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PITTfcBCKG. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1S91.
tiik s 3u; except in name.
The Cincinnati Convention 1ms added to
the old adage, and evidently believes that
a rose will smell even sweeter under
another name. The organization which
was launched with so much noise yester
day is the old Greenback party in disguise,
and not a very complete disguise at that.
The first declaration of the platform is for
a practically unlimited issue of legal ten
der paper money, and the abolition of the
national hauler. To be sure, the rag baby
has a new dress and trimmings, including
a reused sub-treasury plan, free silver and
Government loans on real estate, hut
stripped of these gaudy vestments it is the
same baby still.
The reason for this is easily found. The
farmer!) movement, which culminated in
the Cincinnati convention, was a spontan
eous rising in the rural West and South,
"but tho leadership has been appropriated
now by such well-known political back
numbers as General Weaver, the Greenback
candidate for President in 18S0; Delamatyr,
of Colorado: Seitz, ot Ohio, and a score of
other faithful worshipers of the paper dol
lar. Three or four years ago. when the
Union Labor move looked really dangerous
for a short time, these same third party
veterans sprang to the front, secured tiie
adoption of their platform with the labor
Irimmiiuxs suited to the occasion, and the
promising bud commenced to fade- from
that hour.
Xow the same leaders with the familiar
platform are once moie with us, but this
time their hope is resting mainly upon the
farmer instead of the city artisan. They
liave rechristened the child with any
amount of enthusiasm, but an election day
or two will determine whether fate will be
more kind than before.
MAKi: WAK ON TDK PKACTICE.
Representative Brooks is on the war
path at the way his wholesale liquor bill
has been amended by a committee of the
Senate. The amendments are such as to
reverse the purpose of the hill. Instead of
establishing fuither regulation of the
wholesale trade, it practically opens the
door to the bottle traffic uuder the whole
sale disguise, and lowers the license fee
for cities of the third-class. Consequently
Sir. Brooks, who introduced the bill with
the intention of making it a regulative
measure, is in a lighting mood.
It Is not to Mr. Brooks' discredit that
this turning his bill upside down should
stimulate his pugnacity. But he should
direct his fight, not against the single in
stance afforded by his bill, but against the
precedent w liich Senate committees are
establishing for that sort of thing. The
Philadelphia lepresentativeshouldremem
her that the same treatment was given to
a hill to secure the secrecy and independ
ence of the ballot, by turning it around so
as to put the polls more completely under
the control of machine politicians than
they are at present. If Mr. Brooks will
declare war on all such practices he may
be able to effect a considerable reform in
Legislative methods.
VKOGltK ON THE SMOKE ISSUE.
Interviews on the subject of smoke con
sumption develop two classes of opinion
among large consumers of fuel. One class
is represented by firms already putting in
improved stokers, who will in a few days
demonstrate the possibility of a practical
abolition of smoke The other is typified
by a leading house which, having tried
smoke-consuming appliances in the past,
lias little laith in them now, and has built
a stack so high that the smoke will he car
ried away from its immediate neighbor
hood. "But," says this firm, "if the law
obliges us to do anything more we will
do it."
The existence of these two classes should
shape the course of those laboring for the
abolition of smoke. All who are keeping
up with and even in advance of public
opinion will help to prove the possibility of
the leform, and will lend most powerful
aid in securing its ultimate success. Of
course, the ability to consume smoke
having been proved, previous efforts with
unsatisfactory deuces go for nothing.
When the proof is before every one's eyes
tliat smokeless chimneys are a possibility,
the great majority will hasten to secure tho
economy to be produced In that way, and
the resort to law will be necessary only as
the ultimate step to complete abolition of
soot.
The progress already made in the adop
tion of improved stokers proves the great
value of moral influence to secure this im
provement. The same pressure, judiciously
kept up, will soon leave cry few cases in
which it will be necessary to use the law.
A IlKLATIVK NEED.
The failure of Admiral Gherardi to se
cure the grant of the Mole St Nicholas,
and the declaration of theHaytian Govern
ment that popular opinion there will not
permit the cession of the territory to any
foreign power, stirs up our Eastern cotem
poraries to emphatic declarations of the
necessity of a coaling station in the West
Indies. The Xuw York Sun, in noting the
importance of sucli an acquisition, revives
the old proposition of securing Samana
Bay, which was one of the famous bones
of contention during the Grant adminis
tration. It says w Ith truth that the ad
vantages of Samana Bay as a harbor aro
equal to those of the ilole St Nicholas,
while its position with reference to the
routes of commerce are not inferior.
It would be a singular example of tho
changes of time if an acquisition on which
the strongest Republican administration
was first challenged aud defeated in Con
gress should be revived twenty years later.
Tet this seems likely to he done, provided
the necessity of establishing coaling sta
tions for our fleets is accepted as
an unquestioned requirement On this
point, however, there is still some room
for discussion, The experience of the
Esmeralda at Acapulco is taken as an evi
dence of the necessity for having stations
where in case of war our cruisers could
resort for supplies. But it may be ques
tioned whether, if we should get into a
naval war, our ships would fare much
better for the acquisition of coaling
stations. In peace they gan get coal and
supplies anywhere. In war it is plain that
the coaling stations, and even the slightly
garrisoned forts would promptly fall a
prey to the power which could send the
strongest fleet there. As either end of the
Domissican island is within a few days' sail
of Nassau, Cuba or Key West, it is plain
that a coaling station on either side of the
island would simply be a prize for tho
strongest naval force in tho West Indies.
Unless the United States is prepared to
make a great fortified post and maintain a
large garrison at either Samana or tho
ilole St Nicholas, they would simply be a
present to an enemy in the case of war.
In peace, the need of such a station Is far
from clear until our naval Interests have
grown much beyond their present magni
tude. MAINTAIN' TIIi: CONSTITUTION'.
The experience of Kentucky in adopt
ing a new Constitution is remarkable, and
has a lesson for States where the need of
Constitutional revision is by no means as
patent as in the Bourbon State. The old
Constitution of Kentucky is a distinctly
antediluvian document, and the necessity
of changes was universally conceded.
But the instrument drawn up to take its
plaee is so full of muddles that a very
strong party, represented by the Courier
Journal, is taking ground for its defeat,
preferring the antiquated instrument
This is certainly a warning to States
which have a good Constitution that prop
ositions to remodel them should be enter
tained with great caution. Certainly,
when a State has an instrument so much
in accord with modern needs, and contain
ing such excellent provisions as the Penn
sylvania Constitution, the proposition to
submit it to revision naturally arouses sus
picion. A few days ago, in one of our
city cotemporaries, a communication
pointed out that tho Constitution is only
twenty years old; that it was the product
of the best minds of the generation; that
its characteristic features were such as
were dictated by the experience of the
people with tho modern agencies, and
that it would bo insanity to subject it to
tho chances of mutilation before its effects
were fully known.
Every word of this argument, which we
presume to have come from one of the most
eminent citizens of Western Pennsylvania,
is strictly true. There is no important pro
vision of the Constitution which requires
amendment There may be some minor
respects in which amendment is possible;
but these can and should bo acted upon
separately, so that each will be decided
on its merits. With the possibility that a
convention composed according to present
propositions would emasculate the impor
tant provisions of the Constitution in order
to loosen the hands of politicians and
corporations, insanity is a mild and char
itable term for the influence urging tho
Constitutional Convention.
The people should make up their minds
to speak plainly to the effect that the pres
ent Constitution shall be retained; and as
an appropriate appendix to that' resolution
it might be welil to add the determination
that it shall be enforced.
RISKS AND GAMIILING.
An inquiry made in a letter to the New
York Tribune shows a widespread inabil
ity to distinguish between the chances and
risks of legitimate business and those of
gambling. The writer imagines a person,
A, to win considerable sums of B in beta
on cards and horse racing. For the third
transaction the writer presents the follow
ing: A thereafter, reflecting on the mutability
of human affairs and on tho inevitable tend
ency of all bettors and ramblers to ultimate
ruin, besides the distrust and dishonor in
which all such persons arc held by right
minded members of the community, pro
ceeds to the office of a well-conducted life
insurance company, which w e may call E,
where, after mutual careful examinations of
all the chances and risks involved bj- both
parties, A takes out a policy on his life for
$10,000, paying the first annual premium of
$23Uon the spot. Six months thereafter A
dies, whereupon the company, E, which
takes a just pride in its prompt settlement
of its debts, pays the $10,000 to A"s heirs.
Will not some intelligent correspondent of
the Tribune, with a talent for casuistry,
kindly differentiate for me the moralities of
the above suggested transactions?
The signature to the article indicates
that theinquiree is a college student; but a
great many grave business men have
shown a similar difficulty in distinguishing
between gambling operations and the busi
ness systems which benefit mankind. T.he
language quoted shows the idea of the in
quirer to be that because an insurance
transaction involves chances just as a
horse race does It is plain the inquirer is
innocent enough to imagine that horse
races are not always "fixed" therefore it
is gambling.
Notwithstanding the confusion of ideas
on this point the distinction is a per
fectly plain one, and it is so im
portant that it is worth while to
make the explanation somewhat fre
quently. The fact that a business con
tains risks does not make it gambling. All
business has more or less risks. The busi
ness of putting down oil wells is one of
wide chances, and is entitled to large
profits to balance them, which it could get
if it did not have the misfortune to he sub
ject to a monopolized market The busi
ness of handling sugar is subject to few
chances, and consequently a fraction of a
cent is a good profit. Because the risk is
greater in one case than the other it does
not follow that one is any more legitimate
than the other.
The distinction between legitimate busi
ness and gambling is this: In a gambling
transaction whatever one party gains
another must lose; in a legitimate business
transaction both parties get something
that they wish. A bets B S10 and wins it
Exactly what A has gained B has lost A
buys 10 worth of goods, or the same value
of service, from B, and both are better off
for the transaction. The insurance trans
action instanced above differs from
gambling because A paid the premium
and got what he wanted, namely, the as
surance that in the case of his death his
heirs would he provided for. The insur
ance company got what it wanted, namely,
an increase to its premium receipts which,
based upon the doctrine of averages, yield
it a profit over and above tho annual death
payments. The idea of the writer seems
to have been that by dying within six
months the policy-holder made a great
stroke of financial luck; but very few in
vestors in life insurance will take that
view.
To return to the fact that there arc
varying risks in different sorts of business
whicli must be compensated in the profits,
the whole business of insurance may bo
statedby saying that it is to assume the more
well known and general risks and to take
that part of the profit which compensates
the risks in the form of premiums. As
death is the one great lisk incident to all
human effort, the function of life assur
ance in assuming that risk is a legitimate
service to all who wish to guard against its
chances.
LOCAL WORK ON ROADS.
An Ohio writer in the Country Gentle
man indicates the way in which those hav
ing road work in charge can effect a grad
ual but in the end marked improvement
in the rural highways. He thinks that
"nothing will come of it unless those who
do the work take hold with an honorable
intention of making their work count in
tho direction of permanence. If a hill is
lowered, a hollow filled, a culvert founda
tion built for all time, or a swamp cross
ing thoroughly drained, to that extent
the work is for years and not for a sum
mer and will bear fruit in a lessening of
those taxes which every passer over a bad
road pays in wear and tear of team, vehi
cle and temper." Such a course as this
writer points out requires no additional
legislation and no expensive appropria
tions. It is indisputable that the direction of
the present road work to tho object of
making permanent highways would in
course of years effect a permanent reform.
There are a few enterprising localities in
Pennsylvania where this has been practi
cally demonstrated without State aid. But
it is also true that an intelligent policy on
the part of the State will offer a premium
on such work by granting aid to townships
where it is proved to be done by certain
prescribed standards and tests. The State
should know that its money produces good
roads; for the sinking of State money
under tho patchwork system would only
be making a bad matter worse. The
trouble with the late road hill was that
after starting out on the proper basis of
guaranteeing good roads where State aid
was to be given, it was pruned and clipped
to meet political exigencies until there was
scarcely a vestige of that essential pur
pose. Tho failure of road legislation should not
lessen the agitation in favor of improving
highways. The work of educating the
people as to the economic value of good
roads should ho kept up. Fanning dis
tricts should be brought to see how they
can be"nefit themselves by such work. If
this is done for a couple of years, the next
Legislature may contain intelligence
enough to pass a law that will hasten the
work of building first-class roads.
It is one of the sad features of the chaso
of tho Charleston after tbo Itata, that it has
knocked into a cocked hat tho plan of tho
industrious Senate Committee on Territories
to use that vessel for a trip to Alaska, "in
order to inquire into tho advisability of es
tablishing a Territorial Government thero."
Tho hard-worked Senators will no doubt be
able to take passago by some other
steamer, and thus afford tho Alas
kans a chance to put in their plea for
abetter Government; but the pleasure of
going there with a war vessel at their com
mand has been rudely snatched away by
the unruly behavior of tho Chilean vessel.
This will cause tho insurgent Chileans to bo
regarded with adverse sentiments by the
Senate at its next session.
Thebe is reason to believe that the dec
laration of the Chlleansat Acapulco, that tho
Esmeralda would light the Charleston if tho
latter tried to capture tho Itata, was a very
pretty feint. It produced the impression
that the Itata was coming to Acapulco, and
give her a fow days' longer start while sho
was steadily steaming down the South
American coast.
TnE souvenirs of the Presidental trip
are said to number four hundred, and it is
proposed by a cotempornry that they be
made an exhibition of tho World's Fair. As
a product of political industry they would
undoubtedly be unique.
It is one of the peculiar features of
Pennsylvania fiscal legislation, that each
Legislature, after struggling with the tax
question, the last proposition is to refer the
subjection to a revenuo commission.
After the commission wrestles with the
question awhile the next Legislature takes
it up, and in tho fullness of time rofers it to
another commission. Tho commission is
now being urged in its regular season. It is
strictly in accordance with precedents, but
it does not afford much hope of settling the
tax qupstion.
Now it is asserted in England that Mr.
Blaine's communication proposing a method
for protecting the seals was not received by
tho British Ministry. Dear Lord Salisbury,
our Own David Bennett Hill took out a pat
ent on the -plan of nqt receiving inconven
ient communications some time ago, and
this infringement really cannot be allowed.
TnE New York World, having degener
ated into the organ Of David Bennett Hill,
naturally antagonized tho proposition to
establish immediate ballot reform in Penn
sylvania. The Hill idea is not favorable to
ballot reform. .
Judge tries to make it up with the
Blaine wing this week by representing the
Secretary us sawing wood. But the way in
which the central figure of tho cartoon is
represented as holding his saw proves cither
that the artist thinks that Blaine does not
know how to saw wood or that there is a
complete ignoranco of that honest and use
ful occupation on the part of the artist.
The proposition to put an eight-hour
plank in tho Cincinnati platform will proba
bly receive tho asseut of the farmers so long
as It applies to othor people. Farmers will
consent to letting other industries work
eight hours, but they will continue to run
their farms on tho twelve-hour plan during
the busy season.
It is hardly to be deemed as a possibility
that, after going from Atlanta to Oregon,
tho President has not been able to find an
acceptable successor for Green B. Kama as
Commissioner of Pensions.
TnAT report that the Harrison family
would not occupy the Cape May Point cot
tage this season has been officially denied in
the Philadelphia Ledger, which occupies the
unusual position of organ for the Cape May
Point real estate syndicate. This permits
tho conclusion that after a journey all
around the country tho Jersey mosquito has
no terrors for the Presidental family.
Geeat Britain is now reported to be
jealous of tho reciprocity troaty with Brazil.
The Democratic organs aro making much of
tho report, with tho usual partisan inability
to seo that if true it makes mince meat of
their former assertions that reciprocity
with Brazil docs not reciprocate
The fortunes of the "baseball season
threaten to shrink the New York Giants
down to the size of pigmies.
An Old Advertisement
Flying Poat, July 20-22, 1CM.
The Man that eat the livo, Cock Ot Isling
ton, and another since, on the 15th of June
last, nt Stand-up Dicks nt Newington Butts,
near tho Borough of Southwaik, Is to eat
another there on Tuesday next, being; St.
James' day, with tho Feathers, Bonos" and
Garbage. Any person may see it performed,
paying but 2d. for their admittance.
Nor In a Threshing Machine.
"Washington Post.
Pennsylvania's ballot roformbiU could not
havo been more badly usod had it been on
deposit in Mr. Delamatcr's bank.
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DISPATCH,
TALK OF THfe TOWN.
Baseball" Tackled Seriously Touching Up
a Murlllo Allegheny's Hook Lovers
The Bohemian Girl in Carmen's Clothes
Gossip Picked Up by tho Topical
Talker.
"I am coming along pretty nicely with
baseball," said a studious young Pittsburg
business man yesterday.
"How do you mean?" asked a friend.
"Well, you seo, baseball seems to bo tho
propor fad, you know; the correct caper
w ith young men, and I concluded I ought to
bo 'in it, ns tho boys say. So I sot to work
to master baseball. I never could seo any
thing In it, you know, but when I made up
my mind to understand baseball I stopped
at nothing. I began with the reports of
baseball games in the nowspapors. Every
morning I read the details of tho previous
day's game. It was very difficult
to understand the reports were full
of words and phrases I had never
soen before, but that didn't dismay
mo. I went on reading column after column
till I thought 1 might advance another step.
This was to watch tho baseball bulletin
boards down town, and I did it regularly
every afternoon for sovcral weeks, mingling
with tho crowd that gathers on Smithflold
t.treet,and picking upstray crumbs of learn
ing from the cranks themselves. Then I
thought I was fit to meet somo friends of
mine as they alighted from tho ball game
train at tho Union depot, nnd to nsk them
questions about tho game, such as: 'How
many runs did wo niako?' or 'Did Miller
play first nctterj or -j.uuru must uuvu
slugging
in
tho seventh,' or
Whv don't they flro Blank;' and
these questions were highly appreciated,
I honestlv believe, and I felt I was ris
ing in the estimation of my baseball friends.
Slnco then my progress has been rapid, nnd
if my courage holds out and I can get somo
gcntlo crank to escort mo I am going to my
first ball game to-morrow. It is a moment
ous event, I realize, and I am afraid I may
be too sanguinm in my belief that I havo pre
pared myself for the ordeal, but I shall take
tho chances, anyhow."
Touching Up a Mnrlllo.
Recently some Pittsburgcrs, amongwhom
was a daughter of Mr. Simon Boymer, who la
visiting a married sister in Los Angeles,
mado an excursion to the Mission of San
Gabriel at Pasadena, in Southern California.
The pudre who acted as.guide took great de
light in showing tho old buildings which the
passage of two or three centuries has made
nntiqulties of a rare order on this continent.
It was a labor of love to the venerable padre
to relate the story of tho foundation of the
mission, and to linger upon the legendary
sweetness of tho seven famous bells that
havo for years hung silent in the adobe
church. But lie was most eloquent whon ho
came to tho paintings of Murlllo, which
form tho grentest treasure of this Mission.
Ho expatiated upon the age and wondrous
beauty of tho immortal Spaniard's works.
Tho visitors carefully examined the paint
ings, fearful lest they should suffer any mite
of such hoary excellence to escape their
notice, and this close examination led one
of the party to exclaim: "Why, this painting
looks wonderfully new considering that It's
200 years old tho paint is bright and fresh
as if it had been laid on yesterday."
"Ah! I havo had theso Inestimable paint
ings retouched," the padre hastened to ex
plain. "They were getting dingy and dim
in places and I got a Pasadena artist to
come and touch them up a bit They are
t onderlully improved."
The idea of local talent in Pasadena may
be a stranded blazoner of St. Jacob's oil's
virtues Improving upon Murillo was too
much for the Eastern intellect, nnd the
padre's explanation was succeeded by a
solemn silence.
A Glimpse of Elusive Locke.
Manager E. D. Wilt, of the Grand Opera
House, is home from St. Louis, whither he
went last week to corral the elusive Locke,
and tho $2,500 he lent that extraordinary im
prossario. Mr. Wilt says he is sure of his
money anyhow, for he stands second in the
list of creditors who levied upon the prop
erty of tho Juch Opera Company, and in fact
will got the first whack at tho scenery, prop
erties nnd operatic scores, which cost at
least $30,000 and should be worth $10,000 to a
theatilcal purchaser' to-day. While in St.
Louis the inimitable Charles E. and Mr. Wilt
wore on the best of terms: d,lned together
and let their lawyers do the fighting. The
conclusion Mr. Wilt came to was that Mr.
Locke is an abused man, whoso shrewdness
has been overestimated with his failings, and
certain to be manager of a great Emma Juch
Opera Company next -season.
Mr. Wilt told mo several amusing stories
of the Juch company's death-bed scenes.
On Saturday List, lor example, just before
the matinee began, a constable representing
somo infuriated creditor of Manager Looko
levied upon the musician's scores of "Car
men," which were at that time nominally in
tho hands of the Sheriff. "Carmen" had been
announced for the matinee and the audience
was already in tho theater. Mannger Locke
lost his nerve completelv, and was for giving
no performance. The company all
attired in the "Carmen" costumes clus
tered about him, and for soveral
minutes confusion of the wildest sort
reigned. Then Mr. Wilt, who had been in
formed of the constable's illegal seizure of
the scores, came upon tho scene, and, with
what voice he had left, asked Mr. Locke:
"Isn't there some opera these costumes
would suit, and for which you havo the
music?" t
Locke thought for a moment and then
said: "The costumes would go in the 'Bo
hemian Girl.'"
"The Bohemian Girl" with "Carmen" cos
tumes satisfied the audience well enough,
for only $40 was demanded back at the doors
after tho chango in programme had been
announced.
Bicycling for Babies.
This latest notion of the parent of bicycling
proclivities is to take the youngest to ride
with him, and the fad seems to be popular in
the East End, for on Tuesday evening I met
a dozen men in half that number of blocks
whj had a little tot seated between them
and the handles. The scat for the baby is
an ingenious little arrangement hung in
front of the saddle, into which the child can
be securely fastened. Whon it is afllxed to a
safety thero is really no danger for the child
and no end of fun.
Tho Army of Readers Grow.
"It is now two months since the library
was opened," said Librarian Stevenson at
tho Carnegie Library yesterday, "and I
think we havo every reason to bo satisfied
with tho results so far. Tho records of the
circulating department of the library show
that from March 16 to May 16 a total of 11,139
volumes wore in circulation, or more books
than the shelves of the library contain.
Tho growth of tho circulation has been
gradual from "S3 books in the first week to
1052 in that ending May 16. Tho two months'
records also show that 1,477 books have been
used for reference in the library itself."
PEOPLE WHO C0UE AND 00.
H. Jeffrey, a young London swell and
member of the Southampton Club, was in
the city yesterday, bound for Chicago. Ho
says the Scotch people don't like Andrew
Carnegie on account of the sharp things he
has said about them. He travels in the same
set with young Schenley, whom he knoys
very well. Mr. Jeffrey thinks America is a
wonderful country.
W. Horatio King, ex-Postmaster General
of Australia, started for homo last evening.
During his stay in Pittsburg he says lie
galrfcilmuch valuable infonnatlonabout the
American postal service. Ho realizes that
ho couldn't have come to a more progressive
city In which to study postal regulations.
Theodore D. Wilson, Chief of Naval Con
struction, and E. D. Scofleld, of Portland,
Me., are stopping at he Duquesno. Mr. Wil
son has come here to personally superintend
the making of the Government armor.
U. S. Grant, of Cleveland, and J. A. Sea
right, of Uniontown.are at the Seventh Ave
nue Hotel. Mr. Searlght Is on his way home
from the Scotch-Irish annual meeting at
Louisville.
K. E. Wagner, a Milwaukee contractor,
is stopping at the Duquesno. He is in tho
city getting structural iron for a big build
ing. K. W. Ferguson, of New York, President
of tho White Spool Thread Company, was on
tho llmltedlust evening going to Chicago.
Mr. Scham, of Seat le, a former Pitts
burger,has been at the Schlosser for several
days. He came east to visit friends.
H. Sellers McKee went East last evening.
Ho says tho Birmingham road will be ready
for operation about Juno 10.
H. M. Koberts, of Councllsville, and J.
n. King, a prominent Cleveland lawyer, aro
registered at the Anderson.
H. W. Semon, advance man for the
"Clemenceau Caso" Company, is stopping ut
tho Anderson.
J. L. Barclay, the Chicago agent of the
Westlnghouso Electric Company, is in tho
city.
.Tnhn V. Atcheson. Mason McDowell and
George T. Oliver loft for Chicago last even
ing. Ex.Coucrcgsman Oscar L. Jackson, of
New Castle, is at tho Monongahela House.
THURSDAY,
A MTJBDEBOu'S ITALIAN WEAPON. '
It Is a Revolver and Stiletto Combined, and
Was Captured In a Fight,
special telegeam to the dispatch,
If ew York, May 20.-Property Clerk S. II.
Powell, of Brooklyn, has in his custody Just
npw a weapon which is probably tho most
murderous specimen of small arm 'over
manufactured. It Is a revolver and stiletto
combined, and it was taken from an Italian
whoso name on tho police records is Julian
Itafiano, who, together with twp of his coun
trymen, was engaged In a fight yesterday
morning while all were drunk. Baflano had
his weapon drawn and ready for use when
Patrolman Peter Gallagher appeared and
put the brawlers to flight.
The revolver Is slx-chambercd, of 32 cal
iber, and self-cocking. The stiletto is double
edged and three inches long. It is fastened
to the revolver right underneath the barrel,
and can bo sprung intoplaco in an Instant.
When the stllcttoisrcadvforuso the weapon
measures 10K inches. There Is a spring on
tho piece of steel which holds the blade, and
which is forced back by a screw, which pro
trudes through tho piece of steel. The re
volver could bo fired while the stiletto Is in
tho victim's body.
CIGAfiETTES KILLED HTM.
Young Edward Myers Dies In Ilarrisburg
From Nicotine Poisoning.
CuAMUERSBURa, May 20. Edward Myers, a
young man of this pjaco, aged 20 years, died
nt tho Ilarrisburg Hospital last night of
blood poisoning, caused directly by exces
sive cigarotto smoking. Ho was on his way
home and was taken sick and had to bo
taken to the hospital, where ho died. His
face was greatly swollen nnd nil covered
with sores, causcdj no doubt, by the cigar-
Ho'had been told bv the doctor that the
poisoning came from his smoking, but the
habit had grown on him and it was impossi
ble for him to givo It up. Ho wns empioj-ed
as a driver on an omnibus and was a native
of Cumberland county.
SOKE ILLINOIS LEGISLATION.
The Morrit Conspiracy Law Repealed, and
Railroad Bills Pass.ed.
SrnixoriELD, III., May 20. What is known
as the Merritt conspiracy law, being a codi
fication of tho common law on the subject
of conspiracy to commit crime, tho passago
of which was tho result of the Haymarket
Anarchist riots In Chicago, was repealed by
a vote of the, Houso to-day.
The House passed a bill to enable railroad
corporations which operate railroads con
necting with a rallroacf ot any other Stato,
to own and hold stock at securities in such
leased roads, and a bill to compel the adop
tion of tho inter-locking signal and switch
system by railroads.
FAME'S FAV0BITE FOLK.
Eugene Field is the only writer In the
country to speak ill of Barnum.
Jokai, the Hungarian novelist, is a mill
ionaire, and looks upon life as a joke.
The Emperor of China looks like a well
bred youth of 17, and his face wears a settled
expression of melancholy.
The Duke of Fife is such an extreme dude
that he Insists of being measured forhla
neckties nnd pockot handkerchiefs.
Vidal, the French sculptor, is blind, but
his loss of sight does not prevent his achiev
ing works which for design and execution
aro the wonder and admiration of Paris.
Congressman Stewart, of Aurora,Ill.,
whenever a ciicus comes along near that
town, charters a train and takes a lot of
children to tho show at his own expense.
Henbt PiilLMrs, an Alaskan boy who
came to Carlisle, Pa., some four years ago,
will leave for Sitka in a few weeks to take
charge of the A'orth Star, the paper published
by the Sitka Indian Training School.
The Itev. Phillips Brooks is descended
from a lino of clergymen, one of them boing
the Kov. John Cotton. Whon he was in
England in 1832 ho preached in tho pulpit of
his ancestor, John Cotton, in old Boston.
The Emperor William will bring a
retinuo of 70 peoplo along with him when he
visits Grandma Viotorla at Windsor Castle
In July, and tho old lady Is already having
new locks put upon tho doors of the wine
cellars. Sho is not going to take any
chances.
Louis PuixrprE, who claims to be a
cousin of tho last King of Franco, arrived at
the Barge Office In New York the other day
as a steerage passenger on tho steamer La
Bourgogno. He said ho was going to Cali
fornia to become a wino producer. PhUippe
is about 50.
Cecil J. Khoades, the rising statesman
of Cape Colony, is a smart, active and
progressive man, who has brains and ambi
tion to push him into any position, and
wealth enough to make him independent of
all influences outside of his own sense of
what is right.
Mustapha Gwamowe, of Durnar, Ara
bia, proposes to spend $1,000,000 in a trip to
Europe. The old fellow must have a slim
Idea that seeing tho elephant is a costly
amusement, and that doing Europe means
being done out of enough money to buy a
German principality.
Rev. 5L Harvey, of St John's, N. F.,
has received from the McGill University of
Montreal, the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. As a scientific investigator ho has
been of much value to natural history. His
well-known discovery of tho devll-flsh, a
great cephalopod, in 1873, aroused profound
interest among the naturalists.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
George W. Lontz.
George W. Lentz, one of the largest own
ers of timber lands and most, extensive lumber
operators in thU country, died at Wllllamsport
Monday, aged 73. He was one of the original Arm
of Herdlc, Lentz i White, ofwhicli the late Peter
Hurdle was the head. Ho owned thousands of
acres of timber land in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin,
Florida ami Alabama; an Immense cattle ranch In
Dakota, the water works in the towns of Hunting
ton and bclin's Grove, Pa., Cairo and Orlando,
Kla.. and was one of the largest ownero of the U
uamsport Waterworks.
Two Old Pcnnsylvanlans.
, The oldest woman in Chester county and
ttie oldest man In Berks county died on Monday.
Mrs. Sarah Richardson was 89 years old when she
died at Chatham, and had always been spry and
active until three months ago. She had been a
widow for 43 years. Samuel Frit, of Oley, Berks
county, was in his 85th year. He was bom in the
village where he died and had always lived there,
lie never rode on a railway train in his life,
John M. Treacy.
John M. Treacy, son of Mrs. Julia A.
and the late William Treacy, died at the residence
of his mother, 26 Diamond 6treet, after a brief ill
nets. He was a brother of Lieutenant James K.
Treacy, of the Eighteenth Itrgtinent. The funeral
will take place irom St, Paul's Cathedral to-morrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
Maggie McFarlaml.
Maggie McFarland, daughter of IJev. A. J.
McFarlaml, and granddaughter of David Gregg,
of 80 Lincoln avenue, Allegheny, died In St. Johns,"
N B., on Sundav. she will be burled from the
residence of her grandfather to-day.
James Torrence.
James Torrence, of Punxsutawney, fa
miliarly known as "Judge, " died yesterday at the
advanced age of 80 years. He had many friends In
Pittsburg.
Obituary Notes.
Rev. David Dickey, a well-known retired cler
gyman, died Tuesday at Rochester, X. Y., aged 89
years.
Lewis R. Steele, a prominent silk manufactur
er and journalist of Fatersou, N. J died Monday
night.
Ex-Judge Colbdbn, aged 92 years, originally
from Pennsylvania, died In NoblesYlHc, lnd.,
Tuesday.
DR. GEORGE A. Kino, a leading physician of
Lancaster, died Monday, as the result of a fall
received last summer. Ho was 43 years old.
Abraham G. Keemeb, who died Monday at
MiUersvllle, Pa., was well known as a specialist
on eje anil ear diseases. lie graduated lrohi the
Baltimore Medical College.
Peter J. Peters, aged. 91, supposed to bo the
oldest Grand Army veteran In the country, died at
New Bedford, Mass., Monday. Mr. Peters was
born In Germany, lie served eight cars In the
German army, and afterward camo to this country,
entering tbo ten Ice March 11, 1802.
Isaac T. Rogers, for many years one of the
best-known men In Connecticut politics, died Tues
day at his home In Hartford, aged 79. Death was
due to paresis. He represented New Haven In tho
Stato Leclslature three years, and was In the Sen
ate four jears. Fifteen yearsngo he was consid
ered the ablest Democratic speaker In the State, and
was always foremost In Democratic conventions.
TESTING DYNAMITE GUNS.
The Cruiser Vesuvius Does Excellent Work
With Her Pneumatic Devices A Vessel
and Armament That May Revolutionize
Modern Warfare.
Fortress Mokroe, Va., May 20. In compli
ance with orders from the Navy Department
a test was mado of the accuracy of tho
pneumatic guns of the so-called dynamite
cruiser Vesuvlns. Target practice was con
ducted by the ofllcers and men of tho ship
under the observation of a board of ord
nance oxperts specially detailed by tho I
Navy Department, and the result was highly
gratifying to tho friends of this vessel nnd
of her aerial torpedo throwing tubes, some
times called Zalinskl dynamite guns. The
officers of the Vesuvius are Lieutenant Sea
ton fechroeder, commanding; Lieutenants
Karl Kohrer and II. M. Donebaugh, Ensign
W. T. Maxwell and Past Assistant Engineer
W. J. Moore.
The Board of Experts ordered to report on
the results of tho target practlco consisted
of Commander K. D. Evans, Lieutenant Com
mander A. K. Condcn and Lieutenant J. F.
Meigs, all mon of such high professional
ability as to insure tho fullest possible in
vestigation of tho vessel's merits and de
fects. As tho guns had never before been
ranged 11 shots were fired yesterday to dis
cover tho air pressnro needed to throw a
projectile a given distance. Thopnenmatio
guns on board tho Vesuvius cannot bo
elevated or depressed except by the rising
or pitching of tho bow or the ship. Thoy are
built Into tho vessel at an angle of 18 from
the horizontal. Bango is altered by chang
ing.tho amount of compressed air admitted
behind the projectile.
The Necessity of Test Shots.
It was necessary to learn by test shots how
much would send a projectile a mile and so
on for shorter distances. This was approxi
mately known by experiments made with a
pneumatic gun on shore, but as every gun
has eccentricities of its own It must bo tested
for its own ranges. The targets consisted of
three spar buoys, each surmounted by a
small rod flag. They had been carefully
anchored In a lino parallel to tho south shoro
of Chesapeako Bay, half way between
Sow ell's Point and Capo Henry. Tho dis
tance between No. 1 and No. 2 was one half
of a mile, between No. 2 and No. 3 one-quarter
of a mile, and tho same distance between
No. 3 and No. 4. Hence Nos. 2, 3 and 4 were
respectively one-half, three-quarters and a
mile from No. L which was the firing station.
The range-finding shots fired yesterday
were six from the starboard and five from
the midship gun. The fall of the projectiles
was in one caso as much as 310 yards beyond
the target, and jn another case as closo as
within 24 yards of tho target. Tho value of
theso range finding shots was shown in
to-day's practice. Tho starboard guns'
capacity was determined with satisfactory
accuracy, while that of the midship gun was
not obtained with certainty, and no trial of
tho nort mm wns rondo nt nil.
When Lleutonant Kohrer had taken station
in a small boat about half a mllo off the line
of buoys opposite buoy No. 3 to note the fall
of tho projectiles, tho Vesuvius steamed up
toward buoy No. L Commander Evans was
outside tho conning tower nnd Lieutenant
Schrocder inside at tho helm and firing
lever, for these guns are aimed laterally by
the helm. Lloutenant Commander Condon
was at tho firing valves below to regulate
the air discharge. Lieutenant Meigs on tho
bridge handled a peculiar looking instru
ment, by which the lateral deviation was
observed. Ensign Maxwell, also on the
bridge, held a stop watch to record the time
of flight of tho projectiles.
A Good Time for a Trial.
When all was ready the meal .pennant, a
red burgee, was hoisted at the foremast head
to warn Lientencnt ltohrer to look out for a
shot. Tho sea wns so smooth that the vessol
was practically stationary in the water.
Only an occasional catspaw of wind ruffled
the generally glassy surface and the bright
sunshine began to be oppressively warm-
At 10-27, under barely steerngo wav, the
Vesuvius came opposite buoy No. L "Stand
by," said Commander Evans. "Fire!" Tho
starboard tubo gave the characteristic
wheeze and bark that belong to this gun,
fragments of the wooden sabots which hold
the sub-caliber shell In place In the bore
went whirring out into the water, while
ahead of them, rapidly whirling as its vanes
caught the air, could bo seen the shell Itself,
a black dot against tho blue sky. Rising at
an altitude of several hundred feet it grace
fully curved downward, and without wobble
or gyration it plunged down over buoy No.
4, a mile distant, striking tho water 10 sec
onds nfter it left the tube. It was a perfect
line shot, but'Jt went beyond tho target.
Six shots were fired successively from tho
starboard gun and then threo from the mid
ship guta. The target of the first, fourth and
soventh shots was buoy No. 4, one milo dis
tant; tho second, fifth nnd eighth were aimed
at buoy No, 3, three-quarters of a mile away,
and the third, sixth and ninth at buoy No. 2,
half a mile on. The first threo and the last
threo shots were fired when barely moving;
the fourth, fifth and sixth were fired while
dashing at tho target at the rato of about 14
knots an hour.
'Would Have Paralyzed the Enemy.
Following aro the results of the nine shots:
No. I fired at-buoy No. 4, exact line, 52 yards
over; time of flight, 10 seconds. No. 2 fired
at buoy No. 3, 16 yards to tho left, 48 yards
over; time, 10 seconds. No. 3 fired at buoy
No. 2, made a bull's-eye, striking so close to
tho buoy as to hide It In tho splash: time 8
seconds. No. 4 fired at buoy No. 4, 52 yards
to tho left. 32 vards over: time. 101C seconds.
No. 5 flrod at buoy No. 3, exact line, 24 yards
short: time, SK seconds. No. 6 fired at buoy
No. 2, 15 yards to the left, 28 yards short;
time, 8 seconds. No. 7 fired at buoy No. 4, 24
yaids to the left, 4i jards short; time, 10
seconds. No. 8 fired at buoy No. 3, 18 yards
to the left, 33 yards short; time, ?& seconds.
No. 9 fired at buoy No. 2, 10 yards to tho left,
28 yards short: time, 7 seconds.
In explanation of the failure of the seventh
shot it should bo mentioned that there was
some trouble with the valve of the midship
gun, and also during the men's dinner hour,
when firing was suspended, a fresh easterly
breeze sprung up exactly in the teeth of tho
line of fire. Examining the results it will be
found that shots Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 0 would
havo olther fallen on an enemy's deck or so
close aboard that the explosion of the shells
would disable or sink the vessel.
Tho shells aro fitted with a delay action
fuse, which explodes them nt a depth of
about 20 feet. Shot No.3 would have plumped
down directly on the deck.and the explosion
there of 500 or oven 200 pounds of gun cotton
ornitro-gelatinewouldnave put an end to
the most powerful armored ship afloat.
Shots Nos. 5, 6.8 and 9 would havo fallen just
a few feet short of the enemy; but as tho
projectiles plunge continually forward after
striking the water, each one would have
been just about under the enemy's bottom
when It exploded, and no vessel could resist
such a shock. The fourth shot went a few
yards beyond tho enemy's nearest water
line, but as most battle ships have at least
20 yards beam, It would have struck either
the ship's upper works or so close aboard as
to do her serious, if not irreparable, injury.
A. Description of the Vessel.
Tho Vesuvius was built by Mossrs. Cramp
& Sons, of Philadelphia, at a cost of $350,000,
for the purpose of demonstrating the useful,
ness afloat of the system of projecting large
masses of high explosive through the air by
air pressure instead of gunpowder. High
speed was given tho vessel, her trial por
formanco resulting In a record of 21.65 knots
per hour. She Is 216 feet long, has 26 feet
beam and displaces 725 tons on a mean
draught of 9 feet.
When tried at Philadelphia the require
ment was that 15 shots should be fired from
her three 15-inch pneumatic tubes within 30
minutes. The actual performance was the
discharge of 15 shells liaving a capacity of
200 pounds of explosive each in 16 minutes
and 11 seconds. Tho air pressure was ample
to repeat the discharge. The initial pressure
used was 750 pounds and the fall of the pres
sureon the firing ranged between bO pounds
and 120 pounds. In addition to the .pneu
matic guns sho carries three three-pounder
rapid fire guns.
CHIEFS OF WOBLD'S FAIR BUBEATJS.
General Lew Wallace Offered One of tho
Important Places.
Chicago, May 20. At a meeting of the Board
of Directors of the World's Fair .this after
noon, Director General Davis will submit
for confirmation the name of Jf F. V. Skiff,
of Colorado, to bo Chlof of tho Buieau of
Mines and Mining.
General Lew Wajlaco has been tendered
the position of Chlfef of the Foreign Bureau,
but has not yet signified his willingness to
accept the place. Two or three other chiefs
of bureaus will be appointed to-day,
F0BEM0ST FEMTNINES.
Octavia Grace RrrcnK Is the first woman
of Quebec to take a medical degree,
Mrs. Olifhast wrote tho sketch of Henry
Irving's life for tho new edition of Chambers'
Encyclopedia.
Arabella M. Mahspield, the pioneer
woman lawver of America, was admitted to
the bar in 1860. Since then seven women
havo been admitted in Washington.
Miss Halley, who has been appointed as
one of tho two women inspectors of Massa
chusetts factories, was tending a loom in tho
Washington mills at Lawrence 'when her
appointment was made.
!'
MUSIC AND SOCIETY.
GUmoro' Famous Band Pleased the Chil
dren and Older Folk Yesterday.
Happy-hearted, bright-faced, Joyous little
children, caroling birds and sweet music
made a pleasing combination at the Gilmoro
matinee concert yesterday. The children
filled tho gallery and overflowed into tho
body of the hull, tho price of admission
being for them only 10 cents, and a half holi
day from school life having been granted for
the event. An otherwlso largo audlenco
was in attendance and the larger part of tho
May festival chorus also; but outside of tho
performers, the interest of tho occa
sion wns centered in the repre
sentation of childhood, nnd in the
numerous llttlo sparrows that entered tho
hall with neither ticket nor pass, but whose
twitterings and singing and bird talk, as
they flow from place to place, and cocked
their pretty heads to better hear the music,
denoted their enjoyment and approbation
of theaffalr. Mr. P. S. GilmoTO proved him
self a great favorite with the children,
whose Ideas of his Importance and magnifi
cence were greatly intensified by his ellt
trlmmed uniform and numerous medals.
His appearance was the signal for
a burst of applause from them
that mado tho very rafters ring.
Sir. Gilmoro recognized the compliment
Said by the youthful constituency of the an
lenco In a pleasing manner and proceeded
to conduct his vast orchestra through Wag
ner's "Hicnzl" overturn. A saxaphone solo,
rendered by Mr. E. A. Lofebro, accompanied
by a French horn quartet, pleased the child
ish car to an encore extent, and a "Danso
Africnlne,"by tho orchestra, in which clor
dancing w-ns imitated .by the use of croquet
balls In the hands of certain of the perform
ers, elicited quite an ovation. The children
wero not alone In their admiration of this
number, ninny of the chorus and the audi
ence evincing unusual and pronounced en
joyment. Tho chorus and band rendition of
"xne iicavcns re Aeuing, iruui o wc
ation," was a pleasing number. Of the solo
ists who appeared Miss Ida Klein wns the
favorite, and it wa3 her voice that mado the
wee birds bold to enter. Sho wns the only
one of the singers who responded to on en
core. Tho others were Slgnor Snrtorl.Signor
Carlos Spigaroll, Mile. Anna Mantell and
Miss Maud Powell, tho violinist.
TheSouthsldo Sledlcal Society celebrated
Its twenty-flrst anniversary on Tnesday in a
novel but very pleasant mannor. All tho
members of the society, with their families
nnd about 400 invited guests, went up the
Monongahela river on tho steamer May
flower, leaving tho foot of South Twenty
second street shortly after 2 o'clock. Stops
were made at Six Mile Ferry, Homestead
and the City Farm, where additional guests
wero taken aboard, and tho Jolly excursion
ists continued, their trip mado more pleasant
by the cheering music rendered by Toerge's
full orchestra. Wild Rose Park was reached
at 5 o'clock, and hero the doctors and their
menus tooic to tno tioous ioriuncu. iuu
contents of a hundred baskets filled with all
sorts of good things were soon disposed of,
nnd this was followed by a ramble through
the pleasant grove. Tho party then went to
Monongahela City.whoro a number of peoplo
who had gone up on a train after the boat
left the city were taken on. At lock No. 2
the guests of the society insisted that a meet
ing must bo held, and the crowd assembled to
participate in a feature of the trip that,
while it was not in tho programme, was nil
the more enjoyable to all present. It was a
little surprise for tho members of the so
ciety. Itev. K. A. Elliott, of tho Southside U.
P. Church; Rev. W. A. Jones, of the Knox
ville Presbyterian Church; Dr. J. C. Lance,
of Penn avenuo; Kev. James Kirk, father-in-law
of Dr. J. M. Duff; Dr.J.D. Thomas, Dr.
L. Kelnccko nnd a number of others mado
speeches, in which tho highest praise was
extended to the Medical Society and its Com
mittee of Arrangements, for Its complete
ness of details, and tho manner in which tho
comfort and pleasure of the gnests had been
looked after. The remarks of Dr. Thomas
wero rather humorous. Tho gentleman re
ferred to the object of the excursion which
he said was two-fold- Since the grip epidemic,
the doctors have not had much to do. The
outing gave them a day of pleasure and an
opportunity of making some of their friends
sick. All tho guests united In compliment
ing tho society upon tho success of tho trip,
which ended by the return of tho excursion
ists to tho city at 2 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Seattle has robbed Pittsburg of a very
charming young lady, Miss May McKee, who
as Mrs. Frank Schram will make that city
her future home. In this robbery Mr.
Schram is wholly responsible and could bo
proven guilty of "malico aforethought," as
lor some years ho has paid the most devoted
attentions, both at long and short range, he
having formerly been an AHeghenian, to tho
young lady with tho avowed Intention of in
ducing her to forsake Pittsburg nnd brighten
his Western home. The wedding last evening
was a very pretty affair. It was celebrated at
the residence of tho bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas McKee, of Belle avenue, at 8
o'clock. Rev. B. F. Woodbum was the
officiating clergyman, and the ceremony was
witnessed by numerous friends and rela
tives. The bride Was clad In a pure whlto
Iansdowne that draped hergraceful figure to
perfection, and swept Into a full court train.
It was cut low and round and embroidered
chiffon was generously used as a finish.
She carried bride roses and appeared in her
own girlish beauty, minus attendants. A
wedding feast and nn informal reception
were enjoyed subsequent to the ceremony.
Mr. Schram is a successful business man of
the Western city, and has prepared a lovely
home for his bride, to which ho will take her
immediately.
The Pennsylvania College for Women has
already outlined Its commencement exer
cises. A concert at Dllw orth Hall Thursday
evening, June 4, will Inuugnrate the exer
cises. The baccalaureato sermon will bo
delivered Sunday afternoon, June 7, at 4
o'clock, by Rev. Richard II. Holmes, D. D.,
pastor of tho Shadyslde Presbyterian
Church. The commencement exercises
proper will bo given Monday evening, June
8, at Dllworth Hall. Rev. Robert 11 Fulton,
D. D., will deliver an address and diplomas
will be presented to 3Iisses nettle Plummer
Cunningham, Ida bheafe, Ella Casaell Scott,
Margaret Easton and Lily Virginia Pickers
glll. The motto of the class of 1)1 is "In
Limine."
The first anniversary of Sons of Liberty
Council No. 452, Jr. O. U. A. M., was cele
brated last night in their council room,
Union Veteran Legion Hall, Sixth avenue.
Tho programme of the evening included ad
dresses by W. T. Kerr, Chairman of the
Pennsylvania State Council Committee on
Law, on "The bons of Libeity," tho cele
brated patriotic society of the Revolution,
for whicli the council Is named, and by A. D.
Wilkin, Esq., of Mansfield, on "Fraternity."
A vert pretty wedding at tho Hotel Ken.
mawr yesterday was that of Miss Alice II.
Rugg, the accomplished daughter of Super
intendent Itugg, of the Citizens' Traction
line, and Mr. J. It. Whittakec n prominent
young business num. The wedding was wit
nessed by the relatives and intimate friends
only. A wedding banquet "iollowed. The
joung peoplo aro well known and social
lavoritcs.
On Thursday evening tho Ladles' Aid So
ciety of the Homestead Methodist Church
will produce "Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works,"
under the direction of Mrs. Emma Earnest,
at tho Homestead Opera House. On Friday
evening there will no a "real English tea
table," presided over by Mrs. Bridges.
There will also be a musical programme uu
der direction of Mr. J. S. Holllngsliead.
Social Chatter.
Mrs. Thomas McKee's gennan th!3 even
ing. A 1 o'clock luncheon was given yester
by Mrs. W. D. Woods.
MrsHcoh Campbell and Mrs. Humphrey
Miller will receive together this evening.
Ex-Governor Fierpout, of West Virginia,
was the guest yesterday of Mr. II. J. Heinz.
The Colored Jubilee Singers will sing in
the Second Presbyterian Churoh, Allegheny,
to-night.
The Misses Pratt and Manslng, of Buffalo,
were honoied guests at Mrs. Sellers McKee's
luncheon yesterday.
The Art Society's reception at tiro Pitts
burg Club this evening will bo tho social
event of the week. Tho society will cele
brate Its seventeenth birthday. '
Descendants of the Revolutionary heroes
n. ill assemble at the residence of Mrs. N. B.
Hogg, Allegheny, this afternoon, in the lu
terest 01 a cuaptcr, to no jtnuwu as tue
"Daughters of the Revolution."
The ladies of the Nixon Street Baptist
Church, of Allegheny, will give their annual
strawberry and ice cream festival to-night
and to-morrow night. Tho proceeds are for
the benefit of the new church enterprise.
The monthly meeting of the Foreign Mis
sionary ocieties of the Pittsburg and Alle
gheny Presbyteries was held yesterday
liiorning In tho First Presbyterian Church.
The monthly collection of four churches
handed Innmonnted to $104.
Not Bdggy at the Knees.
McKeesport Dally News.
Tub Pittspcrq Dispatch appeared last
week with a now spring suit, which fits eas
ily and gracefully nnd Is characteristic or
the clean nature of Tub Dispatch, cither
from a. literary or typographical standpoint.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Crete, Neb., boasts that there is not a
cat in the town.-
A farmer near Black Lick, O., has a hog
that wears spectacles.
Several mountain peaks in Idaho have
settled from 16 to 23 feet within a fow years.
Floors of rubber, claimed to be as dura
ble as asphalt and cheaper, are being tried
in Germany.
A newly-married Susquehanna, Pa.,
couple have separated and rennlted throe
times in four weeks.
A Gennan 103 years old, with his som
aged 70, and his fonrth wife, aged 40, landed
nt the Barge Office in New York the other
day.
A theater for colored actors will prob
ably soon 'bo erected in Philadelphia. It
will bo the only playhouso of the kind In
America.
An eminent physician says that mcn'3
stiff hats cause baldness and catarrh. An
other doctor claims that soft hats produce
catarrh nnd baldness.
Of all tiie queer things in Georgia, tho
queerest is a young lady who never ate a
plate of ice cream nor drank a glass of soda
water, lemonade or milk shake.
One of the sights at Dexter, Me., the
other day, was a pair of Salvationists on the
roof of a three-story building, preaching and
throwing down tracts to the crowd in tho
street below.
Most people will be surprised to know
that the Southern States furnished 501,500
troops to the Federal armies dnring the lato
unpleasantness. Only one-fourth of these
soldiers were colored.
A Brockwayville, Pa, boy, just out of
knee-breeches, has been offered $40,000 for a
fire escape he has patented. Like a sensible
boy, ho is going to take the money and givo
himself a goodeducation.
A perfect sapphire is one of the rarest
gems, and, consequently, when found com
mands a very high price. It is enrious that
a test of its perfection Is that it shall show
red in n strong artificial light.
While an oak log was being converted
into lumber in a sawmill at Seymour, lnd.,
the saw struck a horseshoe firmly inclosed
in the heart of the tree. There were 26 dis
tinct yearly growths over the outside of the
shoe.
The New Xork State hospitals for the
insano utilize the sen-ices of women physi
cians, nnd announcement is made that an
open competitive examination for physi
cians will bo held in the Capitol in Albany
Juno 11
In Oldbury, Worchestershire, England,
a life insurance club has been uncovered
where tho offices of President nnd Treasurer
wcto held by an undertaker and that of Sec
retary by his daughter. It is charged it w as
so managed as to put a premium on murder.
A woman living in a small village near
Allentown, Pa., was notified to como to
Reading to sign off her interest in an estate,
which was 93 cents. She declined to go, be
cause her inheritance would not pay tne car
fare. The amount goes to the state unless
the lawyers cover It In fees.
It is said of a magistrate at Biddeford,
who Is a great bellover In muscle, that It Is
a common thing to find him at his law office,
with his book on a high shelf level with his
eyes, busily reading law and swinging flve
pound Indian clubs, or taking some other
exercise, without interference with hid
studies.
A local journal at Fulda, Minn., notes
that a woman recently brought to the office (
a hen's egg, which measures 7f inches in
clrcnmforence the smallest way, and 9 inches
the largest. It was boiled, and upon open
ing it a smaller, perfectly formed egg, witb,
a very thick shell, was found, surrounded
by tho white of the larger egg.
The candidate on the Democratic tickei
was recently elected Town Treasurer of
Claritsvllle, lnd. Hehn3 reiuseato nienis
bond, not because he is unable, but because
he Is conscientiously opposed to going on
anyone's paper, or allowing others to do tho
same for him. He Is well-to-do, and a man,
of tho strictest sobriety.
It is passing etrango that nobody has
thought before of moving canal boats by
electricity instead of with mules. Thl3
thing is soon to be tried with the trolley
system of overhead wires. The boats, it i3
thought, can attain a speed of from six to
ten miles an hour, which would mako the;
time between Albany and Buffalo 30 hoars,
instead of seven days.
A Philadelphia chicken exhibits rare
Intelligence. A baker who supplies tho fam
ily with bread is met every morning at tho
front gate by this chicken as soon as sho
hears the baker toot his horn. She then,
commences to cackle, and is given her cus
tomary meal of bTcad crumbs. If tbo baker
happens to bo late in the morning she will
walk sometimes half a mile to meet him.
She nover shows herself at tho gate on Sua
day mornings.
A New Yorker fell tho other day from
the top floor of a flve-story tenement house,
and, after breaking the balusters on two
floors in his descent and bounding on his
head from one floor to another, landed all in
a heap on the ground floor. He then got up
and walked to the street. Two boardsln tho
floor on tho spot where he stopped wero
broken by his fall, and his feet went through
a panel of a door in the lower hall. Beyond
breaking his Jaw he suffered no injury.
The climate of Hindoostan goes a long
way toward explaining the religious scruples
which would make millions of Brahmins
starve rather than eat meat stews, but less
Intelligible is the prejudice of Japanese
peasants, who cannot bapersuaded to drink
cow's milk. Tho Abyssinian hlghlanders
would shrink from neither alternative, buB
would promptly cut tho acquaintance of a
neigbor who should deflle himself by broil
ing a rabbit. Moses, too, interdicts rabbits
flesh, which constitutes the only luxury of
the snow bound Jakoots, who would scorn
to waste a copper coin on Chinese tea, but
aro apt to fuddle with a decoction of fly
toadstooL Tho Tartar emirs scandalize
American missionaries by their fondness for
milk brandy (koumiss), but are, in their
turn, amazed at the caprice that makes
their pious guests prefer pork to horse flesh.
After all, there is no disputing about tastes.
A curiously addressed letter lately
passed through tho postotHce of Madrid,
which wa3 deciphered and correctly deliv
ered, notwithstanding all difficulties. Tho
address wat a perfect rebus. At tho left
hand side was tho figure of a lady; it was
clear, therefore, to which sex the recipient
should belong. Over tho lady's he.td tho
snn was rising, hence her name was inferred
to bo Aurora. For her surname stood a hill,
with a castle at Its foot, which gives us
"Montes y Castillo." Next comes tho town,
for which the plan of a city was drawn, op.
which tho Albambm was legible. This indi
cated Granada, but, In order to leavo no
doubt possible, a pomegranate was drawn
bcsldo the plan. To complete the address a
number was indicated in ono of the streets
of the cltv plan. The postal authorities
took threo "days to study this curiosity, and
then triumphantly delivered the letter to
"Senorita Aurora Montes y Castillo. Azac
ayas No. 20 Granada," and, so far from cen
suring the sender, they had the envelope
Shotographed and a copy printed in the
ndrid papers as a proof of the Intelligence
of the department.
SANS SERIOUSNESS.
Ethel I just adore that young Dr. Mut
tonchop. Ills sermon to-night was perfectly lovely.
George What was the text?
Ethel-Meholdi the bridegroom Cometh. Sao
York Herald,
Van East So you have been eleetcd 4
United Slates Senator. That Is a high office.
De Wt-I should think so! It coat me 100,030.
New York Continent.
An electric car was. passing up Tremont
street Sunday noon, containing, among other pas
sengers, two ladles who were evidently In a hurry
to reach their destination. A stop was made In
rrontofChickerlngHallJust as the Christian Sci
ence meeting was ocr. and the conductor held the.
car some minutes In order that a number of the "sci
entists" might get aboard. "What's the use of
waiting for these people?" exclaimed the younger
of the two ladles. "If they will only think they
are riding It will be Just as good to them as a train
of cars." Boston Post.
First Bank President Did yon see about
the President of the Ninth National? No soone
was lie dead than they discovered that he had de
faulted to the amount of $100,000.
Second Bank Pre-ldent-Yes, I saw It. It Is get
ting q bank president can't dlewlth any safety,
Boston Courier.
Enthusiastic Father Don't you think I
ought to make a scientist of that boy of mine I
suppose yon've noticed his way of getting to the
bottom of things?
Teacher Yes, I've noticed It about his cUisej. -LiSe.
.
Son Father, what does a politician mean
when he says be Is la the hands of bis friends? .'--r,
Father It means that he Is patUmr hU-mone?v
thae.-Judge. " .