"fW THEF prTTSBUBG DISPATCH?--' FRIDAY; 'AUGUST 7,," 18931 JNje B$pJeJj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1940. Vol. .2o. 181. Entered at Pittsburg rostcfilce, o ember H, lSsr. as Fecond-class matter. .Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. fASTTBX ADVERTISING OFFICE. BOOM 3. TRIBUNE UCILDIMS, NEW YORK, where com plete Hlea of THE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertiser apnreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends oflHE DISPATCH, hl! in i e v York, are also made welcome. THE DTSPATCHtt rctrtlarllion mteatJIrrntnttn't, f Vmm. Htmre. .Va Tori, anrtir Arm fe rfpm, Ji-t. France. Khere anyone xpAo haji ben. aisap pmntMata hotel nncsttaad canobtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. roETacr free is the xtsttzd states. Dailt Difpatcu, One Tear S00 Daily Dispatch. Fcr Qnarter. 2 CO Daily Dipatcii, OneMouth 70 Daily DisrATCIi, including Sunday, 1 year . 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sundav, Sm'ths. 250 Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 m'tb.. 90 FrxriAY Dispatch, One Year 250 IVcleli DrsrATCH, One Year. J 25 Tns Daily DitPATcn is delliered by carriers at 15 cents per cck, or. Including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per week. PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1SS1. GOLDEX ori'ORTUVmEl The idea advanced by one, who has been Investigating cheap water transportation for Pittsburg products, that the great natural advantages here and prosperit already resulting therefrom make some of our manufacturers indifferent to plans of further extension of the city's interest, may not be without foundation as to special cases, but we should regret to think it has a general application. Pitts burg has always been- conservative. The private enterprises conducted here are of such magnitude as to call in themselves for almost the entire attention of their conductors. That this attention has been well bestowed is shown in the great suc cess of Pittsburg industries. But, that there has been a general awakening lately among both manufacturing and mercantile classes to the changing conditions of these later days is no less true. The activities which are stirring other regions have not escaped the attention of Pittsburg. The advantages of cheaper and more ample transportation, both by water and rail, are, we think, more impressed upon all classes of our people now than ever before. Se cure as all are in their confidence that this city's future path must be one of progress, we think it has entered into a great many minds that by thoughtful and concerted effort much may be done to facilitate and enlarge that progress. This Is the spirit of lie age. With few exceptions all American cities are manifesting this spirit; sad it would be strange if even remarka ble prosperity in the past had made Pitts burg an unenviable exception. The fact is, the growth of this country is proceeding at such an enormous rate that it is difficult for communities or indi viduals who are not constantly and intelli gently alert to grasp in full measure the new opportunities which new conditions are creating. "Whatever tends to direct the thoughts of our home people along that line is timely. It is quite true that Pittsburg manufacturers in the past, oc cupied with their large establishments, attempted but little in a concerted way for the development of the city, but the situ ation in later years has changed Immense 1. The interests which now center here are vastly mow than those of one or two industries. Instead of being confined within a single municipal corporation they spread out thickly and numerously over a populous region for 100 miles around. If the period of recent growth is to be lik ened to the seven fat Mne of Pharoalrt dream, we may be sure that the first ap pearance of the seven lean kine will quickly spur all concerned Into a sharper appreciation of the value of improving to the full every opportunity at their doors. But the fact remains none the less, as constantly urged by TheDispatch, that it is in the season when means are abundant stages should be laid np for emergencies. It , nowv when opportunities for the ex tension botti of home and foreign trade seem to bo presenting themselves in this quarter in a most striking way, that our people should be on the alert to study and develop them. Everyone who remembers the years of profound depression, disaster and lethargy which followed the panic of "3 can recall how difficult, almost impos sible, it is to effect in dull tunes undertak ings which are readily set afoot when money is abundant and confidence in the minds of o:. Where, therefore, there may happen to be one or two who feel ih special interest in the discussion of such new problems as canal and river trans portation and the development of our domestic and foreign trade, we are pleased to believe there are hundreds who take a deep and vital interest in these matters. A POOR TKIEXD OF LABOR. Tbat Ohio Democrats are badly split on the diver question is indicated by the fact that at every opportunity Hon. M. D. Harter, Congressman-elect, has him self interviewed ir opposition to his party's position. Mr. Harter takes the proper ie w of the question, and has the courage of his convictions. He will neither allow himself to be whipped into line, nor will he keep silent. Ever since the Cleve land convention he has criticized the plat form of his party, taking chances on his t-.tend injuring the prospects of the Demo-, erotic candidates. Mr. Harter argues that it is robbery to ask the laboring man to accept a short dollar for his v.ork, as he would undoubt edly be compelled to do if the Democratic free silver ideas were carried out. How ever, it appears inconsistent for Mr. Har ter to be so solicitous for the laboring man's interests on the silver question and yet stand up for free trade of the most ex treme variety. While anxious for the workers to receive a full value dollar, he is willing that the tariff should be removed and Europe's cheap labor productions should be aiowed to flood our markets. If he proposes to stand in the position of a friend to American labor he should get on the right side of the tariff as well as the silver question. A BLIGHTED COTTON CROP. A few weeks ago Southernfarmers were wondering what they would do with their prospective large cotton crop. Now they are bewailing the army worm and wet weather a combination death to cotton. Prom present appearances the crop has been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent, and unless there is a decided improvement it will be far below last year's production. Prom almost every locality comes the same gleemy rpport Though it is now time to begin picking, the crop will not bo ready for two weeks, and in many sections will be hardly worth gatherine- For several years the cotton crop has ; been large, and as a consequence prices were low. This greatly bothered the planters, and the Farmers Alliance has been making an effort to reduce the cot ton area, but without success. Southern farmers have been giving almost exclusive attention to cotton and buying their wheat, corn and meat Thus when the crop fails or is injured they are in much worse position than if they raised at least enough cereals for their own use. Even with a small crop of cotton this year the price will not be greatly advanced. The supply last year exceeded the demand by several million bales, and this will make up the deficit in the market As a usual thing small crops are in a measure made up for by the increased price, but the cotton planters have not even this comfort this year. When the Southern farmers realize that cotton is a King sub ject to ills that harm not hardier products of the soil they will curtail the area ,and cultivate more of those articles which will yield golden returns with less trouble-and outlay. SAVED BY THE M'KINLEY BILL. The New Tori World has opened its columns to a discussion of the tariff ques tion, and if it profits by the arguments ad vanced by manufacturers who contribute to it, that journal will soon be numbered among the champions of tho "home mar ket for home manufactures," The latest contribution was from Mr. Alfred Dodge, the piano manufacturer, who discusses "The actual effects of the McKinley bill upon the piano and wool felt industries." After showing that the advanced tariff will only increase the price of a piano about 27 cents, Mr. Dodge proceeded to show a phase of the tariff which the free traders very seldom touch upon, because it is dangerous ground for them. In 1875, says Mr. Dodge, wool felt was manufactured by sixteen establishments, employing 2,860 hands and producing annu ally 55,730,000 worth of goods. The reduc tion of the tariff in 1883 caused the num ber of establishments to be reduced to seven, employing 1,450 hands and pro ducing about 52,900,000 worth of goods an nually. This was caused by a powerful German wool felt trust flooding the mar ket as soon as the tariff was reduced, in order to drive out American competition. They were able to do this as they had the advantage of cheap labor. In Germany the wool felt workers receive 2 cents per hour and in America they are paid from 15 to 20 cents per hour. Had not the McKinley bill put a stop to the operations of the German trust, it would have in a short time been able to crowd out the rest of the American wool felt manufacturers and put up the price to suit itself. It is a free trade argument that goods were cheaper after the tariff was reduced, but that was only because the German trust was trying to get the whole market to itself. That accom plished, they would force the argument en tirely away from our free trade friends. They have the great advantage in Europe of being able to hire men for less than one-half what Americans will work for, and when it comes to a fight they are not hurt, while American manufacturers who pay I'ving wages are driven to the wall. Not only in the wool felt industry does this condition exist, but in many other departments of trade. With the help of the duty on wool felt those now employed will not only be protected, but the business will be so stimulated that ere long the other 1,500 will get back to their old employment if they so desire, and a field will be opened np for hundreds of others besida. This is where the "home market for home manu factures works both ways, keeping prices in check and ultimately often re ducing tnej, whiU furnishing profitable employmentto home working people. A SOCIALISTIC FLAK OF REST. The International Socialist Workmen's Congress, which is to meet at Brussels on the 16th, will have before it a mass of hard nuts to crack, Judging from the list of questions to be discussed. Some of them are very timely and others are mat ters that might as well be left severely alone. If they succeeded in correcting all the alleged abuses they name employ ers would find it to their advantage to change places with the men. One of the most peculiar ideas of the congress is to suppress the piece-working system. That is a system whioh has worked greatly to the advantage of the men wherever it is used and they are thus able to earn better wages than by "day work." By this system the expert work man gets his due and his wages are not regulated by what his slower neighbor does. It is also of advantage to the em ployer, as he is not compelled to pay the idler for doing a day's work when he does not do more than a few hours' work. It Is extremely socialistic for men to demand work by the day so that they do not lose by idle moments, and that is what the idea of the cougress apparently is; but the most skilled and competent working men will not indorse a unlversaLapplica tion of the rule. ROYALTY'S HOURS OF PLEASURE. Old World royalty is making a special effort this summer to display Its grandeur. Our big and little European neighbors are having a great time with each other at the expense of their subjects. At present Russia is doing the elegant to the young King of Servia, a youth who rules a few millions of people. This King quietly re mained at home the first of the season, but .is now going to make the best of his op portunity to exhibit himself to the world. In England the Prince of Naples is the guest of his cousin, the Prince of Wales. This young man has gained quite a repu tation there at the expense of a back num ber American humorist Among his many witty stories is one about "Papa threaten ing to sing if mamma didn't take off her glasses, which made her look hideous." Of course papa's inability to sing made his threat dangerous, and mamma quickly obeyed her royal spouse. This may have been a very good story when new, but it is several years older than the Prince of Na ples or his royal mamma. Notwithstand ing its age, British society people laughed and enjoyed the joke hugely. It will give the author, if he js alive, great pleasure to know that somebody has at last been per suaded to laugh ot it The gentleman who proposes to buy smoke consumers to present to firms whose chimneys send out dense volumes of smoke shows the right spirit. However, it is not probable that many will refuse to adopt consumers if they can find good ones as cheap as some are advertised. Business men will certainly not continue to allow smoke from their chimneys to cause damage to others when so small an outlay of money will remedy tho evil. The good citizens ot Saratoga declare that tho saloon, gambling and horse racing are destroying beautiful Saratoga. When they succeed in crowding these things out the resort will be accessibleHo others than millionaires. An Indianapolis Journal correspondent from Abraham Lincoln's old home is trying to disprove tho story that the martyred President started life as a rail splitter. It is to be hoped lie will not succeed, as that would kuock all tho romance out of rait splitting, and fanners would have more i trouble than ever keeping their boys at work. Kansas statesmen have concluded that either Prohibition or the Republican party must go in that State. As the Presidental campaign is drawing nigh it is" not hard to guess which, will be sacrificed. r Nctwithstandiko the recent statement that the Czar was growing lenient toward the Hebrews, the news from Russia details another outrage against these persecuted people. Apparently there is nothing for them to do but forsake their homes and try their fortunes in strangelands whose rulers are more -hospitable. The whaleback barge, the ship canal and slackwater in the Ohio may not be enjoyed by all now here, but they should be left as a blessed heritage for those to follow after. PrrrsnuKG willsoon be called upon to welcome another college, the Duqucsne, which will ask for a charter to-morrow. The twin' cities have many good educational institutions, but are always happy to wel coma new recruits, especially when they have as good talent at tho head as has the Duquesne. American windmills have been placed on the free list by San Domingo. This on the eve of a campaign may leave some stumps unoccupied. The bringing of a physician from Italy to the bedside of Mr. Blaine will start afresh the rumors concerning the statesman's physical condition. Tho public should know the truth about a public man. Dr. Baldwin will be doing the nation a service by telling Just what ails bis distinguished patient. Washtstgion could not get the World's Fair, but she has secured the Grand Army Encampment for next year, which should be sufficiont-consolation. Eddie Selteet, a New York boy, has badly upset the theories of all doctors and scientific men by his persistence in living with a rifle bullet in his brain. He received the wound seven w eeks ago and is now able to talk about it. The science of surgery is making rapid advancement. Blaixe is getting all the cheers at the Now York Republican Club Convention. Such significant straws hardly tickle the Harrison boomers. Notwithstanding the terrors of elec trocution New York City has a murder or two nearly every day. It is possible that the experts have been too successful in their endeavors to convince people that electro cution is entirely painless, and death is robbed of its terrors. New York has secured the Chieftainship of the G. A. R. Now she should stop sulk ing and prepare to do her duty at the Chi cago show. A New Yobk man went out on a revel, and after it was over advertised for all un liquidated debts contracted during his spree. Dollars to doughnuts repentance and a desire to square up came at an early hour in the morning while his head was on ice. The Kansas farmers have decided to do their own wheat cornering this timo,. and will also do their own squealing. Russia is bent on bloodshed. After testing her new shot and steel on the docile Coreans she will be in position to let loose tho dogs of war by land and sea, and give the European geography makers something sub stantial to work on. UAMES THAT OFTEN APPBAB. A Pabis item says that "the novelist,. Saltus, promenades the boulevards daily, a sad, forlorn figure, arrayed in black." Mrs. Fbemont and her daughter are now in possession of the house that was pre sented to them by a committee of Los Angeles ladies. It is a pretty and comforta ble cottage, and cost, with th. lot on which tt stands, $3,000. Among the manuscripts left by the late Count von Moltko, Prof. Felix Dahn, his biographer, has found a "Confession of Faitli." The great Marshal affirms his be lief in God and a future life. The "Confes sion" will be published among tho other works. Miss Cora V. DrEHT, was elected. Regis ter of Deeds, in Logan county Oklahoma. Her opponents carried the case into the courts. The oholce of the people was sus tained, and now the pretty Alliance girl takes the office and a large section of ac crued salary. Sweet champagne has been distinctively a lady's wine, and so it is interesting to know that the German Emperor drinks it in preference to dry champagne. A tipple that suit a bold war lord ought to be strong enough for the dudes who havo hitherto 4 devoted themselves to vin see. M. Waddwgton, the French Ambassa dor to the Court of St. James, has ;the big gest plum in the diplomatic pie, his salary being $00,000. And yet there is reason to be lieve that if he had only his salary to live upon he would soon be forced to retire, for the ornate splendor of the receptions given at the Embassy more than absorbs his princely allowance. Chief Justice Field and Mrs. Field are up in the White Mountains. The Judge is a terrific pedestrian, and his legs are ab solutely tireless, as many a rash man who has volunteered to acoompany him on his excursions can attest. Be has olimbed about every peak of note, butissoinlove with the storied hills that he does not care to spend his vacations elsewhere. Colonel Totjetellottb, who was bur ied at La Crosse, Wis., a few days ago, was the commander at Altoona, Go., to whom Sherman first sent the instructions to "hold the fort." Later, when General Corse took charge and the fort was attacked, Tourtel lotte, as well as Corse, was wounded. Wis consin feels that her son deserves a large share of the credit of that famous incident. Colonel John P. Bbownlow emphat ically denies the story lately printed that his father, the famous "Parson" of the Knox ville Whig, once wrote an editorial in de fense of secession and then changed his vio ws because a rival got ahead of him. The Colonel says; "No such thing occurred. So far from his having overwritten an editorial in favorof secession I know that he never hesitated a moment regarding that question. He was always against secession, and I am sure you would not find a Confederate to day to Knoxvllle who will say otherwise." MEETING OF HAMLIN AND LINCOLN. It Was Not Until the Day After Their Nomination in 1860. Chicago Herald. Hannibal Hamlin never met Abraham Lin coln until the day after their nomination in May, 1S60. The introduction took place in tho old Tremont House in Chicago, and from the beginning the two candidates seemed mutually prepossessed with each other, a feeling which developed afterward Into a profound friendship unshaken even by the political exigencies that made Andrew Johnson Lincoln's choice as running mate when he made his second campaign. Mr. Hamlin used to tell with a great deal of glee the manner of his receiving the news of his nomination. He was sitting in one of the rooms of the eld Tremont playing euchre with a party of politicians. Suddenly the noise of many feet was heard in the corridor without. Such events were not unusual In a hotel filled with delegates, so the game was not interrupted. Butjustasadealhadbeen finished nnd the trump turned, Schuyler Colfax burst in to the room, without stopping to rap at the door, and announced: "Come, come, Hamlin, this is no place for you. You're nominated for Vice President and must come and make a speech." "So I went over to the hall and made them a little talk," Mr. Hamlin used to add pa thetically, "but it spoiled the -very best lone hand I ever held." AMERICAN LADIES ABROAD. The Attempt to Move in London Society Easy to Be Presented to the Queen Other Features Which Are Bather More Difficult. It is an American's privilege to flaunt at aristocracy and to love lords, says the Lon don correspondent of the Boston Herald. There used to be a notion that only an En glishman deurlyloveda lord, but it is high time to overhaul that ancient superstition and arrange it up to date. Who that lives in London can doubt, the fascination of titles when he sees hundreds of Americans yearly devoting their time, their treasmo and their peace of mind to the engaging pur suit of nobility hunting? Few of yon at home realize the rate of annual increase in the numbers of our countrymen and women arriving hcio In the season for the conquest of society. But every year the numbers glow, it cannot uosaui mat tno numbers of conquests grow in proportion to the num bers ot arrivals from over-sen. In truth, tlieioaie every year more disappointments and more aching nearts. The Americans who come to London for the dclectablo purpose of "getting into so ciety" are often as much out of their reckon ing as aie the tourists whom I have already described. They think the game much easier than it is. Many of them retire in utter discomfiture at the end of their first season; some try it a second year, and oven a third, if their purees and their assurance hold out; but the end, in the mujoiityof cases, is defect. Divided Into Two Classes. There nie two kinds of Americans who come to London to "get into society." One has some kind of social stundlng at home, the other has not. As far as London is con cerned, the first 1 as but little- advantage over tho second. Some pretty stories could bo told, if there weie no feelings to wound, of estimable ladies who rule their sot in New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, Kalama zoo, or Five Pines Crossing autocrats at home who have discovered in London that they are only items in the multitude, and that nobody here cares a Jot for tho social glory they have won in tho country of their nativity. They usually begin by cxplatuing themselves. This is a fatal error. London society asks no explanation from man or woman. It likes you or it likes you not. If you explain, the act implies some doubt on your own part, and some acute self-consciousness. You have yet to learn that in London no one explains his bocial qualifica tions. To do so would be to condescend basely. If society does not know one's qual ifications, the loss is society's. Do you ex pect a duke to explain that he is a duke: to tell how many guests he entertains at din ner, and to declare that he is lineally do- scenuea irom me nrst settlers? Some of the Americans work into tho wrong sets and then congratulate them selves that they are in society. Some of them, to be sure, never discover their error, so little discrimination have thoy. The "smart set" is not "society," sporting lords are not society, neither do prime donne, cel ebrated actors, advertising agents, nor tho enchanting habitues of Bohemia constitnte "society" that is to say, the society upon which our American friends center their hopes. Much, you see, depends upon the definition you give to the term "society." Our compatriots have a vague notion of what they want, but their plans for fulfilling their desires are equally vague. One 'thing they are sure to do they attempt to secure a presentation at court. Many of them suc ceed in eetting thus far with their ambitious piojects. It is not so difficult for an Ameri can to get "presented" if she goes to work the right way. In fact, tho Americans have rather overdone the business, so that a "pre sentation" is a cheap distinction. Likely to Torn Their Heads. All the same, it usually turns the heads of tho worthy persons who succeed in getting into the Queen's drawing room. They are so cocksure the way is clear for them straight to the very heart of society that they put on insufferable airs after the tedious and unsat isfactory coremony of "presentation." Thev have moved the powers of earth, if ho't heaven and earth themselves "to get pre sented." If the Minister Plenipotentiary happens to como from their town so much the better. They know him, or can easily procure an introduction suitable to their urpose. Then they have court costumes made, take lessons in court deportment, and when tho eventful daycomes theyswell with proper pride. It is diverting to witness the elation with which an American prepares for these aristocratic functions. It is divert ing to watch an American's distress when it is borne in upon him or her that the fact of having been "presented at court" does not put the social peg a hole higher. Being "presented" is. of no use to tho American aspirant for social honors in Lon don. Having been presented, you nro; sup posed to be qualified for an invitation to a state- ball or a state concert, bnt yon never get tho invitation. For the rest of your life you must rest with more or less serenity upon your qualification. Nobody cares whether you have been presented; nobody is the wiser save your own townsmen, for whom you havo carefully provided a news paper paragraph. The chances are that yon will never see the inside of Buckingham Palace again. In brief, then, the presenta tion at the Queen's drawing room or tho Prince's levee goes for nothing. Some Americans besiego the "Marlborough House set," and if they have money and other credentials, such as "smartness" and beauty they may gain an entrance. Then their ecstaoy is unrestrained. They believe that they are in "the best society," whereas they are not only several removes from it. but thev havo lmneriled their chances of getting into it by the very fact of their association more or less remote with the Marlborough House lot. The "best so ciety" is by no moans on terms of intimacy with the "Marlborough House set;" it is, in deed, inclined to turn its back upon those who enjoy the Prince's favor. A Curious Hind of Fish. Tho reputation or is notoriety the better- word? acquired by some of our oountry women who have oome to London, establish ing themselves here In a large way and entertaining all sorts of titled folks and celebrities, from tho Prince of Wales to a horsey baronet or the author of the latest comic songs, seems to increase the farther it gets from London. These good people do not create much of a ripple in the social waters here. "Society" regards them as a curious kind of fish, and rates them at their proper value. It is pretty clearly under stood that the ambition of these dear orea tures' lives is to cut a figure, is to have nota bilities at their houses, and to see the Prince when they want him, Well, notabilities go, to be sure, but theygo as they went to Olym pia when Barnum was there, or to tho exhi bition grounds at Earl's Court during Buffalo Bill's brief reign. Eycn notabilities must have diversion, and it is sometimes comfort ing for them to know that their American hostesses can afford the elaborate entertain ments they give, whioh is not always the case with the British. But as for being "social pon ere," as for "presiding over salons," as remote nowspapers represent them well, it is all news to the Londoners. There is a queer kind of American bird that comes to London in the season to twit ter on the social tree. It has Just enough money to keep it here a few weeks: it lives in the most modest of nests, at a highly rc speotablo address; and what with being asked to breakfast, lunobeons and dinners it manages tho business in a very economical way. It spends its small life in a continual twitter, and it goes home with gossip enough to last it through tho winter, adorned, of course, with amazing tales cal culated to duly astonish and impress the stay-at-homes in America. Many of these queer-birds migrate to Lon don in the season and make themselves des perately uncomfortable in their efforts to keep up appearances. But it must be said that thev keen unannearances withremnrlr. able skill, with, indeed, an amount of per sistence ana Ingenuity which would serve well in some purpose more worthy of human endeavor than dangling on the skirts of' titled society. TheXove of Titles. For it has to be written that Americans. love titles. When they are at home they will probably scout this assertion, but when they are in London how many of them pur sue astonishing extremes in order to gratify their social longings. I have known some of them, highly estimable persons, accom plished, cultivated, wealthy nnd in other re spects rational, to be made unhappy by London's absolute indifference to their po sition at home. To be the arbiter of social destiny on the Back Bay, in Fifth avenue, or anywhere else you choose, and then to have it calmly and relentlessly revealed to you that you are but an atom in this vast social world of London is disheartening is it not? Of course some intelligent critic wjll say: "All this means that it Is impossible for an American to enter tho best society in Lon don. What nonsense!" Yes, it is nonsense to say anything of the kind. But the intelligent oritlo is sure to say it; 'tis a way he has of Jumping at conclu sions. If ho had waited a moment hew ould have been told that there are Americans in London, not a few, who move in what society thev choose, but that they live their lives without ostentation, in spite of their wealth or lack of it: and they live as Ameri cans, yielding nothing in allegiance to then own country, but respecting the people and the institutions of the country in. which thev happon, for the time being, to reside. They are Americans in fact, and not in name only; but, above all, they are welcomed for what they are as individuals. Nationality, wealth and the rest of the ex ternal attributes rfre not tho most imDOrtant factors in their social standing. Character and manners (which are the outgrowth of character) have tho most to do with it after all. Society in England is more nearly domocratio than society in republican America. Men and women find their level hero quickly enough. That is why so many of our country people find their way homo in disappointment not to put it stronger at the end of each season. CAUGHT IK A ST0EM. Chautanqua Excursionists Have a Bather Trying Night Experience. fSPECIAI. TM.KORAM TO TITI DISPATCH.! Chautauqua, Aug. C Tho steamboats and excursionists on Chautauqua Lako had a queer experience last night. A heavy fog set in early in the evening, so as to 'make navigation next to finposslble. It kept on getting thicker' and thicker, so that soveral of the steamers were obliged to spond the night resting on tho quiet water of the lake. One steamer started oil from Lakewood at 11 o'clock, but was obliged to come back again, after trying to find its way through tho heavy fog. Manager Frisbee, of the Sterlingworth Inn, harbored quite a party of Chautauquans, who had run down to see the big Flower Gorman there. Lakewood, by me way, is nimosc iuii o summer guests from New York and tho East, as well as from Cincinnati and Louisville, so that it Is beoominir quite the thing to have germane in the morning. This was another big day at Chautauqua, Crowds began arriving early, and continued to coine all day. Tho features of the pro gramme to-day were tho intensely interest ing lecture ol Miss Grace Dodge, of New York, on "Some Heroic Lives," tho lecturer referring to the w orklng girls of Now York, who nie doing so much forthemsclves in tho way of education and improvement. Trof. John Fiske's lecturo was very bright, his subject being the "Conquost of Mexico." Rabbi Gustavo Gottheil, of New York, ad dressed a big audience in the Amphitheater in the afternoon on the "Hebrew and tho Nation," and made a strong plea for a kindly reception on the part of Americans to the exiled Uussianllcbrcws coining to this coun try. Tho costume entertainment by Mrs. Von Finckolstein Mountford, on the "Truo Life of Jacob," was exceedingly entertain ing, and attracted a large audience. Among the prominent arrivals to-day was Dr. Percival, of England, the Head Master of the famous Rugby bchool, and successor to Dr. Arnold. Dr. Percival says Chautauqua Lake reminds him of tho English lakes, and is one of the most beautiful sheets of water he ever saw. Dr. Percival was for eightyears Master of Trinity College, Oxford, before be ing made Head Master of Rugby. A BIFF, OLD AGE. John Duckett Was Fourteen Years Old When He Saw G' orge Washington. Wasuikotox, Aug. 6. John Duckett, one of the aged patriarchs of Washington, died yesterday at the age of 106 years. Duckett was born in slavery. In Prince George's county. Md. He was classed as a negro, but Indian blood predominated in his veins. Tho master who raised him sold him to a second master, and he to a third. This last in 1825 gave him his freedom. When a lad of 14 he saw George Washington, but the only recollection of the great man was a dazed remembrance of his gorgeous apparel. The old man used to tell his great-great-grandchildren how gorgeous George Washington looked. His last master was an American officer in the War of 1812, and the old man preserved a vivid recollection of the burning of the Capitol and other stirring incidents of that war in this vicinity. While a slave ho had been converted and used to preach to the other slaves on his master's plantation. One of the remarkable things about the old man was his wonderfully strong voice. Within a few weeks it has run through the fine, large metropolitan Wesley Zion Church, where for years he was a class leader. After securing his liberty he worked at the carpenter's trade, at which ho was an adept. A quarter of a century ago he built the house In which he always afterward lived and in whioh bodied yesteiday. His ap pearance was quite remarkable. He was very tall and powerfully built. His Indian ancestry showed in his stolidity, earnestness and erect carriage. When no walked to church for the last time, a week ago lustSun day, his carriage was as eroct and his step as firm as n young man's. ' The centenarian was twice married. Ho had 18 children by his second wife. His familvsay his descendants number at least 103. He has a grandchild living who is 45 years old. AFTER THE STJOAB BOUNTY. Claims Still Pouring Into the Internal Rev enue Bureau In Great Numbers. FKOM A STXTT COBRXSPOXnEXT.l Washikotob', Aug. 6. Notifications from present and prospective sugar manufac turers are now pouring into tho Internal Revenue Bureau, in accordance with the sugar bounty clause of the tariff law, and the indications are for an immense product within a year from this time. No less than 4,000 maple sugar makers who think they can produce 600 pounds or more eaoh have notified the bureau, and of the others there are about 700 cane sugar manufacturers and a few sorghum and beet. One cane sugar man estimated his proba ble product at 11,000,000 pounds. Two or three of the beet sugar producers in Cali fornia propose to work up the product of several thousand acres each. The only noti fication from the East, outside of the maple sugar men, is from a citizen of Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, who proposes to use the product of something over 100 acres -of beets. THEIB GOLDEN JUBILEE Celebrated by John and Isabella Beeoher Hooker in Hartford, rBPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Hartford, August 6. The City Mission Hall was crowded this afternoon at the re ception in honor of the golden Jubilee of John Hooker and Isabella Beecher Hooker. The hall was fairly a bower of flowers, sent by friends from all parts of the country. The bride's loaf was the gift of the Equal Right Club, of Hartford, founded by Mrs. Hooker. At the tables upstairs fragrant tea was served by the ladies. Senator Joseph B. Hawley introduced all the guests. Mrs. Crosby introduced the guests to the lady managers of the World's Columbian Exhibition. Over tho piano hung a portrait of Mrs. Hooker, taken whon she was a bride, half a century ago. HINETY-rOUB MILES AITH0TO Was the Speed of a Pennsylvania Bngine From Crestline to Orrrlllo. Engineer W. H. Darby, who took out tho limited to Crestline last night, made the fastest run with an engine yet reoorded, so far as is known. On the 25th of last October he was ordered to take No. 164 from Crest line to Orrvillo to meet the British Steel In stitute exourslonists. He ran light, covering the S3 miles in 45 minutes, and stopping at Millbrook for coal and water. This is believed to be the fast est time made by a locomotive under any circumstances, being at the rato of 94 miles an hour. Thanks for Favors Becelvcd. Tho Secretary of the local Johnstown Correspondents' Association has been in structed to forward letters of thanks to Hon. William Rose, Mayor of Johnstown, and Messrs. Elder, Moxliam, Haas, Swank and other members of tho Citizens' Recep tion Committee: to the President and mem bers of tho Cambria County Medical So ciety; Robert Pltcairn, Thomas E. Watt and M. Trump, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and E. D. Smith, of the Baltimore and Ohio Company, for their Kinancss to "the boys" at their lastTeunion. DEATHSgHEBE ADD ELSEWHEBE. Lambert H. Meeker. Lambert -H. Meeker, a veteran of the late war, died at his home, 3042 Mulberry street, on Tuesday, of pneumonia. He was a bricklayer by trade aud a prominent member of the Bricklayers'' Vnlon. He was also a member of the Sixth Corps daring the rebeUlon, and bis last words were, Sixth Corps, four men to the rear." He be longed to the Ancient Order United Workmen, Torley Lodge. He will be buried to-morrow after noon at 3 o'clock. He leavei a wife and child to mourn his loss. Obituary Notes. Jdlics Richard, one of the directors of the German Stadt Theater of Milwaukee, formerly con nected with theaters in Berlin and St. Petersburg, died suddenly yesterday of apoplexy at Green Bay. How. James Potts, ex-Judge of the court at Johnstown when that portion of Cambria county was a separate judicial district, died yesterday at his hnmn In Oil Cltvat the advanced aire of S3 years. He was weU Vnown and highly respected. He leaves two sons and one daughter, who were with him when he died. The remains will be taken to Johnstown lot interment. . William Bates, for 3) years superintendent of the wood working department of the Lima Ma chine Works, died yesterdar aged 60 years. He was the first white male child born in Lima, his parents having removed there In 1831. Mr. Bates was a prominent man in his city, and high in the XfnnnTc.nrrter. The funeral will take place Mon day under the auspices of the local Masonic lodges. I 0U MAIL POUCH. Christian ChlDamen Defended. To the Editor of The Dispatch: The statement made by "John Lee" in The Dispatch of the 4th Inst, does not pre sent his countrymen, against whom he in veighs, in a very flattering light. The cause of this intense dislike entertained by this John Lee, or "George Lee," as he is more fa miliarly known, is not hard to trace; In fact, the complainant himself expresses the whole matter in a-single sentence. Speaking of a countryman by the name of Yee Tang and two others John Lee says: "They wore "bad primarily because they had cnt off their pigtails and were christianized." That is the whole difficulty in a nutshell. China- men can hobnob with Christians as much as they please, they can attend Sunday sohool and learn to read the Bible and sing Chris tian hymns without molestation, but let one daro to renounce the heathenish beliefs of his forefathers and make an open profession of Christianity, and that moment every "heathen Chinee" is his avowed enemy, who feels it to be his duty to persecute him in every way that he dare, and who would not hesitate to kill if it were not for the laws of tho land. I happened not long since to be walking on our streets with a Chinaman who had recently made a public profession of religion in one of our churches. On our way we met two of his countrymen. As wo passed them one of them made a vicious lunge at my companion, while tho other contented himself with hissing between his teeth some opprobrious ephithot. I asked my companion what they meant by such conduct. "Oh," said he, "that's nothing, they have threatened to cut off my head and tear me to pieces, just because I turned Christian." John Lee's bitter 'denunciation of Yee Tang and his two companions who have em braced Christianity is only a specimen of what is dealt out In their own land to any one who has the courage to renounce heath enism and accept the gospel of Christ. John Lee is right when he says his countrymen will have nothing to do with these Christian converts, but it is no credit to tho bigoted creature who has manifested such a spirit of hostility to our blessed religion. I havo not a doubt that if George Lee and his fellow countrymen who devote their time to tho particular business of gouging the hard working portion of their people out of their money in opium Joints and gambling dens, dared they would make quiok work of any and all of their number who accept our Christian faith with all that it implies. I happen to know these converted Chinamen, whom these heathen are trying to drive from our midst, and I know them to be hon est , sincere and industrious laundrymen, who toil early and late at their work, with no other thought of their countrymen than to lead them to a belief in tho gospel of Christ. Had Yee Tang continued to squan der hlshonestearnings in the gambling dens and opium Joints which these persecutors maintain in spite of the police, instead of attending a Christian Sabbath school, these men of the John Lee stripe would never have been heard from in this matter. Tnat Yee Tang is engaged in a system or black mailing, as these keepers of dens of infamy affirm, I do not believe; and if he Is furnish ing pointers to the police whereby the gambling dens are being broken up, I have no evidence of the fact, but that ha nnd all who embrace Christianity entertain a hatred against such iniquities I do not doubt. They ought to do all in their power to rid this city of abominations, the odium of whioh at taches to all the Chinamen indiscrimin ately. If, Instead of maliciously reporting to tho newspapers that these converted Chinamen are bad men, George Lee and his confeder ates would devote their spare time to abol ishing the gambling hells and opium dens in thfs city into which their countrymen are led to be robbed, he would be engaged In far better business than in his present attempt to Inaugurate the persecutions whioh are so commou in his own land against those who cast off the superstitions whioh.hold that mighty nation in iron bonds. Let John Lee and hi companions givo up tholr vices, and then Yee Tang andf other Christian China men need have no terrors for them. 1 trust the police will make it too hot for these workers of iniquity in our city. Respectfully, PmsBuao, August S. E. B. Donehoo. Cotton During the-War. To the Editor of The Dispatch : What were the prices of cotton in New York City during tho war? W. W. G Braddock, August 6. For upland cotton the price in that city ranged from lie to 23c in 1S61, from 20o to 68o in 1862, from Mo to 83o in 1863, from 7ic to $1 to in 1S64, and from 33o to II 22 in 1865. These are the lowest and the.highest-quota-tions for the years named. No Electrical School. To-the Editor of The Dispatch: Is there any place in or near Pittsburg where a boy can learn the theory and practice of electricity or electrical engineer ing? Electro. Pittsbitro, August 6. There are no electrical engineering schools here, bnt some establishments are open to apprentices-in the line you desire to pursue. A Matter of History. To the Editor of The Dispatch: You are off the track concerning Miss Cur ran. She was married. She left her father's house out of respect of poor Emmett's memory, nnd an old friend of her family I cannot now recall his name induced her to marry him simply to give her a home. This is a matter of historical mention. ALLEQBEirr, August 6. J. F. Kelly. Only a Slight Difference. 1 To the Edltor-of the Dispatch: Is the English and Egyptian pound of the same value? Coiw Collector. Allegheny, August 6. The Egyptian ponnd is equivalent to XI 0s. 6d. sterling. Mr. Parnell'j Birthplace. To-thc-Editor of The Dispatch: Whore was Charles Stewart Pamell born? Were his parents American? ptr. Parnell's mother was an American. He was born in County Wicklow, Ireland. J The Boyal Palace Is 'In Berlin. 'To theEdltor of The Dispatch: Will you please printthe address of-the German Emperor whon at home? Cosbtast Reader. Newcastle, Augusts. EAT0N-BAHSEY, A Happy'ConpIe Wedded rn tho-Prcjence-of Many Friends. rSFECIAL txlxobax to the dispatch. l Mt. Pleasant, Aug. & Miss Saidee M., oldest daughter of General Manager Morris Ramsey, of the Southwest Coal and Coke Company, was married at noon to-day to James H. Eaton, the young Mammoth civil engineer. Rev.M.Elllott, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated in the presence of some 75 guests from Pittsburg, Greensburg, Uniontown, Connellsville nnd Mt. Pleasant. The bridal party left after dinner for a western point. The presents were all that a bride could wish. It Will Sink With the Governor. Boston Traveller. 1 Governor Campbell is having a hard time trying to sink that free silver plank out of H sight. It Is very buoyant; it won't sink. GOOD MEASURE OF LOVE, One twilight was there when ltseemed New stars beneath young eyelids gleemed; la vain the warning clock wouldcrecp Anear the hour of beauty-sleep; In vain the trundle yearned to holdj Far-Eyes and Uttle Heart-of-Gold; And Love thatklsaes are the stuff or At last for once there was enough of. As though of all Affection's round The fond cUmacterlc had been found Each childish fancy heaping more. Like spendthrift from a miser store. Till stopped by hug and stayed by kiss The sweet contention ran uke this: . "How much do I love you?" (r remember but part Of the words of the troth of this lover) I lore you" he said "why I love you a heart Brimful and running over. "I love you a hundred!" said he with a squeeie; "A thousand!" said she as she nestled: ' 'A million!" he cried in triumphant ease: While she with the numbers wrestled. 'Aha! I have found it!" she shouted, "Aha!" (The red to the soft cheeks mounting) .' I love you I love you I love yen. Papa, Overthelastoftliecmmtinsrl" . Sobtrt Undmcood Johntoiyin'Bt.JSicholcu. I WEDDINGS IN MIDSTJUHEE. A Couple or Marriages or Well-Known Plttsbnrgen"Xast Night. A pretty home wedding took place last night at the residence of Mr. Jacob Heck, tho well-known groceryman, of 2C41 Small man street. The bride was Mr. Heck's daughter, Kate, and the groom Mr. Daniel W..MIHer, a leading merchant tailor of West Brldgewatei-. Ho is very popular through ont the Beaver Valley. There were abont 100 friends of the young couple present, and when Rev. Mr. Knoff, of the Smithfield M.E. Church, spoke the fateful words that-mada them one, there were many silent wishes for their long life and happiness ascending from the hearts of tho witnesses. After the cere mony supper was served, and then dancing began, to be continued until a lata hour. Mr. and Mrs. Miller left for tho East while the festivities were still in progress. Thoy will remain away three weeks, aud will then set tle down in their home at West Bridgewater, where preparations have already been made to receive them. (The bride wore a white silk dress and tullo veil, and carried white roses. Hor veil was held in place by a spray of llllies of the valley. The music was furnished by the Falkner Orchestra. There were numerous costly presents. The bridesmaid was Miss Rosa Heck, sister of the bride, and the groomsman, Mr. Frank Miller, the groom's brother. The bride is un artist of no mean ability. As interesting wedding took place at tho home of Mr. Wilson Conner, of Morningside, last evening, when Miss Margaret Bell Conner, daughter of Wilson Conner, and Albert Beif, one of Lawrenoeville's well known youm? business men, were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Sharpsbnrg, and wa3 witnessed only by the near relatives of tho couple. Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Seif were driven to a pleasant home on Main street, which had been prepared for them in advance. Social Chatter. Mr. awd Mrs. W. A. Pobtxr, of Waynes burg, will celebrate their golden wedding next Wednesday evening, August 12. It is not often that people manage to live SO years together in the marriage state, and this event will therefore be a notable one. EXTKitsrvi preparations are In progress for a lawn fete to be given for the benefit of the Soutbside Hospital, August 18. It will be held on the grounds of Mrs. J. McD. Bryce, on Mount Oliver. The members of the Antloch Baptist Church heda picnic at Bock Point yester day. There was a very large attendance, and everybody seemed to have a splendid time. A unios picnic of tho Jr. O. XT. A. My, of Braddock, Homestead, Tnrtle Creek. Wil merdhur and Irwin is being arranged and will be held at Idlewild, August 14. Over 300 persons attended the plcnlo held by the members of the German Methodist Church, of Lawrenceville, at Hulton yester day. IH TEE INTERESTS OF DALZELL. Swissvale Bepubllcan Club Denounces-the Executive Committee's Action. At a meeting of the Dalzell Republican Club held last night at Swissvale the follow ing resolutions were presented and unani mously adopted: "Whereas, Tho Executive Committee of the State League of Bepubllcan Clubs at a meeting, held in Philadelphia adopted a resolution, the purport and effect of which is to exclude from participation in the con vention to be held in Scranton all clubs not on the official roll of clubs in September last; now, "Resolved, That we protest against this action on the part of the Executive Commit tee as an usurpation of power not relegated to it, and therefore void, as contrary to the spirit and purpose for which the League was instituted, as arbitrary and unjust and in derogation of the rights of clubs, both old and new; and, "Resolved, further, That the true inter ests of the Republican party in this Com monwealth and of the club system demand that now, as at all times heretofore, the most generous encouragement should be ex tended to the creation of clubs wherever there are votes in sufficient numbers to form them until the original purpose of the League shall have been accomplished and a Republican club organized in every election precinct of the Commonwealth, and "Resolved, That the action of the Execu tive Committee now complained of is not only illegal, arbitrary and unjust, but threatens the usefulness of the League, its integrity and permanence, and colls for re- Duice irom every iiepuDiican loyal to nls party and interested in the continuance of the club system; that said action is void and without avail to affect the constitution of the League Convention, and "Resolved, further, that we pledge our selves to the maintenance and. practical en forcement of tho princlples''announced In these resolutions." HOW THEY CALL BUFFALO. Hungarians Cannot Pronounce the Word, but They Try Very Hard. "Billlfee," remarked a Hungarian to the ticket seller at the Allegheny Valley window in the hall of the Union depot last night. "How?" Inquired the clerk. "Say that again." "Billlfee, Billlfee," said the Hungarian once more. "Ticket, ticket, BUlifee," pro ducing a roll of bills from somewhere near his heart. "Ah.now I have you," exclaimed the clerk, punching a ticket for Buffalo. "That's the nearost they can get to Buffalo," he con tinued to the reporter, "but we get used to them. You wouldn't take 'Blllifee' to mean. Buffalo, now would you?" COMPLAINED OF THE MABCH. Returning Veterans From Detroit Grumble at the Long Parade Boute. A number of Grand Army men passed through the city last night eastward bound from Detroit. Some of them said they had tho finest parade in their history. Among them were Captain George L. Keacb, of the Postofflco Department at Washington; Col onel E. B.Payne, of the Pension Department, and Brigadier General Staholbron, of Wash ington. General Staholbron was going on to South Carolina to visit ptstofflces there. The trio complained bitterly of the long march they had to make through the streets of Detroit. They went on there to boom Charles Lincoln for Commander in Chief, and were disap pointed he didn't get there. Railroad Consolidation. Harrisbuso, Ang. 0. Notice of the consoli dation of the Cresson Railroad Company and the Cambria and Clsarfleld Company has been filed in the State Department. The capital stock is 12,150,000, almost entirely held by Fhiladelphians. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. Eobert Ostermaier, chief clerk in Mayor Gourley's office, with his wife and his" son, accompanied by Miss Emma Ostermaier and Lewis Duva and family, went to Atlantio City on the fast line last night to remain for two week9. A party of well-known Allegheny City noliticians made ud of Henry C. Lowe. Will iam Bader, Abraham Fnust, Chris Detzel and James McFarland leave to-day on a trip to Lake Mackinac. C. Y. McClure, cashier of the Denver Savings Bank, has been the guest of Mana ger Jonnston.of the Exposition, for the past few days. He left westward on the limited last night. Harry Sims, the popular and always pleasant ticket examiner at the Union de pot, is again at his post after a short vaca tion spent in Ohio. Samuel McClune, a Nashville coke opera tor, formerly a resident of Pittsburg, is visit ing friends here. Harry Williams, of the Academy of Music, returned from his vacation trip in the East yesterday. Misses Mattie and Lizzie Borrett left for Atlantio City yesterday to be absent about three weeks. General D. H. Hastings was a guest at the Mountain House.Cresson Sprlngs,yester day. Warden Berlin has gone to Cleveland and Detroit to spend his month's vacation. General W. T. Casement and family, of Barnesville, O., are at the Monongahela. Wayne Kratzer and William Kratzer left for Atlantic City last night. George Gray, a commercial man, of York, England, is at the Anderson. John B. Carroll, of Staunton, W. Va., is a guest at the Monongahela. H. E. Collins returned from Philadelphia yesterday. A Datz is visiting friends at Bower Hill, this State. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The sun yields 8,000,000 times the light of the moon. The population of the earth doubles Itself in 280 years. The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty hold a capital sum of -,4J6,131. Camel raising is said to afford the King of Italy much pleasure and profit. A Chinese newspaper published in San Francisco has been sued for libel by a negro and an Indian. The largest grape vine in the world is said to be growing at Oys, Portgutal, and has been bearing fruit since 1802. Lord Londesborough is as famous for his ties as Gladstone is for his collars. He wears a silk tie of a broad, flat shape. Lady snake charmers are getting scarcei and the wages paid them by American museum managers have risen to $100 a week. Several thicknesses of paper pasted to gether have from time immemorial been found extremely serviceable, in China as soles for shoes. An ingenious Pole advertises in the newspapers his readiness to supply to order, houses, churches, bells, cannon, and ships, all made of paper. The name New York was bestowed in compliment to the Duke of York (afterward James II. of England) to whom the land was granted in 16GL Although in private conversation with friends the Kaiser's voice is soft and pleas ant, all his public speeches are declaimed In a harsh and rattling voice. The well that is being bored at Wheel ing in the interests of science has reached a depth of three-fourths of a mile. Progress is being made at tne rate of about ten feet a day. Out of the British Isles the Salvation Army have now 1,705 corps and 1.0J9 socie ties, altogether 2.7M separate salvation so cieties. These are led forward by 5,800 offi cers. The Postmaster General intimates that letters addressed to the editor of any newsj- Iiaper for publication in the newspaper are, ike other pres3 matter, allowed to pass by book post. William Allibone,of Pnnta Basso, Fla., has an alligator which eat3 up the refuse of the Allibone household and is a better scavenger by far than the average city gar bage man. A female tramp at Parsons, Kan., be came intensely abusive the other day and indulged in highly offensive language be cause she was offered a last year's bonnet by a benevolent Christian lady. The Guttenberg Bible has the general reputation of being the first printed boob It is an admirable specimen of the printer's art, and would be no discredit to any reput able printing establishment of the present time. A Bussian press censor permitted tha following item to appear in a Moscow paper: "It is our opinion that Rnssia needs new railroads and will have them." For this the censor was suspended for three months and the editor fined $300. There has just been completed in Mu nich a huge microscope, with a magnifying power of 11,000 linear perspective. Electric ity is brought into service in the operation of the ereat instrument. The cost of the microscope is $3,750. At a great Bussian restaurant, when a guest has ordered a sturgeon, the fish is brought to him alive on a dish, and the grey finny creature Is then transferred to the kitchen to be dispatched, sauced and served np with all the honors of cookery. Some years ago a baby girl was born to a couple in Virginia, and the fond parents gave her in baptism the following name or names: Annie Adelia Amanda Amelia Jane Roslna Malvina Fitzallen. For short they call her Annie Adelia Amanda Amelia. The skewer was formerly used as a kind of tally -stick, and it continues to find simi lar employment at Lyons, where the butch ers rarely fail to stick in the middle of a piece of meat a small wooden cylinder an nouncing by so many notches what every housewife knows to be the exact weight of the meat. Africa is slowlybut surely passing from the control of the native rulers. It com prises about 11,000,000 square miles, of which only 3,500,000 are governed by the Africans. r ranee nag z,3w,3i. sqnare miles: .England, L900,U5; Gerinaxry, 1.035,720; Kongo Free State. 1,000,000; Portugal, 774,993; Italy, 360,000, and Spain, 210,000. while the share of France is largest, England's is most valuable. The amount of phosphorus consumed per annum is about 2,000 tons, and Is chiefly used in match making. Hitherto chemicals were used in its manufacture, but by a re cent improvement the raw material and cokeareplacedina specially prepared fur nare and electric heat is applied. The vapor arising is condensed and marketable phos phorous is produced. An ingenious advertising dodge is to be found in Paris. Small pointed paper bags, something like those grocers twist up, have been noticed on the pavements. These, when opened, have been found to be hand bills, which would never have attracted any notice nnlcss curiosity had prompted somebody to look and see whether there could be anything in these odd screws of paper. A certain artist in Berlin has a sketch book with which he would not part for any money. The other day tho Emperor came to the studio and asked to look at the sketches which had been made in it. The conversation turned on naval warfare, and the Emperor, turning over the sketchbook to find a blank leaf, drew with quick and practised hand a torpedo boat making its way through the water. The latest discoveay in the vegetable kingdom is made by Dr. B. G. Culver, of Atchison, Kan., in the propagation of a vine which he has christened potamato, that will grow potatoes under the ground, in the usual fashion, and bear tomatoes, as does the tomato plant, at the top. Dr. Culver has spent 21 years in experimenting, and with the present season, be feels 'assured, perfec tion will have been reached, so that next year he will be able to distribute seed in limited quantity. said to be nrcreY. "Do-yon want a fine bear story?" inquired a society young man of the managing editor. 'Dm-urn," hesitated the boss, "what Is ilf Something about decollete gowns?" Detroit Ire) Prill. "And your aunt didn't leave you any thing after aU?" Sot a cent. She overheard me call her an old cat a short time before her death." 'How did she leave her money?" "She left It to found an institution for the care of homeless cats."-Jfci Tork Prtti. "Fader, vot makes Mr. Bobinson so ragged vonce." 'He failed inlt his business." "Bat Mr. Epstein failed twice and he has dia monds." "Dot man Robinson vas von of dem ignorant ftllers vat doesn't know how to fall." Brooklyn Eaglt. It was in the far West, and some of the citizens were giving their attention to a man.wbo had been stealing horses. "What organlxaUon la that?" asked as Eastern man, as the crowd passed. "Some sort of a secret society?" "Norexactly," was the reply. That, stranger. Is our village string band." WatMnaton Pott. Though dressed in our bathing suits always, we never Get wet; If yon see-u tmt oscearoa will love us forever Yon bet! We scamper and frolic and flutter our curls And keep heads a turning In rapturous whirls. We're the daintiest bevy of summer time girls Seen yet. itia Ibrk Herald. "After all," soliloquized the good woman of the house, as she looked through her costly ar ray of souvenir spoons before putting them away for the night, "does It pay to collect them?" 'It does," softly whispered the burglar to him self, as he came out of his hiding place shortly afterward and bagged the entire collection. CA( cago TribwM. "What Is all the noise?" asked Miss Si lenaweet's father. "I was Jnst trying a new song."she said, ponU lngly. . "Don't let me disturb you, my daughter. lam a lawyer and I honor the instinct which leads you to try your songs before you execute them." Washington Star. "I heard that Lillie has cast Mr. Comofen off because he pot en too many frills." "Yes! Tbat'a nS."-BrooUyn Eaolt. Bridget They say, mum, that the lady that lived In these rooms last was Insane. ; Lady (Just moving In) I can weU believe It, SB left the flat clean behind her. Sao TcrkPrai. '4 t, 4- -a p
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