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In this case the test was arranged with The Disi'ATcn that the medium should at n nVed hour describe the condition of a person to be in a place in Pittsburg to be designated by street, number of house, number of room and floor of the house on which the room is situated. The Dis patch requested her by telegraph to de hcribe the condition of the person in room 25, second floor of To. 14G, Second avenue. The medium promptly went into a trance nd described 2vo. 146 as "a brick, build ing," and the person in room 20 as a woman suffering from an harassing compli cation of strictly feminine disorders. This was a fatal test for the medium. Xo. 146 Second avenue happens to be the Homeopathic Hospital. It is a brick build ng, but a description of it, even at second sight, ought to find something more to say of it than that The patient in room 26 was selected because it is a rather peculiar case. He is a man who was first attacked by typhoid feer, which has been rapidly succeeded by consumption; beside which fact tho protracted description of a woman's ailments comes to irreparable wreck. Of course, such a test shows that the person who arranged it did it in good faith. It permitted of no trickery in the production of phenomena or of skillful flicitingof information from persons who knew what the medium was expected to reveal." If the medium was aware of the conditions of the test it shows that she is nut consciously an impostor; as, if she had been, she would have evaded such a test But- on any theory it shows that the alleged supernatural power went wofully astray in this case. NOT A KEPUBLICAN. Mr. 2s at ilcKay, w hose previous fame was that of prosecuting an antiquated and highly inflated war claim against the Gov ernment, has made another successful effort to bring himself Into public notice Upon the formal installation of Collector Fassett, in the New York Custom House, 3Ir. McKay presented him with a cutlass o the San Domingo variety and urged in the note of presentation: "Use dally, morning.noon and night, until every Dem ocratic head is severed." Having got this presentation duly noticed in all the New Tork papers Mr. McKay is correspondingly happy. From what is reported of political meth ods on the island of San Domiilgo, a vi eapon from that tropical latitude is ex ceedingly appropriate for use in further ance of that semi-civilized sort of polities whose beginning and ending consists in cutting off heads. But it is plain that in sending this gift to the new Collector, Mr. McKay proclaimed himself to be not a Re publican, just as the Collector and the ad ministration will prove not to be true Re publicans if that amiable policy is in any measure carried out The test of true Republicanism is fidel ity to the principles of the Republican party. The principle has been thrice an nounced by the highest authority the National Convention of the party of the maintenance and extension of civil serv ice reform "to the end that the dangers arising out of the use of official patronage in politics may be averted." It will thus be seen that Mr. McKay and everyone who agrees with him denies and repudiates this principle of the Republican party. Of course, there will be a universal will ingness to acquit Mr. McKay of any com prehension of what principle is, but that charitable allowance for him does hot a whit lessen the fact that his advocacy of the great political aim of cutting off heads is a denial of Republican principle. NOT ACQUAINTED WITH GOULD. It would be highly satisfactory if we could place implicit confidence in the re marks of some of our coteinporaries that Mr. Gould is repenting his ejection of Mr. Charleo Francis Adams from the manage ment of the Union Pacific Railroad. It is true that the Gould interest turned out Mr. Adams, ostensibly because his man agement had not sustained the vast vol ume of watered stock at a higher rate than fifty cents on the dollar. It is also the fact that the stock has declined still further Bince the Gould party have been able to work their sweet will on the unfor tunate corporation. But to suppose that the Gould stock manipulators are over whelmed at this outcome is to credit them with susceptibilities to which their pre vious caieers prove them far superior. Of couise, the decline of the stock is largely due to the change in management Every investor who is on a par with pup pies 10 days old, In having his eyes open, will be very wary of investing his money in Union Pacific shares under the manage ment of the Gould interests. But those who suppose that the Gould methods of profit are confined to booming the stock and then unloading it on confiding invest or have studied the interesting history of that great financier to little purpose There are the profit of" handling the loans of the company which it was announced a few days ago Mr. Gould had heroically as sumed. There are the profits of discrim ination, construction contracts and fast freight lines. There are the gains to be made in stock operations by precipitating cut rate wars on other corporations. And r w! finally, if bond-holders, shippers and "Wall street lambs are all fleeced, there aro tho gains of letting the Union Pacific property go to wreck to the magnification and en hancement of Ms other parallel lines. Xo, dear cotemporaries. The great' capltalist.who won early fames by surrend ering of an alleged 9,000,000 of securities abstracted from the 'Erie Railway, aud the making of more than the value of the securities by a stock operation on the strength of his own confession of theft, is not to be cast down by a little thing like the refusal of the wary public to buy his stocks. So long as he has the Union Pa cific pioperty to work according to his favorite methods he will manage to keep' the wolf from the door, and lay by a little, something as a provision for his-old age. THE PEOPLE'S PAKTT PEOGKAM. The outline of the purposes of the Peo ple's party with reference to the politics of the immediate future, given in our Washington special, is an interesting one. It is in effect that the third party does not expect to rally force enough to carry any thing itself; but that its expectations are to hold the balance of power, and, by turn ing things upside down generally, bring the old parties to their terms. The idea is a favorite one with new parties, organized to urge certain specified causes, which are not certain enough of their future to expect to ever reach the position of a majority party. It seems on the surface practicable, as stated in our special; and it often has had the temporary result of muddling election re sults in a fearful and wonderful way. But as to attaining any permanent effects, the fact is that such a method has rarely suc ceeded. The anti-slaery agitation tried that method for nearly a decade; but it proved futile. The same result has been largely recorded of similar efforts in the prohibition line, ft The reason for this result may be dis covered in the fact that it really displays no higher idea of political ethics than that which prevails among the professional politicians of the old parties. It looks for ward tp an ultimate trading of principles for votes on both sides ; and while the pol iticians may be ready for such commerce it does not follow that the trade can be made. Let us suppose for instance that the People's party in Georgia should say to the Republican leaders : "If you will support the sub-treasury scheme, we will turn the entire People's party into the Republican ranks." It is quite possi ble that the leaders on both sides might be quite willing to make such a trade ; but when it came to delivering the goods it would be very likely to appear that the Republican leaders could not make good the sub-treasury scheme, and that the rank and file of the Alliance people would de cline to be converted to Republicanism. Xo, if the People's party ever effects anything it will have to do so, standing on its own bottom, and advocating its own principles. With its wild mass of im practicabilities it is certain to be short lived; but if it could discard that burden and tie itself down to tb ad vocacy of one or two sound reforms it might become a permanent and Import ant factor in our political history, a AN IMPOKTANT DISCOVERT. The production of a new metal by the successful discovery of a process for amal gamating copper, tin, iron and possibly some other metallic substances, as re ported in our local columns, has im mense possibilities. The discovery, as reported, lies in the process by which these metals are brought into homogeneity and the extraordinary qualities of the metal thus produced, which has been named by its inventor "manganese bronze." A metal possessing the extraordinary qualities demonstrated by the test3 de scribed elsewhere, with such an ability to resist corrosion and a strength heretofore unattained by bronzes, has a wide field be fore it It is not necessary to designate the limits of that field, which are as yet unknown; but it is evident that it can be made the product of a large and constantly expanding industry. It is the good fortune of Pittsburg that it should be made the location of such a discovery. Our manu facturers should be prompt in securingfor the city the full benefits of its utilization. THE SECRETARY'S DUTY. It was stated in our Washington specials yesterday that Secretary Foster charac terized the report of his interview with Senator Sherman in Mansfield as "pure romance." Besides the high authority on which that report was based, there is in ternal evidence for believing that the con ference imparted instruction to the head of the Treasury Department that, on his representations of the condition of the Treasury, it was his duty to pay off all of the maturing 4) per cents which are not presented for conversion into 2 per cents. SenatorSherman is too clear headed not to perceive that logical necessity as it has al ready been stated in these columns. The Secretary repeats that he has the money to pay these bonds; but that he would rather extend them for the sake of avoiding stringency in the money market But this view exhibits a remarkablo ignor ance of the fact that tho payment of the bonds is the most direct way of easing the money market For every thousand-dollar bond that is paid off, which is not now held as a basis for bank circulation, ex actly one thousand dollars of additional funds will be put in the money market On the thousand-dollar bond that is a basis for bank notes $900 of bank notes will be retired and 1,000 paid out, the gain of the money market on the face of the transaction being just ten per cent of the payment. But this is not all of the gain; for the banks can use the aoneypaid to them for their bonds as reserv-j, and ex tend their loans to four times its amount Every million dollars of bonds paid off will therefore ease the money market to the extent of four millions, against which is only the offset of the retirement of ninety per cent of circulation on the face value of a good deaUess than half of them. If the Secretary of the Treasury has the money to meet these bonds, as he says he has, it Is the best thing he can do for the public, the money market and himself to pay them oft Supposing the amount paid to be 835,000,000, it will save the nation $700,000 in annual interest; it will increase the loanable resources of the money mar ket by nearly $125,000,000, and it will put the Secretary in the attitude of an official who has, somewhat slowly, realized the duty of the fiscal officer of the Govern ment, to pay its debts when he has the money to do ii In contrast to the loud and largely in flated talk about the raising of immense campaign funds for both parties in Ohio, there is some satisfaction in learning that the People's party out In Kansas is proceed ing to raise a campaign fund of $1,000 by pdnnj- subscriptions', aud hopes to effect as much by it as by its campaign fund of $1,100 last year. A Campaign fund raised by popular subscription puts the party under no obligations; but far inore important than that Is the Kansas demonstration that the appeal to popular feeling, right or wrong, is far more effective than the effort to carry i elections by boodle. The political wlro uullors who aro etirloliecl by big campaign funds naturally encourage the Idea that they aro necossary But the Kansas example proves that tho popular voto cannot be bought, whether the politicians can be or not. THE-pleasing fact that the German and Dutch Governments have 'determined to sell some forty or fifty million dollars' worth of sllvor bullion conveys the assurance that the United States Treasurer will be able to find a supply of silver, oven if the silver mine owners sbould cruelly refuse, to con tinue loading up the Treasuryunless free icolnage is granted to them. Brooklyn is going to have a statue of General Grant. Tho time seems to bo coin- ling-when evory city will have a statue of the nation's hero, except the ono whioh ob tained tho location of his grave on tho empty promise ofcrecting a monument. That last case of hydrophobia reported from New York turns out, on investigation, to be, as suggested by Tiie DisrATcn, a clear case of imaginary hydrophobia. The young man was bitten by a healthy dog, and was driven into hysteria by tho expressed hopes of fool friends that bo might not hare that disease. His imagination continued to pro duce the symptoms until his father ap peared on the scene, told Win he could bite anything be wanted to, and finally brought him to a hospital, where he is recovering from his fit of hysterics. There are proba bly some genuine cases of hydrophobia, but a vast number of them are illustrations of the power of people to scare themselves crazy. Gov. Hili, has renewed his attitude to the effect that Gov. Bulkeley, of Connecti cut, is Governor enough to grant extradi tion In Hill's fator, but not Governor enough for Hill to grant extradition when Bulkeley asks for it. To Hill's reputation as an unscrupulous politician he seems anxious to add the fame of tho championship in mnlishness. Mb. Fuederick Douglass announces now that be will "drop politics and go into business." The determination is a praise worthy one if it is to be construed as mean ing that he will drop the practice of making a business of politics. "Owing to a glut in the market" it is as serted that Georgia watermelon ' growers are getting such poor prices that it does not pay to ship them, and accordingly a "trust" Is proposed by a journal whioh is evidently so ignorant of the trust question as not to know-that a trust is impossible in such a product. But the proposition illustrates the trust idea. If it does not pay to ship water melons what is the necessity of limiting pro duction? The production will limit itself under such circumstances. There is no allegation that the Georgians aro producing watermelons simply for the charitable pur pose of producing cholera morbus among the consuming classes. Arnopos of the appearance of five mem bers of Lowell's college class at his funeral the New York Herald develops a theory that "ahead full of brains is an assurance of long life." If the converse of tho proposi tion is true what an early mortality thero must be on the editorial staff of the es teemed Herald. Tiie indorsement of Senator Gormau by the Maryland Fanners' Alliance proves that new organization can bo captured by a smart politician almost as easily as an old one. It seems that the administration is unable to remember the oft-repe.lted lesson of po litical history that tho employment of pat ronage to secure a renomiuatlon generally costs more thnn it comes to. Of course tho politicians who get the offices are entirely content that the patronage shall be used in that way whether they are subsequently able to deliver the goods or not. THE Supreme Court of Leipsic after hold ing the case three days under advisement has solemnly decided that the uso of dog's meat to make sausages is criminal. It re mains to be seen whether the German vested interests will pay any more attention to the decisions of the courts than our trusts do. By the way, what has become of the hay fever season? Did the erlp wipe it out? If so, it w ill be a new illustration of the law of compensations. OUT OF TEE MADDING CROWD. EX-CONGBESSMAN ROSWELI, G. HORR, the Michigan hnmorist, will stump Iowa this fall in behalf of the Bopublican party. Among the distinguished arrivals at Glenn House, N. H., Saturday night were Senators Carlisle and Aldiich and ex Speakcr Reed. ON the same day that Mrs. ex-President Polk died a letter was received at tho White Houso, of whioh she was mistress so many years ago, directed to her "care of the White House." The English artist, Walter Crane, it is announced, is making arrangements for taking his family on a long holiday trip to America in the, autumn. During his visit he will probably deliver a lecture on "Arts and Crafts." Mr. WiLtiARD, the actor-manager, re turns to London from his visit to Bayieuth full of admiration for the performance of Wagner's opera "Parsifal." Mr. Willard will start for America on the -2d Inst, for a tour of the States. Many are wondering what Pope Leo Will do with the lottery tickets bequeathed to him by the late Bitter Von Leonardo, who wag Chancellor of the Papal Legation irt Vienna. The will of tfce late Chancellor left to the P6po about 100,000 francs in money, a quantity of stocks and bonds, and half of any eventual gain from the lottery tickets held by the deceased. Ex-Jt7DGE John Erskine, who retired from the Federal Bench about Ave years ago, is ranked as one of the greatest Jurists in the South, and when be retired the bar of Georgia gave him a great Ovation. He was appointed by Andrew Johnson. Ho lives most Of the time Bow with bis daughter, Mrs. Ward, of New tork, and spends a few months each year in Savannah. This is the picture of the young King of Servia, aged 16, and to become a full blown King in two years: "lie is a lanky, pale-faced lad", who wears Ins hair cropped close, in French fashion. He has bis mother's largo, fine eyes, but VAi forehead is low, and bo does not seem to be possessed of the same shrewdness and quickness as his father. Ho has had a miserable education and leads a solitary life withont having a Single play mate." Among ths spectators of the great parade of veterans at Detroit was a Major General of the United States Army, who viewed the procession from beneath his own vine and fig tree. General Philip St. George Cook was not only a commander in the Civil War, but headed the troops and engineers that sur veyed and established the boundary lines and forts between the United States and Mexico long before General Fremont made his famous march across the continent. Comedian's Occupation Gone. Detroit Free Press, j "I've been an actor upward of 80 years," said a member of the theatrical profession, "and I tell you, as a newspaper mail, that the daily newspapers are rapidly killing off all oliances of a man's success aa a comedian. Tears ago, in the times of the Burtons, the Dan Marbles, and even of such comedians as John E. Owens, Ben De Bar and so Oil, about the only funny speoches the peoplo heard were from the lips of comedians. TcMloy the papers aro full of funny lines, any dozen of whieb would make the) success of tt play or of a comedian; but the public gets them Just as soon as the ifjtor sees them, and they are of no use for stage fun." A Popular Party. Boston Herald. J Mrs Lease, of Kansas, announces that all men who want to Join her party will be re ceived with open arms. Bnlall Wonder that the accessions ate numerous! THINGS IX GENERAL. The Amount of Work Necessary to Write About Persons and Things of the Past Difficulties of Painting The Genius of Infinite Pains. Walter Besant, I see, Is writing up London in Harper's Magazine o(X Loudon, beginning back in the days of tho Romans. That sort of writing is nt)t the kind that can be constructed out of a ptlo of paper and an ink-bottle and a good head. Nobody, who has ever tiiod it, knows how much reading, and digesting, and searching, and thinking it takes to get a clear notion of the kind of life men lived a hundred years or so ago. You have got to know so many things, architect ure, and Cress, and cooking, and politics, and topography no end to it. Indeed, you have got to know as much as yon would need if you were to write a novel or paint a plcturp. .Nov el-writing seomseasy cnough.to the un initiated. And some novel-writing, Dortonbt; is very easy indeed aud very bard reading. And painting does not seem so partlculatly dUHcnlt. The painters seem to sketch with out any very laborious effort. But imagine yourself before n blank canvas, or a blank paper. The subject is tho -nrf and the rocks at Magnolia Beach. Go on now, paint tho white surf and tho red rocks. But wait; fiist, j ou must know exactly how the green w aves rise up into that wonderful foam and spray, and tumble over on the sand: and you must know exactly what these glowing tints aro whioh glint along the shining stones, with all the lights and stiadowg. And to do that you must ado. And seeing Is one of tho most difficult pieces of business in the whole world. Yes; seeing. Somethingwhich wo dostralght along, 15 or 16 hours every day. Watch the sleight or band miracles of a coniutOr. He oounts on our blind eyes. Ho knows that he can do 20 things a minntc that we won't see at all. Our eyes are not quick enough to fol low him. It takes a long education to be able to see. Nobody but an artist sees what nn artist sees. In order to paint a picture, a real picture, wo have got to see. Features TYhlch Require Study. But suppose that the picture,, instead of being the sort of work that Mr. Wood well does, is the sort of work that Mr. Abbey doc. There aro figures in it. And these people wear clothes. And as they live, say in the seventeenth century, they must wear the clothes of the seventeenth century. Now, how did people dress In tho seventeenth century? Before Mr. Abbey can paint one of those quaint pictures of his he must know exactly how people dressed in tho days of Shakespeare and Herrlck. And that takes hard stndy. Mr. Abbey has a picture on his canvas of an outdoor supper scone from the "Vicar of Wakefield." The whole picture is finished except the sotting or the table. How did they set a table in the days of the Vicar or Wakefield ? What did they have to eat? what sort of plates did they have to eat it from? and how were these dishes ar ranged upon tho table ? Mr. Abbey has read novels upon novels of that period, and ran sacked museums, and old houses, and fash ion plates, and sober histories, but bo has found no one as yet to tell him how Mlstross Olivia set her table. And so the picture waits. Good pictures aro not painted off-hand. Those delightful casts of Baryo's lions and elephants which they have at Gillespie's did not oomo into beiug off-hand. Even the casts took eyes and fingers whieb had beon trained for years. And the originals took more euro and study than most peoplo will believe. Those galloping elephants one must first know how an clophant looks and how it gallops. A Difference in Nationalities. Everybody knows the old story about thedifferonco between tho Knglish, French and German minds, as illustrated by the pro cess of studying an elephant. Tho English man will betake himself to the haunts of the elephant and live for two years in a jungle, obseiringthe elephant from every point of view and taking the most copious notes. At the end of that time ho will return to civilization, and presently will publish tho results of his obseivatlons in eight large volumes, which will contain all that any human being can possibly know about the elephant, but stated in such a drv, scientific and uninteresting fashion that nobody but the type setters and tho proof-readers will ever have the courage to go through it. Tho Frcnohman will spend some sunny day at the Zoo, whore he will see an elephant or two, aud a great many other interesting things; and he will wrlto his book during the following two weeks, part of it about beautiful Paris, part of it about the charm ing Zoo, pait of it about the blight sayings or a most delightful com pany of brilliant men and fair women iu whose society he made his Journey of ob servation, part of it about the Franco-Prussian war, and part of it about tho elephant. Everybody will lead the book, aud every reader will find in it a little- about every thing, even about elephants. The German, however, will shut himself up in a narrow study, with a supply of pipes and tobacco and Munich beer, and will de vote himself to Intense thinking. At the end of a week he will have evolved the Idea of an elephant "out of his inner conscious ness." Barye didn't evolve his elephants out of bis inner consciousness. An Enormous Amount of Work. I have just been reading 'Walter Be Bant's "For Faith and Fieedom." It is a novel Of tho seventeenth century. It begins with the restoration of tho Stuarts. The work that must be done in preparation lor shell a book Is enormous. These urticlos of Besant's about London aro Just the gather ing up Of tile chips out Of the corners of his literary earpeutet shop. He had to know all this, and a good deal more, beforo he could go back into the old centuries and live there with his Puritan heroes and he roines. It is astonishlhg how much a nov elist needs to know. Tho setting 'of a tea tablets but an incident. All tho customs andpiojudices, and manners ofspeeoh, the political and theological discussions, his tory, state of England in the seventeenth century, at his fingers' endsl "In tho gardens of the Manor House, bard by tho church, the sunflowers and the hoily hocks were at their tallest nnd their best; the yellow roses on the wall woie still in cluster: the sweet peas bung with tangles of vine and flower upon their stalks; the bach elors' buttons, the sweet mignonette, the nasturtlumi tho gillyflowers and stocks, the s eetwilllaras and the pausies, offered their late summer blossoms to the hot sun among the lavender, thyme, parsley, sago, feverfew and vervain of niyladv's gulden." That Is not a long nor particularly impor tant paragraph, but Walter Besant didn't compose it oitt of bis inner consciousness. He had to find out, beforo be began to write it, Just what sort or blossoms scontodthe gardens Of the j ear Of grace 1662. And that, I promise yoU, was not found out in any five minutes. The Genius of Infinite Pains. All Of which goes to prove that noth ing, even in literature and art, can be. had without being paid for. Worth and work have pretty nearly tho same spelling; and that is not the only likeness between them. Genius is all very well; but I am Inclined to agree with him who defined genius as being little more than an infinite faculty of taking pains. Somebody else said: "Genius is pa tience." Certainly, genius has very rarely done any good in the world without pa tieutiy taking Infinite pains. A GALA TIME FOR HABBISBUBG. Knights of 1'ythlas Arriving in Large Num bers for the Grand Lodge. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.) IlABBiautfto, Aug. 16. Delegates to the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias, which convenes hero Tuesday morning, ar6 arriv ing to-night in large numbers. Grand Chan cellor L. T. Bishop, Of Warren, will preside at the several sessions. Tho opening address will be made by Gov ernor Pattison. A monster demonstration bv tho uniformed rank of the order will take place WedueadaV afternoon, Major General Uarnaban, of Indianapolis, and Colonel E C. Bentley, Acting Brigadier General, will Be the officers in command. On Thursday a competitive drill for prizes aggregating $1,100 will be held, after whidh tbeurauu Lodge will adjourn. CHAu-TATjqTJA8 GBEAT DAT. Baccalaureate. Sunday Draws a Large Number of Students to ths Plaoe. . SPECIAL TELEORAM TO THE DISPATCH. Chautauqua, N. Y., Aug. 16. This was the one day of all the year at Chautauqua. It is known as Baccalaureate Sunday to Cbau tauquans. Tho class of '91 numbers between 30,000 and 40,003 grad uates, who are scattered all over this broad land. Nearly 1,000 of this number were present in person to-day, to bear tho words of wisdom and advice from Chancellor Vincent. This is tho largest class that has ever graduated from tho Univers ity, and speaks volumes for Chautauqua's work of educating tho masses. The students of the Chautauqua Literary nnd Scientific Circles, when they graduate hero, rarely stop their work of reading and study. Tho great Amphitheatre was crowded with peo plo. The services were peculiarly impres sive. Dr. H. R. Palmer, of Now Yolk, led tho laigo chorus choir, wnlch rendered with splendid effect the fine anthem, "Hear, O Israel." Misa Maria Decc.i, the Washington prima donna, sang Millard's beautilul solo, "Como Thou Fount of Evory Blessing," just before tho sermon. Her voice was in Splendid condition, and she fully sustained hor Chautauqua record for purity aud rich ness of tone and expression. Chancellor Vincent took for his text Gen esis first Chapter, 31st Verse, "And God saw everything that he had made, and he held it was very good." Tho sermon was one of the finest and most suggestive ever delivered here. It was very progressive in the ideas advanced, setting forth the true Christian life to be faithful servlco in anv work what soever; that God is as much pleased with the saint at the tluottle valve ot His limited ex press engine as tho saint upon his knees. In tho afternoon memorial exercises were beld iu the Amphitheatre in remembrance of the prominent Chautauquans who died during the year. In tho ovening tho Hev. Dr. J. J. Lavertv, editor of the Richmond VhrUUan Advocate, preached to a large audi enoe. PEEP ABED FOB THEIB FETE. The Ladles' Aid Society of the Southslde Hospital and Its Work. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Southside Hospital will hold a lawn fete at the resi dence of Mr. J. D. McBryce, Mt. Oliver, to morrow. Great preparations have been made, and the ladies aro confident that the entertainment will bo one of the most en joyable that has ever taken placo in Pitts burg. Among other features will be a "fish pond," from which the children will angle for toys. Then thero will be a series of tab leaux by children, under the superintend ence of Mrs. Bryce. Altogcther.it is ex pected thutthere will bo enough novelties to make this a notable occasion. The grounds will be tastefully decorated with colored lanterns, flags, etc., and the tables will be handsomoly draped and arranged. Tho tables will be in charge- of ladles, as fol lows: Fruit (red) Mesdames Brewster, Cotton, W. D. Sharp, Georgo Sharp. Dr. Thomas, C. H. Harsch, K. T. O'Connor. J. Slicker, E. W. Bryce, P. F. Smith, John Alldred, and Misses Reed, J. Davis, Nellie Taylor, Neil 1'ato and M. J. Alldred. Lemonade (yellow) Mesdames G. B. Sweeney, Homer, Hays, John Williams, A. C. Frank, Ella Sheets, and Misses J. Sellers, J. Adams, Mollle McGarey, B. Dalzell and Comtcsse. Flowers (blue) Mesdames Hamilton, J. E. Kurtz, Ihmseu, Schwann, Reinecke and Arn holt, and Misses Gribben, M. Davis, Oln hausen, M. E. Han, K. Coleman, Winkel and Chesley. Ice cream (white) Mesdames Dr. Duff, George Monroe, B. Donnelly, E. Anderson, Harper, Riddle, II. C. Gearing and R. M. Jones, and Misses Wallace, Caldwell, M. Mc Roberts and M. Upperman. Cako (lavender) Mesdames Pfell, Cready, W. S. Jones, Vetter, Scott, Beech, G. Gear ring, Vaux. II. W. Tander, W. K. Young, G. W. Cook, Galbreath and Miss J. Glbbs. HOW HARBISON IS PAID. The Routine of Getting His Salary of 84,100 07 per Month to Him. Washington Post. . , Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Crounse has charge of the payment of sal aries, and once a month be sends to the division of accounts a document addressed to the Secretary of tho Treasury in these words: "Please cause a warrant to be issued in favor of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, for tho sum of $4,166 67, with which he is to be charged and held accountable under the following head of appropriations." Tho section of the statute is quoted, and the document signed by the Assistant Secretary. 'The warrant for this amount is then is sued and recorded in the proper books.when it is sent to Treasurer Nebeker, who Issues his draft on the United States Treasury in favor of tho President. This draft is no different from that of any other, save that it is in the name of the President alone. If the Chief Magistrate is in the city, it is sent to the White House by soecial messenger and delivered to tho President or his private seoretary. After the President puts his name on the back of it the draft becomes negotiable paper,the same as any other, and is sent by him to the Colnmbia Bank, where it is denosited to his credit and becomes a part of his private ac count. If ho is out of the city, the draft is sent to the Piesidentbymail. It happened that on the 18th of July General Crook was going down to Cape May, and the draft for that month's salary was given him to con vey to the President. PEOPLE WHO THAVEL SOME. Captain Robert Smalls, of Beaufort, S. C arrived in the city last night, and is the fuest of Mr. H. Anderson, 842 Wylie avenue, le will remain for the G. A. R. picnic at Rock Point on Tuesday to attend the re union of the One Hundredth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. G. H. Walker, a Youngstown iron mati, It. J. Shoemaker, an insurance man from Washington, and L. E. Overman, a leading grain broker of Chicago, are Duquesne guests. W. M. Bell, of Bea Bros. & Co., returned from a hunting and fishing trip at Indian river, Michigan. Harry Ullfim, of tho Central Hotel, left yestelday lor a vacation trip in the East. C. H. Tarrington, a legal gentleman of York, Pa., is at tho Duquesne. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Christian Steflen, Jr. With more than ordinary sorrow the many friends of Christian StefTen, Jr., roceivid the an nouncement of his death, which occurred at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at his home lb the Eleventh ward, Allegheuy. Born in Switzerland iu 18, Sir. Steflen came to Allegheny When a child with his parents. He began life as a clefk la a dry goods store. About 20 jours ago he was elected cashier at the Enterprise Savings Bank of Alle gheny, which position he held until tils death; he was also treasurer of the Humboldt Fire Insurance Company ahdrcprt:nted the sixth ward la Com mon Council for many terms. Mr. S telle n iras a member or the Masonic fraternltj-, and nas a 1 M. of liavldge Lodge 37 1. In 1881 Jl r. Mcffen married Jllss Annie W. uothring. a daughteruf Hon. C. L. Uoelirlug. Ills wife and lour chlulren survive Iilm. John S. Gilbert, Architect. The body of John S. Gilbert, naval archi tect nud Inventor of the balance dry dock, who died at his country seat at Fort Montgomery, near West Point, was brought to New York by special steamer Saturday n.0.-iiiDg. Mr. Gilbert incorpo rated the original New York Dry Dock Company and built the Erie Basin Drv Deck years ago. He was 00 years of age, partla.ly paralyzed, and was Surf ounded by his family irt ills list moments. His son Henry was formerly Cohsul at Trieste. Mr. rallhort rectl drv docks All over Alnerira Anil In Europe. He was also a naval constructor at Washington. Mr. Gilbert died a, millionaire, al though according to his fnead. Captain W. ji. llluon, 110 receuiij iusiviw fi,wj,uwiuaii unior tunate speculation. Obituary Notes. MAJOR J. G. C6UMP died Friday at Harrison, Ark., at the age or 95 years. 118 Was the oldest lawyer in Arkansas. ChAbLUS Hull, of Danbury, the most prom inent and wealthy inah In Western Connecticut, died uatnrday of para! j sis. l'ROTi Thomas 0'Doj.nell, a well-known teacher add tutor in New York City, died Saturday of a stomach, trouble. Among hU private pupils have been Bishop Walker, 01 Detroit, and other eminent inthi , Mrs. Emha Hekdehsos, wife of Matthew Hen derson, a retired fanner of McKeesport, died yes terday morning, at her home, aged 60 years. She as a woman 01 inaliV noble qualities, and her loss ulll be deeply lelt uy her large circle of friends. EUQBVK Steely, County Clerk or Clark county, liidj) dropped dead from heart disease at Saturday, miJiilght. at his hoirie In Jetfersonvlllc. He was 41 years of age, and was a brother of o.O. steelv, Washington correspondent of the Louisville Cokrler-JournaL Levi Shrope, who died at someriet Friday nljrht, was well knowilfor years as the most ex pert marksman in Central Fe'rhsylvahla. In his youth he frequently Was able to tpllt in two pieces a cola thrown up at distance-yl s feet. He was S3 1 ears old, and Within a yearwas able to make an enviable score at tne target. j 1. THIRD PARTY TACTICS. Being Too Weak to Carry Elections Inde pendently, They Fight the Party in Power If Democrats Win They Mnst Obey Orders or Lose Alliance Support. FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. Washisotox, Aug. 15. I Had a long con vcrsatlfin to-day with oho of the ablest of the adherents of the new party commonly known ns tho Fanners' Alliance party, who stopped hero for a day or two ou his way South; and ho gave me what is possibly one of the frankest of the statements of the pur poses of the leaders of the movement that has yet appeared. I had asked him in re gard to the sincerity of the leaders and ho answered that while some were In for offices and some for "boodle," ho thought that tho great majority -n eie sincere and earnest. "Eich locality," ho said, "Judgesof its own people pretty correctly, and lc is hard fo'r a wol fin sheep's clothing to creep into tho fold. "I think " be continued, "that the purnoso or the real leaders of tho movement, the men of thought. Is not generally understood. In so far as the political end of the thing 13 con cerned. While we say that we are divorced fiombotliof the old parties, and nearly all of us are, our present fight is against the Re publican party. It is impossible for ns to win for ourselves. Our fight, therefore, is against the party that is in power. Wo pro pose to teach the old parties, to, whioh a majority of the people will cling for years to come by force of habit, if for no other lee son, that they must concede something to the new economical thought of the day and that government is not solely for tho benefit of the capitalist and monopolist. We pro pose to win a victory while we are away down in what seems to be a hopeless minor ity. We do not think of waiting till we have secured a majority of the voters or of the electors of the country. That time might never com. Will Hesort to Finesso Tactics. "Given the existence of two old and moth eaten parties, ruled by professional politi cians, all of them either wanting office for themselves or making money out of the run ning of the machine, the mass of tho peoplo blindly following one party or the other, what show is thero for a new party with real convictions and having in view nothing but the benefit of the mass and their rescuo from the clutch of the unscrupulous pow erful? It means either a long wait, until the generation originating the movement is dead, or it means to win with finesse. We shall play on the feelings of the leaders of the old parties. We shall appeal to their love of power, of office, of money, of no toriety, and show them that we have tho strength to pull down if we aro not strong enough to build up. "Whether we nominate a separate ticket, local. State or national, our aim shall be to unseat the man or tho party in power unless that man or that party will promise to support our principles. If we nominate our national ticket wo shall expend our force in the at tempt to carry enough Stntcs to tlnow the election into tho H01.se of Repre sentatives, and that will result in the election of a Democrat. If we do not nominate our own men, we will vote direct for Demopratic electors in States where we can most easily decide tho contest. The Democrats cannot win without our help. In a direct contest the Republicans, with their consummate leadership and the maohinery of the offices in their hands will surely win against the Democrats. We shall therefore make our bargains with tho Democratic leaders that if wo assist them to win they must in return give us in tho fltst years of their rule, in so far as they can, much of the relief we ask for, possibly even to the extent of the consummation of tho sub Treasury scheme and tho loaning of money by the Government at 2 per cent to persons who can give real ostate security, nnd who occupy and utilize for the good of the public that real estate. A Threat for Their Powerful Allies. "Of course we do not advocato any plan that would give a chance for mere specula tors to bonow money in that way. Should the Democrats, once iu power, refuse to Carry out the w ord and letter of their con tract with us, we will make ournext bargain with the Republicans, and, they failing, we will uproot them, in turn, and so on until we teach the old paties that we are the masters of tbe situation, and can do with them as we please. "Now, what do you think of thatT Pretty scheme, isn't it; And the best of it is that it win wot.ee to a certainty. "How are we going to do ft? Well, I'll tell you: Under tho new apportionment on the basis of the elovonth census, if the Repub licans carry all of the Statei carried in 13f8, with the new States, which they can reason ably claim, they will have 26o electoral votes. This is 42 more than the 223 that is necessary to make the election of their candidates cer tain. Wo must, therefore, take fiom this count at least 4 1 electoral votes. We cannot bet on New York or Indiana. Our move ment amounts to really nothing In thoso States, and tho Democracy are likely to loso immensely there on account of their advo cacy of free trade and fiee coinage. Indiana offers the best Inducements for hard work, but Inditua alone will count for nothing. Even If we could carry both Indiana nud New York lor the Democrats, there remains the danger of the Republicans carrying both A'irginia and West Virginia, where inanu laetniinir increases amazintrlv. nml thn In. fiuenceof the higli tariff people is growing apace. "Iowa and Kansas? Well, they are our only hope among the States east of tho Rockies in which wo have any appreciable number of eleotoral votes. Mo have a pow erful hold in both of these States. But iu themselves they are not enough. Together they have but 23 electoral votes, and we should have to hunt around a good while among the new States, with their one and two electors each, to find the other 21 votes. They Are Afraid of Blaine. "With any other man than Blaine as the candidate we might carry several of the new States and the entire Pacific slope on the silver question, piovided the Democrats nominate a free coinage man; but with a goldbugoruhalf-henrted silver man as the candidate any Republican would carry the Pacific States, nnd Blaine would curry them even against a free coinage man. "I toll you, the Democrats will have no sure thing of it even with our assistance. Moreover, it is questionable if we can win in Iowa or Kansas at a Presidental election, but they seem to be less hopeless than New York and. Indiana, which (and the former most csDeciallV) will be haid to eanturn nn account of the tremendous feeling in tho Eat against freo coinage, and the pressure that will be brought to bear in favor of the Republicans by Eastern capitalists. "But I can't be too definite about our in tention in this matter. We are watching tbe course of events in our movement, and Just wheiu we Shall stiike hardest will de pend On tho development of our strength When tho decisive moment comes. You can figure for yourself tne States in which our greatest hope will be. But please don't imagine that we are Democrats because we ate conniving at tho defeat of the Republi can party. If the Democrats get in and re fuse to toe the mark, wo will do the same thing forth Republicans four years hence." THE KAISER'S HEW CB0WN. Moro Splendid Than Any Save That Which Has the Kohlnoor. Philadelphia Pres'.l The young man now on the throne of Gor many seems determined to be an Emperor In all that the term implies, aud he will probably take his new crown about with him in his luggage, JUst as the Prince of Wales totes his baccarat chips. It is not likely that other sovereigns of Europe Will follow the example of the youthful Kaiser in expending more money for crowns. They will bd perfectly satisfied, as a rule', to fur bish up tne oiu ones, wnen ceremony cans for their use. As thespTlt of liberty grows in Europe, tho old-fashioned crown is be- coming less popular andmore ridiculous. The Kaiser's new crown is a magnificent affair, nhd Wlien completed will "lay over" anything in the same line in the impeiial lumber room of Austria or Russia. It lacks the splendor of the British crown, because there is only ono Kohlnoor; but in intrinsic value as a whole the Hohenzollcru head tilcco probably exceed the magnificent b.iuble displayed to visitors in the Tower of London. . ; Comfort for His Declining Years. Cincinnati Commercial CJazctte.J GcnetaJ Butler is having some grim enjoy ment in reading hta own obituaries, Ho never before had an opportunity td observfe in what high opinion and affectionate regard tho people have hold him, importers Against McKlnley. Albany Journal.J Tho meu engaged in tho business ot im porting foreign merohandlse are willing to eon tribute liberally to a corruption fund for the defeat of Major McKlnley. His defeat would be money in their pockets. SPEED OP STEAMERS. A New Ship Which Will 3Iake Twenty Three Knots an Hour. Manchester Union. 1 The fact that no serious accident has befallen tho ocean greyhounds has done much to remove the popular apprehension when it first bpgnn to be demonstrated that a vojage between Queenstown and Sandy Hook might bo accomplished in six days or even less. Tho claim that a difference in speed of a few miles a day, more or less in creases danger from collision or from foundering has not boon sustained by actual experience thus far, whtttoverthe future may have in store. And meanwhile the rivalry of steamship lines is resulting in swifter vessels every year. Tho Alaska lowered tho time to six days and a half, the Etruria to six days and three hours, and tho Cltyof Paris to five uays, 22 hours und BO ininntp. Since then a German company and a Froncli company have brought for ward ships, tho Fuerst Bismarck and La Tourainc, whose performances have led experts to believe tncy aro faster than the Cltyof Paris. And now it is announced that in replv to the performances of the French nnd German fliers, the Messrs. Thomson, or Greenock, the constructors of the City of Paris, are out already, in fact, with the model or a vessel which thpy are about setting to work to build, that will mako 21 knots every hour of the Journey and put abridge over the At lantic in five dav. Tho new steamer, while all the details of her design arenotyetglven to the public, will be tho enormous length of 630 feet by 70 feet beam. Thero will be ac commodations for 700 fir t and 300 second class passengers, and about 400 emigants; and all the arrangements, as they are worked out in the plans, are far ahead In point of luxury and comfort of anything yet pro duced. She will havo four funnels and triple compound engines, with fourcyltnders WOlklnc four crunk. Tho nnplnns will show 33.0CO indicated horse powerf She will have two pi omonade decks, one for first and one for second class passengers. She will have two bridgos, ono fore and the other aft, each being about 45 feet above water level. Two sticks will stand up to represent masts, but they are intended probably only for sig nals and to provide a crow's nest for the lookout. On the principal promenade deck will be placed 12 machine guns, nnd in other respects she will be made especially suitable for an armed cruiser. A RAILROAD OK STILTS. It Was One of the Most Unique Affairs Ever Constructed. Chicago Hcraldl Probably the most unique railroad ever built in this country was the old Bradford & Foster Brook. It connected Bradford with Derrick City and was only four miles long, but did on Immense business during the boom days in the oil regions. It was built in 1S77 and two years later went down in a smash that killed a number of people. The road was appropriately nicknamed the "Peg leg" from its peculiar construction, for it was built ou stilts and the passenger en tered the cars from the second stories of the stations. Frank Campbell, tho traveling auditor of the Pittsburg .nnd Western, was ono of the officials of tho "Peg-leg," and elves tho following interesting account of its construction and how ic was operated: There was but one main rail, which was of iron, but there were two auxiliary wooden rails. Tho main rail rested on strong wooden beams, supported bv massive stanchions, stiongly braced. About two feet below the top beam wore two wooden rails about eight inches in widtlvwhich were securely nailed to the supporting stanchion. The wooden rails were mainly for balancing purposes. Tho height of the odd little road varied from 12 to 23 feet, according to the lay of the land in the valley through which it was built. Without this elevation the scheme of the inventor would have been impossible. The cars fitted ou the rail like saddlebags, hang ing down on each sido, and wero really two story cars, the upper portion being used for passengers and the lower story for freight. Tho grotesque-looking train was headed by two engines connected with each other, one on each side of the main rail, tho two bal ancing like the cais. When thn fireman put on more coal he was obliged to descend to the lurnace by a ladder. The engines and cars ran on a set of central wheels, which protruded through the floors Into wooden hoods put on to prevent their dam aging passengers. The cars were narrow and the main rails were broad. Whenever tho car tilted side wheels caught the wooden rails and added to preserve the equilibrium of tbe train. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. Dates for Holding Them Set by the Depart ment ot Public Instruction. rSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.! Hariiisduro, Aug. IC Tho State Depart ment of Public Instruction announces to day that county teachers' institutes will be held this year as follows: Adams, Gettysburg, November 23; Alle gheny, Allegheny City, August 21; Arm strong, Kittanning, November 23; Beaver, Beaver, December; Bedford, Bedford, No vember 9; Berks, Reading, September 21; Blair, Hollidaysburg, December 28; Bucks, Doylestown, October 19; Butler, Butler, De cember 28; Cambria, Ebenxburg, November 9; Cameron, Driftwood, October 19; Center, llellefonte, December 21; Chester. West chester, November 16; Clarion, Clarion, De cember 2S; Clearflold, Clearfield, December 14: Clinton, Lockhaven, December 14; Colnm bia, Bloomsburg, December 14; Crawford, Meadville. December 23; Delaware, Media, October 19; Elk, Ridgeway, November 2; Erie, Eric City, December 23; Fayette, Uniontown, December 21 j 1 orcst, Tionesta, December 28; Franklin, Chambersburg, No vember 16; Fulton, McCounellsburg. Novem bers; Huntington, Huntington, November 30; Indiana, Indiana, December 21; Juniata, Miffilntowu, November 23: Lackawanna, Scranton, November 9; Lawrence, New Castle, December 28; Lebanon, Lebanon, No vember 16; Lycoming, Muncy, Decembet28: McKean, Smetnport, October 19; Slercer, Mercer, December 23: Mifllln.Lewlstown, No vember 23; Monroe, Stroudsburg, November 30; Montgomery. NorristOwn,Ocf obe20;Mon tour, Danville, December 28; Northampton, South Bethlehem, November 9; Perry, Now Bloomflcld, November 30; Pike, Mllfbrd, No vember 16; Schuylkill, Shenandoah, Docem ber 14; Somcisct, Somerset, November 9; Sul livan, Dushano, December 28; Suquellanna, Montrose, October 19; Union, Lewlsburg, De cember 28: Venango, Franklin, December 14; Warren, Warren, November lfli Washington, Washington, October 26; Westmoreland, Greensburg, December 28. IMPRISONED IN A BOTTLE. A Fall-Sized Hat Which Must Have Crown There Mysteriously. San Francisco Chronicle. Some time ago a druggist of Putnam, Conn., threw a lot of empty bottles into tho back yard of his store, and, recently while ho was strolling there, he hoard ono bottle clinking against tbe rest In a peculiar war The bottle lolled about as if it was be witched. The drhggist picked up thd loco motive bottle, and was astonished to see a rat gallivanting inside it. He was a big gray fellow, while the bottle nozzle is scarcely big enough to letatmtn thmst his linger into it. The rat's body Is more thmi three times larger than the orifice, and tho mystery is how did the rat get in the bottle. The druggist has placed the imprisoned rat oil the counter in his store( and scores of people inspect it dally. It is thu conjecture of a scientific Putnam citizen, who is famil iar with the habits of rats, that it Craw led iu tho bottle whrh young, and, since it is known that rats help each other in tribula tion, that the animal's mother has Visited the bottle dailv and contrived to thrust food into it. The nit appear to be in ex cellent health', and apparently is happy and contented. 1 Photographed by Lightning. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. When Charles TunniSort and Ed Campbell were killed by a Stroke Of lightning at tbe ball game at Warren, O., they were sitting beneath a tree. Ou the chest of Tnnntson, the white mau, the undorhikerfound photo graphed, apparently by the fiash, upon the skin the image of a brunch of a tree and ltd twigs. rLKADING TOR OUK GLORY. As the leaves fall in th nutuuin, when the wind Is bleak and cold. So our loved and cherished deir ones then are uiU?cl from out tho fold; Though our hopei and aspirations mingle with the 1 Ing year, They are 'born again, beloV'd better, brighter, never fear. Though we n'ere can see the loved ones In this wretched life we lead, The arc gone before us, darling, with our Savior Christ to plead For our future glory, add HIS Messed life to come, Th it at last He'll take ti to HIS oirn eterSal home. There they watch a.id see us In our struggle day by day. And we know not-when we'll Join theminthat Und so far away. But we must perform our duly without thought of gain or loss. Then wd'U win the crown He promised when He died upon the cross. H. E. A. PrrrsBUEO, August H. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Chicago has nearly twice as many miles of streets as any other city in the world, and almost four time as many as'New York. Its total mileage is 2,048. The female tramp has made her appear ance in Kantas. Site is much more trouble some than the male tramp, because sho loathes cold coffee and insists upon having hot tea. Formerly it was Impossible for recruit ing agents to find farmers' sons willing to Join the army." Now the reverso Is true. The present depression in the agricultural industry Is doubtless tho cause. A kind-hearted rural landlord adver tises for boarders in a paper in the northern part of California in the following enticing manner:- "A few boarders wanted by pri vate fhmily. Can dress as you please." The Salton Sea has now received its vindication and letters patent. The sea ser pent has visited its waters and disported therein. The creature is described as being about SO feet in length, with the conventional yellow scales, yawning mouth and great flippers. Since Brazil became a republic It has vastly increased in favor ns a fle'd for Ger man immigrants', of whom 7,927 have gone there daring the first six months of tbe pro sent year, as compaeed with 2,192 during the whole of last year, while In I9S9 there were only 228. There is a Chicago ordinance that no vehicle can be run on the Chicago boule vards unless there bo a lady on board. Hence tho new company organized to run Columbian coaches on those thoroughfare say they will have a lady conductor on each vehicle, so as not to run the risk of violating the law. The tunnel that will connect Butler Valley, Pa., with the bottom of the mam- moth Ebervale vein will bo one of the great est engineering feats of the century. It will open an almost inexhaustible supply of coal, and will serve a a drain for all tbe collieries in that vicinity. By a novel device heavy guns can now be aimed and fired with the greatest ac curacy, without exposing the gunners and without their even seeing tho object to be fired at. The principle used is tbatof so training the gun as to causo the object to bo fired at to be reflected on a screen at tho rear of the gun. Prof. Karl Jlycr, who is conducting the Government experiments for producing; rain artificially, has Invented what ne calls a "sky bicycle." It Is a torpedo-shaped bal loon, to which is suspended a machine sim ilar to the framework of a bicycle. Curious paddlewheel produce the propelling power for the apparatus. The production of oloemargarine con tinues to Increase in spite of repressive legis lation. The average production per month during the last fiscal year was 3,631,201 founds, as compared with 2,566,494 pounds in he previous year. Internal revenue receipts from thi source increased from $756,191 in 1390 to $1,077,9-24 in the last fiscal year. The jelly fish hasn't any teeth, but use himself just as if he were apiece of paper when he is hungry, getting his food and then wrapping himself about it. Tbe star fish, on tbe contrary, turns himself inside out and wrap his food around him, and stays that way until ho has had onough. The prongs of the starfish look like teeth, but in reality they are not, being nothing but ornaments tojuls pefrson. The Quakers are not dying out, after all. A decline in thelrmembershlp in Great Britain began before the end of the last century and continued down to 1860, but since that date they havo been increasing. In 1881 there were 14,981 members and 5,041 "atteudera" at meeting. Since that year there has been an increase of about loo or 200 every year, and the figures for 1S90 were 15,336 members and 6,110 attenders. An eccentric and wealthy old lady, who died recently in Lyons, left a will which was evidently Intended as a posthumous joke on the doctors. "In grateful recognition of the intelligent and devoted care of Dr. X," so runs a clause in the document, "who has en abled me to attain a ripe old age, I bequeath to him everything contal ed In my bonheur dujour." After the death of the estimable testratrix tbe executors unlocked thearticle of furniture in question and found in it, still unopened, sealed and corked, all the pills and potions prescribed for the deceased by Dr. X during the past ten years. Caucasia constitutes a veritable mine of archaeological curiosities, but most of the treasures beconie tho property of foreigners, who transport them to their respective countries. The natives, knowing the liber ality of foreign tourists, willingly show them the places where curiosities can be found and help them dig out the treasures. An American named' William Johnson, has recently procured in Vladikavkaz a collec tion of M25 archaeological curiosities, among which are ornaments, weapons, toot and pottery of tbe bronze, iron and granite ages, and human skulls of prehistoric ages. A California daily newspaper say: Those who placed a mixture of arsenic in their orchards some weeks ago, when the grasshoppers were so bad, in the hope of kill, ing the Insects that ntoofit, have been re warded for their trouble in a way that they did not expect. The remedy did not prove effective in all cases in exterminating the grasshoppers, but it has proved most effec tive in killing nib its, which lire about as de structive to a young orchard as grasshop pers. It is said that many rabbits have been killed by eating or the arsenic mixture, and in many places their carcasses Can bs seen lying thick through the brush adjacent to the orchards where the arsenic was used. A Georgia man, who was not aware of the fact that he was addicted to walking in his sleep, began to miss his clothes on awakening in tbe morning. Four suits dis appeared mystorlonsly, when ho was con strained to offer a reward of $25 for tho detection of tho thief. This prompted his son to Investigate. He saw his sire arise and dress himself nnd proceed to amlllpond. Here Jlio old gentleman would disrobe, "tuff his clothes in a hollow log a far as they Would go and then go In bathing. When ho emerged he would search vainlv for his clothes, finally going home without them. The young detective fished from the hollow log every suit that hud been lost and duly received the promised reward. The figure 9 is curiously and Intimately connected with all tile great gold mining ex citements of the nineteenth century. The great Algerian gold bubble formed and broke in 1809. Next came the MantazaU Mountain craze in 1849, when solid bowlders of gold as large as flour barrels wore re ported. The California gold fever broke out In 1849, and raged until counteracted ,by tho Pike's Peak boom in 1839. Ten years later, in l8C9,"OId Virginny." the celebrated miner, struck the lucky lead which made Virginia City and Nevada famous in the mining an nals of the world. Eighteen hundred and seventy-nine came in on time with the Lead vllle frenzy and the famous "carbonates" of Lake county, Colorado. Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine broke the charm, but in 1899 may make tip fot lost time, there being two 9's in that date. LET US SMILE. WOMAN'S VTASTS. Man wants yust a liddlc here pelovr, Und he don't vas hard to blease; But vomahs, pless her liddle soul, Vanti effery ding she sees. -Oil Clttf BUzmrd. "What is that in your vest pocket, James?'1 "Bless' my soul, I've brought away the bath house towel I" Sao TorkPrtis. "It was a tight squeeze for me," said BJenks, as he finished the story of his adventure, and aa old maid listener whispered sofdy toner self "If I had only been there " SommerctUe Journal. The Chautauqua dress reformers assert that "corsets hart filled more graves thanwhlsty." It doesn't pay to get tight by any nieaiij.-CAimpo Mall. He was a trifle bow legged, aud was pro testing with his tailor. "I have no doubt," said he, "that you understand youf business thorough; ly: but yon don't seem to get onto my curves." Waihtnabm War. Little Bennie Boohoo! The bee stung me. Ills' Big Brothcr-Never mind. I killed the be. Little Bcnnie-Dld ydu? Boohoo: Well, kill him deader. Brooklyn Sngle. "Here are some of the best jokes in my line that were written, even If they didn't get Into print," remarked the lee man as be looked over his cashbuok IfftsAfiiirfon Post. Tiie wayward young man, broken in health, has gone to the far Southwest to reenperate. He wis In jail at Tombstone, Ariz., for stealing a hlhdqnarttrofrieef. Id the lonllnessof hlscellhe sat down and wrote as follows: "Deai" Father; I hive picked Up some flesh since I fame 6ut here, but t am still confined to iny room. Please send me $100," etc., etc. t'Wtoo Tribune. 1 1 V 1 s ' ' i - -- - '
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