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THE- PITTSBTJKGr blSFATOH,' MONDAY. r SEPTEMBER "7, '" ' 1891,
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PlTTsBURG. MONDAY, SEPT. 7, 18UL
AN IMPLOSION Or TIIK K 4.IN MAKERS.
The race between the Government rain
makers and Melbourne, the Australian in
ventor of rain-making machinery, has, up
to date, appeared nearly a dead heat. The
Government rain makers bent back glow
inc, or rather damp, reports from Texas,
of the rains which followed their aerial
explosions; while Melbourne went out to
Cheyenne and, after he had done a due
amount of grinding on his machine, a rain
of three-quarters of an inch fell on the
astonished inhabitant"; of that Western
town. As a quarter of an inch of water
is all that the Cheycnn; citizens use in
their whisky, they are copying the pro
verbial quei-tion what in blank they are
expected to do with so much water. On
the post hoc, propter hoc logic honors are
easy between the explosive rain generators
and the Australian wizard
Hut the letter which comes from Texas
and awpenrs in our news columns this
morning deals the Government rain manu
facturer a black eye in their reputations.
The epigrammatic, if hyperbolic assertion
i made from the scene of action that the
Government experimenters hae not pro
duced "enough rain to water their whisky"
while the perverse elements vouchsafed
that legion 8fenl showers before the
experiments began. If this obviously un
fiieudly criticism is founded on fact, it
may be explained that the reported devo
tion of the G overmen! pirty to spirituous
potables is due to a scientific theory that
a condition of general humidity may be.
thus produced: while the well-known re
sult of intoxicants in multiplying the
objects of vision will afford an explana
tion of 'the large volume of rain produce,
in the pre ious reports.
It is getting to be a pertinent question
whether the ram-making business is a
fraud or a fact There is not much room
for doubt as to Melbourne, but this ruth-
lesi exposure of the scientific junketers
will make it necessary for them to define
themselves.
wealth- ix litigation.
There is room for the most serious re
flection in the statement, in connection
with theannounced suit over the possession
of the Hopkins millions, that the contest
ant of the will is to be backed in his fight
tV Leland Stanford and the Crockers.
The evident idea that it makes a material
difference in the chances of a litigant for
the possession of great wealth, that other
great wealth is ready to back him up in
lu fight, is calculated to provoke profound
thought on the practical aspects of our
system of justice.
With the respective merits of the adopted
sou of the llopkinses, and of the thrifty
husband who, by a judicious marriage with
an aged widow, secured possession of the
millions, the public need give itself little
concern. But there is food for public
digestion in the intimation that the man
who has money behind him stands a better
chance of winning than if he was without
millions to back him up. It does not re
quire a very high ideal of justice to hold
that it should guarantee a poor, litigant
exactly the same chance to secure his
rights that a rich one has. If it does not
do that the question becomes pertinent,
whether the term of justice is not a mis
nomer and for what purpose it is main
tained at the public expense.
Yet here we have the very direct inti
mation that in the lawsuit for "the posses
sion of the largest fortune ever contested
in American courts, it makes a decided
difference that the contestant is supported
by great millionaires who arc interested in
the disposition of the property. There is
a decidod pertinence in a public inquiry as
to whether this is t.he case. Is it true that
Timothy Hopkins stands a better chancfcl
of winning his suit when backed up by the
Stanford and Crocker wealth than if he
had to wage the lawsuit on his own com
paratively slender resources?
CHARITY GONE AWRY.
Baron Hirsch may be pardoned, if after
reading the reports of a meeting of He
brew workingmen in New York the other
night, he comes to the conclusion that the
way of the donor of wholesale charity is
harder than that of the transgressor. The
Assemblage roundly denounced the ad
ministration of the Baron's immense gifts
for the relief of the Russian Hebrews.
The ground of complaint is that the
refugees are being brought to New York
and by the aid of the Baron's funds are
put into the already crowded departments
of labor at rates which cut down the previ
ously insufficient wages of the regular
workmen 111 those trades.
If these complaints are well founded it
shows a singularly stupid administration
of the Iliroh charity if the most charita
ble view of it . taken. If less disposition
to take the best view possible is exercised
k might infer tliat the administrators
ot the fund, being interested in
the employment of labor, are using
the fund to break down wages
by importing cheap labor. This
course gives some foundation for the re
mark of a New York cotemporary, the
other day, that as the Argentine Republic
objects to the Hebrew immigration as
aided by the Ilirsch' charity the United
States should be prompt in following that
example and excluding the immigrants.
It is plain that such a course is all the
more inexcusable because an intelligent
and honest: administration of the fund
would make the immigration a desirable
one to any country which has a surplus of
arable land. There is no dispute 83 to the
frugality and industry of the immigrants
driven from their homes by Russian in
tolerance. A large majority of them are
accustomed to agricultural labor. If the
Hirsch fund were used to settle them on
small farms either'among he abandoned
t
lands of the East or in the new territory
of the West they would speedily become
self-supporting citizens, small-property
owners in their own right and a material
addition to our productive forces in a de
partment where overproduction is impos
sible. The fact that this has already
been done with marked success In New
Jersey makes the failtirc topursue the
policy a peculiarly wanton blunder.
"With the demonstration of the beneficial
results of that course the crowding of the
immigrants into the tenements and slums
of New York to Create down the wages of
already underpaid labor is a mark of
either exceptional idiocy or criminal and
dishonest selfishness. ,
OCR NAVAL POLICY.
The interview with Captain Doubassoff,
ef the Russian Navy, in Tins Dispatch
the other day, in which he expressed his
disbelief in the effectiveness of the great
armored vessels as against small torpedo
and gun boats, Is attracting some atten
tion. It .recalls to the Buffalo Courier
tlio rnnnrtthnt Admiral FanaCUt told a
young English naval officer that he would
live to see the day when the armor would
be stripped from ships of war just as the
coats of mail were stripped from the me
dieval soldiers. It also asserts that a res
pectable minority of men who have given
special study to naval problems, ex-Secre-iaries
Whitney and Chandler among them,
hold the same view.
There is mucli force in these opinions,
and when backed by the experience of
history in naval progress, that each step
in the improvement of war vessels has re
duced the old fleets to the value of junk,
they indicate very plainly what the course
of our Government should be. It is not
necessary to fully conclude that existing
torpeds boats are superior to the great
ironclads in order to hold, as TnE Dis
patch: has done, that our Government
should follow very tentatively in the
wake of European powers in constructing
vast and unwieldy vessels. The ambition
of possessing enough of these costly mon
sters to make, a respectable showing beside
the fleets of the other hemisphere should
be wholly eschewed. The possibility of
new inventions is too much in accordance
with the American spirit to be neglected
by an American Government. The work
of naval construction should he most
energetically directed into the field of im
provements in dynamite boats, submarine
vessels and kindred ideas. If that is done
some Americnn constructor may repeat
the feat of Ericsson in practically wiping
out of existence the vast and costly fleets
of Europe.
CHICAGO'S REPUDIATED PLEDGE.
The whole country is interested In the
success of the Chicago "World's Fair, if
that enterprise is honorably conducted;
but the nation ha the right to require that
the letter and spirit of the agreement by
which the Fair wa-j located in that city
shall be honorably carried out The agree
ment was that Chicago, as tha city which
would derive all the direct profit from the.
Exposition, should furnish tho funds nec
.essary for thh buildings. The record of
the enterpris-j so far has not shown the
utmost integrity in fulfilling . thus condi
tion, and that uncommendable tendency
reaches its climax in the resolution in
dorsed last week by the World's Fat Com
mission asking for a Government appro
priation of 5,000,000 in aid of the enter
prise. For some time it seemed doubtful
whether Chicago would make good her
pledge by raising the funds stipulated in
the original agreemen .. It is now asserted
that the funds have been raised, but that
the expenses of preparing for the Expo
sition will amount to S18,000,000, and tha
Government is asked to contribute 5,000,
000 toward that total, with a proffered
pledge of the first receipts from the show
to repay the advance. But to make the
Fair cost so much as to call for Govern
ment aid is as much a violation of the
original pledge as to fail in raising the
stipulated sum. The real meaning pledge
was that there should be no cost to the
general Government whatever, except the
appropriation for the Government exhibit
provided in the original bill.
It may be deemed best for the credit of
the country to advance the 55,000,000 in
order to preserve the enterprise from be
coming a magnificent fiasco. But even
admitting that possibility, it remain.! the
fact that Chicago has now entirely repudi
ated its pledge that the Exposition should
not be made the excuse for a raid on the
National Treasury.
rOOD FOR SHARPritS.
The classical populus vult decipi was
undoubtedly founded on fact; yet it is
hard to believe that the ancient author of
the phrase could have observed any such
appetite of the people for being swindled
as exists at the present time. The press
of the entire country has spread broad
cast the exposures of the endowment
swindlers; yet the last of those "get-rich-quick"
organizations has hardly been
broken up before exactly the same land of
delusion makes its appearance at different
points, with the slight alteration of a
change in the name.
One of the swindles which have recent
ly broken up in other cities was the Pro
gressive Endowment League of Balti
more, which was strictly on the lines of
the previously exposed.concerns, and can
therefore be takenas an exponent of the
Baltimorean quality of remaining six
months behind the rest of the country in J
the recognition of its frauds, as well as in
other respects. In Philadelphia the en
dowment humbug was fully exposed in the
early part of the year. In order to
carry on the catching of gudgeons,
therefore,, it was necessary to assume a
new disguise, and the brilliant idea was
adopted of calling the new concerns "mer
chandise and supply companies," but the
essential feature of catching the
money of the public by promising
that if a little money were put
in, a great deal could be drawn out,
was the same as in the endowment con
cerns. There seems to be a question
whether the "suit clubs" which have re
cently had their career closed by. the police
of this city arc a survival or a new inven
tion, but they seem to have been a cross
between the get-rich-quick delusion and
a pure lottery, with the lottery feature
predominant
The interesting sociological fact Is that
with the exposure of exactly similar
frauds fresh in the popular mind they
continue to find abundance of victims. It
ishard to frame theories to explain this
apparent hunger of the people for being
'cheated of their earnings. There is an in
teresting question whether the delusion is
duo to simple inability to Jearn the oft
repeated lesson that the proposition to
give you something for nothing conceals a
cheat, or to the mixture of idiocy and dis
honesty which recognizes the fraud, but
hopes to get a share of tiro plunder by
going into the swindle and getting the
payments made to catch other victims.
Both classes are represented among the
victims of these sharpers; but It would be
Interesting, if there were any way of decid
ing the question, to learn whether the
larger profit comes from simple and hon
est incapacity to recognize a threadbare
fraud, or from the equally foolish, dishon
esty which ha3 long been characteristic of
the victims of green goods games.
TnE discovery by certain Democratic
organs of New York that Andrew D. White
would never do as a Republican candidate
for Governor Is taken by somo obstinate
Republicans as an indication that White is
just tbo candidate they want. At .the same
time the support of Prof. White by some of
tno New Toxic Republican booses is tho
latest illustration of the old adage that when
his satanic majesty was sick, hls-mind was
strongly tnrned toward religion and the
priesthood, or words to that effect.
The recent defalcation of the Youngs
town, O., township treasurer leads the
Buflalo Exprat to cite it as a, npw vindica
tion of its principle that "public treasurers
should never be elected for consecutive
terms." But is not there a better moral
than this in tho rnlo that public, treasurers
should never bo left for n whole term with
out a thorough scrutiny of their accounts?
Still the war talk fails to produce any
actual fighting. When the European powers
are madlv prancing about with chips 011
their shoulders, an experienced public may
come to the conclusion that real slaughter
is indefinitely prstponed.
TlIEBurlingtonitonlcje thinks that ex
Senator Reagan is ineligible to a place on
the Inter-State Commerce' Commission be
cause ho does not believe in tho constitu
tion, the proof to that effect being that he
"fought" (as postmaster general) in tho
Southern Confederacy. If tho JIawkeye, de
licions reasoning wore correct, it would be a
serious thing in Pennsylvania. If failure to
uphold constitutional principles disqualified
a man for office what would Decomo of
numerous politicians in this State?
Among other results of the Chilean
strugglo there seems to be no doubt that the
Mannlichor rifle, with a golbite explosive,
is the most effective instrument for whole
sale killing that has been tested by practical
use. A gun tlmfcan kill off tho enemy at tho
uninterrupted rato oroue shot per second is
something that no well-provided military
family can afford to do without.
How the mighty have fallen when Hon.
Jack Robinson Is making his last effort for
victory in the league contost by tho organi
zation of clubs which are not even mush
rooms, but are j ust of the common toadstool
variety.
While there is, as The Dispatch has
already said, a tendency in some quarters to
persecute Blair, tho Now York Sun' objec
tion to the suggestion that ho be sent to
Chile is a valid one. Blair's connec
tion with tho Shipherd Job in the Peru
vian difficulty would make him a
very unfortunate person to send to Chile
Besides which the United States happens to
need a very able and skillful diplomatist at
feantlagoln order to retrieve past blunders.
The newest reform in the Austrian mili
tary service, of excluding war correspond
ents and organizing an official bramch for
furnishing war news, will be especially
effective in making the official war news of
no value, and lending an especial interest to
the new which tho war correspondents will
get in despite of the prohibition.
Tbais robberies are getting almost as
frequent as stage-coach robberies used to be.
Like th .lr prototypes their success lios in
presuming on the pusillanimity of the
public.
The advance of modern times is admir
ably illustrated by the sketch and descrip
tion given elsewhcro of the hospital about to
be erected at McKeesport. This building,
which will be seen from the illustration, of
a scope and character that would be credit
able to a city of far greater size, will be a
monument to McKecsport's public spirit
and charity. That prosperous town deserves
great praise for such an addition to its pub
lic institutions.
The argument of the Johannisberg Star
that tho rum trade in Africa must bo per
mitted in order to prevent the negroes from
multiplying so fast as to crowd out the
whites is one of those gems which tend to
create the doubt whether civilization is not
about the most uncivilized thing extant.
A GnATEETit nation should at least rec
ognize the fact that up to date lLium has
abstained from dumping those 330,000 origi
nal cases that ho promised these months
ago.
The death of Dr. James R. Speer, which
is noticed in our local columns, removes one
of our oldest living citizens, who was long
an esteemed member of Pittsburg society.
The kindliness and benevolence of the old
doctor havo been experienced by a large
number of Pittsburgers, who will unite in
honoring nts memory. He enjoyed a life of
longer and more unobtruslvo usefulness and
death at a riper old age than falls to the lot
of most men.
In these days of rain-making it may be
pertinent to Inquire whether tbo recent
showers were produced by tho explosions of
the Prosidental powder in pursuit of the
New Jersey rail bird, or the explosions of
Russell Harrison among tho politicians and
financleis of Now York City.
The Pennsylvania Democratic platform
in a condensed form reads: "No national
politics in ours, but Jump on John Bardsley
with both fcot."
TnK following remark by the esteemed
Philadelphia Record is not up to its usual
standard of discretion: "Tho Junta rules in
Chile, but tho burning question is, which
Junta is on top in New York Republican
politics?" This way of putting it is alto
gether too suggestive of the retort that there
is no question at all that tho Hill-Tammany
Junta controls New York Democratic poli
tics. TIMELY TEIFtES.
Bull fighting Is now the principal, di
version in Wall street.
The moral element is hurrying away
from Asbury and Ocean Grovo because tho
trees are beginning to show their limbs.
The tippler occasionally shows a cloven
breath.
As soon as Patti heard that gold was
leaving Europe for America she announced
another larewell tour.
We have the tin, we have the men
To treat It In tho fire,
And we will all be happy when
This chokes the tin plate liar.
The world will surely be a stage when
the short-skirted dress cranks appear on tho
scene. j
Barred out The mosquito.
Foolish females imagine the pink of
perfection can be found in tho rouge pot.
Jay Gould's motto: "Where there's a
rail there's a way.
A pall opening The sidewalk coal
hole.
You saw her on the sandy shore
When she looked chic and dapper,
But now, alas! she scrubs the floor
In soap-bespattered wrapper.
Too much com whisky will make the
voice husky.
Russell Harbison failed to raise the
wind, but he managed to raise a breeze just
tho same.
When the young man goes out on a lark
he naturally takes a fly.
Ballooxb should be available for Arctic
exploration since the Kite has been tried
with success.
THINGS IN GENERAfi.
The Fltint for tho Grave at Captain Myles
Standish John Allien and FrUcIIla Are
Still Living Name in the Historic Old
New England Village.
.WJUTTKX FOn TBI DISPATCH.
Captain Hyles Standish never claimed
to bo a saint. The title was common enough
In tho Puritan Massachusetts' of his time,
and my friend Mr. llinginn, rector of the
'little Episcopal cnapel here in Duxbury,
holds that Standish must nave been a mem
ber in full and regular standing of the
Puritan Church. Otherwise he could have
held no office in that old theocratic muni
clpalty. So the Captain wag a saint, whether
he clalmod to be, or not.
Queer enough it is, in these days of demo
cratic municipalities and in this land which
contains tho worst-governed cities of the
whole planot,"to look across the waters. Of
Duxbury Bay and to remember that over
'there on that opposlto shore, where you seo
the gleam of white houses'by day and tho
glimmer of lights by night, wan bullded with
Plymouth Rock for a corner stone, a city
whose chartor' was the Bible, and whose
supremo governor was the Lord God Al
mighty. Ve manago things somewhat dif
ferently, nowadays.
Myles Standish, saint or not, was no doubt
handier with his sword than he was with
his Bible. He was ono' of thoo stout fellows
whose number was many in the sev enteenth
con tftry, who were professional breakers of
the sixth commandment. Ho was a lighter.
And it did not matter very much to him, so
long as thcro yas fighting to do, what the
lighting was about. Jn the yeir 1620 there
was small occupation in Europe for a
merconary soldier. 0 Standish threw In
his fortunes with tbo adventurers ot the
Mayflowor, and came over here to battle
with the redskins.
The Standish Tarm.
And after the fighting was over, and
peace settled upon tho little colony, and the
time came, as it did in General Joshua's
day, to maice a division of the land, they
assigned to Captain Standish a big farm with
a considerable hill In the midst of it, over
here in Duxbury. And on that hill to-day
stands tho Captain's monument, a tall stone
shaft with a statue of Standish at .the top.
That Is what I was thinking of when I said
that Standish never claimed to bo a saint,
for he looks like St. Simeon Stylites, like a
seventeenth contnry Stylites, perched there
aloft on his old pillar, and mercifully
petrified. ""
Mvlcs Standish is tho most conspicuous
citizen of Duxbury. It is with great diffi
culty that you lose sight of him. The most
casual visitor, unless ho is stone blind and
ho would need to bo deaf also cannot tarry
a day in Duxbury without becoming nwaro
that this town was founded by a man
named Standish. Tho tall pillar dominates
the whole horizon.
And yet It was bnly in the spring of this
year that anybody know for certain where
this famous old captain ' was buried. There
were three traditions, each ono of them
about as vague as the identification of tho
Holy Coat of Troves.
A Hard Matter to Determine.
Somebody said.that somebody's great
great grandfather, when ho pointed out to
inquiring visitors tho place where Standish
was buried, was wont to stand in tho north
east window of somobody's bouse. There
was somo doubt about tho house. But there
were some bones found onco in a picco of
ground which could have been seen from
the southwest window of ono of the possible
houses. And tho wise said that tho bone3
were the bones of Standish. So there was
Shrine Number One.
Justin Winsor, howover, Librarian of Har
vard University, wrote a book a good whilo
ago about Duxbury, in which ho located tho
captain's grave in quite another place.
Somebody was digging while Mr. Winsor
was writing, and tho spade unearthed a new
discovery of bones. These Mr. Winsor, for
some reason or other, thought miglit be tho
bones of Standish. And, accordingly, there
was Shrine Number Two. This second burial
place Mrs. Jane G. Austin, author of "Stand
ish of Standish" a book which can be found
among the baggage of every weU provided
summer boarder hereabouts worked into
the plot of a projected novel.
Curiously enough, these two burial places
were neither of them by the side of any
"road, ancient or modern; they we're both
difficult of access; neither was on ground
over owned by Standish, and neither was
near tbo accepted sltoofthe old church. No
body could givo any reason for really loca
ting the soldier's grave at either of these im
probable places except tho discovery of
human bones. The bones may have been
tno bones of Standish. The bones in St. Ur
sula's Church in Cologne may have been the
bones of the-11,000 virgins. Tho only abso
lutely certain fact is that, behold, hero are
bones!
A Bold Explorer.
Now comes my friend the Rev. Mr.
Hinginn, with a pair or good eyes and nn
understanding mind, and a stout spade.
Thore is a third traditional locality In the
old graveyard that, nt least, is a natural
place to look for a grave. The burial place
of Standish, so an old record says, was
marked by two triangular, pyramiaal
stones. And here, sure enough, .aro two
notable stones, exactly answering that
ancient description. Down digs Mr. llin
ginn with bis unimaginative spade, and
here is a skeleton but the skeleton is that
of a woman. Never mind, lot us keep on
digging. So down goes the spado again, next
to the womanN crave, and a trench is made.
Hero now are llvo skeletons a woman, a
man, a woman again, and two chilUrcn.
But these Ave exactly corrosnond to the
first five deaths in tho family of Myles Stan
dish. He was buried, so tho old lecords say,
next to his favorite daughter; indeed, be
tween two of his daughters, with his two
little boys beyond. Euroka, then thore is
no longer any room for doubt about it. Here
in Duxbury graveyard, bencatn this narrow
space of earth lies tho body of Standish, tho I
Puritan captain, tho hero of tho most
famous or unsuccessful courtships, the
Sword-of-tho-whitc-mcn.
flic I'irst Meeting Home.
In a corner of this old graveyard can
bo traced tho foundations of tho old meeting
house, the first meeting house built in this
second oldest town of New England. These
stones wero laid by men who came ovor in
the Mayflowor. You can seo where the door
way was. In and out, hero where now vou
lie upon tho grass and think about it, wont
those strong-hearted, God-fearing, liberty
loving people to whom we owe much that is
best, and most cliaractcristic and essential
In our national life. Here Standish came on
Sabbath days, bringing his sword with him.
Here, across these brown fields, walked John
Aldcn and Prlscllla.
Aldennnd Prlscilla are still living names
in Duxbury. You can visit the bouse which
John Alden's son built, and in which Prls
cilla died. Tho eighth generation of tho
bouse of Aldon still owns this house and
lives in it, a flno-faced, bent old man, red
checked and whlto-whiskered; and here you
may make the acquaintance with a little,
shy, barefooted Priscllla, ninth of that name,
hair a dozen years of nge. Thp first John
Alden nnd tho first PrlsclJla must have
watched tho bullding'ol this house a stout
house still. Tho great beams run across the
colling; beneath the cheap wallpaper the old
walls are strong as stone. You drink out of
the old well whose water John and Priscllla
tasted. You look over the bank beside the
well and there runs the Old Colony Railroad.
The present and the long past come close to
gether. Oliver Cromwell was turning tho
Long Parliament finally out of doors whilo
this houso was building.
MEMORY'S LESSON.
"By, bvl babybT."
Sings the mother to her daughter.
When, Uke anchored craft on water
SUrred by breezes fitfully.
Rocks In pretty cradle nigh
Motherhood's mqst precious guerdon,
lillukllig.it the tuneful burden
'By, byl Baby, byl"
"By. by! Baby, byl"
Memory with the words Is laden,
When.thc infant, grown a maiden.
Doth onto the tradesman's hie
And, perhaps pnconscloosly
Musing of the song's creation.
Gives it this Interpretation
"Buy, buy! Baby, buy." i&wton Courier,
EUSSIAH 0ITICEES OTJIWITTED.
Siberians Managed to Make Way
With
Some Important Letter.
Century Magazine
On tho second day after our arrival in
Krasnoyarsk wo narrowly escaped getting
into wjmt might have been serious tronble,
as the result of nn unexpected perquisition
in the house of tho acquaintance with whom
Shamarin add Peterson were staying. This
acquaintance, it seemed, was under snspl-
Lfllon, and late lu the evening, during the ab
sence of the two yonng men from their quar
ters, the police suddenly appeared with or
ders to make a house-search. The search
was dnly made, but nothing of a suspicious
nature ivas found except tho two locked
trunks of Shamarin and Peterson. In reply
to a question as to what was in them, tho
proprietor of the house said that he did not
know, that they were the property of two
of his acquaintances who hadstoppod for a
few days with him on their way from Irkutsk
to St. Petersburg. Upon being asked where
these acquaintances were, he replied thnt
he did not know, that they usually went out
aftor dinner and retnmed between 11 and 12
o'clock. After a brief" consultation the po
lice officers decided that as they had no or
ders to search tho personal bagsago of the
house-owner's guests, they would not force
the locks of the trunks, but would merely
cord and seal them, so that the contents
could not be tampered with, and leave them
until morning.
When Shamarin and Peterson returned to
their quarters about midnight they found
thoir trunks corded and sealed so that they
could not be opened. In one of them were
many letters from political exiles and con
viots in Eastern Mb-ria to friends and rela
tives in Euiopean Rnssla letters describing
myinvestigations and tho natuie of the ma
terial that I was collecting and asking the
friends and relatives in European Russia to
oo-operate with me and u photograph of
myself that I had given to Shamarin with a
dedication or inscription on the back that
would reveal to any Intelligent police officer
the intimate nature of my lelations with po
litical convicts. What was to be doue? fo
break a police seal nndersnch circumstances
would be n penal offense, and would proba
bly lead to imprisonment and an investiga
tion. To leave the letters and photograph
in the trunk would bo to insure their
discovery and conflncntion on tho following
morning, and that might create a very em
harassing situation for me, as well ns for the
authors of the letters and their friends.
The two young men Anally concluded to
make an attempt to get the trunk open
without removing the cords or breaking the
seals, and as the letters and photograph
were near the bottom, and as the lid could
not be raised oven If the trunk were un
locked, they decided to take out a part of
the bottom and afterward leplaco it. Bv
working all the rest of the night they suc
ceeded In getting out one of the bottom
boards, obtained tho dangerous letters and
tho photograph, put the board back without
disturbing any of the seals, and when the
police camo in the morning stood by with
unruffled serenity and saw the trunks
se;u died. Of course, nothing moro danger
ous than a hair brush, and nothing moie in
criminating than a hotel bill, couldbo found.
GOSSIP ABOUT CELEBRITIES.
Mrs. Lanotry's 5,000-ncre property on
the Pacific slopo has Increased fivefold In
value.
Cardinai, Manning is strongly op
posed to lotteries and raffles for church or
charitable purposes.
The first woman to receive honorable
mention from the Paris Salon is n Boston
girl, Miss Theo Alice Ruggles, who is bnly 20
years of nge. She is a sculptor.
J. Lamb Doty, United States Consul at
Tahiti, is Baid to be the youngest Consular
representative in tho service of any coun
try. Ho was only 20 years old when ap
pointed. M. Jacques, who has recently begun 0.
S0-days' fast at the London Aquarium, as
sumes an air of extreme comfort as ho sits
in his easy chair. Sometimes he reads for
an hour Or two, bnt ho is not much disposed
to talk. He says that that usos up too much
vitality. f
Fkom her former sociological works, the
publication of which Mrs. Annie Bcsant has
Entirely suppressed since she in part suc
ceeded the late Mme. Blavatsky as the high
priestess of theosophy, that self-sacrificing
woman bad been deriving an annual Income'
of H.500.
The story of the dismissal of Ignatieff,
lately Primo Minister of Russia, is thus told:
Ixnatieffoneday presented some papers to
his imperial master, saying: "Your Maje3ty
may sign these without reading them, ns
they are not of much Importance." The
Czar handed the papers back with the an
swer: "Keep these for your successor. I
never sign papors without looking at them."
General John J. Cutting, the new
Republican Congressman from San Fran
cisco, has a scheme for tho extension of the
National Guard. At piesent the National
Guard receives $100,OCO a year from the Fed
oral Government. He wishes to have that
sum increased to il,000,001. His bill would
provide for the enrollment of every Ameri
can citizen between tno years of 18 and 45
into the National Guard, ono class to bo
active and tho other on the rcsorvo. None
but American citizens would bo admitted
and all American citizens of tho proper ago
would be enrolled.
The Silver Question Must Be Met.
Dayton Journal,
Tho painful objections of the Democratic
leaders to forcing tho silver question to tho
front is a possible reminder ot rebel objec
tions during during tho Democratic rebel
lion to Grant forging to tho front all tho
time. He got there all tho same. McKinley,
in his opening campaign speech, put tho
silver question in front in such forcible form
that It can't be avoided nor evaded. Camp
bell has got to "chance It."
A Tip From the Enemy.
Louisville Courier-Journal, Dem.
General Alger has many friends in tho
Grand Army, and he is a power in a nomin
ating convention. Why not take the Wol
verine hero if tho patriots cannot unite on
Blaine or Harrison?
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHEEE.
Judge Douglass Boartlman.
Judge Douglass ISnardman died suddenly
Saturday mornlns; at his summer cottage al feliel
drake, N. Y., on Cayuga Lake, He recently re
turned from an outing In Alsaka. where he con
tracted a cold which developed Into pneumonia,
lie was the law partner or Judge Finch for many
years. He was elected District Attorney of Tomp
klus county In 1S47, was advanced to County Judge
In 1831, and was promoted to the Supreme Court
bench In 18M. He there served until the age
limitation prohibited his reelection, retiring ou
December .1. 1W. Ills hearing of the famous Flsk--Stokes
trial made his name f.imlllar to the State.
His General Term decisions give him a high legal
standing. Hi" more recent connection as executor
with tho vast estate of Jennie McGraw Flsk and
Cornell University's cndeaor through the courts
tn retain the sime arc 5 et fresh in mind. He was
rie.an ot the Oollego of Law of Cornoll Ilnlinriitir
and President of the First National Hank of Ithaca.
He leaves a large estate.
Bon. Berjamln Hall.
The Hon. Benjamin Hall died at Auburn,
N. Y., yesterday morning, after a lingering Ill
ness. He was born In Whitehall July 23.1SK. In 1S50,
by the appointment of President Fillmore, he made
a compilation aim revision 01 ine accumulated offl
elal o('CJimis mi 1110 swiuriiey
General or the.
United States. In April. ISM. President Lincoln
appointed him Chief Justice of Cnlondo. :i position
of great peril in tnc aays or tne breaking on t of the
rebellion, a conspiracy ir lunuea 10 ki:i nim aud
nfhpr federal officers and secure the tprrirs,,.-- rn-
th .oepaslnnlsts. The scheme failed, nnd .njt,in I
went rurther to dereat the plans ortlie Southerners, of the construction of tho Tour Eiffel any
JFSrnSSSt I W Yas. clous-enough to point out the
the courts could suspend the Issue of writs of
habeas corpus,
Jules EllO Delanney, Painter.
The cable announces from Paris the
death of tho French painter, Jules .Elle Delanney,
He was C3 years old. a native of Nantes and a pu
pil of Flandrin and Lamothe. He won the Prix
do Home In 1838: was an officer or the Legion of
Honor, and received various medals. Including one
of the first class at the Universal Exposition In
1878. He liecarae a member or tiio InsUtnte in 1879
and received a grand prlx at the Universal Exposi
tion in 1889. The artist's "Communism of the
Apostles" (18K), "The Pest at Rome" (ISO), "The
Death of of Nlssus" (1S70), and "Diana" (1872) are
la the Luxembourg.
t Obituary Notes.
Fs.NKi.iJr BrcnANAN, tho noted rlco dealer
and manufacturer of Savannah, Ga., died Satur
day morning at the home of his mother in Talbot
county. Md. He was tho son of Admiral Franklin
Buchanan, of-the Confederate Navy,
WlCuAtt Rvalls died Saturday at his home
near (Valley springs. Ark. He was among
the flrlt settlers orjs'orth Arkansas, and the father
ofKclilldrcn. 28 of whom survive him. Seven of
these teside wttfc his widow. Kyalls was a native
ofTeniessee, and was la his 83d year.
OUR MAIL POUCH,
Let's Pave the Point,
To tho Edl tor or Tne Dispatch 1
'Ono of Pittsburg's characteristics is, she
puts her wort foot forward, and in bad
weather it is a vory muddy foot, too. There
aro plenty of beautiful localities in the city,
and many miles of well-paved street, bnt
they aro not wboro the casual stranger
within her gates can see them. They are
hidden away in tho sacred, far off precincts
of the fashionable residence quarters. A
the casual visitor enters the city by rail, he
can see Utile but unoko and dirt. When he
stops off at the stntlon and takes a short
stroll to see the sights, the chances are he
will not see a decent piece of paving on bis
trip. '
This is especially true justnow, when the
Exposition attracts sightseers to that most
nnfortunateof all districts, "The Point."
Not only is the architecture rathor Inferior,
to put it mildly, but the condition of the
streets is slinplv horrible. The thorough
fares there mav have been paved streets in
years gone by (I nm'not an old resident),
but now they are masses of boulders. In
Heu of crossings In some places are primi
tive stepping stones, which offer no protec
tion from the mnd. Some aro at times en
tirely covered bv water. Truly the stranger
who visits the "Expo" will carry away with
him a very poor picture of Plttsbnir.
I sen a beginning has already been made
toward a better order of thins, by the pav
ing of Duquesne way. Let the good work
not stop there. The location Is such that
tho whole city is Interested in better streets
at "The Point,"
It Is my misfortune to pass through this
district daily from my residence on Du-
?uesne He'ghts. so I know whereof 1 speak,
am keeping nn account of worn-out shoe
leather, and if better pavements don't come
soon I shall bo tempted to present a bill of
damages to Councils- Grumbler.
A Lecture to Electric Carmen.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
As n Southsider, I am always glad to see
Southslde Improvements. For this reason I
was proud of our city airs when tho now
electric cars began whizzing past our doors.
Now, instead of being happy over their ad
vent, I am decidedly sorry. Not because
electricity is a good motive power, but be
cause the new order of things seems to have
swelled tho heads of some of the conductors
and gripmen. Street cars are supposed to bo
for tho accommodation of the public as well
as the enrichment of the street car magnate,
but the employes seem to have forgotten
this fact.
Often I am in a hurry to get to the city,
and hail a car, only to have tho motorman
point back suggestively, bnt there Is no
other car In steht There is nothing for me
to do bnt wait, and, of com so, I do so, bu;
w ith ruffles on my temper.
This occurs very often, and it appears
that it is more necossarv for cars to be on
schedulo time than to pick up passongcrs, I
can think of no other renson for refnslnsr to
stop at crossings. The old horse car were
slow; butir they didn't stop ono could hop
on. With these new cars it is different, ami
we are at the mercy of the motorman or
conductor. We have been hoping and pray
ing for a change, but it is not even seen in
the distance. Southsider.
The Dardanelles Agreement.
To the Editor of The Dispatch :
I seo much in tho papers now about a
virtual violation by Russia and Turkey of a
treaty, the terms of which prohibit the
passage of the Dardanelles by warships of
any other power than Turkey. When and
under- what circumstances was the agree
ment which was violated concluded? L.
W asiiikoton, Pa., 8eptembor 6.
Tho agreement was one of the articles
of tho treaty of peace which terminated the
Crimean War in 1855. In that France,
England and Sardinia united to pro
tect Turkey against the agression of
Rus8ia,whlch power was known to covet the
possession of the Bosporus and the Dardan
elles. The allies wore victorious, and one of
tho conditions they imposed was that those
straits shall be forever closed to the war
,ahips of all foreign nations, unless on special
permission of the Government of Turkey,
which permission shall not be granted with
out the consent of the other powers.
niagaea stopped ixowing.
The Water Froze and tho Falls Were Dry
for a Snort Time.
Toronto Globe 3
It seems almost incredible thatat one time
In its history the greatest and most wonder
ful waterfall in the world actually ran dry.
Nevertheless, it is an established fact that
this occurred on March 29, IS 18, and for a few
hours scarcely any water passed over
Niagara Falls. The winter of that year had
been an exceptionally severe ono, and ico of
unusual thickness had ."ornied on Lake Erie.
The warm spring ralnt loosened this con
gealed mass, and on the day In question a
brisk east wind drove the ico far up into tho
lake. About sunset tho wind suddenly
veered round, and blew a heavy gale riom
the west. This naturally turned tho ice in
its cotfrse, and, bringing it down to the
mouth of the Niagara river, piled it up in a
solid, impenetrable wall.
So closely was It packed and so great was
its foico that in a short tlmo the outlet to
the lake was completely choked up, and
little or no water could possibly escape. In
a very short space-of time the water below
this frozen barrier passed ovor tho Falls.and
the next morning the people living in the
neighborhood were ti eateu to a mo-it extra
ordinary spectaolo. The roaring, tumbling
rapids above the Falls were nlmbst oblit
erated, and nothing buttho cold, black rocks
wero visible in all directions. The news
Sulckly spread, and crowds' of spectators
ockt'd to view tho scene, the banks on each
side of the river being lined with people
during tho whole day. At last there was a
treakin the ice. It was released from its
restrain the pent-up wall of water rushed
downward, and Niagara was itself again.
ENGIflND'8 AWKWAED PBEDICAMENT.
Without an Ally at the Moment When
It Needs one Iiadly.
Cleveland Leader.
The isolation and independence in Eu
ropean affairs which Great Britain has only
recently lejolced in begins to show its awk
ward side when no other power, not even
Turkev, beems disposed to do anything to
pievcnt Russia from smashing what is left
of 'those piovisions or the treaty or Paris,
which wero intended to keep Rns3lan war
ships out of tho Mediterranean. France is
compelled by her friendless and perilous
position to wink at and even encourage
movements on the part of tho Czar's Gov
ernment which would havo boeu deemed
cause of war in the decade following the in
vasion of Crimea.
Germany, getting no pledge of anything
but moral support from England against a
possible Franco-Russian attack, natnrally
offers nothing more than good wishes to
Great Britain now that Russia is seeking to
mako tho Bosphorus and the Dardanelles a
highway for her navy. Austria darenot and
cannot act ulonc, and Italy doesn't count for
much, anyway. Even poor old Turkey, with
her very independence at stake, is so afraid
of Russia and so lingered by British agres
sion in Egypt that England would probably
bo obliged to force an entrance through the
Dardanelles for a fleet sent to protect Con
stantinople from Russian occupation. It's a
flno thing for a nation to bo independent
nndfreo of tho responsibilities of alliances
until it wants holf itself. Then isolation is
not so pleasant.
' A WAENING 10 CHICAGO.
Take a Lesson From Paris and Don't Call
Down tho Wrath of Heaven.
Philadelphia Times.)
Wo do not remember whether at tho tlmo
fato of tho projectors and builders of tho
Tour Babel as an awful warning, but if it
wasn't aono some propuet nas apparently
lost a good chance to score. It is not that a
confusion of tongues has lesultcd among the
visitors to tho Eiffel tower, though tho
"polyglot inscriptions in the clovators might
easily havo brought about that consumma
tion through tho intemperate efforts of tho
curious to read them. The Judgment-whlcli
has overtaken the city of Paris is 01 a differ
ent nature, and, as befits the tunes, wears a
more scientific cast.
French meteorologists now boldly declare
that M. Eiffel's prodigy has entirely ruined
their climate. Thrusting its proud head up
iuto the clouds, it attracts tbo electric forces
of nature, which ccflno. and perform their
terrifying gambols around its metallic sum
mit and cause every manner of aerial dis
turbance in their power. It behooves us to
study these significant phenomena closely,
for we are not only projecting, planning and
raising buildings which may turn out Babels
they are certainly not Intended ror Bethels
but Chicago is promising heiself a Tour of
her own. If a Judgment follows the build
ing ora Tour Chicago it will doubtless bo
appropriate. Mayba the inhabitants of the
city will be stricken with modesty.
' ZOAK MUST SE EECALLED.
Recent Events Have Destroyed Htt. Useful
nes as a Diplomat,
New York Trlbnne, Rep.
The recall of Minister Egan from Santiago
will probably be rendered necessary by the
downfall of the Balmaceda Government.
Whether Justly or nnjustlv, he has incurred
tho displeasure of the lenders of the vic
torious party, it is evident thit another
American Minister would exerciso greater
(Aureuuiujunmie, would exercise greater
influence and excite less personal resent-
ment than Mr. Emin ,, ti, tr-inaitf.m neriod
which must ensue In Chilean politics. Wo
doubt not that tha Administration will
speedily replace hlw, and thereby improve
us rotations with the maritime Republic
At snch a crisis It will be of tho highest im
portince to have tho United States repre
sented at Santiago by a strong and ex
perienced diplomatist who has not aroused
prcjudicu lu any quarter. It would be wiser
to transfer a Minister from some other
Spanish-American post than to nuke an en
tirely tresh appointment.
The displacement or Minister Egan will
simply bo ono of the fortunes or civil war.
During tho American conflict the loreign
ministers, with tow oxce itions. were mark
edly In sympathy with the insurgents, but
they remained at Washington accredited to
tho National Administration. This was in
accordance with general diplomatic usage.
Whenever there in civil war the representa
tives of loreign powers are under obligation
to maintain relations with the legitimate
government at the capital. It was Minister
Egan's duty to remain in Santiago and to
recognize in Balmaceda the cuier executive
who had been elected by the nation pre
ciselyas the British and French Ministera
were stationed at Washington rather titan at
.Montgomery or Richmond. In performing
thnt dnty he has given offense to the victors.
The success 'of the Congressional party in
volves his recall lor tho simple reiwon that
his relations wero uecessarily more intimate
with Balmaceda than with the Junta at
Iquique. The Congressional leaders may en
tertain a deeper feeling of lescntinent
against him than the circumstances have
Justified, but thefaqt that they are exceed
ingly bitter in their complaints of extrcino
partisanship on his part during the civil war
inevitably Impairs his usefulness In the pres
ent crisis. Tho Administration doubtless
will speedily recnuizo the necessity of de
ferring to the wishes of the leaders or the
victorious party, 'and recalling a. Minister
whose continued presence In the capital Is
now a sourco of embarrassment.
TEBEMEKT HOUSE OC0UPAHT8.
The Census or New York Taken by Sanitary
Policemen.
New York World.
Chief Bullard and his 32 sanitary police
men havo completed their census of tho
tenement-house population. The work has
been in progress for eight months, and it
will be n long time before the results can bo
collected. It is estimated that the number
of tenements in New York is over 40,000. The
numberof families living in them will foot
up-nearly 300,000, aggregating a tenement
house population of 1,300,000. If this esti
mate proves correct, it will leave a small
margin to include those persons who llvo in
their own houses, hotels, boarding houses,
etc., according to Superintendent Porter's
count or a total population of only 1 513,501.
Chief Bullard's men have learned what
proportion of the rooms they visited are
used lor workshops. They have inspected
In the dead or night flats thnt swarmed with
people to find out what the sanitary condi
tions are. Thay have viewed yards, cellars
and stables, and they have counted horses,
dogs, pigs and goats, as well as people.
Notuiug like thUsystem or tenement house
examination has ever before been tried, ex
cept as applied on n, limited scale some time
ago to the Hebrew clothing workers on tho
Westside by the Relief Committee of the
Baron Hlrsh fund.
It can bo stated with certainty that there
is a tendency to build bouses with rooms for
four families on a floor where formerly two
families occupied the same space; that the
season has been above the average in health:
that comparatively few children under 11
have been tound at work.
BETTER DOG THAN MASTEE.
An Incident Sliowing That Brutes Some
times Rise Above Humanity ItselL
New York World.
"Snow is a white setter dog, and Thomas
McEvoy Is "Snow's" master. McEvoy ought
to have some sense, for he is a clothing cut
ter. But ho did not show any sense on
Thursday; He brought "Snow" down from
Nowburg and drank strong drink until ha
lost his balance and went to sleep on the
sidewalk at Madison nvenuo and Forty
second street When McEvov fell his hat
rolled Into the gutter, but "Snow" brought
It back in his teeth to his tipsy owner.
Then the dog put his fore paws on the
man's body nnd snarled and snapped, and
growled and barked at everyone who came
near the senseless form or made as if to barm
it. Policoman Regan came along aud -elzed
McEvoy to raise him. "Snow" flew at him
viclouslv. Recan took one or two baokward
steps and reflected.
Men who looked on called "Good dog, good
dog," and tried to coax "Snow" away, bnt ho
was no more to bo cajoled than scared. At
last some one lassoed him with a rope.
Regan got McEvov on his feot and took
him to the West Thirtieth street station
house, "Snow" following, tuggingat the rope.
Dog and man were in Jefferson Market
Police Court yesterday morning, but when
McEvoy was arraigned at tho Dar "Snow"
was kept in the pen in which Policeman
Regan showed at once respect for the dog
and retard for his trousers. McEvoy was
fined $5, bat had spent all his money. So dog
unu master went to prisou togetucr lor nvo
days.
A Poor Season for the Resorts.
Brooklyn Standard-Union,
I was talking with General Jourdan yes
terday when he made the observation that
this has been the poorest season for summer
resorts In years. He referred especially to
Coney Island, in which he, of course, is most
interested, being the President of the Brook
lyn and Brighton Beach Railroad. Tho
principal ciujo for the poor seasgn, the
General said, was the fact that there were 48
rainy days. The season is onlyabout 75 days
long, and when more than hair of these aro
rainy the profits of the proprietor of the
seaside resorts are bound to suffer. General
Jourdan said that Concv Island was not.
aiono 111 jiuvm a uiiu sCTisuu. .jui buo re
sorts suriounding New York are sufferers,
and in several places hotels have failed,
notably In Atlantic City, N. J., where two of
them havo gone under. He said that New
port and Bar Harbor were about the only
resorts on tho upper Atlantic coast that had
had any sort 01 a season at an.
Mr. O'Malley's Performance.
New York Evening Sun.
The late Mr. Reed, of Pittsburg, danced so
ofterr with Fannio Pettigrew that Michael
O'Malley killed him and two of bis friends.
Mr. O'Malley seems to have established his
claim to the young woman's hand for tho
noxt set. Income countries Mr. O'Malley'g
own performance might oe a pas senl on an
unsubstantial aerial platform. Strange as It
may seem, it Is nevertheless true that tho
actual odds aro moro than 40 to 1 against the
gentleman's indulging in any snob exercise.
The ratio of hangings to homicides is less
than 1 to 40 in Pennsylvania.
SOME PEOPLE "WHO TBAVEL.
Joseph Haworth, Miss Kathryn Kidder
nnd Miss Lottn Keith, arrived at the Ander
son last night from Rochester. Mr. Haworth
said ho was glad to bo again in Pittsburg,
where he had so inaiiv friends.
Jail "Warden John Berlin and wife re
turned yesterday from a 30 days' vacation
spent at the lake. Thousand Islands and
various resorts in New York State.
J. G. De Witt and Mrs. Do "Wilt, of
New York, who have been summering at
Crcsson, arrived ut tho Monongahela last
evening.
A. F. James, D. D. Mallory, G. S. White
and W. H. Forbes aro tourists from Frank
lin, Pa., staying at tho Monongahela.
F. L. Whitcomb, of Chicago, President
of tho Detroit Car Wheel Company, regis
tered at the Duquesne yesterday.
Henrv and "William Patton, brothers-in-law
of James A. Chambers, returned from
Europe yesterday.
C. Ford Stevens, of Philadelphia,.and P.
A. Emanuel, of Aiken, S. a, aro Duquesne
guests.
Edward B. Crcighton, an insurance man
from Y'ork, is registered at the Mononga
hela. J. L. Bleacklev. a traveline man from
Manchester, England, is at the Anderson.
D. "W. "Way, a merchant tailor from Lon
don, Eng., is at the Duquesne.
F. Klepetto. of Great Falls, Mont, is a
Monongahela Houc guest.
A. It. Gricr, of Birmingham. EnV.. is at
tho Duquesne. "
CUHI0US CONDENSATIONS.
Teachers salaries In the United States
annually amount to more than $60,000,000.
Paris requires every vehicle traversing
its streets af nUht, If only a wheelbarrow,
to carry a lighted lamp. '
Tlie temple of Hora-mon-ji,-at Ikegami,
begnn in K, and finished in 1307, is one of
the most lamous religious structures in
WUJAIJl.
1 . ;
I " an "land in the Missouri river near
' Miami there is a. peach orchard-of L200 trees
of fine budded fruit. The yield this yeir
will be 3,000 bushels or two and a half bush
els to the tree.
A German capitalist has oSered a re
ward or $25000 to any astronomer who can
satisfactorily prove to him that the son, tho
moon or any one of the stars is inhabited, or
that it contains any solid matter whatever.
It is a curious little fact, and one worth
remembering, that on tho same day, April
23, 1816, that William 8hakespere died in
England, Miguel Cervantes, the celebrated
Spanish authw of "Don Quixote," died in
Spain.
A vast "banyan" tree covering between
six and seva acres has been .dUooverod on
jie J,nr Lo'd Howe Island, 300 miles from.
Port Miicqmirie. in Australia. It is sur
Pya'jn size only by tha greatest of those.
It is known that wasps' nests often
take Are, supposed to bo caused by tha
chemical action of the wax upon the paper
material or the nest itself. This may ac
count for many mysterious fires in barns
and outbuildings.
The national Japanese gambling game
is harm or "flower." The cards are 48 ob
long slips of pasteboard, divided into 12
series, each representing a month. Six
players with tour card each, play a sort or
combination at casino, encher and poker.
Tho kitty gets 10 per cent of the pooi.
The ornithologist of the Death Valley
(Cal.) expedition has secured many rare
specimens or mammals, some of which are
almost unknown. At Pigeon Spring some
tHicS?!clm,0fiOf " v.?Ty raro mouse were
taken, or this peculiar ipocle but one
jpecimen, taken about 50 years ago, Is said
The McCloud Eiver Ptoneer says, Pebble
School District, in that section, comprising,
territory large enough for a State like Rhodo
Island, received but5.I 65 from semi-annual
f 'ntf apportionment and $6 65 for library
lund. Tne only way to get more is to
Inmo7i onUdwn. as the apportionment is
made on that basis.
News of a romantic marriage comes from
Georgia. Ten years ago the couple, then
only boy and girl, were married, but their
folks separated them, the bride being sent
away. Thoy didn't correspond and neither
afterward married. Some tlmeago the groom
advertised for his wife. The saw the notice,
answered it, and both have now again been
It is said that between the island of
Madagascar and tho coast of India there aro
15,000 islands, only 6.0 or which aro inhabited.
On any of theso islands a man can live and
support his familv In nrinenlir Inmn arlf h.
out working moro than 25 days In tne year.
In mot, on somo of these islands ho need
not work at all, as nature provides tho food. 1
and no clothes aro required.
Prof. Lewis Swift, of the "Warner Ob
servatory, calls attention to a phenomenon
soon to occur, which, he says, has never beon
seen by any human eye: "During the morn
ing hours of September 4, Wolff's periodical
comet will pass directly over that well,
known cluster, Pleiades. The phenomenon
is considered by astronomers of great im.
portance, aside from its never having been
before witnessed."
The golondriua, which is a sure cure for
tho bite of the rattlesnake, scorpion, taran
tula, black spider, or any other poisonous
insecti, is not the same as the mock orango,
or wild pomegranate. Golondrina Is n small
mosllke plant, wnlle the mock orange Is a
running vino similar to the watermelon. It
will not cure the bite of the rattlesnake, but
it is one of the most useful medicinal plants
on the Pacific coast
An interesting geological phenomenon is
noticed in the dlstrict-of Izium, in Kharkov,
Russia. In consequence of the heat this
summer the ground broke open In many
places and deep ditches formed, at the bot
tom of which subterranean water appeared.
Geologists who examined the ground think
that the subterranean water come -from, she
same source which supplies tlieSlavtarjskoyo
salt lakes of the neighborhood.
Dennysville,jre.. has among its histori
cal relics a houso that once sheltered Bene
dict Arnold, in which is a secret panel lead
ing to a hole in tho wall where the people of
Eastport secreted their valuables during tho
British occupation in 1814. There are also
two swords which were used during the
revolution by General Benjamin Lincoln,
the original owner of the town, one of them
having been presented to him by General
Washmgton.
I The agent general for the Cape of Good
iiope is omcialiy inrormed that the results
of tho recent census, expressed tn thou
sands, are as follows: European, or white,
377,000; aboriginal (blacks). 848.000: H other
colored races. 299.000: total, 1.524,000. Total
census of 1875, 720,000 (exclusive of the
Transkei districts, tha population of which
in 1874 was 150,000, and which now numbers
10,000 Europeans and 476,000 natives): in
crease, 804,000.
A Philadelphia correspondent confirms
the statement about distant oundsoouied
by ship sails. He states that many years
ago the late Admiral Goldsborough told
him that when he was a subordinate officer .
he heard tho late Commodore Levy, who
was executive officer of the United States
.ship , tell his captain one Sunday morn
ing that he was sure tbay were off Rio
Janeiro, because he heard the sounds of the
church bells. As they must have been
nearly 100 miles from the harbor, the Cap
tain sarcastically asked Levy whether he
could not "see the rose brushes in front of
tho houses," to which Levy quiokly respond
ed: "1 cannot see tho roses, sir, but I can
feel their thorns."
Tha inventor cf the game of chess, on
being -promised by tho King, whom he first
taught the game, that he should havo any
reward he might ask for, meekly replied
that he would be content if the King would
givo him one kernel of wheat on the first
square, two on the second, four on tho third,
eight on the fourth, and so on, doubling up
to the sixty-fourth square. The King gladly
acceded to this seemingly modest reqnest.
nnd ordered his attendants to bring in the
wheat, which they began to do; bnt, to the
astonishment of the monarch, it was found
that there was not wheat enough in tho
whole dominion to pay off the crafty in.
ventor. It would require 9,637,268,786,934,775,
168 kernels, equivalent to 30,031,097,134,434
bushels.
FACETIOUS FANCIES.
Ob, aeronautic sailor folk,
By high ambition goaded.
Before yon try to parachute
See If the darn thing's loaded.
Watlitngtm Star, '
3Irs. Bilklns I never saw such a forget
ful man la my life as you are. The clock has
stopped again. Mr. Bilklns That's became you
forgot to wind it. Mrs. Bilklns Hun! You know
very well. Mr. Bilklns, that I told you to remind
me to wind It and you forgot about lUSeut lork
WkUv-
Chauncey General, that was a pretty
fine speech of yours.
Horace Thank yon, Chauncey. I raiher liked it
myself.
Chauncey I don't think yonspeae itaa wellaa
you used to, Horace. Sew Xork UartM.
"Mother, will you be kind enough to
cook tho dinner to-dayf John was so dissatisfied
with the cook that I sent her off, without telling
him about It,"
"Certainly, my daughter."
John (at the dinner table) Maria, yon most send
off that cook. This is the worst deal she has given
me yet. Tans Biftlnna.
"I have such an indulgent husband' said
little Mrs. "Doll. "Yes; so George says," responded
Mrs. Spiteful. Sometimes Indulges too much,
docsn' t he. Rtoa TranscrivU
"Hear about that little difference between
Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York and tht
barber who shampoos him!"' Inquired tha exchange
editor, placing a weapon or defense within reach. .
"So. What was it? A matter of 3 cents?" said
thetlnancial editor, bristling up suspiciously and
looking-abontforbU cane.
Thcdlfference."reJolnedthe exchanga editor,
defiantly. "I that one pays the freight and the
other frays the pate. VMarjo Tribune.
An imperious individual entered -a
crowded street car and did not notice that at the
door there was a vacant scat.
-Sit up there, will you," he said gruffly to thi
passengers.
"Sit down there, win you," said one of thepai
sengers. pulling him suddenly by the coat tails Into
the vacant snaee, Dttroit Fnt Prut,