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FEBRUARY a.
A QUESTION OF CRUEL.IT.
A very nice question came up before a
Beaver county justice yesterday. Farmers
are getting into the practice of sawing off
the horns of their cattle to prevent their
hooking each other and other farm
animaK The Humane Society agents
thought this cruel and made an arrest to
test it Experts said it was cruel and other
experts said it was not The justice con
cluded it was not, and the opportunity to
have this matter discusd before a higher
tribunal vanished.
The Humane Society should try again.
The fact that dehorning is now coming
into vogue all over this country makes it
important At first blush it seems an out
rage that dumb animals should be sub
jected to such treatment Until it is
established that it is not cruel, and that
by a recocnized authority, the pubhc will
revolt against it
TOO MUCH FOR ONE MAX.
" The fact that four of ,the six Secretaries
of the Treasury who have held office dur
ing the past twelve years have broken
down lends a great deal of weight to the
recent assertions that the weight of re
sponsibility and multiplicity of duties at
taching to that position are greater than
the average strength of any one man.
The two men who held that position
without breaking down are ex-Secretaries
McCulloch and Fairchild. The former
held office under Arthur for less than five
months; the latter under Cleveland for
about two years. Folger, Manning and
Windom died under the pressure of the
duties, and Secretary Foster, after less
than a year's service, has been forced to
seek relief in an ocean voyage. This
record gives a decided point to the asser
tion that the duties of tbe office should be
divided. The practical theory that be
cause a man has ability to direct the finan
cial affairs of the Government, and is
willing to undertake that immense labor,
therefore he must be worked to death,
cannot be too soon set aside in favor of a
theory that the work of every official
shall be kept within the limits of human
endurance.
The division of duties in the Treasury
Department is made easy by the widely
varying nature ot the work done under its
direction. So far as the nature -of the
work is concerned the Treasury could
easily be divided into three or four depart
ments. There is no more counection be
tween the work of collecting internal
reenue and that of collecting customs
duties, than between the work of manag
ing the postal business of the country and
cithororboth of,them. The negotiation
and payment of public loans, together
with the issuing and redemption of cur
rency is equally distinct; while the con
struction and custody of public buildings
could be given to the Postoffice Depart
ment just as well as to the Treasury. It
would be a comparatively simple matter
for any one with practical knowledge of
the amount of work to make two depart
ments out of the Treasury, with the func
tions of each entirely distinct, and on a
basis which would increase the effective
ness of the public service.
Beyond this it may be pertinent to re
mark that when the point is reached
where the Secretary of the Treasury can
cast aside all the work of considering his
department as a political as well as finan
cial machine, he will be relieved of as
much work as would be taken away by
tbe division of his department
WHAT BETTER COURSE?
The declaration of a Xcw Jersey Judge,
with regard to a grand jury which had
persistently refused to find indictments,
notwithstanding the instruction of the
Court, against certain notorious offenders,
that if they persisted in this refusal he
would receive no presentments at all from
them, awakens some adverse comment
One esteemed New York cotemporary
raises the point that "a judge has no right
to say that he will receive no indictments
from a grand jury simply because they do
not find a' particular indictment" Does
not this depend on the circumstances? If
he case is one which shows that a errand
jury is persistently shielding offenders and i
rciusuig 10 uo 11& uuij, 10 mem any inure
salutary or necessary exercise of the
Court's power than to put a stop to the
power of such a corrupt body to do further
mischief?
The cotemporary from which we quote
thinks, that repeated .refusal to indict a
certain class of law breakers is to be
taken as proof that a majority of the
people "would not tolerate the enforce
ment of the law in this particular case.1'
Is it then the end of government by law
that grand juries are to exercise the power
ot nullifying the statutes? The, people
elect representatives ,to. enact laws and
officers to enforce them; hut is the refusal
of .a grand jury to perform its sworn duty
to be taken as the vox populi, decreeing
that the law shall be a dead letter?
Such social logic as this Is the logic of
anarchy.
RECIPROCITY REVIEWED.
The review of the history of the reci
procity movement, which forms the sub
ject of a special article by William E.
Curtis in this issue, recites facts which are
well known, but are in danger of being
forgotten or misrepresented. Mr.Curtis
traces the movement from its inception
although he might properly date its origin
with Secretary Blaine's first step toward
a conference of American republics in the
short Garfield administration, and carries
it up through the stupid rejection of one
or two reciprocity treaties to the final
success which is illustrated by the In
creased trade totals of the present year.
Mr. Curtis does not claim and no in
telligent man will do so that the present
legislation establishes a perfect and com
plete system of reciprocal trade. What it
has done is to demonstrate tbe
ease with which trade relations
among the American nations can be im
proved by making reciprocal concessions
In tariff duties, to the advantage of each.
It is also commencing to indicate what
will be more thoroughly demonstrated by
the fuller returns, the prosperity that can
be.gamed by encouraging the exchange
with other countries of staples which we
can produce and they cannot for those
which they can produce and we cannot
One point is made which should be es
pecially significant to business men and
manufacturers. The opportunity being
opened for extending our markets, its im
provement must rest with the commercial
interests. They must study the needs
and tastes of the people to whom they are
to sell their goods. If they are not will
ing to take the trouble to do that, recipro
cal trade will fail not from the fault of
the Government, but because our business
interests do not care for the foreign mar
kets. MISPLACED SYMPATHY.
The extremely hazy ideas of some of our
esteemed cotemporaries on the subject of
the tariff is eminently illustrated by our
usually bright cotemporary the Boston
Globe. That journal takes up the cudeels
in championship of the American hen. It
has discovered that the hen is taxed to
death, and noon the assurance of an
authority in poultry that the average hen
should lay 50 dozen eggs during her career
of eight years, it proceeds to print the fol
lowing dreadful picture of affairs:
The tax on egzs being 5 cent? a dozen, it
follows that every old lien in the country is
obliged to pay McKinley a tributo of $2 50
before retiring from business. In good
times, when fcggs ai a worth SO cents a dozen,
every lien is obliged to lay two eggs for Mc
Kinley before she can proceed with her
dozen. Allowing one egg a day and six
woiking dasin the week, a whole dav of
each norkinjr week is mortgaged to McKin
ley. It will thus be seen that If a faithful
lien, after working hard for eight years
were put up at auction to satisfy a default
in tho payment of the McKinley taxes, she
would not cover tho debt. In fact her life,
feathers and all, would hare been literally
taxed out of her.
On the assumption that these statements
aie correct, we would conclude that it
would be an escape from a hard-working
and burdensome career, if the American
hen were converted into spring chicken
broilers at an early stage of her existence.
But the hiddy of our barnyards may
largely escape that tragic taking-off by the
fact that the foundation of this calcula
tion as to the taxes she must endure is en
tirely a creation of our esteemed cotem
porary. The eggs laid by American hens
are not taxed five cents per dozen nor one
cent per dozen. On the contrary, the
dame of the poultry house can cackle in
the proud consciousness not only that she
has laid an untaxed egg, but that she. is
protected from the competition of pauper
hens in other countries by the duty of five
cents per dozen laid on the eggs of for
eign hens. If we are called upon to com
miserate the hardship of the alien fowl,
we can only advise them to immigrate to
this country and enjoy the privileges of
freedom and protection.
When our esteemed free trade cotempo
rary next tackles the tariff question letois
beseech it, in its own interest, to get its
mind clear on the distinction between a
tariff duty on imports and a tax on Ameri
can products.
MR. HOWELLS MISTAKE.
In the "Editor's Study" of the last
Harper's Magazine Mr. W. D. Howells
makes a pleasing sort of valedictory
apropos of the publication of a volume of
Mr. Curtis' essays, and his own retirement
and Mr. Warner's succession to the place.
The differences of opinion on the burning
question of realism are touched upon with
light humor though the confession of
undue pugnacity in his own literary criti
cism smacks of insincere protestation.
But after picturing his successor, sym
bolized as tbe "Future," pulling down the
gods of realism, set up by himself as "the
paulo-post-future" to replace the images
of romanticism if he can find any about
the premises which were not smashed into
small fragments by his iconoclastic prede
cessorthe apostle of realism gives utter
ance to this valuable bit of truth in o
about literature.
For this reason, if for no other, the paulo-post-future
(Mr. Howells) feels that in spite
of schools, or, ratlier, of the names of schools,
the true interests of litcratuie will be safe
with the Future. (Mr. Warner). He loves
them with a devotion which every line of
his beautiful work attests, and in his keep
ing the study will be the study to serve
them, as it has been the study ot the paulo
poet-future.
Here Mr. Howells evinces a commend
able perception of the fact that if the
writer or critic is animated by the spirit to
serve and ennoble literature, and has the
ability to realize that purpose, the talk of
schools of literature and the classifications
of realism or romanticism are of slight im
portance. This is a solid truth, and if we
may offer a criticism of the critic, the ex
ception that is to be taken to Mr. Howells'
gifted albeit dogmatic apostate of realism
in the Editor'sStudy of Harper's has made
too much of schools and classification and
too little of spirit and sentiment Mr.
Howells made the mistake of taking him--self
and realism too seriously which
error has been repeated by some of his
less talented opponents. After the recog
nition of the great truth quoted above, it
ought to be easy to see that a man who
surrounds his story with a little too much
of the romance of life may be something
better than a traitor to literature, while
he who drags us through the slums and
sewers in the great name of realism does
not give the best evidence of being actu
ated by the desire to ennoble either litera
ture or the human race. Tet, Mr. Howells
has gone far toward making these asser
tions in that chapter of his literary career
which is cfosed by the article referred to.
No one could have taken exception to
Mr. Howells' development of his theories
of realism in literature, if he had not as
serted them as an .awful truth which
every man must accept or undergo the
pains of literary condemnation, without
so far as we understand it, the beneficial
interposition of even a purgatory. But
since he has done so it 'Is pertinent to
point out that Mr. Howells has f urniihed
us a double refutation of his own theory.
He agrees that the sentiment, the lovo for
literature which guides the critic is the
vital controlling element What Is true
of so dispassionate a funotion as criticism
must be true of all human life, and there
you have, the basis of what Mr. Howells
places under the ban of romanticism.
Next, Mr. Howells' own career furnishes
the disproof of his theories. "His best
work is coloring pictures of everyday life
with an elevated sentiment and if Mr.
Howells used high lights to a degree that
was stronger than the realty, in "Their
Wedding Journey," "A Chance Acquaint
ance," or "A Foregone Conclusion," he
does not therefore need to class himself
among "the followers of fraud and hum
bug," whom be now considers it is his
mission to expose and punish.
WHY KEEP HIM THERE?
There is a good deal of force in the
rather imperative suggestion of several
Eastern newspapers that the time has
come for the recall of Mr. Egan from
Chile. Besides the very decided evidence
of the documents published in the Chilean
controversy that Mr. Egan went nigh to
hopelessly muddling the relations of the
tworepublics.it most be plain to every
one that he is not now doing the interests
of the United States any service there.
The only reason given for his retention
after Chile had requested his recall was
that it was not worth while to do so until
it was decided whether his return was to
be an indication ot the suspension of
diplomatic relations, or an earnest
of our friendly relations to Chile.
The Chilean Government promptly took
the course which left us no reason tor
breaking off diplomatic relations; but that
is no reason for maintaining a minister
there whose chief function will be to em
phasize the fact that we forced Chile into
a corner.
It is plain that the proper settlement of
further questions with Chile, as well as
the extension of our commercial inter
course with that most enterprising of
South American republics, will be best
served by a representative whose person
ality will be agreeable to that Govern
ment The mere matter of self interest.
as well as the rules of international inter
course, should suggest the transfer of Mr.
Egan to another post, and the sending in
his place of a representative whose record
is free from dictatorial affiliations.
The eagerness with which humanity pur
sues phantom fortune has been fittingly
illustrated by the recent rush for Crecde,
Col. It almost equals in magnitude and tur
bnlency the stampede to California in tho
da s of '49, and the scenes of the olden times
are being reproduced with a vigor that
promises startling reading at no distant
date. The pity of it is that there is so little
foundation for the congiegation of gold
hunters there and that so many will leave
the place poorer than when they went there.
Hill's engagement to the Democratic
party has been announced and the wedding
fixed for Juno next. There is plenty of time
before then for the fiancee to provo incon
stant and decide to give her band to another
aspirant.
The present session of Congress would
be a very tame affair if it were not for the
little differences of opinion that spring up
between members. While the partisan ma
jority is struggllngin the throes of internal
strife over free silver, public buildings and
appropriations, the people aio anxiously
waiting for some signs of good solid woik.
But March is likely to disappear beyond the
horizon of time and leave tho wrangles still,
on, if the great unwashed are not soon
whipped into line, r
There are premonitory symptoms that
tho railway officials interested in. tho an
thracite deal are going to adopt tne usual
course of knowing nothing whatever about
it, when tbey ap'pcar before the legal author
ities. After the positive manner in which
Senator Hill Joesn't "don't" as the Now
World urges him, that Journal's impassioned
"don't" to the people who have called an
other' convention is evidently an earn
est effort to find someone who will pay
attention to its injunctions, Tho esteemed
World is against bosslsm but is also op
posed to doing anything to stop it.
Govebnor Campbell will ,not take
second place on the ticket; but as to first
place he thinks that a Western man would
bo extremely eligible, andOIilo is farenough
West for htrn.
Congress finished a hard week's work
yesterday. It listened to the prayers of the
chaplain and turned out one Republican
member whose seat was contested. Truly,
these legislators - are making records for
themselves. Maybe they; are afraid to come
down to business because they might do
something for which tney would be sqny
before the campaign Is over.
Berlin grew more pacific yesterday and
Indianapolis took up the role of disorder.
Whether against Kaiser or corporations,
the resort to mob law is generally a futile
one.
Sm Frederick Roberts' promotion to
the barony of Candahar and Waterlord Is an
indication that England is beginning to con
sider the Importance of recognizing tbe
services of her real generals. "Bods Baha
dcr" is said to largely owe this promotion to
the fame given him by Rudyard Kipling
another case in which the sword owes a good
deal to the pen.
Six: cents is not a heavy fine, but eight
months in jail will enforce the lesson that
officials must keep the public money separ
ate from their private accounts.
Gideon Marsh has turned up again,
this timo in Brazil. If this is really and
trulv he. some of the officers should tret a
move on them and take him before hegetsl
any lurtiier away. A lie story oi what ue
knows about official malfeasance in this
State and the tale of his wanderings would
make interesting reading.
It does not require many words to .de
scribe Congressional caucusses nowadays:
"They discussed free silver and adjourned"
tells the whole story.
. The police of "Vienna have stopped the
Volkspresse from distributing food to the
poor, on the ground that the assemblages
constitute a public danger. The suppres
sion of Tolstoi is another Indication of the
imperial idea that the danger ot letting the
people get well-fed and frisky is one to be
avoided at all hazards.
It is just beginning to strike the public
that the enthusiastic way in which Cleve
land's name was not mentioned at Albany
was remarkable.
Tnn agitation of society circles in New
York by two young men who thrashed each
other in the street and are now asserting of
each other that they are despicable crea
tures, conveys an intimation that the New
Tork youth are beginning to get a correct
idea of themselves.
Cleveland has returned 'home, but no
one Bas heard of him calling -upon Hill and
congratulating him on his success at tbe snap
convention.
The act that a young woman with a
Gainsborough hat captured tho St. Louis
convention for woman suffrage, should con-
vey a pertinont suggestion to the fair sex
that the place where a largo hat is captlvat-
ing is In political conventions and not In
theaters.
The National Republican Committee as
serts that the Democratic organization is
getting far ahead ot their side. This is Im
parted under strict confidence in an appeal
for cash, bqt It will be revised when the
ante-election estimates are made up.
The amount of shuffling that is being
done in the Reading deal docs not fully pre
clude the suspicion of stacked cards.
The gold cure is now cheaper than a good
spree. Evidently the day is fast approach
ing when the man, who wants to get ajjig
on, can carry sorao of tho bi-chloride cure
with him and turn up sober at home early in
the morning.
When the third party made its platform
it forgot that It might be a bard task to find
a candidate wide enough to fit it.
TIN IN THE BL&CK HILLS.
The Mines at Harney Peak Are Undergoing
a Great Development,
Chicago, Feb. 27. "Within 60 days the new
mill at Hill City will begin the reduction of
tin ore from the Harney Peak mines," said
George T. Carr, of Rapid City, S. D., yester-.
we nave nearly an the minerals in tho
Black Hills dlstiict, and they can be.mlned
profitably, tin included, thanks to the Mc
Kinley bill. The tin mines at Harney Peak
are undergoing gieat development One
company has over 1,000 claims, and is doing
a great amount of work on four of the prin
cipal ones. Investigations have shown that1
shaltscan be sunk 1.000 .feet or more with
very few of the difficulties usually met with
in deep mining.
'Titus E. Corkhill, Mining Inspector of
Soutn Dakota, has Just rendeied a valuable
report on the mines of the State. Mr. Cork
hill is under heavy bonds, so that the cor
rectness of his reports are beyond question.
His last report shows that In the four lend
ing tin mines at Harney Peak shafts have
been sunk as follows: On the Addle, 42d feet;
on tho Gettie, 400 feet; on the Cowboy, 375
feet; on the Coates, 367 feet. Drifts have
beonmado in the Addle for a distance of
3,000 feet: in the Gertie, 700 feet; in the Cow
boy, 2,000 feet, and in the Coates, 2,000 feet,
Mr. Corkhill reports that tbe veins aie true
fissure ores. Many new silver mines are
being opened up, and with the,new chlorina
tlon works at Rapid City tbejetractory gold
ore-s can bo worked at a profit. These works
will handle 200 tons of ore a day.
' LOVED HIS CHTOCH BETIEE.
A Priest's Remorse Takes Him From
the
Side of His Young Wife.
Los Angeles, Feb. 27. Special Tho story
of the strange marriage of a Catholic priest
and his desertion of his young wife through
remorse has Just come to light here. Last
June a middle-aged man and a pretty
young woman engaged a furnished house
here. The man gave the name of
W. JJ, O'Daniel, and opened an architect's
office. His wife formed a friendship for Mrs.
Merrill, her next door neighbor. Six weeks
ago O'Daniel left home, as he said, on busi
ness, to be gone one week. After three
weeKS his wife received a letter wliloli
caused her to faint. It was written in Kan
saVClty, and said:
"You will never see me again. While I
lived with vou I suffered the tortures of the
damned. I lovo you as much as ever, but
my love lor the church was stronger. I will
hereafter devote myself to the chuich.
Other letters came fiom Cincinnati, Wash
ington, Providence and New York. AH
'warned her of the folly of following him, and
one suld it was impossible for him to obtain
absolution, and must go to Europe.
When 15, the wile was sent to
the St. Clair Convent, in Wisconsin,
i and there Father O'Donnolly, of the Doml-
cans, first met ner. one year alter, wuen
teaching in a convent at Denver, he asked
her to marry him and on May 10 last they
vt erejnaiTied in El Paso under tbe name
O'DanleU
A LONG LOST CONSCIENCE.
It Seturns to a German Alter ScTenteen
Tears of Increasing Prosperity.
Chicago, Feb. 27. A young German, with
his wife came to Chicago 17 years ago. They
were exceedingly poor. They were only able
to hire a room to sleep In. They had no cash
to pay for a bed. The youpg husband by
hard hustling had tough work securing suf
ficient money to keep his wife and himself
alive. One day he was walking along- Hal
stead street, near Madison, with his head
bowed. Suddenly he saw and picked up a
pocketbook which contained several thou
sand dollars in cash. He took this home. He
and his wife lived high for a few days. Then
he bougbt out a nice business and has made
money. He is now wealthy. In fact, he Is
almost a millionaire.
The other day his wife and ho decided that
thev ought to find a loser for the pocket
hook which made their wealth possible.
They went yesterday to City Editor Ed.
Selbmann, of the Freie Presse, and told him
tho whole Jtory of their lucky find, their
after fortune, and their willingness to pay
to the loser the pocketbook anil its contents;
and here the story ends for the present. The
couplo have placed tho pocketbook in tbe
hands of the citv editor of the .SVefe Presse,
and as soon as the book is id entitled they are
willing to pay the several thousands ot dol
lars which were contained in the book when
it was lost 17 years years ago.
A DOS CABBIES DISEASE.
Scarlet Fever Spread In Massachusetts by a
Bier Newfoundland.
Bostos, Feb. 27. Special. An instance of
the spread of scarlet fever by means of a
dog's tiavels is leported fiom the Maple
wood district, In Maiden. As the
story goes, three -children of George
Harvey, of Maplewood, havo re
cently died from tbe effects of scailet
fever. Mr. Harvey owned a Newfoundland
do?, and when the fever broke out in the
family this dog was given to a neighbor
named Beatty, two of whose children now
have the fever In Its worst form.
It Is believed that tbe germs or the disease
were carried in the dog's hair and that the
Beatty children contracted the disease by
caiessln the animal, which has since been
killed. Members of several other families
in the neighborhood are also afflicted. As
to tho possibility of the spread of the
disease in question by tho way noted, itmay
leidily be seen that a dog, and especially
one of tho shaggy-coated Jicwloundland
type, might easily get a stray bacillus in its
hair if allowed the freedom of the sickroom,
and would be apt to communicate It to any
body who fondled the animal In any way.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND was born in Ken
tucky, but has since been an inhabitant of
several other States.
Miss Fanny Crosby, the famous hymn
writer, is blind, but in spite of her affliction
is cheerful and happy.
i Colonel Booze is a prominent Third
party Prohibitionist out in Kansas. Tho
Colonel has strayed a long way from home.
Mb. Mahany, the Buffalonian who has
accepted the mission to Eucador, is said to
be the youngest, diplomatist of his rank la
the woild.
General Nelsojt A. Miles should in
the regular order of piomotlon, become the
general commanding the United States
Army two years hence.
Edward Von Holst, who will be the
professorot political history In the new Uni
versity of Chicjgo, is just Bi years of age,
which is rather young for a German pro
fessor. General Bdrd . Grtjtbb, tin his City
Troop uniform, and his bride, late "TheBose
of Lisburn," in her fresh Irish beauty and
new French dressesis said to be shaking
the social foundations of the aristocracy of
Madiid.
Sir John Everett Millais, the great
painter. Is never so happy as'when sketch
ing from nature In Scotland. Seated beside
some witnpllng burn, with an old pipe in his
mouth.he will work all day without troubling
about food.
Mr. Cleveland is 55, Senator Gorman
S3, Senator Allison 63, Senator Cullom 62 and
Senator Carlisle 56, while Boies, Gray and
Sherman are past middle life. Grant, who
was inaugurated at 47, is said to have been
the youngest President.
Ex-Senator Jones, of Iowa, who was
recently admitted to practice law before the
Supreme Court of his State, Is a veteran of
more than 90 years, ho has lived in compar
ative obscurity during the present genera
tion, but who 40 years ago was a prominent
figure in political Hie. .
TALES OF THE WAYSIDE.
A, Very Lucky Thirteen That Visited Sena
tor Quay Sampling tbe Streets of the
Hnb The New York House Whero Uly
tanBtry Bloomed.
IWMTTJCN FOB THE DISPATCH.
One of the gentlemen who returned"
from a week's visit to Senator Quay the
other day tells me that at no time has the
Senator's health been anything like as bad as
some people have madoout. An attack of
grip or a severe cold made the Senator
hurry his departure for the South, but when
he reached Saint Lucie he did not go to bed,
or even confine himself to the pretty cot
tage, if you can call a house of more than a
dozen rooms a cottage, which his son Dick
has built there. In fact, while or course Mr.
Quay Is taking extra care of himself, he Is en
Joying his usual open-air llfo In Florida, If
not In pursuit of tho terriflo tarpon, at least
out of doors on all posslblo occasions.
It will be remembered that one of the most
alarming stories about Senator Quay's
health was made tbe more credible by Mrs.
Quay's sudden departure from Washington
for the South. It was not hor husband's
health especially that hastened Mrs. Quay
toward Florida, but the very natural desire
of the Senator for his wife'si society when
the Jolly party of visitors from Pittsburg
arid elsewhere bad. gone home and left tne
house very empty. There is apparently no
reason to believe that the Junior Senator
from Pennsylvania will not be lusty enough
this summer to make a good many other
people sick.
As to the somewhat gloomy view of Diok
Quay regarding his father's health, if1 is gen
erally believed by the friends of the family
that the young man Is always disposed to be
over-anxious, and in this case has allowed
his natural and highly commendable affec
tion for, his father to cloud his Judg
ment. Those who saw the elder Quay seated
on the porch ill his shirt sleeves a. few days
ago cannot be persuaded tbat he 'has been
in ImmtnenUdanger lately, or tnat he Is
now, unleswsome great change for the
worse bas taken place, which even Dick
Quay's statement does not indicate.
A Very Lucky Thirteen,
The dread significance of the number
13 got a black eye during the trip of Mr.
Quay's guests from this city. When Messrs.
Lyon, Glenn, Richardson and the rest met
on board the sleeper at Washington, a count
of noses revealed the fact that there were 13
in the party. I don't know that everyone
of them was aware of his predicament as an
unhappy thirteenth, but I am assured that
not ope allowed it to weigh on his spirits.
When the ciowd got to the end of the rall
roadjourney at Tltusvllle, Flo., they went
to the hotel to wait till the boat left. The
hotel was full of lawyers and their clients,
with a proper sprinkling of Judges, for tho
County Court was in session, and the clerk
told the Northern arrivals that he could only
give them one room, the last he had.
A colored man conducted the dozen and
one to the room, and upon, the door the
number 13 stared at them significantly. But
the ceiling did not fall down, nor did any
one of the party commit suicide In the wash
basin. In fact, tho party got on board the
boat which was to take them down the St.
John's river without mischance of any kind.
So that the tourists might have a place to
retire for thought, or consultation with
spirits or without as the case might be, they
engaged a stateroom. Ono or two. of the
party turned pale when they learned that
stateroom No. li had been assigned to them,
but after visiting it once or twice their color
returned. Everything turned out well and
tbey reached the Quay .cottage safe and
sound In wind and linfti. Ot course tho
number 13 was overwhelmed under that
hospitable roof, but it was noted once more
that that allegedly unlucky number pursued
the Pittsburgers, lor when they went out
fishing for the first time there were exactly
13 in the boat.
A Boston Herdlo as an Educator.
One of the few advantages of going
away from Pittsburg Is that you may thus
discover that we have not the worst street
pavements lu the country. A picturesque
If rather heioic way of gaining this Infor
mation in Boston is to hire a herdlo. You may
see from the ridges of tho brick sidewalk a
certain amount of the roadway's irregulari
ties, but you cannot appreciate it3 rugged
contempt for levels till you adventure your
carcass upon It In a herdlc. The sinuosities
of Boston streets are also best impressed In
this method upou the traveler thronzh the
sense of feeling. The herdic-driver never
slacks up for a curve, nor hesitates about
turning a corner at full speed. You are
likely to grasp the revelation of a herdlo
lidemost thoroughly the next day. Arni
ca is said to have a larger sale than any
other medicament, excluding cough mix
tures only, in Boston; and the herdi,o pro-,
prietors commonly aie in the drug business
also.
After a short experience in a herdlc, I de
cided that my Impress ion that a ride in a
hack to an early morning fire on Fenn
avenue was the roughest to be had in the
United States, was erroneous.
A Desert Where a Uly Bloomed.
Near Ninth avenue, on the upper side
of Twenty-third street. New York, there is
an old-fashioned red-brick house, which is
set back from tho street behind a stout iron
railing, and gateways with stone-capped
brick posts and heavy iron gates. It has a
modest 'retiring look, and hardly suggests
its owner, Mrs. Langtry, who for a time
bloomed within its walls. It was, I believe,
the gift of Freddie Gebhardt, and certainly
was the home of the enamored couple when
they were in New York together. Since the
Lily went back to her native clime the house
has been little used, and for most or the
time has been practically i-hut ud and de
serted, as It was the other day when I
passed it.
The people who live in that part of
Twenty-third street are not poetical enough
to bemoan the gloom and silence which has
fallen upon the solitary red-bilck lellc of a
bygone day. The dwellers in the hideous
bi ownstone fronts near by still talk with ele
vated eyebrows of the midnignt parties that
used to make the demure face of the old house
a howlinz mockery. The golden-haired sou-
brcttes and the cloaked clubmen no longer
roll up to Its hospltablo gates In cab and
brougham, and snatches of jocund song no
more make the horse car drivers envious of
the singers in the home of the Lily. In fact,
a sign, "For Sale," shows that the goddess of
the place has larger need of ducats in Eng
land than a retired city box in the metropo
lis of the West.
An Explosive Disease Surely.
At one of the hotels owned by the Uuss
family in Harrisburg and from appearances
the hotels at the State Capital will be ex
hausted before the Russ family is satisfied
J ust'pVe vious to ray arrival an accident had
taken place. The ammonia tank in tbe ice
machine had sailed skyward, fortunately
taking with it only the Intermediate sec
tions of floors and l oof. A reporter from a
local paper was on tho scene investigating
when I arrived. He had cornered a white
haired son of Ham, one of those delightful
old Southern negroes of whom not a low aro
to be found in Harrisbuig, and was extract
ing from himsuch details of the explosion
as the official shoeblack and factotum of the
hotel possessed. I judge that the informa
tion was not so valuable for tiuth as it was
rich in fancy, for I heard the old man say:
"No, sah t'want dat way fall. All I knows
Is dat de pneumony tank ob de electric ma
chino busticated all ob a sudden, an' all
dat's left is do fragments nothin' certain
suah but de fragments!"
HEFBtrair Johns.
WAITING FOR MX OWN.
Boston Globe.?
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
I rave no more igainst time or Tate,
For lot iny own shall come to me.
I stay my haste, I make delays;
For what avails this eag?r pace ?
I stand amid the eternal wars.
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
. The friends I seek arc seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray.
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter If I stand alone?
I wait with Joy tbe coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown.
And garner up its fruits of tears.
The waters know their own, and draw
The brook that springs in yonder heights;
So flows the good with equal law
. 'Unto the so.l of pure delights.
Yon Soweret nodding in the wind
Is ready plighted to the bee;
And, maiden, why fhatlouk unkind f
, Forlo! thy lover Jeckeththcc.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, norpace,'nor deep, nor nigh.
Can keep my own away from me.
CAPITALISTS IN FL0BIDA.
Philadelphians Invest in Sugar and Form a
Big Stock Company.
JAcKSOztvitLE, Feb. 27. A party or New
York and Philadelphia capitalists bas been
In this State since Monday. They came in a
private car as tlie guests of Archibald C.
Haynes, of New York. They have visited
Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Tampa, Klsslmi
nee and St. Cloud, and returned to this city
this morning. The object or their visit to
St. Cloud was to inspect tho susar fields and
mill of the' Florida Sugar Manulacturlng
Company, and tne rice fields and rico mill of
Kelly Bros., lately of Louisiana. Since their
return here arrangements -have been made
for the purchase of the plant of the Messrs.
Kelly, and the Hamilton Disston Sugar and
Rice Company has been organized with a
capital or 11,000,000, most of which has al
ready been taken np by Messrs. Disston and
Haynes aud their friends.
The ner company will cultivate over 3.0CO
acres In sugar and rice, and within the next
four or five months will begin the erection
or a sugar mill with u canacity of at least COO
barrels of refined sugar per dav. In Mr.
Havnes" party aro the following New York
and Philadelphia gentlemen: Hamilton
Disston, C. H. T. Collls, A. 8. Harender,
Charles Casoer, Warren M. Healey, George
Prehin, Daniel Elmer, R. L. Hart, Colonel J.
M. Andrews. Dr. W. M. Rnnkwell .fnlm A.
Balestier, W. E. Taylor, A. L. Strassbuigefs,
LJ. J. Finlay, C. W. Beisar, J. F. Andrews, J.
v. .ciuiik, jiiutiu x. um-rou, joun ivouerts
and Colonel J. J. Duval.
DEC0BATED BY THE MIKADO.
I
The Grand Ribbon of the Chrysanthemum
for Mexico's President.
City of 'Mexico, Feb. 27. Tbe Emperor of
Japan, as a testimonial of appreciation of
Mexico's recognizing Japan as a first-class
power, has bestowed decorations as follows:
President Diaz, Grand Ribbon of the Chrys
anthemum: Secretary of State Mariscal, first
class ribbon of the Imperial Order of the
Rising 'Sun; Mauriclo Waltheim, Secretary
of tbe Mexican Legation in Japan, third
class ribbon of the Imperial Order of tho
Sacred Treasury. No Mexican official can
accepta decoration from a foreign Govern
ment without the sanction of Congress, but
Congress will probably authorize the accept
ance of these proffered courtesies.
Phllomeno Matta, editor of ElDiariodel
Hooar, has been Imprisoned by tbe Govern
ment for severely criticising the speech re
cently made Dy Secretary Mariscal at a
banquet. Matta has served many terms of
impiisonment for criticism of officials. In
his last issue he pronounces untrue tne state
ment published in the United States that
Diaz will have no opposition In the pending
Presidental election. Matta declares that at
a convenient moment an opposition will be
manifested which will strike terror to the
heart of Diaz.
THIRD PARTI SPLINTERS.
t xt win oo pretty nam to get at tne real
sense of that meeting of cranks in St. Louis.
Chicago Tribune.
They are getting spa third party in St.
Louis. This is about the sixteenth third
party now in existenc Chicago Xews.
If those doleful patriots in convention at
St. Louis see anything In the world that
suits them they failed to mention the fact.
Cliicaao Times.
For a crowd whose object is to spread
peace and content all over this country tho
People's party seems to have started out
with its left foot. Chicago Mail.
The extraordinary gathering at St. Louis Is
composed of the debris of the Farmers' Alli
ance and the political wire pullers of differ
ent other organizations. Toledo Blade.
Accobdiho to the People's party dictionary
a "vampire" is a man who objects to the
platform. How to describe a man who goes
in for the suh-Treasuary has not yet been
fixed. Kansas City Star.
THBEE-POTJBIHS TO ABTAHD CHABITY.
A Million Dollars Given by Will to Phila
delphia Institutions.
Philadelphia, Feb. 27. By the death of
Mrs. Anna Wiistach at Philadelphia yester
day, a fortune estimated at over $1,000,000
will be divided among various charity insti
tutions. According to the will ot her hus
band, who died 21 years ago at Saratoga,
one-fourth goes to the Apprentices' Library
of this city: one-fourth to tbe State of Penn
sylvania or the city of Philadelphia to estab
lish a pnbllc picture gallery similar to tbat
at Dresden.
If neither the city nor the Strte accepts
the bequest within three years it re verts to
the Academy of Fhie Arts, irthat does not
accept the terms of the will the money will
revei t to the Apprentices' Library. Another
fourth Is divided among a number of char
itable organizations, and the remaining
fourth goes to relatives.
THE FAVOBED ALTEHS.
A Radical Change May Be Mads In the
Labor System of Pnblio Works.
Misseafolis, Feb. 27. A radical change
will bo made in the employment of labor in
public wotks in this city. Heretofore many
aliens have been employed, and there are
now pending in the United States courts
many suits for damages, in which aliens
figure as plaintiffs. The law provides that
when aliens employed by corporations and
cities,receive injuries in the performance of
any duty assigned them, they can sue for
damages in tbe United States courts and re
cover. To bring such actions they aro only re
quired to state the sovereignty of which
they are subjects. As a result, they are
given benefits which cannot bo had by citi
zens in the State courts. In most cases the
aliens have been residents of the city for
years.
HIGHER PRICES FOR COAL
Air advance In the price of coal is a Baron
vie tor v. Chicago Tribune.
The big coal deal of last week is already
recognized as a movo to squeeze more
money out of the consumers of coal. Provi
dence Telegram.
An advance of 25 cents on a ton of coal Is
apt to become an advance ot $2 50 a ton by
the time it reaches thepoor family that buys
by the scuttleful New York World.
The mines of Pennsylvania must be wrest
ed from the combine which has seized them
and thrown open to the people. Tho coal
combination is a conspiracy, and must be
broken up. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ir the Hard Coal Trust pufs up the price of
its product Congress must remove the duty
on soft coal, so that that article enn be sold
cheaper, and thus cut off tho market of the
hard coal barons. The Republican plan of
dealing with trusts is to attack them at the
Custom House whenever possible. St Louis
Olcbe-Dtmocrat.
Uc questionably its object is to control
and put up the highest limit the price of
coal; and this is a matter of serious imuort
to every person who is obliged to use that
fuel. It gives an excellent opportunity to
learn whether the administration has any
desire to enforce the anti-trust law which
was passed with so much p trade and has
since been permitted to drop into oblivion.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
DEATHS HERE ASD ELSEWHERE.
Abe S. Sherrlck, Cokn Operator.
Abe S. Shcrrick, the veteran coke oper
ator, died at his Lome, two miles south of Scott
dale. Friday, of the grip. Besides being a large
coke operator, Mr. Sherrlck wan a genuine sirarts
man. and was the owner of several fast horses,
his finest being Dandv. with a record of 2:1$X.
Mr. Shcrrick but recently added anuther trotter tu
his stables, and had his Horses already in training
lor the coming campaign. A special train will
couvey his remains lroni his lite residence at
1'ennsvIIIe to Alverton to-morrow.
Captain Joseph Nixon.
Captain Joseph Nixon, on old rivcrman
on the Ohio, died at his home In Hazelwood yester
day from la grippe. He was 63 years old., having
been borand alwavs llrlng In Pittsburg. He has
been In the steamboat business for 35 jcars. and
was the first man to rUD a boat from Pittsburg to
Orcen Bay, Wis. The funeral services will be held
Monday morning at 9 o'ctock lu St. Stephen's
Church, Hazelwood.
Obituary Notes.
EI.IAS WntTE Hale, M. D of Bellefonte, Is
dead at the age or S3.
Thomas Ke-vxabd, a well-known pugilist, died
in Jail at Ashland. Wis.. Friday night, teath being
due to excessive drinking.
Mas. Ida I. Hope, who died at u$r home In
New York City, Wednesday night, was a teacher
In the Five Po.nfs Mission In IS87. blie taught
sewing, cooking aud knitting. In I8S3 she began
teaching cooklugiclasscs in the public schools, and
last year she was made teacher or the training class
In the Normal College. She had class-s also lu the
Young Woman's Christian Association.
POETRY WRECKED BY FACT.
The Gifted French Astronomer Fulled
Down From a Pinnacle or Fancy Prose
About the Snn's Going Out A Cor
respondent's Application of Common
Sense. .
To the Kdltor of Tbe Dtspatehi
About on a level with his utterly im
practicable plan to communicate, by means
of a caseous triangle of M-intle sides, with
the supposititious inhabitants on tho planet
Mam, are M. Camille Flammarion's ill
digested notions on the temporary death ot
the sun, and his conception of consequent
glacial action, which he bases on such a
hypothesis.
The word "notions" Is employed with re
gret, hut It is the proper term to apply to
much of his fantastic and unscientific
imagery, set forth in his article in The Dis
patch last week. One notes with regret in
the first few sentences of his otherwise
Interesting paper, that he Is scaling along
dangerous path?, that he is treading the
verge of yawning precipices, and scarcely is
he started, when ho turns from all analysis
and nnalogy and serenely walks away on
airy nothingness!
Hear the echoes of his mental footfalls as
they come back from his exuberant imagi
nation: "Yes, our great and beautiful snn maybe
extinguished Hnd may be illuminated again.
In the space of a few weeks he may allow
death to Invade the world. Ho may sit upon
his throne In, a darkened sky like a weird
specter reigning over a vast burial ground.
He may then rise anew from his ashes and
again support the lire which had for the
moment disappeared and continue to main
tain it for months, years and ages."
This is the acme of condensed pathos. It
will bear considerable dilution and still be
pathetic. It Is as figurative as the produc
tion of a sophomore, but it lacks, in that it
was born or neither analysis nor synthesis.
It is not potent enouirh in mental avoirdu-
Sois to press on a foundation. Winnowed
y investigation, it goes out with the chaff.
In Entirely Too Big a Hurry.
Let us examine some of these proposi
tions and see what they possess.
"Our sun may be extinguished and may be
illuminated again."
Our snn has a diameter of over 800.000
miles, a luminous mass of tne highest order
of incandescence. Now does anyone tbat
understands anything of the nature of a
fire in a common coal stove riven,
imagine that an Incandescent mass of
only ono mile In diameter could be
"extinguished and be again Illuminated" in
short ordert Does the author of this idea
presume that tho sun is running on ir
responsible arbitrariness, on Imp-hazard, on
no regard to natural law? Is It a bay-stack
conflagration that bo Is discussing.
It seems like a sinful waste of time, paper
and pencil, to refute such a meaningless,
such a fonndatlonless oronosltion. A?nin;
"In the space or a few weeks, he may allow
death to invado the world."
That Is, as M. Flammarion sees it, the
mighty ma!S or the sun, billions on billions of
cubic miles of incandescent flame, may part
with his Heat "in a few weeks" in about as
much time as It takes a glass furnace to
cool and he may then arise anew from bis
ashes and continue business at the old
stand,. issue a circular letter to his old
customers, thanking them for past patron
age and hoping for a continuance of
the same under the new organization!
Then, "life, which had for the moment dis
appeared," presiimablv in a moment bobs
up again in full-fledged development, with
no untold ages of evolutionary processes,
while the bones of Humboldt, Darwin,
Helmholtz, Haeckel et al rattle in their
graves. And all this Is predicated on the
variable light of certain stars, and presum
ably because it is easier to set np such cheap-hand-me-down
hypothesis tnan by painstak
ing, intellectual effort, reach out and grasp
a wider range of celestial physics and thus
evolve at least a theorv that might worthily
find a place In tho catalogues of science.
Juggling With a World ot Ice.
After this deliverance one is prepared
for what he says relating to the slacial
epoch. Here again he shows himself a mere
tyro In his conception of the consequences
that would ensue to tbe earth should tho
sun go out, leaving his planetary family to
"wander darkling in the eternal space."
"But tho temperature dropped to such a
point as not to leave a drop of water in tbe
liquid state. A dark sky hung over tho
-world. NaturestoodstlH.likaamanaboutto
faint and fall, and lifo went out.
This glacial epoch, visible traces of which
are still found everywhere by geologists, ex
tended all over the globe. Was man already
in existence? Was he witness, to this grea't
catastrophe? To protect himself and save
his budding race, did he find some shelter
ing volcano, some equatorial isle, a refuge
forgotten In the universal cataclysm?"
Here we are told tbat the temperature
dropped until there was not a drop or water
nncongealed and then, following this condi
tion, came a "universal cataclysm!" As a
cataclysm is an inundation, of continental
and probably of hemispherical proportions,
one has to take a perch outside or all ohysics
to set a"cinch" on thfsexccedinglyillogical
declaration!
This all-ice and at the same time all-water
condition, "extended over the entire irlobe."
This is something new and strange if true.
But since tnerois just so much and no more
water on tne giooe. anu since tne quantity is
not sufficient to submerge, either in solid or
liquid form, "the entire irlobe" at one time,
liow under the sun could this tako place,
with tne snn living or dead? Will Monseiur
kindly fnrnish diagrams to illuminate some
of his propositions?
Much Poetry and Little taw.
This deponent pleads guilty to a men
tal condition entirely too obtuse to go into
an intellectual ecstacy over the alleged in
formation which this eminent French as
tronomer is endeavoring to Impart. Did the
sun die, did he in an instant cease to emit
heat or light, no Adirondack rock forma
tions would pack their grips for 1,000-mile
Journeys, nor would they, from that cause,
be found testing on the summits of tho high
hills of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Did the
solar sphere go out In ushe-, nothing of a
cataclysmic character would ensue, and
weiothe sun's Are once ''extinguished" it
would not be so readily "illuminated"
again, no more s'o than when we have
burned a ton of coal wo may again take up
the arhes and go over the snmepiocess and
obtain the same results.
It is almost Impossible to bear tho suspi
cion tbat this eminent astronomer does not
vet grasD tbe great underlying scientific
fact, that every law of natrre has an eter
nal integrity and an unchanging consist
ency. Wo can seo w.iat does happen when
the temperature diops from summer heat to
winter cold and. as some of ns have seen the
mercury from 20 to 40 below zero, we have
seen a falrstait of what would follow, with
n temperature of from 50 to 000 below zero.
No miles could blow, lor thero would be no
Inequality or atmosphere to seek equilib
rium; no snow cou.d tall, for no vapor could
nso and there would ensue simply silence
and death. No hills would be planed off, no
valleys filled up, nothing would follow of a
glacial character.
Camilla Must Have an Object.
iJut our scientist asks, "Was manalready
in existence?" Inasmuch as the tombstones
or paleontology nowhere seem to have any
inscriptions bearing on the creature known
as man, wo conclude that he was not present,
or, that, with the usual long-headed fore
sight of the equatorial human, he bad sought
the shelter of a volcano, -to save his bud
ding race," and there lay low until the sun
got tired "sitting upon his throne in a
darkened sky,"straiglitened ont his legs and
recovered from his opacity to look after his
languishing business interests!
And then, oh what a thaw was there, my
countrvmen!
About the same answer would.have been
given concerning the horse, but we are
gravely informed that he was "galloping
over the plains" the geological creaturebe
ing about the size of a j ick rabbit when
every drop of water suddenly congealed,
when all flesh was comatosed "thrown Into
a silent trance" and the ice treated itself to
a "uuleial cataclysm" and when a tem
perature o unusually low had so condensed
the atmosphere that It might havo been
used lor doorsteps! .
But, seriously, what is the meaning of M.
Flammarion's positions? II.is ho heard or
the attention that all kinds or prophetic
cranks and tcnsutlon mongers are getting
in this country, and ho is simply unloading
a commodity which he thinks that the
American market domands? It cannot be
common lenorance that Inspired this late
article; what then lies back or it? N.
Fjsbbuaby 27.
Will the Flower Bloom or Fade.
N ew York Recorder.
Mr. Flower will go to Chicago. Will It bo
tho Flower that bloometh or a little faded
one?
Still Sitting on Presidental Uggs.
Washington Post.l
Senator Vest is still settin on that nest
full of Presidents! eggs.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
London has 65,000 Germans.
Uncle Sam has 73,015 paupers.
Japan has 1,100 miles of railroad,
A Philadelphian owns 33 finger-rinss
and Zl suits of clothes.
Wars durins: the last 33 years have cost
2,500,000 men and $3,005,000,000.
Out of the 32 ducal and princely 'er.-J..
lies established by Napoleon L It are ex
tinct. It takes an expenditure of nearly J20,000
to carry & vessel like the Majestic across the
Atlantic.
A Biddeford, ile., fisherman caught a
lobster that weighed 23 pounds. He sent it
to New York.
The Penobscot lot; cut this year is 100,
000,000 feet. About 110,000,000 feet como down
the Kennebec.
A white woman named Brown was mar
ried a few davs aro tn a nerTo named Green
at Ironton, Ohio.
It is 8 matter of record that' 19,570
dollars -Sere coined in 1804, yet only eight
samples are known to exist, and those that
are in good condition aro valued at 1,000
each.
It is computed by well-informed per
sons that Maine ha3 woodenouch tomako
28,000,000 tons or pulp, or a GO years' supply
for all tbe pulp mills now running in the
country.
The wreck, 65 years ago, on the coast oi
Maine, of tho steamship Royal Tar, which
carried a menagerie, has been recalled re
cently by the finding of several hippopota
mus teeth near Rockland.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of 50,000 square miles.
It Is all meadow land and is filled with lakes,
ponds and canals. Altogether it is as largo
as the States or New York and Pennsylvania
combined.
The bell that will ring the hours from
the steeple of tho college church at Notra
Dame, Ind., is the largest on the continent.
Eight men can easily stand erect within it,
and its tones can be distinctly heard a dis
tance of 12 miles.
The clock in the House of Commons
suddenly stopped last Monday, and, as tho
same thing happened In 188B, when the party
in power suffered a big defeat, the incident, '.
London accounts stated, is "generally re- f
garded as an omen." I
Work has been started on a pulp and
paper mill at Winslow, on the Kennebec
river, Me., which is to havo a capacity larger
than that or any other mill in the world. It
will turn out 75 to SO tons of manlUa paper
daily, and employ 250 men.
The seven wonders of America aro
classed as follows: Niagara Falls, Yellow
stone Park, Mammoth Cave, the Canyons
and Garden or the Gods, Colorado: the giant
trees, California: the natural bridge, Vir
ginia, and the Yosemite Valley.
The daily water supply of London is
175,119,188 gallons, of which about 90,000,000
pallons are drawn from the river Thames,
and a little over 85,000,000 from ths river Lea
and from various artesian wells. The aver
age supply per capita is 33.93 gallons.
The irregularity of Mnrae's coast line is
indicated by the fact that a Lubeck man
who bought a horse in Eostport was obliged
to drive tbe animal more than 40 miles to
reach his home, although tbe two towns are
only three miles apart In a straight line.
A Japanese gentleman named Gompeif
has patented a little instrument which en
ables the possessor to send "a cloud of blind
ing dust" into tbe eyes of a foe at a distance
or 12 feet. It is said that the poor "foe" is
thereby absolutely deprived of sight, and, is
therefore, of course, at the mercy of his as
sailant. Hundreds of imported song birds were
turned loose a few days ago.nearBeaverton,
Oregon. They seemed delighted to regain
their freedom and at once rose high in the
air, singing eaily, and then made a wide cir
cle and settled along a creek which run3
through the meadow.
Large families are very common among;
the factory population of Lewlstown, Me.
Henry McCraw has raised 19 children, of
whom 13 are now living. The mother is a
healthy woman of 43. Noel Gaudetts baa
raised 19 children, of whom 11 are living
tho youngest 11 years of ago and tho eldest
S3.
,, The snake season has opened np promis-nslj-in
Georgia. A few days ago a colored
man there wa3 chased three miles by a
coacb-whip snake, and only escaped finally,
so it is reported, by doubling in his tracks
so suddenly that the snake, "in turning
around to follow, did It so violently as to'
snap Itself in two." '
A great deal of misinformation is being
circulated as to whlcn is the largest
schooner afloat. Everybody on the Atlantic
coast thinks that the live masted schooner
Governor Ames is the largest of all fore and
afters, but this is a mistake. Tbe lamest
schooner in the last published Government
list is the Golden Age, 1.763 tons; built at
Abbott's Bridge, O., in 1S33, and hailing from
Sandusky.
No fewer than 13,000,000 acres of bar
ren land have been made fruitful in the Sa
hara Desert, an enterprise representing per
haps the most remarkable examnle of Irri
gation by means or artesian wells which can
anywhere bo round. Algeria owes to this
method of cultivation that it is becoming a
most important wine-producing country, as
may be ganzed from the fact tbat it sent to
Franco in 1SS6 10,500,000 gallons.
Dr. Billroth estimates that of the cas
ualties at Weissenbnrg and Worth during
the Franco-German war. 80 per cent of all
the wonnds were caused by rifles, about 15
per cent by the large guns, and not quite 5
percent by the lance and sword. 3Ir.Forbes,
however, s.iys that the statistics for the,
whole of the war on the German side prove
that over 9'J per cent were due to rifle Are,
about 9 Tier cent to artillery, and about 1 per
cent to cold steel.
The California pioneer now havinj tho
best claim to long residence on the Pacific
coast and old age is believed to be Alfred, or
Don Alfredo, Robin3on, who went out from
Boston in July, 132S. He was one of tho pro
ttctors of Richard Henry Dana while serv
ing his "two years before the mast." In
lf4S he entered the service of the Pacific
Mail Company, and the following year
erected in San Francisco a wooden house,
which cost $100 in New York, and sold for
SlOjDOO.
BKIEr HCMOKESQTJES.
Bank Teller This check, madame, isn't
filled In.
Madame-Isn't what?
Bark Teller It has your husband's name signed
to it, but it does not state how much money yoa
want- ,
3Iadame-Ob. Is that aD Wen, I'll take all there
Is. Harptr's Bazar.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts supremely blest,
A minister, a nuptial knot.
And who can tell the rest?
' Few Tork Prtsi.
"Von
weren t mad, then, when your
daughter eloped?"
Notmucn."
Why did yoa pursue them so hotly for 3J
miles?"
-I was afraid they might repent and come back."
Judge.
Cholly I'm afwaid I shall have to givs
up me gyrk
Chappy What's the mattah;
Cholly Aw, her complexion cawn't be made to
match me wed tles.-ts York Herald.
When ice is in the gutter,
And the snownale's on the wing;
When we ride out in a cutter
To tbe slelgli-beUs' silvery Jlng
Then Is tbo time to rhyme it.
And in Joyous praises sing
The (In this consistent climate)
Merry advent or the spring.
Puct.
Carruthers W.bat made you act soqueerly
when Mr. Pruyn presented bis daughter to yon?
Walte-I always feel suspicious of those men who
are so blamed anxious to give awav the'.r daught
ers. Second Thoughts.
Jessie George is a perfect slave to EtheL
Bessie What makes you think so?
Jessie I Jumped out from behind a portiere last
"night. She screamed: "Murder!" The17.,.7,,a4
hardlvontof her month before she said: Men,
I'll be hangcd!"-SnufA. Gran & Co.'s Jtmthlj.
Faint heart may ne'er win lady fair,
The reason. Isnpp'se.
Is just becaose on leap year all
The homely ones propose.
bew Yurs Herald,
Mrs. McGlntr I want to buy some soap.
Gentlemanly Clerk-Do you want it for toilet
purposes? ."-:"' . ,
Mrs. McGInty An' indade an' Ol doantl Ot
want It to wash me face i and aandi wld.--wto.'
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