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THE PnTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESDAY JULY 14,, 1891
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PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, JULY It, l&lL
ASSESS IT DIRECTLY.
The theory that the officers stationed at
the crossings of traction lines should be
appointees of the police authorities and
subject to their control is an eminently
correct one. But the proposition that the
city shall pay their salaries and assess the
companies a license tax of S50 per car to
meet the expense contains several grave
defects.
The two principal objections to this
method have been already stated. They
are, first, that the plan affords no guaran
tee that the license tax will eqnal the ex
pense. The assertion has been made that
it will yield about half the cost Next, it
evidently bears inequitably upon the com
panies. To assess companies whose lines
have been so laid out as to require only
three or four cornermen the same license
per car as those which have been located
seemingly with a view to multiplying the
number of dangerous crossings, is obvious
injustice.
These objections can be met consistently
with the fundamental purpose of the
license proposition by the simple course of
assessing the cost of tho policemen di
rectly upon the companies. Let the city
provide by ordinance for stationing officers
at ever- rrossing where traction lines in
tersect each other; let these officers be ap
pointed, paid and govered by the city;
and let the salaries of each be collected by
dividing the amount among the companies
using the crossing where he Is stationed in
proportion to the average number of cars
each takes past that point This will give
the city full control of the officers and
make tho companies pay tho cost in exact
proportion as they have created the dan
gerous points.
The question of a license tax on cars as
a source of revenue in return for the fran
chises granted traction companies may be
taken up and settled by Itself. But In
meeting the expense of providing safe
guards rendered necessary by the creation
of the lines, the common sense way is to
levy the cost directly on the companies in
exactly the amount that tho case requires.
ENFORCEMENT TIIE NECESSITY.
Touching a comment of the Boston
Journal that if the Illinois legislators have
been able to draft an effective statute
against trusts, 'they have done more than
any legislative body before them has been
able to accomplish," the Xew York Time
sarcastically remarks: "Has the Journal
forgotten the great anti-trust law passed
by the Fifty-first Congress? Or does it
wish to admit that this law is worthless?"
All laws will be equally Ineffective if no
attempt is made to enforce them against
powerful and wealthy violators. In this
respect the Illinois and the United States
statutes stand on the same footing. If no
one tries to enforce them they will be dead
letter legislation. It is also pertinent that
if a sincere and vigorous attempt is made
to enforce both they will be found ade
quate to drive nine-tenths of tho monopo
listic combinations out of existence.
This necessity of honest enforcement is
universal. The Times need not go bo far
as either Washington or Illinois to find an
example of a great trust declared illegal
by the highest authority of the State, after
which all the steps of the legal authorities
have been carefully timed to suit the con
venience of the combination in evading
the law.
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
The Ohio Democrats will meet to-day In
convention at Cleveland, and unless all
signs fail Governor Campbell will be vin
dicated by a renomination. His nomina
tion will put tho fight on the square issue
of the tariff, and the campaign will be de
void of the petty personalities that have
long characterized Ohio politics. The
fight in the Democratic ranks has been
very bitter, yet with the apparently over
whelming majority of the delegates favor
ing the Governor the talk of a compromise
candidate is hardly worth figuring on.
Mr. Seal's friends are working hard for
him, but if he is defeated he will hardly
go back on his party, and if he is able to
do so at all he will throw his forces for the
nominee.
Thus it is apparent that while Ohio is
usually conceded to be a Republican State,
it will be well for the Republicans to be
on their guard. Notwithstanding these
internal dissensions Governor Campbell is
very strong with the people. However,
with good management Major McHnley
lias the best of the argument The Re
publican party is well organized and the
prospects are flattering. It will, of course,
be a hard fight, but with the chances
greatly favoring Mr. HcKinley. His tariff
bill will be the leading issue, and it has
stood the test of practical results so well
that he could not ask fora better platform.
rORTUNATE FOR CIVILIZATION.
Students of the African situation will be
glad to learn that the petty war which the
Arabs on the upper Kongo have been
waging on the Kongo Free State has re
sulted disastrously to them. It is now evi
dent that the mistake which Stanley made
was in supposing that Tippu Tib could be
changed into a friend of civilization by
making him Governor of Stanley Falls.
Having proved the contrary by his own
acts he left for the coast to prosecute his
6uit against Stanley, and his subordinate
chiefs commenced hostilities against the
Free State, with the gratifying result that
they havo been driven from Stanley Falls
and compelled to sue for peace.
This is gratifying news. It has long
been apparent that the firm establishment
of civilized stations on the upper Kougo
would enable communication to be opened
with the Uyanzas by theAruwimi and
with the Tanganyika by the Lualaba. The
obstacle to this extension of trade by those
rivers was furnished by the dominion of
the slave-traders from Stanley Falls up
the river. If the Arabs have been con
clusively defeated so that they are forced
to confine themselves to civilized trade,
the area over which the Kongo Free State
extends Its civilizing influences "will be
vastly enlarged. Such an extension will
not only afford the cheapest transportation
from tho central lake region of Africa, but
it will permit trade to pass through a
country that has been opened up on the
principle of unselfish civilization rather
than through the regions of East Africa
that have been seized simply for the pur
poses ofjterritorial aggrandizement
If the Arab attack has led to this result
it will be the most fortunate thing for
civilization in Africa that has happened
since Stanley's exploration of that great
river.
THE TATTISON FOSSTBILITT.
The questions presented by the frequent
mention of Governor Pattison as a Presi
dental possibility are beginning to agitate
the Democratic mind of the State. Out
side the State the idea of Pattison is only
taken as a not wholly unsatisfactory
dervitr resort; but to Pennsylvania Demo
crats the thought has more immediate im
portance, both pro ct ton.
3Ir. Harrity's declaration on the subject
the other day no doubt expressed the
official Pattison attitude. That is, to rec
ognize and support Cleveland with a mod
erately well defined hope of coming in as
residuary legatee of the Cleveland boom.
This is clearly the proper course for Patti
son, if his ambition were imperative and
controlling. It is an essential part of the
way to realize whatever Presidental possi
bilities may be in store for him to maintain
the Cleveland cause until it is evident that
the quarrel with Hill make3 that an im
possibility and then to administer on the
estate.
But the Erie Herald will not be content
with any such contingent abjuration of
Presidental hopes by Governor Pattison.
It charges the Democracy of Pennsylvania
with having thrown away its weight in
national conventions bv supporting the
wrong candidate, and gives us the aston
ishing information that, if Pennsylvania
had supported Hancock in 1868 he could
have been nominated and elected. The
moral of this remarkable piece of history,
if true, would seem to be what Pennsyl
vania Democrats might do If they sup
ported their own man for President; but
after triumphing over the crushing elec
tion returns of that year with an "if" the
Herald proceeds to real argument by say
ing that if Governor Pattison should be
elected to the Presidency, he would have
to turn over the Governorship of Pennsyl
vania to a Republican Lieutenant Gov
ernor. Furthermore the Meraia alleges
that the Pattison boom is being worked up
for trading purposes.
All of which indicates that there is a
wide variety of opinion within the Demo
cratic ranks. It is true that Governor
Pattison, if elected President, would have
to turn over the Governorship of Pennsyl
vania to a Republican. But possibly the
Democracy, and especially the Democracy
of Pennsylvania, may conclude that the
Presidency is. more important than the
Governorship, and If he should appear to
be the most available man, would put him
Into the race. It Is pertinent that even if
nominated he would not be required to
surrender the Governorship unless he was
elected President
As to the assertion that the Pattison
movement is intended for trading purposes,
the Harrity declaration leaves nothing of
that theory. A candidate who will per
mit his name to be used only as a second
choice is not available for trading. Not
withstanding the arguments of the Erie
Herald the Governor remains a Presidental
possibility only a possibility it is true,
but a by no means unpleasant one.
THE TREASURY STATEMENT.
The new form of Treasury statement
produces the nsual amount of discussion
In political organs. The Democratic news
papers represent it in alarmist colors, the
Republican papers speak of it in the high
est terms, and that portion of the public
which has learned to estimate the utter
ances of organs at their true worth will
understand that the truth lies somewhere,
between the two.
A specimen Democratic attack says
with regard to the indiscreet claim of a
Republican organ that there was "a big
Treasury balance:" "This balance was
5148,974,803, 'including gold reserve, frac
tional silver and deposits in national
banks.' As these items, none of which
are properly included in a cash balance,
aggregate 5145,385,244, the actual balance
was just $3,589,564, which can hardly be
considered very 'big,' even by the warm
est admirers of the administration."
This is not a very bad case of exaggera
tion for an opposition organ, but it is
somewhat exaggerated. The fractional
silver and deposits in national banks
properly belong to the cash balance. They
were excluded by Secretary ilanning for
the express purpose of making the surplus
appear small; but every bank in the coun
try would treat such items as available
cash. As to the gold reserve, that is un
questionably cash; but the theory that it
should be held separate is given much
force by the absurd discrimination of tho
law which makes the Treasury store dol
lar for dollar of the coin certificate, while
it retains only about 30 per cent of a re
serve for the legal tenders.
A Republican view appears In the claim
of an organ that the new form of state
ment is "virtually that of ex-Secretary
McCulloch and of all the heads of the
Treasury Department previous to Secre
tary Manning;" that "the new departure
was devised for Democratic partisan pur
poses, and gave no better knowledge of
the Treasury's condition than did tho old
system." This Is pure partisan dogmatism.
The older form of statement was adopted
when the Treasury had no surplus or gold
reserve; and It is not wholly without a sug
gestion of an approach to a similar condi
tion that the form of statement is re
turned to. Secretary Manning's form
tried to minimize the showing of the
surplusjiot for partisan purposes, but in
the interest of Wall street In other re
spects it gave a clearer analysis of the
condition of the Treasury than the old
statement ever did.
The truth Is the Republican organs are
endeavoring to cover up the fact that the
change is due to a desire to conceal the
immense diminution of cash resources to
be shown by a comparison under the re
cent form. And in their anxiety to en
large on this result of the extravagance of
the late Congress, Democratic organs are
representing the condition of the Treas
ury much worse than it really is.
A distressing evidence of the small
obstacles that sometimes obstruct progress is
afforded by the statement that the poople of
St. Paul and Minneapolis are harmonious
on the subject or consolidation. but that thoy
cannot agree upon a name. The difficulty
is more obstinate than in this community,
where the larger city w ould accept the name
of the smaller, not only as a concession but
as tho perpetual local and native name. But
in the Northwest each city "wants some
thing of Its own ume preserved in tho
united cognomen, and.tho difficulty of doing
so consistently with euphony lias no far
proved insuperable. Mlnnea-paul and St.
Panl-opolis have both been decidedly re
jected; and thero does not seem to bo any
thing left but to take tho example of one of
tho vessels that recently attained inter
national fame, and marry the two cities
under the name of Paul and Minnie.
Two Englishmen are to be knighted,
one for having entertained the Emperor of
Germany at dinner, and the other for hav
ing amused him at a theatrical entertain
ment. Tho qualifications for knightly ser
vice in England are arduous to the purses
It is interesting to find out that our
friends, tho Philadelphia editors, who were
a short time ago calling for nil the informa
tion obtainable abont the Keystone Bank
plunder which, of course, meant that the
information should bo got from Bardsley or
Marsh are now pitching into that unfortu
nate Ledger man who got Bardsley to talk,
and then had tho interview suppressed until
the investigation brought it. The Times ac
cuses him of letting an unreliable criminal
vent his spite on different people, while the
Press arraigns him for a violation of tho con
fidential conversation with which Bardsley
favored him. The two accusations do not
agree very well; but tho editors are united
in abstaining from any more calls for the
bottom facts.
That 5,000 people listened to the music
In Schenley Park last night shows that those
free concerts will become exceedingly pop
ular. The fine weather hadmuch to do with
tho success of tho inaugural concert, so had
tho good management of Chief Blgolow.
The advice of Mrs. Ewing to the Chau
tauqua ladies yesterday to become expert
cooks, as good pumpkin pies are more im
portant than politics will endear her to
many an American husband. Sho has truly
laid open the cause of many unhappy
homes. Women should have their rights,
and cne of tho most important is the right
to cook. If they wonld be satisfied in their
proper sphere and leave man's work to man -j
homes would bo happier and there would Do
less work for tho divorce courts.
It is asserted that the Empress of Ger
many wants to see. America. The Ameri
cans would like to soe tho Empress and her
war-lord. It might be a characteristic
stroke of Chicago enterprise to secure them
as attractions for tho "Woild's Fair.
The state of society in which blue and
rod chips pass current even to the extont of
taking them In tho contribution box was
supposed to be peculiar to tho wild and
woolly "West. But the Prince of 'Wales' de
fense to the effect that he uses them "as a
convenient substitute for gold or bank
notes" indicates that the Western fashion
must have spread Into conservative Eng
land. The most striking crop of news. comes
from New York, where the total of the cereal
products of this country this year is stated
at 3,200,000,000 bushels. This would be a
splendid yield; but wo are afraid Wall street
has inflated the total not a little.
The announcement that the ambitious
young actress who has sued a Coney Island
hotel for $50,000, will devote tho proceeds of
the suit to public charity requires explana
tion. The name of her counsel renders it
necessary to remark that a large share of
the proceeds will go to the reliofof that in
dustrious orphan, Mr. Abe liummel.
The new census of England and Wales
puts the population of that tight little isle at
29,001,018. That Is a rather small crowd in
comparison with this country, but it feels
big enough to make up tho difference.
Tnn Ohio Democrats are determined to
have a warm time at'their convention, apart
from tho weather. Having developed a
large amount of surplus caloric in protend
ing to dispute over tho nomination, thoy
will put Campbell into the field, and then
see how much warmth they havo loft for
the campaign.
How the French are experiencing the
railway collision epidemic. The unsuccess
ful attempts of trains to pass each other on
tho same track are not confined to any
single hemisphere.
The depredations by masked robbers in
Fayette county show tho need of a Farmers'
Shotgun Alliance up thoro. Tho law officers
of Fayette evidently are not in it with the
law-breakers, who rival Turpin or Claude
Duval in audacity. It is a disgrace to the
State that such marauders should go un
punished. Now Mr. Edgar Saltus will be able to
write a realistic novel from experience de
scriptive of the sensation of having a di
vorce granted against him for the scriptural
reason.
FAKE'S FAV0EED FEW.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has settled
down resignedly to the conviction that rheu
matism has made her a cripple for life, it is
said.
1tman Bryant, the old sexton of the
quaint town of 11 olden, Mass., now dying at
the age of 91. had during his 40 years of office
Interred 899 persons.
Ex-GovEKXOn Ames is one of the richest
men in Massachusetts, and likewise ono of
the plainest in attire andmanncr. Ho wears
an inconspicuous business suit of quiet col
oring, and his head is covered by a broad
brimmed, Quaker-like straw hat.
Mr. Clinton Scollakd, an aspiring
poet, has been getting himself into very hot
water by venturing to assert in ono of his
poemlets that "dandelions dot tho ground in
Juno." Tho critics soy they don't, and ho
had no business to assume that they did.
peter itEiCHENsrERGnis, the senior
member of the Center party in Germany,
recently celebrated the eighty-first anniver
sary of his birth. For many years Keichen
sperger w as almost as powerful in the coun
cils of his faction as tho late Dr. Windthorst.
He has been 43 years in parliamentary life.
Sir Edwin Arnold, poet, editor and
Orientalist, is a rather short, well-built man
of 00, with smooth gray hair, carefully
parted, a strong nose and high forehead.
His beard is thin and gray, his complexion
florid and his eyes aro blue. Ho has beon
for SO yeais in tho service of tho London
Telegraph.
The Marquis de Xeuville is defendant in
an odd suit. He arranged with Hcnr3- Ren
ton in 1m9 to manage his establishment
known as the Institute of Heraldry and Art,
and then, says the latter, wrongfully dis
missed him. Rcnton claims 800, and the
Marquis counter claims for damages to his
business through the plaintiff's "gross mis
conduct and neglect of duty."
Sebastian Bbuno, whom ono authority
calls tho "greatest humorist of modern Ger
man literature," was a conspicuous Austrian
Journalist, who mad o so many enemies in de
fense of tho fceedom of the church that he
sank into poverty. A Dominican monk ob
tained for him a small pension, and he has
Just retired to end his days in the hyspico
for the aged at Welnhaus.
Sir William Gordon-Cumming is not
the first intimate associate of the Prince of
Wales who has come to grief at the card
table. Some time ago another pal of tho
Prince, Walter Harbord, was caught cheat
ing at cards. Though a brother of Lord Suf
fleld and a Major in tho Seventh Hussars, his
family influence could not save him. He
was cashiered from the army, expelled from
the clubs and universally cut.
Jules Verne published his first novel
when ho was 35 years old. Since then ho has
written an average of two books a year, and
is now tho author of 00 volumes of more or
less fascinating interest. Writing a book
with Verne is a work of prodigious toil. Be
fore putting a single line to paper ho men
tally prepares nil his material, makes his
maps, lays out his routes and reflects upon
.his work for months. Then when tho story-
has been written, ho corrects it at least ten
times before giving the final proofs to tho
fruiter.
THE WORLD'S GREAT WARS
Kept in Memory by the Little Tin Soldier
A Famous Collection in Chicago
Confederate Soldiers' Fnn A "Variety
of Short Sketches.
Everyone remembers the pathetic ballad
of the little tin soldier "and ono little leg
had ho." "Gounod's March of tho Mari
onettes" is in reality themarch of a tin soldier
brigade, says tho Chicago Trilntne. They are
very important folk.
A State stroet toy man is a connoisseur In
tin soldiers and has the history down pat.
"If you'll come over to tho house some
night," he remarked, "I'll show you the
finest collection of tiu soldiers in this coun
try. In fact there is only one collection In
existence that is more complete; that is the
famous ono in tho Trades Hall in Nurem
berg." The newspaper man had heard of any
number of odd collections collections of
shoes, and hairpins, postage stamps, snuff
boxes, and has himself a weakness for old
china but this struck him as about the
most whimsical of all. So one evening ho
went out to Oak stroet and saw 300 odd little
tin soldiers in a glass caso. The gem of the
collection was a squat little fellow in a jerkin
that had once been buff and breeches that
had probably been red. Ho has no name.but
his history is fairly authentic.
Ho -n as made in Nuremberg and dates from,
the days of military enthusiasm aroused by
Frederick the Great's surprising exploits in
the Seven Tears' War. Then there were
others, French guardsmen, who owed their
existence fo Napoleon's campaigns; Turks
and Paynims, little Italians, and red-shirted
Garibaldlans, Austrian, and of course any
number of little tin warriors tricked out like
tho French and Germans of 1870.
"You see," said the collector, "the tin
soldier industry is a sort of war thermome
ter. When bellicose affairs are hot the tin
soldier industry goes up; when there is a
cool, peaceful atmosphere it goes down. I
tell you there have been fortunes made by
shrewd men who looked ahead.
"Thero was a man named Getzler in Sonne
berg who forsaw tho last Franco-German
war and cornored the tln-soldler market.
When tho war broke out the demand for tin
soldiers on the part of patriotic Juvenile
Germans was simply immense. Getzler
made his fortune. I'pi,afraid that his con
founded example has cost me a pretty
penny. When our trouble with Italy was
threatening, and it looked as though thero
were a chance for war, I placed a heavy
order for tin soldiers in Nuremberg. They
aroa drug in the market now. Ah, well,"
he added, "we must hope for the best."
Tin soldiers have been made for 120 years.
The industry is altogether German. The
best artists are hired to furnish models for
the soldiers, and they are scrupulously care
ful to conform to the military costume of
the period and country to which the minia
ture warriors are supposed to belong.
The designs are engraved upon molds of
slate or brass. Then the tin is poured into
the molds, and there you are or rather,
there the tin soldier is. Of course, he has to
be painted, packed in boxes, and to achieve
his ultimate end sold.
There are lead soldiers. Butthetoydealer
docs not think much of them. He says
that lead is a low-down sort of metal and
has no military ardor; in addition, it is pois
onous. The capital invested in this business is, he
asserted, qycr $1,000,000. By tho way, an
other fact: The workmen who mako lead
soldiers all die of consumption; the metv
who make tin soldiers don't.
The Colonel Was Excused.
The Confederate soldier had his fun, with..
his short rations and pay in inflated cur
rency, says tho Chattanooga Times, and the
"Yank" was not always the subject. The
writer of "Four Years in Rebel Capitals,"
graphically illustrates the point:
Refreshed Inwardly and outwardly, tho
men would march down the street, answer
ing tho waving handkerchiefs at every win
dow with wild cheers. Nor did they spare
any amount of chaff to those luckless sta y-at-homes
encountered on the streets.
"Comeout'r that black coat!" "I know
yo're a eonscrlp'I Don't you want'er go for
asojer?" "Yere'syer chance to git yer sub
tertoot!" These and similar shouts, leveled at the
head of some unlucky wight, brought roars
of laughter from the soldiers, and from the
Victim's unsympathetic friends.
At one house a pale, boyish-looking youth
was noted at a window with a lady. Both
energetically waved handkerchiefs, and the
men answered with a yoll; but the oppor
tunity was too good to lose.
"Como right along, sonny!" was the cry.
"The lady'll sparo yerl Hero's a little mus
kit fur yel"
"All right, boys!" cheerily responded the
youth, rising from his seat. "Have yon got
a leg fornne, too?" and Colonel F struck
the shortest of stumps on tho window seat.
With one impulse tho battalion halted,
faced to the window, and came to "Present"
as their cheers rattled the windows of that
blook. That chord had been toucheaby
which the roughest soldier is ever moved.
A Lesson In Honesty.
"This Sunday school precept bnsiness is
all very well in its way," says ex-Senator
Waller Young, of St. Joseph, in the St. Louis
Republic, "but it doosn't always work in the
rush of practical life. When I was a boy I
had the prettiest notions about confessing a
fault, never telling a lie, and all that sort of
thing, Ono day I threw a rock carelessly
and it broke a large pane of glass in the col
lege building. Nobody saw me. I could
have escaped without detection, but after
reviewing all my Sunday school precepts it
occurred to me that the grand and noble
course for me to pursue would be to call at
onco upon the President and tell him how I
had accidentally broken tho window pane.
It was a brilliant resolution, and as I started
toward the President's ofllco I could almost
haar him say: 'Bravo boy, your manly con
duct is worth a dozen panes of college glass.
Go thy way, my son, nnd.be more careful in
tho future.' The President was a stern, dig
nified man, and I approached him with
great display of humility :
" 'Mr. President,' said I, 'I broke a pane of
glass j ust now, but I didn't go to do it.'
" 'What's that!' he thundered, laying down
his book and freezing mo with a look. 'You
did what?'
" 'Broke a pane of glass in the chapel, sir.'
" 'You did I Well, young man, you bring
$1 73 with you to-morrow morning to pay for
it, or I'll send the bill to your father. Un
derstand that, sir?'
" 'Ye-ye-yes, sir,' I faltered.
"You bet 1 understood it. It meant an
other humiliating confession at homo and a
possiblo threshing for my carelessness. But
It taught mo a lesson. Tho next timo I
hroko a window glas I ran like a turkey
nnd let the durned old collego find out who
did it. And thoy never caught me on an
other $1 75 either."
Tat Was the "Winner.
Some timo ago while I was trading in a
village store, says a writer in Our Dumb
Animals, one of the clerks came to thojunlor
partner, who was waiting on me, and said:
"Please step to the desk. Pat Flynn wants
to settle lila bill, and wants a receipt."
"Why, what does he want of a receipt?"
ho said; "we never give one. Simply cross
his account off tho book; that is receipt
enough."
"So 1 told him," answered the clerk, "but
he is not satisfied. You had better see him."
So tho proprietor stopped to tho desk, and,
after greeting Pat with "Good morning,"
said:
"Yon want to settle your bill, do youl"
Pat replied in tho afllrmative.
"Well, said the merchant, "there is no
ncodofmy giving you a receipt. See! I
will cross your account off tho book," and
suiting tho action ot the word ho drew his
pencil diagonnlly across theaccount. "That
is ns good as a receipt." .
"And do yo mane that that settles it?" ex
claimed Pat.
"That settles it," said the merchant.
"And ye'ro share yo'll never bo afthor
askln' me fur It again?"
"We'll never ask you for it again," said
tho merchant decidefy.
"Faith, thin," said Pat, "I'll bo afther
kapin' mo money in mo pockot, for I haven't
paid it." , , j
Tho merchant's face flushed angrily as he
retorted:
"Oh, well, I can rub that out!"
"Faith, now, and I thought that same,"
said Pat.
It is needles to add that Pat got his re
ceipt. What an Error Cost Cinderella.
A dramatic critic in a desultory conversa
tion with a Chicago Tribune reporter 'the
other night said he wondered why Cinder
ella wore glass slippers; he never saw any
one dance in glass slippers, and ho didn't
believe anyone could dance in glass slippers.
One man suggested that it was a fairy tale.
Another man made everyone tired by talk
ing or malleable glass. Ho remarked that ho
once saw a Pittsburg lady In a glass gown
he should havo been ashamed to mention it
anvway. Tho nmnngcr, a distinguished
Gallieist he once went to school with Tnr
tarin at Tarascou &aid sho neer did
w cur glass slippers.
"You see," he explained, "Cinderella was
indebted to a translator'smls take forherun
ooinror&blo numns. This delightful nr.
I travaganza was originally French, and tho
I roan who Englished it didn't know his bust-
ness. The French words are 'pantoufles do
vair' fur slippers. Now the word for glass
is verre, and the English chump got 'cm
mixed up."
AFTEB FIFTEEN YEAES
A Father and Daughter Are Again United
Near Chamberlain, S. D,
CHAMBEKLAiif, S. D., July 13. A daughter
OfB.F. Bolcli arrived in the county a day
or two ago to visit her fathor, at his home
on tho Crow Creek Reservation. There is a
history in connection with this meeting
between father and daughter that reads like
a loaf from some romance. Fifteen 'years
ago Mr. Bolch resided in Missouri. A 6-year-old
daughter was stolen from him at that
time, and, although detectives wero at once
employed to traco her, continuing their
search for many years, no clow to the whero
aboutsofthe lost one could be found. Mr.
Bolch, who is a badly-crippled veteran of
tho Civil War, removod to Fargo, N. D., some
years ago, and while there made application
by letter to President Cleveland, asking for
an increase of pension. The letter to the
President was a rather unique one, and com
ing under the observation of a Washington
newspaper correspondent it was telegraphed
to all sections of the country. The daugh
ter, now grown to young womanhood, had
been taken to Texas by her abductors, and
was in that State when tho correspondent
telegraphed Mr. Bloch's letter to the news
papers throughout the laud. The item met
the daughter's eye and sho immediately
wrote her father, telling him of her where
abouts. The fathor was completely over
come by the glad news that his daughter
was still alive.
The daughter established her identity by
sending her father a pair of earrings, once
tho property of her mother, hut given to the
daughter when the mother died. The
daughter, wishing to complete her educa
tion, was unable to reach here until this
time, and the meeting between atherand
child after the long years of separation can
better be imagined than described.
THE PRESIDENT DECLINED
An Invitation to Tislt Atlantic City Some
Time During the Season.
SPECIAL TEXEQBAM TO TUB DISrATCn.
Cate May, N. J., July 13. This morning a
delegation of residents and visitors of. At
lantic City arrived hero to invite tho Presi
dent to visit that place at a timo this season
when it Is most convenient. Tho cominitteo
was headed by Mayor Hoffman, Postmaster
Albertson, Postmaster Johnson, of Balti
more; General Daniel Hastings, of Pennsyl
vania; Marshal William R. Leeds, of Phila
delphia, and others. Mayor Hoffman and
General Hastings were tho speakers for At
lantic City. The President replied that he
could not accept their kind invitation owing
to tho numerous invitations which he was
dally recelviug and declining to visit other
cities. His time, he said, was taken up for
several hours each day, and he came for
rest. He said ho was not in anv way a sick
man, but, nevertheless, needed the rest,
having worked very hard since his journey
West. '
Secretary Halford to-day oponed his office
at Congress Hall. The President was busy
most of the day dispatching business and
examining applications for pardons for
offenses against postal and polygamous
laws. Warren F. Edstrom, of New York,
sentenced March 24, 1890, to two years' im
prisonment in Erie County for embezzle
ment of letters, had his sentence commuted
to one year and four months. The Presi
dent took no action on the Easton, Pa., post
ofllco matter, as he did not sco a reason for
a change at present. Postmaster General
Wanamaker and Russell B. Harrison left
to-day.
CO-OPEEATTVE CHEIBaTAHITY.
The Christian Endeavor Movement a Good
Sign of the Times.
Brooklyn Standard-Union.
The tenth annual convention of members
of Christian Endeavor Associations of tho
United States at Minneapolis, which is now
in session, serves to illustrate the co-opera-tivo
tendency among religious workers of
the present age. Twelve thousand delegates
are reported to be In attendance, represent
ing constituencies in nil parts of the United
States, and connected with churches of
differing denominations. The growth of the
Christian Endeavor societies has been
marvelous. There aro 5,000 members in this
city alone, and tho number is constantly
being augmented.
This progress illustrates tho growing ten-
aency among religious people Deiongingto
the several denominations to unite in labor
for tho attainment of a common object, and
is, thereforo, most gratifying. The same
spirit has made tho King's Daughters, tho
Epworth Leaguo and kindred organizations
great factors in tho work of promoting good
living.
Thinking people differ very widely upon
tho subject of the extinguishment of de
nominational lines, but there can be no
question that a union of Christian workers
of differing faiths in a league having for its
object tho promotion oi Christian living
must accomplish a vast amount of good.
SHEBMAK AND HAMLIN
Met on the Fourth of July Last Tear for the
Last Time.
Lewlston Journal.
On tho Fourth of July last year Hannibal
Hamlin went to Portland to attend tho raeot
ing of tho Society of tho Army or tho Poto
mac. In company with General Sherman,
Secretary of War Proctor, General C. H. T.
Collis, Generals Chamberlain and Connor,
Admiral Gherardl and other distinguished
officers, he dined wito Mayor Holman S.
Melcher. After dinner, Mr. Hamlin, upon
speaking of his pleasure at meeting so many
of his friends, turned to General Sherman
and said:
"General, you and I won't see many more
of these anniversaries.'"
"That's bo," was tho laconic response of
Sherman.
Before the year closed Sherman had an
swered to the rojl-call, and exactly on the
anniversary, ex-Vice President Hamlin
breathed his last.
DEPEW AS A SP0NQE.
He Doesn't Expect the Old World to Sup
ply Him With Fresh Yarns.
New York Times.
Chauncey M. Depew, who sails for Europe
on the steamship Majestic next Wednesday,
remarked a day or two ago that ho went to
Europe in tho character of a sponge. By
the first of each July ho felt that he had
been squeezed pretty dry here, and he took
the European trip to absorb all tho good
things that hecould find.
"Do you everbring back any good stories?"
asked the writer.
"Nevor," replied Mr. Depew. "I take over
some good stories.but neverget any to bring
home. Thoy don't make funnv stories in
Europe as we do hero, and what is more they
are slow in grasping the point of a story that
would raise a laugh instantly here. It takes
time for an American funnv story to 'work'
in tho average British mind."
EECEIVED VICTOBIA'S FAV0B.
Only Five Persons Raised to a Peerage in
Her Reign.
Detroit Free Press.
Tho elevation of Lady Macdonald to tho
peerage is tho fifth distinction that Queen
Victoria has granted to women. Tho first
was bestowed in 1SG1, when the lato Duchess
of Sutherland was made Countess of Cro
martic. The second came in Ic63 by the ele
vation of Mrs. Disraeli to tho peerage as
Viscountess Beaconsfleld. Baroness ilur-dett-Coutts
was tho third, and tho fourth
was bestowed in 3SS0 upon Mrs. Augusta
Cavendish Bentinck, who became Baronoss
Bolsover.
The new Canadian peeress may be the last
woman to receivo such a mark of the pres
ent Queen's favor.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE.
Lida Stewart.
The remains of Llda Stewart, tho 10-year-old
dangliter of W. T. Stewart, and a niece of Major A.
E. jMcdndlcss, were Interred yesterday in Alle
gheny Cemetery. The deeply regretted child died
on Saturday from an attack of cereliro spinal men
ingitis. The funeral services were held at her Idle
home on Neville street, on Sunday, by licv. John
Patterson.
Obituary Notes.
JOIIK B. Beatty, ;one of the wealthiest and
most prominent residents of Patton township, died
last night at his home near Monroevllle, aged 83
years.
Simon Biiey, Sr., 00 years of age, died Sunday
at St. Louis. He was the father of Simon S. Klley,
of Dunlevy Bros., and was for many years a resi
dent of Pittsburg, being engaged In the fruit busi
ness. DR. OiconnE B. Ballanttse, formerly of
Pittsburg, died suddenly of heart disease at his
residence In IIuntlnKdo-i yesterday afternoon. He
was a prominent li iJclan of that place, and at the
time of his death was axed M years.
THE venerable Aquilla Jones died at Indianapo
lis Sunday, aged 60 years. He had been Treasurer
of Indiana, and was Postmaster during President
Cleveland's administration. He cast his first vote
for Andrew Jackson, was an Intimate, friend of
John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay. Daniel Webster and
alHue prominent statesmen of ante-bellum tf ayj.
CHAUTAUQUA WISDOM.
MBS. EWCfG TELLS "WOMEN SOME
PLAIN TRUTHS ABOUT WORE.
They Blust Be Experts In Cooking, Dress
making, Washing and Other Lines to
Compete With Men A Romantic Run
away Match.
rSPECIAI. TT.LKOnAM TO TnE DISrATCn.
CnACTArqrA. July 13. Many Chautauquans
got up at 4 o'clock this morning to catch the
early train for Toronto, whero the National
Teachers' Association convenes this week.
The normal school hore will suspend opera
tions until the big meeting is over in order
to give every Chautauqua teaehera chance
to go on tho trip. Tho weather to-day was
warm and even a trifle oppressive, but all
the public lectures were crowded and the
ladles vied with each other In the display of
artlstio white dresses, gay flannels and be
witching blazers. He.ro and thero an earnest
student would be overcome by tho heat or
by the speaker and drop off into a nap at the
meeting. The appetite of tho avorago
Chautauquan Is something refreshing to
contemplate. The day's programme opened
up with a lecture by Prof. Frederick Starr,
mine .new iorx -natural History jiuieum,
on tho "Natives of tho Northwest Coast."
This was a talk on the red men of the United
States and was attentively listened to in the
hall of philosophy by a large audience. At
4 o'clock Prof. John Bnchinnstcr, the well
known historian, began his course of
lectures on American history, his subject
being the early struggles of tho colonics In
acquiring public domain. The speakerflrst
located the three powers in America prior
to 1773, which were Franco, England and
Spain, and showed how one after another of
tfiem were driven from the continent by
diplomacy, by war and bybargalu and sale.
Ho was exceedingly entertaining and
awakened desires ainongCbautanquans for
greater knowledge of the earlier colonial
history.
Mrs. Ewing for Woman's Worlc
At 5 o'clock the piece dereslstancoof the
day, tho lecture by Mrs. Ewing, tho great
authority on cooking, came off in tho hall of
philosophy, and created quite a sensation
among the ladles by reason of tho vigorous
and original ideas presented. Mrs. Ewing is
never dull, and generally sets peoplo to
thinking with good results. Her subject was
"Work for Women," and this is what sho
said: "Letters come to me from all sections
of the country written by women Inquiring
what kind of work there is for women to do,
and what kind of positions I can suggest for
them. My invariable reply is that while
years ago only seven industrial occupations
were open to woman statistics show that
there are now nearly 400 open to them. In
my own special field or labor opportunities
aro opening every day lor women to find
employment, as teachers of household sci
ence, as matrons and managers, as caterers
and cooks, but women are unwilling to
qualify themselves for these positions. I
hear not infrequently that Mrs. So-and-So,
or Miss Somebody, alter attending a few
lectures and lessons, has started out as a
full-fledged teacher of household science.
In a short time I hear again that these peo
ple have proved failures, and have gone to
clerking in a store, or, worse still, gone home
to paint china or pray to tho Lord to send
them husbands.
Cooks Are Wanted Everywhere.
"There is scarcely a village in tho land
where a compotent woman could not earn
big wages In giving cooking lessons. Half a
dozen churches in Kansas City each paid me
fora course of lectures a sum larger than
the average school teacher can earn in a
year, and they themselves make big profits
out of the course. This shows that good
cooks aro wanted everywhere. There are
at loast 100,000 bakery shops In this country
carried on by men, in which the poorest
kind of bread is baked by men. Why,
women, Instead of men, should make all the
pies and cake for our cities and towns and
villages. What this country needs is better
pumpkin pies and less politics. But the
women say it Is too hard work kneading the
bread. This is one of the biggest lies that
was ever Inflicted upon a credulous public.
I have again and again tested the matter,
and one Saturday on the Chautauqua
grounds I mixed, kneaded and got ready for
the oven over 50 loaves of bread, and then
attended tho afternoon and evening amuse
ments without any weariness. In fact, I
felt as fresh as if I had spent the morning
playing croquot or lawn tennis. This ex
perience confirmed my bolief that women
should control the bakeries of the country.
Good bread is the greatest need of the nine
teenth century. If women dressmakers and
women tailors in New York can earn $3,000
a year, why cannot women cooks? Tho rea
son why so many idle, hungry, gaunt-eyed
women are looking for work is duo mainly
to inefficiency. 2iot only do thousands of
so-called drossmakers botch and spoil
dresses, but tens of thousands of wash
women wash so badly, that the last state of
the garment Is worso than the first.
Things for Fair Hands to Do.
"Some oneought to write a book on how to
wash linen clothes. Many a woman could
raise bees and honey: here Is a great field
for women. They could raise poultry; en
gage In fruit culture; become pharmacists
anu urug ciur&s. j.iib apt-a&er reierreu xo
Mrs. C. W. King, of Warren, Pa., as a notable
example of a woman, left early a poor widow,
who had become a rich hotel proprietor by
industry. All avocations are open to women.
There are now no barriers to separate the
occupation of the sexes. A true woman
never gets out of her sphere, nor forgets she
is a gentlewoman whatever her employment.
Any useful work a woman can do creditably
is proper work for her. The need of the
present time is not the work for women, but
women for tho work. A big concert closed
the day. Miss Maud Murray, of Boston, as
sisted with dramatic readings.
A Romantia Match.
Cupid has invaded Chautauqua, and a ro
mantic elopomont and marriago aro the re
sult. Tho affair was not down on the regu
lar programme, but it was as interesting as
any entertainment, nevertheless. Charles
Wadsworth came from Huntingdon, Pa., a
short time since to spend the summer here.
He had buried his young wife about six
months ago, and intended so far as possible,
to forget gnef in tho various linos of study
and recreation that Chautauqua offers.
Nollie Parker, a somowhat pretty brunette,
also came horo from Cattaraugus eounty.New
York, about the 1st of July to stndy. She
was not very well off in this world's goods,
but was thoroughly independent, and nence
proposed towork her Way through the suui-
mer SVJluui vy e iUq m uuiiuugiuuui iiuie,
as many other bright girls do. Wadsworth
camo to the same house to board, met tho
girl, and was completely captivated with
her. Last Sunday morning ndsworth and
Miss Nellie were missing. Later it was
loarned that they had crossed the lake in a
rowboat, and eloped to Jamestown, whero
they were subsequen tly married. Of course
everybody wishes them well, for it is a good
omen to be the first married at Chautauqu i
on the opening of tho assembly. Several
other prospective married couples feel very
blue over the fact that they mo "not in it"
this year.
The Writer Had the Horns.
Chicago Times.
Tho story that a young English lady on a
ranch in Montana subdued tho rage of a
herd of wild bulls, who wero about to goro
her, by walking boldly up to them singing
tho soldiers' chorus from "Faust" is incom
plete. Tho narrator forgot to add that upon
recognizing tho air the intelligent animals
Immediately joined in, playing it beautifully
upon their horns.
A WOMAN'S ANSWER.
You ask my hand to-day, and bending near.
Yours e)ea meet mine; I hear your words that
burn.
But nlth my hand goes all I hold most dear;
What have you, then, to offer In return?
You say you love me. Men have loved;before.
But not like you? Ah ! yon arc not the first.
Shall it be "yes" or "no?" I'll think it o'er.
For by that word our lives are blessed or cursed.
You offer bonds and titles, gold and land.
Whisper of all they buy of friend and fame;
'TIs lusult ! Higher things my life demands
Before I share the honor of your n.ime.
Say you my talk Is Idle lien rt is chill?
btop, stop, my friend, turn not-so cold away.
Bear with me for a moment. If lou will.
And briefly hear the words I have to say.
Like must wed like or life die out In lialu;
By mutual growth ournatures mnst expand.
I cannot choose the hill and you the plain.
We two must go together, hand.ln hand.
I cannot dwarf my mind, my soul aspires,
I could not stay an,rt In the valley sing.
To yon far heights where glow celestial fires.
You, too, mnst soar and match me' wing for
wing.
This I my answer: read it plain and straight.
Offer no wool of love, no mute cares?:
ir our soul chilms me as Its kindred mate,
Cloc to your heart I'll rapturous whisper:
"Yes!"
But If it does not, come not to my side;
But heed my words, my friend, and turn and go.
Lest touched my scorn and roused by wqman-prlde.
There's but one'answer to your question: "No!f
-iforrist Mabfl HsaWng, in VMtago SeraU.
, 3IIDSUMER MUSIC.
The First of the Free Concert in Schenley
Park a Great Success.
The enterprise of the Duquesne Traction
Company la inltlatlngjast night a scries of
open-air instrumental concerts in Schenley
Park was received with much approbation
by the largo throng which found its way
there. The Grand Army Band was In its
usual good form, and made the neighbor
hood of the grandstand a pleasant
place to while away an hour or so. Tho
band arrived about 8 o'clock, having pre
viously ridden around tho Dnqucsno svstom
in a special car, playing to better advertise
tneniiracuon. i'ror. .ltteroart was unuer
instruction to keep tho music going until a
quarter to 11 o'clock, but an hour before that
time three-fourths of tho assemblago had
wended their way ho.neward. There
will bo a similar concert at the
same plnco to-morrow night, and a third
on Friday evening. A number of citizens
suggest that it might be better if the music
commenced at 7&J o'clock and concluded at
10 o'clock, a period of time long enough for
both musicians and public.
A peculiar feature of the evening was the
large number of vehicles which fringed the
pedestrians milled before the stands. It
was stated that more carriages of every va
riety were seen in the park yester
day than would be supposed wero
owned in the city. The occupants
ui tuiT ui inein wnueu lur iijc muic in
stead of returning home. The attendance
embraced every class of society, from the
liborer to the occupants of East End man
sions. Bicylisis of both sexes were out in
scores. Not including those on wheels,
about 0,000 people were present at the con
cert. Tho Fifth nvenuo line advertised the con
cert by placards on the cars, and sought to
profit by it as much as possible. Those who
traveled on this lino also found it
at least as convenient to do so as
by the Duquesno, but the latter
road seemed to carry the bulk
of the down-city people. There was
much competition between these roads and
the Penn avenue for the traffic to the Emer
ald Beneficial Association at Sliver Luke.the
conductors as uxual touting for passengers.
Cnlef Bigelow was given great credit la t
evening for the manner in which the park
was prepared for the event.
Miss Marie Bcrress, the beautiful young
Allegheny actress who has beon for several
seasons with Frank Mayo, and who will be
leading lady at tho Boston Museum next
season, has been engaged by George C Jenks
for Celia in the performance of "As You
Like It" on the lawn of the Hotel Kenmawr
on the 23d instant. Miss Burress is enthu
siastic in ber profession. Sho will wear new
and elaborate costumes, made specially for
the occasion, and will attend to all the de
tails of her work with the care that bus
brought her so rapidly to the front rank.
Thoro was a steady sale of seats for the per
formance at Hamilton's yesterday, and Mr.
Jenks feels almost certain that every ticket
will bo sold in advance.
The "Fall of Pompeii" at Recreation Park
Is to be seen for the first time on Tuesday,
the 21st Inst. The large force of men that are
busy on tho framework of the exhibition and
on the grand stand are rapidly getting affairs
Into shape. Manager Bamheisel hns one
rule that ho will not swerve from in the least,
and that Is that not a stroke of work shall be
done on Sunday. There is a strong tempta
tion to work on that day, when everything is
pushed so hard, but Mr. Bamheisel says that
six days are enough, and that he can get
ready without desecrating the Sabbath.
Social Chatter.
The students of the Pltsburg Academy
have sent out cards for their annual select
basket picnic, to be held at Idle wild, July 25.
The first of what promises to be an enjoya
ble series of concerts in the Alleenenv
Parks will be given this evening under the
auspices of the Press. An excellent pro
gramme nas oeen prepared.
A social was held last evening in the
Wilklnsburg U. P. Church under the aus
pices of the Y. P. S. C. E. An excellent pro
gramme of musical and literary selections
was rendered in a creditable manner. A
business meoting preceded the social. The
reports showed the society to be in an excel
lent condition.
The New York Musical Club will give a
series of instrumental and vocal concerts at
Highland Park every night next week. The
musical club consists of 20 negro Jnbllee
singers, and one of the celebrated brass
bands from the metropolis, consisting of 25
pieces. The concerts will be under the
direction of the Duquesno Traction Com
pany. BICH HEN'S QUEEB FANCIES.
A Wealthy New Yorker Who Captures Dis
carded Newspapers In the Hotels.
New York Telegram.
"Do you see that man?" asked Detectlvo
Phillips, of the, Fifth Avenue Hotel, last
night, as a tall, well-dressed man, with a full
grayish beard, entered the reading room and
took a seat near a man who sat reading a
newspaper. "He's after that paper; Just
watch him." A few moments later the man
who was reading tossed his newspaper upon
tho table and sauntered out of the room
He was hardly out of sight when tho tall man
seized the paper, folded it carefully and
placed it in his pocket, which was already
stuffed with other papers, anu tuen moved
over to the other side of the room, whero
another man also sat reading a newspaper.
"He'll jget that other paper before he
goes," said tho detective, laughing.
"Who Is he," asked the reportor.
"I don't know, but he's a gentleman and
appears to bo a man of some means; at least
he always drosses well and is very quiet in
his ways. But that is Ju3t a hobby of his.
He has been coming in hero for a long time,
gcnorally about 10 o'clock in the morning
and again in tho evening. Ho never says
anything, but Just hangs around tho read
ing room and picks up all the papers he can
get his hands on. He won't take a paper off
the file and never buys one or takes one off
tho stand, but as soon as nnybody lays a pa
per down ho grabs it and generally goes
away with his pockets full.
"Another crank who comes around here,"
went on Mr. Phillips, "Just marches up and
down in front of the house watching for
cigar stubs. lie's there every morning and
watches tho smokers cloely. I have seen
him when his pockets wore full of stubs.
What he does with them I don't know. His
namo is O'Brien and he lives over on Second
nvenuo somewhere and hns a barrel of
money, I nm told. Strange, -whatcurlou3
people."
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 00.
S. "W. Bowles, manager of the Beillin
Iron Bridge Company of Chicago, N. Mon
sonat. President of the Columbus, Akron
and Cleveland road, and Joseph Seep, the
Standard OH mnn from Titusvlllo, are
stopping nt tho Duquesne. Mr. Monsonat
said lie was in the city on private bnsiness.
Helivc3in Columbus.
Ex-Manager McDonald, of the Pittsburg
and Western road, returned from Indiana
last evening. He is a son of ex-Senator
McDonald, who died a short timo ago. He
was called homo by tho illness and death of
his father.
Eev. Dr. A. D. Corcoran, of Louisville,
a relativo of Father Ryan, tho poet-priest of
tho South, and Robort Graham, passed
through the city last evening bound for
New York.
Miss Eippcr, Miss Atwatcr, Mrs. Scott
and Howarcl Smith, employes in the offices
of tho Lake Erie road, returned yesterday
from a trip to Star Island.
If. V. Cole, of Akron, and E. G. "Wright,
superintendent of the American Pipo Lino
Company at Washington, are registered at
tho Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Miss Emma Bingham, daughter of Hon.
John A. Bingham, ex-Minister to Japan, is
visiting Miss Minnie Sharon, on North ave
nue, Allegheny.
J. C. "White and daughter, of Morgan
town, and J. K. F. Hall, a prominent poli
tician from Ridgeway, are at the Mononga
hela House.
George E. Eiddle, Eobert S. Eiddle and
Miss Marv A. Riddle, of Denver, are visiting
George D. Riddle, of North avenue, Alle
gheny. John "W. Linck, of Cincinnati, special
agent of the United States Treasury, was in
tho city yesterday.
Collector Warmcastle and Immigrant In
spector R. D. Layton returned from Wash
ington yesterday.
Prof. Maloney, of Allegheny, went to
Toronto yesterday to attend tho Teachers'
Convention.
General Superintendent Frank Sheppard
inspected a branch of tho r. V. & C. road
yesterday.
Colonel "Willis J. Hulings, of .Oil City,
took brcaktast at the Monongahcla Houso
yestorday.
Biidil Doblc, the noted jockey, will be at
tho Seventh Avenue Hotei this morning.
Miss Scott, a daughter of James B. Scott,
left lor New York last night.
Charles Horste and family left for Niagara
Falls yesterday.
J. P. "Witherow went to Chicago last
evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. -
Butter Is sold by the yard at Cam
bridge, Eng.
Philadelphia claims the largest cold
storage warehouse in the United States.
A Connecticut man has gone into the
business of propagating sewer rats. He sells
their skins to "kid" glove manufacturers.
The interior of Labrador is said to be
tho largest unexplored area on the conti
nent, and It has a waterfall with a sheer de
scent of 2.CO0 feet.
In the animal market at Hamburg, In
Germany, giraffes sell at $7,000 a pair, chim
panzees go at $S00 apiece, and select lots of
aumaira monxeys at i,iw.
Physicians of this country are paid an
nually nearly $1, 600,0CO for medical examina
tions for life insurance companies. Three
companies pay over $250,000 each.
A Spanish milled dollur of 1313 was
found in the dirt under a house in West
Paris. Me. The coin was in excellent condi
tion, tho design and lettering being very
clear.
Moberly, Mo., feels very much compli
mented because a tramp returned to that
city the other day after an absence of nearly
a year to work out on unexpired term on the
rock pile.
There is an island near Menominee,
Mich., which is literally alive with worms
that swarm over everything, and another
one that is so Infested with snakes that no
one will visit it.
Berlin's Society for the Homeless last
year provided shelter for 100,000 men and 13,
000 women. In the 11 years of its existence it
has furnished lodgings, food and medical
care to 2,200,000 persons.
Gold coin is shipped abroad in five-gallon,
Iron-bound oaken kegs. Each keg holds
ten bags and each bag contains Vi.OIX), so that
tho value of a keg is f.10.000. Gold from
the other sldo usually comes in boxes.
A 3-year-old child died at Topeka,
Kan., the other day which had lived for U
months on raw eggs and milk. A year ago
it ate some soft soap, and after that its
stomach would never retain anything but
the diet mentioned.
A Maltese cat that was born and has
lived most of its life in a chicken coop out in
an Illinois town has developed a strange
habit of sleeping on a perch Just as the
chickens do, standing on one leg, with his
head folded under one of his forelegs.
A Ukiab, CaL, man, the owner of a
throe-story hophouse, recently conceived
the idea of turning the building into a mam
moth incubator for the hatching of chick
ens. He has given evidence of his faith in
the practicability of the scheme by setting a
hatch of 24,000 eggs.
An amateur photographer went 30
miles out In the country to take some choice
views, filled SO plates and found when ha
came to develop them at home that he hadn't
opened the shutter of his camera. He bad
pressed the button, but for somo reason IB
hadn't done tho rest.
Mrs. Josie Armstrong died In Chicago
Friday afternoon at the ago of 110 years.
Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife, and it Is alleged her son played with,
"little Abo" before tho latter had learned
tho art of splitting rails.
Two men of Jackson, Mich., bear odd
relations with each other, yet they are no
relation. Alderman James Mitchell and
Engineer James Mitchell are their names.
Their wives bear the same Christian names,
both have two boys and a girl that ocar the
same name and whose ages are tho same.
Voting day in Japan presents some curi
ous sights. The voters have to don their
best garments and proceed to the voting
counter, there to ballot without any parley
ing, as soon after S o'clock as possible. After
casting their ballot they make a bow to tho
assemblage present, in which their head
nearly strikes the floor, and. retire as silent
ly as they came.
One of the greatest.obstacles to the set
tlement of vast regions in Africa has been
the tsetse fly. Although harmless to man,
all civilized animals die from its bite in two
or three days. A man of Natal has discov
ered a remedy for the poison in which he
has such confidence that ho ha contracted
to carry the Portuguese military stores
through the tabooed districts on bullocks.
The fees incidental to the obtaining
of the title of Baron in Germany
aro said to figure up about 6,000; that
of Count $'20,000. Duko $30,000 and a
Prince $70,300. They say one of the
reasons why RUmarck didn't accept the
title of Duke of Lauenberg was on account
of the expense involved, though it is doubt
ful if ho would havo taken it had it been
brought to him on a silver tray.
The butchers block has undergone a re
markable evolution. Not only nro largo and
perfect tree stumps of hard wood more and
more difficult to obtain, but even the best of
them crack and split most unaccountably.
The modern first-class chopping block hns
therefore become a square mass made up of
cubes of carefully selected wood bolted and
then cross-bolted together, after being so
arranged that the chopping npon them will
bo dona on top lnitead of with or against
tne gram, 'ineso oiccks aro verycostly, but
they last a long while.
A new but dangerous manifestation of
the genius of the Chinaman for effecting
economies has just been discovered in San
Francisco. On the tops of many of tho
buildings in the quarter occupied by the
Celes tials wooden kitchens have been con
structed. They are made of rough boards,
and the chimneys in them extend scarcely
above the slab roofs. Here all kinds of cul
inary and laundry operations are carried on
with a reckless disregard of the constant
danger from fire. The space between the
buildings on narrow alleys has been utilized
in tho same way. On tho timbers reaching
from one side to the other these ramshncklo
kitchens have been constructed, some of
them three stories high. Fires are blazing
in them constantly.
SOME SELECT SMILES.
Judge Peterby said to-his colored servant:
"Yon will have to quit. You attend to your
work very well, but I am always missing things
about the bouse, and every time It is you that takes
them."
"Boss, don't send me off on dat account. Hit
mus be a eumfurt ter yer when yer missing any
thing to know rlghtwhar It am.' Tem Sifting.
"You are awfully pale," silid Esmerelda
Longcofiln to Birdie McUlnnls.
"Yes, I know I am pale; but ,my paleness Is
natural. It comes from djrspepla; bnt you get
your paleness by the box from the drug store."
Texas Sifting.
The pretty maidens shout with-gleo
As Into the brine they trip.
And romp and play in the rippling sea
While taking their morning dip.
But their mirth subsides and they stand aghast
As they hear the shrieks of woe.
Which tell that a crab is ipaking fast
To a luckless maiden's toe. Sew Tort: Pros.
"We've got the meanest missus in town,"
said Nora. "Fhin she wlnt to Nooport she gave ui
our wages in adranche and closed the house on
Flft avenner, thereby cuttln me an Biddy
Doolan out of our social events for the eayson. '
Xew York Herald.
The exchange editor was reading a hair
llftlng account of a midnight robbery.
" 'Weeping Skies!' " he snorted, running his
shears savagely through the flaming headlines.
'They wept, ofcourse, because they mist some
thing." That doesn't follow," roared the real estate
editor, taking off his coat. "They might have
been weeping for the dead of night!" CMcago
Tribune.
"Jimuel Peterson is full of kindness."
"I never noticed It. I guest he keep full by
never letting any get out." Bnoklyn Eagle.
Attorney (to witness) What is your
age, sir?
Old Beau What has that to do with this case?
"I Insist upon au answer."
(After a pause) "I was Just S years old at the
breaking out of the war."
"What war?"
(With extreme reluctance) The Blackhawk
war." CMcago Tribune.
O Prince! So wonder that you weep,
Since all the world your causo assails.
Your lamentations long and deep
Convince us you're the prince of walls.
Chicago Herald.
"Why are you all congregated here,
boys?" inquired the kindly old gentleman.
"We're playing we're. Democratic caucus."
"Indeed, and where Is the boss or the caucus?"
This Is the boss."
"And why did you select this boy as the boss?"
"Because his father runs a saloon." Xew Tort
Frus.
"Don't you think that tenor has beauti
fully liquid tones?" she asked of her escort.
"Yes." lie replied, "that describes an early im
pression precisely. The Brst time I heard hhu w
la a ber garden:" Washington Tot.
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