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PITTSBURG. MON DAY. MAY. 4, 189L
HUX'S CODING MOVE.
The latest novelty in politics afforded by
the versatile but unreliable David Bennett
Hill is that he is going to run once more for
Governor of Nw York. This surprising
determination, as stated in our New York
special dispatches, is based on the convic
tion that it is, the onlv tray to keep himself
in line for the Presidency, and that he can
score a victory in New York that will desig
nate him as the coming man.
The difficulty of adding to his present
dual capacity as Governor and United
States Senator the .third function of candi
date for Governor for another term, does not
daunt Hill. He has fall confidence in his
ability to manage the triple position, and
breathes no hint of an intention to surrender
any present position. Governor Hill is not
of the resigning sort, and in this especial
case he has fully shown his conviction that
two birds in the hand are worth one in the.
bush. Indeed, the striking ability of David
Bennett to hold various positions is
calculated to arouse a conviction
that if he should succeed in
Ills Gubernatorial enterprise be wonld
keep his grip on everything while he ran
for President "Whether we can grasp the
idea of Hill filling the positions of Presi
dent, Senator and Governor, all at once, is
something we must leave the future to de
termine. If Hill makes this political stroke, the
onus will rest upon Congressman and Sen
ator Jjck Robiuson, of our own Stale, to do
something to keep himself in the run of
modern political progress. Nothing could
show his determination to keep up with
Hill more thoroughly than to run for elec
tion to bis proposed Constitutional Conven
tion before the convention itself has been
voted by the people.
BE1QXD THEIR LASTS.
Our esteemed eoteinporarie who are pub
lishing that story about the Kansas farmers
sowing wheat without plowing their
ground, as a proof of the sloth fulness of the
Farmers' Alliance members, have reason for
inquiring whether they do not need guar
dianship when it comes to criticizing agri
cultural work. The storv is given by a
cotemporary as follows:
An investigation just made by the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture shows that what
the Alliance farmers really want is a way to get
, monej without working for It. An agent of
the boaid has visited 30 fields in Russell county
and found that in each instance wheat had
been sown on the wheat or corn stubble, with
out any previous preparation of the ground.
The same thing Is said to be true of Seward,
Stafford and other cou.ities.
It happens to be the fact that Kansas is a
winter-wheat raisiug State. The idea of an
investigation in the spring, of the manner
in which wheat was sown in the preceding
fall, is something that would pass current
only in Eastern newspaper offices anxious
to swallow any story against the Alliance
people.
The farmers of Kansas as well as of other
"Western States have earned a tolerably
good reputation for knowing how to raise
wheat. It is not hazardous to predict that
they are as well versed in that business as
their critics of the Eastern cities.
PATENTS AND PROPERTY.
Some comments of The Dispatch, the
other day, on the possibilities of the present
system of patents in the way of defeating
its own purpose, evoke a reply from the
yew York Recorder. To the statement of
The Dispatch that for the encouragement
of invention the patent laws offer to the in
ventor a monopoly in his invention, limited
as to duration, the Recorder excepts with the
assertion that "ownership by an individual of
the product of bis own industry is not mon
opoly," and. further, that the invention "is
the property 'of the inventor," and conse
quently cannot be considered a monopoly.
This includes a dispute as to the use ot
terms, and a slight confusion as to the origin
of property rishts.
A farmer who raies a thousand bushels
of corn to u-e the Recorder's illustration
has the exclusive coutrol of bis product.
He lias a monopoly ol that thousand bushels
of corn, but because millions of other
farmers raise corn he is not able to monop-
y olize the corn trade. To carry the lllustra-
tion a little further, take the case.of the first
. man who discovered that by fashioning
wood and steel into a hoe he could raise
more corn than if he used bis bands or a
, 'sharpened stick. The original laws of
' property gave him the property right in the
$ increased yield and in the hoe that he might
' make. But it is significant that this prop-
f crty richt did not extend to the degree
f. where he could forbid his neighbor to make
?v a hoe like his until the passage of the first
I patent law. it is not worth while to discuss
whether one proprietary right is more
. natural than another, because they are both
founded in social law, and are, in that
W sense, artificial. The right of a man to the
re corn he raises or the tool he makes is rooted
f in the fact that by such rights industry and
foresight are encouraged. tils title to
inventions or processes is founded on the
public benefit in the encouragement of
,- invention.
That the exclusive use of a patent some
times defeats this purpose, although ques
tioned by our cotemporary, is indisputable.
The Recorder thinks that the fact of mo
nopolies preventing progress by buying up
patents proves not the identity of patents
with monopolies, but the antagonism be
tween tbem, since a monopoly can only
suppress a patent by paying for it." It is
extremely doubtful if any monopoly was
ever attained without paying for it; but that
is a very poor indication of t,he system un
der which the monopoly is established. It
would be as-logical to say that because the
medieval governments raised revenue by
selling monopolies that proves the an
tagonism between that archaic kind of gov
ernment and monopolies, because the latter
had to pay (or them. "With a full recogni
tion of the value of inciting invention by
giving privileges in inventions which did
not exist as property rights before the en
actment of patent laws, the fact remains
that the cases where the privilege has been
used to suppress new inventions, or to im
pose such exorbitant charges on them as to
greatly limit their popular use, are suf
ficiently frequent to demonstrate an imper
fection in the system.
The Recorder courteously invites The
Dispatch to indicate how these imper
fections can be cured while guaranteeing
to the inventor the reward for his. industry.
The subject cannot be fully treated in "a
newspaper article, but it 'can be said in
reply to so complimentary au inquiry that
it can be done by giving to everyone the
right to manufacture a patented article or
use a patented process upon the payment
of a stated and uniform royalty to the in
ventor. To use the patent without paying
the royalty would be infringement It is
quite possible that the irfcreased use of
patents under such a system would yield
the inventor far more than he gets under
the present one, which can either limit the
use by excessive prices or forbid it alto
gether. THE NEW TREASURY STATEMENT.
The statement of assets and liabilities sent
out by the United states Treasury repre
sents slower changes in its policy, but not
less complete than the changes in the phases
of the moon. Some years ago a Democratic
administration of the Treasury got up a
statement especially for the purpose of
showing a small surplus. Now a Republi
can administration produces one for the sake
of showing how large the surplus is. No
one supposes that the figures in either were
falsified, but by a difference in treatment of
the various fnnds and in the classification
ot assets they were made to tell very different
stories.
There is much room for criticism of the
method used in the latest statement Some
items are classified in strict accordance with
the law, but are not less at variance with
correct bookkeeping. There is no more rea
son for classifying the 5183,000,000 of gold
and silver certificates as a trust fund for
which dollar for dollar must be held in the
treasury, than for doing the same
thing with the legal tenders. Both
classes of liabilities are promises to
pay, forwhichthe faith of the United States
Government is pledged. A hundred mill
ion dollars, or 30 per cent, of the legal
tenders is proved by experience to be an
ample reserve to redeem all possible de
mands; and the same percentage would be
ample for the certificates. Yet the law re
quires the money for the certificates to be
stacked up in the Treasury, while the state
ment under review does not even include in
the trnst funds the $100,000,000 reserve for
the legal tender notesl The utter illogicality
of this contrast is shown-by the fact that the
silver certificates circulate at par, not be
cause of the silver dollars in the Treasury,
but because they are convertible into legal
tenders, which in their turn are convertible
into gold. If the silver certificates could
only be redeemed by the silver dollar in
the Treasury, and those coins had o circu
late on their own merits, the certificates
would very promptly fall to a discount
There are other curious points in the
statement The 541,000,000 for the redemp
tion of retired national bank notes is very
properly included in the trust list. But the
5 per cent national bank note redemption
fund, which is of exactly the same charac
ter, is put in the current liabilities, while
the matured debt and unpaid interest, on
which the Government is "calling upon its
creditors to come and take'the money, are
given the same treatment Yet if any
form of Treasury liability requires the
money to be ready dollar for dollar, these
would seem to be the ones. The haphazard
classifications that prevail in the Treasury
are shown by the fact that if the $100,000,000
reserve on legal tenders were put in the trust
funds and the total legal tender issue taken
out of the current liabilities, the result
would be a surplus of $52,000,000; while if
the law permitted the strong reserve of 30
per cent in cash to be held against the cir
culating issues of the Treasury, there would
be a practical surplus of nearly $400,
000,000. Although there have been some partisan
attempts to prove the contrary, there is no
doubt that the Treasury has not only money
enough to meet all demands, but an actual
superfluity on perfectly sound principles
o' finance. The proper criticism on Repub
lican management is not that it
has made the Treasury unable to
meet its liabilities, but that it
has swelled appropriations so enormously
that, unless the policy is changed, such
mey be the case in future.
STOPPAGE OF THE SPEAK-EASIES.
One of the peculiar results of the delay in
announcing the list of wholesale licenses is
that the wholesale. houses were closed on
Saturday, and consequently the speak
easies were shut out of supplies and could
not run yesterday. This fact, which ap
pears ironi our local reports, is not exactly
complimentary to the,, trade done by the
wholesale firms, and suggests that their en
forced suspension is not an entirely unde
served hardship. Whether it also indicates
a method of cutting off" the illicit retail
liquor trade is a question that may suggest
itself to the courts another year. At all
events the loss of the wholesale liquor trade
is shown, according to this report, to be the
gain of the community in the shape of one
Sunday when the illegal doggeries could
not keep in operation.
THE ATTACK OV BLAXNE.
The Democratic press produced on Satni
daya charge against Secretary Blaine, in
connection with the sealing dispute, which
is of so grave a character as to imply
either wanton slander on the part of those
who put it into circulation or the existence
of unworthy influences in the management
of the State Department Against an of
ficial of Secretary Blaine's standing charges
of personal misconduct are not worthy of
much credence until backed by proof. Un
less evidence is brought to justify this
charge, it will react severely on its authors.
The charge is that the Secretarv had con
sented to the proposition of the British Gov
ernment to make the coming season a close
one, during which no seals should be killed
either on the islands or in the seas; that cer
tain influential gentlemen interested in 'the
North American Commercial Company went
to work to prevent this arrangement
on account of the los the suspension
of operations wonld inflict on that
corporation; and that from pecuniary in
fluences the Secretary induced the Presi
dent to permit a 'change of front, and re
jected the proposition, which had been re
ceived favorably. .
It trill be teen that the assertion it tnch
that, by a little modification, it can be made
harmless to the Secretary's" integrity. It
would not Imply any unworthy motive on
his part io say that he received the British
proposition favorably, but after examining
the contract of the Government with the
Commercial Company.founa' the suspension
of sealing operations impracticable. But
the assailants of the Secretary assert that
there is evidence that "Mr. Elkins was at
the bottom of Secretary Blaine's change of
front," and that "Mr. Blaine subordinated
the interests -of the United States to the
business profit of a small clique of citizens'
which is the language of a "Washington
dispatch to the New York Pott.
The people who make such charges against
a leading member oil the Cabinet should be
called upon to produce their evidence. If
they are simply indulging their talent for
slander they should be exposed in their true
light If there is any foundation ior their
charges the necessity of an investigation is
only the greater.
"It was on the 12th of April that the new
Pacific Ocean steamship Empress of India left
Liverpool, and ic was on the 28th of the same
month that she arrived at Vancouver, after
touching at Hong Kong and Yokohama," says
the New York: Sun. As this predicates a voy
age of about 18,000 miles in IS days, or over 1.100
miles each dky, without allowing any time for
stops, it is a rather strong record. Will not our
brilliant cotemporary somewhat revise its
strong draft upon a willing but somewhat lim
ited faith?
Fobest fires in Southern New Jersey are
burning np the woods by wholesale. The dry.
ncss of the spring coupled with carelessness
about the spread of fires causes the destruction
of more value in timber than would pay for an
adequate forest police for many years.
As a reply to the comments ot the Demo
cratic press on the Blair affair the New York
Press refers to "Kiely, sent first by Cleveland to
Austria, when even a slight knowledge ot Aus
trian customs would have taught that be' was
inadmissible, and next to Italy." As Kiely was
sent first to Italy and was rejected by the Aus
trian Government because he had been previ
ously rejected by its Italian allv, there is an
evident need for the esteemed Press to study
accuracy in its political history.
"With Minister Gram entertained by
Minister Reid in Paris, and Minister Smith by
Minister Phelps in Berlin, the old assertion
that our foreign ministers are overworked and
underpaid acquires a new and sinister signifi
cance. The meteorological genius of the New
York Tribune brings out this bit of weather
propbecv: "It looks as. though an unusually
hot summer wonld succeed an unusually cold
winter." This leads to the inquiry, first, what
reason is there for thinking so; and, second, if
so, will the localities like Western Pennsyl
vania, which did not have an unusually cold
winter, enjoy an -unusually mild summer?
New Jeesey's record for furnishing
charters to monopolistic combinations and
swindling co-operative schemes, to vex the rest
of the country, is still giving that Common
wealth a jnst if not enviable prominence.
Theee is a poetic justice in the disclosure
that after confiding Americans have for many
years been milked by schemes for gettlngslices
of "estates in England," the guileless Britons
are now being gulled by the vision of "estates
in America," to which they are induced to im
agine themselves'belrs. The capacity of people
for being gulled is not confined to any one side
of the ocean.
It, is stated that the Hawaiian! are clam
ori.g for a Republic. If the people of that
island kingdom want a Republic they ought to
be able to get it without clamoring.
There was, no doubt, a great deal of en
joyment in consuming the American viands at
that New York McKinley banquet But now
that it is established beyond question that
nothing but domestic cigars were smoked the
patriotic self-sacrifice of the banqueting states
men is demonstrated beyond cavil.
The courtesy and politeness of the Jap
anese give us the comfortable assurance that
they will take Blair oS our hands without even
a cross word.
That story the Eastern papers are pub
lishing with so much zest about Kansas farm
ers sowing their wheat without plowing the
ground, is evidently a fabrication got up to
test the capacity of our esteemed cotemporar
ies to swallow any yarn that appears to tbem
to discredit Western farmers.
Plenty Hoeses is now fully prepared
to Indorse the jury system which did not make
him feel the halter draw.
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District Attorney- Nicolx, of New
York, has dismissed the last of the indictments
against the Broadway boodlers. There seems
to have been a very correct idea In New York
politics of the circumstances under which it
was safe to elect Mr. Nlcoll to his present
office.
POPULAR PEBS01T8.
The appointment of Lieutenant Clarke,
ot the United States cavalry, to serve with the
Duss'eldorf Hussars, has evoked approving
comments from the German press.
Marshall Halstead, of the Cincin
nati Comma ciaUGatetle, it Is said, will soon
wed Miss Glenn, the charming daughter of
President Glenn, of the Commercial-Gazette
Company.
"Walt "Whitman got out in the mid
April sun and warmth propelled In his wheel
chair, the first time after four months' impris
onment in bis sick room. The "Good Gray
roel" nas not many more years for this world.
It is said that the Bev. J. "W. Prootts
man of the Methodist Church, South, was the
author of the first thanksgiving proclamation
ever Issued in the State of Missouri. It ap
peared iu the St. Louis dailies in November,
1859, during the administration of Governor
Stewart .
Lord Tennyson loves retirement more
than notoriety, and positively shrinks from the
public gaze. In fact apprehension of being
mobbed by the"profane vulgar"amounts almost
to monomania with the poet laureate. Many
good stories are told in Illustration of this
weakness of bis.
Hon. Charles Emory Smith, the re
tiring American Minister to Russia, and wife
were presented by Minister Phelps In Berlin
Saturday to the Count and Countess Schonval
off, Herr Earth, member of the Reichstag,
General von Versen, Count and Countess
Pappenheim and members of the American
Legation. '
EX-SENATOR HENRY "W. BLAIR; the recently-appointed
but recalled Minister to China,
Is a sandy-haired, cyn ic-eyed man of fussy man
ner, with a flowing bead sprinkled with gray.
He is rising 66, and served two terms In Doth
Houses of Congress. He early earned the
reputation of being the arch-bore of the Sen
ate, and lived up to it to the last day of his
term.
The late General Albert Pike, of "Wash
ington, was perhaps better versed in the mys
teries of ancient Freemasonry than any other
person In the world. His translations from the
vedas filled 17 volumes of 1,000 pages each, all
carefully written In a beautiful hand. General
Pike used none but quill pens in this writing,
and carefully preserved each one, the number
probably reaching 10,000.
Charles Francis Adams it a middle
sized man of compact build and graceful man
ner. He is 66 and belongs to that family which
gave two Presidents to the United States and
whose name is closely interwoven with the his
tory of Boston. After leaving Harvard he
entered tho army, from which ho emerged a
Brevet BrigadiersGenerai of Volunteers, Then
be took up the practice of railroad law, and in
1884 was elected" President of the Union Pacific,
which position he resigned last year. He be
longs to' the Massachusetts-Historical Society
and variofUTother learned bodies. ' I
THINGS IN GENERAL
A Queer Question Brings Out Some Inter-,
eating Information A Study or, longevity
Some Old Persons In Biblical kmtl More
Modern Tlmos.
tWElTTIN F5n THE DISPATCHi
Somebody wrote the other day to the Pro
fessor ot Tbtngs In General desiring to know
how long a year was.before the Christian era.
It was a queer question, a particularly queer
question to come, as it did, from a commercial
traveler. What my friend wanted with the
answer I know not However, I looked the
thing np and told him. and in the telling I dis
covered why it is that we have to recite "Thirty
days hath September," and the rest of, It in
order to find out when one month ends and a
new one "begins.
It seems that in tho days of Julius Cesar
everybody I suppose Knows this they made
the calendar all.overnew. There was a taskt
Think or it! Now shall be decided when the
year shall begin, and how long" the months
shall be, and by what names men
shall hereafter call them! There was, indeed
a matter for decision! Csar fixed the thing
admirably. He laid off the now year like a new
city, all squares and richt angles. The first
month should have 31 days, and the 'third, and
the fifth, anil So on. All the uneven months ot
the 12 should have an uneven count ol days.
February, of course, had to go short to bring
things right" at the end, but all the other
months should have SO days. An excellent ar
rangement! Vanity of irn Emperor. -
Now what spoiled It? Why the vanity of the
Emperor Augustus. The seventh month was
named July after Julius C'tesar; the eighth
month was named August after Augustus.
But according to the orderly rotation, Julius'
month had one more day than Au
gustus' month bad. Should that be tol
erated? Not for a moment! So one
day must be taken from poor February,
leaving now but 28, and this must be added on
to August. But now there came three long
months together July. Augnst and September.
So Augustus made September and November
30 days in length, and gave 31 days to October
and December. And thatspoilea the whole ex
cellent arrangement and added a new Incon
venience to time, and remains to perplex us
still. That is how it came about
1 see that Mr. Sheppard Homans thinks that
in the days long, long before the Christian era,
in the days before the Flood, a year wss only
three months long! This remarkable venture
In chronoiogv was probably invented by some
body who believed that the patriarchs lived
about four times too long. Some trace of
that three-month year would be interest
ing. Hnfeland says that there are
still some E istern nations who reckon only
three months to the year. One ould be pleased
to know what their names are and where they
live. All this has the sound of ingenious guess
work) and at that one man is -as good as an
other. Mr. Sheppard Homans, as all the life-insurance
men know very well, is one of the most
eminent insurance authorities living, aais
American experience tables are of great value
in the computation of risks. No man in the
world knows better how long the average man
will live. I was accordingly pleased when Mr.
Homans told me, on the occasion of his visit to
Pittsburg the other day, that ho had written a
paper on the subject of longevity, which he
promised to send me.
Commences at the Beginning.
Mr. Homan's begins bis paper poiriewhat as
Heine began his essay on the "Feet of the
Women ot Zottingen." Mr. Erehbiel told us
about it in one of bis delightful lectures here
last week. Heine, it seems, was describing the
town of Zottingen, and having mentioned its
two supreme glories "its sausages and its uni
versity" he was reminded of an essay which
he wrote while a student in the university on
the "Feet of the Women of Zottingen." The
essay fell into various divisions, such as' these:
First, feet in general; second, the feet of the
ancients; third, the feet of quadrupeds, as ele
phants; and so on down, by easy stages, to the
ieet of the Zottingen women. Mr. Erehbiel
said that he would be obliged to begin his
studv of the lyric drama with the Greeks.'
Mr. Homans begins his study of longevity with
Adam!
Adam, of course, was a pretty old man,
though Methuselah lived to over-match him in
that respect. Even if a year was but three
months long, the good men whose ages are
recorded before the Flood lived to be pretty
old men. Bnt some other peoplo have lived to
an extraordinary age In days considerably
nearer to us than the Flood. In 1780 a negress
named Louisa Truxo, "In Brazil" (how conven
iently indefinite that is!) died at the age of 173
years. Thomas Parr of Shropshire; Eneland,
died in 1635; aged 152 years. That Is probably
true. Thomas Cam of Shoredltcb, 15S8, is re
ported to have touched the limit of 207 years.
Better put a question mark after that
That was a curious case of Thomas Parr.
Charles the First sent for htm after be bad
passed his hundred and fiftieth birthday, and
gave him such an uncommonly good dinner
that the old man nas never well afterwards.
The moral would seem to b'o that if a man
wants to live to a particularly good old age he
should resist the temptations of uncommonly
good dinners.
The Man to Live Long.
Here is a portrait quoted from Mr. Homan's
essay, and there credited to somebody else's es
say, of a man destined to long life:
"He has a proper and well-proportioned stat
ure, without however, being too talk He is
rather of the middle size, and somewhat thick
set. His complexion is not tqo florid; at any
rate, too much ruddiness in youth is seldom a
sign of longevity. His hair approaches rather
to the fair than to the black. His skin is strong
but not rough. His bead is not too bur. In
general, there is a complete harmony in all his
parts. His senses are eood, but not too deli
cate; his pnlse Is slow and regular. His stomach
13 excellent, bis appetite good, and his digestion
easy. The joys of the table are to him of Im
portance. They tune his mind to serenity, and
his soul partakes in the pleasure which they
communicate. He does not eat merely for the
sake of eating; but eaob meal is an hour
of dally festivity; a kind of delight
attended with this advantace with regard to
others, and it does not make him poorer, hut
richer. He eats slowly and has not too much
thirst Too great thirst is always a sign of
rapid self-consumption. In general, he is se
rene, loquacious, active, susceptible ot joy,
love, and hope, but insensible to the Impres
sions of hatred, anger and avarice. His pas
sions never become too violent or destructible.
If be ever gives way to anger he experiences
rather a useful glow of warmth, an artificial
and gentle fever, without an overflowing of the
bile. He is fond also of enjoyment particu
larly calm meditation and acreeable specula
tion; Is an optimist, a friend to nature and do
mestic felicity, and has no thirst after honor or
riches, and banishes air thoughts of to-morrow."
The man who wrote that was a professor in a
German university, and died at the aze of 57!
So much easier is preaching than practicing.
The Lesson to Be Learned.
The sum of the whole matteris: Don't worry.
Worry is the disease which, as Mr. Homans
says, kills more patients than any other. Let
things go. Get up late in the morning and go
to bed early at night Never run after the
cable cars. Don't tear along the street as if
you had a check for 51,000, which must be
cashed before 3 o'clock. Be content to leave
things undone.
That Is one of the great secrets of life the
art of letving things undone. Add to that the
art nr leavin: things unsaid, and you are well
along toward the procession nf a good old age.
My dear friend, spare yourself. You are not
anything like so necessary as yon think you
are. Some men have an Idea that even the
Supreme Manager cannot get along without
them. If they take a day off, the whole rail,
leunium will bs,indoflnrtely postponed. And bv
and by they get sick, and the big machine runs
right along. Or they die, and everything goes
on, even better than before.
"And has no thirst after honor or riches, and
banishes all thoughts of to-morrow." Who is
tlratT Who is a good enough Christian for
that! "With long life will I satlsry bfm."
That is the old promise, still good.
JOINED THE GBEEE CHtTECH,
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The Fair Successor to the Throne of Greeoe
Formally Admitted.
Athens, May 3. The Duchess of Sparta, the
Princess Sophia of Prassia, sister of Emperor
William of Germany and wife of Constantly
Duke of Sparta, heir to the throne of Greece,
was to-day formally admitted Into the Greek
Church at tbe Boyal (,haoel, here.
The Metropolitan of Athens officiated, and
only the members of tbe royal family of Greece
and Premier Delvannia were present
TO-MORROW.
Everything wrong will be set right
To-morrow;
Your troubles sore will all take flight
To-morrow.
Fortune will smile, the tickle jade.
You'll win the love of some sweet maid,
And all your bad dents will be paid
To-morrow.
Why, then, repine? You will be gay
To-morrow.
You'll never think about to-dav
To-morf'oit. "
tforget yourmiscrlcs and strive
To think how everything wilt thrive
With you if only yoo're alive-To-morrow
V v- -
- EamerotUt Journal.
itklh. HOTELS TEEIB H0HE.
How the Cantvanc&ries of New York Have
Been Revolutionized.
Speaking of the peculiar hotel life led by
manypeopleinNew York, an old hottl man
Isays: "There are 20 people living in hotels here
now where one lived that way 10 or 15 years ago.
This is What has revolutionized the hotel basi
nets. Formerly hotel custom, was almost alto
gether of the traveling class. As soon as a man
concluded to remain In anyplace a week or two
he would get private rooms some place. It was
come to-day and go to-morrow mostly. Now
the substantial Custom (of the NewYork hotel,
at least) is from, permanent guests. They pay
all the way from S10 to 1100 a week some even
more for the quarters thus decupled. This is
independently of meals, which cost more money
In many cases. Five to ten thousand a year is
not an extravagant price to pay for a suite of
desirable rooms in a good hotel. Many men pay
the former for a bachelor flat
"The hotel service is very much improved by
this permanent business. he accommodations
all around are much better than can be had In
a private house, aud with no responsibility or
bother whatever ye, and for less money. It
is only a question Ot hotel grade, and this is
settled by the pocketbook though just now
everything is full and running over. When
the new hotels are finished there will be a rush
for rooms. I understand that many suites have
already been engaged from the plans, before
the cellars are dug. These are, of course, by
permanent guests."
THE FAME OF OLD HUTCH.
A Llttlo Monarch, or No Benefit to Mankind,
1 Who Has Had His Bay.
New-York Continent.
In Benjamin P. Hutchinson, better known as
"Old Hutch," there falls from his tinsel throne
another or the little monarchs who hava in
their day ruled some braneh of speculative
financiering.
Of course, it is a good deal pleasanter to be a
magnate of Wall street or of the Chicago
Board of Trade than to be a. farmer in Iowa or
Dakota; but who does more service to the com
munity, the man who makes two ears of wheat
grow where one or none grew before, or
the man who buys up the two and all the other
ears in sight and makes the consumer pay
double for tbem?
POLISH-AMERICANS CELEBRATE.
A Large Parade In Chicago, Which Wonld
Have Been Larger bat for Bain.
CHICAGO, May 3.-7xercises commemorat
ing the centennial anniversary of the adoption
of Poland's Corstitution were begun yesterday
bya magnificent meeting of Polish-American
citizens at Central Music Hall." The meeting
was preceded by a parade, made up of all the
various Polish societies in the city and partici
pated in by at least 8,000 people.
Had it cot been for, a drizzling rain that con
tinued throughout the day, the procession
would have numbered at least 15,000 marching
men. Above tho speakers' platform in Central
Music Hall was susperided a huge shield of
canvas bearing portraits of Washington, Kos
ciusko aud Pulaski.
COAL AHD PIG METAL SCAECE.
Mills at JIcKeosport 'compelled to Close
Down.
IfiFKdtAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
McKeesport, May 3. Coal, coke and pig
metal are very scare here, and as a result
all of the puddling departments of the Na
tional Rolling Mill are closed down and a large
nnmber of men are again thrown out of work.
It is thought however, that the mills can be
operated after Wednesday, as orders for coke
and pig metal have recieved promises of fulfil
ment. '
The Baltimore and Ohio, anticipating a scarc
ity of coal, has been side-tracking trains of that
article, and will hold tbem for use in case there
is a long miners' strike. I
riicobe Can Fight
Chicago Mall. ,
In the language of the political platform,
while the members of the National Commis
sion point with pride to PhCBbe Couzlns the
lady managers view ber with alarm. '
DEATHS OP A DAY.
Paul BIsnet
Paul Eisnet, one of tbe most remarkable
characters ever known in St. l'aui. has died lb
Omaha of paralysis of the heart. He went to
Omaha two months ago, after considerable urging
from a firm of contractors there, to do some stone
carving on a new building. KIsneteame to St.
Faul three years ago, after having been In the
United States about six months. He came from
Paris. Me was known In that city as a rising
young scnlntor. Ho bad a stndlo In the Quarticr
Latin, and there he completed two marbles, "Pas
sions Unbound" and "Deserted," both of which
works were placed on exhibition In 1875. and re
ceived the commendation of the best art critics in
the country. In St. Paul. Jtlsnet left no brilliant
examples of his renins. Tho onlv use to which he
placed his talents there was in the execution of
some carvinft on the New York Life Insurance
building, for which he received mechanics' wages
SI per day. It IS not known why he left Purls
for the Xi estern world.
John Frederick May.
Dr. John Frederick May, an eminent
physician oCWashlnRton, died Friday of pneu
monia. In the 79th year of hf sage. He was one of
the reorjpnliers of the medical department of
the Columbia University, in which he filled the
chair of professor of anatomy and surgery for
many years. His skill and learning received
brotd recognition. He was tbe first American
surgepn that ever made a successful amputation
at the flip Joint, all attempts previous to bis In this
country resnltlng disastrously to the patient.
After the killing of President Lincoln he fully
Identified the remains of the assassin, John
Wilkes Booth, by a scar that marked the seat of
an operation he had performed on him.
William II. Johnston.
"William H. Johnston, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of Urownstille. died
yesterday after a short Illness of grip. For many
years past he bad been a prominent figure In local
and municipal affairs. He was74 years of age and
a life-long Kepubllcan. At lhe time of his death
ifr. Johnston was President of Councils and also
a director of the alonongahela -National Hank.
Ho leaves a wife and five sons, four of whom are
well known In. educational circles. Profs. J. A
and K, b Johnston are now In the Pittsburg
scnuois, huu x ruis. . jy. nuu xiowara u. Jonn
'ston are In the Johnstown, Pa., schools.
Sister Mary Agatha RnsseU.
Sister Mnry Agatha Russell, the founder
of the Convent of the lstersofthe Visitation In
bt. Paul, and the oldest visitant In America, died
at the convent Saturday of old age.
Obituary Notes.
F. E, Bnowy, one of the best known citizens of
l)c Moines, died Saturday. His estate Is worth
s:, 000,000.
WALTxn Wallacx baseball writer and anthor
lty on thd game, died In ban Francisco, Friday, of
consumption.
Jlns.'ilAinr K. WAnnim, the wife of George
William Warren, the composer, died In New Yort
from heart disease.
Ffiidinasd Greoobovius, the German poet
and historian. Is dead, tie was born on January
10, 1821, at Mjldenbourgi Prussia.
Nathaitiix F. Tevn-et, President of thii Win
throp National Bank, ina one of Boston's suc
cessful financiers, died Friday, aged 71.
Mrts Eliza nnssELLd led yesterdty afternoon
at 3 o'clock at tfle Home for Ajred Women, aged
72 vcars. Her funeral will take place from the
Home at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
Horace SCHZKiiEBiioinr. Alderman from the
Sixth district In jersey City, and one or the most
promising vonng KepiiDlIeans In Jersey Cltr.died
Friday night. Death was caused by typhoid
fever Induced by the grip.
Jonjf McDevttt. who has been a hod carrier
nearly all his life, died Frlday'at his home In
Passaic. Me lived and dressed as an ordinary
laborer, and when his1 effects were sea'ched It
was ascertained that he possessed a fortune of
175.000.
BaxdalIj Yahboo.. one of the Indiana pioneers.
Is dead at Jefferson, aged 05. He helped to build
the first house In New Albany. He assisted In
bringing In the last soldier of the capiure of Vln
cenneiatciarksvlfle. and was well acquainted
with General George Kogers.
TriE funVral of Mrs. Mary Wilson, a pioneer
resident of Washington county'. Ohio, and mother
of John Wilson, the well known banker of lltlca,
occurred yesterday. Mrs. Wilson was one of tho
best known women In the county, and had
reached the advanced age of 03 years.
William S. hitter, one or the oldest news
paper publishers- in Eastern Pennsylvania, aled
at Heading. Friday night aged tt. He was pro
prietor for 30 years of tho Heading Adler, which
was established by a member of his family In 1796,
and has been continually In the family ever since.
It is tbe oldest German weekly In America.
William Cbomfton, the oldest resident of
Windsor, Conn., died in Friday. Me was widely
known as the Inventor of looms, and bis name
was closely connected with the art of weaving
throughout the world. He was the original in
ventor of the fambns Crompton loom, so success
fully perfected by his son, the late George Cromp
ton, of Worcester.
JUnTGtBBOSS lluxiXBU, the wire of John
Hiibctcr, well known In art circles and' mother
ofJxmesG. Munckcr, is dead in. Phlladelplili.
The deceased woman Was tlieilaushler of Uie late
James UIuons;wlio was roilnrcled with the Irish
nationalist Government, t-mlofthe same family
as Cardinal Gibbons and. GeneraLUlbbons. Mrs.-Hutfekerwats'tfrifliaifr'Twr'Wreibls-WTUer
onr
toplcs'chtefty-relurlouf.f . - "
MANY TONGUES.
Carnegie's Change ot Cares Music and
Society for Iron A Characteristic let
ter From Him The Americas Clnb's
Souvenirs Much Sought After A Bowery
Jlesurrectlon Under the Old Apple
Tree A May-Time Idyl Polly's Dining
Teat.
This will be a busy week for Androw Carne
gie, a he opening of tho Music Hall one would
think would be enough for him, but Do til's
plenty of other social engagements including a
dinner party at his own bouse at which tbe
guests of honor will he Tcbalskowsky, whose
musical genius Is said to be as indescribable a
bis name is unspeakable, and the Hon. .Tames
G. Blaine. A friend of Mr. Carnegie's said to
me yesterday: "It Is true that Mr. Carnegie
has rid himself of a considerable part of his
business cares by delegating tbe management
of his great iron interests to his.partners, but I
question if he is really taking life any easier
than he used to when he resided in Pittsburg.
He is taking a very active lead in mnsical
affairs In New York, and with such a man to
lead means a mastery and control of the small
est detail. Then he entertains a great deal,
though without ostentation, and now that Mis.
Carnegie is recovering her health no doubt the
social prominence of the house on Fifty-first
strett will become more marked."
The musical events of tbe week and the
dinner to Blaine will not preventMr. Carnegie
from leaving, as arranged, for Scotland. He
will sail with Mrs. Carnegie on Monday next.
May 1L It Is hoped that the sea voyaze will
especially benefit Mrs. Carnegie, who is much
Better than she was a month ago, but still far
from strong.
Carnegie's Guests.
The Pittsburgers invited by Mr. Carnegie to
attend the opening of tbe Carnegie Mnic Hall
Will be there with few exceptions. Mr. and
Mrs. James B. Scott deeply ragret that they are
nnabla to go. As far as could bo learned yes
terday tbe box put at the disposal of a select
nnmber of Pittsburgers Interested in music
more or less professionally, will contain its full
3uota, Including Messrs. J. P. McCollum,
osepb Gittlngs, Charles W. Scovel, C. C. Mel-
lor, John w. Heatty, Alfred S. Wall and Leon
ard Wales.
Mr. Wales received a characteristic note from
Mr. Carnegie on Saturday, and I am permitted
to publish it Here it is: -
mew YortK, April 28.
ily Dear Mr. Wales:
Your favorof the 23th Instant has been received.
I have followed with the deepest Interest theac-counta-orvour
free recitals In Carnegie Hall."
So worA for the good or the people Interests me
more, and their success has given me true pleas
ure. Yournnst be a very happy man, knowing
that In your day and generation you are doing
somethlncr to make lire hannv lor so manr nthprs.
I hope we are to have the pleasure of seeing you
here next week In attendance upon our "music
restlval." Bhonld you and our performance rail
short oryours in Allegheny, make allowance for
this city situated upou the edge and not In the
center of the republic Very truly, yonrs,
ANMtEW CAENEGIE.
The last sentence of the note indicates one of
Pittsburg's topical advantages that is usually
overlooked.
, Polly Forded the Apple Sauce.
'I was invited to dinner when I was in Den
ver last week," said a Pittsburg attorney to me
yesterday, "by a client of mine, an elderly lady
who has not a little property in Western Penn
sylvania. I went of conrse, though It was the
first time in a long acquaintance that sho had
extended any such courtesy. There were four
or five-others about the table when dinner was
served, and on tbe right band of the hostess sat
a large green parrot in a little high chair evi
dently made especially for it I bad time to
notice that the bird bad a tray, a cup and a lit
tle Plate for its own use, before tbe hostess
said: 'Josephine, salute tbe gentleman,' and
the bird so addressed started out of its chair
and walked across the table to me. When that
big green parrot came tramping across the
cloth and wading through a dish of apple sauce
to ret at me. I thought I should have died
laughing. Josephine, however, took the matter
very seriously, said 'How do you do J' to me.
and ploughed back to her seat through tbe
apple sauce again. Barring the footmarks she
left on the cloth Polly did no damage to the
proprieties during tbe dinner, and her remarks
were fully as new as most table-talk and more
entertaining."
Banquet Souvenirs In Demand.
The little bannerets which were given to
those who attended theAmericus Club banquet
last week as mementoes of the occasion are in
groat demand, and fancy prices are already
offered for tbern with no sales reported. Tbe
number of little Stars and Stripes with the gold
inscription was limited strictly to that of tbe
banqueters, anh before tbe banquet was over
several of the flags were missing. Assembly
man Kroesen lost his flag before he left tbe
dining hall who took it be doesn't know
and on Saturday he was ready to pay a band
some figure for one, but could find no fellow
member willing to sell.
It is no small matter to prepare a new and
taking menu and souvenir for an annual
banquet For the first four vears of the Arner-
iens Club's existence, D. W. T. Eng
lish, as chairman of -the Banquet
committee had charge of this detail, and with
eood results. At the first dinner given by the
club on Grant's birthday, the memento was a
neatly printed programme on thick rough paper,
containing the menu and plans of tbe tables,
with the names of the diners, with a portrait
of Grant in oue corner. This was a modest be
ginning. In 1883a much Oner portrait of Grant
engraved on steel, ornamented the menu. Tbe
following year the souvenir took tbe shape of a
menu and toast list printed in colors upon fine
paper. In pamphlet form. The cover was of
imitation sheepskin with the club title and date
in raised letters of gold, and tbree small
national flags at the top. The other pages were
embellished with clever original designs
from the pen of a young Washing
ton artist named Ferree, who had been
greatly impressed with the appearance of the
Americus Club in tbe Inauguration parade the
month previous, and offered the designs as a
token of bis feelings. This was by all bads the
finest souvenir tbe club has bad, though this
year's banner runs it very close In the estima
tion of many.
Tbe souvenir for tbe banquet of 1890 was a
menu and toast card folded into the form of an
army tent, wilh the steel engraving of Grant
thereon. This year's souvenir, the flag with
"Firth Annual Banquet. April 27, 1S91" in gold
letters upon it was the idea of A. J. Logan, the
chairman of -tbe banquet committee. Since
the club has prospered and enlarged its mem
bership tbe value of these souvenirs bas in
creased and one of the members refused an
offer of SlOOtfor the collection of five recently.
A Bowery B'hoy f 76.
A carriage drawn by two dapple grays drew
up in front of tbe Bijou Theater on Saturday
afternoon, and a younc man alighted, and then
handed ont with awkward politeness a girl of
eighteen or nineteen. The girl was comely and
rosy-cneeked, ana very conscious or her briaai
state they bad 3ust been married evidently.
Tbe groom was in a hurry to getaway from the
street and the knot of loungersattbe entrance.
Ho bad reason, for his attire attracted atten
tion. Lilac trousers are- not so unusual in this
fanciful season of the year, but his were skin
tight In the upper half, and bell-bottomed. In
the flashy stvle of a Bowery "b'hoy," say about
1876, His black, cutaway coat, too, was cut in
corresponding fashion, with square padded
shoulders, and drawn in like a woman's cress
at tbe waist A big gondola hat resurrected
from the same era completed the outfit. Tbo
clothes must have been made to order, for they
wero new, and no ready-made, hand-me-down
tailor even dare be so far behind as fifteen or
twenty years in the fashion. Whero the bride
groom got. his fashion plate mystified the
spectators.
Under the Old Apple Tree.
Tbe aprflc tree stands where it always stood,
la a nook of tbe orchard green;
And the blossoms bavo hidden the moss grown
wood
With a garment of silver sheen.
And 1 think of tbe days, when 1 leapt and ran
loclltnb on the blooming bough;
And the thoughts of the boy come back to tho
man
Abl would tbat then were now!
But a second thought trips on the tucls of the
first;
'Tis late oil a Sabbath morn.
And tho scam in the back of my coat Is burst,
And the seat or my pants Is torn ;
And a big man slands wlthwi strap In bis band,
Neath the apple tree white I'm mute
The minutes ttv by. and I've been tanned
For spoiling my bunday suit.
The apples are red where the white bloom grew
And.iir.iln on the tree 1 lean.
I've Just been telling my love to Sue
And I'm reeling uncommon mean
For Sue has said with a toss or her head
That she's promised her hand to Brown,
A fellow whose hair Is flery red
But tbe wealthiest man In town.
And tbe more 1 look at the blooming tree!
As memories rise and wane,
I'm not so sure t'were well for me
ti'nr the n-ist to come back nsraln
For It's pleasanter Lir to spank my Doy
Fortearln Ills bundav clothes -
Mid Sue, uu Hrown. iwiin
And to do you, don't yon
Tbe apples are red where tbo white bloom grew",
.And again on the tree I lean;
I've Just been telling my love to Sue,
And I feel uncommonly mean:
For Sue bas said, with a toss or her head.
J hat she1! promised ber hand to Brown
Mow, Hrown had hair or a fiery red
And thu ugliest race In town. , ,
So to-day .is I look at thc blossoming tree,
A9 the uicniork-:. rise and wine.
I'm hottosnre t'lircregnixifur me
. To live In the pilst again.
It's pleasanter fur to spank bt boy
For tearing his Snndavxlothes;
And bue? Uld Brown, I wish von Joy
' XoUlvebeCd of It'ROotlncss knows!
OUR MAIL POUOH.
Covered Reservoirs Worth Considering.
To the Kdltor of The Dispatch:
The subject of your article on covered reser
voirs is one of peculiar interest; and is one that
is being brought more and more into promi
nence in this country as well as in .Europe, a
nnmber of covered reservoirs having already
been built here. Tbe principal reason for cov
ering reservoirs bas been, heretofore. topre
vent their defilement by soot, smoke, dust ob
noxjons gases and the various kinds of house
hold waste and garbage that so often find their
way ln(o most unexpected and unlit p'aces.
This Condition frequently obtains in our cities
where distribution reservoirs can often only be
constrnctedtu advantage In tbe close proxim
ity to fruitful Sources of pollution of this
character. For a somewhat similar reason a
number'of towns in thefarWestand elsewhere
have found It a matter of economy to cover
their reservoirs in order to prevent the deposit
ot sana mown in oy men winds passing over a
dry .and sandy soil. Again, in hot climates it is
done to keep tbe snpply of water cool, and in
cold climates to prevent an accumulation of
Ice, which latter is sometimes a source of
Serious Injury to reservoirs and of annoyance
in dogging the pipe inlets. The recent failure
of an iron stand-pipe at Defiance. O.. is a good
illustration of tbe destructive capacity ot this
agent
But the more recent as well as the more im
portant application of roofs to distribution
reservoirs is based on tbe effect of light on
those minute plants known as ali:03, which are
almost universally present in our Streams and
other surface waters, and which, under favor
able Conditions, develop with enormous
rapidity, so tbat In the course of a few hours a
largo lake may become, as it were, carpeted
with a thick covering of tbem. So common a
source of annoyance is this to many of our
cities using surface waters, that for the past
few years many of odr water boardsand boards
of health ba a directed their best efforts to its
abatement resulting in a marked advance in
our knowledge of tho manner in which these
organisms may work for our good or ill.
in general' it may be said that this source of
pollution has Deen found simply offensive and
tbat there results no perceptible barm in tak
ing water thus polluted into tbe system. Bnt
under certain conditions the taste and odor
Imparted to the water is so disagreeable, to say
tbe leastas to make it unfit for use.
In what direction shall relief be soughtT for
evidently any attempt at ..removal by straining
is but temporary if not useless. So far, there
are two perfectly practicable methods in use.
First that of aerating tho water, either by
nmpfng air into the mains, as was dono by
ir. A. R. Leeds, at Hoboken, N. J and else
where, or by agitation (by letting tbe water
fall through a sieve or pass through a jet into
the reservoir, or otherwise), by which means
tbe oxycen absorbed .from the air has been
found to destroy tbe organisms and remove tbe
offensive odor and taste. Secondly, by keepln:
the water under cover and away from tbe sun-
Ugnt This bas been proved very efficacious in
a water supply near Boston on which tbe ex
periment was tried some two or tbree years
ago, and afterdue Investigation tbe explanation
was shown to be as follows: Alga are
divided into two great classes those con
taining cbloropbyl. or the green color
ing matter 'of plants (alga; proper), and
those in which it is absent. As with plants of
higher orders, sunlight is found requisite to
develop this green coloring matter, and while
those plants which do not contain it may live
in the dark, yet they do depend for their sus
tenance on those plants which do contain
chloropbyl. In other words, tbey are parasitic,
and cannot assimilate inorganic matter direct
ly. Thus, we see that when sunlight is shut off
from a reservoir containing the green algtc,
not only are these destroyed, but also tbe re
maining or parasitic ones, and in this way the
water is protected from either form ol vege
table organism.
It is, perhaps, witb reference to this more Im
portant pbase of the question mat many of our
troublesome water supplies will have to be
treated in the future. A
SCOTTD A.LE, May 2.
The Naming of a Cruiser.
To tbo Editor or The Dispatch:
Begardlng tbe suggestion concerning the
naming of one of the cruisers after our city,
permit me to say tbat at ameetincof the
Cham'ber pf Commerce, held November 11,
1889. this resolution was presented and unani
mously adopted:
Kesolved, That the President of this body be re.
nested tn write tn the honorable Secretarv of the.
avy, requesting him to name one of the new
On the 26ih orMay, 1890, we again called tbe
attention of the Secretary of the Navy to tbe
above, he kindly replying tbat the matter
would have the proper attention. You will
thus see that tbe Chamber was many months
ahead in this matter.
SDPERINTEXDEST.
Pittsbuko, May 2,
Who'Can Give This Information.
To tbe Editor of The Dispatch:
In order to decide a bet please inform us
through tbe columns of your paper what was
the largest week's work accomplished by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, and also what was
the shortest space of time in which any loco
motive Was ever built
Constant Reader.
BUIXEK, PA, April 22.
Yes, for the West Penn Benefit
Tothe Editor of The Dispatch:
Please state throuth the columns of your
paper if the Marine Band ever appeared in
PittsbuTC previous to this last engagement
.PlTTSBUHG, May 2. B. E. T.
ASMIS OF CATEBPILLAES
Stop Trains Passing Through the Swamps of
North Carolina,
CnABLOTTE, N. C, May 3. The Carolina
Central trainmen have been having a peculiar
experience with caterpillars for four of five
days past, and it is something unheard of in the
railroad history of this State. Just east of
Lumberton is what is known as the Big Swamp,
and tbe railroad goes through it on trestle
work, broken here and there in the solid por
tions of tbe stranrp by embankments of earth.
Last Tuesday an army of caterpillars began
moving out of tbe swamp, and when tbey
reached tbe streams over which tbe trestles
carry the rails they massed on the railroad and
proceeded to cross on tbe trestles. Tbe rails
and tbe ties were covered inches deep with the
moving mass, and the first train tbat eneoun
ered them was brought to a dead standstill,
tbe driving wheels of tho engine slipping
around as if the rails had been thoroughly
oiled. The engineer exhausted the contents of
his sanaoox oeiore ne got tnrougn the swamp
and reached a clear stretch of track. It was
thought that trip would be tbe end of the
caterpillar trouble, but the very next day a
train encountered another army of caterpillars
crossing tbe trestle and bad tbe same difficulty.
Tbe Charlotte bound passenger train yester
day had a similar experience.
CANTOE'S INDEPENDENT CHTOCH.
Bev.
Mr. COndo Preaches His First Sermon
to the Nevr Congregation.
priciAt. teleobaM to thc DisrATcrti
CAirrox. May 3. Rev. Mr. Condo, the de
posed Evangelical pastor, preached bis first
sermon here to-day of the Independent church,
of which he and members of his former con
gregation are the founders.
He referred to tbe fight in their former
church, and said tbat ne could tell something
interesting that wonld not please certain peo.
pie. His church starts off with a good mem
bership and encodraglng prospects.
A 1HIED SET OF TEETH.
Miss Evans, of Beaver Fall", Una a Bemark-
ablo Experience.
(SPECIAL TELEOItAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Beaver Falls, May 3. Maud -Evans, a
beautiful young miss of this place, scarcely 16
vears old", is the happy possessor of almost an
entire third set of teetb. Tbey are not store
teeth, but natural ones and every one perfect
Her first set came at a very earlvage. ana
qnicklr decayed and disappeared. Tbe second
set appeared, but were soon after displaced by
thejtbird set
PEOPLE WHO COMB AND 00.
Charles F. Ettla, of Philadelphia, at sun
dry times secretary for Republican State cam
paign committees, ref.-istored at the Anderson
eterday. He bad nothing to say on politics,
but be Is the same Charley of days of yore.
J. Ii. Stoddard, the "Washington lecturer.
wa a passenger on the limited last evening for
Chicago. He was en route to Mexico, where be
intends to collect a mass of data for illustrated
lectures on tho'country.
Tin Hanlon "Superba" company was at
tho Union depot last evening, bound for Har
risburg. Somo of the youhj: fellows amused
tho crowd with a dance performance on tbe
platform.
Henrv D. Stanley and "W. O. Hryant, of
Bridgeport are among tilt, guests at tho Da
quesne. Tbey are friends of Snperlntendent
Morris Mead, ot the Bureau of Electricity.
Ed. Sinilev, Chi'ef Clerk of the Senate, re
turned to Harrlslmrg last evening. He still
believes an adjournment will be secured about
the last of May.
A. H. S rnng, of O.l City, anil O. E.
Coatcs, or UliiCagovare stopping at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel.
. William Gutman. of ChatUnootra. and
''John JvMcElroy, ot Aibany.'are registered at
tBeMonongaueiaAouse.' '
H.J.: tBeMononganeiaAouse.' ' j tOverplate etchings?-Jitroxort 0ua -AJ.
0UK1UU3 COSDEH8AT102J&
"Wet tobacco will relieve bee or wasp
stings.
A New Yorker paid $2,500 for a brown
diamond.
The wild currant is suggested as ths
Stateflower of Oregon.
Allegan, Micb., bas an oil well, but it
production is only 24 barrels dally.
St Joseph, Micb., bas a pair of twins
which weigh less than Are pounds.
The 1st of May was Chicago's moving
day. and 13.100 homes were changed.
ihe tide of immigration is rapidly
turning toward the States of Washington and
Oregon.
The center of the spruce grim industry
is St Johns. N. B. The crop is the most profit
able of any In tbe farmer's category.
An Idaho newspaper bas been ex
changed for a mule. In explanation ths new
editor states that tho mule was old.
The prisoners in tbe city jail at Atchi
son became so interested in a discission of the
Scriptures that tbey came to blows;
The citizens of Athens, Ga., beseech
their Council to pass an ordinance for ths
moz2llng of cats. The animals are too noisy o'
nights.
A quail flew straight through a ,heavy
glass window in the Hannibal (Mo.) postoffice
tbe other day. It was moving, witb such. ve
locity tbat it made a hole in the glass very little
larger than its body.
Among the recent inventions is a cal
endar that will register for the next 2C0 years,
besides telling any date figure within tbat
period. A gum moistening apparatus for post
age stamps is also an invention.
A Kansas woman boasts that she never
appeared on the street twice within tbe same
week in the same dress. Her husband is wearing
a suit this soring which be bought four years
ago, and a hat ot the vintage 1SS5L
A new motor, utilizing ordinary gas as
well as petroleum, is announced, compact in
form, requiring little space and no expensive
foundations or attendance. In one-half min
ute's time starting can be accomplished.
Ornithologists tell us that when feed
ing the stride of the ostrich is from 20 to 22
inches; when walking but not feeding: 28
inches, and when terrified, from UK to 11 feet,
or at the rate of about 25 miles an hour.
The failure ot the "TJ. S. Mail," which
went to pieces after a bad weekat Niblo's The
ater, NeW York.has not dlscouraeed the owners
of the play. Hobart Brooks and Maxlbmsen.
They will have ic rewritten, and put it on the
road again next season.
"Her beautiful womanhood, my love,
and !2," was the consideration named in a deed
of conveyance which was filed on Tuesday In
the Register's office in Brooklyn. The deed
was elaborately engrossed, and the separated
pages were tied together witb blue satin rib
bon. , The cow of a farmer near Belding.
Mich., swallowed her owner's watch last year.
She was killed tbe other day and tbe time
piece was recovered. When taken to a jeweler
he pronounced it eood condition and Droved
'his words Dy setting and winding it It bas
since kept good time.
A young woman of "West Union, O., '
filled upa pan with cornmeal and playfully ran
her hand through the contents. Sbe felt some
thins on her finger, and on drawing her band
out found a fine gold ring, worth Sip, encircling
her(thinl finger. It is an elegant one, but how
it camo in the meal is a mystery.
One's first impression on seeing an,
ostrich is that he needs another prop under
him. The feeling is heightened when he goes
to walk, and he himself seems conscious that
his enter of gravity U a long way above
trrnund. for he goes teetering along as though
exercising great care to keep his legs well under
him.
An eloping couple were traced recently
in a peculiar way. A boarder had run away
with his landlady, and tbe hutband of the
woman, knowing of the boarder's fondness for
onions, gave tbat as a part or the description.
When tbe couple wero identified the man had
a plate of the odoriferous vegetable before
him. .
Vegetation in the Alps recede? down
ward from year to year. Formerly Alpine roses
grew at an altitude of 7.600 feet Now tbey are
Seldom found higher than 6.KO feet and are at
tbat height stunted. Beeches have gone down
1,200 feet. Various berrlei, wblch once flour
ished 7.SC0 feet above sea level, do not grow la
higher altitudes now than 5.S0O.
A Florida woman has a canary bird
that is highly prized for Its beautiful singing:
About tbree weeks ago, during a high wind
storm, the Dnttom of tho cage "dropped out and
ths bird wa gone. Nothing mora was seen of
it and it was given up for lost when one day ie
made its reappearance in tbo family circle.
The door nf the emoty cage was open and birdie
voluntarily entered. ,
At Fort Augusta, in Jamaica, one of
the defenses of Kingston Harbor, on the oppo
site side of the Inlet of Port Royal, is shown
the tojnb of a negro, who in a great earthquake
was swallowed up. and apparently buried alive
in a chasm which was opened nnder his feet
A moment later another convulsion threw him
ont on tbe surface again, undamaged bnt for a
few bruises, scratches and scare, and he lived
for many years aiterward.
A certain little gir!, who Is jnst learn
ing to read short words, takes great in
terest In tbe big letters she sees in the news
papers. The other evening, after she had kept
ber mamma busy reading tbe advertisements
in the newspapers to her, she knelt down to
say her prayer". "Dear Lord." she lisped,
"make me pure." then sbe hesitated, and went
on, with added fervor, a moment later, "make
me absolutely pr.re, like bakliig powder."
Two months ago an engineer on the
Louisville. New Orleans and Texas road, on
the Jackson division, Mississippi, ran over a
gooe. Since then its mate runs around the
engine and expresses, to the best nf its ability,
great animosity for the engine. Tbe engineer
says that whenever bis encine signals for tbe
station the old gander knows the whistle, and
in spite of attempts to scare It off flies at the
engine as though it were its deadliest foe.
Attached to every Chicago tailor shop
of tbo first-class is a man whose sole duty It is
to find out and correctly report tbe relations
existing between each fils de famllle and his
venerated papa. He must know exactly to
what extent such a minor son of a wealthy
father may draw on the purse of tbe latter
without encountering opposition. He must
know tbe allowance made tbe boy if any there
Is by his Indulgent parents, and be must know
whether the old roan wa ever known to kick at
prices or at the size of bills presented in behalf
of the son.
CUTE AND COMICAL.
"Woman's ideal of man
Is a mixture strangely queer;
And everslnce the -world began
Sbe sought him far and near.
But
Betl
She
Hasn't
found
Blra
You Yet
Hem lor TeUaram.
The man who sells goods with a 35-inch
yardstick would steal tbe Jeweled foundation
stones of heaven, if he could get at them. SavCt
Horn.
Leisurely traveler (emerging from wash
room) Well's It's your turn, sir.
Nexf-iri'mas long about ltaaybo, it'll be
my 'ternlty. Our JtontlUv.
Robert Eeed Chewing is a filthy habit. J
Why, the pigs wouldn't chew tobacco.
Badbpy Weed No; I knuw that you and the
pigs don't, "but that's lust where I differ from,
you. Xtw Yor Continent
Gilhooly This world is full of misery. '
The hanple'st man Is the one who Is never bom..
Hosteller Mc(llnnls-Yes, but there Isn't one la
a million thathas sucha streak of luck. Ttxat
blftings.
Millie I don't mind marrying yon, Clar.
ence, but I hate tbe Idea of giving up my ItS-a-week
Job at the store.
Clarence-Then don't give It np, dearest I'll
give up mine. I'm getting only W.-Chteag
Triiune. T
Mrs.Sehoeflenstedt To-night's paper tell .
abont a minister who has married more than 1.XO
couples:
Sin Schoeffcnatedt I wonder If he ever stops to
think. SomervlUe Journal. " .
De Tag "We had amateur theatricals one
night on the steamer, coming over.
lie Jag-Were tbey successful?
Da Tag -Well, no: In tbe middle Of the play th
steamer gave a lurch, and all the actors ran to tbe
rail ana threw up their parts. Smith, Gray A
nVjrimwy . '.l?J
Mrs. I'oik---linp(toartueiler; Howmuchjl
da yon charge for that picture of the lake fronts'
with the Icehouse In the rront?
Art Dealer Tbat Is a copperplate etching.,
Mrs. Porkchop Ob, pshaw! Haven't you aaf
suverpiate etcningsr io lorcaun.
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