$30 societies Are not to be
interfered with by the Legislature. People
who are anxious to be swindled can still enjoy
full facilities in that line.
Farmer Ingalls' assertion that "the
burning question of the day isfrotatoes," evokes
the criticism of. the New York Prest to the
effect that potatoes are rather "a growing
Issue." Our friends should be caret nl, in pur
suing this important dispute about terms, to
take care that they as well as -the potatoes do
not get into the stew.
Ex-benatob Ikgalxs is at present for
tunate in farming to large audiences; but it
may be different when tbe crop reports come
in.
Tjie late General Spi nola is reported to
have left a million dollars. An Eastern paper
says "he was a shrewd investor in real estate
and knew bow to put his money where it would
do tbe most good." There was an understand
ing also that he knew how to do this in politics
as well as real estate.
POINTS ON PEOPLE.
Justin Huntly McCarthy is re
ported to be a convert to Buddhism.
The Mikado of Japan is always obliged
to walk alone in public, his arm being consid
ered too sacred for even tbe Empress to take.
Gexebal Albert Pike owned the larg
est meerschaum pipe in the world, and he
knew hor to operate it without materially cut
ting short the span of his life
Chabt.es TAPrAS", who built the fam
ous New York Tombs prison, is still living in
that city, at the age of 95. He has seen the me.
tropolis grow from a town of less than 100,000
inhabitants.
Vladimie Koeolenko, the talented
Bussian writer, is now a prisoner in the gloomy
fortress of St Peter and St. Paul, His arrest
is due to a series of articles entitled "in De
serted Places."
Colonel Geobge W. Williams, the
oolored gentleman who has notified King Leo
pold that Mr. Stanley is not the man to govern
the Kongo Free State, was at one time a mem
ber of the Ohio Legislature.
Bey. Feank Montrose Clandenin,
who is soon to marry Miss Gabrielle Greeley, is
tall, spare, bald-beaded and high church. He
has a gentle, scholarly face, not strong, but re
fined: a prominent nose, light blue or gray eyes,
a light mustache and a scholarly stoop.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbi'lt is tall
and slender, with pretty blonde hair, and she
is said by her friends to have a heart of gold.
The greater part of her life is spent in doing
good, which she does so quietly and unosten
tatiously that the outside world knows little
about it
Ex-Senator Eyabts' hat is always
worn on tbe back of his head, as if it wanted to
hide from observation the fact of its being old
enough to have beard tbe first gun at Sumter
fired.. Mr. Evarts ages fast and has a decided
stoop, indicating Increasing weakness and lack
of vitality.
Bishop Vladimeb, of the Greek Church
in Alaska, who is on a tour of inspection of tbe
Bussian churches In the United States, is an
enthusiastic admirer and eloquent defender of
the Czar's rule. He ridicules tbe charges of
ferocious tyranny in Muscovite administration,
and attributes tbeni quite as much to newspa
per sensationalism as to rebellious dissatisfac
tion. French Not Appreciated.
Detroit Journal,!
"H-FIeury ekmadame" Is the way it reads'
on a Detroit hotel reglser. II H. Flaary did
that he ought to be arrested for cannibalism.
TWICE TOLD TALES.
Interesting Clippings From Exchanges
What the Girls Talk About A Truthful
Sailor Joaquin Miller and the Chicago
Damsel Sitting Bull a la France.
"What do girls talk about" a Chicago Post
reporter asked one ot them, "at their luncheons
and during their calls upon each other?"
"Well," she replied, "there aro usually two
subjects of conversation at gatherings of girls,
and they aro about equally prolific One ot
them Is the men and tbe other is girls whodon't
happen to be present We discuss the men of
our acquaintance from every possible point of
view, exchange confidences that have been
made in us, criticise them with unrestricted
freedom, and wonder which of them want to
marry and what styles of girls they prefer.
Sometimes we are rather sharp In our criti
cisms, but on tbe whole the men get off rather
easy. But when it comes to other girls myr'
'What do you mean by that?"
"I mean that no mercy is shown. For ex
ample, we take up some poor unfortunate who
isn't with us and go through tbe pleasant oper
ation known as picking her io pieces. We dis
enssher Costume, her complexion, her man
ners, ber sayings, her tastes, and by tbe time
we hare iyt through with her the Creator
wouldn't recognize His work. Then we start
in on some other girl."
"But hare you many enemies of tnls sort?"
"Enemies? Bless your Innocent sonl. I haven't
an enemy in the world. I love my nolghbor as
myself."
"You surely don't Intend to convey the im
pression to my mind that these girls whoso
characters you discuss in this cannibalistic way
are friends of yours?"
"Why, certainly. For instance, on the South
side the other day we were all taking 6 o'clock
tea and having a simply beautiful time picking
Maria Jones to pieces. Just in tho middle of it
all Maria came in. Was she greeted coldly?
Well, hardly. We all embraced her, gave her
a seat near tbo fire and changed tbe subject of
conversation to Anna Smith. And how Maria
did go for ber, to be sure."
A Truthful Sailor.
According to tbe New York Bun a party of
tonrists met a sea captain on a train, and a
Chicago broker, wbo first discerned his pres
ence, gave tbe bojs the wink, and followed it
up by saying:
"If we work it right wo can get some awful
lies out of him. Let some one ask him about
sharks and serpents."
They crowded him into a smoking compart
ment, and when they had become slightly ac
quainted tho Inquiry was made:
"Captain, you have doubtless seen some very
large whales? How long would you say tbe
largest was?"
"Gentlemen. I never Baw a whale in my life,"
he replieu., "I have been at sea for 26 years,
but I never happened to see a whale."
"Well, you have seen serpents in the warm
sea?"
"Never saw one there."
"But you must have seen some extra large
sharks?"
"Gentlemen, I hope you will believe me wheu
I tell you I never saw a shark except In an
aquarium."
Hut you have been wrecked?"
Never."
"Ever have a mutiny?"
"No."
"Fire at sea?"
"No."
"Meet with a plratef"
No."
'Tidal.wave?"
"No."
"Humph! What sort of a sailor are you, any
way?" I'm sorry for you, gentlemen, very sorry, bat
the fact IK film ntlltr a Tllaln avorvrfaw oittnv
ana my mother made me take a vow when I
first went to sea that I would always speak the
truth. Here are some good nickel cigars for
you. but as for lying, I can't do it not even
about sea serpents."
Hunting tho Stag.
A foreign exchange tells of the Prince of a
small German State, whose ambition it was to
do the grand,if only on a small scale, who bad in
vited a number of gentlemen to go on a deer
stalking expedition. Everything promised
well. The weather was superb and the whole
company were in the best of spirits, when
the head forester approached the pettv mon
arch and, lifting his green cap, said in faltering
tones:
"Your Highness, there can be no hunting to
day." "Why not?" was the stern rejoinder.
"Alas, Your Hurbness, one of the stags took
fright at the sigbt of so many people and has
escaped Into the adjoining territory, and the
other stag has been ill since yesterday. But
Yonr Highness must not be angry it la most
likely nothing worse than a bad cold. We
have given it some berb tea, and hope to get it
on Its legs again in a few days."
Printers' Epitaphs.
The Manchester, Eng., Timet tells of some old
epitaphs upon printers. One of them, in
scribed upon a monument erected in St Mary's
Church, Datcbec, to Christopher Barker,
printer to Queen Elizabeth, is as follows:
Here Barker lies, once printer to" the Crown.
Whose works or art required a grat renown:
Time saw his worth and spread around his fame,
That future printers might Imprint tils name.
But when his strength could work the press no
more,
And his last sheets were folded into store
Pure lalth. with hope (the greatest treasures
Riven).
Opened tbelr gates and bade him pass to Heaven,
In a different strain is the next epitaph
quoted. It purports to be written by tbe de
lunct himself, but whoever wrote it showed a
pretty turn for making a merry quip of a seri
ous topic No better idea of death being a
release from careB and troubles could be con
veyed than in the following lines: ,
No more shall copy bad perplex my brain;
No more aball type's small face my eyeballs
strain;
No more tne proofs foul page create me troubles
liv errors, transpositions, outs and doubles;
No more to overran shall I begin;
No more be driving out or driving In; I
The stubborn pressman's brow I now may scoff,
Revised, corrected and finally worked on.
Here is a curt complaint:
Weary oi distributing pye.
Pressed out of life. I now must die.
I've cut my slick, my fount is sped.
My case is empty, as in life ray head:
In fact, my last impression is I'm dead.
Ignorant Appreciation.
Tbe Chicago Hews says that Joaquin Miller
was in Chicago two or three months ago and he
was thinking about staying here some time, but
a little Incident happened that made him feel
like moving on. The second day he was here
he was invited to a reception oa the Southside
and be went. There was an enormous crush of
women folk and it was a grand affair the
victuals and flowers must have cost 84,000 or
$5,0U0.
Joaquin was happy. He cottoned to a sweet
young girl who had fawnlike eyes, wavy hair
and a peachy complexion. To this bud of
beauty was the poet of the Sierras particularly
attentive; told her eolden romances of other
days among the snow-crownedbills and gurgled
bits of poetry into the coral porches of her
ear.
But the jig was up when finally this dream of
feminine loveliness, rolling her beauteous eyes
upon tbe poet and sighinir lackadaisically,
quoth: "Mr. Miller, you talk so beautifully,
why don't you ever try your band at writing
something."
Tbe poet of tbe Sierras started for the Pacific
Slope early the next morning.
Ho That Breaks Pays.
In Paris, says London Tid-BUs, there lives an
eminent painter who is economical and sen
tentious. The other day one of the students
broke a pane of glass in tbe studio window and
replaced it temporarily by pasting a sheet of
paper over tbe aperture.
When the painter came down next morning,
he thrust bis cane through tbe make-shift with
the remark, "He that broaks pays." Nono of
the class, however, took the hint, and next
morning another sheet of paper was pasted
across the window. 'It met with the same fate.
And so on the next day, and so on tbe fonrtb.
On the fifth (la)', when the" artist came down,
there was the paper as before. Fire flashed
from his eyes, aucl roaring, ''He that breaks
paysl" he drove his cane through the paper
and tbrongb the pane of glass behind it that
bad been put in by tbe students ana then care
fully pasted over with a sheet of paper.
Sitting Bull a la France.
A French periodical called Science Jour Tout
(Science for All), wblcb declares its aim to be
tbe enlightenment of tbe public recently pub.
lished the following absurd article:
"We bavo received some interesting informa
tion concerning the incidents which preceded
the recent rising In arms of tbe Indians in the
West, and one of tbe first engagements.
"The Seated Bull, their chieftain, having re
solved to make known the fact thattbe Indians
had not received tbeir annuities and certain
promised munitions, betook himself to tbe
Capitol at Washington,
rrhere he laid before the President of the
legislative body his complaints of the Govern
ment agents, who, be declared, had stolen wbat
was tbe Indian's due. .
"He was informed that his declarations would
be taken under conslueration, and lie departed.
But tbe promise having remained without per
formance, tbe Seated Bull once more came to
tbe Capitol.
"This time. In the midst of the assemblage,
tho Kaated Bull did not utter a word, but drew
his tomahawk and dealt with it a terrible blow'
poa.tne marnm ;? uuivu mm, ucioro mm
Tbe table was broken in two, and the chiefs
tomahawk burled itself in the floor befleah.
"It was the token ot tho chief's declaration
of war.
"The Seated Bull then leftrtbe Capitol with
out anyone daring to lav a hand upon him. Be
turning to bis canoe, which he had tied to one
of tbe piers of tbe great bridge across the Po
tomac river, he paddled rapidly back to bis
own territory,"
TWO KINDS OF PINCHBECK.
Differences Between Grades of Jewelry
Plating Told.
Newport Sun. J
Manufacturers of men's jewelry are com.
plaining that discredit has been thrown upon
tbe really good plated jewelry by tbe Introduc
tion of a mass of cheap and deceptlvo stuff
which benefits by the enormous sale of legiti
mate gold plate jewelry. The latter has
reached a standard of excellence and dura
bility which places it almost on an equal foot
ing with real gold. You can buy from any
reputable house gold-plated chains with a
wrlttrn guarantee that they will wear for 20
years. Collar buttons of the best plated quality
are obtainable with guarantees tbat they will
last for ten years. Of course plated jewelry as
fine as this is expensive to make, and when it
is met by a cheap andshoddv article of brass
at one-third its value it suffers through tbo
competition, for'a great many think that plated
jewelry is plated jewelry, and have no Idea
that there may be different qualities. A short
experience with a dbeap plated article indicates
very quickly how valueless it is. A cheap
plated collar button, for instance, will stain
yonr shirt green and leave a sore spot on your
neck after a few days' wear. This is due to the
action of tbe perspiration upon tbe brass used
in cheap plated articles. A good gold-plated
collar button never blackens a garment or in
jures the flesb.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
L. M. Allen, manager of Wallace's Horse
Register, was In tho city yesterday.
President Eaton, of the Humane Society,
returned from Bedford yesterday.
Judge James Inghram and wife, of
Waynesburg, were In Pittsburg yesterday.
J. W. Collins, of Wheeling, and B. J.
Horton, of Louisville, are at the Duquesue.
W. H. Knowison, a New Orleans mer
chant, is In the city. He approves of tbe lynch
ing. A. L. Beck, of Sharon! and W. L. Curtis,
of Bradford, are stopping at the Seventh Ave
nue Hotel.
Senators Steele and Neeb and Representa
tives Lemon and Muehlbronner returned from
Harrisburc last night
Marshall Field, Jr., a son of the million
aire Chicago merchant was a passenger on the
limited last evening going home.
C. L. Pullman passed throuch the city
last evening bound for Chicago. He is scoop
ing in orders for street railway cars.
Ex-Congressman James H. Hopkins and
Colonel Willis J. Hullngs, of Oil City, are
registered at the Monongahela House.
W. H. Wanamnkcr, a brother of the
Postmaster General, is at the Anderson. Bill
and John resemble each other closely.
Among those who went to Philadelphia
last evening were J. R. JlcGinlpy, Dick Quay
and Representative Stewart, of Verona.
W. H. Griffith, a Denver newspaper pro
prietor, is at tbe Duquesne.t Mr. Griffith has
been in the East to buy a new outfit for a morn
ing paper.
Marshal Williams, of Toungstown, O.,
was a visitor at Allegheny Citv Hall yesterday.
He is a friend of both Chief Murphy and May
or Wymap.
Senator William Woodyard nnd Dr. P.
B. Camden, of Farkersburg, a brother of Sena
tor Camden, took breakfast at tbo Mononga
hela House yesterday.
Sanches Ximenes, a representative of a
largo Brazilian coffee firm, passed through the
city yesterday bound for California. He says
if coffee can be grown there bis firm will culti
vate tbe plant in America.
A merry trip party reglsfered at the An
derson yesterday. They were J. H. Lufland
and-wife, 8. A. Armstrong and wife and P. F.
Kernar. of Philadelphia. They have been
along the Allegheny river, and to-day will go
up tbe Monongahela. A trip party is tbe latest
fad.
Chinese Opinion. of Us.
Peking Gazette. 1
It is impossible to understand these barbar
ous people. One thing Is certain; if tbey do a
thins they do it with all their might. Thirty
years ago th ey had a big civil war. The whole
country was turned into military camps and
battlefields, and everybody, even to the women
folk, were engaged in the war in one way or
another, and one armnumbered 2,000,000 men.
And now there are yonng men, old enough to
vote, who have never seen a company of
soldiers In their life. In fact, these people
seem to think that another war will never
break out especially in tbeir part of the world.
A person can travel clear across tho American
continent without seeing a soldier, and follow
the main lines of travel, too. In fact, at tbe
present time there is only about one soldier for
every 2,000 persons,while Russia has one soldier
to every 90.
A Japanese Stanton.
New York Tribune.3
While the late Prince San jo of Japan, Keeper
of the Great Seal, lay on his deathbed, the
Emperor came to him, read an address recog
nizing the dying noble's splendid services, and
raising his faithful friend to the highest rank
to which it was possible to elevate him. Frinco
Sanjo, wbo had been unable to move a muscle
for some time, thereupon raised his head and
folded his hands in tbe Japanese fashion to
show his gratitude. He then became uncon
scious and died the same evening;
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Stephen A. Emery.
Stephen A. Emery, the musician and
teacher, died at the Massachusetts General Hospi
tal in Boston Wednesday, after an illness of six
months. Mr. Emery was born in Paris, Me,, Oc
tober 4, 1811. Ills father was an able lawyer and
Judge. Young Emery early exhibited more than
ordinary lore of music, and even composed little
piano pieces beloro he was able to read notes. He
went in 16(3 to Lelpsic, where for two years ho
continued his studies. After a short time In
Dresden he retnrned to the United States, remain
ing In Portland until 1SC0, when he went to Bos
ton. He was engaged as teacher of nlanoand
harmony at the opening of the cw Kngland Con
servatory of Music in 18S9. and was afterward ap
pointed professor of harmony, theory and com
position in the Boston University College 'of
Music. Mr. mery has written many piano pieces
and songs. His 'Clements of Harmony" is used
throughout the country.
Frederick A. Kalb.
Frederick A. Kalb, an old resident of
Allegheny, died last evening at his residence, 31
Third street. Air. Kalb was born In Hesse-Darmstadt,
and rame to this country In 1843, settling in
Allegheny, where he has resided ever since. He
leaves two children, JohK Kalb and Mrs. Marv
Huneck. Mr. Kalb was n direct descendant o'f
the ilaron De Kalb, or revolutionary fame. The
luncral will take place to-morrow, from his late
residence, at 3:30 r. u.
Obituary Notes.
COLONEL Henut T. Moble died at Dixon, III.,
Wednesday. Hehad justcloscda term as Mayor.
O. J. SARGENT, cashier of the First .National
JSank, of Downs, Kau., died suddenly "Wednes
day. Hxyden S. Bingham, ex-member or the In
diana Legislature, died in Indianapolis Thurs
day. Mas. JIOOUE, wife of M. V. Moore, or the
Grove City Telephone died last night of pneu
monia, brought rnby the grip.
Mits. SAItAllScisCO.whodled at Grafton, Mass.,
on Monday, was the last descendant of the Hos
sanainisco tribe of Indians in the town.
KZV. Charles W. Barr&tt, Proressor of His
torical Theology in the Garrett Biblical Institute,
at Evanston. 111., died early yesterdav mornlue
of Bright's disease.
FATHER ATKINSON, who iilsbop Bowman says
is the oldest Methodist preacher in the United
States, died at his home at Benton Harbor, Mich.,
Wednesday afternoon.
JUDGE J. H. Lisdlet who served with distinc
tion on tbe St. Lonls circuit bench, died at Ne
vada, Mo., Thursday, ofheart disease He moved
to Kansas City from St. Louis two years ago.
MRS. J. W. EadkaC sister-in-law or General
AdamBadeau, tbe historian, died at her home in
Jersey Cltr, Wednesday, aged 65 years. She for
many years was the matron of llm."a retreat
for ministers, at Ocean Grove.
Mrs. Kobcut Oerman, one of the old-time res
idents along the Monongahela river, died last
night of tbe grip. She was the mother or Deputy
Sheriff William German, of Pittsburg, and re
sided at Dravosburg for the past 49 years.
EIV. KALI'H WILLABD Allen, D. D., the old
est continuous member of the New England An
nual Conference of the M. E. Chureli. died at his
home in Kast Bostju Thnr&'Uy inornln;. He was
born In Knlleld, Conn., February 10, 1S12, and
preached 53 years.
MOSES 1'irER, an old slave, hat recently a lect
urer, died at the Boston City Hospital Wednesday.
After, ttie old man's death lhe dog found the mat
tress upon. which he died, lay down upon It, and
refused to If are It. One ot the hospital doctors
ha; taken charge of tbe faithful beuot,
OUR MAIL POUCH.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
. In your reference In The Dispatch to my
communication on tbe subject of taxation, and
published in the same Issue, you take occasion
to state tbat my argument for the single tax on
land values cannot be joined to the argument
of Mr. Lea against tbe taxation of personal
property and industry, without logical vio
lence. My remarks, I admit, were made in a general
way, and were intended to apply a broad truth
as well as to carry the argument of Mr. Lea to
Its logical conclusion by emphasizing tbe gen
eral principle tbat any taxation of capital or
industry, of labor or the products of labor,
tends to restrict production; and that tbe re
stricting of production serves to decrease both
the economic and tbe exchange value of land;
that the taxation of land values, instead of re
stricting prodnctioc, stimulates It and tends
to increase the economic value of land
while it decreases its exchange value. If it
be possible to show tbat increase in the ex
change valne of land operates otherwise than as
an impediment to production,! w 111 give over tbe
case. This will be difficult to do, however, if It
be borne in mind that "every increase In tbe
exchange value of land is at tbe expense of tbe
value of labor."
With reference to my assertion as to tbe
amount of revenue that could be raised by tax
ing, at tbe existing rate, the full value ot the
land within our city, and exempting all Im
provements, I beg leavo to submit a demonstra
tion based upou official estimates fur tbe city
of Buffalo. I should be glad if you conlrt find
space in your columns lor a synopsis of this
statement. I should also be pleased if it could
be shown how this method applied to our own
city would produce materially different results.
J. B. UHABPZ.
PrrrsuuKG, April 17.
The statement furnished by Mr. Sbarpe
shows bow the exemption of improvements iu
Buffalo would affect tbe tax rate there. The
tabulated showing Is thus summarized:
Present assessed valuation of real
and personal property. 1157,503,
780. City lax levied...!.!.. ... t2,2!8,ia
Total actual land value (selling or
market value) exclusive or all
Improvements, according to
Board or Assessor's estimates... 250,0,280
Total actual land value (selling or
maraet value) exclusive or all
improvements, according to
Mooney Uro.'s estimate 344,031,971
Present tax rate on SLOW or as
sessed valuation S14 14
Tax rate according to Assessor's
estimate, with all improvements
exempt 8 59
Tax rate according to Mooncy&
Bro.'s estimates, with all Im
provements exempt t 50
This demonstrates that we could take the taxes
off all our Improvements, and. Instead of being
obliged to Increase the tax rate as a consequence,
we conld reduce the present rate 40 per cent, ac
cording to the Assessor's estimates, and 60 per
cent according to Mr. Mooney's estimates.
The foregoing summary is tbe language of
the circular, which was issued by tbe Buffalo
Tax Reform Club. Ed.
The Tax Problem.
To tbe Editor of Tho Dispatch)
In your leading article of Monday, answer
ing your Single Tax correspondent, you say:
As to our correspondent's assertion tbat the
single tax on land In the city would support all
the expenses of government. It is only necessary
to remark that If the single tax policy was ap
plied, of exempting all Improvements on land,
including street and sewer assessments, and the
taxes paid for along course of years In support
ing the city government, with interest thereon.
It Is doubtful irthe rental value or the remainder
would support a single fire engine.
This statement as It stands is not very clear
to me. Possibly I am very dull, and I would
respectfully ask of The Dispatch a little
more explanation.
Do you mean to say that tbe vast rental re
ceived for ground rents in the city of Pittsburg,
which now goes to parties who are thus en
abled to live iu idleness at tbe expense of the
busy toilers of our city, would be nil not
enough, as you express it, to snpport a single
fire eneine in case this rent was taken by the
community for its own use? You certaiuly can
not mean that, for how would a change of
landlords make anv difference in the
amount of the rent? But I notice you
qualify this by exempting street and
.sewor assessments and tbe taxes paid for a
long course of years, with the interest thereon,
as part of tbe single tax plan. Is it true tbat
the single tax people propose to exempt these
itemsT That is, if I understand you, deduct
them from the rental value of the lots and take
the balance only for publlo use: and tbat not
once only, but year after year? I cannot think
you mean this, though you seem to say so. Un-
uer sucn a pian i. agree witn you mat mere
would' not be enough left fur the city to sup
port a fine engine, nay, not so much as would
sumce to nuy a "yajier aog."
But are you sure tbat our single tax friends
advocate any such wild scheme as this? Trust
ing you will make this matter a little clearer, I
remain, MZXDICA Rex.
Pittsburg, April 16, 1S9L
Wants a Down-Town Site.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I see tbe Library Committee is about to ac
cept the Schenley Park entrance site fpr tbe
main building of tbe Carneeie Free Library. I
am a heavy taxpayer, and a3 tbe city assumes
tbe expense of maintaining tbe library, I would
like to see It located In a section wbere it wonld
be of greatest public benefit. If tbe Schenley
Park site is cbosen owing to its cheapness, and
the more Important fact tho utility of tbe
library is overlooked, then It might be a
question as to whether the city is bettering
itself by maintaining this ornamental structure
in its suburbs. If wo want the library as a
palatial building to adorn tbe park entrance. It
might seem proper to place it there. But wbat
do we want a library fur? A tree library is for
tbe masses, and should be placed in a section
where tho railroads, street cars and traction
lines center. Tho idea ot locating the maiu
institution iu such a remote quarter is some
thing beyond ordinary comprehension. How
long will it be before all the transportation
facilities center at Schenley Park? A casual
glance at tbe topographical outline of the city
proves it utterly impracticable at any time. It
would seem, thon, that cheapness is the prime
motive for locating tbe main library at
Schenley Park. If such is tbe case, why not
choose a site on tbe Monongahela or Allegheny
wharves,. which would cost tbe city nothing?
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
Exposition Society have done It, and the city
should have aright to do likewise. .
Pittsburg, April 18. Taxpayer.
t A Ballot Reform Suggestion,
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
It appears to me tbat tbe objection raised
agaiust the Baker ballot bill, namely, "that it
will not prevent repeating." can easily be
guarded against by publishing a list of tbe
names of tboso voters who diu cast their ballots.
Such a list would have to appear in the papers
on the morning following the election. If this
measure were adopted every citizen would read
the list referring to his precinct. The number
ot votes found in tbe box and;reoorted, and the
number of names published, must tally. And if
any citizen wbo did not vote found his name
among those of tbe actual voters, the fraud
would immediately bo discovered. Considering
the damage done to the country by fraudulent
elections the additional expense caused by the
publication of the names is a mere pittance.
Pittsbuko, April 17. Baker Bill.
The writer is evidently unacquainted with
the newspaper business. A list such as be pro
poses would fill many extra pages of the aver
age journal, and a sufficient force of com
positors could not be obtained to put it iu type
for publication tho morning after election.
Hence tbe plan is not feasible. Ed.
As to Scrap Books.
To the Editor orThe Dispatch:
I desire to make a collection of newspaper
clippings. Can you advise me how to proceed?
What size of scrap book must I have? When
an article is too long to go n one page without
cutting, how must I proceed? Keystone.1 )
Pittsbuko, April 17.
First secure your newspapers. Scrap books
of a self-sticking variety iiid recognized size
can be found at nearly all bookstores. Cut tbe
garment according to the cloth, or, in other
words, cut tbe article to tit the page and con
tinue it iu book form to tbe next if lengthy.
He lias a Site.
To the Editor offhe Dispatch:
I see an article in to-day's issue In regard to
the inability ot tbe Library Committee to find
a down-town property for less than from
$300,000 to Sl.000,000. If they tako tho trouble to
inquire thev can li.id one place on Sixth ave
nue 120x125 or 130, that can bo purchased
for "from Ji'OO.OOO to K5U.0I 0 a: most, and greater
nidtu, I believe, could bo obtained for a
reasonable amount. AX INQUIRES.
Pittsburg, April 17.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Kindly inform me why Washington's Birth
day was changed from the 11th day of Feb
ruary to the 22d. CONSTANT READER.
Pittsburg, April 17.
lOn acconnt ot the change from tbe Julian to
tbo Uregonan calendar.
No to tho Fir-it, Yes to tho Lust.
To the l"d!tor or ThelHspatch:
' Is it necessary for a lady to go with a gentle
man to get a niarriago license if tbe lady is of
age? Also, is tbe marriage legal if one is not a
Christian? ' REAPEB.
PlTISBUBO. April 17. ,,
SOOTETT LNTHB SPRING:
Interesting Events In the Social tVor)
rid,
Past and to Come.
At the Waverloy Literary Society entertain
ment last evening, at tbe Allegheny High
School, the Scbmertz Orchestra sought to as
sist tho performers by rendering for the initial
number an overture, "Encouragement,'' hut it
was an unnecessary precaution. The young
folks were more than equal to the occasion,
and reflected credit upon thenuelves and tbeir
society. J. Charles Sherrlff, tbe President,
with all the dignity assumed by tbe highest
official of a school literary society, presided as
master or ceremonies dnring the evening, and
delivered the opening address, a masterniece
of high school eloqnence. Samuel B. Stewart
distinguished himself and gave evidence of
pianistic skill in a piano solo, "Hunting
Chorus." An original poem, "A Library
Party." by Miss Bessie Cowley, afforded an op
portunity for tbat young lady to interview the
departed spirits of numerous literary im
mortals." among tbem Walter Scott, after whose
novels tbe society is named," who naturally ex.
pressed himself mnch pleased with the organiza
tion. J. Charles Snerriff rendered a piano solo,
"Alpine Storm."
The debate wbo eer beard of a society
meeting vtithout a debare ? was inanlged in
hy D. L. Patterson, afiltmative, and II. G.
Fleck, negative, on "Resolved, Tbat a Re
public Is a Better Form of Government Than a
Monarchy." Mr. Patterson cleverly avoided
points upon which the Republic might be con
sidered shaky just at the present time, and Mr.
Fleck discovered all such. The decision was
an Individual one. The society paper, tbe
Waverley Review, was read by GeorgeU). Mc
Grow. and was, according to tbe statement of
tbe editor, anything but a newspaper.
The entertainment concluded with "The
Queen of Fame," in which numerous charac
ters famons in tbe world's history were per
mitted a bearing with tbe Queen of Fame, and
allowed to press tbeir claim for the crown.
Miss Amelia Hill assumed tbe queenly role in
place of Miss- Luella Crawford, who was 111.
Among her visitors Mrs. Partington and Ike
were tbe most interesting and amusinsr,
especially Ike Master Bassett who managed
by bis nonsense to keep the andience
in ripples of laucbter throughout
the entire scene. The crown was
bestowed upon Louise M. Alcott. Tbe charac
ter impersonations and tbe costnmes were
historically correct, or nearly so. Tbe young
ladies wbo took part were Misses Emma M.
Basset, Marie A. Lewis, Daisy M. Harbison,
Llbbie H. Smith, Marian B. Jackman, Nellie'
Marqul. Carrie Lusk. E. Mane Ktsenbeis,
Grace Scott, Mollie Seitz, Marie H. Orr, Nellla
K. Kubns.
Over 700 persons assembled at Turner Hall,
Allentown, last night, to witness an entertain
ment given for tbe benefit of the picnic fund
of the Allen School. Songs, recitations and
drills were rendered by pupils of the school.
Tbe quaintest feature of the" evening was a doll
drill, executed by 16 little girls, whose ages did
not exceed 10 years. Tbelr efforts proved a
perfect snecess, a did all tbe other numbers of
the programme. Unlike other performances of
the kind, nothlnc "went wrong," owing to tbe
perfection to which tbe teachers of tbe Allen
School had taught and rehearsed the number.
The entertainment will be repeated to-morrow
night with a somewhat different programme.
A combination social at the Sixth Presby
terian Chnrcb, last evening, was a unique but
wholly enjoyaDle affair. The "I. P. S. C. E. of
both the Sixth and tbe Southside Presbyterian
Churche joined force', and to promote socia
bility and become acquainted with each other,
held tbeir social together. Preceding the so
ciability programme a literarv and musical en
tertainment was enjoyed. Instrumental and
vocal music, with recitations, rendered by pop
ular and prominent talent, among them Messrs.
English, Donaldson, Westerville and Misses
Chalmers and Tenor made tbe early part of the
eveninsr. as enjoyable as was the latter, which
concluded with a tip-top luncheon.
Ltbbartait Stevenson, with bis usual wis
dom, is making arrangements to accommodate
all lovers and readers of French literature by
ordering for tho library between 400 and 500
books in that language. Mr. Stevenson him
self is exceptionally well posted on the merits
of French works, and havlnz called to bis as
sistance Charles Fayes, LL. D of Allegheny, a
native of Paris, and a man ot extended knowl
edge, the result of their combined information
will naturally bo a list of books including tbe
very best works on science, religion, history,
travels, biographies, essays and belle letters.
The forty-ninth free organ recital at Carnegie
Hall this afternoon will be, as usnal, interest
ingand instructive. The vocal music will be fur
nished by Miss Mary Finney, a pupil of Thomas
Kirk. Organist Wales' selections will Include
potpourris from Maritana," 'Pinafore."
waltzes by Strauss. Heyer and Guns), and tbe
usnal number of minuets and lighter selections.
A fins programme is assured for the fiftieth,
free organ recital next Saturday.
A PARLOR concert, which inaugurated a
series, was given last evening at the residence
of Mrs. Haslett, of Bnena "Vista street, Alle
gheny, for the benefit of the Central Presby
terian Church. A quartet composed of Misses
Jessie McDonald, Gertrude Hamilton and
Messrs. Percy Hagan and Will Hampton ren
dered some excellent mnslc. and piano and
vocal solos were given by Miss Lizzie Strauss
and Mr. John Strauss.
A OAY party of young Pittsburgers boarded
the.tralu for Beaver, last evening, and enjoyed
the concert given there in College Hall, under
the directorship of William II. T. Oborn. A
classical programme of pleasing merit was out
lined for the evening, and the performers in
cluded manyyoung ladies well known in this
city, and several of them residents. Miss
Myrtle Stuart officiated as. accompanist.
Miss Elizabeth Porter, of Butler, is mak
ing an extended visit to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Dickson tbat is not as fnll of enjoyment as
uch visits usually are. Some days ago Miss
Porter stopped over in Pittsburg on her way
from New York for a brief stay with her
friends, but she immediately became a victim
of the prevailing disease, the grip, from which
she has not yet recovered.-
THE Linden Clubhouse is seldom lonesome it
an evening; indeed, there are few evenings
tbat its apartments and corridors are not filled
with pleasure-seekers, either of the progressive
euchre or terpsichorcan class. Tbe latter held
full sway last evening, and with excellent
music tbe hours passed but too rapidly.
Social Chatter.
Mb. JonN L. Winslow, son of Dr. W. H.
Winslow, craduated at tbe Jefferson Medical
Col'ege, Philadelphia, Wednesday.
A select tea party will be given for the
benefit ot the St. Gaorge's R. C. schools at
Turner Hall,Allentowu, next Wednesday even
ing. The new pastor of tho Allegheny North
Avenue M. E. Church. Rev. James T. Satchel!,
was given a pleasing reception Thursday even
ing by Mr. and Mrs. Will Price.
TnE Deaconness' Home on Dinwiddle street
will soon be ready for Its formal opening. A
day next week may bo selected on which the
formal bow to the public will be made by the
Home.
Jajies E. Brown, of Sonth Highland ave
nue, who has been attending school at New
Haven, Conn- preparatory to the Yale course,
sails for France July 5 in order to perfect his
studies in tbe French language.
Rev. C. E. Locke, who has just returned
from a tbree w eeks' vacation spent on the battle
fields ot the South, delivered a very entertain
ing lecture last evening in tbo Hinithfild M. E.
Church, of which he Is pastor, on "Vacation
Observations in War Territory."
Let "Well Enough Alone.
St. Louis Republic
Tbe new Constitution of Kentucky does not
suit anyone, not .even tba men who made it.
They left It unsigned, and tho people are likely
to leave it unadopted. All of which, after
months of talk and of heavy expenditures, goes
in further demonstration of tbe fact that the
most unsatisfactory way to mend a good Con
stitution is to rip it to pieces.
Pretty Nearly Correct.
New VorK World.
In any State with so loose an election law as
Pennsylvania has. the man or the party that op
poses ballot reform may be set down as wanting
to profit by corruption.
A Pointer for Solons.
Philadelphia Times.)
Chicago Is going earnestly to work, through
the Stale Legislature, for tbe 3-eent car fare
for "standing room only." and Is likely to got It
upou tho statue book. Our own State Repre
sentative wouldn't lessen tbelr claim upon tbe
gratitude ot their constituents If tbey would go
and do likewise.
AN OLD LETTER.
Only a sheet or paper, old and yellow.
And worn with reading all these 30 years,
Bnt still the woman guards it as her treasure
The old love-letter, dimmed with many tears.
She. only, understands the lover's message:
No si ranker ejes can rpad the writing dim:
Slichoi'li It nearer to her heart, ami dearer
Than e'en the "miniature she has of hlui.
SliQ is a woman, irravo and sweet and lender.
Her hair sndw-while. her ores no longer clear.
And be? rot manr years ha has been sleeping
Beneath tbe-grasses In the ehnrehrard near.
S-Wrriet Crocter, , in Jftnten, XrantcripW
CDKI0DS CONDENSATIONS.
Chicago is to have a card factory the
first in the West.
Thers Is only one sudden death among
women to every eight men.
A 104-year-old woman oi" South Carolina
is cutting ber fourth set of teetb.
Bengalore. India, cotton operatives get
10 cents a day, 12 hours and work every day.
A Dorlestown, Pa., man claims to be
able to suck four and a half dozen raw eggs la
one and a ball minutes.
A boy was arrested in Philadelphia re
cently for stealing bis sister's wedding ring the
day beforo the ceremony.
In proportion to population and busi
ness, Kansas bas more miles of railroads than
any other State in tbe Union.
Meat had become so scarce and dear
lately in Berlin tbat butchers were importing
Rnsslan reindeer for the market.
An Indiana man who was an inveterate
cigarette smoker died recently, and a short
time after death his body turned a livid gLeeu.
It ap'pears by the Cuban census, which
has just been taken, that there are now nearly
60,000 Chinese men in Cuba and only 84 Chinese
women.
It is a mistake to suppose tbat polar re
search bas cost enormously In human life. De
spite all tbe great disasters. 97 out of every 108
explorers have returned alive.
An Indiana man has left his wife and
a good deal of property, and bas written from
the mountains out West tbat he did so because
his wife was too good for bim.
A Corry, Pa., lady, injured by a fall
duo to a poor sidewalk, offered to settle ber
suit against the city for 200, but the city offi
cials insisted on the case going to court, and the
lady won a $2,500 verdict.
A pony on which a 2-year-old Omaha
Indian had been strapped ran away from the
camp near Beatrice. Neb., and was not cap.
tured for nearly two days. The boy was nearly
dead from fatigue and thirst.
It costs 51.500,000 a year to maintain the
foundling asylums of France. They havs the
capacity tor supporting 67,000 children, and it is
said that last year alone 25.000 children were
abandoned by their parents In tbe republic.
Boston papers show that SI corporations
in Fall River, with an aggregate of 518,000,000
capital, have earned during the year less than
2 per cent and in many Instances nothing at all,
and argue tbat labor has received its full share
of compensation.
The newest thing in tulips is a dull,
petaled flower, almost magenta in color.
Among the novelties recently shown at tbe
London flower show was this wonderful tulip
and a blue primrose, probably the first of tbat
color ever shown.
The comparative occurrence of the small
or "lower case" letters, in English fiction or
history, is as follows: r, 1; 1, V, q, x, 3; b, v, 7; z.
in. -.. IO. A , OA- t. in. t n
,o. s, 40; t, 43; e, 60: total, 532. Thesn ratios will
bo changed little in newspaper work.
A resident of Bay City, Mich., has a .
watch which was carried at the battle of Cullo
den. In Scotland, in 1715. It has been banded
down from father to son for four generations,
and belongs to tbe second series of timepieces
invented. It stiU keeps good time.
The clocks in large hotels and stations
in Paris are run on tbe pneumatic principle In
stead of the ordinary way. Once every minute
a puff of air comes from a central station
thronzh a tube, forcing tbe hands around, and
therefore the clocks do not need to be ever
wound.
Cuba seems destined to supplant Ber
muda as tho tract garden for this country.
Her potatoes and onions have already taken
precederce over those of Bermuda, and now
ber tomatoes aro taking first prize. This mar
ket gardening in Cuba is being largely directed
from New York.
At Mont-Dol, in Brittany, already well
known to geologists and palaeontologists, the
remains of about a hundred elephants have
been discovered, gathered on a small surface of
about 1,900 square meters. All the bones ara
broken, and it is thought tbat tbe animals must
bave been eateu by prehistoric men.
A street preacher in Dresden walks
about in a long, white woolen robe, sandals and
a wreath of green leaves on hi head. The po
lice Interfered, bnt be pointed out the cos
tumes of oarsmen, polo players and bicyclists,
and asked it hl3 own was not as decont and
proper. And bo won tbe case. "
Hebrew, it is said, is again becoming a,
living language In Palestine. The thousands
of the Chosen People who are going there
from different countries, being unable to com
municate with each other in tbeir ordinary
languages, resort to the knowledge which they
have ot Hebrew in their religious services for
a means of communication.
At Baalbac, in Syria, the traveler sees
at the quarry nearly ready to be moved from
the pillars that support it, a dressed stona 71 by
14 by 13 feet In size, containing 12.922 cubic
feet. And tho stone hai waited more than
2,000 years. There are four stones nearly as
large, which have been transported a mile or
more and put into tho foundations of tba tem
ple of the Sun.
There was an unearthly racket at the
New York and New England Railroad bridge
at Boston the other forenoon. The bridgs
keeper refnsed to open the draw for a number
of tugs that sought passage, remarking that
the draw was shut to stay till 1120. Thereupon
the tngs set up a mighty and ceaseless tooting,
numerous steamers in tbe vicinity scented fun
and joined tbeir shrill whistles to tbe chorus,
and at last the factories in the neighborhood
sent forth their hoarse blasts to swell the tumult
Ceaselessly tbe clamor grew, and at last the
stubborn man was sufficiently scared to let tba
procession throuch without a time limit.
A meteor, ignis fatuus, jack o'lanteru,
will o' thewijp, or whatever you may please to
call it, was seen by many persons in tbe neigh
borhood of Palatka, Fla. It was a round, dark
object, about as laree as a peck measure, seem
ingly full of augur holes, from which streams
ofblazlnir fire spit and sparkled, or a white or
electric appearance. It seemed to float in tho
air, sometimes near tbe eartb, and then as high
as tbe tree tops.- Some parties tried to get to it.
and it would first advance to meet tbem. then
take a sudden turn and leave tbem. A second
one was seen lying upon tho ground when No.
1 passed over it a few feet, both converginginto
one then passed off over the waters of Dark
lake and were lost to view in tbe hazy atmos
phere. A farmer of "Williamsbridge, on the
northern outskirts of New York City, ploughs
his land with a horse and a mule harnessed to
gether. The mule has a hairless stnbbed tail, a
drooping ear and a dead eye. But wbat ho lacks
In personal appe'aranca ha richly makes up in
sagacity. Tho other morning, shortly after
dawn, the farmer found that both horse and
mule bad been stolen out of tbe stable during
the night. After breakfast time tbe mule limped
bomcf traveling, for the most part, on threa
les. One of his rear fetlocks was badly
sprained, and his Hns were flecked with blood
as though be bad been trying to chew some
thing too tough for ordinary mastigatljig pow
ers. Almost at the same honr a sorry looking
man with a 820 bill in bis pocket was arrested as
a suspicious person by the Carmansville police.
He was covered with cnts and bruises, which ha
accounted for by saying tbat be bad been
knocked down by a runaway horse, crushed by
the wheels of tbe wagon behlrd it. and manglea
bv a dog that was pursuing the turnout, Xba
farmer suspects that tbe man was In contact
with both ends of hia mule, and that tbe 5Z0 ara
tbo proceeds of a cheap horse sale.
CLOWHS' C0EHEB.
Iiawyer "What is your occupation? .
TVJtuess-I live by mr pen.
Lawyer-Then you are an author?
Wltness-No,Iralsehogs.-i'Aao;fpfttaTfnMf.
The egotist is the modern Cyclops. He
has one big "I" in bu head. Washington Port,
TRUTH.
"Who killed the grip?
I, old Sol did say,
YUthmyllttleray,
I killed the grip.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Bereaved "Widow Why, doctor, you bava
the eflrontery to charge me ta for treating my
poor de'ar husband, and be died, after all.
Poctor-Well, didn't you collect 23,000 Bfe In
surance? The Epoch.
"Why did rich Miss Crcesus refuse the
hand or ypnng Charley Poor?
She had an Idea somehow that her areenbaek
rortune wouldn't ico very well with his aahara
complexion." Judge.
Mrs. Greyneck Now, just see what you
have done. X told you to watch those robbers,
and when they wer dry to take them away from
the lire: and here they are, burned to a perfect
crlp.
Sir. arevneck I want to know!
Mrs. Orcyneck-Yoa want to know?- Can't
yon s.nell anythlns? 1 smelt them a block down
the street.
Mr. fnTTiMkOh. nil I smelt them, but I
thought Dudelelgh upstairs was smoking a elf at
etle.lloiton Courur. r
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