R if 4. - - Z. '-' '"-TIlLE PEETSBURG 'DISPATCH, SUNDAY. JANUARY -81, 1892. - ' "?&& T ,WK I je B$jraScT. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY Vol. 4i. No. TSS . EifterwJ at FltrMmncrotonice November, 1SS7, second-class matter. Business Office Comer Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and So Diamondj Street, in New Dispatch Bvrilding. F.APTF.nv APYtimsINO OVTICE. ROOM7B. TRIBUNE BUII.DINO."N-EV YORK, when-complete Sles orTHE DISPATCH can always lie found. Foreizn advertisers appreciate vie convenience. Home adiertlsers and lriend ot "IHK Dlfl'ATOIL. Idle in 2cw ork, are also made 'welcome. THE DISPA TCH is nsvlnrlv on stile nl Brrntanv t, t Vmon Sqttare. -Vetr lork. antt 7? Ave tifVOprra. mns, trance, irAere anyone tefco Ims bren aisnp fomtrd at a tiotd neirs stnini enn obtain it. TEKM&bF TIIK DISPATCH. JOSTAGE TREE IX THE UNITED STATE. tiaily DisPATcn. One Year - ? S on Daily DisrATcn. Per Quarter. 100 Daily DlFPATClt. 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POSTAGE AH persons who mail the Sunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should hear in mind the fact that the post age thereon Is Two (2) Cents. AH double nnd triple number copies or The Dispatch require a S-eent stamp to insure prompt deliers. riTTSBl'KG. M'NDAY. JANUARY 31. PLEDGING Till" CANDIDATES. If the millage for city purposes be not cut down this year, it is very evident that the burden of taxes must be greatly in creased by the increase of the valuations of property unless indeed the assessors make a sweepim; reduction when they come to revise the figures so far given out The results of that revision cannot, how ever, be known for a long while yet. Mean time thye is an election for Councilmen soon to be heard and meetings are going on in different parts of tli( city strenuously demanding that the expenses of city gov ernment be kept down. The intimation from the Chiefs of the Departments that they want over half a million dollars above the very liberal appropriations of last year, followed by the jump in valuation, has roused earnest opposition. As stated several months avr", when the discussion of this year's appropriations "began, TnE Dispatch emphatically thinks it time that a halt should be called in the hitherto steady progression of city expenses and of taxes. Parsimony lias never found favor in these columns; neither has the idea that inefficient gov ernment is cheap or desirable. But hen the percentage of expenditures is grow ing out of proportion to the increase of population and when every increase, of expenditure seems only to stimulate "fur ther demands it is well to revert to the principles of strict business administration which must not be wholly lost sight of even in public affairs. Last year's appropriations were large and liberal. They covered complete and satisfactory equipment and service from the different departments; also large and extraordinary outlays for park purchases and park improvements; likewise for the replacing of wom-out pavements by new ones, and for the erection of station and engine-houses. The total outlay repre sented a per capita expense in one form or other for city service of about 520 that is to say of nearly o,000,009 for less than 250,000 population. This should be quite enough. If the theory of political econo mists is correct that in the end the burden of taxes is shifted to the shoulders of the wage-earner, who must bear it by reason of being unable to shift it further that is to say, taxes are added on to the rents and to the cost of living by those upon whom they at first fall the reflection arises that the workingmen of the city are vitally in terested in demanding from sitting Coun cilmen and from candidates for Councils pledges to keep within the limits of last year's appropriations. If, however, the voters, who are also the taxpayer fail to take enough interest in the election to insist upon distinct pledges from Councilmen and from candi dates for Council, they need not feel in the least surprised if taxes go up. Until those who foot the bill call a halt there will be no halt FIGURE O.N THE ItOAU QUESTION. 2fov that we are in the middle of that season when the country road alternates from the condition of Irozen roughness and slipperiness to that of bottomless im passibility, there is a good deal of appro priateness in holding a State Road Con vention as was done in Xew Jersey last week. New Jersey is not worse off than other States in the matter of roads. In deed, in one or two counties much more has been done than in any other part of the country toward building permanent highways. But the need for further im provement and the vigorous agitation to that end aie illustrated by the Xew Jersey Convention. A statistical fact cited in this discussion Is full of significance as showing the economic value of road improvement. The amount of money invested in horses, mules and oxen by the farmers of this couutry is stated at $2,nno,000,OUO. It is a demon 1 strated fact that during one-third of the year the effectiveness of this vast invest ment lor ordinary motive power is prac tically wiped out, while the expense of maintaining it continues. If a reform should enable this vast interest to be effectively used in transport ing agricultural products and sup plies, during the now idle season, the . increase to the practical value ol this .single item of wealth would be over fifty percent. So that, simply as regards the uses' of draught animals, we have an addition to the economic wealth of the country tt be secured by solid roadbeds, measured in round figures at the sum of 1,000,000,000. Take another way of figuring on the ame basis. The interest on the total value of horses, mules and oxen must be 511:0,000,000, while the earnings necessary for tlieir leplacement even-15 years must vbe as much more. If this $240,000,000 has 4o be earned with them in two-thirds of ji.be year, an improvement of the roaps .that would make their work effective in I tho nthor thir1 wrnilld hf TVOrth S120.000.- 000 annually to the agricultural interests ot the Nation. In other words, if road ways always passable could be secured by expending $120,000,000 each year, -the ac count would lie just even. If it could be done by a $G0,OOO,O00 annual expenditure, it would double the money on the item of live stock alone. As 540,000,000 a year would in a generation give this country something like 600,000 miles of good roads, over four miles of country road for every mile of railway track at present, it is plain that there is an immense public gain in such a policy. Of course.therc is no pretense that these calculations are exact, but on the other hand thero is no doubt that the loss to this country from bad roads over what it would cost to make gcjod ones, is to be counted by the scores of millions an uuallv. fUIX-GKOWN GRABS. Senator Allison, in the Senate the other day, expressed in the carefully guarded phrases" or Senatorial courtesy the fear that if the wholesale demand for public buildings costing from 575,000 to $250,000 in towns ranging from 2,500 to 10,000 pop ulation continues in its present aggravated form there will not be enough money left to meet the expenses of the Government As there is not enoueh monev to run the Government on the present scale of ex penditure, without the increment of in definite millions, to scatter $100,000 build ings in all the small towns of the country, the only criticism to be made of Senator Allison's remarks is that they were all too mild. Considering that the log-rolling abilities of the Senators from the West have se cured for the rising towns of Norfolk and Hastings, Nebraska, Reno, Nevada, and The Dalles, Oregon, a total of $425,000 worth of architecture, it is time for Sena tors to say plainly that this system of di vision without silence must stop. As no definite information of the population of these towns can be secured outside of a detailed census report by minor geograph ical divisions, it is not wise to be too posi tive either with regard to their magnitude or diminutiveness. We may admit that they are rising towns, although they have not yet risen to the height where any defi nite idea of their population impresses itself on the nation. But this fact should suggest to them the wisdom of waiting. Let those ambitious towns delay their de mands until they attain the full measure of their greatness before reaching out for full-grown appropriations for public build ings. PERSKYKRANCK OF SUPERSTITION. The fact that within a half day's rail road ride of New. York City a man was murdered last week because he was thought to be a wizard, and his slayer con ceived himself to be bewitched by his spells, causes some serious reflectionsAsto the exact advance of nineteenth century civilization. If such a thing had occurred in a savage country or even among the lit tle more than half-civilized peasantry of Eastern Europe it might seem credible. But when it is located in the leading State of the ureat republic of universal educa tion and popular enlightenment it creates harassing doubts as to whether American progress is doing its perfect work. Yet when we examine the subject we find ground for recognizing tliat this dis play of besotted superstition was simply the complete development of many things which crop out in what claims to be intel ligent aud cultured society. Only last week it was reported from the highest cir cles of Washington society that thirteen ladies refused to sit down to lunch eon until a fourteenth was4 discovered to break' the spell. The stage, that traditional means of popular instruction, abounds with superstitions of "hoodoos" and "mascots;" and practical politics while largely superior to fine scruples, is operated on superstitions about patronage and money barrels not much less stupid in proportion than that of the New York farmer who killed his bewitcher, and was thereafter surprised to find that he was no better. The staying power of superstition is a puzzle.but it is a fact That it exists in this country after nearly a century of common school education, shows that the warfare against ignorance and semi-civilized stupid ity must be kept up for another century or two, before the period of millennial intelligence can be hoped for. NO REASON FOR DELAY. It is now reported that the sub-committee of Councils having the appropriation ordinance in charge will hold that meas ure back "as long as possible" in order to get the Supreme Court decision, on the constitutionality of the curative acts be fore completing it. If the committee were desirous of adopting just the course that should not be taken, it would be im possible to hit it more exactly than in the above outline. As there is not now more than time enough for the discussion of the appro priation ordinance in detail before the date fixed by statute for its adoption, the ordinance should be reported at once. The precedent fixed in past years of re porting the measure aud having it passed through Councils in a single day, without time for extended examination of its pro visions, is one that will not satisfy the public demands at this time. This will be all the more emphatically the case be cause the decision of the curative acts need not vitally affect the appropriation ordinance. If the act is invalidated the city will have to resort to the issue of bonds; if it is sustained the great share of the assessments can be promptly col lected. The comparatively slight differ ence to be made by the fate of this act can be attended to while the measure is pend ing in Councils. The committee should draw up the or dinance on the basis of keeping the total appropriations down to the present limits, aud report it in time to afford all its pro visions the fullest examination botli by Councils and the public Any excuse of fered for not doing so will create the im pression that the real purpose of the delay Ls to get past the municipal election. 1 UK PIG IN OPERA. There are some singular manifestations of social influences in the fuss that has been raised in New York over the squeal ing of a pig. The pig was not the ordi nary one who laments his fate as he is transported in double-decked suffocation to the tragic terminus of the abattoir. He was a dramatic pig brought upon the stage to vary the more conventional strains of comic opera, as well as to enliven the scene; and his vociferation not to say dramatic elocution aroused the sympa thies of -some of the auditors, and the legal action of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Of course the managers protested that no pain was inflicted on the pig, and there is no evidence of any torture beyond the mental stress wliich any well-conducted animal of porcine respectability must feel at being dragged against his will into the dissipations of the stage. But that phase of the question is less striking than the standard of humor which it presents. A pig is a humorous object, as evaryone ad mits. The greased pig was a nubject of uproarious fun back in the dark ages. The deduction of the producer of comio opera was very direct that a coruscation of wit at once delicate 'and brilliant- would consist in lugging a pig in a scene of comic opera; and it was straightway dona Whilo,1 it might be truthfully claimed that the pig surpassed some of the actors in the rojalistic quali ties of his representation, juid the de clamatory robustness of his bones, it must also be said that the humor o'f his appear ance is decidly antiquated, i But another feature of thf's affair lies in its demonstration of the 'power which really regulates our drama'. The pig did not see the fun of it; but lii: protests were unavailing. The law was invoked in his behalf, but that only precipitated the legal avowal on the other side that the pig's unhappiness was as jfictitious as the despair of a tragic actres.s. But when it was discovered that some Cif the audience neither enjoyed the porcine music nor laughed at his realistic tjomedy a change came over the policy of (operatic produc tion. Against the Jirtura of the Preven tion of Cruelty to Soci ety the imprcs sari03 stuck to their piy; but when the auditors declared tlieir sympathy with its mental anguish, the powers of comic opera retired the pig to the happy solitude of private if, indeed, t;he result of inter ference in his behalf, has not been the tragic one of converting an operatic per former into pork cho"ps and roasts, or the more enduring form of long-clear middles and sugar cured ham.'r. The moral of this 'is that in our country the censor of the drama occupies the front of the house from the orchestra chairs up to the ;rallery. If managers stra" into the regions of porcine comedy, or even lower types of dramatic perform ance, the people who can correct the evil are the ones 'who 'pay at the box office. The American thenter-goer would see in this fact at once the dignity of his posi tion and the importance of his responsi bility. MRS. MURPHY'S METHOD. A vigorous woman, a handy revolver aud a surnrised burglar combined to give an object lesson on tile burglary problem in Omaha the other night The result of the chemical combination is of decided public value, as it takes the form of the precipitation of the burglar in leaving the scene of action. When the burglarious gentleman with velvet shod footsteps entered the Widow Murphy's premises, through the window, he found the lady of the house awake. "Don't move," he kindly admonished her, "and yon won't be hurt" But the subsequent proceedings showed that it was not Mrs. Murphy's safety for which a guarantee was required. That energetic lady evidently has ideas of her own as to the time of moving, and she proceeded to move when she saw fit Reaching under the pillow for the convenient revolver, she at ouce opened fire. At the first shot tho burglar exclaimed "My God!" This may have been caused by utter surprise at the failure of the widow to take his advice about keeping quiet; nutasthe lady kept up the fire he did not stop to argue the ques tion but hastily decamped, to be discov ered later in the vicinity with one or two prospects of pure lead in his internal economy. Mrs. Murphy has demonstrated the ef fective manner of dealing with the bur glar question, and incidentally suggests' an enlargement of woman's sphere. The two successful examples of dealing with the house-breaking interest have been pre sented by this lady aud a Swedish servant girl who captured a burglar in New Jersey some weeks ago. If more women of that sort could be discovered it might prove effective to recruit the police force of our cities from them. Pending the raising of such a corps, we can only commend 'to householders Mrs. Murphy's vigorous and effective method of suppressing the burglar nuisance. Two instances of the extension of woman's field are recently cited pro and con. Miss Molllo Whearty challenges public ad miration as the first woman to invade the field of Canadian refugees of the booillcr; and it may be expected that In the fullness of time slio will return to the United States in the full gloryofrespectabilltyand wealth. On the other hand, a woman reporter of Chi cago has failed to come up to the possibilities of Her sphere. A young man tired of life, wrote her a note giving her tho material for a scoop, by tolling her that he was eoing to take the morphine route to the next world. She was so untrue to the reportorial In stinct that she flew to his relief, and by sum moning a doctor with a stomach pump spoiled the Item. On this statement the ac counts very nearly balance. There is an innate, though heretofore unnoticed, sarcasm in the fact that Chi cago's alleged water famine presented no terrors to the people who located the Demo cratic Xational Conve ntion. The libel suit industry is proving un profitable in this neek of the woods, and If ls well It should be so; for though The Dispatch is a party In interest it can say with truth that no newspapers anywhere are conducted with more i egard for private reputation than tbose of Pittsburg. When ever Injury is done to a citizen whether influential or humble by inadvertence or inaccuracy of reports, adequate correction is made immediately by any Pittsburg paper upon notice. Such being the case, there is no occasion for libel suits against the press in this county. That courts aud Juries understand this is pi etty well indicated by tho fact that four libel suits unprovidently brought agains( as many city papers havo practically failed upon trial during the past couple of weeks. Mr. OATES bill to prohibit'the publica tion or matter castinC ridicule upon people is likely to be most effective in coming un der the ban of its own prohibition. It casts ridicule on Mr. Oatcs. It is an evidence of progress, though very Iqng delayed, that at the instance of one ot the cxpeits engaged in examining the de funct Keystone National Unk, of Phlladcl. phia, a warrant has been issued lor the arrest of II. II. Yard. The investigation by tho ex perts has been suspended, icsumcd, delayed and protracted for the greater p.irt of tho past year; but it is gratifying to learn that it docs more at long intervals. Were the members of the State Re publican Committee afraid that if they held the Republican Convention in Pittsburg it might get away from them T SO.it is decided by the United States courts that gentlemen's yachts puichased abroad are not subject Jo duty. This is probably the law, since the courts say so; but the practical contrast it presents of de claring that millionaires can enjoy a privi lege simplv for pleasure, that is denied to the owners of ships that perform a public servico is, to say the least, decidedly phe nomenal. Seems to Be a Love Match. Boston Herald. 3 The engagement is announced of Xw Yprk and Brooklyn, and thq wedding is ex pected to come off in due course of time. It s to be a love match. I seem LiVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. A Squall In the Douse Stopped Before It Became Daneeroas Judge Woods' Contl matlon Certain The Gridiron Club's Dinner a Great Success An Im portant Ruling. Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. In the IIouso to-day ilr. Oates, of Alabama, from the Committee n Judloinry, reported the resolution referilng to that committee tho report, charges and evidence taken by the committee in tho Fifty-tlrst Congress, re lating to Aleck Boardman, Judge of the Western district of Louisiana, with instruc tions to fully investigate the same and re port its findings and recommendations at any tinio. Agreed to. ilr. Reed, of Maine, asked unanimous consent that during the day members desirous of introducing bills might present them to the Speaker ana be referred by him, as was done during the Fifty-first Congress. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, objected, giving as his reason that the Speaker did not regularly refer bills during tho Fifty-first Congicss. Mr. Uecd hoped tnat the gentleman did not mean to insinu ate that the present Sneaker would follow an evil example. Mr. Walker, of Massachu setts, thereupon demanded the regular or der, which was the consideration of mir linlsHed business the proposed code of rules. The Speaker stated that the rules had not been called im for the reason that there was a special order for 1 o'clock, but Mr. tValker still insisted, and Mr. Catchings,. of Missis sippi, moved to postpone tho consideration ot the rules until Monday. On this motion, Mr. Buchanan, of New 'Jersey, raised the point of "no quorum," but after some time consumed in taking tho vote, Mr. Buplianan said as it was evident that the party which had a two-thirds majority in the House could not command a quorum he would relent and he withdrew the point. Tho motion was therelore declared carried, but then Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, came to the front with a motion to reconsider, which Mr. Springer moved to lay on tho table. Again no quorum voted, and that point was raised by Mr. Burrows, who said ho wished to give the Democrats an object lesson on what might be done under tho proposed rules. Mr. Springer's motion was- agreed to yeas 182, nays 27 and then public busi ness having been suspended, the House pro ceeded to pay its tiibuto of respect to the memory of the late Ieonidas C. Honk, of Tennessee,. Eulogies were delivered by Taylor, of Tennessee: Henderson, of Iowa; Hooker, of Mississippi; Henderson, of Illinois; Lanham, of Texas: O'Ferrall, of Virginia; Breckinridge, of Kentucky: Dol liver, of Iowa; Haugen, of Wisconsin; Cuni mlngs, of New York; Washington, of Ten nessee: Broslns, of Pennsylvania; Townsend, of Colorado; Peel, of Arkansas; Russell, of Connecticut: Cheatham, of North Carolina, and McMUlin. of Tennessee. Tli6 House then, as a niailc of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjonrned. Judge 'Woods to be Confirmed. No further hearing will be held by the Sonate Committee on Judiciary in the mat ter of tho confirmation of Judge Wpods to bo one of the new Circuit Judges, the testi mony taken yesterday closing the case. Tho committee at its regular meeting Monday will take the question under consideration, and when the Senate meets, it is said, will re port favorably upon the confirmation of Judge Woods, together wltn those of the other Circuit Judges, upon which action has been postponed pending tho settlement of tho Woods case. The Gridiron Club's Dinner. The seventh annual anniversary dinner of the Gridiron Club, given to-night, in the largo ballroom of the Arlington Hotel, eclipsed all its predecessors in the number and distinction of invited guests, and also in the elegance of the dinner and all its ap pointments. Beside the President and Sec retaries Foster, Noble, Busk and Elkins and Attorney General Miller, there wero tho following guests: General Schoflehl, Com modore Schlev, Channcey M. Depew, Sena tors Hawloy, Manderson, Rlackburn, Gibson, of Maryland, Casey and Dubois; Representa tives Itced, Boutelle, Springer, llarter, Cock ran, Durborow, AVeauock, Kayner, Allen, Caruth and O'Ferrall: J. Knssell Young, George W. Boyd and K. A. Parke, of the Pennsylvania Railroad; H. W. Fuller, of the Chesapeake an'd Ohio Railroad; S. B. Hegc, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; General Felix Agnus: H. B. Moorhead, of the Cincin nati Commercial Gazette, and Edward Bedioo, Hugh Hastings and others. Important Internal Kevenuo Knllug. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued a rcglation to collectors of inter nal revenue in regard to the regauge of spirits on withdrawal from warehouse. This regulation, In cfloct, authorizes an allow ance for the loss actually occasioned by ab sorption, evaporation and leakage after the packago of spirits has been entered in the warehouso, by providing for the collec tion of tax on the actual number of proof gallons in the packago at tho time of its withdrawal. IVhat Some Hallways Have Bone. The Census Bureau to-day issued a bulle tin giving an exhibit of the operations of railways .lor the years 1330 to 1SS3, inclusive, for that portion of the territory of tho United States designated as group C This group embraces tho States of Illinois, the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, Minnesota, Wiscon sin, Iowa, North and South Dakota (east of the Missouri river) and Missouri (north of tho Missouri Tiver), During the period men tioned the number of passengers carried in creased 39,000,000. Tons of freight moved in creased 49,OCO,OJO. Earnings tiom passenger service inci eased 125.000,000 and from freight servico, Jlo;ooo,000. Total earnings and in come Increased $S0,0O0,0C0 and total expendi tures $00,000,030. Proposed Patent Law Amendments. Commissioner of Patents Simonds made his annual report to Congress to-day. He recommends several amendments to tho patent law. Among them the following are of .the most importance: Providing that a patent shall not expire with tho expiration of a prior foreign patent; compelling appli cants to take action every six months and no patent to live moro than 20 years after tho date of the otiginal application; lcquir ing licenses to makeonisoan invention to bo recorded; allowing aliens to file caveats; relegating interference contests to tho courts; providing that no damages for in fringement shall uo recovered except such as occur within six years next prior to bringing suit; and allowing the registry of trade marks which are used in commerce between the States. Senator Dubois Is Solid. At the regular meeting of the Senate Committee on Privileges this morning tho phraseology of the report prepared by the sub-committee, of which Senator Mitchell is Chaiiman, of the Iowa contested election case of Dubois and Claggctt, was considered. The report, which will be submitted to the Senate Monday, will contain tho unanimous locoinmendation of tho committee that Sen ator Dubois retain his seat. A Sweating System Investigation. The House Committee on Manufactures to-day adopted tho report drawn up by a sub-committee, of which Representative Warner, of New York.-is Chairman, lecom mendingan iuvestigation into tho so-called "sweating" system of tenement house labor. Chairman Page will repoi t tlie resolution to tbo House at an early day. A Plan for Country rostofllces. Representative Davis, a Farmers' Alli ance member of tho House from Kansas, to-day Introduced a bill to authorize the erection of postofllce buildings in places or moie than 3,CO0 inhabitants, and in cases where a place is a county seat with a less population than 3,000, tho cost of tho build ings to be not less than $0,000 nor more than $50,0C0. In tho second stories of the build ings tlieie shall be public libraries. Tho Secretary or the Treasury is uutUorized to issue United States legal tender notes to pay lor the work done, not. exceeding $100,000,000 per year. f DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE., SIR GEORGE EDWAKD PAGET, K. C. B., M. D., died In tondou yesterday. Mns. s. Paul Hamilton- Havne, willow orttic Soutu's lauiou poet, died Thursday. Mrs. Hume wasaMlFsMigliel, ut South Carolina: WiBSTER W. IlETltEuiKGTO.v, Prcslaent or the Exchange National Bank, of Atchison, Kan., died Friday night or hwirt disease. He was 41 years old. Ill estate is valued at t-WO.UJO. UraMiotiilu Mauv Hole, mother of the' well-known Holl ramity, died at the' residence of herdauchter, Mrs. Samuel Walter; atJJew Ucrlln. 0.. yesterday morning, she hadfclmost reached the age of ill years, -aud was a pioneer settler In the county. l'Kor. William Joseph Phillips, who for sev eral years jvas rector ofleading Episcopal churches In Baltimore and li "philadelplilo, dled in St. Joseph, Mo., 'Friday, He had served as Professor of EngUshlilteraturoluMlie Christian Brothers' ColIegw'.SI. Eoals. Mo., and Setou HaU College, South Orange, N. J.. JANUARY THK BUB-TBEAoUBY BCHEIKUM t Henry IVatterson Say No Sensible" Man "Could Favor It rt ti J JacksovMiss., Jan. sa-iHon". Henry Vi at- terson, at present.vhrttlng this city, waflthw! morning asked by 'a reporter ""iybat Ma thought of-'the sub-treasury Idea. " "I thinjc Mississippi might as well as undertake 'tOj build a railroad to the moon," replied "the, distinguished" Koutucklan. "Did you ob servo the Senatorial campaign through which Mississippi lias Just passodt" was asked. "I did," he replied. "I was amazed at the attitude of ex-Congressman Barks dale. Ho is a gentleman for whom all my life I havo entertained not only greatest re spect but slncerost affection. I cannot divine how ho could have given himself over to n scheme so visionary and impossi ble as the sub-treasury. Of all the schemes of which wo ever dreamed the sub-treasury sclieiuo is the most undemocratic: It is so unworthy of consideration that I wonder that any sane and sensible man should en tertain it lora moment." I'l amjiist as anxious as any Farmers' Al liance man can be to securo n circulating medium adequate to the vast expanding needs of tho country. lam not willing to get this by any process that means an infla tion of currency. Cheap money is bad money. Wq bad 'it in abundance in tho Con federacy. I want no more of It." Mr. Wat terson was asked foran expression of opin ion regarding the career in tho Supreme Court of Justice J.anmr, who is a Misiissip plan. In reply ho said: "I place him at the head of all thinkers and orators of the South since the war, .fnd although I havo known him during the. last 25 years all tho groat men orthe world, including Gladstone and Gambetta, L would unhesitatingly place Mr. Ijiniar first qf them all." POINTS THAT IRE PERSONAL. The Grand, Duchess Sergiusof Russia is so strikingly beautiful that she is known as "Tho Crowned Ophelia." 11. R. II. AiVBEirr Edward, it is inter esting to learn, wears an 18 collar, and has a 4 chest, a 34 arm and a 42 waist. Bahon Aninun RothsciiiTjD, a nephew of the head of tho great financial house, is serving his 12 months in tho French army as a private soldier. C. P. nuxTlXGTON likes nothing better, when feeling out of sorts, than to saw and split a few sticks of cord wood. He-used to do it for his health. It is reported that George Hanlon, of the famous Huulon Brothers, is about to retiro from tho spectacular arena and enter the ministry. lie is now in I'll iladelp Ilia. Goveknor Flower is quite as much of a sportsman, in his line as is ex-President Cleveland. A.t trap shooting Mr. Flower is said to havo mado a score of 03 out of a pos sible 100. Florence Nightingale, the heroine of tho Crimean war, is so exhausted by an attack of the grip that her condition la re ported as extremely critical. She is about 72 .years old. The title, "old man," with another ad jective than "grand," but nono the less an affectionate one, in front of it, was long ap plied bj- no loss a personage than Robert E. Eee to General Jubal A. Early. Cardinal Manning was, to use his own please, "a formal sceptic'' about medi cal science nnd a passionate foe of the cruelty wi ought in its name. He hated physic, and, althouh he took great care of his health, he- guided himself by the light of nature. JIr. and Mrs. Gladstone and the paity accompanying them left Biarritz some time ago, since when Mr. and Mrs. Glad stone and Mr. Armistead havo been travel ing through tho South of France. Mr. John Moiley and Miss Gladstone returned to England directly nftor leaving Biarritz. Colonel Daniel Lamont, who has been ill for tho past two weeks and unablo to attend to business, is contemplating si trip South on which ho may start next woek. Ills illness is not ot n serious nature, but it has been protracted. Yesterday ho was somewhat improved though still confined to his residence. ONLY A PIECE OF PAPEB, ,Bnt It Contains the Alleged Last Will of a "Wealthy "Widow. Trot, N. X., Jan. SO. ISpecial Hester Way, a childless widow, died in Spiegelton, a short distance north of Lansingburg, a few months ago, leaving an estato valued at about $20,0C0. By a will regularly drawn she bequeathed the bulk of tho estate to her sister. Mi's. John Lee, of Lansingburg, and $2,000 to Rufus. Wcatherwax, a brother. The instrument was dated in April, 1890. Its probate was contested by the Weatherwax latnlly, who offered n second will bearing the date of April 10, 1891. Tho second will was written on a piece of common brown paper. Laura Weatherwax swore that she wroto it at the dictation of Mrs. Way. By this second document the Weatherwax family will inherit $10,000. This afternoon Flora Williamson, a young girl who had served as a domestic in the Way household, testified that about a month after Mrs. Way died she saw Laura Weatherwax writing on tho piece of brown paper offered as the Inst will, and that when Mrs. Weather wax noticed hor presenco sho nld the paper' unaer tno taoio ciotu. it men contained only a few lines. Now tho writing covers thoentire surface. Tho girl was submitted to a rigid cioss-oxamination by ex-Speaker Patterson, nnd did not falter in tho least. William E. Hagen and Dr. R. II. Ward were examined as experts. Thcv declared that the signatures of Hester Way on the docu ments wero wiitten by the samo person. COST OP THB PROCESSION. Ward Mo Allistfii's latest contribution to literature is how a citizen of this republic may spend $150,000 a year on his family. It isn't destined to a wide circulation. Boston Herald. Really, Ward McAllister is a sweet boon to all the world. Ho has recently submitted a plan by which a frugal man can keep his annual living expenses down to $183,952. 6t. Paul Globe. Ward McAllister has figured out how to live on only $133,932 a year. Now, if AVnrd will figure out how to acquire about $18J,000 of that, most of us could hustle up the other $952. Atlanta Journal. , Ward McAllister figures up that a gentle man can live decently, in New York and keep a family on $183,952 a year. Now, if Mr. McAllister will try his hand at showing how a man can honestly earn enough to llvo on "decently," he will be doing tho couutry a real service. Cldcarjo Inter-Ocean. In a recent issue or a .New lork paper Ward JIcAllister gives full directions for living in New York at $190,000 a year. It is expected that ho will contribute a supple mentary letter explaining why anybody with so comfortable an income shonld wish to live in New Yoik. Chicago Times. AVaro McAllister, the recognized social leader iti New Yoik CIty.tclls a reporter that the reason why our society is limited to 400 is that few people aio rich enough to keep up with the procession. Well, Mr. McAllis ter seems to bo at the head of it, and ho -is neither rich, handsome, blue-blooded, nor intelligent. But, then, he ls only society's butler. yew York Advertiser. SECBET ENAMEL FB0CESS. Iowa Is to Have a Factory Which Will Work With Closed Doors. Dcnuqra, Iowa, Jan. SO. Plans have been received Itgm Germany for the white enamel factory, tho first in the United States, to be erected hero next spring by a German man ufacturer. Tho process is secret, and that it may not be discovered tho building will be constructed without doors or windows, except those overlooking the court entrance to tlio building, which will be through a guai ded gate. The St. Louis Stamping Company's patent on granite ware expires next year, and Du buque manufacturers expect its place to be taken by white enamel, now beuring a duty of 40 per cent, and which has entirely super seded tin cooking utensils in Germany. LAUGHING TO DEATH. A Comic Song Overcomes Him and He Is Too Awfully Tickled. Fort Dodge, Ia., Jan. 30. Henry Peterson, a tailor, is lying at tho point of death as the result of uncontrollable laughter; His risi ble were excited last evening by a comic song, and his laughter soon Iwcanie uncon trollable, though not resembling hysterics. At the end of an hour he was completely exhausted and lecame Insensible. All ef forts tourousohim havo been in vain, and it is thought ho will die. GARNERED IN GOTHAM. No More Fight for Veterans of Blue r,dr?i . ...... . .. and jS;SOj'" A Joke on Anthony Comstoek maastror the Mongolian renowsmp of sportsmen. (TROK A STAFT COHRXSPOIfDEXT.l pjffBw" York, Jan. 30. "I see some talk about the repeal of the law against the ex Confederates serving in the United States Army," said a South Carolinian, chewing a toothpick in front of tho Hoffman House, "so they can take a hand in the anticipated Chilean difficulty. There is a good, deal of stuff about this. Thero are plenty of South erners, no doubt, who would like to join the army or navy in caso of trouble between us and any foreign power, but they nre not ox Confederates, Tho ex-Confederate and tho (J. A. R. are out of the ring. Tho newgenera tibn will have to do the fighting, if any fight ing is to bo done. I know wo don't like to confess that we are growing old, but it's a fact. Now I'm in pretty good health, but how would I look on a horse? I was a mere boy during the war, and though I was never sick a day while in the service, I -needed all tho warm blood and vigorous muscles of youth to stand tho hard riding of our cavalry campaigns. I am now 50 some five years beyond conscription age and at least 15 or 20 beyond tho averairo limit for the most effective soldiers. Do you remember the 'veteran' of the Mexican War who so com placently aired Ills military record in 'CH Well, ho vjasn't in it under the new con ditions and yet that was but 14 years later. The man who was born since I last sat a horse in column is now almost too old to make a first rate cavalryman. I would now he almost too old for a sutler or quarter master. Thero isn't any fight in me. But I've got a son who is boiling over with it and his boy .' Anthony Comstoek as aReformer. Things are very much as you view them. It is said of Anthony Comstoek that he was shaved every week day in the year in a certain baiber shop. Thero was a rather over-ripe picture swinging against the wall near his chair, and one day another customer laughingly observed that If Corn stock saw that picture it would havo "to como down forthwith. "There's where you're making a mistake about him," -aid the barber. "I'll bet you $1 if he ever lays eyes on that it'll have to come down." "Why, he gets shaved lierc sits in that very chair every dav ho has seen that picture hundreds of timesi" "Oil, is well he couldn't have noticed it." The next day when Mr. Comstoek was drawing on his coat after a comfortable bhavc the barber remarked that a Iriend or his bad said so and so about tnat picture. "What picturot" inquired Mr. Comstoek, bristling up at the suggestive sound. "This one right here he offered to bet me $1 that you would order It taken down," said the bat ber. "That is a bad picture," observed the moral censor "you ought not to display such a picture." "Why, good heavens! You've seen that hundreds of times, sir! I I you never seemed to object to it beforel" "Never noticed it never noticed it. My attention was never specially directed to It before now I fcee that it is not proper. Y'ou'll have to tako it down." And down tho picturo came, too, greatly to the barber's chagrin. The Dissipation of Work. "I know a literary man," says a philo sophic friend, "who works from isto 18 hours a day. He complains when lie has time that he hasn't half time enough to do what he would like to do. That man is a study. He is the" best read man 1 know Is a living en cyclopedia of knowledge. But he doesn't know enough to come to dinner. I presume such men are necessary to tho world. It is a curious thing that tho man. who works hard with his brains concoives more work aud is lnsDired by tho ambition to accom plish it; whereas, the man who hasn't any thing particularly to do never Originates anything and finds it a task to do anything. These qualities often exist in the same man. Now, in my own case, when I am much driven I think of lots of things I'd like to do If I had time. I make a memorandum of them and put them aside, working a little on this and that between times. Just as soon as I uin rolioved from mental pressure my thought capacity, Industry and ambi tion, coliapso together. 1 think work, con genial mental laoor, is a xort of dissipation. Tho moro you havo of It tho moro yc want nnd the moro you can do until soi as snaps." Not an Unmixed Blessing. The best of 'the modern New York hotels have double vestibules during tho winter or insido as woll as outside storm, doors. Tho visitor or guest enters tho out side box. if ho has the requisite physical strength, dodges the man who has just got out or the insido box and throwing his wcjght on tho hotel door proper gets into tho inside box himself. He. then forces the thiid-entrance and is at last in the hotel lobby. These doors are very heavy and hung with stiff swinging springs and close with patent air valves. The man who has much running around to do can gee all the physical exercise he needs banging storm doors and preventing tho storm doors from Danging him. Tho storm door barbarism de velops four class of idiots: First Tho man who holds on to tho door until you get within range and then lets it swipe you ono that makes your teeth rattle. Second Tho left-handed man who tries to come out by tho same door you are using go ing in nnd at the same time. Third The man who, stops in the narrow vestibule to talk with a friend or to raise or shnke his umbrella. Fourth The man whostandscalmlyin tho corridor smoking a cigar nnd laughs at you when your hat is knocked over your eyes, or when you get tho breath knocked out of you. Fellowship of Gun and Heel. There is but one shop window outside of the jewelry line that holds Its attractive ness tho year round and that is the show window of tho sporting goods establish ment. In midwinter or mldsummei, snow, rain, mud or dust tho big windows on Broad way that display fishing tackle, shotgun, boxing gloves, foils and other equipments of theall-'round sportsman havo their side walk friends. Half-grown boys and grey haired men stand side by side and gaze upon the bnss aud trout rods, take mental notes of the flies and reels and hooks and lines and sigh;, the boy wistfully and with thoughts of the possible future; tho man reminiscently, filled with the tender mem ories of past piscatorial triumphs. Thero is a close community of feeling among the casual knots of these window gazers, a sort of fellowship observable nowhere else. Con versation is admissable.. Strangers talk with each other without restraint or suspi cion. The cold rules of metropolitan social life relax before and gun aud camp eaulnnire. Just for the moment, then men go their several ways, drawing into their commercial shells again. I have seen two ot three strangers stand in front of anupper Broadway sporting goods window for an hour and discuss the relativo weight nnd usefulness of certain rods and reels, then separate with a half embarrassed expres sion never, probably, to meet again. Itise or the Table cVIfote. The table d'hote, or' a meal at a fixed price, is spreading to the best New Yoik hotels. There is no room set apart for such meals necessarily, a dinner in courses being served in tho restaurant or cafe if desired. This is a considerable modification ot the former American and English customs. Why it was ever considered necessary to havo a separate dining room and differently shaped tables for those who paid a fixed price for a meal ls not exactly clear. It is quite aa clear, Don over, as the rclusal to uervo acourse dinnerat all. Now a man may enter a restaurant at ono of our best hotels and looking over the menu elect which he will take, a course dinner at a fixed price or n dinner a, la carte. He may havo a com panion, and one may have it one waj and tho other another way. This would seem to be a higher stage of civilization. The Feet of Gotham's. Iteautles. "The women of New York have the prettiest feet," said a Xew Orleans man, "I havo see this side of Mason and Dixon's line. It is generally acknowledged -that Southern bred women have pretty feet as a rule, but I never t-aw anything in Charleston, Louis vtllo. Now Orleans, Atlanta, or in any ot the other cities of the South where I have lipcu that exceed in beauty tho feet I have seen hero on Fifth avenue nnd Broadwav. In one respect the New York women are appar ently ahead of their Southern sisters and Northern, too, for that -matter and that ls in dressimr the feet. Perhaps this has some thing to do with the thing. The most artis tic shop can't make a bad foot look pretty, though they undoubtedly mako a good foot look better." ChinriB Solution or the Labor FroDlem. Any person who has had occasion to use the elevated loads between the hoars of 10 and 12 at night must have noticed the uni DL - .- , r.i; ftnmi.ii - ' - - "' ' -v.- versal industry of the Chinese laundryman. About ll o'clock there are but two classes of business awake the saloons and the Chinese laundries. You can see thli for miles. Tho screens protect the interior of tho saloons from public view, nnd only occasional fleet ing glimpses through the fan lights show what ig going on within; but the Chinese are not ashamed of publicity. Tho entire front of the laundry is invariably open, and tho Mongolians are seen starching and SDrink lingand ironing, their daik pigtails falling and swaying over their whltojnmper with every motion, as If there wero neither time nor eternity. The "Melican man" who staggers out of tho neighboring saloon, where ho has been discussing the labor problem during the evening, may scowl at tho "moon-eyed lepers," Dut the work goes on just the samo every night, and no walk ing delegate interferes against overtime. The Climate of the Metropolis. New York City has a right to plume herself on her admirable climate. While themerjury has been rushing np and down from the high Northwestern plains of North Dakota to New Orleans, thLs city has been singularly freo from extremes. Thus far it has never been colder here during the w in ter than 15 above zero in the daytipie, and beyond the disagreeable rawness of a thaw ing ntmosphcro and tho discomforts of tho usual winter rainfalls we have been having a right pleasant season. Sunshiny days havo kept equal pace with tho winterolouds. Tho tendency to excessive moisture, or "general humidity," is about the worst thing that can be said of thl climate summer or winter. The occasional extreme "humidity of the at mosphere in midsummer renders an oppres sive heat, and tho same in winter gives us a rawness of cold not registered by the ther mometer. But the intense degrees of sum mer heat and winter cold incidental to the interior of the country are unknown in Now York. Charles Theodore Murray. A TACK IN HIS HEEL. William Rockefeller has found out that a tack in the boot maybe more dangerous than a crank on the sidewalk. New YorkRe corder. Mr. Rockefeller, wo arc glad to say, is better. We hope lie is wiser. Shoos that cost tho least money are not always the cheapest. Xcw York Commercial Advertiser. The many millionaire, Rockefeller, is suf fering from blood poisoning. How nice it would bo if he could pay $1,000,000 and get rid of it, but the whole pilo could not chango tho course of nature. Indianapolis yews. Evex millionaires are made of common clay. William Rockefeller, the richest man in Amerlca,,has felt the iron enter his sole, and has blood poisoning from a wound caused by a nail in his shoe. Omalia World Herald. William Rockefeller's soro foot from blood poisoning becauso his flesh was pierced by a shoe nail shows that million aires are made of flesh and blood. It will be a revelation to the anarchists. Blnghampton Republican A great many people will sympathize with Mr. Rockefeller, who is suffering from the effects of a tight-fitting boot with a nail in the sole. It was tho late Josh Billings who remarked that tight boots were a bless ing because they made a wearer forget all his other troubles. Boston Ilerald, NEW SCENIC EFFECTS Proposed by rrnf. Herkomer With a Disre gard for Tlieir Coit. fBT CABLE TO THE DI3PATCH.1 London, Jan. 30. In the course of a lec ture on scenic art delivered by Prof. Her bert Herkomer at the Avenue Theater Thursday afternoon, he made, the interest ing announcement that he had finished a three-act play which ho hoped to produce as oon as the incidental music was com pleted to his own satisfaction. Herkomer has a beautiful little theater attached to his house at Bushey, and ho has been making scenic experiments which if generally adopted would revolutionize the present system nnd necessitate tho rebuilding of a good many theaters. Among then umerous improvements which he has recommended to theater managers with airy disregard of cost were tho aboli tion of footlights, and a telescopic pros cenium capable of easy expansion and con traction, so that, for instance, a poor man's garret should be of the slzo of a real garret, nnd not as large as a rich man's drawing room. He also advocated the use of an at mospheric gauze sky, such as he had used with striking effect and complete success at Bushey. This Idea took the fancv of the managers present at tho lecture. But most of Herkomer's suggestions were voted Uto pian. TESTIMONY OF PB0PHETS. They Give Interesting Evidence in a Case In Mls-ionrl. Kansas Cittt, Jan. 30. iSpeciaW The taking of the deposition of tho prophet, Joseph Smith, at Independence, was resumed this morning. Ho said that the official name of the Utah Church was "Tho Church of Jesus, Church of Latter Day Saints," and that was the name of the church prior to tho troubles at Nauvoo. Tho difference between the name of the reorganized church and tho Utah Church was the prefix, "reorganized." The church now holding title to tho temple lot went by tho same name as the Utah Church. The question of chango of name as to effecting the organization was brought out, andold church documents were introduced showing that Joseph Smith, Sr., had revela tions to the effect that in the latter days the name of the original church would be changed. He nlso testified that in 1832 the church purchased the "Temple Lot," but shortly afterward the Mormons were driven out of Independence. Tho Hendrickite Church "trnmped the claim," and has held it ever since. This afternoon William Smith, brother of Joseph Smith, Sr., was placed on tho stand. William Smith is 80 years of age, and his stock of information regarding the early history of the church is extensive. THE CRUEL WAR IS 0TR. Chile always was a raciflc country. Bos ion Traveller. It's a satisfaction that the late war cloud is going to thunder. Philadelphia Times. Comm ahder Schley won't have n chance to live up to his name after aKPhilaMpliia Press. The war coal bought from Great Britain may now be sent on to Washington to warm the poor when the gentle spring fairly opens. Louisville Courier-Journal. No war with Chile. The WhiteSquadron can therefore report to Russ Harrison for trips to Coney Island and back during the summer. St. Ijouis Globe-Democrat. There will bo no war with Chile. It may bo necessary to chastise a few Western In dians in order to allay the military spirit which fills some of our newspaper offices. yew York Advertiser. It is safe to say Chilean officials will not monkey with tho machinery again while Benjamin Harrison js on deck. Tliey seem to bo astonished that ho made such a fuss about it. Cliicago Inter-Ocean. CUBED A BB0KEN NECK. A Delicate Operation Porrorm-d by a New York Physician. NewY'ork, Jan. 30.-6'ptfj.-Five days ago Benjamin. Blum, a 7-ye.ir-oId Russian boy tell off -a 10-foot high stoop into the areaway at his home and broko his neck. Thero was no actual .fracture of bones, but the joints oftho spine in the lowerpart of the neck had slipped apart and wouldn't go back again. The dislocated bones pressed upon ills i-plnal cord and partly paralyzed ht'ii. Ho was taken to the ho-.pit.il to-day and put in charge of a doctor. His eves wero turned inward, he was In a high fever and there wore evidences that spinal meningitis had set in. There was no time to be Inst- and the doctor decided to operate at once with only his ward assistant to help him. He hung the hoj'np, su.pciided from his chin and the back of his head, tho assistants pulled on his body and legsand tho doctor snapped the bones of the boy's neck in place bvn deft twist. The boy went into n convulsion at or.cu and the doctor be lieved ho was dying but ho caino to and is In a fair way to recover. Becoming Common N.owilayi. Chicago Globe.l Tho latest nuisance is tlie man with a sure cure lor tho grip. A long Tlinp Between Acts. New York AilTertlscnJ It is a long time in this country between unpleasantnesses, and the longer the better. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS? L Salvation Army women have been for bidden to wear earrings. The "one man one vote" system has been in force in South Australia for 35 years. No less than 202,300 acres in Great Britain are cultivatod as orchards and mar ket gardens. The London tailors have asked the County Council to fix the same rate for women's work as for men's. Statistics show that eight times as manymnrders are committed in Italy as in any other European country. Uoyinjj dogs are less numerous and less ferocious now, but they become at times terrible to strangers in Egypt. Nova Scotia exported 78,600,000 super ficial feet of deal during 1SDL he smallest crop of this material in nine yeWts. Several towns in Russia have elected women for mayors on the ground that they, wero best fitted to be intrusted with the interests of the community. According to an officer of Scotland Yard there arelOO.COO pickpockets in Lon don, and each one of them knows an Ameri can tho moment he sees him. An effort is beins; made to build np a big India robber industry in Mexico, and a company has been organized' to plant 100,000 rubber trees in the State of Sinaloa. The oyster seems, from all accounts, i'o be scarcely less prolific, actually, than the honse fly. It is estimated that each mother oyster throws off from 200,000 to 2,000,000 ova annually. "Recent explorations in the district of Sonora, Mexico, show that the coal deposits in the S:in Mnrcial Valley will amount to fullv 60,000,000,100 ton3, and It is of excellent quality. Idaho has just about enough population and territory to give each person in the State a square mile of room. There are 84,201 square miles or land in the State and S4.3S5 people. The largest raisin vineyard in the world now in bearing is owned by A. B. Butler of Fresno, Cal. It contains 610 acres. The annual income from this vineyard has readied $200,000. ' Among the "curios" recently displayed at an exhibition In Loidon wero a pair ot "dog-tongs," presumably used by old-time sextons for the capture of dogs which hatt strayed into church. A week ago the thermometer at James town, N. D., registered 40 degrees below zero at 9 in the morning, and a local newspaper records that "for the last ten days the mercury has not risen above zero." Two particularly fine bouncing babies were exhibited at a family reunion in Missouri recently. One, a flve-year-old boy, weighed 107 pounds, and the other, aged two years and a half, weighed 03 pounds. An enormous bonlder, said to be the largest evermoved in railroad construction, was excavated recently on the line of the Mexican Southern Railway. It was 120 feet in height and measured LOOO cubic meters. The followers of the Shintonist religion in Japan number about 3,000,000 souls, and have about 8,000,000 temples, four or five of which are presided over by one minister, who alto teaches in the Japanese grammar schools. The first theatrical company to play in the United States denarted from England in 1752, and landed at York, in Virginia. The first pnblic appearance of the players, then known as "His Majesty's Servants," was at Williamsport, Va., Septembers. Captain Colson, of the French Genie, has succeeded in photographing without a lense. Asimplocamera.into which light is ad mitted by a pinhole, suffices him to produce well-defined images of immovable objects. The exposure must be longer, that is all. A clock is rarely seen in the farm houses of Liberia, and many of the town residents have no timepiece of any sort. Thero are fow'civilized countries where a timepiece can be dispensed with so con venlently. Tho sun rises at 6 A. M. and sets at C p. "m. almost to the minutetheyear round, and at noon it is vertically overhead. While Benjamin "Wilber, of Pembroke, and John Wakefield of Machias were ex ploring on Machias River they found a monster skeleton., Tho bonci resembled thosoofa fish about 15 feetfin length, and tho spread of the ribs indicated a body about the size of a barrel. Those who have -seen some of tho bones declare that the skeleton is that of a fish or animal different from any now inhabiting the region. The Recorder of Liverpool recently sent to prison for three months at bard labor for housebreaking, a man with thihi3tory: In 1SS5 ho was sentenced to 14 years transpor tation. In 1802. having returned, he got ten years for stealing half a crown. In 1372 ho got seven years for stealing'a "hair nlait." Then came sentences of five years in 1832 for stealing a watch and another five years in 1885 for stealing 2 shillings In all 41 years. Messrs. F. & J. Hawthorn & Co., New Mills, via Stockport, havo Invented an In genious contrivance. It takes the form of an arrangement which enables a person who wears lace boots to lace and unlace them literally in a moment. The operation can be performed just as quickly as the thumb can bo moved lour times np and down. The ap pearance presented by a boot with Mr. Haw thorn's device affixed to it is a little bit clumsy, hat in all probability most people w ould consider the saving of time more than made up for thb. The Paris croquemorts, or funeral mutes. liaVo become envious of the lately emancipated waiters, and are agitating for the right to wear moustaches. The Ordan nateurs des Pompes-Fnnebres, the gentle men m cocked hats whoact as masters of ceremony at funerals, are Ditterly opposed to the new movement of the croquemorts. The Ordannateurs des Pompes-Fnnebres themselves, however, are to light up their old dress of black with insignia on the col lar and sashes of blue and red across the chest. Some very large pieces of spruce tim ber, the largest ever cut in British Colum bia, were shipped from Vancouver to Mon treal last week. Tho timber is for the dredges of tho 3Iontreal Harbor Commission. Five pieces wero 14 by 10 inches and 80 feet in length, three pieces were 3C Inches square ,,! iH feerin length, ono niece wa9 36 Inches square and 63 feet in length, and 12 pieces were overw xeei, in leiigtij. xuieowio .cig .-iffi far tliA InnpRnt nieces. Tha con signment went through labeUed in big let ters: "Ilntisu coinmuia AoompicKsv KIITNKLE.S AND KHYMEI.ET3. Yonng Nicely Oh, I think that Chawlie Awmstwonglsapchr-ctbwute;but his hands are as Mg as a labowing man's. Young fcaplcy Oil. I ilctetht him; he iththonn ladylikc liostim Omrier. Listen to the Ticker.'s click All the livelong day: With Its never ending tick Faile my hope away. Stocis on which I had "Dull tips" NTer ceacto drop. While the stocks I sell, insist On climbing to the "stop.". Puck. Usher (at the church door) "Would you like a scat near the front' Mrs. teldomcorne'Cwith spme hesitation) N-no, than;;. A good scat In the parquet circle win da just as well. CMcago Tribune. She watched the water from the stern, With such a soulful gaze, I thought that 1 could feel her yearn For thos.c Venetian da js. "It's such a pretty sight!" she said; Ice how the twirling screw Is giving Ncptimc's hoary head A real Sca-toam fehampoo?' " Smith, (irau Cfa.' Jfrnthlj, "Poor Jim Casey wint up fer loife." "Pliwat was tli' charge against him?" "Doynainoltc." Juda: "Here is a toy locomotive," said the salesman eagerly, that I think would afford your htiUMiephewajrrcat ileal or fan." "No." said ltussflt atge, as a look of pain shot over his race. "I wouldn't let him fool with tnat thing. It worls with a crank. Show me some thing else." . Jiisrph Dally Snrs. There's frost in the sunlight, There's snowon the hill. Ami the maiden of winter Is fixed up to kill. Yon may search the great ocean, Tlie earth and the air. Nor meet lu their roudncs t. A being more fair. , . j Xeio York Herald. ;. First Chappie I proposed to Miss Sora. cisct last iilglit. "''" Second Clupple Dcah me! and did the deahglrtf accept you? auif First Ch4riptc Yaas: but I bwoke tho cwcuellnlH my twoasers," and I feci so badly about It, (JlolAUr and Furnisliar. i r .JafflaAafcfa.a..-',. lbKSrKSsacsrKsfiS
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