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THE PJTTSBTIR& DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1891.
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1S91.
HABITUAL CRIMINALS.
The grave question of the treatment of
the habitual occupants of workhouses and
penitentiaries is discussed elsewhere in
this issue by a number of leading citi
zens whose occupations bring them into
contact with the subject It is started by
the avowed belief of Mr. Henry Warner
that society could do better for itself and
for the men who arc sent back to penal
institutions almost as soon as they get
out by organizing them into a penal col
. ony. Tliis idea brings out all shades of
belief from approval of the suggestion to
llat disapproval, with the incidental sup
port by Thomas M. Marshall, Esq., of the
whipping post for wife-beaters.
The discussion leaves no doubt thaf the
present system is deficient The steady
return to our penal institutions of re
peaters, of men who spend the majority
of their time within prison walls, is not
fulfilling the reformatory idea of prisons.
But how the weak point shall be amended
is a knotty question. The objection to
penal colonies is their great liability to
abuse. A system should not be con
demned merely because it can be abused,
for all systems have that liability. But, if
its conditions are such as to make abuses
probable, it should be resorted to -only
when no other recourse is possible.
It is brought out in the discussion that
under a wise and philanthropic manage
ment, like that of Capt Maconochie, on
Norfolk Island, the most -wretched penal
institution can be raised to a high grade of
order and usefulness. But it is also shown
that it is not necessary to transport crim
inals to remote and probably savage re
gions in order to apply that system. The
same system has established three remark
ably successful institutions in Ireland.
These facts indicate that what is needed
is not so much a penal colony as a system
by which the criminal has held before him
a sure reward for industry; a chance to
obtain honest employment; supervision,
and even guardianship, until his reforma
tion is fully established, and, finally, the
certainty of punishment for all offenders
against the law.
The last point does not receive much at
tention by the participants in the discus
bion. Still, it is worth while to make the
inquiry whether the uncertainties of the
law and the indefinite belief that influence
or wealth can violate it with impunity
does not have as much to do with the pro
duction of habitual offenders as any other
single cause.
HONORING A WORTHY MAN.
General John F. Ilartranft, whose mon
ument, erected by tjie National Guard of
Pennsylvania, was unveiled at Norristown
csterday, was one of the worthiest of re
cent Governors of this State. Hismilitary
career was splendid in its display of per
sonal courage and in his capacity as a com
mander. His political standing, while at
one time clouded through the malfeasances
of individuals who had financial dealings
with the State Treasury, while he was
Auditor in the early seventies, ultimately
became such that long "before he retired
, from the office of Governor he possessed
the full trust and confidence of the people
without regard to party. Personally, Gen
eral Ilartranft was one of the most modest
of men. He was backward to the degree
of extreme diffidence, but none was more
repected for his worth by those who knew
him. In the whole course of his adminis
tration of the Governorship, at a time
when politics was too often made subser
vient to mean and selfish ends, no -whisper
was heard in any instance derogatory to
the dignified and upright incumbent of the
Executive chair.
Governor Ilartranft did much to make
the National Guard of Pennsylvania the
efficient and well disciplined military or
ganization which it now is. The Guard does
well to honor his memory; and the general
public will share in the timely tribute at
Norristown yesterday.
WHAT CONSTITUTES GAMBLING.
The discussion of the game of progressive
euchre in the Presbyterian General As
semby has awakened its usual echoes
throughout the press. For a body which
less than a generation ago regarded all
card-playing as an instrumentality of evil,
the deliverance on progressive euchre is a
very mild one. But it is surprising to find
such a loose logic on the subject as the fol
low ing editorial declaration of the New
York Sun: "Yet progressive euchre is as
much a gambling game as draw poker or
baccarat It is plaj cd for stakes, and the
stakes give the zest to the game which
makes it popular. They are called prizes,
but they are gambling stakes, all the
same."
It might be said that this is a dispute
about definitions; but the very term used
by our brilliant cotemporary ought to
make the definition clear. The term is the
T-tford "stakes." This implies what con
stitutes the essence of camblinc that
each party stakes, or hazards something forN
the purpose of winning tne proportionate
amount staked by his opponents. The
prizes played for In progressive euchre are
not put up by the players. They are
offered by the hosts, who cannot compete
for them. It is true that the vice of osten
tation often makes these prizes so valua?
ble as to make the game cost far more
than the pleasure comes to; but the most
extreme manifestations of that error do
not Invest it with a single feature of gamb
ling. The distinction is worth drawing for far
more important matters than the game of
progressive euchre; and & very apt illus
tration will show it plainly. A horse-show
association offers a prize for the best horse.
There is no gambling among the owners of
horses in the competition for that prize.
But if the horse oyvners put up their own
money to form a purse which shall be car
ried off by the fastest trotter or runner the
money competed for is properly desig
nated the "stakes," and the gambling ele
ment enters. As to bets with pool-sellers
or book-makers in New Yorkthey are
pure gambling beyond all question.
It Is well, In order to be able to see
where the line is properly drawn, to re
member the element which really makes
gambling injurious. It is undertaking a
hazanfin the hope of making a gain with
out giving a fair consideration to the per
son from whom the money is taken. On
this point lies the distinction from legiti
mate business transactions In which both
parties are gainers.
3IK. CARNEGIE ON MONET.
Mr. Carnegie's interesting article, en
titled "The A B C of Honey," in the last
North American Review, makes a more
exhaustive examination of the coinage
issue than is usually found outside of
treatises in book form. He first traces the
growth of the money idea, commencing
with the stage of barter, shows how usage
selected some article as the common basis
for trade, until the use of metals by com
mon agreement, and the coinage or stamp
of the Government, certifying to the
amount in the coin, were reached.
From this point he proceeds to the ex
amination of the relative merits of gold
and silver as presented by existing circum
stances In this country. He shows that
under the present silver laws the Govern
ment is issuing as a dollar a silver coin
worth 78 cents, and correctly classifies this
as "debased coinage." The profit which
it is commonly supposed the Govern
ment gets out of this he contends
exists only because it makes the silver dol
lar exchangeable for gold, as when the
Government cannot maintain this ex
changeability the profit will disappear.
This time,Mr. Carnegie very clearly shows,
will be hastened by the proposed free
coinage act, which would, as The Dis
PATcn has often said, reduce the country
to the silver basis. In all this Mr. Car
negie is so clear and correct that we are
sorry to see him led into the error we
have before noted In some very active op
ponents of silver. He says:
If the American farmer agrees to take sil
ver In lieu of gold he will enable the Liver
pool merchant to buy upon the lower silver
basis at present seventy-eight cents on the
dollar; -while for all articles coming from
abroad he trill have to pay upon the gold
basis. He trill thus have to sell cheap and
buy dear.
In this paragraph Mr. Carnegie seems to
make a mistake the opposite to those of
the silver men. The latter think that the
rise in values which would follow the re
duction of the monetary unit to a 78-cent
dollar is a gain in wealth, whereas
it is a mere shortening of the yard
stick. The only basis on which we
can suppose them to make the above as
sertion is a momentary forgetfulness that
prices will nominally rise as the value of
the dollar is -reduced. For clearness of Il
lustration let us suppose that the Amer
ican seller of wheat meets the English
buyer at some neutral point, after this
country adopts free coinage. The wheat
worth SIO.OOO in silver Is worth $7,800 in
gold, according to the present ratio as Mr.
Carnegie states it and whatever variation
there is from that ratio will be quickly dis
closed in the rates of exchange. The seller
of wheat will get just as much for it
whether paid the 510,000 of silver or $7,800
of gold; and the buyer will pay just as
much in either case. The same rule ap
plies to the purchase of foreign goods.
The invoice worth 57,800 In gold neither
receives nor loses value when taken into a
silver country at $10,000 in silver.
While Mr. Carnegie's article is full of
strong and interesting points, it touches
very slightly upon the real idea which
gives the silver agitation its strength. It
is the belief, clearly defined in some minds,
indefinite and hazy In others, but in all
resting on the fact that debtors who have
contracted obligations on the gold basis
will have just 23 per cent less trouble to
pay than when the value of the monetary
unit is reduced in this proportion. This Is
not a very honorable motive; but it is not
less so than some of the great strokes of
the financial kings. Beyond that the silver
men justify it in their own minds by the
belief that the changes in the relations of
gold and silver in the past eighteen years
have been really an advance in gold, and
that consequently debtors have had to pay
more. The real logic of the silver agita
tion, outside of the purely selfish interests
of silver producers, is that the burden of
the debtors in the past two decades is to
be corrected by an injustice toward the
creditors of this decade.
Of course this is fearfully false logic;
and in nothing is it more astray than in
the idea that it will benefit the common
people. As The Dispatch has heretofore
shown, a measure which will take away 22
per cent of the investments of savings
banks' depositors and the small investors
in railway mortgages, and give the same
percentage to the railways on their five
thousand millions of debt, is not for the
benefit of the people. It is, as Mr. Carne
gie points out, a change that will benefit
speculators and manufacturers at the cost
of the masses.
CONFLICTING PROPHECIES.
Some of the speculative scientific men
arc indulging in forecasts as to the future
of this poor old, earth of ours, which are
not calculated to increase the comfortable
confidence of humanity in its endurance.
M. Camille Flammarion pauses In his proj
ects for establishing communications with
the inhabitants, of Mars long enough to
agitate a supposed decrease in the mean
temperature of the globe, and to suggest
that this may go on until life 'shall become
as extinct as it is supposed to be in the
moon. Another French scientific man,
M. Adhemar, has constructed a theory
exactly opposite, for it foresees a destruc
tion of the earth by too great heat A
third theory looks to the disturbance of
the oceans which will sweep in one mighty
torrent from their beds and overwhelm
what Is now the habitable globe. Prof.
Totten winds up the series by declining to
bother himself about the methods in which
the natural forces of destruction will go to
work, and simply relies on a rather apocry
phal revelation for his .expectation of an
early termination to our small butyery
comfortable sphere.
In tho presence of this multitude of
counsel, there is the conclusion of safety.
For it is to be observed, while all the pre
dictions look to the end of the world, they
all neutralize each other. When the scien
tific experts disagree, the common people
may hope for the maintenance of the gen
eral average. One predicts that the earth
will freeze to death and other that It will
burn up, which allows us to expect that
the mean temperature will remain about
the same, and that the variations between
summer and winter will continue as usual.
Two of the uncomfortable ratlcinators
look for the destruction of life by slowpro
cesses lasting probably for centuries; and
two others expect it by sudden and univer
sal cataclysms. All of which permit con
fidence to remain unshaken that the old
concern will continue in its dally revolu
tions,and that life will present its balances
of discomforts and enjoyments to an end of
time so far distant that even the longest
term life insurance companies cannot con
template it
All such speculations are sensational and
foolish. The question that concerns hu
manity is not how long this earth will last,
but what we can do to makoit better while
it lasts.
ANOTHER HONEST RASCAL.
Another "honest" man has come to
grief through his own villainy. Jacob
Bennett, "Honest Jacob" they called him
in Baltimore, who committed suicide some
days ago, is now found to have been a
swindler of the meanest kind. He won
the confidence of a .host of poor men and
women, persuaded them to invest their
savings in a building association, of which
he was secretary in name and entire mas
ter in fact, and now he is. dead and the
money has disappeared. It is stated that
he was a plausible talker and a strict
church member, very common cloaks of a
modern embezzler, and nobody seems to
have suspected him till he put an end
to his life. The washerwoman' and work
men who gave him their savings have some
excuse for their confiding trust, but the
businessmen who were associated with
him in the management of the Rothschild
Building Association, and whose duty it
was fo know what was done with the
money, have a terrible responsibility to
face. No nickname or patent reputation
should bo allowed to protect a man from
the scrutiny of his fellow trustees. As it
is the very title of "honest" is becoming
good ground for suspicion.- .
ENFORCING THE LAW.
The recent arrest and sentence of an
offender who absconded after conviction
five years ago, and then came back here,
has aroused some ill-judged comment
The assertion was made that it was due to
spite-work. This idea the Judge in pass
ing sentence took occasion to correct, with
the statement that the arrest was made by
his orders as soon as he learned that the
offender was living in the city.
The matter seems to call for comment of
another sort than has been given it If
violators of the law can escape punish
ment by jumping bail after conviction and
come back undisturbed after a year's
interval the whole machinery of penal
law is a gigantic and costly farce. It was
the business of every one connected
with the maintenance of the law to see
that this unpunished offender was arrested
as soon as he came within reach. Yet the
remarkable fact appears in this case that
he had been living in the city for four
years, in open defiance of the conviction
rendered against him.
The comment needed Is not criticism
that he should be arrested after so long an
interval, but sharp Inquiry as to why he
was not arrested years ago.
Prrrsntmo is likely to get a fireboat
The need for it is attested by the represent
aties of the largest interests in the city,
and Councils can hardly refuse to accede to
Chief Brown's request when he makes it on
Monday.
Historical accuracy should be a feature
of historical comparisons, which makes it
regrettable that the bright paragrnpher of
the Philadelphia Times should insist on a
parallel between Natalie, of Servia, and
Maria Theresa, of Austria, referring to the
latter as "the famous victim of Frederick,"
and speaking of "the historic cry of the
Polish nobles" in her defense. As Maria
Theresa was not dethroned and came nearer
making a victim of of Frederick than being
his victim, and as her sole connection with
the Polish nobles was to join in the par
tition of their country, our esteemed cotem
porary will havo to reconstruct its historical
parallel between the rigid Empress and the
far from strait-laced Servian Queen.
"Baccaeat and Democrat ryhme,"
says the Philadelphia Record. No, esteemed
Record, we do not believe they do even in
sound, unless an undue degree' of poetle li
cense is used. As to sense there is no accord
between them at all. Tho "crat" thatbac
crat goes with is aristocrat.
A specimen of the loose statements con
cerning the proposed revision of the Consti
tution is the following by the Boston Trav
eller concerning Ohio and Pennsylvania:
"Both States have a number of antiquated
features embedded in their fundamental
law, and both Constitutions would be the
better for wise and judicious revision."
There may be some foundation for this as
sertion concerning tho Constitution of Ohio,
which we believe was revised in J837. It is.
entirely without foundation concerning the
Constitution of Pennsylvania, which was
revised in 1S73 by the ripest minds of tho
State. Tho movement for the revision is en
tirely a politicians' movement, and Bhould
be defeated by the people.
It is intimated that reports 'that Bards
ley is going to tell tho whole story about the
disappearance of those bank funds in Phila
delphia is usually followed by an increase
in the number of highly respectable Phila
delphians on their way to the depots with
their gripsacks.
Concerning the need of Haiti for a
stable Government that will maintain peace
the New York Sun says: "It would help
greatly toward such a condition of peace
and security if tho Government of Haiti
should determine to lease the Mole St. Nico
las to the United States as a naval coaling
Btatiorr." Does this mean that if the United
States should lease a coaling station of either
Haiti or San Domingo it would undertake to
-maintain the Government of the country
where it is located? If so, it lends revived
force to tho objections of Charles Sumner
against any such acquisition.
The Delaware peach crop finally author
izes the announcement that it is not de
stiojcd. Tho crop liur has done his worst,
and retires defeated from the field. Now let
us have peace and peaches In duo season.
The statement that Colonel John A.
Cockorell has bought Munsev's New York
Continent and will consolidate it -with the
Commercial Advertiser, indicates that the en
terprising Colonel is going to gather in all
the odds and ends of New York newspaper
enterprises and make a great paper of them.
Tho Continent is to be congratulated on its
new proprietor, and "Mr. Munsey 1s to be
congratulated on getting rid of what was
developing into tho proportions of a white
elephant. .
The crop reports are not generally cal
culated to make a man throw up his hands;
but tho nature of those coming in from-the
Mississippi Valley is calculated to fill the
'It is not easy to see how Councils can I
afford to overlook the direct charges made
by two citizens of an attempt to extort a
consideration for switch privileges. There
is either something or nothing- in these
complaints. Investigations have not hitherto
amounted to much at City nail; but at least
an effort should bo made to get at the facts
when names are thus quoted in support of
the allegations. A resolution of inquiry
seems to be in order.
Presidental slates are a product of
auafeur industry at present. All 'those
turned out at this season are liable to be
cracked by next 'November's frosts and
elections.
The statement that a real English coach
man, in all the glories of livery, who was
imported by an ambitious anglomaniac, has
been held by the authorities as a contract
laborer, shows the inability of the United
States officials to appreciate fine distinc
tions. An English coachman is not a laborer.
He is what Mrs. Malaprop would designate
as "an article of bigotry and virtue,"
-
The Harvard graduates who are in the
speak-easy business are doubtless taking a
specialized course to obtain proficiency in
the science of practical politics.
"Philadelphia might confine herwild
catbonkersinthe zoo." Yes, and in addi
tion to this view,of tho case from the Wash
ington Post, a slangy summary of the same
subject would discover another zoological
feature In tho allegation that the, Govern
ment officials made a monkey of the national
bank act
i
Jones may pay the freight, but he is be
ginning to discover that the men who own
the road and run the engine have the pull
on the freight payer.
The late Imperialist banquet in Paris
proves there is Justabont enough Imperial
ism left in France to eat dinner, and not
enough of it for the Republican Government
to interfere with. As to its interfering with
the Republic, that is even more ridiculous
than the idea that Boulangerism can do so.
WITH CB0WHS AND WITHOUT.
The Hon. A. G. Porter, the United
Minister, left Borne yesterday on his usual
summer leave of absence. Mr. Porter, it is
understood, is en roate to England.
Mrs. LogAn, now in London, starts on"
her summer coaching trip through England
the last of this week. Her son, daughter-in-law
and'Miss Pullman accompany her.
It is announced that the Kev. Thomas H.
Gaylor, Chancellor of the University of the
South, hus declined tho Episcopal Bishopric
of Georgia, to which he was recently chosen
by election.
Prof. Hugo G. Schilling, professor of
modern languages at Wittenburg, and
one of the best linguists in tho country, has
accepted the chair of professor of German
at Harvard. x
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and
daughter sailed for Liverpool on the Servia
yesterday. Mark Twain, George 'William
Curtis and Busstan Minister Stremve sailed
on the La Gascogne for Havre.
Thomas A. Edison is writing his first
novel. A- telegraph, Atlantic cable, tele
phone, phonograph, audlphone and kineto
graph will figure among the accessories, and
tho denouement occurs in a thunder shower.
General Grosvenor will not go to Eu
rope until he has attended the Ohio Repub
lican Convention. He should have a chair
upon tho platform tills time. Last year he
sat down apon the floor, and glowered be
hind his beard, whilo Foraker forgave the
men he had injured and otherwise agitated
the heated convention air.
James Whitcomb Riley and Ella
Wheeler Wilcox were more than friends
years ago, It is said. Both were poor, how
ever, and neither had attained a national
reputation at that time. Whether or not
Mrs. Wilcox over intended to marry the
Hoosicr poet, 'Belly himself was nearly
heartbroken when their cordial relations
were sundered.
ura following tooth; -
A Springfield Barber Bleeding to Death
After a Seance "With the Dentist.
SrnisoriELD, O., June 6. A peculiar case of
bleeding from pulling a tooth is that of
William M. Dempsey, a colored barber, aged
SI years. The case has received the atten
tion of several physicians, but so far they
have been unable to stop the flow of blood,
and the man is slowly bleeding to death.
Dempsey runs a barber shop on Harrison
street and lives at No. 15 East North street.
Monday night ho bad a tooth pulled. Ho
bled profusely at the time, but the flow was
finally stopped, although it made him so
weak that he could not leave the house tho
next day. On the subsequent night at 10
o'clock the wound broke out afresh, and
v, as with difficulty stopped. last night the
bleeding was more profuse than it had yet
been. From 10 o'clock, despite the physi
cian's efforts, the man bled until nearly noon
to-day. He Is now so weak he can scarcely
move or speak, and his physicians say he
cannot live if the wound breaks out again.
AN ELECTRIC PBEAK.
Lightning Bants a Water Pipe and Slakes
the Water BoU.
BamosFORT, Coirjr., June 6. During a storm
here last night a vivid fl ash of lightning,
followed by a loud peal of thunder, startled
the family of John H. Orton, who live in
Park avenue. The gas was extinguished
and a strong smell of sulphur pervaded
the rooms. It was found that the south
west and northeast corners of the house had
been struck and the clapboards torn off. As
the bolt struck tho house it followed the rod
across the roof and down to the ground. It
then hit the drain pipe, passing under the
street to about the center, when it burst the
water main pipe on Sholton street. Suddenly
the water began to boil and n stream of
water 3 feet in diameter and 40 feet high
shot up into tho air. Tho news of the break
spread, and despite- the storm a large crowd
soon gathered. Two women had a narrow
escape from being killed by the lightning
which broke the pipe. One of them was
knocked down nnd severely shocked.
WELL EDITED AND WIDE AWAKE.
How The Dispatch Strikes Discriminating
Critics in Bellefonte. v
BellefonteNews.l
Tire Pittsburg Dispatch has Just moved
Into new quarters on the corner Smithfield
and Diamond streets, and it now, no doubt,
feels as big as any of its eastern contempor
aries. Well, so may it; there is not a better
edited, cleaner, more wide-awake newspaper
published than Just The DisrATCH nnd it de
serves unlimited success.
BEES IN HIS HALB.
They Build a Nest in the Coat of a Most
Accommodating Dog.
Lrrrrz, June 6. While Linn Shelly was
clipping his dog he found in the long hair
on his neck a bumblebees' nest.
A number of colls were found containing
wax, and several bumblebees were discov
ered serving as watchmen, nicely nestled in
tho thick and tangled mane.
Mourn for, Baby SIcKeel
Boston Herald.
Baby McKee is no more. He is young Ben
now that he has his trousers on. ""
LITE WOULD BE UEBBLEB
If envy was unknown.
If love was not blind.
If we were all satisfied.
If cooks were more numerous.
If creed did not foster faction.
If worth was put above wealth.
If livers never got out of order.
If duty was worshipped like beauty.
If womankind was not quite so fickle.
It there; was more laughter and less sigh-
'us- t ,3
If polltfps conferred honors instead of
spoils. - .
If dynpepsia had Been omitted from the
list of ills.
If babies slept quietly until the walking
and talking period.
iF.thieres could be convinced that they
will surely be found out. v
LICKED. A LTNX.
A little Maine HerolWho Would; Not Give
In to the Wild Beast.
Bahooe,Mx., Juno & Cbatles Heath, a 15-year-old
boy living at East Thornton, near
the game region of Maine, met a strango ad
venture yesterday in a grove on his father's
farm. Ho saw an animal of some kind
crouching upon tho limb of a tree a little
distance away. Thinking it was a cat he
threw a stone at it.
The next thing ho knew an animal about
four times the size of a common cat came
sailing through the air in his direction,
snarling viciously. It sprang upon him with
such force as to knock him over a log, and
boy and beast rolled over and over, tho
creature biting and chewing the youngster
savagely, tearing his clothes, that hung
from him in bhieds, and Inflicting lone,
bleeding cuts upon his head and face. This
n eakened him, but he luckily rolled against
the log and was enabled to rise. Beaching a
tree a few feet nway, into which he climbed
with the cat hanging to liis legs, tho .first
limbs gave him a resting place. With his
heavy boots he kicked the ferocious beast
to the ground. Again and again did the cat
try to spring upon him, hut every time he
did so young Heath would kick him in tho
head. Finally the animal, with his head
bruised and bleeding, abandoned the light
and with shrill cries slunk away.
After watting two hours, the boy cau
tiously dropped to the ground and ran for
home, reaching there with his tattered gar
ments wet with blood. It is believed that
the animal was a large Canada lynx, erro
neously called a wildcat.
CBAZED BY VERMIN.
The Case of a Beaver County Boy Who Was
Given a Disagreeable Task,
SFICIAI, TELEGKAM.TO Tni DISPATCH.
Beaver Fails, June 6. Walter Sanders, a
lad aboutlS years old, son of a farmer living
about fourmiles east oCthls place, now.lives
at his parents' home a raving maniac. On
Thursday the boy, who is of a decidedly
nervons temperament, was told "by his father
to go to the orchard and destroy the worms
that littered the trees. The worms were
about an inch long, and confined in
webs hanging from the branches. With a lot
of paper, a can of kerosene oil and some
matches, young Sanders began his task. He
worked among the vermin, many of which
foil on his head, down his back and over his
clothes, until tho afternoon. He was then
taken with violent nausea, hurried home
and went to bed.
During tho night his parents were awak
ened by his moans and screams. Hurrying
in they found he tboy tossing wildly and cry
ing that tho worms were eating him, and for
God's sake to take them off. Every effort
was made to quiet him but in vain, and a
physician was sent for. Upon his arrival he
gave the boy a hypodermic injection of mor
phlno, which quieted him "for a while, but
since then he has been a victim of similar
attacks, and the doctor says fie will have to
bo sent to Dixmont. One of tho peculiar
features of lis affliction is, he thinks the
worms are crawling down his throat in
countless numbers and choking him.
A WAY TO BEAT POLICY.
A New York Tough Found It Oat, but Came
to Grief in the End.
New York, June 6 Joseph Eeilly, of 10
Orientavenno, Jersey City, was arraigned
before Police Justice Klmmerly yesterday,
charged with assault and battery on Alfred
Hennemier.
The examination developed a queer story.
Hennemier said Bellly was employed by a
policy dealer, and that he had discovered a
method of beating tho game. He employed
the complainant to play tho numbers for
him and collect the money because he did
not dare to do it himself. Bellly, it was said,
had learned the cipher in which the draw
ings are sent to the headquarters of the
policy dealers, and as he carried the cipher
drawings to the headquarters he had an
advantage over othor players. Bellly made
gigs and capital saddles of the numbers ho
knew were drawn and sent Hennemier to
different policy shops to play them. At one
place, 86 Eighth street, New York, it is al
leged, he struck $5,200 on one occasion.
Bellly promised to give Hennemier $500, but
ho gave him only $300, and it was for de
manding the rest that Bellly struck him.
Bellly had nothing to say, and w as held to
await the action of tiro grand jury.
NOT EDISON'S INVENTION.
The Wonderful Kinetograph Made by Mr.
Dickson at Edlson'sXabortorj.
Richmond State.3 ' ' '
It is stated that the kinetograph, the won
derful method of representing sound and
motion, ascribed to Edison, Is the invention
of a Virginian Mr. William Kennedy L.
Dickson, of the electrical, mining and metal
lurgical department of the Edison labora
tory, Orange, N. J. Mr. Dickson Is the
brother-in-law of Mr. Alexander Archer,
having married Miss Lucie Agnes Archer, of
Petersburg.
A friend of Mr. Dickson made this state
ment to a State reporter: "In 1889 Mr.
Thomas A. Edison said to -Mr. Dickson, one
of his associate' inventors, 'Dickson, I want
to connect my phonograph to a machine
that will take pictures ana reproduce them
lifelike. Now go ahead.'" 'There was no
hint or suggestion, or stroke of work from
Mr. Edison, and the kinetograph is the' re
sult. Men Like the Idea, Too.
Chicago Tribune.!
The idea of having young ladies act as
ushers at church is opposed by some of the
ministers, but it will be hailed with Joy by
many ladies who havo grown tired of hav
ing their arms spanned above the elbow by
ushers of the other sex.
Southern Devel-opment.
Talbotton, G., Newa.3
Our devil seems to behavingalfunautlous
time now. His best girl kicked him Friday,
a horse ran away with him Sunday, and he
is now nursing a sore finger and a case of
dumps and altogether ho is having a d 1
ot a time.
Unvarnished Truth.
Smith & Gray's Monthly.!:
Shopworn The floors of those who adver
tise. .
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
John Sancto.
John Sancto, an interesting character, has
Just passed away at Rochester, England, nged 97
years. Sancto was present at tne great se.i fight
between the Chesapeake and Shannon In 1813, and
never tired or telling his admiring neighbors how
he heard the Chcsapcace lull the Jlrmsli frigate,
and listened to the boast of Captain Lawrence that
he would bring the Shannon tu Boston. Fifteen
minutes later the Chesapeake struck her colors and
became the prtxe or the Britisher. Sancto. after
the close of the War of 1812, fought In the Penin
sular campaign, and was wounded at San Sebastian.
Alter his mUitary days were over he became a
barge owner and Innkeeper at Rochester, and ac
cumulated enough money to enable him to retire
from actlre Ufa during his old age.
Dr. P. T. Shearer.
Dr. V. T. Shearer, City Health Officer of
Wheeling, died yesterday morning, his fatal Ill
ness being typhoid fever. He died at file residence
of Hev. Jacob Urtttlngliam, rector or bt. Luke's
Protestant Episcopal Church. sn the Island, where
his sister died of the same dlscaoc two months ago.
Deceased as a natlre or Mourtield, Hardy touuty,
where he was born In 1S&7. He was a ph)slclan of
more than local repute, and was thought to be one
of the most promising lu his protcsslon in the
county.
Ex-Governor Ienry LIppltt. ,
Ex-Goverrior Henry Lippitt, the million
aire manufacturer of Providence, died Friday. He
was born In Providence in 1818, and was a lineal
descendant of John LIppltt. who came to this
country In 1G38. He as Uo ernor of JJhodo Island
lii 187S and 1876. One or his ancestors, Christopher
iLlnnltt was a Colonel la the Revolutionary Army,
anil fought at the battles or White Plains, Trenton
and Princeton.
Obituary Notes.
Leopold II ASNEit, llarou Ton Artha, the Aus
trian statesman, is dead.
CHARLES A. Hotcukiss, a leading member of
the Fanners' Alliance organization of Cortland
county, N. Y.. died at his home la Virgil Saturday,
aged & years. (
Mas. ALPEjr Goldsmith, widow of Alden Gold
smith, the noted horseman, died yesterday morn
ing at an advanced age at her late home In Wasu
lnKtonvUle, N. Y.
rev DB. J. Bometn Beekt. of BlUnebeck, N.
T.. who was In attendance at tne Synod of the Be-
formed Vilurtii aiuvui uvn mscwi.u n jw
bury Park, N. Y.. died suddenly Friday night.
Jons' E. Lovxjot, the last member of the noted
AbollUonlst family of that came, died Friday)
axed SO, at Montleello. la. During the past 15
jcars he has been station agent at Center Junction.
ELIAS WAYMAJT. aged 105 years, died at Ills
home three miles west of Youngstown, Thursday.
The deceased was born In Alhany, N. Y. Fle
rears ago he gained much notoriety by walking
h-om Youngstown to PltUDurg.
George E. Isbxll, one of the founders of Blng
hamton, died here Tuesday, aged S3 years. He
served for many years as a Justice of the Peace,
...4 aicnheld other locatafflces. 'He Is survived br
his aged wife and an adopted daughter.
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MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Tho Liquor Question Prom the Choir Loft
Style in Escorting a Lady and Having
Her Com Tour Head A Story of Adam
rorepaugli.
CrBOit A STATS' COBBZSPOXDE3TT.1
N-tf Yonx; June fl. "There is not nnfre-
qnenynueciaeo.muK punch flavor in tne
organ loft," said a professional church choir
singer. "Professional people, as a rnlo, do
iiuiravmiouie sacreu spirit of worsmp
Just because they ara filling an engagement
in a church. Why should they be expected
to do so7 Hero in New Yorlc the paid singer
is tho rule, and some of these church singers'
i are pretty well paid, too. It Is a business,
anu irom tne singer's point of view has but
a shadowy connection with religion or re
ligious worship. I know a clerk who gets 15
a week in an express -wfflco and $800 a year
for Sunday work in a church choir. There
aro many young men and women wno thus
eke out small salaries by profitable choir
singing. Where I lng thero Is a good
fellow with a first - rate voice
who usually shows tho effect of
having been out with tho boys late Saturday
night. In the morning service his voice has
a peculiarly rich, penitential flavor, that
goes wailing and sighing among the arches,
and probably finds a silent echo in every sin
ful heart below that has had to be braced up
for church with brandy and soda. His nerv
ous physical condition gives a sweetly
tremulous tone and his work is very ef
fective. "If he were singing onthestago he would
be certain of a vigorous encore. (There are
marks of appreciation in a church congrega
tion, however, that are quite ns distinctive
as ordinary theatrical applause, and these
are genuine and spontaneous. They cannot
be manufactured.) At tho evening service
the same singer will take on a more buoyant,
even exultant tone. Ho may find it conven
ient to steady himself a trifle by the rail, but
the effect is tremendous. There is a mpgnet
ism about some singers that captures an
audience at once, while the scientifically
uttered notes of another will fall coldly on
the ear. This man is one of the former. Of
course, there are many such. I only happen
to know this one."
A Deceptive Switch-Table.
There is a very easily working switch
table on the Broadway tramway at Thirty
fourth street, where two or throe lines of
cars turn Into and ontof the latter street
and up and down Sixth avenue. The driver
carefully guides the proper horse on it, and
presto ! It is a busy corner for both cars,
wagons and pedestrians, and tho latter are
compelled to skip right lively to save life or
limb and preserve good clothes from the
splashing mud. This particular turn-over
table is directly in the Broadway foot-crossing.
Everybody has experienced that sud
den sinking sensation In stepping down
a couple of inches from the level unexpect
edly. When a nervous person, dodging
vehicles, inadvertently steps on tho iron
leaves of -this table there is a gasp of sur
prise, followed by a quick recovery and a
tour-inch oscillation the other side. The
first impression is that of falling through a
manhole into tho sewer. The dull, hollow,
iron clang of the shifting plate is calculated
to heighten the impression.
Some of the eentfer sex make a clean lunro
of from three to four feet and alight in the
mud with an exclamation of fear and aston
ishment. The feeling of solicitude at the
possibility of being run over and that of
tailing through a manhole Is not ameliorated
by the after consciousness of being the sub
ject of merriment on the part of drivers nnd
others. There is a sneciesofcrneltvinthis
latter form of amusement akin to that of
laughing at the other fellow chasing his hat.
Too Many Theaters Just Now.
"Theatrical managers will have to adopt
the stock system to protect themselves,"
said Manager Jacob Litt. "I am taking a
strong stock company, headed by Louis
James, up into the Northwest and will play
it in my theaters. It is the first stock com
pany established In tho West. You see,
there are so many theaters now that they
have great difficulty In getting their time
properly filled. 'That is, the theaters are
thicker than cood combinations. For this
reason every manager must put in a lot of
Dum snows auring tno season or close nls
theater every now and then. I don't know
which is the worst, to shut up or put up with
a poor attraction. Both injure a theater.
Tuere are two well-located and well-known
Broadwny theaters that hare been practi
cally ruined by rotten shows. No good com
gany will go there if It can possibly avoid it.
ole reliance upon the combination system
has done this. I shall workbothsystems the
coming season."
Tho Story of a. Key.
"Do you see that keyt" asked Mr. J. Frank
Kernan, drawing abunch at the end of a dog
chain from his hip pocket and displaying a
peculiar long, flat, notched piece of steel.
There was no trouble about seeing it. "The
key has a remarkable history. At the tlmo
of the famous Boodle Alderman trials I was
put on the stand as the Herald reporter who
had obtained the information that led to
the exposure of that infamous deal. It was
well known that tho doors were locked and
there was no nearer communication with the
Alderman's chamber than through two sets
of heavy oak doors. The question was how
a circumstantial report ot the scene there
in enacted could find Its way into the col
umns of the Herald. There was a great flut
ter in the court room when the clever coun
sel pinned roe down to the final point to
which they had led me by the usual degrees.
When I pulled this key and declared it the
opener of the cloakroom door the excite
ment was intense.
"I was asked where I obtained it.and, with
out knowing whether he would sustain me
or not, I pointed to the Clerk of the Com
mon Council who sat within the rail. Ho
was put on the stand and admitted the truth
of my statement. Tho key had been
furnished me so Jong before that everybody
hud forgotten it. Yon know the resnlt. I
would not part with the key for a good deal
of money more In fact, then it then took to
buy an Alderman."
Holding to a Girl's Elbow.
The young man who lifts his girl along by
her elbow is to be seen every few yards on
Broadway. Nor is this style of locomotion
confined to any particular class. It is one of
those fashions that occasionally starts up in
tho crude society of the country village.and,
reversing the usual rulo of social contagion,
spreads to the metropolis. -Being simply a
recorder ahd not an arbiter in such matters,
I am not prepared to say that it is strictly
"fashionable in New York, much less proper,
or in good form. If the girl likes it I with
draw my natural objections. Where the sex
is concerned it is pretty safe to follow the
rule that obtains in euchre, "When in doubt,
take the trick."
Combing a Lover's Head.
The plea of practical common sense and
usefulness. is quite a handy one when It
comes to proprietyand social forms; but it Is
u pica that may readily be overworked. For
Instance, It is the custom in certain sections
of our uncommon country for a young lady
to comb her lover's head. I have myself
seen within the lost 25 years a sweet young
woman combing her escort's head In the
front row of the balcony at the old Metro
politan Theater in Indianapolis duringhe
performance, the aforesaid head recllmug
upon the feminine lap. Nor did the thing
break up the play, although the two per
formances ran neck and neck throughout
the evening. This ceremony of combing,
however, is usually reserved for "sparking
night" at home. The practical usefulneot
the fine-toothed comb caunot be successfully
denied.
In this connection it may also be con
sidered typical of the very proper subjection
Of the husband to the wife, as long as she
does all the work. But whether such a
custom obtains to any extent In New York;
and ir so, whether or not it is good form
would puzzle me quite as much as the merits
and demerits of this street habit of hunching
a lady in a saucepan hat along by her funny
bone. "
Satisfactory Meal for Three Cents.
Under the elevated stairs at Battery Place
Is "St. Andrew's 1-Cent Coffee Stand." That
is to say, you can get a good cup of coffee I
know not whether tho coffee is good fori
cent, r.y consulting tho elderly gentleman
w 1th flshv, blue eyes, who' seems to bo under
going penal servitude within, he w 111 tell
you that his name Is not Andrew, and that
he is no relation to the late lamented Saint,
but that he will guarantee you a reasonably
.satisfactory meal at from S to 5 cents. If he
was the original Saint he could scarcely be
expected to do any more.
At the time I last saw him he was busily
engaged in what did not appear to bo a theo
logical discussion with an individual who
may have shaved lost January, and who
wore clothes that may have been put on
prior to the great Rebellion, and never taken
offginco that event. This individual leaned
gracefully against tho llttlo shelf that serves
us a front porch, balcony and dining table
for tho St. Andrews Hotel, nnd poised a cup
of coffee In his right hand with tho air of
bon vh ant, while between the thumb and
forefinger of his left ho held half an Inch of
an expiring cigar. He was saying: "I
heartily agree with Dr. Parkhurst in this
controversy. If we must be fed upon the
cold husks of ,"
Why They Broke Up HoasekeevtBg.
"We're going to break up-houeekeepiBg-,'!;'
she said, addressing the horsocar full of peo
ple through her lady companion.
"Whatf Give up that lovely flat? Why, I
thought you loved New York! Not going
away?"
"N-no, not exactly. You see, we're tired
of housekeeping and we are going to board
ing. We shall store our furniture. Joe
thinks its the only way out. We'll try it
again after a w hue, you know."
. "What's the matter: I'm sure you were as
snug and happy as two people could well
be when I was up. Younaven't been trying:
to cookt"
-"Oh, no; we have tho very best kind of ft
servant. Dear, dear! I'm afraid we shan't
be able to get her when we go back to
housekeeping again. It is so hard to get
good servants, and she is such ft treasure.
Wo were so hinrnrt" .
"WcH, what on earth child "
xne met is, Joe's cousin came on nere
some time ago and wpn't gp away, plague on
him! 'Hojust stays, and stays.and stays!
and he's brought his child for me to take
care of! And he's spent all his money and
thinks he'll stay here and may be look for a
Job. But he'll never work not If he can
help it. Ho is such a polite and refined sort
of a man, too, neither of us can tell him to
Eo. We don't believe .he'd go if we'd tell
lm, see! So Joe and I havo agreed that the
best way is to throw up tho flat. When the
fellow goes away or falls In the river, or
something; we'll fix up again. Now, isn't
that real cunningT"
The Success of the Age.
The smoking room of the Eden JIu3eo is
just above the stage and on the Mime level
with the balcony of the auditorium. It is
luxuriously appointed, something like an
exaggeration of a Pullman car. Seek Its
warm shades about- 9 o'clock and you will
find a dozen or so men about town lounging
more or less ungracefully among the red
cushions, sipping beer, champagne or other
stuff, smoking cigars or cigarettes, and talk
ing in a subdued way of agriculture or some
thing. Some wear full dress and bear evi
dences of having recently dined; some wear
a sporting air alia well-sustained appear
ance of boredom, such as one sees in the
waiting room of a railway station. All of
this time a performance Is going on below,
and its. excellence is occasionally evidenced
through a clapping of many hands.
Suddenly a strain of music floats through
the place. Up jumps the whole crowd as
one man. The glasses clink, are emptied,
the nuflnlshed weeds and burning rice paper
go Into the cuspidors, and a general stam
pede for the inner doors ensues.
No, the theater is not on Are.
The ballet is on.
How For-paugh 3Ianaged a Drunk.
"The circus is subject to a system of black
mall, plunder and robbery en route that is
unheard of in any other business," said an
old-tlme'circusman., "It requires the most
diplomatic management and, after all, the
company must submit to all sorts of extor
tion to escape attachments. These are levied
upon the ticket wagon just before the even
ing performance; or upon a pole wagon as
the tents are being pulled down. 'As the de
lay of a trial, or even a hearing, would cost
thousands of dollars there Is no other way
than to submit. This sort of robbery occurs
in almost every town "where a circus goes.
The company may think it is getting off all
riclit. when suddenly some accident, some
chance Injury to property or something of
that kind, affords an excuse fora levy. When
I was with Forepaugh I soon found that at-
uicument racKcc was areaaea ana carseu
Wore "by tho veteran showman than any
other evil not even an expense account.
We used to resort to anything almost to cir
curovent those robbers.
"One time we were showing at Syracuse,
and there was an incident occurred in which
Tip,' the wicked elephant, now in the Cen-
irai rare, ngurea. Aoruncen countryman
had been wandering around and fooling
with the animals, notably with the ele
pbanta. The employes drove him away re
peatedly,but he would soon come back. He
finally approached 'Tip' as the elephants
were lined np to leave, pulled a flask of
whisky from his pocket and gave it to
'TIP,
' trvlnsr
r to pour it In his trunk. Whether
Tip objected to the small -uantltv or mean
quality of the whisky, or merely resented
having it poured np his nose at any rate,he
seriously resented this invitation to drink,
and in about five seconds was wiping np the
irround with his tormentor. Bat for Dan
Taylor and others the man would havo been
Killed.
"Old man Forenanzh took It all in. He
knew that tho show would be detained and
probably mlas fhe next date if we didn't get
on, so ne torn uan to tnrow ine man in a
woiron ana bring him alon? with tho show.
AVe didn't know whether he was dead or
alive until our doctor declared It only a case
of drunk. Bat next morning, when the man
had sobered up. he had no more idea where
he was or how he came there than the manH
In the. moon, iorepaugn sent for him and
told him In his chedea vocabulary of adjec
tives that he was a nice man to hire out to
the show and then get drunk and flsht with
the elephants the first night. 'You are dls-
cnargea, sin xou are uiscnargeaT the old
man thundered, and the fellow sneaked
away, utterly collapsed."
Chables Theodore Mubbat.
100 BUST TO XAB2Y.
A Cincinnati Couple That Wanted to Save
Time and He Married by Proxy.
CraciKiTATi, June G. William Jordens and
Miss Louise Menke, both of this' city, were
married in Newport yesterday by 'Squire
Bodkins after considerable difficulty. Either
the groom imagined that the Kentucky mar
riago laws allow everything, or else the
bride is a very busy young woman. William
appeared early in the day before the 'Sqnire
and wanted to get married. iHis intended,
he said, was perfectly willing, but could not
spare the time from her domestic duties, so
he would like to be married by proxy.
He produced a letter from Miss Menke,
giving her consent to the plan, and mod
estly asked the 'Squire to go with him to the
Clerk's office and procure a license, and he
would run out and hunt up a substitute for
the glrL The "Squire said that maybe they
did things in Ohio that way. but it wouldn't
go in sedate Kentucky. Jordens then hunted
up the Clerk himself and presented himself,
but the Clerk refused. William argued that
such marriages had taken place in this
country and had been declared legal, citing
as an example the case of. Anna Van Znndt
and the Anarchist, August Spies, bat still
tho Clerk refused, saying he would be happy
to furnish him a license if he would bring
somebody along to get married to. He was
finally compelled to return and hnnt up
Miss Menke, when they returned to Now
portv where "Sqnire Bodkins, with great
pomp and ceremony, tied tho nuptial knot.
A DEIKKINQ SOD,
Who Saved Many Lives, Although He Was
JFond ot Beer and a Spree.
Derby Transcript. I
For the past ten years an old dog, answer
ing to tho name of Tom, has been seen on
our streets daily. He was a cross between a
pointer and a bulldog, and in looks some
what resembled a young porker. This dog
was the property of Patrick McGough, of
Oak, street, and was found at his door
Tuesday morning, dead, from someunknown
cause.
In the past eight years this animal has
saved the lives of three children from
drowning in the Housatonlc river, and in
two cases went in after the children of ht3
own accord. About four years ago little
Harry Eggleston, son of the Kev. Mr. Eggles
ton, a lormer pastor of the Methodist
Church, but now at Waterbury, fell out of a
boatatthoUnndleyllonso, at Indian Well;
while In company with his sisters, and Tom
being close at hand when the boy foil in,
went to the rescue and brought the little lad
safely to shore
The dog was fond of beer and wa3 very sel
dom sober of late.
CHICAGO AHD BOSTON CONNECTED
Bj a New Fast Train yia Albany Over the
Michigan Southern.
Chicago, June 6. The Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad will put into
service to morrow a new fast train, to run
betn een Chicago andBoston. The train was
on exhibition to-day at the LakoShore de
pot, and made a trial trip to Laportc, IntL,
euro lug a number of the officials of tho road
and their Invited guesttt.
In beginning this service the company
makes an Innovation by establishing a
through line from Chicago to Boston by way
of Albany, as only one of the three sleepers
on each train will be for New.York passen-
5 era. The train will leave Chicago daily at
.30a.m., reaching Boston at 3.40 t.x. the
folio wing day.
Omaha Art Boom.
Omaha World Herald.
Fifty dollars for a design for a city seal
ought to give local art an Impetus not en
joyed slnco tho day when Mr. Warblnton
frncturca tno sternum ana clavicle or
Bouguereau's Spring with a chair.
Flaying the Itaces Her Forte.
Chicago News'
Mrs Lapgtry Is said to have won $230,000 at
the English Derby; "The Lily has evidently
discovered a better way of getting rich than
wooing the reluctant dollars of the theater-
-going public
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The product of gold in the United
States tho last IB years has aggregated the
enormous omount of $573,900,000.
The annual product of salt throughout
the world U estimated at 7,300.000 tons, the
larger share coming from English works.
Probably the rarest stamp in existence
has just been sold In London for .250. It Is
an American five-cent stamp issued at Brat
tleboro, Yt, in 1810.
Louisville hes had the only ftee barber
shop in thi United States. It has jnst been
closed, not for want of patronage, but be
cause It was too popular.
A stamp collector in Boston, the pos
sessor of a collection of 12,515 stamps, wishes
to marry a lady who is the possesor of the
blue penny stamp of Mauritius, issued in
1817.
A fad of the moment among some fad
affecting young women is to chew a flower,
or, to put it more elegantly, to wear one be
tween, the lips. This, it may be added, is
purely a house fashion.
During a shower last week lightning
struck and killed five cows standing under a
tree on a farm owned by George T. Under
bill, near Hibernla, N. Y. Strange to state
tho tree was not touched.
It now appears that tie Georgia water
melon crop, at an average yield, will ba
about 10,500 cars, with the possibility that a
good season may swell it to 12,000. Water
melons will be cheap and plenty.
John London Macadam, the inventor of
the road that bears his name, labored for
years to perfect his ideas, and, although the
English Parliament voted him $30,000, it
hardly covered his outlay. "His monument
Is the roads of England."
A snake met its death through love of
the beautiful in a York wall paper store the
other day. It came out to look at the spring
patterns of paper and Jacob R. Clinedinst,
the owner of the store, with the assistance
of several others, killed It.
Eeid Marshall shot quite a large bird
on Glade -Bun, near Dayton, last Friday. It
measured six and one-half feet from tip to
tip of wings and four nnd one-half feet from
point of bill to toes. Some say the bird was
a blue heron, others say it was a crane.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes
that body and mind are both affected by the
character of food consumed. "An exclu
sively pork diet gives a bristly character to
the beard and hair," and too much food
from the sea gives the shine and motions of
a fish.
A woman appeared at College Point,
L. I., a few days ago with a beautiful collec
tion of bird i which she called Australian
warblers. She sold them rapidly at $1 each.
The birds turned out to be common English
sparrows, with their feathers artistically
pointed.
A unique carpet is being made for the
Church of Lo Cceurdo Jesus, Montmnrtre,
in Paris, by some Parisian ladle. It will
cost X4.000, and the names of the workers are
to be embroidered around tho border. Tho
center represents Montmnrtre, and above
are to be tho arms of the city of Paris.
The street railways of Paris are under
the Government control and the rules for
their guidance are very strict. Only four
passengers are allowed to stand on the back
platform, and they must pay the same fare
as the first-class passengers Inside, viz., 6
cent, while those on the roof of the car rido
athalfrate3.
Wednesday was fruitful in the unveil
ing of monuments. The Grant monument
was presented to Galena; the Southern La
dles' Monument Association gave a monu
ment to the Confederate dead at Jackson,
Miss., and Mr. Leland Stanford enriched
California with a statue of Father Junlpus
Serra, the pioneer missionary of the coast.
Harry C. Higginson and Gardner Van
Nostrand, or the Orange Lako club, New
burg, went to Black, pond, Ulster county, on
a fishing expedition, and when they returned
home they had three milk cans containing
12 black bass, the total weight of which was
131 pounds. Seven of the bass weighed 35
pounds, an averago of five pounds each.
-The prune crop of Southern California
will be a failure this year. Tho recent damp
weather has affected the crop so severely
that it is all dropping from the trees. On
ten acres at Fomona;from which S3 tons
wero gathered last year, there will not be
over 1,000 pounds this season. The same
state of affairs prevails wherever prunes are
grown throughout Southern California.
Mr. T- a Welsh, of North Cbdorua'
township, has a crab apple tree which,
planted in 187&, now measures 33 inches in
circumference and is 27 feet high. Its
branches extend 17 feet on all sides and bear
every second year. He has also a sweet ap
ple tree that is about 75 years old and bears
every year regularly. One year the eastern
side bears and the next year the western
side bears.
To publish one's own books has been
thought to be a very foolish and unremun
erative plan especially by publishers. It
was supposed to be an exceedingly Imprac
tical thing for Mr. Rnskin to bring out edi
tions of his works; yet it appears that his
proflU are growing every year, and that
from one book alone the new edition of his
"Modern Painters" the profits will not be
less that $30,000.
The queen and the nine-spot may still
be regarded as the lucky cards in the deck.
A Chicago woman was recently told by three
different fortune-tellers after they had
lookedattheqneenand the nine-spot that
a fortune awaited her. She was poor but
incrednlous,and thefonrth palm was crossed
with silver. The two cards again came to
the top and the story was repeated. She Is
now enjoying a half interest In a fortune of
$70,000.
In compliance with the orders of the
County Board of Health, the 65 undertakers
in Hudson county, N. J., have provided
themselves with new "weepers" to be used
in cases of death from small-pox, measles,
spotted fever, yellow fever, diphtheria and
scarlet fever. Tho "weeper" is n piece of
purple ribbon 18 Inches long and 2 Inches
wide, and is to be hung on the door. An un
dertaker who refuses or neglects to use the
gurple ribbon when It is required makes
imself liable to a penalty.
Recently at Judson, in Alachua county,
Fla- D- T. Trammel and others, while out
hunting, came across two hogs freshly
kjlled, tho carcasses bearing evidence of the
fact that some animal had been devouring
the hogs. The hunters called their dogs and
ut them on the trail. In a little while a
irge panther was treed. He was shot four .
times before fulling. The hunters skinned
him and cut off one fore paw which which
measured about 5 by 8 Inches. The animal
wasabont7 feet in length. It is the first
panther seen in that locality for 10 or 12
years.
AMONG THE WITS.
Toung Hankinson (making a call) You
have bad that parrot a long time. Miss Laura;
Miss Lanra Yes, we have had hhn several years,
"Quite Intelligent, Is he not?"
''Very. He can Imitate almost anything."
"They have a remarkably clever parrot over at
the Casterllns'. Miss Laura. It can Imitate the
sound of aklss to perfection. Is that among the ac
complishments of our feathered friend here In the
corner?"
(Indignantly) No. sir. lie does not attempt aa
imitation of a sound he is not accustomed to hear.
Mr. Hankinson.
The Parrot-Walt, George, dear, tm I take tan
bird out of the room. Chicago Herald.
.The "West Pointer goes into the army for
general results, and the enlisted man for private
ends. Smith, Gray Co.'s Jimthlv.
Enterprising Sister See how pretty she
looks against that olive curtain ! Now's your
chance, Frank; go in and speak to her, she is alone.
Timid brother Y-e-s; but If I go in there she
won't be alone.-SmttA, Gray Co.'s Monthly.
The Order of the Bath Hurry up them
towels Smith. Graij Co.'s'Xonthly.
"Whether the dear girls wear a long or a
short bathing skirt Is merely a matter of form.
Smith, Gray & Co.'t Xoxthly.
"They say heaven lies about us in our
Infancy." .... .
"Well, we return the compliment In our matorer
years." Smith, Gray Co.'s Jfonthly,
Willie Papa, what does a real fine com
palace cost?
WlUIe's Papa (with new patent leathers on
Twelve dollars a pair, my son. Chicago Herald,
Let the fragrant June roses
Exhilarate your noses. Tin.' Prat.
Though she married her coachman
The cold fact remains
That In driving together
She handles the reins-. .V. T. Herald.
The virtuous follow the biblical injunc
tion to "bold fast that which Is good;" hot there
are more who hold good that which is fast. Puck.
"Amerwica faw Amerwicansl"
YoongAlgy cried of late. '
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