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PITTSBURG, TUCRSDAY, JULY 9, ISO.
SETTLING THE CURATIVE BUSINESS.
The step taken by the lawyers for the
property owners opposed to proceedings
under the curative act, in objecting to the
appointment of viewers, looks the
promptest method of obtaining an early
and conclusive settlement of the validity
of that act By raising the Constitutional
question prior to the appointment of
viewers, a decision of the Supreme Court
can be obtained much sooner than if the
somewhat protracted operation of the
hearings and findings by the viewers and
their review by the Court were gone
through before the question of validity
was taken up. In the interest of a prompt
settlement of this important matter, there
fore, the objection of the attorneys was
well-timed.
In order that the decision may be final
and conclusive it is important that all
points on which the Constitutionality of
the act may be questioned should 'be
brought up and adjudicated. The objec
tion as made furnishes the ground
for such a complete settlement
in the claim that the Legislature has not
power to legitimize proceedings which have
been declared by the Supreme Court to be
null and t oid from the beginning, and that
therefore the curative act is wholly void.
This broad claim does not march very
well with the principal laid down in the
City of Chester case; but we take it that
the especial points on whichadifferance
can be claimed from that case, are, first,
whether the Legislature can validate acts
which have failed not from a general want
of power in the charter, as in the Chester
case, but from an unconstitutional exer
cise of paw cr w ith regard to the especial
subject in dispute; and, second, whether
the Court will hold any act to be valid for
assessing on the propertyholders the cost
of improvements for which the majority
did not petition. All other points should
be decided in the case, but it is probable
that the decision will turn on thes?.
Of course public interest is on the side of
sustaining the curative legislation; but
bock of that there is the necessity that
whatever way the Supreme Court in its
somewhat inscrutable wisdom may decide,
both the property owners and the city
should know as soon as possible what they
are to do. It is satisfactory to know that
this proceeding will provide the earliest
settlement which will place the future
course beyond doubt
TOO TENDER.
That suggestion of the London Telegraph
to choloroform condemned criminals be
fore electrocuting them displays a tender
ness which cannot be approved unless the
public is first committed to the idea that
the capital penalty is inflicted only to get
rid of murderers, and not at all by way of
deterrent example. Between cruel pun
ishments and the delicacy of feeling which
would make a murderer's transit as easy
as the modern pulling of a tooth in a dent
ist's chair, there is a wide difference. Life
Itself can be no great pleasure to a major
ity of the wretched criminals who incur
the death penalty. Were tho passage to
the other world exempt for them from
physical pain, it is reasonably to be feared
the temptation to deeds of violence would
thereby be vastly increased.
As electrocution goes, the affair of Tues
day at Sing Sing proves that it is less hor
rible in its surroundings and in the suffer
ing of its victims than hanging. In so
far as the distress of the criminal's situa
tion is mitigated by this, the public have
no objection; but when it is proposed to
make dissolution entirely painless for this
class, we are forced to remember howeasier
their physical fate would bo under the
Telegraph's prescription than that which
the more deserving portion of the race has
k v to endure in making its exit from this
Nvorld.
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JtlGHTS Or THE HIGH PRIVATES.
Further details about that proposed re
view of the British volunteers at Wimble
don, reduce tliat reported, and disputed,
sarcasm of the German Emperor about
"tradesmen playing at soldiers," to the
level of bober fact They also put in a
very unique light the attacks upon the
British War Office for its incapacity to
move the force of volunteers to the re
reviewing, as the inability appears to have
aiisen exclusively from the exceptional
character of that unique military force.
It seems the War Office perpetrated the
offense of ordering that volunteers must
leave the city for Wimbledon by certain
trains and at fixed hours. They had to em
bark between ten and half past eleven in
the morning to be in time for the afternoon
parade. This infringement on the liber
ties of a free and independent citizen
t-oldiery was bitterly resented. The
high privates and corporals of the
volunteers were of the fixed opinion
that if they started at two o'clock and took
their own routes they would have time to
do all the parading they cared to have. To
call upon them to leave their shops at an
hour when they might make several profit
able sales was an act of military usurpa
tion they did not feel called upon to obey,
and they did not obey in large numbers.
It is an amusing illustration of the power
of the middle class in England that a Tory
and Government organ like the Times
warmly upholds this unique theory of mili
tary discipline, and sharply criticises the
War Office for its gigantic blunder in at
tempting to order the citizen soldiery to
mo e at an hour and by routes that do not
meet with the mature approval of the rank
and file. If anything were needed to beg
gar the old-time sarcasms at the ante-bellum
militia of the United States it is the
assertion of the' Times that "the volun
teers must he led, not driven."
The spectacle this suggests of tho de-
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fense of a country by a body of soldiers
who decline to be "driven" to the extent
of obeying orders, and reserve the right of
review and private judgment as to the
hours when they shall assemble, and the
rights by which they shall move, is calcu
lated to exhaust even the German Em
peror's copious vocabulary of objurgation.
TAXATION IN FRANCHISES.
The fact that the Philadelphia street
railroad syndicate not long ago paid$i,
000,000 for a Xewark railroad that had
cost $1,067,900 to build is cited by the New
York Press as an evidence of the great
value of street railway franchises. The
conclusion is evident supposing the pay
ment to be made in cash and not In in-'
Hated securities that the franchise was
valued by the expert purchasers of such
articles at 2,982,100. As Newark is a
third or fourth class city the inference as
to the value of franchises granted to cor
porations in the larger cities, such as Pitts
burg up to New York, is very impressive.
The purpose of this agitation by our
cotemporary is to show that instead of
these magnificently valuable franchises
being given away by reckless, If vliot
actually corrupt municipal action, the
companies receiving them should pay into
the city treasuries the value they themselves
have set in this -case. As compared with
the present system of giving these values
to corporations, there is no doubt that it
J would be an Immense improvement. But
"viewed solely by itself, as compared with
what might be done, it is necessary to
recognize that the value of these franchises
is ultimately assessed on the people.
Street railway syndicates do not pay
$3,000,000 for a franchise merely for the
love of the thing. They do it because they
expect to collect the interest on this sum
back from the people with a profit. The
sale of such franchises would therefore
tbe nothing more thana'formof taxation,
and it would be a modern form of the
onerous system of tax-farming which was
one of the causes of the French Revo
lution. 3
To illustrate more in detail, let us sup
pose for the sake of the argument that the
six franchises granted in Pittsburg of late
years averaged equal value to that in
Newark. The interest on that would be
about 5900,000 levied on the people
in the shape of railroad fares. Let
us repeat that if the people are
to be taxed this sum it would be better
to have the revenue go into the
public treasury than into the corporate
pocket But is it a well-judged form of
taxation? Does it fall upon a class whom
"it is advisable to especially tax? As it will
be collected from the masses on their way
to and from .work, or on their way to and
from the patronage of trade, it is evident
that the tax is a tax upon enterprise and
industry levied directly on the masses, and
it is one that should not be levied if it is
possible to abolish.
The point that should be borne In mind
in connection with this subject is that an
intelligent municipal policy should seek to
encourage such a competition in transit
'through the streets that the companies can
levy no greater fares than will yield an
honest return on the actual investment
When this is done, as might be effected in
more than one way, a franchise would
have only a nominal value, and there
would be no taxation on the people. As
long as the grant of exclusive privileges
continues, the value of franchises will in
dicate the ability of the corporations to
tax the people by virtue of municipal
grants.
THE TOLICE PENSION ORDINANCE.
In addition-to other important measures
to be passed upon by the special meeting
of Councils, it is understood that the ordi
nance providing a pension fund for the
policemen disabled in the line of duty will
be taken up as unfinished business. It has
already passed one branch and will, if
taken up, be likely to pass the other. It
will be remembered that the Governor
vetoed an act authorizing such an ordi
nance not from any objection to its provi
sions,but because the power already existed
in Councils. The measure has been sub
ject to public discussion for some
months, and up to the present time no
valid argument has been brought up
against it It makes a proper provision
for faithful and devoted service, and will
for that reason tend to improve and main
tain the morale of the force. There is no
reason why it should not be promptly
enacted and put into operation at once.
THE TRIP A SHORT ONE.
Apropos of the statements in The Dis
patch yesterday of the proved accessibil
ity to the general public of the Schenley
Park site for the Carnegie Libary, the
Leader objects that downtown people do
not want to "take a day's vacation" to
reach the Library when it materializes.
The simple answer to this is that from 15
to IV minutes is the running time from the
postoffice to Schenley Park by either the
Pittsburg Traction or the Duquesne line.
This does not make a very big hole in the
day. There is no place the Library miglit
be put where it would not be 15 minutes
from various parts of the town. AVith the
cross-roads which are sure to come from
the Southside and Lawrenceville to the
park, there will eventually be no more
convenient location.
AN UNFOUNDED COMPLAINT.
The opinion of Senator Chandler against
the precious proposal to exclude the Cana
dian railroads from the transportation of
the Northwest is approvingly quoted by
the Washington Post. Mr. Chandler very
properly thinks this proposition is inad
misable. But he intimates that if the rail
roads of the United States are hampered
by the long-and-short haul clause of the
inter-State commerce law and the Cana
dian railroads are not, it should be
amended, "and the American and Cana
dian roads should be permitted to compete
on equal terms."
The conclusion is unexceptionable if the
premises are as stated. But in view of
Senator Chandler's use of the "if" as a
supposition in accordance with fact, it is
pertinent to inform the esteemed Post that
there is no foundation for the complaint
The railroads of the United States are not
hampered in their competition with the
Canadian railroads by the long-and-short
haul clause of the inter-State commerce
law. The two classes of roads can com
pete on perfectly equal terms as the law
now is. This can be made perfectly plain
by the statement of these indisputable
facts:
First The Canadian railroads are not
exempfr from the law. On all business
arising or terminating in the United States
they are subject to it as the United States
roads are on all inter-State business. It Is
true the long-and-short haul clause cannot
reach purely Canadian business. Neither
can it reach the purely State business of
domestic lines. It is cogent that the busi
ness of the New York Central Hailroad,
arising and terminating between Buffalo
and New York; of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, arising and terminating between
Pittsburg and Philadelphia; and of all
,four trunk lines, arising and terminating
within the State lines of Ohio, arc exempt
from this rule; and each by itself rivals in
importance the traffic of the Canadian
roads on which there is similar exemption.
Second Even if there were a differ
ence, the hardship alleged Is almost wholly
fictitious. The clause referred to enacts,
for instance, that If the competition of
Canadian railroads leads our lines to carry
flour from St Paul to the seaboard at 50
cents per barrel, they shall not charge
more than that from Chicago to Pittsburg
or Buffalo. Is that a hardship? Ought
not the people to be considered in the mat
ter slightly, so that if there is any .material
difference which there Is not we should
rejoice that the people of the United
States are protected from the extortion to
which the Canadians are subject?
Third If in any remote contingency
there should be any hampering effect of
this 'clause, the law in Its present form
provides a complete remedy. If any rail
road can show that under the law it will
lose traffic of a remunerative character
unless it reduces rates at intermediate -
points'below a reasonable level, the Com
mission is empowered to suspend the oper
ation of this clause upon such traffic. The
trouble is that no railroad has ever pro
duced any such well-authenticated case of
hardship.
The pretended exemption of the Cana
dian railroads from the long-and-short
haul clause, as a hardship to the domestic-)
lines, Is wholly fictitious. It is simply a
pretext to shut out competition from
through business in the interest of a com
bination whose purpose Is to evade the
anti-pooling section ol -the act
"While there is probably not much in -tbe-
point which has been raised mat tnecity by
putting policemen at tho dangerous cross
ings would thereby make itself liable for nc-
cidents, and relieve the street car com-'
panies, it is -well that if any such arrange
ments are made there should be a distinct
previous understanding against anything of
the sort. Care should also be taken that the ,
gross sum which the companies pay in li
cense fees-should cover in full the city's ex
pense for the guards at the crossings. "With
the adoption of the new rule demanding a
full stop at every intersection of the cable
and electric lines, the liability to accident
will be greatly reduced. But Doth as to re
sponsibility for accidents and as to the ex
pense of reasonable precautions against,
them, the companies, not the general tax
payer, must foot the bill.
The already excessive harvest of deaths
by drowning at sea-coast watering places is
producing some grave warnings to the effect
that people should not go near the water
tul they have learned to swim. More per
tinent advice would bo that people should
not place too much reliance on the adver
tisements of seaside hotel proprietors of
"the safest surf bathing on. the coast."
Concerning the comments of The Dis
patch the other day on the college athletic
craze, which places athletic success above
Intellectual triumphs, the Buffalo Courier
asks: "Does The Dispatch or any other peo
ple know of a college where such a condi
tion of things exists?-' Does the esteemed
Courier know of a college prominent in the
athletic contests where the undergraduate
who wins a boat race or a football match and
fails In his examinations is not a greater
hero than the man who takes first honors in
languages and mathematics? If it thinks,
as it appears to, that the false condition of
things inquired about Is exceptional let it
study the pictures of baseball and football
teams and college crews in the Eastern
papers and then hunt for a few portraits of
a few first-honor men and valedictorians.
The explosion, with fatal results, of a
built up gun on nn English war ship, is be
ginning to raise the question whether those
great and costly engines of war, which can
not hardly be fired often enough to get the
crews in training without becoming as
dangerous at the breach as at the muzzle, are
not, like tho King of Prussia's grenadiers,
entirely too costly to be of any use.
"ISO man who wilfully violates the Con
stitution of the State of Pennsylvania ought
to hold the position of President of the
Pennsylvania State League of Republican
Clubs," says the Philadelphia Press. Very
true. Nor should the man who declared on
the floor of the Legislature that ho would
not support the Constitution of the State be
permitted to successfully carry through its
stages his scheme for a Constitutional Con
vention to wipe out the Constitution pro
visions that hamper tho politicians and cor
porations. Mb, Ingalls latest lecture refers to
"the irrepressible reformer who earns a
livelihood by "the perspiration of his Jaw."
The difference between this obnoxious In
dividual and 3Ir. Ingalls seems to be that
the latter is not a reformer and that he is
temporarily repressiblo when a political
cyclone strikes him.
The New York Evening Sun in an article
urging the cultivation of fist-fighting among
boys, builds its argument on tho diotum:
"Many a budding ruffian ought thus to get
the early toughness hammered out of him
and himself be licked into manliness." But
tho satisfactory conclusion of this logic of
force is sadly marred by the presumption
that the budding rufllan will lick the other
fellow. The principle underlying the fist
fight is that "might makes right," and that
is also tho principle of ruffianism.
Bishop A. Cleveland Coxe adheres to
the opinion that bicycling by women is
"ridiculous as well as immodest." Never
theless, a woman on a bicycle is not a more
ridiculous sight nor does it involve a more
deplorable exposure than a Bishop on a
hobby, and an exceedingly lame hobby at
that.
An official of the Citizens' Traction road
is reported in an evening "cotemporary as
saying to a Teporter that it was "no business
of the public" how many guards his com
pany employed for the protection of street
crossings. An answer like this at a time
when the public and the municipal authori
ties aro considering means for preventing
distressing accidents is more frigid than yes
terday's w eather, but not particularly dis
creet. The Democratic and Harrison organs are
busily convincing themselves that .Blaine is
dangerously ill. Next year they may make
the discovery that he is dangerously well.
It is noted that the citizens of Hope,
Idaho, have been moved by a virtuous im
pulse, like that commemorated by Bret
Harte in tho cate of Poker Flat, and expelled
all gamblers. Nevertheless there is a very
questionable, though by no means uncom
mon, quality in the virtuo which sternly
warns the bad element that it must not gam
ble any more in nope or Poker Flat, but can
go and prey upon other communities all it
wishes.
Mb. Mills' withdrawal from the Speaker
ship race is keeping company with Mr.
Cleveland's withdrawal from the Presidental
field.
It is a satisfactory indication of learning
by experience that some of tho traction
companies yesterday enforced the rule of
coming to a halt before reaching the cross
ings. This, when done without waiting lor
tho impending ordinance, on the subject,
was an evidenco that the companies adopt
ing it are disposed to take every precaution
against accident. Those that are not so dis
posed should be made to do so.
Why Cider Bigelow Is Happy. .
The work of clearing the Allegheny wharf,
as required by order of court was begun by
Chief Bigelow'smenTuesday. It will prob
ably require a month to complete the Job,
but it can easily be done in the time, 60 days,
allowed by the court.
"It would have taken much longer," said
Mr. Bigelow yesterday, "but the Lord in his
goodness caused neailyn.ll the earth we had
Sat there to be washed away by the flood
.st February."
PROBLEMS IN TEACHING.
President Bashford Tells the Ohio Teachers'
Association What They Are A Defense
of the Public Schools The Instructors
nt Wrk for Chautauqua.
rSPECIAl TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH. 1
Chautauqua, N. T., July 8. To-day was
clear and cool at Chautauqua and the brac
ing lake breezes revived and invigorated,
the students and people generally, bringing
cheerful spirits to everyone. The exercises
incident to Chautauqua proper were heldt
this afternoon. Dr. Herbert B. Adams, ofj
Johns Hopkins, lectured in the Hall of Phil
osophy at 2:30 on the "Repnbllo of Venice."
He made a comparison between the primi
tive village and the city or Venice, uotu
thesev foundations were built upon piles.
driven deep down in the water for purposes
of safety from enemies on the main land.
The speaker gave an interesting account
of the origin of Venice, and said its great
service was the reunion of Occident and
Orient by commercial ties. Venetian ships
carried the Crusaders eastward; Marco Polo
was a Venetian, and his voyages to Cathay
inspired Columbus to seek a Western world.
John Cabot, a Venetian, first planted the
English flag on a North American shore.
At i o'clock, in the same place, Prof. Mar
tin L. Dooge lectured on the Dephi Oracle,
and gave a very pleasant account of his
visit there, as well as a history of the place
and its famous responses. At 5 o'clock oc
curred the C. L. S. C. round table, and at 7 P.
'M. the vesper service in the amphitheater.
Session, of Ohio Teachers.
The Ohio State Teachers' Conference con
vened again this morning in the am
phitheater. The following was the pro
gramme: Morning session, 9 o'clock In
augural address, G.ACarnahan, Cincinnati
discussion by Superintendent J. F. Lukens,
Lebanon: discussion, examination of teach
ers, "What are the best results and how can
they bo secured," E. S. Wilson, of Ironton;
S. J. "Wolf, Lancaster; B. F. Dyer, Madlson
ville; M. P. Hard, Salem, followed by general
discussion. Address, "Public Schools as a
Moral Force," Prof. E. H. Holbrook, Leb
anon; discussion by C. S. Wheaton, Athens,
and Anna M. Osgood, Columbus.
Afternoon session, 2 o'clock Paper, "Pro
fessional Stagnation, Its Causes and Reme
dies," Superintendent A. B. Johnson, Avon
Oale; discussion by Superintendent James
L. Duncas, Bridgeport, and E. E. Smack,
Frazersburg; paper, "Music in the Public
Schools," ProfT A. J. Ganvoort, Fiqua; dis
cussion by Prof. W. H. Pontuis, Mansfield,
and Prof. L. A Collins, Xcnia.
Problems Found in Teaching.
The evening session was extensively in
teresting. President James AY. Bashford, of
the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, de
livered tho annual address to the conven
tion and it was a most striking and thought
ful paper. The subject was, "Problems in
American Teaching." Said tho speaker:
"Our ambition as a Republic has been to
make the mastery of the three 'Bs' thepos
session of every child in America. Our suc
cess in this attempt forms, perhaps, the
brightest page in the entire history of edu
cation. Leaving out the colored people of
the South, who have been recently thrown
upon the nation, and the more recent immi
grants, it is safe to say that over 90 per cent
of American-born children can read and
write at the age of 10.
"Tho advance sheets of the census report
showed that 12,592,721 children were in the
schools in 1890, as compared with 9,951,603 in
1880. These statistics show a gain of over 26
per cent in school attendance, as compared
with the gain of 26 per cent in population.
Education of Colored Children.
"A large problem awaits us in the Sonth,
but the splendid philanthropy of individ
uals, as well as tho remarkable co-operation
of the Southern States, makes the education
of every colored child only a question of
time. Politicians in "Wisconsin and Illi
nois may yield to the demand of the foreign
element and establish schools from which
tho English language is excluded, but such
schools can be only temporary. The Ameri
can people are irrevocably committed to the
free school system. The wonderful adaption
of this system to our needs eliminates race
prejudice by putting the children on a com
mon Intellectual platform, thus fostering
the democratic spirit as no other institution
in tho Republic.
"But our success in popularizing primary
education makes stilt more marked our
failure to popularize the higher education.
This is the first great problem now before
American teachers. It is shown by compe
tent authority that only one young man in
K09 is n rnllpp-n srraduate. and vet this mere
handful of college-bred men furnish 32 per'
cent or tne memDers oi congress, v per cent
of our United States Senators, 65 per cent of
our Presidents and 73 per pent of our Su
preme Court Justices.
"Another comnetont writer has recently
pointed out the fact that less than 8 per cent-
oi our cnuaren complete a grammar scuooi
course; less thin 4 per cent a high schopl
course, and only one-fifth of 1 per-cent a
college course.
A Drop Into Sarcasm.
"I have often wondered that an agitation
against higher education has not long since
arisen, on the ground that it is essentially
aristocratic; that tho mass of people are
taxed to support schools of which they take
no advantage."
Tho speaker's second proposition was tho
necessity for broadening the course of edu
cation so as to include an industrial train
ing. His third proposition was that the aim
of an education was not to put out children
to cooking or carpentry oranyotherpursuit,
but fundamentally to develop a noble man
hood and womanhood.
His last proposition was in the form of a
question: Can the State develop the
faculties of tho child without trenching
on the province of the Church? The
State mav adopt three courses: First, the
Roman Catholic solution, dividing tho
school fund among the various churches.
The State will not adopt this. Second, the
State may declare that tho child needs no
spiritual training, This solution would re
sult eventually in the downfall of the
Republic. Third, the State may adopt Dan
iel Webster's solution and declare that
there's-a system of moral and spiritual
science which rises above sects, upon which
all the churches are agreed. By adopting
this system, and recognizing God and His at
tributes of Justlce.mercy and purity.the edu
cation of the twentieth century will have
been glorious.
Extent of Chautauqua's "Work.
Some idea of tho extent of the work here
can be gained by a summary of the faculty
in the several educational branches as fol
lows: College of liberal arts and schools of
sacred literature Lewis Miller, President,
Akron, O.; John H. "Vincent, Chancellor,
Buffalo; William R. Harper, Principal, New
Haven; John H. Daniels, Registrar, Now
Haven. Instructors Frank Abbott, Yale
Universitv: Prof. Herbert B. Adams, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore; Prof. H.
Batchelder, Hamlin University, St. Paul;
Prof. L. W. Batten, Protestant Episcopal
Divinitv School, Philacelphia; Prof. Edward
W. Beirils, Vandorbilt University, Nashville;
Prof. George S. Burroughs, Amherst College,
Amherst, Mass.; Prof. Sylvester Burnham,
Hamilton Theological Seminar', Hamilton,
N. Y.; Prof. Harr V. Cutting, University of
Dakota; Mile. Lcardelagnauo, Ottawa
High Sohool, Ottawa, 111.; Prof. A. Derouge
mont, Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn; Prof.
Martin L. Dooge, .University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor; Prof. J. T. Edwards, Chamber
lain Institute, Bandolph.N. Y.; Prof. Bichard
X. .CIV, UOU113 UUpMiia UliltClSLLV, .rioi.
William H. Green,
Princeton Theoloeical
Seminary; itoi. tv. it. narper, xaie: ur.
Robert Francis Harper, Yale: Prof. William
Hoover, Ohio University, Athens, OT; Prof.
Charlesnorsewell.Northwestern University,
Evanston, I1L; Dr. J. L. Hurlbut, Chautau
qua Normal Department, New York; Prof.
O. E. Johnson, Boston; T. J. Miller, Yale;
Prof. D. A. McClenahan, United Presby
terian Theological Seminary. Allegheny;
Prof. W. D. McClintock, Wells' College,
Aurora, N. Y.; Mrs. P. L. McClintock, Weils'
College; Prof. Hermann J. Schmitz, Stam
ford, Conn.; Prof. Thomas D. Seymour, Yale;
Prof. Frederick Starr, American Museum of
Natural History, Now York; Prof. Lewis
Stuart, Lako Forest University, Lake Forest,
111.; Bishop John H. Vincent, Buffalo: Prof.
William E. Waters, University of Cincinnati;
Prof. R. F. Weldner, Augustana Theological
Seminary, Rock Island, 111.; Prof. James A.
Woodburn, Indiana University, Blooming
ton, Ind.
Instructors in Teachers' Retreat.
Chautauqua Teachers' Retreat F. W.
Parker, Chicago, Principal. Instructors
William S. Jackman, Coot County, Normal
School, Engelwood, 111.; Prof. J. T. Edwards,
v;namocnain xuMtituiu, jwijiuuiiiu, A. i;,
William M. Griffin, Cook County Normal
School; Sarah E. Griswold, Cook County
Normal School; Prof. W. D. McClintock,
Wells' College, Aurora, New ' York; Helen
Maley, Cook County Normal School; Francis
W. Parker, Cook County Normal School;
Frank Stuart Parker, Cook County Normal
School.
School of Physical Culture W. G. Andor'
son, M. D., Principal. Instructors W.G. An
derson. AdelDhi Academv. Brooklvn: II. s.
Anderson. Adelphi Academy; Mrs. C. E.
Bishop, Washington, D. 0;
J.; Anna D". BIshon'.
Washington, D. C; C. E. Ehinger, West
Chester, Pa.; isnza ju. moaner, .Brooklyn;
juary jyiurpny, awuiuiuuio iuuegu, jra.; it. Xi.
Nelligan, Cornell.
University Gymnasium J. W. Seavcr,
talc University gymnasium; T. G. Sherman,
Hill School, Pottsdam, Pa.
Chautauqua School of Music H.E, Palmer,
musical director. Instructors W. H. Sher
wood, piano; Q. V. Flagler, harmony: organ,
Mr. L. S. Leason; harmony and choral union,
Dr.vH. R. Palmer; harmony and methods,
Mr. J. Harry Wheeler; Mr. H. A. Keless,
piano, and this list does not include the
teachers of many of the special courses like
painting, wood carving, china painting, etc.
Truly Chautauqua can claim to be a univer
sity. A YEW OF THE FAVOBED.
Ex-Seceetary Bodtvvell and wife
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their
wedding yesterday at Groton, Mass.
"Saeah" Bernhaedt was named
Rosine by her parents, who were French and
Dutch respectively. Her first appearance
on the stage was at the Theater Francalsin
"Iphegene."
The son of General Isidro TJrtecho, Com
mander in Chief of the Nicaraguan army, is
the only foreign cadet at West Point. He is
a man of 20, tall and active, with swarthy
skin and flashing black eye. He is a nephew
of Minister Guzman, the Nicaraguan repre
sentative at Washington.
Ex-Senatob George "W. Jones, now
living in retirement at an advanced age in
Dubnque, la., had the distinction of giving
the States of Iowa and Wisconsin their
names. He is a neat, precise and courteous
old gentleman, and though now 86 years olbV
shows no sign of mentator physical decay.
Miss Edna Lyall has written a letter
appealing for help toward the fund which is
being raised to redeem the late Mr. Brad-1
laugh's property, in order to make some pro
vision for his only surviving daughter, Mrs.
Bonner, who, at a time of great pecuniary'
embarrascment, sacrificed on her father's
behalf the life policy he had assigned to her.
Mokitz "Wengeap, editor-in-chief of
the well known and influental Viennese
Journal, Kcwes Wiener Tageblait, died recently
in the Austrian capital. Wongraf, who was
GO years old, was a man of influence and im
portance in Austria for more than 30 years.
Ho was well acquainted with all celebrated
men of his country, and was especially
courtod by the politicians.
An album containing the signatures of
15,000 tradesmen and workmen has been pre
sented to the Marquis of Bute as a token of
appreciation of his acceptance of the mayor
alty of Cardiff this year. The album was in-' J
closed in a carved oak cabinet, on the panel
of which were representations of Cardiff
Castle and symbolic figures of the trade of
the port. Accompanying the album wag an
address.
J Mes. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, had a
I private audience yesterday with Madame 1
uarnot, wiie oi iresiaent uarnot, in i-aras.i
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer will occupy tho Presi
dent's box at the opera to-night by special
invitation of President Carnot. The French
newspapers refer at length and most favor
ably to Mrs. Palmer's Ladies' Worlds Fair
Committee which was recently organized
in Paris. Mrs. Palmer Intends to promote a
similar committee in London. The Princes3
Christian of Schleswig-Holsteln has prom
ised to assist such a committee in every way
within her power.
EXTENDING THEIB CHUECH.
Tho Reformed Home Mission Will Build a
Chapel in Allegheny.
Tho Executive Committee of the Board of
Home Missions of the Reformed Church held
its annual meeting at tho Hotel Boyer yes
terday. The members present were Dr. J. A.
Peters, President of Heidelberg College at
Tiffen and Chairman of tneoommittee; C. M.
Boush, Meadville, the legal adviser; Dr. D. S.
Fouse, New Lisbon, la., Superintendent of
Home Missions: Rev. E. R. Eschbach, Fred
erick, Secretary; Rev. J. M. Kendig, Conflu
ence, and Dr. J. J. Leberman, Louisville.
Superintendent louse made a very en
couraging report of the year's work. He
spoke of the great crop prospects in the
West, and tho good feeling that exists
among the people. He noted that when the
country was prosperous the Chnrch also
shared in the good times and the cause of
religion was promoted. It is the duty of the
committee to go over the books and the re
ports, establish missions, fix the salaries of
missionaries and look after details of this
character. Their business is chiefly to
push the work of the Church among English-speaking
people, as the Germans
of tho country are well organized
and provided with churches. For
example, they are building a house
worth $20,000 for the Engli3h congregation in
Cleveland, while there are eight German
Reformed congregations in the city. The
committee ordered tho purchase of a lot on
California avenue, where a chapel will be
erected at once. Churches will also be built
at St. Joseph, Mo., and Cumberland, Md. A
lot has also been bought in Lincoln, Neb.
In this manner the Reformed people are ex
tending their religion all over the lana. Mr.
Boush said they were liberal in their ideas,
and will permit Catholics and Unitarians to
commune with them.
PEINCE GEOEGE EE-EMBAEKS.
railing to Return Home on the Servla, Ho
Sets Sail on the City of New York.
New York, July 8. Prince George, of
Greece, and his party, on their return to this
city last night after their unsuccessful at
tempt to get to Europe on the Cunard line
steamer Servia, secured passage on the In
mnnline steamer City of Now York and
sailed on her at 7 o'clock this morning.
There were in all 30 of the Servia's passen
gers on board the City of New York, and
five who had sailed on the Servia made a
second start this morning on the White Star
line Brittannic.
A very large number of Americans who
sailed on the Servia for a summer trip to
Europe have abandoned their purpose and
willieturn home. v
All tho Same in Pittsburg.
Chicago Times.
My, my! here's Englewood all torn up
again over the rascalities of another pious
young man who led Sunday schools and
robbed his employer. The good, credulous
people of the fashionable suburb ought to
equip themselves with sheop shears and try
and expose some of these ravening wolves
who go about In their midst disguised in tho
soft fleeces of good little lambs.
That Makes It AU Right.
Boston Herald.
The kissing of Wales by Wilhelm was all
right. It is as much a custom in Germany
for a fellow to kiss another as it is in this
country for a fellow to kiss another fellow's
sister.
DEATHS HEEE AND ELSEWHEEE.
John Crane.
John Crane died at Stockholm, K". J.,
last Monday. He was born in r1309, and had been
away from home but twice In his life. Once ho
went to Hackensack to pay a tix. and once to Pat-
erson. lust Deiore tne uivn u ar.
He had never
6een a horse car, a railroad,
or the ocean, and
rvty map. In a snrine wapon,
ne aivra s uvea on
the products of his own farm, and never sold a par-
tide of what he raised. Any superfluity of vege
tables he gave to the poor. He was the father of
nine children, ailorwnomare living, lseiorems
lastlllness he never had a sick day lu his life, and
he died as he had lived, quietly and painlessly.
Annt Sally Cannon.
Aunt Sally Cannon, probably the oldest
woman in Connecticut, died at her home. New
Haven, Monday. She celebrated her 101st birthday
last Marcli, and at that time was in excellent
lu.iltli, being ible to walk unassisted and to read
without glasses. She was bom in Walllngford,
Conn., and lived there all her life until the death of
her husband 33 vears ago, when she came to reside
with her son, William T. Cannon, of Xew York,
ghewasoueof the few people living who had seen
Lafayette and other Revolutionary dignitaries.
Obituary Notes.
James Ruxcimait, the London litterateur. Is
dead.
CHRISTIAN MEISKEV, the wealthiest fanner In
Southeastern l'cnns) lvanla died Monday, In his
73th year, at West Hcinpheld. He was worth nearly
jl,0OO,0C0.
GeorgeE. COBXER,oneof the founders of the
Black Heath Art Clnb, London, and a professor In
the Roial Military Academy, died Tuesday of con
sumption, at Colorado bprings.
PmLir V. Macs, who died Monday at Danville,
Pa., was the son of Joseph JI.ius, a Captain under
Washington at Valley Forge. He was a miller,
and very rich, ne was 81 j ears old.
Babt Diek. the child actress, is dead at her
home lu Buffalo. -She had been on thestage three
seasons, and last fall she played in the "Karl's
Promise" troupe. Sue was regarded as a promis
ing player.
Dn. Joinf Levexqood who died in Lancaster,
Moudaj , was a prominent Odd Fellow. In 1877 he
was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, andlnlS88
was Chief Patriarch of the Grand Encampment.
Ho was a writer of Odd Fellow literature oer the
pen name of "Isaac Irons. " Hewas Wyearsold.
Dollie HAMH.TOJt, an actress well known In the
West, died in Chicago several days ago. She went
on the stage in her childhood, and had at various
times supported Edwin Booth. Jeflerson, E. A.
....ti.o-n Aamna o'XetlL and other actors. Sho
latterl acaulred some note as Ibpsy in "Uncle
Tom's Cabin,
Her right name was Stridlron.
ADVENTURES AND FUN.
Short Stories or Travel and Sport 111
Tlmed Coffee at Sea Why the Shooting
Didn't Stop A Remarkable Snake
Fight and the End.
In Mrs. Collls' narrative of her voyage
through the inland seas of the Sitkon Archi
pelago, says the Youth's Companion, she do-
scribes a somewhat exciting passage
through a fleet of icebergs in Glacier Bay.
It was of the greatest Importance to keep
the ship moving ahead, though her advance
could be measured only by inches. At one
time the Captain ran half-way up the fore
mast, glasses in band, andfor some minutes,
like thej)icture of Farragut in Mobile Bay,
shouted nis orders to the wheelhouse.
After this he resumed his monotonous andi
nervous pacing upon tho bridge, all the while
steering his immense vessel with such dex
terity and mathematical precision that as
the cakes of ice were upturned andvfell
gracefully in our wake, it was easy to see
that the course selected was always the one-'
of least resistance.
"I took note or a few of the expressions
whose magnetic influence twisted and
turned us around in such beautiful curves,
some of which were; "Starboard, sirl"
"Slow her!" "Why don't ie slow her when
.1 tell him?" "Stop her!" 'Go tell that en
gineer if he don't obey the signals quicker,
the first thing he knows" he'll have one of
these boys in his engine room!" "Hard-a-port,
sir!" "Port her!" "Steady, nowl"
''Keep your eye on the compass there!"
"Put an extra man at the wheel!'
In the midst of this strain, when the
slightest error of Judgment might have been
fraught with disaster, the chief steward it
was his first voyage with Captain Carroll
was seen ascending the ladder with a bowl
of steaming coffee.
"I've brought you a cup of coffee," said the
steward, with outstretched hand.
"Take it away, sir! When I want coffee
I'll send for it," shouted the skipper.
What became of the stoward I don't know;,
but I do know that a few scraps of sentences
were floating about the atmosphere for sev
eral mln-rtes, such as:
"Nice time for coffee! Port her! Steady!
Pretty time to be drinking coffee! Starboard
a little! Coffee, indeed! Slow her, sir! Slow
her, I say! Coffee!"
I'liours later the poor affrighted steward was
aaaressea in amerent language.
"I'll take that coffee now. steward, but
don't ever bother me again when I've got-
my nanus lull."
Lincoln Wasn't Arrested.
During the Civil War an order was Issued
'forbidding the dischargoof firearms within
the limits of Washington. All sorts of maga
zine and breech-loading rifles had been sent
to tho White House for President Lincoln's
inspection, says the New York World. Ho
had studied them, and one afternoon he said
to 'Mr. Stoddard, one of his private secre
taries! "They say you're a pretty good marksman.
At 6:30 to-morrow morning we'll go out onl
the mall and try some of these guns."
In the morning the President said to his
secretary, who tells this story, "You take
that thing and I'll take this, andwe'll go
right along."
"That thing" was an old Springfleldmusket
filled with a cartridge chamber that went on
and came off with a sorew twist. Mr. Lin
coln selected a Spencer rifle.
The Secretary flred and made a good shot,
though the Springfield kicked him. Presi
dent Lincoln crouched that he might hold
his Spencer with an elbow resting on his
knee, and squinted along tho blue barreL
A short sergeant and four or five men on
guard duty, hearing the firing, had run up
to the two marksmen.
"Ston that firing! Stop that firing!" ex
claimed the sergeant.
Bane: went the riflo. and tho President's
tall, gaunt form shot up to its height. He
smiled upon the shouting sergeant, who,
recognizing him, stood still and was silent.
Then the squad, without uttering a word,
executed a -'right about, face," and with a
double quick raced to the guardhouse.
"Well, they might have stayed and seen
the shooting," said the President, with a
laugh.
;
It Was a Ghastly Solution.
Where now the new road crosses Crooked
river, Connecticut, there was aforetime a
fordway, and just nbove the spot not more
than 20 yards is the junction of Crab Valley
brook with the river, says a writer in the
Boston Globe. This brook takes its riso only
a few miles away, amid a wild of forest and
crag, and in cases of. sudden and severe
storm it becomes swollen and turbulentlong
beforethe river has perceptibly risen.
One day a gentleman had occasion to ford
the stream toward nightfall, when there had
been one of those sudden squalls in the ad
jacent mountains. He managed to get
across safely, though there were moments
when his horse was forced to stop and brace
himself and gather strength.
Having reached the opposite bank he
found one of Uncle Tim Shute's boys at
hand, engaged in fishing a big, tow-headed,
carrotty-faced hero of 10 to 12 years of age,
clad in the remnants of a suit of homespun
that must once have belonged to his daddy.
"Hallo, boy!" the traveler hailed, as ho
reined in his panting steed, "is this the shal
lowest place of your river?-'
"Is it a the what, sir J"
"The shallowest."
"Wot's that?"
"Why the shoalest the place where
there's the least water."
"Oh ah yas I reckon 'tis."
Well I should call it a dangerous place.
Are not people lost here sometimes?"
'No, sir."
"What never? How long have you lived
here?"
"I's allers lived here."
"And you never knew anybody to be lost
in fording this river?"
"No, sir."
"Well that is strange. I declare I came
very near to being swept away two or three
times."
"Yaas, 1 don't wonder. I've know'd lots of
'em to be swept off an' drowndod I"
"What! Did you not tell me Just now
that you had never known a case of that
kind?"
"No; I didn't tell yer noth'n o' tho kind.
I said ther'wa'n't nobody ever lost; 'cause,
d'ye see, right down there, whar the river
crook3 around that 'ere great rock, they
allers gits -washed ashore, and we finds
'em!"
A Bide on a Balloon.
I hung in thonetting on the upper side of
the balloon, and clutching the small cords
tightly, as many of them a3 1 could grasp in
my hands, I held on, as a drowning man
holds to a straw, says a gentleman in the
New York Sun, giving his experience.
The balloon had careened to one side, as it
started up, and struck me. To save myself
from falling, I caught the netting and held
on.
The huge air ship righted in a moment,and
I was 60 feet from the earth. Another mo
ment and wo were in the pure cold currents
of the upper air, and then the balloon shot
upward like a rocket. It careened from side
to side as it rosejmy weight, perhaps, caused
it to do so, but I held on.
There was a roaring in my ears, like the
noise of a great cataract. My head seemed
bursting open. I tried to cry out, but my
voice would not obey my will. We moved
in a zigzag course, and I knew we were fly
ing through the air tit great speed, but I
could not tell how fast. I saw trees and
houses flying by in one confused mass.
I looked down, and, horror of horrors, the
earth was rising to meet us. No, it was per
suing us; wo wero still moving up, but the
earth was coming nearer with the speed of
the wind. I tried to change my position, to
get on the other side of the balloon, but I
could not.
I looked again. The earth was only a few
feet away now. I closed my eyes. T knew
the shock of a collision would come in a
moment.
We struck. I felt the cold, damp earth
ngainst my face, but, strange, I was unhurt
by the shock. I tried to release my hold of
the netting, but tho airship lurched away,
and again I was borne up and up until tho
earth seemed a mcie speck of dirt. On wo
spedthiough sp.icc. I looked overhead and
baw stars. Then I know it was night. I
looked ahead, and snw a monster black ob
ject coining toward us with u speed as great
jis our own.
At first I could not make out what it was,,
but in a moment its outlines were discerni
ble, and I realized that it was a mountain.
At our altitude we would strike it half way
up, but we began to rise again, and struck,
the crest of the mountain. Tito shock was
severe. I felt sharp pains in my head, and a
million stars flashed and danced before my
eyes, but the balloon rose again and carried
me on and on.
We had crossed the mountain, passed over
a vallevandariverand seemed to be ap-
reaching a city. Once I thought I could
istinguish long rows of dimly burning
street lamps. Then we struck the earth
again with great force, and I lost conscious
ness. How long I was unconscious I do not
know, but nt last I heard a faint raurmer of
voices and could see ghostly-looking human
forms moving about. I heard the dripping
of water, and then a man clothed in white
came and looked at me. As one hears in a
dream I heard him sayi "That was an awful
load this fellow had, but he'll be sober when
he wakes."
A Snake That Knew His Business.
The Crawford, Ga., Herald attributes to a
delegate to the Baptist Association at Craw
fordlast fall the following snake story:
He and his uncle were sitting by a creek
side in the State of Kentucky, fishing, and
were surprised by seeing a black snake dash
out of a thicket, and running to a weed
standing near them, bite a leaf from it and
quickly return. This he did several times,
when, their curiosity being excited," they
followed him to see what he meant by such
strange conduct, and found him engaged in
a fearful light with a moccasin several times
his own size. As often as his antagonist suc
ceeded in biting him he ran to the weed for
his antidote, and was at him again. At
length the uncle pulled up and removed the
weed to see what the snake would do. He
soon came again, and finding his remedy
gone, he looked eagerly -from side to side, a
perfect picture of despair, and fell stone
dead on the spot. The moccasin, already
badly disabled, they dispatched.
HAMLIN AND LINCOLN.
Colonel McClnre Takes Issue With Nicolay
on Political History.
Philadelphia, July 3. The following edi
torial of Colonel McClnre will appear In to
morrow's Timer.
The haste of John G. Nicolay in his pnblic
telegram to the widow of ex-Vice President
Hamlin, is equaled only by his arrogance,
in assuming to speak for Abraham Lincoln
in matters about which Nicolay was never
consulted and of which he had no more
knowledge than any other routine clerk
about the White House. I do not regret that
Mr. Nicolay has rushed Into a dispute that
must lead to a clear establishment of the
exact truth as to the defeat of Hamlin in
186L It will surely greatly Impair, if not
destroy, Nicolay's hitherto generally ac
cepted claim to accuracy as the biographer
of Lincoln, but he can complain of none but
himself.
I saw Abraham Lincoln at all hours of the
day and night during his Presidental ser
vice, and he has himself abuntantly testified
to the trust that existed between us. Hav
ing had the direction of hl3 battle in the
pivotal State of the Union, he doubtless ac
corded me more credit than I merited, and
the fact that I never sought or desired
honors or profits from his administration,
and never embarrassed him with exactions
of any kind, made our relations one of the
most grateful memories of his life.
In all of the many grievious political ques
tions arising from the new and often impall
ing duties imposed by war, I was one of
those called to the inner councils of Abra
ham Lincoln. He distrusted his own judg
ment in politics, and was ever careful to
gather the best counsels from all the varied
shades of opinion and interest to guide him
in his conclusions, and there were not only
scores of confidential conferences in the
White House of which John G. Nicolay never
heard, but no man ever met or heard of
John G. Nicolay in such councils. He wa3 a
good, mechanical routine clerk. He was ut
terly inefficient as the Secretary of the Pres
ident. His removal was pressed upon Lin
coln on more than one occasion because of
his utter want of tact and fitness for hi3
trust, and only the proverbial kindness of
Lincoln saved him from dismissal. He saw
and knew President Lincoln. The man
Abraham Lincoln he never saw and never
know, and his assumption that he was the
trusted repository of Lincoln's confidential
convictions and efforts would have been re
garded as grotesque a quarter of a century
ago, when. Lincoln and his close surround
ings were well understood.
His biography of Lincoln is invaluable as
an accurate history of the publio acts of the
Lincoln administration, but there is not a.
chapter or page on the Inner personal at-'
tributes of the man that Is not burdened with
unpardonable errors. Nicolay was a plod
lng, precise, mechanical clerk, well fitted
to nreserve historical data and present it in
telligently and correctly, but there his fit I
ness as a biographer ended.
I now repeat, that in obedience to a tele
graphic request from President Lincoln 1
visited him at the White House the day be
fore the Baltimore Convention of 1864. At
that interview Mr. Lincoln earnestly ex-
gltiined why the nomination of a well-known
outhern man like Andrew Johnson, who
had been Congressman, Governor and Sena
tor by tho favor of his State, would not
only nationalize the Government, but
would greatly lessen the grave peril
of the recognition of the Confederacy
by England and France. He believed that
the election to the Vice Presidency of a rep
resentative statesman from an insurgent
State that had been restored to the Union
would disarm the enemies of the Republic
abroad and remove the load of sectionalism
from the Government that seemed to great
ly hinder peace. No intimation, no trace of
prejudice ngainst Mr. Hamlin was exhibited,
and I well know that no such consideration
could have influenced Mr. Lincoln in such
an emergency. Hadhebelieved ilr. Hamlin
to bo the man who could best promote the
great work whose direction fell solely upon
himself, he would have favored Hamlin's re
nomination regardless of his personal
wishes; but he believed that a great public
achievement would be attained by the elec
tion of Johnson, and I returned to Baltimore
to work and vote for Johnson although
against all my personal prediction in the
matter.
A GEEAT BIBLE C0NFEBENCE.
Students From This Country, Canada and
England to Meet in Convention.
SrECIAL TELEQRAH TO THE DISPATCH.
Locktort, N. Y., July 8. The fifteenth In
ternational Bible Conference meets on the
grounds of the Queen's Royal Hotel at Niag-ara-on-tho-Lake
to-morrow. There are al
ready present some 300 delegates from all
over Canada, the United States and Eng
land. Prominent Bible students will con
duct the studies.
The sessions last eight days and are held
in a large pavilion overlooking Lake On
tario, the Niagara river and old Fort Niagara
on tho opposite shore. The Bible is studied
from a purely theological standpoint.
The Army of West Virginia Reunion.
HnxTiwaroif, July 8. The Society of the
Armv of West Virginia has fixed on Septem
ber 15, 16 and 17, at Huntington, for the an
nual reunion.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
John K. A. Herring, General Manager of
the Adams Express Company, and G. H.
Morohouse, Assistant Superintendent, are at
the Monongahela House. Mr. Herring said
he stopped over to see Colonel Glenn on his
reftrn from the West. He roports the busi
ness as first class.
E. E. Bonneville, one of the Anderson
clerks, has returned from Pocomake City,
Md., where he spent his vacation. Bonny
said he had a quiet time, but ho feels better
for it. His friends aro glad to see him back.
President E. P. Vinlng, of the Trans
continental Association, passed through the
city yesterday bound for St. Louis. He said
rates had been adjusted and there are no
signs of a squall.
J. B. Hill, Jr., and J. C. Hill, sons of J.
B. Hill, tho lumber merchant, left on the
limited express last night for Portland and
San Francisco, via tho union Pacifio road.
City Solicitor George E. Eose, of Youngs
town, was in the city yesterday consulting
with J. C. Shoemaker about a lawsuit. Mr.
Roso says McKinley will bo elected.
Congressman E. P. Gillespie, of Green-'
ville, was in tne city yes teroay, going to
Philadelphia. He knocked out McDowell
and Phillips last fall.
Mrs. J". H Mohn and Mrs. J. C. Heckman,
of Allegheny, left last evening forAtlantio
City. They will be guests of the Chalfonto
during the season.
Amos Townsend, the Cleveland grocer
and Republican ex-Congressman, and B. C.
Hall, ot Titusville.aie registered at the Mon
ongahela House.
George M. Pullman and family passed
through the city last evening in a special car
for Long Branch, where they will spend the
summer.
V. G. Guiler, a TJniontown lawyer, and
T.D. McFarland and wife, of Sharoij, are
among the guests at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel.
Mayor E. O. Emerson, of Titusville, P.B.
Black, of Franklin, and R. H.Allen, of Tor
onto, are stopping at tho Anderson.
"William Marshall and his daughter, of
Allegheny, left yesterday for an extended
trip on the continent.
A. O. TJntsman and "William Howley
were among tho Eastern passengers last
evening.
S. M. Bobinson, of "Parker, and Charles
H. Hon", of Tucson, Ariz., aro at the Du
quesne. Mrs. Charles Speer and family are at
Berkley Springs, Va., for the summer.
Deputy "Warden Soffel, of the county jail,
has gone to Erie to spend his vacation.
D. C. Poole, an army paymaster, was at
the iionongaliclaIouse yesterday.
Barney Forst and family started for
Atlantic City last evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The railroads of this country employ .
3,000,000 people.
There are 156,973,873 watches in use at
the present time.
Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide in
Russia every year.
A calf born without a tail is one of tha
curiosities of Dal ton, Ga.
The explosion of a dynamite cartridga
to blow np an old ship near Mobile sent to
the surface a fish that weighed more than
200 pounds.
A clock in a Dalton, Ga., residence,
which has been out of repair and silent for
many months, mysteriously struck the exact
hour the other night.
A little Eastport girl who in reply to
the teacher's question, "Where is the Golden
Gate?" wrote, "In, Heaven," was both sur
prised and grieved to find it marked as
wrong.
A man living near Thomson says ha
knows all about an Atlanta killing that was
done years ago, the facts of which the publio
are ignorant. He keeps mum, though. Ha
says tbe slayer is dead.
Electric light has been employed ad
vantageously on board of a West India
steamer crossing the ocean to keep alive and
flourishing certain plants which were bein;?
transported for acclimatization.
Two Milwaukee girls in their teem
climbed by means of outside ladders to tha
top of the tallest chimney In that city, waved,
their handkerchiefs to the crowd and de
scended on the ladders. Tho chimney is 2J3
feet tall.
A St. Jjonis man was recently arrested
and sentenced to serve three months in Jail
for entering a burning building and saving
a 6-year-old child. Hewas charged with ob
structing the firemen in the discharge of
their dnties.
At Chico, Cal., the other day, a cat
caught a sparrow and was going with it into
a store when half a dozen other sparrows
came to the rescue and made such a vigor
ous onslaught upon kit that he was glad to
drop his prey and flee to the friendly shelter
of the store.
The boots which Daniel "Webster wora
on his farm at Franklin, N. H are owned by
the New Hampshire Historical Society, ana
are on exhibition in a shoestore at Concord.
They are of kip leather, pegged soles and
heels, with square toes.
There are 46,000 oil wells in the United
States, representing a capital of $120,000,000,
with an output of 130,000 barrels per day.
The refining capacity of the country is U0,
000 barrels per day, while 15,000 barrels aro
consumed as fuel. A surplus stock is held
In tanks of more than 35.000,000 barrels.
Lyman S. Low, a Xew Tork dealer in
medals, has among the collection several
huhUred medals presented to soldiers in the
English army from 1733 to 18S0 for deeds of
valor and conspicuous bravery. With but
few exceptions they were all pawned by
their owners to meet thenecessltiesof life.
A curious advertisement in a New Tork
paper suggests that there is no rest for tha
weary in a land where three minutes from
the station may be taken as a national
motto. The advertisement gives the at
tractions: "For sale A single grave in.
Greenwood Cemetery; three minutes' walk
from the entrance."
The substitution of camel's hair, cotton,
paint and chemicals for leather in ma-
.chinery belting, is said to be meeting with
some success in this country. It was first
invented in England, and it is claimed for
the new material that it is stronger than
other belting, more durable, more efficient
and as low priced.
The gendarmerie of Buda Pesth suc
.ceeded after several brave attempts in
taking a band of Gipsy robbers, numbering
SOmen, prisoners. Among the captives aro
several notorious murderers. The leader of
tbe band, strange to say, is tbe author of a
dictionary of the Gipsy language, for which
Archduke Joseph wrote the preface.
A romantio wedding occurred at Deni
son, Texas, a few days ago. Lee Anderson,
of Philadelphia, and Miss Sadie Micnael, of
St. Louis, met on a train near Muskogee, for .
which place tho young lady was bound, and
struck np an acquaintance. Being mutually
Impressed, the gentleman proposed, was
accepted and it was agreed to get off tha
train at Denison, tbe first place at which tha
license coma ne procured.
A Bh ode Island man is having a serious
time keeping track of his meals. He main
tains that his first meal was his breakfast,
and that his subsequent dinners, suppers
and breakfasts should follow in order. Thus,
when he has missed a dinner and supper on
one day, the first meal of the following day
was his dinner and the noonday meal his
supper. His reckoning seems a little odd to
his neighbors, but he is sure he is right.
An Atchison man had a nightmare after
eating a lunch of chese, mustard and dried
beef, and had a disagreeable dream that hU
son was in great danger. Instead of being
unable to run from ghosts, as is usually tha
case in nightmares, he was unable to get
ready to go to the rescue of his son. Finally
he awoke and was so impressed with tha
dream that he went into his son's room.
He found him out of bed and on the roof of
the house, where he had climbed in his
sleep.
A curious return has just been printed
at Berlin. It shows how often German regi
mental colors were struck in action during
tha campaigns of 1SC1, 1866 and 1570, and also
ho Wmany officers, non-commissioned officers
and men were killed while carrying tho
colors. Tho memory of these lossesis touch
ingly preserved. Every staff that has been
clasped in action by a dead soldier's fingers
is encircled with a silver ring with the in
scription of the man's name and the words,
"Died a hero's death with this color in his
hand."
An instep pad is a new fad of those fair
women who are so unfortunate as to be pos
sessed of a "low bred" foot. It is simply a.
little linen pad fitted in place directly over
where the instep should be, but very often
isn't. If such a fashion becomes general ie
will compel shoemakers to keep a stock of
shoes with high insteps, and tbe moderately
low heels now demanded alike by good sense
and fashion. It is next to impossible now to
get a shoe with a high instep, except one
made on what is Known as the "Spanish
last," and a ridicnlously exaggerated heel is
a part of the make up of these shoes.
ITNNY FELLOWS' FANCIES.
Cholly I wondah how Gawge ever man
ages to keep his twomers so nicely pwessedr
Chappie Yon fawget Gwage weighs nearly 330
pounds. Xew Tork Xlltgram.
He failed in everything, they say,
And poorer grew from day to day.
Bat did not sit him down bewailing
Eecanse he had not won success
He entered Into business
And now he's growing rich by falling.
Hew lork Press.
Clergyman (looking at the contribution
boxes) Judging from the nickels and pennies, you
mnst have thought when I asked you to remember
the poor that recollection would do as well a col
lection. Detriot PrtePrtss.
Arch Imp I'm getting tired of this sum
mer resort; I think I'll sell out to a younger man.
Ordinary Devil Have you any successor In
mind?
Arch Imp That fellow who runs the Hani's Bam
knows as much about my methods as I do myself.
Heio Tork Herald.
"Papa," inquired Johnny, who was por
ing over the horror column of a borrowed newspa
per, "Is It a very bad accident when a man has his
earcntotf?"
"Which ear?" said Mr. 6klanphllnt.
The right ear."
"It Is," answered Mr. Eklnnphllnt, with em
phasis. "If a business-man should lose his right
ear, Johnny, he would have to buy a pen-rack.
Chicago Tritnme.
Tom (at hotel table) Please pass the but
ter, Maria.
Maria Ask tho wilter. I would look rretty.
wouldn't I, getting up and going to the other end
of the table for It?
Tom Hand some!
And she did. Detroit Free Press.
"Ah!" said the mosquito in greatest glee,
1 never can tell what I'm going to be
With tbe coming of the morning light.
I was Dutch last eve when the dark began
But now I'm a full-blooded Irishman.
For I dined on a lad from Cork last night."
Chicago Herald.
Wentman Don't you think Daggitt is
becoming an ass lately?
Weeks Yes; and the role of an us is quite be
coming to Daggitt. Seie Turk Telegram.
"What a change there is in Jack Brown.
Not long ago he was the quietest and most sedate
young man In town; now he is one of tbe fastest;
goes to every horse race, prise light.' chicken
tournament and so forth that take place."
"It's ail owing to Minnie Flasher. Jack heard
that she was fond of sports, so he became one."
ffeu Xork Press.
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