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PITTaBURG, FRIDAY, MAT 15, 1591.
THE CONVENTION SCHEME.
Alter distoriint; the ballot reform till
in!o a inockery of its original purpose, of
course the next thins for tue Senate to do
was to ibs the constitutional convention
deception. With the demonstration al
ready given of the attitude of the Repub
lican managers toward ballot reform, there
can be no serious pretense that the consti
tutional convention movement has any
purpose of aiding a genuine reform.
The politicians who shape the course of
the Senate have no intention of securing
ballot reform through the convention.
They may use the ill-considered demaud
of some of the Democrats, as a cloak for
their real purpose. It is well known that
there are many things in the present con
stitution wMch the practical politicians
and their allies, the corporations, would
like to see wiped out With the conven
liou set up as tip Senate bill fixes it, there
ib every reason for them to hope that they
fan secure a convention "n Inch will emas
culate some of the best provisions in the
present constitution. The kind of ballot
reform that can be expected from the
gathering which the Senate bill contem
plates can be estimated by the species of
ballot reform that the Senate is now con
templating. With the prospect of tliis bill passing, it
ill be a good time for the peopl? of Penn
sylvania to organize for the purpose of
action at the polls to maintain the present
constitution and to enforce it
THE PRESIDENTS FOOT. TRIENDS.
Mr. Kussell Harrison's wicked partner
I patting himself in evidence once more
vith a vengeance. The device wrought out
in the last issue of Judge, consists of a
representation of Secretary Blaine in the
character of a chicken-thief, who is scared
away from the poultry-house by a padlock
bearing the features of the President, and
-who therefore declares he does not care
much for chicken because "Dar's a
lock ou do cliicken-coop door." This
i a gem of altogether too delicate
satire by the Presidents personal
friends, to be directed against his
chief Cabinet officer. Its terms are ex
tremely conciliator' to the leading Repub
lican who, more than any other one man,
aided the President's election, and who
lias contribute! the single feature that
raises the administration above the level of
pettiness. To call hLn a chicken-thief and
to picture him as scared from stealing a
Presidental nomination by the stern
features of Benjamin Harrison is the most
nnique way on lecord of strengthening the
Harrison administration.
An outbreak of this sort from one of the
family organs will not, of course, injure
the chances of the President's renomina
tion, for he has none to injure. But it will
put every Blaine Republican in the
country on the warpath and disgust
every impartial person. It indicates
a degree of petty spite on the
part of the President's personal surround
ing, because the Secretary of State towers
head and shoulders above the rest of the
administration heretofore unheard of. It
would be incredible if the evidences of tho
spirit 'of it were not indisputable.
If the President coidd have placed Rus
sell Harrison and W. J . Arkell on one of the
more ancient naval vessels a month or two
ago and sent them out to sea with orders
to sink the ship, his trip around the coun
try after votes might not have been so
utterly futile.
THE CERTIFICATE FOLEY.
It is interesting to learn that the bill
making amendments to the city charter has
been withdrawn from the Governor's hands
for the purpose of making too bills out of
It, one to define the powers of the heads of
departments and the other to authorize the
issue of certificates of indebtedness. If,
after the division, the bill relating to cer
tificates of indebtedness is thrown away,
it will be a very wise proceeding.
Apart from the constitutional question,
with regard to this measure, which has
been fully discussed in The Dispatch
heretofore, the most prominent featureis
its utter lack of necessity. The necessity
of issuing some sort of bonds to
meet the claims of contractors does
not enter into the question, at all;
because the method by which such
bonds can be issued is already provided by
the city charter. It is wholly within the
power of Councils at any time during the
year to submit to the people a well ma
tured proposition to issue such bonds as
may be needed. When that proposition is
submitted according to the accepted con
stitutional method it will be time to discuss
the merits of the issue. At present it is
enough to point out that the charter
already contains a salutary, and sufficient
means for providing whatever issue of
bonds may be necessary.
But, for some reason which remains
wholly unexplained, there is a determina
tion not to adopt tliis obviously proper
method, but to take one of doubtful con
stitutionality and worse policy. The sup
porters of that measure might as well
throw it away.
TOO mTCH TO INVESTIGATE.
The line of investigation which Senator
Carlisle indicates for the Senate Finance
sul-Comniittee with regard to the tariff,
Hb reported in a New York special in this
issue, is very interesting, and the informa
tion will be valuable if the work is thor
oughly done. But it is subject to the slight
drawback that to thoroughly do the work
outlined would occupy the sub-committee
f or the rest of its' official life; aid when it
was done, to make it effective' in a tariff
discussion, tliq 'committee's successors'
would have to commence imcf do It over. ""'
The mere outline of the plan of opera
tions laid down by the Senator occupies
considerable space. " The further fact that
the slightest branch of the work sketched
there will take much more labor than a
Senate 6ub-committee, out for' a
vacation, js. 'likely to givo it Ts
another drawback. Thus the investigation
as to wages is expected, according to Sen
ator Carlisle, to embrace an exhaustive
classification of the kinds of work, the
various grades of a single occupation,
what the men have to pay for articles of
common consumption and the .purchasing
power of their wages. Here is work for
some years; and when we reflect that a
similar plan is outlined for retail prices of.
manufactured goods and for the leading
articles of farm labor, it requires a san
guine temperament to hope that the -work
will be completed by 1890. But, In order
to shed light on the situation, at that time
a new set of statistics will have to be pro
duced, and the present labor will be lost
In view of the fact that our free trade
friends cannot expeci to pass any tariff
legislation in the coming Congress, they
might as well omit this Sisyphean tasK.
Let them fight out the fight of 1892 first
Unless Colonel Watterson'-s idea of a com
promise Democratic position on the tariff
proves contagious, they may then be ex
pected to attack the interminable task of
tariff tinkering once more if tney win that
fight
THE ISSUE ON THE CHARTER.
The shot which Mayor Gourley fired at
the charter supplement by his letter to
Governor Pattison, opens up the whole
question of municipal organization. It
plants the Mayor on the platform outlined
by Mr. Bruce and indorsed at the citizens'
meeting, namely, separation of the execu
tive and legislative departments of the
city. It certainly seems to have 'taken
effect, to judge by the withdrawal of the
bill from the hands of the Governor, but
that it will produce a different class of
legislation is more.than doubtful.
The supporters of the bill, when it is
divorced from that unnecessary and in
comprehensible certificate of indebtedness
scheme, will probably take the ground
that as the sole purpose of the measure
is to supply needed powers to the
heads of departments, the larger question
of the manner of their election should not
be introduced at this time. This would
have been an argument of some cogency if
the latter question had not been raised
before the bill was parsed. But, the neces
sity for amendatory action on the city
charter having been agreed upon, this
amendment was indorsed at the citizens
meeting, and those who insist on its neces
sity are certainly sticking to the action of
that body.
In the contest between the opposing ele
ments, so far, it has been made plain that
the supporters of the bill In Its present
shape are able to control the Legislature;
but it has evidently dawned upon them that
the other side may have the aid of the Gov
ernor. In that case the trial of strength
will become a very interesting one. If the
3Iayor's side had not been presented before
the bill reached the Governor's hands, it
might have been urged as a hardship that
the grant of necessary powers should
be refused because the views of the
reformers are not met But when
that view has been urged on
the Legislature with the indorsement
of the citizens, it may very forcibly be
urged that since those who control the
legislative action have refused to provide
the amendments asked for, they them
selves will be responsible, if that action
results in leaving the heads of departments
with limited and ill-defined powers.
It would certainly be an unexpected out
come of the present municipal muddle, if
the political influences controlling the city
government found themselves unable to
get the necessary legislation for the heads
Via
of departments without conceding
original demand that the heads of depart
ments must be either elected by the people
or appointed by the Mayor.
AN EFFETE IDEA.
A constitutional amendment proposed
in one of the States provides for the set
tlement of contests for legislative seats by
trial before one of the higher courts. This
is a proposed reversal of what has been re
garded as one of the bulwarks of repre
sentative government, namely, that each
representative body must be the sole judge
of the qualifications of its members.
It is true that this provision was once
necessary to preserve the independence of
the legislative body, but it is so no longer.
In the time of Stuarts and Tudors the in
fluence of the Crown might be such as to
require this check. But all such danger
has passed away, and in its place a new
tyranny has sprung up. When it has been
openly declared by the presiding officer of
the National House of Representatives
that contested seats are awarded not by
the evidence as to who was honestly
elected, but in accordance with the dic
tates of party exigency, it is plain that the
present danger is not one to be met by
giving each body an irresponsible control
over the title of its own membership.
As we got the present antiquated con
stitutional theory from England, it is ap
propriate that we should draw a remedy
from the same quarter. The rule that
Parliament should be the sole judge as to
the election of its members was abandoned
23 years ago. The act provides that the
judges shall from time to time depute one
of their number to try election contests
and all that is left for the House to do is to
enroll the candidates declared elected.
This system has given satisfaction to all
parties. It has done away with, the old
scandal and injustice of seating men solely
because they belong to the majority.
It is not satisfactory to think that we
are over two decades behind England in
the matter of pure and honest representa
tion. But when, the case is presented so
clearly in this respect, there is no better
course open than an early and' universal
adoption of the English example.
EVIDENTLY A ROORBACK.
It does not involve very much risk to
pronounce that report of the sinking of
the Itata by the Charleston as an arrant
example of the manufacture of sensa
tional news. Beyond the fact that it is
accompanied by an entire absence of time
or place, there arc internal evidences of
its unfounded character.
The Itata escaped from tho custody of j
the United States Marshal a week ago.
At that time the Charleston, with other
'United States vessels, was supposed
to be watching American interests
on the coast of Chile. Even sup
posing that the order for her
to be on the lookout for the Itata could
have reached her in time, it would be a
physical impossibility for the two steamers
to have met each other so that tho report
of the collision could have got back to
Mexico so soon as jesterday. As to the
features of -thel report indicating' that the
fight took place on the coast of Mexico,
the idea that Ihe Charleston ould have
been summoned from the South American
station and got back to Mexico in a week
is 6imply ridlcluous. .
This feature of the report, If it was
worth credence, would indicate that it was
not the Charleston but the San Francisco
which dealt so harshly with the fugacious
vessel Butthat idea would suppose that
tho Chilean steamer, with four days and
150 miles good start of the San Francisco,
obligingly waited for the' pursuer to catch
up. This Is a moral improbability on the
part of a runaway steamer hardly less in
superable than the physical impossibilities
already noted with reference -to the
Charleston.
Governor Hogg, of Texas, seems to
know what he is up to. His offer or $1,000
reward for tho arrest of any member .of, a
mob which takes life is a notification that
Texas will be a much better Stata than
Louisiana, for -people to emigrate to who
hold any preferences for having-their lives j
protected by law.
. THE-assertton of a Philadelphia paper
that "confidence and cash"-are coming back
to the banks" may mean that some of the
speculative officials have paid up; but there
are distressing doubts.
The fact that tho granite drinking
troughs, or fountains, donated to thecity by
Mr. Godfrey Cabot, have never been put up,
Is probably duo to an oversight. They will
bo a great accommodation to the public dur
ing the summer months and the season
Bhould not be allowed to advance farther
without putting them in position where they
can be used. If there is no appropriation
availablo for the purpose it would not be dif
ficult to raise by subscription the few hun
dreds necessary for their erection. ,
The Signal Service is understood to re
mark that the late frosts are the last for this
year. The bad luck'of the bureau In pre
dicting the frosts, however, may make it
necessary to "copper" this comforting pro
diction. Farmers will do wisely to cover
tender plants on cool nights.
Japan has appropriated $500,000 for rep
resentation at the Chicago World's Fair.
And the State of New York calmly settles
'down -to the reflection that she is not to be
in it. i
The United States Supreme Court has
sent back that last habeas corpus case to
prevent the electric execution of the New
York-murderers with the rebuke that there
has been too free a use of tho habeas corpus
by the Circuit Court. This seems to indicate
that tho corporation, firm or individual who
"has been employing high-priced lawyers to
prevent anyone being legally killed by elec
tricity, can now reflect that it or he has
gained experience while the lawyers have
gained riches. ,
Ben Butler comes to the front with a
writ of replevin under a forgotten statute,
which gets his client out of tho clutches of
Judge Carpenter. There is reason to believe
that the Indomitable Ben- is Just beginning
to have fun with the excessively bumptious
Judge.
The Harringtons are announced to be on I
McCarthy side. The dust in the Harrington
optics does not appear to have struck there.
The report that the entire edition of an
El Paso paper has been confiscated by tjie
United States postal authorities "because it
contained a synopsis of the Louisiaiur de
cision" on the lottery mandamus case, is one
of tho sort that can be taken with a large
grain of salt. As there is n legal presumption
of innocence before guilt is proved, so it is re
auisite to suppose that the postmaster of
E1 Paso is not an idiot until the evidence that
ho is, Is made plain. , . .
The English estate swindle still catches
victims in America, as will be seen-by our
cable dispatches So do the "green goods,
got-rich-quick and stock-watering games.
The appetite of the masses for 'tielng robbed
by threadbare devices ia something insati
able. The latest'expulsions from Parliament
are a solemn warning to honorable gentle
men that the unpardonable sin is to be
found out in immoral behavior. ,
The local team has been getting aWay
with the New York giants in a manner which
Lsets the baseball enthusiasts in the most ad-
be warned that too much success on their
part may produce, grave complications.
Municipal matters will not permit of widen
ing all the streets; and it would be unfortu
nate if the Pittsburg baseball interests should
become too large for the Pittsburg highways.
Smokeless powder and torpedo boats
are occupying morj attention nowadays
than arbitration. Still the proposition of
Italy looking in that direction contains more
promise of settling international disputes
by civilized methods.
Can it be possible that we have reached
that perplexing point where the gallant
WattersOn advises a Democratic straddle on
the silver and tariff questions?
The Court of Queen's Bench in En
gland has recently made a decision which is
summarized as saying that "naming winners
is no crime." This may be true as a judicial
deliverance; but it Is apt to degenerate Into
naming losers, and when that is done with
other people's money, it conies very closo"to
crime. If people can name winners all tho
time they may keep out of the lockup; but
that is a big "if."
The first trial trip over the Duquesne
Traction, tho other night, indicates that tho
time is close at hand for the addition of an
other full-fledged transit system to our city's
local facilities. Tho more the merrier for
the people. J
The silver brick presented to President
Harrison out West is not the same brick
that was flung at Secretary Blaine In this
week's Judge.
Notwithstanding the renewed an
nouncement of the Farmer's Mutual Benefit
Association of Illinois that no wheat is to
be sold at less than $125 per bushel, some
millions of bushels change hands daily at
Chioago at the price of -$1 011 03. Immense
fortunes are to be made this year by buying
wheat at tho market price and selling it at
theF.M. B. A. price. '
FAME'S FAV0BED ONES.
Ex-Pbesidekt Cleveland has a remarkable
memory for faces.
WilliahWaldobp Astor, tho head of his
family, is the greatest real estate owner in
tho world.
Amelia Glover sailed for Europe last week.
Sho has been re-engaged for the "City Directors-"
play.
JoBEru Jkpfeksos and his family have .al
ready gone to their summer home at Buz
zard's Bay, on the Masachuscts coast.
Albert G. Porter, United States Min
ister to Rome, ts preparing to spend tho
j summer in the Italian Highlands. Ho has
no Idea or leaving Italy.
The Venerable Bishop Crowther, one xf
the best known missionaries In Africa, was
bom a savage in Guinea.
The wife of Mr. Batcheler, United States
Minister to Portugal, was seriously injured
in a carriage accident in Lisbon Wednesday,
and is in a critical condition.
Andrew Carxeqie and Mrs. Carnegie and
Mr. .Walter Damrosch (Mr. Blaine's son-in-law)
and Mrs. Damrosch sailed for Europe
yesterday, to bo absent during the summer.
General A. W. Greelet is in Spokane
Falls, Wash., superintending the laying of
the new cable across the Strait qf San Juan
de Fuca to tho Island of Taltoosh, for signal
ing vessels.
Ex-Goverxob Paul 'Dillixohax, who ap
pointed Mr. Edmunds to tho United States
6enate a quarter of a, century ago, is still
alive, and lives at his homo in Waterbury,
VU. When Senator Edmunds resigned re
cently, he paid his friend a graceful compli-
ment by sending him a copy of bis formal
resignation,
I
. NEW TARIFF INQUIRY.
Senator Carlisle Explains What the Senate
Investigating Committee It AfterThe
Actual Selling Price of Numerous Art!
cles and the Rates of Wages Paid.
(FROM A STAWCOBBESrONDEJfTv)
New York, May H. "We ,nre pursuing an
entirely new Hnoof inquiry ub to tho tariff,'1
said Senator Carlisle, of the Senate. Finance
Sub-Committee now in session here, "and we
expect to be able at the beginning of the
next session to lay such information before
the Senate as will enable it to deal intelli
gently with the subjeot."
"Has this investigation direct reference to
the McKlnley bill and its possible repealt" '
"Primarily.but any modification of the ex
isting tariff laws will not settle the question.
The tariff issue has received an Immense
amount of laborious thought It never will
be settled. This because of the rapidly
changing eoonomio conditions. The laws re
lating to taxation must necessarily change
with the growth and temporary necessities
of the country. They can never remain long
fixed. Even the data upon which such laws
are enacted soon become in a measure obso
lete. New information under existing con
ditions must be gathered to guide the Legis
lature to h correct estimate of public, neces
sities. That information is what wo are
after, and. nn I said before, it is in an en
tirely new line of investigation. Instead of
holding a series of public hearings, wherein
one set of interested people flatly contradict
another set of interested people, leaving,
after a vast amount of testimony, the vari
ous phases of the subject about where they
were before, wo have started out to getour
Information at first hands and at the foun
tain head. We are now going to find out
wuus me consumer nas tosay.
The Committee's Sole Aim.
"In the first place, and that is about our
solo aim here in New York, we desire to as
certain the commonly accepted designation
of numerous articles that enter into general
consumption. There are 200 or 300 artioles
of this kind upon which we wish to get the
fluctuating prices under former and the
present tariff laws, and before we start out
to talk with the consumer it is essential the
correct designation tf the article should be
ascertained. We must know that the man
in Boston and the man in St. Louis are talk
ing about the same thing. This is what we
are doing here now.
"As soon as this information is obtained
wo shall proceed to get tho statistics we are
nfter. These are to be had onlyof theretniler.
Tho prices at which these specified articles
are now sold, what they were sold at before
tho nassacre nf thn nrnsent lnw. what thev
,brought last year, the year before and so on
uucjt us lar as we nave nmo to enrrv me in
quiry, must be found upon the books of the
dealer who stands next to the consumer.
Whatever they brought to the retailer is
uiuciiy wnai ine consumer paia ior mem.
That is very simple. Tho accounts of a few
local merchants In any section of the coun
try will show conclusively what the ruling
prices on these particular goods were to
those who purchased the goods for use. You
will see this reverses the customary tariff in
vestigations, which usually began and ended
with tho manufacturer and Importer. By
this course we expect to reach more tangi
ble results.
An Inquiry Into Wages.
In connection with this lino of inquiry a
similar investigation as to wages will be
mado, and this latter will run over the same
periods as tho figures on articles of general
use. To insuro reasonable accuracy, it is
first necessary to classify the' various trades
and grades of workmen, justas we must first
fix the grade and designation of goods. For
instance, statistics as to engineers would be
worthless under a head that embraces alike
the man who runs en elevator engine and ha
who has charge of the grand motive power
of an ocean steamship, To find the relative
wages we must be sure to carefully observe
the various grades of a single occupation.
"Of course it would be impossible to go
into every calling and every grade of that
calling, but wo have agreed upon such lines
as will most fairly represent. the whole class
of wage earners. It is at once manifest that
accurate statistics as to what men receive
for their labor and at the same time what
they have to pay for articles of common con
sumption, must be of great value when the
practical effects of certain laws are under
consideration. Allowance would have to bo
made for other conditions, the laxity or
stringency of tho money market, etc., but
such other conditions are always to ho con
sidered in arriving at conclusions from sta
tistical premises.
. 'What the Parmer Receives.
"There is BtiU another channel of inquiry
that will be followed and that, in my opin
ion, will in its results attract more attention
than those inquiries mentioned. This is as
to the prices of farm produce for a corre
sponding period. -Not the market price at
the seaboard or in tho grain pits of Chicago,
or in various exchanges throughout the
country; but exactly what the fanner re
ceived for his wheat, oats, corn, or other
product of his farm. This will he obtained
xram me iui uim uiuieii. w aca vnis is ascer
tained, we shall have figures for the first
tune that will enable Congress to fully un
derstand the reasonably exact relation of tho
consumer to tho laws and tho laws to the
consumer.
."To get thi3 information, we will have to
cover considerable territory, as it would
nave no Tame wnere not ontalned 'on the
spot from various sections of the country,
and do some hard work during the heated
term; but the possible results of this new de
parture, as well ns the interesting process of
reaching them, are quite sufficient to nerve
any man to tho task. We hope to get
through in time to lay before the Senate a
tabulated statement on these three heads,
that will not only bo of great service in tho
consideration of present tariff legislation,
but of substantial value with reference to
general legislation and operations of other
ranches of the Government,"
J0HKST0WN FLOOD ANOTVEESABY.
Preparations Completed for Property Com-
'memoratlng the Event.
SFECTAt TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
JOHitSTOWK, May 14. Arrangements for the
Commemoration of tho second anniversary
of tho great flood, which have beon planned
under the direction of the Mineral City
Band, nie about completed. Dr. George W.
Wagoner, of the Southside, has been ap
pointed Chief Marshal of the procession on
that day. Already a number of bands,
lodges and other clvio and military organ
izations have signified their intention to
take part hi the exercises, and more are re
ported daily. Eleven hands "have been as
signed places in the ranks. The Gferman so
cieties who have signified their willingness
to take part will number over200 men. Com
pany H, of this city, will turn out to a man,
and it is expected that most all the other
lodges and organizations will repoit at least
one week beforehand.
The Johnstown Flood Correspondents' As
sociation, which will meet at Johnstown on
that date, will contain representativos-from
most all the cities in tho Union. It is not
known whether they will take part in the
procession, but it la probable that they will
not. An invitation was extended them last
year, but it was not accepted. Mayor Rose
has accepted nn invitation to deliver an ora
tion at the Grandview Cemetery, and Mr.
John V. Shaffer will speak in German.
The Naughty Plan.
Beaver Falls Tribune.
Wohavo a note -from some one in the
North End, evidently a woman. Judging
from the penmanship, complaining that a
widower in the neighborhood leaves his lit
tle child with the neighbors while he goes
on the hunt for another wifo.
PEOPLE WHO VISIT PITTSBTJBG.
Among the Seventh Avenue guests yester
day were Z. X Snyder, President of tho State
Normal School of Indiana; JehuDeWilt Mil
ler, the Philadelphia lecturer; Dr. W. D. Mo
Gowan, of Latrobe; JohnT). Frisbee, a prom
inent Democratic politician and business
man of Connellsville; Judge W. P. Jenks, of
DuBois, and H. P. Currin, of Clarion. Mr.
Currlllwas on his way to West Virginia to
take up mining proporty.
B. Dawson Coleman'of Lebanon, owner
of the Iron Mountain and reported to bo ono
of the wealthiest iron men in tho State, was
in town yesterday and- put up at the Du
quesne. Other guests there wero George D.
Wick, the Youngstown iron .manufacturer,
and J. T. James,lho Wayncsburg Democratic
politician and lawyer.
MrsMason and daughter, of Delphos,IO.:
J. IC Hamilton and wife, of Elkhorn, Pa.,
and Mrs. Whitehall and two ladles wore
among those whoregistered at tho Schlosser
yesteidny on a May Festival trip to tho city.,
W. H. McDoel, general manager of the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway
Company, has been placed in charge of tho
Sroperty in placo of W. L.- Broyfogle, who
as resigned.
Congressman Mason passed through the
city yesterday morning. He says that 1803
will find the people indorsing .Harrison, the
tariff, tho forco bill and reciprocity.
P. H. Moore, editor of the Ohio VaUm
Manufacturer, of Wheeling, was in tho city
yesterday looking up iron trade pointers. .
Judtre White returned vesterdar from--
brief holiday trip.
A BABE COLlECTTOff.
Caits,
Manuscripts anf Other Objects
Illustrating Semitic History.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO' tot dispatch,
Cambiudqe. MASS.,SMay H. There was
thrown open to tho puhlio at the Peahody
' Museum to-day for tho first time a large and
rare collection of casts, manuscripts and
other objects illustrative of Semitic litem.
I ture and history. Tho largo and well-lighted
rooms in which these arncies are collected
are known as thellarvard Semitio Museum, a
new department, for which the collego is In
debted to -J. JI. Shiff, of New York. Some
timeagohegavo to Harvard 10,QOO for the
pnrchase of objects of this kind, and his con
tribution Is believed to bo tho first ever
given toward the foundation of a strictly
Semitio museum. To this end Prof, D. G.
Lyon, of the divinity school, was commis
sioned to go abroad as a buyer last year, and
he spent three months In London. Paris and
Berlin with the most satisfactory results,
and with the expenditure of only about one.
'half of the sum donated.
Prof. Lyon regards as one or tno most im
portant features of the collection the casts
of some of the great Semitio monuments in
the British Museum and the Louvre, of
which tho most Interesting are probably the
Assyrian-Babylonian clay books and stone
art remains. There have a threefold inter
est They come from the oldest branch of
the Semitic stook, they represent a civiliza
tion the oldest known, the Egyptian possi
bly excepted, and they illustrate Hebrew as
well as Babylonian history, so intimately
were these, two peoples connected. Theso
casts have, for the purpose of instruction,
a value almost equal to the originals.
0517 ONE F0OTDEB 8UBVTVES,
The American Bible Society Celebrates Its
78th Anniversary at New York.
2fKwYonK,May 11. The American Bible
Society celebrated its seventy-eighth anni
versary yesterday. Gen. Joshua Chamber
lain, ex-Governor pf Maine, presided. A
large attendance of clergymen were present,
among them somo from Great Britain
and Canada. An interesting and pa
thetlo incident took placo during tho
meeting. Of the 60 delegates present
at the organization of the society 75 years
ago but two were living on Monday. Thev
were Rev. J. D. Wickham, of Vermont, anil
Rev. Dr. Yermilye, of this city. On Monday
a letter was received from Mrs. Wiokham,
who explained that her husband was unable
to use bis pen, but had dictated to her the
letter. The letter was reminiscent and went
back to the lime of the society's organisa
tion in 1816.
At the meeting to-day a telegram was read
announcing the death of Mr, wickham. Tho
only surviving member, Rev. Dr. Thomas
E. vermllye, was present at the meeting to-'
night and pronounced the benediction.
A PATRIOTIC CADI.
Jndgo Lawrence UnwUIIng to Incorporate
Baron HJrsch Lodge.
SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO TUB DISPATCH. J
New York, May It Judge Lawrence, of
the Supreme Court, has declined to incor
porate Baron Hirsch Lodge No. L lie sayg:
- "I am unwilling to incorporate this society
in the name of a foreign dignitary, particu
larly when I do not know whether the in
corporators are authorized to uso his name."
The object for which the society wished to
be incorporated was to assist Its sick and
needy members.
Neither Should Anybody KIsef
Altoona'Trlbnnc.
lWe donottakemuehjgtpJn.anQnymous
communications. As a rule a "man ought
always put his name to contributions to tho
newspapers, especially if they criticize
others.
The Naughty Town of Houston.
Sau Antonio, Tex., Express.
Trie National Convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association is in session In
I Kansas City, and the Express regrets (that
xiuuBbuii is uub repicaeuieu.
The Rule Reversed,
New York Recorder.
The 'weather indications for to-day are
"generally fair and cooler.1' Tho Indications
are for publication and not as a guarantee of
goou laitn.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE,
Tho Marchioness of Waterford.
Lady Blanche Elizabeth Adaleide Somer.
sot, Murchioncss of Waterford, whose dFathfrom
the grip Is announced, was the only daughter of the
eighth Duke of Beaufort, K. O. She waa married
onjjnly a, 1874, to the fifth Marqnls of Waterford,
an Irish peer noted for his opposition to Glad
stone's land act. Lady Waterford's childhood,
passed under the Indulgent eye of an affectionate
father, waa especially happy. She had the family,
love for horses, was an excellent honewoman and
devoted to hunting. She had four children Henry
and Clodagh, ions, and Mary and Susan, twin Klrls,
born In April, 1877, the former of whom llTedonly
one month.
Colonel F. E. Burton.
Colonel Francis Edward Burton died
Tuesday last at Denver. Colonel Burton waa
elected to the California Assembly when a years
old. He waa born in Ithaca, N. Y., and was a life
long friend of President Arthur. During Arthur's
administration he waa placed' in charge of the San
Francisco mint. Colonel Burton was the first man
to give employment to John W. Macka v. During
the gold craze of M9 Mackay drove one of Burton's
wagons at a salary of (5 a week.
William Hepburn.
William Hepburn, an artist well known
In Brooklyn, died Tuesday night from an attack of
the grip. He waa born in Edinburgh in 1817, and
studied at the Royal Scottish National Assembly.
He came to America in 1847 and sctUed In Brooklyn
in 1861. ne waa an acUve member of the Brooklyn
Art Club. He has produced a number of notable
Elcturea, one or wmen -Auia Kouin uray la owned
yMrs. Smith, of St. Mark's Place, Brooklyn.
Dr. William Dickson,
Dr. William Dickson, recently appointed
Assistant Cblcf of the Bureau of Animal Industry
of tho Department of Agriculture, at Washington,
died suddenly on Tuesday. Dr. Dlckaon waa a
Scotchman by birth and a graduate of Edinburgh
University, no subsequently served several years
In the BriUsh civil service ltf India, coming from
there to the United States, where many of his rela
tives, including his father, had settled.
Prof. George Gossman.
Prof. George Gossman, formerly of Tiffin,
one of tho finest linguists in this country, speak
ing nine languages, died in Milwaukee last night.
He spent ten years abroad, teaching in Antlocli,
Jerusalem and other cities for two years. He waa
supennienaeni oi uie duduo scnoou in Ban Fran
cisco, and served several years as private tutor to
the sona of the Presidents of Peru and Chile,
Obituary Notes.
A. C. HCBER, a well-known citizen of Mechan
icsburg, died Wednesday.
JOHN A. BErrz, President of tho Evansvlllo Ger
man NaUonal Bank, died Wednesday, aged 7G
j ears,
Charles MELOSEY, President of the Merchants'
National Bank of Atlantic City, died Wednesday in
his rath J ear.
CAPTAIN IIARRT TODD, of Frankfort, Ky.. died
Wednesday, aged 73 years. He was the grandson
of Harry lnnes, who n as Frankfort's first settler.
Sister M. Mercedes (Breen) died yesterday at
St. Mary's Convent of Mercy. The funeral will
occur to-morrow at 11 p. M. Interment at St.
Navlcr's Academy. y
W CADMAjf, M. A., whose death from grip ia
announced, was a canon residentiary of the Prov
ince of Canterbury. He waa appointed In 18S3 and
drew a salary of 5, 000 a year.
WILLIAM S. LADD, LI..D., or Lancaster, N. II.,
ex Justice and present reporter of the New Hamp
shire Supreme Court, died Tuesday night from
Brlght'a disease, aged CO years.
MRS. T. E. Calvert, wife of the General Super
intendent of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad,
died in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday night, aged 33
5 ears. She was prominent In church and charitable
work throughout the State.
GEORGE BEJTEDICT Fowxer, inventor, died In
Brooklyn Thursday, Among his more Important
inventions are the first grip tester, the Dexter car
riage Jack and an adding machine. The last men
tioned was omjr i-uuipicteu jatt year.
Walters. Spaceman, who died at Rlrerton,
N. J., Wednesday, was one of the pioneers In the
canning business In New Jftscy. He invented sev
eral appliances now used in that Industry, and ac
cumulated a large fortune. Ho was W years old.
C. W. MELLOR, formerly a news dcafcr in Ann
Arbor, Mich., has received official notification from
England of the death of Harriet Mcllor. the owner
or flie Lord Hedcllffo estate, valued at K,000,0007
He la one of the nine heirs, and starts for England
Monday.
Thomas McGill, "general We8tern agent of the
Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia,
died Wednesday at Indianapolis from injuries
received in a wreck in the Big Four near Mount
Jackson-1 April 27. Ho m very well known In
railroad circles ll over tho West and lived in Chi
cago. David JIucues, of Boston, an architectural
carver of merit, died In Jersey Tuesday night. Ho
war returning home from North Carolina, where
he had gone for the benefit of his health; He built
Union fortlflcaUons'durlng-the Civil War, after
escaping fronrthoTCbel army, In which ho bad,
$een drafted-
TALK OF THE TOWN.
The Stan and Stripes in Great Demand
Facts About the Flag Trade How a
Rebel WasMade Loyal BicycIIats MolU-plying-alr
Riders pf the Wheel-Bits
of City Life Picked Up by the Topical
Talker. -'
"Tho President might have included the
moon and stars when he said yesterday that
ho had seen enough American flags since he
left Washington to cover the earth," said a
veteran salesrnan of flags n a Fifth avenue
store yesterday. "Pittsburg Is the best mar
ket for stars and'stitnes in the United States.
It has always beeA so since the war, but tho
aemana ior tne national flag has grown im
mensely in the last ten years. The demand
fqr Decoration Day flags began two weeks
ago and before May 80 over SO gross think
of it, 7,200 flags of little muslin flags will be
needed to adorn the soldiers' graves in
PJttshurg ana the vicinity. These little
bannerets are 16xl8 inohes.and of late
years the year and Grand Army badge have
beon printed on them in order to discourage
me mean tnieves who used to make away
with them. Of tho bunting and Bilk flags
there are certainly from 8,000 to 10,000 in the
city. Neariy every business man has ono
nnd lots of citizens moke a practice of hang
ing out a flag from thqir homes on Decora
tion Day and July. Then every public
building in the city has a big flag; all tho
public schools have been given one, and each
fire-engine house in the two cities flies one.
The bunting flags range in size from 5 to 30
feet, and five measuring iO feet are now
owned in this city. There has been a note
worthy increase in the popularity of the na
tional flag here in the last two years, and
tho Jr. O. U. A. M. has stimulated the
patriotic custom of showing the flag honor
on every possible occasion. Teaching
the children to love tho flag is the
surest wuy to make it the rally
ing point for all patriots. Doubtless
President Harrison is right in saying that the
flag wnves oyer all the land as it never
waved before, but I doubt if h conld And
anywhere else such a forest of stars and
stripes ns Pittsburg shows on national boll
days. Pittsburg dees not make her flags but
buys them from the manufacturers or Now
Jork and Cincinnati, who almost monopolize
the business.
Silken Stars and Stripes.
The fine silk flags which patriotic socie
ties. Grand Army posts and other organiza
tions call for, cost from ) to $100 as a rule,"
continued the flag man, "but of course you
can spend any amount almost on a flag if you
want to. Just to show you what a demand
there is for flags of the finer kind I may tell
you that we sold over 100 silk flags last year,
and another straw is that durimr a camDaien
Reason we have had orders for flags amount-
mg to :eu,uai ana even FiO.ooa it is satisfac
tory to us to sell flogs, but it is even more
gratifying to see the spirit of patriotism
which the flag exemplifies growing so health
ily. Another feature of the trade in flags is
that We have On-lera rnntiminll-tr trnm nlnnoa
as far away as Siam and Japan for small silk
flags. These come from osiled Americans
who want to feast their eyes on the dear old.
Stars and Stripes, as well as to glory in their
citizenship."
The Flag Converted a Rebel.
"I shall never forget how grand and
beautiful the Stars and Stripes looked," con
cluded the expounder of flag lore,"whenjust
as dawn was breaking I saw it flying out
straight for there was a still breeze blow
ing from the masthead of the Hartford, as
Admiral Farragnt's fleet sailed up between
the forts to New Orleans three days after
that city's capture. There were war vessels
of other nations with their flags all about,
but none had the glorious meaning for us
ou hoard tho fleet that the Stars and Stripes
had. And a year or two I was curiously re
minded of that scene when a Southern gen
tleman of fine appearance came- into tho
store hereimd after buying a-lot of things, a
flag among them, chanced to say he came
from New Orleans. I told him the circum
stances of my visit to the city, and he said
he was in one of thoseforts When Farragnt's
. ?A p6?' through the channel, and the
sight of the flag, the Stars and Stripes, float
ing from above the wooden hulks that had
dared to force an entrance where sure de
struction had seemed to await tliern, had
awed him so much that he had never fought
against it again."
New Roads for Bicyclists
Toe now roads and some other favorable
circumstances have given a great boom' to
uioyciing in tne isast End. The riding Is
particularly good on Ellsworth, Negley, An
derson, Penn and Ceiiter avenues since the
new pavements wero laid down, and bicy
clists of both sexes are to be seen In hundreds
thereafter sundown and on Roup street and
the Boulevard near Point Breeze. In Alle
gheny and its suburbs the bicyclists are
looking forward with high hopes to the com
pletion of California avenue, which now,
that the high bridge over Woods' Run is fin
ished, will soon make n delightful ride on tho
wheel from this oity to Bellevue. Wherever
you go in tho country you are pretty sure to
meet bicyclists, and in such suburban bor
oughs as Sewickley, tho riders of the wheel
are multiplying with extraordinary rapidity.
The Wheels Multiplying.
Aw expert bicyclist said yesterday: "The
bicycle is enjoying a popularity In Pitts
burg to-day that It never has had he
fore. There are fully a thousand men
in Pittsburg who are wont to get exercise
nnd recreation out of tho wheel, and in the
East End women nre taking very kindly to
the sport, since the safety machine in its im
proved state has come into use. There are
about 40 ladles who ride the bicycle in the
East End, and eveiy day a new recruit Joins
the battalion of fair bicyclists. A year ago
there were not more than one or two women in
the city who rode bicycles, and even tricvles
were not popular with tho fair sex. "But
when Prof. Kirchner began to give his fair
uuimnuiiuumsi'tnu uymnasium lessons
In the art of bicycle riding a year ago the
fashion was set, and now, as I say, at least
40 young women have safeties and can rido
them with far more grace than the average
man. From ProlV KIrohner's morning
plnoaao tnn irlan onm.il n..l .. .. 2
bo the thing for the fashionable young wom
an to he an expert rider on the safety be
fore very long. There was no hope of tho
blcyclo attaininggenernl popularity while it
romaineda lofty and heavy machine that
only a trained athlete could ride with ordin
ary ease and safety. But the Ingenuity of
man overcame all difficulties, and tho mod
ern 'safety' has brought the bioycle within
the reach of any fairly strong man or wom
an. Tho tricycle has had its dav apparently,
find since tho snfety camo in flvo years ago
has boon steadily declining in popular
favor." . f i "
, Common Errors of Wheelmen.
"Not half the men who ride the bicycle,"
said an East End rider, "get the full benefit
of tho exercise, and they make awful pb
Jects of themselves, too. They get the han
dles or tho saddle too low, and then the
hicyolist cannot straighten his limbs or
square his shoulders and throw'out his chest
ns ho ought to do. The result is that he
grows round shouldered, and some doctor is
quick to tell him that bicyling is harm
ful to him. If a man .sits his bieyclo
properly, erect and with his chest thrown
out, as he can easily if the saddle and
handles are adjusted properly, thcro is no
better exercise or more pleasant under the
sun. I notlco that somo of tho ladies need
this warning, though most of them are care
ful to be graceful in their posture, nnd to he
that they must sit up straight. Thoro aro
plenty of little points to bo picked up by ex
perience in bicycle riding. For instance, a
great many bjcyolists will tell you that thoy
have no use for tho tandem wheel. They
complain that His too hard work, but they
-mako It hard. It need not be anyhnrder
than bicycling aiono. when men have not I
masiercu me noien.ee oi ruling tandem tho
first man on the wheel is sure to imagine
when they have got fairly started that he is
not doing his share of the work, nnd ho
begins to hnrry his feet till tho pedals arc
flying fnrioiuuy. The other man, under the
same delnsion, piles in with all his
might nnd main, and the result is
profuse perspiration and usually profanity.
A tandem must bo ridden without excessive
effort it Is not needed. Tho wheel will
travel fast cnongh under the steady impulse
of tho double pedals, nnd in reality it is tho
least orduons and most pxhilnrnting of all
forms of bicrcle riding. I saw a lady and
gentloman fading nlong on Ponn avenue tho
other evening, and I thought I had never
seen tne poetry oi mouon more happily ex
pressed. Now that so many women nre
taking to tho wheol in this city, tho tnndcin
has a great future beforofit, for It is incom
parably the ploasnntest way for a woman to
tako exerciso and enjoy the society of an
agreeable man."
In the Interest of High Art-
"TBESE(May Festival things keep people
from the ball game," said a short-haired
young man in a bflgh t yellow suit with large
buttons, to a similar object sitting next to
himin n Bobcccn street car yesterday nf tor
nodn, as it crossed the Sixth street bridge.
"Yes," paid the -similar object, "these yor
matinees oughter bo stopped?'
And Always Will Be.
McKeesport Times,
The PmsBURo Dispatch Is out,in a net?
wagon. It always bas'been good, t
CHAEITABLE AND SOCIAL. "
Interesting Events in the Two Cities, Past
and to Come. .
Deftly, rapidly and gracefully were tho
words of .the speakers at the Eighth Street
Covenanter Church celebration last evcnlijg,
translated by means of signs, gestures'and'
expressive movements of tho body to a score
or more of deaf mutes grouped In the right
hand "amen comer" of the auditorium. Their
Interpreter was a sllghtpirtle lady in black,
who attraotod no small amount of attention,
and her audience through her agency had
the privilege of seeing the words of the
speakers lfthey could not hear them. The
papers read were on subject already dealt
with in the pastor's address of the previous
evening excepting that those last night
were in detail and dealt with their
branches of the church's history with
great painstaking and particularity.
"The History of the First Session" was
told by Elder Robert Glasgow, who Is the
only surviving member of that memorable
gathering.
Elder D. Chesnut had the "Organization of
tho Congregation and its Financial Manage
ment" for the caption of his paper, which
Was vervlomrnndTmrtlenlnrt bnt it Was a
model of clear English, and will be ft valu
able document no doubt for future refer
ence "Membership and Sabbath School
Work for Twenty-five Years" recelvedample
justice from Eldqr S. MoNnugher ond Dr.
MoAllister, the pastor.
Mast of the poor and needy of Allegheny
have reason to bless the Ladies' Relief, So
ciety of that city, which consists of 20 earn
'est, charitable women, engaged In genuine
phllantropio work. TJie annual report of
the sjciety, Just issued, contains the infor
mation that from November I to April 1,
"1,49 families have been assisted, in which
there wero 1,172 children to be cared for;
17,385 bnshels of coal have been distributed;
460 yards of flnnnol; 826 yards of calico and
muslin, with 1,211 pairs of -shoes have been
given, and 679 personal visits mado. There
were a great many grocery orders given out
during tho month of February to the flood
sufferers, a report of which has already been
published. Money has been freely supplied
by the managers where delicacies were
neeuea, ana oicen miiK anu cream,
taken daily to the sick. Several deaths
have' occurred during the year, one mother
being cared for with her little ones during
the summer by the "Fresh Air" Committee,
tended through the winter and buried in the
spring". Tims the ladles encircle the year
wuu ineir cnaruy, inantcim ior ine oppor-
lnuc
mothers and the poor and sickly babies and
children. Our 'Fresh Air' Home is at Ems-
wn.1. .....1m. ..I.a ........ n HIT .a TT.. ima ..1.
for several years has been the kind and care-
iui matron. 'Anougn our wore nas not yet
begun we have now in the Home a poor
mother and her sick baby, and shall sentt
down many special cases before the regular
opening of tliis charity. Thanking all who
have in any way helped to bring about such
pleasant results we nope that another year
win Dear even a Detter ana ungu:. recoru.
The total receipts of the society during the
year were $4,416 02 and the expenditures
$4,28 S3, leaving a balance In the treasury of
$131 69.
A valuable contribution to Librarian
Stevenson's growing collection of books re
lating to Pennsylvania and books by Penn
sylvanians was received yesterday from Dr.
Frank Cowan, of Greensburg, Pa. The dona
tions consists of 13 volumns of Br, Cowan's
publications, the titles of which are as fol
lows: "American Story Book," 1881; "South
western Pennsylvania in Song and Story,"
1878; "Zomara," 1873; "Australia, a Charcoal
Sketch," 1886, (out of print): "A Visit in
Verse to Halemaumau," 1885; "Contributions
to Athropology," 1888; "Check-Lists of Fruits
in Mt. Odin Orchard'1890: "At Gettysburg,"
a poem read at G. A. R. camp Are, Pitts
burg," October 4, 1887: "The Meaning of the
Monument," 1887: "The Three-Fold Love,
Comedy in Five Acts," 1866; "The City of
the Royal Palms and Other Poems," 1884;
"The Terrace of Rotomahana," 188i Tlie
books derive a special interest from the fact
that they represent a great variety of im
prints. One was printed in Rio Janeiro,
another in Oakland, another in Honolulu,
but most of them either in Pittsburg or
Greensburg.
Dr. Cowan's well-known work on Insects
had already been secured for the library he
fore this donation was made. Dr. Cowan is
well-known as a travelver, he has circled
tne giouo twice as a journalist, poet, unguis t,.
antiquarian, botanist, entomologist, his
torian, physician and attorney.
Melodv of an entrancing order issued
through the portals of the Second TJV P.
Church in Allegheny last evening at 8
o'clock. It was the jjuptial music of two
prominent and popular young people of
Allegheny, Miss Margaret E. McCain, daugh
ter of Robert McCain, and Edwin Lewis Pe
terson, son of ex-Mayor Peterson. The
lovely bride was attended by a quartet of
girl friends, Misses Clara Peterson, Lydia
Forguson, Clara Miller and Ella Johnson.
Sho was clad in a bridal robe of white faille
with heavy brocade petticoat. A wreath of
valley lilies fastened the bridal veil to the
golden hair of the fair bride, and
a bonnet of the same flower was carried bv
her. Rose colored and pink costnmes off)
crepo ue chlno were worn by tno urlde
maids, who carried mammoth bouqets of
roses. The ushers were Messrs. A. R. Neeb,
Will Dyre, Bert Munhall, Frank Patton,
Samuel McCain, George Smith and John
Park. Rev. David S. Kennedy, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, of Allegheny,
officiated. After the services at the church
an Informal reception was given at the Mc
Cain residence, on Alpine avenue, to the rela
tives and the attendants. The youngconple
will take possession of a now residence on
Alpine avenue, which has already been
tastily furnished.
Two birds werakllled with one stone last
evening by the congregation of the Thirty
seventh Street Baptist Church, which wel
comed its new pastor nnd wife. Rev. and
Mrs. H, C. Hall, of Sharon, with a house-
warming of its recently purchased parson
ace. The new possessions of the congrega
tion, both pastor and parsonage, aro located
at No. 269 Main street, and the place last
evening was ablazo with brilluinoy and
beauty. The event was under the manage
ment of the ladles of the church and was
enjoyable in every particular, as tho pastor
and parsonage w ero on the best of terms
with each other nnd with the congregation,
and tho congregation was weU pleased with,
nnd proud of Its parsonage, its pastor and its
pastor's wife.
The little folks that have the honor of
being tho scions of members of the Concordia
Club enjoyed themselves immensely yester
day at Cyelorama Hall, where the annual
May party was given by tho management of
tho club. In the afternoon the wee tdts had
possession of tho hall with their mammas
and nurses, and to the strains or Tocrge's
Orchestra tripped their tiny feot. In the
evening the older children wore present in
large numbers and the hours were spenf in
dancing. A delicious collation was served
both alternoon and evening, and lemonade
and frappe wero constantly on hand to
quench tho thirst of the little merrymakers.
J, C. Connor, police operator- in the Do
partment of Public Safety, and Miss May
Kennedy, wore married Wednesday even
ing. The bride is the eldest daughter of
William Kennedy, tho Fifth avenue'' grocer.
Tho, ceremony took place at 7 o'clock in St.
Potor's Church, Rov. W. R. Mackay officiat
ing.. Tho marrfcigo was a quiet one, only the
near friends and relatives of the parties be
ing present. Miss Annie Connor, sister of
the groom, acted as brideinaid, while J. F.
Gelssenhelmcr was best man. Mr. and Mrs.
Connor left on tho 8ao trnn for the East.
They will visit Philadelphia, New York and
Atlantic City, returning home in about two
weeks. ,
Social Chatter.
Miss Grace Miller will givo Pittsbnrg a
musical farewell before her departure for
Europe at tho Second U. P. Church, Stockton
nvcnuo and Sandusky street, Allegheny, on
Thnridar ovenlng. May 28. Tho Apollo Gleo
Club of Plttxbnrg nnd several noted soloists
will appear on tuo programme.
Tw tlin studv of the Seeond PrshvtnVfnn
Church yesterday afternoon, ai 2 o'clock,
occurred tho marriage of Miss Mamlo E.
Booth, of Robinson township, nnd William
WUshcr, Jr. Rev. Dr. Sutheilnnd, pastor of
tho church, tied the knot. The .newly
married departed for Ohio immediately.
A number of local musicians agisted In
tho commencement exercises of tho AVest
Newton High School last evening, among
them Organist Snnv. M. Brown. Dr. Snyder,
of the ludhinn State Normal School, made
tho class address.
Tns Pfttsburg Stenographers' Association
had a small-sized musical festival of its own
last evening in its rooms, 412 Wood street.
The school exhibit at the Exposition this
fall will be very extensive. High School
cyclones notwithstanding. I
The Pennsylvania Collego for Women was
reprosonted at the May Festival "yesterday
afternoon.
Prof. Byron W. Kino gave an entertain
ment last evening in the JJsllevue M. E.
Church.
A strawberry festival will be given this
evening in the Bellcfield Presbyterian
Church; , -
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A sLx-foofed calf at Mooresville, Ind, k
the latest freak.
The first American steel bark is being
built at Boston.
San Francisco is flooded with counter
felt silver dollars;
There are over OOO.OOO trades union
tsta in this country.
A Buffalo girl has inherited a magnifi
cent estate in Australia.
Myriads of crickets are destroying veg
etation in parts of Washington State.
"Oh, dearj" is aprofane expreesion. It
la equivalent to "O Dlo mio," or "O my
God."
A white Detroit mother has given her
beautiful daughter to a negro family for
adoption.
Two large blocks of coal in the Presi
dentol arch In Tacomo, Wash., weighed six
tons each.
Dime savings banks are becoming a drug
on the Buffalo market. They go begging
now for 10 cents apiece.
Through recent railroad changes, the
little town of Frederick, Md., hopes to be
come a rival of Baltimore.
Through ages of contact with civiliza
tion the English sparrow has almost lost tho
instinct for nest building.
Delaware's old whipping-post has been
purchased and destroyed to prevent Its
being exhibited at the World's Fair.
All of the Southern States except Ken
tucky have mado provision for pensioning
disabled veterans of the Confederacy.
A man near Athens, Ga., has been tak
ing gold for years from a stream near his
farm, which panned out about $1 a day.
The brownish discoloration of ceilings
where gas is used is caused by dust carried
against them by the heated currents pro
duced by the gas.
The current in its channel represents
only a small part of the Rio Grande Most
bf the river nercolates through loose sand
and gravel on its way to tho gulf.
Great Britain's greatest naval station
on this continent, Halifax, is defended by
nine strong forts. The Bermudas and Ba
hamas are also strongly protected.
A wonderful freak of nature- is to be
seen on the place of a horseman near Albion,
111. A mare belonging to him has just foaled
twin colts, one amnle and the other a horse.
The total b'ght of the full moon can be
compared with the total light of the sun,
though it Is a very difficult problem, and the
result will be that the sun is as bright aa
680,000 full moons.
t A photographer at Arkansas City, Kan.,
has taken a group picture in which fouif
generations were represented a child, its
mother, the grandmother and great grand
mothen The latter was only 75 years old. '
The former idea that a connection exists
between an earthquake shock and the
height of the barometer has been proved to.
be incorrect. This-statement is based on tba
observations of 531 earthquakes recorded in
Japan.
The old United States Monitor Sangua
has been purchased by John H. Dialogue; ot
the Camden Iron Ship Works. Since the
purchase Mr. Dialogue has been approached
by people from foreign Governments whor
want to bny the boat, but he has declined to
SelL
A missionary, who recently returned
from Angola, said ho thought it far more
sensible for a white man in tropical Africa
to take some native woman for his wife than
to carry with him a white woman from the
temperate zone, who would be certain to
lose ner health in that trying climate.
An Italian engineer has originated tr
system by which he proposes to utilize the)
power of trains running down grade. He
has perfected a machine for compressing air
as the train goes down grade which can bo
used to actuate a motor at the will of the
engineer, and be used to assist the locomo
tive on up grades.
The railroad is at last knocking at the
doors of the TransvoaL From Klmberly 16
Is pushing across the Orange Free State to
the frontierof the South African Republic,
while the Natal railroad has already reached
the frontier, and perhaps will soon enter the
Boer Republic, which has so long been inim
ical to tho Introduction of railroads.
A physician has hit upon an excellent
way of utilizing rubber In the treatment ot
wound. He places one end of the strip of
rubber on one lip of the wound and then
stretches the rubber to fasten the other end
to the opposite lip. In this way ho draws
the severed parts closely together and the
elastic rubber continuously holds them
there.
Marriages are concluded in "an orig
inal manner" among the convicts on the
island of Saghalien. When a party of fe
male convicts arrive the men are given a
half holiday and taken to a park, where)
they meet the newcomers. A general in
spection of brides then takes place. In an
an honr or so the guards call time. The
men must then como up to the officer In
command and point out tho women they
have selected. If the women are satisfied
the bonds are tied then and there.
In a Georgia county the grand jury, in
the intensity of their zeal in the cause of
morality,lef t the haunts of sin and sought the
parlors of the ladies of the town. One of
the most 'prominent and highly respected
young Indies of the town became the subject
of a rigid investigation for having drawn a
prize at a progressive euchre party, and
thereby being guilty of gambling. The fact
was suddenly revealed that several of the
Jurors themselves were members of tho
club, so the whole thing collapsed.
Among the sweltering millions of
China, the mother carries her infant in a
kind of a bag or pannier on her back, and
not as in other countries with the face
turned outwards, but as. probably, wa
ought to expect in China, where everything
seems to go and come by the.mle of contra
ries with the face turned inwards. The re
sult of that is that the baby's nose is pressed
against its mothers back, whence, has been
evolved, in the'eourse of ages, the peculiarly
flattened or blnnted nose, characteristic of
the Chinaman.
A dentist of Moscow is reported to have
discovered a method of supplying the
human mouth with false teeth which will
grow Into the gums as firmly as natural ones.
The teeth aro made of gntta percha, porce
lain or metal. Holes aro made at the root of
the false tooth and also upward into the
Jaw. The tooth la then placed into the
cavity. In a short time a oft granulated
growth finds Its way from, tho patient's Jaw
gradually hardens and holds the tooth ia
position.
That the Importance of a smokeless fuel
to the public in general and to the manufac
turer in particular is recognized, is. shown
by tho fact that newmothods of producing It
are constantly being devised. A product of
this kind has been tested in England with
promising results. Tho fuel consists of dust
or wasto coal reduced to a fine powder, and
then incorporated with a small proportion
of pitch and some other mineral substances
to the extent of from 7 to 10 per cent, ac
cording to the nature of tho coal used. It is
then, while In a plastic condition, molded
in presses, where it is snbmitted to a pres
sure of two tons to the square inch.
JOURNALISTIC JESTS.
WHAT WAS rrt
It happened one morning a wee baby girl
Discovered what seemed like a canning white
pearl.
Bat when her friends hastened to see the fine sight,
Sho closed it imaU casket and locked it up tight,
St, Xlcholat.
To "Inquirer": No; John Bnnyan was
not the compiler of the corn laws. CMcaja Trttntm,
Duffer Grinding monopolyl Tush! Non
sense I Point oat to me if yon can an instance or ft
grinding monopoly I
Tatter Well, how will the flour combine do for
an Instance? Chicago Timet.
Van East So you have been elected ft
CnltedStatcs Senator. That is a high offlee.
De Wesi-I should think so. It cot me !100,OCO.
Hew Tork Continent.
"Where did yod get your dictatorial
ways, anyhowt'yasked Uenpcck.
'From yon, while I was your typewriter," re
torted Mrs. H.-Purt.
"Let's see. What has become of D. B
Bin Is he still In office?" asked the rescued cast
away on his return. t
'Oh, yes. He is now Governor or New York,
Chief Justice of Connecticut and United States
Senator, with a prospect ofthe Presidency. Lift,
At the door of, a Kidgway church on Sun
day evening a young feUow asked a young' glrU,
''Mayl see yon home?" with as much composure.'
as he could master. Tho little lady qulekty.Te-
nlled: "No. bat you can watch me start." Bit
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