HSMl W8iSSEm&2B& jv.iis jT'miBri Vfg&tfpy K8Wri K-,sai &"p3g&m3 r i. - THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH," WEDNESDAY, NOAEMBEB" 4 1891 " immwtm't' r-1" " 1 Bi4 ESTABLISHED FEBnPARV IMG. Vol. 4. No.270. T'merea' at ntlsburr rostoHcc. November lis;, 6 second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EPX ADVEUTISINO OFFICE. ROOM H, TRIBUNKBOILDING. NEW YORK, where com plete file of THE DIbPATOU can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of TIIE DISPATCH, while in New York, are also made welcome. TITS BISPATCBis rtgvtirli on a at Hrerttann't, t Unwn S?ucnr. Hew Tori, and 37 Ave ae I'Opera. Paris, Prance, nolterc anvon' Kto has been aisaj? ixnntat at a hotel newt stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAQTS TBSK IX TUB UNITED STATES. Dailt Dispatch, One Year. is 00 Dailt DlsrATcn, rer Quarter..... 3 00 Dailt Iiktatch. One Month TO Dailt DlsrATCn, Including Sunday, 1 rear . 10 CO Dailt Dispatch, IncludlngSundav. 3m'ths. ISO DailtDispatcji. Including Sunday, lm'th.. 90 Ecsdat DisrATcn, One Tear. ISO Weeklt Dispatch, One Year. 1 25 Txix D uly Dispatch is delivered by carriers at IS cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at SO cents per week. PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY, NOV. i, 1S9L M'KINCEY'S WEIX-WON VICTORY. The one election yesterday which turned distinctly on national issues, and which therefore has a direct significance on the contest between the policies of protection and revenue tariff, was the election in Ohio In this State the national party division controlled the result, hut the offices were unimportant in a national point of view, and the reduced Kepubli can majority is significant only in its bear ing on questions of State administration. But in Ohio the campaign was fought out pluckily and aoedly on both sides with reference to the protective policy; and the result is to be taken as a fair expres sion of popular judgment after full dis cussion upon its merits. In that light the victory of JTcKinley by a plurality estimated at about 15,000 not only places him in the front rank of Republican leadership, but gives a popular verdict that is practically decisive in favor of maintaining an intelligent policy of protection to our domestic industries. The significance of the Ohio vote is such that it is not too much to regard it as set tling the contest begun by President Cleve land's tariff reform message and which has continued as the pivotal question in our politics ever sine". By this result the Re publican party will be confirmed in its oourte, while from this time out the Democratic partj can be expected to pre pare for hedging in its platform decla rations on the tariff next year. The success of McKInley is a well merited reward for a gallant and hard fought campaign: and constitutes an im portant step in an honorable career. It makes him the prominent figure in Re publican leadership, who, next to Mr. Blame, personifies the Republican policy and principles as a typical Presidental possibility. TIIE JUDGES STAND. The only feature in the county elections about which there wa3 really a contest was on the Judiciary ticke- The "Straight out" element make a better showing in the returns than was generally expected; but the figures up to this hour indicate that they w ere overcome by the advantage on the other side of a balking by the regular organizations; by the admittedij good character of the ticket as a whole: and, most of all, by the gen eral feeling that it is well to have the Judiciary taken oat of politics by the agreement of both parties Such consid erations as these appear from the result to have outweighed in the popular mind the irregularity of the steps by which the party rgreement on Judges Kennedy, McClung and Porter was reached. With out attempting to name the majority, the result is decisively in favor of those can didate as representatives of the non partisan Judiciary. INDEPENDENCE AND JTAIRNESS. The Washington Post is an independent paper sr some respects: but in others its independence is so violent as to become oflensive parti-an-Jiip. Its dislike for Mr. Rooseveii and the Civil Sen ice Commis sion leads it to make the report that he wrote a h'lter supporting Fassett in the Xew York contest, the text for an out bmlr in which the expressions "Poor Old Tramp ' and "Humbug" are applied with equil freedom to Mr. Roosevelt and the bed. ovev which he presides. In the same issue of the Post in which this outbreak occurs its news columns contain the statement that Air. A. S. Hewitt has written a letter declaring that to emancipate Xew Tork from the control of machine politicians will best be served if honest Democrats cast their votes for Fassett It thus appears that the State issues which lead a Democrat like Mr. Hewitt to disregard party lines might well permit a Republican like Roosevelt to sup port his own party without subjecting him to the charge of substrwence or hy pocrisy. An independent journal which seeks to make itself worthy the name should not let its unfriendliness for a certain official body blind it to such an obvious fact as this. MASCAGNI'S KISU. The remarkable manner in which Mas cagni, the new operatic composer, has leaped to prominence is shown by fuller details of the production of his new opera at Rome. From these accounts we infer that in "L 'Ainico Fritz" the new light of Italian opera has shown even more strik ing and original powers t"h.n in "Caval leria Rusticana," now an opera. of world wide reputation. The singular feature of Mascagni's rise is that it has not, like the majority of mu sical reputations, been accomplished step by step from a modest beginning He leaped into fame full armed, as Minerva came into the world, with a single bound. As a musical conception, his first opera took a broader range and a more ambi tious flight than almost any work of the foiegoing masters. His second seems to go bej ond the first in the matter of mere length, being a three-act instead of a one actupera, but it can hardly be expected to sound the depths of passion and tragedy so boldly. Indeed, the theme seems to be a j-omewhat lighter one; while in one re tpect it is similar in giving a prelude to one of the later scenes ina vein of delicate harmony, l.ke those artistic designs that form the signature to artists' proofs of etchings. An operatic fame whose rise Is so mete oric naturally provokes the expectation of a proportionately rapid decline. It is to be hoped that this augury may not hold good in Mascagni's case. The music-lov- iug public will watch with interest the i future career ot a young composer who was unheard of last year and now occupies the attention of the operatic world. THE STATE RESULT. The returns from the State election, up to a late hour, are somewhat mixed, with the result that the State ticket is probably elected with the majority sharply reduced from the normal Republican preponder ance shown in the former vote for Boyer. In making up this result Allegheny and Philadelphia have given their usual heavy Republican vote, while the outer coun ties largely counterbalance this, by Demo cratic gains, which, though not enough to overcome the total Republican majority, have a clear significance. The meaning of this result is not far to seek. With the mass of the Republican voters the personal character of Gregg and Morrison overcame the burden placed upon the Republican party by the Treasury scandals, and the recognition of the bear ing which a Democratic victory would have on the national contest next year prevented a general disregard of party lines. On the other hand, the points where the Democratic gain is positive re flect opinion that the abuses of State ad ministration cannot be overlooked. In that vote the abuse of official position, the mal-administration of the State funds, and the subservience of the Republican Senators in evading the duty of exposure and punishment overbore the issues between the parties. This element places public honesty above the questions at stake between the national parties. If the majority is reduced as much as the present reports indicate, it will show the burden placed on the Republican party by official misconduct and the readiness of the Senate to juggle with its duty. The exact vote on the Constitutional Convention proposition is not yet predi cate; but, except in the coal mining counties, it is ihe most completely nega tived project that has formany years been submitted to the people of Pennsylvania. THE OUTSIDE ELECTIONS. Outside of the pivotal contest in Ohio and the local one in Pennsylvania the elections yesterday weigh rather heavily in the Democratic scale. But the signi ficance of the results on national politics is rendered practically a cipher from the fact that they were due either to local issues or to the personality of the can didates. In New Tork national issues were reallv of little weight in the fight It is true that appeals were made by such na tional leaders as Blaine on one side and Cleveland on the other to bear in mind the importance of the fight on the na tional questions. But the fight was really one in which Tammany was held up as a bugaboo on one side and the Piatt ma chine on the other. So far as the pecu liar vote which showed each side to be w eaker than was pxpected in its strong hold has any significance, it must be con ceded that those bugaboos w ere used with effect Otherwise we must attribute the Republican gain in Xew Tork City and the De mocratic gain in the rural counties to be a manifestation of the tendency to sell out in unexpected quarters. The Massachusetts campaign touched more largely on national questions; but it is nevertlielesl true that the Democratic victory by 10,000 plurality is to be at tributed to Governor Russell's attractive personality, with a scarcely concealed structural weakness in the Republican leadership. It is somewhat disturbing to think of Massachusetts as Democratic in two successive elections; but the same thing has happened before in State con tests without the slightest uncertainty as to the position of the State in a Presidental election. Iowa, from the advices so far received, also appears to be Democratic. The sig nificance of the election is showm by the report of Democratic gains in towns where the liquor element is strong; and the prob ability is that these gains will be offset by returns from the country. The fact is that the campaign in that State turns on the liquor question, and its significance will be almost exclusively on that issue. Outside of these States the reports do not show any changes in the political com plexion of other States of marked impor tance. In those States the tendency is such as to afford satisfaction to the Demo crats, but there is little in their victories to give any assurance that they will be re peated next year. ANOTHER ITXUSTKATION. The strike in the railroad coal mines ter minated yesterday, by the men returning to work at the old rate. This is satisfac tory evidence that the sober second thought led them to the conclusion that they could not maintain their strike. The miners are to be congratulated on accepting the situation and terminating the struggle before it had been pushed to the degree of inflicting widespread hard ship and suffering on their families. Nev ertheless, the fact that a month's idleness has been imposed on this industry is worthy of comment as emphasizing The Dispatch's constant principle that in the interests of workingmen alone a strike is something that should not be resorted to lightly or under any except the most urgent circumstances. The only effect of the strike now off has been to enhance the price which the working people of Pitts burg and other cities have had to pay for their stocks of coal to prepare for the cold weather. The short-sighted and unwise hope that employers could be squeezed has proved unfounded; and while the strike has been fortunately abandoned m time to prevent it from be ing ns overwhelming a calamity as other recent and uhsuccessful lockouts, it pre sents in even- aspect a loss and misfortune to labor. Workingmen and labor leaders should, take such lessons to heart The unani mous abandonment of work is a resort for organized labor; but it Is something to be employed only under the most extreme exigencies. It is industrial war, and, like war, should be declared only when all other means have failed, and not even then un less there is a fighting prospect of success. AN INJUSTICE OF FASHION. Two coming events are now engaging the almost exclusive attention of New Tork fashionable society. One is the Princeton-Tale football match; the other the coming horse show. The exhibition of horses which can jump hurdles, exhibit acquired paces, and wear the fashionable clipped mane and tail with grace, shares in the fashionable mind an importance that is not exceeded by the exhibition of collegiate skill in one piling on top of another in the contest for the possession of a football, so named because kicking is the least of its experiences whatever may be the fate or function of those who play with it Indeed, we have been pained to observe that the horses have the call in fashion able society over the college youth. For, as tiie verdicts of New Toik fashion are expressed in the mighty dollar, the report that 31.000 hay? been paid in premiums for boxes at the horse show, while no such fancy prices are bid for prominence at the football games, clearly expresses that fashion cares more for the sleek equinesv than for the college youth. That this same disparity should appear in the sporting world is not-remarkable. The sum of flOO.OOO has been paid for great racers, while it is welU known that no college youth would real ize a titho of that sum in tho market But this is because horses are a good in vestment as racing machines or the pro ducers thereof, while the function i of the college youth in furnishing tho support of the racers through thepooi-boxes is but as a drop in the ocean of the racing world. But we should haye expected better things-of the cultivated fashionable circles. Why should not the scholastic football racer be as dear to the fashionable heart as the well-bred hackney? Does it not cost as much to produce and maintain him, and is he not as artistically disfigured when he comes out of a match? If fashion does not treat the football playing youth better than this, then is the fame for which they strive at our modern Olympian games but a hollow mockery. The energetic attack of the Emperor on vice ana crime in Berlin, and tho consequent removal of the Berlin chief of police, dis closes the fact that the police organization constituted by Bismarck did not have any time to spare in suppressing vice and ciime. It was organized to hunt down the Social Democrats, and the thieves and bawds of the German metropolis consequently thrived without check. The young Emperor may bo rather abrupt in his reforms; but when such a condition of things is revealed abruptness in reforming is a decided virtue. Ix is an interesting comment on the state of manners in what Is supposed to bo the centre of lashion to And the London Specta tor asserting that a gentleman may be cour teous to servants or others in his employ. A gentleman must be courteous to those who are subject to him in any way, for the all sufficient reason that if ho is not, he is not a gentleman. It may be possible under peculiar circumstances to be discourteous to those who can resent it, but not to those who cannot, The surplus of apples in New England is alleged to be so great that it is proposed to let the charitable institutions or New Toik send sacks and barrels to the rural districts and have them filled with apples free of cost. This is a good way of disposing of a valueless surplus, but we will venture the prediction that the thrifty New Englanders will find a use for most of their apples in the form of cider, apple butter, and even feed for animals. Ignatius Donneliv has brought two more libel suits against the St. Paul Pwncer Press one for $100,000 and the other for $50, 000. On the returns from his former suit this will net him $1 50, which hardly seems worth the trouble. But If Senator Quay should ex hibit an equal industry against all the papers which published that certificate, it might at the same per cent of dividend yield him a large revenue. The New Tork Court of Appeals has de cided that the plea of usury is a good de fense in a mortgage foreclosure, and has an nulled a mortgage on which ten per cent of the principal had been withheld by the lender. This affords a good text for our New York cotemporaries to enlarge on the advance of Farmers' Alliance principles to the extent of capturing the highest court of New York. The astute statesman, Hon. Isaac Pusey Gray, ol Indiana, betrayed some uneasiness before the Ohio election lest Campbell's vic tory might interfere with the Presidental boom of Isaac Pusey Gray. The latest ad vices indicate that tho Gray boom has Just the same value now as before the election. Gov. Gray can continue to treasure it up in his dime savings bank. The exigencies of politics have gone very far when, as in Chicago, the Times makes a great jubilation because J. V. Farwellina public speech made himself obnoxious to tho Anarchists. The Hon. Carter Harrison should take an early opportunity of inform ing the rest of the woild if the Anarchists hold the casting vote in tho World's Fair city. The Shah of Persia is also troubled with the necessity of dealing with heresy, but his measures are much more thorough than the disciplinarians of this land. The heads of the unorthodox teachers are removed not figuratively but literally. As a conse quence there is little talk in Persia about revising the Mahommodan creed. One hundred million bushels of grain is the total of shipments at Buffalo through the Erie canal up to the end of October, and the total for tho season is estimated at 125, 000,000 bushels. No wonder railroad influ ence looks askance at the proposition to con nect Pittsburg with the lakes by ship canal. The news that a club of young Republi cans in Indianapolis voted down a resolu tion endorsing Harrison's nomination by 63 to 2 and adopted one supporting Gresham will look to the administration like offensive partisanship. It is safe to wager that there w ere few officeholders in that club. "Women' in various cities have undertaken the salutary work of sanitary reformers and have insisted on having the streets cleaned up. This permits the expression of a hope that women as a rule will abandon the fool ish fashion of sweeping the streets with their skirts. Among the examples of the silence which is eloquent is tho omission from the speeches of the Hon. Thomas B. Reed of any refer ence to the leadership of James O. Blalno and the policy of reciprocity. SOME people may have thought it indis creet for the New York Republican organs to claim victory with such unalloyed confi dence before the election; but they had to claim H when they could. If mortification of the mind is a salutary discipline the organic editors should be sen tenced to wait two woeks until the election insanity has subsided and then read their own campaign editorials. Now that they have got past election with more or less damage to their party, tho Bcpublican Senators should arrive at a speedy decision whether they picfer white wash or dodging. If the Republican party in the State has got to carry Boyer and McCamant, and in the nation, Egan and Raum, it will have reason for protesting against the severity of the handicap. As it will take about six weeks for any of our war vessels to reach Valparaiso, there will be plenty of time to let things simmer down and to clear the air of all misunder standings. THE appearancs of the young Ducd'Or leansas a co-respondent in adivoicesult indicates that French morals must be get ting down to about the English level. "With the elections over, the discreet Matthew Stanley Quay may reflect that it is rather late in the day for libel suits. Gas or coal? is a conundrum that is giv ing additional poignancy to householders by the regime of twenty cent gas. 1'etter Will Stay Away. Lawrence Journal. The hatchet with which George Washing ton cut down the cherry tree will bo on ex hibition at the Chicago Fair. It is s.ifR to say that wheifPeffergoes to tho Exposition he cmnot be induced to cuter tho building which contains it. AMERICA'S DISCOVERER. Historical Evidence That St Brendan Was the First European Here He Taught the Natives Christianity Before Cortez Arrived on the Spanish Maln. St. Brendan, of Ardfert, in Kerry, li said to have been the first European discoverer of the New World. Of this historical fact there fortunately is ample evidence, doc umentary and otherwise, scattered through out the world, which only requires being brought together and put into form to cloarlyshow, beyond all dispute, that not only St. Brendan landed in America at least eight centuries beforo Columbus was born, but that Columbia and Brazil are taken from ancient Irish mimes, and that Fheargbal, Burnamed the Geometer, better known in history by his Latinized name of VlrgHhis, a nativo of Ulster, and a scholar of tho great school of Armagh, had demonstrated the sphoricity of the earth over 600 ye.ii s before the birth or Gallileo, to whom generally the credit of the discovery is given. Columbus Mas indeed a verv extraordinary man, and fully deserves to fill a prominent place "in history, for his ability and porsv verance in pi luting out to tho navigators and geographers of his day that Cathav, or China, could bo i cached "by sailing direct West instead of coing round thC Cape of Good Hope, as the Portuguese and other ex plorers of the time been in tho habit of do ing. In tho pursnitof this purpose he was Intercepted by the American Continent, which stretches from north to south; so that, as far as ho w.is concerned, the discovery of America was purely accidental, oecanse China was the object of 'his voyage; andns he was by no means the first white man to reach the Western World, ho isnot Justly en titled to be called Its discoverer. Irishmen Were Hero Ages Ago. The Irish, tho Northmen, the Welsh and the Basques were there ages beforo he was born; and it is almost certain that those an cient sea dogs known ns the "Phoenicians" crossed the South Atlantic from the West Coast or Africa, where they had a strong col ony and where a very largo ruin of one of their cities has lecentlv been discovered, much indeed to the amazement of tho scien tific and archeological world. Some few years ngo. when traveling in Ireland, says a writer in the Irish Canadian, my attention was directed to St. Brendan's claim of being tho discoverer of the New World, through a pontifical mass celebrated by the Bishop of Kerry in the open air on St. Brendan's Head, a bold promontory forming the south side of Tralee Bay, whence, in tho year 530 or 551. Brendan sailed away to discover the Thalluv Hearh, or Western Land, of which a tradition had ex isted among the ancient Irish, and does more or less still in the Irish language. On subsequent visits to Ireland, I often listened with pleasure to stories and legends recited in tho mellifluous tongue of the Celt by un educated peasants, to whom the traditions had descended from remote ages, being transmitted from siro to son in the language In which the Biohnn Code was written, and in -which Patrick delivered his message to the Irish Monarch and his Fels More, or Parliament, at Tarn. Thc"e circumstances awakened in me an interest in St. Brendan and his remaikablo voyage, and as a result of thatinteiest I have, for the last three or four j ears, in mv hurahlo way been collect ing evidence of Brendan's discovery, and I am fairly astounded at the amount of it there is In existence, and might by a society bo easily bioucht together for publication. Reference to Brendan's Voyage. This evidenco of classification might, in a general way, be divided somewhat ns fol lows: that found in tho SkeabFheanachtheds, or ancient stories of Ireland, still existing in the Iiish language as, for instance, the legend of the CaunechFuenh, n which there is a pointed allusion to tho voj ago of Bren dan to the Duounli Hearh or Western World, as there are also in the beautiful poems of Ossian, or, more correctly speaking, Ushecn, one of the world's greatest poets, whom the Scotch writer.McPherson, tried haid to man ufacture into a Scotchman, but failed. Ellank Brassil, or as it is called in English books, "Hy Brassil," was tho traditional en chanted island of the ancient Irish a kind of an island of joy occasionally seen when Learh, the Irish Sea God, was in good humor. The imaginary island, which was placed in the ocean off the Gal way coast, in after ages gave its name to Brazil, in South America, as the Portuguese were well acquainted with the story of Brendan's voyage, and Brazil being in all probability the first portion of the New World upon which his eyes had rested. There is also evidence to be found in ancient Irish booksand manuscripts, many of which, I m glad to say, are still in ex istence, notwithstanding the wholesale de struction of schools and libraries in Ireland by Danes and Normans the first out of lovo of pillage and rapine, and the second in order to,ns far as possible, destroy every vestige and trace of Ireland's arly learning and civilization. Evidence in favor- of Brendan's voyage is to be met with in most large libraries, such ns those of Trinity Col lege, Dublin, British Museum, London, tho Bodlean at Oxford, the libraries of Stowe, of Cambridge, of the Scotch universities and schools, mall of which there are numerous Irish-written books and manuscripts. Searching in the Libraries. The inquiry might also be prosecatedon the continent of Europe, and more espec ially in such libraries as those of Paris, Lon vain, Bruges, Naples, Pavla, Vienna, Saltz burgll (of which Virglllus, the geometer, already alluded to, was bishop), Salamanca, Florence, Borne and other ancient seats of learning, some of which positively owe their origin to Irish missionaries who left Ireland when she was, as Montalembert says, "the School of the West." In these libraries there are treasures of Irish literature written in various periods by natives of Ireland, as ell as priceless books and manuscripts taken for safety at different times to the continent by Irish monks and other exiled scholars. The libraries of Nor way, Denmark and Sweden also contain evi dences of Brendan's voyage, because tho Danes did not destroy all the beautifully illuminated books and manuscripts which they found In the schools of Ireland; but, on the contrary, a deal of th4m were saved and carried away by the invaders to their northern homes. In 759 they plundered Mungret and other monasteries and schools on the Kiver Shannon and along the west coast: and while thoy destroyed the build ings they generally carried awav the valu ables, of which the splendidlv-bound and illuminated tomes and documents formed a portion; and ,to day many of these literary treasures are safe in the libraries ot Copen hagen, Stockholm, TJpsal, Cbrlstiansand,and other northern schools and cities. He Taught the Natives Christianity. According to eleven different Latin man uscripts in the National Library, Paris, one of which dates from the eleventh century, St. Biendau left Traleo Bay about 550 a. d. on a mission to the undiscovered country which he believed to exist beyond the At lantic. Tho vessel he embarked in with his companions and provisions, including five pigs, was caught in a current, and, after a voyage of many weeks, he landed ina strange country, where he taught the natives the truths of Christianity. After seven years he returned to Ireland, and sub sequently tried second voyage to the same country, as he had promised to re-visit it, but -nas baffled by tho wind and tide. He died in tho odour of sanctity in 578, aged ninety-four year. The curious thing is that, when Cortez invaded Mexico ho found the natives in possession of some or the doctrines of Christianity, which they said had been taught them Dya stranger clad in a long robe, who came to them from the Holy Island beyond the sea in a "boat with m ings" many centuries before, and pro mised to return to them. The advent of Cortez was, in fact, hailed as a fulfillment of this tradition. The strange country referred to was tho present county of Devonshire in the south west of England to which" St. Brendan was. cairiedby the gulf stream, and where, dur ing his stay, he founded the Church of Bren dan, around which a village subsequently clustered that still bears his name. Has a Presidental Bearing, Philadelphia Teleerapli. Viewed from a national standpoint the elections of this month are of especial interest on account of the near approach of another Presidental contest. The only thing that is reasonably clear at this timo is that there will be no such demoralizing political landslide, one way or the other, as took place lasf fall. t He Will Chance It. Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Governor Campbell first said: "I will chanco it." He doubtless now wishes he had stuck to it, instead of following Mills in a wild goose chase. Tho Democrats of Ohio who made tho platform will havo to do the voting for him, and they naturally don't like to havo their work slighted. Botli .Sides Claiming Victory. ' bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. The politicians on both sides ale claiming cverj thing, ami some oftlicm will continue to do it until a day or t- o alter tho returns iuc all in, no matter what the l eturus arc. DB. XILXIgAir WILL MMAJH. The Resignation of the New Tork Pastor It to Be Reconsidered. Nbw Tons, Nov. 3. The Hov. 3. C. K.'3I11H- ean. pastor of the First Reformed Fresby." terlan'Church on WestjOpe Hundred andi Nineteenth street,tner IMtb; avenne.jwhp-, was-cqii-iju.or tiie charge oijieresy Dy ine Prtsbyteiy jo wblcn tiid-xCntiAsn'" belongs after be had sent in' his resignation of his pastorate, will probably remaia" ok- pastor after all. When the resignation was handed to tho congregation it was, accepted by a vote of 10 to 9. As thore are about 125 mem bers of the Church, tho Vote was not a fair test. Immediately after tho vote had been taken, the Secretary, R. W. Clyde, ascer tained thnt two of the persons who voted did so under a misapprehension. Aiemonstrunce, with over'' 70 names at tached, against the resignation ' was made ready to be presented to the Presbytery. It was not necessary, however, as the Pre sby terv sustained the minister's position as re gards tho exorcise of citizenship, and by a two-thirds voto declared that he -nas not teaching heresy, and even asked him to stay with his chuicli. "So. my lnends, itnll lies with you," said Mr. Milligan to his congregation yesterday. "irl remain and you will work with me. eood results will lollow. One man may put to flsht 1 000 and two men 10,000, but the two must bo in accord." As the church members are mostly in fayorof the pastor's remaining, it is likely, that at a meeting of the Church a week from to-moriow night action will be taken re scinding the acceptance of tho resignation. A meeting of the Session of the Church will be held to-night. Their action counts for something. The full Church meeting is tho decisive one. The decision of the Presbytery in tho heresy caso will be appealed to the Synod. Mr. Milllzan. however, is not individually concerned In this. According to the rule of the denomination, on appeal the Presby tery becomes the defendant, and is held ac countable as a body for its action. PEOPLE KNOWN TO FAME. The Czar is again on the move. This time be has gone to Borki, where he narrowly escaped injury several years ago. As an evidence of friendship the French Government is about to confer decorations upon the Russian officers, Dimitri Donskci and Nimin Zalinia. Loed Mansfield, whose death is likely to occur soon, is a wise old gentleman of 85, who is very generally supposed to be the original of Mrs. Burnett's old Earl in "Little Lord Fanntloroy." There was quite a gathering of literateurs yesterday at Camden, N.J. Sir Edwin Arnold, James Wallace, John Russell Young anu Henry Guy Carlton' spent an hour with the poet, Walt Whitman. The McCarthys, who are inclined to be ultra-fashionable, are beginning to spell their name McCarty with the French prefix de be fore it. Mr. Justin McCarthy lias not yet adopted this stylo, it is understood. Mr. Gladstone is almost the only member of tho House of Commons who sits uncovered in Parliament. Thus his face is more readily scanned by visitors who look at Briton's legislators at a distance through a grating. Ella Smith, ot Argonia, Kan., a lead ing and a handsome woman suffragist, pro posed marriage to Walter Tiffin, and within three minutes Justice Gibson was sent-for and she had him married and her deed to him in her pocket. This coos to provo the old adage that a man never knows when be is tafe. "William Allen Butler, the author of "Nothing to Wear," and senior of tho law firm to which belong Messrs. Stlllman and Hubbard, who are the trustees in the HoDkins-Scarles will controversy, is sup posed by several New England journals to be a son of General Benjamin F. Bntler. But he is the son of the Benjamin F. Butler who, 60 years ago, was Attorney General of New York. BALBOAD COMPETITORS. Rates Said to Be Too Low to Admit of Profit to the Carriers. Toledo Commercial. Surprise is expressed that railroads in this country should be cutting rates now that abundant harvests and Excellent demand are likely to give the roads all they can do to handle them. Bat the Canadian railroads are competitors and are not under the Juris diction of our Interstate Commerce Com mission. They fix rates to suit themselves and consequently are carrying much more cheaply than is profltaDle, because of the rivalry between tho Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Companies. At a meeting of the Grand Trunk people in London it was openly stated that low rates are ruining the Grand Trunk and some advice making an arrangement with tho Canadian Pacific, which must also feel the effects of the undue competition. Thoso more directlyin the management, however, contend that "American and water competi tion must be mot." From which it appeals that the same excuse offered here is reiter ated there. In the view of short-sighted persons such competition is a good thing for the people. Thoio of better understanding look upon Buch commercial destructive warfare with regret. The public are tho ul timate losers, as little as the many can see it. It is to be hoped that the suicidal con test will come up to an end Deforo either company is driven to insolvency. SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON. The lawyers know by this time just what Mr. Quay is here for. Cleveland voted like a father yester day, but ho voted the wrong way, Just the" same. Men-of-was loaded arms. receive boarders with Tne adult only has a vote, Tho boy's not in the game. But give him horn and healthy throat And he'll get there just the same. A great many people are not as popular to-day as they thought they were. Food for thought is of necessity, proven der for the brain. Allegheny is putting on metropolitan airs with a vengeance.' If half what is hinted at is true she will have to enlarge her prison accommodations and sewers. A PBETTY woman cannot throw a stone, but she can shoot a glance that hit3 tho mark every time. Coakse wit was rightly rebuked In a borne theater the other night. What raises a laugh in New York is liable to raise a row in Pittsburg, and the giddy players should govern themselves accordingly. Thanks to Quay and the Senate majori ty the campaign in this State is still on, more's the pity. The sausage is only skin deep, and that's the beauty of It. The Sheriff alone suffers when business is booming. Why not let him woilc off a few murderers during his idle hours? "How is it all over?" says Ma-a-a-ary; "I reckon It i," says John. "Were tho rascals routedi"says Ma-a-a-ary, ' Or aro they still marching ont" Then John looked at Mary sadly, And he wiped a big tear away; "S"o long as there's voters, dear Mary, Every rascal will have bis jla-O'-ay." TnE candidate who was scratched yester day feels soi e to-day. Tmz ti?er is not the only member Tammany that wears stripes. of It's a blessing that gravestones are. si- 'icnt. If they could speak some of them vwouId ask. the first stonecutter who passed their way to chip otr the inscription. t All tho rascals m.ty not have been turned out ycstciday, but thoy ere badly scared. WOMEN'S EYES NEEDED. -a The Health Protective Association Wants a Woman Inspector of Markets A Club Formed i to Give Afternoon, Concerts Paragraphs Pertinent to Toll to People. Having succeeded in partly "smoking out" isrWolteTJijIie, city, tho HealtotecUVd-is !sociatonTts "now ready "to attend fotlie Market House. Yesterdaytmoining there was an enthusiastic tumoutat'th-' Library parlors, when smoke consumers'andgarbage collectors occupied most of the ladies' at tention. So farastha Market House is con cerned, it is not by hearsay that the mem bers know of its exceedingly disagreeable and filthy condition. Pittsburg women aie as prone to buy their own meat and vege tables ns to conduct tho purchase of a seal skin coat or a pair of gloves. While market ingthey havo found time to spy and things are not, to be moderate, even encouraging. The floors of the market house, as every body Knows, have always been considered and used as a place for refuse. The conse quences aro obnoxious to one's nose, offen sive to one's eyes and exceedingly destruc tive to one's garments. Tho association, too, to a man, or to a woman, since it is largely feminine, declares that a woman in spector of tho market house must 60on take the place of the male incumbent. A man, they say, is wanting in those qualities which aro required for success In this work. A man is not nebbing enough, but no one ever heard of awoman who was not.A man looks over a building, but a woman peers into its nooks and crannies, picks her way through dark corners and scents an odor yards away. So the man inspector must go, and a woman take bis place if we aie to have a clean market bouse and keep it so. Concerning cleanliness in street cars and public buildings, the Association re ports brisk progress. The postmaster who was visited the other day, becanse of a com ment made in this apartment, courteously offers the Association all the assistance it it is in his " power to give xno corridors or the postonjee are to be placarded. Mrs. Oakley, the Chair man of the association, thinks if the people at larse aid In enforcing tho rules thus made public by the association, the work will be gicatly simplified. The conductors in the various cablo and electric lines are Joining with their women patrons in enforcing ab stinence on the street cars from tho out ward sign or the use of tobacco. Already women can wear smart frocks in the cars without the same fear of defilement that has governed their dressing in years past. A party of ladies are forming what is to be called "The Ladles' Afternoon Concerts," the prototype of w hich, it is said, exists in Buffalo. Those interested aro lovers of music, pnre and simple, who will meet to discuss and study intelligently the classical music writers of tho past in their lives and works. They will also devote themselves to the good class music of the day. Being yet em bryotic, it is hardly possible to scan the en tiro scope proposed. It is sufficient to say that the concerts deserve support and should draw members from our cultivated circles. Of course it is understood that they have nothing professional about them, but are simply made up of a little band of women who are music lovers. To-day at 11 o'clock there will be a meeting for oreanl zationiu Mrs. Smith's muslcchnmbers in the Mozart Club Rooms. Hostetter buildlnir. when among thepeople present will be Miss Julia M. Harding, Miss KateMcKnight, Mrs. Pll-pioflnn Tlimann Hfni7nn stflaa TflfaA HTainnii Mrs. John Lyon, Miss Mamie Holmes and Mrs. John M. Oakley. Social Chatter. Tnn orphans' tea party will bo given in Lafayette Hall, November 18. The eeneral committees and those in charge of tables and booths have not yet been arranged, at pres ent the power being vested in an executive board composed of Miss Olive Jones, Presi dent; Mrs. J. D. Callery, Sirs. H. Mackin, Mrs. nenry Dalmever, Jr., Mrs. McCaffrey, Mrs. Katherlne Oldshue and Miss Mary 8ta ford. Vice Presidents; Mrs. J. Ledlie Glon inger, Treasurer, and Miss Mary Phelan, Secretary. The annual fair of the Women's Associa tion of the United Presbyterian Cbutoh is arranged for December 3 and 4. The money realized will go to three eleemosynary insti tutions the Orphans' Home, the Memorial Hospital and tiie Aged People's Home, all of which are governed by controlling boards formed of members of the association. The bi-weekly riding party rode out from the Schenley Park Biding Academy aug mented by several new members. Interest in riding continues to grow with the growth of the park and the good thoroughfares. The New York Symphony Club will be heard to-morrow evening in Carnegie Hall, where tickets may be purchased in advance and also at Alex. Ross' music shop, on Fed- -eral street. Those interested in the Fruit and Flower Mission are reminded that Friday morning iacloction day, when officers will be chosen for the coming six months. Miss Chisholk, daughter of Judge Chls holm, of Brantford, Canada, is a visitor with Miss Green, Marie Poe street, Ben Venue place. The Meade-Breed nuptials were celebrated last night in St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. BTSSELL 'HABBIS0N SCARED. His Montana Paper Thinks This Is a Very Strange World. Helena Journal. A glance over the world at this time re sults in a strange panorama. In Italy the priest and the King are at loggerheads; in Spain there are floods and rumors of war; Russia is described as "pressing Turkey," and while theie is danger that thousands of tho peasantry will perish of starvation dur ing the winter, the Czar is on a pleasure trip, the trains of exiles move on to the wastes of Siberia, and the reign of despotism is strengthening its foundations. In South America there are revolts, revolutions and insurrections in progress; Chile has given serious offense to the United States by her abominable conduct, and peace seems far away. In Canada there is open discontent and talk of annexation; the people desire such relations with this country as they can never have while they are a colony of Great Britain, and the mothercountry is watching them with jealous anxiety. In the United States great prosperity and perfect peace prevail, but several States are in the throes of an exciting political campaign, and from every quarter come reports of murder, sui cide, burglary and all manner of crime. It is a strange world, and the telegraph gives a fearful picture of its daily life. Delia Farnell's Advice to Irishmen. Dcbhx, Nov. 3 JJnited Ireland prints a lotter from the late Mr. Parnell's mother ap pealing to Irishmen to vote for Parnollito candidates, and adding that their great ral lying cry must be, "Remember Parnell and his murderers." Newark Gets the O. N. G. Site. Newark, O., Nov. 3. ISpecial.) There Is great rejoicing here to-night over the fact the commission to select an encampment site for the O. N. G. voted to locate same in Newark. Brazil Taxing European Products. Rio jAWETao, Nov. 8 The Brazilian Gov ernment proposes to impose a tax of 50 per cent on all European products. TALK OP TIIE TIMES. Judgment day, Tuesday. Sew York World. It was the kind of n judgment, though, that surprised a good many. Tennessee clearly needs to enlarge Its ac commodations for criminals Chicago Tri bune. If the miners keep on, no accommo dations will bo needed. Perhaps the time is coming when some American managorwlll also prodnco with success leal American plays In Europe. Chicago Sews. There is no reason why this could not be done. The materi.ills at hand. The American hog has followod In Napo leon's footstep1? It has eroded the Alps. Omaha World slerald. It is to be hoped that it-non'tcontinue to follow in his footsteps. It is too soon to have it consigned to un isle in the sea. Blizzards in Dakota and prairlo fires in Kansas are giving tho poor farmer a hard fight for life. Chicago Times. This is a great country- It has space enough for floods, drougn'ts, blizzards and hnrricanes to work at once and still leave the majority un touched. , ' To test the clcycle as a dispatch carrier in times or.wnr may not be an immediate pos sibility. It is always a good thing, however, to let your cuemv know how yon are fixed. There are 7UO000 bicycles iu this country r and 21,000,000 peiso-is who think they aro ex pert riders, Kansas City Titties. Chile is not a good country fot bljclcs, so the expcr.s need have no lear. AIT IHT2S2ST IH THE SOUTH Shown by President Harrison's Letter of Be cret to Anrnsta, Ga. AcorsTA, Nov. 3. The Angusta Exposition recently sent President Harrison a copy of tho resolutions adopted at a mass meeting jOn the return of the exposition delegation jfrom the East and Washington. An invita tion was extended the President to attend the exposition. His letter acknowledging tho receipt of the resolutions shows his in terest in the prosperity of tho entire South: I beg to assure you that I appreelat-verr highly me engrossed resolutions or the meeting held la Angnsta on September 21, which has Ju been re celrcd. I am snre tlit yon will not donhtthit it wonld give me pleasnrc tn attend your exposition, nut i am rcry busy anil tale up the wor or an other winter without mlirh rest during the sum- rli I wl'"e I was at the seashore the iLillr wort PJ he departments came to my desk as precisely as li 1 had been here. Every 8"cn Journev as you Bropode involves a nervous strtln whleh can only B appreciated by those who have had much of that sort or thine to do. It Is not probable, therefore, as I said to you when here, that I can f nrther wit ness mylntirest Inthesnecevsof the Augusta ex, position by a visit to it. I should be glad to have from you anv report or Information that will en able nc to enlarge my knowledge of the Industrial progress of the South. TIMOTHY HOPKINS HOPEFUL. He Says He Has Never Yet Made an Over ture for Compromise. Chicago, Nov. 3. Timothy Hopkins, the young Californlan who may or may not bo given possession of something like $50,000,000, according as the Hopkms-Searles will case is decided, arrived to-day at tho Auditorium. He is on his return to San Francisco. "1 am not in the least discouraged," he said, when questioned upon the result of tho first hearing. "In fact, there was not the slightest thing in the hearing or decision to make mo so. If there was any advantage gained from the hearing it was in our favor. Our side was not heard at all, yet we have had the benefit of learning much of the evi dence for the other side, and this evidenools the same which they will produce at the new trial." i To questions as to whether tiie indications were not for a contest lasting years, and whether If such should prove to bo the fact he would consent to a compromise, Mr. Hop kins begged leave not to answer. "I will say, however," he added, "that I have at no time made any overtures for a compro mise." STODBY POINTS OF YIEV7. Cobs is pressing Donnybrook closely for sblllelab. honors. Omaha World-Herald. It there must bo war with Chile let it come at once. All the American college football teams aro in training and an army could be recruited to thrash all creation. Chicago Timet. A Democratic paper asks: "Are there two Blaines?" For the sake of the Democrats it is to be hoped not. They have generally fonnd onejBlaine enough to keep them busy. Chicago News. Seeiko that music is, by nature, non-partisan, it 'is rather rough on the tooters of Cork that their instruments should be smashed in every unpleasantness in that lively town. But then drums are made to be beaten. Aeto York Commercial Advertiser. Eoan is not an issue now. When Chile grants or promises reparation and furnishes a suitable apology for her outrages against American sailors and her Insults for the American flag the Egan case may be taken np in this country. St Louis Globe-Democrat. If the young Emperor succeeds in sup pressing immorality in Berlin, he will be greater than if he had led a conquering army over Europe. Mayors throughout the woild will keep their eye on Wilhelm while he is reforming his capital. Louisville Courier-Journal. Ik 1876 Russia declared war against Turkey because the Turks were persecuting and massacreing their Christian subjects. If any nation were looking for a good excuse to make war on Russia, the present persecu tion of tho Hebrews might furnish it. Buffalo Express. Hello! Here comes Samoa again with her feathers up and her war bonnet quivering in the breeze. Well, the more the merrier. It begins tolook as if we would have a high old time, and that the entire gang of awak ened nations wilt organize themselves into a Donnybrook lair. Butte Miner. Whitewashing in Practice. Philadelphia Press. The marble statues of eminent public men in Westminster Abbey are all whitewashed. In America it is usually the man himself who gets whitewashed, and not bis statue. Tho Work of Factions. Philadelphia Kecord. Factions threatens to undo the labor of years and to delay indefinitely the fulfill ment of many bright hopes and aspirations. DEATHS DEEE AND ELSEWHERE. Bank'Examlncr J. W. Magrnder. John W. Magruder, United States Bank Examiner for the Boston district, died In Boston SuDday, Broker Evans was an old and cloe friend of Mr. Magruder, and Evans violent end seemed to prey on the Bank Examiner's mlnd. 3Ir. Magruder was born In Prince George county, 3Id.. about SO years ago. Ills early home was in the vicinity of Washington, and at an early age ho entered the Treasury Department In the Comp troller's division. While there he attracted the attention' of Comptroller Knox, who Intrusted him with many Important special mis sions, which were executed with marked ability. In 1880 the great conversion of the Government 4s was carried out hr a syndicate of bankers, among whom Asa P. Potter, of the Maverick Bank, was a prominent figure. Putter and Magruder became . close friends, and when; in 1831. the bond convers ion had been effected. Mr. Jlagruder received the appointment of Bank Examiner for the Boston dis trict, ana couuuueu la tuai uuice unui ills ueam. Colonel Joseph C Hays. Colonel Joseph C. Hays, father of Assem blyman F.W. Hays, of Oil City, and Major John B. Hays, of the New York Tnbtcne, died yesterday morning of paralysis, at Meadvllle. He was born In 1810.- He teamed the -printer's trade and(,spent several years In the office of General Cameron. A warm frlendsnlp endured between tnem through life. Colonel Hays was for sometime editor and proprietor of the Craicord Messenger. He after ward founded the Crmcfnrd Journal. In politics he was originally a Whig, but was one of the first to give support to the Republican party, whose prin ciples he had advocated In the Journal tor some time prior ts the inception of that party. Dr. John J. Jennings. Dr. John J. Jennings, the venerable father of the Masonic Home, died Monday night at hat institution at Grand Baplds., He wa3 a Mason, and had held hlgb offices In the order. He was until a few Jears ago a wealthy and prosperous merchant here, anddurlngnis prime he advocated the building of the .Masonic Home for indigent members of the fratemltv. little realizing that he would soon be a dependent himself. He was the first inmate the Institution and the first one to die. Mrs. Leonora L. nance. Mrs. Leanora L. Hance, wife of Oscar L. Hance. a former reporter on the Tittsburg Com mercial Gazette died at the home or her parents. ex-Connty Commissioners' Clerk M. C. Hose and wife, at New Castle yesterday afternoon, aged 23 years. The deceased has resl ded there all her life: was one of New Cattle's bett voting ladies, and had been married less than two years. Mr. Hance Is confined In a Pittsburg hospital with typhoid fever. Walter Crisp. Walter Crisp, second son of Congressman Charles F. Crisp, died ato o'clock, 3Ionrtay night, at Americus. Ga. It was the news of the young man's fatal illness that compelled Judge Crisp to break his campaign appointments In New lork and Massachusetts. Obituary Notes. Azn BrcK Ciuffee. one of fhebet known railway men in Canadi. died at Montreal yester day, lie w3 a nitlve of Vermont, where he was buruinlSO, and went to Canada about 30 years ago. James E. Lewis, part proprietor and Superin tendent of the Erie Iron Works, died last night at Cleveland soon after reaching his "home. Hebe came unconscious while on his way to the works In lit-carriage, and died soon afterwaid of heart failure. W. A. BAcnKTT, who for nearly a quarter or a century wa3 the musical critic of the London Morning Post, died recently, aged 5. He was also editor of the Musical Ttmex. lie began his musical career as a choir boy at St. Paul's Cathedral, la Loudon. KATHAniXE Bemsex ScnoTER, daughter or Attorney Sol bchoyer, Jr., died yesterday at the home of lar parents In Swlssralc. bhe was n rears of age. Funenl services will be held at the home to-morrow afternoon at J o'clock. Inter ment will be private. B. W. STEfle. elltorandowncroft:ieCokrado Springs Ikwtte. dud icry suddenly yesterday niomlngofilicumatlsmofthc heart, of which he lias been suffcrhigrtir a number ofyejrs. Mr. Steele was 40 years of age.auatUu of liaterhlll. Mass., aud one of the most popular writers In the country. . CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are 74,000 Germans in London. Crfme is very rare among women in Scotland. , Only one Englishman in 27 pays in come tax. An English peer cannot resign hit peerage. There are 13 regiments of heavy cavalry in the British army. Preston is supposed to be the most Roman Catholic town in England. An average of four p'ersons die daily la Englend from delirium tremens. A Litchfield man, who is looked np to, stands 7 feet 7 inches in nia slippers. Statistics prove that only one man in six who emigrates Uoes bo with advantage. Before the reformation 50 per cent of the land in tho United Kingdom belonged to the church. A gourd, with a neck coiled like a sefc pent.in the act of striking, Is a boasted curi osity in Mount Holly, N. C. Of mixed marriages only 4.4-5 per cent of Hawaiian women are married to for eigners, being in number 600, or 73-5 per cent oX the Hawaiian married women. The banks of the Columbia near Uma tilla have for many years been rich with In dian relics and curios. One woman of thai place has a collection of nearly 2,000 pieces, which has an enormous value. It is said that the King of ' Slant dis guises himself and walks about the streets of his capital for the purpose of learning the true condition of his people. In conse- Suenco of the knowledge thus acquired the .big has already started various reforms. Eailroad statistics show that Americans do more traveling than any other people, averaging 29 trips a year. The Englishman takes 19, the Belgian 11, the Frenchman, Swede, Norwegian and Spaniard ,5 each, while the Turk, Swiss and Italian take bus 1 each. Oyer the door of every house In the large village of Gojumura, Japan, is the motto, "Frugal in all things, Liquors pro hibited." That town believes in local option, and as every one has joined the ranks of total abstainers n o spirits of any sort can ba bought in the place. The percentage of individuals above 8 years old and able to read and writa Hawaiian, English or some European language, is as follows in order of merit, viz: Americans, 93 04: British, 90.60; Germans, 89.SS; half castes, 83.05; natives, 79.80; Hawaiian-born foreigners, 62.1X One of the longest chutes in the world s located at a logging camp at Clifton, Ore. It is nearly three-quarters-of a mile long, and cost 00,000. Tho bottom is shod with railroad iron, and. it takes a log 20 seconds to make its descent into the water, which at times will be thrown to a height of 200 feet. In Maine an ear of corn, or more strict ly speaking, six ears of corn, have been found, combined at the stalk, but spreading, dividing and curving into separate ears, till they form, what resembles the ankle and hoofofahorse divided into toes. The en tire cob is covered with small kernels of the popcorn variety. A lady residing in Port Angeles has a curiosity, in the shape of a chicken born with four legs. It is nothing curious to see a chicken born with four legs, but they sel dom live as this one has done now nearly five months. The lady has two of the legs tied up, so that ttta chicken is not embar rassed while walking. The first water mark on record vas the coat-of-arms of a town. The early paper makers were not slow to adopt this idea in impressing upon their sheets the device of tho place where their mUl was situated. For instance, the coat-of-arms of the village of Rives, a dolphin, is a common mark on old papers. This mark is still in use to-day. Corea has its - seven wonders, among which is a hot mineral spring believed to cure all diseases; two springs, one of which is full and the other empty and vice versa; a cavern from which a wintry wind perpet ually blows; a forest that cannot be de stroyed, and a drop of the sweat of Buddha. No plants grow within 30 paces of this drop. The total wealth of an Alaska villaje has been estimated as follows: Number of dogs, 175; hunting sleds, 47; freight sled", 53, igloos (houses), 69; canoes, 51; kyaks. It; breech. loading rifles. 67: mnzzle loading rifles, 46; breech-loadingshotguns, J; muzzle loading shotguns, 31; revolvers, 27; axes (mostly old), 9; pickaxes, 6. Total value. $2,497. France possesses 1,1021 mineral springs, of which 1,027 are turned to account, and Al geria has 47 in use. Or the total in France 319 are sulphurous, like that of Amelie-les-Bains; 351 are alkaline, such as Vichy: 135 are ferruginous,forInstanceOrezzo,and219areof various sorts, some containing common salt, others sulphate of sodium, and a third group sulphate of lime. Corea has a famous "floating stone." It stands, or scem3 to stand, in front of the palace erected in .Its honor. It is an irregu lar, cube of great bulk. It appears to be resting on the ground, free from supports on all sides; bnt, strange to say, two men at ormosite ends of a roDe may nass'lt under the stone without encountering any ob stacle whatever. Corea also has a "hot stone." which, from remote ages, has lain glowing with heat on tho top of a high bill. A king crab was recently captured in Japan. In his native element the crab was of a deep green color, but in death he be came red. The body was round, resembling that of a turtle, and was 7 Inches thick and 40 Inches in circumference. Them were'10 legs, the forward ones measuring 61 inches in length and the hindmost pairSS Inches. The pincers of the forward legs were each 6 inches in length: the first Joint 13 22 incnes, the second 8 inches and the third 25inches in length. The distance from, claw to claw measured 11 feet. The three tribes of ithe Fort Berthold reservation are includedin the nlno tribes in the United States thatjhave nover been at war with the Government. Of these three the Mandans are the smallest, numbering a little over 200, smallpox having almost de stroyed theni about 1853. Bat they are the most interesting. There is a, story to the effect thnt they are descended from some Welshmen who sailed West from Wales in the eleventh century and were never heard of afterward. The story is that the party reached the month of the Mississippi ana worked their way up that river. Many of their words resemblo the Welsh language, and they are of much lighter complexion than Indians usually are. There are full blooded Indians almost whits among them. WRINKLED RHrMELETS. Bloobnmper (to Jaysmith.i banker.) Faiigle Is one of your preferred creditors, I under stand? j Jaysmlth Not much! He was always dunning me Smith, Gran & Co.'s Monthly. Mr. Opentop I can't eat this pie of yours. Maria. It would be sulclae. Mrs. Opentop tearfully). And. yet, before we were married you said you would die forme 1 Prick. No anglomaniac was he 'Twas very plainly true. He didn't give "Queen's English" the Bespect that was Its due. Washington Star. Mistress Tell the milkman to bring us. a pint orcrcim. Maid Noose, mom. He hasnt any cream. "Did he say so!" "No'm: but his milk doesn't raise cream. Pra tried itoften." Sea York Wteklg. I've often wondered to myself," Said thouplhful Mr. Both. "Why clergymen are spoken of 'As gentry of the cloth.' " Quoth Wlttlcns a man of jokes And tendency to shout them "I guess It's 'cause there's apt to be Abundant "nap' about them." '-Boston Courier Journal, "Blusher is the most bashful man I ever knew." "Well, how on earth did he ever come to get' married?" 'He was too bashful to refuse." Puck. Miss "VVayback Who's dead, ma? j-.' Mrs. Waybacl. No one as I knows on. What makes ye think someone is dead? Mls Va hick Pa Is brnshln'a his hat. St net " Smith's Good tews. He does not always feel" himself abused, AVTien heavy bills are sent him by the plumber. Bnt does when one comes In for gas he used When he was living out of town last summer. Stw York Prist. Insurance Solicitor Well, doctor, have you examined this uew client? Doctor I hadn't thought it necessary. Ton see, I've been treating blm for the last seven years-- I. S. TliaL's enough, dotcor. If lie survived that he must be a man of wonderful vitality. JD. ton Courier,
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