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FITTfcBURG, TUntS DAY. SEPT. 2. 1S9L
TIIC WAR OF THE MUSHROOMS.
The election of Robinson as President
of the Slate League ot Republican clubs
yesterday terminated a contest which
long ago lost all features of dignity or
creditable political significance, and be
came the example of the pettiness and
recklessness which dominate personal
politics.
At the inception of the contest there
were considerations which, as politics go,
were worthy of eight in the public mind.
There was the question of locality
whether Western Pennsylvania or Eastern
Penns Ivania had the best claim to the
Presidency of the organization. There
was also the question as to who of the
candidates would be the more creditable
Lead of the Republican organizations.
Both as a "Western Pennsylvania man and
as an orator and thinker immeasurably
superior to his opponent. TnE Dispatch
recognized and stated that the Hon. John
Dalzcll presented the preferable choice.
But it is necessary to say that after
the campaign had opened on those very
acceptable lines, it rapidly degenerated
into a personal fight, in which the lower
level of political methods seemed to be de
liberately preferred to the higher. A con
test which has for weeks been confined to
a competition as to which side can most
industriously manufacture mushroom
clubs and most violently accuse the oppo
sition of doing the same thing does not give
any important political significance to the
final result
Asto the effectsof the fight on the politi
cal prospects of the State they can very
easily be overstated. When its echoes have
passed away, things will be about where
they were before, except that the club or
ganizations originally framed for the high
purpose of honorable political wor.are
now shown to be dominated by extrsw tfy
undesirable machine methods.
ORATORICAL FLIGHTS AT SOU ANTON
Tropes and metaphors "thick as leaves
in Vallambrosa's forests strewn" adorned
the oratory of the nominating speeches at
Scrauton yesterday. Our own Major More
land easily carried off first honors for a
high style of eloquence in his presentation
of the name of Congressman DalzelL But
it was probably not the comparison to
Prince Rupert, or Somers, or to Miltiades,
which had most significance for that sort
of a convention, but rather the sharp,
practical thrust in which the Major spoke
of the disasters which attend personal dic
tatorship within parties.
Mr. Schacffer. of Delaware county, who
put up the name of Robinson, was also
magnificently fluent lie did not, like his
predecessor, drop into the classics to any
extent worth speaking of, but, in the line
of the picturesque his great imaginative
sketch of the League, "sabers in hand,
waiting for the bugle to sound the charge
in which we will break through the thin
breast of Bardsleyism and fraud, behind
which the enemy has endeavored to en
trench" is hard to beat The elaboration
of this martial spectacle in which Mr.
Schaeffer, farther along, depicted his war
riors wealing "shields of American tin"
and "swords that were wrought from
American silver" may be regarded as a
little bizarre from a strictly military stand
point Still, it is not so bad as if Mr.
Schaeffer had made the swords of tin,
which a less careful orator, yielding
wholly to rhetorical impulse, without re
gard to military expediency, might readily
have done.
The work of paity direction has become
so intensely practical and prosaic in these
days, that there is seldom room for
extraordinary flights of orator'; hut in jus
tice to the Scranton convention it must be
said that in this respect at least it made
the most of its opportunity.
nE DECEIVED HIMSELF.
The account of the death of Balmaceda
comine, as it did, from the same source
which had previously given us a detailed
account of his escape to the United States
flagship in the disguise of liquor and a
sailor's togs, was naturally to be received
with reserve. As four days have elapsed
without locating the defeated Dictator In
any new spot and as Mr. Egan has dis
charged his regular diplomatic function of
confirming the news three days after date,
it is safe to conclude that the recent ruler
of Chile has sisnialized the close of his
career by the tragic act of suicide.
This makes it pertinent to moralize a
little on the expressions which the dying
man appears to have addressed to the
people of the United States. In this letter
he asserts that he acted under the
lirm conviction that he was right;
but that he was deceived by his gen
erals, who all lied to him. Being
deceived by those immediately about
him is the common fate of the ruler who
tries to set up an absolute power on the
ruins of popular government. The man
whose idea is to place himself above the
people has been subject to such decep
tions from the lime of Darius down to
that o! Napoleon IIL The man who
Tegards himself meiclyas a custodian of
popular and constitutional government,
is less liable to such defeat. One can
baldly imagine Lincoln or even Jelferson
Davis taking lefuge after complete defeat
in the plea that they had been utterly
blinded and deceived as to the true state
of affairs. The phraseology of the comt
plaint, "My generals were false to me,"
proves the position which Balmaceda had
reached of regarding himself, and not
the Constitutional Government, as the
ruler to which the Chilean generals owed
loyalty.
v Yet this was the one point on which an
intelligent and honest msih could not be
deceived by his supporters or sycophants.
However, Balmaceda might have been
hoodwinked as to the feeling in his army
or the strength of his opponents, as,if any
one told him that the Executive of a Re
public had the right to override its Consti
tution, he must have known that it was a
lie. 2fo one but himself can be responsi
ble for the deception of the idea that any
ouarrel with Concresswas sufficient to
justify him in "assuming all the powers of f :
the Government," as he had declared thatj
he had done. When he says he sought to
make his country' the first Republic ind
America by a poller of usurpation andi
military dictatorship, the apparent falsity
cf the means must be laid on the shoulders
of the dead Dictator himself.
Balmaceda's tragic-end and his exculpa
tory letter furnish a warning against the
blind and misleading ambition which must
rule over an Executive whotries-to exalt
himself above the laws and establish his
personal rule by the overthrow of censti
tutional and representative government.
PROFITS AND COMPETITION.
A Buffalo eotemporary accuses the fruit
growers of that vicinity of a lack of en
terprise in failing to "jump over the mid
dlemen and get right at the consumer."
To accomplish that purpose it advises
them to "combine, takeastore in Buffalo,
advertise it and retail fruit at a fair per
centage over wholesale rates," which it is
asserted would insure the' sale of an al
most unlimited quantity.
The suggestion is a good one in the ab
stract as pointing out the -remedy for ex
cessive profits to the middlemen on any
staple of wide production and consump
tion. If there is anysnch barrier between
producer and consumer, in the shape of a
charge beyond the fair return.for purchas
ing, handling and distributing it, this
method of correction is equally open
whether the staple is fruit or -vegetables,
butter, eggs, meat or grain. But as a
business proposition the adoption of such
a measure must depend on the answer to
two questions first, whether the retail
ers' profit is really excessive; and, second,
if it is, whether the combination of the
farmers to sell their own product will be
more effective than the competition of
other dealers, who for the-sake of getting
a share of the traffic will be content with
a moderate business.
As to the first point, it is worth while to
remember that, in the very business in
stanced, what looks like a very large
margin of profit may be the opposite ow
ing to the perishable nature of the mer
chandise handled. Say that a merchant
buys S50 worth of peaches and sells them
at a price that would realize 5100. A
hundred per cent profit looks large, hut
if half the peaches spoil on his hands he
has had his labor for nothing; if one third
perish, he makes 516; and so on. It is
plain that in such a business the faculties
required are skill in working up a large
sale of the articles, in closely watching
the market, and in attracting the
steady patronage of consumers. It is well
worth consideration whether those quali
ties are most likely to he developed under
the present system or under such a com
bination as that suggested.
We believe the competitive more nearly
than any other reduces the cost of distri
buting products to the consumers to a
minimun. There are doubtless cases where
trade has run in certain fixed channels so
long that profits are excessive. But in
such cases some enterprising merchant is
sure to come along and take the trade out
of its rut. That competition generally
fixes a fair margin of profit is demon
strated by the fact that the very trade ac
cused by our eotemporary of excessive
charges on perishable commodities almost
universally sells the less perishable staples
of sugar, flour and salt at a merely frac
tional profit
AN UNDECIDED POINT.
The rain-making experiments at El
Paso have been most effective in produc
ing rain at other points. The first day's
cannonading of the skies was a rather light
attempt and was accompanied by a light
shower at that place, with similar rains in
Xew Mexico and near Galveston, and a
heavy shower at San Antonio, fivchundred
miles away. The next day the bombard
ment was resumed with terrific force, and
the accompanying result was a clear sky
at the scene of the explosions, with rains
in New Mexico. Kansas, Colorado and
Wyoming and another heavy shower at
San Antonio, which in the two days en
joyed a rainfall of 1 1-3 inches.
According to the logic of the experi
ment the San Antonio people should be
very much in favor of the continuance of
the explosive rain producing at El Paso,
while El Paso's citizens will doubtless
favor the transfer of the bombardment to
San Antonio. It is important to have the
experiments continued until it is quite
clear whether the result is the production
of showers at the point of explosion or at
some other place from thirty to three hun
dred miles away. The importance of this
point is vital. Western Pennsylvania at
present would be very glad of rain; but it
is essential to know, whether in order to
get it, the explosions made in the vicinity
ot Pittsburg will produce it here or confer
the favor on Philadelphia. That is a dis
tribution of rain between the just and the
unjust on which it is necessary to have
more light than exists at present
DECLINING FOlt BLAINE.
The anxiety of the friends and mouth
pieces of the Harrison administration
about Mr. Blaine's course has reached the
degree of agony. The latest expression of
it is the deliverance of the New Tork Mail
and Express, reported in the telegrams to
yesterday's Dispatch. The assertion, that
Mr. Blaine is pledged to refuse tho desire
of the great mass of the Republican party
that he shall be the candidate, bears the
earmarks of 3Ir. Russell Harrison's favorite
plan for side-tracking the Blaine boom,
with some additional touches in the best
style of Colonel Elliott F. Shepard's most
admired idiocv.
The phraseology of this announcement
to the effect that it comes from "the man L
who has charge oi the JSorthwest for the
President," is quite in the line of the
Shepard genius. Ot course, the man who
"has charge of the Northwest" will not
let it get away to Blaine, and, from the
Shepard point of view, after convincing
Mr. Blaine of the fact will be able to get
what he wants from him in the way of
declinations. But a politician who is en
gaged in.holding up the Northwest in the
Harrison interest may not be the best
authority as to Mr. Blaine's intentions,
although he affords a beautiful testi
monial to the spontaneity and genuine
ness of the popular demand for Harrison.
It is extremely doubtful whether the
Northwest can be carried in the pocket of
any one politician for Harrison. It is
equally doubtful whether any politician
who is undertaking that large contract has
any authority to speak for Mr. Blaine.
It is stunning to hnd the New York
Telegram intimating that the reason why
Jones of Binghamton did not get the New
York Democratic nomination is that he was
called upon to pay a round sum for the pre
ferment and was too honest to purchase it.
This is offset by the assertion that the same
tWng is true of Cornelias jr. Bliss -with
reference to the Republican nomination.
As regards the Bliss Dart of tho storv.
I coming from a Democratlcisource, the asser
tion lias not very great weight. But it is
stunning to learn from the same authority
tnat Jones does not-pay tho freight.
SoitEone has stolen the original draft of
the Wisconsin Constitution. In this State no
time is wasted In. stealing nullified docu
ments of that sort., Tho politicians and cor
porations simply Ignore it until the day
"when they can get'lt-changed'to suit them
selves.
Speaking of a proposed monument to
Hendrlck Hudson, the New York Telegram
says: "The discovexor's memorial must he
completed by noxt'-Scptember, if at all, as
September 9, 1892, Is the anniversary of the
day in 1609 when he landed on the bluff now
known as Atlantic Highlands." To allow
New York only a year to get-up a monnment
is wholly out of nlbreason. Fix September
0, 1909, for the completion of the memorial,
:ind New York may by that time have gone
out of tho monument-business out-of respect
for her own reputation.
It seems after all that Porter's uncom
'pletetl census has already cost more than
i the finished and unduly prolix census of
1680. Porter seems to have been bont on
furnishing an unrivaled example of "How
.Not To Do It."
The report that the young Emperor of
Germany has sought a reconciliation with
the old Chancellor, expresses more the esti
mation of tho gravity of the European situa
tion than the desiro for amity on the part ot
tho latest Hohenzollern. But tho report Is
probably groundless. Tho Emperor is tak
ing a night on tho wings or inordinate
vanity, and Bismarck is very nearly on the
level of senile spite because the lesson of ab
solutism he taught has been turned against
himself.
If Jones, of Binghamton, Mc'.-auxJnin,
of Brooklyn, and one or two inoi,fellow
sufferers would pool thoir issues, the result
ing chill might effect an amelioration of the
present unseasonable torridity of the atmos
phere. Sin John E. Gokst, Secretary of the In
dia Office, is making it uncomfortable for
the Tory Cabinet by his bad habit of blurt
ing out the truth. Ho declares that no real
good is possible for England without a com
plete reform of the landed system. This is
true enough, but Sir John should know bet
ter than to disturb the harmony of the
funeral by stating unpleasant facts.
Auditor General McCamant's neck
tics, in connection with t,he Bardsley letters
and receipts, seem fated to furnish a necktio
social for the Auditor General's political
reputation.
"Meddlesome legislative interference
with tho affairs of largo cities" is one of the
things denounced by the New York Demo
cratic Convention. In view of Croker's un
disputed control of the convention this stab
at the legislative Investigations which ex
posed the $10,001 godfather business, and tho
Sheriffs who make people divide with them,
is a fearful revenge.
Judge Jones, of Cleveland, just re
turned from a visit to the Paciflo coast, re
ports that everything out there is for Blaine.
Is last year'B excursion so soon forgot!
"The King of Italy is plagued by
Uranus," remarks the profound Zadkiel,
"and finds his Treasury exhausted." Tho
superiority of the republican institutions
appears in the fact that wo can find our
Treasury exhausted without any trouble
from Uranus or any other of the heavenly
bodies except an extravagant Congress.
When Elliott F. Shepard's Mail ami Ex
press says that Blaino will rcfuso we may
take it as an ex cathedra decision thnt he has
got to in the opinion of the Hurrison crowd.
With tbe mills of one city in ihis coun
try turning out flour at tho rate of 30,000
barrels per week, this country does not seem
to he in any danger of bread riots. Our
riots aro generally produced by relations
with whisky, and tbe immediate cause is
not scarcity, but overabundance of that
staple of consumption.
There is reason for the belief that the
hunger for bread in Europe the coming
year will be something of a check on the pro
fessed thirst for gore.
It is perhaps cool comfort to re-d in an
esteemed eotemporary that "tho snow will
fly in two or three months moro." But that
postponed coolness is not what the public
longs for. It is the cessation of the present
reckless flight of tho sun's rays that is more
earnestly expected.
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
Too much mushroom may spoil the Re
publican broth, and the young colts should
stop kicking.
A prison cell is a reality, but in Fitz-
simmons' casd it was a purchase
People who kick about a hair in tho
soup will complacently munch the oyster,
beard and all.
The hungriertheplace-hunterthe fatter
the offlco he aspires to.
The hand that rocks the crying child,
While hush-a-bying till all's calm,
Is now by fruity stains defiled,
As it's engaged in making jam.
A smiling, powderless countenance sets
off the now fall bonnet .nicely, but unfortu
nately it's bard to make tho dear creatures
think so.
It's plain Deacon White is no farmer,
else ho would have known that this is
splendid weather for corn.
Is'nt it about time to place
Humidity on the retired Hat?
Gen.
Spring chairs are perfectly proper
pieces ot furniture at any season of the year.
Bardslet wouldn't burn those letters,
but that shouldn't prevent the firing of the
letter writers.
TnE mushroom clubbers will doubtless
drown their sorrows in drink.
TnERMOMETEns are fragile, but when
yiey drop they don't break.
He stood near tho bridge at midnight
And saw the last car onward roll;
airs! his was truly a sad plight
He hadn't one cent for toll.
Tne Flower barrel will be the most con
spicuous feature of tho New York Guberna
torial campaign.
Open doors admit draughts, hence the
jail doors must have been ajar when that
$6,030 draft entered Fitz's cell.
Fine feathers and silly cackling make a
girl appe r chic only in the eyes of the
brainless dude.
John Bull is the most fleet-footed
citizen of Europe at the present time.
Jaws work incessantly in chop houses,
of course.
The National Jnnior Order Election.
Tbov, N. Y. Sept. 23. The National Con
vention of the United Order of American
Mechanics to-day elected officers of the Na
tional Council as follows: National Coun
cilor, Thomas B. Chapman, or Hartlord;
Vice-Councilor, R. A.Cassidv, of Ohio; secre
tary, John SerAor, of Philadelphia; trensmor,
Joseph 11. Shlnn, of Camden, X. J.; marshal,
J. H. Campbell, of Iowa; protector, Albert
E. Dodge, of Manchester, X. H.; doorkeeper,
E. C. Owen, of Virginia. It was decided to-
Hold next years session at Jlunclioster,
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GOSSIP OF THE TOWN.
Dakota Air Makes Men Grow Gipsy
Fortune-Tellers In Sewlckley The New
Railroad Ronte to the West Dilatory
Readers of Hooks.
Lieutenant Maxwell, of the United
States Army, said the other day: "They tell
some singular things about the resonrses of
the Dakotas, but I can vouch for the extra
ordinary effect of the climate. When I was
at West Point my height was 5 feet 9J4
inches, and I rather think I lost than gained
perceptibly in height during my stay there.
I had reached the ago when growth up
wards anyhow is supposed to stop, and was
over 21 when I went to Dakota. I was sta
tioned there over a year and during that
time I grew Swindles, bringingmy height to
6 feet 1 Inch. It astonished me, butPakotans
told me that tho cllmato often has that
effect."
Gipsy Fortnne-Tellers Active.
For several weeks a little band of
Gipsies has been enmping tip Little Sewick
ley creek, and pretty nearly every woman
in tho Sewlckley Valley, and a largo number
of the men, have had their fortunes told by
tho dark-eyed women of this strange race.
Some of tho readings of the past were very
accurate and a few of the predictions made
by the Gipsies have already oomo true. As
usual, young and impressionable girls have
obtained tho greatest satisfaction, nnd if the
matrimonial business does not boom in
Sewlckley this winter there will be a lot of
disappointed damsols there. But all the
predictions havo not dealt with affairs of
the heart. In one case the Gipsy fortune
teller told nn EUgeworth woman that she
might expect the sudden death of a four
legged member of her establishment, and
tho very next day a horse belonging to her
died, and in if to emphasize the fulfillment
of tho prophesy, a favorite dog was run over
and killed on tho railroad. Tho Gipsies
moved their enmn a day or two ago, but
though they are now a couple of miles from
Sewlckley "Village, tho lortnne-teller has
enough to do to attend to the pilgrims.
The New Western Outlet
Railroadmen, bothhereand in Chicago,
are watching the development of the Balti
more and Ohio road between Pittsburg and
Chicago with considerable interest. The
opening of tho now short cut between Akron
and Chicago Junction has brought the B. &
O. route via the Pittsbui-g nnd 'Western a
larger share of through passenger traffic
fiom Pittsburg to Chicago than it ever en
joyed before. The new road, which is GS
miles in length, effecting a saving of no less
than 2S miles, is exceedingly well built,
straight, and through a pleasant country.
So well patronized has this P. & W. Chicago
Express been since the new road was com
pleted that the institution of a through ves
tibule train from Chicago to New York, via
Pittsburg, is talked ot as a certainty, prob
ably within a year. The train service is to
be enlarged this fall, anyhow, and tho bene
fit of vigorous competition between the rail
roads linking Pittsburg with the West will
bo felt moro substantially here than any
where else.
Pining Dilatory Readers.
A great many people who take books
from tho Carnegie Library fail to return
them within tho two weeks, according to tho
regulations, and have to payaflno of two
cents a day. As yet the largest lino paid on
n single volume letaincd beyond tho limit
has been SO cents, representing 40 days and
considerable annoyance to the pffleors of the
library. Ono regular user of the library
calculated tho other day that in six months
ho hadpald by reason of forgetfulnessmoio
than anything elso, for almost any book enn
bo read In two weeks exactly 10 cents a
volume for tho works ho had taken out.
Even at this rate ho deemed the library a
great convenience.
The library is extending its usefulness all
the time, and the number of readers has
begun to swell again now that the summer
vacation Is over, and tho iiomen especially
aro settling down in their city homes.
Chicago Still Pretty Smoky.
They talk pretty big in Chicago about
abolishing the smoke nuisance, and it Is true
that there is not such a heavy fall of soot in
the downtown district as there used to be,
but many factory chimneys, locomotives
and still more lake craft are smoky sinners
still. Tho Virtuous Illinois Central's com
pliance with the anti smoke law, how it had
muzzled its locomotives with smoke con
sumers, was a text from which sermons wero
preached recently in this and other cities.
On Friday evening last, in the Illinois Cen
tral yard, I saw a locomotive painting the
atmosphere black, without let or hindrance
of any sort. A black column or soft coal
smoko poured from the stack for 20 minutes,
and a Chicago newspaper man remarked to
me that the crusade against defilcrs of Chi
cago air had not taken vigorous enough
shaponsyet. It isjnstas well to know that
Pittsburg is not behind Chicago in abating
the smoko nuis'ince.
Dishonest Money Schemes.
St. Louis Star.
Major McKinley is not dodging the tariff
issue nearly so much as he is giving close
and convincing attention to tho dishonest
money schemes of his adversaries.
NAMES FREQUENTLY HEARD.
Ex-Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin,
promises to give two weeks to McKinley in
Ohio, and two to Fassott in Now Yoik, next
month.
Lady Henry SoMERsnr,President of the
British Women's Temperance Association,
will visit America in October to be present
at the meetings of the World's Women's C
T. U.
Rev. Dr. Borchard, whose alliterative
boomerang, "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion"
turned tbe tide of a Presidontal camporign,
is alarmingly ill at his boarding house in
Saratoga.
The widow of Joseph IC Emmet has
mado up her mind to pass her remaining
days in Albany, and she has gone into com
fortable apartments there. Her means are
ample, and her health is good.
Senator Proctor's first step into official
life was as a village selectman. And tho
Vermont villagers wero mighty particular
about a man being an undeveloped states
man before they would trust him in such an
office.
The proper way to pronounce Liliuoka-
lani, the name of tho Queen of the Hawaiian
Islands, ib as though it were spelled Lil-lee-woke-ahmny.
Accent the second syllable
and pronounce tho word rapidly. It means
"Lily of tho Sky."
A recent visitor to Ibsen found him in
a shabby dressing gown buttoned over gray
trousers. On his feet wero felt slippers and
his hair was in great disorder, as were his
big side whiskers. His face appears comical
at first sight, but there is a lino of satire be
tween his clean-shaven lips.
Major Wissmann has left Europe for the
Dark Continent. Ho will lead an expedition
from Snadanl to tho Interior, and -will tako
with him a crew for the steamer given by
Germany for lake service. A German
engineer also goes to construct a railway
fromTanga toward Killma-niaro.
John Ruskin has made a record as a
hydraulic engineer by solving for tho in
habitants or iiiKing, a email town in Sussex,
England, the problem of obtaining an
adequate supply of drinking water. As an
evidence of their gratitude the pcoplo havo
erected a tablet "to the glory of God and in
honor of Joun Ruskin."
Mrs. William C. Whitney's diamonds
are valued' at $100,000, and ono of her soli
taires is large ns a hazelnut. She is tho
wife of a great Jeffersonian Democrat coal
oil leader. A singlo clasp on the cloak of
Queen Elizabeth had set in it .six sapphires,
GO pearls, IS rubies and 4 emoralds. These
aro not the days of extravagance.
A Hindoo princess, the Begum Ahma
dec, has distinguished herself in London so
ciety as a singer of superior voice, talent and
cultivation. She is a descendant of tho
Emperors of Delhi, and possesses a mezzo
soprano voice of extraordinary richness ana
power, which is used with very high artlstio
taste. She has also great personal beauty.
The Earl of Warwick, father-in-law of
Lady Brooke, or baccarat scandal famo, is
very ill. Ho is periodically subject to faint
ing fits, and is expected to dlo in one before
long. He is over 73 years of age, nnd has
been in -feeble health tor some time. Lady
Brooke has of late kept In the background,
and shown a disposition to avoid tho social
I glare.
INTELLIGENT E0AD MAKING.
It Is -Practically Unknown in the United
States at Present.
Chicago Herald.
It is onlyabont 103 years since England
pulled herself out of the mud and began
building those solid, excellent roads which
havo so enriched tho people of England and
contributed so immensely to their comfort.
health and happiness. The Westminster
paving act of 1762 may be regarded as the
beginning of the better state of things now
shown by English roads. In 17G9 Arthur
Zony gave a most graphic description of the
terrors of English country roads, and numer
ous other accounts fully corroborate his
narrative. In Scotland things were not any
better. So bad were the roads there that
oatmeal, turf, straw and other articles were
carried on horseback, and it took a common
carrier a fortnight for his journey between
Selkirk and Edinburgh, a distance of only
38 miles, and a coach and six required six
days to go from Edinburgh to Glasgow and
return, a distance of 44 miles.
More than a century ago London began
the work of extending roads into the coun
try. This movement was, of course, vio
lently nnd obstinately opposed by those to
whom it proved to be of the greatest benefit.
But the work was carried on, and, under the
direction of such engineers as Eennio and
Telford, England now boasts roads that are
not excelled anywhere except by that im
perial accomplishment of tho first Napo
leon, the road over the Slmplon Pass. The
result is what was foreseen by the intelli
gent nnd persistent advocates of good roads.
The country has been mado immensely
richer and more attractive nnd both town
and country immeasurably benefited.
In the United States intelligent road-making
In the country is, ns a general thing,
almost wholly unknown. The ridiculous
misapplication of rustic labor and foolish
ness known as "road working" is the gravest
farce an ordinarily intelligent people ever
took part In year after year.
DEMANDS OF GERMAN CATHOLICS
Formulated In a Platform Adopted by
Their Congress at Buffalo.
Betpalo, Sept. 23. Accepting at full value
the information afforded to-day from within
theguardcdportals orthe PriestenVereln.the
200 German-American ecclesiastics present
w ere occupied solely with such details as
the method of electing their officers and
similar routine subjects. To-day's session,
after Father Zurcher's chilling experience
of yesterday, was notj Invaded by
pny outsider, and the secrets of the con
clave, if any were held back from inquirers,
remalned'safely concealed. Before adjourn
ing till to-morrow it is understood a letter
was read In the priest meeting from Arch
bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, which afforded
much satisfaction to the members. The
communication dealt with tho language
question, and.nccordingto one of the priests,
hivored tho uso of German to inculcate the
first Christian principles where German Is
the common language of tho family, tho
idea being those principles should be taught
in the mother tongue.
The principal work in which tho laymen
participated to-day was in voting unanimous
npprovalof the platform of the Cntholic
Congress, tho framing of which was guided
largely. If not altogether, by the clergy.
Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishops Ryan and
Corrigan sent letters of regret for enforced
absence. The platform favorB temporal
power for the Pope, and nn international
congress with that end in view; thanks the
Holy Father for his encyclical on the social
question; favors Catholic education for
Catholic youth, and demands fall liberty to
retain and use the Ger-nan mother tongue
in connection with the language of their
adopted country.
The following officers wero elected: Rev.
Bernard Hchl, of Pittsbnrg, National Presi
dent: Philip Schindler, New York, Vice
President; Charles C. Och, of Pittsburg, Re
cording Secretary; Joseph Reiman, of Pitts
burg, CorrespondingSecretnry; Joseph Jfatt,
of Buffalo, Financial Secretary: Henry Bess,
of St. Louis, Treasurer.
MINNEAPOLIS' NOVEL CELEBRATION.
The Whole City Decorated With Wheat
Sheaves and Flour Barrels.
Minneapolis, Sept. 23. Tho harvest festi
val had an ideal day for its celebration.
Work went on all night, and Nicollet avonue
this morning was beautifully decorated.
Arches of wheat span somo of the streets.
On Tenth street is tho finest display, con
sisting of an arch made of thousands of flour
barrels, making a pyramid 27 feet hlgh.whlle
sacks of grain are placed upon the support
ing barrels. There aro CO of theso ufllars
along the street, from which aro suspended
festoons of white, similar festoons intersect
ing the streets.
Religious services wero held this morning,
the Catholics uniting at the Cathcdral.where
Gounod's "Troisicmo Meso" was given by
the combined choirs and Ringwald's or
chestra. At the Opera House was held a
service or praise, with addresses by leading
pastors and others. The procession started
at 2 o'lock with over 1,000 floats in line. Tho
lumbermen have an Immenso affair, show
ing the trade in all its piocesscs, from the
lodges which work in tho forest to tho saw
mill which cuts tho lumber. In operation on
the float. The Street Railn ay Company has
a display illustrating tho growth ot tho
system from theflrst mule car to tho present
complete electric equipment.
The Largest Hand ofMnsIc.
St. Locis, Sept. 23. A coming musicnl
evint is announced here. ThcBoaidor Di
rectors of the St. Louis Exposition have
closed a contract with P. S. Gilmore to play
hero in 1S92 and in 1893,with a band composed
of 100 first-clns musicians. This will be the
largest band in the world, tho only other
one that will compare with it being tho
Guard Republique of France, which num
bers 80 men. St. Louis will celebrate the an
niversary of the discovery of America next
year by making tho exposition national in
character.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Hon. Joseph T. Crowell.
Hon. Joseph T. Crowell, President of the
New Jersey Senate in 1S61 and Speaker bf the
House of Assembly la 1SG5. died Tuesday afternoon
at Railway, In which city he was born nearly 75
years ago. He published the first pictorial paper
crlnted la the United states CrowelVS' Pictorial
which he printed somewhat after the style r the
London Illustrated Aeics. Tor five years. He owned
the Government Printing Ofllce until ho sold It to
the United States. He equipped at Ills own ex
pense and sent out the Railway Battery In the early
davsof the Rebellion, forhevas a war Democrat,
and was elected to the State senate as such. Mr.
Crowell learned his trade or printer on the old
Elizabeth (N. J.) Journal and when lie went to
New York set type ou the first number of the A'uh
day Atlas.
Editor Ben C. Bruce,
Ben G. Bruce, editor of the Live Stock
Record, died of atiopleiy last night at 7 o'clock at
Lexington, Ky. He had been in his usual health.
Going home, he sat down and began perusing a
newspaper, when he fell lorward on the floor and
died instantly. Mr. llruce was Secretary of the
Louisville Jockey Club, of the Latonia Jockey
Club and also or the Chicago Jockey Club. He es
tablished the hvn Hlock Record some 2J years ago,
that publication having taken from the start tho
hlghe-l rank as a representative of the thorougli.
bed, lately devoting some attention to the trotter.
Major Bruce was 02 ears old.
Mrs. " irginla Dimltry Kulh.
Mrs. Virginia Dimitry Euth died Tues
day morning on the plantation of her sou-in-law,
on Carencro Bayou, Louisiana. She was born In
Washington In 1817. and whs n daughter orthe lato
Prof. Alexander Dimitry, once a lamous linguist,
educator and diplomatist, and sister of John and
Charles Dimitry, both well-known writers, she
married Enoch ieuwlck Ruth, who commanded
an Arkansas company in the Mexican War. Mrs.
Tintii was a contributor to Snntliprn litni-itiicn tt.
J prose and verse, and lor man v vears kept a fiuur
shlng school for boys and girls.
James Melvln.
James Melvin, 90 years of age, died yes
terday at his home on Locust street. Pittsburg.
Mr. Melvin had been a resident of Pittsburg for 80
vcars, coming here In 1811 from County Down. Ire
land. He was formerly a contractor In the employ
orthe city, but for the past ten years lias been re
tired. '
Obituary Notes.
John B. Bowman, for many years regent of the
Kentucky University, died Tuesday at Harrods
burg. Ky.
rev. Joseph Tabkington, formerly or Indian
apolis, died at Greensburg. Ind.. Tuesday, aged 01
vears. He was the oldest Methodist clergyman in
Indiana.
"Washington Cowkn, a prominent ex-county
official and father of Hon. John Cowan, an official
orthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, dlcdatMUlers
burg. O.. yesterday In his 80th j ear.
Wallace T. Dudley, proprietor of the Dudley
House, Asbury Park, N. J., died suddenly Monday
night, aged 68 years. He was formerly one or the
lculiiig merchants or Doylestown and Asbury
Park.
Captain John Ligutfoot died at Bloomlng
ton. III., last night. He was one orthe live men
who originated the Grand Army orthe Republic at
Decatur, ill., in 1866. He was aged 77 years and a
native of Kentucky. Was Captain or Company A,
One Hundred and 1 irst Illinois, during the war.
TRYING TO PLACE BLAIR.
The New Hampshire Statesman May Be
Sont to Japan if Estee Goes Into tho
Cabinet Progress of the Colored Kaco
in theSonth.
V AsniNGToif, Sept. 23. Special. Ex-Senn-tor
Blair, or New Hampshire, who has been
hanging on to the slippery edge of an ap
pointment all summer, since the Chinese re
fused to receive him, had a long conference
with the President to-day. The latter is
anxious to flx Mr. Blair, rfnd of course mnst
give him something good, but the obstlnncy
of the Chinese has made the Job difficult.
Tho President has hoped all along that the
Chinese Government would relent, and it Is
not impossible that the differences on tho
subject may yet be composed. After the
death of Minister Swirt, of Japan, the con
clusion was Jumped at that the land of
flowers would bo Mr. Blair's fleld of diplo
matic operations, but this is a place long
looked upon by the Pacific slope as its
special property, and several candidates
there sprang up before Swift was under tho
Bod.
With the vacancy in tho Cabinet, It is
thought the Const may be placated and
Blair yet sent to Japan, if China remains
ugly. Judge Estee, or California, who was
Permanent Chairman or the National Con
vention, Is Btrongly thought to bo booked
for the Cabinet, for Proctor's place, or for
tho Interior, if Noble should prefer the War
portfolio; or for Attorney General If Miller
should want n life position somewhere on a
soft Judicial bench. If that should happen.
Blair might be sent to Japan. He wants to
go abroad. He has gravitated all his life be
tween Manchester, N. II., and Washington
and thirsts for a taste of life among strange
people.
Negroes in tho South.
A very intelligent colored Washing
tonlan, who has Just returned from a trip
through the South, Is enthusiastic over the
evidence of the progress of his race that ho
saw there. He said to-day in conversation
on the subject: "I saw them acting on the
railroads in Georgia and Alabama ns firemen
and brakemen, superintending the laborers
in cleaningthe cars, watering and icing up;
as stonemasons, bricklayers nnd plasters.
While In Atlanta I saw stores owned and run
by tho negro that none in Washington,
owned by tho samo race, can be compared
with. In Montgomery, Ala., on the main
street, I found one of the lareost drugstores
owned and run by a negro. The professions,
too, are well patronized. In every town
that boasted of norsecars the drivers", and in
some instances the conductors, were negroes.
One thing struck me as queer. At all the
stations the sign, 'Waiting room for colored
people,' was to be seen, yet they do not dis
criminate on tne street cars.
"All through South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama evidence of thrift and a desire for
improvement can be seen on all sides. The
cabins of the people are better than those in
some parts of Maryland and Virginia. In
the little towns along the road the people ap
peared to be well dressed and neat, and
thero wero very few ragamuffins. I do not
write this totakeany honors from theNorth,
but to bestow a few words of praise and en
couragement on the oft-maligned negro of
the South."
Politics in Virginia.
Ex-IJepresentative Bowdeu, the genial
Republican member from the Norfolk dis
trict in tho last Congress, was in the city to
day and said of Virginia politics:
"In tho election of a Legislature this fall
the Democrats and the Alliance nre united,
and under our election laws we cannot hope
to accomplish anything. In some parts of
the State the elections aro as fair as they are
in tho country anywhere, but there are rot
ten boroughs which overcome what is done
elsewhere. At the meetingof theStatoCom
mittee it was decided that nominations
ought not be made this fall, bnt that our
strength should be reserved for the contest
in the Presldental election. If we had can
didates in the field we could elect but a few
of them, and that result would be pointed to
as an indication of the strength of the party
and would bo moro or less discouraging. It
was stated that I was present at tbe meet
ing called by Mr. Parsons to protest against
tho course recommended by the State Com
mittee. I was not at the meeting and am
not in sympathy with Mr. Parsons in this
matter.
"I understood from Mr. Parsons that tho
meeting was for a different purpose, one in
which I am in accord with him. I under
stood that this purpose was to consider tho
selection of some other leader than Mahone.
1 think tho Republican party of Virginia
should havo another leader. At tbe same
time it must be admitted that Mr. Mahone
has a personal following, and his support of
liiu iiupuuiiciiu Liuneii is ueuessuiy iu insure
success. Therefore, if ho is to be displaced
as a leader, it should be by a falrand square
fight in tho Republican caucus. If bo wero
beaten in that way I think hennd his friends
would continue to support the Republican
party."
Mr. Bowden said he thought the Virginia
delegation at the National Convention would
bo for Harrison.
A QTEER BENEFIT SOCIETY.
It Is Composed of Ministers of tho Ohio
Methodist Episcopal Conference.
Zanesville, Sept. 23. Special Tho first
meeting of the eightieth annual session of
the Ohio Conference of tho Methodist Epis
copal Church was held at the Second Metho
dist Episcopal Church this morning. Bishop
Fowler, of California, presided.
The Executivo Committee of tho Preach
ers' Mutual Relief Society held a meeting
and canvassed the claims of superannuated
ministers. The society is rather a peculiar
one. In every Methodist Episcopal confer
ence there is what is known as tho "super
annuated fund." It never equals the de
mands that tile mado upon It, and if it pays
05 cents on the dollar of the allowances
made, it Is considered to be in a highly pros
perous condition. A Rev. Mr. Smith became
a member of tho organization in 1SG3 and
paid in $189 and became superannuated. He
now draws $120 a year from the fund. Tho
organization is peculiar to the Ohio confer
ence, and none but ministers in it are al
lowed to beeoino members. Not nil the
members of tho conference are membors of
the society, but the majority of them are,
and its membership is increasing rapidly.
It now has a fund of $07,000 on hand ns a re
serve. This is loaned under snen rigid rules
that the society has never lost a cent. A
greater part of it comes from gifts and tho
Dahince comes from dues.
Tho question whether women should be
allowed to be lay delegates, which was sub
mitted to a y,ote of tho church, was touched
upon in the reports or two of tho Presiding
Elders, Rev. J. C. Jnckson, of the Columbus
district, where tho vote stood 720 for and 231
against their admission, and Rev. T. R. Tay
lor, of tho Chilllcothe district, where tho
vote was about 4 to 1 in favor of their ad
mission. PLAYS TO COME.
"Ten Nights in a Bar Room," that great
temperance drama so heartily indorsed by
the press and the pulpit for tho realistic
temperance lesson it conveys, will bo pre
sented to tho patrons of the World'sMuseum
Theater next week by Carl Brehm's well
selected company. This is tho only com
pany playing the version which Illustrates
tho days of Morgan and Slnde while rivals
for tho hand of Fanny Newton. Tho com
pany carry their own special picturesque
scenery and a handsomely unltormed brass
band, which will give open air concerts in
front of "The World's" during tho engage
ment. "The Merchant," a play of tho same class
ns "The Charity Ball" and other Madison
Square Theater and Lyceum Theater suc
cesses, will bo tho first dramatic production
of the season at tho Alvin Theater. It is n
refined and meritorious works if tho critics
elsowhero aro to be believed, nnd it is also a
prize play, an unusual distinction. It deals
with tne affairs of the heart nnd the nockct-
Jjook, nnd tho company playing it is said to
bo good.
To save tho rich carpets of tho Alvin
Theater from the lime and mud which work
men and others carry on their shoos into
the house, crash has been Inid all over tho
house.' The new theater is gotting prettior
every day ns the finishing touches are put
on; tho lobby will not be finished for some
days.
At the Dilqucsue next week the W. T.
Carleton Opera Company will produce
Strauss' new opera "Indigo," the hale of
scuts commencing tills morning. The Carle
ton coiup my Is said to be stronger this year
than any tnat has ever borne the nnme.'
"AnnAHASt Lincoln," a historical drama
by Archibald Gordon and McKee Ilankiu,
comes next week to tho Grand Opera Houo.
The play deals with tho great President's
public life and the stirring times in which it
was passed.
Tony Pastor's company is next week's
gilt-edged attraction nt Harry Williams'
Academy. Manager Williams, with his
wonted liberality, lias been giving his
patrons palmleaf tans this week.
In spite of tho heat tho theaters have all
dono fairly good business since Monday.
All the theaters commence to-day tho ad
vance salo oi scats for next week.
To-niout Miss Paulino Hall
"Madame Fivvart" at the Alvin.
will give
OUE MAIL POUCH.
Conscientious Scruples.
To the Editor of The Dispatch i
In tho published report of the opening of
the trial of Mr. Lucy FItzsimmons, a cer
tain Judge is reported to havo "sarcasti
cally" retorted to a Juror who put in n plea
as to conscientious scruples, that "Jurors
must stoy in the court room whether they
are on thejuryornot." Toanotherwho had
trouble with his conscience, this same Judge
exclaimed angrily: "Moral cowardice, I want
you to know, is not eonsclentlons scruples.
People take one for the other, but they aro
mistaken."
On this, the next Juryman avowed himself
as having no such scruples, when this Judge
proceeded to overwhelm him with fulsome
laudation, ejaculating: "Neither has any
other Intelligent man who has sense enough
to vote!"
Hn It como to this, that a spot can be
found in this Government that so broadly
recoznlzes the supreme right of conscience,
where a Judge is found to trample on the
dignity of his position to insult nn American
Villon in me exercise oi tins rigui ;
Of what kind of food has this man par
taken that he thus assumes to lt as an In
quisitor to rail at tho honest citizen, and
goes behind the guarded portal to impugn
men's motives?
Has the malevolent and Puritanical spirit
that persecuted Quakers and banished
Roger Williams come forth to resurrection
to t rment us before our time, oris this only
its uneasy ghost?
It was 'Rienzl, who, in tho decline of his
co mtry's greatness, exclaimed: "Yet we aro
Romans! Why, in thnt older clay to be a
Roman wns greater than a king!" N. -
WAMrmr, F.V, September 22.
The Area of Pennsylvania.
To the Editor of The Dlspitch:
What is the area of Pennsylvania and of
the United States? Geo.
Pittsburg, September 23.
Pennsylvania, 15.215 square miles; the
United States, 3.557,009 square miles, includ
ing Alaska.
Glass In Pittsburg.
To the Editor or the Dispatch:
When and by whom was the first glass
made In Pittsburg? Edsn.
Allegheny, Septembers.
The glass business was first established
here in 17S7, by Albert Gallatin.
The Loyal League.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What is tho Loyal Leagne?
O.F.
McKeesport, September 23.
A name given to many of the negro organ
izations of the South during the reconstruc
tion period.
VIEWING MB. SCOTT'S REMAINS.
The Funeral of the Millionaire Statesman
Will Be Public
Erie, Sept 23. Special.' The doors of the
Scott mansion were opened this afternoon
to the public. A constant stream of human
ity poured in through the luxuriously fur
nished parlors in which the distinguished
dead lay all the afternoon. It was a notable
fact that the greater percentage were those
who at some time in life hnd been dependent
upon Mr. Scott and his industries for a live
lihood, and there wero many touching out
bursts of emotion.
When the doorkeepers turned somo poor
children away, Mr. Scott's young daughter,
Mrs. Strong, ordered them all admitted, and
Mrs. Scott directed that there be no discrim
ination. Contrary to all expectations the
funeral services will be public. All business
will be suspended to-morrow In accordance
with a proclamation of Mayor Clarke.
SOCIAL WORLD GOSSIP.
Matters of Moment to tho Fair Sex in Both
Cities.
A quiet little wedding took place at the
home of Mayor II. I. Gonrley on ntunton ave
nue, East End, last Thursday. The bride was
the beantiful niece of tbe Mayor, Miss Carrie
Gourley Palmer. Tho groom was Frank
Knight, of tho Atchison, Topcka and Santa
Fe Railroad. Rev. G. W. Cnalfant, of tho
Park Avenne Church, performed the cere
mony in the presence of a select few. Mr.
and Mrs. Knight left at once for Burlington,
la. After visiting there for a short timo
tney will go to Fort Madison to reside.
Social Chatter.
The marriage of B. W. Allison, M. D., nnd
Martha, daughter of the lato Samuel McEI
roy, will take place at the home of, tho bride
this evening at 7 o'clock. No cards.
A vocal and instrumental entertainment
will be given this evening at Washington
Hall, Beaver avenue, Allegheny, by Prof. J.
M. Caldwell and wife, under tho auspices of
W. C. T. U. No. 3.
WORLD'S PAIR PROGRESS.
Two Itulldlngs Well Under Way Tho For
eign Commissioners Banqaetted.
Chicaoo, Sept. 23. Work upon tho Mines
and Mining Building of tho AVorld's Fair
has progressed so far that the first of the
trusses to support the immense central
inch, 1J5 feet in height, were put in position
to-day, and the Stars and Stripes wero given
to the breeze from its top hi honor of tho
event. Tho woman's building is so well for
ward that tho placing of the ornamental
staff upon its outer wails will begin Monday.
Tho British, Gorman and other Foreign
Commissioners now in the city have about
concluded their investisations, and the re
mainder of their stny will be given up to
social courtesies. They were dined at the
Union League Club by Director General
Davis to-day, nnd they were tendered n
theater party by Director Kohlsaat this
evening.
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.
Phil IS. Jones, of Memphis, Tenn., was a
passenger In the Eostern express last even
ing. He said he had been through tne Re
hellion. He was inclined to spin yarns of
his campaign days, but the train wouldn't
wait for him. He ho said remembered this
end of tbe county very well, and mado in
quiries for the olu penitentiary, which he
said he knew quite well.
Anthony Leetzott, of Winterburn, Clear
field county, was brought to town last even
ing on tho Allegheny Valley train, suffering
from a painfnl injury to his knee. He cut
himself with an ax about three weeks ago
while felling timber, and, tho wound becom
ing dangerous, it was deemed advisable to
have him sent to a hospital. He was taken
to the Mercy.
There will be some hustling done among
tho passenger agents at Beaver Fair to-day
and days following. W. E. Starr, of the Mis
souri Pacific: S. C. Milbourne, of the Union
Pacific: O. Warner, of tho C. B. & Q: Sam V.
Meyers and Colonel Sam Moody will all bo
on hand in the interest of their various
lines.
Kalph If. Wells, who has long been as
sociated with the Anderson staff, has trans
ferred his allcglanco to'tlie Duqucsne as
head bookkeeper, his father Mr. George R.
Wells, having gono home to Baltimore for u
rest.
Colonel Sam Moody's friends will be glad
to hear that his 13-year-old daughter, who
has been serionsly ill for several weeks with
typhoid fever, has passed tho turning point
and will recover.
George K. Thompson, Southern passenger
nentof tho Pennsylvania lino, with head
quarters in Now Orleans, was in tho city
yesterday on a vacation.
J. S. JAmoreaux, of Ballston Spa; ex
Congressman George W. Cronse, of Akron,
and Daniel O'Day, of Buffalo, are at the Mo-
nougahela.
Ex-State Senator J. W. Lee, of Franklin.
met a number or other gentlemen interested
in oil operations, at the Duquesno yester
day. W. Hope, of Liverpool, England, and N.
E Chapman, a railroad man from Philadel
phia, were at the Anderson yesterday.
Geo. S. McCreary, of Lewistown, Pa.,
and A. G. Smith and wire, of Florence, Ala.,
are guests nt the Seventh Avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Bakcwell and family left
for the East Inst evening in a spocial car at
tached to the Eastern express.
Congressman-elect Andrew Stewart, Mrs.
Stew art and Miss Leila Stewart registered at
tho Monongahola last night.
Colonel W. P. Kend, who has been in
town for tho last two weeks, returned to Chi
cago last night nt 11:05.
Upton H. White, of Salisbury, Pa, on
ex-membor of the Legislature, is at tho Mo
nongahcla. A number of citizens went on a special
excursion to Moundsville, W. Va., yesterday
morning.
1$. E. Ilvan a Chicago banker, and Geo.
II. Smith, of ew York, are Duquesne guests.
J. K. Crawford and Mrs. Crawford, of
Franklin, are at the Anderson.
The Central Hotel sale was completed
yestorday to Kaufmanns.
John C. Grey went to Philadelphia last
evening on a business trip.
fcURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Salvador has a telephone school.
Kussia has 22 .ironclads and monitors .
building.
In 33 years $30,000,000 -has been ex
pended ori London's drainage system.
The fruit output of California increased
fully thirty-fold during the past ten years.
Our copper output this year tell short
of the usual amount by more than 103,000
tons.
Thirty-barrels of incense were burned
dnring a three days' ceremonial In Slam re
cently. Dates are grown at Phamix, Ariz. A
cluster weighing over 18 pounds was re
cently picked there.
A French Baron has won $1,000 by
crossing the ocean In tho steerage. He got
tbe worst of the bet.
The gauge of the Roman chariots 2,000
years ago wns i feet 8 Inches same as
standard railroad gauge ot to-day.
A Frencli electrician has gotten up a
device by which he enn send 150 typewritten
words per minute over a single wire.
Bounties were paid for 61 bears, 30
wolves, 19 lynxes, G.0I6 fotes, 739 engles and
4,339 hnwks in Norway last year. The supply
is not exhausted.
The recipe for Roman punch was long
kept secret by the chefs of the Vatican, but
was given to the world when Napoleon in
vaded Italy in 179S.
Peru has been making wonderful prog-.
ress dnring the last three years owing to
the wonderful amount of English capital
iusi nas gone into tnat country.
A Parisian electrician has succeeded in
forcing violets by the aid of his battery, and
recently sent a bunch or thee fledglings
only four hours old to the Empress Eugenie.
And now cottonwood comes to the
front as a sngar factor. A Southern grower
says its saccharine qualities are 15 times
greater than sugar caueand 20 times stronger
than beets. '
A letter sent from Mauch Chnnk, Pa.,
to Calcutta, via Queenstown, immediately
malleil back to Mauch Chunk, via Hong
kong and San Francisco, made the circuit
of the globe in G? days.
The oldest mule in the United States is
a venerable object of interest in Ray county.
Mo. Its name is Julia and it is 3S vears of
age. And, by the v ay, its voice is In a per
fect state of preservation.
A resident of Antelope Valley, Nev.,
tells the Reno Gazette that the valley Is full
of grasshoppers depositing their eggs, and
suggests that unless the ground is burned
over there will be trouble ahead in a year or
two from these pests.
A seemingly miraculous enreof a malig
nant cancer has been made at Chattanooga, -Tenn.,
the victim having been pointed out
in a dream to a certain herb, which he gath
ered and ate and Is now well. The story is
vouched for by men or veracity.
A spring that gushes forth soda water
and in reality forms a huge natural soda
water fountain has been discovered in Ore
gon. Tho water is sparkling and efferves
cent and when flavored and bottled cannot
be distinguished from tho artificial bever
age. They are telling of a family of 100 per
sons who lived up in a little village in Onta
rio a few years ago. Eighty-six of these now
reside in the United States, 12 are dead and
two still live in their native village. And
yet Canada is astonished at her dwin
dling census returns.
French ingenuity has contrived an im
proved stone-cutting saw of remarkable
efficiency a circular saw having its edge set
with black diamonds in the fame way as the
straight blades, but as the-strain on the dia
mond is all in one direction, the setting can
be made much firmer.
The Salton Sea still exists, but tbe
"spell of weather" which Southern Califor
nia has been so disposed to attribute to it
has disappeared, and the Southern papers1
willhaveto admit that tbe hot wave was,
after all, merely a manifestation of Califor
nia's "glorious climate."
Miss Mary White, of Munith, Mich.,
has completed the ninety-fourth day or her
prolonged nap. It has been discovered that
she can be roused by passing the fingers
along the spine until some certain sensitive
center, which is never twice in the same
place, is reached. Her physician kept her
awake four hours Saturday.
The biggest blast in the history of Con-
nectlcut was touched off at a quarryin Meri
den a few days ago. Tho blasters drilled
many holes into one side of the quarry, im
planted 500 ponnds of dynamite therein and
fired it. A mass of rock estimated to havo
weighed 3,000 tons was sent rolling down the
mountain side, and the detonation was heard
many miles.
All Esquimaux are superstitious about
death, and although they hold festivals in
memory of departed friends they will usual
ly carry a dying person to somo abandoned
hut, there to drag out his remaining days
witnont ioou, meuicine, water or attend
ance. After the death of a husband or wlfo
the survivor cuts the front hair short and
fasts for 25 days.
Further tests of fibrelin, the product of
common flax straw, show that to a certain
extent it has not only valuable textile prop
erties of itself, bnt also ns a substltnte for
cotton or wool; it is claimed, In fact, that 25
per cent or the fibre! ia. with 75 per cent of
wool, made into broadcloth gives a product
absolutely more valuable than if made of
wool alone that is tho real strength of the
cloth is enhanced. It is more imoervious to
water. Is warmer and on account" ot its ten
acity and flexibility its cementing property
and electrical adhesiveness, flbreiia not only
imparts preservative qualities to the wool
and incretsed durability to the cloth, but
imparts to the whole a gloss and finish not
otherwise attainable.
A correspondent of the London LaHij
Graphic, writing upon the locust plague in
North Africa, says: "In reference to tho
diet of St. John the Baptist, who lived on
'locustsand wild honey' in the wilderness,
thero aro Sunday school teachers who can
not believe that any one would voluntarily
live on such food, and, therefore, say that
the 'locust bean,' the fruit of the carab tree,
i3 meant by tho writers of the New Testa
ment. I can only reply that the loenst
cricket, the Acridum Pelerlnnm, order Or
thoptera, variety Sanatoria the flying Saut
erelle of Africa is sold at a half penny per
pound In tho market place of Biskra (which
is the second oasis from the north in tbe
Sahara), and that there it is cooked by boil
ingwith salt and water, as shrimps are
boiled here. I myself have little doubt that
it is more nntritinus than the latter, because
in March, when tho insect is gathered and
dried, it is as full of albumen as an egg."
STPTINGS FI503I LIFE.
The Summer Man Well, the season's
over: now, I suppose, you want to break our en
gagement and start yonr winter campaign.
The Summer Girl Nonsense! Only girls In fanny
paragraphs do that.
Aggrieved Passenger What, 30 cents
from New York to Orange? Why, that's 3 cents a,
mile!
Official (of the Delay, Linger A Walt Railroad)
Teg. but It's only about 12 cents an hour.
Father Now, look here, Dinnis, d'ye
molndr I've towld yez folve or six times to go to
Sunday school an' H I bar' to tell ycz agin I'll gtv
ye a bating that yei'll remlmber to thelndofyei
days!
Son Lay bands on me at your p'tUt The pre
sumption of you foreigners Is simply lisgustlng.
Hark, hark, the does do lurk
The boarders arc coming ti town;
Some In rags and some with Jigs
And some of them aU brokca down.
He (bitterly) Pshaw ! All women are
alike.
She Then why In the world do yon spend so
much time trying to nnd the one you want to
marry?
Teacher (to Mickey) X ow, Mickey, you
read the lesson to me lirst and then teU me, with
the boot closed, what you read.
Mickey (readlng)-See the cow. Can the cow
run? Yes, the cow can run. Can the cow run as
swirtlr as' the hore? No, the horse runs swifter
thaathe cow. (Closing up his book to tell what be
has read.) Get onto de cow. Kin her Jig-steps
ran Be'cher'lifesheklnrun. Kin de cow do up
de horse a runntn'? Naw, de cow ain't la It wid
de horse.
Miss Coquette Have you a match?
Mr. Flint-No!
Miss C What shall we do?
jjr K. Let's make one?
Mts's C.-And Iu that caseyon would be the stick,
I suppose!
French Second Come, the time for the
meeting Is now at hand and yon must not be late.
Where are yourducllng plstob?
French Prlncipal-Oh. I forgot. I let the chil
dren carry them off to the nursery for one of their
games.
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