wm&&sz?!VMe2mjmMmi W?3.fr39FaPTv THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, -SUNDAT, NOVEMBER 22, 189L -) IjpBigpafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBKUARY. &. JSS. Vol. . No. s. loitered at Pittsburg rostofflce, JJovemberlssr, sBecond-class matter. Ij Business Office Corner Smithfield :" and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. FVTFRV ATIVEUTISING OFFICE. ROOMS. TRIBUNE BOII.DING. XEWTORK. wherecom plete files of THEDISPATCHcanalwaTS be fount Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and Mends of THE DISPATCH, while in New York, are also made -welcome. THE DISPA TCHls npulnrU on a at Brentnno's, t Vnum Sevan. .Vac Twl, and 17 Ave de fcjjxm, rim, France, wiere anyone icho has been, aisap jS pointed ata hotel newsstand canobtain it. TEEMS OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTAGX TREE IX TUB U2.TTED STATES. 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POSTAGE AH persons who maU the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear in mind the fact that the post age thereon Is Tno (3) Cents. AH double and triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delu err. F1TT&BUKG, SUNDAY, NOV. 22, 1891. M.OW, BUT EQUAL TO IT. After much more appeal than should have been needed from Mayor Gourley and the newspapers, Pittsburg business men yesterday rather tardily, but earn estly, took up the project of sending a committee to TVashinRton to ask for the Xational Republican Convention. Though put off to the eleventh hour, there is still a chance Pittsburg may be selected. San Francisco is simply out of the question, and has been from the first Neither its free transportation, its glorious climate, nor its famous wines would reconcile a majority of tho delegates to put in three weeks upon the nomination of a ticket Omaha and Minneapolis are likewise open to the objection of .distance, and their hotel accommodations are none of the most extensive. New York decidedly has a stronger claim than any of the places named, and Pittsburg is better situated than Xew York. Besides, the Republican party as an organization might reasonably wish to revisit the scene of its birth. We do not know of a spectacle which the delegate's could view with more satisfaction than that of the vast and varied industries, started into being and fostered by the tariff policy, which is visible everywhere within a radius of 200 miles of Pittsburg. But, inviting though the prospectus is which Pittsburg can lay before the Na tional Committee, it must be confessed that the attitude of indifference shown by our manufacturers, bankers and other piominent men has been decidedly chill ing. Nowhere are individual enterprise and resources exploited on a more im pressive scale than in this great city of ours. But when it comes to co-operative effort in competition with other cities, or to pride of locality, such as has done so much for Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul, Kansas City and other places, there is a strange want of motive spirit There must, however, be a beginning in Mich things. It is "well, therefore, that Mayor Gourley and the newspapers did at last yesterday succeed in getting an earnest committee to go to Washington. If Pittsburg get the convention, that affair will be handled capably and well. For, if extreme reserve is a characteristic of the town, it must be admitted on the other hand that it never fails when the emergency arrives. A SOUTHERN FICTION. The remark of The Dispatch the other day about the tendency of some of the newspapers to speak of the Brazilians who are making a stand for constitutional government as "insurgents" and of their movements as a "revolt," moves the Charleston 2fet and Courier to deliver itself as follows: It is not at all remarkable when yon think about it a little, cotemporary. The papers in question have become so accustomed to speaking of the people in this country who made so strong a stand for constitutional government 30 years ago as "lebels" that they naturally apply the same or a similar term to et ery people that emulates their example. This is introducing a new element into the discussion of constitutional govern ment which, in the interest of historical accuracy, it may be worth while to ex amine. By those who "made so strong a stand for constitutional government 30 years ago" is evidently meant the people of the South in their secession movement The assertion that the people of the South in that movement upheld the cause of constitutional government has been made before; but as it is this time addressed especially to TnE Dispatch, we take great pleasure in giving a critical exami nation to the claim. Constitutional government is govern ment according to fundamental law, which designates the methods by which the ruling powers shall be selected and de fines the manner in which they shall ex ercise that power. Popular government is the form of constitutional government in which the rulers are selected by the people. Thirty years ago and more an election for President was held under the constitutional forms by the people of this country, and strictly according to the pro isions of the Constitution a President was chosen whose political views were obnoxious to the South. Because he was elected the Southern States declared that they would no longer remain in the Union, and a four years' struggle ensued. On this condensed statement of the dis- pute, we fail to find any support of con stitutional government in the course of the South, or any resemblance to the people in South America who are re sisting the usurpations of military dicta tors. The more w e examine into the de tails the less we find to support the as-j-prtion of our Southern cotemporary. Without opening the question of the right of secession, for which there is not the slightest syllable of support in the Con- stitution, but even supposing that right to exist, it is not supporting constitutional government to disrupt a nation because the seceding section cannot have the Presi dent it prefers. As to any encroachments on constitutional rights by the Republican administration elected in 1860, the Sonth cannot assert them, for the all-sufficient reason that the secession movement was declared before President Lincoln was in augurated. We are under obligations to theJfetci and Courier for thus, devolving upon us the duty of stating that the Southern claim that the secession movement was in support of constitutional government is an entire fiction. The Dispatch has been frank in recognizing the propriety of Southern honors to the memory of its soldiers, and in expressing its belief that the sentimental attachment to the memory of the Lost Cause does not argue disloyalty to the Union in the present generation. But when it comes to the assertion that in the struggle of the sixties the South stood for constitutional government, that trans gresses the limits of historical truth. The South did not support constitutional gov ernment; it sought to tear the United States Constitution to pieces. So long as it considered slavery safe it was willing to remain in the Union; when it imagined mat institution to be threatened by Re publican supremacy it was ready to dis solve the Union and destroy the Constitu tion. More than that, the inconsistency of all the talk about the centralizing tenden cies of the Republican party is strikingly illustrated in this connection by the fact that there was nevera Republican measure which made so extreme and centralizing an assertion of Federal power as the fugitive slave law. The esteemed Ifitcs and Courier is right in one respect, though. When an Ameri can newspaper can claim that such a movement in our own country was "a stand for constitutional government" it is not at all remarkable that there should be an utter failure to understand what con stitutional government means, either here or in South America. There was just as much constitutional justification for Penn sylvania to secede when Cleveland was elected in 1884 as there was for South Car olina to secede when Lincoln was elected in 18C0. If a Democratic and free trade President should be elected next year, and this State should thereupon declare that because its interests were attacked it would resort to arms to break up the Union, the ITeics and Courier would be justified in declaring it to be a rebellion, and a wanton and wicked one. Mutato nomine, the term describes the movement which our Southern cotemporary refers to as a stand for constitutional government ILLITERACY AND SUFFRAGE. Ex-Senator William A. Wallace struck the note of an important reform when in an interview in yesterday's Dispatch he urged the establishment of an educational qualification which would exclude illiter ate foreigners from citizenship. The posi tion that the foreigner should be required to readnnd write sufficiently to gain some comprehension of our system before aid ing to control Us Affairs needs little argu ment The tide of iilerate immigration at pres ent constitutes the great reinforcement to the mass of ignorance in our citizenship. The welfare of the oountry demands that some check be imposed on the growth of this element to protect politics from the demoralization resulting from the ease with which voters of that class succumb to the wiles of corrupt politicians. At the I same time, we should offer an inducement to immigrants to secure education by hold ing out the prize of suffrage when they have qualified themselves to exercise it But does not the same argument apply to the smaller proportion of illiterate per sons who are native born? Indeed, is not the illiterate American more undesirable than the illiterate foreigner, as one who has failed to utilize the educational op portunities which this country affords? Would it not be just and consistent to apply the same policy to both, and with out disfranchising anyone, to enact, that after a given date, no one shall attain the right of suffrage unless he can demonstrate his ability to read, to write and to exercise his power of a voter intelligently. A DEFEATED PROPOSITION. The poor farm proposition which was lately submitted to Councils is now proba bly dead in fact, even if not nominally so. Under the circumstance of the property for which $350 per acre is asked from the city having been appraised in court by the parties in interest at only 200 an acre, it is out of the question that the recommend ation for its purchase can be seriously per sisted in. But it is permissible to advise that when Councils do take up the poor-farm matter again they lay down the lines so that no more time need be wasted about it Let them order a purchase not exceeding a hundred acres at a price not exceeding 200 per acre, and they will quickly get all the occasion demands. If this cannot be done cut the knot by making arrangements with the County Home to take the inmates! LORD SALISBURY'S CHANCE. Lord Salisbury is only delaying the gen eral election which must determine the government of England in a year or two until he can take full advantage of the mistakes of his opponents. It must also be said that some foundation has been given for this last hope of salvation from an otherwise inevitable defeat, although whether the mistakes on which the Tory leader must rely will offset the tendency in favor of the Liberals is doubtful. The stroneest indication of this waiting policy is in Lord Salisbury's prompt ac ceptance of the issue offered him by Glad stone's utterances in favor of the evacua tion of Egypt In this the Tory leader shows the keenest practical statesmanship. Mr. Gladstone was opposed to the occupa tion of tgypt, and tne misfortunes which happened there under his administration have strengthened his distaste for Eng lish supremacy there. But there could be no measure more calculated to alienate British support than the surrender of the Enehsh hold there; and unprejudiced opinion will generally concede that feeling to be right The English . desire to remain in Egypt is mainly selfish, as keeping control of the route to India; but it is nevertheless, as a question of civilization, true that English rule in Egypt is infinitely preferable to the rule either of the Khedive, the dervishes or the Sultan. Mr. Gladstone might almost as well propose the surrender of India to the unregulated rule of the rajahs as the re tirement from Egypt and the surrender of that land to the conflict between the partly civilized and weak government of the Khedive and the savage and strong tribes from the upper Nile. It is evidently Lord Salisbury's purpose when he thinks the time is ripe to go to the people on this issue. He will try to get rid of the Irish question by utilizing another mistake of his opponents and claiming that the measure of self-government which he is prepared to give is all that can safely be conceded to people so prone to faction as the Irish party is now showing itself to be. The Irish question can hardly be put aside so easily. It is more than likely that the English people will put Mr. -Gladstone in power on the distinct understandinz that his party colleagues will not let him commit 60 great a political blunder as to give up Egypt But it must be recognized that the Tory Premier will' play his strongest cards in this my. He has been waiting a year or more for an issue in England's external affairs on which he can appeal to the pop ular feeling; and in this respect Mr. Glad stone has given him as good a chance for his political life as he is likely to get in the next twelve months. QUADRUMANOU5 CONVERSATION. The special article by Prof. Garner, which is published in this issue, giving an account of his experiments in testing and imitating the forms of speech used by monkeys is interesting and important Critically it is possible o remark that Prof. Garner's assertion that animals have certain forms of speech with fixed values to the respective sounds, is announcing a discovery which the lovers of animals have known for ages. The deg and cat not only have sounds to communicate ideas among themselves, but they use them to convey their sentiments, at least, to man. While as to the simian race the studies of naturalists in the native haunts of the animals have long established the fact that they can discuss projects, issue orders and act in concert to accomplish desired purposes. This, of course, does not detract from the value and importance of Prof. Garner's efforts to determine the exact sounds which express certain ideas, and to learn how to communicate them to the apes. In this respect he is developing a field of scien tific investigation in which he is clearly the original leader. While he has not pro ceeded very much further than the ordi nary lover of animuls has with the sounds that express the sentiments of the domes tic animals, each step opens up a vast field of possibility. In one respect, however, Prof. Garner's theory of what may be accomplished by the study of the speech of monkeys sug gests an earnest protest That is the thought that by learning to communicate with the simian tribe mankind can aid the lower race along the slow path of develop ment Thereseemtobeadequateobjections to this from both points of view. In the first place, the position of tutor to a family of gorillas would be a very undesirable one, especially when discipline and correc tion might be necessary to enforce the instruction. But the obvious drawbacks which suggest themselves from the human side are not more important than the moral question that could be raised from the standpoint of the monkeys. There is every reason to fear that if the human race should learn the simian lan guage and undertake the task of instruc tion, the quadrumana would in time learn to use language after Talleyrand's fashion, to conceal thought They might attain to the perversion which the Honhymhyms thought so incredible of "saying the thing which is not" At present we have every reason to believe that what there is of mon key talk is employed with sincerity and veracity; but the instruction of their hu man elder brothers would introduce them to lying, cozening, slander and false doc trine of all shades. If developing the gorillas would be a risky task for the hu man instructor, it must also be said that in the point of honesty and frankness the gain would be very questionable for the four-handed pupiL We wish success to Prof. Garner in studying the monkey language; but he should bo careful about rashly essaying the job of "developing" his pupils. He might turn the Barbaryape into award politician and the chimpanzee into the ed itor of a political organ, and if the mon keys could realize the real meaning of the change they would never f orgive-him. CITY TAXES FOR NEXT TEAR. . The question of city taxes for next year is getting timely attention. The Mayor and Controller are out in an address sup porting the bond issue, as the easiest way to meet the expense of street improve ments until the Supreme Court decide upon the curative legislation; and there is no doubt of the correctness of their view. With the bond issue approved, there should be no increase in the tax -rate for next year. As was shown in these columns, about one-fourth of last year's levy was devoted to extraordinary expendi tures, such as purchase of park property, construction of roadways, repaying of streets, and building of station houses and other like items. These are now done with. This year also there is expected an increase of revenue from the higher licenses whichshould go to making up defi ciencies. There will further be an in crease of valuations for assessment pur poses, legitimately arising from the im provements in various quarters upon real estate. But, to secure retrenchment where it is possible without impairing the efficiency of the city government, and to confine the increase of valuations to cases of visible and tangible enhancement, in place of per mitting the occasion to be used for a gen eral increase, it is well that public interest is early aroused. Too many voters are oblivious at times to the fact that the burden of taxes is not confined to property holders, but that on the contrary it is quickly distributed by that clas3 upon the people who pay rent and upon the general cost of living. When all are awake to this important consideration there will be a keener in terest in the election and acts of Councils. They will see that government is directly their own business, that it touches their pockets, and that they ought to be very sure of the probable courseof the men who want to go to Councils bef,ore vqting for them. SUPERIOR TO PARTIZ UNSHIP. There is a gratifying indication of public ability to lay aside political prejudices in the fact that a citizen of Ohio is now traveling through the South who has been the object of more virulent political abuse than any other living man; and jet in the stronghold of his political opponents he has been received with marked cordiality and public respect We refer to Ruther ford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United States. The South does itself honor in honoring ex-President Hayes." Since it is still the fashion among Democratic organs of the more rabid variety to indulge in abuse of Mr. Hayes, it )s pertinent to remark that his personal qualities and public record entitle him to the esteem of the people and their public manifestations of respect Succeeding to the Presidency under the most trying circumstances, his personal bearing both as President and, since his retirement, as a private citizen, has been dignified and irreproachable. His states manship as President was open to criti cism, the most vital weakness of his policy being that his desire to conciliate the South Jed him to acts that could be construed as casting a doubt on the legitimacy of his , own election. But in his administration j he was personally beyond reproach. The breath of scandal never came near him. He was the one President of the United States who, having prior to his election declared against the re-election of Presi dents to a second term, made that declara tion his rule of action and abstained from efforts to secure a renomination. In pri vate life he has been the typical American citizen wSo has held great office, and after his public career Is over, leads a blameless and useful life, ready to aid in philan thropic and publio organization. In all his varieu relations as soldier, Congress man, Governor and President, Rutherford B. Hayes has shown a good example of American citizenship. It is a sign of intelligent and patriotic growth in the South, that they take the occasion to honor ex-President Hayes, which is all the more gratifying because he has been the especial target of Demo cratic abuse for the past fifteen years. The abuse was the merest partisan raving, and it is satisfactory to see that there is a respectable element in the South that rated it at its true worth. A JUBISPS DEATH. The past year has been a notable one in necrology. The list of men of promi nence in public life and in professional and social life whom Death has removed is a long one, and includes many of the brightest and best names. The addition by the death of Judge Silas M. Clark Fri day night is that of a man whose career had scarcely brought him into national prominence, but whose leadership in the legal profession and nine years' service on the Supreme Bench of the State gave him a prominence in the State of really Tugher standing than a position of the second magnitude in national matters. Judge Clark was, during a long career, one of the leaders at the bar of Western Penn sylvania, and his elevation to the Supreme Bench In the Democratic victory of 1682 gave that body a member whose integrity and ability were beyond question. His death at a comparatively early age is a publio loss which the entire State may well join with his many friends in mourn ing. An afternoon cotemporary call atten tion to the defect In the city ordinances by which property owners, instead of making their gas and water connections bofore new pavements are laid, are permitted to tear up the pavements and greatly depreciate their wearing qualities. The defect is one which would not exist in a well-planned municipal system. But the responsibility for the depreciation should not be placed on the property owners exclusively. Instances can be produced in which property owners nave tried to get gas connections made in advance or paving, but have been In formed by the gas companies that it was not worth whilo to bother about a little thing like saving the pavement. As the gas com panies do not have to pay for thp paving and orily enjoy free privileges in the streets it is clear that tho inducement to them to aid in preserving the pavements is a very slight one. Despite previous reports and contra dictions, the Czar's ukase against the ex portation ot Russian wheat was issued yesterday. The needs of the Russian people may be strong in producing this result; but the needs of tho Russian army are raishtier. All the powers of heaven and Europe seem to be combined to give this country pros perity. The speculation about M. de Giers' visit to P.iris is unnecessary in view of the state ment that the Frenoh, who have streaks of. practical sense in their composition, have decidedly cooled in" their enthusiasm for the Russian alliance. The need of Russia for the negotiation of loans in France made it absolutely necessary for the Russian Minis ter to come to Paris for the purpose of arousing the French with another treaty. Thanksgiving- preparations should In clude arrangements that the poor and desti tute shall have especial reason to be thank ful. The best sauce for the feast of thanks is the knowledge that you have helped someone else to join in the general grati tude. It is learned from the comments of the Now York papers on the waste of water in that city that the consumption has risen to the average of one hundred gallons of water per diem for each inhabitant. As Pittsburg passed that average some years ago, aad Is now consuming in the neighborhood of 130 gallons per capita each day, it is an interest ing question whether this city is more w asterul or more cleanly than New York, Colonel, Watteeson remarks that the next house is "dangerously Democratic." True, and It remains to be seen whether the immense preponderance of the Democracy will not in the next six months make the danger a vital one to that party. TnE German Government is supplying a large number of portable tents to its troops on the Russian frontier; the Russian Gov ernment is moving 40,000 more soldiers into the Polish border district; and the Austrian Government has reinforced its forces on the GallicUn frontier. It is evident the inten tions of the Powers are so sternly pac.iflo that they are going to preserve the peace by the most urgent military measures. The fact that Morrison has stepped into Llvsey's shoes warrants the expression tf a mild hope that he will not find it necessary to follow the example of his predecessor in using them for traveling to unknown parts. We regret to learn that the International Arbitration Congress, which was fixed to meet In Chicago in 1833, has been ppstponed. At the rate things have been going in Chi cago there will be need for international ar bitration of the most authoritative descrip tion to reduce the World's Fair Commission and- Board ot Directors to a condition of harmony. People should be warned against over eating on Thanksgiving by the sad example of the turkey gobbler. The new corporation, under the title of the Consolidated Black Cat Company, which is going to occupy an island in Puget Sound with a stock Of sable tabbies for the sake or their fur, can be wished no greater good fortune than that it will have as many lives as the stock In trade. Wolves Between Two Cities. Brooklyn Citizen. It sounds Btranse to hear of three children being killed and eaten by wolves near the Twin City Stock Yards, Minn., -within call or hundreds of men employed in the yards. A wolf in this part of the country would be a curiosity. Yet, although France has been inhabited since the last glacial epoch, and by a civilized people for 2,000 years; though ij has only four times the aiea of New York State, but seven times the population, there are districts in it where wolves roam at will and even an armed man is liable to be pulled down and devoured by them. Still, it should not be either there or here, and the hunt should continue until the last beast of prey that menaces human life lson exhibition as a stufled image. Incandescent Lamp as a Seismograph. In laboratories where stability is of conse quence such as photometric or physical laboratories it is usual to test the state of the room as regards vibrations by a basin of mercury. A Belgian scientist points out that an incandescent lamp forms a far more delicate form of Instrument for this pur- lUertm JrvXEW.Kr Inmn R.S.V of 100-VOlt 8 C. D. In lll BTIvri. ments he placed a lamp having alooped fila ment on the pillar to he tested, a candle be hind, and a field glass in front to observe the vibrations. Steps and Jolts ou the floor were perfectly Indicated by movements of the filament, when the basin of mercury re mained perfectly unaffeoted. BITS OF INDIAN LORE. Indian Summer Is a Name of Local Origin Nomenclature at Western Pennsylvania Learned Discussions as to the Origin or Ohio and Allegheny. tWEtmn FOB THE DISPATCH. J "I wonder how this very regularly oc curring and beautiful season ever came to be called Indian summer," I happened to hear a young lady exclaim in the Allegheny Carnegie Library the other day. She could have found out right in that institution had she known what book to ask for. "Dodd ridge's Notes" is undoubtedly there, though the collection of Americana is so far only a mere nucleus of what the library will ulti mately have in that line, and I remember reading in Doddridge years ago an ex planation of the term. The au thor, I may remark, is one of the most interesting who have written from actual experience of the life of the frontiers men and pioneers of the period for SO yeais following the founding of Pittsburg, when the Ohio river was the "away-out-west" re gion and Western Pennsylvania, the trans montane portion of old Virginia and a small fringe of territory In the Buckeye State along the river, were receiving the vanguard of the pioneers. "Indian summer" to those pioneers, al though the same hazy, dreamy-atmosphered, yet exhilarating season as at present, was not looked upon by the pioneers with any thing of the spirit of welcome and satisfac tion with which their descendants in this re gion contemplate its coming. To them it was the season of all the year most un welcome. In fact, most productive of fore boding and fear. Just at this time,wnen the heavy storms of late autumn were over the equinoctial and its boisterous successors and nature puttn her kindly mood as if in recompense for her past tempestuous one and as if to display her highest powers for good before confronting man with her freezing, pitiless winter power, the scattered frontier settlers along the Ohio were taught to look with most certainty for the foray of the savages Into whose great forest realm they Had dared to push their way. This was tne redman.'s season of opportunity his last for several months of falling upon the invading vanguard of the bated white race, for when winter came the aborigines were forced to remain.as a rule.In their fastnesses until spring. At this season, too, the settlers' crops were usually all husbanded and gath ered into his cabin or buried near It, his live stock was brousht as close about him as circumstances wouldpermlt, and so the con ditions necessary to gratify cupidity were all concentrated, and to them was added the fast coming on of winter, always the In dian's time of want. And so it was that the most beautiful season of the year, the sea son of the Indian's opportunity, came to be called the Indian summer. Indian Names in Western Pennsylvania. Apropos of Indians it maybe remarked that those who inhabited Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio were, with the exception of some wandering tribes of the Sbawnees, fragments of tribes, or individuals as "Logan the Mingo," of the great LenntLenape nation, called by the English Delawares, and nearly all of the Indian names "left upon your waters" are of tho language of that race: but the Iroquois, of the region between the upper Hudson and New York, frequently came into Pennsylvania on war expeditions or lor other purposes and bestowed names from their entirely different language. It should be borne in mind that Indian names have often been given varying and even conflicting forms of pronunciation and different shades of meaning, sometimes almost contradictory ones, according as they were translated Dy Jtrencn or .ngnsn, anu that wide variations have been made in sound and sense by translators who used the same language. Thus there have been great causes for contention and the raising of moot questions by students of Indian his tory. A Conglomeration of Language. As to the origin and meaning of the name Allegheny, for instance, scores or per haps hundreds of articles have been written, and speculation upon the derivation of Ohio has filled countless pages. In regard to the latter it is sufficient to say that the majority of Investigators are satisfied alter reading masses of contentious philo logical philandering, to rest themselves upon the quite satislactorllysustalned state ment that the name is of Iroquois origin and French spelling, with English pronuncia tion, and that the name meant "pleasant or beautilui water," which the French trans lated Into the well-known poetical "La Belle .Riviere." It was originally applied to the Allegheny, which it is proper enough to re gard as the truo Ohio headwater. Allegheny was, on the other hand, accord ing to commonly accepted authority of Algonquin (or Lenni Lenape) origin (the former name being the one usually applied to the language of the Delaware and their kindred nations, including almost all the tribes of the North except the Iroquois). The name Allegheny was originally ap plied, as was Ohio, to the whole stream from tho headwaters in New York to the mouth upon the Mississippi, but came in time to be limited to whatis really thonorth iotkof the Ohio. Heckeweider and many other writers claim the Delawares called the stream the Allegewi-sipu or river of the Allegewis, whom they claim to have found ages ago upon the stream, and this mythical people are regarded by some as being Iden tical with the wonderful lost race of Mound Builders. Possibly this may be so, and if so Allegheny is very likely the name of most ancient origin in the United States. A Little Indian-English Dictionary. Erie, or Irri, as it was at first, is of Iroquois origin, and means tho cat or wild cat. The Irri-ronon was the cat nation or tribe, the totem or badge of which, as we would call it now, was the cat. But all this is disputed a cat-o-nine tales, as it were, of which I haven't space to tell the remaining eight. Mahoning means, in Delaware Indian, "at the lick." It is common to Pennsylvania and Ohio and in slightly varying forms ap plied to a dozen localities wheie there were "i-alt licks" or "deer licks." Venango is said to be a French corruption from the Indian word In-nun-gah, said to re fer to nn obscure figure carved upon a tree at the fork of the river. So said the Rev. Timothy Alden, who had been a missionary among tne inaians on tne reservation in Warren county, and who, In 1810, was editor of the Allegheny Magazine, Wheeling (V. Vo.) preserves to the student of Indian philology a reminder of a fhastly occurrence there the placing of an ndian prisoner's head upon a pole. The name is from "Wihlink" "the place of the head." Kiskiminitis, according to Heckeweider, is from Gischga Manito (the Great Spirit), who was inveked by a band of Indians on tho banks of the stieam to cause daylight to ap pear when tney were attacked in the night. Yonghlozhenv, which the pioneers found more formidable to pronounce than to ford, they "got over," in the former matter, by simply calling it '.'the Yoh," but the early writers, for a pleasant change, called it Yoxiogani, and the straight Indian term was Juhrwiak-hanne, which was their way of saving that it was "the stream running the crooked course." Monongahela Is taken mixed or straight Oh, I forgot! I mean It signifies "falling bank river" the river banks, because of the rich nature of the soil, easily breaking and falling into the current. So said Albert Gallatin, who was an authority on the local Indian nomenclature. There Were No Irish Indians. Strange as it may seem there were no Irish Indians or Indians of Irish descent. There are two reasons for believing there were. One is that John Brougham, in his burlesque "Pochahontas," an unquestion ably broad study of Indian life and char acter, writes that when Captain John Smith was about to be beheaded, and the King's big two-handed tomahawk was biougbt for the purpose, Smith charged that the Indians were of Irish descent. To this the Indians said gently, but firmly, "Nay, not so: you err, Mr. Smith." Upon which Mr. Smith ex claimed exultantly, in a now-I've-got-you style, "Then why the broad ax tenll" under scoring the last three words with a wave of his hand. Another ' eason for believing that there were Irish Indians is the finding or such an Indian word as Canemaugh, But the impar tial German, Heckeweider, tells us this comes by legitimate descent from the fine old Indian word Tangamochki, which means "little canoe stream." This word Cone maugh and Conoquenesstng, ho ever, induces me to believe there were Irish translators, as w ell as French and English, who got tangled up with some of these Indian words. The latter name applied to a creek "wo are told means "a long, straight course," when everybody Knows that the stream narrowly escaped crossing itself several times and is the crookedest thing in Butler county which is saying a good deal. Prob ably the Irish translator was thinking of Monwngahela rather than Conoquenessing, when he said "straight." This explanation is original with the writer.snd seems to have altogether escaped such learned commenta tors on Indian bric-a-brac names as Hecke weider and Schoolciaft. As a sober matter of fact, theie is a little stream up in Indian county called "Queen Mahon." It would BUggest very naturally a queenly Irishwoman named Mahon, but it was, in reality, formed by. an endeavor to express in English the soundof the In dian name "Cuui-JaAom," signifying "the pine gl ove lick;" mahont being simply a var iant of mahoning heiotofom mentioned, and cuicei, meaning "pine trees." 21. Debtla. FX0BEHCB ABO -TEX STTS& The Actor's Hard Jokes on His Grace of Beaufort. New York San. ' Through Sothern, Florence came to know theDukeof Beaufort, and they were excel lent friends. Beaufort oame to this country and was at the Gilsey House a good while. ' Florence enlivened his stay by several Jokes, which were tho talk or the town at the time. He told the Doke that he was not looking well. "You need violent exercise," said he. "Now, I was tronbled as you are. I nsed to strip to my underclothing, and, taking a heavy chair in my hands, would run about my rooms, raising and lowering the chair 100 times without stopping. It had a grana effect" Florence Insisted upon this for several days, and got the Duke into a mind for try ing it. One afternoon, when several eminent persons were going to call on the uusre, Florencepersuaded him to try the great remedy. The Duke undressed, and, seizing a great chair.he elevated it above his head and began racing around the room. He was soon In a fine sweat, with his eyes bulging, nis face red, and his veins standing out. Flor ence went tn the nffien nntl when the emV nent and dignified persons arrived, he said m one oi inem ne Knew: "Going up to see His Grace?" "Yes,'r said the man. TITaII IImIiI ti.u.u iiTt v..- h. tnsaa him, and I'm afraid he's touohedin his head. He is Ieaplngabout his room, makingstrange noises and breaking the furnitnre. Come up and see. I think he ought to be restrained. His family ought to be told." The eminent and dignified personages ac companied Florence, and, peeping through a crack in the door, saw an apparent maniao dashing round and rouud, with staring eyes and flushed face. Then Florence took them away to tell what they had seen, beginning: "It's very sad about his Grace," until an im piession was general that tne Duke of Bean fort had gone mad. A few days later Florence hid the Duke's clothing, and poked his head in at the door and said: "Hurry out, the hotel Is afire!" The Duke pre.ently appeared in the hotel office in a nightgown, slippers and a tall bat, thus confirming the unfavorable Impression of his intellectuals. PERSONAL. Queen Victoria returned to Windsor Castle yesterday from, Balmoral. Peesident Peiaigbini, of the Argen tine Republic, was reported by a dispatch from Buenos Ayrcs yesterday as still seri ously ill. Ex-Governob Hoadly, of Ohio, is re ported to be confined to bis room in New York by sickness resulting from a cold taken while on a visit to Ohio a fortnight ago. His sickness is severe, but not dangerous, as it at first threatened to be. Mbs. Russell B. Habeison, daughter-in-law of the President, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. J. C. Bowman, in Mt. Pleasant, la., says a telegram. Mrs. Harrison is a daughter of ex-Governor Alvin Saunders, an old-time resident of that city. Mbs. Hakbiet Lucas, wife of John Lucas, of Philadelphia, President of the Woman's Pennsylvania Committee of the World's Fair, is seriously 111, as a result of overwork. She will be compelled to retire from the committee for several months. Peof. Dbummond's famous essay, "The Greatest Thing in the World," was one of the successes of accident. It was originally a abort address delivered to a small audi ence. The author dldnot know it had been reported until he found a copy of it while he was traveling in Switzerland. The late Donn Piatt left two unpub lished books. One is a life of General George H. Thomas, which ho wrote Jointly with General H. M. Cist, of Cincinnati, the other a novel which touches indirectly on the Beecher scandal, and is also a tribute to Archbishop Purcell and his brother. A cable dispatch from Rome yesterday reports that the Pope has appointed the Bishop of Cliicontimi, province of Quebeo, Canada, to be coadjutor of the Archbishop of Quebec with the right of succession to the archbishonric. The Vicar General of Quebec, it is expected, will succeed to the Bishoprio of Chlcontimi. Some anxiety is expressed, says a cable dispatch from London yesterday, regarding the condition of Prince George of Wales. The bulletins hitherto Issued from Marlbor ough House have shown that there was a steady improvement in his condition, but this morning it was announced that there is a slight increase in the fever from which he is suffering. Mb. John McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, now residing in Wash ington, has greatly enlarged the dining room of his mansion there, and Senator Stanford's house has undergone a similar improvement within the last few months. The Washington Star notes this as "sugges tive of the line along which hospitality is likely to spread this winter." Just so. Sug gestive both of the line and lining which Washington society hopes to pursue. Cities and Conventions. New York Press. 3 The National Conventions of both parties have been held in the past S5 years at the following places: Nominee for President. Fremont. Buchanan. Lincoln.. Douglass. Lincoln. McCIellan. Grant. ' Seymour. Grant. Greeley. Hayes. Tilden. Garfield. Hancock. Blaine. Cleveland. Harrison. Cleveland. Year. Purty. Wbere Held. Philadelphia. Cincinnati. Chicago. Charleston and Balto. Baltimore. Chicago. Philadelphia. New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore. Cincinnati. St. Lonls. Chicago. Cincinnati. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. St. Louis. j nep. 1858. Dem. j-Kep. I Dem, Hep. J Dem. I860. Dem Itcn. JKcp. IDem. iKep. IDem, 1861. Dem. Hep. Dem. 1S6S. . iiP- 1S72, z. f ixn. ) nep. 1 Dem. J Rep. Dem. (Rep. J Dem. 1878, 5890, l&H Ren. 1838. IDem. DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Hon. T. D. Collins. I D. Collins, a prominent lawyer. Hon. who represented the Eleventh Congressional dls trlct in Congress for two terms, died at his home In Scranton at 10 o'clock yesterday morning from nervous prostration and heart trouble. Deceased was also the opponent of Hon. Joseph A. Scranton. In the Twelfth district In 1883. He also served as District Attorney of the old Mayor's Court of fecranton and as State Senator, from the old Luzerne district. Mr. Collins was a native of Sangertles, Ulster county. N. Y., and was a son of Hon. Thomas Collins, of Danmore, once Associate Judge of the courts of Luzerne county. Senator G. A. Dean. Senator Gilbert A. Deane died at his resi dence in Copake, N. Y.. Trlday morning at 4 o'clock. In his 41st year. The funeral win take place from his late residence on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Senator Deane was never a robust man at any time during his service In the Assembly and Senate. He was sensitive to sudden changes of weather, and often he remained on duty in tne Legislature when, if he had consulted ols own com fort alone, he would have been at home. Mr. Deane was born on June 7, 1851. In Connecticut, of American-born and bred parents, and served eight years In the New York Senate. Arch H. Bowand, Sr. Friday night Arch H. Kowand, Sr., died at bis home on Treemout street, Alleghenr. In 183) Mr. Bowand was born in Camden, Ii . J., and wnen yet quite young ne learned tne Bookbinding trade. In 1833 he came to Pittsburg, and up till 1861 he was actively engaged in business here. He was the father of Arch II. Bowand, Jr., and Asa F. Bowaad. Obituary Notes. Bev. Thomas Hill. ex-President of Harvard College, died In Walthamr yesterday morning, aged 73. Mk. George McQceex, the Cunard Steamship Company's agent at Queenstown, died yesterday In London of Brlght's disease. ' A. M. Gregg, one of the oldest and most re spected citizens of Johnstown, and timekeeper for the Cambria Iron Company, died yesterday. Hon. Johm H. Smith, one of the oldest citizens of Mlllersburg. Oi, died yesterday in his S6th year. He bad served two terms as representative of Han cock county. How. W. W. Wiieaton, of Detroit, who die" there on November 11. was well known In Pitts burg, his wife having been Miss Frances J. Wil klns, of Pittsburg. George Butler, who was Secretary o Anson Burllngame while the latter was American Minis ter to Pekin. and who was afterward agent of the American Arm of KusseU & Co., has died In a Hong Eong hospital. The Bev. Charles K. Imbrie d ed yesterday at his residence, 203 Bergen avenue. In Jersey City. He was born In Philadelphia December 15, 1814. and he graduated In lSU'from the divinity class In Princeton College. On May7, IMI, he wa. married to Miss Elizabeth Miller, a daughter or William K. Miller, of Philadelphia. He was called to thr First Presbyterian Church of Railway. Then he vajis called to the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City, where he remained 40 years, that is, np to the time of his death. HURRAY'S MUSINGS. Gettlnc Colored People's Bights mi Busi nessThe Fat Oyster The Weakness for Shoestring Peddlers Bunlng a Clipper Over a Horse Gotham Gossip. mtoic a stajt coxBisroirnxirr.i New York, Nov, 21. Fortune doesn't seem to be a very bad name, but no man can he considered fortunate who la horn black, or even yellow. Mr. Thomas F. Fortune Is neither black nor yellow; he Is a genteel gingersnap. But he is a man of respecta bility and of brains, an editor and a writer of no mean ability. As a representative and champion of his race he has undertaken to not only vindicate the eaual rights' of his people before the bar of Justice but before the bars and in the restaurants of New York. Mr. Fortune has cut out a very large con tract. And yet his first attempt does not appear to have been wholly a failure. He was refused a glass of beer at a Tenderloin precinct all-night bouse and when he re monstrated he was "fired" out. When he ap pealed to the police he was locked np. For all this a New York Jury has given him $850 damages. This does not seem like a bad start. Armed with such a verdict and the money Mr. For tune may now take a rest from pen and ink and devote himself to the sole task of de stroying a popular prejudice against the whole colored race. 'The price $830-13 rather high for & glass of beer, and if that should come to be a ruling figure the thirst for drink will do much to offset the scien tific inroads of Dwight, HI., and White Plains, N. Y. It is true, there are the draw backs of being humiliated Dy refusal, the scorn of a red-headed bartender, the Igno miny of being "fired," the wear and tear of being clubbed by ignorant white policemen and the outrage of being incacerated in a dungeon cell over night. All of this, in ad dition to the aftermath of newspaper notor iety, of lawyers fees, of public trial and so on. If these objectionable features could be stricken out of the case the refusal of a drink at $850 a refuse might be a new business npon a paying basis and Fortune in name become a fortune in fact. As it is, there is too much cold water for the amount of beer in the scheme. Still, "The blood of the martyr is the" and so forth, and if the able colored editor's trous ers and skull are of unusually good material he might stand a refusal every now and then at the same figure. The recalcitrant and wealthy saloon keeper with his pug nacious red-headed barkeepers are doing business day and night and Sundays at the old stand and invite the thousands of Mr. Fortune's fellow glngersnaps who daily pass the mahogany doors to come in and try. There are plenty of other resorts, from Del monlco's down, where colored people are refused service, and there are the statute books and the Constitution and the old flag and the appropriation. Let 'er go? Shaving the Horses. The tonsonal artist who gives a horse a shave and a hair cut has no opoortunlty to air his knowledge of affairs while bis cus tomer is undergoing treatment. He has no array of scented bottles, damp towels and observations about the election or the weather. He is nevertheless an interesting Individual, and always draws a curious and motley crowd of admirers. His barber shop is a stable, and he brings with him his tools of trade. The latter consist chiefly of a double-jointed machine on wheels wherein figures a flywheel run by a crank communi cating power by means of pulleys and a fine round belt through a flexible and closely woven wire coil to the operating knlre of a clip somewhat similar to the otb your bar ber chucks down your neck when he trims your hair. Theknllehas a harvester mo tion, only 50 times more rapid, and when he moves It'over a horse It takes tho hair off like a razor, smoothly and evenly. Ills as sistant meanwhile turns tne crank and the swaying pulleys hum. Meanwhile the horse loyes it. He turns his cars and the side of his nose to the bar ber with a pleased, sleepy expression Just like a big man in the chair. The buzzing clip is thrust into his silky ears, run along the edges of his nose and twinkles about his big eyes, but he never winces. It puts him in a quiet doze of solid enjoyment. When it is all over he looks at his barber with a silent expression of regret and expectation. What New York Will Tolerate. There is often a larger show ot personal liberty in New York than can be seen in any country town. This liberty sometimes bor ders on objectionable license, but It is viewed with great lenlenoy by both the city authorities and public Forty or 50 college boys can raise more of a rumpus on Broad way or In a m. tropolltan theator with' per fect impunity than would be tolerated even in a college town. The other day I saw at least that many young men marching along Broadway at its most crowded portion, near the postofflce, about 3 o'clock In tho after noon, Dlowing tin horns and shouting and veiling like a lot of Comanche Indiana. There was nothing In the time or in the day when such a demonstration might be ex pected or winked at. They had simply been to a society meeting. ' Yet all this noise was deemed necessary. They swept the sidewalk of ordinary busi ness neople and compelled the floating busi ness world to stand still for the time oelng. Next to taking practical possession of a crowded theater and Tunning the play: or swarming about a leading hotel nntll the managers are obliged to sbnt up the bar and drive them out with the aid of the police, this performance takes the confectionery. A Plre at a Busy Corner. A recent fire at the corner of Broad way and Thirty-third street resulted in a complication rarely seen even In crowded New York. A Broadway fire is always some thing like a bone down a man's throat. At this particular point there are two s stems of double tracks and four systems of car lines crossing each other at a long, acute angle of Broadway and Sixth avenue. The travel is at all times dense both on wheels and foot, and this is peculiarly congested at present by the efforts of tho cable railway to get across the Sixth avenue lines with out Injunction. Extra curves are thus laid around the excavation. The fire was unim portant only one man was burned alive. But the engines and hook and ladder tracks choked this spot up in two minutes. In five there weie surface cars on both Broad wav and Sixth avenue for balf a mile each way. An hour of this bone-in-the-throatand upper New York almost ceased to breathe. When the fire was over and the tracks free It took another hour and the most arduous and skillful labor of a large force of police to clear the jam. I watched the thing through and made up my mind that few people know what such a Are really means. The Boy Who Owns the Hotel. The swellest New York hotels require their elevator boys to wear dress suits. To he cast in a dress suit before 6 o'clock is the mark of servitude. No gentleman wears a dress suit before 6 o'clock, consequently during the day at least the elevator boy is no gentleman. As the elevator boy is often a tough lookingindividual over20year3 of age perhaps It is bette- not to mention this fact to him. Tho average elevator boy is the amart office bov magnified 900 diameters. Practically he owns the hotel and runs it on the perpendicular to suit himself. I invariably approach the elevator boy with a feeling of respect slightly discolored with awe. It I only knew what that boy knowslwhat stories of my kind I could write. And if this abnormal knowledge were sup plemented by what that boy thinks he knows, I would be great. Tho Goddess of Liberty in the harbor couldn't hold her elec tric candle to mo. There are people who will walk up anything less than four pair of stairs rather than meet that cold calculat ing, contemptuous glance of the omniscient elevator boy. I am one of those people. Why the Fakirs Are Prosperous. The man who buys shoestrings and other small articles from street fakirs doesn't always do so because he gets them or thinks he gets them obeaper. It is chiefly becau-e men engaged in business are usually so absent-minded that trifles of everyday use are never thought of unless they are pushed right under the business nose. As a rnle the stuff bought of street venders costs two to five times as much as it would in a legitimate store. But it is on this single weakness of mankind that the street fakir lives and thrives. A man will fool with a broken shoestring a dozen morn ings before he will remember to get a new pair. Then suddenly during a busy day he rnns against a sboestring peddler and buys a patron the spot, paying double price for what his dealer would give him for nothing. Oysters Are Fat This Season. "Oysters are fatter this yearthan I ever saw them before," said a restaurant oyster opener. "I don't know why. But usually the fatteran oyster is the poorer the flavor. This is because the fat oyster has generally been out of the water too long ana has been fed. That is not wholly the reason this year. They aie fatter anyhow. An ovster.ls bet on the half shell about 21 to 43 hours after lie is out of salt water. Laten before that time they are apt to give cramps. Yes, the uialo oyster Is tno best, but v- don't fomeaerns a male more than an average of once in 50 times." Charles Tuxopobe Hcrrat, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. , The largest chicken ranch in the world 1st on an Island in Bellingham Bay, Pnges Sound. Fifty million florins has been offered, for the monopoly of making the famous Chartreuse cordial. 'X big bull fight has been given in Mexi co for the canse of cnarity. This seems to be a very bad method of raising money for a good purpose. A lake of ink, a mountain of sulphur and'two streams of lime water, milky white, have been discovered, all by one man, in Lower California. The deepest soundiffg yet made on the coast of Africa was off New Guinea, by H. M. S. Challenger, whose 400-pound lead struck bottom at the enormous depth of 26,700 feet. The biggest bat on record outside of tropical conntries was killed near New Castle, Del., the other day. It weighed five pounds and measured IS inches between the tips of Its wings. 1 On the disinterment ot the remains of James Campbell, buried in Bay county, Mo., 13 years ago, it was found that tils entire bodv was covered with a luxuriant growth of glossy hair that filled all the vacant space in the coffin. The colored people of the South are very generally interested. In the immigra tion of some of their race to Liberia, and if the pioneers who have gone there report favorably, it fs thought that eventually a, host will follow them. About 100,000 Americans have visited European countries this year. The number of Americans who have taken up a per manent residence in Europe is probably smaller than the number of them who cross the Atlantic Ocean every year. Exporting of apples to Europe is be coming one of the most important features of the trade. Up to the first week in Novem ber 5 3.000 barrels had been shipped from New York since the season began. Last year 195,164 barrels were sent abroad. The real Sir Koger Tichbome is well, but In the Sydney lunatic asylum under tho name of William Creswell. according to .. letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. from a Mrs. Jenkins, of Svnney. He ha all the marks of Sir Bogerlncluding his height. The editor of the Denver yctn-Zettrr printed on one page of his paper: "We wans lady reporters and solicitors at this office," and on another pazens if to guard againc a contingency wnich he was unable to con template with complacency "Don't marry a literary man." The Japanese dislike the Russians and the Chinese, but like the Americans and the English. They are fearful of the aggressions of the Russians in Corea. and of the Chinese In the islands that lie south of Japan: bne they do not look for any act of aggression by the United States or by England. The smallest man in the world is said to be a midget from Holland, 24 years ofa;e, who calls himself "Prince Mlgnon,"who Is exhibiting in Berlin. This little chap, who is exactly two feet high, is a perfectly formed human being, and his performances as an acrobat are really wonderful. About 10,000 corn cob pipes are daily manufactured in this country, all being made in three factories at St. Louis, Green wood, Neb., and in Kansas. The cobs are all procured in Missouri, and are supplied by the Collier variety of corn, on which they grow usually heavy, woody and hard. There is a movement in regular army circles for the restoration of the old army "field hat," which was superseded by the helmet, of whloh many officials have com plained. The old-style bat was picturesque, comfortable and serviceable, while the hel met is top-heavey, and does not give proper ventilation. This country came near having Cres centia as the name of one of its States, in stead of Maryland. It wa3 originally in tended to give that name to the province granted as a proprietary government to Lord Baltimore, but when tho charter was presented to Charles L for his signature he struck out that name and substituted "Mary land." in honor ot his Queen, Henrietta. Maria of France. The Consolidated Black Cat Company U the latest novelty In the way of the fur trade npon-Puget Sound. The company, regularly organized and chartered, Is to m.-vce a business of raising black cata for theAr, pelts or fun An island is-, to be purchased, so that the cats cannot mingle with th. other cats of surrounding regions, and therU the black breed Is to be perpetuated. These cats will live on fish, and thus the expense or running the big cat ranch will be reduced to the minimum. Two strange fiSh were recently cap tured on la Have Banks. The first cauzhe was a little more than four feet in length, of nearly the same breadth and bad five fins of a reddish hue. The body is covered with silvery scales. The flesh is red and good to eat, and the fish weighs 113 ponnd3. The other curiosity was captured at the remark able depth of 500 fathoms. It Is about sl-c feet long and shaped like a mackerel. The skin Is of a dull brown color and Is thickly covered with small white spots, fron each o'f which protrude two sharp, needle-like bones, invisible to the naked eye, but easily detected by the touch. The heart of Gambetta was given soon after his death to his most lntlmato friend. M. Panl Bert, who carefully placed It in a glas3 vase fnll of alcohol: but when he left forTonquln he deooslted the heart in an Iron safe. A short while afterward M- Bert died, so the receptacle was not opened nntil recently, when the precious relic was taken from It3 long adding place by Madame Bert and given to the charge of the committee, who had it encased in metal and then pus In a wcoden coffer made with Alsatian wodd. This also contained a parchment at testing its authentictly, and after the usual ceremonies, it was deposited in a small vault under the beautiful monument which was recently Tatsed to tho memory of the great patriot at the entrance to the Jardles by the Alsatians and Lorrainers. SCISSORS ON SEVERAL SHEETS. Mabel So their elopement -nas a failure, was It? Sinnlck Yes; they got away, and were married. linen. Topics. Tommy What is a "running account?" Fa says it's an account merchants have to keep of customers that are in the habit of running away from paying their bills. Uncle That's one definition of It. Tommy Is there another? Uncle Yes. A running account Is, In some in stances, an account that gets tired out running after a while, and then It becomes a standing obli gation. Boston Courier. American in Borne (to picturesque native) Great Geewhllllkins! Just listen to the racket In that building. Sounds like an Anarchists' meeting or a prize fight In America. What Is It? Some sort or a mm? Native Ah, non, signor. Eeteeszee Eenterna tlonale Peace Cons-res making zee debate upon zee aboleeshmeat of war. Chicago Times. He (despairingly) It doesn't matter if I have got lots of money. I cannot forget that my grandfather was a stage driver. She (sweetly) That Is aU right. You can refer lo your ancestral hauls without going into particulars. Sparks. COURTSHIP. This courtship, though a stately craft, But seldom ventures from her dock. Where, safely anchored fore and aft. She buffets not the tempest's shock. ThU In New York-but in the West Chicago only praise allots To craft that, sailing at their best. Secure the highest score In knots. X r. Herald. It's mighty lucky I haven't got my bowie-knife with mel" growled the msnvflth his hands up. "You'd stain your soul with murder, would you?" said the facetious road agent, who wasre Uevinghim of his valuables. "No. I reckon not. " rejoined the other, "but it was a present from a friend. I'd hate like the dickens to have to part with it."-Cfticojo Tribum. oxz kisd or a 3ia:t. He cringes and bends to the men who em ploy him. And meekly takes Insults and slights. And never finds fault with toe things that annoy him. Or stands like a man for his rights. But he can be arrogant, too, when he chooses To people Ufe's chances have placed In his power, and bis meek litUc wife he abuses When the cooking is not to his taste. V. F. Press. "How did yon like the "West, Lord Noo-dlebyJ'- ""JijgnlBcent. J was very much struck by the llchtnlncouttbere. and was simply carried awar byooeofyonreyclones,'' Pbc. M';, -: f-sji lA&kiB&ik, bJBL. 'i&SS&LJk .-skfeai ,.. TySjuASJ Wmsmmm
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