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II m'ths. 2 SO DaILI Dis"t;h Including Sundav, lm'th . 0 SfMJAY Disr itch Oiel ear 2 SO "Weekly Di-r ircn. One Tear ., 125 The Daily DisrATrn I delivered by carriers at 18 cents per :ek, or, Including Sunday Fditibn, at 20 cent pi" weeL. PITTSBURG, TUESDAY. JULY 21, ISal. ON THE TVROhG SIDE. A ven accuratemeasnre of the situation in Ohio was made by Governor Campbell's remark, in explanation of some planks in the Ohio Democratic platform that do not express his views. His assertion was that the contest is so clearly made on the tariff line that every other issue will go to the wall. Doubtless Governor Campbell hopes he will win on the issue, but that hope cannot be regarded as so well lounded When the Democrats are fatuous enough to insist on opposition to the principle of full protection to American industry they nre sure to be beaten in States like Penn-tylvania- and Ohio. It may yet be a mat ter to be settled as regards the nation at large, but it is not likclj that the Amer ican people have yet reached the point where they are ready to break down domestic mdiistrj for the benefit of foreigneis. We commend the Governor's frankness and dnceritj in recognizing the tariff isue as .o specifically made that it can in no vvav be obscured That being the cae, the respective merits of the tariff against free trade will make the Xov em ber vote decisive ni favor of the American system. Tun Disrvrcii has been frank in its recognition of Governor Campbell's merits i's a faorablo specimen of the newer class of executives like Cleveland and Pattison. 3Uit he has planted himself on the wrong fcide of the tariff question, and will, of course, hav e to abide b the decision of that issue THE LIMIT Or LAW. The promise of disorders contained by 2MMlip.itihes about the Tennessee coal take is n-fleeted to a certain extent by the local reports concerning the trouble at tile Duquesne worim Wlulcthcse reports mny require verification, the allegations arc specific enough to call fur a warning that order ana legat lights cannot bo vio lated with impuiutv Theiicht of vvorkingmen to cease work and to act un.tedlj in maintenance of their wages i a f und imental one, which is balanced bv the right of cmploj ers to re tain control of their property. If it be true, as reported jest erdaj, that a force of the supporters of the strike took possession of the Duquesne worl, and notified the men there that-the must not work, they liave placed themselves, in opposition to the law. We maj hope that the facts are not correctlj repoited, but there can be no question as to the pliueiple The best protection of the rights of lalwr is in the faithful maintenance of law. This is the lesson of history, and the labonngnieii of to-daj shouldnotforgetit. AOTJIKK DI-.AFl'EAK INCH. TLc fatality which sometimes presides over the disappearance of public docu ments hig'ulj disagreeable to certain inter ests has been noted in these columns be lore. It is interesting to the student of these phenomena to learu that the disap pearing qualities of corpoiation tax bills and reports of tiiist investigations have developed themselves in the report aud testimonj of the commission that investi gated the ciuses of tho feioux outbieak. The pi ess dispatch which reports this mysterious disappearance of documents from the tailboard ot a wagon credits the fcioux with stealing them. It is possible that the untutoied mmd of the poor In dian feared that the Ultra scripta meant a cutting down of his rations, anil stole them to prevnt that calamitj But such a theory is a good deal like crediting the anti-monopolists with buy mg up and sup pressing the repoits of investigating com mittees that hive ventilated the Trusts. It is worth v.lule to icmember that there are inteiests about the bioux. reservation directly Interested in the suppiession of the report When it is declared that the documents cannot be replaced, it seems quite as possible that the interests which Lave been concerned in plundering the Sioux got them removed fiom the rear of the wagon wnere the commission oblig iugly placed them than that the Indians ptirformeu the act of gratuitously stealing what they did not know how to use. On the whole, this dissolving view of the Sioux investigation furnishes a stronger presumption of the rascality of the Indian riiig than ot the general cussedness of the Indians. 1 HF 1TV WIl'Li: Or MANCHESTER. Another announcement of the progress of the Manchester ship canal, and the preparations that city is making for the extension of hci shipping facilities by that route, giv es a demonstration by compar ison of the importance of the Western Pcnnsjlvania project in the same line. The purpose of the English work is to turn the manufacturing city into a sea port, that of our project is to bring lake transportation to tiie doors of the manu fuctunng center of the United States. The XJnglish (anal, requiring a gieater depth for the accommodation of ocean vessels, is more expensive m proportion to its length; the jriea'er length of the Ohio river and Lakf Lrn-project will render it a work of jiearij equal magnitude. The shipments of Manchester uie of a character which can bear the charges of railway transporta tion, in the movements of coal, ore, iron and steel fiom Pittsburg the freight charges are a v ital element X. ery phase of the comparison shows that the Ohio JUver and Lake Erie canal is equal in im portance and even more requisite with an eye to future trade dev elopnients, by com parison -.villi that winch Manchester is just bringing to completion. Ja that view the work Manchester is doing has especial application as an ex ample to Pittsburg dnd Western Pennsyl- vania. Nearly three hundred miles of rail way have been laid to build the great ditch, Althsugh the cost was heavy, it has been provided by the public spirit of Man chester. The recognition of its value to the whole community was so general that even the cotton spinners joined their em plojerein putting their money into the enterprise. Finally the bonds necessary to complete the work were guaranteed by tho city of Jljinchestcr. Thus the enter prise is a signal exponent of the valuation which the chief manufacturing city of the world places on water transportation. If Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania would take hold of their project in the way Manchester has done, the canal would be an assured thing during the present decade. The supremacy of the iron, steel and coal trade of the Western Hemisphere should be inducement enough to do so. VENEZUEL I'S OIMECTIOX. The vote of the Venezuelan Congress against reciprocity with the United States is accompanied by a statement of reasons, the moit salient feature of which is the in comprehensibility of its logic. This may not be as much the fault of the logic as of the fact that the real reason for the re jection of the treaty is one, which the legislators of Venezuela are not prepared to avow. The root of the matter lies in the fact that Venezuela presents an aggravated case of spoils politics. The President and Congress, elected biennally, are dependent on each other, and the governmental of fices, to a degree far surpassing the ex periences of this country, are filled up With the members of the Congressional families. As this army of place-holders is maintained by the import and export duties, the members of Congress have been quick to perceive that to cut off by a treaty both export and import duties would necessitate tho reduction of official salaries, if not the discharge of many of their friends in office. The logic ill this case is much more direct than in the Con gressional explanation published yester 'day; and it proved entirely convincing to the Venezuelan Congressmen. Venezuela's commercial condition is a peculiar one to the Anglo-Saxon view The phenomenon of a retail price tfor potatoes of 6c per pound standing un changed for ten or twelvo jears, as stated in an article elsewhere in this issue, is sufficiently illustrative of that fact; but it is surpassed by the fact that the price for onions, established when they were an imported staple, continues unchanged now that thej are largely produced in that country. That there is dissatisfaction with these commercial as well as political conditions is quite natural. The real leason for the rejection of reci procity is that it threatens to cut -down the patronage of Congressmen. Legislators who refuse to permit the use of the elec tric light because it will interfere with a gas monopoly m w liich they ai e interested, and which sells gas at 510 per thousand, are not likely to incommode their office holding relativ es for the sake of the ex tension of commerce. But they afford an impressive example of what spoils politics can develop into. THE FARMERS AND TIIEIK "WHEAT. The bright but not very profound iNew York Telegram is pleased with the re ported proposition that the wheat-raisers of this country shall hold back their wheat from market in order to force higher prices. Itsajsthe farmers have the per fect right to hold their wheat until it will realize the best prices, that the outlook is favorable for higher prices, and that the farmers will be wise to take this method of securingthc better prices that are sure to come. TJeyond that it asserts, with more fairness than grammar: It is not the Northwestern farmers who can be rightfully charged with gambling. They nie, on the contrary, to be credited w ith taking tho stens prompted by ordinary business prudence to protect themselves (mm the familiir machinations of the grain gamblers, who are trj ing to beat down the Dnecs or wheat in a j ear v, hen all the world imit bid for our surplus and when we will hav e a handsome sui pins to sell. All these propositions are true enough, but the trouble is that they do not fit the case. It is perfectly legitimate for any man, whether purchaser or producer, to hold whatever he owns, until he thinks he can get the best price for it. It is entirely another thing for him to call upon all own ers of such property to withhold them from market, in order to produce an arti ficial scarcity. The man who sajs, "Wheat is sure to be higher. I will hold mine, and let others sell until the market natu rally rises," is exercising a legitimate right, although he is incurring a business hazard. The one who sajs, "I will neither sell my wheat nor let anjone else sell his, until the necessities of the consumers force a big advance," is conspiring against public policy. The proposition reported to have been made and. which we are glad to see de nied by an official of tho Alliance was of the latter sort. Tho fact that it proposed to copy the illegitimate and oppressive acts of the' trusts is not less remarkable than its utter impossibility in the case of the farmers. The trusts are able to take such methods of producing artificial scarcity only by a monopoly. To imagine that millions of producers can unite m a policy, w Inch those combinations can suc ceed in only when all of a few competitors are united in a close corporation, is simple idiocy. It is nil right to advise the farmers to hold back their wheat on tho individual account, although the person giving that advice would incur a grave responsibility if he should guarantee the event But public policy demands that each farmer shall be left at liberty to sell his wheat whenever his circumstances or his judg ment dictate; and the state of the case makes it certain that this will be done. Ax interview with Mr. Howells concern ing his own -works makes him speak of "A Modern Inntanco" as "mj best work and most artistic" This is an evidence of tho inabilitj of an author to judge of his own works correctly. The book ho refers to is among his dicuiest, hav ingneitbcr the deli cite sentiment of his earliest books or the strong grasp of modern life show 11 in "A Hazawl of Sew Fortunes." Even on Mr. Howells' threadbare and barren theory that art consists of photographic accuracy of de tails, the storj makes the blunder of send ing a party of trav elers from Pittsburg to Columbus down tho beautiful Ohio Valley immediatelj after leaving Pittsburg. To the ordinary author tins slip w ould bo par donable, but for one who constantly preaches the gospel of accuracy it is fatal. Tnc statement that the Russian rye crop will be only CO per cent of an averago, and that the Russuin peasants nie threatened w ith starvation thereby, is unpleasant. Rut the Russian aristocracy can copy Mane Antoinette's famous phrn-e and ask tho starving peasants why thej don't eat wheat bread The Democratic organs have set up an other cackle about tho sugar bounty and the expense it will entail upon the countiy. As the Democratic outcry when the sugar schedule was fixed was against the injustice of taking away protection fro a the sugar producers, and the bountj was put on in l espouse to the picas, and as the net lodnc tiou of taxation on sugar w ith tho bounty allow ed for is several times that proposed in tlie Stills bill, our Douioqratio friends are evidently hard UP for political thunder. They should try the experiment of compar ing the $11,000,000 of sugar bounty under Hie McKinley net with the $45,000,000 to $50,000,000 of sugar protection under the Mills bill, and then tell which will cost the people most. The coming event in Newport is "Ward McAllister's rural subscription picnic. The Four Hundred will do honor to tho social leader's culinary art, and make the usual demonstration, that the fashionable army, like a military forco, is guided by the stand ards of the stomach. It is satisfactory to 1 earn that overtures have beoji niHdo to allay the bitterness of the warfare between President Beers, of the New York Life Insurance Company, and the Times of that city. At least the Insurance man has requested the Times to withdraw its uuparliamentaiy language concerning tho company, in which case we have no doubt that ho would be willing to retire his full-grown million-dollar libel suit. No wondeb Messrs. Campbell and Mc Kinley have a decided respect and liking for each other personally. Each has pushed the other into a position where both have the attention of the country fid upon them as positive Prcsidental possibilities. THE remark of Lord Chief Justice Colo ridge to the Chairman of the London Stock Exchange: "You do not seem to have im parted the principles of common honesty into the dealings of the Stock Exchange," is calculated to reconcile the mind to the fre quently too outspoken expressions of judi cial opinions Perhaps some Amencan jurist will give us an equally breezy charac terization of Wall street methods. Mr. Katjm's enthusiastic promise to "dump XiO.OOO original cases on the country" is an adaptation of Secretary Foster's idea that this is a billion dollar country, which is likely to take away the Secretary's bicath as well as his hope of a suiplus. Mr. Butterworth'8 remark to a Lon don reporter that the World's Fair is not a dollar-making business does not seem to have been in the most disoroot vein. He should impress upon the Englishmen that the dollar-making is to be none by the ex. lubitors if he wishes to appeal to the com mercial British mind. Complaints are heard in Georgia that the scool book combination is charging a dollar for a hook that costs about nine cents to print. The Georgians should not rebel against a profit so much below the averago of the combination margin. In rejoinder to the remark of a Western journal that "the brilliant and fearless Wattcrson causes the whirr of his snickei snee to be heaid In the land," the New York Sun asks. "What is a snickersnee, anyway?" Is it possible that tho able Sun is so poorly posted in its Gilbortand Sullivan as that question implies? The report from Kansas that the grass hoppers nro advancing at the rate of only two ruilcs a day can bo taken as an indication that Uncle Jerry has got them partially un der subjection nud that ho will picacntly bring them to a dead halt. The latest discovery in the Philadelphia muddle is that Bardsley hud led a fast life for years, resulting in paresis, undci tho In fluence of which he scattered the funds. Tho correctness of tins theory is still in doubt; but there is no question that the funds in Bardaley's hands had paresis of an aggravated type. "Cornstalks and Victory," as the campaign cry of the Republicans in Iowa, indicates a disposition to givo tho Demo crats the husks. Rut suppose the latter should undertake to do the husking and capture tho red ears? It is saddening to hear that the Burling ton Anship Company cannot got up toactual flying till its $10,000 000 of capital is actually raised. This is a commendable stand against ballooning stocks which have nothing "but wind in them; but it contains a better prom ise that the money shall fly than that the air ship will. Evidences multiply that Andrews must go as the scapegoat. Scapegoits seem to be a necessary.nrticle now, and when the Phila delphia Bulletin designates Andrews for the function his doom is scaled. NINE OF THE TTPPEB TEN. Msin. de LESSErs is regarded as one of the most devout women in Paris. Ex-CONGRESSSfAN Cannon has recently purchased three newspapers in the district he foimerly represented. Hon. John T. ABBOrr, United States Minister to Colombia, now at his homo in Keene, N. H , on leave, will sail for South America next Tuesday. Mrs. jErrcRSON Davis and Miss Winnie Davis, who are soon to go to Karragausott Tier, will be the guests of Mr. Hayes and fnmily at St. Elmo cottage. Robert Bonner has never raced ahorse for money or won a dollar on a traok in his life, jet there has not been a time in 25 years when ho has not owned the best trotting stock in America. TnE estate of the late Senator Hearst has been mventoned at $8,700,000, which is all in possession of his w idow. The San Francisco Examiner belongs to his son, William R. Hearst, and is said to be a paying property. Mirn. LeonBi-rteaux, the French sculp tress, is one of the most ardent ohampions of her moo in Franco. All of her leisure is given up to the v elfaro of tho famalo art world in Paris Tho Union of Women Paint ers and Sculptors, in Pai Is, owes its existence and prosperity to her efforts. EJTllE dowager countess of Shrewsbury is one of tho most prominent philanthropists in England. She has spent most of her time and money in improv ing the condition of the poor on her estate and has established several lodging houses and "convalescent homes" for tho indigent and sick. Prop. George I. Little, of Bowdoln Col lege, has a copy of Horace used by tho poet Longfellow when a student at that institu tion. Tho book has Mr. Longfellow's signa ture on the first leaf, and opposito to it that of Prof. Calvin E. fetowe The Intel eating rolic is carefully preserv ed in a glass case. PADLOCKS ON HIS MEM0EY, How One of the Great Unspaiiked Enter tained Cable Car Passengers. He is a very bright little boy, but, unlike young Rudynrd Kipling, ho has no idea that he knows it all, and asks questions that w ould worry a philosopher to nnswor. Yes terday he accompanied his mama from his Tnst End home to the city, via tho Fifth avenue cable line. After being informed that theie was no man under the car "prill ing the rope," and glv en various other addi tions t o his store of knowledge his mama bo came tired and refused to answer questions. "What's tho use of telling you," said the good lady, "you don't remember any way. What I say goes in one ear aud out the other." As she delivered herself of this reasoning the cai stopped and several Italians band ed it. One of them woie earnngs that looked v ory much like small padlocks. "That uian must be like me," said the little boy, as he ej ed the Italians closely. "Why?" asked his mama. " hj , what they told him went in one ear and out the other, until they had to put pad locks on to keep it In. Won't you get mo a little padlock for mj memory, mama?" By unanimous consent of the carload of pilgiims that boy was doclared the greatest of the great unpanked. Close of a Successful Season. This is the last week of the long season at Hams' Theater. It has lasted 49 weeks and has been a remarkably sucoossful one. This popular house will reopen August 17 with new carpets and scenery. As a farewell bill the Standard Dramatic Company Is giving "The Long Stnko" in a most enter tabling manner. Yesterday's audiences were quite largo and very enthusiastic. BARE COIN OF THE SOUTH. A riillailelphlais Tamed Ont Dies for the Confederacy, but Never Delivered Them Eight -rive Coins Made A Variety of Short Sketches. The commission whioh has just completed the counting of Superintendent Bosbyshell's millions In tho Mint in this city in examining the curious mollis In the Mint museum came across a 1-cent pieco with a rare history, says tho Philadelphia liccord. It is a coin struck from tho only complete dies mado for the coining of money lor the late Confederate Government, and these dies were mado in Philadelphia in 1861. Investigation discloses the fact that the only part of these dies is in tho possession of J. Calvin Randall, tho ooin collector of this city. There were onlv 88 pieces struck fiom the dies, after which they were defaced. The story of this coin is quite interesting. Tho dies weie made by a Mi.Lov ett in Phila delphia, who saj s that they were ordeied in 1881 from the South, and weroto bo forl-eent copper coins. Alter manufacturing the dies he was not able to got them out of the city, and, bo- commg aiarmeu, mi luem away alter striking off 12 nickel pieces. No one excopt himself know of tho existence of cither jlies or coins until lo"3, when Jlr, Eandall and John W. Haseltiue discovered their ex istence by accident. Mr. Lovett had been carrying one of the pieces as a pocket piece, and one evening, by un oversight, passed it in a restaurant. Tho firopnetoi, knowing Mr. Haseltino as a col actor, sent the piece to him. The latter, recognizing tho head of Liberty as Mi. Lovett's work, succeeded jointly with Mi. Randall in negotiating tho purchase of tho dies. Tho two gentlemen then agreed to strike oil 55 pieces in coppei, 12 In silver and 7 in gold. This accomplished, they mutilated tho dies and held tho struck coins foi sale to collectors. The following is a description of the coin: Obvorse, 1881: head of Liberty! Inscription, "Confederate states of America:" i ev erse, a vi cat h ot ears of corn and wheat, with a cotton hale at tho bottom; m the center tho words "1 Cent." The restrikes weiostiuck by Poter L, Kridei, No. (518 Chestnut street. This was the only coinage ever contem plated by direct authority of tho Confedei ato Government, and the original nickel pennies and tho rcstruck pieces ore now v ory v aluable. In 1374, when Messrs Ran dall and Haseltino offered them for sale to colleotors, thoy asked $30 each for tho gold, $15 for the silver, $1 for tho copper and $20 for tho nickel coins, they having bought fiom Lo ett what ho had left ot the last struck in 1881 The coins are nowvoiy raro and are woith a pi cat dtal moro than the prices asked in 1S71. The only other coin issued in the South during the war was a half dollar. This was coined at tho United States Mint at New Or leans in 1881, and for its obveiso tho United States die for the hall dollar was used, being a seated figure of Liberty that still nppeais on om coins. Tor the reverso a die was cut, whoso design consisted of a shield sur mounted by a llbei ty cap, and surrounded by a cotton and sugar cane wreath. The legend was "Confederato States of America Half Dol," A number of theso weie nfter waidiestiuck,undthedio destroyed. Single pieces have been sold for $ia. He Gave the Farmers Pointers. Tw o young men in Pike county have a faimof 300 acres very stony, and with no pasture land on any foot of it, says the New Yolk Sun Their threo cows weie turned out daily to pick up a llv mg in the vast thinly populated country. Tho biggest cow woioa brass bell with adiscoidant note about its neck, and tho other two, either from love of this note or for tho sake of tho society of tho big cow, kept close to her. E cry evening one of the men had to gird up his loins and stmt out in seaich of the cows. Sometimes they were found and sometimes they weionot seen for scveial oajs. mo matter wnetner tnoy were lounu or not tho fanners always came home after these searches for them wet and exhausted, and complaining loudly at tho necessity of this laboi aftei ahuid day's woik. After this hud been going ondunng all the sea sons forsevoral jearsa cityboaidor gave the subject some thought. "Wouldn't the cows come homo every night of tholrown accoid if jou made a praotice of giving thorn at sunset u little mess of teed'' he said. "By gum! that's so. I novor thought of that," was tlioicplj. Tho scheme was tried, and thereafter, just as evening eamo on, tho bi cow, with her tw o companions follow Ing attoi. came w Hid ing slow ly into the barnyaid with expectant expressions on their faces N ear the home of these same farmers stood the weather-stained remains of a mined mill tint had outlived its usefulness many o.us ago. The ruins weie an eyesore, and tho furmois hold many lengthy discussions as to how they should bo lemoved. The beams wore large and heavy, and to their minds a 5 oke of oxen and it number of men w ere necessary to get rid of tho old wreck. This would involve an outlay of monoy w hick the farmers could, undei no circumstances, bring their minds to consider. After they had talked over the matter for many j ears thoy explained It to tho city boarder, and promised him that as soon as they could afford it tho old mill would bo re moved. "Don't wnit for tho money," said tho city boaidoi. "Tho first time tho wind is blow ing south put a match to it." "By gum! that's so," exclaimed the farmers in chorus, slapping their legs. A few nights Inter tho mill went up in flames and down in ashes. Romance of a Photograph. "Tho picture of a pretty girl with large, loving eyes and beautiful hair. A pietty face with an air of refinement about it, and a sweet mouth that looks as if longing for kisses. Written in a delicate hand on tho back of the photograph tho ono word 'Nel lie "This was what William Tucker found In his uniform," said Treasurer McVickor, of the Soudan Company, now leheaising in Chicigo, to a 2W6ii)ieropoiter. "All of the soldioi a in 'The Soudin' wear uniforms purchased from tho English gov ernment. Tuckorplajs the part ot Soigeant O Connor, and was giv en a coat suitable to his rank. In the pocket ho found tho picture. "No ono can tell where it came from or to whom it belongs. The photograph is soiled and stained us if from much handling, but the beautj of the face is not obscured. It is, in hi icf, hardly n hat one would expec t to find in tho possession of a private soldiei. "Tucker showed his And to a friend who thinks ho can throw somo light on tho mys tery. " "To my mind,' he remarked, 'that is a picture of Lllon Djsart, daughloi of Sir Ed ward Dj sart, whoso elopoment some nlno months ago caused such a commotion in England. She had been in lovo w ith a young Oxiord student named Chalmers or Chad dock, I lorget which, but her parents for bade the match, and just before the soudan war tho young man In a lit of despair en tered tho army. After his name on the books of tho Seventy eighth regiment ap- Eoars the word "deserted," and the girl lclt cr homo about the siinc time.' "An attempt is being mado to locate Sir Edwaid Djsurt, and tho picture will be sent to him for the purpose ol ascei taming if it is that of his missing daughter." If this is original, and ttio tieasuror of Mc Vicker's has not duplicated it, ono may truly sav that there is a better plot in it than in "The Soudan" itself. A Point for the Siipeistitlons. Tho deadly "13" continues to devastate this lair land, and theie is no telling whole it will strike next. The last victim was William Hanlon, tho aciobat, who was killed m low a last w eek by falling from a trapeze, says the Now York Adierllser. Tho man who workB hand in hand with the deadly "18," and is, perhaps, the woist of the two, has found that on Mai oh 13, Han lon was at dinner w hero 13 guests partici pated. This, of itself, was enough to mark jur. iianiou us u. uuumtu iiiun, out, in addition to the fatal coincidence, he was tho thirteenth man to arrive. Tho host, being n kind, caieful peison, tiled to lind tho foui teen th man to como in to break tho spell, but, of courso, the hoodoo was not so easily chased nwa. A tiump could not havo been pers' nlod tojom tholestal boaid under such cot ions. Tho dinnei w ,.t on, and on tho 13th of July Hanlon mot his fate Wily ho was spaiedontlie lith of Apnl aud June is a w onder, but that was simply a w hun of the hoodoo. Tho acrobat was buned from Thirteenth street, m this city that is to say, fiom East Thirteenth sti eot and his buiiil lot in tho cemeteiy is No. 13 The man who goes blind in hand with tho deadly "13 ' has oveilooked one impoitant lact in this case, to wit, that in the iame of V illlain Hanlon theio aie U letters. This would havo killed him sooner or later with out tho dinner, though, ot course, tho diu lior holpcd tho fatality along. Dinners alwajsdfl. Why does not star-eyed science find somo way to vaccinate against these fatal flguies? Call Them Cl nn for Short. Colonel Gre.ory, of Kansas, who Is in town, was discussing politics and prohibi tion in its vanous Western phases in a place whoie pi ohibition didn't obtain at all the other evening, says the Chicago Times. The Colonel is a lawyer and a politician, and what he doesn't know about Kansas nobody does. "Do you know," ho asked, "what wo call the Fanners' Alliance people out theie?" Nobody seemed to. "Well, we cnll 'em 'calamltyites, " said the Colonel, "or raoio frequently, for short, pnlnms ' Wo do this because they are al wajs predicting some sort of acatastropho for the agricultural element, and, like wan deung and pessimistic Jeremiah, thoy go up and down and round and about the length and brcodth of the Jand with waitings and weepings and metaphoricnl sackcloth and BBlies, trying to convince people that plagues worse than the locusts of Egypt aie being designed by tho two great political parties for the solo and especial undoing of the fanners. Calamityites aro mighty dole ful and bothersome people, and nobody pays much attention to them any more. No, it is not true that tho brains of Kansas are con tinually bent upon the question of how to getadllnlr. Theie are plenty of ways, pro hibition notwithstanding." THE OHIO G. A. E. ON PAPEB. Private Dalzell Says the Membership is Ex aggerated by 150 Per Cent. Private Dalzell has written a long com munication to tho Now Yoik Sun in whioh he declares that the payment of 20 cents per capita into the national fund for officers' salaries and expenses is eating the life out of the G. A. R. Speaking of Ohio's member ship he suj s: "On a paper basis of 50,000 members and we have no such loal membership in Ohio, as wo all right well know we pay $10,000 an nually to headquarters. It is an enormous tax. Wo aie nearly all very poor men. Not one in threo whose names are em oiled ever pay their duos of $1 a j ear into the posts. Tho rules and regulations of tho G. A. R. re qune that those who do not pay their dues for six months shall be suspended, and ex cuse us thereaftoi from paying per capita tax on them. Still our posts run along, pay their dues, leavo them on tho lolls, and they are counted erroneously in the pleasant Action of 50,000! 'Our post got tirod of this nuisance and went to dropping these delinquents. We weie paying $JU per capita tax on u fictitious membership ol 150, when in truth wo had hardlj 50 in good stunding that is, who paid In their $1 a year. So w o dropped them and are still dropping delinquents, and our piesentrealstiength is about 40. These 40 wo can count upon they are G. A. R. men who ask no money, who nio always present on meeting nights, and, in a word, the only kind of members that ought to be and hore atter will bo counted bv ns- ,,r .. " . -. uowanL no otnors. our renori shall speak the truth. We will not impose upon flfst. 4 vti-st3 a nnnn comrades m other States with paper figures. "Other posts aro doing the same. And while this process of weeding out is going on, every day it becomes more and more ap paient indeed, was u matter of common re imuk at Boston at the parade last year, where Ohio's position at the right ot tho line only made this moro absurdely striking that, though Ohio may onoo have had on her rolls o'l.OOO men iu the Grand Army, and, though to-day wo havo yet living in the State, as shown by the census, 107,000 sob diers, still the G. A. R. of Ohio to-day docs not number 20,000 members, and I know it." THE WIDOW PENSIONED. now Mr. Carnegie Unforced His Speech on tho Gra(rnlness of Itopublios. Inverness Cjnricr. In a spceoh delivered by Mr. Andrew Car ncglo in Dundeo last j ear ho mado refoience to the differout manner in which oldsoldleis aro treated by America and Great Biitaln, his illusion being evoked by an announce ment mado some days previously that a sur vivor of tho famous "Light Brigade" had just been admitted to an English workhouse. The reference led to Mr. Carnegie h wing his attention directed to the case of a Mrs. Macewan, Edinburgh, widow of a Scotch man who fought in tho American war, nnd who had not been pensioned. Having made somo investigation, Mr. Carnegie entored into correspoudenco with tho War Ofllce of the United States, with tho result shown m tho subjoined letter: Clo:y Castle, Kingussif, N. 11 , ) July 1. 1891. J My Dear Mrs. Macewan: I have much plusure In Informing you that your claim for pension has been allowed by the United btates Government. Papers for you to hlsn will reach )ou in tlie coure of a few d-iys. Yon had better go with them to Mr. Wallace Brnce, United btates Consul at Fdlnburgli, and lie will see that you siitn them pioperly. you will pret hereafter auuut ci- per monm say iius. ronrnrsi pay- meut will be about J22, as the pension begins from le naie 01 your culm, beptembei 3, ISM). II,id yournusband lougbt as a private soldier for his own country, and broken down In health in consequence, he would probably ha e been allowed to die In a poorhouse, and yon and your children would havo Ueen left uncared for. Ihe United States keeps lu comtort ail their days the private soldier and his widow, this is ouo of the many dltrcrences between a monarchy and a republic. The monarchy bextows groat rewards upon the few, tii republic upon all who serve it: one is the gov ernment of a class the rich ; the other the govern ment of the poor the ptople With best wishes I am, yours trulj , a drew Carnegie. SAVED BY HAEBIS0N. Tho President Commutes a Murderer's Sen tence to Imprisonment for Life, rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH 1 Cape Mat, N. J., July 20. The President to-day commuted the sentence of Edward Belden, of Kansas, who was sentenced to bo hanged on the 24th inst, for committing murder about a year ago in Guthrie, Okla homa Territory, to imprisonment for life. The President granted tho commutation on the ground that Belden did not realize and had not the menial capacity to understand the enormity of his cifme. The man is not considered insane, but the Presidont con cluded that ho hud good grounds to grant tho petition for commutation. The Piesident was not so busy to day, and Secietary Hulford took quite a rest at his office in Cape May, whero ho sponds his time bofoie tea In the morning and after I in tho afternoon. Some of the day was taken up in going ovor matters relative to the Indian tioubles in the southern tier of the Territories. ASSISTING THE NEEDY. Two 'Weeks' Distributions by the Society for the Improvement of the Poor. Tho Secretary of tho Pittsburg Association foi tho Improvement of the Poor yesterday mado tho following report of work done during the past two weeks: Groceries dls tiibutcd, 699 loaves bread, 234 pounds rice, 239 pounds oitmenl, 282 bars soap Number ot new applicants, 4; families visited, 40, families aided, 211; persons inoluded, 873; visits made to the poor, C93, visits mado lor the poor, 113; situations obtained, 7; daj's work obtained, 42; children placed in Sab bath school, 1; adults sent to County Homo, 12: chlldt en sent to County Homo, 65 Diet dispensarv, tl pints beef tea, 9 pints mutton broth, 424 pints milk, & pounds toa, 233 pounds su-jar, 23S gioceiy orders, 325 bushels coal, 113 garments, 11 pairs partly worn shoes, tl partly worn hats. LEGISLATORS DIVIDE FUNDS. Twenty-Four of Them Had a Hundred Thousand Dollars. San Francisco, Cal , Jnly 20 The caso of Geoige Taylor against State Senators W. O. Banks, Thomas Mayer and John T. Brodo nck, of San Francisco, and 20 othor State Senators enmo up for trial in the Supieme Court to day. Taylor alleges that 24 defendants formed a combination t the last session ot tlie Legis lature lor tho turtherance of certain mea sures nnd that for the serv ices pi iforraed us a lobbyist m April last aoknow ledged in debtedness to him in tho sum ot $G,000, hut havo failed to piy said amount. Counsel for Taylor stated in court today that he proposed to show tho combine had aividcd $100,000 among its members. Awful Crimes Against Liberty, Chicago Trluune.1 At Liberty, Mo , chicken thieves aro so numerous and bold that they are punished by flogging. O, Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy henroosts! DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Mrs. Louisa F. Paisley. Mrs. Louisia F. Paisley, wife of Samuel Paisley, of the Bureau of Highways, died yesterday morning at 10 aoo'clock. For several years past she has been hi poor health, and during tlie last year has been unable to leave her room. Mr. Paisley recently brought a celebrated plij slclan from New YorS to tre it Ills invalid wife, but he was unable to save her. Tiie deceased was 40 5 ears of age and leaves besides her husband a daughter. Mi Carrie Paisley, a teacher In the Liberty school, and a son Theodore, a telegraph operator. The luueral is ar ranged for to-morrow afternoon at2o'Uoclc from her 11 usbauds residence. No. 123 Dennlston avenue. East 1 nd. Obituary Notes. Ex-Couvty Commissioner William k. Wade wjs stricken with paraljsis on Wednesday and died yesterday morning aged 67 years at Lrle, MRS. EWING ON LABOR. She Holds That a Good Cook Is a More Dig nified Object Than a Swelety Idler Com missioner Harris Delivers Another Lec tore on Education, fSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l Chautauqua, N. Y., July 20 This has been a very quiet day at Chautauqua. The great bulk of the people hero now are college stu dents bent on study, and hence there is not that bustle nnd activity that charactori7es the month of August. Prof. John Bach Mc Mastor, the historian, lias concluded his series of lectui os, and will go straight to Bay Head, near Barnegat, New Jorsoy.where he will try to get out tho third volume of his "History of the People of tho United States" by October next, bringing the his tory down to 1817. Thero will be two more volumes, bringing the story down to Lin coln's administrations. These tho Professor expects to got out within the next four years. Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller.Prosident of the Women's Club, arrived on the grounds to day and formally opened her department this morning. Tho ladies aro going to intro duce something new at Chautauqua. They pi oposo to allow upon tho grounds here a "model home" for tho av eraee family of this country. The "home building" will be a model struoture nnd will bo furnished so as to accommodate a family of six and keep thom on a small income. Mrs. Emma Ewing will have supervision of the cooking, and proposes to Illustrate practically how a fam ily can live on splendid fai'e at $1 50 a week per capita. Tho ladies mean business, and nil tho married men here are going to watch the oxperiment very closely. This was the daj 's programme: At 2 p. m , United States Commissioner W. T. Harris lectured on "Manners and Morals In the Pub lic Schools," before a large audience in the Hall of Philosophy. At i o'clock, in tho same place, Prof. F. N. Thorpe, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, lectured on America's Constitutional history, his subject to day being "Tho Beginnings of Govern ment in Amerioa." At 5 r. M. Mrs. Emma Ewing, of the cooking school, gave a very spicy and even sensational talk to both men and w omon on the dignit v of labor, and at 8 p. m. Prof. Cumnock, of Chicago, the elocu tionist, entertained an audience in the am phitheater in "An Evening With Scottish Authors." Dignity of the Cook. Mrs. E wing's subjeot was "Only a Cook," and was substantially as follows: "A liter ary woman not long since wrote thus: 'Flavor the kitchen with the parlor, instead I Ul UUIIXIIIK U1B L1 of bringing the kitchen into tho parlor.' o.. .. r J,..-,. I -iA JO lUUllOil I don't understand how the flavor of a parlor is moro inviting than the odor of a kitchen and don't see how laboring in the kitchen is loss dignified tliun lounging .in the parlor. Is painting poor pictures and making poor music more dig nified and refining than making good bread and coffceT The woman who paints unnat ural flowers on china or canvas lor pounds unmclodlous music may be a lady, but the woman who makes nututious bread and de licious coffeo Is only a cook. But is not tho latter doing Infinitely nobler work than tho former? "The health and happiness of the human race depends moro largely upon tho proper preparation of food than upon all other things combined. Is not tho cook who makes good bread and salads and dainty dishes in us respectable a profession as tho doctor who dresses ulceis and amputates limbs, or tho dentist who extracts dead teoth and inserts rubber gums? Tho trend of public opinion seems to bo against tho dig nity of labor. Are not the joints enlurged by honest toil deemed vulgar, while the fingers broken by baseball are accepted as tokens or gentility? Is It not considered more genteel to make cake than to mako bread? Is it not universally believed to bo mote rospoctable to crochet tidies and mats and other useless things than to knit stock ings and make trousers? Is it not thought to bo more high-toned to thump a piano than pound a washboard? Biased Views of Society. "As a genoral thing society consider as most genteel the employments that aie the least useful and that it is more respectable to do useless things than useful ones. Tho truthfulness of these statements is attested by the wretched food on our dining room tables and tho usoless mbblsh in the parlor. Society's unwritten lawsaio most cuilous. It is considered vulgar to carry vegetables, genteel to carry fruit; but where is the dividing line? I once had a colored servant who would announce coloied females to mo as 'ladies' and white ones as 'women.' Her classification was not a whit less ridiculous than out classification of dally pursuits. "Does an Intelligent shoemaker cease to be a menial (so called) wbon he hangs out his shingle with the legend 'attorney at law?' Does the difference in occupation make the difference in the respectability of men? Was U. S. Grant, the tanner, inferior in manli ness to U. S. Grant, tho general? Tho dis tinctions ot society are artificial and gauzy. Thousands spend their lives in trying to get into good sooiety (so called) rather than to get into good occupations. Someone asks, 'Would you be willing that your daughter should marry a man in an mleilor social po sition?' I nnsw.or, 'intelligence and lgnor ancn raroly affiliate:' 'virtue nnd vice sel dom clasp hand3 ' I would tram my daugh ter to be un accomplished housekeeper and cook, as well as give her a good education, and instill into her mind tho true dignity of labor, and when sho man led I would be con fident that the man of her cholco would marry a lady, though he only married a 000k. The Training of Schools. Commissioner Harris said in substance: "There are two phases of educations in schools. Ono is addressed to the intellect nnd tho other to tho will. The latter w e call moral training, Tho school is, when well disciplined, tho best training in civics, or citizenship, that exists to-dav. Tho pupil is taught how to behave, so as to combine with his fellows nnd produce a rational result. In order that tho school may pcrfonn its work, there must bo regularity, punctuality , silence and industry. Theso four semi mechanical virtues arc a sort of foundation on which the moral character is built, for by conforming to these requirements, the pupil leains self control and gains just the habits noeded to cnablo him to combino with his fellow men in after lifo. "We livo in an age of machinery, and to get through the day wo must be regular and punctual. The hnblt of ouict and prompt obedionco to established order is tho funda mental cducntion for cltizonship. The school trains the child to speak tho truth. Every lesson is an exercise in accurate statement and precise use of language. Tho pupil is related to his equals ana to his superiors and learns how to behave toward each. Thus tho American school, with its strict mechanical discipline, is a great sup port to the Stato. Childien educated in it form habits of orderin public, and naturally comoine to secure oracr wnenev or tuey aro thrown together under now conditions. Education and Crime. "But we are told that although education is increasing, yet crime is increasing; more over, it is asserted that tho schools furnish the great mujontyof our criminals. Take, for example, tho returns of tho Detroit House of Correction for tho first 25 years of its existence. There weie about 40,000 com mitted, and it is recorded that 70 por cent of these wero able to write; but when we learn that in the State of Michigan 93 per cent of tho population over 10 years of age can write, wo see that tho illiterates hav o fur nished eight timos their quota of criminals. Tho alannlsts who deal w ith historical sta tUties and try to show that education is ac companied by an increase of crime, omit J one ot tno terms oi compnnson tney omit tho denominator of their fraction", so to speak. If 70 per cent of tho criminals nie furnished by 95 per cent of the population who can wilto, while 30 per cent of tho criminals are furnished by the illiterate 5 per cent of tho population, it is clear that tho illiterate seem to havo eight times tho chanco to get to jail. Another interesting question relates to tho kind of crimes that have increased in those States where education has become provnlent. In Massachusetts for example, the cnmlnnls arrested in 18S5 weie four times as numerous as in ls50. Education had increased, hut crime bad incieascd laster. An inquiry w as made into the character of crimes punished, when it w as rev eulcd that 18,000 arrests in 18&5 wore for drunkenness, w title only 4,000 were arrested forthis in IjOO, meanwhile the crimes against person nnd propel ty were comparativ ely -few and had dropped in proportion." At the meeting of the Business Educators' Association of Americi the following papers were read to-day: "Penmanship in Public Schools," W. F. Lion, Detroit; -'Shorthand Dictation," A. J. Barnes, St. Louis: "Advertising-," E. P. Harris, Brocton, N. Y.; "Joint Stock Bookkeeping." J. A. Uiner, Staunton, Vo. Mr. Dlaek's Weighty Arguments. Washington Post.l Hon.'Chauncey F. Black has been safely delivered of an opinion on Pennsylvania's now election law. It is a corker and weighs several hundred pounds. This Ou-ct is Growing Monotonous. Chicago GIobe.3 Isn't it about timo Russell and tho other Princes were doing something? MUSIC FOR THE MASSES. The Duquesne Traction Company's Enter tainment Draws a Big Crowd. Highland Park bad many thousand people, probably ten, within its environs last even ing on the occasion of the initial of a series of concerts which will continne throughout tho weok. Whatever can be said of the value of the attraction, from the point of view of a theatrical manager, thero is no doubt that the projectors of tho entertainment, the Dnqucsne Traction Company, reaped a goodly harvest of nickels it it carried three fourths of the number of people present. It Is a departure from the usual order of things to find a company enterprising enough to provide free vocal concerts for the people, and if the colored singers who presented a number of solos, glees and plan tation songs were received with applause, it onlv emphasizes the statement already made, that citizens aro ready to accept any species of entertainment which promises their amusement at a low cost and with little exertion. The entertainment was given on the level ground, southwest of the reservoir. A temporary platform, flanked by a tent, ac commodated tho singers. From within the tent strains of music leaked out upon tho air, but the soundsalready subdued were heard only within a very circumscribed limit of their originating point. Not a little amusement wag causedby the circulation of a number of "dodgers" through the crowd. Sox ptnl lirlilr vonni men nassed aioundwith "programmes," but on exami nation of these showed that the hustling agent of an opera company had seized the uuiuuuuuy 10 auvertise nis attraction, iuo "dodgers" were eagerly read in the hope of finding some clew to the entertainment furnished. Tho second Press concert will bo given in tho Allegheny Parks to-morrow evening. It is positively settled that the first per formance of the "Fall of Pompeii" will take place Saturday next. It was intended to hav 0 opened to-day, but the heavy rain of last week stopped all work on tho grounds, and it was absolutely impossible to get ready in time. Now, however, everything is in good shape, and there is no doubt about a splendid performance of this great work being given Saturday. Manager Barnheisel has worked night and day trying to get ready. Tho stage manager, Mr. Vin cent, has been training his army of men nud women to dance, march, sing, etc., and he has them in such shape that they will look like what they are supposed to be when tho exhibition commences. Tho scenery for the city will bo set np at once, and there is no doubt that the great city will look natural. All tho men who work tho pyro technlcal part of the show are on the ground, making their flrowoiks, and there will bo over $1,000 worth of them discharged nt every performance. There will be differ ent nights devoted to cortain classes, such ns G. A. K. nfglit. Labor night. Freemasons' night, Oddfellows' night, German night, Irish night, Amoncan night, etc. Everything is going along prosperously for the performance of "As you Like It," on the lawn of the Hotel Kenmawr, Thursday night. Tho cast is full and the first rehearsal took placo at tho Bijou yesterday morning. As the people havo nearly all played in tho piece before there is no difficulty in fitting each one into his or her proper place, and tho result should be a well-rounded per formance that will please the most critical. The cast, as selected, is as follows, with the names pat in order selected by Shakespeare when lie made out the original "bill of the play:" The Banished Duke, Mr. Mack Charles; Frederick, Mr. Bankson; Amiens, Mr. Dalton; Jacrjucs, Mr. Charles Uagan Le Beau and Syli nis, Mr. Fin Beynolds; Jacques de Boys, Mr. William Bellay; Orlando, Mr. Joseph Haworth; Adam, Mr. Walter Osmond; Touch stone, Mr. James Coopor; Corin, J. K. Morti mer; M'Ultam, Mr. John Denman; Bosalind, Miss Bose Coghlan; Celux, Miss Marie Bur less; Phoebe, Miss Carrie Wayne; Audrey, Miss Adele Dossert. Messrs. Kubn, of the Kenmawr, will entertain Miss Coghlan there, she having telegraphed her acceptance of tho invitation. Social Chatter. Miss Nellie EellltbIs visiting at Cort land, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gr.orF, and children, aro at Bemus Point, Chautauqua. Dr. T. L. nizzABD and a party of friends have gono to tho coast of New Jersey. A pionio was held yesterday at Idlowood by the First German Methodist Episcopal Church, of Allegheny. The Centenary M. E. Church and tho Lib erty Street M. E. Church will bo neighborly with each other and go to Idlcwood together Thursday for a picnic The Detroit Club, General Alexander Hays a'ost .vo.i,wui enjoy an evening on tne Mayflower to-morrow. Music and dancing will be part of tho programme. Miss Agnus Dicksov returned yesterday morning from her trip to London. Mrs. Win Sewell, who was also with the Watson party, returned ut the same time. This morning Mrs. John S. Dickson, accompanied by Miss Agnes, will leavo for Mackinac, where Dr. Dickson is spending the summer. A TENNESSEE VIEW. Kepresentative Washington Expects Big Crops and a Western President. New York, July 20 Representative Wash ington, of Tennessee, was around town yes terday with his distinguished colleague, Kepresentative McMillin, from the same State. Of courso Mr. Washington and ell tho other members from Tennessee are in favor of electing Mr. McMillin Speaker. Be sides that Mr. Washington had this to say: "Between Tennessee and Now York I had two full days of daylight traveling, and 1 never saw crops looking so well all along the way. The renomination of Cleveland 13 by no means a certainty. It he wanted a Demo cratic nomination he had no business w rlting that anti silver letter. Ono thing is cortain; theio will be a content in the next National Democratic Conv ontlon, and I would not bo suiprisedlf a Western man should get tho nomination." PEOPLE C0MINO AND G0INO. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and some of his staff will bo at the Seventh Avenue Hotel to morrow. They are coming to at tend the fete champctre of theltandall Club. Six rooms have been enguged for the party. Joshua Ehodcs and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, four members of the Singer family and Dr. E. S. Smith and wife, formed a party who started for Europe last evening. They will sail to-morrow on tho City of Pnris. Jacob Kitchter and wife, of East street, Allegheny, who have been sojourning nt At lantic City the past few weeks returned Inst night. Mr. flichter went to the sea shore in search of health. Charles Howells, claim agent for the Baltimore and Ohio road, started for Europe last evening with ono of the professors from tho Washington and Jefferson College. Eev. Father Albert, Director of the Schol- asticateatSt. Vincents Colloge, has left to assume tho directorship of the Benedictine College at Peru, 111. G. S. Saunders, a colored bank clerk from Denver, was cci the limited last evening going home. Ko saj s ho formerly lived in Pittsburg. C. Seldcn, Superintendent of the B. &O. telegraph system, nnd Boss Beynolds, of Kittannmg, arotamong tho guests at tho An derson. Judce Harry "White, of Indiana, and Lyman Nichols, ff Washington, are among tlie arrivals at tho Seventh Avenue Hotel. Abner A. "SViison, a wealthy merchant of Lincoln, Nob , wai v lsiting friends here yes terday. Ho leftitPlttsbnrg ten years ago. A. Victorino, of the Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, and IV. II. Pratt, of Mt. Vernon, aro registered at )tho Duquesne. Joseph Bollman, of the Mechanics Na tional Bank, is spending his vacation in Now York and atino seashore. It. C. Hall, of Titusville, and A. L. Dun bar, of Meadvilleaib stopping at the Mo nongahela House. "V. 1,. Bowlus, commercial agent for the Wabash, Is in the cicy. Mr. Bowlus lives in Cleveland. C. It. Hubbard aid J. TV". Collins, two Wheeling iron men, 1 were in the city yester day. Constable Connolly, of Alderman Dono van's ofllce, has gono- to Ireland on a visit. Hugo Kosenberg and wife have started on a tour of the northern likes nnd Canada. Prof. Charles J. Smith is home from a trip to Lako George an d Saratoga. John H. Iticketsou came in from New Yoik on the limited last evening. Mrs. John Oakley- returned yesterday from a trip to Atlantic City. J. C. McConnell and wife left for Thou sand Islands lastevenin. Eev. Mr. Satchell andwife left for Phila delphia lust evening. J. C. Kurtz, a Connellsville storekeeper, is at the Schlosser. t J. H. Sawhill has gono to Denver. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Detroit will spend 55,000 for wines at the big G. A. R. banquet. More registered letter business U dona in the Chicago postofflce than In any other postofllco in tho Union. An aged traveling scissors grinder has has died in Michigan City, Ind., leaving an estate valued at 21,000. Next to Germany Great Britain and its colonies now send the most immigrants to America. Ireland follows next. A resident of Evart, Mich., has invent ed a device whereby brakes applied to a locomotive will operate every brako on tho train. An Adrian (Mich.) man shoved a lawn mower over a nest of bees the other day, and according to a local paper hasn't done any thing since but apply poultices and quota Greek. When the owner of a pet donkey in Jackson, Tenn , purchased a rival and in stalled it on his farm the jealous original pet resented the intrusion by braying so loud that it burst a blood vessel and died. An old ranchman in Hamey Valley, Ore , has been in the habit of hauling his daily supply of water from 80 miles away. In order to save digging a well. He could secure an abundance of water 10 or U feet deep. The experience of a vine grower of Napa, Cal., who employed nearly two soore of Japanese in his orchard, has broughtwith it the conviction that in inaustry, sobriety and discipline they cannot compete with thej Chinese. la the early elections of Oklahoma the rival candidates stood in wagons placed some distance apart and their adherents gathered around them and were counted. The elected man took office at once, and his edicts were as implicitly obej ed as an act of Congress. Two cooks of Ashland, Ore., one a negro and the other a Chinaman, indulged in a novol contest a few days ago to sea which could clean a chicken in the shortest time. The celestial won In 2J seconds and the fowl was still kicking after being de nuded of its feathers. One day Mrs, W. B. Wallace, of Butler, Fla., decided to tear up aud renovate an old pin cushion that she first made over 39 years ago It had on it nine coverings, that had been put there from time to time. From the inside of the pincushion she got 90 whola needles, besides soveral broken ones and a number of pins. One section of the historical collection at Dresden is literally a museum of boots and shoes, being, it is believed, nneqnaled in tho world as a repository for the footwear of celebrities. Among the things of interest shown are a pair of shoes worn by Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, and the todet slippers of tho great Maria Theresa. Brussels waiters are organizing a strike against fees, the greater part of which goes to the proprietor, what remains being in sufficient to make np for non-payment of ages to them. The proprietors regard tho present system as the more feasible and are not likely to encourage any change that will compel them instead of their guests to pay the waiters' wages. The Xerobates Agassizii, the grass-eating turtle of the Mojave Desert, is said to be the only one of the turtle species which lives by grazing like a horso or an ox. Xer obates digs a holo in the sand to escape the intense heat; is about ten inches in length when full grown, and weighs from six to eight sounds. Coast dealers in curiosities value them at $3 each. Prof. Tolomei, an Italian chemist, con cludes that the ozone produced by eleotrio discharges In a thunder storm coagulates milk by oxidizing it and generates lactic acid. Mr. Treadwell, of theWesleynn Uni versity, in discussing this, states that the action is not a mere oxidization, but it is partly produced by the growth of bacteria, which is very rapid in hot, sultry weather. A typographical error caused the render ing of "Gambetta" as "I am bettor;" and what was intended to read "A bridge carried a way by a drive of logs" being rendered as "A bridge carried away by a drove of hogs." Another blunder of this sort made an adver tisement which should have read, "The Christian's Dream; no Cross, no.Crown," ap pear as "The Christian's Dream; no Cows, no Cream." A girl baby born near Mendota, Va., a few days ago, but which soon died.had three eyes. The eyes in front wore rather wide apart, while tho third eye was situated on the left side of the face, midway between the left eye and ear, and about half an inch below a direct line between the two. In stead of a nose thero was a tumor, the lze of an egg, lacking nasal ducts; the occipital bone was wanting. A dense school of herring has appeared in the White Sea along the Soomski settle ment In Archangel. It was a godsend to tho people of the whole settlement, who had been reduced to actual starvation by the dearth and want of food. Tho villagers netted such quantities of hemng that there was not salt enough in the whole district to preserve the entire crop,andmany hundreds of pounds had to be thrown back into the sea. This is the way Lady Caithness, Mme. Blava tgky's successor, v. as bedecked at a recent reception in Paris. The diamond cross which she wore was the most amazing thing in the room, and wa3 as great a cunos ity as tho Mozaim set of goms in the French crown jewels. She wore an olive velvet dress, embroidered with steel. She had riv ers of diamonds edging the upper part of her corsage, the stomacher and the sleeves, and on her head a countess' coronet.wlth a pearl on each spike nearly as large as a pigeon's egg. Sho hasa large fortune, and has just inhented $2,000,000 more. Eight years ago inquiries were made which showed that in the lesser colleges $1,800 a year was the average for a full pro fessorship. Columbia paid $7,500; Harvard and Johns nopklns, $5,000; Yale was endeav oring to reach this level; the maximum at the University of Pennsylvania, Amherst, Williams and other colleges of like rank was $3,000; at Michigan $2,500, and so on down to $1,000 or less in small institutions. These figures have not materially changed, but the number of institutions offering $5,000 has in creased and $3,000 no longer commands a good man unless he is very young. EH13II3 AND EUTMOES. Husband (reading his morning paper) Here's a woman who was no grieved when berhaj band died that aiie killed herself. That's the kind of wife for a man to have! W lfe That's the kind of husband for a woman to hare! Chicago Tribune. Bessie I hear yon have broken with Charley Lovelelfjli? Florence If Ob. noli am quite heart-whole. Sew Tori. TeUtrram. "I think you'd orter raise my wages," ventured Mr. Halcede's hired man. "Don't see huw I Lin do It, Jim; don't see no wiy at all to do It. Tell you what I will do, though. When any of the summer boarders is around, I'll allude to you as ray private secretary. But as to glvin' you any more money on tlie month. I jut can't do It." Indianapolis Journal. "There are no flies, on me," said the boarding-bouse steak. "No," replied the boarding house butter, "flies would starve to death while they were trying to get their teeth through you." "But look at the flies on yon!" retorted the steak. "Why don't you run away from them! I'm sure you are strong enough." Brooklyn. Eagle. From the past experience It would scarce be feen That there's any opening For a rain machine. WasMnston Hist. (Jnst arrived) "Is this the world of spirits!" 'It Is, my sister. What " (With flashing eves) "I have a complaint to lay before Christopher Columbus. I'teue show nie where he is. I am Phiebe Conzlns." Chicago Tribune. Frank Why do they always speak of the rose as flashing? May Because of what frequently occurs nnder it, I presume. Seu York Herald. "There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which poets only know," Wrote Cowper long ere poets learned To editors to go. Dilroit Erte Frvts. Fogg Yon refused me when I asked you last June to marry me. 3Hss Flyrte. 3lay I ask jou If you have changed your mind since then? Miss Flyrte No; but I have changed my name. SomtrcilU Journal. "Are you going to wear the same bathing suit that yon wore last season?" "lam." "But fashion says that bathing suits will be fuller this yea-." "Well, mine will be fuller. I am a good deal stouter than I was last season." Sew lurk Press. I. ititai?s!1i&'J-J "-mJmJE: - lngBivMJ"riwM"lgaMn"MsMEWMrlgpie5aB TwwEBKHgTWTWlsssfqraflreissJBsigssM
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