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All double and triple number copies or The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to Insure prompt delivery. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1891. 1 r THE OHIO OUTLOOK. The campaign in Ohio possesses triple interest As a contest between two of the younger and rising leaders of the Repub lican and Democratic parties respectively, as a square fight on the tariff issue in a State which occupied a nearly neutral posi tion between sections whose interests govern their tariff views, and as affording the first test of the effect of the Third Party movement on the relative strength of the old parties the tilt is attractive. The x views of active party leaders on the out- loot given elsewhere will therefore com- mand attention. " One of the most gratifying aspects of the fight is the strong personal character of the two candidates designated by circum stances as well as universal consent for the leadership. It is universally agreed in. the interviews that the candidates will be .Mc Enley and Campbell Both gentlemen are of high character and possess elements of personal strength. Mr. McKinley is given additional prominence by the fact that he was forced out of Congress by-a gerrymander; and for part of his strength the Ohio Democrats can thank their own partisanship. On the other hand, Governor Campbell's courage and independence in dealing with corruption in his own party gives htm a personal strength to balance j- ' that of McEnley's. As between these candidates the fight , will be on the tariff. It is true that Gov ernor Campbell is not an ultra free-trader. But even if he were a moderate pro tectionist nhich he is not the presence of McKinley in the fight would base the issue on the support of his high tariff policy. If the election were confined to these candidates the contest "would be squarely for and against the McKinley tariff. The Third Party, however, intro duces an element of uncertainty both as to the result and its bearing on that issue. In the interviews it is to be observed that the leaders think It will draw equallyfrom both parties; -nhich simply amounts to a confession of their inability to estimate an 1 entirely unknown quantity. On these lines the Ohio campaign this year will be a Uvely one. Enough depends on its result ts give it national prominence. THE STIR IX THE CHURCHES. It is an extremely interesting spectacle which has been engaging the attention of the religious world for ten days past All of a sudden three or four of the leading denom inations hae become awake to the fact that some of their chosen ministers are thinking, speaking and writing for them selves quite outside of the traditional lim itations of creed and confession. Dr. Briggs; while reverently accepting the in spiration of the Bible as a whole, does not believe that every word and every letter of it is specially inspired, and thinks that as to some non-essential particulars the sacred book is not totally inerrant For this opinion, which is even more boldly de clared by Dr. Parkhurst, Prof. Briggs is pursued as a dangerous heretic Ho has just been ousted fiom the General Assem bly's approval of his professorship in Union Seminary by a sweeping adverse vote of his co-denominationalists. An e en more tumultuous storm agitates the Episcopal Church. This is confined for the time to Xew York and Boston, where Dr. Ileber Newton's peculiar views as to the resurrection and other cardinal points of doctrine, and Dr. Phillips Brooks' supposed sympathy with Dr. Newton, ha-i e set the clergy by the ears. The wandering English monk, Father Ignatius, who has been vigorously denounced for Starting the heresy-hunt in the Episcopalian fold, must be grimly satisfied to contemplate the commotion which has followed his some what bitter crusade. Here at home the Reformed Presby terians have likewise been hunting heretics with the hot zeal alt their own. The seven young minis'ters who, according to their accusers, ventured to think and say that it was not unchristian to discharge the civil duties of a United States citizen, are this week to undergo judgment as to whether the denomination has any further use for them. But those who would see in these un usual perturbations of the religious atmos phereso different from the usual calm of the May meetings signs of danger or retrogression in the spread of the Christian religion are apt to be utterly mistaken. After all, the supreme significance of these divisions and discussions is that men, both in and out of the churches, are now taking a deeper and a keener interest in religious questions than ever before. They are thinking so intently and earn estly that they are willing to fight for their respective beliefs. If new sects arise from these disputes if there be a shifting of members from one body to an other, the better to accommodate their 'JVR views nothing thereby occurs more than has frequently happened in the past It has never been an argument against the truths of Christianity that all men do not comprehend them in the same light, or with the same force; and it is but a sign of increased mental and spiritual interest and activity when so "many able and careful Students are seeking to square their pro fessions with their actual beliefs. The denominations as already organized, whether they broaden their bases to ac cord with the liberalizing tendencies of the times, or go on upon the old lines, will grow and prosper; for there will always be numbers to find in their doctrines the spiritual expression adapted to their wants. If any new sects arise, these, too, will find followers. As for those clerical and other workers who change from one sect to another, they will doubtlessi discover op portunities for heartier work in their new fields. Meanwhile, when it Is remembered that it is upon questions of mere abstract speculation, or minor questions of con duct, that many of these difficulties have arisen and that upon the leading facts and doctrines of Christianity all the sects are agreed it will be'seen that the dangers which some people see in these contro versies are mostly on the surface. Good, not evil, is most likely in the end to spring from them. RUSSELL HARRISON'S STA1VE NEWS. Mr. Russell Harrison's attempt to put himself in evidence by an announcement that his father "will not be a candidate in" 1892, "'aiid then quickly adding the quali fication' "unless the party demand it," may be classified as rather stale news. The attitude of the supposed Harrison boom all along has been that the President is not a candidate unless the party demands It; but the late Presldental journey' was a vigorous effort to persuade" the party into demanding it Some outbreaks of the or gans with which 3Ir. Russell Harrison Is connected were intended to show the Re publican party that it had got to demand it The discovery that these germs of politi cal persuasion were having the opposite effect is doubtless the cause of this return to the earlier position, together with the information that the President's family do not wish him to be a candidate. In another respect the younger Harrison Is behind time with his news. The Dis patch has, ever since the work of nourish ing the Harrison boom began, pointed out that the President will not be a candidate in 1892. The reasons are so plain that to repeat them now would be invidious and unnecessary. It is natural that the Har rison entourage should be slower to per ceive the impossibility of a renomination than an impartial observer. It is quite possible that they do not yet fully compre hend the degree of truth in the junior Harrison's declaration. But no one with an intelligent idea of politics has enter tained any apprehension that either Presl dental tours or jumping on popular mem bers of the Cabinet would make the Presi dent an eligible candidate for re-election. The one man designated by the present situation as a candidate for 1892, is the Secretary of State, whose broad views and statesmanlike policy have furnished the features which rescued the present ad ministration from almost" complete insig nificance. DECORATION DAY OBSERVANCE. With the drawbacks incident to a rainy Decoration Day on which the storms fortunately held off until most of the cere monies were completed the commemora tion services were appropriately carried out After the memory of the union soldiers had been fitly honored by the morning exercises, the community gener ally devoted itself to the quiet recreation of a holdiday. There were the usual symptoms of the tendencyto make the day one of incongruous revelry, but so few as to argue the general disposition to maintain the spirit as well as the outward observ ance of the day. The thinning ranks of the veteran or ganizations who have special charge of the observance warn us that the time is coming when fee maintenance of Decora tion Day must fall to other hands than the survivors of the war. As long as the Grand Army and Veteran Legion remain in sufficient numbers and vigor to keep up this ceremony the country will be glad to leave it in their hands. But it is evident that another decade will sadly thin their ranks, and that those who are left will be so far subject to the advance of time that they cannot lightly expose themselves to the uncertainties of the weather. It is well, therefore, to think on the methods of conducting decoration exercises when the veterans are no longer able to take charge of the work. The country should see to it that the commemoration Is kept up after every old soldier has gone to .his well earned rest DIVERGENT RACE VIEWS. The acquittal of the Italian girl in New Tork who shot her faithless lover in dicates a divergence of views, in different latitudes on the Italian question. In the New Tork case there was no doubt that the young defendant had committed the act, butrace prejudice did not interfere with sympathy for her circumstances, and she was acquitted on the Impulsive grounds that secured the acquittal of James Nutt for the shooting of Dukes, in the famous case in this section eight years ago. This does not seem to be in harmony with the New Orleans view, which takes Italians out and kills them by mob law after they have been acquitted by the le gal agencies. It is true that the jury ac quitted the accused,both in New Tork and New Orleans; but the New Tork verdict was received with popular approval, while the New Orleans verdict provoked a riot Yet, by purely legal standards, the guilt of Pasquilina Costecelli was more clearly established than that of the victims of the New Orleans lynching. Of course the escape of the Italian girl was caused 'by the sympathy feltby all from the Judge down. But as the recre ant lover was an Italian, perhaps the ver dict of popular opinion in NewTork and New Orleans maybe said to harmonize on the point that any one who kills a bad Ital ian should go free of the law. TAYING FOR PRESIDENTAI. TRIPS. Among numerous comments In connec tion with the question of paying for costly PresidentaltripSjOne suggestion finds favor with some of oUr cotemporarles; The Boston Herald, evidently with the fdea that the Chief Executive should not ac cept as a gift either from corporations or millionaires the large cost of a trip in re gal style, suggests he should follow the example of President Carnot That is to accept the courtesy, as it is called, of the railways, and then hand over the cost to be distributed as a gratuity among the poorest paid employes of the railroad. A critical view w ill arouse a doubt either of the theoretical or practical correctness of that plan. Even supposing It relieves a man from the onus of gift-taking to ac cept a costly benefit from A and hand its price over to B, it may be doubted if President Carnot, who, though a wealthy man, has the reputation of being tolerably frugal, would pay out the cost of a $40,000 trip In this free handed manner. Jt Is a question "whether, If he did, the -money wquld reach employes really the poorest paid, namely section hands, or track, laborers. Jloreover.the proposition does not afford a solution of the question at alt The dis cussion is based on the well-founded pre sumption that a President of moderate fortune cannot afford luxurious trips with out crippling his resources If the President is able to pay the bills the prob lem is easily solved by giving the money to those who furnish cars and transporta tion. But to say that a President must take such trips and pay for them is equiv alent to saying that we must have nothing less than a bi-millionaire in that office. Logically, one of four courses must gov ern Presldental trips. First, a President can pay for such a luxury out of his own pocket; second, he can accept it as a con tribution from some friendly millionaire or corporation; third, he can adopt the private citizen plan of paying for such seclusion and luxury as his means will permit and as his salary Is $50,000 per year It will enable him to travel quite comfortably fourth, he can stay.at home. The two latter courses are democratic ones. The first means that no one but a millionaire must be President The second implies that the interests which place the President under such a costly obligation will he apt to get what they want from the administration. But as they get what they want anyhow,it may not make any material difference if the President does accept favors of them. A DOUBTFUL STORY. One account of the interview between Senator Carlisle and the delegates of the People's party intimates that the ex Speaker dumfounded them. Mr. Carlisle's side of the story was doubtless the only one given, or else the delegates had a very dim idea of the issues on which the Third Party plants itself. One or the other is suggested by the assertion that no one was able to answer Mr. Carlisle's questions, to which there are a 'host of answers, good, bad and indifferent, accord ing to the "economic views of the re spondents. The Senator first asked his visitors if they proposed that the Government should confiscate the railroads. Being told that they did not consider that fair,. he re joined, "Then you must tax yourself $10, 000,000,000 to pay for them." As every reader of The Dispatch knows, it does not support " the proposition for State railways, because as a remedy for corporate abuses that would be a leap from the frying an Into the fire. But what Is represented as a poser from Mr. Carlisle is the easiest part of the problem. If legislative policy should so1 decide, the Government can take the railroads under right of eminent domain, with compensa tion on the basis of actual cash value, which is nearer $5,000,000,000 than $10, 000,000,000. That the question as to how they should be paid for would puzzle a con vention of Third Party men, is somewhat astonishing. The majority of that clas3 would have no hesitation in saying that the Government printing presses would turn out the money fast enough. A more conservative answer, would be that the holders of railroad securities would gladly exchange them for Government bonds at lower interest than railroad securities now bear. But, according to the report, Senator Carlisle's visitors could only say something about there being too great a concentration of the money power. To this Senator Car lisle is said to have asked if they- proposed to say that when a man has earned a cer tain sum he shall he permitted to earn no more, which is asserted to have been an other poser. Considering the variety of theories brought together at Cincinnati, we must decline to credit such statement' There were plenty of propositions there which are advanced as a cure to that evil. Most are ill-considered, but their advocates are running over with arguments to prove their efficacy. It is incredible that when confronted with such a question the Third Party men did not all commence to talk at once. Either this report i revised in Mr. Car lisle's interest with the inconvenient re plies left out, or Mr. Carlisle was visited by a lot of bogus Third Party men. Tour genuine Third Party leader when incited by such questions would have had answers enough to keep him talking for a month. Suspicions are increasing that the wily Chileans played a fineand successful game on our new navy. At all events we .are) not bothered about any nice diplomatic ques tions arising out of fhe capture of the elusive Itata. . The slips story writers make in details are frequent and sometimes excusable, as when Thackeray makes George Warrington escape from Fort Daquesne and go to the field of Bradcjock's defeat "along a level plain." But -writers of the present day ought to get their facts about prominent battles of the Civil War within reach of correctness. Yet one being published serially In a city about fifty miles from Gettysburg com mences its last enstallment by Baying, "The first day of Gettysburg was over," and then speaking of "the deadheapedalongthe slope of Cemetery Hill." That budding novelist needs to overhaul his war history and learn that the first day of Gettysburg was fought on the other side of Gettysburg from Ceme tery Hill. The tax bill, as finally got throughj is understood to impose Increased taxes on the great corporations unless that interest finds some hole in the bill through which It can drive a coach and four. "A Newspapek with a little courage and conscience seems to be a good deal of a novelty in some parts of Pennsylvania, but it is not likely to be so forever," remarks the Philadelphia Press. Yes; when party disci pline compels a newspaper to support a can didate whom it previously declared to be unfit, -with arguments which it repudiates after election, it would seem as if there is a good deal of foundation for" that opinion among the party organs. Mb. Ixgaixs names several conditions under which the Republican party can ex pert to meet a Waterloo. Mr. IngnJJs is in a position to speak from experience on Waterloos. The latest phase of the reports about that trial of tho Vesuvius' dynamite guns is that the guns were not provided with Bights of any kind, were not ranged, and that the valves of two were not in working order. Hence the bad lecord. But was it the duty of no one to see that the guns were provided with these things ; or was it for the interest of those whose duty it was to see to them to make the trial a failure T "China for the Chinese" is a cry that has got to be put down. The Idea that any part of the world Is for any one except the all-conquering Caucasian is a rello of bar barism. M. Alexajidbe Dumas thinks that a novel should not bo wrUtoh merely to amuse, but to convey an instructive lesson. Zola claims to Instruct; but Dumas is -unfeeling enough to call his ideal movement a reaction against Zolalsm? StiU a perusal of some of the Dumas stories as well as the Zola stripe will show them both to convey W3&; PCTTSBTJBG- - piSPATOHjp STJNDSrMAT 3l;1891., in' i ' '" ' ' instruction in favor ot leaving French light literature alone. Mexico, though possessing an extensive sea-coast, has no navy whatever, Up to date this has resulted in keeping Mexico out of serious international complications. Some two weeks ago The Dispatch published an interview with ex-President Hayes in whioh that gentleman himself stated that he experienced bad results from an attack of the grip, in the shape of serious loss of memory. This is the genesis of the recent revival of the same report, sensation alized to the degree of representing General Hayes as In the last stages. Between epistolary politicians and dis ciplinary church congresses, this is a period when all classes are duly provided wjth ex citement. The inability of a political organ to see more than one side Of the case IS exemplified by the remark of the New Tork Press that "therearo signs of Democratic quarrels ap proaching to the verge of disruption." Have any of the Democratio organs published a cartoon of an opposing Democratic leader as a chicken thief t ' A baiky Deooration Day "was one of the expressions of the perversity of this season's weather, , The Czarevitch is going to Paris. He is confident the police there will not whack1 him over the head. The record of the Paris police in the late strike riots can be taken as proof positive that they will not whack any thing over the bead. ponrrs oh persons. Mes. Jepfeeson Davis, who is at pres ent in New York, denies that she is going to reside Jri Richmond. WnjiiAK Stewabt, a blind law student, heads the list in the results of the final ex amination in connection with the Ontario taw School. Eobeet Browning's son has a beauti ful home in London, which he and bis wife, an American woman, are about to give up for a residence in Yenice in an old palace. Kobebt E. Lee, when in the United States army, over 60 years ago, prepared river improvement charts, which are still in use in St Louis. Miss-Estelxe M. Cali-en, newly ap pointed Master in Chancery of Livingston county, 111., is a brunette whose good looks are -outweighed by her sound sense and ability for the dispatch of business. Senob Antonio Batbes, the new Min ister to Washington from Guatemala, has filled this office once before, and still longer ago was Secretary of the Legation. He has. an Income or $10,000 rrom his cocoa planta tion. M. A. HANNA, a prominent ship owner and politician of Cleveland, is the owner of the manuscript from which General Grant made his memorable speech at Warren In the Garfield campaign. It was a present from the General himself. " Judge Taft could never recall his can didacy for the nomination to the Governor ship of Ohio without chagrin not because he was defeated, but because he -was so woe fully deceived by a horde of CInclnnatlans who made him promises they never kept. Owen County Bbeckinbidge, a lawyer of the Pacific coast, owes 9. portion of his name to a romantio circumstance. In 1853 John C. Breckinridge was running for Con gress in Kentucky, and Owen county gave him the viotory, and to a son born upon the day of the election he gave the county's name as an expression of his gratitude. Ex-Govebnob Ames was once asked to pay a physician $1,000 for services which tho wealthy patient did not consider worth that much. But, as his medical adviser would not reduce the bill 1 cent, two checks for $M0 each were sent In payment, one dis tinctly stating that it was for professional attendance, and the other "for extortion." The doctor framed the latter check and has It In view in his ofQce to-day. KubissteinJ in'hisaew and yet unfin-! isnea dook, "Alusio ana Musicians," win iase the ground that Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz' were notreformersi but placed obstacles in the way of progress in the art. Of himself, the Russian said: "I am one of the have beens." This statement leads a Paris correspondent to remark that this composer has always disparaged his own work. Nearly 20 years ago, -when asked by a friend -what ho bad been doing during the summer, he tersely replied: "Spoiling music paper." Theodobe Deck, the great French potter, who died & fortnight ago. Was for 11 years administrator of the Manufacture Ra tionale de Porcelalne in Sevres. By birth an Alsatian, and by early education a stove- maker, he came to Paris In 1856, and, still in 1 the same trade, began to study to rediscover, the lost art of making transparent enamel, and finally succeeded. At the exhibition of decorative arts In Paris in 1880 and lSSt he attained world-wide . celebrity with his vases in red, turquois, Deck-blue and other colors. In 1878 he was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honor. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHEBE. Charles AraU Joy. Charles Arad Joy, formerly professor of chemistry in Columbia College, died at his home in Stockbridge, Ma8Si Friday morninif. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him In Gottlngen, Germany, and again in Paris. He was called to the chair of chemistry In Union College, which he held until 1857. At that time he was ap pointed to tne professorship of chemistry In Colum bia. Heheldthisplaceimtill877. Prof. Joy was a member of the Juries of the International World's Fairs of tondon, Paris, Vienna and Philadelphia, and was also a member of many scientific societies. He was elected President of the Lyceum of Natural History In 1S66. He was also President of tho American Photographic Society, Chairman of the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, and Foreign Secretary of the American Geograph ical Society. He at one time held the editorship of the Scientific American, and was also editor of the Journal of Applied Vhemistrv. General Gustavns A. DeKnssoy. General Gustavus A. .DeRussey, who re tired from acurePsTice''iinder the operation of the law of November V1882, died at his resi dence In Detroit Friday afternoon. General De Russey was born In Brooklyn In 1818, and after graduating from West Point entered the army lit 1811. Hchadaflno military record, serving with distinction In the Mexican War and the War of the BebcUlon. Erasmus Morey. ' , Erasmus Morey, who died Sunday at Benezette, Elk county. Pa., was 95 years old. His early davs were spent In hunting and Indian fight ing. Itwas In 1813 that ho came to the wilderness of that portion of the Stale now caued Elk county. Two years ago he had his monument erected in Mount Zion Cemetery, near Benezette, and pur chased his coffin at the same time. Obituary Notes. Ex-POSTJIASTEB BictIaEDs WELSH, of Annap olis, dropped dead Friday- Thomas Mooguen died yesterda y at his residence on Voeghtley htrtet, Allegheny, at the age or 78 icirs. Ills funeral will occur Monday from St. Piter's Church, Allegheny.- - Bistfr Maky JosEFlt MCRBA.Y, a teacher of higher mathematics at Mount Resiles, Md.. died Friday evening of pneumonia. She was SO years or age and had been a nun S3 J ears. Harry C. Was ajiaxer, an own cousin of the Postmaster General, died at Carversvllle. N.J., on Thursday of pneumonia. Two hours later his wife died of the same disease. Each was 56 years old. Samuel Glass father of Rev. S. J. Glass, pastor of the McClure Avenue rreabytertan Church, died yesterday at the age of 73 years.. The funeral win occur from the residence of-hisf son Monday after noon Mrs. MAurMASOX Joxes, a member or one of the oldest and wealthiest families of New York City, and a woman who occupied a prominent place in New York society years ago, died Thurs day night. Mrs. SaeaSlWilliams, widow of the late Reese Williams, died'yesterday at her home on Preble avenue, Allegheny. Shi was 77 years of age. The funeral will occur from the late residence of de ceased Monday at 2 r. X. Major Feank B. Hamilton; who obtained a promotion one week ago, died Friday of dropsy at Ills station at Fort Adams, B. I. During the war he fonght In IS engagements and was brevetted for meritorious conduct at Gettysburg. NeriPine, apromlnent lawyer of Blnghamton, N. Y died Wednesday at tho Sta!t Hospital for the insane In that cltv. aged S3. Ho had been an Inmate- of the Institution for about a week, and died of acute mania ami exlianstluu. Lieutenant Commandib William Harwab Parker, United States Navy, died Thursday at his home in Washington of pleurisy. He was bom in Rhode IsUnd on May 4-18r. being descended from the Virginia Parker family, of which three generations served with distinction In the navy. ' MURRAY'S. MUSINGS. A Distinguished BosiIan' Craze for Cook ingSpooks in Centra Park, New Tork Scenes on the L Xtosuls Daisies at Nickel Each. rBOM A STAW COEBESrOIfDENT. Jfxw York, May JO. "That story about the bachelor cooking fad," remarked a traveler at the Hoffman, "reminded me of the distin guished Russian -who took the culinary craze some SO years ago. He was a very wealthy gentleman, and, having nothing to do and a good deal of time to do it In, began experi menting in cookery. He wasn't satisfied to simply monkey with a chafing dish like your Now Yorkers, but took. up the whole subject. He went to Paris, put himself under a famous chef and studied the art with the same zedl that a young Bculptor would study his business in Borne. Wnen he had mas tered all tho French then known ho returned to Russia, set up a kitchen for himself and ran It for his own amusoment. "It was probably the most elaborate and expensive affair of tho kind ever built. He brought rare edibles from all parts of the world, and pursued the work of getting them into the most palatable forms with much en thusiasm. Nearly everything was wasted in experiments, hut be succeeded in the course of time In inventing numerous dishes now known to chefs and even ordinary cooks everywhere. He was the originator, among other equally Important things, of the cus tom of serving certain kinds of wines with certain dishes a custom now" followed in every civilized country, to the early destruc tion of the human stomach. Having spent his entire fortune in these gastronomlcal re searches, he was finally compelled to go to Paris and cook for a living." . ' Desecrating Central Park. The extraordinary number of suicides in Central Park has clouded some of the more lonely and retired portions of that charming resort with disagreeable "bugaboos," Laying aside the question as to bow any sane man can sit down in the midst of the most beauti ful manifestations of Nature and convincing evidences of God and deliberately blow his brains out, and the doubts as to whether any suicide is really sane, the consequences of this growing tendency to so desecrate the garden spot of New York naturally reacts unpleasantly upon the place itself. The Influence is unfortunately exerted chiefly upon the minds of little children. Morbid womankind in the guise of nurses Is thereby furnished fresh material to weave the customary ghostly stories to entertain the young. These nurses are not unfrequent ly seen jui the shadowy recesses of the Ramble with their youthful charges clus tered about their knees retailing to each other the horrible details of the latest crime of this nature. If the little ones are there after startled by every rustling leaf, and shiver with every changing shadow, it is no wonder. But it is almost a crime to fill the minds of young children with such things, and parents ought to take the necessary steps to prevent it. Boom Service Jn Gotham Hotels. "Eicsrmo the big Continental hotels," said a gentleman at an uptown hostelry, "the New York hotels are the best In the world. There is one particular, however, Jn which they are weak. The room service is usually had. What I mean Is, the matter of attendance. I live in hotels the year 'round, and in New York hotels at teast four months out of every .year. At the hotel where my wife and I are stopping 1 noticed recently that our breakfast which is served in our room was invariably cold. If you complain at the office you will get the reputation of a kicker. Our room waiter invariably forgets the sugar, the cream, the napkins or some thing. This morning I found the following scrawl in my napkin; 'The guest who remem bers the waiter will be well served.' ' "Although I am ordinarily liberal in my tips where we get our other meals, I had some times overlooked this fellow. Well, I took that note to the office, thinking to do the manager a good turn. It wasn't received that way. The entire office force gave me a pretty cold shoulder, politely declared that I must be mistaken as to the service, but said they would look into it. Now, I can't stand that, and must go to another house. Never complain at the office. Kick the waiter, if necessary, bus jou might as well leave at once if you complain. This is a pretty air sample of hotel annoyance. Abroad, excellent room service is the rule. In this country it is the exception. In other respects I prefer the New Toik hotels to any others lit the world." Seeing the City From on High. "It is just like Paris or London,you know," was the excited comment of a lady seated high up on the roof of a Fifth avenue stage. 'And-lf it'lsn't 'tJusft like"-this ride up from the-growing Washington Arch to Central Park is a strong reminder of "London from the Enifeboard," and the pleasant hours to be spent on top of the Parisian busses. In Now York the possession of the roof is most vigorously contested by ladle;. It is the vantage ground from which the visitor to the metropolis gets the best view of the storied wealth and grandeur of Fifth avenue. In the cool of the evening it is where tired shop girls and their ardent escorts, young couples, arrayed like McGinty fcrthefr best suits of clothes, take a happy evening out above the madding crowd. Ten cents a pair goes immeasurably further on top of a Fifth avenue stage than twice the money in ice cream. - The inside of the stage may bo empty it usually is in fair weather as long as one va cant seat remains on top but the seeker after fresh air and the sights of the streets de clines to ride anywhere else hut-on the roof. If four times the number of coaches were run the roof seats could contain but a small proportion of those who delight to use them at certain hours of the day. At present if you desire to enjoy the finest street of resi dence in the world from the most advan tageous point of view you must go down to Washington place and start with the stage. And right there is where you occasionally get the additional treat of a dozen half hysterical women and shouting young girls scrambling up a steep, crooked, eight-inch stairway for the first time. From that time you will probably think the abolition of the old Broadway stages was a mistake, and that all they needed was a double row of roof seats to have converted them into a Joy for ever. The Business of Fruit Vending. It is often a matter of speculation how the multitude of street venders in New York make a Jiving. In the vicinity of the post office, opposite tho Astor House, are always to be seen numerous push carts, some con taining nothing hut bananas, invariably pro pelled by lazy-looking sons of Italy. Watch them for an hour, or as long a tlmo as you can spare, and the chance sales are so small, so few and far between, that it doesn't seem possible that enough business can be done to yield a profit sufficient to keep soul and body togother. Yet very few of them but turn out fiom $1 to $2 a day clear of ex penses. An average of $1 50 per day, rain or shine, is not unusual. There are no expenses beyond the small capital invested in a hunch of the succulent tropical fruit. Very often this Is furnished by another Italian who may own a number of these carts and various street stands, while the venders are operating on shares or commissions. This capitalist ia a sort of padrone, and having himself sprung from the ranks, requires a scrupulous ac counting from his poorer countryman, whose ambitipn to own a cart and his own trade is almost sure to be realized in the courso of time. Tho latter Is then ready to marry and run an establishment of his on n. He can earn as much as the average day laborer, but he must be about tho streets early and late. The police regulations compel him to keep moving. Any persistent vlolations"of these rules is likely to got him into trouble, though "the finest" are very lenient in the exercise of their discretion in this respect. The fruit caits isbutono of the many sources of liveli hood of tho street vender, but its meager simplicity appeals most powerfully to tho imagination of tho observer. Dlsadantages of Itapld Transit, There Is rather a sharp curve of the ele vated Just above Park Place-there aiotwo sharp turns, in fact and sometimes tho trains go slashing aronnd them at a pretty stiff speed. The streets -are so narrow here that the curves necessarily bow out beyond the lines of rails and the train whips in ngain just as the engineer begins to open thetrot tlo for the straightaway course. This gives a sort of crack-the-whip eftecttotho last car and nobody on earth without that fore knowledge of the peculiarity gained by ex perience can stand up unsupported und pre serve his equilibrium at these turns. It takes something of an acrobat to do it then. There Is always more or loss pitching into somebody's lap, and treading upon some body's toes, nnd punching of umbrellas and canes into somebody's eyes and a ludicrous disarrangement of dignity and 'polite languages generally. To render this more effectual the innocent Park Place people are just rising to get out, oraronot jet seated upon getting in, going down .or ud, as the case may be. In one sense it is usually The" other day a couploof gontlcmen com ing up tho street below fiom the river were cluittlng about this. It ns perhaps natural, as they were approaching the curve and had gone through -the experience described n thousand times. Perhaps it was natural they should pause at the curve and from the safe distance of jthe curb note the action of the wheels upon the rails. At any rate they they did so. At the same time thoy dts-1 joru a new xuiKin tne pnenomenon. Tor the oscillation of the locomotive tender suddenly threw out about a tubfulofcoid water from the tank, and, unlike the gentle rain from heaven that falls alike upon the just and unjust, that shower just fell upon these two philosophers, ruined Just two spring suits, sent tho cold chills up and down Just two spinal columns, and made Just two men go up town in a cab swearing mad. All the rest of the Just and unjust world got away. m Pillage of the Twiggs Mansion. "I served on General Butler's staff," said Port Warden Comstock, "was over four years in the army, but never fired a pw was promoted fdr gallantry on the field and never was in a battle, and, in fact, never saw a rebel In arms, and I don't get a pen sion. I didn't carry away any spoons from New Orleans, but I've got Shakespeare, J3yron and Moore In leather that I brought away from the Twiggs mansion-, where we made onr headquarters while in New Or leans. If anybody got away with the Bpoons it would notbe strange. The distinguished rebel family that moved out for us left the family silver and everything else, and we moved in and took possession and used the abandoned property, as we had under the laws of war a perfect right to do. "Wo found the famous Twlgge . swords there. They have long been on exhibition nt Washington. The Twiggs heirs are try ing to get all theso things back, but they'll have as hard a time to trace that library, I'm afraid, as they will tho spoons." Farming Ought to Pay. The Broadway florists will sell you a single daisy for S cents. It does the heart or a farm-bred man good to note the dignity to which this simple sheep-pasture flower has been raised in the great metropolis. At the same time he is apt to stagger under a men tal calculation as to his probable income from the old place based on daisies at 5 cents apiece. Trie TJblqntoui New Yorker. "The number of New Yorkers out In our State," said a 8eattle man, "would astonish you if you were not accustomed to meeting them everywhere there ns I am. Washing ton is chiefly settled by Eastern men. I think a greater proportion come from Now York than from any other State, so far as every thing but farming is concerned. Sen ator Fassett, the Chairman of your State Republican Committee, and several other prominent New Yorkers have large invest ments out there, though they probably never expect to live in that State, in Seattle you can meet New York men you know here at all hours of the day and night. They are mostly aning pretty wen. J.I Horace ureeiey ey were alive he would amend his famous ad- monition and say: 'Go to Washington, young uiuu, gu iu n asmngion. " As Jenny Llnd Saw It. Those who know Castle Garden only as an emigrant station will scarcely know It now that it has been denuded of the unsightly wooden sheds and stalls and lanes and fences that wholly concealed the old forti fication. The Castle now stands boldly out with its rusty stone -walls and deep embras ures, just aslt stood years ago when the fiecrless Jenny Llnd first entertained an en husiastlo audience of Gotham's swell so ciety. Trunks of the Stage lights. "Theatrical trunks," observed a Sixth avenue tradesman who .makes a specialty of that line of goods, "must combine lightness with strength. This trunk does not come under that head." He placed his hand upon a grim-looking iron-bound chest about 1 feet long, 2 feet wide and about IS inches deep. "This weighs empty about 100 pounds, and when loaded for the road is about 700 or 800 fiounds. It is the lithograph trunk and is he belonging of the advance agent. He carries lithographs in it. We recently fitted out a company with 30 willow trunks, canvas covered. The heavy charges for weight brought them out. The manager is not en thusiastic over the result after one season among the baggage smashers. "Every actor and actress of importance must have two trunks, one for the theater and one for the hotel. Stars and other lead-' ing people must have from four to a dozen. The theatrical trunk has specially arranged compartments to facilitate operations In small, crowded dressing rooms. They have to be as strong as a drummer's trunk to stand morie than a couple of seasons on the road." Charles Theodore M curat. PH0T0GEAPHING THE SEAS. The Practice Is to Be Controlled by Law in Austria Hereafter. British Medical Journal. It appears that a somewhat morbid enstpm exists am6ng the Viennese of having the dead bodies of children and other persons dear to them photographed, and for this pur pose the corpse used to be taken to the pho tographer's studio. The attention of the sanisjtry authorities having been drawn to the danger of the dissemination of infectious disease- by this practice, a decree has been Issued by the Austrian Minister of the In terior absolutely forbidding the" photograph ing of corpses in studios open to the public, and the photographing of bodies of persons who have died of any infectious disease by Jjrofessional photographers, even in private lousesv Exception is made of cases in which such photographs may be required for police or medico-legal purposes. In the case of persons who have died of non-infectious disease, the corpses may be photographed at the private residence of the deceased, subject to the approval and on the responsibility of th medical official whose dnty it is to verify deaths. This ordinance came into force on April L T0LB BY MAEK TWAIN. A Clerk In a Bookstore Makes a Great Display of Knowledge. Buffalo Courier. t Mark Twain told a good story the other day. It illustrates his point that. all the clerks In our bookstores are not well In formed In literary matters. The humorist's wife and a friend recently w ent .into a book store in a city of good size 'not many miles from New York. Accbsting a clerk, Mrs. Clemens said that her friend desired to secure a copy of Taine's "Ancient Regime." "Beg pardon," said the clerk, "what book did yon say t" Mrs. Clemens repeated the author and title of the book. Going to the rear of the store the clerk soon returned, only to Inquire: "Mav I ask you to repeat the name of the anthor?" "Why, Talno," replied Mrs. Clemens, be coming a littlo annoyed Assuming an air of Superior knowledge, and looking at his customers with a piteous glance of sympathy, he ventured to Mrs. Clemens: "Pardon me, madam, but you have the name a'trifle wrong. You mean Twain not Talne." AN ANECDOTE OF VOff X0LTKE. He Meets the Bepresentatlves of Famous Generals In School. One day Moltke stopped at a boarding school kept by a parson in a illage near his Sllesian country seat, nnd sat down to hear the teacher instruct the scholars mostly young nobles preparing for the army on the wars of France and Prussia. The cler gyman being called away for a moment, Moltke asked to be allowed to take his place. Before long he asked one of the pupils: "Who, do you think, was Napoleon's best general?" "My granduncle. Your Excel lency, Marshal Ney, Prlnco of the Moskwn," was the answer. Turning to another boy, he nsked: "And who w natho bravest of Prti'rfia's generals in the same wart" "Myeronduncle, Marshal Prince Bluchor," said he. There was also a descendant of General Zleten among Ihem. When the clergyman re turned, Von Moltko said, with a humorous glance at his own plain civilian dress, "Oh,1 my dear Herr Pastor, you should have told me before that I -was to find such famous generals represented here." He invited nil the boys to visit him nt Ereisan, and gave them a most hospltablo reception. A COOL MAIDEN. Sho Teaches a Beckless Car Driver a Lesson in a Quiet Manner.. Providence Junrnal.l A few days ago ns a Broad street car wos approaching tho railroad crossing on tho down trip the "bells tinkled for a coming railroad train and tho gates began to come slowly down. Seeing this the driver hurried his horses so as to cross the railroad before the train arrived and thus save the waiting time. Among tho passengers was a young lady who took in the situation, and who was somewhat frightened. But she aid not lose her head. Notatnll. Not wishing to cross the railroad track under the then existing circumstances, she calmly pulled the bell as a signal that she wished to disembark. The driver obeyed the signal of toutwe. " When the cur stopped tho danger- was over and she did not wish to discmbai k, go she quietly re mained in her seat. Tho railroad train passed safely by, and the street car resumed its -way, but It was some little-time before the driver regained his placidity, If looks are anything to judge by. THE ODD SIDE OF Xim Mew John S, Sullivan Met General Hay -Riches Thrust Upon Him Dreams and Doors Broken The Pirate Kbit Lait Tear True Talea by the Topical Tsdker. Decoration Dat brings to mind no more heroic soldier son of Pittsburg than General Alexander Hays, and itwas only the other day that I met in a far-away corner of Arkansas one of his aides-de-camp, John S. Sullivan, who told me many thrilling tales of which General Hays was the hero. Mr. Sullivan, who married a daughter of Gen eral Hays, by the way, and is one of the roost substantial citizens In Jefferson City, Mo., dwelt with peculiar delight upon the first time he met General "Hays on the morn ing of July 3, 18G3, the final day of the ter rible three at Gettysburg. "I was ordered on that morning by the Colonel of my regiment to take up a oertaln position with a detail of men," said Mr. Sul livan, "and I had written orders to that effect, with the added proviso that I -was not to move at anyone's command, not even a General's, I was a First LievTtenant then, and had a clear Idea of obeying orders at all events. Well, I bad not been there long when a certain Major Hammond, of the regular army, came np and wanted me .to move my men further to the right. I de clined to do it, and told him of my orders. He got angry. So did L He said something abusive and I told him that if he didn't clear out I'd cut his ears off. He vent away In a towering rage. I held my position all day, but in the evening I was summoned to Gen eral Hays' headquarters. He was in com mand of the brigade. When I entered the tent General Ilays, whom I had never seen before, said in answer to mv salute: 'This is a serious charge Major Hammond makes against you, Lieutenant Sullivan. He says you threatened to cut off his ears.' " 'Let me read my -written orders first, General,' I replied, and he giving me per mission, I read the orders, and explained why I had threatened to take liberties with the major's ears. General HaysJtdn'ttake Jong to decide, but, as soon as I had finished, said with great emphasis: "Lieutenant Sul livan, you did perfectly right, and If that major bothers you again, cut his ears on I Goodnight!' . , .. "I never saw him again till I received an appointment on his' staff. After that was with him till he fell in the Wilderness." Had to Get Rich. "I tell you sometimes riches are forced upon a man," said a NewTork real estate man to me the other day. "I'll illustrate my meaning by a case from actual life. A man named O'Neill had built up a nice little trade In a restaurant where oysters were a specialty on a very desirable corner In Sixth, avenue, New York, when In 1879 the 'wner of the property died. O'Neill's lease ran out shortly after and the heirs of the estate re fused to renew it. They -wanted to sell it, and it was pnt up at auction in due time. O'Neill was willing to pay $150,000 for the property. He-had $50,000 of his own and could raise another$100,000 on mortgage. The bidding began and somebody ran It np against O'Neill till the price went be yond his pile. He wouldn't bid above $150,000, which at that time was a big price for the property. He felt very badly when other parties bid $160,000. Alibis labor foryears in building up a business seemed to have been for nothing. But, as he was turning to leave the room. Captain Ells worth, the oyster dealer and yachtsman, who was a stranger almost to him, touched O'Neill on the shoulder and said: 'Bid $25,000 more! I'll lend it to you. This O'Neill did, and be got the property for $175,000. If you know anything about New York yon do not need telling that O'Neill never has regretted his investment, and I know that he nas re fused $100,000 for that corner of his. But for the timely aid 12 years ago who can say that he would nave aoquired riches as he has." Slumber Miles Seep. "I had an experience last night," said a gentleman who lives in the East End, "that ought to have turned my hair white. I was down town in the evening, and while there received word of a relative's ileath. That turned m? thoughts into a gloomy channel, I suppose, but there was nothing particular the matter with me when I reached home about 11 o'clock. My wife had been out with me in the afternoon; so had the baby, and both tired by the exercise and the open njr had retired early, as indeed they are wont to do generally. My sister had gone to her room also, but I stopped at her door as I passed to tell her of the death in the family. Then I went on to my own room. Itwas locked, for my wife has the East End fear of burglars and believes in keeping a door between tho baby and any sort o'f danger. I knocked. There was no answer. I knocked again. Still no reply. I put a little more force into my knuckles and called to my wife. Silence still reigned within the room. My sister came out to see what Was the matter, and we both knocked at the door and called as loudly as we could. I was thoroughly alarmed, and as I re doubled my efforts to arouse my wife, a vision of her and the babe lying dead upon the Tied floated clearly before my mind's eye, and It drove me frantic. I fancied I smelt gas; .and remembered the gas fire was. usually kept burning. Perhaps It had gone out and then come on again. " 'Go down and get a ladder and climb into the room from the outside, my sUter sug gested. I started to try that plan, but I had not descended six steps before I guess my senses left me, and I ran back and with one mad runh went clear through the door, scat tering splinters everywhere. My wife was not dead,. but nearly scared to death. She hadjustwakedupas I burst through the door, and fell over again on the pillow from which sho bad raised herself. It was simply a case of deep slumber. And the baby, more wonderful still, slept through the whole scene." The Pirate King's Pluck. "I wosnxa whether J. Palmer O'Neill, re membered yesterday the last time ho took a team to play ball in Brooklyn!" said a base ball expert to me yesterday. "I was with ttin Pittshnrz Lenirue team when it landedat Jersey City, bound to play1 the last scries of the disastrous season or isso in lirooklyn. They had great difficulty In raising the monevtorjav ferryboat fares to Brooklyn, and things were awfully blue- It was rain ing hard when I metMr.D'Neill later that morning at Spalding's .Broadway store, and the prospects of taking the $150 guarantee at the game In the afternoon were very slim. But the Pirate King, although he had not won that title then, was not a bit downcast. Some newspaper reporters came into the store while I was there, and when they asked Mr. O'Neill about his club and the outlook for the League generally, he said enthusiastically: 'Never betterl never better I We shall come out on top. sir, sure. We've got the winning cards and we mean tn nlnv them I' At that moment he must have been casting about in his mind for a - , .tK .. .? H.nnl.1. v. 1... !.(.. Way tO gov UltJ V1UU Vllb Ul A, UVJllJ Jl, UUV 1119 voice never showed a tremor: he wore his largest and mott confident smile, and used the most rosy words in his Vocabulary to paint the Pittsburg club's condition. Snch pluck compelled the latcs to relent, I sup pose, for sure enough the rain soon nfter stopped, the sun came out, enough of a crowd attended the ball game to insuro the guarantee, and finally J. Palmer went out of Brooklyn with $2,000 or more in his clothes. How he must appreciate the comparative picnic of to-day Vf 1 THEEE 01? A KIND, A little Comedy in Which" Theatrical Man agers Take Part. Argonaut.! ACT I. Manager Stetson (in a towering rage, appear ing before a new drop curtain -in the Globe Theater) "Who painted thotdrop curtain!" JssUtant ifncetiouslvl "Michael Angelo." Stetson "Discharge him at once." ACT 1L, .Tmin f nf thn nresa. to J. H. Havorlv. rival manager) "DIdyou hear that last story of Stetson?" Haverly"So; what Is it?" 'Jones .nepcnis us uuuvo.; xai.c.y, t...... forced and uncertnln laugh) "Oh. I soJ! There aln'taiosuch person." act m. . jb,K-"StctSQii, did you hear that Joke on HiiverU?" Stetson "No: whntJ-Ut?' Joiict "Well, you know I told him abont yonr wunting to aisouarge jiicuaei .iiis". nui ho pretended to understand the joko and said: 'Oh, I see! There ain't no such per son.'" Stetson (after an embarrassed pause) "Oh! ha, ha! Yes; he ought to have said there uxzrn't no such person." LOST OPPORTUNITIES. I mourn for my lost opportunities ! ( Dim, ghot-llke forms Inunt me on every side; Do when I will, some sad despsring face Will turn'to,me with wit. reproach f til eyes: And, with accusing Snu-r.i. point to all The good they mtghthave done, had I so willed. They haunt me In the stUlncsa of the night. And through the turmoil of the busy day I hear the echo of their plaintive tones, , Sad as the cry Of some despairing soul, Tin I cry out in tears, "Forbear, forbear." HAMI-TOX, IOWA. FL0&I3CX A. JOSSB. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. J Pari has 2,422,989 inhabitants. Four-headed snakeyCare again reported from North Carolina. A dove at Dana, Mass., set on a hen's egg and hatched out a fine chick. X Johnstown, Pa., pug Hog has a mania for jumping on and off moving trains. Iron corrodes with great rapidity at. or abont the temperature of boiling water. After a Beaver county man had burned a log he found in the ashes a lump of silver worth $250. Some valuable pearls have recently been found in mussels taken from the Salmon river, New York. In the gizzard of a hen killed at Xebec, Me., last week, was found a small gold pin lost ten years ago. The thrifty Selectmen of Thompson ville, Conn., hire out certain of their insane poor to the highest bidder. A Louisiana farmer is reported to be the possessor of a cow which is only the size of a good-sized Newfoundland dog. Two prisoners- in the Doylestown, Pa., jail allowed to attend the circus the other day, returned to their cells after their pleas ure. An Ostrander, O., woman was caught by the pilot of a locomotive, the other day, and carried three-quarters of a mile without sus: taining injury. The word "preface," used in the begin ning of books, was originally a word of wel come to a meal and was equivalent to "Much good may It do you." A cow accidentally shut up in a bam at Cedar.Eapids, Ia.r stayed there four weeks without food or water. She was not much injured by her long fast. The brass bands that are to furnish the music for Boston Common this summer are prohibited from playing anything but sacred music on Sundays. A tramp in Indianapolis stole a bar of soap, and the victim was so overcome when he discovered his loss that he followed up the thief and gave him a quarter. While an Eagle Point, Mich., woman wa fondling a pet dog, her cat became so overcome by jealousy that It sprang tipon the lady and severely bit her In the arm. In the public parks, reservations and streets within the city limits of Washington are more than 120,000 trees and shrubs. These comprise 127 genera, with 7 distinct species. An Alabama cat has a mania for stealing young chickens from their natural mothers and raising them-herself. She Is generally successful in making them fine hens and roosters. It is a singular fact that, while the ma jority of the officials at the Maidenstone jail, in Kent, England, are suffering from in fluenza, thus far not one of the prisoners has been attacked. A Maine man has applied for divorce from hjs four weeks' bride on the ground that she refused to .learn her husband's re cipe for flap-Jacks and avowed that her mother's way was good enough lor her. A Covington, Ga., liveryman has a dog which, besides carrying packages for his master, goes foraging for useful articles. Thursday he trotted into a store, picked up a fine curry comb and hurried to the stable with it. ' The real bloodhounds and the donkey were found insufficient by a theatrical man ager in tho West to keep up the interest In "Uncle Tom's Cabin." So he has introduced a balloon ascension and a parachute jump, and "Uncle Tom" goes on as merrily as ever. The reports of the Russian insurance companies for the yea 1S90 show large defi cits In consequence of the fires that raged in every part of the empire last summer. "Official investigation proved that more than one-third of those fires was the work of in cendiaries." The mules of the cbal mines, near Evans vllle, Ind, were hoisted out recently. Some of them had not seen daylight for eight years. The smallest thing frightened them, a flying bird causing them to jump, while upon seeing a dog they would stand and tremble with terror. A remarkable volume will soon be pre sented to the Harvard University library. It contains manuscript .copies of all the commencement programmes of the college from 1780 to 1S00, and specimens of the Order of commencement exercises at intervals from the first graduation in 1012 to the Revo lutionary war. Intelligence received from Ambor, Ind., gives the particulars of a peculiar and terri ble misfortune which befell a woman of that place. The other day she started to a neigh bor's and had walked but 30 yards when she was stricken totally blind, she was taken back homo und an hour later became a rav ing maniac, and before midnight she was dead. The French Army budget for next year is larger by 78,000,000 francs than in 1S9L In accordance with the increased amount, 321 officers, 7,500 men and 1,015 horses are to be added to the army. Two new cavalry regi ments will be formed- The army of France, for time of peace, will then muster -13,000 offi cers, 517,000 men, 25,600 gendarmes and 130,000 hordes. The "angry tree," a woody plant, which grows from 10 to 25 feet high, and was formerly supposed to exist only in Nevada, has recently been found both In Eastern California and in Arizona. 'If disturbed, this peculiar tree shows every sign of vexa tion, even to ruffling up its leaves like the hair on an angry cat, andgiving forth an un pleasant, sickening odor. For proteetion against fire the town of Stillwater, Kan., has a way that is quite a novel one. Every business man basa barrel of water in front of his store, which is so fixed that the hung can be easily knocked out, and, In case of a Are, the barrels can soon be centered In one place- At aflro there last week they were successful In con fining the fire to one place. Travelers on the Gotthard" Kailway are witnessing Jnst nown marvelous spectacle. The valley of the Reuss is one mass of spring flowers and blossoms, and here and there the scene Is Interrupted by the snow masses of the avalanches that are making their Krueome way from all tho peaks, and thrust a pieco of icy midwinterinto the midst of all the beauty of a Swiss spring. At Queretaro, near Mexico, soap is the currency of the place, and a legal tender for the payment of debts. The cakes are about the size of common brown Windsor nnd worth IK cents a PIece- Each eak stamped with the name of the town where it is current and of the person authorized to manufacture and utter it. It is by no means uncommon to use these cakes for washing the hands and face, and they never l003e their current valuo as long as the stamp is preserved. An amateur bee-keeper of Penobscot county, Maine, learned a thing or two almost every day last season. Among other valu able lessons was this: While working among his hot-footed charges he clumsily upset a. hive. He was shielded by netting and loose overalls and could watch with amusement the frantic jabbing of the 40,000 bees that covered his anatomy. After a moment, however, he thoughtfully stooped to pick up the hive. Then it was that the bees were amused. The loose overalls were drawn tight and the bee-keeper didn't enjoy himself lor two weeks. SMILES AND SATIRE. ' Colonel Lotts (of Boomville) Five yeaw ago. sir, yon conld have bought the site of this thriving city for a mere song. 7 Visitor Icouldn't. Ican'tslng.-iforper'f.Basjr. Boston" Cultured Girl (to Chicago ditto) And so yon hive a literary club in Chicago. What do too call it? - ,r Chicago Girl We have named it "The Tort nightly." Boston Glrl-Because It Is too weakly? Llfel v TIB GROWTH. - Said 3Irs. Jones to Mrs. Tattle, Jones a sionse has caught: And Mrs. Tattle told Mrs. Prattle, That Jones a horse had bought; But Jones, per word Of Mrs. Battle. A rhinoceros once fought, ZhaWt Maaa tine. Mrs- Tompkins "WTien my husband stays out all night, I refuse to giro Mm any breakfast. Mrs. Smythe That may do for Mr. Tompkins; but It wouldn't punish my Jim a bit. When he slays' out all nlsht, he doesn't want any breakfast. -Pi. ""Who was the author of the saying, "There is always room at the top?" "The hotel clerk, I believe." BostonrGiuetU. , "Wife (to her husband who is writiiKfnote or Invitation to a dinner) Now, Karl, doa'tjfor getto invite Prof. Warzlg. Hols so ngtytfeatlha very light ef him will spoil the appetite of ailtbe other gaestl.-jfcA&f ifcA 3dtmg, t-. i - a& ' fete-sj.:" &dldL dfcL .. Jis. fr-S-ts. ... BHM
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