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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
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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
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