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riTTSBUKG, SUNDAY. JUNE 23, 11.
THE A DZAItr hETTLEMENT.
The settlement of the Allegheny river
wharf question, as indicated in yesterday's
court proceedings, bids fair to be the most
satisfactory possible to all parties under
the circumstances. Bv order of the Court
the Chief of the Department of Public
Works is given sixty das in which to re
move the obstructions placed there in pur
suance with a plan of improvement that
has been declared obstructive of the pub
lic purpose of the wharf.
It is satisfactory to perceive from an in
terview with 3Ir. Bigelow that he proposes
to accept the decision in good faith and
make the best of it Do will at once pro
ceed to remove the obstructions, and will
embellish Uiat locality by tx-e-planting,
sodding, and making walks, as the char
acter of the ground will permit This will
keep the v barf open for the future devel
opments of river traffic and at the same time
permit the city to improve its looks and
keep it clear not only of mounds of dirt,
but of scrap iron and stone piles. "
On the whole this is a very satisfactory
termination of the dispute. The future
possibilities of river transportation are too
great too permit the destruction of our
wharf facilities; but that is no reason why
it need be left as an eye-sore.
AN ASTRONOMIC ACHIEVEMENT.
An enterprise which illustrates to a re
markable degree the wonderful advance
of science in the latter days is explained in
the special letter to The DrsrATcn by 1L
Camille Flammarien, the French astrono
mer. The w ork described that of taking
a photographic map of the entire firma
ment is such as has necrbecn under
taken before. It not only illustrates the
great advance in the methods and re
sources of scientific investigation, but
promises the development of new astrono
mical facts unattainable in any other way.
The use of photography in the study of
particular astrpnomical bodies has for some
time been among the recognized and val
uable resources of fully equipped astrono
mical observation. But tue comprehen
sive and complete photographic
map of the entire universe visi
ble, not alone including those visible
to the naked eye but including
the stars up to the fourteenth magnitude,
or eight grades beyond those which the
eye can perceive, is reserved to be one of
the triumphs of science at the close of the
Nineteenth century. The wonderful ex
pansion scientific knowledga secured by
these methods is illustrated by the fact
that De Quincy's remarkable essay on
Lord Rosa's telescope celebrated the ad
dition of known stars to tho list by thou
sands; 'while this photograph map will
disclose the existence of 40,000,000 stars,
and, if the sixteenth magnitude could be
included, would swell the total of un
known worlds to 400,000,000.
Such achievements are the wonders of
the age. While our progress in social and
political science may be slow in the realms
of material science and in the methods of
purely scientific investigation, the progress
indicated by a work of this sort approxi
mates the realm of the stupendous.
OXE-SIDED INDEPENDENCE.
The esteemed Xew York Evening Post
has heretofore shown a desire to maintain
a reputation as an independent journal.
It is a fair conclusion from one of its re
cent efforts in the line of discussing a cur
rent political phase that it no longer wishes
that reputation, but has concluded to ac
cept the character and work of a one-sided
Democratic organ.
The phase it discusses is the tendency of
the agricultural element toward soft
money ideas. The source of these is de
clared to be the soft-money speeches of
Republican leaders. The Post quotes
from the speeches made by these men in
years past, and on the strength of the ex
pressions declares that the absurdities of
Peffer and Simpson which we are now
laughing at were derived "from Repub
licans like Blaine and Allison and Ingalls
and Kelley and Matthews."
The direct assertions which the Post
makes in this connection are true, but they
contain a svppressio teri on which a direct
suggestio falsi is based. The conclusion of
our cotemporary's article is that tha Re
publican leaders are responsible for the
present soft-money craze, and nothing is
said about the attitude of Democratic
leaders or the soft-money and silver ques
tions in the decade of the seventies, while
the Post was rummaging the records for
these speeches of Republican leaders did
it come across jio speeches from leading
Democrats? It must 'have taken an ex
traordinary discrimination on its part to
perceive nothing from such Democrats as
Pendleton, Hendricks, J3eck, Voorhees,
Vest, Bland and others. The fact
is that during the period to which
it refers tho only Democrat of
a national reputation who did not try to
make political capital out of the soft-
money idea was Allan G. Thurman. Yet
the Post directly asserts that the source
of the present ideas in that line is entirely
in the Republican speeches of that period
which followed at a respectful and tenta
tive distance the Democratic heresies.
It would be hard for the most purblind
partisan article to be more one-sided in
misrepresenting political history than this
exponent cf alleged independence.
THE TARIFF TN THE SOUTH.
President Harrison in an interview upon
his late tour through the South describes
the wonderful growth of material interests
in that section since the war. Of all that
he says on the subject, nothing touches
tho polities of the future more vitally than
his prediction, doubtless a correct one,
that the day will come, possibly for those
now living to see, when Birmingham and
Chattanooga will be as great cities as Pitts
burg now is. Passing over the necessary
reflection that by that time Pittsburg, for
its part, will have made still more enor
mous strides and be farther even than
now beyond rivalry or competition, it is
easy to see that the drift of the assertion
is to establish the solid community of in
terests which must hereafter exist between
Northern and Southern States.
Once upon a time, it was not uncommon
to hear the protective policy under which
Pennsylvania has so magnificently pros
pered denounced as a peculiarly Pennsyl
vania institution. There was nothing in
the sneer, for the whole country shared in
the benefits of protection, if not directly,
indirectly. Henceforth, however, with
the development of manufactures through
tho South, protection will grow to be of as
vital interest to Alabama, Tennessee, and
even Kentucky and parts of Virginia, as it
has been to Pennsylvania. The new feel
ing cannot establish itself in a day. But
it is being sharply realized already through
the South; and it must grow as the local
manufactures of the South increase in
number and importance.
The opponents of tho protective policy
have a blue look-out Despite great boast
ing of the impressions they were producing
upon the people, there is nothing on the
horizon to encourage them. In the North
ern States they have won no substantial or
lasting success. Congressional elections
of last fall gavo them temporary hope, as
they were either too blind or unwilling to
see that other causos contributed to Re
publican defeat besides the misrepresenta
tions of the effects of the AIcKinley bill;
but in the operations of that bill to date
they can look in vain for a basis for a suc
cessful national or even State campaign.
Should, as is certain to occur, several of
the Southern States also be won over
by their direct interests to the pro
tection policy the opponents of that
policy will not succeed a day after that
event in keeping the Democratic organiza
tion in line in its attacks upon tho tariff
system. That party is only in that hostile
attitude now in direct antagonism to the
wisest counsel of some of its ablest minds,
such as the late Samuel J. Randall, the
New York Sun and others that might be
named. Its statesmen will have to con
sider these facts between now and the
Presidental nomination. We hope it will
not take them the whole period that Bir
mingham may require to grow up to the
present size of Pittsburg as that would
be rather a long lingering in the annual
shadow of the valley of political defeat
DISGRACING A UNIVERSITY.
Pointed reference is made by the Boston
Traveller to the fact that class day and
commencement week passed at Harvard
without any steps being taken to maintain
the discipline of that institution with re
gard to two remarkable exhibitions of un
dergraduate disorder. One was the riot
ous conduct of students at a hotel banquet,
which has produced from the hotelkeep
ers the declaration that they will serve no
more banquets to undergraduates. The
other was the appearance of the members
of what was supposed to be a Greek letter
society in a police court as convicts on
the charge of illicit liquor selling.
It is apparent on the face that to permit
Buch infractions not only of scholarly
order, but of actual decency, to go un
punished is tantamount to the abandon
ment of discipline. If students can run
secret doggeries in their society rooms,
and play the hoodlum in hotel dining halls,
without notico from the faculty, there is
no such thing left as collegiate discipline
in that institution. It is significant that
the Traveller assigns a cause for the
absence of discipline, which is especially
discreditable to an institution of learning.
It says:
If nothing has been done, however, or if
nothing is to be done, is this to bo accounted
for by the expectation of gifts and bequests
from the families -which these drunken and
rowdy students dishonor? Is the fame of
America's oldest university to bo smirched
for the sake of adding a few paltry thousands
to its funds? It is a sad day for Harvard
when the greed of gain becomes an over
mastering passion.
This is practically an indictment from
an observer on the spot to the effect that
one of the principal institutions of the
country permits the disorders of the
gilded youth for the hope of securing en
dowments from the wealthy classes rep
resented by the riotous classes. If this is
true it puts the governors of that institu
tion in about the most contemptible light
possible. The men who would conduct an
educational institution on the principle of
time-serving and class toadying disgrace
the name of education however they may
gild the corrupt policy in other respects.
THE CLIMAX OF FKUDEKY.
' The epidemic of prudery has reached its
complete fruition. There may have been
a notion that it had got to its height when
the rulers of a public bath-house in New
York enacted that small boys should not
offend by bathing before the eyes of other
blushing members of the male sex. But
that was a mere flight of sober judgment
beside the latest and ultimate effort in that
line. A school teacher in Fitchburg has
decided that the barefoot boy Is an offense
against modesty. She sent a pupil home
because he shamelessly came to school ex
posing a pair of small brown legs from his
knickerbockers. Worse and more of it,
the grave and ponderous seignors of the
Board of Education sustained the verdict,
and the barefooted boy is to be shutout
from the schools as an offense against the
modesty of the educational authorities.
It is an awful fact that this nation has
been perpetrating immodesty of this sort
since it was a nation. This has been a
country of barefooted boys since' it became
famous, and has been shameless enough
to glory a fact that the brown, bare and
sturdy little legs have, when developed into
manhood, carried it to its present state of
progress. Not only barefooted boys but
barefooted men fought the war which
made this nation. Webster, Lincoln, Gar
field and the vast majority of our public
men were barefooted boys in their time.
H there is a man who amounts to anything
and who was not a barefooted juvenile, he
is to be commiserated for having missed
the joys of untrammeled feet and legs, as
well as the discipline Of stubbed toes and
1 stone-bruises.
j But all this must go. WeLhave offended
I against modesty In praising the career of
sturdy and virtuous men who started as
barefooted boys. We have brought the
blush of shame to the cheek of Young
Persons, as Mr. Veneerny puts it, by
putting barefooted boys and, most terri
ble thought, even barefooted little girls, In
the .pictures of American life. Beyond all
that we have subjected society to great
demoralization by throwing open our
schools to barefooted children equally with
those who wear French kid or russet
leather. This is the edict of the purists
who run the schools Of Fitchburg.
The most immodest aspect of such a de
cision is the indecent exposure of tho
alleged mental faculties of the prudes who
place barefooted boys under the ban.
JEERS AT ROTAXTY.
So long as the young Kaiser William has
stayed at homo he has escaped the jeers of
the outside world, but now that he is
about to make a visit to his Ttoyal Grand
mamma his Socialistic enemies in London
are preparing to give him a most unwel
come and unpleasant reception. The En
glish love their Sabbath, and it is not
amazing that they should object when no
less a personage than the German Emperor
disregards their usages and proposes ban
quets and fetes on that day. It certainly
is a sorry example to be set by royalty for
the people of those two nations, who have
always been taught that the Sabbath should
be a day of peace ana quiet
But that is not tho only reason the So
cialists and Radicals of London propose
making a demonstration while the parade
is passing. The former have a sore place
for royalty in general, and the latter still
feel a little cool toward the Prince of
Wales on account of the baccarat scandal.
The proposed jeering will not show a spirit
of common decency toward the German
Kaiser and the to-be-King of England. It
will merely illustrate how rapidly the peo
ple of all nations are nearing the idea that
tho only good government is self-government
The baccarat scandal merely grows out
of idleness, but tho trouble in the case of
Emperor William is that he has been en
tirely too busy to suit' his people. He has
made many very grave blunders and has at
tacked principles that are very dear to his
people. Yet he seems to be working con
scientiously for tho good of bis subjects
and there is really no call for an antagon
istic demonstration. But Socialists always
grasp at opportunities to sneer at royalty
and the liberality of England's laws will
not prevent it If they go beyond sneers
they will very properly be landed in a good
strong jail with chances of transportation.
Judge Gordon', of Philadelphia,reccntly
dismissed a Jury which had acquitted a man
who was clearly provedguilty of illicit liquor
selling with the remark that they had "low
ered the standard of tho law, and that when
they went homo and considered the matter
they would find that they had rendered a
verdict which was inconsistent with tno
evidence." But Judge Gordon can hardly
flatter himself that such words will mako
any impression on tho class of Jurors who
establish indemnity for speak-easy nroprie
tors. These J urors will continue to have tho
last say until there is a reform in the selec
tion of Jurors.
The death of young Brokaw, one of the
Princeton athletes, while rescuing others
from death, silences for the moment all the
current sarcasms about the muscular col
legians. Tho colleges have produced one
hero who demonstrated the right to the title
at the cost of his life.
In connection with 1he defects of 'our I
Asiatic squadron, the New York Recorder
remarks of one of the vessels: "The
Monocacy is an old Mississippi sidewheel
steamer, good only for river travel." Wo
fear tho esteemed .Recorder is not fully ac
quainted with river craft. A Mississippi
river steamer that should attempt the voy
ago to Asia would not live half way to Capo
Horn. Tho Monocacy is an old and presum
ably not very valuable craft, but her first
acquaintance with tho Mississippi river was,
wo believe, as a part of Farragut's glorious
entrance.
PEEHArs Mr. George's unsatisfactory
experienco with tho courts, with tho result
of getting less than $500 out of a $12,000 be
quest, will give him new light to the effect
that a single tax on bequests will cure more
of the existing evils than a single tax on
laud.
Cihef Bbown will earn some thanks
if he carries out his proposal to stop tho
driving of cattle in tho streets, excepting on
permits, and also racing upon tho public
thoroughfares. With the network of cablo
and electric cars going at high speed, tho
perils of the road are necessarily great
enough without longer permitting proces
sions of Texan steers and the trials of fast
horses in populous places. The Chief is to bo
commended for his stand on this matter.
Twenty per cent of the legislation passed
by the late Legislature was vetoed, and when
we como to consider the methods by which
legislation was governed in that body, tho
wonder is that more bills were not vetoed.
Tnn almost universal reports of big crops
and prosperity for the Western farmer may
not smooth out all tho political complica
tions, but it will make business prospects
satisfactory and roseate for everyone. This
Is always subject to a proviso that corporate
manipulators And banking financiers do not
get up panics or wreck3 for their own di
version or enrichment.
With regard to Shelby M. Cullom, it is
satisfactory to learn .that he has no false
bashfulncss about having it known that
"Baikis iswillln'." But it is not news. Mr.
Collum has been that way for some years.
Conceunlng New York politics, it is in
teresting to learn that Mr. Smith M. Weed
has recently declared in an interview that
he is not saying anyth'ng. Mr. Weed does
not oven intimate that he is sawing wood,
but that does not prevent a suspicion that
he may bo occupying his leisure moments in
whetting a knifo for tho fifth rib of ono
David Bennott Hill.
The weather sharps of New York who
reportcd"a hot waM3" is spreading over the
interior "of tho country on Thursday and
Friday are rivals for the laurels of Wiggins,
who prophecies by contraries.
From the energetic way in which the
Democratic organs are disputing whether
Cleveland is popular with the rank and fllo
of the party or not, there would seem to be a
general recognition of the met that the
election of delegates to the National Con
vention cannot be trusted to represent the
sentiments of the party masses.
The juror in New York who woke up
and found himself famous for not knowing
the fame of Chauncy M.DepewandDeLancy
Nicoll is a li ing illustration of the caprices
of fame.
To recognize the Congressional Chileans
as belligerents would be to recognize that a
state of war exists, and that those who de
fend representative government have as
good a standing with the United States as
those who maintain dictatorship. Is thero
anything inconsistent with the position of a
great republic on that stand?
A few more weeks of this weather will
atono for all tho rest and mako tho political
fortune of the Department of Agriculture as
tho manager of the weather. ,. . ..
The contradiction of John Wanamakcr's
assertion that ho never held any stock in
the Kcystono Bank is calculated to shake
confidence in the strict accuracy of that
statement of his. Mr. Wanamaker will have
to testify some more, or run for the Senate
In order to vindicato himself.
THE QUAINT SIDE.
Economy Growing Modern Patriarch Hen
rlcl's Activity Scenes In the Quiet Town
Summer Dinners A Pugilist Who
Doesn't Look lb
Economy, that monument to the thrift and
energy of Its founders, and tho productive
ness of Western Pennsylvania, is fast losing
the old-world air and quaintness which
used to characterize it. The exterior of
the town, its substantial houses, wide
streets, so shady and so full of chickens, tho
pleasant gardens rich in flowers and fruits,
and the beautiful Tolling meadows, the or
chards and the groat river flowing below the
precipitous bluff upon which the town
stands all theso things are unaltered, save
in trilling detail, but the spirit of the sceno
has changed. Even as compared with the
Economy of four or flvo pears ago, the town
to-day has taken on modornness, and there
are few reminders of the patriarchal life
which onco flourished there. Tho
change is easily accounted for. It is
simply that the old Economy is dying.
Such an end was inevitable in a community
whore marriage was forbidden. The Society
ofEconomitesisbut a shadow, kept from
utter dissipation by the wonderful moral
and mental strength of a single member,
Jacob Henrict Ho is not the only member
of the society alive, but he is practically the
only survivor in evidence of the sturdy
fathers of the settlement. The remnant of
thesociety which once contained in its palm
iest days at least a thousand souls numbers
less than a score, how much less few beside
Mr. Henrici himself know. Most of these
aro full of years, and death has been a fre
quent visitor among them of late. Last woek
another sister was called away, and on
Thursday ovening about sunset her body
was laid to rest under the turf of the orchard
where nearly all of the society are now as
sembled. Mr. Henricl's Activity.
Mr. Henbici'b activity is still wonderful.
He is wont to spend every day attending to
some branch of the society's affairs; in Pitts
burg, or at the brickyards at Lcctsdale a
comparatively new industry whloh already
flourishes in Beaver Falls, or at the oil
wells owned by the society, Mr. Ilenrici con
tinues to supervise and direot. Not many
men in tho shadow of ninety years, nor at
seventy for that matter, retain the strength
and spirit, of the patriarch of Economy. I
saw him on Thursday afternoon hurrying
up the steep hill from tho station at Econ-'
obit, carrying the inevitable black bag and
umbrella, and askintr no helD from the
swarthy, sleek-looking young man one of
tho new members who are, presumably, be
ing brought into the society to postpone Its
'disintegration who strodealong by his side.
Entering the old Rapp mansion by tho side
door, for a fow minutes Mr. Henrici disap
peared. Then he came out again by the
lront door, still accompanied by the young
man. They both boro bouquets, made of
white lilies and corn flowers, and at a rapid
pace they made for tho houso nearby where
u gathering of men in long coats and high
hats, and the plain hearse drawn by one
horse, betokened tho prosenco of death. And
though the curious eye of a stranger did not
follow these kind, simple folk to the grave
beneath tho apple trees, it may be taken for
certain that Mr. Henrici said the few words
of farewell over their departed sister, and
spared not his aged limbs, tired though they
must have been after toil and travel under a
blazing sun, to follow the corpse to the grave
outside the town.
The Quaintness Gone.
Tnx hired help are all that one sees, with
an occasional exception, in the streets of
Economy these days and they are simply
German immigrants for tho most part
recently arrived, whose dress, speech and
manners are familiar enough in Pittsburg.
Thero is nothing distinctive or peculiar
about them, as there was about tho
oiiginal population of Economy, and they
do not harmonize with the old-fashioned
plcturesqncness of their surroundings. Even
in tho Old Rapp houso opposite the church,
where ono was wont to receive a gracious.
greeting from Miss Rapp until two years agov
and where Mr. Henrici still lives, the mod
ern spirit has penetrated. A firm, though
very polite little woman in black, with a
brisk, business-llko air and a ready tongue,
meets you when you ring the doorbell a
garish innovation that would not have been
tolerated In Economy a few years ago and
runs over tho curiosities, pictures and
quaint furniture of the parlor with the glib
nessof a Washington guide. You feel none
of theawe that tho parlor inspired in you
when the stately Henrici and quiot little
Miss Rapp received vou there.
The big garden still salutes you with its
gay flower beds, its shady arbors, its fish
ponds surrounding the grotesque band
stand, tho odors are Just as sweetly heavy
and strange, and the best of care seems to
be taken of it all. The tight-board fence
which separates the garden from the street
is new handsome enough but desperately
new. Andwhatslghtlsthat? Great heavens!
a man crossing the garden v. ith a tripe in
his mouth, and the rank odor of tobacco is
wafted to us with the scent of roses and
honeysuckle. A few years ago a man would
as soon liavo thought of smoking in a
Eowder magazine as in Rapp's garden, tho
oly of holies of a place where tobacco has
long been anathema.
Other Changes in' Economy.
The church has undergone more change
in tho modernizing spirit than anything in
Economy. Tho bare oak planks of the
floor which used to serve the worshipers
hidden now under an ingrain carpet of
warm tan tints, with cocoa matting in the
aisles. The benches of solid oak havo re
cently been painted and grained in imita
tion of antique oak hardly nn improve
ment. Many a city church is not so com
fortably furnished, and this was the place in
Economy that strangers were wont .to con
sider the ono dispiriting, cold and purely
primitive feature of the settlement.
There may be a more essential revolution
in progress in the society than anyone may
note in the town thero aro not wanting
signs of the former but it is hard to see how
tho society can survive Mr. Henrici In any
event, and it is mournful on many accounts
that Economy as Pennsylvania has known
it for almost three-quarters of a century
will soon be a thing of the past.
Two Midsummer Dinners.
Ose of the questions of tho day is: What
shall we eat In hot weather? I put it to M.
Albert Menjou, who makes it his business to
answer the question every day of his life,
and ho said: "It is not easy to concoct a meal
to ticklo the palate of your very warm
American theso days what shall it be a
breakfast, a luncheon, a dinner, a supper or
what?"
"Suppose wo say a supper or dinner, as you
plcaso to call it, for the names are inter
changeable," I replied.
So M. Menjou took a pencil, tapped his
forehead, and wrote out this bill of fare, with
the prefatory remark that every dish in it
should be served cold:
Clams.
Cold consomme in cups.
Llebfraumllch.
Stuffed olives, salted almonds.
Boned turkey with Jelly.
Moselle.
Filet of beef, larded, with water cress.
Pontet canet.
Lobster salad.
Cold strawberry pudding.
Fancy cakes.
Perrler Jouet. '
Cafe glace.
"In this menu I have avoided tho use of
French terms," said M. Menjou, "denying
myself all the poetry that the language
throws about the meanest dish except the
last Item, which is simply iced coffee. The
wines I have named suit the season and the
dinner. As an alternative I offer this:
Clams.
Anchovy a la Russe.
Haut santcrnc.
Salmon trout, mayonnaise.
Sliced tomatoes.
Roast spring chicken.
Asparagus inalgrette.
Claret cup.
Pate de foic eras.
Cliablls (wliitc).
Charlotte Parlsieuae.'
Cafe glace.
"In this menu the only dish that needs de
sciiption is the desert, Charlotte Parisienne,
which is pretty and appropriate. It consists
Bimplyof Chailottee Kusse arranged about
mixed fruits, sucli as strawborries, raspber
ries, cherries, and tho like, and ornamented
with lady fingers' cakes. Both dinners eCTe as
light as they can be made, and in the ab
sence of game at this time of the year I
think it best. At all events, they are my
tlUCUl UiU iUlUSULUUlKl UUlMMi i
In- i t ,2 i
APugllist lniDiSgnise, r
r -gtnz populnrldea of a prize-fighter Is a. man
inf;-t.m4flft.'nitvsieal nrorortinjli1 HrniiirY rtw
iclotbing;-xti loudi afad. large pattorivwkli.
!u flst.fliko a pile-drivor; a squan Jaw, a
ibroken noseTraorraTrTTh'aTerociQUs ox-Ipressioif?-
ThisHlescription fits a gioOmany
ipugilista, Uutihefeare exceptions; andTmet
one of them yesterday. He was a young
man, certainly little If any over five feet
five or six in he ight, lightly but stiffly built
and unusually broad as to his shoulders in, I
comparison with the rest of his figure so
far not an unusual young man. A quiet
suit of gray, a ruffled silk shirt, and a
white lawn tio went very well with the
mild, smiling face that surmounted them.
Tobesme the noso in the middle of this
face was broken the center span of the
bridge had collapsed but the eyes above it
were bright and the usual number of teeth
showed up in the mouth beneath. Alto
gether ono would havo set this young man
down to be an iron-worker. or snmethlncr of
that sort, and a peaceable fellow ut that. Yot
he was Tommy Ilogan, whom the sportatmy
elbow declared to bo "as gume and bandy a
lightweight aB over put up his dukes."
Three or four years ago Tom Sterck, ex
champion of England, who saw this mild
mannered boy from the Fourteenth ward
the fighting ward of the oity spar, prophe
sied his riso as a pugilist, and all and more
than he said has como true. Hogan has Just
come back from tho West, where he has
fought a score or so of battles with varying
fortune. Now he returns to the home of his
ancestors crowned with laurels," so to speak,
and yearning for new fields to conquer.
With his pugilistic record I have nothing to
do, but it strikes me it is a dangerous and
unwarranted imposition tor a young man
who can pulverize anybody weighing say
less than 130 pounds, and a great many heav
ier mortals, to masquerade in the mildest
of manners and tho quietest of clothes.
Such a man ought to show more of a dan
ger signal than a mere broken nose.
WITH CE0WHS USD WITHOUT.
Pbop. Arnold QtrroT, of the Miami
(Ohio) University, has been appointed Pro
fessor of French in the Tale Scientiflo
School.
The Marquis of Salisbury recently sent
a magnificent lot of strawberries, with
flowers, and other fruits to the Royal Horti
cultural Society's show in London.
The Czarewitz has been a most indus
trious student, and is now one of tho best
informed men of his ago in Eastern Europe.
He is especially "well versed in the higher
sciences.
Empekob William of Germany has
commissioned the celebrated artist, Anton
von Werner, to paint a picture represent
ing the Emperor, tho German princes and
the army officers in tho act of congratulat
ing the late Count von Moltke upon tho
completion of his 90th birthday.
MADAM Cole had made arrangements to
start June 27 on a trip to the United States,
when she received tho command of Her
Majesty the Queen to sing in the "Golden
Legend" at Albert Hall in July, on. the oc
casion of tho visit of the German Emperor.
Her visit to her native land has been, there
fore, indefinitely postponed.
Miss Louise Kicolson, of Washington,
better known as Nikita, has lately finished
her third tour in Russia, which has lasted
over a year and a half. She has visited the
principal cities of Western, Southern and
Eastern Russia. Nikita is now in Germany,
and will take a well-earned rest at Ems
previous to resuming her vocation.
The reported arrangement for the mar
riage of Pension Attorney Lemon and Mrs.
General Logan was denied in a card issued
by n prominont G. A. B. man of Omaha, a
close friend of the Logan family. Before
sailing for Europe, Mrs. Logan wrote him a
letter denying that she contemplated marry
ing Lemon, and saying she would ncvor
marry.
Bakon Aifeed Kothschlld during the
past week entertained a number of distin
guished people at a most unique private
concert, at which Adelina Patti, Van Dyck,
the fashionable tenor, Maurel and Lassalle,
Edouard de Reszko, Wolff, the violinist, and
Hollman, tho cellist, contributed to the fund
of enjoyment. It is estimated that tho
artists' services alono cost the Baron over
$3,000 for the evening's entertainment.
DANGEE m ICE CEEAM.
Forty-Eight Partakers of the Vanilla Fla
vored Article Sick Almost Unto Death.
SPECIAL TELIOKAM TO THE niSPATCH.
Malose, N. Y., Juno 27. Tho Episcopal so
ciety of Brushton, N. Y., Saturday evening
served ice cream at their lawn festival In
that village. A short time after partaking of
the ice cream some complained of feeling ill,
and soon after they were taken with vomit
ipg, nausea and sevoro pains,' in fact, with
every appearance of poisoning. Dr. Hawkins
was called, but on his arrival found so many
suffering that he summoned other physicians.
By early next morning all were pro
nounced out of danger, though some were
very weak and low, but all aro now able to
be out. Forty-eight persons in all were poi
soned. There were two kinds of ice cream
served lemon and vanilla. All who par
took of vanilla were sick, while thoso who
took lemon experienced no bad effect. Some
people think the poison was in the flavoring
extract, but physicians say it was caused by
some product of decomposition in the milk
coming In contact with zinc of the ice cream
freezer.
A FABLE.
The Firefly Who Works Hit Own Kuin by
Making a Challenge.
New York Sun.
To a specter, whose palely bluish form was
discerniblo crouched on a tomb, enters a
flashing firefly. "Well, yon old exploded
superstition," exclaimed the insect, flitting
through and through the Shape's impalpable
person; "if I couldn't glow any better than
that, I would try to shlne-by reflected light."
"I hear tho' footfall of a mortal," returned
the specter, in hollow accents; "on him wo
will test our respective powers of illumina
tion." Tho firefly, scintillating with all his
might, darted at the approaching boy, who
seized him with a cry sf delight, which was
converted into piercing lamentations when
ho caught sight of the specter. In tho
vivacity of tho vouth's emotions and flight
the insect was destroyed.
In his scheme of popular entomology, the
Judicious naturalist will leave an exalted
place for the bugaboo.
DEALEBS IK UGHT1HG "FIXTTJBES.
They Organize at Cincinnati and Elect a
Pittsburg Man Treasurer.
CiHCiNKATi, June 27. The dealers in gas
and electric light fixtures from leading cities
in the country, who havo been in session in
this city tho past three days, completed their
organization to-day. This new association
Just formed is called the "National Associa
tion of Gas and Electric Light Fixture
Dealers."
Tho following officers were elected: Presi
dent, L. B. Cross, of Knnsas City? Vice Presi
dent, E. i Brooks, of Washington; Secretary,
P. V. Dwver, ot St. ram; Treasurer, jonn
Kelly, of Pittsburg. The association ad
journed this afternoon, tho time and place
of the next meeting to be fixed by tho Execu
tive Committee.
The Columbus Monumont Unveiling.
SFECIAL TELEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Chicago, June 27. Tho Directors of the
World's Pair will ask that tho unveiling of
the Columbus monument be postponed from
1892 to 1893, so as not to Interfere with the
celebration in 1E92.
IN THE CLOVER.
Butterfly,
Flutter by.
Over the clover.
Under tho sky.
Sail and falter and fall.
And cling to the fragrant spray;
Shift and shirk,
No weather for work
Palls on a summer day.
Bumblebee,
Tumble free
Into the bloom of the tulip-tree;
Cease your bustle and boom.
Swing on a stamen and sing.
Or clutch a flagon frail and fine.
And drowsily drink the wine.
And rest Jour rumbling wing.
Mcadowl&rk,
Glow like a spark
That will set the fields afire;
Tenderly whistle
On top of a thistle
A "turilee" to your mate up higher
In a dusky locust-tree.
There I There!
Away goes care,
, And a dream, comes oyeV me.
.l".i
A' boytlred out with'pUy,
On a.mninPC.hoUflayr .,.
In tho grass io cool and deep --
LEtlne lie. anit sleeb,'
p Whltelhe' hucteritr"gues fluttering over.
Between the blue-sky and purnld clover,
i JUidihe bumblebee bumbles
And whirls and tumbles.
Where the mcadowlarks nest
And her golden breast
Have clover
AU over
For cover. ,
Maurice Thomgton in Jul St. Kchfildt,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
A Group of New Yorkers Hasn't Its Equal
Anywhere Facts Abont Newspaper Cir
culation Anticipating War in Europe
Stay-at-Home Girls in Clover.
rrnoM A stxtt coimispoxDEjrr.
New Yobk, June 27. "A representative
New York crowd comprises the best dressed
and finest looking men and women that can
bo seen nnywhere in the world." So said a
gentleman who has the wisdom anc experi
ence that comes of extensive travel and
close observation. We were sitting at ono
of the little. tables on the Casino roof at the
close of a hot day. The place was thronged.
The Walters were hard worked serving cool
ing drinks. Tho music of the Hungarian
Band in the cupola floated deliciously over
us, and the plants and flowers perfumed the
grateful breeze that brought through tho
Moorish arches its own rest and refresh
ment. The ceaseless hum and chatter of
male and female voices, the handsome gen
tlemon in summer, neglige, the clink of
glasses, tho colored lights, tho sparkle of
bright eyes and champagne, the snap of flirt
ing fans and the pop of corks all mado up a
Continental picture.
"You may travel tho world over," con
tinued my friend, flashing a comprehensive
glance around, "and visit the finest places in
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna haunt th
famous watering places ot Germany and
mingle with the cosmopolitan crowds in
Dresden,PIorence, Rome or the Riviera but
you will never see the la.-go proportion of
manly young men and womanly young
women with their uniform tusto and ele
gance of dress that you see In such a crowd
as this. I have remarked this in every pub
He place whore a representative party of
New Yorkers. is to bo found. "There is an
other thing: Take those couples laughing
nnd chattering at yonder table and place
them in a foreign crowd and they would be
the observed of all observers. They would
bo considered 'loud' and perhaps bo set
down by the more sedate and formal East
as 'positively vulgar,' you know. That is
what wo are reading of our Americans
abroad. These people here act naturally.
They aro born and bred, to n degree of social
freedom and live in an atmosphere of Inde
pendence and personal self-reliance wholly
unknown abroad.
"i oroigncrs cannot comprehend the under
lying causes that produce the American.
They only know that wo carry a stamp of
our own. Because we aro different we are,
from their point of viow, censurable. Tho
American stamp is the stamp of liberality of
thought and freedom of action of a recog
nized personal responsibility. When I look
around and see the men an cf women our sys
tem produces I mentally compare them with
the best foreign article and thank God for our
own peculiar civilization. Tho Prince of
Wales does not represent our standard of
the gentleman, nor does the dusky Queen of
the Hawaiian Islands constitute the stand
ard of the American lady however much
their Royal Highnesses may be looked up to
in their own respective dominions."
The Stay-at-Home Girls.
What a lot of young men can be seen
about town now singly, in pairs and gangs.
At tho open air entertainments they out
number the fair sex five to one. At tho tho
aters they swarm, hot, uncomfortable and
disconsolate. Every passably pretty woman
enchains their attention. Where are all the
women, anyhow? Outnumbering the young
men ten to one at some hot and swarming
w atering place, and doubtless sighing . for
"dear Jack" and "poor little Neddy," "eto.
In the meantime Jack and Neddy are hav
ing not a half bad time. Business by day,
and unhampered, light and vnried frivolity
by night. The girl who remains in town is
in great luck so far as male company is con
cerned. This is her time of the year. Every
where she goes she excites sharp male com
petition. She is surrounded by beaux who
seem Just to havo discovered her charms.
She never before had so many invitations.
Tho theaters, gardens, races, ball matches,
trips down the bay and trips up tho river
follow each other so rapidly and pleasurably
she takes no note of neat or time. Talk
about fun I Then, she can work her little
matrimonial garden practically undis
turbed. Nor does she neglect this golden
opportunity. .Look here, you old timers
down by the sea and up In the mountains, it
isn't quite safe to leave this girl here with
"Qcar jack " ana "poor uttie .Heady."
Mustaches and Engagements.
The actors on the "Strand" pull indus
triously at the out-of-an-engagement adorn
ment of the upper lip. They keep feeling
for that mustache as if it were a matter of
continual solicitude, yet everybody knows
that by the sideof $50a week the most charm
ing mustacho is "not in it."
Ebb and Flow of the Newspaper Tide.
"Adecmke or riso of sales of a newspaper,"
said the agent of a popular news stand at
Broadway and Thirty-third street, "is a cu
rious study. This news business is the pub
lic pulse, and through us it beats stronger or
weaker day by day. We have to watch it
mighty sharply, for errors of Judgment in
ordering too many papers or too few cost us
money. Some people think tho demand1
runs evenly along, it doesn't. It changes on
every paper on my stand everyday. For
sorao unaccountable reason a paper say
one of the big morning. dailies will rise and
rise and rise, and then fall off so rapidly
that wo cut off every day and can't keep up
with the decline. Then it will take a turn
the other way and then go down again per
haps in tho average showing a steady run or
substantial increase. Sometimes tho de
clino Is steady and permanent.
"1 make a study of this thing. I havo
found on the general average tho sales of
other stands harmonize with mine. When
I havo to cut two or four papers, or add one,
two. three "or four uauers of anv publication.
I know that is being done in the same pro
portion all over town. Do you know what
the dronnincr or nddinir of n. few nlientB
means? Tho loss or gain of 7,000 to 10,000 cir
culation. I can tell right hero Just how every
paper of importance in the city is doing. I
could tell you some curious stories con
nected with this business. An Ill-advised
editorial or a bit of badly-handled news will
often be followed immediately by a falling
off ; and a sharp and vigorous course on a
live topic that touches a popular chord, or a
big 'scoop' or something v, ill be followed by
steadily increasing sales. Customers often
tell me in a sentenco these causes before I
know anything about it. They aro mad or
glad, or sail along serene. Human nature
averages, and theso customers arc fair sam
ples ot readers all over this big cfty."
Hot Weather as a Leveler.
When tho mercury has a prolonged run on
the upper figures aristocratic New York
melts down to the common democratic level
of American mankind. On ono such after
noon on a car of tho Sixth avenue elevated
a flno looking gentleman of middle life, who
probably goes to dinner habitually at his
own home in a dress suit, looked around
uneasily and fanned himself vigorously with
his newspaper. He nad entered at Rector
stieet in u ilted condition from tho Stock
Exchange. At Franklin street he seemed to
have made np his mind to do something des
perate. .Tnfit there a biff drvcrooda man came In
with bis coat on his arm, nodded to him, sat
down and monned his drinning brows. The
stock broker's tace lightened up and he arose
and calmly took off his coat and folded it on
the seat beside him. The drygoods man
smiled his approval from across the way. A.
dozen ladies in various parts of the car
smiled their approval. An athletic young
man in a far corner got up and took off his
coat nnd laid it across his knee. At Four
teenth street another elderly man of sleek
appearance camo in with his coat on his arm.
Before the train rca died Tn enty-thlrd streo
a dozen sat in their shirt sleeves andlookeda
if they would like to further reduce costume.
In the next cars, front nnd Tear, the usual
custom of male attire was observed. Such is
the conspicuous force of example.
A Cabby and His Stubborn Horse.
About the most disgusted man ever seen
was a hansom cab driver, who, after wait
ing four hours, picked up a man and a
woman at a theater the "other evening an
then couldn't start his horse. He com
manded, lie coaxed, ho tbrpatoued by turns,
but the animal wouliJn" builgo an inch.
Finally the fares got out ana took another
cab. The unlucky driver almost shedtoms
an lie whispered in his nug's can "You
onglitened to get any supper." Then he re
mounted and drove away without any diffi
culty. Isn't Always Safe to Talk.
Three gentlemen were sitting at table on
tho Casino roof. One of them was the hus
band of a noted actress with whom he was
having considerable trouble at the time, a
trouble which has since resulted in divorce.
One of those preseiit didn't know the rela
tionship. He stuttered terribly when ex
cited and evidently saw something to
gieatly interest him.
"D-U-d-do you know M-m-m-ni-nlonc?" ho
inquired, of Mr. Mudd. "T-there she is
1-1-lovcly crenturc,:"
Mr. Mudd looked down nt something In
thu bo'tom ot his glass. The other gentle
man tried to change the conversation.
"S-s-sayt" persisted' the speaker, "s-s-s-ho's
co-cc-coming this way! J-1-J-ust 1-1-look at
herl They s-s-s-say her n-h-h-husbond is
n-n-"
The mutual friend managed to knock off
his beer and knocked out tho conversation
In the same round. A little later Mr. Mudd
found he had an engagement, whereupon
the mutual friend turned upon tho stutterer
and said that gossiper was tho biggest fool
he had struck in a long time. "You've dono
it, ..said ho; "Mr. Mudd is Miss Malone's hus
baffdi" "G-g-g-good g-g-graclous! W-w-w-why
d-d-d-d-d-d-d-didn't you -8-s-say so! -dtl-m-m-my
d-d-dcah b-b-boy; I'm a d-d-d-donfcey!
I'll n-n-nevah g-g-gub about an o-a-a-actress
again 'slong's I l-l-llve!"
And it's a good resolution to keep, in a
New York crowd or anywhere else.
Fascination of the Actress.
"Tms tendency of men to gossip about
actresses is something difficult to fathom,"
said a philosophical friend to whom I re
lated tho atfove incident. "Yon can scarcely
Join a party of gentlemen on Broadway, in
a cafe or clubroom but that tho talk will
drift Into that channel. Why a. flfth-rato
woman who happens to bo on tho stage will
command the time and attention of a lot of
sensible men who wouldn't notice her if
she happened to be in any other line of
business, is one of thoso things no fellow can
find out. But that she does is a fact that
runs back for hnnrlroda nf vears. If She
happens to be pretfr and higher np in her
profession her admirers increase propor
tionately, and those who talk about her run
np into the thousands.
"We speak contemptuously of stage-struck
women. Men are bigger fools when it comes
to the footlights than women could possibly
be. I never saw a man yet who didn't think
an actress a sort of peculiar divinity. Most
of those who carry this worship to practical
acquaintance blindly overlook all degrees
of female ignorance, stupidity, bad breeding,
coarseness and vulgarity. It is one of those
weaknesses of our poor male human nature
that has no counterpart."
Looking for a War In Europe ..
Theue Is an English syndicate with a rep
resentative in New York looking for a con
tract for tho delivery of dressed beef. "We
will take aminimum of 600 tons amonth,"said
he, "and will contract for one, two or three
years. But so far we haven't been able to
find any responsible parties to accept, or
even consider our proposals. Two firms now
practically control the meat markets of the
world."
The secret of this effort to break the com
bination lies in the European an
ticipation of war. In case of a pro
longed foreign war a long con
tract on the American beef suDnlv would
mean groat riches to the syndicate and per
haps bankruptcy to tho American con
tractors. Hence the money and anxiety on
ono side and hesitancy on the other.
A Banana Saved His Cash.
A LiJirrso St. James sport I made Just
$2,000 on tho Suburban.
Bookmaker Struok the winner?
Sport No: struck a banana. Made it in
the fruit trade.
Bookmaker 1 don'tunderstand.
Sport I had $2 000 to put on Tenny
slipped upon a banana skin that morning,
sprained my ankle and wrist and went to
bed on the tip. Am $2,000 ahead.
To Travel Without Cash.
CoLovxr. Lee Ckahdaxx, of Washington, D.
C, has invented a new scheme, which he
says is eventually to supercede the national
banking system. "We proposo to issue
checkbooks like these," he said, at the Hoff
man the other day, exhibiting thin books of
certified checks in amounts of $3 up to $20, so
that a man can travel anywhere in the
world without money. The chocks, yon see,
are unsicned and the book is like a pass-
dook:, omy no ono can use it out tno owner.
Wo will soon have a bank in New York, as
we have in Washington nnd London, and
will follow.lt with other branches in leading
cities of the world. The book is a traveler's
letter of credit."
How He Enjoys Money.
A OEmxiaiAK at the Fifth Avenue, who
has made considerable money in real estate
maybe seen on tho streets of New York,
about three months out of the year. The
rest of the time is spent in foreign lands, on
the sea nnd in pursuit of novelty. "When I
was poor and hard worked," said he, "I used
to believe that the only advantage of money
was to enable a man to do as he pleased go
where he pleased, whenever he pleased and
stay as long as he pleased. I'm carrying out
that theory now. I have been in a good
many countries during the last four years.
When I tire of one place I movo on. I don't
live anywhere, though this country is always
in my heart and I hope to be buried here.
Think I shall run up to St. Petersburg,"
looking at his. watch as it he were expected
by the Czar to dinner and might bo a little
late "see ydh next tlmo. By by."
Chames Titzodobe Mdt-t.at.
AH ANCIENT SUBIAL GBOuTTD
Discovered by a Beaver County Farmer In
Clearing His Land.
rsrXCIAt. TSLXQBAX TO TOE OISPATCH.
Beaver Falls, June 27. In clearing up a
farm In White township, near this place,
this week, William Clayton a late purchaser
of the farm, discovered an ancient burial
place, supposed to bo 1C0 years old, and
of which the oldest inhabitant in this place
knows nothing. The peculiarity of the
graves is that each ono is covered with a
huge slab about two feet from the surface of
the ground, and many of the graves are over
ten feet long. The graves will be opened to
ascertain if anything can be learned of tho
race to which the dead belonged.
Manv years ago, when Beaver county was
a howling wilderness, it was tho custom of
early settlers to bury their dead very deeply,
then cover tho grave with a slab of stone
about three feet from the surface, then level
up the ground over tho grave and sow it in
grass or grain, thus effectually hiding all
traces of it. This was done to protect the
dead from tho ravages of wild beasts, and
also from the scalping knife of the Indians,
who would as soon have the scalp of a per
son dying from natural causes as that of one
killed in battle.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
Simon Holton, Inventor.
Simon Holton, who invented the Garfield
clock, died at his home In Mlddlebary, Vt.,
Wednesday. He was born in Northficld, Mass, on
July 12, 132!, and went Into business la Middlebury
in ISoO. He had mechanical genius of a rare order.
He was an expert watchmaker and most of his in
ventions were In this line. lie was the originator
of the escapement. He Invented the metallic ther
mometer and the metallic barometer, and made a
self-realsterlng thermometer which runs by clock
work and goes eight, days on a stretch. Ilebnllt
the first sewing machine with the shuttle carried on
a carriage. ! 1881 be made tbe celebrated Garfield
clock, which was exnibltcd at Bunnell's Museum
In New York. Every time It struck the hour the
clock reproduced in a realistic war all the principal
scenes m tbe Garfield tragedy, from the shooting
of tbe President to the final appearance of Gulteau
upon tho gallows. Another Invention in this line
is an upright clock, the figures running from bot
tom to top. The hand runs rrom 1 o'clock at the
bottom to 12 at the top, then drops to the bottom
and begins over again. Another curiosity Is a
watch which, with tbe cxeepflon of two portions
of the works, was fashioned entirely out of Ivory.
Count Charles Albert Festetls.
Connt Charles Albert Festetis died at
Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City, Thursday night. He
was a native of Austria, but bad lived in this coun
try for many years and his home was at Washing
ton. He was an eminent engineer ana was ldenti-
flAHiwio, n. numht of hi fip entemriscs. amumr them
the laylnr or the four tracks for the New York
wn
Central Railroad.
Mrs. Christian O'Connor.
Mrf. Christian O'Connor, willow of
Thomas O'Connor, died at tbe residence of her son-in-law.
Colonel S. W. HIH. MCnurch acnne, yes
terday afternoon, in her Tint J ear. She was well
known and highly respected by a large circle of
friends.
Obituary Notes.
Judge Beattt McClelland died at Columbus,
Ind., yestesday, aged 30.
Rev. William Moeax, one of the oldest Catho
lic priests in the country, died In Ware, Mass.,
aged 87 years.
Pkop. GrisErra Rizzo, a well-known com
poser and music teacher, died Friday at his home.
New York, of paralysis, aged C5 years,
COCNT CIIABLES ALBER FESTLTIS, the well
known engineer, died Thursday night at New
York. He was a native of Austria, but had fur
many years resided in Washington.
Colonel John T. ISiiady, one of the oldest,
wealthiest and most progressive citizens of Texas,
was stricken with apoplexy and died yesterday. He
was born In Mary laud CI years ago.
Mas. H. N. Stacet, a wealthy lady of Mil
waukee, who recently went to Berlin for the pur
pose of undergoing a surgical operation by Prof.
Velt, died under the surgeon's hands.
'Jonx Craig, one of the best known temperance
advocates in Allegheny county, died yesterday
morning, of paralysis, atBraddock. He was la hu
60th year and had been a resident of Braddock for
2J years.
David M. HoLtnjaswoivra died at New Or
leans on Thursday after a long illness. He was a
native of Macon, Ga.. and was G8 years old. He
wasaveterau of the Mexican War, in which he
Fcrved as bergcant of Company A, 3tfa-iUiip!
l'.lllcs. First Heglment of Volunteer, comniauucd
byJt.iri.rbon Davis.
Elizabeth JICVey, the wonderful faster ofltose
Hill, Ind., died Friday, 43 days after any food
whatever had been taken. Dr. Tanner, thqeelc-
before
but
Ai
post mortem examination-will be held. It u one or
the most remarkable cases on record.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Harvard graduated 238 bachelors of arts
this year to Yale's 1S7.
There are 82 national cemeteries in the
United States, and they have 377,179 graves,
about one-half of which are marked "un
known." It is estimated that at least 1,000,000
pounds of rubber are annually used for bi
cycle tires.
The demand for th.e revised version of
the New Testament in 1381 exceeded that for
any other book that has ever been published,
betore or since.
The Missouri river is cutting a new
channel at St. Joseph. Mo.. In such a way a3
to leave the new Jl,C00,COO bridge standing
over a dry spot.
The British Board of Admiralty esti
mates that one vessel, carrying two 110-ton
guns, would, In two ordinary engagements,
use np guns and ammunition to the value of
$630,000.
The Penobscot Indians seem to think
that cornering the market isn't fair play.
They refuse to make a trade with a Massa
chusetts house which wants to buy up all
their basket product. "We have too much,
customer at seashore," they say.
While N. Ham, of Valdosta, Ga., was
rambling in Swanoocb.ee the other day ha
heard a splashing in tho water. On- investi
gating ho was surprised to find two larga
ulllgators fighting. It was the hardest fight)
he ever saw and lasted fully an hour.
Constantinople has 50 newspapers; 19 of
them are dally, 5 semi-weekly, 17 weekly, 3
semi-monthlv, 8 monthly. In nutionnlitv 5
are Turkish. 7 Armenian, 8 Greek, S French,
2 French and English, 1 Itallin,2 Hebrew, a
Bulgarian, 1 Arabian. 1 Persian. 1 German.
Jlrs. Phche prown, of Lowell, Mass.,
S8 years old, spins three skeins or fine yarn,
a day, lend a hand in tho housework, keeps
tho weed3ont of a garden nnd occasionally
varies tho monotony of existence by nuking
a barrel of soft soap, doin. all the ork lu-iw
self.
It is said that there is a pnrnacious o-vl
lurking around the Cumberland Preby.
terian Church, of Butler, 3Io., and attacks
Jieople at night. This owl is rather tatld
ous in his tastes, so it is j-aid. 1 1 attacked a
lady one night, and scratched her consider
ably. An investigator of the effect of per
fumes on animals in the Zoological Garden,
London, discovered that most of the lions
and leopards were very fond of lavender.
They took a piece of cotton saturated with,
it and held it between their paws with great
delight.
As, a sample of the advantages of our
reciprocity arrangement with Brazil, it is
stated that fifteen locomotives and 4,009 bar
rels of flour have recently been shipped to
that country, and the vessel will return with,
a cargo of 40,000 bags of coffee, paid, for with,
tho engines and flour.
; "-There is no accounting for the ways of
Cupid. He may bring about alliance in tho
most unexpected places. The first Moham
medan marriage in England was celebrated,
a few days ago, when a Moslem lawyer was
wedded according to the rites of his religion
to the daughter of a lord Justice.
It is not alone the cranks who believo
that in the future people will go sailing
through the air. Joh'n W. Bookwalter, of
Ohio, the art connoisseur and politician, has
spent a great deal of money experimenting
In flying machines. He believes such a ma
chine as among tho possibilities.
About 12,300 acres have been planted to
sugar beets in the territory tributary to tha
Norfolk sugar factory, and the company cal
culates to pay the farmers on an average $60
an acre for the product. It is estimated
that tho company will pay out this year for
beets, and labor In working them up, $S3,O0O.
There were 5,755, 85G savings hank, books
in Franco January 1, 1S91, against 5,224,833
January 1, 1S00. The deposits for 1890 wera
869 SOOgOOO francs, or 104,000,000 more than la
1889. The total sum of savings bank de
posits in France has increased in the lasS
year from 2,083,500,000 francs to 2,506,000,000, or
$000,000,000.
The United States is exporting mors
steel rails every year. During tho ten months
ending April 30, 1830, tho total exports wera
8,055 tons at a valuation of $276,817, or an
average of $34 36 per ton. During the tea
months ending April 30, 1S9I, tb ere were ex
ported 1J.1SD tons -at- a "valuatlon'Of $317,581,
an average price of $34 12 per ton. f
Anew plan has been adopted by tha
municipal authorities of Eomo to prevent
adulteration. Recognizing the fact that tha
public can gain but little knowledge from,
the annual reports of food inspectors, they
have required the names of all makers ana
sellers of alimentary substances injurious to
health, or adulteration, to be published in
the daily papera.
The boy who has put his tongue to his
skate knows how it burns. So Calvin Meek,
colored, when pinned against the engine in
a railroad wreck cries out that he is freez
ing to death. It is the same thing. Scientiflo
persons make a pretty experiment with solid
caroonic nciu, uiistenng me nngers wiia
cold. But Meek Is possibly the first man on
record who inverted the sensations in his
perception of them, and used the word
"freezing" to describe those of actual burn
ing. The difficulty of distinguishing certain
forms of comatose sleep from actual death
has suggested all sorts of ingenious tests,
such as holding a bright looking glass in
front of the nostrils, or forcing a spray of
water against tho closed eyelids. A still
more decisive experiment, however, consists
in injecting the pale skin, of the upper arm
with a strong solution of ammonia. If a
spark of Hfo lingers It will betray it3elf by
the appearance of a red spot.
A young man connected with one of tho
schools at Augusta, Me., was boxing with a
companion last Monday, when ho received a
blow In tho mouth which completely
knocked out two of his teeth and badly
lacerated his lip. He put the teeth in his
vest pocket nnd went to tho dental office of
Dr. Ilutchins, who trimmed up tho wound,
and after properly preparing the teeth, put
them back in their places, where they are
now getting along well, with prospect of
again doing a good business at the old stand.
Not long slnco a student was bit in the
mouth and his teeth loosened by an arrow
fired by one of the archery girls.
The Emperor of Austria has for years
past found consolation for hi3 troubles in
the sympathetic companionship of a former
well known Viennese actress,. Catharine
Schratt, whoso counsels aro said to have
been ef tho utmost advantage to him in
many important ntTairs of state. The Em
peror is accustomed to drive ont to the
Ealace at Sfhoenbrunn and there, leaving
is eqinpage, ho is met by Mine. Schratt and
takes long promenades with her in the forest.
As a result of this friendship the actress is
known in Vienna as the Vice Empress. Her
extraordinary intelligence and clear Judg
ment are valued in tho highest degree by
the Emperor
NICKNACKS FKOM; THE BAZAB.
"Blithers is the worst kind of a cheat."
"I can't believe that. Hesoldmea po, COO house
for$I8.00Oonce."
"That Just proves what I say. He's mean enough
to cheat even himself."
He Give me your glove, will yoa?
She Ob, I can't take it off.
He WeU, take only the "g" off. then, and giva
me the rest.
Dancing-master I understand yon want
this young gentleman here taught how to enter a
drawing room, eh? ,
Paternunllias (father of two popular debutantes)
Yea-and when to leave it.
Jaspar What do you think of that for a
fish story? . '
Jumpuppe Yon should get It patented.
Jaspar AVhy?
Jujipuppe It is such a marvelous invention.
He softly tiptoed in the room,'
And caught her dozing In a nap
It Bll'.'d his soul with sudden gloom
To &ee bis verses in her lap.
"Kemcmber, my child, kind words can
never die."
"Maybe so," said the suffering woman. "But
they can go on" and stay for years and be given up
for lost."
"Is love blind?"
'I am afraid my love Is. She says she can't sea
any advantage in marrying me."
"Police I" yelled a man as ho rushed into
the street.
You'll hive to call louder." said a bystander;
the baseball grouihU are a mile away."
"Do you think. I can sec through you?""'
said an irate old gentleman to the burly man la
f run t of Mm. . t.
"You ought to be able to, sir," returned the;
other good aturcdiy; "I've a pais in my Met.'
"Ach, my frent, de harp it is roraam,
del
organ it Is heestory.de violin it Is boetrr, and !
-V what u tbe lyre, professor?' V -"Feektlon,
sir, ohf course." ,
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