T&E PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28," 1891 i. j$r&ft!j. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY S. ISiC Vol. .So. ZB. Filtered at ntlsburg Postofflce, November 11, 1S67, a second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADrEUTISING OFFICE. ROOM SI, TRIBUNE m'H.IMXG. NEvTYORK. where coro l.letc files ofTHEDISI'ATCHcanalwavs be round, Forrien advertisers appreciate tlie convenience. Home advertisers and Wends of THE DISPATCH, while In iew York, arc also made welcome. THE DrsrA TCIIit rrgvlariji on mjf at Brrntann's. 5 Union Stuart, Hew York, and-n Ave dt fOpem, Pans, Prance, trher anyone who has been disap pointed at a hotel nnn ttaati can obtain it. TERMS OF TIIK DISPATCH. rOSTAGE TREE IV TnE UKITED STATES. Daily Disrvrcii, One Year t SCO Daily Dispatch. Ter Quarter. 2 00 . D ilt Dispatch, One Month 70 D atlt Dispatch, Including Sunday, 1 year.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. 3 m'ths. 3 50 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, l m'tli.. 90 Scmay Dispatch. One Year. 2 SO Wferly DiSPATCn, One Year. 1 3 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 30 cents per week. PITTSBURG, MONDAY, SEPT. S, 1891. A rUHLIC DOTY. The action of Governor Pattison in call ins a special session of the Senate with reference to the charges concerning the State Treasury management rises far above politics. It simply presents the question whether the public interests shall "bo protected and honesty and fairness in the management of the public funds en sured, by investigation and punishment where there is reason to suspect crooked ness In taking this step the Governor has done nothing more than to discharge a public duty. If after the primal indications of crookedness that have been produced, the constitutional methods for disclosure and removal, if the charges are substantiated, were not resorted to, there would be no check upon the ac tion of dishonest officials nor any reason why the plunderers of public funds should restrain themselves. The Governor does nothing more than is plainly imperative upon him in calling the Senate together to do its part by investigation and appro priate action. It ought to be plain to all minds not bound up by mere partisanship that the issue thus presented rises far above poli tics. Beside the question whether the fiduciary duties of those entrusted with the public funds shall be honestly per formed, and whether any charges of breach of duty shall be promptly investi gated, the supremacy in the State offices of one party or the other is utterly unim portant. Whatever political results may ensue v, ill result naturally from the state of facts exposed, and from the willingness of politicians either to investigate fairly or to cover up crookedness. For all such political effects the condition of things and not the Executive who calto for in vestigation will be responsible Governor Pattison has done his duty in taking the first step for investigation. The Senate should perform its part of investi gating and acting on the facts exposed T.ith equal promptness. AN EKUONiOCS THrORY. The following query from a reader of The Dispatch in "Washington is interesting as presenting a difficulty to those who are subject to the not uncom mon error of looking only at one side of the questions of political economy: Concerning your article on standing ar mies, I think the workers of Europe gladly pay tax required to relieve them of all that tremendous tax of competition. What would become of their already overstocked labor i.iaiket -wene all thoe superfluous millions eeat to try to tret work? I wish you would explain this difficulty. Such armies are a necessity in populations of those densities. Tire difficulty stated here is the same as that which lies at the bottom of the ideas that labor-saving machinery takes away wages from the laborer, or that over-production can cause want, or, in other words, tlint because there is too much grain, too nueli clothing, too much iron, too many shoes, therefore people must suffer from the lack of grain, clothing, iron, and shoes. The one idea contradicts the history of development; the other when analyzed, contradicts itself. Yet people assert them almost as positively as our correspondent does that the density of population makes standing armies a necessity. If he had taken the trouble to compare the density of population in Kassia, Turkey or Austro-llungary with that of New Eng land, New York or Pennsylvania, and to observe that England with the greatest density of population has the smallest standing army of the Great Powers, he might have been less positive in that as sertion. The error at th e base of all these mistaken theories is the failure to perceive that un der normal conditions every addition to the number of laborers in productive in dustry means an exactly equal addition to the number of consumers who arc able to pay for what they consume with the fruits of their own labor. The soldiers of Europe are consumers it is true; but who pays for their labor? It is admitted by our cor respondent that the productive laborers must do so; and the utter falsity of his 'further idea is- easily demonstrated even with the supposition that if these idle mill ions should be turned into productive work there would be no increase of the total production of the various commodi ties to be exchanged for each other. Sup pose that 6,000,000 workers are Kept busy in a single nation to earn a living for themselves and 2,000,000 of idle soldiers. It is easily imaginable that they must toil nearly every working day in the year to do so; and 300 days work for each of them would amount to a total of 1,000,000,000 days work. Then imagine that the 2,000,000 soldiers are at liberty to do part of the work. The amouui required to produce the same sustenance for the total as before is not changed: but there are 8,000,000 men to do it. and 22o days work for each man, all that is needed to supply the total with the same living as they had before. In other words, the result, even if there were no general inciease of production, would be relief for the workers of exactly one fourth of their present labor. But this is not all the gain, nor, indeed, is it even an accurate statement of what would occur, were the armies of Europe mustered out The real result would be that some of them would cause an additional production in agriculture, which would be the purchasing power of an additional consumption for the products of mines, mills and textile factories; others would go into mining and with the increased production of that in dustry purchase more of the products of agriculture, mills and textile factories; and so on through the whole round of in MtM dustries. The result most under normal conditions be increased production, with equally increasedccasunvption in addition to the relief of the people from an im mense load of taxation. We are careful to sayrtbaU normal con ditions must beipreserlfto produce this re sult, because if the employment of labor is concentrated in few hands, or the op portunities of enterpriseare confined to a privileged class,-tho-operation of-economic laws is likely to prove untrue. It is true that the conditions in Europe are not nor mal; but they would affect the result as serted by our correspondentto a very lim ited extent. Exactly how limited It Is not necessary to idiscuss for two reasons. The first is that so 'far as these abnormal con ditions affect the-wages of labor, they are, maintained and pexpetuated-bythe'Stand-ing armies; second, that the only reason w hy the military-powers seek tovprevent the emigration oftheirmopulationito other lands where they can nd opportunities, for their labor, is the maintenance of their standing armies. We discuss this question at lengtn tor the sake of pointing out the absurdities into which the idea can gD that the com petitive system is injurious to labor. It is only where the competitive system is hampered and obstructed, so-that the com petition of employers for laboris not equal, to the competition-of labor forwages, that the wages of labor can suffer 'in the ex pansion of industrial production. A FOOLISH UTTERANCE. Mr. Jesse Grant,.the.soof.a universally honored father,omes forward in an inter view, published in our-news columns, to declare that, although everyone is talking for Blaine, he cannot vote for him, be-, cause, he asserts, Mr. Blaine at some in-;l definite time in 1880 called General Grant "a thief and ascoundreb" The indiscretions of 'Presidents' sons have been decidedly prominent in the politics of this country. During his father's administration this young man, though not quite as numerous as Mr.iBussell Ilar rison.demonstrated iisability-'on occasions to be just as foolish. The lapse fof years has not apparently given him wisdom. For nothing could bo more foolish than to assert on the strength of some political tittle-tattle that a man of Mr. Blaine's standing had ever made-such a dishonor ing charge against General Grant 's-chanw ter. Of course, the assertion Is utterly without foundation. General Grant's worst ene mies never made such an assertion con cerning him. Mr. Blaine was not one of Grant's enemies. He was a supporter of his administration, and only opposed him when the majority of his admirers, and even General Grant himself, as John Russell Young has recently shown,1' be lieved it unwise for him to enter anew the field of active politics. Mr. Jesse Grant has simply accepted the tale Of some busybody In a way that ex hibits a slight appreciation on his part of tho superiority of his father's fame to any such silly slanders. A NOTED I'ENNSYXYANIAN GONE. The sudden death of "William II. Kemblo yesterday brings Into renewed prominence a career which has been connected with some of the worst as well as some of the best features of Pennsylvanli politics. The connection of Mr. Kemblo with the riot claims bribery is not a subject which anyone will be Inclined to enlarge upon at this time. It is a far more grateful task to revert to the striking liberality with which he advanced to Governor Beaver the large sum of money needed to prose cute the State work at Johnstown, trust ing to the good faith of the State to reim burse him for a loan made without author ity or even form of law, simply to meet an overwhelming emergency. Mr. Kemble was an active and enterprising capitalist, of large undertakings and bold designs. Where Ms business operations did not touch politics in a way that requires, at such a time as this, the charitable treat ment of silence, his character and career were those of the representative, pushing and successful American. MOKCK AS A REFORMER. The latest from the Wall street mael strom is to the effect that Mr. Pierport Morgan has read the riot act to Jay Gould, and that the wizard has thereupon reformed his ways and resolved to live cleanly. This is interesting, not to say flattering, to Mr. Morgan's powers of in ducing the leopard to change his spots; but it is to be received, in the polite French phrase, with reservation. There is, as is well known, a decided difference between the Gould and Morgan plan of operations. Mr. Morgan Is fully committed to the theory of the Scotch proverb that "hawks should not pick out hawk's e'en," and has forcibly, by such measures as the South Penn deal and the subsequent "bankers' agreement," main tained the principle that all the Wall street magnates should work together for the common squeezing of the public. Mr. Gould's tastes are more catholic and his appetite more universal He is ready to pluck the public by the regulation corpo rate methods which Mr. Morgan upholds, aud to make a quicker turn by fleecing his fellow operators of Wall street which Mr. Morgan reprehends. It is quite possible therefore that Mr. Morgan should, with the backing of the Vanderbilt millions, try to reform Mr. Gould; but we may be permitted to doubt the ability even of that power to change the cuticle of the Ethiop. If we mistake not the Vanderbilt millions undertook the task of disciDlining tlus eminent financier early in his career. It would not be a variation on previous experience if, In the financial transactions which are to per suade Mr. Gould to behave himself, it should be ultimately discovered that Mr. Gould has the money and Mr. Morgan and the Vanderbilts the experience. It is still -wise to observe the rule that there is one way to beat Mr. Gould in his manipulation of the Gould stocks, and that is for the public to carefully put all its money into something else. m; MUST BE HARMONIOUS. It appears to be a legitimate object of State pride that in the contest between two of our modern politicians as to who shall present the most adequate imperson ation of Gilbert's conception of Pooh Bah', the Pennsylvanian has lef ttheNew Yorker distinctly in the rear. Had Governor and Senator Hill added to his distinctions that of a third term candidate, with the puta tive accession to his Presidental boom, the magnitude of his various positions would have made him easily the winner. But the limitations of his powers having being reached, it is clear that the palm of victory must be awarded to our own State Senator, U. S. Congressman and President of tho State League of Eepubllcan clubs, tho Hon. Jack Bobinson. ' It is evident that if these important offices are worked together in harmony, it may be very satisfactory for their in cumbent But we must warn our ambi tious statesman against the" divergence and collisions of opinion which the Pooh Bah of comic opera displayed. Thus if the President of the .League should set the campaign machinery to work -for ballot re form, which the State Senator-should work against; or the State Senatorshould deny constitutional principles which the Con gressman should uphold; or the League President and Congressman should advo cate the abolition of corruption which the Senator at the coming extra session may try to conceal, the results might be em barrassing and perplexing not onlyto the public but to eithersthe Congressman,, the State Senator and the 'President' of the League, or all three of-them. In view of the reports assigning Mr. Blair to the Pension'Bureau and the Chilean mission at one and tho same time. It Is per missible to hope that the New Hampshire statesman out of a Job'will soon be provided' for. Sometimes the gift of too much elo quence returns to,plaguo the proprietor as mucn as a surplus or epistolary faculty. Some time ago the oratorical Chauncey M. Depew declared that "any man instrumental In driving the World's Fair away from New York would be burled under 100,000 majority If he ever came before the people." The other day Mr. Depew, In speaking of the at tack on Fassett in that conneotlon. asserted that the Fair went to Chicago on account of the claims or the mighty west. And now some twiners are men pnnnirh tn trtr-nw nn Mr. Depew's earlier deliverance to him. Such are the' worries of tho industrious speechmaker. The report that a Kansas temperance orator on coming to Ohio promptly landed !ln an Inebriate asylum, speaks volumes fori ptne lnnocnousness of tho beverages sold In the Kansa&drug-stores. That. grape incident at New York de velops a decided difference between chem- 'ists of the New York Health -Bureau and the chemists of the.Agricultural Department of -New York- The former think the "Bordeaux mixture" injurious and the latter assert lt.TliLi".1t TOrwl1 taVn a r rtf nmnAo anmirAil 'eight times to make a poisonous dose for one ,person. with this disagreement of experts the only way to settle tho question is by a practical test. Let one of the agricultural chemists eat a ton of -the grapes, .and If any -unfortunate results ensue, the conclusion will be evident that either so much of tho mixture or so much of the grapes disagreed with him. Speaking of the Ohio campaign, the Chicago iVeuwrays: -'The real issue seems to be John Shorman vs the People." In- idced! And for how much does John Sher- lman sue the People?" Wrrji regardto that reported attempt to tar and feather Mr. L. L. Polk, President of the Farmers' Alliance, out at Wichita, Kan sas, there seems to be a dlsputo as to the' leasonsforlt. One story Is that Polk was charged with being a Confederate officer connected with tho ill-treatment of prison ers at Andersonvillo ; the other that the Kansas vetorans were disgusted with him for repudiating his Confederate record In order to gain votes among tho Union sol diers. On cither hypothesis it is plain that tho attempt involved an error of applica tion. It would bo pormissable to tar and. feather Polk's doctrines, bntnot his person. , Keeley'8 invention for caring alcohol ism is a more decided success than Keeley's motor, which for long years has failed to mote. The reason why'is that it is a differ- kent Keeley. It is not much comfort to the people of the latitudes that are sweltering in July heat at the end of September to hear of the cool ness of other sections. To be told of frost west of tho Mississippi and snow storms In Nova Scotia, is only an aggravation. Let the weather sharps cease from this repeti tion of the punishment of Tantalus nntll they can bring it cool wave in on schedule J itlmo. CHICAGO'S reply to New York's criti cism, of its World's Fair management is a crushing one. Tho Westorn city dedicates a Grant monument next month. It is interesting to observe that the esteemed Philadelphia Times, which prior to the League Convention at Soranton boomed Robinson as against Dalzell, now devotes column articles to Robinson as "Quay's Jack of Clubs." Is it possible that Colonel McCluro gave that Grecian gift of his tem porary support to Robinson, with a view to' being able to use this crushing epigram. It is quite possible that Colonel Shep ard's announcements of Mr. Blaine's inten tions are as authentic as information on tho Southern question. A bepobt from Washington that Mr. Patrick EJgan has been acting aB a newspa per correspondent Instead of Minister to Chile cannot be accepted. A diplomutio duck might get three days behind in tho news, but that a newspaper correspondent could be so completely left in the rear of events is impossible. With silver and tin as the issues, the Ohio politicians are very clearly on their metals. Dear friends of the Weather Bureau: If you cannot bring your cool waves to time, please do not tantalize the public mind with false hopes. The pleasures of anticipation may be great, but they do not compensate for the pangs of repeated disappointment. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. When Jay Gould is a bull he tries to give thpubliothc wrong steer. When England's Asiatic squadron be gins operations look out for broken China. TnE jokes about the corn and the corner should cease. They are shocking the ears now. People who raise checks frequently I said she was a sour Miss, But this did not displease her; She merely miled and murmured this: "Then be a lemon squeezer." Steel is about the only chilled thing in Pittsburg at present. Grover Cleveland, according to re ports, is nearing the cry-sis of his career. Well-watered corporations generally have a floating debt. This was a good year for peaches in Delaware, and may be a good one for im peachments in Pennsylvania. Detectives generally deal in spottrans- actions. Campaign songs usually degenerate into champagne discords. Raum is to be frozen out of office. At last the excellence of his refrigerator has been demonstrated. Druggist (to clerk): How's our stock of sticking plaster? Clerk: Ample, sir, for worst disaster. Druggist: And arnica a full supply? Clerk: Yes, sir; but pray tell me why You look for a rush to buy. Druggist: Why, you surejy know the reason! No. Well, It's the football season. It Is quite natural to class some operatic singers among the notables. Jail birds are generally caged by fly cops. TnE latest shocking sensation comes from the West. Sorrow that moves a woman to tears will move a man to "tears." PITTSBURG'S GOOD MORMONS. The Professor or Things In-General Dis covers Some Who Are Christians, Too The Latter Day Bible Founded on a Novel. WRITTEN FOR TUB DISPATCH. ' It is refreshing, in these days of half belief and no-belief, to encounter now and then a faithful soul, who believes not only In the Bible, but In the Book of Mormon. There are quite a number of Mormons resi dent hero In Pittsburg. Once in awhile a Mormon older makes them a visit, spends a week or two in thosojiarts, and holds prayor meetings in their houses. These Pittsburg Mormons .ire, most of them, pretty good Christians. I met one of them tho other day nt tho West Pcnn Hospital. He had been knocked oft the top of a freight car at 6:30 that morning. One leg was cut off at the thigh, and the other was horribly mangled, and tho poor fellow died In tho nfternoon. But from what hesaid, I think he went to just about the same place to which good Christians hope to go. I have no donbt but that one of the '-many mansions" up above got a new tenant that day, who probably learned something In the first five minutes after death about tho Book of Mormon. The Pittsburg Mormons, however, let me hasten to say, do not believe in polygamy. Thero are two kinds of Mormons, the Latter Day Saints and the Reorganized Latter Day Saints. The Pittsburg Mormons belong to tho reorganized party. This division of Mor- J monism began after tho death of Joseph Smith, and was a revolt against Btigham Young, who had seized the succession to the Presidency of the "twelve apostles." These good people had a revelation to the effeot that the rightful leader was Smith's oldest son, Joseph Junior. They objected to polygamy. They refused to worship the new gods who had been set in the Mormon heaven; they declined to say their prayers to Adam, to Mohammed, to Joseph Cook or to Brigham Young. They accepted the Book of Mormon, but were quite content.to Btop with that. The Good Mormons 27,000 Strong. These reformed Mormons, who claim, and probably with reason, to be the only true followers of original Mormonism, num ber about 27,000 people. Their headquarters are at Piano, III. They have communicants In places as remote as Scandinavia and Australia and Switzerland. Their number is said to be Increasing. Pittsburg is not a bad place for an ortho dox Mormon to live in, for Mormonism really began, had Its actual root, got its first inspiration so it Is said in this city. The Mormon, Bible, Instead of being discovered in a Palmyra hill, was discovered in a Pitts burg printing office. There may be some people who have forgotten the part played by this city at the beginning of this most singular of all chaptorsin modern ecclesi-" astical history. There was a "long-legged, tow-headed boy" living in Palmyra in tho State of New York, while this century was counting its twenties. Ho spent most of his time, tho people said who knew him, fish ing in the mill pond atDurfee's gristmill, on Mud Creek. Everybody called him Joe Smith, and accounted him a lazy fellow. But a boy's brain may be buzzing like a train of cars though his hands be as idle as tho fingers ot a graven Image. And fishing has always been known to be n contempla tive occupation. Most anglers catch more thoughts than trout. Smith, sitting on tho mill pond dam, was very busy thinking. Joe Smith's Discovery of the Bjateg. One day Joe Smith disappeared from his place by the grist mill, and took to digging for hidden treasure in tho Palmyra hills. But' nobody was much surprised at this. It was liko Smith. He was always wanting to get rich without earning any money. By and by, he declared that ho had seen an angel, and that tho angel had showed him cortaln gold plates, "each plate six Inches wide and eight inches long, and not quite so thick as common tin, filled with engravings in Egyptian charac ters, and bound together in a volume as the leaves of a book, with threo rings running through tho whole." Thero was also a pair o most convenient supernatural spectacles, accompanying these writings, spectacles such as Dr. Lippincott novor dreamed of curious, .bright crystals set in bows of silver. Whocverputon these silver glasses could read Egyptian, "reformed Egyptian," whatever that is. The people of Palmyra, however, listened to this talo with more patience than credulity. Nobody paid much attention to it. It was one of Joo Smith's lies. Smith was a good deal of a liar, a habit which fits In curiously with his fondness for fishing, and this was simply a large, elaborate and somewhat un usually ambitious lie. That was the meas ure with which tho honest inhabitants of Palmyra "slzed-up" the Book of Mormon, and its author. Joo Smith, was now grown to manhood, six feet high, long of limb and huge of foot, his hair turned from tow color to light auburn, with large eyes of bluelsh gray, a prominent nose, a queer month, and an undesirable reputation. There was a school teacher boaidlng at Smith's bouse named Oliver Cowdery. Smith was not very good at read ing and writing, but with the magic glasses he made an excellent translator. So Cow dery came to be amanuensis. He sat with pen and paper on one side of a curtain, while Smith on tho other side read aloud what he ,saw through his supernatural spectacles. The result was the Book of Mormon. The Mormon Book Founded on a Novel. Some years before this however Solomon Spalding, a clergyman in the Presbyterian Church had come to live in Pittsburg. Spalding had lived in New Salem.Ashtabula, county, Ohio. There were a number of ln- - teresting mounds In Mr. Spalding's parish there, and their presence and his diggings in them had turned his attention toward the primeval Inhabitants of this country. He conceived the Idea of writing an his torical romance, "Looking Backwnrd," in reality, with the scene laid somewhere In the twentieth century, B. C The good man, besides his preaching, ran a forge and kept a tavern. In the winter evenings, in tho tavern parlor, he used to amuse his neighbors by reading to them from the manuscripts of his progressing novel, no wrote it so obtrusively In tho language of the King James' version of the Old Testament, with such .frequent repeti tions of "Now it came to pass" that the ir reverent youth of the neighborhood found a nickname for him in his book. "OldCome-to-Pass" they called him. Mormon and NephiandLehl were important names in tho story. Finally the good man, with his writings in his trunk, moved here to Pitts burg. At that time, in the year 1814, Sidney Rig don was pastor of tho First Baptist Church. Rigdon was a restless theologian. Alexan der Campbell was a member of his congregation. Rigdon afterward became a Campbollite before casting in his for tunes finally with Mormonism. The Rev. Mr. Spalding, meanwhile, had offered his manus cript to the printing firm of Patterson s, Lamhdin, then doing business here. Rigdon saw it in the office, borrowed it, took it home and read it, and kept it a long time. The "Manuscript i onnd" was the title of it, a curious title, as tho eVent proved, forsinco that time it has been most emphatically tho manuscript lost. Nobody really knows what became of it. Patterson & Lambdin, unfor tunately, never published it, probably see ing no money in it. It went out of tho print ing office presently, after Rigdon had read it to his heart's content, and Pittsburg knew it no more. Mr. Spalding removed to Amity, Washington, county, died there and was buried. Ills grave stone, much hacked, It is said, by relic hunters, stands to-day in the old burying ground there. . Tho Age or Faith Not Ended. This Presbyterian minister, Solomon Spalding, of Pittsburg, wrote, and this Baptist preacher, bidhey Rigdon, of Pitts burg, copied so they say tho romance of Mormon.which some good souls in Pittsburg to-day reverenoe as the Mormon Bible. Any how, if the memories of tho people are good for anything who heard old Parsou Spalding read bis book, tne two stories are singularly alike, even in their outlandish names. It seems that long, long ago a man named Lehl with his wife, his four sons and his ten friends departed for Jorsualem and landed 'on the coast of Chile There "was trouble niter Lehi's death between his sons. Nephi, the youngest, was appointed by his fathor to succeed llim, and his brothers objected. As a punishment they wore condemned to have red skins, and they became the progenitor of the North American Indians. Tho Hebrews and the Indians fought vigorously from that day on. until finally' in 354 A. D. the last of tho Hebrews were massacred by the Indians nearthepresentslteofPalmyra. .Mormon and his son Moroni werealmostthe solo survlvoreC and they having written down all the history of all this singular past, buried the golden plates upon which they had inscribed it in the Palmyra hill, where Joseph Smith discovered them. Ovelse, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon went into partnership to exploit old Parson Spalding's treasure. In which case. Mormon himself once walked those Pittsburg streets. A queer business! A novel made over in to a Bible, and JoeSmith of Palmyra became a prophet, a martyr, and some of the faith ful say even a god. "Old Como-to-pass" de serves his name. Nothing more wonderful has come to rfass within tho memory of this generation than the growth of this strange oak out of this Pittsburg acorn. And yet we think that the ages of faith have ended. PICKED TJP PEBB0ITALITIE3. Winfield Scott, one of the greatest generals America has ever produced. Is honored by no monument worthy the name. Jesse Grant, son of the late General, Is a resident of San Francisco, and has exten sive mining interests in Mexico. United States Minister Grubb at Madrid, will soon wed in London Miss Violet Sopwith, of Llsmore, Scotland. Prince George op Wales, the second son of the Prince of Wales, is an officer of the navy. He has lately been promoted to the rank of commander. "Lucky" Baldwin, the multi-millionaire miner and horseman of California, has just purchased in Chicago furniture for his three big hotels one at Santa Anita, another in Eldorado county, bnt the largest, a $3,000, 000 structure, In San Francisco. Count Luioi Primolo, the son of Prin cess Bonaparte and a chieftain among the Italian Bonapartists, Is acquiring celebrity as an amateur photographer. His most fa mous achievement was In seenring a picture of the Pope during a recent ceremony in tho Vatican. While in Savoy last summer with Mrs. Florence, that prince of comedians who is her devoted husband, had some extraordi narily interesting fly fishing in tho Lake of Bourget. Mr. Florence's cqming season will be opened at Richmond early next month, and in the meantime he is kept busy seeing his friends and arranging his new books and old pictures in the charming apartments he has for so many years occupied nt tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Thomas Bailey Aldbicti, the famous Boston poet, has Just returned from a jour ney to Europe. He is n rather short, thick set man with a leonine head, covered with short curly locks, a handsomo face with regular features and a sensitive month, which is not concealed by tho brownish gray mustache. Even those passers-by who did not know that the man was Thomas Bailey Aldrich conld not fall to bp struck by the dignity of his carriage and by tho re finement and strength of his face. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Hermann J. Schwarzman, Architect. Hermann J. Sohwarzman, architect and engineer, died Wednesday, aged 45. He was born in Munich, Bavaria, and was the GOn of a fresco painter, who decorated most of the Cathedrals and royal palaces of Bavaria, and was a favorite with King Ludwl, who granted lilra the unusual honor of the freedom of the city of Munich. At 18 years of ajre. he was commissioned Lieutenant of Artll lcrv In the Queen's Regiment, and served In that capacity In the Austria-Prussian conflict. Not withstanding his brilliant chances of promotion in the Bavarian Array, ho deterralueu to Beek his fortune In the New World, and obtained a place In Philadelphia In 18(38 as assistant engineer In Falrmonnt Park. His talent and energy soon attracted the attention of the Commissioners, from whom he received the appointment of Chief Engineer of Design for Fair mount Park, and was twice commissioned to visit Europe to mako Investigations and studies In their Interest. When it was decided to establish the Centennial Exhibition in Falrmount Park, his srenlus naturallv nut lllm forward ah the man qualified for engineer of the Centennial grounds ' UIIU IICICLCTU ,1113 JUlllllllCllk 11U1II UlCltllJtlU of Finance. He became architect or many or the .buildings. The Hortlcnltnral Hall and Memnrlal Hall, still standing, besides the Judges' pavilion, women's pavilion and many other nnlldlngs were his work. At the close of the exhibition he en tered actively into practiceln Philadelphia, and designed several prominent pubUc ana private buildings. Pros. Henry Kiddle, Spiritualist. Prof. Henry Kiddle, ex-superintendent of the New York public schools and a noted Spir itualist, died of paralysis In his late residence In New York City. Prof. Kiddle was born in England 62 years ago. When 9 years of age he came to New York with his parents. At 13 years of age he became a teacher In the public schools and while yet a mere boy he was chosen principal ofthenrst school established by the old Public School So ciety. While teaching school lie found time to stndv law under the late Samuel J. Tllden and was admitted to the bar In 1843. He was elected Super intendent of Public Schools In ISTOand served until 1679. when his resignation was requested because of tne notoriety he nad attained as a Snliituahst. He published a volumewhlch hedeclareu contained communications from Daniel Webster, Shakes peare. Washington, James Flsk, Jr., "Boss" Tweed and other dead men of note. After retiring from the public schools Prof. Kiddle devoted his time to literary work and lecturing on Splrtuallsm. He was alwaTS ready to assist In exposing "bogus" mediums ana constantly for what he termed honest Splrtuallsm, He was a man of Im pressive appearance and of great mental force. Hon. Samnel Lyon Russell. Hon. Samuel Lyon Eussell, of Bedford, died early yesterday morning in h!s7Gth year. For over 50 years he had been a member of the Bedford county bar. In October, 1852, he was'elected a mem ber or the Congress, and served during the years 18o3 and 18-jo. lie was also a member of the con stitutional convention In 1873, and occupied several other prominent public positions. Mr. RusseU leaves a wlfeaand five children, the oldest being the wife of Hon. J. II. Longuecker, who lias been a law partner of Hon. S. L. Knssell for years. Mr. Russell was a second cousin of Hon. James G. Blatne. The members of the Bedford county bar will meet to-day to take action on his death. Robert McP. Dalzell. Eobert McP. Dalzell died at his home in New Castle Saturday night, aged 45 years. De ceased had been for a number of 'years manager of the Baldwin & Graham ftove works, formerly of Pittsburg, now of New Castle. He was a brotner-ln-law ot the Hon. Samuel Baldwin, and was born In Pittsburg, and leaves a wife and several children. He was a member of the Franklin Ma sonic Lodge of Allegheny county, and well-known in this section of the State. The Interment will take place at Hillsdale cemetery, Allegheny county, Tuesday afternoon. Harlow Chapln. Harlow Chapin, a resident of Marietta, O., since 1837 and a prominent cltlien, died yester day morning in his 87th year. At the time of his death he was President of the Citizen's National Bank of Marietta, and was a man of large means. He filled many prominent public and official posi tions. Obituary Notes. Da. James, ex-Chairman of the Wesleyan Con ference', died suddenly at Plymouth, England, yes terday. Dr. Sciicltz, superintendent of the Danville In sane Asylum, died yesterday morning. He was an eminent Insanity expert, and had been at the head of the institution for years. Riciiabo Berthelox, an old minstrel per former, died late Friday night at the Homeo pathic Hospital, .Brooklyn. He was 60 years of age and leaves a wife andf everal children. COLONEi. William C. Wilson died Saturday at the Lahr House. Lafayette. Ind of nervous pros ir.itlnn and softening of the brain. He was form. erly a Greenback politician, and was defeated for Attorney General of Indiana on the Republican ticket la 18S2. General Julius Augustus Fat, one of the best known Democrats and Grand Army men In New Jersey, died Saturday, aged 51. He was born in Baltimore, and his father held a position as a Commissioner In the Bureau of Indian Affairs under Presidents Lincoln and Johnsou. He was a strong war Democrat. HON. John D. Howard, a pioneer Stale Senator and milUonalre, died Saturday, at Duluth, Minn. He was a native of Connecticut. Five sons and one daughter survive him, his wife having died two years ago. His estate Is varlonslv estimated at between ?l,5CO.t0O and J2.C00.OX), a large share of nhiehislncash. It is understood tbat the bulk of this propery Is left to a youngest son, J. L. Howard, who Is a deaf-mute and Is now at school at Washington. "WINTER ON THE FARM. I have Just about decided It u'd keep a town boy hoppin' Fer to work all winter choppin' Fer a old fireplace, like I did! Lawz! them old times was contralry Blame backbone o' winter, pearcd like, Wouldn't break! and I was skeerod like ' Clean on into Febuary! Nothin' ever made me madder Than for pap to stomp in, layin' On a extra forestick, sayin': "Groun'hogs out, and seed his shadder!" fames WhitcgmJ) Riley. OUR MAIL POUCH. A Nnt for the Exposition to Crack. To the Fdltor of The Dispatch: As one of the readers of yonr paper, please give ipe space to enlighten the public in re latlon to the answer of Mr. Johnston to tho Inquiry of a Catholic, asking why Catholic school children are not admitted Into' the Exposition the same as tho children of tho public schools. I say that the children of the Cathollo schools have as much right to be admitted as the children of the pnblio schools, by virtue of tho ordinance giving the Exposition Society the right to erect buildings and a lease of the wharves for 55 years. Tho words "pnblicschooTs" is not con tained in the ordinance. It reads: "Tho school children of Pittsburg and Allegheny shall be admitted free." When the ordinance enme up first In Council the' words "pnblio sohool'rwere contained in it, but I said then, as I do now, that tho word "public" would debar thousands of school children not in the public schools. I went to Mr. Foley, Memberof Council from the Thirty-sixth ward, and askod him to move to strike the word "public" out, and he did so. In clear and forcible language he told how it would debar thousand of other school children whose parents, iriends and relatives patronize tho Exposition. Mr. Foley will bear me out in what I sny. I knew he was in favor of the ordinance and voted for it, and so did I: but I would not have voted for It if the word "public" had not been stricken out. I will say no more on this sublect until Mr. Johnston explains to the public how the children of one school are admitted and tho children of other schools are left ont, when the ordinance reads: "The children of the schools of Pittsburg and Allegheny shall bo admitted free." A Humble Reader. Southside, September 27. The First Pittsburg Glassmaker. To the Editor of The Dispatch t Noting the reply of Isaac Craig in your issue of the 2Sth inst. to "Eden's" query in the issue of the 21th inst., I would state that the late Benjamin Bakewell seems to be en titled to the credit of first making glass in Pittsburg, "strictly speaking"' as well as the much greater achievement; which was un doubtedly his, of establishing the first suc cessful flint glass Tactory in this conntry. Edward Ensell, said to have been a glass manufacturer in England, and George Rob inson, a carpenter, nnder the Arm name of Robinson & Ensell, began the erection of a flintglass works In the fall of 1807 in the block bounded by Brackenrlclge street (now Water), Grant and Ros streets and the Monongahela river. They were unable, however, to complete the plant, which was offered for sale in an incompleted state, and in August, 1808, it was bought by Benjamin Bakewell, Benjamin Pago and Arthur Kin dor, of New York. Mr. Bakewell removed with his family to Pittsburg in October, 1808, and, taking sole charge of tho enterprise, completed tne fur nace the same year, nrobablv makinir elass early In 1809, and, after many struggles, suc ceeded in establishing tho prosperous busi ness ol Bakewell & Page. My authority Is "Reminiscences of Glnss Making," by Demlng Jarves. The material for this work was largely furnished bv the late Thomas Bakewell, who was in 1808 a young man of 16, and the most valuable as sistant of his father, Benjamin Bakewell, and afterward for many years head of the firm of Bakewell, Pears & Co. R..G. Bakxwkli- Pittsburo, September 26. Criminal Railroad Carelessness. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Not so very long ago engine No. 77, Balti more and Ohio Railroad, left the track, wont down to Second avenue and killed the engi neer. The Coroner's Jury reached the con clusion that the switch target was not kept painted properly, else the engineer would have seen that tho switch that threw the train was misplaced and the accident would have been avoided. Last night No. 77 went down to Second avenuo again. This time the switch was half turned, no doubt through .the careless ness of some one. If tho passengers on tho railroads running through McKeesport knew of the many narrow escapes they havo run they, would feel uneasy. Too mnch carelessness exists. If the rail road officials, instead of inspecting the road in a train hauled by an engine eqnippea with a steamboat whistle, wonldtake a walk along the track they would see, as I see almost daily, a rotten tie here, a switch un locked there, a switch signal nnllirhted, rails not properly spiked, and, above all, had they been with me walking on one of the above mentioned roads at an unseasonable hour of the night, they would have seen, as I saw, trains passing over rails ten inches apart, instead of being within a quarter of an inch of each other. Hot Box. McKeksfokt, September 26. Merely a Change In Name. To the Editor of The Dispatch! Wodld you kindly allow me space in your esteemed paper, to deny an article pub lished in a morning paper yesterday, headed "A Whole Club Flocks to the Straight-Outs?" It stated that becanso the delegates of a Fourth ward Republican club of Allegheny were refused admittance to the State League at Scrnnton the club had decided to change its name to the Fourth Ward Independent Republican Club, and support the straight-out Republican ticket. While It Is true that the club has decided to change its name, yet the newspaper's in formant is entirely mistaken, both as to the name of the club and as to its supporting the Straight-out ticket. The name of the club has been changed from the Invincible Republican of the Fourth Ward, Allegheny, to tho Northside Republican Tariff Club of Allegheny, simply because the club became aware that there already exists a Republi can club in Allegheny bearing the title of "The Invincible Republican Club," and not on account of any ill-feeling toward the State League. As to supporting the Straight-out ticket, the by-lawsof the club state specifically that as a body it cannot pledge Its support to any candidate or set of candidates, leaving each member to support whatever ticket he sees fit. Walter Wadswoeth, Secretary. Alleqhenv, September 23. Carnegie's Early Career. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Some time ago I picked up a stray maga zine which contained a brief account of An drew Carnegie's early days. It stated that he held thepositionof superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania Rail road before he had attained his majority. If this be true, and I presume it is, what a won derful man must he be. Indeed, to have held such an important position while yet a boyl If there is no publication in book form of his early struggles and triumphs, I think such an account should bo published, as it would certainly provo instructive and highly beneficial to other young men who are endeavoring to work themselves np in the world, and would, no doubt, be very much appreciated by the people or Pittsburg nnd Allegheny, who have been the recipients of some of his most magnificent benefac tions. One Wuo Admires Hik. Alleqhect, September 33. THE PBINCE OF WALES TACT. Labonchere, the Famous Radical Editor, Portrays His Royal Highness. October Forum. Natue haskendowed the Prince of Wales as it did Charles IL with great tact. Like that monarch, in his relations with the all sorts and conditionsof men and women with whom he is brought in contact, he always says the right thing, and says it in a hearty and cheery way, as though Its utterance were a pleasure He presides over charity dinners, lays foundation stones, sits throngh scientific oratory, opens bazaars, and dances at balls with unflagging zeal. He is eclectic in his surroundings. A few years ago he de voted himself greatly to American girls, as their exotic independence and freedom from conventionality pleased him. They have now been put aside, and he has de veloped a curious taste for vulgar and os tentatious parvenues of doubtful ante cedents and nondescript nationality. This has caused heart burnings among those who deem that they ought by right ot birth to be his associates; but it is a mutter of absolute indifference to others. A lew months ago he figured in a court of law as a baccarat player whore cheating had been suspected; and when it came out that he himself had provided the counters with which the game was played, he was lectured and prayed for by the "unco gude," al though I confess that I failed to see the dif ference between playing at baccarat and keeping race horses. The general feeling was that It might be well for him so to ar range his amusements as to manage to keep out of the law courts: but his popularity has not permanently suffered from this episode. The Political Situation In New York. Boston Herald." The New York Republicans ha vlngadopted a spigot as their campaign emblem, the Democrats might adopt the bung. It is going to he a bar'l campaign on hoth aldfes. AS NEW Y0BXEBS SEE US. Platt'a New Republican Organ Jlebnkes tho Pennsylvania iarty Managerl Ne.w York Recorder, Rep.J It'would be a mistake for Republicans in New York to ignore tha fact that political affairs aro dusty In Pennsylvania. If Mr. Harrison has any Influence in that State, or if Postmaster General Wanamaker repre sents anything more than his commercial ambition, he will giro the situation Imme diate attention. Pennsylvania Is a Banner Republican Commonwealth, none In the Union so sure for Republican victory. It was thrown away last year by party mis management, nnd the signs are dusty for the autumn canvass. Henrv Watterson sees it with his keen eyes, and cheers his Demo cratic friends with the hope that their vic tory will dictate to the Democratic conven tion the nomination of Governor Pattison as Presidental candidate. If Mr. Harrison and his friends in Penn sylvania would like a bit of outside public opinion in regard to Its affairs, he may have It in plain words. Republicans are becom ing ashamed of Pennsylvania. What power has she In the Sennte? She has Ju.it chosen ror a third term a Senator who never made a speech except a motion to adjourn, and whose most Important votes last session were against his party on tho force bill and silver question: a Senator whom his own party convention did not venture to Indorse. Ills colleague is a Senator whose single speech of the session was in answer to charges of the gravest character affecting his own personal Integrity. This is Penn sylvania In the Senate. What is she in the House? There maybe brilliant representa tives, but they shine w'th an anthracite bituminous flicker not visible outside of New York. And now come later crowning develop ments, showing that the Auditor General of the State the official whose duty it Is to keep watch and ward over tho State funds has been in collusion with the imprisoned Treasurer the one who made away with a million and Is now to sit in neultentinry durance for IS years as the penalty. The evidence is as clear as the sunshine nt high noon on a cloudless day. But the courts can "do nothing," the prosecuting officials can "And no evidence," and the Auditor General will probably nominate himself for the Senate, as Mr Qnny did, and ask for a "vindication." It would be quite in tho Pennsylvania way to elect him. In the meantime Pennsylvanlans are angry and, mutter discontent. They are prond. intrepid, essentially straiehtforwnrd people Republican in starm and disaster. They believo in Harrison and Blaine. They be lieve in the Republicanism of Wilmot and Kelly nnd Thaddeus Stevens. Evil Influ ences may have a temporary advantage, but It Is not in the Pennsylvania nature to en dure and endure, and ever to endnre, when the outcome nlone is mortification and de feat. The Republicans have been taken by false prophets into a wilderness of shame and dismay. Who will bo the Moses to lead them into the Promised Land? MELBOURNE'S CHICAGO BIVAL. He Proposes to Make Rain to Order With a Gun of nis Own Invention Chicago Tribune. Louis Gathman, of this city, has discov ered a process by which he claims he can anywhere and invar.ably produce rain. A main feature of his scheme is a gun of his own invention, which will throw a dynamite shell with ordinary powder as a propellant and wlthont exploding the dynamite by con cussion. The Farwell or Dyrenfurth scheme for producing rain is, he snys, a failure, for it will not lower the temperature nor pro duce a vacuum, absolute conditions for a rainfall. He is satisfied that concussion on the ground, nor even at a slight elevation, has no effect on the upper currents of at mospheric air, and that the Government scheme has not produced any rain in Texas, as the rain followed too late after the opera tions of the experiments. To produce arti ficial rain it will, he, says, be absolutely necessary to lower the temperature of the upper currents of air, and whenever this can bo done rain can bo made to order, and not before. Mr. Gathman says his method is designed to produce a condensation of the moisure suspended in the atmosphere so as to form a cloud, from which rain will bo precipitated. For accomplishing this object the most successful means he thinks would be to sud denly chill the atmosphere by rapid evapor ation, nnd at the same time producing a heavy concussion In connection with the cooling, in order to set the different air cur rents in motion. "It Is obvious," he-adds, "that sudden and rapid evaporation in the upper region of the atmosphere could be accomplished in various ways by the evaporation of various highly compressed cases, but the evapora tion consequent upon the release of liquified carbonic acid gas Is thought to be the most efficient. "In accordance, therefore, with my Inven tion, liquified carbonic acid gas is liberated in the upper regions of the atmosphere, and willof course instantly evaporate and spread out in a sheet of vapor of an extremely low temperature and produce a cloud. The sur rounding atmosphere will be chilled by its proximity to the cold vapor, and the moist ure In the atmosphere will be condensed thereby. The condensation takes place in large quantities nnd with great rapidity, so that a cloud is formed that will precipitate rain upon the earth. "The liquified carbonic acid gas can be confined in a suitable shell or casing, said casing also to contain an explosive, gun powder, dynamite, etc., which is thrown or shot Into the upper regions of the atmos phere and there exploded by a time fuse. A balloon, moreover, could be employed to elevate the shell or casing containing tho liquified carbonic acid gas and the explosion to liberate tho gas could be made by an eleo trio current controlled by persons upon tho earth." ABTTFICIAI AGE FOB WHISKY. Takamlne, a Japanese Invention for Treat ing New IJnnor. Cincinnati Times-Star. The new way of prematurely aging whisky by what is known ns the Taknmine process is attracting a good deal of attention of the Distillers' and Cattle Feeders' Trust just now. It is said to be a Japanese invention, which by a fermenting process accomplishes in a few days what Father Time has re quired years to accmplish. It has been tested by the trust. The Chicago Tribune is responsible for the statement that tho trust has mado a contract to equip its entire plant with tho Takamlne device. The Tribune says: "Work will be started immediately on the Manhattan distillery at Peoria, and it is expected that by octoDer 13 tuat aisiniery, witli a capacity of 3,000 bushels per day, will be in complote operation under the new process. j'Tho contract between the trust and the Takamlne Company Is that the trust will bear all expenses of Atting up its plant with the new process, and the company will re ceive as royalty one-Afth of the saving effected by the process. The inventor of the process believes, and seems to have pretty fully demonstrated, that he will be able to show a saving of something like 15 cents per bushel on the 40,000 bushels per day that the trust consumes, and in addition to that, will increase the output of alcohol at least two quart3 per bushel. Of course, if anything like these reuits are realized, the profits will be of 'Aladdin-like' propor tions." A Friend (?) to Humanity. Chicago Times. The venerable Dr. Gatllng has invented a new gun, warranted to kill more men in less time'than anv other engine of death known. The doctor is an ornament to his profession and should be tendered the Presidency of somo medical college. Interests Which. Conflict. Texas Sifting. Fassett Tho interest of good government requires that no man should hold two offices at the same time. Hill The interest of David B. Hill requires that he should hold on to everything he can get. PE0PIE WHO C0HE AND GO. "William McEnerney, of Titusville, is at the Seventh Avenue. He is the advanced guaid of the Democratic delegates who will begin to come in force to-day. C. L. Snowden, a boat builder and coal operator of Biownsvllie, is at the Monon gahela. He was joined there by John S. Blair, of Washington. W A. Stewart, of the Union depot staff, N will leave tnis morning iora ten aays' stay at Sandy Lake, Mercer county. W. T. Manning, a Baltimore & Ohio official, registered yesterday at the Monon gahela. W. S, FolK, of Newcastle, was at the Monongahela yesterday. T. V. Smith, of Fifth avenue, went to Now York last night. Nathaniel W. Koy, of New York, is at the Monongahela. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The first steel car built for postal pur poses wa3mn270,00Oml!os,and wentthrouzh five smash-ups, at a cost of iii to the rail road company for repairs. Owing to the immense number of re cruits wanted in tha French army' the stand ard or height has constantly been reduced It Is at present little more than five feet. In the raisin belt of the San Joaqnin Valley, Cal., the growers nro obliged to em- Oloy Chineselaborers exclusively. The hent i so Intense that even negroes aro unable to bear it. The local editor of the CarnesviIIe(Gi.) Enterprise has a one-legeed rooster that ho has made a nice nrtrflcnl lesr for, and he is as sprightly as any other chicken on his fath er's place. Cherokee Indians to the number of COO are setting np as real estate dealers by stak ing off claims on tho strip and placing them in the market. The whites are extensive purchasers. The largest dog in the world is the St. Bernard Lord Bute, now at the Menthnn kennels nt Phconixville. Pa. He was bought from Thomas Shlllcock, of Birmingham, England, for $3,6SO. Yuma county, Ariz., will soon have a fine Irrigating system in operation. Two lrrlzatlnz canals will betaken out below the townofYnma to irrigate the thousands of acres of rich bottom lands. A new kind of cash register, which lops off the Angers of those who attempt to rob It, is in operation in Wilmington, Delwhere a thief left a depositor oneof his fingers tho other night in one of then. An adder was reecnlly killed near Dnhlonega. Ga., which had two distinct and perfect heads and four eyes. When inter rupted its two tongues would dart out si multaneously and its tour eyes glitter. In sinking plumb lines down shafts the accuracy of the work is often seriously im paired by spiders attaching their vtehs to tho lines and drawing them townrd the wall, often with sufficient tension to introduco material errors in tho position of the plumb bobs. Continental rules for lawn tennis, which is becoming popnIar,are very rigid in regard to costume. At Wiesbaden a roan cannot play wlthont a collar to his shirt. Bare nrmsnre looked upon witn disfavor, and a ball that accidentally flies out of ground and hltsA spectator is sure to raise tremen dous indignation. Within 48 hours in Oregon a soda water deposit has been discovered in the Nehalem valley, near Vernonia; a soap mine has been found near Chadwell, on Lewis and Clarke's; crystal springs of the purest water are bnl) blmgupon the hillside in Astoria; gold is being due out on Genevieve street, and coal on West Eighth street in tho same city. Prof. Holden, of the Lick Observatory, draws especial attention to a white spot on the top of oneof a range of mountains on the moon. Speculations as to whetberit is snow or not are rife among astronomers who havo had an opportunity of examining the photo graphs. Should it prove to be snow, the ex istence of an atmosphere on the moon will have been proved. A farmer near Columbus, Go., has two turkey hens and one eobbler. The hens made nests abont 75 yards apart in a melon patch and went to setting. The goDDler got lonesome and conclnded that the proper thins for him to do was to set also. He not an equal dNt'ince between the two turkey hens, sqnatted over a gninen watermelon and set six weeks before he was discovered. A Hannibal, Ma, man bought twi pills nnd put them lu his vest pocket. Ho also bought a small pearl collar button and pnt It In the same pocket. When It camo time to take a pill he opened his mouth, shut his eyes and gulped one down. He was re lieved of bis headache and went on his way rejoicing. AHcrvtuiu,imni ue iui iuo collar button, he felt in his pocket and found two pills, but no button. A farmer living at Mazomanie, Wis., made a remarkable discovery recently. Ho found an old hen and 13 young chlcsens oc cupying a nest in which a cat and Ave kit tens had also taken quarters. They werenll nestled up as slick as a bug in a rng. The question naturally arises which is tho mother and which is tho offsprinir. The cat has helped to hatch out the eggs, and the hen helped the old cat in her trying period. The French hairdressers are circulating a petition which they will submit to the Minister of Fine Arts when it has 500,000 signatures. Tho purport of the document 13 that women be prohibited from appearing in their hats in tho theaters subsidized by the Government, and that the coiffure of tho ladies at such entertainments be according to the fashion devised by the Hairdressors' Association. The cause of this strange re quest is that the trade in false hair has greatly decreased for tho last few years and the present fashion of dressing the hair In Grecian stvle threatens a still greater fall ing off in that trade. A curious live cargo has been landed In Hamburg. It consists of a collection of snakes and serponts mado by the agents of a naturalist In that city. For the purpose of transit they were placed in long cotfln-like cases, with holes bored for ventilation and feeding. When unpacked they became much excited. Some of the assistants, In endeavoring to recapture them as they wound themselves round posts and stair balusters, sustained bites, which, however, havo not proved serious. Some of the lareer f ones also took to swallowing the smaller fry. Tho demand for them irom zoological socie ties, snake charmers and others appears to bo considerable. Melbourne, the rain wizard, has a rival in a Hindoo fakir in Northern India. Last winter the season was very dry, and a failure of the crons entailing great scarcity was the result. In consequence of the drought a Hindoo fakir imposed a penance upon him self, and was suspended by his feet from a wooden beam. In this position he was swung backward and forward fora consider able time by means of a rope attached to his Body, and pulled by a fellow saint. Both men were plentifully bedaubed with ashes, and, save for a small cloth around the waist, were without clothing. In such a case, should rain fall within a reasonable time after the penance, the fakir takes the entire credit for the relief to himself, nnd rises Im mensely in the estimation of the simple and credulous cultivator of the soil. OCR COMIC CORNER. SHE HERSELF. Full many people sat to her She took their pictures all with care. But ah. the fair photographer Was far the prettiest picture there ! Photographic Times. Brave Youth (swimming to the rescue) CourageMlss ! Try and Struggling Young Woman (from Boston, rebuk lngly You should (gurgle) say 'try to 1' Chicago Tribune. The singer was famed and fair; She sung In a foreign tongue. We only marked the Ume and air. For we knew not what was sang. We applauded tin out of breath, 'No singer was ere as good, ' ' Pretending we were tickled to death. And none of us understood. Aeto York Sun. The stoutest soldier will sometimes qnall before his wife's baking powder. Dallas Xeics. The citizen from a rural county had alighted from the cars at the root of the Capitol. "What's that monument?" he asked of a passer-by. "That Is the Peace Monument." "Humph!" he rejoined with a knowing smile, "ye can't fool me. If I arafrom the conntry. That's no Peace Monument; not with all them wlmmen onto it." Washington Star. How absurd it was for those New York speculators to try to corner coffee without attempt ing tocontrol the chicory crop or the clay beds of the world. Chicago Times. If an S and an I and an O and a TJ, With an X at tlie end, spell Su; And an E aud a Y and an E spell L. Pray, what Is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and afi And an H, E, D, spell cide. There's nothing much left for a speller to do But to go aud commit siouxeyeslghed. Pearson's Wetklv. Mamma (tearfully) It pains me, Tommy, Just as much as it does you to hare to whip you. Tommy (also tearfully) Maybe it does, but not in the same place. Chicago Aeuts. Mr. Bore I was at the landing when Mr. Jones left forNew York last evening. Miss Prcttyglrl-Weu, what of It? "1 saw you wave your handkerchief at htm and I envied him. doncher know." "If you will only leave,Mr. Bore, for New York, I'll do as much for you, and If you will promise not to come hack I may even give you a kiss." Texas Sitings.
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