THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH; "WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 189L
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PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 181)1.
THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.
The period of theological unrest which
has attracted wide attention Is fully
matched by the disposition to political
unrest which manifests itself to a pro
nounced degree in the address just issued
by a large number of the Republicans of
Philadelphia. That political document is
evidently intended to give our State poli
tics a decided airing, and has already, as
indicated by Mr. Cooper's reply to it,
caused a considerable flutter in the politi
cal fold.
Apart from the personal bearing which
appears in the text of the manifesto, and
may be suspected to exist between the
lines, its most important feature Is its
bearing on independent action. It may
perhaps be too much to say that the docu
ment comes from sources which uphold the
doctrine that men must be bound by party
lines. But it is undoubtedly supported
by elements, Tthich last fall maintained the
rule that party ties should prevent inde
pendent action on State issues. In that
view the address is a most conclusive in
dication of the men who threw off party
ties in the last campaign, and contains
convincing arguments that, if there is not
a decided reformation in political methods
and influences, self-respecting and intelli
gent voters must wholly abjure the bonds
of party in action on State politics.
This is indeed the most important point
as affecting the means for curing the
evils of which the Philadelphia Repub
licans complain. If the signers to the
manifesto do not specifically indorse the
position which The Dispatch has main
tained for years, every line of their docu
ment points to the same conclusion. It
is that the support of Pennsylvania to
certain lines of national policy must not
be used to maintain political abuses in
State legislation and administration The
way to prevent it is to have it understood
that in State elections the people will vote
for the best men and the most honest
policy regardless of party ties. Wo take
the Philadelphia address ttf mean that a.
large element in that city is prepared to
take that course, unless there is a decided
reform in prevailing methods.
If the charges made in the address do
not point to independent action and the
discarding of party bondage on State
issues they do not point-to anything at alL
CROPS AND THE GOLD MOVEMENT.
"While the continued outflow of gold, as
indicated by the shipments of last week,
contains a premonitory symptom of light
money markets in the fall, there is a very
comfortable prospect of its correction in
the favorable crop outlook. A large crop
might temporarily enhance the stringency
next fall by the increased demand for
money in its movements; but the ultimate
result would be likely to reverse the pres
ent outward movement of gold.
There is a considerable variation in the
estimates of the amount of wheat Europe J
will need to purchase during the next crop
j ear, but the lowest is 288,000,000 bushels. I
If the United btates should furnish but
half of this and the present crop pros
pects point to an even greater surplus it
would give an addition to the trade bal
ance in our favor that must at least check
exportations of gold. At present it is
difficult for any calculations in the line of
xchange to figure out how Europe could
ay for an addition of nearly 60,000,000
'.ushels to the average wheat-export with
ut sending back the greater share of the
old which has been taken away from us
11s year.
Unless some very radical change comes
over the crop reports, by this time next
ear our surplus graiu exports should
have turned the tide of gold in the direc
tion of this country instead of, as at pres-
ut, against it
THE COINAGE ISSUE.
The New Tork Commercial Advertiser
replies to The Dispatch's criticism of
its assertion that the Treasury can make
seventeen millions a year by coining
$53,000,000 of silver bullion into an alleged
70,000,000 of silver coin with the acknowl
edgment that the profit is a flat profit.
So, it asserts, is the profit on subsidiary
silver coinage, and as "silver would be
subsidiary coinage until international
agreement established bi-metallism, "it sees
no danger in Secretary Foster's plan of
adding seventy millions a year to our cur
rency. Our cotemporary goes on to further de
fine its position with regard to silver by
laying down certain points with which
TnE Dispatch can entirely agre-. It is
opposed to shortened yardsticks, but as
serts that "the only way to defeat free
coinage is to lecognke that those
who demand it are neither knaves
" Dor fools." It perceives that the
country needs more silver money, but
denueb as two necessary requirements
that. (1) Ao mine owner shall receive a
dollar for eighty cents worth of silver;
(2) no debtor shall pay a dollar with
eighty cents worth of silver.
To all these things TnE Dispatch can
ireely assent. It has frequently pointed
out that there is more foundation to the
silver men's complaints than the gold
men generally concede. It believes that
the only ultimate way out is the re-establishment
of bi-metallism by international
. -agreement But it holds that free coinage
would not only not re-establish bi-metallism,
but that it would entail a great wrong
by practically scaling down debts in exactly
the percentage that the silver dollar is
less in bullion value than the gold dollar.
It will thus be seen that on general
principles as concerns silver we are in.
practical agreement with our .New York
cotemporary. But it is one of the fatali
ties of this question that it is
so hidden by preconceptions nd
complications that men starting on
a nght basis very quickly are led astray.
The evidence of this is afforded by the
Commercial Advertiser itself. It declares
that no debter should be allowed to pay a
dollar with eighty cents worth of silver;
yet on its own proposition that the Gov
ernment shall obtain a profit by paying
out $33,000,000 worth of silver as $70,000,
000 what would the Government be doing
but that? It thinks that silver is sub
sidiary coinage; but with the mints add
ing to the bulk of that coinage at the rate
of 570,000,000 per annum, and gold going
out of the country in about the same
volume, how long before the subsidiary
coinage will be the principal coinage? It
is opposed to shortened yardsticks; but
when such a bulk of silver is accumulated
that the Treasury has to make silver pay
ments every one will pay his debts by the
shortened yardstick.
In all this discussion there is one point
that is necessary to bear in mind." The
only way to insure real bi-metallism on a
secure foundation without the interna
tional co-operation at present beyond our
reach is for the Treasury to coin silver
dollars of equal bullion value to gold
dollars, or to adopt a new coin in which
silver and gold shall be alloyed on equal
terms.
COMPEATNTNG OF THE VETOES.
Certain of our Republican cotempor
aries have taken breath after the Govern
or's veto work, and now proceed-to pitch
into him. It may be remembered that a
similar attack was made upon him for his
vetoes during his first term; but the effect
on the public mind, both of the vetoes ana
of the criticisms, was seen in the election
of the Governor to his present term. The
criticisms take two lines of argument-
One is based on a theory concerning the
use of the veto which Is obviously manu
factured to suit the needs of the occasion;
the other depends on appealing to the in
terests injured by especial vetoes.
Of the first class Is the argument pro
duced by the New York Becorder, which .
thinks it very wrong for a Governorto ex
amine all bills and kill those which do not
meet his approval. It says: "The veto
power has been given to the Executive as
a sacred right, a special privilege, to be
sparingly used, to correct errors into
which even the most prudent assemblies
might fall, and not that the Executive
should bo the master of the Legislature." It
is singular that if the veto power must be
"sparingly used" no constitutional pro
vision ever said so. The Constitution
under which Governor Patterson is acting
declares that if the Governor "does not ap
prove" the legislation submitted to his con
sideration he must return it without his
signature, which seems to indicate that if
the veto power is to be used sparingly the
legislature must be sparing in sending in
legislation that meets Executive disap
proval. The fact is that the Governor's pol'cy in
giving all legislation a careful sen-tiny,
and acting with an independent am' vigor
ous judgment is the only way in which he
can fulfil the duties laid upon him by the
Constitution. It is infinitely superior to
the weak doctrine, actually avowed by
some of his predecessors, that they have
got to approve whatever the legislature
sends them. In adhering to that policy
the Governor has vindicated the support of
the independent element which largely
aided his election; although The Dis
patch In some individual cases cannot
agree with his action. Thus after vetoing
the compulsory education bill, because its
'details were not proper, it is difficult to
see how he could sign such travesties
upon their avowed purposes as the ballot
reform and the Constitutional convention
measures. These are single cases on
which The Dispatch cannot agree with
the Gove'- . while applauding his general
policy of jiaking the veto an effective
check upon reckless, negligent or corrupt
legislation.
The Philadelphia Press takes the other
method of attacking the vetoes by pub
lishing pictures of animals in contracted
quarters, with the legend "No appropria
tions for the Zoo," and of a very shabby
looking building with the inscription
"Memorial Hall Must Remain as It Is."
But is not the esteemed Press a little in
discreet in this? Every one. knows that
Memorial Hall need not remain as it is
unless the City of Philadelphia is too
mean to repair its own property, and that
the animals in the Zoological Garden can
have expanded quarters if the city
furnishes them. Will it weaken or
strengthen the Governor's popularity to
have the people of Erie, the miners of
Westmoreland, and the mill hands of Al
legheny county know that he refused to
have their money used for the enrich
ment of such entirely local institutions?
A PUBLIC LOSS.
The death of District Attorney Johns
ton yesterday will bring regret not only
to tho legal associates of that talented gen
tleman, but to a wide circle of his friends
and admirers. Mr. Johnston was a com
paratively young man at the bar, but the
standing and popularity he earned were
evidenced by his election by an immense
majority to the District. Attorneyship in a
strongly Republican county although com
ing before the people as the Democratic
candidate. His services in the position to
which he was elected by the discarding of
partisanship fully justified the popular
judgment The reforms he introduced in
the conduct of the criminal business for
the purpose of expediting trials have had
so marked a success that it is agreed by all
lawyers tbat his successor must adopt and
perpetuate his improved methods. Alle
gheny county has lost a valuable official
and the liar a member of the highest tal
ents in the untimely demise of Richard IL
Johnston. Socially,also, he was one of the
most popular men in the county because of
his thorough manliness combined -with a
remarkably gentle and kindly disposition.
AN ECONOMIC UNTRUTH.
Mr. Erastus Wiman, In an article in
tended to demonstrate to the farmers that,
their present attitude of complaint is
wholly wrong, asserts that "the chief evil
of the generation of producers now pass
ing away is that of over-production, result
ing in the destruction of profit"
This is worse than nonsense. It is a
pernicious falsification of the most funda
mental economic principles. Production
in any industry is the total of staples or
commodity produced by labor for the con
sumption of society. Profit consists of the
supplies which the producers of any class
of commodity can obtain In exchange for
their commodities, and it is plain that the
more any producer receives in exchange
for his production, the greater is his
actual profit Mr. Wiman would
have the fanners believe that
if there is a greater production
of wheat, flour, clothing, boots and
shoes, iron and steel implements, and so
on, therefore the man who produces one
of these staples can get less of all the
others which he needs for supplies, which,
as we have already remarked, is a perni
cious and misleading untruth.
The utter faldty ef such -gtatemenU-U.
evident from the application Mr. Wiman
makes of it He refers to wheat producers.
Now it is a notorious fact that for the past
few years the crops of wheat have been
below the average, and in that fact the
lack of prosperity among, Western farmers
has one of its causes. The popular
and universal prediction that a good crop
this year will enhance the general pros
perity is true, and the opposite idea incul
cated by Mr. Wiman Is wholly untrue.
The artificial restriction of production
may swell, the profits of combinations o
middlemen; but the prosperity gained by"
such means Is the opposite of prosperity
for the masses.
The-New York TForWis not doing Gov
ernor Paulson any service in asserting that
'he vetoed the compulsory education bill
on the ground that, "the free provision of
educational opportunities, open to all alike,
is as far as any government can afford to go
In that line." The Governor vetoed tho bill
because it was loosely drawn and did not
meet tho primary requirements As to the
assertion tbat compulsory education Is un
democratic, If it is democratic to tax the
people for tho prevention of popular Ignor
ance it must be democratic to make the
purpose of that taxation effective. The talk
about "Invading the home" and "taking tho
control of children away from tho parent"
which the esteemed World indulges in is
more applicable to laws rorbidding children's
labor, which that journal supports, than to
properly drawn compulsory education laws.
The strike of bakers and butchers in
Paris calls attention to the fact that the
costly municipal improvements of that city
are paid for by the octroi, or taxes on all
articles of food that enter the city. The
policy of making food dear carried to its full
extent produces the legitimate result of
popular disaffection.
It is not edifying to find this effort at de
fense of tho Prince of Wales in the New
York Recorder: "The Prince of Wales and a
number of ladies and gentlemen, thrown'
into the ennui of a country house, may cer
tainly venture upon a game of cards for
money without being denounced from the
pulpits of the English-speaking world as
low gamblers.' " Are wo to take It as a
principle of the New York republicanism of
which the esteemed lleeorder is the latest
organ that dissipations which are immoral
for common people are all right if tho par
ticipants are princely and aristocratic? In
other words, is "low gambling," to uso tho
Recorder's distinction, any lower In a moral
point of view than high gambling?
A steady: decline in the price of brim
stone is noted during tho past two weeks. Is
it possible that the spread of heterodox
views concerning tho infernal regions has
produced this result? If so. Ills Satanic Ma
jesty will have to get up a trust. Perhaps
we should say another trust.
Reports indicate that the cattlemen who
have been occupying the Cherokee strip
with their herds, in defiance of law, aro
now preparing to leave on account 01 the
conclusive arguments of the Fifth U. S.
Cavalry, sent to drive them out. The readi
ness of the cattle barons to obey those who
are able to make them do what is told is in
structive. Like a good many other elements
in our civilization, they illustrate the fable
of the boy and the old man in the primer by
mocking at words and grass, but when hard
missiles aro threatened, coming down in a
hurry.
The Philadelphia Independent idea, as
exemplified by some recent deliverances
from certain Republican elements, is that
while they were prevented from kicking
over the traces last fall they have come to
the conclusion that the other fellows who
did so did quite right.
It is interesting to observe that the
Augusta Chronicle, a Democratlo silver or
gan, says tbat Governor David Bennett
Hill's Brooklyn speech showed him to be in
favor of the free coinage of silver, while the
Buffalo Courier, a Democratlo anti-silver or
gan, asserts that it does not. The success of
the Governor in straddling the silver ques
tion so as to set bis own organs to disputing
which side he is on is another case of attain
ing so much success as to be ruinous.
The sudden appearance of a lake, where
there was a desert before,out in Arizona, is at
tributed to a subterranean deposit of water.
In view of the fact that there has been no
recent squeeze in the stocks of the trans
continental roads, this may be the correct
theory.
It is interesting to observe that the Hon.
Thomas Von Moltke Cooper thinks that tho
dissatisfied Philadelphia Republicans have
made a mistake in opening the Senatorial
battle two years in advance. The Interest
ing aspect of this argument is not lessened
by the certainty that if they had waited
until next year Mr. Cooper would have been
equally positive that they were too late in
raising that issue.
The poor people of Germany who sent in
petitions asking for changes in the duties
that would give them cheaper food staples
have an experience foreshadowed in Script
ural literature. They asked for bread and a
lottery was given to them.
IT is one of the interesting facts of poli
tics that, in a speech two or three years ago,
Colonel Fred Grant struck what has since
turned out to be something in the way of a
keynote. "A surplus is easier to handle than
a deficit," declared the son of bis father. The
last Congress demonstrated tho easy part of
that assertion, and now tho administration
Is in u. fair way to wrestle with the difficult
end of it.
The study of the racing tips of the New
York Mad and Express has convinced the
sports of New York that Colonel Elliott F.
Shepard's knowledge of sports is as badly
agog as his judgment on political and finan
cial morals.
It is announced as by authority that the
form of public debt statement used in the
time of Secretary Sherman will be adopted
hereafter. The experiment of fixing the
debt statement up so as to suit the special
views of the head of tho Treasury Depart
ment has not worked well. But it is to be
noted that the old form did not tell too
much.
Pbof. Totten 's theories and calculations
about the end of the world are reported to
have driven one man crazy. Not Prof. Tot
tcn, but some other man.
MOEGAHTOWN'S LEGAL STATUS.
It Is Throw u In Donbt In a Land Com
pany's Street Opening Case.
rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Mokqaktown, June 80. The Morgantown
Building and Investment Company has re
cently bought about lift acres of land ad
joining this place, and also several lots in
the town of Morgantown, the Mayor of
which is the President of the corporation.
The company has instituted proceedings to
condemn all the lots between Front street
and Bumbo lane to the northern boundary
of tho town to construct a slreeV'to the
lands of the company.
Many citizens believe that the Common
Council is not a legal body, but the Circuit
Judge by his decision sustained, the motion
to reject the plea in abatement 'denying.the
existence of the town as a corporation, be
cause of the amendment of its charter by
the Court a few months ago. The defend
ants in these proceedings claim that they
could show, if given an opportunity, that
tho present alleged city authorities have not
a valid title to their office. The matter will
go to tho Supreme Court.
They Forget It Is Boston.
Boston Globe. 1
A correspondent in the Sunday Globe Is
curious to know why tho minister reads the j
nymnaioua in tne churcnes. veu, tnere
was a time in New England when many of
the people in the pews did not know how to
re id. The minister still reads the hymn he-
cause our grandfathers used, to. Custom is
.strangely tenacious.
OUR ANNUAL OUTING?
Plttshurg'rSumnier Excursions What the
Passenger Agents of AH the Railroads
Say The MlUworkers Beady for a Rest
The Favorite Resorts.
This is the time when the heart of the hard
working Pittsburger begins to yearn for
holidays. And for Its size there is no city in
the country where this yearning meets moro
generally with fruition. That is to say tho
net yearnings 'of Pittsburg for seashore,
lake and mountain are large. Tho month of
July is of all months tho favorite of the ox
cursionist, though August runs it" close. It
has come to pass that very few indeed but
find it possible and deslraDie to take a
vacation in summer, and to spend It in
travel at some health resort or seclusion
amid meadows of green, among the mount
ains, by the sea or on the lake shore. Nearly
everybody gets away somewhere and what
used to be the rich man's privilege is so no
longer the summer excursion is within tho
reach of very thin pocketbooks.
"My men are crazy to got away from
work," said an iron manufacturer yesterday
to me, "simply crazy, nnd when the mills
close down for repairs next week I know
that a majority of them will start for two
weeks' recreation and fresh air as soon as
they can. They work hard all the year, and
the summer vacation is of Immense valno to
them, and to their employers. I don't think
I ever knew the craving for rest and a
change of scene to be so general and
so strontr as it is among the men
this year. This annual relaxation
and the trip it usually involves are a
noticeablo factor in the national life.
Look at it financially: Most of my men
save mor-eV specially for the summer vaca
tion, and tho average man has from $30 to
$50 at least hoarded up, which he scatters to
the winds when he goes away, You can see
what this means when the glass houses shut
down, and when the big mills close for their
usual midsummer repairs at least a quick
calculation of a good many hundred thou
sand dollars."
Where the Money Goes.
"The growth of the summer tour and ex
cursion business has been wonderful in the
last three or four years," said Passenger
Agent Thomas E. Watt, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad yesterday. "Especially sinco
tho policy of making low rates for summer
trips has been established the popular rush
to the seashore has becomo a marked feature
of the year's business. The cheap excur
sions to Atlantic City are only seven or
eight years old, but they have taken a firm
Sbold upon the people of Pittsburg already?
Last year, for instance, we carried the
largest number to Atlantic City, 2,711 pas
sengers in four excursions, since they were
Inaugurated, and that showed an Increase
of 620 over the preceding year. I think it is
tolerably certain that 90 per cent of these
excursionists would not have gone
to the sea but for tho low rates.
How many went at regular rates
from Plttsburc: to Atlantic City would be
hard to calculate, but some thousands no
doubt. The Pennsylvania Railroad besides
carried 6,000 or 7,000 other passengers to the
New England coast, to Lake Chautauqua
overthe Valley road to Canada, to the Thou
sand Islands, to Bedford, Cresson and other
Tesorts. It Is within the mark to estimate the
total number of Pittsbuigers carried on our
lines east ior summer trips pure nnu simple
at ten to twelve thousand. In this total, of
course, the thousands of excursionists taken
toldlewildare not included. More picnics
than ever are going this year to this lovely
spot In the Ligonier Valley, and overy day
is taken bv some church or society until Au
gust 15. The size of tho trafllc for this one
resort can be judged when I toll you that 40
cars will be needed to take Wilktnsburg en
-masse to Idlewild on July 9."
A Tremendous Train.
"It would astonish a good many people if
you were to tell them how many cars it
takes to carry all the Plttsburgers to Atlan
tic City during July and August over tho
B. & O.," said Passenger Agent E. D. Smith,
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, yester
day. "Last year, for instance, we carried to
the Atlantic City suburb of Pittsburg some
where between 2.C00 and 2,800 passengers on
the cheap excursions that is. Now a par
lor car nolds- 30 persons, and to carry
the six to seven thousand persons who go
irom PlttsDurg during tne montnsot July
and August to Atlantic City would require
200 odd parlor cars. Half the excursionists
travel in the parlor cars. That's the travel
to one place alone, but of course Atlantic
City is easily the most popular of seaside re
sorts, especially With the B. & O-., which
makes Washington City a stopping place en
route."
"How many Plttsburgers go to the sea
shore should you think, Mr. Smith?"
"The guess must be rough, but I should say
not less man lo.uuu, 01 wnom nearly lu.uuugo
to Atlantic City. Then thcro is the general
excursion travel as well; over our road there
are the regular Sunday excursions to Wheel
ing and Ohio Pyle three to five carloads
every Sunday to each place and
the mountains attract some summer so
journers, too. It is my belief, founded on an
experience of 20 years or so, that there is
no city in the United States that takes so
kindly to excursions as does Plttsburc."
Plenty of Tourists This Year.
"I doh't think tho strikes in the building
trades have hurt excursion or tourist busi
ness with us," said Passenger Agent A. E.
ClaTk, of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie, yes
terday. "The fact is, strikes seem to help
swell the picnics, and if there is any branch
of the summer excursion business that they
Interfere with, it is tho fishing club outings.
The regular tourist traffic and the
picnics are heavier than ever so
far, and I do not anticipate any
falling off in the fishing club line,
though that is a matter for July to show.
The pionic business has been enormous; last
week we carried 6,000 people to Aliquippa,
and it looks as if the record of 33,000 which
Aliquippa won last year would go to 10,030
his year. We have no outlet to the sea
coast, of course, but we are earnestly inter
ested in tho midsummer exodus neverthe
less. Thousands of Pittsburgors go to the
lakes to find coolness and all sorts of amuse
ment in the hottest time of the year, and
Niagara Falls, Canada and the Thousand
Islands, the St. Lawrence river and Quebec
catch plenty of Pittsburg tourists. The
cheap fares have bioughtahost of distant
points within the reach of men of
very slender flnancos, and it is a
fact that the present habit of going
away for a short trip In summer is largely a
matter of education, and Pittsburg has
taken very kindly to the teaching. Of all
the resorts which the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie reaches Chautauqua maintains the pre
eminence inpopularlty here. The medicinal
springs of Cambridge and Saegortown are
bringing both places into the favor of many
Plttsburgers."
' Little Bung Here and There.
Faost other railroad men were obtained
facts and figures going to establish the same
conclusion that Pittsburg believes In taking
a summer vacation, and has beoome aoous
tomed gradually to go further and fur
ther afield to find rest, change and
recreation. Tho majority of the
participants in the low-priced excur
sions to the sea-shore are hardworking men
from the mills with their families. The
glass houses close down opportunelyfor tho
men to get away on fishing excursions and
the like. The number of Pittsburgers who
will camp out this summer will be larger
than over, the railroad passenger agents
think. The picnic trafflo of all tho railroads
owning grounds has started with a boom.
Rock Point, the beautiful resort on the Fort
Wayne road, for example, was started in
1384, and the officers of the road thought it
was wonderful when the season's returns
showed that 23,309 people had picnicked
there, but by last year an increase of over
250 per cent had taken place, for the Fort
Wayno cars carried 82,250 there. In the seven
years of its existence 330,000 people have
been carried to Rock Point from this city
and its vicinity ! No wonder a railroad man'
remarked to me with a laugh yesterday:
"Plttsburgers are an extraordinary people
for excursions: they will go anywhere if tho
rate is low enough, and from pure love of
getting out of town. Only one place in the
country that I know of beats Pittsburg in
this passion for excursions, and that Is East
Liverpool. Whenever tho potteries are
closed there an excursion in any direction
at reasonable rates will simply depopulate
the place for a day."
A Pointer for Prohibitionists.
New York Telegram.
If the drink question could be discussed
only on Mondays, there would never be but
one side to it. The Saturday'night nnd Sun
day's crop of fatal accidents and violent
crimes due to alcoholism leave not an inch
of vantage ground for a defence of the habit.
Horse Meat for Chicago Sausages.
Chicago, June 30. An officer of the health
department claims to have discovered that
the flesh of broken down, emaciated nnd
diseased horses is being made into sausage -j
meat ana soia in us pror ajuurters OX tne
city. AnJeveKifiation-wiU bo made. v
LET THE CAT BIGHT OUT.
A Little Inmate jt an Orphan Asylum
Bound to Ten the Truth.
A good story is told at the expense of an
orphan asylum in one of these cities, a story
that will be recognized by more than ono
person present on the occasion of the inci
dent. A minister of tho gospel was present,
and ho gave a talk to the children varied by
something catechetical,in order to test their
understanding of his discourse. After dwell
ing for a time on the office of those set apart
as ministrants in the temple at Jerusalem,
and the manner of their consecration to this
service, and on other cognate topics, he
came to speak of the anointing of the Kings,
and paused to ask the children if they knew
what was used. Generally speaking, the
children stuck their fingers in their moutbs,
and their downcast eyes testified that the
question was a poser. But one enfant terri
ble put up-his hand as evidence that ho
knew the kind of unguent used. "Well, my
little man," asked the preacher, "what was
it?" .
"Sulphur and lard," triumphantly cried
out the little shaver, unabashed by the con
fusion that followed. The ministers and all
the other visitors instantaneously divined
from the answer and the confusion that
mantled the faces of the asylum managers
and attendants that the boy had let the cat
out of the wallet. Though scabies is almost
certain to make its appearance occasionally
in institutions of this kind, yet the managers
thereof take as much pains to conceal it as
do the proudest families.
A BEMABKABLE APPLE TBEE.
Its Beneficent Career Ended, but Its Re
sults Still Live.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Wheelisg, June 80. In 1799 Jonathan
Thatcher purchased the farm on which his
descendant, Jonathan Thatcher, now re
sides, a few miles west of Martinsburg. At
that time there was growing on It a small
apple tree about two inches in circumfer
ence, the seed of which must have been
wafted and planted by some of the laws of
tho Almighty. Protection was placed about
It and the tree grew and bore a red apple of
delicious flavor.
It was never crafted, but grafts from it are
now doing duty in Iowa, Ohio and Missouri.
In 1835 Jacob Hoke and Philip Deffenderfer
picked irom that tree 115 bushels of apples.
For 92 years It met the winter storms and
summer sunshine and gusts, but last Sunday
the tree bowed its aged head to the storm
that passed there, being bodily torn up from
the roots. This was the end of tho famous'
Thatcher tree.
WORKED HIMSELF TO DEATH.
An Unknown Man Labors Until He Drops
Dead of Consumption.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Mouhdsville, W. Va., June 30. While a
young lady was picking berries on the Ohio
side of tho river opposite this place she dis
covered tho body of a man lying in the
bushes. From the appearance of the body
the man must have been dead for several
weoks, and upon investigation It proved to
bo one of the men employed on the Pitts
burg, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati road.
No marks of violence were found, and it is
said that he died of consumption. He had
worked until he became so weak that he
could bear it no longer, and then crawled
into the bushes where he died. His name is
unknown.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
The President of Mexico has Indian
blood in his veins and is proud of it.
Berry Wall is credited with making
an Income of $25,000 a year as a life insurance
agent.
Senob del Castillo, the Spanish Prime
Minister, is one of the wealthy men of the
kingdom.
Peffee, of Kansas, has evoluted into a
person who cares about his personal appear
ance and likes good things to oat, and his
hair and beard have been trimmed, too.
Hon. Harvey Rice, father of the Ohio
common school system. Is now 91 years of
age, and is living quietly in Cleveland,
where he still spends an hour dally with his
pen.
The coachman of Austria's Prime Minis
ter, Count Taaffe, wears his master's old
clothes at times, and intimates tbat states
man's habit of tipping his hat back in public.
The two men resemble each other, also, in
figure.
Archbishop Tachb, who for decades
has been the head of tlfo Roman Catholic
Church in the Canadian Northwest and the
foremost Canadian prelate, is lying at the
point of death. His recovery is believed to
be impossible.
While Robert Louis Stevenson was a
member of a band of art stndonts at Barbl
zon years ago, the question arose as to which
one of their number could best be spared by
the world. The vote was unanimous in favor
of Stevenson.
Couut Alexander Keyserlujg, who
died a few weeks ago, was one of the best
known authorities on geology and paleon
tology in the Baltic provinces. When a
young man Alexander von Humboldt
honored him with his admiration and friend
ship. He was a classmate of Prince Bis
marck in the University of Goettingen.
Gladstone is comparatively a poor man,
and the occasional literary work he does for
magazines and periodicals is not the result
of any desire to add to his established fame
as a writer. Ho takes a very matter of fact
view of such productions, reckoning them
Blmply as valuable help to the liquidation of
his heavy household expenses. For every
article he writes he reoeives $1,000.
DEATHS OP A DAT.
Albert L. Coolidge.
Albert L. Coolidge, President of the
Para Rubber Company, died Monday at his Brook
lyn residence, aged 59. The threatening aspect of
the rubber markets of South America led him to
attempt tne task of bringing all the great rubber
concerns Into a gigantio trust that would control
tne rnDDer marccut 01 ine worm, uis protect was a
brilliant one, but It progressed slowly and met with
much opposition. The strain upon his body and
mind was more than his constitution could stand,
and three months ago Ills health failed him. As a
member of the commission to the Philadelphia ai
Paris Expositions he performed valuable service
Jean Edouard Goumy.
The death is announced in Paris of Jeanw-Taeing
Edouard Goumy, Maltrc de Conferences at the Supe
rior Normal School la Latin Language and Litera
ture, Officer of Public Instruction aud editor in
chief of the Rem', de V Instruction Puiligue. In 1879
he received the nomination to the exalted office at
the Normal School, which he held until his death.
He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor In
18(38. He was a writer on polltlcaiand literary sub
jects for the Opinion Rationale, editor for a quarter
of a century of the Remt at Instruction Ptibligve,
and the author of "La France du Centenalre,'' a.
blKhb -valued historical review of France from
171&, published in 18S3.
Colonel George Thorn.
Colonel George Thorn (retired), TJ. S. A.,
died Monday, at Washington, of exhaustlonfol
lowlng an attack of apoplexy. He was appointed a
lieutenant In the Topographical Engineer Corps.
He had risen to the rank of Major when tbe war
began. In 1863 he was transferred to the Engineer
Corps. He was made a Colonel in 18S0, and three
5 ears later, after 40 years' service, he was, at his
own request, placed on the retired Ust. lie was by
brevet a Brigadier General.
. Obituary Notes,
nlngham was the-only daughter of 8". K. Lake, of
Pittsburg.
William Marshall, 8b., British Vice Consul
at Richmond, Va., for many years, died Monday
at that place.
Mas. Kate A. CniDBET, wife of ex-Mayor C
F. Chldsey, died al Easton. Sunday night, aged 46.
She was prominent in charitable works.
Mas. Nettie L., wife of Bev. F. A. Cunning
ham pastor of the First Baptlsf Church, Somer-vlUeMa-"S..
died In that city June M. Mrs. Oun-
Patbick Looue, a most exemplary young man
ofShousetown, died at his home yesterday at the
age of 20 years. He was a nephew of Hugh O'Don
nell, bf Homestead.
CHEISTOFHER GAYNOB and wife, aged respec
tively 89 and 87, ofEvansvlllc. while visiting their
son at Pilot Knob, lnd., died Monday within ten
hours of each other.
Sins Maby Hollae, wife' of Postmaster 'Frank
E. Hollar, of Shlppeusburg, died Monday, aged a.
Bhe was a daughter of Joseph C. Kennedy, General
Stock Agent of the Chesapeake VaUey Railroad
Company.
REV. William M. OGDES, rector of the Church
of the Holy Cross, at Warrensburg, N. Y., fell
dead In his pulpit while preaching Monday morn
ing He wasSi years of age and had been pastor
or the church for 20 years.
Mbs. Almiba AmBleb, a noted woman during
the war, died In Pleasant Valley, N. Y., Saturday
and was hurled in Danbury on Monday. She was
the first woman to volunteer as an ianny nurse,
and with her husband, Chaplain E. C. Amblerfl
erred throughout the war. She was one 01 the I
unanTof the Woman.' Belief Corps, and one of J
toe use auiouw nwr jtcmowu auuiKi
ilragew44.
THE PRINCE'S MINT JULEP.
An Inscription to Be Placed on a Tablet In
the Room Where He Drank It Causes a
Contest Which Brings Ont Many Veins
of Poetical Humor.
CSPECTAL TELEGItAM TO TnE DISPATCH.
Richmokd, Juno 80. A novel contest that
has j ust been closed hero was brousht about
by the baccarat trial. When tho Prince of
Wales was in America he drank his first
mint julep in tho Exchange Hotel in this
city. It was made in a big cut glass flagon
by the most iamous concoctor of Juleps of
thatjday, and the Prince took it through a
straw. For a long time the flagon was pre
served, but it was lost in reconstruction
times.
'We will close tho door and leave yonr
Royal Highness to enloy this Virginia's
best," was tho polite remark when the mint
Julep was brought in. When the door was
opened an hour later the Prince was alone
and the great cut glass flagon was onipty.
Ever since that time the room has been
known as the Prince of Wales' room. It was
occnpled afterward by the Marquis of Lome
and the Princess Louise, Don Carlos, Count
of Paris and other notables. During the re
cent trial It was suggested that a marble tab
let should be placed In this room to com
memorate the fact that there the Prince
drank his first mint julep. The slab was
promised and the idea caught the popular
fancy. When suitablo Inscriptions were
called for the committee had many respon
ses. Those most in favor, and from which
the selection will be made, are the follow
ing: Poetical Tribute to the Spot.
Here Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
Drank his first mint inlen nnd said:
"Our royal satisfaction witnesseth,
'Ms a most wholesome potion."
Mortal, pause, reflect how Wales, nlas (9ic),
Forsook Virginia's drink, well mix'd with
grass (hie);
And care upon the royal brow has sat
Ho went from mint to baccarat.
Jqst on this spot, in bygono days,
Young Albert Edward stood;
And as the fragrant Julep quaffed,
Says he, "Now this is good.1'
And no donbt, in his mind's eye,
The scene has come back oft,
Before he fell in wicked snares.
Like those at Tranby Croft.
But judge not harshly England's heir;
In spite of wicked tales,
Let us hope he'll be a better man,
For sake of Princess Wales,
And yet be Britain's pride and hope,
When mother's work Is done,
And prove himself. In word and deed,
Good Albert's royal son.
This sculptured scroll will then recall
More virtue than of vice.
When princely lips of Juleps said:
"They're naughty, but they're nice."
Baccarat Is Added to the Theme.
In this room, Al Ed,
England's heir apparent,
Drank his first mint julep,
And then he went from drink to cards.
Clubs, beware. Do not do as princes do.
England pays tbeir gambling debts, but you
In tackling poker or baccarat,
Will find your fortune ne'er waxed fat.
Hotel Exchange that was the place;
In 1860 was tbe time,
The Prince a julep drank, and said:
This country's mint is famous far,
I mean its mint of gold;
Tilt. rf nlfl Vlwnlald mint
The half has not been told;
And when I back to England go,
Good Duke, I beg you hear,
I'll plant around my royal home,
A mint bed far and near.
Tho Queen must not know of that
We'll work It on the sly;
And, to make It better still,
We'll take a stock of rye."
And so tradition says that Wale3
Found mint and rye so pleasant
That home he took the recipe,
To cheer both Prince and peasant.
The Julep's power so potent is
It levels every rank;
So here this tablet we inscribe,
Where the Prince his first one drank.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp.
So said the Scottish poet;
But rank and wealth must always win,
And very well we know it.
The verdict in the scandal case
Has set John Bull a humming.
The feathers of the Prince hang high,
But down goes Gordon-Cumming.
Now, will England's gracious heir
Just take a gentle hint.
Leave off obampagne and baccarat,
And stick to rye and mint. v c
The Beverage Would Revive Him Now.
This tabletrecords not an event of grace.
But the fact that Prince Albert while here
In this place,
His first sweet mint Julep did quaff.
The direst of missiles at England have gone.
But this little tickler will stagger the
Throne,
And give the great nation a laugh.
Now troubles hedge old England's Prince,
Between the ladies and the law,
Since he forsook good old sledge
And took to Frenchy baccarat.
The Richmond Julep would revive him now
When other pleasant tonic fails.
Bruce up. Oh coming king!
Tby. people will not always
Brook thy sins, dear Wales.
Ah, better had the royal Prince,
Indulged him, without stmt,
In Richmond liquor famous far.
Mixed with the fragrant mint,
Than to have raised at Tranby Croft,
A real high old spot
With Gordon-Cumming and the rest,
At ill-starred baccarat.
May this a useful lesson bo,
To Albert Edward Guelph.
The way of the transgressor's hard,
And he knows how it is himself.
A Princeling and his lovely sulto
To old Virginia came,
,To drink an honored beverage
Mint Inlen is its name.
This tablet small records the drink,
Because 'twas number one.
To note the others would require
Of stone about a ton.
It is not improbable that tho tablet will be
put up with the usual accompaniments of
monument-raising an oration and songs.
LANDED A X0HSTEB SPOONBILL.
The Result of a Fishing Excursion on the
Conemangh River.
JonssTOWK, June 30. There was on exhi
bition to-day, at the Broderick Hotel, a fish
that created u creat deal of Interest. It was
jaught In the Conemaugh river, near Nine
veh, Saturday, by James Reynolds. The fish
4a ,o,. A faat lnni, .,H lvalnha Otnnnnrfa
of the kind called a spoonbill.
Mr. iteynoias wouia never nave succeeded.
Vin landing the monster, had It not plowed
its bill undor a stone, whenlt was dispatched
with a very unsportsmanlike club. It Is the
largest fish landed In this vicinity for years.
PEOPLE WHO COKE AND 00.
B. P. BosweU, a Kew Orleans sugar
planter, is at the Monongahela House. He
-Bald to-day the applications for bounties had
been filed and would reach $8,000,000. The
bounty prospect is turning the attention of
many people to tbe sugar enne business.
Lieutenant James Harkins of Company
E, Tenth Regiment, of Mt. Pleasant, was in
thn ritv vesterdav. The handsome lieuten
ant reports everything quiet at tho scene of
tbe late coke war in which he was such a
prominent figure on dress parade.
Colonel W. P. Rend, the Chicago coal
operator, is in the city. The'Colonel says he
has been very busy with his business lately,
ami he hasn't noticed whether the World's
Fair is doing the Windy City any good or
not.
J. H. P. Hughart, President of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana road, and W. V. Hughart,
Jr., were at the Duquesno yesterday. They
came here to conler with officials of the
Pennsylvania Company.
Second Vice President Tnomas M. King,
of the B. & O., w as in the city yesterday.
Mr. King had no news to offer. The com
pany is getting the P. A W. in shape to make
it part of the main line.
H. C. Dimmock, of the Chicago, Mil
waukee aud St. Paul road, went to Altoona
last evening to meet his sister, who is en
route to the Pacific coast.
George H. Robbins, Assistant Secretary
or the Y. M. C. A., left for Athens yesterday
where he will be General Secretary of the
organization.
Secretary S. B. Ligget and Mr. Brooks,
general counsel of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, went to Philadelphia last evening in a
special car.
F. L. Andrews and wife, of New Bethle
hem, left for Duluth on tho limited last even
ing. They will take the lake from Chicago.
I. J. Bulkier, Purchasing Agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio road, and F. E. Cross, of
Columbus, are stopping at the Duquesno.
Ed Sterbrick, ofBraddook, who graduated
in the law department of the Michigan
University, has returned home.
Harry 0. Disston, of the Philadelphia,
saw firm, and Elilah Robinson, of Pirker.
are at tbe Monongahela House.-
SOCIETY'S SUCCESSES.
Commencements and Weddings Chief
Among the Doings of Yesterday.
The curtain at the Grand Opera House
rolled up last evening for the last timo on an
entertainment of any kind; not that tne
opera house is to be discarded, but the cur
tain is, according to Manager Wilt, and to
day it will bid adieu to all its greatness in
favor of a brilliant new successor. It retires
after having served during its career many
notable events, of which the commence
ment last evening of the Pittsburg Acad
emy was not tne least uy any means.
The class tbat occupied the stage was schol
arly in looks, even to the verge of delicate
health, the result of over study, and in utter
ance to the depths of thought and learning.
Many of the graduates will pursue their
studies still further in higher schools, all of
which in the United States, with the excep
tion of Yale, Harvard and Princeton, admit
the Pittsburg cademy graduates on their
diplomas alone an honor accorded to no
other school in the city.
The exercises last evening dif
fered from others of a similar
nature only in that they were more serious
and evidenced greater thought, probably.
The young gentlemen especially distin
guished themselves with powerful orations
lorcibly delivered. Those who appeared on
the programme were Maud Anna Wachob,
salntatorinn; Anna Margaret Kennedy, J.
Allen McEwen, Gertrude Ivanlll Campe,
Arthur Eugene Hubbard, John Edward
Sautter, AbtJah Hays, Elizabeth Beck, Ed
ward Chambers Chalfant. Rev. George S.
Pnrves, D. D., delivered an address to the
class. Prof. Lytle, the principal, presented
the diplomas. Prof. W. W. McClelland pre
sented Miss Edith Phillips with a gold medal
for the finest penmanship and Harry Krell
ing a gold pen for second honor in the same
branch. Gornerts Orchestra furnished the
music. The city furnished an immense
audience. The audience furnished con
siderable enthusiasm.
Miss Floreuce Boyle and Mr. Harlow
Ward Bailey, with their respective families
enjoyed so much a trip through Japan to
gether that they decided to continue their
travels through lire in company with each
other. Accordingly with the assistance of
Rov. Mr. Smith, rector of the Uniontown
Episcopal Church the important words neces
sary to such a course were performed be
fore a large and fashionable assemblage in
the prettily decorated Episcopal
sanctuary, t The bride is the daughter
of the late Chief Justice Charles E.
Boyle, and the groom is a prominent iron
manufacturer of Buffalo, and son of D. E.
Bailey, a wealthy retired ship and railroad
builder. The families became acquainted in
California, and a Japan trip in company was
the sequence, with this pleasing result. The
attendants for the wedding were: Maid of
honor, Miss Frances Boyle, sister of tho
bride; bridesmaids. Miss Blanche Howland,
Catskill, N. Y.; Miss Marvin, Toledo; Miss
Gertrnde Frost, Washington, D. C, and Miss
Blanche Playford, of Uniontown; best man,
Mr. Lowe, of Buffalo, and ushers, Charles E.
and Edgar Boyle and Mr. Hays, of Buffalo.
John Boyle, Esq., a brother, escorted the
bride to the altar and gave her Into tho
keeping of the groom.
A reception of elegant proportions at the
bride's home was held subsequently, at
which Pittsburg was well-representet', as it
was also at the church.
The Home for Widows and Orphans of
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania, at Laurel sta
tion, will be dedicated Thursday, July 23.
Addresses will be delivered by Hon. H. I.
Gourley, Mayor of Pittsburg; Hon. James G.
Wyman, Mayor of Allegheny; W. Ed. Marsh,
Grand Master Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania;
James B. Nicholson, Past Grand Sire
Sovereign Grand Lodge; Rev. J. J. Mcllyar,
Past Grand Chaplain Grand Lodge of Penn
sylvania, and other distinguished members
of tho order. Suitable outdoor amusements
will be- furnished, including football, base
ball, croquet, quoits, etc Sisters of the vari
ous lodges of Daughters of Rebekah will
provide dinner and refreshments, which
will be sold at very reasonable prices for the
benefit of the homo.
I Most people are satisfied and consider
themselves fortunate If they possess a Mexi
can onyx clock, but Mr. James Aiken, the
Fifth avenue furnishing man, wben his new
North avenue residence is completed,will be
the prond possessor-Jind the only possessor
in the State of an entire mantel of that ma
terial. Expensive? Yes, slightly s6, but
handsome enough to warrant the outlay.
Tbe mantel, which is now taking unto itself
a form at Alexander Beggs' establishment,
will be of the column design with square
base and head pieces. Exceedingly rich
exquisite nnd elegant. It will adorn the
drawing room of the new residence and with
gold trimmings for tbe flreplace will claim
the title of handsomest as well as premiere
of the kind in the State.
At Edgewater last evening Miss Stella
Louise Smartwood became the bride of Dr.
W. S. Stewart, a rising young physician of
'Braddock. The ceremony was performed at
the homo of tho bride's aunt, Mrs. William
Grier, by Kev. Dr. vV. S. Kevin, pastor of the
U. P. Church of Verona. The bride was at
tended by her cousin. Miss Jean Grier, and
Miss Mary Stewart, a cousin of the groom,
who is a brother of Representative S. E.
Stewart, of the Eighth Legislative district.
An Eastern wedding trip has been embarked
upon.
Yksteboat afternoon at 5 o'clock occurred
tho wedding of Miss Jennie Hively, a popu
lar teacher of the Soho school and Mr. Glenn
Faull, a prominent Fourteenth ward drug
gist. The marriage. Rev. Dr. Applegarth of
ficiating, took place at the residence of the
bride's mother on Fifth avenue, where the
happy couple will reside when they return
from a two weeks' tour of tbe East. Miss
Hively was costumed In a stylish suit of tan,
with hat and gloves to correspond. The
whole being very becoming to her dark
beauty.
Highland Park put on gay colors and as
sumed an expression of unalloyed pleasure
last evening. The occasion was anotker of
the Duqnesne Traction Company's delight
ful concerts by tbe Great Western Band.
Countless thousands assembled- and en
Joyed, without expense other than car fare,
free air and tree music both refreshing and
inspiring.
Social Chatter.
Talltho parties are all the rago in tho
East End.
The Mayflower excursion last evening was
certainly a "daisy."
Mbs. William Whitset has returned from
a five months' visit to California.
Toe California State Normal School alumni
banqueted last evening in the chapel of the
school.
The McCreery-Maxwell nuptials presum
ably were solemnized last evening in New
Jersey.
Alexander Mubdocx and wife, of John R.
& A. Murdock, leave the 7th for an extended
Rocky Mouncaln trip.
Mbs. Meubeb, of New York, is in the city
visiting friends and relatives. She will be
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Slomer
for the next ten days.
Pbof. Bybo W. KiifO returned last even
ing from California State Normal School,
where, he had been training a literary so
ciety, and departed later for Council Bluffs,
where he will give readings to the Chautau
qua Assembly in session there.
The Bedford School of the Southside pic
nicked at Aliquippa yesterday. Over 2,000
people went on tne excursion, a special
train of 20 coaches conveyed the large crowd
over the Lake Erie Railroad, The Bedford
Band of the Twenty-ninth ward furnished
tbe music.
The basket picnic of the Saturday after
noon class of Thuma's Dancing Academy
will be held at Wildwood, on tne Pittsburg
and Western Railroad, Wednesday, July ft
The train will leave the Pittsburg and West
ern depot, foot of Anderson street and
Niuth street bridge; Allegheny, at 10 a.m.,
sharp, returning ate o'clock in the evening.
Extensive preparations are under way for
a lawn fete and grand vocal and instru
mental concert to be held on the spacious
and beautiful lawn surrounding tbe elegant
residence of Mr. C. K. Bryce on Fifth ave
nue, Homestead, on Friday evening, July 3.
The proceeds will be devoted toThe erection
of a new building for the Independent Fire
Company, No. 1, of which Mr. Bryce is a
member.
AERONAUTS ABE ARTISTS.
A Queer Case Under the Contract Labor Law
Settled at Chicago.
Chicago, Juno CO. Eugene Godarfl and
Plllns Pinas, the French; aeronauts, came
near being detained to-day as common
laborers imported under contract. They
came to this country under 'contract to a
Chicago Arm to operate a captive balloon
similar to that operated in Paris, and when
they went to the Custom House to-day for
the purpose of securing tbe entry of their
balloon free of duty as among tbe "tools of
their trade," Immigrant Inspector Lester
questioned them as to tbeir business.
After looking up the law, Lester came to
the conclnslon tbat aeronautics is an art and
that aeronauts are professors a class not
cdbjeot to the provisions of the contract
labor law. Ho will, however, report the case
to the authorities at Washington.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
New York city employs 3,513 publics
school teachers.
A New Orleans man keeps a lizard on
his table to guard valuable papers.
At Birmingham, Ala., there is an old
hen which kills sparrows. She coaxes them -up
with bait.
Richard Tellis, who lives near Clifford,
Mich., served in 38 engagements during tho
warand never lost a drop of blood.
If the Mediterranean were lowered 660
feet Italy would be Joined to Africa, and
inrco separate seas wuuiu remain.
'At a military dinner in New York the
other evening the ice cream cameln the form
of cannon balls, guns, swords and drums.
The explosion of a dynamite cartridge to'
blow up an old ship near Mobite sent to tho
surface a fish that weighed more than
200 pounds.
A Sonomo county (California) vine-,
yardist purchased 10,000 paper bags to cover
the young vines and protect them from the.
grasshoppers.
A man in Dakota was lately sentenced
to prison for half a lifetime, and the Su
preme Court has decided' that tho time
means 19 years, 7 months and 4 days.
A Chinaman in San Francisco has in
troduced something new in the credit line.
He bought a wife on time, and lias now got
himself into trouble because of Ills failure
to payhe debt.
Thirty years ago a lad named Maynajd
was driving a milk team for a living. That
lad grew up to be Hon. . Burr Maynard. who
has Just been appointed to the. Superior
Court Bench of Massachusetts.
At the close of the Civil VFar there
were 700 s.tcam vessels entered on the naval
register of tbe United States, but to-day only
27 of them remain survive. Of these survi
vors the most famous is tbe Kcarsarge.
The newest gimcrack in the hands of
the street peddlers is a little trick savings
bank, a wooden box with a tiny drawer
which opens to receive a coin, and looses
tho coin mysteriously whenever it is shut.
A Ft. "Worth, Tex-, man says that ho
has the largest madstone in the world. It is
r early as large as a hen's egg and was taken,
he says, by his father from the stomach of a
white deer found dead in the Ozark moun
tains. A farmer near Ynba dity, Cal., com
plains that 80 tons of hay he had cut wa3
drenched by a heavy rain, while on the op
posite side of his farm there was a large field
of grain which needed rain, but did not get a
drop.
A million men standing close together,
each not occupying more than four square
feet, could be placed on a patch but little
more than a third of a mile square. A square
mile will accommodate 7,5,000 men. At
that late the whole population of the United .
States would hardly cover ninemiles square.
Mr. J. W. Dodds, of Melton, Gi, is
61 years old, and has-been using the same
razor strop 43 years. It is the only one ha
ever owned, and Is almost as good as new,
never having the mark of a razor on it until
one day last week, when, while sharpening
his razor, Mr. Dodds cut a very small piece
of the strop.
A policeman named Miller, of Port Hu
ron, Mich., heard the cry of a Doy overboard
while sauntering near a bridge there Mon
day. He saw the boy struggling in the water
and Immediately plunged in. The boy's face
was covered with blood, and to his surprise
when he washed it off he discovered he had
rescued his own 6-year-old son that had lal
len off the bridge.
A short time ago, when several well -known
gentlemen visited Flint river, in
Georgia, for fishing, they set lines for trout,
baiting' the hooks with pieces of fish. When
they went to examine their lines they fonnd
that a small channel catfish had swallowed
their bait on one hook, while, in turn, a
small trout had swallowed a catfish, and that
a large 11 pound trout had swallowed the
entire lot.
Patrick "Wood, a patient in Bcllevue
Hospital, New York, is regarded by the doc
tors as a phenomenon. His skin has gradu
ally hardened until it is now like a covering
of sheet-iron not so hard, but as unyielding.
He is as helpless as though he were a statue.
Ho cannot move hand or foot. This disease
is a rare one, and has been diagnosed as
scleredema, or hide-bound. There is no
known cure for it. .
After a young woman in Philadelphia '?'
had made a purchase and had gone the drugT ""
gist remarked: "That's the first time in five
years I've bad a call for dragon!s blood.
What is itT Well, it's a vegetable substance,
obtained from the fruits of several small
palms in the East Indies. Many years ago
it was in great demand among young women
who wished to win back their recreant
lovers, they burning a small lnmpof It with
a certain form of incantation."
An Italian at St. Cloud, Fla., recerilly
bought three lottery tickets, one for
himself, one for his sister, and one for his
brother. The brother got mad to think of
the dollar sauandered for n lntterv- tlnlrnt
and so he sold it to a German and asrreed to
to wait tul pay day for his pay. The Italian
glorified In nls good luck in getting a prom
ise for his squandered dollar, but after the
drawing took place the glorying was on the
cash. The Italian is now to sick too work.
H. "W. Mabry, of Green Cove, Fla.,
says that some three weeks ago a stray hen,
for the time sojourning on the premises of
Blatn Brothers' car works, laid an egg near
tho dry kiln. No one disturbed the egg, and
the other morning one of the workmen who
happened to be engaged near by discovered
that the egg seemed to be animated, and
watched the proceedings for a few minutes,
when, tobls amazement, a pretty little black
chick stepped out of the shell and took in
the surroundings as naturally as if it had
been under obligations to some motherly
fowl for bringing her Into existence after
the most approved fashlom
Lake George has a natural curiosity
which few people appreciate. About a mile
south of Caldwell, in a field, Is one of the
largest holes that anyone has ever seen. It 1
was started quite a good many years ago by
heavy rains nnd has continued to expand
until it is safe to say that several of the
largest hotels could be deposited in it, leav
ing room for a number of other buildings of
no small dimensions. The washouts have
carried the earth into the lowlands and
scattered it abroad, and the cave has
swallowed up trees and portions of fences in "
its course, burying them or carrying them
away. Each year the hole grows larger and
the question is where it may reach to in
years to come. It is a sight worth a tramp
over the fields to see, and should be installed
as one of the curious attractions of Lake
George.
SMILE AND KEEP COOL.
New costumes styled for beach and surf.
From thought! inspired of Ocean's spray
And foam's bewitching daughter gay;
New gowns to grace the tennis turf,
New men to flirt with every day.
Outing.
Wife You're scolding all the time at me,
how would you like to be that African king with
8. 000 wives?
Husband I'd like it to a dot. He can cnt aU
their heads on at a moment's noUce, if they don't
suit him. Hasnington star,
Mrs. De Kash "Why do yon grumble so
every time I ask for pin money?
De Kasb I don't kick on any reasonable de
mands, but if you want to endow a bowUng alley
you ought to say so. Neio York Herald.
Mr. Skinflphlint had been walking the
floor with his hand on his Jaw for about four hours.
"Why don't you have It pulled?" inquired his
wife.
"Have it polled!" he roared. "Martha. Ann.
that tooth cost me a fl bill less than a year ago for
filling. Reckon I'm going to throw that money
away and half a dollar more on top of it? Not
much! Ache away, gosh ding yet Ache away 1"
And Mr. Sklnnphllnt resumed his walk. Chicago '
Tribune.
"Don't yon thing," she said archly to the
visitor behind the scene, "that most of these
Jokes about ballet girls are rather thin."
"Perhaps so," he replied, much embarrassed.
"But then you know It's a pretty thin subject to
tackle." Washington Post.
I have invented another machine. It is a
labor saving contrivance for mothers, being a self
rocktng cradle, baby spanker and elothes wringer
in one. The baby spanker works like a paddle
wheel, the loose paddles doing the spanking. As
many as five babies can be spanked at onetime.
AU you haTe to do Is to drop a baby la the slot and
the machine does the rest. Sew Tork Jttegram.
In younger days she sought a worldly man,
But now, when she's not les than thirty-three.
She's glad to take whatever one she can
A parson's bride, I hear, she'll shorUy be.
Sew Turk Herald.
"Watchmaker This case ha a non-pullont
attachment.
Jason Don't want It. What's the good a'
havln' a watch 'f jer can't puU It oab-VaceJoV
JreeUy.
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