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1846
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PITTSBURG. SUNDAY, MARCH IS.
OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPROVED.
The most notable feature of the pro
ceedings before the New Tork Senatorial
inquiry into the Reading deal yesterday
was the superior knowledge exhibited by
the interested officials, as compared with
the ignorance professed on similar occa
sions. But the knowledge was admitted
lor purposes of argument, and argument
of such a specious and self-contradictory
nature as is seldom met with. No one de
nies that a successful combination has the
power to reduce prices, but few sane per
sons will believe that there is any inclina
tion to make use of the monopolistic
powr in that way. Were the question a
Pc3 serious one for the public, Mr. Mc
Leod's claims that the purchasing public
will bp a beneficiary from the deal would
be merely ludicrous.
No one of sound sense can be galled by
a special pleader who in pne breath
speaks of lowering prices by combination,
and in the next says that the remaining
competition will prevent an increase.
Competition is here admitted to be public
1 enefit in one case, and everyone knows
tht it is so all the time. But without
going further President McLeod's practi
cal admission that the object of the com
bination is to lessen competition is enough
to bhow that the deal is contrary to the
Constitution.
PEEMATUKE DENUNCIATION.
Some of our esteemed cotemporaries,
who are making a strong effort to combine
an opposition to free silver coinage with
Democracy,' are very wrcth with the Re
publican minority in the House because
i "ley did not vote with the minority of the
Democracy on the question of order last
wfet Dy v.hieh a day was fixed for the
consideration of the Bland bilL The es
tctmed Philadelphia Record uses rather
strong language on this point as follows:
Had they voted with the Democratic op
ponents of free silver coinage there would
have been a majority of six rotes only in
favor of the measure. But by their shameful
betra al of principle they have helped the
swindle to a majority of 105 votes: and with.
this majority a prestige which it will be
difficult, if not Impossible, to overcome.
Should freesilver coinage beultimately
attained a large share of the responsibility
v it -would rest with the Republican par
t sans rho voted far its consideration on
ilonda: last.
Whs was the "principle" at stake in
the vces of Monday? First, whether the
Spp ak.rr was right in deciding that a re
port from the Committee on Rules could
e considered before the reading of the
i'lurnal. second, whether a day should be
1 ed for the consideration of the silver
: T On the first point every Congress
man ought to have been honest enough to
vote for his views on parliamentary law,
aithoigh, probably, few were. On the
fpst it is entirely honest for a man who is
"t posed to a measure to favor takinc it up
and settling it one way or the other. In
neither or these respects is there any
sini reason for blaming the Repub
1 cans.
When the Republicans vote in favor of
the Bland bill on its passage, there will bo
some giound for talking of their "be
trayal of principle." Any "prestige"
that the bill gets will be by that vote on
its passage. Until then talk of the kind
quoted from our Democratic cotemporary
ir 1st be credited to anguish over the pros-Tc-ct
of its own party getting on record
en the wrong side j f the question.
CHAMBERLAIN'S PENSION SCHEME.
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain has taken a
leaf at once from Prince Bismarck's prop
osition and from the ideas of the Socialists
to the extent of drawing up apian for
pensioning aged workingmen.. It is
rather strange to find a man allied with a
Conservative Cabinet proposing that the
Government shall take charge of a plan
of pensions for workingmen; hut such are
the exigencies of politics. The immediate
incitement seems to be that Mr. John
Morley, who is Mr. Chamberlain's hated
rival, has proposed that the Government
pension aged workingmen at a cost of
some 30,000,000 annually. This made it
necessary for Mr. Chamberlain to develop
lu-j plan.
Mr. Chamberlain's proposition is that
the Government shall take it in hand to
see that every pensioner provides his own
pension. Every workingman, when 25
yeirs old, must deposit $25, and. every
j ear thereafter he must pay in $5. "When
he reaches the age of 65, or has kept up
these payments for 40 years, he is to get a
pension of 1 25 per week.
If the payment of $25 in 40 years has
interest on it compounded semi-annually,
the resulting payment of a pension of $65
for the term of the working man's life
will be little, if any better, than could be
got from almost any annuity company.
But vihiie there does not seem, to
be any especial liberality in the
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proposition, that is hot its most glaring
weakness. 'Tho idea that tho workingman
is not to he trusted will his own savings,
and that the Government must appropri
ate a portion of his earnings and lay it up
for his old age, is the most paternal and
I least progressive .theory of society. If the
government wm protect we earnings ui
tho people against tho manipulations of
great operators and inculcate Intelligence
and Independence among the masses,
there will bo fow workingmen who cannot
make a better investment of that $225 If
they are able to save It up than in the
purchase of the Government annuity pro
posed in the bill.
It is much better to create a state of so
ciety In which workingmen can earn good
wages, and to protect their savings against
the raids of corporate and stock-gambling
sharks, than to treat them like children
whose money must be taken away from
them for fear they will spend it foolishly.
AX HX-JUDGED MOVEMENT,
The English mining strike commenced
yesterday under circumstances that are
likely to prove an object lesson on the
medieval policy of restricting production
in order to keep up prices. The responsi
bility for that policy in this case rests with
the miners themselves, as they have en
tirely of their own motion stopped pro
duction in order to produce a scarcity of
coal, maintain prices and thus prevent a
threatened ten per cent reduction in
wages.
Now, it is oVIdont that for the miners to
make good by this means what they lose
in idleness they have got to secure after
the strike ten weeks of employment at the
old wages, for every week of the strike.
If they clear the market o'f its surplus in
two weeks, they will after twenty weeks
subsequent be no better off in amount
of wages received than if they
had worked straight along at the
reduction. If the idleness lasts for
ten weeks it will take them two
years to get even. The mere statement of
the wages earned by one course as against
the other makes it absolutely certain that
even if this combination strike succeeds it
will cost the miners far more than it
comes to, leaving out of all consideration
the los3 by idleness inflicted on other
trades.
Beyond that there is the preponderating
chance that no such strike can succeed.
The expectation that thousands of miners
can resist want for themselves and their
families solely for the purpose of main
taining prices of coal for the benefit main
ly of their employers is a very faint one.
ii the strike should go to pieces the loss
from it to the miners will prove to be
without the slightest mitigation. If it
succeeds the gain will at the most be ex
ceedingly problematical.
UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC TRANSIT.
In an article elsewhere Mr. Murat Hal
stead gives the results of a personal in
spection of the Greathead Underground
Railway in London. The opponents of
underground railways in this country have
made very unfavorable reports of the
operations of this system, which Mr.
Halstead's observation contradicts. The
noise which is a necessary accompani
ment to all underground railways is, he
says, an entirely imaginary cause of alarm.
The electrical power permits the transit
to be kept free from smoke and cinders;
and the only point which Mr. Halstead
finds to criticise is one separate from the
system itself, namely, the cumbrousness
of the lifts.
This testimony is important, because it
settles a point that promises to be of
growing magnitude in this country. The
Issue between underground and elevated
roads in this country should not be ob
scured by a misrepresentation or misun
derstanding of the facts. It is evident
that when tha population of a city de
mands greater transit facilities than can
be afforded by surface roads the improve
ment has got to go either overhead or
underground. Mr. Halstead's testimony
confirms the opinion already justified by
previous reports that when a city reaches
the point where one or the other is re
quired, the Greathead system offers a
possibility of greater speed, more endur
ing stability, and consequently greater
safet3" and capacity than can he secured
by an elevated railway system.
AN ANTIPODAL EXAMPLE.
The statement that the Governor of the
province of Queensland has determined to
adopt the policy of prohibiting all immi
gration for an indefinite period, shows that
other countries besides our own are
troubled with the immigration problem. It
might be supposed that Queensland, which
was first settled within the memory of
middle-aged people, and which must still
possess immense tracts of unsettled coun
try, was far fromreaching thepointwhere
it could shut off immigration; but by this
report the decision seems to have been
practically made.
Complaints have been general in Aus
tralia that undesirable immigrants have
been sent to those provinces. It is natural
to think that countries which in their in
ception met and solved the problem of
convict immigration could get along with
out being so nice at an advanced stage.
But Australia has already adopted our
example in excluding Chinese immigration,
and Queensland is now on the point of
going far beyond our instructions by stop
ping all immigration and thence building
up a system of regulations by which de
sirable immigrants may be admitted.
The United States will not adopt so
sweeping a policy as that of Queensland;
and the rule is so arbitrary as to create a
suspicion that it may be incited by the
great land-owners to protect themselves
against having their estates cut up by the
free selectors, corresponding to the home
steaders of this country. But with this
example set by an English colony, Europe
cannot blame the United States, if it
adopts stringent regulations with regard
to the character and sanitary condition of
all future immigration..
EXPERIENCE POE ENGLISHMEN.
Two or three years ago English syndi
cates were buying up all sorts of American
properties and capitalizing them for the
sake of appeasing the appetite of the
English investors for stocks with an equal
amount of value and water. The Dis
patch took occasion to remark that it
would not take long for that class of in
vestments to lose its popularity.
It did not require any prophetic instinct
to make that prediction. It was a result
of business law, that enterprises bearing
from 30 to 70 per cent of watered capitali
zation could not yield large dividends on
that water in competition with other con
cerns operated on actual capital It was
also in accordance with human nature that
a concern in which ownership and, actual
conduct were separated by thousands of
miles, would not be as profitable as its rivals
under the immediate supervision and care
of their owners. While the pre
diction was one that anyone
Tnight have made, the fact that
some business pundits discovered in it a
new era of commercial organization, ,i
THE
makes It important to note that the Brit
ish Investors are already beginning to find
out the old lesson that the promise of big
dividends and the paymont of them are
two widely distinct performances.
Tho Intutor'i Bnitv, of London, points
this out In dotall. Two Chicago brewery
companies have so far come up .to expec
tations by paying 10 per cent dividends,
but they have made nothing for reserves,
and written off nothing for depreciation
of plant The San Francisco breweries
have not yielded their ordinary share
holders any dividends for a year.. The
Chicago Grain Elevators, Xlmlted, was for
Its first dividend period short $90,000 of
meeting its ordinary preference charges,
and nothlnghas since been heard of divi
dends. The Otis Steel Company, of Cleve
land, which was to have paid 20 per cent
dividend, paid 8 per cent in 1880, and the
shareholders are now inquiring whether
they will get anything for 1891. An im
proved cattle car company's bonds were
introduced to British investors in the most
glowing terms in 1889, and they are now
quoted at 10 per cent discount on the issue
price.
These facts are calculated to make
Englishmen shy of American investments;
and yet tho whole business was entirely
an English method. The only share
which the people of this country had in
the matter was to sell their properties to
the English syndicates. The real lesson
Is the very obvious one that watered stock
and remote ownership of highly capital
ized industrial corporations cannot suc
cessfully take the place of the personal
direction and close supervision of individ
ual or partnership ownership.
SUPPRESS MOB LAW.
The statement that a band of White
Caps In this county has undertaken to ad
minister the law by beating a man who
was accused of abusing his family, calls
for the energetic Intervention of the offi
cers. If masked men are permitted to
take people out of their houses at night,
the protection for persons or property af
forded becomes a farce.
The law provides ample punishment for
people who do wrong, as the victim of this
reported White Cap outrage is alleged to
have done. If the law is not efficiently
enforced it Is the fault of the people; and
they by resorting to mob law instead of
requiring the enforcement of actual and
authorized justice do the most toward re
ducing society to a state of anarchy. The
fact is that if the man in the present case
had been guilty of the offenses charged
against him there would have been no
difficulty in securing his conviction. Tho
disguised mob simply took that method of
securing free license for the instincts of
savagery and brutality.
Men who attack the houses of others in
disguise are the most cowardly and con
temptible class of lawbreakers. The offi
cers of justice should use every means
within their power to secure their appre
hension and punishment.
A POINT AS TO TRUSTS.
The answer of the National Cordage
Trust to suits begun against it by parties
who had entered its combination suggests
a point of value to people who feel in
clined to enter combinations in restraint
of competition. The suits as stated in a
special article were to enforce the con
tracts under which the output of cordage
was to be controlled and which the trust
after it had taken on the corporate form
found it convenient to repudiate. The
defense was that the contract was one
formed for the restraint of competition
and was therefore against 'public policy
and null
The only novelty about this point is its
being raised in favor of a Trust which, to
escape its own contracts, declares its own
illegality. The defense was a perfectly
valid one. The courts have declared time
and again that the law will not permit it
self to be used to enforce illegal contracts
either for or against the parties which
make them. These decisions have gener
ally been made when some combination
has sought the aid of the law to
make insubordinate members live up
to the agreement; but the novel
spectacle of a combination re
pudiating its own agreement on account
of its violation of public policy rests on
exactly the same indisputable legal founda
tion. The manufacturing concern which
goes into a combination cannot enforce its
contract against the combination any more
than the combination can enforce the con
tract against the individual member.
This principle is Well known to all who
have paid any attention to the law on the
subject of trusts and combinations; but
to judge from the hunger of the business
world for Teal or factitious profits to be
secured from combinations it is not gen
erally understood there. It may make a
little difference to business men who are
thinking of joining a Trust, if they know
that the Trust can at any time repudiate
the contract without the slightest legal
obstacle.
With regard to those Presidental bees,
it is worthy of note that there is a bee in
every bonnet, but it is the do-nothing drones
which are apt to make the loudest buzzing.
Opinions expressed by Labor Commis
sioner Powell, of Minnesota, on the econom
ical management of labor union insurance
funds are well worthy or attentiou. There
is no more useful and legitimate aim for
labor organizations than the establishment
of insurance systems on a sound basis at
minimum rates.
Kaisee "Wilhelm should at any rats be
popular with the lawyers, since no less than
seven hundred and fifty persons in Germany
are being prosecuted for Use majeste.
A pkeacheb who does not use tobacco, '
and never expects to do so, but refuses to
pledge himself to abstinence from the weed
as a matter of principle, is an anomalism
whose philanthropy is only equalled by the
non-smokers who always carry matches as
a convenience for their companions.
Loafers are said to have been an im
portant lactor in the recent German riots.'
In Pittsburg loafers are merely a public in-"
convenience.
The moral status of variety performers
must be improving when a father says that
he did his daughter an injustice in report
ing that she had run away to get married, as
he bad discovered that she had onlyjolned a
variety company.
The Board of Lady Managers is at least
well able to compete with the male organ
izers in a desire to control as much money
as possible.
Advebtisements of porous plasters
may be expected now to make a special fea
ture of the convenience of the wares for
smuggling purposes. Oue man has been
caught bringing in diamonds under one.
Henby Wattebson is perfectly right
in his opinion that "the woods are fall of
admirable possibilities" possibilities of
failure.
Theke is no truth in the -assertion that
the big city appropriation was made to cover
the expense of providing all deserving bnt
poor persons with pockef money for the
purchase" of occasional luxuries.
Titkrb- is general belief that if- the
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH.
Standard genuinely goes into business on a
"no trust'.' basis Its credit will be greatly en
hanced. As for Laldlaw's claim that he was
manipulated by Bussell Sago to serve aa a
bomb-proof, the capitalist says he never
touched him, but be cannot say at much for
the bomb.
Pennsylvania is endeavoring to ex
terminate its wildcats, bnt the .Tiger con
tinues to flourish undisturbed In New York,
Man is lord of creation and enjoys such
sport as is afforded by a limit wbloh takes
twenty-five hundred of him, a couple of
dogs, and a humane revolver to slaughter
one wolf.
The grip has about spent Its force, but
the political pull Is still with us.
Gbeat "Cesar! This is a Republican
country, and yet many people are heard to
declare that the Speaker's, chair was only
evacuated by one Czar to be occupied by an
other. PERTINENT PERSONALITIIS.
Italy's King and Queen will visit Hyers
during the coming season.
Madame Melba, the Australian prima
donna, is the best-dressed woman on the
operatic stage.
Consul General Mat, will return to
the United States in May in order to attend
the Eepublican convention.
Pbince Geobge op Wales is fond of
smoking a short briar-wood pipe, and is
never seen with a cigarette in his mouth.
Mb. Francis Batlbv, Judge of the
Westminster County Court, is the oldest
county court J udge in England. He is in his
90th year.
Mbs. Edison, the wife of the man who
has applied theeleotrio light to domestic
purposes, prefers candles to any other form
of household illumination.
M. C. Gallaway, the "Nestor of the
Tennessee Press," has been elected Presi
dent or tho Memphis Press Club, which has
Just organized with about SO members.
Washington P. Gbego is said to have
never missed a meeting of the BoBton Com
mon Council during the IS years he was
clerk of that body. He is now critically
ill.
Senatob Hill, of New York, will de
liver the annlveisary address at the com
memoration of the Mecklenburg Declara
tion of Independence at Charlotte, N. C,
May 20.
Geobge Kennan, the American lec
turer and traveler, declares that he will
never cease agitating until the political
prisons of Siberia are things of the past. He
is a tall' powerfully built man, with a sweet
resonant voice and eloquent manners.
BLACK GOWN OB HO GOWff.
A Presbyterian Minister's Decision to Wear
One Creates Dissension.
Philadelphia, March 12. The action of
Hev. Dr. Charles Wood, of the First Presby
terian Church of Germantown, In declaring
his intention to wear a black gown during
the opening services of the new church, has
aroused warm discussions among the con
gregations of other Presbyterian churches
throughout the city. The clergymen, as a
rnle, side with the reverend doctor, while
many ol the laymen are equally as firmly
opposed to the innovation.
John A. Black, Superintendent of the
Presbyterian Publication Society, is a strong
supporter of Dr. Wood. He says: "There is
no reason why the congrezatlon should take
exception to this action of Dr. Wood's. Ho
has the privilege of wearing a gown if he so
desires, Just as several other clergymen of
our denomination have, who have worn the
garment in auestion for years. Rev. Drs.
Dickey, Macintosh and Munro are of this
number. The auestion as to what a clergy-
Lmun shall or shall not wear should be left to
tne gooa judgment or tne person most in
terested. Certainly no congregation can
rightfully claim that tlio Dootor's action is
in any way an infringement of the ecclesi
astical laws." , 1
HEAK THE PEB10D OP GBACE.
Prof. Totten Predicts Seven Tears or Judg
ment Upon Mankind.
New Haveit, March 12. Prof. Totten, of
Tale College, said to-day with reference to
his work, "The Hope of History," Just pub
lished: "My treatment of the flood is ohlefly chro
nological and astronomical. It proves that
Moses was accurate. I account for the flood
in this way. The waters above the firma
ment were a great ring of drift, vapor, Boot
and smoke, Just like that which surrounds
Saturn at this minute, and that, which was
once a belt'about all the planets, fell. That
was the deluge.
"In 1833 and 1866 the stars fell according to
prediction. They were tho over-ripe fruit of
this tottering ring of meteorites, which some
day is to come down upon the earth.
"A scientific spike through Noah's ark, I
deem to be the result of my most important
calculations. We are at the edge of the
period of grace, and before us, from the end
of this March, there stretch seven years of
Judgment upon all mankind. In many places
it has begun. Now, the Savior predicted
this to be as certain as the deluge was true.
I believe the flood, in its vindication, is one
o f ths signs of his coming."
FIV THOUSAND AUTOPSIES.
A Philadelphia Man to Sacrifice His Stock
to Humanity and Science.
Philadelphia, Maich 12. One of the most
remarkablo autopsies in the interest of
humanity and science will take place at
Josoph E. Gillingham's magnificent stoce
farm, "Clairemont Farm," Villa Nova, next
Wednesday.
At an expense of probably $5,000, Mr. Gil
lingham will have over 30 of his fine Jersey
cows killed to prevent the spread of tuber
colo9is, and science will be utilized in the
killing. The autopsies will be witnessed by
many well-known professional men.
Liberals for Canadian Independence.
Ottawa, Out., March 12. Hon. David Mills,
the principal Liberal leader, has given
notice that ho will introduce a measure in
Parliament Wednesday in favor or Canada
negotiating her own treaties, subject to the
approval of the Dominion Parliament.
Better Hang On to Their Sealskins.
Chicago News.
Wliile in the presence of gentlemen hail
ing from Great Britain ladies will now hang
on tightly to their sealskins.
THE THREE LITTLE CHAIRS.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
They sat alone Dy the bright wood fire,
Tho gray-haired dame and the aged sire.
Dreaming of days gone by:
The tear-drops fall on each aged cheek:
They botn had thoughts that they could sot speak.
As each heart uttered a sigh.
For their cad and tearful eyes deierled
Three little chairs placed side by side
Against the sitting room wall;
Old-fashioned enough as there they stood
Their seats of nag and tbelr frames of wood,
With tbelr hacks so straight and tall.
Then the sire shook his silvery head.
And with trembling voice ha gently said:
"Mother, those empty chairs I
They bring us such sad, sad thoughts to-night.
We'll put them forever out of sight.
In the small dark room upstairs."
But she answered, "Father, no, not yet;
For I look at them and I forget
That the children went away.
The boys come back, and our Mary, too.
With her apron on of checkered blue.
And sit here every day,
Johnny still whittles a ship' s tall masts.
And WlUie his leaden bullets casts.
While Mary her patchwork sews;
At evening time three childish prayers
Go up to God from those little chairs,
So softly that no one knowe.
Johnny comes back from the blUowly deep,
WUlie wakes from his battle-field sleep .
To say a good-night to me;
Mary's a wife and mother no more.
But a tired child whose play-time is o'er
And comes to rest on my knes.
So, let them stand there, though empty now.
And every time when alone-we bow
At the Father's throne to pray,
We'll ask to meet the children above
Is our Savior's home of rest sod lova.
' Where n child goeth swayi" -'" " "
SUNDAY, MARCH 13,
' LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS.
Changes to Be Made in the Diplomatic, and
Consular Berrloe Eoonomy Practiced
la This Branch Secretary Blaine Much
Improved Sealers Not Doing So Badly.
Washington, March' 12. The Diplo
matic and Consular apsropiiatlon bill will
probably be reported to the House next
week.. The sub-committee of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs has com
pleted consideration of the bill and will re
port It to the full committee early in the
week. A number of changes are proposed
In the Diplomatic and Consular service, and
In the former there have been a number of
consolidations, by which savings in expend
itures were made, while in the Con
sular service retrenchment has been
effected by reducing the salaries
at a number of consulates where the
sub-committee believes more compensation
Is being paid than the business im
portance of the places warrant, this being
particularly true of some places where
practically no business Is done. The bill for
the current year amounts to a little more
than $1,800,000. Members of the majority
side 6f the sub-committee believe that the
savings effected by the bill will not affect
the service unfavorably. The Diplomatic
and Consular bill has grown in the last half
dozen years almost 20 per cent more man
the growth of the business interests of the
United States abroad in that period, so that
it is thought it can be safely reduced.
The sub-committee's bill makes a saving
of some slxtv'odd thousand dollars in the
Consular service, and $20,000 or more in the
diplomatic service, while tne appropriations
asked for by the Pan-American organiza
tions were not acted upon, the committee
referring them to the regular Appropria
tions Committee of the House. The mission
to Denmark f consolidated with that to
Sweden and Norwav. the compensation of
the Minister to b3S7,'5O0, which lathe present
grade of each mission. Ono Minister, it is
proposed, shall represent the United States
to both Bolivia and Colombia hereafter, in
place of a Minister, to each country. The
missions to Peru and Ecuador, it is also
proposed to consolidate. The place of
a Minister to Ecuador was onlv re
cently recreated, and the United
States for a long time has
been unrepresented by a Minister to that
country, the gentleman appointed about a
month ago under the terms of the diplo
matic act for the current fiscal year not hav
ing sailed yet. There has also been some re
arrangement of the Central American
mission and some reclassifications made in
the service. One of tho interesting features
of the framing of the measure was a prop
osition to reduce the grade of the Chilean
mission from $10,000 to $5,000 or $7,500. This
Is the place at present held by Patrick Egun.
After due consultation it was decided, in
view of the recent troubles between the
United States and Chile, and of the fact that
the Chilean mission is Just now of more than
ordinary importance, not to recommend any
cnange m graae.
THE House Committee on Territories to
day finished the consideration of the Ari
zona Statehood bill, and has decided to re
port it fa voi ably to the House in an amended
form. The Territory, like New Mexico, has
received very liberal treatment by the com
mittee, and is given one-nlntli of the public
lands tor school purposes. The amounts al
lowed for public buildings, etc., are nbont
the fame as granted to New Mexico, making
a total of 765,000 acres in all.
The Columbian Exposition Committee of
tne Senate to-day authorized lavoraoie re-
inzeu lavorauio ie-
ports to be made upon several resolutions
extending Invitations to the King and Queen
of Spain and the Presidents of the Central
and South American Republics to attend the
World's Fair, and soliciting the loan ofrel
los and documents relating to Columbus and
the disoovory of America, and authorizing
the Librarian of Congress to make an ex
hibit of similar articles.
Fatheb Heffbon, of St Paul, has tel
egraphed to Cardinal Gibbons that he is not
the author of the statement telegraphed
from St. Paul yesterday that Archbishop
Ireland is to be made a Cardinal. Father
Heffron adds that he has no information
whatever on the subject.
United States Consul Hyebs has
furnished the Department of State with a
list of sealing vessels 'which have cleared
from Victoria up to March 2, and says that a
fleet of sealers has been operating during
the past few week along the coast between
the mouth or. the Columbia river and Capo
Flattery, meeting the' heTd of seals as they
come north. . Passing vessels report that as
a rnle the weather has been fine, and the
number of seals taken very satisfactory to
the fleet, one report saving "the hunter are
busy shooting seals." For instance, Febru
ary '20, the catch of six vessels was reported
to be 573; February 22, of six other vessel,
324, and Februr-ry 29. of six vessels, 817.
Among these vessels the most successful are
the W. P. Sayward and the E. B. Marvin,
both, of which have in oast years been
seized and are notorious poachers. The
Consul reports that the sealers have gone
out this season earlier than usual, pending a
renewal of the modus vivendis and hastened
to sea to avoid official notioe of it.
Genebal Congee, the United States
Minister to Brazil, who is in this country on
leave of absence, was among the President's
visitors to-day. He Said he expected- to re
turn to his post In about tin ee weeks. It is
said at the White House and State' Depart
ment to-day that there is no foundation for
the report that Minister Egan is .to be trans
ferred from Chile to Brazil. I '
Secbetaby Elkins said to-day that the
court martial cases of Major Charles B.
Throckmorton, Second Artillery, and Major
L. C. Overman, Corps of Engineers, would be
submitted to the President Monday next,
and would probaDly be disposed of within a
week or two. He added that nothing could
bs said in regard to these casas in advance
of the President's action. The report that
Major Overman was acquitted by the court
is denied at the War Denartinent, but it is
admitted that sentence imposed is a most
lenient one. A question of gif at interest to
the army, to be settled next week, is the ap
pointment of a Brigadier General, vice Gen
eral Kauitz, retired, and the promotions that
will follow. i
There is no change in the Bering Sea
situation, and no communication has been
received from Lord Salisbury fn response to
the President's note of the 8th instant, In
sisting on a renewal of the modus Vivendi.
Secbetaby Blaine's symptoms con
tinue favorable, and that he, is gaining
strength is shown by the fact that he was
able to sit up to-day and read the newspa
pers. It is expected that ne wm ue ame to
resume the direction of affairs at the State
Department next week.
Booms Rapidly Becoming Invisible.
Washington Star, J
Some of the Presidental booms will pres
ently rival Tascott for Invisibility.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWjlEEE. '
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio.
Kt Bev. Gregory Thurston Bejdell, third
Episcopal bishop of Ohio, died at the Dakota
Flats, In New York, at noon Friday. Bishop
Bedell was over 80 years of age and Ifad been an
Invalid for a number of years. He hid lived In
quiet retirement at the Dakota buillilng during
the past three years with bis wife. Death was due
to paralysis and old age. The funeral will take
place from the Church of the Ascension, and the
burial at Gambler; O.
Rev. Stephen Elwell. 1
Bev. Stephen Elwell, pastor o'fthe M. E.
Church, at Yatesville. Fa., was found (dead m bed
yesterday morning. Death was the result of par
alysis. He was 52 years old. He began Ms work
in tho Wyoming conference in 1862, at Sprinevllle,
N. Y.. and until 1S7S officiated In the New York
Kbits section of the conference. This
1
his first
year In charge of the YatesvUle church,
Obituary Notes. t
Poos'. Stxxbebq, .'the eminent specialist In
mental diseases, died yesterday In Copenhagen.
-iHXY. Db. Caibxs, Principal of the Uni(ed Pres
byterian College at Edinburgh, and a prpmlnent
Presbyterian divine, died suddenly yesterday.
Bbiqamxr Gzsiral Duhley Steele) of the
N ew Jersey National Guard, died, yetterdaf morn
ing at Orange, N. J. He served throughput the
War of tne KebelUoil as paymaster's "cleri. He
was born in Jersey City in 18J9. 5
Captain V. D. Nicholas, one of the most en
terprising citizens of 'Lexington, Ky.. dieU there
Friday: He had been cashier for years of Jhe Sec
ond National Bank. He mined his UUc In the Con
federate army under the command of General John
H. Morgan. I
HARRIET Covenet, an EngUsh actress of half a
century's experience, is dead at the age of 03. She
made her debut in her childhood, and In theUlxtles
she was noted as a comedienne, vocalist and
dancer. About 1875 sho. visited this country, and
mi quite successful in comic opera. t
Thomas Bell, comedian and general variety
performer, died In Salt Lake City several days ago
aged 34. He was-traveling with, a vaudeville
troupe and was associated with John Shannon as a
"sketch Uam.'! Bell was considered a very clever
comedian, and had been lnanumbetofJUceessfBl
urccs.
18B
socialism nr gsbxaxt.
Members of This Organization Cast More
Than One-Fifth of tho Total Tote,
Portland Oregoolan.
Germany is already the most socialistic)
State In the world. Out of 34,030 miles of
railroad all but S.4S8 In 1880 ware owned by
the Government, which, from owing 97 per
eent In 1878 and 87 per cent In 1881, now owns
87 per cent. The State, partly by taxation
and partly by levying on employes and em
ployed, paid to laborers In 1888-9 sick insur
ance in 1,882,520 cases, with a total of 99,528,770
days of illness. Two years ago, January 1,
1890, 12,831,26 German workingmen were en
Joying Btate lnsuranoe for acoldtnt, and the
sum paid to widows and children under this
law was $3,500,000 in 18S9. When the old age
insurance law, which went Into effect Janu
ary 1, 1891, is in full operation the German
Government exnects to ha -navinr nut S17.-
000,000 a year in pensions to superanuated
workmen. The State socialism of the peo
ple is merely an extension of the policy of
tho Government.
The German public is growing strong and
conscious or Its strength. The history of
constructive German socialism begins with
Ferdinand Lassalle, who was killed In a
duel in 1863. Just before his death the So
cialists cast 4,000 votes at their first appear
ance in an election. Irt 1871 tliev cast 124,000;
In 1874, 252,600: in 1877. 493,000; in 1881, after the
reaction of the nobiiing attempt, their vote
iciihu; in isH.it rose to ou,uoH; in 1B03 to
770,000, and in 1890 the Socialists cast 1,427.823
votes, or one-firtli of the total poll in the
German empire. Daring nearly half of this
time socialism has been under severe re
pression. After two attempts to assassin
ate the Emperor, in 1878, Bismarck In
troduced and passed legislation against
Socialists and sooialism which remained
12 years on the German statute book.
Under it arrests were frequent, imprison
ments constant, and. the proscription of
socalist speakers and the press of the partv
unremitting. This legislation was modified
two years ago by those labor recrlpts of the
young Emperor, which Cardinal Manning
thought "the wisest and worthiest act that
has proceeded from any sovereign in our
times." The German people were as de
lighted as Manning, until it appeared that
the emperor intended the act as a mere
benevolence and proposed to rulo as a mild,
but absolute autocrat, the father of his
people, but their master. The role crows
vastly unpopular in spite of the good will
wlthwhioh he plays it. The probability is
that William will have a much less comfort
able reirrn than a monarch with less benevn-
lenoe and more common sense.
AFBICAN BAILWAY PB0JECIS.
A Remarkable Illustration of the Progress
of Events In the Dark Continent.
New Tork Sun.
Two railroad projeats of great Interest are
now developing in East Africa. The British
Government has been authorized by Parlia
ment to pay a large part of the expense of
the preliminary survey for the railroad from
Mombasa to "Victoria Kyanza, This insures
the completion of the survey, and ample
capital to build the railroad is assured. It is
admitted that this road will practically end
the slave trade in the Victoria Nyanza
region. Slaves are still caught there in large
numbers, and are used as porters to take to
the coast the ivory and other merchandise
of the Arab traders. The slave traffic is now
carried on chiefly to obtain porters, bnt
when a railroad runs from the lake to the
sea the Arabs will use It as a quicker, safer
-i -1 H- . .,
f-Voadwill have aprofoundihfluenceuponthe
victoria Nyanza region, and it Is certain
that the resources of that part of Inner
Africa cannot be developed until It Is built.
Mueotner project win oe completed nrsc.
This is the road from PoitBeira on the In
dian Ocean, about 250 miles west to Maslion
aland. The capital for this road has been
subscribed, both the Portuguese, Mozam
bique and the British South Africa com
panies are represented in the Board of Con
trol, and the construction of the line is to
begin next month. Track laying will be ex
tended far toward Mashonaland by the end
of the year. It is a remarkable illustration
of the rapid progress of even ts in Africa that
projects are soon to be realized which will
enable the ordinary traveler to reach with
out discomfort regions that were so long a
great mystery, and the story of whose ex
ploration has been followed by the world
with so much interest.
Why Parson Jasper Will Wed Again.
Bioqxond, Va., March 12. Bev. John Jas
per, the most noted oolored preacher in the
world, and exponent of the "Sun Do Move"
theory, announces that in a few days he will
take his third wife. The old man has been
in bad health for some time and made bis
will a few davs ago. In it he did not leavo
all his estate to his married daughter, who
kept bouse for him. For this reason Dr.
Jasper says she and her husband plotted
to take his life, bo he sent them away, and
now he must nave a wife for housekeeper.
The prospective bride is nearly as old as
he Is.
Suspended Because of the Dunne Letter.
St. Louis, March 12. It is stated upon cood
authority that Eev. Father Kuhlman, who,
it was alleged at the time, was responsible
for the wide circulation of the letter of
Judge E. F. Dunne, severely crltizlng the
work of the Archbishops in connection with
the proposed Catholic Congress ot 1893, has
been suspended from his priestly functions
bv Bishop Evan, Inquiry brought out a
confirmation from an attache of Father
Euhlman's paper.
City Water Works Break Loos.
Leavesworth, Ea., March 12. Shortly
before noon to-day the weight ot the water
in the new water works reservoir on the
reservation north of the city forced out the
slush pipe, and nearly 8,000,000 gallons of
water went out in about an hour, washing a
quantity of mud and debris across the rail
way tracks below the hill. It is not thought
that the .break will materially affect the
citv's water supply, as the water company
will make use of the old reservoirs until the
break is repaired.
Two Western Wolf Hants.
Pelican Kapid3, Mrmr., March 12. The
wolf drive was a great success yesterday.
Over 1,000 men took part, when the roundup
was finished there were within the circle 30
wolves, hundreds of Jack rabbits and a soli
tary bear, which finally got away. Seven
teen ot the wolves were killed. A dispatch
from Fergus Falls, says: A wolf hunt here,
indulged in by 3,000 men, succeeded in round
ing up two forlorn specimens, one of which
escaped.
Presidents and Potentates Invited.
Chicago, March 12. The World's Fair
Joint Committee on Ceremonies has ap
pointed a committee to wait upon the
President of the United States, the Vice
President, Judges of the Supreme Court,
members of the Cabinet and representatives
of foreign nations, to invite their presence
at the dedication ceremonies in October.
They Flap With a Merry Jingles
Washington Post.
When it comes to the silver question tho
New York Democrats flap together with a
merry Jingle.
GOULD'S LATE BENEVOLENCE.
Mb. Jat Gould has thrown a golden apple
in among the clergymen of New York.whieh
has got them into a red-hot wrangle. Roches
ter Union.
It Is explained that Mr. Jay Gould Is
merely giving way to the monastic tastes of
his great exemplar when in feeble health.
Which Is a delicate way of putting an old
rhyme. Boston Herald. '
Jay Gould has taken to dealing in futures.
He has put $10,000 in church extensive funds
and $25,000 in univetsity preferred. If he
ever realizes on this Investment he is not
likely to be in position to water the stock.
Chicago Tribune.
What does the loosening of their purse
strings by the plutocrats portend? Jay
Gould's latest gift of $25,000 to the University
of the City of New York is probably a thank
offering that the recent rumor of bis death
hud no foundation in tact. Detroit Free
JPreu.
There has been no proof presented to show
that the' $10,000 which constituted Mr. Gould's
gift was not acquired by him in an honorable
way. Therefore, the whole question becomes
a personal one. Should society associate
with him or proclaim him an outcast? If it
treats him with severity, how must it treat
other men who have done wrong? Evening
Tfuconsfak
Jat Gould has followed up his subscrip
tion of $10,000 to the Church Extension So
ciety by a gift of $25,000 to the University of
the City of New York. He has not hereto
fore appeared In the role of a philanthropist,
and It would seem that with increasing ago
the "Wizard of Wall Street" was becoming
mors solicitous of the good opinion of the
public Ohio State Journal.
PICKINGS IN NEW YORK.
What the Clipping Bureaus Are Catering To
The Tad off Dogs and Horses Vandals
With Diamond Rings A Few Odd
Stories.
Craojt x STArr coajucsroxmnrr.t
"So you know the latest fashionable fad
In New York?' Inquired tho proprietor of a
clipping bureau. "During and Just before
the late dog show we reoolved more orders
from women than from, men for all informa
tion about dogs. We had somethlngovor 100
New York women on our list for dogs and
horses, and when the dog show came along
the list was run up for dog lore alone over
200. Women take a considerable Interest in
dogs and horses, naturally, but who can ac
count for the interest that Impels a woman
to buy everything said about dogs in the
papers? A good many women enter dogs at
these exhibitions, and they think the whole
woTld is interested in their curled darlings.
We could account for 1 first only on that
hypothesis. But this .did not explain the
horse part of it. Now, you know that there
is more about dogs and horses In the news
papers than about all other animals com
binedleaving out the cat and our clipping
force struck a regular bonanza. They got
tons of it and mailed the slips to our fair
subscribers.
"You may think this Is only a new fashion
able fad, but it is not wholly so. I got curi
ous and made some inquiries and I ascer
tained that in mosc Instances young women
have male friends who are Interested in
horses or dogs and the dear girls
take this way of keeping posted on
the demands of tbelr society. Few
women care to study up on any
particular line unless it is to shine be
fore men. A bright girl has a beau, for in
stance, whose fad is horses she wants to
draw him out, to understand him, to be
agreeable and the best way to do all this is
to interest herself in his fad. In a month of
this clipping scheme she'll probably know
more on the subject than he ever knew. See?
Yes. it holds good in a more or less degree
with the fair sex in other things. We have
women subscribers for all current informa
tion about yachting and rowing and base
ball, boxing and other athletic sports. We
have three female subscribers for every
thing on pugilism and pugilists think of
thatl Cats? Now, right nere I prove my
theory. Men proverbially don't like cats, or
don't care tor them one wav or the
other. Women proverbially do like cats.
Yet we have but three subscrib
ers for cat clipping, and one of these
iiaman. All three reside in New England.
Wo have found cats next to horses and dogs
in freaueney of newspaper mention.
"Wlien Ward.MoAliister cut the 400 down
to 150 wo had qnite a number of inquiries as
to why he left out Mrs. Paran Stevens and
many cllnplngs on that point went to fash
ionable Fifth avenue. If this new fad con
tinues we shail really bo quite In the swim'
pretty soon."
Antics of a Broadway Dog.
The other day a novel scene was wit
nessed on Upper Broadway where the
theaters are thickest. There was a sharp
atmosphere abroad and the drivers were
slapping their feet In their efforts to keep
-from freezing. In one such effort one such
driver dropped his whip. As his' assistant
climbed over the wheel to get It a bow
lezged, crop-eared dog dodged from under
a carriage and slezlng the whip In his mouth
frisked lightly away with It. The drivers
laughed and shouted and the young man
ran after the dog and yelled and whistled,
but the more they laughed and yelled and
whistled the funnier it seemed to the dog.
He dived under the wagons and played hide
and seek around the horsecars. now and
then tossing the whip up in the aia in sheer
exuberation of animal spirits, all the while
keeping a weather eye on his immediate
Enrsuer, the whole Broadway world looking
inghlngly on.
Finally, in the course ot a block or two,
after a horse had stepped on the butt and
had nearly Jerked the bow-legged doit's
teeth out and a street car had run over the
lash and Jerked them In again, he dropped
the thing in the roadway and capered after
his disappearing master, leaving the truck
man's asaistant in possession, thoroughly
warmed up with the chase.
Working a BlnS in Europe.
"When I was traveling in India,"
said Manager Tom Davis, -'I noticed that all
Englishmen, and, in fact, Europeans gener
ally, signed their names with whatever
title they had before or after
them. Simple Bill Jones, Chicago, got no at
tention whatever compared to these fellows.
Englishmen are awful kickers everywhere
and the Englishmen with titles kicked the
hardest. Lieutenant William Henry
Llewelyn'Sinythe, H. M. Royal Fusileers, got
It all on the register and kicked like a Texas
steer all the way through. It seemed that
this was what was expected of him.
"As soon as I thoroughly understood the
situation I determined to keep up with the
procession and thereafter alwavs signed my
name "Col. Tnomas H. Davis, U. S. A. E. M..
(Beserved Militia) and usually scared the
waiters half to death before I asked for any
thing. The scheme worked beautifully and
I got the cest in the house.
Booze Mixed With Rain Water.
One cold rainy night last week a man
stepped up to the door of a Jersey City man
slon and rang the door-bell once, twice,
thrice. The head of. the family, with a
blanket around his person, raised a window
nervously and looked out.
"Who is it? What do you want?"
"Want? I want to come in, of course," was
the grufl reply. "You don't suppose I'm do
ing this for fun?"
There was something in the man's voice or
In the confident tone that brought the win
dow down and the bead of the house to the
door, this time in a pair of slippers and an
overcoat. Asain the query:
"I want a place to sleep," said the man,
who appeared to be well dressed but under
the influence of liquor.
"Wha whv do you know what time it is?
The ideaof 2 o'clock, sir!"
"No I don't. But it's time I was in bed
somewhere. 'T'aint mv fault I'm not in bed.
I've sot no place to eo."
"Well, blank my eves if this don't"
"Time is money, sir, I'd like to exchange
a little time for cash the price of bed. I'm
long on time and short on cash. The price
of a bed, sir"
"Well, er I'm why, man, you"' but his
feelings overcame him. The caller still had
his foot In the door and was rubbing bis
hands brlsklv.
"What am I to do? I put it to voa, sir. as
one gentleman to another, confidentially
what am I to do?"
"D d do!" roared the shivering house
holder, rubbing one bare shin aiainst
the otherin amazement "do? Get oat! Go
to no, here" fishing up half a dollar from
tho chance pocket of his ulster "no w ro to
go and finish your drunk!" And bang went
the door.
Diamonds and Fine Windows.
The plate glass of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel is badly disfigured, but the vandals
are still In the ring. The peculiar "corola
tlon" of the plate glass, the donkey and the
diamond ring forms an Interesting study for
the proprietors of public resorts. In New
York it requires more vigilance on the part
of hotel detectives to prevent this single act
ofvanUalism than it does to guard ngaicst
pickpockets. The other day a young man
was caught cutting his initials with a dia
mond ring on a brand new $50 plate glass
window at one of the newest hotels uptown.
When he was taken to task about it he ad
mitted it and treated it as a good Joke. Bnt
it wo3 no Joke when ho saw this item In his
bill:
February 17. For one plate glass window
cut with diamond ring, $50.
The vandals are not always men. A lady
walking through a corridor with another
lady called attention to a disfigured window
with, "Now, I wonder what idiot did this?"
"I I did it," replied tho other. And the
relations of the pair are now somewhat
strained.
I never see these scratches without recall
ing the pertinent lines of a famous wit:
When e'er I see a fellow's name
Scratched upon the glass.
I know he owns a diamond
And bis lather owns an ass.
Conversation and Mero Talk.
"New York society 'as I have found
it,' " said a charming Washington lady who
goes about a great deal, "does not boast of
many good conversationalists. With liere
and there rare exceptions the usual social
dialogue is dull and commonplace often
stupid. There are good talkers, of course
as there are among a miscellaneous lot of
women anywhere: but a good talker is not
necessarily a good conversationalist, as I
understand that term. Your good talker Is
apt to be quite the opposite an actual bore.
Conversation Implies talk from two or more
persons, not a monologue. I think the big-
S est bore on earth is your good talker who
inoca conversationalist. Intelligent con.
venation on tho topics of the day between
bright people who are good conversational
ists is to my mind the highest degree of
human intercourse."
CsAnxxs Tnosoax Musbat.
' New Yore, March 12.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
One hundred and seventy different spe
cies of bees are natives of Great Britain.
There are 700 Illinois farmers who havs
accumulated fortunes of from $50,000 to
$250,000.
There is now a gambling nlckel-in-th&,
slot machine. Sometimes three nickels drop
out and sometimes none.
Of the total working expenses of tha
railways over 60 per cent goes in various
ways to the wage earners.
In one 'of the great Paris hospitals, out
of 83 patients who suffered from epilepsy, 60
were found to be the children of drunken,
parents.
It is said that a certain lady of Madi.
son, Fla., ate 17 catfish recently for supper.
Her husband, not to lose his prestige, ate
three more than she.
The last execution for forgery in Eng
land took place at the Old Bailey, on De
cember 31, 1829. The name of the convict
was Thomas Maynard.
A citizen of Moberly, Ma, has a curi
ous collection. He has a slipper 75 years old,
a Bible and a trunk each 100 years old, and a,
razor hone 300 years old.
In the days when wigs and powder
were fashionable, ladles are said tohavoi
paid' as much as X200 for having their hair'
dressed for special or state occasions.
Several medical journals assert that the'
young women of the present day are better'
developed physically, taller, plumper,!
stronger and healthier than the young wom
en or 50, 100, 150 or 200 years ago.
Because a colored minister at Yonkers
continued to preach to bis congregation
after It was claimed his resignation bad been
accepted, be was arrested on a charge of dis
orderly conduct at the instance of some of
the members.
The natives of Vera Cruz do a largs
trade in fireflies, which they catch by wav
ing a blazing coal at the end of a stick. The
insects fly toward the light, and are cap
tured in. nets.
A Massachusetts paper declares that a
Natick shoemaker walked to Boston and
home, -pursuing his trade on the way, and
brought back with him nearly $100 in cash
and a -wife he had wooed and won on the
way.
The American three-masted schooner
Wyer G. Sargent, which was abandoned off
Hatteras on March 31, 1S9L has drifted more
than 3.000 miles since that date, and has be
come famous among North Atlantic dere
licts. Influenza has commenced in England
some eight times in the autumn, six times
in the spring, twice in the early summer,
and twice in winter. It certainly docs not
appear malarial or particularly prevalent in
marshy districts.
Belfast clams are proverbially good,
says the Belfast Journal, and their reputa
tion extends far beyond the State. One of
the derivations of the Indian name of our
river, Passagadsawakeag Is "the great clam,
clear, or shallow water place."
According to a recent reckoning, a
human being, of either sex, who Is a moder
ate eater, and who lives to be 70 years old,
oonsumes during "the days of the years of
nis me" a quantity ot loou wmcu would, nu
20 ordinary railway luggage vans.
There is no literary institution to com
pare with that of the French Society of Men.
of Letters. Its property is worth from
2,000,000 to 2,500,000 francs for old and indi
gent members, its expenditure last year
was about 20,000, about 1,100 less than the
receipts.
There were on British pastures last year
nearly 29,000,000 sheep and lambs, showing an
advance of nearly a million and a half over
the number In 1890. Our total sheep stock
last year, morever, exceeded by 3,000,000 head
the nocks of two years ago, and by more than
4,000,000 tne flocks of 13SL- '
Ivory is sensitive to weather. Ex
posure to cold soon cracks it and renders
billiard balls untrue. They are easily
knocked out of shape too. if not well sea
soned or not well made. The center of the
tusk should go through the center or the
bull to preserve best a true spherical form.
The lost census shows 3,715 towns in
the United States with a population of more
than 1,000. There are 7 cities with more than
4CO.0CO inhabitants; 21 between 100,000 and
4CO,000--30 between 50,000 and 100,000: 6 over
20,000 and under 50.000; 93 over 15,000 and
under 25000, and 138 over 10,000 and under
15,000.
Dutch military cycling volunteers have
to pass a real examination before they are
accepted for the maneuvers, but when
passed they get 5 florins a day, flr3t-class
fare traveling, and are lodged as officers at
the expense of the State. They have to be
able to ride 63 miles in seven hours and 31
miles in two hoars and a half.
It is stated that there has been dis
covered in the forests of India a strange
plant, which possesses, to a very high de
gree, astonishing magnetic power. The
hand which breaks a leaf from it immediately
receives a shock equ.il to that which is pro
duced by the conductor of an Indication coiL
The energy of this singular influence varies
with the hour of the day.
When Herbert Sprague, of Bangor,
went to bed the other night he carried to hi3
room a bull terrier pup. At midnight Spragne
suoied, and the dog scratched his face to
awake him. Sprague cuffed the dog, where
upon the aalma!, with true terrier instinct,
seized his master by the nose and shook him
us be would a rat. The dog Is dead now, and
Sprague's noso has lost much of its beauty.
The phrase "A hair of the dog that bit
you, though now confined to a symbolic and
alcoholic interpretation, has an accurately
canine origin. In the Caucasus it Is still
common for anyone who is bitten by a dog
to lay a handful of hair, taken from tbo
same animal's coat, upon the wound before
cauterising and bandaging it. In some
mystic way the hair is supposed to prevent
untoward consequences.
Experiments- in instantaneous photog
raphy have proved to us that the shots not
only spread out, comet-like, as they fly, but
they string out one behind the other to a
much greater distance than they spread.
Thus, with a cylinder gun, when the first
shot or a charge reaches a target that is 49
yards away, the last shot is lagging along
10 yards bemnd. Even with the chokeboio
gun some of the shot will lag behind 8 yards
in 40.
LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS.
Edwin (amateur photographer) That's.
It! Another plate spoiled!"
Angelina What spoiled It?
Edwin The Ught or your eyes.
P. 8. Engaged. Puck.
A woman might a secret keep,
And safe forever lock It,
If she would only think to put
The secret is her pocket.
Sew Tork Herald.
"You believe in signs, don't you?" said
the newspaper man to the actor.
"Oh, yes," was the reply.
'Vr'eU, what do vou consider a lucky sign?"
"Writing your name at the bottom of a contract
for a good sIary. Washi ngton tstar.
"The sighs I am sighing," the poet had
written,
"Are uttered-for thee, dear, but uttered for
thee I"
The size of your sighing," said she who had
smitten,
"Is too utter for me, dear, too utter for me."
Pomona limes.
Railroad Conductor Two tickets, please,
for the double-headed boy.
Manager I've got only one and they'U rida on
that.
Railroad Conductor No. they won't. H you
don't pay another rare I'U put one of them off.
Judge.
To speed the buds the sun came out;
On this the poet wrote a sonnet
That praised the flowers, but left out
The blossoms on an Easter bounet.
Pawtucket Times.
"I'm as happy as a king," said Lottie in
the nursery.
'Why don't you say "ace,' Lottie?" said her
Utile brother Jack. "A ace is bigger'n a klug."
Scwtoum A'eics.
Miss Bleecker of New York I was just
tickled to death.
Miss Emerson of Bostoa-I was also fatally
UUllated.-Judje.
This difference twixt the optimist
And pessimist you find;
One notes the clouds, this other talks
About the light behind.
Sev Tork Press.
Winehriddle Snively is a dentist now.
Gildcrslecve And rich, of course?
"Why, or course?"
"Because aU dentists do a pain business."
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