: . I, j IN, i I, in in .uuiiu.-L ' i jjiili I'niiii' i ' ' m i1 h ii "' i7iiiHroiTHBBrniTi3BBiB&ilrdilWBiii THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 189L fs . A GREAT LITERARY TREAT FOR READSRS OF TO- Will be a Poem by SIR EDWIN ARNOLD. Another special feature will be Prof. Russell's description of his ex pedition up MOUNT ST. ELUS. Thought for Philosophers. Poetry for the Dreamers. Science for the Practical. Special Reading for Women. Cablegrams Covering All Europe. Special Departments for All Readers. HEWSP&PEB AMD MAG1ZIRE GDMBI1ED. Unequalcd facilities for collecting tlie world's news. Every European capital is covered. Every American citv is reached by special leased wires. The home field is carefully troi. exhaustively reported. TO-MORROWS BIG ISSUE Will Please Everybody. IjeBjafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8. 1S46. Vol. . No. 34. Entered at Pittrtmjg Postofllco November 1S57, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner SmitMeld and Diamond Streets. 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One Year. 1 3 The Dailt Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at !S cents per wee!:, or, including Sunday Edition, at 10 cents per week. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, NOV. 2", 1891. TWELVE PAGES CHALLENGING BRICCS SEAT. The meeting of the Ohio Republican Committee last night indicates that the question of Senator-elect Brice's qualifica tion to a seat in the Senate is likely to be one of the pretty fights in the coming ses sion. The correspondence of Senator Sherman with Chairman King shows that the question has been under actual discus sion among Republican leaders for some time, and while Senator Sherman's ex pressions are very cautious vas coming from a possible judge in the case, it is plainly regarded as a means not only of strengthening the Republican majority in the Senate, but of relieving the pressure over the Senatorial election by the Ohio LegMature. The only ground of challenging Brice's eligibility is the doubt as to his residence in Ohio. While the certificate and action of the Legislature which elected Brice are to he taken as prima facie evidence of his eligibility and thus will give him his seat pending the coutest it is also the case that the Senator-elect's own actions in omitting to pay taxes in Ohio, and iu describing himself in sundry rail road directories as "Calvin S. Brice, Xew Tork," give considerable color to such a t-outest The challenge of his eligibility will, of course, make the Democratic or gans froth at the mouth; but, if he can be shown to be ineligible, the Democrats will have none but themselves to blame for the loss of the seat. It is to be wished that confidence could be expressed in the decision of the case on the evidence as to which State Mr. Brice- was really an inhabitant of at the time of his election. But it is much to be feared that his fate will turn on the question whether corporate affiliations are stronger in the Senate than partisan necessity. The re spective weight of the two influences in that body are likely to make the issue both doubtful and interesting. STOCK GA3IBLING AND LAW. The comparison of the New Orleans lottery gambling concern to the stock gambling element in Wall street has pro duced an interchange of pointed argu ments between a Southwestern paper and the Xew York Advertiser. The South western journal, evidently with a .soft side to lottery revenue, quoted the remark of an eminent Xew York financier at the Bankers' Convention, that the majority of deals on the Stock Exchange were gam bling transactions, and intimated that New York should pull the beam out of its own eye before taking a leading part in a simi lar optical operation for the benefit of New Orleans. To this the Advertiser very cogently replies: Let us admit .that the Wall street "gam bling" is all that the Sacs saysit is. Ir that gambling was made a part of our State Con stitution, and if the people of this State should consent to accept $1,250,000 a year for Riving such "gambling" the solemn sanction of a constitutional safeguard, other States in the Union would Justly cry "shame" ut the open sale of this great State to gamblers. The distinction is a pertinent one as between New York and New Orleans. But while New York may be free from the reproach of a direct attempt to give a constitutional sanction to stock gambling, it may be worth while to inquire what moral status to assign to legislation which favors it If legislative measures which make the business of stock gambling easy and remunerative for the great manipu lators pried a smooth path through the Legislature, and those which might re strict or extirpate the evil are laughed down or quietly shelved, is not the dis grace the same in kind, though less in de gree, as the attempt to give a constitu tional sanction to it? Let us say here that New York is not the chief sinner among States in this re spect. She has not yet gone to the length of her neighboring States in furnishing broad-'gauge charters by which the busi ness of milking the small gamblers can be performed just as certainly as the Louisi ana lottery extracts its profits. The Em pire State has probably shown no more favor for stock gambling than Illinois legislation has for grain gambling. But when it is seen that all legislation favors the vested interests of business" gambling, the necessity for a very marked change in the legislative course on these matters fol lows as a necessary conclusion. Of course, the fact of stock gambling in New York does not vindicate or even ex cuse lottery gambling in New Orleans. That is a pot-and-kettle argument of the "you're another" class, which is only, possible after moral principles have been wholly cast aside. THE "WALLACE INTERVIEW. The correctness of the interview recent ly published in The Dispatch, in which Hon. William A. Wallace was quoted as expressing a desire to be sent to the Leg islature in order to aid in perfecting a bal lot reform law and in excluding from suffrage the element of-illiterate foreign ers, is challenged by the Democratic Watchman, of Bellefontc. The reasons of our cotemporary for doubting the re liability of the interview are, as we under stand them, as follows: First Senator Wallace is represented as proposing to exclude from suffrage only the ignorant and illiterate element amontr foreigners, which the objecting journal regards as "clap-trap" of which Senator Wallace is incapable. Second The proposition which Senator Wallace is reported as making requires Constitutional amendment, and as the Senator opposed a Constitutional Conven tion, the Dcihocratic "Watchman thinks that he could hardly assert "that he would like to go to the Legislature to pass laws to that effect under the present Constitu tion." It is hardly necessary to say that The Dispatch does not publish bogus inter views, and if any further evidence of the correctness of the article referred to were required, the fact that Senator Wal lace who is abundantly able to see that he is correctly quoted has taken no exception to the interview in a week's time, should be conclusive. It is not necessary to devote much attention to the question of its accuracy.because the criticisms of our Democratic cotemporary are really less important than they seem. If the exception is taken to the proposi tion to place the restriction only on illit erate foreigners the point is not vital As TnE Dispatch has shown, the same re striction upon illiterate native-born citi zens would march hand-in-hand with It; and, though the foreign element first at tracts attention as furnishing the chief reinforcement to the mass of illiteracy,the two must go together. As to the Consti tutional question, the fact that a man has opposed submitting the present instru ment to the universal tinkering process of a very queerly constituted convention does not debar him from favoring the sub mission of a single clearly-defined Consti tutional amendment to be decided exclus ively on its own merits. The initiative for such an amendment must be taken in the Legislature, and ex-Senator Wallace's de sire to lead the movement there is a very laudable ambition. It may be taken by our Democratic co temporary as correct that ex-Senator Wallace did express the views reported in The Dispatch, and that in doing so he pointed out the way to a very, important reform. HILL'S GKEAT GRASP. Some time ago The Dispatch suggested that it might be found that Governor Hill, of New York, would not surrender the Governorship to Lieutenant Governor Jones when Congress met This was based tm the perception that when a statesman has solved the problem of hold ing a Governorship and Sena torship, to gether for over six months, the complica tions of extending that condition a month longer will not be half as bad as letting an obnoxious kicker like Jones into the Gov ernor's chair even for a single month. According to the latest report in the New York papers this provision as to the Hill programme was based on what Dr. Sampson calls "the infallible inference." To the personal appeal of the freight paying political kicker to be permitted to enjoy the sweets of rule for a month, the response was that David Bennett would remain in the Governorship "to the end of the term." This curt response sent the still dissatisfied Jones back to the scale making business full " of reflections on the text against putting your trust in princes and practical politicians. As to Hill himself, the bold stroke of political genius in carrying out this plan of freezing out Jones shows that no one, not even himself, has heretofore con ceived the scope of his powers. If Hill had known last summer what Hill could do he could have run for Governor again and presented the wonder-compelling ex ample of a great statesman running the New York Governorship and the New York Senatorship for a four years' term. If a man can hold both these offices for thirty days or six months, why cannot it be done for four years? We regret exceedingly that this great plan did not commend itself in the Execu tive Councils of the Empire State in time to permit the happy condition to be real ized of letting David Bennett Hill get all he wants. BONDS rOK SILVER BARS. The statement of Secretary Foster, in his speech to the New York Chamber of Commerce, that the Secretary has power to sell bonds in order to provide for the redemption of silver certificates, meets with a challenge. Some Eastern papers are disposed to find in the law an entire absence of any such authority, especially of the sweeping character which the Sec retary asserts. The question is a serious one; but its-de--termination ought to be unnecessary in view of the wantonly bad policy of the act Not to enlarge on the gratuitous aggravation of the matter which the Secretary makes by presenting the remedy in the power of the Secretary "to issue bonds for gold, paying 5 per cent," when 2 per cent is the interest rate established on Government bonds by previous policy, it is enough to follow one transaction through the course he suggests to show its public injury. The Secretary buys $1,000,000 of silver and issues $1,000,000 of certificates, which, by the legal fiction. Is supposed to be based on the silver. "-But the silver cannot be used to redeem the certificates, and when they are presented the Secretary redeems them in gold and sells 51,000,000 worth of bonds to make good the draft on the reserve. What is the net result of the whole transaction? The debt of the United States has been increased to pile upih the Treasury the product of a single interest which, by the statement of the case, cannot be used for the Treasury payments, and is simply a dead weight and unavailable asset, unless. ' nut upon the market and sold, with the ! result of breaking down the price of silver. - it is true that this Operation is not us do expected with regard to the whole issue of certificates, because it is not likely that more than a fraction of the issue will be presented for redemption. But it is worth while to clearlyTecognize that, to the ex tent to which Secretary Foster should carry out his great idea of selling bonds In order to keep up the reserve for the redemption of certificates, it would amount to increasing the public debt in order to buy the product of the silver men, which would be a- dead weight on the hands of the Government Besides the present re markable policy of providing a market for bonanza kings and saddling the people with, the cost of storage, this would im pose a'further public burden of the inter est on the bonds issued in pursuit of this remarkable policy. . If the"Secretary desired to make the silver legislation of the country odious he could not' dor so more completely than by carrying out his stroke of policy to the ex tent of $10,000,000 or so, and giving the people an object lesson in the shape of an annual interest burden of $500,000 for the benefit of silver speculators. There would -be exactly as much justice in issuing $10,000,000 of bonds and buying, tnat amount of pig iron for the benefit of the iron industry; and a good deal more reason in adopting the sub-treasury lutlacy, with the "further frill of issuing bonds enough to buy up all the wheat, corn and mess pork the farmers might wish to sell to the Government There tould hardly be any better evi dence of the weakness of the present sil ver policy than that it brings its advocates to such a goal as this. The clear acknowl edgment of the uselessness of the silver stock further enforces the fact that the only way in which the Treasury can ever make it a cash asset without depreciating the standard is to coin it up into a new dollar of equal bullion with the gold dollar. A PARTISAN ILLUSION. A Washington telegram states that a split in the Democratic Congressional ranks is likely to be the result of the warmth generated by the Speakership contest If Mills is defeated he will retire to his tent and sulk, and if Crisp is beaten he and his supporters will kick over the traces, Is the summary of this hopeful view from a Republican source. It should be remarked that expectations of a coming split in the ranks of one or ganization are often cherished by the rainbow-chasers of the other side, and rarely realized. It will not be wise for the Re publicans to lay totheirsouls the flattering unction of Democratic dissolution In this case any more than in the case of the purely putative Democratic revolt from Tammany at the last New York elec tion. The Democratic contestants may make the fur fly as between themselves; but when -It comes to party action the fetish of partisan allegiance' is too strong for them to throw off. The expectation of a Democratic split is a Republican illusion. The declaration by the New York courts that the charitable bequestf of William B. Ogden is void, because it creates a trust in which there is no beneficiary to enforce it, is in the same line as that concerning the Tilden bequest. The radical contrast be tween the decisions against charitable trusts and those against monopolistic trusts is that the former break up the deserving trusts, while the class which squeeze the people do not regard the decisions as worth men tioning. The explosion of another powder mill, this time at Sumneytown, Pa., creates tho impression that what portion of the time not spent by powder mills in going up must be spent in. coming down. Is this not a rather too eu thiisiastic manner of advertis ing, the explosive qualities of tho powder? TnE ease and bloodlessness with which the people of Rio Janiero tear down a mon archy and set up a provisional military gov ernment, follow that by a republic, abolish the republic and set up a dictatorship, and wipe out a dictatorship and restore the re public may be commended to Chile. Brazil gets through all these revolutions with scarcely more trouble than the United States gives to a Congressional election. It pains ns to obserTe that one New York paper announces that Wedneeday was the 108th anniversary of the evacuation of that city by the British ana another that it was the lltfth. Our metropolitan cotemporaries, with all their differences, should take pains to flop In unison on the strictly non-partisan subject of Evacuation Day. The unanimity with which all the New York political organs are blazoning tho-fact that the other side is trying to steal tho Legislature'is instructive. If there is any virtue in the testimony of the organs the public outside 'Now York must come to the conclusion that the leaders of both parties in New York are a very rascally lot. A noted speculator has withdrawn his application for membership from the New York Produce Exchange because the com mittee wanted to inquire into his character and reputation.. Such an infringement on the personal liberties of speculators ren dered further proceedings impossible. Two more cases of people who after being cured by bi-chloride of gold relapsed into drinking, are quoted by the Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette as "calculated to stagger faith" in the treatment. They are calculated to stagger faith in the idea that after a man has got rid of alcoholism he can safely take to drinking again an idea which common sense should forbid in the first place. The statement from Chicago that a ton nage pool is to be formed by vote of the trunk lineB is a mild statement ot the fact that the time has passed when railway man agers consider it necessary to make even a show of, respect for the provisions of the interstate commerce law. BismaecK's announcement that he will not appear in the Reichstag, "unless it is imperatively necessary for him to do so," comes with some suddenness after the re cent demonstration in his honor. It Is sus ceptible of a variety of constructions, among which is a possible theory that the Imperial Governtaon t has taken some steps to placate the old man's wounded vanity. General Russell A. Alger has de clared again for Blaine. The industry of the Michigan millionaire in coming oat for Blaine is an evidence ot his conviction that the Blaine boom is a safe star for him to hitch the Alger wagon on. "The October foreign trade shows an ex cess of exports over imports to the amount of (36,000,000, while the total balance of trade in our favor for the past two months is $57,600,000. This is hut the beginning of a trade movement which next year is likely to make money' so plenty as to inflict on us those penalties of prosperity booms and bubbles. If TTncIe. Jerry Rusk does not wish to abandonhis policy of furnishing Republican weather, bo 'should remember net to forget that no more,cyclones are needed. y "HArKMAir Clabkson has again com mitted him'Sqlf ' to the grand policy of Im proving Republican chances next year by subsidizing the" . independent press. Mr. Clarkson oontinues obtuse to the important fact that this policy is Impossible for the simple reason that when an independent paper is subsidized it ceases to be indepen den - ' GOSSIP OP THE TOWN. "MPaiil Blouet, who. is a great deal better known by nis writing name, Max O'Rell, has not got used to the magnificent distances of this continent, although he has had a tolerably comprehensive experience of traveling in America by this time. On Thursday evening before the lecture to a Sewickley audience in tho Presbyterian Church he remarked: "My manager, Major Pond, Is not the sort of man to suit the lecturer who wants to do business on a leisurely plan. He keeps you moving. Last night I concluded a lecture at Washington, D. C, at 9:50 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock I was board a train bound for this place, which T conld only reach in time by making that train. I declare I admire Major Pond's con tempt for distance, but it still scares me when I find that I am booked to lecture on consecutive days at points from 500 to L000 miles apart. My next stopping place is in this neighborhood, according to Major Pond's figuring Brooklyn! I remember on my first tour through this country Major Pond wrote me In Chicago he knew I was traveling with a trunk and satchel advising mo to leave my trunk in Chicago and travel in my satchel, as I should be in the neigh borhood of that city for a week or two. rcii, j. iook nis au vice ana icit tne truns at my hotel. The first place I went to was Min neapolis, and from there I had a 22 hours' ride in the cars back to Detroit. They were both strictly In Chicago's neighborhood, of course, according to American ideas, but the big jumps rather staggered me. I lectured in Buffalo the next night, and slid over from there to Cincinnati still in tho neighbor liood of Chicago and .o it kept on until I got a thorough understanding of 'neighbor hood' in the American sense." Max O'Kell's Personality. In his latest book, and incidentally in his lectures, Max O'Kcll humorously com plains that newspapers have devoted more space to his personality, his attire, and even tho trivialities of accent, physiognomy and habit than to his lectures. This is not alto gether to be wondered at, and it is largely the penalty of possessing a deeply interest ing personality, as well as the very rare fac ulty of exhibiting character in all sorts of ways, among others his attire. He relates in the work mentioned above, "A French man in America," how, in a certain Western city, a paper gave a minute account of his appearance, and went into reportorial rapt ures over his hat. a. brown felt traveling hat of the soft and squeezable sort. Altoaethcr the article about himself and his hat in par ticular exceeded by nianv iinfs the report of his lecture, and Max O'ltell fell in with the editor's Idea of news and sent him, with a witty note, the beloved brown hat. which camp, by the way, from a famous London hatter, and undoubtedly was very dear to the lecturer. While regulation evening dress is as a gen eral rule the most becoming thing a man can wear, it certainly has somethlngof the level ing efleot, and it does not smack of the man's individuality so much as the clothes a man wears for work or travel. This is true in Max O'Kell's case, but still even in the swallow-tail the French critic has a distingue air that would attract attention in any assem blage. The newspaper writers would not fill so much space with catalogues of his facial features and his apnarcl if they did not invite it, he mav be sure. Like most Frenchmen, Max O'Rell dresses with good taste, but anyone who meets him upon the cars or the streets in his traveling toggery would not bo in doubt for a moment about his nationality. So it is with bis speech, for, though he speaks English with unusual distinctness and cor rect pronunciation, his tongue still be wrayeth his birthplace. It is constantly re marked oy those who hear him lecture that he Is easier to follow than many platform speakers to whom English is their native tongue, and this is due to his careful phas ing and deliberate manner, The Gallic tinge which lingers in his English is posi tively charming, andlends a congenial flavor to his words :is a Frenchman discoursing of things American. That ho is not an orator, as n e understand it, does not detract at all from his charm as a lecturer, whose strong est point is wit, and whose most impressive sentences are wonderfully compressed, yet pointed observations of character, personal and national. A Whisper From Chicago. Pittsburg's big bill poster, Jake B. Murray, has a very keen eye for a great many things besides dead walls and fences. He has just returned from a flying trip to Chicago, and he said yesterday: "Lord! how those Chicago people do hustle! You ought to see how they are making things hum at the World's Fair grounds. It seemed to me when I looked in there the other day that they had the best part of tho buildings complete. I didn't expect to get an idea of what thev would look like, but they've erected the principal buildings, most of them are under roof, and hundreds of men are working 21 hours a day. They don't let a little commonplace thing like night inter fere with them in the Windy City. The big Masonic building down town, 25 stories high, is finished, and they're still building sky scrapers on all sides, and laying plans lor more as fast as they can. It's a treat to go to Chicago, if it does make a stout man breathe taster and think double-turn." Gold Buttons Were a Hoodoo. "When we moved into our old store on Sixth street the man who fixed It up divided the ceiling into squares and put gilt buttons in all the corners," said a well-known tailor yesterd-y. "One day a couple of country men came in, and, though I doubted from the first glance their inclination to buy at any price, I felt in duty bound to show them some goods, when one of them said he wanted a suit of clothes. After they had looked at Beveral pieces of cloth and ad mired them, one of them asked mo what a suit would cost, and when I told him it was a merchant-tailor price and he had ready made means he turned to his companion and pointing to my ceiling ho said: 'I guess ne wants us to pay iornu mose goiu Duttons in one suit of clothes,' and then they walked out." Capital Fights New Inventions. A practical electrician who is working constantly on an electrical motor that will if it is ever completed exercise a powerful effect in the revolution which is graaually being brought about in locomotive power, said yesterday: "There is nothing like the difficulty as far as the scientific side of the matter is concerned that there is in tho financial side of the problem of electric lo comotion. What I mean is, tbat if a perfect electrical substitute for the steam locomo tive were to be discovered to-day, and I am convinced that such a discovery will bo completed within the next year or two, there would still remain the problem of its introduction to be solved. You Bee, such an Immense amount of capital is locked up in the present system, directly and indirectly, that the influence of money is all against such a radical change in the equipment of railroads as Mr. Edison sug gested the other day as &' possible and prob able result of pending electrical discoveries. The railroads are naturally conservative in their views of electricity as a motive power, for they realize what an expensive Job the wholesale transformation of rolling stock, etc., would bo. While there is plenty of money to be had for pushing electrical re search, there Is even more money arrayed against its practical results. This basal ways been the fate of the inventor.and there is not a machine of great value in use to-day that has not had to overcome tho artificial opposition of capital before it conld com mand a market. For this reason I domot ex pect to see electricity ruling our railroads lor some years after the' scientific problem has been solved." SITTING OK A BAIL FEHCK. A Novel Contest Now Under Way In an Ohio Town. . Clxvelaud, Nov. 27. lSpeaal.1 John Springer Det William Noble, of Botzum, O., an oyster supper Thursday night that ho could sit the longest on a rail fence. At 8 o'clock this taorning both men were still there, having spent the night on the fence while their respective families supplied them with hot coffee and warm clothing. The whole community was deeply Inter ested In the outcome. Springer was a heavy man, while his opponent only weighed 110 pounds. After 12 hours on the fence Noble looked almost as fresh as when lie sat down, but his heavy companion appeared to be suf fering. Governors De. Facto and De Jure. New York Tribune.1 General Jones has an honorable and worthy ambition to bo Governor of New York, even If only for a few weeks. A grave Injustice has been done him, however, in tho circulation of reports from Albany to the effect that he has made propositions to Democra tie officlalsttt Albany stating certain conditions as to what he would do in case Governor Hill should step down and allow the Lieutenant-Governor to step up next month. General Jones is entitled to the Governorship, but ,of course David B. Hill will never permit him to enjoy tbat honor. Hill is not that kind of man. BESTOBIRG HEHTAL POwBBS. Interesting Operations Successfully Per formed on Idiots. Cixciunati, Nov. 27. Sjpecia. Last' February Emma Schwerman, almost 5 years old, the daughter of parents residing at Newport, Ky., was brought to the Cincin nati Hospital a paralytic idiot. She had no use of her limbs, and had never even recog nized her nnme. When not quite V years old the bones of the skull became hardened, and brain development was impossible. The family physician, a bright young man, In duced Emma's parents to try trephining as an experiment. Last February, after some preliminary treatment, a piece of bono mewhat larger than a dime was removed from the top of her head. The result has been almost startling. The child has secured almost perfect con trol of her arms, can move her head at will, speaks n number of words, knows hername and the different members or the family. The lowerportlon of her body and limbs romalns helpless, and the legs are little larger than those of a year-old baby. The surgeons are preparing to remove another section of the skull. The physicians will next operate on the 17-year-old sister of Emma. Her body is perfectly developed, but her mind Is a blank. Besides these sisters, two other patients are being brought from Texas to be operated upon. POLITICAL POINTS AND OPINIONS. The election of Chairman Clarkson was a sine Quay non to HepuDlican success next year. Philadelplda Press. The Democratic National Committee is to hold a meeting on the Sth of Decembor, for the purpose, probably, of swearing about the election of JIcKinley and the generally Improved prospects of the Republican success in 1S95. St. Imis Globe-Democrat. Mb. Blaise is on the sunny side of 61, but he feels as old as the eternal hills when he thinks of the work which is cut out for him in keeping his admirers from slopping over and in choking off the feeble foolish Bnrch ards who want to win notoriety by posing as his champion s.PJiiladelhpia Tiimcs. Tne effort, as we understand It, will not be to expel Mr. Brice, but to prevent him tak ing his seat at all, which a majority may do. Mr. Brice will never be disturbed, unless by the prickings of conscience, which is not at all probable. That Mr. Sherman will never take action in the case of Brice is a foregone conclusion. 311. Vernon (O.) liepublican. Yocn Uncle John Sherman does not seom to he worrying over the prospects of his re election as United States Senator from Ohio. He has returned to Washington with his family and left his friends at home to look after the details of his senatorial nomination. When the critical time comes it would not be surprising to see Mr. For aker and his .Insignificant followers climb Into the Sherman band wagon and boast Ingly claim that they did it all. Chicago Times. At least two-thirds of the National Repub lican Committee favor Mr. Blaine ns the next presidental candidate for their party. It is also an established fact that the great majority of the Republicans of tho United States desire that Mr. Blaine shall bo nomi nated. To confirm the first statement the announcement of Committeeman Hyde, of Massachusetts, that Mr. Blaine will be nomi nated if he desires the honor, is sufficient evidence. To estimate the general drift of public sentiment toward Mr. Blaine's candi dacy one has onlvto read the jonrnalswhich voice the fpellngs of the people. Columbus (O.) Dispatch. FIVE GENBBATIONS IN HEB TAXILY. A Woman Dies Leaving Sixty-Eight De scendants to Mourn Her Loss. Locuroivr, N. Y Nov. 27. Special. A re markable instance of a woman seeing five generations of her own family came to light in the death lately of Mrs. Anna Hoag Frost, of Somerset, in her 96th year. The family to survive her were 8 children, 5 sons and 3 daughters, 13 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and I great-great-grandchild, hav ing lived to see the fifth generation of her family. She was born at Nine Partners. N. Y.. and whon a child moved to Renssalear, Albany county, where she married her husband, Solomen Frost, now deceased. She has been a resident of Niagara county since 183S. and was one of the oldest pioneers. Six ot her grandsons were bearers at her funeral. KNOCKING NEW YORK. It Is Just 108 years since the British left New York, but the Anglo-maniacs have suc ceeded in making British Influence still a factor of life in Gotham. Baltimore Ameri can. Chicago's Mr. B. P. Hutchinson has with drawn his application for membership in the New York Produce Exchange. Tho prin cipal wonder is that Mr. Hutchinson could have seriously contemplated at any time a permanent residence in New York. He now practically admits tbat he was old enough to know better. Chicago 2Tews. Brthetime New York'has engaged in a few more scrambles for national conven tions she will perhaps wake up to a realiza tion of the fact that she "isn't in it." New York must bo proud of the rosult of her set to with Minneapolis. She can make up her mind to one thing, and that is that she will continue to be snubbed and disciplined until she has done with her cheap supercilious provincialism. She is by no means the big gest toad in the puddle Eugene Held in Chicago A'ews. New Yokk has reached the last extremity. On Sunday last 100 preachers in that town united in an earnest call to heaven to "make this city a better place to live in." Rev. Dr. Rainsford became so desperately oloquent in discoursing about the things which make New YorE a worse place to live in that he cried: "I would to God that He will mako us successful!" There used to be a story which New York's horrible predicament recalls to mind. An ancient maldenon an ocean ship was awakened by the shriek of the gale and the crash of falling masts, 'in mortal terror she rushed upstairs to the captain and Im plored him to tell her the worst. "There is nothing left," cried the captain, "but trust in God." "Merciful heaven!" shrieked the miserable woman; "is it as bad as that?" Chicago Herald, PERSONAL NOTES. Msa Humphrey Wabd, author of "Robert Elsmere," is a famous china painter. King Oscar of Sweden is a collector of books of poems with autographs of the writers. The illness of General Benjamin F. But ler does not disappcaras rapidly as had been hoped, but his condition is not at present critical. "Blind Tom," the musical prodigy who astonished the public by his peiformances 10 and 15 years ago. is spending his last days in an Insnne asylum. Secretary Foster is improving slowly and is now able to sit up during the day. It Is expected tbat he will be able to resume his official duties in a few days. The centenary of the birth of Thomas Wiltshire Summersum, who fought In the American War of 1813, was celebrated at Brlghtluigsea, England, yesterday with a banquet. His full name, with its titles, was the Rt. Hon. Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton, G. a B., G. a S., CLE., LL.D- but the great world will know him best and remember him best as Owen Mere dith. DOM PEDKO is described by a Paris cor respondent as beingmuch disturbed in mind over the situation in Brazil. "He lives," says the writer, "simply and unaffectedly, yet with dignity, ina family hotel near the Madeleine, where he has a lodging, to use his word's, large enough for a poor old soli tary widower whose interests are heyond his own hearth, and the greatestof them beyond the ocean. General Jack Casement, of Paines ville, O., was In New York yesterday, says the Press, td seo his son, who Is a Princeton student, and to rake in the football game. The General looks yonngerthan at' any time iu 10 years, which he accounts for by saying that he is again up to his eyes in heavy business transactions. He has been build-ln-r a railroad near Pittsburg to open up the Moou Run coal mines, which belong to a syndicate In which ho is the heaviest In vestor. CATERERS CANTANKEROUS. They Object to the Clubs Famishing Re freshments for House Functions The Doings of the Week and Some That Are to Come. The caterers, having words and frowns for their weapons of warfare, are fighting with the clubs. The clubs recently have been doing a deal of work for outside balls and parties, and the caterers declare so great is tne love for high sounding names that the people to have it said a club was engaged bv them are willing to put up with Inferior work and even to pay more for it. The clubs retort by turning up their noses, metaphori cally speaking, at the caterers. This Is tho boiling over in tho little home teapot. Re garding an outside confectioner and chef do cuisine coming here to cater, the home ca terers and the club stewards are of one opinion, which is that he is very poor sort. At a recent wedding Sherrey, cf New York, served tho wedding supper, and ever since it has been industriously circulated that the imported article was vastly inferior to the domestic one. It looks as though tho na tional policy of protection was imbuing everyone with a selfishness, that will be satisfied with nothing less than Government interference when two men wish to enunge in the same business in the same town. The Academy of Medicine holds its sec ond annual dinner on next Monday evening at 8:30 at the Kenmawr Hotel. It Is expeotcd to be a most agreeable affair. Dr. R. W. Stewart will preside. The annual address will be delivered by Dr. Perclval J. Eaton, and responses to toasts are expected from Chancellor-Holland, Assistant District At torney Goehring and Drs. James McCann, Murdock, T. D. Davis and Theodore Diller. The following are expected to be present: Drs. Anderson, Brumbaugh, Brockerhoff. Ed.sall, Eaton, Goulding, Henderson, Day, Diller, Ward, Stewart, Small, Patterson, Pettitt, Myers. Litchfield, Mercur, Lincoln, Scott, Moyer, Dravo, Taylor, Douthett; Rev. George Hodges, Drs. McCann, Murdoch, U. B. King, McKelvey: Chancellor Holland: Drs. T. D. Davis, McNeil, Williams, Daly, Le Moyne, Joseph Dickson, Werder, Mc Kennan, Nelan:Messrs. Goehrimr, Goulding, Knox, Phelen; Drs. George, Foster, English, Lange, nope, Koenig, Shaw and perhaps a few others. The Heart and Hand Society of the Third Presbyterian Church will hold Its annual fair and supper on Tuesday afternoon and eveniug, December 1, in the chapel. This is the young women's organization of the church, the pastor's wife, Mrs. E. P. Cowan, being President. During the last year the society contributed over $LO0O to various objects. Included in the list of its bene ficiaries were the West Penn and Homeo pathic Hospitals, the Working Girls' Home, scholarships In Blddle University, Scotia and Mary Allen Seminaries and one in China, Pittsburg Temporary Home and Alle gheny Fresh Air Fund, McAll Mission and various other philanthropic projects. It is for the purpose of continuingthe good work tbat the fair is to be given. The several tables will be in charge of Miss Mary E wing, Mrs. Frank E. Moore, Miss Ditim, Mrs. W. F. McKelvey, Miss McClelland, Miss Swartz, Miss Grace Williams and Miss Elinor Mc Eiiroy, each with a corps of assistants. Miss Agnes Young's wedding will be the social event of next week. Lieutenant Palmer E. Pierce, her fiance, is a West Point man Snd will be married in his regimentals. The military feature will predominate, and the ushers, all West Point graduates, will wear their army dress. The ceremony takes place at the home of W. J. Young, Esq.. on Shady lane, near Fitth avenne, which will be prettily prepared with flowers. The Rev. Mr. McGunnegle, formerly of Oil City Pres byterian Church, officiates. The future resi dence of Lieutenant Pierce will be the mili tary quarters in Buffalo, where he is now stationed. Social Chatter. United PRKSBYTKr.iAj.-s in particular, and good people in general, are reminded of the Orphans' Home lair in Old City Hall on next Thursday and Friday. It has ever been a colossal and prosperous affair, and having the same, enterprising, noble-minded and thoroughly capable women In charge, no doubt this year will make another entry in its Jijt of triumphs. The nuptials of Mrs. Elizabeth Barton ana Mr. Robert Carson were celebrated before a small number of friends on Thanksgiving afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Russell officiating. A small niece and nephew were the only at tendants. Mr. and Mrs. Carsou are in tho East now. and upon returning from the honeymoon will live on Lincoln avenue, Allegheny. The news of Mrs. A. E. W. Painter's ball next month is welcomed eagerly by those fortunate enough to know they may expect an Invitation. Mrs. Painter is one of the most agreeable hostesses that Pittsburg possesses and to be invited to her house is to give one ever afterward the open sesame to Pittsburg society. Colonel axd Mrs. J. M. Schooitoaker: have issued invitations for a reception on Thurs day evening, December 3. It will take the form of a house warming, as it Is the first entertainment Mrs. Schoonmaker has yet given in her beautiful Moorewood avenne residence. About 300 people will be present, Tiraannual dinner last night in Washing ton of the Vassar students and societv re minds me tbat we either have, or were promised, a similar organization in Pitts burg. Perhaps it is resting for awhile, along with the University Club, which, people say, is as dead as if it had never lived. Miss.SA5crLE and Miss Jordan, young Cin cinnati ladies visiting Mrs. Schoonmaker, of Shadyside, have received many attentions in that 'fashionable and hospitable part of town. Mrs. Schoonmaker's reception on Thursday is in part' out of compliment to these guests. Miss Teresa La wbexce and the Rev. Mr. Turner will be married December 10. Mr. Turner is rector of a Baltimore church. So what will be his and Baltimore's gain will be very much Pittsburg's loss. Mrs. Julian Rodosbs has Issued invita tions for a tea on Tuesday afternoon, De cember 1. Miss Rodgers' cards for an even ing german accompany those of her mother. Isvitatious have been issued by the Misses Holmes, of Bellcfield.for an "at home" from S to 11 on Thursday evening, at their house at Dithiidge street and Fifth avenue. The National Pageant benefit for the Church of the Ascension and the Children's Hospital has been deferred. The perform ance will be given within a fortnight. Mr. Gut Livihostose is making a flying visit to Pittsburg to spend Thanksgiving with his friends in town. He goes to the West Indies on Monday for the winter. SIr. Henri Bollix Parker was host at a small dinner at the Duquesne last night in honortif his witty fellow countryman, Mon sieur Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell). Mr. Paul Blouet strolled through our, city yesterday in the companionship of a yonng Se wickley man. Now, we would like to hear something about ourselves. Mrs. Eliza Straik, who is traveling with Miss Carrie Schmertz in Europe, has been very ill with an attack of pneumonia while in Geneva. "The Afternoon Musical" meets on Tues day next in Mrs. Smith's music chambers in the Mozart Club rooms. Mrs. Charles E. Spkkr, of Oakland, will entertain a dinner parts on Tuesday next. O. D. Thompson, Esq., is in New York. World Girdling by Armies. New York Sun. - Theiuilltary train that is about to leave Vancouver on the Pacific Ocean to convey British troops over the Canadian route to ,Halifax on the Atlantic Ocean, will muko the quickest possible time across the conti nent by rail, and the steamship carrying tho troops from Halifax across tlie Atlantic will make the quickest possible time to Liver pool. The British military authorities are making experiments to discover how rapidly troops can be conveyed from England to India by this route with the aid of the new steamship line on the Pacific. These ex periments are of interest to a large part of tho world, including the chief powers of Europe, the most popular countries of Asia, the British province of North America, Egypt in North' Africa, and tlie British pos sessions in South Africa, also Australia. The world-girdling empire must be prepared for all emergencies wherever it has interests to defend or foes to confront. Good Omen for June T. bt. Louts Globc-Demoerat.3 If the Republican convention which meets on June, 7, 1892, nominates a ticket which will make as strong a run as the one put in the field by the convention which met on the sanio day of tho month in 1864 the party will be well satisfied. The States In insur rection tbat year, of coarse, did not vote, but only three of the States that did vote Now Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky de clared against the Republican ticket. Mis souri was one of tho States which were car ried by the Republicans in 1SS4. MODEST CHICAGO. She Does Not Want the Earth but Only Five alilllon Dollars. Philadelphia Telegraph.! Chicago is nothing If not modest. She does not want the earth, the considerable section of the United States lying about the lower end of Lake Michigan and stretching out indefinitely across the prairies which she now foundly claims as her own, contenting her territorial ambitious for the present. All she asks for Just now Is a trifle of five millions of dollars from Uncle Sam's strong box to help alongber proposed Columbian Exposition withal. It is unfortunately on record that Chicago explicitly and emphati cally undertook to find all the money re quired fortheColumb'an Exposition without asking the United States Treasury for one cent beyond the appropriation to make a Government display. The Chicago represen tatives who went to Washington to scenre the locating of the Columbian celebration in their town madoastrongpolnt, a verv strong point indeed, of the important fict that they had valid pledges behind them for subscrip tions to tho amount of $13,000,00) for the proper housing and accommodation of the proposed World's Fair, and if that should not be enough there would be plenty more forthcoming, so that the public Treasury would not be askea to furnish any funds whatever. It has been stated on good authority that this guaranty, accepted in good faith, was largely if not decisively influential in secur ing the site of the Exposition for the Lako City. And now comes the same representa tives of the great territory west of Lako Michigan, vifiting Washington, lint in hand, blandly and artlessly asking the nation td accommodate them with a little matter of $0,000,000. Their pledges of J15 CCO.000 havo only panned out ahout $3,000,000 all told, and they are afraid that if the Government does not come to the rescne the Columbian Expo sition will be a colossal fizzle, an everlast ing monument no! of honors to Columbus, but of disgrace to Columbia. MILLET BACK FE0M ROME. He Tells of a Man's Figure Which Sailed Through His Room. New York, Nov. 27. Special. Among tho passengers who arrived tojday on the steam ship City of Berlin were Mrs. Annie Besant, Doctor of Theosophy, and F. D. Millet, the artist and journalist. The latter Is the anthor of "A Faded Scapular," which tells how, 20 years ago in Rome, Mr. Millet used to wake up in the night and see the figure of a man sail through his room. Ho writes that he was helpless at the time the ghost ap peared, and before he could move he always fell asleep. Mr. Millet ends his story by telling how a friend discovered a secret door in front of a niche in the wall where were secrPted a "small crucifix with a rude figure of Christ and suspended from the neck of the image by a small cord was a triangular object covered with faded cloth." Tho landlady explained that the hidden things were the relics of her dead husband, who was an artist, too, but hated the crucifix, the scapu lar and the priest. THE SPEAKERSHIP. The notion seems to have gone abroad that the place is to go to a Southern Democrat. Crisp, of Georgia; Mills, of Texas, and Mc Millin, of Tennessee, are the leading com petitors from this section. The odds appear to be in favor of Crisp. iVeip Orleans Pica yune. In length of service R. Q. Mills comes near attaining the dignity of father of the House. Moreover, he is almost 60 years of age. Tins will probably bo the'last chance the Demo crats will have for six or eight years to elect a Speaker, and they ought to choose Mills. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. "CRisr-is a Randall Democrat, while Milts is a Mills Democrat," says the Fort Worth Gazette. This is one of the greatest compli ments that has been paid to Mr. Crisp by Slills' friends. Samuel J. Randall was one of the greatest and best men ever sent to Congress by the Democratic party. Ho well merited the name, "The Great Commoner," which was bestowed upon him by all parties in Washington. Any Democrat might be proud of the name "a Randall Democrat.'' Chicago Inter Ocean. It may not be Mr. Crisp's fault, but It is certainly his mislortune.thnt this hold-back, or so-called "conservative," clement of tho party has rallied around him to a man, and his election to the Speakership would mean, and woula be universally accepted as mean ing, the triumph of this element and its con trol of the legislation of the House during the coming session when that legislation, mnst of necessity go far toward shaping the issues uuon which tho Presidental cam paign of 1892 will be fought and determining the result of that fight. St. Jjoitis Republic LOCAL IDIOMS. They Are the Life of Our Elastic, Expres sive, Eloquent Language. New York Trlbune.l According to the Boston Transcript's "Lis tener," "I don't seem to remember" and "Not much of any" aro idiomatic through out the country, but especially in New York and Illinois. "Comfortably sick'Ms a Yankee joke; "I admire to drive" is a New England vulgarism, while "Sick to my stomach" is a nauseating phrase in use everywhere. The phrases "I feel like beer" or "I feel like beefsteak," he says aro common in Boston. And then he adds: "Let us not sav too much against local peculiarities of expression, or idioms in embryo. They nro the life of the language. If it had not been for tile facility of the English in taking up and giving the authority of usage to these odd phrases, many of which are illogical, incorrect, in trinsically ridiculous, we should have a dead, formal speech like the Spanish, or a pretty and graceful, but fatally unelastic, tongne like the French. "It is not desirable that all Anglo-Saxon nations should speak English exactly alike, or that New Epgland should talk just like South Dakota. Let us thank heaven for tho pleasing diversity of speech that we still have on this big continent, and pray that the time will be long in coming when schoolmasters shall have succeeded in run ning us all into one unlovely mould." Miniature Portrait ot a Governor. New York Tribune. J David B. Hill is generally recognized as standing for all that is most disreputable and reactionary in American politics. Ever .since ho became Governor his official acts and his influence have tended to degrade the public service. He ha3 steadily played into the hands of the worst elomentsof his party the rum ring, the canal ring and the ring of ballot thieves. It is not strange, therefore, that he should mark his exodus from Albany by placing himself at the head of the rascals who are plotting to steal tho Legislature. Thus fitly does he crown his scandalous career. CULLINGS ON COLLEGIATES. The rush has now become a feature of college life at Wellesley. Every girl's col lege has its peculiar yell, and it will not be long before college slang will culminate in that terrible oath, "By gum!" Baltimore American. Now the joyous college fellow, Wearing cap oTbluo or yellow, Doth emit a frightful bellow From the bottom of his soul. He forgets his Greek and Latin, E'en tho poker games he sat in. And works off his surplus fat in Scrimmaging around the goal. Cliicago Times. A fellow of an English university Is a pit able sight on the Continent. He knows neither German nor Italian, and though he may claim to know French he has but to risk hair a dozen phrases of that language to show conclusively that he does not. In a few years he forgets his Greek entirely and would find it difficult to read an easy Latin book without a crib Labouchere. It Is no credit to college men that the New York theatrical managers are forced to come together and lay down certain rules which college men must agree to obey before entrance to the tnijiters will be allowed them. There is no reason why they should behave like wild men of Borneo and at tempt to break up every theatrical per formance they attend. The theatrical man agers have decided to allow them to make all the noise they want while the curtain Is down between the acts, but during the rest of the evening they must behave like civ ilized beiegs or get out. A strong-application of police authority would teach some of these "youths" d healthful lesson In good manners. Baltimore American. CURIOUS C0NDENSAT10NS- Baltimore has not had a bank failura for 57 years. Maine has only 19 cities within its borders. Portland is tho oldest city and Deering is the youngest, having just thrown of town government. The condition of the French army is such, according to Sir Charles Dilke, that in case of war with Germany the odds would be in favor of France. The 'best proofreader in the United States gets $10 an hour for his services, and pays a heavy flno for every typographical error which he permits to creep Into his books. Four hundred intimate friends of a rich man in England were invited to attend his funeral, but only 29 went. Eight days afterward tho lawyer of the estate an nounced that according to the will each per son who had attended was entitled to a be quest, X320 to each woman and 200 to each man. The population of the globe (according to Drs. Ernest and Behm, and Herman Wag ner, of the Geographical Institutoof Gotha, the little. German cltvknown foritsalmanac) is about 1,480,000 000. In 1863 Brtim fixed th population of the globe at 1,330,000,000. In 1880 he raised it to L456,CO0,0CO, and reduced IB to 1,431,000,000 in 1S82. A man who is running a clam farm near Oldtown, Me., for two weeks feeds the clams on celery meal and Indian meal, and then he bolls them; a bushel at a. time. Ha puts in one quart of water and takes out eight quarts of juice, which sells for5 cents a glass after It has been heated and sea soned. He feeds pigs with the meat, and they grow fat rapidly. Russia most people are accustomed to regard as a very cold country, and so it is in its northern region, but it has a large area in the southern part of the temperate zone. It will surprise many to learn that it has a.i area of vineyards amounting to about 438,230 acres, the average vield of wine from them being 53,300,000 gallons, of which rather more than half Is grown In the Caucasus. Basking sharks, which at maturity measure from 30 to 40 feet in length, aro easily approached and harpooned, and on the west coast of Ireland as many as 500 have been taken in a. single season. Tho liver often weighs as much as two tons, yielding 6 to 8 barrels of oil. A few years ago, when sharks' oil was of greater value than it is at present, the oil Irom single full-sized specimen would often realize from. $200 to $230. The be3t known of the peaceable settle ments of international controversies was that b'etween the United States and Great Britain, in 1372, on account of the "Alabama claims," which matter was referred to five arbitrators named by the United States.Eng land, the Swiss Republic, the King of Italy and the Emperor of Brazil, respectively, lit a dispute between England and France in 1843 the King of Prussia acted as arbitrator. A controversy between the United States and Portugal in 1830 was referred to L01113 Napoleon, who wa3 at that time President of France. The Pullman Company up to the fins of last August showed earnings close to $10, 000,000 per annum, of which the cars them selves earn $7,SOO,CO0. By manufacturing, investing, furnishing offices, etc., this com pany earns ncarlv $2,000,009 besides, and earns about $20,000 from its patents. Thj company pays 2.0uo,000 a year in dividends, pays over $1,000,000 a year to sleeping car as sociations which ic has leased or absorbed, and it pays over $3,500,000 to operate and keep up its equipment. There was conse nuentlv an excess of revenue last vear of almost $3,000,000. There is some reason to believe that tobacco was used in other parts of the world than America prior to Raleigh's visit to thU country and discovery of the habit anion? the Indians. Throughout inner Africa it is generally used, and, it it thought, ha3 been from soon after Raleigh's importation of the weed into Europe, for it was carried far up the Nile long before white men went there. But, while Africa mav havo got tobacco from. America by way of Europe, there is reason to think that the inhabitants of some of the Pacific islands had the plant, and used it, perhaps, earlier than the American Indians, tor they "have no tradition of its Introduc tion, nor of a time when it was not used by their ancestors. The young man may be interested in. knowing who were some of tho men whodid. remarkable things or achieved high posi tions very early in life. Charles James Fox was in Parliament at 19: the great Cromwell left the university at Cambridge at 18; John, Bright was never at any school a day after he was 13; Gladstone was in Parliament aC 22, and at 24 was Lord of the Treasury: Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge at 16 and. was called to the bar at 21; PeeJ was in Par liament at 21, and Palmerston was Lord of the Admiralty at 23; Henry Clay was in tho Senate of the United States, contrary to the Constitution, at 29: Washington was a Colo nel in the army ut 22, commander of the forces at 42, President at 57. Kalamazoo, Mich., is called "the Celerr City." The crisp, sweet, nerve solacing food grows Detter thero than anywhere else, find ing exactly what it needs lor Its best condi tion in the rich, black muck which abounds in the region. The celery gardens adjoin the city on three sides, and consist of about: 3,000 acres. There are probably at the pres ent time over 4.000 men engaged in the cslery traflic in Kalamazoo, many of them Hollanders. From June to November n, steady procession of express wagons can be seen wending their way from tho offices to the various railroad stations, whence this commodity is shipped to nearly every city in the United States. Many of the growers are their own shippers, but the majority of the heavy-footed Hollanders are content with disposing of their produce to tha shipper at a fair price. The largest diamond in the world is tha Braganza weight 1,830 carats. It was found In Brazil in 174L and is now one of the Portuguese crown Jewels. The Mattam, be longing to the Rajah of Mattam, Borneo, i ot the "first water" and weighs 3C7 carats. It was found near Landak, Borneo, in 1760. and has been the cause of several sanguina ry wars. The Koh-i-noor now forms one of the crown jewels of Great Britain. The his tory of this gem dates back to 1326. It orig inally weighed 793 carats, but was reduced by unskilllful cutting to 186 carats: this while it was the property of tho Emperor Aurenzebe. It was captured by the British troops during the Sikh mutiny and was pre sented to Queen Victoria in 1S59. Since com ing into-Victoria's possession it has been rc cut and now weighs but 103 1-16 carats. Tho Pitt or Regent diamond belonged to the rrench crown jewels. It was bought by the Duke of Orleans, then Regent of France, of Pitt, the Governor of Fort St. George, for 135.000. When in the rough stone weighed. 400 carats. TAKEN FROM; LIFE. I FALSEHOOD AXD TRUTH. I. And as I slept, two dream dames near rae stood; One young, a minstrel woman, myyhap fair. Though o'er her face was drawn a crimson hood The other old and lean, with grizzled hair. II. Ere I had asked, the old dame shrieked, "Plain Truth Am I." ne r voice was barsh. and. like a brier. It pricked my ear. "My name you know, fair yonth.1' The other softly sighed and touched her lyre. Elijah lligginbatham. He They had a lover's quarrel, parted, and she married her father's coachman for spite. She What became of her lover? He Oh, he married ber sister, and hired the coachman. ( The Priest This man is so tipsy he can hardly stand. I can't marry you to him unbss he's In his normal state. The Rrlde Faith, thin ye'll hare to harry, for It's Eoberln up he Is this mlnnut- "Have you read Sir John Lubbock's List or the Best Hundred Books?' " "Yep." "ETcry hook on the list?" "Yep; every book on the list." "Going to the football game?" "No; can'tstandlt. .Going to the morgue." Morrison I hear Stivey met the Prince last summer? Jansen Yes. Morrison What did SUTey sav to him? Jausen Apologized for being an American. He Darling, you remind me or my bank account. She (nestling up to him) Why, because you think so much of me? He No; because you are so petite. "Ethel, is the cook dressing the chick ens?" "No. mama, she is undressing them." .Because the country needed rain, He did notyloudly pray. He simply asked two girls he knew ' To (b and sec the play.
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