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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1891.
TTVO NEW LAWS-ONE VETO.
Of the important enactments of the last
Legislature Governor Pattison yesterday
disponed of three, two of which ran the
veto gauntlet unscathed, the other meet
ins the late of many that have gone before
The da 's vital record stands: Approved.
Constitutional Convention bill and ballot
reform bill; disapproved, wharf bill,
familiarly known as Flinn's.
The bills now laws ar? of State import
ance. The measurs vetoed has been con
sidered merelj in its local application.
But it -went fuctlr and doubtless Gov
ernor Pattison looked ahewl when he
withheld his sanction. The wharves are
necessary to the proper carrying on of
river traffic, and should not be diverted
into other channels. In the future not
far distant, perhaps they will play as im
portant a part in the city's commerce as
do the yards of the railways or the
slips of the seaports. To the rivers
commerce is looking for relief from
discrimination, exorbitant freights, and
corporate control When the Ohio is
linked to the lakes by a ship canal the
wharves will become a beehive instead of
a dumping ground, and to abandon them
now would be very like giving the grand
scheme for internal waterway development
a black eye.
Governor Pattison, if he had in his mind
the prominent part to be played by the
wharves of Pittsburg under the benign in
fluences of lake navigation via a ship
canal, improved rivers and the demands
of trade freed from freight preferences
and penalties, did perfectly right in veto
ing the wharf bill. The rivermen and the
friends of the rivers should now see that
the odium which has attached to the
wharves through neglect and encroach
ment be removed, so that no excuse, can
be had to hold them up to ridicule be
tween now and the time when
they will be burdened with the
bounty of commerce. Had Governor
Pattion wanted excuse for this
wharf bill veto he could have found it in
the action of the Council of "Wheeling,
which body recently refused to grant
wharf -destroying privileges to railroad
because of their future usefulness In the
event of the construction of the Lake Erie
and Ohio River Ship Canal.
In leaving the settlement of the question
of holding a Constitutional Convention
w ith the people the Governor cannot be
Warded. Their so-called representatives
demanded a vote on this proposition, and
in trusting the citizen the Governor is
taking the only cots- opi under the
circumstances. If a majority prefer to
pull to pieces good laws instead of de
manding their enforcement, the Execu
tive, by signifying his willingness to afford
the test, merely bows to the will of the
people as expressed through their repre
sentatives, and leaves the citizens of the
Commonwealth to decide whether wisdom
or foolishness shall prevail among them.
The ballot reform bill approved by the
Governor is a poor excuse for the genuine
article. On the principle that a crust is
better than nothing in the bread line, the
Governor can be pardoned for approving
this travesty on the simon pure ballot re
form article. But it is a step in the right
direction, and, while our friends the Prohi
bitionists will feel sorry, and while the
practical politicians will pretend to be
sorely troubled, the good voter can con
tent himself with the knowledge that his
vote will be counted early, if possible, but
not of tener than the law allows.
HOT WEATHER ABSURDITIES.
This is the season when hot weather
advice makes its appearance in the
columns of esteemed cotemporaries. The
ability to keep cool, if it were possible, or
if it is not to minimize the discomforts of
the heated term, is no doubt very desira
ble; and the attempt to instruct people
how they can effect that consummation
devoutly to be wished for is highly phil
anthropic Nevertheless, the sum total of
the advice thus pressed upon the public is
apt to degenerate into a mixture of ab
surdity and impossibility more creditable
to the heart of the public mentor than to
his head.
Thus we find in a highly esteemed ex
change a list of "hot weather don'ts,"by
which its readers are expected to lessen
the miseries of the heated term. By
perusal we learn that the man who is to
enfranchise himself from the tyrauny of a
a 90-degree temperature must neither
hurry, worry or complain; he must not
wear starched linen, suspenders or a vest;
he must not toy with either the seductive
cobbler or the foaming beer; must neither
over-eat or starve; must not run after
street cars, indulge in warm baths or
political discussions, or sit in gas-lit rooms;
i.-5 forbidden to lose his temper, get into
debt, or to lose any opportunity to get out
of town over night; and, finally, must not
ask anyone if it is hot enough for him, but,
iu short, must "live calmly."
After a conscientious effort to carry out
all these rules of hot-weather life, the ex
perimenter will be apt to conclude that
the Ideal state is not that of calm, but of a
clam. It may be well to do what Is rea
sonable to avoid the heat; but rather than
do nothing at all, which is about what the
hot weather advice comes to, the average
American will prefer to sweat a little.
TITE CANAL AND LAKE MARINE.
Mr. John M. Goodwin, of the Ship Canal
Commission, pursues his controversy with
the Marine Review, of Cleveland, with ref
erence to the practicability of the Lake
Erie and Ohio river canaL The letter,
like most of Mr. Goodwin's contributions
on this important subject, is exhaustive
and conclusive, and is well worth the
study of the public
The altitude of the Cleveland journal
referred to well illustrates the shifts to
which the opposition to this project must
inevitably resort Whether its enmity to
the canal is born of a stupid fear that the
canal vould Injure the port of Cleveland,
or is inspired by friendly relations with the
railroads, it is plainly conducted on the
system of not recognizing the facts. Mr.
Goodwin's exposure of its blunders or mis
representations, or both combined, is com
plete, and is well worth considering for
its thorough information of this branch of
the subject
Indeed, it is more for the evidence it
gives of the availability of the canal to the
present lake steamers than to confute an
interested or unfair opponent of the proj
ect that Mr. Goodwin's letter is of interest
to the public The fact that of the total re
ceipts of ore at the lake ports in 1889 about
C5 per cent came in vessels suited to use in
the canal, and that of new vessels built in
1888 and 1889 sixty were directly suited to
canal use, shows what an immense ca
pacity will be ready to bring ore to West
ern Pennsylvania and to take away coal
and iron as soon as the canal is opened.
With this immense addition to our trans
portation interests, to be secured by the
expenditure of 25,000,000, Western Penn
sylvania will be guilty of criminal negli
gence if every effort is not made for its
earliest utilization.
THE MINING LAW'S FATE.
The discussion in the Mining Institute
yesterday brings out another unpleasant
feature in the record of the Pennsylvania
Legislature. It seems the new mining
law, after having been framed by the
State Jlining Commission, got through
both Houses with som-o amendments, but
was carefullv shelved when it reached
that point and did not get to the Gover
nor. The terrible disasters at the Hill Farm
and Mammoth mines had before the meet
ing of the Legislature clearly proved tho
necessity of more adequate provisions for
the protection of life in coal mines. With
the knowledge that the lives of thousands
of workers are daily exposed to the dan
gers which judicious legislation might de
crease, some influence was strong enough
to stop the needed legislation. The inti
mations of corruption in securing this re
sult made by the speakers at the Institute
arc not very definite, but the fact that the
measure was quietly strargled is suffi
cient to make the record in this respect
especially discreditable.
In the same connection it is interesting
to notice that the speakers yesterday took
the same position that The Dispatch has
done with regard to mining disasters,
namely, that the use offafety lamps would
greatly reduce the dangers of the mines.
Mr. Stinner stated that many of the dis
asters wouWnot have occurred if safety
lamps were used, while Mr. Blick fur
nished a convincing proof in statistics
showing that the use of locked safety
lamps in English mines has reduced the
death rate over fifty per cent
The Dispatch has always urged the use
of safety lamps as a protection against
mining disasters. Miners and mine owners
should unite in requiring their use, and the
law should make it compulsory on thoso
who have not enough care for their own
and others' lives to use it voluntarily.
A SATISFACTORY REPORT.
The annual reports of crops and busi
ness prospects in Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and West Virginia, made to
the Pittsburg agency of B, G. Dun & Co.,
are presented hi this issus. They exhibit
the usual local variations, both as to the
condition of crops and the outlook of busi
ness; but the tenor as a whole is satis
factory. The cereal and hay crops at
present sho v a promise above the average.
Fruits have been somewhat injured on the
lowlands, but a fair yield of the most im
portant fruits is at present indicated.
The conclusion justified by the aggre
gate information furnished in the reports
is that the agricultural regions of this dis
trict are tolerable well assured of a fair
yield in the net result this year, and the
conservative prosperity that follows
abundance in the harvest With this
fundamental factor of prosperity, trade
may present temporary and local features
of dullness; but it is certain of a steady
and satisfactory total for the year. A
section like ours, with good crops to be
exchanged for all that is required to sup
ply the varied needs of the farmers, is sure
to give its contribution to an active com
merce. The report therefore gives us the
pleasant assurance of comfort and plenty
on the farms of this section and fair pros
perity in the mercantile interests that
supply them.
THE ORGANS TROUBLED.
Our friends the organs are not at present
satisfied with the editorial expressions of
The Dispatch. This is to be regretted;
for, while our readers may have noticed
that The Dispatch is not published ex
clusively with a view to gaining the ap
proval of the partisan organs, it is painful
to know that its utterances are agitating
the organic mind, and threaten to make its
head ache.
It is also interesting to observe that the
disapproval of The Dispatch's editorial
utterances come equally from Republican
and Democratic organs of the class whose
only idea of journalism is to swallow
everything that its party leaders say, and
to revile everything outside of its own
party lines. The Democratic illustration
of that sort is from local journalism. It
attacks TnE Dispatch because it favors
McKinley's tariff campaign, but, accord
ing to this critic, "has not been chary of
denouncing the operations of the bill with
regard to tin plate and wool and woolens."
This is a textually truthful assertion for
the purpose of carrying an untruthful
meaning. The Dispatch "has not been
chary iu denouncing" simply because it
has not denounced these things at all. It
has criticised the rapid character of the
tin-plate controversy on both sides, just as
it has the silliness of giving a political as
pect to the shutdown of the Valley fur
naces; but so far as our Democratic co
temporary's criticism is concerned it is
founded on an effort of the imagination.
An equally unhappy organ is the Repub
lican Rochester Democrat. It accuses
TnE Dispatch of inconsistency. Its basis
for that assertion is that a few weeks
ago The Dispatch pointed out that an
assertion of the ?f ew York World with re
gard to stopping payment of the debt and
asking an extension on its bonds
made an error as to the facts,
while recently The Dispatch has
commented on the extravagant appropria
tions of the last Congress .and the aban
donment of the Republican record of
keeping up a surplus revenue available
for the payment of the maturing of the
'public debt The inability of our Repub
lican cotemporary to see any difference
between using incorrect assertions and
correct ones in criticising a financial pol
icy is perhaps natural to an organ of its
class; but there is hope that it will learn
something on this point if it continues its
present careful study of the editorial col
umns of The DisPATcn.
In fact, our friends the organs on both
sides will be able to profit greatly if they
keep on reading The Dispatch as care
fully as they seem to be doing. They will
thus learn the great difference It makes if
a newspaper is able to speak freely and
recognize existing facts, no matter which
party they favor.
TnE COMPULSORY EDUCATION YETO.
Commenting on the report that Gov
ernor Pattison had Indicated an intention
of vetoing the compulsory education bill,
The Dispatch said, some days ago, that
such a veto might be properly based on
the details of the bill. At the same time
it showed the foolishness of antagonizing
the idea of compulsory education as "a
socialistic idea," which was the view ex
pressed by some of our cotemporaries.
The veto shows the Governor's action to
be based on proper grounds. If the bill
lacked clearness in its essential provisions
it should not be allowed to beoome a law.
Especially if a law on compulsory educa
tion fails to provide for the right of parents
to secure private education for their chil
dren, it is a measure of such hasty nature
as to be entirely unworthy Its subject
But in vetoing this bill the Governor does
not indulge in any foolishness about com
pulsory education as a socialistic idea. He
is too clear-sighted to stultify himself by
making an arraignment of the policy of
requiring the rising generation to be edu
cated, which would necessarily include in
its condemnation the free-school system
as it stands to-day.
In criticism of the poetic outburst in the
Courier Journal picturing two lovers walking
upon the dewy grass, the New York Sun asks:
"Did you walk out In galoohes, you lovers?
Or what kept your blissful feet from getting
drenched in the dew?" Perhaps the lovers
were of that youthful age whon they did
not care for getting their feet damp hy the
dew. The tender passion is not confined to
the age represented by those ardent cotem
poraries of Mr. C A Dana, namely General
6chofield and Mr. William Henry Hurlburt,
whoso love is unchilled by advancing years,
but who still have to take care against
rheumatism.
The Farmers' Alliance States report big
crops, and the journals of the East all nnite
In predicting that this abundance will allay
the agricultural discontent. But in that case
whnt becomes of tho precious theory that a
restricted production insures the highest
prosperity ?
"There is no longer any doubt that the
Ohio campaign will be interesting. Mr.
Halstead is to return to Cincinnati editorial
work," remarks an esteemed cotemporary.
The Ohio campaign will unquestionably bo
lively. But as to Mr. Halstead's contribu
tions to Its warmth, there is a possibility
that past experience may inoderato his
ardor. The recollection that the warmth of
Ills last campaign against Campbell caused
his rustication in Brooklyn for nearly two
years may induce discretion on his part this
year.
It is calculated to cast unre."sal gloom
over the felicitation on the sealing arrange
ment to hen-. lnt.tIo-- a that in the final re
sult the North American Commercial Com
pany has o-- left in the col 3.
If the assertion that "a game of cards in
England played without stakes is unknown"
is correct, as made in the Westminster Review,
then the conclusion is dear that people can
not play cards there, as they largely do in
this country, simply for the love of the
game. It would also Justify the rule of the
non-conformist religious bodies in England,
that cards must be eschewed as gambling
instruments.
Hippolyte's murderous insanity is the
most crushing commentary that can be mado
on tho recent claims that tho policy of tho
United States enabled him to gain his present
position.
"Close the schools at ninety," is the
ndvics of the New York Recorder with re
gard to the heated term. The school chil
dren should certainly not bo overworked in
this hot weather, or kept in schoolrooms
where tho heat is concentrated; but if the
rule were mado universal we fear that some
of the smart Juveniles would apply artificial
heat to the thermometer in order to go
swimming.
Outdoor representations of "As You
Like It," that are subject to drenchings by
thunder storms, are liable to become the
atrical performances as you don't like it.
Johann Most was sentenced to one year's
imprisonment three yea-s and a half ago for
inciting to riot, and hissentenco has just
been confirmed by tho New York Court of
Appeals. During the interval Most has been
enjoying his usual freedom. The vigor and
promptness of the law has not, strange as it
may seem, begun to inspiro the Anarchist
mind with fear, or even respect.
JUST at present the prospect that seal
skin cloaks will be scarce and high next
.winter has no terrors for the average man.
Sufficient unto the day is the heat thereof.
Sardotj is to write an American play ex
pressly to fit an ambitious actor. Besides
the modern theory of constructing a play to
suit the actor. Just as "the tailor would make
a suit of clothes to order, the idea of an.
American play such as Sardou will produce
is calculated to create strained relations be
tween this country and Franco.
Well, with Pittsburg's team at the bot
tom of the list, we can solace ourselves with
tho reflection that adverse fate cannot send
us any lower.
A reported reduction of 10 per cent in
the wages of tho operatives in Tall
River mills is expected to bring on a strike
involving 22.C00 workers. As wages there
are none too high, the comfortable alterna
tive is presented to those people of choosing
between slow and rapid starvation.
Have ex-Senator Farwell's rain-making
dynamite explosions been adventitiously let'
off anywhere in this vicinity?
The Emperor of China has ordered the
punishment by decapitation of the Chinese
who took part in the attacks on foreigners
It will be seen that this moon-eyed heathen
has a savage and undiplomatic idea that
treaties guaranteeing protection to foreign
ers must be enforced.
FOMPETS BESIDENCE.
A Fond Parent Ably Instructs His Inquisi
tive Little Daughter.
Nashville American.
'"Who lives in that big honso?" asked a
little girl of her knowing papa at "Last Days
of Pompeii" tho other night, as she pointed
to Arbaces' temple on the right of tho lake.
"I believe that is Pompey's residence," re
plied the gentleman addressed, with the as
sumed dignity of a swamp owl.
"Does Mr. Fompey live there now?"
"No childf he's dead long ago."
"What was tho matter with him, papa?"
"It has been so long since I have read his
historv that I have almost forgotten, but I
think he died of some kind of an eruption."
BY FIELD AND TOWN.
Snowed Under With Daisies Gathering
"Wild Flowers for Market An Elusive
Keyhole Ohio's Exemplary Son Talk
of Town and Countryside.
If the blazing sky and torrid air did not
forbid the idea you would think snow had
fallen upon the meadows that slope down to
the tiny, silver thread of the Little Sewlckley
creek, so brightly white they shine beneath
a summer sun. Tho ox-eye daisies cover the
turf completely for acres, and make a beau
tiful picture to all eyes, but tho cow's, who
can't cat them, and the farmer's, who has
tried to eradicate the "pesky things" year
after year invnin. The white rays and yel
low center of the flower are all tho compen
sation the weed offers for its intrusion, for
it has no odor to speak of, and even a
city-bred cow will havo none of the
chrysanthemum leucanthemum in hers. But it
is rightly prized for decorative purposes,
and there are fow wild flowers that mako a
prettier show than the long-limbed daisy
with the bright eye and snowy hojo, thrust
carelessly in a deep blue vase to deck a table
or adorn a room. Its uses in this regnrd
were bravely shown in the little church of
St. Stephen's, Sewickley, 'the other night.
when thousands of ox-eye daisies welcomed
a bride.
It may give the cue to other country
maidens to relate how a young girl of Leets
dale has levied tribute upon the meadows
about her home. Since the daisies began to
dot the .sward she has gathered them
early every morning, sending them
tied in great bunches to the Alle
gheny market, where her mother
hasti stand. There the daisies have found
a ready sale at remunerative prices, for
homely flowers are more tlran ever popular
now; and ox-eye daisies have always held
their own against costlier hot-house blos
soms. Earlier in the spring this same fair
florist gathered tho dog-wood and the crab
apple blossoms, than which none in orchard
or garden are more fragrant or lovely. And
pleasant and wholesome as this business of
taking the country to tho city is, it has also
proved profitable, and I am told that the
money she has made out of the daisies alorio
would wipe out a very pretty dressmaker's
bill in this year of grace.
A Sunday School's Shining Example.
Seldom does the shining light of a Sunday
school attain eminence in politics, but John
K. Richards, who was nominated tho othor
day for Attorney General of Ohio hy tho Re
publicans, is one of the rare exceptions. A
clergyman who was his pastor more than a
quarter of a century ago said to me yester
day: "Mr. Richards was a very good boy and
a very bright ono in my Sunday school In
Ironton, and his success at the bar and in
politics pleases while it doesn't surprise
me. He comes of good stock; his father,
Samuel Richards, was a Quaker, born near
Steubenvflle, who prospered in the railroad
business when it first opened about Ironton,
where he still resides. Young John K.
Richards was a momber of my Sun
day school in tho Presbyterian
Church at Ironton, between 1865 and 1870,
nnd I may say that ho entered the church
under my guidance. He had even then un
usual ability as a speaker, and whenever
an occasion called for oratory In the Sunday
school or the High School, when presenta
tions were made or entertainments held,
John K. Richards was sure to be chosen to
mako the speech or take a prominent part
in the entertainment. Afterward he went to
Harvard, and did well there, fulfilling the
promise of his career in tho Ironton High
School. Then he returned home to practice
law and pursue politics with such good effect
that he is now a State Senator and a leader
of the bar, with a good chance to be Ohio's
Attorney General. It is rather hard for me
toareallze that the small boy I remember in
the schoolroom can now write Honorable
before his name and sway conventions and
senates with his eloquence."
The Key-Hole False Not He.
Air Allegheny man who has a beautiful
reputation as a husband was detained in
Pittsburg by pressing business matters the
other night, and on reaching home after
midnight could not get his latch-key into
the key-hole of the front door. If he had
boen a good-for-nothing roystorer it would
neither havo perploxed nor grieved him. As
it w as he was both puzzled and pained, but
being a considerate husband he concluded
that the best thing he could do was to return
to Pittsburg and stay the night at a hotel.
This he did, and -the next morning sought
first home, and then an explanation. He
thought his wife had loft her keyln the lock
on tho inside of the door, but she denied this,
and, sad to say, reoeived bis account of the
hunt for the key-hole with an air of incredu
lity. As it afterward transpired she suspected
his nocturnal business in Pittsburg was not
altogether unconnected with liquid refresh
ments. Again several nights later circumstances
compelled him to remain in Pittsburg till a
late hour. His wife cautioned him that sho
would be careful to take the-key out of the
door, and he approached the latter with
confidence. But his key struck an obstruc
tion as soon as it entered the key-hole; in fact
it barely entered at all. hile he was
fuming, and; as even the best of men will do,
saying things in a covert way about the door,
it suddenly opened, and his wife stood befors
him in cool attire, which hardly balanced
tho warm tone in whioh sho asked: "George,
what does this mean?"
This Is not a nice sort of question for a
backsliding benedict to answer, but more
riling far lor a pattern of propriotyandhe
could hardly be blamed for replying: "Don't
be a fool, Maria!"
The door was still open and the light from
the hall lamp, which the suspicious wife had
turned on full so as to illuminate the dis
graceful condition of the sinner she ex
pected to confront, fell upon the exasperat
ing keyhole. They turned upon it together,
and the secret was out in a moment. The
cover had been turned over tho latcn key
hole, leaving in deceitful prominence a falso
keyholo below It. Sho blessed the key
holewith faulty logic for ridding her mind
of hideous doubts, but did not protest when
her rehabilitated lord consigned to a sinner's
fate the perverted ingenuity of the carpen
ter who invented dummy keyholes.
Raining in Spots.
"It seems to have rained here," said a
Cleveland and Pittsburg conductor to mo
yesterday as the train was running into
Glenfleld. "We had no rain in Bellaire
when I left there this morning."
This is merely another instance of a curi
ous phonomenon to which the weather has
treated us in the last week, namely, violent
storms limited to a very circumscribed area.
Tho storm which washed Pittsburg clean on
Thursday night appears to have had far
more violent electrical features a few miles
away. The lightning was unusually vivid
and the thunder terrific, for instance, in Se
wickley, a dozen miles down the Ohio. A
resident on the hillside above Center ave
nue states that the rain was much more con
siderable than the lightning which accom
panied tt.
On Tuesday evening Sewickley was visited
Dy a heavy rain storm which lasted off nnd
on for an nour, while a mile away in Edge
worth everything was as dry as logarithms,
although people living there could see the
rain falllng'up the valley. On Wednesday
after getting pretty thoroughly drenched in
a quick passage over two blocks on Fifth
avenue,! met a man alighting from a Man
chester street car who declared that not a
drop of rain had fallen in Allegheny. The
passengers on a Fort Wayne train on
Wednesday evening were surprised when
they ran through a blinding rain storm at
Emsworth, passed by a Sahara-like stretch
of road near Glenliold two miles lower down
and landed in a slough at Sewickley. This
sort of thing has been everybody's experi
enco in the vicinity of Pittsburg on all Its
sides. The rain falls impartially on the just
and tho unjust, it is said, but it will take
some nice work to adjust the balance de
ranged by the preferences of J. Pluvius dur
ing the past week.
AGAINST A WOMAN.
The Peculiar Resolution Passed Dy the Ohio
Republican Association.
Washington Star.
At a meeting of the Ohio Republican Asso
ciation last night, at G. A R. Hall, a rather
peculiar resolution was passed in regard to
a woman clerk in the Census Office. The
resolution recited that the clerk mentioned,
on reading of the death of General Sherman,
remarked to a group of clerks: "well, the
devil's got his due at last. I am glad of it."
The resolution further stated that the
clerk had been retained in the Census Office
while many others hnd been discharged, and
demanded that sho as well-as those who
aided in retaining her be summarily dis
charged. A committee was appointed to lay
the matter before tho Superintendent of the
Census and the Secretary of the Interior for
action.
A WU1 Not to Be Broken.
Boston Globe.
A noble gift of $1,000,000 has Just been made
to Colgate University at Hamilton, N. Y., by
its great benefactor, James B. Colg. te, of
New York. May he live to have the happi
ness of seeing the university grow and
prosper even beyond his present hopes.
A BTJTNED BELIC.
Tho Turkey Which Walked on the Sand
stone Had Two Left Feet.
San Francisco Call. 3
pr0f, Norton, tho Ohio State Geologist, who
Is at the Falace, told last night of a remark
able piece of sandstone that was found near
Cincinnati recently.
"A farmer from down in that section came
to me one day," said the Trofessor, "and
with him, carefully wrapped In a silk hand
kerchief, he had a piece of red sandstone
which he was very anxious for mo to exam
ine. It was a very pretty piece of rock, and
imbedded in It were a number of turkey
tracks, which wore very distinct. The
owner had with him also a liumber of affi
davits from men in his section, testifying as
to the location of tho rock whon found, from
which it was evident that the rock must
have been thousands of years old. r
"I examined it very closely, as if deeply
interested, and said at last: 'That is a very
nice story, indeed, but the stone Is of no use
to me.'
" 'What do you mean?' he demanded. Do
you doubt the truth of these affidavits?'
" "Not in tho least,' I replied, as suavely as
possible, 'but It is a little singular that that
turkey had two left feet and no right.'
"My friend caught on at once, and, with a
muttered imprecation, passed out into tho
street and disappeared."
KISSING IN PUBLIC.
A Canadian Lady Who Is ReaUy or the
Right Sort.
Toronto Mall.
At a friendly gathering a literary man
road from a newspaper that recently in
Boston a married man was arrested by a
policeman for kissing his wife on the street.
The Bostonlans, by a local ordinance made
in 1640, enacted that any man "kissing a
woman on the street, even in the way of
honest salutation, was liable to fine and
w hipping." The question was asked:
"Well, ladies, what do you think of that?"
Theie was a general explosion of righteous
wrath, strongest from the unmarried of the
aggrieved sex. A strong-minded woman
rightor scornfully observed, "if that's the
wisdom of our ancestors, such people should
return to the food of their ancestors."
"What was that?"
"Thistles." All laughed, and she became
the lioness of the evening.
Good Old American Style.
Rocky Mountain News.
A man with "fidgety fingers" was shot in
Arkansas the other day. Had Sir William
Gordon-Cumming endeavored to play off the
St. Titus' donco racket in the same country
he would never have seen Tranby Croft nor
tho Prince of Wales' baccarat outfit.
HAVE GAINED BEN0WN.
President Ponseca, of Brazil, intends
soon to visit Europe.
Mr Abbott, who has been called to form
a now government up In Canada, is the son
of a clergyman.
The Hon. J. N. Huston, of Indiana, ex
Treasurer of the United States, has discov
ered a fine layer of marble on his farm and
will develop the quarry.
William Hayes, a Brooklyn police
man, during the 20 years he has been upon
the force has managed to save about $40,000,
upon which, and a pension of $550 a year, he
expects to potter along without his uniform
and club.
f. Sabcet, the French dramatic critic,
has given up dining in the hope of reducing
his weight, which is enormous. But while
he feels much better for this abstinence it
has not thus far produced the particular
effect he so much desires.
President Harrison and Mr. Cleve
land have been Invited to attend the
Augusta (Ga.) Autumnal Exposition, and
Governor nill will also bo asked to be pres
ent. The Charleston News and Courier thinks
that Mr. Blaine should be similarly honored.
The wife of Meissonier, the great French
artist recently deceased, is said to he the
biggest woman in Paris. The artist married
her when in his 78th year. As he was small
of stature and slight, the spectacle presented
whon the two promenaded on the boulevard
is said to have been somewhat amusing.
Charles "W. Van Vleet, of Rochester,
is the owner of the medal presented by An
drew Jackson to the warrior Black Hawk. It
Is of solid silver, and hears the legend "An
drew Jackson, President of the United
States, AD, 1829." On the reverse side aro
the words "Peace and Friendship."
3IARION Manola, who ran away from
the DeWolf Hopper Oper Company last
season and went to England with Jack
Mason, is returning to this country, It is
said, to take an engagement with the McCall
compan, but Manager Askin said lately
that the actress was to head a road com
pany of her own.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the "Grand
Old Man's" daughter, is one of the most
noteworthy women in England. In looks
she resembles her father, whose vitality she
possesses in a marked degree. She is always
laughing, Joking, telling stories, and Inva
riably keeps the dinner table in a roar. She
is qulto an original personage, being utterly
regardless of dress; yet she is frank, sympa
thetic and kindly, and is very attractive to
most people
But How About the Professor?
Boston Herald.
A midnight raid on a professor's house,
with a view of putting him in a bag and
shaving off bis whiskers, may be what they
call preparing young men for college up at
Phillips Exeter A.cademy, but It deserves to
be deemed a pretty good fit for a peniten
tiary likewise
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEEE.
nan. Thomas Fenny.
Hon. Thomas Penny, aged 78 years, died
In McKecsport Thursday evening. He had been IU
for five months. He was a pioneer In that section,
and for many years one of the most Dromlnent citi
zens of McKeesnort. Trior to four vears a?o ho
was In active business, serving as Cashier of the
First National Bank. Mr. Penny was one of the
most prominent Republicans In the State at one
lime. He was the first Burgess of Uie borough of
McKcesport, and was delighted when be heard It
had become a city. For years prior to 1874 he was
at the head of the old Commercial Banklug Com
pany of McKeesnort, helped to merge it Into
the First National Bank daring that year, and In
the latter Institution he served as Cashier for 13
years, when he retired from actlTe business life,
lie was an elder of the First Baptist Church.
Colonel Emlen Franklin.
Colonel Emlen Franklin, for many years
one of the most prominent members of the Lan
caster bar, died Yesterday after a long Illness. He
was 64 Tears old, and was a son of toe late Judge
Walter Franklin. He was a graduate of Yale, and
was admitted to the bar In 1860. During the war be
commanded the One Hundred and Seventy-second
Regiment In the campaigns of the Army of the
Potomac. He served one term In the State Legisla
ture in l&M. He leaves a wife and three children.
The sons arc Emlen A of Durango. Col., and
Hon. Walter W member of the Legislature from
Lancaster.
Obituary Notes.
Calsiann Lew, the French publisher. Is dead'
in Paris.
PetxbE. WlLT.Ia prominent and wealthy citi
zen of York, died Wednesday In his 77th year.
John P. Adbiaxce. head of the Buckeye
Reaper and Mower Works, Is dead at Pough
keepsle. JOSEPrrSHALES, of Burlington, J?. J., the in
ventor of several mechanical appliances and of a
proprietary medicine, died Wednesday.
Ex-COROXER Samuel Siiallet, a prominent
Democratic politician, of Carlisle, died Thursday,
after a long illness. He was 63 years old.
George Lane died In the Danbury (Conn.) Hos
pital, Thursday, aged 50 years. Fifteen years ago
he was one of the best known men In the hatting
trade In the country.
Joseph Siioll, the best known member of the
Society or Friends In New Jersey, died Thursday
at Burllugton In Ills 77tli year. He accumulated a
fortune by manufacturing ague pUls.
Adjotant General A. C. SIonboe, of the
Massachusetts Department f the Grand Army of
the Republic, died at Revere, Mass., Thnrsday
night, aged 60 years. He was a SM degree Mason.
Ueoroie Hamlin, the Western actress, died
recently, Jiged 38. She had been on the stage 12
years and was a pupil of David Hancli'ctt. As a
soubrette star she gained some fame In the far
West. She was a native of Loretta, Pa., and the
daughter of a physician.
AValtek B. Aymah, who died several days ago
In Bamboo, Wis., was one of tho oldest of Amer
ican circus managers. He began his career nearly
60 years ago, and was one of the three famous
Ayinar brothers whose circus traveled for years
through South America. Lottie Ayinar, the. rider.
Is a daughter of the decased.
George J. Gerakd died at Floyd, N. Y., Sun
day last, aged 90. He was born and raised In Al
sace when that district was a province of France.
He served for six years in the French army under
Napoleon I, taking part In the disastrous Inva
sion of Russia and the Waterloo campaign. Soon
after the fall of Napoleon he came to this country,
and had since lived In Oneida county, N. Y,
STORIES OF, OTHER COUNTRIES.
A Description or Bolivia alining by I. F.
Horn, of the Cristobal Mine A Place
WUere Everything Is Taxed but
Whisky.
B. F. Hom, manager of the Cristobal mine,
in Bolivia, South America, has written a
most interesting letter on the subject of
mining to his father, Robert Horn, of Wash
ington county, which is produced in the
Washington Reporter. Mr. Horn gives a de
scription of the Pulacavo mine, which, last
year, paid in dividends "$8,000,COOO. The raino
is situated 600 miles from the coast and the
greatest expense Is necessary to mine and
market the metals.
There is no fuel within 30 miles of the mine
nnd it requires $600 worth daily to furnish
tho engine. There aro 3,000 men employed at
the mine and 8,000 more at the beneflclating
establishment, seven miles away. At Auto
fngasta there are S00 women employed as
sorting the ores. About $30 000 is dally ex
ported to Europe. The mine is 1 700 feet in
depth and is developed about 500 meters. It
Is found difficult to get rid of the water, as In
one shaft alone 24 gnllons per minute must
be raised. It is so full of acid that pipes can
not be used and is taken out in large bags
made of cowhide, v
It costs over $100 per yard for the timbers
in the mine and is shipped from Oregon or
Puget Sound. Often a swell in the grounds
cause several thousand dollars' damage
After the ore is on the surface it is assorted,
then transported to the beneflclating es
tablishment, where it Is stamped Into
powder. It then goes into vats of quick
silver where it remains three hours. Every
thing that adheres to the quicksilver is
gathered from the bottom of tha vats and
pressed with pinas, after which the quick
silver is volutized and used again. The
pinas are then put into nnother furnace,
smelted and run into bars for exportation.
This bullion may contain several different
metals which must be separated as there aro
no refining works there.
The above is a brief outline of the princi
pal industry of Bolivia. Gold, silver, coo
per, lead, bismuth, antinmony, tin arid
nickel are worked there. Forty different
minerals are known to exist, but tho above
are tho only ones found in paying quantities.
Don't Tax Whisky.
"We tax everything but whisky in my
town, nnd there isn't a drunkard in tho
place," said John Ganse, a guest at the Tre
mont House, to a Chicago Times reporter.
"For goodness' sake, tell me where you're
from," said Clerk O'Brien, reaching over the
counter and grasping the man's band and
shaking it heartily.
"Yes, sir." went on Mr. Ganse, "there isn't
a drop of liquor that is taxed in Caithness,
Isle of Groat, off Scotland, and stranger still
there an't a saloon in the place. We make
our own whisky there and it's so cheap by
reason of there being no taxes or restrictions
on it that a saloon couldn't sell enough in a
day to make it pay. Whisky is retailed in
the stores at 25 cents a gallon, and no less a
quantity is sold, and the people come to town
so often and havo their J tigs filled and take
them home and have a drink whenever they
please. The whisky Is pure as it can be made,
and I never saw anyone but a non-resident
drunk there. The people look upon whisky
about the same as Americans do cider, and
never abuse its use. This condition of things
has existed for over 100 years and was the re
sult of some sort of an agreement made with
the islanders by the English Government.
There isn't any Whisky Trust there either."
The Clergymen Hit It.
Not long ago, whllo I was getting into a
railway carriage at N. S., says a writer In tho
London Spare Moments, I recognized in the
compartment a well-known detective.
Presently a minister got in, and, with the
three of us locked in by the guard, she train
started. The detective was in pursuit of a
criminal who had gone by a previous train.
He began to study tho photograph of the
fugitive, and, of course, was soon absorbed
in it.
This attracted the attention of the minis
ter, who presently observed: "You have,
perchance, lost a dear friend!"
'DearT Yes, very dear, indeed," answered
the detective.
"Take comfort, brother, he has but gone
before," continued the minister, who was
not a little shocked when he got for a reply:
"Yes, hang him, and got three hours' start
of me. But I'll follow him, if it's to Jerusa
lem." A Means of Defense.
Those persons who havo had the good
fortune to meet the vivacious Boslna Yokes
may recall, along with the vivid impression
that the actress made, the no less vivid im
pression that was sure tobe left in the minds
of those who saw her maid, says the Tdronto
Mail. This maid, who is especially devoted
to her mistress, has not been liberally en
dowed by her Creator with those attributes
that go to make up she sum of personal
beauty in fact, is that next best thing to
beingDeautlfril being gloriously ugly.
A friend relates how, during her recent
tour in this country, while the actress was
performing here, she fonnd herself in need
of some article from the chemist across tho
way. It was late at night, after her return
from the theater.' Hannah, the faithful maid,
was asked to go and get it. But Hannah
urged mildly that it was late, and she
feared to go into the street alone lest soma
man might annoy her.
"It will be your own fault if they do," said
Rosina, who was tired and cross.
"Indeed, ma'am," expostulated Hannah,
"nobody can say that I do not behave my
self properly in the street. 1 always keep
my veil down, ma'am."
"Preciselv," said Rosina. "But, for good
ness sake, Hannah, if you want to protect
yourself keep It up, keep it up."
Not Born to Ite Shot.
A man who has attended his own execu
tion and still survives to relate the details is
surely worthy of a short paragraph, says
the London Spare Moments. The man In
question, although at present serving in the
humble capacity of waiter in one of the
Paris cafes, was, 21 years ago, one of the his
toric characters of the world. His name is
Colonel Marteras, and in 1869 he was on the
point of being proclaimed President of Uru
guay, when he was arrested, charged with
treason, and sentenced to be shot.
On Monday, Jnne 30, of that year, he was
taken by a platoon of soldiers out of the cap
ital to a cleared spot in the heart of a forest,
and bound to a chair. At the work "Fire!"
a nervous shock caused Marteras to fall to
the ground. He did not hear the volley, but
a laborer working nearby did. The work
man went to ascertain tho cause, saw the
wnnnded. but not dead bvanv means, lvinir
on the ground. The laborer took the would
be President home and cured his wounds,
nnd he and Marteras both now often tell of
the supposed execution of the "Frenoh pre
tender." Taking It Coolly.
Marshall P. Wilder is never 'chary of his
stories, says the New York Telegram. Either
they are Inexhaustible or he doesn't fear
that they will lose their edge by private
repetition. Here is ono that is a great go in
London this season:
"Two Yankee sailors strolled into a show In
Guatemala, where a prestidigitateur was en
tertaining tho audience. A parrot perched
on the back of the bench where they sat.
After every surprising feat ono sailor would
turn to the other with the remark: "That
was pretty good! I wonder what will come
nextt This was repeated till it made the
parrot tired. Presently ono of them threw
down a burning match with which he had
lighted his pipe. It fell through a crack in
the floor andlnto a powder magazine. Biff!
went the whole building, people and all, and
nothing was left but a hole in the ground
nnd the parrot, which wasuninjured, though
badly shaken up. The bird pulled itself to-
?;ether, straightened out its feathers, flapped
ts wny to a heap of ruins and croaked:
'That was pretty good! I wonder what will
come next? "
Haughty Little Alfonso.
Alfonso XIII., Spain's small King, has an.
idea or two of his own as to the privileges of
womankind, says the Chicago 21iij. A few
Sundays ago, at ono of the weekly dances at
which he is the host, a pretty girl of 11 years
won his little SpanlsH heart, and he showed
his susceptibility by choosingher repeatedly
as a partner. At the endot the dance the
children, as usual, began embracing and
kissing each other goodby. Alfonso made
straight for his diminutive favorite with
open arms. She shrank away coquettishly
and refused even to let him kiss bcr cheek.
Alfonso looked hor over, turned his back,
and walked away. On tho following Sunday
the little girl wns present, but the King did
not dance with hor. "Whon the ball closed,
however, she went to him and turned her
cheek to be kissed. Alfonso took a step
Vackward, stretched out his hand that she
might kiss it, nnd said:
'I am your King!"
Almost Swallowed by a Python.
At Jndan, a village six miles from Muka,
sayshe Sarawak, Borneo, JS'ewi, a man and
his sOn, aged from 10 to 12 years, were sleep
ing in their house, inside a mosquito curtain.
They were on the floor near the wall. In the
middle of the night the father was awakened
by his son calling out. The lamp was out,
and the father passed his band over his son,
but found nothing amiss, so he turned over
and ent to sleep again, thinking tho boy
was dreaming. . .. ,
Shortly afterward the child again called
out, saying that a crocodile was taking him.
This time the father, thoroughly aroused,
felt agaln.and found that a suakehad closed
his jaws on the boy's head. He then pried
open the reptile's mouth and released the
head of his son, but the benst drew the whole
of his body into the house and encircled the
body of the father. He was rescued by the
neighbors, who were attracted by tho cries
for help of the terrified couple. Thesnako
when killed was found to bo about 13 feet
long. The head and forehead of the boy are
encircled with punctured wounds produced
by the python's teeth.
BB0EE A LAMP SHADE.
Boston Culture Proved Entirely Too Much
for the Sensitive Article.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Edmund Russell, the apostlo of .aes
thetics, has a voice which would break a
lamp shade.
This remark is not meant to bo impolite,
and it ought to bd true, for the lady herself
is authority for the statement.
"It was in Bostom," she said. "I was talk
ing with a famous voice teacher about tones
and vibrations, and we both sounded a cer
tain noto in unison. We must have hit the
exact unit of vibration of an eight-inch
shade, for near where we were standing
tho crystal globe about a gas jet quivered
and snapped. We looked at it and a crack
ran quite around it. The sound had broken
It."
This is rather an unusual incident, cer
tainly, but tho principle is familiar enough.
A dog trotting across a foot bridge, can
break it down If he happens to hit the unite
of vibration, which, of course, differs with
the length of tho bridge. It's a good mili
tary rule to break step when a company
walks across a bridge unless it's unusually
strong. But a"woman's voice
AN ANTIQUATED LAW.
Necessary to Have a License for a Fourth of
July Exhibition.
Harrlsbnrg Telegraph.!
It Is not generally .known that there is a
general law In this State prohibiting the use
of fireworks, but it is a fact nevertheless and
it was enacted In 1751, Thirty years before a
special law was passed for Philadelphia and
in 1751 it was made a general statute. Under
Its provisions a special license must be given
by the Governor for an exhibition of fire
works, otherwise there are penalties and
forfeitures one-half the fine going to the
informer and tho balance to the poor of the
district. One of the penalties Is two days in
jail for every offense.
While the law is almost obsolete, the Gov
ernor is occasionally asked for a special
license. Only yesterday came a request
from a committee In a Bedford county town
asking dispensation for July 4. In 1888 Gov
ernor Beaver issued n license under this
ancient statute for a pyrotechnic display in
Fail-mount Park. It is usually issued at the
request of the authorities.
P0SEB FOB THE LAWYERS.
A Legal Decision Wanted for John Doe and
Ills Friends.
Buffalo Courier.!
John Doe owns a farm on the bank of the
Niagara river. Ho has a fine pasture along
the river, and he makes an honest penny
now and then pasturing cows for his neigh
bors. Richard Roe has also n license from
him to hitch his rowboat on the bank, with
incidental right of Ingress and egress
through the pasture. About a week ago
Richard lost his chain and improvised a rope
of hay with which to moor his boat. Now,
Ebenczer Dick's cow, pastured in the lot
aforesaid, is fond of hay, and smelling tho
fragrance of the extempore rope she wnded
into the river, climbed into the boat, cheu ed
up tho rope and floated down the stream
over the falls, where she met an untimely
death. The boat was also pulverized en
route to Queenstown.
Has EhenezorDick any right of action for
the loss of his cow? If he has, of whom can
he recover? Has Richard Roe any remedy
for the loss of his boat, and, if so, against
whom?
WELL KNOWN ABB0AD,
Enterprise That Guarantees 1'rogresg Rec
ognized in the Great Metropolis.
New York Tribune.
"The Pittsbcro DisrATCH, whose history
has been one of continuous nnd extraordi
nary progress since its establishment, 4G
years ago, has moved into handsome, com
modious and durable quarters. Its new
home is fireproof, the outer walls of the
main building being of Beaver county sand
stone and New England granite. Every
thing in the building is as new as the struc
ture itself. The machinery, type and fur
niture aro of the latest design, and tho situa
tion pf the building is central and most con
venient for the newspaper and Its patrons.
The sworn statement of tho circulation of
The Dispatch for the last six months gives
it an average of nearly 32,000 for the daily
and over 61,000 for the Sunday issue. It is
now using two double Hoe perfecting presses
and will soon put in another.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
State Treasurer Boyer arrived in the city
last evening on the limited. He was met bv
United States District Attorney Lyon, anil
probably spent the night at the latter's home
in Mill vale, for he could not be found at any
of tho hotels or the Duqnesno Club. It Is
surmised he is on his way to Meddville to see
the Delamater people about the State funds
swamped in their broken bank. .
Dr. Pierce, who is one of the party of
Seven American citizens that was robbed in
Italy while on a pleasure trip daring the re
cent diplomatic rupturo between the United
States and Italy, passed through Pitt9burg
last evening. He was on his way to his home,
a short distance from Lock No. 3, on the Mc
Kecsport and Bcllvernon ltailroad.
Colonel C. S. Mickie, of "West Point, put
up at the Duquesne yesterdny. He held a
long consultation with Prof. Brashear on
astronomical matters. Looking for the
Colonel was like hunting for a needle in a
haystack. At a late hour last evening he
had not returned to the hotel.
Ignat Eulosky arrived in the city yester
day from Russia. He fled the country rather
than serve in the army. His brother, whom
he had not seen for years, lives here, and
works in Oliver's mill on the Southside.
William JlcWhorter, a son of the con
stable of the Fifteenth ward, returned yes
terday from Dakota. He bad been absent
for six years, having enlisted In the regular
army for Ave years.
Charles T. Appleby, local passenger agent
for the Santa Fe road, returned last evening
with his handsome bride. 3Ir. Appleby was
married about a week ago to a Terro Haute
young lady.
W. L. Everet, of Bradford, and Hughes
Oliphant, of Trenton, are at the Mononga
hela House. Mr. OUphant formerly lived
near Uniontown, and was interested in nn
iron plant.
W. H. Bitter, of Butler, was in the city
vesterday booming Uncle John Cessna for
State Chairman. Tiie old man could cer
tainly give some of the young fellows a few
pointers.
Bobert Barclay, the aged father-in-law of
Delinquent Tax'CollectorFoid.left for Balti
more last evening to spend the summer with
one of his daughters. He is in feeble health.
Miss Lena Shattuck, of Chicago, a niece
of II. M.Bennett, is at the Schlosser. MUs
Shattnck will spend the summer with Mr.
Bennett on tho larm in New Jersey.
Judge Wickham, of Beaver, was in the
city for a short time yesterday. He was re
turning home from Kittanning, where ho
held court.
B. J. Keed, of Clarion, and C. L. Grandin,
of Tidioute, who is heavily interested in
Dakota wheat farms, are registered at the
Duquesne.
E. A. Kitzmiller, of P. DurT& Sons, re
turned yesterday from the Northwest. Ho
was buying the annual supply of salmon for
the firm.
J. H. Nolen, Jr., and wife, of Canton,
nnd S. E. Carter, of Seymour, a Hoosier
newspaper jnan, are at the Seventh Avenue
HotelV
Harry New, of Cleveland, and A. W.
Carston, of Washington, are stopping at tho
Anderson.
.Dr. V. J?. Barclay and wife left for Yale
College last evening to see their son gradu
ated. Samuel Stewart left for St. Louis to at
tend to some legal business.
Colonel James Ewart, a Clarion lawyer,
Is registered at the Central.
J. M. Guffy was among the passengers for
Buffalo last evening.
Paul Dunlevy went to Chicago last evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A double-headed kitten is now amt
the curiosities nt Key West, Fla.
A large blacksnake broke up a dim
party among tho Savannah, Ga., dockrx
the other day.
Antwerp diamond frauds are said
have fooled the world with 2.,000.0CO frai
worth of bleached diamonds slncu they cc
menccd the business.
California has taken an invoice of 3
giant trees left standing, and finds .173. 1
largest of these Ufi9 feet In circumteren
Visitors at tho World's Fair will see ont
them.
Pive brothers from Cape Elizabeth, 31
who went into the war and came out
scratched, are all dead; and no ono of th
clleil a natural death nor any two hi thes.i
State.
The Seminole Indians have a good wa
route across Florida from their hom- e
of Fort Myers clear through to 3Iui'aa,
tho southeast coast. They come and go
their pleasure In their large canoes.
There are ten main lines of railway ci
tering in London. Of these 2,210 subnrt
trains run In and out daily, while the in:
line trains are onlvnbout 410. In I30 tho 1
lines carried 400,000.000 suburban pasocnge
"Succi's spoon," with which the &
starver took his first nourishment after
days' economy, has come Into tho posesi
of the Tenderloin Club, of New York, a
will be added to the "museum" of that ccc
trie body.
The great treasury vanlt at "Wnshii
ton covers more than a quarter of an ac
and is 12 feet deep. Recently theie was
00O.0CO in silver stored there an ninm
that weighed 4.C00 tons and would load
freight cars.
In I808 there was a sale of Madeira w;
in Paris, when 44 bottles wero bought
Rothschild for- their weight in gold. T
wino was from tho famous 1814 pipe of ?
deira, which had lain at the bottom of t
sea for 36 years.
In each respiration an adult inhales c
pint of air; a healthy man respires IS to
times a minute, or 20,000 times a day: a chi
25 to 30 times a minute. While standing, t
adult respiration is 22 times per miuu
while lying down, 13.
A recent survey has established I
number of glaciers in the Alps at 1,155,
which 240 have a length of more than ft
and three-quarter mites: tho French A
contain 144 glaciers; tho-e of Italy,
Switzerland, 471, and Austria, 402.
Bepresentative Josiah Quincy will 1
liver the next Fonrth of July oratiou befi
the Boston City government. Josiah Quin
delivered ono July 4, 17W. Josiah Quin
delivered ono July 4, IkM. Josiah Quin. -jr.,
was the city orator July 4, KH.
Reliable statistics show that the p
centage of insanity among farmers' wives
greater than In any other class. Tho e
planation is, they work too hard, are 1
alone too much, nnd have too little chan
to take recreation nnd enjoy society.
A Pomona, Cal., woman has perfect
a process for drying roe leaves so as to
tain their fragrance, and nan secured a in.
ket for all she can prepare with a Now Yc
firm that makes a busiuess of filling p
pourri jars and perfuming household t
plianccs.
The average nnmbcr of men employ
by the Chicago, Rock Inland and Pacific co
pany last year was 11,372, against 11,431 In t
preceding year; while the average montt
pay roll was o0.,2s(, as compared with $.",
014" in the year before the monthly wag
therefore, showing an Increase from an av
ago of $49 m to 32 33.
Apparently the wheat crop of 1801 w
bo the heaviest ever harvested in this coi
try. Not only is the condition of the cr
better than in many years pa-.t at this tin
but the acreage is the largest ever know
Experts estimate the probable crop at 1
tween 620.C00 000 and W0 0U),()u0 bushels. T
frcatest yield hitherto was in IStSJ, wh
43,000,000 bushels were gathered.
Alluding to the enormous amount
coal handled nt Port Said for the no of 4 1
steamships that pass through the snez cai
every year, a BuffalQnian w rites: "An nn
of Arabs come off on each coal barge.and t
rapidity with which tho dirty work is do
can bo realized when I tell you that this si
took on hoard l,0i4 tons of of 2.2W pounds
four nnd three-quarter hours, all handled
man power.' "
Politics have become so quiet in Turk
that the Sultan, following tho Moha-unied
law, has beon enabled to arrange for tho c
cmonyof circumcising his three young
sons. Five thousand poor children, accoi
ingtothe habit, underwent the operatii
the same day in different parts of tho cii
Illuminations, distribution of sweatmea
and festivities attended the event, wliieh,
all, cost $100,000.
A queer mistake has just come to lig
at West Camden, Me. In the cemetery thei
several years after her burial, headston
were placed to mark tho grave of a omi
who died 15 years ago. Tho friends of t!
women have since eared for tho lot until la
week, when, somo changes being n.ulo
the cemetery, tho sexton"disinterred the 1
mains and found that the body ua 1 "t th
of tho woman, hut that of a young in in wl
died at about the same time. Tho man wl
set the gravestones had blundered.
A Baltimore freak is a frog of good si
and a trifle light in color, but apparently n
different from any other frog. The frca
Ishness developed when his froglnp vn
worried, when, Instead of hopping oiT r gi
ing utterance to the deep, sonoriui-. no
usually heard from frogs, ho smipl; upene
his mouth and cried. The frog is nut ing
not human, and suggests, both in time an
volume, a bad, peevish ehild. Thr cry
not a single note, but several, and t. oath
ued even after the annoyance cease.
The Chinese government has issued
stringent decree against immoral literatur
It is ordered tliat "all government otlicia
who allow immoral books to bo publish
within their respective jurisdictions shall 1
discharged. Every private person pnhlis
ing such a book shall receive 1U0 blow s an
be banished from his place of resident' to
distance of 3,000 lees. Tho seller of an o
scene bookshallgetlOOblows. Within thirt
days from the issue of this law nil the o
scene books of the empire shall be de-troyei
beginning with thoso now in print."
For many years a spring of dirty watt
ran from tho house of a certain M. Korotnci
in the heart of Sebastopol, and caused tr
proprietor much trouble. At times tt
spring would coyer the best street in the cit
with mud. Of late the spring has becomo
public nnlance, and tho city authoritic
compelled M. Korotneff to build a small re
ervolr around it nnd lead off tho mudd
substanco by sewer pipes. But as soon a
this was dono it was discovered that tnusnl
stance hi the new reservoir was pur
naphtha. For the last three months sine
the discovery was made nothing hasbco.
done to utilize this wasting treasure.
FAKED FItOM FUNNY FELLOWS.
Little Bess came home from chnrch on
Sunday with her head full of the sermon. It w
about a "new heart," she told us, when we ques
tloned her. Her father took her on his knee, an
graVely aaked her If she understood what a nei
heart Is.
"Oil, yes; Indeed." she answered brightly, "It
a kind or heaTenlv stomach !' ,Tledo Blade
Cutting Why do yon wear such a smal
hat?
Daggitt (after deep tlionght) Because I'Te got
large head. Xew York Telegram.
The Hollander who saw himself
With water oft bereft.
Forgot that It was wrong to swear
And dammed it right and lett.
Detroit Frf Press.
"Well, Jack, was it yes or no with her?'
It was both. "
"Roth! How's that?"
"Well. I asked her If she was going to give mem;
answer, and She said yes; then I asked herwliat wa
the answer, and she said no." Xew TurkPrss.
"What handsome plumbing yoii have
Your pipes are plated, I see."
"I thought so at flrst; but Judging from the wa;
they work, I should say they were solid." nict.
So many times he had been bom again,
That when he died Death's woes were pltllul.
And the grim fiend declared that with Ies rjin.
He could do up an average cltyful.
Xac York Herald.
"If I could bo anybody which I'm free tt
say I ain't," remarked Weary WatAns. "I'd hki
to he o!c Joshua, an' make the sun stand H1?''
"Wat fer?" asked Mr. Hungry llitarins.
"So's I conld set in the shade of this here tree al
day wlthoit havln' to move. Wouldn't that, be 1
map, eh?" Indianapolis Journal.
"Why docsa't your husbandgofocjiureikTg
"Well, you sec, he is not very strongly gdunw3
in religion." , tJWi3
"All the greater need for his going to f(Ufrh,l;
"He sayi no; he thinks he might hear Xiicftdp
sermon, and that would upset him alWxUuer."
Hew Tort Press.
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