THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY," 'NOVEMBER"'- 18MT
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PITTSBURG, SUSOAT, NOV. 8, 18S1.
BLAINE AND SrKINLET.
It is not surprising to hear the names of
Blaine and MeKinley already mentioned
with high approval frora many quarters as
the ideal Republican ticket for 189Z Only
two doubts stand in the way: one whether
Blaine will run the other as to tho like
lihood of McKmley being willing to take
second place.
While there is nothing positive so far as
to either, neither doubt seems at all for
midable. Mr. Blaine is in uncommon
good health just now. Those who wrote
about him as a very sick man last summer
are constrained to admit that he has
shown up in excellent trim at Washing
ton. As to Major MeKinley, it is pre
cisely because he is an admittedly great
figure in the politics of the day that he
can afford to take second place. Besides,
there is no Republican in public life who
need feci ashamed to give precedence to
the one man, Blaine, whose intellectual
lead is no longer a matter of competition
but of universal acknowledgment
Such a ticket would, indeed, be power
ful to conjure witli. If the Republicans
be fortunate enough to secure Blaine and
MeKinley the resulting campaign will bo
without a parallel as an able presentation
of American interests.
OCR BENEFIT FROM CHICAGO'S FAIR.
The idea of closing the Pittsburg Ex
position when Chicago opens its great
World's Fair is so absurd that it is well
it has been advanced time enough to put
a quietus upon it When Chicago is
drawing everybody in a sight-seeing mood
that is precisely the occasion for Pittsburg
also to put its best foot forward.
Many thousands of people will travel
through Pittsburg to Chicago. They will
want to see everything of interest on the
route, and here is the half-way stopping
place between the seaboard and the big
city of the lakes. All over the world is
spread the fame of our industries, of our
gas, petroleum and coal mines. Our Ex
position should also then be at its best.
It will not, of course, compare with
the great International Fair at Chicago.
But it may be made much more inter
esting by the adoption of new ideas than
it has been yet One year ago The Dis
patch offered prizes for suggestions of
the best methods to increase interest in
our Exposition. Among others received
were plans for monumental structures of
coal, iron, steel and glass to be built by
contributions of material from these local
industries and to serve as municipal land
marks and famous advertisements. There
is time to cr.rr- this idea into effect before
the Chicago F.iir. The Exposition man
agers shoTilt be thinking about it now in
place of talking of shutting up during the
very best opportunity the Pittsburg Ex
position will ever have to help the renown
of the city.
BUSINESS "WITH BRAZIL.
The valuable results to be secured from
the policy of seeking to extend the mar
kets for our manufactured products in the
vast and growing field of South America
are reflected 111 our local reports to-day.
The furnishing of structural iron for large .?
prise capable of almost illimitable growth,
and it is satisfactory to local pride to'learn
that a Pittsburg establishment has already
contracts for a considerable amount of
work m that line.
Considered by itself the amount of work
comprised in the building by the Keystone
Bridge Company of a loundhouse and
machine shops for the railway at Santos,
and for two other railway bridges in
Brazil, furnishes no mean amount of em
plojmcnt for Pittsburg workmen and
profit for Pittsburg capital. But it is the
promise of expansion which gives this
business its most gratifying aspect South
America is a continent of half developed
resources, and the beginning of such or
ders will be followed by an immense in
crease. The policy of extending our busi
ngs to the South American Republics is
bearing good lmit and will yield far
greater returns in future.
SAVAGE RESPONSIBILITY.
It is questionable poiicy to allow a tribe
of Indians like the Cherokees to maintain
their present attitude of semi-independence.
The longer they continue as a dis
tinct people, and advance in civilization,
the more tenacious will they become of
what they may consider their peculiar
rights.
Tet the Indians which enjoy this inde
pendence arc among the most advanced in
tbe arts of peace. The Cherokees are
-what might be called a civilized people.
They maintain their tribe, but
they have abandoned the old tribal
form of Government for one which
is republican in character. They
arc to a large extent an autonomous people,
and in some resnects have a distinct na
tional existence so distinct and so inde
pendent of the United States that a
Cherokee could not becom a citizen of tho
United States without being naturalized,
the same as if they had been born on
foreign soil. The law governing this tribe
has been modified somewhat, but the
nationality of the tribe is practically as
distinct as it ever was.
The question as to how best to treat the
Indian has occasioned a great deal of re
cent discussion. The weight of opinion
is, however, in favor of breaking up the
tribes as soon as practicable. The reser
vation system does well enough for In
dians who have not advanced be
yond the shepherd stage, but as soon
as they have learned the art of
agriculture the further maintenance of
the reservation is an injury to them. It
retards their prosrress. and should be
abandoned as soon as possible. It is per
sonal responsibility which drills a man in
self-reliance, and makes him capable of
holding his own in the contest of life.
And it is especially for this reason that
each individual Indian should be made
personally responsible. In other words,
he should be placed on the footing of
other persons in the United States just as
soon as he has been educated to a point
where progress in civilization is made pos
sible. THE G. A. R. ORDER.
The order of General Palmer, of the
G. A. R., on the participation of members
of the order in public parades where the
Confederate colors are displayed was fore
shadowed before the election, but was de
laved so that it might not seem to be de
vised for political effect It is couched in
moderate language, and even goes to ex
tremes In avowing admiration for the
spirit of commemoration for heroes on the
part of the South. But it points out the
indisputable fact that the Confederate
colors were the standard of attack on the
United States Government, and that tho
members of the G. A. R. cannot partici
pate where they are displayed without
neglecting the pledge of the order to in
culcate the principles of-loyalty.
On all the ordinarily accepted rules of
public conduct the order is well founded.
There never was inhistory such a remark
able liberty given to the adherents of a
lost cause as has been shown in this coun
try. Imagine a procession displaying the
Stuart colors in England thirty years' after
the outbreak of 1745, or the Bonapartist
colors in Paris under the Bourbons, or the
Republican colors under Napoleon ILL
In any other nation in the world such a
display would he correctlyinterpreted as
a summons to revolution; and even now it
is difficult to see how it can express any
other sentiment than that of enmity to
the Government against which the Con
federate flag was raised.
Tet we all know that the meaning of
the displays of the Confederate flag in the
South has no such meaning. There may
be a few irreconcilables who hate the
United States Government; but with the
vast majority of the Southern people it is
an extreme and ill-judged expression of a
mere sentiment which they ke!p entirely
separate from their practical views. The
Southerners hold in dear memory the days
of fighting and suffering for the Confed
erate flag; j-.;t if anyone should take tho
occasion of its display to call the South to
arms under it it is safe to say that the
South alono could be trusted to suppress
any such crazy oratory.
The order of the G. A. R. Commander
Is therefore justified on ordinary grounds;
but from the practical side, it may be
doubted if it might not as wisely have
been omitted. The Confederate flag fool
ishness is simply the display of an ex
aggerated sentiment which will die out
soonest if ignored most completely.
EDISON ON LIFE.
Mr. Edison, in an interview else where,
goes what seems a long distance from his
ordinary work of making the most practi
cal application of his knowledge of elec
trical force, in developing a theory that all
atoms have intelligence, will power, vital
ity and choice of selection of their own.
But in the details of the theory Mr. Edi
son shows that it is capable of coming
close to a practical relation with the work
of scientific experimentalists, although
unfortunately there seems to be no way
of demonstrating the truth or falsity of
the theory.
The same idea has occurred to specula
tive students of natural philosophy since
the days of Pythagoras, but few have
gone so far in maintaining it or applied it
so closely to modem science as Edison.
The sum of attainable knowledge on such
a subject at present is that we do not
know. We know that there are certain
forms of life so closely akin to ours that
we can recognize in them intelligence, will
power, communicative ideas, and per
ceive that the denial of soul
to such forms of life as dogs and horses is
purely arbitrary and dogmatic. We also
know that the forms of life go away from
what we recognize as such by gradations
until we lose sight of will power in the
plants; and, finally, are unable to perceive
any life at all in inorganic matter. There
may be a life there which is so far re
moved from ours that we cannot perceive
it; but the speculation is to a certain de
gree cut short by recognizing that if there
is it cannot be what humanity defines as
life.
The speculation is an exceedingly inter
esting one even if no one can tell whether
is a guess at the great realities or a
merely clever imagination. This may be
one of the great secrets to be revealed in
the next world.
THE COURTS ON TRUSTS.
The decisions declaring the Tilden will
invalid as creating a trust not in accord
ance with public policy has an interesting
phase outside the one already commented
on in these columns. It is the strict view
of the law with regard to the limitations
placed on the creation of trusts. In this
aspect the decision would be a satisfactory
one if it were not in addition an illustra
tion of the irony of events by which trusts
in the main innocuous are declared invalid
while few of the obnoxious ones meet
with any interference.
The trust created by the Tilden will was
primarily to take charge of an endowment
for a free public library. But, with a
view to providing for one contingency
after another, the testator added discre
tionary powers until the trustees were left
at liberty to hold the property in trust and
apply its revenue to any purpose at their
discretion. This was creating a perpet
ual trust without any clearly defined limi
tation to the powers of the trustees; and
such a trust the New York courts hold
to be invalid. It is a case somewhat akin
to the Pittsburg and Lake Erie stock
trust which was nullified a few years ago
by the courts of this State on similar
grounds.
Such a rigid view of the courts ou the
subject of trusts would be gratifying if it
were not for the severe commentary con
tained in the fact that at the same time
these decisions are rendered the Standard
Oil Trust flourishes untouched; the
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evading the decisions against it; and
scores of other trusts which illustrated
how they can be created for obnoxious
purposes wax and thrive. It is one of the
singular features of our system of Justice
that the notable cases in which the trusts
are ruled out are those in which the trust
was for a public purpose, while trusts
created to engross and monopolize com
merce and industry have so far been able
to laugh at the law.
The courts should not relax their en
mity against trusts of loose and inimical
character. But they should direct it with
more vigor and discrimination against the
immense organizations which have had
little interference In late vears with their
function of squeezing millions annually
out of the masses of producers and con
sumers. THE CORK ELECTION.
The success of the McCarthy wing of tho
Home Rule party In tho Cork election
gives a tolerably conclusive proof that the
majority of the Irish voters are with that
element. Cork was Mr. Parnell's own
borough and the election was for his suc
cessor. If the Parnell element was in the
majority anywhere it might be expected
to be in Cork. The very decisive victory
of Flavin, therefore, really settles the
wholly unnecessary fight as to which
wing constitutes the party that is likely to
succeed.
With this result it seems as if the old
faction fight might be laid aside. There
was really no ivason for keeping it up at
all. All true Home Rulers are agreed as
to the measures to be advocated, and both
for the effect on the English people, and
for the direct realization of the objects of
the Irish party, they should pull together.
The fight since the death of Parnell has
been solely the expression of personal
animosities, and has been accompanied by
incidents that reflected no credit upon
either side. The sooner it can be ended
the better for Ireland.
Yet the unfortunate bitterness which
inspires the factional divisions indicates
that it is to be kept up, by an appeal to
the Tory majority to unseat Flavin. When
the Irish cause has reached the stage
where nothing but the divisions of its own
supporters can defeat, the fatality that
has always presided over factions in that
country bids fair to furnish the disastrous
element
Now there is an -intimation that the New
York Legislature will be a deadlock, with a
majority of two for one party in the Senate,
and the same majority for the other party in
the House. In most cases that sort of a
check would prevent bad legislation; but
New York politics have reached the pass
where it is probable thnt under these cir
cumstances the Jobbers of both parties will
pool their issues without fear ot party re
sponsibility. In his despair over the result of the New
York eleotion, the religious Colonel Shepard
has expressed a wish that he lived in Ohio.
There is nothing to prevent his moving to
Ohio that we know of, unless the people of
Ohio gefwindof it in time to fortify tho
border.
"The Bworn statement of Roswcll P.
Flower's election expenses ought to prove
uncommonly interesting reading," remarks
the New York Tribune. And perhaps the
statement of Fassett's election expenses
might have the additional interest deriva
tive from ttie fact that it was money thrown
away. It is not very smart to call for state
ments of only the expenses of the opposite
party.
The talk of a big display of militia at the
World's Fair is enthusiastic, but in one
point of view, perhaps, it is a little ill
Judged. With a view of impressing the for
eign visitors as to our military capabilities
it might be better to keep tho militia away.
It is a subject of congratulation that,
however election results are split up be
tween the parties, the free silver business
was pretty effectually set down on. The
party which spoke out plainly against free
coinage in each State carried the day, with
the exception of Iowa, where both parties
were equally on tno silver side.
"Bane examiners should be examined as
to why they do not report shaky banks
quicker," remarks tbe New York Press. Also,
should not the Comptroller of tho Currency
be examined as to why he is not able to
make his examiners attend to business?
A bane: failure in Berlin has pricked
the bubble of a big brewery corporation
scheme whose shares Bunk out of sight with
a drop of about 80 per cent. As members of
the Imperial family and tho Cabinet were
badly caught in the drop we may expect the
Government to take active measures for the
suppression of inflation,
Srn Morell Mackenzie announces
that smoking does not injure tbe throat.
With this authority smokers will continue
smoking just as they would if the opinion
had been the other way.
The People's Party seems to be out of
tho field in both its former strongholds
Kansas and Nebraska, The incursion of the
Farmers' Allianco into politics having
proved thus shortlived, its leaders may
perceive tho wisdom of making its business
features demonstrate its value to the farm
ers. An enterprising town builder is building
a town in New Jersey and calls it Cleveland-
on-the-nill. In New York things seem to bo
the other way and present the aspect of
Hlll-on-the- Cleveland.
By a careful comparison of the predictions
of the politicians Just before election we are
able to arrive at tho conclusion that expert
politicians are no better able to tell how
elections are going than other people, or
else that they are unwilling to let their fore
knowledge be known of men.
In the season of congratulations why
should not enthusiastic rejoicing bo ad
dressed to Boyer and McCamant from. those
distinguished travelers, Llvsey and Marsh?
Some partisan reports have represented
that Attorney General Ilcnsel lost his head
and his temper during tho investigation.
By the taste of his arguments the majority
of the Senate and the defendants in the case
would do wisely to hustle around and find
them for him.
The quiet which reigns at Rio and that
which was maintained at Warsaw have a
strong family resemblance.
Even if we are going to commit the
blunder of getting Into a Jingo war, there
Is no reason for aggravating it with the fur
ther blunder indicated by tho New York re.
ports of sending vessels to sea with repairs
half completed.
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
Unites In Wedlock an Aged Couplo Who
Were Schoolmates In Childhood.
Oil City, Nov. 1-8pecial. Tho central
figures of attraction at the Union depot this
afternoon, pending tho departuro of the
late Shore train, wore a venerable bridal
couple. They were Mr. and Mrs. John
Willey, the former 71 years of ago and the
latter 70.
Two months ago Mis. Willey, then as for a
number of years Mrs. Olive NIckerson a
widow, went from here to visit at Youngs
town. While there she and Mr. Willey, wl'o
had been xchoolmates in the long ago, met
again. "The light of otlicr days," hidden bv
the developments ormorethnn hair a cen
tury, shone on them again. As tho result of
the meeting Mr. Willey came to Oil City last
week, and day before yesterday tlio two
took a quiet trip to Franklin mid returned
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BITS OF LOCAL LORE.
Picturesque and Peculiar Things From Old
Time Pases How Dr. Manasseh Cutler
Looked a Century Into the Future
Pennsylvania's Frontage 01 Lake Erie.
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A friend has asked me or further facts
concerning Dr. Hanasseh Cutler and the
prophecy he made more than a century
ago, whioh was alluded to in my artiole
"Pittsburg on the Sea," in The Dispatch
last Sunday. Tbe portion of the prediction
there quoted was that in regard to tho Ohio
river becoming "more loaded than any
other stream on earth,' which has been
more than fulfilled. The Other portion of
the prophecy of Dr. Cutler, whioh has also
been realized long ago was in regard to
steamboats. Dr. Cutler in the year 1787
wrote these notable words: "It is worthy of
observation that in all probability steam
boats will be found to be of infinite service
In all free river navigation." This tho
reader should bear in mind was a year be
fore "Poor John Fitch" lannohed In the
Delaware the curious invention which lie
abandoned soon after; It was twenty years
before Fulton's practically successful ap
plication of steam to navigation and almost
twenty-flvo years before the "Ne.w Orleans"
tho first steamboat which ruffled the West
ern waters, was built at Pittsburg.
The fact that Cutler made this prediction
at tho time he did is one of tho indications
that he was an unusually well equipped
man fully abreast of the times, and with tho
light he had, peering even into the futnre
with keen and correct vision. He was, in
addition to being a man of culture and of
much genius, second as a scientist only to
Benjamin Franklin, whom he well know,
and although no successful experiments
with steamboats had ocen made in America
he was doubtless acquainted with the fact
that In Europe the Marquis de Jouffrcy had
worked a steamboat, on the Seine, in 1780,
thnt in tho very year he wrote (1787) Miller
and Symington had fully demonstrated the
practicability of propelling a boat by steam.
Dr. Cutler was the agent of the New Eng-
land-Ohio Company, consisting largely of
revolutionary army oinccrs, wno lormeu
the first settlemcnt'in Ohio, at Marietta, in
17SS. He also was the author of tho celebrntod
"Ordinance of Freedom" or "Ordinance of
1787," which was the fundamental law
of the territorynorthwest of tho Ohio river
and mado it an anti-slavery land. It was In
a pamnhlet describing the country and ad
vertising it to prospective or possible
settlers that he mado the noteworthy
prophecies in regard to tbe Ohio river and
steamboats.
Flrst of the Side-Wheelers.
Apropos of steamboats, it seems
strongly probable that tho form or principle
of construction of the "slde-whcelers" had
its origin in the mind of a Pittsburg, or
rathor Fort Pitt mechanical genius, long be
fore steam was applied to tho propulsion of
any water craft. What for lack of a better
name might be called a Btde-wheel row boat
was attracting considerable attention on tho
waters here In 1761. Information of this cu
riosity whioh perhaps in a crude way con
veyed the initial suggestion of the steamboat,
has been preserved in a quaint entry in
thejonrnal of James Kenny, who was a
trader, and a very wide-awako observer, at
Fort Pitt. He nays:
"A young man called William Ramsey has
made two little boats, belmr s auair at yo
sterns and joined together at ye sterns by n
swivel make ye two in form of ono boate,
but will turn round shorter than a boate of
yo same length, or raise with more
safety in falls and in case of
striking on rocks: he has also
made an engine that goes with wheels,
closed in a box to be worked by one man, by
sitting on ye end of ye box nnd tredding on
ircunies at oottom witn nis leet, sets ye
wheels asoing, which work scullers or short
paddles fixed over ye gunnels, turning them
round: ye under ones, always laying hold on
ye water, will make ye boato go as if two
men rowed, and ho can steer at ye same
time by lines, like flow lines."
Hero was tho first "side-wheeler."
Pennsylvania's Triangle on Lake Erie.
The little triangle of Pennsylvania
territory which extends above her general
northern border (the 42 line), including
Erie (and sure to some day Include the
northern tormlnus of Pittsburg's outlet to
the waters of tho lakes the ship canal), was
tho last addition which the State received,
and tbe patent issued to the State
for it was tho first land patent
granted by the United States Government.
This was in 1792. It was not
until then that Pennsylvania assumed the
proportions that she now jirosents. The
work was not accomplished in a day. Ori
ginally tho little tract that Pennsylvania
coveted to secure a lake border belonged to
Now York, but its title became vested in the
general government (in 1781),vepy fortunate
ly for Pennsylvania, for had It not been first
relinquished to the United States, it is very
probable that this commonwealth could
never have secured It.
As it was, it could only be secured through
consiaeraoio diplomacy ana by long delay.
Tho acquisition of tho triangle was first
attempted in 17S4 and the work occupied
the attention of many minds almost con
stantly for the succeeding eight years. The
transfer was fought with muoh obstlnancv
and some ranoor in several congresses. Ail
New England members wero opposed to the
transfer, and William Mnclay, the Pennsyl
vania Senator, was its chief champion and
defender. He says in his journal: "So plain
a case, I never berore saw cOt so much
trouble." General Arthur St. Clair, whose
home was at Chestnut Kidgc, Westmoreland
county, was prominent In the various trans
actions. The triangle consisting of over
202,000 acres was soldfor$lM,C40 50, or 75 cents
an acre, tho deed of confirmation being
issned March 3, 1702, and the payment was
made at Fort Pitt, the Indian claim having
been previously quieted by the State in a
treaty made on the Muskingum,
Beginnings of the Pennsy.
In April, 1826, was taken the first de
cisive step in that chain of events and
actions which resulted in building the great
Pennsylvania Railroad. It was only a little
step, and for a time appeared to have been
taken in vain. On the dato mentioned tho
Colnmbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Rail
road was incorported by tho Legislature,
but the corporation proved unequal to the
task of building the road, and two years
later it was undertaken by tho State. Por
tions of tho road were soon finished, and
cars were run by horse power. Indeed, o
slowly did the people come to perceive the
full possibilities of a railroad that it was at
first proposed that the road should be so
constructed that ordinary vehicles could
travel upon Its rails; that every individual in
fact should use his own carriage or wacons
upon it and merely pay toll as upon a turn
pike. The efficacy of steam power, however.
came to be recognized nnd In September,
1832, the first trial of a locomotivo was mado
upon a section or the track between Broad
street and tbo Schuvlkill. In tho summer
of 1833 the tourney "from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg occupied four days. This was
made by cars and canal boats to Columbia,
and from that point by the latfr means,
and the famous Portage Railroad over the
mountains.
Pennsylvania's First Macadamized Road.
Just 100 yeare ago the first improved road
or turnpipe in the State had its inception.
This was the road from Philadelphia west
ward by Lancaster, toward "Fort Pitt," as
the Allegheny metropolis was then com
monly called. It was chartered by the Leg
islature in 1792, after having been "talked
of" forseveml years and was regarded as of
vast importance, for there was, for the
times, a mighty tide or travel towards the
West, and it had grown to need a freer flow
tlinn had been accorded it.
The road was finished from Philadelphia
toLincastcrln 1794, and in elosely sneccding
years was finished and in good condition to
the Ohio. It very closely paralleled the old
Lancaster road, but upon selected grades,
which made the crossing of the hills and ra
vines much easier. Most of the streams were
crossed by stone bridges, and tho work gen
erally was of so good an order that it cost
47.600 nor mile, which, it Is needless to suv.
was Tor that period a very heavy expendi
ture. M. Dkkfla.
Lining Hollow Ware With Steel.
A process for lining, articles used for do
mestic and other purposes with steel is now
applied Jo various kinds of hollow waie.
There Is a great gain In cost of manufacture.
It is intended to apply tills process to lining
articles with brass or copper, thus produc
ing what is to ull practical purposes a cop
per or brass pan ut the same price as an
ordinary tinned one.
, ' No Honor to Uncle Sam,
Chicago Intcr-Oceau.
There is more arable laud in anyone of a
dozen States of the Union than in all Chile,
although she lias 3CO.O0O acres iu her domain
There Kould be no honor to Uncle Sam even
if he licked her out of her boots.
England's Crocodile Tears.
Seattle Telegraph.:
England's tears oer tho disposition of a
big country to browbeat u small ono would
do credit to the best crocodile in the Nile.
BATTLb bhifb hekdbd.
They Are Necessary to the Protection of
the Harbors on Both Coasts.
fill ".mi Tel hi, ma T v "-"" '" I
All of theileadinc no ward ofita world, but
particularly Great Britain, France, Geri
many, Italy, and"'Russfe, have provided;
theuuseWe. wUKgreatbattUjhips,- whlclfirf
reality a'reSoatlng steel forts. This country'
alone, with its thousandsof miles of defense
lessseaopastfboth on thevAtlautic anoVfa
clfle fcldesi" has neglected Jto strengthen lta
navy in this direction. Early Iti tho present
administration Secretary Tracy recognized
the necessity of battleships to protect our
ports, and saw that it was useless to expect
any resistance could be offered by our
lightly armored and equipped cruisers if
theso foreign battleships shonld attack our
seacoast cities, no mnde an urgent appeal
to Congress to appropriate money enough to
construct eight of them, but the most it
would do was to authorize the building of
three, and of these only the keel of ono has
yet been laid.
So far as these three are concerned, how
ever, there is every reason to bellove that
when they are finished they will be pqnal to
anything afloat. They will havo 10,000 tons
displacement. On the water lino they will
have 13 inches of armor and five and a half
inches above it. They will carry four 13
inch breech loading rifles in the main bat
tery, 8-inch and 4-inch guns in the auxiliary,
20 6-pounders, and six 1-pounders, rapid fire,
besides gatlings in the secondary battery,
and they will have 9,000 horse-power. Both in
speed and in batteries they will be superior
to any vessels in the British navy and they
will have the great adv&ntage that their
guns can bo loaded and fired inall positions,
while tho British guns can be used only in
ono. This Is well so far as it goes, but it
should go further. Instead of three of these
vessels we need eight. Coneress appropri
ated at the last session $24,000,000 to deepen
harbors and rivers to the enemy's vessels,
nnd now we must constructfortsand vessels
to keep them out. That amount of money
would more than have built the entire eight
first-class battleships. We certainly need
four for the Atlantic and four for tho Paolfio
coast as auxlliaiies to harbor defense They
are necessary to strike blows as well a3 to
ward off blows in order to secure respect for
this country abroad.
Not a White Ilonso Bloom,
Chicago Trlbnnc.
Tho New York Flower will never bloom in
the White Ilouse.
PERTINENT PERSONA. IITIE8
Art pays sometimes. Albert Bierstadt
has sold his painting, "The Last of the Buffa
loes," for $50,000.
Miss. GitovER Cleveland and her baby
have gone to Buzzard Bay, Mass., to re
main until the holidays.
Bakon Fava, the erstwhile Italian Min
ister to the United States, has been pro
moted to the rank of plenipotentiary of the
first rank.
It is expected that the Czar will take to
the bottle now. The royalty of Europe is
about to present him with a set of silver
Pilgrim bottles.
Ex-Goveknoe Meisiweather, of Ken
tucky, has very lately been celobratinghis
92d birthday, and seemed to be as hale and
hearty as any of his guests.
It must make the Marquis deLeuville ex
cessively hungry to read of those delicious
dinners which Willie Wilde is eating here
as the guest of hospitable New Yorkers.
The Prince of Wales will celebrate his
50th birthday alone, that is, his wife will not
be present. She will bo with her sister, the
Czarina, who celebrates her silver wedding.
SenOR Acosta, the newly-appointed con
sul at Philadelphia, is a Lieutenant Colonel
in the Sixth Mexican Cavalry, and a nephew
of SenOr Ignacio Mariscal, Secretary of for
eign relations in Mexico.
Amelie Rives Chandler is going to
erect a studio at her country home in Vir
ginia. Some people really go so far as to say
that she has long needed a place In which
she might retire to study.
It may be consoling to Frances E. Wil
lard In tho midst of her numerous disap
pointments and cares to learn that Lady
Somerset says that in many Bngllsh homes
her name is a watchword and an inspira
tion. CHINESE EXCLUSION.
Difficulty Is Arising Out or the Application
of the Act.
Washington Post. 3
It turns out that the Federal eourt de
cision does not do away with all the diffi
culty and embarrassmont arising out of the
application of the Chinese exclusion act.
Tho other day a United States Marshal
took to tho Manitoba border two
Chinamen, whose deportation to that
country had been ordered, in accordance
with the decision referred to by a United
States Commissioner. The Canadian cus
toms officials refused to let the Chinamen
reeross the line unless, In accordance with
Canadian law, they each paid $50 as an ad
admlssion fee. The Chinamen could not pay
the required sum and tho Marshal would not,
and ho now inquires of the Treasury Depart
ment what he shall do about it.
Several cases are reported from the Moxi
can frontier of Chinamen who havo made
their "pile" within the territory of the sister
Republic and who, desiring to return to
China, cross tho border and ask to be de
ported to thoir native land under Attorney
General Miller's view of tho law. Others,
simply desiring to reaoh this country in
evasion of tho law, trust that in case of
their arrest no further mishap will
befall them than to bo returned to Mexico,
the country whence they came, in accord
ance with recent Judicial decisions. Little
or nothing can bo done to regulate this mat
ter so long as there remain these loopholes
of escape from the intent of the statute;
and if it is to be the continued policy of the
Government to establish a rigid system of
exclusion tho next Congress will havo to
patch up tho present law in several impoi t
ant particulars.
The Tariff Is AH Bight
St. Lonis Globe-Democrat.
Tho tariff is all right. Tho present law will
stand. Such changes in it as are required by
industrial or social conditions will be mado
by tho Republican Congress to be chosen in
1892.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE.
Ex-Gov. J. Gregory Smith.
Ex-Governor J. G. Smith, President of the
Vermont Central Railroad, died In St. Albans, Vt.,
Friday night of heart failure. Last February Gov
ernor Smith contracted a severe cold and bo had
been In falling health ever since. About three
months ago he practically gave up business, and,
although able to ride out occasionally until within
tiro weeks, his condition was such as to cause his
friends innch nnxietr. He was born at St. Albans.
Julys, 1818, and iras the son or John Smith, a
prominent llgurc In Vermont railroad and political
circles. Gregory studied law and was admitted to
the bar In 1811. In 1813 he began bis railroad career
as counsel ror tbe Vermont Central Railroad and
tbe Vermont and Canadian Railroad. From 1833
to 1873 be was one of tbe receivers or tbe Vermont
Oentr.il Railroad; from 18G6to 1872 he was Presi
dent of the Northern Pacitlc Railroad, being one or
the Incorporators, and since 137.1 he had been Presi
dent of the Central Vermont Railroad, lie was
Speaker or the Vermont House In 1861 and 1SB2, and
was Chairman or tbe Stale delegation to tbe Na
tional Republican Contentions In 1872. 1880 and
1SS4. He presided over several State conventions
and had spoken effectivelv on the stump In Prel
dental campaigns. He wa'i prominently interested
In several St. Albans business enterprises, and
was President or tbeWilden National Rank, the
People's Trust Company, and the Franklin County
Cresmery Association. As Governor or Vermont
In 1853-05 no was a stanch supporter or the nation.
Obituary Notes.
CnAiiLES Jean Joseph TniKON, tbe veteran
French actor and a Secretaire of the Coinedie
Francalse, died Friday In Paris.
AlfiieD C. Honns. Superintendent and Man
ager of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company, at
Bridgeport, Conn., died at bis home there, Friday
morning, aged 7. y
Miss Maggie O'Dokxkll, or Homestead, died
Saturday morning at 7:80 o'clock. She was24 years
of age and a assistant postmistress at Home
stead under the Cleveland admlnlktratlon,
RKV. Besjamik Day, ror more than W years In
active service In N'cw Jersey and New York as a
minister or the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
last wcok at Ann Arbor, Mich., aged 84 years.
Mns. Catharine rctler died In Chicago
Thursday, aged 101. fehe died ou her birthday,
bbc remembered the Irhh rebellion or 1793 and
came from Ireland to America lu the year or the
battle or Waterloo.
A.Watxe Darker, long a prominent citizen
or Oneida, N. Y., and cashier or tbe Oneida
Savings Bank, died Mouday, aged 60 years. He
served with 'the Oneida Battery under General
McClcllan In the campaign onsJiln Virginia, anil
was afterward ror a time on special dutr at tho
War Department at Washington. J
MURRAY'S MUSINGS..
Stump Speakers Not What They Used to Be
Detecting Connterfelts by Touch A
New Idea In Bobbing People Story of
i,if. Bllty Btrch. - 9 j
XtVClit A STAT COBBESPOXmWT.l
New York. Nov. 7. VThe grand, old-
. fashioaidr campaign orator jOf j Our noy hood
days has gone out," said an 01a time poii
tlciauiyesterday. "There are no such men
now as' Abraham Lincoln nnd Stephen A.
Douglas and Henry G. Lane and hundreds of
lesser fame, but similiar methods. I've
been listening to tho recent speeches and
couldn't help bnt compare the speakers to
the men of half a conturv ago who used to
move the multitude. I was in tho midst of
great campaign wherein Donglcs and Lin
coln held joint debate and spoke to assem
bled thousands of both parties. There has
been nothing approaching tl a! celebrated
discussion Bince, nor has there been any
such campaign oratory heard.
"You could hear Douglas across a 40 acre
lot. The modern campaign orator can't bo
heard across Madison Square Garden. His
words are not worth hearing anyhow, nis
Ideas lose force by his own presentment
instead of gaining strength by tho grace and
power of speech. It is a lost art. Wo
rarely find a man now who can sway
the mnltltuda hv word of mouth. i.ven
finished orators of this day, best represent
ed by Chnnncey Depew, nppeal only to
quick intellects and highly-cultured audi
ences. There Is no fire there that sweops
over a crowd and consumes all before it
nonoof that extraordinary magnetism and
rythmic flow of sentences that take people
oil their feet that make black seem white
and white black. It is a quality wholly
apart from education and refinement, and
was as often possessed by the ignorant rep
resentatives of a crude civilization as by
oducated men. Under our new system of
popular education and the universality of
the dally newspaper the campaign orator of
the past has been wiped out. The trick of
voice have practically disappeared. When
ever a speaker tries that on the modern audi
ence he subjects himself to ridicule. And.
to be ridiculous is to be lost. Plain, every
day EnUsh, sound ideas and plenty of
them, are what best reaches most men no -adays.
Even then mo3t poople would rather
read the speech In the papers than hear it
from the orator's lips."
A Lightning Change Man.
There are men and women in New
York who handle money in small quantities
from 5 to 95 cents, who acquire a skill and
dexterity absolutely marvelous. They I are
cashiers of restaurauts, popular dining and
lunch rooms, where the rush is very great
at certain hours during the day and where
everything in the shape of payment comes
along in what is called "change," that is, in
amounts less than $1 and never uniform. It
maybe a young girl, or a young man, who
never had any former experience in hand
ling coin and notes, but he, or she, becomes
so expert that it makes an ordinary business
man's head swim to watch them. One of
these lightning changeartists, a red-headed
young man named Ilayward, who is in a big
lunch room near tho postofflce, has a long
standing wager of $10,003 that ho can beat
anybody making change, bar none. And
that young man is certainly wondcrlnl. He
has the) touch of instinct. Like those of
manv women in tho redemption bnreau of
tho Treasury nt Washington his motions
are too swift for the ordinary eye to
count, saying nothing of the money feature.
But the work of the Treasury woman expert
counter is with round numbers and bills
alone: this involves Constantly varying
amounts of minor coin and bills together.
Certain hours of every day will find an un
broken line of customers with lunch checks
and money passing the cashier's desk. To
see young Hayward manipulate those
cheeks and coins and bills is a curiosity.
"Bad money? I can tell a bad coin at the
touch," said he. "Dimes are the most com
mon counterfeits. Anybody can tell bad
money, time enough.but 1'ye become able to
detect at the touch not rubbing I haven't
time for that 1n u flash too quick for the
eye. I couldn't explain it and to know
anything is quioker than to see it. There
are bad dimes passed here every day. Most
of them by our regular customers, and with
unquestioned Innocence. No, we'd rather
lose tho money than call a man back beforo
the crowd and charge him with passing a
counterfeit. And there'd be 20 people
blocked up hero in front of mo in two min
utes. It wouldn't pay. Range? I have
everything and every combination from a 2
cent piece to a $50 noto every day of the
year vie run. It must be done instantane
ously. No bnnk note detectors or consul
tations or comparison or any of that sort
oitning. Anu mostly iromaiocor people
you never know anything about. It ought
to make a man expert, anyhow."
Billy Birch's Bad Quarter.
"When Iwas playing in luck" said Billy
Birch, the old minstrel landmark familiar to
the habitues of upper Broadway, "the impe
cunious crowd that used to hang around the
stage door for a stray dime or a quarter
struck me protty often. Somo were pretty
smart fellows and always had a word of flat
tery for those who were kind to them. Now
that I am old and down in the world I do
not regret anything I gave away. One night
an old actor touched me for a quarter, lie
was a verv bright and hungry fellow and
nftor thanking me profusely went ott" to get
something to eat or drink. In about half
an hour he came back and found me with
some fellows. He came right up with a
broad smile on his face and tapping me on
tin-shoulder said to tho crowd:
"Here's that quarter, Billy. It was a
mighty good joke and I tried to work it on
tho barkeeper around the block but it
wouldn't go. Then I tried it on a lunch
route and the man actually got mad nnd
would have thrown me out if I hadn't told
him you gave it to mo. Ho said then it was
one of your Jokes. A confoundedly good
good Joke it was too," said he, "for I got a
drink and a meal out of it. And now here's
your quarter give me a good one, please for
advertising you."
"Evervbodv laughed nslgave him another
quarter and took the bad one back, and no
body would believe it was anything but a
practical Joke or mine."
A New Way to Bob People.
An Ann street tailor and an indignant
and persistent customer dovclopcd anew
scheme the other day. Hanging in tho show
window was one of those lovely exhibition
suits of clothes one sees almost everywhere,
with a card simply setting forth the cheap
ness "to order." The chance customer saw
it, entered and expressed a desire to get a
suit off the same piece. The loquacious
salesman declared that they had such a rnn
ou tho goods the material was exhausted,
but af sured the customer the firm had an
interest in a large manufactory and more
would be ordoied at once. A sample was
shown nnd the price was way bolow the cost
of such goods elsewhere. Measures wero
duly taken and the customer was required
to deposit $5. In a few days the latter called
.and as informed tbat it would be impossi
rbla to get the goods right away, but he was
given the choice of some other goods
"which are better," said the salesman, "but
owing to your disappointment we'll put 'em
In at the same figure."
The customer saw the new articles were
not as good, and straightway demanded his
money back. Ho i as refused. The $5 was
for measurement. It was asserted, and
would be forfeited unless a suit was taken.
In vain the customer raged. He went to
the Tombs for a warrant, bnt this was re
fused also. He was told to bring a civil suit.
Taking a- detective he went down to
the store to got the names of
the real proprietors. The salesman de
clared he was merely a manager, lmt prom
ised tho officer the money should be re
funded. Afterward to tho customer him
self it was again refused. No names could
be obtained on which to base tho civil suit
and after spending about 20 the outraged
customer gave it up as a bad case. All this
liom the exhibition suit. How many vic
tims of this kind nro bagged without pub
licity of a struggle is a matter for specu
lation. The exhibition suit Is not, however,
lor in three cases out of flvo inquiry within
will elicit the same statement, that tho ma
terial of which that particular suit is mado
is "J 11st out" but that something can be had
lor the samemoney. Tbo exhibition suit is
usually the apples on top of the barrel.
Moral: When you get a good, honest tailor
better stick to him and lot strange gods
alone.
An Englishman's Visit Home.
"An English friend of mine has just re
turned from tt trip to the scenes onus child
hood," remarked ono hotel lounger to an
other, "and the breadth and thickness of
his mother tongue is something dieadiul.
Ho was raised hero from boyhood, though
Lpiulon;born, nnd has always been regaidcd
by us as a sensiblo feilow. I was wholly nn
prcpared for the exhibition ho gavo mo a
lew minutes ago. ilewearsa moiiocle, too
in bis rooms lie hasn't dared trust liim
seir with It on tho street yet. Just practic
ing, you see. Well ho makes me tired.
" 'Chawles, me deah boy,' he said to me. 'I
found tilings greatlv changed in London,
don't you know.' 'Good gad,' sny I, 'you
don't tell me? It London has changed with
in 25 vears as much as you have within three
months I don't seo how you could have
known it.' 'Now, Cliolly haw ! ly.w! bawl'
Mild he, looking at me through that con
founded glass."
"What did ynn a?''
"I only said 'haw' una came away."
CUAULL3 TUEODOnU MrEKAT.
O0OS E0ADS WANTED.
Brooklyn and New York People Moving In
the Bight Direction.
Brooklyn Standarf-Trmes. J
The authorities and ntivato individuals in
various parts of" tbo State are becoming'
aroused to tho necessity of improving the
roads and maintaining them in good condi
tion. Town boards are increasing their ap
propriations, and individuals are ofierlnir
"prizes for the best sections of road. The
latter movement has bad tho effect of stim
ulating enterprising roadmakers, and good
results are seen in Queens county, as well
as in other sections of the State. Besides
tho pleasure of riding over good roads is tho
economy or vehicles and animals. The lat
ter is a big Item and a person has figured
out In dollars and cents the annual wcarand
tear caused by bad roadways. Tbe total isi
startling.
Besides the owners of horses, car.,
riages and business wAzons there has-
arisen another class who are deeply inter
ested in the maintenance of good roads.
This class embraces the bicyclists. Iu somo
localities they liave been leaders in road re
form, nnd in others they aro vigorous pro
moters of the-movement. With thoso who'
drivo for pleasure, those who use roads for
business an-1 the grand army of bicyclists,
both male and female, agitating for better"
roads there should certainly be a very great
uilimiiu uuuiig me coming year, xne time
should not be far distant when at least
every main avenue In Brooklyn will be pro
vided with a pavement adanted to driving
with light carriages, and roads in the
suburDs connecting with streets should bo
so maintained as to Invite pleasure-driving
in tbat direction.
HAWAHNS DISC0TJEAQED.
Their Prosperity Depends Upon Annexa
tion to the United States.
Chicago Tribune.
"Hawaiians are a discouraged lot," said
Mr. A. B. Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels,
"and they cannot see their way clear to pros
perity in any other way than by annexation.
With the removal of tariff on sugar and tho
offering of 2 cents per pound for allsugar
produced in the United States the islands
lost tho advantage they had over producers
here, in Cuba, and in the Philippine Islands.
Tbe trouble is tbat labor is dear in tbe
islands. The natives are dying out and the
islands have to depend on the Chinese, Japa
nese, Portuguese, and laborers from other
countries. This year's crop of 400,000 tons
was tho largest ever raised in Hawaii,
although the country ought to produce a
great deal more than that.
The advantage over other conntries before
the removal of tho tariff and the offering of
the bounty was about 2 cents a pound in
favor of the island. The planters had no
duty to pay, and in return tho islands re
ceived importations from only tho United
States. While tho peoplo regard this Govern
ment as the one most friendly to them they
think faith was broken with them in taking
away this advantage, and the object of King
Kalakaua's visit to this country was to inter
cede in behalf of tho sugar interests, when
death overtook him in San Francisco. The
way matters are now the large planterJ with
improved machinery and labor paving de
vices may make a little money, but tho
smaller planters will have to givo up."
Mr. Sprockets also said firmly that the
house of Spreckels would never he coaxed
into the Sugar Trust.
CATJOHT WITH A WHITE ELEPHArTT.
iding Malletoa Not Delighted With
a Pres
ent From Uncle Sam.
WAsnisoTOJf, Nov. 7. After the Navy De
partment had recovered the paymaster's
safe and other valuables from the wreck of
the American man-of-war lost in tho hurri
cane at Apia, Samoa, the wrecks themselves
were given to the Samoan Government. The
gift has proved to bo a white elephant to
King Malletoa, according to information re
ceived hero. There were no appliances on
the islands to raise the wreckage, but after
many Inquiries a San Francisco firm was
found which undertook to recover tho parts
of value, on condition that they were to be
sold In San Francisco and tho proceeds
divided equally between the wreckers and
the Snmoans.
Months wero spent in the work of recover
ing tho wreckage, and It was finally made
ready for shipment to San Francisco. At
this point, however, an obstacle was encoun
tered. The Collector of Customs held that
the wreckage must pay duty, and tho Treas
ury Department has sustained tbat opinion,
on tho ground that, although the wrecks are
those of American vessels, the deed of gift
to the Samoans made them foreign, and
tnerefore dutiable property. As a close
computation shows that the duty imposed
would exceed Ibe sum which can be realized
from the sale of the wreckage. King Malle
toa is not particularly grateful for the pres
ent to his people by the United States Gov
ernment.
TiLK OP THE TIMES.
What has become or those tin plate manu
factories? Sew York Commercial Advertiser.
They still exist and there are rumors of
more flying about.
Govertsob CAMrBELL says it was tho free
silver plank that did it, and he ought to
know. Boston Herald. He also thinks freo
trade is not so popular as be supposed it
was.
Baltimore ha9 not had a bank failure for
57 years. Baltimore American. This is a re
markable record. Representatives of other
cities ought to nnu now it is aono in iaiii
more. Is it true that poisoning of aged or other
wise superfluous relatives Is on the increase
in polite New York society? Sew York Tele
gram. Ask McAllister. He is the only N. Y.
society sharp and ou jht to know.
It turned cold so suddenly a few days ago
that we don't expect any more Arabs around
with their tents. Boston Traveller. Can it be
possible thnt they have gone traveling on
tho profits of their services at tho polls?
EsotAsn grieves almost as much as tho
Democracy does over McKinloy's election.
Each is hit hard. St. Jjouis Globe-Democrat.
England andMcKinloy never did agree. The
Major's ideas on protecting home industry
don't coincido with Johnny Bull's thoughts.
No wondor ho grieves.
The Republican organs all say they are
satisfied over the result of the election. We
have not discovered the caue of their satis
faction, but wo nre glad they aro feeling
good. Chicago Globe. I( the Democratic pa
pers are glad because theitepublican papers
are glad, then the result must have been
satisfactory all around.
CURRENT OPIXIOXETTES.
New Orleans Is said to be continually
losing ground by tho slipping of tbe land
into the Mississippi. Boston Traveller.
Oxe effect of the Australian system will be
to largely increase the number of people
who write Christmas "Imas."- Chicago
limes.
Jeiirv Siursos is a plagiarist but a truth
teller when he tays "we aro the people."
You are, Jerry: you are all there is left of
them. Sew York Commercial Advertiser.
Is reply to the popular inquiry 03 to why
the comptroller of tho currency didn't look
after tho affairs of the broken bank more
sharply, it may not seem" out of placo to ob
serve that he was too Lacoy. Boston Herald,
If Emperor William succeeds in his cru
sade against vice bo will set the pattern of
every ruler being his own Anthony Com
Btock. This will just suit William's uncle
of Wales when lie mounts the tlnono.
Kansas Ci'jj Times.
Dispatches say tbat the run on tho Five
Cents Saviims Bank in Boston continues.
Such an undignified thlngas 11 mn on a bank
in Boston is utterly unthinkable. It may be
a rather quicker walk than usual, but that is
all. Giicago Ti-ibunc.
Brazil, a Portuguese-American republic,
may yet seo the point of ex-Empcror Dom
Pedro's Joko about the revolutions of the
Corliss on;;ino fly-wheel nt the Centennial
Exposition, "that beats Homo of ourspauish
Amerlcan republics." Dctn.it Journal.
Govr.KNoit CAMrcELL, of Ohio, in acknowl
edging defeat, lias a, very S nnny comnlutlon.
Hu says the sentiment of the peoplo was
with hint, mid lie soems to think file Re
publicans hud money. Well, why did he not
have free coinage of silver. Brooklyn Union,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There are 230 chess clubsdn the United
States.
;In the principality of Monaco no
Church ii allowed except that of the Catho
lic Church. .
-tt is estimated that'19stone is the or
dinary total .weight carried by an English
trooper's horse.
It has been- found by actad3 measure
ment that the pouch of ;a pelican will hold
six gallons of water.
The men in the audiences at the theaters
In Carthage, Mo., drink out of bottles during
the Intervals between acts.
Owing to the great demand for women
for factory labor, domestic servants are said
to be gettingyery scarce in Fife.
Nine girls have been found in tha
Chinese qnarters at Victoria. B. C, awaiting
purchasers. One girl was sold there a week
ago for $1,300.
One of the attractions of the Chicago
Exhibition is to bo a pyramid of 400 pianos
connected by electricity and manipulated
by one woman.
A petrified lobster has been found at
Dayton, Wash. At the same place, SO feet
under the surface, men have found toads
imprisoned in tbe solid rock.
It is estimated that in addition to their
Immense crops the farmers of Minnesota
and Dakota aro about $200,000,000 richer than
they were a year ago on account of a general
inorease in the value of their holdings.
Corinna, Me., has a giant who pulled a
heavy horse and dump cart by main strength
off tho railroad track when a train was
almost upon them the other day. His friends
claim he is tbe strongest man in Maine.
The poplar was undoubtedly known to
tbe ancients for its invaluable dyeing prop
erties as many of their fabrics which havo
been preserved, give unmistakable evidence
tof having been tinted by a similar dye. The
.colors maae irom tnis oase are ncn, oeautt-
iui ana permanent.
A plague of locusts has been worrying
'the farmers in the Agentine Republic this
'fall. Late reports state tbat the locusts have
completely destroyed the flax, wheat, and
potato crops in San Geronimo and Santa
Tomas. The extent of plantations de
stroyed covers CO.OOO kilometers.
Professor Mayer has calculated that,
it the motion of tho earth were suddenly ar
rested, the temperature produced would be
sufficient to melt and even volatilize It;
while, if it fell into the sun, as much heat
would be prodnced as results from tbo
combustion of 5,000 spheres of carbon the
size of our globe.
It is not generally known that the light
of the sun and the moon exercise a deleteri
ous effect on edge tools. Knives, drills,
scythes and sickles assume a blue color if
they are exposed for some time to the light
and heat of the sun: tbe sharp edge disap
pears and tbe tool is rendered absolutely
useless until It IS retempered.
A genuine volcano is in active opera
tion in Wyoming. A little over a year ago
a hot fire raged through tbat part of the
conntry, and many heavy timbe'rs having
fallen and covered the exposed part of the
vein, this doubtless started Are, and the
heat getting down in the vein generates the
gase9 which rise and keep the mass hot and
smoky, which emit3 continually sulphurous
fumes.
The falls on Pish river are described as
beaniif ul, having a drop of 50 feet. There is
quite a curiosity a short distanco below
them inthe shape of a natural fountain,
which spouts a huge volume of clear, cold
water 60 feet in tho air, creating a stream 12
feet wide and a foot deep. The river below
the falls is a perfect paradise for anglers.
Trout from four to seven pounds are plenti
ful. A Baltimore boy of 10 years has ac
quired a morbid desire to inhale gasoline,
and was found the other day by hi3 mother
unconscious with a can of gasoline on the
floor by his side. In order to inhale the
etner ne removes tne stopper irom tne can
nnd inserts his nose in the hole, remaining
in this position until he becomes uncon
scious. It is the first case of the kind known
to physicians in Baltimore.
The great canal which it is proposed to
construct between Paris and Rouen would
be 182 kilometers, or lit miles long, and 6.2
meters, or nearly 21 feet, deep. For large
ships a port would be built between St.
Denis and Cllchy, and smaller ports would"
bo constructed at Audelevs, Vernan, Poissy,
Achleres and Argentenil. The cost of the
nndertnklng Is estimated at 150 000,000 francs.
or jE6,250,000. A plebiscite has been taken of
the feeling of the people on the matter, and
of the 345,000 answers received only 13 are
not in favor of the scheme.
Recently a most remarkable fish was
captured in a net off the Ardglass coast.
County Down. It weighed three-quarters of
a pound, and had a head similar to that of a
pike. From the gills to the tall on each side
there was a bright blue band; the tops of
the tail fins wero also a bright bine, and
around the head and shoulders there was a
network of deep blue lines, which gave tho
fish a very comical, unnatural aspect. Being
an objectof wonder, it was exhibited among
the oldest fishermen of the place, but none
of them remembered ever seeing a similar
one before.
Dr. E. Haveloct Charles has prepared
a series of tables drawn from tho measure
ment of 50 skulls of the outcast tribes of the
Punjab, collected by him in the compara
tive anatomy museum of the Medical Col
lege, Lahore. These skulls are, in Br.
Charles' opinion, from individuals of aborig
inal as distinguished from Aryan progeny,
with the exception of certain megacephallo
examples among the group of Mohammedan
male types. In these exceptional cases de
scent may bo derived from the more recent
Mohammedan invaders, who wero distinct
both from the Aryan possessors on the onja
hand and from the dispossessed aboriginal
races on the other.
The- estimated deliveries of mail matter
In the United Kingdom for the year ending
March 31, 1S91. were: Letters, 1,705,300,000;
postal cards, 229.700,000; book packets, circu
lars and samples, 481,200,000; newspapers, 161,
000,000, and parcels, 46,237,056, a total of 2,623,
987,956 pieces of mail. This is an increase of
8.2 por cent on the previous year. The aver
age number of pieces of mail received by
each person was 69.6. Of the first four kinds
of mail matter mentioned aboveS3.2 per cent
was delivered In England and Wales. 8.9 per
cent In Scotland, and 5.9 per cent In Ireland,
and 29.7 per cent was delivered In the Lon
don postnl district alone. There are now 13,
S06 postofiices in the kingdom.
TBIFLINCr TICKLEB5.
Mrs. Morris So you have lost your new
girl.
Mrs. Benedict Yes; when she broke Charlie's
pet coffee cup and gave-hlm, 3 new one with "Lore
tbe Giver" on It, I thought It was time to let her
go. Puck.
See now the pallid, weary dude,
The big chrysanthemnm toll under;
How he can carry suoli a weight.
With his sUght strength. Is cause for wonder.
Seta York Journal,
"What made him leave the coal oil busi
ness?" "He grew weary of well-doing." Washington
Star.
"Strangest girl I ever met," muttered
Chappie almost to himself.
"Why?" asked Cholly.
"Accepted me, " replied Chappie absently. Sea
Turk Uerald.
November's here; the beach is lone and
bare.
No souad U heard there bat the wave's commo
tion. No sign of life's apparent anywhere
AU lonely are tbe walks beside the ocean.
At night no merry dancers votes their glee.
No spooning couples on the shingle wanderj
There are no yachts oat on the moonlit sea.
No little smacks on the hotel verandah.
.Vo Tork Press,
"I recently performed four marriage
ceremonies In twenty minutes, "remarked the Rev.
Dr. Thirdly.
That was at tbe rate of twelve knots an hour."
added Miss FIypp.-i'""''A. Grow C'o.' Jfimttfy.
Miss Sinilax I think Mr. Swearhard has
such an air. ....
Wagg Yes, It Is generally a thick blue Boston
Courier.
"What makes the cat so musical,"
Said Little Johnny Dee.
When on the back-yard fenco they sing.
Though always off the key!"
Because." replied the fatherwlse.
"Whene'er he sits and sings.
He's only glvln g exercise
To future fiddle strings."
Philadelphia Press.
St Peter (to weary New Yorker) Won't
you come in?
New Yorker Dunno; Is Gabriel going to.be al
lowed to blow that born much? Jfno lori Herald.
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