THE . PITTSBURG DISPATCH,- SUNDAY, ' AUGUST 16, 1891.
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T1TTSBURG, SUNDAY", AUGUST 16, ISll
TIN PLATE FKOTECTED.
That falsehood as a political weapon is
aiignof weakness, is undergoing dem
onstration e ery day. Each statement of
the Democrats, based upon their opposi
tion to the McKinley law, has been fraught
with disaster. When, on the first day of
July, the new tariff, adding 25 per ton to
the duty on tin plate, took effect, they
stated, among other things, that the man
ufacture of tin plate in tho
United States would not be encouraged
thereby. They said that if tin plate was
made here, the Welsh would not buy
American grain or wheat; and now they
are doomed lo double disappointment
Xot only has the new tariff encouraged
the manufacture of tin plate in the United
States but the food products that might
have gone to Wales will be used at home
Sn feeding the workmen in the new fac
tories. It has transpired that not only do eight
or nine American firms contemplate put
ting in tin plants, but the pro
tection afforded by the McKinley
law has attracted British capital
ists who have entered into negotiations for
the construction of plants. Mr. R. C.
Jenkins, who represents a Welsh plant
tliat produces 2,400 boxes of tin per day,
will move his entire works to Joliet, III,
where 20 acres of land has been given him
for that purpose Representatives of a
British company, which has glass factories
in Tennessee, have been taking advice on
the subject, and have gone to England to
icrommend the investment of $050,000 in
adding to their factories a plant for mak
ing tin plate and steel. They found that
they could make a profit of 51 23 per box
on all tin plate produced, and they
state that they see no reason why
they may not take adyantaga of the pro
tection afforded by the tariff as well as
Americans. They recognize the fact that
Welsh tin plate factories cannot compete
with those in America.
The benefits to be derived by Pittsburg
will be lirect The machinery will be
Manufactured here. The benefit to other
pirts of the country will be large also, for
the making of tin plate means the em
ployment of many thousands of people
and this implies the circulation of a large
amount of money. In view of these facts
it seems to us that the glee of the Demo
crats over the tin plate question was a
little premature.
PRIVATE AND rUDLIC OWNERSHIP.
The dogma that ''one of the propertie
that should always be owned by the vil
lase, town or city is the water works" is
supported by the Xew York World with
the example of the village of Mt Vernon,
2sew York, in which the water is supplied
by a prii-ate corporation, and a water fam
ine is prevailing, owing, it is asserted, to
an accident to the pumps.
The proof is not exactly conclusive, as
in much more important cases than that
village there have been times of water
famine owing to the break-down of pump
ing machinery in cities where the water
works are owned by the city. It is not so
many years since Pittsburg had extended
experiences of that sort even after spend
ing millions in the extension of her water
supply; though of late years It must be ad
mitted the comparison is against that por
tion of, the city supplied by a private cor
poration. The World recognizes this pos
sibility of city water works breaking
down, but thinks the chances are not so
great, as "sound politics would prevent
it" But a souud business policy would
also pievent a preventable break-down in
the case of private ownership. It is far
from demonstrated that sound politics are
more scrupulously observed in municipal
governments than sound business policyiii
corporate management
That the cae cited does not prove the
thesis is further demonstrated by the
statement that "a rival company is clam
oring for a franchise to supply more,
better and cheaper water." That puts a
different lace on the whole matter. It
indicates that the trouble is not in tho fact
that a private corporation supplies the
water, but that it has a monopoly of the
supply. It is a new illustration of nine
tenths of the trouble arising out of the
performance of public services, from
wliich the socialistic idea gets its strongest
stimulus. That is the utteily stupid
theory that because a municipal or other
government grants a franchise to perform
such services, therefore it must grant a
monopoly. The theory is a complete non
fijuitur, and yet the fact that the vast'
water, gas, bridge, ferry, telephone and
transportation franchises succeed in
getting such a monopoly affords the
ground on which Socialist theorists base
their claim that the sen-ice would be bet
ter rendered by Government ownership
and operation. In nearly all such cases
the trouble is 'not with private enterprises,
,fcut with; the monopoly which excludes
WjeU
other private enterprise. The true
remedy, therefore, is to" abolish the
monopoly and let the business forces have
full play. That public ownership might
be better thau monopolistic control is
quite possible ; but the hope is very much
marred by the reflection as to the kind of
management that would bo given by a
municipal government that is so dead to
the public interest as to grant monopolies.
The rule that municipalities should own
water works is a good one; but for a very
different reason than that quoted above.
The real reason is that there are many
purposes for which water supply has such
public value that it is well for a munici
palitj to supply it at the public cost before
the revenue from it would yield a profit to
private enterprise. The need of a water
supply for fire purposes and sanitation
renders it a public function. In addition
it is good public policy to furnish to the
masses a water supply at less charges
than would yield private dividends. For
many years the revenues of the Pittsburg
water system did not pay the cost of opera
tion, and to-day they do not pay any appre
ciable interest on the cost. It is neverthe
less good policy to give the people water
at that low cost and make the whole city
pay for it. v
But the claim that the public service is
more reliable and economical than it would
be if, the business were subject to the free
forces of private enterprises is very far
from substantiated when private business
is ready to undertake to supply some of
the least remunerative departments of
water consumption in this city, and to
make money at it, where the city barely'
does more than pay expenses.
A BUSINESS BUGABOO.
The propositions for dress reform cause
the Philadelphia Times to raise the buga
boo of business revulsion. It thinks that
if all the demand for the present articles
of feminine wear were cut off it would
fulfill Sir Henry Maine's prediction that a
sudden and complete change in feminine
fashions would work more distress than a
general war.
Beyond the fact that a changfe so com
plete as to reverse the conditions of textile
industries would be a more overw helming
triumph for dress reform than its most
sanguine advocates dream of, the appre
hension is made baseless by the fact that
dress reform does not propose that women
shall abandon dress. There has been no
such radical proposition as that they shall
wear the costume of Mother Eve, or even
that they shall discard the use of fabrics
more or less costly with which they , are
wont to adorn their perishable bodies,
much to the delight of the masculine half
of mankind. The vital part of the propo
sition is that they should abandon the in
jurious features of dress, which need not
cause any business distress at all worth
mentioning. For example, a sensible
dress reform, if successful, would abolish
the use of French heels; but that need
not and would not paralyze the shoe-making
industry. About the only industry
that would be entirely cut off would be
the manufactures of corsets and bustles;
and those industries are not so important
that our wives and mothers need torture
themselves into nervous WTecks for the
continuance of business prosperity.
It is also pertinent, as an answer alike to
the present bugaboo and Sir Henry Maine's
sweeping assertion, that there have been
within the memory of every adult several
complete and sweeping alterations in
women's fashions; and nothing has been
heard of the general distress exceeding
that of war. The change from crinoline to
bustles, and from bustles to clinging skirts;
from the dress goods of the sixties to those
of the seventies, and thence to those of the
eighties; and the differences between the
same periods in millinery have been more
radical in their effects on textile industries
than the changes proposed for dress re
form. These are contingencies which the
manufacturers of such goods have to look
out for, and which they meet without seri
ous trouble. If dress reform should estab
lish a rational standard of dress which is
far from being an assured fact it is an
open question whether the manufacturers
of feminine wear would not have fewer
such changes to meet than now, when
they are subject to the vagaries of fashion.
AN EFFECTIVE METHOD.
The -statement that the Grocers' Pro
tective Association has resolved, to fight
the canned goods combination will be
received by the public' as evidence that
the local organization has not only put
Itself on a platform of correct principle,
but that it has taken the most effective
method of suppressing the evil
The situation affords a good illustration
of the difference between combination for
legitimate and proper purposes and com
bination for illegitimate and oppressive
purposes. The canned goods combination
endeavors to enforce the decree that in
this year of abundant crops the same
prices shall rule for canned goods as last
year when there was a general failure.
The organization of retailers opposes this
arbitrary decision, and backs up its oppo
sition by a concerted decision not to buy
goods of the combination.
This is fighting the devil with fire, in a
way that will very quickly bring His
Satanic Majesty to terms. The day the
members of the combination perceive that
they are losing trade by combining, it will
be dissolved into very small fragments.
BALFOUR'S DILEMMA.
It is a striking illustration of the viru
lence with which the anti-Irish feeling
rages among the irrecoucilables of the
Tory and Liberal-Unionist parties that
Mr. Balfour's project for Irish local gov
ernment is rejected by them as Home Rule
in disguise. The outline of his plan which
the Tory leader made in his speech this
week shows he i6 still far from the idea
of stealing Liberal thunder and adopting
a real measure of Home Rule. The propo
sition is a short step in that direction. It
contains a modified and partial grant of
local self-government; and if nothing bet
ter could be had might yield a mitigation
of the evils which Home Rule is expected
to cure. But with the practical certainty
that genuine Home Rule will be a result
of the next general election, it may be
taken for granted that the Irish party will
not be led into making peace vrithMr, Bal
four for the sake of any such half-way
measure as this.
The Balfour proposition is his favorite
one of County Councils, which shall have
the powers of local taxation and presum-
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tzY s uz w.nrrr mz
works of local character. 3Ir. Balfour
declares it would be madness to allow
Councils to administer the funds of any
class not represented in those bodies. As
all taxation ultimately comes from the
masses, this commits Mr. Balfour to uni
versal suffrage; but that is not what he
means. He refuses to permit the local
governing bodies the chargCOf the police,
evidently having too keen an appreciation
of the power wliich the control of that
force gives to the English Government to
consent to its surrender. Anything like a
Legislature with power to enact laws for
Ireland as a whole, or a judiciary deriving j
its powers from the Irish people, is utterly
foreign to Mr. Balfour's plan.
A moment's consideration shows that
this hardly makes a respectable skeleton
fqr local self-government. The County
Councils would have less power than any
municipal Council in this country, and
the entire scheme puts less authority un
der local control than is wielded by the
county governments of our own State.
There is nothing in the plau remotely ap
proximating the independence with regard
to local legislation and the administration
of justice that marks our State Govern
ments. The progress of the Home Rule
idea is shown by the fact that Mr. Balfour
has been led to throw this tub to the
whale, but it is also clear that the young
Tory leader Ls still a long way off from
granting Home Rule.
The hardship of Mr. Balfour's case, from
latest reports, is that of the man between
two stools. Since the Home Rulers must
reject his measure, and the more bigoted
of his own party rebel against it, he-is in
peril of experiencing the proverbial
tumble.
A PUBLIC MATTER.
The wording of a local item in The
Dispatch of yesterday was unfortunately
such as to permit of a misapprehension,
with the intention of referring to the
secrecy of architects preparing plans,
reference was mad.s to "unaccountable
secrecy," and the matter being kept quiet
among a few persons, in such terms as
might possibly be construed as hinting at
occult and underhand management on the
part of the building committee of the
Board of Trustees. To those who have
kept themselves informed of the steps
taken it is well known that no such asser
tion would have any foundation. The
fact that the Board at its last meeting
authorized the building committee to make
the necessary overtures to architects; that
the building committee after several meet
ing's decided on the form of the circulars
and the conditions of 'the architectural
competition; that the circulars have been
sent out, and that the project is no w await
ing the result of the work of tho archi
tects, have all been fully published when
the different actions were taken. When
the architectural plans have been finished
which will not be before fall there Is
no doubt not only that the public will be
fully informed of the results, but that it
will be given an opportunity to inspect the
various plans and designs.
THE BOOM IN GRAIN.
The excitement and rapid advance in
the wheat market is principally illustra
tive of the effect of speculative methods in
adding to the suddenness and violence of
fluctuations from natural causes. The
rapid rise, of course, creates the usual re
ports of speculators who were engineering
the bull movemen:; butastudyof tho mar
ket telegrams shows that the inciting
cause of the advance is the rise in Eu
ropean markets from the evidently im
pending scarcity in foreign crops.
When there is such a strongly upward
factor the advance in our markets is legit
imate and essential. Speculation only
has the effect that on such evidence of a
higher range for values the mass of specu
lators rush like a herd of stampeded cattle
t6 buy wheat, and incur the danger of
running up domestic prices so as to put
them beyond a parity with the foreign
markets. If any speculators have been suf
ficiently foresighted to get ahead of the
movement, they owe it to" their good luck-in
backing a rise which all clear-sighted peo
ple have foreseen for several weeks. In
the same way the people who got up that
Farmers' Alliance circular fraud have the
same good fortune, and will doubtless pro
ceed to make capital with the farmers for
an advance over which they have had
about as much influence as the proverbial
fly over the revolutions of the wheel.
There is little reason for doubt that the
wheat market is established on a higher
level. The greatest danger is that spec
ulation may put prices so high as to check
the exportation of breadstuffs from which
must be gathered the real profits to this
country of the hopeful outlook of the grain
markets.
A POLITICAL FIGMENT.
In connection with the death of James
Russell Lowell the Albany Argus produces
a story concerning him intended to be
complimentary to his high character and
at the same time make Democratic capital
out of an old partisan complaint The
story of the Argus follows:
It was physically within tho power of the
late James Russell Lowell to have changed
the political history of the country in 1870.
Ho had been elected a Presidental elector
by the Republicans of Massachusetts. The
postelection proceedings convinced him
that Samuel J. Tildcn was lawfully entitled
to the votes of a majority of the members of
the electoral college, but -was to be de
frauded of tho election. His vote would
have stopped the fraud. Mr. Lowell delib
erated and decided that ho had been chosen
an elector merely as a trustee to cast a bal
lot for the State of Massachusetts, and that
the original conception of the elector's func
tion had long been abandoned. His views
were communicated at his own request to
Mr, Tildcn, who approved of them, and the
electoral count stood ISt to 165.
The Argus relates this as entirely credit
able to Mr. Lowell. It represents 'him as
preferring the political theory that
electors are mere puppets to the constitu
tional idea that the elector shall exercise
his-personal judgment But it puts him
urine light of reaching that conclusion on
the most conscientious grounds, and
asserts, moreover, that Mr. Tilden was in
formed of his views and indorsed them.
So far.as the facts stated go, therefore, the
Argus story is undoubtedly intended to be
complimentary to Mr. Lowell.
But that Democratic organ overlooks
the sequel to these alleged facts, which
stamps either the theory or its statement
as incorrect A man of Mr. Lowell's con
scientiousness and honor might come to
the conclusion represented, even while be
lieving that Mr. Tilden was elected. Buf
if he believed that he could not accept
high office from an administration which,
as the Argus alleges, was established on
fraud. Mr. Lowell's integrity is beyond
dispute ; and the fact that he accepted a
high diplomatic post as the representative
of the Hayes administration is the best
evidence that the story is a figment of
partisan gossip. '
About one-half the nation in 1876-7 be
lieved that Mr. Hayes was honestly elected
President, and about the other half be
lieved Mr. Tilden was. Mr. Lowell's
acceptance of the Spanish mission from
"l""
Mr - i & to
the first mentioned class.
The case of Hugo Eitel, the New York
boy reported to be at the point of death
from hydrophobia, adds another 'case in
which that disease has resulted from purely
imaginary and nervous causes. The young
man wan bitten by his own mastiff w eeks
ago. After a longinterval symptoms of hy
drophobia appeared and grew upon him un
til he wan close to death. Yet in all this time
the dog has notshown the slightest indication
of rabies, uud continued in perfect health up
to the other day, when the stupidity of kill
ing him was committed. It is clear that the
desperate condition of tho yonng man is due
to all imaginary fear of the. disease which
finally produced that nervous convulsion,.
and tliat the surest -nay to check the trouble
In its earliest stages would liavo been to
show him the evidence of the dog's perfect
health as a proof that there was no real dan
ger in the case!.
It appears that "little Vermont" is
ashamed of her small appropriation of $5,000
for a State exhibit at the World's Fair, anil
will increase it at a special session of the
Legislature, The only State which seems to
be absolutely without shame In the matter is
the great and wealthy State of New York,
which has appropriated just $5,000 less than
the sum Vermont concludes to be too small.
General Butler refuses to place any
credence in" the repot t that he is dead. The
news fakir who sent out the report may be
better informed than the Geneial; but
doughty old Ben's characteristics are such
that the person who attempts to argue out
the question will get tho worst of it.
The question of Senator Brice's residence
in Ohio is somewhat dogmatically declared
by the Philadelphia Ilecord to liave been
raised at tho time of his election, but the
"whole thing was exploded,"' evidently im
plying that the assertion of his non-resi-dence
was proved groundless. But when
was the evidence produced and of what did
it consist? We were undor the impression
that the evidence so far consisted of a suit
to make the Senator pay taxes as a resident
of Ohio, and of the Senatpr's description of
himself in sundry financial directories as
"Calvin S. Brice, of New York."
The anthracite coal barons have decreed
a rise of 15 cents per ton, to take place Sep
tember 1. Having proved during the sum
mer that the market will take n great deal
more coal than their restrictive agreements
call for, it may be hoped that they wjll now
bo honest enohgh to admit that if this ad
vance, is sustained It w ill be dono by produc
ing less coal than the market will take.
The fact that George Jones refused an
offer of $5,000,000 for the Times with tho
knowledge that it was intended to stop its
attacks on Tammany, proves his tltleas that
"noblest work of God" an honest man.
The complaint is heard from Chicago that
the local justices are imposing such small
finoson offenders against tho smoke ordi
nance that the element which persists in
producing smoke is able to pay the fines
rather than meet tho cost of putting In
smoke consumers. It is certainly worth
while to enforce a law rigorously and effec
tively, if it is enforced at all. Nevertheless,
the fact that Chicago fines people, who per
sistently waste fuel and blacken their neigh
borhood, anything at all indicates the point
at which Chicago is a long way ahead of
Pittsburg.
TnE debt now hampering Italy is two
billions of dollars. A great share of this
has been piled up by extravagant expendi
tures during twenty years of peace. This
conveys to this country the salutary warn
ing that there is as imminent a peril of
bankrupting a nation by extravagance in
times of peace as by the waste and ruin of
war.
A Kansas paper calls on Mrs. Lease to
stop and think. Stopping is evidently not
one of her characteristics, and as to think
ing that is entirely opposed to her style of
oratory.
"If Lowell had hated Irish landlords as
he did American slaveholders.the Irish peo
ple would not have regarded his memory
-with such coldness," remarks the Boston
Globe; and in a news column adjacent to tho
one in -which this appears quotes a state
ment of Gladstone's that he was converted
to the cause of Home Rule by the arguments
of James Russell Lowell in his private ca
pacity. The Globe might be a little -wiser if
it did not let its Anglophobia blind it to the
facts it gives in its news.
The fact that North Dakota divorce suits
do not generally come high, but that a mem
ber of the Astor family has invested $13,500
In ono, noted by a New York cotemporary,
makes it seom especially hard that after
that unusually long price has been paid
there should be a failure to deliver the
goods.
What do we care for Russia's keeping
her rye at home as long as the Bourbon
State has 40,000,000 gallons of surplus whisky
stored away!
NAMES FBEQTTENTLY SEEN.
Labouchere promises
to visit this
country next autumn.
Charles Dudley Warner is patroniz
ing the baths at Marlenbad.
TnE Duke of Cambridge, Commander in
CniofofHer Majesty's army, is known as
"Umbrella George."
Associate Justice Lamar, of the.
United States Supreme Court, is taking a
vacation at Bethlehem, N. H.
Pbof. Harrington, Chief of the
Weather Bureau, has gone to Europe to the
Meteorological Conference, which meets in
Munich.
Grant Allen assertB that out of 20 girls
whom he sits next to at dinner in London,
19 are Hedda Gablers. All In all, Mr. Allen's
dinners must be pretty lively affairs.
Mrs. Langtby's 5,000-acre property on
the Pacific slope has increased ten-fold in
value. Such is the report, at least, and it
doesn't come from an advance agent, either.
Miss Rachel Gurnet, the protege of
the Duchess-of Bedford, who is to marry the
young Earl of Dudley, is, besides being very
handsome, extremely accomplished, and ono
of the best amateur singers in England.
Secretary Bayard's daughter, the
Countess Lewenhaupt, intends to pass, the
fall and possibly the -winter in Sweden. It
ls not improbable that she will make her
permanent home in King Oscar's kingdom.
The Norwegian National Assembly has
granted Dr. Fridtjof Nansen $55,000 toward
his Polar expedition, and 13 Norwegians in
their private capacity, one of them being
tho King himself, have given the intrepid
ice-wanderer $30,000 more.
Sir Winshaw M. Petit, one of the
most famous men in the English Queen's
Indian country, is a millionaire and philan
thropist, owns 13 of the largest spinning
mills in India, and with one exception is the
only native ever knighted by Victoria.
"Warner Miller is the peripatetic trav
eler. Within the last eight months he has
crossed tho continent twice, gone to tho
West Indies and to Nicaragua, besides mak
ing countless trips to the South and West.
Meanwhile his political foes have done noth
ing to get him inside the breastworks.
It is queer how they write. Andrew
Lang is declared to writo best in a rose gar
den; Tolstoi sits on his bed nnd puts the ink
staud on his ruffled pillow; Dumas flls uses
an cDony ucsk, wnuo jmiry nuei-sou-Na-varro's
is mother of pearl; James Whitcomb
Riloy is at his best when the room Is bleak
and uncomfortable.
The Marquis of Ailesbury, -who has just
been refused permission to impoverish the
family estates by selling a X750.000 slice of
them, is a sporting man who, having once
won a big race with his horse Saver
nakc, has managed to gamble away more
than a hundred times as much upon worth
less horses and polished blacklegs.
Mr. Ckemer, the Radical member of
Parliament who has given notice that ho
will introduce a resolution favoring a treaty
nith tho United States by which disputes
shall be arbitrated, Is an interesting sort of
person, according to London newspaper
gossip. Cremor reads German philosophy
as a diversion, although ho had no schooling
to speak of.
Mr Spukgeon, the famous English
speaker, has found enough of spare time in
his busy life to become a botanist, a flori
culturist and a practical landscape gar
dener, and his Norwood residence has glass
houses, gardens and grounds surrounding it
which are the envy of the neighborhood.
He knows every gardener and every choice1
plant In Kew gardens.
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Bights of the Public In New York Selling
Whisky at So Mnch a Swallow Points
on Finance Newsboy Life Tho KIto
Season.
FROM A STAFF COIUtESPONDEXT.
New1 Yohk, Aug. 15 A short time ago the
city authorities on complaint of the eleva
ted roads, issued a decree against the main
tenance of fruit and boot-black stands in
the vicinity of the elevated stations. No at
tention was paid to the order of removal in
many cases and the Bureau of Street In
cumbrances made a descent upon the un
happy Italians and" whisked their stalls
away, leaving the fruit and blacking para
phernalia on the curb at the mercy and to
the infinite amusement of tho crowds. The
wagons and police had scarcely disappeared
before tho irrepressible sons of Italy had,
for the most part, reconstructed their side
walk shops around the corner, and weie
doing business at the old stands. Some of
them actually took up more space than they
did before the raid.
There is something remarkable in all this.
Not in the contempt of a certain class of
New York population for the law, but in the
extreme tolerance of the Now York public
generally of all degrees and species of in
fringement by individuals and corporations
upon the public rights. And such encroach
ments are not only tolerated but positively
encouraged. Your New Yorkers will clftnb
skids and dodge drygoods and groceries by
the mile, and if he can do this every day
without breaking his neck or limbs, hewifl
not complain. I really think sometimes
that he would be actually unhappy if ho
didn't have to do it. From 20.000 to 30,000
people aauy will shy out around an apple
stand that takes up half the walk, and, un
less some particular one fall's upon a banana
peel, no serious thought ls wasted upon the
matter. Tho single unfortunate is usually
laid up with a fractured skull and can't
think any moi-e about anything. If he isn't
he probably thinks "Damn,"' and that is all
there is to it This is but one stand and one
elevated station, mind you. Five hundred
thousand oeonle use tho elevated dailv and
the whole number must dodge some stand
or bootblack chair where they individually
get on and. And this, too, is but a trifle and
but a small proportion of the Inconven
ience. If an alien of five days' sojourn -would
fenco in the entire -walk on any street in
New York I believe hundreds of thousands
of people would simply glance at it and
walk around by way of tho gutter without
the courage to kick it down. So helpless
and lethargic have the public become as to
their pubic rights. This state of mind is
flattered and encouraged by law. That is,
tho law recognizes so many far more objec
tionable encroachments of persons and cor
porations that tho general public become
calloused and indifferent and hopelessly ac
quiescent. This is conspicuously so of this
metropolis, which sanctions diieetly or in
directly abuses of this nature that would
not be tolerated in any even tenth-rate city
of the Union
Getting Held Up for Lunch.
At the Cafe Savarin, that gorgeous midday
resort of the downtown business man, is an
extensive "stand-up lunch" counter. The
"stana-uplunch" is the popular thing in the
"busy hours of the day. It doesn't mean that
you stand anybody up for lunch, but you
stand up while you throw In a few lobster
salads and mince pies between a drink of
whisky and a cigar, all within five minutes.
iand go off about your business allowing your
sstomach to do the rest if It can. Tho Sav-
arm nets an ciaooraie iree lunch at a certain i
hour in the afternoon when regular lunch- I
Ing has practically ceased for the day. This
cleans up the remnants while it encourages
the bar trade. The freo lunch is Just the
same as the regular and is served by the
same waiters from tho same ovnx oounters.
No sign announces it and therefore it is
known only to the habitues of the place.
There is much amusement when some
fellow -who thinks he lias been eating at the
expense of the house gets the cash register
bell rung on him for $150. Something like
this occurs daily and the embarrassment of
the victim is gieatly heightened when ho ls
compelled to scrape around among his
laughing friends to raiso money for his
lunch check.
Fatalities of the Kite Season.
I woxdkb what tho boy who reels off a
thousand feet of kitestring across .the
meadows and stubble fields would think of
the New York boy, who must depend upon
the tenement liouse roof and ristc the net
work of wires immediately overhead or go
without a kite. With the first symptoms or
the kite season, that sets in and closes by
some subtle understanding only within tho
range ofboyhood's comprehension, tho New
York boy slyly ascends to the gravel, amid
the chimney pots and clotheslines, and tele
graph, telephone and the deadly electric
lighting wires, and unfurls his paper banner
to the breeze. He may have but a few yards
of string and a few square yards of surfaco
from which to operate, but if ho doesn't fall
off the roof, tumble down tho air shaft, or
get struck by lightning, or lose his kito
among the wiresforgct spanked forgoing
on tho roof, ho generally goes to bed satis
fied that he has nad lots of fun.
Unfortunately some ono of these misfor
tunes is often attendant upon city kite fly-
iug. j. lie juiu seatjuu is strewn witn sau
fatalities, and the wires of the metropolis
are besprinkled with the tattered wrecks of
many a boyish hope and pride. The fresh
wind from the sea sighs through the dis
mantled stioks, and settled grief plows
many a parental heart. Yet the kite season
comes and goes In New York tho samo as
elsewhere, and appeals quite as strongly to
the youthful Imagination.
Who Suffer From Tight Money.
"It is the rich men who are apparently suf
fering most from the stringency of the money
market," said a Wall street broker. "There
are millionaires who can't raise $1,0C0 cash
without bdrrowing. Now that's u fact.
They may have plenty of gilt-edged securi
ties. There are lots of gilt-edged securities,
but they don't represent ready money. Tho
ready money is not to be had when every
body wants it most. Then is when it slyly
slinks out of sight. Then is when every
man and corporation with outstanding con
tracts gets stuck more or less."
The Premium on Gold.
"There is practically a premium on gold
here now," remarked another financier. "I
do not assume to deflno the causes, for no
man can more than guess at these things.
When I say there Is a promlum on gold I
mean this that a capitalist represented on
tho street will offer money at a lower rate of
interest, that interest specifically payable In
gold, than he will without such specifica
tion. This is now observable every day.
But It is only a recent thing. It is an inno
vation. Gold is at a premium now. You
can't go anywhere and get gold in any quan
tity or gold bearing securities without a con
sideration." How to Catch Mice.
"Traps? I can catoh more mice with my
hands than you can catch in traps." The
assertion brought out a singular experience.
"Yes, I can catch them with my hands. I
whistle and sing to them and they will come
in from the nooks and corners and halls into
the middle of my room. I 'sing anything.
Then I place a few crumbs in the middle of
the floor.just enough for an appetizer I
walk around now and then, orrattle a paper,
or move a foot, and they scatter awavlike
mad. Insteadof thrnshingaround nfter'them
I let them alone. They poon find ont that
nobody hurts them and they come back next
dayond bring their brothers, their sisters,
cousins and their aunts. Whenever I whistle
or sing they scamper into my room and
begin to nose around. In a day or two they
will get so impudent and reckless that
they'll try and run up your trouser legs.
Then you simply catoh them and throw
them out of tho front window. That's the
way I do. Kicking a new spapcr on the floor
at your feet will lacilltate matteis. They'll
run under that paper. Then you can dron
ou them at once. Of course, I don't snp
pose a woman would approve of this
method, but it is nevertheless a very suc
cessful one."
Drinks by the Swallow.
A curious case was before a police justice
the other day curious because it illustrates
a peculiar phaso of metropolitan life. It was
onlv a Question of simple assault, but tho
cause was unique. Down iu the purlious of
Columbia street is a dive where a villainous
compound called whisky and other villain
ous compounds by other names aro sold by
the swallow instead of by the usual method.
A rubber pipe is inserted in the cask and tho
customer, having first put up 2 cents, 5 cents
or 10 cents, as the exigency of his or her case
seems to require, proceeds by suction to sup
ply the inner self. When tho bottle-bolder
or cask-tender thinks tho customer has re
ceived the worth of his or her money he
rings a bell on the individual and ir tho said
individual docs not at once relinquish hold
upon the hose he hits him or her on the head
with a bung starter. This not only facili
tates the letting go, but sometimes material
ly assists the liquor in doubling up tho
aforesaid customer into a corner and sweet
unconsciousness.
This time thebung-startergot the case into
court. The chief advantage of the suction
mciimrt ls the absence of any irrcessltv nf a
.license -to retail liquor by the glass An-
other, and by no means small, advantage is
that the fiery quality of the liquor thus sold
usually chokes the too confident customer
off on the first swallow, so that the effort to
get a good deal for his money often results
in a dead loss. Tho bung-starter is reserved
for those copper-lined fire-proof customers
to whom alcohol, blue vitriol, kerosene and
whisky are practically the same.
Buffalo Bill in Miniature.
A citunnv, gentle looking little fellow,
about 6 years of age, stood at a Broadway
cornor selling evening papers. Haifa dozen
other little chaps in the samo lino of
business were nagging him. And not a little
professional Jealousy was at the bottom of
it; for the boy was gotten up a la Buffalo
Bill, with long hair, cot straight across the
forehead in front and falling over his shoul
ders behind, a broad-brimmed straw. hat,
blue trousers with gold lace down the legs
and attached to a rather full waist that was
once white but now showed signs of several
recent rough-and-tumble encounters. In
this toggery tho little fellow not only
attracted more attention but sold moro
papers than all his rivals. He had warlly
kept his back to the iron railing andhis face
toward his tormentors.
'Wot ye doin' here, Billy? Ye aint no busi
ness here. Stick to de av."
"Git onto dem stripes! Hully jee!"
"Wy don't yer ma cnt yer hair, sonny?"
"Got der 'war cry?' "
The bedeviled boy stood this sort of chaff
like another Roderick Dim, resolved to stick
to his ground as long as the iron fence held
out. He never said a word until one of the
lads Jostled him. Then he let out in a string
of profane language that almost curdled tho
blood of a benevolent old gentleman who
Jnst invested a nickel in the outfit.
"Blank, blank ye! Don't yer put yer hands
on me! Sec? I'll lick der everlastfn stuflln'
out yer! I've done yer up before, Miky, an'
I'll do it agin ef yer don't leve me alone,
now, see?"
They let the wild Indian scout from Har
lem flats alone, too, I noticed after that.
But he has never attemnted to work-that
particular corner since.
A Pretty Girl's Temper.
Avot-KQ and pretty girl fainted in the
street recently and when she recovered con
sciousness she was in nn ambulance being
whirled away to a hospital. Being of a
highly nervous temperament she excitedly
demanded to be taken to her boarding
house, but the young surgeon In charge did
his best to quiet her. Having been rattled out
without a call he felt in duty bound to bring
In somebody and ho had her right here.
When they arrived at the hospital she was
not only excited, but as mad as 'the tradi
tional wot hen. She had to bo taken in by
force. In a short time she fairly raved. Tho
more they tried to quiet her the
worse sho got. She know Just
where sho was and just what sho
was about. She refused to go to bed, and
made several attempts to escape, but the
sight of a straight jacket compelled her to
submit to detention. She was afraid to tell
them her name for fear it wouldget into the
papers, and wouldn't give her address for
the same reason and because it might have
compromised her with a strange landlady.
So there sho was.
Next morning the more she thought about
where sue was and thegeneral situation, the
madder she got, and by the time tho doctor
got around sho was a subject for tho insane
ward. This lasted for two or three days,
when she finally got hor temper down to a
notch considered safe by the authorities and
she was allowed to go. When she gets mad
now she says sho goes up on the root and has
it out where the ambulance man can't catch
her and run her into the hospital. Tne am
bulance is a great thing.wheu it works.
Charles Theodore Murray.
A WOMAH'S ODD WILL.
The
Heirs of Mrs. Boyce Will Have to
Share a House Betneen Them.
.Springfield Republican.
The mo3t peculiar document that has been
filed at the probate oflice in many a week
came from the will of Lavina Boyce, of
Westfleld, Mass. Lewis F. Boyce, her hus
band, receives tbe use and Income of the
real estate on the south side of Orange street
in that town, but after his death the prop
erty is to bo divided into three parts by im
aginary lines drawn from the Iront to the
back pf the lot. Helen E. Amsdon, a
danghter, is to have the westerly third of
tho place, one-third of the attic and cellar
ana turee rooms on tnat siae oi tne nouse.
Alice R.Hoey, another daughter, gets tho
middle third of the lot, tho central third of
the cellar and attic and the rooms on tbe
first floor not already disposed of, while
William L. Boyce, a son, is to receive tho
easterly third of the land, the remaining
fraction of the cellar and attic, and the re
maining rooms on the second story. He is
granted the right to build a flight of steps on
the outside ot .the house, if he wishes, to
reach his tenement. The instrument speci
fies that all the expenses to the houso for
outside repair are to be borne proportion
ately by the three, while each is to have use
of the inside stairs and hallways as may be
necessary in reaching tho cellar and garret.
In order to secure this prize they must pay
off a mortgage of $700, in sums equally di
vided among them, and speoifled to exact
cents. Minute particulars are laid down for
the transmission of the third of the property
first mentioned.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEEE.
Dr. Thomas I Smith.
Dr. Thomas L. Smith, a prominent Brooklyn
physician, died at his home Friday afternoon. For
50 years Dr. Smith did active service in the medical
corps of the United States nary, and when lie was
retired 20 years ago it was with the commission of
Medical Director. March M, 1823, he received the
commission of surgeon's mate (now called assist
ant surgeon) from President John (Julncv Adams,
and began his naval career In the frigate Hudson In
In 1330, going to Brazil, in 1S37 President Andrew
Jackson gave Dr. bmltu tbe commission of sur
geon. From 1S47 to 1S49 be wa the surgeon of the
New York Nary Yard. In 1850 he went to China
on the Saratoga, and was made the licet surgeon of
Commodore Perry's Japan expedition. In 1854 he
was back In the New York Navy Yard, and re
mained there for four years. Iu 1859 he was fleet
surgeon under Commodore Inman, of the African
squadron. He spent two years In the Mediterra
nean and returned home to take charge of the
New York Naval Hospital, a position which he
held until 1855, During the years 1889 and 1870 he
was back In the nary ard again, and In 1871 he n as
retired with the commission of Medical Director
with the relatlre rauk of Commodore. Since then
he has lived quietly at his Brooklyn home.
Itev. Dr. Naryan Sheshadri.
Her. Dr. Naryan Sheshadri, a high caste Brah
min, who was con ertcd to the Christian faith and
who left New Y'ork on the steamer Clrcassla. ofthe
Anchor line, bound for Glasgow, died at sea from
heart failure on July 21. His visit to this country
was for the purpo&c of arranging for the exhibition
of an Indian vfllaee and exhibits eencrallr of In
ilia
dian manufacture. Dr. Sheshadri was a natUe of
India, and embraced Christianity in 1843. He re
ceived a thorough English education and In 1854
was ordained a missionary of tho Free Church of
Scotland. He had labored with his people in India
with great success, and had been successful iu his
attempt to found a colony of conrerted Brahmins
in Western India. This was his second Tislt to
America, he first having come here as a delegate to
the Evangelical Alliance in 1873. He was a friend
of Klllaen Van Rensselaer, who a short time before
his departure from New York, gave him a recep
tion at his home. No. 134 West Seventy-ninth
street. Dr. Sheshadrrs son, Veswantrao Sheshadri,
a graduate of Oxford, was with blm at the tlmp of
his death. He was 6S years old, and was burled at
sea with appropriate ceremony.
Thomas Allison.
Thomas Allison, one of the oldest and
most highly respected citizens of Bearer, died at
his residence yesterday morning at 2 o'clock. Ills
death was the result of paralysis, with wliich he
was stricken yesterday. He was 75 years of age,
and for manv years was a general merchant in this
place and West Brldgewatcr. He was one of a
Imilyof ten, all of whom attained prominence.
TTU father was Hon. James AHNoll. one of tile
leading lawyers of his daratthe Bcaverbar. He
was also a brother of the Utc Hon. John Allison,
once Register of the Treasury.
Obituary Notes.
Joseph Howe, Superior Judge ofthe city and
county of Sin Francisco, died Friday from Illness
due to gastritis.
Rev.JohxJackcox Brown, LL. D., professor
emeritus of chemistry and physics in the Syracuse
University, died yesterday morning.
JoiijtB. Bower, the oldest man in Milton, Pa.,
died Thursday In his 94th year. He was born In
Germany, and came to this country 50 years ago.
Joseph N. A, TucKERaged 61 years, the oldest
druggist in Petersburg, Va., a prominent 3Iason
and gallant ex-Confederate soldier, died Friday of
slow lerer.
Mrs. Clarissa Moxcrief. who died at Bridge
ton, Thursday, was the widow of Hugh Moncrief,
for cars the most famous deer hunter in Pennsyl
vania. She was In her 92d year.
Mrs. O. D. Kamsey. widow of the late Briga
dier General George D. Eamsey, formerly Chief of
Ordnance, w ar Department, and stepmother of
Comnuxlorc Kamsey, U. S. N.. died hi Washing
ton Friday night.
DR. W. C. McCoy. Presiding Elder of the De
catur district (Alabama), died In that city Friday.
He was one of the roost distinguished ministers of
the Methodist Church In Alabama, and was .for
many years editor of the Alabama Christian AUm
cate. Key. Enwix C. GUIGOS. of Chaplin, fell dead in
the cars while coining rrom Hartford to his home
in Plalntleld. Conn., on Wednesday. He was a
Congregational clergyman, had served as Senator
and Assemblyinau from his district, and was 70
years old. '
Hox. "Henry Bill died Friday afternoon at
Eastern Point, Conn. In 1817 he began business in
Norwich as book publisher, founding what is now
known as the Henry Bill Publishing Company.
About 15 ears ago he retired from active business.
He some j ears ago founded the BUI Library in his
chVUltotenAfdHeaJ,arko-V0,
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FOEESTS IK ALASKA.
Almost. Impenetrable Jungle of Trees
and Underbrush.
Unfortunately, from the point of timber,
tne Alaska forests, as far as I saw them, are
of little value, says a writer in tbe Philadel
phia Lexlger. The trees grow so thickly to
gether that, so far as the soil is concerned,
they starve one another, and good logs
would be very rare indeed. Ono can scarcely
Imagine from usual forest experience how
closely these trees nro packed together. I
'and my wifo undertook to walk four miles
by nn Indian trial through one of these
woods to a point where we might head oft
our vessel. So thick was the mass of vegeta
tion on each side of us, the path being wide
enough for us to travel single file only, that
we could not have seen a bear ten feet away
from us, and only for the riflo carried by the
good Presbyterian missionary who piloted
us we would not have trusted ourselves
amid the jungle of foliage which made up
these Alaska forests.
One reason for tho dense covering of the
land with trees is tho favorable conditions
for seed germination and tho apparent scarc
ity of seed-eating creatures. The warm
temperature given off by the Sea of Japan,
which comes up southwesterly to break
against Alsaka shores, meets the snowy
tuiu ui mo mountain peaks, condensing tne
moisture so that the surface of the ground,
pr indeed anything else, is never absolutely
dry, and every seed that falls to the earth
has a chance to sprout andgrow. In tbs old
Indian village were white spruce ?J feet
high growing out of the top of totem poles.
These poles are themselves 30 or40 feet high,
and seem to have been selected from the
largest trees. They are stripped of thsir
bark, and have carved on them series of
likenesses of creatures, real and imaginary,
representing the genealogical descent cf
members of tho tribe. It was a curious
sight to see tne white spruces, like huge
Christmas trees, trrowinir from the flat tODS
of theso poles. In some cases tho roots of
these living trees had split the poles in their
descent downward to the earth. Into which
tho roots had in some cases so thoroughly
penetrated that should the poles finally rot
away tho trees -would probably on these
stilts of roots continue to grow on as trees
high up in the atmosphere. Nothing but a
climate continually saturated with moisture
would permit of seed sprouting and the tree
continuing to grow out of the top of a pole
in this manner.
PENSIONS IN SCOTLAND.
Teachers Who Have Worked for Year
Will Be Supported Afterward.
Journal of Education. 3
Glasgow has a scheme for the pensioning
of teachers, which it will be interesting for
American leaders to study. Theaotuary has
worked out the details with great care. It
applies to all employes of the School Board.
There are six classes head masters, assist
ant male teachers, assistant female
teachers. office staff. Janitors and
compulsory officers. Tho first three classes
only are considered in detail --d the assess
ment of salaries are made at ti.e following
rates: Head masters, 8 per cent: assistant
male teachers, 6 per cent., and assistant
female teachers, per cent the total
amount of the capital fund required to bo
found at present being 300,000, or, including
the other three classes, $&u,000.
There wero in June, 1SS0, In the employ
ment of tbe board; 67 headmasters, ranging
in age from 35 to 63; the averngo scale of
salary ranging from $1,250 to $2,C0O per
annum. Of assistant male teachers there
wore 216 who drew salaries ranging from
$300 to $630, and averaging $463, and whoeo
ages ranged from 20 to 50 only 6, however,
being above 44 years. The assistant female
teachers numbered 335, and tho average
scale of salary was from $230 to $450. Of
these only 23 were over 40 years of age, tho
largest class being that between 25 and 29
years. Although, as a general rule, tho rate
of salary increases with age, that rule is not
invariable. Among the female assistants
the highest average salary is betwoen the
ages of 40 and 44, in which class tbe average
Is $4 55; and among male assistants the same
class stands highest, with an average salary
of $635.
HABBIS0N SEES THE GAME.
The President Takes In a Baseball Con
test of Association Clubs.
rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Cape May, Ang. 15. The President has
been so busy this morning that he did not
even get time to take his usual dip in the
surf, his time being mostly devoted to pre
paring for his excursion north, on which he
starts next Tuesday. He commuted the
sentence of dismissal from the army passed
on Lieutenant George H. Evans, to one year
off duty without Tank. Evans was court
martialed for being drunk at Los Angeles,
Cal. George A. Birdsall was appointed
postmaster at Chadron, Neb., vice F. B.
Carty, resigned A pardon was granted
Samuel O. Baker, of the Southern District of
Ohio, who was at one time convicted of col
lecting illegal pension fees.
The President, accompanied by Secretary
Halford and Mrs. Dimmick, attended the
Cape May and Gorham ball game this after
noon and came unexpected to the crowd.
They remained until the crowd began the
usual start to leave at the end of the eighth
inning..
POLITICAL P0INTEBS.
Whatever may be the case with Blaine
himself, his boom is growing that healthy
the Harrison, doctors don't know what to-
make of it. PhUade'phia Times.
Tns most popular thing that a Republican
politician can do nowadays Is to say that he
has no preference to express as to the next
candidate for the Presidency except that
Blaine should have the refusal of the nom
ination. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The London Gazette says that tbe object of
the McKinley bill was to hit the foreign
manufacturer. It mizht have gone a little
further and said that it has hit him hit him
hard, hit him where it hurts most. Tho Mc
Kinley bill is the John Lawrence Sullivan of
tariff legislation. Sm Antonio, Tex., Express.
W. E. Barnes, of the St. Louis Lumberman
(Rep.), says: "My choice is Blaine, first, last
and all the time. Should he not secure the
nomination, my next cho'ce is Harrison.
My selection is based up;n my views of
Blaine's attitude on tho tariff question
especially. If nominated I think there is
little doubt of his election."
The New Y'ork Mail and Express, in com
menting upon the complaints of Great
Britain upon tbe McKinley law, says: "Tho
trade these people have lost is now ours.
Our mills and factories are steadily supply
ing moro and more of the goods which we
hitherto have bought abroad or through im
porters. Can there bo any doubt of the wis
dom of such a policy?
Foreigners cannot any longer grow rich
at our expense. The St. James' Gazette is
wrong in saying that the law was framed to
hit foreigners. Its great central idea was to
savo ourselves to preserve the American
home, the American farm, the American
school, the American factory. That end it is
accomplishing. When your enemy yells
yon can be sure you are on top. yew York
Recorder.
When England cannot send us anything
else for tho bread English consumers must
have It can send us hack stocks of railroads
and industrial companies and bonds by the
hundred millions for a few years. That will
not harm Americans. The chances are that
we shall see a few evidences of ownership
return to this country for wheat and cotton
before the snow flies, and a tariff which
enables Americans to own America is not on
that account a bad thing. New York Tribune.
The Demmies can't shake the sugar argu
ment. Tea, coffee and sugar have all been
put on the free list by tho Republican party.
The duties on each were for revenue only
and not for protection. The duty on sugar
only raised the price. Competition in its
production did not affect the price at all.
The Mills bill placed a heavy duty on sugar.
The McKinley bill took it off. And no party
will ever put it on again. That's the kind of
facts that voters will remember when they
get into the booths in November. Spring
field, O., Republican.
A BB0THEB POET'S TBIBTTE.
The Venerable TV hi ttier Writes a Stanza on
3Ir. Lowell's Death.
Boston, Aug. 15. Tho following lines in
memory of his old friend, James Russell
Lowell, have been written by the venerable
poet, Whlttier:
From tha purest wells of English undefilcd
None deeper drank thau he, the New World's
child.
Who, In the language of their farm fields, spoke
The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
Shaming a monstrous wrong; the world wide
laugh
Provoked thereby might well have shaken half
The walls of slavery down ere yet the ball
Ajid mine of battle overthrew them alL,
Some insects are in a state of maturity
30 minutes afterbirth.
The husk of Indian corn is being used
for tbe manufacture of paper.
A Chinese newspaper published in San
Francisco has been sued for libel by an In
dian. The Columbian river is so clear at low
water that salmon fishing can only be suc
cessfully conducted at night.
It was so hot in Illinois the early part
of this week that It ls a fact that apples
were roasted on the trees in some orchards.
A fruit merchant in Xew York sold this
season to one restaurant 18,000 pineapple
for making pineapplo syrup for soda water.
Two brave Connecticut girls, young and
attractive, have started for Oregon with tho
avowed intentions of getting husbands and
of making a living until tney succeed.
Lizzie Arnold, of Teuton, 3Iich.,weighs
only IS pounds and isCTyeara of age. She
has received overtures from circus mana
gers, but her parents prefer to keep her
home.
In Southern Arizona there grows a plant
from which rope and twine that will almost
never wear out can be made. It is the mes
cal plant. Bat very little of this rope has
been made thus far.
The first canal maker in England is said
to have been Morton, the Bishop of Ely,
who In the reign of Henry VIII. constructed
a cut for navigation between Peterboro and
ine sea, 4u miles long.
The growth of horse racing in the last
ten years Is illustrated by the fact that in
1880 the money added to prizes bv the racing
associations amounted to $130,000. Now it
reaches $1,000,000.
The greatest bird cage on the continent
is 6aid to be the Grand Central Railroad sta
tion in New York. The noisy English spar
rows swarm there by thousands and nest In
tho great archlug of roof girders.
There is a curiosity near Cordele, Ga.,
in tho shape of a pine tree. It begins from
the ground as two separate and well-developed
trees, and continues so for a distance
of 11 feet, when they join and go upward as
one.
An old ranchman in Harney "Valley,
Ore, has been in the habit of hauling his
dally supply of water from 80 miles away, in
order to save digging a well. He could se
cure an abundance of water 10 or 12 feet
deep.
It is related as a curious fact thatParist
with a population of nearly 3,500.000 souls,
has less than 100 negroes within its limits.
Statisticians say that the whole of France
cannot muster a negro population exceed
ing 510.
Washington is the only city of its size
in the United States which has no factory
girls. Women who earn their living there
aro principally in politics, though there are
a few employed In retail stores,photograpbic
studios and private offices.
The costliest dresses in the world are
worn by the women of Sumatra. They are
made of pnre gold and silver. After tho
metal is mined and smelted it is formed into
fine wire, which is woven into cloth and
afterward made into dresses.
The ruins of the palace of the Qceen of
Sheba have not been found In Mashonaland,
whence the wonderful gold of Ophlr is sup
posed to have come. But the Zimball ruins
show that this strange country was once tho
scene of a mighty civilization.
The growth of nails on the left hand re
quires from eight to ten days more than
those on the right; the growth is more rapid
In children than in adults, and goes on faster
in winter than in summer. It requires nn
average of 132 days for the renewal of the
nails in winter and but 116 during the sum
mer months.
A foolish cow near Thompson, Ga.,
that got her tail caught somehow in a tree
made trouble worse by going around the
trunk until she wound up like a clock. She
thon became frightened, and giving a Innge,
pulled the tall out by the roots. Afterward
the taH was found as described by tne ani
mal's owner.
A valuable bird dog owned by a Grass
Valley, Cal., man was recently shown a par
rot. He immediately "pointed," when polly
marched up in front of him and said,
"You're a rascal." Tbe temfled dog turned
tail and ran away.and is ruined for hunting,
as ho cannot now be Induced to "point" at
any sort of bin?.
Walter Besant says that a clever Eng
lish girl of his acquaintance was employed
some time ago by a man who brings out
cheap novelties. She got 50 shillings for
writing a. story of 30,000 words; thatls to say,
a penny for every 50 word3. And she was
not allowed to put her name to the thing, be
cause, as her sweater told her. "If you put
your name the people will ask for you itnd
your price will go up."
A luminous outburst on the sun was ob
served by French astronomers on tbe 17th
of Jnne. First appeared a luminous spot of
a yellow golden tinge, soon followed by an
other Just above It. The spectroscope
showed tho first spot to consist of a central
eruption, from which volcanic bombs wero
thrown to heights above the chromosphere,
where thev seemed to rest aj dazzlinir balls.
A few minutes later these were replaced by
brilliant Jets or filaments.
A young man in Berlin, Germany,
stepped upon a cherry, slipped, fell against
a window and had his nose almost severed
from his face. A young lady came forward
and acknowledged that she had careless
ly thrown the fruit upon the side
walk, and her parents promptly defrayed
tho bill of the surgeon who stitched on the
young man's nose, amounting to 450 marks.
Now romance should lead the victim and
the cause of the mishap to commit matri
mony and give some novelist the cue to
"The Romance of the Cherry."
A gentleman in Waterbury, Conn., had
two canaries, and to protect them from cats
he kept them in a heavy wire cage, hung in
the second story of a rear room. A grape
vine twined around the window of the room.
Entering the other morning the gentleman
found a blacksnako overlive feet long in the
cage, making the most desperate efforts to
escape. It had swallowed one of the birds,
which had caused it to swell so much that it
could not slide out between the wires
through which it had entered. Tho snake
had crawled up the grapevine 20 feet.
TtHTMES AND KUYNKXES.
Daughter Papa, I want to get married.
AH the other girls of my set are getting married.
Papa (fondly And what the mischief do 30a
want to get married Tor?
Daughter For better or worse, papa. Dm sure
that's enough, isn't It? Detroit Prte Press.
She sat her down awhile to sew,
And gave herself to dreaming.
And murmured, "Naught ls real I know.
For Ufe ls only seaming.
Washington. Post.
"Papa, is my Uncle Zeke a good farmer?"
"So, Dlekey. He leaves Td agricultural Im
plements out in the weather and they get all
rusted?"
(Altera prolonged mental straggle) Papa, is
that the way he got his teeth all rusted?" Chicago
Trlovme.
Jacques (doing the honors) Now what
do you like, pineapple, or vanilla, or chocolate, or
what?
Mabel-Ob, I like everything.
Jacques Ah 1 then there ls hope for me. Boston
Courier.
Affairs in this distracted world
Are sometimes twisted badly:
To try to get them straightened out
Would worry one most sadly.
For instance, there's a man I know,
It'a odd, there's no denying.
Who now, for a) years or so.
Has made hi living dyeing.
IsolA's- Companion.
"Say, Harry," said one small boy to an
other, "they's peoples in the moon."
"No, they hain't."
'Yes, they ls. My pa said so."
"How does your pa know? He was never in the
moon."
''No, but he's out every night and sees lots. I
guess he knows more'n us. St. Louis Republic.
"What I Jane," said the mistress, break
lag in on the chambermaid In the kitchen, 'is It
possible that you hare two different lovers'"
"No, ma'am: not at aU, ma'am. I'm engaged to
be married to the one who was here last night,
ma'am." Philadelphia Times.
"They say you want the earth," she said,
"Now, tell me, pray, how can that be?"
"It is because they know," said I,
"That you are all the world to me."
San Francisco Post.
Bowman How would yon like to go fail
ing on my yacht some day, Willie?
Willie No. you don't; I heard about that yacht.
Bowman-AYhat did yon hear?
Willie Stster was out in it two hours la a spank
ing breeze. Hew Xark&raU.
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