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riTTSBUEG, SATURDAY, MAY SO, ISM.
THE ME3IOKT Or THE VETERANS.
The round of the season brings around
the day for honoring the memory of the
defenders of the Union, the twenty-fourth
since the form of commemoration was
established by order of General Logan as
Commander of the G. A. R. The observ
ance of this appropriate national homage
has grown steadily since it was inaugurated
in 1S6S, until the day is a natioi&l holiday,
observed by those who opposed the Union
soldiers on the field equally with those who
supported them.
One of the most impressive thoughts of
the day is the way the flight of time is
marked by the rapid depletion of the
ranks of those who have taken charge of
the observance the comrades of the
dead men. The fact that the
veterans have been growing old and
that many are passing away has been no
ticed before; but it is now forcing itself
more strongly on the people. A report of
the commandant of the Department of
this State shows that the deaths among
members of the G. A. E. last year were
larger than in any previous year since the
war. Seven hundred veterans passed
from the ranks of those who conduct the
ceremonies to-day to the lists of those
whose memories are honored. This im
pressive reminder 01 tue nigur 01 time
warns us that the men who in the flower
of manhood defended the Union are now
succumbing to age, and that the day is
coming when there will be but a few griz
zled veterans to join in the ceremony
which the nation performs on this anni
versary. This will lead us, on the day in which
patriotic devotion is commemorated, to
honor the living veterans as well as those
who have gone before. It should also
show that the time 13 coming when the ob
servance of the day must pass from the
management of the soldiers who served
the Union to that of the nation at large.
The defenders must pass away; but the
annual work of keeping their memory
sacred, as an inheritance and incentive to
patriotism, cannot be permitted to die out
subjects ron inE veto.
After various backsets and defeats that
nondescript in the line of pretended ballot
reform passed the Legislature and now de
pends on the action of the Governor. Its
companion in illegitimacy, the Eobinson
Constitutional Convention bill, is in the
same hands. It is to be hop.'d that society
will be relieved of such eroiesque and un
natural legislath e bantlings by a prompt
veto.
A pretense of ballot reform which
neither provides privacy for the voter in
preparing his ballot, nor requires a public
count of lotes, is such a caricature upon
tire real article that it should not require
much time for its rejection. The Constitu
tional Convention bill is an equally fraud
ulent measure. It is based on the pretense
of a necessity which does not exist to se
cure a reform which the framers of the bill
do not wish to see honestly effected; and
the bill is drawn for the express purpose of
packing the convention so that the Consti
tution can be mutilated in the interest of
politicians and corporations.
Governor Pattison should not let the
opportunity escape of putting the stamp
of disapproval on both these legislative
frauds. Let us keep the Constitution as it
is and wait for genuine ballot reform until
the people elect legislators honest enough
to keep their party pledges In good faith.
AN O-DESIItABEE TNDCSTKY.
It will soon be suspected that the busi
ness of sending out news from Washing
ton, relative to the sealing negotiations, is
in the hands of an Industrious mutilator of
the truth. No longer ago than last Tues
day it was specifically asserted that Lord
Salisbury had made an apologetic state
ment for his failure to accept the closed
season proposition. On Thursday, how
ever, it came out that he has accepted it,
and that a bill will be introduced in Parlia
ment to carry it The wide divergence of
facts between two statements made within
48 hours of each other is calculated to shat
ter public faith in the strict veracity of the
news venders. Was the North' American
Commercial Company back of the false re
port, and, if so, what did it expect to gain
by it?
A PEESEOEXTAE USURPATION.
If there were any doubts about the state
ments referred to in The Dibpatch, the
other day, that the outbreak in Chile was
one in which the executive had usurped
the power of the Legislature, they
would be banished by the recent ad
dress of that official. That document,
which would have served for a manifesto
of Louis Napoleon in suppressing a repre
sentative Government, pnts the action in
this shape:
Being charged under the Constitution with
the duty of administering the State and of
extending my authority over everything
necessary for tho internal security of tho
nation, Itcos Vien obliged to assume aUlhepub
hepowers in order to repicss armed rebellion
and meet the position taken by Congress
which i as tending to tho overthrow of our
institutions and of established order.
The statement of the President of Chile,
that he regards it as among his preroga
tives "to assume all the public powers"
hecause Congress would not exercise its
power as he wished, may be regarded as a
justification by a South American dictator.
But is it such a position as the Govern
ment of the Un'ted States desires to in
dorse by classifying the Congressional
party which U defending representative
principles as "insurgents?"
It is not the duty of the Unitea States to
take sides in the Chilean struggle in any
way. But it is coming close to that when
the action of our Government is shaped
on the theory stated hy Republican or
gans that the Congressional party are
n ithout legal standing as insurgents.
A HEATKESPOKSmiTJTY.
Concerning the efficacy of the national
bank examinations, in connection with
Philadelphia's case, a statement from Mr.
Drew, bank examiner for that district,
places a decided onus on his superiors. He
says: v
'When Marsh made that confession to ma
on tho 5th of January last, I communicated
the fact to tho Controller of the Currency. It
was then reported by that department to th e
Department of Justice. My responsibility
then ended.
The responsibility of the examiner may
have ended there; but tho responsibility
of the Controller'of the Currency did not,
nor did the responsibility "of- the. Depart
ment a'f Justice or the administration. It
is clearly stated that the high officials
whose duty it was to act in the premises
were informed as long ago as last January
of the rottenness of the Keystone.
With that Information it was
the duty of the Controller of
the Currency to have closed the bank at
once. -It was the duty of the Attorney
General to order .tho law enforced, against
everyone who had been violating it itfthe
management of the bank; and it was the
duty of the whole administration from the
President down to see that the law regu
lating the national banks was enforced
without fear or favor. That nothing was
done justifies the inference of the Phlla
dclphialpapers that political influence was
at work to shield the rascality and keep
the bank open, with the result of taking in
some additional thousands from deluded
depositors.
There is more than a local interest in
this. If there is any Influence in this ad
ministration that can prevent the honest
enforcement of the national banking act,
it amounts to a betrayal of public trust,
and must shatter the faith of the people
in the solidity which depends on the strict
observance of the law.
EOOIJtSII ASSERTIONS.
There is plenty of ground ?or criticism
of the extravagance of the last Congress.
But such wild statements as the following
from the 2few York World only weaken
criticism by utter inaccuracy: 'Tor tho
first time since the close of the war, the
Government is about to stop paying its
debt and ask an extension on its bonds.
The Billion-Dollar Congress caused the
change."
Now, so far as the precise assertions
quoted are concerned, it happens that for
several years after the close of the war the
Government did not even make all the
purchases of bonds required for the sink
ing fund, which has been fully provided
for this year. Moreover, the Government
has asked an extension of its debt by refund
ing or otherwise several times. A large
share of the 6 per cent debt was simply a
conversion of other forms of debt and all
the 43 and 4s took the place of 'the 6s
at a lower rate of interest It happens
to be the case that the great feature of Mr.
Windom's first administration of the
Treasury that he effected an extension of
the maturing Cs, at a reduced rate of in
terest on exactly the same plan as is now
talked of for the 4is. It is thus clear that
the Treasury has several times been in
much worse shape than at present.
This does not excuse or mitigate the ex
travagant appropriations of the last Con
gress. But it is very foolish for the critics
of such extravagance to stultify them
selves by such -wild attempts to weaken the
credit of the Treasury as that quoted above.
Owing to the fact that the person -who
discharges tho duties of State Bank Exami
ner will liae to do it for love, tho Legisla
ture having made po appropriation, the
State banks will try to get along without ex
amination for tho next two years.
It is interesting to learn that Judge Van
Brunt, of Xew York, told the District' At
torney that if he was not ready to try the case
of tho New York and Hew Haven Railroad
directors on the day named he would dis
miss it. This sounds as if the Court were
determined to put a stop to the law's delays.
But it also raises the question whether, If
the defendants had been some poor fellows
who had been lying in prison for a year
awaiting trial, the judge would have been
quite so peremptory. There is also a flavor
of suspicion that this is a very strong
pointer for the District Attorney not to be
ready.
The new Earl of Clancarty, even though
he is supposed to be "slightly eccentric," is
no worse than some of his immediate ances
tors. One of these gentlemen used to jump
across the table at dinner Just to snow how
agile he was.
It is satisfactory to observe that Senator
George Handy Smith obtained leave for his
Treasury Investigation Committee to con
tinue its arduous labors nfter-the adjourn
ment of the Legislature. The demands upon
the time of that honorable body were so
engrossing during the session that it was
only able to discover that the salary of tho
State Treasurer requires a large increase.
By giving its whole attention to the subject
it may yet be able to find out something
about the fatuity which locates State funds
wherever there has happened tb be a politi
cal bank wreck.
That Detroit convention might profitably
consider, in Colonel Shepard's case, whether
a truly good editor should not break himself
of giving tips on heaven-trad the horseraces
before hauling other people up for lieresy.
The statement by a street car president
of another city that "nowhere has it been
found that an efficient service can be given
for three cents" Indicates lack of informa
tion. Undergiound railways inEurope cost
ing millions where the ordinary street car
lines cost tens of thousands have been oper
ated at a profit and give better service at
two cents than our lines do at five. Street
car magnates as well as other people should
remember that much depends on the ability
to increase traffic by low fare.
"WOMEN are going to supersede men as
postal clerks in England, but their salary
will be so small that most of them can easily
be coaxed into matrimony, leaving the posi
tions open again for the sterner sex.
The remarkable change that has come
over the spirit of Judge's cartoons on. Blaine
cannot be better stated than by the fact that
iu two weeks he has developed from a
chicken thief trying to steal the nomination
to "The Strong Man of the, Bcpublican
Tarty," upholding the heavy weights of tho
administration's policy. It is gratifying to
observe that the President's return has
restored the family organ to a condition ap
proximating sanity.
Pebiiaps, if the Governor has more bills
in his hands than he can carefully consider
in ten da j s, he might keep on the side of
safety by vetoing the Whole lot on suspicion.
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Mabsh, the levanting bank President of
Philadelphia, is gettingalmost as ubiquitous
asTascottor the long ago famous Fenian
conspirator, "Ho. L" He has been seen In
thirteen different places since his disappear
ance, having been at Upper Lehigh, Pa., and
Kennebank Port, Mo., at tho same hour of
tho same day. But the missing millions are
hot seen so frequently.
The little Fife is to bo christened Alex
andra, and the English people will pay the
piper.
The New Orleans grand jury has indicted'
two or O'Malley's assistants for bribery, and
now the discovery Ja made that Louisiana
does not possess ony-law to punish men for
bribing Jurors. Of, course, ft community
which has so little use for law. that ft relies
on lynching would never bother Itself about
a little thing like passing- a statute against
bribery.
Hekeattee a witness who can give testi
mony against a great Corporation will not be
bribed. He will be scared tqdeath, a method
of silencing apparently cheaper and safer.
Gladstone's appeal in behalf of the
persecuted Russian Hebrews is oil right
from a humane point of view, but there la
little likelihood of their bettering their
condition by going to Turkey. Moslem
fanaticism -when aroused Is ovdn more cruel
than that of tho Greek Church. '
Ir seems to be taken as a natural though
not wholly satisfactory sequence of the
growing flro losses to put up more tinder-box
buildings in place of the burned ones.
Tin! pictures Chicago is getting pub
lished of the coming Columbian Exposition
represent an imposing and attractive enter
prise. How If Chicago pitches in and de
votes its time to getting up buildings and an
exhibition -which makes good the promise of
the pictures she will be all right.
The surplus of public money has disap
peared in Philadelphia; and in its place that
city rejoices in a surplus of City Treasurers.
It is pleasant to be assured by the Chief
of Police of Allegheny that "the speak-easy
business is about done." Let us hope that
official knows; out there is danger when
thoso thousand-dollar licenses go into effect
that It may be too well done, and will be by
no means rare.
The Assemblies and Bynods this year
cannot complain of a lack of interest or live
liness in their proceedings.
"WrTJC all that has been said on both sides
about tho preservation of the seals, it Is in
teresting to observe that wheu there is an
actual prospect of a closed season one side
of those in the sealing business does not
wish to and the other side will not if it can
help it. -
SNAP 8H0XS Df 6EAS08".
"What the business interests of the State
asked for will be found in the debris left by
tho Legislature.
BasebAEIi gives the barber an opportu
nity to vary his conversation a trifle.
The preacher who breaks the 'Command
ments gets off easier than the one who bends
the creed.
If divorces cost as much as next year's
liquor licenses they would not be quite so
popular.
It costs more to rig out a homely woman
who wants to shine in society than it does to
gratify the whims of a pretty ohe.
Swobds will be turned Into plowshares
and spears into pruning hooks when Maxim's
dynamite kite begins active operations.
This is a day of mourning, but don't
drown your sorrow in the cup that cheers.
If any one should cry "Stop Thiefl" in
Philadelphia nearly the whole population
would hustle.
The correspondents were the only legis
lative toilers who earned their salaries.
If the teachers in the churches would
talk about facts instead of mysteries the
amens would be more sincere. .
The Charleston was cleared for action,
and while her crew was doing this the Itata
got away.
Straight-laced girls do not suffer as
much as their tight-laced sisters.
WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE.
Casdinai, Gibbons is said to be very ill
with malaria at his residence in Baltimore.
Otjida condemns the novels of to-day as
sickening rubbish, showing than she never
read her own.
Cox stantjne Bafaebheqopontos, the
Greek historian, died recently aged 76 years.
He was a strong man or ho could not have
carried his name so long.
Austin Cokbin's illness forces him to
decline acting as a member of tho Board of
Visitors to Anapolis Naval Academy.
Dr. Oiaveb Wendell Holmes likes to
see a good sparring match, but ho never
called upon John L. Sullivan, even when
they were neighbors.
Dom-PedrO. who has returned to his resi
dence at Versailles after a sojourn of several
months at Cannes, is going to England about
the middle of June for two months.
Robert Ingebsoll has had a reputation
as an orator slnoelSSS, when he was stump
ing Illinois for Senator Douglas. And time
has not grazed his gift of eloquence around
the edges.
Signob COBTE, who was Italian Consul
at New Orleans, has evidently learned sense
as he declined to talk about the lynching
when he arrived at Queenstown the other
day en route home.
.Eugene Bebtband, the new director of
the Grand Opera House of Paris, served an
apprenticeship as a theatrical manager in
the United States. Be is 67 years old, and
abandoned medioine for the stage.
Dr. Maclagan, the new Archbishop of
Tors, is an ex-lieutenant in tno Anglo
Indian army. It is almost 40 years since be
nnitted this mill tarv service for cnlletronnrt
church, yet they said of him in Lichfield that
he was still a martinet.
Ex-Senator Beagan, of Texas, who is
In Washington studying up on railroad mat
ters, in view of his Approaching service on a
State Railroad Commission, has not aban
doned politics, ho says, and he quietly Inti
mates that a Western man is likely to get
tho Prosldcntal nomination from tho Demo
crats next year.
The Duke of Sparta, Crown Prince of
Greece, as Colonel of the First Regiment of
Infantry, has become Involved in a sharp
dispute with M. Delyanntt, Minister of War.
The latter recently ordered the transfer of a
sergeant in the Duke's regiment to another
company without consulting the regimental
commander. The Duke referred M. Delyan
nis at first to the army regulations. The
Minister repeated his order, however. Tho
Duke then obeyed his superior, but appealed
to the King for protection.
Honor to Hartranf t.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
The statue in memory of ex-Governor
Hartranf t erected by the National Guard of
the State is to be ready for the ceremony of
unveiling on June fl. Thus promptly erected,
It does more honor to the gallant soldier
-nhoso grave it marks and to those who
erected it than a. more pretentious monu
ment would havo dono if erected many years
after the General's death.
And Bolder Sometimes.
New York rrcss.l
The West must look to its laurels. The re
cent attempt of a gang of robbers to "hold
up" an express traln'on the Maine Centrat
road was as daring as the choicest work of
Western desperadoes. Eastern rascals are
as bold as Western onesv
It Has Gone Down, Here,
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Any effort to make the people believe that
the rise in the thermometer is due to the
McKinley bill will prove a flat failure, and
those vho try to to deceive the public
deserve an Isothermal belt under th1 car.
-Ana so is canvMbUth.
Toledo Commercial.
Senator Call's re-eloctlOn In Florida may
have not been muoh of a triumph, bat it
Shows that the -machine is yet in working
order.
TALK OP THE TOWN.
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Women Still Cannot Be Notaries The um
to Slake Her a Personallcil Trie De
mand for Decoration Day Blossoms
Oysters in Summer The Topical Talker's
Gossip. .
Ohb of the bills that Vent down in the
closing stampede of the session at Harrls
hurEwas a modest little one with the gal
lant purpose of allowing women to become
notaries public. It was such a well-intended
little bill in all respects that nobody seems
to havo been greatly anxious about its fate,
and as so often happens with inoffensive
legislation in tho crowded thoroughfare of
a Stato Legislature, It fell when nobody was
looking, and was crushed to death. The bill
was druwn up by Messrs. U. T. Watson and
A. M. Neepor, at the request of Jiisa C.
Newell, Who, with other stenographers of
her Sex in legal work, desired to'ezercise the
notarial function. Miss Newell fold yester
day: "I was greatly1 surprised to see that
thoblllwasnot passed, for we had heard of
no opposition to it, and Mr. Watson and Mr.
Keeper, who drafted the bill, sarwthat it was
entrusted to proper bands for passage. I do
not remember who the Senator was who in
troduced the bill."
Woman Is Not a Person.
Mrs. Ltct D. Luis, a stenographer of high
standing in legal circles, said to met- "I am
afraid we didn't agitate the matter suf
ficiently. The Inherent righteousness or the
bill ought to have carried it through the
Legislature, and it is not easy to see what
argument could be made against it, except
that which men always Offer when women
enter a new fleld of work, where a, mascu
line monopoly has previously existed. For
the life of me I can't see why the Governor
of the State should not appoint women to be
notaries, but Attorney General Kirkpatriek
I believe it was who decided against us, ad
vising Governor Beaver that a woman was
not 'a person' in the legal sense, antt there
fore ineligible to tho office of notary nubile.
The bill with which Messrs. Watson
and Neeper trusted to oveicome this
difficulty has failed to pass, and
I am heartily sorry, for it would have been a
great convenience to me and many other
women stenographers and amanuenses.
Thero are a dozen or flfteen women sten
ographers in legal offices who have constant
occasion to- call in a notary, and they, as
would the amanuenses In business houses
throughout tho city, would have been bene
fited by the removal of the bar between
mem ana tne notarial omco. j. 110 aov jtuuw
of any essentially femtnino disqualification
for notary' work; a woman could adminis
ter an oath and affix a seal quite as handily
and with greater grace than a man, and I
sincerely believo she could pootet the half
dollars and dollars for doing the same Just
as conveniently; at least I should like to
make the experiment."
Flowers for Many Graves.
The floiists had to hnstle yesterday, and
Indeed the demand for flowers for Decora
tion Day purposes has kept them busy for
a week or two. One of the Smithflold streot
florists said to me yesterday: "The- graves
ought to be bright enough to-morrow, Judg
ing by tho number of flowers the city flor
ists have sold. In pur case, and I think it is
the same with all the florists, tho demand
has more than equaled tho supply, and by
the close of the day our stock of out flowers
will bo cleaned out. .This morning I have
have been scouring Troy Hill, where a great
many glass frames are run in connection
with tho track gardens, to pick up what
flowers I could, and I havo had neod of all
1 got. You see for Decoration Day the
demand is for flowers raised In this
county. Geraniums, mignonotte, lilies nnd
flowers of that description are wanted. Not
the high-priced flowers, you see, and ne
cannot call upon the Eastern- markets to
help us as w e might if roses wero required,
lor example. The weather lias not been
favorable to flowers out of doors this spring,
and this again has curtailed our resources.
You might suppose that these conditions
would have made the price of flowers rise,
especially on the eve of Decoration Day, but
it is not the case; flowers of the sort required
for grave decoration are selling at as low a
figure as ever. You can see how the rush
for flowers has reduced our stock when we
are obliged to sell lilies, like those in the
window, that aro still no more than buds,
and people are glad to get them though the
chances aro that they will not be in blossom
to-morrow."
TVho "Wants Oysters Now?
The bill which has Just passed flnallyvln
the Senate, at Harrisburgpermitting the sale
of oysters and clams all the year-round wilt
not affect the shell fish trade In this end of
tho State materially, for the simple reason
that the State law prohibiting tho sale of
oysters and clams from May 1 to September
1 has never been strictly enforced or re
garded seriously in this city.
George H. Gledhill said yesterday: "I have
known- that a close season for shell fish ex
isted by law, but never bothered my head
about it because, to be candid.it didn't de
prive me of any privHego-Tlsh dealers here
do not sell oysters during the summer be
cause tho public don't care -for them, and
consequently the law has not been
broken often. The removal of the
legal prohibition will not conquer the gen
eral piejudtco against catiug oysters in
months whlcn are spelt without an K, and
tuero nas Dcen no movement among nsn
dealers here to have the newlaw passed. I
suppose it was introduced In the interest of
the Philadelphia trade. The Maryland law
is the strictest in the government of oyster
gathering, and underit tho Baltlmorooyster
men do not touch tho oyster beds during the
close season from May 1 to September 1, and
during the latter part of April and the early
part of Soptembor use the tongs in place of
the dredge. The dredge cathers oysters of
all sizes, and, in fact, whatever is on the
river or ocean bed, Including mud, while the
tongs only reaches ovsters of n-fair size. But
the New York and Philadelphia oyster mar
kets are -supplied to somo extent with shell
fish all summer, and we could bo so here if
the public demanded it. As it is hardly any
oysters are eaten in the R-less months hore,
and not very many clams, so that the Legis
lature has not conferred any particular
boneflt upon ns by passing the new law."
Other flsh dealers in the Pittsburg and
Allegheny markets spoke in tho same strain,
and sevoml salesmen In tho Allegheny mar
ket were nnawaro that they required tho
new law to legalize the sale of oysters, etc.,
the year through.
A Blondo ond Brunette Combine.
"If all young women were as careful as
romo I know to cater to the different tastes
of men in search of a wife, there wouldn't
be as many old maids as there are," said a
young Plttsburger whose name it would.be
unfair to give.
"The accommodating damsels to whom I
allude have lived on the same street with
mo since early childhood," he continued,
"and they are, or rather wero until recently,
six In number. Tboy were all pretty and
good girls, and the family would not have
attracted much attention in a neighboihood
where lovely and virtuous women wero the
rule, if they had not been equally divided
into blonde and brunette camps. Three
of them were as fair as Aurora
and their hair as golden as the
chariot of Phoobus; while the other
three had.tresses as decldedty black. You
can. see readily the attractiveness of this
variety of complexion, and it was not to be
wondered that two Of them were married
very soon after they had come to woman's
estate. Both of the brides were taken from
tho blondo side of tho house the blonde is,
perhaps, more admired In Pittsburg because
of her grcater.rarit.v and thu, for a w htlc,
the harmonious combination ot attractions
in the family was marred by the preponder
ance of brunettes. Now, note the sagacity
of these maidens! As soonas the two blondes
were married thus leaving three brunettes
to one blonde the hair of one of tho bru
nettes began to change color. Exports ot
tho fair sex informed me that the gradual
transformation from brnnetto to blonde was
effected by a process technically known as
'bleaching out.' No matter how it was done,
tho tresses that had been a dark brown grew
gradually golden, until to-dny the Joint pro
portion 01 iimue w umuvn-ua uncc nioio
exists In this imppy family, and tho yontii;
man in searoh of a wife- inut bolmid to
please who daeajiot find there u typo of
beauty to his mind."
PE0PLE-W0NDEB
War women klsd each other.
Wht politeness Is not moro plentiful.
Wmf the ordinance regulating the height
of awnings is not enforced on some thor
oughfares. -
Wht fat folk want to be lean and lean folk
want to be fat
Wht some millionaires keep on accumu
lating moro money.
Whreonio doctors who dcnoimca adver
tising like to See their names in print,
Wht some goods sold at auction fetch bet
tor prices than If sold from first hands.
War property owners patch up brlok pave
ments on business Itreets instead of using
flagstone. " ' 1
-A SINKING BILL.
A Curious Ehenomenoii on the TuttleFarm
in Blodtnfleld, Conn.
HABTTOnn, May 49. Jeremiah Tattle, a
wealthy fanner of Bloomlleld, has a billon
his big farm in that town that Is sinking
Into tho bowels Of tho earth. Mr. Tuttle
has a beautiful farm, most of which is in &
normal condition". Thero are great fertile
meadows, great reaches of noble forest and
here and there spacious pastures In which
his blooded cows grazeon herbage that is
almost knee deep. The queer sinking hill Is
in ono of the big pastures, In what Mr. Tut
tle called the "rock pasture." The grass is
flnor in that ono than in any other pasture
in the whole region. Exactly In the center
of the big lot Is a hill, capacious of girth,
but not more than 12 feet high. Tho oldest
Inhabitant in Bloomfleld, who is upward of
85 years old, affirms that tho hill is as famil
iar to him as any room In his own home, for
many of the Bloomlleld people have been in
tllA hilhlt Of tftkllle A "ahnrt mtV linmn
across Jerry's rock pasture, and that he
never noted anything odd about the hill un
til lately. Now, since the hill is said to be
sinking, Bloomlleld people avoid the rock
pasture for they believe it is enchanted.
A few weeks ago Mr. Tuttle sent his hired
man, Michael Flannigan, who has worked on
the Tuttle farm for years, to therockpasture
with tne cows, and In half an hour 3Hchae
came home hurriedly with a startled look in
his face. When he entered the pasture, he
said later, ho stopped in amazement, for he
saw at a glance that the hill had gone down
into tho eatth several inches since his visit
to the lot a day or two bofore. To be sure
that his opinion of the hill was a correct ono
he went close to it and took an estimato of
its height, "sighting across its top" at old
time and trustworthy landmarks, and was
satisfied it had gone down not less than 8 or
10 inches. After he had told his stdry, every
one, Mr. Tuttle, too, guyed him mercilessly.
But Michael dosn't drink, so he took the
gibing good-naturedly, and persisted in
affirming that his statement was correct.
His earnestness Anally impressed others,
and Mr. Tuttle and some of the neighbors
visited the rock pasture with Flannigan,
whose declaration was at once seen to be
true. Tho hill had sunk several inches since
Miohael's previous visit. Moreover, the hill
is still sinking dally. Slowly and persistently
it is being swallowed up. It is now only a
slight undulation in tho lot, and its top but
a foot or two above tho rest of the land
theie. What Is tho cause of tho phenomenon
no one attempts to explain, but the Bloom
field people are certain that within a week
or two the hill will have entirely disap
peared. BONO LEE PATNT3 HIS HOUSE.
It
Suits Him, nnd the Beat of the World
Mngt Make the Best of It.
San Franclcco Chronicle.
fc'Song Leo keeps a washhonse on Larktn
street, between Ellis and Eddy. It is quito
a pretentious two-story frame structure, with
a peaked shingle roof. Its owner conceived
the idea recently of adding to its attractive
ness by sundry exterior coats of hlgh-hued
paints.
So now the thing is a perpetual nightmare
Jo all tho;neighbors and passers-by who see
It for the first time. They are startled al
most into breathlcssness and seized with
queer optical illusions and vlsions-Qf awful
phantasies that haunt the brain till tho dust
of Larkln street is shaken from their feet.
Tho painter tried to make the roof white,
but the dirty shingles have defied his skill.
With a persistency born of dust and soot
they still show through the white paint in
occasional dark patches.
Only a man with the nightmare could have
painted tho front. The background is a
dark rich green. The door and window
frames are yellow, trimmed with red. The
blinds are blue, the cornice pink, tho win
dow sills black and the doorsteps cream
colored. Other pigments abound inro
fusion, but even the artist who compounded
them is unable to call the wondrous colors
byname.
The rainbow is simply not in it when com
pared to the front of Song Lee's washhouse.
But that is not all. There Is a side view
yet to bo descilbed. Every imaginable
shade and tint that a brain suffering from
the effects of a plum pudding or mince pie
supper might produce hn here been laid on
the weatherboards in stripes. The effect is
simply maddening.
oeen lor tne nrst time a shock liKe a thou
sand volts of electricity comes over one, and
color blindness ensues at once. Some of the
neighbors complain that the colors are so
loud as to disturb their slumbers at night.
Song Lee is not unconscious of the atten
tion his washhouse has excited in the neigh
borhood. He comes out, takes a glanco at
the awful thing, and then goes back smiling.
"Me likee, allee samee."
Perfectly Satisfied.
Randolph Enterprise.
At a recent revival in Dry Forks district
the evangelist told all who wanted to go to
heaven to stand up. Nobody stood. Then
he fold all who wished t6 be parboiled in .the"
seething caldron prepared for the devil and
his angels to stabd up. Nobody stood. Ser
vices were discontinued at once. "It is no
use," said he, "to try to convert people that
are satisfied with Bandolph countys" "
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
General Winfield S. Featherston.
General "Winfield Scott Featherston died
Thursday night at Holly Springs, Miss., aged73.
Deceased had been for half a century a central fig
ure In the affairs of Mississippi. Daring the war
he served with marked gallantry in the Army of
Virginia and the Trans-MUslsslppl Department.
When quite yonng he served two years in Congress,
voluntarily retiring to devote himself to the prac
tice of law. At a member of the State Legislature
In 1875 he win Chairman of the committee that
drew up and conducted to a close the impeachment
articles against Governor Adelbert Ames and other
Stato officer. As Chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee In 1879-80 he irsi instrumental In revising
the State code.
Sirs. Deborah Powers.
Mrs. Deborah Powers, head of the bank
ing Arm of D. Powers Jt Sons, Troy, N. Y., and of
the oilcloth manufacturing arm of the same name,
died at her home In Lanslngbnrg, N. Y., Thursday
night. Her estate 1 valued at over $2,000,000. Mrs.
Powers was born in Hebron. Grafton county, N.
11., on August S, i;oo. In 1818 she married William
Powers, or Lanslngbnrs;, who was burned to death
in 1829. Mrs. Powers then took charge of her hus
band's business and conducted affairs until about 20
rears ago. when she surrendered personal control
of the business to her elder son.
Dt. Henry T. Wlllock.
Dr. Henry Thomas Willock, a descendant
of Livingston, one of the signers of the Decls ra
tion of Independence, and who was also related to
Chancellor Livingston, United States Jllnlster.to
France during the reign of King Louis Philippe,
died Thursday of brain fever at his residence,
Brooklyn. He was bora at Santiago, Cuba, In 1834,
while his father, James D. Wlllock, was United
States Consul at thatclty. The family were of old
Southern stock, hailing from Norfolk, Va whera
their ancestors settled iO years ago.
Joseph K. Boyd.
Joseph E. Boyd, father of -Governor-elect
James E. Boyd, of Nebraska, and whose l'allure to
take out his final naturalization) papers was the
cause of the Gubernatorial muddle, died at Zanes
vllle yesterday evening, aged 7B years. Governor
Boyd is en route to Zaneivf lie to attend the funeral.
Mark Kimball.
Hark Kimball, one nf the pioneer resi
dents of Chicago, died there Thursday, aged 70
years. HecameWest from his birthplace, Pem
broke, N. T., in 1834. For many years he held a
nrntrtlnetlt DlaCB IU llUblle esleeni. ntirl otvnnlmt
numerous positions ot trust mid responsibility.
Obituary Notes.
Bev. William K. Uabcock, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, died Thursday morning
iu St. Louis, aged S3 years.
Dn. David Phillips, a New York physician,
who recently dlscorered a cure for dry catarrh, died
suddenlr or heart failure Thursday,
Ex-JtJDOB GEORGE W. DOBBIW mefl Thursday
it Baltimore, aged 2 years. Ho was a well-known
lawyer and filled many places of trust.
EffejgiiakB. Sutton-, the founder of the pio
neer line of clipper ships .between New York and
California, died Wednesday at New York.
jlAJOrt FfclxK B. Hamilton, United States
Army, died at Fort Ad.uns yesterday of dropsy.
JIU rciualus will be tukcu to Troy, N. Y., for
bill I-il.
Verl-s H. Memoes, son of Judge Jdlm j. Mitz
gcr, died at Wllllamsport Thursday morning, after
a brief Illness. Hews District Attorney of Ly
coming county and represented his district lathe
State Senate two years ago,
FiRDisAHD DbaUb, a MexicanfWar veteran
and a citizen of Texas for the past 40 years, died at
Eagle Laks, Tex., Wednesday night, aged 70
years. He was native or Sultis, Germany, and
cam to MWloo lust before the breaking out of the
Mexican Warj through which he served.
-William Rite, a prominent politician In his
district, being President of the Farmers' Alliance.
Chairman of the Dembcratie Kxccntlrc Committee
and an cx-membcr of the Legislature, was instlntly
klllM-pesr UAlcirh, W. V.. Thursday nigtitliv .1
log falling upon him o ho as styiullug at the loot
ul A iiur. '
BEV.W. .PftRT, D. D.. died Wednesday
hlgnt at the home Of hit son In Washington. Ha
w&4 a well-known minister of tlio Methodist
Ohnrcn, H was born In New Jersey In ins, and
traveled as a Methodist minister (br over M years,
aiilar many places of trust in his denomination.
Er ru a utrotir advocate of CnrUHan ertuMttnn.
knd WM tot H yean a trotee of Dickinson College. J
s SPRINGTIME SOCIETY.
The Exodus to Europe Beginning Early"
PreparaHons for the aiay festival De
ficit Entertainment A Sketching
.Party's Plans Tho Social that of a Day.
The exodus to Europe begins in good earn
est, and a number of Plttsburger will sail
to-day. Among them are A L. Griffin, Presi
dent of the Keystone Bridge Company, John
G. A. Leishman, Henry C. Carry and Goatee
Lander, all of the Carnegie-Phlpps Company.
Some of the gentlemen will be accompanied
, by their wives. They will visit Andrew
Carnegie at his Scotland castle and Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Phipps at the London borne they
have taken for the season.
Another party that will sail on
the 13th will consist of Mrs. Mark Wat
son, Mrs. Win Sew ell, Mis. Spronll, Misses
Harriet and Amy Watson and Miss Agnes
Dickson. They are going over for the Lon
don season, which begins about the 16th and
lnts a month.
airs. Watson is well up on things Enropean,
and has already through her banker, made
ail arrangements for opera boxes, carriages
and all necessary attributes to the four
w eeics 01 payety. tuo party win unve in.
Hyde Taik during the afternoon, when ordi
nary equipages are -not permitted, by the
forethought in securing a Snltable carriage
with necessary servants, and will enjoy nil
society nights at the opera. Theywillgoto
Biighton for a few days and attend the
regatta at Cowes.
Local musical talent will join hands on the
evening of June 12 in an earnest endeavor to
supply the flnanoial deficit left by U10
abundance of foreign talent enjoyed at "the
May Festival; still It Is not tobe a testimonial
or complimentary concort, bnt a supple
mentary concert to the May Festival. Such
was the name decided upon at a meeting
held yesterday by the patronesses of thelate
musical event, and it was alo decided to
give it in the Duqucsne theater, which Mana
ger Henderson has kindly loaned for the
occasion, without the usual bill attachment.
Mr. Henderson was present only in name
at the meoting, but adulatory adjectives
and complimentary phrases were fairly show
ered upon the cognomen and the generosity
of its possessor. Mr. SlcCullough, the local
manager, also received considerable social
booming, as he has postponed a Culcago
trip that he might remain and assume the
responsibility of oiling tho Duqnesne ma
chinery on that particular night. Those
who Will appear on the programme for
tho "supplementary" are Mrs. Maurice
Coster, 'Miss May Beesley, Miss Ag
nes 'Vogel, Miss Margaret Frazier
and Miss Mamie Bcuck; also Messrs.
Joe Vogel and Carl Better, Prof. Glttings
and Mr. Straus. Tho boxes of the theater
are to be held at $25 each and written bids,
a la contractor style, aroS to be received up
to Tuesday, the 9th, for a-oholce of them.
At that time tho eight highest bidders will
bo given an opportunity to select their
boxes.
At the meeting yesterday Miss Kate Mo
Knlght officiated as Presldont and Mrs.
Holdshlp as Secretary of tho Executive
Committee. Mrs. Harry Birch is the effi
cient Treasurer and Secretary, and also a
very agreeable press agent.
Ose of tho delights of the study of art will
begin for tho pupils of the Pittsburg Art
School next weok. Following a custom es
tablished by this institution seven years ago
the fair pupils, together with their sketch
ing paraphernalia, will be transported to
the picturesque mountain village, Scalp
Level, in Cambria county, where they will
spend two weeks studying from nature, un
der the direction of Mr. Boatty, the princi
pal of the school. The party will take en
tire possession of the Veil House, exclusive
arrangements having been made for their
entertainment thero this as in succeeding
years, nnd it is fair to presume thatstudents
who havo spent a year at hard work indoors
will thoroughly enjoy this outing.
Evert schoolhouse in the city yesterday
was for the day a temporary donation hot
house and contained the potted planto fler
ings In the aggregate of 23,000 school chil
dren. Each pupil wot invited to bring with
him somethingln the plant line, and with
few exceptions the Invitations bloomed with
results according to the purse and facilities
of the donor. Several of the schools took
advantage of the expected Influx of flowers
and arranged for their annual reception dav.
Among these were the Forbes, the Hancock
and the O'Hara. Tho donations of each" dls-
V trict will to-day be turned over to the army
posts wltmn tne vicinity ana Dy tnem De
taken to the cemeteries and placed on the
graves of the war heroei.
The sixteenth anniversary of tho Erodel
phian Literary Society was held last night at
the State Normal School at Indiana, Pa. The
anniversary oration was delivered by.8. XL.
Trent, of the Pittsburg law firm of Young
Trent. Other numbers on the programme
were ocoupied by Attorney Allen B. Orgney,
Prof. J. J. Isensee and Miss Carrie Wetherell,
of Allegheny. '
Social Chatter.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Chritt's Church
(TJnlversallst) will have charge of the straw
berry and ice cream festival, which will be
hold in Curry University Chapel, corner
Sixth street and Penn avenue, Friday even
ing, June 6. The ladles will strive to make
this occasion exceptionally pleasant to all
participating. Admission free.
Prof. R. F. Thusta, Miss M. Thuma andj
Frank Thuma, or Thuma's Dancing Acad
emy, will leavo next week for Providence,
R. I., to meet In convention the National
Association of Teachers of Dancing, where
they will give an exhibition of fancy danc
ing. '
Miss Belle McELBEirr will depart this
evening for Washington, D. C., where she
will accept a personal invitation of Mrs. Mc
Eee to visit the White House.
Mrs. A. C. Gbajt and daughter Agnes, of
Sharon, aro guests in the city. Mrs. Graff
will take possession of her Lakewood cot
tage next week.
Uncus Sam and his States had a Jolly time
of it at the Sandusky Avenue Baptist Church
last evening.
Dr. Gestrt leaves this evening- for a flying
visit to his Philadelphia home.
G00S CANDY CHEAP.
Ton JTeedn't Pay Anything Like Forty Cents
a Pound for It.
New York Herald.
Andrew J. Hope, who knows a thing or
two about the candy business, is of tho
opinion that another candy manufacturer,
who recently made the statement in tho
Herald that pure candy couldn't be bought
for less than 40 cents a pound, didn't know
what he was talking about.
"The statement is pure nonsense," said
Mr. Hope,, "and I'll prove it. The basis of
all candy is, of course, refined sugar. There
is no adulteration about that, and it sells by
the barrel for 1 cents a pound. All plain
candles, such as horehound. Iceland moss.
molasses, peppermint, "will cost the big man-
niactorerunuer 1 cent a pounu 10 manu
facture A good workman will easily make
300 pound a day, which, when retailed at 10
cents a. pound, allows tho manufacturer
nearly 100 per cent profit.' Tho pure material
Is so cheup that, if there were nothing else
to be taken into consideration, it wouldn't
pay to adulterate such candy. Pure sugar
can be bought cheap and so can pare candy."
A New Chapter of Proverbs.
London World.
As a pink pearl in a scullion's ear, so Is a
fair woman without a good dressmaker.
Whoso tolloth the truth concerning his
neighbor is not unfrequently liable to heavy
damagcSt
Better is a chop with a peer tnanasoven-and-sLvpcnny
dinner with a person of no
position.
What is sweeter to a soured woman than
the failings of her dearest friend!
My son, when thou wrltesta play, know
that thv pathos will be understanded bv the
plt, thy wisdom by the dress circle, and thy
innuendo Dy tnem mat sit among the stalls.
MEMORIAL
Oil! deem it net a little thing
Unworthr of tho purest and the best.
This tutilwe do, the Woasoms that we bring
'lo mark the hallowed spot wheie heroes rest.
Let children do their part, the word of God
Hath called, them, like to angels 'round His
, throne.
With pure ind loving tears bedew the Sod,
And feel the blessing is their very own.
And youth as well; its strength is better spent
In deeds like this, where pity fills the breast
Than idle pattlmei braver thoughts are sent.
More lessons learned above where soldiers rest.
Let manhood vie with age in homage due
To mtn who gave us peace and home and land;
AboTO thein place the white, tho red, the blue.
The '-Stars and Stripes" kept sacred by thelr
hind,
Be watchful ever lest yc pass one by.
Some unmarked grave o'crgroun by plant or
ftd,
F6r underneath a trccr heart may He
That hath for tender perfume deeper need,
A tiered duty OrU Ordained of 0oV
Memorial to tha triumph of th right 1
Though Often 'neath oppression's tyrant rod;
AlliitH6SonqrderUylsi&lgBt,, ,
L, Mitchell, in Philadelphia Inavtr.
- "-' OUR MAIL POUCH.
Not Honoring Any Potentate.
To the Editor of The Dispatchi
.In. your paper of Tuesday, the 26th Instant
you have a short paragraph, "Victoria Not
In It," in which you say that the British
American Association of Pittsburg have not
in anyway celebrated tho Queen's birthday.
Her Majesty having completed her 72d year.
Allow me to say that the British-American
Association was not formed, to honor any
potentate or sovereign. Our organization Is
for the pnrposo of Inducing and In assisting
all of British birth and .descent to become
naturalized citizens of the United State3
and to exercise the dnties of citizenship for
the best interests of the Commonwealth,
and their adherence first, last and always to
ttio Constitution and institutions, more par
ticularly the'public school system as it now
OX18t6
We are non-parttean, we Ignore all alien
agitation and agitators. Having sworn to
maintain and perpetuate tho Constitution
and freo institutions of this great Republic.
Wo could not, being of tho household of
Uncle Sam. honor the Queen in her ofilcial
capacity as head of the kingdom, but wo
revere and honor her as the model wife and
mother of untarnished reputation and ex
emplary virtue. We have become American
citizens with a pure motive. We want our
Institutions bacd on universal intelligence
and universal liberty. Then American unity
and American patriotism aro complete. It
is our wish to see public and private virtuei,
not dissonant and Jarring, and mutually
destructive, but harmoniously combined,
growing out of ono another in a nobloand
orderly gradation, roolprocallv supporting
nnd supported. W. II. Peak.
PiTTSBnno, May 27.
Panhandle Accommodations.
To the Editor or the Dispatch?
Allowme to call tho at ton t Ion of theproper
authorities to n much-needed improvement
in the morning train service of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
Railroad locally. During the past two years
the various towns between the city and
Mansfield haveincreased in population very
much. The majority aro people who work
in the city, and who have a specified time to
start in the mornings, and business folks
like to be prompt. The prevailing hour now
for places of business to open is 7.20a. v.,
but as trains now run on this line, people
who wish to start on time must either come
with a train half an hour too early, or take
their chances on the next, which makes
them 15 or 20 minutes late every day, whicK
is most annoving. Something should be
done without delay to improve this state of
things, and as No. IS, from McDonald's, has
to pick up about -two carloads of milk and
unload half of It again in Birmingham, the
management should, in Justice to its patrons,
put-a train. from Mansfield that will reach
Pittsburg by 7.-20 every morning, and that at
once, too. Paxiiasblx.
Idlewooc, Pa., May 27.
Wants to Get Mis Wages.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.
For months I have been engaged at a local
mannfactury at a certain monthly wage, and
being unable to get the same regularly, often
receiving only a part, until patience ceased
to be a virtue. I nave quit work with a bal
ance still due me. What is my remedy for
enforcing payment? Brass.
Pittsbcbo, May 29.
Have an attorney begin proceedings at
law. The actual method varies according to
the circumstances of the case.
I
Eerolutlonary Information Wanted.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.
Benjamin Coe, born In 1703, who lived at
Newark, N. J., had a son killed in the Revo
lutionary War. Where can I ascertain what
his name was, whatposltion he held, etc.?
C. D. C.
PrrrsEimo, May 20.
Pittsburg, 238,473; Detroit, 205,609.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.
To decide a bet give the population of De
troit and Pittsburg. A bets Detroit has 100,
000 more than Pittsburg. ,
Const axt Reader.
Pittsburg, May 26.
A CLEBGYHAN'S BEBUKE.
He Silences a Woman Who Was Insolent
Instead of Franks
Boston Courier.
There is a Unitarian clergyman who Is not
without a power of keen retort, and who is
nonetheless gifted With the grace to Com
mand his tongue rather than allow his
tongue to command him. He has in, his con
gregation one of those womeu who make a
pretense of frankness and excuse for rude
ness and who are given to boasting that they
are plain-spoken, when the truth is that they
simply Ill-bred and insolent. This especial
lady Is wealthy, and there are not many in
tho list of her acquaintances who dare re
buke her, albeit they do together console
each other for the wounds they suffer from
her tongue by abusing her roundly.
It ohanced that one evening tho lady and
the clergyman were partners at whist at the
house of a common friend, and so successful
were they that they won almost every game
for the evening. Like people who are fond
of having things their own way the lady was
-fn Titrvli ivviv rmt f-.hta Ot1rAca nvwl nrlinn
the play was over she pushed back her chair
from the table with the characteristic and
graceful remark to her partner:
"You do play a good .game of whist, Mr.
Blank. If you only preached as well as you
play whist, it would be a treat to go to
church to bear you."
Tho clergyman was quite equal to the occa
sion. He kept his temper and his face under
perfect control as be replied:
"Thank you. Miss Sharp: but you know
anybody can learn to play whist, while
Senlus and good breeding come by grace of
rod."
SOME PEOPLE OK THE 00.
General T. O. Osborn, ex-Mimster to the
Argentine Republic, passed through the city
yesterday on Jlia way home from South
America. He says tho Governments south
of the equator are badly governed. In the
Argentine Republio the wealthier people
take no interest la the finances of the coun
try. Many of the banks thero are broken.
Ho expected tho Chilean war, and ho says
peace will only reign when some outside
power steps in and rules the people impar
tially. x
Among those who went to Atlantic City
last evening to take advantage of the holi
day were Controller Morrow, Jack Lee, of
the Farmers' Bank; Frank Lee, of the Iron
City, and Mr. Montgomery, of the Central
Bank, quite a financial crowd to go to the
seasnore at me same uiiie,
"W". S. ITcGarv returned from Harrisburg
yesterday with the bill signed by the Gov
ernor authorizing the payment of $3,0CO to
J. -JL MorrUon for back pay. Mr. Morrison
was unseated in the Senate by Hugh Mc
Neil somo years ago.
1 C. Boyle, the genial spirit pro-
S filing the Toledo Commercial and the Oil
lty Demclc, was in tho city yesterday. He
has wnrnl friends in and out of newspaper
dom hexe nnd is always a. welcome visitor.
W. iftproull.rfreight agent for the Cam
bria Iron Company at Philadelphia, was in
the city1 yesterday. He reports little im-
grovement in the iron business, though the
idicattons for the future are encouraging.
T. C. Campbell, the lawyer who defended
Berjrer and whose acunlttal resulted in the
Cincinnati riots about Ave years ago, is at
the Anderson, Ho came here to spend Dec
oration Day In peace
,T. "W. Keazell, of Steubenville, a conntcr
foit inspector for the Government, is at the
Schlosser- Mr. Beazell Is the man who was
roboed in the local poatofflce a few years
ago.
George Matheson, of New York, ono of
the owners of the American Iron works at
Youngstowrj, registered at the Mononga
hela House yesterday.
Colonel Meier is the new Secretary of the
Boiler Makers' Association, and came here
to assist ex-Secretary Douthitt in preparing
tho annnal report.
H. H. Curry and" .T, G. A. Leishman, of
Curncgie A Co-, will leave New York tliU
morning on tho Utubrta for a six weeks' tour
in Europe.
James S. Anderson, of Glasgow, and Solo
mon Schwab, of Switzerland, foreign com
mercial men, are stopping at the Anderson.
Colonel Chill Hazzard went to Philadel-
hla to deliver tne oration for Phil Kearney
OSt to-day in Spring Garden.
John W Donnan, -of "Washington, and
wnilatn Searlght. of Untontown, are at the
Monqngahela House.
E. D. Meier, of St. Louis, and W. L.
McPhnilanddnughteraro among the"guests
nt tho iinqnosnc.
Usury Kaufman leaves to-night on an ex
tended bnslness trip tonglanurIre!andarid
the continent.
Ed Jackman and A. i Keating were two
of the passengers bound for New York last
evening.
J, 0. Bcrgstreseer will tail for Europe to
day on. hi annual tour.
CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
Electricity is now used to deter chicken
thieves.
The wannest place in Europe is said to
be Malaga.
Detroit will be 190 years old on July
24, this year.
The name of a Philadelphia debutants
Is Miss Sybil Plne-Cofllri.
There is an average of 2,601 ties to a
mile of railroad In this country.
A sensational novelist in New York
turns out four novels a year for $20,000.
One person in every ten who died in
New York la 1889 was burled In potter's
field.
A Chase, county, Kan., fanner has a
cornfield In which the rows are three-fifths
01 amueiong.
Lundon has a muscular thief who has
pleaded guilty to stealing the entire plant of
a printing office.
A resident of Tioga, Pa., has an old
tomcat that he wants to back against any
fighting dog in tho country.
London consumed in April, 1891, an
average of 8,142,163 galloni of water a day
more than it did in April, 1890.
A Shawnee county, Kan., girl was so
anxious to marry that she eloped with a St.
Louis man and took her grandmother with
her.
Twenty-three thousand bushels of ap
ples and pears made the last and greatest
cargo of fruit brought to London from Tas
mania. A mammoth king snake with a double
crown, which has appeared annually at
Strausstown, Becks county. Pa., for many
years, has Just been seen again.
3Iembers of the WeatherBureau should
know that the oldest known Journal of the
weather was kept by a fellow of Merton Col
lege, Oxford, during A. D. 1337-44.
A farmer of Winterbottom, Ga., re
cently, it ia said, picked a dozen straw
berries from his patch that weighed more
than a pound and overflowed a pint meas
ure. An Italian immigrant who Landed at
the Barge Office a few days ago was so over
Joyed at finding himself a free American
that he dropped: upon his handstand knees
and kissed the ground.
A 3f ember of Parliament proposes that
the Scotch deer forests should be bought
and converted Into popularfarms and pleas
ure grounds. The present rental of these
areas is about 90,000 a year.
The Williams Bridge, N. Y., Board of
Trustees met on Monday evening, and the
President, finding tho meeting getting a lit
tie ahead of him, drew a revolver and soon
had things going smoothly.
A remarkable exhibition was opened at
Berlin the other day. The exhibitors are
the undertakers of Berlin, 32 of whom are
representedTand the exhibits are confined to
coffins and funeral furniture.
An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minn.,
which spouts both oil and water, often
changes the programme and sends out a
stream of small minnows which are wholly
unlike any known species of flsh found in
that vicinity.
A strange and terrifying beast is prowl
ing about Woodland, carrying off cattle and
scarinEthe fiercest dogs. No one has got
sight of it yet or identified it, but its tracks
have been measured, and are about 16 inches
long and 8 broad, with long claws.
The wearing away of the cliffs on the
shores of England has of late attracted con
siderable attention and the problem is being
attentively studied with the view of pre
venting the erosive action of the waves as
well as of the streams that i-rickie down.
Germany's new dispatch boat, Meteor,
is, excluding tho torpeddboats, the fastest
craft afloat. Herlengthis262feet, width 31
feet, draught 13feet, with 930 tons displace
ment. Her engines develop 5,000-horse
power, and at fullspecd she goes 24 knots an
hour.
A physician who kept a nightly record
of his pulse for five years reports that every
year it falls through the spring until about
midsummer, and then rises througn tho
autumn to November or December. Then
comes a second fall nnd a second rise, cul
minating In February.
The managers of a Brooklyn cemeterr
advertise: "Graves finely situated, sur
rounded by the beauties of nature, com
manding a fine view of the bay, and, in short,
meeting every requirement of the human
family. People who have tried them cannot
be persuaded to go elsewhere."
The witnesses for the defense iu a libel
suit at Montreal testified that so high did
the oharacter of the plaintiff stand that it
would be Impossible to libel him. No one
would believe his tradncers, and hence his
business standing could not suffer. On this
ground the Jury returned a verdict for the
defendant.
Insanity among Hebrews is increasing.
In the lunatic asylums of Prussia the num
ber of Hebrews is said to have nearly quad
rupled in IS vears. According to th sti.
Lt is tics of the German Empire there are 3S9
insane lie Drews in every iuu,ooo or their num
ber, against 241 insane Protestants ana 237
insane Roman Catholics In the 100,000.
The pastor of the Methodist Church in
Ansonia, Conn., has succeeded in getting a
clock for his church and in a very no vel way.
A week ago last Sunday he preached a very
long sermon, and at itscloo apologized for
the time consumed, explaining that where he
was before stationed he had a clock to look
at occasionally. The hint was taken and
now a clock adorns the front of tho gallery.
The death of a Chicago woman the other
day is said to be the result of blood poison
ing, caused by wearing a pair of new silk
gloves. The first and middle fingers of her
Tight hand bad been slightly pricked with a
needle while she was sewing a fow days ago.
In this wy, lt is believed, the deadly poison
in the coloring chemicals used in the gloves
entered the blood.
The oddest freak in Connecticut this
season Is a double-headed duckling, belong
ing to a resident of the Connecticut river
village of Essex, that his old duck hatched
on Sunday morning. The younjr duck is one
of a large brood, and quite as hale and frisky
as the rest of the yonng ones. The heads are
united at the base or the little duck's neck.
He can eat twice as fast aathe other duck
lings, nnd can "look two ways forSunday"or
any other day.
When a new Bedford, Mass., grocer
entered his store the other morning he
heard a noise behind the counter, nnd upon
imresticration found that a clam had seized
a mouse by one leg. and the rodent was
making desperate efforts to escape. The
grocer thought he would put the curiositv
in the window, but, on returning after 15
minutes' absence, found the clam had al
lowed the mouse to escape.
Kittanning citizens are frightened over
a solar phenomenon seen at that place the
other day. While" the sun was shining a
very large circle, omprising all the colors
of the rainbow and entirclv inclosing the
sun, became very distinct. Some claimed it
was a bad omen, that a terrible storm would
soon sweep the country, while others, who
were moro superstitious, claimed it was the
forerunner of a bloody war that would soon
occur.
The most important improvements in
practical medicine in the United States of
late years have been In surgery In its vari
ous branches. This country has led the way
in the ligation of some of the larger arteries,
in the removal of abdominal tumors. In the
treatment of diseases and injuries peoullar
to women, and of spinal affections, as well
as deformities of varions kinds. Above all,
we were the first to show the uselof anaesthe
tic the most important advance made dur
ing the century.
WITH WITTY WIGHTS.
"X am very old," said the veteran, "and I
haTa sceu many a fls'it."
"Did you bear arms in 1312" asked the boy.
No, toy bby,"re turned theoldmn;'1t was Just
the other way. Arms bore me."-Judae.
"Alas! It is an age of doubt!" sighed- the
philosopher.
"Whatf" asked his companion.
"Thdaga of woman, be answered. Barnard
Lampoon
Same Nature's consistent,
Ah men wUl allow.
When they notice the Jersey's
A cream-colored cow. Par.
A man would do pretty poor fishing If he
ti.od aho6L.wurm fb.' tM.JUnvkamUm Repub
lican. "Corporations have no souls." r
"What disappointment that must he to the
d6n."-Mf.
Mrs. Blotter (of a literary turn) And,
John, tend up a gallon of mldatrht'oH.. AH our
test writers, ila told, barn K.-.RWWH Trvucrtft,