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PITTSBURG. WEDNESDAY. APR. 22. 1891-
THE REPUBLICAN CLCBS.
The gathering or Republican clubs at
Cincinnati opeued yesterday with a great
deal ot vigor. The young Republican cle
ment is putting itself in evidence with tell
ing force, and is showing its determination
to retrieve in 1S92 the reverses of last year,
or, if they cannot do that, to go down with
living colors. The address of President
Thurston, summarized elsewhere, recapitu
lates the identification of the Republican
party with the protective policy. A promi
nent feature of the convention is the pres
ence of about 1,500 young Republican
workers, filled to the chin with fidelity to
protection and prepared to show their faith
by their works.
The only point on which the harmony of
the gathering can be disturbed that which
may make it none the less lively is
whether it will be an uninterrupted boom
for Blaine or not At present all the hur
rahing seems to be for the Plumed Knight;
but there is talk of getting in some
work for Alger by making Clarkeon the
President of the League. The convention
will, of course, extend the regular and
formal indorsement to the Harrison admin
istration. Perhaps an even division ot
honors may be made by adding an indorse
ment of reciprocity for Blaine, of the tariff
law for McKinley, and giving Clarkson his
situation as a tail to the Alger whale. But
that distribution of favors all around may
be more unsatisfactory than more positive
action.
At all events, the gathering indicates
that the Republican clubs are in vigorous
condition and determined to make a record
for themselves in 1892.
TAKDY JUSTICE.
The restoration of Commander Reiter, of
the navy, to active service alter a lapse
of some months, is an act of tardy and
grauging justice to a deserving officer. His
removal after the Barrundia affair was evi
dently due to the imagined necessity of the
administration to find an additional scape
goat to get it out of its muddle. As Con
gressman Dalzell clearly showed in his
speech on the subject, there was no reason
for this action, and it simply amounted to
sacrificing a worthy officer for the sake of
politics. Commander Reiter will resume
command without loss of reputation or re
spect among those who have any knowledge
of the case.
A MISTAKEN STEP.
The latest phase of the coke strike is the
report from two sources, yesterday, that
Pinkerton guards have been brought into
the region to gnard the works against rioters.
This step The Dispatch cannot but regard
as a departure Irom the line of action which
should govern such cases.
It is, of course, no such infraction of the
law as riotons attacks on coke works or the
use ot explosives. Those who criticise the
employment of such guards must bear in
mind that no slight provocation has been
given by the preceding disorder and resort
to force. But it is no less clear that the
work of preserving order and enforcing the
law should be left in the hands of the reg
ular State authorities. The resort to irre
sponsible guards from other States, who
represent only the employers, is not keeping
within the principles ot republican govern
ment. The employers should look exclusively to
the State for protection to their property and
those who work for them. If the State does
not do its lull duty in this respect, all who
suffer from the neglect will have a valid
claim to recover full damages.
THE OTHER WAY.
An illustration of the tendency to class
every measure proposed in "Western Legis
latures to protect popular rights against
corporate abuses as "radical and injurious"
is afforded by a press dispatch on the close
of the Minnesota Legislature. In it the
bill providing that any person may build
an elevator ou tbe line of railroad mentioned
as one of that class came within three rotes
of passage.
Now the right to do this not only appears
in natural reason, but has been supported by
high authority at common law. Nothing
in law can restrict the right of any indi
vidual to erect au elevator for the storage
and handling of grain, nor is there in the
charters ol railways any provision giving
them the monopoly of elevating the grain
they transport any more than of rolling the
iron or mining tbe coal transported in the
section affected.
But the natural ripht is not all in this
connection. The bill may be presumed to
have made provisions requiring a railroad
to transport grain to any point from each
elevator on equal terms with its own. This
might strike the corporate mind as radical,
but it happens to have been the principle
laid down by high authority at common
law. Tbe Supreme Court of Illinois in
two cases before the days of granger legisla
tion held, in the language of Chief Justice
Lawrence, that if a railway should dis
criminate between elevators it would be
"peculiarly defiant of its obligation as a
common carrier." Such practice, tbe Court
said, "might result in a system of organized
monopolies in the most important articles of
commerce," which it has done by the prac
tice of the railways in ignoring the princi
ple', of law enunciafed in this decision.
Exactly the same principle was declared in
the United States Circuit Court long before,
with relerence to giving all business of rail
ways to a favorite stock yards company, and
Judge Baxter declared in his terse language
that the railways "possess no such power to
kill and make alive."
A legislature which will not enforce a
right so plainly vested In natural rights and
the common law should be accused, not of
a tendency toward radical and injurious
legislation, but of subservience to corporate
abuses.
A FALSE POLICY.
The latest phase ot the situation on ballot
reform is that the conference between the
legislative leaders and Senator Quay de
cided that tbe Baker ballot reform bill be
defeated. In its place the proposition is to
pass tbe Robinson bill, which takes a Con
stitutional convention so much for granted
that it is proposed to elect the delegates for
it before it is known whether the convention
is approved or not.
Tn other words, the course mapped oat is
to repudiate the Republican pledge of last
year by defeating a measure which can
easily be made to secure practical ballot re
form without any delay. Such course nej&s
sarily suggests the inspiration of one or both
of two motives. First, to secure an indefi
nite postponement of a reform which might
weaken the control of political managers
over voters in various quarters, and, second,
to afford the pretext for assembling a Con
stitutional convention that may be able to
emasculate the salutary provisions of the
Constitution with regard to municipalities
and corporations.
Some of the more indiscreet Democrats
have given a sort of excuse for this action
by attacking the Baker bill, and refusing to
be satisfied with anything short of a con
vention. Bnt it is none the less true that
this course shows that the platform pledge
of ballot reform was not worth the paper it
was written on, and that the Republican
management is juggling with the public
If the Constitutional Convention scheme
goes much further it will afford a very good
basis for a popular movement on the plat
form that the present Constitution shall be
maintained and enforced in all its essential
provisions.
THE GENERAL AND JUDGE.
"Were it not for the prominence of the
persons involved, the Boston court trouble
would hardly be worthy of comment, but as
one of them has a national reputation, both
as lawyer and soldier, a few words seem
necessary. Judging from the story pub
lished in another column, both the General
and the Judge am in the wrong. The
former presumes entirely too much on his
acknowledged reputation, while the latter
mistakes stubbornness for firmness and
hauteur for judicial dignity. Tbe affair Is
a disgrace to both.
It is hard to determine which should bear
the greate.- blame. The Judge might, with
out compromising the true dignity of his
position, have remembered that the General
is now an old man, and, always peppery, is
even less able to control his temper than
when he was younger. Tbe General might
have remembered the courtesy due a Judge,
and guided himself accordingly. In either
case, there was a display of childishness in
compatible with the positions of the dis
putants. As an example for young lawyers the
affair does not show up well, but there is a
hope that the most immature disciple of
Blackstone knows what is due his profession
and himself better then does either the
General or the Judge.
THE CAUSE OFKEVOLT.
The statement of Rev. "W. J. Cleveland,
at a meeting in New York, vith regard to
the cause of the Sioux outbreak, gives ad
ditional weight to what was fully estab
lished before. The trouble was clearly
caused by tbe destitution inflicted on them
by the incompetent if not corrupt manage
ment of Indian affairs. The political
methods which hare heretofore held sway
in Indian affairs resulted in cutting down
the ration to one-third its original volume,
and then causing a further shrinkage by
buying cattle in the fall and taking such
poor care of them that they fell off in
weight thirty to forty per cent That such
practices should result in driving a lot of
savages into revolt is not singular. If this
great nation cannot make its agents fulfill
its obligations on the basis of common
honesty the blame for far more costly out
breaks must rest on our politics, and not
on the ignorant savages who are driven
into revolt by starvation.
It is interesting to observe in the newest
exponent of civilization, the New York Re
corder, a contribution giving a sure cure for
warts, as follows: "Take a piece ot fat meat
from the pan; rub each of tbe warts with it;
thenhide tbe fat under a stone. When the
meat has decayed tbe warts will hare disap
peared." Tbe absolute necessity of taking the
fat meat from tbe pan instead of the skillet is
not more ixrpressire than tbe requirement of
hiding it under a stone. What disasters might
occur if tbe fat meat was burled in gravel is not
stated; but the mind recoils with horror from
tbe freaks the warts might perpetrate If a stray
dog should turn the stone over and eat the
meat
The superstition which raises a riot in
Benares because a Hindoo shrine is to be dis
turbed for the construction of water-works,
and the blowing up of water works in the coke
regions on account of a wage dispute, approach
each other more nearly on a level than tbe old
est superstition and tbe newest civilization
would be expected to come.
Ben Butler's visit to New Orleans
should be postponed nntil tbe Italian business
is lully over. It will not do to overwork the
mob.
There is a surprising display of Bour
bonism in the criticism of tbe New York Fast
on the assertion of tbe President that 'The
Confederate soldier has a lull, honorable and
ungrndged participation in all tbe benefits of a
great and just Government." The Foil objects
to this. It believes every Confederate soldier
is absolutely debarred Irom holding any posi
tion in the United States. The idea thataman
does not sbare the benefits of a Government
because he cannot have a place in any army
bearing a proportion to the population of one
to 2,500,000 indicates that tbe JPost has tempo
rarily got down to tbe most extreme and stupid
level of pro-slavery irreconcilability.
The New York JForfd thinks that a
rarer thing than a day in June, of which tbe
poet speaks, is a June day in April such as
j-havo been experienced lately. But some people
who have enjoyed the late weather will be
cynical.
Northern clubs are more effective than
Southern handshakes in paving the way lir
Republican National Conventions.
The Socialist labor legislation of Ger
many has developed the idea of punishing
laborers who leave employers without notffce,
but imposes nasimllar obligations on the em
ployers. This will be regarded as an idiosyn
crasy of imperial socialism; but what is to pre
vent similar features from developing in any
sort of established socialism?
It would not be singular if "Webster
Flanigan. of Texas, who has achieved addi
tional fame as the worst-defeated candidate on
record for Governor of that State, bad utilized
the late opportunity to ask what it was there
for.
The esteemed Chicago Herald thinks the
law ot Pennsylvania to prohibit profane swear-
ing is modeled on the blue laws of Connecticut.
If so, it is a blue law which appears iu the
statutes of all the older States, and was in
cluded In English law as tar back as the time
of Elizabeth. It is only in the bonndless and
untrammeled West that the privilege of filling
tbe cirenm-ambient air with profanity is re
garded as a part of tbe bill of rights.
Peaches and politicians are expected to
be a big crop this year in Delaware and East
ern Maryland. It that region sends us plenty
of peaches it can keep its politicians for strict
ly home consumption.
Baseball players are not the only ones
who will strike ont on the 1st of May, judging
from present indications.
Some months ago The Dispatch pointed
out that when tbe stancbest and most impreg
nable ship of tbe new navy was launched the
proper name for it would be tbe Pittsburg.
The proposition was received with much public
favor at the time. We are glad to see that the
approval of the idea has produced the effect of
inducing some of our esteemed cotemporaries
to fall into line lu its advocacy.
Sixty-five millions is to be spent to
give Manchester, England, a 120-foot canal to
the sea; and yet we hesitate over a 30,000,000
canal to give Western Pennsylvania, greater
advantages.
Blaine seems to be all right at Cincin
nati. He's strictly in it so far.
It is interesting to find our Eastern
cotemporaries lamenting tbe fact that Senator
Hearst's son has decided to sell his father's
racing stable and devote his attention to build
ing np his newspaper, the San Francisco Ex
aminer. Tbe Eastern idea is to tbe effect that
almost any man can produce a great newspaper,
but that the man who owns a great racer is
truly a benefactor to mankind.
There is a suspicion that, after Bis
marck's effort in the line of a candidate fo
popular election, be has the experience and
the fellows who persuaded him to run have the
money.
The April showers which are supposed to
bring May flowers are overdue.
The action of the Interior Department in
indefinitely postponing tbe opening to entry of
tbe new lands in Northern Wisoonsin because
the lumbermen were threatening a riot is weak
and inconsequent The United States ought
by an effort of tbe imagination to regard itself
as strong enough to open new lands for entry
and eep the peaoe while the process Is going
on.
Before Mr. Ingalls gets through with
his spring plowing he will be apt to conclude
that tbe easy road to wealth by agriculture is a
dream that is not even iridescent.
Harrison is now giving the country a
sort of Texas stee -.
Italy's hindsight is a vast improvement
on ber foresight
A RAILROAD SOLD AT AUCTION.
The Mortgage on the Kansas City and South
ern Duly Foreclosed.
Kansas Citt, April 21. The Kansas City
and Southern Railway, one of John L Blair's
roads, was sold at public auction to-day at fore
closure sale.
The road was sold to satisfy a deed of trust
given the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company,
of New York, to secure $250,000 ot the road's
bonds.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Prime Bishop of Cracow, in Aus
trian Galicia, receives a revenu j of 200,000.
The Archbishop of Erlau, in Hungary,
has a yearly revenue which amounts to $275,000.
Senator Lyman R. Casey has returned"
to his borne at Jamestown, North Dakota, and
has vigorously entered into the work of secur
ing that State for the Republicans in 1892.
Governor Fotvle, of North Carolina,
who died suddenly last week, had been expect
ing to visit Princeton during commencement
Week to attend tbe 10-year reunion of his class.
Mrs. Koch, the wife of the famous Ger
man specialist, has tbe entire charge of her
husband's immenso correspondence, and per.
lorms her duties as secretary very success
fully. The Hon. Elaine Gurst and her sis
ters have started a novel undertaking In tbe
form of a mushroom farm, tbe proceeds of
which are for the support of a boys' evening
school.
Dr. George C. Lorimeb, the eminent
Baptist minister of Chicago, whose health
broke down suddenly several months ago. has
returned from Europe and resumed his pas
toral duties.
Isaac Pitman, the father of phonog
raphy, considering his 80 years of life, is indeed
a unique man. In bis habits be is an escetic,
for neither wine, beer nor spirits, flesh, fish
nor fowl passes his lips.
General Miles shaved off his mus
tache when be went to Fine Ridge, at tbe ex
pense of bis good looks; but be is now growing
a fresh one. It is explained that a man cannot
make himself understood by the Sioux unless
his upper lip is clean.
Mrs. Jennie M. Lozier, the new Pres
ident of Sorosls, is a physician herself, the wife
of a physician, and daughter-in-law of the
noted Clemcnce Lozier, one of the first women
physicians in America, She has given up her
practice and Is devoted to pbilantbropby.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Obituary Notes.
Robert MOOBE,the well-known cloth merchant
of the firm of Robert Moore & Co., Baltimore, died
Monday of heart failure.
John Young died at his home at Wurtemburg
on Monday at the are of 70 years. Tbe deceased
was a brother of Andrew Young otthls city.
Samcel L. Pettixgill, tbe well-known adver
tising aceut. died Saturday evening in Brooklyn,
of plcuro-pneumoula. He began Ule as a printer.
GENERAL A. L. BURDICK died Monday morn
ing. Twenty years ajro ho was in command of
the State inlfltla. He served as a Democrat in the
Legislature a number ot terms.
Mrs. anna B. Kirkpatrick, wife or William
II. Klrspatrlck and danchterof tbe late Peter
Grafi. of Bufialo Mills. Armstrong cdunty, died
yesterday at ber residence In Allegheny.
Mrs. Kate. O'Conxsll, widow of Charles
O'Connell. M. P., or the County Kerry, Ireland,
and last survlulng daughter of the "Liberator."
Daniel O'Connell, died Monday In Dublin.
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Coulson, mother
of DctectlTe Sol Coulson. took place at tbe Cen
tenary M. E. Church yesterday afternoon. The
cburcii was filled with mourning friends, and sev
eral very feeling adtiresses were made.
Mrs. Mary K.GOCUH, widow or John B.Gougb,
the temperance lecturer, died at Hillside farm. In
Boyiston, Monday, at tbe age of 71 years. The
Immediate cause of death was paralysis and she
naa neen neipiess ior borne monins past.
Mr. Marsh goooins. of East Boston, one of
the founders.Af the famous Atlantic Works,
known all over the conntry by shipbuilders and
others interested In marine business, died on
Saturday, aged St. Mr. Googtus was alsojargcly
Interested lu ships.
Charles Pierre Victor, Count Pajal. a
French soldier. Is dead. He was In the Crimean
campaign and commanded a brigade in the
Franco-German War. He was taken prisoner at
Metz and carried to Germany. He was also dis
tinguished as an artist.
Captain alfhokso E. Gordon died on San
day nlgutatHew Brunswick, S.J., at the age of
65. irom paralysis. He was United State s Mar
shal under President Cleveland, until compelled
by 111 health to resign In 1SS9. in 1873 be was
clerk or the Congress Committee on Manufact
ures. He was a war veteran and formerly a news
paper man.
Rev. Henry Darling, D. D Lu D., Presi
dent orHamllton College, Clinton. N. If.; died of
bronchitis at bis home in Clinton Monday morn
ing. Dr. Darling was born in Reading In 1823,
and graduated at Amherst in 1842. Among his
published works are "The Closer Walk" (ls62). ,
"Slavery and the War" (1863), "Conformity to
tho World" (1873) and ".Not Doing, but Receiv
ing" (1875).
Belgium has lost in the death of Joseph Marie
Constantly Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lcttenbove,
it most valuable historian. He was a member of
the Chamber of Deputies sluce the fall of the
Anctnan Cabinet. He was Minister of the Inte
rior from Julv. 1870. to December. 1871. In politics
a Conservative, he was so Impartial as a writer of
history that his political opinion was once a
mooted question In France.
IN SUN AND SHADOW.
Relics of La Grippe Crepe and Mourning
Garb Everywhere Bidding Against Her
self A New City by the Weigh Spring
Early Here Bads and Blossoms Notes
by the Topical Talker.
Happily, the death lists in tbe papers are
diminishing, and tbe returns of tbe Board of
Health show that the fatal reign ot la grippe is
coming to an end. But the epidemic has left
plenty of reminders of its devastating course.
There are certainly more women in mourning
in Pittsburg to-day than ever before. You can
see that for yourself if you will but watch the
crowd of pedestrians' gn Fifth avenue for a
quarter of an hour thisafternoon. The demand
for mourning goods, such as crepes, cashmeres,
Henrietta cloth, and India silks, in black, hag
been simply enormous, I was told at Home's
yesterday. In a corresponding degree, the sales
of bright-hued dresses and millinery, attuned
to the lively air of spring, are this year below
tbe average.
Yesterday nothing Impressed me more after a
couple of months' absence than tbe omnipres
ence of black attire aud pallid faces wberever I
went. It seems to me that after shaking-bands
with, say a couple of hundred people, I can't
remember a single individual, man or woman,
who did not have a Struggle more or less severe
with la grippe to tell of. There is nothing like
absence, be it ever so brief, to qualify one to
detect tbe changes In one's neighbors and ac
quaintances, and I am sorry to say that in
nearly every case it has been a chauga for the
worse that these faces have shown me. I have
not seen so many prominent cheek bones and
unwholesome complexions in Pittsburg before.
This is tbe truth, and a sad witness it is to tbe
affliction of our city of late.
Bidding Against Herself.
There was a great congregation of farmers'
wives and country folk at a sale of furniture in
an Edgenortb boarding bouse the other day,
and the auctioneer enjoyed some novel sensa
tions. For instance ha offered an ironing board
for sale, and a nice little old lady started in
with a hid of twenty-fire cents.
"Twentj-tivo cents bid; who says thlrtyf"
said the auctioneer.
Tbe little old lady nodded ber head In reply
and of course the auctioneer went on: "Thirty
cents bid who says tbirty-flvef '
Nobody but the little old lady hankered for a
second-hand ironing board, it appeared, for she
alone responded to the auctioneer's appeal
with a nod, and again tbe price went up:
Thirty-five bid; who says forty!"
The original bidder, unlearued In auction
sale lore, was determined to bave the. board
and again raised her own figure S cents. The
auctioneer inhumanly corking up his amuse
ment kept repeating the formula till tbe dear
little old lady bad bid up the price to fl 25.
When he could no longer keen bis face straight
the ironing board was knocked down at
SI 25 to tbe sole contestant for its possession,
who vias greatly excited and pers&iring freely
after the desperate struggle with herself.
Weigh Out of Sight
The day Chicago express on the Wabash
route was running gayly north the other morn
ing when from under the spring bonnet of a
pretty St. Louis bride, who was enjoying tbe
honeymoon luxury of a parlor car seat came
this startling query: "George, dearest, ever so
many freight cars have Capa City on them
where is it, dearest!"
George blushed, but be didn't forget that be
was a bridegroom, and he answered: "Capa
city, my own! Guess it's a weigh station."
In Bustle Neighborhoods.
In tbe first week of May last year tbe foliage
hereabout was not so far advanced as It Is now.
Tbe warmth of yesterday's sun worked mira
cles on bill and dale, bringing out tbe orchard
blossoms and breaking tbe buds everywhere.
The Ohio Valley is wonderfully beautiful just
now. The orchards on Seven-Mile Island are
all ablaze; late peaches, apples and cherries all
blooming together. The river hills are streaked
and patched with radiant green, the unfolding
of the maples' leaves. Even under the somber
walls and towers of tbe penitentiary in the
classic shades of Woods' Run the apple trees
are scattering perfume aud petals. Tbepns
ouers within cannot see these silver heralds of
the spring, but they can catch tbe fragrance of
tbelr gospel ou the breeze, and sunbeams are
just as golden upon a prison floor as anywhere.
These are the bees' busy days, and also for tbe
birds,if an able-bodied robin, who garnered aud
gulped about twenty worms before my eyes
yesterday morning in two or three minutes, was
a representative laborer.
Two New Theaters.
The new theater on Sixth street is rising very
fast, and some idea ot Mr. Davis' plan can be
bad already from the frame of tbe first balcony
and tbe supports of tbe parquet floor, which
are already In position. The proportions of
the bouse are evidently to be large enough to
allow of roominess in the auditorium, a most
desirable feature, for which Pittsburg theaters
are not noted. From tbe progress made already
the theater ought to be in perfect condition
for tbe opening night in September, unless the
promised disturbance in the building trade
shall interfere.
Chicago has gained a theater as nearly per
fect in every respect as tbe world has yet
known by the fire which destroyed McVickar's
Theater last summer. The new theater is tbe
most comfortable, and I think tbe most impos
ing, in the country. This is the opinion of a
far better judge, for last week W. J. Florence
told me that In all his travels in England, Aus
tralia and America he bad never played in a'
theater so admirably appointed and designed,
both before and behind the curtain, as Mc
Vickar's. Mr. Florence said moreover that the
acoustics of the house could not be im
proved upon. As for tbe scheme of
decoration. It is exceedingly rich and
noble; and one marvels that such effects could
be obtained with so few and slight departures
from the dominant terra cotta red In which
the mouldincs of the balconies, proscenium
arch and walls are paintefiT But the most im
portant merit of all is that the ventilation is
thorough, and you can sit through a long play
on a close muggy evening, as it was when I was
there last week, and still escape from the
theater withouta headache or a parched throat
from breathing foul air.
Hepbukn Johks.
THE POET WAS MtrBDEEED,
And Bis Severed Head Secretly Burled In a
Leaden Box.
Detroit, April 2L Dr. O. W. Owen is pa
tiently working on a Shakespearean crypto
gram. He will complete his labors in two
years and publish a book. With his cipher
key, he has established to bis own satisfaction,
that Bacon wrote tbe Shakespearean plays;
that fire of the works contain 27 complete nar
ratives; that they contain an interesting
defense ot Bacon against the charge of taking
bribes as lord high chancellor, the reason why
he did not fight the caso In court being that his
wife was unfaithful and he would have to betray
his own dnhonor in telling tbe story; that
Queen Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen," was
mother of two bots, Lord Bnrloigh being tbe
father uf one, and that Shakespeare was a
boorish actor whom Bacon bad to murder to
save himself from being betrayed as the real
author of tbe plays, Shakespeare's bead, so
says the ciphei, was buried in a leaden box, and
the place of interment is so minutely given
that Dr. Owen expects to find it.
ITS SEASON SUDDENLY CLOSES.
A Comic Opera Company Whoso Lines
Wcro Not in Pleasant Places.
JRrECIAL TELEGUAM TO TUB DISPATCn.1
New York, April 2L "Influence, or True
Loro Never Runs Smooth," a comic opera,
closed its season at Beading, Pa.,
on last Saturday. The members of
tbe company arrived in the city to
day. The organization was taken out
by W. K Manning, a Boston real estate dealer,
and J. F. Warner, tho composer of the opera.
The company opened at New Haven on April
2. and did well lu that city, bnt bad business in
Pittsburg, and oue night stauds in Pennsylva
nia discouraged tbe managers.
John D. Mishler attached tbe scenerv to pay
the company's tares to this city, and Beatrice
Goldey, one of the members, brought suit to
day against Manning for $250 on the ground
that sbe bad been engaged for four weeks and
had not received tbe two week's notice which
her contract called for.
Go It, Old Fellow!
McDonald (Pa.) Outlook.
Nobody will be elected to any office without
our permission and the party organs at Wash
ington will bo made to see myriads of stars.
We shall be rich, powerful, intolerant ungain
sayable, tyrannical and diabolically inconsistent
and egotistic. We shall lick every man and
woman that snubbed us in this world. Oh,
we'll just be the greatest roosters you ever saw. 1
KEELY'S LATEST.
If You Can Guess What He Is Driving at
You Will Bo Able to Fly.
All molecular masses of terrestrial matter
are composed ot the ultimate e.her from
which all things originally emanated, writes
Keely, the motor crank, in Lippencoll's Mag
axine. They are sympathetically drawn to
ward the earth's center, as according to tbe
density of their molecular aggregation, minus
their force or sympathetic outreach toward
celestial association. In other words tbe celes
tial brain flow as controlling terrestrial physi
cal organisms the celestial, mind; the terres
trial, matter.
The sympathetic outflow from the celestial
streams reaches the infinite depths of all the
diversified forms of matter. Thus it is seen
that the celestial brain flow which permeates to
its atomic depths the terrestrial convolutions
of all matter, forms tbe exact sympathetic
parallel to the buman brain flow and the physi
cal organism a perfect connective link ot
controlling sympathy or sympathetic control
Under certain orders of sympathetic vibration,
polar and anti-polar, the attractive sympa
thies ot either stream can be intensified so as
to give the predominance to tbe celestial or to
tbe terrestrial.
If the predominance be given the celestial, to
a certain degree, on a mass of metal, it will
ascend from tbe earth's surface toward tbe
etherio field with a velocity as according to tbe
dominant concentration that is brought to bear
on the negative thirds of its mass chords, by in
ducing high radiation from tbeir neutral cen
ters, in combination with the power of tbe
celestial attractive.
The power of the terrestrial propulsive and
celestial attractive to lift, and these conditions
reversed, or tbe celestial propulsive and the
terrestrial attractive to descend. Associating
these conditions with tbe one of corpuscular
bombardment it is evident to me with what
perfection an airship of any number of tons
weight can, when my system is completed, be
controlled In all tbe varied movements neces
sary for complete commercial use. at any de
sired elevation, and at any desired speed. It can
float off into atmospheric space as gentle in
motion as thistledown, or with a velocity out
rivaling a cyclone.
CONTRACT AND EXPAND,
Do the Ballroad Tracks Between Here and
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Record.
It is a curious fact but one which need make
no passenger at all nervous, that the tracks of
tbe Pennsylvania Railroad between this city
and Pittsburg are more than one-fifth of a
mile, or 1,134 feet to be exact, shorter on an
extremely cold day iu winter than on a hot day,
such as yesterday. It has been found that a
steel rail expands or contracts one part In each
143,000 parts with every change of a degree in
temperature, and on the 353 miles from here to
Pittsburg tbls amounts to 12 teet 6 inches for
every degree. The difference in the length of
the rails on a 90-degree day in August and a
zero day In winter is therefore, over 1.100 feet.
The extremes of temperature in Pennsylvania
are really much greater than these, and dnuLt
less.tberefore, the difference in tbe length of the
rails is even more striking. This contraction
and expansion Is taken up at the joints.
A CONSUL GENEBAL EESIQN8.
He Will Resume His Profession as a Clergy
man at Kokomo, Ind.
Columbus, Ind., April 2L A telegram was
received here this morning announcing the
resignation of Consul General Z. T. Sweeny,
now at Constantinople, Turkey.
He will again enter the ministry, having a
call to a church at Kokomo, Ind.
The Goose Walked Back.
MlDDLETOWN, CONK., April 21. A big flock
of wild geese went over Bristol tbe other day,
flying low, and as they drove on just above tbe
roof tree of a bouse at the end of tbe village
street, latent ambition in the bosom of a tame
goose belonging to tbe owner of tbe bouse as
serted itself. Tbe tame goose uttered a loud
squawk, spread his wings, and away he went
with the wild ones, the end goose in tbe tail of
the long leg of the winged wedge. On tbe
flock swept northward, and tbe Bristol do
mestic goose kept up his end very well for a
mile and a half; then bis strength failed, and,
with a second squawk, be dropped to the
ground near the house of a farmer. He turned
around three times, got his bearings, and pad
dled slowly home on foot His owner thinks
the goose's soul too expansive for the barnyard
walk, and has clipped the bird's wings.
Douglas County, Ga., Greets Ben.
Savannah News. )
It was g enerally known that President Harri
son and party would stop for a short time while
at Salt Springs, and tbe colored people thought
they should show their appreciation of a visit
from the Nation's Chief. As Colonel W. T.
Roberts, tbe able Democratic Representative
from Douglas, was boarding tha train a colored
boy banded bim the following characteristic
letter from Obe Farmer, tbe Chairman of the
Douglas County Republican Committee: "Hon
orable president Harison Salt springs dear Sir:
i am now sic witb New Mnny Cant be out xcept
my regards in hast O. T. Farmer chairman
conty rep comity."
Where Was Quay?
Punta Gorda, April 21. As the steamer
Clara was coming up the bay Wednesday, a
125 pound tarpon jumped aboard with such
force as to break in the cabin door and knock
down one of the crew, seriously injuring him.
Tbe fish was overpowered, and the passengers
treated to a feast ot tarpon steak.
A Warning.
Cincinnati Tlines-Blsr.
In your hot haste to shed your winter flan
nels and put your window garden in tbe front
door yard, don't forget that in this latitude we
sometimes bave an Indian winter. There will
be cooler weather than this between now and
next September.
The Reading's Capital Increased.
Philadelphia, April 21. At tho special
meeting of the stockholders of tbe Philadel
phia and Reading Terminal Company, held to
day, it was unanimously agreed to increase the
capital stock from 3,000,000 to 8,500,000.
PEOPLE "WHO COME AND Ga
Division Passenger Agent E. D. Smith
and wife, of the Baltimore and Ohio road, left
for Philadelphia last evening. General Passen
ger Agent C. W. Bassett, of the Pittsburg and
Western road, and wife went to New York to
attend tbe wedding of a friend.
J. E. Brown, the owner of an Ogden iron
mine, registered at tbe Seventh Avenue yester
day. He had engagements with B. F. Jones
and Andrew Carnegie. When he learned they
were not in the city be went West.
C. E. E. Childers, joint agent of tbe In
specting Bureau, has been granted a two
months' leave of absence to visit his parents in
England. His father is the Liberal leader. Sir
Hugh Childers.
R. H. Lee, of Titusvil'e, met K. P. Lee,
of Buffalo, vestcrday at the Dnqucsne. Tbey
discovered they were cousins, and are descend
ants of the famous Leo family of Virginia.
Chirles Scully, who has been confined to
the Homeopathic Hospital since last fall with
facial paralysis, is able to take short walks.
He is slowly improving.
Hamilton and Samuel Disston, the Phil
adelphia saw manufacturers, took breakfast at
the Monongahela House yesterday. Tbey
were going to Chicago.
F.r-Renresentative Thomas H. L'aidler.
of Unlontown, and W. R. Crawford, of Frank
lin, registered at tbe Seventh Avenue last
evening.
E. C. Darley, a partner of J. P. Withe
row, arrived from tbe riotith last evening. Mr.
Witberow went to Philadelphia after soma
contracts.
A. C. Hopkins, Republican Congressman-elect
from Lock Haven, and W. K. Lllson,
a glass man of Martin's Ferry, are at the An
derson.
H. E. Passavant, Secretary of the Mahon
ing and Shenango Iron Manufacturers' Asso
ciation, was at the Anderson yesterday.
Mrs. Bussell Thornton, of JJniontown,
who has been spending tbe wlntor in Califor
nia, arrived at the Duquesne yesterday.
Ex-President Norton, of the Louisville
and Nashville road, passed through the city
yesterday, bound fur California.
George B. Hooley, of the Springfield
Government Arsenal, is at the Monongahela
House. He 13 here buying steel.
B, T. Irving and A. "W. Mercer, two
wealthy lumber men from Saginaw, put up last
evening at Deshon's Hotel.
Major Sam Hazlett, of Washington, and
H. Sellers McKce were Eastern passengers
last evening.
Frank Semple and wife went to Phila
delphia last evening.
J. M. Hagan, a Morgantown lawyer, is
at the Duquesne.
Thomas Deegan, of Chicago, is at the
Scblosser.
REITER IS REINSTATED.
Secretary Tracy Backs Down From the
Position He Took a Short While Age
He Realized That His Letter to the Com
mander Was a Grave Mistake.
imOM A KTAJT CORRESPONDENT. 1
Washington, April 21,-Late last evening
Secretary Tracy signed an order reinstating
Commander Reiter to his position in tbe navy,
from which he was dismissed about six months
ago on account of tbe dissatisfaction of the de
partment witb his conduct in tbe Barmndia
affair. Commander Reiter was then in charge
of the Ranger. He is now assigned to tbe
Thetis, which is in every way a more desirable
and comfortable vessel.
Readers of The Dispatch will well remem
ber all tbe details of the controversy. Tbe
savage letter of tbe Secretary, tbe protest of
Commander Reiter, claiming at least a hearing,
and how finally Hun. John Dalzell took up the
matter, used every means to effect Belter's re
inatatement, and failing to accomplish his aim
quietly brought the matter before Congress in
wuat was pronounced one of the most mas
terly pleas ever heard on the floor of the
House. Tbe reinstatement is almost wholly
due to the persistent work of Mr. Dalzell.
though tbe authorities of the Navy Depart
ment and tho President himself admitted that
a mistake had been made. s.
The Talk at the Department.
It is whispered about tbe department that
Assistant Secretary Soley wrote tbe letter and
Secretary Tracy, still partially unfitted for
work by the terrible catastrophe of his house
bold, signed tbe act of dismissal without due
consideration. A little later he realized that
tbe letter was not only a mistake, but that it
was absolutely and outrageously brutal, such
as one gentleman should not write to another,
but it had been published broadcast and could
not be recalled without deep humiliation. In
view of these feelings and of the onslaughts of
Mr. Dalzell, which were recognized as wholly
just and logical, reinstatement waited only
upon opportunity to assign Mr. Reiter to a
command.
Commissioner Stockton has bad command of
the Thetis for upward of two years and wants a
rest from seafaring life for a time. At bis own
request be has been detach edrand Commissioner
Reiter assigned to succeed him. The Thetis
has been fur some time at San Francisco, 'pre
paring for a survey of the coast of Lower Cali
fornia, and in this work she will engage under
direction of Commander Reiter. She Is a ves
sel fitted specially for Arctic exploration and
was the vessel which rescued the Greely
party.
Under Commandsr Stockton. sbe has made
several voyages around the coast of Northern
Alaska to watch the flow of the Ice, and take
other observations on the course of theJean
nette expedition. Ot course, it goes without
saying that both Representative Dalzell and
Commissioner Reiter are highly delighted with
the latter's reinstatement. Mr. Dalzell is very
modest about the matter, however, and will
merely say that what the Department recog
nized as a terrible mistake had been corrected
as cracefully. and completely as was possible
under tbe circumstances.
Quite a number ot gentlemen will go from
the capital to attend the Americus Club
banquet next Monday evening, among them
Hon. S. V. Holllday. Commissioner of Customs,
Judge Gilkeson. Second Controller, and Cnlet
Henry, of the Bureau ot Indian Accounts.
Ballroad Bates en Lire Stock.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission to
day, In an opinion by Commissioner Veazey,
decided the case of John P. Squire & Co.,
against the Michigan Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company and the Boston and
Albany Company involving tbe rates of trans
portation on live hogs, cattle and meat products,
in favor of tbe complainants.
Tbe points decided are briefly as follows:
First The provision of the third section of
the act to regulate commerce prohibiting car
riers from making or giving any undue or un
reasonable preference or advantage to any
particular person, firm, company, corporation
ur locality, or any particular description of
traffic, in any respect whatsoever, not only ap
plies to relative rates on description of traffic
shipped to and from competing localities, but
also to relative rates on differently described
articles which are competitive In the same
markets, and when carriers have established
rates on articles of competitive traffic which
are relatively reasonable and fair, they cannot
arbitrarily select particular articles of such
traffic and materially raise or lower rates so
established thereon without violating that pro
vision of tbe statute.
Second Rates for ice transportation of prop
erty should be based upon existing fixed facts
and permanently continuing conditions, among
which are bulk weight and general value of
the commodity and expense of carriage, purely
COmmprnlfll rnntlftArtlfntii as intB tt runtd
and labor, rates of taxation, fluctuating market
prices, and generally geographical advantages
or disadvantages of business location, are
neither legitimate factors nor fixed and stable
conditions which can lawfully be considered
tbe adjusting relative rates. The proper rela
tion of fates on strictly competitive articles
should be determined by reference to respective-
costs of service, ascertained with all
possible accuracy. '
Third Violation by one carrier of principles
laid down In this case as governing relative
rates on competitive articles dues not justify
similar violations by its competitors.
Fourth Tbe rates involved In this case are
those on live bogs, live cattle and the dressed
products of each. These are found to be com.
petitlve commodities, and therefore entitled to
relatively i easonable rates for transportation
proportioned to each other, according to the
respective costs of service. Liqhtneb.
IMMIGBANTS PE0M ITALY.
Their Home Government Warns Them as
to American Laws.
SPECIAL TELEORAM TO THE BISPATCH.I
New York, April 22. The Italian Govern,
ment seems to be making an effort to inform
its subjects about the immigration laws of the
United States. Tbe first evidence of this ap
peared on tbe back of the passport of an immi
grant who landed at the barge office to-day. It
was in tbe form of a printed paster and ran
thus:
"According to the laws in force in the
American Union all convicts, idiots, paupers
and professional beggars, and all who coma to
the United States under contract to work are
barred from landing and when an immigrant
is landed in violation nf the above be is sub
ject to expulsion from the Republic within
one year from landing. The expenses of his
return are borne by the steamsbip comoany
which carried him. This regulation does not
apply to domestic servants who accompany
their masters."
Thirteen of the regiment of Italians who
arrived on Monday on tbe steamer Alesia and
Alexandria were debarred to-day. Five had
been imprisoned in Italy charged respectively
with arson, assault stabbing, killing and
felonious assault.
ANNA DICKINSON'S CLOTHES
Are Taken From Her Sister's House at Pitts
ton ana Carried to New York.
SPECIAL TELEORAM TO TH DISPATCH.'
PlTTSTON', April 21, A woman representing
Howe & Hummell arrived here to-day and
secured from Miss Susan E. Dickinson all of
Anna Dickinson's clothing, jewelry and MSS,
returning with them to Now York this even
ing. Miss Susan is still too ill to leave her room,
and was unable herself to attend to tbe repre
sentative of her sisters couusel. She gave
directions to her lawyer, however, and the
latter delivered the property, takitfg receipts
for it
A Western View.
Denver Republican.
.Tho trouble in the coke regions of Pennsyl.
vanla is not yet over, and it may be that a
serious conflict with the State authorities will
take place before it is brought to an end. A
great deal of this trouhle'is due to the fact that a
lawless class of men were imported from Europe
to work in tho coke region. If this bad not
been done, the operators would bave to deal
with a far more intelligent class of laborers.
The men who brought these Slavs and others of
their kind into the country deserve no sym
pathy. In so far as tbey suffer, tbey may be
said to suffer justly. But the peace of the
State ot Pennsylvania is endangered, and to a
greater or less degree the whole conntry is
disturbed. The American people have been
learning some lessons of late which it is to be
hoped they will take to heart
AN DN1LLITEKAL SONG.
My Madeline! my Madeline! '
Mark my melodious midnight moans,
Mnch may my melting music mean,
My modulated monotones.
My mandoline's mild minstrelsy.
My mental music maxazlue.
My mouth, my mind, my memory.
Must mingling murmur, "Madeline."
Muster 'raid mldnijtht masquerade,
Mark Moorish maidens, matrons mien,
'Monxsl Murcia's most mijcstlc maids.
Match mv my matculess Madeline.
Melt mo3t mellifluous melody
'Midst Mdrcia's misty mounts marine.
Meet me moonlight marry me,
Madonna mla Madeline
Songs of Singularity.
SOOIETT LN THE SPRING-.
Entertalnmtihts That Have Been and Are
Yet to Be Given.
Mrs. C. L Wade, the President of tbe
Woman's Club, will represent tbe organization
in the National Council of tbe Federation of
Woman's Clubs, at Orange, N. J., May 20. It
was so decided at the regular meeting yester
day, as a result of a letter from Charlotte
Emerson Brow, President of the) Advisory
Board. Tbe meeting will be a sort of caucus,
the object to amend tbe constitution and by
laws of tbe Federation and prepare an outline
programme for the biennial meeting next
vear. The ladies will be entertained by tbe
Woman's Club of Orance, and will
be tendered a reception by Mrs. Ealson, the
electrician's wife. Delegates will be present
from all over the United States, and will voice
the sentiments ot tbe clubs tbey represent in
the reconstruction of the constitution and by
laws. No other business of importance was
transacted at the meeting yesterday.
An Interesting Paper on Russia.
A crisp, spicy, well-written paper by Mrs. M.
B. Scbluederberg. on "The Foundlings' Home
at Moscow," aroused considerable animated
discussion. Prefacing ber remarks by saying
that a young conntry, like a youthful person,
imagines itself much wiser than its elder, and,
commenting briefly upoa tbe ability tbe United
States displays in discovering the mote in Rus
sia's eye, while ignoring the beam in its own,
tbe lady entered into an interesting description
of tbe Moscow borne. Tbe idea promulgated
throughout tbe paper was that the United
States had been very derelict in providing, as a
nation, for its foundlings, and, while criticising
Russia severely, might still imitate ber
example lu many things with mnch credit.
While in this country not a smgle in
stitution for the care of foundlings under
Government support exists, said Mrs.
Scbluederberg, Russia annually bestows 21,000,
000 on this one home, and as tonne immense in
stitution soma idea of tbe size may be gained
by tbe fact tbat it has 2,223 windows. Over
15,000 children are received every year.
Good Treatment for a Month.
The Infants remain in the building but one
month if tbey are in good health, and dnrinc
tbat time tbey are vaccinated and supplied
with good clothing. Tbey are then sent with
tbelr nurses to tbe village in which tbe nurse
reside, and 1 50 is paid weekly for
their care. The parents or rela
tives of the children may claim
tbarn anytime before tbey are 10 years old, bnt
unless tbey do tbe children are under tbe
Government's supervision until tbey are of
age. In tbe meantime tbe girls are Instructed
in various occupations, including housework,
and many of them drift back to tbe Home as
nurses. The buys are trained for military
service and taught trades. Tbe entire institu
tion, nurses, medical corps and all are under
tbe supervision of the Government and a high
price is placed upon human life. Many parents
ot tbe laboring classes take their children to
tbe Home, tbe only questions Deing asked re
garding a child are its name and age. But such
a perfect system exists in the Home that no
difficulty is eVer experienced in tracing a child
in after years.
The Art Society of tbls city will be 17 years
old in May, and at a meeting of its directors
yesterday, it was decided to celebrate tbe day
in an appropriate manner. A musical and
literary reception will be given at the Pittsburg
Club Theater, on the evening of May 21, when
tbe charter will be presented, by-laws adopted,
and corporate organizations made, in connec
tion with tbe other programme. At the meet
ing yesieruay several new memoers were
elected. Miss H. H. Killlkelly. Miss May
Beesley. Dr. John B. McClelland. Prof. Benja
min Jones, Charles Davis Carter and W. P.
Hanna. The charter for which the society ap
plied was filed yesterday with the Protbono
tary, and will come before the coutt May IS.
The one hundred and sixty-fifth and one
hundred and sixty-sixth receptions ol tbe so
ciety will be held at the Society's rooms. Acad
emy of Science and Art Building. Fifth street,
on Monday and Tuesday evenlnzs next at 8
o'clock. Mr. H. E. KrehbieL of New York, the
country's foremost musical critic and literateur,
will at thene receptions deliver two lectures:
Monday. "Origin and Nature of the Lyric
Drama," with illustrations by Miss Bertha
Kaderly. soprano. Mr. Harry B. Brockett, Jr.,
tenor, and Mr. Carl Retter, accompanist; Tues
day, "Richard Wagter and His Art Work,"
with pianoforte illustrations by Mr. Carl Retter.
These lectures from such an authority will be
especially valuable, as preliminary to the May
Festival.
The regular monthly meeting of tbe
Woman's Christian Temperance Alliance was
held yesterday afternoon in the Fourth U. P.
Church, Allegheny, Mrs. HC. Campbell pre
siding in the absence of Miss Leitcb, the presi
dent. Tbe business of themeettngwas entirely
routine, consisting in chief of tbe reports from
tbe different superintendents of tbe work. Mrs.
Dr. Collins, superintendent of evangelistio
work, reported that the prevailing sickness bad
greatly added to her labors. Tbe number of
visits made had been doubled and sbe had
visited, aided and held gospel meetings with
quite a number of distressed families.
A WEDDIS'O that will unite two very promi
nent young people will be solemnized next
Wednesday evening, at the residence of Mrs.
William Singer, on Western avenue. The
bride elect is Miss Bertha Whorton, the charm
ing sister of Mrs. Singer, and the groom-to-be
is William Orr, a son of Robert Orr. Tbe
affair will be elegant, but not elaborate. At
tendantsjwlll be dispensed with entirely, and a
limited number of guests will witness the cere
mony. Miss Elin Esselius, tbe pretty little
Swedish Sloyd teacher of the California State
Normal School, and Prof. Theodore Nos.
Prlncinal of the school, will entertain to-day a
distinguished Pittsburg party. 1; is tbe inten
tion of Messrs. T. H. Phelps, William Nagle
and Thomas D. Keller to visit the school to
day and investigate the Lloyd system in the in
terest of the Pittsburg public schools. After
seeing Miss Esselius in ber rustic apartment
with ber naive, pretty manner of instructing.
and the Interest taken in tbe work by tbe
pupils it is highly probable a favorable report
will be given br tbe committee, who will leave
the city on tho 1020 train and return at 7
o'clock.
Mb. ajcd MkS.'Baxteb, of Edgewood, with
their family, departed last evening for New
York, from thence to sail for Europe, where
they will remain a year or longer. The greater
portion of tbe time will bo spent in England
with Mrs. Baxter's people, but various parts of
the Continent will be visited. Miss Baxter will
continue her studies while abroad. Tha Baxter
home in Edgewood will be occupied by Mr.
Scbroeder and family, who are already domi
ciled there.
Ox Monday evening the Brushton Literary
Society held a regular meeting at tbe residence
of Mr. William Marshall, Amanda street, Tho
programme for tho evening consisted of mu
sical and literary selections. After the society
adjourned, as is usual, the members enjoyed a
"little social feast," and had quite a merry
time plaving parlor games. Tne next regular
meeting of the society will be held at tbe resi
dence of Mr. Isaac Blackadore, on Monday,
May 4.
The Health Association Is displaying con
siderable vigor. At a meeting held yesterday
morning it was reported that the organization
numbered 230 members, and tbat 50 young men
had applied for membership. Mrs. John M.
Oakley occupied tbe chair, and a committee of
five was appointed to locate and investigate un
healthy odors. Tbe next meeting will be held
the first Tuesday in May.
THE Utopia Circle. C L. S. C. will hold a
"Shakespeare Memorial Meeting." Monday
evening, at tbe residence of Miss Laing, No.
18 Rose street, Tbe features of tbe evening
will be several addressee, declamations and
readings, interspersed witb vocal and instru
mental music all selected from tbe author's
works. A very enjoyable, as well as Interest
ing meeting is anticipated. Tbe Utopia Circle
is composed of young people of the bill and
meets regularly every Monday evening at tbe
homes of the respective members.
A CLASSICAL, aesthetic entertainment will
be given at the Pittsburg Club Theater to-morrow
evening, by tbe pupils of Mrs. Rebecca
Boardman. The affair is to be something
novel, unique and elegant: the performers are
all to bo dressed in Grecian attire, and the
tableaux and various numbers are decidedly
attractive. Two little' danghtera of Mrs.
Boardman will dance the minuet
Social Chatter.
The engagement is announced of Miss Annie
Craig ana mi. inanes xieuuei.
Rev. Mb. Ballekttne lectures to-morrow
evening at tbe Buena Vista M. E. Church on
"Palestine."
The Art Musical Association will meet at
tbe residence of Prof. Salmon, on Arch street,
to-morruw evening.
The engagement annonnced last week of
Miss Cbalf ant and Major McKee will culminate
in marriage on June 2L
The Rivals" will be given by amateurs to
morrow evening at the residence of Mrs. Hay
worth, on Stockton avenue.
Misses Mihnie Rhejes. of Corry. and Net
tie Rhine', of Ridgeway, who have been visit
ing in Pittsburg, left for their homes this
morning.
Tun members of tha rittsbnrc Recreation
Club will leave for camp about Hie middle if
July. Tbev will as usual go to Twin Lake, near
Eastville, O.
Herman Westiqhouse and family, who
have been spending tbe winter in Florida, will
return tbls week and take possession of their
Edgewood borne.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There are 10,000 miles of irrigating
ditches tn Colorado.
New York" and Brooklyn consume daily
about 60,000 chickens.
Japan had on January 1, 40,215 physi
cians, 19 of whom were graduated abroad.
Iceland, letters from that island state,
had a phenomenal winter, with never a flake of
snow or an hour of frost.
A New York broker has framed sets of
dinner cards over 1,500 in number as mementoes
of tbe good times he has had.
The male students of Michigan Uni
versity, Ann Arbor, are accused of nsing curl
ing irons, and are under investigation.
A colored preaeberof Waynesboro, Ga.,
is circulating a subscription paper In order to
raise money to nuy a set oi raise teetn.
A child 3 years old has actually been
carried off by an eagle near Trencsln, In Hun
gary, in sight of the father and mother.
ACbicago woman advertises that she
lost on Sunday, while going to church, a pig's
tusk, and she offer a reward for its return.
A tbiet supposed to be a woman proved
when arrested in New York, to be a man who
had been wearing women's clothes for a num
ber of years.
A curious fact, of which probably few
New Yorkers are aware, is that the banking
capital ot tbe metropolis is smaller by 2,000,000
than tbat of Boston.
Cincinnati has the oldest barber in the
world. He Is IU years of age, plys his trade
dally, and as he is deaf and dumb expect to
last for some years yet
The Hamburg cigarmakers' strike,
which ended recently, cost tbe Social Demo
crats of Germany, England, Switzerland,
France and Denmark 100,000.
The great Quebec organ that has 0,772
pipes is played by an organist who claims ta
own 2,775 pipes, only his are used for smoking
tobacco. His collection is one of the finest In
the wond.
The stiletto hat-pin has found a fresh
victim tbls time in Scotland. A lurch in her
carriage drove tha badly adjusted pin into tha
head of a woman in Edinburgh lately with
fatal effect
A new species of pottery has been in
vented at the Sevres manufactory. Tbls new
pottery will withstand the effect of rain and
frost It will be in request for the decoration
of parks and gardens.
A woman of Dawson is the champion
rat exterminator of Southwest Georgia. Some
time ago she killed SO rats at one time in ber
barn, and a few days ago sbe killed 110 of the
rodents in the same place.
The following advertisement appears
in a German newspaper: "Wanted by a lady
of quality, for adequate remuneration, a few
well-behaved and respectable dressed cnlldren
to amuse a cat in delicate health two or three
hours a day."
Austria's new Parliament contains 51
lawyers. 40 professors and school teachers, 13
doctors and apothecaries. 8 architects and civil
engineers, 20 clergymen, 147 landed proprietors,
29 officials, 9 manufacturers, 9 journalists and
6 gentlemen of leisure.
The oldest chandelier in the White
House is that in the green parlor, placed there
during President Lincoln's term of office. It is
a massive affair of French gilt, tha basin
shaped circular base of purple bronze showing
through an elaborate fretwork of gold.
A young lady of Greensboro, Ga., has a
enriosity in tbe shape of a bird's nest. Tha
peculiarity of the nest is tbat in one end is a
second nest, perfectly formed, tbongb very
small. The supposition is tbat this smaller
nest was designed as a receptacle for food upon
which the young sparrows were raised.
According to the researches of a German
statistician, the number of dancing women to
one dancing man is: In Vienna, 2; in Bavaria,
7; Italy, 15; Wurtemoerg, 20; England, 25;
Prussia, 23; Holland. 26; Saxony, 33; Spain, 60;
Switzerland, 107; Portugal. 110; Denmark, 130;
Russia, 150; Norway and Sweden, 211; Turkey,
9,000.
A Grand Bapids, Mich., florist has a
rose bush tbat has broken tbe world's best
record. There are from 2,000 to 3,000 buds now
on tbe bush in different stages of development.
Over 5,000 full grown flowers have already been
plucked this season, about 1,000 of which were
clipped last Sunday. Sncb a record is
phenomenal and unprecedented.
The longest bridge in the world is the
Lion Bridge near Sangang, in China. It ex
tends tfi miles over an area of the Yellow Sea
and Is supported by 300 huge stone arches. The
roadway is 70 feet above the water and is en
closed in an iron network. A marble lion 21
feet long rests on the crown of every pillar.
The bnage was built at the command of tha
Emperor Kieng Long; who abdicated in 1796 on
account of old age.
A peculiar case disposed of at Cald
well, N. C, court was that of a man who bad
been tried by the Mayor of Lenoir for viola
tion ot a town ordinance and bad pleaded
guilty. The Mayor fined blm more than be
wanted to pay, and be appealed, and in the
Superior Court tbe jury acquitted bim of tha
charge to which he had pleaded guilty in tha
Mayor's conrr. This strikes us as something
new under tbe sun in tbe way of criminal pro
cedure. A mass of bronze objects of various
kinds has been unearthed in Verona, near tbe
Church of Santa Anastasla. It seems to be
one of those pits into which the broken or dis
carded ex-rotos and ornaments of a temple
were cast in order to make room for new offer
ings by tha faithful. A bronze double-faced
woman, ot which the bead alone is preserved,
is one of tbe most curious. There are statuettes,
hinges, keys of various shape, pins and clay
figurines.
An electrician has recently completed
soma very remarkable experiments on tha
physiological effects of alternate currents. He
finds tbat tbe danger of the current diminishes
as tha number of alternations per second is in
creased. Tbusit took 20 times as strong a cur
rent to kill a dog when tha alternations were
4,500 per second as when tbey were 120 per sec
ond. When the alternations were 300 per sec
ond, tbe current was only half as dangerous to
life as when the alternations were 120,
The keeper of the Bear Island light if
the owner of an intelligent dog. Whan a
steamer passes the light it whUtles its salute,
and In response the lightkeeper rings bis bell,
or rather did ring before the dog took the job
ont of his bands. Seeing that tha passing of a
boat and the ringing ot tha bell were two
things that went together, tha dog took It into
bis own bands or mouth to ring tha bell, and
when a boat comes along, without waiting for
her whistle, ha seizes tbe bell ropa with his
teeth and rings a vigorous salute.
There are mines of etnnabar at Dagbes
tan. in tbe district of Kyreen, but no effort
and no artifice of the Russian authorities caa
as yet avail to ferret out tbelr exact locality.
Tbe1 natives know that the Government will
take possession of the mines as soon as it is
known where ther are, and, therefore, keep
their knowledge secret. They use the mineral
as a medicine, and sometimes they carry it in
bags to sell In tbe neighboring towns. It a
native is caught with a bag or basket ot cin
nabar and asked whence ba bad taken it, ha
will tell 20 lies to account for his possession,
and neither by bribes nor by threats can the
truth be gotten out of blm.
SPRINGTIME SMILES.
SHE DEMIEEED.
She sat upon his lap while he
Keclted Bobble's poetry,
'Bout wad some power the glftlo zla u
To see oursel's as lthers see us."
Sbe slipped him at tbe couplet's close.
And said, with lips like ruddy rose
And manner arch as woodland elves',
That's well enoujth. but then I pass
On bavins others see us as
Wechancejustnowtosee ourselves.
Jiotton. Courier.
Smith Your new pants are all worn out,
and you only bought them last week.
Jones-I know it. but there Is nothing strange
about that. When a mas and his wife Insist on
wearing the same garment It can'tlast very lonr.
lexas Sifting'-
"You are no longer employed by Jaggs?"
"No: we bad an alllred time about my heavy
expense account."
He got madf"
yes: he was flred with indignation."
"And you?"
"lwasflred with alacrity." Ktw lark Prut.
"Are you fond of music?" asked a strang
er or the young man at tbe concert who wasap-plandlng-vlgorously
arttr a pretty girl had sung
son In a very palnfnl way.
"Not particularly," replied the young man,
francly, "but I am extremely fond of the muil
clan." SommervUle Journal.
"Chollie is in great glee to-day."
"Why?"
He owed his tailor KS3 for Ave years, and the
tailor got mad and put the account up at public
auction."
1 should think that would make Chollie mad."
"Ob, no. He (went to the sale and bought It for
SS cents." Harper's Bazar.