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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. JULY 20, 1SSI.
WHY SPOIt THE SPOKT?
The reception of that plan to settle the
fight over the Presidency of the State
League by retiring both Dalzell and Rob
inson, and pulling in a third man, has not
been flattering for hopes of its success.
Both of the warring candidates have re
jected the proposition with scorn. Sir.
Robinson has declared that his calling and
election is sure; and it is a well-known
quality of that statesman not to give up
any position on which ho has his grip,
until he has to. Mr. DalzHl no less em
phatically intimates that he proposes to
have the election decided by the vote of
the convention and not by the consulta
tions of the party managers. The fact is
that the candidates are too good fighters
to retire from the field because the heads
of the party machine are afraid of a fight.
On the whole, the fate of those who arc
trying to compromise the fight is likely to
be that of most persons who rush in be
tween the combatants of a square and old
fashioned melee. They will get all the
knocks and no thanks while they are in
the way of the fighters. They really
should know better than to try to stop the
fun. A good square fight to a finish will
get the Republican fighting forces in good
training for next year, besides augmenting
their ranks. To stop it before each side
knows which is whipped will be satisfac
tory to neither and will be a most gratuit
ous and ill-judged spoiling of the sport
Besides which, the source from which
the proportion comes, produces a sus
picion of its integrity. Although Mr. Rob
inson irotests that he has got a sure thing
of election, the fact that the proposition
comes from the leaders whom he repre
sents indicates that they are far from
being as certain of victory as he professes
to be.
INTERESTING, BUT UNRELIABLE.
The newest report from Kansas with re
gard to Farmers' Alliance doings, which
lias been given wide prominence in the
Eastern press during the past few days, is
with regard to the judicial course of the
Alliance Judge who received fame last
fall from ha ing been elected to judicial
position without any legal training. It is
stated that he has undertaken to overrule
the Supreme Court, and refuses to grant f
any judgments in cases of mortgage fore
closures, on the ground that acts of op
pression are null and void.
The spectacle of a County Judge who Is
so free from the trammels of law and pre
cedents as to et the Supreme Court right,
when it does not agree with his opinions, is
so novel and refreshing that there would
be some pleasure in contemplating it as a
feature of the Kansas phenomena. But
before delighting ourselves with the Idea,
it would le well to be sure that it
is true. The statement that it is so, In
the correspondence of the Eastern press,
is under the circumstances hardly conclu
sive enough to invite our full confidence
and pleasure in the spectacle. The fact Is
that most of the news concerning the
doings of the Kansas people on the subject
of mortgage foreclosures, money loans,
and the cultivation of farm products,
lias been marked by the qualities of an
industrious, if not brilliant, imagination.
The Alliance doings in Kansas have not
leen more remarkable than the unerring
wa- in which the reports, that are evolved
from the inner consciousness of partisan
editorial offices, represent tbem as some
thing radically different from what they
really are. The Kansas fake factory is as
unique a specimen in its line as the Kan
sas Fanners' Alliance.
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE.
The report which comes from Montreal
that Adolphe Mercier, the prime minister
of the province of Quebec, is about to
make an open declaration in favor of the
independence of Canada is an interesting
one. It may be somewhat premature as
regards the avowal of the French Cana
dian leader's attitude: but it is, perhaps, a
more correct indication of the feeling of
the element which he represents than the
talk about annexation to the United States,
which ha sprung from the same source.
Prime Minister Mercier is the represen
tative of the French Canadian element,
and it is to the predominance of that pop
ulation in Quebec that he owes his official
position. The dissatisfaction of that race
with tho precent rule in Canada is due to
its devotion to the traditions of its race.
It has been asserted that the sentiment of
eighteenth century France existed more
strongly in the French Canadian prov
inces than in the France of to-day.
The definite points on which this
6pirit manifests itself in Canada is first,
its devotion to tho Catholic Church, and
the demand that the priesthood shall be
supported by the public funds; second, its
desire that the French language and cus
toms shall be perpetuated in education
and in legal forms; and third, a senti
mental loyalty in general to French inter
ests rather than the EnglisiL
It may be considered quite probable that
an intelligent study of the United States
would convince any French Canadian that
these objects are not to be gained by an
nexation to our Republic Equally, a
clear view on our side would show the un
desirability of adding to our nation a pop
ulation whose most earnest desires are the
preservation of a tongue that is alien to us,
of customs characteristic of the last cen
tury, and of the union .of church and
state.
Of course, there are other elements In
Canada which favor a change. The rad
ical clement might be as well or better
satisfied with independence as annexation.
The commercial influences which tend
toward the latter remain unchanged. But
it may bo doubted whether the time has
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come when all these influences combined
can overcome the sentiment in Canada in
favor of the almost nominal British su-.
premaey.
THE NBW CORPORATIONS.
By our financial special from New Yorkf-
it will be seen that the past weeK in wall-
street bus been notable for the launching! J
of a large number oi mausmai ana mer
cantile corporations. These companies,
organized under the New Jersey lawsu
offer their shares to investors on the most
alluring terms. The corporations are to
take the place of former firms, and the.
movement is the newest indication of thet
drift from enterprises conducted by indi
viduals to the corporate form.
In one form this change is commenda
ble. That is where itus made for the pur
pose of allowing the employes of the old
firm to become partners in the enterprise.
There is no better meansof securing prac
tical co-operation than the corporate or
ganization, if its liability to abuse is
guarded against We have no doubt that
many of these organizations have been
made for the purpose of effecting this
class of co-operation. It is a pleasure to
note the reports that the result of increase
ing the direct interest of the employes in
the prosperity of the concern has resulted
in better work and largely increased"
profits.
But this optimistic-view cannot be taken
of the majority of the schemes the floating
of which is reported in our correspond
ence. The substitution of the possibilities
of stock manipulation for those of careful
personal supervision in building up busi
ness are altogether too suggestive for such
a faith. The enterprises which offer their
stock to general Investors with glowing'
promises for dividends are evidently not
seeking to establish co-operation with
their employes. The fact is that the
attempt is to float these stocks on the in-
definite idea that extraordinary pronts are
to be secured by their kinship to the
trusts; while the real kinship is in the
policy exemplified by the American Sugar
Refineries and other trusts where the
richest profits have come to the promoters
who first floated stock at inflated prices
and have since reaped golden harvests by
its manipulation.
As to the promise of eight per cent divi
dends commented upon in the special, it
is a very pleasant one. But promising
eight per cent in the prospectus of a com
pany is one thing; and actually paying it
without cessation for an indefinite term
of years Is entirely another thing.
THE PROPER COURSE.
There Is a rather singular and Ill-judged
tendency on the part of certain exchanges,
especially in New York, to berate the Dis
trict Attorney of New York City for de
claring his Intention of Instituting a pros
ecution as a test case against one of the
newspapers which violated the law against
publishing reports of the electric execu
tions. The organs of public opinion
should be clear-sighted enough to sec, not
only that this course is the only one which'
that public official can take, but that it is
really in the interest of the press.
It is a manifest proposition that it is the
duty of a District Attorney to take the
necessary action for the enforcement of
the laws as he finds them on the statute
book. If he should adopt the line of refus
ing to prosecute for violations of laws that
do not commend themselves to his private
judgment, he would be simply trying to
exercise a prerogative that does not belong
to any ma n in this country. In taki ng this
action, therefore, the public prosecutor is
doing nothing more than his official duty.
Beyond that it Is a very purblind view
which does not perceive that the discharge
of the duty Is the best thing for the news-
papers.
Not only is the principle in
volved that the surest way to secure the
repeal of a bad law is to enforce it, but in
this case the shortest way to get rid of the
law Is by a test case. The strength of the
newspaper position is that this law is an
unconstitutional restriction of the liberty
of the press. As long as the law is ig
nored, the press stands in the attitude of
violating a statute. When the test case is
properly concluded, the press of New
York will be relieved from that equivocal
position by the declaration of the uncon
stitutionality of the act
For this reason the assaults on District
Attorney Nicoll, for his intention to bring
the test prosecution, are signally out of
place. The intention should receive the
approval of tho press, as affording an
opportunity to show the nullity of the
enactment
THE INCOME TAX IDEA.
The adoption in the Ohio Democratic
platform of a plauk in favor of a graded
income tax meets with the general disap
proval of the Eastern press. It is un
doubtedly the fact that this plank, like the
one on free silver coinage, is a tub to the
Fanners' Alliance whale; but the criti
cisms upon the income tax proposition ex
hibit an inability to look at it impartially.
The opponents of the income tax de
clare first that it is a class taxtopt one
rate of taxation on a moderate income and.
a larger one upon a greater income. It
would be just as forcible to say that to tax
those who own real estate or stocks is to
tax a class as separate from those who own
neither. Again, it Is declared that it is a
tax on enterprise, which is not quite cor
rect A business tax such as we have here
in Pittsburg is a tax on enterprise; while
the Income tax Is a tax on prosperity.
Finally, the tax is denounced as inquisi
torial, which, as we saw in this State last
winter, is a common complalntagainstany
system which seeks to ascertain thoroughly
the amount of taxable property owned by
the private individual.
But it is here that the valid objection to
the income tax comes in, namely, in tho
difficulty of securing a correct return of
taxable incomes. A man's income is some
thing which only himself or his confiden
tial assistants know; and the larger the in
come the more private is the exact knowl
edge of Its amount On the other hand,
his real estate Is something which can be
valued by others as well as himself, whilo
his personal property generally has a tan
gible existence, although in the matter of
loans and securities It is frequently hard
for the assessors to get at The capabili
ties of tax-dodging aro well known in re
gard to all classes of property; but the op
portunities with regard to an Income tax
would be so great that thp law would
probably defeat itself by increasing the
incentive to escape taxation on the great
est incomes and placing the burden of tax
ation on those who were so honest as to
state their incomes fairly, or so well
known that they could not be under
stated. But the income tax proposition in the
Ohio platform has nothing more than an
abstract interest The real fight is on the
tariff. The clear recognition of that fact
on both sides puts all other issues in the
shade, and enlists the sympathy of this
section warmly on the side of the defend
ers of protection.
It is announced that Consul General New
lias found time, even in the pressure of of
ficial duties, to collect tho photographs of
some twelve or fifteen thousands of tho fa-
I'
lmous beauties of tho Old World. This evl
donco of ability to -vary the cares of states
manship and tho toll of looking; after Indiana
politics at long rango.by indulging a taato for
the beauty of the Bofter sex,attcsts the ver
satility of Mr. No w's genius. The wholesale
character of tho Consul General's devotions
,ot tho shrine of beauty silences the voico of
tscandal and classes tho occupation as only
rless praiseworthy than the rival one of at-
Hosting Mrs. Schenley's signature to deed9
of land in Pittsburg tor publlo purposes.
Minnesota now comos to the front with
!a horrible story of cannibalism. Tho North-
'west is not going to permit Brazil to get
ahead of it in tho sensational line, so long as
.tho imagination of the correspondents holds
rout.
The latest report from Russia is that the
peasants of Nijnt Novgorod are flogged for
failing to pay their taxes, and that owing to
tho monetary stringency among tho peas
antsjtbo flogging business is moro activo
than the flow .of money into the tax col
lector's hands. This has made necessity.tbo
mother of invention once more and flogging
machlnos haro been invented to polish off
the Muscovite peasantry with neatness nnd
dispatch. Tho stories from Russia are
.nearly as much characterized by a brilliance
of imagination as tuose about farmers'
Alliance doings in Kansas.
The success of the Russian bacon com
pany in monopolizing tho European markets
vindicates that the Muscovite pork dealers
'are moro successful in playing the hog game
tthan tho American kind.
The fact that Miss Ewing, the culinary
1 instructress at Chautauqua, has lately taken
her stand in favor of hash, has caused con
siderable comment. But the hash question
takes a wide range from tho fact that 11 ore
is hash and hash. Tho wide rnnga be
tween the well-browned and unquestion
able hash which Miss Ewing nphclds, and
,tbe-mysterious compound of somo boarding
.houses, suggests that tho next effort of pater
nal Government should be to establish an
Inspection nnd official certification as to the
iquality of hash.
Mb. Geop.ge Fbancis Train's claim
that bednvented the word "crank" indicates
'that ho must have faithfully adopted the
ancient philosophical injunction about
. studying himself.
In eulogy of Sir. Robinson, the Phila
delphia Inquirer says ho took "a noblo stana
against ' tho formatioii of mushroom
clubs destined merely for a short exist-
ence." Yes, and he passed his resolution
with the aid of ono of tho best authenticated
examples of mushroom clubs in the State.
Mr. Robinson's stand against mushroom
clubs is not so unequivocal ns his stand
against the constitutions both of the league
and of tho State of Pennsylvania.
The hotheaded Frenchmen in the Chamber
concluded wisoly that it was much safer to
bait tho Ministry about Alsace-Lorraine
than to take the responsibility of a war with
-Germany.
"We are clod to see that the explanation
lOf those loans by Bardsley to some of the
Philadelphia Judges are stated by tho Phila
delphia papers, without regard to party, to be
wholly satisfactory. Still in view of the im
portance of keeping the bench abovo sus
picion of partiality, it would bo well to state
it as a general rule that Judges in need of
'-loans should not take them lrom tho custo
dians of public funds.
There will be a good deal of interest in
waiting to see whether either David Bennett
I Hill or G rover Cleveland will rush to aid
tho Campbell boom in Ohio.
If Quay resigns from the National Com
mittee it does not by any means follow that
he will resign from Pennsylvania politics.
All expectations that tho smooth Matthew
Stanley will cease his amiable superintend-,
ance of State matters should be abjured.
Mr. McClure's final acceptance of a
h place on the mint commission should not bo
tastes for Juleps.
Ip the Rev. J. "Wesley Hill can be be
lieved the Rev. Sam Small has been trying to
be a Napoleon of Finance in the religious
line. But Mr. Small should be warned that
this class of operations will never do if at
tempted on the retail scale.
GOSSIP OF THE GREAT.
Prince Bismarck and his wife are at
Kissingeu. Princess Bismarck is seri
ously ill.
Premier Mercier, of Quebec, on his
return home to Montreal from Europe Sat
urday afternoon, was accorded an enthusi
astic reception.
James Whitcomb Riley, while abroad,
is arranging to have an edition of his poems
issued by a London publisher, with elabo
rate illustrations.
Ella. Wheeler "Wilcox began her
political career at tho age of Syears, and at
16 she had a local tamo before she had ever
been ten miles a ay from her country home.
Harry C. Duval, Chauncey M. Depew's
private secretary, has the reputation of be
ing able to turn off more work than any man
in tho employ of the New York Central Bail
road Company.
"William Whitlock, the artist, of
Brooklyn, is one of the most enthusiastic
yachtsmen of the City of Churches. Mr.
Whitlock is a practical seaman and when on
board works as hard as any of his crew.
Gladstone is comparatively a poor man
and the occasional literary work he does for
magazines and periodicals is not the result
of any desire to add to his established famo
as a writer. For every article he writes ho
receives J1.000.
Somebody once asked Phillips Brooks
for a history of his life, says a Boston letter.
The clergyman replied: "Certainly, but I
suppose you mean by that the history of my
church; thore is nothing much to tell about
me; you will And the church very interest
ing." JosErn SrrwATER, a Warm Spring
Indian, who acted as scout in the Snake war
and in the Modoc trouble, is now peacefully
following tho vocation of a farmer on tho
reservation, and is as much interested in the
growth or grain as any of his white neigh
bors. During his long public career Hannibal
Hamlin never made a scrap or note of his
history. Again and again was he urged to
do so, but he invariably replied: "Too late.
When the war was going on I was too busy
for such woik. After the war reconstruc
tion was the topic, and I forgot to mako
notes, so I am practically without a record,
save that of my public career as recorded in
Congress and in the memoiy of my friends
and associates."
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
Police Captain "William Stewart, of the
Southbide, accompanied by August Boden
hagen, will leave this week on a pleasure
trip to Baltimore, Washington and several
other points. They will also visit several
battlefields the captain has not seen sinco
the close of the war. They expect to be gone
two weeks.
B. A. Wintemltz. a New Castle lawyer,
went to Atlantic City last evening. He is
the man who threatened to have Andrew
Carnegie arrested unless he obeyed a sub
poena. W. H. Picking, traveling passenger agent
of the B. & O. road at Somerset, and John A.
Wilson, of Franklin, are registered at the
Monongahela House.
Ed"W. Dunn, a well-known Columbus
carriago maker, and T. A. Nell, of Warren,
arc among tho guests at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel.
C. Underbill, of Barnum& Bailey's show,
is stopping at tho St. Charles Hotel. Tho
force of SO advertising men is at Staloy's
Hotel.
Dr. T. L. Haggard, of Allegheny, accom
panied by his wifo, will leave to-day for a
short sojourn at Atlantio City.
Sam P. "White, the Beaver Falls politi
cian, was an Eastern passenger last evening.
Michael Murphy, a Stannard Oil man
from Philadelphia, is at the Duqucsne.
Calvin Wells and wife left for Philadel
phiajast.cvcning. T
THINGS IX GENERAL.
The Atrocious Iron Maiden of Nuremburg
She Will Spend the Summer in London
Her Household Horrors Go With
Her Cruelties of the Past.
r WHITEN FOIS THE DISPATCH. 1
I see that tho Iron Maiden of Nuremburg
has gone to spend tho summer and per
haps make even a longer visit in London,
at Madame Tussaud's. Everybody is ac
quainted, at least by reputation, with
Madame Tussaud. She is one of the very
few people who have made a fortune out of
a skeleton in a closet. Madame Tussaud has
a whole sulto ot closets crowded with tho
most interesting skeletons, open to the daily
inspection of crowds pf inquisitive people,
and obtrusively advertised in the news
papers. The Iron Maiden, however, may noed an
Introduction. Tho Iron Maiden is a graven
imago. Sho is ono of the most atrocious of
all tho graven images of history. When you
see her you think of those old iron statues
of hungry gods, with a furnace for a
stomach, in which they used to put children
and fair youths to be consumed, in the days
of human sacrifice. There is no fire inside
the Iron Maiden, but instead of that, cold
stcol, made in the shape of long, sharp
prongs. Thoy used to put a man inside and
shut tho iron doors on him. The space is
exactly big enough for a man's body. The
steel prongs aro fastened to the innor sur
face of tho aoors. The left hand door closes
nnd tho victim is pierced by half a dozen of
these steel prongs. Then tho right hand
door is shut, and a steel prong penetrates
each of his eyes. A nd that is the end of the
man.
The Maiden's Household Goods.
The Iron Maiden, removing out of Nurem
burg Castle to Madame Tussaud's, has taken
some of her household furniture along with
her. This consists of thumb-screws, flesh
scrapors, eye-gougers, ducking stools, boots
to hold not only human feet, but melted
lead at tho same time, racks and wheels.
She stood in tho midst of them when I 6aw
her. The walls wore covered with these im
plements for making hnman beings miser
able. Some of them bad probably been used
on the spot. The grim room in the old cas
tle had no doubtiechoed to the cries of mar
tyrs. The Iron Maiden and tho fnrnishings
"of her chamber of horrors will never look so
horrible in tho light of modern London. Sho
belongs in a castle. Sho is in her fit place in
a medi.-cval town like Nuremburg.
I never understood until I visited tho
Iron Maiden what it meant to be "broken on
the wheel." One reads of that sort of thing
often enough in the old histories, and it is
evident, even at this distance of space and
time, that the operation was by no means a
comiortauie ono. nut now aid tuey uo it7
A good many people think that the martyr
was tied to a big wheel and trundled
over and over along a rocky road; and
that, in all conscience, would have been
bad enough, even for the grievous
crime of independent thinking. But tho
real wheel-breaking was worso than
that. Behold a stout plank six feet long
and three feet wide. Across this plank,
from head to foot, at intervals of a dozen
inches, are fastened narrow strips of iron,
standing up perhaps Ave inches high and
rather sharp at the top. Along this plank,
on top of these projections, they fasten the
heretic. Then comes the wheel. It is a
common wheel, only uncommonly heavy,
bound with iron. On either side of the plank
stands a stout man. And the two stout men
lift this heavy wheel and bring it down with
nil their might across the body of the man
between tho iron projections, beginningnt
his ankles. Every blow breaks a dozen
bones the neck last!
All Such Cruelties Banished.
These things aro not any of them to be
found within the walls of Sing Sing prison.
Nor anywhere else in this Innd of the freo
nnd home of the brave. They are utterly
abolished out of all civilized countries.
Electrical executions, done in secret, nnd
with every enre to avoid needless suffering,
have taken tho place of them. A most sig
nificant change! People who look back
with longing to tho "good old times," and
who question if the world has really grown
any better, ought to interview the" Iron
Maiden.
In the days when the Iron Maiden was
gathering unfortunates into hor fatal em
braces, no man, except a brave man, dared
to think. Or if he could not refrain from
thinking, he contented himself with taking
it out in thinking. He said nothing. People
who talked too much got into the Iron
Maiden. That means that if we were still
thinking the thoughts and doing the deed3
of our greatgreat-grundfathers, we would
put Dr. Brfggs on the rack till he should
change his mind: we -n ould clap tho thumb
screws upon lleber Newton; we would shut
ill) PhilllDS Brooks in tho Iron Maiden.
Yes, we have got a long way beyond that.
We live in a day when all honest men have
the privilege of uttering their honest
thonghts in good loud voices. We have
abandoned the idea that truth needs steel
prongs and hot lead to emphasize her argu
ments, and are getting nearer and nearer to
the older idea of Him who declared that be
cause His kingdom was tho kingdom of
truth, therefore His disciples would not
fight with swords. Think of tho Inquisition
and tho Star Chamber, of the rack and the
wheel, of the Ecclesiastlal Commission and
the Index Expurgatorious! These are bogs,
pitfalls and brigands which beset tho path
behind us. Wo have got out of that and
beyond.
Tho Progress of Peace.
Wo havo got out of "a great many things,
and beyond. When Mark Twain's Connecti
cut Yankee paid his remarkable visit to
King Arthur's court he was greatly im
pressed with the universal idea that when
two gentlemen chanced to meet along the
road tho correct thing waB for them to stop
and fight, Just for the sake of fighting. Why,
wo are getting toward the time when even
nations will have better sense than that.
Wo haven't arrived thore yet, but with
Triple alliances, and. smokeless powder, and
machines for murdering men by wholesale,
we are evidently getting nearer. Mark
Twain's Yankee noticed the wonderful dis
comfort of those old days; no stovos, no
glass, clothes made of cast iron, no forks; to
say nothing of tho absence of railroads and
cable cars and telephones and type-writers.
Those old castles may have been very fine
in an artistic way. They are pleasant to
read about, and tho old ruins are a delhrht
to the meditative tourists. But thepaddlcrs
in the mills of Pittsburg have comforts and
conveniences which princes, in the "'good
old times," had not even begun to dream of.
Here is a irogment ot a letter written from
University College. Oxford, by a student
there In the year 1010:
"Loving mother," he says, "send also, I
pray you, by Briggs, a green tablecloth of a
yard and half a quarter, and two linen table
cloths. If the greon tablecloth be too little I
will make a pair of warm stockings of it.
Thus remembering my humble, duty, I take
mv leave. Your loving son."
Warm stockings out of a green tablecloth!
That was before tho days of knit stockings,
which Queen Elizabeth was the first person
in England to wear.
The central idea of tho practice of medl
clno in those old days was that disease came
from the devil. If you were sick, there was
a devil inside of you. The mission of tho
doctor was to got tho devil out of you. And
to this end he did whatever ho could think
of to make your body a dlstateful residence
for your diabolical tenant. This is the idea
which the Indians havo still. On the Onon
dago reservation, near Syracuse, when any
body is sick his pagan friends get the bed
out into the middfo of the room and proceed
to dunce around it, beating tin nans and
tom-toms and yelling like fiends of the pit
to scare the devil out!
To Banish Old Satan.
The mcdlmval doctors, accordingly, ran
sacked all the cobwebbed corners of creation
for disgusting doses, which might discour
age the devil. "Take hop plant, wormwood,
blshopwort, lupine, ashthroat, henbane.
lmrewort, vipor's buglcss, heathberry plant,.
crop leoit, garlic, grains oi iiougente, gith
rlfo and fennel. Put these worts into a ves
sel, set them under tho altar, sing over them
nino masses, boll them in butter and sheep's
grease," etc., etc. Thero, Sathanas, taste
that and avauntl The doctor thought not of
the disease, but of the devil.
As for surgery, that was done when it
was done at all with a moat ax. Anaesthe
tics were unknown. Pain meant grim, in
evitable pain, ovcry last drop to be tasted to
the dregs. Antiseptics were undiscovered.
Vaccination was unthought of. Ventilation,
sanitation were uncareu for. People died
like flies when tho plague went his period
ical rounds. "Poor, nasty, brutish and
short" was human lite, llobbs says, In Eliz
abeth's time. Wo can believe it. The fact
is that this year of graco, 1691, is the very
best year for tho mind, for the body yes
and lor the soul of man, that the race has
overseen. The "good old times" are dead
happily dead. Long live tho good now
times!
Whero Is the Nation's Brains?
New York Sun.
Senator Ingalls.of Kansas,says that tho in
tellectual capital of tho United States is
Washington. How absurd' Tho Hon. Henry
Watterson, of Kentucky, holds that the in
tellectual capital of tho United States is
Boston. Pshaw! The intellcctualcapital of
the United States Is to bo seen from the Sun
offloo. .
A ST0BY OF SENATOR VEST.
The Incident Which Determined Him
to
Leave Kentucky for Missouri
New York World.!
"Did you- ever hear how Senator Vest left
Kentucky nnd went to Missouri?" said a dis
tinguished native of Kentucky to a group of
friends in an uptown hotel yostorday,
All answered "No."
"Well, there was very llttlo ceremony
'about his going.
"The Senator was born nnd brought up at
Owenflboro, a Kentucky town on the bank of
the Ohio. When he was a young man he ran
a little newspaperthoro. lie was full of mis
chief and used to play tricks wnich would
have made interesting reading had he dared
to report them. But he was usually inter
estcd in suppressing tho facts In order to
keep out of trouble.
"The incident which decided tho tone and
manner of Mr. Vest's pilgrimage happened
in this way. Then, as now, tho boys down
there, including the gentlemen who hold
high and responsible public offices, were
fond of playing a quiet game, of poker. One
evening a party comprising tho Mayor of
tho town, the Judge, and several other lead
ing citizens, engaged a barge to havo a sail
on tho river. Thoy traveled a short dis
tanoo from the town, and mooring their boat
to an island in the river, sat down to have a
little game. They intended to go home, say
not later than midnight, and as the vessel
was moored within easy reach of the town
tbey played well up to the midnight hour
without paying attention to anything but
the game.
"When they arose to steer their bark
homeward thev looked around nnd wore
fairly astonished. Where were they? Whero
was the island? Where was the inoorlngT It
was some time before they realized the sit
uation. They finally discovered that the
mooring had been cut and tho boat had
drifted about 40 miles down the Ohio. It
was late the next morning when the distin
guished party retnrned to town.
"It w as impossible to keep back what had
happened. Tho whole town knew that tho
Mayor and his companions had been playing
cards, nnd had experienced very bad luck.
The Mayor was n fighting man, and he im
mediately registered a vow that when he
found the man who cut the boat adrift ho.
would shoot him on sight. Mr. Vest's llttlo
newspaper was published no more, and tho
next time the editor was heard from he was
in Missouri."
IRRATIONAL H0DESTY.
The Objection to Lady Bicyclists Founded
on Oriental Ideas.
Chicago Herald.
Bishop Coxe's tirade against the immod
esty of women on bicycles is no doubt well
meant, but it savors moro of Asia and
ancient Greece than of America and tho
nineteenth century. Time was when it was
thought Immodest for women to appear on
tho streets unless closely veiled. During
the period of intellectual supremacy iu
Athens it was considered a disgrace for
women to go outside the house except on
rare occasions and then only when well at
tended. It was regarded as immodest for
her to recelvo ner husband's guests in com
pany with him. She must retire to her own
apartment when his friends entered the
house.
All such ideas have passed away, and
neither ancient usage nor merely conven
tional form determines nt the present time
what is becoming and decorous in the con
duct of women. The wisdom of tho nine
teenth century declaresthat to ho properfor
a woman which will tend to health, strength
and intelligence, and that is Improper which
renders her weak, helpless and inefficient.
BEIAMATEB IN THE PULPIT.
Tho Late Candidate for Governor Sojourn-.
ing in Oregon.
Portland Oregonlan.
There arrived in Portland yesterday a man
whose name was as prominent in tho polit
ical world last fall as the names of McKinley,
Joseph G. Cannon, and other Republican
leaders who suffered defeat. Ho is G. W.
Delamater, the late Republican nominee for
Governor of Pennsylvania.who was defeated
by Robert E. Pattison. Ho will bo in Port
land several days, tho guest of George W.
Btavor, oi taver x alitor, lo-morrow
morning nnd evening he will occupy the
pulpit in Taylor street church.
Mr Delamater's home-is in Meadville. and
he is a banker. His trip to the West is for
rest and recreation. Since his arrival here
he has made many inquiries about Portland,
its sohools and public Institutions, nnd seems
to be satisfied of its prosperity. To a reporter
ho saidyesterday that Portland looks strong
and substantial, and appears not to have
been boomed to a disastrous extent. Mr.
Delamater did not caro to talk politics very
much.
LIZARDS LOVE MUSIC.
How a Gentleman Charmed tho Little
Creatures in a Switzerland Garden.
When in Switzerland two years ago, says a
writer in the Spectator, I mado tho acquaint
ance of some lizards, living in the crevices
of ono of the sunny walls of our garden. As
I had somewhere heard that lizards have a
?;ood ear for music, I resolved to prove tho
act: so one afternoon, armed with a small
musical box, I wended my steps to their
tomato-covered home. Before I had fin
ished the first tune a considerable audience
had collected an audience it was a pleasure
to play to, for the lizards were far more at
tentive than most human beings. Out
peered head after head, a little on one side,
in a listening attitude.
I gave my little friends a musical enter
tainment (varied by whistling) nearly every
day, and before long they got much
bolder, and would venture right out of their
holes, nnd lie motionless on the broad ledge
of the wall, their bright black eyes half
closed, as a rule, but opening now and then
.to give me a lazy wink of enjoyment.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
William Walker.
William "Walker, a Scotch merchant,
author, singer, reformer, poet, public speaker and
traveler, died recently in Glasgow. Ills most im
portant book Is entitled "Christianized Com
merce," and Its object is to show bow Christian
principles ought to be applied In business transac
tions. He was also tne autnor or 'uiaek Iio.tlc
Lyrics, " which were popular In temperance circles,
anilof "Cannelrlgger, " a series of humorous pa
pers In the Glasgow 1 emacalar. He was likewise
a writer for periodical-". Some of his lyrics are
notable for their delicate and lofty spirit. He was
greatly interested In temperance reform, and was
i'director of the. Scottish Temperance League, to
the funds of which he was a verr liberal contribu
tor. While spending much of his lime and energy
in the ways here spoken of. Mr. Walker was ail
through his life aenvely engaged In commerce. He
was In the East India trade, and had a largo estab
lishment at Colombo, In Ceylon, which Is now In
the hands of Ids son. In Ceylon, as In Scotland, he
was active In the work of reform, and lie labored
to promote the education, social Improvement and
Christlanlzatlon of tho Ccrlonese. In his rare
practical business capacity the poet Instinct and
the philanthropic spirit were milted.
Colonel George M. Chambers.
Colonel George M. Chambers, one of the
oldest and best citizens of Jacksonville, III., died
at an early hour Friday morning. He was an inti
mate friend of Lincoln, Douglas, General Hardt
and other eminent men. and did much toward
shaping the destinies of this country He was
probably the first pork packer of the country, going
f o Meredosla at an early day and parkin for trans
portation on the river, which was then the chief
means of communication. He gained his title in
the Black Hawk war, where he served honorably.
Mrs. Marsena B. Peck.
Mrs. Marsena Brink Peck, who died re
centrfat her home at East Greenwich, O., at the
age of 91 years, was a native and long a resident of
Maratnon, toriisu-u wwuuij, . i. jirs. jiarsena
Peck, by her will Just made public, leaves (20, ooo to
found a free ljublic library In her native town. She
alio bequeaths A,C00 to the Marathon Presbyterian,
and small sums to the Methodist and Baptist
Churches, and $1,000 to the Cemetery Association.
After liberally remembering relatives In .Marathon
and vlclnltv, she bequeaths the residue of her
fortune to the Chicago Home for Incurables,
Obituary Notes.
Thomas Crystal, aged 111, the oldest man
in the State, died Saturday at tho infirmary at
Ironton, O.
Mas. Taman Scott, colored, 102 years of
nee (lied at her home about one mile west of Ar
gentine, Kas., Thursday evening.
Colonel 'Samuel L. Bexson, ex-Warden of
Stony Mountain penitentiary, near Winnipeg, died
suddenly at Ottawa Saturday from a paral)tlc
stroke.
Samuel G. Tuppeii, a prominent insurance
man and formany years President of the Chamber
of Commerce at Charleston, S. C, died there Satur
day, aged 71 years.
Levi Kedway, a pioneer Pennsylvania tan
ner died at Carbondale. Friday, in his 831
vear. He was very wealthy, and owned at least a
dozen tanneries in New York and Pennsylvania.
William It. GAnnARD, a lawyer well known
fonncrly lit Cluclnnatl and Kentucky, died In New
York. Thursday, at the age of CO. Mr, Garrard
was born In Lexington, Ky, and came of good old
planter stock.
George L. Lucas, who died Friday at Con
sholrocken. Pa., was for many years Chler En
gineer of the Grand Rapids, Indianapolis and Cin
cinnati Railroad. Ho was lmrn In estern Penn
sylvania, but retired from active work in 1885, Ho
was 03 cars old.
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ODD AND ENTERTAINING.
Skirt Dancers in Bathing Suits, and How
They Pass the Happy Summer Hours
Away Engineers 'Who Itescue Llttlo
Children on Railroad Tracks.
Life at Old Point nt this season has many
pleasures, and not tho least of these is to
watch two young Washington society girls
out in tho surf giving a wntery skirt dance
and an imitation of Carmoncitn at the same
time. I saw the pair to-day, Bays a Fort
Monroo correspondent of tho Washington
Star.
"What do we do all tho time?" said she,
repeating the question. "Why, we don't
get np until nearly noon. Now, for Instance,
I was the last ono in tho dining room this
morning; in fact Just did get in, and I had
tho last ohickon there was on the Point, or
so my waiter said, and it was just tho dear
est, cunnlngest little bird you ever saw. I
ate it, bones and all, for it would havo been
too bad to draw the line. It was lucky,
though, there weren't two of us to share
that bird, for one of us would havo gone
hungry. Old Point always does give me the
most rnvingest appetite. Why, certainly I
come every year. Every one does who
knows what's what. You silly, of course I
am not in love with the same army officer
that I was last summer.
"In the Afternoon? AVo Just loaf around
until dinner, and if you don't got up too
early dinner comes pretty soon. Afterward
there are walks nnd drives and more ways
to spend the time pleasantly than there are
afternoons in tho summer. Sometimes we
go up to the fort for guard mount or to see
tho artillery Are their guns at llttlo targets
out on the water, and often they hit thom,
too. Thero isn't much in the w ay of drills to
seo up there just now, for tho best of that
doesn't como until September. But then we
hnve the officers all tho time, and after a
girl has been here for a summer and then
tries pome other place she certainly does
miss tho brass buttons.
"Bntyou just ought to have been here
when White squadron was here. I don't
know about that either, for vou're not a girl:
but when tho squadron was hero it was di
vmo. Why, there were a dozen men to
every girl, nnd more than that if sho were a
pretty one, and we could take our pick be
tween the two branches of the service. Just
think of it; it was heavenly.
"And then after we have had a little nap
in the afternoon we take ourselves out to
the water and cast ourselves into the ready
arms of Neptune. Isn't that poetic? What,
you say my story is rather disconnected?
Well, I like that, when I'm trying to tell you
just what a girl thinks of Old'Point Comfort.
In the evenings there's the ballroom and
tho board walk and tho pier and the moon
light on tho waves and the writing room,
where we all go after tea and sit and talk or
write, and the good old rule of never making
lovo through an ink bottle Isbroken at every
desk.
Stopped the Train With nis Heel.
Some time ago there was a story going
the rounds ofadairing rescue of a child by
a locomotivo engineer. The child wns said
to be playing on the track and did not hear
a passenger train thundering down upon it.
Tho engineer Baw tho child, but it was too
late to stop tho train. Quickly reversing
his engine and "giving her air,"the engineer
slid through his cab window, along ho run
ning board, and down to the pilot. As the
engine approached the child the engineer
leaped to the ground, ran swiftly ahead and
snatohed tho child from the track, by his
quickness and coolness averting a frightful
accident.
To men who do not know railway en
gineers the story was a surprise, and they
all denounced it as a "fake." One imagina
tive gentleman wrote to the New York Sun
about it. He believed that it was true. He
based his bolief on nn experience which ho
had had while pulling a fast mail train over
the Itocky Mountain division of tho Union Pa
cific. He wa b coming down through a canyon
with a heavy train behind him. It had been
raining heavily for n long time, and the
ground was soft and sticky. The trook was
wet and slippery, and the heavy train was
running at a fearful speed. His engine was
"doing her best to hold 'em back," but in
spite of his efforts he began to fear that the
train was going to get away from him. Just
as he was wondering what he could do to
check the tremendous speed of tho train he
shot round a curve and there on the track
not 100 yards ahead of him was a little girl
asleep. To stop by ordinary methods was
uu-uiinejj iiupossiDio. xo go on was certain
death to tho child. In the .fraction of a
second he had formed his plan.
As he says it: "I shouted to Jim, the fire
man, to 'choke her,' nnd 'give her the grit,'
and then I slid out on the running board and
down on her nose' and jumped off. As she
camo by I grabbed hold of a spoke in the
driver and socked my heel in the mud, nnd,
if you'll believe it, I stopped that train right
there. Broke my arm in two places, though,
and knocked every blamed car in the train
clean off the track. But saved the child."
Hidden Perils in Bananas.
A live tarantula In a fruit store is attract
ing much attention from passers-by. It
Journeyed several thousand miles in a
bunch of bananas, and Is now as lively and
vicious as when at home on tho banks of tho
Amazon river, says the Chicago Tribune. It
was found by an Italian laborer in
a fruit house in a bunch of bananas
which formed a part of a fruit
cargo from Brazil. The Italian had a
narrow escape from being bitten, as tho
huge spider made a Jump at his hand while
moving the bunch of bananas which had
been his home for not less than three weeks.
It is now in a cracker box with a glass front,
nnd displays its vicionsness by making
jumps from one end of the box to tho other
wnen teasea ny anyone.
A young bon-constrlctor measuring 36
inches in length was found in a banana
bunch at tho same commission house two
weeks before the tarantula was discovered.
The boa was lively and seemed pleased with
its transplanted lot, but a week of captivity
killed it.
"We have to caution our men continu
ally," said the proprietor of the fruit bouse,
"to keep them on tne lookout for strange in
sects in handling fruit. During the time I
have been in the fruit business here my
workmen have found three boa-constrictors
and a half dozen tarantulas, and innumera
ble specimens of land-crabs, such as aro com
mon In tropical countries. A boy working
for mo was bitten by a tarantula four years
ago and ho Is now carrying a stump of an
arm ns a result of his carelessness. It was
onlv after his arm was ammitated nnd hn
had been nursed three months in a hospital
that he overcame the terrible poison of the
tarantula's bite. The first boa-constrictor
found in a fruit shipment at my warehouse
was 10 years ago. It measured nearly four
feet in length, nnd I kept it for more than a
year in a slatted box. A showman heard of
it and gave me $50 for it. That same snake,
I nm told, is one of the number now fondled
by Miss Uno, the snake-charmer with Fore
paugh's circus, and my informant;wns no
other than the man to whom I sold the
snako."
Soon There'll Be an Ossified Woman.
Mrs. Mollie Hughes, a highly respected
widow lady, living near Camornville, Idaho,
is afflicted with a unique and most distress
ing disease. Little by little the flesh of her
entire body is turning to solid bono, or, in
other words, she is bocoming ossified, ac
cording to a St. Louis Republic writer. Tho
disease was first noticed in 133C, when Mrs.
Hughes wns Miss Duyohink, of Canon
ltapids. At that time only a single Anger
was affected. Within a month after the
tiino when Miss Duvchink first noticed the
numbness and stiffness of the finger it had
been accidently broken off while she was
asleep. The incident gavo the girl no pain,
there being noitber blood, nerves or flesu
left in the diseased mombor, but it excited
tho alarm of the family, who called in u
physician. Tho broken stump of the linger
wns amputated back to where tuc living
flesh set on and everything was thought to
be all right.
Soon tho fiesh, muscles, arteries, veins and
nerves on hor hands, Angers and arms be
came as hard and feeiinglcss as tho finger
had been before it was broken off. Next
the awful malady extended to the elbow,
the forearms becoming as white and as cical
as alabaster. Within tho year tho toes and
the ond of the nose and ear tips showed a
Hko color and rigid n ess. The piocess of
ossification has now been going on nearly
five years, and the attending physicians say
that it is onlj' a matter of tlmo when the en
tire body or the poor victim will bo a solid
bono. It is it rare disease, and tho pathology
of it is littlo understood.
Beauty Needn't Apply.
At the French exhibition in Moscow
there is a waffle stand. It was noticed that
the women baking the waffles and selling
tbem nre not of the type of French beauty
which tho Russians admire; they look Hko
"common Finnish peasant women, onlv tholr
arms aro of beautiful shape," according to a
Russian nowspaper.
The managers of the exhlDltlon were
asked whether they could not get any coinc
lior watlle makers for tho occasion, nnd their
answer was: "We purposely selected the
homeliest women for this stand, which
promised to becomoono of tho most nomilar
in tho exhibition. As t,uo Franco-KussianJ
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iaaPsi ,r -n -tj 4fiVfc, j
sympathies nre so strong, we were afraid
that if we brought pretty waffle makers
here thoy would b'e abducted and we would
be put to the trouble of getting new hands
to replace them. With tho homely women
wo need not anticipate such trouble."
A Fair Oregon nuntress.
A few days since Mr. Knhn, the fur dealer,
while driving out of Empire City, Coos Bay,
met a young lady riding into town with a
rifle in her hand and the carcass of a bear
strapped across the horse behind hor saddle,
says the Portland Oreganian. The young
lady was JIIss Charlotte Nichols, of Empire
City, who had started out to visit a place
her father owns in the country and took her
rifle along, and meeting the bear shot it.
She is quite an expert with the rifle, having
killed a number of deer. Mr. Kahn pur
chased the skin as a souvenir, for, as he says,
she was a "deuced nice girl."
A HUSBAND'S HEROISM.
He Iiescues His Wife, Imprisoned Beneath
a Capsized Yacht.
New York Recorder.
The weaker members of a yachting party
of Ave would in all probability have gone to
the bottom of Great South Bay last Sunday
but for the bravery of one man. Before noon
on that day G. W. Elder, his wife, Gerald
Stuyvesant and his brother, F. S. Stuyvesant
embarked at Bay Shore and sailed for Fire
Island on the sloop yacht Montauk. Shortly
after 4 o'clock Mrs. Elder retired to the
cabin, tucked a pet dachshund undera cush
ion, wapped herself in a blanket and lay
down to sleep.
There are no berths in tho cabin, which is
supported by stanchions and is all open at
the stern. A low, broad seat runs around
the cabin. On that Mrs. Elder slept. When
a mile and a half on Bay Shore the Montauk
was put about, and at that Instant a vlciou9
puff of wind tilled the sail, the yacht turned
bottom upward and the passengers sank be
neath the waves. Mr. Elder and the sailing
master were the first to reach the surface of
the water. They caught the boat's bottom,
and when Gerald's, head appeared ho was
helped to the boat. airs. Elder remained la
the cabin. Her husband is a trained athlete
and a vigorous swimmer. lie dived and
swam under the boat, but came to the sur
face without finding her. Down he went
again, and came up with no better success.
After the third plunge he found Mrs. Elder
in the cabin, clasped her in his arms, and a
moment later had her seated on tne keel of
the boat.
An air-filled space between the surface of
the confined water and the sheathed hull of
the boat had permitted Mrs. Elder to
breathe until rescued. These exciting inci
dents occurred in less time than their tell
ing takes, and while Mr. Elder was so gal
lantly endeavoring to savo his wife F. S.
Stuyvesant was going through an experi
ence he is not likely to forget.
A MAGNIFICENT ITGHT.
Senator Quay No Meam Antagonist for tho
Friends of Reform.
Philadelphia Times.
Senator Quay.is nothing if not heroic, and
when battle is unavoidable he will accept it.
His candidacy for the State Trpasurership in
1885 wrote the mostheroic chapterof modem
politics in Pennsylvania. Ho had to chooso
between certain retirement from leadership
or possible annihilation by popular defeat
with absolute mastery if he won. He staked
all.and instead of coming out a defeated and
execrated leader, he won the Senatorship
without a struggle.
He Is the ablest political strategist in the
State; he has courage that never pales and
industry that never flags when occasion de
mands, and it is safe to assume that
one of the most interesting and desper
ate battles of Pennsylvania's history is
about to be fought within tha lines of
the great party that has ruled the State for
more than SO years. Tho marrow of the
issue is tho demand for better politics, nnd
that is tho single stone in the sling that
the Republican giant has to fear.
THEY BES0LVED PAETNEBSHTP.
One Member of the Firm Seems to Have an
Eye to Business.
Washington Star.
That tho instinct for business is not en
tirely absent among the colored people is
shown by an occurence in Pennsylvania
some time ago. Two colored men were con
ducting a blacksmith shop, but Anally con
cluded to suspend their enterprise. The
shop was duly closed, and passers-by were
amused by the following, which was con
spicuously posted:
M.. .......
jtoTus.
: The partnership heretofore existing :
between me and Mose Skinner has
been resolved. All people what owes
the firm will please settle with me: all
neoDie wnaimtnna owes
settle with Mose Skinner.
HABEISON'S QUIET DAY.
He Ventures Out for a Short Walk, but Does
Not Go Near a Church.
rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Cape May, N. J., July 19. President Harri
son passed ono of the quietest days to-day
sinco his arrival. He ventured out to take a
walk this evening and to watch the stormy
waves dash on the beach, and did not even
go to church. Mrs. UarrisonandLieutenant
and Mrs. Parker attended St. John's Episco
pal Church.
Colonel W. H. Crooks, disbursing clerk of
the White House, arrived to-day. Cardinal
Gibbons officiated in St. Mary's Cathedral at
9 o'clock mass to-day.
Telling a Seaside Girl's Age.
Washington Star.
Said an old pointer to me yesterday: "Yon
can always tell a girl's age by the shoulder
straps she is walking with. If he has just
come down hero from West Point then tho
chances are that she is 30 at least, but if he
is a major or a colonel then its dollars to
doughnuts she Is still In her teens."
Banning on Shape.
Chicago Tribune
Chief Justice Fuller's mnstache, which
some hypercritical persons affect to think
incompatible with the dignity of his judicial
position, would not hurt his chances if he
aspired to the Democratio nomination for
President. It is ever so much more shapely
and statesmanlike than Grover Cleveland's.
AT THE COBE O' JULY.
Now It's near the summer's core,
'Tlz a hot day o' Jnly,
Wharsoe'crmy eyes explore
Danrlo imps o' heat I spy.
Out across the yaller flel's.
How the air Iz seen ter trimUel
I klr. see a million heels
Hoppln up an' down so nimble!
Dancln' Imps o' heat jes try
Their uieansclves In this July.
Ever lime I go ter crawl
From my bunk o' grass an' flowers.
Imps o' heat upon me fall,
Take away my feeble powers.
An' lliey throw me on my back,
'Bore my face they laugh an' play,
Strike their heels an' make cm crack,
Then, on beams, they dart away.
How they make me fulrly fry
Loungln' here In hot July.
Sprawlfn' 'neath an apple tree,
- On a qnflt o' shade an' grass.
OIlxM with flow'rs), my thoughts run free,
Nuthln' halts 'em; they kin pass
Through the green atiovc, an flow
To the castellated cloud.
Or. in tracks o' zephyrs go
To the forest cool an' broad
Off whar lovesick nymphs do sigh
O'er sweet brooks In hot July!
Birds have quiet voices now.
Or tbey do not sing at all.
Quails, in thickets down below,
.Make a seldom whistle call.
N' the brcczes,'overcomc.
Faint an' fall upon the ground;
From their gaspln lips do ruu
Odors rich that spread around
Drenchln me with sweeU. as I
Flounder here in hot July !
Oh, what lazy blisses crawl
To me while I'm stretchln' here!
Drop-t o' music runnd mc fall,
Coming from I don't know where.
Now comes swlshln' through the grass
Mellow sounds; I look an' see
Love's own image that sweet lass.
Who, till now. wuz cold ter met
Cool she Is no more, I spy.
For she lovrs, and 'tis July.
Jamet Koel Johnson in Hew Turk Herald.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
An old graveyard in Grange county,
Ind., has been found to be rich in petrified
bodies. At last accounts 16 had been taken,
out.
An ex-policeman, who has done ten
years' duty in one of the large cities of tha
East, declare s that he has never seen a bald
headed tramp.
Owing to the new sanitary measures in
England, there has been a diminution of
more than 3) per cent in the death rate from
consumption since 1331.
Anew car on the Michigan Central
Bailroad docs tho work of 300 men in scrap
ing tho dirt dumped on the sides of the
track to the edges of the fill.
A Georgian editor is accused of stopping
the press "to announco that nothing has
occurred of sufficient interest to induce ua
to stop tho press to announce it."
Missouri is outstripping Kentucky is
the stock raising bnsiness. Formerly the
hbest horses nnd mules camo from Ken
tucky, but now tho best stock is raised in
Missouri.
The honey crop this season will be tha
lightest California has ever known. The bees
can't And nectar enough, and hives that;
yielded 20 tons last year will not prodece a
pound this season.
The catacombs of Rome contain the re
mains of about 6,000,000 human beings, and
those of Paris about 3,000,000. The latter
were formerly stone quarries. Many of tho
victims of tho devolution of 1792-4 are buried
there.
The people of Thessaly were the first to
break horses for service in war, and their
proficiency as equestrians probably first;
gave rise to the ancient myth that their
country was originally inhabited by
centaurs, fabulous creatures supposed to bo
half horse and half man.
The ornithologist of the Dcith Valley
(Cal.) expedition has secured many raw
specimens of mammals, some of which urs
almost unknown. At Pigiwu spring .uuia
50 specimens of a very rare wouu were
taken. Of this peculiar specie hut ona
specimen, taken about 50 years ago, N said
to exist.
The law of Mississippi requires three
things of every voter: First, to register.
Second, he must be a taxpayer. Third, ho
must be able to construe the Constitution 'of
tho State. This last clause is vague and un
certain, and under it one-half the voters of
the State can be deprived of tile right of
suffrage.
The collection of electrical apparatus
on exhibition at Frankfort-on-the-Main has
been insured against Are and damages by
explosion to the extent of 3,500,000 marks.
The risk has been undertaken by 23 of the
principal German insurance offices. The
value of the exhibition as a whole is esti
mated at 7, 000,000 marks.
A young lady in Parisian society had
an unpleasant quarter-hour the other day,
for upon proceeding to the mairie for her
baptismal certificate in order to get married,
she was told that sho was entered as a boy.
However, the damsel faced thl dilemma,
though wincing: but she fainted on return
ing home to find a notice from the War
Office to immediately report aa a conscript.
The stock of paid notes in the Bank of
England for five years is about 77,745,000
in number, and they fill 13,400 boxes, which,
if placed sido by side, w ould reach 2 miles.
If the notes were placed in a pile they would
reach to a height or 5 miles: or, it Joined
end to end, would lorm a ribbon 12,435 miles
long. The superficial extent is rather lesa
than that of Hyde park; their original valuo
was over X 1,750,620,600 and their weight over
90 tons.
The population of Chinatown in San
Francisco is said to have fallen off nearly '
5,000 in the last six months. Streets once
crowded have become largely deserted, and
many business firms formerly located there
have either retired from their trade or have
removed elsewhere. The Chinese attribute
the change to diversion of trade to Seattle
and Portland and tho rigid enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act. A farther de
cline of the noted locality is anticipated.
A simple and excellent plan to preserve
and strengthen tho ejs is this: Every
mornlng pour some cold water into your
washing bowl; at the bottom of tho bowl
place a silver coin or some other bright ob
ject: then put your face in the water with
your eyes open and fixed on tho object at
the bottom; move your head from side to
gently, and you will find that this momintr
bath will make your eyes brighter and
stronger, nnd preserve them beyond the or
dinarily allotted time.
Honest Hans Sachs 'was the poetical
genius of medieval Germany. He was born,
(the son of a tailor) at Nuremberg, 11S4, and
died 1573. A few years before he died ho fol
lowed the trade of a shoemaker, the pro
ceeds of which served his needs: for the pro
ductions of his genius he obtained nothing.
He left behind him 6,000 different composi
tions, which Schlcgel says are superior in In
vention and the true poetic spirit even to
the works of Chancer. His irreproachable
life, and cheerful and amiable character,
have cansed him to be remembered through
all ages as Honest Huns Sachs.
A strong solution of extract of licorice
destroys the disagreeable taste of aloes.
Peppermint water disguises the nauseous
taste of Epsom salts. Milk is a good abater
of the bitter taste of Peruvian burk, and
cloves that of senna. Castor oil cannot be
tasted if beaten nnd thoroughly mixed with
the whito of an egg. Another method of
covering the nauseous taste of castor or cod
liver oil is to put a tablespoonful of strained
oranze iuice in a wine class, pour the oil
into the center of the Juice, then squeeze a
few drops of lemon Juioe npon the oil and
rub some of the Juice on the edge of the
glass.
At the Boyal Society conversazione
great deal of interest was excited by the ex
hibition of CO tools and utensils of the Roman
period, found together in a pit in the Roman
British city of Silchester, Hants. These in
cluded an anvil, a pair of blacksmith's tongs,
hammer, axes, gouges, chisels, adzes, a large
carpenter's plane, two shoemaking anvUs,
two plow coulters, a standing lamp, a grid
iron, a bronze scale beam and others. Many
of these articles were most remarkably like
similar tools of tho present day, the plane,
which was evidently a "trying plane,1' and
entirely of metal, being very suggestive of a
Yankee origin. It is said to bo the only
Roman plane found in Britain. .
WHIMSICALITIES,
THE THREE GRACES.
Faith is a budding maiden,
Ecstatic, cloistered, wan.
Hope is a.n ancient spinster
That still believes In man;
But Charity's a mother.
And all her gee&e are swan I
Leech, in Puck.
"Poh! You could tell that was the school
teacher's house," said Willie scornfully.
"How?"
'It has a slate roof." Sim York Herald.
"Here, sonny, you kodaking fiend3 can
steal on to us with those pesky thlngsmost an times,
but you ain't going to take me napping,9 and then
the old lady broke her umbrella over his head. It
occurred in the railroad park at Petoskey, and the
old lady had Just been aroused from a nap on one
of the seats. She would not believe that the un
fortunate victim of her wrath and stalwart um
brella was a bootblack armed with the utensils of
his trade. Detroit Sews.
Fanny (very much excited) Mamma,
lust think, the new Janitor and his wlfe
Mamma What about them?
"They have only been here three days, and
"Well, what?""
They have got four children already." Texas
SVIivjs.
"That," said the studious yo:ing man, "is
very rare book."
yes." replied Mrs. De Porqt-. as she took It
?rom him and looked at the rather uncertain bind
ing, "It doesn't seem very well done." Washing
ton Star.
"I do hate to hear a man grumble all the
time as that fellow is doing over there." said a
dlgntcd passenger to the conductor of the train.
"My dcarslr," exclaimed the conductor in sur
prise, "you evidently do not understand the case.
That man is traveling on a pass." Somerville Jour
nal. .
She (poetically) With the golden bright
sky, the sighing of the balmy zephyrs and the far
vlstaeross the foamy waies, one can't but dream
,hey are in sw eetesl Italy.
i Ilc Good Idea. Suppose we have macaroni for
dinner. Liverpool 'Porcupine.
"Speaking of Bishop Coxe," observed
the exchange editor, loosening his collar, "why
doesn't he say something about that notorious
female rider In Germany?"
The financial editor braced himself firmly, seized'
a paper-weight and inquired:
'What female rider?"
"Em Bargu on tho American hog," answered
the exchange editor.
The finauclal editor laid down Ms weapon, put
on his hatband went sadly out. It was the wont'
one he had ever heard. Chicago Tribune.
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