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"PITTSBURG, MONDAY. AUGUST 3, lfill.
THE WINDOW GLASS DISPUTE.
The smoke has hardly cleared away
from the field of other wages conflicts be
1 ore the reports come of another strugclo
between emplo5crs and employed, this
time in the window glass industry. From
the statement of the situation in our local
columns it will be seen that the two
parties are a long distance apart. The
glass-workers demand a material increase
of wages; the employers offer a propor-
tionatc reduction. If this difference can
not be modified a stubborn strike is to be
expected.
Such a result will be detrimental to the
public as well as to the interests immedi
ately involved. There are the strongest
reasons cogent to both sides why they
should modify their present rather ex
treme attitud-i. The manufacturers
(should remember that they have, quite
recently obtained increased protection on
the expectation of maintaining the wages
of American labof.andtogointoastruggle
on the platform of reduced wages is but
affording ammunition to the enemies
of the tariff. The workingmen should di
gest the fact that this year has already
proved an unfortunate one for the always
hazardous attempt to force wages up
agninst a drooping market, and ponder
the equally important principle that a
strike may inflict on labor a greater loss
than the amount of wages in dispute.
If both sides go to work with a sincere
disposition to compromise the dispute
there is no doubt that a satisfactory scale
cap lie arranged before the time to resume
work. It is to be hoped in the interest of
all concerned that this conciliatory course
will be taken.
FKEE TRADK STTJT.TIFICATION.
The anxiety of the Democratic journals
to make points against the tariff policy of
the Ilepublican party, frequently leads
them into a denial of their own principles.
The Sew York World furnishes a striking
example of that sort when it asserts in an
attack on the reciprocity policy, that its
s-ole effect Is "to relieve foreigners of tax
ation" and that the reciprocity treaties
"do not relieve the people of this country
of one penny of taxation."
Tiic idea that the people of this country
are not benefited by reciprocal arrange
ments which secure the admission of their
products to other countries under reduced
or abolished duties, in exchange for the
abolition of the United States tariff on
the products of these countries, is pecul
iarly stupid. One of the fundamental
dogmas of free trade is that the
producers of unprotected staples are
injured by the alleged barriers
of tariffs between this country and for
eign nations. Here is a case where, on
products which we can export and on im
ports which we cannot produce to ad
vantage, these barriers are removed. For
a professedly anti-tariff paper to assert
that the American producers are not ben
efited by the reduction or abolition of
duties in the South American countries on
their product is exceptionally self-stultif y
ing. Moreover on tne other branch of its as
sertion tli.it reciprocity does not reduce
taxation for American citizens, the World
exhibits more than its usual lofty superi
ority of facts in the assertion that "sugar
and molasses were made free of duty be
fore anj- reciprocity treaties were nego
tiated and quite independent of them."
Anyone with a decent memory should
know that in the act removing the duties
on these staples the continuance of
the abolition was made conditional on re
ciprocal action by the sugar-raising coun
tries; and the promptness with which the
reciprocity has been established is a prac
tical demonstration of the wisdom of that
condition.
TUE COOL. JULY.
The month which closed last week has
been notable for the coolness and equable
character of its temperature. With a
recklessni'ss of the weather prophets who
undertook the rash prediction that July
would have periods of hot weather an
average temperature was enjoyed, lower
th.au for any other July for 20 years with
two exceptions, in 1884 and 1888, when the
average temperature was 71.8 and 72.1 de
grees respectively.
The great virtue of the July weather
this year was its freedom from rapid
changes and extreme variations. The
average was lower than usual but this was
because there was no extreme hot weather.
Freaks of nature have heretofore pro
duced frost in the midsummer, July 5,
1816, being notable for "ice as thick as
window glass in Pennsylvania, New York
and New England." If August approxi
mates the past month in its even and de
lightful temperature the country will
have enjoyed an exceptionally pleasant
summer.
Of course a month like July brings out
anew the theory of Flammarion that the
temperature of the globe is constantly de
creasing. There is little or no foundation
for the theory as even a cursory examina
tion of the records will show. As already
stated there are records of low tempera
ture fur July extending back at intervals
over the entire country and the alternation
from cool to hot summers goes on now as
it always aid. Beyond that the theory
that the world is steadily cooling down
toward the goal where it will not sustain
life, requires as an essential part the pres
ence of colder winters. It was brought
out in Europe by an exceptionally severe
winter; but on this side of the globe the
winters have not increased in severity. If
any change, in climate has taken place
here it is in the. direction of mildness In
both summers and winters: but it will not
be wise to found any expectations on the
idea that such a change has actually been
made.
AX JXTHAOHUIXART INDICTMENT.
There is a large amount of instructive
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irawnai lor nncciioii uii ih uuuiwauu
I character of the genus politician in Uie
j reasons blazoned forth in the Washington
j correspondence of yesterday's DisPATcn
why the denomination of Harrison will
not do. That it will not do there seems
to be a general agreement outside of the
Immediate Harrl6on entourage; but the
discover- of the fact by the political man
agers Is accompanied by reasons which,
while by no means original, are quite in
teresting. The explanation is that Harrison is too
cold. He does not grasp the visiting
wheelhorse by the hand and bubble over
with inquiries as to what particular morsel
of Government patronage the visitor has
marked out for himself or next friend.
He does not overflow with urbanity, and
send the caller away with the proud re
flection that he is among the closest friends
of the Chief Executive. On the contrary
he has committed the political offense of
preserving his dignity, and has gone near
to perpetrating the party treason of being
reserved.
These be grave matters, but somehow
we fail to recoimize them as inflicting
actual political disabilities. "We have yet
to learn that the American people are so
enamored of the politician's professional
friendship for the whole human race so
long as it is enfranchised that they can
not forgive a mitigation of it in the Presi
dent As to tho offenses of dignity and
reserve it happened to be the fact that
other and very successful political leaders
have exhibited the same qualities. Presi
dent Arthur was somewhat favorably
known for the dignified bearing of his offi
cial life; and while he did not get a second
terra, no one ever heard that it was on
account of his dignity. Reticence may be
all wrong; but our own Matthew.Stanley
Quay, who is among those urging this ob
jection to Harrison, is somewhat noted for
a successful holding of his tongue, unless
there is a positive point to be gained by
speaking. While the other Senator from
Pennsylvania has held down a Senatorial
seat these twelve years without saying
much either in or out of the Senate.
The fact is that the gravest objections
to narrison are such as the practical poli
ticians cannot, comfortably to themselves,
admit; and so they bring up the rather
familiar charge of coldness. It is to be
remembered that the Democratic poli
ticians made the same complaint against
even the rotund predecessor of Harrison
when they drew unlimited drafts on his
power of patronage. But while this com
plaint is common to all spoilsmen it is not
the real reason why President Harrison is
not eligible for renomlnation. It would
be impossible for the Republican poli
ticians to admit that the policy of the ad
ministration has been narrow except
where Secretary Blaine has put breadth
and vigor into it; that petty jealousies
have cropped out of the President's ap
pointments to important places as well as
flaunting themselves in his family organs;
that the President failed to interpose the
check that was in his power upon the
reckless extravagance of Congress; and
that he lias permitted politicians of the
Clarkson stripe to distribute patronage at
wholesale, in defiance of the civil service
reform pledges of the Republican party as
well as of the President.
If President Harrison could bo charged
with nothing more than coldness and re-
-serve, he would be a very much more
eligible candidate for the Presidency than
he is at present
AN INDISCREET ADVOCATE.
Matthew Marshall, the financial writer
of the New York Sun, whose weekly ar
ticle is telegraphed to The Dispatch,
continues in the column published else
where to enlarge upon his theory that di
rectors of great corporations cannot, and
therefore ought not to be expected to di
rect. This writer admits that there is some
weight in the opinion of shareholders that
when they have been induced to invest on
the representation that their interests will
be guarded under tho direction of certain
leading business men, the promise thus
held out should be fulfilled. But he takes
refuge in the plea- that it is impossible for
the men holding directorships in numer
ous corporations to give the supervision
to the affairs of all their corporations that
is expected. The conclusion that such
financiers should lessen their number of
directorships does not occur to the
Wall street writer. Instead he en
larges on the difficulty of mak
ing corporations prosperous, the
constant efforts to get a share of their
funds without value received, and the
great opportunities for plundering them
all of which, . it might be remarked, are
multiplied by the presence of directors
who do not direct
Mr. Marshall's view is founded upon tho
not uncommon but very illogical idea that
the existing practices in Wall .street are
unimpeachable. But even for one holding
that tow. his declaration of It is hardly
discreet It will be difficult for any in
vestor to read his last two articles without
being very strongly impressed with the
conviction that corporations managed in
the way he recommends are very good
ones to steer clear of.
WAGES IN LIVERPOOL.
Mr. Edgar L. Wakeman's investigations
into the conditions of the working classes
of Liverpool present some stubborn
facts, on which the theory that the con
dition of the English workers is equal to
that of American workingmen goes to
utter wreck. That the contrary is the
case is proved by the tide of immigration
which has been flowing this way for more
than a generation; but Mr. Wakeman's
figures set forth the details in a way that
is most convincing.
Mr. Wakeman, as will be seen by his
letter in yesterday's Dispatch, very posi
tively contradicts the theoretical idea that
the wages which the English workingmen
get have a greater purchasing power than
the equivalent wages of the American
worker. Rents are cheaper owing to
lower rates of Interest, and clothing is
alleged to be cheaper. But a great share
of tlie difference in both cases is due to the
fact that the English laboring classes live
in houses and wear clothes which the
American workman of like standing
would not accept In the vast range
of food articles the American worker
has the great advantage. Until the sugar
duty was repealed in this country we had
to pay more for sugar; but now it is more
than ever the fact that the American
workman eats better food, lives in a better
house and wears better clothes than his
English cousin, and buys much more than
any other population of workingmen
in the world.
Other causes besides the tariff may con
tribute to this result, as can be seen by
reference to the condition of labor in Ger
many and Russia. The intelligence of the
laboring people, the existence of privileged
classes and the monopoly of the means of
wealth all have their iniUcnc.'. Hut. when
i we live under a system that has brought
the laboring population to a higher condi
tion of intelligence and prosperity than in
any other country, the conclusion against
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qulie amplification.
I Tm. development of new fields of labor
for WOmcn is illustrated by the statement
that two burglars of the femalo sex have
hpen caught In Milwaukee. Their victim
wus n woman also, nnil exhibited such n soft
side toward tho new departure that she not
only declined to prosecute, but, the report
lias it, pave tho offenders $20 each to pay
their lines. For what they were fined, when
they were not prosecuted does not appear
nt all plainly; but the ease is evidently one
in which almost any freak of justice might
be expected.
The story of gold nuggets to be pieked
up in the new State of Washington sounds
very enticing. Nevertheless let the fortune
seekers who arc attracted thither by the re
port take hoed to themselves lest they
should bo the ones who furnish the golden
fleece.
It is interesting and satisfactory to note
that tho orders of tho railroad combination
to boycott the Chicago and Alton Railroad
are resulting in a complete fizzle. The laws
of trade are proving themselves more pow
orful than the combination edict. Of course
tho unimportant fact that in the boycott the
railway combination violated the provision
of the inter-State commerce act, that rail
roads must take tho traffic of other roads
"without dolay or discrimination," is not
worth mentioning.
The complaint of the politicians that the
President has not enough warmth to suit
their tastes, is balanced by the evident in
tention of the political managers of tho
Harrison boom to make it hot for tho oppos
ing factions.
"Colonel, Scott of Omaha (who maybe
for all we know tho 'Great Scott!' of ro
mance)" is the way the Buffalo Courier be
gins a comment. Dear, dear! Is it possible
that tho esteemed Courier has paid so little
attention to the sources of national by-words
as not to know that "Great Scott!" was an
exclamation of the last generation founded
on the majesty of General W infield S.t
TnK general preception of the appropri
ateness ofn new deal is manifest in the in
dustry with which the newspaper corres
pondents are sending in tho resignations of
the members of tho Cabinet, for these gen
tlemen. Now wo hear that the railroad car short
ago is impending again, to materialize when
the wheat crop is to be moved. Tho idiosyn
crasy of the railroads in fluctuating from a
surplus of cars to a famine is well known;
but it does not seem to have made impres
sion enough on the railroad mind to insure a
supply of cars for this year's business.
"Uncle Jerry's Republican weather is
generally meeting with npproval; but the
exceptional coolness has nn unfortunate
result in freezing Collector Erhardt out of
office in the middle of July.
It seems that the investigation of the
State Treasury management 13 to bo held
after all, with Statesman John II. Fow at
tho head of tho investigators. It can bo
hoped that Mr. Fow's style of investigating
will prove superior to Senator George Handy
Smith's method of not investigating nt all;
but that is not saying much for it.
Mn. Inoalls' assertion that not less
than 10,000,000 of tho people of this country
are constantly hungry is probably founded
on personal impressions of tho abundance
of office-seekers.
The congratulations of "Lord Salisbury
on tho success with which chronic evils
have been remedied, are well founded from
the Tory standpoint. From that point of
view the Irish population has long been con
sidered a chronic evil and the latest censu3
shows that it has been decidedly lessened.
The applause that followed the mention
of the name of Senator Gorman in the Mary
land Democratic Convention was founded on
the lively expectation of good things to
come.
A Brooklyn Judge has judicially
affirmed tho right of a lather to chastise his
own son. Now that the paternal discipline
has been declared legal let us hope that tho
father will not spoil the boy, providing he is
physically ablo to trounco him, even if he
has to use up a good many rods.
The world of polities at present con
tinues to revolve round the axis in the New
York Custom House.
The latest disclosures with regard to
Canada's politics should settle one thing.
Tho United States docs not want Canada an
nexed. Wo have no necessity for adding to
our political influences and the big section
in which the politicians are owned by tho
corporations in fee simple.
GOSSIP ABOUT CELEBRITIES.
Marquis Prospero Marsigli, the
wealthy Italian nobleman who recently
died in Bologna, bequeathed 130,000 lire to
the Pope to say masses for the repose of his
soul.
Like Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt
pleads guilty to nervousness before the ris
ing of the curtain. "I am always nervous,"
she says, "because I am intensely afraid of
falling below my previous standard of act
ing." M. Ferdinand de Lessepsis so deeply
afflicted by the proceedings taken against
him by the administration of tho Panama
Canal Company that his mental and bodily
health givos cause for great anxiety to his
family and his physicians.
Representative Culberson, of Tex
as, is one of tho great Judicial minds of tho
House. Hois large and somewhat phleg
matic in body. No one over accusediiim of
being anxious for routino work, but ho made
a good judge down in Texas.
President Palmer of the World's
Columbian Commission, is nothing if not
polite. He is also something of a Joker, as
anyone who knows him well can testify. He
is especially noted, too, for tho little atten
tions he pays to women, and ho always
stands ready to help a woman out of any'
difficulty in which ho happens to And her, if
reasonable assistance will do it.
Ex-Empress Victoria of Germany says,
regarding domestics: "As long as the
moral welfare of the domestics is not better
looked after a romedy of the evil cannot be
expected. In tho first place somothing
should bo done to shorten the working
hours of servants, and then a little more
personal liberty should bo allowed them.
Not all of their demands are Justifiable, but
somo are, and those should be granted."
George F. Edmunds entered the Ver
mont Legislature in 185, a year beforo his
long-time colleaguo.Mr. Morrill, took his seat
in Congress. The resignation of 3Ir. Ed
muuds closes a record which was already
without a precedent the representation of
a commonwealth in the Sennte by the samo
two men for a continuous period of 24 years
with tho result that their small State has
long held the chairmanships of the two
most important committees, on finance and
on tho judiciary.
In his early days Russell Sage used to
settle the claims mado against a small rall
roaa which was operated in the western
part of Pennsylvania. One day one of tho
trains killed a fine cow bolonging to it
wealthy but miserly farmer. Mr. Sago got
himself up to loo'kliktfa tax assessor, and
driving up to tho farmer's house, said:
"What do you vnluo that red cow of yours
nt:" "It's not worth $15 to any one," said
tho sly farmer. "Well, hero's the money,"
said the supposed assessor. "My road killed
tho cow this morning."
Signs or Restored Strength.
Philadelphia Record. 1
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denotes commence in his ability to paddlo
hiB r-t n cane,
THINGS IN GENERAL.
rTho Nineteenth Century Persecution Which
Would Have Disgraced the Middle Ages
Rnssla Behind tho Times Jn Every
thingWrongs of an Unfortnnato Race.
rwniTTEjf For. the dispatcii.I
Russia Is 12 days behindhand. I mean in
tho almanac. In almost everything else
Russia is 400 or 600 years behinahand. Russia
is a behindhand country.
Slgniflcant.it seems tome, is this retention
of that old, cumbrous, outgrown and imper
fect way of time-keeping. All other civilized
nations havo now theso several centuries
ago inlprovcd upon it and loft it off, and
found something better. Russia holds still
to the calendar of theMiddle Ages.
Russia is one of the most Interesting na
tions upon the face of the earth interesting
as nn anachronism, as a singular survival of
otherwise obsolete ways of thinking and bo
havlng. I believe that in ono of Julian
Hawthorne's novels the scene Is laid in a
mediaeval castle on tho banks of the Hud
son. But that is only a little more improba
ble than the existence of Russia in this nine
teenth century on tho edge of modern
Europe. Imagine the monastery which over
looks the Southslde fitted up with all the
machinery of tho media) val Inquisition. Dig
dangerous dungeons underneath it, and fill
them with heretics rotting alive. Introduce
tho iron maiden into those religious cham
bers. Plant a stout stnko in a plensant
courtyard up there on the hill, and occasion
ally of a Friday morning burn a Presby
terian there by a slow Arc; let the smoke of
torture and tho smoko of Jones & Laughlins'
chimneys go up into tho Pittsburg sky to
gether. This is hardly a greater strain upon
imagination than is required of a man to
realize St. Petersburg and London side by
sldo, Alexander III. and Lord Salisbury pro-
siding over adjacent nations. England and
Siberia at tho same time on tho same planet.
Belongs in Mnsenm.
Tho truth about Russia is that Russia is a
"freak" and belongs in nn International
dimo museum. Or rather, that would bo tho
truth about Russia If Russia were not every
day this very year crushing the lifo out of
thousands of poor men and women our
brothers and sisters. That makes "freak"
too light a word for that great medlreval
despot, and even Madam Tussaud's and the
chamber of horrors too small a place.
If Russia wero as happily dead as Babylon
Russia would be exceedingly interesting.
We would take the sameantiquarian delight
in her that we take in the old castles and
the old thumbscrews. At old York, in tho
Museum, they show you somo of tho
weapons that once were wielded by Dick
Turpin. And you look at them with con
siderable interest. But if Dick Turpin wore
allvo to-day, wearing those stont weapons
nnd smiting peoplo down with them along
the highways, "interest" would hardly be
the word. Russia is rather moro execrable
than interesting.
In London last summer, at the Stanley and
African Exhibition, they had reminders of
that other barbarism which disgraces this
centnry the fiendish barbarism of African
slavery. They had yokes there that had
rested on slave necks, and chains that had
Jangled against slave logs. It will bo re
membered against us in history that there
were Arab slave dealors in our days and
Russian despots.
Ordinary Words Not Strong Enough.
It is difficult to, speak in the language of
tho drawing room about tho peculiarities of
tho Government of Russia. I remember
what a grim silence thero was in Old City
Hnll after Mr. Kennan's lectures. Every
man in the audience wanted to pelt the Czar
with dynamite. Tho writer in ,tho Ctrfroi
porary Revieio was probably carried away by
an angry and exaggerating temper who at
tributed to the Russians all the varieties of
transgression known to the moral law.
Month after month he kept nt it, and may
not havo ended yet, like a preacher in tho
Ten Commandments, with Russian illustra
tions. That was too much. Even in the
Middle Ages thero wore numberless good
people. And probably thore are in Russia.
Still it is very hard for poople who desire to
lovo all men even Russians to have Si
berian exile supplemented now by Jewish
persecution in the Slavic programmo of
incdiasval injustice.
Probably the best thing to say is that tho
Russians are trying to govern nineteenth
centnry people by fifteenth century meth
ods. And that is a good deal liko trying to
crowd a man's foot into a child's shoe. You
havo got to cut off some toos beforo you can
do that. Tho foot wont in once easily
enough. But that was a good while ago.
And people were eoverned once in Russian
fashion. But that, too except in Russia
was a good whilo ago.
Yet 1 doubt not that as mnch could bo said
for Alexander III. and his Ministers as cau
be said for Charles IL nnd Stafford and
Land. Thoso men whose heads tho Puritans
cut off wero religiously and conscientiously
trying to thrust modern feet into mediaj vol
shoes. They were absolutely conscientious
about it, nnd wero exceedingly attractive
and good men and enemies of England, of
progress and of humanity at the same time.
A Change of Mind.
No doubt tho Russian Government has
perfectly satisfactory reasons (satisfactory
to itself) forputting nineteenth century men
and Hebrews to death. By and by, under
the persuasions of somo new Cromwell, thero
will be a change of mind. In the meantime
what is going on in RnssiaT What is actually
done to tho Hebrews there? Tho most ex
tended statement of facts that I know of is
made by Mr. Honrwitoh, a Russian, a He
brew and a lawyer, in this month's Forum.
The central stronghold of the Hebrews for
now these many centuries has been that
tract of country which was onco named Po
land. There the Polish laws protected them.
There they made their homes generation
after generation bofore the partition of that
unhappy country was ever plotted. Then
Russia got hold of Poland.
The Rnssian laws had long forbidden the
residence of Hebrews in permanent settle
ments on Russian soil. But tho Polish laws
remained in force. Permanent settlement
was permitted without that Russian prov
ince which was called the "pale."
Then came tho father of tho present Czar.
And tho economical and political conditions
were snch at his accession that it seemed a
good policy to extend the privileges of tho
race. Skilled artisans and merchants with
their clerks wero permitted to have resl
donco in Russia outside the palo. Tho
t-chools end tho public offices were opened
to Hebrews. The result of this policy was
that they learned tho Rnssian language and
became good patriotic Russian citizens.
They made their presence helpfully felt in
all departments of good living. Commerce,
law, medicine, science, literature, art, we are
told, had Hebrews In the first places. The
Hebrews in Poland and out of it became
Russian.
Dawning of a Dark Day.
But now is risen up another ruler who
"knows not Joseph." In 188-2 Count Igna
tlev put forth his "provisional regulations."
Theso regulations forbade new settlements
and tho further acquisition or titles to real
estate.
"Nqw settlements" was construed to for
bid all removals from one house to another.
People who went away on a visit wero for
bidden tho town on their return, as "new
settlers." Soldiers who carried their He
brew hearts into the Russian wars wero un
able ever to go homo, being "new settlers."
Tho law ngalnst tho acquisition of property
worked this way: A village usurer having
claims against several tenants, their houses,
estimated at 100 and 150 roubles each, were
sold at auction. There were no buyers, and
the Hebrews could not bid, not being per
mitted to ncqulro real estate! The conse
quence was that tho usurer bought the
houses for from b to a rouoies each, and,
having the peasants' property, still had
them in his debt nearly as aeeply as before.
That sort or thing went on everywhere.
Added to this, there grew ud the same sort
ot interpretation of the law which some peo
plo in this country apply to tho Bible:
Whatever is not prescribed is prohibited.
For example, in ritual musical instruments
aro not commanded, therefore they aro for
bidden. In Rusjia, Hebrews were permitted
to repair wntches, therefore they could not
sell tucm. Finally, tho whole magistracy
found thnt it was good policy with their su
periors to bear heavily upon tho race. The
whole temper of tho law was set against
them.
And now tho unfortunates' aro to be ex-
pelted from Russia altogether. The ukase of
the Czar, dated March 28, 1H91, turned 30.CO0
workmen out of tho Province of Moscow.
And the rest are to follow. Thore is to be
another exodus, like that old one out of the
despotism of the Pharaohs. Already it is
being attended by the barbarities which are
inseparable from all eviction. "People
against whom there was not a shadow of re
proach, who went about their business quiet
ly, have been aroused rrora their beds at
night, driven with whips from their dwell
ings, loaded with chains, and plunged Into
the deepest misery.1' Five millions of peo
plo are being turned out homeless into an
unfriendly world.
That is what is going on in Russia at this
present moment, in this year of the Chris
tian era, 1S9L
NO F00R IN 'FBISC0.
The Salvation Army Obliged to Abandon
a Task fop Want of Work.
San Francisco Call,
That General Booth's book, "In Darkest
England," has borne good fruit, no ono who
has.observed tho growth and general pros
perity of the great organization known as
the Salvation Army can doubt. Ulany or tho
theories advocated and nt tho time of their
conception stamped as wild, impracticable
and chimerical have been actually put in
practice; and horo in San Francisco, tho very
latest spot chosen for tho transplantation
and development of theso ideas, much good
is being done, nnd sweet charity being dis
pensed with as lavish a hand as the treasury
of the society will permit.
In pursuance of another branch of the
work, which has been very successful in
London, a "slumming brigade" was organ
ized here about six months ago. It was in
tended to operate this company in connec
tion with the training garrison having
quarters on California btreet, and a number
or women wore detailed each week for duty
in the slums. Their method was to goamong
the very poor nnd dispense such favors as
are "usually acceptable to members of this
unfortunate class. No uniforms are worn by
tho soldiers whilo engaged in this work, nnd
it is their custom to take lodgings in the
neighborhood where tho heaviest work is
found.
In this city Barbary Coast was chosen nnd
an old rookery fitted up as a home, from
which sallied forth each morning while tho
experiment lasted it dozen women bent on
helping the poor; but they found so few
persons in a really destitute condition that
tho scheme was abandoned after a short
trial.
In speaking of the trial Major Kyle said:
"Wo cave it nn after a month nr so for the
simple reason that wo found no field for tho
work. There aro no very poor peoDle in
San Francisco. Thero are no crowded tene
ment houses here where human beings are
packed together liko sardines, ragged, half
starved nnd criminal. We havo viclousncss
in all its many forms, but no oxtrcmo pov
erty. Once in London wo found seven peo
plo living in ono small room in a tenement
house and sleeping on straw. I have found
similar cases in Now York, bnt San Fran
cisco has not reached that point yet. When
it does we shall be on hand."
A WOODS' APPETITE.
Unfeeling Critics Sometimes Find Fault
With Writers on tho Subject.
Forest and Stream.
Unfeeling critics have sometimes found
fault with tho writers of sporting sketches
because of their proneness to chronicle their
emotions on sitting down to the first meal in
the woods, to expatiate on tho savory quali
ties of the camp food, and to aver as a meri
torious claim that the party "did full justice
to" the cook, tho cooking or the food. As
we have pointed out, tho secret of this is
that ono finds in thoforcst an appetite nnd a
relish for food whioh any sensible doctor
would declare to be unerring indications of
improved physical condition. In the year
book of the Bisby Club we find a suggestive
note in the statement of expenses lor the
year.
"Tho cost of living in the woods," says
General R. U. Sherman, tho author of tho re
port, "is not to be estimated bv its cost in
the settlements. The fact is well established
by experience thn the consumption per
head is at least doujlc in the woods what it
is outside." And when a man finds in his
camp a new stomach and a new palate, a
new capacity and a new appreciation of
food, why should he not be given the privi
lege of relating his good fortune and putting
it in the permanont record as among thoso
things in search of what it is worth while
going fishing and shooting?
UP, IN A PARACHUTE, BOYS.
How the Daring Aeronaut Keeps Up His
- Courage While- Dropping.
New York Times. J
A young man hns been entertaining tho
multitude inthi3 vicinity lately by dropping
from a balloon at an altitude of between
2,000 and 5,000 feet. The young man simply
clings to a pair of stout rings, and a para
chute does tho rest. Ho was asked the other
day if ho did not get nervous sometimes at
the thought of being suspended half a mile
or a mile above tbo earth.
Ho replied, "No, sir; I don't lot myself
think ot it. I just begin conntin' when the
balloon starts upward, and when I counts a
hundred I let go. Sometimes I shuts my
eyes and keeps em shut till I feels myself
coming down alow." This young man has a
partner who, when asked how many times
he had aropped from an asconding balloon,
replied, with genuine modesty, "Only about
a tbousand."
HARBISON AT CHURCH.
The President Listens to a Sermon Preached
By an Allegheny Minister.
rSPECTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Cape Mat, Aug. 1. President Harrison and
Postmaster General Wannmaker attended
services at the Cold Spring Presbyterian
church this morning. The Rev. Mr. Stewart,
of Allegheny City, preached an ploquent
sermon from a text taken from Malechi, on
the subject of "Jewels for God." A light
congregation was in attendance, because
neither of the two officials was expected
to be present.
Russell Harrison dined with Congressman
Reyburn to-day. The Right Rev. Bishop
Scarborough, of New Jersey, took tea with
the President.
Tho Bight of Renomlnation.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tho idea that Mr. Blaino i3 discourteous in
allowing himself to bo a candidate while re
maining in the Cabinet is absurd. No Presi
dent has a "right" to a renomination, or a
right to use tho patronage of the Govern
ment to bring about his renomlnation.
Such conduct is un-American and has never
been put into actual practice. Every Presi
dent who has been renominated has been so
because he was tho actual choice of his
party.
DEATHS HEBE AND EXSEWHEBE.
Sister Clara, a Carmelite.
Sister Clara was buried Friday from the
convent of the Carmelite order, St. Lonls. Sister
Clara was known in the world as Miss Mary Wee.
She belonged to a wealthy Protestant fumlly of
Litchfield, III. Sbo and her sister, while attending
school at the Ursullne Academy at Alton, 111., be
came Catholics, bliortly after tearing the school
she entered on the austere life of a Carmelite at the
age of 18. The dead Carmelite was laid out arcord
lug to the cftstom of the order, Ian hare pine colRn,
with a copy of her vows and the rosary In her
hands. Vicar General brady, assisted by Father
Cannon, of the Assumption Church, performed
the funeral services.
Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Judklns.
Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Judkins, of Houston,
Tex., but a native of Lexington, Va., and a
brother-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, fell dead on
an East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia RMlroml
train while near Johnson City, Tenn,, Saturday
morning. Ills remalDS were burled in Lexington
yesterday.
Obltnary Notes.
THOMAS BAYLISS IIANA, Minister to the Ar
ecntlne Republic during the Cleveland administra
tion. dledatCrawfordsvUle yesterday.
John Beesley, sexton for half a century of St.
Michael's Church, Charleston, S. C, dled.Stur
dav In the SOtli year of his age. In him one of the
most interesting landmarks ot Charleston passed
away.
HAnnY Howabd, the well-known huntsman of
the Essex County, N. J., Country Club, died at the
kennels of the elub. In West Orange. Saturday
arternoon of consumption. He had been ill only
about nine months.
Edwaud WAItiiEV, a prominent citizen or Fall
River, Mass., who traced his lineage back to 'Will
iam De Warren. Earl of Normandy and the young
est daughter of William tho Conqueror, died Satur
day at Fall River at the age of 74.
GENERAL Chaules W. IIaiout, a well-known
lawyer and Democratic politician of Freehold, N,
J died Saturday after a long illness. He was 62
ve'ars old. Oeneral Haight was the law partner of
Joel Parker, New Jersey war Governor. In 1867
he was elected to Congress, and was re-elected two
years later.
AnocsTUS RiTTCnEY, proprietor of the Doubl
ing Gap summer resort and a leading Democratic:
politician of the Cumberland Valley, also a proral-
nent hotel man. died at Carlisle vesterday, ged
years. During the war he served In the Two Hun
dred aud TenUi Regiment as Adjutant; he also
served In the legular army.
THE HEAVENS IN AUGUST.
Sights for Star Gazers Movements ot the
Sun and Moon Planets of tho Northern
Skies Fixed Stars Visible to the Naked
Kye.
Throughout tho month of August the sun
hurries awny toward the south and tho days
shorten. Moro than nine degrees in north
erly declination separate the first and Inst
days of tho month. The sun's rising hour
yesterday morning was 4:57, while its corre
sponding hour on the same dny last month
was 4:33. At tho close of the month tho
rising hour will be 5:20. Yesterday the sun set
at7:15, while on the samo day of last month
the setting hour was 7:35, so that the day has
now shortened down -to H hours and 20
minutes.
Tnesdny night the moon will be new, pass
ing into its first quarter on the 12th. It will
bo full on the 19th nnd pass into its last quar
ter on tho 26th. Dame Venus nnd tho moon
wore in conjunction just before daylight
this morning, "and the beautiful glam
our of that planet was for a short timo
obscured. Mars pays his respects to the
moon on tho 4th and Mercury on the
6th, though the latter will maintain a
more respectful distance than tho former
planet. Saturn, too, makes obeisance to the
moon, approaching very closely on the 7th,
and early in the evening of tho day follow
ing tho moon's first quarter Saturn will bo
found very oloso to Mercury.
Jnplter in the Moon.
A beautiful celestial spectacle will bo
afforded ou the day following tho moon's
fullness, when Jupiter approaches it In the
early evening. Neptune, though hardly
bright enough to nttrnct attention, also ap
proaches very closely to tho moon early in
tho evening of tho last quarter.
The month begins with Neptune as the
only morning star. It is the eighth planet
from the snn, being distant 2,880,000,000 mllos
from that body. It will be difficult to seo
with the naked eye, but those who are
familiar with the constellation of the Bull,
nnd Alclcbaran, its blight star, will find Nep
tune close at hand. Mercury, JnpIter.Satnrn
and Uranus are groupedas tneovening stars
for this month.
As soon us the sun is down, and after Ju
piter has mado its nppoaranco. Venus be
comes tho most brilliant planet in the west
ern sky. Each ovenlng, as the month wears
on, 'sho appears a little higher in the
heavens, ana on tho dny previous to that In
which she eoes into norihelion August 21
Jupiter's appearance very near to tho moon
affords a charming opportunity for celestial
observation- With the moon at its full,
Venus conspicuously lovely In tho western
sky. nnd Jupiter approaching its Drightcst
Seriod; the heavens aie,indced, radiant with
rilliaucy.
Somo of the Wonders of Mars.
Mars is no longer an evening star, his ap
pearance at that timo having ceased thrco
dnys ago, when he went over into tho early
morning hours. Mars is not a very bright
plnnet Just now, but he may easily bo seen
shining red in the southwestern sky at an
altitude of 45. Scientists aro still wonder
ing about thoso white spots in the Martial
polar regions, tho constant enlargement of
whicn gives rise to tho assumption that
there is a great polar snowstorm going on
over there. It takes Mara C87 of our days to
circle once around the sun, so that there are
obvious reasons why thoso whlto spots. If
they really do indicate polar snowstorms,
should not diminish very rapidly.
From July to September Mercury is an
evening star. Ho comes up dimmer and
uimmer in tne eastern nonzon ns mo monin
passes, appearing each night n little later,
until toward the middle of next month he
passes over into the wco sma hours and be
comes a morning star. Mercury is at his
greatest angular distnn ce from the sun on
the evening of tho 0th. Ho is very small,
nnd may be found, though with difficulty, in
the constellation of tho Lion. Those who
look for him would do well to turn their
glasses toward that constellation on the
night of August 13, when Mercury shines
more brightly than at any othor time during
the month. Mercury is the planet nearest
the sun, being distant from that body only
SG, 000,000 miles, almot a next-door neighbor,
in fact. It is the smallest of tho planets,
being only 2,i31 miles In diameter. As its
year is only 88 of our days, paydays, birth
days, Christmases nnd other holidays that
Ave enjoy at long intervals must bo very
monuiunons occurrences over tne re.
The Largest of the Planets.
Jupiter is nn ovening star, as he has been
for tho last two months. Ho approaches his
brightest period early In September, and he
may bo fonnd toward tho west-southwest as
soon ns the sun is out of sight. The night
before tho moon reaches its fullness Jupiter
approaches very near it, and on that occa
sion, August 18, thero will bo a fine chance
to seo them close together in dazzling
brightness. To be seen nt their best they
must be viewed early in tho evening, and
whilo you are watching, Venus comes
majestically upon tho scene, adding luster
to the most brilliant celestial spectacle of
the month.
Saturn's soft golden light may also be seen
every evening until September 13. JIo ap
proaches very close to the moon August?,
next Friday night, being nearer to that
body, as we view it, than nuy other planet
tave Neptune, who approaches very close to
lair Luna on the night of August 2G. Saturn
forms ono of a very beautiful cluster of
plaucts that may be seen on the evening of
the 13th. At that time he approaches very
close to Mercury, and as they will be almost
hand in hand early in tho evening with the
moon in its first quarter, tho sight will bo a
fine ono and well worth seeing. Saturn ap
pears later and later toward the close of tho
month. Ho proceeds in the same general
direction as Venus, bearing Blightly to the
northward.
Uranus, tho seventh planet from the sun,
although an evening star, is invisible to tho
naked eye, except nnder the most favorable
circumstances. It is l,7SO,CO0,OCO miles from
the sun, aud its year is 84 times as long us
ours. Daylight 13 unknown on this planet.
Only One Morning Star.
Neptune, the only morning star, may be
found very near to the moon as it passes
into its last quarter; so near, in fact, that It
will not be visible to the naked eye at that
time. Of the fixed stars, Arcturus will bo
visible in the early evening, following like
nn obedient page in the wake of Vonus as
she rises in the western sky when onco tho
sun is down. Arcturus passes slightly nearer
the North Pole toward the close of tho
month and gains in brilliancy.
Regulus. a white star, rises a little ahead
of Arcturus, in the same direction and with
the same declination. Sirius Can is Majoris
"the dog star," will be found In the south
ern heavens early in the morning. Only an
enthusiast will keep awake to see Sirius, but
he shines there bright enough to reward ono
for a long vigil. Those who remain awake
to watch for Sirius will be doubly rewarded
by a line view of the yellow star Aldcbaran,
Alpha Taura, which may bo best seen in the
west in the early morning. The constella
tion of tho Bnll and Neptune, tho only morn
ing star, shining brightly closo by, are other
familiar sights in tho heavens close to Alde
baran. Urso Minor, the North Star, will
form a conspicuous fixture in the August
heavens, as will nlso Cnnopus, one of the big
gest of fixed stars, which shines most
brightly in the early evening.
MAY BE A VOLCANO.
Tremendous Fires Seen Issuing From tho
Olympic Mountains.
Victoria, B. C, Aug. 2. The tremendous
flro on the' Olympian mountains back of
Port Angeles to-day is believed to be a vol
cano, as it appears altogether too fierce for a
bush fire, and the smoke and flames shoot
thousanusof feotin the air. The spectacle
is terrific.
AN UNLUCKY WIGHT.
I always was unfortunate.
Unlucky, and forlorn;
Misfortune came with my first breath:
On Friday I was born.
In childhood my reverses were
Discouraging to me,
'Most every day I was reversed
Across my mother's knee.
As I grew older my ill-luck
For me new anguish wrought.
. At school the other rogues escaped.
But I was always caught.
When I proposed my evil star
Shone on my pathway still;
For I said: "Will you be my wife?".
And she replied: "I will."
She proved a vixen, and she's been
The cause of half my sins.
I hardly need to tell you that
My first-born child was twins.
Since then my family cares have grown,
Andsurclyyou'll allow
That I'm unlucky when yon know
I've thirteen children now.
I do not know how It wlU end,
I hardly think I care.
But when old Gabriel blows his trump
I know I sha'n't be there.
Scmerttlle Juurnal.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
A Question of Law.
To the Editor or The Dispatch :
If a wife notify liquor dealers through the
papers not to sell any kind of intoxicating
drinks to her husband, nnd Hip husband goes
to a barkeeper and gets It under an assumed
name, or on account of hia name not being
known by the barkeeper, can the latter bo
held accountable? X C.
New Castle, August L
The law makes It a misdemeanor for deal
ers to sell to persons of known intemperate
habits.
B nas the Correct Idea.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
A bets that if a man lives in this country
three years and then gets his first papers
out he will havo to watt five years before he
gets his second papers. B bets' that if be is
in the country three years and then gets his
first papers out ho will only have to wait
two years. Which is right?
PiTTsnuno, August L Coxstaxt Reader.
A Ton of Tin Wanted.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please hdvisc if you can give us any in
formation as to whore wo can purchase ono
ton of pure American pig tin, manufactured
from tin mined in the United States. Any
information you can give us about this wlfl
much oblige.
I'JTTSBUKO, August 1. B. P. C
Yes to Both Questions.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Is a marriage license necessary in New
York State, and, if so, mnst a woman be 21
years of ago to obtain one without consent
of parents or guardian? Perplexed.
Sharox, August L
Of Course It Will.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
I have rented a houso for ono year, and
signed a landlord's leaso. The house does
not suit me and I want to move. Will the
leaso hold good at law? A ScnscninER.
New Castle, August L
From tho Census Office.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Where can I get Information In regard to
tho population of each city of tho United
Staftes according to tho census of 1S00?
Foreign Corresposdetice.
PlTTSBURO, August 1.
New York Leads All.
To the Editor orThe Dispatch:
Which city has tho largest population,
New York or Chicago? J. J. K.
riTT3BrRO, August L
425 Feet.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
What is the height of tbo Court Honso
tower?
Pittsburg, August L F. K.
ENGLAND'S BOYAL LINE.
Its History Since Its Origin in Kenneth Mo
Alplne, of the Ninth Century.
Nothing is so imperfectly understood in
tho United State, and perhaps in England,
as tho origin of the royal family as It now is,
says an exchange. The Emdish denounce
tho gallery of portraits of alleged Scottish
kings nt Holyrood as fraudulent, for it seems
that some timo in the past tho English, in
vading Scotland under a piratical claim to
tho throne thereof, burned the picture of
the kings and stole the stono on which those
kings wero crowned, which is now to bo
seen in Westminster Abbey. Bnt the Scot
tish line, from, which Victoria and tho
Prince of Wales are also descended, is sup
posed to begin with Kenneth 3IoAlpine, who
died in 858, and the twelfth of which kings
af tor him was Duncan, slain by his cousin
Macbeth in the year 1031, when Will
iam tho Norman -was 11 years old.
Nine or ten kings Intervened to Robert
Bruce, whose daughter married Walter
Cook, the steward, said to have been named
Fltz-AUen. Seven kings intervened before
Marsrnrite of England married James IV.
Thls line got on the English throne in 1K03,
four years beforo Jamestown was settled
and 17 beforo Plymouth Rock. The peerage
books attempt to show what the house of
Guelph was, which entered the British royal
line witu tho Hanoverians. Nobody even
knows how to spell Gnetph or Whelp or
Wolf, but it is claimed that he wusayonnger
brother of Odoarer, the barbarian conqueror
of Italy, and settled in Bavaria and had half
a dozen successors, all of the same name or
near about, of whom the seventh or eighth
was a Crusader and married the sister of tho
wife of William tho Conqueror.
In tho course of time one of this family
acquired Brunswick, but he was poisoned,
nnd his son was tho celebrated Henry the
Lion, wnoso aangnier uecamo me secona
wife of Henry II. of England, the fatherof
Richard and John. The fifth after Henrv
tho Lion was Ernest Angustus, elector o"f
Hanover, who married Sophia, tho grand
daughter of James I. of Encland, and their
first child wns George I. Tho commercial
riches of England, and the influence of tho
country as the parent stem upon many
colonies, of which the mo3t noted is the
United States, havo made tho royal family,
with its unbroken descent of some 830 years,
tho capstone ot the general edifice in poli
tics and housekeeping called society. Tho
conrse of mankind is to struggle from ob
scurity by opportnnlty to independence,
and, having a good house and some income,
to look for society.
Canada Slowly Moving Up.
Washington Post.1
No more striking illustration of the back
wardness in some thinirs of our Canadian
neighbors could be given than is afforded in
the fact that, after having had street rail
ways in use for 30 years, the city of Toronto
is now discussing the propriety of running
them on Sundays. That thero is a com
munity on the continent in possession of a
city railway system that could for an hour
hesitate over such a question is scarcely
comprehensible by the American mind of
to-day. But the fact is, ourCunadian friends,
never too progressive, arc now where we
wore long ago. Wo outgrow onr blue laws
a century or two since. Tho Canadians are
only beginning to outgrow theirs now.
Mr. Piatt to the President.
New York World.
You turn the Fassett, I'll do the rest.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
.Tames T. Gorman. Ed. Fitzsimmons, Ed.
McUinnis and John Connor, members of the
Jefferson County Tourist Club, of Steuben
vlllo, O., were guests at the Central last even
ing. They accompany tho Pittsburg Pioneer
Tourist (Vlub to the National Convention of
the C. T. A. U. of A., to be held in Washing
ton, D. C, this week.
J. B. Haggin, the California horseman
and millionaire, passed through tho city last
evening in a special car going cast. He said
he had quit racing, and ho wouldn't allow
Snlvator to run again, no added that tho
crops were good in the West, and the
farmers had commenced to ship their wheat
to the seaboard.
M. J. Murphy, in advance of Bobby Gay
lor, is in the city seeing to the interests of
that versatile actor, jnr. aiurpny pang in tne
choir nt high mass at the Cathedral yester
day, and rendered tho barytone solo,
Haydn's "JesnDeus Paces," in an extremely
pleasing manner.
State Senator,!. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon,
took breakfast at the Anderson yesterday.
He boarded an early train for Detroit, where
he wilt attend the annual meeting of the
Grand Army.
C. M. Mitchell, with the Charles Meeson
Belting Company, formerly of this city, but
for a year past located at New Orleans, has
returned and will take up his residence
nere.
Among the passengers for Philadelphia
last evening were Edward Keating, Frank
Dohrman, trelglit agent for the Chicago and
and Northwestern, and A. P. Burgwln.
S. Weaver a clerk in the Treasury De
partment at Washington, and his wife, reg
istered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel last
evening. They nro on their way to Ohio.
Dr. Z. T. Miller and family leave per
steamer Keystone State for Cincinnati to
day, to be absent three weeks.
D. J. Horner and wife, of Somerset, and
S. N. Pettis, of Meadville, are stopping at
the Monongnhela House.
Mr. Gus. "Weaver and Miss Eosa Deible,
of Youngstown, were yesterday the guests
of relatives in Allegheny, s
Mrs. Fanny Bodgers and her daughter,
of Oakland, havo gono to P.irl3 for a visit.
B. D. Foltz, of New Castle, and F. B.
Bradley, of Chicago, are at the Duquesne.
Arthur "W. Marvin, of Barnum's show, is
stopping at the Anderson.
Thomas Callaghau went to New York last
evening.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The big World's Fair building -will be
a mile around.
The Jeannette drifted through the Arctic
Ocean at the rate of two mites a day.
Texas has a Fat Man's Association, the
Initiation fee of which is a cent a pound.
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds are
ineligible to membership.
The old-fashioned Russian wa;on
driver, who carried passengors and freight
long distances in his rude, self-contrived
vehicle, is still competing snccessfullywith
the steam horse in tho land of the White
Czar.
An Amager farmer has been arrested
and lined for susault upon the Danish army.
White entering town with a load of cab
bago, the war horse of the artillery took
fright at his outfits and broka up the whole
army.
A fly caused the death of a man at
Vienna. Ho was walking the street when
the insect suddenly took a position on hia
Jorchead. As soon as it left a swelling ap
peared and the man soon afterward died of
blood poisoning.
It has been found impossible to keep
ostriches alive In the London "Zoo." Their
omnivorous throats discriminate against
nothing, and poisonous coppers which mis
chievous people feed thorn are as eagerly
devoured as any other delicacy.
A cook fell overboard from a schooner
ou the lakes recently.and wasstunned by the
fill. Consequently he remained under
wntor for half an hour without inconven
ience so far as drowning was concerned, and
was in a few minutes after his rescue as well
as usual.
In the United States oranges and lem
ons are produced only in California and
Florida. The orange crop of the latter is
practically out of the way before that of the
former is ready for the market. The Cali
fornia orange is of slower growth than the
Florida product and does not decay so soon.
M. Grebault, a French Egyptologist, is
busy opening ICO sarcophagi, recently dis
covered at Thebes. Tho first mummvthat
he uncover d is peculiarly beauttrul. " Only
two or three mnmmles have been found
which havo been so carefully embalmed as
this one. The body is that or a roval prince
belonging to tho family of the high priests
of Amnion.
The Government has been for nine
years digging up and putting together tho .
vnst collection of fossils that will occupy
fully one-half of tho National Museum in
Washington. In the collection are the
gigantic skeletons of prehistoric reptiles 100
feet in length, flying dragons with a 2-foot
spread of wings, nnd other curiosities well
worth seeing.
An English clergyman has found out
the best way to inculcate total abstinence..
The church band used to go out every even
ing in hi parish, bringing in numerous vil
lagers. When they came into the church
teetotal drinks wero provided free of charge.
The mission lasted four davs. dnrine which
time the saloons realized vory little and
drunks were of rare occurrence.
Mr. Romanes, of London, has an ape
that he has tanght to count not very far
up. indeed, bnt fs high as Ave. He knows
thonnmbers and tho words that indicnta
them. Ills method is to tnko straws one by
one into his mouth nntil one less than tho
required number havo been collected;
then, taking up nn additional straw, he
hands it over, together with those in his
mouth.
An Amtell, Ga., man boasts of the most
wonderful squash of tho day. He hns been
planting the same variety for the past five
years with the same unvaryine result. From
any one seed comes np an ordinary looking
squash vine of the bnnch variety. Now upon
this vine, when in full bearing, can ba
connted seven distinct varieties. Easily can
distinguished the Patly Pan, Hubbard, Greg
ory, etc.
A number of bees selected the garret of
a California church for a hive, storing in it
many tons of honey. The recent hot
weather cansed tho wax to melt, which
loosened the storo of sweetness. The
weight was too heavy for the church rafters
to hold and the wholo partition of the roof
caved in over the pnlpit. The church pews
and pulpit wero completely buried in honey
and wax.
It appears that in Scotland there is a
company which pays a certain amount
yearly to a nnmber of iron works for the
privilege of collecting the smoke and gases
from the blast furnaces. These are passed
through several miles of wronght Iron tnb
lug and as the gases cool there is deposited a
considerable yield of oil; ono plant is re
ported to yield 25,000 gallons of furnace oil
per week.
In New York one day a newsboy, run
ning at full speed, with a big bundle of
papers under his arm, stopped short to piok
up an umbrella that he had seen drop on the
sidewalk. "Thankyon. sonny." said. In a biir
bass voice, a manbehind htm. "Hello!" said
Mike, with surprise. "I thought it was a
lady's." And deliberately, as if it was a
matterof conrse, Mike replaced the umbrella
on the sidewalk.
The two elephants in the zoological
garden at Copenhagen were made the sub
ject of a medical inquiry a few weeks ago.
They were chanred by rumor with having
the diphtheria and with having given the
disease to children who bad fed them ginger
snaps. The Investigation failed to develop
any sign of tho diphtheria, or of the chil
dren, but some evidence was found of ginger
snaps, so that there was truth in the story
after all.
A new kind of stamps will soon be in
troduced in the postal telegraph service of
Russia with a view to securing the inviola
bility of the privacy of letters. The new
stamp Is printed on very thin paper, and
cannot bo used again if it fs once put upon a
letter. When used wet and taken on tho
envelopo it leaves an indelible impression
npon the spot where it was attached, so that
if a new stamp is put npon the same spot the
impression of the first stamp can bo seen
through it.
Darwin used to say that the most pow
erful worker we know is the earthworm.
Without the earthworm-we could not live.
Earthworms make the soil fertile. Accord
ing to Darwin's calculations, each-particle
of the earth to a depth of two feet is brought
up to the surface at least once every hun
dred years. But this estimate Is too low. It
has been recently calculated that this reno
vation of the soil takes place every 27 years.
There aro from 150 to 200 worms In each
square yard of earth, 10 inches in depth.
A negro entered a Macon, Ga., street
car a few days ago, andjnstashe took his
scat a flash of flro nnd a cloud of stifling
smoke Issued from ono of his pockets. He
was so badly scared that for a few seconds
he sat motionless, white tho smoke filled the
car. But thero was half a dozen ladles on
board who thought that the negro was being
electrocuted by a current from the overhead
wire, and they all ran screaming toward the
door. The canse of all the trouble was a box
of matches which the negro carried in his
pocket. He sat down on the box and all the
matches were ignited.
LITTLE LAUGHS.
WABXIHO.
On her hand a gem that burns;
Virgin cheek that rosy turns;
In ber heart a Joy that sings
To ber soul's strange questionings.
Eyes so softly, newly wise.
Voice so apt In low replies
Little maiden, such as this
Follows fast a lover's kiss
DororAax LummU, in Pact.
He What can I do to make you happy?
She Do without.
He Without what?
She Mc. Chicago iietcs.
Miss De Snell (angrily) You told me
this horseshoe lace pin would bring me good luck,
and now Count De Moneyhunt has proposed to
another girl, and my poodle Is dead.
Jeweler Madame, what more could heart desire?
-JiuxkrU Weekly.
Gus DeSmith I see by the papers that
the Czar has been enjoying the pleasure of the chasa
In the Jabonskl forest, near Warsaw.
Gilhooly What luck did he have?
Gus DeSmith Splendid. Uecamo back alive.
Texas Sitings.
"Why is it," asked a stranger, "that you
Americans are fio anxious to dlscuver the North
Pole?"
"Oh," replledan experienced globe-trotter, we
Americana aro great travelers, you know, and wo
want some new place to write our names on."
SomcrvilU Joturnal.
"I never use tobacco. No!
"I've never touched It yet!"
And then he took a match and lit
Ills nasty cigarette. Chicago Tribune.
"If your husband stays out so late every
night, I should think be would suffer from loss of
sleep."
"Oh, he has all day to sleep, he la serving on a
)ury." Sao TorkPra.
Jimmy Bnggs I wish my big sister was
a brother. A sljterain't no fun atall.
Tommy Flgg Ain't? Wy. I have my sister cry
ing mad all day. Indianapolis Journal.
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