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Including bundar. l year.. 10 00 Dailt Dispatch. Including bundar. Sm'fhs. :M Daily DisrATClt. Including Sunday, lm'th.. 90 brsDATDlsrATCH. One Year r SO Weekly Dispatch. One Year..! 1 3 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at 35cent6perweeK, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 3 cents per week. PITTSBUKG. MONDAY. IAXUAHY 3. GOOD OBDUi PltDiEliTED. As The Diepatch has commented sharply on the violations of the peace which accompanied the Manchester street railway strike earlier in the week, it is no more than fair to gie the strikers credit for duly respecting the law on Saturday afternoon and evening. It was widely apprehended that Satur day night would be productive of some breaches of the ppace, if not of serious riot; but the reverse proved to be the case. The crowds gathered along the line and hooted the men who worked the cars, "which may not be a wise thing to do. But as no attempts were made to use force we must credit the strikers and their friends with having effected a decided and praiseworthy change from the disorders of the earlier stags of the strike. More over, the strikers in thpir public utter ances have earnestly declared themselves in favor of a scrupulous observance of good order. So long as the strike preserves that commendable attitude it will command the sympathy of the great mass of the citizens of Allegheny and Pittsburg. DON'T WAST TO FIGHT. It has long been apparent that the Eu ropean expectation of war was due less to the desire of conquest than the mutual distrust of the Powers. But it has taken the even:s of the past year to suggest the onelusion that possibly they are all so much afraid of war as to render their im mense armaments unnecessary. Thew have been several incidents within the pa3t tvi elve months as well calculated to give a warlike continent the excuse for wading in and adopting the ar bitrament of battle as tli j Chilean affair does this pacific Republic Early in the year the Bulgarian political troubles af ' forded what was thought might prove the match irx the powder magazine; but noth ing came -of it Thpn the passage of Rus sian troop ships through the Bosphorus and the Mitylene picnic turned up a gage of battle; but the dogs of war were held in the leash. The strainedrelations between Czar and Kaiser -w ere next displayed as a mutual biting of imperial thumbs which might set armies in motion; but the ar mies remained in their usual quarters. Pillowing them the Russian, advance on Pamfrvand the English counter-movement; the Cha'fiouine row in Bulgaria; the suc cession of the Khedive, and the disorders at Tangiers, each gave an excuse for mili tary powers anxious to do some fighting. But they have ail passed over, and just at present Europe is more peaceful than the republican hemisphere which less than two years ago abjured war and resolved on international arbitration. Is Europe really too much afraid of war to embark in the conflict so long expected, or are the Great Powers holding off till they get thoroughly prepared for it? The question is of much practical importance, lor if the European Powers are really as ready to bear and forbear as appears on the surface, they might as well disarm and give their people a much needed relief from the burden of an armed peace. ENGHn ASD THE GRIP. The English Government is wise in its decision to institute an exhaustive inquiry into the history, symptoms and effects of influenza. The decision is said to have been made owing to the death of the Duke "bf-Clarence and the continued ravages of the disease. Probably the latter was the more powerful cause; but whatever the origin, the movement is to be commended. The conflicting opinions held by medical men and the noxious remedies used by unadvised persons are such as to demand a compilation of such statistics as shall be of guidance for the pub lic. The only trouble is. that, to judge from past events, eitheraroyal com mission or a select committee of the House of Commons will be so slow in its opera tions, so indecisive in its results and so lardy in publishing the same, that it can be of no use for the present epidemic un less the attack last for a length of time that would be disastrous enough to decim ate the nation. Hoevei, it it be suffi ciently pushed by the prey and public opinion the investigation mav result in in formation that will be useful in colnbat ing the next, or next but one, attack -of the grip. In any case, the evidence ob tained will have some historical value and should prove of interest to those who have suffered from this scourge in the pastor are liable to its visitations in future. SOI WHAT Is tt ANTED. "Congress ought eaily to amend the inter-State commerce act so as to absolve any railroad officer compelled to testify to 'illegal rates from all criminal responsibil ity for his acts so far as his testimony re lates to them," remarks the Philadelphia "Prut, apropos of the effect of the recent Supreme Court decision. Such an amend ment would cap theclimaxof the blunders by which the punithe features of the act are brought to a nullity. The railroad officials who grant Tebates, secret rates and the other forms of favor itism are the responsible pessonsfor those public evils. They have a public trust placed in their hands by the character of railroad charters, and it is the violation of the trust which makes the infliction ofpef erential rates an offense. While they are not on the surface the direct beneficiaries of the discrimination, in the majority of foe persistent cases they are the secret or indirect sharers f thfir profits. To pick out these persons, & ones to be especially favored by .nity, in case of their giving testi r would be not only making a statu cognition of a privileged class, but be utterly useless; for the rail- nHtiLflk-Ai road official is generally the one who denies that any discriminations exist. The experience in trying to get railroad officials before the United States grand jury at Omaha ought to be sufficient to indicate the exact value of this proposi tion. There might be some reason in giving immunity to subordinate railroad em ployes and shippers who atfe compelled to testify, and excepting the higher rail road officials from the immunity. But to confine that favor to the people most responsible for the wrong -would be noth ing more than an aggravation of the present weak points of the act HOME EDLE'S L4.ST VICTORY. The importance of bye-elections is fre quently over-estimated for party purposes by the English press. But the Rossendalo election may be taken as an accurate barometer of the present political atmos phere. Both candidates had stronsr local interests, and were about equal in that direction, though the defeated aspirant had all the advantage, or the reverse, which could be obtained from the prestige of the last representative. Lord Harting ton carried as many deserters from the Gladstonlan Home Rule camp as djd Joseph Chamberlain, or even more. That the Home Rule candidate should have been elected by almost as large a ma jority as that which carried Lord Harting ton to the House of Commons is proof pos itive that the Liberal party is once more united, that the so-called Unionists are a party of the past, and therefore that at the approaching general election the country will place in power Liberal representa tives pledged to a progressive programme with home rule for Ireland as its most important item. The only hope for the Tories lies in Gladstone's great age, and some of the lower party organs do not scruple to speculate on the chance of his death, and even express a hope for it So tremendous is the, personal magnetism of this great leader that his absence would undoubtedly be the most serious blow which the homerulers could receive. But the Grand Old Man still maintains his vigor, and even were he not spared to see the triumph of his cause, the feeling In favor of home rule has acquired such an imnetus that it will overcome all obstacles until it receives satisfaction. A LEGAL ABISE. The liberties which the customs of our courts permit to counsel in cross-examining witnesses often arouse indignant comment; but the evil seems likely to grow instead of diminish, if the ruling of the Court in a recent criminal case in Brooklyn is to be taken as a precedent The trial was that of Searvant for the shboting of Mrs. Chapman. The sole de fens was that of charging the victim of the shooting and the principal prosecuting witness with grossest immorality. On cross-examination she was forced to reply to questions imputing this immoral con duct, and on her asking the Judge if she must be compelled to answer the ques tions, that jurist replied that while ho was sorry for her he could not prevent the de fendant's counsel from requiring her answers In ib s i'ing the Judge threw open the door to the widest license of abuse of wit nesses by counsel. The universal belief of the public press is that the charges made by the defense were wholly untrue. But, even if they had been true, they had no bearing whatever on the case. They could not have been intended to impeach the testimony of the -witness, because that testimony in all its vital points was amply corroborated. No sensible view of crim inal law will hold that because a woman is not what she should be, her bad character is a justification or even provocation for shooting her. The fact is that this attempt to blacken the character of the witness was simply carrying out a threat of what conld he done in case of prosecution for the crime. It might be permissible for the prosecuting attorney to let the defense make its posi tion worse by such a proceeding; but a judge with any conception of the dignity of his court should not permit its time to be wasted, and action to be delayed, by the introduction of such foully irrelevant matter. He should have cut that line' of questioning short and compelled the de fense to confine itself to questions bearing on the case. Judges can, if they choose, do a great deal in reforming the license of counsel. But the trouble is that most of them are too much bound up with the traditions about the privileges of the legal profession to purge the practice of its abuses. A COMBINATION AT W4K. The outbreak in the anthracite coal market, in the shape of a cut of prices by the Lehigh and "Wilkesbarrc Coal Com pany of 00 cents per ton, is a practical il lustration of the combination policy. The anthracite coil rosds by a combination of their control of the coal business have been bolstering up prices for some time. But some of the aspects of the combina tion are not satisfactory to this corpora tion, and at a single whack it brings prices down by a 50-cent reduction. The war will b! a welcome one to the buyers of coal; and it may produce further reduc tions until such time as the warring com panies force each other to combine on the terms of the victorious corporation. Supposing this to "bs a competitive re duction, it affords a striking commentary on the combination. The sole obj ect of com petitionis to make money by securinggreat er sales at a reduced margin of profit But if the Lehicli and TTiikesharre can make money by selling coal at 53 25 to 53 50 per ton. at New York it shows that thero was an exorbitant profit at the old price of 53 75 to $1 00, which on the aunual output represents 520,000,000 extorted from con sumers of anthracite by the combination. While there is every reason to believe that these prices would yield a fair profit under open competition, the fact is that it -was not a competitive reduction. If the corporation should get before a legislative committee it might allude to the cut as an example of "ruinous compe tition." But now that there is no ques tion of legislative investigation there is no concealment that the cut is made "m order that the Reading might understand what the other companies could do in case it attempted to enforce the demand for a larger share in the anthracite pool." Be sides this open admission of a long-stand ing violation of the inter-State commerce act, the fact shines out that the cut is not competitive. It is simply a means of forcing the kind of pool the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre wants; and if the Reading accepts the challenge it will be solely to force the kind of pool the Reading wants. This is the genesis of all those cut-throat conflicts of which the combination advo cates make so much. Where there is no possibility of combination, such sudden reductions are unknown. Under free competition changes are gradual and con fined by the limit of actual cost. At a time when cases of insanity are re ported In increasing numbers, special im- .. . -wJwffls-. Y'L .. , , ..... . . .-, . . i.l-.fAAT.. anf.-v.iiiX;' ., .SiAriraJ&saasKc - :jSMu&M&.. :. L.fr,t.; . -.,-' ,W-,- ...., . -i,LM ,.iJ .. .. ...,d!fcMfcViJBsvt.a hf;f;fattp8fc . -,-lfc, ,, 'mi Mwrr ftitfj i i tii ffiiliT iMMMfn"MateMallliMBBfK-v 'TaiiliSffia,WlfifflMwffi i ut jniflifi v r?Ti r iiH !- h tfs A lilnif ilfiT iitit u it?T'i i ' ' -v'r ' jttmttsJMmSalammBBKbs& porttnee should attach to the success attend ing operations nqw being -made In a Phila delphia hospital. The subject is a thrie-year-old child and the operations consist in the removal of sections of bone from the skull whose premature hardening bad pre vented the development of the brain and rendered the child an idiot -without the properuse of its limbs and faculties. There is every promise ot'a successful termination to the operation, and that "will leaito the assured possibility of tne abolltion.of one class of insanity. The earthquake felt in Rome and its vicinity is a matter for general interest. Rome is the museum of the -world, its monu ments and huildings are International In their importance, and anything tending to their destruction meets with universal re gret. The Department of Agriculture, as the result of recent experiments,malntalns that the aroma and flavor of tobacco is depend ent on the bacteria developed in the fer mentation process -which takes place during "bulking." And they assert that cheap to baccos may be given the qualities of taste and smell belonging to the rarer kinds by a transference of bacteria from one to the other. This is good news for the economic smoker who pays for his taste and not for a name, but it is bad for the growers who have a mon opoly of the scarcer leaves. The proposition to raise a fund to solace the Princess Mary for her bereavement is essentially characteristic of a larse class in England, who are remarkable for their vul gar -warmth of heart and their hard-headed want of tact and refinement. The results arrived at by people inter ested in Boyalty, and coincidences of events and days, so far point to Thursday and Sat day as the days molt fatal to those near the English throne. Since there have been so many more or less near to that exalted pin nacle of fame, and as there are only seven days in tne week, if investigations -were car ried further there is little doubt that each day -would show its tale of -woo. The most significant feature of the affair between the Nizam of Hyderabad and Mr. Jacob was the unprecedented consent of the former to argue his case as a native prince before a court of law established by the British Government. The many who knew the Oxford men of the time recognized in Mrs. Humphrey Ward's last book a collection of portraits altered sufficiently to meet the purposes of the writer. From the announcement that "The History of David Grieve'-' is a story of the lives of the children of an English peas ant, we may hope that the new venture will give evidence of artistic originative ability as a change. To judge from the promptness with which the Berks county postmaster lost his pos tion, things are to bo made hot for Federal officials who express a desire that the Presi dent and his friend Wanamaker should visit the unseen world. The suppression of New York's Fifth avenue stage coaches by the Society for the Prevention or Cruelty to Animals has met -with general approval. Incidentally it has been discovered that the drivers of these vehicles know how to "put their foot down with a heavy hand" and that they hare made up their minds not to "lie down to be saddled with wooden shoes." The latest invention in criminal lines is that of training dogs to steal. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will have to start a department to look after the moral welfare of its dumb clients. The abstinence of the New York papers from the publication of some of the evi dence given in the recent trials compares verv favorably -with the-policy of Lou don papers under similar circumstances. But this contrast should be borne in mind in estimating the comraratlve morality of America and England from the newspapers of both countries. GnrrrxG into hot water used to be con sidered the result of putting your foot in It. Sow we are told that If we get plenty of hot water into us we shall bo secure from every ill including dyspeptic ill-temper. "Pcck" has lately been shown to have plagiarized a very ancient joke from Punch, There are other humorous papers in this country that show their wit at the expense of the English cotemporary -while they occasionally publish its old Jokes -when their fund of originality runs short. This is fair neither to Punch nor the American public. 'Tis strange but true that those who are loudest in their talk about practical politi cians are unable to believo that honesty is as practical as roguery. D. B. HlLli is daily givingYresh token that he possesses the qualities which fit a man for the manipulations necessary to partisan success. But lie lias not at present shown the vestige of sign that he has the abilities -which make a statesman and should be necessary for an executive official of high responsibilities. If you wish for a forecast of the weather to-morrow think up what you would like best and make up your mind to expect something different. . Senator Chandler's serious accusa tions against tl.o judges of Sew Hampshire are indicative of a bad state of corruption and should lead to exhaustive investiga tions, which are likely to contain interest ing developments and discreditable dis closures. ENVIOUS OP CHICAGO. It now appears that Chicago really didn't want the convention. The convention wanted Chicago. New York World. Chicago must take her "cussing" with the Democratic Sational Convention, but then she is ued to it. Si. Louis Posl-Dipatch. Ir a national convention is worth a million dollars to Chicago, it can increase its sub scriptions to the Fair funds. St. Paul Globe. Axthow, the Democratic Convention did not go to -Tacoma. That is where victory perches upon our banner. Sew York Adver tiser. JcseSI th next Pre-iident will be nomi nated. This little event will take place In Chicago, bv the way, but Kansas (jity will be ihoro. Kansas City Times. . Chicago 'ambition has overleaped itself for once. That is to say it has secured thfi Democratic Convention and lost a $5,000,000 appropriation for the World's Fair. St Louis Gtobe-Denutcrat. Thisgs seem to bo going Chicago's "way. All the same, she mustn't count on those millions fiom the Nation's Treasury for the big Fair that the Western metropolis agreed to run'wltbout subsidy. Boston Globe. HiViogot the earth. Sister Chicago, let us not hear of your crying for the moon. There's a limit to even your digestive ap paratus, although you appear never to have found it. Those who "bite ofi more than ihoy can chew" must endure laughter when they choke St. Paul Pioneei- Press. The State Tax Bill Conference. Harrisbubg, Jan. 21. Special. Much in terest is being shown in the proposed con ference to be held In this city February 4 and 5, to arrange for a representative con vention to formulate a tax bill that will be satisfactory to the varied Interests of the State. Gilbert Sf. HcCauley, of this city, has been selected as the lepresentatlve from this section. Cleveland Is Avoiding Bisks. Washington star. By taking it easy in Louisiana Sir. Cleve land runs no risk of getting mixed up In al leged triumvirates and other embarrass ments. Garza 3Int So Something. Xew York Advertiser. Garza must 'do something pretty 'soon. This Chilean business is quite overshadow ing him. A FEW WORDS ON WAR. t WRITTEN FOE THIS DISPATCH.! . Somebody says that if all the news paper editors in Europe could be hanged to morrow there would be an end to all the talk of war. But it is not so much the talk of war as the spirit of war that indicates the presence of the devil. The silence that might follow the suppression of all the European newspapers would not bo a par ticularly significant nor valuable one. A man who is suddenly struck dumb is not from that moment a converted Christian be cause he has stopped swearing. He can't swear. vThe chances aie that he takes it out in he most sulphurous and lurid kind of thinking. Over in Russia the silence of tho newspapereditors does notmean that Knesla is the land of the free and tho home of the brave. The trouble is not that some editors of newspapers are pagans and show a spirit that ought to be most at home in Cential Africa, hut that that Is really the spirit of a great many ot the people. The Christian ohuich, by long and strenuous effort, has in deed succeeded in converting a good many individuals here and there, but the nations at large seem -still to be in a condition of only semi-converted savagery. Mr. Fred rick Harrison says that "Christianity, as the morality of nations, has visibly failed. Socially regaided, it does almost nothing to control the state or expectant war and tho Jealousies of nations." And the only answer that can be made to that argument Is that Christianity for now taesa many centuries has paia so much attention to the individual that the community has been forgotten. It has not only dealt with men as though they were disembodied spirits, and thus fallen into tho mistake of trying to save men's souls and neglected its true task, which is to save men, body and soul; but it has treated men as if each stood alone, instead of being ail marvelously ana Inextricably inter tangled in the State. That Is why there has been a need of Socialism, to emphasize the truth which Christianity has overlooked. War an Unchristian lnstitntion. The hero of "Pilgrim's Progress,1' is a good example of this one-sided sort of Chris tian. When he is converted, straightway he flees as fast as he can out of the City of De struction. He ought to have stayed right there in tho midst of that disordered town and to have done his best to make a city of God out of It. "The old doctrine which still lingers in some antiquated quarters," says Mr. Stead, "that Christians have nothing to ao with the affairs of this world, that this world is only to bo regarded as a wilderness through which they have to hurry with their loins girded up, caring nothing for the fate of those by the wayside, excepting so farast it concerns the next woiia, all tuat is dam nable heresy. What we have to do if we are to realize the Christian Christ, Is take, each one of us, as our ideal in all our public, municipal, and political activities, the great prayer which is the koynote of the Christian religion, 'Our Father, Thy will be done on earth as it is In heaven.' In the millennium, politics and religion will mean exactly the same thing." This war question is an excellent test of the real Christianity of this nation. For war is one of the nfost unchristian institu tions remaining on the earth. It belongs with drunkenness, and lust, and slavery, and ignorance, and pauperism, as one of the in iquities of the race. The test of the charac ter of war is easily made. It ought to be evident to everybody that wrong Is not made right by being perpetrated on a large scale. Whatever is not permissible to an individual is not permissible either to a nation. But no decent man settles a mis Understanding with his next door neighbor by breaking into his house and pounding him over the held with a club. That wis once the custom. The barons did that in the Dark Ages. Private war was the rule all over Europe. Bat gradually men got civilized and Christianized out of that.- It lingers still among all barbarians. But it survives among us only in the beastly cases of assault and battery that get into the police courts, and in tho almost obsolete fashion ot dueling. Wight Not Bight Any More. It was once the way of the law that difficult cases of Justice should be decided by wager of battle. That is, the defendant dared the plaintiff to fight him. And if, for example, the accusation concerned tho pur loining of a pair of shoes, and the plaintiff was knocked down a sufficient number of times by thotdefendant, it nas decided that the case was lost. No very stont villaln'was ever proved guilty of anything. But we have got past that. There is no arrangement for a fistic ring in the area of the Court House. The only ring to be found in the ad ministration of the city is, let us-'say, the ring with which the Mayor marries people! But here are great numbers of reputable people some of them attendants at Chris tian churches and no lack of otherwise in telligent newspapeis to back them, maln taininzthat the right way to decide our trouble with Chilo is by that old wager of battle. 4hls blundering and brutal, old, ob solete way of getting Justice, which com mon sense has put out of all civilized com munities, and which ie deal with nowadays with a patrol wagon and two pairs of hand cuffs, is still good enough for the United States or America! It is amazing in this yeir of grace, and in this land or supposedly advanced ideas,that column upon column should be marshaled upon this matter, and never a word said about arbitration. It is true that there is not yet an international Court of Appeals, as there will be one day when we become more civilized; but there is, notwithstand ing, that fair and most reasonable proteed-inz-, which we have already made a most happy trial of settlement by arbitration. For this Government to fight Chile without an ondeavor to submit the misunderstand ing to arbltratoi s would be to commit a most abominable crime. It All Depends on Whoso Ox Is Gored. How hard it is for us to see ourselves as others see us! And yeb wo have Just passed through an experience which, one -would thinlc, might have given usalittlo -appreciation of tho possibility of being mis taken. Italy had the same charge again3t us that we have azainst Chilo. An, our sentiments toward Italy were very like the leelmgs that Chile has toward us. At that time we maintained that such expressions of opinion were absurd, that theycould he accounted for only by a probable desire on the part of a Jingo administration to create a little political capital. And now tho situ ation is reversed. We are in Italy's place. And, behold, that which in our neighbor we called political bluffing, has become pure patriotism and love of our dear country. Verily, it does make a difference whose shoe it is that pinches! We entiust a great deal to our national representatives and rulers when we give them power to declare war That a few men at Washington should be able to tako even a small number of our ollow-countymen, andi-end them down to Chile to mutdcr men, with whom they have no personal dis pute, their knowledge eyen of the national dispute belnz but the very vaguest, is a con dition or things worth some very sober thinking. Is it not lair that the people who have got to do this piece of butchery, and getgunshot wounds in return, and undergo surgical operations, and leave helpless widows and destitute children is it not fair in a Government of, and for, and- by the people, that sucha crave matter as an offen sive war should be decided directly ,by the people? The time will come when every question that involves the lives and happi ness of the people, will be voted on by ull the people. And by "all the people," I mean the women as well as the men. In that day thero will be a minimum of war. It Will Stop at the Choking Stage. Cincinnati Times-Star. 1 The coal smoke nuisance is returning In Pittsburg, and is increasing ln'neailyall large American cities. London was com pletely blinded and half b tilled not long ago with a four days' fog that was more than half smoke from bituminous coal. When the trouble readies the choking stage, as It surely 'will, if neglected, some real energy will be expended in finding a remedy. It May Be the Farmers' Misalliance. Boston Globe.; It will be the Faroieia' Misalliance If these rows continue over Sockless Jerry and otherissues. ' FU5EEAL OP JUSTICE BEABLEY. Plain and Simple Services la Washington and Burial to Follow In Newark. . Washington, Jan. 21 In accordance with the very distinctly expressed wishes of the late Justice Joseph P. Bradley, the fuueral services held here to-day over his body were plain and simple in tho extreme, and this will also be the character of the final serv ices in Newark'N. Jf., to-morrow. Services were held at his late residence ou Third and I streets in this city. Savo for the number of distinguished people present there was nothing to indicate that it wns the funeral of one of the highest officers of the Govern ment, or that there wannything more re markable in the achievements of the man to whose memory those prose.nt were gath ered to pay respect than may bo said of every man ho has quietly and modestly in private life earned the re spect and esteem of his associate". There were only a few flowers. The casket, cov ered with black cloth with nickel trimmings and bearing a small silver plate, was laid in the library, wheie were assembled the wire, children and relatives of the dead Justice, his late asociutes on the bench of the Su preme Court, who acted as honorary pall beaiers, and a quartet fiom one of the churches. The double parlors of the larrilv residence connect with the library, and In thpse two larze rooms were gathered the officiating ministers and as manv friends as they could hold. Among thce filends were Vice President Morton, Mrs. Harrison and Secretary Hal ford, Senators Dawes, Hoar, Hlggins, McPherson and Allen, Attorney General and Mrs. Miller, Secretary Rnsk, Solicitor General -Taft, Assistant Attorney General Maury and other well-known per sons. Shortly after 2 o'clock Kev. Dr. Bartlett, of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Chureh.of which Mr. Bradley was a member, stated that they were gathered to pay the last tributes of respect to the dead msn. The quartet then santr "Asleen in Jesus," after which Itev. Dr. Teunis F. Haintin, of the Church of the Covenant, read the buiial ser vice of the PresDyterlan Church. This was followed by the singing of tho hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and the services closed with a praver and then the Benedic tion by Dr. Bartlett. The body was borne to the hearse by the active pallbearers, fol lowed bv the justices of the court, who were the honorary pallbearers, the family, and relatives and others. The procession moved to the Pennsylvania Railroad station, whero the body was placed on the Congresional limited express, which lert here at 4 o'clock. The relatives went to Newark, N. J., on the same train, but the justices of the court will not leave Washington until early to-morrow mornlnz, when ail of them who are well will tako a train lor Newark In time tobe present at tho interment. The remains were met In Newark on arrival there at 8 Ii o'clock tc nlght.by friends of the dead man.and placed in the North Dutch Church over night. To morrow the last rites will tako place and the body be Interred. SHAVED FOE AST'S SAKE. Kev. Dr. Talmago Explains Why He Cut Off His Whiskers. New Tors, Jan. 21. Tho Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has at length cleared up a painful Brooklyn mystery by telling a reporter why ho shaved off his whiskers. There was a vague suspicion that Dr. Talmage had acted from some, religious conviction, but such, he frankly explains, is not the case. Dr. Talmage shaved off his whiskers solely in the cause of art. He had nn idea that he would look better clean shaven than with whiskers, and that was the whole secret of the mystery. Ho also explainod why he grow whiskors originally. He was so very thin when young, ho said, that he grew a beard in order to help him cast a shadow. He at that time considered it necessary to cast a shadow. Dr. Talmage Is not so thin, now. Ho can cast a shadow now without tho aid of whiskeis. So, having accomplished its sole purpose in life, the beard had to go. Dr. Talmago did not shave to make himself look vounger. He thinks that such artifices aie in vain, and that no one is deceived. Dr. Talmaze shaves himself everv morning ex cept Snndivs. His Sunday slfiving he does on Saturday night. He has a number of good razois, and he bays that a good razor will sharpen itself if let alone for a few days. " FEEHCH PBOTESTAKTISM GAIHIN&. It Is Contending With Two Opposite Forces, Catholicism and Atheicm. Paris, Jan. 2t A joint statement has been issued by the Archbishops .of Paris, Toul ouse, Rheims, Lyons and St. Malo, complaining- that the State lias become atheistic. This will increase the probability of the separation of Church and State, and awakens the hopes of the Protestants in France. Sdme ot the leading Protestant clergymen or Paris have been interviewed on the subject. t Dr. Thurber, of the American Church, said: "I consider that Protestantism is mak ing progress, though slowly, as it has to combat both Roman Catholic traditions and atheism. The latter has been carried to such an extent as to show Itself even In the Chambers. "Rev. Mr. McCall, the head of the McChU session, said: "Evangelism has made ranid progress lecently. Therearo now nigh 1.00D reformed churches in France. Dniing the last seven years both the Catholic and Protestan 1 1 elfgions have made great h ea d wav against atheism." Pere Hvacintho said, "I don't think there is ono Frenchman in 10,000 who is really an atheist, though manv profess to be such. Tho Roman Church does not supply the necessary spiritual needs and Is too clogged with superstition." LIV0BCED THE WBOIfG WOMAN. A Chicago Judge Makes a 3Ilstake With Twin Sisters. Chicago, Jan. 21. Twin sisters in a divorce suit led'Judge Tuiey into a giave error to day. After learning from Carrie Gibson that she had married after a month's courtship and had been deserted a month after tho wedding, the Judge turned to give some diiections to his clerk. While nis head was turned tho wffe loft the witness stand and her twin sister took her place to testify. Not noticing the change, the Judge pro ceeded to cive tho woman a lectuie on dis cretion. His Honor said ho would grant her a decree, but advised her to he carerul in futuie. He was then made aware that he had divoi eed the wrong w oman. The Judge apologized to tho fair twin and straightened out the tangle. Bessie Dunn, member of one of Hovt's companies, wns divorced from Ednard W. Dunn. Mr3. Harvpy Lyons, a soubrette, was divorced ftom Edwa-d Davis Lyons, an English comedian. GE0BGE W. CHILDS' LATEST GIFT. A Beautiful Stained Glass -Vtlndow in Memory of a Deceased Paitor. Philadelphia, Jan. 24. Tho memorial window placed in St. James' Episcopal Church by George W. Childs to the memory of the late Rev. Dr. Henry J. Morton, Was unveiled yesterday alternoon by Mr. Childs himself. The window is 25 feet high and 12 feet wide, and is a magniflccn". illustration of the "Te Denm." On the right of the window is a figure representing the "Church Triumph ant," and on the left the "Chmch Militant." In the center are- gioups of figures, while hbovo is a beautiful piotuie of Chust. At the bottom is the inscription. "To the glorv or God and in memoiy of Henry Jackson Morton, D. D., rector of this church for more thanKyeais, ihis window is dedicated by George W. Childs." The window is mado of American opalescent glass, the work of Maltland Armstrong, of this city. DEATHS HESK AND ELSEWHERE. Ex-Governor John W. Hall. Hon. John V. Hall, Governor of Dela ware from 1ST8 to l8i died at his home in Freder ics Saturday. He wafe a delegate to the National Convention in bt. I.onis In 1878. which nominated the Hon. SamnelJ. Tllilen for the Presidency. In 1865 lie was elected to the State Senate and toos: Ills seat lu thitbodr as an lionond member, the last twojearsof Ills term being Its Speaker. Ills life after this became linked with the business which lie had choaen In earlv life, and he gradually worked himself up until he had placed lilmscirin a position where he was known and looted upon as one of the most extensive vessel owners of the country- His fortune Is estimated samewhero be tween JMO. COO and S30O.00O. Notwithstanding the wealth of Mr. Hall, lie was Immensely popular among the poorer classes, especially In the lower portions of the State, where lie w&shest Known. Obituary Notes. Jacob KtiSKEMAN.of Belleme. died Saturday of old age. The deceased was 81 years of age, and has been a resident of Belle? ue for 40 years. Mns. Tbitesdale, wife of the late Colonel Alexander TTiiedale. a pioneer or Voangstown, died Saturday midnight of the grip, aged 9.J. COLOSEL II. M. BOSSEBT died In Westport, l'a., Saturday, of paralysis. He served as Colonel in the is;th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War. ' JosErn 31. MOFi'iT. general agent of the Do mestic Sewing Machine Company, died yesterday at.hls late residence at Swlssvale. The funeral ser 1 1ces will take plane- from his late residence, at 2j:o r. M. to-raorrow." .IS CIEVJaABD HOT IH IXL . A Story That He Has Decided to Withdraw From the Contest, Special to New York World, SnndiT. WashirotoJ.-, Jan. i3 Two weeks ago Mr. Cleveland decided to announce his positive and final withdrawal from the Presldental contest. He communicated his determina tion to a few of his most intimate friends. They urged him almost vehemently not to do so. Finally, against his own inclination, he agreed to postpone the announcement for a short time. Then he went to Louisiana. There, in ti paragraph, is the most impor tant political newi printed since the World announced Mr. Blaine's position. It may be denied for politio reasons, but it i a fact, nevertheless, which comes to tho irbrW correspondent straight from headquarteis. The truth is Mr. Cleveland is disappointed and disgusted. He feels that ho has not-received the. consideration Jrom the party leaders to which he is entitled. Only a very lew of his most intimate friends, none of whom wields a very potent influence in the ical management of the party, have ever consulted him. The others have ignored him utterly. Even in specific instances, when his wishes have been well known, not the slightest attention has been paid to them. Mr. Cleveland thought that his work in New Yoik last fall, to say nothing of his po sition as the only Democratic ex-President, entitled him to some ltfcognition. He re ceived practically none. He was first an noyed, then Indignant, and finally, after going to Lakewood, where he had ample op portunity for reflection upon the subject, he reached the determination to which refer ence has been made. There were other reason, of course. He saw his friends in this city outwitted and outvoted at every point. Only a few of his former Cabinet officials showed tlie slight est disposition to protect his interests, and they were helpless in the hands of the much shrewder men against whom they were pitted. He saw Governor Hill make a master stroke at Albany jnst before leaving for Washington, thereby not only winning to a certainty the New York delegation, but at tracting the attentionand gratitude of Dem ocrats throughout the entire country. He realized the apparent.hopelessness of his candidacy without the' support of his own pivotal State. Tho outlook was f gloomy, indeed. Hardly a rav of light was visible. Azainst hi3 own scattered, though numerous followers, was pitted a relentless organization in State after State New York surely, and New Jersey, Indiana, Maryland andvone or two Southern States, probably. Ho decided to withdraw. His few intimates, begged him to recon sider. So long as they confined their argil-' ments to his individual prospects, he re mained firm. They Anally obtained a par tial concession by insisting that his with drawal would be unfair to them. It would strengthen Hill so immeasurably that his nomination would be certain. If Mr. Cleve land would not stand himself, he should at least allow his friends time to concentrate upon some candidate in the same wing ot the party. On this presentation of the case, Mr. Cleveland agieea to postpone his announce ment temporarily, and went to Louisiana. He made this concession grudgingly, how ever, and may declare his position any day. This is what his friends tear, and they are bringing every possible pressure to bear upon him to avert what they consider a catastrophe. ELECTEICITY Iff HOETICUXTIIEB. The Light Qnlckly Matures Garden Stuff and Brautlfls Flowers. Washington, Jan. 21. Electricity Is to have a new employment in horticulture Tho Department of Agneult-ire has been experimenting with it for some time. It has been ascertained that lettuce Is parti cularly susceptible to the influence of the electric light, by means of which it can be grown for mirket in two-thirds the usual length of time. Other vegetables respond likewise in varying degrees. But every thing depends upon the proper regulating of the light, and how to do that can be learned only by careful study ot the results produced under all conditions. The effect of tho light being to hasten maturity, too much pf it causes lettuce to run to seed be fore the edible loaves are formed. The light Is not employed as a substitute for sunlight. It is used merely in a supple mentary manner. Tho greenhouse that has tne sun in the daytime is illuminated at night by utc lamps, toward which the plants incline their leaves and flowers. It was sup posed that -vegetables required intervals of darkness for their health and development, just as animals need sleeD; but it has been shown that, supplied with the rays of elec tric light, they will go on glowing thriftly betwecn sunset and daybreak. Opal globes diminish the intensity of the light. Under the full influence of the light the plants grow pale, run up quickly in sickly stalks and soon die. It remains to be discovered exactly how much light Is beneficial, ami uuring wnac periou ot tne development or the vegetable it ought to be applied. The influence of the electric light on the color andproductiveness of flowers has been shown to the extraordinary. Tulpits ex posed to the light have deeper and richer tints, flowering more freely, and developing longer stems and bigger leaves. Fuchsian blooms eailler under llKe conditions. Petunias bloom earlier also and more profusely, grow Ing taller and more slender. In fact, there i every reason for believing that the electric light will be used yery profitably in the future as an adjunct to forcing establishments for flowers nd garden vegetables. One market gardener in New Jersey Is employing It with a success which he reports as marvellous. HTDDBN WEALTH UHEABTHED. Nearly 8100,000 Found in the Booms of a Woman Thought to Be I'oor. Li me, Crax., Jan. 24. Sixty thousand dol laisiu cash and bank books representing $30,000 were found hero to-day. They are the hidden wealth belonging to the late Jiis. Jane Kingsbury, who died last Satnrday, nnd was supposed to be poor. Attorney Cunningham and a Mr. Griswold came across several bank books concealed in a chest in a spare bedroom. They woio found in bureau drawers which had not been used to the knowledge of the other persons in the houso for years. The books represented deposits amounting to about $30,CO0. The search was continued and to-day $60 000 In money was found hidden in different places. Of this sum $11,000 was in gold pieces in denominations ranging from $1 to $50. The balance was In currency. It was all hidden in the bottoms of trunks, bureau drawers and beds. How Mrs. Kings bury hoarded this money is a mystery to every one familiar with her manner of liv ing. What her income was no one knows, but it was always thought she lived up to it. Years aso Mr. Kingsbury, who was the wife of Major Kingsbury and mother-in-law of ex-Governor Bnckner, of Kentucky, figured in a seties of lawsuits in this State and Kentucky. They lasted for 12 years. PEFFER'S PEP TliEORT. As Mr. Peffer's pet theory is that the Gov ernment should make itself a pawnbroker for all the farmers, this Indiana test meas ure may be his way of "trying it on a dog," as wo say in histrionic circles. Xiao York Advertiser. Mb. Peffek. of Kansas, has asked Congress to loan $100,000,000 to the farmers. of Indiana at 2 per cent. Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, if his request is granted, will And that Indiana farmers pi edomlnate in thU country. Jfin neapolis Times. senator Peefeb solemnly declares that a 2 per cent $100,000,0(,0 loan will bring God close to the people. This would bo peVfectly satisfactory, but wouldn't it be iore rever ent to leave God where ho is and bring the people close to him? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sbkatob Pej-feb's scheme to loan out $100, 000,000 or United States Treasury funds at 1 per cent on farm mortgages will hardly meet with the approval of the Indiana Alli ance farmers. They arp.reported extremly anxious to borrow $150,000 000 from the Gov ernment, all by themselves. Philadelphia Ledger. f The development of Mr. Peffer asa Senator promises to supply the legislation of the Upper House with all tho material for mirth that it can possibly desire. Hisbill authoriz ing the mortgage of the State of Indiana to the United States for $100 000,000 is a high bid for the perpetual possession of the-cap and bells. New York Commercial Advertiser. OUR MAIL POUCH. . A Reform Temporarily Checked. To the Editor of The Dlsoatcn; At a little waysido station I have pur chased a copy of your generous Sunday edition of The Pittsbubg Distatch and I read in it with much Interest and some sud den wonder that the Impression is swelling in Pittsburg that I am a "humbu?." I am sorry for this. Is the impression general and shared by all the cultivated citizens of Pittsburg or is it merely the expression of an individual optnfont When I was recently with you and enjoyed the honor or appear ing to overflowing houses, before audiences which seemed to me as cultured, as well- mannered and certainlvas generous as those. of any English city, their very presence and their applause led me to believe that I had sneceeded in Winning their approval and perhaps some tiny place in their affections. And now that my back is turned "the im pression is swelling in Pittsburg" that I am a humbug." I should like to have this swell ing stonped and at once, for I do not believe there is any cause for it. I understand that it Is tne result of a paragraph in a.pnblica tlon called the Dramatic News, which accuses me of announcing the intention of doing awav entirely with wnll advertisements and then not carrying out my scheme. If we in this world conld at once carry out all our zood intentions It would be n very beautiful place to live in, and even Pitts burg would be greatly improved. You, sir, in your distinguished career, have no doubt made many good resolutions and done your best and your hardest to stick to them, and also, no doubt, you have run headlong against obstacles and the brickwalls of ignorance and bigntry.which have switched you off or knocked your ideal schemes into the pulverized "impossible." The work of radically changing the meth ods of theatrical advertising cannot be effected iu a day. The contracts I have made for the present tour were signed 12 months ago, and they contain very definite directions and demands on the part of the managers in whose theaters I have to ap pear. As yet, in no single instance have these managers agreed to do without the large amount of colored posters and flaming advertisements their contracts call for, and lam not wealthy enough to go to lay with them all. I must carry out my present con tracts, and these contracts are based upon tne old principles or theatrical advertise ment, rthlnk every sensible person will understand my explanation. In am none the less determined to adhere to my resolution as soonps it can be practi cably carried into effect, and I am as cer tain as ever that no theatrical venture (in which a. circus is not lnclnded)benefl ts by tho money that is plastered npon the walls and boardings of a city. The people of this coun try are an intelligent people, a reading peo ple probably the best educated peopfe in the world the Journals or this country are the largest and the most enterprising of the world, there Is, (no direct contrast to an English audience.jDrobably not one creature visiting a theater who cannot read and who does not read these Journals, and these journals are thereforeiiie only proper and civilized method or announcing the pur poses and plans of the serious actor. I have, sir.the honor to remain, yours very obedient servant, Richard Mansfield. En Route, January 21. JTJSX WHAT AIXS BLAIKK, Late Dinners Get Out of Harmony With Their Environment. Lewlston Evening Journal Special. Washixoto, Jan. 23. It Is the fortune and misfortune of Mr. Blaine to bo so intrenched in the popular affections and to bo so essen tial to his country that some of our special correspondents require a sensational col umn of English circumlocution to inform us that his dinner is out of harmony with It3 environment When Mr. Blaine Is well he never thinks of getting sitfk, and when he Is sick he devotes himself too exclusively to that brooding mental state which make the sick sicker. When at his work he forgets to play, and when he ought to play lie is too apt to fancy he is too sick. This not an ac cusation; it is a characteristic of many a busy and energetic brain which,, in the nature of its own structure and habit, is In capable of innocuous desuetude. The country for the next few years stands in such pre-eminent need of James G. Blaine that it is high time that Mr. Blaine's most influential fiiend3 more deeply impressed upon him that he is neither a chronic in valid nor a Samson, but that a gentleman who has just passed his 62d birthday and who is doing most exacting service as a diplomat nnd statesman should send his card to represent him at dinner parties and float his reerets rather than his personality in the social swim. I know of hosts of younger men In Washington who, in self protection, have to decide against social pieference when these allurements imply late hours and consequential disorder in digestion. Nothing is more depleting to the manof 60 than to go on as if he were a lad of 20 even if that going on imply simply mid night suppers and the platitudes of wall flowers. Social life is essential, but not that kind of social life, especially to three score. During the past week or two Mr. Blaine has had three attacks of sick headache attacks due to irregular boars and to too much social life by night mixed with ex cessive exaction on his mental and nervoii3 force by day. Few young men could sustain such a strain. Mr. Blame's last attack was at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting. He drove to his doctor's, and that sensible man told him his stomach was deranged, and that these attacks conld bo expected to' continue so long as Ifc continued to eat eight-course dinners and midnfeht suppers. In other words, Mr. Blaine, when well. Is altogether too careless about getting sick, nis doctor Insists there is no constitutional or chronio ailment, but that the attacks of the past week are a command of nature that his rest less patient in the future should keep -regular hours of work and relaxation rather than irregular hours of both. BKILLJANT AUB0BAS. Remarkable Electrical Phenomena Re- cently Seen in Nebraska. Cooksox, Neb., Jan. 21. One of the most remarkable electrical phenomena ever seen in this country was witnessed a few nights ago oy those who were fortunate enough to be up after midnight. It had been a very cold day and thea.lrwas crisp. For several nights there had been brilliant auroras, and these hud gradually increased until the light was so bright as to almost turn night into day. On the night in question the auroras were especially bright, and just after mid night what appeared tobe electrical clouds made their appearance in the north and ac cumulated inyast numbers and floated to the south, disappearing at an angle of about 20 after passing low over the city. These clouds were of a most peculiar ap pearance, being bright and shimmering and the light increasing and deci easing, while all tue wnne tne ciouus eraincu a craciciing noise similar to that emitted by tissue paper when it is rumpled or crushed. These olouds continued to increase in nnmber until the 'wIioIh heavens to the north of the city seemed to be filled with them, and so bright appeared the night that it Decame easy to lead newspaper print by the strange light There was no flashing such as is made by lightning, but tlio light was of a mellow character and seemed to permeate the whole cloud and to take on part of the anrora's light from the rorth, which all the while glowed with srreafer fetvency than had ever been seen at this place. On the second night the same strange phenomena were witnessed, but in a much less degree, and since that time they have been nbsept, although tho aurora has ben y rv hrillianr. . ZzmXLn'E FAIE. France to Have a t Oman's Exhibition Witrj Som-thlng Practical In It. Pabis, Jan. 21. An exhibition of decora tive nnd industrial arts for feminine pur poses will be held In August next at the Palais de l'Industrie. This show will bo called "Exposition des Arts de la Ferame." Theie will be plctuies and sculptures show ing woman at her toilet or engaced in indus trial pursuits, such as Knitting, lacemaklng, cooking and sewing. Aniippeal will be addressed to the curators of museums and others who have old toilet services, laces, silk, ribbons, shoes, scent bottles and so on, to place themselves in communication with the secretary. Tho proceeds of the exhibition will be devoted to a museum opindustrial art in Paris, in whicn documents, drawings and tracings will be kept, so tuat the workers in the decorative arts may And models suited to their Various needs. JIa;iramps Making Slow Pro-ressi Boston Traveller. 3 , We are told that it is the'Mugwnrap's mis sion to kill off the Hills in both parties. They don't seem to be making -much pro gress lust now in lowering one of the quite piotnlnent-nyis. Hilt Does the Sawin; Chicago Inter-Ocean.l Tammany owns "the buck and the saw;" but.enatorHill.doe3 the sawing, f i CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Parisian rag-pickers operate only after' snhdpwn. The Cityof Mexico is 7,310.80 feet ahoveVjV sea level. Women load and Unload vessels in Jap anese ports. It has been discovered that almanacs, date back to the year 100 A. D. On an average there are 23J hoars of sunshine a week in this country. The first lighthouses had fires of wood and coal kindled at the top of them. A pelican was killed at Shell Beach, Cal., the other day, that measured 7 feet 1ft inches, from tip to tip. Dartmoor is the largest tract of uncul tivated land in England: it occupies one fifth of the county of Devon. According to a Japanese belief the Mi kako is descended from the god", being on hundred and twenty-first in direct line of, descent. There is a Chinese theater in Victoria,, British Columbia, where a company of IS pis-vers has a repertoire of 300 plays, and tho bill is changed nightly. It has been fonnd that half-bnrned aro carbons will cut glass. Containing, as they do, manv of the characteristics of tho dia mond, this is not surprising. In all the large towns in Sweden he fashiorable barbers' shops are kept by women. The hair cutting and shampooing are done by men, but only women shave. A few old toll bridges down in Maine bear signs that perpetuate the memory of a curiouslaw. These signs proclaim that all persons, save "paupers, Indians and clergy men," must pay toll in crossing the bridge. Three companies have been formed in London to work the petroleum beds of Peru. It is to be hoped that snecess will attend their operations, as kerosene sells at about $1 per gallon in many of the Central Ameri can states. Bamboo mates thebest kind and quality of charcoal for blacksmith -n ork. It is said to give off more heat than the best coke and requires less blast to kindle and burn it. It commands double the price of ordinary charcoal In India. The manufacture of wood pulp has become one of the most Important trades of Sweden. According to recent reports, that country has over 120 wood pulp factories, about half of which have been started, dur ing the last three years. Among the weavers employed in a Biddeford, Me., cotton mill is a woman who stands 6 feet and 3 inches in her stocking feet, and is large and strong in proportion She is more than a match for any man about: the mill, either in boxing or wrestling. During last year there were 300,000,000 feet of timber cut in the Adirondack forests. Of the whole quantity, two-thirds was made into lumber, and the remainder into paper pulp, and all by the wood pnlp mills in ths Adfrondack region, the product being 109, 200 tons of wood pulp. A famous Elaine hnnter tilled two monster bull moose near Nabmakanta Laka a few days ago. and took their heads and antlers to Bangor to be mounted. One of the headland antlers welshed 9J pounds, the other 87 pounds, and one pair had a spread of i feet 1 inch. The Portland Press Club has one of the old desks provided'by the Maine Legislaturo for reporters when the seat of Government was removed from Portland to Angusta in, , 1832. James G. Blaine, Chief Justice Fuller and other emiuent Maine men used the desk: -while they were reporters. The area under jute in India, in 1891, is reported to be about -18 per cent less than in the previous year. The quality exported In 18S0 was 10,606,115 hundred weight, and it ap pears likely that the quantity from the Je9l crop, available for export, will not be more than three-tourths of that quantity. A scheme for taking vessels of 20-feefc . draught through the Canadian canals by means of steel pontons placed under them, is being urged upon the Canadian Govern ment. The expense of this system would be about $300,000. while to deepen the canals sufficiently would-cost many millions of dol lars. Adolph Sutro, the man who made a huge fortune out of tunnels, is trying to rival the ancient Romans with the magnifi cence of his bath. Acres of sea are to be in- "T closed with granite walls, paved and tiled and covered with glass, the tides being ad--'' mitted through suitable channels in tha living stone. A large piece of float gold ore was recently found near Brigham's Peak in. Sevier county, Utah, and it assayed $93,000 to the ton. The -ein or ledge from which tha Siece of ore came has not been discovered, ut prospectors are filing claims on the whole country, and In the spring they ex pect to uncover tho ledge. The French are now painting their war vessels a dull, sulphurous gray, exactly the color of smoke as it arises from cannon. They say this color has the advantage of being as illusive ana lnuisnnguisnaoie in fogs and sea mists and darkness as during the smoke of battle. It is more baffling to the search light than any other tint. The ordinary load for a camel is 600 pounds for longjourneys, though if the jour ney is to last dnly a week or ten days 1,000 pounds weight is frequently placed on tho back of an average animal, but not without strenuous objection on the part of the beast, which watches the process of loading with great anxiety, and frequently interrupts it by rising and refusing to kneel to receive more. Pretty nearly everyone has seen tha. curious "sea ruflie3"or"sea necMaces'whIc!i aro found plentifully on ocean beaches. Thesoarethe egg cases of the sea snails. Tbey consist of a number of small disk shaped envelopes attached along a sort of stem the biggest of them beinir in the midd'le In each envelope there is a little spot or thinner material, which the young break through when they aro ready to be hatched. Brazilians train a snake, called tha giboia. as a rat-catcher. It is 15 feet long, is harmless to the human being, becomes quite a household pet, is lazy in the daytime, but at night roams about the house in quest of its prey, the rats. These animals it promptly kills by twisting their necks. When Bra zilians have to pass from room to room in. . the dark thev first pnt on their slippers. It r would not be pleasant to plant one's bare feet on a cold, srlmy snake ot that size. TK1FLEVG HUMOKE5QCES. "Is it true, Miss Gertie," he said, "that there are Just two things a woman will jump at- conclusion and a mouse?" "o, "she answered, "mere Is a third, Mr, Plillip." After thinking the matter over a few moments he tremblingly made her an ofTer, bnt she didn't Jump at It. He was not the right man. Chicago Tribune. So fond of medicine are some That, told death all their 111 would throttle. The 'd step rlxht up produce the cash. And ask the druggist for a bottle. Sew York Herald. Orlando You have basely deceived me, Elvira, and we must part forever! EIvlw-Deceledyou. Orlando? Ke-IndHeavea, tell raj what doc he mean? Orlando Elvira. I have learned only to-day that you have been taking a course of lessons at a cook ing school. Then; can be no happiness for us to gether after that. Somerset Journat. Gracious!" cried Uncle Jack, looking at Tommy's Xoah's Ark. 'Jfoah has a Iae family." They isn't all Noah's." answered Tommy: some of 'em is relatives visiting 'cm." Harper's Xouiia People. Theseamstressalwaysdidherbest At least her customers suppose so: But, though her wort may stand the test OftrUl, ltisonlrsew.sew. Sew York Press. Mary Ann Shall I wait np a bit to let the boss in i Mrs. Flgg No; he won't be la before morals. I see he has stopped the clock. Indianapolis Jour nal. x Teacher Hans, name three beasts of JTey. Hans-Two lions and a tiger. Texas Sttings. "What is this love of which they slug-? lant an ideal, unreal thing?" Nay speak not thus In accents rash: Love Is on chansrs for so much cali. Sew Xort Merit Hr.Bronston Hiss Braney.the Aerica5? gin wno took all the prizes iu the English univer sities, nas returned to this country, and I saw in mo street to-day. . n j .! utvuaiAiu imfaii jaiercstj inn job. "fi4a waa h drcvedr-puek. . iftiaalM ,&'. " TlJBrvvitHK t. II1 i v ""1,
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