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riTTsBURO. TUCDW. .IANUA.RYS.
BLA1MTN vTltONR POSITION
The dogs of war booming the Jinpo
brand of journalism for the past few
weeks hae now taken up the task of
wntiiiK down Secretary Blaine, because he
has the tementj to use rational means for
readmit; an undtrstaudiiis with Chile.
The capacin of lhi class for the employ
ment of reason it, sufficiently ranked by
their prompt jump to the conclusion that,
because becretarj Blaine prefers an
honorable peace to an unreasonable war,
he is untrue to public duty.and because he
has consulted a sentleman of high stand
ing with larce South American interests,
there is a job in it
To this intimttion that it is the business
of the State Department to consult only
those who know nothing about Chile, and
take into consideration no interest except
the thirst of the naal officers for gore
and the hunger of the naval contractors
for profit, httls reply is needed. As
to the allegation that the President
is so under the influence of the war
boomers as to contemplate quarreling
with his Secretarj of State on this issue,
it will be the final stroke of good fortune
for Blame if the rumor proves true. It
will place him as the one man, in the esti
mate of the sober sense of the nation, who
represents the broad and sensible policy
of peace, union and mutually profitable
commerce between the republics of the
Western Hemisphere.
In his inauguration of the reciprocity
policy Blame perceived an opportunity
which statesmen of a lesser caliber were
unable to lecognize, and began an exten
sion of mutual American commeice of
immense possibilities for the United
States In his attitude of reasonable ad
justment of the Chilean matter he adopts
the logical lew that those great advan
tage are not to be lightly wrecked by an
unreasonable and bullying attitude: that
his country is not to be plunged into a
costh and possiblj disastrous war simply
lij the outer of Jingoes and jobbers, and
that an honorable diplomacy cannot deny
to a letter nation the principles of inter
national law which it has applied to itself
m a parallel case. B. this attitude Mr.
Bla'ne consolidates to himself the support
of all sensible and thinking Americans,
who prize the progress of pacific com
merce more than the costh show of war,
who haecense enough to know that the
sacrifice of lues and treasure to glut the
appetite of naal heroes would be a public
crime, and who are reasonable enough to
wish the opportunity to be extended for
the honorable amende of which Chile has
not or.lj gien a-surances but toward
which it has shown performance.
If President Harrison breaks with Sec
retarj Blaine on such a pretext it will
simply mark the great Secretary as the
coming man The one drawback to the
SeereUrj 's rise heretofore has been an al
legation of Jingoism. When he is thus
made the representative and exponent of
a conservative and peaceful extension of
ourrelations with other American nations
his former ire-eminence as a Presidental
candidate w ill be com erted into irresisti
ble strength
TOE ENCOURAGEMENT Or CRIME.
The prevalence and daring of thugs and
highwav robbers m New York are ac
counted for in the Evening World by the
laxity and delays of punishment. "Look,"
sajs that papr, "'at the record of stas
md anpeals and legal dilly-dallying over
jonvicted murderers and absconders and
embezzlers and .all sorts of criminals.
Then do jou have to ask how men dare."
There is no room for dispute that the
question why men dare to commit crimes
against persons and property is needless.
The rass to which we have come at this
immediate juncture is such that the
chances are usually on the side of the
criminal. In the personal conflict be
tween himself and his ictim he has the
advantages of design and preparation,
while the hazards of detection and pun
ishment are now being appraised by the
criminal classes at a very low figure.
But in one respect it appears from the
statements of cur New Tork cotemporary
that the burglars and robbers ot New
Torkaie worse off than their brethren of
Pittsburg In that city there are numer
ous cases m which the criminal has to lie
in prison while the law is shuffling oer his
case. Here, in the rare cases where those
gentrj fall into the hands of the law, they
are permitted to walk out of the jail or
courtroom when the monotony of con
finement becomes irksome. Under these
circumstances who can consider it strange
if the enterprising hoodlum takes to
bieaking houses, or "holding up" people
on the street as a regular profession?
KEsroN.iisir.iT'j. high am low.
Thebrakeman who was the immediate
cause of the disaster at Hastings, on the
New York Central, and who is charged
with manslaughter by the Coroner's jury,
has given himself up, and will now await
the action of the courts. As there does
not seem to be much doubt that his negli
pence produced the slaughter his case
would, under ordinary circumstances, be
an especiallj eligible one for enforcing the
criminal responsibility
But m this case the question is likely to
appeal to the sympathies of the jury as
well as to a souud public opinion whether
it satisfies the purposes of justice or
affords adequate public protection to
make a scapegoat of a humble offender
while men in high position, whose respon
sibility is rrreater than his. rrn nntoiiphpil
There is no doubt that the greatest re- j
sponsibility for the loss of life m that case
lay in the negligence of the directors of '
the road, in failing to provide on that
-crowded, track the block system, which 1
j ears of experience had, shown to be an
adequate safeguard against exactly such
disasters. Is there any public protection
in sending a brakwman to prison for a mo
ment of inattention under a misapprehen
sion of the circumstances, and leaving the
real authorities, vrho&vs neglect of standard
safeguards really cavuved the collision, to
continue such neglect with impunity?
Yet this is exactly what must be dono
under current jurisprudence. The courts
of New York have ruled .hat directors are
not to be held criminally responsible for
a policy of neglect, even w'lero it involves
'a violation of statute law. The theory
that "v ou cannot commit manslaughter by
proxy" absolves the directorsof the New
York Ceutral from any legal responsibil
ity for the loss of life which an enterpris
ing policy on .their part might have pre
vented. The statement of the case affords
a sufficient commentary on the judicial
theories which produce this result. It
would not be at all remarkable if -the cir
cumstances should indispose juries to con
vict a brakeman for a neglect not half as
grave as that which directors commitwith
impunity.
ANOTHER EXKCTOKAX NOTION.
The propositions already noted to change
the Constitution so as to elect the Presi
dent and United States" Senators directly
by popular ote are reinforced by another
proposing that each State elect her entire
delegation of Congressmen by a vote of
the whole State. This, it is asserted by its
supporters, can be done without amend
ing the Constitution, as is now done in the
case of Congressmen-at-large. The St
Louis Qlobe-Democrat advises States which
have additional Congressmen under the
new apportionment to keep them in that
position instead of ledistricting.
It is a little surprising to find this plan
classed by its supporters as like the pro
posed changes in Senatorial and Presi
dental elections, bringing the election
nearer the people. It is really the other
way. It is removing the representative
from the people of his own district to the
representation of the whole State. Twenty
or thirty men elected by a whole State can
never be as close to the people as the same
number each chosen by twenty or thirty
different districts. It is no less surprising
to find the argument that "the unfairness
of gerrymandering may thus be avoided,"
when the fact is that the unfairness of
gerrymandering would thus be made ab
solute. Such unfairness consists in the
fact that by it the minority is given less
than its fair proportion of representatives;
and the proposed plan would increase the
unfairness by depriving the minority in
any Stare of all Congressional representa
tives. The effect of this might often be
to repeat in the House of Representatives
what has beer frequently illustrated in
the Electoral Colleges a majority for one
party in the House elected by a vote the
total of which shows a large majority for
the other party.
It is a singular commentary on currcntf
political moves to find this advocated by a
leading Democratic paper in Michigan,
where its party has recently adopted the
plan of electing Presidental electors by
districts. If that change could be con
sidered m any other light than as a sheer
partisan device, its theory would be the
adoption of the plan of electing Congress
men for the election of electors. Yet the
leadingDemocratic paper of theState pro
poses exactly the reverse for the election
of Congressmen. This may be on the
principle of compensations; hut it serves
to class the Michigan Democratic idea
pretty thoroughly.
DISINTEGRATION or MEXICO.
Among new legislative projects is
one for the annexation of part of Mexico,
which Senator Quay is urging. The
general feeling of the United States is that
we have about enough territory as the sit
uation stands. There is certainly no hurry
to undertake new acquisitions. At the
same time, something is to be said for this
Mexican idea. It is true that there are a
great manj Americans and much Ameri
can capital in the Mexican Provinces ad
jacent to Texas, and it is also true that
Mexican government in those Provinces
is utterly insecure and inefficient This is
now instanced by the exploits of the out
law, Garza.
The condition is indeed very similar to
that which existed in the 30's, when the
Texans, with General Sam Houston at
their head, were obliged for safety of life
and property to cut loose from the old
Mexican Confederation and declare them
selves an independent Republic But even
after that had been done the Texans were
obliged to maintain their independent
nationality for seven or eight years before
the United States would consider the peti
tion of Texas to enter our union. Even
then the war with Mexico was brought on
by the ultimate acceptance of Texas as
one of the United States. '
The Provinces of Coahuila, Sonoro and
Chihuahua, which now want to follow the
example of Texas and join the United
States, have not won their independence
as Texas did, and any arrangement for
their acquisition would necessarily have to
meet the approval of the Mexican Govern
ment. But, upon the other hand, the
Mexican Government is so weak as to be
hardly able to do more than hold together.
It might be glad to be relieved of a terri
tory from which it experiences much
trouble. Assuredly, Diaz would not be so
hard to deal with as Santa Anna.
It is possib'e something may come of
the resolution looking to the annexation
of these Provinces, which Senator Quay
has introduced in Congress, as there are
special arguments applying to them which
do not exist in relation to any annexation
project so far broached.
KNATOR HILL'S STATESMANSHIP.
Senator David Bennett Hill has latterly
lteen telling the people of the United
States in general, and his Democratic sup
porters of New York in particular, fvhat
the policy of the Hill Democracy will be.
A prominent characteristic of the Hill
brand of statesmanship is that it does not
do whit was laid down by the signers of
the Declaration of Independence as a
necessity, namely, it does not hang to
gether. In his Elmira speech Senator Hill de
veloped the grand plan of free coinage
w hich should be marked by distinct sepa
ration from the Nevada policy of free
coinage. It did not make any difference
to Hill that the actual coinage measure he
proposed was exactly the same as that
urged by the Silver Senators. He would
have none of the Nevada style of free
coinage; but would insist on fre bi-metal-hc
coinage. A little further lapse of time
has brought a change o'er the spirit of
Hill's statesmanship. He now goes to
Washington on the platform of doing
nothing except to repeal the McKmley act
and the silver act of 1890. As this would
put the Democracy in the attitude of ad
vocating a return to the Republican legis
lation which they have attacked so vigor
ously for the past few ears, the princi
pal effect of Hill's statesmanship is to in
spire reflections ou the large amount of
ignorance require, d to make the reputation
ot a sharp i olitical manager.
It is to beioped that Senator Hill w.lx
J take an early opportunity to air his infal
lible statesmanship in the Senate, ine
opportunity for replying to it there will
have the result that David Bennett would
not be as imposing as he now is, but
wou3d know a good deal more about his
ownrank in politics.
ONE ENGLISH IDIOCY.
If there were any remnant of a con
science hidden away in the anatomical re
cesses of the British lion, it would be
rendered restless by the accounts which
Mr. F. Buxton gives of mismanagement in
British settlements on the West coast of
Africa. But the king of beasts devoured
the last survival of this uncomfortable
moral appendage years ago, so that the
comparison of French and English meth
ods of civilizing the native as typified at
St. Louis and Freetown respectively al
though thoroughly discreditable to tne
latter, will probably lead to no interest in
legislative circles beyond a possible ques
tion or two in the House of Commons.
Little thingsof this kind are nothing when
one is used to them, and they have become
contemptible, to England from over-familiarity.
The idiocy of England's colonial
administration passed into a proverb long
ago, and it has been very little improved
since it ledito the American Revolution.
That deliverance of the new agencies
which'havo been senillnc one side of the
story to Chile, to the ellect that Senor Malta
made a bad break bv returning his reply of
October 27 to Mr. Ejran, ' without everliav
inr; submlttedilt to President Montt or the
other members of the Cabinet," is some
tlnn in tUo lEno of a bad break itself. As
President Slorttt Tras only inaugurated the
other daj lien 3Ir. Ejran vr&s conspicuous
by hi absence and was before his inau
guration simply a naval officer tinder the
orders or the Provisional Junta, tho princi
pal significanceof this story Is in the igno
rance it displays ot Chilean affairs
Beware, oh. short-sighted and timorous
pedestrian of tbe youthful coaster as yoj
unexpectedly cross his slippery track. Per
mit him to break your shins and ho will
probably abuse you for spoiling his slide.
Sejtator Hill has been vigorously pro
claiming various -stripes of Democratic pol
icy while his foot is on iiis native heath of
New York. But Senator Stewart's letter
notifies him that the dissecting knife of
criticism is awaiting him in Washington,
and wo may hope to see David Bennett as
snme :i mote modest demeanor when He
reaches the senate chamber.
If the Herald's story be true, the Chicago
police m trying to galvanize anarchism for
the sako of gain are worse than the men
who propagate doctrines of anarchy from a
sincere, though misguided conviction.
The tortures inflicted by the Spanish In
quisition were largely the lesult of a sin
cere wish to save the victim's soul. Those
suffered by a Hungarian from a party of
American tramps in Butler county seem to
have had their source merely in the brutal
effort to burn his body for the amusement
of the onlookers.
While Mr. Ingalls may still believe that
the Decalogue has no place in politics, he
cannot help having ft fellow feeling for it
Ingalls is Just like the Decalogue in having
no place in politics either.
The attempted self-destruction of Guy
do Maupassant, the well known French
author, while suffering from nervous pros
tration produced by overwork, Is another
reminder of the widespread,unnatural hurry
of existence which spoils more lives than
anything else to-day.
Snow in the country has often been a
source of poetic inspiration. In the city it
is commonly more productive of bad lan
guage and ill-temper.
The opinion of the war-at-any-price or
gans that Secretary Blaine is fit for treason,
Btrategeras and spoils, because he Is not de
termined on war for the fun of the thing, is
nearly as good logic as the rest of their de
liverances on the same issue.
Conorfss will reassemble to-day in a de
moralized condition a perfectly natural
state after the noliday spree.
After Diplomatic Manager Moses P.
Handy gets through with his wholesale task
of filling the entire Congiess up with terra
pin and chnmpagne, his digestion may be a
thing of the past, but that $5,000,000 appro
priation will be safe.
At last we have some indications that we
may have a little winter, although not of
the hard variety.
It Is one of the coincidences of the season
that the cold wave came the day that the
Sherman candidate for Speaker won In tho
Republican Legislative caucus at Columbus.
Sherman weather is not unseasonable in
January.
FAV0BITES OP FAME.
The intention of the Czarina to visit Paris
Is questioned by the Parisian Journals.
Senator PEFFERwas a school teacher in
Pennsylvania w hen he was 15 years of ago.
Secretary Rusk will address the Mary
land State Farmeis' Association next month.
When Prof. Tyndall was young he used
to puzzle his teacher with problems In
Euclid.
Congressman McMillin says he was a
physical wreck at the age of 19. He don't
look like it now.
Prince George of Greece has performed
another heroic deed. He lecently jumped
overboard and saved a drowning sailor.
Mounet Sully, of Paris, denies that he
is coming to America. He says that perhaps
he will come in a year or two for a month's
tour, playing Hamlet and other leading
parts.
Andrew Carnegie has donated 530,000
for the erection of a public library building
In Fairfield, la. Senator James F. Wilson
has donated a fine lot, and the building will
be erected in the spring.
The reports concerning the health of
King Leopold are said to be entirely without
foundation in fact. It was officially an
nounced jesterday that His Majesty ap
peared in public Sunday, and thit ho has re
coered from his recent attack of influenza.
Emperor William sent a very cordial
New Tear's message to tho Pope, in his re
ply tho Pope said he desired al waj s to be on
friendly terms with Germany, and wished
the Empcior every success in his struggle
i ith Socialism, the common enemy of re
ligion and the empire.
No photograph can do Ethel Ingalls, the
daughter of ox-Senator Ingalls, Justice, says
Jean Mallory in an interesting sketch of
Miss Ingalls, for it is to her exquisite color
ing that much of her beauty is due She is
tall, well proportioned and erect, with fine
figure and small, beautifully shaped hands
and feet.
A Banqnet to Governor Campbell.
Columbus, O , Jan. 4. Special Governor
Campbell w as to-night tendered a banquet
by tbe Columbus Club, composed of the lead
ing business men of the city. Major McKin
ley was expected, but was prevented by Ill
ness The affair was social and compli
mentary in character.
David B. Hill's Understudy.
Minneapolis Tribune, j
Roswell P. Flower is now spoken of In
New York as David B. bill's undorstndjj.
Mr. Clovqland is now starring the season.
Ho made his farewell tour In 1SSS. .
Dnrg-r of u riro in the Rsar.
Chicago Tinit's.l
The Indians lnvo stnited another ghost
dance, and General Miles cuiiiot land those
10.00 men upon the ensanguined coast of
-Chile without danger of a fire in the rear.
AT THE PLAY.
Alabama, a I'optlc and Well-Acted Play
Thp Gosaoon'a Merit Dlgcusied Twelve
Temptations, With Many peelltle
Forclvrn Resurrected 411 the Plays In
Town.
There is more poetry in "Alabama" than
dramatlo power, nnd its influence Is rather
soothing than stirring. "Alabama," a four
net drama of American life by Augustus
Thomas, was pUjed last night at the
Alvin Theater by one of A. M.
Palmer's comp-vnies. It is a distinctly
native drama; the characters nreto be found
In any Southern town or village, the lan
guase is nntnral, and the humor is richly
human. As for plot, it has a mere shadow
of one; it is rather a mere collection of inci
dents, without any distinct motive. A
womin's right to her husband's name is
questioned by a scamp; a voung Northern
engineer falls in love with a Talledega
lassie: an elderlv Southern colonel is
promiscuously gallant and chivalrous; tho
grandfather of the lassio abover mentioned
objects to her marrying theyonng lankee
and that is Alabama," with a happy end
ing to it all tin own in.
The drawing of character is much
moie minute and careful than the
elaboration of a plot.' There are
at least three characters that ate
closely studied fiom life, and whosa person
ality Is, defined with wondeiful distinctness.
Theie is Colonel Preston, an old .planter
mined by the war, and tieasunng an aver
sion for Yankees almost as dearly as
he does his little granddaughtei.
Then there is Colonel Moberlty, -a
younger relic of the Confederacy; a typical
Southern gentleman, afraid of nobody, yet
almost tendei in his couttesy to his fellow
man, and still more toward women.
A third character, which is broadly
humorous and evidently a study
from lite, is Squire Tucker.a. Talledega Justice
of the Peace and a liige-bodied man, in
whose bit; neait filial affection and love for
a charming widow are always battling. His
gieatest exeition ends at catching frogs,
and his philosophy is not capacious, but
calm.
The characters being far more salient than
the plot good actors are needed This
Palmer company contains several good
actors, and no bad ones. Itwoiks together
well. Odcll Williams is very happily
cast, as the stout frog-catching jus
tice. Burr Mcintosh's Colonel itoberley
is a very clovci piece of noting, andthebest
thing he has ev or done. His identity is lost
in the character, and the Southern air, if
not always the accent, is always his. Per
haps the waimth of the gieeting hegot
from his mnny fiicnds in the au
dience rattled him a little, for
Mr. Mcintosh's most conspicuous
fault was too lapid speech. Frank Bangs as
Colonel Preston, worked uneasily under the
oko of the Southern accent, but of course
bionght out the pathos of the
part, as well- as its kindly humor
with a v eteran's skill. Clement Bainbridge
has been known as a singer hlthei to, but he
shows considerable ability as an actor in the
part of Captain Davenport, and makes that
rather tame fellow natural nnd manly.
The women aie comparatively in the back
ground of tho pliy most of tho time, but
Miss Jennie Eustace walks through a few
trying episodes with quiet woma'nly dignity,
and Miss Atlanta Moberley is waimlv South
ern in appearance at all events. Of the
smaller parts Frederick Conger's Lathrop
Page, a very bojish Southern boy witii
lots of spirit, stood out as an artis
tic bit of work. With nearly all the
company the attempt to simulate tho
Southern style of speech and accent was
spasmodic and uncertain. Miss Eustace
talked llko a Southerner always; Burr Mc
intosh at times. A negro servant's tongue
produced tho most singular results of all
it was not even negro minstrel dialect.
In the scenery the beauties of Talladegt
were reproduced with extraoidinary truth.
Tho scene of act III, showing Colonel Pres
ton's garden, with the broken wall, dis
mounted cannon among the flowers and
vines, and the shadowy outlines of palms
and trees in tho moonlight against
a superbly purple bluo sky all a-twmkle
with stars, is a. poem in it
self, without the charming chapter
of the story it enframes. It may have come
from tho handkerchief of some neighboring
ian, Dut wnen tins moonlit view, witu
the negroes singing on tho plantation
beyond tho trees, unfolded itself last
night, we declare thit tho odor
of magnolia blossoms seemed to
be wafted across the footlights. The sun
rise over another side of Colonel Preston's
house in act IV. was an delicious effect also.
In fact "Alabama" is well acted and splen
didly staged. The audience was very large
and rather economical in its applause.
Johnson Is Better TXian the Gossoon.
It was the Athenians who everlastingly
cried for something new. To their wail
should bo added that of our American citi
zens, who hnvo a feeling of sympathy for
Ireland in unison with a love for the drama.
An absolute duty devolves upon some play
w right to rise up and give this class
something tresh. There is no doubt but
what tie good-sized crowd that attended
tho Duquesno Theater expected snch a
treat But they were sadly disappointed.
"The Go'.soon" is neither fresh nor meritoi
ious It is tho same old Irish play of "The
fehaughran"and "Kerry Gnw" tvpe. There
is a diffeience. "The Shaughran" and "Ker
ry Gow" are plays. "The Gossoon" is b il
derdash. It has neither head nor tall, plot
or action. In one act the heroine is broken
down with despaii over the los of one love;
the next she is on the top rung of happiness
with another, whom she had hated thiee
short hours before. On another occasion a
suffering native is having all sorts of bless
ings in the shape of eatables, drinkables and
kindness showeied upon him by the neigh
bors. Within five minutes practically the
same crowd is tearing the roof off his cabin.
Add to all this the same grinning, shaio
witted young Iiishman; a colleen who, in
this case, has been in Ameilc.i long enough
to be termed an Irish American and catch the
patriot of the upper tier with appropriately
iilgh-strung allusions; a conventional En
glish villain and his tool, the black side
whiskered, heavy-browed bog-trotter, and
jouhave a complete resume of "The Gos
soon." The first act is a piettv scene, a
cabin with a view of Killarney. The third
act is supposed to be the same scene in win
ter, but, strange to say, the lovely hills of
the flist view have faded away under some
fell cataclysm.
As to Mr. Canoll Johnson "The Gos
soon." He is worthier of something better.
Barring a tendency to undue flourishing of
aims and catch-play, he evidences ability
not only as a comedian, but as a clever melo
dramatic actor, which will improve with
time and opportunity. He is a sweet singer
one of the best that has been heaidin
Pittsburg for a long time of graceful, pleas
ing piesence, and should win distinction
In the new field in time The supporting
company is mediocre. Mart E. Heisey is as
villainous as he well could be as Gordon
Keene, Miss Lida McMillen as Hose O'Connell
and Miss Annie Shindle as Annabel Grey,
perhaps do all they can for the aimless
existence allotted them, while the balance
of the cast endeavoi w ithout much success
or ability to bring coherency into the so
called play.
Twelve Temptations With Much Specialty
The reconstruction of "Twelve Tempta
tions" has resulted in changing its former
spectacular character into one made Tip
mostly of specialties. Though as a whole
this cannot be called an improvement,
vet the performers do their vaiious
bits or work with exceeding clevei
ness, and were thoroughly appre
ciated by the audience last night.
The La Mai tine brothers ot acrobatic fame
weippiobably the favonto performers, as
they nitiodnced not only some clever but
novel feats of skill and stiength. A duo in
ringing and panto-nime, Lillian White and
Ueniy M. Bioune.weiealso the recipients of
much applause, and were given encores
again and again in their topical songs.
It's a pity that some women or the stage do
not cultivate a modesty that is higher in the'
bodico and deeper in tho skirt. Tho dan
senses received the compliment in the bal
let jesterday evening, of several jeering
laughs fiom the gallery and nttciwaid a
dead sileneu upon their cxit, wlueh com
ment, it must be said, was well
deserved. There does not appear to
be any change In tho sceneij from
that olajeni ago, and since it looks a bit
travel-worn is piobably the same. Tho
young gentleman who takes the leading
male character has-mistakcn his vocation.
He should be an amateur Shakespearean
nctoi. What is the matter with the usually
caicfulpiogiammer ot tl.e Bijou? Hiswoik
was lar from what it should be this week.
Tho Harris Ih-ater.
An absence of encores was the particular
feature of the afternoon and evening pei
foimancesat this house yesteiday. Devoy
and Smiley's International Comiqnes hold
theboaids. It is the first vaudeville company
appearing at Hairls' this season, and cannot,
theieforo, bo called tho worst of the jear.
The one commendable number Is the intro
duction of a wonderful trained horse by Bob
Sticknoy, tho old-time bareback rider,
though the Guichard sisters' Flench statue
act is W 01 th seeing.
Harry 'Williams' Academy.
As far ns vaudeville companies go nowa-
,cln8 tho "Friinch Folly Company" is not a
bad one. Tint agiegation or talent Is at
the Academy of Musio this weok. They
opened to a crowded but no: an onthusioittic
house last evening. Theie aie many weak
featuies on the programme and a few tolera
bly good ones'. Sam Bernard creates lots of
fuu and Is an excellent mimlo, and in rhyme
tells a veiy pathetic story entitled
"The Face Upon the Floor." Lizzie B.
Raymond, though not particularly graceful,
sings a number of sonxs with a vivacity
that makes her a favorite. Smith andXord,
the Wood Sisters nnd Fitzgerald and Kelly
are all on the list The Comedy Burletta,
"Pails Life," and "Adam and Eve's
Daughter" in troduocd any number of pretty
women, handsome dresses and a good
amount of fun.
Jlryton Once More In Forgiven.
"Forgiven" has successfully survived the
frosts of several seasons, and after a lap&e of
a cood many years Is again presented to the
people of Pittsburg, this tine at the Grand
Opera House. That it has lived so long is
evidence that It is better than many of its
class which have long since been buried in
forgotten epultures. It is really strong in
Its way; that is, it has the same exciting in
tenseness that is invariably given to tho
stones in the widely read w eekly paper, and
the large audience last night enjoyed it
from beginning to .end. The Interest
centered in Frederick Brvton as a
gambler who reforms, and his chum
Denver Jack, essayed by Ralph Delmore.
Miss Lettie Allen makes a very charming
gambler's wife and the entiro cast is well
filled If there are eaknesses in the ranks,
the lines are so vivid that the imperfections
remain hidden until after the curtain falls.
Harry Davis' Musruin-Theater.
The lions and the wonderful feats of dar
ing which Diniel Boone and Carlotta per
form with them attracted great crowds
again to Harry Davis' Museum-Theater j es
terday. The lions appear in some new
tricks, and a local newspaper man ventured
within the den yesterday afternoon. It is
not known whether the lions were real hun
gry at the time, but they didn't eat the
newspaperman, anyhow. In the theater is
the Gaietv Specialty Company, with a
piotty fair programme J
Stnge 'Whispem.
Tanbark was laid in the paths of the con
servatory at tho Alvin Theater last night.
It is not an impiovement, unless a cilcus
smell and soiled caipets can be so consid
ered. Burr Mcintosh's friends turned out in full
foice last night.
"Sinbad ' reached Boston all right yester
day and opened to an immense house.
SILVER. COIN DEMONETIZING
According to the Arrangement Between
Germany and Austria-Hungary.
WAsniMOTOV, D. C, Jan. 4 Mr. Leech,
Director of tho Mint, made the following
statement to-day In regard to the arrange
ment said to have been completed between
Germany and Anstria-IIungiry to demone
tize the silver coins known as the "Vereins
thalers:"
"Alt the Austrian Union thalers are now
in Germany, and are considered national
coins in that Emnire In fact all the Verein
(Union) thalers are now in Germany, and
the amount is -v anously estimated at from
400 000 000 to 00,000,000 marks, or about
$100 000,000 The Austria Verein thalers,
which It is proposed to melt down, aie em
braced in this amount. Thevare variously
estimated at from 75 000 000 to 13,O0O0O0
marks, that is, fiom $18,000,000 to $23,000,000.
Fi om the dispatch it would seem as If Ans-tua-Hnngarv
hid decided to buy those sil
ver coins and melt them into bars for the
reason that silver florins aie quoted below
their value on 'Change."
EEVENUJ FH0M NOTARIES PUBLIC.
The State's Income Over 830,000 From
This Source, Last Year.
Haiuusbcro, Jan. 4 Special. Notaries
Public whp take in over $1,000 a year in
fees aie now paying into the State Treasury
a tax of 5 per cent upon their net receipts.
There are about 3,000 notaries in the State
who confess to earning enough to make
them liable to this tax, and all but one are
located in Philadelphia. Tho other one is
in Pittsburg. The checks lange in amount
from IS cents to $t and $8.
The total levenuo trom this source
amounts to about $000, but the item of
stationery and postage, to say nothing of
labor, nearly eats up tho entire amount.
The commissions issued to notaries public,
for which $25 apiece are paid, are more re
munerative, and every .Governor of late
years "lias more than earned his salary by
these appointments. Last year notaries
public paid neatly $20,000 for their com
missions. HALF & MILLION BOOKS.
A Collector's Work of a Life Time Pur
chased by the Chicago University.
New Haven, Conn , Jan. 4 Some time ago
it was announced that the Chicago Univer
sity, of which Prof. William P. Harper,
formerly of Yale, is president, had received
a gift of a large library from a gentleman In
Germany. A professional gentleman in this
city,who is in a position to know, states that
the library was acquired by purchase by
Pi of. Harper at a cost of $500,0i0, which was
taken out of the funds of the University.
The library, it is stated, consists of 300,000
volumes, and was piocuied from a German
who is a great collector of vnlnable books.
The library is tho work of a life time by this
collector. The books have already been
shipped to America.
G0VEEN0S FLOWEE AT WORK.
He Reprieves an Italian Murderer at the
Request of Secretary Blaine.
Washotov, Jan. 4. The lequest of tho
Italian Government for a leprievo In the
case of Trezza, an Italian no win Sing Sing
untfer sentence of death, was presented to
Secretary Blaine by the Marquis Imperial!,
who has been the Italian Charge d'Aflanes at
Washington ever since the recall oftheMln
ister. Baron Fava.
Mr. Blaine submitted the matter to Gov
ernor Flower, and last evening leceiyed a
telegram from the Governor saying that the
request would be granted, and that nothing
would be done in the case until advised by
the State Depaitment of tho further wishes
of the Italian authorities who are now in
vestigating the case.
France and the Pope at Peace.
Rome, Jan. 4 Count Lefevie de Behaine,
the French Ambassador to the .Vatican,
came to a complete accord with the Pope to
day regarding a future mnt'ial policy. The
Pope accepted France's teims for concilia
tion, including the cessation or tho episco
pal letters to the Aichbishop of Aix and the
suppression of Catholic electoral cate
chisms. A Meadville Professorship Endowed.
Meadville, Jan. 4 Special. The Mead
ville Theological School lus Just received
fiom Mrs. Abbie B. Haywood, of Sterling,
Mass.. an endowment of $16,000, to be held in
trust as a perm -merit fund for the establish
ment antfmaintenanco of a department to
be called "The Adln Batlows Lectuieship of
Practical Christian Sociology."
Bound to Be With Vs.
Boston Traveller.
Cranks and the grip havo followed us into
the new year.
CLUB REFRESHMENTS.
That is a nice New Year's gift that Judge
Pennypackei has given tho social clubs.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Is the mattor of Judgo Pennypackei 's de
cision concerning tho illegality of clubs sell
ing diinks, it may be added that it's not the
first time the bench and the bar nai en't
agreed. Philadelphia Times.
Judge PEtTPACKEn, of Philadelphia, has
decided that the sale of liquors in any social
club is unlawful. All clubs arc included in
this decision, from the Ion est to the highest.
Williainspoitlms no clubs in which liquors
ai e sold. Williamsport Sun.
Tins is a new application of the law, and
will ci-citc v idespread dismay among clubs
ir the Supieme Court affl-ms it. Itispinb
able that the higher court will sustain tho
decision, for theio is no exception in the
Hw in favor of clubs. Tilusvule Herald.
The decision, if sustained by the Supreme
Court, as it piobably will be, will have tne
effect or closing a great many club rooms.
The result will bo seen In an increased rev
enue for tho city from the payments by the
numerous clubs that are able to meet the
expense. Altoona Times.
The opinion of Judge Eennypacker, that
Under tho terms of the license act it is un
lawful to sell liqnor in club rooms to the
members ot clubs without having first ob
tained a license nuthonzlng such sales, ap
peals to bn bissd upon sound reasoning and
an accurato understanding of tho law. Phil
adelphia fycord. '
IN THE SOCIAL WHIRL.
A Rumor Concerning the Daughters of the
Revolution The University Club Securea
Headquarters Matters of Minor Mo
ment Tjiebe is a blatant rumor abroad that
some of the Daughters of the Revolution are
looking np grandfathers and grandmothers.
Naughty action though it is, they are ac
cused of inventing proofs, where such could
not be found, that their ancestors were in
the War ot the Kevolutiun. This does not
display a particularly nice perception of
honesty among ladies and Daughters, or
would-be daughters, of the Revolution,
though whether they are to be pitied or
blamed most is a question. Where one's
forefathers aro so forgetful of their descend
ants, when they might, could and should
have fought to givo their chiidien
unto the third and fourth generation a place
among the' organizations of tbe land
is it anv wonder that those coining after
should insist on present skill making up for
formei deielictionof duty. We have known
of people disowning their children, hut now
Him tables nre changed, and the children are
being heard from. Let us by all means when
our progenitors do not suit ns, make us ones
of our own. Let us stick cocked hats on
their heads, buckle swords to their sides und
send them to the war, if it's going to put
money in our pockets, or distinction on our
brows.
The University Club, which has hovered
between life and death for almost a year,
has decided to live, and in proof or this in
tention has taken a house. The club is
planned, as has been stated in this depart
ment already, to bring together men in
Pittsburg who have been educated in uni
versities, and only such will be admitted to
it. There is now a membership of 50. The
club house is located at 417 Wood street,
w here reading rooms havo been established.
Theie will be neither a cafe nor a buffet, as,
in accordance with the intellectual tastes of
the members, nothing save a- literary at
mosphere will be permitted. The rooms
were, at a former time, the apartments of
the Ameiicns Club. Mr. John II. Ricketson,
Mr. D. T. Watson, Mr. W. N. Frew, Mr. G.
Harton Singer, Mr. W. W. Lawrence, Mr. H.
K. Porter, Mi. Joseph B. Shea, Mr. 1L D.
Sellers and Mr. Stewart Johnston aro mem
bers of the club.
The officers of the club are a president,
vice president, a secretarynnd a treasurer,
which will be elected annually m October.
Social Chatter.
Dissatisfaction has been oxpressed re
garding tbe management of the State Music
Teachers' Convention and charges made
that some of the women members, who were
pei formers, wero pushed into the back
ground by their male collaborators. Since
the dissensions of malo musicians go back a
good bit, piobablv as far as Tubal Cain's or
chestra, it is not strange to learn that the
ladies have asserted tho privilege also of
being cranky.
The Symphony Orchestra, of New York,
Walter Damrosch conducting, to-night in
Cyclorama Auditorium, Allegheny, under
the auspices of tho Musical Association, of
Allegheny.
The Nirvana Dancing Club has issued in
vitations for a german on Wednesday even
ing, January 13. Mrs. J. L. Boardman and
Mrs. I. K. Becser will act as chaperons.
Yesterday at noon the nuptials were cele
brated of Miss Martha Kingsley, daughter
of the late Bishop Kingsley to Samuel Mc
Combe, of Sewichley.
Mr. D wid Bovabd, who has been spending
the holidavs in Pittsburg, returned yester
day to his Eastern home in New York City.
A FAsniOTABLE tea yesterday in honor of
Miss Dewey, w as one of the events of the
day. Miss Alice Willard was hostess.
Miss Ltdia Scttoic gave a 4 o'clock tea
yesterday lor Miss Harriet Frances Inman.
Mrs. Christopher L. Maqee's reception
this afternoon and evening.
Miss Rose Caixert's reception this even
ing. A BKPUBLICAN GEBEYMANDBB
Giving the Dominant Party or Ohio 16 Out
or 31 Districts.
Columbus, O., Jan. 4 Special. The fol
lowing are the Congressional districts un
der the Carpenter bill, intioduced In the
Legislature to-day:
Fiist and Second districts Hamilton
county. Third Whitewater, Harrison.Cros
by, Colerain and Sycamore townships or
Hamilton county, and Preble, Butler, War
len, Greene and Fayette counties. Fourth
Montgomery, Clark and Madison. Fifth
Darke, Shelby, Auglaize, Mercer, Allen and
Van Weit. Sixth Miami,Champaign,Logan,
Hardin and Hancock cventn Paulding,
Putnam, Defiance, Henry, Wood and San
dusky. Eighth Williams, Fulton, Lucas
and Ottawa. Ninth Seneca, Crawford, Wy
andot, Marion, Richland and Ashland.
Tenth Franklin, Union and Delaware.
Eleventh Clermont, Brown, Clinton, High
land, Adams and Scioto Twelfth Law
rence, Vinton, Jackson, Pike, Ross and Pick
away. Thirteenth Athens, Gallia. Meigs,
Morgan, Hocking and Fairfield. Four
teenth Muskingum, Perry, Noble, Guern
sey and Washington. Fifteenth Jefferson,
Carroll, Harrison, Belmont and Monroe.
Sixteenth Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Monow,
Ilolmes, Knox and Licking. Seventeenth
Htuon, Erie, Medina and Summit. Eight
eenthStark, Wayne and Columbiana.
Nineteenth Mahoning, Trumbull, Lake,
Ashtabula and Portage. Twentieth
Geauga and fi om the Fifth to the Twenty
seventh wards, inclusive, of Cleveland, with
the townships of East Cleveland, May'fleld,
Newbnrg and Euclid, of Cuyahoga county.
Twenty-first The leniainder of Cuyahoga,
and Lorain county.
A SMUGGLES, OF CHINE3B CAUGHT.
Sam Joy Given an Opportunity to Explain
His Actions.
New Orleans, Jan. 4 Special. Sam Joy,
a Chinaman, believed to be the head of the
syndicate which has oeen engaged in tho
business of smuggling Chinamen into this
country over tho Mexican border, was
biought before the Uuited States Court to
day, for violation of the Chinese exclusion
act. Joy speaks English well, and claims to
have been naturalized and to have voted nt
Mobile. He makes frequent visits to Cuba,
returning by way of El Paso or some point
on tho Mexican border, and he al nays re
turns to New Orleans accompanied by a
number of other Chinamen. Ho came with
11 Chinese laborers in November; in his next
ttip, in December, he had 12; this time he
had onlv three.
He claims that these men nre from Texas
and California, but tho United States au
thorities insist they were smuggled in this
countiy, and that Joy is engaged in a regu
lar smuggling business and has already
brought in several hundred Chinamen, re
ceiving $145 a head for those lie can safely
tmnspoit to this country. There havo been
a number of ariests of smuggled Chinamen
here who have been sent home, but the au
thonties think the capture of Joy w ill alto
gether break up the business.
MISS GOULD'S CBAHK L0VBB,
Who Hears Angels Whispering Inspiration
to Him, Is Adjudged Insane.
New York, Jan. 4 "Prinz" Von 3Iichaels,
who has caused so much annoyance to the
family of Jay Gould by his insistence that
Miss Helen Gould should marry him, was
pronounced insane at Bellevue Hospital to
day and will bo sent to theasylum on Ward's
Island to morrow.
His hallucination is that angels are whis
pering to him and breathing inspiration.
Sad Fate of a LoTins Husband.
Cif ci"v N vri, Jan. 4. Special The body of
John Haas was a subjeotfor dissection on
the tabic of the Ohio Medical .College this
morning. A few years ago he was a rich
carriage manufacturer. v He idolized his
wife, and when a short time ago she died he
immediately became a leckles drunkard,
tin e Ins loituno away, died in a free waul
of the City Hospital and his body, like that
ot other paupers, was turned over lor dissec
tion. Of importnnco to Chinamen.
WvsHif.TOY, D. C.. Jan. 4 The United
States Commissioner nt Deming, N. M , has
decided that tho "country whence he came"
in the case nf a Chinaman who entered this
country from Mexico was Mexico, und or
deied his return to that country.
Funeral of General Meigs.
Washinotot, D. C , Jan. 4 Tho funeral of
General Montgomery C. Meigs will take
place to-morrow. It will bo ot a military
character. The services will be held at St.
John's Episcopal Church, and the remains
interred at Arlington.
Pan-Americanism Is Marching On.
Toledo Commercial,!
Reciprocity with tho principal Central
American States having been effected by
way of treaties, tho Pan-Anierliau move
meut may be said to bo marching ou.
8EVEBAL IMPOBTArTT BULIUG3.
The V. S. Supreme Court Decides a 2f amber
of Railroad Cases.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 4. The United
States Supieme Court to-day handed down a
number of important decisions. One was in
favor of the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, in the mandamus snit brought against
it by tbe Territory of Washington, ex rel
Hiram Dustin, prosecuting attorney of
Yakima county, to compel tho railwav com
pany to maintain a station and stop its
trains at Yakima City, the company having
built a town of its own at North Yakima and
refusing to stop trains at Yakima City.
The court reversed the decision of the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the South
ern district of Illinois in the case of the Wig
gins Ferry Company, appellants, ys the Ohio
and Mississippi Railway Company.
Chief Justice Fuller announced that the
couft had decided to grant a request for re
instatement of a drummers' tax case from
Tennessee, and had et the case down for
argument January 25, after previously as
signed cases. ,
Chief Justice Fuller announced tho deci
sion of the United States Supreme Court dis
missing for want of jurisdiction tho case of
RlcbardS. Tyler, plain tiff in error, vs Cass
county, N. D., an action to recover money
paid by tax by a tax title purchase to the
county at a tax sale, on tho ground that the
United States had a lien on tho lands. The
court reversed tho decision of the Supremo
Court of the Territory of Dakota In a sim
ilar ca&e in which the Stutsman Company Is
appellant against Ch irlos S. Wallace.
The com t dismissed for want of jurisdic
tion a case brought bv the St. Paul, Minne
sota and Manitoba Railway Company against
tnocountvof Todd, in which the company
sought to have declared invalid a tax lev ied
against the company for lands on which it
had purchased timber rights, the company
contending that it constituted an impair
ment of contract under its charter.
A law of the State of South Carolina, which
provides that the expenses or the State Rail
way Commission shall be borne by the rail
roads doing business within the State, each
road being taxed its proportionate share of
the expenses of maintaining the commis
sion on the basis or mileage within the
State, was snstained by the Supremo Court.
THE NEW SILVEB COINS.
President Harrison Secures the First Set
Coming From the Mint.
WASHixaTON, D. C, Jan. 4. The Director
of the Mint to-day received a box contain
ing $50 worth of the new silver coins, half
dollars, qnarters and dimes, and ho was im
mediately besieged by applicants for sam
ple sets. One set ho sent to the President,
and several others were distributed among
friends. The othcis were disposed of at
their market value. By evening his
box was empty, but the applicants were
still coining. Thef e new coins are being
made out of tho silver contained in the un
current coins stored in the Treasury. There
were $23,000,000 worth of this money, at face
value, nt tho beginning of tho present year,
and this has been reduced gradually until
there is now but $13,000,000 on hand. Haifa
million was taken to Philadelphia, recently,
for the purpo-.o of turning out tho new
coins. It was melted up at once, anjl It was
found when the resulting bars were weighed
that there had been a lOiS by abrasion of
$6,000, or a a little over 1 per cent. This was
a surprise to the officers of the Treasury,
who expected there would be atleast 7 Dor
cent loss.
Tho difference between the faco value of
the coin and the actual value has to be paid
to the Treasurer in order to balance his ac
counts, and this constitutes the cost of tho
new coinage. There is now an available
fund of$22,C00 on hand for this purpose, and
Mr. Leech estimates that with this ho can
coin about $1,030,000 in the new designs. He
hopes to got an appropriation ot $100,000
irom the present Congress with which to
continue the work and he thinks that with
this he can turn out $5,000,000 in new coins
and thus supply the demand. The present
fund will last about six months. The coins
received to-day w ero struck at the Philadel
phia Mint on Saturday.
HO UNDUZ DELAY PK0BABLE
In the Disposition of the Valparaiso Affair,
When tho Gulltv Are Punished.
Wasbiotov, D. C, Jan. 4. The corre
spondence which the President has prom
ised to send to Congress relating to tbe at
tack upon the Baltimore's sailors at Val
paraiso will not bo sent ,in to-morrow. In
fact, there is some reason to believe that
some days will elapse before the public may
know officially just what has passedbetween
the Department of State and Minister
Egan on the one side and the Chilean
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister
Montt on the other. The official announce
ment of the practical completion of the
judicial proceedings in Valparaiso and the
intention rf the Chilean legal authorities to
punish the three Chileans convicted of par
ticipation in the ass inlt, has given satisiao
tion here, and is generally regarded as a dis
tinct concession by the Chileans to the
United States, ns showing that there will
not in all probability be any further undue
delav in tho disposition of the case.
These tidings have not, so far as can be
learned, Ireen officially made known to Sec
retary Blaine by Minister Montt, and it may
be that the latter will await the sentence of
the convicted Chileans beiore ne presents to
the Secrotary the conclusions reached by
the Judicial authorities or his country.
With matters in this promising condition,
it is thereforo unlikely that a disturbing
element will be introduced in the negotia
tions by tho publication of the incomplete
correspondence.
A Repetition Is AH They "Want.
Chicago Iuter-Ocean.
The people Qf the North west will ask noth
ing better of 1892 than to repeat tho bless
ings of 1891.
DEATHS 1IEKE AD ELSEWHERE.
Captain Willi .in F. Meeker.
Captain William F. Meeker, of Xewark,
N. J., a fumoua scout on the, U'ack.water during
the war of the Rebellion, died Thursday at the
National Soldiers' Home, Virginia, aged 78. He
went to the Home about three years ago. CapUinN
Meeker, as scout, met many perilous and romantic
adventures hi the war. He was detailed ou
General Hutter's statf. and accompanied the
General to Jew York, being In constant attend
ance on him at headquarters. He arrested one of
the Confederate incendiaries, and afttrward took
an important prioner to Jiiltlmore to be delivered
up for confinement in Fort Mcllenry. Friends of
the prisoner were on the watch toeffect his re
lease, first upon reaching the New Jersey side
of the Hudson and agiln it Baltimore. He
reached the latter city In safety with his prisoner,
and on the way to the Provost Marshal's office an
attempt an rescue was made. Meeker marched his
man along, with drawn revolvers, and kept the
rescuers at bay until met by a detachment of tbe
I'rorost Guard.
Kev. TIrtmas D. Skinner, D. D.
Rev. Thomas D. SKinner, D. D., Profes
sor of Divinity at the McCorjilck Theological Sem
inary, Chicago, died at his residence In that city
vesterday. Dr. bkiuner has been hi falling health
ior several j ears, and last week he was stricken
with pneumonia, which caused his death. He was
about 70 ears old and left one daughter. Dr. skin
ner was the son of Kc v. Thomas Skinner, a Presby
terian minister or Philadelphia of considerable
eminence. The son followed the father's lootstcps
and became a minister of the gospel when not much
ov er 21 years old.
Patrick Brenhan, or Newark.
Patrick Brenhan, probably the oldest
man In Newark. 0., dkd Sunday nlffht Accord
ing to the claims of his children lie was In his llOth
year, lie has been a cnusplctious figure In the
comimiiiitvfor the pastuO vcar, partly owing to
nls deformity, he telng bent almost uuublc. He
was horn, as niMr as can he ascert lined. In the
orth of Ireland In 1792. and was well advanced in
ytarswhtnhc cimeimr more than 50 ) ears ago,
lie leaves several children.
General Kbenczer Sprngn-.
General Kbenczer Sprague died Sunday
night at the Masonic Home at (.rand Rapids,
Mich. He was once promlm ut In 3Iasonic circles,
and wns Past (Irani High Prlc-t of the Grand
Chapter. Roj al Arch Miwhis, and Iliustrions Pst
Grind Master or the Grand Coiiml! oritoial and
Select Mason'. Misfortune reduced him from
afnucuee to comparative poverty.
Mrs. Pelnchn Mattheiv-t.
Mrs. Pctricha Matthews died Saturday
afternoo i at 1912 Floyd stnet. Louisville. av,cil OS
)eirs. slie-wa3 the mother of Mr. Charles Mnt-
thews. teller at the itirst Mtinna' limi or that
cttv. Shew is n lornirr re-i'hutof thUcit, and
the mother of James Matthews.
Obitniirvote.
MotsIGNORGopsciIALK. Roman f athollc Bishop
of llertogenbosch, Uo.laud,dlcd yesterday from the
grip.
George Fetter. ex-County Commissioner and
a prominent Democratic politician at Lima, O.,
uien jesierua aiieruoon o mc khu.
JoacjLIX Gakcia, the noted general who was
General Juarez's right hand nan. died in the
City ofMexIcosatiirdaynight. in abject povertr.
Robert W. Doneli. aged CO years, or the
New York lirm of Donne!!. Lawson & Simpson,
liankcrs, died suddenly yesterday morning in his
bath room.
.COLO-STL- C. s,. Gilmore. recently appointed
Deputy Lieutenant Uo.frnorof Ontario, owing to
the illness of Sir Alexander Campbell, an I clerk, of
the Ontario Assembly ever since the Confedera
tion, is dead at Toronto.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. .-
There are 169 Confederate flags in the
collection of war relies at Washington,
The cost per family of food in the
United States Is J 65 year, against $223 E
in Europe.
Danville, Ind., has a cat which rings
the bell whenever she wants to ba ssdrnHted
to the bouse.
Eagles measuring from 7 to 12 feet from
tip to tip are common In the neighborhood
of Albany, Ore.
A woodtick has been discoveredlin Cal
ifornia that kills cattle and horsessby sap
ping their blood.
Let a rat come ueara, clamshell and if
the clam is alive it will seize thcr animal by
the tall and never let go till the tail comes off.
A hundred and twenty-seven years ago
England seized the first eight bales of cot
ton raised In the South and declared ita pro
duction sbonld cease.
A Polish chemist has discovered that
liquid oxygen is not colorless. In a layer of
it 10 millimeters thick he finds that it has a
bright sky-blue color.
During the exhibition in Edinbnrg,
Scotland.there were over 100,000 persons ear
ned in electric launches along the canal
from the city to the exhibition.
The hair dressing of ladies was an ex
pensive affair in tbe sixteenth century.
Queen Elizabeth at one time was possessed,
of no fewer than 80 attires of false hair.
A new parasite has been discovered
which infects paper money and. is found no
where else. It is invisible to the nnassisted
eve, does not attach itself to persons, but
multiplies at a rapid rate.
A Chicago guide book for the use of in
tending English visitors advises them not
to buy an outfit before coming, but to get
their clothes in Chicagd. "in order not to at
tract attention by the different cut of their
garments."
It now requires but 13 pounds of water
converted into steam, with a pressure of 175
to 2C0 pounds in tbe boiler, to secure one
horse power with a triple expansion engine.
By tho use of one-third more coal the press
ure in tbe boiler and the horse power can
be doubled.
In Durham, Me., a cat was shut up in
the Masonic Hall at the October meeting of
tbe lodge and forgotten until the day of the
November meeting, just a montn afterward.
Puss had torn all the paper off the walls In
her efforts to escape, and was very thin but
still kicking when released.
In the group of great rivers the St Law
rence is the most remarkable. It constitutes
by far tho largest body of fresh waterin the
world. Including lakes and streams, the St.
Lawrence covers about 73,000 sqnare miles;
tho aggregate, it is estimated, represents not
less than 9,000 solid miles of water.
In 1016 an awful famine raged through
out all Europe, and again from 1193 to 1195,
when complete crop failures caused terrible
suffering. In England and Prance the peo
ple ate the flesh of dogs and cats, and many
cases of cannibalism were recorded. During
tho latter three years thousands upon
thousands perished from starvation.
The Arabs believe that the date pain
brings happiness and contentment to the
country In which it grows. It is a beautiful
tree, tall and straight, sometimes reaching a
height of GO feet. The leaves are from 8 to 10
feet long, and the spadlces, or fruit-bearing
branches grow from 180 to 200 dates each: a
bunch of dates weighs from 20 to 23 pounds.
The French Kongo country is five times
the size of Franco. It Is believed that It
contains 8,000,000 people, and more than half
of them aro Pahouins, as De Brazza calls
them, or Fan, as Du Chaillu made them
known. Thoo who know them best say
their name is property Fangs. They are by
far the most remarkable people in West
Africa.
The leopard is an inhabitant of Africa,
India and the Indian Islands. Its height is
about two feet. These animals are accus
tomed to live much on trees, and on that
account are called tree-tiger" by the natives.
Thev- are easily tamed andbecomevery fond
of their keepers, and they like perfume as
well as most girls do.showing a decided pref
erence, however, for lavender water.
Ventura county, CaL, is the most pro
lific bean growing secfion in the world. One
ranch of 2,200 acres has produced 1,030 tons
of Lima beans this y tar. It took 31,000 sacks
to hold the crop, and they will fill about 103
enrs, on an average of ten tons to tbe car.
This will make eight or nine solid trains of
beans. Iut this is only from one ranch.
The railroad company expects to handle
1,500 car loads of beans on the Ventura di
vision this year.
Geographers claim that there are 25
rivers on the globe which have a total length
of over 1,000 miles. Of these, two the Mis
sissippi, from tbe source of the Missouri in
the Bocky Mountains to the Eads Jetties,
nnd the Amazon, from the source of the
Beni to the Isle of Marajo are over 4,000
miles in length; to be evact, the former Is
4,300 and the latter 4,029 miles from the
source to the placo where their waters are
mingled with those of the ocean.
People commonly imagine that in speak
ing of dogs they are referring to a single
species which has many varieties. But In
reality the name is merely a conventional
one, under which are grouped in popular
parlance nil of the domesticated camdas.
The North American coyote is in fact mncb.
nearer to the graylionnd. zoologically speak
ing, than the pug is. It i simply a wild dog.
So is the wol f likewise. From j ust such wild,
types man's iaithful four-footed friends are
descended.
A German lady living in Manohester,
England, possesses what is supposed to be
the largest Bible, in one volume, in the
world. It is an heirloom. 200 years old, with
pages two feet long, and but little less in
width, and at the head of each page is a line
In red ink. which translated reads, "This is
a hiitory." Another resident of the same
city has compiled, so to speak, a Bible in 90
volmnes, his additions to the text consisting
of pictures and photographs which he has
collected to the number of nearly 10,000.
The ancient Egyptian cat was the prog
eny of a species that is wild in that country
to-day, being known as the fells maniculata.
This latter may be regarded as the ancestor
of nearly all existing pussies of domesti
cated varieties. Its descendants were
brought from Egypt to Greece nnd Borne,
whence they spread over Europe. When
the Bomans invaded Britain they found
plenty of wild cats in the woods, but the
people owned no tame ones. The felis man
iculata is of a jellowish color, darker on the
back and whitish on tbe belly, with obscure
stripe on the body and a tail ringed toward
the end. Doubtless some domesticated cats
are derived from different origins, as Is pre
sumably the case with the Angora or Per
sian variety, which is thoutrht to be de
scended from an Asiatic wildcat.
J1NGI.ES and jokelets.
Totling The first man I saw on Hew
Year's morning was 3Ir. Chestnut, of Philadelphia,
I suppose you passed the compliments of the sea
son' Yes, I wished him a nappy new year.-Jarfje.
Now she is won and I am, too,
fl Is very plain that we.
If anv kind of sum should do.
Could prove that we are three;
But when we try we're sorely troubled,
Howe'er the sum be done;
For, even after we are doubled.
The answer is but one.
yew Tork Herald.
"I've seen but few birthdays yet," she
laughed, airilv.
"Ah." sild he. "i nndemand. Born in leap
year, on the 2)th of February." Aao YurkPress.
Teacher Itoger, what can yon say of
aluminum'
Itoier (who hasn't studied the lesson, but feels
ranonably certain) Anything that's got alum lv
it, ina'aui. Is plcn. Chicaao Iribme.
"I don't like you, 'ninety-two!"
So cried aire, fairy True; "
"For 1 do not think it fun
To be unwed at thlrty-onc.
Harper's Bazar.
He Don't yon think my photograph is a
good likeness
she llcally. I am afraid It is. LouisziUe Journal,
Mr Murray Hill Shakespeare died on
the same day of tbe month on which he was born.
Mrs. Murray Hill Not possible. How was he
able to w rite so many dramas If he Only lived such
a short time? Texas Sitings.
A miss is as good as a mile,
A kiss Is as good as a smile.
But a man who will miss
A good chance to kiss.
Is a chump of the sort we call vile.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Bnlfinch I have just been reading your
latest effort in the DrybonesMaguiue.
Scribbles-My tBoif
Bulfinch-1 was speaking from the reader's
standpoint. Boston Courier, i -
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