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FITTSBUBG, FEIDAY, HAY 29,1891.
AN TJNSAYOKY RECORD.
"When the Legislature that adjourned
sine die yesterday was chosen people who
took pains to analyze its composition did
not detect among the members much
material for statesmanship. "With mis
givings they saw it assemble, with feelings
of relief they see it disband. It had
glorious opportunities, but failed to grasp
them, and will go down into legislative his
tory unhonored and unsung. The citizens
were free with suggestions from the start,
but all i ere ignored. Broken promises,
violated pledges, inoperative substitutes,
mangled measures and veto-inviting enact
ments constitute the sum total of the work
accomplished.
A glance at a few of the record-maMng
suggestions tendered by the people will con
vince right-thinking citizens that this is
not too severe an arraignment The de
mand for a road law which would lift the
highwaj s out of the mud was met by a dis
torted enactment that invited a veto.
From industrial centers an appeal was
sent to forward the work of the Ship Canal
Commission by the passage of a resolution
ordering the printing of its maps and report
!So more important matter was ever called
to the attention of any Legislature, but
this one lacked breadth enough to grasp
its grand scope and national bearing, and
it went by the board. Monopoly's rule
prevented an anti-discrimination enact
ment and kept the bill for reducing tele
phone tolls from getting beyond thecom
'mittee room. After overcoming innumer
able obstacles the ballot reform bill in de
formed shape wa"5 passed. Only the vehe
ment protests of the people put it in a
shape fit for presentation to the Governor
and the Commonw calth.
At such a record the finger of scorn
points Ilappilj the tongue of scandal is
silenced. Corruption cannot be added to
the list of sins of omission and commission
which will be treasured up against the day
of reckoning. The imbecile actions at
tending the closing hours of the profitless
session were a fitting finale. Cats and
owls introduced into the House may have
furnished amusement to the overworked
statesmen, and the firecrackers may have
served to keep them awake, but it will
Hardly be claimed that they were neces
sary. At least tne amount 01 gooa aone
during the session did not call for any such
wild celebration.
The statesman who set the hour for ad
journment deserves the thanks of the
populace.
THE CHILEAN 3IUDDLK.
Tho Itata affair is rapidly becoming
more of a farce as time passes. All sorts
of rumors are started, only to be exploded,
and the only reliable news Is that the
Charleston is still chasing. She has ar
rived at Callao, but more than that is not
known. It is surmised, however, that tho
insurgent may jet allow the fugitive ves
sel to be captured. This is cheering; but
as it is certain that nothing of the kind
will happen until after she has unloaded
her cargo, pleasure in the announcement
is somewhat tempered. The Dispatch
some days ago predicted that some such
solution of the problem might bo at
tempted, and pointed out that it probably
would not end the matter. It was not the
ltata that could do harm so much as it
was the arms she carried, and if Balraa
ceda's Government triumphs the capture
of an empty vessel may not be thought to
satisfy the outraged neutrality laws.
It would seem, then, that this country
must desire the insurgents to win, but is
taking a rather underhand v ay of aiding
them. Mexico is already giving them
btcret help, if reports are to be believed,
and may even go so far as to give active
assistance. Should she do so, Ealmaceda's
fat? is settled, as the insurgents would
greatlj increase their resources and en
large their sphere of active operations.
Lack of aid lias been the only thing that
prevented the insurgents winning long
ago, and with Mexico openly and the
United States secietly aiding them, they
are hound to come out on top.
But the United Suites may not be se
cretly aiding them. We hope not The
question as to which party to the Chilean
war is in the right has not j et been settled,
aa while liaimaceua s government has a
representative at Washington need not be
settled by this country. Complete neu
trahty is the only position for the United
States, and complete neutrality means the
capture of the Itata and her cargo.
LAWLESSNESS IN NEW ORLEANS.
The mob that slew the Italians in the
jail at Xew Orleans claims to have been
serving the cause of justice, but how great
an injury they did that cause is being
made plain daily. Popular confidence in
legal methods vas dealt as deadly a blow
as any the miserable followers of the
Mafia received, and New Orleans is in
constant peril of a renewal of lawless
bloodshed, with or without a high-sounding
pretext
This is the penalty of once allowing mob
law to prevail. Now it is the slow prog
ress in the prosecution of the alleged jury
bribers that hot-headed citizens of New
Orfeans seize upon as an excuse for
t threats of violent action outside the
ilaw, and, unhappily for the Cres-
oent C;ty, no man of commanding
influiMirv lias as jet arisen to stem the
lawless tide. The newspapers of New
i.Qrteuns reflect this un-American spiritand
jjswfli to be disponed to encourago it, which
I" is another regrettable feature of the situa
5 -Hon there. It is all very well for the in
yiiaWtants to be resolved to destroy official
?l-.rt!t-i-iii 111 inlrl nlilif ttri nnni4t 1-4- 41ia
IcoHstant reiteration of the cry that the
3eviU shall be destroyed by legal and jndi-'
gcial methods, if possible, but by other
means if need be, shows that & Urge body
of, citizens is ready to substitute lynch
law and mob judgment for; the law of
the land. With the direct consequences of
the March massacre still imperiling inter
national relations the situation haS a very
ugly look. For the country's sake if not
for her own Mew Orleans ought to restrain
her passions. Iter responsibility is already
grave enough.
, JUSTICE TO TTfK RED STAN.
The acquittal yesterday of Plenty
Horses, the slayer of Lieutenant Casey,
will strike most people ai a fair verdict
Plenty-Horses when he shot the army of
ficer was under the Influence of the crazy
enthusiasm engendered by the ghost
dance, and the deed was no more treach
erous than many other acts of combatants
on both sides. If war was not being
waged in the fullest sense of the word at
the time Lieutenant Casey met his death,
the conditions were practically the same
as they would have been In actual war
fare. The evidence of United States
army officers, and comrades of Casey's
showed that Plenty-Horses was justi
fied in believing that the United States
forces advancing upon Pine Bidge were
hostile, and that Lieutenant Casey in ap
proaching the Indian camp laid himself
open to the suspicion of being a spy. . A
Sioux on the warpath could hardly be ex
pected to deal gently with a hostile soldier
who appeared to be reconnoitering the In
dian lines and, regrettable as the death of
a brave man like Lieutenant Casey must
always be, it would not have been consist
ent with justice to have hanged his slayer.
The decision of the court martial in
Plenty-Horses' favor ought to have a good
effect upon the Sioux and disaffected In
dians generally, for it will show them in
the plainest possible way that the white
man's justice is dealt out with impartial
hand without respect to persons or tint of
skins. And In dealing with the red man
in the past the Caucasian has not been
conspicuously inclined to give him justice,
and much less to tincture that justice with
mercy.
rOLTGAMY STILL LTVES.
"The Territory of Utah Is knocking at
the door of the Union and demanding
Statehood. Thedemandshouldbegranted."
Thus saith the Boston Globe, and to show
cause for the assertion declares "the Mor
mons have abandoned polygamy, and
thus the only decent argument for keeping
out the most populous of the Territories is
no longer of any force."
The foregoing is an Interesting specimen
of the false reasoning engendered by parti
san desire. In its anxiety to secure some
more Democratic Senators, Representatives
ana electoral votes, our cultured co
temporary takes the last public utterances
of the Mormon Church as truth,
and argues therefrom. It is not so very
long since that the Mormons did
publicly declare they would abandon
polygamy and live in conformity to the
laws of the land. But have they done so?
Promising and doing are two different
things, and while the Mormons promised
muchtheyhaveasyet done little. Their
agento are still in various parts of this
country and Europe proselyting indus
triously, and always holding out the same
old inducement polygamy to prospective
converts. Proof of this is to be found in
the news almost any day in the week.
From time to time the papers are publish
ing accounts of these agents in this
country, and one of the chief duties of the
Immigration Inspectors in the East is to
send back would-be Mormons.. In the
light of these facts it does not seem that
polygamy has been abandoned.
Utah, as she has been' and as she is to
day, Is a disgrace to the rest of the country.
Laws have been passed against her peculiar
institution, and have been enforced when
ever possible; but by a monstrous system
of perjury the evil is still kept in existence.
And until polygamy is destroyed, root and
branch, the Territory will not be erected
into a State. If our Democratic friends
wish to gain the Increased representation,
let them direct their first efforts toward
making it possible by killing polygamy.
FUN AND SMOKE CONSUMPTION.
The New Tork Commercial, 4dtertiaer
pokes a little good natured fun at a
Massachusetts man who has invented a
smoke consumer. According to our met
ropolitan cQtemporary "a device that
would abolish smoke has been sought by
inventors with all the avidity and ap
parently all the hopelessness that charac
terized the search for the secret of per
petual motion." The italics are ours, and
call attention to the fact that it is sometimes
necessary to qualify a statement even
when made in fun. From the word "ap
parently" we deduct that our cotemporary
Is not altogether sure that it is taking an
unassailable position. Its caution is com
mendable, or rather would be, If it were
not a rule that sensible people do not talk
unless thoroughly acquainted with their
subject
Leaving the Massachusetts genius out of
the discussion altogether, it can be asked
if there is any connection between the
consumption of smoke and the secret of
perpetual motion. There does not seem
to be. The theory of smoke consumption
is a thoroughly sensible one and has found
acceptance among the brightest minds in
the world, while the secret of perpetual
motion is, to say the least, hardly to be
dignified by mention in the same breath.
Pittsburg, as a city, is so greatly inter
ested in the abolishment of smoke that
anything on the subject will receive atten
tion. Good work in the right direction is
now doing much, and it isroord than prob
able that the New York journalist who
wrote the Commercial JLdvertiter't humor
ous article may yet come here and see
what he calls "a smoke consumer that
consumes smoke."
BARON HTRSCrrS IDEA.
Baron Hirsch's idea that the expulsion
of the Hebrews from Kussia maybe a
benefit is unique but not altogether un
founded. Undoubtedly much misery has
been endured by these unfortunate peo
ple, and in the' end their expulsion may
mean peace and comfort But whether
the peace and comfort will come to those
w ho were forcibly cast out is a question.
Their children and children's children,
who will know nothing of their father's
actual sufferings, will probably be satisfied
with the country in which they may be
born, but tho Hebrews who arc natives of
Kussia will hardly forget the land from
which they were ejected. One of the
strongest and deepest rooted passions in
the human breast is love of native country,
and whether one leaves it voluntarily or is
forced into exile there is always a tender
spot in the heart for it
Aside from sentiment, it is easy to per
ceive that Baron Hirsch has much to com
mend his idea. Away from persecution,
the character of these Hebrews will ex
pand, independence will take the place of
cringing fear, and Kussia will be theynly
real loser by her short-sighted policy. So
it will be with those expelled from Corfu
or from any other country in which an
anti-Hebrew sentiment may spring np. In
this country, where race or religious preju-
dice Is unknown, the children of Israel
have prospered and, as a class, have made
good citizens. That the exiles will do like
wise in other countries to which they may
go can safely be predicted if they are given
a proper start, and Baron Hirsch, accord
ing to many reports, is looking out for that
PARLIAMENT TO AID THE SEALS.
The news that the British Parliament
will pass a measure prohibiting the killing
of seals in 3ering Sea, until the vexed
question between this country and Eng
land is settled, may be taken by some as
evidence of a back down on "the part of
Lord Salisbury. Others will see in It only
a desire on his part ta have the matter
finally decided. The step Is undoubtedly
in that direction, but it is as yet impossible
to say that it Is not also a back down.
The only trouble Is that It should have
been taken some time ago. It seems that
before the measure can pas3 Parliament,
much damage will be done, even if only
ordinary activity is used In pursuit of the
game; and when it is known that the news
will reach the fishing grounds at least
some days before the protective cruisers,
It will be seen that the prey will suffer
doubly. ..
It Is idle to speculate on the effect of the
news on the relations between Canada and
England." It will not likely precipitate
war even if it docs not enhance the blue
nose opinion of Lord Salisbury. All that
is necessary is to know that, if the news
is true, the Bering Sea will be declared
closed for a- time at least, and that the
question of jurisdiction over it Is in a fair
way to settlement in Uncle Sam's favor.
The failure of the Farmers' State Con
vention at Colmntras to declare for a third
party has dampened the hopes of the Alli
ance leaders in Kansas. This failure has, of
course, injured the third party movement,
nnd may he bnt the first of similar disap
pointments in store for the hybrid brought
forth in Cincinnati. Away from that con
vention and its attendant enthusiasm, the
men who shouted the loudest for a third
party will, in some cases, he the ones to first
reconsider their action. And reconsidera
tion with a sensible man means repudiation
of the Cincinnati convention's work.
An Italian has invented a new fuel, but
he is too late. The Government at Borne has
cooled off, and all the patent fuels in the
world would not heat It np again. '
By his latest invention Edison has, to use
a trite expression, surpassed himself. But
where is the actual necessity for the inven
tion? Take singers, for Instance. If one
can hear their melodious voices In a phono
graph, it would seem folly to spoil the pleas
ure by gazing on a counterfeit presentment
of 'their facial contortions at the same time.
The correspondents don't know the
whereabouts of the Czar, but It's dollars to
doughnuts the Nihilists could give them,
some information if they wished.
The Czar of .Kussia is about to make one
of his delightful pleasure trips, and the
country through which "he will pass is being
depopulated in order to prevent untimely
fireworks. The journey would be Jollier
still if Bis Imperial Majesty could be con
sistently packed in a bomb-proof safe.
The man who once defeated Jay Gould is
dead. As he died In London the Wizard of
Wall street has a good excuse for not attend
ing the funeral.
Il is pleasant to learn that the army is im
proving, but the necessity for Improvement
being confined to the privates Is not alto
gether clear. If some of the dead wood In
the shape of pet officers who have sinecures
In Washington was dispensed with, the Im
provement would be more real,
THE grip has finally disappeared from
New York. That's a Blow old town. v Pitts
burg got rid of the infliction long ago.
Conveetino counterfeiters must be a
dangerous business. Our news colnmns this
morning contain an interesting story show
ing that the conversion of such rogues must
be undertaken only by men who will not
imitate the evil while teaching tho good.
Anothee American has been knightedhy
a European monarch, and the good old title
of Colonel receives another setback.
IF, as has been intimated, Sir John Mac
donald's indigestion dates from the time
President Harrison snubbed tho Canadian
envoys, it is probable that ho swallowed the
insult. And It was enough to make him sick,
Conservative though he may be.
A Mexican statesman is said to be in dis
grace; but judging from the list of his crimes
he was only a practical politician.
The glory of Socklesa Simpson is waning
fast. It is not that the distinction of being
the only statesman who doesn't wear socks
is any less, but that he has lost his" political
socks, so to speak, by refusing to flock with
the now Third Party.
Ttie Vienna painters are on strike, but if
they keep sober and do not carmlnato the
municipality all will be well.
The ruins of the first city founded on this
hemisphere by Europeans have been pro
nounced not worth removing to Chicago.
The idea, in tho first place, was not worth
considering.
The Portuguese have again been de
feated, but may got their revenge if the
Boers tackle the British,
Secretary Blaise continues to im
prove in health daily, and tho monkey-brand
journals are getting sicker. It was a bad day
for them when they sprung the "good morn
ing" gag.
Since Maine men have taken to getting
drunk on paregoric, the babies in that State
are bound to suffer.
In spite of Senator Neeb's vigorous efforts
to Jiave the blue laws amended, the thirst of
the temperate citizen will go unslaked with
soda water for another summer in Pitts
burg, ZANESVTLLE'B WATEBWOBKS.
The City Council and the Trustees Reach
an Agreement.
CSrZCIAI, TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.
Zasesviw.1!, May 28. The difficulty be
tween the City Council and tho Trustees of
the waterworks has been adjusted, and the
indications are that tho Improvement of the
waterworks system or the city will be pro
ceedod with rapidlv.
The trusteoahavo submitted estimates for
work amounting to $48,000, which Includes
the laying of large mains to the heart of the
city nnd the purchasing of a new pump. The
City Council has appropriated $25,000 lor tho
laying of mains, and has authorized the
waterworks trustees to purchase, pipes
without advertising for bids.
IT WOULD SEEM STBANGE
To have a race week without a rainy day.
v To have a May Festival that paid ex
penses. To heah a soda water fountain sizzlng on
Sunday.
To bee a woman pass a mirror without
glancing into It.
To head the English language spoken by a
gang of railroad laborers.
To see the home ball team hpld second
place for more than tn o days.
To see three, ladies talking on the street
without blocking tho pavement
To bee all the City Hall officials sitting
down to a quiet little dinner together.
To see cornermen enforcing tho ordinance
regulating tho driving of vehicles In city
streets.
WORK OF THE WIZARD.
A Description of His Latest and Most Won
derful Invention, the KInetograph Op
era and Prize Fights From a Distance A
Talk With Edison.
New York, May 23. The details as to Edi
son's latest nnd most wonderful Invention,
"the kinetograph, the completion of which,
was announced exclusively In Pittsburg In
The. Dispatch, were made public to-day.'
Three or four years ago, in a magazine arti
cle. Edison, the electric wizard, wrote that
he would produce a machine whloh should
record and reproduce motion as the phono-'
graph recorded and reproduced sound. Oth
er electrical would-be wizards pooh-poohed
the soheme. The electrical periodicals
scouted the idea and Irreverent newspapers
told Edison that he talked toomuob.. That
made Mr. Edison angry, and he registered a
vow that he would accomplish all he had
said and more. He would reproduce the
Image of a living, moving, speaking human
being, and not only one image, but a dozen
images together, or 40 of them; a whole opera
company if you like.
The machinels at last perfected, and when
the reporter called he found the great Jn
ventor gleeful because of his success.
"Yes, it's true," he said. "You can sit in
your parlor and look at a big screen and see
Chauncey Depew. come out Just as if he was
Introducing Stanley at the Metropolitan
Opera House. He will walk up to the front
of the stage and bow and smile and take a
drink of water and start off with his oration.
Every time your eyes see-him open his
mouth your ears will iear what he says, that
is If he says anything.
Seeing and Hearing an Opera.
"Just tho samo way with nn opera. You
watch the screen, and see a picture of the
stage, fall size. Marie Jansen comes out and
sings, 'and the band will play a charming
waltzing minuet,' and then she dances
around, and tho audience applauds. Maybe
DeWolf Hopper comes In and cracks a Joke,
oriugDy neu wakes up irom nis a years'
sleep and asks if the New Yorks have won a
game yet."
"How do you expect to do all that, Mr.
Edison?"
"If it Is desired to reproduce an opera or -a
play I will get the company to give a dress
rehearsal for me. I place back of the or
chestra, on a table, a compound machine
consisting of a phonograph and a kineto
graph, with a capacity of 80 minutes' contin
uous work. The orchestra plays, the curtain
rises and the opera begins. Both machines
work simultaneously, one recording sound
and tho other taking-photographs, recording
motion at the rate or 16 photographs per sec
ond. Afterward the photographic- strip is
developed and replaced In the machine, a
projecting lens Is substituted for the photo
graphlo lens, and the reproducing part of
the phonograph is adjusted. Then.by means
of a calcium light, the effect Is reproduced
life size on a white curtain, reproducing to
the audience the original scene, with all its
sounds and all the motions of the actors,
exactly as In the original scene."
The phonograph wnlch Mr. Edison will use
In his compound motion and sound repro
ducer will be an imnrovement on the nhono-
graphs now In common use. He said yester
day that ho had now in use about 600 phono
graphs, of whloh he was taking constant
observations. The result of all those ob
servations ho will embody in the improved
phonograph to boused with the kinetograph.
Description of the Devioe.
The kinetograph Is nothing more nor less
than a photograph camera arranged in a new
way to do new work. " Its name implies its
use. The name is derived from the Greek
words meaning "to move" and "to write,"
and the machine literally furnishes a com
plete record of all the motions made before
It. It photographs aotlon. As Edison says;
"The kinetograph does for the eye what the
phonograph does for the ear." In this small
box camera Mr. Edison places a roll of gela
tine film about three-fourths of an Inch wide
and of any length desired. The interior of
the camera is, of course, arranged on a plan
similar to that on which the ordinary roll
cameras are made. The gelatine strip is un
rolled from one spindle and rerolled on
another, and In passing from the first spindle
to the second is carried before the lens of
the camera. The shutters of the camera are
arranged to be worked by the shaft attached
to the cylinder of the phonograph. This
shaft also works the spindles which carry
the rolls of film.
The mechanism of this camera Is so ar
ranged that-when tho shutters open the
spindles stop and tha gelatine film Is fixed
before the lens. In less than the forty-sixth
part of a second the photograph Is taken,
the shutters snap, the spindles turn, and the
gelatine slip moves on for a new photo-
Krapu. mo arrangement is so complete mat
16 perfect photographs are taken In one sec
ond. "The trouble with all attempts heretofore
made to reproduce action and motion by
photographs," said Edison, "was that the
photographs could not be taken in series
with sufficient rapidity to catch accurately
the motion It was desired to reproduce.
Hemment, the man who photographs run
ning horses In the thousandth part of one
second, had the idea, but he failed because
he could take only half a dozen photographs
at a time. All these photographs, If repro
duced in a series, would have shown a j erky
and Imperfect motion.
Forty-Six Photographs a Second.
"My idea was to take a series of instan
taneous photographs of motions so rapidly
that in the reproduction the 'photographic
representatives become resolved into a pure
motion, Instead of a sorlos of Jerks. The
Mnetograpb takes a series of 18 photographs
In one second and keeps It up as long as de
sired. It starts, moves, stops, uncloses the
shutter, and starts on, 16 times a second.
The result when reproduced is a pure mo
tion." To Illustrate what be had said, Mr. Edison
took one of the rolls of gelatine film whloh
had been through the kinetograph and
showed It to the reporter. On It was photo
graphed one of the Doys in his laboratory.
The photographs were about half an Inch
square and wero taken In the film at inter
vals of about one Inch. They represented
the boy In the act of taking off his hat
and bowing. Between the first view and
the last of the series the complete motion of
removing the hat and making the bow was
cieariy aisccmaoie, duc Detween any two
consecutive views there was no apparent
change in the position of tho boy's arm or
head. In the first view the boy's hand was
at his side, gradually it was raised toward
his head, and his head Inclined forward.
Then, the hat was removed and the bow
completed, after which the hat was re
placed. "To reproduce perfectly a complete record
of a pure motion, ' continued Mr, Edison, "it
Is necessary that the photographs be taken
at the rate of HI per second. Any smaller
number would show In cgulari ties and a
break In tho motion. There was a machine
made awhile ago to print pictures of an ob
j cot in motion, but it would not work fast
enoush. It renrodneed an imperfect and
Jerky motion, like this," and he illustrated
by raising his arm in a series of short jerks
to his shoulder.
The Main Purpose In View.
The Idea which has actuated our Edison in
his work on the kinetograph is the repro
duction of opora. He docs not mean to show
on his white screen simply a lot of sil
houettes, but to represent the stage with
the actors an it, "moving around and speak,
ing, or singing, exactly as you see them and
hear thim If you have a seat In the orches
tra." To produce this effect the reproduc
tion will be a gigantic photograph not mere
ly of the actors but of the whole stage, with
Its scenery and all the furniture and other
settings useu in maKing up any scene it is
desired to reproduce. In order to obtain
this result it is necessary tomake a phono
graph large enough to have a'oyllnder whloh
will record every sound made In SO minutes,
which Is aDont tho duration of the averas-n
act of the theater. It will, of course, be liu.-J
possiDie to enange tne cyunaers or the
phonograph or stop the kinetograph during
the net. even for a single second, without
making a serious break in the reproduction.
Mr. Edison says the kinetograph can be
made to run for any desired length of time.
"I can put a roll of gelatine strip a mile
long into itjf Hike," said its inventor yes
terday. The work it will do in half an hour
is something astonishing. Taking 18 photo
graphs per second-, in half an hour there
would be 82,800 photographs on the gelatine
strip. If the photographs were half an inoh
square and half an Inch apart, the strip of
film used in taking a 30-miuute act of opera
would be 6,000 feet long, and Mr. Edison
would need bomcthing mote than his "mile
of gelatine."
Prize Fights by Kinetograph.
It can be arranged for nlckel-in-the-slot
machines, and the wizard electrician said
that he would probably rig up a lot of those
machines to take the place of the ntokel-ln-the-slot
phonographs wblch are now scat,
tered around so plentifully, AVbon this is
accomplished it will be the proper thing to
step Into a drugstore, and, dropping a nickel
in the slot, see Madam Patti trip across the
stage and watch her white throat swell as
3'ou hear again tho notes of her ''Home,
Sweet Home?' And when you have done
that for 5 cents you can walk away and
droam of tho time; when you paid W to hear
thesame thing.
The kliiptnirmnh Is bonnd to be a moat
faithful reproducer, as Is tho phonograph.
It will catch every motion made. "With out-of-door
athletlo exhibitions and prize fights
its work will be Just as perfect, and Luther
Carey's stride will be measured as carefully
and reproduced as distinctly as the terrible
blows by which Fitzslmmons disposed of
Now that the thing Is done the first re
mark Is the usual one of "How simple."
There Is not one of us who has not seen .the
idea in use hundreds of rimes. The children
In the streets have for playthings little wind
mills whose painted arms embody the very
idea which Edison has used in theklneto-m-anh.
One arm will have nartof aflimm
painted on lt.the.next arm another part,-
auu uje uujki. ttiiucuo., hmu w uu, ana as tne
arms rapidly whirl around one looking on
seo only the perfect picture. That is the
whole scheme.
HOMES AT PEIS05 GATES.
A Scotch Lady Leaves 83B0,000 to Estab
lish Them Hero and In England.
SPECIAL TELEQBAK TO THE DISPATCH.
New YoBK,May28. Balllngton Booth, the
son of General Booth, Is expected here from
England a week from next 6aturday. Al
most immediately after his return he and
Mrs. Booth will start on a 9,000-mile trip
through this country, In order to inspect the
various branohes of the Salvation Army.
Mrs. Booth said to-day that a Scotch lady
named Mrs. Bell had bequeathed to the
army $350,000, and with this fund there will be
established here and in England "prison gate
homes" near Jails and prisons for the shelter
and welfare of discharged convicts.
Mrs. Booth said farther that a number of
the ladies connected with tho army are
living In single, uncarpeted rooms. They
circulate among the very poor and show
them that the persons who are trying to
save their souls are willing to wash and
scrub.
9
GIVING TJP THE GHOST.
The Oldest Newspaper In California TVUI
End an Honored Career.
TSFZCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Bah-Fbakctsco, May 28. By tho first week
in June the Alia Gattfornian, the oldest daily
newspaper printed in the State, will suspend
publication. The Alia, was originally the
Caliornian, -and was started at Monterey as
a weekly in 1816, but in 1819 It was moved to
San Francisco and in 1850 it became a daily.
It leaped Into prominence during the great
vigilance committee excitement.
Tho Atta retained its prominence till the
De Youngs entered the field with the Chron
icle. Then it lost Its grip, and about six
years ago was bought by Stanford and other
Southern Pacific officials.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Bib John Macdonald is still suffering
from an attack of indigestion.
Jat Gould will not take a long cruise
on the Atlanta this year. So says son Ed
win. General Geeelt tells a Chicago re
porter that he has no fancy for further
Arctic exploration.
Buow gives up his plan to conduct a
spring season of concerts at Lisbon "on ac
count of ill health."
IT. D. Tennt, of Concord, is to paint a
picturo of Eevolutionary General John
Stark for the State of New Hampshire from
such data as exist.
M. Chapu, the sculptor who died
recently, left unfinished a statue of Byron
designed for the Greeks. It will be finished
by one of his pupils.
Susan B. Anthony has been in Ohio
founding woman suffrage associations, at
tending tho State Suffrage Convention and
cheering the hearts of her followers to re
newed efforts for tho cause. 4
Pkosfbis L. Senat, the Philadelphia
landscape painter, he&returned to the banks
of the Schuylkill after a trip about the
Mediterranean, and exhibits over 100 oils and
water colors, souvenirs of his travels, at the
Art club.
Jean Jacques "Weiss, the French
Journalist who died last Wednesday, was the
best known newspaper man in France,
Since the death of tho famous Emlle de
Glrardln he was noted as the "first journal
ist" of his country,
Makie 'Wilt, the famous retired prima
donna, has been dismissed as completely
cured from tho private-asylum atFeldoff,
near Prague, and the free disposition -over
her fortune of 500,000 florins has been re
stored to her.
Sejtatoe McHale, of Minnesota, the
author of the famous anti-tights bill. Is out
In a letter In whloh he Indignantly denies
that he is the laughing stock of his State
On the contrary, he says he is Just as popu
lar with the people as he ever was, and a
little more so.
Count von Moltke left a number of
valuable MSS., which will be given to the
public bofore long. The old man used to
spend some of his leisure hours at Krelsau In
writing down remlnisoences of his long life
and character sketches of eminent men with
whom ho bad come in contact. The chief
literary .work, however, which he has left
consists of a number of historio and ethno
graphio studies, that are said to be of great
value and importance.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
1 Eugene Ortolan,
Eugene Ortolan, French diplomatist and
musical composer, Is dead In Paris. He composed
the oratorio "Tobie;" the comic opera "Llsettc,"
represented at the Theater Lyrique in 18M; the
operetta "La Morale de Eoseoyo," represented at
theBouffes-Parisiensln 1857, and "L,Urne,"'wHh
a libretto by Octave FcuUlet and Jnlei Barbier,
which Is to be nlaved at the Opera Comlqae, for the
first time, next season. He published in 1851 a
valuable work on International law, "Des Moyens
d'Acquerir le Domalne International." His
diplomatic career, aided by the influence of his
father, the celebrated Jurist, Eliear Ortolan, was
begun as an attache of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and flnlshcd as a Minister PlenipotenUary,
lie was an officer of the Legion of Honor,
Mrs. Eliza Jane Duncan.
Mrs. Eliza Jane Duncan's funeral will
take place this afternoon from the family residence
at Ingram, Deceased was tho wife of tho late
Alexander O. Duncan, of the firm of K, 4 A. C,
Duncan, of Liberty street. Mr. Duncan died only
about six weeks ago from the grip. At the time of
her death Mrs. Duncan was a member of the
Board of Managers of the Christian Association,
Improvement of the Poor. Home of the Friendless
aud Home for Aged Protestant Ladles, She had
been married 47 years and was a great-great-grand-
mother. She
wh uie muuicr 01 nre aaugniers.
Mrs. Clemens.
TIT fa fltMitfiinc Urea Tntir ir.
Cractcn, jurs.
Duncan, p
"VVIU Klmmeli and Mlsa Rachel
General 15. B, Egleston.
General B. B. Egleston, aged 73, died
Wednesday at his home in Wichita, Kan. At the
-outbreak of the war he enlisted with the First Ohio
Cavalry, and was promoted until he attained the
rank of Brigadier General. It was ho who re
ceived the surrender of Colonel Glenn at Atlanta.
Afterward he became Military Governor there.
After the war he went to Mississippi, where- he was
elected President of the Constitutional Convention
and afterward Governor of tho State. He was a
grandson of John Allen of Revolutionary War
fame.
Obituary Note.
Benjamik Fumk, a leading Grand Army man
and for many years an employe of theC. V. R. R.
Co., died at Newville. Pa Wednesday, aged 53.
E. D. nwTHOBXE, an English genie painter,
long a resident of this country, died or paralysis at
S(. Barnabas' Hospital, Newark, Tuesday, aged 48.
Majob Edwaed W. Halsey, a'well known
Southern editorial writer, though born in Oneida
countv, N. Y't ded n Ncw Oceans Wednesday
morning.
Mrs. Lomax, the Veteran English actress, Is dead
at the ape of 79. She began her stage career with
the elder Kean. Tor many years she was a con
tributor to th Chambers' publications taEdin.
tmrgh.
FOBJIAU AtbeS died Wednesday at Little Silver,
&. J., aged 72 years. He was an active Democratic
politician In that section or New Jersey, A few
years ago he was one of tho leading oyster dealers
01 lueooum plus"!1 i
Rev. Masox F. topper, a suphrenunatcd Prcj.
byterlan clergyman, died at Blnghamton recently
at the age of 80years, Before his retirement from
active duties he had served for nearly 50 cars In
charge of churches in Central New Yort and Penn
sylvania. Miss LIZZIE 6MDKET, a highly esteemed young
lady, and the oldest daughter of Oliver Shaker-,
owner of tho Ft. Pitt tannery, at Braddock, died
at the homo of her rather of typhoid fever yester
day morning. She was aged a. Her wedding day
was Just announced,
R. N. WottEj a, pioneer of Navarro county,
Tex., died weanesuay, ageaou years, lie was
atfvnf Rnntu carouna.ana -went to tatm in iu.i
Ho held many public ofllces and liberally aided by
his means the construction of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad.
CYBU8 HTORXB, R0d 27 years, died suddenly
from heart troublo at Canton Wednesday night,
Mr. TTmtVer was talklnff with a friend in a statlnn-
erv' store, when he suddenly tarnedto
before he reached the door he fell, and
slstaucc could be rendered, was dead.
SOCIAL AND CHARITABLE.
Ninth Anniversary of tho Home for Aged
ProtestantsSatls&ctory Report of tho
President Pleasures of the Social
-World-Society Gossip.
There was a pleasant iimo In 'Wllldnsbnrg
yesterday In spite of the Inclement weather.
One of the most Important Institutions in
the pretty borough Is the "Home for Aged
Protestants," in which a number of men and
women who have nearly ran the race of life
find a haven of shelter surrounded by all
the comforts that love and kindness can
afford. Yesterday was the ninth anniver
sary of the founding of the Home, and, ac
cording to custom, there was a Jolly cele
bration of the day. An elaborate dinner
was served byUhe ladles Interested In the
Home, and there were a goodly number of
guests to partake of It, and to assist, to the
etent of their power, in making the occa
sion a profitable as well as a memorable
one. A good many train loads of visitors
ran up from the city In the course of the'
afternoon, and the rain had not such a de
terrent effect upon the attendance as might
have been feared. The affairs of the Home
are In an excellent condition, and there is
every hope of its being able to do even bet-
ici wurit in me iunre.
An Encouraging State of Affair.
The report of the Institution for tho past
year was submitted by Mrs. George A. Kelly.
It showed that the total receipts had been
ia,ouo 00: expenairaros, si,Z36 l, leaving a
balance on hand of $1,017 27. Mrs. Kelly read
a comprehensive review of the operations
of the year, in the course of which she re
ferred to the deaths of five Jnmatesoftbe
Home within one week, from grip and kin
dred diseases. Speaking of this she said:
"But with the sad realism of suffering and
death comes also the comforting assurance
that In every case the tenderest and most
solicitous care was freely given the dying
Dillow smoothed as lovingly and the last sad
offices performed by as gentle a hand as
though each sufferer were tended by loving
kindred. The entire devotion ami thought
fulness of our good matron, to both living
and dead, left nothing to be desired upon
the part of the inmates or managers, and
strengthened the feeling of trust and confi
dence alroady existing."
Six deaths have occurred since the last
anniversary Mrs. Robert Curry, Mr. Ball,
Judge B. B. Chamberlln, Mr. Glfcllst, Mr.
Wood and Mrs. Brown. Seven new Inmates
have been admitted as follows: Mr. and Mrs.
Curry, Mr. Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. Dale,
Mr. David Acheson and Mr. Joseph Kelly.
Contlnning,;the report says: "The Thanks
giving feast was, as usual, bountifully pro
vtdecTbythe Young Women's Christian As
sociation of East Liberty, and through the
year many acceptable services of song and
prayer have been rendered by these con
stant friends of the old people. The holiday
season was made happy for all by generous
remembrances from outside, and the kindly
thought and Ingenuity of those in charge.
Our hearts were saddened at our July meet
ing by the announcement of the death of
Mrs. Lavinla Watt, a charter member of the
board. With a frail physique, but an ever
ready and generous sympathy in all that
related to the well-being of the Home and
all Its Inmates, she had endeared herself to
all, and we keenly feel the lots of her Inspir
ing and stimulating enthusiasm."
The report goes on to say that although It
had never been found necessary to make an
urgent appeal to the community for the sus
tenance of the Home, yet sometimes the
Treasurer finds it rather difficult to meet
regularly recurring expenses. It therefore
asks that the community will -not overlook
the Home and its Interests amid the count
less charities that claim its attention.
Graceful Tribute to a Physician. '
A graceful tribute is paid by the report to
the services of Dr. Stotler during the grip
epidemlo of last March until he himself was
disabled by the disease. The doors of the
Home are open to the aged and friendless of
all Protestant denominations. As showing
now wen the Home has been conducted, tha
report quotes the words of a lady, who said:
"I wish to record that, after visiting faith
fully for a month, I have no complaint of
any kind from either the inmates or matron
to report."
The. closest attention was given to the
reading of the report, with occasional out
bursts of applause. Tho paper was accepted
unanimously, and then the purely social
part of the occasion occupied the visitors
for the rest of the day.
The ladles who had charge of the various
details of this most pleasant affair were as
follows: Mrs. Georgo A. Kelly, doorkeeper.
Ice cream tables Chairmen, Mrs. Philip
Beymer, Mrs. Belter and Mrs. Jennings; aids,
Miss Snodgrass, Miss Beymer, MlssTIarlon
Sohoyer, Miss Plckersgill and Miss Georgle
Thurston. Fancy table Chairmen, Miss
Davidson and Mrs. Qaincy Scott: aids, Miss
Sarah Scott, Miss Kelly and Miss Elite
Stephenson. Hall table Chairmen, Mrs.
Lee 8. Smith, Mrs, Bigger, MrsWilliam Scott,
Mrs. C. B. McCleane; aids, Miss Nell Ewart
and Miss Emily Erwln. Small dining room.
No. 1 Chairmen, Miss O'Neill. Mrs. Speer:
aids, the Misses Sneer. Small dining room.
No. 2 Chairmen, Mrs. John McCreery and
Mrs. Hamilton; aids, the Misses McCreery.
Large dining Toom Chairmen, Mrs. Mellon,
Mrs. Book, Mrs. Samuel .McKee and Mrs,
George K. Stevenson. Mrs. Thurston and
Miss Arbuckle actad as directors.
"The Peake Sisters" entertained a number
of their friends last evening at the Fourth
TJ. P. Church, Montgomery avenue and Arch
street, Allegheny. The programme and
other features of the evening were very
unique. Solos by Miss Sarah Marquis and a
recitation by Miss Nellie Kubns were strong
points of the programme, but there were
really no weak points. The names of the
"Peake Sisters" and their Qhaperon follow:
Chaperon, Miss Margaret Rosamond Hill;
Arminty, Miss Nannie Mathews Weaver;
JJetijAMlss Clara Brown Armstrong; Dorothy
and Ehzy, twins, Misses Blythe Davidson,
Margaret Jane Cubbage; Hannah Sehndy,
Miss Amelia Jean Hill: Jemlmy, Missjilary
Jane Glover; Jjucindy, Miss Annette Prazier
Weaver; Mirandy, Miss Lyda Bynd Blair;
NarcUsy, Miss Bertha Melissa Hill; Ophely,
Miss Mary Koblnson; JPlany, Miss Jennie
Shand. After the entertainment refresh
ments were served In the church parlors
and a few hours were spent socially. Tha
entertalnmont was nnder the auspices of tho
King's Daughters of tho churoh and they
secured a neat little sum for the Montgomery
Avenue Mission.
Toe Band of Hope of the S0J10 Mission
Church gave a musical entertalnmont in tho
Fourth ward school last evening, rendering
a cantata entitled "A TemperancePlonic,"
with "The Old Woman Who Lived in a
Shoe," A large audience was present, and
the programme was so well presented that
It was decided tg continue it to-night. Tho
affair was under the? direction of Miss nop
kins, assisted by Miss Kate Hughes and
William Hughes. Those who took part were:
Misses M. A. Joseph, Florence Burns, Mary
Joaes, Sadie Williams, M. G. Roberts, and
jonn-iiouens, uge xiarvey, iioweil uavls,
Wfllla Towta ITnha-4 TInn,Xn c-..i Ti ti
l uuu ajui?j, -.mwu. 4.UVTBU, 3UUlUt:i 1AIVU
and Richard Lewis. Edward Evans waspre
sented with a gold-beaded cane by T. B.
Evans for selling the molt tlokets. The
proceeds are for the benefit of the church.
The charming Miss Gertrude Maorum last
evening became the bride of Edward Augus
tus Wood, tho marriage, with its attendant
splondors, being solemnized at 5 o'clock in
tho Presbyterian Church a&SewfckJey, Rev.
William O, Campbell officiating. The bride
was given away by her brother, W. F. Ma
orum. M's Willis, a friend from En"Jand,
was the bride's attendant. Charles S. Wood,
brother of the groom, actedas best man.
The ushers were Messrs. F, C, Osborne, F. H.
.B. McKnight, Georgo Macrum, tawrence
Woods and W, J, Leemcr. In the evening a
reception was held at the home of the brldo,
wheio Mr. and Mrs. Woods received the con
gratulations of their tnonds before their de
parture on a wedding trip of a month,
Mrs. Christine McKee gave a musicale
last evening at her beautiful home.mnd bo
tweon tho numbers on the programma-hor
guests chatted wttu encli other nnd became
better acquainted with Misses Manning and
Prate, In whose honor Hhe mnslcalo was
gtvon. Talented rausloians nnd vocalists
wero chief in the ovenlng's progranlmo of
entertainment, but that was to their credit
rather than disparaging to the elegant lunch
served. Tills was the last time tho guests of
honor could meet their friends in this city,
nnd they bade them goodby preparatory to
departure this morning to their homes. In
their stay horo tho ladies have beoomo qnlte
popular, and another visit will be looked
forward to by their new friends.
Social Chatter,
At 11 o'clock a. m. to-morrow there will be
Interesting exerciser at tho Shadyside"
Academy in connection with the pieaonta
tton to-It of a flag and flagstaff. These exor
cises will consist of a presentation speech by
Rev. Dr. R. 8. Holme, pastor of the Shady,
sido Presbyterian Church, np acceptance
speech by a member of the academy fuculty,
and other exercises.
Pitor. Christy's dancing pupils united last
evening n the doling reception of the sea.
sod. Guenther's Orchestra furnished musio
for the now dancers to show their friends
how much better they can dance -now than
at the beginning Of the term.
Mns. Thomas Guxstox, who has been the
iroost of friends in this city and vlclnltv. left
Jior her home near Cheyenne, Wyo, y ester-,
S-
George Fairly, who will remain In the West
tin til Septemc
loer. ,
MBSTATjtAir, of Union avenue, Allegheny,
entertained last eveningin honor of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. J. w. Thompson, of
Helena, Mont. Her guest was thus given an
opportunity of meeting her friends in thl
. Btbok W. Krao, Miss Carrie Tarrant and
the Alpine Quartet were the leading attrac
tions at an entertainment given last evening
In the Fifth TJ. P. Chnrch for the benefit or
the Sabbath school.
Ths Iron City Band, of the West Ehd, gave
a literary and musical entertainment last
evening at Metropolitan Hall, and the pro
ceeds were given to the widow of tho late
George E Clinton.
The reception and ten. irlven at the Pan-
dusky Street Baptist Church last evening
was eminently a success and the "United
States," as usual, carried off the honors of
the evening.
Sistib CATHABnns (Kate Drexel) left for her
new uus in .rnuaacipnia, taJang wita ner
IS Sisters nnd Mother Inez. The latter will
shortly return to Pittsburg to continue her
work here.
The Sons of Veterans met the old soldiers
of Post 3 at Mansfield last night and tamo off
the field winners to tho extent of a beauti
ful stand of colors presented them by their
A 7 o'clock dinner, with a small number of
guests, was presided over by Mrs. Joseph
Dllworth last ovenlngat her charming home
on Bldwell street, Pittsburg.
A EECEmox and concert was given by the
Ninth ward school, Allegheny, yesterday
afternoon which was greatly enjoyed by all
present.
The Thursday Night Club's reception at
Braun's Dancing Academy last evening
proved one of the most pleasant given this
season.
Mas. Jmrwrr Drarr, Miss Annie Dunn and
Miss Ida Dunn, of Sharpsburg, sailed on
Thursday, the 28th, for an extended trip to
Europe.
Joseph 'h. Goimoir. of the Pennsylvania
Company, and wife left last evening for a
two weeks' trip through the West.
MB8.A.E. W. Paikteb was host last even
ing at a charming luncheon at which ten of
her friends were entertained.
Mas. William Holmes entertained a dozen
of her friends at dinner last evening at her
elegant residence.
It is expected that 10,000 persons will at
tend the Orangemen's picnic at Hulton July
Hiss Helxbt Williams, of Richmond, Ind.,
is visiting Mrs. E. H. Dermitt, East End.
Miss Joan McCcixocon, of Cincinnati, Is
visiting Mrs. James A. Henderson.
J. J. Holmes CoMiLUfDEBr, Company C, pic
nicked at Lake Grove yesterday.
FBAKCS AND THE EXPOSITION":
AMatter That May Decide "Whether the Ee
pnbllc Will Have an Art Exhibit.
Chicago, May 24 United States District
Attorney Milchrist to-day received a letter
from Edmund Bruewerl, French Consul Gen
eral to the United States, raising the ques
tion whether clerks, artisans and other em
ployes brought to the United States under
contract by the World's Fair Exhibitors
would fc subjected to the alien Immigration
laws. Upon the answer of said letter de
pends whether there would be any exhibits
from France.
Mr. Mllchrlst has decided to refer the mat
ter to the Attorney General of the United
States. It Is believed the latter official will
construe the World's Fair act as conferring
the right on foreign exhibitors to Import all
necessary employes and under contract if
need be. 0
TOO MANY CIGABETEES.
A WHHamsport Young Man Who Is In
Very Bad Way.
SPECIAL TELXOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Wrr.T.TAMSPOBT, May 28. Bobert Florey, a.
young man or this city, is reported to be dan
gerously 111 from the effects of smoking
cigarettes, and It is said that his case Is a
hopeless one.
Young Florey, it is stated, had been smok
ing cigarettes for the past 11 years, nslng
from W to 20 daily.
Washington and Jefferson Seniors.
SPECIAL TELXOSAK TO THE PISPATCH. J
WASBTiforox, Pa., May 28. The grades of
the senior class of the Washington and Jef
ferson were announced this evening. S. G.
Nolan received first honor and Bobert Orr
received second honor. Honorary orations
will be delivered by F. H. Blayney, B. M.
Sherrard, Charles Sterrett and O. Under
wood. In all U 'gentlemen, delivered
speeches.
Hearken, Ye FhUadelphlans,
Harrlshnrg Patriot.
The people are for investigation with a
big I and with a keen eye, a searching eye,
an audacious eye and an "eye that winketh
not."
1 1 11 11 1
A Jealous Editor,
Franklin Repository. 1
As a rule, lawyers and clergymen are
selected to deliver Memorial Day orations
Why is it?
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
P. J, Hitter, of Laird & Co., Market
street, left last night for New York en route
for Bavaria. He was notified by cablegram
yesterday of the Illness of his father, an old
gentleman of 03 years of age, and he at once
decided to visit him. He will be absent
about six weeks.
Captain W. B. Stout, the well-known
foundryman and machinist of Connellsvllle,
went to Cleveland last night to visit his son.
who is leading man with the George A.
Baker Opera Company.
Mrs. Lena Carr, mother of Joseph and
George Carr, hasjust sailed for Muehlhausen,
Germany. She will spend several months
In Switzerland, returning home about the
1st of October.
John '.K. White, a tannery owner and.
bank president, of Connellsvllle, and A.J.
Sweeney nnd wife, of Wheeling, are guests
at the Monongaheia.
The Suqucsne's guests include O. A.
Egly, traveling agent for tho Queen and
Crescent, and B, A. Wintormltz, the New
Castle lawer.
Alumni of the '91 class of "Washington
Jefferson College to the number of 40 held
their annual banquet at the Monongaheia
last evening.
General Shaner, of the United States
Army, passed through the city yesterday,,
on his way home from Washington to St.
Louis.
Messrs, d "W. Bray and J. Morgan Cole
man, two iron manufacturers of Toungs
town, were at the Hotel Duquesneyester-
uay.
J. T. Leary and IP. D. Casanave, Superin
tendent of Motive Power of the Western
Pennsylvania lines, are at the Anderson.
O. De Forest, a son of tho New York coal
and coke man, passed through on tha lim
ited for Chicago last night.
Thomas Pennard, Superintendent of Con
struction of the Western Union offices, went
to Buffalo last night.
John B. Larkin, Charles P. McKenna
and J. O. Brown returned from Harrisburg
yesterday morning.
Colonel M, A. Greer, of Altoona, and P.
A. Smythe, of Johnstown, are at the Seventh
Avenue.
James Lane, of Nashville, Tenn., is in
Pittsburg purchasing machinery for a new
mill.
United States District Attorney "Walter
Lyon returned from the East last night.
J. S Coxey, the well-known horse owner,
of Masslllon, 0., is at the Anderson.
Colonel Carroll Lampton, of "Williams
port, is at the notel Anderson,
Eev, J. McElhatton, of Strabane, Ireland,
is at the Central HoteU
James Dunlap, of Meadville, is at the
Seventh Avenue.
A FEW STOLEN ISITYJII3.
The colonel left the. lovely rolii
lie called that ere to scr.
And as he went she cried, "Please kiss
The regiment for ma."
The tall giraffe with rapture glows
As he swallow hs wisp pf hay.
And he blesses his neck as down It goes.
For he ta3tca It all the -way, .
Ah! WUsfnll thrill
That through you goes '
When yon dud a bill
In last year's clothes.
In tireless whirl this earth lsrbund
Foreyer toward the morrow humralitgi
The love that makes the Wrld go round
Must be the lore of what la coming
The clerk who hat been hired
Grows strange beyond a doubt; '
For when he has been fired ,,
He says be Is pat oat.
day, accompanied Ay her mother, Mrs.
' CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
A, newspaper started in Bay City, Mich.,
is christened To Rent.
Queensland, Australia, owes the largest
national death per capita 333 It a head.
The Pennsylvania Company is having
,its railway ties shipped from Northern Mich
igan.
t-AX a depth of 250 feet at Eddy, N. IL,
a strattmf of salt has been struck which is 40
eat thlok.
Twelve sheep in a single flock at Fair
Held, Mich., were killed by lightning during
a recent storm.
Triplets were bom in Carter county,
Tenn.; the other day, two of whom had well
developed teeth.
The Osage tribe of Indians now numbers
1,600 and Is very rich, owning over LOOO acres
of good land apiece.
The new Kansas secret society, tho
"Knights of Reciprocity, contains nearly
200 subordinate lodges.
A, barbel" in Ionia, Mich., has broken
there ordby shaving a mad in 26 seconds,
being timed with stop watches.
A, colored military company paraded
on the streets of Richmond the other day,
headed by a Confederate battle flag.
Only one-third of the members of tho
convention that framed the new Australa
sian Federal constitution are native born.
The 373 horses and mules in the munici
pal employment of Cincinnati consume
three tons of hay daily and oats and corn la
proportion.
An incident of the Muskegon fire was a
little boy, scarcely large enough to trundle
the barrow, fleeing from the Are with two
setting hens.
A consignment of 18,176 gallons of
brandy has been shipped, in one lot of 313
packagesby sea, from Sacramento, CaL, to
Bremen, Germany.
The Central Park menagerie of New
York City now contains 900 living specimens,
having been enriched during the year by 33
births. The baby hippopotamus weighed 150
pounds when it was 5 months old.
The first railway postoffice, the parent
of the present fast mail system, was organ
ized on the Chicago and Northwestern Bail
road in August, 1861, on a fast train running
between Chicago and Clinton, la.
A Georgia man, at his death-bed, who
appointed his own pallbearers, stipulated
they should bury him In a plain coffin, and
that the box in which It was placed should
he covered with a slanting roof like a house.
Two young ladies of Christian parent
age were converted to Judaism a short time
ago at Tarboro. Both of these were in
fluenced by love for Hebrew men. These
being orthodox Hebrews would not consent
to marry Gentiles.
The new British torpedo depot 'ship
Vulcan is in many ways one of the most in
tersting and nniqne vessels afloat. She Is
Intended to accompanya fleet and serve as a
workhouse and storehouse for everything
connected with torpedoes and mining.
An American debutante disturbed tha
ec-uanlmity of the royal circle one day this
season by seizing the Queen's hand and giv
ing it a hearty bnt unceremonious shake,
after which she floated by the other royal
tics without paying the slightest attention
to them.
The reclamation of the Okefenokea
Swamp, in Georgia, by means of drainage
canals running to the St. Mary's river, Is
proposed. The area of the swamp is 67S
sauare miles. There will be about M miles
01 main and 1,300 miles of lateral canals, and
many small agricultural drains.
One of the books of the "Washington
collection recently sold is entitled the "Daily
Sacrifice." It is entirely in the handwriting
of Washington when he was about 20 years
of age, and Is a small volume of 24 pages,
with a prayer for every morning and even
ing of the first five days of the week.
A few days ago, daring a thunder storm
near Gordon, Ga., a buzzard which was at
tempting to soar above the clouds was
struck by lightning and fell dead to tho
ground, an apparent distance of 300 or 400
yards. The body of the bird was found to
be badly burned and its feathers singed.
Five years ago a St. Louis girl was
caught by her mother being kissed by a
painter at work on the house. The old lady
rushed out and pulled the jflrl Into the ,
house. That was the last time anyone ever
saw therglrl. Since then her room Is locked
and the shutters tied and no one sees her.
A farmer of Atchison, Kan., wanted to
dig a well, so he plowed a lot of land and
planted it in oats. Every day he watched
the oats, observing the spots that showed
the greatest moisture. Finally he selected a
spot and sank a well. At 24 feet he had a
fine stream of water. It is said to he the
best well in the county.
In building water works for a "Western
town it was figured that a cejtain spring
would supply ISO gallons of water per day
per capita for 100,000 people. When $20,000
had been expended it was discovered that
an error had been made In flimrinff-. and that
the supply would only be two gallons per
day per capita for 10,000 people.
A motherly old cat near Hartford,
Mloh,, having been deprived of her kittens a
short time ago, adopted in their stead a
young rat, which, not having its eyes open,
probably did not detect the change in par
entage. The cat cared for its adopted off
spring very carefully until it grew to be
good meat, and then it mysteriously disap
peared. A strange grammatical blunder gives
one clause in the proposed Kentucky con
stitution an opposite meaning from that In
tended. It reads: "No person shall be
eligible as Judge of the Circuit Court who Is
not less than 35 years of ago." Two nega
tives being equivalent to an affirmative,
this means that the Circuit Judges must be
less than 3S years old.
A Missouri fishing party one day last
week succeeded in catching two croppies,
one oil can, seven bass, three mud cats, two
mountain trout, one pair crinoline, 14 tin
cans, six empty beer bottles, one overshoe,
eight hickory shnd, one goods box, two eels,
three snapping turtles, two bad colds, two
pair sunburnt bands, two blistered noses
and several other articles besides an empty
lug, supposed to have been thrown into the
lake by the mound builders.
A Frenchman went Tapidly along the
street on a cold, fair day, and had, by violent
exorcise, brought himself into a condition of
profuse perspiration. Ho took off his hat in
saluting a friend. As he did so he was as
tonished to feol what was apparently a slight
fall of snow upon bis head. It is supposed
that the freezing outer air condensed the
moist warm air within the gentleman's tall
hat so suddenly that a veritable snowstorm,
of miniature proportions, was produced.
LIGHT, UVELT LINES.
"See that fellow over there?
He doesn't
know where he'U get his next meal."
"Yoo surprise me. He looks well to do."
"He Is; but he doesn't know whether he'll dine at
home or at the club." SronUyn Lift.
Jack Hardup Ob, Miss Plontot I may I
hope at all?
'MlssPloutot No, Mr. Hardup, this must go no
further, bat I will be a sister to you.
Jack Hardup Well, then. Miss Plontot, Just re
mind the old gentleman that I'm his son; I'm
afraid he might forget me In bis will, rafe Htccrtl,
Dicky (an 18-year-old man of the world)
Let me take you to the next dance, now do!
Nelly (a 17-year-old"debutante) Go and ask your
mamna, Dicky. I don't want to take you into tha
faet set without her permission. Huntey'i tfetily,
"Papa," inquired the editor's only son,
' 'what do you call your office?"
"Well," was the reply, "the world calls as
editor's office the sanctum sanctorum, but I
f don't."
"Then, I goess," aqd the boy was tboagbtTal
tor a moment, "that mamma's office Is a spanctnnt
sp-mctorum. Isn't It?" MTathinotan Star.
A family on Fourteenth avenue is blessed
wlli olive branches eight seven girls and one boy.
Recently a new little girl arrlTcd, and the eldest
daughter exclaimed, in tones of the deepest con
cern: "Another daughter to marry off! This la
awful 1"
When her father and mother were discussing tho '
all important question of the name for the midget
tha cldestofthe household was heard from again,
"I think," said she, emphatically, "you had better
name her 'Amen.' "Detroit Tribune.
Oh, to Think of It! The Joneses had a
dinner party last night, dear, and cook tells me
they had peas at 10 shillings a pint. Think of peas
at tint price.
"Just so, my love; that's about all we can do.''
Judl.
The following inscription has been. dis
covered on a tomb in an old churchyard:
Here lies the body of Jonathan Kam. ,
Ills sour In the bosom of Abraham.
That's aU rery well for Jonathan Bam " f
isat, say, now aooui poor Aoranamr ,.
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