DH3E&H '&. iN!!ppfj5PwcT53CT3CP '"'- "WBpI V Ije Bigp&i ESTABLISHED FEBKUAEY 1S18. Vol. 46. No. 108. Entered t Pittsburg Postofflcc, November 11. 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Omce Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Pvooms and Publishing House 7S and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTFKN ArVERTISIJ.G OFFICE, BOOM 3. THIBUNE Bnunx R. SEW YOEK. where com plete tiles orTHE DISPATCH can always be found. ForeUn advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and Mends of THE DISPATCH, while in N ew York, are also made welcome. TITE DJSPATCHismularlvon- Saleat Erenbmo's, 8 Union Square. JOm lurk, and B Ave at J'Ojym, i nt. trance, tctiere anyrme who has been aap jntnted at a hotel news etand can obtain it. TERMS OP THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE TEEE IN TUE UXITED STATES. Daily Dispatch, One Year 8 6 CO Daily Dispatch. Per Quarter 5 00 Daili Dispatch, One Month TO Daily DisrATcn, Including Sunday, lyear.. W 00 Daily DisrATCii, Including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 2 50 Daily' Dirfatch, inclndinR Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 Scsday DisrvTCU, One Year 250 Weekly DisriTCU. One Year. 1 25 The Daily Dispatch i delivered by carriers at JS cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 20 cents per wk. PITTSBURG. TUESDAY. 31 AY 26, 1S9L ORIGINAL PACKAGES NO MOKE. The idea that Congress cannot enact a measure to the effect that certain kinds of inter-State commerce shall be subject to existing State regulation is shown to be erroneous by the decision of the United States Supreme Court yesterday. When Congress passed the act to that effect opinions were widely circulated, as coming from learned counsel, that before the State regulation could be effective un der Congressional enactments, they must all be re-enacted. The Dispatch claimed at the time that this idea was without foundation, even on the somewhat incon sequent reasoning of- the original package decision. That decision upheld the valid ity of the State enactments as applied to State traffic, but held that their authority did not extend to inter-State traffic. The authority to regulate the latter traffic lay in Congress, according to the Supreme Court Congress responded by enacting that the existing laws in each State should regulate the inter-State traffic in liquors within the limits of that State. The view of The Dispatch is fully corroborated by the last decision. This ends the original package episode. Each State now has full power to regulate or prohibit all the liquor traffic within its borders; and nothing is left of the old dis pute, except the singular and unfounded idea of the Supreme Court that the Consti tution'forbids the States to regulate inter- State traffic, when it actually in plain terms contemplates such regulation in harmony with Congressional action. ITS NATIONAL BEAKING. The complete uncovering of the rotten ness of political banking at Philadelphia has been generally regarded as having more than a local bearing. This is correct; but in one particular it has a national bearing. The financial plan of the country rests in great measure on the stability of the national banking sj stem. Public faith in that system is based on the belief that con stant governmental supervision will detect and check in its inception any departure from the principles of safe banking or any dishonesty on the part of officials. But the exposure in Philadelphia gives a severe shock to that faith. It is clear that the National Bank Examiner must have made seeral examinations of the Keystone Bank when it waS a mere shell, already plundered of assets far in excess of its capital and surplus. For the fact that the examinations required by the national sys tem did not close up the Keystone Bank over a year ago the most charitable expla nation is that of utter incapacity on the part of the examiner. This administration cannot afford to have It said that under its rule the safe guards of the national banking system have been reduced to a mere sham. Tet that is what will be the case if political appointments make it possible, either by incapacity or corruption on the part of the examiners, for rotton banks to escape the detection. The President, the Secre tary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency should all inquire why under their administration national bank supervision has failed to supervise. A NULLinED PRINCIPLE. The decision of the Inter-State Com merce Commission in the case of the New York and Northern Railroad against the New York and New England, that a rail road cannot discriminate against one con necting line iu favor of another, awakens the conservative alarm of the New York Post. It wishes to know if the decision is that there is any obligation on the part of the railway to exchange traffic with other railways, and declares that if so "it is a serious matter." As to the idea that the ownership of one road by another i ill not justify refusal to exchange traffic with a third connecting line, the Post declares that "no branches or extensions of exist ing roads will hereafter be built if the traffic of the new lines cannot be secured with certainty by the parent system. It isa striking example of the slightregard paid for the principles of law by corporate practices that the basis of this decision, which so agitates our New York cotem porary, is not ouly a plain enactment of the inter-State commerce law, but -was a plainly enunciated rule of common law before the national enactment was thought of. It would no doubt surprise Vie Post to learn that so eminent a judicial friend of corporations as Judge William Strong ruled on the Bench of Pennsylvania that railroads cannot discriminate for their own benefit as lessees or owners of con necting roads. "It is not consistent," de clared Judge Strong, "with the public in terest or with common right that they should be permitted to use it (their rate making power) as to secure to themselves superior and exclusive advantages on other lines of transportation beyond the ends of their own. road." The same prin ciple was also specifically declared by Judges ilcCrary and Hallett, to the effect that every Tailroad is bound to receive freight from all lines connecting with it, and to deliver freight to all, as ordered by shippers, on equal terms. These decisions may have been respected in the cases in which they w ere made, but the principles laid down by them have been nullified by general railroad practice. The idea of the rost that the main tenance of tliis principle would stop the building of branch lines and extensions is simply an outgrowth of the superstition of the corporate school that none but great corporations have any rights in the building of connecting lines. It would put a stop to the corporate practice of freezing out connecting lines until they can be bought up by the main line or its I officers at their own terms. But the build ing of branch lines and feeders would be Immensely increased If outside capital had the assurance which the law gives it in theory, but which the railways deny in practice that they shall have equal rights. in the transshipment of freights. BETTER FIRE PROTECTION. The Chief of the Department ot Public Safety responds to the public demand for better fire protection in the business part of the city with a communication to Coun cils in which the whole subject is exhaust ively discussed, and remedies for the present situation pertinently suggested. The communication opens with an acknowledgment that the fire protection for the lower part of the city is insuf ficient Indeed, it brings out that fact more clearly than any of the complaints. The protection now afforded is exactly what it was in 1870, while the larger num ber of business buildings, and especially their increased height, have multiplied the need for fire protection several times over. No more convincing proof of the necessity for action in this respect can be given than the statement that the protective force has stood still for 21 years while the growth of business has gone on at a rapid rate. For the Supply of this need Mr. Brown recommends the purchase of a movable water tower, of afireboat for the-river front, the location of an additional engine in the downtown part of the city, and the pur chase of three first-class engines to replace the smaller ones which can be transferred to the residence wards. It is unnecessary to discuss the details of these propositions. They are all in the line of more complete protection. On the economy of expendi tures for the promptest and most efficient methods of suppressing fires there can be no dispute. Whatever complications Pittsburg may suffer through past municipal errors, she can afford to spend all the money neces sary to secure the best fire-fighting appli ances; and she cannot afford'" to do any less. ONE REPUBLICAN SENATOR. The true test of party fealty consists of the support the individual gives in any position to the principles of the party he represents. It is also generally conceded that the principles of any party are author itatively stated in its platforms. The last platform of the Republican party of Pennsylvania pledged it to the ' reform of the ballot system so as to secure the greatest freedom and independence in the exercise of the ballot Genuine ballot reform was thereby made one of the principles of the Republican party. On the vote in the Senate, last week, whether this principle should be carried out in good faith, or whether it should be repudiated and falsified, onlyone Repub lican Senator Mr. Robbins, of Westmore landvoted to -fulfill party pledges and maintain party principles. All others, with little attempt to conceal their dislike for the reform, voted against true ballot reform. It is thus made clear that there is only one true Republican among the alleged Republican Senators. All the rest have broken party faith and repudiated the party principle in order to testify their superior loyalty to the fundamental methods of machine politics. MARAUDING ALLIANCE MEN. If the men who ejected the'Jewett county, Kansas, farmer on Sunday night, had not been members of the Alliance, their action would have attracted but little attention. As members of that organization, however, they will become marks for some interesting criticism. It will no doubt be the verdict that the well known opinions held by Alliance farmers about mortgages never before found such decided expression. And it will also be the general verdict .that the method of expression was very bad. As will be seen in our special telegram this morning, the tenant of the farm under dispute was told to vacate, with death offered as an alternative. This is alto gether too much like a certain Irish method to suit this country. In Ireland, where it has been tried more than once, there have been cases in which it was almost excusable, but the Kansas outrage does not seem to have many mitigating circum stances. It may be that the firm lending the money charged excessive interest, but as no mention is made of payment of either principal or interest, the reasonable supposition is that even 2 per cent would not have been met. The affair furnishes food for reflection, but chiefly on the part of the Alliance men; and it is hoped that, if they wish to keep their organiza tion in good odor, they will seek redress for then: grievances in the courts here after. In view of the wide discrepancy between the press reports as to whether the trial of the Vesuvius dynamite guns was a success or a failure, it is satisfactory to learn that the report of the trial board averages tho thing up by steering a middle course. It does regard the guns as a success, but thinks they might be Improved, and recommends further trials. This is probably a wise course, but it Is nevertheless beginning to be appar ent that we cannot count on possessing the destroyer or the world's navies In the dyna' mite cruiser. Hardly any better comment on the latest products of the ultra school of American realism in fiction is needed than the report that Ouida is protesting against their in decency. When Zola joins in the protests, our most advanced novelists will know how to rank themselves. The project of a "theater libre" in Bos ton is now mooted. The "theater libre," or a free theater, is one at which ambitious authors can have their plays acted presum ably at their own expense. The promoters of this enterprise are calculating upon a rush at the box office from the playwrights, and if they secure that the rush from the theater-goers will be an important matter in both senses of the word. The Department of Public Safety wants to secure better Are protection. So do the people. Every one will agree that the best is the cheapest; but there will still be a good deal of squabbling over what is the best. The story o'f the New York Herald about Secretary Blaine having lost his mind evi dently had a certain degree of foundation in the Herald office. That soap advertising boom of the Heralds for Blaine proved that there was a clear case of mental alienation somewhere. The only mistake was the usual one of the lunatic in asserting that the other man's mind was wrong. The announcement that the Elder Kip ling is now to come into literature with a book on India, moves us to remark that this is suporogatory. One Kipling Is enough. GovERXOB Hill's reference in a message approving a tax bill as his last legislative act is taken as an assertion that he will not add to his duplicate functions that of a can didate for the Legislature. Bat Mr. Smith 31. Weed stands grimly by and reflects that the Governor's promises of this sort do not go unless he flnds it for his advantage to keep them. The prospect for an unexampled cucum ber crop gives promise of an active trade In drugs later in the season. The report thet Colonel Bayne's name it ia THE on the list under consideration for the ex pected, vacancy to tho Bussian mission may seem to be an infringement on the claim of the newspaper profession to that position. But tho Colonel as an ex-newspaper man is eligible, and the press of Pittsburg will hope thjt he may get it. Filibustering in the last week of the session furnishes another evidence of the Senate's determination not to do the legisla tive woik that ought to bo done. Considering the experiences "of the past few months in South America It would not be strange If the envious opposition should suggest that it might e well to cultivate trade relations with a quarter' of the globe where perennial revolution is not the chief product of popular Industry. "If anyone had any doubts about Mayor Gourleyheing in the fight to stay his last letter tothe Governor will correct any such The Italians in Boston are making a record by raising money for the erectionin that city of a statue to Christopher Colum bus. They propose at once to show the lib erality of the modem Italian citizens of this country, and to suggest to Americans that 'they owe something to Italy. SNAP SHOTS IK SEASON. The first battle between the church fac tions will bo fought on Creed moor. Philadelphia is bound to buffer severely from the effects of the recent steal failure there. Blaine is suffering from a swollen foot, but his worst enemies are suffering from swollen heads. The purists do not seem to think that the mantle of charity is heavy enough to be drawn over tho "Clemenceau Case." What doth it profit a man if he stealeth, a million and gets caught! Bxfoems, that persecute one portion of humanity may satisfy the world, but they will scarcely satisfy heaven. Some of the profitable stage presentations have a tight grip on the public. The fool-killer can keep under cover as long as the law allows the manufacture of. opium-flavored cigarettes. Mosquito bars will soon be well patron-, ized. Peot-le who stop to think are the record breakers in the race of life. The religious war is on, but the-'signs in dicate that it will be a bloodless one. While the theatrical folk are resting the stage carpenters will go to work on some new dramas for next season. The more water there.is in the Pittsburg coal pools the better for all concerned. Our rival after alL traction line3 are unrivaled C a out of sisht The Itata. Man marvels when he contemplates how much and how little a woman can wear, and still be fascinating. When the stage is elevated ear trumpets will take the place of opera glasses. Savings banks that are mere playthings are more apt to teach extravagance than economy. PEOPLE AMD POTENTATES. The Duke of Argyle's youngest daughter will marry a Lancashire cotton spinner named Kmtnott, a Quaker and wealthy. The Empress of Austria is "as busy as a schoolgirl with her linguistic studies, and as interested as a landTeformer in her agri cultural projects. Peop. GOULD, of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, has nearly completed his report on the labor question in Europe for the United States Labor Bureau. General A. W. Gkeely is in Spokane Falls, Wash., superintending the laying of the new cable across the Strait of San Juan dc Fuca to the Island of Taltoosh for signal ing vessels. George W. Childs has presented to the Mount Vernon Regents the proof sheet of theAmeriean DaUy Advertiser, dated Septem ber 15, 1T9G, containing the farewell address of Washington, corrected by himself. The relic Is handsomely framed in hard cherry. Judge Veazet, of the Inter-State Com merce Commission, who has traveled widely In other countries as well as in his own, says frankly that while ho is a thorough Ameri can ho believes that the people of tho Umted States might well adopt many European ideas. Mrs. Annie Besant does not like to talk to people after her lectures, so her inti mate friends say. It is not that her even ing's task has been such an arduous one, but because it is the last of many labors that she has carried on during the day, and she is ready to go borne and go to bed. Agnes Bepplier is one of the few quiet and careful essayists among women. She Is a native of Philadelphia and lives a quiet, studious life among her books, sending frequent and serious articles to the Phila delphia and New York journals and to tho Atlantic Monthly, and delivering occasional lectures during the season. Mb. Gladstone is strongly in favor of admitting women to the Board of County Councillors, and his answer to the deputa tion proposing the hill was extremely lucid and straightforward. Ho had gathered that In County Council work there was a field for women's energies and a real want for them to supply, and he heartily indorsed tho bill. Jane Stevens, whose pictures are on exhibition at tho Eoyal Institute of Painters, spent the best years of her life as a clerk iu one of the departments at Washington, and now, without a lesson in drawing, without assistance or encouragement from artists, her natural genius, expressing ideas In bold, original and unconventional work, has won international honor. Christine Nilsson1 entertained at din ner not long ago the two divas, Patti and Albani, and tho three queens of song were attired in the sumptuous simplicity of the Valoisor Tudor period. They hummed a few snatches of songs together, as they did long ago, before titles tioubled them, and were charmingly sweet to each other, but they did not appear together in public Listen to Son Russell! Helena, Mont., Journal.; Fathers are too apt to think that what is sauce for the gander is not sauce for the gosling. VALEITA-TA! written roa the dispatch. Under clot-reefcd sail she rode the ftafe, ab the wind to the south was veering; While the tars afloat on the 6teel-ribbed boat Were the decks for action clearing. Abaft below the gunners In row Were shelllngout grape and shrapnel, After every one had cleaned his gun That with a foe he'd be ablo to scrap well. On the starboard tack she kept a-track Of a sail on the dim horizon. Which the boatswain bold of the for'ard hold Did curse as he cast his eyes on. Then in accents soft he piped aloft, "Every salt for his grog pro-rata;"- But all of them swore they would drink no more Uptil they had caught the Itata. So naught of the grog did their minds befog. And aln was his little side trick; From mlzzcn chains speak-easy strains Piping for Piper Heldslcck. Thus the stern chase keeps up its pace. Though they don't the stern chaser unllmber. While with sea dog leer each denies all fear Hitnont as yet shivering timber. H. PITTSBTJEG DISPATCH, ORDWAY'S LATEST BREAK. The Militia Commander of Washington Slakes an Attack on Labor Unions for Which He May be Called Down Sensa tional Speech to His Command. tritOM A STAFF COKnESrONDErr.: WASHisoToir, May 35. A speech that was positively astoupding, coming ,from one In his position, was made to tho District mili tia a week ago, by General Ordway, the commandor-ln-chief, and it has already borne its legitimate fruit in tho demand that has been made from the labor organizations of the District, that he be dismissed from his command. The speech, In brief, was a glib description of the manner in which a mob of working people, engaged in rioting, should be annihilated by the District militia. The General was at times quite humorous, and always self-satisfied in his narration, as though his greatest gratification would be to get at a riotous crowd of wage-workers. Tho General's oratory was not received with satisfaction even by the wage-working young men who are soldiers of the mllltlaf and the 10,000 laborers and mechanics of the District who are not take It like a mortal personal insult. It was contemplated to call at once, en masse, on the General at his elegant residence, not to sack the place, hut to demand an explanation of his language, but the calmer heads counseled a different course. Demanding His Dismissal. Tbovariousassemhliesand unions of work ingmen discussed the speech and their dele gates carried the offense to the District Assembly and the Federation of Labor. Three notable men, Paul Bowen, L. P. Wild and E. W. Hambleton, all of them gentlemen of at least as fine breeding and education as General Ordway, and all of them Socialists, moreover, were appointed to draft charges against the General and request his dis missal. The memorial was presented at the War Department, and created a good deal of serious discussion among the high officials. The charges assert that the General used language that was treasonable and in cendiary and calculated to create in the minds of the militia officers a sense of their superiority to the law; an excessive fear of the dangers to be encountered In the line of duty, and a bitter hatred and bloodthirsty vindictivennss toward such people as they maybe called upon to restrain in the inter est of peace and good order. And that.when he abandoned the field of instruction in the proper military tactics to be used in the sup pression of civil disorder, to eluoldate, com pare and condemn social, political and economic doctrines, he exceeded hi3 proper functions. gome of the Charges. As this will doubtless bo a celebrated case, from the fact that if the President refuses to dismiss Ordway, labor organizations all over the country will be aroused to demand voneeance from Coneress for Ordway's in sult, one or two paragraphs of the charges may be given, such as follows: "We further charge that General Ordway, in depicting a country 'overrun with hun dreds of thousands of the most criminal and ignorant class of Europe, in whose wake come the professional agitators, who may bo called the pimps of tho professional lead ers,' but who havo had 'a military educa tion' and 'experience in war,' and in warn ing tbomilitfa that if they over have occa sion to meet these men 'they will be found no tyros in the art of war, and a match for the best intelligence that we can bring to beix against them,' has done what ho could to excite alarm and panic where coolness and courage' should prevail and to partici pate the catastrophe's, in the shape of shoot ing women, children, spectators and passers by, which so ofien characterize the action of timid and panic-stricken militia. We assert that the picture is almost wholly fanciful, and so far as his community is concerned is absolutely so. The Slaughter at Fourmles. "That it is so generally, may be' inferred .from the fact that in Fourmies, France, where desperate and martial rioters might be supposed to abound, if anywhere, the collision between the troops on May 1 re sulted in tho death of two score people, of whom eight were women, six were children and the rest were wage workers. We charge General Ordway with unjust discrimination in the discussion of the character of mobs. Having entered upon the subject of 'inter nal disorder,' ho should not have singled ont labor organizations, Socialists and Anarchists for sole comment. "What are the duties of the militia when a mob led by lawyers, doctors and police men, after two days advertisement of their intentions, breaks in a jail, takes from the custody of the law and murders 11 hell-less people? Is it the duty of the militia to dis appear witn tne jiayor ana uovernon Hob Law by Soldiers. "What should soldiers do when a soldier mob at Walla Walla breaks into a jail and kills a mant What is the duty of the militia when a mob of Pinkerton detectives invade a State with murderous intent! What shall the mUitla do when two men, as in Con necticut, or three, as In Nebraska, backed hy their respective adherents, insist on being Governors? What shall the militia do when fraud, bribery, Intimidation, violence and false counting return a false result at elec tions and the real majority refuse to sub mit! "These are more important and more immi nent questions than the dangers from indus trial demonstrations. These are 'internal disorders' worth talking about, but General Ordway ssems not to know that the militia has any concern with them. We charge that General Ordway gave a false and malicious representation of the character of labor or ganizations, and adroitly and with purpose wove them to with his allusions to 'profes sional rioters' and organizations with un popular names to convince the militia that there are no differences between them. The Summing Up of Ordway. His summing up is that "any mob which has been organizedunder the plea of wrongs of labor to bo redressed, is in reality composed of at least 85 per cent, of rougns, tramps, thieves, convicts and Anarchists, and that the 'soldier need have no compunctions in effectually eradicating them.' He tries to show that such members of a mob as may really be working people or Socialist 'dreamers' or the followers of 'Anarchists' deserve the same fate, and rejoices that effectually eradicating them, 'which might otherwise be a duty, will become a pleas ure.' " The quotations within this quotation will serve to show the general tenor of the militia commander's remarkable speech. General Ordway, as is already known to readers of The DisrATcn, a few weeks ago attempted to crowd out tho colored bat talions for the District militia, and was sum marily called to a halt in this by the Presi dent. It will be strange indeed if the Presi dent, inview of the movement of the wago workers and their sympathizers, does not dismiss this new social economist of the military school. DEATHS HEBE ANT) ELSEWHEEE. Henry Klpp McKallip. Congressman . C. Honk. Judge J O. HOUK, Representative in Congress from the Second Tennessee District, died yesterday morning at 7 o'clock at Knoxvllle. San day afternoon he went to a drug store near his res idence to get a prescription put up. The druggist compounded It lor him and put it down in a glass near another containing a strong solution o? ar senic, which Judge Houk took by mistake. Anti dotes were nromptlv administered, and by 10 o'clock Sundav night he was so well that nothing was said about the circumstance except to a few frlrads. He slept through the night, and died yes terda) morning suddenly. He had heart dlreasc, and the poison and excitement following the Inci dent affected Out organ and was the cause of death. Henry Kipp McKallip, a prominent resi dent and business man of Leechburg, died Sunday night at the age of 83 years. He leaves a wife and sct en children, two sons In this city, L. S. and H. F. McKallip, of L. S. McKaUp & Co. He was also the father of Bev. John X. McKallip, of Be.iver Falls, and J. A. JIcKftlllp, a Leechburg business man. 31r. McKallip was oue.of the organizers and President of the Klsklmlnetas Bridge Company; one of the founders and a patron of the Leechburg Presbyterian Academv: was President of the Leechburg Banking Company since IU organiza tion in 1873, and was for 3 ears a trnstec of the Leechburg Presbyterian Church. On June 5. 1888, Mr. McKallip and wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Christian Denllnger. Christian Denlinger, of Hoboken, Pa., died yesterday at rhilHpsburg, Center county. Pa. He is the father of J. S. Denllugtr, the well-known Pittsburg oil dealer. Obituary Notes. FbankILutz, formerly a member of the Ralston School Board, died jesterday morning. He was only sick one day. Colonel Henry Lank Kendeick, a well known member of the rcgnlar army, died In New York Sunday evening at the Union League Club, where he had lived since his retirement from tie army in 1880. J. Fulton, a well-known resident of Burgetts town. Pa., died Sunday of heart trouble. 3Ir. Fulton was aged about 77 years, and was a life-long resident of that community, having been born within a few miles of the place where he died. Ex-Governor Davip Butler died suddenly yesterday morning at his home near Pawnee City, Neb., of heart trouble. He was Nebraska's first Governor, and with the StateTrcasurer and Auditor selected the site for the present Capitol. He was 63 years 01a. , James C. Converse, the venerable President of the National Tube Works Company at McKees port, died at his home in Greenfield, Mass., on Sunday, after an illness of about three rears. He was 84 years of age and the father of . C. Con verse, who Is the general manager of the plant. TUESDAY, MAT HE TOOK 250,000 VOLTS. A Pittsburgers "Wonderful Test at Colom bia College. The Electrical Engineer will print this week a description of experiments with an alter nating" machine by Mr, Nikola Tesla, the Pittsburg export, in Columbia College last week before the American Institute of Elec trical Engineers. Tho experiments were of a brilliant character and suggestive of de velopment In tho line of artificial Illumina tion In the future. The principal test was with a spark coil, and he showed that hy wrapping an insulated "wire of about one foot to length about ono terminal and touch ing the other with a brass sphoro held to the hand streams of light would emanate from all sides of the wire. When the sphere was removed the stream disappeared. He then nhnwiMnr the use of the dialectic, that thH spark was induced to Jump between the. separated spheres Dy increasing the specific inductive capacity of the medium, and that the strgamlng discharge passed easily' tnrougn mien giass jjiutes, ruooor pnuep and a hook. This was followed by a demonstration of how exhausted plates might bo made to fllowtaan electroslatio flold. Placing two arge sheets of zinc against the terminals a tube between glowed brilliantly and could be moved about freely. It was when he came to show the physiological effects that Mr. Tesla made the most remarkable exper iment. By touching one terminal with a brass sphere he raised tho potential of the coil so enormously that a stream of light came out at the' other end, the estimated difference of the potential or force of the current being 250,000 volts. By holding the brass balls to the hands to protect them from burning he then astonished those pres ent by receiving the total discharge Into his own body without hurtful effect. THE STATE KNIGHTS TEMPLAE. Erie to Eecclve the Various Commandcrics .and Treat Them Well. tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Erie, May 25. This city is preparing for a holiday during the State Conclave of the Knights Templar of tho State of Pennsylva nia, which holds its first session to-morrow, and will continue until Wednesday evening. The Pittsburg Commandery arrived here this afternoon and presented an imposing appearance as they marched to their head quarters, where they were taken care of by the Committee of Keception. Commander ies are arriving to-night on every train and from all parts of the State, and it is expected by to-morrow fully 3,000 Knights will be pres ent. The city is preparing to decorate hand somely, and tho grand parade will be an event long to be remembered, preparations being made to have it the most imposing that ever occurred to this city. After the business meeting has been done with and grand parade over, it is tho Intention of the local commandery to give the visitors a sail a'cross the lake to some pleasant place to Canada, where they will spend a few hours. 0TSTEBS WILL BE HIGH. The Sad Forecast of an Expert Bivalve Planter of Jamaica Bay, New York Herald. "How's oysters!" I shouted as we passed the schooner Mary Ann Eliza, of Canarsie, busily engaged in planting seed to Jamaica Bay, the home of the Kockaways. The skipper shook his head. "Bad.wery bad," said he. "They're hlgEer'n all tarnation." "How's that!" I asked. "Why, you see the seed didn't set this year. It didn't set at Bridgeport nor at New Haven, whero the seed mostly comes from, an' only one man, an' he at Milford, had any luck. He's struck it rich, I tell you, for he's sold over $400,000 wuth of seed this spring. But all the rest is to the doldrums." "Going to make oysters scarce next fall!" "I rather suspect it be." And the skipper resumed his task of strewing the bed of Ja maica Bay with lime-cased lusciousness, while we went on our way in mourning. THE HAND OP CHASITT. Semi-Monthly Beport of the Association for the Improvement of the Poor. The semi-monthly meeting of the Associa tion for the Improvement of the Poor was held yesterday afternoon. Tho reports sub mitted showed that there were 7 new appli cants, 495 families visited, 248 families aided, 1,027 persons Included, 753 visits made to the po'or, 84 visits made for tho poor, 8 children placed in Sabbath school, 1 person sent to the City Farm, 1 child sent to the Children's Hospital, 54 days work and situations ob tained for 8. The following groceries were distributed: Six hundred and ninety-four loaves of bread, 270 pounds of rice, 339 bars of soap, 240 pounds of oatmeal, 108 quarts of cornmeal. Through the dispensary was given out 83 pints of beef tea, 5 pints of mutton broth, 397 pints of milk, 70 pounds of tea, 281 pounds of sugar. There were 305 grocery orders, 1,600 bushels of coal, 184 garments. Tho People in the Same Boat. York Gazette. When this Legislature adjourns, the work ingmen will find that not one bill they have asked for has been passed. A Good Team. Johnstown Tribune. Philadelphia's "Honest John" and Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee" would make a good team. PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. John Eobb, C. P. McKenna and Charles Montooth went to Philadelphia last evening. The wholesale license cases will come up be fore the Supreme Court. Mr. Bobb thinks tho Court will decide in favor of his olients. Fifty cases were appealed. They may stop at Harrisbnrg on the way back, to see the Governor about the new judges. Mr. Bobb favors the appointment of T. C. Lazear. James A. Chambers left for Chicago on private business last evening. He says the windowglass men will force everybody out of fire July L He thought a new scale of wages would be fixed In August, He thinks the combination between Eastern and West ern manufacturers will soon be made. J. C. McKinney, a Titusville oil man, and W. A. Lynch, of Canton, attorney for the Pittsburg, Akron and Western road, were at the Anderson yesterday. Mr. Lynch says a half-mile of the line remains to be completed. The road will connect the 'Clover Leaf route with Chicago. James B. Scott left for Harrisburg yes terday to look after several appropriation bills not yet passed. He states that tho bill to provide a tarm and home for the chronic insane will go through. It may be modified slightly. Ah Ba Sundera, an East Indian convert of the Salvation Army, passed through the rltv vesterday hound for Titusville. He hopes some day to see his people converted. He complains of the Army glrfs making love to him. Dr. J. C. Hierholzer, of the "West End, and his mother, Mrs. M. C Hierholzer, left for. New York last night and will sail Irom that city to-morrow tor Europe. Tho doctor will take a course of study in Vienna. Joseph S. Brown and Henry H. King, with their families, T. Howard Childs and his sister, Miss Carrie, and two of the Sn eitzer boys, started for Europe last oven tag to spend the summer. J. A. Eberlc. a passenger man for the Mobile and Omo road, is to tho city. Ho says the trade with South America is grow ing, and that Mobile is becoming a great sea port town. Chief Brown and A. C. Eobertson left for llarrlsburg last evening. They havo been going there often, lecently, but thoy were sileut about their motives. P. L. Kimberly, the Sharon iron man, and W. H. Picking, traveling passenger a-'ent of the B. & O. at Somerset, are at tho Monongahela House. W. C. Reed, of Indiana, and Mrs. Mc Gaveyandson, of Brookville, were among the passengers from Helena and Spokane Falls yesterday. G. E. Milligan and wife, of Parkersburg. and Charles E. Blake, of Lynn, are amoug the guests at the Seventh Avenue. ' M. Keibenauck, auditor of passenger re ceipts for the Pennsylvania road, has gone to California with his family. B, J. Hardin, editor of the Chicago Horse man, and L. H Durling of Baltimore, are leg isjercd at the Schlosser. Edward Ely, Superintendent of Motive Power of the Pennsylvania road, was in the city yesterday. P. B. 'Cross, of Columbus, and IT. B. Billlngsley, of New Lisbon, are at the Du quesne. Captain George W. MeKee, of the Phila delphia Arsenal, is at tno acmosser. Aaron French, the springmaker, and "W. I lb Abbott went to New York. 1 189L' SOCIETY AND CHARITY. .Meeting of the Tonng Ladles Interested in, the Proposed Y. W. C. A Progress of the Work and What Lv to be Done Next Social Chatter "Osceola" is the name of the Twentieth ward's new school building. It was opened last evening with ail the pomp and circum stance the war on ignorance In general would admit of; and as a consequence "spread-eagle',' oratory was copiously poured forth npon the heads of many oitfzens of the present and future assembled appar ently for the Joint purpose of hearing what was to be said and seeing what was- there to be seen. Chairman George C. Wilson, of the Building Committee, was master of ceremonies. He ., said the lot bad cost $8,500, the building, erected by Contractor William T. Miller cost $32,000, the furniture $2,200 and outside improve ments $700. Tho total the audience could figure up according to various standards. He said that much praise was -due Mr. Mason, of the committee, but nnto Cyrus 8. Gray, of the board he who sits as clerk in the Orphans' Court the Twentieth ward taxpayers, he said, owe an everlasting debt of gratitude which. If history of communi ties repeats itself, will never be paid. He introduced Mayor Gourley, who orated vigorously about the glorious work of teaotiers, and what becomes of good little boys and girls who go to school and learn their lessons. Majof A..M. Brown, being called on, said he was a native of Butler county the best place in the world from which to emigrate. Ho paid his respects to Thad Stevens and ended in a blaze of glory, composed of ora torical Illuminations to the credit of Princi pal Cameron. He was followed by Superin tendent Luckey, who made a neat and origi nal address on the educational systems at home and abroad. He told of tho vast sums spent to Europe to the education of royal personages, and pointed the illustration by saying that every American girl and boy was of the American royal familv. The music .was by Gernert's and a good time was spent by everybody. Many congratu lated "Billy" Dlehl on his accidental discov ery of the school lot one day three years ago, when ho was a member of the board. Formal and informal ' meetings were held yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Lec ture Hall in the Interest of the proposed Yl W. C. A. The informal meeting was proba bly the most animated, and to many ways the most enjoyable, as the ladies had the privilege of meeting both Miss Dyer and Miss Dunn, the young ladies who are pro moting the work, and of cultivating their acquaintance to more than a platform ex tent. Mrs. W. H. McMillan, chairman of the temporary organization, gracefally pre sided at the business meeting, which was S receded by a season of prayer. iss Bevier officiated as usher in such a charming manner that it was reallya pleas ure to be seated by her, and Miss Kennedy was complete as secretary. Mrs. Dr. Andrew Easton, Chairman of the Name Committee, was absent from the meeting by necessity. Miss Pense, the Chairman of the Committeo on Organization, requested more time, which was given. Miss Dunn made a short address, in whioh.for the benefit of strangers, sho again outlined the work. Miss Dyer followed in a short talk, which proved very encouraglng,as she reported the membership roll increasing raoidlv. The names of ladles from each of the churches were suggested as a uommitteo on jiemDorsnip. -rne aate ror the next meeting was not decided npon, but will be held very shortly, and the Pittsburg and Allegheny ladles, though deprived of tne assistance given Dy ids .iiusses jjyer ana Dunn, will continue the good work by them begun. Miss Dunn will return to Chicago, and Miss Dyer will visit the various colleges and seminaries to the State hi the Interest of her chosen work. Tiie Braddock teachers and directors cele brated the close of the school term, with a banquet in the ordinaire of the Seventh Avenue Hotel last evening. The dinner was much enjoyed by.all present. The time was passed In eating, speech making and singing. To-day the children will have their whirl in a glorious picnio to the new Idlewood Grove on the Pennsylvania road. They will open the park for the season. The wedding of Dr. E.B. Borland, No. 8464 Penn avenue, a member of the faculty of the medical college, will be an interesting event of to-morrow. Miss Deeds, of Edge wood, is tho bride elect, and the wedding will be celebrated at her parents' home at 8 p. M. A number of guests ill be present, among them numorous of the medical fra ternity of the city. Social Chatter. A special meeting of the Woman's Club will be held this afternoon. Mant an invalid was rendered happier and brighter yesterday by the efforts of the Fruit and Flower Mission. A MZETIKO will be held this afternoon to arrange for a concert or something to cover the deficit of the May Festival. . General P. N. GoTHRrB Camp No. 263 has issued pretty and attractive programmes for their nag presentation to the Mansfield School next Thursdayventag. An evening of German song given by Teu tonla, Cecelia and Bobert Blum Mrenner chors has been arranged for by Lysle Post 125 to be given to-morrow in Carnegie HalL The Butler Street M. E. Church will at tract a number of people this evening with a concert under the leadership of Y. A. Lafferty, with Miss Florence Hostetter ac companist. An enjoyable concert and entertainment was listened to by a large audience In the Allegheny Buena Vista M. E. Church last evening. A number of prominent young people participated to the programme. A union meeting of Allegheny county Young People's Societies of Christian En deavor will be held in the Second V. P. Chuieh, Allegheny, this evening. A pleas ant time is anticipated witn muslo and talk. The marriage In New York yesterday of Miss Selma Kahn and Mr. Morris S. Wert helmer, son of Samuel Werthelmer, was a very elegant affair and celebrated atDel monico's. A large number of Pittsbnrgers went on to attend the nuptials. "Yon are cordially invited to attend the fourth annual reception of the Ninth Ward Public School, Allegheny, May 28, afternoon and evening. Free concert by the Superior Comet Band from 8 to 10 r. x. Beception Committee High School class, Ninth ward." MEETING OP THE MAGNATES. Jay Gould and Judge McWhorter Have a Short Interview. Atlanta Constitution. Judge MoWhorter Is President of the shortest railroad system to the world. It Is something more than threo miles in length, between Crawford and Lexington. Of this road Larry Gantt tells a good story on the Judge. "Hampwasin New York a few months ago," said Lary, " and while in Colonel John Inman's office he met Jay Gould. He was introduced to the Wizard1 as the President I of the Lexington Terminal. " 'Yes,' said Mr. Gould 'I am glad to meet you. You have a nice road. By the way, Mr. McWhorter, how many miles are thiro in your system!" " 'Nearly five,' replied Hamp. ' " 'All under one management!' asked Mr. Gould from force of habit. sAnd the little 'Wizard darted under the table to save himself from Doing .hurled out of the sixth-story window." A DBEADFUL CHAEGE. It Was Against Two Young Church of Eugland Clergymen. Notes and .Queries. Some 20 years ago, when prosecutions for "ritualism" were in vogue, a High Church clergyman was appointed to a country parish near to a Low Church' town. -He was young ish and unmarried, and so was his curate. The local newspaper, ever zealous (as local newspapers so notoriously are) for evan gelical truth, soon informed its readers of the now rector's crimes. He turned to the east; ho bowed at the Gloria; to the pul pit ho wore a. surplice that characteristic garment of the Scarlet Woman. And there wds one accusation which touched both the lector and his curate. "Will It be believed," said the pious print, "that they openly prac tice celibacy, oven in the public stieetsP' This charge was meant to arouse, and no doubt H dldarouse, the spinsters and widows of the neighborhood to a timely vindication of the rights of woman. One Scared Editor. Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Dem. A Washington dispatch to a local morning Eepublican paper notes "a prominent He brew" as saying that the third party move ment is sporadic So is an earthquake, but its results are none the less farreaqhlng". Or Too Greedy. Minneapolis Tribune. For a unanimously Democratic State, choice of a Democratic Senator. There may be such a thins as being too unanimous. THE CITY STAGE. T& tjlemenceau Case Bristol's Clever Equine Actors The Season's Close "The Clemenceau Case," an adaptation- by William Fleron, of Alexander Dumas', Ills, play; was produced last night at the Bijou Theater. It is a cheap and nasty exhibition, which nq self-respecting person should go to see. As an entertainment It Is a dismal fail ure, and if It were not so offensive to ft moral sense, probably It would not have lived as long as it has. Examining it as a drama, It may be ad mitted that It contains a clear story, which reveals life and individuals to be found In Paris and possibly nearer home. The plot is unfolded'with some skill; there are several situations of considerable power, and the ingenuity of the Frenoh dramatist is shown in the- management of intrhrue. There is nothing positive about the dialogue, except its gross indecency at times and its general vulgarity. The language of the play could not very well be free from these ob jections, considering the degraded charac ter of the life pictured. Perhaps "The Clemenceau Case'' may, beyond tho Inten tion of its authors, teach a moral lesson, for the guise to which it presents Vice Is cer tainly anything but charming. Sybil Johnstone is the Isa of the play. Her appearance in a suit of skin-tight flesh togs is popularly supposed to be the great and attractive feature of the play. She does stand upon a platform, dressed so a to appear nude, with a black screen for a back ground and a stream of calcium light upon her, for several moments. Iza is posing be fore her sculptor husband in his studio, and there is nothing particularly immoral in the scene, if it were essential ta any way what soever tothe action of the play. It Is not essential; ta fact has no influence upon, the plot, or point as an incident. Therefore It must be concluded that Jza't exposure of her person is intended to appeal to the lowest instincts of the audience, as the erotic title or flashy frontispiece of a cheap rail way novel might. If the indecency of the play were confined to this episode, and did not permeate the whole play, and ooze out in gestures, winks and postunngs, as well as In words, we might commend,'Tho Clemen ceau Case" to respectable and self-respecting men and women. Miss Johnstone plays Iza with a great deal of force, and at times contrives to represent tho emotions of the heartless heroine with genuine truth. But she persistently over-acts to the intense episodes, and misuses, as not a few actors do, violenco and facial contortion as indices of passionate hate or fear. She has a trick of closing her left eye and screwing np her mouth to which she resorts constantly, to convey the idea apparently that she is intensely agitated. The agitation such a facial contortion usu ally denotes involves the digestion rather than the soul, and may be allayed in juvenile cases with paregoric. But Miss Johnstone deserves credit for most of the acting that has any artistic value In "Tho Clemenceau Case," and while the make-up of her face in some respects partook of the same exaggeration that marred her acting, she made a pretty picture to her page's dress and of the first and the Parisian walking costume of the third act. Mr. Lcvick, who recently distinguished himself, to "Thou Shalt Not," plays Pierre Clemenceau. the artist husband of Iza. Mr. Levick is not suited for the role; he does not 100KHKQ an anise, ana nis manner 01 ex pressing all sorts of emotions by striding about the stage, with or without disheveled hair, Is not impressive. The ConstantineRiiz, of Charles Kent, was 'slow and stupid to a degree at first, but he showed aptness to the delivery of some grim and rather grimy aphorisms anent women in the fourth act, and doubtless labored under the' burden of an unnatural and obscurely actuated char acter. The same excuse may be accepted ta part for Miss Behman's Countess Dombro nowska, the vagabond mother of Iza, and aDout as detestable a character as even a French imagination could concoct.- Do Russian countesses usually cbm so heavily moustachioed as ta Miss Behman's make-up! The other characters Included a Count Serge VeinofT, which would have been entirely satisfactory as a comic creation if Mr. B. C. Lewis had been allowed to do a song and dance, and several shadowy beings whoso connection with the play the author alone can explain. The audience which saw this peculiar play last night was one of the largest and most noisy that the Bijou has held, this season. About a dozen men were ejected from various parts of the house for dis orderly conduct, and the play was interrupted continually by Irreverent ejacu lations from the gods. At one moment a gal' lery urchin would shout: "Buy me that, mamma!" indicating a certain actor, and at another some equally impulsive spectator would encourage the actors In a tense situa tion with a yell of: "More power to 'em!' When the undraped model scene was- dis closed there were a few hisses and perhaps a score of hand claps, but to the credit of the men, who filled 90 per cent of the seats, be it recorded that they did not applaud the ply or appear to enjoy it. It may be that the police have no power to prevent "The Clem enceau Case" from being tried, but the pub lie has the right and it is a duty, too to stay away from such a fruition of vile mo tives. Grand Opera House. The horses belonging to Prof. D. M; Bris tol's Company are a great deal brighter than many of the human actors that an unkind fate permits to torture the public The Grand Opera House was the scene of the debut of these equine thespians last night, and a large audience appreciated the per formance very highly. Last year's horse show at this house, which was given by Mr. Bartbolemew's animals, was clever enough, hut it is an unquestionable fact that Mr. Bristol's horses nerform a nrocrrammo con taining more varied and interesting feat ures. Comparatively speaking Mr. Bristol's are variety horses, whereas most equine per formers belong to the legitimate drama. The trick mule Denver's antics are most laughable, and the tricks performed by the other horses are many of the new and all amusing. The horse Sultan is the chief star of the troupe; but there are several wonder fully intelligent animals beside him. A bet ter entertainment for children could hardly be contrived. Harry Davis' Museum. . The Swift and Bussell Dramatic Company presented "The Hidden Hand" at Davis' 'Fifth Avenue Museum yesterday afternoon and evening. It was a very creditable dram atization of Mrs. Southworth's famous story, and the one hour and a half of enter tainment was possessed of merit. The company Is creditabe, all the cast seeming to handle their roles intelligently with the stogie exception of the "Capitola. This part was to the hands of a very raw amateur. The "Lady Bowers," owing to a railway accident, did not arrive until last evening, but got down to business at once, and will do seen during the balance of the week. World's Museum. Miss Nora Belmont and Prof. Max Berol show something startling to the super natural way at the World's Museum Theater this week, and numerous other curiosities are on exhibition. A programme of con siderable size and merit is Interpreted to the theater by Kellstrom's Scandinavian Comedy Company. .Notes of the Stage. Not more than SO women and something like 2,800 men in theBljou Theater last night!. Coloxel J. II. Haveblt, of minstrel and managerial fame, Is In the city. The workmen on the Davis theater were busy laying brick again yesterday and tho building is rising rapidly. The Opera House closes on Saturday for the season, and the Bijou a week later, after "The Little Becruit," J.Milton Hays' new play, has been given for the benefit of Post 151, G. A. B. The museums will watch tho weather for the signal to quit for the sum mer. At one time it looked as if the audience meant to guy "The Clemenceau Case" off tho stago, and, as it was, the interruptions were so numerous and the disorder so general that the people to the rear part of the house could not hear half of what was Bald on the stage. Mr.Flebo, the adapter of "The Clemen ceau Case," a long-faced man of a peculiar Gallic style, walked about the BIJou lobby last night and listened to the cat-calls of the gallery gods. A study to gray as to his clothes, the box1 office receipts made the prospect rosy to him. At Harris' Theater this' week Daniel Kelly, to his play, "The Shadow Detective," will no doubt draw good sized audiences. Tho action of the drama is rapid, and there are enongh.villains and villatoesses, heroic men and startling situations to suit any audience that likes to have them "come smooth and lively." TncDuquesne Theater closed, the attaches of the house spent yesterday bidding a tear ful farewell-io the town. All hands will be retained for next season, including Mr.Mc Cullougb, the capable and courteous treas urer, and Mr, Harry Fulton, the beaming and brain yactlng manager.who for the sum mer will enliven the pages of the Chicago Times. A Verdant Yarn. BeUefo-teNews. The grass has grown about six laches in 43 hours. CURIOUS condensations) I There are stone-soled boots. Greece has seven cotton mills. Scotland, is plagued with mice. Teeth are pulled by electricity. Indiana has women notaries public Alaska claims the world's largest quarts' mill. Boston is building the first American steel bark. Evansville, Ind., miners will run a co operative mine. Of Uncle Sam's 14,500,000 cotton spin dles 4,600,000 are in Massachusetts. Newfoundland's annual catch of codfish sometimes reaches 100,000,000 to a year. One dollar a minute is the charge for using the new London-Paris telephone line. There are 536 authorized guides in the Alps. Six of them are over 70 years of age. "The Central London Railway will run three workmen's trains fare for six miles, 3 cents. The first trades union of women in Bel glum is an organization of women tobacco workers in Antwerp. Farmers are traveling by the score to Mystic, Conn., to get a look at a grapevine on which a potato vine Is growing. Pennsylvania makes 52 out of every J00 tons of rolled iron in the United States, and 69 out of every 100 ton3 of steel rails. The metal in a 5-cent nickel piece is worth about half a cent, and 15 cents will purchase copper enough to make $2 worth of cents. It costs lyi cents per pound to bring tea from Yokoboma to New York, 7,500 miles, and 10 cents a pound to send tea by express ono mile up town in that city. Two Delaware calves, having the usual number of.legs are reported; but as one has three and the other five, they might have been exhibited as curiosities if an eagle had not borne one away the other day. Cleveland has for years had a deaf mnto on its police force. He has the Tecord of having been a thoroughly efficient! officer, and as he cannot hear a sound he 13 obliged to be more than usually watchfuL The harbor authorities of Southampton, England, the great mail port, have decided to adopt electric cranes for the unloading of vessels, on account of the greater rapidity with which they will enable work to be per formed. ""Jack the Chicken Bipper" is the latest of his class, and operates among the henner. ies or Montclalr, N. J. Tfce other morning more than 500 chickens were found on three streets of that town. The throat and breast of each had been ripped open. There is a story of an ocean steamship catching up a piece of cable in the North river, and towing it all the way from New York to Liverpool and back without discov ering to what mysterious cause the strange reduction of speed on the round trip could bo attributed. An absent-minded Philadelphia father consented to wheel the baby to the park to, the coach, and the mother flew up stairs to put as many unnecessary clothes on it as possible. When she got down the father was cone, and she saw him in the dim dis- ,tance pushing the empty vehicle. The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company 13 about to put on a new train to Chicago, to be known by the name of the "Illindopany Special." This mongrel word is a conglom eration of the first letters of Illinois, Indi ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York; tha States through which the train will run. In Germany at present there is a singu lar law which makes proofreaders respon sible for what appears to the Journals with, which they are connected. One of them is now undergoing an Imprisonment of four months for not killing an editorial which, as the Belchsgericht thought, was altogether improper. The waiters of Paris have risen in revolt against the custom which decrees that they shall shave their faces. They are said to bo the only class of men to France who are not now at liberty to do what they like with, their faces, and they demand that the condi tion which signifies the nature of their nccu pation shall be removed. The flora of Europe embraceS5i)onS 10,000 species. India has about 15,000. The) British possessions inNorth America.thodgta with an area nearly as large as Europe, havo only about 5,000. One of the richest floras is that of Cape of Good Hopo and Natal, which figures up about 10,000 species. Australia also Is rich In species, about 10,000 being now known. Some of the messenger boys of the Brooklyn District Telegraph Company have been supplied with bicycles, and they go fly tog through the Brooklyn streets at a speed not heretofore believed possible for weary and deliberate messenger Doys. The experi ment has so far been so successful that mors "wheels" are to be bought, and the boys are delighted. A retired farmer, who has time to try experiments and note the results, says that; for the past threo years he has planted a bean or two in each potato hill, and has never seen a bug on the potato tops where beans were growing in the same hill. If this Is a protection against the bugs the remedy is simple and will pay for the trouble in tha crop oi oeans. How is this for a matrimonial advertise ment: "A stamp collector, the possessor of a collection of 12,514 stamps, wishes to marry a lady who is an nrdent colloetor and. the pos sessor of the blue penny stamp of Mauritius, Issued ta 1817." It appears in the Moniteur of the Island of Mauritius, and the stamp which the young lady must possess is valued at about $1,000 on account ot its rarity. A United States Senator had been gam bling at Washington, and had not money enough left to got away from the capital. The' administration, going out of power, in, its very last days gave him a foreign mis sion. He drew for it from the treasury a, $9,000 outfit. The next week the new ad ministration came in and removed him. Then he drew from the treasury $9,000 more with which to como home. He was entitled by law'to all these, and they paid all his debts. He was what is known as a good fel low personally, and both parties agreed to the arrangement. Warsaw, Ind., has a"boy 1 years of ago capable of performing the feats of tha famous Davenport brothers rope-tying, chained-box trick, table rapping, reading sealed letters, slate writing, movtog tables with heavy weights on them, etc The littlo fellow may bo bound hand, foot and neck to a chair, and to five seconds will liberate himself without untying a single knot, no matter how securely he is bound. These, and many other mysterious feats which ha Berforms, have given him the title of "SplrlS hild." His powers are all natural, having been to no way developed. The 'oldest epitaph in English, which. Is found to a churchyard to Oxfordshire,and dates from the year 1370, to modern readers would be unintelligible, not only from Its antique typography, but from its obsolete language, the first two lines of which run as follows, and may be taken as a sample of tho whole: "Man com & so how scnal alle deaa be: wen yow comes bad & bare: noth hav ven we away fare: all ys werlness ytvefor care" The modern reading would be: "Man, come and see how shall all dead bo, when you come poor and bare; nothlnghave, when ye away fare: All is weariness that wa for care." - BRIGHT BITS BOEBOWED. Consider the man who is always punctual how much time he wastes waiting for other peo ple. Slmira Gazette. "Yes, you are quite right; that Mrs. P -, , the Councilor's wife, is a silly, stuck-op person, a regular Muster horn!" tEnterMrs.B .J "Ah, Mrs. B , so delighted to 6ee you; we were Just talking about yon V-Liuttse Blatter. "We once knew a provincial masher who actually wrote to Paris tailor: "I want yon to make me two suits of clothes; you can take the measure of the Apollo dl Belvldere Just Jay at." LaVUdeHzmiOe. Young Sprigg Mr. Bidquick, I am worth 5,000, and 1 love your daughter. , Mr. Bldqnlc- (retired auctloneer)-SoId. ZoadMj TtdBltt. Someone praising English public schools to Charles Landseer said: ' 'All onr best men are puMle school men. Look at our poet. There -n Va... IT, Atr1iAV.1f jjiryu, uo . u .-" --j . . " - "Yes," interrupted Landseer, "there's Banu,r e was a plow-boy." Saccastte Chroniclt. ?1 Clarice And so your engagement wit.i ' he Maltland is really off? -fi f Isabel Yes. I got tired of machine-made love.- ' Clarice Machine-made love? What dolyoa mean? . "i s IsaDel He wrote all Us letters on a typa rtUr. r SostM. JJeaeoa. - - mm .Ar'U--V.
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