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Including fcnnday, lyeir. 30 CO JJaILY 1HTATCII. Including fcundaY.Sln'ths iSO DAILY D'srATCI.. including sundav, lm'th 90 bSXDAY DlsrATcn, One lew : WXCSXY JHSPA-CK, Ore Year -- Tnc Dailt Um-ATrn . delivered by carriers it 3S tecU per week, or lncl -O.i.g Sunday edition, at Is cents te- vccl.. PITTSBURG. MONDAY. APR. 27, 1S9L THE extrxordiiiarj edition of yesterdaj's 34-page DISPATCH lias cxliausted early Sunday morning. The disappointed ones can secure copies or this mammoth number it the Counting Room, corner Diamond and SnilthSr-ld streets, this morning, an extra edition hat Ins been printed to supply the demand. MISPLACED DEMOCRATIC ZEAL. An exceedingly positive assertion of opin ion Ss indulged in by the esteemed York Gazette to the effect that the Baker ballot reform bill is not ballot reform, and that it is subservience to the corporations which induces the opposition to a constitutional convention. Obi York cotemporary is quite zealous in this matter, but it is well to permit zeal to be tempered by discretion. It would be (difficult to find a method of doing the cor porations greater service than to assemble a Ijodv whicli would have the power to mutilate the sixteenth and seventeenth arti cles of the Constitution, and which the politicians would have a fair chance to con trol, it is the indiscretion of such Demo cratic elements ss are represented by the es teemed York i.azettf that gives the corpora tion element m the Republican partv an ex cuse for defeating ballot reform at the present session, and for calling a constitu tional convention whicli may wipe out the xaost salutary provisions of our present fund amental law AVe have a first-class Constitution at pres ent. Effective ballot is entirely practicable in harmony with its provisions. If the Baker bill does not furnish effective reform it can be amended to do so. It will be far better to maintain and enforce the present Constitution than to invite its emasculation by ebliticians and corporations. INCREASED PROPERTY VALUATION'S. The triennial assessment ha progressed far enough to permit the prediction that the total valuation of the city will reach the vicinity of 200,000,000. As a measure of the prosperity of the eity this is a gratilying increase of values; but there raav be a pop ular distrust as to its effect on taxation. It the tax valuation is raised 15 to 20 per cent and the tax rate is reduced in propor tion, the evidence of increased value will be taken with satisfaction, and the full valua tion may indicate a more equitable assess ment. Rut if the 15 mill levy is con tinued on the 5250,000,000 total, the increase in value will mean an increase in taxation very scantily dis guised. That may cause dissatisfaction. It is quite possible that an increase may be necessary in the future; but it should be frankly avowed. The understanding should be quit: clear that the maintenance of the old rate will be an increase of taxation in the same proportion that the new valuation exceeds the old one. Apart irom the bearing of the valuation on taxation, the increase in value on down town property, the changes effected by the enhanced value of property at the Point, and the increase in values around Schenley Park and along the improved streets are very gratifying proofs that the cost ol public improvements is -ilways lepaid with large profits by the enhancement of values wherever their effects are !elt. THE I'OLiriCAIr BANQUET. The Amencns Club wilt to-night hold its snnual banquet and exalt tli standard of straight Republicanism in its usual -vigorous and festive style The programme for the day shows the array of Republican tal ent whose oratory will expound the doctrines of the party to be up to the high standard of former year' ; and we can expect the exposi tion of party policy on that occasion to be interesting and significant. The condition of politics hardly creates the expectation that a new nnd salient measure will he pro duced, a. in Sneaker Reed's famous launch ing of the elections bill two years ago; but while that may mate the banquet less famous, it may also indicate a more success ful maintenance of the party standard in the near future. It is certain that the feast nill be uucxcep'ionable both from the cul inary and party standpoint. In both of these important respects Tun Dispatch is entirely safe in predicting for the gentlemen of the club and their guests a halcyon and enjoyable time. WOEKHOC.r. SUPKKIXTEXDEXCY. The election of a superintendent of the county workhouse, which place has been so ably filled by Mr. Henrv 'Warner, is ex pected to take place to-day. A considerable number of gentlemen of high standing and unquestioned abilities have been named for the place. Of course, the first nnd controll ing consideration should be the selection ot tnc man best fitted to conduct that institu tion. Rut with men available for the place, whoso qualification? are practically unques tioned, it would seem to be equally iudis ptrfablc that the choice must be given in favor of r. citizen of Allegheny cdunly. The isjc in this case is presented by the prominence of a candidate from another part of the State, who is supported as bavinc a fpcci.il experience in penal institutions. But the efltfC'.iveaess of this cHira is de cidedly modified by two facts. In the first ylace, there are charges that the record of this candidate is not wholly satisfactory. Of the accuracy of this charge The Dis rATCir has no knowledge; but it is ceftainly necessary that it should be cleared away be fore putting the man in a position like the one to be filled. Kelt, there is no lack of Srit-class men to pnt in the position. With out unaertaklaj to same the choice, it is 1- . ...-, , , i- v-ii ssfiMs.fTfr.fF'iti1 -ir-T -v . -. . !,,. -d-Aa-'-aii. --- fc-ifrre i'i i IJTilh . . -.. .-.-r..,.....-. .j .i. iiifii-sj i i "-" - -- ni kitifrii.r .V tWttsff pertinent (o say that with a man like Mr. Mercer available for the place there i no seed of importing a superintendent of the workhouse from another part of the State. THE GRANGERS' VIEW. A committee of the Pennsylvania State Grange has published a circular with refer ence to the pending revenue bill, which shows that it is much easier to make effect ive attacks on measures for taxation than to defend any given bill. The opponents of the tax bill have turned their attention to criticisms ot its provisions. This document, which is evidently the work of Leonard Rhone, makes an equally vigorous attack on the present system. The plan of this arraignment is to com pare the figures of taxation on personal and corporate property as contrasted with real estate. It first quotes the capitalization of railroads, canals, telegraphs and telephones, at a total of $1,873,575,000, adds thereto the estimate of other personal property at $1,452,000,000, and shows that the tax on this total of 3,326.000.000 amounts to $4,094,000, of which 52,473,000 is collected from corporations. As contrasted with thi, it takes the total valuation of real estate at $2,002,942,000, and shows a total taxation on it of $34,310,000 by the census of 1880. It asserts that the taxation on this class of property would be much larger now; hut omits to notice that the valuation would also be considerably increased. A tax of but $2,473,000 on SI, 873, 000, 000 of one class of property, and one of $31,316,000 on $2,002, 000,000 of another class is, in the opinion of the Grangers, something that requires recti fication. In presenting this contrast the represen tatives of to farmers take advantage of one thing. That is that the capitalization of the corporations is heavily watered, while the valuation on real estate is below the actual worth in nearly equal proportion. They are perhaps fully justified in taking advantage of the corporate practice of swell ing its stock valuation two or three for one; and there might be tome force in a proposi tion to tax the water in corporate capitaliza tion as heavily as il it were an actual in vestment. Nevertheless, if allowance is made for the inflation of corporate valua tion and the hard-pan appraisement of real estatement, the contrast would be much changed. In place of making it appear that real estate is taxed twelve or thirteen times as heavilv as corporations, it would prob ably turn out that it is taxed about two or two and a half times as much. The fact that the dispute about taxation consists of each side attacking the other's measure presents the question as a choice between evils. No impartial person denies the vices-of the present system; but the ar gument turns on whether the pending meas ure will afford an equitable and beneficial means of taxing personal property. This raises two minor questions: first, whether it presents a reasonable hope that large amounts of personal property will not be able to es cape taxation; and second, whether the levy of taxation on those classes of personal property that cannot avoid the assessor, will not be more advantageous to the enterprise and growth of the State tbau the present system. Tne experience of other States, where systems similar to the one proposed have been in force for long periods, afford little encouragement on either of these points. In the meantime, there is an excellent field for our single-tax friends to convince the farmers that this levy of four-fifths of all the taxes in the State on real estate is an ideal state of affairs, only to be improved upon by adding the fraction of tax that does not come from the land, to the total sod making the land owners pay all of it. A SOUTHERN EXPOSITION. An enterprise which shows that the South is working in the right direction is the union of the 14 Southern States to establish a permanent exhibition of Southern products and resources at Baleigb, X. C. It opens on the 15th of next month, while a special inter-State exhibition will be held from October 1 to December 1. On the avowed understanding that the great field of the South is in the agricultural line, and that of the North is in manufacturing, Northern manufacturers are invited to join in the exhibition with displays of goods, machinery and labor-saving devices of all kinds. Nothing can contribute more thor oughly to a close union of interest between the various parts of the country than ex hibitions of this sort, showing in what re spects each section can supply the other's wants. It is to be hoped that Northern manufacturers will generally avail them selves of this opportunity to extend their trade and bring the North and South closer together bv the ties of commercial interest. The wheat, cotton and fruit crops of the country still promise to be among the largest on record. Singular to say, none of the apostles of tho trust school have begun to claim that the abundance and cheapness f these staples will be a misfortune to the country. NEWS comes fiom the West that Plenty Ifoises. the Indian who killed Lieutenant Casey, is to he tried for his crime. Tliat he committed the act is not denied, but he takes refuge in the plea that ho did it as an act of war. As a fact there is about the same justice in applying the law to him that Ihere would have been in trying an ex-Confederate for shooting Union soldiers in battle. There is a much more pressing need for criminal pro ceedings against some of the political favorites w hose inefficiency, or worse, brought on tho Indian outbreak. The horrors of war whioh are now re ported from Chile, arc a repetition of those which that formerly powerful South American nation inflicted on Peru during the past de cade. Bloody instruction has returned to plague the inventor. One of the characteristic pleas against civil service reform is uttered by J. S. Clarkson in the A'orZi tmencan Review to the effect that the Republican politician "does not De lieve in a life-holding class in office in America." In that case, Jlr. Clarkson will do well to ex plain the fact that the most successful prac tical politicians manage to sustain themselves in one office or another during the whole of a long career. The office-holding class in this country is composed of the spoils politicians. Lop.ti EAUDorit Chorchi's trip to Africa will give him plenty ot time to make up his mind whether.on bis relurn.he will form a party by himself or permit one ot tho regular parties to supoort him. Srn Charles Topper's ferocious attack on the "Wnnan Conspiracy" in the last Koith. American Jteviete is a delayed hit of post mor teri Canadian politics. It does not refer to the prrntirt nf Sir Pharles lilmRelf tn Wnsliinf-frtn for the same purpose which Mr. Wiman advo cates; but in its indictment of "disloyalty" against the latter gentleman has a strong flavor of our most obstreperous bloody-shirt politics. The way in which the "beneficial" $100-for-S30 orders are going into the hands of re ceivers indicates that the majority of the gudceons who can be booked by that sort of bale have been landed. MR. Wherry is a very useful and inde pendent member of. tho Legislature, but his THE niovement to abolish the StatrUnanl of Char itles and'estahlljlt in its place a Slate Depart ment of Charities 13 a good deal like going off at half-cock. The public Institutions ot tho State should not bo put under the charge of. the politicians more than thev aro at present. Thf. French libel suit getting to bo very nearly as destructive, at the French duel. Mr. Mackay has been eminently successful in getting a large judgment against a bankrupt editor. THF. fact that the suaar bounty "IH take 510,000,000 out nf the Treasury-' is Mill worrying the esteemed Philadelphia Jtecwd; which is to ho explained by Its failure to ob serve that the cheapness of sugar accompany ing the same measure, will leave JCO,OOU,000 in the pockets ot tie people, as cuinpared with the Mills bill. GovKKXon Pennoyer, of Oregon, is the Itst public man to discover that the art of statesmanship is to hold your tongue in all tho languages vou are capable of spcaMrg. There is a good deal of dispute possible whether the explosion of that Roman maga line is to be clnrced to the arrival in Rome ot Thomas B. Reed or the Baron Favi. While neither might be able to set the Tiber on fire, they arc both considered able to set off a powder magazine. CONTRIBUTIONS TO FAME Ex-Mayor Hkavitt, of New York, has been spending a season in Florida. Don REDRO, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, has planned to spend the summer at Bushey Park, England, the residence of the Duke de Jjemciurs. Henry Watterson is lecturing in the South on "Morals and Money." in which he grapaioally depicts the growing power of pelf in this country. General Butler is said to be ambi tious to hava his memoirs enjoy a greater sale than have General Grant'''. The old man is 72, and has had SO years of public life. Hon. S. II. Peters, the only Republican Kansas Congressman who declined are-nomi-nation last fall, andjthus e'e iped the avalanche of Alliance wrath, is now ueius boomed for the Governorship. Judge William H. Yost, Jr., who was elected Representative to the Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor, which meets in May a: New Orleans, cannot attcnd.and has notined his alternate, Mr. William IL Wadsworth. ot Maysville, Ky., to make his arrangements to go in his place. E. W. HALroRD, the President's Private Secretary, has returned from Indianapolis, where he accompanied Jho remains of his wife last week. Mr. HaRord was to have gone West with tho President, but the serious illness or his wife prevented. Mr.. Halford's death has been expected for nearly two years, Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, the wife of one ex-Mayor of New York, and the sister of another, was the only daughter of Peter Cooper. She is amiable, gracious and charita ble in the best sense of that much abused word. She has been a beauty, and her kind, daik eyes and gentle face and manner still convey an impression of pronounced good looks. Mrs. Hewitt is fond or society and en tertains largely. Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor of the American edition of the Review of Reviews, has produced a better edition that the original of what Kinglake. the historian, paraphrased as the "king of kings." Dr. Shaw made his mart as editorial writer on the Minneapolis Tribune and has written with ability and suc cess fortheinagazlnes. He has given much study to economic subjects. Including the gov ernment ot cities and co-operation. A MUCH-ABUSED CLASS. Hon. J. S. Clarkson Takes Up the Cudgel In Behalf of the Politician. North American Review. I defend also the honesty of the politician. I know personally of the generosity of the men of politics. Twenty.ffve years' participation in active politics has given me a chance to look in the lion's mouth. I can recall to-day, look ing bacli over this long stretch of time, scarce any men who have niado money in politics. I know of no politician who has become rich as a politician. To find those wno find fortune and gear in politics, you must go to the corrupt rnle-of Tammany or some other large city I believe that it may be asserted as true that 99 men out of every 100 spend more money in politics, and in public affairs and for the public good, than they ever gain in politics or from any sort of office-holding or profit-sharing in government. The presence of corruption in politics is greatly overestimated. There are very few men who want to violate the honor of the Re public or dishonor the record of their party. No man who would debauch tho American ballot should be respected by his own family. For the puritv of the suffrage, the hones'y of this Government, the preservation ot it in power and patriotism to our children, are far more to any and all of us than anything of partv success or power or personal ambi tion could possibly be. Not merely the essayists who write for reform on salary are honest. The great masses of the people are honest. The rivalries of politic, tho Quarrels of party, the jealousies and enmities of politi cians over office, are many and often shocking. But so in this poor world are the rivalries and jealousies and enmities of the professions, of the business world, and even of the church. AVo are all poor mortals, and God must have some charity for us all in our mortality and weakness, whether we be politicians, Pharisees or persevering saints. DEATHS OP A DAY. Rev. Father Charles T. Neeson. The Rev. Father Charles V. Neeson, pas tor or St. J olin's It. C Cliurcli.Thirty-sccond street, died yesterday morulnjr at S o'cloct. of apoplexy. The deceased clergyman had been in this city 51 years last February, and was ordained when 23 years of age. Ills first mission was at St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral, Allegheny, and from there he was transferred to Murrlnsvllle, Pa. Twelve years azo he assumed cliarccofbt. John's congregation, and he has been the filthrnl friend and uutirinz minister to his flock ever since. The reverend gentleman was n man of wide attain ments, his pursuit of knowledge extending into meiiv lattguages. andhis principal recreation and fileasurewas with his booKs. or which he had a srgc and raie collection. The Juneral win take place from the parochial resilience and the church at 9 A. M. on Thursday. Grand Duke Nicholas. The death of the Grand Duke Nicholas, an uncle or the Czar, was announced Sat urday in b't. Petersburg. The Urand Dune was a field marshal In' the linssian army ana Inspector general of cavalry and the corps ofengineers. At the closoor the Russian military maneuvers In Volhynia in October or last year it was learned that the Grand HuLc, w ho had the chlcr command of the army, had suddenly become Insane from the effects or long Illness, and had been removed incognito to General ilartro!T6 estate in the Don Steppes. The phy sicians declared that his case was hoielcsand In Jvovcmberhc as transferred to his home in this cltv. The Grand Djkcwas born In 1831 and was married ir. 1856 to Princess Alexandra or Olden burg. Captain William C. Gray. At 7 o'clock last evening Captain Will iam C. Gray died at the residence of his sister. .Mrs. Jauics Park, Jr., at 230 North avenue, Alle gheny. He was 74 years old and well known both in the political and business world. The funeral will be from his last residence at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Obltnary Notes Fheperick W. CnmsTEnN", Importer of foreign boots, died Friday in ills 75th year. He was born in Luucck, Oermany, and came alone to this country in If 30. Wiixiak Devere, a California pioneer or 1849. died at his residence in Baltimore Thursday, In the 81ft year of his age. He was the organizer of the Monumental 'lre Company, and was Street Commissioner or San Francisco in Its early days. CQAni.ES It. I'-EAiicz. a prominent young law-. yer of Cadiz, O.. son or Judge John S. Pcarcc, or the Common Pleas Court, died or consumption at Colorado Springs, Col., Thursday. His remains will arrive home to-day. and will be bnrled by Masonic and S. or V. lodges. SAMUEL Carman- Haiuiiot, President or the Greenwich Fire Insurance Company for 32 years, died at hew York Friday evening. Mr. Harriot was a descendant or tnc old Scotch fanUty ofliar rlotswhich settled at Wovdbrldge, N. J., In the early part ot the 17ih century. Michael J. Flatklkx, lung known In pnblle service and as proprietor of the Jefferson House, Boston, died Saturday of pneumonia. He was born In Ireland, coming to this country In bis boyhood. He served tn the Common Council and State Seuate. and was a member or the Executive Councils of Governor RJce and Governor Loax. HTTSBTJRG DISPATCH. ' THINGS tIN -GENERAL. It Would Ro a Good Thing to Convince In stead of Convicting Heretics Tho Posi tion Taken by Dr. llriggs Religion Just Now a lubject ofMuch Discussion. wniTTEN ran THE bixpATcnt. ", It is rather singular, when one reflects upon the fact, that there Is nut mure effort made to convert heretics. There is no lack nfecrfpsiav tical trial and srnteiice add all tint, hut nilii'ilv rxprc: that- these thir.gs will really convert the hcrHtleS. Th process Is snch as this: Mr. Mai Q:iuj. or Dr. Ilrlirg-. or wlut everjour tianu 1', you aro reported tou as linhlingsnch and such vlnvs. and as matin;; expression of them thus and so; on the other hand, the t'rajer Book-, tho Westminster Con fession, our formularies, state these things after quite a different fashion. Noi, will look into jour case, and It mo tind that win and the formularies are not in p.-rfect agreement wo will give you six months to bring juurinind into harmony with the formularies. At tho end of that time, if you arc not prepared to tako bad: these unzudly and unorthodox words ubichjou have uttered, we will present you with your resignation. What decent man was over so convinced! What other result could he expected from such foolish dealing than the emphasizing of all the unorthodox notions that the heretic, haseverbad? "You shall state to usittin the space of twenty minutes that you arc in eirorintho working nut of l his sum. Eight times two aro sixteen. Blockhead, dare yon persist in denying UT Out with paper and-pen-cit, and confess before the clock strikes ten that you are an s ignoramus. Eight times two are sixteen." The arithmetic is'all right: but where Is the healthy minded scholar who would not persist to the last in declaring, as he did at tlrsr, that eight times two are twenty? Every right Instinct of his nature would make that assertion. After all, fair dealing is before the multiplication table, and freedom of think ing is better than all tho regulations of arith metic. Nobody was ever really persuaded by a threat. To Convince, Not Convict. It seems to me that the very best result of an ecclesiastical trial would be not to convict but to convince tho heretic Why didn't some body go m a friendly way to Mr. MacQueary and do his best to persuade 1,1m? Why did they not have In Ohio a Theological Persuasion Committee? 'Let truth and error grapple." That quotation was made to me by Dr. Bates, tho prosecuting attorney in that case. But truth and error had no fair fightat all. Why doD'f- the Presbyterian theologians convince Dr. Briggs or confess that he has convinced them? Let truth and error grapple. Send the strongest and broadcst-mluded men that ortho doxy has, and let them ulscass the matter with the heretic Give everybody a fair chance all around. And whoever comes out ahead, give him the banner of truth and proclaim him ortho dox. Or are we too narrow-minded, partisan. prejudiced, opinionated for that? Is there no way of dealing with heretics except that old lies except mai oiu silence by cutting off way of putting them to their heads? I was considering last week the heresy of Dr. Briggs. There is only one portinent quos tion to be asked about the position of Dr. Brigg., and that is Is it true? Ha makes cer tain assertions. Shall we raise a great outcry that these assertions aro un-Presbytcrian? Are they untrue? that is the real question. Every good Piesbyterian wants FresbytorUnism synonymous with troth. That is what they have been repairing tho confession for, to make it square with what is now known to be true. One of the foolishest things which was said in the dl-cussion ahodi that change of the formu lary was, "We can't preach these doctrines any longer. People won't stand it." is that what preaching is for. then, ro tell people what they like to hear? Orthodox or unorthodox, Presbyterian or un-Presbyterian, pleasant or unpleasant all this is quite beside the mark. Is it true? Is it true? That is what we want to know. The Position of Dr. Brlgga. Now, Dr. Briggs makes certain assertions about the Bible. He finds fault with six posi tions of popular theology about.that book. He maintains that the teachers of the church ought to set their faces ag&iust these six misconcep tions. He proposes, as Professor of Biblical Theology in Union Seminary, to train young men to he enlightened teachers, who shall know what the Bible Is. The right Idea about tho Bible, according to Dr. Bnggs, ex cludes (1) superstitions reverence for the book; 2) tho attaching of divine inspiration to its letters, words and punctuation marks; (3) tho necessity of holding all the traditional statements as to the authorship of the scrip tures, looking to the ''higher criticism" as a safer guide than mere conjectural tradition; (4) the denial of error in the Bible, confessing circumstantial mistakes in it freely; (5) the Idea that miracles are violations of natural law, and (6) the maintaining of the pretence in the Bible of minute prediction. Is this the right idea about the Bible? That is the question. Then the professor went on, in that remarka ble address of his, to consider the theology of the Bible. And here, amid much to which nobody could well object, he singled out two doctrines one for approval, one for disapproval which must have had a queer sound in that Presbyterian atmosphere. Dr. Shedd, who sat on the platform that day, was observed to be "deep in meditation" as the students applauded the speaker. Yes, indeed! Professor Briggs declared, la a good round tone and with no the ological evasions or hedglngs, that hn believed in Purgatory, and that he didn't believe in Election. A Reaction Againstra Limitation. Here are his words as they were reported the next day in the New York Tribune: "Another fault of Protestant theology is in its limitation of redemption to this world. The modern reac tion against this limitation, in the theory of sec ond probation,is not surpnsmg. I donot find this doctrine in the Bible, bnt I do find the doctrino of .the middle slate ot conscious higher life, in the communion with Christ and with multi tudes of the departed, and of the necessity of entire sanctiilcation in order that the work of redemption may he completed. Progressive sanctiUcatlon after death Is the doctrine of the Bible and the Church. The bugbear of a judg ment immediately after death and of a magical transformation in the dying hour should be babisbed from the world, and we should look with hope and joy for the continuance of the process ot grace and the wonders of redemption in the company of the blessed to which we all are hastening." Isn't that Purgatory? No fire, and no prayers for the dead. but all the rest of It. Well, what If it is Furcatory. Is it true? That first, and last, and all the time, is the one question. And then here is this about Election: "The Biblical redemption is the redemption of our race. Loving only the elect is earthly, human teaching; but electing men to salvation bytbe touch of divine love, that is heavenly doctrine. The Bible does not teach universal salvation, but it docs teach the salvation of the world, of the race of man; and that cannot ba accom plished by the selection of a limited number irom the mass." This, now. so far as appears in the reports of the address, is the whole of. it and the worst of it. These six barriers to Hie right recention of the Bible, and these two doctrines, one affirmed and one denied, will probably make the counts in the ecclesiastical indictment A Snbject of Much Discussion. The most interesting subject of discussion among tho most thoughtful people nowadays is the subject, in some shape, of religion. It gets into the reviews and magazines and newspapers, and even into these Monday Meditations. The Professor of Things in General. looking out over the trend of cotemporary thinking, notices this. And he notices, also, that the religious move ment, all along the line. Is toward breadth, tol erance, wider rlewf, closer relation between the church and the pedple, reasonableness, truth at all hazards. Mr. MacQueary contends for the reading nf the creed with the Bible for a commentary. Dr. Briggs teaches a wiser reading of the Bible. Dr. Ratnsford and Dr. Newton, iu New York, are overstepping the -ronventlonal denomina tional lines. Y e have had Our share here in Pittsburg. The young Covenanters who met in the East End wanted to broaden the boundaries and batter down the barriers, and to hasten that good time when not the man who votes, but the man who fails to vote, will bo censured by the church. These thlugs are significant. Of course there are ecclesiastical trials and convictions, and suspensions and remonstrances; that is to be expected. But-yon might as well remon strate against the tide of the ocean. EVEBY OBSTACLE 0YHCDHE. The Qundronnlal Methodist Conference Will Be Held in Omaha. OltAHA, April. US. All doubt that the quad rennial conference of the Methodist Episco pal Church will be held in Omaha in 1S92. has been dispelled by tho action of Omaha business men. A Conference Committee ot Bishops de cided that Omaha must provide 525,000 for the entertainment of delegates, furnish a place for meoting and care for 250 guests. These condi tions have been fulfilled by tho raising of a guarantee fund. Pledcej.frora citizens to 'entertain the dele gates at private residences have been secured. Dora's Opera House, with a seating capacity of 8.000. has been leased, end the proprietors of the leading hotels have already agreed to take their proportion of colored delegates. MONDAY: APEIL 27, I OLD GS AND HOW TO BEACH IT. A Scries of Eittn",tv' Ry Frank G. Carpen ter joiiiei3iiiis For All to Read. Beginning villi next Sunday Tnc Dispatch will publish a series ot the most remarkable talks on "Long Llfo and How to Reach It" ever printed in an American newspaper. These talks arc by the most eminent Septua. gennnans and Octogenarians of the United States. They cover all the questions of health, diet, exercue. etc., and they aie full of per sonal details ami Interesting personal experi ences. On iirxt Sunday Senator Henry B. P.tvnc will tell how he U able to walk three miles a day at K0, and will give rules for young men who wlh to attain the same vlnr at four score. An &;cd Supreme Justice ot the United States will discuss the use of hot air baths as :t health producer, and will descrihq how a man may he as g.i) as he pleases, eat what he pleases, drink what he pleases, and still remain healthy. Senator Cllngman of South Carolina, who is 73. will discuss marriage and longevity, and Generals N. P. Banks of Massachusetts, and Vaudever of California, two other old stager, wilt give the results of their three score and ten years for the rising generation. The articles which will follow this for the next three Sundays are fully as Interesting. They aro in tho shape of special articles by the men themselves, and in interviews with them made especially for us by Mr. Frank G. Car penter. They embrace such names as those of Senators Evarts and Morrill, the Hon. Caslns M. Clay, the Hon. Ncal Dow. Horatio King, the Hon. Henry Watterson and many others of years and note. We feel assured in saying they will be among the mostattractive features of the paper during the current month. EIGHTS OF FOREIGN RESIDENTS. Ex-Secretary Baym (l's Opinions Apropos of the Italian, Dispute. Ex-Sccrctary Bayard lu -May Forum. 1 A score or more instances' can be found, in existing treaties between the United States and foreign nations, of stipulations for secur ing to citizens of each nation residing within the territory of the other, the enjoyment of all the privileges of the most favored nation and periect equality with the natives. These stip ulations, while varying somewhat in form, are n substance equivalent, and iu none of tbem is a greater degree of care, diligence, and active protection required of the Government of the United States than is bestowed by it upon its own citizens. The crant of assured protection is almost invariably accompanied by the condition that the individuals so pro tected shall submit themselves to the condi tions imposed upon the natives, or, in the phraseology of our treaty with Italy, that they shall receive protection "upon the same terms as the natives of the country, submitting them selves to the laws there established." In no esse is a separate or' special tribunal stipulated for on either side; the same laws that control the natives, and the same courts of justice that administer those laws and are resorted to by the natives, alone are mentioned. I except, of course, those Oriental countries in which extra territorial jurisdiction is -conceded to our Consular and diplomatic officers in all cases where our citizens in those countries are concerned. When, therefore, in the United Statesman injury to person or property has been sustained by an alien here resident, his treaty rights are his rights under international law and the usage of civilized nations, aro the same as those that are available to any citizen of the United States. No treaty was ever entered into by tho United States with any nation which stipulated for the enforcement of laws discrim inating In favor of the subjects ot any foreign Government residing in tho United States, or entitling them to any other or any greater pro tection than is accorded to the citizens of the most favored nation, or to our own citizens. DANOEBOTJS ADVERTISING. Much Domestic Discord Caused by a Stroke of Enterprise. Baltimore Herald. J An ingenious idea in the way of advertising caused some little vorrimeut of mind in this city last week. Wishing to do something novel, one of the theatrical managers sent out scores of postal cards to friends, announc ing that the production on the boards at the theater) in question should be seen at all hazards. Those of tho postals directed to and received by the male contingent were signed "Mary," "Louise." "Maude." or with some other pretty femlnino first name, while those which reached the ladios bore the signa tures "Edgar." "Clarence," or the like. It was not foreseen that these missives would fall into wrong hands, or that they would be mis construed, zlut as is ever the case, the unex pected happened. Young, faithful and loving busbanas return ed home to find their wives wrought to a high Eitch of jealousy, and a few thoughtless hus ands I hear, were reckless enough to accuse their tender mates with duplicity. The mystery was soon cleared up, however, and the hearts that had beat with unusual emotion have now resumed their normal tattoo. PBECIOTJS STONES TO 0BDEB. Diamonds, Rabies, Sapphires and Other Stones Can Be Made. Prof. Croojtes In May Forum. Attempts have been made, not without suc cess, to form minerals. Artificial ultramarine has long been an article of commerce. The formation of the diamond is said to have been actually effected, but In the opinion of the in ventor the process is so difficult and so danger ous, that the diamond miner and the diamond merchant need not feel uneasy. The rnby and the sapphire have lately been reproduced in Paris, and, curiously enough, the coloring mat ter in both is found to be duo to one and the same metal chromium In different states of combination. Red and bluo stones, or an inter mediate violet form w hlch might be likened to the rare and beautiful oriental amethyst, have been obtained In one and the same operation, from the same lot of material. The jewels thus produced have so far all been small: large enough to form the pivots of su perior watch works, hut not large enough to rank as rare and costly ornamental objects. CAENEGIE'S PHILANTHBOPIES. He Flans tho Spending of His Money Be- for It Is Made. 'New Y'ork Telegram. I Androw Carnegie, the Pittsburg millionaire, plans what he will do with bis money before it is made. He has alreadv decided upon the uses to which he will put the millions that will come to him from his iron work during the next two years. Ho loves to make money and spend it for some of his many philan thropic schemes. Thera are those who inti mate that it would be better for his workmen If he would devote a portion of the vast for tunes which be earns every year to inoreaslng tbelrsalarles. hot ho evidently has a view of Imilanthrophy which is different from that of us critics. In New York Mr. Carnegie has hosts of friends. Personally bo is of a most genial dis position and a most Interesting conversational ist, being well informed on a great variety of topics and having profited by his experience and his travels in many parts of the world. Signs Which Fail. Chicago Tribune. Wild geese were seen flying northward weeks ago. and Colonel Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times, has had his regular spring tight. The present unsettled condition of the weather is inexplicable. Few So Hard to Please. Kansas City Sunday Sun. The man or woman who finds fault with TnE Pittsburg Dispatch is too pessimistic for mundane existence. A WOMAN'S WAY. 'Do you love me. dear?" she asks In her soft and gentle way. Deep into her eyes 1 look, and What do you suppvse I say ? Why. what lovers always sy: Swear 1 love her as 1 do Swear 1 always shall till death. Cruel death, shall part us two. What doeshe do then? Indeed. Her proceedings seem quite queer. For again in gentle tones Shcasksj "Do you lore me. dearf"- Love her? Why, of coarse, I do I am ncverslow to tell All my passion, and I'm sure ( Sho must know 1 le re her Well: And I'm quite sure, too, she asks Not because she drnbts, you know, Hut because the llttl: fraud . Likes to bear me till her so. ' , , SomentUt Journal, I89L IN CAR AND CORRIDOR. A Cigar Not to Re Smoked A Reminiscence of Grunt Puces lu Marble Ail Odd Portrait of Conkllng in Onyx Souvenir Spoons From AH Parts of tho Land. "I have a cigar at home that was given me nearly 20 years ago." said George C Waldo, tho New Y'ork banker, to me recently. "It is tho only cigar that has escaped a fiery death of the many thousands that have coioe into my hands during that tiin It was in the summer of 1872, a warm, dellg'itful day in July, and I was stopping at t:io Overtook House, on the Delaware and Ulster Railroad, in the Catskill .Mountains, when General Grant came there. I was invited by some of the party, among whom besides General Grant were General George H. Sharpe, General Porter and General Bali cork, to go with them to Hurley, tho high est point lu tho Catskills. It was a very pleas ant excurjinn. and Grant was In high spirits and not the least conscion3 nf bis Presidental dignity. We talked and smoked a great deal, and the President insisted that 1 should try one of bis cigars, a pretty large and heavy perfecto. I took the cigar, but I managed to avoid lighting it, fur I wanted to keep it as a memento or the day and the hero. To establish the record of the cigar's origin I bad affidavits prepared on my return to the Overlook House, and the witnesses to the gift signed them. The cigar and the papers describing it are. safely stored away in my vault, and some day It will be a relic of priceless value. The Overlook House has bceu burned down since then and the register showing that Grant and the others were thero at the time I was was destroyed, so that the affidavits are doubly valuable." The Face In the Pillar. If y-0U have made any study of marble and especially that beautiful stalagmitlc variety known at Mexican onyx, you must have often fonnd in the translucent stone markings that, with but a little trifling exercise of the imagi nation, became landscapes or portraits. Very beautiful are some of the pictures thus pro duced accidentally in marble, and probably as a rule by the infiltration of water containing somo powerful mineral in the case of a certain marble found near Bristol, in England, for ex ample, the tree-like traceries are cansed by the action of water holding oxide of manganese upon the limestone. A curious example of this natural painting Is to be found in the great fire-place of the lobby in the Park Hotel at Hot Springs. Tho mantelpiece is of wnite marble supported by pillars ot Mexican onyx. In the left hand pillar, half way down, the warm brown clouding of the stone takes the semblance of a face, and singnlarly enou:h, it is a good like ness of the late Roscoe Conkling, including the Hyperion curl. lone, thin nose- and pointed beard ot the great statesman. So strong and true a portrait was it thatvery fewof thehuudreds of visitors to whom it was shown but recognized it at the first glance. Yet it is nothing more than an accidental combination of the natural veins in the stone, untouched or tinged by man except in so far as the polishing of the block has brought out the rich color of the onyx's markings. A Great Chicago Preacher. Mr. Gonsaulus is to Chicago what Beecher was to Brooklyn, and Plymouth Cnurch on Michigan avenue Is tho counterpart of the older church of the same name in influence popularity and broad-gauze Christianity. The personality of Mr. Gonsaulus is intensely mag netic, even more so than was Beecher's, and the moral fiber of the former strikes one as being finer than that of the great divine whose voice has been stilled forever. In the course of the last three years Mr. Gonsaulus has risen into an extraordinary position toward Chicago, one that justifies the assertion of a brother clergyman recently that "Gonsaulus dominates the Protestant church as a whole in Chicago." He is not merely popular and powerful in his own church, but with the people generally, and it Is worth remembering that Chicago numbers now more than 1,000,000 souls. During the past winter, with the consent of his congregation proper, be has conducted a popular service in the Central Music HalL I tried two Sundays ago to witness this service, hot the hall was packed when I got there, some time before the hour of commencement, and I could not get a seat. The hall, I believe, holds about 7,000 people, and it has been filled every Sunday evening since Gonsaulus has preached there. Besides his sermon, always the great attraction to the multitude, the quartet from Plymouth Church, which Is one of the best and most handsomely paid in Chicago, lends its aid with two or three anthems and leads the congrega tional singing nf hymns. The effect of that great audience singing in unison must be superb. .. How He Catches the People. Why is Central Music Hall crowded, when most of the churches are not half full? A member of Plymouth Church answered this question for me. He said: "Before Gonsaulus began these popular services he made a tour of the theaters, which are open, you know, in Chica go on Sunday evenings.and observed, as best he might, what drew the people to.them. I can't say what he found out, but be planned the service for the people in direct competition with the theaters, and I think the provision of comfortable seats, or a brilliantly lighted and well-warmed auditorium, and plenty ot good music, as well as simple, short prayers, and a sermon containing more humanity than theolo. gy, and more chesry helpfulness than denun ciation for sinners, may be counted among the magnetic agents be employs. The services, men of all denominations adinlt,have done a vast deal of good and among people who, for the most part, never go inside a church. The expenses of 'the services Mr. Gonsaulus and the Plymouth Church Quartet will accept nothing are met by private sub scription, chiefly of the great storekeepers and merchants In the business center of tho city. Eloquent testimony to the value of the services was rendered recently by the great drygoods firm of Mandel Brothers, who wrote to Mr. Gonsaulus Dogging him to continue the Music Hall services and offering to hear a largo share of the expense. The Mandels are Hebrews. Mr. Gonsanlns' Personality. In person Mr. Gonsaulus is singularly well-favored. Something over six feet in height his figure is erect and graceful. He has plenty of dark hair, an d except for a mustache be is clean shaven. In his dark eyes, clear olive complexion, straight nose,' heavy eye brows and other notable features, his Spanish origin, remote though it be, for his parents were American citizens, and I think his grand parents also, shows itself plainly, as it does also in his name, which in Spain would be spelled Gonzalez. Most men and all women would call htm handsome, and there Is a manliness about him that few great pulpit orators have possessed In so great a degree. On tho plat form for of course as a Congregationalism bo does not preach from a pulpit he is wont to stand still only at tbo beginning of bis sermon. As be warms up be walks back and forth and nses his arms very freely to indicate tho prog ress of a though: or the evolution of an argument. Joe Jefferson who went to bear him preach a tew Sundays ago told his colleague, Billy Florence, that the stage lost a great actor when Gonsaulus en tered the church, and that explains another of the preacher's charms. Extraordinary to say Mr. Gonsaulus is one of the most modest and nnpretentioui of men, and It is the hardest thing under the sun to get him to talk to you of himself, or even or his work. A high officer of the Western Union, who is a member of the Plymouth Church, met Gonsaulus on the cars down in New Mexico last year. They occupied the same section and of course talked a good deal, and as the telegraph man expressed himself in relating the experience to me: "At tho journoy's end I was surprised to find that Gonsaulus had extracted from mo all that 1 knew about building telegraph lines and operating them." Iji this way no doubt the vivid and encyclopedic Illustrations which make Gonsaulus' sermous so Interesting are obtained. IL J. Comlne Musical Attractions. The sale of reserved seats for the United States Marine Band concerts begins at H. Ham ilton's music store at 9 o'clock ('his morning. The sale Is expected to open with a rush, as ad vance orders have already been received for nearly 100 tickets. The band plays In President Harrison's own home to-day and to-night, and the week Will be spent mo3tlr in Ohio. Pitts burg will be tho only Pennsylvania city on the band's route. The sale of reserved seats for the May Festi val will open this morning at 9 o'clock at Ham ilton's music store. The drawlne of private boxes is set for this afternoon at 3 o'clook, la the ladles' parlor of the Hotel Anderson, at which time and plate the tickets will be ready. WASHINGTON MUSINGS. The Prcsidont.il Family IJeyond the Sound oflheSobtfn the White House A Capi tal JJtibblo A New Corcoran Art Gal lerj. f 7R0JI A STAJT CORRE8rOXDEXT.I Washington. D. C. April 25. The Presi dent Is still nlaent on his royal tour, and the Whltu House is teuantlcss. Mrs. Halford's death has thrown a funeral pall over it. Mr. Halford atid hit daughter are grief-stricken. They were very near to the President and his family; and it seems always impossible that the Harrisons should be enjoying tho satisfaction that comes or being lionized and guzzling and gormandizing while the Hulfords are in tears. What a di'trtmliig exhibition is made in "honor" of ihn President. The worst otitis be seems to really liko it. Is It possible that we are nation of the worst flunkeys and tuft hunters in the world? I dare say from having been a very obscure spectatorof the "progress" ofquiieanutnberof the so-called royal per sonage' of the world, that snch scenes as have attended the "progress" of the President and his train wmild b impossible in any place but the United States. Harrison has been small in many things, but nothing that be has done has seemed to indicate so great a lack of real breadth and dignity as this. Nobody but a petty politician elevated to high office could permit or enjoy such treatment as though he wero a god instead of an ordinary attorney from a one-horse Hoosler town. But If we think this of the President, what must we think of the people? Or all the many speculations, solids and bubbles, that have endured or burst in the vi cinity of Washington, a syndicate is jnst now engaged in booming one of the most novel that has been devised. The inducing of Cleveland to buy a country home m which he never lived was not a marker to it. An old citizen, or a de scendant of old citizens, by heritage or other wise, was possessed of hundreds of acres of wortnless land about five miles out of the city. It was away from the railroad and not availa ble for one of those little manufactured vil lages that are the result of judicious booming. It had a pretty view, however, and the owner, being a man of inventive fancy, conceived the scheme of a new "Chautauqua," not hesitating to crib the appellation ot the Western New York Association. He called the place "Glen .cno, possiDiy because tbera is not an eqbo in all that -region, and tho institution which he proposed to establish, the "Glen Echo Chautauqua." Judicious gifts of lots and stock: to doctors of divinity gave the scheme a tone of learningand respect ability. A wealthy company or "syndicate" has been organized, and the thing stems to be a great go. A tremendous stone amphitheater is almost finished, a beautifnl granite, castel lated building for a school of philosophy is on the way, cottages and tents will be provided for the patrons that are expected to come, emi nent teachers have been employed and lec turers engaged for the instruction of all who choose to study and listen, more than the "Chautauqua Course" is promised, the Con cord and i armington schools of philosophy are to be transplanted to Glen Echo, and, alto gether, it is ono of the prettiest schemes to boom corner and other lots that has been known in this region. Lots have jumped from 525 an acre to 10, 15 and 25 cents a square foot, and the dealers and dominies are in high feather. It will Interest all the world to know that we are to have a new building for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is so great an attraction for every visitor to the capital. The present structure, enjoyable as it is, is one ot the worst lighted galleries In the world. It is impossible to get a good light except by an accident of the atmosphere. Mechanical art will not accom plish it. The trustees have jnstpurcbuedan acre and a half of gronnd across Seventeenth street from the War Department, and over looking in some measure the pretty park known as the "White Lot," and here is to be built, sooner or later, an ideal gallery. The standard of the works In this gallery has been greatly improved of late. Old fogy ideas seem to have passed away, and the most of the recent works purcnased are of the most ap proved realistic scbool. At the recent Seney sale the gallery secured good examples ot the work of Diaz, Cazm, Isabey. Rioo and Alexan der Harrison, none of whom had been previ ously represented in the collection. I have often spoken In these letters of Max Weyl as one ot the best landscape artists in America. He 1 a hero as well as an artist. For a score of years, amid discouragements which would have turned almost any other man aside from his ambition, selling a picture now and then, banging on to a living by the eyelids, he had faith that he would yet be appreciated. He waited for the education of those who should have been bis prompt patrons, one might say. It remained tor obscure American friends who knew the value of his work, and later for wealthy and titled forelgners'who were admirable connoisseurs, to make him known and appreciated. His time has come and he Is on the nigh tide of prosperity. At a recent ex hibition of works of local artists be was award ed the 3100 prize for the best picture. The Corcoran gallery has just pnrchased a land scape from him, and he has a liberal order for a large landscape from the Metropolitan Mu seum of Art at Now York. I don't like to speak of money in connection with fine art. bnt 1 may say lor the encouragement ot Pittsburg artists who languish in the inferno of the un appreciated that Max Weyl has sold within the last two months upwards of (0,000 worth -of pictures. Another instance of a young American who has risen with more rapidity to a position approaching fame. A few years ago G. S. Truesdell was a lithographer in Chicago. He had an ambition for higher art and began to paint. He traveled a very rough road in Paris for several years, assisted occasionally by bis brother, the well-known Washington corre spondent, but he stuck to It and his picture of the last Fatis salon was highly commended by Albert Wolff, the great art critic It was awarded a medal and now rests in the Corcoran Gallery. It was purchased within tho last two or three days for the sum of $1,500. It Is a large canvas with a pleasing landscapes pretty shepherdess and a remarkably life-like flock of sheep. These successes and others do not crow a the market with fine artists, however. There is plenty of room left. K. w. L. WHY KIPLING SUCCEEDS. He Has Lived the Exotic Wild Life or Which He Writes. The secret of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's effects is tnat he lived before ho wrote. His fighting scenes, his barrack life, bis love-making, his flirting was never evolved from Inner con sciousness or observation, says an English ex change. Heba3,not looked on, eyeglass in hand, at the tragi-comody of society, to select a few details here and there he has the whole experience in tho photographic memory, which Is the host part of a writer's outfit, and chooses the lines which live. Tbera can be no question about his success being a lasting one. His method Is the right and truo one. and such a man will write with vivid Interest as long as the world lasts from which he draws material. He is the one writer who can make a story absorbing without love making, and is likely to be the Thackeray of our time, for there is more resemblance in the two men than their East Indian and artistic beginnings. Thackeray's early work In the "Yellowplush Paper," and his short stories have much of tho dash and swagger of Kip ling's. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. J. D. Hancock, of Franklin, attornev for tho Western New York aiidPennsylvania'Rall road, passed through the city en route to Har risburg, where ho will make an argument against the granger tax bill. Frank Eeardon, Superintendent of Motive Poworof the Misouri Pacific road, was in the city for a short time yesterday. He was going to Philadelphia to order a lut of now engines. H". E. Krchbiel, of New York, who will lecture this week on Wagnerian muic. and J. H. La Roche, or Kittanulnfc, are registered at the. Monongafaela House. Ciotain Langley, of Washington, and C. Stnfder. "f New Y'ork, are at the Duquesne. Mr. btrifiisr is a foreigner who came here ex. pressly to see the city. The "Still Alarm" company, with Harrv Licy, passed through the "city last evening bound for Washington fropa Cincinnati. John Berlin, Warden of the county jail, returned from a trip to New York yesterday morning somewhat improved in health. Z. C. Bobbins and wife, of Washington, and D. W. C. Wickerson. of Boston, are among the guests at the Mooongabela Honse. The Cleveland Spiders arrived in the city from Cincinnati last evening and registered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel: Harry Patterson, of Brookville, left for Whatcom, Wash, last evening to engage in the lumber business. Joseph Marshall left for Atlantic City last evening. He has been ill for some time. Dr. W. H. Walling, of Philadelphia, Is visiting friends In the city. Lewis Morrison, the actor, is stopping at the Monongabela Honse. Captain Dilworth went to' New, York last Ycning; . CIJLKJOUS CONDENSATIONS. - Ithr.eJ, Mich., has a one-pound baby.-- L?xiugton, Ky., ladies have organized an anti-slang soclery. Glue from whale refuse fs a new article of commerce made In Russia. , There are over 3,000 cases of the grip ia Christiana, the capital of Norway. A Georgia man has an egg which has. the exact shape of a young chicken. Little mice threaten to ruin the most prolific crop of melons G eorgia has known ro years. There are nearly 1,500 more female than male teachers in the Missouri common schools. Memorial Day in a Georgia town was postponed for a month because of the scarcity of flow era. A Topeka Chinese laundrynian has gone back to his own country as a Christian missionary. "-The word nicotine is derived from the name ot John Nicot, who introduced tobacoa into France. The Japanese word for farewell means "It It must be so;" and the Chinese say. "Go away slowly." During an oil boom in Vaneeburg, y., 700 acres of land sold for tto.000. The same tract was sold the other day for $46a. A Chicago burglar fell asleep in a honse in which he was waiting an opportunity to roh, and when he awoke he was in the grasp of tbe law. A recent school examination in Kansas elicited the following forms of comparison: III,- ill er, illest; ill, worse, better; ill, worse, dead. The man-eater is generally an old and worn-out beast, without activity sufficient to enable him to spring upon deer, antelope- and buffalo. A woman, in Flint, Mich., advertises for a position as housekeeper and says in ier advertisement that an offer of marriage will oa given attention. A Newaygo, Mich., lover gave hi) sweetheart J18 with which to purchase a wed ding trosseau. She took the money and mar ried another fellow. A Georgia groom of 18 who wedded a bride of 40 paid the officiating clergyman a fee of four silver dimes. He couldn't rake to- gainer a larger sum. It is said that England has more women workers In proportion to her population than any other country, 12 per cent of the industrial classes being women. Henry Clews predicts that since the embarrassment of the Barings, tbo presumed invincible bead of the London banting system. New York City will become the Clearing House of the world. Abbeville, Ga., has a freak in a negro baby, 2 years old, whose head weighs SOpounds. AH the back of its head is as soft as mush. The child has been crying incessantly for eight months, and no wonder. The period of "a generation" has been lengthened; it used to be 30 years and later in creased to 34; now, a scientist says, the average term of human life has Increased in the last aO years from 34 to 43 years. ' A crank recently demanded a loan of $125 from Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee. He states that President Buchanan once went on his bond and that therefore the loan should be made by one who bears his name. A Bangor physician prescribed rides on an electric street car to a paralytic lady pa tient. The result was a complete cure.- The currents of electricity passing through the car, too slight to be felt by strong people, acted as a tunic for her. The zoological department of the Mich igan Agricultural Society reports having cap tured a black watersnake in the stomach of which were found four fishes. The largest of the fishes bad partially swallowed another of its own kind. The smallest cow on record is reported from South Clarksvllle, Tenu., less than three feet in height. She has a calf 3 weeks old and is giving over a gallon of milk per day. When tbey go to milk her they have to dig a hole in the ground to set the bucket in. In 31ecklenbnrg a sf range custom exists, that when anybody dies the mirrors of the whole honse are immediately covered with dark cloth. The feet of tba corpse must be directed to the door, otherwise the belief is that soon somebody else must die in the same house. Some Georgia men are interested in a new railroad contrivance which may lighten the responsibility of train dispatchers. When a train passes a station a great light Is thrown upon the higher atmorpbere, and at the next station toward which the train is heading at the same time. The growth of the nails oa the left hand requires eight or ten days more than those on the right. The growth is more rapid in chil dren than in adults, and goes on faster in snmmer than in winter. It requires an average of 132 days for the renewal of the nails in cold weather, and but 116 in warm weather. An inhabitant of Jlimmsville, Ga., de scribes a fish he has caught as "a trout, or trouts, with two heads perfectly formed which wotks perfectly Independent of each other. Each head Is supplied with tho usual number of eyes and the proper amonnt of gill. The heads nnlte just back of the gills, the two mouths taking food at the same time. The entire production of the precious, semi-preclons stonos and ornamental minerals in the United States during the year 18S9 was $188,817. Ot this amount S53.175 was agatlzed aud jasperized wood. t2S,C75 turquoise stones and 514.000 qnartz. Diamonds to the value of 81,00tf,716 were cnt during the year in the lap idary works in New York and Massachusetts. Two young ladies of Greenville, Mich., went out to gather arbutus the other day. They unhitched the horse and tied him to the buggy while they gathered the pretty blossoms. When they were ready to return thev found the norse had already departed. Nothing daunted, the two girls tranformed them selves into horse-power and dragged the buggy home. A Kansas cow recently lost her calf. After it died, she transferred her affections to the 14-year-old son of her owner, for whoa she manifests a strange fondness. She licks him just as she would a calf, and no one but tba boy can do anything with the dumb creature. The other day the lad had occasion to go to town, and. as he remained away after milklnc time, his sister put on a suit of his clothes and went into the barnyard, and succeeded in de ceiving the cow until she (the cow) happened to see the hoy coming np the road, when she kicked the pall over and made a bound In the direction ot the youtb. showing tne most us. mistakable evidences of doliht. QUINTESSENCE OF QUEERNES3. A WRECK. Bold Jackey was loose from his moorings He had floated Inshore with a tide. Three sheets were flapping quite gayly. And his wake was nncommonly wide. In tacking he wanted for sea-room , His course was not laid by a star And too late to avoid a collision. A schooner sailed over the bar! Smith, dray Co.'s Monthly. Miss B'.eecker I love to see a little hoy ia kilt skirts. JIUs Kmerson (or Boston) Yes: assassinated nether garments are very becoming to diminutive youths. Judge. , Office Boy Mr. Goldsell, the bookkeeper swore at me this morning. Head or Firm Swore at yon? That was' Inex cusable. 1 had Instructed htm to kick you down stairs. Jewelers' Heetty. In the spring a man always thinks it is cheaper to boy a lawn mower and trim all his lawns hlmsciri In the heat or July be always knows It 1 j cheaper to hire a laborer to do the Job but he can't persuade his wire. Somtrritlt Journal. Tomkins Why do you call the new treas urer or the United States Neuekernezzar? Lninpklns Because he has been turned lnt Uncle Sam's pasture with the rest ot the cattle, Chicago Times. "Am I on the books, sir?" asked the bridge policeman, with awkward humility. "It doesn't make any difference whether yoa are or not." St. Peter growled; "we can't litis loiterers on this cloud extension. Aloveon!" Jfew for Aun. Gus De Smith is courting the daughter of his landlady, but she does not reciprocate. He has at last become reckless, and on her repeated refusal to listen to his suit he said to her: Miss Fannie. I'll give you until the lith to love me: if you don't do it then I'll move out on the 1st." Two Stfttngs. Marquis dt Rndini (rushing down, panic stricken, in his night-clothas What was the cause of that (errlnc shock, a few moments ago? Attendant A messenger says a powder maga zine Just outside the city bas blown np. Marquis dl ftudfnl Thank Heaven! I thought It was another' letter from Blaine, Chlcag iXmilUU. $&&-? js.- -Vlf I (itftin'lnji. iMrilisssMlMiikliisliMiisW iftfinfMJTirliiTWnW
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