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PITTSBURG. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1SS1,
A SINGULAR RETORT.
The remarkable publication of tlio Leg
islative Committee of the Knights of La
bor, upon the State -legislation of the last
session, is a striking corroboration of re
cent statements in The Dispatch that
those labor leaders have determined to
cast their lot with the Republican mana
gers. The methods by which a favorable
aspect is given the actions of the majority
in the Legislature, and an attack made
upon the minority, invest the document
oitb the aroma of campaign literature for
Republicans.
As to the subject-matter of the docu
ment it is necessary, however, to say that
those who undertake-the championship of
the late Legislature essay so arduous a
task that they can be left to struggle with
it. That body had excellent opportun
ities to make a record of fidelity to
the interests of. the whole public; but
the best that can be said of it
from ;he. point of view that takes
in all the popdl.tr interests, is that there
were no evidences cf corruption in its
actions. Thr re is-, of course, the usual
admixture of good measures and bad
ones in its perfected' legislation; but its
crentest vice was fchown in the bills which
it failed to rass and the way in which it
weakened and counterfeited genuine and
important measures in some of the bills
which it did pas-
Most of the ineat-urcs which are taken
by the Knights of Labor Committee as
criteria by which to judge of the two
political paities coiccwithln the category
of class legislation. Those who align
their political attitude, by class measures
are introducing a false and dangerous
measurement. But -even that is surpassed
by the strange logic with which this com
mittee credits the Republicans in the Leg
islature forrhe bills which it did pass, and
blames the Democrats for the failure of
the bills whicb.did not pass. Certainly if
the majority is to he credited with the
one, it is no morcthan honest to charge it
with the other.
The point on which the K of L. Com
mittee enlarges tn.the greatest extent is
the Constitutional Convention. On that
measure the peopie will pass at the com
ing election. It will then be decided
whether the leaders of that organization
have acted wisely in pinning it to such an
issue. In the meantime it is impossible to
understand what .delusion has led them to
the belief that the calling of the conven
tion is a movement' in the interest of labor.
The convention, if it meets, will afford
the great corporations their most favora
ablc opportunity for getting rid of the
restrictions which the 'present Constitution
imposes upon them. The representation
in the proposed new convention is so
framed as to improve that opportunity,
end the nominations to that body so far
as made exhibit a marked preponderance
of corporate influence. The interests of
labor are much better guarded under the
present Constitution, if maintained and
enforced, than they are likely -to be under
a Constitution produced by a convention
under the same influences as dominated
the last Legislature and emasculated the
ballot reform bill
On many other measures The Dispatch
is in sympathy with the efforts of the labor
men to obtain legislation; but with regard
to the Constitutional Convention the in
terests of the whole people call for its de
feat at the next'Clection.
AS IMPRACTICABLE, IDEA.
Thcie is an attempt to renew the old
project of the annexation of Cuba, in an
article by General Jordon in the August
Fiium. There havealso been similar and
sporadic references to such a project in
tlie press of late, which, so far as they
have gone, indicate a scattering revival of
the darling pro-slaveryschemeof a former
generation.
As far as the presently is concerned
the annexation of Cuba belongs wholly to
the domain of speculative politics. Spain
has declared on the one hand that she
will not part with Cuba at any price; and
it is equally to the purpose on the other
hand that the United States does not want
if as a gift The policy of territorial ex
pansion is a false one for the United
States in any direction; and if there is one
territorial acquisition which would be pe
culiarly undesirable for this nation it is
that cf Cuba.
It should be decisive that the acquisi
tion of Cuba would immensely increase
the difficulties of the race problem of the
United States. It would bring to our pop
ulation a people unacquainted with our
system, unused to our laws, and educated
only in the political arts of subservience,
corruption and insurrection. In case of
war the possession of the Island would be
a source of weakness rather than strength.
The foolishness of the talk about Cuba
ought to put an early quietus on it We do
not want that nursery of yellow fever and
bandits if we could get it; nnd we could
not get it if we wanted it
AS ARITHMETICAL JUS A GKEEMEXT.
The defense of the Nicaragua Canal
project loads the Kew York Press into the
affirmation of two things which do not
agree we!L It devotes considerable fcpace
to the defense of Engineer Menocal's e&ti
instes of the cost as entirely correct Hav
ing established this point to its own satis
faction, it refers to tho proposed national
guarantee of the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany's bonds as asked for by "the com
merce of the country, Ei"t and South and
West"
Rut this brings out a perplexing arith
metical comparison. Tho estimates of
Chief Engineer Menecal place the cost of
the canal at STO.OOO.Cj'j. The loan which
it is proposed that the United States shall
guarantee is $100,000,000. This remarka
ble overlapping by the funds which the
Government is to be called upon to furnish
of tho cost of the canal certified to by the
organ of the scheme as correct is too
suggestive. It cannot fall to lead to the
conclusion that the commerce of the coun
try in various quarters of the pompasa that
is calling for the indorsement of the bonds
by the Government is that portion dealing
In the securities of the Nicaragua Canal
Company.
The Dispatch has no quarrel with the
Nicaragua project If its promoters can
raise the money, as they have professed
themselves able to do, let them do so and
build the canal But if the United States
has $100,000,000 of money or credit to put
into ship canals it should use it for the con
struction of internal waterways which
will cany a greater tonnage and benefit
this nation five times as much as a ship
canal more than a thousand miles away
from the nearest territory of the United
States.
THE SEED QV SHIP CASALS.
Mr. Don 31. Dickinson in a recent inter
view declares at length for the necessity of
ship canal navigation connecting the lakes
with the Hudson river, ne points out the
importance of the traffic to be served by
this route with the rather familiar asser
tion that the commerce which passes De
troit is greater than that which enters
New York harbor, and that which passes
through the Sault Ste. Marie greater than
that which passes through the Suez Canal.
He enlarges on the heavy charges which
railway transportation to the seaboard im
poses on Northwestern traffic, and con
eludes by advooating a ship canal from the
St Lawrence river to Lake Champlain
and thence to the Hudson.
Mr. Dickinson's statement of the need
of internal water navigation is none too
strong, and might be made more forcible.
But it has the defect common to many such
advocates of urging only the project
which benefits his especial section.
Tho great benefit of internal water
navigation will never be realized un
til all the valuable projects arc
united into one comprehensive entirety.
Some may be realized sooner than others,
but the plan should have clearly in view
the ultimate completion of the improve
ment of tho rivers, the connection of
the lakes with the ocean by such a project
as Mr. Dickinson urges, the connection of
the Mississippi with the lakes by the Hen
nepin Canal, and the connection of the
Ohio with the lakes by the Ohio River and
Lake Erie Ship Canal.
The Dispatch fully agrees with Mr.
Dickinson's importance of tho estimate of
a ship canal from the lakes to the Hudson,
although it is an open question whether
the route he indicates is as feasible as the
enlargement cf tho Erie Canal. But
Western. Pennsylvania's ship canal project
is equally important Mr. Dickinson points
some sarcasms at Eastern men for their
ignorance of tlio magnitude of lake traffic.
But he ignores a project of kindred natur-i
to the one he recommends, and would
probably be surprised to learn that the
tonnage of Western Pennsylvania traffic
is larger than that of any two of the points
he names.
The utterances of Mr. Dickinson are,
however, most significant in pointing tout
one jack, iiie supporters ot me realty
important projects for internal waterways
should join forces. They should cut
loose from the burden of duck-pond and
creek appropriations, but should unite in
securing the ' commencement of work on
really important systems of internal water
transportation which shall improve the
navigation of the rivers, join them to the
lakes and the lakes to the ocean. This will
cost perhaps as much as this country has
put into new railways in a single year;
and when the work is done it will exer
cise a greater influence on transportation
than the railway building of an entire
decade.
THE WORLD'S FAIR WORK.
Tho work in behalf of the Chicago Co
lumbian Exposition is going on with every
appearance of success. The Commission
ers who have discovered the happy expe
dient of combining the service of the en
terprise with a very pleasant European
trip are dining and speechifying their way
into the good graces of the entire Conti
nent There is every promise of securing
a splendid European representation. It is
also more than probable that Pennsyl
vania's numerous Commission will be
promptly filled up and proceed to the ar
duous task outlined by one of the politi
cal members of that body of spending
the 5300,000 appropriation on the personal
expenses of the Commission.
These are some of the idiosyncrasies
developed in connection with the project
It is true, however, that there is at present
more progress than heretofore in connec
tion with that work in every quarter, save
one. New York, the largest State in the
Union, remains in the sulks, and is still
entitled to the undignified distinction of
refusing to do anything even' in the line of
appropriations for a State exhibit It
looks even possible that the Empire State
will succeed in what would at first blush
seem an almost impossible thing, exceed
ing the discredit that attaches to the Grant
monument fiasco.
A ciukgyjiax at Ocean Grove in a ser
mon last Sunday placed himself on record
as that rare bird, tho moderate relormer.
Ho referred to tho use of tobacco, and de
clared that its immoderate us3, "gay fifteen
cigars a day," should be avoided. Tho rev
erend gentleman is entirely right. Persona
w ho aro smoking over fifteen cigars a day
w ill please take notice of the necessity of
reducing their dissipation and govern them
selves accordingly.
The fact that an Englishman won 6200,
000 at Monte Carlo is telegraphed all over
the world. When tho gauibluis ruined there
blow out their biains nothing is said about
it. The Monte Carlo gambling establish
ment is evidently ia conn ol or a very dis
criminating press biucau.
The Daughters of the Revolution are in
a squabblo over the question of lineage,
which reflects their ignorance of the fact
that the Revolution was fought on the
principle that people without lineage ore
Just as good as those with it.
Things seem to be different in Massa
chusetts from what they aro in this State.
The Boston Traveller says: '-The question is
not to much who will write tho platform of
the Massachusetts Republicans, as it is what
kind of a platform will be written." Hero
the question is not at all what kind of a
platform is written; but what tho politicians
will do, and whether thBy wut regard it as
north their while to pay any attention at all
to tho platform.
Mil Edison expresses tho opinion that
ultimately tho house will bo furnished with
both light and heat for sixty cents a year.
Rut if Mr. Edison will make arrangements
to furnish but one of theso services at tho
price named a grateful public will give him
long time on tho other.
It should be noted that there is no law
forbidding ex-Presidents to make cam
paign spoochoa in Ohio. General Grant did
bo in tho Oarfield campaign; and ex-Prcsl-
dents of the protest day nave the same
liberty.
Jupoe Claiborne, of St. Iannis, who
recently ruled tl.at the law asainst pool
rooms is unconstitutional, explains his de
cision by referring to the fact that he v as
elected n his avowed opposition to sumptu
ary legislation, and that he plays poker,
plays hore races nnd "every other eambr
J ing game except lottery and crnp." It will
thus, bo seen that St. I.otils is possessed ofa
very broad-ganged Jndgo, It should be duly
thankful for the tw o exceptions.
Ex-Sexatob Ingalls' kind of prohibi
tion would form a basis Tor a large and en
thusiastic party. There are untold thou
sands of inen who aie ready to rally to the
prohibition party that will never permit
I hem to take n drink except when they feel
that thoy want it.
Wrrn linseed oil at 34 cents per gallon
on account of a fight in tho Unseed oil com
bination, it looks like a good time for peo
ple generally to paint up their house 3. That
is, ir tho White Lead Trust has no objec
tions. The Canton rainmaker now proposes to
go out to Death Valloy and make it rain
there until ho has converted it Into a lake.
Ye commend tho ambitious project, and
hope it will bo continued until tlio rain
maker conquers Death Valley or Death Vol
ley conquers tho rainmaker. We should
prefer the former, but tho odds aro in favor
of the latter.
There continues to be a strong and
nearly unanimous call from the organs of
tho Stato for Andrews to emulate the exam
ple of Quay. Our Republican friends should
bo advised, however, that one scapegoat
only will not suit the exigencies of the case.
Who was it declined to believe that the
Republican manage! s had captured tho
Knights of Labor Legislative CommittoeT
"If there is any significance in the
facility with which the seal piratos eseapo
the revenue cutters, Bering Sea must be an
open sea, after all," remarks a cotemporary.
True; hut none of the illicit sealers have yet
repeated their feat of a previous season, in
getting captured and then running off with
both cargo and prize crew.
The warm reception Alexander of Russia
is giving his juvenile namesake of Servia
indicates tho determination of the Czar to
keep his foothold on the Danube by means
of maintaining Servia in its customary alti
tude of a tributary province of Russia.
Wrrn both Parnell and O'Brien in bank
ruptcj', the path of Irish leadership docs not
look liko the high road to fortune.
NINE 0? THE UPPER TEN.
Mayor Grant declares, that he couldn't
get the nomination for Governor of Now
York if he wanted it, and if he could get it
he wouldn't take it.
The last descendant of the Maid of Or
leans, according to foreign papers, died re
cently in Franco, ne was an inspector in
the commissary department of tlie army.
Daniel Bandmann, an actor well
know n in Europe and America, is a familiar
flguro on the streets of Sacramento, Cat,
selling milkfrom his locally famous Holstein
dairy.
The Princess Helene, of Montenegro,
who may somo day bo tho Czarina, for she is
reported to be the allotted bridp of tho heir
apparent to the Russian throne, is said to be
tho prettiest royal girl in Eastern Europe.
Major Rathbone, of Ohio, the new
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, is
Just 43 years old and is one of the most ex
perienced men in tho service. Ho is a hand
tomo follow, a thirty-secoud degrco Mason
and a wido-awake business man.
Rev. Edward Beechkh's adopted
daughter received at her baptism the name
of Voice Adams. She was one of a family of
15 children, whom her father, a great grand
son of John Qnincy Adams, t supported by
lecturing on "The Voice of Nature."
John W. Way, of Roxbury, 3Ioss., has
yumpled some of tho women of that town
by putting a couple of marble "VVonnscs"
on his lawn, and they are thinking of im
provising a lawn order society to compel
him to put the statues in bloomers or in
Mother Hubbards.
Miss Antoinette Knaggs, a college
educated young woman of Ohio, owns and
manages a farm of 200 acres. She carries on
her work according to tho theories of books,
rather than by ancient traditions, and, con
trary to the usual impression about book
farmers, she is making a success of her un
dertaking. Mrs. H. S. Gould, of Georgia, is a rail
road woman. She gave her means and efforts
to the building of the Covington and Macon
Railroad. She has also had a deal to do with
its management, and is said to havo had a
shai-e in the building of the Middle Georgia
and Atlantic Railroad. She also runs a farm
of 4C0 acres.
The Czar is a hard-working monarch.
He is out of bed at 7 o'clock and his entire
day is a bnsy ono. Ho has a mania for learn
ing even the smallest details of the opera
tions of tho Government. In disposition ho
is melancholy and disinclined to society.
The Empress, in her fondness for danoing,
has evening parties that bore her royal hus
band, and it is related that on one or two
occasions lie has sent tho guests home be
times by touching nn oiectrio button nnd
extinguishing all the lights in the room.
LOOKING TOWARD WASHINGTON.
The rittiburg Lumber Dealer Tells of the
Trend of Trade.
Seattle Post-Intelllgeacer.
Hon. X. U. Voogtly, a lumber dealer of
Allegheny City, is at the Rainier Hotel with
Ills wife. They aro on a pleasure trip to the
West. Mr. Voegtly is one of the prominent
Republicans in his part of Pennsylvania,
and he has been a member of tho lower
branch of tlie State Legislature.
In the course of an interview last night
ho said; "We are manufacturing thelumuer
which is floated don 11 lhe Allegheny river,
hut w e And that tho supply Is rapidly giving
out, ko ws arc turning more and more to tho
Michigan market, but Michigan's pino is
going, too. So I think that before long the
Pacific Northwest will bo thp great source
of lumber supply for tho whole United
States.
"In spite of the competition of tho South,
Pennsylvania still holds her own in tho pro
duction of iron and steel. One reason is that
w e can make n better quality of steel than
the South con turn out with its ores. We
have been experimenting for years in the
manufacture of steel; fortunes haebeen
sunk iu the enterprise, but now the returns
are coming in. You have coal nnd limestone
here, and experts say that the mines of
Washington produce an uncommonly flno
quality of ore. With competition cut off by
the high freight rates necessarily imposed
upon such heavy material brought from the
East, I do not see why this should not be
come a great iron producing region."
A CHAT WITH SN0WDEN,
Tlie Minister to Greece Takes Up the
Greater Part of the President's Day.
f SPECIAL TELEOKAM TO THE DISPATCII.
CArE Mat, Aug 5. Tho" President to-day
passed the greater part of tho day in look
ing over his bulky corresponden&o. He
Signed the commission of James W. Hine
ns Consul to Amhersburg. Ontario, and those
of two postmasters, one in Idaho and the
other in California. Among the callers, upon
tho President to-day were Civil Service
Commissioner A. D.Lyman and Colonel A.
Loudon Snowden, United States Minister to
Rouuianjn, Servia and Gipeoe. Tho Presi
dent and Colonel Snowden bad n chat of
over an hour, in which thoy talked of the
odvuntuges being taken by Americans in
Southern Europe in establishing educational
and other institutions.
Colonel snowden expects to get his com
mission as Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary to the three countries
ho represents. By invitation of the Presi
dent Colonel Snowden will dine with the
President to-morrow. Tho President en
Joyed his usual bath to-flay, while Mrs,
Harrison sat on tho sand on a camp chair
and wntched tho President bathe his grand
son, Little Ben.
A Slur at the Artists.
Chicago Timm.
Milwaukee iitulklng of haying a Wagner
festival. If would seem that the proper mu
sician for that town to honor is V nvorbnnr
CROWDS AT CHAUTAUUUA.
The People Contlnne to Ponr Into the Srnn
jiicr Clfj A Lecture on tho Aco or Rags
Prof, riske's Lecture on American His
tory. fSPPCIAL TELP.OPAM TO THE DISPATOTT.l
Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. IS, The crowds
continue to pour into the "Summer City" by
every train ond boat, and as a consequence
the boarding houses and hdtels are com
pletely full. Tho weather has been playing
hnvoc with the other summer resorts along
the lake, but Chautauqua seems only to
thrive on cold and cloudy days, and lower
ing skies. The temperature hero for days
has boen such that the thickest of wraps
and ovorcoats have boen in large demand.
The hotels along the lake report business aa
veiy poop, and if the weather should effect
the Chautauqua visitors likewise, life would
bo hardly worth living here; for then there
would be throe times as many at Chau
tauqua as there are now.
Whenever there Is a very well known ar
tist on tho programme,the big Amphitheater
is fairly packed with peoplo, and many
stand around oqtide till the rows are lour
and live deep, and many of the hoys and
voung gymnasts take to the rafters. The
Influx or Now York, Philadelphia and Pitts
burg visitors within the past few days lias
helped to swoll the large number who are
already hcio.
Programme of the Day.
This was the day's programme: At 8 a. m.
college prayers in College Hall; at 9 a. m..
Woman's Club, a paper on "Decorative Art
in the Home," by Mrs. Helen A. Beard, of
at. iiouis, in tito uau or rmiosopqy; at 10 a.
m., devotional hour, led by Dr. B. M. Adams,
iu tho Amphitheater; at 11 a. 21., a lecture on
"Tho Diseov ry of America," by Prof. John
Fisko, of Cambridge, in tho Amphitheater;
at '2:20 p. M., a grand concert, with Madame
Belle Colo, Mr. William H. Sherwood, Schu
mann Quartette, Miss Annie Park, Miss
Bertha Walsinger and chorns, in the Amphi
theater; at i v. Jr., a lecture on Qritics," by
Miss Agnes Reppller, in the Hall of Philoso
phy; at 5 r. nr., the C. L. s, C. Round Table in
the same place.
The following denominational prayer
meetings wore held this evening: Baptist
(Chapel). Congregationalist (the Hall of
Philosophy), Cumberland Presbyterian(Nor
mal Hal)), Disciples (Congregational House),
Lutherans (Music Hall), Methodist Episoopal
(Amphitheater). New Church (llbrarv. C. L.
S. C. building), Presbyterian (tlie Temple),
Protestant Episcopal (tho reception room,
M. E. Churoh), Reformed Episcopal (Amphi
theater office), United Presbyterian (United
Presbyterian house), United Brethren
(library, M. E. house); at 8 p. u., Wagner's
operas. "Siegfried" and "Gotterdammer
ung" (Illustrated), steropticon and musical
numbers by Mr. Homer Moore, in the Am
phitheater. Tlie Age of Rags.
Mrs. Frank Beard, in her paper before the
Women's Club this morning, said some yory
spicy things. "This is called the ago qf
rags," began the lady, "and there is more
truth than Action in tho remark. There
seems to bo a craze among women for mak
ing museums of their houses, of tying rib
bons everywhere, of putting up streamers
and portieres over every opening, and thus
making a horror of tho houso. A genuine
love of art would not allow a woman to lav
ish such kind of decorations upon her
home." The speaker scored severely Ed
ward Russell and his wall paper theory
about suiting it to the comolexlon.
Prof. John Fiske, tl)0 Cambridge historian,
continued his very delightful lectures on
early American History. He gave the gen
psis of tlio Idea of Columbus, which led to
tho discovery of America. Columbus, said
the professor, estimated the earth to bo ope
seventh smaller than it really is. He exag
gerated tho length of Asia nnd supposed it
to extend so far east that its western coast
could come to where Mexico is. Then he
supposed the island of Japan would oxtend
to w hero Cuba is, and ho (ColumbuB) argued
from a verso in the Apocrypha, that one
seventh of the Temperate zono was water,
and that that would be what he would have
to cross, which distance ho figured at 2.5C0
miles.
Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller's address at
tho opening of the Assembly last night was
very carefully prepared and elicited great
applause during its delivery. Sho closed ns
follow a:
Sirs. Miller's Address.
"Chautauqua stands for home; for all that
ennobles and purifies us; for all that exalts
and extends its influence, and has done no
greater wore than in opening tho windows
toward tho sup into a great host of shut
in lives, and in bringing tho pure philos
opher and sage to it with the mother at the
fireside, and walk with her in the round of
her daily life. She has led women to tho
shores of a new oountry, and she is gather
ing in from that country treasures and
riches, day by day, and year by year.
"Chautauqun owes to woman ono thing
more. Let her honor herself by building iu
this comingyearof discovery and conquest
a noble and beautiful building, and inscribe
over its door the words: 'Woman's Pavilion,
1S9-2. Columbus discovered America. Woman
has made it worth living in.'
Chancellor Vincent then announced that
the authorities, with a di earn of larger things
the future, had decided to call Music Hall in
honor of the distinguished pianist, Prof.
Sherwood, "Sherwood Hall."
Jn Mr. Homer Moore's illustrated lectures
pn Wagner's operas a feature has been in
troduced which will mark an epoch in popu
lar musical education. Mr. Moore is pos
sessed of a powerful barytone voice of large
compass, lie sings and speaks with perfect
case, being able to siug six or seven difficult
Wagner numbers apd speak 40 minutes with
out showing signs of fatigue. This inter
pretation at tho musical selections is tho
traditional ono left by Wagner to his Ger
man artists in Bayreuth. The most trying
and difficult parts aresungwith no apparent
effort, Miss Evelyn Cummer plays the ac
companiments and solos in a most pleasing
manner to the andiencc.
B0BN WITHOUT B0NE8.
A Very Curious Freak of Sature Said to Be
In Georgia.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 6. The Athens Banner
has a, curious story to tejl concerning a child
that is 11 ycais old and hasn't a. bono in its
body. It says:
"There is in the State of Georgia to-day a
child 11 years old, but very little larger than
when it was born, and without a bone in its
entire body.
"A citizen of Athens tells us this, and he is
a gentloman of undoubted veracity. The
names of tho parents and tho place where
they reside are not given, as they are sensi
tive on the subject.
"The child in question was born without
any bones in its body, and has lived until
now it is 11 years old. It has never grown to
any appreciable size. It has never talked,
and consequently takes no notice of its sur
roundings. "Ncccssarilv it 13 a hard thing to keep it
alive, but its parents nre very devoted to it,
and someone stays by it constantly to feed
it on milk and water. It is necessary to
give it this mixture every 15 minutes.
"Strange to say, the mother is more de
voted to it than any of her other children,
and says she would rather give any of them
up than this one.' If this child were to die
she says it would land her in tho asylum.
"This is vouched for as the truth, the
whole truth, nnd nothing but tho truth, and
the gontleman who told this knows the
name of the parents and where they live."
wlXIi INSPECT ELEVATED B0ADS.
Chicago's City Council to Go on a Jaunt
Over the Country.
Chicago, Aug. 8. The special committee
of the Chicago City Council will leave here
at 8 p. M. Thursday. The City Engineer will
accompany tho party. The committee will
investigate the elevated railway system jn
Eastern cities with a view to thepioposed
elevation of the city trucks of the Lake
Shore and the Rpck Island Railways.
Tho lirst stop will be made on Friday at
Rochester, N. T., to inspect the elevated
tracks pf the New York Central. The noxt
day they will proceed to New York City,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
They will bo absont ten days.
Read and Fonder.
TawtucVet Times,
The McKinley bill's free list, ndmitting a
large number of articles which are not pro
duced in tho United States, and in which
the protection doctrine encourages foreign
trade, increased such imports during tho
nine months ended Juno 30 from $208,983,873.
in 1889-BO to $;95,963,665 in ltDO-91, while our
dutiable imports for tho same period showed
a decrcaso from $SS9,7f6,032 to $334,212,840, so
that our total imports' increased from $598,
763,005 to $030,200,005. Yet thoy call tho Mc
Kinley tariff .a Chinese wall!
A Good Tiling far All.
Pawtnrtet Times.
The new copyright bill, tlio work of a pro
tectionist Congress, requires that foreign
books copyrighted here mast be printed and
bound here. Bookbinders in England get
SO 77 a week. Hero they get S14 a week:
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION.
How a - anker Taught an Editor a Good
' Sliver Lesson,
Washington Post.
Eight years ago Mr. James T. Hayden went
from New York to New Orleans, and to-day
ranks as ono of the leading financiers of the
Crescent City. Jlo is President of the Whit
ney Notional Bank,and came to Washington
to have a talk with Secretary Foster on
monetary matters. In conversation with a
Post reporter at the Arlington last nlgbt he
said:
"I am a Republican, but am bound to ad
mit that President Cleveland's letter on tho
stiver question was one of the best acts of
his life. He was correct in hiB position and
his party will have to acknowledge tho
soundness of his views. Don'tthink that we
of the South have gone mad aftor the free
coinage of silver. At a meeting (n Now Or.
leans the other day where 10 banks were
represented, a vote was tnken and 13 ex
pressed their hostility to silver coinage.,
"I will tell you a story for illustration.
The editor of one of our home papers pub
lished an article taking extreme pro-silver
ground. The people, he said, wanted it.
They wanted to hear the jingle of honest
money in their pockets. They wnnted sliver
for traveling expenses and various other
things. 4
Well, it happened thnt this identical ed
itor (a good friend of mine, too) came into
my bank icoeiitly and wanted S3Q0 to pay the
expensoofo trip East. Of course, I agreed
to accommodate him, nnd told an employe
to bring me n bag with BOO silver dollars in'it.
The bag was produced, but my editorial
friend refused point blank to havo the bulky
coin. Then I said to him: 'Here is an ed
itorial in this morning's issue of your paper,
penned by yourself, in which you claim peo-
?le want silver very badly iii this country,
"ou soy that they want it for their traveling
expenses, yet you are going to travel and re
fuse to take a single dollar.'
"'Now,' I continued, -don't write any mora
such stuff. It is rubbish; you don't know
what you are talking about.' He saw tho
point and smilingly took a package ot $1Q
notes Instead of tho coin he had so highly
lauded.
"Free coinage would be the most disas
trous thing that could befall us. An inter
national agreement through a congress of
nations, as the President of the Bank of
England said to me a year ago, would be the
only feasible way to bring it about, and it is
hardly worth while saying that such an
ogreement is improbable, if not impossible."
THE FOURTH E3TATE.
It Is Sullen and in Deep Unrest in Belgium
and Demanding Its Rights.
FROM A STAFF COBHEBrOSDEJf r.l
Washington, Aug. 5 A report of Cqnsul
Danforth, of Liege, in regard to the great
May strikes in Belgium, in which 100,000
tradesmen joined, contains some interesting
comments, though it is somewhat late reach
ing the public He says: "Tho significance
of the strike so great in numbers, so small
in tangiblo results is not to bo sought upon
its industrial side. It was not intended to
be, nor was it, entered upon by tho miners
as a war upon capital. Tho strike was a
significant and important social and politi
cal demonstration. Into this men and
women cnterejl earnestly and heartily, by
swelling, enthusiastic thousands. It would
bo a great mistake lor tho student of politico-sociology
to ovorlook or to underesti
mate tho meaning of those demonstrating
tens of thousands, who by banners and
Shouts nnd songs demand "Universal Suf
frage," "Eight Hours of Work, Eight Hours
of Recreation, and Eight Hours of Rest."
"The 'fourth estate' is in deep unrest. It
has become sensitive and feels its cramping
limitations. Intelligence is increasing and
with it the desire and demaud for easier
conditions of life. Tho force of numbers in
combination and under the direction for the
accomplishment of results is fust learning.
It is also learning tho heretofore unlearned
force of self-repression nnd of movement
within orderly bounds. The violent wore
tho few scores; tho orderly were the many
thousands. A straw to show in which way
the wind blows is mentioned; it is a small
thing in Itself. As n well-dressed man, in
moving about, meets the miners of 50 or 60
years of age universally ho receives a pleas
ant greeting and caps are touched; but when
ho meets tho younger men thpy take no no
tice of him. Many nmong the "fourth es
tate" bear a sullen heart.and all are resolved
upon such betterment as they can achieve.
Tho May demonstration of this year indi
cates the deepening interest that is reaching
tho inci easing numbers."
) HIES DAHLGREN'S WEDDING.
Cardinal Gibbons Will Perform the Cere
mony at Her Mother's Residence.
TFKOH A STAFF CO RESPONDENT C
Washington, Aug. 5. Tho marriage of
Miss Ulriei Dahlgreu nnd Mr. Josiah Pierce
will toko place shortly at the country home
of her mother, Mrs. M. V. Dahlgren, widow
pf Admiral Dahlgren, on South Mountain,
Md. Cardinal Gibbons will perlorm tho
marriage ceremony. There will be only a
small gathering of "most intimate friends in
vited, as tho biido-elect prefers to have the
happy occasion as quiet a one as possible.
Of the many gay house parties at Mrs. Dahl
gren's country place, this will be the first
wedding there, although tho festivities
which nccompanied tho return there of
John V. Dahlgren with his bride, Miss
Drexel, two years ago, seemed almost like
one.
Miss Dahlgren is highly accomplished and
has been her mother's right hand in dispens
ing the hospitalities of their city and coun
try homes. Mr. Josiah Pierce comes of a dis
tinguished New England family, and is the
ninth to bear his name. It is. generally
thought the young couple will make their
home with Mrs. Dahlgreu.
THE LARGEST PAINTING.
Jacopo Robustl's Execution the Quickest
and Boldest of All Artists.
New York Advertiser.
Jacopo Robusti, named Tintoretto, born at
Venice in 1512, a pupil of Titian, was an artist
whose execution was the boldest and tho
quickest, and his canvases tho largest. His
largest work is the Paradise, in the grand
salon of the Doge's Palace at Venice. Tho
painting is 64 feet wide and 34 feet high. He
was ond of the most rapid painters, but his
work snows no sign 01 nurry. we include
the decoration of walls ami ceilings, this size
has been exceeded by Sir James Thornhill's
flno painting on the ceiling of tho great hall
at Greenwioh Hospital, 102 feet by 50 feet,
representing the founders, William III. and
Queen Mary, surrounded by the attributes
of national prosneiity
Michael Angelb also executed an immense
painting of till description in tlio Sistino
Chapel of the Vatican. Ho was commis
sioned by Pope Julius II. to paint the
vaulted roof of the chapel, measuring 133
feet in length and 43 feet in width. The
painting represents the crentlon of man, his
jail, and tho early history of the world with
references to man's final redemption and
salvation.
BIG DAY FOR CHARITY TRIBUTE.
Six Persons Apply for Assistance and Two
Aro Refused.
Six stranded people applied for aid nt tho
Department of Charities yesterday. Martin
Hall, colored, who is sick and has but one
leg, was given railroad fare to Harrisburg,
Va. Two young men who came to Pittsburg
to hunt work were sent back to their homes
at Johnstown, and a young woman in poor
health was sent to Altoona, Pa.
A man applied for tickets to Myersdale for
JrWwife and two children, but a3 he could
give no valid reason for making tho applica
tion he was not supplied with tho transpor
tation. In Memory of James Hughes.
At a specinl meeting of the Press Club yos
terday afternoon memorial resolutions on
the death of James Hughes were adopted
and entered upon the minutes, Briot re
marks were also made by several members,
and Messrs. C. E. Loeke and W. C. Connellv,
jr., were selected pallbearers to represent
the club at the funeral,
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
3. Knight Gibson.
An estimable young man departed this
life at hla home in Wllkhisburg yesterday morn
ing, Jn tlie person of J. Kulglit GJbson. Tho de
ceased was in the full Tlgor of early manhood, and
annarenly had a long and useful life before 'him.
Two weeks ago that dcidly ailment, t) phold fever,
seized blm, and ho was compelled to succumb,
leaving a heart-b rokeu mother and sister to wonder
at the inscrutable ways of Providence. The
young man was for several years in the U. P. book
.rooms, and was well-known in Pittsburg In busi
ness circles, as well as to the ministers and others
who frequented the rooms. He was an earnest
church worker, being a member of the Wllkins
bnrg It. P. Church, as well as of the Y, M. C. A.
Mrs. Robert Ertrln.
Mrs. Robert Erwin, of Sewickley, died
'yesterday of consumption at Seattle. She went out
there same tlmo ago with her husband to visit rela
tives, honing that a change of climate would help
her. Iler husband started home a few days since.
He s still en route, audit Is not known whether he
7 1 i.i !. . 1 IntolllirniKtn nmnl Tha I.a.I,
will be forwarded to sewickley for burial.
OUll MAIL POUCH.
Ho Blames It nn St. Louis.
To the Editor of The Dispatch!
I do not like to seeany place as unjustly
criticised ns wos Chicago in an artlclo headed
"Pittsburg and Chicago Compared," signed
"Drummer," in the issue of The Dispatch of
the 4th inst. Some of tho assertions made in
that article nre ridiculous in the extreme,
nnd I think nobody but those having some
deep grievance or misfortune to contribute
to Chicago could speak of ft in such a tone
as that after having been there for any
length of time.
In tho first place mv.frlend speaks of tho
street car service. He-says "it is out of tlio
question to get a seat." Let him stand on
somo corner in the business portion of Chi
cago nnd he will see that the ears are
so schedulod as to bring the majority of
the m 011 the Sonthside from C to 8 a. u, and 5
to 7 p. M. in order to accommodate the work
ing closses. Now, after running them in us
closo proximity to each other as can
safely uo done, a portion of the peo-
Elc must wait a few mlnntes later,
verybody cannot expect to qnlt work
fh their respective places of business nnd
walk straight to a street car line, jump on a
car ond go homo without onv Jurtliqr delay.
My friend also thinks Chicago should havo
bridges like the St. Louis suspension bridge
or some other bridges of note. Now I will
ask him hqw they could turn them, in order
to let the vast number of steamships and
sailing vessels have full use of the Chicago
River? Qthor things too absurd to repeat
are quoted by this, perhaps, unsuccessful
drummer, and in conclusion I will venture
to sny that his name is enrolled within the
pages of the St. Louis directory, because I
am positive no other person other than a St.
Louisan would speak so disrespeotfulj''of
Chicago. L. E. Cole.
Pittsburg, August 4.
The Census Office Removals.
To the Editor or The Dispatch:
In your paper of the 3d inst. your Wash
ington stuff correspondent has nn article in
regard to the removal of certain clerks in
the Census Department, containing several
important eriors, which I hope you will
have the fairness to correct.
Your correspondent says that Mrs. Bald
win, of Meadville, "a. widow with two chil
dren," was among the clerks removed; that
she is a daughter of Mrs. Ray, of Meadville,
who "recently lost $5,000 by the Delamater
failure, the Delamaters having taken this
sum on deposit, promising good interest,
only two weeks before the crash that over
whelmed them."
In the interest of truth and fair play, will
you allow me to correct several errors in
the foregoing. First, it is not true that Mrs.
Baldwin is a widow. Second, Mrs, Ray
never had $5,0C0 in the Delamater bank.
Third, she did deposit $150 in that bank lost
October at the usual rate of interest, nearly
two months prior to the "crash," Which, I
om sorry to say, she will lose. I am sorry if
Mrs. Baldwin has lost her clerkship, bnt it
is not fair to manufacture sympathy for her
case at the expense of truth. Justice.
Meadville, August 4.
Robert Emmet's Sweetheart,
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
For the information of a few Irish people,
will you kindly inform me whether or not
Robert Emmet's sweetheart, Miss Curran,
married after his execution? P. F.
Pittsburg, August 5.
Miss Curran never married. She died
shortly after the execution of her lover, it
in said, of a broken heart. Her story is tod
by Washington Irving in his sketch book In
the story entitled "Tho Broken Heart," and
also by Moore in the poem, of which the fol
lowing is tho first stanza:
She is far from the land where her young hero''
sleeps,
And lovers around her are sighing;
But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps.
For her heart in hki grave is lying.
The Triple Alliance.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What is the Triple Alliance and what are
its objects? t Inquirer.
McKeesport, August 5.
The Triple Alliance is a league, chiefly for
dofensivo purposes, between Germany,
Anstro-Hungary and Itnlystensloly to pre
serve tho peace of Europe, but really to
"isolate" France nnd discourage her from
attempting to retake Alsace and Lorraine.
The Republican Convention in 1884.
To tho Edltotof The Dispatch
What was the vote on tho first and lost
ballots In the Republican National Conven
tion in 18S4? G. L.
Allegheny, August 5.
On the first ballot Blaine had 334 votes;
Arthur, 278; Edmunds, ,93; Logan, : Sher
man, 30; Hawloy, 13; Lincoln, 4, and W. T.
Sherman, 2. On the fourth and last ballot
Blaine had 541; Arthur, 207, Edmunds, 41;
Hawley, 15; Logan, 7, and Lincoln, 2.
Christening a Club.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Wo are five boys, between the ages of 13
and 15, and we have organized a little social
plnb, but cannot think of an appropriate
name for the same. Now, if you would
kindly suggest some motto which yon think
suitable lor our club, you would greatly
oblige Five Bor Readers.
Pittsburg, August 4.
How would "Tho Five Friends," or "The
Faithful Five," or "Tho Merry Minors," or
"The Social Five," or "The Teens Social" do?
FAMINE IMMINENT IN MEXICO.
Too Much Rain In One Section and Nono In
Other Rnlns Crops.
St. Louis, Aug. 5. The latest advices from
the City of Mexico nre to tho effect that a
great deal of apprehension is felt in that
country in regard to crop prospeots. An
alarming state of affairs exists in the princi
pal grain-producing districts, owing to long
continued drouths, while in the State of
Vera Cruz, where largo crops were expected
to bo harvested, heavy rains, which have
fallen incessantly since the 15th ultimo,
have caused the Popaloapam and San Jnan
rivers to lenvo their banks, and the exten
sive farming tracts along their banks are
under water. All crops in consequence nre
reported to be a failure, and the situation iu
Vera Cruz is desperate.
Cotton has been heavily damaged, and the
city of Tlocotalpam is threatened. Tho
rivers are increasing in volume, and the peo
plo residing there fear a total destruction of
the place. The crops between Tnxtepec
and Omattan havo been swept away, and
these two towns are under water, as are also
four other towns. The corn crop of Sota
vento which promised a largo yield this sea
son, is a total loss nnd inundated for
miles. Hundreds of cattle have been ruined.
The fruit crop is a partial loss, and if the
flood coptinues every tree will be killed.
Unless a good drencning rain falls in tho
drouth-stricked districts within the next
three or lour days a complete failure of tho
props will result, and a lumiue stares the
people in the face.
Ho WH1 Never Sncceed.
Boston Globe
As Jlr. Blaine continues to impvovo In
health the President occasionally uses his
discretionary power in the matter of reci
procity by tinkering with a few odds and
ends in some distant country, in order to
divert attention from Blaine's great win
ning point. He means to steal Mr. Blaine's
reciprocity thunder if he can.
- WHY THEY TWINKLE.
When Evo had led her lord away.
And Cain had killed his brother.
The stars and flowers, tho poets say.
Agreed wltn one another
To cheat the cnnnlng tempter's art.
And toach the race its duty.
By keeping on Its wicked heart
Their eves of light and beauty.
A million sleepless lids, they say,
Will be atleast a warning;
And so the flowers would watch by day.
The stars from eve to morning.
On hill and prarie, fleld and lawn.
Their dewy eyes upturning,
The flowera still watch from reddening dawn
Till western ekies are burning.
Alas I each hour of daylight tells
A tale of shame so crushing
That some turn white as sea-bleached shells.
And some are always blushing.
But when the patient stars look dawn
On all their light discovers
Tho traitor's smiles, the murderer's frown.
The lips of lying lovers
They try to shut their saddening eyes,
And in the valu endeavor
We see them twinkling In, the sktea,
Aud so they wink forever.
0. )!'. UoUuet in the Chicago Timet.
SOCIETT AND CHARITY.
Ridge Avenue Orphans Tak an Oating
Social World Gossip.
The Protestant Orphans' Home, op Ridge
avenue, Allegheny, is comparatively empty
at present. Many of the children are away,
to afford opportunity for tberegnlarsninmer
house-cleaning of tho institution. The sum
mer home of the asylum, at Beljovue, is
known as Eoseburg, nnd there are 107 of the
little ones there now. The place is large and
picturesque, with plenty ofapples and other
irnit, and the children" are havlnga splendid
lvin naltilhM l...AliL .1 h&h.h1 n4V nrAr
."', """(j 111TU1W1 U11U. B.reJfgLt an ciwj
inhalation of the invigorating atmosphere.
This leaves 40 of the orphans at home. They
W'.u go io ueiievue about the 22d inst., wnen
the others have had their summer outing.
There are about ", of tlin Inmates of the
Home visiting friends and relatives. The
school term will commence the second Tues
day in September.
The most important society event of the
midsummer season in McKeesport vicinity
was tho wedding yesterday afternoon of
Mr. George L. Kunzo, a prominent young
business man of Detroit, and Miss Grace,
daughter of the lute William Oliver, at the
Oliver homestead in Duqupsno. The cere
mony was porformed bv Rev. C. E. Locke, of
Pittsburg. The affair was a very quiet ono,
but few guests outside of the immediate
family being present. A special Pullman
car carrying Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Rae, of
Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Matlack, of
Pittsbnrg, nnd Mrs. Ewin and daughter,
Blanche, of Turtle Creek, arrived over the
Pennsylvania road. The ceremony took
place at 8 o'clock. The couple left on the
limited last night on an extended trip to the
Eastern watering places, nfter which they
Will settle down in Detroit.
The fourth of the scries of concerts In the
Allegheny parks, arranged by tlie Pittsburg
JPreM, was given last night. The affair was
under the auspices of the First Regiment U.
A. M., or Pittsburg, the music being furn
ished by the band of that order. Prof. Chas.
W. Gaston is the director, and he rendered
an excellent programme. The first number
was the "United Amoricnn Mechanics'
March," composed by Prof. Gaston. The
rest ot the programme was of the light ond
popular order, and it was easy to see that
the people were delighted. It is estimated
that there were from 10,000 to 15,000 people
E resent. The weather was perfect, and the
est order prevailed. The concert was an
unequivocal success.
A painty wedding party gathered In St.
John's R. C. Church yesterday morning. The
bride was Miss Annie S. McCabe, daughter
of a wealthy resident of Lawrenceville, and
the groom Mr. William A. Conway, a young
business man of Baltimore. Rev. Father
McKeever conducted the wedding ceremony.
The bride has been director of the choir of
St. John's Church for a long time. The
young couple have gone East on a bridal
trip. They will reside in Baltimore.
The wedding of Miss Alice R., daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frisbee, of Marion ave
nue, Allegheny, to Mr. J. O. Moore, the well-
known broker of Fourth avenue, wiU take
place this evening at the residence of the
bride's parents. The occasion will be very
quiet. Rev. Charles E. Locke will be the
officiating minister.
Social Chatter.
nESRT Hackman and wife celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary of their marriage at
their home, 77 Plymouth street, Duquesne
Heights, last night, A number of friends
spent the evening with the couple, and
there was a very pleasant time.
William McCreert has joined his family
at Muskoko Lake. They will remain there
for the rest of the month.
Hon. J. L. Graham and family are at Mt.
DewioKiey, in uieir cottage. J.ney expect to
remain several weeks.
READY FOR A CHANGE.
The Resnlt of the Cherokee Indian Elec
tion Recently Held.
Talequah, I. T., Aug. 5. All the returns of
the Tnlequah and Illinois districts show a
handsome majority for J. B. Mayes, the
Downing nominee for chief. The Downings
are jubilant over the result, as these Wo.
districts were depended upon by the Na
tionals to give them a heavy majority.
Five out of nine districts have been heard
from, and show that Chief Mayes is leading
in the race. The Nationals concede the
election of Mayes. The re-election of Chief
Mayes clearly indicates that the Cherokee
people are ready for a change in their form
of government, as Chief Mayes in bis entire
campaign opposed all of tho men.
FARMERS ARE HOLDING RACK.
Tennessee Mlllmen Forced to Go Away fop
Their Wheat.
Chattanooga, Tknn., Aug. 5. The AUianco
men of this section seem to bo taking seri
ously the advice, given by the order to hold
wheat for higher prioes. One resnlt here is
that millers are forming a league to pur
chase Western grain, they claiming that tho
middle Tennessee farmers, with the Alliance
behind them, will sell only at enormous
prices.
The grain has gone np from 82 to 90 cents
in a week and ilour has advanced 25 cents
per barrel. As a matter of fact the mills
have so far succeeded in rnnnine: on East
Tennessee wheat, but the supply will bo in-'
adequate to tno wants oi tne nour makers.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
Captain J. T. Jones, of Bradford, went
out to McDonald yesterday to look at tho
field. A lew years ago he had the largest
individual production in the world. He says
the present low price ot oil is due to over
production, and he has advocated all along
another shutdown movement. The oil men
ore losing money. Their bonk accounts
show it.
Attorney Charles K. Yeagcr has returned
from o nine day business and fishing trip to
tho eastern pnrt of the State. Ho says that
flshing was not a success. Thero has been
there, as here, a great deal of rain, nnd the
water is so thick that the flsh got mud in
their eyes and could not And a hook.
Rev. T. Gillespie, iaeoretaryof the Presby
terian Board ot Foreign Missions, accom
panied by his wife, passed through Pitts-
Dnrg yesteruay morning on ins way to Asia.
He intends toinspscta number of the mis
sions abroad.
F. J. McWade, general baggage agent ot
tho Pennsylvania road, was in Detroit this
week seeing how the baggage was handled
there. He thinks the next encampment will
be held in Washington, and he wants to be
ready for it.
President W. A. Hughort, of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana road, was in the city
yesterday. Ho left for the East last evening
with his wife tospond the month of August.
County Commissioner Mercer is taking
fart in the G, A. E. demonstration at De
loit, nnd at its conclusion expects to spend
it short time at Mt. Clements, Mich.
Miss Johnson, of Cincinnati, is visiting
Sirs. W. D. Hartupee at her pretty summer
home in Charleroi. Miss Johnson was one
of Mrs. Hartupee's brideinaids.
Movor Wyman, Chief Murphy, Council
man Ueorge Curry and Undertaker Fairman,
of Allegheny.lelt lor Atlantic City last even
ing for a plunge in the ocean.
Superintendent of Motive Power Cassa
nano, of the Ft. Wayne road, with a party of
6ix friends, occupied a special car going to
the seashore last evening.
A. C. Overholt, of Scottdale, and Charles
Green, of Newcastle, wore among the arri
vals at the Seventh Avenue Hotel last even
ing. W. D. Bowden, in the cashier's depart
ment of the P. V. & C. road, left for Atlantic
City last evening to spend his vacation.
Attorney A. C. O'Brien and wife leave
this morning for Ji trip to St. Paul and
thiough the lake region generally.
D. E. Hill, the Akron sewer pipe manu
facturer, and R. J. Ileatty, ot Tiffin, are
registered at the Anderson.
District Passenger Agent Samuel Moody
left with his family yesterday to put in his
vacation nt Mackinac.
H. W. Harris, of Alliance, and R. M.
Fox and wire, ot Fairmount, are stopping at
tho Duquesne.
Glenn T. Braden. superintendent of the
National Transit Pipe line, aud his ife aro
in tho city.
Judge Ewing, of Uniontown, was a pas
senger on the limited last evening for Chi
cago. Trainmaster Clup, of the Pennsylvania
road, has gone to Atlantic City on his vaca
tion. Ed P. Creighton and P. J. Forsyth, of
Coal Center, are at the Mouongahela House.
D. B, Bell, of Du Bois, is among the
guests at the Schlosser.
H. B. Brockett left yesterday for an out
ing in West Virginia.
The family of J. P. .Andrews went to tho
seashore last night.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The average height of the clouds from
the earth is about one mile.
There are 720 women lecturers in this
country who charge admission, to say noth
ing of the thousands of curtain lecturers.
The king or horseshoe crab chews its
food with its legs; the little animal grinding
its morsels between its thighs before it
passes thorn pver to its mouth.
The story comes from Quitman, Ga,
that recently, while a number of persons
were fishinir near there, the fish, blinded bv
tho light, jumped into the boat and many
were caught that way.
Rumsellers in Portland, Me., are said to
be selling lager beer disguised as "Uno."
It's an old dodge. An Auburn man sold
lager in sarsuparilla bottles lor years and
escaped without a scratch.
A small eolored boy in the Cherokee
nation was very sick and the doctors treated
him for consumption. The other day he
had a severe lit of coughing and vomited up
nsnnke about six inches long. He is now
getting over his attack of consumption.
A Brooklyn citizen who was attacked
and bitten on the arm as he was passing
along a public street in that city has been
lined $15 by a local magistrate for cruelty to
nnimnls, as he managed to deal a coudIb of
telling blows on the head of the attacking
animal.
Fraulein Lepper made a considerable
sensation at a convention of lady abstainers
at Melbourne from all the Australian col
onies by making a vigorous attack on tea.
In her opinion, next to alcohol, the greatest
master of the human will and destroyer of
vitality is tea.
It was long thought that the water from
melted snow was the purest of all water.
This idea has been proven incorrect, as the
reverse is the case. Snow i3 really a purifier
of the atmosphere, attracting from it, as it
falls, various impurities; and these are
found in the snow-water.
A shop sign in London reads: "Plots
for novels or short stories. Prices reason
able." The occupant of the shop is said to
have a rare talent for devising plots, bnt no
great powers of narration, so he is supposed
to make his living by selling skeleton plots
for stories In cheap papers.
At Portsmouth, O., last week an owl
entered the chicken coop of Mrs. Long, and
when she attempted to drive it away with a
club the bird turned upon her savagely, and
it was with the greatest difficulty that she
succeeded in killing it. The owl measured
over five feet from tip to tip.
By a novel device heavy guns can now
be aimed and fired with the greatest accu
racy, without exposing the gunners and
without theif even seeing the object to be
fired at. The principle used is that of so
training the gun as to canse the object to be
fired at to be reflected upon a screen at the
rear of the gun.
Shells for firing high explosives have
been patented abroad, in which a receptacle
is made containing compressed air. By
suitable appliances this air is released sud
denly, thus furnishing the propelling power.
Great range, no roulingof the gun, scarcely
any noise, and no smoke are thus obtained,
combined with great rapidity of fire.
The Rutland division of the Central
Vermont Railroad crosses the mountains at
Mount Holly, Summit station being 1,440 feet
above the sea. Near that station, when the
railroad was building, tho tusks or a large
elephant were dug up, and they are pre
served to-day in the Vermont State Capitol
and so is the skeleton of a whale, 140 feet in
length, which was discovered in 1849 in the
town of Charlotte while some excavations
were being made. This was 150 feet above
sea level and 60 feet above the level of Lake
Champlain.
Eugene Footer, of Bath, Me., has a dog
that ha values highly. Footer was at work
tearing down a building the other day, made
a misstep, fell 20 feet and lay unconscious.
His dog, Spot, was near at hand and at once
trotted off after help. He went directly to
the house of Mr. Footer's grandfather, found
his old gentleman and commenced tugging
at his trousers leg and then runulng off a
short distance and barking. He repeated
this several times before Mr. Footer thought
that an accident had happened. When he
did understand, he followed the dog to the
house and found his grandson.
A report has been made by the desig
nated oommittee upon the qnestion of pro
viding suitable accommodations, for young ;
njen, clerks and others living in London on
moderate Incomes. It proposes to erect a
series of dwellings like the Peabody build
ings, properly situated with an eye to bust?
ness, to accommodate 450 tenants, each to
havo a Bitting room with bed alcove, for
from 10 shillings to 18 shillings a week.
There will be common reception and dining
rooms, library, reading, writing, lecture,
smoking, billiard and recreation rooms.
In July, 1888, Captain Joseph Lowe, of
York, He., filled his bed with grass which he
had cat for that purpose. Soon after Mrs.
Lowe thought she felt something moving
under her side of the bed, bnt the Captain
told her it was imagination. Captain Lowe
was afterward sick and laid on that'side of
the bed, when he felt tho same motion. In
April, 1889, ho died, hut not till Tuesday of
last week was the bed opened and emptied,
when out came a live, healthy, but terribly
hungry turtle. lie was ravenous and would
snap at anything offered him, it is said. The
straw or hoy for two feet across was "chewed
very fine."
Milo, the island of the Cyclades in
which the famous "Ycnus of Milo" was dis
covered, hasj again been the scene of the un
earthing of a splendid example of ancient
Hellenic art. The new "find" is the marblo
statue of a boxer, somewhot above life-size,
which is almost as perfect after its burial
under the dust of centuries as it was when
it came fresh from the hands of the sculptor.
The statuo has been shipped to Athens,
where a commission of Greek archajolocists.
aided by some members of the German
Arcnteoiogicai institute in Ainens, wm re
port upon the period of its origin and its
probable creator.
Frank S. Kinney was a business man to
begin with, but he nad nothing to do with
tobacco in his early life. He was interested
in railroad building, and his business took
blm to South America. There ho learned to
smoke cigarettes ond he became very fond
of them. He was a prodigious smoker, and
when he returned to New York the habit
was communicated to some of his friends.
They kept him busy rolling cigarettes for
them. After a littfe while he made a ma
chine to turn out the cigarettes for himself
andt bis friends. There was such a demand
for them that the Idea struck him that it
might bo a good scheme to start a cigarette
factory and introduce the cigarette to
America. And this is how he came to be
worth anywhere from 2,C00,0C0to $5,000,000.
It is said that lie can raise $2,000,000 at 24
hours notice.
THE JUDGE'S JOKES.
Primus Has Wormley found a boarding
house yet?
Secundns No. He won't haye any bat a fashion
able one.
Primu3 Fastidious, eh?
Secundum Yes. Re says it must be on a street
where there are no boarding houses.
"Where is Johnny Tivington?" inqnired
the Sunday school teacher, looking np from the
Bible that he was reading.
"He went out between the Acts," repUed little
Sammy Brown.
Algy Barkeep, you may give me aw
a cocktail.
Barkeeper What kind? I make IS different sorb
AigyAw the best one to start the day with, yer
know. I'll be in for the other fawteen laterl
Of course the fashions change. Each season
sees
Some color new for hats or gown or shoes.
Why not? In autumn even maple trees
Itefuse to use the lines they used to use.
She How time does fly in the summer!
He Ya-as, it's fly lime!
"And are yon an old sea-dog, as they
say?" asked the fresh young woman.
I h'am," returned the sailor.
"Do let me hear you bark," said she.
Spatts That man seemed to be pleased
when you called him "Old Sport." Is he much of
a sporting man?
Bloobumper No; he's Secretary of the Young
Men's Christian Association.
Moddox I think I'll have to discharge
young Cubbage.
tiazzam Oh, it'scrnelto Are a man this warm
weather.
"Pa," said Bobby, "look at that striped
horse."
And the old farmer gazed on the zebra at tho cir
ccs and said, "Yes; looks ez If he'd 'scaped front
some penitentiary, b'goshl"
Powell Why did the 3Ionocle Club black
ball a celebrity Hke Button?
Uoweu So as to be thought exclusive and thus
treble their applications for membenhln.
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