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PITTSBURG. SATURDAY. MARCH 19.
TWELVE PAGES
A CONFESSION OF FOEET.
tBy the story published in another
olumn, as received from the man who
claims to have been the originator of the
Chicaco dynamite outrages, one of the
most remarkable individualities of the day
stands revealed. By this confession we
have a man self-indicted of criminal folly
and supreme cowardice. That explosive
language should he used as a mere adver
tisins medium is hardly remarkable in this
era of sensationalism. But that a man
should imacine himself capable alike of
playing on the passions of his fellows until
then chilling them to the temperature of
moderation at his will, is symptomatic of
the most dangerous foolhardiness. Such
action could only result froma self-conceit
verging upon madness.
Xo such plea can be advanced, however,
for the man who allows others to pay the
penalty of an outrageous crime for which
he considers himself solely responsible.
It appears that the men executed were the
mere tools of a cold-blooded schemer
whose mental capacity enabled him to
mould them to his ideas until the weapons
which he created passed beyond his con
trol, and, as it were, primed themselves
with shot where he had only meant to
make a display with blank cartridges.
Granted the truth of the story, it is in
dubitable that its narrator is morally en
tirely responsible for the loss of life of the
victims of the explosion and the law.
But this moral responsibility has its limits,
and the maintenance of public safety de
mands that those who allow themselves to
be so far led astray by the designs of men
who arc their superiors in cunning shall
themselves pay the penalty of their
crimes. Whether the claimant to the au
thorship of the plot can himself be made
to suffer under the law yet remains to be
seen. Public eSort should rather be di
rected to his punishment than to the re
lease of men who acted illegally, whether
of their own inclination cr by the incen
tive of another.
THE EXPEOSIONS CONTINUE.
The fact that another locomotive boiler
on the Reading Railroad blew up the
other day calls renewed attention to the
necessity of improving the safeguards
against boiler explosions. That lesson
additionally enforced by the fact that this
is the fifth boiler explosion on that road
within a year, to say nothing of numerous
other explosions in various parts of the
country, impresses the mind that there is
yet a good deal to be done in the way of
securing complete safeguards against the
loss of life and property from this cause.
This reflection gives force to what has
heretofore been pointed out in these col
umns, that while the old theories of boiler
explosions were completely overset by the
3Iunhall farm experiments nearly a score
of years aco, thenew theory these demon
strated has not been sufficiently adopted
in actual and constructive practice. Boil
ers are still built with a view to guarding
against the disproved cause of explosions,
and but few are in use which safely guard
the actual danger. That private users of
steam power should be slow to reconstruct
or replace their boilers may be understood;
but that great railroad corporations which
claim to be in the front rank of improve
ments should continue to hazard the dan
ger, which might be prevented by a clear
understanding of theory, does not comport
with the claim that the improvement of
industrial service is in direct ratio to the
concentration of capital.
CUTS IN THE WRONG PEACE.
The policy of cutting down the im
mensely inflated appropriation bills of
the last Congress has been Indorsed by
The Dispatch as for the interest of the
entire country. But the intelligent pur
suit of that policy will not cut the appro
priations necessary to the proper discharge
of the Government functions and let the
big Treasury raids go unscathed.
It is, of course, too soon to make an esti
mate of the actual work of this Congress.
But up Jo the present the Democratic
leaders seem to be busy in affording some
foundation to" the charge of the Republi
can orgaus that they are cheese
paring on necessary Government ex
penses, while the appropriations sup
posed to yield a political usufruct to
Conuressmen are handled with de
cided tenderness. It is certain that
there have been no decisive intimations
that public building jobs will be squelched;
wlnle, if the report of yesterday be true,
that the diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill has been cut down 50 per cent,
an example of the other sort secures a
prima facie representation.
It is doubtless true that some of the
diplomatic positions are high salaried and
useless situations for retired politicians.
But a well organized consular service,
devoted to the extension of our foreign
commerce, can be made of more use to
the country than almost any single branch
of the government It is well-known that
Secretary Blaine has based his policy on
such use of the consular and diplomatic
service. Ilis policy has riser, far above
partisanship, and the House should bo
able to do the same by furnishing the
means for carrying it out. Even if it can
not rise to that height it will put itself in
an exceedingly uncomfortable position if
it undertakes to cut down this appropria
tion for 1892 to less than was given the
Clpveland administration for the same
purpose in 1888. The Ilouse will do well
if it makes sharp cuts in the big political
appropriations; but it will only stultify
itself, if it verifies this report by crippling
the consular service justat the inception of
the extension of our foreign commerce.
WIFE MURDER IN VOGUE.
The epidemic of killings which has pre
vailed with hardly a check in Allegheny
county for some time has reached its cli
max in furnishing two wife murders
within 24 liours. In one the man who
killed his wife for the exquisite reason of
his own infidelity fitly completed the hor
rible task by blowing out his own brains.
The other lives to intimate by his own
words that the best excuse he can make
was that he had transformed himself into
a fiend by drink.
When crime reaches the climax of sense
less slaughter it is hard to construct any
theory of law concerning it The law
hardly has it in its power to either inflict
any penalty or hold up an' example more
powerful as a punishment or a warning
than the crime itself. But with regard to
the more commonplace example of
drunken murders, it isnotpossible to avoid
the reflection that the laxity of justice has
no slight connection with their frequency.
A good many years ago a criminal after
killing expressed his confidence in the
future by the assertion that "handing is
played out in Allegheny county." He
discovered his mistake on the gallows; and
some more demonstrations that hanging is
not played out produced a reaction in the
tendency toward murders. But at present
the old idea seems to be in vogue among
the reckless and lawless. In view of the
number of wanton murderers who have of
late years got off with second degree con
victions, it is rather difficult to assert that
this theory of the criminals is wholly with
out foundation.
If the belief of the violent andjawless,
that they can give free vent to their pas
sions and get off with a term of imprison
ment, has increased manslaughter, is it not
also reasonable to suppose that the exam
ple and fashion of murder has its share in
producing such tragedies as that reported
yesterday? Whatever the theory, it is
clear that the prevalence of violent crimes
among our people is anything but reassur
ing as to the standard of intelligence and
morality m the grades of life where such
twines occur.
HONESTY IN A NEW FLACE.
Either the New Tork Legislature has
lost its grip or the public must reconstruct
its theories with regard to the nature of
politicians. The preconceived ideas of
what might be expected from such a body
are knocked into confusion, and the
proverb that it is the unexpected that
happens receives a remarkable verifica
tion from the fact that Mr. Canter, one of
the leaders of Senator Hill's clan, has In
troduced a Congressional apportionment
bill which even Republican organs con
cede to be moderately fair.
With the general manifestations of reek
less partisanship that have been given by
Democratic control in New -York State,
something unique In the line of gerryman
dering was to be looked for. As an in
citement and excuse to such a chef
d'eeuvre in the lino of shoe
string and snake-fence districts, it
should be remembered that Legislatures
of much higher pretensions to respectabil
ity havo done and are doing some very
pretty work in that line. The Ohio Legis
lature, for example, has before it a bill
which goes so far in the way of carving
out Republican districts that even Gov
ernor ilcKinley Is reported to have pro
tested against it. Possibly it was in de
spair at the idea of so far surpassing other
gerrymanders as to come up to Its reputa
tion in otbfer respects that the New York
Legislature has conceived the original and
stunning notion of striking out on the line
of decent fairness. That, however, seems
to be the result when we are informed
that, on the vote of 1890, the new appor
tionment will give the Republicans eleven
Congressmen the same number they res
cued from the landslide of that year.
It would be pleasant to recognize in this
scheme of apportionment an evidence that
the principle of a fair and honest
representation is gaining ground
among the politicians of the State of
New York. But the previous acts of
the New Tork Democrats leave little
foundation for such faith. But, then,
what are we to conclude? Has David B.
Hill lost his grip on the New York Legis
lature, and is that putative boom of Ros
well P. Flower, of which so much is heard
and so little shown up, preparing to adver
tise itself by this stunning stroke of or
dinary 'fairness? Is it the fact that we
have all been deceived, and that the New
York Legislature is demonstrating itself
to be the center and seat of political
purity and honesty by eschewing the gerry
mander to which Republican and Dem
ocratic legislatures elsewhere are equally
prone? Or are the New Yorkers so con
fident of their ability to cany elections by
the means of ward heelers and canvassing
boards that they can afford to scorn the
stereotyped plan of grabbing Congress
ional districts by the hard-worked gerry
mander? Perhaps we had best not be premature
in seeking explanations for this unex
pected outbreak of honesty or accepting
it as a fact This surprisingly fair appor
tionment bill has only been Introduced.
There is a vital difference between that
and its passage.
A CHANGE SOMEWHERE.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Phila
delphia Record, protested against an in
timation of The Dispatch some time ago
that it had changed front on the corporate
question. It has been subsequently re
marked in these columns that in quoting
the acts of the New Jersey Legislature as
a vindication of a corporate combination
the Record had certainly put Itself in
strange companionship. It gives another
Indication of the same sort by quoting the
elegant and humorous Chauncey M.
Depew for a conclusive and authoritative
indorsement of the anthracite combina
tion. In past days,when the Record was vigor
ously battling for the correction of cor
porate abuses, It has certainly been su
perior to accepting the dictum of the
President of the New York Cen
tral and' the oratorical representa
tive of the vanderbilts as con
clusive authority for the public. That
source of authority has poured forth
information at various intervals for the
purpose of showing that any correction of
such evils was not only unnecessary,
but disturbing. It is well to remember
that Mr. Depew's indorsement of the an-
thracite combination Is not more complete
than his indorsement of the Soutli Penn
deal. Though Depew's epigram that the
South Penn was not a competing line he
cause it was "only a lot of holes in the
ground" was overruled by the courts of
Pennsylvania, he has been cognizant of
and consenting to subsequent arrange
ments by which that project has been
permanently reduced to "holes in the
ground," in violation alike of the Consti
tution and the mandates of the courts.
When the Philadelphia Record, Mr. De
pew and the New Jersey Legislature find
themselves on the same platform as re
gards corporate combinations, either the
first or the last two have changed front
We search in vain for any evidences of
change on the part of Depew and the
Legislature that furnishes Trust charters
to order.
A NEW SORT OF TRUST.
A novelty in mysterious connection be
tween legislative jobs and corporate
manipulation is disclosed by a struggle
over the control of the Brooklyn elevated
railroad. The fight for its management is
expected to be close, and the desire to win
the victory has brought out the fact that
one person is able to vote a lump of 23,790
shares, with a value of over $2,000,000, as
trustee for persons to the public un
known. This important factor in the situation is
brought out by a suit for the cancellation
of this stock belonging to unknown own
ers on the ground that its issue is fraudu
lent The intimation is very plain that
this stock was the consideration for cer
tain valuable franchises the corporation
obtained six years ago, and is held in this
shape to cover the ownership of it by the
men who sold their official action for that
consideration.
It would certainly be Interesting in a
public point of view to procure a-disclos-ureof
this secret ownership. If the alle
gations were true, it would lend a new
significance of dishonesty -to the 'word
"trust" The perversion of that word
from its original meaning of honor and
fidelity for beneficial purposes has already
indicated one stage of commercial de
moralization; and were it discovered that
trusts could be created for the further
ance of political corruption, the process of
social deterioration would be fully exem-
plified in the debasement of a once honor
able term.
In the meantime the allegation will
awaken a general interest as to whether
other corporations, that have been the re
cipients of especial municipal favors, com
prise among their shareholders any whose
names are kept a profound secret
Most people have heard of Barnes of
New Tork and Potter of Texas. A Barnes
of Texas has now come to the fore with a
telegraphic offer to capture Garza and get a
"scoop" for the Sun, The New Tork paper
did not take the bait ana Garza remains at
large. Meanwhile Mr. Barnes should be re
quested to explain why he failed to secure
the arrest merely as a good citizen of his
country.
Before advocating the control of rail
roads and coal mines by the Government,
Mr. Fowdorly would do well to confine his
efforts to demanding efficiency as tho sole
qualification for ofnce-nolding in existing
departments.
As an exhibition of obstinacy a further
raising of questions as to the oonstitution
lty of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley
bill would be unrivaled In the face of the
Supreme Court's decision. It Is Impossible
to see how a clause can Itself be unconstitu
tional when tho Supremo Court has decided
that its presence does not affoct the consti
tutionality of the whole bill.
XiET the charges against the Boston courts
bo thoroughly investigated, for few actions
can he more detrimental to the public weal
than the granting of naturalization papers
simply for the fees they bring.
While our country remains remarkable
for the badness of its roads there is no
reason for surprise that the inolcmency of
the weather should seriously affect trade.
This Is the age and countrvof precocity.
Wo have first a youth of fifteen who nearly
sets two countries by the ears with a compo
sition designed to show International leel
ing. Now an offlco boy accused of forgery
conducts his own case, and would probably
havo won it but for the well meant blunder
ing honesty of his father. And they both
hall from the East!
If people continue to believe the asser
tion that the Beading deal was consummated
In tho interest of the consumer, . their
credulity will not be dno to the unmistak
able actions of the dealers.
Some people speak of Hill's Southern
trip as swinging around the circle. This is
no doubt due to the eccentricity displayed
during the course of his gyrations.
MANY hard things have been said of po
litical parties from time to time, but few
harder blows .havo been struck than ex
Speaker Beed's remarks that Hill represents
the Democratic party. "He is like It He
understands it, and In a short time, if he is
elected, he will be it," This is too severe
even lor tho Democrats.
.A.FTER all, the dumber of remonstrances
filed against applicants for liquor licenoes
will moro. nearly approach tho number of
objections raised against, the -weather than
was expected.
Charges should he pushed against men
supposed to havo sold their votes, and the
alleged purchasers of the same should in no
wiso he forgotten or overlooked.
A public debate oa the silver question,
championed by leaders on both sides, cannot
full to bo of great interest and should do
much to show the weakness of the Bland
supporters, and enable the pnblio to see un
mistakably that their interests are seriously
threatened by the measure on behalf of the
mine owners.
According to latest accounts the Yoko-
hama tragedy owes its origin to Mrs. Hcth
erington's wearing of brass buttons and
gold braid. Many a poor girl has been cap
tivated by the cliarm of a uniform rather
than the qualities of its wearor, ana now
the average is being evened up in the othor
direction.
One of the bright aspects in the gloom
of overproduction, so widespread over
various industries to-iay, is the probability
that it will lead to a redaction in the hours
of labor.
Secectary Foster's recent experiences
should bo a warning to srentlemen making
remarks on a rnouth sboald be careful lest
they put their foot in it.-
Cleveland states that his wife never
interferes in his political affairs. No doubt
that is quite true, but his fortunate posses
sion of a wife and baby very seriously
handicaps his migratory bachelor opponent,
for this is a land of much sentiment.
One of the main uses of the Congressional
Record appears to bo the opportunities it
affords Representatives for personal re
prisals and irate demands for withdrawal.""
The actions against Chicago's corrupt
Counctlmen is an eminently fitting prepara
tion for the inauguration of ,tho World's
Fair.
Wk are more than
March weather or no.
half way through
The time of the House yesterday was
chiefly occupied by personal recriminations
and the granting ot leaves of absence. This
is how national business is accomplished by
men who draw their salaries as Representa
tives of the people.
IDYLLIC nmiORESQDES.
Miss Sewens I don't know whether
I'll take those shoes or not.
Salesman They can dc sent by mall.
Miss Sevvens -Can thc ? Then I'll take them.
Puck.
"I'-M a man of lew words, but what I say
(roes,"
'Twas thus I remarked at our family, jar;
That Is so." said my wife, "but where, nobody
Knows:
Though what is the odds? for It doesn't go farl"
Kew lark Herald,
"I thought you advertised that you
were selling out at cost price?" growled the cus
tomer, throwing down the required shilling for a
package ol notepaper.
"Yes, sir," replied the stationer. DnsKiy.
"That's right. We referred to postage stamps.
Wantany?'W''rm' Weekly.
"Isn't that a strange-looking eagle on
the new coins?"
"Yes. It is evidently a step toward the freak
coinage Of silver. "Washington Star. '
Almost the annual bursting time is here,
When Earth will burst its bouds and wake aga'.u.
When buds will burst and with new leafage cheer
The long-bared sentinels of hill and plain.
When songs will burst anew from throats of birds
And brooks burst o'er the cliffs with fuller gush
When barns will hurst their long-barred doors, and
herds
Burst from their prisons and to pastures rush.
Boston Courier
"On dearl Why do you give such a
stupid entertainment "as this, my dear?" said Mr,
Sinlthers.
"Because. Jdhn." said Mrs. Smlthcrs, "this is
Lent, and anything else would hardly be right."
"What luck did you have while you
were out hunting yesterday?"
The worst In the world. It'STery strange that
the birds never fly where I shoot. Texas Siftinyt.
The only time when luck and pluck agree
At least tne only time that I can see
ls when the pluck drives us to a lawyer's den.
And luck, forbearing, helps us out again.
Pomona Times.
"This won't do!" exclaimed Mr. Scadds,
as he held up his son's heavy tailor's bill.
"But.it Is due. father." replied the unhappy
youth. Smith. GrayA Co.' t Monthly.
POINTS THAT ARE PERSONAL.
Senator "Vance's home is in Charlotte,
but ho visits there so seldom that he says
even his dog docs not know him.
E, G. Dvreneokth, Uncle Sam's rain
maker in ordinary, is known respectively to
his various circles of friends as Colonel,
General and Judge.
The houses occupied by three Connecti
cut Governors Blchard D. Hubbard, Phi
neas Eounsbury and Morgan G. Bulkeley
stand in a row in one street in Hartford.
It is said of Abingdon Baird, the inter
esting London gentleman who blacked Mrs.
Langtry's eye, that he pays 40,000 a year for
his racing stable, and an equal amount for
his co-respondencies.
The Duchess of Sparta, daughter-in-law
of the Ring of Greece, and sister to tho Em
peror of Germany, is said to be moro like
Queen Victoria than any other of Her
Majesty's granddaughters.
" Mr. James A. Spuegeon', who is to
carry on tho ministeiial duties at the Eon
don Tabernacle, is a younger brother of tho
late famous preacher, and has for some time
been assistant pastor of the great church.
Mrs. CoNNnfGHAM. Graham, the Span
ish wife of the Socialist member of Parlia
ment, is a remarkable woman.. She spends
half the year in Spain following the track of
Saint Theresa, whoso life she is engaged In
writing.
Nicolas, the new Bishop of the Greek 1
Church in America, has arrived in San Fran
cisco. He was formerly Blshop"ot Tiflis, in
Asia Minor. -When the reporters tried to in
terview him they could not induce him to
taHf for publication.
Axthonse Datjdet, the French Dick
ens, has just colebrated his silver wedding
In Paris. Both husband and wifo -write; tho
latter also copies all the greatnovelIsts' MS.,
in ordor that tho original copy may be kept
sacred from the printers. .
The Duke of Kichmond is one of the
shortest men in the peerage. He is a great
favorite of tho Queen, but seldom finds time
to go to court. Although the race course of
Goodwood is on his land, and really belongs
to him, he dislikes racing, and regrets, it is
said, that he cannot plow up "the prettiest
race course in England."
BAIAED ON FREE SILVER.
Ex-Secbetart Bavakd has lifted his voice
against free silver. It remains to be, seen
whether he can mako it heard. Somerset
A'euis.
Ex-SECBETAaY Batarp has added his voice
to tho chorus of warning to tho Democrats
in Congress touching the Bland silver bill.
JVeio YorkPcsL
Ex-Secbktaby Batabd has writcn a most
vigorous letter denouncing tho free'silvor
drift in tho Democratic party. Mr. Cleve
land's silence is tho more marked by;on
trast. ZWedo Blade.
Mb. Bayabd, ot Delaware, Is extremely un
easy at the prospect that the Democratic
party is about to commit itself to freo silver,
but Mr. Bayard doesn't count He went out
of the oracle business some years ago. CM
cago Tribune. f.
Mb. Bayabd is as Incapable, of taking a
statesmanlike view of silver as he was of
taking such a view of "United States notes.
The hopo of the country lies in a conservat
ism which rises superior alike to both kinds
of Democratlo folly. OUcoyo Jhtcr-Ocean.
AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Heavy Disbursements Cat Down the Treas
ury Balances Shaving and Consolida
tions In the Consular Service Immense
Production or Cotton A Republican
Contestant to Be Seated in the Bouse.
Washington-, March 18. Recent dis
bursements have reduced the Treasury bal
ances to $29,651,323, of which $12,611,201 Is on
deposit with National banks, and $15,220,000
is in subsidiary and minor coin. The Na
tional bank note circulation is now $161,000,
000, nn increase of nearly $20,000000 since
July last. All the 4f pm cent bonds held by
National Banks to secure circulation have
been surrendered with the exception of a
lot of $12,500 belonging to the First National
Bank ofLeoti, Kas., which is going into vol
untary liquidation.
Senator Casey, from the Committee on
Agriculture, to-day made a favorable report
on Mr. Sherman's bill authorizing and re
quiring the Secretary of Agriculture to fix
uniform standards of classification and
grading for wheat, corn, oats, ryo and
barley. The committee added an amend
ment so as 'to provide that in inter-State
trade or commerce in grain, If tho consignor
or his authorized agent so directs, public in
spection, classification or grading shall not
be required nor made when the grain is con
signed to its owner or his authorized agent,
or to a mill or private storehouse, or for de
posit in a special bin, a pnblio warehouse, or
to a purchaser, or If consigned to a market
where the usages of trade recognize the sale
of grain by sample, when the consignee shall
direct its sale in that" way.
Sexator George; from the Committee
on Agriculture, to-day reported to the Sen
ate a substitute for Mr. Mitchell's bill tor
the encouragement of silk culture. The
substitute provides for the establishment in
different parts of the United States of not
exceeding Ave silk experiment stations, to
be a part of the agricultural experiment sta
tions now established. Five thousand dol
lars is appropriated for each station.
Representative McKenna, of Cali
fornia, whose nomination as United States
Circuit Judge was yesterday confirmed by
the Senate, will resign his seat in the House
of Representatives, to take effect Monday
next. He will immediately write a letter to
this effect to tho Governor of California.
The President signed the commissions of
the nine new Circuit Judges this afternoon,
and ordered that they be forwarded to them
at once, so there may be no unnecessary de
lay in their entering upon the discharge of
theirfunctions.
This diplomatic and consular bill as com
pleted by the House Committee, consoli
dates tho mission to Peru with that of Bo
livia, and that to Colombia with that of
Ecuador, the salary being fixed at $10,000
each. Guatemala and Honduras, now one
mission, U divided, and Guatemala united to
Venezuela at $1,500, and Honduras Joined to
the mission to Nicaragua, Costa Itlca and
Salvador. The Danish mission is Joined to
that of Sweden and Norway, and the salary
left at $7,500.
TnE confirmations by the Senate to-day,
were as follows: William B. Gilbert, or
Oregon, United States Circuit Judse for the
Ninth Judicial Circuit; Samuel H. Gault,
Postmaster at liogervllle, Tenn.
TnE receipts from internal revenue
during tho first eight months of the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1892, were $100,607,233, an
increase or $3,700,078 over the receipts during
the corresponding period of last year.
The House Committee on Eules to-day
decided to recommend an Investigation by a
committee of the House into oharges re
lating to the granting and rescinding of
cei tain leases in tho Yellowstone National
Park.
The State Department has been informed
of the reiznntion of Jules Wegmann, Vice
Consul of Switzerland, at Chicago.
Assistant Secretary Grant has re
covered from the grip und was at the War
Department this afternoon.
The Treasury Department to-day pur
chased 487,000 ounces of silver at $0.9015 and
.9022.
The March report of the statistician of
tho Department of Agriculture, issued to
day, shows that the prodnction of cotton of
the world exceeded the consumption more
than 1,500,000 bales In 1890, and furthergreatly
enlarges the excess in 1891, glutting the mar
kets, increasing visible stocks during the
past year more than 1,100,000 bales and re
ducing the Liverpool price of middling up
land from 6 1-16 pence in January, 1890, to i
pence in January, 1892. It states that in two
years this country has produced nn excess
above normal requirements of more than
2,000,000 bales ana Indicates a heavy re
duction breadth as the only possible remedy,
otherwise the agriculture of the Soutli wfll
suffer worse than Western agriculture over
lias, it uociai ei tnat tne cotton states must
be agriculturally self-sustaining and that
new crops must be Introduced, as the agri
cultural population has outgrown the ca
pacity of cotton to support it.
The President sent to the Senate to-day
the following nomination: Charles H. Al
dricb, of Illinois, to be Solicitor General,
vice William II. Taft, resigned. Jndge W.
H. Taft tendered his resignation as United
States Solicitor General to-day. and made
preparations to assume his new duties as
ouage oi me jircni( (jourcoi -appeals
the Sixth District.
for
The Secretary of State has received a
dispatch from Mr. Bealc, our Minister to Te
heran, saying that it appears the recent po
litical disturbances in that country have
entirely ceased, ana that the safety of .for
eigners there is now assured.
The House Elections Committee this
morning decided by a vote of 7 to 1 to
recommend the seating of Xoyes, the Re
publican contestant in the New York elec
tion contest, and the unseating of Stockwell,
the Democratic sitting member
The President and Mrs. Harrison enter
tained he following named persons at
dinner this evening: Senator Allison,
Senator and Mrs. Squire, Senator and Mrs.
Casey, Senator and Mrs. Warren, Senator
White, Senator and Mrs. Perkins, Bepresent
atlvo Grout, Bepresentative and Mrs.
Fnnston, Bepresentative Hopkins, of
Illinois, itepresentative Johnson, of
Indiana, Bepresentative and Mrs. Storer,
General and Mrs. Flagler, Commoaoro and
Mrs. Folger, Assistant Secretary of State
Wharton and Mrs. Wharton, General John
G. Parke and Mrs. Parke, Hon. Shellabarger
and Mrs. Shellabarger, and Hon. James M.
Tyner and Mrs. Tynor.
Another Belief Vessel to Bnssia.
Philadelphia, March 18. It has been de
cided by the Citizens' Russian Famine Be
lief Committee to dispatch another cargo of
flour and provisions -to Russia April 13, for
the relief of the famine stricken people, and
the vessel tnat will carry the cargo will be
the American steamship Conemangh, kindly
placed at the service of the committee by
the Internatinol Navigation Company, the
owners of the steamer, upon the same terms
as the Indiana.
A Chinaman Fighting for Citizenship.
Ihdiaxapolis, March IS. Pang Ylm, a
Chinaman and the husband of a very pretty
American girl with whom ho recently
eloped to Chicago, has been trying to take
out naturalization papers, saying that the
law of 1882 was inoperative in Ms case, he
having taken out first papers prior to its
passage. The conrt decided against him,
and he wdl now appeal to the Supreme
Conn;
Iowa. Lighted by a Meteor.
BrRLrxGTON, Ia March 18. A large and
beautiful meteor flashed across the northern
sky here at 7:30 to-night, filling the heavens
with light and leaving a strong sparkling
train. It buret into fragments near the
earth's surface. ,
Another Triumph forfteelproclty.
New York Becorder.l
President Carnot's approval of tho Franco
American treaty negotiated by Minister'
Reid is another triumph for the great policy
of reciprocity.
Where is the Col. Phoebe Conzinrf
Chicago Times. 1
If we havo to fight for those sealskins the
women of America should form an army of
amazons. Where's Colonel Faces Cousins?
livihg much too fast.
The American Work Harder Than Any
Other Man on Earth.
Ban Francisco Chronicle.
Dr. Cyrus Edson In the current number of
one or the American magazines has an ex
cellent and very suggestive article on the
Question, Do we live too fast? He says:
"The American works harder than does any
other man or woman on earth. His business
is always with him. He has no rest, no ces
sation, no relief from the strain. His dally
routine is one of intense and ever-present
excitement. What is the outcomet To sup
ply his rapidly exhansted system he is com
pelled to consume large quantities of rich
food and to stimulate himself with alcoholic
beverages. One of three results almost in
evitably follows: First, he becomes an Ine
briate and is destroyed by the alcoholic
poison ho consumes; second, escaping the
pitfall of acquired drunkenness he rapidly
impairs his digestive organs by his abuse of
food, and in consequence of that his stom
ach and intestines no longer properly per
form their functions; third, the over-indulgence
of his appetite crowds upon the ex
cretory apparatus an amount of work that
sooner or later embarrases andadisorders It,
fat is accumulated, and the muscular sys
tem undergoes what is. termed fattv defen
eration."
Unfortunately this diagnosis Is entirely
too accurate. Wo havo but to look about us
to find abundant Instances of each of the
classes of which the writer speaks. Men of
genius and enormous brain power who drive
the mental machine at top speed all the
time put oil into the furnaces in the shape
of some form of alcohol, or, failing that, in
the form'of rich ana highly seasoned viands,
nntil before long the boiler either explodes
or burns out and collapses, and then conies
death or the insane asylum. But U there
any remedy, and if so, what is it and where
is it to be fonndT Tho spirit of the age de
mands speed In everything. Bitter com
plaint Is made if an ocean steamer Is an hour
behind her schedule time: railroad trains
are being continually pushed to a higher
rate of speed; improvements are being made
orthought out to hasten telegraphic mes
sanos, and shorthand and typewriter aro
superseding the old-fashioned pothooks and
hangers of our boyhood. With all this at
tempt to gain greater rapidity In things
material, what wonder is It that the mind
feels the impetus and makes an extra effort
to keep up with the rush and hurry which
we call progress?
Wo can see no help for the present condi
tion of things until the pendulum of time
shall swing across to the other extremity of
the arc and the human family shall revert to
ideas and habits more nearly pristine than
those which obtain to-day. We laugh at the
golden age, and declare that It Is as. much
a myth or a fable as the Olympian Paradise
or tho Enchanted Isles, but there was a time
when there were, or seemed to be, more
minntes in the hour, more hours in the day
and more days in tno week than in this
nineteenth century: when there was time
for thought and calm reflection ai well as
for action; when mere monev grabbing was
not the aim and object of tho world, and
when to be richer than anybody else was
not the ultima thule of human ambition.
That was the golden age of the world, if ever
there was one, and it were well for us all if
the wheei ot time in its revolutions would
bring us around again to that age, so that
wo might rest without feeling that doing
nothing was an absolute waste of time.
LYMPH FOE LOCKJAW.
A. Mystic Fluid to Be Tried on a Patient
From Delaware.
Philadelphia, Maroh 18. A medical dis
covery which, if it embodies the specific
virtue that its author claims for it, is oue of
the greatest boons that mankind has ever
received at the hands of science, will be
utilized to-morrow afternoon in New York
for the first time in this country. Harrison
Capel, a wealthy farmer of Kent county,
Md will be inoculated for lockjaw with a
lymph which is said to exert the same in
fluence upon this heretofore mortal disease
that Koch's lymph does not exert upon con
sumption. Mr. Capel, who is now in that
unconscious and extremely precarious con
dition which lockjaw Invariably brings
upon its victim, passed through Philadel
phia yesterday in a sleeping car. He was
accompanied by his physician. Dr. Horace
C Marks, of Middletown,Del.,who suggested
to the family of the sufferer the final resort
of the lymph treatment, and who will re
main with his patient until the result of the
experiment, which will bo conducted by An
tonio Cerrettl, M. D., of Vienna.
The doctor has what he calls "av homeopa
thic germ theory;" In other words, he be
lieved that, If he could by some method ob
tain and utilize the germs of lockjaw, then,
by applying these germs to a case of lock
jaw, the disease would, according to the.
principle of "like cures like," undoubtedly
vanish. He added that he hud already con
ducted many experiments with this end In
view, bnt that thus far bis efforts have not
been crowned with much success.
Cerretti's lymph is obtained from rabbits.
The singular thing about this lymph is that,
while it required only six months Tor him to
discover it if I may use the word in that
sense it required five to pu.rlfy it: For in
stance, after its discovery (the particnlars
of which I do not feel at liberty to state) he
oould easily enough Inoculate a rabbit and
produoe lockjaw. But it took years and
years of arduous toil to purify this lymph so
that its application would cure a rabbit that
Already had lockjaw.
UNDER MBKTAX TEEATMENI.
A Sick Child Dies, Receiving No Other
Medicine Than Realizing Truth.
CmcisifATi, March 18. The Coroner to-day
held an inquest on the body of 'a child 1
years old which died without medical at
tendance. The testimony showed that the
child's parents are believers in Christian
science treatment, and that the fathor of the
child called npon Mrs. Burdge, a Christian
science healer. Her testimony was taken.
She stated that when the father called he
told her the child had a cold and a fever.
She gave it an absent treatment. When
asked to explain that process she said it was
difficult to explain without a long course of
study, but, in effect, it was understanding
man's true relation to God and the science
of being. It might be called prayer, but was
not the ordinary prayer, but was realizing
the' truth.
When the child grew worse sho called to
see it. She gave it another mental treat
ment, but administered no medicine. She
said she never even touched ber patients.
Sho said she received pay for her services,
but had no medical diploma. She had
studied for years under teachers from the
Metaphysical College of Christian Science,
of Boston. The child died the next day
after she called, not having received any
medicine other than the treatment described
by Mrs. Burdge. Coroner Banae says the
testimony in the case oaght to warrant legis
lation to prohibit this kind of medical prac
tice.
Maritime Province May Unite.
St. Johx, N. B., March 18. A resolution has
passed the New Brunswick Legislature,
favoring the Union ojf the provinces of New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island. The matter is not considered alive
issue, for though a majority of public men
and the citizens generally would vote in
favor of the principle of union, it seems to be
taken for granted that tho movement would
fail when it eomes to the question of the
location of the capital.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
rrof. Thoma S. Wood.
Prof. Thomas S. Wood, Principal of the
Third Ward Schoo', Allegheny, died yesterday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. He was recently Principal
of the Eighth Ward School. Funeral services will
beheld at his late residence. Maple avenue, at7:30
o'clock this evening; The remains will be In
terred at Brownsville.
John Wlluelm.
John "Wilhelm, of O'Hara township, died
yesterday afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock. He
was In his 9ith year and well known throughout
the neighborhood. The funeral wul be held at S t.
John's Evangelical Church, Shsrpsburg. to-nior-row.
Obituary Notes.
Sidney S. Jackson, said to bo the oldest horti
culturist In the United Stated, died at his Green
.township home. In Ohio, Thursday, In the 90th
year of his age.
Ralph ScKaqgs, a moldcr who has been em
ployed making pottery shapes In East Liverpool 23
years, died yesterday. He was hi his 63d J ear and
was an artist or ability.
Captain Don Carlos Robinson, or Madison,
Ind., died yesterday. He was 78 years old. and was
a member of the old Arm of Robinson & Temple,
founders of the old Madison Ship Yards.
Captain Don Carlos Kobikson died yesterday
at Madlsau, lnd. Captain Koblnson was 76 years
old and was a member of the old firm of Koblnson
ft Temple, founders of the old Madison shipyards.
Grace McKtNNEY Stearley died. t Cleveland
Thursday night, aged 17. Mrs. Stearley is the
actress who, a week ago, was married to the Kev.
Edward Wilson Stearley. -she being then so 111 that
she was not expected to live, '
EATING PROBLEM SOLVED.
An English Chop House to Cater to the
Needs of the Public How tho People
Pass the Time In the Lenten Season.
As English chop house is to be one of the
coming acquisitions npon which Pittsburg
ers may felicitate themselves, when the
problem of where one may eat decently and
at the same time cheaply will be to a great de
gree solved. It will be conveniently situated
downtown and in proximity to the theaters,
which doubtless will contribute largely to
its patronage in the evening. It has not
been specifically announced as intended for
both sexes, but as accommodations of this
nature are a crying need in Pittsburg, while
cafes for men are numerous enongh, the in
tention likely is to havo it so. ir there is no
self-constituted authority to supervene, it is
to be hoped that meals will bo served at it
all night. It's a crying shame that in a city
like Pittsbnrg thero is nowbero after 12
o'clock that one would care to so to break
his fast. It's right enough to have no mercy
on unquenchable (Hirst, but nunger is qnite
another matter.
Lady Henry Somerset will sail for
England on April 13, and does not expect to
return to the United States until the open
ing or the World's Fair, In which she is in
terested through her temperance work.
The President of the Ladles' Board, Mrs.
Potter Palmer, and Lady Henry are great
friends. There Is no trnth In tho storv that
Lady nenry intends to become a permanent
resident of America, though she says she
doesutt care whether or not she Is called
plain Mrs. Somerset by democratic Ameri-
Mrs. Percival J. Eaton is the only
woman so far honored by a complimentary
recognition in the Harvard Club of Pitts
burg. She Is tho wife of the yonng East
End physician, Dr, P. J. Eaton, and was be
fore her marriage to Dr. Eaton a Miss Emily
Craft, of Crafton. It was at a dinner given
by the President of the clnb. John II. Btck
eton, Esq., at his home weeks ago that the
honor was accorded to Mrs. Eaton, though
she was not thero in person to receive it.
Mrs. Eaton is tho only bride the clnb im
sesses, as her marriage to the doctor took,
place since its formation.
SOME Pittsburgers will read with inter
est the following account of tho doings of
two distinguished Americans, Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Stewart Grant. Says our corres
pondent, among those who have already
wended their way to Japan are Mr. and Mrs.
Grant. The trip was undertaken for the
benefit of Mr. Grant's health, which is some
what delicate Jnst now. Sir. Grant's sister.
Miss Adele Grant, will pass the summer at
Newport with the sister-in-law of his wife,
Mrs. George Scott. The Scotts have secured
the villa of the Duchess de Dii-o there for
the summer and, doubtless, Jlisi Grant will
receive ranch attention. Possibly If Miss
Grant had been gifted a power to peep into
the future she would not have listened to
the advice of friends and broken off her en
gagement with Lord Garmoyle. Had she
not she would long since have been a
widowed Scotch Countess with an estate
and somewhat of a fortune to add to her
present wealth.
The Bevere weather on Thursday evening
prevented the second lecture of the Adams'
Illustrated Journeys from being so well at
tended as It otherwise would have been.
The stereoptlcon views wore exceedingly
beautiful, and that the utility of the magic
lantern was tried to its utmost, the fact that
it Illustrated the "Bay of Naples" evidences.
A't the request or some of Miss Kllllkell v's
friends, that lady having the lectures under
her patronage, a private exhibition of these
views will be given agnin for the benefl; of
several people who could not be present on
Thursday evening. Next Thursday night,
Mr. Adams will jiive his third lecture en
titled "Sicily and the Mafia."
JlILIi'S SW1XG DOWN SOUTH.
Ma. Cleveland went down South the
other day to hunt dncks. Mr. Hill has gone
down on a wild-goose chase. Jivffalo Courier.
Sexatob Hill didn't want any special train
himself, but he was willing to provide one
for his valise if the occasion dEinanded.
Washington Star.
Uhlike Mr. Cleveland, Senator Hill goes
South unaccompanied by a gnn, and a man
sees some very funny things when he hasn't
got a gun. St. Paul Globe.
The Hill circus draws well down South.
Tho people are all anxious to see the big
elephant which the Democratic party now
has on Its hands. Boston Herald.
Senator Hill says that his time is not
well occupied in the Senate. The country
has noticed that. He has been absent about
fonr-flfths of the time. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The reason Mr. Hill didn't take a gun with
him on his Southern trip Is that he probably
expected to be able to borrow a fow from
his Democratic friends In New Orleans.
Chicago MaiL
SexatoIT niLL's swing around the circle
doesn't take in Chicago. Indeed it's just as
well, for this town is not going to be taken
in by any New York candidate this year.
Chicago Timer.
Sexator Hill started on his Southern
tour last night, accompanied by a coterie of
admiring statesmen, boomers and corro
spondents. He will receive a genuine Dixie I
welcome, bnt Davey must not mistake
Southern hospitality for Southern votes.
Baltimore Herald.
HOW CREEDE PHOPEETY ADVANCED.
A Lot That Advanced nt a Bato of Three
Hundred Dollars an Tlour.
Denvet sun..'
The other day a Denver man stepped from
the train, saw a lot ho thought he wonld
like, and asked the owner; who, of course,
just "happened" to be standing near, what.
he wonld take.
"Ono thousand dollars," was the reply.
"Well, I'll see you again shortly. I want
to look abont and get my bearings."
Atter inquiring tho prices of various other
lots, he concluded to take the first one. Ho
had been gone but an hour, and felt a satis
faction at being able to do a littlo business
so soon after his arrival, and remarked to a
companion: "This Is a hummer, and no
mistake." To the owner he said: "I've con
cluded to take yonr lot. Have the papers
made out and we'll go up to the bank and
get the money."
"The price has gono up since yon were
here. It is now $1,300," quietly remarked tho
owner.
Three hundred dollars an hour!" he
gasped, and was carried to the train. The
pace was too killing. Such activity in realty
and building has rarely been seen, even In
Colorado. The buildings in Jimtown have
arisen like mushrooms over night. An ab
sence of a couple or days, and one would
rub his eyes to be suro he was awake, so
great Is the change.
LIGHTNING MISSED THE PAST03
It Destroyed the Parsonages but Left
Its
Occupants Unharmed.
HaskeliTex., March 18. During a heavy
rain lightning struck tho parsonage of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church, a nlco fonr
roomed cottage, completely demolishing tho
building, with the exception of the cast
room, in which were sitting the pastor, the
Rev. Jerome Haralson and his wire. That
they wore not instantly killed everybody
pronounces a miracle, for everything in
their room all around them was broken in
small pieces.
A more complete wreck was never seen.
There Is not a whole nail or piece of timber
in the building, except in the little room
they occupied. Not only the building was
wrecked but the fence around it also torn
down. The shock broke a considerable
amount of crockery for those living in the
tho neighborhood of the parsonage.
A Pair of Alice Mitchells.
Memphis, March 18. A case stmllar to tho
infatuation of Alice Mitchell for Freda Ward
Is that of Addio Phillips and Minnie Hub
bard, each 17 years old. On Sunday the two
girls disappeared nnd were not found until
yesterday. Miss Phillips, on herreturn, said
that she and Mlunio bad been away to-
S ether. She told her mother that she loved
llnnle and would rather be dead than sep
arated from her. She said that Minnie was
the only person sho could marry, and this
she intended to do. Miss Phillips is a fine
looking girl and has been carefully edu
cated. TrnstsThat Are Not Made in Heaven.
Chicago Tribaue.3
The Match Trust has collapsed. It was
doomed from the beginning. Match Trusts
are not made in Heaven. --;;
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
An Oronogo, Ma, man bet his whisker
and lost them.
The total product of the silver mines of
the world from the year 1500 to the present
time has been about 400,000,000 pounds.
A Government building in every town
where the postofflce receipts aggregate $3,000
annually means 18.CC0 specimens of architec
ture. Biddeford papers bring interesting ac
counts of u cat that drinks coffee at break,
fast, nnd of a child 6 years old who writes
poetry.
If geologists be correct, New Zealand
is a fragment of a continent which sank be
neath the waters ns thenew world rose. It
is a relic of a bygone age.
A woman of Portsmouth, O., who ha
been toothless for a long time, is developing
a third set of natural teeth. She has now
on her lower Jaw two fully developed teeth.
' In England, out of every 1,000 marri
ages that take place, 130 are those of widow,
ers, remarrying; while of the wives, out of
every 1,009 women marrying, 93 are widows.
A place of pilgrimage is to be obliter
ated. Tho 13 trees planted by Alexander
Hamilton, as symbolic or the 13 origlnlal
States of the Unlon.'are to fall under tha
auctioneer's hammer.
A great bee-keeper of Hampshire de
clares that bees do notsucceed to any extent
In the storing of honey whenever there aro
wars and dissensions in Europe, whether
Her Majesty's troops are engaged or not.
Xewfoundland is very nearly 300)
miles across at its broadest part, and a littlo
over 4W miles long. Its people are peculiar,
as all insular folk are. bnt very rugged,
hardy, honeJtand hospitable to a degree.
The lionesses, tigresses and female leop
ards of the menagerie connected with tha
Paris National History Museum are subject
to "nerves." and frequently have to be
treated with large doses of bromide to calm
them.
iar up in the mountains of Ceylon
there fc a spider that spins a web like bright
yellowish silk, the central net of which Is
live feet in diameter, while the supporting
lines, or guys, as they are called, measure
sometimes 10 or 12 feet.
Fish do not seem to exist below four
hundred fathoms (two thousand four hun
dred feet) with the exception of the shark,
which has been caught at greater depths. In
which only creatures of verypowerfulframo
could resist the pressure of the water.
At one of the Russian exile stations,
Werchojansk, in Siberia, it Is not an un
common thing for the thermometer, in De
cemberand January, to "tandat 56'below
zero. The extreme of 81 below zero has
been more than once registered there.
A wealthy hermit who dwelt near
Springfield, O., has started for Western
Indiana with a cart made of old bnggy
wheels and shafts, to which he himself was
harnessed as though he was a horse. A large
dog accompanied him as a bodyiguard.
It we first lay down the sun, and then
place the earth one Inch from it, that being
the relative distance; then. If we inquire
at what distance to put the nearest fixed
star, using the same .-.cale, we will find that
it must be placed at a distance of 11 mites !
There is in Rutherford, X. CL, a terrapin
which was picked up in 1S40 by Mr. M. S. Mo
Curry, of Golden Vnhcy, and the date cut on
the hell. Tho same terrapin has been
found and marked from time to time, until
now it hears the dates ISiO. 1863, 1875, 1376, 18S0
and 1801.
It is dangerous to eat in any quantity
the honey gathered in a region the botany
of which is unknown. Tho reddish honey
stored by a Brazilian wasp is absolutely
poisonous, and tho spring honey of the wild
bees of East N'epanI is rendered noxious by
collections from rhododendron flowers.
The Carthusian Mountain was named
after the Cartliuiian Monks by a former
tribe of Indians who occupied It, and wero
taught by the Fathers. It Is now owned asa
summer resort by Senor Don Patrico Melmo,
a rich banker of Monterey, a lucky Irish
man who in his native land wa3 known as
plain Pat Mnllens.
In the churches for colored people in
some parts of tho South In the United
States, when a collection is to be taken, the
box, instead of being passed from pew to
pew, is deposited upon a table in front ot
the pulpit, and the brothers and sisters are
exhorted to come forward and put their
contributions into it.
In the old days, before the French
Revolution, a favorite pastime at the Court
of the Grand Monarch was the attempting to
guess the identity of a person by the eyes
alone. Faco and form were totally con
cealed by mask and domino, and the eves
were left to tell what tale they could. The
result was the meresCguess-worfc
Instinct teaches the hen that it would
be nogood to warm onlyonesideof her eggs,
and so when see feels that they are "done"
on one side she turns them gently round.
Anyone Trho has watoned sitting-hens has
seen them rise every now and then and
shuffle abont for a few moments on the nest.
That is when they turn the eggs over.
Government engineers have enumerated
no less than 123 rivers in the Mississippi
"Valley, which, In their present natural
state, are not available to stream naviga
tion, but which might be made so at a very
reasonable cost. A two or three-foot navi
gation for nine months of the year might be
secured on a total of nearly 15,000 miles, and
with a reasonable expenditure.
Among" the peoples of the globe the
Japanese, iu their use of tobacco, as in many
other things, wonld seem to De the most
temperate as vfell as the most refined. The
rudest coolie or the coarsest farm laborer
equally with the lady of rank (the pretty
feisha) and the Sllnfeterof btate aro con
ent with the kiseru, a tiny pipe which does
not bold enough to make even Queen Mab
sneeze.
Secretary Langley, of the Smithsonian
Institution, has been experimenting for
some timo past with fire-flies from Cuba. He
says that tho light thevgive Is the "oheap
est" in the world produced, that is to say,
with the least heat and the smallest ex
penditure or energy and he believes that a
successful imitation of it wonld prove a
most profitable substitute for gas and
electricity.
In 1430 A. D., after 19 years of cease
less labor and an expenditure of abont
800,000, the Chinese Government finished
the wonderful porcelain tower at Nankin,
which stood for nearly four and a quarter
centuries, until 1856, the most marvelous
building ever erected by human bands. It
was of octagonal form, 260 feet In height,
with nine storys, each having a cornice and
a gallery without.
The most expensive of England's sold
iers' garbs is the bandmaster's of the Life
Guards, wbich cost $125. A trooper's of the
fame regiment costs $10. A sergeant
drummer ot tbeFootGuaxds may well "swell
his chest" when he wears a tunic costing no
less than $37 50, the total value of hU "rig
out" being $122 50. The cheapest uniform or
all Is that of a private of an ordinary Infantry
regiment, valued at $21.
On the -3d of November, in the churches
of France, it was once permitted to tho
people, and even in certain places expected,
that they should bring their dogs to church
with them. Even now, on that day, though
the people do not go to church accompanied
by their Newfoundlands, their pugs, or their
bull-terriers, they talk as if they were going
to do so, and pleasantly ask one another, in
the afternoon, "Did you take your dog to
mass this mornlne?"
The horse-power unit was established
by James Watt about a century ago, and
the figures were settled in a curious way.
Watt, in his usual careful manner, pro
ceeded to find out the average work which
the horses of his district could perform, and
he found that the raising of 22,000 pounds
one foot per minute was about an actual
horse-power. As a method of encouraging
business. Watt offered to sell engines reck
oning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse-power, or
one-third more than the actual.
Like the British House of Commons,
the Lower Houso of the United States Con
gress ac Washington possesses a symbol of
its authority in the form or a mace. It looks
like the fasces which were bcrneby the Mo
tors before the Roman Tribunes and Con
suls, and consists of a bundle of 13 ebony
rods entwined and bonnd together with sil
ver bands. The 13 ebony sticks represent
the 13 original States of the Union. They
are surmounted by a globe of silver, upon
which the hemispheres aro traced, while a
silver eagle with outstretched wings is
perched upon the summit of the globe. It
was made in 1831, weighs 20 pounds, and is
intrusted to tho custody of the Sergeant at
Anns,
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