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SIXTEEN PAGES
DICTATOR BALMACEDA DOWNED.
The defeat of Dictator Bilmaceda's
srmy and the capture of Valparaiso, Chile,
by the Insurgents is announced officially
by the United States Consul at that city,
and his statement is confirmed by tele
grams from other sources. The extraor
dinary feature of the case is that Balma
ceda's telegram on Thursday announcing
the surrender of the Insurgent army,
should have obtained belief among those
who were familiar with the situation; be
sides, it stood alone, without confirmation.
Valparaiso was in the hands of the Dic
tator's army. It was admirably situated
for a defensive campaign, being sur
rounded by a hilly crescent which forms a
precipitous escarpment; from which the
city is impervious to attacks from the 6ea.
The accounts previously received showed
that the insurgents took the only road by
which the city could have been attacked.
They were met by Balmaceda's army near
the mouth of the Aconcagua, at the prin
cipal seaside resort. There was no way
for their opponents to surround them, and
that they could have been forced to sur
render was improbable.
The effect of the victory of the Congres
sionalists can hardly be determined upon
at the present time. It has generally been
conceded, however, that the defeat of one
of the parties would end the war and it
is probable that Dictator Balmaceda and
his Cabinet will now be forced to seek se
clusion. It is doubtful whether, even if
he desired, he could keep together the
remnants of his army. In Chile as in all
South American countries, the soldiers
prefer to be connected with the party in
power. At the commencement of the.
struggle the army decided to support Bal
maceda, considering the Insurgent party
the weaker of the two. In this, the se
quel shows, they were mistaken, and it is
improbable that any inducement could be
offered to force them in the field again
under the Dictator's flag.
Americans generally will regard the
outcome of the protra cted struggle with
satisfaction. Their sympathies have been
-with the insurgents from the beginning.
The principles for which they fought
were such as were to be approved, and
the attempt of Balmaceda to override the
established form of Republican government-was
obnoxious to citizens of the
United States. The resumption of trade,
wliich has been suspended since January
last, will also be not the least of the good
results of the victory. It is true that the
trade with the United States was not
large as compared with that of ether
countries, but it was of importance to the
Pacific Coast merchants, who are more
closely connected with Chilean affairs than
others in this country. The cessation of
war, therefore, is for the best interests of
all concerned.
THE REVIVAL OF TRADE.
It is too early yet for the impulse of the
great harvests and reviving trade to be
fully felt here, but the signs of coming
prosperity are neither few nor obscure.
The railroad statements from almost every
part of the country are as reliable indices
of the situation as can be obtained, and
without an exception almost they show a
large increase of earnings. Take for ex
ample the statement of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for July. It shows an Increase
of net earnings amounting to 5420,000 on
the lines east of Pittsburg, and for the
eeven months of the year, including six
months of,general slackness of trade, the
increase in net earnings ou the same lines
was $450,000. The lines west of Pitts
burg also show an increase in net earn
ings of 5131,000 for the month of July,
and an iucrease of net earnings for the
even months of S341.000.
It must be remembered that this im
provement has occurred before the move
ment of the immense harvests from the
West, and before the corresponding trans
fer of goods to the "West for the Fall trade
have made themselees felt A month or
two may elapse before Pittsburg feels the
effect of this revival, but prosperity is
knocking at our doors and must be ad
mitted before very long.
WHY DRESS reform fails.
The clatter of, Chautauqua's dress re
form movement is dying away already,
and the complex attiro of modern woman
survives the shock without a scar. No
sane person expected any other result
These efforts to radically reduce and alter
the raiment of humanity's better half re
semble the craze for unlimited fiat money
which infects the fanners once every
while, in so far as the practical results are
concerned. The great majority of people
desire the manufacture of greenbacks
wholesale about as much as most women
hunger for the trousers or meal-sack robes
of the dress reformers. But for a while
the reformers rage, and talk a great deal
about the enormities of fashion as the
greenbackers do of the intolerable tyranny
of gold and the beauty of the human
figure as revealed in classical statuary,
and the bondage of woman generally. It
is an amusing topic for the dull season,
chiming in nicely with the description of
the bathing costumes in wliich Venus
courts Neptune at Atlantic City, and
therefore it gets much space in the news
papers, and much attention in the tittle
tattle at tea tables.
But woman, with divine common sense,
perceives too clearly the potentiality of
clothes as they are made and worn to-day.
She wearsthe fetters of fashion willingly.
Kate Field declares that "until public
schools and private seminaries turn out self
belpf uL able-bodied individuals, instead of
rickety parrots stuffed frith book-learning,
the reign of common sense" by which
Miss Field means the adoption of Turkish
trousers or antique Greek robes, -we arc
not sure -vrhich.by "wbmen "will be post
poned." We will go further than this and pro
phesy that women will not consent to
make frights of themselves, until they
cease to be women, or until men cease to
be attracted by becoming attire made in
the prevailing fashion, which New York,
London, or Paris may happen at the time
to have set
PLUCKY NATIONALISTS.
The Nationalists of Massachusetts are
.not "Looking Backward." They are
doingtheirbesttoput Edward Bellamy's
Ideas into practice, and considering the
brief time they have had for action since
organization have really accomplished a
good deal. It is a campaign of education,
they are waging, but they have not ne
glected, as enthusiasts unused to politics
so often do, practical methods in the man
ufacture of public sentiment Some ac
count of what they have done so far may
be found in our news columns to-day.
It will be readily acknowledged that the
people of Massachusetts have good cause
to be grateful to the Nationalists for the
law, which the latter pushed through the
last Legislature in the face of bitter oppo
sition, giving towns and cities the right to
own and operate light and waterworks
for their own use. Already the law has
been resorted to by several of the smaller
towns with good results. The National
ists are not content to rest upon their
laurels, and they have taken another
step moro exactly in accord with
the principles of Bellamy. Now
their plan is to make the supply of coal
a governmental function. For a beginning
they petitioned the City Council of Boston
to pledge the city to this novel and gigantic
undertaking. The city fathers modestly
declined the job, and there the matter
stands. But the Nationalists did not
expect to win at the first assault
Their idea Is to accustom the people to
Nationalism in the concrete, to arouse
popular feeling, and opposition was not
only expected but even devised" by them.
Such a revolution in business and poli
tics as tliis cannot be accomplished with
out a tremendous struggle, and the noise
of the battle is hailed by the Nationalists
as a good advertisement of their cause.
Even if they prevail upon Boston's city
government to undertake to supply Its
citizens with coal the Nationalists do not
expect to reduce coal bills so much as to
direct the public's eye toward the causes
which operate against cheap fuel, such as
the combination of coal dealers, mine
operators and railroads, etc, and thus lead
to the absorption of all these agencies by
the Government This Is the best way to
test the Nationalist panacea, and while we
may be permitted to doubt the probability
of the people departing so far from pres
ent practices and established beliefs, as we
doubt also the practicability of the Na
tional programme and its desirability, it
must bo confessed that the apostles of the
new gospel deserve credit for their cour
age and good intentions. It is remarkable
also that they have accomplished so much.
AGAINST DIRT AND DEATH.
The need of public baths here has been
demonstrated this summer as usual by
frequent deaths from drowning in the
rivers, to which men and boys who cannot
swim will resort in the absence of other
means to be clean. A more powerful argu
ment for the establishment of public baths
could not be had. It is not merely for
sanitary and moral reasons that a bathing
place for the masses, at small cost is de
sirable, but for the sake of saving human
life. In other ckies of Pittsburg's wealth
and population public baths have long
been established. In every case they have'
proved a blessing to thousands who would
not have had the means to achieve cleanli
ness otherwise.
What is there to prevent Pittsburg from
having this cheap and superlative luxury?
The city could afford to provide baths;
and would get good dividends from them
in the moral improvement which always
goes with cleanliness. If the city will not
undertake the work, some of our wealthy
and philanthropic citizens, might find here
a chance to erect a monument which
would carry their names down the ages
amid the benedictions of the people.
As to the character and. scope of the
baths, it is well enough to premise that
plain and unpretentious structures will
suffice. Hot baths of the ordinary kind
would be the most important feature, of
course, but a swimming pool and shower
baths might well be added. It is to be
hoped that the widespread feeling in favor
of public baths will crystalize in some
practical plan for their erection before the
arrival of another summer.
TIN PLATE IN SIGHT.
If the free traders In this country doubt
the expediency or profit of establishing tin
plate works in this country, their friends,
the "Welsh manufacturers, do not Every
day or so this is being proved by reports of
"Welshmen who have sold out their plants
in "Wales with a view of making a new
start in America. In our local columns to
day are several facts of great significance
as to the growth of the new industry. David
Owens, a Welsh tin plate manufacturer,
has sold his plant and will embark in the
same business here. The other day it was
reported that B, C. Jenkins, another
prominent tin plate manufacturer of
"Wales, was selling his works to a syndicate
in order to get into the sunshine of the
McKinley tariff on this side of the At
lantic Now that the ball has been set
rolling who can say where it will stop?
Another pleasant incident to record Is
the shipment of twenty tons of block tin
to Pittsburg from Mexican mines operated
by Pittsburg capital This is the first con
siderable amount of tin from this source,
and it is eloquent of the ability of this
continent to supply the tin needed by
American manufacturers. "With thp de
velopment of American tin mines, the Im
migration of "Welsh tin plate men to these
shores, and the establishment of tin plate
works here the cry that the tariff would
not enable us to make tin plate will be
less often heard.
Several American and Engligh papers
have been discussing the treatment of
horses in the two countries, with the gen
eral conclusion that greater kindness is
shown to the horse here than in England.
In both countries, however, it is observed
that mort of the cruelty shown to horses is
in connection with street car and omnibus
hauling. Happily the inhumanity incidental
to stieet traffic is bound to disappear with
the horse itself before electricity and the
cable. The day when the vast majority of
horses will have a fair chance to enjoy life
is almost here.
Anotheb field has been opened for the
young ladies. There are more men in Mis
souri, Iowa and Wyoming than women, and
a great cry is being raised for wives. Some
of the natives there say they would even
take American girls if they could get them.
The assurance of stability which the pas
sage of the McKinley hill gave has pro
moted all Massachusetts industries, ao-
the State
In the re-
P just issued it Is shown that In 1889. 293,-
vv vUVav v V r v! B v WA dW- wa V f
the value of goods made and work done -was
$674,631,269. as compared with totals of 800,227
persons and $871,001,163 for 1S90, the year in
whioh the McKinley hill went into effeot.
The average yearly earnings of workmen
also showed a substantial Increase.
Emperor "William is celebrating the
formation of the Drelbund by growing a
brand new crop of -whiskers. It was, in olden
times, supposed to be unsafe to beard a
monarch In his den. No -wonder his physi
cians have been anxious for his health.
Nothing can stop the whilom Jonahs,
1ut now invincible Pirates in their headlong
course. Teams from Cincinnati, from Bos
ton, and from New York have fallen in the
dust before the ball-splitting Goliaths ol the
Iron City. The local fanatics are as deep in
delirious joy as they were in sackcloth
and ashes but yesterday. How will it endt
Ours not to say, but apparently Manager
McGunnigleis strictly in the saddle, and
his hand and whip and spur may work
more wonders yet.
It is fortunate that the possibilities of
the Chilean war are exhausted so far as the
claiming of victories is concerned. Balma
ceda and the Congressional party having
both claimed the victory, that ends it. No
body else can claim it.
The scores made by the Second Brigade
shoot yesterday were very satisfactory con
sidering the weather. The Sixteenth Regi
ment again carried off the honors and the
trophy will now remain in Its possession.
Good marksmanship has now become neces
sary in case of war and the records made by
the military boys indicate that they will be
able to make many blanks in the ranks of
the enemy if they are ever called upon to
fight.
The disaster in Hew York may result in
the weeding out of Pittsburg's rickety
buildings. Thebnilding inspectors and oc
cupants of suspected structures ought to 00
operate. The various methods employed by people
to make themselves notorious are wonder
ful as well as curious. Not long ago a West
ern New York preacher opposed the use of
bioycles by ladies and therby arrived at the
desired end, and now an educational -writer
in the Forum advises the encouraging or
cricket at schools instead of tne American
game of baseball.
The time of tennis wanes apace, the
players baok to work have gone yet
nature, rather out of place, in Fall doth put
her blazer on.
As usual the beauties of city government
by an unscrupulous gang of politicians are
prominent in the management of the recov
ery of the bodies from the Park Place ruins
in New York. After one hundred hours ill
directed and worse executed work many
bodies remained under the debris.
Some of the pictures in the New York
papers of the Park Place ruins are as fright
ful as the disaster itself.
Autumn looked In yesterday and said
"Shako!" and peoplo who wore summor
clothes did.
Twenty-six: lives were sacrificed yester
day morning in a collision at sea. The night
was clear and the water calm, and the only
reason given was that a proper lookout was
not kept. A day that passes without a dis
aster of some kind, involving great loss of
life, is indeed a rarity.
The cold feet of the August blizzard that
has been scaring Iowa farmers made them
selves distinotly felt here yesterday. Sum
mer shuddered and put on her raps to go.
It the trees do not hang out their red danger
signals earlier than usual all signs are mis
leading. NAMES FBEQUENTLY SEEN.
Olivee "Wendell Holmes will
brate his birthday to-day. He was
cele
born August 29, 1809.
Senaioe McPhebson, of New Jersey,
is said to bo an actual, active, bona fide can
didate for President,
The old monarchist families of France
are gradually drifting into the receptions of
Mme. Carnot, which means the acceptance
of the Republic
Miss Loque, who preaches in Chicago,
believes that the time is coming when man
will be frozen out of the pulpit and women
be the only ministers.
S. Corning Judd, postmaster of Chi
cago, under Cleveland's administration, is
in a very feeble condition in a sanitarium in
Kenosha, Wis. His friends do not share in
his hopes for recovery.
General Jo Shelby is a thoroughly re
constructed ex-Confederate. No soldier
fought more bravely than he; he knows he
was wrong and does not believe in keeping
up the memories of the war.
Mb. and Mrs. Stephen Osborne, of
Knoxville, Tenn., are soon to celebrate the
seventy-second anniversary of their mar
riage. They are respectively 101 and 92
years of age, and have 290 descendants.
John London Macadam, the inventor
of the road that bears his name, labored for
years to perfect his Ideas, and, although the
English Parliament voted him $30,000, it
hardly covered his outlay. His monument
is the roads of England.
Eliau Thomson, the Boston electrician,
who is regarded as Edison's most formidable
rival,' is a slender young man of clear-cut
feature s,a small brown mustache and wavy
brown hair. He is a bright talker, a good
listener, and is very popular among the
electricians of the East.
Beethoven's Flemish ancestry has been
proven by the discovery in Bonn of a history
of the Beethovens since 230 years ago. The
composer's great grandfather lived in Ant
werp in 1750. His son Louis, in consequence
of a family quarrel, left Antwerp about that
time and got a position as tenor in the royal
choir at Bonn.
The Prince of Naples, who is soon to
visit England, will not give up his whole
visit to pleasuring, but hopes to gain many
practical hints by inspecting important in
dustries in the kingdom. . He is also an en
thusiastic numismatist, and will probably
spend considerable time in the British and
South Kensington museums.
The engagement of the youthful Comte de
Talleyrand Perlgord to Mile, de Rohan
Chnbot, daughter of tho Prince andPrinooss
de Leon, has raised the question in aristo
cratic: Paris as to the most fitting age at
which young men and maidens should enter
the holy state of matrimony. TheFrenoh
aristocracy, it appears, is divided on tho
matter.
All ANCIENT COLUMN.
It
Is Discovered While Digging at Rome
Near the Tiber.
Brooklyn Eagle.
An interesting discovery has just been
made at Rome in the process of excavation
for the Tiber embankment. This is a flat
tened oblong column, or very thiok slab, on
which is inscribed the official record of the
public games celobrated by Augustus in the
year 17 B. C The decree of the Senate and
the regulations enforced by tho Executive
Committee are followed by a list of the
necessary prayers and sacrifices and the
order of the contests.
Then comes the announcement that a choir
of 27 youths and as many maidens will sing
the "Carmen Seculare," written by Quintius
Horatius Flaccus, In the samo locality the
workmen have discovered 25 additional
fragments of the great map of the old city
which formerly stood in the Forum of Au
gustus. When this map was destroyed by
Are or earthquake, many of the pieces were
thrown Into a heap of broken building ma
terials, and finally fo'ind their y into the
walls of the old Alfieri Palace, which havo
just been unearthed.
cording to tne figures of
I Bureau of Labor statistics.
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL.
No Wonder the Negotiations With Haiti
Failed The Rain-Making .Experiments
An Epidemic of Fleas The Treves
Coat,"
"Washington, Aug. 28. The published
report of the spirited action of Rear Ad
miral Ghorardl in calling Commodore
Walker to book at Portau Prince for ne
glecting to properly recognize his authority
loads to a better understanding of why the
negotiations for Mole St. Nicholas, com
mitted jointly to the hands of the Bear Ad
miral and Minister Douglass.failed. Admiral
Gherardl is probably the best surviving
type of the old-time sailor strict, conscien
tious, fearless, taking himself, and holding
everybody else up to a high conception of
the responsibility of his post. He went to
Port au Prince charged with an important
diplomatic function, and he sot about exe
cuting his commission on land with very
much the same degree of official punctilio
that characterizes his performances afloat.
Given, therefore, a sailor-diplomat liko Ad
miral Gherardl and a politico-diplomat like
Frederick Dougla88,and the result Inevitably
was a clash and a failure.
A misunderstanding seems to have pre
vailed from the outset. Admiral Gherardl
thought Mr. Douglass manifested too little
Interest in the woik, while Mr. Douglass
thought the Admiral manifested entirely
too much interest in it that is to say,that he
showed a disposition to elbow tho regularly
accredited minister to the country out of the
way and conduct negotiations single-handed.
The whole case has not yet been presented,
and may never bo, over anybody's official
signature, but current and well accredited
gossip here asserts that tho meetingbetween
Admiral Gherardl and Commodore Walker,
spirited as it is said to have been, was tame
in comparison with one or two conferences
at Port au Prince between the Admiral and
Minister Douglass. Finally, when it was
made apparent that thev could not co
operate, negotiations were broken off and
both men came home, Mr. Douglass to le
main. The Ram-Making Tests.
No man in America is more interested in
tho success of the rain-making experiments
now in progress than Ex-Senator Farwell,
of Illinois. He and his brother built the
Texas Capitol and received in payment an
empire of arid lands in that State. The
property under existing conditions posses
ses small value, but if rain can be produced
in quantities sufficient to aid agriculture the
Farwells will shortly be among the richest
men in the world.
The ex-Senator, while in office, advocated
an appropriation bv the Government to en
able rain-producing experiments to be made,.
anu lc was largely tnrougn ins en oris cnac
tho appropriation was finally secured.
He came to be known, indeed, as the "Cold
Water Senator." When he wasn't urging an
outlay to thp the sky he was Industriously
engaged in pouring cold water on the second
term aspirations of Benjamin Harrison. The
explosives used in deluging the Harrison
boom were of the species known as "prairie
profanity."
The Coat at Treves.
"I have often heard my mother tell of
her visit to Treves more than 40 years ago
to see the Holy Coat," said Miss Julie Man
gin, a bright little French woman, to a
correspondent.
"She lived in Alsace-Lorraine, where I
was born, and was a very devout Catholic,
so when the priest told our people that the
Holy Coat would be shown to those who
went to Treves, and that perhaps they
might touch it, my mother and many of
her neighbors made tho piigramige.
"Ah, to travel then was not as it is to-day.
There was no railroads to Troves, so every
body who had a horse harnessed it. and
those who had only oxen yoked them to
gether and plaood much to eat and drink in
the carts, for they must travel more than a
week to go and come. Many who were sick
were carried to the carts and made the long
journey to touch tho coat and be well
again. My mother was not ill, but she was
a good-Catbolio and wanted to touch the
coat. Many who went to Treves came back
cured, and I think all were stronger and
better.
"Our priest told us we Bhould see the coat
again after many years, but when the time
came the Germans had take the beautiful
province and the Church would not let the
coat be shown. Napoleon had sent a guard
of soldiers to watch the coat and to see that
no harm should come to it, but our priests
did not believe that the German soldiers,
who were Protestants, would honestly care
for the coat. So they made us forget it, and
promised we should see it again when all the
trouble was over.
"We hoped our beautiful country would be
given back to France again,but the Germans
kept it, and it is they who scoff at tho Holy
Coat, although they must guard it. If you
read in your papers you will see it is only tho
Germans in Berlin who say it is not the coat
that Jesus wore. I am sure it is the real
coat, for our priest told us how it came to
the Church. When Jesus was crucified,
Joseph, of Arimathea, a very good and very
rich man, bought the coat from the soldier
who won it in the casting of lots, and after
ward gave it to Peter, of Antioch, who was
tho first Pope of the Catholic Church. So
you see we have always had it, and there
cannot be any mistake. Only the Germans
say it is not so."
An Epidemic of Fleas.
"Washington is suffering from an epidemic
offieas. Tho annoying little insects havo
descended upon tho city in swarms, and the
mild-mannered mosquito is forgotten in the
heavier affliction of the "wicked flea." The
Board ot ueaitnis engaged, in an investi
gation of the plague, and an effort will be
made to devise a remedy which will drive
the little pests back to their haunts in stable
and barnyard.
Prof. Leland Howard, of tho National
Museum, ascribes tho visitation to tho wet
weather of the past two weeks.
"Two years ago," he says, "when we had a
damp season, fleas were very numerous.
Last season, when it was hot and dry, there
were very few. I think they breed faster
during a damp season. The dampness is not
the cause of tbem, but is favorable
to them. The female flea will lay
an almost infinite number of eggs. In damp
weather they hatch out readily in cracks in
the floor, In the dust and in carpets.
"When houses are closed for the summer
the fleas are undisturbed and are free to
multiply. But originally there must have
been at least two fleas in the house to start
with. I think a good thing to do to get rid
of them is to spray tho carpets and cracks
with benzine. But you must be careful about
having a light in the room, until the vapors
have passed away, as they are explosive
and inflammable."
AGED BUT &T ACTIVE.
An Old Lady "Who Netted 86,000 From
Knitting.
Lcwiston (Me.) Journal.
Not long ago Dr. Peabjes, of Auburn, while
making a professional call at the residence
of Charles Holbrook, Esq., a prominent
farmer at North Auburn, learned of the re
markable story of an aunt of Mr. Holbrook,
whose aeath occurred some weeks ago. The
aunt's name was Mary Holbrook, and at
her decease, at tho age of 93, she was a
widow, living in the town of Holbrook,
Mass. She was tho mother of 23 children
and but three were living at the date of her
death. She never weighed over 100 pounds
and in bcr last days did not weigh over 30.
Wh en 75 years of age she began to knit tidies,
to while away the time more than anything
else, and it was not long before she had over
ICO as the result of her work.
She did not knit the tides especially for
tbemaiket, but one day her son took a few
samples to Boston, where be found a ready
sale for them at Whitney's storo on the cor
nor of Tremont and W Inter streets. The
tidies seemed to strike Mr. Whitney's cus
tomers very favorably and he was obliged to
find the old woman in Holbrook and secure
for his store all the tidies she had. Not only
this, but he arranged with her to take all
she could make at a good figure. She soon
found, however, that she could not begin to
All the order, for a certain class of custom
ers at the "Hub" had a regular craze for
them. So what did Mrs. Holbrook do but
engage several old ladies in the neighbor
hood to do the ooarser parts of the work,
fllllng iu the finer parts with heron n hands,
"In this way," says the writer of Mrs. Hot
brook's oDituary. "from her 75th to her 90th
year, 15 years, she netted $8,000 from the sales
of her tides, upon which f uilyjono-half of the
work was done with horown hands. How
many ladles, over whose silver hairs so many
winters have kindly passed, can show such a
record of almost -wonderful patience and
persovcrance, we wonder!"
A Tin Panic In "Wales.
Springfield Republic
There's a panic, sure enough; Dut it's 'a
tin pan-lc, and it's confined entirely to .the
manufacturers in Wales and the Democrats
in the United States.
A Groundless Statement.
Indianapolis Journal.
The complaint that the MoKlnley law will
curtail the market of tho American farmer
is qoi soundly based.
BN0BBEBY IN HEW YORK.
The Metropolis Is the Paradise of the Par
venue Nowadays.
Arena.
To be a great leader is to be a great feeder.
Yon must dispense terrapin and canvas-back
ducks and rare brands of champagne, in
lordly dining halls, or your place is certain
to be secondary. You may, if a man, have
the manners of a Chesterfield and the wit of
a Balzac; you may, If a woman, be beautiful
as Mary Stuart and brilliant as Mme. De
Stael, and yet powerless to "entertain," you
can fill no lofty pedestal. "Position in Now
York means a corpulent purse whose strings
work as flexibly as the dorsal muscles of a
professional toady." And this kind of toady
has an exquisite regard for your greatness
and your dignity the moment he becomes
quite sure of your pecuniary willingness to
back both. New York is at present the par
adise of parvenus, and these occasionally
commit grotesque mistakes iu tho distribu
tion of civilities. Because you chose to
"stay in" for a season or two they will take
for granted, if suddenly brought in contact
with you, that yon have never "been out"
and could not go if you tried.
Of course, to feel hurt by suoh cheap
hauteur proves that you are in n manner
worthy of it; but even though you are not
in the least hurt you cannot retrain from a
thrill of annoyance that a country which
has boasted in so loud-mouthed a way to
Europe of having begun its national lire by
wholesomo scorn ot all class distinction
should contain citizens cursed by a spirit of
such tawdrypride. At least the aristooracies
of other lands, vicious and reprehensible as
they have always been, are yet an evil with
a certain malign consistency for their sup-
Eort. Like those monarchies of which they
ave formed a piteous adjunct, they havo
always been the outgrowths ot a perfectly
natural ignorance. Though distinct clog
to civilization, their existence ivmains
pathetically legitimate. Nuisances, they are
still nuisances with a hereditary hold on
history. Their chief modern claim for con
tinuance is the fact that they were once
authorized by that very "divine right"
which Is now the scorn and jest of philoso
phy, and that the communities which thoy
still Infest are yet unprepared for the shock
of their extirpation. It is clear that they
will one day be sloughed off like a mass of
dead animal tissue, even if they are not
amputated liko a living limb that ha3 grown
hopelessly deceased. Thoy are as surely
doomed by tho slow threat of evolution as
is the failure to establish trial byjury in
Russia. They are tolerated by progress for
tho simnle reason that nrosrress is not vet
ready to destroy them. Hence are all imita
tions of their pormitted and perpetuated
folly in wofully bad taste. They are more;
they are an insult, when practiced in suoh
a land as ours, to republican energies,
motives and ideals. Heaven knows, we are
a country with sorry enough substantiality
behind her vaunts.
THE VAIUE OF SMOKE.
It Can Be Made an Article of Considerable
Profit by a Condensing Process.
Age of Steel.
Smoke abatement is already a public
question. It has become a menace to public
hca'th and an irresponsible distribution of
dirt in the lungs and laundries of our indus
trial centers. It has to go. The veto of civil
ization is against it. It may be innocent of
bacteria, but it is synonymous with asthma
and strangulation. It has taken some time
to convince the average citizen that dirt in
the air was not only disastrous to clean
linen, butmore so to public health. Common
sense has at last recognized the fact, and
the abatement or abolition of the smoke
nuisance has called into play much of
theoretio and practical ingenuity. Smoke
consumption has been the objective point,
but we have gone a step beyond that, and a
prooesa is announced by whioh smoke can,
in association with attending gases, be made
into oil. Prof. V. B. Lewes, of Great Britain;
has recently called public attention to cer
tain facts in this connection. Among these
practical illustrations is one including three
or four Scotch iron works, to which a certain
gas oompany is paying an annual rental for
the right of collecting smoke and gases from
blast furnaces.
We quote the modus operandi from an
English contemporary. Inventions: "The
smoke and gases are passed through several
miles of wrought-iron tubing, diminishing
in size from six feet down to 18 inches, ana
as the gases cool there is deposited a consid
erable yield of oil. At Messrs. Dixon's, at
Glasgow, which is the smallest of these
installations, they pump and collect about
00,000,000 cubic feet of furnace gas per day,
uud recover on an average 25.00J gallons of
furnace oil per week, using tho residual
gases, consisting chiefly of carbon monox
ide, a9 fuel for distilling and other purposes,
while a considerable yield of sulphate of
ammonia is also obtained. In tho same way
a small percentage of the coke ovens are
fitted with condensing gear and produce a
considerable yield of oil, for whioh, how
ever, in its crude state, there is but a limited
market, the chief use being for Lucigen and
other lamps of tho samo description, and for
treating timber for railway sleepers."
BUPEESTITIONS ABOUT BIBD&
Some of the Sayings That Are Believed In
at the Present Day.
St, Louis Republic
It is unlucky to kill a stork, a robin or a
swallow. According to a Swedish legend the
stork hovered over our Savior as ho was
dying upon the cross, crying "styrko!
styrkei" (strengthen ye I strengthen ye!)
and from this it received its name or styrk,
or stork. There is a similar Scandinavian
legend with respect to the swallow, which
fluttered above the cross crying "svalel
svaleT (cheer up I cheer up I) There are two
legends with respect to the robin one that
as the Savior was toiling up the hill of Cal
vary a robin flew down and plucked a thorn
from his temple, and a drop of blood fell
upon its breast and turned it red.
The other is that the robin carries dew to
refresh the sinners in hell, and tho heat of
the flames scorced its feathers red a much
more comforting legend than that which as
cribes to the malignant jay the task of carry
ing sticks to hell every Friday to feed the
flames and torment the wicked. If one kills
a wren ho will break a bone before the year
is out. It is also unlucky to kill a martin.
Many animals possess the power of curing
diseases. Three hairs taken trom the "cross"
of an ass, that is the mark running up the
back and out at right angles over the
shoulders, will cure whooping cough, but
the ass will die. This "cross" was believed
to be the cross of Christ impressed upon the
animal when Christ rode into Jerusalem on
the back of an ass. Another sure cure for
whooping cough can be obtained by asking
and following the advice of a man riding a
piebald horse.
THE KEY OF 'DEATH.
An
Interesting Relic to Be Seen in the
Venice Museum,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
About the year 1600 a strangor named Te
baldo established himself as a merchant in
Venice. Soon becoming infatuated with the
daughter of ono of the most ancient and
wealthy families he asked her hand and was
rejected, the young lady being already affi
anced. Half-crazed and thoroughly enraged,
ho planned revenge. Being an excellent me
chanic he soon evolved a most formidable
looking key. The handle of this unique wea
pon could be easily turned. Being turned it
disclosed a spring with a missle In the shape
of a needle of exquisite fineness. With this
weapon Tebaldo -waited at the church door
until the maiden he loved passed in on the
morning of her marriage.
When tho bridegroom appeared the des
perate lover, unperceived, sent the slender
poisoned needlo into his rival's breast, and
within an hour ho was dead of a "strange,
baffling disease." Again Tebaldo demanded
tho haud of tho maiden, but was refused.
Within a few days both her parents had died
in a very mysterious manner. Suspicion be
ing excited, examination was made, and the
small steel Instruments found in the flesh in
both cases. One day the maiden allowed
Tebaldo an audience, but told him that she
would never be his bride. Within an hour
she was-a corpse. Tebaldo was suspected,
the key was discovered and the culprit
hanged. The celobrated "key of death" is
still shown to the curious visitor of the Ven
ice Museum.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
Obituary Notes.
William Lee, of Rochester, N. Y.. a promi
nent building contractor and interested in many
business institutions of his city, died Thursday,
aged SO years.
Captain C. G. Wayne, an old-time Cincinnati
and New Orleans steamboat man, for 15 years past
a gen tf or Ohio river iteamersjat New Orleans, died
Yesterday, aged 78 rears.
Samuel R. "Raymond, brother of the late Henry
J. Haym.nJ, of the New York Timet, died iu
Rochester, N. Y., Thursday erening. He had
been engaged in the Insurance business for many
J.years.
OUR MAIL POOCH.
Jeannette All Right and Booming.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The article in Thursday's Pittsburg morn
ing papers has excited a great deal of un
favorable comment among the people of
this place, among whom are many warm
admirers of The Dispatch, who ore loath to
believe that it would willfully do an injus
tice to a neighboring town. These people
regret exceedingly that The Dispatch, as
well as the other papers, has been Imposed
on by some irresponsible person -who is
either grossly ignorant of the true situation
bore or has some selfish motive in thus
utterly ignoring facts. Tour friends here
ueg to suDmic a lew lacts wnich they com
mend to the attention of those unprejudiced
people who are desirous of seeing us as we
are.
The flint house here is running full, and
that is more than can be said for any other
works in the whole country, it being the
only establishment that has. as vet. resumed
operations. The Dithridge Glass Company's
nuiKsureiu inn operation ana unauie to
supply the demand for their wares, with
everything indicating a prosperous year.
The East Jcannctte Specialty Company is
daily turning out more glass than ever be
fore and find the supply unequal to the de
mand. The Gondola Tannin Company at the pres
ent time has every department of its im
mense plant In full blast night and day, and
from present indications, will continue to
operate the plant to its utmost capacity dur
ing tho entiro year.
The William G. Price Lead and Pipe Cora
lyiny, although in operation but a short
timo, are dally increasing the number of
their employes and consequently their out
put, thus adding another to the industries
of Jeannette that is by no means an unim
portant one.
A half-dozen other Industries of less im
portance, all actually engaged in the produc
tion of their particular specialties, prove
beyond peradventure that Jeannette posi
tively leads any town of like size in Western
Pennsylvania in the1 matter of active indus
tries. Tho window glass manufactory has not
resumed operations, and all who are con
versant with the business know it would be
unprecedented to fire the furnaces prior
to September 15.
Not an employe in the factory can be found
who, at any time since the shutdown, antic
ipated a resumption of operations 'in that
department before September 1, and there is
ample time to adjust all differences between
employer and employe prior to that date.
The reported financial difficulties of James
A. Chambers are not regarded seriously
here, as it is a well-known fact that the tank
system, the one iu U3e here, has proven bo
eminently satisfactory that stock in a con
cern of this kind will always be at a pre
mium, thus obviating nil cause for uneasi
ness on account of the rumored financial
embarrassment of any individual. The
superiority of their product will Justify this
firm in resuming at the earliest possible
moment, and glass men here bavo no hesi
tancy in saying that they will surely do so.
A careful canvass among the busiuess
men of the town has utterly failed to un
earth those who talk of leaving the city be
cause of a depression in business. On the
contrary, we find them making preparations
for an Increase in business, and without ex
ception they report au increase in sales over
the corresponding months of last year und
are enthusiastic over the prospect for the
future of Jeannette. Real estate dealers re
port things moving briskly, and it is evident
that there has been no cessation in the build
ing up of the town. Jeannette has never
had a "boom" and never wanted one. Her
growth has been of the more substantial
kind and she will enduro because of it.
J.
Jeannette, Aug. 23.
A Lady Can Travel Alone.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can a young lady travel alone on an ex
cursion train to Niagara Falls and Toronto
without escort? Would it be proper? Are
young ladies traveling alone received at the
best hotels? Whero can she best inquire for
hotel accommodations? A. B.
Pittsbuko, Aug. 23.
It is not improper for a young lady to
travel alone, but it Is notbest that she should
do so. Hotels will receive young ladies as
well as any one else. Police officers are sup
posed to bo prepared to direct strangers to
proper places.
Foreign Born Population.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you ho kind enough to give ns tho
foreign born population of the following
counties: Allegheny, Fayette and Westmore
land? w.
Greehbeuho, Aug. 28.
There is no publication of census returns
yet by counties and the only means of arriv
ing at an estimato is to make a compilation
from tho Great Registers, which is too long a
task for us to undertake.
Let Out n Link.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In an account of the speed of tho Teutonic
published in The Disf vkjh it was said that
tho captain cried: "Let out anothor liuk,," so
that she would run faster. To settle a dis
cussion, will you inform me whether he
meant to move some part of the machinery
or whether he meant to get up moro steam.
Mullan, Aug. 23. C. R.
The expression used was figurative, and
meant that more speed should be given by
the engines if it was possible.
HOW THEY LIVE.
The Ups and Downs of a Professional Va
grant's Existence.
Butte City Miner.
Probably in no city of the same propor
tions in America can be noticed as many
different phases and traits of character
among its residents as in Leadville. One
may sea persons in all positions in life,
from tho highest to tho most degraded. A
reporter walking down Harrison avenue
early Friday morning, saw a curious speci
men of tho human race resting on an iron
railing protecting a saloon window, and
staring vacantly at the persons passing
along the street as If he bad no other ambi
tion in life than to hang around the bar
rooms and eke outn precarious existence at
tho numerous free lunch counters. When
accosted oy the reporter, he turned quickly,
like a hunted criminal, and asked in a gruff
voice what was wanted. When asked to an
swer a few auestions, he stated that he was
in better business than talking to every
body who came along, and It was only after
a great deal of pressing that he finally con
sented to afford the reporter an interview,
suoh as it was.
"I have not always been a beggar," he
said, "and did not become one through any
fault of mine. Yqu see, circumstances often
alter cases. My father was a New England
farmer, in comfortable circumstances, but,
like many another young man, I became dis
satisfied with the quiet life of a farmer's son,
and late one night I arose from my bed ad
silently stole away from the old homestead.
My 'worldly possessions consisted of the suit
of clothes which I was then wearing and $2
in money. I was determined to see the
world, and started at once for New York,
where, after many hardships, I arrived three
weeks later. You can imagine the rest bet
ter than I can describe it. Looking for work.
my capital exhausted. I led a weary exist
ence. Becoming accustomed to my lot, I
wandered among the saloons and picked up
a few scanty morsels of food whenever
opportunity offered. Stealing rides in empty
box cars, and 'hoboing' my way, as you mav
call it, seemed to come natural after awhile,
and for the Jast several years I have not
done an honest day's work. Why don't I re
form ? Well, you can't straighten a crooked
old treo can you? Sir, ain't vou got the price
of a 'bowl' about you ?" The old man was
given a silver quarter, muttered a "thantcee"
and shambled off to the nearest saloon, to
Blake his thirst with a schooner of the foam
ing boveruge.
A CUBIOUS TBEE.
It Produces n Wax From Which Candles
Are Made.
San Francisco Chronicle.
"Japan wax," as it is called, is obtained
from a tree, the rhus succedarica, which
grows in Japan, China and the East In des.
Tho Japaneso call it haje, or haze. The tree
commences to bear fruit when 5 or 6 years
old, and Increases its product every year till
at the ag of 60 years a single tree will pro
duce from 350 to 100 pounds of berries, from
which 70 to 80 pounds of wax can be ob
tained. The wax is formed in the middle of
the berry, between the skin and the seed,
like the pulp of a grape.
It is extracted by boiling the berries in
-water and allowing it to cool, when the wax
separates from the skin and seed, sinking to
the bottom of the vessel in a solid cake. Tho
specific gravity of this wax is 0.970, and its
melting point 131 Fahrenheit. It is largely
used, either alone or mixed with tallow, by
the Chinese in the manufacture of candles.
This tree should not be confounded with
the "tallow tree" of China, which has a
nitch of solid tallow in all trees that have
I lully matured.
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL.
Close of the Teachers' Institute and the
Wilkinsburg Lawn Fete.
The Teachers' County Institute has ad
journed. The closing session was held yes
torday morning, and the teachers are now
quietly digesting a great deal of useful in
struction that was vouchsafed them during
the five days that the institute lasted. Dr.
Hall finished his remarks upon psychology,
and Prof. Russell occupied the last half hour
of the session in explaining a method he has
for teaching music In the public schools that
he has found to be a profitable one. He ex
plained it in his- usual lucid and pleasing
manner. He concluded his address bv say
ing: "The influence of good musio upon a
pure mind is something that will not in all
this human life of ours be fully understood,
still less expressed in words."
During the morning the Committee on
Resolutions reported a number of resolu
tions that were ado-ited unanimously.
Among other things, they indorsed the
teachiugofmusla in the public schools, rec
ommended the holding of local institutes
throughout the connty.and that one teacher
bo appointed to co-operate with the County
Superintendent in securing necessary legis
lation. Prof. J. Q. Irwin was the teacher
selected.
Resolutions of regret were adopted on the
deaths of the following teachers during the
past yean Lucie Alter, Annie E. Glllelnnd.
Lizzie E. Langhlln.-Luella May Rose, Vir
ginia Glbrfon, J. O. W lis and W. W.Nichols.
Th closing remarks of the institute were
made by Profs. Hall and Hamilton.
The firemen's lawn fete at Wilkinsburg
will be brought to a close to-night with a
speech by Mayor Gourley. who has been es
pecially Invited to be present. The volun
teer fire company of Wilkinsburg is made
up of the best young men of the borough,
many of them holding important business
positions in Pittsburg, and it is considered
only the proper thing that the Mayor shonld
take some part in the festivities of the fete.
The indies of the different Wilkinsburg
churches have done a great deal toward
making the fete a success, and tho firemen
appreciate the fact. The tables are dec
orated and conducted as follows:
Lemonade Yellow and Japanese decorations. In
charge of Mrs. D. F. McAfee, assisted by Misses
Maud MCGratb, Ella Schroeacr and Laura Mad
den. Fruit, flowers and candy Pink and white. In
charge of Mrs. McCullough, assisted by Miss Mil
ler and Miss felella Miller.
Ice cream Sirs. Herbert and Miss Kessler and
Miss Flouse. Second table Mrs. P. Doran and
the 311sses Madden.
Coffee booth Draped In wfilte, with ferns and
yellow flowers, in care of Mrs. T. F. Anshutz, Mrs.
ju. iienmngana airs. a. v, . larstcaaaen, assisxea
bv the Blisses Katie Ansbntz. Jennie Turner,
Bertha Potter, Daisy Wells, Lizzie Boal and Addle
lsoai.
Ice cream and cake Bine and white, in charge of
Mrs. A. Kirk.
There is a large square table, festooned
with the national colors, that is called the
"firemen's table." It is in charge of the fire
laddies themselves, and is devoted to the
sale of Ice cream and cake. The fete has
been an entire success. Large numbers have
attended aiid it is expected that enough
money will be realized to enable the engine
house to be rendered handsome and com
fortable for the winter.
Social Chatter.
A select basket picnic and rennion will be
held to-day by tne Pittsburg Commercial
Travelers at Koss Park, West Penn Railroad
A scccessi-cl picnic was held by the Sun
day school of the Re formed Presbyterian
Church at Idlewiid yesterday.
The Pittsburg Conference of the M. E.
Chnrch will commence next Wednesday at
Wellsburg, W. Va.
Ki oxville CouifCTL No. 691, Jr. O. U. A. M.,
will hold its first annual picnic to-day at
Grove Station.
The Knoxville M. P. Sunday school will
picnic September 8 at Boyce station.
INSPIRING MESCAL.
now Ono Plant Furnishes Drink, Clothing
and Food for Natives.
Phojnlx Herald.
The humble but inspiring mescal la de
rived from such Imposing scientific terms as
the aguave Americano, magney and Amer
ican aloe. In his report to Agricultural Sec
retary Rusk, Special Agent Poston of this
city says the plant is a species of the numer
ous family of cacti indigenous to Arizona,
Southern California, Texas, New Mexico and
Mexico. The Aztecs, when found by the
Spaniards, used the plant for cordage, mat
ting, brooms, brushes, shoes, bedding and
various domestio purposes. They roasted
tho pulp into food and fermented the Juice
Into "pulque." The latter has been im
proved by modern civilization into the
strong but not repulsive drink called mes
cal. The maguey plant matures in seven
years; cabbage-beaded in shape and with
prickly guards.
It weighs from 25 to 50 pounds. Tho vari
ous layers, as roasted by the natives, are
nutritious and purgative. The pulp is fer
mented in a rawhide vat. The City of
Mexico drinks 250,000 pints of pulque daily,
or a pint per capita, which ratio prevails
generally throughout Mexico, pulquo being
the national beverage, like wine in France,
beer in Germany or "budge" In Yankeedom.
Mescal flowers make excellent honey. Deer
and antelope seek them eagerly. The stalk
of the plant grows 12 to 20 feet high, and is
used in Mexican domestio architecture.
Mescal distilleries are very simple and more
secret than any moonshiner's still. Maguey
has been immemorially cultivated in Old
Mexico, but it is not raised north of the line.
In Arizona for 25 vears nast mescal has
averaged $2 60 per gallon new, with $1 added
for each vearof maturity. A higher grade
article is 'called tequila, and is worth over
$10 per gallon.
DOGS AS MESSENGERS.
The Germans Training Them to Act in the
Military Service.
Pall Mall Gazette'. '
The successful experiments which have
been made abroad with dogs as military
messengers have caused the German authori
ties to employ them In yet another capacity
on the field of glory. There are, at the
present moment, a number of shepherds'
dogs in training for finding tho wonnded on
the battle-field, as formerly the St. Bernards
were trained to find the irozen wanderers
on the lonely paths of the St. Gotthard.
The regiment ef lancers stationed at Huel
ben possesses a dozen of these shaggy-coated
members of the ambulance corps, which
have been taught to hunt up any soldier
hidden in the woods and fields in tho neigh
borhood of the garrison. On finding a sol
dier, they run back and bark till tne am
bulance wagon arrives, when they return
with it to the very door of the hospital.
SOME PEOPLE WHO TBAVEL.
Hiss Estella G. Jones and Miss Edna
Jones, and Mrs. Seibert, Miss Stella and Mr.
Will Seibert, of Oakland, left yesterday for
the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Seibert.goes to Join
her husband, who has located at San Diego,
Col.
James P. Anderson, General Passenger
Agent of the 'Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company, and Mr. Adams, of the freight de-
Sartuient, went to New York last night on
usineas connocted with the road.
"W. H. Parsons, Sr., and AV. H. Parsons,
Jr., are guests at the Duqnesne. Mr. Par
sons is a multi-millionaire and extensivoly
engaged in the manufacture of paper. He'
is here on a business mission.
Judge Porter left on the limited last
night for Colorado. He said he was going
there on a three weens' vacation trip, and
that Judges McClung and Kennedy would
sit on No. 3 in his absence.
Ex-Mayor Iioach, of Chicago, was a pas
senger on tho limited, astbound, yesterday
morning. Ho was en route for New York.
Mrs. S. J. Marsh and Miss Mamie Callan
have returned to their home on Cliff street
after a month's stay at Atlantic City.
Miss Mary Swan, of Norristown, is visit
ing at the house of Sergeant McCurry, of
Wabash avenue," West End.
Prof. E. P. Eussell, of. Boston, Murray
Verner and C. L. Magee were Eastward trav
elers last night.
G. W, Eobinson, Andrew Caster and
Joseph D. Weeks returned from the East
yesterday.
General- Passenger Agent Ford, of the
Pennsylvania lines, returned from Chicago
yesterday.
Miss Ximav Godfrey will leave Monday
for a trip to Washington, Philadelphia and
Cape May.
JeSerson Middleton, of the Survey De
partment, Washington, isaDuquesne guest.
Chief J. O. Brown and Detective Fitz
gerald went West yesterday morning.
Brainard Borison, an electrician of .Ft.
Wayne, is at the Anderson.
L. E. Cochran and wife, of Toungstown,
are at the Duquesna.
C. L. Magee'returned from the East on
the Western express.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
San Francisco has 4,600 saloons.
r-Cleveland has 23,000 Bohemians.
Great Britain has 58,000 women trade
unionists.
A Marshall county, Mo., man has a
male that is U hanas high.
It has been discovered that almanacs
date back to the year 100 A. D.
It Is estimated that every seal consumes
about ten pounds offish dally.
At a depth of 250 feet at Eddy, N. M.,
a stratum of salt nas been struck which is 40
feet thick.
Each of the four cables upon which the
Brooklyn bridge rests has a capacity of 12,
000 tons.
An inventor has applied for a patent on
a child spanker. It is automatic and said to
do its work well.
An electric swing suggested for the
World's Fair will carry 21 people and swing
a distance of 900 feet.
The Osage tribe of Indians now num
bers 1,500 and is very richowning overLCOO
acres of good land apiece.
An electrical expert says that no light
has been found that will penetrate) a fog
better than the old oil lamp.
The African fever has again broken out
in Atlanta, and hundreds of negroes are
talking of emigrating to Liberia.
The product of gold in the United
States the last 16 years has aggregated the
enormous amount of $572,900,000.
The gross" revenue from tobacco in Great
Britain last year was jC9,717,7Si. There is no
free trade in tobacco in England.
The smallest church in the world is at
8t. Lawrence, near Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
It has a seating capacity of 12 persons.
Daily photographs of the sun taken
since 1857 show conclusively that that lu
minary makes a complete revolution in 11
years.
The' French still fight an average of
4,000 duels a year, but as they are mostly
bloodless affairs the subject is not a painful
one to dwell on.
A Georgia groom of 18 who wedded a
bride of 49 paid the officiating clergyman a
fee of four silver dimes. He couldn't rake
together a larger sum.
In the 6,000,000 letters that reached the
dead-letter office last year, there was money
amounting to $23,642, and checks and note3
oftbevalueof $1,471,871.
The attorney of the Great Northern
Railroad stated recently In court that 27,003
persons were actually detected in attempts
to defraud his company last year.
In the reign of Edward I it was de
clared that the dealers in fish should not be
permitted to make a larger profit than 1
penny on each shilling's worth sold,
"When the body of E. M. Haskell was
disinterred after 20 years' burial at Norjh
field, Minn., it was found that he had a
beard 23 incheslong. He was smooth-shaved
when buried.
A farmer living near Independence has
a patch of grapes covering ono-tenth of an
acre from which he has gathered over 1.000
pounds of grapes. That is at the rate of five
tons to the acre.
Humboldt calculated the mean level of
North America to be 743 feet above the sea,
and he found that in 4,500,000 years the
whole of North America might be worn
down to the sea level.
White tar is one of the latest inven
tions or discoveries. It will not become soft
under the sun's rays in any climate, and is
expected to be used largely In calking the
deck seams of fine yacnts.
An East Indian prince has lately had a
bed made for him in Paris at a cost of $25.
000. Its mattress Is a huge musical box and
Its canopy is supported by automatic figures
that wave funs to cool the air.
Vermont is the only State in the Ameri
can Union whioh was never a province of a
foreign government or a part of another
State or Territory of the United States. It
was also the first State to Join the original
thirteen.
Some specimens of mangle wurzel beets
grown at Santa Ana, CaL, have been sent to
the permanent exhibit at Chicago. The
largest beet weighed 66 pounds. One meas
ured 3 feet 6 inches in length, and 6 of them
weighed 323 pounds.
Of a crew of 215 men on the United
States ornlser Omaha, which recently ar
rived In San Francisco, only 40 are Amer
icans. The rest are principally English,
Irish, French, German, Scandinavian, Dutch,
Japanese and Chinese.
The stingiest man in Georgia lives In
Wilcox county. He hag been married 11
years, and during that time ha3 onlv bought
one sack of fiour undone 25-cent calico dress.
He lives at home, and the spinning wheel is
still at work in his home.
Kansas has a generous shore of sectarian
schools. Methodists are educated at Bald
win City, Episcopalians at Topeko, Presby
terians at Emporia. United Brethren at
Lecompton, Campbcllites and Dunkards at
Wichita and Catholics at St. Mary's.
Southern California growers are making
great preparations to furnish the Eastern
markets with winter vegetables. There will
be several months in the year when the
Southern Callforn'a producer will have com
paratively no" competition in the East.
A cottonwood tree planted in Blue
Rapids inli73 was recently measured and
was found to be 5 feet 4 inches In circumfer
ence at a point two feet from the ground. It
had been cast aside as a runt and was stuck
in the ground "Just to get it out of the way."
It is asserted that the idea of the slot
machine is very old. In an inn in one of the
rural districts of England the tobacco for
the guests was kept in a box which was
opened by a English penny; this box was
certainly, so the landlord averred, 150 years
old.
Probably not many of the thousands
who dally glance over a bill of fare know its
origin. A German publication devoted to
subjects gastronomlcal gives this explana
tion: "At the meeting of electors in Regens
bnrg in the year 1183 Elector Henry, of
Braunsonweig, attracted general notice, at a
State dinner. He had a long paper before
him, to which he referred every time before
he ordered a dish.' The Earl of Montfort,
who sat near him, asked him what ho was
reading. The elector silently handed the
paper to his interrogator. It contained a
list of the viands prepared for the occasion,
which the elector had ordered the cook to
write out for him. The idea of having such
a lis t so pleased the illustrious assembly that
they Introduced it each in his own household,
and since that time the fashion of having a
menu has spread all over the civilized
world."
JOKELETS FROMC JUDGE.
"Yes, that's a fine dress; but I don't be
lieve the beach police ttIU let you go into the water
with it."
"Mercy I that Isn't a bathing suit. That's a haU
dress."
Morley Perkins has sent Dumley a chal
lenge. Thorley Did Dumley accept it?
Morley Yes; and selected rapiers at 40 paces,.
Since Brown's wife died he's grown quite
gray.
Not that he grieves so much, they say;
But and the fact there's no denying
When she stopped Urlng he stopped dyeing.
Mrs. Bunting (near-sighted) What is
the object of the notice on that tree?
Bnntlng (who sees that it reads "Beware of the
dog' ') It Is put there that he who reads may run.
He forgets not to boast what he does for
his brother.
Procuring him victuals and pelf;
Though It's not half so hard to beg for another.
He finds,, as to beg for himself.
Bessie Why didn't you let Charley
read your diary?
Jessie Because the first time his same appeared
was when he proposed and I accepted him. It
wiU take at least a week to work in his name nicely
in aU the back pages.
There's one thing, as it is so true
It might as weU be said:
To most of us poor Monday' s blue
From painting Sunday red.
ColoneV Culpepper (who has struck one
of his former chattels) What ever became of
Auntie Lou?
The waiter She's dald.
Colonel Culpepper Old age?
The waiter So, sah. Olebourb'n.
Poet (impressively) I always know
when I write something that is Terr good.
Critic (thoughtfully) But do yon know when
you write something that is very bad?
Mrs. Laytin (just returned from a good
time) Why, it'i only two la the morning.,
Mr. Laytin Hnmpbl If I'd oeea coining home
alone Instead Of with you, you'd think it wasUte
enough, I'll bet I
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