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PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 18ML
a good ritorosmox.
The proposition published in yesterday's
Dispatch for the extension of High street
along the foot of Boyd's hill to Second
avenue is a very good one for giving ready
access between the latter thoroughfare
and the Fifth avenue, Wylie avenue and
Union depot districts. The gain to be
secured by this new cross route, as well as
the opening up of territory for new ware
houses, is far beyond any possible cost of
the improvement
But as a sole reliance for relieving
Second avenue travel of the dangers of
the Try street crossing, the proposition is
hardly adequate. In the first place the
traffic out that avenue to and from the
down-town district south of Fourth
avenue would be obliged to make
quite a detour to gain the advantage
of this street In the next place all traffic
coming into the city by this route would
have to use streets already crowded by
traction lines and ordinary traffic
The proposition is especially valuable
because it affords the basis for an
other which would furnish a solution
for the conuestion of traffic on Fifth ave
nueat theCourt House. Thatis tocxtend
Fourth avenue to connect with this new
street, crossing the railway tracks by a
viaduct This would give that street an
outlet to both the Forbes street and Second
avenue districts. In addition, why should
not the public needs and safety on Second
avenue be properly recognized by raising
that thoroughfare from Ross street out so
is to cross the railroad by a bridge? This
is something that should have been done
long ago, and there is no reason why it
should not be done now.
The addition of new warehouse streets
and the increase and improvement of
thoroughfares leading from the business
center to the outer districts is an import
ant work in which the whole community
is interested But in nearly every such
case the benefits to adjacent property
would be more than ample for the cost of
the work.
THE COMMITTEE AND THE BENCH.
The Republican County Committee will
to-day decide whether to follow the Dem
ocratic example and indorse Governor Pat
tison's appointments to the new Bench in
this county, or run a straight-out party
ticket The local leaders, thongh they
do not like the Governor at an official any
too much, seem disposed to concede that
the upsetting of his ticket would be a task
of so many complications and so doubtful
of result that it is evident from their out
givings some of them are very much indis
posed to undertake it
The ultimate issue very likely lies out
side of the committee, and seems to rest
much more with the appointees them
selves. Standing two Republicans and one
Democrat, being unchallenged as to fit
ness, and having the Democratic indorse
ment, as we", as whatever force there is in
the sentiment that party lines
should not be too tightly drawn
upon Use Judiciary, it is evident
that, if they hold together, uncommonly
strong partisan nominations would be le
quired to make a show against them.
Should they go into a convention com
peting with new material, or pull apart,
tome of them might get lest in the shuffle.
Pulling together, the strict partisans
would have an exceedingly doubtful en
terprise in trying to dislodge them.
It is mainly to these considerations that
the Govcmor'slicket.asa whole.is indebted
for the indisposition of some of the most
prominent of the local Republican partisans
to oppose it In a new departure Judge
Kennedy would under any circumstances
be far from an easy man to beat Should
the Republican Judges stand with him.
the chances of ousting any would be yet
more slim and uninviting.
Nevertheless the situation for partisan
workers is a delicate om- If the commit
tee indorse the appointments it will ap
parently be yielding a possibility of getting
one more Judge and it goes hard with
partisan organizations to concede anything
to the other side even the slimmest
DI;.CUSING TrtE LYMPH.
Great into rest is aroused by the report
of Dr. Painter upon Koch's lymph, pub
lished in jesterday's Dispatch. Along
villi other recent statements, it goes to
shoiv that thr 1 ainu has fallen far short
of the original pi ospeetus. But it is well
to remember that the original prospec
tus owed most of its glowing ar.ticipo
tisiis and promises to the hope and imagi
nation of the followers of Dr. Koch, rather
' thau to his ou n utterances, which were
extremely conservative.
The suggestion is made, and it seems
plausible and likely to commend itself to
the thoughtful, that the trouble with the
lymph so far may pertain to the manner
or" its administiation rather more than to
any radical fault in the principle. It is an (
animal po.son introduced to counteract a i
t.imilar por-ou in the human system. The
idea ii put lorward that what jet remains
to bo determined Is mainly the extent to
which tl.o h:::ph should b" diluted beforo
it becomes beufhciall) operative. With
like poisons, such as the virus of
contngious diseases, particles and emana
tion so minute as to bo totally invisible
nt:u intangible are found to infect the air
aud to communicate diseases to human
b'jir.gs. The potency of the germs of
disease is thus exhibited, and tho question
Is raised In some quarters whether Doctor
Koch and Ms co-students may not yet
arrive at such a formula for sub-division
of the remedial agency as may render it
efficient
At all events there is a widespread in
disposition to assume that tho lymph is a
total failure; and this seems to exist most
strongly among physicians who are im
pressed with Dr. Koch's character as a
careful scientist The idea exists that the
trouble possibly may not be with the
principle of the discovery but the manner
of its application so far.
'
PREVENTING THE EPIDEMICS.
Once more the State Board of Health
arouses the public to the constant danger
from the pollution of the streams of West
ern Pennsylvania. Tet so busy is the age,
so intent are people upon the most
immediate trifles to the exclusion of vital
Uiings, that this same Board which has
done splendid sentinel service, warning
against epidemics and reaching out for the
roots of those diseases which affect com
munities, could only get a beggarly S6.000
for the prosecution of its work from the
last Legislature. This, too, when the
same Legislature was scattering hundreds
of thousands upon institutions and func
tions of narrower scope.
It is because the State Board of Health,
with scarcely any means, has within a few
yeais done signal service in movingagainst
just such sources of dangers as the defile
ment of the streams, that attention may
now opportunely be directed to the proper
scope of such a Board. Tho Board of
Michigan reports a diminution of 10,000
deaths in the annual mortality lists of that
State, since it began its effective work for
tho prevention of contagious epidemics.
Texas appropriates 5100,000 per year to its
Board; "Michigan, we believe, $60,000, and
New York, 535,000.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure. The special influence which de
feated a proper provision for the Pennsyl
vania Board of Health at the last session
of the Legislature was that of the slaughter
houses, which feared that their use of the
streams would be interfered with. This
was senseless opposition, as the Board had
already pointed out to the slaughter houses
how their offal could be chemically de
stroyed. But the opposition was effective
all the same. The next time the question
comes up the public will take a deeper in
terest in it The Board is well organized
for efficiency. It is a sign of the broad
spirit of its members that, though four of
them are physicians of the allopathic
school, they did not hesitate this week to
elect as President Dr. James H. McClel
land, of this city, who is one of the most
prominens of homeopaths. When its
work comes before the Legislature here
after the public will know enough to prod
up the Solons to a more appreciative mood.
It is better to pay for the prevention of
epidemics than to have to open personal
accounts with doctors, druggists, under
takers and cemetery companies.
A WEAK DEfENSE OF SMOKE.
While it is entirely competent for Coun
cils to hold the ordinance for the suppres
sion of the smoke nuisance open for further
consideration, the arguments by which
that measure was antagonized on Thurs
day show the opposition to be due to preju
dice and lack of reason. If no stronger or
more Avell-founded objections to the sup
pression of smoke can be found than those
presented on this occasion, the opposition
must be set down as due to an innate dis
like of anything approximating progress
and improvement
The main argument relied on by the op
ponents to smoke consumption is that it
will be an imposition upon manufacturers.
This would be very pertinent if it were
well founded, as Pittsburg cannot afford
to abolish her manufactures for the
sake of getting rid of the smoke.
But when this argument is persisted
in in the teeth of the appear
ance of an iron manufacturer
on the floor of Councils and his citation of
the fact that smoke consumption has been
effectually applied in one of the rolling
mills in tho city, it takes rank as obstinate
obstruction. One of the defenders of
smoke recognized the necessity of
changing his ground so far as to say that
the city has no right to compel manufac
turers to be economical. Very true; but
the city has the right to say that the man
ufacturers shall not make their lack of
economy an injury and damage to the
whole community.
This is the real question at issue. Every
one who has paid the slightest attention
to the subject knows that the smoke in
flicts an immense damage on the commun
ity at large. Its material injury to build
ings, clothing, fabrics of all sorts, goods
in the stores, and books and pictures,
amounts to millions of dollars. Beyond
that its damage to eyesight and its bad
effect on health are incalculable in dollars
and cents. If there were no way of carry
ing on industries without this smoke it
would have to bo endured as a
necessary drawback to prosperity. But
when it has been proved in Chicago, and
when that proof is enforced by practical
demonstrations in this city, that smoke
can be consumed, and an actual saving of
15 per cent effected, it is hard to classify
the opposition to the reform as anything
other than opposition to cleanliness and
improvement
The time that must elapse before the
ordinance is further considered by Coun
cils should be utilized by impressing upon
the public the issue whether Pittsburg
shall retain its character of the last half
dozen years as a city of pure air and pro
gressive tendencies, or whether it shall
retrogrado to its old condition of dirt and
darkness. When that issue is fairly un
derstood there will be a popular demand
for the reform that Councils will not dare
to oppose.
CONDEMNATION BY IMPRESSIONS.
A new source of complaint has been dis
covered against Stanley Africanus. Chief
Justice Daly, in a letter read before the
New York Historical Society, practically
accuses Stanley of representing in his
work that he is the original discoverer of
the dwarfs of Central Africa. That he
might not do Stanley injustice, the Ju
dicial critic inquired of others the im
pression produced by reading Stanley's
book. The verdict thus obtained is that
Stanley "so far slights his predecessors as
to leave the impression that in this respect
nobody went before him." Therefore
Justice Daly and the Philadelphia Ledger
in which journal we find the accusation
concluded that it "was a daring and some
what presumpluous.course" for Stanley to
omit the mention of Du Chaillu's and
Peterman's discoveries of similar dwarfs.
This might be a just criticism, if Stan
ley had undertaken to give a complete his
tory of the dwarfs and what has been
learned of them, which he has not; and if
the "impression" charged was the result
of careful and impartial examination,
which it is not The people of whom
Judge Daly asked their impression may
be pardoned for giving what was the re
sult of only casual reading; but those who,
like Judge Daly and tho esteemed Ledger,
practically assail the good faith of an ex
plorer and author should take the trouble
to bo sure of their ground. If they had
done so they would have found on page
41. of the second volume of "In Darkest
Africa," a recognition of the fact that
I "twenty-sis centuries ago the dwarfs cap-
tured the five young Nassamonian explor
ers;" that "even so long as forty centuries
ago they were known as pigmies;" that
!'on every map since Hekataeus" time, 600
years B. G, they have been located in the
region of the Mountains of ihe Moon;"
that they have roamed "from "the Niger
banks" to the place where he found them,
and that they "are known as Bushmen In
Cape Colony, as Watwa in the basin of the
Lulungo, as Akka -in Monbuttu, as Balia
by the Mabode, as Wambuttl in the Ihuru
basin and as Batwa in the shadow of the
Lunae Montes."
Here are no less than five distinct recog
nitions in less than a page of reading mat
ter of the knowledge of the dwarfs by
others than Stanley, being (1) a mention
of the ancient explorers who encountered
them; (2) reference to their presence in
the literature of antiquity; (3) credit to
ancient and modern map3 for locating
them about wnere they were found; (4)
a statementof their having been previously
known to exist on tie banks of the Niger;
and (5) giving the names by which they
are known in six localities, two of which
arc outside the field- of Stanley's explora
tions. '
It is bard to see Chow anyone who has
read this paragraph-.can cbme to the con
clusion promulgate hy Justice Daly and
the Ledger. If it&s the practice of the
Justice to conderok people on "impres
sions" so unfounded as this one, we pity
those who have to defend themselves
against accusations in his court
A POLITICIAN'S MOVE.
Quite a dispute has arisen lately, in con
nection with the death of Hannibal
Hamlin, over the influences which caused
the nomination of Andrew Johnson to
succeed him in 1864. The statement that
President Lincoln's influence was exerted
in favor of Johnson's nomination has
called out a denial by Mr. Nicolay. This
is met by a very positive rejoinder on the
part of Colonel McClure, as President
Lincoln's own representations to him.
Mr. Nicolay's denial was hardly discreet,
for in addition to the testimony of men
still living as to the War President's ex
pression of wishes, the recollection of all
whose memory goes back to that year of
trial and triumph will confirm the idea.
It was well understood that the nomina
tion of Johnson was not due to any dis
satisfaction with Mr. Hamlin, but to the
politicians' idea that the Union cause could
be built up in the South by taking the
Vice Presidental candidate from that
section. As President Lincoln was in 1864
the guiding mind of the Republican party,
it hardly needed Colonel McClure's testi
mony to strengthen the general under
standing of 18G4 that the choice of John
son was made as a stroke of policy with
the full approval of President Lincoln.
It would hardly be worth much discus
sion, if it were not as an illustration of the
weakness of what the greatest politicians
sometimes conceive to be happy moves.
President Lincoln was a great man; but
he was a politician in habits of mind, and
peculiarly liable to the political super
stition of giving strength to a ticket in a
certain section by a candidate from that
section. We can see now that the idea of
conciliating the South by the nomination
of Johnson was like trying to soothe an
inflamed sore by putting turpentine on it.
But the politicians of that day regarded it
as a necessity, just as some of their pres
ent moves are considered important when
they areTeally of very little value.
The political superstitions are still rife,
and their true value can be judged by
comparing them with what the politicians
of 1864, led by President Lincoln, consid
ered the sure way to build up the Union
cause in the South when the only way to
do so was by powder and shot
AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT.
Mr. John W. Bookwalter, who first
came to public notice some years ago as
an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
Governor, is now attracting attention by
an enterprise which if successful will give
him fame as effecting a philanthropic rev
olution. Mr. Brookwater's aim is to
change the social condition of the agricul
tural class; and he gives very good reasons
for the step he il taking.
It is beyond question that a leading, if
not the chief cause, of the drift of farming
population to the towns and cities is the
isolation and loneliness of the average
farm house, and the desire of those who
seek to escape from that life for social
contact with a larger number of their fel
lows. Mr. Brookwalter proposes to
remedy this by grouping together the
dwellings of farmers, not necessarily on
their farms, so that farmers of a given dis
trict, say of from one to four square miles,
shall live within a quarter of a mile
with each other. Tho groups can hardly
be called villages; "but they will be large
enough to constitute a social center. If
this effected no more than increased social
intercourse it would be an advance over
the present condition. But it would also
afford a center for the interchange of ideas,
and would eventuallylead up to the union
of these centers in combined action, such
as the purchase of farming machinery be
yond the means of individuals. It would
carry out and extend the work for which
Granges and Alliances are really valuable
that of bringing farmers together, inter
changing ideas, and uniting them in action
for their common interest
Mr. Bookwalter is giving a practical
trial to his idea on lands he owns in Ne
braska, where he builds houses in settle
ments of this sort, and lets or sells them to
farmers on easy terms, providing them
with town halls and circulating libraries,
and thus enhancing materially the attrac
tions of country life. Doubtless he ex
pects a pecuniary return in the improve
ment and sale of his lands; but the social
experiment will have a value far greater
than any money-making feature of the pro
ject The "Sew Orleans editors who fonght
each other drew a little blood and their
honor was mended. When New Orleans
means real killing It calls out the mob, in
comparison with which the duel was a harm
less amusement.
Now it is reported that William C.
Whitney is at once a Presidental possibility
and the real boss of Tammany. There have
been reasons for suspecting that Mr. Whit
ney was the real power benind the throne in
New York Citv politics ever since he pocket
ed tho spoils of the Broadway Railway
plunder without any disturbance over his
presence in the background. If Mr. Whit
ney should becomo the recognized head of
Tammany there is room for thinking that
political vice wouldhe shorn of half its re
pulsivencss by losing all its grossnoss.
The claim that smoke consumption will
be a hardship on manufacturers, when manu
facturers themselves demonstrate that It is
an economy, is a "remarkable manifestation
of the love for darkness and soot.
The fact that the footing of the assessors'
lists in Philadelphia shows a registration of
12,000 voters less .than the registration of last
September is cited by tho Philadelphia
Times as proof that there -was rather more
than that number of fictitious names regis
tered last fall, and that the majority for
Delanuter in that city was obtained in that
way. The proof Is not altogether conclusive;
but it derives Its greatest force from the
care which has been taken not to investi
gate the charge when it was previously
made.
The Western cyclone which has been
making itself so prominent a feature in the
weather reports should have been quelled
bv a telegram from Secretary Busk asking,
"What is your politics?"
One of the political abuses that threatens
to go on forever is illustrated by the Legisla
tive Record of this State, which, although the
Legislature has been adjourned, still con
tinues to publish its reports an indefinite
numbor of necks bohind time. This unique
"publication was never known to have its re
ports ready when they are wanted, and is al
ways inaccurate and badly printed. Its sole
useful function is to demonstrate how com
pletely politics can turn work that might be
somewhat useim into an arrant ana worth
less job.
The choice of the rose as the State flower
by the New York school children involves a
war of the roses to decide which rose of
many varieties is the official favorite.
The Administration has been on a still
bunt for charges on which to condemn the
Itata; but the decision that the schooner
from which she received her cargo was not
violating the neutrality laws places the long
and expensive chase after the steamer in a
very peculiar light. Having got the Itata,
the Administration may end in calling on
the courts to help let go of her again.
Ms. Parnell's refusal to accept that last
election as conclusive will rank him as even
a worse case than our old General Taylor in
not knowing when he is beaten.
The opinion that Governor Pattison will
be a "national Democrat," if .his party car
ries tne election in Pennsylvania this year,
is expressed by the New York World. The
"If" is altogether too much for the Gover
nor's character as a national Democrat to
depend on it. He had better give his atten
tion to being a flrst-clasn Independent State
Governor.
The discovery of Scott Ray, of Indiana,
that Hill is in the field for President is in
the nature of finding out that the Dutch have
taken Holland.
Hicks, the weather prophet, has been
predicting a variety of warmer and cooler
weather for July. Hicks is no doubt correct
in the assertion that there will be alterna
tions of cool and warm temperature for the
rest of the month.
The registration in Mississippi indicates
that the new election law is very successful
in limiting the suffrage to a select few.
Snow Hill and Clarion county are still
leading the field as the pointers in favor of
Gorman and Pattison respectively, and feel
confident of their hold on postofflces and
things if the lightning should happen to
strike their way.
A FEW OF IHE FAV0EED.
John Cesar Houk, a son of the late
Representative Houk, of Tennessee, will be
a candidate for his father's seat in Congress.
Mrs. Nancy Allison Frost, who lives
near Marietta, O., is 107 years old and has
lived in one house 91 years, removing to it
from the "block house" at Marietta.
Alexander Rankin, the Scotchman
who succeeded John Brown as Highland
servant to the Queen, has obtained almost as
marked an influence in the royal household
as Brown possessed.
The young King Alexander of Servia
will start on July 23 for the military camp at
Kieff, Russia. From Kieff, on July 2D, King
Alexander will go to Moscow and from
there, on August 2, to St. Petersburg.
Prop. John Stuart Blackie, of Scot
land, and Prof. W. S. Tyler, of Amherst Col
lege, have been teaching Greek: for more
than SO years. And, what is more, they are
still pretty lively, though close on SO.
Oliver Wendell, Holmes' library in
his Boston home looks over the Charles
river and furnishes a superb view of tho
distant spires and towers of Charleston and
Somervillo. Just at sundown the prospect
Is ideal.
Hon. D. M. Ket, Judge of the United
States Circuit Court, and Postmaster General
under President Hayes., has been offered
and accepted the position of Dean of tho
Law School of the Gran University. The
tender was made by Bishop Joyce, the new
Char cellor of the, university.
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey,
owns one of the finest salmon streams in
Canada, the Xoteshasquan, which is reputed
to be alive with the gamy fish. The Sena
tor's angling outfit is of irreproachable ex
cellencein fact, the Senator himself be
lieves it to be the finest in America.
Count Taafe, the Austrian Prime Min
ister, is almost as taciturn a man as Grant
was. He is sparing of bis words, so that
when he does speak in the Chamber he is
listened to with unusual interest. He dresses
most plainly and in cool weather is usually
wrapped np in a gray overcoat, with a gray
slouch hat on his head.
A cablegram says that Patti demands
a higher price than ever for her next win
ter's campaign in the United States. She
wants $5,000 a night. There is a contest be
tween Abbey and Marcus Mayor for posses
sion of the Diva. Mayer wants her for con
certs alone, while Abbey wants her for con
certs and opera. It is understood to be
Abbey's object to give a series of low-priced
concerts in the Garden Theater, New York.
WHAT TO DO WHEN TEMPTED.
An Elderly Man Who Has Seen Many Sides
of Life Gives Adrlce.
New York Sun.
At the J unction of Third and Fourth ave
nues is a lamp post. About the lamp post is
a brick dais protecting it Irom the traffic of
the street, and upon the dias yesterday sat
an elderly and squalid man, with a shiny
black leather handbag at his side. The sun
beat upon his bared head, and his eyes were
cast down. A policeman approached. The
elderly and squalid man raised his eyes.
"Move on," said tho policeman. But the
wayfarer moved not. "Yer drunk," contin
ued the strong arm of tho law. "If yer don't
move on, I'll pull yer."
"You are mistaken," said the elderly and
squalid man, in a gentle voice. "I was
drunk. Now I am resisting temptation."
"Doing what?" said the policeman.
" you are a comparatively young man,"
continued the way larer, rising to his feet
and replacing his hat; "and this is the ad
vic.ft nfti man who has seen life unon nwnv
sides. When tempted, yield; satiate, and
then resist," and the wayfarer walked wear
ily away.
And Not In Chicago.
Chicago Times.
A New York newspaper has been Inter
viewing prominent citizens of that town
concerning the ways in which they hope to
spend their old age. Naturally enough a
majority of them respond that they hope to
spend the leisure of the evening of life some
where out ofNew York.
MOULT.
Sweet little Molly
Took her new dolly
To look at the chicks In the pen;
Bat being alone
Sfio tripped over a stone.
And out flew the angry hen !
Poor Mollr screamed out.
And the hen tried to float.
Which pecked at the poor little maid;
Nurse came along quick.
Picked up a big stick.
Which she threw at the old hen's head I
Sweet little Molly
Looked about for doUy,
And where do you think 'twas found?
Just Inside the pen
Of that cross old hen.
While the chicks stood staring round.
Nurse picked up the two
Without more ado, i
And shut the old hen in the pes;
Though there Is no fear
MoUy wlU go near
To look at those chickens tea I
-Jfew York Advertiser.
MATRIMONIAL VENTURES.
After Eight Years a Young Iron "Worlcer
Went to Texas to Claim His Bride A
Senator's tlode of Marriage Changed
Other Stories. ,
A Gainesville, Tex., special to the St. Louis
Glebe-Democrat records a charming little
romance. Eight years ago Hattio A. Statts
and Frank A. Lynch attended school In Ful.
nski county, 111. The girl was 12 and the boy
16 years of age. One afternoon he accom
panied her part of the way home from school
and told her of his plans. His purpose was
to go to Flttsburg.whero he would enter some
iron establishment ana prepare himself for
the battle of life as a mechanic He had no
taste for farming. Some day he would return
to the neighborhood and claim her aB his
bride if the girlish love was not changed. One
year later the parents of Hattie died and she
was placed in an orphan asylum, where she
remained for several years. She finally
secured employment as help in a private
family in Springfield. A few weeks ago she
came to Gainesville from Illinois to accept
employment in a private family. Three days
after her arrival she received a letter, for
warded from Springfield, post-marked Bir
mingham, Ala. It wns from Frank. In
quiries among former friends and acquaint
ances in old Pulaski secured himner address
in Springfield. He was now a man able to
provide, and, if she so desired it, he would
come to redeem the parting promise He
had gone from Pittsburg to Birmingham a
few years ago.
Hattie's answer reminded Frank that eight
years had intervened since they parted. It
was a long time, and vast changes In per
sonal appearance took place between boy
hood and manhood, and girlhood and
womanhood. Before she could answer his
question and accent his offer of 1883 ho must
see her as she is. Her removal from Spring
field to Gainesville, and the circumstances
under which It was made, was quickly told.
"Ycurs, as ever," preceded the signature,
which was followed by the inevitable post
script. It was confined to the sentence:
"Send me your picture in your working
clothes, and by return mail I will send you
mine in my first best."
The lollowing Tuesday, July 2, Frank put
in nn appearance, preferring, as he said, to
see her in her working clothes and to Judge
or the state of her heart by taking her un
awares. Friday the license was obtained
and Saturdav they were married. The "pri
vate family" were given one week's notice
of leaving. The following morning he took
the 8 o'clock train for Birmingham to pre
pare a home for her, leaving her amply sup
plied with funds to make the Journev to Ala
bama when he wired her "Come." The mes
sage came to-day. It Is a three-room cot
tage, with a flower garden In front.
Elopers Chased 1,000 Miles.
Mr. S. J. Jonte and Miss Minnie Teague,
and Mr. Gus Little and Miss Mamto W.
George, all of Elm, Ellis county, Tex., con
cluded to get married, says the Memphis
Avalanche-Appeal, but being met by the girls'
parental objections, last Sunday eloped to
Waxahatchie, closely followed by the fathers
of tho young ladies.
The young follows got wind of the pur
suingparties and at once left for Sardls. and
went from there to Harris, thence to Dallas,
closelv puisued all tho while by their in
tended fathers-in-law. At Dallas they tried
to get married, but did not do so, owing to a
lack of time.
Thoy hurriedly caught the train for Deni
son, and the young men, as usual, looked
over tho train for their pursuers, and, to
their horror and dismay, discovered them
aboard in a forward car. All four immedi
ately beat a hasty retreat to the rear Pull
man, where they secreted themselves. Tho
girls' fathers looked over the train for the
fleeing lads and lasses, and at one time were
within four feet of the objects of their
search, but not seeing them they went back
into a forward, and the four drew four
simultaneous sighs of relief that sounded as
one.
At Denison the young folks eluded the
parents, one of whom went toward the
north, tho other toward the south. Then
these four hearts that nanted to beat as two
and live forevermore in connubial bliss con
tinued their rapid journev to Texarkana, for
there they hoped to have the nuptial knots
tied, hut becoming alarmed that tho two
pursuers were only 20 miles away, concluded
to go to Shreveport. Late in the afternoon
they were married in the room of one of the
gentlemen at the Phenix Hotel by Justice
C. D. Hicks. All the parties are well con
nected and well-to-do people.
Tho fathers of the girls swear vengeance.
In all they traveled over 1,000 miles on their
elopement, closely pursued. Tho girle are
pretty, and are about lG"and 13 years old.
Used to Being Married That Way.
A wedding ceremony occurred some years
ago of a then United States Senator, who, a
widower twice over, had for tho third time
succumbed to Cupid's wiles, says the Boston
Herald. At his first and second marriage
tho ceremony had been performed by an
Episcopal clergyman, and hence the Senator
was quite familiar with the Episcopal mar
riage form.
But the beautiful woman wholiad captured
his affections the third time was a devout
Presbyterian, and naturally wished tho con
nubial knot to bo tied by a minister of her
own church, and according to its simple ser
vice, says the Washington Post. To this the
statesman lover made no objection. The
character of the service wns of small ac
count to him, so long as It served to unite
him to the object of his adoration, and the
thought that he might blunder in the course
of it never disturbed for a moment tho
serenity of his mind.
But, standing beside his bride to be, stago
fright, as it might be called, seized him. In
his excitement he began to marry himself,
as it were, by the Episcopal service, repeat
ing glibly: "I, -, take thee, , to be my
wedded wife," and he probably would havo
gone on to the end if the astonished Presby
terian minister, who immediately appreci
ated the situation, had not interposed, and,
interrupting the bridegroom, performed the
ceremony with the brevity of the Presbyter
ian form.
At the point where the perturbed groom
seemed bent on doing the business for him
self, a distinguished brother Senator pres
ent drew near to a lady, another guest, a
close friend of his own and of the bridal pair,
and whispered in a pitving tone:
"Poor . He's used to being married by
the other service!"
nis Wedding Tour.
Some years ago, whilo looking at the clock
atStrasburg, said Mr. Depew in his Balti
more lecture, I noticed a large party of
American tourists making the rounds of
that celebrated ancient city. I was told by
one of them that, whilo most of the visitors
hugely enjoyed the trip, thero was, byway
of contrast, ono among them whom nothing
wonderful in nature and art could touch.
The landscape had no charms for him; tho
Alps did not impress him; the beauties of
Paris and Vienna did not o voke his ecstacies.
Nothing that he saw had the slightest effect
of drawing out the least expression of admi
ration. Weeks and weeks passed, and tho
rest of the party were dumfounded at his
lack of appreciation of the sights which met
them on all sides.
Finally it was decided to senda committee
of four two gentlemen and two ladies to
his room, and inquire what it was prevented
his enjoyment oi the trip.
"Old man," said ono of the committee,
"tell us what is the matter. If anyonein the
Jarty has displeased you we will dismiss
lim, if any wrong has been done you we
shall see that it Is remedied, but do tell us
what tho trouble is, forweare trying hard
to please you."
"Well," said the unappreciative tourist, "I
do not care to say anything about my
trouble. I wanted to keep it to myselC but
as you have asked mo l may as well out with
it. The matter is just this: This is my wed
ding trip the first wedding trip I ever
made and I'm so blamed poor that I did
not have money enough to take my wife
with me1."
No Wedding In That Town.
It was a long whilo ago.but it is worth tell
ing still. A correspondent in the South
writes in the Youth's Companion that a young
lady, whose sweetheart was in the Confeder
ate army, received from him a letter that
had been smuggled through tho lines, for he
had been taken a prisoner and sent to Ten
nessee. After reading the letter she went to tho
house of a neighbor and asked to see a map.
After a long search she said she could not
find the place where Mr. W was.
"Where is It. do you say, Molliet" asked
her triend.
"Dnrnnceville," replied Mollle, after look
ing again at the letter.
HerfrieudsandshestllldiUgently searched
the man, but no such place could be found.
At last they persuaded her to show them
that part of the letter. It read thus:
"I am in durance vile, but hope soon to be
exchanged and return home."
They Should Get Together.
Boston Herald. j
Minister Douglass' private secretary ex
presses the opinion that his distinguished
nf hhw.n talkinz too much. It looks
that way. Perhaps It might help things if
Minister Douglass and his privateljecretary
could be induced to swap places.
MUSIC AND MIRTH.
Twentieth Ward Citizens Enjoying Some
Excellent Band Concerts.
A good deal of enjoyment is had by the
citizens of the Twentieth ward and vicinity,
by the series'of concerts given through the
summer mouths by the Shadyside Musical
and Literary Society. The organization was
founded in 1887, and every year since.oxcept
18SU, a series of concerts has been given on
the lawn of the Liberty school, on Ellsworth
avenue. A committee of six, consisting of
Robert Pitcairn, William K. Jennings, S. S.
Marvin, Major W. B. Negley, George W. Dil-
I worth and Judge James H. Reed, with Robert
Pitcairn, President; William K. Jennings,
Secretary, and S. S. Marvin, Treasurer, col
lects what money they can. No person is
allowed to contribute more than $10. "At
the end of tho season, if the institution is a
little short, the committee makes it up,"
says Major Negley. The music is furnished
by tho Great Western Band.
Last evening the second concert of the sea
son was given, and from the number of peo
ple strolling around listening to the sweet
strains it was evident they were enjoying
themselves. Tho grounds were all lighted
with gasoline burners, and the numerous
small boys and girls were chasing each
other around in great glee. The programme
rendered last evening was very fine, several
pieces being encored. Fully 1,500 people
were present and were highly pleased with
the music. The committee has arranged for
eight concerts for the season. Tho Great
Western Band will furnish themusicforthem
all. Mr. Jennings says that the reason the
word "literary" was added to the name was
they had intended to give lectures and en
tertainments through the winter, but had
not done so as yet, out thought they might
start them this coming winter.
The "Hunchback" having arrived from
the apex of Mt. Washington, where he ap
peared Thursday evening, showed himself
to advantage last evening on the stage of
the Bijou Theater. J. C. Kober took Master
Walters part, to the great credit of himself
and the character. As Julia, Miss Edith
Smithson maintained her already goodrepu
tation. Theotherperformers did very credit
ably. Social Chatter.
A bcwepit picnic for St. Joseph's Orphan
Asylum will be given August 21.
The Birmingham Club will hold a lawn
fete at Silver Lake Grove on the 22d.
A semes of summer night concerts have
been arranged to take place on the Kenmawr
Hotel grounds.
Next Saturday the Park Avenue Presby
terian Church picnics at Idlewild, and the
Shady Avenue Baptist Church will do like
wise on the Tuesday following.
CAEHEK SYLVA'S HEW E0LE.
Her Drama Founded on an Ancient Legend
Proved Very Successful.
Detroit Free Press. J
Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Roumanla.has
launched out in Vienna as a dramatic ora
tor. Carmen Sylva, it will be remembered,
has done many exquisite poems and a great
deal or fine writing, so that her debut as a
playwright does not strike one as being at
all improbable for a woman of her talents.
Tho drama in question is entitled "Meister
Manole." It is a fine work, founded on an
old legend. The hero, -Vanote, Is an architect,
who undertakes to build a monastery. Each
night the devil pulls down what has been
built during the day, so that Manole de
termines to try the effect of a human sacri
fice in driving away the evil spirit who is
destroving his work.
Manole and his workmen register an oath
that the first woman who appears before
them shall be burned alive. The wife of
Mnnale is the victim of the rash oath, and
the fine work of the play comes in the heart
rending scene between Manole and his wife.
The Viennese audience which viened tho
scene was moved to tears by the pathos of
the exhibition.
A CTOIOUS LAW
Enacted by the Prussian Landtag In the
Session Just Closed.
Toronto Mall.
One of the most remarkable measures en
acted by the Prussian Landtag during the
session which has just been brought to a
close Is a law providing for compensation to
agriculturists for damage done to their crops
by game. The damage is not to be paid by
the owners of the game, who almost Invari
ably belong to territorial nobility, both great
and small, but by tho other agriculturists,
farmers and peasants whose crops tho game
has Tefrained from injuring on that particu
lar occasion.
This extraordinary method of squaring ac
counts must be attributed to the fact that
the majority in the Prussian Landtag is com
posed almost entirely of petty territorial
nobility the so-called Rittergutsbesitzer.
But it Is incredible that a man so enlight
ened and progressive as the present Em
peror of Germany should have given his
sanction to a law which, in tho words of the
old proverb, "robs Peter to pay Paul." In
deed, under its provisions, it will become
more profitable to have one's crops injured
by game than to have them left undamaged.
MIGHT 00 THESE.
A Climate That Doesn't Change Much
In
the Course of a Year.
New York World.
He was talking in a very loud voice all the
way over on a bridge train, declaring that a
country where the weather changed no
often was not fit for a white man to live In,
and Just as the-train stopped he repeated:
"I tell you, it's one of the worst climates
in the world in the world, sir!"
"Yes, and I've been wondering why you
didn't try Hades instead Hades instead,
sir!" screeched a little man who had been
carefully listening to the attacks on the
hest weather in America.
There was a painful pause and no reply.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Captain NorDcrt Trepagnier.
Captain Norbert Trepagnier, a well
known planter and member of the Louisiana Legis
lature, died suddenly on his plantation, near New
Orleans, Thursday, at the as-e of 81 years, from an
apoplectic stroke. He waslprobably the first
American victim of Italian vengeance In New Or
leans. In 1&59 he appeared upon the scene of a con
flict between a Creole and an Italian, in which the
latter was worsted. The Italians were looking for
vengeance, and at once set upon Mr. Trepagnier
and hacked him with their stilettos. It was only
after great care that he recovered from his In
juries. His friends afterward made an at
tack on the Italians in the vicinity, and 31 of
tliemwere either killed on the spot or driven Into
the Mississippi river and drowned.
Z. L. Bell.
Z. L. Bell, one of the widely-known resi
dents of East Findlay township, Washington
county, died suddenly of heart disease Thursday.
He was riding home from a neighbor's residence
when he felt a weak sensation coming over him and
lay down along the road. In a few minutes he waa
dead. He was found shortly afterward bv a mem
ber of his family. The deceased was 65 years of
age, aau leaves u hub ana nve cnuaren.
James M. Jope.
James M. Jope died at his home in Kew
Brighton Tnursday. He was born In the Second
ward or Pittsburg, 76 years ago, and lived here all
his life until 13 tears ago. Mr. Jope was exceed
ingly weu posiea m cuy anairs.
Obituary Notes.
E. B. Hale, the Cleveland banker, died sud
denly orparalysls at his bank Thursday.
ASSEMBLTMAK Joiin HuYLEE, Democrat, rep
resenting the Second New Jersey district, died at
his home at Tenafly yesterday momlng, of Bngnt's
disease.
Levi Jerolemoit, the oldest conductor In tho
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died Wednes
day at Somerset, In his 7!d year. He was with the
road for 35 years.
Rev. Dr. Bissell, of Hampton, Conn., secre
tary of Marrltha Mission, in India, Is dead. He
was 71 years old and father of Itev. Mr. BIsseU, of
Hampton, who takes his father's place In India.
JOU3T B. Decbxe, who died at Chambersburg.
Wednesday, was Superintendent of the Chambers
burg and Maryland Railroad for many vears. Ho
was well known In railroad circles. He retired
from active service ten years ago. living on a com
petent income. He was 58 years old.
MORRIS G. JACQCES, who 30 years ago was the
most famous trapper and hunter in Southern New
Jersey, died Wednesday at Manchester, where he
was living with a daughter. lie was S4 years old.
He was a dead shot, and could, when 65 years old,
split a tosscd-up penny at 30 yards.
Colonel James S. Chouse died in Syracuse
Thursday night. Mr. Cronse was at one time prom
inently Identified with the Democratic party In that
city, having been a delegate to the State Conven
tions In 1976. 1877 and 1878. He was twice otTered
the nomination for Mayor by the Democrats, but
refused to run.
Judoe James A. MrLLntEir, for many years a
prominent member of the Washington county.Me.,
bar, died In Cherryneld, Me., Wednesday night,
aged 78. He was the first RepubUcan candidate
for Congress In w hat waa then the Sixth district of
Maine, and was defeated bv a small malorlty by
bis Democratic opponent, inomas J. v, t uuer, or
Calais,
OUE MAIL POUCH.
Says the Bridge Is Out of Plumb.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I see an account in Sunday's Issue of The
DisvATcn about the panic that was averted
through tho efforts of the police and some
cool-headed men at the Schenley Park
bridge. Your reporter states that some half
drunk man was the cause of it by saying
that the bridge was falling. Now, I think
there were others than drunken men who
thought it was. Abridge that sways from
right to left at least six inches out of plumb
13 something that I don't care to see. I do
not mind if it does bob np and down,
but a wooden bridge should not swing like
the pendulum 'of a clock. As far as the po
lice were concerned in stopping the panic I
do not believe there was one on the bridge
at the time. Bkidoe Builder.
PrrraBCRO, July 9.
Wrecks and Fire.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
Can you tell me why railroads do not have
fire extinguishers in their carst One or two
would have saved the bodies and perhaps
the lives of some of the victims at Ravenna.
Frahxliw, Pa., July 9. J. H. W.
Some roads have chemical extinguishers.
In a wreck they scorn to be of little use. The
abolition of the car stove is the best anti
fire argument.
Why One Department Kick.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Several days before the Fourth of July
The Dispatch said the city clerks were busy
making up pay rolls so that the different de
partments could get their money for the
holiday. Yet us poor fellows of the pick and
shovel brigade had to wait until the 8th for
ours. Wo could not get any money to cele
brate with. Now is this Justice?
C0XSTA3T REAPEB.
Pittsb'ueo, July 10.
The Signal Service.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
Please give me what information yon can
in the way of wages of those in the Signal
Service, also the requirements for examina
tions, where they are held and where the
men appointed are nsually sent. A. B.
PrrrsBTjiia, July 10.
Write to the Chief of the Department of
Agriculture. The Signal Service is now in
charge of this bureau.
The Sale to Boys Forbidden.
To the Edltorof The Dispatch:
To decide a bet, please inform me whether
or npt there is a law in Pennsylvania regu
lating the sale of cigarettes.
D. B. HA32TA.
Stoneboko, Pa., July 10.
No License Needed In New York.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Is It necessary to procure a Ucense to
marry in New York State? N.M.
Mankihgton, Pa., July 6.
HO CO-EDTJCATIOH AT YALE,
Women May Pass the Examinations, but
They Can't Enter CoUege.
New Haves, July 10. The announcement
that the only certificate granted by Yale for
a century to a woman for admission to that
institution has just been issued to Mis3
Irene Coit, daughter of General J. B. Coit, of
Norwich, needs some explanation. It i3 true
that Miss Coit, who is a very bright young
lady, successfully passed the ordeal of tho
Yale examination papers. She passed at
the Yale examination held at Norwich,
nevertheless she cannot enter Yale.
There is no law to prevent a young lady's
paying the Yale examination fee and testing
her ability to cope with tho examination
papers. Yale, however, has not thrown
down the bare which exclude the sex from
her classic shades, except as regards her art
school, where the classes haveforyearsbeen
almost exclusively women.
On inquiry from various of the college pro
fessors to-night It Is learned that the Yale cor
poration's position on this snbject remains
unchanged. President Dwight sailed on the
Brittannic for Europe this week, but other
eminent Yale men express tho belief that
Yale's policy in this respect will not be
altered for years.
It Is thought not improbable, howerer.that
the Harvard University annox Dlan mav
una isvor eventually, uorneu, jvnn Aroor,
Colby and Minnesota Universities arei run on
the co-educational order. Mereoveh Miss
Colt Is not the only woman to successfully
pass an examination for Yale. In 18S6 a great
sensation was created from the fact of the
admission of Miss Alicia R. Jordan ta the
Yale Law Department.
Yale's faculty found itself powerless to
prevent it, as on inspection of the rules it
was found that any person who had been
admitted to the bar was entitled to enter
the department. Miss Jordan had been so
admitted, so she came in, and she graduated
successfully and was awarded a diploma
with the other victors in her class.
Yale changed the by-laws without delay
when the flaw was discovered, and Miss
Jordan is tho only woman who ever grad
uated from Yale outside of the Art School
Department.
PS0SFEB0TJ3 BERMUDA.
What the Colonial Office Reports Show for
the Year 1890.
New York Sun.
A Colonial Office report on the Bermudas
for last year states that 1S90 was a year of
great prosperity in Bermuda. Not only wero
very remunerative prices obtained for the
agricultural produce of the island in the
United States, due to tho fact that the early
crops of onions and potatoes in the South
ern States were Injured by frost, but the
number of visitors to the island was unpre
cedently large. The exports showed a
marked increase over 1889, the figures being
for the last named year -E64.076, and for 1890
133,528. In 1889 about 200,000 crates of
onions were sent to New York, valued at a
litte over 31,750: last year, though about
10,000 crates less were sent, the value or the
crop was jE82,550.
During the year the submarine cable be
tween Halifax and Bermuda was success
fully laid, and tho Halifax and Bermuda
Cable Company, to whom the cable belongs,
was able to open an office in Hamilton for
tho transaction of business early in July.
The company receives a subsidy from the
Imperial Government of .8,100 per annum
for 20 years, and the charges at present
made are 4s. per word to England and 3s. 3d.
to the American Continent. Government
messages are charged half rates, nnd there
is little doubt that tho establishment of
cable communication will prove in the fu
ture beneficial to the colony.
PEOPLE COMING AND G0INQ.
Elijah Halford, President Harrison's
Secretary, was at the Union station last
evening going to Washington. He had been
to Yomiestown visiting his brother. He said
the President would remain at Cape May
several weeks. He didn't know whether
Ben would visit Cresson this summer or not.
British Consul H. C. Parker at Panama
passed through the city yesterday bound for
Texas where he has a brother. He states
that English capital is being invested in
Panama, and tho people hope the famous
canal will be built.
Congressman E. P. Gillespie returned
from Philadelphia yesterday. He attended
a quiet conference of Democrats to outline
a party policy before the convention Jmeets.
He declmed to say what wns done.
Dr. D. A. Hengst and family, of Oak
land, returned yesterday from o two weeks
vacation at the sea shoro and Eastern cities.
George T. Bishop, a Cleveland freight
agent, and F. II. Bostwick and wife, of
Akron, are stopping at the Duquesne.
3. W. Alexander, a banker of jronon
gahela City, started for Watch Hill, R. I.,
last evening, to spend several weeks.
Amos Steck, a Greensburg real estate
man, and CA. Morris, of Tyrone, are among
the guests at the Anderson.
Frank K. Kohler and family went to Kew
York last evening. Mrs. Kohler will visit
relatives there for awhile.
John W. Beed, a Clarion lawyer, and S.
O. McCalla, of Butler, are registered at the
Seventh Avenuo Hotel.
George M. Hablitzell, of Hyndman, and
John Burns, of Washington, " aro at the
Monongahela House.
Captain G. Wl.Marsh, a well-known oil
man from Zelicnople, was at the St. Charles
Hotel yesterday.
Ex-Postmaster Boss, of Washington, was
in the city yesterday. He returned home
last evening.
Mr. Eddy, the professional organist, left
for Chicago on the limited last evening.
David H. Nicolls, of the Washington Bu
reau of Labor, Is visiting at Braddock.
W. A. Findlay, of Elizabeth, put up at
the Central Hotel yesterday.
S. S. Marvin got back from Chicago yes
terday morning.
Major Frank Patterson went to Altoona
Jlast evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Teachers' salaries in the United States
annually amount to more than $60,000,000.
A barber of Ionia, Mich., has broken
the record of shaving a man in 28 seconds.
A temperature of 112 has caused tha
destruction by fire of 10,000 acres of grain la
California.
The oldest surgeon in the world is said
to be 31. W. Salmon, of Cambridge, England.
He was born in March, 17D0.
Forsyth county, Ga., claims a progidy
in a 4-year-old child MichUah Bad well who
can read any piece of music at sight.
There are spiders no bigger than a grain
of sand which spin thread so fine that it
takes 4.000 of them to equal In magnitude a
single hair.
Dr. Hinckle, of Amerieus, Ga., has a
piece of chinaware 791 years old. The date,
'1100, is plainly stamped on the bottom and
its only flaw Is a broken handle.
An Oregon town has been enjoying
some queer foot contests. One foot race
over plowed eronnd and another over rail
road ties, each for a large stake, are among
the unique events.
A farmer near Conway Springs, Has.,
recently sola his corn crop in the field for
$5 50 an acre. Tho purchaser assumes the
risk of the crop maturing and takes care ot
it until it is in the crib.
It is said that an Atchison, Kas.,
woman who never pays more than $5 for a
bonnet, once refused to marry Tom" Scott,
tho Pennsylvania Railroad magnate, who
died several years ago worth several millions
of .dollars.
George Simms, who, on a wager, under
took to walk from Galveston, Tex., to Chi
cago, "without a cent In his pockets." in 60
days, finished the trip Thursday, four or five
honrs ahead of time. He was fed and lodged
by kind-hearted people along the route.
A cubic foot of aluminum weighs 157
pounds. A cubio foot of copper weighs 55S
pounds. A sheet of aluminum 12 inches
square and one inch thick, weighs 14 pounds.
A bar of aluminum, 1 inch square and 13
inches thick, will weigh 1.17 pounds. A
cubic inch of cast aluminum weighs 0.092.
A Norwegian living in the sixteenth
century was accounted a master hand at
minute contrivances. In proof of this it is
recorded that he made 10,000 dishes of turned
ivory, in every respect without a flaw, and
so tiny that all of them could be safely
cradled In a pepper-corn cup of usual size.
One of the most beneficent inventions
recently reported is a type-writing machine
which can be easily and effectively operated
by the blind. It is confidently stated that
those who are deprived of sight can work
the machine with asmuch certainty as those
who can check with their eyes the work of
their fingers.
The ideal bathhouses are in Birming
ham, England, and are from 80 to 100 feet
long, nnd from 3 to 5 feet deep. The poor
bathe for a penny, or two of our cents, while
the well-to-do get towels and a dressing
room for 12 cents. Theee bathhouses de
velop swimming classes, and from these ex
pert swimmers are made.
Lexington, Gx, has a town marshal
well equipped for his duties. A few days
ago, It is said, he had occasion to arrest
three evil-doers in a bnnch. He gathered
one under each arm. their legs dangling in
the air, ana drove tho third along in front,
and In that way proceeded to the calaboose,
where all three prisoners were locked up.
The well-known freaks of English justice
are illustrated by the case of a man at
Arundel, charged with having injured soma
tnrniD tops. The foreman of the prosecutor
testified that some turnip tops found in tho
pocket of the prisoner fitted the turnips in
his master's field, and on thi3 evidence the
accused was sentenced to pay a fine of $750
or go to prison for 14 days.
It is not generally known that there is
a colony of Syrians in Macon, Ga., yet such
is the fact. They aro small tradesmen,
dealers In fruit, etc For some time they
congreatcd at a little fruit stall on Fourth
street, near Cherry, but are now scattered in
various places around the city. When at
home they wear the fez and some other
parts of Oriental costume, but when at busi
ness they don ordinary clothing and appear
as American citizens.
It is.believed in Philadelphia that the
only ono of the original continental fines In
existence is in the possession of the City
Troop of that city. The old flag is" spread
between two large pieces of plate glass,
which keep the air awav from it. The prob
abilities are that were it removed from this
case it would fall to pieces. In design it Is
somewhat similar to the English jack. The
design was made by a committee, of which
Benjamin Franklin was a member, in 1776.
Afew years later the first American stand
ard accepted by Congress was submitted
and adopted.
At a meeting of the English Chemists
Assistants' Association a member described
a little microphone which would render
audible the footsteps of a fly. The little ap
paratus consists of a box with a sheet of
straw paper stretched on its upper part.
Two carbons, separated by a morsel of wood
and connected with the two circuit wires,
are fastened to it, and a carbon pencil.
laced crosswise between the two, is kept
i this position bv a groove made in the lat
ter. Avery weak battery is then sufficient
to set the instrument at work, and when the
flv walks over the sheet of paper it produces
vibrations strong enough to react energet
ically on the ordinary telephone.
The French Academy of Sciences ten or
fifteen years ago offered a prize of 1,600 for
the discovery of somo means by which even
the inexperienced might at once determine
whether in a given case death had ensued,
or not. A physician obtained the prize for
having discovered the following well-known
phenomenon: If the hand of the suspected
dead person is held toward a candle or other
artificial light with the fingers extended and.
one touching the other, and one looks
through the spaces' between the fingers
toward the light, there appears a scarlet red
color whero the fingers touch each other,
dne to tho blood still circulating, it showing
itself through the tissues which have not
congested. When life is entirely extinct
the phenomenon of scarlet space between
the lingers at once ceases. The most ex.
tensive and thorough trials established tho
truth of this observation.
A CONGRESS OF WITS.
Criticus I see Mr. Mansforde advertises
that "Incessant applause" greets his new play.
Man About Town Yes, the audience la afraid
that if It lets up a mlnnte they'll hear some of the
lines: Xeia Tart TtUsram.
Young Ferguson How harshly and un
ceremoniously Miss Slim spoke to that brother of
hers Just now.
Young Hanklnvra (with bitter recollections of
his last interview with MlssBUm) Yes. He's her
her real brother, you Ttnow. Chicago Tribune.
Bcporter Got a good interview with Ed-.
ltor Smlffles, of the Sqnawkmahonk (N. T.)
EUncer.
Editor of Chicago Republican Dally Huh Got
no space for Jays.
Reporter But he says Cleveland can't cany New
York.
Editor Give him a column and rush it. Chicago
Times.
The day of doubting has gone by.
There Is no doubt of that.
No matter how the Mugwumps lie
We make tin plate that's flat.
Sao Tort Press.
"Did yon ever read The Corsican Broth
ers, Mrs. De Porque?" asked the young man who
was calling.
No: what is it about?"
It's about a man who bad a doable "
"Ob. yes; I never pay any attention to these
Jokes about cucumbers and green apples, you
Lnow." Washington Post.
Tom Have yon asked Bessie yet?
Jack Yes.
Tom What did she say?
Jack That she would take vanilla. Am Tori
Herald.
"You wouldn't think that she has driven
three men to attempt suicide."
I would never have believed it. Yet how often
the most innocent-appearing woman la at heart a
cruel, remorseless coquette, a destroyer "
'There you go again. Her flirting propensities
had naught to do with it. The men were her neigh
bors while she was taking vocal lessons."
Indianapolis Journal.
"1 am afraid I shall never be a good
Christian," sighed Strlver.
"Why not?" asked the minister.
'I don't seem to make agy progress."
"Have you left undone those things which yon
ought to have done and done those things which
you ought not to have done?"
Yes."
"Then you're an right. You are a good a
Christian aa the rest of us." Sao York Press.
Some capitalists philanthropic
Will give labor reformers a topic
For praising this town
By soon brluglng down
The price of beer to a point microscopic.
Chicago limit.
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