- THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, TUESIXA.Y, ' OCTOBER 13, 1891. M4 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 1S4C. Vol. Wo. 2ts. Tittered at ritlsburKrostofilce, November 14, JssT, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and. So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. KASTTISN ADYrjKTISlNG OFFICE. ROOM 21, txiiiunk nun.mxu, ntwtukk, where com plete files orTHEimi'ATCHcanalways he found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Heme advertisers and friends of T1IE1HSPA1CI1, whuc in New York, are also made welcome. THE DlPA TCllif n?i-ln.rlyonxcZ; atJSrcn'avn't. f Union Square, Xnc Yuri, and 17 Are de COprra. Vrr. France, where anyone tsho has been disap pointed at a hotel noes eland can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rosTAGE ritr.E in the rxrrcD states. Dailt Dispatch, One Year I S 00 1-ailt nisrATCiI, Per Quarter. Daily Dispatch, One Month Dilt DisrATCH. Including i.Unday, 1 year . 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The opposition was based on the claim that the issue of the bonds is unnecessary, coupled with an assertion that contracts have not been properly performed which will be very interesting if substan tiated, but has no beariim on the bond question and the expression of a very natural objection to having the city as sume the debt. These objections were fully answered by Mr. Lambie's speech. The arcuments on both sides bore on the propriety of the bond issue, but, except as to the fact of certain payments coming due within a year, they hardly affected the real question. That was as follows: It being certain that the city must provide for a share of these payments in the next twelve months, shall the people have the opportunity of saying whether they pre fer to be taxed for these payments in a single let y or to have bonds issued? On the propriety of letting the people decide whether they will pav this debt all at I once or extend it till the street question can be clearly settled, there is but one possible opinion and that is expressed by the action of Councils. The people will now have two months to fully discuss and decide the method of payment. There is a decided liklihood that the bond issue will be approved; but whichever way the vote goes it will pre sent the satisfactory aspect of being the mode of payment indorsed by the major ity of the voters. THE PAX ItErCIitIC CONGRES. The Pan Republic Congress opened in Philadelphia yesterday by the Governor's address of welcome has a lofty ideal be fore it. The rroject of promoting union between the republics of the world is suf ficient to fire the imagination of every be liever lii republican government. Meet ing on the anniversary of the discovery of Columbus, it has encouragement in the fact that nearly the entire hemisphere dis covered 393 years ago is now under repub lican rule, and that the great republic which h . stood all assaults in Euiope for 21 years will welcome the Congress to Paris next year. While there are many obstacles to the perfect realization of the ideal at Vhich the Congress aims, it is sure to prove the truth of Sir Phillip Sid ney's apothegm that he who aims his ar row at the mid-day sun, though he shall never hit the mark yet knows that bis shaft will flj higher than if he had aimed it at the wayside bush. I! UVXIMUKK'S NEW EXPERIENCE. The Blue laws which remain upon the statute books of Maryland like as in Penn sylvania are now being pairially enforced at Baltimore, much to the surprise, it is announced, of those who have been ac customed to getting their ice cream, meat, milk and ice on Sunday, same as any other day. The programme of enforcement at Baltimore is more rigid than comprehen sive. Dealers there are held to be ex cluded from serving on Sunday even where orders are given and paid for on Saturday. On the other hand, neither the street cars, the railroad trains, the telegraph messen gers nor the newspapers are interfered with. The extent of the restriction at Baltimore is therefore practically about the same as that which has been applied in Pittsburg. Upon the heels of the activity at Balti more comes an intimation that the sup porters of the ancient statutes in this State intend soon to go farther and make the ap plication of the statutes complete, includ ing trains, street cars, mills and every other form of effort which they conceive to be in conflict with the letter of the law. It is their privilege to test the application of the enactment to the fullest, but it does not take much discernment to perceive that if in bringing such suits no regard be had to the reasonable changes of conditions in the last hundred years, either the courts will be looked to for a wider in terpretation of works of necessity, or else questions will inevitably arise for further legislative settlement. At present the concession is freely made that Pittsburg is Ihe most orderly city on the continent in i aspect to Sunday observance. A OlTEsTJON roil FARMERS. Xow that the season is approaching when the agricultural districts will find their communication with the markets sporadically cut off by the impassabilityof the country roads, it will be profitable for them to ask themselves how much gam there is for them in the opposition to im proved country roads on the ground that it imolves a largely increased expenditure. One of the greatest obstacles to road im provement consists of the stubborn idea of the agricultural classes that it costs more to have good roads than poor ones. This is a most curious error. It is the case on the other hand that the money spent in patching the roads each summer in a way which causes them to return to their regular bottomless condition each winter would, if applied scientifically for a series of j ears, supply the country districts with durable highways on which their products could be hauled to market at all seasons. True, this consummation could be hastened by increased expenditures. If neB any sections should adopt that policy the outlay would be amply repaid byihe in creased facilities of communication, the saving in horse power and wear of vehi cles and the increased value of their farms. But the point upon which it is well to have a clear understanding is that, with intelli gent direction, an expenditure no greater than that made necessary now by the sys tem of patchwork would" gradually estab lish substantial and lasting highways con necting all the country districts with then most important markets. These facts are good ones for farmers to ponder during hours of ' enforced leis ure caused by their inability to haul pro ducts to market After they have consid ered the subject all winter they may in the spring be qualified to give an intelligent answer to the question: Does the present system, or lack of system, in road mending pay? NATIONAL WATERWAYS. The appointment by the Governor of a delegation of Western Pcnnsylvanians to attend the waterway convention at Evansville is attended by a more tolerant tone of comment concerning that gather ing than usual of late years. It is a signifi cant result of the discussion on-internal waterways in which TnE Dispatch has taken the lead that the Eastern press is beginning to recognize and even approve of the project when presented in the form of a comprehensive and connected system of internal navigation. This makes clear enough the direction in which the efforts of the convention should tend. Heretofore the agitation of the waterways question has suffered be cause of its identification in the public mind with that class of "old-flag-and-an appropriation" patriotism which takes concrete form in river and harbor items for the improvement of horse ponds and goose creeks. The public is beginning to perceive the radical distinction between such raids on the Treasury and the crea tion of waterways of really national im portance. It should be the especial busi ness of the convention to emphasize that distinction in the strongest possible man ner. This can be done in the most effective way by first disclaiming all sympathy with the political method of using the river and harbor appropriations as a plum to be divided up. In its place should be pre sented the fact that a union of the Inter ests which favor the improvement of. the main rivers and their connection with the lakes by the Hennepin and Ohio river and Lake Erie canals, with the addition of a ship canal connection with the seaboard, constitutes an homogenous system of in ternal waterways which would be of in calculable benefit to commerce. This country has "within eighteen years spent 3,300,000 of actual capital and twice as much on paper in extending its railway system. Twenty per cent of that sum would bring into existencb a system of waterways of greater value in moving the great staples of agriculture and manufact ures than the entire railway system. The waterways convention should aim at the union of the river interests with the lake interests and those backing the ship canal projects, and present their projects as a single enterprise for a complete sys- tera of internal waterways. This will be a national project, and will unite the sup port of the people from the Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains and from New Orleans to Duluth. THE GERMAN AGREEMENT. Another striking result of the policy of reciprocity which Secretary Blaine inau gurated less than a year ago is presented in the pending removal of the German du ties on grain from the United States in ex change for the free admission to the United States of beet sugar. No doubt the contemplated departure of the German Government from its policy of high duties on grain for the benefit of the landed proprietors was aided by the im pending scarcity of grain in Europe. But it would nevertheless be a great gain for the agricultural classes of the United States. It would remove a barrier of 33 1-5 cents per bushel between our pro ducers and the German consumers, who alone would take a liberal share of surplus products. This decrease in the cost of ex change would be divided between the American producer and the German con sumer; but whatever gain the latter se cured would come as a reflex gain to the United States in the shape of increased consumption. The addition to our supplies of sugar by the continuance of German sugar on the free list would be equally satisfactory. The policy of free sugar and reciprocity, of which The Dispatch was an early ad-vocate,-will prove an unqualified success if the pending negotiations with Germany end on the basis outlined in late dis patches. EEAl KAPIP TRANSIT. The discussion of the rapid transit problem in New Tork has crystallized in a report by the Rapid Transit Commission which indicates what shape the coming means of municipal transit may take. It is instructive to cities whose transit routes and needs have not yet progressed beyond the stage of electric and cable sur face roads to learn that there is a practical agreement that the underground electric road is the thorough solution of the problem. The elevated railway is now recognized in New York to bo an incom plete and unsatisfactory method, destined to wear out in time and involving possi bilities of the gravest character. An un derground road is agreed upon as the most permanent, adequate and satisfactory way of enabling transit to be furnished at high speed away from the surface of the streets. Theie is still a warm debate as to the kind of undergiound road to be adopted, whether of the Greathead class or the older variety; but the underground in one shape or other is a settled matter. There is more than an abstract interest in this decsion to Pittsburg. When our needs go beyond the facilities of the cable and electric roads the experience of New Tork will show us what to aim at It is perti nent, too, that when as may be the case before many years we shall need greater speed and capacity than the present lines can afford, a tunnel from Grant street to the vicinity of Ben Venue, and a sunken road the rest of the way to Wilkinsburg, Braddock or Wilmerding, will afford ad vantages of directness and speed that can be obtained by no other style of transit If it is true that New York has only 33,503 dogs the residents of Hardscrabblo and the hill districts bhould ship to the metropolis a few train loads of their 6urplns canine population to make up tho Man hattan deficiency. Thirty-two millions of Itussian peas ants on tho verge of starvation! What If the Czar should organize them Into a great army and piecipitate them on Kuropo and Asia in search of loodi That would be a new irruption of tho vandals for which Christendom Is not prepared. The learned Prof. Goldwin Smith thinks he has discovered a similarity in the deaths of Tta lmneptfa. Boul.inser and I'arnell Th. resemblance between tho taking off of IJal- niaccda nnd Boulanger was widely com Tnentcd on atthe death of the latter: but the idea that there, Is anything In common with them in Pamcll's death is only an example of Pror. Smith's insensato Toryism. "A notice in the court at New Haven assigning October 20 for argument on the quo warranto case of Morris" against Bnlkcley is a reminder that the duly-elected Governor of Connecticut has been deprived or his sent for nearly a year without shadow of reaon or excuse." This assertion by tho Philadelphia Jtecord Indicates that our esteemed cotemporary Is likely to forget truth in its partisanship. Does it mean to assert that Bulkoley is not holding over un der a provision of tho Constitution of Con necticut, providing for the continuance of the Governor in offlco when there is an un decided contest over the election of his suc cessor? If this is "usurpation," as the Record declares what term does it uso to describe the case in West Virglna a few years ago, where a Democratic Governor did exactly tho samo thing? Tun proposal that Anson, of Chicago, will take tho stage this.wlnter in a baseball comedy is calculated to make theater-goers take to the woods. Baseball supplied suf ficient comedy during the summer season. The denial of Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, that sho is dying is generally taken as settling tho question; but that is not al ways a safe guide. Somo politicians have been prominent in refusing to iccognizo tho fact when they were entirely defunct issues. A young diamond merchant who has been selling diamonds under 'the represen tation tUat they were smuggled, when hauled up by the law declares they were not smuggled, and that his saying so was only a trick to catch customers. Between the pen alties for smuggling and the penalties of being a self-confessed liar, ho evidently pre fers tho latter. General Boynton'S retirement from the position of Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette ends his occupancy of a position which ho has filled with honor and usefulness for a longer space of time than almost any other Journal ist in Washington. But the disposition of somo of our Eastern cotemporarles to make an issue of Boynton as a martyr to Halstead ism is rathermisplaced. If General Boynton wishes to continue in newspaper work ho can find employment without difficulty; and the Commercial-Gazette, although an Awful Example of the obstreperous organ, has surely tho right to select it own Washington correspondent. A peemanent Census Bureau would be a very valuable feature of the Goycrnment with a proviso. Tho name of tho official to take charge of it should not be Robert P. Porter. Congressman Otis, of Kansas, intends to pioposo the Issuing or $2,000,000,000 of "money" by the next Congress. What is tho use of doing thing by halves. Make it $5,000 OOO.OC0 and let U9 all have the luxury of us ing the alleged money for wasto paper. The criticisms of the Philadelphia Evttctin on the length of Governor Pattison's mes sage, before it is published, may be taken as nn evidenco of that organ's well-founded con viction that the' loneerand more detailed tho Governor's charges of official miscon duct are, the woi-so it will be, to tho Bullc tiii's taste. It is Interesting to learn from a press anecdote that an American who called upon Tennyson was corrected by the poet for his use of "awfully," declared to be an "Amer icanism" which wasias objectionable to tho Laureate as the slang use ot tne ndjectivo "bloody." It happens that the slang uso of both these worjis is of cockney deriva tion. Nevertheless itis satisfactory to learn that the American citizen who had adopted either spocimen of English slovenliness, was properly crushed by the Laureate. We can forgive tho lattcrbls Inaccuracy with regard to the origin of tho terms, in view of tho pertinence ot Ms reproof. If shipping bills are passed why should not Vanderbilt yachts come under their provisions as well as tho cheaper craft? Canapa is following the example of the United States in a steady and regular reduc tion of her public debt; but she has gone far beyond our example In the matter of scan dals growing out of the influence of corpora tions in her politics. Now that a young woman has been shut up in one of the English railway car com partments with a maniac, and thrown from it with no one to aid her, perhaps tho leisurely English mind may eventually per ceive that tho American style of cais would effectually pie vent anything of the sort. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. Time is money, especially for the electric clock monopoly. In this glorious land men vote as they shoot off their mouths. It will be a dry day when the rainmaker gets left. The time for shooting birds draws nigh, Somo quail on toast will eat; But he whoso salary isn't high Will have to order meat. Old age is honorable, but you can't make a woman believe It. The portrait painter should be a good theatrical attraction, as lie can draw tho people. After some laws are framed they are hung up. Bikds might as well stop singing since girls are tho feathered pets. Ir you ask a seamstress how she is getting along she wouldbe justified in saying "Only sew-sew." Cleveland will Boon realize what a paternal government really is. The teamster's life is full of whoa. Marriage leads to happiness or the divorce court, hence lovers should under stand each other thoroughly. A stitch in fime saves rents. His fiancee is plain of face, But her figure is the prize, It makes up for her lack of grace As a million's 'bout its size. The dyer can easily hue to the line. "Whisky makes many mouths -water and many heads swim. DON'T kick a man when he's down. Perhaps he may kick back when he gets up. "Since Jerry Simpson put on socks he' hasn't made very much noise. " Arizona "Will Knock Again. Chicago Inter-Ocean.l a .wnn will snnil lrnnrb- nrmtn fn. .i.tn ALlAV'" " -.. ..(,t.u AJl UU1111S- sion into tho sisterhood of States. Tho past year has been one of groat prosperity in tho Territory. Her acting Governor, In his an nual report to the Secretary of the Interior, expresses tho opinion that the Territory will have 70.0D0 population before tho end of the present fiscal year. The increase has been enormous, and in the past year 20 per cent has been added. Rich in gold, silver copper, with valuable deposits of onyx just discovered, with a vast range of forests, Ari- zona cuii w0 - - yv "uuj owuun uigu ments in favor of hoV Statehood. She has a ,.i.i:, nnnnlnHnn whn .1.. ........ ai.' iaW-UUlU14rt jxwj... ..v.., nw HWU U1U best encouragoment from the nation. Iler rich soil only needs water, which is now being utllizcd.to make what has been known as her "deserts," blossom as tho rose. ENGLAND ASTONISHED By the Rate of Speed Now Attained I'pon American Railways Forced to Confess That Another Proud European Boast Is a Thing of the Past. On the second dayaflerthe special train of the New York Central Railroad made its famous trip of a mile a minute from New York to Buffalo, several English newspapers published editorials admitting that tliis country "took the cake" for fast trains. Here aro some of tho remarks of tho Sartre tngham Daily Mail on the subject: "It seems to be bevond dispute that the great Ameriean nation has done another best on record. It has shown that there is noth ing to prevent u railway train from running a long distance at tho rate ofa mile a minute Such a possibility has always been admitted by peoplo who know anything at all about engineering. There i no reason beyond considerations of personal safety why a train should not travel at the rato of a hundred miles anhour. There are expresses at the present moment running in England nt tho rate of considerably over sixty miles an hour, but only, of course, for limneu. uis tances. "There Is a general impression on this side of the Atlantic that we havo developed a far more rapid rato or railway traveling than has been attained In America. We naturally pride ourselves upon our splendid tracks, which aro Incomparably better than the average American track, and it is one of our insular boasts that no nation in tho world can show such a service or trains as aro to be found, say between London and Man chester, London and Edinburgh, or even be tween Liverpool and Manchester. Progress of Other Nations. "But the Englishman who has not left the confines of his own country must mako some allowance for tho progress which other nations are making in the direction of rapid locomotion. Nothing strikes tho visi tor to tho United States more powerfully than tho extraoulinary improvement which the American railway system has under gone during the last few years. One hasonly to travel from New York to Niagara, a dis tance of about 500 miles, at the rate of more than forty miles an hour, or to take one of their sumptuously furnished expresses to Chicago and cover more than double 503 miles at a still fastor rato of speed, to be put somewhat ont of conceit with the ligtning like qualities of our English trains. .Never theless, the Americans havo not disputed till this moment that the finest bit of rail way traveling in tho wide, wide world has been done on an English line. "This distiction was achieved by tho Lon don and Northwestern in their race with the Great Northern from London to Edin burgh. In running from London to Crewe, 11U miles, without a stop, in three hours and live minutes, the Nortlrwestern lalrly opened the eyes of the Americans as to what could bo done in the shape of speed bv tho best possioie engine on the Dest possioie tracic. But If wo are to believe the New York cor respondent of the Standard he Is supported in his statement by Dalziel's nows agency this smart performance irora London to Crewe has been relegated to that "back seat" which, soonor or later, is tho late of all best on records in this age. "Ihe story is that on Monday in nn experi mental trip, a train, composed of nn engine of 100 tons nnd three privato carriages weighing 130 tons, made tho run from New York to East Buffalo, 433 miles, in 439 min utes. By the side of this our little spurts in England appear very small beer. Tho Record Is Not Doubted. "We are inclined to believe that the details of this extraordinary trip are capable of complete verification. It is a preliminary boom for the Chicago Exhibition. All the railway companies will be trying to increase their rates of spoed in view of tho competl tlon for traffic. Tho great drawback to tho World's Fair Is generally recognized to be the distance which separates Chicago from the seaboard. Travelers from Europo will not relish a thousand miles' railway journey on ton of their ocean trip. The cxpi esses at presen running between Now York and Chicago do the distance in a trifle under 24 hours; hut now that the New York Central Railway has shown what a simple thing it is to run a train hundreds of miles at the rate of a mile a minute, there is a prospect of the visitors to the coming Exhibition being whirled to their destination in about 10 hours. Americans will scarcely bo stag gered by such a wonderful upheaval of the record. They have witnessed, as we havo said, somo mighty transformations in their railway systenvdnring tho last few years. "It is to be hoped that this will not develop a craze for dangerous speed. Mr. James Gordon Bennett secured a wonderful adver tisement by running a newspaper train from New 1 ork to Chicago in 24 hours, or an improvement upon the previous time to tho extent of nearly a dozen hours. Now it is tho turn or the New York Central to earn undying renown as the first railway com pany in the world to run a long distance at tho rate of a mile a minute. Now that this has been done, tho go ahead American, when In a "hurrying np" humor, will not consider that he is moving at all unless his train is whizzing him along at CO miles an hour. There are many people who consider themselves far safer in an express flying I alontrnttho rato of CO or 70 miles an hour than in a local train moving nt about a quarter of the speed. A fast train com mands respect. There is no perfunctory supervision of points and signals whe,n the express is due. English Trains Mnst Go Faster. "One probable, we might almost say certain effect or thi3 experimental railway trip in America will bo the revival of tho familiar controversy about the duration ot the journey between Birmingham and Lon don. We are by no means inclined to dis parage the splendid service between New stieetand Euston. There nro no trains in tho world that keep more reliable time or are under better management than the Euston expresses. But would it not be pos sible to clip offa few minutes from the reg ulation run? The distance between New street and Euston is 113 miles, and the time has been brought down by careful grada tions to two hours and a half. "Now, it is quite obvious that if a mile a minute can be safely done on an American track, it should be possible to travel from Birmingham to London in a couple of hours or so, which would bo a con siderable saving of valuable tlmo for busi ness men. But it will bo said there is tho question or stops to be taken Into account. That is quite true. But then tho complaint of businessmen is that there are too many stops on the London line. The experiment might at any rate be tried of running two or three trains during the day with one. or, at the outside, two stops. Onby one train the 8-30 In the morning from New streot does the journey in two and a half hours. "Tho first stop in the remarkable run from New York to Buffalo was at the end of the 143d mile to change engines, the tinio then being 140 minutes. Then there was another run or 14S miles in 14G minutes. It is to be hoped that the successor the venture will not drive the world to risky experi ments in tho way of rapid locomotion. The whole thing suggests creepy reflections ot what might happen if scnething occurred to oheckan express moving at the rate ofa mile a minute. Of course, with the line in good order and the wheels nnd axles all lUht, and the signalling and points above suspicion, tho possibilities of n catastrophe are very remote Peoplo have so much to do nowadays that fast traveling is an enor mous convenience, and when consistent wltn safety it is to bo heartily encouraged. We seo what the development of speed in tho ocean steamer has done to increase the traffic between this country and America. It now- seems that rapid railway traveling is to play its part in tho same direction." Cannot Afford the Sacrifice Cincinnati Commercial Grtzette. In crying down the beginnings of tho tin plato manufacture in this country what havo the Democratic office-seekers to gain, even should they succeed in doleuting what prom ises to bo ono of our immensely important industries? For the sako of rewarding these ambitious politicians with a. few temporary offices the peoplo of the United States can not afford tho sacrifice CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. WRITTEN FOtt TUB DISFATCI!. I. With anguish torn, Let Erin mourn With tears for her dead son; Nor let her grief, assaugca by.tears, "Wipe out the stain of countless years. Nor mark a race that's run. Oh 1 weep to-day. Oh! weep and pray. II. O'er his Wer, . Reot hope and fear, O'er his tomb all discord ended; Let opinions of cv'ry thade, Iu the grave with him be laid, And all hearts and souls be blended. ,0h ! weep to-day. Oh I weep and pray. OCTOBER 11. 1SDL n. OUR MAIL POUCH. Better Homes for tho Poor. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Some time ngo I noticed in The DisrATCH a communication fiom a lady calling the atten tion of Miss O'Reilly to the condition of the houses or the workingmen. Tho views of this lady wero correct in the main. There is nothing needed so much in Pittsburg, and for that matter. In nil the large cities of the United Stato, as better tenements for ihe pooier classes. As a general rule tho tene ments which can bo lented by tho working man aro rickctty, broken down buildings, which aro harly lit for nny purpose. They should bo torn down and replaced by struct ures in which better sanitary arrangements exist. Of what use is it to build sewers, and to keep the streets clean, if people are forced to live in hovels, in whoso very walls tho germs of disease have existed for veais? I have seen in Pittsburg and In Net York a state ofatlairs which would not be permit ted to exist in England or in Franco. Those who are interested in this matter can prove to their own satisfaction that peoplo are al lowed to live here in a manner that should be stopped at onco. These districts are not very tar from the heart of the citv either, and it is plainly evident that these hovels should be replaced by new buildings at onco. There 'Is a bettor opportunity for missionary work in this lino than tliero is in Africa and Asia, wheie many thousands of dollars are spent cacli year, it is in the Old World that the greatest progress has been made in sanitary arrangements, but it is time that tho property owneis of the United States should follow the good examplo set across the water. Health. FnrsBuno, October 12. Tho Need of Wider Streets. To the Editor of The Dispatch: ' One of the greatest mistakes of the ago is made in tho laying out or streets in cities and tow ns. Thoy arc generally too narrow to accommodate travel when the districts adjacent have boon thickly settled. Exam ples of this nro seen in every large city, and in Pittsburg as well as Chicago or Bo-ton. Tho mistake was made in the past, long be fore It was supposed that part of tho strcots would bo occupied by street cars, but to-day sections nio being opened in the suburbs, and the mistakes are in process of repeti tion. It is only reasonable to expect that Pittsburg will keep on growing, and that somo day streets-that are now being put in use lor the first time will be crowded with trafic. The street cars will extend their tracks and then there will be as much com plaint over theso now streets as there is to day over tho present narrow thoroughfares. Would it not be well, whllo land is compara tively cheap, for those who are subdividing lands to look into the future? Streets in tended for business should certainly be wider than they aro, and ho is a wise man who provides plenty of room for traffic of all kinds in the subdivisioa he is preparing lor tho market. Tandem. Allegheny, October 12. NAMES OF NOTABLE PERSONS. It is said that Senator Plumb, of Kansas, makes a speech at every wedding corn-husking or barbecue to which he is invited. Sir Edwin Arnold will fail for this country Octobor 14, and on his arrival In New York will be entertained by the Lotos Club. The lying of Corea is said to be contem plating a trip around the world, but is afraid if he leaves tho country China will not allow him to go back. 31 r. Austin Corbin, the railway mag nate, will present his daughter on tho day of her approaching marriago with a check for tho comfortable littlo sum of $1,000,000. Verdi Cannot as yet fix upon a man suit able in appearance for the representative of the title role of "lalstafr, the new opera on which he is daily industriously at work. Prof. "William Hugoins, the astron omer nnd spectroscopist, thinks that a star is rod, white or bluo according to its age, and that the white stars are tho youngest. Queen Victoria has in her possession a dress woven entirely of spiders' webs, which for fineness and beauty is said to surpass tho most splendid silk. It was a gift from tho impress oi urazu in iaii. Among the many ladies of England who have gone into trade may be numbered Mrs. Arthur Wellosley, a grandnlece of the Iron Duke. Mrs. Wellosley and M,rs. Hesketh Smith have a flower shop in Grosvenor street, London. The boquets that" come from this establishment are said to bo es pecially artistic. PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO. President Eoberts and party will arrive in town this afternoon from Altoona on tho annual inspection tour. Rooms for the party have been engaged at tho Dnqnene. They will leave, reinforced by local officials, for a trip Westward to-morrow morning. Maior Hunker, of Allegheny, Superin tendent George Lin'dcrman and Examiner George Hoffman, of the Department of Charities, went to Reading yesterday to nt- tend tho convention of the Association of Poor Directors to be held this week. Judge Cook, of Cookburg, with his wife and daughter, stopped over at the Seventh Avenno last night. They are going on a trip to Cuba or Southern California for the Judge's health. Senator Crawford, of Franklin, went to Harrlsburg last night to attend tho Senato sessions. He declined to express an opinion on the matteis to be considered. "W. F. Leasan, a Kittanning lawyer who is attending the Supremo Court sittings, and It. 11. Lee, the Franklin oil operator, aro at the Duquosne. Eev. 51r. Locke, pastor of the Smithfield M. E. Church, went to Washington last night to visit the Ecumenical Council now in session. Mrs. Hugh Bankin and Hiss Lillie Rankin and "Mrs. J. V. Beeson, of Uniontown, were at tho Schlosser yesterday. George L. Rhodes, general agent of the Chicago, Burlington nnd Quincy Railroad, was at the Duquesne last night. President Jackson, of the Underground Cable Company, returned from New York yesterday. Hon. John JfcAleer, director of the Alex andria Reformatory, is stopping at the Du quesne. General Horace Porter, at one time Sec retary to General Grant, went East yester day. F. C. Aeheson, the Washington lawyer, is at the Monongahela. Dr. Boss and family, of Clarion, are at the Seventh Avenue." H. H. "Westinghouse arrived from the East yesterday. Judge Pardee went East last night. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEEE. Judge John McConnell. John McConnell died at his home in Washington tow nhlp. Law rencc county, at a late hour Sunday night, ac;ed 60 jears. 'lhc deceased was appointed Associate Judjre of that county dur ing Governor Paulson's fir&t term, to fill the va cancy on the bench caused by the death of Judge Robert C. Cochrau. He was born and raised In the township In which lie died, and was a foe to the liquor frame wliere er he found It. When he was appolnfed Associate Judge he stated that he would nevtr6lfrnapaperKtlnc;an)onc the rljrlit to sell intoxicating liquors, ana he kept his word. lie leaves a wile and live adult children. He was a life-long Democrat and an old-line rresbyterian. , Alrx. Ilunnesliagen. Mrs. Hunneshagen, mother of Mayor's Clerk Henry Hunneshagen. of Allegheny, died at her home on Itln street, this morning. Deceased wasoiieof the oldest residents of the North side, at the time of her death being in her 76th Tear. While Mrs. Hunncshazcn has been in HI lieaUh for some time past, her death was quite unexpected. Arr.irgemeuts lor the funeral have not jet been maue. A. E. Anderson, Leechburg. Albeit E. Anderson, a well-known busi ness man of Leechliurg, died yesterday morning at 3:30, after a llngcilng Illness. Mr. Anderson was born In Ilutler county In 1SW, went to the. od regions In 1SG3. acciunu'atcJ considerable means and Anally settled in Lceclibiirg, where he enraged lu mercantile pursuits until his l.e.-ilth failed htm, when he retired front business. A wife survives him. Obituary Notes. Ex-GoVF.nsoii TiiGEtow, of Connecticut, who had been sick for several weeks, died at the New Haeu House, New Haven, atb:M yesterday morn ing. IIkxiiV Strcu. Sic, a well-known hardware merchant, of. 3li fenn avenue, died yesferday afternoonat 3:15 o'clock. He was C7 years old. The funeral arrangements will be made to-day. Fuank Tnonx, of ltavenswood. W. Va., for mejy a clerk on the.steamer Lizzie Bay, died tliero Sy day night. He was well known along the Ohio liver, anu had a great many friends In Pltbburg, IN SOCIETY'S REALMS. Mrs. Tlogg Resigns as Kegent of the Daugh ters or the Revolution Some Notable Weddings In Frospect The Social Gossip ofa Day. The most important phase of the meeting of tho Daughters of the American Revolu tion, which convened yesterday, as usual, at Mrs. Nathaniel Hogg's, was that lady's re signation from the regency of the Pittsburg chapter and the election of officers, or, more correctly, the ratification of those appointed in the spring. The probability of Mrs. Hogg's resignation has not been unknown, hut this did not make its reality the less un pleasant. Tho nominations (only a matter of form) were made on thd floorand then balloted on. Mrs Albert Childs was elected recent to fill tho remain, dor of Mrs. Hogg's term, and the other officcis elected an Advisory Board: Mrs. Nathaniel Hog?. Mrs. James 15. Oliver, and Miss Denn; Treasurer, Miss Kato C. McKnight; Secretaire, Miss Burgwin; His torian, Miss Sempfe": Registrar, Mrs. -Park Painter; As-istants, Miss Harding and Miss Edith Dailing'on. Tho more social side of the meeting fol lowed the election, whi-n Mrs. Hogg gave an account of a visit last week in Washington in tho interest of the association. Then Miss Mary Semplo, a lady or pronounced literarv instinct, which 1ms been carefully cultivated, read an interesting epitome of Pittsburg history in Revolutionary days. The Pittsbmg chapter now contains i(3r;uall fled members, 2 life members and 1 Recent. This entitles It to two delegates at the Con tinental Congress next February in Wash ington, whouccordingly were appointed to day. They are Mrs. Paik Painter and Miss Julia M. Harding. Mrs. Hogg still holds her position as Regent of tho State of Pennsyl vania, and is, besides, one of tho three mem bers of the Advisory Board of the Pittsburg Chanter. This is considered quite enough work. The annual meeting of the ladies' branch of tho Hospital Satmday and Sunday asso ciation was held at thp fice dispensarybnild ing, Fifth avenno, yesterday afternoon. The chief feature of the meeting was the election of officers for tho ensuing year. Mrs. Charles V. ShcrnT was chosen President; Mrs. W. P. Llnhart, Sr., Vico Prcsident;Mrs.E. J.Snead, Jr., Vico President; Mrs. II. B. Montrcvillc, Secretarv, nnd B. F. Eenbow, Counsellor. Mrs. E..I. Snead. Mrs. J. F. McMillan, Mrs. Goodman, Mrs. James Wilson, Mrs. Fred Ertsman and B. F. Benbow were elected an Auditing Committee. Mrs. Linhart, Mrs. Brycc, Mrs. McMillan nnd 31rs. Davis were appointed a committee to prepare resolutions relating to the death of tho latp William McCreory. The follow ing contributions wero reported: Clark Cir cle, ladies of G.A.R. PostlC2,$l(j: Marshall Bros., $8: emplovesof Marshall Bros., $4 33; Elm Sticet Club House, $10 03. It was de cided to nssiiit the Ladies' Association of the Southslde Hospital nt their bazaar, to bo held at the new Auditorium, on Penn av enue. The ladies' branch of the association will meet with the gentlemen's branch at their meeting on October J!) at tho Homeo pathic Hospital. The State convention ot the "W. C. T. IT. at Bradford this year will bo more notable than its predecessors, becauso the session will bo longer. It opens on Friday morning of this week and continues until Tuesday evening, thus for the ftrst time including Sunday, when special services will beheld and a sermon be preached by Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridgo. This would have been the duty of Miss Frances E. Willard had she not been detained by tho illness of her mother. Tho delegates from Alleghony, Westmore- lanu anu. tvasnington conntics win oc cupy a special car on a Pittsburg and Western train, which leaves that station nt 7:40 on Thursday evening. Jlrs. J. M. Porter, of North avenue, the President of Allegheny county, anu 15 delegates go from Pittsluiig. In the old striving davs before tho W. C. T. U. was divided Into the Union und tho Alliance tho election was always a spicy p.irt of the session, but there is littlo feeling on this occjsion. and in Pittsburg, at least, tho expectations are for a re-election of every officer. This moans that Mrs. J. R. Jones, of Puiladclphla, will bo Presi dent, andSIrs. W. H. Woods, of Huntington, Treasurer, lor another j car. The boys of Miss Minnie Vandergrift's Sunday school class will be "John China mon" this evening, all in the interest of a ne carpet which is to be bought for tho Ames M. E. Church at Hazelwood. At this "Omnese tea" tea, rice. Icecream, cake and pie will be served by tho boys dressed In ap propriate Chinese dross, and all this will cost the beholder and consumer the matter ofa dime. Cordially expressod requests aro made thit all friends bo present. Each Tuesday a certain class will entertain in the way it thinks best until the carpet is paid for. Itis an interesting probability that to Pittsburg may belong tho distinction of owning tho youngest member of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution. On Octo ber 7. Miss Marjorio Irwin celebrated her 18th birthday over in Dresden, and as sho then becamo eligible ns a mrmbor.her papers are now on their way to Washington. Her mother. Mrs. William II. Irwin, is a member of the Pittsburg Chapter, and her grand mother, Mrs. Caroline Purviance, is a life member. A Smoker's Concert was the important event last week at the Union Leaguo Club House. A week from to-morrow tliero will be a Commerce Card party on what the woman relatives of the members aro dis jioscd to consider the same selfish plan. Every iortnight since tho season began something of this nature has been given. On Saturday evening, November 20, tho annual reception will be held, when tho hou-o is always thrown open to the fair friends of the members nnd patronesses and committees will abound. Some Pittsburgers will leave to-day and to-morrow to attend tho wedding of Miss Emily Rowan Hall and Charles Gibson Brown, on Thursday evening, tit 6 o'clock.in. the Presbyterian Church nt Bedford. Tho bride is the daughter of the Hon. and ex Judge William Maclay Hall and niece of Mrs. Nathaniel Hogg, of Pittsburg. After the wedding, at which there will be a largo nudience, a reception is hold at Mr. Hall's house from 6:30 to 0 o'clock. Social Chatter. Mr. and Mrs. J. n. Walker are visiting In New York. To-xioiit a dance at tho Monongahela House by the Pittsburg Cotillion Club. Timmembers of the Alhambra Cotillion danco at the Monongahela on Friday night. Miss Maud Asdersox, of High street, i3 at present tho guest of friends in Cynthiana, Ky. Ixyitations have been Issued by Mrs. George W. Blair, of Point Breeze, for an afternoon tea on Friday. Tuat event of the season to a Gorman, a Turner reception, comes off to-morrow even ing iu Turner Hall, Forbes avenue. A rkceitiox will be given by Mrs. Horn mett, of Filth avenue, McKeesport, next Monday evening, to which 110 peoplo havo been invited. Mrs. S. R. Frzier and Miss Rose Frazier, of Yonngstown, who havo been visiting with Mr. John N. Hazlett, of Oakland, lett I Pittsburg for home yesterday. I The Yonnsr People's Society of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church spent last night in au ngrccablo entertainment, with instrumental and vocal music and a lunch. Tun baton of Schiblo, the recently ap pointed director ot the Tentonla Manner ehor, will make its maiden effort, so far as Allegheny is concerned, to-morrow evening, in tho hall on Pike street. Mrs. akd Miss Wertheimer give a recep tion Wednesday evening, October 23. Tho ballroom at the Monongahela Kouse has been seloctcd in lieu of tho assembly room nt the Concordia Club, yet in an unfinished, state. Just 1,000 invitations for tho Darlington wedding! It is to be largely attended, ns Mrs. Darlington would have It so, and the ceremony proper will be solmenized among Hie books In the library, according to the desire of the hrido to be. Miss Margaret Emma Thomas, daughter of David J. Tliomas, of Forbes nvonue, Oak land, will be married this evening to James Gilmore Straw. Aocordlng to a card accom panying the invitation, "at homes" will be held on Tuesdavs, after November 5,at "Tho Washington," Kansas City. JIo. A WKDDtsa ceremony on Thursday after noon will transform Miss Humphreys and Mr. Hillhu-d from being an ntllanccd pair into a bridal couple. This will be ono of the first nuptials at Point Breeze, which it is said, is studded as gcncrouslv with brides-to-be as the Qneen's crown Is with Jowels. Miss Susv Pitcairx will be the maid of honor nt her sisier's wedding next week. The others attendants selected are two" bridesmaids and eight ushers, beside tho best man. Miss Dolly Pitcalrn lias been a social triumph since her debut, and that fact and tho other that sho is Mr. Robert Pitcalrn's daughter, doubtless will attract important people, both iu aud out of town. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Chinese maidens pluck out their eye brows. Cats continue growing until they are a year old. There are more Germans than Irish in tho United States. The revenue of bankrupt Egypt was .10,250,000 last year. The human brain weighs one thirty, fifth of the whole body. The President of the Swiss Republic receives but $3,000 pe r year. A million telegrams a week pass through the English postoffice. The barrel oCthe Krupp gnn is 14 feet long, and each charge costs $900. Twelve hundred and eighteen species of mushrooms grow in Great Britain. Xo one is allowed on the streets of De Land, Fla., after 10 o'clock at night. More than a million people are treated in the hospitals of London each year. "Within 40 minutes the other day at Hamilton, Mo., one cat killed and stacked up 28 rats. From 25,000 to 30,000 letters are posted every year iu England without any ad- " dresses. A chunk of hail which fell lait week in Munson, Mass., wa3 4 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 leet thick. The population of Greece is increasing faster than that of any other country in Eu rope at present. Constan'inople is claimed to be as much of an educational centeras any of tho unl-ver-ity cities of Europe. Mortality from consumption is higher in England than in Ireland, and higher in Scotland than in England. At the "Wes'tchester fair last week there wero 30 men on the grounds whose aggregate fortunes would bo $1,000,000,003. Fifteen thousand Scotchmen left their homes during the past eight months of tho present year, against 14,000 last year. Cows at Clarksville recently became intoxicated by eating apple pomace, which is nothing but tho crushed pulp of apples. The first thing a Japanese does in the morning is to take down tho entire front of his building, leaving tho whole of the in terior open to view. Nine hundred and fifty-five religious periodicals are published in this country, which aro estimated to have a total circula tion or 3,073,050 for each Issue. In one day recently a good wife in Mur ray county, Ga., pulled 209 bundles of fodder and tied up 110 bundles. Tho report doesn't state what the old man was doing. The most holy object to millions of men, drawing hundreds of thousands of pil grims from Asia and Africa to tho Eaaba at Mecca, is nothing but a meteoric scone. A flever English smuggler recently avoided tho payment of duty on some costly diamonds by imbedding them into meat and in that form feeding them to a skye terrier. A trained bat, belonging to "William Hester, of Spring Hill, Pa., conveys messages like a carrier pigeon. Its sped Is very great more than two miles n minute. It recently flew a mile in :27J. The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom to America during tho last olzhf months was 109,051, an incrcaso of 3,000 over tho same period of 1?90. Of these, 41,578 were from Ireland, an increase of 1,437. There are nearly 7,000 men in the Brit ish army over six" feet high. Of every 100 men in tho army 5 aro under 5 feet 5 Inches, 35 between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 7 inches, 43 between 5 feot 7 inches andofectlOinches, and 12 over 5 feet 10 inches. A large proportion of the soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian regiments who havo received medals and decorations for brav ery on the field are nebrows. The only gold medal for bravery possessed in 16 regiment3 adorns the breast ofa Hebrew who has been elevated to the peerage. Queen Victoria now rules, subject to the limitations of tho British Constitution, over a population scattered in tne four quar ters of the globe nni tho islands of tho sea aggregating 367,000,000, a greater number than has everacknowledged the sovereignty of one person in ancient or modern times. One section of the historical collection at Dresden, Germany, is literally a museum of boots and shoes, being, it is believed, nn equaled in the world as a repository of tho footwear of celcbritlos. Among the things of interest shown are a pair of shoes worn by Martin Luthor at the diet of Worms, and the toilet slippers of the great Maria Ther esa. In pencil factories pencils are counted by an ingenious apparatus which takes the form of a number of parallel grooves. An operativo takes a handful of pencils, and. rolls them along the board in which theso grooves are, with tho result thateachgroovo is filled and the board is set aside. As the nnmber of grooves in the boards aro known, this prevents any further trouble in count ing. Among pecnliar legacies may be chron icled that of the strangely constituted widow who left a sum of money to provide real champagne at theatrical performances in Paris, where tho drinking of wine was a feature of tno play. More recently a sum of money, amounting to $15,000, was given In trust to Mr. Irving to supply tho same "prop erties" under similar cirenmstnnces, tho donor being the daughter ofa well-known London physician. A rich man of Boston has one son who became of age this summer. The fatherhns no other occupation save that of nursing his income, and as he is a man of sense and lib eral views, he told his son that he must not stand idle, yet left to him the choice of busi ness or orofession. At tne same time ha wrote privately to 24 friends and acquaint ances, asking their advice in the matter. The 24 were prominent, each in his own calling. And each replied in turn, complaining of his own business, aud advising the father to seek elsewhere for the futnre prosperity of the yonng man. FilLECKS OF PHTO. Fashionable Physician (in surprise, to patient) Why, you're getting better! Patient Yes, Doctor. Fashionable Physician (Incensed) Well, didn't I tell yon there was no hope for you? Patient (meekly) Yes, Doctor, yoamust excuse me. but I couldn't help It. Puck. ""What is the diflerence between a man of family and a family man?" "One boasts of his ancestors, the other brags about his progeny, "-inn Tork Herald. "I declare, I never thoughtl" cried Mrs. Llncolnpark. after her din ner was over. Never thought of what?" asked Mr. L. ' 'Why, I placed Colonel Jones and 3Iry. Parker ton next each other at dinner, and, now I think of it, he was her first husoandt" Harper' Bazar. That 'tis little things that tell, Instances are all too ample. You and I, we know It well Little brothers, for example. ' Judge. "I don't understand this. You charge too much for these earrings irtlie gems are glass and too little if thev arc real stones." 'Don't said a vord. Dem vas r-rcal stones. I made dose for mine mudder-lu-law, nnd she don't vas like dem. Ven she hears dat I haf sold 'em for less than cost she goes r-right "avoy nnd dies by herself." Bmoklvn Eagle. Bilkins You are going to marry, eh? But Isn't a year a long time to wait? Fllklns Oh, tou don't mind it, old fellow, after you call to take her to the theater a few times 2ev Turk Telegram. "If he loves me he will never take that girl out to ride. "He is merely pretending that he 13 going to. "Goodness ! he Is actually helping her into the carriage. "But he loves me. nevertheless. He Is merely trying to make me Jealous. "I will try to be Jealous, to please him." Puck. "Boo!" exclaimed Kobby, as he jumped out ofa dart corner. "Oh, how you startled me!" said the agitated curate. ."How funny! That reminds me of the first thing the grasshopper said to his Creator," mused Robby. , "It's very strange I never heard of that. What was the first thing the grasshopper said to his Cre ator?" asked Jir. Maldenbeartf. Interestedly. "UoodLord! How you made me. Jump!" was Robby's response. Smith, Gray & Co.ls jfonthlu. Mrs. Pry Does bathing" suit Jou, Miss Dazzler? .Miss Dazzler I think so, but, ma says there's hardly enough of It to call It a sal';. Bottom Uomier Journal. I I ' ,v -. .. - y- -..-.-v - jflyfagfljg