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riTTSBURG. SUNDAY. DEC 6, 1S91.
THE PROGRAMME FOR CONGRESS.
Congress will go into session to-morrow
tinder circumstances of the greatest in
terest The Democrats have a majority in
the House. The country will be mightily
curious to note what use the party pro
poses to make of its opportunity. The
answer to this question will have a great
influence in deciding almost in advance the
Presidental contest which is to follow.
So far those Democratic leaders wljo are
loudest in speech and most frequent in
letters talk of continuing the policy of at
tack upon the protective tariff. But when
if comes to addins to the record, it may
reasonably be hoped that many of them
will think twice before incurring a
repetition of the disastrous anti-tariff
campaign of 1888. There is an
influential and growing clement among
the Democracy which believes that it is
neither good politics nor good business to
continue threatening- the manufacturing
interests of the country. The New York
Sun expresses the opinion of this element
strongly, and is backed by a number of
Democratic papers in the South, where
the manufacturing interests are growing
and the value of protection is beginninglo
be felt Such Democratb Congressmen
as prefer other candidates to Cleveland
will also go slow about shaping a Congres
sional policy which would inevitably com
pel Mr. Cleveland's nomination as its fit
test exponent
The silver issue will also try the Demo
cratic leaders The cry for free silver
coinage is much less popular now than
when first broached and less understood
by the public The short dollar; the invi
tation to foreigr countries to ship their
silver here and extract a profit out of it
from Uncle Sam; and the general unsettle
niPut of business, will not be so alluring to
the Democratic majority as it was lately.
As for the Republicans, their task in the
House is an easy one. Being in. the
minority they will not have a chance to
injure themselves by such extravagant ap
propriations as made the Billion Dollar
Congress a by-word, or by such partisan
unfairness as was shown by Speakor Reed
in trying to rush through the undesirable
Force bilk It is undoubte.'Jy much to
their advantage so far as affects the Presi
dental canvass, that they are in a minority
in the House this winter. The mistakes
of legislation will now have to beshoul
deied by their opponents.
The impartial citizen will readily see
that the wisest course for the Democrats
is to abjure at once further conflicts with
the business interests in which all are con
cerned, and to substitute in place of that
disastrous policy the issue of economy in
governmental expenses. They have, in
making appropriations, a fine chance,
without impairing efficiency or displaying
parsimony, to get alone with a total very
much below the mark set at last session.
This, to be sure, will not give all the
orators and politicians so much opportun
ity to pose before the country, but it
would commend the party more than vain
"warfare against the protective system, or
attempting to doctor the financial situa
tion by the free silver prescription.
The public will watch the proceedings
of this Congressional session with pro
found and minute interest
COLLECTOR AND ADMINISTRATION.
The Philadelphia Press asserts that Col
lector "Warmcastle "has got himself into a
peck of trouble by the management or
mismanagement of his office." The sole
allegation of mismanagement made by the
Press is that the collector is "one of the
most aggressive and offensive of Mr.
Quay's litutenants"and that, since ne has
been acthe in personal political effort, he
has shown that "he ought not to hold a
Federal office."
This is principally important as showing
the source whence the attack on Mr.
Vanncastle is inspired. The public is
Well aware that The Dispatch has not
coincided with the political efforts of Mr.
Warmcastle, but it has yet had no reason
to modify its opinion, expressed when
"Warmcastle was appointed, that his in
tegrity and personal reputation were above
reproach.
As to Mr. 'Warmcastle's activity in
polities, the criticism of his course might
come with a good grace from those who
liave consistently opposed the participa
tion of office-holders in politics. Consider
ing that neither the esteemed Press nor
the Administration had any fault to find
with him until the Administration and
Senator Quay ceased to flop together, the
pertinence of the Press' attack is not very
positive.
Indeed it conveys the suggestion that
the most obnoxious characteristic of the J
liveh Pittsburger in the estimation of our
Philadelphia organ is his illustration that
a Federal office does not "necessarily con
vey a title in fee-simple to the Adminis-1
tratf.an of the office-holder and all his
belongings.
ITS BROADER SIGNIFICANCE.
The personal element in the tragedy
which, closes the honorable career of Cyrus
W. Field with disaster ha already been
commented on as the phase which first
strikes the mind. The spectacle of an
eminent man, after a lone and prosperous
J career, brought down by misfortune, and
an honorable and respected name clouaea
by the misdeeds or insane recklessness of
a son, rightly evokes first the sympathy of
observers. But there is in the Field dis
asters a deeper and broader significance,
which should not escape public attention,
in its illustration of the business ten
dencies of the tune.
Cyrus TV. Field was the exponent of the
most attractive class in the era of cor
porate development To him the cor
porate organization was the means adopted
to create enterprises of vast benefit to the
public, and the fortunes made in their
prosecution the just reward for the work
and hazard of taking these enterprises from
a doubtful beginninc and carrying them
to a brilliant success. In this capacity Mr.
Field earneda place among the leaders of
men that cannot be damaced by his late
disaster. As the organizer who brought
the first Atlantic cable into existence, and
gave to Xew York the first form of transit
superior to the crawling horse-car, he
fairly earned both his fortune and his
place in public esteem and respect.
But it will not do to permit this to carry
the idea that Mr. Field's career was free
from the vices of corporate management
now so rampant To do so would be to lose
the most important lesson of the closing
tragedy in his life. His participation in
the abuses that grow naturally out of cor
porate organization was moderate and not
personally dishonorable. He put his share
of water into his corporate enterprises,but
he did so in the belief that he was simply
expressing the valuation of the future of
his enterprises. 'Wedonotljelievehe ever
undertook to float an entirely valueless
stock under the pretense that it was
genuine, or adopted the method of swind
ling stockholders by either producing an
appearance of prosperity or a pretense of
unremunerati venes3 in his corporations for
the purpose of either selling stock above
or buving below its true value.
He must have known that such things
were done, even in the early days, how
ever; but he failed to perceive how these
abuses presented to unscrupulous and
daring manipulators the ability to override
and extinguish the honorable element in
corporate management
The best evidence that Mr Field failed
to appreciate the vast danger involved in
the corporate abuses with which his career
brought him into contact is afforded by
the fact that he permitted himself to be
come associated in corporate manage
ment with a man whose career, from be
ginning to end, illustrated the gains that
can be secured by the systematic utiliza
tion of the opportunities of dishonesty. It
may be doubted whether, even now, when
he is overcome by the personal aspects of
his" misfortunes, he .perceives this lesson.
But the impartial observer ought to be
abl- to see in the fact that Jay Gould was
ab'e to relieve Mr. Field of the greater
share of his fortune, by their connection
in the elevated railway corporations, a
very clear illustration of the great odds
which corporate abuses give to unscrupu
lous managemen. over the honest corpo
rate managers who seek to earn their for
tunes by the creation of real public ben
efits. Another thing which Mr. Field failed to
properly appreciate was the immense
temptation to speculate for sudden for
tunes afforded by the corporate era. Of
course he knew there was a great deal of
speculation. But he could not have fore
seen that the universal and overmastering
greed for sudden gains, secured no matter
how, attacking his own family would
bring him to ruin and connect his name
with disgrace. But if he had even faint
conceptions of the demoralization growing
out of these abuses-of the system of which
he was a leader, would he not have used
all the influence and power he possessed
fifteen jeare ago in eradicating these
abuses in their early growth?
It is certainly a solemn lesson on the
tendencies of the time when the Goulds
arc powerful and triumphant and the
Fields are overcome with disaster and
financial extinction.
THE BELLEFONTE FAILURE.
The failure of the Bellefonte Iron and
If ail Company, announced yesterday, was
a disagreeable, but not especially disturb
ing, surprise. The company, which princi
pally owed its prominence to the Presi
dency of Governor Beaver, was not re
garded as a remarkably prosperous one,
but it was not supposed that its affairs
were in any such condition as "to require a
suspension of payments. The failure
neither presents so large a total of liabili
ties nor indicates a condition of the gen
eral iron trade that calls for any appre
hensions. The iron business at large has
been in a waiting condition for some time,
and prices have been based on narrow
margins; buf the elements of stability
have been markedly present, and the im
proved prospects are now becoming al
most tangible. It is to be hoped that the
proposal to put the Bellefonte company in
the hands of a trustee will enable it to
share the coming revival of activity and
to thoroughly rehabilitate itself in the
near future.
JIOW-ABOCT THE ORDINANCE?
At a time when the good people of
Lawrcnceville are vainly protesting by
force againt a new plantation of tele
phone poles in front of their residences
and places of business, it is timely to In
quire what has become of the ordinance
introduced with a flourish of trumpets in
Councils some months ago, ordering all
the telephone, telegraph and electric wires,
excepting for railways, underground?
The Department of Public Works in
sisted that "overhead wires must go;" but
the only underground wiring since accom
plishedif we except what the Central
Telephone Company has done in the
lower wards is w hat has been done quietly
in Councils to prevent the ordinance pass
ing. It is time that the measure were called
upand passed. The LawTenceville people,
at least, are now in a mood to want to
know what their Councilmcn mean to do
about it ,
VOTES FOR THE BREADWINNERS.
Mr. Hamilton TVillcox, of New York,
appears as the author and champion of a
measure giving the right of suffrage to
women who support themselves. He de
fines the measure as relieving from dis
franchisement "every woman who, be
sides the requirements which the law
exacts of her brother, can truthfully swear
if challenged that she is entirely supported
by her own labor."
The proposition is a novel one and has
its attractive features. There is certainly
a good deal of ground for the belief that
the industrious and brave woman who
earns her own living is well qualified to
THE-
cast an intelligent vote. But Ifthe qualifi
cation of self-support is to be introduced
as entitling a person to suffrage, its logical
application should bring in the converse as
applied to the male sex. It may not be
more incongruous to do this than to leave
the self-supporting woman without a vote
while the man may live on the labors of
his wife, and exercise the sovereign power;
but the distinction would be accentuated
if self-support is made a qualification for
qne sex with no application at all to the
other.
It might not make Mr. Willcox's propo
sition so likely to succeed if it was supple
mented with the provision th3t the man
who cannot truthfully swear that he is
supported by his own labor shall lose his
vote. But it would round out the logic of
his proposition. And since there is little
prospect of the adoption of his proposition,
it will be better for him to make his plan
complete than to leave It incomplete.
"We hope Mr. Willcox will amend his
idea as suggested. . There is a taking ring
in the condensed platform: Votes for the
breadwinners.
HOW TO REALIZE IT.
The Postmaster General in his report is
theoretically an earnest supporter of
progress in the means of communication
In various ways. He urges one cent post
age and postal telegraphy, although there
does not seem to be much prospect of
the immediate realization of either reform.
Still the agitation of these things by the
head of the postal department will doubt
less advance that indefinite day in the
future when they can be actually effected.
It is in the same line of work that Mr.
Wanamaker brings out in his report the
idea of a postal telephone.
The Postmaster General'believesthatby
the union of the telephone and telegraph
with the postal system the day of three
cent telephone messages and tep-cent tele
grams might be brought into sight The
proposal has its undoubtedly attractive
features, and the idea of a telephone serv
ice placed within the reach of common
people show3 a possible enlargement of
the postal benefits that would be very
valuable.
Nevertheless it is necessary to say that
if the Postmaster General wishes to ad
vance the time when the telephone service
can be made as cheap as he suggests he
should use his influence with another de
partment of the Government to prevent
such jugglery with the practice of the Pa
tent Office as results in the unjust exten
sion of the telephone monopoly for an ao
ditional period of fifteen years.
The issue raised in Chicago by the case
In which a school teacher sent a pupil home
because the latter had been eating onions,
which made their pungent bre.ith hard to
bear, naturally appeals to the sense of
humor in the American press. But there is
enough or a serions side to it to make it
worth while to positively remark that
neither nn offensive breath, sqnalor or rags
can be permitted to defeat the child's right
to attend the public schools. Nothing less
than a danger to the health of the school at
large will justify sending a pupil away from
the schools, which are sustained for the
education of the children of the whole
people.
Success to American shipbuilding,
whether on the banks of the Delaware for
new war vessels or in Lake Superior for
whalcback steamers. And success to the
canal projects which will give American
shipbuilding its greatest boom and let Pitts
burg contribute a largo Quota to the steel
and iron fleet.
A vert striking illustration of the idea
that what people are accustomed to is the
only right thing is presented by the protest
In England against Mr. Goschen's project
of Issuing one pound notes In place of
the sovereigns, or coins which the English
are accustomed to handle. As the one
pound note Is the equivalent of our five
dollar bill, it is easy for us to see that the
objection is simply because the English are
used to the coins. If it were proposed to
take away our five dollar bills and make us
use coins instoad we would object as vigor
ously as the bold Britons are doing to the
exactly opposite proposal.
Mb. Anthony Comstock: has gone to
Chicago With an exprcssedintention of puri
fying that city before tho World's Fair. If
Mr. Comstock points to New York as a speci
men of his purification, it will be likely to
produce a verdict that if he has purified the
metropolis no one would ever have sus
pected it.
In the controversy between Chicago and
the English sparrow it is worthy to note
that the parties are well matched. One is a
great deal bigger than the other; but all the
contests whloh enliven history go to show
that mere size is not a vital factor. In
nerve, clieoklness not to say gall dash, de
termination to get there and recuperative
and staying power, the plucky little sparrow
can hold his own with the city making war
on it. On the issue of the contest of ex
termination, the sparrow may be able to
hold an even place in the pools.
State Chairman Kerr now seems to
have a very bright prospect for his candi
dacy for the House Clerkship. Mr. Kerr
enjoys the pleasant peculiarity of being the
one Pennsylvania Democrat whoso political
importance has not been severely docked by
recent events.
An agrarian issue looms up rather threat
eningly in the Bed River country of North
Dakota. The railroad has ordered farmers
to leave their lands and the grangers de
clare that they will "stick." This is an il
lustration that Secretary Noble's optimistlo
view that the land grant forfeiture bill,
which confirmed the land grants to the rail
roads, was a good thing becauso it left tho
settleis undisturbed, may prove to havo
soured on itself in the practical application.
It being practically settled that Governor
Hill will retain his grip on the New York
governorship until Mr. Flower takes his
place. New York will have to content itself
with being represented In the United States
Senate by Frank Uiscock and Calvin S.
Brice.
That story that the Emperor "William
told his new recruits that they belong to
him "body and soul," and that ho may order
them "to shoot down your relatives your
brothers, even your parent," shows that
either the Emperor repeats himself or that
the people who get up stories about hjm
lack in fertility of invention. The same re
markable and mutiny-inspiring speech was
reported as having been made by the Em
peror about a year ago.
Singular to relate, the English people
who bought stocks In the brewery syndi
cates -a ear or two ago. are now beginning
to find out that the glowing prospectuses
and steady dividends are not identical.
The New York papers are jeering at Gov
ernor Ben Tillman, or South Carolina, who,
during his candidacy, was fiercely opposed
to railroad passes, but now that he Is Gov
ernor takes all that he can get. We should
say that the case shows that Governor Till
man is superior to the average politician in
having known a time when he was theoreti
cally above the blandishments of free trans
portation. One of the peculiar features ot the war
on English sparrows in Chicago is the fre
quency of reed birds on the bills of rare of
the restaurants of that city.
A few more, days of such beautiful
weather as the past two days w W establish a
genuine case or the much-talkcd-of, but
rarely la ilized, Indian summer. The real
Indian summer 1 a period of bright weather
after tho first touch of winter. Such days as
PITTSBURG' DISPATCH,
yesterday belong lndlspntedly to that class;
but the trouble is that we do not often have
enough, of them. .
One hundred million- dollars' worth of
export lit Ootober, 1S9I, shows what the
United States can do when it starts out to
beat the record.
The Budget Committee of the Reichstag
has voted 900,000 marks, or about $225,000, for
the German exhibit at the World's Fair.
Every power is apparently going to contri
bute Its share to that (treat show except the
Empire State of New York, which still lags
behind the rest of the world with an appro
priation of nothing at all.
PERSONAL NOTES.
King Oscae of Sweden, is a collector of
books of poems with autographs of the
writers.
Mme. Patti has engaged passage for New
York on board the steamer City of Paris,
sailing on December 23.
Mes. Zach Chandler's new home in
Washington has co3t $150,000, exclusive of
the interior fittings and furnishings. It is
one of the finest houses In the capital.
The Prince of Wales has been Grand
Master of the English Grand Lodge of Free
Masons for 17 successive years, and will be
nominated for the office again this month.
Mrs. Delia STEWART.PABNEix.mother
of the late Charles Steward Parnell, accom
panied by her son, John, sailed for England
yesterday on the Cunard steamer Auranta.
Lotus Prang, whose chromos have beau
tified many an artless cottage wall,
worked for a whole year in Boston, when a
beginner, for a hundred dollars, and was
glad to get It.
"William Dean Howells will retire
from Harper's Magazine with the first of Jan
uary, and take editorial charge of the Cos
mopolitan Magazine conjointly with John
Brisbin Walker.
The youngest member of the next House
of Representatives will bb Joseph W. Bailey,
of Texas, a Mississippian by birth, who is
described as "a young man of a strikingly
noblo face and commanding presence." He
is 28 years old.
Governor-Elect McKinlev, who was
to have been the principal guest at the
inaugural dinner of the Fellowship Club in
Chicago Thursday night, was compelled, by
the illness of his wife, to cancel his engage
ment at the last moment.
The following cadets have been appointed
to West Point: F. C. Remick. of Medford,
Kan.; II. V. Evans, of Camden, Mo., with F.
D. Wickham, of Gallatin, Mo., alternate;
William C. Mill, of Alabama; Sidney W.
Miner, of Oxford, N. C, and S. R. Nichols, of
Arkansas.
Governor McKinlev, of Ohio, has
shown his appreciation of the valuable
training which is affoidedby practical news
paper work by appointing as his private
secretary, Mr. James Boyle, who has been
identified in past years with the staff of the
Cincinnati Oommeraal-GazeUe.
One of the candidate'; for Speaker, Hatch
of Missouri, is noted as a sportsman. He
makes long and frequent hunting expedi
tions and likes to sit at a dinner table and
tell about his exploits with gun and rifle.
He is a farmer, but one of the "gentlemen"
sort, with a fondness for fast horses and
blooded stock. He is a man of commanding
presence, a read- speaker, and a good story
teller. BLAINE AND HABBIS0X.
A Southern Democratic Opinion Upon Their
Relative Strength.
Richmond, Va Dispatch, Dem.
Ever since he aided Mr. Randall in the
good work of killing the force bill, which
the Republicans tried to force through the
last House of Representatives of which he
was Speaker, Mr. Blaine has been regarded
by us as having done something to entitle
himself to be considered better than his
party leaders; and ever since he defeated
Grant of the nomination for a third term as
President of the United States we have had
a still higher opinion of him. We are will
ing for him to have such honots as the Re
publican party can confer upon him, but
not the honors which the American people
have the privilege of conferring. We
favored his nomination by the Republicans
in 1880, 1SS1 and 18S3. But we somotimes
failed to get him set up to bo shot down.
We are not sure that we would like to have
the Republicans nominate him this year.
We might get more than we wish to bar
gain for. The present prospect is that the
Republican will nominate Harrison, and
the Democrats will have a walk-over. If the
Republicans nominate Blaine the Democrats
will havothe most trying contest on their
hands that thevhave had for many yeara.
We can defeat Blaine or any other Republi
can nomineo if the situation continues until
the election as it is now. The trouble is that
the situation may be changed.
Bob IngersoU on the Navy.
New York Advertiser.
Colonel Robert G. IngersoU, In his speech
at the Carpenter banquet on Tuesday even
ing, said that arbitration was a good thing
for civllizednations. but for his part he was
in favor of a strong navy for this Republic.
"I want," he said, "the biggest and best
ships and the biggest guns. The olive
branch of peace is a good thing to extend,
but no weak, puny nation can extend olivo
branches to well-armed nations. When tho
olive branch is extended in a mailed hand it
is understood that there is no foolishness.
If we are going to have a navy at all, I want
the best, because if Ave have a poor navy we
shall simply make a present of it to tho
enemy when.a war comes." Although tho
dinner was given to celebrate peaceful
methods, the Colonel's 'nar-like sentiments
were heartily cheered.
Sprung on Springer.
Philadelphia News.
"Send to William M. Springer, Parlor 0,
National Hotel, a lithograph of David B.
Hill, and for God's sake send it quick."
The above telegram evidences Springer's
fright at discovering that sotno misguided
friend had decorated his headquarters with
a picture of Cleveland. Mr. Springer ought
to adopt the ingenious plan of tho neutral
burgomaster during the Franco-Prussian
war. Hehad a portrait of Napoleon and one
of Frederick tho Great fixed back to back,
and worked by a lover, so as to present
elthor side to the French or German soldiers
entering tho village. All that was needed
was a twist of the crank. If Springer does
not care to go this expense he might twist
the crank who placed him in such an em
barrassing position.
Mayor Grant Sails for Home.
1BT CABLE TO TUB DISPATCH.
LoHDOw,Dec.5. Mayor Grant.of Now York,
took the Teutonic at Queenstown Thursday,
having been compelled to give up his pros
pective visit to the Belfast docks. He spent
most of his tlmeinNowry in going over his
aunt's affairs with her lawyers, and It is said
that at her death he will inherit most of her
Sroperty. Dock Commissioner J. Sergeant
rum sailed on the Teutonic from London,
as did also J. Picrpont Morgan and his
daughter.
Mnst Have Been Far Weit.
New York Sun.
A Western applicant for a public school
teacher's appointment wrote the subjoined
essay on the subject, "The Application of
Steam:"
"Before the intention of the application of
steam people road in sailing vessels. Those
who traveled on land were obliged to use
wagons drawn by horses or canal boats or
mules."
And this is the latter end of the nineteeeth
century. .
' JACK FROST.
Thy pencil lend me. Jack,
And with It, pray.
Thy cunning etcher's knack.
I, too. would play
The artist on my lady's window psncj
So shall she deign
To read my verses pricked In sparkling lee.
With quaint de Ice
Of wreathed fern and frond and feathered grass.
But stay, a'"!
Itly burning fingers mar thy tempered tool;
Thy heart Is cool.
And doth not spoil thy knack.
Here, take thy pencil. Jack!
Esther JJj'-liffant, in the Christmas Century.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER
A REPORTER IN EUROPE.
Charles A. Dana Describes Some o.f ibe
Best Things He Saw In Love With the
June Fran His Best Dinner Mural
Paintings.
fwsrrrtjr roa Tins mbtAtcim '
Mr. diaries A. Dana, of the T$v Tcorir
Bun, is a good reporter. He has just come
back from another trip to Europe. He
knows that place, for he was chasing after
Eil-Wagcns in Austria at a period when
mnny men now important had not yet vis
ited tho earth, and ever since that time ho
Has been going over the territory constantly.
Like all good reporters, he knows what
other fellows want to hear about, and for
the benefit of those who may read this he
has taken the trouble to pick out a few su
perlatives from the things he has to say
about this last trip.
It is pleasant to watch thisnowspaper man
as he talks, and seo him lean back and laugh,
and to wonder how much money and how
many tons of paper lie has saved in his life
by his habit of using a little porcelain tablet
to make notes and diagrams on.
The Greatest Sight In Europe.
"The greatest sight in Europe U the
Jung Frnu," said Mr. Dana, with a sweep of
his arm that gave a good idea of the Jung
Frau's height. "Could I do a two-stick de
scription of the Jung Fraut No, I could not.
It could not be described in two weeks, al
though that is a lot of space, nor in two
years. It fs superior to everything in beauty
and in its wonderful effect on the Imagina
tion. It stands there in July just as In Jan
uary, its peak white with snow and with the
sun shining on it perfectly clear to the eye
at great distances. Say that every traveler
should see tho Jung Frau without fall, and
see her from Intcrlaken.
"The most beautiful thing that I saw was
tho body of a young girl in Pompeii. She
lav face downward, with her head lesting
upon her arms, perhaps asleep. The acci
dont which wiped out a city did not disturb
her. The ashes from the volcano settled
down on her, packed with the weight of cen
turies, and when with time her body had
crumbled to a handful of dust, tho ashes and
powder from the volcano formed a pel foot
mold of her form. Of this mold the marvel
onsly3klIlfnI men working at theiestora
tton of the dead citvhave taken a cast, which
I saw. The young girl, who might have been
20 years old, was clad in a single garment.
No more beautiful form was 'over imagined
by a sculptor. A pathetic cli cumstance was
the nature of the Pompeilan lesort In which
her body was found."
Mr. Dana talked about this girl of many
centuries ago much as Lawience Sterne
wrote about the young woman in the glove
shop. It was very real, and would have
filled even a serious man with a desire to go
back through time, to take the poor girl
from her miserable surroundings and find a
quiet home somewhere out of the volcano's
reach.
Though an Editor He Ate Well.
"The best dinner that I ate while I was
abroad this time," said Mr.Dana, who knows
dinneis, "I got at the cafe Magny, across the
Seine in the Rue Dauphinc. I always go
there when I go to Paris. Americans, may
do many things in Paris less wise than to go
to the Magny, try the sauces and study the
interesting mirrors. Once, 30 years ago or
more, all literary men of Paris met at
Magny's, and all at one time or another sol
emnly wrote their names with a diamondon
one of the big mirrors.
"Those diamond scratchings are there to
day, of course, and inside the old gilt look
ing glass frames you may see nearly all the
names famous In modem French literature
George Sand, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Eugene
Sue and endless others. I tried the fashion
able cafe Anglais once or twice this time,
but I got a better dinner at the old Magny.
"Naples is a fine town to see," said the
ruler of the Sun and lord of the office cat,
when he had done with Magny. "I had
never seen Naples before. An interesting
thingabout it is the fact that it really is not
Italian and never ha been. It is a Greek
town. It was settled by the Greeks, and the
Greek type and manners still prevail.
Mural Painting On Canvas.
"In the course of an artistic education
even' one should go to the big museum at
Naples and study with especial care the
beautiful paintings taken from the walls of
Horculaneum and Pompeii. They are there
as beautiful and fresh in color as on the day
when the artists steimed back, took a ffood
look and decided that .they' were finished.
Such delicate imagination is shown In these
works of art as we do not-seo in modern
works a lot of boys playing in the vine, for
instance, and all sorts or delicate fancies."
Mr. Dana allowed that the transferring of
those paintings from the plaster walls to en
during canvas as a large straw added to the
weight of evidence going to show that man
can do anything.
"First," said ho, "a suitable canvas is
glued on to tho face of tho painting with
some most tenacious preparation. Next,tho
wall behind the pioture was scraped until
thcro was only the thinnest coating of plas
ter left for the paint to cline to. Then a
second canvas is glued to the back of the
painting. The canvas on the front, which
has held the plctnre together during the un
derming process in the rear, is removed.and
there is your mural painting on canvas. It
is difficult work, but well worth the trouble.
The Most Interesting Man He Met.
"The most interesting man 1 met in
Paris," Mr. Dana added, recalling tho news
paper rulo that no story amounts to much
which fails to introduce a human being,
"was Theodoro Child. Theodore Child, as
every one should know, is tho Englishman
living in Palis who knows so much about
art that he can make conversation on pict
ures more easily man most 01 us can on
weather, and whose mind is so wide-spread
that he has wiltten a sort of a book on eat
ing. The London Dally JS'eiis, by the way,
devoted its second leader to that book only
a few days ago."
Mr. Dana said that he could notsav much
about his travels next year. He Intimated
that it might be ncceary for him to start
on a long Journey in the meantime, but ad
mitted when asked that he did have some
hope of goiug to Japan before going to
heaven. A. B.
Luxury and Starvation in Russia.
New York Advertiser.
Mr. Edmund Yates pleasantly notes that
an eimine mantle, presented to the Empress
of Russia as a wedding gift, cost $30,000.Cost
whom? Of course, the answer will be that
the gift was by the snbsciiptions of nobles
and court favorites, who contributed their
own money to purchase this princely pres
ent. But where did these nobles get the
money uhlch they call their own? Not one
of them ever owned a dollar.and the money,
when traced to tho source from which it
came, will be found to como frorii the ronts,
the taxes and tho toll of tho people, who are
the real supporters or all this royal
splendor, luxury and extravagance, and
who themselves are to-day starving by mlll-
Ions in that same Russia.
DEATHS HIRE AND ELSEWHERE.
Sirs. Isabella 11. Laoghlln.
Mrs. Isabella B. Laughlin, wife of George
M. Laiiglilin, or Jones A Laughllns, died yesterday
morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New York, of
pneumonia, mts. ijangnun n-ent East to spend
ThanktsiTlni, and on last Sunday caught a severe
cold that developed into pneumonia. She was a
daughter of ex-lad MrKrnn.n nf , i:,,.
StatesClrcuitCourt. she leaves a husband anil three i
sons. George 31.. Jr.. Irwin and Thnmm the m
last named being at college. Mrs. Laughllu was
widely known in the two cities. She was con
stantly interested In church and charitable work,
and 11 as an active member of the bhadislde Pres
byterian Church.
H. 31. Frazler.
H. M. Frazier died yesterday at his late
residence. No. 8 Arch street. Allegheny, from lead
poisoning. He was in his 47th year and was well
known In Allegheny, where he resided for a num
ber of years. Mr. ITazler was employed as mill
wright for Bej raer, llauman & Co. lie leaves a
wife and three children. Funeral services will
take plate this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The lnter-
lnuei vriu vs ab aaxouDurj? lo-njorrow.
Charles C. McCairncis.
Charles C. McCairness died at his home,
in Centerville, Butler county, jesterday arter a
brief Illness. He was a law partner of Attorney
C. A. Sullivan and had been practicing for about a
-war. He was not n tnnnlher of tint All.!.......
County liar Association, but Mr. Sullivan an
nounced his death in the several courts yester
day. Obituary Notes.
M. LemONIeu, President of the International
League of Peace, is dead.
Captain J.osemi Keetk, Company C. Fourlk
Infantry, died at Douse City, Idaho, Friday.
Rt. Rev. Edgau P.. Wadhams, Bishop of Og
densburg, died at the episcopal residence in Og
densburg, N. Y., about 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, aged "i ears. He had been ill for some time.
Wnen his death was announced the Catusdraland
City HaU bells were tolled.
Mns. Mahy A. Chawfobd, tho aged widow of
Alexander T. Crawlord, late Presldmtof the New
Castle and Beaver Valley Railroad? died at her
homelnNew Castle at 7o'clock jesterday morn
ing. She was the mother of Mrs. L S. Hoyt, of
New Castle, and Hugh A. Crawlord, of Tirre
Haute.
1891,
M l I l,ti, ,
mSIAH XBOTTBUS IH BV0IAHOL
HeeuHar Letter Written by Mlrxa Abdullah
-- " .j About Malcolm Khan.
'" fBT CABLI'TO THI DISrATCH.
Loxdojt, Deo. 5. Dispatch readers will re
member that over a year ago Malcolm Kban,
the Persian Minister in London, was sud
denly "dismissed from his post and ordered
by his irate sovereign to return to Teheran
and give a personal explanation of certain
high crimes and misdemeanors of which
tho Shah believed him tobeguilty. Malcolm
Kban, however, felt that the air of Persia
would not suit his delicate health, and de
cided to remain in this country, where his
head would be reasonably safe from the
executioner's knife. Since then he has
written to newspapers and spoken in public
from time to time, the burden of his writ
ings and speeches being the corruption of
the ruling class in Persia and the urgent
necessity for radical administrative and
social reforms. Echoes ot these seditious
letters and discourses havo from time to
time reached Persia, and the Sbah and nis
ministers have made repeated, but impo
tent, efforts to have a cutb put upon their
irritating author.
Now word has apparently gone forth
authorizing the legation to fight Malcolm
Khan in his own orthodox and painfully
modern manner. M. Abdullah, writing to
the papers today, presumably from the
Persian legation, sarcastically disputes
Malcolm Khan's tltlo to pose as a reformer,
reminds him of past lndlsoretlons, and says
"he repectables readers." He concludes,
with fine Persian ironv: "One may easily
discover that the precedent epoch never has
produoed such a marvelous leader. If I do
not know what will think the English peo
ple about this very eloquent and admirable
speech, but I may assure them that the mat
ter of that speech is nothing bnt a simple
Imagination by an melancholic head."
Mlrza Abdullah is evidently conscious
that his English may lack lucidity, and he
frankly requests the editors in a postscript
to coriect his "orthograflcal faults."
SALVATION ABUT IK BrSIHESS.
London Woodcutters Object to General
Booth's Underselling Them.
TBY CABLI TO TDK DISPATCH.
Lottdok, Dee. 6. Much resentment pre
vails among London woodcutters against the
Salvation Army. General Booth is now the
biggest merchant in this trade, and as he
professes to combine benevolence with
business, he is a formidable competitor with
the ordinary tradesmen, who endeavoronly
to make a living out of It. Booth's menaro
making bigger bundles and charging less
for them than the private traders, with the
natural result that the latter are being
ruined.
Salvationists claim that they are saving
souls, but the hard-working and worldly
minded woodcutters strongly object to
sinners being reclaimed at tbelr ex
pense, and argue. In mundane and
forcible language, that if brands are
to be plncked from the burning
it should be done at market rates. Similar
complaints come from other humble indus
tries in which members of Booth's "sub
merged tenth" compete fairly with ordinary
work people, and it may be necessary for
the trades unions to interfere, which will be
a bad thing for the Salvation Army.
A Big Ohio Farm.
Cincinnati Enquirer. 3
J. H. Manchester, the largest and wealth
iest farmer in Auglaize county, and one of
the largest in Northwestern Ohio, has just
closed a deal with Hauss & Jacobs, grain
merchants, for the sale of 10 000 bushels of
corn. This is the largest grain deal of any
kind ever made in Auglaize county. Mr.
Manchester has a beautiful farm of over
10,000 acres unuer cultivation in the eastern
part of the county. Hisresidenceis situated
on a knoll about the center or his farm, and
with the aid of a field glass he can command
a view of his entire farm. All of nis machin
ery is of the latest inventions, and his reap
ers, mowers, plows, etc., are all run by steam.
Ho employs a large force of men, who are all
well disciplined. The farm is situated in a
very productive region, and his acres vjeld
an abundant crop. After having sold the
enormous amount of corn to the srain deal
ers be still has iu reserve 6,000 or 7,000 bushels
which is not yet ready for market. He will
begin hauling this week, bringing in install
ments of S00 to 1,000 bushels. It will be a
regular train of wagons, drawn by a road
engine, a very uncommon sight in any
community.
A London Social Exigency.
New York ltecordtr.
The Lon don Times and Daily Telegraph pub
lished the other day this remarkable adver
tisement: '','Alady of title, moving in the
best society, will receive a young lady into
nor house as n friend. Terms $10,000 per an
num. Any introduction of such will be
handsomely acknowledged. Address, Patri
cian, 13,720, etc." At onco the court officials
set to work, and they found that It emanated
Indirectly from the widow of a baronet, who
is in a position to offer tho social advantages
which the advertisement implies hut she
finds herself in a very straitened financial
condition, hence the advertisement. While
tho officials rofusotoglve the name of this
latter-day "Patrician," they have taken
stops In warning debutantes nnd their
parents against this expensive lodging, and
furthermore the baroness has been notified
that if she appears in society with any
strango or unknown lady her name will be
given to the press as the authoress of the ad
vertisement. Bill Nye Nursing His Wonnds.
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Nye is a kind, gentle-natured man, nnd
as ho sat In his room at the Kimball yester
day, with his right arm in a sling and a big
patch of court plastor on his right temple,
you felt a sincero sympathy. Bill toyed car
essingly with a bottle of liniment on his
dressing case, but says he has no dread of
becoming addicted to the phial-stuff.
A Clear Explanation.
Philadelphia Times.
Another explanation of the policeman
being in politics is the old one that as a gen
eral rule he is where he is not wanted.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
St. Paul talks seriously of trying to get
the Democratic National Convention. Suc
cess to the effort. Minneapolis Journal.
If the other twin city of Minnesota guo
ceeds in capturing the Democratic National
Convention, the platform will be the doc
trine according to St. Paul. Boston Herald.
The Cleveland following is said to bo ad
verse to the location of tho Democratic Na
tional Convention in this city. This may ac
count for the small subscriptions of Demo
cratic hotel men to the expense guarantee
fund. A'ew York Press.
Tbe decision of the Republicans no doubt
will have the effect of bringing the Demo
cratic National Convention to the West also.
Omaha, San Francisco dud Tacoma may now
go in for it with a tolerably safe assurance
that one of them will get it. Anaconda
Mont.) Standard.
Should there be a disposition on the part of
ln0 na"a' democracy IO nom ine conven-
t'oninNew York, the state Committee may
be relied on to do rigorous work toward se
curing the prize. Work with National Com
mitteemen, not by big delegations of citi
zens, is the only effective was-. Albany Ar
gus. The last National Democratic Convention
held in "the solid South" was at Charleston
in 1S60, It got too hot, politically, in Charles
ton, and adjourned to Baltimore. The South
ha! never had the courage to ask for a Dem
ocratic convention since. It took several
yearsofhard shooting to get the party into
lino under the old flag after that. Chicago
Jnler-Ocean.
8y FriASCisco dan get along without con
ventions, but-it cannot get along 1It110ut
competing transcontinental roads; and if
our esteemed ootemporaries would turn
loose their abounding enthusiasm iu that
nractical direction, and lecosnize compet
ing roads as tho paramount issue in 5"an
Francisco, the city would soon have honors
thrust upon her, instead of having to beg in
vain for favors. San Francisco Daily Report.
Maps hopeful by the triumph of Minne
apolis, the other Twin is crying for the Dem
ocratic National Convention, and for an
Auditorium any wuy. St. Paul has given up
the Ice Palace lest an uuinstructed world
should imagine that the winter climate of
Minnesota Is different from that of Algieis,
and she ought to have something in com
pensation. If sliedoes build an Auditorium,
wo hope its acoustic accomplishments will
be such that tho name will not be sarcastic;
and if She succeods in getting the Demo
emtio Convention, the roor or that Audi
torium should be made of glass rainbows
2iew York Sun,
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Chicago T Like si Man on Bhj Drunk
Will Sorter Arter the Fair A Crowd or
Jostling Women Freaks or a Mixed
Drink Artist. ' f
mtOK A STATT CORBSSPOXDKNT.I
Kirw York, Dec 5. "The advantages to
tho people of any locality by the reason of
some extraneous stimulant like the World's
Fair," said General Hamilton, of Chicago, on
a recont visit here, "are iu a. great measure
offset ty the undeniable drawbacks). Phila
phia is but now fairly recovering from the
great Centennial show. Philadelphia didn't
want any World's Fair in hers. These things
work a good deal like too much liquid stimu
lant in a man. He may feel like a millionaire
and a prince while ho Is loading np and car
rying his Jag well, but when ho comes to
sobering up tho next dny or two it comes
hard. And usually the more stimulant and
fun he had the night before the harder and
loneer It takes him to get over it.
"Yet stimulants to a certain degree and in
certain cases are not onlv beneficial to a
man, but to commercial affairs. Chicago is
feeling Just now like a 2-year-old colt. Her
small tradesmen have advanced prices from
20 to 30 per cent. You can't buy anything
irreat or small in Chicago as cheaply as it
could have been purchased before the fair
boom started, as yet this, operates almost
exclusively on her own people. With in
creased rents and Increased cost of every
article that enters into household consump
tion it is manifest that the entire popula
tion must make it up somewhere offof some
body. Those who cannot are already
sufferers. 'Unfortunately they are supple
mented by thousands of newcomers who
have swarmed there in anticipation of the
good time coming. As the money spenders
have not come yet, and will not bo there for
a year to come, money Is scarce and will be
scarcer. In tbe meantime wellve practically
on borrowed money and hope. When the
tide sets our way it will have the effect of
an inflation of the circulating medium.
When It recedes It will leave us stuck, and
for a lone time stagnating in the mud left by.
the overflow."
She Sat on the Dog.
It was on the Sixth Avenue Elevated,
and abont the fashionable shopping hour.
Ladies In pretty stieet costumes Jostled each
other about on the Fourteenth street plat
form, and crowded tbe gates of the middle
cars in their usual brutal manner. They
always remind me of a select mob of sport
ing gentlemen at a prize fight. Omy if they
were really men, instead of tho best-dressed
ladies of New York, the Fourteenth and
Twenty-third street platforms would be the
daily scenes of blackened eyes and bloody
noses. Women, especially well-bred, cult
ured women, have such an insolent way
with eacli other. It makes ma smile, in
wardly at least, to see It; but It is not rare
to see these charming creatureslook at each
other in a manner that from man to man
would be answered by a blow.
On this particular afternoon the poor dears
were tired and'wanted to go home by the
first train, in the same car and by one gate.
As there were some to of them to half a
dozen of the other sex, and everybody had
from one to a dozen parcels, they made a
very entertaining pioture for a mar. inside
the car. In the midst of the foremost group
wns a fat man carrying a small basket. He
didn't appear very attractive, being de
cidedly beery and sweaty, bnt several ladles
in his vicinitv looked as if they would like
to bite him. He was there, it is true, though
he probably wished he wasn't. He was
borne along by the femlnino crowd toward
the gate quite helplessly, nnd hrouzht up
chock-a-block between a tall young tailor
made woman nnd somebody's grandmother
right in the narrow opening.
"Both gatesl" shouted tho red-faced guard.
But tbe pressure behind was too great to
permit snapping horses now and alter a
momentary struggle the dress-Improver of
the tailor-made young woman collapsed and
the slender owner was spurted in like the
cork from a ginger bottle. The fat man fol
lowed and both made a dive for the only
vacant seats next to mo and behind the
door the fat man smiling good naturedly,
the young woman mad as a hornet. She
counted her parcels, he placed his basket
under the seat. Tno aisle was crowded at
once, the cntes were slammed In the faces of
tho remaining crowd and the tram moved
on. A subdued whimper came from some
place in the near vicinity and a motherly
woman hanging by a strap declared in a
loud voice that somebody was smothering
a baby. Everybody looked around at every
body else inquiringly and smiled. AH but
the tailor-made woman. She eyed mo sus
piciously. The fat man looked out of the
window. I looked at the crushed dress Im
prover. More whimpers and half smoth
ered cries. The people began to laugh at
me.
"I presume, sir, yon think you are very
funny," said the tailor-made woman looking
savngely at me.
"It's a ventriloquist," whispered another
lady to the alarmed matron. Then both
looked at me sharply and everybody else
looked in the ame direction. A gentleman
opposite winked at me knowingly and from
befnir amused at other people I began to feel
very uncomfortablo myself.
"It's only a dog, madam," said the fat
man. apologetically.
"Evidently." snnppcd tho tailor-made
woman, looking straight at me "n nuppyl"
The giggle was not subdued. Neither was
the color in my face. Everybody elo
seemed to enjoy the thing immensely. By
this time wo were at Twenty-eizhth street.
I was to got ont at the next station and was
g'adofit.
" 'Taint him, madam," pnt in the fat man
fnmbllng under the seat as I got up, "it's my
dog. You're asettin' on him." And as the
tailor-made woman hopped up with n yell
ho nulled out the .small basket amid the
shont of the crowd near the door.
"Thirty-third street!" called the red-faced
guard. And I dashed out to let tho fat man
and the tailor-made voung woman and the
railway company and the crowd settle, tho
matter. That young woman owes me an
apology, and she 'can end it rizht along
with a 10-ccnt obloqg blno special delivery
stamp on it.
A Study in Natural Psychology.
Everybody knows "William, A. M. D.,
or has at least heard of him. "A. M. D."
means Artist of Mixed Drink. Between
William's lecent mental agitation becaue
of the advent of a quartet of London bar
maids whoare now monkeying with "Life
Prolongers," "Widow '.a Kisses" nnd other
spiritual manifestations where William was
wont to pile up his artistic glasses and the
subsequent appearance of hi book on the
art of concocting cocktails, he has suffered
from insomia and somnambulism. It is true
that this is a rare combination, but that is
the very reason thp fact is worth recording.
It appears that while William was toslng
on his pillow 1 should, perhaps, ay "sleep
less pillow," in order to keep in the literary
swim his active brain was naturally bnsy
with new combinations of whisky, gin,
ahslntho, vermouth, syrup nnd Angostora.
What usually puts others to sleep keeps an
A. M.D. nwnke.
Other things bcldes dreams and tipion
horse races go bv contmrleo. So it iri with
WilllamN somnambulism. No soonor wonld
ho net soundlv asleep than ho w ould get up
and wnlk up and down the room nnd fall to
mixing drinks, paIng hh hands deftly in
the air and to and fro from benctth imagin
ary bars and shaking illuiveglases with
his accustomed grace and nbnndon. windinz
up each operation by wiping his hnnds on
his robe do nnlt. Bv this last token his
roommnte knew when each paitlcnlnr
drink was iinisnea. in met, it was the
manner in which William wiped his hands
which indicated the particular character
of the imaginary mixture, and the room
mate nvcrs that by this alone he could tell a
fiousse cafe from frozen absinthe unerring
v. Such Is the mnnnerNin of genius. Llko
nil somnambulists William was at snch
times lesponsive to vocal suggestions, and
his roommate had only to call for any
specific arink to sot William at -work mak
ing It. He noticed that when this involved
samples of his higher nrt the A. 31. D. would
rjroccedwith ereat alacrity and cheerful
ness, but when it was a ntendy succession of
rum and molnse or beer, or somo other
plebeian drink, William would soon become
tired and return to bed. Tiie psychological
student pursm-d his nocturnal studies of
William's spiritual nature to the point of
practical experiments with glasses of water,
when the A. M. D. one cold ntglit threw a
glass ot; ico wnter in the bed under tho im
pression that It wn the "all sorts" tan.
This broke up the school and the partner
ship at the sumo time.
from High to Low Altitudes.
"It is a curious fnct," said a Colorado
man at the Fifth Avenue, "that while thou
sands of Eastern people seek high altitudes
among us every year for their health, quito
as many residonts of Colorado find it ex
ceedingly beneficial to pats a portion of
every year nt Excelsior Springs,nenr K.insis
City, and other resorts of low altitude.
They find tho chingo greatly relieves the
nervous strain. The tension of every day
rtfe and labor in nn extremely rnrifled nt-mospheri-
in too grc.it" to bo sncceMlulIy
withstoodbv many constitutions. A clmuzu
is qnite as distinctly marked in good results
one way as the other."
Cbables Thiodqrk Murray.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. '
Five grat -English war ships are noir
declared to have guns which are unfit for
service. These range from 110 tons to 67
tons. The French 75-ton guns, however, ara
said to be satisfactory.
There were 137. women patients under
going treatment at the Keeley Institute in
Dwight, Ill last week.' The average nura
ber of women zoing there for treatment U
increasing all the time.
The annual revenue of the Government
of India from opium some 30 years ago was
about $42,500,000, and aftera gradual decrease
it was last year about $1SK000,000, . being one-twenty-fonrth
of the entire revenue of the
country.
The'Ohio State Asylum for Epileptics,
now in course of erection at GaJllpolia, Is the
first institution of its kind In this country.
Of tho large number of epileptics in Ohio,
about 1,000 are expected to enter the new
asylum.
Crow Island- Passage, Grand Manan,
was literally choked with a school of mack
erel one day last week, and the native flshei
men took 2 000 Darrols. At Bar Harbor more
than $6,000 worth of mackerel have been
taken from the weirs this season.
A Chicago company which makes a
specialty of manufacturing sermons claims
to have on it3 rolls the names of 1,000
clergymen whom it regularly supplies with
sermons, Including "a New York minister
who gets $10,000 ayear." The charge Is only
$1 a week.
A whip presented to "William H. Van
derbllt cost $2,000. W. K. Yanderbilthas ono
that cost $350. Pierre Lorillard has one, with
a carved ivory handle, that cost $500. Whips
that cost $25 to $100 are favorite articles for
presentation, and America leads the world
in making them.
The Chinese denizens of Sew York are
excited over the news of the insurrection In
China. The dispatohes from Fekin in tho
',y Papers are translated into Chinese by
Chinamen who can understand them, and
then they are read by the groups of laundry
men who gather to hear them.
A stony, waterless region of France has
envolved a race of animals that do not
drink. The sheep, feeding upon the frazrant
herbs, have altogether unlearned the habit
or drinking and the cows drink very little.
The much-osteemed Roquefort cheese is
made from the milk of the non-drinking
ewes.
English sparrows are so numerous
around a certain brewery In Chicago that
poisoned grain is placed on tho open floor
of the malt tower everv evening to tempt
them to eat and die. In the morning a
bushel basket of dead birds is gathered up
by one of the brewery employes and dis
posed of.
An extensive Indian cemetery, contain
ing the graves of fully 500 braves, has been
washed over by the waves of Segulne Bay,
near Port Townsend. The graveyard was
on a sand spit on the beaoh, and the neigh
borhood looks now, from the heaps of
bleached bones scattered about, like a
slaughter pen.
The varieties of money in existence in
the United States are gold coin, silver coin,
gold certificates, silver coin certificates,
greenbacks, national bank notes and the
now Treasury notes, or sliver bullion certifi
cates, of 1890. These are the sorts of money
of denominations of $1 or over, and do not
include fractional silver.
At the foot of Ardrass Hill, by the side
of the Clane road, near the town of Col
bridge, Kildare, Ireland, Is "St. Patrick's
Well." It i3 circular, built around with
masonry, and partially covered with a large
flagstone. Some ancient ivy-clad thorn
trees overshadow It. It is held in high ven
eration in the district.
On the estate of the Marquis de la La
guna in Spain a water wheel of 20 horse
power runs a dynamo. Plowing by electrici
ty has been proposed. nd the current Is to
bo transmitted to a field three miles distant,
where a motor on a plow is to be operated.
The cable to bo attached to the plow is to be
wound on a reel and drawn over the field.
A Jersey cow in Michigan City, Ind.,
gave birth to five calves, two males and
three females. Tbey all appear healthy and
strong and are doing nicely. Considering
the number, they are quite large. The cow
isoiorainary size, sno is very iona or her
family of calves, and Is as watchful of each
one as an old hen is of a brood of small
chickens.
A blue rose is among the impossibili
ties. There is a law governing the coloring
of flowers which Is simply this: The three
colors, red, blue and yellow, never appear
In the same species of flowers; any two may
exist, bnt never the third. Thus we have
the red and yellow roses, but no blue; red
and bine verbenas, but noyellow; yellow and
blue in the various members of the viola
family (as pansies, for instance), but no red:
red and yellow gladioli, but no blue, and so
on.
-r-The outlook for ship-building; is en
conraglng in almost all directions. Ship
builders are indulging in the hope of a
Tevival or their industry within the next
few years. The ship-builders of New Bed
ford are rejoicingover the orders for vessel
to engage In tbe trade between our ports on
the Atlantic nnd on the Pacific. The shirt-
builders of Dnluth are pleased with the
prospect of activity in the construction of a
big fleet of whalebacks for service on our
Western lakes and on the Atlantic.
The first theatrical company to play in
the United States came from England in
1752, nnd landed at York, in Virginia.
The first public appearance of tbe players,
then known as "His Majesty's Servants,"
was at Wiillamsbnrg, Va., September 5.
From there they went to Annapolis, Md.,
and built a theater, but, the venture proving
unsuccessful, they went thence to New
York, and on September 7, 17.K5, played
Sterne's "Conscious Lovers." Under tho
management of an actor namul Hallam
they went to Philadelphia in 1754, and in a
vacant store rented for the occasion ther
played "The Fair Penitent."
The boomerang, used in war and in
the chase by the aborigines of Aus
tralia, is usually about two feet In
length, made of hard wood bent into
a curve resembling an obtuse angle, flat on
one side and rounded on the other. The
thrower takes it by one end, holding the
bent side downward, and hurls it forward;
but instead of continuing to go directly for
ward it ascends in the air, whirling round
and round, describing a curved line till it
reaches a considerable height, when it be
gin' to retrozrade, finally sweeping over the
head of the projector, striking the object for
which it wns Intended, which is always in
the rear. This surprising motion is pro
duced by the reaction of the nir upon the
bends and curves of the oddly shaped
missile.
LESSONS FROM LIFE.
Head Mistress Miss Balfour, I saw vou
kiss that Tarlcton boy. What 13 the meaning of
that?
Sweet Girl Undergraduate I can spell it. Mis
Grayson, but I can't define it.
The Czarina Alex, there's a plot agaimt
us, right here In our own household.
The Ciar (carelessly) Oh, I'm getting used to
that sort of thing.
The Czarina Dut this Is tbe most dastardly plot
yet.
ThcCzar-Whatisit.
The Czarina (In awful whispers) The cook is
going to leave.
A BOSTON JIAID.
At love I never heard her scoff,
Though Cupid yet has made no proffer;
She never would remark. Come off,"
But doubtless praycth thus: "Come offer."
"Your mother, I understand, has been
Terr 111, Thomas."
"Yesslr."
la she mending. ThomasJ"
'Mendln'? No. lndecdy! She said I could go
without clothes before she would sew another
dnrncd stitch."
"I have lost my heart," be whiipered,
Uazing in her lovely eyes:
But the maldi n coldly answered.
Why don't you adiertlse!"
"Pnt, I'm in a kind ov a dil'emmy, an
illvil a.wan ov me knows phwat to do. Yez must
know that I hat en't been home since yistherday
mor'r'nln'. and mc woife Is layln' for me, I know.
Phwat wnd yez do If vrz wm me? If I go home I'll
get clubbed, an If ,1 don't go home I'll get
cluhbe I."
Phwat would I do? Why, I'd go home an take
my clubbln' from my ould woman lolke a man.
Don't lose a wife's risplct, whatlver yez do!"
Of the boys, (of rich families) 40 per cent
and upward are mined by dissipation; and most of
the rest having no need to earn money, and rcsolv
ng that American politics are too low-down for
gentlemen to meddle with, put in their time with
snch elaborate tors as yachts and country places,
and die without having worked oat what wa In
them. Both men and women, having nothlnz to
do. and abundant means for doing If, are especially
exposed to the miserable risk of being drawn into
McAllister's maelstrom, and having their brains
sacked out by centripetal attraction.
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