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All douhlo nnd triple number copies or The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt dcliaery. PITTSBURG. SrXDAY. FEBRUARY 14. BECOME A LEADING I'iSOE. Congressman Dalzell pleased everybody immensely vner at tlie Ercss Club ban quet in this city a couple of weeks ago, lie made his admirable speech on the coming issue, the improvement of the national waterwajs and the construction of the preat canal from the Ohio to the lakes. At Lancaster on Friday niqht he proved that his heart was deeply in this subject, and that the Pittsburg address was not merely for home consumption or to tickle a local feeling. He spoke forcibly and well to the Lancastrians on the importance of improving the waterways and building the canal, showing that it affected greatly national and State as well as local in terests. The value of having a man of Mr. Dal zell's ability, filled with enthusiasm by an intelligent grasp of this question, will soon be seen. He has measured its importance, so often set forth in these columns; and before the present session of Congress is over other statesmen at Washington will he found taking a greater interest in the waterways question than a little while ago they, themselves, thought possible. "Western Pennsylvania with the neigh boring States of Ohio and West Virginia, hae substantial reason to feel gratified that projects which, if carried out, will make this region the busiest, most popu lous and most prosperous on the continent, if not ultimately on the globe, have at last enlisted the sort of ability and enthusiasm which are needed to carry great projects through. OVERGROWN ESTIMATES. Elsewhere this morning, TnE Dispatch brings to notice some of the larger prob lems which should find recogniiion in city government, but do not, viz.. the concep tion and encouragement of broad plans for adding in every possible way to the local manufacturing and mercantile interests. That is a question seldom thought about in the slightest degree on the eve of city elections yet it should be of great impor tance. It is the money which the taxpayer has to pay out whicli gets exclusive attention not the money that might be brought in. This sensitiveness of the pocket to drafts has roused a ery general protest this year against an increase of city expenses over the extremely liberal appropriations of last year. In the face of such pro nounced expressions Councils cannot es cape a free and close cutting of the Chiefs' estimates. At the polls on Tuesday this can be further ensured by supporting can didates pledged to limiting the appropria tions to last j ear's aggregate. In this connection it is curious to note a quibble over a thing of no importance One of our cotemporaries takes exception to the popular demand for a lower mill age this j ear, on the plea that the thing to do is to cut down the appropriations which determine the millage. Nobody disputes that It should not be necessary to explain that if the millage is to be low ered the cutting of the Chiefs estimates is the way to lower it SILVER MONOMETALLISM. The report of the Bland free coinage bill, together with the motionsvoted down in committee before it was earned, fully defines the itsue to be placed before the people. It commits the supporters of that measure to the proposition that the unit of values shall be lowered to about 75 cents on the present dollar. This is clearly shown by the voting down of two proposi tions made as a substitute for the uncon ditional free coinage report There are just two ways in which there is a possibility of securing the circulation of silver under free coinage at a parity -with gold. One is to secure an interna tional agreement by which the silver will circulate everywhere at a uniform ratio; the other is to coin a silver dollar equal in bullion value to the golden. Both propo sitions, one for an international conference and the other for a silver dollar of largely increased weight, were submitted to a vote in committee and defeated, after which "-he tree coinage bill was recommended. This puts the supporters of the bill sjquarelj on the platform of scaling down the silver dollar 25 per cent The chief result of sucha movementwill be simply to take away one-fourth of the claim of every creditor in the land and make a present of it to the debtor One view of the case which appeals to the instinct of the dema gogue is that such a scaling down of debts will be for the benefit of ordinary people; but that is a shallow and egregious blun der. The effect of this change would bo to reduce in purchasing power every sav ings bank depo-it in the country, t- take away from the small investors in corporate bonds one-fourth their property and give it to the corporation. A party which commits itself to such a proposition is storing up its own destruc- tlon. The report is not a report in favor of bimetallism, but it is one in support of silver monometallism. TIIE LARGER rROIILEJIS AHEAD. The problem of city government is occu pying more attention than usual this year in the other cities of the State as well as In Pittsburg. Here, the increase of valuations and the enlarged demands of the Chiefs of Departments compel attention sharply to the subject In Philadelphia the issue Is different. The people of that town have awakened to the fact that Councils should have men among their number capable of planning and forwarding the city's manu facturing and mercantile development They want a "new Philadelphia" one that will step forward in place of the rather drowsy yet expensively governed Philadelphia of tho past In "Williams port, too, there is an issue at stake. There voters want the influence of partisanship dropped, and elections for Councils on a strictly business basis. The Williamsport idea is correct. Par tisan politics of the nation or State are not involved in city government, which, in Its chief aspect, is a business undertaking un concerned with national and State issues. The meeting of voters at the polls to elect Councilmen should be regarded in as clear a business light as the meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or other great undertakings, to elect directors. The same principles should guidfri-but they will not so long as the merely partisan idea is kept up. Phila delphia is so enthused over the "new Philadelphia" idea that the Republican organ, the Inquirer, advises voters to sup port progressive and capable men regard less whether they call themselves Repub licans or Democrats. In Pittsburg the question of partisan ship does not count for much, as for sev eral years the lines have not been drawn at all between Republicans and Democrats in their policy or votes in Councils. But the other issue of getting progressive and able men with ideas for the city's advancement into Councils must some day here, as in Philadelphia, count for a great deal more than it has counted for up to the present The prosperity of cities is adversely or benefi cially influenced by their government It is not merely that extravagance can reach the point of checking the business growth of the place, but, on the other hand, it may be a blunder of the worst sort for a city to refuse to cultivate its opportunities. Pittsburg is nearing the situation when it must consider thee things. It now spends nearly $5,000,000 yearly. Ohe-fcurth of that sum would represent the annual interest on the 525, 000,000 needed to build the Erie Ship Canal, whose immense benefits to the city need not be recited; or one-sixth of it would meet the interest on capital to build such a trunk line to the East as the South Penn, opening up great tributary trade or this place and benefiting shippers enormously. Of course, Pittsburg as a city might find legal difficulties in back ing such enterprises; but our object is to show the great capacity for usefulness represented by the great sum of money now contributed for the city government What the city could always do would bo to encourage such enterprises; and if the citizens had the spirit to undertake them, to help along by retrenchment In other things. Manchester is building its ship canal; Cincinnati practically built the Southern Railroad to tap the South; Balti more prospered by encouraging and aid ing the B. & O. Some day Pittsburg, either through Councils or through repre sentative business men, will have to con sider more than nowhowtodevelopmanu- factures and trade. AN INTERNATIONAL WARNING. As a general rule the exposure of the dirty linen in divorce courts is to be deprecated; but the mutual recriminations in the De Steuers divorce suit, which is attaining the rank of a national scandal, convey a healthy warning to young women of wealth in this country who are deluded by the vulgar ambition of marry ing a foreign title. It Is clear enough from this case that an investment of that sort is the worst that can be made by an Ameri can heiress. The position of the wite of a foreign nobleman, particularly if she comes from a sphere looked down upon by the nobility, is at the best one of humiliation. It is natural to suppose that the wife of a diplomatist holding impor tant posts in Europe would have an op portunity to view life from as favorable a standpoint as any one; but the disclosures of the De Steuers menage indicate that when any woman ties herself to the old world aristocracy she forfeits the sover eignty given to her sex in the society of this republic American girls should learn wisdom by the experience of their predecessors in in ternational matches. If they choose to throw their money into the ocean they will be much wiser than to surrender it and themselves to the fortune hunting bearers of empty titles. CASSATT'S I3IPROVED VISION. It is satisfactory to "observe that Mr. A. J.-Cassatt has become aroused to the dan gers involved in erecting corporate com binations whose magnitude overshadows alike the public interest, the provisions of fundamental law and the decrees of the courts. Mr. Cassatt's denunciation of the "audacious and impudent defiance of the law and tho Constitution of Pennsyl vania," and his indignation at the creation of a monopoly of the anthracite coal busi ness, is a welcome reinforcement to'those who have been calling the public attention to these dangerous tendencies for years past His call upon Governor Pattison to take the same steps against this consolida tion as in the South Penn Railroad, is an appeal to that official from a source that cannot be disregarded, involving, as it does, a practical Indorsement of the Gov ernor's course in the former case. In these assertions Mr. Cassatt takes position on the solid foundation of bottom rock facts. The consolidation of anthra cite lines is an evasion of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which, added to the an nounced purpose of wiping -out in dividual enterprise in the anthracite coal business, is fully as defiant as the South Penn deal. The claim of the Reading counsel that the consolidated roads are not competing because they transport mainiy tb'e coal of different bases is an equivalent to President Rob erts' famous pica that the South Penn was not a competing road on account of its grades, or Mr. Depew's equally profound epigram that the same line was' pot a com peting one Vecause It was only "a lot of holes In the ground." The fact that the anthracite consolidation is intended to suppress competition Is not denied, except as a legal fiction, and the purpose of the monopoly is plainly indicated by the fact that the immense mass of water known as Reading stock has leaped up to 50 dur ing the past few days by virtue of the promise of a dividend nex"t year on its urupsicai total. . -acerineicss-ir. -assau s penectlv ac- J curate view of the subject is likely to add materially to the gayety of financial and corporate literature on account of his ut ter failure to express any such views dur ing the long contest over the South Penn ueah nis declaration that the anthracite coal consolidation is "the most audacious and the most impudent" thing of the sort must be corrected. Since the action of his own company in the South Penn transaction went the length of nullifying both the Constitution and the decree of the courts and of extinguishing the South Penn project by secret deals in defiance of -tho injunction of the law, it must fairly be said that it is at least an even match with tho anthracite deal. Mr. Cassatt's recognition of the fact that his corporation had been beaten at every point in the courts, should In clude tho further statement that his cor poration is to-day enjoying the ultimate victory of having triumphed over tho courts xby virtue of sheer superiority or corporate will over the law. It is certainly to be hoped that the Gov ernor will answer Mr. Cassatt's summons to action against the anthracite coal com bination. While taking steps to make that action more effective than in the South Penn litigation, it might be well to see if some means could not bo found for securing obedience by the Pennsylvania as well as the Reading road. Now that Mr. Cassatt has recognized the enormity of defiance of the constitution by a rival it is to be hoped that his. own corporation will perceive the Importance of showing some respect to the law on its own account THEMINNEAPOLIS ACCOMMODATIONS. The investigation of the prospects of the accommodations to be offered by Min neapolis to the visitors at the Republican National Convention, given elsewhere, presents a rather interesting picture of the rising city of the. Northwest. The opin ions presented are somewhat marked with the Eastern preconceptions, as is shown by the apparent criticism of Minneapolis for presenting the contrast of aspiring business architecture with the cottage residences of a thousand villages. The latter feature, to an impartial observation, would suggest that the Western style of city building affords a remaikahle advan tage over the closely packed blocks of residences, flats and tenements of the older Eastern cities. As to the accommodations offered by Minneapolis to its Republican visitors in June, the report is that 30,000 people can be accommodated comfortably, of whom 10,000 will be obliged to accept what our correspondent, from the Eastern stand point, calls "the campmeeting style" of being taken in the private homes of Minneapolis citizens. It Is a fair pre diction, however, that " the visitors who are entertained on tb6 so-called camp meeting plan will be the lucky ones. It needs no son of a prophet to foresee that the man who is entertiiined at the private residence of a Minneapolis citizen anx ious to boom his city will discover a marked superiority over the cot bedstead plan of accommodations which has char acterized conventions in larger cities. Whether tho entertainer, after ho .has titilated the soul of the average politician irora New York or Louisiana, will consid er that the game was worth the candle is a subject more open to debate. INTEREST IN CANALS. The advancing recognition of the im portance of modern and adequate water ways is shown by the article published in another column on a projectfor improving the canal system of Ohio so as to afford two waterways from Lake Erie to the Ohio of 20 feet each. One is to be effected by the enlargement of the Miami and Erie canal from Toledo to Cincinnati. The other Is the enlargement and extension of the Ohio canal from Gleveland, reaching the Ohio by the Muskingum. It is gratifying to see the agitation for improved waterways which The Dis patch has waged so long bearing the fruit of schemes for the improvement of canals wherever it is possible. The merit of the routes laid out by this scheme, as compared with that of the Ohio river and Lake Erie project, is a matter to be determinedby actual sur veys in which water supply, cost of con struction and the distance which vessels must travel all are factors. As the lines proposed are twice the distance of the route already surveyed, it is a fair pre sumption that the cost of these canals will be greater, and the expedition of trans portation over them far less. In addition, the fact that one of the sections talked of has been abandoned for years simply be cause there was no water for it, indicates that in certain respects the project is not based on fully matured information. An important aspect of the proposition is that it contemplates the construction of the canals by the State of Ohio. The pushing city of Toledo, famed for getting what it goes after is behind the proposition, and it is urged that the State of Ohio shall do the work without waiting to stimulate the slower action of the National Govern ment Such a proposition should put Pennsylvania on her mettle. Pennsyl vania exceeds Ohio in wealth.and her nat ural resources to be benefited by this pro ject are vastly greater. With 13,000,000 tons of heavy freight in sight to ho trans ported by such a waterway, Pennsylvania should not let Ohio get ahead of her. But with reference to the possible rival ry of the different routes, we do not appre hend that there yill be much difficulty. It will be the common agreement that one connection of the rivers with the lakes east of Chicago is all that can be expected in the"immediate future. The route that offers the best material and commercial qualities at the least cost is plainly the one that must bo selected by competent engi neers. The time Is likely to come when each State will see the necessity of pos sessing an arterial waterway if it is an en gineering possibility; but the first step toward that great consummation is in lo cating a single connection at the point where it will do the greatest service at the least cost. When the people, understand that at a cost one-tenth of the capitalization of the railway system much cheaper transporta tion of the fundamental freights can be afforded, the realization of such improve ments becomes only a question of time. The plea made on behalf of the Finance Committee that they cannot present the appropriation ordinance beciuss the millage is not fixed nnd that tho mlllago is not fixed because all the assessments are not In is de cidedly inme. If the appropriation ordinance were not to be presented until the assess ments are all settled it would not bo pre sented at all, since it is well known that there will bo many appeals to court, nnd the aggregato will not bo known till these aro decided. , The main thing about the appro priation ordinance is by presenting it early to give Council and the pnblle a c banco to oxamlnoaud discuss tlio .various items for which appropriations aro demanded. It would require no ingenuity td introduce it thus lor discussion, leaving the millage to follow ns usual tho amount ultimately ap propriated. Mr Cassatt's declaration of the. ille- gality and audacity of tho" anthracite con solidatlon suggests the thought that the re bilking of sin by the Prince of Darkness is baaed on thorough knowledge of its sinful ness. The Farmers' Alliance leader who have gone into partnership-with a trust combina tion should bo given to understand that they have terminated their day of pnblle usefulness. A ' 'triumphal entry" .into London, with "a Salvation pageant" and & parade of the Salvation Army Is a development or that organization's tactics, which is hardly in ac cordance with its general character of modest and humble effectiveness. When a rollgions organization gets to the stage of making parades and pageants of itself it generally looses its-hold on the people who are attracted bv Its self-sacrifice and humil ity. Mr. Dalzell continues to urge the causoof internal wntorways with a force and ability that promises tho success of that great cause, and Mr. Dalzell's triumph with it. Esteemed Republican cotemporaries who are disposed to make a great howl because the House did not cut down the West Point appropriation bill below tho figures of the last Congrojs, should bo warned to desist. By keeping on tbey will be likely to draw public attention to the fact that this appro priation was one of the two minor bills -which tho Billion Dollar Congress did not increase. That Dclamater trial amounts to a noti fication to some of the Eastern Napoleons of finance that they have got something to . learn on the possibilities of wind banking. Secretary Rusk has ordered the dis continuance of Forecaster Dunn's weather predictions in New York. If he will servo the same doso to the forecaster who called tho blizzard of Friday "a slight cold wave," the day before it arrived, Tie will effect a positive Improvement in the efficiency of his bureau of .Republican weather. A crrr auditing committee would not be a bad thing; but the immediate need is an appropriation ordtnanco reported in time for an expression of public opinion on it. Ben Butler's repudiation of silver be cause it has 75 per cent of actual valuo to it, and he wants nothing but the puie fiat qual ity la his currency, Ehows that the desire of the only and original Benjamin for the sup poitof the soft money people Is as lively as over. At last the prophets of a hard winter are beginning to believe that tho time will ar rive wh en their prophotlo insight will attain to vindication. Decided testimony as to the value of that underground electric railway in Lon don is afforded by the fact that another is to bo constructed in the same city at once. The evidence of patronago and extension is the most indisputable that can be given. TnE backbone of winter still displays a full degroe of stamina. It is interesting to notice that although the withdrawal of Blaine is generally esti mated to leave Harrison far in tho lead it does not prevent tho erection of aspiring lightning rods by the statesmen of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio. FAVORITES OF FAME. Senator Cullom is said to resemble Abraham Lincoln. There is a spider named after Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia. Secretary Foster denies the story that he contemplates going to Europe in the near future. It has been said that Queen Victoria is tho only person now living who know Sir Walter Scott personally. ' Monsionor Gilbert, who mayspoisibly succeed Cat dlnal Manning, is much esteemed by the English preachers. ' , Ex-President Cleveland and several others will go duck hunting on H. M. Flagler's yacht Onolta next week. The yacht is now at Wilmington, N. C. Messrs. Ewing & Gage will extend in vitations to tho foreign Ministers resident in Washington to visit Chicago at the same time with members of Congress. Tnn German Kaiser recently surprised his cooks and scullions by invading the im perial kitchen without notice. He was escorted, of conrso, by the steward of the household. Mlle. Helena Varcoresco has de cided not to enter a convent, but will be wedded next May to one of tne Cantacuzene family. This young lady a few months ago was ready to undergo anything for tbe Rou manian Crown Princo. MEXICO WILL BE THEBB. Preparations for Making a Big Exhibit at the World's Tair. Washisgtos, Fob. 13 Tho World's Colum bian Exposition has established an office in tho City of Mexico for the promotion of the 'woikof interesting the people of that Re public in tho fair.and Mr.u.CPayne.tho spe cial commissioner In charge of it, reports a growing Interest on the subject. Senator Miguel Sorrano, who was appointed by tho Mexican Government as n special represen tatlvc to visit Chicago on Its behalf, has just returned and presented n report which sur prised oven tlie most sanguine friends of tho fair by its enthusiasm, and its evident ap preciation of the immense amount of work already accomplished. His icport wns delivered at the first meet ing of tho Mexican. Commissioners and ex cited much interest, Tho commission has organized and will vlgnrouslv pnsh the work of preparation. Tho Government will also issue a bulletin from time to time in tho Interest of the fair, of which the first num ber has been sent out. A large edition Mill be distributed all over Mexico. AN AMEBICAH LADY ABE0AD Highly Complimented by an Appearance Before a Learned Hody of People. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCn. Eoxdox, Feb. 13. Mrs. French Sholdon, the American lady who recently made a tour of exploration in Central Africa, sails to-morrow for New Tork on tho Aller to make arrangements for simultaneous publi cation of her book in England and Amorica. Mrs. Sheldon, who a month ago delivered n lecture on her travels berore the Anthropo logical Institute, lias been invited to give a special nddies before a select counoil, to appear in tlie journal ot tho institute, in ad dition to the first lecture, which is a high compliment, since the AnthrOpologtcals are a very learned and dignified body. Mrs. Sheldon takes her great collection of African curios, which has beon on exhibi tion at the institute, with her to America. ST. VALENTINE'S DAT. "Valentines for the young, valenUnes for the. old," Is the unique sign of a merchant bold, In a tittle store on a qaiet street Away from the tramp of hurrying feet. As I gaie In the window at the varied display, I wonder if any will come ray way. The bachelor uncle, the maiden aunt. The rich man's daughter, the fair debutante, -Something j ou'U find for one and all. From the mUtrcss down to the servant1 hall. There's the Talcntlnc edged with dainty lace In each school girl's collection It has a place Containing a sentiment about eyes of -blue. And hoping their owner is faithful and true. There's the valentine painted on stlk or satin. With Cupid's crest and motto in Latin. .Inside, a heart of roe-colored hue. Pierced by an arrow some artist drew. Inclosed In a box and done up with care. This Is addressed to 'Xp lad j c falre. ' ' Ahl ten years hence, and this Valentine's Day Will hare passed from your memory quite away; Unless, peixhance, jou backward turn. To the smouldering ashes In friendship's urn; And. for the saie of the past, try and tan to a flame Tlie first dream or love thao'er you came. And your eyes may be fall of unshed tears, As through the mist of forgotten ears. You see again your Ideal, now dt&d. Whose ephemeral beauties shed A halo of romance arouud tlie shrlns Where Cupid laid his Valentine. Philadelphia Public Lcdccr. , LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS. The Senate Decidedly In Favor of Generous Appropriations Tor Waterways Freo Silver Mon Get Over 100 Signatures to Their Scheme Territorial Door-Knock- cr Heard. m Washisotox, D. C, Feb. 13 After hearing fiom engineer officers of the Government and delegations appointed to lay the matter before Congress, the Senate Committee on Commerce has decided to recommend the adoption of a most liberal policy for the im provement of the great internal watorway furnished by tho Mississippi river. Various propositions connected with tho improve ment ot tlit river wore before the commit tee, but after a thorough consideration of the subject it was decided that the bill re cently Introduced by Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, was better adapted to secure sat isfactory tcsults than any other. The feat- uie of this measure is the division of the responsibility lor the work of improvement between the chief engineers nnd the Missis sippi river commission. Tho original bill proposed an appropriation of ?16,OC0,CO0 to carry ont its purposes, but the committee reduced this sum to $15,000,000, and made a fow changes In tho ether re spects, to make the bill conform to this re duction. As it will be reported to the Sen ate tho bill makes nn appropriation of 315, 000,000 for the improvement of the Missis sippi river, where of $10 003,010 shall bo ex pended under tho directions of tho Secretary of War, in aceni dance with such plans of the MUsissippi River Commission as may be approved by the chief of engineers to build, repair and extend the levees.dvkesandother works on the river from tho Passes to the mouth of the Ohio, and for tho payment or salaries and expenses of the commission. There is a proviso that not more than $2,000, 000 of this appropriation shall bo .expended in any one year; that It shall not be ox pended longer than the State and local an- th11f f (ao AAnflnnn tliafti m noanf inn Fl Itui- tlons for levee lmpvovemeiits.and that none oi tne money snau De used ror tne purcnase of sites for levees orpaymontof damages for their construction. L Tho second soetion of the bill provides tnat 5.ono,coo or the total appionriition or $15,000,000 shall be expended bv the Secro taiy of Win- on the same section of tho river, in accordance with the plans or tho chief of enciiieera. the yearly allotment not to exceed $1,000,000. The bill, as will bo noted, commits Congress to the levee sys tem of river improvements. It was adopted by the unanimous vote of tho committee, and was reported to the Senate by Senator Gibson, its author. The committee also authorized Senator Dolph to report favor ably his bill nppioprlatlug $1,750,000 for the completion of the work of impiovemont at the Cascades on the Columbia river, Ore., with a proviso that not more than one-third or the appropriation shall be expended in anyone way. The silver men have secured about 120 names to their petition asking that tbe sil ver bill be madea special order in tho House. There are a large number of members absent from the House, and for this reason there are many to whom the petition has not yet been presented. Noire but Democrats who, it is believed, will vote for freo coinage are being asked to sign. About 15 of those to whom tho petition has been handed have de clined to sign on one ground or another. Some have said they thought it was giving undue prominence to the silver issue and making it paramount to tho tariff question, and others that they thought it might em barrass tho Speaker. The silver men say that notwithstanding statements to the contrary, they are confident of their ability to securo consideration for the bill. They aro deteimlned td put every man in tho House on record on the question. With this object, if any disposition should be made apparent to prevent a vote on the bill, they will move its passage under a suspension of the rules when on opportunity offers. This, however, will not bo attempted excopt as a last resort. There is a sentiment among many members of tho House, including some unqnestioned free coinage men, in fa vor of an early teport of the tariff bills from tho Ways and Moans Committee, and of keeping them before tho country, so as to prevent giving unano prominence to tuo silver question. It is not tlielr purpose, they state, to antagonize Ifcilver, but to have the tarifi bills on the calendar, so that they can also be made ns special order about the same time as tho sliver bill, the latter, of course, to have tho right of way as the prior measure in the order of report to the House. The Senate Committee on Territories this morning gave another hearing to a delega tion from Utah in favor or the Senata bill t6 give Utah the right of self-government such as other Territories have. The arguments to-day were devoted to a reheaisal of what the speakers' asserted to be the mismanage ment of tho affairs of theTeiritory by Its omcials; the Illegal use of the powers vested in tbe judiciary; the corrupt methods practiced in local eleotions, and tho neglect of tho Utah commission to properly super vise them; the improper oxeicisoof the veto power by the Governor, and the bad govern ment generally to which tho people wero subfected and from which they asked relief by Congress. C. C Richardsn lawyer of Ogden, spoke of tbe election laws In the Territory and the methods pursued in. con ducting elections ho said that under th.e present the Utah Commission is not re sponsible to tho people in any way. Mr. Richards accused the commission of ap pointing poisons of doubtful respectability as registers and judges of eleotions, which resulted in the perpetuation of the boldest frauds. At this point Senator Davis said: "Do you mean by that that Senator Ramsey and Paddock have been engaged In that sore of work?" "We do, most decidedly," said Mr. Richards. The House Committee on Agriculture waited a half Hour to-day for President Lavouisse, of the New Orleans Cotton Ex change, to put in an appearance, and then adjourned the anti-option hearing until Mon day morning. Vice President Goss, of the Cotton Exchauge.-whilo the committco was waiting said the exchange had soma tlmo ago received requests from the Wool Grow ers' Association of Texas, asking the ex change to deal in wool the eamo as it did in cotton. Thoiequest said the wool growers were In the hands of a few men and wanted wool 'Tutures" dealt in on tho exchange so as to give them a wider market. He men tioned this as another Indication of tho ad vantages of thp system of dealing in futures and as an evidenre also that the pioducers wero hot. all or them at all event-), clamoring for the abolition of tho systom or "futures"" on tho theory that It is detrimental to them. Cbaiiman Hatch asked if wools were not always sold bv sample, and If thcie was not a very wiae difference between tho quality and value of wools. Mr. Goss said he knew nothing of tho wool business, but that he supposed the difference wna not much gi eater than in cot ton. All contracts were on tho basis of mid dling, nnd yet there wero three gradesof low middling, middling, ordinary to fair, and othef grades. Mr. Hatch taid theio were no such distinctive grades in wool. Representative Long, of Texas, asked ir the request was Trom individual sheep men or fiomnn association. He did not think an association had boon organized, though at tempts had been made to form an organlaa. tlon. Mr. Goss said he wonld produce the I eqnest. He had not charged his mind w ith tho matter. Ho recollected it while waiting on tho committee, and thought he would call attention to tne request. The Canadian reciprocity commissioners, accompanied ly Secretaries Blaine and Elkins and Sir Julian Pauncefote, called at the Vhlto House to-day, and were formally presented to the President. They met at Secretary Blaine's house at 11 o'clock, and their call lasted about half ah hour. The visit was merely for the purposo of paying respects, and there was no discussion of the essential question under consideration. At the close of yesterday's meeting at the State Department it was decided to hold the next session Monday, when negotiations will be continued. There is no means or ascertain ing at piesent how much longer the confer ence will be continued. It is understood that Secretary Blalno has elicited the met that tho commlesioners Jrotn Canada have in reality no pow er to conclude any recipro cal trade arrangement-at piesent, and on that basis ho intimated that n further pio lnngation of the discussion of tim quei tlon at this time would be uselesb, a tho gionnd that may bo -covered in tne-ie preliminary discussions would have to bo gone over again should Canada ever send a commission empoweied to bind the Govern ment ton. treaty. It is further uuuuiatood that Sir Julian Paunceforto, lu reply to the queries put by Secretary Blaine, admitted tne absenco of uny.ilnal negotiating power onthopattot the present commission, but added that it was expected Loid Salisbury ould consider favorably any request mtn in the bounds of reason thacthe commissioners might make of the home Government. It Is rumored that the adjournment until Mon day wai takon In order that tho Cablet might be utilized toward obtaining from (ho l.ov ornmeui at London some ofliclai expiesslon giving ihe-presenpnegotiatiuns the color of authority. At- all events it would appear from that adjournment that the proceedings were not quite closed yet. Tiie "United States Consul General at Ber- Hn recently inquired, at the instance of the Imperial German Commissioner, whether the provision of the tariff act "that any brandy or other spirituous liquors imported In cases of less capacity than It gallons shall be forfeited to tho United States," will be enforced in the en so of goods imported for exhibition nt tho World's Columbian Expo sition. In reply thereto Acting Secretary Spaulding has in formed the Secretary of State thnt the bona fide importation of any articles intended for such exhibition will bo governed solely by the regulations pro scribed under the special authority of Con gress In providing, for the Exposition, and that said regulations contain no restriction ns to the capacity of casks of liquors desig nated by proper labels and marked "Ex hibits for Columbian Exposition." He ex plained that tbe limitation of quantity re lerred to is understood tobe a precautionary measure ngalnst possible smuggling of liquors in small pneknges, and that such measures would be obviously superfluous in the case of packages expressly marked nnd entered as exhibits. The House Committee on Territories to day heard an argument .by Horace Speed, District Attorney of OkUhonia, in favor of tho Harvey bill for tho admission of Okla homa and tho Indian Territory as one State. He contended thnt there was in the territory an open recognized hostility to tho United States, which manifested Itself in several ways, and ha started to road from a news paper extracts on the subject. Mr. Kilgore, or Texas, asked if he would read flora tbe New Testament or n newspaper. Mr. Speed lepllod: "A newspaper, which politicians read more than the New Testament, and with which they are mnch more familiar." He then read the extracr, which gave a charge by Judge Parker, at Fort Smith, to a jury, to the effect that hostility to United States deputy marshals in tho Indian Ter ritoiy was notorious. FLIGHT OF A UIHIBXEB. Ho Didn't Have Money Enough to Pay for His Marriage License. Xovisvtlle, Kv., Feb. 13. Tho Rev. John Mitchell, pastor of a Baptist church at War saw, Ky., had a rather embarrassing experi ence yesterday afternoon in his effort to ob tain a marriage license. For some time ho had been courtinrr.Mallnda Williams, who lives near Watson, Ind., and ho had finally induced her to name tho day for their mar riage. It was set for yesterday, and the event was to bo celebrated at tho Watson Baptist Church. When the groom-elect applied for a license nt Jcffersonvllle lie was mortified to find himself short of funds. County Clerk Low man would not listen to a plea lor credit, but a kind-hearted witness or the affair came to the assistance of the embarrassed preacher by suggesting that -a collection be taken up. This wns accordingly done, the "county of ficials themselves contributing, Aftor tho lictnso had been paid for, tho minister le marked that "when he got a license the other three times ho was married he didn't have no such tionble." He left the Court House almost on a run, fearing he would de lay the important ceremony which was set to take place five miles in the country. He was only two hours late. TWO BIETHDATS IN ONE YXAB. The New German Minister to Washington Tells of an Odd Coincidence. Chicago, Feb, 13. Baron Von Helleben, for the past six years ambassador from the Ger man Empire to Japan, was at the Richelieu to-day, leaving in the evening for New York. The Baron is en route from Tokio to Wash ington, whero he succeeds tho late Count Arco-Valley as Minister to' the United States. During the day he was the guest of Dr. Carl bunz, the German Consul nt Chicago, and visited the grounds or tbe World's Fair and other points of interest. In conversation he said: "It wonld have been a pleasure conld I have leached the United States in time to join in the celebration of the birthday of tho Emperor, who has many foimer subjects In tho United States, and has, as wil, many warm admirers, I am told, among your own people. As It was, I passed it on the ocean, but I said nothing of tho anniversary lest I be called' upon to make a speech. By an odd coincidence we were upon tbe ISOth meridan that very dav, so that thero were two 27ths of January with us, and, of course, I conld not assume to say widen was the birthday of tho Emperor." Only the Echoes Answer. 'Toledo Blade. J What has bocome of Garzat DEATHS HERE AXD ELSEWHERE. Editor James C. Brown. Hon. James C. Brown, editor of the New Wilmington Globe, died at his home in that place Friday night, aged ez years. Mr. Brown had been confined to his house for about ten days with the grip, but no fatal termination was expected until j esterdav evening, when heart failure set in. He was ever a stanch Republican, ana one of the most prominent public men In his part of the State. In isvt he was elected the first Superintendent of Public Schools of Mercer countv. In lftfl he was elected to the Leglslatnre, and re elected next term. In last he was sent to the State Senate, and In 1873 ho was ap pointed Collector of Internal Revenue for his dis trict, and held that position for nine years. Ills name was on the Slate ticket last a ear as one of the delegates-at-large to the Constitutional Con vention, and he was promlncntlv mentioned then for Congress. He was connected with the press of Greeni file from JS53 until a few years in wheu he sold out his Interest In the Admnce-Arovs. A short time since he pnrchased ah Interest In the New Wilmington Ghbe, of which be was an editor at the time of his death. Count Von Blucher. Count Von Blucher is dead in New York. His sensational marriage last July, la Milwaukee, to Miss Alma Loeb, of Brooklyn, bis practical dis inheritance by his princelv father In conseqnenrc, and the young man's Indecision as to what he should do about It all. gav.c Mm much notoriety. Father Geyersars that the Count asserted on his deathbed that the marriatro was a trick, and that, both at the request of the dying Count and his ratner, precautions were taken wnicn snouia pre clude any polble claim on the ancestral estates by the American Countess. Squire T. M. Sholes. T. M. Sholes, Justice of ther Peace of Glcnflcld borough, died Friday afternoon from the grip, aged 64 years. About a year ago his nlfe died, and sorrowing for her was partly the cane of his death. He leaves a son, J. A. Sholes, and four daughters. 'Squire Sholes has lived lnGlen neld borough for 21 j ears forcnerlv being a mer chant In Alleghenr. lie has been justice of tne peace for nine years, and held various public offi ces everslnce the borough was formed. Ills re malus will be brought to Pittsburg to-morrow afternoon and burled n the Bellevnc Cemetery. Two Pennsylvania Centenarians. John Dunlap died nt Connellsville Wednesday. He was born in County Galway, Ire land, February 22, 1737. Iackl ng a few days of being ins years old. iamuel Wlldrlck. of Pocon town ship, Monroe county, died at the age or 101 years. The deceased was married three times, and was the father or S3 children. Obituary Notes. JonN Rcxxeli.. aged 7 rears, one of the lead ing men nf Southern Pennsylvania, died at Jlld dlLburg, Friday evening. Judge Jonx KK5IP Goodloe. a leading member of the Louisville bar, died at ThompsonUlIe, Ga., yestirday morning. He was born lu 1822. Elder Bades, the great Shaker, died yesterday In Logan county. Ky. He was probably the great est man ofhls sect in the United States. He was 73 years ot age. James S. Biass, ev-Strret Commissioner of Steubenvllle. and ex-Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Tythlas, of Ohio, died yesterday morn ing of consumption. He was 43 years old. IsnAFL JACKSOV. colored, died at the town almshouse in Danburr. Conn., Thursday, aged something over ICO jears. Jackson's claim to dis tinction was that he was a son-ln-liw ot Prince Cornell, the personal body servant of Ucorge Washington. Ilov. Horace B. SnernEnn, aged B3 years. died Friday at his home In Vlnecnues, Ind. He was an Influential citizen and had filled many of fices of trust. In IS4S lie was County Treasnrer. In J819 member or the Legislature, and fn 1833 Col It ctor or Internal Revenue under President Lin coln. ' LIEGTENAXT COLOXEU HERBERT CCLLOU CCR- tis. Deputy Judge Advocate General of tho United States Army, and Judge Advocate on General Mer ritt's staff. Department of Dakota, died In St. Paul Friday night or the grip. Co.onc! Curtis sened through tho war as captain in tho First Massachu setts cavalrj . KEV. DovAtD FnAZiEir, M. A.. D. D.. died yes terday In London. For the past 20 years he toot an active part In the Presbyterian Church or Up land, and was twice Moderator of the Synod. Ho wns Vice President of the British and Foreign Bible Society and as prominently connected lth many missions and chaltles. COLOXEt, Peter It. AlLABACn, a hero of the Mexican War and or the War of the Rebellion, died In Washington Thursday night. Colonel Aliabach had been Chief or the United Stales Capital Police for 14 years. Ho commanded a brigade of Pennsylvania troops In General Hum phrey's division during a portion of the war, and was a bravo and gallant officer. TilOlIAS TEnRY HcT. Mi A.. LL. D., hon-o-ary professor or. Laval University, member of the National Academy or Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society of London, ex-President or tho American Association l'or the Advancement of science, of the American Institute otMlMng En gineers and the American Chemical Society, tf tlcerof the French Legion or Honor anil or the Italian order nf Ht. Mauritius and St. Lazaroa, dtedlnNewlo,k Friday or mitral disease f the heart.- Ho was a well-known chemist. GOSSIP OF A BIG TOWN. Electrocution Is a Failure and the Law Will Be Repealed A Guillotining in Paris Tho Hotel Royal Firo Tho French Ball. fWMTTES vob Tni DisrATcn.i "We are a pretty fine human race, com paratively speaking. We have pntHlo schools, philanthropists, poets, home3 for the aged and other improvements. But once in a. while we find it necessary to kill a follow creature. Just as we did when wo lived in caves, and with long red hair down our backs ran into icy pools to escape tho mastodon that had turned on ns. Itlsposslblo that we may finally give up killing entirely, substituting for tbe death penalty generous treatment of the poor, unlVersal education nnd some sort of inter ference with the breeding of criminals. When that time comes these days of Judicial killings will be looked npon with tho aston ishment and aesiro for preciso information which mark our contemplation of the old days of torture. I am able to supply such information to tbe unborn future and to the living present. I have seen men banged and guillotined, and on Monday I witnessed tho application of tho death penalty by elec tricity, that Btric'tly fin do sieclo perform ance by which earnest reformers, eager to do good, have succeeded so admirably in emphasizing the brutality of the times. .The Gnlllotine Is Plcturesqne. It is not proposed to inflict on sensitive readers harrowing descriptions of legal kill ings, bnt to tomparo briefly the threo sys tems that mark the highest types Of civiliza tion at present. Tho most picturesque and satisfactory to spectator? and criminals Is undoubtedly the guillotining or the French. In 1S83, on the Place do la Roquette in Paris, Prndo, who mm dered Marie Auguettant, was guillotined according to law. Just at sunrise. Tho execution wns public, except for the fact that tbe enormous crowd that bad gathered during the liU'ht was prevented from seeing anything bv the mass Of muni cipal guards and policemen. The prisoner, a short, broad-shonldered, bull-necked man with nlow forehead walked out cursing the priests on either side of him and snarling nt Detbler. the bearded execu .tvjt.t;,, nuu iitiiiJt.it uiuu, ill nuiiv. v iuv u. French reporters took cigarettes from their tioner, who limped along in front. A lot of mouths and raised their preposterous flat brimmed top hats as thoy do when they pass a funeral procession. Shadowy forms In night dresses appeared in the windows of far-off apartment honsos. Appropriate maledictions wero hurled by women belong ing to the class whence Prado had chosen his victim. All Over In a Twinkling. A swift movement of Deibler's skilled hands tilted the prisoner against the fatal plank. It fell into position, the shutting blade, with 120 pounds of Iron above it, dropped fiom the height of the guillotine 'posts, and it wns all over before thoinex perlenced spectators had rairly prepared themsolves for tho shock. In less than 30 seconds after he passed the door of the Ro quette Prado's corpse in a hospital wairon was speeding over tho smooth pavement, his head in one basket and his body in an other. Hanging everybody knows all about. It recommended Itself to the practical English because it was cheap and disgraceful. Dogs and sheep stealers were hanged, ladies and gentlemen were beheaded, witches burned, prisoners boiled. A growing Democratic feeling simplified the bill of fare until every one was banged. It is a brutal thing, but murder 'is brntai, and so is .the death penalty. Neither ap proaches in brutality the so-called humane death by electricity. Monday a number of educated men, doctors and electricians, em ployed for tho occasion as executioners, operated on a human being with mnch less precision and humanity than Is usually shown in the vivisection of a rabbit. The rabbit at least is often rendered uncon scious in advance. The man was not. The First Current Didn't Kill. At first they decided that they would send the current through the murderer's hands under the impression that it would reach the heart more quicker in that way. They put his hands in salt water and turned on the current. It lasted for SO seconds which means that an alternating current of 1,600 volts wont into tho man's body at the rato of 800 shocks a second, 40,000 shocks in all. When the current was interrupted tho physicians began fumbllnz at the man's neck to see if he was dead. In the midst of that operation the man's breast heaved, and groans issued from his breast. It was onlv the air in the lungs, the doc tors said, but thev announced, nevertheless, that the contact by the hands wis a failure, and the current was again applied, this time to the head and the calf of tuelcg. The sec ond application killed tne criminal. The first had not killed him. To see such men as wero there engaged in the experimental killing of a man was suffi ciently revolting in itself without consider ing tho criminal at all. Had a Saltan of Morocco procured a dynamo and experi mented on one ofhls prisoners in just such n way it would have aroused among us the most intense Indignation. The act of a Leg islature, urged on by well-meaning reform ers, has caused ns to adopt as law it practice that would disgrace a lot of savages. Educated Hangmen Indispensable. ' Even assuming that men succeed ulti mately in producing an electrical killing machine that shall annihilate its victim as does a lightning stroke, an electrician and a physician will always be required, not only to testify to the proper execution of tho law, but to do the actual work that has been taken away from the hangman. It would be out of tho question to turn even a mur derer over to tho tender mercies ot a prison warden and his turnkey, ignorant ot elec tricity. Therefore the law depends on the constant willingness of some self-respecting man to perform the tunctions or a Jaok Ketch. After tho scientific; interest shall have worn off the impossibility of finding an edncated executioner may save some mur derer's llfe'and bring about the repeal of the electrical experimental killing law. Iu addition to the first electric killing made public ew iorkers nave had much to talk about this week; the Hotel Ro al fire, tho usual French ball' an excited stock mar ket and their own interesting selves. Dark Secrets of n. Big Fire. The Hotel Boyal fire is without prece dent in Xew York. It has caused more do mestic unhappiiiess than any event in tho memory of New York men. The character of the hotel was notorious, and tho strange scene was presented of a man finding his mangled wife in the hospital, leaving her there witn curses unu or relative oi miss ing women eager that the search for bodies should stop and the dead be left in the ruin. The number of dead sis undoubt edly tremendously exaggerated, as those who escaped lmme'diately ran away, eager ,tohlde.thefact that they had been in the building. Endless romances have been concoct&l and are now told wherever men find listen ers. One, probably an invention, tells how a nremnn removeu nis own uisioyai wiie from the top floor, forgavo her on tho wny down tho ladder, etc. It is a good idea, worth room in a novel, but probably not more interesting than many true tales con nected with the fire that will never be told. An element of comedy which is .never lack ing was furnished by a young man who es caped tram the fire in an undershirt, ar rived at a friend's honse In a cab, wrapped like n simple Indian in a horse blanLet, and begging for slippers and clothes, Tho Usual Drunken Ball. The French ball was the usual thing a drunken flglitln-j proof that wo are very different from the French, and don't know how to nmuso ouiselves quietly. It is a tire some annual function for nil but very young or old fools and tbough doubtless profitable seems hardly worthy of the flue French Harmony Society, which is responsible rot-it. Tho stock market bus been verv active owing to the intelligence or Reading men who nave arrived at a combination to in crease tho price of coal and of Reading stock--a line thing lor the rich, who can have R-ading, not quite so fine for tho poor who must have coal. A forthcoming show in this city will be a nero cnke-walk at the Madison Square Gar dun. It is probable, and it Is to be hoped that the attempt to umuso one class or citi zens by holding anothor class up to ridicule will move a flat, failure, Aktucii Brisbane. New ioitir, February IS. WORMS IN THE SHOW. Myriads or Bright Red Wrigglers Come Down In it Storm. North Adams', Mass., Feb. 13. W. A. nop kins, or Btackinton, whilo walking in tho woods nbove the town yesterday, lonnd tho snow filled with myriads of small scarlet worms. Sevornl acres were covered with them, nnd they, wero so numerous that they gave the snow a crimson tinge. Ilookins brought several or the worms to this town. They wero about thrcc-alglitns or an inch long and as brilliant In color as cochineal. The worms were found after a brlsk-snow squall. , CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS.' There are about 700,000 houses in llon-v i j don which on cold days consume 40,000 tons of coal, emitting 480 tons of sulphur. Sake drinking is one of the great curses of Japan. In. 3879 tho amonrtt ot rice con- , verted into sako amounted to 15,000,000 "bushels. v Over 300,000 orange trees are t said to have been planted in Mexico last year by Californlans. The oranges grown In Mexico are excellent. Bed Bluff, CaL, has a 13-year-old girl who is an expert with an ax: Tor three weeks at a time sne has been known to cut and cord a tier of wood a day. Of Waterloo veterans France has eicht left. There are two who toolc part In the retreat from Moscow; nnd altogether there are now living 18 or 20 of Xapoleon's vet erans, of whom several are centenarians. The fishhook of 30 centuries back was precisely similar in every respect to the fish hooks of to-day, save only in the metal em ployed, which then was bronze is now Is steel. The Dead Sea loses every day by evap oration several million tons of water. This enormous mass Is easily drawn up by the rays of the sun, the valley wherein the sea lies being one of the hottest points upon the " globe. New England and provincial fishermen have been puzzled to know what has be come of the young mackerel of 1S87 and 18S3, as none of them returned to North Bay in. 18S0 to 1S91. and there have been no tidings of them elsewhere. Along the Spitzbergen coast coal has been found in layers abont a yard and a half thick. The curlpus discovery was made at King's Eav or the grave or a Dutch sailor, with the date 1741 as clearly written as If made the day before. If the motion of the earth were sud denly arrested, the temperature produced would besufficlenttomeltandeven volatilize it; while, ir It fell into the sun as much heat would be produced as reults from the com bustion of 6,000 spheres of carbon the size of her globe. Time-sense is very highly developed in domestic fowls and many wild birds, as well , as in dogs, horses and other mammals.which Keen nn accurate account of days of tho ' week and hours of the day, and have, at least, a limited idea of numerical succession and logical sequence The Fans are the only people in equa torial Africa who have a currency, and they are strong monometalllsts. The money is 'or -iron, wrought Into pieces reiemblinjr rusty hnirpins with flat heads." They are put np in bundle? of ten, and a hundred bundles is the market price of a wife. Well informed lumbermen declare that there is more timber in the forests of 3faine to-day then there was ton years ago because care has been exercised In the felling of trees during recent years. Only good-sized trees are cnt nowndavs, the smaller being allowed to stand until they attain a proper growth. In 1890 the only States that produced more; than l.OCO.000 pounds of paper dally were New York, Massachusetts, Pennsyl vania nnd Ohio, but In 1S0O two more States. Maine and Wisconsin, were' added to the lit. The dally production, in New York in Wl was 3,220,250 pounds, a gain or 319,100 pounds over the previous year. In the two Methodist Cc-nferences of Maine last year 73 churches, with $271,850 worth of property and paying salaries aggre gating $30,779, gave $1,503 to chnrch benevo lences and $195 forthe support of superannu ated pastors, whilo the 23,544 Methodists in the State contributed for the support of vet eran ministers the sum of $2,704 a fraction, over 11 cents each. Last summer a German named Cremer, who made a journey to Spitzbergen. discov ered thick beds of coal there and at Bear Island, nis trip lasted only six weeks, but ' it was long enough for Cremer to ascertain that coal mining is quite possible there, al though, perhaps, owing to the climate, not 'nlways in a regular manner. The thickest Deus or coal are on the east coast of Bear Island, and are about 500 feet thick. Boosters and hens among .the Bucuy enno tribe of Indian", in the western part of French Guinea, aro perfectly white. Not a. colored feather can be fonnd among them. The nativos have no tradition of a tlmo ' when their nncestors had fowls of other color", bnt tho white chicken? are probably y explained by tho fact tbatwhito feathers are tho choicest ornaments among this peo- pie, and they will not wear feathers of any other color. In Geneva connty, Ala., a jury by its verdict settled the value of kisses. A yonng fellow named William Horton was indicted for assault and battery on Miss Sallie Jones. The testimony of tho young woman was that Horton had kissed her against her will. Horton testified that the kis was with Miss Sal lie's free will and consent, and that he had kissed her 150 times before. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and assessed a. fine of $150. In any country where Arabs are num erous you will sco tho word "Faraun" here nnd thero on tho maps. Thns tho name ' Quar-el-Faraun" is found in Arabia and in Morocco. Faraun is another way of spelling Pharoah, by which name tho Arabs understand somo great prince who ha" built important works like the pyramids, which they believe to bo beyond the power of merely human skill and to bo partly tho re sult of superhuman agency. The Parthians and 3Iedes entertained the notion that persons devoured by wild animals wonld not bo entirely dead, but would enjoy at least a partial sort of life in the creatures whicli nte them. Probably it was for this reason that the Bactrians and Hircanians trained dog" for the same pur pose, called "sepulchral dogs," which re ceived tho greatest care nnd attention, be cause it was deemed proper that the soultof the deceased should have strong and healthy , frames to dwell In. Stockton, CaL, has a sensation just now in tho person of a young street preacher . who is well dressed, apparently an educated , man and a good Bible student and theo logian, who preaches and prays on tbe streets in the evening, induces his hearers to adjourn to one of the churches, where) revival meetings aro being held, while ho hlmsplf repairs to the saloons of tho town, gets drunk, and conducts himself In every way like a depraved man. He is thought to be insane, as such depths of hypocrisy seem incompatible with any but an unbalanced mind. ' LIGHT HUMOBESQUES. I ' r Mr. Billus Maria, I think yon lavish al together too much time and attention on that poodle. Mrs. Billus Poor little fellow I I feel so sorry for htm. John! You know ho hasn't any elnb where he can go and spend three or four hours every evening. C'Afcnjo TrfAune. ' Said Knowital, who was perusing An Item which he found amusing, ' A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. The wisest men it drives away Doll care that on the spirits pray . A little non'ense now and then Isrellshedbythewlsestmen. - - nm t That's the reason." added he, "A little nonsense pleases me." Mta For Press. Goodman Smith "Why not come to chnrch. Brown? You would hear a splendid ser mon. ' Baddon Brown My dear boy, I heard one when I I came home at 2 o'clock this morning and I can't I, stand another to-day. Smtt h. Gray .' Weekly. f; Featherstone Do you believe in ghosts? -c Travers Well, for years I have been Uvlnglna hannted house, Featherstone Too don't tell me? Who Is tt haunted by? Travers By my tailor. clothier and Fumishtr. The weather s so uncertain here, The rich man soon wilt skim To find the needed atmosphere According to his wblm. The Ross will seek a North Woods lake. Where Zero's zephyrs roam. To freeze his ears and nose, and make Him feel that he 's at home. Pitck. , Dooley (with the paper): The people in a town out West have tent their governor aped tlon a mile and a half In length. Duffy. Pooh! that's notbing-you ousrht to see my wife's shopping lists. PaictucletSeics. -Have yon learned much German, Tommy, with your new governess?" "No; but tne rrauleln's4earned lots ofZngllgh." Harpers' Bazar. She married a poet, i And proudly 1 say, ( As her pa' worth a million, , She has three meals a day. . SLTC.UtnOA., Mrs. Lovey, How much money, dotyou waste on your elgars. Charlie? Mr.iovey. 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