semsgMH 3 sts-? -v" Hs. v?T5'r.i Yfimtim,.. Ije StgpaKfc ESTABLISHED PEBRUAKT 8, 1F46 Vol. 4. No. ISS. Entered at Pittsburg Postoffice Severn bcr, 1SS7. s eccond-class mutter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TWKRN ATYRRTISIN OFFICE, BOOM 7 TRIBUNE Bim.DIXO. NEW YORK, wherecom plcic files of THE DIbPATCHcan alwavs he found. Foreign advertisers appreciate llic convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DISPATCH, Itile in Xc York, are also made clcome. THE DlKPATCHisremdarlyontaleatBrentam', i? ! Vnlon Sovare. yew Tort, ana B Ave' aeT Opera. - Fang, trrnoe, xchert anyone tslto ha been atsajy jf yoittfrfl at a hotel witp tand can obtain it. TEKSls OF THE DISPATCH. T-OSTAGE TREK IN THE TOTTED STATES. TA1LY Dispatch. One Year JBfM Daily DlSPATCn. rerQaarter. 100 Daily DisrATCH. One Month 70 DAILY Dispatch. Including Sunday. I year.. JO M f Daily Dispatch, Including bunday. 3 m'ths. ISO J Daily Dispatch, Including Punday, lm'tu.. 00 ', tcxDAY Dispatch. One Year S.w 'Weekly' DisrATCH. One Year 125 I Tut Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 3E cents per week, or, including Sunday Edition, at " II ccn ts per week. riTTSBURG. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1. THE PUCDGE KEQDIKEli. Wc notice that some of thctaxpayers , meetings are advocating s reduction to 13 mills. If the valuations are increased to the dejp-ee represented liy figures so far riven out, a much, 'greater reduction of ''lace will lie warranted. In short, ec' valuations be 25, 50 or 75 e those of last year the mill cut down 25, 50 or 75 per to correspond. iriations of last year are ough for the current twelve the chiefs' of departments 3 economy which would be private business there need ,enny more appropriated than ar given; and if this rule be fol- millage, of course, must come jctly as the valuation goes up. should be the pledge required fitting Couneilmen and from the .tes at the coming election. : UNKNOWN CANADIAN VOTEL . regret that we cannot accept the re s of the esteemed New York Sun on views with regard to the entry of aada into the Union, as they appear cn ely unsupported by any attempt at log .al reasoning. It is an indisputable fact that the bias which the Canadian vote would have on the government of the nnited countries is regarded in high and ' influential quarters as the most serious obstacle to our joining hands. AVe fear the Sun enormously underrates the power of partisan politicians when it asserts that were annexation seriously proposed "party politics would not merely stand dumb be fore such a question; they would be sup pressed. There would be only one party, the party of Continental Union." The Sun fails to realize to what a great extent this country is now governed by ' the caucus for the benefit of the few. Take as a straw indicating the direction of the wind the prominent position which, party politics play in the admission of a Territory to State rights. Whichever the party in power at the time, th question is always settled by the decision of the ma jority parly as to whether they will gain or lose votes by the transmutation. We admit that this is only a straw, and we - sincerely hope that the time is not far dis 1 tsnt when our country will, in very truth, , - be governed by the people for the people, l aud not by the caucus for the office seek i crs. But until this era arrives when ques - tioas, great and mall, shall alike be judged on riieir merits, party politics forbid- the "'e'truction of their balance by the addi jion of an immense voting power whose ., direction is unknown. THE DEATH OF SrUnr.EON. The death of Rev. Charles IL Spurgeou, reported in our cable dispatches, closes the long career of an eminent divine, whose fame was made world-wide by the sheer, force of his eloquence and earnestnes. Mr. Spurgeon's position was similar to that of Henry Ward Beechr in the lead ership of evangelical pulpit oratory; and while Beecher was closer to the peoplo of the United States in location, birth and character, the wide reputation and earnest vigor of Spurgeon, both as preacher and organizer ot church work, -was in no wise inferior to that of his American friend and rival. ilr. Spurgeon was a comparatively young man at his death, being a little under sixty years of age, although his long pulpit career created tlie impression that he was much older. He entered the pulpit when hardly more than a boy, being indeed known in Hie early part of his work as the "boy preacher," a title which has been adopted rather frequently since then by less gif tcdimitator.-s. During his forty oid years of service in the pulpit he was the earnest advocate of every work for the advancement of mankind and the amelioration of the masses. He was among the fiont rank of the speakers and thinkers which made the middle of the renturyv.hat it was, and his death fur nishes a new reminder that the great ( hgures of that era are rapidly passing away, leaving upon the new generation i the burden of providing worthy successors ' to them. - tkee-climijing pigs. We regret to observe in our brilliant con ' temporary, the New Tork Sun, a disposi tion to cherish and foster a project ,of grave injuriousness to that foundation and source of our national greatness the fanning interest. The previously dis played tendency of the Sun to turn up the nose of scorn at the Farmers' Alliance might be explained by its moral and physi , cal proximity to Wall street But there is ,grave suspicion of deeply-seated enmity .,jlo the peace and prosperity of farmers in its announcement that a race of pigs has been discovered in Australia which is able to climb trees, and in its proposal that the ., :pordue tree-climbers shall be imported so as to engraft their novel qualities on the more tame characteristics of the American '.hog. Such a proposition implies a covert at tack on the mental equilibrium "of the American farmer, which, if premeditated, would be little short of fiendish. As all our leading men can boast of a rural origin, the brightmiuds of the Svn must be aware that, even as he is, the capacity of the American hog to break the bonds of restraint and wander into forbidden fields 4 5s one of the constantly impending trage f Jdies of farm life. The ability of the hog ,;to discover or make to order holes by which he can get into the places where he fought not to be is only equaled by the jg obstinacy with which he refuses to recog wniie the same routes forsettincrbackacain when he is pursued with clubs and exple- aiives. If to these maddening qualities in the hog as he Is were to he added the capacity to climb trees, the nog, as the Sun pro poses that he shall be, would leave no haven for the harassed farmer but bank ruptcy or the lupatic asylum. It is obvious that if a pig were endowed with ability to shin up an apple tree he could surmount any fence with the grace and celerity of a country girl. No obstacle short of jails or chains could restrain his wandering in stincts; and it may even be doubted If such an animal would not rival the ability of a Fitzstmmons to scorn the futile environ ments of granite walls and iron bars. If the Sun persists in this fell scheme of turning the American race of swine into acrobats, it will be in danger of becoming persona non grata with the American farmer. LOOKING CrffABR The conjunction of Jupiter and Yenus is a rare occurrence, and as such is at tracting the attention of many people of various beliefs and interests, as will be seen from matter elsewhere in this issue. Mr. -Morrison, in sayinpjthat only the igno rant and superstitious in former times at tached any significance to such astronomi cal events, is-tbo sweeping In his assertion. No one has yet accused Lieutenant C. A. L. Totten, Professor of Military Science at Yale, of being either ignorant or super stitious; yet from the results of what we may call his Biblical Astrology, he bases a prediction of the Second Advent of Christ on this sign. Considerable interest, more or less in the form of criticism, has attached to other predictions made by Lieutenant Totten on account of the great ingenuity with which lie has made his deductions. He is a man of science and of standing, and as such his ideas carry more weight than those of the average prophecy-monger. Incidentally it may be remarked that the Catholic Apostolic Churcb.one of the broad est and most inclusive of religious bodies, is now preparing for the Second.Advent in a more particular sense than that which refers to all Christian churches. Whether or not this astronomical Inci dent be regarded as a sign of anything further than the wonderful rules which govern the motionsof theheavenly bodies, it should call attention to the nightly beau ties of the skies which are all too much neglected in this money-grubbing age. All whose instincts and minds have not been immaterially warped and saturated by narrow aims cannot fail to profit by the feast of awe-inspiring grandeur which every clear night spreads before them, a feast whose greatness and wealth is none the less for the neglectful eyes which see it not FACT? FBOSI THE DOCUMENTS. While the last message of the President on the Chilean question gives dates which on the face of the matter clear away the charge that he sent in the message after the satisfactory reply of the Chilean Gov ernment had been received, there are certain other facts which a study of the documents disclose and which cannot pass without du notice. In the first place the documents accom panying the first message show that the President had when he sent it to Congress ever reason to expect an answer from Chile. T . ultimatum to Chile was dated January 21, but it took two days to get it into the hands of the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs. That Minister stated that a reply would be sent on Monday, January 25, giving reasons why it could not be sooner transmitted which were con ceded to be satisfactory by our' Depart ment of State. The reply was made on January 25, as promised, yet with that promise before him the President took care to send in his message before the Chilean reply was received, with the sim ple statement that he did not think he ought to delay any longer" in communi cating the facts to Congress. Beyond that, in the light of the corre spondence accompanying the two mes sages, it is clear that the President had every reason to believe that the Chilean reply would be satisfactory. In fact, both th i ultimatum and the message are placed in anything but a desirable light by the disclosure that every avowal of the final reply, now deemed satisfactory, had been already given in separate communications, and that the sole characteristic of the pa cific reply consisted of combining and em phasizing the assurances of previous com munications. The sole important excep tion to this is the withdrawal of the re quest for Egan's recall, which involves a right we have too often recognized to dis pute in this case. Whatever divergencies of statement there may be between Mr. Blaine and Senor Montt, it is clear that arbitration had been frequently referred to as a way of settling the difficulty if agreement was not possible, and Mr. Montt had fnformed our Government that he was authorized to express Chile's agreement to that mode of settlement if necessity should arise. The correspondence 6hows that the Chilean Government had twice formally expressed its regret for and disavowal of the Valparaiso riot; had sev eral times protested its desire for iriendly relations with the United States, and renewed the pledge given from the first for the punishment of the guilty par ties, and had signified its willingness to withdraw whatever was deemed by the United States Government to be objection able in theMatta note. In short, with the single exception noted above, everything contained in Chile's answer to the ulti matum had been -pledged in the corre spondence before the President hurled his ultimatum at Santiago and sent his mes sage to Congress, just in time to save it from being reduced to waste paper by the answer which he was assured was coming. Under these circumstances, which are matters of record, the fortunate termina tion of the Chilean controversy must be credited to the calm and pacific action of the Chilean Government; while the haste of the President in launching his thunder bolts is to be accounted for by hypotheses that are far from satisfactory. UETTtU THAN KCKNING. A doubt as to the utility of exterior fire escapes has been recently suggested. The assertion is that timid persons attempting to use them would be liable to lose their self-control from the dizzy height, and either shrink back into tlie flames or fall headlong to the ground. There seems to have been some corroboration to this view at the recent burning of that Indianapolis hospital, two cases being reported in which women" reached the fire escape, but shrunk back, with fatal results to one of them. This objection does not, however, show that fire escapes are not useful things in default of something better. There is no doubt that the ideal building in addition to its fireproof qualities which really signify slow combustion will have ade quate apd numerous interior stairways and exits so separate and distinct that they cannot all be cut off. But in cases where they cannot be provided, or are not, the modern exterior fire escape fulfills a pur pose that is extremely valuable to those who cannot get put any other wajy The case cited had the harrowing feature that the victims were mainly cripples, and this suggests the explanation that some who reached the fire escape were unable to use it. But for the vast majority of mankind a modern fire escape protected by hand rails is. even at a dizzy height, a far prefer able alternative to burning to death. Artists are proverbially men with a very vane Idea of dry facts and a loathing forstatistics.nxid England is a small coun try with & perfected railroad systept. which makes a serious trreclc a rare occurrence There is no reason for surprise! therefore, in the fear for the safety'' of their works in transit to the y-orld's Fair, due ti the imagination,, possessed by English artists that mpst 6"f the trains between New York andjChicago get either burntup, or smashed, orbotu. Kailroad fatalities naturally ap peal to the minds of artists more forcibly than statistics of the number of wrecks compared to tlie mileage traversed, or the tonnage carried, and it is doubtful whether they have even seen the latter at all. It is natural that English engravers should object to an absence of representatives on the British committee lor the World's Fair. They cannot afford to show anything but their very best if they want to compete in excellence with American workmanship. The Representative, whether in Congress or tbe Senate, who pushes appropriations for unnecessary Government buildings while opposing those for tbe improvement of toad and water communications is worse, than tlie man who wears diamonds while suffer ing from a starvation easily remedied by disposing or them. For the latter is simply a tool who allows his vanity to overrule his' necessities, while the former is a knave who purchases votes by satisfying local grabbers at the cost of the national welfare. Notice the class of motives which gov ern professional politicians. One NeV York man is to bo made a Senator because he needs a rest, and the man who would be his most powerful competitor relinquishes bis ambition because his wife so wills 1c Accounts ascribing the troubles of Philadelphia's Postmaster Field to his desire to run his office on.buslne.ss as distinguished from political principles give fresh evi. deuce of the extent to which public offices aroused as rewards for personal political favors. Neithcrourpostoffice, nor any other department, will be honorably conducted for the profit or the nation until morality has reached such a pitch that a man's fitness for office, in the sense of business capability, is made tho sole criterion for his appoint ment. Actions penditig against steamship agents for allowing immigrants to escape to shore, after having been refused admission by the authorities, should convince them and the public at largo that laws are made to be kept not broken. Chicago authorities are at last coming to the conclusion that buildings may be built too high for the health and welfare of tho general community. It is a wise conclusion, though one likely to meet with opposition from those interested in getting the greatest gain tor themselves, no matter at what cost to the workers who suffer .from insufficient air and the evils of a constant artificial light. " TnoSEhouseholders who have been vainly seeking natural gas through the cold weather will no doubt be deeply interested in the exhibition of it which is to be made a feature of next season's Kxposltion. The movement taken by the Board of Health to enforce- the responsibilities of ministers for the report of marriages they conduct, and of doctors for that of births at which they assist, should be a, warning to those people to bestir themselves. Records of such events are of great importance, and their value is greatly diminished by incom pleteness or inaccuracy. News that Whisky Trust stock is chang ing hands would 'point to the expectation on the part of the late holders that there is danger of shipwreck from the legal rocks ahead. A good government, whether municipal or national, can only be secured by indi vidual effort. Everyone in Pittsburg is di rectly interested in its government, the wage-earner in particular, and now is the time to show that interest by agitating for, and insisting upon, tho election of Council men pledged to true economy. Next lo the grip the worst thing that unsuspecting people have to contend with is the number of remedies propounded by officious friends or interested quacks. Hint is showing many kinds of ability and adaptability. He would make an ex cellent "fence,"' promoter of speculative limited-liability companies, petty despot, or anything in fact which requires cunning to devise and deceit to carry out. One may &ay that ho n onld be a success in almost any role bnt that of true statesman. There is a .discreditable condition of overcrowding in. the New York insane asy lums at present. From all accounts the state of affairs at Dixmont is little better. FEW are the men who would care so far to sink their individuality as tohavo the month fixed for their wedding without knowledge as to the identity of their bride, and all for tho sake of providing heirs to succeed to the offlco of ornamental figurehead to tho British nation. OX THE-TOP KUXG. Secretaky Foster has arrived in Washington irom Fortress Monroe .Mark Twain has been confined to his bed for a week. He has been suffering with a bad cold, but is now recovering. Bostonians declare that nature gave Phillips Brooks "a weak mouth," which 'by a constant "uplifting of the spirit" bo lias ennobled. Bourke CockeAN's house in "Washing ton, the old residence of ex-Secretary Itobc son, is believed by tho superstitious to be "voodooed." The name Garza, borne by the bandit who is cavorting arouud the Mexican bol der, means both in Spanish and Italian a w hite heron or egret. Adjutant General McClelland will re-enter the Uarrisburg Hospital, his condition having become worse He ,has been ill for about tin ee months. Mrs. Bobert Garrett gave a reception in Baltimoro Wednesday evening, at which irce birds wcro seen flitting about among the palms and other plants used in decora tion. William Llovd Garrison told the Massachusetts Woman's buffrago Associa tion a few days ago that he hoped that his children might live to see a woman presi dent of Harvard College. Henrv T. Oxnabd, who has been elected President of the Association of American Beet-Sujar Producors, is a dimin utive specimen or manhood, but he makes up for his laok of size in energy and pluck. Miss Phoebe Couzins, of St Louis, -n-bo was partially disabled by an accideut some months ago, still uses a crutch, but she is assured by her physician that she will in time fully 'jecover her powers of locomo tlou. OIL PIHD IK MICHIGAN. Excitement in Illiaca Over the IiMults or Itecent Uorings. Jacksow, Mich.. Jan. 3 Great excite ment prevails at Ithaca, over indications of an immense oil field around near there. For some time indications of crude oil have have been found on tho surface and in dry wells. ' On en Perry drilled a well on bis farm, and it is due to his success that others are starting wells of their own. Oil experts who have examined tbe indications and Perry's well say that if wells are put dowu they will proTo paying investments. THE PRESS A FIXTURE.: rWBITTEK FOR TUB PISPATCH.J The magician's apprentice In his mas ter's absence opened the book of incanta tion, and finding there a mystic, spell that would make the demons of the vasty deep bring water, he read it out aloud. And the demons hurried in witljiWater buckets, like n flro brigade, andbey brought water, and water, anjL.mbYb water, and, btlll more water, "dntil the magician's apprentice began Yo'thlnk of the man who prayed for rain and got the whole Euphrates on his lann. lie turned over leaf after leaf In tho book of in cantation, and looked into volume after vol nmo in his master's library of choice and useful sorcery, trying to discover the other spell'that would make the fiends stop bring ing water, but ho could not find It. Thus was the magician's apprentice drowned ut last by the spirits he himself had sum moned. It is considerably easier to set things a going than it is to stop them after they are set a going. The Law and Order Society are Just now teaching us this most instructive lesson. The real mischief was done when mankind was taught to read. The magician's apprentice, who ought long ago to have been set before tho Alderman and fined, was the meddling fellow .who invented printing. There aie always people who can not leave well enough alone. They must be forever experimenting, trying to mako im provements, trying to introduce unwelcome innovations, peeping wherever they can into that great volume of incantation which we call tbe book of nature, and reading put spells that bring all sorts of calamity upon Us. How much better to have left things as they were in the ages of faith when nobody knew how to read except the parson 1 It wns inevita ble that the vicious habits of printing and reading, once introduced into tbo world, would go on and increase; that books would multiply liko the buckets of water in the old Btory, and that at last we wonldr bring upon ourselves the final and crowning iniquity of the Sunday newspapers. Powerless to Destroy the Press. However, here wc are, the printing press, that invention of tho evil one, fitly ministered to by .printers' devil, is here, and we are really powerless to destroy it. How ever much we may desire it, wo really can not go back to sheepskins and illuminated missals and black-letter. Tho paper-covered novel has arrived and overspread the land like the flies and frogs of Egypt, and shows Stalwart intentions or remaining. And tho Snnday newspaper smiles at the Law and Order Society, as the water-bringing spook grinned at the magician's apprentice while he was hunting for tbe antidotal spell. There is a news-stand at Milan, lust be neath tbe shadow of that niarvel ously majestio cathedral, within plain sight or that legion of stono saints who climb over the walls and roof as if the great church wcro some sacred moun tain, one of the overlasting hills with a' vision of Paradise from tho top of it: the hands of the sculptured saints are held out in unconscious benediction over this array or papered-covered poison. IspeDtn good while looking from the book stall to the church, and from the church back to the book stall, and thinking. The books weie dressed in gaudy colors, decorated with flaming pictures of strange women, and christened with titles fit for members of the family of Saton. They belonged to the library of the world, the flesh and the devil. They wcro intended to Instruct men in the art of transposing themselves into unclean animals. It was a curious sight to see them set for sale there In tbe shadow of the church. The ohuroh seemed powerless as tho magician's apprentico against these busy fiends. 1 have seen books, which I have no donbt were quite as bad, sold in sight of Presby terian churches here in Pittsburg. The paper-covered novel is every day getting bolder and more shameless, and becoming a menace to the manhood and womanhood of the country. I wish tho Law and Order Society would get after the paper-covered novel. These books ought to bo stamped, like the apothecary's labels, with a skull and cross-bones, and marked "poison." Whoever reads them polsous his own soul. Most All the Books. Worth Beading. And yet there are most excellent paper covered novels. Most books published by reputable publishing houses are worth read-, ing. Most books 'published oy unknown or disreputable publishing houses are bad read ing. The traveler who buys a paperrcovored novel, written by an author whom ho does not know, andissued by a publisher of whom he has never heard, ought consistently to resort, on his arrival, to some cheap lodging house on some back street No man has any business to be moro particular about his body than about his mind. If the magician's apprentice had been a young man of better sense ho would have given up his search for an antidotal spell. He would hnvo let the demons go on bung ing water. He would havo proceeded to con struct some sort of sluiceway mt of the magician's room to carry off the water, and by the side of this perpetnnl stream ho would havo constructed a mill-wheel and a mill. He would havo made his fortune. lie would have transferred the fiends them selves into ministering angels. What we want to do, it seems to me, is not to bunt about, like the Law and Order Society, for ancient incantations, but some how to turn what threatens to bo evil into good. People Determined to Bead Every Day. People are going to read. They are even going to read on Sunday. Thero is no uso trying to treat them as small children were treated in 1791. Tiio people of Pitts burg cannot bo set in a chimney comer with a "good book" the good book being selected by tho Law and Order Society and kept there all day Sunaay. The only good books are interesting books. Books that do not interest do no good. We must choose our own books. That is the only way in which we can possibly bo interested. Tho dunces, are that if wo can afford to read the flno monthly magazines wo will read them on Sunday afternoon. If wo cannot afford to read these excellent periodicals, we will read a Sunday newspaper. Tho Sunday newspaper is the magazine of the working man. It Is hypocrisy to pretend that all good people speudall their spare tlmo on Sunday leauing religious dooks. i uonut ir the Law and Order Society themsolvo confine their Sunday reading altogether to theology. Nor do I believe that Sunday was over intended 'to bo a day destitute of pleasure, a bug bear, a weekly strait Jacket. After all, Sun day is the day of rest, and was meant for man. The Scribes nnd Pharisees were for ever finding fault with the Master because He did not keop tlie Sabbath in their way. He kept it, they thought, in a very lax way. And the Scribes and Pharisees nre not all dead yet. Tho purpose of thoday of rest is to minister to all the needs of man. 1 oe lieve, of course, that the man or woman who willingly stays away from tho House of God on that day is quite as unreasonable as nie people who wouia limit our Sunday reading. It is not eyen so'rea sonable to make the day altogether a day of benefit to the body, as ft is to try to make it altogether a' day of benefit to the soul. 1 have much moro admiration for the LUw and Order Society than I havo for tlie Sun day sleepers, I believe they have mora sense. Alter all, man is not really an oni mal. Tlie soul is somewhat moio valuable, and worth ministering to, than the body. Nevertheless, we have a body. Should Belp to Slake the Good Better. No; the real question is what shall peo ple read. The real test of the good or ill of tbe Sunday paper. i3 not tho fact of its dis tribution on Sunday morning. If Spurgeon's sermons could bo distributed every Sunday moi ning, tho Law and OrderjSocIety would not take offouae. l'ho real test is the char acter of the contents of tiio paper. If the paper contains things which good people oughtnos to talk about, and do not talk about, on Sunday, If the matter in it is dif ferent from that which good people read on ' Sunday out or the book in their libraries: then let us attack that part of it The best thing to do with the Sunday paper, as my friend Mr. Doneboo said a week ago, is to convert it to Christianity. There is no in cantation that can stop it, but there is power in it that can be made of use immeasurable. .The Sunday paper, if the Law and Order people would all of.them take it and read it, arid help to form publlo desire fortbe bet tering of it, might do more good than all tbe Sunday sermons. The Sunday paper is not perfect .It will admit of decided Improvement- It could not yet bo read in Its entiiety from the pul pits of the churches. But I do think that hero in Pittsburg it is an uncommonly good paper. The Law anil Order Society ought to havo tried tho Blue Law in someothertown. Let us confine our assaults to that which is definitely and plainly bad. Wo ought to take hold of everything "that has any good ln.lt and help to make it better. AS BBOTHEK DANA. SEES IX How. Canada May Help Herself by Adopt ing Continental Union. j'NewYork Sun.l Our.esteemed cotemporary, The PirrsBono DisrATCH, has "some interesting remarks on the commercial situation of the Canadian Dominion. Thero aie several ways, says Thh Dispatch, in which Canada can increase her commerce, "but tho only one practicable at present Is a reasonable reciprocity ar rangement with the United States." Ko.K tI,c one sure and conclusive method pf establishing perfect and lasting leclpro .city of trade between the Dominion and the United States is the incorporation of tho two countries; in the same political unity; that Is, their annexation the one to the other. Indeed, that would goueyondmere reciprocity. It would establish completo free trade between them; and as genuine free traders, we should prefer it before any . every other arrangement that could iblybo mado in the case. Compared l"j?L Iree trade, reciprocity is nothing but a t orary and inconclusive makeshltt. tenJ5 confess that we are amazed at the one -Ytion which our Pittsburg cotemporary ouiect ajjftinst an event so auspicious. P.f-pXation," says The Dispatch, "will nevor take place while tho Canadian vote woud upset tho balance- of party politics Ts it would at present." We suppose this means the party polities of the Un ted Stat?slandnot of Canada: and we declare that wt can't see it. If the annexation of th?t Country were seriously proposed the neonle of the United States would vote for It S1ort?SnbdeiSSrSS? Ef Sere would be only one party, the party ofCon- "'MeawhSot'herels no hurry 'about reel procitv of traae with Canada. Wo have tried it once and we did -not admire tho re sults. Then, too, it was forced upon us bv party politics, and it was the party of Blaverv tb&t did it. The owners of slaves were alarmed lost the annexation of Canada should strengthen the party of freedom so that the slave power would be outvoted.and the institution bo brought into peril of de struction by the addition or so many new fieo States to the Union. Accord ugly, they went in for reciprocity: and yet slavery was wiped out all tho same, and everybody is P Now wo are not wanting such half-way measures anv more. Let us have absolute nnd unchangeable iree trade with the prov inces of the Canadian Dominion, and not any partial and temporary device like ie clprocal commerce in afew articles and duties on all others, c ? not in any haste about It Our Canadian frienu? can take their own time for nterlng into the heritage which is offered tbem: and they may be sure whenever they co jio they will not now find any powerful and determined party or slave owners to -shut the door in their faces be cause they are freemen. CO-OPEBATIVE COOKING. The Bellamy Club, of Kansas, Proves to Bo a Great Surccss. Topeka, Jan. 3L The Junction City Co operative Club, known as tho "Bellamy Club," has Just entered upon its second year With a full complement or members, most of whom have been with it from tho com mencement. This club was organized to conduct a common kitohen, in which all tho family cooking was to be done, away from the homes or the members. There aiei lorltaa T,,1nn.fn fn t.tlA fllub. nil of WhOnl eX- piess their satisfaction as to tho results of their experiment During tho year that the society has been in existence the sum of $5,820 has been expended for table supplies. All bills have been paid as fast as con tracted, so that no debts have been carried over. The officers of the society all serve .so.w ell distributed that the task is not great for anyone. The secretary, jurs. ju. x. visik, is most enthusiastic over the results ana n.. - .AnHnMA.a r...iw All thn inntf. 111CU1VU) ft ijiusjjciuua .utub. -....-...- .. ing for the U families represented has been uonc at tue society j&iiuiiuu 'uw mt ,.,. pai ed food delivered at the various resi dences. .The. expense is estimated to. be S..1t.. nnA tl.f.,.l Ineo ,l,a fit. RAnflTfttA tuny VUC-blJllu Jioa .. - , kitchens, with the advantage of greater variety and better cookinir, a professional cook having been employed. A MOKSTEE LOCOMOTIVE. The Flying Jersey Dutchman Is a Marvel ot Power and Speed. PlaikfULD, X. J., Jan. 31. The monster locomotive, No. 385, just placed on the tracks of the Jersey Central Kallroad is considered by railroad officials a marvel of speed nn'l mechanism. The huge engine wa completed .Tnnmirt' s at the Baldwin Locomotivo Works. It has made such phenomenal runs. that It is olreaay Known along tuo iiueus "The Flying Jersey Dutchman." In the boilers are 250 flues. The fire box is 11 feet by 3 feet 8 inches and has a water grato for hard coal. There are four cylinders two of high and twoof lowpiessure. All four cylipde1-s can be used at the same time, and thi is the secret ot tho engine starting and getting under way so quickly with a heavy train. The boiler carries ISO pounds of steam and is tested to 220. The whole weight or the engino is 62 tons. The com mutei s along the Jersey .Central are enthusi astic in pralso of the locomotive, which cives them lightning trains to and from Sow York. DEATHS HEBE.AXD ELSEWHERE. Dr. Howard Smith. Dr. Howard Smith, a prominent phy sician, died of the grip at New Orleans Saturday morning, agedK))ears. He was a foil of Major General Perslfor F. Smith of tlie United States Army, In the Mexican War. Dr. Miiith held the Cliatr of Materia Medics In the New Orleans bcliool of Meillclnefor jeai-s. He was surgeon 1 a cbarpc of the Marine Hospital under PrcsHcnt Polk. He served throughout the late war as snrgcon In the Confederate army. For the past three year Dr. Smith was employed hy the Louisiana State Board r Health ai medical renresentallve In Central American ports to keep the board Informed upun the sanitary condition of thoso places, where he rendered invaluable service. Mr. Bachel Fowler. An old resident, Mrs. Itachel Fowler, who died recently in AUeglicny at the residence of her son-in-law, George A. Smith, was born where the Court Huuse now stands In 1314. Ifcr father, John bterenson, lost his life In an explosion while manufacturing powder at Newark, N. J., for the War of 1812, after which her mother remoted to Pittsburg and In 182 married William Caruahan. She was a half sister of the late K. . Carnahau and niece of John Iirown, after whom Brownstown was named. In 18-17 she married Georee S. Fowler, who died In 1885 in his 80th year. She leaves be hind her 1 son. 3 daughters, 18 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Captain Lvman Van Wan. Captain Lyman W. Van Wan, who has been living in Dayton since the war, was found dead in bed Saturday morning. lie had been In falling health for several years, had been In dis tress forthe past few days and linally died from heart Jalluie. He was born atAtliens. N. V lih 18.21: enllsien ati-iiisneia, mass,, in me nrsc mrec months1 service; then was commissioned by Presi dent Lincoln to organize a brigade of lennessee Mountaineers, wuicuiicoia, Henry Church, Meadvllle. Henry Church, of the Phoenix Iron Works and tlie ttnn or Dick & Churih, of aieadvllle, and manager of the firm's business, died yesterday rooming of tlie grip. The Vleceased was a sou of jmige oaylord Church, deceased, and a brother of Judge Pearson Church, of Meadvllle. He stood high In Masonic traternltr. In which he was a past master. pt commander, past high priest aud number of the cons. story. His age was tl years. Obifoary Notes. William McCoucn, a member of the Phila delphia banking firm -of William G. HuevA Co.. died there Saturday. He was CO years old and well known In financial circles. Thomas Ilouaif, a leading drygoods merchant of the Cumberland Valley and cashier of the Peo ple's Union Hank, died at Newvllle. Pa,, Saturday, of pneumonia, aged 67 years. HEV. LrEBMAJf ABLER, rabbi of 'tho Alsho Maariv Hebrew congregation In Chicago for mure than a) years, and the oldest Hebrew pastor in the West died Friday ulght at his residence, aged 80 years. Since 1872 he has -devoted himself to liters ary purposes. GEOKOE WinTKLAW, 84 years old. died in Clove laud. O., Saturday, of old age. He went there In 18! and amassed a fortune In business and real estate. He did good service in New York during the cholera eplucmic In 1832. His sou. John h. Whltelaw, is President of tho National city Bank. Miss MltsxiH Tuohne, lady student of West minster College, died at New Wilmington Saiurdav night agedSO years.. Tho deceased wai only III one wees with the grip, she was the daughter of Eev. Mr. Thome, of bhaner. near Pittsburg, aud was netce of John Btevlns, City Treasurer of New Castle, DUR.MAIL POUCH. - The Crltlclr Criticised.. .. To the Editor of Tlie Dispatch: I read with much interest Mr. Woods re cent criticism of Mr. Marshall on life insur ance in Tun Dispatch, and I have but one criticism to make, which perhaps applies to both, and is In regard to the great office buildings some life insurance companies build. They do not bnlld enough of them, nor do they select the ri-ht localities. No city of its size pnys lire Insurance companies better than Pittsburg, and yet thoy have in vested no money here In buildings of any kind, while, to my certain knowledge, thoy havo spent over $l,COO,0CO In buildings In other cities not ver one-third the size of this. It goes without saying that reil estate in the business part of any thriving city ts the safest nnd surest of all investments;- nor need it be said that the safest and surest property or security is the kind to be pre ferred for the safe-keeping of the surplus funds whioh such companies must accumu late and preserve to meet the sure andsteady drain upon them. Let me Illustrate. In Kansas City, where Hived till lecently, the New York Life In surance Company erected a magnificent building some years ago. It is 150 feetsquare and ten stories high, with four elevators operating aay and night. Including the ground it cost nearly $1,500 000. It is built if brick with stone facings, in a substantial but economic stvle, with no superfluous or namentation, and till recently netted tho company 8 per cent on tbo Investment, but for a year or so, since the depression of busi ness there, the income from it falls slightly below 6 per cent. Two banking rooms on the ground floor were for some years Tented for $10,000 each. The insurance company owner occupies but one or two of the upper story rooms for its own office. This is one instance of the kind of buildings which that company alone has put up In many cities, not onlv in the United States, bnt in Euro pean cities also. It is the best advertisement which any life Insurance company can adopt It affords a constant reminder to all the people ot the city of the strength and re liability of the company, and the wise prudence of itsmanagersin selecting invest ment for the funds on which policy holders rely. 31r. Woods therefore shouldbe called upon to explain why the company or companies which he represents, or some of them, do not invest some of tbeir immense surplus funds in PittsDurg where it would not only be safe, but would be snre to secure increase of value as time went on, and would incur little or no risk ot rents falling off, and it is qnite evi dent that the company which wduld make a suitable investment of the kind in this city, would secure to itself all or most of the in surance patronage to be bad. Pittsedbo, January 30. J. F. Cummisgs. A Memorable Explosion. To the Editor of The Dispatch: In your recent article, "Built Upon Graves,' your Informant is wrong in his ver sion of the Wallace marble yard explosion. The explosion occurred at dinner hour. Tbe boiler was driven across Liberty street, through the clothing store of Robert Barker, on a part of the present site of Jackson's stole. In passing through Barker's store the iron hasp was knocked off the door frame into the templo of .Barker's skull, kill ing him instantly. The boiler passed through two biick walls and lodged on and in the graveyard of what is now known as the Oak Alley Church. A lew fectnbovo where the boiler crossed Liberty street was standing the train which brought the Prince of Wales to tnls city. A royal disaster was averted by only a few feet. The body of Robert Barker had no mark upon it savo the hole in the temple. The ex plosion and escape made the Prince or Wales so nervous that he expressed a desiro to get out of Pittsburg as soqn as possible There was no one hurt in the beer saloon next to Barker's store. Both bnlldingi were of brick and not frame. Vieus TEura PirrsBUBO, January 30. LOCATING BANDIT GARZl. Garza, who was reported crushed to earth, seems to bo one of the eternal verities, for he has risen again and Is 5,000 strong. Phila delphia Press. EvEnrBODT now knows where Editor Garza is; but what has become of tbat elaborate plan for surrounding and captur ing hlmt iVew York Commercial advertiser. Ha. Gauza has crossed the border at the head ot 5,000 well armed and mounted men. Tho question now is.whero are those fellows who had him surrounded yesterday? Chi cago Globe. PrtesiBESTDiAZ-offers $400,000 for Garza's person, and Garza, reported to be recruiting adherents at a wonderful rate, is thinking of calling on the President in person and claiming tho reward. Cincin7iai Commercial Gazette. There is an interesting rumor afloat that Garza has crossed over into Mexico with a large forco of men. Its truth remains to be established. If it should be confirmed tho United States soldiers on this side of the border will hope that he may never get back Into Texas. -Veto York Press. The Mexican Government has increased its reward for the capture of Garza until the amount has reached $100,000. We are not authorized to negotiate for Garza; but wo thlnk.iif properly approached, he would ac cept half the money and bind himself over to keep the peace. New York Advertiser. CAPIUEED BY 0ETH0D0XT. Brlggs. Followers Discharged From the Lane Theological Seminary. Cincinnati, Jan. 31. Tho threatened erup tion at Lane Theological Seminary has been averted, and the Briggs contingent, from having an overwhelming majority of two to one in tbe faculty, has capitulated uncondi tionally, and at the expiration of the present school year will be relegated to a harmless minority. Things were in a bad shape from a strictly orthodox standpoint at old Lane not many moons ago, when a special com mittee, consisting of Bev. It. II. Leonard, Kev. Thomas O. Lowe, Bev. A. Ritchie, Rev. J. J. Francis, Kev. J. M. Anderson and Messrs. Feiry and Roberts, was appointed to straighten out the schismatic educational tangle. They were to report at tbe spring meeting of the Synod what was the best thing to be done and how to do it. Matters theological from a Presbyterian standpoint, were getting warmed up to a pretty high pitch in this neck of the woods. Tue squab ble in the Union Theological College in New York, in which the Biiggs issue was spread in every direction for uli it was worth, was injecteu in all It- intensity of partisanship into the Lane difficulty. At the beginning oi the present school year the faculty of Lane stood four Briggs and two antls. Inside of a month tbei e will be just two, and possibly but one, Biiggs representative in the faculty. It is ripping things up by the rooty, but that is just how things will stand. Here is the way the vic torious antis carried the day: Pror. Craig, Chairman of tbe faculty, has alrcadv been dropped, and Prof. Evans, after 30 years of continuous service In the chair of New Testament Gieek and Exegesis, willgo back in May to thu quiet hills of North Wales. Tliere, in tle bosom of Bala Theological Col lege, he will put in the closing days of a notable career. Prof. II. Preserved Smith, who formally years has held the chair of Ilebrow and Old Testament, is slated to tnkn the editorship of The Whither, a new Briggs H..l.llnnttnrt tn r,a CitnltuH 1 Plktrttlnnfl an..... time during February. That will leave but Pror. McGiffert as the tole surviving Brigg ite in the Lane faculty. BABY ASI0B NOT BEGISTEEED. Tbe Richest Infant in the World Not on the Official Record. New Yobk, Jan. 31 Health Department officials were somewhat surrirised yesterday to discover that the richest baby in tbe United States had never been recorded as the law provides, and its parents were accordingly liable to punishment for tho omission. This refers to the infant son of John Jacob Astor, who was born November 15. The lawprovides that within ten days or every birth it shall be registered in the office of Vital Statistics, otherwise tho parents, attending physician, nurses and everv other person who was present at tho blrtli may be fined $10. The attending physician, when asked ir he had registered the baby, said: "By Jove! that's so, that's so. I didn't." 1 usually leuvo that to my assistants, and In this case I forgot it. I will pay tho fine if the,clty demands it." Dr. Lusfcsald ho would report the birth at once. No 'proceedings hare been begun against hiuias yet. Baby Astor has been named William Vincent. Ho is thriving in spite of the litct that his exist ence has not boeh legally declared. le Might Be a Good Plan. Chicago Malt. , During the cessation of hostilities Uncle Bam might with profit secure 'ft few coaling stations. ' , f' 'K 600D TCOICAH 60HE. The Death of the Mother oT the Late C. N. Shaw, or the Dispatch. Mrs. Mary J. Shaw, wife of the late David Shaw and one of the oldest residents of Ver sailles township, died at 8 r., Saturday, at the residence of her son-in-law, John R. Christy, or Versailles township, of pneumo nia, aifed 70 years. With the death of this aged lady the long and useful life of a pio neer resident of tbat township, and one who" was highly respected throughout Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, is brought to a close. The deceased was a Christian lady or sterling qualities, and was the mother or the late C N. Shaw, a well-known newspaper man, and who at the time or his death was connected with The Dispatch. She is sur vived by six grown children with whom she resided at the family home at McKeesport. Mrs. Shaw was born on the Lemon farm, Lang Run, in Versailles township, and has Ilvpd in that locality alt her life until a few years sinco, when she went to McKeesport, and with her only son, S. W. Shaw, and four daughters, took np her residence on Uuey street. She was the daughter of Fauntly Muse, nnd has a brother, R'obert, and two sisters, Margaret and Clara Muse, living, all of whom reside in Tennessee, and are on their way to attend the funeral. Mrs. Shaw wasa. devout member of the United Presby terian Church, McKeesport, and was one of its early and, perhaps, oldest members. Two weeks ago she went to Versailles town ship to visit her son-in-law, John B. Christy, when she was prostrated with the grip. Pleurisy developed and pneumonia fol lowed. The remains will be taken to McKeesport to-day and at the close of the services, which will be conducted at her house at 2 p. jr., Tuesday, will be privately buried in Ver sailles cemetery. ETJSSIAH EXILES. Nearly 55,000 or Them Land in New York During the Year. NEwYbnir, Jan. 3L According to state ments contained in tho annual repqrt of the United Ilebrow Charities of New York, 02,871 Hebrew immigrants landed in this city during the year ending September 30 last. Tliere wore 26,831 men, 16,393 women, and 19,230 children. More than flje-slxths of all, or 61,194, were Russian exiles. The report of the society contains interesting information as to the manner in which many thousands of these wfio were driven from their homes were treated in this country. The Execu tive Committee says the society was diverted from its original position or affording relief to tbe Hebrew poor of New York city, and was compelled to perform the functions of a society to help the vast majority of "the un happy, unfortunate and ill-treated Russians who applied for admission into the nation, and who were properly a charge upon the Hebrews of the entire country rather than upon the heavily burdened community of New York city. During the year there were received at the office of tbe society 8,045 applications for re lief, representing 26,694 persons, and with the cases for reinvestigation, transients, etc., tbo total relief list reaches 39,916 persons. The Executive Committee says it has re fused to use the "customary channel for disposing of unfortunate people who begged to be sent back to Europe in any fashion, and who welcomed the accommodations ot cattle ships." From these cattle ships, with their freight of human beings, theie were too frequent reports of hardships and too many stories of harsh treatment, so tbat it was decided that the society could no longer be used "as a convenience for. cattle ship pers." Of all the Hebrew Immigrants who came, 195 were sent, back to Europe by the Government and there remained in the city 46,029. Tbe remainder had tickets and went to other cities, althongh many returned in a few weeks, expecting to better their condi tion hore. , THE COMIHfi WEEK HI C0HGEESS. An .End of the Well and La Abra Claims Chestnut in Sight. Washington, D. C, Jan. 3L The Weil and La Abra claims and the Claggett-Dubols elec tion case from Itlaho are the principal sub jects expected to occupy the attention of the Senate, during tbe week. An agreement has bcen.reached by which the Weil and La Abra claims bill is to bo brought to a vote to-morrow. Senator Teller, Chairman of the Privileges and Elections Committee, says he will make tbe committee's report on the Jdaho Senatorial election case on the same day. It is purposed to take it np al most immediately. It is understood that ,Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, and other Sen ators will moke speeches in favor of seating Mr. Claggett, and as 3Ir. Dubois' friends will naturally not wish them to remain unanswered, it Is likely that nearly, ir not all, or the legisla tive week in the Senate will be taken up with this case, though it Is generally con ceded the result will in the end be favorable to Mr. Dubois. A number of minor bills of importance will be passed during the "morn ing hour," and Senator Manderson hns .the printing bill ready to call up whenever oc casion offers. The programme in the House for the greater part, and perhaps for all the week, can be stated in two' words "the rules." Although the discussion of the report of tbe Rules Com mittee has already consumed considerable time, there is no present indication that its consideration will soonbebrongbttoaclose, especially as it affords inviting opportuni ties for speeches or an Interesting political nature. The census urgency deficiency ap propriation bill and tne military academy appropriation bill await action by the House as soon as permanent rules can be de cidedupon. THOUGHT HEE AN ICEBEEG. A Big Steamer Covered With Ice Enters New Tork Harbor. New York, Jan- 3L There was considera ble excitement on the floor of tho Maritime Exchange yestei day morning when 1 was re ported that a mammoth iceberg wa3 floating up i)ast Sandy Hook. Marine glasses wero in order, and, armed with them, the old sea dogs started for Staten Island to see tho strange sight. They did see one", too, for just at this time tbe big, steamship Trave, of the North German Lloyd, turned into tho North river. The big vessel was completely covered with ice, and glittered and sparkled in the sunlight indescribably. The steamer was covtred from stem to stern with an ice coating two inches thick, and her yards and rigging were encased. An unceasing storm whs experienced from the time of leaving Southampton. While at Nordenham, at the mouth of the Elbe river, the Trave was completely frozen in, so that it was impossible to use tbe rudder or pro peller. Before she was released three small steamers were used to cuther out of the ice. CAEMEHCITA LIKES FITTSBTJBG. It Is a Much Better Place Than New York, She Thinks. New York, Jan. 31. Carmen cita, the pretty Spanish dancer, has a gteat admiration for Pittsburg. In an interview to-day she said she liked Pittsburg. She called it "Peepur."' Tliere was such a grand house to dance in tbeie. She had never seen any theater half so nice. There was hot and cold water in the dressing rooms, and electrio lights and no draughts. "And' that's what 1 don't get used to here those draughty. First I get warm, warm, warm. Then I ,get shiver, shiver, shiver." SECRETARY. BLAINE'S BIRTHDAY. Mr. Blaise's age to-day is twice the day of of the month, 62. Sew York Recorder. Secretary Blaise will be 63 years old to day. It is needless to say he is still spry. Chicago Hail. Secretary Blaise is 62 years old to-day. Just what tho year will bring to him, no one seems to know. Cincinnati Cbh mercial Gazette. This is Mr. Blaine's 62d birthday. . Here's to many happy returns. Ho isn't the Father of lils Country, hut he's the father of a policy which, if It escapes perversion-and ruin by partlanshlo, may yet make his name and his birthdays honored when he has been a long time dead Buffate Express. A McKeesport Claimant to Millions. McKeesport, Jan. 31. Special. It is claimed that'Mrs. Otto F. Tauber, or this1 city, is on or the. several heirs to $6,000 000 worth or property In Philadelphia, on a por tion of which the Union xlepot is located. She is a direct descendant of one Mrs. scntten. who owned the pioperty and was murdeied in Philadelphia years ago. The Keil family or -Philadelphia are also heirs, and have attorneys arranging papers pre paratory to laying Claim to the estate. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS., There are 4,500 women printers' ia"En2 land. N Chess matches by telephone are verr-il popular in England. Artificial ice ponds are nowbeing intro duced into England. Grecian women had longer feet than, thee average man has now. Seventy women have licenses for selling beer and liquor in New York City. -.". Many watches make five beats, per second, 300 each minute, 18,000 every hour, or 132.C0 per day. In Japan it is peculiarly easy to pro curea divorce, as no lawyer, judge nor Jury is required. At the present day sacred pigs roam in violate about the Buddhist monasteries of Canton and elsewhere In China. There are 11,500,000 voters in the United States, of whom 3,100,000 are of alien birth and 1,K0,0C0 aro of African descent. The jurors in a Detroit court recently ranged from 6 cents to $60,000 hi deciding tho amount of damages in a libel suit, and final ly compromised on a verdict of $11,000. The finest opals in the world are found In Australia, those fonnd in Mexico beingof ' an Inferior quality. The most perfect emer- am heretofore have come from Brazil and . Siberia. A Dexter (Me.) man received f.T from a man a few days ago to whom he had loaned ' " that amount 23 years ago. Accompanying the payment wan a diamond ring of large -value as interest. Habitual drunkards are cared for in an effective way in Norway and Sweden. The penalty is imprisonment, and during Incar ceration they are fed on bread and wine, no water being allowed. One of the largest casks irf this country has been constructed at Toledo, O. It is of pak. weighing 40,000 pounds, holds 66,000 gal lons of wine, and rests on a massive oak cradle which raises it about three feet from the floor. At a certain church near Ledbury an annual sermon is still preached against the vice of duelling. This Is done in accord ance with the last will and testament Of a damsel whose riyal lovers died fighting for her hand. " The entire living population of tho globe, 1,400,000,000 people, divided into fam ilies of live persons each, could be located in Texas, each family with a house on a half-acre lot, and thero would still remain 70,000,000 vacant family lots! The British Museum has secured from V Thibet a copy of the Jangyn, a monster cyclopaedia of Thibetan Buddhism. It com prises 225 vplnmes, each of which Is two feet long and six Inches thick. There are. it is supposed, only two other copies or the work outside of Thibet. The microscope has revealed many wonders, among others that the common caterpillar has 4,000 muscles in his body: tbat the drone bee' eves each contain 1,300 mir rors, and that tlie large, prominent eyes of -the brilliant dragon flies are each furnished witn 23,000 polished lenses. The first consignment of camel skins for commercial purposes ever brought to this country reached New York on the last voy age of the. steamer Nomadic. It consisted of 3 five bales, 13 skins in a bale, shipped from Aden to a firm of morocco manufacturers in, "The Swamp." The shipment is an experi ment. The Adelsberg cave, with its recently discovered side caverns, has lately been carernlly surveyed, in accordance with tho instructions of the Austrian Minister of Ag riculture, Count Falkenhayn. In the course of the operations some very beautiful parts of the cave, which could formerlybe reached only with the greatest difficulty, were made easily accessible. The latest application of electricity is to the curling of forehead fringes. The Idea is American, of course, and its realization is anxiously looked forward to by young wo men of fashion, who hope to find in elec tricity a means of producing at a moment's notice those infantinerings and byacinthlne locks which now'take 20 minutes at least to bring to perfection. Ithaj always been generally believed that snow keens the ground warm, but no very accurate data on tho subject hive hitherto been forthcoming. Accordingly it is interesting to learn, from observations recently made at Katherinenbnrgr, that at a depth of 14 inches tbe soil, wnen covered " with two feet of snow, was-ten degrees warmertban at the'surface. ' All other things being equal, a bary tone voice in a man and a contralto voice in a woman will wear better and last longer than any of the others. It is, however, im possible to lay down any very absolute rule as to tbe voices of individual singers, be cause so much depends on the method of life, temperance in food solid as well as liquid and the care of the voice exercised by each individual. Dr. Keilson, of Norway, states that the flsherfolk of Bergen have for over 500 years inoculated whales with bacteria in order to kill tbem. Tbe whales enter a firth near the town and are driven into a narrow bay. A net is then stretched across its month, and the whales shot with poisoned arrows. After a day or two tbey become sickly, and are easily dispatched. The arrows inoculate them with a disease like "sympathetic anthrax," nnd when pulled out of tbe wound aro fit for another hunt. In Iiussia, a child 10 years of age can not go away from home to school without a passport. Servants and peasants cannot go away from where they live without a pass- Eort. A gentleman residing at St. Peters urg or Moscow cannot receive the visit of a friend who remains many hours without ' notifying the police of his arrival, as the case may be. The porters of all bouses are compelled to mako returns of the arrival and departure of strangers. And for every one of the above passports a charge is made of some kind. It is customary in the town of Quito, when a visitor takes off bis hat upon enter- -. ing a room, to beg him to put it on again; -. and, in the absence of permission, leave is ' generally requested. This, it is said, arises ironi apprehension that cold will be taken by remaining uncovered. The samo persons u pon going out of doors take off their hats to Hashes of lightning, no matter whether rain is falling: and, when tho streets are busy and lightning is abundant, a grotesque effect is produced by' these salutations, which seem to be regarded as a duty by'well behavea persons, and are performed as punctiliously as the homage which is paid to . , religious processions when thoy are in sight BAZAR BCZZINGS. Briggs How do you like your new fur nace. Uriggs? Griggs Oh. It's jnst splendid. Briggs Canyon recommend it as a bang-up good heater.' Griggs No; but 1 recommend it as a bang-up good refrigerator. "You go to bed at twelve or one, And thus destroy your health, my son." No. father," was the repartee: 'Tls getting up that's killing me." "Whither aro you bound?" ' "UptoseiSralthers." smltliers? He's the most conceited duffer in the world. I'm told he never wears his ha la his own presence." He took her hand tenderly. "A ring would look sweet on that little finger," he said "an engagement ring." It Isn't the fashion to wear engagemen t rings on tlie little linger," .he replied, drawing her 1 hanuaway. , She Papa's crystal wedding is to-morrow j night. He has been married IS jears. He (sllgtitly embarrassed; Ab, yes. I-I should -'. think so. She Ills second wife, too know. It's all very proper to sing of the blis3 Tnat comes from the seasoned and sweet-scented log That burns on the hearth with a crackle and hiss, bo boldlydefTlngeach huge brazen dog. There's poetry there in the broad ch!mnej"Pllca A As fltckerlog flames, flying fitfully high. ,- DIscIom: now and then a sad pbantom-me face, ,3 A no once In a while sound a soul-stlrrfng sigh. -v But, aht when the poet's as poor as can be. Ills landlady dunning him always for board. The logs mi his soul rull of deep misery To think that they cost htm twelt e dollars a cord. , .. Bronson "What beautiful diamonds your, rr wife has on to-night. Hicks! Hicks (with an eye to busloes$)-Yei, they're'-' fine. . .-(, Bronson Business must he good if you cau aflbrd. . v fc to glre her Jewels like that. '.,", Hlcks-On the contrary, it's Tery bad. Tre Sid oa those stones- In my showcase for a year;nt w haven't been able to srlt 'em. I thought Prlisp:i?4 we'd g6t an offer for 'em If r let her wearthemmis here". They show off mighty well, don'itherf ' ..3i ..' J, - ; ,' r A , . . -CWi - ' ., 1 - A. ' '" t , . ,r . - ' .. j .,' 3C . i. iiA- Wk mitiiWiMii ii ifiMEWfi r . ' r ' " "T-w - v -
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