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POSTAGE All persons who mall the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear in wind tho fact that tho post age thereon Is Two (2) Cents. All donble and triple number copies or The Dispatch require a 2-ccnt stamp to insuro prompt delivery. PITTSBURG, SCXDAY, JUXE 11, 1S91. THE COLLEGE LAWLESSNESS. In an article on tht recent manifesta tions of college club life, the Xew York Tress justifies those institutions by the argument that "undergraduate life is not adequately represented by the young men who are convicted in police courts of keep ing liquor saloons under the guise of Greek letter societies," and commit other acte of lawlessness and blackguardism, which have been unfortunately prominent in connection with some colleges lately. Tills is quite true, and, as far as it goes, pertinent, it is correct that there are elements of college life not fairly repre sented by these gilded young hoodlums; and there are colleges where undergradu ate life is not represented by such idiotic viuousness in anyway. Indeed, the whole story fe told wlien it is said that colleges where the faculty is vigorous and inde pendent enough to make a clean sweep of young men silly enough to imagine that the possession of wealth gives them carte Hanche to perpetrate all sorts of vices, and where the civil authorities have stamina enough to punish students who violate the law as they would mechanics or laborers, there is no such representation of college life at all. But, it is necessary fo remark, these are not fashionable colleges. That is the weak point of colleges which are regarded as setting the lead. The other day numerous undergraduates of Harvard were convicted of running illicit liquor saloons; yet the wealth of the "fast set" seems to have produced an unwonted delay in the sentence of expulsion, which any independence on the part of the faculty would have produced at once. The police courts seem to have plucked up vigor enough to impose fines on the c-ffenderj-, which to these highly-allowanced youths was just no punishment at ali. It would have dealt a crushing blow to the business of the college-operated speak-easy, and would have shown impartiality in the enforcement of the law, if some of these rich offenders had been sent to tho work liouse for sixty days, as would have been done with a poor offender. The serious part of this business, and that which subjects the colleges where these disorders are rife to just condemna tion, is that tho desire to attract the patron age of the wealthy, tho hope of legacies and endowments, induce a toleration for the ebullitions of wealthy students. When a college makes it clear that no student is wanted who cannot submit to decent dis cipline, no matter how wealthy his parents laay he, it takes itself outside the list of fashionable colleges and ranks itself among those which are kcncti fulfilling the pur poses of ;is endowments. THE MODEKX CRUSADE. One of the picturesque, and, in its orig inal stages, one of the most devoted ele ments of life in the Middle Ages was furn ished by the Crusaders and the religious military orders. In the effort of Cardinal Lavigeric to organize a crusade against the tlave hunters of Africa, there is a revival of the fundamental idea of the old knights whose vows led them to such heroic work .for a purpose no less devoted and of greater I practical value. J The modern struggle for which the en J thusiastic French Cardinal is trying to arm his crusaders 13 like the old one be tween the forces of Mahometanism and Christianity. The purpose, however, is not the possession of a religious shrine, but the defeat of millions of ignorant savages against the slave hunters. The latter have spread over Africa successfully hy combining religious zeal with military enterprise. Cardinal Lavigeric seeks to inspire the forces of Christianity with the same spirit, and rescue Africa from the Arab incursion. For this purpose he has already organized a corps called the "Warrior Monks of the Sahara, by which it Is hoped to stop the slave trade across tho desert. Stanley is his book places a light esti mate on the attempt to form a crusade against the slave traders. He st3-lcs such efforts as "suicide," and would rely on the prohibition of sales of arms and ammuni tion to Arabs and savages. But that would be a very incomplete remedy. It might check tho Arab incursion; but it would not prevent the tribes from raiding each other and carrying off slaves with bow and spears. What is needed is to es tablish tho posts of Christian civilization" into the center of Africa and maintain tliem with enough force to make them re spected. The doubt as to the success of Cardinal LavigerieS crusade is principally whether he can inspire modern Christianity with the zeal and devotion necessary to make the effort effective. If a tithe of the num ber who vowed themselves to crusades in the Middle Ages can be found to devote themselves to modern crusades there is no doubt that a very few years' effort can confine the - slave trade 1 to very -narrow limits. Stanley him self has opened routes by which military stations can "be planted along the entire length of the Kongo m such force as to reduce even the powerful Tippoo Tib to discipline. With the Kongo and the Niger patrolled by the forces of civiliza tion, and with stations planted along the forest route to tho lakes, the maintenance of Christian order in Africa would simply resolve itself into preventing the crusaders from abusing their power over the natives. It is a discredit to Christendom that the greed for territorial aggrandizement on tho part of the European powers has taken the work of spreading civilization out of the field of disinterested effort. Had all Africa been opened up on the plan of the Kongo State, the hope of 'a movement like that of Cardinal Lavigerie's would have been much more promising. As it is the work is a noble one, for which every believer in the amelioration of humanity will wish success. THE SEASON'S OUTINGS. The advance of the season brings with it the opening of the seaside hotels, the in vitation of the proprietor of the mountain resort for his patrons to revisit him, and the alluring summer excursion prospectus of the railway passenger agent All these liave blossomed with the influence of the hot weather more promptly even than the roses or the fruits of summer. From Barnegat tc Cape May, and from Mt Washington to Colorado Springs, the en terprising landlord will from to-day put himself and his entourage m shape to wel come the coming guest, and to put off the other part of the adage until the guest is no longer profitable. From the advertisements of the various resorts which bid for the patronage of Pittsburgers in to-day's Dispatch, and the correspondence on the same topic of the season, it is to be perceived that many are showing praiseworthy enterprise in en larging and improving their accommoda tions, and in surrounding their resorts with new inducements and entertainments for visitors. All these attractions will have their influence in drawing the dollars of the public; but everyone will recognize that the main amusement will be in the people who arc found at the water places. The travel to summer resorts is an index of the prosperity of the people. The peo ple who go there may be a good deal like the foam on the beer or the bead on the whisky, emptiness in themselves; but they are indications of the forces in the body of the beverage. There will be the usual people at the seaside who put themselves in evidence with stunning bathing suits and never go near the water. There will be the proportion of visitors to the mountains who testify their love for the everlasting hills by sitting on hotel piazzas and chronicling small beer; but they are simply the gaseous manifestation of the force in the great mass of American people who are ablo to take a well-earned summer vacation and enjoy it sensibly. Thus there is plenty of material for the dress of the satirist at the summer resort; and at the same time there is abundance that can meet with hearty approval. The spectacle of a nation that can in so large part spend a considerable share of the heated term in recreation is a pleasant one. Whether the readers of The Dispatch take their summer outing in modest camps along the shores of the Monongahela, or among the costly pleasures of Saratoga or Newport, they can be heartily wished a pleasant summer and a return to then work with a rich store of recuperated energy. POLITICAL LOSS AM) GAIN. Governor Pattison's victory in the Supreme Court over the Bepubllcan poli ticians of Philadelphia, who disputed his right to appoint the successor of Bardsley, is reported to bring sorrow to the hearts of those eminent examples of the ward politicians, the Republican city magis trates. The Treasurer appointed by the Gov ernor has the right to name the collectors of delinquent taxes, which has been done heretofore by apportioning that remuner ative work to -the Republican magistrates. The loss of this profitable perquisite to the politicians of the dominant party wouldbe very saddening if it were not for the reflec tion that their loss will be the gain of the Democratic politicians. But it is remarkable that the Philadel phians have not long ago profited by the example of Pittsburg, and removed such an important political function as the col lection of taxes from the uncertainties de pending upon the possible appointment of a Democratic Treasurer, or the possible election of a Democratic Governor who knows his rights as well as Pattison does, and, knowing, dares maintain them. LAW TOK ONE SIDE. A very remarkable view of tho relative rights of capital and labor is expressed by the following paragraph from an editorial in a Xew York cotemporary on the history of Bocial movements in England: "Be tween 1824 and 1866 a large number of illegal societies for maintaining the rate of wages and so on were established in Eng land under the name of trades unions. These were met by 'perfectly legal manufacturers'- protection societies for keeping down the rate of wages," an'd so on. This is a beautiful expression of im partiality on the subject of the legal rights of employers and employed. It was illegal for the men to organize to raise the rate of wages; but for manufacturers to unite to crowd them down to the starva tion point, and to prevent the force of competition for labor from benefiting the masses, was "perfectly legal." If this ever was or ever could be the case, It would re duce to the rank of a sober and rather con servative statement of fact the old Socialist cry that there is "one law for the poor and the other for the rich." ,f The fundamental theory of tfiat kind of law would be the burdening and Im poverishment of the masses for the benefit of the privileged few. That kind of law. long maintained breeds revolution. THE DANGER. AT CIIICAGO. It now appears that the Chicago World's Fair management has got into another wrangle about positions which bring the work of pushing the interests of the Ex position abroad and obtaining foreign ex hibits to a standstill until it is settled. Of the personal merits or demerits in volved in the fight over appointments to the foreign department The Dispatch will express no opinion, because it is not fully informed. But it is evident that it is a renewal of the disposition to push personal interests ahead of the success of the Exposition, which was so prominently manifested in tho dispute over the site. If that spirit cannot be entirely elimi nated the success of the Exposition is worse than problematical. If the people engaged in'that enterprise cannot work together solely to advance the interests of the Exposition, and to secure it a gratifying success, they had better abandon the enterprise. It would be better to do so now than to involve Chicago In the rln and the rest of the country in the disgrace of a failure brought about by quarrels solely inspired by selfish ness and Jealousy. .SATUBDAY HALF HOLIDAYS. In compliance with the recent act of the Legislature all of Pittsburg's legal institu tions are preparing for Saturday half, holi days beginning this week. In order that worklngmen may have a chance to make their deposits some of the banks will keep open between the hours of 8 and 10 in the evening. While this may-be an evasion of the law, the worklngmen should have a chance to deposit the amounts they wish to save immediately after receiving their pay, as with most people it is easy to see a a place to spend money if they have it in their pockets. Quite a number of firms and companies who do not come under the head of the act have signified their 'intention of clos ing their doors at noon Saturday during tho heated months. This will give the clerks who are held at their desks long hours during the week an extra breath ing spell, -and they will have a chance to rest up for a good day's recreation on the Sabbath. All business men who are able to do so, should follow the precedent es tablished by those who have granted the half holiday. Of course, there are those whose Interests will not allow it, but many can close their places of business a few hours earlier just as well as not, and'they should not fail to do so. That conference between the President and Senator Quay, as a result of which an offensive and defensive allinnco Is an nounced, after tho Senator in a published interview declared that "Blaine can have tho nomination if ho wants it," illustrates the operation of tho law of causo and effect. Tho Senator's record in connection with this administration bears nitness that he thor oughly understands the effectiveness of the conservative butjudiciously applied kick. Mr. Henry "Wattersckt is very much opposed to the new Constitution proposed for Kentucky. It is even intimated that he may go to the extreme length of dealing it the most deadly blow in his power. That, of course, consists in writing it a friendly letter advising to withdraw. Ax American fishing schooner, returned from a voyage to Africa, reports she was forbidden to sell fish to the fish-eating natives because she caught more with her nets in a day than native fishermen could hook in six months. This shows that the savages are just as much opposed to compe tition as any of the trust advocates. It also demonstrates that the trust apostles are teaching the kind of political economy prac ticed by the most ignorant savages. After a full comparison of the qualities of Mr. Russell B. Harrison with the Prince, of Wales, this country felicitates itself on the fact that a political donkey is not as bad as a confirmed gambler, and that tho don key's term does not last two years more. Numerous esteemed cotemporaries are making the most of the discovery that the Key. Sam Small's accounts in connection with that Western college show a shortage of a thousand dollars. This shows that Mr. Small's financial abilities are limited. If he had possessed the genius of the financial heroes worshiped by the papers criticising him ho would nevorhavo been caught get ting away with anything so petty as a thou sand dollars. The allegation of the French that the United States has been shipping to that country horse-flesh in disguise as beef, is based on the same principle as the idea of the drunken man that every one but him self is intoxicated. It must be set down to the credit of Presi dent Harrison that he rose above the spoils principle by appointing Democrats to two of the five Judgeships of the new Court of Pri vate Land Claims. His appointments to that court are all conceded to be good ones. If the President makes the same record in his appointments to the new United States In termediate Court of Appeals he will strengthen himself before the people. When the traction and electric lines tap the booming towns around Pittsburg it will be a great metropolis in fact if not in name. The news that the head of the Standard Oil Company is suffering from nervous pros tration will surprise those who considered that his nerve, was of tho kind that never got prostrated. The discovery renders it pertinent to advise him that if he will let trado have its natural course in the oil busi ness, and abjure schemes to shut off compe tition, he will be able to get in line without overtaxing his mental energies. Louedes and St. Anne de Baupre are merely mourners' benches compared to the Troy Hill shrine. The colored juror summoned for service in Now York was challenged peremptorily on the ground that, as he had never served on a Jury before, he lacked the necessary ex perience. Uesides the remarkable prefer ence for the professional Juror indicated by this challenge, it also is built clearly on the logic of the fond parent who refused to let her child go near tho water until he had learned to swim. "When Chief Brown unsealed the May or's last letter he immediately sealed his lips. The report that Sir William Gordon Cumming is going to write a book on the Tranby Croft scandal credits him either with a willingness to make a profit of his disgrace or a desire to expose himself in order to in-. Jure his enemies. Sir William should leave bad enough alone, and devote himself to re tirement and his American heiress. Low street car fares mean high speed, and the crossings should bo closely guarded. It is intimated that Frederick Douglass is not satisfactory as Minister to Haiti. Per haps not, but if tho Government of the United States adopts tho policy of settingup murderous tyrants as rulers of Haiti in ex change for coaling stations, the necessity for bullet-proof Ministers to that island will make, the position very hard to fill. The summer boarder will soon be eating cow butter and caressing mosquito bites. That S17.000 estate divided between Henry George and tho widow by the will of the testator, and taken into the New Jersey courts some years ago, now turns out to be about $3,300, the rest having gone in lawyers' fees and court charges. Yet there are some people who think there is no need of reform in the legal business! E0SC0E CONKLING'S SPIBIT Called Out by a Medium Several Days Be fore His Death. New York Advertiser. . "Talking about spook raisers," said a well known lawyer yesterday, "reminds me of a little incident in Kalamazoo while I was stopping there over night several years ago. A dispatch was received announcing the death of ex-Senator Roscoo Conkling. I at tended a spiritualis'tio seance that evening, and tho medium, who was a very enterpris ing iroman, called up tho spirit of tho dead statesman, and I had a fow words with him. Imagine my astonishment the next morning to learn that Mr. Conkling was still nllve, and, n fact, ho did iiot depart this life until two days later. "When I sought out tho medium for an ex planation I lound her smiling and confi dent. She told mo that after I had loft her circle she was aroused by the spirit of a New York coroner who had died many j-ears ago. Tliis celestial visitor communicated to hor the fact that tho soul of Sir. Conkling had actually taken its flight, but returned to the body in tho courso of a few hours." CURIOS OF THE TOWN. An Inside View or Pyrotechnics A Small fortune for the Fourth Adventures of a Baby Carriage The Gossip of a Day Be lated by the Topical Talker. "Be kind enough to leave -your cigar out side tbo door," said tho bcs -of tho fire works department in a city Btore to me yes terday, "for we really can't afford to have "all these things go. up in smoke before July 4." "And how much does Pittsburg 6end up as incense to the patriotic gods on Independ ence Day?" I asked. . "A good many tons of fireworks and a3 much proportionately ns tho most enthusi astic celebrant of the glorious Fourth in the land," said he. '"t havo made a rough cal culation many a tirnc of what the Pittsburg patriots spend for fireworks on this holiday, and last year let me see! 1 should say that 20,000 boxes of ordinary firecrackers were set off, which would mean, with 40 packs to each box, about 800,000 packs; at the same time 1,000 cases of cannon or giant crackers, with 10 to 10 packs in a case, were consumod. These, with the finer fireworks, rockets, Hainan candles, set pieces and" so on, would certainly involve an expense of from $33,009 to $40,000. Pittsburg and all its suburb in cluding Allogheny and the neighboring towns, in trade a part of Pittsburg, may be set down as likely to spend $50,000 on fireworks for the Fourth this year. There nre a number of citizons here who think nothing of spendins $250 to $500 on the Fourth's fireworks. .You sco there's a pretty wido range in prices. You can buy firecrackers, for instance, at $1 50 a box or 5 cents a pack, or you can pay 75 cents for a single cracker; you can squander 50 cents on a single Koman candle or get 'oft cheaply with a modest article for a cent; and so it is with sky rockets, they begin at a cent and go up to $1. The other day a man walked out of this store with a small package of sky rockets only two and a half . dozen which cost him no less than $13." Facts About Fireworks. , "Tho change in the mode of taxing im ported fireworks has made them somewhat dearer," tho expert on fireworks said. "The duty used to be levied on the case, and a good-sized rebate was allowed on damaged goods, but now tho duty is by the pound without any rebate. Importers under the old plan, with more or less connivance on the part of the customs' inspectors, used to collect rebates on a largo part of their in voices on the ground of the goods being damaged. A flroworks broker was tolling me the other day how a fow weeks ago ho was called in by the Government to reap praise a large consignment on which a re bate had been originally granted. Of the al leged damaged goods he found 75 per cent were absolutely unimpaired in value. With out any chance to get their goods through cheaply, at tho expense of Uncle Sam, tho importers, since the McKinley bill passed, havo raised the prices on the finer kind of fireworks. Since June 1 a combination of wholesale dealers in fire works in this country has beon formed, and as a result prices have advanced from 20 to 40 per cent. For instance, one article on the use wnicn usea to sen at ?3 ou now stands at $6. All the same, as far as the general run of fireworks in the popular grades is con cerned, Pittsburgers will not have to pay any more for them than usual. "Most of the firecrackers are still imported from China and Japan, although in the last three years America has come to the front in the manufacture of giant and cannon crackers. The crackers of American make produce a great deal more noise for their size and money than the Chinese. It is a good point for the small boy and his parents and guardians to remember when they are selecting cracKers tor tne ourtn inat tne somewhat attentuated American firecracker, with its core of wood and compact case, will give five times as much noise as the im ported cracker twice tho size, but loosely wrapped and pulpy at heart. "There are not many novelties in fireworks this year; there are more varieties of fancy rockets and Roman candles than usual; and the balloon makers seem to have humped themselves to produce oddities. The set pieces are mostly made to order in the fac tories, of which the majority are located on Long Island a desert is desirable, you know, when explosives are being handled." A Queer Wedding Psesent. "The Adventures of a Baby Carriage" is not as dignified a title as "The Adventures of a Phaeton," that served for one of Black's novels, but it would fit a story that is haying a wide circulation in this city Just now. It appears that a gentleman who resides outside tho city was invited to attend a fashionablo wedding that took place here last week. His wife came with him to the city, and, it must be added, brought along a new dress specially built for the occasion. They went in the first place to stay for a day or two with a relative in Allegheny, and thodaybeforo the wedding migrated to the house of another relative in the East End. Their trunk they left behind, intending to have a local express company transfer it. The directions for the transfer were given by the gentleman himself, and he seized the opportunity to send a wedding present to the bride-elect by the same agency. The trunk and the present were at the house in Allegheny, and tho expressman was ordered to fetch both at the samo time. Thero was standing in the hall at the time tho expressman called a baby carriage, done up in burlap, with some fishing rods strapped beneath it. The eXDrcssman took tho babv-carriace to be the other package ho had been charged to deliver, and without inquiring took it out, then the trunk, and went on his way rejoicing. Ho drove to tho house of the bride-elect, carried up the baby-carriago and handed it over to tho servant who opened the door, merely saying that it was from Mr. . What ho did next nobody seems to know, except that he did not take the trunk to its proper destination. With the new dress inside it, the trunk floated around the East End till tho day after the wedding. Tho effect of the baby-carriago's mysteri ous arrival upon the household where a bride-elect was eagerly scanning -the im ports was startling. A baby-carriago is not a customary wedding present. It may have a-legitimato entry later, of course. Still it mystified more than it mortiflod those who examined it. The maid who had taken it in reported tho namo the exprossman had given as the donor's. That only deepened the mystery. Tnen someone discovered the fishing rods knit to the baby-carriage's anatomy, and speculation took a new di rection. It was not till night fell that tho true inwardness of it all was revealed, and tho laughter began over "Tho Adventures of a Baby-Carriage." A Folnter for Poets. "It is not much use giving poets pointers about anything," said a man who is guilty of writing verse for magazines, "but it is a pity that all of them do not understand how much it mars a poem to print it in any but tho plainest kind of type. Many a poem has suffered terribly from being printed in script or archaic type. Wido margins and good white paper stand for a great deal, but even they will not compensate for the in Jury improper typo can inflict upon a poem. Half the people who llko poetry.'and they are none too numorous, won't take the pains to decipher tho average poem printed in script or like illegible form. Lots of men who writo for tho magazines and weekly papeis appear to think that their poems aro setofftoadvahtagoby being scrawled in a weak imitation of handwriting. This very d ay, with a keen appetite for anything poet ical, I had a hard struggle to read a really clover poem In one of this month's maga zines, because it was concealed by the strag pHnp lrnnek-kneed scrint in which It m a printed. It is bad enougn for a pOet to cul tivate obscurity in handwriting or lapse into it through carelessness, but that is a matter for himself and the typesetters to light out. When it comes to print most poets desire to be read, and if they are wiso they will insist upon plain Koman type, thanking merciful providence ifitis the largest type in the case- If on the other hand perleqt Justice wcro administered by the editors, half the poetry printed ought to be engraved in the most artistic, which means of course, the most obscure style conceivable, for then it would have no readers and cause no tears. But tho best pooms usually meet the vilest fate." Elastic but Strong, This Land. "Whex foVeigners impugn the elasticity and strength of our institutions," said Robert D. Lay ton to mo yesterday, "I am fond of quoting to them a"bit of my own ex perience. In the spring of 1865, 1 was pres ent when Gcncr.il Johnston surrendered to Sherman. The regiment I served in, the Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, formed a part or General Sherman's escort. Ono of tlio surprises of that day to ns troop ers was the appearance of General Wheeler, the famous Confederate. cavalry leader. He had been raising cain with us for months, and this and his raids in previ- l ous campaigns, had made us think of him as J a being of fearful proportions. We expected to find a giant, and when a little man of spare frame was pointed out to us as the terrible General Wheeler, we were rather disgusted. "Well, almost twenty years later, in the winter of 1881, 1 guess it was, I happened to bo in tho visitor's gallery of the House of Representatives at Washington. Ralph Beaumont, the labor leader, was with me, and I asked him who the little man was who was then addressing the House on tho tariff from the Democratic side. ' Yon ought to know him,' said Beaumont. "He; used to make it warm for you once; he's General Wheeler.1 And for the second time I was surprised to see the little man from Ala bama. The first time I met him ho had Just given up an attempt to smack the United States Government, and hero sixteen years later was he making laws for the United States. The country that can furnish such proofs of its elastic liberty, stiength and fraternal generosity a3 this has nothing to fear from within." TO KEEP GEAVES OBHKK. A New Jersey Man's Singular Will Con tested by His 65 Cousins. New'York Evening Post.3 A novel suit has been begun in chancery at Trenton, S". J. It involves tho question whether a man has a right to have his grave kept green. Xathan Eldon was a thrifty citizen of Vlneland, and all tho money that he Could accumulate ho designed should bo expended in keeping his own grave, as well as that of his wife, green and well marked. He had no heirs of any consequence, and so ho made his will setting asido $5,000 as a per petual fund, which was to be used in keep ing his grave and that of his wife's In good repair. Both are buried In the Oak Hill Cemetery, Vineland. He also provided that any funds above $5,000 should go to tho cem etery authorities to be used wisely by them in making improvements, and he made the authorities of Vineland the executors of this will. Another clause provided that $3,000 should bo set aside to keep in repair the graves of other members of the family buried at Bux ton, Me.; $2,000 of this amount to be ex pended in placing stones over these graves, and he made the authorities of the town the executors of this part of the will. When the will was offered for probate 55 cousins scattered all over the Eastern States came to the front and objected to tho probate. PLEBEIAN TENANT "WANTED. A Landlord Who Thinks Patricians Don't Pay Their Kent. Philadelphia Record. The following quaint advcrtisement,which appeared in one of the city papers the other day, is attributed to genial "Tom" Donald son, "the man who beat Bla-inc," as ho is sometimes called in allusion to his connec tion with the management of the Republi can national campaign in 1884, and with the Burchard incident, a title, by tho way, in which 3Ir. Donaldson takes no pleasure: "To rent, Ko. 871 Preston street; it is of no moment whether the tenant's grandfather assisted John Hancock in the Declaration and they must not bo too sood a rjlebeian tenant preferred. Patricians seldom, if ever, pay rent without a legal skirmish; no uoaruers to oe taiien; tne nignest quauuea tion requisito will De evidenceof capacity to lay 28 beans or shekels per month in ad vance in the hand of tho gentlemanly col lector." YOUNG JEFFERSON MAEBIED. According to Previous Announcement He AVcds Miss Bender, of Brooklyn. New York, June 13 Joseph Jefferson, Jr., son of Joseph Jefferson, tho well-known actor, was married at 8 o'clock this morning to Miss Blanche Beatrice Bender, eldest daughter of Mr.-and Mrs. Peter Bender. The ceremony was performed at tho resi dence of the bride's parents, Brooklyn, and one-half hour later the newly-married couple left the house to go aboard the steam ship Etruria, which sailed for Europe at 10 o'clock. C0SEECTINQ THE FLAG DESIGN. The War Department Fixes tho Arrange ment of the Blue Field. Washixqtox June 13. The following order was issued at the War Department to-day: "The field or union of the national flag in use in tho army will, on nnd after July 4.1S9L consist of 44 stars in six rows, the upper and lower rows to havo eight stars, and the sec-, ond, third, fourth and fifth rows seven stars each, in a blue field. At Least an Explanation. San Antonio Express. Sir William Gordon-Cumming is a man of birth and breeding, and has been a gallant soldier. There is but one explanation of tho fact that ho descended to the "flim-flam game" on the night at Tranby Croft: Ho was hypnotized by the Prince of Wales. Tills Is No Skin Game. Harrisburjr Patriot. "Tanner" is English slang for a piece of money. That being tho case it may not be improper to romark that tho HIdo and Leather Bank, of New York, -which has a capital of $500,000, is well tanned. WITH CEOWNS AND WITHOUT. Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana, is seriously ill. Mr. Gladstone is. confined to his bed, but his illness is not serious. It is rumored that Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea will be married this week. MnsHAnmsoir and her grandchildren will go to Cape May next Thursday. Ellen TERRr is suffering from influenza and has been obliged to take a much needed rest. Sir Ambrose Siiea, Governor of the Bahamas, and lady, sailed from Now York yesterday for Scotland. Miss Rita, the young American singer, has Just returned to Berlin from a success ful tour through Russia. Lillian Etjssell patronizes the races every fine day. She always attracts atten tion and never wears the samo costume twice. She can pick tho winnors, too. The Czar of Bussia will celebrate his sil ver wedding next November, In a moderate fashion, near Copenhagen. Immediately thereafter, if invited, he will visit Emporor William in Berlin or Potsdam. Ex-Senator Ingalls denies the report telegraphed from St. Louis that he had been tendered the Chancellorship ef the Wash ington University, of St. Louis. The report was as great a surprise to him as anybody else. Dr. William Seward "Webb has pur chased 33,000 acres of land besides the 77,000 rocently secured for his private park in tho Adlrondacks. The whole amount was ob tained at about $5 or $6 an acre, and includes several lakes. . Prof. Theodore "Woolsey D wight, who retires from Columbia College on July 1, was one of tho best law teachers in tho countrv. His retirement from active service in Columbia College will .create a vncanoy in that "house of learning" which will be diffi cult to fill. Lord Coventry, of whom so much has been heard in tho Gordon-Cumming trial, is tho principal steward of the Jockey Club, tho final authority on racing matters, and chairman of tho tribunal beforo whom all offenders against the laws of tho turf and of betting aro tried. By Henry Irving's special desire, his son Henry will commence his theatrical career under John Hare, tho lessee, manager and leading actor of Garrick's Theater. Young Henry Irving will make his debut at that theater duiing the coming season as Lord Beaufroy in tho "School for Seandal." Bill Arp, the Georgia humorist, whoso Jokes have aroused appreciative smiles north of Mason and Dixon's line, is 60 years old and the father of nine children, no may properly bo styled also the father of Ameri can humor, for he has entertained two generations of newspaper readers and is still at it. Lady Brooke in her girlhood wa3 as de mure as n little Qiuikorcs and even more dovout. She was a constant.cuurchgocr nnd had a "mission" for parish work. So, per haps, after all her intorcst in thePrinco of Wales Is purely platonlo and springs from a laudable desire to turn H. P.. H. from tho .error of his ways. MURRAY'S-MUSINGS, ' - . 4 4 A Story for People Who Believe in luck- Colored People1 Dress A Fresh Wash ington Scandal A Dog's Dose of Taffy Eva Hamilton. FROM A STAIT COmtrSPONDEXT. New York, June 13. The colored gentry of Sixth avenue form a carious and interesting featuro of the cosmopolitan crowd that makes up the sum total of New York's popu lation. The dark tide flows into Broadway at Thirty-third street at certain hours of tho day as tho turbid watcr3 of the Missouri flow into the broader and grander Missis siopi, nnd going with it but not of it. This tide is distinctly colored, but is not wholly of the negro race. In no other city in tho United States can be seen the real colored gentleman in all his glory as ho can be seen in this soction of the Tenderloin precinct. The dandy negro cannot be found in the South. On Sixth avenue he outswells the swells of swelldom. For the most part the negro dandy is "loud" in his attlro, and if that style of dress can be said to become anvbody it is most becoming to tho colored Uude. But tho Sixth avenue dandles are not necessarily of that stamp. Yon can see many of them dressed in good taste and in a stylo Credita ble to any white exquisite Tho distingue air with which they carry this .personal magnificence is that of the born and bred aristocrat. No amount of "guying" dis turbs their outward calm. And they stand enough open comment and running satire to kill a white dude with mortification. While the colored dandy is a good dresser his oppo site sex are, as a rule, absolutely chaotic in taste. The latter spend a good deal of money on their personal adornment, but usually with results akin to the horrible purple, heliotropes, lilacs, blues, greens, and almost anything made up almost anyway except the most becoming. A dressmaker says the colored ladies are obstinate with their own ideas, but liberal with their money. If you want to see them in all their gorgeous Jim Jamness try Sixth avenue some Sunday evening. There Is Something in Luck. Ridicule it as we may, thore is something in luck; and if there isn't you cannot break the faith of somo people. The other day a young English friend of mine picked up a two-and-a-half-cent Columbian coin proba bly the smallest silver piece in the world. "That's luck," said tho young man, who has an English syndicate deal on his hands, and he Btraightway invited a couple of friends np to the hotel bar. He felt more confidence in the coin as the day advanced. For he showed it to several friends, all of whom curiously examined the piece and smiled with its possessor. He finally went Joyfully I may say oh-be- j oyiuiiy nome late tor dinner ami raunu un wiio irutung wim ruu eyes, uc uqjau to cheer her up by pleasantly beginning the tODio of his afternoon and exhibiting his find. "Luck! luck! ! I Don't you talk to me about luck!" she fairly shriekell, plunging into the Hnfn ciigliinna nnd bvRtfirica. In the course of half an hour's hard work she had recovered sufficiently to inform him that she had her pocket picked while out shopping, and lost a diamond ring she had been afraid to wear, and all the money given her that morning for her summer clothes. Finally she braced up all at once and said imperatively: "Gimme that coin!" As she pitched it out of the window she uttered the usual femi nine oath, "Drat the thing, there!" and both she and her husband felt better. Another Washington Scandal Brewing. Tax Government Secret Service officers find plenty to do recently. "I was surprised to see a United States detective dogging tho heels of the Argentine Minister on Broad way," said a.Washington visitor. "But it is privately known that complaints have been mado to the State Department that the Argentine people are engaged in furnishing supplies to the Chilean revolutionists. Hence this lookout, I suppose, that has been put upon this Representative of the Argen tine Republic in this country. I happen to know the aetective, oth6rwiS9 the shadow ing would probably never have been noticed. Speaking of the Secret Service, that bureau has been doing good service in Washington City. It was through one of their men that young Raum was exposed. In a short time you will probably read in one of the dally papers about n moro serious scandal than that of Raum and Involving a much higher personage. Remember what I tell you." A Massive Piece of Physical Perfection. There is a big, picturesaue policeman of the Broadway squad who is noted among the habitues of the Rialto for his flowing, blonde mustache, who turns an occasional dollar as an artist's model. Having posed during his watch on deck for the benefit of the com mon people in the flesh, ho Is transferred to Imperishable canvas to gladden the artistic eye of generations yet to come. He has the trunk and arms of a giant. In the opinion of a distinguished artist this policeman is the bst specimen of massivo physical per fection he ever saw. Of course, the lady art ists have all had a hack at him with pencil and brush, for which he invariably gets $1 a sitting. No wonder he carries the air of a man thoroughly satisfied with himself. New York's Telegraph Service. The local telegraph service in New York is abominable. If you wish to communicate with a friend anywhere in tho city the tele graph, which ought to be tho quickest, is the most unsatisfactory medium. I can walk from the Western Union office at Thirty-third street to any address in Har lem beforo a privato telegram filed at the start will bo delivered at such address. Tho same thing may be dono during the day with regard to any place down town not contiguous to the great exchanges. As a rule a local letter mailed anywhere in town will be delivered within two hours. The only variation is usually in tho time of mail ing so as to connect" with the collector. A letter costs 1 cents. Atelesram sent from Broadway and Thirtioth street to Wavorley place took two hours and a half to reach the destination. Cost, 20 cents. If the mail carrier finds the addressed not in the letter is left. Tho telegraph messen. ger will often leave a blank requiring the person to whom the message is sent to call at the office and get it. It not unfrequeutly occurs that the principals In the telegraphic mode of communication meet before a mess age is delivered. Sometimes the message is never delivered. There would seem to be something that would bear bracing up in our local telegraph management. They Abhor Legal Papers. "We havo about $10,000 belonging to negroes, many of them living in New York and on Long Island," said Mr. Sherburne Hopkins, of Washington City, at tho St. James tho other evening. "I'm over hero trying to settle with them. It is part of an old claim acainst tho Government. Tliesn people aro hard to find and moro difficult to deal with when found than any other class Of claimants. They nre suspicious about signing papors and very obstinate in their opinions, which opinions they apparently entertain on every concoivable subject. In this case the trouble is increased by inter marriages of the descendants of the same family. This Is especially true of thoso on Long Island. The Southern-bred negro Is tractable, but these New, York negroes nre smarter, often fairly well educated, and look upon a legal paper as a bull looks at a red flag. Yerv likely many of them have been badly bitten in legal and business transac tions." Dion Bonclcanlt's Handsome Son. Tiieee is a handsome young Englishman playing tho role of man-about-town Just now who enjoys the life of New York's fast set about as well as any handsome ypungman can. His namo Is Dion Boncicault and ho is a son of tho old adapter and a chip of the old block. An acquaintance describes young Boucicaultas the "handsomest and rudest man in town." This is sayinga good deal or very little for our New lorkers. I don't know which. Boncicault plaved small parts with Charles Wyndliam in London and is said to havo ambition in the wav of play writing. Ho is a w cll-made, black-cvcd gen tleman with dark, bushy hair, and in his studies of American life and liaracter' greatly ntt"pct tho s-ocloty'of the loveliest long-legged ornament of the American stage, "as she is," at Koster & Bial's. Not So Stupid After AH. TtfE other day an artist who had accumu lated in his rooms a varied assortment of bottles, old rugs, papers, paint tubes, etc., made a desperate effort to get rid of them. The Janitor doclinod to tako tho stuff away for what it was worth. In his dilemma tho energetic knight of the brush finally scouied the streets for a junkman with a push cart. Ho was fellcltatingTiimsclf upon flavin? made a good bargain whon ho dis covered that the rag and bottle man bad wrapped up his brand ncwco.it with t!iu -other tilings. By that time tho itinerant had dit-appcnml. This by way or illustrating a fjvorito mode of operation on the part of street gentry- They affect stupidity. If caught tlicy made a mistake it not, well, the other lellow made a mistake, see? Eva Mann-Hamilton's Latest. Tax brazen effrontery of tho woman who' ruined the lato Mr. Robert Ray Hamilton is illustrated In her announcement that she is to appear In a play called "The Hammer tons,lrformded upon that social scandal. It is generally talked of about town and quite as generally pronounced a blackmailing scheme to catch the Hamilton familv.. The supposition is that the already sufficiently humiliated Hamlltons will pay rather than seo the play put on the stage. A prominent lawyer says an injunction would lie against the managers, of such a show. -Th hestin junction. however, and the most effective way of putting an end to Eva 3Iannrs theat rical aspirations is to Ietthothinft alone. No respectable theater in New York would give her house room, and if such a play is attempted in any other here the star islikely to havo a rocky time of it. A Dog With a Mouthful of Taffy. Did you ever give a dog taffyT That is what amuses Broadway loungers and the noted white bull-terrier of the blind man on, the corner. A wag and tho dog and tho blind man and the taffv drew s great crowd tho other evening. The half-masticated stuff l stuck in, the bright animal's jaws and hia fruitless efforts to bolt it; or to get his foot on it, or to dispose of it in some way wero comical and caused intense delight among his audience. His dilemma did not prevent him from seizing all he could get. Just as ho had securely stuck his teeth together a passing poodle attracted hi attention and ho made tho usual jump the length of his' tether; but his powerful Jaws absolutely re fused to work. They had lost their snap. The poodle stared at him with impudent amazement, while the look of pain and hu miliation that passed over the terrier's, face was almost human in exnroalon. Samson waking up to find his hair neatly bartered. was nothing to it. Banking on Fashionable Folly. Mr. Jons Ciluibebxaix says the new hotel at Fortress Monroe in course of completion will bo opened formally for guests next De cember. It will probably be mado a Christ mas affair. Everything Is being done on an, immense scale. From being a mere summer resort for Southerners, Fortress Monroe ha3 become exceedingly popularas a winter re sort for Northerners. This makes it an all-the-year round watering place, and, conse quently, a hit for a hotel. But why anybody would want to stay there any length of time either winter or summer beats any man who canllvoinNewYorK. However, the same1 might be said of many other fashionable re sorts. The average society woman must do something, or go somewhere, or bust. Two Good Words to Use. It is a pleasant thing to note the good,, plain, old-fashioned, sensible words, "Men" and "Women" over the doora leading to some of the ferry boat cabins. Those abom inations, "GCnts Cabin," "Ladies' Cabin," still hold their own on most of the boats. If there Is any worsouseof English than"ladies" and "gents" to distinguish and denominate the sexes, I don't know what it is. A "gent" in New York Is a tough and a rounder. Quito a different person from a gentleman. "La dies" is made to cover everything iaJpetti coats, and "gentleman" overythUir in trousers. "Men"' and "women" are the only comprehensive terms to be employed, and these are used everywhere the world over, except in the United States. Chaeles Theodore murbat. DUMMIES TO 0EDEE. A Bequest for a Dear BarberTVas Promptly Compiled "With. M. Quad In New York World. J Ho entered the barber shop on Park Row a day or two ago, and after looking around for a moment, he advanced to the proprietor and said: "I may be rather strange in my ways, but that's mybusmes3. Have you a deaf and dumb barber heret" a have, sir." "Well, I want him to shave me. These New York barbers talk me tired." Ho was directed to a chair, and for the next 14 minutes the barber lathered and shaved and scraped and sponged, and not a word was uttered. When the job was com pleted the stranger got out of tho chair with the remark: "This is tho sort of barber I have been looking for, and I want to givo him. a quar ter extra. He had taken his check, paid and been brushed, and was just going out, when the dumb barber bowed and scraped, and observed: "Thanks! Please call again!" And the other whirled and looked him pp and down and all over for two long minutes. and then went off growling: "Hanged if they wouldn't make ) a mummy KB. E0STEB FACETIOUS. Eating at the Bate of 50 Miles an Hour Causes Dyspepsia. New York Advertiser. Here's the latest yarn about Secretary of the Treasury Foster. He sprung a littlo joke on his private secretary while the two were traveling from Washington to New York on the Congressional limited ono day last week. They dined on the train, and while at dinner secretory Foster remarked: "You'll get dyspepsia, surely, if you aro not careful." "How's that?" "Perhans vou don't know that you are eat ing at the rate of 50 miles an hour." The private secretary said that ho would stop, tho train. Everybody TVeU Done. Cleveland Plaln.-Dealer. People may be willing to take Mr. Lowell's word for it that a day in Juno is very rare, but they want it distinctly understood that, tbo sort of days inflicted on this 'suffering community in this month of Jnne aro not rare enough by half. With Jaws Wide Open. Chicago Times. An endowment order called the "Order of tho Gates Ajar" proposes to give Chicagoans $1 for every 32 cents intrusted to it. A better name for tho institution would be "Tho Order of tho Sharks Agape." The Place for Young Men. Boston Globe. Toronto's Prescott, tho new President of tho International Typographical Union is only 27. The young men aro coming to the front all along the line. DEATHS HEEE AND EXSEWHEBE. Hamilton Mackenzie. Hamilton Mackenzie, a well-known citi zen, died at an early hoirr yesterday morning at Canton while praying, ne awouc ma wiie at i o'clocfe ana saidlie was going to die, and requested her to pray for him. She did so and be Joined in the prayer. Shortly afterward he fell to the floor auilexnu-ed. Mr. Mackenzie went to Canton from liV-ivcr. Pa., clfrht vcars ago. He leaves a wife atiil r.imlly of 11 children. Oae son resides In Pitts burg, lie was aged G3. Major Bell Whlterord. Knv. George Bell, of Queen's Uni versity. Kingston, Ont was notified on Wednes day by cable of the death from fever at Nagpori, India, of Mlor lJell Wliltefora. his eldest sou, who bad Adopted the name orhls maternal uncle. Major Whlterord was an eminent linguist and engineer. He was only 43 years of age andnad visited Canada two years ago. Obituary Notes. WlLtl.VM nAJiTJIAX, an early settler of Indiana, died at Crawforrlsvillf Friday, aged St years. Edward Lkhex, German Consul and head of the house or Lehen & Co., of Tocua, Peru, is dead. TlIEODOEE O. DAC3, ope or the best-known merchants of Eastou, Pa., died Friday, aged 33 years. 31ns. Ciilok Ocdex, a colored woman, died at Indianapull5'yrldayatUieage of V3 years. She was burn a .slave In North Carolina. AkbkewW. Beabd. who died at Conegeville, Pa.. Thursday, kept a hotel for more than SO years at Norristowu. lie was 73 years old. Pkter AUNOLD. who died Thursday at Man helm. Pa., was believed to bo the heaviest man In Pennsylvania, weighing nearly M pounds. He was CT j cars old. 1IOX. GEOi'.aE E. IIODODOX. ex-Msyoror Ports mouth. K. II., died In that city FrM.iy. Ho had alyo Kcrvert as a member of the Legislature and was a Oraml Army man. Caitaix I.EoroLDo Sanchez, who for some years was the-captain orthcurt of Call.io. Is dead. The declined oincer eoiuiu.wided the Talisman dur ing the war with Chile. FitAjfcis O'Neill, for "3 years School Director of Downlngton, Pa., died Thursday In his 63th year. He was Treasurer of the town for nearly 20 j ears, and filled various other offices of trust In his borough. GEOitcn Gixxavax died at his homo in Balti more Friday, in the 79th year of his age lie was one of the oldest locomotive engine erson the Haiti more and Ohio Railroad, and during his lung ser vice of 50.ycars had bot one accident. CiptaiV Georoe E. Ridoewav. a prominent Grand Army man ami an lnilueutlnl vUlzcn of )'rtn Mln, died ye-Mcntoy morning afler a lingering illness. .Mr. Wilson stood high as a 3Uoii, ami hi funeral this anernuoa will be under theauspiies of that order. Colonel Wiiitskt died at his home near Frank lin lirmc. 111-. Thursday., Realizing several months ago that the end must soon come, be called to gether all his friends on his but birthday. January jH. when he was 100 rears old. and bade them a last .farewell. Colonel Whitney was probably one of tne oiocsi memoirs vi we juasomo uraer in uie world. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. , It is said that Ijawrenee Barrett's estata is-Inventoried at $221,000. Two men are searching for a load of comper which is alleged to have been sunk : atlErie. Two Indianapolis girls climbed asmoke stack 120 feet high, winning a box of gloves and local fame. An incorrigible youngster in New Tarlc stolo the baby carriage from home, and soJd it for SO cents. Boston policemen will hereafter carry their clubs in their pockets so they will not use them too often. A cow owned by Parker Milliken, of Saco, Me., gave birth to four calves Wednes day. They didn't survive. More than 18,000 gallons of brandy wero recently shipped in one lot from Sacra mento, Cal, to Bremen, Germany. Dieppe suddenly appears at the home of the most marvolons ivory carvers ever known, the Chinese and Swiss not excepted. In the recent Missouri cyclone a horse was carried over J. n. lyncher's farm house and dashed to death in the field beyond, but the'house was untouched. Bicyclists flashed red lights in front of an engine on tho Jersey Central the other night. Engineer Mynahan was so badly frightened his hair turned white. A baby alligator, brought from Florida five years ago and liberated in a Lincoln, Me., swamp, has grown to a monster that can eat a dog so the noble Penobscot In dians say. A cave-in on the farm of J. H. Miller, 18 miles from Sedalia, Mo., at the head of lake creek, revealed an underground river. The water is 23 feet deep and the stream in very rapid. Fifteen feet in the solid ledge on Island Garden, Me., where the masons hud been blasting and excavating, yiey havo found a. spring of pure cold water. It is to be saved for.the people. Next to America, France employs mora women in clerical positions than any other country. Their wages as bookkeepers and accountants rongo between 1,000 and 3,003 iruncs a year. The case of Jonathan Jones, charged with murder, is on trial in Conncil BlufTs. This case has been the first on tho trial list for 13 years, and there have been various reasons for a rehearing. After the 23d of this month no person or firm doing business in South Carolina will be permitted to sell a pistol, or even a pistol cartridge, in that State withoul first taking; out a license and paying $200 for it. F. V. Berry, of Portland.lTe., met with a curiosity while on a recent visit to Bar Mills, Buxton. He caught a turtle and on its back; WB3 Inscribed the dates 1S67, 1870 andlSST. Different initials were over each date. John McMahon fell into a mine at Anthracite, Western Territories of Canada, on Wednesday, falling 250 feet. He was taken to Calgary, and the doctors think he will live, although he has several bones broken. ' One gets some idea of the size of the moth tribe by contemplating the fact that the lato Harry Edwards, the actor, owned a collec tion of moths and butterflies containing mora than 800,000 specimens which were insured for $17,000. Divers in the clear waters of the tropi cal seas find that fish of different colors) when frightened do not all dart in the soma direction, but that each different kind takes shelter in that portion of the submarines growth nearest in color to that of zhe fish. A Cold Spring, IX X, cat was robbed of her kittens and gray squirrels put in their stead. She takes every care of them and shows great affection. As they havo grown older she wears a suspicious look as she sits by and watches somo of the antics of her strange family. The "old gray horse" ownedby J. O. Hayes & Co,, is 25 years old. He has hauled most of the lime used in Iiwiston, Me., tho last 20 years. Daniel Webster, a man TO pears old, drives him. The firm sav they are thinking of retiring both horse and driver on a liberal pension. The 62-ton new steel breech-loading gun, tho largest ever made in this country, was landed at Sandy nook. It was cast at the Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, is 36 feet long, bore 3( feet, and will stand a chargo of U0 pounds of powder. It is said tho gun will throw a distance of 15 -miles. The old story about cats being afraid of water was upset last Thursday during the freshet in Asotin, Wash. A mother cat whoso premises wero overflowed brought out a kitten lnhermouth toa place of safety and immediately returned through flood and debris to her bed and secured the re maining member of her family, wiich sho also landed in a safe place. A lobster recently caught in Belfast Bay, Me., weighed 13 pounds and measured 37 inches from tho end of his tail to the end of tho longest claw, 20 inches around tho body, and 17 Inches around the large claw. Barnacles adhered to tho claws and body. The monster was too large to enter the trap, but as tho trap was drawn up became en tangled in the heading and was safely landed In the boat. The steamer Twilight, at Moosehead Bake, is commanded by ono of the youngest, if not the youngest, captains in the State, Captain Abner Coburn Robinson. It sur prises a g od manypoople.to seo 17-years-old Captain Robinson directing the movements of the boat from the pilot houe. Xo steam boat man on the lake is said to know that sheet of water more thoroughly and he is very popular -with tho fishing parties. One ofj the interesting articles to be seen at Waldoboro, Me., Is a changeable silk dress, 1M years old. It Is made slip-fashion, lined about the waist with brown linen, and has a silk belt about one inch wide.no facing about the bottom, mado to trail. It was tho property of Mrs. Betsey Shfbles, of Thomas ton. Her mother was a sister to tho lamented Daniel Webster. The dress was torn when sho went to General Knox's funeral. Between 60,000,000,000 and 100,000,000, 000 codfishes are taken from the sea around the shores of Kewfoundland every year. A single cod yields something like 3.500,000 eggs each year, and over 8,000,000,000, have been found in the roo of a single cod. A herring of six or seven ounces in woight U provided with 30,000,000 ova. After making all reasonable allowances forthe destruction of eggs and of tbo young it has been calcu lated that in three years a single pair of herrings will produce 154,000,000. THEY BREED SMILES. Customer I'd like time on these diamonds. abont six months "Time's money," you know. Jeweler Certainly: but you don't expect the goods and a lot of money for the price of the goods alone, doJOuJJactlers, lleWy. "Wholesale Jeweler Your inexperience is agalnstyon.'butlmaygiveyou a trial If you have no family Incumbrances. Applicant There are none worth mentioning ex cept a trust deed on father's sawmill, a vendor's Hen on brother John's farm and a chattel mortgaga on sister Maria's husband's sorrel colt Saceltrs' Weeldv. Photographer Be careful how you handle that paper. Yon might hurt its feelings. Vltltor Hnrt Its feelings? Ph$ographer Yes. Its extremely eensmvel Photographic Times. The sweet is always mingled With the bitter In life's cup; The price of coal is falling When the mercury's going ud. jr. YsPntt. Merchant Didn't you know betterthan to let anybody pass such a bill as that on yon? Clerk-What's the matter with it? It's a rank counterfeit. I thought It was good. It had the reg'lar tobacco smell about It. Chicago Tribune. "You have spring heels on your shoes, haven't you dear?" said a lady to Flossie, aged 4 3 ears, "Yes," was the reply, "but I s'pose It'll soon bo time now for me to havo some with summer heels on, won't It?" Toledo Blade. "Yes," said the professor, "even trees have sex." 'now Shocking!" exclaimed Miss. Prnde. "Don't you think, professor, thatwe hid better discontinue our study of physiology in the vege table world until the limbs or the trees shall have been properly drapcd?"-Pirmaeeuea: Era. Hobson "Why do they always dock a race horse? Dobvm Probably for the same reason that they dock a vesel or a poor mechanic. To make 'em lat. Xeio York Tdzjranil Jaspar You have read the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, you say. Are Its doctrines really so very hard to swallow? Jumpuppe Oh, no, not ranch harder than it wonldbe to climb np a telegraph pola and then turn round and swallow the big and blooming earth, lffaoIoTkSeroM. ' fe- -- HS&&,
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