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PAltT DisrATCH, One Tear 3 60 Datlt Dispatch, PerQuarter SCO Daily Dispatch, OneMontli 70 DailT Dispatch, Including Eunda y, 1 year.. 30 CO Daily Dispatch, including Sunday. 3 m'ths. 1 50 Dailt Dispatch, Including Monday. 1 in'th. 90 SCi)AY Dispatch. One Tear ISO "Weekly Dispatch. One Tear 125 The Daily Dispatch Is dellverea by carriers at IScents per week. or. InflwUntbunday Edition, at JO cents per week. PITTSBUEG. MONDAY, MABCH 7. the crrrs revenue. The statement of the difference between the actual receipts of the city for the last fiscal year and the estimated receipts, given in our local columns, affords a guide in figuring on the revenue of the city for the coming year. It is evident from the statement that the deficiency of 5350,000 is composed chiefly of two shortages that of nearly $200,000 'on the revenue from the tax levy of 15 mills, and that of about 5120,000 in the estimate of miscellaneous receipts. The first error is the obvious one of failing to allow any deduction from the city tax levy on account of delinquent taxe. The estimate included a revenue of 5310,000 for the payment of taxes levied in previous years, but did not take into consideration that a corresponding amount of taxes was likely to delinquent on that levy. The over-estimate from miscellaneous receipts appears to have been simply a case of wild guessing. The deficiency of 5360,000 has to be met in this year's appropriation ordinance, but there are two items which will nearly offset it the increased revenue from liq uor licenses and the unused contingent street appropriation of last year. Beyond these items the work of keeping down taxation will depend entirely on the vigor with vhich appropriations are pruned of unnecessary expenditures. Of course, if appropriations are permitted to swell, tax ation must swell with them. PAETISlSSHxr XN THE CENSUS. The fact that the 2"ew Tork rensus now In process under direction of the State is attacked by the Republican papers as in accurate, worthless, and inspired by polit ical manipulation, is an indication of the decree to which partisan politics are mak- "fyionest popular Government impossi WeW'Jt tflqes not make any difference to the organs whether the work is really well and honestly Bone or not Party spirit in spires the attack in one case as well as an other. The damage is two-fold. A large share of the people in either event are unable to place any faith in the results of sjrublic administration. In addition, the custom .of crying "wolf" at all times, makes it impossible to secure any atten tion when the cry is well-founded. Beyond that, the evidence produced against the accurate discharge of the census work demonstrates the impractic ablity of securing efficiency under the machine system. Whether there is a deliberate purpose to manipulate the census for partisan advantage may be left to individual judgment of the antecedent probabilities from the character of men in charge. But both cases point very strongly to the fact that when party spirit rules adminis tration it is impossible to take a census thoroughly, promptly and with indisputed accuracy. This will continue to be the case so long as partisanship permits the supremacy of a political organization to be taken into consideration before the welfare and rights of the whole country. ONE ANTI-PASS ENACTMENT. It is an interesting variety to find one case of legislators who actually pass a bill prohibiting the use of railway passes by themselves. Legislators galore have proposed and discussed such measures, but when it came to actually giving up the joys of dead-head travel, law.-makers have invariably voted down such reformatory privileges. The exception is the lower House of the Massachusetts Legislature, , which passed such a bill last week. The little fact that the bill provides for the self-sacrificing statesmen who passed it an allowance of $2 per mile for mileage, may be thought to detract somewhat from the genuineness of the reform. It cer tainly proves that the Massachusetts leg- . islators are able to recosnize a good thing when they see it in the shape of a mileage allowance some eighty times the actual cost of railway tickets. But the people of Massachusetts should be grateful to the legislators that they did not make themselves the mileage allowance and re tain the free pass privilege as well COEPOEATE REPUDIATION. The Xew Tork correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, who aspires to be the especial representative of Wall street opinion, thinks that. Chicago is in danger of getting a bad reputation. "The Coun cil of that city," he says, "seems to have repudiated its obligations and taken away the franchise of a gas company after that company, by its consent, had been consoli datPd with the Chicago Gas Trust." On this text the correspondent goes on to say that while Wall street morals may not be very strict, it will not condone the offense of repudiation. That is, it is unforgiving where the re pudiation does not suit it; but it is most tolerant when corporations repudiate their charter obligations. In the case referred to the repudiation was notoriously on the part of the gas company. It obtained its franchises from the city under the condi tion and on the consideration that it should establish competition in the gas business. Having secured valua ble concessions on that plea it repudiated its psrt of the contract It sold out to & combination de clared illegal by the courts and maintain ing its existence notoriously in defiance of the law. Having repudiated its charter obligations it was rightly treated by-the withdrawal of the franchises given It by the city of Chicago. If more franchises were forfeited for the same reason, the defiance and evasion cf charter obligations and constitutional rights by corporations would become less frequent Wall street would do more to maintain' the stability of corporate investments, If it put corporations under the ban which re pudiate the obligations of their charters. But there is more in it for the manipula tors by disregarding charters and law, and consequently Wall street takes It out in tabooing communities which assert their rights against lawless corporations. THE IV A X TO RETALIATE The excitement over the reported re- fncal Af thft Torv Rovpmment to. maintain the modus vivendi for the protection of seals, penaing me arwirauon pruceeuuiKs, has reached the expected result of war Talb- Tho nm Is Tint offipinllv corrob orated, but it is given with such persist ence and confidence that tne general opin ion Is that it has some foundation. Of course, the talk of the junior naval officers who put themselves so strongly in evidence In connection with the Chilean trouble about the glories of a war with England is simple nonsense. A war with England over a lot of seals would be sui cidal folly. There is no such question of national honor involved that we need to enter into a conflict which would result in cutting off our commerce and blockading our ports. Moreoverthere is no necessity of in curring such disasters In order to record our resentment of such an unjustifiable act on the part of the British Cabinet England is as much interested in the preservation of the seals as the United States. If Lord Salisbury will not act in good faith in preserving them while the disputed questions are under arbitration, the United States Government has a com plete measure of retaliation. Let it authorize the killing of all the seals on tne islands, secure the full revenue of 55,000,000 to 510,000,000 from the catch thus obtained, and let the world go with out sealskins after the stock thus captured is exhausted. The worm can live wiiuout sealskins, if necessary. Such a course would leave the Arbitra tion Commission the task cf deciding what should be done with a defunct seal fishery. But that would be better than to inflict on civilization the disaster of a war between England and the United States. ROBINSON'S TWO SALARIES. Congressman Robinson's course In giving away in charity the $1,500 salary he drew as member of the State Senate and keeping the 53,800 which he drew as Con gressman for the same period is arousing a good deal of comment The accuracy with which Robinson gave away the smaller sum and selected the larger for his own indicates his financial judgment, but it does not do as well for his logic. The Dispatch pointed out some time ago that Mr. Robinson could have covered his salary as Congressman back into the United States Treasury, and thus avoid" the necessity of seeking out charitable ob jects to receive one of his double salaries. There is even a stronger incongruity than that While he continued to serve as State Senator, Congressman Robinson vehemently asserted that he did not be come a Congressman till he was sworn in. His subsequent action indicates his belief that all that time he was Congressman for the purpose of drawing his salary, and State Senator for the purpose of keeping things straight at Harrisburg. In view of the logical difficulties into which Mr. Robinson's action has thus landed him, one cannot sufficiently admire the superior judgment displayed by Governor-Senator David B. Hill In quietly pocketing botlLsalaries and saying nothing about it Remembeses a that 1891 was scheduled by the prophets to a year of disaster, It is Interesting to note that 1892 Is now set down for the same as jet unfulfilled troubles. The prophets should study their predictions in the light of the past and learn the wisdom of silence. The report that Mr. Russell B. Harrison gave what ho called "a state dinner" at the White House the other day indicates that the glowing prospects of the Harrison boom create their own drawdaek by the levival of the superfluousness of Russell. For the past six months or so. the younger Harrison has been kept in a state of suppression; but if the report is true the present situation makes that lively young man irrepressible. A two-milxion census of New York City would inaicate that the Democratic! census-takers are as expert in counting in their way, as Porter's census-takers were in not counting in the other way. One eminent stock operator is frank enough to tell the truth on the witness stand about the anthracite coal combination. That person is Mr. Russell Sage, who says, what everyone knows, that the purpose of the combination is to put up the price of coal by suppressing competition. It is also instructive to note that Mr. Sage indulges in this frankness when he is outside of the combination. If Governor Flower should remark "Eats!" to the franchise grabbers by a veto of the bills before him it might condone bis previous misplaced lesort'to (Haileffete bit of slang. We observe that an enthusiast is out with a new boom for the hot water cure of some years ago. He bases the demonstration of the cure on the process of "creating a dis ease ana then curing it" This suggests the practice of the old time quack who boasted that he always achieved success by scaring tho patient into fits and then exclaimed, "I'm death on fits." A ten mill tax levy will represent a proper retrenchment in the lavish city ex pendituresof the past two years. Nothing over it will do so. "That is the way we talk in Kansas," remarked tho Hon. Jerry Simpson the other day when called to order lor having alluded to a collcgue as "an iniquitous railroad at torney." Jerry must learn that the wild Western manner of calling a spade a spade will not be permitted under the Pickwickian rules of debate. Weix, if England will not play, square on tho arbitration question, will not the next best thing be to let England go without sealskins? An angry theater-goer in the East has entered suit against a theatrical manager claiming damages for the non-appearance of the star singer whom he paid his money to hear. These unreasonable fellows who think they ought to get what they paid for willkickup a'row now and then, but it makes no difference in the long ran. According to reports from the county Jail ex-Market Clerk Hastings is engaged in right employment there. He is cleaning lamps. The city of Buffalo's fight ou the grade crossing question is blocked by the ob stinacy of one railroad, notwithstanding the fact that Buffalo has law enough on the statute book to bring any railroad to terms. Tho failure to enforce the laws we have is a more prolific source of modern evils than the lack of adequate new ones. Perhaps England is mad because Uncle Sam has dropped the "ii" in Bering Sea. IT is worthy of note that while Judge Van Brunt's threat to discharge the Jury in the Field case last week was declared by tile lawyeisiu the case to bo unprecedented, it had the salutary effect or inducing those same lawyers to promptly wind up their otherwise interminable .proceedings. THE AH OTIEBESTIHG POSSIBILITY A Chance That There May Be a Tie IB the Next Electoral College. New Tork Recorder. The fact that the Electoral College chosen on the 8th of November will be composed of an even number of members renders pos sible a contingency that has been possible only once since 1856, and, has never.before been probable during the entire voting by Presidental electors, first practiced in 1821. The contingency reterred to is an equal di vision of electors between two candidates, thus making the vote of the college tie. During the most recent eight Presidental contests it has been possible to tie the elec tors only once in 1S68, when the college had 294 voting members. But the Grant sweep that year 214 votes against 80 demonstrates how small was tho probability of such an event. In IS88 and 1884 the college had 401 electors. In 1880 and 1876 the number was S79, and by the odd number Hayes won, the award being 185 vote- to Tilden's 1S4. In 1872 the number was 349, in 1864 It was 533, and in 1860 also an odd number, 203. Previous to tho war there were three odd and six even colleges, and of the entire 17 national electoral bodies ten have had an odd num ber of electors and seven an even number. But there has never been a Presidental electorate with any such probability of equal division as now exist?, A circumstance that increases the chance for a tie this year is the district law in Michigan. It is possible, but not likely, that the votes by States would divide equally. But with the district element introduced by the Don Dickinson aodge the probability of such outcome of a close contest- becomes worthy of consideration, if it be assumed that no third party will carry a State. Kan sas with ten elector) and Nebraska with eight are both even number States, and there is a bare possibllitv that one or both of them might go for the third ticket and leave to one of the leading parties just half the college, but not enough ;o elect. A tie in the electoral college would throw the election into the House as effectually as if no narty had half the votes. Tne chance, therefore, slight as it is. of an equal division tells against the Republican party. The way to settle that question and all others is to sweep New Tork for the Minneapolis nomi nee and thus make his "calling and election sure." A NEW SUNDAY LAW WASTER One That Will Not Encourage Personal Notoriety or Financial Gain. McKeesport Times. The Puritanic Sunday cut out for Pennsyl vania by the county courts through the half-of-the-flne crusade of the Law and Order Society against Sunday newspapers will not receive public indorsement. If the Supreme court shall affirm the decision of the lower one the people will undoubtedly go to tho Legislature for relief. The Times is not by any means in favor of a "wide open Sun day," but the laws of 100 years ago should be modified to suit the people of to-day. What was a convenience then has grown to be a necessity now, and these necessities must be provided in reason and to the extent of not interfering with an intelligent public in its observance of Sunday. There must be re straining laws thrown about the day they are necessary but they should be in keep ing with the age and generation. Sunday newspapers are not the only thing prohib ited, but the dispatch of mails, necessary railroading, street car transportation, re pa'rs to mill machinery, ou whtch the em ployment of thousands depends, and much other labor that comes under the head of "wordly employment," according to the 1794 law are involved. The State needs a reason able Sunday law that will be enforced by county and city officials without the intervention of self-appointed censors who take up the enfoi cement of law for per sonal notoriety and financial gain. A HEW-FAHGLZD FEPFEB MILL Mistaken by a Western Congressman for a Restaurant Call Bell. Washisgtoh, March 6. Specia'. A mem ber of Congress from one of the way-back districts went into the House restaurant yesterday to get his luncheon. The room was pretty well crowded at the time, and most of the' waiters were engaged with other guests.1 Finally the Congressman became im patient and commenced to pound vigoi ously on one of Caterer Murray's new-fangled pep per mills, which he mistook for a call-bell. When the waiter appeared the Congressman was in a rage, and he at once opened up a general denunciation of the establishment and the poor service. He said: "I have been sitting nere over ten minute", trying to call & waiter. Even your bell don't ring." Just at that moment the caterer came up and observed the Congressman wiping the blood fiom his hand, which he had bruised In attempting to ring the supposed call bell. Mr. Mnrrav explained tnat the little orna ment which the Congressman had mistaken for a call hell was a pepper mill, such us are used in all the swell cafes in New York City. The rural Congressman forgot his discom fiture, and declared he would immediately draw on his stationery account for one "of them pepper machines." THE FBDEEATION'S PLEA For Self-Government for the District of Columbia Presented by Gompers. NrwYoRK, March 6. President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, sent a letter to President Harrison yesterday, in which he said that at the last convention of of the confederation he was instructed to forward copies of the resolutions adopted by that body, indorsing the action of or ganized labor in the District of Columbia, in requesting the passage of a law restoring to the citizens of the District the right of suf frage. The resolutions declare that the people of Washington have a government forced npou them which is un-American and; un-re-publlcan, and that they are controlled by corporations, real estate rings arid mllllon aiie lesidents. the people bavins neither voice nor influence in'thelr owg affairs. IOWA MHEBS MAY' STRIKE. Their Waxes Cat Down 10 Cents, Owing to a Fall In Coal Prices. Dzs MorsES, Ia., March 6. Ai coal miners' strike seems imminent here. The miners' scale has been cut down from bo to SO cents. Mine operators claim that a lafek of demand has forced the selling prlca of coal down fully 50 cents a ton, and they cannot pay the higher scale to the miners. The strike a vear ago at this time served to open the Iowa markets to thousands of tons ot Illinois coal, and the ldss of trade, it is asserted, has not yet been niaue good. KOTES OP NOTABLES. Bismabck will be 77 yiars old on the 1st of next month. But he ia no April loot yet. . I Baroness Bobdett-Cootts believes that sapphire blue volvetj is the proper mourning color. Collis P. Huntingto thinks wood sawing the best exercise or young men. Not that he used to thin.k so in the days when he sawed wood himself. Me. John H. Steuab't, United States Consul at Antwerp, and viie have arrived at tho Hotel Blnda, Pari?. , Mr. Steuart is ill and in a critical condition) Samuel Ij. Clemens CMark Twain and his party have left Borlin for the buth. The Misses Clemens will i.-emain in Berlin to complete their musical education. Judge Van Brunt's idea that lawyers should not be tedious aiyd should keep their promises is startling In i ts novelty. But not all novel ideas aro bad bly any means. Mr. H. P. Belfield, of the" United States Department of ILabor, after visiting the technical schools (or England, France and Germany on amission for his depart ment will start for America to-morrow. Hon. William Walter Phelps, the American Minister to (Germany, who has been making a tour in Eiiypt. and the rjarty accompanying him, belo re leaving Cairo on their return to tnis pity, visited the Abdin Palace where they were accorded an in formal reception by the l?cw Khedive. THERE are but eight si hrvivinsr members of the United States Senate of the session of 181001. They are: WillUrtl Saultburv. of Delaware; Lyman S. TruUubull, or Illinois; James Harlan, of Iowa: Atnthonv Kennedy, Maryland; Henry -M. Rlce and Morton S. Wilkinson, or Minnesota: Tfbomas L. "Cllnsr- man, of North Carolina, land James B. Dopjittie, of Wisconsin, PITTSBUKG DISPATCH, THE TROUBLE WITH LENT. - IWErrrEXrOBTHBDHPATCU. BxAitLY, there ought to be something more in Lent than fish and prayers I have no objection to either fish or prayers, but it does aeem to the ordinary mind that a Lent' which confines itself to the dining room and the sanctuary is, after all, of small account. Of course, there are the piay and the part ies. Lent gives society people a vacation. It serves the purpose which the observant child thought was intenedby the sermon. The function of the sermon in the opinion of the observant child was to give the choir a rest. Lent gives society a re3t. And for this relier much thanks. There is some good in Lent outside offish and prayers. Bat there might he so much more goodl Lent, to the reflective mind, is a season of wasted opportunity. People make excellent resolotions, but somehow the resolutions are concerned for the most part with trifles. The trouble with Lent is that it Is apt to be a season of pious selfishness. Society is turned for six weeks into a sort of secular monastery. People are concerned with the salvation of their own souls. They apply themselves to exercises of devotion. They aspire after holiness. They shut the door upon the world. But there is no place in right religion for the spirit of even pious selfishness. There is no real holiness apart from helpfulness. And as for "devotion," the best kind of de votion that can be prescribed is to devote ourselves to the bettering of our nrotnors. Drinking Shonld Be Included. I WISH that Archbishop Corrigan In his regulatious for Lent had departed a lit tie from the conventional countels about eating. He might have said somothlng about drinking. A Lent of cold water would be much more beneficial to some people than a dozen Lents of fish. The truth is, that hard eating is nojonger one of the vices of civil ized humanity. We look back a century or two into the dining rooms of society, and we are amazed. The amount that people ate, and the ravenousness with which they ate it fill us with consternation. I have forgotten how many ponnds of rare roast beef Queen Elizabeth consumed for breakfast. But I know that it would provide a very respecta ble meal for a small family. And I cannot at this writing, without reference to author ities, set-flown the number of pints of good hard ale that Mary, Queen of Scots, was able to make herself mistress of in a single sitting. But the quantity was appalling. Dr. Samuel Johnson is said, by one of his biographers, perhaps by the observant Bos well, to have devoured his food "swiftly, silently and with unrelenting voracity." That, it is true, might also describe a model n "business man's quick lunch." But Dr. Johnson, who said, "Sir, I like my dinner!" would have accounted such a lunch only as a sample from which to order a square meal. No: we do not generally eat too much nowadays. Some people, it is true, still drink more than Is good for them. But in tho twentieth century, the Protestant Catholic Archbishop of Pittsburg will not advise us about our behavior in our dining rooms. He will occupy his attention and ours with more important matters. Food for the Mind Overlooked. I wish that Archbishop -Corrigan had prescribed .an intellectual bill of fare. I wish that he had set forth a list or recom mended books. Still, I suppose they would have been devotional books or the old kind. And I question ir much Inspiration is to be had even in tho best or them toward to Keeping of a helpful Lent. The danger of conventional reading is that it tends to min ister to selfishness. The Pope's encyclical letter on labor would, however, make excellent Lenten reading for the falthrul. And if some par ticularly sensible Archbishop would head a list of books with that, andontinue the list with good reading illustrative, of that, why even the most bigoted Protestant might then applaud. V For more goes to helping than tfie gift of money. The grace of helpfulness isVot, for tunately, a monopoly of millionaires. In deed we have it on excellent authority" that one might even endow tho poor with all the dollars in-the bank, and yet get nofcredit for it in the accounts of heaven. Alt gifts are but cyphers in that celestial arithmetic. Love is the unit which they need to give them value. Without brotherly love the most extensive and expensive giving profits nothing. The most helpful man who ever lived had not where to lay his head. The first essential in helpfulness is to knfow who they are who are in need of help: j and the second essential is to know what tjiey are in need of; and the third essential Is interest; and the fourth essential is sympathy; and the fifth essential is brotherly love. And after these five comes money. Some Lenten Pabulum. Now, knowledge and $ie other parts of helpfulness can best be had by personal acquaintance with men,' by looking into the faces of real people. That, indeed, is what I was advising in; this Monday Homily a week ago. But that is not possible to all people. We have not all an opportunity to get very close to the hardships of men in mills and of women in tenements. We have to take a good deal on the word of other people, who have a better knowledge of these matters than is possible for us. Ac cordingly, after personal acquaintance, the noxt best thing is reading. I wish that this Lent, the devotional read ing of the faithful might be directed toward an increase or brotherly love. Let us read for understanding and sympathy. Here, for example, are several good novels. Novels, Indeed, are not as a gen eral rule commendable in Lent, but these novels are written for a purpose; and their purpose is Just that which ought to be pre eminent in a helpful Lent. They are meant to tell us about our brothers and sisters who are down, and to tell us about them so that we will get tho hard facts into our hearts. They aie better than whole libraries of con ventional sermons. One of these novels is "Adam Bede." another is "Alton Locke:" still others are "Put Yourself in His Place," and "John Halifax, Gentlemen." These are very fami liar titles. Most of us have read these good books at least once. Let us read them over again to get their spirit. A Book's Promises Fulfilled. And then, read "In Darkest England" over again. It is a year now since that book was written, and it is an encouragement and an inspiration to know that almost all tho great plans that are proposed in it are to-day actually in successful operation, sav ing men and women, body and soul. Gen eral Booth deserved that magnificent recep tion that he got the other day in the streets of London. Then there is "How tho Other Half Lives," a description of conditions in New York. And Helen Campbell's "Prisoners of Pov erty." And to these I would add three re markable volumes of sermons by Hugh Price Hughes, "Social Christianity," "Ethi cal Christianity" and "The Phtlanthrophy of God." I have already spoken in this col umn in praise of my friend Robert Woods capital and most suggestive book, "English Social Movements." If anyone desires to get closer to the heart of things than any of theie books will take him, and to study the reasons for this vast, pernicious and dangerous difference be tween the extremes of society, I would ad vise him to ask Prof. Ely, of the Johns Hop kins University, Baltimore, for a cony of a mostuselul little "Bibliography of Sociol ogy," complied by the Professor of Political Economy at Oberlin. Prof. Ely will be glad to send it without charge. Every Lent ought to bring Christendom one step nearer to the millenium. If every body who goes to chuicn, would keep the right kind of Lent this year, there wonld be a large diminishing of the number of oar brothers and sisters who have to keep Lent all the year round. They Had Their Wits About Them. Chicago Tlmes.l The people of Kansas have their wits about them. They sent Peffer to Washing ton, where they can't hear him talk, and kept Ingalls at home to amuse them. Artists or the First Water. "Washington Post. When it comes to political carving the New York anti-Hill men show themselves to W ' .ll MONDAY, MAKOH .7, PBEPAEIHO FOB IBS 7AB2. Sooth American Republics Do Not Intend C? or Expect to. Be Outdone. Washington, March & The Bureau of the American Republics is Informed that 19,578 emigrants arrived at the State of Bio Grande do SnI, Brazil, during the past year, of whom 10,838 were Italians, 2,190 Russians, L961 Spaniards, 1,491 Germans and the bal ance of divers nationalities. The Bureau of the American Republics received by the last mail from Chile a state ment containing shipping statistics for the port of Valparaiso, from which the follow ing comparison is taken: During the year 1S91, 610 steamers of 663,603 tons and 408 sail ing vessels of 376,115 tons, or a total or 1,048 vessels of 915,513 tons, arrived at the above port, against 781 steamers of 787,794 tons and 486 sailing vessels of 416,351 tons, or a total number of 1,267 vessels of 1.204,1(5 tons, ar riving in 1899. In 1891, 599 steamei a of 664,442 .tons and 421 sailing vessels of 375,818 tons, or a total of 1,020 vessels of 940,260 tons, depart ed from tbo port of Valparaiso, against 783 steamers of787,125 tons and 487 sailing vessels of 415 952 tons, or a total of 1,270 vessels of 1,203,077 tons, the departures from the same pore during the year 1S90. While neither the tonnage nor the number of vessels arriving and departing from Valparaiso during the yearTBOl was as great as In 1890, yet when it is remembered tnatdurlng the gieaterpart of the year the country was ravaged by civil war, it will be seen'tbat there was quite a satisfactory progress In the shippingof the port. Upon the return of Lieutenant W. E. Safford, the Exposition Commissioner, from a long Journey in Bolivia, to Lima, he en tered actively upon the work of urging the imme diate action of the Government in regard to its representation at Chicago. A meeting was called by the officials interested in the Fair, and Lieutenant Safford gave them all of the latest information, distributed the illustrations showing the progress that had been made in the last few months, and created new enthusiasm in its behair. He says that now everything looks Very hope ful. Col. Palacios is making preparations to bring representatives of all the principal tribes' of Indians of the Peruvian forest region, who are said to be very interesting from an ethnological point of view. Ho is a man of action, learning and means and for some time was Prefect of the provinces of Amazonasa and Loroto, where these w lid Indians Jiva. The Latin-American department of the World's Fair has Just leceived information from Nicaragua showing that great inter est has been an akened in that country In the Exposition. The exhibits of minerals, coffee, cocoa, sugar, woods and fibious plants promise to be very fine and complete. The fauna and flora will also be well re presented. .Petitions have been presented to the President for the appointment of additional commissioners In the various provinces and the matter is under consider ation. The English Government has agents traveling in the Interior making investiga tions as to he natural history, climate, soil and physical characteristics of the country, its agricultural resources, botany, entom ology, etc. There are said to be several indigenous trees and plants and lands suitable for the cultivation of tea whose product Is fully equal to anything in India. Fall informa tion, specimens and illustrations of these things will appear tn tbo Nicaraguan exhibit. LOWES IKON F2E1GHTS Demanded by and Will Probably Be Given Southern Manufacturers. New York, March 6 A conference was held yesterday between Thomas C. Piatt, President, and Nathaniel Baxter, Jr., Vice President of the Tennessee Coal, Iron "and Railroad Company; Henry F. DeBarde leben, President of the DeBardeleben, Coal and Iron Company, of Alabama, and Thomas Seddon, President of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company, of Birmingham. Ala., and officers of the Richmond and Danville. EastTennes- LseorVirginia and Columbus and Danville, Cincinnati soutnern ana i.ouisviue ana Nashville Railroads. , The object was to disctro freight rates on pig iron, the representatives of the coal and iron companies asking for an average reduc tion of 10 per cent in rates from Alabama and Tennessee to the Eastern and Western markets. The railroad men agreed to call a rate meeting, to be held at Atlanta this week, to consider the request. THE CAB ST0TE EXPLODES. A Peculiar Accident in a Smoker Which May Cost Two Lives. Topeka, March 6. A peculiar and latal accident occurcd on the Santa Fe and St. Joseph passenger train last night. At Mcri den the heating apparatus in the smoker exploded. The passengers were hurled from their seats, and two of them, Almon Richards and Alexander Ericsson, both of this place, were so badly hurt that they afterwards died. Five others were painfully injured. The inside of the car was completely wrecked, and it is a wonder .that more lives were not lost. A GBAKD SUNDAY BLOWOUT Being Arranged for May Day by the Socialists of Two Continents. New York, March 6. The Central Commit tee of the Socialistic Labor party issued cir culars to all labor organizations in this city to-day inviting them to a' conference March 13 to make arrangements for the coming eight-hour demonstration May 1. That day being Sundav, it is expected that the demonstration in Europe will surpass any previous demonstrations of this char acter, and the Socialists of New York appeal to organized labor to show that American workingmen are not lagging behind. "' DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHERE. Dr. Lewis P. Bush. Dr. Lewis P. Bush, President of the Del aware State Botrd of Health and President of the Board of Managers of Delaware College, died yes terday afternoon at Wilmington. Del., of heart failure after a few hour' Illness. He was 80 Tears old and was one of the most active, energetic and experienced public sanitarians in Delaware. He waj also keenly Interested In local historical mat ters. Dr. Bush was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1833, and with the exception of a few months1 term or service In a Philadelphia hos pltal.'llved at Wilmington all his life. He was the author of a number of medical and historical works. Editor Dudley F. Young. Dudley F. Young, editor of the East Liverpool Evening Review, died Saturday night after three weeks' Illness of typhoid fever, brought on by overwork and worry in the publication of his paper through a printers' strike. His wife starts thli rooming with his remains for Troy. N. Y,. his old hqme. Mr. Young was a writer of some abllltv. and came to East Liverpool December 1. He bought the Jievieiv on the foreclosure of a mort rafte. He was lormerlr connected with K. G. Dun iCo.'s merrantle agency at GloverrHle, .N. Y., and at Richmond, Va. Thomas Thornton, Sharon. Thomas Thornton, of Sharon, one of the best known drygoods merchants in Mercer county, died suddenly baturday afternoon on a train near Huntingdon. Ind while returning from Hot Springs, where he had gone for his health. He was aTirotherof John ana Austin Thornton, of the Urvgoodj Arm of Thornton Bros., Federal street. Allegheny. He was 37 years old, and had suffered from rheumatism for years. His remains arrived yesterday at noon in Sharon In charge of his brother Austin. i Admiral Jnrlen de la Gravlere. Admiral Jurien de Ia Graviere, of the French Navy, is dead. .lean-Baptlstc-Edmond Jurien de la Gravlere was bom In 1812. and entered the navv In 1828. He served in the Crime m War and Mexican expeditions. During the Franco German War ho was In command of the Mediter ranean squadron. Admiral Jurien de la Gravlere leaves behind him several standard works on naval matters. Obituary Notes. Miles G. BcTlzr. who has been a traveUng salesman for the past 20 years, died Saturday night at his home In Nlles, O, The deceased was a gal lant soldier, a member of the G. A. B. and a prom inent Mason. 1 CxrTAiir Jacob'bice died suddenly at his resi dence In Dallas, near Wllkesbarre, yesterday morning of heart disease, aged 75 years. He was one of the best known men in Luzerne county. He was a son of Jacob Idee, a pioneer settler In the Wvomlng Valley, i'flie deceased was a soldier throughout the ClvUV War. and a member of Com pany F, Flftytblrd Regiment. 3Iu. SUSAS Font DoimANCE, one of the wealthiest women In tte Susquehanna Valley, wife of the late Colonel Challes'Dorrance, who died at Dorranceton about four weeks ago. returned to Wllkesbarre from Atlantic City catnrday after noon, where she has belui for tne past three weeks. In the night she was taken suddenly 111 and dropped to the floor in her bedroom and died In a few mo- .saenuofcongesaonofvaelunjs. - 189?t'. SALISBURY AND THE SEALS. The Grave Complications In Prospect Shonld Great Britain Stop the Modus Vivendi It Would Practically Defy Our Government to Enforce the Law as It Interprets It. Washington, March a The renewal of last gear's modus vivendi for Bering Sea, either in its original form or with additional security against the threatened extermina tion of the seals, has until now been gen erally assumed as a matter of course. Ac cordingly the current news of Great Britain's refusal t6 extend the agreement of 1891 for another'season conies as a surprise, not to say as a shock. Such a refusal must atonco complicate the Bering Sea question and render it critical. Apart from its practical side, as endanger ing the seal herd by exposing it to the slaughter of a hundred crews of poachers, it may have a greater importance on its po litical side. The law against seal killing in the waters of Alaska remains unrepealed on our statute books. The obligation to exe cute that law. Iterated by Congress a few years ago, Is'stlll imperative on the Presi dent, and he is required by the express man date of Congress to warn all poachers out of tnose waters by a proclamation to be issued early eacu year. Wonld Forre Uncle Sam's Hand. Bach a proclamation was issued a few weeks ago, and if Lord Salisbury has re fused to renew last year's modus Vivendi, he practically defies our Government to en force its law according to its own Interpre tation. Having now secured the adhesion cf the United States to the agreement to re fer to arbitration the question as to how much area the waters of Alaska include, he will make no further concession to our cus tom, sanctioned prima facie by a quarter of a century of maintenance, of considering the whole treaty area of our side of Bering Sea as included in those waters. This Is forcing the hand of our Government. It is true that we still have the Board of Arbitra tion to lely upon as tho final umpire on the respective claims. But since the very ob ject of last year's agreement was to prevent private sealers from entering the disputed waters until this Board of Arbitration should be appointed and should render its decision, the necessity for the renewal of that agreement Is precisely as great as the necessity for originally making it. The Action Decidedly Unfriendly. Even assuming that Great Britian wonld not undertake to protect the British Colum bia sealers against our revonue cutters, in the due execution or their orders, thcaction now attributed to her would be unfriendly In compelling our Government to take in creased risks of indemnifying those sealers. Last year no such liability was Incurred, be cause the vessels were kont out or driven out by the Joint action of Great Britain and the United States. But should the decision of the Board of Arbitration be against onr Government, it might incur serious respon sibilities by expelling them this yr. Of course if we are to suppose th t Great Britain means also to resist our reisers, that is something incomparably mo. o seri ous. It was hardly to be presumed that Lord Salisbury would refuse to renew the modus vivendi of 1891 without further suggestions. The substitute attributed to him is that of establishing a closed zone of 30 miles in width around the Prlbylov Islands. This may perhaps be interpreted as indicating also the permanent compromise which he would be content to accept from the Board of Arbitration. Our Government would then be at liberty to remove its resriction of last year azainst its own lessees of the islands. He may even think It generous on nis part to concede a ciosea zone or 90 miles. In place of the marine league, which is all that the British view would allow us to claim under International law. The Seal Herd Would Be Doomed. But the actual result would he a menace of ruin to the seal herd. More than a hun dred vessels, encouraged by this action of Gieat Britain, and looking upon her as their protector, would enter Bering Sea and slaugnter the seal herd, sparing neither age nor sex, throughout the long course from ine Aleutian arcnipeiago up co tne isles or St. Paul and St. George, or, rather, to the limits of the closed zone around them. Tho difference between this and the total exclu sion of private sealing vessels from Bering Sea would be enormous upon seal life. The Fur Trade Review, in a recent issue, says that, bad the pelagic fleet been permitted to enter Bering Sea lust summer, "it would have taken at least 100,000 seals there, and nearlv all of these would have been female seals." It adds the further calculation that as "at least three seals are destroyed by the pelagic sealer for every one that he secures, the modus vivendi in force clearly saved the enormous total of at least from 350.000 to 400,000 seals, old and young, nnborn and born. That would have left upon onr rook eries only 600,000 seals nt the close or the season or 1891, and nearly hair this number would have been the'pupsof that year's birth." The same authority believes that in consequence of last year's restriction there were between 800,000 and 90O,0U) seals on the islands Just befoie they took their departure southward for the winter. Ground for Salisbury's Action. This beneficent arrangement Lord Salis bury is now, it appears, unwilling to renew. We can perhaps surmise that his Govern ment, if it has agreed with the Dominion to idemnify the latter's vessels for all last year's losses resulting from the modus vivendi, does not wish to be saddled with another year's expense of that sort. But the answer is that now it could be renewed in season to notify the greater part of the Vic toria fleet before leaving port for the season. Hud such a notice been given two months ago it would have saved even the prepara tion of outfits. But even if. Great Britain has assumed, or her own accord, some ex pense under the modus vivendi, our Govern ment probably lost much more last year by foregolmr its usual revenue from the islands, and perhaps making Itself -liable to the lessees. Unless the damage conceded to the Biitlsh sealers are preposterous, it gave up more than the British Government, in its deshe to protect seal-life, and this would be still moie tiue or the piesent year. Perhaps another ground for Lord Salis bury's action may be that his consent to the moans vivendi last year was not given through apprehension as to the danger to seal life from pelagic killing, which he has always retnsed to admit, but only for the purpose of gaining intormatinn preliminary to arbitration. It is well known that the British Commissioners who visited Bering Sea retnsed to concur with ours on the all essential point as to whether the private sealers are exterminating the animals. Ho may now hold that he cannot discard their report in favor of that of our own Commis sioners, and that this being so be has no lurther excuse for refnsing to allow the British vessels to ply their industry. But such a conclusion would not diminish the gravity which this question has now as sumed. DEFENDING THE SEAL. Petitions to Governor Pattlson Are Being Extensively Circulated. Reading, March 6. At n late hour to-night petitions addressed to Governor Pattison, placed In all public places throughout East ern Pennsylvania ror signatures, were num erously signed, alleging that the recent deals by which the Reading Railroad obtained control of the Lehigh Valley, Jersoy Central and other railroads, weie for the best in terest or tho state, and that the interests of all tho people will be tho best snbserved try the rulnllmeut or the plans comprised by tho leasing in question. The Governor Is asked to bring the matter to a speedy termination. bnqaejne's New Natlonul Bnnk. Duqdesse, Maich- 6 Special. Applica tion for a charter for the First National Bank of Duquesne will be made at once, tho paid up capital ttock of $50,000 having all been taken. The directors ate lSurgcss John W. Ctawlord, Chailo P. Pune, William Oliver, Charles Downey, Dr. Boduin, J. H. Wj He, George F. Gray, of Duquesne; John M. Rislier, Dravosburg; S. O. Lowry, Mc Keespoit. ,. Gunpowder Burns Without Exploding. Ourat, Col., March 6. There was an ex traordinary occurrence nt the American Nettle mine yesterday. A fire started, and bo fore It could bo extinguished it had en til ely consumed ten boxes of gunpowder without any explosion taking place. There were 100 men in the mine at the time, nnd if the pan der had exploded a great loss or life would have been tho result. 'Receiver Appointed for P., A.& W. Urpxa Sakdcsxt, O., March 6. Judge Snialley yesteiday appointed Walter B. Ritchie, of Lima, receiver for tho Pittsburg, Akron and Wesftern Railway, the new road running iroiu Delphus to Akron. The- ap pointment was tnado on the application of a number of plaintiffs to whom payment t due for work done ia the constraoMon of the road. - ' A 0175 HADE 07 STEEL STATES. Many allies of Wire Tightly Bind Them in Place and Bednce the Strain. Boston, March 6. The new Woodbrldge gun, which is intended to be capable of throwing a projectile weighing a quarter of a ton a dtstanceof from 12 to 15 miles, and which is being constructed at the arsenal at Watertown, will be completed in about four months. The specialty of the Woodbrldge gun consists in steel staves. Around the steel tube, which is made of hard rolled steel, are placed strips of steel like barrel staves, and around these miles of steel wire is wrapped. The steel staves are put in, to equalize to the pressure caused by the tight wrapping of the wire. Tho wire is 15-100tbs of an inch square, and it is capable of bear ing a tension of 2C0.000 pounds to the square inch. The wrapping of the wire upon the tube is done by a special winding uiachino, so as to put the wire on at a great strain. Several miles have been wrapped already so thickly that tho tube, several Inches in thickness, is shrnnk in until the diameter Is reduced by 4-O0tus of an Inch. The object of putting tho wire on so tightly is to develop the elastic resistance of the tube, in other words, the immediate bursting stress comes upon the wire, becane the wire Is compressing the tube all the while, and not until the wire has been stretched a little could any strain come upon the rolled steel tube itself. This would not happen until tho internal pressurn exceeded 60 000 pounds to the square inch. In tho first trial with tho gun, it is likely ordinary powder will be used, calculated to throw a projectile welshing 510 pounds for about 12 miles, and a distance of throe or four miles with great accuracy. The charge of powder will be about 270 down to 250 nounas. Dr. Woodbrldge says that the now smokeless powders are receiving careful consideration by the War Department, but slnco the ex plosive power of smokeless powder isgreater than these formerly in use. It Is not always posslblo to utilize the new kind for the existing guns. The new gun will be rifled. The projectile will not make a complete revolution before reaching the muzzle, but, as the rifling gains in curvature as it goes along, the prolectlle, when It leaves the mouth, will be whirling at a speed equal to a complete revolution in the length of the gun. In about two months It will be ready to be sent to the Watervliet arsenal, New York, for finishing touches, and then it will go to Sundv Hook to be tested. The gun is of the type nsed in forts, but this one Is intended for experimental purposes rather than anything else. THE EUR AND ITS BIO SPOTS. They Show That the Superficial Part of the Orb Is Not a Solid Body. New Castle (England) Chronicle. While the discussion respecting sun spots is under way, a few fact3 regarding tho orb of day may not be out of place. That, com pared with the earth, the un is as a globe two Inches In diameter to a pin's head, and that it is nearly 93 000 000 of miles from the earth, are elementary facts that are gener ally known. If tho sun were cut" up Into a million parts, each of these parts would ap preciably exceed tho bulk ot our earth: and it is calculated that an express train, travel ing at 60mlles an hour, wonld have to travel for five years without intermission before accomplishing the circuit of tho sun. If the sun could be viewed from a star it would not appear so largo as many of the stars which ore scon every night. "Each one of those stars," says Sir Robert Ball, in his fascinating book, "The Story of tho Heavens," "Is itself a mighty sun, actually rivaling, and in many cases surpassing, the splendor of onr own luminary. "If the sun of the earth and all it contains were to Vanish the effect in the universe wonld meielv be that a tiny star had ceased its twinkling" not a reassuring thought to those who look upon their own little affairs as of so much importance. "The first ques tion which we must attempt to answer (says Sir Robert in the same volume), inquires whether the glowing matter which lorms the globe of the sun Is a solid mass, or if not solid, which is it, liquid orgajeous? At the first glance we might think that the sun cannot bo fluid, and we might naturally im agine that it was a solid ball of some white hot substance. But this view is not correct, for we can show that tho sun Is not a solid body in so far at least as its superficial parts are concerned." One way or proving this ia bv regarding tho "sun spots" w hich occur on the sun's surface from time to time, and which are very noticeable nt the present moment. At one time the discoverers of the sun's spots were laughed at. They wero told that the "eye of the universe could not suffer fiom ophthalmia," and Hut the spots were not In the sun, but planetary bodies moving between the sun and the earth: but the reality of the sun's spots has long been recognized. TALK OP THE TIMES. Oite year from to-day there will be a Presi dental Inauguration in this town. U'aiTi ingion Post. Everybody knows that, but whose, Is the question that is disturbing the community. lx a few short months tho tariff-protected manufacturing barons may be quoting lower prices. Omaha World-Herald. If they are it won't be because "their protection is any the Jess. New Oblza3S can produce the best-natured crowds or any city in the Union. New Or leans Delia. Tell that to the Italians, and see if they agree with the sentiment. Dozsjt'T it strike some or the economists that $5,000 a year is a good deal to pay for what the average Congressman does for his country? Washington Star. It does, if the present majority are a fair sample of the average. - SrxAToa Hill 13 wedded to his President al aspirations, nud that is enough for the present. Pawlucket News. Too much, most people think. Next to being squalidly poor the greatest cause of misery Is the desire to be enor mously rich. Chicago Times. Some people when they reach that goal are still miser able, but that don't seem to act as a deter rent. Most of us prefer to be miserable. Miss Willabd was smart enough to get "tired" of the St. Louis convention eaily. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The rest of the conven tion will get the "tired" reeling in Novem bcr. ALL WEARING SKUGOLED CLOTHES. Many Bnslne.s Men at a Michigan Town Mixed Up in Customs Frauds. Maiiixe Citt, Mien, March C There is great excitement here over the arrest or smugglers and the possibility that 20 or 30 prominent citizens may be implicated. United States officials this morning arrested George F. Logan, a merchant tailor, and Frank May, both of Sombria. Onr., while they wero in the act of smiiggllug clothing acros the river. It is claimed these men have been in busi ness between the countries lor a long time, and that they had worked up a lare nnd giowinir trade, having lor customers some of the "leading business and professional men. Between 20 and 30 citizens arc said to possess clothlngpurchused from these Cana dian merchants, and It Is also charged that the purchasers well knew they were dealing with smugglers. ' A New Electrio Road for McKeesport. 3IcKix3roRT, March 6. Special. An electric street railway b to bo built parallel with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Boston to El rods, thence to Christy Park and McKecsport, a distance of about three miles. The idea is. after leaving Christy Park, to cross the hills and meet tho Union PassengorRailwuv line in Riverviow Park. The line Is assured, as several capitalists Jrom this section and others from Pittsburg are interested. Buckeye Warbler for the Fair. Yocscstows, O., March & Special. Rep resentatives from citio in Eastern Ohio met here last night and perfected an organiza tion for sending a choir of 300 trained voices to the World's Fair. Prof. J. Powell Jones, ofPalnesville, was elected Musical Director by ucclammation. Cleveland was selected as the central point for general reaearsals. The Early Bird Catches the Worm. Chicago Inter-Ocean. J It will require 527 votes to nominate at the Chicago convention, if they stick to the two-thirds rule. It Is a pretty big Job and a lellow should not be blamed for starting in early. A Glass Factory's Change ot Base. WntxLlxo.March 0. Special. 1 The; North- wood Glass Works at Martin's Ferry, O., has accepted an offer ot a free site and a big bonus to move their factory to Elwood, PaL CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. --The potato was carried from Virginia to Ireland in 1610 by Sir Walter Raleigh. Bavarians now employ the electric light to capture a moth that is destructive to the forests. A Montana man has recently found a very valuable sapphire in the gizzard of a turkey. t A Chicago woman has a chameleon for a pet. It is quite una and very fond of its mistress. Truckee, ITev., had a shaving contest recently. The successful artist scraped his man'in 45 seconds nnd no blood was shed. A man in Gold Eun, CaL, lost the sight of an eye In looking for the black spot on the sun through a piece of smoked glass. A monkey was taken up in a balloon recontly at Sacramento, CaL, and made a successful descent by means of a parachute. No Indian wigwam has been struck by lightning since tho dawn of history, and no Indian has been killed with lightning for more than 100 years. A California boy swallowed some con centrated lye about three years ago, and, according to the Pomona Times, he has since lived exclusively on milk. A French officer has devised a rifle that will throw a stream of vitriol for a dis tance of over 2.C00 feet, to be used against savages when they attempt rushes. A cart drawn by a horse over an ordi nary road will travel LI miles per hour of trip. A four-horse team will haul from 25 to 36 cubic feet of limestone each load. The first railroad in India to be built and controlled entirely by natives has been sactionedby the Indian Government. The line will be about 30 miles long in the Hooghly district. Kid gloves were mentioned in the Bible. In the 16th verse of the 27th chapter of Gen esis Isaac's wife is accused of putting on the hinds of her on Jacob "the skins of the kids of the goats." At a recent fox drive, near English, Ind., participated in by more than 1,000 peo ple, the catch was three, foxes, 977 rabbits and three polecats. The men who got the cats aie now residing by themselves. The skeleton of a whale, over 100 feet long, has been discovered buried in the sands on the shore of Baranhoff Island, off Alaska, far above the high tide mark. It is supposed to have been there hundreds of years. There is a Georgia man who keeps him self concealed in a dark closet, except at night, and refuses seeing or conversing with any one. He even eats his meals, it is said, in the closet. Ho is reported to have lived thus for five years- r The black licorice stick in the drug stores comes mostly from Spain and is made of pure juice mixed with a little starch, which prevents it lrom melting in warm weather. The word Hcoi ice means "sweet root," and Is of Greek origin. If the conclusions drawn by late ex perimenters are sound it would seem that were an eel provided with an apparatus to inject its own blood into a wound as the rcrpent injects it venom, an eel in the mud would he even more objectionable than a serpent in the grass. The brain of Tonrgueneff, the novelist,is said to havo been the largest ever weighed, the indicator showing that its weight was exactlv 2.012 grammes. The extraordinary size or this brain will be better understood when the reader is in rormed thattheavpr .ice human brain does not weigh above 1,393 grammes. A wealthy Austrian woman has just founded an asylum for mothers-in-law. The building, not yet completed, is to be hi ennuzh to accommodate 500 guests, and the institution will serve as a pleasant refuge for la dies whose company is not agreeable to theuugrntprnl men who have walked off with their daughters. A gentleman who lives in Mount Ver non. Go. , is said to have a veritable curiosity in the vegetable line. It is a cabbage, or collarrl, that in going to seed just literally spread itelf. At the seed stalk crew up ward. It flattened itself out like a fan. until It became 10 fnofoe wide and about half an. inch thick, tho top being ornamented with a fringe composed ot thousands of bloom bnds. In many parts of Switzerland smooth, flat stones, evidently hand-polished, are often picked np. They are covered with lines, dots, circles and balf-clrcles, and are known to the Switzers a "schalensteines." The origin and use of these stones has Ionx been a mooted point among the learned. Seme have thought that they were charms, other that they were meant to commemor ate the dead. The Kaffirs, who cannot get snnlr-as fine and as pungent as they wish, rub the already prepared rnas between stones, and mix it with a kind of pepper and some ashes. The blacks In Dschejire mix their tobacco with water and natron, so as to form a kind or pap. which thev call buefca. They take a mouthful and roll It abont for a time with their tongne. There are regular bucka parties given. As far as research has been able to determine, glass was in use 2,000 years before the birth or Christ, and was even then not in its infanoy by any manner of means. In the Slade collection at the British Museum there Is the head of a lion moulded In glass, bearing the name of an Euyptian king of the eleventh dvnasty. This Is the oldest speci men of pure glass bearing anything like a date now known to ex'st. In the suburbs of Mobile, Ala., reside a number or negroes, the descendants of and part of the last cargo or slaves brought into the United States In 1SI5L Thev have never associated with other negroes, are-hut par tially civilized, still use their native lan gna"e and are ruled bva queen of their own? choosmg. They enjoy a good reputa tion for industry and honesty, and their col ony Is fne of the curiosities most eagerly viewed by sightseers. Supposing that our great forefather, Adam, had begun to count as quickly as be could, and that when his lire was ended his son commenced where the father left off. and that he spent his whole lifetime, day and night, counting as fast as he could, and snpposlng that npon his death he had en joined upon his heirs an eternity of count-in-' and that they had continued doing so np tothepresont moment, their united ef forts wonld not yet have reached the amount of one-quarter or a billion. BAZAR BTJZZINGS. Newly Arrived Visitor What do you do herein the evenings? Country Host-We go and watch the 8:33 express pass. Irish "Woman Take me seat Dude Ah. thanis but Irish Woman-Ocb, take it! Yez don't look able tersihaad. Ol'm more ov a man thin yez be. Old Yallerby What yo' wants to do, Mose. am to save de pennies. Mose I cebber has none to save, uncle. Ole Whitewash alias puvs me in sliver or bills. Snooks (reading about French politics) What a remarkable man Henri Roehefort 1st Snlkes Tes; and think or the delicious cneesebe nukes! Young Hopeful Father, did yon under stand trljtonometry when you were a bor? Man or Affairs Trlrgernometry! Why. bless y u, my son, there wasn't nobody In the whole country handler with a gun than me! I care not what the world may think of me, I care not what the cavillers may state. For I'm convinced. In spite of wbat they see. That I've a mind that's marvelously great. And so I sav It does not bother me , What carping foes in Ignorance may state. Since I'm convinced. In spite of what they see. That I've a mind that's marvellously great. Old Gentleman (opening parlor door as the young mau stole a kiss) Well, I am sur prised. Young Man (confused)-So am I. "March is a vile month," said MabeL "I hate to go out on March days. It nearly blows the hair off my head." "Dear mel How unfortunatel" said Heavy weight. "Can't you fasten It more seearelv?" Mrs. Greatchum How can yod wear that glaring bonnet, my love? I never Uked It. Mrs. Tooswect-My husband Ukes it, and as long asl please him I don't care. (Intermission of two hours.) Mr. Toosireet Can't we have a Uttle of ttt quince preserve for tea to-night. Clarissa? Mrs. T. Not much ! That's for company. -"What's the matter, Parker? You look blue?" "lam. I asked MIsj Morrison to be my wit." "AHt Rejected?" No. Referred me to her mother, and well, her mother rejected me herself UstSeptetsber at NarrsfaaseU." . . toMMtmi.u is&M&m i&gMM m .'': mm SoB" &J&. ac siMZi :&jvj&3ijs.aate am ifttfigfeSB h,
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