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WORLD'S FAIR CITY.
Becent Astronomical Phenomena ana Possi
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CA3IHXE FLUI3IARIOA.
A liesame of Opinion Anion? the Educated
Russian Classes
OX THE RE IT TAJIIXE.
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VENICE AND VIENNA.
I5y "Wntat Dalstead.
THE AMEBIC IN" CLAIMANT,
By 3Iark Twain.
ECONOMY IN COOKING,
By fcainrd Atkinson.
WASHINGTON'S BIKTIin Y,
I5j Robert J. Burdctte.
3IR. IHKHI-ON'S KUCI.PTION,
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keso cr.ee or cecclai,
By r.nnnie B. 'Ward.
NEW FINDS IN-AbTRONOVIY,
By 12. S. Holden.
IN BUDDHIST TEMPLE,
Bj Lafcadio Hcarn.
A correspondent's visit to the office of
Stockholia's sensational phjsician who
cures dipsomania, kleptoaiania and or
.dinary d-scascs by bypnoti-.ni. Bomantic
upland downs of Scnito' Felton. An illus
trated Hiticle on mipi ov c-d steam engines.
Acrmmiby lle. George Hodges. Spring
iashions and other topic:- for w oaicn.
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1111. CANAL. IN --I .T1 IJI,I TIC'S.
AVill the improvement of our waterways
especially the building of a canal from the
lakes to tlie Ohio, be an issue 111 our State
politics this jcai' We rather think so.
Though the contest for President must
mahe the State sure for the Republicans,
there will be a tremendous struggle for
the Legislatuie. The United States Sena
torship is at stake, the fight tor it has
hegun. Xone of the ambitious aspirants
can afford to throw awaj poinK The
immense interests of Western Pennsjl
ania to he subserved by a ship canal will
he courted and patted upon the back from
all quarters.
But een aspiring politicians will not
long help those who do not care to heip
themsehes. If the people w ho are to he
benefited by the ship canal do not care to
see that candidates for the Legislature are
pledged to get State recognition and aid
for it, and further, to vend to the United
States Senate a man committed to the proj
ect, they cannot look for these things
?Cov is the time for the people to artmse
their energies and ci e the canal a boost
hy demanding that the approaching Re
publican State Convention clearly and ex
press! pledge the party to support the
canal construction. Don't forget this at
the county eon entions next month.
UNNECESSARY FILIBBSTERING.
The announcement from Washington
that the opponents of free coinage will re
sort to filibustering to prevent the passage
of the Bland hill indicates an unnecessary
waste of public time and monev.
The coinage issue might as well he set
tled by the ultimate appeal to the people
this iear as at anv other time. That can
only he done by drawing the issue so
clearly that it will be decided by the ver-
diet of the people. The promptest, clear- ,
est and most economical way of defining
tne issue is to let the bill pass the House,
which isa foregone conclusion, pass the
Senate, which is quite probable, and then
be vetoed b the President, which is a cer
tainty if it ever reaches him.
All the time spent in filibustering will
notadd an iota to the public knowledge of
the question. The only thing it can ac
complish is to give some tenderfooted
members of the House and Senate theS
hope of escaping the necessity to put
themselves on record.
a unique ornsn.
The unique ideas of law and justice
Which Still fin 1 lodgment m many minds I
are illustrated b the proposition reported
to have been made hy the lather ot the
Cooley hoys, who are still evading or defv-
mg arrest at the hands of the Fayette J
count Sheriff. It is that if a fair tnjl is
guaranteed the alleged outlaws they will
surrender. As a primary article in the
guarantee a new trial is demanded in one
case for which they aie already convicted.
Such a proposition indicates a remaik
ahlc ignorance that while a Sheriff cannot
give auy promise to those whom it is his
duty to arrest, the whole Sstem of Amer
ican law guarantees a fair trial to every
prisoner, no matter whether he surrenders
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himself or not. As to a new trial of a
ease already heard, it is even more remarK
ahlo to ask the officers of t!e law to
promise that; hut it is no less a matter
which inis-lit be taken as within the ranp;e
of common infoimation tbatthelawallows
it vshercver there is cood reason for it
When it is offered on behalf of the
Cooley pans; 'hat they will come in from
their mountain fastnesses and uive them
sclv e up on the promise of what the law
ali-eadj guarantees, we are permitted to
infer an lai.or.iiiie of the principles of
ju-t:cj which niaj .seive to explain the
irionth of outlawry.
AtUGUKNPs liSI'Ii
The resigrat'on of Mayor. Wyman was
the natural and easiest result of the dis
closures and -proceedings that hid pie
ceded it. It is a legitimate expectation
tiiat this recognition of the inevitable will
rendeiitless necftsaiy to apply severe
measures, than if the Xorthside iriunici
pahtj had been forced to deal with .a
Mav or w ho persisted in maintaining him
self in ofhVe after conviction of grave mis
demeanors The Mtil question for Allegheny citi
zens now is what sort of a 3Iaor shall he
chosen to fill the -tacrine. It has been
evident to every obciver that the source
of the scacdils of which this is the end
has been that the principle of selection
in Allegheny politics did not make high
charactci and good business ability a
necessary qualification for municipal of
fice The 3Iayoralty was rated too low.
Tins political vice cannot be abolished by
a single exposure. The universal partici
pation of the best citizen, the discarding
ol part lines 111 favoroi honest and char
acter as the isuue, and the constant ac
tmt of the reform element will all be
necessary to establish a radical and per
manent change.
The future of Allegheny's city govern
ment rests with her citizens. The good
result of the 'ate exposures will be to
stimulate the best elements of citizenship
into activit Under that stimulus it is
possible to hope for a new regime on the
Xorthside.
GOLD AND SILVER PECULATION.
Already there is talk in Wall street
about a gold premium, with premonitory
s mptorns of a tendency to speculate on
the fluctuations of that staple. Thisisan
indication that the gambling clement of
the financial center are ready to turn to
the amusement cf betting on and corner
ing gold, just as they now do with stocks',
oil 01 gram.
The Sew York Tribune warns Wall
street that gold gambling is not in order.
As a general declaration of principle this
would be about as effective as if it should
tell them that stock gambling is not in
order. The logic of it, how ever, is based
on the fact that there will be no gold pre
mium until free coinage is enacted, and
there cannot be free coinage while the
President holds the veto power. That
the gold premium will come 'if we ever
reach free coinage of the present silv er
dollar is recognized even by ilr. Bland.
That the speculators will at once com
mence betting on the rise and fall of the
go'd premium and follow by triug to
manipulate tlie market is be ond dispute
to those who lenow the nature of the
speculative mind
Nevertheless, we think those who look
for a rev lval of tlie gold speculation of a
generation ago will be disappointed. In
fact, 111 this respect the change will not be
very creat fiom the present one. The
gold premium, if it come, will represent
the market value of gold stated in silver,
except as the market is cornered; and
there is reason to believe that the stock
will he too large for the cornerers to
Inndle. The rise of the gold premium
will therefore represent the fall of our
silver currency, and the so-called gold
speculation will he really a speculation m
silver.
Although the speculation in silver,
mutato nomine, may he more general than
heretofore, it w.U not he a new thing.
Less than two v ears ago the attention of
the country was called to the fact that
sundry eminent Congressmen were specu
lating 111 silv er at about the same time
they weie legislatipg on it
rDUC TJON IN SELr-GOVrilNMENT.
The crisis which has led to the resigna
tion of tlie French Cabinet is a little diffi
cult for the average American to under
stand. It grew out of the lonu-standmg
problem in Europe of the relations of
Church and State. As the French Minis
tr held its majority in the Clipmber hy
a coalition of elements opposed on this
issue, its efforts to steer a middle course
necssanly resulted in disaster.
The complications of a question which
are so entirely exotic to our s stem will
hav e no such direct interest to the people
of this country as the indication that
twenh-two ears of republican govern
ment have taught the Freifch people to
take their political changes peaceably.
Time was wi'hm the memory of most
people when the resignation of a Cabinet
was epected to produce popular dis
orders, if not pctual revolution. Now,
while the politics of France cannot be
considered any nearer the ideal than our
own, Cabinets rise and fall, and the
French people take the change more
quietly than the English do a change of
Ministry and with much less noise than
attends a Congressional election m this
country.
This illustrates the educational effect of
representative government There is no
way in which a nation can learn to govern
itself more surely thau hy doing it.
WHrKK IV AS TRE PATRIOTISM?
In an article on "National Defense" the
New York Tribune quotes the Herald, of
flip finmfi ritv- to t.hp prTppf. thni if wo hnd
-rot into a war with Chile we. would hntro
navv without battleshins. and an armv
"maneuvred by old tactics and armed
with obsolete weapons." The Tribune
after indorsing this statement goes on to
sa that further weakness would have
been dev eloped as follow s:
Before an army could havo been trans
ported fiom California to Valpariso, a fleet
o" transports wonld have been required, and
owm; to tho decline of the American com
mercial marine the-e would not have been
available. No maritime nation can be con
sidered in a proper state of pieparation for
war, offensive or derensne, unless it has a
fleet of last merchant steaineis which can
De converted into an auxiliary navy. If
I hostilities had anscu Chile would haveeni-
p,3 cu l,,c .. V ""s .' us ""1'"'e as
states would have had no merchant vessels
on the Pacific scauoird equal to them loi
w2rpurpoes. If there should be a similar
cmersrency on the Atlantic side there would
be no merchant fleet under the American
flag available in a war with any European
maritime power If an army, moreov er, had
been sent to Chile and the Ameiican naval
resources had been concentrated in that
quarter for active operations and blockade
duty, the California coast would have been
delenseless, San Francisco exptsed to at
tack irom the most formidable Chilean war
ships, and Atlantic poi ts without adeauato
means of lesistmg long-rango fire ftomuch 4
uaitiesuips- as tne X'l-at.
Yet it is not a month since the organs of
the administration were denouncing the
,.-:- in. v. - - THE
3oubt that a war with Chile would be a
holiday excursion, and an intimahou that
it was not discreet to insist on war, when
we could have peace just as easily, "as un
Ameridau and unpatriotic" If it is Amer
ican to urge the nation into a war unnec
essary in its cause and likely to result in
disgrace to the national arms, that indict
ment is true. But it surely cannot be
more patriotic to urge such a disastrous
conflict than to advocate the course which
will avert it.
If the Tribune was not among the
organs which assailed the loalty of all
who lef used to swell the jingo howl for
war, we hav.e failed to observe in its
columns any reproof of its cotemporaries
for adopting that course. Mow that the
war cry is over, however, it permits itself
to state facts which prove that the hue
welfare of the country was regarded by
those who held that war is not an enter
prise to he lightly undertaken.
KfcsULTS OS FAMINE.
About a month ago the London Lancet,
in considering the Russian famine, sug
gested that the distress was likely to cause
plague and pestilence in Russia, and even
raised a question "whether these terrible
evils may not travel further, and Russia
becomes center of contacion that will
spread to other prrts of Europe,oi perhaps
to Asia." The fact that the reality even
goes heond the suggestion is brought
home to us w hen Pittsburg is obliged to
use all precautions against the spread of
disease brought here at second hand
from the famine stricken districts of
Russia.
This is a demonstration that we cannot
separate ourselves from the calamities of
other p?rts of the world, the reverse of the
tardily-moving relief from this country.
In this respect it is interesting
to note that history .is repeating
itself. In the winter of 1788-9 Fiance
suffered from famine, peihaps not
so widespread as that now devastating
Russia 3Ir. Jefferson was then Minister 1
to France, and his report caused prompt
shipment from this country of some 35,000
barrels of flour, which sensibly relieved
the distress. If the United States would
do as much for Russia now, in proportion
to its multiplied wealth and productive
ness, it might be the most effective means
of stopping the tide of tvphus-laden
wretchedness toward our ports.
The historical parallel can hardly fail to
suggest another one. The hunger of
France was one of the- inspiring causes of
iha "fiVnnpll Rpvolnlinn TllR faminn. lllS
Russia may yet produce the same effect,
with a Reign of Terror, enhanced in its
horrors hy the tyranny from which it "is
the reaction.
Hf.ue is the Philadelphia Ledger till
stating that low noj, of water m a locomo
tive holler was the duect cause of an explo
sion, when the Jiunhall experiments once
lorall demonstrated beyond doubt that no
w ell made boiler can be exploded in this
manner, though it he heated to redness and
then have cold watPr turned in.
The 1
amount of Ignorance on this matter, nearlv
twenty yeais after the demonstration, is
truly deplorable.
Ciiief Justice Fuller has added to
his leputation for faii-iuindedness and abil
ity hy his lemarks on his dauirhtei'sniai
natje, which amount to an acknowledge
ment of tho supreme claims of love. Cupid
should rule and not cupidity.
A bill has been introdpced'in the New
Jersey Legislatuie "making it liwful for
pasengeis on street cms to lefuse to pay
fare until provided w ith seats." If such a
measure w ere adopted in thU city it would
uc intci eating to note the incieise of kick
ing, which would result Horn having to wait
for cars rather than being allowed to piy for
the privilege of becoming a vertical sardine
for the time being.
Chicago will now undertake the contract
of capturing Congress with wining and
diulng. An incidental of the capture nat
urally will be that $5,000,000 anpropriation or
lo-in, under w hich namo it may smell a little
sw eetcr, to the lawmakers.
The Real Estate Convention will show
awlso appreciation of their interests hy
adopting the resolution offered by one of
their members for the appointment of a
Committee, with one delegato from each
State, to act m concert with tlie League of
American Wheelmen man effort to secure
better roads. The Le igue has done good
work, and should lece.vo eveiy encourage
ment and support.
Monopolies are profitable to the mon
opolist as evidenced hy the 8,000,000 which
were left by the late W. H. Smith, of Eng
land, as the lesult of his sole right to sell
literature on most of the English railways.
A BILL has been introduced by Repre
sentative Mitchell, of Wisconsin, pioposing
that fifty copies of every book copj lighted
should be deposited w 1th the Librarian of
Congies, to be distuhnted to the leading
library in each State. This vonld bo an in
iqnltous tax on authorship, calculated to
hinder tho giowth of Ameiican literature,
and as such it should lcceiv c no support.
The President is achieving a reputa
tion for undesirable procrastination. By
his delay in tilling Pennsylvania appoint
ments and recalling Ejan he must ho get
ting through no end of campaign business.
It is a disgrace and danger to this city
that we have no well equipped hospital for
contagious diseases. The matter should riot
be left until a serions epidemic takes usnn
'awares, and shows us the folly of want of
preparation. No time and no effort should
be lost in qbtainmg what is a necessity for
any community that values its public
health.
The Representatives who oppose appro;
priatlons for Indian education would them
selves be the better for a little enlighten
ment on some topics justice and economy,
lot instance.
That cold wave flag has taken on the
hue of smoky atmospheie until a casual ob
server might he paidoned for taking it for
the black flag. The Signal Service appio
priation should include provision foi a na
tional laundiy attachment, in order to avert
the suspicion that the Agricultural Depart
ment has gone into the piracy husmess.
"Unless more energetic measures are
taken loi thecapture of Gaiza theie isevery
likelihood tint his Tlisappearance willb
come a complete a mystery as that of Char
lie Boss.
THE New York En-ald says that "tele
phone subsciibers are worthy objects for
rjubllcsvmraths-." We entirely agiee with
this, anil the subsciibers have our commis
eration in addition to the amount of pity
theyexpend upon themselves. Thev,should
organize foi the iedrcs of theii gnevances
and an increase in their lacilities.
BALrouit'.s Irish bill is likely to be con
spicuous foi its barrenness of oodiesults,
but the reason foi this is deeper than his
adoption of the division of,the country into
baronies. '
The Southern movements of icebergs and'
packs haa begun later than usual this year.
The prevalence or noithwesterly gales calls
forinoic than usual care on the part of
North Atlantic navigators. Few sights ire
grander than an iceberg at a safe distance,'
few dangeis more appalling than ice at cloie
quai tei-s.
King Coal of the Reading deal is going
to mako the public pay tho piper. He in
tends to howl -out competition, and the
PITTSBURG DISPATCR-SATURDAT.
strings of hi fiddlers three are to be used
for strangulitlon purposes. Time "was when
he was described as a joUj old sonl, hut hi
latest transaction is only a common placo
sell.
No doubt the attention of the Congres
sional visitois to Chicago' will Do diiectcd to
the ten huudred'prade ciossings among the
other advantages of that cify.
1'aeis is undergoing the inconvenience
ofansein the piice of meat. Now Is the
time for Ithe upieme usefulness of that
French cookery which lij s claim to areater
powcis of transmutation than wero ever
piofessed hy thealchemists of old.
Balfour's local government appears to
be a v ery useful measure in tho capicity of
affoiding something which all parties can
condemn with cqu il virulence.
Pkesident Harrison might get some
pointeis on second term tactics fiom Piesi
ilcnt Diaz, of Mexico, who is lunning 101 the
fourth time.
THE S0LAB COMMOTION.
Only rrngnients Now Remain of the Great
Snnspot-New One in View.
To the Editor of The Dispatch '
According to the litest astionomical ad
vices, the srreat sunpoc which coveied an
area of 7 000, 000, 0C0 square miles, has biokcn
up and is now repiesented by about 20 visi
ble Iragments. It is also repoited that new
spots have put in an appearance, but at so
ast a distance from the location of the parts
of the so nnuuilly large one thit they may
be cousideied as altogether new ai rivals.
This, then, is an inteiestlngepochfoi thoso
who take an interest in solai phenomena,
and it should, in a special way, afford an op
portunity foi obseiveis to deteimino to
what extent, il any, such solai manifesta
tions aie responsible for auroral displays on
our sky. It is not HkUy that thee frag
mentary paits as jet. in their aggregate,
lepiescnt much less sulfate than did the
ongiual in its enttiety, and these spots, then,
must hav can aveiage aita of 7,000,000.000
square miles
We, nhoaie dwelleis onasmall phcie or
onl a few thousand irrile of diameter, and
whose surface has been stable during im
mense penods of time, can have but small
conception of the vast surface changes that
tne piescut solar aspects imply. Aiictjet,
in a lesei wav, out little earth was once the
seat ot lieice igneous activity, of seething
rolling billows of incandescent flame, hoi u
of the convulsions of our great luminous
paient, and Inheiitoi in a small way of that
patents chaiactenstics.
Iiutitis uotewoithy, while such tiemon
dous events are transphlng on the spheie
from which we denvo oui light and life,
thatacioss tho gulf of 93 000,000 miles which
scpaiates us, the object is so little lelt. Tho
mornings and the evenings come in their
ordei, t'io seasons piogress in their wonted
succession and tencstiial natuie pursues
tho even tenoi of her way. It could not
well beotheiwise. Animated life especially
tho highei lorms of animated lite
can only lespond to stable con
ditions; they " simply are not,
duung the leihof ebullition and commo
tion. No form of lllo can be tognizaut or
what is no transpiiing on the sun. It is
o.ily in a little, lee hie wa,that we may, with
whatsoever intellectual equipment w e may
possess, look across ana giasp, and then, in
the light of analogy ana aiialjsis, apply
what wo leain to discovei what has taken
plcoelewlieie.
But the piesent woulu ho a remaikably
oppoitune tune foi a senesof dtsplajsot
the nuiova hoiealis, weie it tine, as is
alleged by some who nose as being scientific.
that these displaj son the heavens are pi o-
jecteu oy soiai uistuiuances. xnere is,
however, a gioup of simple facts, each
weighted with its own special significance,
liom which we may deduce with demon
strable certainty that an aurora is due to a
combination ot causes very lemote fiom
spots on the solai disc, and tlu.t the lecent
display was only a coincidence and not a
sola torsequence.
Why is the auroral phenomenon almost
constant in the region of the North Pole?
Why is there a zona there wheie the mag
netic needle is inopeiative? Why does the
eaith tuin on hei ais, and why is the mo
tion fiom west to east?
lleie is the field in w Inch we must seek for
a solution of this pioblem, and, once undei
standing this, at least in a general wav,
one gets to the summit of the matter,
and the conditions undei w hich au
auroral exhibition may then take place in
this latitude becomes a subject of easy com
prehension. K.
WAiiroi, Pa., February 19
t OX THE TOP KDXG.
i
Speaker Crisp arrived yesterday morn
ing at 1 ortress Moiuoe foi a few daj s l est.
It is reported that Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist, intends leaving Samoa to
reside in future at Tahita.
Kyrle Bellevv and Mrs. Potter, at last
accounts, were contemplating the base and
management of a theater at Calcutta.
Alma Tadema, the noted Dutchm-m
who has won such fame as a painter In Eng
land, wears a brown mustache and impeiial.
Lady Henry Somerset, who has been
staj ing in Chic igo, has abandoned her mo
jec ted trip to Japan and will return to Eng
land with her son early next month.
The President has appointed Frank R.
Gammon, of Oklahoma, to be a commissioner
liom Oklahoma to the Woild's Columbian
Exposition, vice John D. Miles lesigned.
Muley Hassan, the Sultan of Morocco,
has a strain df lush blood in his veinsfor
his great grandmothei was a blue-eyed
daughter o. the Emerald Isle, the widow of
a British jei-geant of cnglneeis.
Eugene Field keeps in his house in
Chicago all of the checks which the Scrib
neis have sent him for royalties on his two
books. They azgregate moie than $3,000,
and the genial Eugene is piepanng to frame
them.
Senator Morrill is the patriarch of
Washington whist players. He has a
thoioUjjhly scientific knowledge of tho
game, and once a week at least he gatheis
about him a set of sclectplayersfroni among
his friends in official life.
CDEI0US CAUSE OF ACTION.
An Overhead Wire Electrizes a Lake
Preston Man's House.
Erookixos, S. D., Feb. 19.-1-ifewand novel
law question is up lor hearing before Judge
Andrews. It is a question which lias never
been adjudicated by any of the couits. It
appears that at Lake Preston, S. D., the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
crosses the Chicago and Northwestorn lUil-
lcad at light anglcs;hat the depots of the
respective lines aie situated some 25 rods
iiomthe crossing; that the railroad com
panies and the Western Union Telegraph
Company have a telegraph line along each
ol the railwas s, and as a convenience for
the to null oad companies and the tele
graph company a connecting line was run
between the two depots.
This connecting liue passes directly above
the plaintiff's house, but not touching it. No
telegraph poles w ere set on the plaintiff's
piemlses; the line was so pi iced against the
objections of the plaintiff. In Julj, U91,
dm nig a thunder stoim, the wile was struck
by lightning and fell across the plaintiff's
house, and tluough this wire, as plaintiff
claims, the electric fluid was conducted to
his hou-e and struck tho building, stunning
and injuimg plaintiff. The plaintiff, of
eouise, claims that the apparatus was negli
gently constructed, but the parties agieo
that plaintiff w ould not beou injured had it
not been lor the thunderbolt. He has sued
the two railroad companies and the tele
graph companies for damages iu the sum of
$5,000.
STANDS UP FOE HIS SCHOOL.
Captain Fratt. of the Carlisle Indian Seml
imrv, Denounces n Denomination.
Cauusle, Pa., Feb. 19. Special During
the session of the Central distuct of the In
tel -Seminaiy Missionary Alliance at Gettys
burg, Captain R. H. Piatt, Manager of the
Indian School heie, accused the Catholic
Church of paying Congieasmen to attack
the National Indian Schools because, they
aie detrimental to their paiochial schpols,
w hich aie given thiee times the amount by
the General Government that the other de
nominations receive. He st j led tho Indian
soldier a bad business and the reservations
the bane of the aborigines.
In answer to the attack made hv Congi ess
man btockdale, of Mississippi, Pendleton, of
West Viigiuia. and Mansur, Captain Prats
saidto-daj: 'Tho Government sends them
back to their tribes and reseivatious. But
it is au infamous lie to say that they go baok
to the same life as that from which thev
came."
""FEBRUARY
LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS.
Tho Tariff Question to ComeTJp In Congress
J-arlTWeek After Next Minister Keld
Hasn't Resigned Secretary Foster Going
to Curope Another ship Canal Wanted
in Ohio.
Washington, D. ,C., Feb. 19. It was
announced to-day to be the intention of the
Democratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee to call up the tariff question in
the House earlyweekaltei next. This pro
gramme would, to some extent, defer con
sideration of the silver question, lor the
silver question cannot be gotten out. of the
way in advance of that time. The notice of
the intention to take up the luiiff question
about March 1 was made in the Ways and
Means Committee to-day at a brief session
of the 'full committee. An 'agreement was
leached among the members' of the commit
tee that the minority should have until a
week liom to-inoriow to prepaie their
reuorts agiiust the bill the wool,
binding twine and bagging measures
heietoforo oideicd favorahlviepoitedtothe
House by a pirty vote. Chairman Springer
then announced that it was intended to call
up one of the thiee bills on the Monday or
Tuesday following the submission of tho
leports to the Houe. No objection was
in mifested on the part of tho ICcuuhlicaus
to mis eouise. .ivuer tne meeting jir.
Spungei was asked how long the tantf de:
hate would piouably run, and ho said: "On,
I can't say as to that. I do not think theie
is anylisposition on the pai t of the Repub
licans to take moieti.i e tlianls icallj nect-s-sai
v to tho consideration of the mattei. We
will go light along with the tariff, pass a hill
if we can, and if wu em't pa"iit, ut least do
our best in that direction. Hut I have no
doubt we willp.issabill."
T. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, ad
diessed the suu-committee or tho Senate
Committee on Judiciary this morning, in
advocacy of tho Washbuin anti-options
bill. Ho believed that the dealing in futuies
tended to depress the pi ice of fai m products.
Fiat w heat had as much effect on the mar
ket as flat money would have, and the
pending measuie, which would pievent the
sile of fictitious wheat, would be beneficial
to tho farmer, and consequently to every,
person in the country, Mr. llrighain, a
I nmei fiom Ohio," also fa vol ed the measure,
and voiced the views of the faimer in advo
cating tl-e pieventlon of trading in options
and futuies.
The "World's Fair special, comprising
five of the most magnificently equipped and
luxuriously lurnislied trains ever put on
the road by the Pullman Palace Car Com
panv, lolled out of the Baltimoie and Ohio
station at 2 SO o'clock this afternoon, bound
for the citj' of Chicago. The distinguished
mssengers aboard these trains aie to be tho
guests of the World's Fair city for the next
four d lys, and are tne Senators and Repre
sentatives ol the Fiftv -second Congress, the
foicgn ministeis accredited to the United
States and 40 of the leadingjoiirnallsts of
the national capital. Hon. Aula! T. Lw ing,
Chaiiman of fhe Citizens' Committee ot
Chicago, has general charge of tho party,
hut e veil ot thesencrite trains is under the
diiect charge ot au Illinois Congressman,
the repiosentatives fiom the Woild's Fair
State having naturally constituted them
selves to some extent a committee- on enter
tainment during tliejournej. The several
trains lollowed each other in succession,
with mteivalsor 15 minutes between the
vanous sections, in order to insuic salety.
Secretary Fostlr has finally decided
to take a Euiopean tup for the benefit of
his health, aucl will sail from New York next
Tuesday for Biemen, on the North German
Lloj d steamship Spiee. He will be accom
panied by W. F. MacLellan, Chief of the
Wairant Division, Treasury Department,
who is also in poor health. The Secietary
suffeis fiom piostration, tlie effects of a
severe attack of gup, and takes tho trip
solely for the pui pose of lecuperation. He
has no intention ol traveling in Euiope and
expects to be again in this couutiy in about
three weeks.
Mr. Caldwell, of Ohio, introduced a
bill to d i providing for a survey of a route
for a ship canal to connect Lake Etie, at
Toledo, with the Ohio livei at Cincinnati,
thcsuireyto include au inquliv into the
feasibility of a change of the Miami and
E le cana to a ship canal 20 feet deep and
150 teet w ide.
Mr. Fitch introduced a bill to-day, to
amend the McKinley tauff law so as to re
duce tho duty on barley 'from JO cents to 10
'cents perjnnliel of Impounds, w fr
The receipts from internal revenue dur
ing the flist seven mouths of tlie fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892, were $83,700 091, heing
$1 1'99,110 more than for the same time last
jet
IiKL-RESENTATIVE HARTER, of Ohio,
sud today that he had piesented the re
quest foi a caucus of the Democratic party
on tle silver question to Mr. Holman, chaii
uiin of the caucus, and had no doubt tho
call would bo issued. Between 40 and 50 sig
natuies were appended to the request, and
tho caucus rules provide that a caucus shall
be called w hen asked by 35 membeis. Mr.
Hartei said ho had no doubt the caucus
would be laigely attended, and that a num-
Tim rF Cnnntni-D ti nnlrl 1n nrnoori AT intt."l
Senntois, ho said, had stated to him that
they oelleved action on the sliver question
should be postponed, and would uo what
they could to Tiling about snch a lesult.
Secretary Noble has sent to the Sen
ate Committee ou Teiritoiles a vigorous pro
test against the passage of Senate bill No.
196J, intioduced by Senator Washbuin. "To
incorporate the Yellowstone Paik Com
panv," the incorporatois or which aie to be
Chailes Gibson, John D. Perry, or Mis
soun; Thomas Lowiy and James W. Ray
mond, of Minnesota. The bill piovides that
the lucoiporatois and thtir suceessois shall
have perpetual succession and are author
ized to ucquiie and operate hotels and se
cure other privileges. "There is granted to
the company foi 20eaisthe use often acres
of gioundat each of the following localities
in the park: Mammoth Hot spi'ngs, Nor
lls Gejser Basin, Lower Gevsei Bisin,
Fountain Geysei Basin, Upper Geysln Basin,
Grand Canon, Lower lellowstone Lake and
the west biy of Yellowstone Lake, for the
use of each of which the company agiees to
pay the Government $50 per annum, which
is to be in lieu of all taxes, and at each of
these localities the cempany is to keep a
flist-class hotel. The- Secietaiy crltlzes the
hill in detail, and conciuaes tiiat it is op
nosed to tho nubile srood is lor uilvate intPr-
eots solely, and Is in every way pernicious." t
I
T,x -R.,inf. Spa onntrnvrv t. th
principal topic of discussion at to-day's
Cabinet meeting. There is no particular
change in the situation, and none is looked,
for until Lord fcahsbuiy actson the tieaty
of arbitration, a draft or which, drawn on
lines un'deistood to be equally acceptable to
both Governments, was submitted to him
eaily this vyeek. In order to got tho treaty
bororo the Senate as soon as possible, it was
aimngedtliatLoid Salisbury should com
municate his action by cable. So lar, how
ever, nothing has been heard fiom him on
the subject. The policy of this Gov eminent
withiegaid to the coming sealing season
will depend largely on the action of the
British Government on the question or
arbitration. There is scarcely a doubt, how
ever, that an anangement will be made
somewliat similar to that or last years'
modus Vivendi. The Piesidont has issued
the usual proclam itiou agnlnst poaching in
Bering sea. It is almost identical with the
one Issued last year.
The report that United . States Minister
ICeid has resigned is denied at the State
Depaitrnent. It is said -on excellent au
thority thatMr. Bejel has agieedto continue
his diplomatic sei vices until a lecipiocity
tieaty has been concluded between France
and the United States.
OUK EXYI0US KEIGHBOES.
PEtsSYLVAHiA piouibition has a hard row
to hoe. Perhaps this is due to Philadelphia
water. Washington 8lar.
PemcSylvama lustice may not be blind,
but it cei tainly lias an acute attack of politi
cal strabism Washington Post.
Tnxbluebiid has appealed in Pennsylva
nia and the newspapers there are beginning
to publish spring poems St. Louis Republic.
There ais over 10,010 brass bands in Penn
sylvama,with moio than 100,00 players.
What a prospect that makes ror tne political
campaign or tho j car. ColoradoSun.
The Plttsbmg Baseball Club this year will
havo a general manager, a field manager and
a financial manager. It is Understood that
two or three ball players will also bo added
I to the aggiegatiou later. Chicago Mail.
'ws:
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20. 1892.
POSTPONED TILL MAY DAT.
Tlie Kecip.-ocity Treaty 'With Brazil Not
Yet to Go Into KffVct.
New York, Feb. 10. S)KciaL Tho Bra
zilian Consul General, Sanor Mueedo, re
ceived to day, by the steamship Vlgiiancea,
official advices from the Brazilian Govern
ment postponing until Mayl, lt92.he decree
df November 21, 1591, which was to go into
envct January 1, 1693 This decree sets forth
the conditions of the reciprocity treaty be
tween tho United States and Brazil, and the
manner in which merchandise is to he ex
ported. The postponement is dne to the
sti enuous objections made hy American ex
porters, who claim that the Brazilian Gov
ernment rcqmijs too much information
fiom exporters.
The decree requires that the exporter
shall formulate in three blanks the list or
the articles to he shipped to Brazilian ports,
faithtnlly containing names, marks, num
bers, weight, kind, quality, qinntity, origin
nnd value of the merch ind'se, as well as tl-e
ucstuiuiioii, ami snail take it to the Brazil
ian Consulate for legalization: and rez.ud
ingaiticles of which Brazil is the principal
or one of the principal consumeis, the con
sul must verify most scrupulouxly the real
cost of the product on, and add thereto the
inhenent expenses and profits. The chier
objection raised hv exporters is to tile de
claration of the forwarder or owner of the
meichandise. This declaration cills for the
name of tlie forwarder, thedateof purehise,
the factory, warehouse, store, or office
wheie the goods weie honght, the dcclari
tion or the price per quantity, local value,
and quantity.
PEE-EMPIIBG THE HEAET OF A CITY.
A Louisiana Lawyer Claims tho Tract Is
Still Open to Entry.
Booneville, La., Feb. 19 Validity to the
title of the land embracing the town site
here hns been questioned. In 1811 lands In
New Madrid county. were submerged by an
earthquake'. By special act or Consress
losere were allowed to locate equal amounts
on their lands, then vacant, In the State. All
the business part or this town was thus lo
cated befoie any Government survey was
made, and for which no patents have ever
been procured.
A. C. Widecomb, an ttornev. has filed an
application with the local United States
Land Office to entei 160 aci es of the heart of
the citv, alleging the New Madrid claim will
not hold, as it was laid out picvious to a
Government survey. A committee or law
j ers has been appointed by a Citizens' Com
mittee to investigate the matter.
I two sTsniiNG piciuass.
One Taken in the Uncivilized West and the
Other at Pittsburg.
New York Sun.
Two pictures: First, a newsboy offers-a
tough a newspaper; the tough kicks him in
the stomach; a bj standing hack duver gives
the tough a good one in the eye; the crowd
goes roi him, and he makes hi? escape badly
battered. This is in San Francisco a sad
picture of primitive manner's and crude civ
ilization. Second, a man seizesa woman on the street
and drags hei into an alley followed by the
stieet crowd. He knocks her down, puts his
knee on her breast and beats herhead on tho
stones until she is insensible. Thoughtful
bj slander sugzests calling a policeman:
active bystander runs ror policeman; woman
taken to hospital w 1th a fractured skull.
This is in Pittsburg, a sad pictuie of artifi
cial manners and ripe civiliz ition.
DEATHS HEKE AXD ELSEWHERE.
TVilliam Mcttilllains.
"William McAVilliarns, one of the old
est editors and printers in Wetmireland county.
uieu suaucniy yeoicruay moruVjg at the Zim
merman House, from, the grip. Mr. McWill
lams was 60 j cars old and was well-known In ntts
burg, hav Ing worked In nearly all the offices In
this citv. In the "70's lie held a responsible posi
tion on TnE Dispatch, and arter severing his
connection therewith, occasionally contributed to
Its columns. For 20 years deceased was editor of
the Armstrong Dtmocrat, of Kittanning. He
founded the baltsburg Press, one of the liveliest
and neatest of the weekllesof Western Penusvl-vani-iat
that time. He was the fatlieror A'ex.Mcfe.
Slew Ullanis. foreman of THE DISi'ATCII composing
room. Deceased at Ihc time of his death was lore
man of tlm Job department ot the Greensburg
Prei. He leaves three sons and a daughter. Mr.
Mc Williams was one or the true dlscitiles of the
Art Preservative, his artistic taste winning for
him honors at alt times. He was besides a poet
who drew his inspiration from Nature, and m ny
ofhls sweet little songs are still going the rounds of
the anonymous in literature.
John B. Sherrifl.
John B. SherriiF, possibly the oldest ac
tive business man In the city at the timer of his
death, passed peacefully away at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs. Anna M. Taylor, Center avenue,
near CralU street, this city, at 1:25 A. v., Friday.
At the time of hisdath he was 81 Tears of ace.
He came to this citv from Lawrence county In 183t,
and since that time has been actively engaged la
business np to within two weeks uro He estab
lished the well-Itnowii bouse or J. If. Sherrift. son
& Co.. and for the past year has been President of
the American Vault safe and Lock Company.
During the war. havlnsr sent his three sons to the
array, he took quite a leading and active part in
the sanitary commission aim fair. He was well
known by all the older citizens. He leaves six
children to mourn his loss. HarrvC. of Texas:
Anna M. Tavlor. of this city: William J. and
Rebbecca West, or California: Charles F.. of this
rlty, and Agues L. Wintcrburn. or rilzabetli Pa.
He took quite an active part In building the West
minister Church and was an elder or said church.
Funeral services will be held la the church. Buen.a
Vista street. Allegheny, on Monday 22, at 11
o'clock A. M.
Sirs. Ann Fletcher McKeage.
Mrs. Ann" Fidelia- McKeaje, the last
member of n historic family and the oliest resi
dent of Ilollldaysburg. died there yesterday at the
age of 05 years. hc waV tlie daughter of John
Fletcher, a Southern captain In the Revolution,
and her brother. Phillip r letcher, was a lieutenant
under Cummodoru Decntur in tho wv of 131?. The
nlghton which Francis S. Key ccmnost d the im
mortal ytar bpanglLl Banner" he was In her
homebelow Baltimore within a cannon's shot of
the tlrltish vesel in wnlca the poet was impris
oned, bhe was aUo an interested spectator of the
bombardment of Fort 31cllenrr or the foreign
fleet. All these incidents the old lidy well recie i
bered up to tlie time of her death, and loved noth
ing better than to talk of the wonderful old dars.
Captain John McKeage. who served in the lvll
War and whose name Is well Known In this State,
was her son.
71i9 Heroine of Castle Loretto.
Mrs. Rose Peyton, aged 75 years, widow
of Sergeant Patrick Pel ton formerly or the Sec
ond United States Artillery. Is dead at Detroit.
She'was known to soldiers of the Mexrean War as
"The Heroine of Castle T oretto." She accom
panied her husband to Mexico, and during the
siege of Pueblo for 2b davs re zularlv carried to him
and others of his batttrv coffee and refreshment-,
Todothls it was nete-ary for her to trav erse fie
onn snaee between Cast'e Loretto. where no
lived, to the fortifications of Pueblo, where ner
husband's company was stationed. This
space was swept by Mexican sharpsboote:
effectively that ft was called, the "Death Ito
open
rs so
Road."
Though 31 rs. Pevton many times had her clothing
cut ur uuucis sue was uever vruuuucu.
John Weir.
John Weir, a brqther'of County Com
missioner Weir and the fate Superintendent of Po
lice Gamble Weir, died jesterday afternoon at
Uniontown. Mr. Weir was 48 jears of age and
single. Ills home was in Favette county near Ohio
Pyie. For some time past lie was foreman in the
wagon manufactory of his brother. Commissioner
"Weir. A short time ago he went to Uniontown on
business and geitlng wet in a rain contracted
bronchitis. His death resulted yesterday at tho
residence in Uniontown ofhls sIsterMrs. Johnston.
Commissioner Weir will have the remains brought
to Pittsburg and Interred beside his other brother.
Gamble W elr. in the family lot in Greenwood
cemetery near bharpburg.
J, Uohlnson Gray, Greene County.
J. Eobinson Gray died ou - Wednesday
morning at his home, Gray's Landing. Greene
county, after a short Illness. Mr. Gray was o- of
the largest distillers in JVeatcrn Pennsylvania.
His fuller. Captain William Gray, established the
distillery over oO years ago. He died three years
ago; leaving an estate worth S0O 000. His eldest
son. Mr. J. Robinson Graj, Inherited the largest
part or the estate, and carried on the distillery
business up to his death. Mr. Gray was 68 years of
age. He was an ardent Republican.
Obituary Notes.
The mother ol United States Senator Squires, of
tlu btate of Washington, died at Clyde. O., Thurs
day, aged 92.
Mas. Jase Eeddy, aged IW, died in Cancailea,
Allegany county, N. Y.. Sunday, bhe i survived
by three daughters, aged S3, 81 and SJ years.
Alfeed Tbiggs. a well-known politician and
the proprietor of the Union HotcJ at Liawood, Pa
died or pneumonia Wednesday night, afteraslort
Illness.
Baron Stahord (Sir Augustus-Frederick
Fiti-Herbert Stafford-Jernlngham, Bart.) died
Thursday of sortLiilng of the brain. He was born
In 1830. and succeeded his uncle November 30,
1834.
Baksey E. Lehjiax, aged 60. a prominent citi
zen of Bethlehem. Pa., aled Thursday. He was
proprietor of the Lehigh Valley Brass Works and
superintendent of the Lehigh Car Company, In
Stenton.
Dk. A. T'Ioiuje. a well-known physician living
at Kylestown, Clearfield county, was found dtaj
In his bed at the Mansion House. Clearfield, yes
terday afternoon. He went there luesday to
attend his father's futferal. and was apparently la
good health when he retired Thanday night.
Heart disease Is given as the cause of his death.
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GRAND3IAMA RECALLED.
Itanghters of the Ilevo'utlon Spend Some
Hours In the Archives of lli-lr An
cestors Woman Traveler in ritts
burc on Monday Mrs. Langlry's New
Club.
The patriotic American wom"u was out
in force yesterday at M rs. Robert McKnigb t's
house, where a reception r-as given to
commemorate the first birthday anniversary
of the Daughters or the Revolution. People
with grandmothers crowded the parlors as
thickaspeas in a pod or acre princes in
Germany. Weil die-sed young women ?it
taking in their history lessons with as much
contentment us they nftcrnard drank Mrs.
McKnfght's excellent chocolate. The re
ception of couro partook or a character
purely its own, ovceptin that it was nearly
tho same set of faces to bo seen in pirlors
ev ery (lay h-re, of something quite novel to
Pittsburg. Literature, hand in baud wjth
love of country, and music having the same
bent, formed what are pooularly known ss
tho featuies of the occasion. Among the
papers read, was an article on the Block
House, the sole lemaining evidence
of the old fort diys of Fittsburg. End
which is now rearing its head as
.best it can, in one of the dirtle-t parts of tho
city, while doing double duty as a grocery
fhop and tenement house. Mis Julia
II nduiguavo a preliminary reading ot Iter
paper on "Early D lys in Piitsbnrg," pre
paied for presentation at the Nitional Con
vention in Washington nevt week, to which
the lady is a delegan-. Mi-s Harding is a
representative or a Pittsburg a.nih, here
when Pit'sbnnr was a very small plac an l
which has since become Intermarried with
other leading families. Havinz the u-e oi
their record., herpaperwasn most valuable
contribution to the social and historical
chionicies of the lajs upon which it
treated.
A pin el v s6pial tirre followed the pro
rrnmine, he-glitened bj tea drinking, the de
licious bevciaie being served by a uuinhjr
or the jnvenlle members of tho order,
somoor them having jrst crossed the Rubi
con of the order their 18th birthday.
Madame Alice D. Le Plonceon,
among the most noted travelers of modern
times, in lesponso to an invitntio i from the
Woman's Club, or this citv, will lectuie in
Old City Hall on next Monday evening.
Yucatan and its ruins, to the exploration of
which the lady gave her most untiring
energy, will be the snbject upon which sho
will speak: and those Who have heard the
lectures .-ay that she invests herde-cription
with .i wonderful amount of interest.
Madame Le Plongeon has had the honor of
addressing tho Sorosi, or which she is a
complimentary n ember: the New Century
Club, of Philadelphia and the New England
Woman's Press Assoc! Uion. Even con
servative Paris, with its narrow no-ions of
woman's rork. has recognized Madame Le
PIongeon'saMIIty and requests haye come
to her for her photograph to he placed
nmong the celebrated tmvp'ers in the albnm
of the Geographical Society of Pans; a com
pliment dnlv appreciated by the lady. Dur
ing the necessarily short stay of Madami Le
Plongeon in Pittsburg, Mrs. Ma-c Becker of
EllswoitH avenue, ShadyslJe, will be her
hostess.
Edgewoodville lias become the center
of a new literary club, organized by Mr.
Langley, who got club notions into her head
by the pleasure she found in one at Ann Ar
bor, to which she belonged during Prof.
Laneley's connection with the University.
The local one as to be patterned afterits in
spiring caii3C. Meetings, held everv week,
will last two hours, on-half or which will he
devoted to home nffaiis and the remaining
time to every matter under the smi tl at Is of
moment. Tho club Is not to he worried with
rules, and it has but two officers, a Presi
dent, Miss Lyman, and a Vice President,
Miss Jean McCralg. The members will de
vote their time to studying Alaska. Next
Friday the clnb will meet at the house of Its
founder on Franklin sti eet, Edgewoodville.
A pleasant parlor concert was gi ven last
nl.ht at the residence of Mr. E. J. Lloyd, of
Edgewoodville, at which over 1C0 people
were present. The object o the concert, in
addition to its pleasure giving motive, was'
to raise money for the new Presbyterian
Church on Swissvale ave.iue. Thanks to
tho clever people on tho programme, the en
tertainment was completely successful.
The concert opened with a quartet, "The
Bloom Is on tne Rye," hv iliss Elizabeth
Corey, Mrs. Nettie McFaddcn Hunter, Mr.
Tllmn flanllniT -T- .t.i.l Tt. f V ll.iI.
........j v.wui.1,., v.., ...... ..... j. m.. a. n.ii-.
After a welKxecuted pianoforto solo by
Miss Lillie Schleitcr and a bass solo by Mr.
Harris, Miss Corey and Mr. Gerding "sang
Lucatom's "A Night in Venico." "Tlie
Flower Girl" was rendered by Mrs. Hunter,
and tlioii Mrs. Emm i Bimrler-VV ollr gavo
Phisutl's beautiful ballad, "The Touch or a
Vanished Hand." Other numbers were n.
canzonetta lrom "S ilvator Rna," by Miss
Corev; "Tlie Pilot Brave," n dashing uuet,
bv Messrs. Gerding and Harris, and the
ballad. 'Answer," bv Mrs Wolfe. A beauti
ful serenade by Franz Abt, sung by the
quaitet, brought a delightful evening to
a melodious close. Tho concert was given
nnder the auspices of the Dorcas Society.
Social Chatter.
The Oil City correspondent of The Dis
patch wires tlie successrul reception and
ball given last night by the Ivj Club of that
city. The special floral dccoratiniis, com
bined with ingenious electric disnlays, ren
dered the twelfth return of this annual
event most noteworthy. The attendance
was large, Pittsburg and Allegheny beiue;
among tho cities represented.
The Nhadow pantomime will be given in
the Wilkinsburg Opera House this ev ening,
under the auspices of tho "World's Fair
Saving Club or the Dear or Pittsburg and
Vicinity," and for tho benefit or a uiud for
the building of a borne in Pennsylyania for
those afflicted with the loss of si.; lit, speech
or hearing.
The approach of Lent is having the usual
result in the revival of small affurs among
tho most exclusive. Mrs. B. F. Jones, who
has been in comparatlveietirement this sea
son, will hold her first formal affair of the
year on Thms'lay afternoon next.
YxsTErroor Mrs. Cadman, of Franklin
street, Edgewoodville, entertained 25 mem
beis of tho l)oi cas Society, who busied
themselves preparing necessary articles for
the bouthsido Hospital.
An liar Mark of Candidacy.
Toledo Blade
Governor Boies left silver out of hisspeech
at the Denver banquet. This is the ear
mark of a Piesidental candidacy, s"re.
Soc'ety as Garza rinds It.
Chicago Tribune. J
Garza has u following of about 400.
is his society as he buds it now.
This
WARD'S MTEST CDT.
Ward McAllister threatens to reduce the
400 to 150. It Is presumed that the other 250
didn't subscribe for his book. KajAinj'on
Post.
The New York 400 has been cut down to
ISO by order of Ward McAllister. Another
cut or two and the brilliant society leader
will find It very select but very lonely.
Detroit i'ree Press.
Tue tumble of New York's 400 down to 159.
looks as if the first families of that town
would hav e been a good thing to have gone I
short of if McAllister had only given the '
tip. Boston Herald. I
Although he fixes tho number of fashion-
able Now Yorkers at 150, WaulMcAliis er '
l eluses to name moi e than 110 of them. The
bidding for the one hundred and fiftieth
place oaght to keep him in comfort fora
yeai ortao Chicajo'Tivies.
Ira stall-fed,haughty,self-satisfled donkey,
acensto lied to looking down on its fellow
donkeys, were suddenly gifted with tho
power of speech and no restraining influ
ences were throw n around it, we imagine it
would talk about as Ward'McAllister talks.
Chicago T, ibune.
The only revision of society which can
possibly be conducive to Mr. McAllister's
peimauent popularity most be one which
Increases and not diminishes us nnmhers.
If ho could only givo us an fcOO now he might
recover some or his lost piestigc Sew York
Commercial Advertiser.
Wabd McAllistlii, of Goose Creek nativ
ity and "sassiety" notoriety, is heralded in
New York as a greater than Columbus, ror
Just 400 years laterthan the Genoese navi
cator the great lord ol the kitchen and
L kuight-of-the cotillon has discov ered Amer
ica's only aristocracy, and they are 150 of
New York's i00. Philadelphia Times.
Wabd McAllisteb has cuttlownhis esti
mate of New York's ically fashionable peo
ple from 4C0 to 150. Yet even this estimate
is too liberal, and It Is certain that only Mr
McAllister's superabnndent modesty pro
vents his uttering his inmost opinion that
there is really only one person of the high
est breeding In Jfew York. Denver Seics,
-. , -- - -
curious coxdensItjons.
There are 10,000 Chinese shoemakers
California.
There is a woman in Oregon who
worked 20 years, at stone cutting.
Hot vrater cannot be raised to t
considerable height by suction.
The normal temperature of man
93 Fahrenheit; that orflsh 71 J.
John Carney, a Kansas farmer, recen
plowed up a gold ring which h.s (Liugh
uau lost seven v ears previous.
Xinety per cent of the freshmen j
sophomore classes in Yale are said to fa
the substitution of science or modern L
guages tor the classics.
The Japanese cite 269 color varietie
the chrysanthemum, of w hieli 63 are yelk
S7 w hue, 32 purple, 33 red, 31 pale pink,
russet and U of mixed colors.
It is a coincidence that the iir3t arr
made in Ohio nnderthe Brewer law force
pnlsorv school attendance is that or a c
en in Jefferson named Brewer.
A 300-pound shark was washed up
the beach at Sncia Island. Wash., a few dt
aso. In its m iw was lonnd the remains c
human hand, thought to be that of a Siwa
At a Catholic convent in Fort Be
hold, N. D., all the sisters, including t
mother superior, are Indians, nnrt t
spiritual director is a priest of Moha
ae-cent.
A velocity as high as 28S7 feet j
second has been attuned by a project
from a rapid-fire gnn. This is at tho rite
19oS miles an honr. It is the highest veloc
yet recorded.
The rains have raised the waters of S
ton lake to uearlyasgre.it he-ght asth
were last -pring. The Gila river is risu
which affects the Colorado river and can
tho lake to fill.
According to Xelon "W. Perry, EL 3
the reats.of the several "electric girls" w
have been astoiishing tho public in tl
coantrv and Enzland aro merely skill;
mechanical tricks.
An engineer on the Missouri Paei
has invented a coat or mail so contnv
that when a man is held up by robbers
can di-char-'e a revolver while both han.
aro confined above his head.
The members of a jury in Iowa have l
cently confessed that their verdict of gwil
against a man charged with burglary w
uujuiii.inj iota, xney nad hecoi
soconrnsedbyamass or expert testinioi
that they had no other recourse.
The difference in length of the cabl
in the East river bridge, Brooklyn, vh
the thermometer registers zero and whc
registers lOO above is two feet and fo
inches The difference in the ropo whi.
hanls tho cars is seven feet and six inches.
It has been discovered that silver exis
in the ashes of two volcanoes in tho And
of Ecuador, in South America. Tho quantii
pf silver is exceedingly minnte, howeve
being about two-fifths of an ouncr- to a t
of ashes at Cotonaxi. and about three tentl
of an ounce at Tuagnragua.
There are two otherwise estimab
women in Atchison, Kan., wno are contin
ally quarreling abont their complaints, e i
one trying to prove that sho has more at
more deadly diseases than the other. The
phjsicianssny that there is nothing mm
-the matter w ith either of them.
Probably the most magnificnt compl
mentary present ever received by it Eur
pean sovereign is the Emperor of Austria
silver wedding gift to the Czar. It consis
of a dinner service or solid silver, superb'
wrought and chased, eacn pieco Denting a
imperial ragle. the service is for2iperson
and there are 2t0 pieces.
Sam. Badges, of Topefca, paid tl
Western doctors $.5,000 to be told that h
eyes onId not last long and that hesoc
would be stone blind. Ho then went t
New York, where Dr. Agnew informed hn
that they would last all his life and tog
home and bo happy. For tho latter inform:
tion be paid $500.
It is reported that a mountain of onv
has been discovered in Mexico, abont".
miles from El Paso. It is said to be of a si
penor quality, fine-grained and beantifnll
marked with calico streaks or vangste
lolors blended across the face of the idgi
Ihc mineral, it is claimed, scales off in lanr
slates, making it possible to sell it as chea
as common stone.
There must be a particularly hot "j(
in the earth under Wheeling, W. Va. It i
hoped to sink tho well now heing drive
there at least a. mile. The well is a llttl
less than flvo inches in diameter. Its pect
liarity is that no vein of water has bee
tapped, and, being perfectly dry, scientih
men have an unexampled opportunity t
conduct their investigations.
Fish are drowned when taken from th
water into the air, and animals when po
even for a short time nnder water, but th
axolotl cannot be drowned anywhere. Tie
he is nowhere safe, for tlie inhabitants of th
places where he is fonnd Mexico Net
Mexico and Texas think that his flesi-1
very good to eat, and catchgreat numbers o
the axolotl for food, which they cook v
various ways.
Coast Indians of the Pacific shores o
British America devour raw sea urchin
with great gusto, crushing them in thei
fists, sucking ont the orange colored clnstc
of eggs which constitute the only edibl
part, amounting to one or two teaspoonrul
and then throwing the thorny case aside
The minuto e 'zs taste much "like oyster
and have been a favorite food or the native
of the bleak coast of Alaska ror ages.
Children have come into the worh
sparsely provided as regards themember
of the hand; some with bnt a thumb ant
index finger, others with no thumb at all, o
with Lands- like that or Mr. Cicsar, wh
represented Herlefordshire dnnng the las
century, which was a nearly like a lobster'
claw as a specimen of humanity could bt
expected to carry; a snecies of raalformi
tion he shared, according to tho records o
the Berlin Academy of Sciences, with z
whole family of negroes dwelling neat
Paramaribo in 1759.
A Polish artist residing inBome had or
exceedingly intelligent and faithful terriei
which, as he was obliged to go on ajourney
J he left with a friend, to whom the dog wa
strongly attached. Day and night tho ter
rier v. ent to the station to meet everv tram,
carelullv observing and remembering the
time of their arrival, and never missing one
Meanwhile he became sodepiessed that he
refused to eat, and would havo died of star
vation if the mend had not telegrmhed to
his master to return at once if he wished tc
find the an'nial alive.
TICKINGS FK03I PUCK.
Mr. 399 Get any valentines this year,
Sir. McAllister.'
McAllister-Yes ; 100 of tbem.
Mr. 9J-bome valuable ones, I presume.
Mc Vlllster No. All one-cent ones.
Up in high stations we think ourselves
A Captain, a Major, a Colonel:
But to General Public wp mist bow.
Or there'U be a row infernal! '
First Foreigner (jn New York) I won
der what building that Is.'
Second Foreigner That miu,t be the City Hail.
Don' t you see the Irish flag floating over it?
Druggist (to, newly hired boy) Here,
Johnny, you do not appear to b busy. Just take
those sponges out of the basket and soak tbem.
Johnny N ot much. I engagtd to learn the bull
ness. not to work the pawnbrokers.
I met Dame Fortune years ajo
Upon her ball, not at one
I craved a prize, a legacy
Or sinecure a rat one.
"My highest gifts I give." she saH:
"Helleveme! Do not seo'n them."
I took the cap and Lells she gai e.
And ev er since I've worn them.
'TTonare late this morning, Mr. Collnm,"
said Sliarpe, as his bookkeeper came io about 19
o'clock.
"Yes. sir. 3Iy wealthy uncle died and left me
$M.CO0. Isn't that a good excuse for tardiness?'
"Yes; too good to be true, iu fact."
"Wasn't it awful? She married a poor
drygoods clerk!"
. "Yes: but Just think how handy he will be to
send downtown to match good 1 '
She frowned at all my choicest jokes; .
She smiled when I a said:
She seemed to like most other folks.
But all I diil was bad.
Until, one day. we walking met,
And I said. Ipropjse "
"That settles It." she quickly 33ld;r
"Why, yes! Ofcour-e. thatgoesl"
Ball I hear that Lambkin made a good
thing out ofhls Wall street deaL
Behr Why. I thought he lost all his money.
Bull He did. But he married the daughter of
the man who got It.