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A CHINESE CHARACTERISTIC.
The operations of the great Chinese
secret societies, which constitute an occult
power that in the oriental countries is able
to sot even government at defiance, form
the subject of an interesting article in one
of Uie current magazines, and illustrate
thp difficulties of dealing with these waifs
from a civilization which has almost no
roramon ground with our own. The in
formation given in this article gives au
especial interest to the indications reported
In our local columns that a branch of one of
these societies is operating in Pittsburg.
In lands foreign to their nativity these
organizations concern themselves only
with ordering the lives of the Chinese
sojourners in their district The old
method of dealing with insubordinates or
apostates was to murder them. But the
innocent Chinese have assimilated enough
of our civilization to perceive that a much
safer and equally efficacious terrorism can
le maintained by niakjng life a burden to
the recusant by charges in our criminal
courts, supported by overwhelming testi
mony furnished to order by the members of
ihesociery. This is thetreatmentallegedto
have been administered in this city to one
of the Chinese who has cut off his queue
and embraced Christianity.
Of course, the difficulty in dealing with
such cases is the doubt whether the al
leged persecutors of the complainant are
doing the lying. But of the existence of
Chinese societies, besides whose power
and unscmpulousncss the Sicilian Mafia
are a mere joke, there is unfortunately no
doubt. If, as appears from the local re
ports, the authorities have evidence of
such a conspiracy a severe example should
be made. If some friend of the Chinese
should give them the information that a
term m prison would mean the loss of
their queues, they might absorb the idea
that our laws are not to be -violated with
impunity.
encouraging ir tkcf.
In reference to the decision that the
Tain-making experiments are to be con
tinued, the 2few York Times says that
they "must still, for a time, be the old
question of jiost hoe or propter hoc It
- iays: "Everybody admits that the rains
descended and the floods came very soon
after the gas balloons and the kites with
their dynamite tails were hurst in the air,
and the powerful rackarock was exploded
along the ground. But the question re
mains whether the rainfalls were directly
due to the explosions."
If the facts are as stated, they furnish
the best reason for continuing the experi
ments. All attempts at experimental in
vestigation must leave to repeated trials
the question whether the first results are
merely a coincidence or a consequence.
But if it be true that copious rains have
followed the first explosions the encour
agement to go on in the hope that a means
of producing rain has been discovered is
very decided. If the same result follows
half a dozen explosions the conclusion that
the process is a success will be very
strongly indicated. If it follows a score
of experiments the proof will be conclu
sive. But does everyone admit that copious
rains followed these explosions? The let
ter which TnE Dispatch published the
other day from a rancher in that vicinity
would indicate that there are still very em
phatic dissenters.
a isnoKEX ritoMrsE.
The assertion that there was a pledge
on the part of Chicago, that all the money
necessary to put the World's Fair into
sliape, except the appropriations for
Government and State exhibits, wTould
he furnished from that city, and that
nothing would be asked from the National
Treasury is indignantly denied by the
Chicago Tribune. That paper quotes Mr.
Springer's speech stating that Chicago
would raise ?10,000,000, and asserts that
this is all the xdedge made, and that it has
been fulfilled. It omits to givo any
weight to the following sentence from Mr.
Springer's speech, which it has the fair
ness to quote, and which, when quoted, ut
terly destroys its case:
We will ask no money from Congress ex
cept what will bo ivqnlred for Uie buildings
and exhibits of the Government. Fire or
tlx pimdrcd thousand dollars 11 ill be ample
for this.
This is exactly the pledge referred to.
The Government has appropriated three
times the sum named as necessary for
the Government exhibit Notwithstand
ing this libprality Chicago is repudiating
its pledge, which was made in a dozen
other lorms than that cited, to ask "no
money from Congress." Whether there
quest is granted or not it is quite plain
that the Chicago enterprise regards the
maintenance of the promises by which it
gained the Exposition as a very light mat
ter. COMPENSATION FOR CATTLK,
The International Agricultural Congress
has pronounced in favor of a Government
recompense to owners of cattle killed by
public authority as suffering from con
tagions diseases. The Xew York World
indorses the idea with the assertion of the
principle that "private property taken or
damaged for public use, should always be
paid for."
The theory is accurate enough, but its
practical operation presents some striking
difficulties, that bid fair to be insuperable.
For instance, the first question that would
come up under the administration of the
law of compensation would bo: What is
the value of a steer which has got lump
jaw, pleuro-pneumonia, glanders, or other
infectious and virulent disease. The idea
that very wide diversity of valuation
might appear as between the cattle owners
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who have what Petroleum V. Nasby calls
"inflooens" and those who have not sug
gcts itself very forcibly.
This idea is not at all allayed by the
further argument of the esteemed World,
that "certainty of payment will make the
owner of a plague-stricken animal the
first informer of the existence o the
disease." This very clearly implies the
idea that the owner of the animal could
get more from the Government than from
any other. It contains a further sugges
.tion that in time of depression of the live
stock market the gentle granger could
make a turn by infecting his herd with
some virulent epidemic and unloading the
whole lot on a beneficent and paternal
Government
In these days when it is incumbent on
the Government to buy all the silver of
the silver producers, we are far from say
ing that sucfi a policy must be rejected.
It would certainly provide a definite utility
for the proposed sub-treasuries by con
verting them into schinderics and bone
boiling establishments.
A MULTICHAKGE CANDIDATE.
The expectation that David Bennett
Hill will be the next Democratic candidate
for Governor In New York is stated by
our New York correspondence to be a lead
ing feature of political gossip in that State.
If the assertion is true it presents a re
markable illustration of the versatility of
the New York leader, in the matter of
candidacies.
The argument is that since the nomina
tion of Fassett the Democrats need the
candidacy of the man who can most thor
oughly arouse the enthusiasm of the wire
pullers and wheelhorses of his party. As
for Hill himself another successful cam-
paign for Governor would, it is thought,
make him beyond peradventure the Presi-
dental candidate of the Democracy; while
if he should fail he would have the -soft
cushions of his Senatorial seat to break his
fall. Nevertheless, when all these con
vincing political considerations are given
due weight, the spectacle of Governor
Hill running for everything within reach
cannot fail to provoke the sarcastic com
ments of the opposition. The man who,
having filled a Governorship for two
terms, combines at once the functions of a
Senator-elect, a Presidental aspirant and a
third-term gubernatorial candidate, makes
pale the ineffectual fire of Bully Bottom's
ambition to hog all the parts in the cast
If Hill should be made the Democratic
candidate in New York this year, it would
afford ground for the charge that the
Democracy of New York is confined
within the raiments of David Bennett
Hill. That would furnish a new and ex
planatory reading of the famous declara
tion: "I am a Democrat," which would
thus be shown to mean "I ama Hill man."
MINERS AND THE EIGHT-HOUR RULE.
Mr. John B. Kae, the President of the
United Mine Workers, in an interview
elsewhere, makes some pointed statements
concerning the effort to establish the eight
hour rule, which was undertaken this sea
son b- the Federation of Labor. His
statements have a distinct significance as
bearing on the future course of labor or
ganizations on this issue.
Mr. Kae refers to the fact that the
miners' organization was the one desig
nated by the Federation of Labor to lead
in the demand for eight hours and that
the effort failed. He adds that in the
future his organization will select its own
time, and consult its own circumstances
for making such a demand. This is
coupled with a very emphatic criticism of
the policy of putting the burden of the
conflict on a single industry or a single
section; which is a feature of the move
ment which the Dispatch pointed out
early in the year.
This expression may fairly be construed
to imply that the eight-hour movement
has been indefinitely postponed so far as
the miners are concerned. There was this
excuse for trying to make the miners take
the lead: that as their labor is largely paid
by the tonor bushel, it was the department
in which the least bitter opposition might
reasonably be expected from the employ
ers. But it was also the industry in which
the loss from diminished product, if there
were any, would fall most largely on
the workingmen; and for that reason it is
not surprising if the miners are disposed
to consult their own leisure in trying to
enforce it against themselves.
We do not take such an avowal to indi
cate so decided a lack of harmony with
the Federation of Labor as might appear
at first blush. But it is decidedly imbued
with the idea advanced at the English
Labor Congress, that each trade or indus
try is qualified to settle the eight-hour
question for itself.
LABRADOR'S NATURAL WONDERS.
The discovery of a cataract on the
Grand river of Labrador, which is re
ported to have been made during the past
summer by an exploring party from Bow
doin College, is an interesting one. The
existence of the falls had been reported
by Indian traditions; but this party estab
lished the first reliable proof of their ex
istence. The two members of the party
who reached it report it to be a magnifi
cent fall 200 feet high, succeeded by rap
ids which increase the total fall to 500
feet
It will thus be seen that the altitude
both of the "falls and rapids exceeds those
of the famous Niagara, although the mag
nitude of the flow of water over the Lab
rador cataract can hardly equal the dis
charge through Niagara of the great lakes.
Viewed simply as a water f all, it is inter
esting to know that the new discovery
eclipses our wonder of the world ; but it is
unlikely to ever rival it as a spectacle for
humanity, simply on account of its inac
cessibility. The story of the Bowdain
College explorers shows that the falls were
reached only by a boat voyage of
three hundred miles up the Grand river,
and a march over a sterile region of over
fifty miles. The obstacles to reaching
these falls are likely to prove so insuper
able that Niagara will remain as the great
wonder in its line that is within reach of
any save a few explorers.
The unknown character of the wilds of
Labrador is illustrated by the fact that,
after it has thus been established that it
has a higher fall than Niagara, it still re
mains an unsettled question "whether it
does or does not contain a greater lake
than Lake Superior.
The idea is brought out by the New York
jErcnin.7 &'iro in comparing assaults by hood
lums upon citizens with the affray among
foreigners, that "for tho doings of foreigners
we are responsible in a remoter sense than
for the home-grown murdci ers and outlaws."
Except in the degree nf offenses, we, as a
self-governing people, are responsible
equally for the maintenance of law and
order no matter what tho nativity may be of
the people who are disposed to violate them.
But it is true that when wo make Americans
respect the law it will bo easier to make
foreigners obey it.
TnE man who put a dynamite cartridge
on the .Lehigh Valley road excuses himself
on the ground that ho did it for lun. The
joko should be continued by lotting him en
joy the humors of life Inside a penitentiary
for the longest term that the law allows.
The people of Philadelphia do not pro
pose to let the excuse of an exhausted ap
propriation suffice for stopping the Keystone
bank Investigation. The Committee of Fifty
has offered to bear tho expenses of the in
vestigation until a newappropriatlon-can be
secured from Congress, This leaves the Sec
retary of the Treasury without a valid ex
cuse for shutting off the discoveries which,
were likely to be made. But the desire to
stop the probing is so urgent that we bad
better wait and see if a new excuse wU not
bo found. ' f
Russia's desire'to construct a great com
mercial harbor on the Black Sea looks inno
cent enough; but it is the fear that tho com
merce in Krupp guns and iron clads may bo
developod there which causes tho rest of
Europe to put up its back.
Tillman, of South Carolina, nominates
Campbell forthe.Presidental candidate of the
Democracy, on condition that he carries Ohio
this year. This condition is a somewhat im
portant one. Doubtless Governor Campbell
would be glad to do his best to fulfill it, if
the malaria would let him. But Just at pres
ent he is not investing very largely in the
conditional Presidental boom thus kindly
tendered him from South Carolina.
It is intimated that Kussia is moving her
troops to Bessarabia to get them out of the
famine-stricken districts; but the European
fear is that they may be move'd to Constan
tinople for the same purpose of getting tbem
well and cheaply fed.
The condemnation of Wm. K. Morrison
as "a free trader and a failure" by the Chi
cago Herald, is instructive. As that Jonrnal
is a -rank free trade organ.it appears to
blame the horizontal tariff reducer mainly
for his failure. But its demonstration that
free trade and failure go together should in
duce it to mend its own ways.
If Governor Beaver and Gneral Hast
ings can put fuel gas into the Pittsburgsmllls
at five cents per thousand, they can ' com
mand greater pecuniary returns than either
of them can look for from tho Governorship
of Pennsylvania,
The objection of the Parisians to."Lo
hengrin" indicates a decidedly Philistineun
willingnessto accept the music of the future.
The Paris musical taste should not be gov
erned so exclusively by the past. In other
words, to let international quarrels obtrude
themselves into the realms of art is a piece
of popular idiocy.
Samuel of Poses now protests with tear-,
ful emphasis that he is "tbeinnercentest man
on der road:" but he does not intend it to
raise a laugh, lie wants it to bo believed,
this time.
Ex-Senator W. J. Sewell, of New
Jersey, is quoted as saying that he feels very
sure that Harrison will have another term.
What is Sewell after? . Does he aspire to an
Inter-State Commerce Commisslonership,
under the rule that none but railroad men
shall be put on tho Commission?
NAMES TBEQUEHTLY SEEK.
Me. F. J. Kkekhoefee, Chief of the Ac
counts Bureau at Washington, has left Ber
lin for L'eipsic.
It is reported that ex-Congressman Scott
is steadily improving since his removalfrom
Erie to Newport.
Bishop Talbot, of Wyoming, has pre
emptorily declined his recent election to the
dioceseor Georgia. "
It is reported that M. Raymond, who was
recently captured by Turkisk brigands and
held to ransom, has been released.
The Duke of Nassau, although 75 years
old, is still hale and hearty. He has a for
tune of $25,000,000, and is believed to be the
richest Prince in Europe.
Peofessoks Abb and Harrington, of the
United States Meteorological Bureau, who
were delegates to the Meteorological Con
gress, have started for home.
Mr. William Walter Phelps, the
"United States Minister, and Mrs. Phelps have
returned from Homburg, where they have
been staying for a short time.
Geace Greenwood, emphatically de
nies the report that she is blind, and says
that shi can still read her title clear to more
good fortune than has ever yet come her
way.
The Princess of Wales has become an
adept in amateur photography. The fact
that she carries about a detective camera is
likely to cause tho Prince some apprehen
sion. The Duchess of Edinburg, who is now at'
Coburg, will remain in Germany until the
end of October. She will spend the winter,
according to present plans, in St. Peters
burg. The report comes from Paris that M. Zola
intends to stop novel writing and demon
strate to Ibsen how a realistic play ought to
be written. No doubt Ibsen is consumed
with curiosity to learn.
Edward de Goncour is described as be
ing one of the finest looking men in Paris.
He is the picture of health, and with nis
ruddy complexion, his striking figure, and a
head crowned with curling, silvery hair
makes a most picturesque appearance.
An English writer says that Prof. Charles
Eliot Norton seems to be the universal resi
duary legatee of the "Major prophets." Car
lylo'st family went to him to rescue the repu
tation ot that sago from tho revelations of
Mr. Foude. Mr. Ruskin intends, it is be
lievod, to appoint Mr. Norton one 6t his liter
ary executors, and now Mr. Lowell has by
will "ordered" the surrender of his MS3. to
Mr. Norton.
ICainz, the tragedian, who has been en
gaged to perform in New York this winter,
broko his contract with Director Batnay last
year and was condemned to pay $3,000 dam
ages. When Herr Barnay heard that Kainz
was abont to leave Germany he applied for
an order from the courts to restrain him.
ICainz, however, made his way out of the
country, but in so doing he lost a farewell
benefit performance.
THE OHIO DODGER
Campbell Cannot Meet the Issues of the
Day Fairly and Squarely.
San Francisco Chronicle.
So much hasbeen saldbyDemocraticnews
papers about "McKinley's attempt to dodge
the issue" in Ohio it may not bo out of place
to glance at the position of Governor Camp
bell. That worthy was nominated on a free
trade, free rum and free silver platform, a
trinity of evils hard to find equalled in this
broad land. Yot ho rises to declare that
"the tariff is tho only issue of importance in
tho Ohio campaign." Tho only "Issue of im
portance" is good, coming from this alleged
statesman, whom his friends claim is worthy
of a nomination to tho Presidency. It is of
no importanoo to the country, for this view
must po taken of a campaign conducted
upou national issues, whether rum is free or
its sale kept under proper restrictions or
prohibited altogether. It is of no importance
whether (i have an honest dollar ora cheap
and fluctuating currency. Yet his party
thought both questions of such weight that
they made them leading features of tho
platform upon which he stands. Campbell
is bigger than his party and brushes these
questions one side and says: "They are
trash, thcr are unworthy of a great man's
consideration. I will discuss the tariff
alone."
On tho other hand, Major McKinloy
squarely meets not only the free trade, but
the free silver question and discusses them
as the leading issues forced upon him by tho
Democratic convention. Because ho doe3
not confine himself entirely to the tariff tho
Democratic press howls: "He dodges." Be
cause Campbell dodges two of tho questions,
and does confine himself to the th ird. they
shout; "Behold our fearless champion."
This is Democratic consistency. Judged by
the reports from Ohio and from the speeches
and declarations of the two candidates,
there is but ono great political (dodger in
Ohip and his name is Campbell. Thore is
consolation in the thought that there is one
thing he cannot dodge and that is a crush
ing defeat at the polls. The people will con
sider all the questions when they vote.
George " Pullman's Daughter to Wed.
Saw Fbasoisoo, Sept. 13. The engagement
is announced of Miss Harriet Pullmann,
daughter of GeorgoM. Pullman, of Chicago,
to Fr.nk J. Carplan, a prominent society
man of this city. The wedding wtll occur in
Chicago next spring.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
The Usefulness of a Vacation Discussed by
One NowWatchlne the Preachers Boll
-Somo' University Improvements An
Inspiration and a Privilege.
After all, is it not at least remotely
possible that this whole vacation business
is a humbug?
The Professor propounds this question to
himself Bitting on the sand, looking out at
tho wide uninterrupted ocean, listening to
the booming of the surf. And for himself,
just here and now, he answers, No. Blessed
bo vacation. But for a good many people
whom he has met on his travels, and indeed
at somo times and some places for every
body, it would seem that there must ac
curately be another answer than that.
Is it worth while, this dnsty Journeying
in noisy cars, this brief tarrying here for a
day and there for a night, sleoping in s tuffy
and narrow chambers, eating unsatisfactory
dinners with a knife and a fork and a
pocketbook, living on tho "European plan?"
Isn't home better? Isn't it even generally
true that tho best part of vacation is the
beatitude of getting homo again? And, if
so, why go away at all?
The Professor conceives that this matter
of vacation-taking is pretty often overdone,
and that it would be bettor for most of us to
take life somewhat easier all the year and
stay at home.
Perhaps one titrable is that a good many
of us don't know how to make good use of
the holidays we havo. I was in New York
on Xabor Day, and a more weary, discontented-looking
lot of people I never saw.
Tho poor men who were celebrating the
cause of labor (by stopping work) were oc
cupied more than half the day tramping
over muddy streets behind dreadful brass
bands, in the most dismal and uninteresting
of processions. The rest of us. sought our
enjoyment by standing on tho curbstones
watching them. The only people I saw who
seeined to be having a real good time were
very much intoxicated. And they paid for
it afterward.
An Employer's Opinion.
During the carpenters' strike I was
talking with an employer about the advan
tages of a shorter day, and be said that nine
tenths of the carpenters wouldn't know
what to do with their time if they got it. I am
afraid that this is true. It needs quite a lit
tle education to know what to do with a hol
iday. Probably the vacation depends upon
the vacator.
Why is it that the item of vacations
makes such a large and obtrusive .figure on
the programme of the college? One is re
minded of the small boy's idea of the pur
pose of the sermon in the church service
he thought that the sermon was put in to
3ive the choir a rest. The terms seem to bo
alternated with tho holidays to give tho
students and teachers a change. I was at
Harvard the other day. The quadrangle
was as deserted as the ruins of Babylon.
The only books in use were guide books.
The whole groat "plant" was lying as idle
as a great mill in a strike. Everything elso
was going on. The shops were all open.
Only the schoolrooms were closed. Educa
tors are asking each other nowadays about
the real value of the long vacation. And
the chances are that things will be so ar
ranged presently that young men in good
health Vho want to learn all thoy can and
get out and beseige the world as soon as
they can will be enabled to keep at their
studies and hear lectures straight along. In
the now Chicago University, 1 understand,
there will be no vacations.
The University Extension.
At present vacations are made profit
able to students by means of summer
schools. Nothing in the way of education
is attracting moro attention just now than
"university extension." And "university
extension" means the bringing of the ad
vantages of the university within reach of
everybody by means of lectures given in
convenient places and at convenient times
and open to all comors. Tho most notable
illustration is Chautauqua. And everybody
knows that Chautauqua is open in the
summer.
I was interested to see at Concord the
other day, the schoolroom of the School of
Philosophy. It is a small building, looking
sdmewhat like a barn and somewhat like a
chapel, unpainted, and adorned on the out
side only by the green leaves and purple
fruit of a great grape vine. Of course the
grape is the Concord, which was invented,
if ono may so say, and first pasted in this
interesting little village. The school house
stands on the grounds which Mr. Alcott
owned, next to his house. One looks with
interest at the house, not only as the meet
ing place of so many famous people, but as
the home of tho author of "Little Women"
and a score more of delightful and uplifting
stories.
It one were to go to school in vacation
time, what place more interesting, more in
spiring, than Concord. Next to the Alcott
House is "The Wayside" where Hawthorne
lived formany years, and wro to "Tanglewood
Tales" aud much else. Down the road a little
way on a side street, in a big white house,
Emerson had his homo. This wide highway
honored by such distinguished neighbor
hood, leads to Lexington, Here rode Panl
l?evere, that hlaok night in 1775, waking up
the country, setting ail the lanterns blazing
and getting all the guns ready. Here
marched tho British tho next morning, leav
ing Lexington behind them, thinking to
stamp out the American rebellion in a day,
and here later tney marched back on the run,
sjiot at all the way from behind tho trees by
tho stout farmers, and the war was really
opened. .The battlo which began at Lexing
ton and ended at Concord was not much of
a battle so far as numbers go. More men
are killed somewhere in a railway accident
every week of the year. But that is not a
good way to measure battles. It was only
one man's head that they cut off one day in
front of Whitehall Palaco, Bat the ono man
was the King of England. That makes some
difference. You stand there on the bridge
at Concord, and trace out tho position of the
opposing forces, and remember that on one
side stood monarchy and on the other lib
erty, and many other battlefields 6eom in
significant bCBido this. You realize the
truth of the phrase of Emerson which is in
scribed hero on the noblo statue of the
minuteman, that here was fired "the shot
heard round the world."
A Frit liege and an Inspiration.
So one can learn something in Concord
when even the school of -philosophy is tak
ing a vacation. Prof. Felix Adler made a
wise choice when he located his Summer
School of Applied Ethics in Plymouth. To
spend a month beside the sea is a privilege
anywhere. To spend it in the neighborhood
of Plymouth Kock is an inspiration and an
uplift to any thoughtful mind. And then, in
addition, to spend it with Prof. Adler and
his company of lecturers is to have a triple
beatitude beyond anybody's real deserts.
When I was in Plymouth a dozen years
ago, Plymouth Bock was in tho middle of the
town in front of Pilgrim Hall. Tho position
was as incongruous as LiDby Prison in Chi
cago. It seems that in 1776 they had a big
celebration in Plymouth, and they con
ceived the idea that it would bo a great
scheme to get Plymouth Bock up into
tho public square and plant a liberty
pole upon it. So down went men
and horses and crowbars after the
Bock. But the rock unfortunotely broke,
and what they brought away was only a big
fragment. This they finally set in the ground
and held their Jubilation over it, and ne
glected to carry it baok again. Tho tourist,
accordingly, who wauted to see where the
pilgrims landed saw a rough stone beside the
village street nowhere near the water.
They havo bettered that now. Tho two
pieces have been put together. The rock is
where it lay when some big glacier dropped
it on tho shore of Plymouth Bay before man
made his appearance upon the planet. There
has never boen any doubt about tho identity
of Plymouth Book. Mrs. Hemans was mis
taken when she described tho breaking
waves as dashing high on a "stern and rock
bound coast." Plymouth Bock is tho only
big stone in Plymouth harbor, and it isn't
such a very big stone, either. However, here
again bigness and greatness are not by any
means the same thing.
There is a hideous stone canopy over Ply
mouth Bock. And on either side are ugly
wharves and unsightly sheds and shops. It
is a pity that sp venerable and significant a
ielic should not have more worthy setting.
However, it is better cared for than our.
blockhouse at the Point, and has a better
monument than we havo set at Braddock's
Fields. So still silence best befits us. Any
how, here it is, the doorstep of the United
States of America.
Mission of Adlers's School.
Here at Plymouth Prof. Adler had his
summer school. Elder Brewster would per
haps have looked askance at Felix Adler.
The Pilgrims would have found some fault
with tho Ethical culture apostles. Never
theless, the foundation of religion Is right
living. There can be no doubt of that. And
that is what the men of the old day and tho
men of the no w day aro alike earnest after.
I had several talks with Felix Adler. He
told me that the mission of the church is to
influence the heart; tho work of tlie Ethi
cal Culture Society is with the will. Re
ligion has to do with sentiment, ethics with
conduct. Nevertheless, tho time will como
when the ethical culture movement will get
bacK into organized religion again. It will
succeed in so employing conduct that the
church will learn its lessons and begin to
teach them. Professor Adler impressed me
as a man who is a good deal in the dark as to
what the church is really doing. Yot one
cannot fall to bo impressed with bis clear
ness of thought, life Intellectual and spirit
ual strength and his charm of manner.
Mr. Sheldon, of St. Louis, ethical lecturer
in that city, spoke on the relation of the pul
pit to the labor question. He said that the
first duty of tho parson is to learn, and that
after he knows tho actual facts, then be may
venture to preach. Which, I thought, was
pretty sensible advice.
The Summer School of Appliod Ethics has
been so successful that they propose to hold
it again next summer, again contributing to
the translating of vacation into some sort of
profit even for school teachers.
TEE COSSACKS' DBILL.
An Imposing; Spectacle of Astonlsbing
Military Maneuvers.
New York Sun.
General Kostanda,. Governor of Moscow,
last week permitted the representatives of
some Paris journals to visit the barracks of
Chadynskoi, whioh aro occupied by a re,;!-'
ment of Cossacks of the Don, and hero is the
description which ono of tho writers gives of
the wonderful performances of the cavalry
of the Czar:
"The drill of the Cossacks is something
marvelous. We came to witness it just at
the moment when Colonel Ilovaiski rode up
at a gallop in front of the Bquadron in line.
In this country the commander of a regi
ment never appears before his troops with
out saluting them and pronouncing the fol
lowing words: "Idorovo molodtayl" ('Good
morning, my fine fellows!') To this saluta
tion'the entire regiment sesponds, 'We wish
your lordship good health!'
"The troops then scattered, and themaneu
vering began. It was simply astounding,
and tho Frenchmen who witnessed it, ten In
number, on the invitation of Colonel Ilovai
ski, will never forget it as long as they live.
"Imagine the most extravagant equestrian
programme of a circus, the complete reper
toire of Buffalo Bill's Indians, enriched by
the most extraordinary variations every
thing that Is delicate, comical, 'magnificent
and wild in the equestrian art. All this was
displayed before us for two long hours by a
thousand men in a tempest of dust and
movement sufficient to make the ooolost
head dizzy. We saw horses bounding like
panthers and men jumping like monkoys.
We saw cavalrymen booted, with their car
bines across their backs and their sabres in
their hands, chargingwhilostandingupright
upon their saddles. Others would pass at
full speed beside Cossaoks stretched upon
the ground, pick them up like pocket hand
kerchiefs, and carry them off across the
croups of theirsaddles. Others again would
pivot upon their saddles and play all the an
tics of circus clowns. One horse, tripping
upon some obstacle, apparently rolled com
pletely over the rider. We thought ho was
killed upon tlie spot: but he jumped up,
laughing heartily while he rearranged his
damaged trousers.
"When the maneuver was finished the de
file began. Thrice the squadron defiled bo
fore their Colonel, first at a walk, then at a
trot, and lastly at a charge. The charge was
something terrific. The Cossacks are armed
and equipped in such a manner that at a
distance it is impossible either to see or to
near tnem. xne unuorms are somDer; tne
scabbards are of leather and their weapons
are darkened. There is no flashing or clash
ing of steel, and littlo or no sound. And
tho whole troon of men and liorsea uass
noiselessly by at full speed, like a living1
squall. xne uoianai scrutinizeu uie np
pearancs of each squadron, and, satisfied
with the performance, shouted, 'Karacho I'
(Very good!) to which the double row of
Cossacks replied, 'Rady staratza, vasche
ryesokoblagorodie I' ('We will do still better
yet, your lordship !') And the squall passes
off.
"It would bo impossible to give a full de
scription of such an exciting; and splendid
spectacle."
Blaine in New York.
Buffalo Express.
If James G. Blaine's health will permit his
candidacy and If he does not absolutely for
bid the use of his name he will have the
delegates of the Empire State without a, con
test. The convention which nominated an
administration candidate to head its ticket
oould not bo said to be unfriendly to Benja
min Harrison. But the enthusiasm for
Blaine was all powerful.
DEATHS HEHE AND ELSEWHERE.
Major Fdmond L. Smith.
Major Edmond L. Smith, who died at his
homo in Heading. Friday, aged 81, had some re
markably thrillind escapes from Confederate
prisons during his military service in the war for
the Union, lie graduated at the axe of 19 from the
University ofGeoriretown, D. C, and at the out
break of the war enlisted with the Rlngeold Ar
tillery. He was afterward transferred to the regu
lar army, receiving first a Captain's commission
and then a Major's. Subsequently he commanded
battalions in the engagements under McClellan and
Burnsldc at south Muuntaln, the Peninsula, An
tictam and Fredericksburg. Ho was. afterward
captured and confined in Lihbv Prison for a year.
While there he assisted for 80 days in digging.-! tun
nel by w hich he and 10!1 other prisoners escaped.
Three weeks later he was again captured and con
signed to a dungeon on bread and water. In being
transferred to Andenonville he eluded his guards,
leaped from a moving train, and hid in a (jcorgia
swamp six weeks, subsisting on rice and berries.
Eventually ho was tracked by bloodhounds and
takcu to Charleston, where lie was again consigned
tr, .a rinnirenn. Thence he was narolcd and ex
changed in October, 1864, through the influence of
an old Georgetown collegemate, who was a general
In tho Confederate army.
Eugene L. Emery.
Eugene L. Emery, President of the St.
Louis River Water Power Company, of Dulutn,
died Saturday. He was 33 years old and lias a. wife
living in Great Falls, N. H. The cause of his
deatll was roenlngetis. brought on by acute
Bright's disease aud diabetes. He was rated by Dun
as vonh 230,oaa. besides which he has $3X1,000 life
insurance, more than any other man in that pait
of the Northwest. In some respects Mr. Emery
was the most enterprising man In Duluth, having
begun gigantic improvements along the St. Louis
river, such as the water power, the brick plant and
the stone quarry, which would In time have made
him immensely rich.
Samuel K. Wellman, Inventor.
Samuel K. Wellman died at his home in
East Wilton. Me., Friday, aged C9. He formerly
lived in Nashua, N. II.. where he was Tar 17 years
superintendent of tho Nashua Iron and Steel Com
pany. He was a thirty-third degree Mason, and
also member of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
Xew Hampshire. He Was one or the oldebt and
ablest iron and steel workers of the country, aud
was the Inventor of tho Wellman crane, now used
in all large steel works of the United States. He.
leaves a widow and three sons and three daugh
ters. One son i9 President aud two others man
agers of departments of the Wellman Iron and
fatcel Works at Chester,
William llunnesliagen.
William JIunneshagen, a brother of
Henry Hunneshagen, Mayor Wyman's clerk, died
at his home. No. 42 Iten street, Allegheny, yester
day morning from paralysis. He was found dead
In his bed. The luneral will take place to-day at 2
o'clook from St. Paul's German Evangelical
Church.
Obituary Notes.
J. JL BAtMiY, Jr., cx-Tcrrltorial Treasurer of
Dakota, died at Frceport, 111., Saturday morning.
Ho was President of the Minnehaha National
Bank and prominent in financial circles. l
De. RobkktTbaii, SriCELowi5i.i.dled at his
home in Schenectedy yesterday morning aged 74
years. He was a brother of the late James HusseU
Lowell, and was an author and writer or note.
E. S. HWUUCHSKN died at his home la Alex
andria. 111., yesterday. He was ono of the first
stockholders of the Wabasli .Railroad and was
well known in railroad-circles. He was the father
of W. H. Hinrtchseu, late of the tjuipcy Herald.
THOMAS SOMERS, a vaudeville performer, and
formerly of the Eccentric Four Seaman, Somcrs
and the Glrard brothers died late Friday night at
St. Paul. His last engagement was played with his
wife. Ada Boshcl, As homers and iloshelthey
were touring tho country with the Oriental Bur
lesque Company. y
GILBERT E.TnORVTON, Pay Director. U. S. N.,
died In Boston Friday night of Bright's disease.
Mr. Thornton arrived in Boston about ten clays
ago on his way from New York to his home in New
Ua4v,.H tta was taken III adavor two after his
arrival and steadily grew worse. .The body was
takea to New BedfortfforburlaU, J.
A MOVABLE SIDEWALK
To Be One of the Features of the World's
Fair It Will Be Ready for a Trial in a
Short Time Tho f lnt Feature Fin
ished. CmcAoq, Sept. 13. Special. October 7th
next the World's Fair Grounds at Chicago
'will be opened to visitors for the inspection
of the progressing work.and for their accom
modation there is being constructed an elec
tric railway of a most ingenious and novel
oharacter, having a capacity to carry 30,000
passengers per hour with tho greatest com
fort, convenience and safety. The railway
department of the Thomson-Houston Elec
tric Company has closed a contract with
tho Columbian Movable Sidewalk Company
for the electrical and steam equipment of
the movable sidewalk which is now being
Installed. Tho mechanical and electrical
plans and details have been carefully
worked out by Mr. G. K. Wheeler, of the
company, and under his supervision the
entire plant will bo installed.
By the time named above, there will havo
been nearly completed a largo number of
Dtiildings, and there will be much to attract
and interest visitors. The electric railway,
howover, will be one of the leading novel
ties and attractions. This railway will,
differ from ordinary railways, in that the
passengers are transported on a movable
sidewalk instead of box cars of the ordinary
type. The scheme is the invention of the
Columbian Movable Sidewalk Company of
Chicago, and is being constructed under
their patents.
Plan of the Structure.
This sidowalk is located on the improved
and unimproved portions of Jackson Park,
and is to be constructed on an elevated
structure 23 feet high and 900 feet long, in
the form of an ellipse and is to consist of 75
cars, each 12 feet long, connected together
making one solid train. Therois to be con
structed two parallel sidewalks, one running
at the rate of two miles an hour, the other
at four, both walks moving in tho same di
rection. Tne passengers can step from tho
stationary walk to the one which moves at
tue rate of two miles an hour, and ir it is de
sired to movo at a greater speed they can
step from this walk to the one running at
four miles per hour. Tlie passengers can
safely walk upon either of the movable side
walks while in motion if desired. The
structure will be illuminated at night by a
number of incandescent lights, and as the
grounds aro to be illuminated with arc
lights a satisfactory view thereo f can be ob
tained during the evening as well as during
the day.
Three of tho 75 cars are to be equipped
with two 15-horsepowerrailwaymotors each,
mounted upon wheels 18 inches in diameter.
As tho car platform, or sidowalk, is ar
ranged it is perfectly level with the station
ary walk, allowing the trolley wire to be
placed beneath tho surface of the platform,
and the current taken therefrom by means
of small trolleys attached beneath the car
uuors.
All Run by One Man.
The operation of this train of cars will be
arranged in a novel manner, doing away
with the use of motormen; the entire train
being controlled and operated by one man.
There will be constructed at a central point,
at one side of tho track, a controlling sta
tion, which will contain a main switch, re
versing switch, automatic circuit breaker,
lightning arrester, ampere meter and
rheostats, all arranged so they can be oper
ated by the attendant from that point, who
will have tho train under perfect control.
As an additional safeguard, pushbuttons
will be arranged at 12 equal distant points
along the line of track, which will be con
nected with an electrio bell and the circuit
breaker in tho controlling station, and in
case of accident to any of the mechanism of
the train an attendant can, by pressing the
button, automatically open the circuit at
the station and stop the train instantly
without tho assistance of the operator.
The power for the operation of the side
walk will be furnished by a 110 h. p. multi-'
polar compound wound railway generator
located in a power houe adjacent to the
track. And In connection wUh the genera
tor there will be placed a suitable switch
board, regulating, controlling and indicat
ing devices.
A TWELVE-YEAES' ESEAND.
Sent After Cigars in Ohio and Delivered
Them in Nebraska.
Omaha Bee. 1
Among the guests at the Millard Hotel
yesterday was George O'Neal, who registered
with his wife from Belpre, O. His sojourn
here was marked by the revival of an old
acquaintanceship. About 12 years ago Mr.
O'Neal was a guest at a country dance in
Washington county, Ohio. One of his friends
was George Henderson. During the course
of the evening George Henderson and George
O'Neal were elected by a viva voce vote to
ride into town and purchase two boxes of
Wheeling "stogies" for the boys, the smok
ing part of the preparatory programme hav
ing been overlooked. George O'Neal wa3 to
pay for the smokers in consideration of be
ing let out on the trip. Henderson started
away and the party waited and waited his
return, but waited in vain, for when ho
reached Belpre he met one of his brothers,
who lived in the West, at the depot waiting
for the night train to go back home. George
was prevailed upon to accompany him.
Yesterday Mr. Henderson, who is now en
gaged in spreading the gospel about some
body's soda, drifted down stairs from his
room at the Millard and, looking ovor the
register, strack the name of George O'Neal
and wife, Belpre, O. It was not many hours
thereafter when Mr. Henderson, after a tour
of the tobacco shops' of the town, returned
to the hotel ana, walking into his old
friend's room, observed quietly that there
were those stogies and he d had a hard time
getting 'em. The old time defalcation was
condoned down stairs, nnd thrn the house of
O'Neal and the house of Henderson so
journed amid the mad gayeties of Council
Bluffs.
CANADA'S CLOW GE0WXH.
She Hub Not Followed the Example of the
United States.
Omaha World-Herald.)
During the last decade the population of
the United States increased in round num
bers 25 per cent, and during those same ten
years the population of Canada increased
less than 12 per cent. Tho maritime prov
inces, which are those immediately north of
New England, recorded the smallest growth,
their increase being less than 2 tier cent, al
though they possess a fruitful soil, rich
min os and good fishery industries. Our own
New England, which adjoins them on the
south, increased nearly U per cent during
tho same period, and even in the provinces,
including Ontario and Quebec, which em
brace tho oulk of Canadian population, tho
increase has been less than 10 per cent,
while such States as New York and Penn
sylvania to the south of these provinces,
and occupying corresponding positions In
the United States, have increased over2Q
per Cent.
Naturally the greatest growth of Canada's
population has been in tho west, where
tremendous efforts have been made to- de
velop and populate tho country; but even
hqre, with bounties on immigration and
land given away, Manitoba has grown less
than 150 per cont, while North Dakota, on
the south side of the line in tho United
States, has grown almost 400 per cent. In
short, Canada is not prosperous as sho
should bo and not growing as sho might.
Her debts arc increasing nnd hcrexpendi
tnress piling up. Her Tory administration
is a failure, and the sooner a closer approach
is made'to the oxamplo set by tho United
States the sooner will her prosperity bear
some relation to ours.
COSTLY ECONOMY.
Tho Consolidation of the Railroads Is Not
Greatly Desired.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
The most powerful argument that can be
made against Mr. Huntington's pea for a
consolidation of all tho railroads in this
country is one made by the Financial Chroni
cle. It is not that a- stupendous monopoly
would bo created and sp all ohanpe for the
advantages of campotion destroyed. It is
not probablo that rates would materially
advance. Under tho radical reduction in
expenses possible to such a consolidation,
rates might even bo reduced below those
which now obtain. This has been the case
with tho consolidated oil interests. The
dungcraloes not lie in higlior rates.
Tlie great and unanswerable argument
against tho proposition lies in tho tremen
dous power nunh a corporation would wield.
It would have an inpoine several times
greater than that of the Government and an
army of employes larger than tho largest
standing army of Europe. Its influence
would be more powerful than that of the
Government itselr. Under such a rcgimq
what chance would there be for any individ
ual or corporation petting justice ff the con
solidation should determine, tp be oppres
sive? In case the head of such a corpora
tion were ambitious of political as well as
railroad power, what possible head could
the rest of the country make against hiin?
This country wants no general railroad con?
solldation. ' The" largest or the railroad sys
tems Is already large enough.
Op MAIL POUCH.
Can Make Their Constitution.
To the Editor of The Dispatch.:-
A claims that a Iocal.lodge, branch or
council of any organization cannot make or
modify a constitution to govern its actions;
and that tho constitution Is made by the
State or national body for the government
of the local body before the local body is or
ganized, and the only privilege allowed th
local body is to adopt by-laws which do no:
conflict with the constitution, and elect
delegates to the State or National Conven
tion, which body alone, he claims, can make
or modify the constitution. In fact, ho
claims there is no such thing as a local con
stitution, inasmuch as it cannot be made by
the local body and cannot, therefore, bo
local.
B claims that there may be a constitution
adopted by the national, also bvthe State (if
any exists) and the local body, and that
each can make or modify "Its constitution
as they see fit, so long as one does not con
flict with the other. In fact, he claims the
reverse of A, viz.: that there i3 such a thing
as a local constitution, as it can be made by
the local body. Please decide which is
right. M. T. A.
Prrrsijrr.a, September 13.
B is correct".
State Elections Tills Year.
To the Editor of The DISDatch:
How many and what State elections will
occur this year? Politics.
PrrrsBURO, September 13.
Iowa, November 3, elects State officers
and Legislature. Maryland, November 3,
elects State officers and Legislature, and
rotes on six constitutional amendments.
Massachusetts, November 3, elects State
officers and Legislature. Mississippi, No
vembers, elects three Railroad Commission
ers and Legislature. Nebraska, November
3, elects Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court and two regents of the State Univer
sity. New Jersey, November 3, elects part
of its Legislature. New York, November 3.
elects State officers, Legislature, 10 Supreme
Court Justices and Representative in the
Tenth Congressional district. Ohio, Novem
ber 3, elects State officers. Legislature and
votes on amendment to Constitution pro
viding for uniform taxation. Pennsyl
vania, November 3. elects Treasurer and
Attorney General, votes on Constitutional
convention and elects delegates to same.
Virginia, November 3, elects half Its Legis
lature. A Bee in His Bonnet.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you tell me where the expression "A
bee in his bonnet" came from?
East Esd, September 13. Ella T. A.
This expression evidently is of Scotch
origin. "Thare is a maggot in his head" is
an equivalent expression In England.. A
writer claims that the poet Herrlck origi
nated the expression In one of his lyrics.
After a careful examination of the latter
nothing can be found to substantiate the
claim, unless it may bo the very slight al
lusion in one or the verses of his "Mad
Maid's Song:"
"Ah, woe is me 1 Ah, woe Is mo!
Alack, and well-a-day I
For pltv, sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away.
I'll seek him in your bonnet brave,
I'll seek him in your eyes
Nay, now I think, they've made hi3 grave
In the bed ot strawberries."
Boston's Water Supply.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you inform mo of the source of Bos
ton's water supply and the amount used?
L.M.B.
Alliohenv, September 13.
The City Engineer of Boston, Mass., re
ports to the Water Board that the amount
of water stored In the Sudbury river reser
voirs is 53,000,000 gallons less than on Sep
tember 1, 1S00; in Lake Cochituate 21,000,000
gallons more, and in Mystic lake 26,000,000
gallons less. The daily average consump
tion from tho Sudbury and Cochituate work3
during August was 29,460,400 gallons, an in
crease of 8.7 per cent from Angu3t, 1890. Of
this amount J.aW.SOO gallons per day were
pumped at Cnestnnt Hill for high service,
an Increase of 9.9 per cent. The daily aver
age consumption from the Mystic works was
9,122,300 gallons, an increase of 2.1 per cent
over August, 1390.
The Meaning of Bonanza.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Where did the word "bonanza" originate
and what does it mean? PACiFm.
McKbespoet, September 13.
It came from the Spanish woTd "Bonanza"
meaning fair weather at sea, prosperity or
success. On the Pacific coast the miners
used the word to designate a rich body of
ore and when the Comstock lode was devel
oped the mines situated there were called
the Bonanza mines.
THE LAEGEST AMEKICAN EAHCH.
It Is Stoeked With Horses and Contains
Eight Thonsand Acres.
Kansas City Star.
A. F. Wolf, of Greely, Col., 13 tho manager
of the largest horso ranch in America. He
is at the head of the Poreheron-Norman
Horse Company, which has ranches B2 miles
north ofDenver, and ten miles east of Greely.
The xange is divided into five ranches,
with an area of 8,500 acres, apd covered
with the finest alfalfa grass. The com
pany is made up of tho following persons:
Stuuebaker Bros., of South Bend, Ind.; Ed
ward Ilalsey, Senator Fred S. Fish and James
Murphy; the varnish manufacturers, all of
Newark, N. J., and Mr. Lamb, of Clintpn, la.,
a rich lumber dealer. The capital stock is
$500,000, all paid up, and at the close of thef
present fiscal year it'is to be increased to
$1,000,000.
The ranch is stocKea wn ,euu norses, an
of the Teroheron-Norman or Clydesdale
blood. The breeding is done with 27 Perch-eron-Norman
stallions, imported by the com
pany. There are only two other places in
America where this magnificent specimen
of the dranght horse is raised Bloomington,
111., end Central New York, But this is the
largest.and, in fact, thconlyextensiva horse
ranch in this country. Negotiations are now
pending for the handling of heavy jack
mulos, and Mr. Wolf expects to leave in a
few months for Madrid, Spain, to import 25
jacks. The market for mutes is confined
almost entirely to the Westaud South, whUe
the East and North demand horses. A fine
pair of Spanlsh-hred jacks will cost from $100
to $600, and a pair of blooded Perchorou
Normans cost $350 to $300.
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THE TABUT AND C1GAES,
Business Has Increased and the Smokers
Aro Hotter Pleased.
Chicago Inter Ocean. J
The proof of the pudding lies in the eating
thereof, and of a cigar in the true flavor of
the natural leaf. The McKinley bill is giving
us better cigars than we used to have. This
is what Mr. Harhurger, agent of Korbs,
Wertheim & Schiller, tens jir. jicAiniey, ana
Mr. Harburger knows. He says that the
quality of the American-made .cigar Is im
proving, and that gentlemen who used to
smoke imported, or nominally imported,
cigars now find that Americans can maku
just as good cigars as foreigners can.
In proof of whioh Mr. Harhurger says
that the manufacturing firm which he repre
sents has increased its business by $2,000,000
during the last six months,as compared with
tho corresponding six months of ISM. He
says also that the demand for cigar-makers
U largely augmented since tho passage of tho
McKinley hill, and that the price of the finer
grades of United States tobacco is higher by
from 30 to 40 per cents
To resume. Mr. Harburger, who knows,
says:
L The purchaser is getting a bettor cigar
than formerly.
2. The Unito-l States manufacturer is in
creasing his output very largely.
3 Tlie United states wage-earning cigar
maker fluds an increased demand for his
labor.
4. TlieUnifed States grower is getting a
batter price for the highergrades of his to
bacco. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO,
Walter G,' Tavlor and his newly-wedded
wife, formerly Miss Hill, of Chicago, left for
that city last night. The couple were re
turning from a honeymoon, spent In the
East, and stopped oyer bore tq see friends.
Mr. Taylor is traveling auditor of the Lead
Pipe Trust, with residence iu Chicago. ' JJe.
is a son of Mr. John W. Taylor, or this cl$y.
General Manager Joseph Weod, pf the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, left for
Now Vork: Iast n'K'it witn hiS eons.
Benjamin Dayis, World's Fair Commis,
sioner, was in the city yesterday. He left on
tho Limited for Chicago. " -
Q. Jf. Converse, of the United States
Navy, arriYcd at tue Monongahula vestpr
day. General 2T. B. Switzer, of Washington,
registered at the Meuongaheia yesterday.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A rich mine of mercury has recently
been discovered in BraziL
Some genius has discovered that the
ordinary watch gives 116,144,000 ticks a year.
The sail makers of Liverpool are agitat
ing against thense of sewing machines in the
stitching of sails.
The London school board are educating
20,808 more scholars now than they were
three yearrtgo. f
The University of Michigan has deter
mined to add women professors and lectur
ers to its faculty.
The Utopia, which went down in Gib
raltar Bay with moro than 800 people on
board, has been raised.
Every workman in Japan wears on his
cap and on his back an Inscription giving
his business and his employer's name.
The new German rifle carries but 223
grains, and has an Initial velocity nearly
tvvico as great as ours. The ballet is of lead
LOS inch in length, and the casingof German
silver.
The Great Western Railroad, one of
tho wealthiest In England, has decided to
abandon the "broad gauge" of rails. This
railroad was the only one in England that
still clung to the system.
Thomas Walker, of National City, Cal.,
exhibited ten big onions, the product of hl3
farm, in the San Diego Chamber of Com
merce a few days ago. Tho largest onion
weighed five pounds, and the aggregate
weight-was 24 pounds.
An aged couple have just returned to
Connecticut after an absence of 53 years. It
took thorn in 1S38 to no from Glastonbury to
their new Western home in Illinois three
weeks and two days. They have come back,
in one day and two nights.
In felling a big tree at Ivoryton village
in the Connecticut Valley, the other dav, the
woodsman drove his ax into a big, round
stone exactly in the heart of it. Withdiffl'
cultyhe exhumed the rock, which weighed
30 or 40 pounds. How the stone got into the
tree trunk is a mystery.
A merchant in Brattleboro, Vt., an
noyed by the condition ot the highway bo
fore his store, wrote to a selectman during
the latter's temporary absence from town,
as follows: "Two men stuck in the mud in
front of the American House. Shall we at
tempt to get them out or erect tombstones?"
An acre of bananas will support 23
times as many persons as an acre of wheat.
One thousand square feet of land, growing
bananas, will prodnce 4,000 pounds of nutri
tious substance. The same space, devoted
to wheat or potatoes, will produce only
33 pounds of wheat, or 90 pounds of potatoes.
The Pope's professedly military army
at the Vatican has the following strength
namely, two generals, two cqjonels, two
lieutenant colonels, one major, two captains, .
and four lieutenants. These 13 officers have
no fewer than 60 privates to keep under dis
cipline. The Papal cavalry consists of 13
men with eight horses.
According to an educational journal
the number of illiterate persons in Russia,
Siberia, Roumania and Bulgaria forms 80 per
cent, of the population: in Snain, 63: Italy,
48; Hungary, 43; Austria, 39; Ireland, 21:
France and Belgium, 15; Holland, 10: United
States, 8: Scotland, 7: Switzerland, 2&. and
in the greater part of Germany only I per
cent.
The Japan Herald is authority for the
figures of gold output in Siberia from 1834 to
1837 inclusive: 30,000,000 ounces, .120,000,000,
or $600,000,000, and this with but little ma
chinery, efforts rudely systematized, and
stealage- When the great Siberian railroad
is completed from the Caspian Sea to Vladi
vostok, on the. Pacific, the output of Rus
sian gold will be greatly increased.
In 1885 the mica product of the United
States amounted to 117.410 pounds, worth
$3u8,525, while that of 1339 was but 49,503
.pounds, worth only $50,000. Since there is no
decrease in demand for this article, this de
cline in the home production can be at
tributed to no other cause than the largo
quantities imported from Canada and other
foreign countries.
The effort to employ good looking
young women as account collectors ha.s not
turned out very profitable for the merchants
who employed them. After a fortnight's ex
perience, three of the women became en
gaged to men whom they tried to dun, two
of them married, and a few of the others
sympathized so deeply with the debtors that
they warned them when proceedings were
Instituted so that the debtors might escape.
America ia essentially a country of fads,
and the newest of them all Is for young
women to present their husband3 and sweet
hearts with plaster casts of their hands and
arms. An Italian in Grand street, near the
Broadway, New York, is doing a big busi
ness in taking casta from fashionable Amer
ican ladies, who have adoped this new form
of birthday presents to men who are tired of
ci?ar-coses, smoking jackets and pocket
books. The greatest known depth of the ocean
in the Pacific is near the Ladrone Islands,
where soundings were made to the depth of
30,850 feet, ora Kttlo over five miles. In the
Atlantic the srreatost depth found is jnst
north of the West Indian Islands, which is
23,250 feet, or nearly four and a half miie3.
In those parts of the ocean most free from
islands, as in the route from Newfoundland
to Ireland, the ocean is most shallo wi eel
dam exceeding 12,000 feet.
The Emperor of China celebrated his
20th birthday recently by taking unto his
yellow-robed, pig-tailed and imperial self
another wife. As he is only alio wed to have
seven wives at one time, and has. already
been in the marrying business several
years, lie will soon have to stop, or kill off a
few of his present wives and begin over
asain. The amount of diplomatic fuss and
feathers involved in selecting a wife for this
extremely fastidious youth puts Chinese
ladies into a delirious flntter all over the
Flowery Empire until tho agony is over.
The selection of a Juryman in a great mod
ern scandal trial is nowhere in comparison.
A wealthy Russian gentleman, livinj
in his own house on the banks of the Seine,
has for the past ten years kept in a box in a
private room the embalmed body of his
young wife. She was murdered a few days
after marriage, and her sorrowing husband
obtained the Czar's permission to take the
body away with him. The law of Franca
forbids absolutely the keeping of a dead
body In any place but a cemetery, but the
Russian gentleman hopes to obtain special
permission from high quarters to remain the
custodian of his beloved relic. If not, he
threatens to leave tho country rather than
part with it.
BHYMELETS AND EHTNKLES.
Mr. Benedick Will you be my wife?
Miss Beatrice Yes.
Mr. Benedict Ob, 3IIS3 Beatrice, this Is so sud
den! Glvemetlmeto reconsider." Harper's Ba
JOr. A pessimist was tirpd of life. '
"If some one came to strike inc dead,
I wouldn't move to help myself;
This earth is such a bore, " he said.
Just then a fly lit on Ms nose.
"Confound the files 1 They do beat all."
And the life-tired man didn't rest until
He'd smashed that buzzer 'gainst the will.
Philadelphia Tuntt.
Miss Pearl White I wish you to paint :
my portrait. .
Dobbins I'm sorry, ma'am, but 1 cm't do It. -
Miss Pearl White Why not: ' .
Dobbins I never copy other paintings. Cinci.
nfdi Commercial-Gazette.
There's a pretty maiden over the way
Who smiles when she sees me here at my work,
Aud she keeps me hard at it from morning till
" night.
For with such a monitor how can I shirk.
She has golden hair and pearly teeth; ,
Her eyes are the shade or the heaven s own blue.
Don't think I'm In danger, for I confess
I am most fifty: she isn't two. ',.,'
Sev Tork Harold.
Mother Where is Johnnie? ;
Father I don't know. I guess he's aronnd some- , " "
where.
Mother-That hoy Is Into every mbcWef. There
is nothing he isn't Into.
Father It's only his Inquiring war. HI Investi
gating mind. That boy Is bound tq get at tho but-:
torn of everything. ,.,,, . .. j
Nurso (rushing in)-Johnnie's fallen down tho
well.
Father (tflomphantlyJ-There: Didn't I tell
yon ! At w Tork ftru.
Have you read "The Light That PaHed?"
she asked the stock Holder In the gas company.
"No." he answered, and then he avoided her
for the rest of the evening. IftuAf sfffoii Star.
Kagg Queer missiontry they sent oat ta
the Caunlbtl Islands last month, blvjnld think
tiey would send a peaceable man,
Bagg What wjs the matter wifh him! '
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