THE1 piTTSBTIRG . DISPATCH, -MONDAY JUNE 1891 i Mje Bigpftlj. ESTABLISHED FEBEUABY 8. 1S48. Vol. 4S, No. 13. Entered at Pittsburg Postofflce, November 11, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Coraer Sraithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN" ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM a. TKIBlEBUILDING, NEW YORK, where com plete flies orTHE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the ronvcnlenee. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. TITE DISPATCH it rtavlarly on Sale at Brtniano's, F Union ajtmre. Jw York, and U Are d' V Opera, ran. France, trhert imyvne irno hat been disap pointed at a Iwtel tints stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGE FEEE IT THE CMTEDiSTATES. Daily PirATcn, One Year. t 8 CO Daily Dispatch. Per Quarter.... 2 00 Daily dispatch. One Month TO Daily Dispatch, including Sunday; lyear.. 10 00 Daily DisrATcn, Including Sunday, 3 rn'ths. 2 50 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 m'th.. 90 SrMJAY Dispatch. One Year 2 50 Weekly Dispatch, One Year. 1 23 The Daily DisrATCH Is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 20 rents per week. PITTSBUBG, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1891. A GOOD riSOSPECT. The outlook for Pittsburg's industries, as every reader of The Dispatch will be glad to learn, from a review in our local columns, has undergone decided improve ment from the rather gloomy aspect at the opening of the year. Some of the factors on which the improvement is predicated are still to come into active existence; but the confidence which they inspire has already made itself felt in the tone of the iron and steel trade. In this class are the increased crops, and the expectation ofenlarged travel in the year of the Chicago Exposition. The crops are never entirely safe until they are harvested; but the chance of their being large is so promising that with the pre parations which the railroads are making for the Exposition travel, they produce a more active demand for iron and steel and give a more assured tone to business generally. It is neither logical nor judicious to postpone necessary purchases of railroad material for seasons of large crops or especial travel; but since the postponement has taken place, Pitts burg can rejoice in the fact that active purchases will now be necessary. A very gratifying feature of the outlookis the indication that there twII be no trouble in the iron trade by a dispute over wages. The -oisdom and conservatism of the Amalgamated Association in declining to disturb the present satisfactory State of affairs, is characteristic of that organiza tion. The strength and prosperity which it has attained as the result of this careful policy should be an example to less ex perienced labor organizations. All of which points to the prospect that if Pittsburg does not enjoy such a boom in 1891 as she did in 1890 there is every indica tion of fair prosperity and steady employ ment for all her interests. THE BRTJTCM FCLMEN. The statement that Schwcinfurtb, the Eockf ord Messiah, was stoned by a Mis souri crowd presents a curious illustration of the survival of the barbarous idea that the way to put down religious precepts which do not suit the multitude is to stamp them out of existence by brute force. It requires very little discernment to perceive in the reports about Schwein f urth and his followers, that the former is an innocent monomaniac and the latter a mixture of cranks and simple fools. If he were a calculating fraud and impostor, the law might have to deal with him; but the idea that mobs can punish him for extraordinary religious pretensions is a remarkably stupid one. It exceeds in dense brutality the kindred theory that lynch law has the right to usurp the function of the courts and kill men whom the law has discharged. Yet it has found a wider acceptance from the days of Stephen down to the killing of Joseph Smith. Still the actual fact is worse. The spec tacle of a gang throwing stones at a man whose offense consists of an insane idea that he is the Messiah, leads us to doubt whether civilization is even as much as skin deep. THEIR TARIFF ATTITUDE. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, in his in terview with a Dispatch correspondent, the other day, stated that he stood on the St Louis platform with regard to the tariff. The Hon. Lawrence T. Neal, in an interview elsewhere, caps this With the as sertion that he was on the committee that drew np the platform. Mr. Xeal includes this among the reasons w by he should yield to an alleged universal demand among the Ohio Democrats that he shall accept the gubernatorial nomination. Its most practical bearing, however, is In the disclosure of the fact that Mr. Campbell and Mr. Heal agree on the tariff question and that the latter can support the former as a low tariff man with fidelity to that principle. The salient feature of Mr. Neal's inter view is the heroic ambition which it dis closes to run against McKinleyfor Gov ernor of Ohio. THE PRODUCERS' POLICY. There is a good deal of variation in the statements as to the amount raised by the Producers' Protective Association to start competing refineries and pipe lines. The maximum Is 51,600,000 and the minimum $000,000. It seems to be beyond dispute, however, that the association has definitely adopted the policy of creating competition in the transportation and refining of oil. This is the policy which The Dispatch has urged upon that interest for years. It was what this paper wished to see done when the producers were decoyed into the shut-down movement; and for main taining that it was preferable it was criticised by some of the oil men. Nearly every producer outside of the Standard ranks now will agree that the view of The DisrATCH was the correct one, and that if one-half the time and oil wasted in the shut-down movement had been pledged to create competition on the part -of pur chasers in crude market, It would have repaid itself several times over. That result may be counted upon now, if the policy already outlined be mteili gently managed and faithfully adhered to. Of course the Standard is not going to give : ,.i tu i5 ilu.?l - 1 up its control or. tne market -without a-j struggle. But the producers have the ability to guarantee a fixed business to the independent establishments at rates which w ill be a gain pn those prevailing "without competition. Moreover, every $100,000 judiciously invested in common carrierpipe lines from good producing districts to ad , vantageous centers for refining and dis tribution, will attract into the business $200,000 to 5300,000 more in Independent refineries. This will be demonstrated as soon as it is clear that such new enter prises will not be liable to have their sup plies cut oS by an absorption. It is a familiar fact that the presence of a competing line in any producing district means an increase of 10 to 20 cents In the price of the oil. This is a gain of $2,500, 000 to $5,000,000 annually on the total pro duction of crude. The producers can afford to put that sum into independent concerns every year; and at the end of five years their pipe lines and refineries would be clear profit. PnTSBURCS COAL SHIPMENTS. A characteristic feature of one of Pitts burg's great interests is presented by the announcement in our local columns that, if the promise of a coalboat stage of water holds good, over 20,000,000 bushels of coal will to-day start on its voyage down the river. This is the equivalent -of nearly 900,000 tons, or about 60,000 carloads. It will rank among the large runs of coal, but has been exceeded several times in past years. The comparisons by which the volume of the immense coal shipments of Pitts burg are brought to the understanding of those who are not familiar with them are somewhat old. But one comparison is pertinent at the present time. To move this shipment of coal by rail to Chicago would cost nearly 52,500, 000. To take it by rail to the lakes where It can get water transporta tion, would, with the cost of transferring into vessels, cost over $1,000,000. This cost of transportation turns about half the coal production of the Pittsburg region down the river, where it has to meet the competition of Southern coaL It is transported thousands of miles by water at a less cost than the railway charges for carrying it 150 miles. If a water route enabled lake craft and boats that -could f pass through the Erie canal to be loaded at the mines, the coal could pay tolls and vessel charges of 40 cents per ton and still be worth 60 cents per ton more than it is at present In other words, if the Lake Erie canal were built, the stock of coal now lying in our harbor would be worth $600,000 to $700,000 more than it Is to-day. A section which ships coal by the hun dreds of thousands of tons in a single day, and receives ore freights in commensurate volume, will be criminally negligent of its opportunities if it does not extend its water transportation to the lakes within the present decade. A KAIN-MAKING TOUR. The Hon. Charles B. Farwell is no long er a United States Senator; but he still stands by his record in that body. He se cured an appropriation in Congress to try the experiment of sending up balloons with dynamite attached, by the explosion of which rain is to be produced; and he starts into the arid lands of the West this week to see the appropriation spent and the desert made to blossom like the rose. It is to be hoped that Mr. Farwell will be amply provided with waterproof coat and rubber boots, in order to fully guard against the production of excessive rain fall by the scientific method. Just at present in this section of the country, there might be a desire to have the experimental tourists let off a little dynamite on their way "West to see if that will not induce the rainy weather to cease. But the fear that such an experiment might produce an excessive enlargement of the rainfall will inspire caution In sug gesting anything of the" sort In the arid lands, Mr. Farwell and his scientific co adjutors will not be troubled by any fears of too much rain, so long as they are able to get in out of the wet Mr. Farwell could not do so at the last election; but his misfortune in that respect may be mitigated by the reflection, that whether his trip produces rain or not, it may afford him chances of dropping cold water on the re nomination boom nourished by the recent Presidental tour. THE GROWTH OF BUSINESS. A growth of ten per cent in the postal business of the Pittsburg office for the year just ended Is a very -gratifying ex hibit It does not necessarily Indicate exactly that percentage of growth in pop ulation; but it demonstrates a growth of business which supports and attracts pop ulation. Some of this increase is undoubt edly to be credited to the improvements in postal facilities which have been made of late; but a large share of it represents the increase of Pittsburg's business opera tions and the large volume of correspond ence created thereby. This is more es pecially set forth in the fact that the expansion in the number of letters was fourteen per cent to a total of 33,000,000, or nearly 140 letters per capita on the census population of Pittsburg. Pitts burg's big postal total Is an assuring Index of Pittsburg's expanding business. There seems to be a fatality of Inability to agree upon what will be effected by the revenue measures of this State. Close upon the heels of the glowing statements as to the revenue that will be produced by the Boyer bill comes tho official assertion of Auditor General McCamant, that it wiU Increase the revenue but little more than a million dollars, and that the appropriations passed by the Legislature w ill leave a deficit in the Treasury during tho next two years. This foreshadows an executive slashing of the ap propriations and a renewed conclusion of the granger members that they have been taken in and done for, strictly according to precedents. On tbe other hand Mr. Boyer proceeds to show, as appears in a special telegram elsewhere, that Mr. McCamant does not know. The general idea is gaining ground that when it comes to dealing with tho tax question in Pennsylvania, no one does. The final success of the "Whisky Trust, in absorbing the Schnfeldt distilleries in Chi cago, indicates the commendable conclusion of the monopoly that, while it may be cheaper to blow up competing concerns, it is safer to buy them up. In connection with the appointment of a somen hat notorious character to the posi tion Of Police Justice, the New Tork Herald says: "How much longer Is this, bully to be allowed to assault, maim and disfigure per sons and execute or nullify laws to suit him self?" The answer is easy enough. It will be done until the people make it plain that they will no longer tolerate anything of then sort, and the newspapers are bold enough to expose every example of political favorit ism. THE Atlanta Constitution remarks that The French are right In calling the heated term 'the silly season.' " The Constltulioris editorials remind us that it is published close to the region of perpetual summer. A burglar who was csSgnt in the East, was found to have on his person a supply of pepPr cartridges to throw in the faces of pursuers. His ingenuity seems to have dt- rccted itself in the same line as the burglar in this city, who disposed of chairs for his pursuers to stumble over in the dark and had a tin bucket outsido to bamboozle po licemen with. The radical difference be tween thorn is that the Eastern burglar was caught, whUe the Pittsburgergot away. Mrs. Julia "Ward Howe insists that a; there is more religious faith now than ever. "We hope so; but it should be remembered that faith -without works la not of much use in this world, or the next. Some school girls atStamford, Conn., have tieon setting an example in practical philan thropy which older poople might do well to follow. By giving up their own dainties and raising money by entertainments they have got together a fund which will provide a vacation for some hundreds of the working girls of Xew Tork City. If all peopleMid as much in proportion to their means toward helping those who need help, this would be a very different sort or world. This country is now the prond possessor of a twolvo-inch cannon. This is good for defense as far as it goes; but our surest de fense is in even a wider caliber of states manship. It is to be hoped for the credit of hu manity that the paragraph stating that a boy in Xew York was sentenced to 28 years imprisonment for the first .offense of steal ing one dollar and two cents, is untrue The statement being specifically made, however, with the addition that his sentence has&een commuted by Governor Hill, it is pertinent to remark that the boy's misfortune con sisted In his inability to add seven ciphers to the amount of his theft. PE0HLHEKT PEOPLE. Henky Villard, tbe well-known finan cier, has gone to Hartz Mountains to recruit his health. Mb. Gladstone is obliged to stay at Ila warden for another fortnight, his recent illness having left traces in his lungs of a bad cough." Colonel, and Mrs. Montgomery, of Portland, Ore., have left Berlin for Marien bad. They gave a dinner on Wednesday be fore leaving. Miss Field, who was the companion of Kate Marsden on her journey in Siberia, has returned to Berlin, where sho is the guest of Mrs. Willard. Judge Schofleld, of the Court of Claims.is now eligible for retirement on pay, and no less than eight applicants for appoint ment in his place have filed papers with the President, General B. "W. BniCEhas been confined toiis house for; several weeks past by ill ness, but is now improved and his familiar figuro may soon be looked for in the streets of 'Washington. A. D. White, formerly United States Minister to Germany, is expected to visit that country shortly. He will be accom panied by his daughters, who will devote a year to study in Dresden. Pbof. A. L. Perky, of "Williams Col lege, who has Just resigned his chair, pub lished his first free trade treaties in 1866. He was pitted against Horace Greeley in a series of public tariff debates in 186S and 1869. Bev. "W. P. Brown, of Missouri, is a member of the Whitmer branch of the Mor mon Church, which repudiates not only polygamy, but the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith. He has figured that the seo ond coming of Christ will occur this sum mer, has sold his property, and is going to Jerusalem, to be upon the ground ready for the great event. Senatoe John G. Carlisle, of Ken tucky, was asked the other day to give his views on the political situation. Ho de clined, saying that public men should not be talking all the time. The opinion of any man of average intelligence was just as val uable in casting political horoscopes as that of the biggest statesman. Each would pre dict what he would like to have come true. Mrs. Charles G. AMES,of Boston, one of the two women recently appointedTiy Gov ernor Russell as factory inspectors, has made a study of organized charity foryears. She worked in tho hospitals during the war, and after her marriage to the present pastor of the Church of the Disciples In Boston, was made President of the Children's Aid Society. Living then in Philadelphia she was occnpled in much charitable work and reform in Pennsylvania. " ELAINE GOODALE'S MABBIAOB. She Will Wed the Indian Physician, Dr. Eastman, on the 19th. New Tore, June 7. Tbe marriage of Miss Elaine Goodale and r. Charles Alexander Eastman will take place at noon, June 18, at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth avenue and Tenth street. Eight years ago Miss Goodale, the elder of the child poets of the Berkshire Hills,-began her work: on behalf of the Indians,bccoming a teacher in Hamp ton Institute and later Government In speotress of Indian Schools stationed at Pine Ridge. She first met Dr. Eastman, a Sioux Indian whoso paternal grandfather was a white man, at Pine Ridge. Dr. East man graduated from Dartmouth College, then studied medicine and is now Govern ment Physician at Pine Ridge. Tho wedding will be a quiet one. Miss Goodale's bridemaids will be her sisters, Dora and Rose, and the best man and ushers will be classmates of Dr. Eastman at Dart mouth. Admission to the church will be by card. No reception will follow the cere mony, but there will be a reunion of the most Intimate friends of the family at the residence of tho bride's father, Henry Goodale. Dr. Eastman has six week's leave of absence, and at the expiration of that time he and his wife will return to Fine Ridge and take up their residence in the house now being built for them by the Gov ernment. HIGH PBICED EGBS. The Fruit of an Extinct Bird That Is Worth 8300 Each New Tork Tribune. "There are only four eggs of the great auk now in this country," says an oologist, "and they are valued at $500 each. It seems odd to think of a bird becoming extinct, but no one has seen a Labrador duck, either, since 1856. There are five mounted specimens in existence, and none of tho eggs are pre served. Kirtland's warbler is another bird that is rare. Until recently but seven had ever been captured, and these all were found in a region near Cleveland, O., less than a mile square. Specimens were worth $100 apiece. But a little while ago a naturalist who chanced to visit tbe Bahama Islands come upon a colony of the birds, and know ing what a mine he had struck, shot about 20 and took them to this country. When ho began to unload, the story came out and tbe market sagged so that now you can get a Klrtlandior$5or$6. The Connecticut warbler is another bird of interest to oolqgists, because no one has yet seen its eggs. It passes up tho Mississippi river in the early spring andprobably mates far in the interior of British North America, and goes South in the fall by the way of tho Atlantic seaboard. If anyone can nud the nest of this little fellow with four eggs In it, it will be $200 in his pocket." IT EEQTJTBES HAED W0BX Two Notables Who Are Asked About Genius Have little Faith. Someone asked Sir Frederick Lelghton and Sir John Millais, among others, as to whether there was such a thing as genius in art without a bard apprenticeship. Sir Frederick's letter was-'thls: "In answer to your letter I write to say that nothing con siderable has yet been done in this world without the bestowal of Infinite pains." Sir John wrote: "I havo no belief in what is called genius as generally understood. Natural aptitude I do oelleve In, but it is ab solutely worthless without intense Btudy and continuous labor." . We Don't Chip in Counters. Philadelphia Call. In the Prince's set they call them counters, but we much prefer the word "chip." In our highly Intellectual game of poker it is so much easier to say "I chip along," or "I'll hoop'er up a blue chip," than it would be to say, "My deah boy, old chappie, I'm com pelled to counter up another," or "I'm 'shy' a red counter." No, the American name is much the more preferable, and though we may copy after the English style In many thing's, we still stick to "chips" and not ape royalty by calling them counters. BusseU as a Brake. BusseU Harrison, who is in New Tork see ing his wife off to Europe, told a Sim man: "Arkell has been running tblngspretty fast, and I guess it is time that I was here." Bad Going or Coming. Toledo Blade. English snob society seems to nave cot .through Camming. It is going. THINGS IN GENERAL. The Danger of Preaching in These Days of Theological Discussion One Way to Be Safe The Difference Between Church Spirit and Sect Spirit. WRITTEN-r OR -THB DISPATCH.! Tho Professor of Things in General ob serves with much concern that preaohing has become a risky business. East, west, north and south tbe parsons are getting in to trouble. Nobody who reads the papers can miss tbe names of Brooks, or Briggs, or Bridgeman; nor can ho escape the fact that there are Episcopalian "remonstrances" in New Tork, tho Covenanter "libels" In Pitts burg. On all hands there are tidings of theological and ecclesiastical disturbance. Real preaching has never been an abso lutely safe adventure. This, of course, does not apply to imitation preaohing. It has nothing to do with the rocitation of conven tional sermons, nor with the occupation of 20 minutes of a Sunday "morning in the en deavor to discourse grammatically about religion. That sort of thing is not preach ing. There is no great peril in tho sort of sermon which permits the congregation to go on journeys into the Land of Nod. Sleep is significant. Sometimes, of course, it means that tbe listener is tired or stupid; but more often, probably, it means that t the listener knows what to expect. It expresses a Judg ment of the sermon. Sleep is a criticism, as some one says, and expresses an emphatio opinion. The sleepor knows that here be ginneth tho same old sermon. There will be nothing now in it, nothing strange or start ling, nothing dangerous, nothing which he will afterward regret missing. That Bort of preaching is not at all perilous. It is still easy to bo a perfectly safe preacher. The One'Way to Be Safe. But in order to be a perfectly safe preacher ono must not preach. For preaching whioh deserves the name means, first, hard study, and then honest arid independent thinking, and finally, plain and free speaking. And studying, and thinking, and untrammeled speaking have always brought people Into peril. Tho listener gets alarmed. He is too scared to sleep. And he proceeds to make life unpleasant for the preacher. Now whyt What are the people afraid of who want to silence preaching? They are afraid lestjsome doctrine get tho worst of it. For here'is Just the difference between the radical point of view and tho conservative, between the new and the old, between the broad and the narrow, between tho church spirit and the sect spirit. A sect, a theologi cal "school," a religious party, stands for a doctrine. And a doctrine is a particular in terpretation of a truth. The sectarian be gins and ends with the proposition that this truth means this and nothing else. If it does mean anything else, then it is not the truth. That attitude forbids all rational examina tion. When a preacher utters any other theory about' tho. interpretation of that truth, the sectarian takes no time to exam ine the new interpretation. Ho compares it with the old statement. And when he dis covers that they do not agree, that is the end of the matter for him. The new is false. That is what they are doing -with Dr. Briggs. They are giving him no hearing. They are making no investigation of his teaching with the view of finding out whether it is true or not. They say that it does not agree with what men taught 300 years ago. Therefore, it must be false. Dr. Briggs said that men have found God along three paths, the path or the Reason, the path of the Church, and tho path of the Bible. Tho only question about such a statement is to ask: Is it true? Have any men found God by reason or by the voice Of the church? The question which is really asked is this: Doesn't this position set a slight upon tho Bible? Yes, they say. And. accordingly, true or not, wo must condemn it. The Question Which Is Asked. Dr. Briggs said that it is not the teaching of the Bible that the departed go at once into heaven or into hades; but that they rest in a middle state, and that this middle state muBt be a condition of progressive sanctifl cation. Now, does this agree with the West minster Confession? That is the question which they ask about It; not, Is It truo? But, Is it what our teachers used to think? Dr. Briggs said further, and worst of all, that there are errors in the Bible. Here, surely, is a plain matter of fact. For the er rors to which he alluded are errors of chro nology and of historical statement, and here a decision, one way or the other, ought to be both easy and convincing. But the fathers and brethren do sot discuss the question. They say, Here is a man who declares that there are errors in the Bible. Shall wo per mit shch a teacher to instruct the candidates for our ministry? And they answer, No, by a large majority. The point which the Professor of Things in General desires to make is that the inquiry is not as to truth, but as to doctrine. It is not in any case debated whether or not the teacher teaches the truth. The question turns upon the agreement or disagreement of his utterances with the particular inter' prctations of truth which were written down some hundreds of years ago. Is that right? Was all truth determined at the Reformation? Was the whole mystery of theology Investigated, understood, ex plained, fenced about, ended by men of the sixteenth century? Are tho Thirty-nlne .Articles absolutely perfect utterances of theological truth? Is the Westminster Con fession Infallible? The fact is that the impartial layman, who cares a deal more for truth than he does for doctrine, has a large sympathy with such heresy as J)r. Briggs stands charged with, because he finds it true. Ho finds that it is to-day as it was in Christ's day, the orthodox are not always right. "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time," is not always the preface to the absolute truth. Truth Is What Is Wanted. What we want is the truth. We care not whether it be old or new. It is not of the. smallest concern to us wnetuer it agrees or not with the traditional confessions. Luther and Calvin may have confirmed it, or may have contradiced it that is no mat te. Is it true? Does Hie modern scholar, studying under all the new light of modern scholarship, say yes or no to this new prop osition? That is what we ask. And we care much more for the scholars than we do for the fathers. The contest to-day is between truth and doctrine. That is the fine thing about it. The outcome will be an emphatio sotting of truth abo've any of tho partisan interpreta tions of truth. Here is the Bible. It is the "Word of God." How it was written, who wrote it, what its inspiration means, how it differs from other books, are open questions. Here are the creeds, the ancient, brief, his torical creeds, the "Apostles'" and the "Nl cene." They are the expressions of truth, rather than of doctrine, "He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate." There is the truth of the atonement. Now let anybody believe what doctrine, interpretation, appli tlon of that truth he can. Here are the Sac raments of Baptism and the Lord's 8upper. The recitation of the words of Christ in the administration of these sacraments, with the use of the elements which He enjoined, are the centers of truth. All else is 'doctrine, and should be left free and.open the ritual of the service, the amount of water In the font, the amount of yejtst in the bread, and the theological theories about the nature and value of these heavenly helps, trnnsub stantiation, consubstantlation and the rest. A Besultof the Sect Spirit. Here is the difference between the church spirit and the sect spirit. Tho church holds essential truths, and lets people Interpret these truths as best they may, giving wel come to any Interpretation which seems to get closer to the real truth, be It new or old. Tho church is even willing thatb.alf a dozen different interpretations should be held at tho same time by different people. Bomanlpt and Zwinglian are alike welcome to h altar. Bnt tbe sect wants everybody think along tbe same narrow line, wants set n -stout wall about the kingdom heaven and let nobody in without a doo trinal examination. You can't say the creed with us unless you hold a particular theory of atonement. You can't bo baptized unless you hold to a particular ritual of baptism. You can't even read with us off the pages of tho same Bible, unless you hold exactly the same opinion about the Bjble that wo hold. If you haven't a proper reverence for tho Book of Esther, If yon think that the Bible would be better off without some of the im precatory psalms, If you hold that the-Book of Jonah is a,parable jatherthan a history, then you have no part nor lot in the Gospel of St. John. More and moro thi3 narrow, partisan, one sided, exclusive, traditional, forbidding sect spirit must go out. And the wide, in clusive, truth-seeking and truth-welcoming-spirit, which tho Master, meant to be the spirit of His Church, must como in. People are always trying to bottlo up religion into gallon measures, as our Lord said the Phari sees did in His day. But other people are always being stirred up by the Spirit of God to pour in new wine, and the old bottles burst. That is the disturbing sound which we hear to-day on all hands, and in all com munions. It is tho bursting of the old bot tles. BALLOT BEFOBM IH ILLINOIS. That and the Compulsory Education to Be Acted on by the Legislature. SranrovraD, Iii., June 7. There are but five more days of the regular session of the Thirty-seventh General Assembly. Ballot reform and compulsory education are two matters yet to be considered. The ballot re form bill has already been sent to a confer ence committee. , The principal questions to be settled by this conference committee are two Senate amendments to tho bill as passed by the House. Ono of these amendments provides that the ballots shall bo preserved for six months, at which time they shall be de stroyed by a committee, consisting of their custodian (the County Clerk) and a repre sentative of each of the two leading politi cal parties, who shall be appointed: by the County Judge. The other amendment pro vides that each ballot,beforo being placed in the ballot box, shall be numbered to corre spond with the pollbook number of the voter. The conference committee, or a ma jority thereof, will, it is saiif, recommend the retention in the bill of the first amend ment, but tho committee will probably rec ommend that the other be dropped. BE COSTA'S C0BBESP0NDENT. It Turns Out to be the Fair Editor of a Christian Science Magazine. Nrw York, Juno 7. Ever since Dr. De Costa "began his war upon Dr. Phillips Brooks he has founded his arraignment of the Boston preacher upon the statements of a correspondent of his in Boston. This per son, he said, must remain anonymous, but he asserted that the person was responsible and coold be relied upon. It has now leaked out that Dr. De Costa's correspondent is Miss A. A. Chevaillier, who established herself In this town about two ?ears ago, coming hero from Boston. When he International Magazine of Christian Science went to pieces under Mrs. Plunkett's pecu liar views of marriage, Miss ChevallHer took it up and revived it under the name of the Magazine of Truth. She was an ardent Chris tian Scientist, and soon after sho came hero she organized a society, of which Herbert Newman was made the bead. When Dr. Newton took up the cause of the People's Municipal League, Miss Chevaillier broke with him and has had a good deal to say against him since. SOLVING THE GBEENXAND EE9DLE. Lieutenant Peary and. Prof. Hielprin Start on Their Arctic Voyage. New York, June 6. The latest expedition to Arctic regions is off. At 4 57 r. M. to-day , the explqrers and scientists who comprise the expedition sailed away from Brooklyn in the staunch little steamer, tho Kite. The expedition is in charge of Lieutenant L.E. Peary, of the navy, and Prof. Hielprin, of tho Academy of National Sciences or Phila delphia. The object of Lieutenant Peary is to ascer tain -whether Greenland is a continent or an island and the object of Prof Hielprin is to make scientific researches in the Western coast of Greenland. Prof. Hielprin expects to return in September, and Lieutenant Peary plans to be back a jrear later. AN UNACCEPTED INVITATION. The 'Squires Two Big Sons Would Not Kiss the Bride. Oil City Blirzard. A certain couple recently went before a certain 'Squire, not more than 1,110 miles from Oil City, to bo married. Two of the L 'Squire's grown-up sons got wind ,of the nuptials, and when tho time for the cere mony came wore promptly on hand at the office to see all there waB tobeseen. " Tho 'Squire pronounced the words which mado the couple one, according to the laws of man, and then quietly and gravely said: "The witnesses will now step lorward and kiss the bride." The sons at this invitation ungallantly made their sneak. PALB FOB HIS MAN'S SB0BT. A Farm Hand Obeys Orders by Shooting All Trespassing Chickens. SPECIAL TELEGIUJI TO TBE DISPATCH. Caktow, June 7. Lewis Marchand, of Jack son township, started for this City vestorday after telling his new hired man to get a rifle and shoot all the neighbors' chickens he saw in the green garden. When Marchand returned home he found the man had obeyed him to the letter, and being an excellent shot had fairly strewn the field with dead chickens. He said he had a good day's sport, but the farmer is now settling the bill. Bookwalter Has the Boodle. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A delightful dispatch from Springfield, O., says John W. Bookwalter, once Democratic candidate for Governor of this State, has re cently been taking aTevlved interest in pol itics, and the meaning of it Is that he is a candidate for tbe United States Senate. He proposes to take Sherman's seat. Mr. Book waiter is eligible. Ho is a millionaire. No Democrats need apply in Ohio for seats in tho Senate unless they are millionaires. It is Lucky Cigarettes WU1 Kilt Bellefonte Fountain. And now it is said that a number of the society young ladies of Bellefonte have formed a club with the solo object In view of meeting together in some secluded room and, after locking themselves In, proceed to indulge in tne luxury oi cigarette smomng. On a recent occasion when tho young ladies were in the height of their smoking bliss a side door opened and in stepped a gentle man friend. Of course the next act was a tableau. A Republican Lullaby. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If it be true, as alleged, that young Mr. Harrison writes his editorials for Frank iej lle immediately after rising in the morning, we suggest that the Republican party raise a fund to pay him for staying in bod all day. A Flab. Season's First Big Haul. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. JIeadville, June 7. The gamc-fishlng sea son hero was opened up Saturday by Arch McFarland, who landed a big pike. The pike was placed on exhibition. It was four leet long and weighed over 20 pounds. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEKE. Philip Wallace Mackenzie. Philip "Wallace 'Mackenzie, the well tnown Inventor, died recently in New York. He early entered the Iron business. His blower and cupola and blastlnjr furnace for smelting Iron ore were patented In 1HJ5 and 1358. He lifext Invented a gas exhauster, which cheapened the production of gas. Overwork brought on nervous prostration, which caused his death. Obituary Notes. JohnL. Hammond, President of the Merchant's National Hank, of Savannah, 41ed Saturday. BVROK Reed, one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of Omaha, died there Saturday. He was well known all over the country as a numismatist and had a large collection of rare coins. CONDUCTOR Rollix C. HicnARDS.'onc of the veteran passenger conductors on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, died at Erie Friday from the effects of a long siege of consumption at the age of 62. Jesse O. Boyd, one of Chicago's pioneer citi zens, died at Montague, Mich., Friday, aged S3 years and 1 day. His brother, Captain John Boyd, died at the age of 101. His several sisters have lived to a great age, also, one of whom, Mrs. Susan Griffln, aged 90 years, is now Uvlng with her son, Henry Gflffln, at Waynesburg, N. r, Chauscet Vibbakd, weU known for his rela tions with the New York Central, died at Macon, Ga., Friday." In 1801 Mr. Vlbbard war elected to Congress, and he served on the Committee on Post offices and Post Roads and on Expenditures in the ivar Department, in jsu2 ne aciea temporarily as Itary mnxwr auu supenuicnucm oi rauroausox United States. urTAix Jorrx Fauxce. lateof the United States venue Service, died Friday at Jersey 'City He served la the' Mexican and ClTll wai He entertained a large number of foreigners of raj , wmie -no commanded- we iiarrict i.ane. nee of Wales presented to the Captain a : -he commanded the Harriet Lane, f Wales n resented to the Cantaln a The 'hands ne gold watch. The Prince and tneCap- tain i made honorarv members of tbe Xaw- York pht Club on the same day. GENERAL GRANT'S DREAM. His Wife Wanted a" Tea Set and Sure Enough Got It A Phonograph That Was Too Natural A Tfouth With Good In tentions. When General U. 6. Grant was p'ain Mr. Grant and lived at Galbna, 111., the ladies of that place gave a series of tea parties, says tho Detroit IreeJPresi. The Grants were com paratively new people there and were in vited to all of them. Soon the Invited guests returnedbe compliment to their entertain ers. Mr. Grant noticed that his wife was much distdrbed about something at that time, and finally she told her husband that she was worried because she could not give a tea party as her neighbors had done. "But why not, mydeart" asked her hus band, who, man-like, never thought ofhouse hold details. "I havo no china tea set," answered Mrs. Grant, '-and could never think of giving a tea party without nico china." , A few days after the conversation Mr. "Grant told bis wife that stie would soon bo able to giro her ten party. ' "I dreamed last night," he said with hia usual grim humor, "that we were surrounded with the most beautiful china dishes; they covered the whole" landscape as far as 1 could see, and you stood in their midst admiring thorn." The very next day Grant's order to report at headquarters was received, and Mrs. Grunt's fondness for fine china soon had a chance to be gratified. .She has possibly for gotten the circumstances, but the neighbor to whom sho related the Incident nas a lively remembrance of it. And, strangely enough, dreaming of china is said to be token a sudden rise in life and extreme good fortune. Swallowed the Respect. The mother of Heinrioh Heine, the jioet,' was particularly careful about matters of etiquette, and her boys were brought up with great strictness, and occasional sever ity. Among other things sho was extremely decided in her Ideas of table etiquette, and her children's manners in this regard were then thought quite irreproachable, says tho YouMt Companion. They were taught when they were guests at a table never to eat all the food which was put on their plates; a portion must always be left "for respect," so their mother said. Also, they must never take more than a certain fixed amount of sugar in their cups of coffee, no matter what the oravings for it might be. .The last rule was a great trial to Maximil ian, Heinrich's younger brother, who had a particularly "sweet tooth." On one occasion Fran Heine and her chil dren were at a garden restaurant in the suburbs of the city, and had been enjoying tho fresh air and good coffee at the same time. As they rose to leave the table, Max, then 7 years old, saw that a large and tempt ing piece of sugar had been left in the bowl. Thinking himself unobserved, ho quickly seized it and put it in his mouth. " Unfortunately for him he had been no ticed by Heinrioh, who, without meaning to be a tale-bearer, ran to his mother with an expression of horror on his face, as if he ex pected some calamity would instantly bef.tll them, and said in- a shocked and astounded tone: "Oh, mother, mother, would yon believe it, Max has eaten the respect!' ' The Phonograph Too Smooth. "No, I don't use it any more," he said, as he nodded in the direction of a phono graph in the corner of his offlco. "I used to dictate my letters into it, but I had to give it up," a story runs in the New York Cbn tlnent. "Of course, before beginning my dictation I used to start it up to see that it was work ing all right and that the cylinder was not an old one. That's what I did a day or two ago, and tbe machine started out: 'Dear father.' George! but it startled me. It was the voice of my boy who was away at college his very tones; I couldn't be mis taken. Then it went on: " 'I am flat broke.' "His old familiar words. I had heard them so often that I knew what was coming next and tried to shut the machine off, out it was too quick for me. It rattled out: " 'Please leave $50 for me. Louis.' "I knew then that my boy was In town and had been in the offlco while I was out at lunch. I told the cashier to give him ss when he came back, and then 1 put the case on the phonograph, locked it ana threw tbe key away. I don't do business with any thing I haven't confidence In, and after my experience with this machine I wouldn't be surprised if it ordered a bill of goods and then stood me off for the, money. The blamed thing's too smooth." Gallant Only by Degrees. His Intentions were good, but then there is a famous winter resort that is said to be paved with good intentions, says the Chi cago Tribune. His intentions were always good, but ho was forgetful. He overtook the young lady on tho street, and after lifting his hat he Jammed his hands into his trousers' pockets and saun tered along with her. She looked uncom fortable, and he noticed it at last. Then ho stopped short, apologized for his thought lessness and threw his cigar away. She simply bowed her acknowledgment of the courtesy, and they sauntered on for a block or two. Suddenly he yanked his hands from his Dockets and let them bang by his side. She turned and smiled again. A little later he stopped in the middle of the story, said "Ex cuse me," and stepped to the other side of her, for which he got another nod and a smile. Perhaps they bad gone two blocks more when another idea occurred to him. He said, "Permit me," and relieved her of a little sachel she was carrying. A little far ther on he apologized for not thinking of it bcfoio, and took a book she had under her arm. There they reached her destination. ""Yes, his intentions are good," she ad mitted later, "but he goes at it in such a systematic way that I couldn't help feeling glad that the walk was not longer." "Why so?" asked her friend. "Because he'd have gotten so gallant- in another four blocks that he'd have been carrying me." "Do you really think sot" asked the friend. "Why, it would have been the next thing for him to do." "He's handsome, too," mused the friend. "Why didn't you go on with him? If I meet him wo won't stop short of four miles." A Test of Ability. A well-known down-town contractor has a peculiar theory, says the New York Times. It is necessary for him to employ a great number of men in- his business, and they must possess certain qualifications in order to give satisfaction. First and foremost a quickness of thought and action is indispen sable. Everything else is subordinate to this. "And the best place in the world to find the very men I wantls in a restaurant," said tbe man a short time ago. j.ue repoiter aia not see wny tnis suouia 'be so, and the man went on to explain. "When in a restaurant," said he, "yon see a man take up tbe bill of fare and spend half an hour looking through its contents you can put that person down as a man with no decision of character. The man who goes into a restaurant, throws his hat at a peg, and gives the waiter his order as soon as he is seated is tbe man for me." Yon can depend upon it, that man can be trusted to know what he is doing, and is the proper man to put in a position where decision of character is an essential qualification. "If I were tho General of an army I would submit all my officers to this crucial test be fore intrusting them with any important separate commands." , True to General Jackson. "Thero used to be an old fellow up In my county," said Judge Upton Young, in the St. LouUitepuoMc, "who was famous in the early days as a militia colonel. As a drill master no was perfect and In disclpllnovery severe. Justbefoie the war he had a good militia company, and ho closed every drill with these orders: " 'Company,- attention) All who favor General Jackson for President of tho United States, three paces to the front. Forward, march!' "The entire command always voted. Bat one day one of tbe soldiers got it into bis head that General Jackson was dead, and so at tbe next drill, when the Colonel had given liis customary order, this fellow stood stock still. This insubordination created a momentary panic, but the Colonel recovered hlmsotf. and, with his faoe purple with rage, shouted: '"Jonathan Thompson, attention! You vote for General Jackson or I'll have you oomtmartlaled nnd shot, sir. Tbroo paces to the front, John Thompson. Forward, march!' "And you bet John Thompson marched white and scared as any pet rabbit you ever " 'I have the honor of announcing to this company that' General Jackson has again' Deen eiecicu .rresiaent oi ine unuea etaies .magnanimously.' " t ' WISHED HE WAS A D0Q. A little Boy Very Much Tker "With a Humane Lady. Chicago Herald. Quite a group of people gathered about a famishing little dog that had dragged him self out of tho way of the crowd on Madison street. He was such an abandoned looking creaturo that the bad littlo boy, who had noticed him first, told tho elegant woman, whose pity was touched, that tho dog had been locked up in a basoment till he was starving to death. Tho elegant woman took off her gloves and stooped down to the famished animal. She sent a young man to tho restaurant for a cup of milk, trusting the money to him without a thought of his deceiving her. She had her coachman, called, and when he struggled through the now augmented crowd she sent him after a cushion. A tall man pushed his plug hat on the back of his head, ana, crowding the baa little boy an ay, lifted the dog for the ele gant woman and echoed her expression of pity. Another man opened his lunch basket and offered the best of his dinner for tbe little animal, though it had now grown too weak to eat even a mouthful. A policeman pushed the people right and left and offered to carry the canine to the elegant woman's carriage "I'lllakelt myself," said tho well-dressed man, and he gathered it up in his arms. The crowd opened a -way for him; and followed down the street, a score of them anxiously proffering food, drink or money. The car riage rolledawaylnamoment,anahnndreds of blessings followed the elegant woman whose heart was touched by the sufferings of even the meanest animals. "By cripes," said the bad little boy, "I wish I was a dog." 'TWAS A BOBBLE KNOT. A Poor Young Man and a Eich Girl Who Were Twice Married. Frank O'Hnra and Miss Nellie Henebry were married the second time within U hours. O'Hara is a respectable but poor young man. and driver of engine No. 1, of the Danhury, Conn., fire department. His wife" is daughter of P. F. Henebry, one of the wealthiest merchants in Danbnry. The yonng people fell in love with each other about two years ago. Miss Nellie's parents objected to O'Hara's attentions to their daughter, and a year ago they sent her to a convent in Hartford, but the separation only made them more determined, and when Nellie returned homo on a visit last week her lover was among the first to greet her. , The yonng couple met in the evening on a side street whore they entered a carriage and drove to Brewster's, N. Y., where they were married by a Protestant minister. They returned and at once informed the girl's parents. They were forgiven, and in compliance with tho wishes of the parents, who are Catholics, they were remarried by Bev. Father Lynch, pastor of St. Peter's Church. ' CAPTUBED A BEAB CUB. 3Iial E. Lilley Went Alter Trout, hut Got Bigger Game. Canton Sentinel. MialE. Lilley had legal business in the Slnnemahonlng Valley Tuesday, and, having a few hours to spare, improved the oppor tunity to catch a few Slnnemahonlng trout. F. E. Kelley, of Ronovo, was there, and both met with good success in catching fish. The forest fires had entirely destroyed the woods on both sides of the stream, and while they were busy tempting the shining beauties to partake of alluring bait, a cub bear came down to investigate matters. They frightened the cub with loud yells, and succeeded in making it run a consider able distance and take refuge in a tree, where Fred Kelly followed and captured it. Mr. Lilley brought the cub home with him. He thinks the animal had been without food for several days. It is about 6 weeks old. MONEY AND CLOTHING FOUND In a Supposed Treasure Cave Under a Hotel at Yellow Creek, Ohio. Steubenrllle Herald. B. F. Porter, a hotel keeper at Yellow Creek, 19 miles above here, has been having an excavation mode for a cellar under his hotel, which was burned down some time ago, and to-day was amazed to discover an en trance to a cavo branching out from the ex cavation made. After removing the mass of rubbish in front of the cave, ho found sev eral valuable Frenoh coins ol ancient date, also some queer oroekery, odd-fashioned tools and clothing of strange make. The hotel keeper who preceded Mr. Porter was an early settler In that locality, and it -was thought he used this cave as a hiding place for the money he was known t0 P08 sess. C0L0BED KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The Grand Lodge of Their Branch of the Knights of Pythias Is to Meet. CSFICIAI. TBLZOBAU TO THE DISPATCH. . WASHnroTOir, Pa., June 7. Beginning with to-morrow the colored people of this place will begin a season of gaiety, that being the opening day of the session here of the Grand Lodge Tfciights of Pythias of the colored branch of that order. Grand Prelate Alfred Jackson, of Pitts burg, will preach the annual sermon. There will be eight subordinate lodges represented at the sessions, four being from Pittsburg and one each from Braddock, Coal City, Johnstown and this city. JAIBMOUNTS BIG INDUSTBTZ3. Fifteen Hundred Miners Employed, and the New Coke Business Growing. STZCIAI, TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. FAnurouHT, W. Va., June 7. Coal and coke Interests here are reported to be in better condition than they have been foryears. The output last week was 20,000 tons of coal and 6,000 tons of coke. Fully 1,500 miners are employed in the sev eral mines in this vicinity, and the "coke trade, which is comparatively new, gives promise of great growth. SILK CULTUBE AT ALT00NA. One Man Starts the Ball Boiling With 0,000 of the Worms. rSFXCTAZ. TXLEQBAU TO THE DISPATCH. Altoosa, June 7. A large colony of silk worms is in the possession of A. J. Whitney which attracts much attention- In all there are aoout 6,000 worms, and most of them are in a healthy condition. Now that Mr. Whitney has introduced silk culture in this vicinity it is probable that others will follow. ji course mo snase .uiea. Lima Gazette. A boy at Sidney, O., vomited up a snake 10 inches in length last Monday. It is supposed he swallowed it when drinking from a spring ,a few weeks ago. It has but one eye and that in tne miaaie oi us neau, ana or tne genus nematodes. The boy is well and hearty, although he was quite 1U before vomiting the reptile. The Beceptlon Awaiting the Prince. Philadelphia CalL What will the Prince of Wales think of himself when he hears what a Pittsburg Judge has said about htm from tho bench T " It would be well for His Royal High ness to bear in mind what this Judge says, and should h,e conclude to come to America and go into the saloon business to keep away from Pittsburg. So like a Yonng Lady. Bellefonte Fountain. A fnnny incident occurred uptown Mon day. A young man riding a very fine horse was passing along Allegheny street and, when opposite Ceader's bakery, the animal turned nnd walked into the door of the ice cream saloon. Someone in the room closed the door nnd thus shut out a patron who was likely on the hunt of good dish of ice-cream. PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. O. Halle, assistant general freight agent of the M., K. A T. road, and P. C. Boyle, edi tor of the Standard papers, areattheMonon gahela House. Mr. Haile is visiting the com mercial agents of the line. James P. Graham, of Clarion, and S. P. Boyer, of Titusville, are registered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. I lAmong those going Bast last evening were W. A.Jfimickand George Bice, of ttieDu qncsne Traction road. Lvttleton Price and wife, of Idaho, and Louis Behmann, cf Canton, are stopping at I tho Buquesne. ' John 8. Witcher, of the United! States Army at Cincinnati, was in tbe elty yester day. f a Tj. Magee left tor Chicago last evening onthellmlfed. " ' - CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Portugal owes?500,000,000. The United States navy has a paper boat. Bohemia miners' wages average 5132 a year. The celery crop qf Kalamazoo, Mich., will be worth $1,000,000. It takes'a sailing vessel 125 days to sail from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Amnleat Mon-ell, Pa., attempted to stand on his head and broke hia neck. Under the nresent camp laws of Xew ! York tho English sparrow is not protected, and it is made a misdemeanor to give food or shelter to that bird. . A child was born at Hantmeal, near I Beading, recently, which measured 32 inches in length and 9 Indies across the shoulders. The mother and child are both dead. The H. L. Tibbals, which was built in this city in 1853, cleared at VictoriaTecently for Bering Sea. She is an eight-ton ship, tbe Biuuucsv seaier auoatanu carries acrewoi three men. Samuel "Worth's cow, in East Bradford, captured a brand new coat of the hired man and was caught devouring it. Tbe hired man gave chase, but the cow kept chewing while she ran, and when he canght herf very little of the garment was left. The hens of Bridgeport, Me., havo taken a liking to their own eggs, and as soon as they lay one they turn and eat it. If this Continues there will be a dearth of eggs in the market. This is a case where the theory of "home-consumption" doesn't work to per fection. Sue Sho, a Chinese laundryman at Pa dncah, Ky., married his assistant, Miss Ida Kntledge, a pretty American girl. The cere mony was American nnd the groom was disguised in a dress suit. The bride says It is not a matter of business convenience, but pure, unadulterated love. The new Countess of Ckncarty, Belle Bilton, has been a great favorite as a cigar ette advertising medium and her pictures are in most of the cigar stores of the city. She is also a well-known figure among tho army of New York men who regularly visit London in the spring and summer. A Waterville, 3Ie., photographer on his travels tho other dayran across a school house, when the summer term was in ses sion with one pupil and tha schoolma'am. The schoolma'am had insisted upon being the teacher, and the parents had become dis gusted and taken the "young nns" right out. A story comes from Parkersburg, "JY Ya., that a young man of that place adver tised In a matrimonial bureau publication, for a wife, and his sister answered the ad vertisement. They wrote affectionate epis tles to one another for some time, nnd then appointed a meeting when the denoument came. Prof. Foster, of Denver, thinks that Methuselah did live to be 1,000 years old. Aiongago, Dciore tne planet Mercury was born, tho garth was much nearer the sun than at present. Its speed was therefore much greater, and the orbit being smaller the year must have been quite short per haps only a few weeks in length. That ex plains it. An Albany butcher upon arrival at his shop the other morning missed his favorite) cat While looking for it he glanced into a, corner when he saw a huge rat snake and about half the cat. The otber half occupied a portion of the snake. The reptile was killed by the police and measured eight feet In a few moments more itwonld have suc ceeded in getting outside the cat without much difficulty. There is on exhibition in Detroit a peb ble, one side of which is a miniature likeness of a face bearing the imprints of sorrow. Thi3 little stone, which is about an inch long and three-quarters of an inch wide, was found on a roadway leading to the cross on, the summit of Kofeispitze, a mountain over hanging the village of Oberammergau, and held In reverence by the simple villagers, who consider it their guardian spirit. Lightning played queer freaks at Leary, Go., a few days ago. It struck several trees during the rain in the afternoon, one of which was in the swamp just south of the town, which was fired by the bolt, but did not break out until after supper. Being Just be yond the stores from the residence portion.1 of the town, it was taken for a store on fire, and tbe department was called out, only to return in disgust at not finding any fire to fight. In 1890 the foreign importation of prunes amounted to 58,000,000 pounds, a trifle heavier than fa. 1885, while in 1887 the shipments from abroad reached a total of 92,000,000 pounds. California produced in 1S87 1,800,000 pounds, against 12,000,000 forlS90. The for eign importation of figs has Increased steadily for the past three years, and the annual shipments amount to abont 10,000,000 pounds. In California this production has increased from 90,000 pounds in 1B87 to 200.000 in 1890. A Columbus, Ind., musical freak is called "Singbilly," though his proper name is William Isintrigger. He plays in a peculiar manner with his Inngs any tune with a dis tinctness and clearness that brings out every note as fully as it can be brought out on any piano or other musical instrument bv the most accomplished performer. The effort frequently causes his bodv to writhe with contortions and his features to pinch with apparent pain, bat he say3 it does not hurt him. Albert "Wilcox, of Bristol, Conn., wsj awakened from sleep on Tuesday night by a sharp pain in his face. Starting up snddenly he raised his hand and found a rat on his pillow. Enraged at being disturbed, the ro dent set his teeth deeply in the man's cheek, causing him to cry for help. Members of tho family rushed to his room and found him moaning. The bedclothes were soaked with blood, and it looked a3 though the man was bleeding to death. Dr. Williams was sum moned, but before his arrival the man, who is well advnnced In years, was almost too weak to tell his story. A Philadelphia shoe merchant says that two years ago a man came into his office in the last stages of alcoholio decline apnar ently, and exhibited an invention which would revolutionize men's shoo fastenings and make fortune for some one. It was soma sort of an arrangement which closed all the buttons at once by the turn of an invisible lever, and was as much an improvement on. the old method as the lever skato is upon, the old-fashioned kind. That was the first and the last tbe merchant ever saw of man or model, and he Is wondering now if the In ventor's secret went into a grave in potter's field. He cannot in the least recall the man ner of working the fastening. MOMENTS WITH THE WITS. "Look out for him," said Eostetter Mc Ginn!, referring to a prominent Texas gentleman, "ho is a hypocrite, and will play you a had trick some day. Just like he did me." "What did he do to yon" "What did he do? I borrowed flO of him, and the donble-dred scoundrel tried to make me pay It back. Look out for him, I tell you : yon can't rely on him. Texas Slftlngs. Miss Spinster Such a nice man Bector Brown I Why. this morning he said there were marriages In heaven. Miss Sharpc Bo consoling for yon, dear, tool Hew Tork Ledger. Our darling should bear Eatharine'anamo Decided we; but, such Is fate. " Twins came to ns, and thus we had The one we'd named and dnpll-kate. , -JvdgC3. ProL Digamma "Will yon inform the) Class, Mr. Porter, where Homer was born? Porter (reflectlvely)-Thero are eight places which claim to be Homer's birthplace, bnt I be lieve, sir. It Is now well settled that only live of them are really such. Lift Pirst swell I say, old chappie, what do you think of this talk of wearing knee-breeches? Second swell I for one will nevah wean them. First swell I tbuppose you lack the coarwage, old fellah? Second swell It's not a question of coarwage, j but legs, don't yon know. Smith, (tray A Cb. iBmUUy. Stranger Just look at the crowds going along. I shouldn't think you could build churches enough to hold them all. Natlve-We can't-they'ra going io the ball game. Harvard Lampoon. Corporal (to soldier) "Why is the' blade of the saber curved Instead of straight? Soldier It is curved in order to give more force to tbe blow. Corporal Humbug! The saber Is curved so It will fit the scabbard. If It was straight bow would you get It Into the crooked scabbard, blockhead? Texas Sitings. Old gentleman (to 'bus driver) My friend, what do you do with your wages evry week pat part of It in the savings bank? Driver-No, sir. After payla the' buteher.aa' ' grocer an' rent, I pack away what's left In barrel. I'm alraia or tnem savin's Banks. Jontes bum. 4 - L-. MiJd&ML " -! r . &1&&SB&in.
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