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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, APR. 25. 189L
AX IGXORED rLEDGE.
Alter several Jays of attempts to prevent
it by filibustering speeches, Mr. Seanor's
anti-discrimination bill was placed on the
House calendar yesterday. There is there
fore a chance ol its coming to a vote in that
branch of the Legislature; but there is not
much likelihood of its getting past the
Senate.
The House has shown rather more dispo
sition than usual to be governed by a de
cent respect for the public rights and inter
est. It has passed the ballot reform bill,
and, notwithstanding the maneuvers of the
corporate leaders, bus placed the anti-dis-crimination
bill on the calendar by a very
strong vote. The pledge of the Republican
party to pass such a measure has been neg
lected so long that it may be regarded as
practically outlawed. The bill itself only
gives effective force to the provisions of the
Constitution, and does no more than
brine the statutes up to the Constitutional
standard. Cut that presents no obstacle to
the quiet suppression of the measure; and if
it comes to a vote in the House there is little
reason to expect that it will get any better
treatment than a quiet but eflective strang
ling in the Senate.
This is one of the blots upon " Republican
legislation in this State. "With the Consti
tution plainly stating the requirements,
and with party platforms pledging both
sides to legislation against discriminations,
the subservience of the Legislature to the
corporations has reduced both the Constitu
tional provisions and the party pledges to a
nullity.
A CHANGE IX BASEBALL.
The opening of the baseball season may
not appear to the superficial observer to be
lull of encouragement to Pittsburg's enthu
siasts. But. to those who look beneath the
surface and are able to draw encouragement
from variations or the precedents of a disas
trous past, the recently unsatisfactory record
"holds out a disguised promise of future
glories.
Heretofore, it has been the custom of
Pittsburg representatives on the field to
ttart out by winning a few gam-s. After
they had laised the hopes of the contingent
irreverently styled baseball cranks to the
wildest pitch, and possibly contracted the
disease known as enlargement of the cranium
on their own account, the other teams would
step in and proceed io wipe up the
diamond with them both at home
and abroad. This year a more
subtle policy governs their action.
Tuey are content to let their rivals have fun
with them at first, but after sufficient ex
perience of this sort, when they have mas
tered the antagonistic curves, they will pro
ceed to assert themselves in a superlative
degree. This is at le-ist the optimistic view
to take of the present baseball situation.
Through trial to triumph is the motto of
success in baseball as well as in more ob
scure fields ot effort
All Pittsburg will join in the hope that,
after its representatives have sufficiently
explored the depths of defeat, they will
jnofit by experience and proceed to play
ball with the result of a complete reversal
of the record of former years..
CAUSES OF BANK FAILURE.
' The failure of the Keystone Bank in
Philadelphia was for a long time regarded
as the exceptional case in wnieh a solvent
bank, conducted according to conservative
aud legitimate methods, was weakened by
au unreasonable lack of public confidence.
The run upon it was represented as without
reason, aud the reduction of its cash assets
was stated to be so heavy as to force it into
liquidation. This looked like an exception
to the rule that no bank disasters were oc
curring except where there had been a clear
departure from conservative and sound
methods; and in that light its failure as
sumed a serious significance
It now comes out as part of the gossip oi
banking circles in Philadelphia that the
failuie was caused by large loans to be used
by the President of the bank in personal
speculations. The story, as published by the
Record, is that his operations with the
bauk's funds amounted to nearly 1,000,000,
which was in direct violation of the national
banking law. Half this sum is said to be
ued up in real estate ventures' in the line of
building up the watering places of Spring
Luke and Sea Girt, which is as obvious
a case of speculative ballooning as any
stock speculation. It these assertions are
corroborated and one of the directors of the
bank is quoted as drawing the fine distinc- j
file mm.
Hon that these sums were not "loaned by the
bank," bnt were "borrowed from the bank"
there will be no wonder that the subse
quent disaster followed.
It is evident that such use of banking
funds has no relationship to the banking
business condneted on the sound principles
outlined in the national banking act. In
the first place it is wortH while to remember
that every bank failure recently shows
a wholesale transgression of the pro
vision of the law that no bank shall
loan to any one borrower an amount in
excess of one-tenth its capital stock.
This is a very rigid rule, and
one that is often transgressed. Its trans
gression does not always mean insolvency,
bnt experience warrants the conclusion that
its observance means solvency. Next, the
rule requiring loans to be made on legiti
mate commercial paper is a sound one. Of
course, loans to be spent in building up
watering place speculation caunot be so
classed. When these provisions are vio
lated the wonder is not that they should
send the bank into liquidation, but that
they should have been permitted at all.
It is still an uncontroverted assertion, with
regard to the recent batik failures, that no
bank which has kept within the limits of
conservative and legitimate banking has
been at all weakened in its stability by
commercial events the past year.
WORK TOR NEW YORK POLICE.
The signs that the mysterious assassin,
whose crimes produced such a sensation in
London last year, has turned up in New
York, as pre.ented by the murder discovered
there yesterday morning, are very positive.
It is possible to hold the theory that some
criminal has been inspired by a erase to
commit a similar crime. But the interval
that has elapsed between the last of the
London butcheries and that in New Tork is
strongly in lavor of the theory that they
were perpetrated by some sailor who, after
his successful career of slaughter in Lon
don, has gone on a voyage and reached New
York, where he has resumed the satisfaction
of his murderous mania.
It now remains tobe seen whether the
New Tork police will be more successful in
unearthing this murderous monomauiac
than their London brethren. The failure of
the London officers to discover the criminal,
who Dursued his butcheries almost under
their surveillance for months, has Jeen the
subject of many sarcasms; but he most
effective saicasm will be the arrest and con
viction of thi murderer, or his imitator in
this country, by the New York detectives.
It is not creditable to civilization in either
country that women, even of the most de
graded class, can be slaughtered like wild
beasts in the metropolitan slums without any
punishment of the assassin. It will be
gratifying to the national pride if the New
York police succeed in laying hold of Jack
the Ripper, and it will be humiliating if
they succeed no better than their English
rivals.
THE VALUE OF PLATFORMS.
Indications continue to be in the direc
tion that the Senate will refuse to pass
the ballot reform bill, and will in its placi
send hack to the House Senator Bobinson's
remarkable provision for a Constitutional
convention.
The Republican platform in the last State
campaign promised a prompt and effective
measure of ballot reform. It did not say
anything about a Constitutional conven
tion. If it had it is an open question
whether the reverse the party sustained in
the election for Governor might not have
extended to the Legislature. But it is not
open to dispute that to fail to give what was
pledged, and to present in its place what
was not, will be a new demonstration of the
political idea that platform pledges are only
to be regarded as a means of hoodwinking
the public
It is to be hoped, if this course is taken
by the Senate, that the House will reject the
bill for a Constitutional convention. The
people don't wish any expensive tinkering
with the Constitution; but they have the
right to expect the plain and efieative
measure of ballot reform that is practicable
under it.
THE CHARITIES APPROPRIATIONS.
The complaints from the managers of the
various charitable institutions of this city
that the amounts appropriated for them
by the Legislature are insufficient, are
sustained by facts. The several institutions
could use more money than has been ap
propriated, gnd yet keep within the bound:
of the strictest economy in their expendi
ture. Particularly is this true of the hospi
tals. So many indigent invalids and injured
persons apply daily for admission that the
wards are always full; and ns the care of
the sick or maimed is not a matter that can
be slighted with justice to the principles of
humanity, a parsimonious policy on the part
of the State would not be proper. The other
institutions also require money to keep
them in good working order.
The only question about the matter is. can
the State afford to come to the views of the
managers in making the appropriations this
year. It was known that there would be
difficulty in meeting the various demands
for money, but it was hoped that the Pitts
burg institutions would not be slighted in
making the distribution. The amounts set
aside bv the Legislature may be increased
by the Senate, and it is hoped that that body j
will, if possible, prove
more liberal than
the House has been.
A GREAT GENERAL GONE.
Count Von Moltke, who died yesterday,
was Germany's greatest military strategist.
No Europeau General of his time equaled
him in ability to plan a campaign. His
system, which consisted mainly in making
different army corps advance separately and
operate simultaneously in grappling with
the enemy, was the evolution of a mind of
singular clearness, wonderful logical powers
and unequaled capacity of patient research.
He, of course, believed in war, but always
held that prolonged struggles were unneces
sary, and, -as a General, bent his energies to
achieving the greatest results in the shortest
possible space of time. TheFrauco-Prussian
war was a striking illustration of his abili
ties to put his beliefs into practice. Having
Ions foreseen the contingency of the con
flict, he was ready with his plans when it
suddenly broke, out in 1870, and their execu
tion resulted in the most rapid and uninter
rupted series of stupendous victories ever
achieved by one great nation over another.
This war is without parallel for magnitude
of results in proportion to duration of hos
tilities.and to Von Moltke more than to any
other man is due the Prussian victory.
Though he was 70 years of age when it
broke out, be personally directed the cam
paign, and the other German generals were
but subalterns.
It has been said that to Von Moltke and
Bismarcc the German Empire owes its ex
istence and this is true. Without the latter
to plot in the council chamber and the
former to fight on the battlefield. United
Germany would be as yet nothing but a
hope. These two men did more for their
country than can ever be repaid, but Yon
Moltke alone remained in favor with the
successive monarch. He died in the
knowledge that his country appreciated his
services, and that his name was honored all
over the world. History will speak of him
as one of the greatest generals that ever
lived.
The Brooklyn Standard Union turns out
an editorial of a column and a half, bearing the
earmarks of the fiery Murat, on the expressions
approximating a backdown In Cleveland's al
leged silver interview. The fact that it got out
this smashing criticism jut in time to ran up
aeainst the dental both of Mr. Cleveland and
the man to whom the remarks are reported to
haTe been made illustrates the rough parts that
make the way of the organic e'dttor a tough
one.
Some of the expressions reported from
the coke regions Indicate an idea that the pur
pose in life of sheriffs is to be shot at, but
without the privilege of doing ady shooting
themselves.
Italy has undergone a decided streak of
bad luck since she undertook to quarrel with
the United States. First, a financial crisis at
tacked her monetary system, arid then an ex
plosion of her own munitions of war shook her
capital instead of being reserved to terrorize
our seaports. That Qovermnent bad better
hasten to make peace with the United States'
before Vesuvius breaks out into a universal
eruption.
"The plan of campaign" which has been
on trial in Ireland for years Is now reported to
be finally abandoned. The new plan of cam.
paign is for yie Irishleaders to fight each other
as bard as they can.
Ax intimation comes from Washington
that the managers of the Republican League
Club pyrotechnics may find out that there Is
ouch a thing as a fellow being hit on his bead
by the stick of his own sky-rocket Does that
mean that the head hit by the boomerang sky
rocket will be decapitated by executive order?
There is this consolation for progressive
American newspapers in the shifting of Jack
tba Ripper's quarters from London to New
York. They will save cable tolls.
There is an evidently false story abroad
that Postmaster General Wanamaker keeps a
file of all the lies printed abonc him. This Is
probably untrue, for if the Postmaster Qeneral
did that be would have time to do nothing else.
And Mr. Wanamaker has made out to do sev
eral other things.
Hadji Hassekt Ghooly Khak will
hasten to join a defensive alliance with Rudini
against the excesslveness of the unlicensed and
ribald American press.
It is worthy of notice that the division of
honors at the Cincinnati gathering was what
THE Dispatch suggested in advance. Harri
son got the resolutions, Blaine got the shout
ing, A'ger. in Clarkson's person, got tho Prei
dency of the League, and McKlnley seems to
have got left.
That was a shocking affair at Borne the
other day. Between Yankee diplomacy and
Yankee gunpowder the Romans are trembling
on the ragged edge.
There are about 0,000 Americans in
Italy and 600,000 Italians in the United States.
But the Americans spend more money in Italy
than the Italians do in the United States, and
the thrifty Italians will not thank their Gov
ernment to deprive them of that source ot
revenue. ,
Theemometrical permanency would
be appreciated by the public, especially that
portion which has been gripped.
The judicial antagonist of Ben" Butler
was mnch put out by the tatter's description ol
him as "an inferior judge of an inferior, coart
in the inferior State of Rhode Island." To
make things even worse, he bad Ben Butlerput
out out of cour.
The delusion is abroad to a limited ex
tent that the Pullman car may prove mightier
than the log cabin.
A COILISIQX on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie road yesterday, which destroyed two lives,
seems to furnish a new demonstration of tho
dangers of insufficient precautions. Eternal
vigilance Is the price of safety in railroading.
The building strike continues to hold out
very promising prospects for a sum mer1 vaca
tion. One hundred thousand dollars, collected
for Qeneral Sherman's daughters In New Yo-k.
makes a better record for the metropolis than
the omission to raise the money for the Grant
Monument fund.
PEBSONS PARAGRAPHED.
Madame Janauschek says there is no
legitimate tragedy on the stage because people
wonld rather laugh than tbink.
Ex- Goverxor Evans, of Colorado, has
presented tho University of Denver with
5100,000 for its further endowment.
D. G. LoYEL, of Tacoma, at the "Wash
ington State Encampment of the G. A It., was
elected Department Commander.
Miss Grace Hebard, of Cheyenne, and
Mrs. A V. Quinn, or Evanston, are appointed
regents of the State University of Wyoming.
Hon. Joseph G. Caknojt who, with
his daughter Miss Ellen, Is visiting Mexico, is
thought by tho natives to be a vory big gun,
judging from the courtcsios they lavish on
him.
Judge Gresham not infrequently rides
on the front platform of a Chicago street car;
and at least one driver has admitted that the
Justice knows vastly more about a horse than
he does.
Ex-Congressman La Folxette. of
Wisconsin, has accepted an invitation to speak
before the American Protectivo Tariff League
I at the annual banquet in New York on the
j9th Inst.
MR.CAVENDlsn-BEXTlNCK,who died re
cently, was an authority on art matters and a
collector of objects of vertu. He usually spent
many weeks of tho year in Venice, as being
tho borne of everything artistlc.
Cetatt, the veteran Teporter ot the
Central Criminal Court In London, died the
other day. In SO yoars of service he had heard
90.000 cases tried, bad seen 1,000 men sontenced
to death and bad seen 300 murderers hanged.
Phillips Brooks regards merely selfish"
protection'a less important reason for restrict
ing immigration than our duty, owed to other
nations, to stand guard over our development,
and thus insure the performance ot onr great
mission in the world.
GENERAL ALBERT Pike is said to have
had the finest private collection of living birds
in that city. He had nearly 150 songsters, which
were kept in cages and not in a regular aviary.
General Pike, at Ills death, left all the birds to
hit colored valet.
Mb. James W. Quiston, the Chief
Commissioner of Assam, who Is at present a
prisoner in the hands of the Manipuris, is an
Irishman. He studied in the University of
Dublin, was the first Irishman who obtained a
writership In the civil service of India after the
opening Of those appointments to public com
petition, and bai been for nearly 35 years lu
the service.
The Revolting Grenadiers.
Boston Journal.,
It is tolerably well understood nowadays that
It takes something beside social prestige to n
f ores obedience, and that It is wholly unneces
sary to treat the private soldier as if he were
ot different clay from that which his officer Is
mado bf to secure good military discipline.
j
Politics This Spring.
Heir York Recorder. 1
The shrewd politician goes forth to bucolic
labor In these blithe spring days, with one eye
upon the toll and another upon the Alliance
vote. Sherman Is building a barn, Ingalls
planting potatoes, and Uncle Sawyer, of Oih
kuth, has bought an ox-gad and Is asking the
price of steers.
MAIL MISCELLANY..
Short, Smiling, Serious, Snappy and Satirical
Selections Anecdotes and Literary Odds
and Ends Idlosyncracles of tho Human
and the Urate.
In traveling by railway it is always interest
ing to note the greetings and good-bys Indulged
in by the goers and comers at the stations.
They range all the way
Prom grave to gay
From lively to tevare.
rjotne are pathetic and some aro amusing. A
commeicial traveler told a Chicago Herald re
porter of ono of the latter he witnessed quite
recently on a business trip. It happened at a
little town in Iowa. A respectable elderly
gentleman had accompanied his daughter,
who was going away to college, to the train.
Ho secured a seat for her and then, expecting
the train to xtart, be weut out ana stood on the
station platform to wave his daughter a good
by. As the train did not start promptly the
daughter raised the car window and chatted
with her papa. Presently she saw some one
she knew at the other end of the car and
hastened to greet her. At that moment a prim
old maid came in and took the daughter's
place In the unoccuDied seat. The conductor
shouted "All aboard!" and the father, unaware
of the important changes that had taken place
inside, hnrriealy put his face up to the window
and said: "A parting kiss, my petl" In another
instant the point of a cotton umbrella was
thrust from the window, followed by the pas
sionate interjection: '"Scat, you old gray
headed wretch!" The old gentleman sdatted,
and as the train pulled tout ho stood looking
wonderingly at It as though at a loss to know
whether be had lost bis mind or had been
kicked by a muje.
Japaneso Matrimonial Ad.
.The following advertisement appeared re
cently In a Japanese newpaper, and suggests
that the land of the Mikado may be a good
place for a matrimonial agent, also that the
ideal she of one man at least has her distinct '
limitations:
WANTED-A Wife-If she Is pretty she need
not be clever. If she Is ricb she need nut
be pretty. If she Is clever she need not be perfect
in form (provided always that she be not con
ceited). Her station in lire Is no object: neither
Is thereniotenessof her place of abode, whether
in country or town. She ought to be In the neigh
borhood or 20 years or age, more or Ies. The
would-be bridegroom Is an artist of Osaka, oc
cupying a medium position in society. Ladles de
siring a union are requested to attend at the office
of the Osaka Malulchl Slilrabun by the SSthlust.
where full particulars will be given.
Swedish Real Estate Methods.
An article on real estate and real estate
methods In Stockholm, in the Chicago Real
Estate Bulletin, says the most valuable land in
Stockholm Is wortb from 10 to 16 per square
foot. The value of improved property Is based
on what it rentsf or, aud It is considered that it
ought to yield a yearly gross income of 6 or 7
per cent on Its value.
Annual taxes amount to 1 or 1 per cent on
the value of the property. In selling real estato
"a contraot of purchase" is generally drawn
up, as with us, and a "letter of purchase," so
called, is used instead ot a deed.
When a party buys real estate, in ordor to de
fend his right against previous owner and all
others, he applies for so-called legalization, and
a "certificate of legalization" is issued by a
court of the city, where the records are written
up. Before said court the buyer exhibits the
documents by which he claims rights of owner
ship, and after examination, if found correct,
he receives the above-mentioned "certificate of.
legalization."
A stamp taxis levied, amounting to six-tenths
of 1 per cent on the price paid for the property,
and for the extract of the minutes a charge is
made varying from 55 to $10.
These costs are paid bv Duver and seller alike.
each paying one-half, unless otherwise provided
in the contract of purchase.
The owner of real estate desiring to borrow
money on bis real estate executes a bond to tho
lender, which ruui something like this viz.:
"Six months after either Bide giving notice. I
agree to pay the bearer somuch monov, with 6
per cent Interest per year, payable semi-yearly
from this day until paid, value received, which
is certified, and I give consen:- that to securo
this obligation moitgage may without notice be
taken out against my propertv." Said bond
is thereafter exhibited before the proper court,
where It is entered and certified to be In
force after such a mortgage, or whether it is a
first lien, etc
For making said indorsement a stamp tax of
i per cent of tho amount Involved is paid; also
a fee ot abont SI 26 for the inmntes.
A mortgage is in foice for a period of ten
years, during which time it can be renewed for
another ten years from the date of renewal.
Mortgages aro foreclosed much the same as
with ns.
Iu caso of death, unless a will has been made,
the surviving Misband or wife receives one-half
of the property, while tho other halt Is divided
equally between the children. Husband and
wife generally have a half interest In the real
estate of their consorts, regardless of whether
there aro children or .not.
Women In Street Cars.
It was on a Fourth avenue car that It hap
pened, says the Minneapolis Journal. Tho
recent snowstorm had made the traffic un
usually heavy, and the line was only running
single cars. The men on the car had all risen
bnt one, and lie sat next the stove unmoved.
Tho other side of tho car had been filled by
ladles, most of whom had been given seats by
the prompt sacrifice of the men who now filled
the aisle. The ladles were loosely distributed
along the seat; one sat sidewise gazing ont of
the window; a second allowed her child room
enough for a good-sized man by clambering
around with his face to the pane; a third,
dressed in silk, sat is thongh afraid of tbo
touch of a woman next to her.
A lady entered and looked aronnd for a scat,
and there was none. The men all looked at the
man by the stve. He was a stout, hearty fel
low, growing just a littlo old. He sat still, ap
parently unconscious. All the ladles across
the aisle looked at him; tbo laay in silk glared.
He didn't move. The lady moved up opposite
him in the car and took hold of a strap, aud he
sat still.
"Madam," said he at last, courteously enough?
but inn voice heard plainly all through the
car, "Madam, I do not feel inclined to give ynu
uij seat w hen so ninny of your own sex on the
opposite side nf the car make no move to make
room for you."
And maybe thero wasn't a shuffle on the op
posite side of the car. The lady m silk jammed
up against the plainly-dressed woman, tho child
was hastily deposited in its mother's lap, and
the woman who gazed out ot the window saw
something to attract her attention straight
ahead of her. 1110 lady who was startling and
two elderly gentlemen occupied tho room made.
A Ilorso With n Mustache.
There may be seen at the corner of Mont
gomery avenue and Kearny street, at San
Francisco, at frequent intervals during the
day, a horse that would make a comfortable
living for its owner if placed on exhibition in
a dime museum. Neither horse nor master,
however, seems to bo imbued with a deire for
fame, and the latter is content, apparently, to
scive out his days at his allotted task of draw
ing an express wagon about tho city.
He is an ordinal y-slied gray horse, with a
most amiable cast nf countenance and with
nothing remarkable about him except the pos
session uf a lurge aud well-shaped mustache.
The latter is kept caretully trimmed and
brushed by t lie onner of the horse, buttho
possessor of this unusual appendage seems to
pay but little attention to it. He has never
been known, at least, to stroke it as men do,
but bv watching blni closely it may be ob
rerved that he eyes it occasionally in a criti
cal sort nf way.
He Is 6 years old, and was born In Mexico;
but, so far as can be learned, ho is the only
member of his family who has ever been blessed
witb either mustache or whiskers. On the con
trary, bis father's lip was without suspicion uf
a hair, and his mother, of course, wasa stranger
to such a thing.
The Turks and Rose.
"It w ould giva a genuine and religious Turk a
fit if he saw how little .Appreciation Americans
show for the rose, abd what little reverence
they have for It," spoltc a florist to the St,
Louis Post-Dispatch man as ho wrapped tbo
foil about the stem of a buttonniere.
"The rose is beyond question the prettiest
flower that blooms, and it was so considered by
the Turks many yoars before the conquest of
Grenada. There is a religious legend gener
ally believed In throughout Turkey that the
red rose sprang from a drop of the great
prophet's Mohammed's blood. jverytliing
beautiful in nature is, ascribed to him. The
Turks, therefore have "great reverence for the
flow er, and allow It to bloom and die untouched,
except on state occasions, aud for the purpose
of making rose water.
"After the conquest by the Turks they would
not worship in any church until the walls were
cleansed and washed with rose water and thus
purified bv the blood of the prophet. It Is used
on the body for the same purpose. A Turk
whose conscience is stung by some act or deed
be has committed will caress and pay reverence
to the rose to appease the wftth of tho prophet
and Allah.
"With these ideas Inculcated In him from
youth it would shock him severely to see the
pretty flower strewn in the path of a bridal
couple, thrown on a public stage or banked up
in hundreds at a swell reception or party to be
crushed aud spoiled in an evening."
Natural All Around.
A fellow felt particularly ricb, and he took
Katie to dinner at well, ono of the best places,
says the. Philadelphia Press. The dinner came
to SS 61; a nice little bill, you see. To pay for It
he produced a S50 bill just the very same bill
that bad come from his publisher's check, the
cashing of which had made him feel rich.
"Dear me," said Katie.
In course of time the waiter brought back the
salver heated up with the change in paper and
silver, with a gold piece or so.
"Going to count all that!" said Katie.t ,
"Business is business," said be. "It's mere
self-protection to count it." .
"It's a first-class place, and they don't make
mistakes as a rule."
"But they do sometimes. Thev count for
themselves and I count for myself."
Whereat he counted. It transpired, oh won
der! that there was 550 on the plate, 13 besides,
and nothing out for the dinner.
"Say," began be, but Katie stopped bin,
"It isn't your affair," said she; "tbevcount
for themselves and yon count lor yourself."
"Nonsensel"
"Not a bit of it. They give a cashier a big
salary: why should you do his work?"
"But Katie, the poor fellow would have to
make it good out of bis own pocket."
"That cashier commands a salary and confi
dence In proportion to the degree of honesty
aud accuracy he displajs. It will be just about
worth his place to be exposed in so heavy a
mistake. Neither business nor justice denjauds
your pointing out the error ho has made and
charity forbids it."
He began to get muddled, but he ended by
returning tho excess of money. And the cashier
was discharged.
THE CHINESE 10 MAKE IBOxT.
Very Complete Works of a Modern Chnrac
' ter Will Be Erected.
Age of Steel.
The Chinese wall was prohibitory of imported
labor and foreign ideas. It was Isolation on an
imperial scale, and a big patch of the planetary
crust Inclosed in a fence and made secure
with a padlock. British cannon made a crack
in the old barrier, and the arts, sciences aid
industries of the outsidi world followed the
redcoats into the Mongolian inclosure. The
yeast In the dough has been working ever
since. Western civilization has inoculated an
empire, aud the pigtails of Confnclns are com
ing under the headgear of European batters.
China is not now tho stagnont pool of tho past
centuries. It is being permeated with new
Ideas, and vivifying energies of alien desoent
are percolating through its Institutions and In
dustries. A shrewd, prudent and thrifty race
are copying the figures of the Western slate,
and in commerce and enterprise are making
radical and rapid advances. Iron and steel
works on European plans are" Included in tho
new departure.
On the slope of the Hamyane hills, opposite
the native city of Hankow, a series of works,
are In process of erection that promise to be
complete and of considerable importance.
They will comprise two large blast furnaces of
the Cleveland type, witb the appurtenances,
apparatus and machinery capable of producing
about 100 tous of pig iron daily. A complete
Bessemer plant will be added, including two
fire-ton converters, witb cupolas, casting
cranes, blowing engines, etc The specifications
also include a large rail mill, with necessary
machinery and apparatus. A Siemens-Martin
plant will complete the steel work. The iron
department will include 20 puddling furnaces
and a plate and .bar mill. These works
will cover 20 acres. A foreign technical staff
has been secured, and in the .course of a few
months steel rails for Chinese railways, soft
steel for ships' plates and special metals for
small arms aud a gun factory will be home pro
ductions, i
These industries are initial but preliminary,
and, circumstances favoring tbesupply of erode
material and native aptitude, it is but a ques
tion ot time when the Mongolian demanu for
foreign metal will be measured only by the
limit uf native supply. -
Our Idea, Exactly,
Philadelphia Press.
What the people of Pennsylvania want Is bal
lot reform this year, not some other year.
With only a Constitutional Convention to rely
upon, we might get the reform some time in the
future, and we might not.
Ingalls Unforgotten.
New York Press.
While Mr. Iogalls, late Senator from Kansas,
is tilling the soil he might wisely take a rake
and part his hair on one side ot his head. It
was trying to part his political views in the
middle like his hair that floored him.
t Ills One Good Point.
Philadelphia Times.l
No political eoonomist will attempt to justify
the principles of the tramp, but, whether to his
credit or not, it must ba said that his efforts to
get work do not necessitate the calling out of
the military.
More's the Pity.
Philadelphia Times.
The Butler episode In Boston will hardly end
with his ejection from the courtroom, for the
doughty Qeneral will have his say ont with
the Judge If he has to address him from the
dock.
Good Advice.
Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1
Gentlemen, adjust your differences and get
down to business on the World's Fair grounds.
There is no time for nonsense. Kick the walk
ing delegate Into Lake Michigan.
An American Consul for 1'arllament.
Cardiff. April 24. Evan It. Jones. United
States Consul here, will be nominated by the
Liberals as their candidate for the vacant seat
in Parliament for Carmarthen.
This Is Awful.
Buffalo Express.
The reason why a certain people in South
Alrlcflght so hard for their country probably
Is that t hoy have a. mash on a land.
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Alfred J. Rankin.
Alfred J. Rankin, the well-known pro
prietor of tho Rankin l'harniacy, at tho corner of
I'enn avenue and Sixth street, died at his West
ern avenue residence aDout 11:16 o'clock yesterday
morning. Mr. Rankin had an attack of grip some
days ago, which rapidly developed into pneu
monia, and anally caused Ms death. lie had been
in the drug bnslnesi in Pittsburg for years. lie
was born In Shlpucnsburg In 1511, and was a
younger son or Dr. William Rankin, one of the
lending phrslclans of the Cumberland V.illev.
His medical' education was acquired In the Phila
delphia School or l'lrarmncy. and In ISR he settled
In tills city and opened a drugstore at the corner of
Market street and Fourth ivnnne. Subsequently
he moved to the slUe of the Hotel Anderson, anil
thence across the street to where tho Rankin
pharmacy now stands. Jlr. Rankin leaves many
brothers and sisters, among whom are: Key. W.
A. Rankin, or Warren: Dr. 11. N. Rankin, of
Lincoln avenue. Allegheny; James H. Rankin, of
Rankin A lloldslilp.Allcghcuy:.Ioeph l'.EanMn,
the Pittsburg real estate .-went! Mrs. Carrie Mil
ler, of Carlisle: Mrs. Judge 3!oodv. of sharps
burg; Mrs. tieorgei. JohnMon. of Shlppensbure;
Mrs. A. C. Mrfur.e, or Miarpsburg, and Mrs.
Annie Hayes, of bhlppensburg.
John Carlln.
John Carlin, who died Thursday morning
at his home in New York City, was an excellent
painter of miniatures, as many examples of his
work In the possession of old New York families
attest, and was a poet or no mean merit. The
latter gift Is all the more remarkable because .Mr.
Carlln was born denr. and never in all his iie
heard a sound or articulated a syllable. o other
person, deaf and dumb fiom birih, has ever mas-
ieredthe art or putting worus lnio rhythmical
phrases. Mr. Cartln was born in Philadelphia In
IS13. and was educated In the Pennsvlvanla Insti
tute for Dear Mutes. He was graduated at the
age of 12. He did not learn articulation, which
was not taught then, nor did he learn it in alter
years From his boyhood he was a lover of
poetry, and was especially fond of Milton and
Shakespeare.
Obituary Notes.
Thomas N. RiellV, a leading wholesale grocer
ot Erie, died Thursday afternoon, aged SO years.
Ex-MATOkB. S. MERKIUAJTof Keokuk, one or
the most prominent politicians In Iowa, died
Thursday, ancd 80.
Mns. Hansau FOS5, the oldest resident or
Brewer. Me., died on Wednesday at the age of 93
years and 7 months.
Majok Pettou Randolph, Third Vice Presi
dent ol the Richmond and Danville Railroad, died
Thursday night at his residence In Washington.
Mns. ANSIS 1!. SHANAUAN. a well-known resi
dent of tho Firth ward, died yesterday at her
home, 32 Federal street, aged 53 years, 'ihe
funeral will take place to-morrow arternoou.
H. T. HANFORn, Vice President or the Louis
ville Roa'd of Trade, died suddenly yesterday of
heart disease. lie was a member of the firm of
Lewis & Hanford, wnolcsalo seeds aud Imple
ments. NICHOLAS Bonn, one of the oldest and most re
spected citizens of Newarx, O., died there yester
day morning. He ws 82 years or age, came to that
city In 1B3S and has lived there ever since. From
1852 until 1680 he served as Postmaster.
MAJOR (Jko. W. Barter, a well-known news
paper man of the Northwest, died Thursday at the
Stcllicoom Insane Asylum. Stale ot Washington.
He served In the Civil War. and was alicrwards
engaged in the newspaper business In Washing
ton. D. C
ACGDBTUB IlATriiLD, a well-known architect,
died suddenly Wednesday at his home at Rich
mond Hill, L. 1. The cauc of hit death was gan
crene, following the amputation of both legs and
one arm. which the snrxeons had performed with
the hope of saving him from a wasting disease.
STRAY CITY LEAVES.
What Men Will Wear This Season How
Men's Fashions Are Made The May
Festival nail A Cheery Outlook The
Point and the Exposition License' Court
Disturbs Trade.
Surely it must be indicative of general pros
perity that the tailors are cheerful. When
a tailor is cheerful, his customers are
plenty, and when men boy new clothes
in spite of the prevailing opinion that
man is a desperately selfish animal
they have provided as a rule for their
families. Well, the Pittsburg tailors wear
spring smiles, and a good many of tbelr
customers wear spring suits. Yesterday
a fashionable Fifth avenue tailor saidto me:
"Business Is brisk enough to suit me, and
March was decidedly a good month. There are
no very radical changes in fashion, but the pre
vailing tone of goods will be quieter than last
year. The large blocks which have been so
popular for tho last two or three years are en
tirely out of style, and in their place neat
broken checks In light blues and grays have
come in. The latest imported cloths far the
season are mostly brown cheviots aud black and
white vicunas or gray chocks. Trousers are to
be cut a medium width if anything,' a little
narrower than last year. Gray stripes and
cbecksln )uiet colors are In favor for trousers,
and an especially fashionable combination for
occasional wear Is the frock snlt of some modest
graygoods-afadof the London clubmeu this
season, I hear,"
Tho Setting of Men's Fashions.
Who sets the fashion for menT
I put the question to a leading tailor yester
day, and he said: "Well, at present we get our
fashions from a single New York source, to
which every tailor in tho country has equal
opportunity to resort. Merchant tailors, whole
sale manufacturers and every one in the trade
knows the fashions for the season therefore at
the same time. It is proposed by the Merchant
Tailors' Exchange, however, to change this
and establish an organ of tbelr own, which shall
set the fashions for the members alone. Tho
fashion plates will be issued to members only.
aim mo wuoiesaie manufacturers win be pre
vented from duplicating cheaply clothes of
fashionable cut This scheme will bo
in operation,- I believe and hope, berore
next year. At present London really sets the
fashions in men's attire for the world.although
they are more or less altered to suit American
ideas before :hoy are adopted here. It is some
whatsingular that English fashions should pre
vail when it is admitted even by English lail
ors that American tailoring is. as a general
thing, superior to the English. The reason for
the superiority in the American fine custom
made clothes is that they are cut and made by
a more intelligent class of men at higher wages
than is the case in England.
The Hay Festival Hall.
You would not recognize the interior of Me
chanical Hall In the" Exposition buildings
these days. In place of the maze of machinery
there has arisen in the last fortnight an Inner
shell of white pine boards, the concert hall
wherein the May Festival will occur in a very
little while. The work has progressed suffi
ciently for one to form an accurate idea of tho
hall's lines and accommodations. The par
quet extends from the platform a dis
tance of exactly 100 feet, and the gallery
rises from this point to tho east end of the
hall. The boxes are arranged about tho par
quet in a well designed curve, and a perfect
view of the stage will be had from every ohe
of the 4,000 seats in the anditorium. The ball
la immeasurably superior to the temporary
struoture erected in the main Exposition
building in 1868. Mr. Carl Better has tested
the acoustics of the ball and ho says that tbey
could hardly be Improved. To illustrate this
satisfactory feature Mr. Retter went on tho
stage, sboutedllko an infuriated Apache tor
my benefit yesterday afternoon, and the sound
waves seemed to travel in proper proportion
and clearness, without echo, to the extreme
limits of the auditorium. At the central en
trance and extending to the west end of- the
building there U a vacant space between the
walls and tho rear of the boxes for a splendid
foyer, and it is proposed .to make this a really
pleasant promenade, with tropical plants and
carpeted floor. The prospect seems to be more
cheerful on all sides than it was before the
last May Festival. The memory of the bleak
cavern of the winds, wherein Seidl led nis
shivering musicians against an audience with
chattering teeth and cold feet is still green,
and I think it is safe to say that the experience
of 160 will not be repeated In Mechanical Hall
this year. When the boards are decked with
bunting and the seats are in place the hall will
be tbo handsomest temple of music, temporary
though it may be, Pittsburg has had.
The Point and the Exposltiou.
Looking up at the hall of glass and iron as I
left it, Jt struck me as somewhat romarkable
that iu a neighborhood where throwing rocks
is a legitimate sport and a lavorite exercise so
few signs of breakage should be seen. The
'glass walls are as solid and unbroken as if
they were stone. Superintendent Johnston ex
plained this somewhat when I asked him.
Said be: "The Exposition and tho people of
the Point have always been good friends, and I
can cheerfully testify to their kindly attitude
toward us. Perhaps we should have bad lean
perfect harmony and more broken windows if
Father Hlieedy had not always assisted us with
his persuasive and pacific influence. Father
Shccdy has done much for tbo Exposition in
explaining its purpose to the people of the
Point, and thoy have always been friendly to
us as a result."
The License Lull.
Now that the retail liquor licenses have been
granted in tho two cities, the brewers and
dealers in liquors and cigars are able to see
dayllghtahead. The License Court every year
creates a profound disturbance in the whisky
and cigar trade. No saloonkeeper in these
days can feel certain of his fato in the License
Court, and consequently, as the time for the
lattet's session approaches, ho cuts down his
orders tb tho lowest point.
"Thore is a general revival in trade," said a
dealer In wet goods and cigars yesterday, "as
soon as the License Court gets through, and It
is as marked as vual this year. It is very an
noylng to us to h!tVo the business grow so dull
in the early spring and suddenly jump into ex
cessive activity after the License Court has ad
journed. If the practice of the Philadelphia
courts to allow halounkeeners to hold tbelr
license undisturbed so long as no remonstrance
was filed against them, were adopted here, it
would be very beneficial to the business gener
ally and to the wholesalers as much as any.
. A QTfESTIONOF HEBESY.
tIio Que of Prof. Eriggs Discussed by Min
isters at a Dinner.
ncrXCIAI. TXLEOBAM TO TUB PISPATCH.l
New York, April 24. "Is Prof. Briggs a
heretic;" was the question discussed at the
one hundred and ninety-first dinner of the Twi
light Club to-night. The Bev. Madison C.
Peters, nf tho Bluomingdale Reformed Church,
said that he believed in the Bible, a whole
Bible, from cover to cover. But creeds were
only men's interpretations of the Bible, and, ns
knowledge increases, there must bo a change.
If all the creeds went with McGIuty to the bot
tom of the sea it would be a good thing for
Christianity, Churchianlty was not Chris
tiamty. People must be judged by their act
andjdeeds.
Prof. Grey, of Stevens Institute, an Episco
palian, did not think It was common sense for
a man to change bis views and remain in the
denomination which held these, views. The
Rev. Mr. Harris, an Episcopalian clergvman,
said that from the standpoint of the West
minster Confession tho Professor was not a
heretic "Has Prof. Briggs," Inquired Mr.
Harris, "said anything against the summary of
the Ten ommandmeuts, 'Thou shalt love
thy Lord with all thy heart, mind and strength,
ami thy neighbor as thyself?' Just sneb her
etics as Prof. Briggs are the life of the Chris
tian church.
HORACE TO LYCE.
(gits. IV., 13.)
Lyce, the gods have heard my prayers, as gods
will hear thodutirul,
And brought old age upon you, though you still
affect the beautllul:
You sport among thp boys and drink and chatter
on quite aimlessly.
And, In your cups, wltn quavering voice yon tor
ment Cupid shamelessly.
For blooming Chia Cupid has a feeling more than
brotherly
He knons a hernihaw from a hawk whenever
winds are southerly!
He pats her pretty cheeks, but looks on you as a
monstrosity
your wrinkles and your yellow teeth excite his
animosity.
For Jewels bright and purple Coan robes you are
TTn,.T.n!lvriirTnii 'the nnbllc records are aeeessl-J.
ble:
s ' I
Where lsyour charm, and where your bloom and
gait so firm and sensible.
That drew my love fromCiuara, a lapse most In
defensible? To my poor CInara in youth Death came with
great celerity
Egad, that never can ke said ot Tcu with, any
verltyl
The old crow that yon are, the teasing boys will
Jeer, compelling you
To roost at hornet reflect all this Is straight that I
am telling you.
S. H, P., fn Chicago Xetes.
SOCIETY LN SPBINGTIMB.
Pleasing Events of the Past and Future In
Local Social Circles.
(1 DeMoss Emmons w'ill represent the West
ern University at the lnter-collegiate oratorical
contest, to be held at Beaver Falls on May 29.
It was so decided yesterday afternoon, at the
preliminary oratorical contest of the Western
University, in the "university chapel. The,
judges. Rev. W. J. Holland. Pb. D., chancellor
of tho university; Bev. George T. Purves, D.D.,
and Bev. W. J. Robinson, D. D., awarded Mr!
Emmons a percentage of 92.77, after hearing
his oration, "Our Foreign Policy," and gave
Mr. William C. Gill 8L11 on "The Evening of
Monarchy" oration.
The other contestants were B. E. V. Luty,
who orated upon "The Submerged Tenth,"
and H. M. .Davidson, whose subject was "The
Puritan and Cavalier in Our National Lite."
Ihe W. U. P. Glee Club rendered some excel
lent mnsic between the recitations, and opened
and closed the programme, with the exception
of the judges' decision.
Mr. Emmons is a member of the junior class
anda graduate of lbs Pittsburg Central High
School, where he made a fine record in elocu
tionary and literary entertainments.
Tho inter-collegiate contest will be between
Allegheny, Geneva, Grove City. Waynesbunr,
Washington-Jefferson, Westminster colleges
and the Western University.
The members of the Allegheny Helping
Hand Society fully demonstrated the fact last'
evening that they could cook as well as tbey can
sing, dance and recite, all of which they did in
a recent entertainment. The cooking knowl
edge was displayed by a supper given at their
rooms in tne ciuie Dunuing on Arcn street,
which, with the exception of the Ice cream,
thcyjprepared entirely, bread, cake, vegetables
and meats. Everything was served steaming
bot by the young ladies in charge,
who had been Instrumental in pre
paring the viands. A large number of
guests partook of the delicacies served and tes-
tinea their appreciation not alone by their un
romantic appetites, but by purchasing the cook
book containing the recipes used by the suc
cessful cooks. Many articles of fancy work
were also displayed and sold in connection with
the supner. The committee who had charge of
the cooking department consisted of Misses
Gutbrie aud Bobinson and Mrs. Howard.
An "S" supper, given by the Ladies Aid So
ciety of the Sontbside Presbyterian Church
last evening. W33 a unique,and en joyable affair
and well patronized. The "supper schedule"
was "sumptuous, superb, satistying," and con
sisted of substantial.1! Slimly sliced sand
wiches, stylishly shaped: selected sea fruit,
somewhat seasoned: Sidney Smith's salad; sal
magundi; soldiers' substantial solace, served
seething; scrumptious sour slaw; splendid sal
mon salad. Sundries Sharply isplced, slender
sweet pickles: sour, stinging, stimulative
sauce. Seraphic sweetcakes Silver, spiced,
sponge, suitable. Sweetmeats Small, succu
lent, saccharine slices: soft, smooth, slippery
shaker. Sips Seductive, steaming, soul-sat-isfyirry
stimulant; sentiment souvenirs, suita
bly selected; supper, six-seven, seventeen
sweet sisters sedulously serving.
Mirth, gayety and dancing was indulged In
by the members of the Donaboe Club and their
friends at Lafayette Hall last evening. The
occasion was the third annual reception of the
club, and wasa gratifying success in every
particular. The Leader Italians furnished the
music, and the Reception Committee consisted
of Messrs. John H. Koch, James McHugh, P.
J. Dnnahoe. Crate Swazer, P. J. Coll, John J.
King. P. McDouough. Thomas Delaney, Will
iam Hayes, Joseph Geis. Harry W. Schuett,
Dave Feigenbaum, John M. Hughes, Stephen
J. Toole. John A Donahoe. George S. Fleming.
P. A. RIcards. M. J. Gayton, John Hainill,
James B. Treacy and Charles A Scott-
The forty-ninth free organ recital in Carnegie
Hall, Allegheny, will be given to-day, it having
been postponed from last Saturday, on account
of the breaking of a piece uf mechanism which
could not be readily mended. The wooden por
tions of the mechanism have since been re
placed by brass, and a partial tuning of the
organ enables its use to-day. About the same
programme as arranged for last week will be
given. Miss Julia Friedman being the soprano
soloist. A sonvenir programme is being
printed and prepared for the fiftieth or semi
centennial recital of May 2, by Organist Wales.
E. S. SUIxrVAN. manager of the Pittsburg
Amusement Lyceum, assisted by' Prof. A. A.,
Mallon. James B. McGarey. Misses Agnes
Harrington, Beglna and Anna Bea Snllivan
entertained the members qf the Lotus Club
and their guests last evening by a number of
dramatic and lyric exercises, which were con
fined principally to Shakespearean selections,
recitations and songs. Among those present
were: Mrs. Dr. riarcnneiu, Aliss jioiiio .Mc
Garey, Dr. E. A. Wood, John Bradley and John
Golden with about 100 other invited guests.
Social Chatter.
MRS. Datid Lauber leaves shortly for
Now York City, to pursue the study of art
Dr. Jessie Teaoarden. of Waynesburg, is
stopping in the city.
Miss Anta Siple. of the Southslde, was
united in marriage Thursday to Mr. George B.
Eggers, of Bellevernon.
The marriage of Miss Lou 13. Billings and
Mr. Charles F. Bankln will bo solemnized at
the bride's home, on Thursday, April SO.
The Industrial School of the Fourth U. P.
Church, of Allegheny, will hold Its closing ex
ercises this afternoon In the lecture room of
the church.
AT 9 o'clock Thursday evening, on the South
side. Miss Flora M. Brown became the bride of
Mr. Emil P. Hartung, with the assistance of
R'.-v. F. R. Farrand, pastor of the Sonthside
Presbyterian Church.
TWO WOMEN THWAHTED.
They Go to a Great Deal of Trouble for Very
Little Money.
Jfew York Sun.
The other day two women entered one of
those dry goods store restaurants which have
recently sprung Into being, and- seating them
selves at a table asked the waitress to bring
the bill of fare. Ono Immediately hastened to'
say that she didn't care for anything. The
other wanted a cup of tea. As soon as It was
brought she tasted it and exclaimed;
"Dear me, this is altogether too strong.
Bring me a cup of hot water, please."
The waitress brought tbe water and then went
away. As soon as her back was turned the
woman, smiling to her friend, began to. manipu
late the cup of tea and tbe cup of water. First
sbo put a little water in the tea, and then a
little tea into tho water, until finally tbe two
were evenly divided, and lol instead of one
there were two cups of tea. Of course her
friend, who did not want anything tbe moment
before, was now ready to take some tea, and
two enps of tea were secured for tbe price of
one. At least that was what the women
thought unfit they came to pay tbe check,
wben they found upon the bill of fare this
Item:
"One enn of hot water. 6 cents."
As the 'tea was only 8, they really saved 2
cents.
A Trlmate's Pleasantry.
Newcastle, Eng., Cnronlclc
A candidate for priest's orders, nreachlntr bis
'extempore trial sermon before the late Arch
bishop T.ilt and Dean Stanley, in his nervous
ness began stammering, "I will divide my con
gregation into two tbe converted and the un
converted." This proved too much for the
Primate's sen-e of humor, ar.d he exclaimed.
"I tbink, sir, as there are only two of us, you
bad better say which is which."
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 00.
Judge Clements, John O'Dnnnell, S. E.
Sim'es, J.W. Peters and ex-Sheriff Leeds passed
through the city yesterday from tho Cincin
nati Convention, on their way home to Phila
delphia. They said the Western organization
was too strong for the Pennsylvania boys.
Dr. F. H. Eggers, President of the State
Board of Pharmacy, went to Harrisburg yes
terday to attend tho annual meeting. Though
a Republican, he expects Governor Pattison to
reappoint him.
Oscar A. Small, of "West Bridgewater. a
clerk in tbe Auditor General's office, was at the
Monongahela House last evening. He was on
bis way home to spend Sunday.
George F. Bishop, commercial agent of
the "Clover Leaf" route, from Cleveland, and
Dr. R. F. Lester, of Atlanta, are at tho Du
qnesne. W. J. Mneie and two daughters, En
glish tourists from- Liverpool, were among the
guests at the Anderson yesterday.
C. Sbymnur Duttou, a Youngstown iron
agent, and J. R. Thomas, of Niles, are stopping
at tbe Monougahela House.
Purchasing Agent Mullins, of the Psnn'
, , r,.. .....- ..-.., u r nu ...... .
New York last evening.
J. L. Leonard, of Bucyrus, and Dr. F.
E. Henry, nf Apollo, are registered at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel.
C. I, Pullman was a passenger on the
llmucd last evening going to Chicago.
Adjutant General MeClellaud returned
to the coke country yesterday.
Connty-Controller Gfeer left for Phila
delphia last evening.
Sam P. White, of Beaver Falls, was in
tbe city yesterday.
CDRIODS CONDENSATIONS.
There are only four castor oil mills in
tbe United States.
The first ice cream freezer was invented
by a woman in 1&13. ,
A blind man has been arrested in Phil
adelphia lor murder.
The first fireproof iron safe was made In
1829 by a typefounder.
The finest diamond cutting in the world
is done in Boston, Mass.
A 75-year-old woman has been arrested
in New York for shoplifting.
Last year 21,593 dogs found shelter in
the Home for Lost Dogs in Loudon.
A Minnesota woman has a geranium
with a woody trunk one foot in circumfer
ence. The latest freak at Atchison, Kan., is a
colore J barber who is a good Latin scholar and,
speaks four languages,
.Forty years ago a New Tork man
marked, a quarter and pat it into, circulation.
It has. just returned to him.
A 50-barrel oil well drilled recently in
Russia, after American methods, Is said to give
forth an odor like attar ot roses.
In New Tork recently a legal oath was
taktn by telephone, the person swearing being
too sick to go to the notary's office.
t A Delaware Bay fisherman brought up
a cheese box in his net last week. Inside the
box was a live shad weighing six pounds.
A San Francisco man proposed to three
sisters in turn, but they all rejected him. He
got even by marrying tbeir mother, a widow.
Fabulous prices have been offered, and,
in some cases, paid for a dollar of 1804, but no
such piece of money was ever coined. Ic Is a
numismatic myth.
In the case of a man who killed himself
recently, an English jury rendered a verdict ,
that the deceased "committed suicide at the in
stigation of the devil."
In Chicago, tbe other day, a bandsoms
horse, attached to a coupe, became paralyzed
as tbe result of fright caused by the noise of
sewer gas "exploding."
A Kentucky paper is responsible for
the statement that the "grandmother of the
bride, at a wedding in Covington recently, offi
ciated as tbe bridemaid."
In the National Printing Office, St.
Petersburg, Russia, documents can be printed?
in every.known language. Itis the most com
plete office of its kind in the world.
In 1889 the candidates for confirmation
in the Church of England numbered 223,000; in
1S90 there were 197,000 presented to bishops to
reieive tbe rite, tbe falling off being 23,000.
The Japanese murderer of a restaurant
keeper in Seattle, Wash., last week threw his
sword Into the bay. A vigorous 'search re
sulted in finding the weapon, which had marks
showing it to be 200 years old.
Virginia last year had a peanut crop of
2,500.000 bushels; Tennessee, 1,000,000 bushels,
aud North Carolina 250.000 bushels, making an
,aggregate of 3,750,000 bushels, which was the
laricest crop ever nucu m uuc;c, tu)j,m
1SS7, when the crop was 30,000 bushels greater
than in 1S90.
There is a curiosity in an English work
house in a girl who speaks a language which no
one can. Understand, She has been addressed
in nearly a dozen different tongues, but with
out evincing any intelligence as to the meaning
of words. She is said to eat twice as much as
an English pauper.
Tbe medical authorities of Sweden have
recommended the Government to introduce
tbe requisite regulations for women to become
apothecaries. In Norway women have been
six years entitled to study pharmacy and man
age and own dispensaries. In Finland there
are seven women apothecaries.
A resident of Jefferson, W. Va., while
hunting a few days ago shot a bird of beautiful
blue gray color, which measured a feet S
inches from tip to tip of its wings. Its-bill was
8 inches long, and its legs aud the tips of lu
wings were of a dull salmon color. No bird
like it was ever seen in that section before.
At last a fish has been caught in the
Great Salt Lake. It was captured near Buffalo
Park, and is one and five-eighths inches long.
It is different from anything ever seen here be
fore, having a large head, a body something
like a trout, while it is almost transparent, ex
cept the dark outlines of the vertebra;, which Is
as well formed as if of a full-grown fbh, and is
dark.
An interesting suit in the Quarterly
counts of Harrodsburg, Ky.. was that of x
colored preacher against the officers of a
church near Salvisa for S24. He claimed that
tbey sent to Louisville and secured his services,
and that all weut very well until be Voted tbe
Democratic ticket tn August last, after which
they refused to pay him anything and froze
him out. He won bis case.
In 1864 Japan's exports and imports
were valued respectively at 15,350,000 and (10,
690. 000. In 1S59 the corresponding figures were
$70,060,000 and SOO.ICO.OOO. Between 1S72 and
1887 foreign trade rose from $1 SO to S3 U per
capita. In 18S9 the country had 2.03S trading
companies, with a total capital of :67,855,463,
and in 1890 1,061 banks, with a total capital of
192.418,063. AH these companies and banks have
come into existence in tbe last 20 years.
A Crawfordsville, lad., man has com
pleted tbe invention of an electric typewriter,
by means of which tbe operator can have his
type-written manuscript transmitted hundreds
of miles. All the characters and signs of tho
ordinary typewriter are transmitted over ono
wire by tbe pressing of tbe several buttons.
The principle is different from that employed
by the writing telegraph, and Cincinnati parties
are now negotiating with the inventor for its
purchase.
A fish, in every way resembling a shad,
but with the brilliant coloring of a goldfish,
yesterday attracted much attention in tbe
store of a New York fish-dealer. He called it a
"golden roe.' but no such flsh had ever be
fore been seen. It weighed 3Jf pounds, and Its
flesh was the color of a salmon's. Experts
who examined it said it was either a cross be3
tTti a Rhari and a sroldfisb or bad been feed
ing near some chemical works and so absorbed
the color.
A young wife at Tarr station, Pa., who
became displeased with her husband, recently
went to visit friends in an adjoining State.
Staying beyond the appointed time, her hus
band urged her to return. Not responding, he
again wrote, making profuse promises of better
behavior. Still no response. He then had a
friend telegraph his wife that he bad just died.
She arrived early tbe next day. The husband
met the astonished wife at the train, a recon
ciliation followed, and now they are happy.
His little ruse worked well.
A Morgantown, "W; Va., man recently
noticed two large Norway rat3 going down a
hill toward a stream, each rat holding an end
of a straw. Wben tbey reached the water's
edge the foremost rat waded in, still leading;
its companion, which, when It reached the
water, stopped and drank eagerly. When the
thirsty animal had finished drinking tbe other
one turned, and with tbe straw still in its
mouth led tbe way to the top of tbe bask.
When they reached the road he killed the led
rat and found that it was totally blind, its eyes
being completely gone.
JOURNALISTIC JOCTJLARTXT.
Eev.
White When Satan entered the
swine
Mrs. Whtte-S-shI Xotsoloud.
Rev. White Why not?
Mrs. White The lady by tbe window Is from
Chicago, and any reference to tint incident may
offend her. Munsev't Weeklu.
Summer boarder (who is chasing butter
flies over the wold to hobo who has stopped to dig
a pebble out of his heel)-My friend, do you take
au Interest in collections?
"What kinder collections, do yer mean?"
h, rare articles, such as butterflies, or rare
coins, or quaint bric-a-brac, or rare postage
stamps, and rare Indian relics."
'I do. sir."
'Pray tell me, what Is your fancy?"
"Rare beefsteaks. "Spoktsman.
Scribbler Nice refined fellow, that young
anthor, 1'cnnlbs.
Scrawler In what particular?
Scribbler I tried togethlm into a conversation
about bhakespeare the other day af a dinner and
he said he never "talked shop." America.
Tommy My grandpa has voted for 12
different Presidents.
Jlmmy-Ah. deole man's not in it My daddy
voted 12 times for one President Indianapolis
JournaL
"No, I don't want any lawn mower," said
the man who was anxious to chase the agent away.
"What I desire is more lawn.'" Washington
Post.
How cm ynu expect to get information
from a letter when it Is not posted? Xonlttri
Attitesman.
Judge Have jou anything to say in your
defense, prison ;r?
"Unly this. Your Honor. It was all mistake.
I Intended to rob another house and mistook the
number." PlUgtniie Mlattltr,
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