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PITTSBURG, MONDAY, NOV. SO, 189L
OIL IN THE WATER.
The presence of a visible and exceed
ingly obnoxious admixture of petroleum
in tbe water furnished to the people of the
two cities during the past two days is a
matter that calls for prompt and energetic
action. The oily flavor, -while at first dis
puted, manifested "itself unmistakably
during the past forty-eight hours; and the
question as to its cause and the most
effectual remedy at once became a vital
one.
The progress of solving this question is,
so far, not satisf actory. Theories as to the
cause include the belief that it is due to
residuum deposited on the bottom of the
river and then stirred up by the floods; that
it is caused by the drainings, from re
fineries; and that it is due to the breaking
of one or more of the numerous pipe lines
that cross the Allegheny river. The res
iduum theory is weakened by the reflection
that such a deposit, if it exists, must be
the work of years, while the oily charac
ter of the water is a new trouble. Of
refineries there are but two above the
pumping works this side of Oil City, one
of which is burning its residuum, while the
discharge from the other must be trivial.
The suggestion that a pipe line is broken
and discharging its contents into the river
has more plausibility than the others.
It is plain that there should be an ener
getic investigation, so as to determine the
cause of the difficulty. In its present con
dition the city water is really fit for noth
ing but washing, and thus the city is con
fronted with a modified water famine un
til the matter is remedied. The cause
should be fixed at the earliest possible mo
ment, and the most thorough steps must
be taken, not only to remedy it now, but
to guard against Its repetition in the
future.
If such pollution of the city water sup
ply cannot be permanently prevented it
will advance the project of drawing a
supply of water for both Pittsburg and
Allegheny from the mountain streams
from the position of a future enterprise to
one that must be undertaken at once.
THE INTERIOR REPORT.
The report of the Secretary of the
Interior.an abstract of which appears else
where, is more noticeable for what it does
not say than what it does. In its review
of the questions of homestead settlements,
Indian affairs and pensions, the report
goes over the routine of business fairly.
But in connection with some of the sub
jects on which it touches the report, as
perhaps might be expected, omits to take
notice of aspects which are highly im
portant to the public
Thus, in regard to the alleged la w for
the forfeiture of unearned railway land
grants, the Secretary alludes approvingly to
one phase in which the law, while pretend
ing to forfeit unearned grants, really con
firmed them, but does not clearly state that
the main effect of the law was to give
away a vast portion of the public domain
to corporations that have not carried out
their contracts. TVith regard to the cen
sus, the Secretarv presents an optimistic
view of that enumeration without giving
any notice to the fact that its remarkable
vital statistics disprove themselves. The
work of the Patent Office is reviewed, but
no mention is made of the fact that the
methods of that office have been
employed to prolong the telephone
monopoly for fifteen years. The
belief is expressed that Congress ought to
do something about the subsidy to the
Pacific railroads, but the .report utterly
fails to do, what it might if inspired by
independence show how the Government
could take possession of those roads and
at once secure the 5112,000,000 due it and
make those highways of real ssrvice to the
people.
These are omissions by no means un
common in official reports. They are not
so characteristic as the declaration of the
appropriateness of a connection between 1
the Nicaragua canal and the Department
of the Interior. This is evidently on the
principle of lucus a non lueendo, the Nica
ragua canal being peculiarly and ex
clusively an affair of the exterior, so far
as this countrv is concerned.
THE ROADS OF EUROPE.
The steady agitation of the road im
provement question has had the effect of
producing from the State Department a
large volume of consular reports on the
streets and highways of Europe. The re
ports contain a good deal of valuable in
formation, both as to the value of the im
proved roads of Europe and the methods
of constructing them.
The most salient impressiou made by
these reports on the American mind is that
even such comparatively poor countries as
Ireland and Switzerland have far better
roads than the great and wealthy republic
of the New World. For this we might
find the excuse of the comparative new
ness of our country.- But when .we find
that Canada's road system also rises supe
rior to our own, and that even British Co
lumbia, which hardly numbers as many
years as Pennsylvania does decades, pos
sesses fine highways, we must acknowl
edge that in this important respect the
United States js "far behind the rest of the
civilized world instead of leading it, as
is our boast in other respects."
The testimony of the reports repeats
what has so often been asserted in these
columns, namely, the practicability when
once a road is properly constructed of
maintaining it in first-class order, and the
economic value of good roads to the agri-
cultural class. In France, where the road
j-ystem has been earned to the highest de
gree of perfection, the results are stated as
followi.:
The road system of France has been of far
greater value to the country as a means of
raising the Talus ot lands and of putting the
small peasant proprietors in easy communi
cation with their markets than hare the
rail-ways. It is the opinion of well-infqnned
Frenchmen who have made a practical study
of econoniicjjroblems that the superb roads
of France have been one of the most steady
and potent contributions to the material de
velopment andmarvelons financial elasticity
of the country. The far-reaching ana splen
didly maintained road system has distinctly
favored the success of the small landed pro
prietors, and in their prosperity and the
ensuing distribution of wealth lie the key
to the secret of the wonderful financial
vitality and solid prosperity of the French
nation.
It is one of the unsatisfactory phe
nomena of the century that, while this
country, founded upon a democracy of
commerce as well as of political power, has
lately experienced the growth of great
millionaires, concurrently with 'depression
and decay among the small landed pro
prietors, France has maintained a wonder
ful prosperity by a development in exact
ly the opposite direction. The roads of
France and the absence of anything corre
sponding to them in this country are not
the sole cause of the diversity so unfavora
ble to us. But that it is a more active and
important cause than appears at first blush
may "be seen when we give due reflection
to the fact that on such roads the corporate
devices of rebates, pools, stock manipula
tions and the other means by which great
fortunes have been built up for the privi
leged few at the cost of the many are
utterly impossible.
Every argument from the condition of
things, and every testimony of experience,
ppints to the immense gain that can be
secured by an intelligent, scientific and
comprehensive system of country road
construction. The literature of the sub
ject has already demonstrated this beyond
a doubt The only thing necessary to
secure the reform is to bring the literature
home to the minds of the people and to
secure an adoption of the best methods for
prosecuting the work.
THE POOR FARM PURCHASE.
It is to be presumed that the poor farm
purchase will come up before Councils this
week, either on the question of permitting
the Alexander option to be withdrawn, or
on the original proposition to sanction the
acceptance of the offer. There are various
interesting aspects about the proposed
withdrawal of an unexpired option; but a
very complete and satisfactory solution of
them all is to be found by adopting the
shortestand mostauthentative declaration
of the fact that the city does not want the
farm.
This should be done, for two reasons.
In the first place, after this property has,
by the present offer at 5350 per acre, ex
posed the want of Integrity in a former at
tempt to make the city pay 5600, it is still
evident that the price is much higher than
it should be. The evidences on this point
are varied but harmonious, that the price
asked the city is 40 to 75 per cent above
what a private buyer would have to pay
for the same or similar property. The
city should take the very clear ground
that so long as there is a trace left in any
quarter of the disposition to make the city
pay more than other purchasers, it will be
defeated by the simple device of abstain
ing from the purchase.
Beyond that is the fact that the pur
chase still exceeds the needs of the city.
It has so lately been brought out in the
discussion that the city may make the best
possible arrangement by joining forces
with county poor authorities, that it is by
no means certain that a farm is needed at
all. But, if the purchase must be made, a
tract of 100 acres will give all the inmates
of the farm all the bodily exercise they
can be induced to take. "The selection of
the Alexander tract showed an abandon
ment of the purely imaginary necessity of
a river front When the size is brought
down to 100 acres and a tract is purchased
at 5200 to 5250 per acre the city will at
least be sure that it has not been forced to
pay exorbitantly for its property.
The city has lest nothing by waiting.
But the good results are not more than
half secured. Let the same policy be kept
up until moderate offers are made, and
there is a practical certainty that the city
can either provide for its paupers on the
county farm, or purchase all the land it
needs at a cost between 520,000 and
550,000.
COSTS ON THE INoOCENT.
The verdict of a Schuylkill county jury
in a libel case, recently, illustrated a ten
dency of juries to give verdicts as utterly
illogical as some of the compromise find
ings by which juries evade the disagree
able duty of sendinga man to the gallows.
The verdict declared a man not guilty on
the charge of criminal libel and then as
sessed him with two-thirds of the costs of
prosecution.
The man thus declared innocent of the
charge against him in one breath and in
the next mulcted to a considerable sum
for costs was i he editor of the Pottsville
Miners' Journal. He had treated the let
ting of a contract on very favorable terms
to the contractor, after the latter had
taken the Commissioners off on a junket
ing tour, as a proper matter for comment
in his paper. On the suit for criminal libel
the Judge held that the publication was a
privileged one and its accuracy was
proved. There was, therefore, no possi
ble finding than the verdict of not guilty,
but the jury, by some occult process of
reasoning, concluded that it would not do
to let his innocence go without any penal
ty at all, and so assessed two-thirds of the
costs on him.
This -way in which juries arrive at such
verdicts is more easily comprehended than
the fact that the practice of Pennsyl
vania courts allows them. The juries re
flect the indisposition of- the rural tax
payer to have county expenditures en
hanced by costs; and while they have this
power are apt to use it At least that
meanness is the. most charitable explana
tion of such verdicts. But legal rules
should forbid anything of the sort The
declaration of a man's innocence simul
taneously with making the false charge
a penalty to him is violently self-contradictory.
It not only imposes an injustice in
cases where the prosecution is genuine,
but it even holds out an incentive to ma
licious prosecution in the hope that while
the defendant is proved not guilty he may
still be saddled with the costs.
This should be entirely reformed. The
declaration of a man's innocence should
relieve him entirely. It is rank injustice
to impose a penalty on a man because he
is forced to show thatheha3 not disobeyed
the laws.
A O.DESTION FOR POLITICIANS.
Some Republican newspapers of the
State are discussing with a good deal
of warmth the claim that one candidate
for Congressman-at-Large shall be nomi
nated from Philadelphia and one from
Allegheny county. The citv Republicans,
of course, hold that the gain of population
in the two big counties entitles them tothe
nominations, while outside Republicans
assert that, while the nominations cover
'the whole State, the population of especial
localities has nothing to do with it
though the character of candidates has a
great deal.
Leaving the Republican! organs to fight
this out between 'themselves, the matter
presents a suggestion especially pertinent
to that party. It has been stated in a tele
gram from Kansas that the Western State
is likely to lose an elector because it has a
Congressman-at-Large and no provision
has been made for redistrfcting. Under
what constitutional ox statutory provision
the elector corresponding to the Con-gressman-at-Large
cannot be-electedby a
vote of the people, as all the other elect
ors would be, was not stated. But it was
clearly asserted that, by some rule of the
present apportionment, high legalauthor
ity was of the-opmiomthatiit could not-be
done.
But this brings out the reflection that,
the Pennsylvania case in every respect
marches.on all fours wilh that of Kansas,
except that the apportionment gives Penn
sylvania two Congressmen-at-Large. If
Kansas, therefore, is in danger of losing
one electoral vote for lack of redistrict
ing, will not Pennsylvania lose two? If
there is any foundation in fact for the
Kansas story would it not be very im
portant to have a special session of the
Legislature called to do the necessary re-
districting? Bu t this brings up an interest
ing question of casuistry.' Is it the duty
of a Democratic Governor to call the
Legislature together to repah-an omission
for which he Is in no wise responsible, and
which may cost the Republican party two
votes in the Electoral-College?
It would seem very Important for the
politicians to seek an early decision
whether Pennsylvania is In peril of losing
her two-extra votes in the Electoral Col
lege, or whether that Kansas story is a
work of the imagination.
The latest story is that France and
Hussia are going by some sort-of silent-partnership
to acquire & cape and harbor on the
Persian gulf. But suppose that the English
Navy should drop in in advance and
occupy the desired property. That
would be a sequel to the Mltylene picnic
demonstration which the new Alliance
might And easier to understand than to
digest.
It is painful to learn from England that
high legal authorities are entertaining cruel
doubts concerning the strict veracity of
William Henry Hurlbut's 'Wilfrid Murray
story, and arOtgoingtotakeaction obnoxious
to Mr. Hurlbut, such as prosecution for
perjury, in consequence of that doubt. A
State whose highest legislative body ac
cepts alleged purchases of haberdashery as
the subject of glowing letters of thanks
passed between a State offlcial-and a city
treasurer who got away with numerous
hundreds of thousands of the State money
will have no difficulty in characterizing this
Englisn infidelity toward the best story that
can be got np as cruel and unusual.
Thk people who think that the pro
visions of the State Constitution can pre
vent the street railway Combination in this
city may have studied the Constitution; but
they cannot have pondered the proceedings
of the last session of the Pennsylvania
Senate. If they had they wonld'have been
aware that tho Constitution is unconstitu
tional. A case reported from Wheeling shows
there are limits to public patience. A man
entered a grocery store and asked for good
cigars. In response to which the proprietor
proposed to supply his wants from a fine
line of 'Wheeling stogies, .otherwise tobies.
Upon this the customer pulled out a
revolver and shot at the groceryman,
who retired to the rear while the
stranger walked off to buy his cigars
elsewhere. This seems like an extreme
measure in checking the disposition to sell
tobies to an unsuspecting public, "but it
also appears to be effectual.
Those English private soldiers who
strung up a tyrannical corporal to tho verge
of strangulation must have been flred by an
ambition to prove that the truth about life
in the British army is stranger than even
Rudyard Kipling's fiction.
It is rather amusing to find in the India
napolis Sentinel, among a number of reasons
for opposing Mr. Crisp for Speaker, the fol
lowing deadly statement: "Mr. Crisp also
voted for the original package act, a measure
which is distasteful to many Democrats."
A the original package act simply con
firmed to States their right to maintain
legislation on the liquor question, this looks
like good Democratic confirmation of the
Republican slander that the Democrats are
more devotedly attached to free whisky
privileges than to tho conservation of the
rights of the States.
The nomination of Mr. Heydrick, of
Venango, to succeed Judge Clark, indicates
there was a good deal that was apocryphal
about that reported toast of Mr. North, as
the next Judge of the Supreme Court.
The great economic truth that higher
prices increase production may be demon
strated by a phenomenon to be observed in
this city. Since fuel gas has got up to 20
coats per thousand cash in ten days, the
cold waves do not bring serious shortages.
Perhaps some other explanation may be af
forded of the contrast between the pleni
tude of gas at this winter's rate and its
scarcity at last winter's price. But this one
is the most charitable.
Now they say that Vice President Mor
ton regards himself as a Presidcntal quan
tity. But as the -story comeB from Demo
cratic journals it is hardly just to taunt Mr.
Morton with its incredibility.
Mr BAiiFOtm's declaration that Ireland
will never see a Parliament in Dublin may
be based on Mr. Balfour's hope that he will
be in office when home rule is granted, and
can thus insure its being called an Assem
bly, or Congress, or Chamber of Deputies.
But, In view of the present squally outlook
for the Tory Government at the next gener
al election, Mr. Balfour's prophecy is most
thoroughly explained by setting it down as
Conservative blun.
With the city water in its present con.
dition, the location of the poor farm on
some site extremely remote from the river
would make the paupers the objects of the
public envy.
The discovery by the New York Tribune
that the bad Democrats and Mugwumps are
trying to catch the directory of the Union
League Club warrants some hysterics. If
the New York Republicans cannot keep the
Union League Club in the Republican ranks
without a constitutional amendment dis
franchising all members who do not vote
the straight Republican ticket the condi
tion of the party in- the metropolis is more
than parlous.
After all, that cold wave was not quite
so frigid as the predictions. All the shiver
ing had to be done in advance.
The report that Daniel Lamont is slated
for the vacancy on the Democratic National
Committee, causedby the retirement of Her
man Oelrichs, is an interesting one. The
interest is deepened by the mystey which
surrounds the-nomination and the question
as to whether the urbane Daniel goes there
as a Cleveland man, a Hill man, a 'William C.
Whitney man, or plainly and simply as a
Daniel Lamont man. .
Mrs. Jeff Davis Sues Her Publishers.
Memphis, Nov. 29. Mrs. Jefferson Davis
has, through her attorney, General Hoadley
brought Butt against the Belford Publishing
Company, of New York, to recover royalties
on the sale of her book, "Jefferson Davis, ex
President of the Confederate States- a Mem
oir by His Wife." The book was begun by
Jefferson Davis and comnleted bv Mrs
Davis after Mr. Davis' death. The Belford
Company did not live up to their contract
with Mrs. Davis, it is alleged, and she sues to
recover possession of the publication.
FEATURES OF A RAPID AGE.
rWBITTEN FOB TH DISPATCH. I
-r-The next to the last word 4n the Cen
"tury Dictionary is "zythum," which is de
fined to mean an obsolete variety of ancient
Egyptian beer. The last word of all is
"zyxomma,"a kind of Indian dragon fly
with a big head. So the dictionary comes to
an end and is bound up and set on book
shelves to get old. A dictionary is one of
those things which do not improve with. age.
Already this great lexicographical master
piece is beginning to get behind tho times.
Indeed, it would tako a dally dictionary to
keep quite even with these days. -New
words represent new ideas and new discov
eries. And these grow every day in this
fruitful nineteenth century soil.
One of tho last words is "Kinetograph."
The Century Dictionary knows It not. Prob
ably Mr. Edison invented It. Mr. Edison
certainly Invented the'thing it stands for.
a Kinetograpn is to a kodak what a ma
cbinegun Is to a musket. It Is a camera wh loh
takes half a hundred pictures a second.
When these are developed on a continuous
ribbon' and the roll is set to whirling, the ef
fect is that of a living picture! iThe gym
nast j umps over the vaulting bar as natural
as life. The reader turns the pages of his
book, knocks the ashes out of his cigar,
blows a gray cloud into the air actually
moves. These pictures are the most re
markable result of the science of pho
tography. How short a time ago it was that
the ingenious Mr. Daguerre was suspected
of lunacy because it was whispered that he
was working at a magic process for catching
people's shadowsl Indeed, it ls-eaaily with
in the memory of men still living, that he
who would have his picture taken must sit
motionless lor minutes, never daring so
much as to take the smallest furtive wink.
And now we have the klnetograph, trained
to take a thousand pictures in less than a
minute. These are the things which have
made amazement obsolete. Nothing can
surprise us. Nothing is impossible.
Everything Now Done in a Hurry.
The kinetograph is to be turned to
practical account, I understand, by being
fitted to the nickel-in-the-slot machines. In
goes your nickel and out comes your picture.
People who miss the trains can thus know
exactly how they look in the face or that
peculiarly exasperating mishap. People
who have to wait can take accurate photo
graphs of patience ceasing to be a virtue.
The kinetograph, like most modern inven
itions, is another contrivance for doing
something to a hurry. That is characteris
tic of the age. Everybody is in a rush. Men
run lor the fastest cars, and hunt about for
the restaurant where they can get an in
stantaneous lunch. I saw a little pin the
other day that came from Greece, a little sil
ver pin with a head in the center of it, and
about the head three legs anparently in the
hastiest kind of hurry. There was a legend
inscribed in Greek about these whirling legs
which meant in English, "Whatever you do,
do it impetuously." I had no idea that they
had any such spirit as that in Greece. That
is plainly enough the spirit of America.
however, and the little pin seemed a capital
symbol of the sort of life most of us lead a
head to signify that we do some thinking,
and these whirling feet to mean that we do
our thinking very fast.
Anybody who desires to take a picture of
the world to-day must be able to photograph
a man with three legs running like tho four
winds. That was a Westerner of the mod
ern type who looked carefully at several
photographs of a rival town and remarked
that his town didn't stand still long enough
to have its pictures taken. Nothing but a
kinetograph will answer.
Magazines for Everybody.
I have the privilege of subscribing for
an international kinetograph. It comes
onoe every month. It Is an accurate and
speaking likeness of the hurry world. To
turn these pages over is like whirling that
roll of developed pictures that Mr. Edison
has in his laboratory. Ton see the world in
motion.
Differentrnagaztnes, of course, suit-different
people, like different dinners. There is
a magazine devoted to the interests
of Anglo-Saxon weights and measures
(whatever they are), and to the
study of the mysteries of the Great
Pyramid. For people who like that sort of
thing, that is, or course, the eort of a
thing they like. But for anybody who is in
terested In the progress or the world, who
wants to know at least a little about all
the new inventions, and the new discov
eries, and the new happenings in politics
and religion, who desires to got a general
idea of what is going on just now the whole
wide world over, there is no periodical in
any language which can compare with tho
Review of Reviews.
Mr. W. T. Stead is the English editor, and
Mr. Albert Shaw the American editor of this
remarkable magazine. These good men are
the most wide-awake of human beings. They
are typical nineteenth century editors.
They are "up " to everything. Not a stir.
tho planet over, but is snapped and recorded
and set in its place in cotemporary history
in these pages, in this monthly kineto
graph. Stead's Character Sketches.
The best part of the Reviao of Reviews is its
monthly "character" sketch." This is al
most always written by Mr. Stead himself.
Mr. Stead knows almost everybody who is
worth knowing in public lire anvwhere on
the planet. Every month he has somewhat
to say about someone in whom we are al
ways interested. These sketches are always
timely. They are always level with the our-
rent of the most modern thinking and hap
pening. Balmaceda, Parnell and Boulanger
are set together instructively in the last
nnmber. The main article is on the young
Gorman Emperor. After you have read this
description you know this remarkable young
man better than if you had lived with him
every day for a week. Last week the lead
ing paper was on James Russell Lowell.
I enjoy the unreserved personality which
appears in all the writings of Mr. Stead. He
never says "we," never stands at a distance,
never tries to cover up a weak wall of Im
perfect Ideas with an elaborate stucco
decoration of fine words. Stead always tells
you exactly what he thinks and the whole of
it. And he always tells it in a graphic, terse,
brief, epigrammatic way which grapples at
tention and never lets go. If anything he is
too audacious, journalistic, wide-awake. He
reminds one of the adjective that Mr.
Howells applies to Rudyard Kipling. He is
cock-a-hoop! Hugh Price Hughes, the great
Wesleyan preacher who came over hereto
the International Convention, he calls a sort
of "day-of-judgment in breeches." William
IL of Germany, puts him in mind of General
Gordon, in that he believes that he is a
partnor with tho Almighty except that
Gordon was humble enough to consider him
self only the junior partnor!
The Entire World Reviewed1.
The whole world passes in procession in
these pages. The elections in Ohio and New
York, the meeting of the Liberal Federation
at Newcastle, Russia and the Dardanelles,
the. Kaiser and the Czar, the troubles in
China, franchise questions in South Africa,
affairs In Australia and in Central Asia, the
famine in Ruslia, the floods in Spain, the
Prison Congress in Pittsburg, are all passed
in luminous, graphio and profitable review.
It is a great thing to be set down once a
month before a kinetograph that talks. It
is an addod benediction when the pictures
in the kinetograph are sights of Just the
things that a thoughtful man desires to see
are illustrations carefully chosen to mark
nil sorts of beneficent progress, and show
humanityat its best; and w lien the accom
panying text is a comment upon these
events from the very highest point of view.
Stupidity Is one of the perpetual dangers
which menace the best interests of the race
Narrow thinking Is almost as detrimental to
right progress as bad thinking. Narrow
thlnKing. mueeu, io use one oi Mr. Stead's
sharp sentences, is "stupidity possessed of a
devil." woouenito welcome every suoh
Broadening Influence as Is represented in
these pages. It is as good as a liberal educa
tion and a trip to Europe put together.
-Miss Both Cleveland's Holiday.
New York, Nov. 29 Special. Miss Ruth
Cleveland has become tired of tho noise and
hurry of the city and Mrs. Cleveland has de
oidedtotakoheroutof town, probably for
the rest of the Winter. The whole family is
.-riiArt.ed to depart to-morrow fm- 1.
Wood, N. J. They will occupv their cottage '
on Leximrton avenue, formerly occumml i-
Park Commissioner Straus. Mrs. Cleveland
and Miss Ruth both need quiet and rest,
and this they hope to flnd,a( Lakowood.
A GALA WEEK IN 8T. 10 TTI&
Sunday Ceremonies Begin the Great Jubi
lee of Archbishop Kenrlck.
St. Louis, Nov. 29. Of all the days in the
calendar year this has been the day of days
for the Roman Catholics of the United
States, from all quarters of which digni
taries and laymen of the chnrch have come
to celebrate the achievements of a great
man's life. To-day becan the celebration of
the golden jubilee of Peter Richard Ken rick,
Bishop of the archdiocese of St, Louis for tho
past 50 years. Solemn services of thanks
giving were held in all of the Catholic
churches. In most of them the visiting pre
lates officiated. The celebration, which be
gan this morning, will be In keeping with
the noble character of the prelate. All the
Church ecoleslastics will be present, and the
Pope has sent a representative with a gift.
In St. Louis the interest has not been Con
fined to Roman Catholics. Many prominent
citizens of. all creeds have glvon of their
time anu means to aid In making tne occa
sion one of tho grandest ot its nature ever
witnessed. The Christian Brothers eave an
entertainment to-day in honor of the Most
Rev. Archbishop Kennck at their college.
Archbishop Ireland's lecture at Music
Hall to-night was a prominent feature of the
festivities. His subject wns "The Church
and Workingmen." Cardinal Gibbons at
tended tne lecture. He was introduced to
the audience and occupied a seat on the
stage. At the close of the lecture the Cardi
nal and Archbishop Ireland held an infor
mal reception tor about half an hour. The
Jubilee mass will take place to-morrow
morning in the Old Cathedral on Lower
Walnut street, which has stood there since
1834. Owing to his advanced age 85 years
Archbishop Kenriok will not officiate as
celebrant, that duty being assigned to' His
Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons. The jubilee
season will be delivered by His Grace, Arch
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, familiarly
known here, where he resided many years.
A Jubilee banquet will take place to-morrow
afternoon at the Lindell Hotel. Invitations
have been issued to the Archbishops, Bis
hops and other leading dignitaries of the.
church, and will be a clerical affair through
out. The grand torchlight procession Mon
day night is expected to be a splendid affair
Tuesday morning, at Music Hall, several
thousand children will sing hymns of re
joicing and praise, and in the evening at the
same place all the Catholic choirs in the city
will unite. The main social event of week
will be a reception at the Marquette Club
Wednesday morning. The Catholic Knights
of America will tender a reception to Arch
bishop Janssens, of New Orleans, the su
preme spiritual director of the organiza
tion, Wednesday evening.
SENATOR BRIOE'S SEAT.
The general opinion is that Senator Sher
man will not care to interfere, and that Mr.
Brice will not be molested. Syracuse Herald.
Certain gentlemen with reminiscences of
Wall street will watch the investigation of
Calvin S. Brice by Ohio Republicans with
close attention. N. T. Telegram.
Ohio Republicans are "going slow" in the
matter of ousting Brice a good assurance
that they will make sure of the game if they
go after it. Springfield (O.) Republia Times.
The Republicans of the Buokeye State are
evidently In earnest In their intention to
throw Mr. Brice out of his seat, provided it
can be proven that he has no legal right to
ifcZV. Y. Press.
Senator Sherman's embarrassmont on the
snbjcct of Mr. Brice's Senatorial status is
graceful and dignified. Mr. Brice himself,
however, shows small evidence of trepida
tion. He appears to have the comfortable
facnlty of letting the other people do the
f worrying. Washington Star.
Senator Sherman's keen sense of the ri
diculous does not come out very strongly in
the matter of unseating Senator Brice. As
he is to be a judge In the case, he is unwill
ing to express an opinion on its merits, but
he voluntarily tells the plaintiffs how best
to conduct thoir case. Kew Tork Commercial
Advertiser.
MAJ0B M'KINLEY BETTTBNS HOKE.
A. Parting Reception Given to Him
by.
Prominent New Yorkers.
New York, Nov. 29. Maj or McKInley, after
a rest of about three weeks, left last night
for his home in Canton, O., where he will re
main until he is called to Columbus to as
sume the office of Governor. He expects to
devote his time from Monday until he is in
augurated to the preparation of his message.
Governor McAlnley has had a very enjoy
able time since he has been in Now Y6rk.
He has become acquainted with many men
whom he knew before only by reputation,
and he has met a number of Democrats who
hold precisely the opposite view that he
does with respect to the tariff, and has found
them to be men as well informed upon tariff
subjects from their point of view as he, a
protectionist, is from his.
Major McKInley said before he left last
night that he did not know when he had
spent three weeks which he had so thor
oughly enjoyed. Everybody here had been
kind to him, and low-tariff Democrats had
Bhown fully as much courtesy as his pro
tection menus among me nepuoiicans in a
social way. Governor McKInley finished up
a round of pleasant entertainments at the
Murray Hill Hotel yesterday afternoon. Ex
Postmaster General Thomas L. James, who
had a warm friendship with Governor Mc
Kinley at the time of Garfield's administra
tion, and Mr. Samuel Barton, the broker,
united in tendering a breakfast to Mr. Mc
Kinley. It was a non-partisan gathering.
Men very prominent in business affairs and
some of them in politics, were there. Gen
eral James presided, and at his right was
Major McKinley, who had at his right ex
Mayor Grace. At General James' left was
Commodore Van Santvoord, who was intro
duced to Governor McKinlev as very likely
to become the President of the Union League
Club. The other guests wore Dr. W. Seward
Webb, Mr. Fred W. Vanderbilt, Mr. John W.
Davis, the business partner of one of the
hosts, Mr. Barton; Mr. John E.Van Wormer,
and Mr.-E. J. Edwards.
KNOWN TO THE W0KID.
Senator Hiscock passed through New
York yesterday. Strange to say he did not
feel inclined to talk politics.
Conokessman Baker, of Kansas, is
proud of a daughter who can handle a plow
or turn a furrow with the best of his men on
the farm.
Bjornskn, the Norwegian novelist, writes
so badly that no one but his wife can read
his manuscript. She copies all he writes be
fore it is sent to the publisher.
COLONEL P. Donan has earned the dis
tinction of being the "Great American Trav
eler." He makes it a point to cover 20,000
miles of the earth's surface every year.
This is the way the ex-Empress Eugenie
recently gave her personality to a census
agent: Marie Eugenie, Countess of Pierre-
fond, 61 years of age, born in Granada,Spain;
naturalized in France; a widow; a traveler.
The Rev. Mr. Hunter, of Indianapolis,
has some radical ideas. He said recentlv
that if it was decided to open the World's
Fair Sunday he wcmld lead an army to Chi
cago and pitch it bodily into Lake Michigan.
PEATnS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Sir James Porter Corry, BL P.
Sir James Porter Corry, member of the
House of Commons for the middle division of
Armagh, died Saturday, says a cable dispatch from
London. He was the son of Itobert Corry, a mer
chant of Ballyrnssell, County Down, and was born
in 1820 at Newtownards, County Down. He was a
shipowner and merchant at Belfast, a magistrate
for County Antrim and Belfast, and was created a
baronet In 18S3. In politics Sir Jamrs was a Con
servative and has represented Mid-Armagh since
January, 1866.
" Obituary Notes.
Herman Davis, ofMcKeesport, while hale and
heartv was attacked with a hemorrhage Saturday
and died within an hour after. He was 55 years of
age.
Llu-iAa Goelet Gerrt, the youngest daughter
of Commodore Elbrldge T. Gerry, died suddenly at
her home in New York Friday afternoon. Miss
Gerry has been an invalid for two years or more.
Johx A. Pizzrai, a well-known newspaper man,
died in Richmond Friday. He was, 59 years old
He was at one time a Vice Consul In Italy. He
fought on the side of the Confederacy daring tho
war.
MBS. F. M. HCEY, a pioneer resident of Mc
Keesport, died Saturday In the "0th year of her age.
Deceased was a life-long member of the Presby
terian Church. She lived in McKeesport forto
years.
SISTER Mart of the" Edward Street Orphan
Asylum, in Buffalo, known to tho world as Mary
Hogan, of Pawtucket. B. I., who was terribly
bnruedaweekago. he-clothing betomlng ignited
from the kitchen Are, died Frloay.
Richard P. Hammond, member of theSan Fran
elro Board of Police Commlssluneis, died Satur
day eiening altera long Illness. He was born in
ManhnU. wjs a West Point graduate andservea
wirti distinction in tho Mexican War. lie was.
made Brevet Major In 1347 for gallantry and meri
torious services at Contreras and Cherubusco.
AIL GENIAL GENTLEMEN;
.Personal Characteristics of the Trading
Candidates for the Speakership None
of Them Have the Qualities of Randall
or Carlisle, However.
rrsoM a STArr coHiBTO!rDi;rr.i
Wabhisqtok, Nov. 29. With the opening
of the coming week will begin the last and
most exciting days of one of the most inter
esting contests for the Speakership of the
'House of Representatives that has been wit
nessed for years. It is not as vital in any of
its phases as that great contest of December,
1883, when the tariff faction of the Demo
cratic party went into a death struggle -with
the Southern free trade faction, and when
Samuel J. Randall went down before the
opposing forces, headed by Carlisle. Possi
bly there was never another Speakership
contest fought with such bitterness. The
free, trade Democrats who had been so long
overruled by the Iron will of Randall were
determined to give the death-blow to that
enemvof their own household, and they
well succeeded, for from that hour the great
tariff Democrat was not the man of indom
itable will he had been before. He lost his
grip on himself. His ambition, which soared
as high as the Presidency, was gone. It was
evident be had reached the topmost pin
nacle of his fame, and that nothing was left
for him but to play seoond fiddle to the big
oted little fellows from the backwoods and
Illimitable plains of the farfioutb and South
west. He felt that the time for him to die
had come, and when one comes to that con
clusion he lives almost mechanically and
the body soon drops into a listless condi
tion in sympathy with the relaxation of the
mind.
The Need of a RandalL
Looking among the candidates for the
Speakership one is led to bemoan more than
over the want ofa Randall in the field. Car
lisle proved t6 be so able, fairand judicial in
his office that even the warmest adherents
of Randall were almost resigned to the de
feat of their ideal, though they could not in
dorse the lax and illogical views of thegreat
Kentuckian on the tariff.
But Carlisle, the Democrat of the House
who stood out conspicuously from his fel
lows, is eliminated from the possibilities of
the Speakership, and the contest is between
a lot of genial gentlemen, who are the best
representatives of the affable and respecta
ble mediocrity of the House. Very agreeable
gentlemen to meet socially are all of the
candidates. Testy as any of them may be
on the floor in a partisan debate, I do not
think a morf approachable and genial lot
conldbe found among the members than
the Democrats from whom a Speaker will be
chosen one week from to-night. Even
Springer and Wilson, who are necessarily of
the North, Northy, have tho warmth and
geniality of their more Southern cousins,
and all of them are lacking that reserve,
almost amounting to haughtiness, not to say
superciliousness, which has always been
found among the Northern and Eastern gen
tlemen high in office. It is crystallized
into a proverb that for free expression of
views and affability of demeanor, one must
go to the West and South among the persons
in mgn omce.
Not Beady to Answer Questions.
Two more diffioult characters than Ran
dall and Reed have been rarely known to
newspaper men. To the most respectful in
quiries they would often reply with evasive
sarcasm or gruffly refuse to reply at all. Of
the gentlemen who are now before the pub
lic Mr. Mills is probably the least skilled in
fine manners, but even he, when approached
personally and socially, never replies to a
respectful question with insult.
Yet Mills is verymnch the same type of
man as Randall. In aggressive qualities,
and In his persistence and tenacity of pur
pose he resembles more than any other of
the candidates the great Pennsylvanian.
He has also that indifference to appearance
that characterized Randall. While he is
clad In a cleanly way his clothes always
look rather seedy even when new, and I
doubt if either of the gentlemen ever had a
coat or a pair of trousers that was a good fit.
This is possibly in Mills a sectional peculi
arity. Very few of the Southern gentlemen
appear to give that heed to their dress that
is a second nature with most Northern, and
especially Eastern, men who are in good pe
cuniary circumstances.
This same indifference to fine dressing is
found in McMillen and Crisp and Hatch.
Wilson dresses after the fashion of tho
student or professor, neatly but not richly.
Springer gives great attention to his per
sonal appearance, spending as much for one
suit of clothes as any of the other gentlemen
does for two: and If anybody ever saw him
in public life without bis red buttonhole
bouquet I have not met that body. But
without disparaging the man. Springer In
spires loss respect than any of the others
when he is on bis feet or in the chair. He
has a nervous, disjointed manner of speech
that makes everybody else nervous, and has
been so often on bis feet that he has rather
tired his andlence, and has truly invited the
half guying reception that is so frequently
accorded him- This is also to some extent
the case with McMillen, whose.best voice is
doleful and monotonous, and to whom life is
so terribly serious that he never hears or
sees the humors that are constantly flitting
around the House, and which, if properlv
recognized, lend variety to the usually dull
proceedings and counteract the pernicious
atmosphere of the place.
Either Mills or Crisp Will Win.
Up to this time, however, there is-' little
thought on the part of anyone not interested
that any other than Mills or Crisp will sit in
the chair during the next Congress. To
those who desire only a quiet, fair, courteous
and dignified presiding officer Crisp com
mends himself before all others. He is uni
versally liked, regardless of principles, and
that Is one of the reasons that he arouses
little enthusiasm among the more aggies
sivelv partisan of his party. To this latter
olass'Mills Is the highest ideal now in Con
gress, and for this reason and for his fierce
party services on the floor in attacking the
provoking and Imperturbable Reed when
the latter mled the House with a rod of
iron, and, furthermore, because he repre
sents more than any other leader the real
spirit of his party, the majority of the lead
ing, hard-working Democrats of the House
and of the country believe that he should be
elected.
And tho Republicans are hardly less anx
ious than the Democrats for his election,
but for a different reason. They believe
that with him in tho chair they will be able
to excite his hot temper, and thus put him
and his party frequently at a disadvantage.
I hear that ex-Speaker Reed is a supporter
of Mills for the Speakership, and I can i ead
ily believe that he would like to see his
most annoying opponent of the last Con
gress in a position where he will, to some
extent, be at the mercy of the gentlemen on
the floor. In fact, if our only desire were to
have a lively and exciting session, with
plenty of "news," we should all lobby for
Mills. Yet there are those, and ex-Speaker
Carlisle is among them, who believe that
Mills will "fool" everybody in this respect
If he be placed in the chair; that he will be
the embodiment of dignity, the pink of
courtesy, a very knight sans peuretsans
reproche.
Claims of tho Mills Crowd.
One hundred votes are claimed for Mills
for Speaker this evening by friends of the
Texan, who are making a careful canvas
and who are not trivine out claims for ef
fect. This Is within 18 of the number of
votes required for a nomination in tho cau
cus, and it is believed by well-Informed per
sons that this Is not an extravagant claim.
Crisp claims 114. but this includes a large
number of members who have declared thev
are not for Crisp at all. Unfortunately some
one of Crisp's lieutenants gave out the Crip
list a few days ago, and the absurdity of his
claims was at once exposed.
- Nearly all of the reports of to-day have
been in Mills' favor, beginning with the
news that the four Brooklyn Congressmen
are all for him, continuing with news of un
expected strength in the New England dele
gation of 11, and ending with the declara
tion of Jason Brown, of the Third Indiana
district, that be i3 for Mills, and he believes
that all of the Indiana Democrats will bo
for him. The hope of Crisp and of Springer
tnat tney wouiu get u slice irum .Liiuiuim
does not seem tangible.. Mr. Bynum is
unable to deliver the goods. Mr. Caruth. of
Kentucky, who has heen claimed for Crisp,
declares for Mills, and thinks all the Ken
tucky Democrats will support him. Crisp
has bean claiming so much that in his case
there are secessions instead of accessions.
Mr. Springer claims to have additional as
surances of support, but the declaration of
so many Northern Democrats for either
Mills or Crisp leaves him no hope, except in
the withdrawal of one of these candidates.
It would then be a question whether he
could attract the members liberated by such
withdrawals. Chairman Kerr, of Pennsyl
vania, claims to have his nomination by the
caucus already won, and with many votes
to spare. He does not think the entrance of
Colonel Maish into the race will affect;him
at all. E. W.L.
A Glass Factory to Be Closed.
Fisplat, Nov. 29. Special Late last
night an order of attachment was issued on
the petition of the City Bank or Findlay
against the Hancock Flint Bottle Company,
to satisfy n claim of $7,000. and the Sheriff
will close the works to-morrow. This, is tho
glass factor which went into the hands of
a receiver on last Thursday.
OUR HAIL POUCH;
The Sin of Dancing.
To tbedttoror The Dispatch:
In a sermon on "Tho Stn of Dancing," de
livered in your city quite recently, the min
ister reached his conclusions by some very
unique feats of reasoning. Nothing more
was needed to stamp the act of dancing as
sinful, said this guardian of morality, than
the fact that Indulging in the light fantastic
the woman prefers a male partner. This Is
indeed a revelation. But how about the
woman who prefers to go to church, to take
a walk or go to a picnic with a male part
ner? Does this also indicate the sinfulness
of her unregenerate heart? If it does, how
does it, and If it don't, why don't it?
But the reverend gentleman goes farther,
and tells his congregation that away back,
before he had considered the expediency
and the salary of preaching, he had danced
and knew from personal knowledge'some-
ining oi tne sinful fascination. But it does
not follow that all others have the tempera
ment and cranial characteristics that this
divine may have had prior to his
considering the ministerial field and
here as elsewhere, it may be only "honi soit
qui malypense." The character of an act
is largely determined by the motive that
prompts the act, and is good or bad as the
intent is commendable or reprehensible.
But our reverend comes back with a
clincher and declares that Christianity Is
.not discussed during the merry mazes of the
dance, and that this also settles its ungodly
character. But that topic is not generally
discussed at the mills, in the mines, on the
rails, in the counting room, at the market,
on the street, behind the plow, in a thousand
avocations that do not call for denunciation.
This topic does not receive overmuch atten
tion, and in all candor it may be stated that
such discussion is largely confined to those
who do the discussing on a fixed salary.
Time was when some very devout and very
sincere persons thought that public and pri
vate morality conld only be conserved by
the hanging of a witch about once a
week. Our renowned New England an
cestors contributed some very entertain
ing chapters, about two centuries ago, on
how to keep morality in a good, healthy con
dition. They began their witch persecutions
in 1643 and persisted in it as late as 1695. and
their Blue Laws will cause the flush of
shame to mantle the cheeks of their de
scendants for centuries to come.- Even yet,
as a faint echo to those days, there are those
who think the heavens would rend did an
organ note peal forth in their churches or
their parlors on Sunday; buf still the blue
tint is slowly vanishing. The good pastor
must try to console himself. Women Just
as good and pure as his mother and sisters
dance, and prefer to dance, with partners of
the other sex. Such notions cannot prevail
with those who have any lino of American
lineage. H.
WAjirtrar, November 27.
Pittsburg Not the Worst Place.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Permit me to reply through the columns of
your valuable paper to an article in a recent
issue of a Pittsburg paper headed "Is Pitts
burg so Bad." In this Rev. Mr. Robinson, I
think, gave your city an overhauling ' on" it9
Sunday observances, and stigmatized Pitts
burg as a bad city. Permit me to add, as a
non-resident and with no. particular inter
est, only for Justice and to give credit whero
credit is'due, that ho cannot have traveled
very much if he 'calls Pittsburg a very bad
city, or else he is seeking notoriety, and
takes a poor way of doing it to run down a
city so well conducted, especially on Sun
day. If the reverend gentleman is looking
for a city that has no regard for the Sab
bath, where tho front doors of the liquor
saloons swing wide open seven days in the
week and 24 hours in the day, such a city is
Buffalo, N. Y. It is the worst liquor law
breaking city I have found in all my trav
els. Theromaybea chance for some im
provement in Pittsburg's Sunday observ
ances, but they ore so slight when com
pared with Buffalo and other cities that I
would advise tho reverend gentleman not
to waste his time and talents in casting re
flections on a Sunday law abiding city like
Pittsburg, but fly to some other city, where
they need his attention more. This is not
written in malice God forbid but 4n jus
tice to a well-gpverned city.
Commercial Traveler.
Pittsburg, November 23.
Touching Teacher's Salaries.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
It is not a very anspicious time for the
teachers to be agitating an increase in their'
salaries. At their present salaries thev can
save enough to enable them to spend their
summers in Europe.if they so desire, besides-'
attending different places of amusement
two or three evenings In a week. While some
of the taxpayers can scarcely make enough
to keep body and soul together, why should
they be called on to still further advance
the Interest of the pnblic school teachers.
While other workers suffer losses from dull
times or reduction in pay, either on account
of holidays or anv other cause, teachers
always receive their full salaries. A gentle
man in a speech a short time ago said the
teachers now receive all they earn.
Fatr Dealiso.
Pittsburg, November 23.
AHD BILL ALLEN DEAD.
The Man Who Spent a Fortune for Others
Dies in a Poorhouse.
Columbus, Nov. 29. Special George
Wheaton Allen, better known as "Land
Bill" Allen, one of the noted characters of
Ohio, died to-day, at the county poorhouse,
aged 83. He was recognized as the origina
tor of the land bill by which it was sought
to give all settlers coming to Ohio in the
early davs, 160 acros of land. He had spent
over $60,000 of his personal money in agitat
ing the movement and in efforts to get the
measure throngh Congress in early days.
He was born in Windora county. Conn., in
May, 1809, and received the benefit ofa fair
education. His father was a tailor and ex
tensive land owner, under whom the. son
served an apprenticeship before they re
moved to New York. He learned the
printer's trade and came to Ohio in 1830,
settling In the vicinity of Columbus, where
he became a peddler, claiming to be the first
engaged in this and the auctioneer business
in Central Ohio. On the oide ofhis peddling
wagon he had printed, "Land Bill Allen"
and "A Pome i or All."
Up, wax nt one time worth an immense
fortune, but his hobby reduced him to a
small cabin in Plain township, this county,
whRi-n he snent his latteryears. The little
home was taken from him a short time ago
and sold at sheriff's sale. Being without any
means of support he was taken to the in
firmary against his loud protests. Since his
confinement at the poorhouse, the superin
tendent has received many letters from all
parts of the country enclosing contributions
lor Allen's aid. and others proffering him
the comforts of old men's homes. The land
settlers in the AVestalso have been generous
in their contributions through sympathy for
the man who made it possible for them to
gain homes. The contributions which have
poured in from various parts of the country
mill Iib unfficient to purchase a lot in the
cemetery and erect a respectable monument;
to the memory ot the land bill agitator.
TALK OF THE TIMES.
It is simply impossible to tell how Con
gre33 stands until it sits. Auburn Bulletin.
That's what is troubling the candidates for
the Speakership.
Still the Democrats talk about tariff re
form. But no ono knows what it means.
Springfield Republic-Times. That is the reason
they talk about it.
It will be observed that there is no brass
band attachment to Mr. Springer's candi
dacy for the- Speakership. Chicago Times.
No. Mills and Crisp are furnishing enough
music for the crowd.
No particular harm will come of it it Sena
tor Carlisle's letter booming Mills does kick
up a little rumpus. Toledo Commercial The
bigger the rumpus, the more fun the people
have in watching the circus. i
The Southern people are fast learning that
a good public school system Is" One of the
best investments that a State can make.
Detroit Free Press. Even the intelligent itn-
migrants know this and invariably seek the
locality having the best schools.
James G. Blaine has only to say the.word
to have the Republican nomination tendered
him. Buffalo Etxauirer. The chances are
that he need not even say the word. The'
nomination is likely to be tendered to him
anyway.
Tho Texas Farmers' Alliance has decided
to sep-irate from what it terms the "de facto
National Alliance." IV.F. Commercial-Advertiser.
Thl uuistbua new organization. We
thought it was named "NatlonarAlIiance de
imagination."
CUBIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
New Tork has 5,000 union female hotel
hands.
Of the 1,900 policemen in Chicago 1,555
are Irishmen.
Tb pendulum was first attached to tha
clock in 1656 by Huygner.
The United States and Canada have
11,029 miles of street railway.
Holmes' "American Annals" was prob
ably the first history of the United States
deserving the name.
European travelers and merchants have
gathered up all the ancient carpets thaS
were for sale'in Persia.
The Arkansas Legislature settled 4
dispute as to the pronunciation of the Stato
name some years ago by a statute whicti
made the correct pronunciation "Arkan-
saw," with the accent on the first syllable.
During the first seven months of tho
present year 119,707 emigrants went from
Great Britain to the United States. A per
centage of these were foreigners, principally
Swedes and north Germans, who embarked
at Liverpool.
, The Chinese have a reluctance to save a
drowning man, it being supposed that tha
spirit ofa person who has met hi death in
tthis way continues to flit along the surface
of the water nntll it has caused, by drown
ing, the death ofa fellow creature.
A snake 15 feet long and proportion-
ately large in circumference was killed re
cently near , Richmond, Va.. Just as it hail
seized a smali colored boy. It is believed to
have been an anaconda which escaped from
a small traveling show in that neighborhood
about two years ago.
"A peculiar accident," reports a Boston
otemporary, "recentlv befell a Sandown,
N.H., woodchopper. Feeling a stinging in
his wrist, he discovered thereon a flattened
piece of lead, undoubtedly a rifle bullet
which had stmckhis ax.and thence glanced
to his wrist. It was so hot as to burn the)
flesh."
A strange antipathy once prevailed to
rescuing a drowning man, the idea being
that the person saved would, sooner or later,
do some injurv to the man who preserved
his life. The Bohemian fisherman shrinks
from snatching a drowning man from tho
waters, fearing that the water demon
would take away his luck in fishing, and
drown him at the first opportunity.
In the will of the late King of Wurtem
berg some curious lezacies were left. Tha
bootblack outside the palace gatei is to wear
patent leather shoes for the rest of his life,
be dressed in blue tweed homespun and re
ceive a pension of 1.0C0 marks a year. An.
old apple woman who sweeps a crosin-r
around the corner ket. a pleasant position,
in the palace, a black silk gown and a small
pension.
The genealogies of Jesus Christ given
by Matthew and Lake are both considered
reasonably correct, though not complete.
The former failed to insert several genera
tions that Lnke added. It is now believed
that even Luke's, as given In the third chap
ter twenty-third verse, is not complete,
though it does mention 49 generations from
Joseph to Abraham, while Matthew, in
chapter one, mentions 39.
A professor, who has been studying tha
Iser river, which flows throngh Munich, car
rying the city's sewage, says that five mile)
below the city there is not a trace of the pol
lution which finds its way into the river.
Some observers have thought that the self
puriflcatlon of rivers is due to depoiit'on of
sediment. Dr. von Pettenkofer. however,
maintains that the real ngent.it work in
purifying the Iier river is the oxygen of the
air which is absorbed in the water.
In Morocco are two little rivers that
once a year, nt the time of the greitestheat,
are filled with red water. It is supposed tho
color. comes either frsfc a strata of red clay
through which the streams may pass or from
myriads of little red organisms. Another
carious stream there is a large creek with
waters almost ns salt as those of the ocean.
This creek comes from great beds of salt, of
which it carries off a very considerable
quantity in solution. In the dry season tha
creek bed Is exposed and is found to be cov
ered with a thick incrustation of salt.
Of flowers used as a food the clove is a.
familiar example, bnt the most remarkable
of all food flowers is that produced by tho
mabua tree of India, whose fleshy blossoms
form a staple article of food among tha
poor. The people of the hill tribes could
hardly exist without a regnlar supply of
mahna flowers, which are pulpy and sweet.
duc somewnat nauseous to tne unaccu
tomed palate. The surplus crop of theso
blossoms is, to some extent, dried, but tho
main part of the uneaten supply is put into
a rude still, which gives out a copious sup
ply of an exceedingly ffery and irritating
arrack used as a beverage.
The giraffe is mainly sought after in
Africa for the value ot its hide, which cora-i
mands a value of from j2 10s to I lot a,
skin, varying according to age and sex. Tho
hide of a tough, thick-skinned old bull, from,
an Inch to au inch and a quarter in thick
ness, is of course the most sought after. Not
many years since the hides of the rhinoc
eros and hippopotamus furnished ox whip
and riding whips colonially known as
s.iamboks all over South Africa. But tho
rhinoceros is all but exterminated south of
Zambesi; the hippopotamus becomes scarcer
year by year, and the hide of the giraffe is
consequently in greatly increased demand.
The Eothschilds became prominent as
bankers throngh Mayer Anselm Rothschild,
a money lender In the Judengasse, of Frank
fort, at the beginning of this century. Tho
sign was a red shield, hence tho family
name. In 1S06, Germany was invaded by tha
French, and the Elector William of Hesso
Csssell being obliged to flee and unable to
take his money with him, deposited $5,000,
CO0 with Anselm guaranteeing to allow it to
retrain eight years without interest, pro
vided it were safely kept. The Judicious in
vestment of this immense sum laid the
foundation of the Immense family fortune,
and in 1823 it was repaid with 2 per cent in
terest. A fortune of 30,000,000 francs on de
posit in the National Bank of Venice, was
left by Jean Thlcry. a Frenchman, who died
In Venice In 1676, to the Champagne branch,
of his family, but there was trouble about
proving exactly who was entitled to it un
der the will, and the money lay in the bank'
h,e tne -I.-, m-ewed their claims In 1707
"" Prs'e "JtVL
by order of the French directory, tho funds
of the nanK were seizea oytnet rencnarmy.
Since then the claimants have been trying
to get It out of the French Government. So
much disturbance has been made about it
lately that the case of one claimant was
taken up by the Government the other dav,
and judgment was rendered which simply
denied the liability of the Government,
throngh au act of war, to pay the debts of
the'Venetian bank.
SEASONABLE SMILES.
"Don't you'think his poems rather ob-
nre" '
lcnre?'
"Yes, but, you see. his ideas are too good to be
expressed in common, everyday English." -Via
T'rk Press.
Eattle the keys, maiden, rattle the keys,
Hard la thy task and bnt scanty thy ease; '
Bat thy reTenge thon hast learned very well.
For man, thy taskmaster, is under thy spelL
Sew Trrk Herald.
"That man's balance is wonderful."
"Ah, that accounts forit:"
"Accounts for what?"
The fact stated by the papers that when his
daughter was married she went np the chnrch on
her father's arm." Baltimore American.
Kitty "Winslow They say you can tell a
. girl's character by the way she holds her hands.
Tom de Witt IVm; lean leu more aoous n uy
the way I hold her hands. Cliristmas Puck.
His lace if it ever is grim or austere,
At a joke Into kindness relaxes.
And his hearty good nature in this doth appear.
That he smiles when he's paying his taxes.
The bill of the iceman he scans with a grin
.And Jokes over that of the plumber.
Bat he kicks when the bill for the gas Is sent in
That he didn't consume in the summer.
Colorado Sun.
Dasher "Why do you wear such awfully
loud trousers, old fellow?
Masher-Sothatlcawn't heah my tailor when
he cornea awonnd to collect the btiL dontcber
know. Boston Courier.
Charlie Like master, like dog, the pro
verb says.
Amy Your dog is a boar hound, isn't it, Mr.
Chapman? Sao York Berald.
The winds may wave and bluster,
Bat still he takes no note;
The lengthy linen duster
Is now his overcoat.
Stockton Sites.
Sweet Sister What makes you so down
hearted to-nhcht?
Bad Brother Debts of honor.
Sweet sister Well, why don't you tell papa. H
never objects to what Is honorable. Tucson Star.
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