nwJj.-w.gaMwaggg85nBiS5tpga Ip '"' r-: ar? - " - -n-wpSs S "p.rrj --rviT TWtv . i!v?3't?,ve5. THE PITTSBTJEG. DISPATCH, SUNDAY, MAKOH 20, 38S2. IJje B$ jraf lij. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, 8 0846 VoL 47. No. 41 Enter! at Pittsburg Postofflce November, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 7S and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. FASTFnN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM TIL TRinrKEBCII.niSG. NT7VVYOBK. where com plete flies ot THE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience Home advertisers and friends ofIHE DISPATCH. v hlle In New York, arc also made v. elconie. THE D1SPA TCIIisrtaularly ontd'eat Bmitam's, t Union Square, Few Tort, and IT Ave de VOpera, Tartt, THm:. where amone who has been disap pointed rt a hotel tietcit gland can abviin it. IUU1S OF THE DISPATCH. rOSTACE TREE IN" THE CXITED 6TATKS. PAILT Dispatch, One Year f 8 00 DAILY Dispatch. 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It is possible in addition to raise a ques tion as to influence which school policy has had in this unfavorable result If.the effort and expense directed to maintaining academic, education in the high schools had been lessened, and the work of en hancing the effectiveness and attractive ness of the common branches had been correspondingly enlarged, the ratios might have been different Whether there is any foundation for that opinion or not, it is plain that this indication of illiteracy should impress on the directors of our school system that their first and most im portant object is to give the widest and most thorough efficiency to education In the common school branches. Certainly the indication that illiteracy Is growing in Pennsylvania at a rate which in a lifetime would put it in the majority, is something to set earnestminds in search of means to reverse the tendency. TIds Issue) of THIS DISPATCH contain! SO pages, made up of THB.E2 PARTS. Failure on the part of Carriers, Agents, Newsdealers or Newsboys to supply patrons with a Complete IV umber should he prompt ly reported to this office. Voluntary contributors should keep copta of crttcles. If compensalum 's desired the price expected must be named. T?ie courtesy of re turning rejected manuscripts uiU be extended ehen stamps for tltat purpose are inclosed, but the Editor of The Dispatch mil under no cir cumstances be responsible for the care of unsolic ited manuscripts. POSTAGE All persons -who mall the Eunday issue of The Dispatch to friends should bear in mind the fact that the post age thereon is Two (2) Cents. All double nnd triple number copies of The Dispatch require a 2-cent stamp to insure prompt delivery. PITTSBURG. SUNDAY. MARCH 20. THE ERA OF PRODUCTION. The developments in the steel Industry, indicated in another column, come at a time when they will create great commo tion. The iron and steel industries are to day at a low ebb for manufacturers, be cause the supply turned out exceeds the market demand. In this condition of affairs any firm succeeding in greatly cheapening its methods will have a mo nopoly of profit until such time as the secret is discovered by their competitors. Labor-saving devices, whether resulting from scientific discoveries, careful atten tion to detail in practice, or the invention of mechanical appliances, have always met with great opposition in the past, and we have yet much progress to make be fore it becomes universally acknowledged that increased capacity for production means growth of wealth for the com munity. This is a fact which is logically indisputable, though prejudice and ignor ance still doubt it Despite the growth of population and the spread of civilization which had so vastly increased the demand for manufact ured article?, the opinion is rapidly gain ing ground''among thoughtful men of affairs that the growth of the demand can no longer keep pace with the increased capacity for output This points to the probability of a reconstruction of our industrial system, lessening the hours of labor and improving the lot of the laborer. That there may temporarily be trouble arising from the era of change is very likely, but that the change will finally be for the better is indisputable. Cheapening production may involve temporary loss for individuals, but it means the progress of the race at large. HOME RCLE PKOGr.ESs. Elsewhere will be found a cablegram describing the main features of a bill in troduced in Parliament by the Scotch members, prouding for the home rule of their country. This is indicative of the growing movement toward a decentraliza tion of government in the British Isles. The bill will, of course, have no success with the present Parliament nor will it take precedence of a similar measure for Ireland after the general election. But it will serve to show the direction of public opinion toward a common-sense distribu tion of legislative powers, from which England itself will be one of the greatest gainers. Imperial affairs, and English business, will have more attention when Scotland and Ireland are empowered to manage their own matters. This fact is receiving more realization every day, and is a power ful ally to the rights of Scotland and Ire land. The provisions of the bill are wise and business-like, but it is hardly worth while to discuss them in detail, since there is no possibility of their becoming law un til Ireland has been disposed of. but the mystery is fully explained by the presumption that these hundreds of pages from youthful pen were not wasted. When we note that the Jingo editorials were all of the nature that was to be expected from a' star-spangled youth of sixteen, burning with the lofty ambition to invade foreign countries, and carry the flag of conquest to other continents, we are able to easily perceive the infallible inference that all these belligerent utterances were the prod uct of the industry of "Frank Scotte, Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Rifles." It is reassuring for the future of the nation to learn that this famous youth is destined for a career of journalism. In future years, when foreign powers con sider schemes of aggression upon the land of the free, they will stop to inquire whether "Frank Scotte" is at the editorial helm. Unless advancing years tame the fierce spirit of his youth, upon learning that he is still prepared to conquer the world on the printed page, they will at once desist from their injurious projects. A little home Influence could and should prevent anything so ridiculous and danger ous as the writing of threatening letters by a boy of fifteen after making a study of the attempt on the life of Russell Sage. Reports of change in the Prussian Cabi net have heen premature. That august body is at present in a condition of Indeci sion and has yet not reached a state of resignation. March grows more rampant every day. The Hon fairly roared last night. THE SOUTHSIDE FREE BRIDGE. The Southside free bridge has now ad vanced into the catalogue of things as sured; and the only question is where to place it Already, as was foreseen, op position arises from the existing bridge companies, which do not want a free bridge alongside them to cut away their earnings. It is a question how far this is to be permitted to interfere with the right and duty of the city to provide free com munication across the rivers. The sug gestion has been made to buy out one of the existing toll bridges, or to compensate all of them for allowing foot-passengers free. The difficulty as to both these points is that the bridge companies are earning great profits some of them paying as high as 16 per cent upon their invested capital They will probably want a proportionate price and if they do there is neither sense nor business in the city paying two pr three times as much for one of these toll bridges as it would cost to build a bridge. In this view the proposal mentioned in our local columns of building a bridge from the Southside over Second avenue direct to the bluff, to connect with Forbes street and Fifth avenue extension, has much to recommend it It would have the merit of saving much time in communica tion between the hill, residence and busi ness district and the Southside; also in communicating with the East End, Law renceville and Oakland. Also it would make the least interference with the exist ing toll bridges, which all stop at Second avenue. It would simply create and cater to a new and more general traffic than now goes over any single, bridge and the loss to the existing bridges would be dis tributed over several in place of falling upon one. As in any event much time is sure to be consumed in weighing plans, it is none too early now to begin to settle preliminaries. BLAND'S GREAT ARGUMENT. Upon the opening of the debate on the Bland coinage bill this week, Mr. Bland proposes to expunge Mr. Harter, of Ohio, the Democrat who has had the temerity to oppose free silver coinage, from the polit ical situation. The ammunition with which Mr. Bland will obliterate Mr. Harter is all ready; and Mr. Bland has committed the error of discounting the sensational effect of Mr. Barter's annihilation by letting It get out The ammunition consists of a photo graph of Mr. Barter's place of business. That convincing picture will be displayed by Mr. Bland to prove the deep and damning fact that Mr. Barter's business Is that of banking. The fact that the op ponent of free silver has made a business of discounting commercial paper and re ceiving money on deposit, and gained therein some knowledge of the uses of money, will in Mr. Bland's theory of political logic demonstrate his unfitness to be listened to by Democratic ears. Hav ing been exposed in his true character as the bloated proprietor of miserable riches and a putative "gold-bug," Mr. Harter will please consider himself wiped out of the political arena. This introduction of illustration in eco nomic logic opens the way for the long needed reform of illustrations in the Con gressional Becord. The force of this de lightful argument will be half wasted if Mr. Bland's photograph, as well as his re marks, cannot be extended in that store house of Congressional logic. The illus tration is a very effective one of Mr. Bland's mental and political caliber. A M'KINLET BOOK. A report comes from Washington that an organized and active boom Is to be started to make William Mckinley, of Ohio, the Republican nominee for Presi dent The Dispatch has frequently said that next to James G. Blaine Governor McKin leyisthe logical and ideal candidate for the Presidency. He is the recognized leader of his party on the tariff question, a man of unimpeachable character, and even more than the usual fairness to his opponents. He represents the Republican policy of protection; andhis latest political, victory was to carry Ohio for the Repub can party after it had been supposed by previous elections to be placed in the list of Democratic States. Nevertheless, this reported McKinley boom Is placed under a cloud by the sus picion as to the motives of those who are pushing it There is a very strong reason that the exploitation of this boom is due to the fact that certain politicians do not love McKinley's virtues more, but that they love the Harrison dispensation less. This might not detract from McKinley's strength if he is put in the race to win; but the public may be chary of rallying about him if he is put up for the purpose of securing good terms for his backers. One piece of advice is certainly pertin ent to the McKinley boomers, and that is to make sure of their candidate. Mr. Mc Kinley was understood to say last year that he would not oppose Harrison, and he has heretofore given evidence that when he says no to a Presidental nomina tion, he means no. Fresh announcements of the frauds practiced by Russian officials,' in robbing supplies on their way to the famine-stricken, show that American gifts -would have little chanoe of reaching their proper destinations without the supervision of an American committee of distribution. We' violate no confidence in stating that the ground hog as a weather prophet is as completely discredited by the outcome as if his name were Venner or the Eev. Sol S. Hicks. Piedmoktese people who have apart ments to let should draw the line at lieuten ants who make an experimental study of explosives their hobby; otherwise they run serious risks of losing their lives and prop erty by disasters like that at Susa, near Turin. Quay and Hill should unite In a banquet to celebrate their return to those who have missed them from the scene of their wonted hard labor on behalf ot their constituents. Kaiser Wilhelm wants to make his mark, and he will do it easily with a few more wild speeches and demands for 40,000, 000 marks to pay his private debts. But his mark will be of a very different kind from that made by Bismarck. There is nothing new under the sun, but .a cessation of frost and snow with a little warmth and brightness thrown in would probably be mistaken tor a novelty. Cablegrams announce the important fact that Queen Victoria was preceded to France by her favorite donkey. They fail to mention how many of her devoted beasts of burden were left in England to mourn her absence. AN TJNC03IPORT..BLE RATIO. The figures which are given in an article elsewhere summarizing the report of the StateSuperintendent o' Public Instruction contain some percentages which should be the subject of serious thought to all who believe in popular education as the iouudation of good citizenship. It appears from the statistics that while the population of the State increased 23 per centduring ths past decade, the school attendance In the State increased but 11 per cent This serious discrepancy is made even more grave by the fact that in the large cities the difference is greater. The increase of city population has been 43 per cent The increase of school attend ance is not given for all the cities of the State, but that it is less than tho 11 per cent average is indicated by the fact that Philadelphia absolutely shows a slight decrease in school attendance. In the case of the chief city of the State, the alarming showing is'madc that the increase of over 40 per cent in population is wholly unac companied by an increase in school attendance. This points to the alarming conclusion of an increase of illiteracy in the decade, amounting to 11 per cent of the popula- A NATURAE CONSEQUENCE. The engineer of a large manufacturing establishment in Philadelphia complains that the Fire Department of that city is less efficient at putting out fires than at running ward politics. Such a complaint at once marks the person making it as a soured and impracticable Mugwump. Of course any organization will be most efficient in serving the purpose which is placed first in organizing it This is natural law and no unattached cherisher of Mugwump heresy can expect to see it reversed. So long as Fire Departments are constituted primarily for their efficiency in politics, with the putting out of fires as a secondary motive, tho polit ical efficiency has got to come first, and the extinction of fires can take a back seat The same principle applies to the collection and handling of public funds, the making of statute laws, the laying of pavements and the carrying of mails. Of course there are exceptional persons, lest to the great partisan necessity of political organization, who claim that the putting out of fires should be the first and only purpose of organizing a fire depart ment and so on through the list of gov ernmental functions. That is a separate question from the natural result of exist ing conditions which is what the Philadel phia critic takes exception to. Besides which it is only another manifestation of the hated mugwumpery. A FOUNT OP JINGOIS3I. Researches into that youthful exponent of Jingo Americanism, young Walter Scott, of Lyons, N. T., who sent that let ter signed "Frank Scotte, Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania Rifles," to the London Times, promising to wipe England from the map of the world, reveals the explana tion of a hitherto unsolved mystery. It might be supposed from the tenor of the "Frank Scotte" note that the youthful prodigy of fire-eating would devote his leisure time to organizing himself into an army of Invasion and conquest; but in vestigation proves that he pursued the equally congenial and more practicable role of warlike journalism. The New York Herald has detailed a special correspondent for the study of the juvenile phenomenon, and it is learned that during the late diplomatic unpleas antnesses the youthful spirit was spurred into exceptional activity. His duty, out of school hours, to "assist in the mailing de partment" of his grandfather's newspaper which means the folding of papers and carrying them to the postoffice did not prevent him from giving "the closest at tention" to the Chilean dispute, and as a result of 'that profound study he wrote "hundreds of pages on, the progress of Chilean matters." This explains what was heretofore cal culated to mystify the impartial observer, namely the outbreak of Jingoism in the organic press, all of It of exactly the same callow, but bloodthirsty character. It was a puzzle how so large a share of the press of the United States should be HIRSUTE INDEPENDENCE. The Dispatch has often stated its op position, on general principles, to strikes. The grounds of that opposition are so well known to our readers that we need not re peat them here. But some strikes are justifiable; and among that class we hasten to rank the strike for which the hotel waiters of Boston are massing their forces. In this position we do not discard the maxim that a strike is industrial warfare. We rather base it on that principle. War is so costly and ruinous a resort that the majority of the wars in history were simply crimes against civilization. But sometimes war is a duty, and eminent in the catalogue of necessary wars are those in defense of independence and liberty. Supposing that some power should under take to dictate to the American people how they must wear their hair or what clothes they shall select Would the American people excepting, of course, that fashionable class which hugs foreign fetters be ready to fight for its tonsorial and sartorial independence? Such an issue is that which the Boston waiters are preparing to fight for by the warfare of a strike. Two hotel proprietors have issued an edictto their waiters that they must shave off their beards. The beard has been a token of liberty since the tribes uncon quered by Grecian and Roman civilization were given the name of "Barbaroi," which survives In its completed sense of "bar barian." Was it to be expected that de scendants ot the bearded men of Gaul and the Allemam, now plying their voca tion of eliciting the elusive tip almost with in sight of Faneuil Hall and Bunker Hill wouldubmit to such a manifestation of sumptuary despotism. The beard of the juggler with hotel crockery is as dear to him as the hirsute magnificence of any other man. If the hotel waiters will not strike for their beards, we should be op pressed with doubts as to their striking for their altars and their fires. The only amendment that we can offer to the waiters' course is that they should adopt the method of Touchstone, and when in formed that their beards do not suit the hotel keepers reply with the "quip modest" that their beards are cut to suit' themselves. It is a subject of national mourning that tho cradle of American liberty should be the spot selected by hotel keepers for this Invasion of the rights of the solicitous gentleman who makes the warmth of your breakfast bear a due proportion' to the p romptitude of your fee; but it is a com pensation that Boston still possesses the spirit of popular independence. We hope that the Boston waiters will emulate tho example of their predecessors not only in shutting off the. supply of tea, but coffee and all the rest of the bill of fare as welt until the haughty hotel keeper who seems at present to be emulating the pride of his clerk, learns that a man's beard is his own, whether he be waiter or wayfarer, at the price of $10 per diem with extras for fire and washing. If the revolt of the waiters goes to the length of raising the professional spirit and eschewing tips, their strike will com mand the united support of all the patrons of hotels; and the hotel keeper who does not yield to their terms will find himself under a disastrous boycott Hill will now resume his place in the Senate until such time as his politieal inter, ests call him elsewhere to neglect the work which he is paid to accomplish. If the courts decide that the lynchers at Darlington, Wis., broke the law as the re sult of insanity, steps should be taken to de prive them of their franchise, for such peo ple are not lit to be trusted with voting power. People frequently put up with coffee made from chicory, but arsenic as an adul terant is a trifle too vigorous and is getting commoner than is healthy. The more restrictions Premier Abbott seeks to Impose on our Imports to Canada, whether of beef or anything else, the more Canadians will suffer and learn wherein their only commercial salvation lies. FAVORITES OP FORTUNE. General Edward S. Bragg is small, vigorous, pert, able and bitter. He has a sharp tongue and an honest purpose. Lucy Hooper says that Americans who go to Parts forget all about the Salon and the Institute and remember the Casino do Paris and the Moulin Rouse Even royalty practices economy at times. The King and Queen of Portugal are removing to the Palace of Necessidades, a tumble-down edifice lepainted to hide its real condition. Representative Belknap, of Mich igan, is fonder of his literary work than of any oratorical or Congressional triumph, lie is a great narrator of war stories, and he has a fund of them. The Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife v, ent to the Lambeth workhouse and spent a day and afterward declared that the poor was well cared for, the wards being beautiful, clean,alry and warm. The Mayor of Manchester has invited Mr. McCormick, the Chicago Pair Commis sioner, and Sir H. T. Wood to address the merchants of Manchester at the Town Hall there on the Chicago World's Fair. THETtfarquis de Mores, who tried hard to kill M. Isaac in a recent duel, was the swell est ranchman that ever beautified the plains of Montana, He was accustomed to wear silk shirts, and boots that would have won the heart of a stage hero. George Alfred Townsend has gone to Spain to get material for a biography of Columbus. Mr. Townsend's literary survey ranges from "Gath" to Askelon, and his work has merit, but the world really does not need another life of Columbus. IT is understood that Dr. Pierson, of Philadelphia, who .officiated in tho late Mr. Spurceon's pulpit during his final illness and has since continued in that capacity, will be invited by the trustees of the Metro politan Tabernacle to fill the pulpit, either permauently or for a term of five years. Henry E. Bourne, of Norwich, Conn., has accepted the chair of history in the Woman's College of Western Beservo Uni versity, and Miss Emma M. Pel kins, of Cleveland, the chair of Latin. Prof. Bourne declined some time ago a position in the University of California. Miss Perkins was valedictorian or her class at Vassar, and is widely known as a very able teacher. KTJSSIA CABLES GEATITUDE. w I'U W AfMUIa AV ArfllAAil AM am Aa? 1 - - lion, with an equally serious indication J afflicted with the same characteristic; responsibilities on parents and guardians, t ' , w The vigorous protests from property holders caused a modification by the Finance Committee yesterday of the proposed 50 ycar lease of the Fifth Avenue Market House for armory purposes. It seems still, how ever, to be the idea to grant it for 25 years though the sub-committee may report dif ferently about that. The Dispatch believes in making provision for the ample and con venient housing of the military organiza tions. It recognizes their usefulness in times of disturbance and the publio spirit of the men who compose them. But it considersit mere waste to devote a property now worth $100,000 in the open market to site purposes when many sites equally as eligible and far larger In area could be had for one-tenth the sum. It also agrees with the remonstrants that the-dlversion of the property from the market purposes for which it was acquired is a hasty and unwise action. With the population of the hill district increasing rapidly, the step must appear as one that should not be persisted in. God Save America, Is the Message Trans mitted From Llbau. Philadelphia, March 19. Mayor Stuart this afternoon received the following cable dispatch, signed by a number of Russian officials: "LmAtr, March 18. "Hon. Edwin B. Stuart. Mayor of Philadelphia, and Chairman of Committee: "The Russian Society warmly welcomes the American brethern who happily arrived here with the Indiana. They pray you to transmit to the inhabitants of Philadelphia their expressions of lasting gratitude. God save America." Supplies for the cargo of the steamship Conemaugh, which is to be Bent to Russia, are already coming in. Bills of lading were received iu tho Mayor's office to-day for two carloads of flour, etc., from the towns of Derryand Mercer, Pa. The Glrard Point Storage Company has tendered the tree use of its docks, wharves and warehouses for the conemaugn anu ner cargo, including the unloading of cars, as was done for the In diana, A Bridegroom With Great-Grandchlldrcn. Wihosa, Mrair., March 19. A wedding ceremony was performed here to-day which involves age, vrealtb, youth and beauty. Lindsay Porter, a. wealthy farmer living near Piainview, was married to Miss Eva Daniels, of Oneida county, N. V. The groom is 70 years or age and the bride 18. Porter has beou married before, and has children and great-grandchildren. PlTTSntmo is establishing an undesirable reputation for crime which should be sup pressed with the utmost severity. We can not afford to become a by-word for murder or any other form of Iniquity. THE ANTICS OF THE SPRANG. mutMmiKttmtianwm,- , -iiiiiiwrf.r. t, --.. - ra i r r , m tiafm - tvj nriti r nanrr- n?rmiia r'l ff-Mmr nn I HiiiiHiuiii ci m iaaoaE4tML y RKMBMKKBSitmHIKSrnWtXm Ky mtTB''tptmp 1 3 JKTaBg!HggaJtgWjgaJSK Egy . it " M mm There came a day of showers Upon the shrinking snow; The south wind sighed of flowers. The softening skies hung; low. Midwinter for a space Foreshadowing April's face. The white world caught the rsney And would not let it go. In reawakened courses The brooks rejoiced the land; We dreamed tbe spring's shy forces Were gathering close at hand. The dripping buds were stirred. As If the sap had beard Tbe long-desired persuasion v Of April's soft command. Bat antic Time had cheated With hope's elusive gleam; 'The phantom spring defeated Fled down tbe ways of dream. And In the nlgbt the reign Of winter came again. With frost upon tbe forest . ' And sUuness on tbe stream. , , ,'," ' ' -The CSJtjrfy, GOSSIP OF A GREAT TOWN. A Western Innkeeper In am Eastern Hotel The Tad ot Artistic Studios Doing Without Overcoats Where Ton Can Meet m Man The Billiard Habit. trBOM A STAFF COBBXSrOXDSirr.l To a Western man who has been accus tomed to plenty of sea-room and a rustling crowd, the modern Now York hotel Is a cold and cheerless sort or a place. I saw Potter Palmer at the New Holland House tbe other day, and he seemed to chafe under the aristocratic restrictions of space and quie tude. Tbe lovely corridors and limited gen eral space of the first floor of the Holland together could be put In Mr. Palmer's private offlce in Chicago. And that distin guished innkeeper must have badly missed the half an hundred slumberous loafers who hold down bis leathern chairs all day, and the swarm of commercial gentlemen who divide up among themselves the smoke 'laden atmosphere of his great rotunda to say nothing of the continuous tumult and omnipresent dirt Incidental to popular hos telries of the Windy City. It is difficult to convince a provincial, however, that it i3 no part ot a hotel keeper's obligation to the traveling nubile to maintain a human pig-sty. There are no sertous reasons, in the opinions of tho modern New Tork hoteL builders, why the gregarious American idea should be flattered and encouraged, and he thus follows the prevailing foreign custom of the restaurant, the cafe, the smoking room and an office for business purposes only. The latter should be quite as accessible and acceptable to ladles as to gentfemen. In some of the new hotels of this city ladies may come and go by the main entrance and to and from the cleik's desk without running the gaunt let or critical loafers and staler tobacco smoke. The exclusive, quiet, private family idea is put uppermost. Artlstio (or a Purpose. There are not a few so-called artists in New York who dabble in colors as a sort of fad, or to kill time, not because they expect or need to make money out of it, or because they have any ambition to shine in the ar tistic world. Some of them are rich and havo the most elaborately fitted up studios, where they entertain their fashionable friends. A young bachelor of money and taste has a pretext in his "studio" for an at tractive establishment. The official charac ter or a studio and tbe privileged character ot an artist make admissible the entertain ment of lady friends who would be by com mon social laws debarred from visiting a bachelor at his rooms. Hence tho "studio" racket. I happen to know of a well-to-do oung gentleman or a. noted Murray Hill family who is a dilettante artist and maintains one of thesfl studios in an out-of-the-way corner. The fact that it is done under an assumed name, however, indicates that he is not proua oi his profession or of his accom plishments. Ail the same ho has high old times, and between lovely models by day and champagne suppers in his studio by night, enjoys an artistic career that would turn a student of the Qnartier Latin green with envy. Emulates the Pigs-in-CIover Man. The "World's Fair" puzzle is the latest attraction of the business boulevards of New York. It is a little round tin box, about an inch deep and of the diameter of a cent. One end is sealed, and the top is closed from within by a hidden spring. There is a slot near tho top, and a cent is in serted in the. slot and pushed up to the top by tho springing head. It can't come out at the top because of the inner flange, but it can be sprung up and down with the thumb and finger. The trick is to get the cent out, and, having it out, to get it back again. Tho man whonamed it the "World's Fair" puzzle had a keen sense of humor, for it looks easy enough to get the cash, while it is really difficult, and there is a clever trick at the bottom of it. A loose ball out of sight with in must be rolled around until it falls into a particular depression, when the top can bo depressed sufficiently to bring the cent on a level with the slot, whence it can be re moved. A Man Who Eschews Overcoats. The overcoat habit, like the eating habit, is pretty general. There aro some men, however, who are finicky about eating and some who nbver wear- an overcoat no matter what is the character of the weather. The late Hannibal Hamlin was one of these. People grew so accustomed to seeing the tall old man going along Pennsylvania avenue in mid winter with a bine, brass-buttoned dress suit that they didn't notice it much. There is a long-legged, round-shouldered gentleman who can be seen almost any day in the year on Broadway without an overcoat. He wears a single eyeglass, or monocle instead, bnt whether it is to keep him warm or from be ing run over I don't know. The glass is al ways screwed in the same eye. He may have been born with it, or it may have grown there. It is as precise as the wearer's gaiters; and together they aie quite English-you-know, way up. So is the lone, swinging stride of the long gcntleman.who habitually, while on the stride, seems quite out of his center of gravity and inspires tlie fear that an unexpected pause may precipitate a ciasb. The slim figure is usually clad in yol lo wish brown 6tuff matching his whiskers and fitted after tbe English style, and the absence of an overcoat on a ripping cold day lends to it a picturesque appearance charm to tbe common, every-day, ulstered Broad way crowd. Birds or a Feather Flock Together. There are two resorts downtown where you can meet almost anybody at some hour during the middle of the day at tbe Cafe Savarinorat theAstor House rotunda. A good many business men of the lower city seem to make It a part of their business to drop in at one or both of these places every day. This is so well known that some are not unlikely to meet people there they don't wish to see. 1 happened to mention this peculiarity to a gentleman and he said: "It is because the sot you look for come here, that's all. There are plenty of other places, each having its satellites. the busi ness world has a beaten track for -tbe most part. That is, most business men, being regular in their habits, do mostly tbe same thinir every dav. They can't hell) it. Thev may studiously vary for a short time, but they soon fall back into tbe rut. Most of these men lead a life as humdrum as that of a horse breaking tanbark. Men of good business habits, as we call it, are as regular as clockwork. The other fellows are equal ly regular in tiieir irregularity, jvna tnis irregularity becomes Just as monotonous to them as if it were the exact opposite." Exercise Before Going to Bed. "A man shouldtake exercise, in tbe open air if Dossible," said he enthusiastially, "but some kind of violent .exorcise Just before going to bed. There is no medicine that will do him as much good or put him to sleep quicker. When I was a boy I drank some and smoked a great deal and finally became so nervous at 21 that I couldn't keep the covers on my bed at night. The doctors told me to quit whisky and cigars and take exercise. I followed their advice. I never go to bed now without taking a handspring nr two or swinetnz the clubs, and I sleen 'liken top." This man Is a reporter on a New York daily paper and his suggestion cuts a new arterv for gentlemen of that sedentaiy oc cupation. Walking Around the Pool Table. Probably few persons who sit around a pool table witnessing a clever game of pool have any idea of the time and money neces sary to become a crack" player of either pool or billiards. New York boasts many fine amateurs. The latter are to be found everywhere for that matter. I have seen men hanging about a livery stable in a country village in their shirt sleeves who can hole all the balls on an opening at pool and can run fifties and hundreds atvFrench carom. 'The good pool player in New 'York is very often a gambler and turns his skill Into cash, but he must play with other pool gamblers who know his name usually, and consequently he stands an eqnal show j to lose. - 1 The great body of pool and billiard play ers, however, are in it for the amusement una exercise. They spend fiom an hour 'to four hours daily walking around a table and punching the ivories. Two hours a day are thought necessary to keep up practice. A dollar an hour is not an extravagant esti mate of tbe average expense in Now York. The better player the more he plays, arid $500 a year in walking round a table Isn't muoh for that kind of a man. Twenty to- lu years of this, however, represent in good hard cash considerably more than that kind! of a man has on hand at the end of his career. When vou add the time and the bad associations it seems that a man -BEQUEATHED ONLY A TOKSSTOHZ, A Foster-Daughter Claims 8100,000 of a San Francisco Man's Estate. Chicago, March 19. A remarkable pro Ylslon, made for Miss Carrie Sankey In .her foster-father's will, the bequest or $40 for a tombstone, has led to a demand on her part for his whole estate, valued at $100,000. Her claim is resisted by 17 relatives of tho de ceased. The foster-father Is the late Samuel San key, a well-known lawyer of San Frknoisco, considerable of whose property is located in Chicago. Miss Sankey" Is 22" years old, and claims to be able to show that upon being left an orphan, her uncle, Mr. Sankey, adopted her by court process in Lycoming county, Pa:, in 1878, and that she lived in his family until a few months before his death, when, according to her, his failing mental powers estranged them. The other rela tives contend that Miss Carrie is entitled to only one-eighteenth of the fortune as tho dead man's niece. THE STAK-ETBD GODDESS. It is said that Hill and Watterson have made up and ai enow loving friends. That settles Hill. He may as well withdraw from tbe race. Baltimore World. There is a growing curiosity as to whether Watterson is trying to kill off Cleveland to make room for his own prospects, or whether he is doing it merely for exercise. Washing ton Star. Colonel Wattersoit is a great man in bis way, but he is unlike Mr. Cleveland in sev eral respects, notably In thls.that Mr. Cleve land never goes off without being loaded. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . Mr. Cleveland (to Mr. Watterson) My dear sir, faint heart never won fair lady. More over, if I can't be elected President neither shall the man who, you say, Is accused of de feating me in 1883. Rochester Herald. The "star-eyed goddess of reform" must have frowned when the Kentucky Legisla ture invited David Bennett Hill to address that body in Frankfort. But what is worse. Senator Hill has accepted the invitation. Rocky Mountain News. ' Henry Watterson asks Cleveland to with draw fiom the crowd or Presidental aspir ants. He favors Senators Carlisle or Palmer. Possibly Watterson finds a trifle more favor in his eyes than either. The star-eyed god dess is ambitions. Elgin News. Dr. Miller says no Westerner can be elected, and a dozen equally astute poli ticians declare that neither Hill nor Cleve land can be elected. That seems to leave the field clear to Colonel Watterson's man, Joi:.l, Carlisle Minneapolis Tribune. A New Paper for London. LONDON.March 19. Special. A --w morn ing paper is about to be established in Lon don at the price of half penny a copy. A. C. Ives, an American Journalist, formerly con nected with New York papers, and who with Samnel S. Chamberlain, now of a San Francisco paper, started the Paris Matin and News, is to be tho editor. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars have al ready been subscribed to the new venture, and the shareholders include Duke of New castle, Lord Francis Hope, J. C. Haslam, Samuel Pope and other well-known capital ists. The name of the new paper is to bo The Morning. Tennyson's New Play Produced. fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.! London, March 39. Copyright. Lord Tennyson's play, "The Foresters," was pro duced on Thursday afternoonat the Lyceum Theater, in order to secure the copyright. There were only 40 or 50 spectators, among them being Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. The performers were mainlv from the Lyceum company. The general Impression or the critics was that the play wanted dramatic vigor, though the verse was ad mitted to be of flue quality. The State Sanitary Convention. The State Board of Health has issued a greeting to the Boards of Health over the State calling attention to the sixth annual State Sanitary Convention, which will be held In Erie on March 29. 30 and 31. The question of water supplyand other practical measures of mnniciDal sanitary government will be topics or papers, and representatives from moat of the counties of the State will be present. The citizens of Erie have made arrangements to give the visiting health ex perts a cordial reception. THE WAVE OP DISCONTENT. A Pessimistic Picture of Old World Govern ment Not Mach to Commend in Europe Kind Words for Japan Consequences oi Foreign Mlsgovernment. s rWBITTEX FOB THE DISPATCH. 1 On the Eastern Hemisphere is a motley aggregation of concerns that should by right be known as misgovernments, that affords a subject for profound thought. These gov ernments, as they shall be designated, repre sent so many attempts on the part of differ ent types of the human family, and, in some cases, different branches of the same type of the human family, to attain a condition called nationality, from which, it is assumed, would flow Immense benefits either to those who are charged with doing the governing or to those to whom should accrne the ad vantages and emoluments ofbeinggovorned. These growing Institutions are mad up largely of different species of the genns homo, between whom there is great ethno logical variation, with whom consequent racial disagreement is most radical, and who are determined to bar, to the fnll extent of their ability, the way to homogeneity. These racea are still further divided from each other in this, that each has a language peculiar to itself, and each is also found with that inevitable accompaniment of an undeveloped people a State religion. These religions, also, have been subjeot to divi sions, and those who foster them, acting from the conviction that their own only is right, engage in perpetual warfare to prose lyte from the others. Thus It is that a nar row clannishness is fostered, a selfishness is inculcated and the progressive march of the race is much impeded, if not wholly retarded. An Undesirable Kind or Peace. If we look into the methods of adminis tration, of the European cluster of govern mental establishments, to which Switzer land, however, presents a noteworthy ex ception, we shall find constantly accumu lating mountains of indebtedness, more heavily imposed burdens laid on tbe people, an Interminably slow lifting to a higher horizon, and, while these governments mace haste to recognize, and the neople very gen erally profess to follow the non-combative prince of peace, the peace, such as it is, in time of peace, calls for 11,000,000 of armed men I In the mere matter of government, in the matter of seourlng stability, in attending strictly to their own business and refraining from intermeddling with the affairs of others, it must be conceded that the Asiatic governing establishments take the hizhest rank: nor is their record in modern times, in the way of bloodthirsti ness, as pronounced as with their European congenus. These latter, however, have an enormous advantage in general intellectual equipment, in progress along the lines of the modern arts and in the practi cal application of scientific discoveries to human convenience, but. as an offset to this, there is a garrel ous mental restlessness, a wholesale desire to dominate the earth and all that pertains thereto, a fulsome and overwhelming dispo sition to be generalissimo. It is this feeling that finds expression in large standing armies, in great naval equipment, where tbe boundaries are maritime, and that gives to the gnn and tbe cocked hat a precedence over the sickle and tbe pruning-hook. It is this endless doing with the Implements of war, this constant clash and clang of arms, that fans and keeps alive the old, inbred savage ferocity of the cave-dweller and gives to a large portion of the Eastern Hem isphere tho character of vast military camps, with conscienceless, remorseless and inhuman tyrants in command. A Great Model In the Orient. Probably nowhere in either hemisphere is there more general happiness than among the subjects of the Mikado. For civility, genuine good-heartedness, observance of general decorum, industry, sobriety, frugal ity and healthy tnriftwemay look in vain foraparellel to tbe people or Japan. The social character of these antipodes is as planished as tbe long centuries of inter changing humanities could make an in genuous people, albeit the mild teachings of Buddha and the centle nhiiosonhy of Con fucius have made them heathens. But Russia I CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. In Siberia silk is sold la a frozen stats. The first steel pen's cost the mannfaci. urer $1 23 a piece. On April 8 Missouri school children ar expected to set out 40,000 trees. A Biddeford, Me., young woman hat hair that measures 6 feet In length. A Chicago thief a few nights ago stola and made way successfully with an entire house, except the cellar and. cellar walls. A bill is to be introduced in the Call. fornla Legislature providing for a tax on bachelors, similar to the oneunderconsider- ation in ueorgla. The honey of Trehizonde, as in Xeno. phon's day, is an irritant and narcotic from the bees feeding on the Pontic azalea and rhododendron. Amber is especially interesting to nat uralists, from tbe fact that over 800 species of insects and 163 species or plantahave been preserved in It. A marine monster with the head of a beast, the tongue at a snake, the teeth of a lion and fins or a fish was caught in San Francisco Bay recently. Cases of chronic arsenical poisoning from green wall papers) are often met with, bnt for ordinary green baize to be impreg nated with arsenic is rare. A gold brick was recently shipped to San Francisco from Yuma, OJ., the value of which was estimated at between $80,000 and $90,000. It weighed a little over 343 ponnds. A Bank of England note for Id was by mistake Issued in 1828. It got into circula tion, and for many years was a source of an noyance to the cashiers In making their ac counts. The nimble thief ever keeps pace with his opportunities. In London his latest caper is to insert a bag in the letterbox which stops the letters, and is withdrawn as soon as the carrier has made his deposit and passed on. A tramp painter struck Brookheld, Ma, went to the Baptist church, professed conversion and induced the minister to go his security for a pair of trousers in which to be baptized. The next day he arose and departed for some far country. At a public ball given near Honesdale, Pa., where the entire neighborhood partici pated, no less than 45 babies could be seen sleeping together, huddled in tbe corner of the room, placed their by tceir mothers bent on the pleasures of the night. To-day there are over 1,000,000 squars feet of glass surface in Great Britain exclu sively devoted to the cultivation and pro- uucwon oi tomatoes lor market purposes; and these tomatoes are sold at prices from 8 cents to IS cents per pound In the season. In the language of colors, green is em blematic of hope, for tho vernal regenera tion of nature is typical of life alter death; blue denotes faith, for It is the hue of heaven; white is tbe color of innocence, and red is chosen to represent love, because tho heart's blood is of that color. There are parts of Europe where severs cold has been experienced, and further afield a severer cold by far. The cold whioa drove the Russian invader back from the Balkans in that winter of 1839-40 is said to have repeatedly passed below tho freezing point of mercury, and to havo onco fallen to 46 below zero: The largest heathen temple in tho world is In Seringham, and it comprises a square, each side being one mile in length, inside of which are six "other squares. Tho walls are 25 feet high and five feet thick, and the hall where pilgrims congregate Is sup ported by a thousand pillars, each cut from a single block of stone. In the ceratodus, or the lung fish of Queensland, the swimming bladder present in ordinary fishes had become modified so that it rnnctionS as a lung. In Africa pro toptems; a form closely allied to ceratodus, makes for itselt a cocoon of mud, in which during the hot, dry season it lives and can breathe by means ot its lung. A red quarry, known as "ies Bochers Kouges," has recently been discovered la Mnsicians Have a Pittsburg President. New York, March 19. The election of the National League of Musicians, which oc curred to-dayat the Hotel Marlborough, re sulted as follows: President, C. H. W. Rube, of Pitt3burg; First Vice President, Samuel Davis.of San Francisco: Second Vice Presi dent, Emil Droch, of Chicago; Treasurer, J. M. Lander, of New York; becretary, Jacob Beck, of Philadelphia. The convention, which has been in progress for the past week, closed after the installation of the newly elected officers. perpetrates uiuro jmrenuu uiiuuujiciaicu jucnione, rrance, wnera the tunneling of a SJEE'SEnf S'fihln. in S,Sk " IT LTPZ .iaS ffrODght about tbiS Another Cardinal Bamor. New York, March 19. A dispatch from Borne, printed to-day, stated on the author ity of II Capitate, a Roman newspaper, that Archbishop Corrigan would be appointed Cardinal at the next consistory. Archbishop Corrigan stated to-day that he did not place any reliability in tbe storytffor the reason that it emanated from a Radical paper. A Smuggled Picture BrlngsSl,050. New York, March 19. United States Mar shal Jacobus to-day sold at auction a paint ing by Bosa Bonheur, entitled, "Los Cha mois," for $1,030. It was seized by customs officers from a Frenchman who attempted to smuggle It into this city. Hill Ought to Hire a Medium. Chicago News. Mr. Hill should secure the services of a spook medium and a cabinet to materialize those "principles" he talks about. The pub lic is curious to have a look at them. DEATHS flEKE AND ELSEWHEKE. Mrs. A. M. Brown. It was with deep regret that the announce ment was yesterday morning received from Beaver of the death of Mrs. Lucetta Brown, wife of Major A. M. Brown. As was mentioned In these col umns one dav last week. Mrs. Brown became ill at Beaver while attending the funeral of a near rela tive, Bev. Dr. D. L. Dempsey. At first it was supposed that tbe aliment was not serious, bnt it developed into pneumonia, with the fatal ending yesterday. Mrs. Brown was a most estimable Christian lady, whose great kindness of heart and amiable character endeared her to all. Charitable to the utmost, deceased vas also a consistent church member. A devoted wife and mother, her family will have the sincere axrapithv or a large circle or friends In their affliction. Besides her husband. Major A. i. brown, there are six child ren and several grandchildren who are thus be reaved, among them Marshall Brown. John 1). Brown, Thomas M. Brown and William J. Brown and Mrs. Thomas Herron and Mrs. John Herron. Tbe funeral will take place from the family resi dence. Liberty avenue and Rebecca street. Last End, to-monow at 2 r.'ji. ought to get more for Ills money and get It in a more reasonable way. Charles Theodore Mcbbat. New 'xonr, March 19. August Deltcb. August Deitch, a clerk in the office of Auditor of Freight Receipts of the Pennsylvania Company, died suddenly of pneumonia on last Wednesday morning. Deceased was 21 years of age and was highly esteemed dv all who knew him. The funeral took place at tho Buena Vista Street 21. E. Church. In Allegheny, on Friday afternoon and was attended by a large number of bis friends, including quite a number of clerks from the office In which he was employed. Captain W. P. Flowers. ' Captain "W. P. Plowers, one of the best known men on the river, died at his home in the suburbs of Memphis, Thursday night. Tbe deceased was a "cub" pilot with Samnel L. Clemens, under Captain II. E. Blxby. of the City or lleleua. IIo was a St. Louis and New Orleans pilot during tho war, and was a member of the one Hundred and Firty-ronrtb Regiment. Obituary Notes. George W. Fettis. the famous authority on Amerlcau wblst. Is dead. Philip H.TocRyKY, the well-known shortstop, died In Reading Friday, aged 29 years. Peter Gille, a well-known resident of Court ney, Fa., died yesterday of consumption. Daniel Latiirof, or the publishing firm of D. Lathrop&Co., died Friday night at Boston, aged 60 years. Charles J. Van De Poole, aged 43. died Fri day at Lynn. Mass. He was a noted electrician and bad lived in Detroit and Chicago. Jose Xxriqcez, one of the most prominent poli ticians In Southern Mexico, and Governor of the State of Vera Cruz, Is dead. This leaves an open field for Odessa de 1'asa. Collector of Customs ar Vera Cruz, for tbe vacant Governorship. Kev. Joux J. Carey, a well-known preacher, died Friday at Eastou. Pa., from paralysis, aged 73 years, lie was admitted to tbe Methodist Epla Uopal ministry in 1317. but subsequently became a -Baptist preacher. He afterward, returned to the Methodist faith and was Identified .with that work up to tue lime oi nis uen. dense Emniro of China in one vcar. Where shall we find anywhere on the map or Europe", with the exception noted, a eov; ernment that manifests a zealous regard for the elevation of her people? Where Is it that the mechanism of administration isnot so constructed that a sub-stratum of serfs, is created.Vwith another class to subsist from their toil and their sweat? Such conditions may find able defenders, and there mavbe long lines of precedents, but therein must ever lie the smouldering embers of lurid turbulence, of anarchistic uprising and the final overthrow of all moral and political order. One may have a tender sentiment for Fatherland, may paint fine fancies on nationality, but when hunger invades great modern capitals, when poverty stalks lean and gaunt, and deserving men, women and children wall forbread. thero is much amiss: there is nearly everything amiss: thero is something indefensible in the Government itself, ror, witn common sense ana common righteousness, such conditions could not be. Either the State or the religion, or both, must be at fault when citizens are banished, when clique, class, race and faith distinc tions protrude to such sharp angles, when hearance and forbearance are unknown and a supreme selfishness gorges itself in fatness at the expense of distress in others. No Excuse for a Famine Now. There was some valid ground :n ancient times for local want when there could be but little interchange of products, bnt there never was a time when the earth, as a whole, did not yield enough ,to subsist all her creatures and the day is coming and its dawn is already here, when poverty, the great parent of crime, will itself be recog nized as crime and they that produce it, be thev high or low, will be conslderedas crimi nals. But what will be the consequence, what will be the effect of this mismanagement and this mlsgovernment In Europe? Legions will be driven away. They will suffer this because they would rather do this than to bravely stand up nnd demand at home what they go elsewhere to seek stand np nnd de mand some oi tnoso "lnoiienaoie ngnts ' and, if necessary, strike for them. The very liberties that are elsewhere enjoyed wero only secured at great cost and can only be maintained by "oternal vigil ance." The evidence then seems to Imply, that too many of those who tnrn their backs to Fatherland, to the hills and valleys of home, to tho firesides and graves of their kindred, who sever all those tender ties that in their entirety constitute true patriot ism, do not possess to tno fullest tbat wholesome constitution of mind which it takes to perpetuate liberty and for which they elsewhere bore no part, nnd in their native lana would Dear no part in securing. The Talue of Our Immigrants. But they will go and go with their undeveloped ideas and the very freedom which they meet renders theirselfishness all the more intolerable and dangerous. They Jeopardize the wclfaie of those among whom they obtrude their -not very desirable presence, those whose ancestor" ignited and who themseiveshave kept burning the torch of a broader liberty, a more liberal humanity and a more comprehensive justice. Going with their narrow creeds, with no broad, generous conception of "Life, liberty and tho pursuit' of happiness," the aim, on the part of many. Is too often to transplant that same deadly upas, whose poisonous emanations contaminated the moral atmosphere and rendered life intoler able whence they came. Almost without exception, where narrow ness and bigotry flourish on American soil, their proraotors will be found to bo of recent importation, and when this is not the case, they Invariably prove to be the victims or imported Ideas which have no logical right to existence on tho Western Hemisphere. The caielul observerneed not be told tbat, to a lamentably large extent, much of this miserable mischief lias already been done. - But what will be the final outcome of such miscarriages in the Old World if much longer persisted in? The wrecks and skele tons that stare with their ghastllness along the lines or all ancient history attest in a voice only too unmlstnknblo wbat agencies it is tbat bring about the end. The proud Bomnn Empire, whose decline and fall have been so graphically depicted, is not so very far back and furnishes a most conspicuous illustration, Awhile the people bear in silence, dumb. Their backs cent meekly to the galling chain; But retribution in the end most come, What has been in the past will be again. It needs no piophet to toretell the fate When anarchy once rears her crimson form; When long borne wrongs cry ont against the State, And fling their lurid banners to the storm. Who listens now may hear the sullen roar interesting find. Further penetration into me rocKy cnn opened tne entrance to a grotto a subterranean chamber entirely encumbered with soft earth. The porcelain tower in China was con structed as a gift to an empress, and was always kept in repair by tho Government. Lightning struck it in IS01 and tore away the three top stories. The injury was repaired as soon as possible. It woufd probably be standing to this day had not the Taeping rebels Imagined its lights and bells most dis astrous to their cause. A curious phenomenon was recently witnessed during a storm near Queenstown, when the gigantic waves broke on the rocks and a huge volume of water of spiral shape suddenly rose and ascended to a great height. Simultaneously a similar volume of water descended from the clouds till both spirals met. when both volumes of water spread and fell foaming into the sea. Mr. Cooke asserts that an extensive bay on the east coast of the Island of Malta owes its origin and extent to the agency of tho sirocco, which blow3 directly Into it. The rapid changes from danmnoss to dry ness, which are characteristic of the sirocco, nnd tbe crystallization of the salt which It deposits upon the rocks, are reckoned among the powers of destruction which this wind possesses. Repeated observations have shown that the American so-called robin sometimes hibernates, but he has never been detected sleeping in a night gown only of down, with his feathers lying aronnd him. This seem ingly irrational proceeding bad been re served for an English cuckoo "who was brought up In a house, and which disap peared one day in November and was found in the following March on a shelf in tbe back kitchen, still alive and asleep, with all its feathers off and clothed only In down, the feathers lying in a heap round the body." BAZAR BUZZINUS. Of rising breakers as they lash tbe shore! MARca 12. N. Takes the Prize for rrevlousness. Boston Herald. Delaware has shipped a load of exhibits to tho Chicago Exposition. She takes the prize for proviousness. "Why do you leave me, Bridget?" asked madame. It's too far from th foire department, mum," returned the cook. 'Surely you are not afraid of fire?" No, mum;butollolkes company." "I never send a story out for publica tion," said Dullpatb. the realist, without first having slept over It." I don't believe I've ever rtad one of them, either, without doing the same thing." returned Hawley. "Is Miss Hawkins in?" asked Martin. "I ilun'no'." said Bridget. -Who are you?" "Edward Martin." "2to, sorr. She's out." Mrs. "Wangle You must have been quite 111 to be visited by your doctor twice a day? Mrs. Polkadot-Oh, no. But he is a friend of oursjust starting ont, and I wanted toencourage blm all I could. "Xewpop has gone South. I hear?" "Yes. On account of his baby." ' "Baby 111?" "Ud, no. He left the baby home. Newpop went to get some sleep. ' ' "When Paderewski plays the waltz, They say It is divine. No thing In life hath any faults When Paderewski plays the waits-. The coarse seems superfine. When Paderewskl's fingers touch The keys in polka time. E'en he who bobbles with a cratch Doth dance responsive to his touch. His art Is so sublime. Mrs. Beacon Hill I am sorry, dear Mr. Wagstaff, that I shall never see your Uncle Boscoe again. He Is a great loss. Mrs. Wagstaff (In evident surprise) Why. what do you mean? Uncle was here yesterday. Mrs. Beacon Hill (sighing)-Yes, yes: that is wbat I refer to. Caroline said tbat you bad your Uncle Roscoo for dinner yesterday. Teacher Now, Mamie, tell me how many bones vou have in your body. Mamie Two hundred and eight. Teacher Wrong. You tare only 507. Mamie (trlumphantly)-Yes; but I swallowe fish bono at breakfist this morning. Bunker I have a'literary friend who is so abscntmlnded that when be went to Chicago recently ho telegraphed himself ahead to wait for himself at a certAln street. Hill-Did the telegram have the desired result? Bunker-No. He got it all right, bnt he bad for gotten to sign hi name, and not knowing who it was from, he paid no attention to it. "Tomson doesn't brag about that bright boy of his any more." "No." "Isn'the bright any more?" "Well, be says about tbe same sort of things all the time, butho'sgot to the a when thej'i, sasy.-- WWaSag.EMIKBgiBSBBWW AJgaE!rigBWlttiT1?iir'T''l k
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