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PITTSBURG. MONDAY, NOV. 16, ISM.
THE TRACTION CONSOLIDATION.
The much talked of consolidation or
combination between the Duquesne and
Pittsburg Traction Companies appears to
be on the point of consummation, if it is
not already a fixed fact. The representa
tives of the tvo corporations have been in
oonsultation for some days, an inspection
of one of the properties was made yester
day, and the indications pointto the settle
ment of the rivalry between the lines by a
purchase of the Duquesne by the owners
of the Pitt&burg line.
Of course, this is not fulfilling the im
plied pledee of competition in local transit
:it the time when the franchises for the
Duquesne lines were granted. But the
dynamic tendency to consolidation, under
the system of granting exclusive privi
leges in the public streets, is so powerful
that this result has long been recognized
as a practically foregone conclusion.
Pittsburg has had a taste of the cheap
fares to be secured by competition of
local carriers; but the remedy to the ten
dency to place the business in the
hands of a monopoly is not in main
taining the competition of two or three
corporations whose rivalry is generally
waged for the direct purpose of forming a
combination, but in placing the competi
tion on so broad and universal a basis that
the effort to combine would be hopeless.
Pending the realization of such a re
form, the expected consolidation gives ad
ditional point to the comment of The
Dispatch heretofore made that, when
such valuable franchises were granted,
they micht at least have been made to
yield some revenue to the city.
A PERTINENT REFLY. .
The reference to the revision of wages
at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works the
other day by TrtE DisrATCH, in which the
attempts of the free-trade journals to
make capital out of it were answered by
the simple fact that the tariff on steel
rails was reduced by the tariff act, moves
the New York Times to refer to it as an
example of the eagerness with which the
high-tariff journals use this excuse, or
words to that effect. The Times is in
error. The eagerness was shown by the
free-trade journals in catching at the
change of wages to make capital against
ihe iron and steel industries. The perti
nerce of the reply is illustrated by the
fact that the Times shifts its ground, as
follows:
Oar cotemporary in Pittsburg knows very
well that the reduction of the duties on
ieel rails and steel beams and other struc
tural shapes of iron or steel was not the
-e ot the reductions of wages in the tac
lesolMr. Carnegie and of the ex-Chair-n
of the Rpublican National Committee.
knows that the chosen representative of
e mannfacturers and the organ of the iron
.d steel Industry declared that the slight
weringof these duties was satisfactory to
.em.
Exactly. The changes in the wages
-ale had nothing to do with the tariff,
hey were due to the conditions of the
'meftic industry such as have both
bed and lowered wages scores of times
tore. Tliis is the best evidence that the
ort of the Times, to hold tip the change
j.-an example or the way in which the
preniite of keeping up wages by enhanc
ing the tariff has been broken, was wholly
without foundation.
The Times lucged this matter of wages 1
into the tariff diseusion. It is a pertinent
reply to show that the industry in which
this occurred was one in which the tariff
was reduced by Ahat that journal calls
the "slight reduction" of about 40 per
nt, and that the 3IcKmley act which is
held up by the free traders as a measure
which sweepinely raised duties really
made such decided reductions as were
justified by the state of the industries
affected. All of which is emphatically
brought out by the attempt of the Times
to make capital against the McKinleyact
out of these changes in the wages scales,
and the reply that in these industries the
McKinley act very materially reduced the
lutiea.
A STRONG CONTRAST.
The sction of the Baltimore and Ohio
directors last week in declaring a 20 per
cent dividend affords a striking illustra
tion of onp of the common-idioyhcrasies
ot railway management At the same
time it corroborates the view of that prop
erty which The Dispatch has steadily
taken for the years during -which it has
been on the non-dividend-paying list
That opinion has been that the railway is
one of the most profitable and solvent in
the country, and that the-payment of
dividends might have been resumed long
;.gj. if it had suited the views of the man
agement Twenty per cent dividend is an exceed
ingly liberal returnto the people who
hold the common stock of the company at
present But the contrast between that
large dividend and the previous years
during which no dividend at all was paid
is somewhat striking. There might be a
charitable theory, that after the complica
tions which taiused the Company's suspen
sion of dividends had been straightened out
a single profitable year permitted this
dividend, if the resolutions of the board
did not forbid it. It is there stated that
the dividend is to be paid from a surplus
accumulated during the years 1889, 1890
and 3891. It is thus made clear that it
would have been perfectly practicable for
the company lo have paid G per cent divi
dend in each of these years. But it is
another question whether, if these divi
dends had been paid, the present owners
could have purchased the stock acquired
from former stockholders at the prices
uhifh ttvrp nnifl.
The illustration of corporate financering i
which this point affords is emphasized by
theothff side of the picture. The com
pany wishes to sell $5,000,000 of stock.
The policy of putting the entire earnings
into extensions and betterments, pursued
while the stock was in former hands, no
longer commends itself. By way of float
ing that stock as well as dividing the plum
among those who have now got it the
fatness of the twenty per cent dividend
is thrown out in strong relief against the
leanness of the entire absence of divi
dends durinu the previous years.
This may create a speculative demand
for the new stock; but it would not be
strange if actual investors should fail to
see in the history of the whole transaction
any assurance that their interests are care
fully guarded when such methods prevail.
SKW DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
As was naturally to have been expected
from the result of the Massachusetts elec
tion, the Boston Globe launches a double
leaded two column boom for Governor
Russell for President Tho figure of that
rising young Democrat is interesting as a
Presidental possibility both from his at
tractive personality and the success he
has twice scored In the once reliably Re
publican State of Massachusetts.
The claims of Russell to be considered
a Presidental quantity are based on the
difficulty -of securing agreement in New
York upon a New York candidate; on
Russell's two elections for Governor in
Massachusetts, and his alleged ability to
carry the 15 electoral votes of that State,
and the inability of any other State to
present a candidate of equal merits. Of
course, the point in Russell's availability
most prominently brought forward is the
strength displayed in twice carrying a
Republican State for the Democratic
ticket t
But this argument applies to Boies
equally with Russell, with the advantage
for Boies that he is a Westerner in whose
locality the Democratic party has the most
to gain and the least to lose. The Globe,
in its advocacy of Russell, rules Boies out
on the ground that he "was a Republican
ten years ago." Which only calls for the
remark that if the Democracy propose to
place new accessions to their ranks under
a taboo they might as well permanently
resign themselves to the position of a
minority party.
Russell and Boies stand on equal terms
as rising political possibilities. Pattison
really has the same claim to distinction,
as he has twice won the victory himself in
Pennsylvania, although elections where
he was not a candidate have gune against
his party. But the certainty that he can
not carry Pennsylvania as long as the
tariff is an issue operates as a bar against
him, which the enthusiastic Democrats do
not recognize in the case of Massachusetts
and Iowa Governors. But is it to be taken
as by any means assured that either of
those States would go Democratic in a
Presidental election?
HOW ABOUT BALLOT REFORM?
The assertion has been made by several
Republican leaders in New York that the
victory of the Democrats there was a pur
chased one. We do not propose to dis
cuss that assertion in the light of external
evidence as to its truth; hut it is important
to consider it in its fearing on the subject
of ballot reform.
Two at least of the New York Republi
cans who make this assertion were promi
nent in urging a ballot reform law in New
York on the ground that it would make
vote-buying impossible. Their present
view does not seem to maintain their
former high estimate of the virtue of that
reform, which was adopted, it is true, in
somewhat mutilated form. One of these
assertions qualifies the indictment by say
ing that the Democratic victory was
secured by bribing Republican voters to
stay away from the polls. But, if it is
possible to do that on a large scale it re
duces the value of the reform far below
what is claimed for it, as it simply makes
it necessary for the vote-buyers to buy
half a vote at a time in place of a whole
one.
In view of this grave assertion it is
highly important to have it settled
whether ballot reform is worthless, or
whether this declaration is to be taken as
the easiest excuse that can be found by
defeated and angry politicians.
THE TITO COMMUNITIES.
The talk about amalgamation between
the Harmony Society and Dr. Teed's
Koreshan Community, has elicited a state
ment from Elder Duss, of the former com
munity, which puts the matter in a clear
light Conferences between the two or
ganizations have resulted in their frater
nizing as founded on similar principles;
while the reports as to the capture of the
rich possessions of the Economites by'Dr.
Teed are answered by the statement that
the property remains in the handsi of
thf Elders, and that no one can be ad
mitted to membership in the society except
on the usual year's probation.
Even if the Economites proposed to let
their possessions pass to the ultimate con
trol of the Western community, they
would have the same right to do so, being
satisfied that the latter will carry out their
principles, that the owner of a great
manufacturing concern would have to
put Ms property under the control of a
manager who, he believes, will carry on
the policy he desires. Both may be mis
taken in their judgment; but such errors
it is the right of every finite mind to
make. On the whole there does not seem
to be much room for criticizing the posi
tion of the Economites in this matter.
Nevertheless, the knowledge that in
spme.manner the future control of a very
large property may be determined can be
taken as the excuse of the cynical world
for suspecting that Dr. Teed had that
prize in view, and even for thinking that
his personal appearance and his avowal of
entire agreement with the doctrines of
Rapp, are not the most convincing proofs
of the entire disinterestedness of his
motives.
"The Republic of Brazil will be two
years old to-morrow," remarks a cotempo
rary of Saturday's date. That is, to adopt
the Hibernian manner of phrasing it, if it
had ever been a republic, and tho republic
had lasted until Sunday, it would have been
two years old on that day.
A TELEGKArmc item which appeared in
the last issue of The Dispatch concerning
the gift of a diamond scarf pin to a United
States Deputy Marshal of New York City
was interesting as an item of news, as is the
further statement in regard to the same
official that "every Government in Europe
has, with one or two executions, made him
substantial presents." It is especially in
structive of the customs of tho present age
that no one deems it worth while to pay any
attention to a document called the Consti
tution of the United States which enacts
that "no person holding any office of trust or
profit under the United States afcall, without
the consent of the Congress, accept of any
piescnt, from any king, prince or
foreign state." Mr. Campbell's sentiment
"what's the constitution among friends"
seems to have a wider acceptance than was
suspected.
Tun work of providing for the next elec
tion under the Baker ballot law is now com-
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THEiPEPT!
ingon. It wili udu some increase in pub
lio expanses, but if the law is worth anything
it will more than make that up by a larger
saving in illegitimate private expenditures.
The New York Telegram defends the
action of the Chicago Chief of Police in or
dering an Anarchist meeting to display the
United States flag, with the remark that "no
one is entitled to the protection of this Gov
ernment who will not recognize and display
its flag." According to that the guardians
of the public peace have the right to walk
into any public meeting or anv place of
business and stop proceedings until tho flag
is waved. There seems to be need of direct
Instruction that the police have no right to
say what any man shall do until ho commits
an overt act against tho law of public
peace.
Theeb seems to be no doubt that Pitts
bnrg armor plates can beat the world., Now
might it not be another gratifying step for
Pittsburg to make cannon that will beat the
armor pla test
Bev. Sam Small has cast the Rev. Sam
Jones in the shade as the inventor of a vivid
phrase, having characterized a saloonkeep
er whom he denounced from the pulpit as
selling "pop-skull whisky." The phrase is
good, but it had the effect of a boom
era'ng, in inciting the vender of spiritous re
freshments to whack the Rev. Samuel over
the head. The most emphatic application
of the term seems to be in tho fact that the
Rev. Sam Small's skull has been popped.
New York and Cincinnati are both
earnestly desiring rain. The agony of the
situation, is heightened by their inability to
decide whether to call on Dyrenfurth or
Melbourne.
In view of the attempt in Whitewater,
"Wis., to blow op with dynamite a lodge of
Good Templars, an Eastern Journal asks
"What is the matter with the civilization out
there!" The same thing that is the matter
everywhere where people got the idea that
the community must be run in the interest
of whisky, namely that the supporters of
that interest deem it unnecessary to be re
strained by considerations of law or the fear
of committing crime.
Perhaps Massachusetts will retaliate
for Uncle Jerry's remarks on tho hide ques
tion by presenting him with a leather
medal for his agricultural statesmanship.
Speaking- of the Speakership contest,
which is now becoming very hot, the Buffalo
Courier remarks: "Several good men and
strong men are candidates." If the reports
of the factions about deals on the silver
question, and affiliations with real estate
rings are to be believed, they are not only
strong but rank. But after the fight is over
we shall hope to learn that it is simply the
usual campaign mud-slinging.
Boies, of Wisconsin, with 8,200 plurality,
and Russell of Massachusetts with 11,090 are
the rising stars in the firmament of Demo
cratic availabilities. .
The ambition of Chicago is displayed in
the headlines of the Chicago Herald, one of
which asserts that a local attraction "Will
Outdo KosterA Bial," while another declares
"Coney Island Wanted." If Chicago is to
deprive New York of those features what
will there be left in the Mctrouolls to live
fort
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASOX.
The only thing a lazy man gains in this
world is flesh.
Officials who are weighed in the scales
of Justice and whitewashed ere still scaly.
The most sensible thing to take to your
bosom now is a chest protector.
The sluggard who goes to his aunt and
gets nothing is forced to deal with his uncle.
The hats and bonnets now in style.
No longer scrape the sky;
But men who pay for them don't smile.
Because they still come high.
Quay is a lucky- fisherman,
how to cut bait.
He knows
The printers are the only ones who can
successfully "sing" Sullivan every time he
makes a stir in the land.
The sailor isalwayB an innocent on shore,
notwithstanding the fact that he kno A s the
ropes.
They are shouting instead of shooting
for rain down the Ohio. The good prefer
Providence to powder.
He loved the maid, and loved her well,
But sighed to note her waist was slim,
For then he knew this stylish belle,
Had corset-steeied her heart 'gainst him.
The best thing to cive a borrower is a
piece of your mind.
The lazy house builder always contrives
to escape the scaffold.
Some of Philadelphia's citizens are vainly
trying to wake up that sleeping beauty.
They should aak her to take a drink.
Every girl loves company, but her male
callers should always remember that three
is a crowd.
The modern maid's aesthetic,
Delsartean and athletic.
Full of gO.
A driver, rider, walker.
But a most insipid talker,
Doucher know.
Washington Star.
If the shearman on the Star had remembered
the injunction, "Thou shalt not steal," he
would not be put in this false light, nor
would the New York Commercial Advertiser,
the Buffalo Courier and other honest ex
change readers have credited him with this
trifle. It first saw the light in The Dis
patch, but in spite of this fact a city cotem
porary says it was "found floating." Take
'em, boys, but credit 'em.
IT is frequently easier for theatrical man
agers to cover a bill board than to plank
down a board bill.
The tin plate, men are eating pie instead
of crow this time.
If the turkeys could vote Harrison and
Pattison would suffer for thoso proclama
tions. NEAK THE TOP NOTCH.
No matter how late it is, Mr. Gladstone
always reads an hour before he goes to bed.
Babon Fava's elevation to the rank of
a plenipotentiary of the first-class indicates
that honors don't go by fava in Italy.
Senator Chandler has gone to Wash
ington from New Hampshire for the winter,
and his nose is said to be in a state of satis
factory convalescence.
POSSIBLY' those tears he shed so copiously
may have had theirlnfluence upon the court
martial which acquitted Lieutenant Cowles
of all blame for the wreck of the Despatch.
Vocalists in church choirs sometimes
get small fortunes for little work. Miss De
Vere, a New York soprano, receives $3,000 a
year for her vocal efforts in a iasbiouable
church.
People don't have to travel far beyond
the confines of their homes to learn lion
small -a thing is fame. Ex-President R. B.
Hayes realized this when he read in the At
lanta bonstitution "Hcys is Here."
It is with inadequate astonishment and
consuming sorrow that we learn that Music
Hall, the very center of Boston culture, was
only one-half full on tlio occasion of Sir Ed
win Arnold's flrst appearance, there.
Chief Justice Holt, of Kentucky, has
a double who not only looks like him', but
has the sainename. Unfortunately every
body doesn't know this and Justice Holt fre
quently finds that he has been credited with
registering in places, ho never thought of
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visiting.
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THE DESIGNS FOR THE LIBBABt.
WRlrritlT TOR TUB DISPATCH.;
The Chairman of the Carnegie Library
Competition Committee advises the Pro
fessor or Things in General that the top
story of the Ferguson building is a good
place for the cultivation of the "blind stag
gers." The Professor ventures to trust that
this picturesque expression does not de
scribe the committee's state of mind.
There is no doubt but that the committee
will face these 96 competitors with the
utmost serenitv. Thirteen hundred Ikxca
pieces of paper will not confuse them.
"Elevations," north, south, east and west;
"ground plans," "cross sections," sketches
of "detail," unnumbered pages of technical
description, will not give them even the flrst
qualm of the "blind staggers." The Pro
fessor, and all the general publlo, have un
bonnded confidence in the good Judgment
of Mr. Carnegie's committee.
lha best thing about this committee is
that no member of it knows anything about
architecture. That-is, about architecture
on tho technical side. There is nbt an ex
pert among the number. The Professor
haznrds a conjecture that not even the
Chairman can tell the 'difference between
renaissance and rococo. Tho Professor
challenges lirl Scott to state concerning any
single column in all those 1,800 plans whether
it is pyenostyle, systyle, eustyle, diastyle,
araeostyle, or any style at all.
Representatives of the People.
So much the better. We are all pretty
well acquainted with the members of this
committee. We- know them to be excellent,
honest gentlemen of good sense and intel
ligent Judgment, who can see out of their
eyes some of them even without the aid of
glasses who know a good thing when they
see it, and who are a3 reasonably sure as
any individuals in tho community to like
that which Is worth liking. That is, they
are of the same sort with all the rest of us.
There are 85 chances out of 96 that they will
choose Just that design which we would
choose. The best men to select something
for tho people in general are those who best
represent the people in general. And that
describes this committee accurately.
Of course, it is possible that an expert
might choose but a design that would delight
the citizens of the twentieth century. It is
not unlikely that the design which this com
mittee may select will make the artlstio
Pittsburgers of that ideal millentum swear.
We need not mind that What we want is a
build ng to please us. And such a building
will have a fine hlstorio value, anyhow,
whether it has artistic value or not. It will
represent nineteenth century taste.
The trouble with the things which the ex
perts delight in Is that they are above us.
They are like that classic musio which, as
somebody assures us for our consolation, is
really n great deal better than it sounds.
The Carnegie Library building, the Profes
sor understands, is for the people ot Pitts
burg whose names are In she directory or on
the roll books of the public schools to-day.
If he meant it for the twentieth century he
might invest his money and entail it. We
have reason to be grateful that this com
mittee stands solid on tho aotual everyday
ground, and that not a head out of the whole
number is in the clouds. The Carnegie
Library will, at any rate, be cotemporary.
Criticism of a Critic.
A poet complained, the other day,
aDout a critic, who in criticising the poet's
poem had bluntly affirmed that he simply
didn't like it The poet protested that this
was no sort of a criticism at all. The test of
a good poem is not in the like or dislike or a
critic, but in the acenracy of its meter, the
aptness of its rhyme, the sense and spirit of
it, ana its teennical excellence. The Pro
fessor's sympathies are with the critic The
supreme test of any thing is in tho approba
tion or disapprobation of the people for
whom it is meant. It is the business of the
man whohasgot hold of a good thing, of a
new truth, of a discovery, of a revelation of
grace or beauty in art or music, to make
it popular. Genius Is the gift of making the
supreme best appreciated by everybody.
This committee will not bother their heads
about architectural consistencies. They
will take the plan whioh they simply like
the best. And the Professor predicts that
we will agree with them. What, then, will
be the qualities for which the .committee
will look? Out of these 96, which will they
choose?
They will be likely at the flrst overlooking
I of the plans to be attracted by the architect
wu ima uuiiuicu tut? committee ana tne
competition and himself by sending his de
signs to this great architectural reception
diessed in their best clothes. A favorable
Impression is made at oncebyatasteful, and
careful, and artistic drawing. Tho commit
tee took pains to guard themsolves against
a temptation of which they wore quite
aware, by specifying that all designs should
be submitted in plain black and white. A
first-class draughtsman, with a brush or two
of color, can give a fictitious value to the
drawings of a third-class architect. Never
theless, the architect of the Carnegie
Library must essentially be a man of cul
tured taste, and that taste will show itself
in the setting, the finish, the presentation of
even the most severely simple plans. And
it may well count for something. It is worth
much.
The Appearance of the Outside.
Then the committee will examine all the
perspectives, the finished pictures of the
completed building. They will want to
know how It will look on the outside. Be
cause this is not merely a contrivance for
the storing and distribution of a lot of
books; it is meant to be an Impressive mon
ument. It must do credit to Mr. Carnegie
and to Pittsburg. It is to stand at the en
trance of a great park, in a position of prom
inence. It is to be an ornament. The flrst
requisite of this building is that it shall be
monumental.
But to be monumental it is well that the
building shonld be not only dignified, and
stately, but unique. We do not particularly
desire that this great municipal monument
shall be like half a hundred other monu
ments. Indeed, we have accomplished
something if we get a building out there in
Schenley Park which Is different from all
the conventional buildings, and worth com
ing to see because it is the only place to see
it. The splendid structures which are the
pride of the great cities on the other side of
the water are each one as individual as a
genius or a hero. They have personality.
They do not follow a type. They stand out
alone, and set an example.
And, more than that, it is well that tho
new building should, even on the outside,
indicate what it is for. People ought to
know when they see it that it is not a school
house, nor a jail, not a conrt house, nor a
church: not a meducval castle, nor a beer
garden; not a transplantation from the
World's Fair; not a shot-tower; not the
winter quarters of a circus, nor a restaurant,
nor a post office, nor the Capitol at Wash
ington. Shonld Mot Need a Label,
This building is to be for alibrary, for a
picture gallery and for a music halL The
Professor notices that -some of the plans
have signs over the doors. A good picture
does not really need a label. A horse on
canvas ouglit to be able to speak for him
self. This great building ought to represent
to every passer-ny tne uses that it is meant
for. In general, every tower, every angle,
every turret, ought definitely to mean some
thing. The basis of beauty is utility. That
great tower of Richardson's court house, for
example, was built for ventilation. It was
run away up, as was thought, above the
smoke line, to bring down clean air. No
tower has any business to exist which can
not give a good, sound, practical account ot
itself.
So much for the outside, the sum of which
is that any perspective which would do" just
as well lor a new Morganza may safely be
set in the background.
As for the inside, that ought to follow
even more accurately the intentions of the
building. The three great practical uses of
this structure aie for books, for pictures,
and for music. The best design Is the one
which provides for these uses in the most
effective and the simplest way. The visitor
ought not to be confused when he gets in.
It ought to be plain which way he is to go.
Tho Library should not be a labyrinth. Tho
professor has a personal preference for the
those designs, of which there area number,
which set the.book rooms on one side, and
the picture robins on the other side, and the
music room iu the middle. They have the
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x.zs
advantage of unity. They have the further
considerable advantage of allowing inde
finite enlargement for those two depart
ments which will be most likely to need ex
tension, and snch enlargement as will not
take away from 'tne proportions of the
wlsole.
Space and Light the Chief Concerns.
So far as the details of the various de
partments are concerned. It s not likely
that the committee know much of anything
about them, nor the architects either. The
man who knows most about the ideal library
is a librarian. These arrangements are not
of much importance in these provisional
designs. They will have to be developed
afterward. The chief concern, Just at this
stage, is space and light.
Finally, it must not be forgotten, and this
committee are not likely to forget, that this
building Is the gift of Pittsburg's most emi
nent citizen. It is to be more than a library,
or a picture gallery, or a musio hall. It is to
be a monument to the splendid geileroslty
of Andrew Carnegie. Ho has not said any
thing about this. But the people will not be
content to have this notable purpose over
looked. The best design will emphasize this
idea. It will center everything about some
stately hall, or dome, or tower, which shall
carry the memory of Andrew Carnegie into
everlasting remembrance.
In the meantime, here are 96 good plans,
and an ideal committee to say which of them
Is number one, and all tho rest of ns waiting
in confident expectation.
5JB EDWABD ARNOLD COMtSG.
TTIH Deliver a Lecture for the Press Club in
Carnesie BalL
Erasmus Wilson, chairman of the Lecture
Committee of the Pittsburg Press Club, will
this morning sign a contract under the terms
of which Sir Edwin Arnold will give read
ings from his works at Carnegie Music Hall,
Allegheny, on the evening of Thursday, De
cember S. The author of "The Light of
Asia" has had so many demands on his time
in the East that until Saturday it was doubt
ful whether bo could accept the Press Club's
invitation to come to Pittsbnrg. His nccept
ance, however, is without condition, and the
people of Western Pennsylvania will have a
share in what is undoubtedly the greatest
literary treat of the season.
Aside from his fame as a poet. Sir Edwin
Arnold is one of the most interesting figures
in public life to-day. Wherever he has ap
peared he has been lionized, and has
charmed everybody, as much by the sim
plicity of his charaoter as by the power of
his intellect. In New York, Boston and
other Eastern cities he has received social
attentions accorded to few. representatives
of any nation, and wherever he has appeared
there are earnest calls fo-- his return. The
length of his stay in Pittsburg is not yet de
termined, but it is certain that Pittsbnrg
will not be behind other cities in doing
honor to the man whose helpful 'influence
has extended to all nations.
The statement that Sir Edwin will give
readings from his works hardly describes
the character of the entertainment which
visitors to Carnegie Hall on the evening of
December S will enjoy. The selections be
l eads are interspersed with comments which
throw a new light on many of his famous
sayings. He modestly insists, however, that
he does not lecture, and that his talk is to bo
considered only as suggestions that have
helped him and may help others.
THE NEXT SPEAKER.
Loom is going to elect Speaker Mills. It
is mightier than the caucus. Baton Herald
(Dem.)
Fob Speaker of the next House of Repre
sentatives, William D. Bynum. Indianapolis
Sentinel (Dem.)
The indications at this time seem to favor
the election of Crisp, of Georgia, as Speaker.
Peoria Transcript Eep.i
Brkb Mills will find Brer Crisp a flghterj
and Republicans can stand off and see the
fun. Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.)
Mn. Mills is tho leading candidate for
t Speaker. He ought to be and undoubtedly
' will be chosen. Milwaukee Journal (Dem.)
Mills, of Texas, did not prove himself an
effective campaign speaker in New York
and Ohio, but he seems tohe the Democratic
choice for Speaker, nevertheless. New York
Frets (.Rep.)
Is conversation Mr. Bynum has stated
that in his recent tour he made many friends
and picked up a number of votes, and that
in the event that the Speakership comes
North his chances are good. Indianapolis
Journal (Rep.)
Westers Democratic papers are saying
that if Crisp be elected Speaker the tariff
will not be tonched, while if any other man
be elected the tariff will be attacked. The
Republicans are praving that some other
man will be elected. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
(Rep.)
The eloction of Mr. Springer to the Speak
ership wiil not only be an indorsement of
the great Democratic doctrine of tariff re.
form, the Just recognition of the heroic
Democracy of the Northwest, and the plan
ing of the duties of the position upon a gen
tleman in everyway exceptionally qualified
to perform them, but it will be good politics.
Illinois State Register.
A Road Reform Congress.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
A number of representatives of the differ
ent Southern States have just been holding
a road Congress at Atlanta. The object of
the Congress was to interest the public in a
movement to secure good highways through
out the South and to consider the best
'methods of accomplishing that end through
the State Legislatures and otherwise. The
movement is a timely one. We should like
very much to see concerted effort in the
same direction in Indiana. The establish
.ment of a system of first-class roads extend
ing into every township in the State would
do more for the prosperity, the comfort, and
the convenience of our people than any
other enterprise of a mateital character
that could be undertaken. No Investment
could be made that would yield such rich re
turns. We believe it would bo well if a road
Congress could be held in this State this fall,
at which the lepresentative business men
and farmers of every county could be pres
ent for un exohange of ideas upon this im
portant question.
He Has One Lord on His Side.
Kansas City Times.
Mr. Cleveland Jias at least one-Lord ou his
side, and the beauty of it is he can exercise
the right of franchise.
DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEEE.
Gordon Lester Ford, Publisher.
Gordon Lester Ford, the publisher of the
New York Tribune for the eight years between 1873
and 1881, and the farher of Malcolm W. Ford, the
athlete, died Saturday morning at his home, in
Brooklyn, in the 68th j ear of his age, of gastrlo
fcrer. He was found dead In his bed. Mr. Ford
was the owner of the finest private library, the
most valuable art collection aqd the most exten
sive collection of historical autographs In the
United States. He was -instrumental In founding
the Brooklyn Art Association and was tor years its
treasurer. He was also a director of the Academy
of Music for a quarter of s century, was connected
with the Brooklyn Library, the Long Island His
torical Society aud theUamilton Club. In connec
tion with Simeon B. Chittenden lie founded tho
Brooklyn Union in 1863 for the avowed purpose of
defending the cause of the Union. In 18C9 lie was
appointed United States Collector of Internal
Revenue, and relinquished the position three years
later rather than submit to being assessed for cam
paign purposes. In 1873 he became the publisher
anUbusinrss manager of the Tribune, and he filled
that responsible pqst for eight years, lie was a
member of the Lotos, the Reform and Hie Lawyers'
clubs of this city and or the Hamilton Club, of
Brooklyn. He was one of the originators and the
first signer of the call for the Washington Centen
nial, and was chairman of the General Committee.
El-Postmaster J. A. Cochran.
J. A. Cochran, ex-postmaster of Grove
City, died yesterday morning, of diphtheria. His
17-months old boy died about 15 minutes before
him with the croup. Mr. Cochrau was a well
known and respected citizen of Grove CUy.and was
Second Lleuteuant of Company F, National Guards
01 1'ennsyivnum.
Obituary Notes.
AskaMaodalen'a, wife of Alderman Flach, of
the Sonthslde, died at his home, 2208 Carson street,
yesterday afternoon at the age of 50 years. The
tuueral will be held to-morrow morning.
Rcvvs Lisle, a prominent horseman and Influ
ential citizen of Lexington, Ky.. died at his home,
near this city, 73 rears of age. He was known
throughout the country. He was a director of the
Lafayette National Bank.
MBS. EVELINE Smith, the mother of A. W.
Smith, the well-known florist and promoter of the
chrysanthemum show, died Saturday at her son's
home on Boggs avenue, she was 73 years old. Her
funeral will take place this afternoon.
JCPOE J. G. Sfaiiks, brother of T. G. Parks,
brother of A. J. Sparks, Commissioner General of
the Land Office under President t'levelind, dledlu
'incoina. Wash.. agcdSOvcars. He went there in
&5. aud was at one time Territorial Auditor of
Washington.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
An Increase or Over Three Million In Col
lections for the Year Only Costing a
Little More to Get In the Money
Growth of Liquor and Tobacco Business.
Wasbijtstos, Nov. 15. The annual report I
uiiioun tv. mason, commissioner Ot lumi
nal Revenue, which has just been submitted
to the Secretary ot the Treasury, contains a
mass of interesting information in regard to
the operations of that service. The total re
ceipts for the last fiscal year, from all
sources, were 1116,035,416 an increase of $3,
tlt,719 over the receipts for the previous
ascalyear. The cost of collection for the
past fiscal year was 4,210.601, or 2.SS per cent
of the reoeipts, against 2.S2 last year. The
estimated expenses for the next fiscal year
are ,522,380.
During tho year 698 stills were destroyed
and 97 were removed, involving the arrest
of S7S persons.
The aggregate amonnt of taxes collected
from tobacco during the last fiscal year was
$32,796,270. Thte decrease is 41.162.720. duo to
the reduction or the tax on snnff. chewing
and smoking tobacco, and to the repeal of
special taxes relating to tobacco.
The tax on cigars and cigarettes was not
changed, and the collections therefrom were
increased ?1.388,650-during the last flsoal year.
The increase of taxed tobacco and snuff over
1899 was 15,650,881 pounds: the increase of to
bacco and snuff exnorted was 4 299 nounds.
and the increase of tobacco and snnff, im-J
i'"ra ana wituarawn ror consuraptlon.was
16o,01 pounds. The increase during the fis
cal year of 1891 on taxed cigars was 387,000,
781, aud the decrease of cigars exported was
10,866, and of cigars imported and withdrawn
for consumption was 29,710 729. The increase
of taxed cigarettes was 151,281,080, and of cig
arettes exported was 35,221.200. The decrease
of cigarettes imported was 591,875.
Needed Changes In the Tariff Law.
The Commissioner says that in order to
make the tariff law effective severaMjfcnend
ments will be required, among which is one
for freighting illicit factories, and also duly
authorized factories where there is nny
serious violation of the law. It should also
be made a penal offense to remove stamps,
to reuse stamps, or to have in possession
stamps that have once been used.
The total number of grain, molasses and
fruit distilleries registered and onerated
during the year is 4,010 and 3,818, respec
tivelv. a decrease of 2.318 in thn numhur mr.
istered and a decrease of 2,332 on the number
operated
The quantity of spirits (115,862,333 gallons)
produced and deposited in distilleries and
warehouses during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1891, is more than theproduction(109,275 928
rnllon) in the year 1890 by 6,636,161 gallons.
Tho difference is distributed among tho
different kinds known to the trade as
follows: Increase in production High
wine, 511,198 gallons: rye whisky, 939,812;
alcohol, 906,373; mm, 126,515; gin, 9.931; pure,
neutral or cologne spirits, 1 333,507: miscel
laneous, 5,331,202; total Increase 9,229,839 gal
lons; decrease in the production of Bourbon
whisky, a 513,369 gallons; net increase, 6,6S6,
161 gallons.
There was an increase of spirits with
drawn for scientific purposes and for tho
use of the United States of 953 gallons. The
quantity of spirits in distillery warehouses,
June SO, 1891, is the largest quantity so held
at the close of any fiscal year.
Less Liquor Being Held Nowaday
It appears from reports recently received
that while the quantity of spirits in dis
tillery warehouses September 30, 1890, was
85,106,670 gallons, or more than 16,000,000 less
than the quantity therein June SO, 1890, the
quantity in warehouse September SO, 1S91,
was 101,810,892 gallons, or more than 81,000,000,
less than the quantity so held June 30, 1891.
It is noted also that this increased reduc
tion is due to decrease in production
during July, August and Semptember, 1891,
ramer iruau-to increasea tax paia Wltn
drawals, the quantity withdrawn tax paid
during these three months being nearly 1,
000,000 gallons less than tho quantity so witn
drawn during July, August and September,
The quantity of distilled suirlts in the
United States, except what may be in cus
toms bonded warehouses, on the 1st day of
October, 1691, was 152,915,773 gallons.
The aotual number or gallons of grape
brandy used in the fortification of sweet
wines during the fiscal year ended June 30.
1891, was 193,55 the tax upon which, at 90
cents per gallon, would have "amounted to
$171,201. It is probable that abflut double the
above quantity of grape brandy will be used
for the fortification of sweet wines during
the present fiscal year.
The commissioner announces his purpose
of substituting weighing for gauging In as
certaining the quantity of distilled spirits
subject to tax. He has therefore decided,
with the approval of the Secretary of tho
Treasury and under the authority of section
3219, Revised Statutes, to prescribe the use
of the scales in place of the gauge rod at dis
tilleries, and, so far as applicable, at rectify
ing houses; retaining the rod for use in
gauging packages of rectified spirits whose
true proof is not ascertainable owing to the
presence of saccharine or other matter in
the spirits, and under other circumstances
when the use of the scales may not be feasi
ble. He has contracted for 2,300 scales, or
weighing beams, with poises and barrel
hooks, at $10 each,
Tables in regard to the production of oleo
margarine show during the year ended June
30, 1891, an increase ot production over any
former year, but a decrease for exportation.
The total production wo 14,3')2,409. The In
crease in production over last year was 12
063,377 pounds.
TALK OP THIS TIMES.
Anarchists waving their reg rags make
themselves madder than anybody else.
Toledo Commercial. Tes, but the reg flag has
no place in this country.
"Blaine and reciprocity" have been sent
to the rear by the money of the Protection
ists in Ohio. Coldwater Sun, (Mich.) If this
was the case, they have gone to the front
very rapidly sinoe.
What the Northwest wants now is a good,
old-fashioned winter not too old-fashioned,
butjnst old-fashioned enough. Minneapolis
Tribune. Unless signs fail, the Northwest
will get just what it wants.
Once was Mr. Blaine "that tower of
strength which stood four square to all the
winds that blew." Kansas Ctiy Times. What
Mr. Blaine once was he still is. Time has
made no change in his business.
The robbery of railroad trains and blowing
open of safes, since the election is not a
necessary sequence of that event. fit Paul
Globe. Nobody supposed that disappointed
free traders would carry their principles
quite so far.
The eyes of the whole world will be upon
Mrs. Palmer when she drives that last nail
in the Woman's Building. Chicago Tribune. It
is to be hoped that she won't become con
fused at the wrong moment. In any case.
the man who holds the nail is brave even to
heroism.
Chicago shonld look to its laurels. A little
one-horse town up In Dakota called Sioux
Palls is acquiring a national reputation for
the celerity and frequency with which its
courts grant divorces Chicago News. Give
the little town a chance. Let her wear 'the
laurels if she wins them. It is better that
they should go to a Western than to a East
ern town.
The Incoming Chinainen.
Boston Traveller.
Congress is unquestionably to find itself
confronted with the Chinese question when
it assembles, and large provision will either
have to be made for the execution of tho
law or the law will have to be regarded as a
dead letter. There Is no doubt whatever
that the volume of Chinese immigration is
larger at the present time than at any time
slnco the exclusion law was passed, and It
is constantly increasing. All along the
Canadian frontier the Chinese are gathering,
and the efforts of the Treasury officials to
keep them out are not successful. The de
partment Is doing the best possible with the
means at its command under the law, but
these are entirely inadequate for the ac
complishment of the task boforq it. Con
gress must strengthen its hands or open the
doors tb tho anxious almond-eyed Celestial.
The Leak Cannot Be Stopped.
Chicago News.
Dispatches from Ottawa, Ont., announce
that the Canadian Government has decided
to adopt a vigorous Immigration policy.
This reminds one of the old adage about
plugging a cask with a spigot while the
bunghole remains open. Common every
day statistics prove that for every immi
grant Canada is able to lure to her shores
from European countries there are about
two that leave Canada to take up permanent
residence in tne United States.
A cSMirlSSSSt
It Is Proposed to Build One AcroM North
ern Mexico.
The New Nation.
Albert K. Owen, the founder of the Ameri
can Co-Operative Colony at Topolobampo,
Mexico, now proposes to build a co-operative
railroad 1,200 miles long connecting the
Gulf of California with the Gulf of Mexico.
When this colony was In the formative state
Mr. Owen secured valuable concessions
from the Mexican Government, and though
the original plan was abandoned, the con
cessions were, not forfeited, and now,
through the friendliness of President Diaz,
they have been renewed in more practicable
shape, and so as to contribute materially to
the carrying out of the new plan. Mr. Owen
now announces in the Mexican .Financier
that the projectors of the road have money
enongh In hand to build and equip the flrst
15 miles of the railway and telegraph and
that the colony has, within itself, the labor
and skill requisite to survey and construct
the road, build the bridges, depots, freight
houses, wharves, shops and also experienced
men to operate the train and telegraph
This, he estimates.constitutes about three
fifths of the total cost of the entire plant,
and that aside from this, it will only be nec
essary to bond the road for $10,000 per mile,
and therefore the road will have onl to
meet the $500 interest permlle per year. This
is a small Indebtedness when compared with
the Mexican Central RaUway, which Is
bonded for $38,500 per mile, but which earned
$2,100 per mile th first year after it was
opened. This will be the flrst Instance in
which incorporated labor has ever con
tracted to receive railroad securities for its
services.and where canital has been invested
upon snch a basis of agreement The road
will be called the Mexican Western Railroad
Company. The Topolobampo Colonv is now
said to be in a most prosperous condition,
and the undertaking of such a work as out
lined, indicates its strength and resources
and shows what intelligent labor can accom
plish when emancipated from the tyranny
and guile of private capitalists.
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.
It Is the Only Recourse of the Poor Man
Who Wants to Acquire Land.
Portland Oregonlan.l
The homestead law has been so modified
by the act of March 3, 1891, that It would
hardly be recognized by its old friends, who
look upon it as the one means of acquiring a
farm or ranch from the public domain.
Formerly it provided a means for locating
upon land and fixing a title under certain
restrictions, and this was alone the poor
man's way of acquiring 160 acres of land.
By the modification it is left the only means
of acquiring agricultural land. Formerly
the timber culture law furnished a means of
taking land from the public domain and ac
quiring by so much a tract that might be
come a farm. This is all done away with by
the recent laws, and now the poor man who
comes from the East and determines to take
public land has only one recourse, whioh is
In the homotead law. Formerly a sir
months' residence gave him the right to
purchase the land at its fixed value of $125
per acre outside of the limits of a railroad
grant, or $2 50 an acre within the limits of
sueli grant, and he bad little to caro for but
to comply with certain jrestrictions and be
come the owner.
How be must reside upon the land for 11
months, and not only comply with all tne
terms of the law in a strict sense, but have
an eye at all times to the fact that his neigh
bor or someone is watching him with a view
to claim lumping. This is due to the fact
that land is not so plenty now it has been,
and whoever gets from the Government of
the United States a farm does so by reason
or settlement and careful compliance with
all the conditions of law that tend to make
such acquirements as onerons as actual
purchase. It is no longer the happy circum
stance in which the settler finds himself that
he can take a quarter section of land with a
spring of water and wooded valley and be
sure that for all time he had title to land
enough to support himself and family.
SMOKELESS F0WBZB.
It Threatens to Work a Revolution in the
Art of Warfare- Generally.
United Service Magazine.
As to the probable effect of smokeless
powder in war, fortress guns will still be
easily localized with a field-glass, but if the
attacking batteries be constructed at long
range, behind parapets, with low command,
and not indicated by freshly stirred earth,
the enemy will be at first puzzled to localize
them. At all times, too. field artillery, open
ing suddenly at various places and distances,
would, with the aid of smokeless powder, be
more difficult to reply to effectively than
formerly. It is, however, in casemates that
smokeless powder would be very valuable,
as not substantially enenmbering or vitiat
ing the atmosphere inside.
Passing from fortresses to the open conn
try, I will first consider how and to what
extent the defenders of a position will be
benefited by tho use of smokeless powder.
If they obtain cover behind a hedge, in a
wood, or in shelter trenches, whose exist
ence Is not disclosed by newly excavated
earth not covered by turf, grass, they will tie
invisible at any distance, say, exceeding 300
yards; hence they can fire at the enemy's
distant artillery or advancing infantry with
out fear of a return, for he will be unable to
even approximate to the situation of the
line. Ambushes, especially against cavalry,
will be much more effective than formerly,
and the dangpr of attacking the enemy in
position will be Increased enormously. The
experience of actual war will probably
bring to light other effects of smokeless
powderand modify preconceived theories.
AUIhavo attempted is to suggest some of
the consequences likely to result from tho
adoption of the new powder.
THE EPISCOPAL C0NGEES3.
Lances Sharpened for the Arguments That
Are Anticipated.
New York Tribune.
The meeting of the Episcopal Church Con
gress, whioh begins in Washington on Tues
day of this week, promises to be more than
usually Interesting. During the last few
years the Episcopal Church has been under
going a most significant Internal revolution,
one result of which has been the virtual dis
appearance of the old Low Church party, and
and the rapid growth of the Broad Church
school of thought. During the same period,
also, the High Church party has grown in
numbers and coherence, and is now getlng
ready to break a lance with the Broad
Churchmen.
The Church Congress, being by its yery
constitution a freo forum for the expression
of all shades of opinion in the church, has
naturally attracted to It the Broad Church
men, while it has Just as naturally excited
the snspiolon, if not tho opposition, of many
extreme High Churcnmen. This Is not the
fault of the Church Congress, w'hose officers
are only too anxious to giveta hearing to
both schools of thought, but arises from the
fact that a thoroughly consistent High
Churchman must believe that Only his own
opinions are right, and that the expression
of any other ouinlon is IrereticaL In spite
of the opposition to it, however, the Con
gress is a great and growing power in the
Episcopal Church, and enlists among its
writers and speakers some of its ablest and
clearest thinkers. The topics to be dlsoussed
at the coming meeting are of great practical
importance, and the utteranceson them will
excite general attention, even outside the
Episcopal Church.
THIS UNRECOGNIZED.
CWRITTES rOK THE DISPATCH.
How many stars of purest ray
Must shine within the sky.
And move along their silent way
Unseen by mortal eye.
How many gems in oceans deep,
Or down in rocky mine.
As fair and bright as those that sleep
In the monarch's casket fine.
How oft do roses bloom in vain
And scent the morning air, ,
And violets deck the verdant plain
And die neglectedthere. .
How oft the matchless nightingale
Pours out its soul alone,
No listening ear within the vale
To catch one melting tone.
And thus it will most surely be
With thousands of our race,
Who ne'er upon life's stormy sea
Shall paths of glory trace.
And yet mothinkg 'tis quite as good
To shine unseen, unknown, -And
live in peaceful solitude
As on some gilded throne.
D. Matthew Caub.
Anaconda, Most., November, isM.
CCKI0US CONDENSATIONS.
In Spain there are only 3,231 children in
the Sunday schools.
There are 230,000 singers in the choirs
of the Church of England.
The rent of land in England 300 years
ago was about a shilling an acre.
The people of the United States con
sume, it is said, 200,000,000 bottles of pickles
annually.
It is estimated that in theTJmtedKin;
dom no fewer than 70 000 girls are employed
in publie houses and drinking bars.
The amulets of the Tasmanians are com
posed of sacred stones suspended from tho
neck, to prevent the malignant Influence of
witcncrait.
The value of the fish already caught this
season on the northeast const of Scotland H
estimated at abont .600,000, or considerably
more than the average. ,,
The Italian army contains nearly"2,600,- '
000 men, or to give the exact figures, 1,'J28,'W2
Among them are 35,000 Alpine soldiers,
trained and inured to the hardships of
mountain warfare.
Lobsters often travel in regiments, seek
ing new feeding grounds. Their migrating
armies are always led by the biggest' and-
strongest ones, while the maimed and weak
ly struggle along behind.
-Of every 100 persons who traveled on
English railways last year 83 went in third
class carriages (or, should we say paid for
third-class tickets?), while 7.7 were second,
and only 3.7 went first-class.
A Galician priest has been warned that
if be goes on persuading people to give up
intoxicating drinks he and the Mayor of the
village may be made responsible for the loss
suffered in consequence by the publican.
2fo animal has more than five toes,
digits or claws to each foot or limb. The
horse is one-toed, the ox two-toed, the rhin
oceros Is three-toed, the hippopotamus Is
four-toed and the elephant and hundreds of
other animals are five-toed.
In popular histories of the SevenWon
derg of the World we read that the Pharos,
the flrst llghthonse. could se seen at a dis
tance of 100 miles. In order for this to have
been possible the Pharos must have been
a mile and a quarter In height.
There are 536 authorized guides n the
Alps. One hundred and ninety-four of them
have taken a regular course of Instruction
in their prnfesion and have received
diplomas. Thirty-flve of them are between
CO and 70 years of age, and six are over 70.
243,047,680 quarts of milk, 5,406,680
quarts of cream, and 3,020,110 quarts of con
densed milk were received in New York last
year for consumption. Each inhabitant of
tne city, according to these figures, used on
an average 153 qnan-ts of milk. 3K quarts of
cream, and 2 quarts of condensed milk last
year.
There are naturalists in this day and age
who believe that horse hairs will turn to liv
ing snakes: that toads will live fortbousands
ofyears in the cavitv of a rock without food
or water, that the barnacle goose was de
veloped from the shell fish of thntname.and
that the bird called Sora is a species of
winged frog. "
The City of London is put down by geo
graphers as the center of the landed hemis
phere. In other words, a radius of about
6,000 miles on the enrved surface of the earth,
with London as a center, wonld describe a
circumference enclosing more land than any
6.000-mile circle that conld be drawn from
any other city in the world.
The following are examples of nine-syllable
words in the English language: An
thropometamorphis. antisnpernaturalism,
antf-constltntlonalist, anhydrohepsiterinn,
latromathematiclan, incomprehensibility,
individualization, syncategoretnatic.il. un
constitutionality, nnintelllgihility, valetudi
narianism and vicissitudinallty.
One of the most singular looking creat
ures that ever walked the earth or "swam
the waters under the earth" is the world
famous man-faced crab of Japan. Its body
Is hardly an inch in length, vet the head is
fitted with a face which is the perfect coun
terpart of that of a Chinese cooly: a veritable
missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth all
clearly defined.
An upright stone in Iona Istand is said
to confer the power of steering well to any
one who will stretch his arm along it; and a
correspondent of Notes and Queries describes
a stone at Innisken. near Mavo Island.
which so recently as the year 1851 was
brought out and Importuned to bring wrecks
along. It was ot cylindrical shape and waa
careiuiiy wxappca in nannei.
Burke, in his letter on "Natural So
ciety," says thit Sylla 'destroyed 300,000 men
In each of three battles, one being at Che
ronea. The Persians are said to have lost
230 000 men at Flataea. II. Chronicles, xiiL,
17. records 600.COO slain on one side, which,
however, may not have been in a single bat
tle. I. Kings, xx 26, tells of 100 000 men
being killed on one sido in a single day.
Russian photographers who are unable
to get a settlement from their sitters hansr
the portraits of the latter npside down in
the show-cases before their studios. The
significance of this positfon Is. of course, un
derstood by the general publlo, and, it is
said, the photographers' debtors, in many
instances, hasten to place themselves right
again in the eyes of their fellow-citizens.
Asia means morning or east; Europe,
evening or west; Australia means lying to
or in the south. Hence, we may consider
that these names mean Eastern Land, West
ern Land and Southern Land. Asia is a
Greek word,, Europe is the Hebrew oreb,
Australia is a Latin word. The origin of the
word-"Africa" is uncertain. Some conjec
ture that it is a Semitic word,meaning "Land
of Wanderers."
One of the most famous and fatal poi
sons used in Japan and Java is obtained
from the bamboo. The young shoots of the
cane, when they first push through the
ground, are covered with fine, brownish
hairs, which, under the microscope, appear
to be bayonet-like spikes of crystals of
sllex. Infinitely sharp and hollow. Small
quantities of these hairs administered daily
in the food bring on ulceration of the whole
alimentary canal, simulating malignant
dysentery, which eventually causes death.
' RHYNKLED RHYMZLET3.
Clara You know Cora has been taking a
course of mlUnery with a view to trimming her
own hats in the future, aud I have just learned
that she has stopped.
Maud Why, what has she 6topped for?
Clara Her money ran oat. Cloak Review
I sought relief in many a hoary creed,
But found no solace tin I found the weed,
Andnowmyonly altar is my pipe.
And prime tobacco is my only need.
K. T.Eerald. '
Lady (to servant) Lina, what has be
come of your sweetheart?
Lina He doesn't come any more.
Why not?"
"Well, yon see, his wife is of such a Jealous dis
position that I gave him the grand bounce."
Texas Sittings.
"Wife I don't think I shall get a new
bonnet this month but I shall have my old one
trimmed over.
Husband Bless you my dear.
Wife Don't bless me. Give me S for tnn
mlng. Cloak Review.
La Grippe and Laryngitis,
And jovial Catarrh.
And myriads of Conghs and Colds
Are mourning near and far.
And in a wretched chorus
They sing this dismal song
"Oh these are dull, bard times for ns.
The open car Is gonel"
Boston Courier.
"Breakfast," said Miss Passee, "is my
favorite meal."
"Naturally," retorted Miss Perte. "One 11
younger at breakrast than at dinner. Harper's
Mazar.
Tom The old gentleman caught me kiss
ing Alice last night.
Ned-I'm surprised. You ougnt to go slow about
such things. .....
"Why, I went altogether too slow about It!
That's how I got caught."-Pncfr.
He thought he'd marry her because
She made her gowns herself.
But the little trimming bills she had
Soon laid him ou the shelf.
Cloak Eaitw.
Husband Let us go to Niagara Falls
next week. I should like very much ror you and I
to spend a week there. I think I should enjorlf
very much.
TVjfe it Is very unusual for you to be so consid
erate toward roe. Why du you want to take me to
Niagara Falh?
Husband-Smith took his wife there last week,
and he said she was speechless with awe, and I
just thought, perhaps-quch! let go my hair.
Can't you take a Joke? Let go, I say I'll get you
that new bonnct-and a new sealskin sacqne."
Tuasmlingt.
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