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One Year 1 25 The Dailt Drsr vrcn Is delivered by carriers at IS cents per week, or. including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per -week. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1891. A SQUARE CANVASS OX THE TARIFF. The nomination of Major HcKinley by the Republicans of Ohio, for Governor, makes the issue fairly and squarely upon the tariff. No man could bo chosen in Ohio who so thoroughly represents the protective system under which the indus tries of the country have prospered as the compiler of the tariff bill passed by the last Congress. No matter what the side issues imported into the Ohio canvass, the whole country, and foreign countries as well, will look to the result next November as a distinct snd unequivocal declaration for or against the protective policy. In this view, and 110 other is possible, the great majority of Pennsylvanians indeed, we might say all who believe in continuing the sys tem under which our home indus tries have flourished will heartily join in wishing for Major McKinley's election. Ho has the powerful argument to support him that the tariff bill of the last Congress.in place of being now the bugaboo which the Democrats attempted to make it out last fall, Is operating with distinct benefits, instead of disasters, to our national trade aud manufacturers. The hysterical cries oftho free-traders and tariff it es for rev-, cnue only which filled the air last Novem-, ber, portending terrible things from the new tariff, are heard no longer. Already, in but a few months, the results of the bill are beneficial enough to warrant its supporters in their confidence, and to si lence and confound its opponents. So sufficient should the tariff be to rally tho voters of Ohio to McKinley in the pending campaign that tho other topics brought into the Major's address of acceptance are mere impedimenta. So far as some of his other issues go, Major McKinley does not strengthen his position by taking them up. In trying to cover the whole ground, as au address to a party convention is ex pected to do to swear that the Repub lican party is right in everything lie went outside of the subject on which he is the acknowledged leader, and in going outside Tas in some places weak and even contradictory. Thus when he claimed for the Republican jiarty that it assists tho farmer in obtain ing a foreign market "so far as it is pos sible by the reciprocity provision of the new law," ho Lift himself open to the re tort that when in Congress he was not a supporter of tho reciprocity provision. "When he arraigned the Democratic admin istration of Ohio for extravagance in in creasing State expenditures 785,000 for two yean;, a like objection was liable to arise from his omission to say anything about an increase of 260,000,000 in the ap propriations of the Congress of which he was a leader. Such faults as these, however, are the natural features of oratory addressed to a partisan audience. The canvass, we trust, will not turn upon this extraneous matter. It is absolutely and distinctively a canvass on tho tariff. As such, it will be regarded by all; and all friends of protection, no matter how they differ upon any other question, will for this reason heartily wish for McKinley's success. A CHANCE TO COIIPROMISE. The Mayor is taking a good step in offer ing his services to the contending parties in the building strikes for getting them together and reaching a compromise. It Is to be hoped the offer will be received with as good a spirit as it is made, and that a conference will bo held which will reach satisfactory results. It has been evident for some days that the strike has outlasted the expectations of contestants. The inference is natural that both sides would be willing to confer for a settlement of the difference, but that each is afraid to make a move in that direction for fear that it will be taken as a sign of yielding. This is a false view of any offer to compromise difficulties, but it is so general as to be natural. In the meantime the public interest is suffering by the suspension of building operations; and it is for the public welfare that Mayor ixourley will make Ms effort tobnngthe contending parties together. The step is a i ery commendable one. It should be receh ed favorably by masters and men, and an earnest effort made to use it for settling the dispute. The strike- Las already cost more than it can ever come to. The party which now refuses to do its share toward a compromise will forfeit its claim on the public approval. isAKBAitrrr and civilization. A German banker, who recently visited Moscow, reports his astonishment at dis covering there that the wealth of the richer Hebrews secures them no exemption from the persecutions directed against the poorer class. The idea that there is a couutry where wealth cannot purchase ex emption from the stringency of the law as it is inflicted on the poor and defenseless struck the German banker in as utterly a sub ersive light as it would appear to an American financier to learn that the rail way in Russia cannot ignore or nullify laws at their pleasure. 3 i true, however, that this fact does indicate the overwhelming barbarity of the Russian enmity to the Hebrews. "Wealth in Russia can purchase very great privileges; and the administrative officials of the Empire are notoriously open to the argument of an open purse. It is a testi mony of the overruling and controlling race hatred tbst inspires the jrcscription of the nchrew race in Jtuesjs that its wealthier members have no exemption from tfcr cruelties and injustice to be ex pectesa the case of the poor. Itifj.iltjtte hard to say which is the mos5grained and unconquerable the unvarying and undviHzed race hatred oit .. i . a, Ti ..!.. n 4T.A flfrtllIW me part 01 u, "' "TrT"' persistent conviction underlying Western civilization vacs me equality w u iucu before tho law is a barren Ideality, and. that it is in accordance with the normal condition of tbincsthat there should b& one enforcement of the law for the poonj and another and milder one for the rich. CONTROIXER VS. EXAMINER, It is to be noted that the statements of. Controller of the Currency Lacey anaBank Examiner Drew, with regard tovthe date when the latter informed his superior of the Lucas shortage, differ materially. Mr: Lacey says the first'" information he re ceived was on January 28, nearlyrthree weeks after Drew had learned of it But before that statement the examineriiad' testified quite otherwise, as follows: Mr. MeFadden. one of tbo directors, brought the statement of Marsh's confession. to mo at tho Continental Hotel on the even ins of that day. 'Within an hour of that time I -wrote a letter to the controller in-, forming him of the fact of Marsh's confos-.' Blon. In doing what he claims he did Mr., Drew would have done no more thanhlsw duty. If he had left his superior in ignor ance'of the crave information that had thus come to his official knowledge, he would have committed such a breach. of dutv as to show his en- tiro unfitness for his place. The' diversity between the statements of tho officials is that Drew swears that he - did - his duty, while Mr. Lacey states thatihe was so remiss that when he learned thata subordinate had known of a gigantic shortage for three weeks without commu nicating the fact to him he did not remove the offending official, but actually left him in charge of the responsible duties which, according to Mr. Lacey's statement, he had so grossly abused. In other words, the most charitable view of Mr. Lacey's state ment is that it convicts him of utter inca pacity to understand the responsibility and duty of his position. Where the best explanation that can be made is for a public man to take refuge in the plea of his incompetency, and that plea is controverted by the sworn state ment of another, the first is justly under suspicion. "We are more inclined to be lieve Mr. Drew than Mr. Lacey, and to re gard the latter's statement as manufact ured to suit the exigencies of the occa sion. But it is not important, so far as Mr. Lacey's position is concerned, which is believed. Ills own defense shows him to be utterly unqualified to discharge the duties of Controller of the Currency as they should bo discharged. ONLY 8100,000,000 WANTED. The Hon. Warner Miller has been mak ing enthusiastic addresses over the pros pects of the Nicaragua canal. He de clares that five millions have already been spent on that project, which includes the big salaries of the double-headed corpora tions by which the promoters contract with themselves to do all the work, and all that is needed to carry It to a glorious success Is the trifle of $100,000,000. The criticism of a rank outsider that the cost will be nearer 150,000,000 is repelled by Mr. Miller's ogan with a great deal of 'warmth. T.e estimates are declared to be only 52,000,000, but M. Menocal, for sake of safety, swelled them to 70,000,000, and the Hon. Warner Miller, with a like view, puts it up again to 100,000,000. All of which is suggestive of De Les seps' confidence in tho Panama scheme. The earnest assurance that the bagatelle of $100,000,000 is all that is needed also suggests that the scheme to get the United States Government's indorsement of the canal company's bonds to that extent was not so entirely without the consent of the promoters of that company as was alleged at the time. If the United States should let itself in for that sum we may be sure that the contract cost of the canal would not be less than 100,000,000, whether the Hon. Warner Miller's construction com pany got It done for the estimated $52,000, 000 or not If Mr. Miller can find capitalists to in vest 100,000,000 in the stock and bonds of his enterprise he is all right But none of the United States funds should go there. If the United States Government has 100,000,000 to put into canals it can find Interior Waterways to improve which at the same cost will carry commerce that will benefit the people of the United States five times as much as his canaL THE SHWER SIDE. Mr. John A Grier, of Philadelphia, at tacks Mr. Carnegie's article in the North American Becieie with a vigor to be ex pected from one of the leading and un questionably one of the most disinterested advocates of bimetallism. Without un dertaking to recapitulate Mr. Grier's ar gument in opposition to Mr. Carnegie's, we can briefly state its basis to be the as sertion that tho variation in price between gold and silver in the last two decades has been a rise in the commercial value of gold rather than a decline in the price of silver, and that during that period the measure of values has lengthened and in flicted an undue burden upon the debtor class. This assertion is doubtless true In great measure, and need not be discussed at length because of this admission. Let us adopt Mr. Grier's view to the extent of sajmg that the gold dollar is worth 122 cents in silver instead of that the silver dollar Is worth only 78 In gold. But Mr. Grier points out the present condition of the gold and silver coinage of the country as a satisfactory one, in wmen me stiver aonar circulates at the 122 cent price of gold simply because the Government makes it exchangeable for gold. This leaves the country on a goid basis just exactly as much as If the silver, coinage were so muca paper money con vertible into gold on demand. The only alternative in the direction of more silver coinage is to bring the country down to the silver basis and reduce the measure of values 22 per cent This is the object of the majority of the silver coinage advo cates; but Mr. Grier is too honest to argue that the wrong of raising the measure of values on one set of debtors is corrected by the second wrong of reducing it on an other. Mr. Grier's theory is that by fully re monetlzlng sliver its permanent circula tion at par with gold can be secured, and thus check a further rise in the price of the latter metal, which Is reflected by the depreciation of all other commodities. But that can only be done by securing an in ternational convention on the subject and by raising the bullion in the silver dollar to a parity with gold. Add 22 cents' worth of silver to the dollar and it wilt be nearly at par with gold; improve that by a con vention with all the nations to readopt sil ver and the circulation of the two metals side by side will be permanently assured. But immediate free coinage, as proposed by the ultra silver men, is not the way to attain either of these objects. One of the unique developments of the souvenir spoon fad is the production of one of those works of the silversmith's art for the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, as1 a measure of "the revival of interest in the early histoisr and political principles of this country." The idea that if you have a Put- I nam spoon, presenting the head of the . patnam leaving the plow to light in tho Bevolutton, and Putnam dashing down hill at Horsencck. therefore you will know more about Revolutionary history and re publican go-trernrnent suggests the conclu sion that fashionable historical" knowledge In theee;days musbcome in the form of men tal spoonmcat. v SrxcE building trades unions and the Builders' Exchange cannot get together by their motion MayorGourley -will be doing a favor to both sides by lending his good lomces'lrugctttagvthem'together. BuEWps Aykes advices are that i the six months "mora rattnrium" granted by tho Senate to the banks has proved so success ful that itihas beeureduced to three monthsr Its succes&jnay be-better J udged when it is found out -whether the banks are able to , stand alone of tor it-is over. Six months ago -the press of this country was resounding -With the groat idea of having the clearing 'housecfcach city lift ewery bank out of its 'difficulties, butjust at present in Philadel- i phia iwis not regarded as a glittering suc cess. Augustus Haep.is has perpetrated a "Hymn ofTraise" to the Prince of Wales. ProbaMynInee the publication its author would be -mining to confess 'to "an error of Judgement' An esteemed 'cotemporary thinks that if tho Queen had abdicated in favor ot the Prince of Walesa her jubilee, her naughty bah .m.11 h.pA "hart DnmAthfnff n Hrt anH vouldhavolJeraikept,ntofnagcalet Th8 Queen has beemso busy all this time as to afford a remarkable measure of the way the .Prince -would have worked if he had been Hing. Blackstono's loyal theory, that "The Kine can do no wronff." is made true in these days by notpermitting-tho King to do any thing at alL After all, -when we consider the general character of monarchs and politicians, -we are compelled- to ask if Prince Baccarat's greatest crimonras notdn being caught at it. A Chdtabiax out In Nevada killed a Piute Indian and was acquitted on the ground ot self-defense. Upon announce ment ofthe acquittal the Piutcs of tho vicin age promptly took the Chinaman and killed him oa their own account. The Incident is interesting as showing that the Pluto idea of government by law is on exactly the same plane as that-wbich. prevails in Hew Orleans. The efforts of the Harrison organs to makoAn administration, boom out of the Blaine cheers at the Ohio Republican con-vention-aro ludicrous, to say tho least. "AvFEW-missionaries might be sent down to Hayti with advantage," remarks the Washington Star. Bat it Is not likely that missionary efforts will be attended with much success as long as civilized nations put murderous tyrants in charge of the govern ment there in exchange for coaling stations, I and complain of nonfulfillment of the bar gain when'tho coaling- stations are not de livered. THE-Ohio Republican platform appears to believe in everything and indorse everything except Governor Campbell's administration and the-"Bipper" Legislature. Trrelate Bishop of Milwaukee, evidently with a view to forbidding unnecessary funeral expense, directed in his will that his body be buried in a pine coffin. But no pine coffins were in stock without a veneer of rosewood and one had to bo made especially for tho occasion, with charges to corre spond. It is hard to get away from the urbane, but determined, funeral director. These reports of ocean steamers coming in close proximity to icebergs look exceed ingly like efforts of the steamer agents to in crease tho-ocean travel. Representative Jerry Simpson- com plains that politics sway the Department of Agriculture so that Alliance men are not getting any seeds. According to the last re port that the Department Is sending out toadstools for mushrooms the Alliance men are in luck. The rain was a nice'Ilttle one as far as it went; but more than that is needed to re duce tho prevalent torrid temperature. It is satisfactory to observe that a large number of petitions for assessments'under the curative act have been filed. This af fords tho promise that the publio will in time have authentic Information on the im portant point whether the curative aot will cure. The thunders of the Ohio convention yesterday were hardly powerfullenouga to1 make much of a rainstorm. TOUCHED the June newspaper changes acotemporary says that the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette "has Indulged In an over hauling which eliminates its moral tone." We did not know it had one. It has been an J undiluted organ these many years. SNAP SHOTS IK SEASON. If Wales had not partaken of so much Mumm he might have kept mum. The fellow who is under a cloud nowa days is to'be congratulated. Perhaps ball players could hit the ball better if they did not hit tho bowl so often. Hot-tempereb people aro frequently laid in the cooler. The woman who has nothing to wear now should feel doubly thankful. The drama next season is to be turned into a farce. Over 120 farce comedy com binations are scheduled for the circuits, Thus is the stage elevated. Brooks babble, and Wales should have thought of this when he talked about that baccarat game to Lady Brooke. Adam had a pleasanter childhood than most boys. He had no mother to spank him. The close season is not confined to Bering Sea, by a long shot. You cannot judge a man by his clothes unh;ss he's a Chinaman. TnE fish-feeding season has opened with a boom on tho broad bosom of the Atlantic. Pittsburg would,be a splendid recruit ing station for a Polar expedition Just now. Ali. things change with the seasons, especially shirts and underclothing. AN UNPBEPAEED FLIGHT. Sir. Depew Got Beyond the Depth of His Audience. Chicago. Tribune. Mr. Depew prepares his speeches and com mits them tomemory before their delivery.' Ho never so much as uses a note to refresh his memory. But he seldom fails to say something which Is not in his "advanco copy." One of the best climaxes in his Galena speech last Wednesday was on Napo leon, which did not appear in the oration as ho wrote it. The most humorous thing he said was not in his printed address. He had been telling his audience that in 1,000 years from now only tn o men of this epoch would be remembered Lincoln and Grunt. There was a sweep of distance and altitude in the thought which made his listeners stand al most breathless. The orator evidently thought he had carried them too far from the earth, and after a short stop ho added: "That's bad for us." The crowd caught the wl and gavejilm a hurrah mingled with laughter. Mr.DerJew laughed himself, and concluded to give them some Tnore. "However," he continued, "it behooves us to keep on and get there Just the same," which caused another storm of laughter to break over the scene. . TBE ' PnTBURG DISPATCH, THUESDAT, jtaE DIPPED THE GENERAL. How a Mlssourlan Got a Promise for an Office From a Gubernatorial Candidate Frigid on a Hot Day A Number of Short Stories. Dan Morris, of Poplar Bluff, now deceased, was known throughout the country as a splendid sportsman, hunter and fisherman, says,theSt. Louis Republic Ho was the pro prietor of a hotel and became so popular that he was elected to the Legislature from Butler county in 1881. He took great doUght In relating how ho onco saved General John K. Hockaday 'from a watery grave. The General was a candidate for the Democratic nomination as Govornor in 1880," against .Crittenden and Marmaduke, and in the course of his 'campaign he reached Poplar f Bluff and stopped with Dan Morris. After his political business had been attended to, he confided to Dan that he would like to catch a few hundred pounds of bass out of Black river while waiting for the train. Hiring a small boat, Dan and the General went out on the river, the boat being pad dled bv Dan in his usually rsckless man ner. The ex-Attomey General becoming uneasy over tho situation, explained to Dan that he couldn't swim a lick and begged that he be moro carerul. He even went so for as to hint rather broadly that Dan didn't know 1 ow to manage tho boat. This nettled Dan, who, upon reaching a shal low place, deliberately upset the skiff. Gen eral Hockaday yelled for help as soon as he struck the water, and Dan, standing on the bottom, waist deep, grasped the candidate for Governor in his arms and swore a great oath that ho wonld save him or perish in the attempt. The General clung to his pre server with desperation, and in order to keep up the deception, Dan was compelled to squat down and occasionally push his victim's head under tho water as ho walked toward the shore. Beaching the bank, Gen eral Hockaday shook tho water from his clothes and said: "Colonel Morris, you have saved my life. Ask what you will, and I'll try to got it for you." "Thank you, General," said Dan, with a great show of modesty, "1 have only done my duty, and that without hope of reward. But if you insist upon it, I would like to be cither Adjutant General of Missouri or Coal Oil Inspector of St. Louis. I fancy that cither would bo in my lino." "Say no more, Dan. When I am Governor of Missouri come and see me." But the General didn'tget the nomination. Dan Morris went to the Legislature, though, and afterward passed to his eternal reward. General Hockaday is now Judge of the Sec ond Judicial Circuit, composed of Boone, Callaway, Howard and Randolph counties. But he Still holds Dan Morris in grateful re membrance. From Hot to Cold. Marcus Daly, tho rich miner and crafty politician of Montana, stood in front ofthe Auditorium yesterday whon the sun's rays were hottest, says the Chicago Herald. He was waiting for a carriago and wishing for winter. It seemed as if every acquaintance that said something to him said something about the warm day, and this was becoming tiresome. Presently a fresh young man with a salmon-colored suit and silver headed cane came out of the hotel. Kotiolng the famous Montanan trying to cool himself with a handkerchief, he said: "Good morning, Mr. Daly." "Morning." "not, isn't it!" "What say!" asked the politician as ho almost looked through the young man. "I say it's quite hot." "Didn't quite get you," and ho put his hand to his car. "I said," and tho fellow yelled, "it's hot; quito hot!" "Step into the hotel a moment." The two men walked inside the hotel and Mr. Daly said: "You have known me for threo or four years." "Yes, sir." "Never doubted my sanityt" "Never." "Never saw me otherwise than sober?" "Never." "Well, you see my collar has faded?" "Yes." v "You can see that I am perspiring!" "Certainly." "Peel a triflo warm yourself?" "Yes, indeed." "Then jou know it is hot. Everybody knows it's hot. People are alive. Now what reason have you 'for run ning up to me and asking if it is hot? We are a little slow in Montana, hut there are some things we know. I hid you good day." A Yery Bright Boy. It was an evening school in Providence, R. I., says the Boston Herald. There was a class of restless, dirty newsboys and boot blacks on tho front seat, trying to seo how little they could study, and how much they could annoy theteacher. Finally the teach er called up the class and put them through the catechism on United States history. "Who discovered America?" Nobody seemed to know, and the teacher, a long-suffering student from the university, lost his patience. Shutting his book with a bang he dismissed the class with these sar castic remarks: "Well, when one of you boys get to the point where he needs to have some one vote for him as Governor or President, he will be ashamed to think he doesn't know who discovered America!" wOneof the wickedest-looking of the boys raised his grimy paw. "Well, Tom, what is it?" "I know who discovered America." "Why didn't you tell then?" asked the teaohcr, sharply. "Cos I didn't want to tell all I know," said Tom, while the class -ent off into a roar. The teacher called up tho advanced class in spelling-, and there was a smile on his face the rest of the evening. How Dr. Chalmers Won. Dr. Chalmers always had a high sense of personal dignity. When a young man ho was engaged as tutor in a private family, says the New York World. His young lady pupils resented his strictness, and the mother foolishly took sides with her daughters. In petty spite, when company was invited to tho house, young Chalmers was shut out from the table, ana .dinner was sent to his room. He made no protest against the treatment, but when it wns attempted again he told tho servant ho had ordered a dinner at a neigh boring town, and should need nothing. When this had been done a fow times an ex plosion came.' The master of tho house called Chalmers to account for insulting his family. Chalmers replied that he had been insulted bv banishment fiom the table. The young teacher conquered, and ever after hold his place as one of the family at all social gatherings. Sir. Blaine's Peculiarities. Morris M. Estce is among those (who think that America's greatest man is James G. Blaine, soys the San Francisco Call. For nearly an hour ho sat in tho corridor of the Palace Hotel last night and discussed the many brilliant qualities of the Secretary of State. "Blaine's opening address to the Tan American Congress," said he, "will be treas ured as one of tho most masterly efforts of American oratory. Before the delivery it and nearly all wore In favor of tho change o a single word in tho text. The suggestion was listened to most kindly, hut Blalno positively refused tomake the alteration. "When it was delivered I sat next to Colonel Hanson, of South Carolina, an ex Confederate veteran and one of tho most radical Democrats I ever met. As Mr. Blaine resumed his seat the Colonel turned to me with tears in his eyes, and said: 'Estee, I love my country, but novor in my life have I been so proud of my nationality as at this moment.'1' Apolllnaris on the Outside. William H. O'oltz, ex-presldent of tho Inter-State Baseball Leaguo, found himself with ton minutes spare time on his hands in tho Girard House yesterday, nnd used it up in telling a friend about a couple of his ex periences to hotels, says the Philadelphia 'Pro- , "Last summer," began Mr. Voltz, "I ar rived at the Leland Houso, in Harrisburg, after a very long, hard Journey, and imme diately went to bod. But I could not sleep, I was so awful tired and worn out, and rung lor a bell boy. In th course of 15 min utes or so an old, giayheadod negro, who had been employed by tue Leland House over since it started, knocked at my door." "'Did you ring, sah?" "Yes: bring me a glass of whisky with apolllnaris outside," said Mr. Voltz. The old colored man shuffled away and pretty soon reappeared carrying a glass ot straight whisky. Mr. Voltz looked ut him and then exclaimed: ... "T... "Where is the apolllnarisl" "In de hall, sob didn't youse tell de ol' man teh bring you whisky wif 'polynarus outside?" Honors Thrust Upon Him. Congressman MoKelghan enjoys a good story, says the Omaha lVorld-Herald, even though it is at his own expense, and he tolls this one with a relish: McEeighan has been a candidate for Couj. I gress before. Early in the campaign of 1830, at an interior town, the "hero of the sod house" met a& old colored woman who knew him years ago. The old woman greeted the Judge cordially, almost affectionately, and exclaimed: "Well, honey, 1'se right glad to nee yuze: 'deed I is. And you'se still holdin' office and having big honor frust 'pon you'se?" "Honors thrust upon mel Holding officer' repoated Judge McKeigban. "Why. aunty, what office am I holding now?" "Canjldate foh Congress, sah; canjidate for Congress," replied the old woman; and Mc Keigban went out and laughed one of his sides loose. teople'oj? pbomhtenoe. HekeyIbvetg expects to visit America this summer on a pleasure trip as the guest of Angus tin Daly. The Peince of Wales devotes acres of his estate at Sandringham to the cultivation of lilies-of-the-valley. The Sioux Miss Elaine Goodale will marry to-day was once the captain of a collego foot ball team. He should bo ablo to manage a household. Mr-Balfour has sold his Highland estate of Strathconan, Boss-8hiro7 to Mr. Coombe, tho brewer, for 100,000. The estate is 72,000 acres in extent. Da J. A. Otjchteelomy, of Louisville, been elected a member of tho Swedish Boyal Academy of Sciences. The society was fonndedby King Gustavus III., and mem bership is esteemed a great honor. The favorite wife of the Turkish Sultan is said to be Flora Collin, once a poor girl, and tho daughter of a French coal miner. She was placed with a famous French dress maker, who sent her to Constantinople with dresses ordered by the Sultan's mother. Robert Lincoln was one ofthe few cab inet officers who have been opposed to the em ployment of women as clerks in the Wash ington departments. During the time that ho was Secretary of War he was never onco known to sign an appointment of a woman for any position under his Jurisdiction. Hon. Mackenzie Boweli,, the new Min ister of Railways, of Canada, is a printer. Way back in the 60's he was elected to Parliament, being finally chosen Minister of Customs under tho late Premier. Ho was then Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of British North America. He is anative of Belleville, Ont., and his paper, the Intelligencer, is now conducted by his son-in-law. , Johannes Gtjttzeit, the Sam Jones or Germany, wears a dress that Tolstoi might approve of, but which exeites the ridicule of the Germans. Trousers of white wool cover his legs, and from his shoulders hangs a broad loose gown of tho same material, hold in position by a girdle about his waist. On his head he wears a chaplet of green leaves. His shoe3 are heavy, and low out. Guttzeit is a tall and soldierly man with a handsomo faco, and has succeeded in mak ing many converts. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. The O'Gorman Mahone. One of the. most conspicuous figures in Irish politics for more than half a century passed away Tuesday. The O'Gorman Mahone was born at Ennls, County Glare, in 1803, and named James Patrick O'Gorman Mahone, taking tho title by which he was best known from his mother, who was the daughter of "The O'Gorman." He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degree of 11. A. In 1822. Two years later he was one of the founders of the Catholic Association, and of sufficient Importance for Hlchard Lalor Shlel to describe him In a brilliant pen picture. He helped Daniel O'Connell to his election from Clare, and when the latter was elected from Kerry later on Mahone took his place In Parliament, sent thither by the electors or Clare. Inlaw he was again elected to Parliament, this time from Ennls, but In the election of 1852 he was defeated, when The O'Gorman Mahone disappeared from Ireland and wandered over the face of the earth for more than a quarter of a century. It was told of him that every capital In Europe knew him, that he was for a time In Central and South America, help ing to buUd Republics, and that he was staff colonel and aide-de-camp to the President or Costa Rica. It was said of him, too, that he had fought 18 duels, besides many times periling his life on the batUefleld. Finally, in 1879, Be reappeared In his native town of Ennls and was again sent to the House of Commons, where and elsewhere he sus tained home rule and Parncll. At the time of his death The O'Gorman Mahone was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for County Clare and Member of Parliament for Carlow. Colonel George B. TVelstllng. Colonel George B.Weistling, President of the Mt. Alto Iron Company and Superintendent of the Mt. Alto Railroad Company, died yesterday morning at his residence at Mont Alto Park, near Cbambcrsburg. Ho was born In Harrisburg, in 1833. In early life he was a civil engineer and did valuable work in railroad construction, and has helped to lay out many of the old railroads In his part of the State. He was one of the first to enlist when the war broke ont, and won three separate commissions as Colonel. At the time of his death he was an elder In the Reformed Church and Super intendent of its Sunday school. He was, also, a member of many scientific and philanthropic so cieties, a trustee of the Wilson College and other firomlnent Institutions. He was an active Kepub Ican. and one ofthe leaders of his party In his vi cinity, and was a member of the Electoral College of 1800, when he cast his vote for President Gar field. Colonel W'elstllng was the best known, most popular and highly respected citizen of Franklin county. In which he has been a resident for more taan -a years. William Beuchler. The remains of William Beuchler, of Franklin, were yesterday taken to his former home near Rochester, Pa., for interment. Mr. Beuchler was shipping clerk In Dale & Sykc's establishment, and was prostrated by heat while working there Monday afternoon. He lingered In an unconscious condition until yesterday when he died, lie had turned out with other veteran members of the Mays Post to the funeral of Captain Rldgway Sunday, and was considerably weakened by ex posure on that day. which no doubt brought on the fatal stroke. His old post, the Mays G. A. R., at tended the funeral services last evening In a body. "William Barr. William Barr, 07 years of age, and a resi dent for 20 years of the Southside, died yesterday at 2 o'clock at his residence, 25 Fourteenth street, bouthslde, after a two-months' Illness superinduced by the grip and terminating in consumption. The deceased was well known as a real estate dealer, and leaves considerable property behind him. Mr. Barr was the son of James Barr, a pioneer of the bouthslde, and was born where the First National Bank now stands. He was a Republican In poll tics nnd-a frequent Judge of elections. lie lea-ves a daughter aud son. Henry C. Tyler. Henry C. Tyler, one of the best known and cstemed citizens of Susquehanna county, died last week at his home at Montrose, the county seat, agtd 65 years. He was long a general mer chant and later in the insurance business there. He was an active Democrat, and in 1876 he was chosen Treasurer of the county on his party ticket, overcoming the large Republican majority Tor which the county Is generally good. He w as a stannch Presbyterian and noted for his many char ities. James 91. Maxwell.' James M. Maxwell died at his home in Bteubenvllle yesterday afternoon after a long Ill ness, aged 37 years. He was born in England, but came to Stcubenville when a boy with his father's familv, in 1866, and has lived there ever since. Ills father died last year, buttwo brothers. M. J. and J. Vf. Maxw ell, both of Pittsburg, and one sister, rthprliip. nf Stcubenville. are nvlnir. He was a member of st. Peter's Catholic Church, and will be burled with the rites of that church. Obituary Notes. MB. Fabbeb, an artlsthlghly esteemed In Amer ica, Is dead In London. William T- Smith, of the White & Smith Music Publishing Company, Boston, died suddenly of heart failure Monday. j REV. Ei'lia aim KoiiREB, pastor of the old Menon lte Church at Lancaster, died Monday, Just as he was entering his church. He was 70 years old. Miss Lizzie BBENJfAjr, who was'burled yester day In Pottsfleld, is the ninth child of the family who died of consumption at the exact age of 22 years. CiiBiSTornEK HrrnxBiNGTON died at Bloom lngtyn, IU., Tnesday, aged 71 years. He was very Srominent in the Methodist Episcopal Church and unday school work in Illinois for years. FLAVIA COMB, an actress, aged 23, died in Al bany, N., Y several day ago. About 1886 she starred for a time In the smaller cities, under the management of her husband, R. A. Dumarye. JOSETUl. Fitiiiav, discharging clerk of the St. Louis barge line, and one ofthe. best known men on the levee, died of apoplexy Mondav morning at New Orleans, aged S3. He was a native or Phila delphia. MBS. Mabtua Comlet, who died at Doyles town, Monday, aged SCI, was the oldest HWng graduate of the Moravian Seminary at Bethelehcm. A brother. Captain William Downing, was com mander or the United States frigate Greyhound. Nicholas Heiiehof, Jr., the heaviest man In Bergen county, N. J., who weighed nearly 400 pounds, died at his home In Little Ferry Monday. He was the son of the founder of the Hackcnsick brick) ards. The coflln provided for his body is so large that It cannot be taken from the house In a hearse. Thomas SilVancs, who claimed to have been the only Chinaman participating In the Rebellion, was burled at Indiana, Ea., Tuesday. Tom" had long since discarded his pigtail and had mar ried a white woman. During the war his eyer were lmureu, iur which ue received a smau pen funeral. Slon The Ut-iad Army men were in charge of the 18, 1891 ' 0UT-D00R THEATRICALS. Pittsburg Is to Enjoy the Delights of This New Fad George C. Jenks to Manage the Affair A Pretty Home Wedding at Hazelwood. Owe of the gayest and merriest of birthday celebrations will take the form of a theatri cal party this evening and will bo seen at the Grand Opera Houso for King's presenta tion of "Othello," which inaugurates his Carnival of Elocution, to continue the re mainder of tho freok. Miss Minnie 'Ober, the charming daughter of Mr. John P. Ober, of Troy Hill, is to be the fair hostess and has chartered a special eleotrlo car the double decker excursion for the event. Tho car will leave the Ober residence at 745 and will be ready to convey the merrymakers back again at the close of the theater, when a de licious supper will be served. Those who will be of the party are Misses Minnie Ober, EmmaKrebs, Minnie Krebs, Ella Straub, juuixue oauer, iscue eiDen, Lanra oeiuei Annie and Helen Voegtly. Ella Fisher, Alice Anshutz, Annie Gerwhr, Tillie Joerger,Tilie and Millie Lautner, Ella Groetzlnger, Mr. and Mis. Charles Kleber, Mr. and Mrs. Goorgo Luther, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eggers, Mr, and Mrs. William Aiders, Mr. and Mrs. E. Groetzlnger. Messrs. Ed Eggers, Herman Lautner, Will Krebs, Ed Kopp, Jack Sauers, Dr. Ettriqh, Dr. Hcckel, Lou Keineman.Clar once Seibert, Ed Seibert. John Eauer, Albert Stelgleder and Ed Straub. The Church of the Good Shepherd, of the Episcopal Parish of Hazelwood, was the sceno of the marriage of Miss Irene Cowan and Mr. Charles Frazier at 5 o'clock yester day afternoon. The church decorations were evergreens and daisies, gathered and put in place very artistically by the young ladies of the church, friends and compan ions of the bride, who is a daughter of Mrs. Y. C. Cowan and sister of Superintendent Cowan, oftho West Pennsylvania Hospital and of J. E. Cowan, of the Pittsburg post offlce. Tho service was conducted by the rector of tho churoh, the bride being given nway by J. E. Cowan. Her maid of honor washer sister, Miss Marian Cowan, and the groom's best mart was Mr. Raphael Sergeant. The ushers were Mr. William Russell, of Baltimore, Mr. Alfred Frazier, the groom's brothor. and Messrs. Hepke and A, Hibbert. The bride woro a dress en train of white silk, with white veil and carried a boquet of white roses. Her sister's habit was a pink crepe. She also wore awhito Leghorn hat, trimmed in pink, and carried pink carna tions. Mr. Frazier, who is the secretary at the Ohio Steel Works, and his wife will re side at Hazelwood after their return from an Eastern trip. From all appearances "As You Like It" will Boon become a lawn realization in this city. It will, of courso, bo given with lesser theatrical lights than Maurice Barrymore and Rose Coghlan, who assumed the lead ing roles in the New York presentation on the lawn of Mrs. Stevens, which set agog the theatrical and social world all over the United States. Bnt the cast will be made up of talented and clever people. ByrdVt W. King and Mr. George Jenks, the two well - known amusement men, are the promulgators of the scheme, and success is therefore already stamped upon it. Whether it will be given on a private lawn, several cf which are available, or in one of the numerous pretty parks that abound in the vicinity of the city is not known at present. It will, however, In either case be an invitation affair. Every thing that tended tomake the New Yorkpre scntatlon enjoyable will be looked nftor at this end of tho line, with gcneious petitions to probabilities to omit the vigorous rain storm with which the Now York audience was favored during the latter part of the Play. A pbettt wedding In the Sandusky Street Baptist Church this evening will be wit nessed by a large number of friends, as both the bride and groom are eminently popular. Miss Grace Woodburn is the bride-elect, and will claim as hnsband Mr. K. T. Meade, the well-known young attorney. The father of the bride. Bey. B. F. Woodburn, will be the officiating clergyman. The bridemaids will be Miss Sara Barbour, Miss Julia McCord, Miss Hattto Gray and Miss Mlnnio McNeil, daughter of Senator Mc Neil. The maid of honor is to be Miss Mae Woodburn, sister of the bride. Messrs. E. B. Heokel, M.D.. W. T. Tredway, Esq , Alfred M. Schoyer, Charles O. Hadley and Harry Z. Weber will officiate as ushers. Mr. E. L. Frisbee, of Lake wood, N. Y.. best man. Tho young couple will leave ut 10:45 for Toronto nnd froth tnenoe will travel for some time, visiting Montreal, Thousand Islands aud other points. They will then return and spend the remaining portion of the summer at Point Chautauqua, Mr. and Mrs. Meado will receive friends at U Buena Vista street, Allegheny, after September L An extended programme of the com mencement week of Grove City College has been issued. The commencement proper will take place one week from to-day. The graduates will be Thomas Wesley Orr, John Collier, James McCool, Kate Gllmore Barnes, Howard Campbell, Mary Ella Cun ningham, Thomas Van Dyko Dugan, Jennie Dale, Laura May Huzlott, Eva Flor ence Wortman, Burton Waters Henderson, Robert Edd Zalmlsor, Annie Laurie Hdghcs, Grant Eugene Fisher, John Lewis Tucker, Bobert B. A. McBride, Margaret Lissa Jack, Samuel Blchard JlcClnre. Elizabeth Martha Laughlin, Oscar Clare McChung, Lauretta May McCandless, Ada Irene McEwen, Thomas Frame Buchanan Smith, Margaret Luella Orr, George McClellun Studebaker, Maranret Bell Irwin and John Haden Wil- bon. The musical graduates are Mary Lydia Fields, Mary Emma Vogan, Gertude Slator and Minnie Etta Enlertlne. The college has enrolled 689 students during the past year and overflows with prosperity. Da. Nardyz, the Italian physician, will give a dinner on the 24th Inst, to a number of prominent officials of the city with their wives, among them Mayor Gourley, In spector McAleese and others. The feast is in commemoration of two important events in the life of the host whereby in the battle of Solferino and in the Paris Commune he narrowly escaped death, on June. 24, 1859, and 18C9. The principal object of the dinner, how ever, is to ask the assistance of the city officials in bettering the condition of the little street arabs, in whom Dr. Nardyz is very much interested. St. James' Parochial School, of Wllkins burg, will close to-morrow for the summer vacation. The occasion will he celebrated with a treat for tho children. It has hereto fore been the custom to bestow premiums consisting of books, pictures, medals, etc. But Father Lambing believes that they would rather hnve ice cream, cake3, candies, fruits and other creature comforts instead, so their diligence in their studies will be 10 warded in the good old-fashioned way. Miss Clara Baum, of Allegheny, was mar ried last evening at tho Duquesne to J. C. Heyman, of Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Mayer performed tho ceremony. After tho mar riage the guests sat down to an elegant ban quet, andlater in the evening enjoyed them selves dancing. Mr. Heyman is a cloak merchant in the Quaker City. The couple will spend the honeymoon on the Pacific Coast. The complimentary benefit for Miss Lil lian A. Keddick will be given next Tuesday evening to the Moorhead building. Among the participants will be Henry Lorenz, An nie Orr, Messrs. Graham, Sevfll and Emery, Theo A. Kontz, Messrs. Liefleld, Davis, Homing and Ehrhard, Miss Hannah Raster, William Montag, Miss Kathleen Dengle Misses Beddlck und Miller. The annual thank offeiing of the Woman's Missionary Society of Allegheny County Presbytery was held in the Lects dale Presbyterian eurch yesterday. The donations amounted to near $1,000, and it was ono of the largest gatherings ever held by tho society. Dinner was served in tho Sunday schoolroom. Social Chatter. Att lco- cream social, together with an elaborate entertainment, is being arranged by tho Ladles' Aid Socioty of Southside Hospital. It will be given on Mondav even ing, June 22, at the rooms of the Fidelity Council No. 119, Daughters or Liberty, at South Twonty-sovontu and Sarah streets. Dr. J. Milton Duff will deliver tho opening addreos. Miss Alice Jobsstos, daughter of the late Simon Johnston, was married yesterday afternoon to Mr. E. J. Bell, of Wheeling, at her home at Hazelwood. The wedding was not at all ostentatious, and after the cere mony Mr. and Mrs. Bell left the city for their future residence in Wheeling. A box and pound social Will bo held in St. Clair Hall, Southside, by Onolda Council, Daughters of Liberty, next Friday evening. An interesting programme is being arranged and everything points to an evening of social pleasure and onj oymen t. , P. A Nalt, editor of the local HUeL Re porter, was married to Miss Fisher at Oil City Tuesday afternoon. 3Ir. Naly, with his bride, leached Pittsburg yesterday. They will spend their honeymoon here. , This Is donation and reception day at the U. P. Orphans' Home and. Memorial Hospi tal, Monterey and West Jefferson streets, Allegheny. Supplies for these Institutions are earnestly solicited. Rev. Father Mmtrirr made Miss Sadie Cox and Joseph Connell man and wife last even ing at Braddock. Miss Mary Cox, a sister, attended the bride. Mr. Connell is connected with the B. & O. road. This is examination week at tho Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Edgowoodville. Greatpreparations are being made for tho closing exercises on Wednesday, the 24th. " TnE tourist party, composed of members of the Woman's Club, Travelers nd Woman's Press Club, will leave to-morrow at 12-30 for Altoona, and thence to tho mountains' high est point. Miss Alice GwniAit, formerly ofthe East End, was married yesterday to Frank Wal ferd at Braddock. Kev. Mr. Belnewald tied the knot. The couple will live at Braddock. A coachixo party of folks from Allegheny and Sewickley intends making a trip to Ell wood Saturday, and will stop at tho Hotel Oliver, the new summer resort. A laws fete and musical will be given at tho residence of Mrs. J. Shorpe McDonald in the Interest of the Sewickley Presbyter ian Church organ fund. Two popular young people in Braddock were united in marriage last evening when Miss Alice Gwillam and Mr. Frame Wolferd assumed the vows. Most Ste. Unsure has cards out for the twenty-fifth annual commencement, Mon day, June 22, at 2 p. m. The Iron City Microscopical Society will give its ninth public exhibition to-night at Old City Hall. Mn. Louis Hazelhaht, of Arlington avenue, Mt. Oliver, is expected homo from Chicago Sunday. Miss Maroabet R. Brokaw and Mr. J. B. McCormick will be wedded to-day. "Othello" to-night at the Opera House. GALEKA'S UNIQUE IIAT0B. Oratorical Outbursts In the Introduction of Great Public Speakers. Chicago Tribune. J Mayor Friesenock, of Galena, is a popular man among his people, principally because he puts on no frills and is the same to all men. He has never made any pretensions in appearing before the public, and when such occasions have occurred he has gone to the front and had his say in his own inimit able way. Last Wednesday the Mayor was master of ceremonies on the grand stand in Galena, and presented the speakers to the audience. It must be said that the Mayor was most happy in his presentations. They were brief and devoid of any action which would be construed as an attempt to show off, a weakness of so many chairmen. In presenting tho Eov. Mr. Yundt, who offered the prayer, the Mayor said: "Now, be quied, evrypody; der Rev. Mr. Yundt will bruy some." Equally as brief and well put was his intro duction of ex-Govemor Hoard: "Now Guffner Hoard vill make der bresen tationof dermonumen, and let efrypody be quied, please." And his announcement of Governor Flfer: "Now ve vill hear from Illinois' Guffner Guffner Viver is goto to speak mid you." And whim tha time came forthe presenta tion of the orator of the day the Mayor of Ualena was still unrattled. lie saia: "Now, keeb quied, evrypody. MIshter Derbeuisgoin'totalkmidyou some. Keep quied while MIshter Derbeu will speak a lit tle." It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the Mayor, not being an orator, was unable to make his introductions heard, and the Tribune deems it but proper that ono who has 'shown so much aptness in tho presentation of distin guished orators as has tho Mayor of Galena should have full credit for what he did. JOKED ON HIS DEATH BED. Barnum Put a Puzzling Conundrum to His Legal Adviser. New York World. Not long before his death, tho story runs, Barnum summoned his lawyer to the side of his couch where he was lying. "I am very much worried," he said, "about a certain matter, and I want to consult you. My neighbor keeps peacocks. Suppose some of them should fly over into my yard which they are doing all the time and lay some eggs hero. Would thoso eggs belong to me, or could vay neighbor compel me to give them Up?" The lawyer,havlng duly scratched hishead, answered: "Well," Mr. Barnum. I must take time to look into this matter. Bat the best thing for you to do would be to keep the eggs and let your neighbor sue for the possession. In that way your rights would be determined, and we should have a very valuable test case."' "Well," said Barnum, "while you are look ing into the matter will you find out how it would be if the eggs were laid by peahens?" The -lawyer swore softly to himself, but never made any investigation. The 9It. Pleasant Institute. SPECIAL TELEORAM TO THE DISPATCH. Mt. Pleasast, June 17. The commence ment exercises of the Mt. Pleasant Institute closed to-day with the graduation of the class of 9L The names and residences ofthe members follow: Miss Pearl Elvira Smith, Mt. Pleasant; MlssLilllo J. Worcester, Nor wich, Conn.; Miss Annie McCnllough Colvin, Mt. Pleasant; Miss Ada Low Brownficld, Smithfield, and Messrs. Frank Watterson Jackson,"Ohio Pyle; Bobert Fleming Gra ham and Edgar Golden Criswell, Mt. Pleas ant. Prof. J. F. Carey, of Pittsburg, ad dressed the class. And Perhaps a Change of Trousers. Kansas City Times. If the average youngman his any tears to shed be should prepare to shed them now. Tho summer eirl has adopted tho bull dog as the summer fashion, which will necessitate an entire change in the landscape arrange ments of the average young man's summer trousers. Bight In the Swim. Chicago Tribune. The Mississippi River, in the process of wearing away its banks in Northern Louis iana, is about to sweep into its capacious maw the oldest church edifice in the State. The Mississippi River ought to bo tried for heresy. PEOPLE COMING AND GOING. Colonel James W. Forsythe passed through tho city yesterday on his -nay to Columbus. He says the late Sioux war demonstrated the necessity for another cavalry regiment, and ho will organize one, taking the men from the infantry ranks and filling the vacancies with rocruits. Assistant Superintendent ofthe BailwaV Mall Service J. M. Martin was in the city yesterday. He was after a certain post master on the Pittsburg and Western road who has gotten into a snarL , W. W. Pickin?, Traveling Passenger Agent of the B. 4 O. road at Somerset, and UCOIgO A. JJCUU uuu imu, va iuuigu, BiQ stopping at the Monongahela House. William De Wolf left for !New York last evening to see Mark Gu9kyoff for Europe. The young man will spend several months on tho Continent. John A Brill, the Philadelphia car man, was in the city yesterday. He was after a street railway contract in McKeesport. N. H. "Vofigtly and wife started for California last night. They will spend two months on tho Pacific slope. H. S. Hill and wife left for Manitou Springs, Colorado, last evening. Mrs. Hill is buffor-rag from poor health. General Passenger Agent E. A Ford, of the Pennsylvania Company, returned from Cincinnati yestorday. James Watts, of Louisville, and J". R. Gordon, of Dallas, Tex., are among tho guests at the Duquesne. J C. Magnus, a Chicago malt man, is registered at the Anderson. Howard Childs and wife went to the sea shoie lust evening. H. E. Coffin, of Memphis, is at the Du quesne. A MEMORY. Long reaches of meadow asleep 'neath the tun, And the orchard close by with Its shade: The soft purling waters as onward they run. By coquetting grasses delayed. The murmuring pine trees background to the scene. With w lid roses clasping their feet; The earth and 4hc sky. wlUi cloud-ships between. And wheat fields anod in tbe heat: OfUfe makes a reverie almost divine. And o'er life's sea the white sails shine. The winds stir the pines, then kiss Nature's hot brow. And, sighing, I earnestly pray That a breath of those winds conld sweep o'er me now. And chase all the sunshine awayi PlTTSBOBQ, 4une 17. B. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. . Ithaca, Mich., has a one-pound baby. Lexington, Ky., ladies have organized an anti-slang society. Australia is the largest tea consuming country in proportion to its population. A. pet coon attacked and nearly killed his mistress at Piedmont, Wyo., a few days ago. At a newspaper exhibition in Paris there are 6,000 specimens of Journalism from all parts of the world. Girls are no longer to be flogged in tho industrial schools of KirLdale in Lancashire. Such is the order of tho local government board. Yale's oldest living graduate Is said to be Edward, McCrady, of Charleston, S. C, who came out in the class of 1820 with Presi dent Woolsey. Seven countries of the size of Belgium could bo laid down within the borders of Kansas and yet leave 100,000 square acres for tho coyotes to howl In. There Is but little demand for yachts ia England Just now and an unprecedentadly large number aro in the market. A boat which cost ,4,HXito build was sold lately for only A0. A Topeka girl refuses to marry a man who had paid for a license because her father was too old to support a son-in-law, and the girl herself had too much sense to obligate nerself to support a husband. A jeweler at Pleasanton, CaL, has a live tarantula in a glass Jar, where he has kept it for more than a year without food. About two inohes of dirt Is all there is in tbo Jar, and how the creature lives is a mystery. He seems as frisky as ever. An Atchison woman who could not afford to buy mourning when her husband died, wore the usual colors until he had been dead about six months, when she suc ceeded in saving enough money to astonish everyone by appearing heavily covered with crape. Foreign papers say that an American named Hof ting won 230,090 francs at Monte Carlo lately. Thefortunateman.it is added, was intoxicated at the time. The success, however, brought him to his senses, as ha departed for Paris on the same day, to tha great regret of the croupiers. The South Metropolitan Gas Company, of Salisbury, England, is conecded to havo the largest gas holdar ever constructed, and. the company Is planning to build one oven larger. The one now in nso is about 256 feet in diameter by 180 feet higb.and will contain, over 8,000,000 cubic feet of gas. Following the suggestion of Dr. Tarin court, of the Department of Agriculture In Russia, a large number of farmers have put their cattle in blue spectacles to protect their eyes against the terrible light of tho nowy steppes. About 4,000 pairs of the bluo spectacles are thus actually in use. The number of cattle in Australia is estimated at 8,600,000, an increase of mora than 2,o00,0C0 in the last IS years. Sheep have, also Increased from 03,000,000 to 90,000,000. Tho people of England view these figures with, great satisfaction, inasmuch as they indi cate an increased meat supply for tha mother country. Bartholdi has just completed two fe male figures, clothed In Alsatian costumes, for tho monument of Gambetta at Villo d'Avray. One is bowed down with grief, while the other seems full of hope. They are Intended to represent Alsace and Lor raine seeking refuge at the altar of France. A man named Hutch, living in Fancy Bottom, near WBston,-Mo., last week stole a wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary Bland, a widow, and started to town with it, but got stuck in the mud before ho was a mile away, and had to abandon the corn and wngon-3j both of which are now in the possession or the widow. During the afternoon performance of Terrill Bros.' circus at Bushnell, I1L, a black hear broke loose from its cage in tha menagerie and ran into the circus tent. Is seized a little child of George Fry's and hugged and bit it so badly that it will prob ably die. The brute was chased into tha country and captured. North German Lloyd steamships in 1890 covered 811,2-24 sea miles between Bremen and Now York, 864,992 between Bremen and Baltimore, C0400 between Bremen and South America, 804,660 on the East Asiatic service, 345,1-00 on the Australian, 44,200 on 'the Hong kong, Japan, 65,000 on tho Sidney-Samoa, and 4S,SC0 on the Brindlsl-Port Said. Total, 2.C30, 476 miles. Alittle baby of Litchfield., Minn., has an eye for figures, or rather has figures on its eye. When the baby was about 2 months old a"!" was discovered Just above and at the left of the pupil of the baby's left eye. A few days afterward a figure "i" appeared Just below the figure "1," and a few days ago a figure "3" became visible Just below tha figure "2". Workingmen In Springfield, Mass:, have formed a co-operative plan to sccura tho best medical attendance and sanitary inspection. Chicago has such an associa tion, which, it is said, works well. It is a sort of prlvote hospital and sanitary corpo tion, whoso objects are first, to keep from fettlng sick, if possible; and secondly, to eep from dying, if possible. Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace, of Newcastle, Pa., were out hunting frogs tho other day and captured a creature not de scribed in the books. It Is "a frog with wings and a tall something like a fantail pigeon. It weighs exactly nine ounces. Tho wings are composed of "elastic-like skia and when stretched, out measured nineinches from tip to tip. When the frog-bird is in the water tha wings and tail fit closely to tho body and are hardly noticeable." The practicability of telegraphing with out wires has recently been demonstrated by the success of several experimeBta. Not long ago Mr. Preece, the head electrician of the postal telegraph system in England, suc ceeded in establishing communication across the Solent to the Isle of Wight, and telegraphed also across the River Severn without wires, merely using earth-plates at a sufficient distance apart. It is nowpro- Sosed to make a practical nse of this system i communicating with lightships. Children are born mimics as everybody knows, but there happily is something unique In the pranks of two Portland, Me., babies, each under 5 years old, who recently got a hammer, broke in a square of glass and crawled through the hole thus made intnii Portland residence and there amused themselves by lighting matches and rum maging over drawers and boxes, finally emerging with a gold bracelet in each of the Juvenile pockets. When their mothers called for an account of their movements, they calmly announced that they had been play ing burglars. FROM FUNNYMEN'S BRAINS. "There are no flies on your papa," re marked a gray-haired Detroit widower to his lively and lovely daughter. "Yes, papa," she responded softly, as ber pretty lingers tangled la his silver locks, "there are time flies. ' 'Jktrolt Fne Prets. 'Tsltfarmln' Dennis O'Mally is goin ter thry, " said a laboring man. "It Is that same." "Why," rejoined the other scornfully, "he don't know enough about farrumlug to plant 'Is feet la the road and raise dust. WaiMngton Port. Grandfather Deau, who Is very old in deed, was holding his UtUe granddaughter Heloa on his lap. when sh suddenly asked very seriously : "Grandpa, why don't you wear a switch. Toledo Blade. The summer girl, the darling sprite! There's naught she can remember, Forthough she sees you every night She forgets you In September. Judge. Laura No, I am hardly certain whether he means to propose or not. Miss Flyppe-Goodness gracious, girl, why don't you ask him and find out. Indianapoll Journal. Gildersleeve "Every dog.has its day" U a proverb which doesn't go In Algiers. Wlnebiddle-Whyr ; Gildersleeve Because there every dey has hi dog. Judge. Old Bellows (from top of stairs) Cora, I don' t want to Ue awake aU night. Cora Go to sleep then, papa dear. Sao Tort Herald. "Dumley is a most remarkable man. He swore off drinking last week, and when last night I met htm In Charley's saloon what do you supposo he called for? "Lemonade?''' "No, slr-whlsky. Dumlcy's got the moral courage of an elephant Judge. "Don't neglect your education, Johnny," said the lad's aunt; 'who knows? You may bo a Senator some day.' "Education nothing!" said tbe youth scorn fully. "1 kin play ball better 'ude Senators now," WatMngtm Port. L) V .. ----d.-gas'.. nil jfljirfflM- iii.iiiiMiiiii
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