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LOHO HANDDLPH CHURCHILL.
Here Are Some of the Feature:
In Darkest New York,
Kj Lady Henry Somerset.
Beggars of Paris,
Hy Ida at Tarbell.
Sherman's Speakership Fight,
ISy Frank G. Carpenter.
Natives of Patagonia,
By Tannie B. "Ward.
A Column of Jokes,
By Marshall r. vTilder.
Beyond the City,
IJj A. Conan Doyle.
Christmas Fairy Story,
By Patieno Stapleton.
A Sermon on Si. Andrew,
By Kv. George Hodges.
Besides, there trill be a pace for young
folks and another for women. There
trill be a Christmas menu. One articlo
will describe how cut-glass is made: an
other -will tell of -winter sports In
Canada; another or Kit Carson's old
friend In Allegheny connty; another of
the care of sailors orphans; the theoj.
ophlst view or evolution; Senator Tetter
on saloons, et?., et BefiJ.f irllJ to
a complete n s. stjmi - B-.s-ble, tomo
graphic and local n?j service.
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"tt ATCUIJG T1IK TP.KAIKT.
Though Controller Gnor would himself
1p a beneficiary if the fat Philadelphia
salaries w ere declared legal for those Alle
gheny county officials elected in '90, it is
highlj creditable to him that he stands out
firml in Court on behalf of the taxpajers
against the proposal to pay the officials
double the amount specifically prescribed
for their offices by the Legislature of '91.
It looks, too, as though one of the objec
tions which the Controller raises may be
found insuperable. lie points out that the
Court has no official knowledge, so far as
concerns the case in hand, of Allegheny
county having o00,000 population when
these officers were elected The conten
tion of Mr. Gner that the Federal census
returns are not in evidence for the appli
cation of acts of Assimbly until they are
spccificallj recognized by legislati re dec
laration, may be somewhat technical, but
it is not more so than the plea upon whih
the officials base their demand. They say
that because the act fixing moderate sal
ariesabout one-half the Philadelphia
schedule was not passed until a couple of
months after their election it does not ap
plj to them.
That, howeer, is no substantial reason
whj the salaries for a single term should
lie double what they were before or after.
MR. REED'S DIAGNOSIS,
Thomas B Reed is supposed to be dis
satisfied with the evidences of an under
standing between Blame and Harrison by
which the latter is to get the nomination,
if the Republican rank ana file will hae
it, and if not the nomination is to fall to
Mr. Blaine. That is Reed's summary of
the -.ltuation, and it is possible his objec
tion to it is the more urgent on account of
the probability that it will end in Mr.
BlameS nomination. For while Reed
does not lo c 3Ir. Harrison moreheloes
Blame a good deal less.
Xeerthoess, if Reed's diagnosis of the
Blaine-IIarriscu situation is correct, his
objection will be echoed bj a large ele
ment among Blaine's supporters. The
majority of the Republican rank and file
while supporting Mr. Blaine's broad ideas
of pohcj if they can be kept from rum
by war with Chile are not likely to con
sider that they are in the category of
political goods to be turned over to
General Harrison without regard to
their own wishes. If Blaine will
not be a candidate the masses
of the party are entitled to know m time
to make a free expression of their second
choice. Xeither the importance of a
Cabinet position for the Hon. Stephen B.
Elkms nor the gratify mg fact of a treaty
of amity between the President and Sec
retary of btate can overbalance the right
of Republicans to make a free choice of
their nominee.
Itis in justice to Mr. Blaine's support
ers that The DiisPatch: has for some time
urged his duty of making a clear and un
mistakable declaration whether he will
accept a nomination or not In default
of this the mass of his supporters may
jet take Reed's theory of the situation as
correct and proceed to express their pref
erences on the assumption that Blaine is
out of the field.
caxals in war.
The bill introduced by Senator Davis, of
Minnesota, for the survey of a canal
around Niagara Falls is an evidence of
the prominence which the question of in
ternal waterways is taking in the public
mind. Commercially the question be
tween the connection of the lakes with
the ocean by this route and some of the
others is an engmeenng one. But as the
purpose of this sun ey is professedly with
a view to digcinals for defensive purposes
it is necessary to say that the proposition,
while gratitungas aneudenceof awaken
ing public sentiment on the subject, ex
lnbiN a failure to percehe some of the
vital points of canals as routes in time of
war.
A canal on the frontie like the proposed
one on our side of Xiagara and the Wel
land on the other side is, in the event of
war, the property of the strongest military
power. To understand this position it is
necessary to define the strongest military
power, in the words of rough-riding Gen
eral Forrest, as t! c power which "gits thar
first with the most men." If the United
States can get an army of 20.000 men
to the Xiagara peninsula before Canada
it cannot only hold the proposed Niagara
canal, but it can seize and hold the Wel
lind canal. On the other hand if Canada
can mobolize an effective army first it
could seize this canal and either hold it as
a fortified base or destroy it.
Bejondthis there is the fact that while
a short canal can be fortified or held m
force, a canal of any length within raiding
distance of the border would be subject to
incursions that might keep it constantly
useless. It is impossible to garrison a line
one or two hundred miles long so that a
flying column of one o two thousand men
could noi strike it at one point or another
and destroy its usefulness for weeks or
months by blowing up its locks or cutting
its banks The onlv v. ay to secure reason
able assnrai.c" of the usefulness of canals
for naal route-. r by locating them so far
in the mterioi that nothing less than a
conquinng arm can reach them
It maj be a question open to discussion
whether the military force of Canada or
that of the United Scat's co"ld get an ef
fective army to the Xijgara peninsula
first But it is unnecessary to settle that
question, because the point is that if it is
safe to proceed on the assumption that the
United States force could be there first we
need not build the Niagara canal, b-T can
take and hold the Wall snd caiaL In other
words, so far as the strategic val-22 of the
canal is concerned, the proposed route
would result m expeuditui-3 whici -uld
either be at the mercj of the enemy or un
necessary, because we could taks the en
emy's canals
The safe and effective canal by which
we should prepare to transfer war vessels
to the lakes should pass throug'a the in
terior of the country, appro chmg the en
emy's territory on the debateabl 3 w -ters
by a direct liny instead of offering an ex
posed one by running prelW to the pii
cmj 's country for hundreds of 5 The
Hennepin and Ohio river and Lake Erie
canals lulfil thi condi iyn of naval effect
heness, while off Tig a still greater com
mercial value. A shU canl connect!- g
the lakes with the ocean, either by the en
largement of the Erie canal or by the
Niagara route, will have a great com
mercial value, but its effectiveness in case
of war would be a negati e quantity.
NO INSUPEKABIK OBSTACITi
Intimations are abroad that all is not
yet plain sailing for the nnion betweei
the Pittsburg and Duquesne traction com
pares. The talk is that the agreement
will be taken Into the courts and the pos
sibilities of a monkoyand-parrot contro
versy before the thing is ended are plainly
hinted at
Inasmuch, as the Constitution of Penn
sylvania forbida any corporation to "in
any way control" a parallel or competing
line, it seems possible that if the traction
agreemost weie to get into court it would
be thrown out as against pub'ic policy.
But supoose it was? Has not Pennsylva
nia already witnessed in the case of much
greater transportation lines how easify the
enactments of the Constitution and the
orders of the courts can bo nullified? After
the State has calmly accepted the stupend
ous overriding of the Constitution and the
courts m the great South Penn case, it
would be straining at the gnat after swal
lowing the camel, to kick up a row o er a
htte traction combination. Besides which
the objectors, real or imaginary, must
hav e forgotten that the deliberate conclu
sion of the Senate of Pennsylvania less
than three months ago, was that the Con
stitution, if it means what it says, is un
constitutional, "We do not think that threats of main
taining and enforcing the clauses of the
State Constitution aaainst the influence of
corporations has any especial terrors for
the traction companies. "What," as the
Hon. Tim Campbell of New York used to
remark, "is the Constitution among
friends?"
THE CHH.KAN MCDDI.E,
Press dispatches continue to resound
with talk of war with Chile. The hunger
of the new navy for the glory of actual
fighting causes the fact to be ignored that
the proposed conflict is one in which the
United States can win little credit and
ma suffer the greatest injury to her ex
tending South American commerce. The
tone of the news also continues to ex
hibit features which warrant the sober
and thoughtful consideration of the United
States in raising a question as to its ac
curacy. For instance, latest telegrams refer to
Seuor 3Iatta's "defiant replj " as render
ing war almost inevitable. A defiant re
ply would be a rather annoying thing and
would be unjustifiable if the United States
had given no cause for defiant feelings.
For that reason it is important, as The
Dispatch has urged, to know whether
diplomatic ofiense or a defiant tone was
committed by Egan in presenting the first
note of the administration. The pertinence
of the inquiry is apparent, as it was so
represented at the time from Egan's vi
cinity. But, as to the question of fact, was it
defiant for Senor ilatta to put in calm
language the claim of Chile that' the
United States Government is misled in this
matter by misinformation? Unfortunately,
there is too much ground for belief that
this assertion is not without foundation.
Some indications to that effect have al
ready been noticed. Another has just
been brought out It was widely pub
lished that Captain Schley's demand on
Judge Foster, tnat witnesses from the Bal
timore before the court of inquiry be ac
companied by an officer as counsel, was
refused. Judge Foster's letter to-Captain
Schley, of November -6, just published in
this country, shows that the Judge, wliile
pointing out that the procedure in Chile
did not permit the request to be granted
in exact form, the same end could be
reached. "You may accomplish what you
wish," wrote Judge Foster, "by sending
with the sailors an officer in whom you
hae confidence, who may act as inter
preter." This puts so entirely different a
face on the affair as to reduce the former
report to the rank of a gross misrepresen
tation. If we must fight with Chile in order to
secure the protection of our citizens, let
us fight But before we get into any such
imbroglio we have the right to be well as
sured that we are not being led into it
blindly by interested partisans and fire
eating naval officers.
"If the foreign wheat crop had been large
this vear, what could vi e hav o done witli our
600,000 COO bushels?" asks the Louisville Cour
ier Journal. The Hrain would make cood
hiead would it nott And is there nnymoie
reliable form of surplus wealth thanasui
plus of food?
The proposed displav of millionaire,
Christmas chanty in New York is getting a
ventilation that puts it in its true light.
Thcairangementby which the wealthy chil
dren who donated then second-hind Chiist
mus gilts were to look down'fiom the alti
tude of the botes on the pool childien
herded together on the floor to receive the
gifts is being riddled by the genuine chanty
woikers of the city undei the lead of Dr.
Kamsfoid The funaamenlal idei of the ar
rangement being to make a display or chai
ity, of course it was to he expected that the
con ictioii of the great social supoiioiity of
the donors to the recipients would crop out
111 the details
Om; of the most instructive features of
the rapid transit question in Jiowlorkis
the activity and earnestness with w Inch the
Gould and Vanderbilt organs aie assuring
tne public that they w ould nevei be satis
fied with an undergiound rail ay.
It is supposed that the amendments to
the Brooks bill will increase the total reve
nue from licences about $8CO,000 111 the State.
This does not, pel haps, make sufficient al
lowance for the fact that thcie may be
lewer applicants for a thousand dollar
license. On the othei hand, the total reve
nue fiom licenses will go into local tieas
uries, so that the gain to them will be even
larger than that amount. Which makes it
pertinent to warn local statesmen against
wasting the money just because they are
flush.
The store of private information which
Sir Charles Russell w ill ha e acquired about
the scandals of Great Britain, if he keeps on
a few years longer, will be enough to make
a Police Gazette leporter swell up and burst
fioin envy.
Some offensive partisan has discovered
that the eight messages of President Wash
ington did not altogether cover so much
space as the last one of President Harrison.
Probably the difference will bo explained
by the "billion dollai country" aigumcnt.or
in the terseT and more tnking form used by
William It. Ti-iveri, when someone re
maiked that he stuttered more in Xew York
thin when ho lived in Baltimore "B-b-bigger
citj ," replied Tra ers.
Waenek Miller's recent speech on the
Nicarng 14 Canal stated that his company
does not ast Gov ernment aid. Ho caret ully
omit,.d to say, howovor, that it will lefuse
a Government loan of $100,000,000 or a $65,000,
000 job.
COI.CERNING the report that Judjp Hol
man is to be Chairma 1 of the App?vp
ations Coming ) the New Yoik Preis takes
it as an evidence that "Penunousness is to
reign." As the penuriousness referred to
mjvas economy it may be remarked that,
alter the billioi.-dollai experience of the
last Congro., a little penuriousness may bo
time' j in order to save the public finances
f re 111 penury.
The Irish leaders might dodge issues if
they were disposed to; but they eannot
dodge the volleys of sticks and stones
which at present seem to constitute the
most impressive feature of Irish politics.
Assistant Secretary Kettleton
thinks the Treasu.-y Department should bo
div lied into two parts, and the new pait be
mado the Depaitment of Commeico, which
he tliinns would furnish full employment
for a new Secictary. Itis also intimated
that General Nettleton knows the man who
would, ho thinks, be exactly suited to All
the new secretaiyship.
The committees of the House give em
phasis to the general impression that Mr.
Mills is not in it, and the tree silver Demo
crat is in the saddle.
Milwaukee newspapers offer to the
Democratic Convention a guarantee fund
lor expenses amounting to$100.0C0, and a hall
alleged to be capable of seating 22 000 people.
New York newspapers turn up the nose of
scorn at the existence of such a hall, but
recognize that Milw aukeo Is out for busi
ness. If Emin Pasha is in peril now, as re
ported, it may be understood that he will
have to do his own rescuing.
"Xatttrally, our sailors are spoiling
for a fight with Chile Fighting is their
trade and there is promotion in it. But
what is there In it for civilians?" asks the
Buffalo Express The question is easily
answered. What Is in It for civilians, is:
Taxes, and mateiial for Jingo polities.
PEETINEM PERSONALITIES.
General Nelson A. .Miles is as great
a favorite in Chicago society as he was in
that of San Francisco, Cal.
Z. T. Sweext, late Consul General to
Constantinople, has accepted a call to the
.pastorate of the Tabernacle Chistian Church
at Columbus, Ind.
The hereditary Prince of Meiningen and
his wife and daughtei. Count Eutenburg
and other members of the aiistrocracy are
suffering from influenza.
The Misses Irving, sisters of "Washing
ton Irving, still occupy the author's ramb
ling little cottago at Tarrytown on the Hud
son. They are now old and feeble.
Xu Prescott Hubbard, who has just
been re elected Secretary of the New Eng
land Society of New Toik, has been chosen
to that position successively for 57 years.
Ex Governor Porter, Minister to It
aly, is visiting the United States and enter
tained a literary club recently in Indianap
olis by reading a paper on Ancient Rome.
Pnih cess Louisa Sophia, of Sehles-
nig Holstein, who on June 14, 1SS9, was mar
ried in Berlin to Prince Frederick Leopold I
of Prussia, has given birth to a son at Pots-1
dam.
Ex-Governor McLane is lying ill with
pneumonia at his homo in Baltimore. His
condition yesterday was quite serious, ow
ing to his advanced age. lie is in his 77th
year.
Hon. Eobert T. Lincoln, the United
States Minister to England, has returned to
his post of duty. During his tour of the
Continent he visited Paris, Rome, Athens,
Constantinople and many other points of
inteiest. '
The Queen, her youngest daughter,
Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of
Battenberg, and the children of Princess
Beatrice left Windsor yesterday and went
to Osborne House, on tho Isle of Wight,
where the Christmas hollldays will bo
spent.
Boston Is Tired or Its Dynamiter.
Boston Traveller. 3
Now that it is settled beyond doubt that
Norcross was the man, we hope we shall
hear no more of the details of tills terrible
tragedy.
LiyE WASHINGTON WAIFS.
"WASHi-GTOir, Dec. 18. The Bureau of
American Republics is informed that the
Congress of Bolivia has, by a majority of
one vote, rejected the tieatv m ide between
the Executive or that Republic and the new
Government of Chile. In this treaty Bolivia
granted to Chile the exclusive and perpetual
right of sovereignty over the province of
CobIJa, which has been in the possession of
Chile since the -var with Bolivia and Peru in
1881. In consideration of this Chile ceded to
Bolivia the fiee and perpetual light of com
mercial transit throui the port of Antofa
gasta, recognizing ar the same time the
soveieign rights of Bolivia to establish
custom houses on the Bolivian frontier with
out any other lestriction than those con
tained in the convention of May, 1 8S5 The
Chilean Government also agreed to pay Bo
livia 4,000,000 lor the benefit of Bolivian
subjects who suffered damages dining the
war of 1SSI. It is understood that the tieaty
will be leferred back foi modifications de
manded by the Congress.
The Bureau of American Republics is in
formed that the Government of Teiuhas
paid $7,000 to Mr. Anibal Villegas, the Peru
vian Ministerto Germany.for the puipose of
paying the passage and traveling expenses
of 15 German families from Hamburg to
Iquitc", where thev will pi oceed to estab
lish a colony on the Amazon rivei. The
Peruvian Congress has also voted $20,000 to
piv the expenses of the immigration nnd
settlement of SO additional Germ in families
in the same locality: which Mi. Chailes
ltomer is about to bung from Hambuig.
A letter received by the Bureau of
Ameiican Republics fiom Dr. Jeionimo
Zelaja, Mimiterof Foreign Affairs for the
Republic of Honduras, bungs thcinfoima
tion that Colonel F. F. Hildor, of New
Orleans, his obtained a concession under
which he proposes to utilize the fiber of the
binina tree, and to that end ho is going to
"!tai t banana plantations. Dr. Zelaya con
tinues as follows "It is eay to obtain
lands on the coast atveiylow puces and
even gratis upon application to the Govern
ment. During the three months of our
summer the heat on our coasts both North
and South i intense, but not unhealthful.
In the mtprinr nf tliA imintiT n. for in
stance, hjiein Tegucigalpa luscaran the
Angeles Valley, lntibuca, Santa Posa the
climate is excellent."
Assistant Seceetaey SruALDiNG has
issued a cncular to customs officeis in re
gard toreimported spints, in which he says:
"The department ha mg ascertained that
attempts have been made to reimport and
entei at a duty equal to the internal revenue
tax liquois exported from the United States
and changed in their condition while
abroad, your particular attention is invited
to the provision of article 377, of the general
regulations ot 1881 lequiring the production
of a duly authenticated certificate trom the
pioper officer of the customs at the foielgn
port of reslupment stiting that the mer
chandise was imported fiom the United
States 'In the condition wnich it is re
turned.' Nomeichandise claimed to be the
Sioduct of the United States shall therefoie
e admitted to the privileged entry without
such certificate or a bond tor the production
of tlie simo in the penal sum equal to double
the duties to which a similai merchandise of
foreign production would be subject."
ASSISTAM SrCKETARY OF STATE
WnAivroN says that ho is not advised as to
the intention of the Italian Government to
resume active diplomatic lelations with the
United States by appointing a Minister to
succeed Baion lava, lecalled. It is learned
that when Ital) takes the initiative in tho
mattei the leave of absence grin ted Gov
ernor Porter, United States Minister to
Italy, will expne and he will lesume his
post at Rome, from vvhicl. he has been ab
sent since the recall of Baron Fava.
By appointment the members of the Illi
nois delegation met in the Intel State Com
meice Commission room this morning to
make arrangements foi the Congressional
excursion to Chicago Senator Cullom called
the meeting to ordei. Messis. Dickinson,
Peck and Lawrence, representing the
World's Fair management, lead the invita
tion which had been extended to Congress
men, and told of the arrangements they ex
pected to make as to trains, etc. Tho Sena
tois and Representatives present reported
they had not been able to secure definite
promises fiom any number ot Congressmen
to make the trip, and Senator Cullom said
such Senators as. he had been able to see
could not spare the time to tak-s the excut
sion. He added, how t-ve-", th.tt he had been
ciatified toleain fiom most of them that
they vieio thoioughlj in sympathj with the
Exposition project, and intended to do what
tnoy could to maivo it a success, i no su
stance of the reports was to the effect tlv a
mote complete response conldbehad from
Congressmen tc their invitition when tne
managers of the excursion weie able to le
port exactly what time the train would
leave and when it would return. After a
shoit discussion upon this point, Mr Dick
inson nccepted a suggestion made bj Mr,
Springer that the train be started to-morrow
evening, arriving in Chicago Sunday night
and leave that city for Washington Tuesday
everirg, reaching Wasnmgton Wednesday
morning. The exact hour of starting was
left to the arrangement of Messrs Dickin
son and La wience, and after appointing a
committee, consisting of Messrs Durbeiow,
Post and Cable, to co operate witli these
gentlemen in securing the attendance of as
manv Congressmen as possible upon the ex
cuision, the meeting adjourned.
Kepresentatite Mills' condition is
much improved. Congiessman Mnnsur has
recovered from his sprain and is able to be
about to-day.
The Evening Star has this editoriallv:
"There is something thoroughly Chicagoan
in the idea whioh has resulted in a general
invitation to Congress to visit the World's
Fair site and see for Itself what has been
and is being done. The transportation and
entertainment of 400 or 600 more or less dis
tinguished men w ould be a gigantio task for
the average town, but Chicago is not an
average town; it is Chicago. Senators and
Repiesentatives who have not yet givon
much thought to the quadro-centenmal may
imbibe information and inspiration at
the fountain head, and as a result the legis
latoiandthe Fair will probably be bene
fited. If the excursion is only as succcsslul
In a business sense as it will besociallv.
Chicago and tho country generally will have
much to be proud of."
TnE French Institute has granted the
Cnvier piize of $300 to the United States
Geological Survejifor the excellence of its
woik.
The Comptroller of the Currency to-day
appointed Frederick N. Paulj, of Los
Angeles, receiver of the California National
Bank ol San Francisco
The ratification by the Beichstag to-day
of the commercial reciprocity tieaty be
tween Geimany and Austria-Hungary en
sures tho completion of the leciprocity ar
rangement bctw een tho United States and
Germany so far as tho lattei country is con
cerned, but its effectiveness still depends
on the action of the Austria-Hungarian
Reichvratb, as undei its terms our agree
ment is contingent on the ratification of the
German-Austrian treaty by each of those
Gov ernments.
A communication has been received at
the Wai Depaitment from Major Overman.
the engineer officei under technical arrest at
Baltimore, stating that he will accept tho
privilege of visiting Cleveland to investi
gate the charges that have been made
against him It is not expected that his
answers to the charges will leach here for .1
1 week.
Assistant Secretary Crounz to-day
issued an adveitisement inviting proposals
loi the purchase of t o custom house site
and building, New York City. These pro
posals will be opened at the Treasury De
paitment, Januarj 20, and no offer less than
$1 060,000 w ill be consideied.
The Navy Department is informed of the
airlval of the three vessels of Admiral
Walkei's squadion, the Chicago, Atlanta
and Bennington, at St. Lucia, West Indies,
this morning. They will proceed without
delay to Brazil, and thence to Monteveideo
A stop will probably be mado at Bahia.
There was a meeting of the Rules Com
mittee of tho House to-day, at which theie
was an intormal discusion of the advisabil
ity of increasing tho membership of some of
the House committees; No action was takSn,
nnd the committee will meet to morrow
morning, in time to report a resolution to
tim Hnnse authorizing the Sneaker tnmnni-c
the committees and fix their number except
. U1Y1S1UU UC liaviiv..
X
THE FAIE CSAMPED FOB BOOM.
Floral Decorations Crowded Oat, and 40
Acres More May l3o Added.
Chicago, Dee. IS One question which has
troubled the World's Fair directors has been
that of securing sufficient space inside tho
buildings. In satisfying tho demand for
that, another cause for alarm has been
created. The great question now is to se
cure sufficient space outside of the build
ings. Because of an elaborate allottment of
ground for outside decorations the space ac
corded to pedestrians has been so narrowed
down as to make it almost useless for tho
purpose Intended. Between the buildings
and the lake and the lagoon tho authorities
admit there is not sufficient space.
The only way out ot the difficulty is to do
away with considerable of the space ac
corded for the purpose of floral decoartions.
Even then it is admitted the space will be
insufficient. So crowded is the committee
for spaco that President Baker is now nego
tiatiating with the owners of property di-
iccnv-outii ana adjoining tlie grounus lor
the lease of 40 acres.
Chief John Thorp, of the Bureau of Flori
cnltnre, has jnst returned from the East,
wheiehe has been to get plants and palms
foi the Horticultural Department and Ex
position buildings and grounds generally.
Among those who have promised to con
ti ibute are Jay Gould and George W. Chllds.
Mi. Gould's contribution will be a collection
of palms, many of which are 45 feet in
height and centuries old. This collection Is
said to be the finest In the world. 1
Messrs. chance, of Birmingham, England,
have sent a communication saying that
they w onld be willing to pi ect a duplicate of
the famous Eddvstone Llghthouso ut)on the
lake shoje. not only as an exhibit, but as a
beacon lisht for the steamRis onrrvinsr r,as-
sengeis to and from the Woild's Fair.
Piosident Bonnev, of the World's Fair
Auxiliary, Ins sent invitations to the famous
men of letteisof all countries, asking them
to prepare especially foi the W orld's con
gresses some contribution of prose or
verse m most cases veise repiecentative
of the best stvle of the writer theieof. Itis
expected tohave songs and verses fiom the
ablest of Asiatic, European, Australian and
American writers There aie to be Bocon
gresses,and it is hoped to have anorationand
a poem for the opening of each of them by
a famous oratoi and poet Itis hoped, for
instance to got Sir Edwin Arnold to write a
hymn for the openine of the congress on
Religion Tennyson, Whittier nnd Holmes
aie old men, but while theydonot promise
to write thovhope to he able tqdoso Sir
Edwin Arnold has been made an honorary
member of the Auxiliary and has accepted.
BEATS ON THE WB0NG SIDE.
The Strange Place in 'Which a Pittsburg
Stan's Heart Is Located.
Ci"(Cima.ti, Dec. 18 About 11 o'clock last
night there drifted up the steep stairs to the
Highway Chapel, on East Fiout street, a
man without a parallel in the country,
George Burns, of Pittsburg. The man was
probably 60 years of age, and must have Dcen
at one time a physical giant. Nothing
peculiar was noticed until he removed his
hat, w hen a terrible three-corneied scar was
noticed on the top of the head. Tho scar
on the top of his head was inflicted
by a piece of a bombshell during the
bombardment of Fort Donnelson, where he
was an engineer on the ship Essex of Com
modoie Foote's squadron. The skull has
been patched up with a silver plate which
weig'is six ounces. While chief engineer of
the steamer Savannah, in 1884,'tho vessel
went on the rocks at Gav's Head, on tho At
lantic coast There Burns was terribly m
Jmed, but stuck to his engine to the 'last
moment, and was in the act of reversing tho
engine w hen the crash came. The vessel
vi as broken up and Burns caught fn the
wieck of the machinery and crushed almost
out of human semblance. The most remark
able thing about the man's injuries is that
while in the hospital undergoing treatment
it was discovered that Burns' heart had
been forced from its normal position on the
left side of the breast over to the right side.
Those who examined the man last night
could detect no traco of heart action on the
left side, while on the right side the beating
of the heait could bo plainly felt.
SENATOR CULLOtTS BOOM.
Senatob Ccllom's fuends are willing
lightning should stiiks in that direction
Boston A'eus
Senator Culxow, of Illinois, will blossom
into a full fledged Presidental candidate.
Hochy Jfoun'am Xeics.
Thb Cullom boom for the Presidency is
trying to start again. Perhaps Cullom is
urging an impossible claim for first place in
tho hope of getting second. Buffalo Express.
The Washington correspondents insist
that Senator Cullom's lightning rod is in
good repair, and that the Senator himself fs
braced up to a pitch where a shock of Presi
dental lightning would be taken as a matter
of course Chicago TieiC3.
Sev4.tob CCLL05I is Deing groomed as a
dark horse by his admirers. But It is of no
use. The Republican party is not likely to
nominate a man whose claim for considera
tion rests on the fact that he looks some
thing like Abraham Lincoln Boston Globe.
FIOBEHCE'S WILL ATTACKED.
Relatives Urge That n Codicil Has Disap
peared From the Instrument.
New Tokk, Dec IS The brothers and
sisters of the late W. J. Florence have taken
steps to contest his will on the ground that
a codicil has aisappeared from the instru
ment. In the will which has been filed Mrs.
Florence Is named as the solo executrix and
the en tne estate of the dead actor is left to
the wife, none of the actor's brothers or
sisters getting oven so much as a souvenir
of lmn fiom among the large collection of
articles which he picked up dm ing his event
ful caieer. The will on file was drawn Mav
6, 1S76, by WMtmore & Bowne. It is an "al
ternate" will, in which Mr. Florence pro
vided that his estate should goto his wife in
case she survived him: Mis Florence, at the
same time, made a will leaving her entire es
tate to her husband in case she died first.
Thehrotheis and sisters of Mr. Floience,
whose real name was Conlin, and who was a
full brother to Inspectoi Conlin, of this citv,
profess to ho suipiised that a codicil to this
will has not been found. They say that Mr,
Florence repeatedly assuied various mem
beisof the familj, inclnding tho inspector,
that he had made a oodicil some time befoio
he was taken ill, in which he had loft his
relatives property provided for out of his
laie means, and had especially made pro
vision for the care of his naralvtie brother.
John Conlin, of this city. Mrs Williams, a
sister of Mis. Florence, sajs the attack on
the memory of the deceased and his will is
-outrageous, and that there was no codicil to
the will.
THE GRIP ABROAD.
In manv cases t he homespun grip cure is
worse than the grip Washington Post.
Thf conqueror of the world these days is
that remoiseless tyrant, the grip. Chicago
Globe.
As exchange says that la grippe is abroad
again. We hope it will stay abroad. Buffalo
Times
Are you ready for la grippe? Keep your
feet warm and your head cool. Boston
T atelier.
Baltimore has the la grippe with trim
mings. They are not an improvement, how
ever. St. Paul Globe.
Present a bold front to la grippe, and, ten
to one, it will pass you by for some creature
moie apprehensive and less courageous.
Boston Globe
La grippe is downing hundreds all over
the State. It is nothing to that grip which
the good wife finds on her husband's bank
balance Rocky Mountain jyeus
It must not be inferred that the grip at
tacks only distinguished people. It is only
such people whose tioubles tho newspapers
keep track of. Ordinary folks have it just
the same, but they don't get their names
published until they die. Boston Herald.
Three American Bishops Appointed.
New York, Dec. 18 A cable dispatch from
tho Roman correspondent of the Catholic
Jfeus announces the appointment of Veiy
Rev. Ignatius F. Horstman, D. D , of the
cathedral, Philadelphia, as Bishop of Cleve
land: Rev. Sebastian Messmei. D D . Profes-
soi of Canon La in tho Catholic Univeisity
at Washington, as Bishop of Green Bay,
Wis , and Veiy Rev. James Schwebach,
Vicar General of La Crosse, Wis , piomoted
to the vacant See.
Liberia Is Not a Glittering Success.
Washington Star
Liberia has not proved the glittering suc
cess that was expected fiom it as a country
for colored colonists. There is small reason
to expect that the resources and opportuni
ties of America will be abandoned for tho
African coast.
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TWO VIEWS OF CAEMENC1TA.
the masculine.
Carmencita shakes hands as she dances
with all her heart. The hand is very small,
yet plump, and the fingers are delicate and
look all the prettier for having never a ring
upon them. She takes your hand firmly,
presses It quite perceptibly, though the
probabilities are that you will not notice the
pressure if you are looking at her eyes, for
there the real welcome Is printed in capitals,
though she breathes a gieeting in broken
English and soft Spanish that is gracious,
too. Her walk betrays the dancer; her step
Is springy and she moves with the grace
born of muscular strength and good
health and brought up by art. When
she talks in her polygot way, a tes
selated tissue ot Spanish, French and
English, she is dancing still. It must have
been hard work forSargent when he painted
her portrait to catch her in repose. Even
in the calm and uninspiring atmosphere of
her hotel tho other dav wi-en I met her for
the first time, she could not make her de
meanor match the demure sofa upon w hlch
she sat. When sho didn't smile, or lift her
dark brows, or shake her head saucily, or lift
a hand, or wave a dainty lace handkerchief,
and especially when her eyes ceased to put
an accent upon what she said or to com
ment upon others' words, tor ten seconds
together, she seemed out of her characfer.
If she is a great dancer, her eyes and brows
and mouth and hands are a corps de ballet
at her command.
"I like Pittsburg," she said, and the
familiar formula actually sounded sincere.
"Every time I begin in a new place I'm
atraid oh! very afraid nervous; my feet
aie afraid, too. They were afraid Monday
night, and I could not dance so well. But
the kind welcome fiom you all gave me
courage. If it were not for your hands, the
applause, my feet would be cowards," and
the dark eyes cast a reproachful glance at
the tip of one of the accused toes just visi
ble in its neat low cut slipper beyond the
hem of her lilac gown. If she had ground
for reproaching her nimble feet, I felt, had
they not a far gieater cause for complaint
against me foi I bad written after seeing
Carmencita dance that her feet were not
very small, though ever so clover, and now I
realized that I was in error. I took refuge
in contrite confession, and asked if by any
penance I conld atone for the libel.
"Yes," said La Carmencita, with a tri
umphant smile, "kneel, sir, at once and
measure for vonrself!" and she put out one
of her slandered extremities, which, in a
black stocking and a hieh-heeled slmner.
'looked aggressively small. With a pencil I
irucea tne loot, in its slipper, upon a sheet
of paper It measured exactly seven inches,
and in width could be accommodated nicely
111 this column. When it walks abroad it
wears a No. 2 shoe. In tho flat, heelless
dancing slipper of course it looks larger. It
Is beautifully shaped, and the instep is high.
. "Aren't you homesick? Don't you want
to go back to your beloved Spain?" I asked.
"Yes very, very much," was her reply.
with a shrug of the shoulders; but that
dreaiful sea! I like water to bathe in, to
drinkj bnt npt to carry mo. I remember my
voyage here. I left Paris," then she bandaged
h6r ejes tightly with her handkerchief,
shuddered and made a wry faoe that sug
gested the horrors of mal de mer. "I
reached New York, and that's all I can tell
you. It is not an easy life, mine; I go from
the hotel to the theater, fiom the theater to
the hotel; never upon the street, nev er in
tho public dining room. I plav a little
piano and guitar," and she held up an im
aginary guitar and twanged the strings with
a lively grace. "The mandolinT No, no, no,
no! I sing, but not a great deal." It 13
w orth recalling that when Charles A. Dana,
the great editor. hea.rd her sing and suw her
dance in his house, he said to her, "You
dance better than you sing, and you sing
better than you dance."
And as she talks on abont herself, because
we will not let her stray from so charming a
suujecr, you are reminded it is not possible
for her to bo ungraceful even seated on a
modern sofa built for discomfort. The sun
light and eolor ot her native land seem to be
continually escapinc from the big black
eyes and fiom the full lips, the upper a
perfect bow which serves to disclose her
white regular teeth. In her dances she
never concludes a movement abruptly but
in a posture thatisasgracefolastheactivity
which it pnnctnates; so in conversation the
intervals 01 silence as well as tier exclama
tions, are emhellished with llttlo plajs
of feature or gestures that make her
a picture of animation always. She
lives in an atmosnhere of admiration,
and she likes it and accepts it as a rose ac
cepts the sun and wind and dew. Her busi
ness manager, Mr. J. E. McDonough, is
gradually becoming Castilian in his courtly
politeness under Carmeneita's influence;
and Signer Echepaie, the leader of the
Spanish students, is delightfully reverential
when, as he sometimes does, he acts as her
interpreter. She will not need an interpreter
much longer, for she undei stands nearly all
that is said to her in English, and if she still
insists, Spanish fashion, In pronouncing
every letter in a word, and especially the
final vowels that are silent in our tongue,
she can say plenty of pi etty things in En
glish. It is a fact that "Tanks" from her
mouth is better than "Thanks" from many
another. The only word you don't like to
hear her say is : "Goodby!"
Hepeues JOHPtS.
THE FEMININE.
For some people there is no such term
as en famille, and, I think, Carmencita be
longs to that class. You could never im-
agme ner sitting upon a neartnrug, wun
stockinged feet before a blazing fire, hugging
her knees as girls have done, less the hearth
rug, etc , since the days of Cain and Abel's
sisteis. You can't think of Caimencita lov
ing anjbodv (she says she hasn't time to do
so), being interested in anybody, listening
to anybody. Always theie is the barrier ot
the footlights. And when she smiles at you,
even in the privacy of her own apartment,
involuntarily you almost clap your hands
andcrv "Bravo! bravo!" while you wonder
if she will respond to an encore. No, Car
mencita is never Senorita Carmen Dauset.
She Is Carmencita sleeping, waking and
b.eathing. I should like to sec her with her
mother.
Don't imagine that all this is a tfick for
whipping the old gentleman round the
stump and thus avoiding the word "arti
ficial." Carmencita conld give points on
naturalness to girls who don't get a tithe in
their lite times of the admiration which she
receives in a week. But, what will you?
She has been stared at, praised, lavished
over by a Spanish, a French and an Ameri
can world. Is it, then, likely that you can
be her companion? No She holds an audi
ence with you, and when you remove jour
wraps before entering you hang your per
sonality up on the same peg. Nevertheless
Mademoiselle (thus address her) is gra
ciously pleased to see you. More
over, she insists upon using her
ejes for vanquishing purposes. These
aie not too large either, (now lot overy
small eyed w Oman rush tunmphantly toher
mlrioi), noi aie the lashes so long 01 so
thick, but upon the lower lid is a most
curious dark brown streak, which must be
the niece de resistance. She looks atvou. and
even a woman is done lor. A small head,
small hands, that aie not insignificant he
cause so w ell shaped about a flv e glove and
small leet are among tho gifts showered
upon hei. And sho talks about these gilts
with the same ease that other women think
about t liens.
"Does Mademoiselle everlall in love?" I
ventuied to ask. And given tho surround
ings, and who I was, and who she was, it
was, therefore, not an impertinent question.
Mademoiselle and I carried on a conversa
tion which, to tell the truth, was lather
ragged at the edges, for in English she can I
only babble tolerably, wliile in Spanish her
questioner had never made a step even with
a go-tait. The interpreter translated the
woids, and no sooner was "love" reached
th in sho shook hei head vigorously. "No
time," she said smiling, "no time."
Did she read books nov els, anything'
She undeistood this, and pantomimed thus,
chattering away in Spanish: She spread out
her hands, dtew hei brows together, scanned
their palms anxiously and then lifted one
hand toward hei cheek, which she laid on it.
I take it she was renie-.entlng heiselt a3
tailing asleep upon beginning to read. Too
sleepy to read! No time for love! Such a
girl is as hard to analyze as the wandering
breeze plaj ing among the grass in summer
time.
Carmencita is nothing if not reposeful.
Her features earn their right toexhtt, and I
tell you none of them are sleeping partners
in tho company that goes to make up her
beauty. Her brown-bordered eye gleams,
her mouth always laughs, she loves tho
piano and her fingers insist on plav ing upon
her knees; and she loves to dance, so ner
feet keep up a continual tapping.
Carmencita grasps the hand upon being
fnfmrtnpprl lint vvlien she s.ivs "Goodbv."
merely nods her head. Then the goesj.
away and proDably forgets you, or you go to
form a bit of a composite recollection.
I have a notion about Carmencita. I
believe if you dropped in on her when she is
asleep you would find her poised on one toe,
with arms raised to pick" kisses with the
foiefinger and thnmbof each hand off her
Hps. I am as sure of it as if she had been
"caught in the act."
Marios Crawford Gaixaber.
DRAWING ROOM GOSSIP.
Fashionable Functions Push Each Other So
Closely That the Week Mast Be Recon
structed and Enlarged Allegheny Chil
dren Write and Produce a Play.
The juvenile dramatic relative of the
Tuesday Night Club baa decided to defer
performing a plav now being rehearsed at
Mrs. John Haworth's house, on Stockton
avenue. The unprecedented number of
functions tabled for the holidays renders
this necessary. A bright j oung member, or
rather one among the many bright young
members, suggests, since this is the season
ofgifts, that some generous person present
the club with a name. He, she or it adds
further tint satisfaction for almost any
cognomen is guaranteed.
Mrs. Park Painter again treats her little
friends to a novel entertainment, consisting
of a play written by several children and
performed by them last night inherhonse
before n company of juvenileacqualntances.
It is called "The RaNton Case," and is said
to be as full of melodrama as a streetcar
these davs is of Christinas shoppers. The
en st was as follows: First Burglar. George
McMnrty: .Vr. Mnlston, Southward Hay; Sec
ond Burglar, Bedell bnjdim: Soap Peddler,
Kenneth Painter: Butler, Marshall Bell. The
production was not thrown away npon an
unappreciativ e audience and the tragedy on
the stage was well balanced by the humor
in the audience. The young actors were
greeted with applause and flattered by nu
merous encores.
It is said that a sentiment in favor of a
dramatic organization in the East End 13
growing and flourishing. Pi'tsburg is be
coming too large for tho Tuesday Night
Club to satisfy all demands, and, moreover,
it seems the larger it arrows and the better
facilities become forreaching points hereto
fore faroff the greater tho people desire af
fairs to be within a stone's throw of their
own eaves. The desire to have a club 13
indicative of a willingness to support such
should one ever be started.
Social Chatter.
Charles F. Niedrix ghaus, tho son of the
St. Louis millionaire tin plate ui inufacturer,
registered at the Anderson yesterday with
his bride. They have oeen married a week,
and stopped ov er here on their w eddmg trip.
His wife was Miss Laura Miller, daughter of
Rev. A. Miller, a former pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Methodist Church. Mr.NIedringhaus
built the People's Mission in St. Louis, and
about a year ago Mr. Miller left Beaver to
preach there. The young couple met and
soon learned to love each other. Mrs. Nied
ringhaus is well known here, and they held
a reception for their Irlends nt the Anderson
yesterday afternoon. Miss Young, of New
Lisbon, and Mi33 Vinton, of New Philadel
phia, were present.
The additional rehearsal held by the Mo
zart Club last evening was well attended.
Every member of the club is taking an
active part in improving and strengthening
the chorus, and the presentation of tho
"Mes3ian" on the Monday evening after
Christmas will be one of the best musical
entertainments ever given in the city. The
sale of tickets opens on Tucbday at Messrs.
Mellor & Hoene's music store.
JIrs. Barto, principal of the kindergarten
school in the Bible House, Arch street,
Allegheny, has issued invitations for a re
ception on Wednesday afternoon. Miss
Eedpathwill superintend the elocutionary
exercises nnd Prof. Byron King and Miss
Etta King will give several readings.
The marriage of Miss Hettie Brinkerman,
of Indiana. Pa , and George Mc"N icol, a well
known young railroad man of Pittsburg,
was celebrated unostentationslv at Holli
dnysjburg last night. Rev. T. F. Resscr, pas
tor of the Lutheran Church, performed tho
ceremony.
Mrs. Quitcv A. Scott and the Misses Scott,
of South Highland avenue, aie home from
New York, where thev had been for several
weeks. Mrs. Scott went East to spend
Thanksgiving Day with her son, Mr. Quincy
Scott, a young Cornell College man.
Mrs. S. S. Holla'nd entertained with cards
last night at her South Hihl mil avenue
residenee. Mr-.. Holland is a mot ncreeable
hostess, and her fi lends alwavs enjoy being
bidden to partake of her hospitality.
Mrs. Writ R. Sewell gave a dance last,
night for her sister, 3Iiss Julia Watson. The
hour of receiving was 9 o'clock, and Mrs.
Mark W. Watson, the mother of the hostess
and the debutante, assisted in receiving.
"Isoomar" was produced last nisht in
Mount Washington Librarv Building before
an interested companv of people. 3IiS3
Edith Smithson played the title rolo and a
number of clever people supported her.
Leland T. Powers entertained a Iaige au
dience 1 1st night in the Sewicklev Prcoyte
rian Church with his miperson itions of
characteis from Dickens' "David Copner
fleld." The concert this evening in Sewlckley
Choral Hall will draw people from town, be
sides, having.as is expectod,a lepresentative
Valley gathering in attendance.
Miss Arbuth-ot"3 tea for Mrs. Otis Childs
included among its gnests Mrs. Oliver Gar-rihOn-Rickotson,
nee Carnegie, who is just
nome irom ner uriuai trip.
Miss Stella Hats, one of last year s buds,
give3a dinner at the Duquesne Clubhouse
on next Tuesday. Miss Julia Watson Is its
raisond'etie.
Mrs. C. L. Maqeb has issued invitations for
a holiday ball.
THE DISPATCH IS BEAD.
A Place Secured for a Bright Boy Who
Furnished an Item.
Yesterday's Dispatch contained a special
telegram from its New York bureau telling
of tlie adventures of a lad who has traveled
all over the country on his wits, and who
has secured a half promise from Jay Gould
that his passage will be paid back to Scot
land, the boy's home. The Dispatch mails
yesterday brought the follow ing:
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The "Bov Tramp, "of this morning's piper, at
tracted mv attention I havetverfoit d the Scotch
pe jple honest and trustworthy. If t lis little fellow
fills the bill, he Is not too old to mold lato a good
man. His experience. If true, shows nerve and ln
eennlty. If he can read and wrlte.anJ caa find his
war to Wllllamsport. Pa., with credentials tnat he
Is the boy vou speak of in this morning's DIS
PATCH, I will try to teach lilra the life insurance
buslucs". RlLEV W. llev.
Pittsburg, December 1'. Hartford, Conn.
A Protestant Convent for Braddock.
Braddock, Dec. IS Specal.) A Protest
ant convent Is one of the propo-ed institu
tions for this place. To-day two members
of the Redemption Order of the Protestant
Episcopal Church were in this city looking
fora suitable site. This order has bnt one
convent in this country, located at Jersey
Citv, and it is proposed to establish the first
branch beie. The aims of the order are
somewhat similar to those of the Sisters of
Mtrcy, with the exception that creed and re
ligious lines are not so closely drawn.
A Log 20 Feet In lrgin Soil.
New Castle, Dec. 13. ISp-via'-l Excavat
ors in this city made a remarkable discov
ery this morning. About 20 feet below tho
surface they came upon a log, either bass
wood 01 of an extinct species. The log was
remarkably well pi eserved, and as the soil
suirounding it was virgin, not the slightest
idea is hazaided as to how the log was de
posited theie. The relic will be carelully
examined by local scientists.
A Good Place to Test Torpedoes.
New York Recorder. 1
Chile would be a good place to make somo
of those toipedo te3ts.
OCR 0WX JAY GOULD.
If Jay Gould has joined the 400 there's
millions in it. Chicago Tribune.
Jay Gould with the cry or "Monopoly" on
his lips is a spectacle for gods and men.
Chicago JVeit.
Jat Gould is about to burglarize his way
into New York society. The "400 ' may as
well surrender. Kansas City Timet.
It Is probable that 11 Jay Gould likes the
"Four Hundred" that he will buv It and
water its stock. Omaha World Herald.
A cOTEJiroRARY asks, "Is Gould Short?"
Well, he is not so all fired short, but ho
wouldn't make a successlul Cardiff giant.
Chicago Globe.
The admission or Jay Gould into the Four
Hundred seems to put watered stock on a
parity wi(h aristocratic family stocks.
Chicago Timet.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There are 13 miles of bookshelves in
the British Museum.
The sugar crop of the Island of Cuba 13
827,000 tons this year.
A gold coin loses 5 per cent of its value
in 16 years of constant use.
Only one couple in 11,500 live to cele
brate their diamond wedding.
Twenty-five hundred women in the
United States possess medical diplomas.
In India the Army Temperance Asso
ciation has 1H branches, with over 12,000
members.
A honse in Dedham, Mas"., built in
1G3G is occupied by the descendants or the
original builders.
Bridgeport, Conn., has a ghost, in ths
shape or a dark man of gigantio stature in
shirt sleeves, who carries a pistoL
Field flasks of aluminum instead of the
ordmarv glass flasks are being introduced
experimentally into the German armv.
Out of 2,700 Congregational ministers
in England and Wales at least 1.6C0 are ab
stainers; of 361 students 320 are abstainers.
According to Colonel Itockhill, the
devils are dnven-out of the towns in Corea
on New Year's eve by firing off guns and
crackers.
A valuable find of skeletons belonging
to tho lourth dynasty was recently made in
Egypt. This is the earliest known data of
Egyptian remains.
A smokeless fuel called "massute" is
being used on steam rollers in Vienna. Tho
fuel Is composed of the liguid residuum of
petroleum refineries.
It is a noteworthy circumstance that
all the men elected to tho. speakership since
the first Congress were born in ono or an
other of only 13 States.
Nature assumes curious shapes when
left to itself. A gourd, with a neck coiled
liko a serpent in the act of striking, 13 a
boasted curiosity in Mount Holly, N. C
In 1889 there were in Kussia 312 match
mannfaciones, with an aggregate produc
tion or 139,704,000 matches. Of these works
77 per cent manulactured phosphor matches.
Photography of speech, or rather of the
fleeting expressions and movements of the
human countenance during speech, is tho
latent of the many triumphs of the instanta
neous process.
There is no machinery in the Sierra
Leone Islands except the sewing machine.
The colony 13 103 years old and contains 5D,
000 people without; a sawmill or any ojher
kind of a mill to do any kind of woodwork.
It has been found that a dog in Salem,
Mass., is responsible for the mystenon3 dis
appearance of articles from a grocery. Ho
was watched and seen to carrv off the arti
cles one by one to the bouse or his master.
The number of passengers carried on
Egyptian railways in the year 1800 was 4,696,
2S6, as against 4,378 455 in 18t9, being an in
crease or 317 833. The number of miles or
line open in 1:90 was 963, as compared with
945 in liS'J.
An electric device for clearing a track
or obstructions Is among the newest ideas.
It consists of a triangular steel folding
frame, over which a net is stretched. This
is placed on the front of a locomotive and
can be opened at will, catching the obstruc
tion upon it.
The extraction of oil from grape-stones
promie3 to dcvcloointo a permanent in
dustry. Fora long time it has been known
that oilv matter was present in considerable
quantities in the stones of various descrip
tions of grapes, but only recently has tho
question been definitely investigated.
There is a very strong dislike to the bat
among the peasants of South Germany. A
feeling of dNgust and fear takes possession
of tho farmer who finds bats in hi chim
nev, not only because he believes tho
creatures will feed upon his pork that hangs
in the smoke, but because bats are regarded
as unlucky and bring poverty and mis
fortune. A countryman in Tennessee, where for
ests and game aro plenty, found that his
boys, who all have a gnn epiece, becamo
short of percussion caps a few days ago, and
tne nrst tning ne Knew tney were snooting
with match heads as a substitute. How
manv boxes of matches ha had lost in that
way he did not say. but he found they fired
as clear as the cap itself,
Among the curious taxes levied on
trades people in Corea, according to Colonel
Rockhill, is ono on sorceresses arriving at
the capital, where they had to pay the Board
of Revenue a certain number of logs or
sticks of wood: for what pnrpose It is not
said, but certainly not to bnrn them with
later on, for they are an influential class
in the community. The tax is no longer
levied.
In the course of the last 00 years a con
siderable number of European song mrds
have been turned loose in tho woods and
gardens of the New World, but, with rare
exceptions, they all disappeared before the
end of the second winter. Onlv 4 out of 5)
English larks brought to 3Iaryland In 1S79
were seen the next spring, and no nightin
gale has as yet managed to survive an
American blizzard.
A Jersey farmer came into Philadelphia
the other day with 15 pearls, which he sold
for $700. It is not an unnsual thing to find
pearls in New Jersey. Thev are often ob
tamed in large and valuable specimens in
the shell known as the unio. In lS57apenrl
of fine luster, weighing 93 grains, was found
at Notch Brook near P iterson. It became
known as the .'Queene Pearl," and was sold
by Tiffany & Co to the Empress Eugenie of
France for $2,500.
All birds seem to have an instinctive
knowledge that if they once surrender to the
rorce of the wind and allow themselves to
drift like leaves, there arounknown dangers
in store for them. They will hardly ever do
so unless to escape puisuit, and then only
for a few minutes, when their pace is so
marvelously rapid that, in the case of land,
birds, a few minutes is sufficient to carry
them out or the district they know into
others, from which they will, periiaps, never
bo able to nnu tueir way uacjeto the fields
which are their native home.
A very curious phenomenon is reported
from Florida. The Vamona Lake, which
lies across the Florida line, about 20 miles
from Thomasvillc, Ga, ha3 suddenly run
dry through a hole in the bottom. The lake
was about 13 miles long and from one to two
miles wide, and over most or tho surface
not over two or three feet deep Near the
middle was a basin where thero was 30 or 49
feet of water. The escape of the water has
left thousands of terrapins, turtles, alliga
tors, fish, and all sorts of denizens or the
lake to die or seek other quarters, and the
residents of the neighborhood have been
busy gathering up such or thee aquatia
treasures as tnev could make nseful.
PICKINGS IT.OM PUCK.
Citizen These ignorant foreigners should
not be allowed to vote.
Statesman That's Just what I w3 thlnkln.
Half or 'em loifk so much alike I can't tell which
one I've given Si bills to, an' wluch ones I
haven't.
"When Strcphon, hearing in the dark
A step, gave Bridget Daphne's kiss.
He evidently missed his mark.'
By having failed to mark his MUs.
Dr. Thirdly "We are told that hell is
paved with good Intentions.
Mr. Carr Yes: but we are not told that tne devil
Is going to tear it up to lay a cable road
Stranger Have you any first-class saloons
here?
Villager No: only second-class ones. Thi.lsa
prohibition town.
He saw a long, high trellis
Against a chimney red
Its creamy purple flow ers
And leaflets all had fled.
He clapped his han Js in wonder.
And queried all a-stare:
'Miami, is that a ladder
Forbanta Clans over there9"
Mrs. Ananias "What kind of man do yon
expect to make. If yon continue to tell stories'
Willy Ananias Oh, a second Chauncey M. De
pew, perhapsi
"What is your objection to Charles,
papa?" asked Maud.
He plays poker."' said papa.
'Bat so do you. You played with him last
night."
"I know It but he won."
I craved one golden lock of hair
Of those that like a crown bedecked her.
She gave it to me, and ever since
I've worn it as a chest protector.
Young Husband "Why, my dear; this
nnddinz Is burnt black. How did that happen
Young Wife I'm sure I don't know. I looked at
it Jnst berore yon came home and it was all right.
"But I've teen home two hours."
"Dear met I thought it was only a few nun
utes."
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