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The information that the series of Peo i le's party meetings soon to be held in Kansas will be illumined by the appear ance of the Hon John James Ingalls, as a ful- Hedged adherent of the new part' is irrational, but not altogether surprising. 1 -imply affords evidence that the gifted ui ntlf man, Who was one of the great guns i'4 the last Republican campaign, has ( 1 required seven months to discover nnat princip'es are required by the ma il nty of Jhe Kansas people, and to pro v.le himself with a full suit of new prin i .pies to order. The spectacle of Mr. Ingalls denounc ' i , the evils of the legislation which he . ,ped to inflict on the agricultural inter . --, will be instructive. Mr. Jngalls' mminatory powers are notably fluent; .hki as the zeal of new converts is prover I ,i!. we may justly expect some of the i-ate.-t efforts of J. J. Ingalls' career, in tin- exposure of J. J. Ingalls' acts as a Republican leader. All of whicli will be i pccially profitable as an illumination of - if supple qualities of J. J. Ingalls politi- i! principles. V"e are glad that Mr. Ingalls has come t.. a realizing conviction of the utter un v .irthines of his former alleged conviction-. His somersault should give our Re . iblican friends who, last fall, claimed fi.it whatever he said on the subject of ilitics was law and gospel for the latitude ... Pennsylvania, food for profitable and -lent reflection. AS TO HLAINI7S POSITION. snme of our esteemed cotemporaries I . fess to discover a new revelation, both . - ;o the importance of Mr. Blaine in the l' reicn policy of the Government and as ! the time when the President expressed . I'e-ire to put in his oar, in the last Cana i m blue book. That report states that i'e ixplanation of Mr. Blaine when he i.-tponed the conference on Canadian i . i iprocity, from the Gth of April last to . ilier 12, was that "the President, who i- practically Prime Minister, was extreme 1 .n.xious to be in Washington during the ) initiations," and so forth. There is no need of prolonging the qno- ' ation. for it is not only not a new thing as relates to the President and Secretary of Mate, but the very language of the excuse 1 whicli the conference was put off last April can be repeated from memory. That ! indicated Mr. Blaine's pre-eminent influ- nee in shaping the reciprocity policy is "il what every one knew in the first i lace. That it carries an inference of the ' ri'sidental jealousy of Mr. Blaine's activ- and fame may be more open to dis- nte: but it is an inference on which every tie made up his mind at the time. s a vindication of the Secretary of re tliis construction of the Canadian re- ; is unnecessary in the first place, and -.veral months behind date in the sec- .! nlace. There is much more signifi- n-e and novelty in the recent editorial .eiances in Mr. W. J. Arkell's illus- i'ed paper, in which Mr. Blaine's pre- nonce and ability in conducting the .te Department are referred to, for .it they are, factors that are recognized 1 undisputed by the great mass of the 'ic. his manifestation on the part of one of family organs is interesting, not as it rs on Mr. Blame, but as it bears on the .ns. Is the penitential process of 4 ,ng for those cartoons on "Jealous " and the chicken thief carried to this ,,th? Or is Mr. W. J. Arkell carrying the intimation of a recent interview beginning the process vulgarly but de iptively called "dumping the Harri- Il?" GOYEROK AND CONSTITUTION. Concerning a rumor "that the Governor i-not decided to approve the resolution -ubmit the calling of the constitutional p volition" the Philadelphia JSbrth Atner- h says: "More than indecision ought to true. The resolution should be vetoed." 'i- declaration from a rather ultra-Re- ilicau organ on what was one of the ding acts of the Republican Legisla- . e, is a strong evidence of the unworthi- of the constitutional convention prop- - ion. The Governor is certainly justi- I in con-idering the proposition care- liiy. But apart from the almost gro- -iue features of the measure before him i Governor win do well to veto for it tw o Dortant and controlling reasons. The first is that the present Constitution - an excellent one to stand by. It is mod- i u in its provisions, the work of some of i irrcatest minds the State had at its dis- o-itmn twenty years ago, and it is char-.tefri-tic for the restraints which it im- i-es on the corporations and the poll- lans. No man who investigates the . uiraeter of the legislators who passed i- resolution can doubt that a very slight use has been utilized by them for the 'iriKtee of removing those restraints by i e nrention packed to suit their purposes, fin iovernor earned his strength with the eople by his vigor in enforcing the Con s iiition. He can maintain that character talcing his stand for the maintenance u, 1 1 preservation of that instrument in its "it'-'rity. i lie other great reason is that a conven i 'mi is not the proper way of placing be-'m- the people the question of such iianges as may be deemed advisable. No i"ie claims that the Constitution is abso-I'tti-iy perfect There doubtless are some ietilsin whicli it might be improved, i tut every such proposition to alter the imitlamentallaw of the land, seventeen ..mi-. after its adoption by the people, buould be submitted separately, to be de- med upon its own merits. If the needed r-'iauges are mingled with a lot of jobs, FEBBCAKY &. 1S46. Jtheymnst cither be killed by the "jobs," or must force the acceptance of the injurious, 'changes. Moreover, m order to have a fair vote on the changes, which need not he charged with the inspiration of ulterior motives, they should not be submitted in. block. Every honest proposition to amendi the Constitution should be marked by willingness to have it go through theH ordeal by itself. Governor Pattison will be true to his own record if he vetoes the bill, anoT' takes his stand as the champion and defender of the Constitution as it exists, and its en- forcement as it should be enforced. TTIE CONTKOIXER'S EXPLANATION. The administration seems to have reached the very just conclusion that its position -with reference to the Philadelphia bank failures requires an explanation. It has been a little slow in perceiving the im portast fact that its supervision of the national banking system is one of the mat ters for which it is accountable to the pub-' lie. The statement of Mr. Lacy, therefore, which appears in our telegraphic columns, is a practical acknowledgement of this- accountability, and as such is,an improve ment on the previous attitude of theofflcial concerned in the financial administration. But as an explanation which leaves the course of the Controller in a satisfactory light, the statement is not all that fancy could paint it. The first fact brought out leaves that gentleman in the position of an official who does not realize the responsi bility of his position. It is assertedthathe was first informed of the shortage of 5600, 000 by the Bank Examiner, Mr. Drew, two weeks after Mr. Drew had learned of it; that it was then disclosed that criminal means had been used to cover up the shortage; that one of the participants in tlie cooking of accounts was then in con trol of the bank; and that the Bank Ex aminer had known of all this from Jan uary 9 to January 20 without informing the Controller, who could be reached in four hours by mail and fifteen minutes by telegraph. This statement, if true, puts both the Controller and the Examiner in a very j peculiar light. An examiner who makes such a discovery and does not inform his superior in&tanter is guilty of malfeasance in office. A Controller who, when he learns that his subordinate has failed to inform him of such a violation of the law, does not immediately remove him from the scene of action, is in the most charit able point of view to be set down as now compos mentis. When this statement .Is supplemented by a theory that it is permissible to the Controller to ignore criminal acts in the management of a bank, in order to avert an aggravation of monetary panic, the further details of the explanation become unimportant It is not the duty of the Controller to avert monetary panics, ex cept as he does it by a rigid insistence upon the management of the banks in ac cordance with the national banking law. This statement discloses an utter failure of the Controller to realize his duty in maintaining and enforcing the law. The deliberations of the administration in this matter seem to have led to the con clusion that the best that can be done is to enter a plea of utter incompetence on the part of the Controller of the Cur rency. But for the protection of the pub lic in the supervision of the national banks, such incompetency is little better than rascality. TTJIX EXPLANATIONS NEEDED. The decision of the administration that to permit the appearance of Mr. Lacy, the Controller of the Currency, before the committee investigating the Philadelphia bank failures.might be a bad precedent, is an unfortunate one. On the surface it would appear tliat the only case in which such a precedent could be a had one would be where the administration bas something to cover up with reference to its supervision of the national banks. But as this is a matter In which the whole na tion is interested there never ought to be anything to cover up. As the administra tion is practically on trial with reference to the energy and impartiality of its na tional bank supervision, the refusal to lay the whole subject open to investigation really constitutes the bad precedent In the same connection the intimation that General A. B. Nettleton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was a borrower in the Spring Garden National Bank, and that official's answer to the charge, are per tinent The General denies that he was a borrower, or that he attempted to exercise any influence with regard to the appoint ment of a receiver. But he says that '.'it is probable that certain accommodation notes on which I am responsible are in that institution. If so, I am simply amon? the losers by the bank's failure, which I regret" This is an explanation of the sort that requires further explanation. Mr. "Wnnamaker's statement furnished a prima facie explanation of his connection with the smash, whicli, until some direct testimony contradicting it is produced, must be accepted as satisfactory. But General Nettlcton's statement needs further explanation to make it cohesive. "What is the essential difference between a borrower and a person who is responsible for the payment of paper held by a bank? And how can the person who has to pay lose by its failure? The creditors of a hank are likely to lose; but a debtor cannot be made to pay more on account of the failure, unless he expected to make the bank carry him indefinitely. Certainly the Philadelphia wrecks re quire clear and full explanations on the part of all persons connected with the ad ministration; and that is what some of the officials do not seem inclined to give. TIN PLATE FOOLISHNESS. The tin-plate controversy some time ago reached the point of lunacy on both sides. But the most violent manifestation of the mental alienation which it has produced is exhibited by the New York Press in a re cent issue. A member of a Pittsburg firm which deals in tin plate, and which is toler ably well-known to be composed of gentle men who are prominent for their support of the protective policy, was so indiscreet the other day as to give utterance to his doubt that the tin-plate tariff has brought an adequate manufacturing Industry into existence, full-grown as Minerva sprang from Jove's head. We say that he was indiscreet, for while no one can fear that the firm of James B. Scott & Co. can be put in the prejudicial attitude of a lot of horrid free traders, it was injudicious to afford further fuel to the extreme -heat which has been generated on both sides. The necessary result makes itself apparent when the New York Press denounces the offending individual as "an importer of tin plate," which, -of course, from .'the Press view places him in the category of aban doned and pernicious individuals. Such manifestations indicate the need of infusing a little reason into the tariff con troversy. It isnot an impeachment of the tariff that it has not brought a complete manufacturing industry into existence within a few months after it has gone into effect; nor Is it reasonable to indulge in whole denunciation of-business men, who T-'-nrfKWfto ' venfurelo doubt' from their personal ob servation of the facts that it has done so. It is in the same line of foolishness as the declarations before the tariff law went into effect that it would produce a general raise of wages. The advocates of the tariff should confine themselves within the limits of reason, and leave the manifesta tions of mental alienation which have be gun to characterize some features of the discussion, to the free-traders. The summmer season is evidently making Itself felt in XowYork when an Assistant United States District Attorney devotes himself to the familiar and almost self-act-inpr task of booming the genial andoratori- fcal C. JT. Dcpew for Governor once more. Oxe of the paragraphs on the Prince of y Wales' scandalous attitude refers to tho Queen as meditating regretfully "on the (Spankings she didn't give the "Prince of AValcs -when he was a small toy." But co ntemporary history of the fifties assured ns that the juvenile rnnce was duly spanked Land othcrwiso rigidly chastised. Tho de parture of the Prince from the standards of his early training makes it clear that how-' ever well a man may bo brought np In his youth, he Is abundantly able to go astray In manhood if surrounded by sycophants and flatterers. Thebe is reason to believe that Sir "Will iani Gordon-Cumming will accept thodis--pleasuroof his wife's relations with great fortitude. Sixty thousand dollars a year, andno wife's relations to pacify! Some men Jiavo fortune thrust upon them. Mr Johx It McLean energetically hpleads not guilty to the soft Impeachment that he intends to run for tlie United States Senate. He says that the reports to that effect are inspired either by "mistaken friendship or personal malice." We are glad that Mr. McLean recognizes the Inhar monious feeling that exists between himself and the Senatorial position, nevertheless Mr. McLean is ahead of tho Tayno and Brice standard in mental equipment and felly tho equal of those statesmen as a representative of money in politics. "The McICinley bill is successful in re ducing the revenuo at any rate," remarks the New York World. Well, was not tho tariff question raised by the highest Demo cratic authority on the necessity of reduc ing the revenuot Besator Haxsom, of North Carolina, is uncharitably suggested by the New York JPrcJttJi(7 Sun, to be playing a very smart game in inviting tho President to visit the South ern Industrial Exposition at r.aleigh. A Presidental trip to the South might nail some Southern Bepuhlican delegations for ranomination: and as a faithful Democrat Sanator Ransom is anxious to do all he can to get President Harrison renominated. Dr. PAitKrnmsT intimates that the Mod erator of the late Presbyterian General As sembly need not bow down In the presence of Thomas B. Reed as to his superior In the art fine-work in the line of a presiding officer. The uses of an afternoon annex to a great morning daily are sometimes hard to under stand. But when we find the New York Evening Telegram explaining that the wit of tho Jow York Herald in making this pro found remark: "Swear not at all. Every other one is plenty" lies In its application to Mr. Russell Ilarrison's Interview, its valuable function of explaining tho Jokes of the 'bigger sheet is quite evident. Wrrn the $12,000 left to Henry George by a land-owner cut down to $318 by the charges of the lawyers, that reformer will soon be in tone for reforming tho lawyers before ho abolishes property in land. The New York Recorder, as the -result of a recent change of ownership, comes ofit as s straight Republican journal, with a strong preferen co for Blaine. Its editor comes to it from the New York B'orW, but his pre vious position on a Democratic paper seem9 to permit him or his employers-to have a clear view as to what the Republican party will need in its candidate next year. It is intimated that the introduction of electric-motors in this country, by throwing a large number of street car horses on the market, has produced an over-supply in France of American dressed beef. Me- InGiA-LXS is spokVn of as the possible Chancellor-of the new Washington Univer sity. But tbe information cannot be deemed complete, until It is known whether ho will take the agricultural department under his especial care, or-will preside over the moral philosophy classand teach the new" doctrine abont the inapplicability of the Ten Com mandments to potitica. , "Where is that misguided scientific man who developed a theory that the world is losing its heat. Since the fierce light of publicity has beaten in upon the customs adopted by the Prince of AValos, there Is said to bo a danger that the chappies of New York will deom it incumbent on them to burden themselves in their travels with a full lay-oul for baccarat. WEAITHY, PAMOTJSAND POPULAR. Dr. Barbour, nominated by the Ken tucky Farmers' Alliance for Governor, de clines to be a candidate. Among the founders of the new Univer sity Club Is Boston are Phillips Brooks,Chief Justice Fie3d,Judge Lo-wolldudex-Governor Gaston. Henry Hart, one of New York's rail way and steaanship magnates, is over 80, a bachelor, of small stature, rugged build and Is as active as a man of 30. He is said to be worth over $30,000,000. Next to Senator Hoar, Senator Evarts has had more college titles conferred upon him than any member of either house of the last Congress. Ho has received degrees from Harvard, Yaie and Union colleges. Count Dougi.,A8, a member tf the Ger man Reichstag, who has become a great fav orite with tho Emperor, is a descehdant of the famous Scotch family. He is now one of tho wealthiest land proprietors of Prussia. The Metropolitan Michael of Servia has given his consent to the proposed marriage of the ex-King Milan. It-is said that Milan sent 10,000 francs to the-tailar of his mistress af fer receiving the ,OCO,000 francs from the State. A young daughter of Joachim, the 1 famous violinist, recentlymade her debut as an opera singer at Elborfeldt, and made such a brilliant success thai "she" was -Immediately engaged for the wlmter season -at the Leipsic Opera House. The Servian hoy King Alexander is a sturdyladofH, with keen eyes and An in tellectual face, but he is as self-willed and: stubborn as any royal child. He has been well educated, and speaks Oerman, French and English in addition to hin native tongue. The Queen of Spain's reason for retard ing the completion of tho palace which is J being built at San Sebastian hus at last been divulged. The palace is built privately by J the Queen, and it is In order to prevent over J drawing her bank account that she has de termined to have the building finished only in the course of.next.yeax, whenshe will be able' to pay tho architects. AN ANCIENT TUBTLE. Its Career Began Before 1700 and St Is SHU In the Arena. New Orleans Delta. A French Journal records an. instance of longevity In a tortoise which Is somewhat remarkable, , though tortoises! haw been known to live even longer. It is stated that last August a planter .captured in .the St. John river, Florida, a tortoise which" had tbe following inscription on its carapace: "Captured In tho year 1700 by Fernando Gomez In the-St, Sebastian river; taken later oa by the Indians' to 3Iontanzas, and from there to the Gieat ""iVekima.'! The Great AVeklma was the ancient name of the St. John river. Above the Inscription tho arms of Spain and the date 1700 were plainly dis cernible. After showing the tertoise to his -friends the captor released it,.adding the date 1890 to the older Inscription, sr j9l&muma&iMx. w .vXMiMaAatoHN. . r-fet.X,fe THINGS IN GENERAL. matters Widen Must Be Considered In En deavoring to Better tho Condition of tho lowly An Experiment Being Made by New York College Girl. rWMTTE-i FOB THS DISPATCH."" "Salt," said one of the essayists the other evening at tne Pennsylvania ' College, quoting from some unnamed authority, "shit is that part of a potato, on account of which, ir there isn't any, tho potato doesn't taste good." This relation betweon the salt and the po tato is Just about tho relation which per sonal interest bears to tho uplifting of the poor. The poor must be uplifted. "We are all agreed upon that. There is no disgrace in poverty, but thero is fearful loss In it loss of health, loss of enjoyment, loss of character, los of opportunity. Of course. I mean tho kind of poverty wmen memoes dirt. And we want to uplift and better these brethren of ours who are down. Now, how to do it? The Professor of Things In General looks. out over the situation past and present, and mokes bold to pronounce that without tho personal, interest of men and women who aro well off there Is no possible uplifting of mon and women who are worso on. I sup-. pose that if people are hungry thoy may be effectually fed by throwing 'biscuits out of fourth-story windows. Anyhow, they will got .tho biscuits. But if it seems good to do more for people than to stay their stomachs; if it ho confessed that human beings, though unwashed and ragged, are really different from pigs, and ought to bo given their din ners some other way than out of a trough; why, then, throwing biscuits out of fonrth story windows is not sufficient. Nor is a loaf of bread at the end of a pair of tongs a good symbol of Christian charity. General Personal Interest. Tho touch of salt, "on account of which, if thero isn't any," the helping of the poor doesn't help tho poor, is genuine personal interest. No matter how low down a man Is,be he beggar or criminal, though.he lie in a gutter, or lie in a patrol wagon, or sleep in a cell, the only way to uplift him is to begin by taking him by the hand. Only a man can help a man. In Australia, that nmazingly progressive country which is "up" to everything that is worth whilo in this progressive generation, they turn over certain classes of criminals out of the police court into the barracks of the Salvation Army. I would like to know how much real reformation is accomplished at Morganza. In go these unmanageable boys and incorrigible girls, and by and by come out what? Perhaps they come out reputable citizens. I know nothing about 1 it. But I seem to rememDer reading some where the other day that all the reform schools In this country put together do not reform a hundred cases In a year. I would really like to know the actual value of Mor ganza as an uplifting and saving Influence in the community. No machine can manufacture a man. And though you get a patent process by which you may put In money at one end and have it come out soup tickets at the other end, that will not really help a man. I may feed him like a pig, as I said, but man is not all stomach. All genuine uplifting of a man begins (where the Salvation Army begins) at the man's heart. And machines have no heart, tongs have no heart, institutions have no heart. I was particularly pleased with Bishop rotter's articlo, the other day, on the "Gospel for Wealth," because he empha sized just this fact, that .personal in terest must precedo ' all real and per manent help. Tho best paragraph in that article was that quotation from tho experience of a good woman, who went herself and spoke to another woman on tho street, and tried to get her off the street. Ono by one! That Is the formula which is going to regenerate society and bring in that wonderful twentieth century which the prophets are trying to show us. One must holp one. Thcsocialandeconomio evils of our day can bo cured, like tho old "King's evil," only by the touch of the human hand. An Experiment of College Girls. That is the plan which they aro trying at 95 Rivlngton street, Now York, in tho "Col lege Settlement." A company of bravo and wise young college girls, graduates of Vas sar, Smith, AYollesly and Bryn Mawr, have gone to housekeeping down in the. Bowery, and are devoting themselves to tho business of getting acquainted with their neighbors. There is a description of this good work in this month's Lippincott't, worth reading. The house has a housekeeper who lives there all the year round, once a teacner in an up-town seminary. Around gather the girls, "In relays, some remaining only two, others as long as ten months at a time, to help in tho good work." These young women pay each of them $G a , week for their board, at the same time tak ing care of their own rooms and helping in the preparation of their own meals. That is, they pay $6 a week for the privilege of acting as mald-scrvant in tho Bowery!; They want to teach people that housework is an honorable occupation; that to cook cabbage is as much worth doing well as to play on tbe piano, andthat washing china and paint ing china are aliko reputable. This is one of the least parts of their mission. Their main purpose, I suppose, in this is to keep them selves on a level with their neighbors. You do your own w'ork and so do we. A Feature Worthy of Imitation. I wish, though, that this feature of tho col lege settlement could be imitated and em phasized. "We want somebody' who will do for women's work In the house what St. Ben edict and his, monks did long ago for man's workout of doors, taking It up and dignify ing it by their example. People thought that fleldwork was for slaves till they saw saints and scholars doing it. And people think to-day that housework is for servants. And young womenare willing to doanything else rather than this. There Is an at mosphere of degradation about it. But this Is all artificial, unnecessary, not in the nature of things. In M'llllam Morris" Utopia, described In ''News From Nowhere," the ladies prepare the viands and servo them, taking turns. You remember, in the Louvre, J that fine .painting of Murillo's called the 1 "Kitchen or tne Angels," wnere celestial servants handle the pots and kettles. The Professor of Things in General would-like to see emphasized among the VA'Z commercial occupations now open to women tho art of getting dinner. -He would like to seethe noble vocation of "general housowork" dig nifled and uplifted. It would not be necessary to go into a "college, settlement" to do this part of the good work which they are doing at 95 Riv lngton street. Though, I confess, it would be about ten thousand times as hard. TheRlvington street colony began with tire children, made friends with tho street urchins, persuaded them with games and pictures and conciliated them with candy. Then, of cours.6, they naturally called upon their parents. By and by, , they began to gather the children into clubs. To amuse ment they added instruction. And all the time, whether the programme was a game or a sermon, thero was 'that uplifting atmos chere about them of cleanliness andreflnd- nient, of pleasant .rooms and good pictures, and -there ws-the helpful -presence -of these earnest young housekeepers and hostesses, which-perpetually. profited. Almost the Millennium. So the workbegan, and so It is going on to day. The accounts jaf It are as delightful as the prophecies of tho mtllenium with the immense ,advantago of being true! They, have a "Hero Club," where the boys are taught about the brave, good men of history. They have a gymnasium. They have classes in history and science, and cooking and. sew ing. They teach that finest of all tho arts for children, the noW-to-be-helpfuI-to-mother-buslness. In the backyard tho ground is kriee-deep with seashore sand, whero the small ..boyrf'make forts and the small girls make pies all the pleasant Saturday after noons. There is a Penny Provident Bank, and baths, and a resident physician, nnd ex cursions to the country, and a reading room, and a capital library; and, indeed, no end to ,the .good which these college girls are doing with their brains, and their time, and their money, and their hearts. . And the whole work has just that salt in it which I spoke of at the beginning. It is all an application of personal interest to the up lifting -of the poor. Hand- touches hand. T In all the work," ono of them says, "the 1 mimiimiSisu. object constantly sought Is helpful personal contact. AH methods are simply means to this end. If the higher is ever to give an up lift to tho lower, must it not be through this method of friendship?" That is as true us the gospel. Nay, It is the gospel itself, applied to human life. WOMEN AND CIGAES. Old and Young Have Taken to tho Weed In New Tork. New York Telegram. It is not a novel sight to see the old apple women on South Btreet or West street smok ing a short clay pipe; but when a woman walks along Park row In broad daylight, puffing on a big cigar, it is likely to cause peo ple to tnrn around and stare. Such was the case yesterday afternoon. The woman was neither young, good looking nor well dressed. She was over) years of age, but she carried herself with a swagger of an Eastslde tough. Entering a cigar store in Park row, just below Pearl street, she laid a 6-cent piece on the counter and asked for "a strong cigar." "Shall I wrap it in paper?" asked the clerk. "No, you won't wrap It in paper; just hand it out here," and, picking up tho cigar, tho woman, who talked and walked as If she was sober, put one end of the weed into her mouth and lighted the other end. Then she turned Into the Park row again and walked up as far as Mulberry street. On ber journey the smoking woman encountered two police men. An indignant and shocked citizen asked one of tho policemen why ho did not arrest the woman, and the bluecoat replied that tho woman had as much right to smoke In tho street as any man, and as long as she did not do anything disorderly he had no right to take her In. "Go Into any of the back rooms attached to the saloons around here," said the police man, "and you can see any number of women, old and young, smoking cigars. AVomen of that class used to be great fiends at cigarettes, but they seem to bo taking to cigars now." A YACHT WITH A BEC0BD. Tweed's Famous Schemer Has Entered a Philadelphia Regatta, New York Times. The sloop yacht Schemer, In which "Boss" Tweed escaped from this city just previous to the time when his career was brought to a sudden and notorious close, Is now owned by Francis Shunk Brown, of Philadelphia, and will appear in the Philadelphia Yacht Club's regatta next Monday. She was built by J. C. Wilkins, of Jersey City, in 1871, for J. C. Hall, of Brooklyn. Two years later Tweed purchased har from Hall, and fitted her up in magnificent style. He sailed with her to Cuba and then left her. She was brought back to this city in 1B76, nnd after passing Into several hands she finally be came the property of William S. Alloy, who sold her in 18;0 to Mr. Brown, her present owner.' Notwithstanding the fact that the Schemer has been rebuilt three times, she is still a good boat, and she stands a good chance of winning races before the season is over. Her build is that of a light-draught centerboard sloop, 39 feet 8 inches long over all, and 36 feet 10 inches on the water Jine. Her greatest beam measurement is 11 feet, and her beam at the water line measures 13 feet 8 inches. Out of 93 races in which she has partici pated the Schemer has won 83, which Is probably the best record possessed by any yacht afloat. New Yorkers will remember her as belonging to the Larchmont Yacht' Club's fleet several years ago. She was flagship of that organization for three years. A BB0OKLTN MOTHEB'S DEVICE." She nas a Scheme for Preventing Her Child From Getting Lost. New York Sun. A handsomely dressed woman and a curly headed boy of five summers were among the passengers on a bridge train this morning. They attracted tho attention of all the othor passengers on account of a new and novel arrangement, evidently the invention of the mother, to prevent Jimmie from getting lost in the crowd. Around tho boy's chest and shoulders was a neat-fltting harness of red Morocco leathor, ornamented with tiny brass bells. Two reins, also of red leather, were attached to the harness at the shoul ders. The mother held the reins firmly in her left hand, while with her right she held a book in which she seemed deeply inter ested. When the boy wanted to go out on the platform or cross over to the window, there was, no sharp command of "Come back, Jimmie, don't go there." Jimmie would walk the length of the reins and then he stopped. The mothor would not even look up from her book, but her grip on the reins never relaxed. As long as she held them firmly there was no chance for Jimmie to get lost in the crowd or fall oft the platform. The harness was .similar to that worn by pug dogs In fashionable so ciety, but two reins were used for the boy instead of one for the dog. Jimmie is prob ably more difficult to guide along a crowded thoroughfare than a well-trained and obedi ent pug. CONGRESSIONAL STRING PULLING. A New Toy That Caugbt the Eye of Mr. Byrnes. St. Louis Republic. Congressman Sam Byrnes .was in town Saturday making a few purchases. Some where on Broadway he struck a stand where a fakir was selling a mechanical toy called the "acrobat." Placing the toy on a gentle decline it would turn somersaults all the way down to the bottom of the declivity. Every time this occurred the Congressman would smile a broad, peculiar smile. Finally he planked down a dime for tho toy and walked away with it. "Just the very thing I've wanted for a long time," said the Congressman, ns he put the toy away in his pocket. "There are a num ber of people down In my country who are living Images of this thing, and when I want to recall them, all I will have to do will be to pull out this machine and let it turn a few political somersaults along the top of my bureau. I pull the string, and the toy does the rest. Do you see?" Ono of the Finest. The New York Journalist. TnB Pittsburg DisrATcn is receiving con gratulations. Ithasmoved into a handsome new building which is equipped with one of the finest newspaper plants In tho country. When it moved The Dispatch left every thing old behind It. It now has not only a new; home, but presses, type, office furniture and fittings are all new and of the most modern stylo. The new building is lighted by the electric light and electric 'motors furnish much of the power. Enough Said. Cleveland Plala Dealer. They have a distinguished Blayor In Cin cinnati, distinguished for his "fine" distinc tion of morals. Heieaves the saloons wide open on Sundays, but ,says he will stop Sun day baseball playing if it takes tho whole police force. Evidently somewhere in the misty past Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, has umpired ajgame oi can. TE0PLE "COMING AND GOING. General Passenger Agent E. A. Ford, of m Pennsylvania Company, left, for Cincin nati last evening to attend a meeting or the McCrca started for St. Louis in his private car. - O. A. Kimball, one of the owners of the Emerson piand works at Boston, was at the Union depot last evening, returning homo from Chicago. He said he found business dull in the.West. Ed. "Watres, the representative of a New York varnish company, was on the limited last evening bound for Chicago. "W. D. Clarke and H. E. May, of Toledo, and H. B. Moore and wife, of Cleveland, are registered at the Dnqsne. W. E. Good, of Philadelphia, and J. A. Bealin, of New York, aro stopping at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. B. Finlay, of Kittanning, and JohnF. Bced, of Lancaster, are at the Sev enth Avenue Hotel. Mrs. Benjamin' Marks and family leave this evening for the Catskill Mountains1 to spend the summer. Paul Jones, of Youngstown, and T. J. Peter, an Alabama iron man, are at the Mo nongahela House. ' Major Patterson, of Kittanning, Inspector of tho Second Brigade, went to Philadelphia last evening. j Ameng those who went East-last evening were C. . Magee, W. S. Pier and Charles Mc Kee . - lfj.' X Ct.,11. r A llinlian nas ,,,.1 ... turned from a trip through Scotland. linim-inri rfftmiBrTfmifrrimrr T-JMrfltltfii '.a-n ijftwiiiii-WiKrlftWi rr tin , IMiittfilMiinW f ' rtMMMttTIrtinifc- n BEEIEVED IN SIGNS. An Unfortunate Hooslcr Who Allowed the Zodiac to Control Him A Fig and a FaTmer Humbled a Eord's Pride Many Interesting Short Stories. There used to bea curious character named "Vellet down ih Fulton county," Ind., says"the Chicago Herald. -He" was noted over his whole section as the greatest eater and the firmest believer in "signs" that ever sat on the banks of Eel river and angled for bass. Ho planted his corn in tho dark of tho moon and laid rail fence in the light. He sheared his sheep when the iign was in the head, and laid bare his own neck from the winter's growth of beard when tho zodiac pointed to Taurus. He shingled his bam in the moon's first quarter, and gathered his seedcorn when Cancer was king. He wouldn't ride behind a horse that hadn't been broken in the sign of the reins, and when Scorpio ruled he considered a secret safe. There was noth ing on earth he didn't believe could be prop erly done ill the signs, and nothing that didn't threaton destruction if the signs were disregarded. He hud a neighbor named Isaac Brown, a great joker, who grew rich in spite of the fact that he paid no more attention to the signs, which were so large a part of Vellet's economy, than he did to the color of the clouds at midnight. Finally Vellet died, as eccentric men sometimes will, and the as sessor came around in the spring and missed him. "What was tho matter with him?" asked the official or Isaac Brown. "Well, you sec," said the skeptical farmer, "I come home one night along in December and told him I had a next year's almanac, nnd it said a man didn't dast eat meat till the sign of the virgin. And Vellet says, says he to me: 'My God! I can't go with out meat till next September,' says he. And I'll be darned If he didn't lay down and die. I feel mighty bad about it myself, for he always paid his debts in the sign of the crab, and he owed me $18." nis Pride Humbled. In the sixteenth century, of the many proud nobles In England the Duke of Somer set was one of the proudest, says Harper's Young People. He never condescended to speak to his servants; they obeyed him by signs. His footmen wore the same livery as the King's footmen, and when ho traveled, outriders were sent to clear the roads of all passers, that no vulgar eyes might see him ride by. Onee a countryman who was hastening home, driving before him a hog, happened to be on tho highway where tho Duke was to pass. "Get out of the roa'd as fast as you can!" cried the Duke's servant, brandishing a sword. "Why must I turn out?" asked the aston ished countryman. "I am in great haste to get home, and my pig is troublesome." "What does that matter? Get out!" In sisted the outrider, "My Lord Dukodoes not wish to be looked at. Hero comes hi3 coacn." "Indeed!" exclaimed the indignant man. "Then I will look at him, and my pig shall see him too." And in spite of the servant's protests, he held the squeaking animal up by the ears before the astonished eyes of the Duke, and kept him so while the coach drove by. All In the Family. General John B. Dennis, Chief Clerk la the Internal Revenue office, was one of the first to enlist in the famous Sixth Massachusetts, says the Omaha World-Herald. Behind the well-developed form of Dennis stood a slen der young man whose hands seemed to be Itching for the clutch of the patriotic mus ket. As the long line of volunteers, each enlisting by turn, surged, General Dennis fell back and stepped squarely on tho toe of the young man behind him. "I beg your pardon, sir," exclaimed Gen eral DennK "That's all right it's all in tho family now," replied the young man, as ho rubbed his injured foot. "That's pretty good," said Dennis with a smile. "It is all In the family now, sure enough. My name is John B. Dennis. What's your name?" "My namo is Church Howe, sir, and I hope I'll know John B. Dennis better," re plied the young man, as the two graBped hands. The wish was fulfilled at Baltimore, when the famous "Sixth Massachusetts" faced the storm of stones and missiles in tho big riot. Dennis and Howe marched shoulder to shoulder. And now, when, tho statesman from Nehama and the courteous veteran of the Revenue Department meet there Is some good old-fashioned hand shaking done. Never Forget a Friend. "When General Grant returned to St. Louis after his famous tour around' the world," said a Missonrian to the St. Louis Republic, "I heard him make a remark which removed from my mind all the prejudices I ever had against him as the Commander of the Federal Army of the United States. Ho stopped at the Southern Hotel and had a steady stream of caflers old friends who hdd known him in his adversity and his poverty. I was sitting in the parlor one day when an elderly lady called and wanted to see General Grant. She was promptly ad mitted. " 'General,' she said, 'I don't suppose you will remember me, as you have met so many people since I saw you last.' " 'Madam,' said the General, I never yet forgot a friend. Don't you remember the day w hen some of your people picked me out of the gutter, toot me to your house and gave me a clean shirt? And don't you re member how you nursed me back to health' and strength inside of two days? I hope you have forgotten all that, but I haven't. I never shall forget it, either." She Was an Unknown. A story of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which is too good too slumber, "and which Mrs. Wil cox tells herself, says the New York Times, is of her call not long ago upon an uptown rector in whose parish book she desired to enroll the name of a needy woman, a protege of hers. The reverend gentleman received her request favorably, and, opening the register, asked, as he began to wrltej who it was who recommended the sempstress. "My name is Wilcox," replied his visitor. "Ella Wheeler Wilcox." "Ah," commented the clergyman, "I do not remember to have heard ofyou." Mrs. Wilcox laughed. "Really," she said, "I think you are the only man in New York who has not." The rector smiled in his turn, and, coming to tho next question, continued: "And to whom do your refer, Mrs. Wilcox?" "Sir," replied the lady, with impressive dignity, "I refer to the whole world." A Heal Hold-Over. Assemblyman Tim Barnard, of Butte county, who is among the guests at the Gmnd Hotel, has a little niece recently out from Kentucky, who, although but 12 years old, is well up in politics, and inclined to be facetious" at her distinguished uncle's' ex pense, says tho S,an Francisco Call. Tbe genial Assemblyman relates that he met his little niece a few days ago, and she began at once to ask questions abont the politics of California. "Now, uncle," she inquired with all seri ousness, wnat is a noiu-over senator?" The matter was fully explained, and after listening patiently she bald: "Well, that isn't what e call a hold-over in Kentucky." "What is the difference?" "In Kentucky we give thataame to any Senator who can hold over a quart and walk!" Found One1 Good Point. A friend of tho merry little humorist, Marshall P. Wilder, yesterday whilo chat ting abont him, told this story, Says tho Philadelphia Press: After Wilder had been entertaining the members of a club one evening, one of those blundering old fellows who mean well but don't know, approached to compliment the humorist, "Ah, Mr. Wilder,'" he blurted, "there was one excellent good thing among those stories you told!,r "Hm," said Wilder, disconcerted for a mo ment; "Well, I suppose-that was better than missing the point of all of them." Saving a Sparrow. An authentic incident in thecareerof Gen eral Robert E. Lee, says tho Youth's Compan ion, is told as an evidence of his sweetness of disposition and natural kindliness. One day he was Inspecting the batteries over tho lines below the city of Richmond, and tho soldiers had gathered In a group to welcome him. This action drew upon them the- fire of the Union guns. . The General faced about and advised the men to go under shelter. But he did not do this himself. Walking on, although in ap parent danger, ho picked up and replaced an unfledged sparrow which had fallen from Its nest near by. The act was instinctive, but perhaps indi cates a really higher endowment than abil ity to conduct notable campaigns. Demand a Bar to Progress. New Orleans Picayune. "" Maine hotel keepers say-that If the State wishes to retain its summer hotel business they must be relieved from the State prohi tion against the sale of liquors. -Bar Harbor is not much without a bar. ODE MAIL POUCH. Massage and Mechanical Therapeutics A Clever Writer Criticised. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In an editorial discourse of recent date you had occasion to point out the obligation of all those who write for public Instruction to observe fhe closest adherence' to truth and fact, and let themselves be governed ac cordingly. There is no class of writers for the information of the public who should ndopt this golden rule and in every point be guided by ltmore conscientiously than those who undertake to lead, counsel or prescribe in hygienic matters, relative to the preser vation of health. They should not suffer themselves to be guided bv hearsay or rambling speculations, but present to tne public the facts, results and benefit of their experience, if they have any. But, occa sionally, it happens that a clever but over ambitions writer, who loves to be entertaln. ing, is chargeable with the faults and neg lects resulting from inexperience ora slight regard for truth" and facts not generally known. A lengthy article in a recent issue of The Dispatch, headed "Lessons in Mas sage," indicates an authorship not above BS& criticism. Tho writer of this article is 'Shirley Dare." t Your space is too valuable for the corree vion of every one of "Shirley Dare's" errors ,t4Ie artlcla in question, but I hope you will find place for tbe following: It is not true that "Massage is nowhere better under stood at the present day than among the Sandwich Islanders," although it Is not im probable that some Sandwich Island adept could easily give points to "Shirley Dare" for a revised essay on this much twisted sub ject, ir "Shirley Dare" keeps in view only the mechanical part of massage or mechano theraphy she is on the wrong track. The "technique" of massage is not difficult to acquire, but mere routine can in no in stance replace the application of those anatomical and physiological principles whicli must guide the educated masseur in the treatmeut of every case. A clean and well-behaved Sandwich Islander, with enough "savolr faire," could possibly pass muster for a j ob in a Turkish or Roman bath establishment, but his "general manipula tion" could no more be comnared to rnass- .agc than the vending of a quackdoetor's stun coma be classified with tho practice or medicine. In many countries the fore studie.3 and preparations of a professional masseur are not Insignificant. He must know as much anatomy, physiology and pathologyasamedic.il student, arid attend the various clinics with the physician or surgeon in charge. Thero are many European physicians who have won uni versal fame as masseurs, but It is not re corded that they obtained their distinction in the realm of the late King Kalakaua. The Japanese so-called masseurs whom, accord ing to "Shirley Dare'u" statement, "protect ing people proposed to import to New York," are, undoubtedly, of tho same stand ard as those from Hawaii. With the rarest exceptions the "ordinary nurse" never acquires the art of masssge otherwise than technically and, therefore, cannot be employed as a masseuse with a di rect therapeutical obj ect in view. The work in massage remains necessarily mechanical. But for those who, like "Shirley Dare," en tirely overlook the therapeutical value of massage as an auxiliary to medicine and sur gery, and persistently cling to the id.-a of messago as only a "luxury," or "rubbing" anybody will suffice, from a South Sea Isl and Kanaka to a colored washerwoman. I do not desire to contradict the following statement of "Shirley Dare" that "the well known lawyer who always had his head well rubbed (sic) before going into court with a case has a practical idea of the value of massage, and if its virtues were fully under stood clients would insist on a general prac tice of the habit, when probably fewer muddle-headed Judgments would result," but, on the contrary, I venture to recommend.as an experiment, thatsoma similar treatment be employed by "Shirley Dare" herself before that lady a second time attempts to agitate a subject so complicated, difficult and mis applied as massage and mechanical thera peutics. Axel C. Hallbecx. Allegheny, June 13. A Card From Mr. Eshelman. To the Editor orThe Dispatch: In The Dispatch of tho 12th you print a special from Columbus dated June 11, being an interview with Allen W. Thurman on the subject of the Ohio Governorship and United States Senatorship. In this interview he is reported as saying: If the Democrats elect the Leislatnre, who will be their choice to succaed Seuator Sherman? Congressman Joseph II. Outhwalte would fill the LIU and the eyes and hearts of the Democracy to a dot. If Lawrence Neal had kept out or the McLeaii wrecking crew, lie would hare had a chance, but he is not a possibility, now. I see a Wayne county Xcal organ nominates. In a long editorial, John li. McLean. Eshelman, the editor of the paper; is a former resident of deal's town, Chilllcotbe, but whether there Is an umbilical cord between deal's candidacy for Governor and tills nomination of McLean for Senator, I leave you to Judge. Will you allow me to state the fact that there is no "Neal organ" in Wayne county. Two years ago I championed the nomina tion of Hon. James E. Campbell for Govern or, and I am now championing his renomi natlon. It is true I advocate the sending of John R. McLean to the United States Senate. I do this on my own responsibility at no man's instance or suggestion. As editor of the Ohio Statesman 1 helped elect Hon. Allen G. Thurman to the United States Senate. As a member of the Ohio General Assembly I voted for his re-election in January, 1874. As a delegate to the St. Louis convention in 1888, 1 voted for the nomlnatiouof Mr. Thurman for Vice Presi dent, lam now and always have been his fast friend; but that has nothing to do with my support of John B. McLean for the United $tatcs Senate. . B. .Eshelxas. Wooster. O., June 13. Some Population Statistics. To the Editor of the Dispatch: A bets S that the population of Chicago is over 1,099,000. D says Baltimore is the fifth, largest city in the United States. S says it is not. Who wins? A D asd S. Pittsbces, June 13. The population of Chicago is 1,099,133. St. Louis Is tbe fifth city and Baltimore the seventh. WZLL-TEAIHED S0LDIEBS. Militiamen Onlckly Obey a Command Given on the Street. Philadelphia Inquirer. "I want to show yon the effects of constant training," said a local military enthusiast yesterday afternoon. We. were standing on Whitehall street. -"You see those two regulars from McPher son barracks coming this way," said' he, pointing toward two private soldiers from the barracks. They were walking very rap Idly, but with as regular step as though on dress parade. "Now, watch them. I will give a com mand as they come up and I'll net a cigar they instinctively obey it." "Itfsa bet." Just as they passed us my companion In a deep, commanding voice said: "Fours left; march!" As quick ns a flash the regulars wheeled to the curbstone. Then they caught them sclyes, looked around, smiled and went on. . A CHEEKY CHINESE BEGGAE. He Got a Meal, Then Sat Down and Smoked a Vile Cigar. Portland Orcgonlan. Chinese- beggars seldom appeal to white people for assistance, but a very dilapidated specimen of the race rapped oh the back door of the residence of a prominent mer chant the other day and begged one of the kitchen girls for a meal. Usually this fam ily sends beggars to the City Board of Char ities, but. the Chinaman fared bettor. He was given a meal consisting of chops, pota toes, bread and coffee, which he enjoyed. The meal over, ho produced the vilest kind of a vile Chinese cigar, calmly lighted it, and cocking his feet on the table,, filled the kitchen with smoke. When told to go, ho said: "'No wantco go: heap likechere; heap enjoy self." In ono minute and a half afterward he was kicked out of the house. COSTLY, BUT CHARMING. Oh, the Summer girl gay Will soon flit away To wave-battered beach and cool hill; Clad ih mannish attire She'll flirt and perspire, And run up a .terrible bill! Snrely none can say nay To her coquettish play On lawn or where white combers curl; For the sea would seem sad And few hills would be giad Were It not for tho chic Summer girl. Oh, long, long may she wavo To look sweet and enslave; Life's blessings for her we'll invoke. And to fU her out gay It is needless to say . We'll willingly toil and go broke! . Willis Wixkle. PrrrsBrnio, June li. r -I....- ,...,. .... ... ... .. U CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. A child was born at Streator, I1L, with out arms and only ono leg. A Johnstown barber proposes to. shave every tenth man free this wock. Detroit undertakers must wear rubber ,coats when they handle diphtheria corpses. A "Wilbur, "Wash., man is proud of two strawberries, one 0 inches and tbe other 8. inches In circumference. Eleven hundred purses were left in public vehicles in London during 1S89. Out. of the number 380 contained from XI toJEIv 47 from a to JEW, and 12 from .10 to JS55. Charles "Warner, of Lebanon, Conn., now in his 73th year, has recently experi enced much pain in his jaw. He consulted a dentist, ana has found that a new set or teeth are cutting. This will make his third set. The TJpper Caloosahatchee is full of tarpon. This is IXho time of the year they 'devote to raising their families and a tho average spawn con tains up w ard of 17,000,000 eggs, a good idea caw. be formed of the cares of the parent tarpon. At Home, Go., a stalk of cotton, was exhibited. It was planted April 11, meas ured 20 inches in height: and had 11 branches nnd 22 squares. This U remarkable when it is considered that tho average height of cotton at this season ismotmoro than four inches. It is said there is a tract of forest treei in Southern Oregon embracing about 16,000 square miles, which, cut and sold at $10 per 1,000 feet, would pay our national debt twico over. It is estimated that the amount of merchantable timber standing will reach 400,000,000.000 feat. The reclamation of the Okenenokea swamp in Georgia, by means of drainago canalsrunning to the St. Mary'sriver, is pro posed. The area of the wnmp is 676 aquaro miles. There will. be about 61-mllesof main and 1,000 mllei of lateral canals, and many small agricultural -drains. D. J. Barnett, of Crossville, Ga., set out his tobacco plants two years ago and raised n good crop of tobacco. Last year the old stalks snekcred out and made better tobacco than they did the year before, and this year they bavo snekered out again, and bid fair to make another good crop. 3. T. Rupert, of Altoona, U the proud possessor of a Plymouth Eock hen whicli accomplished a- remarkable feat the other day. It, with a great deal of ado. laid an egg 7x9 inches in size, with a regulation hard covering, and inside this- was anothar egg equally hard and well formed. A few years ago a gentleman bonght 100 acres several miles below 3Iacon. Ga., on the East Tennessee road, for which he paid $J0 an aero. He improved the property at a cost of only $7 per acre, and within fonr years from the date of the purchase cleared $27,000 from the sales -of fruit grown on this land. Belgian railway officials, after three years of investigation, report that under or dinary circumstances tho average railway train In passing over ono mile of track wears from it two and one-fifth pound". The natural destruction of track nmounts for the whole world to about; L330.000 pounds dally. A strange looking snake was killed at Marietta, Ga., last Friday. It was about IS or 20 inches long and its tail was pointed like a horned snake, but pliable. Its skin, was of small cheeks of Mock, green and pale blue, with a yellow belly. It -nas killed by a negro who was-jat work near the pond. Dr. W. Hanford "White and Helen. Paulding Smith, of New York, were married in South Dakota the other day. According' to the divorce laws of that State it was nec essary to have the marriage performed there, as the lady was divorced at Yankton. S. D., when Dakota was under territorial government. Among all classes of people in Great Britain there is a widespread belief that the common whito pigeon is the herald of death. Thus, a white pigeon alighting on a chimney or flying against a window betokens tho deatliofsome occupant of tho house. On account of this curious belief.English house wives cannot be persunded to uso pigeon feathers about their beds. The longest bridge across the Danube is 1,900 feet in length, the Waterloo bridge over the Thames is L240 feet, the Westminster bridge over the Thames 1,220 feet, the Sara tov bridao across tho Velga 4 872 leet, and the Freiburg in Switzerland 1,095 feet. One half million dollars Is to be expended in Im proving and extending the approaches to the Brooklyn bridge on the Now York side. In usefulness it exceeds them all. The Philosophical Society of Berlin ha offered a prize of 1,0U0 marks for tho best paper upon "The Kelataons of Philosophy to the Empirical Science of Nature." Tho es says may be written fn English, German, French or Latin, nnd must be sent to the secretary. Dr. Adolf uas-en. No. 42 Phein strasse, Friedeman, by April 1, 1883. Tho winner of theorize will receive his money in January, 1S94, and he will have to do soma hard thinking, too. An autograph letterof Abraham Lin coln to a friend is said to contain the fol lowing: "Do not worry. Eat three square meals a day. Sav your prayers. Think of your wife. Bo courteous to your creditors. Keep your digestion goou. atecr clear of biliousness. Exerciso. Go slow and go easv. Mav be there are other things thnfc vour especial case requires to make you nappy, bpt, my friend, these, I reckon, will give yon a good lift." A curious story is told of tbe manner in which the Kothschilds aided Carafa, the composer. The latter was far from rich. His principal income was derived from a snuff-box. And this was the war of it: The snuff-box wa given to the author of "La Prison d'Edlmbourgh" about 30 years ago by Baron James de Bothschtld as a token of esteem. Caraf.i sold it 24 hours later for 73 napoleons to the same Jeweler from whom it had been bought. This became known to Kothsdilld. who gave it again to the musi cian on the following year. The next day it returned to the Joweler's. Tills traffic con tinued till the dcvith of the banker and longer still, for his sons kept up the tradi tion, to the great satisfaction of Carafa. A S3IATXEBING OF S3ULJS&. Guzzleton Ah! what" is -more comfortabla than a smoking hot dinner? De PutT Tbe man who eatsO. Terns Siftingt. "How did you come to give me such a piece of meat as this? Why, It doesn't smell frood,"saIda fastidious man to the waiter in aa Austin restaurant. "Scuse me. ooh. dat's not the smell ob de meat what you ninells. DaPs dc aroma what come from the kitchen. Dar's nufflu de matter -wid de meat." Taxis Sttinas, Farmer Pat, did you count all the pigs when you drove them into the yard? Pat Yls. sor, Ol did, alt but wan, an he ran so fast that OI couldn't count him, sor. Texas Sift inns. Miss Elite How skillful Mr. Lovesit is at receiving! Miss Annex Yes, Indeed; at the last club handi cap he received 30. TenU (Ming. Place bets on sprinters Or tenia sets. And if you lose at that Try backing horses. Crews and nines. But never try bacca-rat. Tents Outbfg. "This doesn't suit me." 'Why, that's the fourth proof I've submitted to you. You're like a hen, you do so much sitting," Photographic Times. Rocks Have you been-long on the money market? Stocks No. you Idiot. I hare been short on the markeCthat's jrhy I am out. Aew Tork Telegram. Proprietor of store (sternly, to woman caught Bhopllfting) Madam, nnless you have friends to go tecurity for you, it will be my duty Woman Friends, is It? I'll have ye understand. sir, me husband owns half a dozen bljf brick Bulldin's and Proprietor (to the policeman) What are you banging arouniThere for? Don't you know a case of kleptomania when you sec It? Chicago Tribun. "Into all lives some rain must fall," But out" there in the West The farmers have to irrigate Or dry op with the rest. Washington Post. "Ah, my friend, creeds are nothing. The actions arc everything. We judge a man by what we see lilin do." Not always. There's tbe lazy man, for Instance. We Judge him by what we don't see bun uo.-t-V-K; Tork Press. "After being at the Paris exposition, I don't suppose you will care to go to the next world's fair. Hiss Jumelghr" 'Weil, no: even if Iwas sure there would be a fair in the next world I am in no special hurry to go there. "-Detroit Free Press.
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