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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SATURDAY MARCH 28, 3892.
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OPINIONS OF LEADING THINKERS ON
SECEET SOCIETIES IX
Cardlnal Gibbons, ex-Senator Ingalls and
others contribute.
THE FARMER'S FUTURE
Discussed by Secretary Busk, of the Agri
cultural Department.
CAJIIIXE FLAMMVRIOX
Writes on the relation of the Aurora Bore
alis and Sunspots.
AS ALLEGIIEXY WOMAN
Tells bow she keeps a grown family on a
dollar a day.
Here Are Some Other Features:
In Fiction
The American Claimant, by Mark
Tnain.
The Sacred White Elephant, by George
Sand.
In Science
Inventions of Nature, by George lies.
Flavor of Vegetables, by Edward At
kinson. In Live Topics
Giving to the Poor, by Bev. George
Hodges.
Women and the World's Fair, by Bessie
Bramble.
In Other Lands
Sundaj inUruguay.byFannieB.Ward.
Social Topics of Europe, by W. G. Kauf
mann. In a lighter Vein
The Perverse Man, by Robert J. Bur-
dette.
Gosip of New Toik, by Charles T.
Murray.
In Pastimes
Women on Horseback, by Colonel T. A.
Dodse.
Shooting the Revolver, by James E.
Conlin.
In Fashions-
Gowns for the Aged, by Ada Bache
Cone
Dressing on Nature's Lines, by an
Artist.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2G, 1S92
TWELVE PAGES
TI1K l'IG IKON SITUATION.
The report that tbe Southern railroads
have conceded the claim of the blast fur
nace interest"? of the Birmingham district
for a reduction of 50 cents per ton in the
freight rates to points north of the Ohio
mer, indicates that in one quarter the
railroads recognize their own interest in
cherishing the interests that furnish them
with traffic. Fobiibly the perception of
tins policy maj have been quickened by tho
fact that rjer naugation will permit pig
non to bo shipped at low rates; but the
oiih Hearing on the matter, as it is pre
sented to the interests of this section, isits
indication of the certain cheapening of
rates that would take phce if water trans
portation were to be opened from Pitts
burg to the lake.
N far as the rolling mill industry of
Pittsburg is concerned, the addition to the
Mock of cheap pig iron is a gain rather
than a benefit But there is an immense
blast furnace industry in Western Penn
sjhania and Eastern Ohio, which fur
nishes the railroads with three tons of
traffic for cterytonof pig iron shipped.
The railroads, the coke interests and the ore
interests are all vitally concerned in the per
manent prosperity of the pig iron indus
tiy. A dispatch from Cleveland of the
same day as that announcing the reduc
tion 111 freight rates on Southern pig
iron states that the ore men arc unani
mous in stating their inability to sell any
ore, and that - essel charters on the lake
are consequently at a standstill. Does not
mob a state of aifairs open the eyes of all
concerned that the only way to set mat
tors properly in tram is to make reduc
tions in the material and freights of pig
iion that m11 restore the industry to rea
sonable prospentj?
We believe that the situation calls for
liberal action on the part of the railway,
ore and coke interests, and that in each of
these departments there is room forreduc
tions that will restore the pig industry to
conservative actruty. When the read
justment is made the pig Iron, ore, and
coke interests should join the coal and
iron and other industries of Western Penn
sjhania in united work for the ship canal
project That -will place Western Penn
sj lvama far bpjond the reach of any out
side competition.
OKI EL ECONOMY.
The county is to be congratulated on the
economic management of the License
'Vnrt lis iirnmntness in dpalimr tnrli
pp'icants and remonstrants is acluenng
k marked saung. ine cost of running
court is S10G a day. In the five dajs
ring which it has worked at present, it
ha accomplished business which hexeto-
for reauired two weeks, and by so doing
it has already saved $600. At this rate of
progress a three weeks' sitting will be
enough to deal with the whole business,
and the county will be $2,000 richer than
it would hare been by the perpetuation of
past methods.
This demonstration that public business
can be accomplished on the principles
which govern private enterprise should be
a fresh incentive to our citizens to insist
that such methods shall prevail in every
direction. The citizens have the matter
In their own hands, and have no right to
object to the price commonly paid for
their own apathy. Economy and efficiency
are identical and can be obtained when
ever electors take the trouble to secure
them.
NO THREAT OF WAR.
In the editorial columns of The Dis
patch yesterday, it was suggested that the
talk of a reported threat in the communica
tion to Great Britain of "a reort to mili
tary coercion," might well be regarded
w ith suspicion until the official document
containing such a threat was given to the
public. That article was written and sent
to press before the dispatches containing
the communication were received. Tho
text shows that there is nothing which
can be distorted into a threat of military
coercion.
In fact the Wharton dispatch is a forci
ble but entirely proper statement of the
objection of the United States Government
to the course pursued by the Salisbury
Goemmcnt There is nothing in it that
cannot be endorsed by the most conserva
the of American citizens, except the sen
tence asserting that Lord Salisbury's
latest step makes the question to this
Government "no longer one of pecuniary
loss or gain but one of honor and self
respect." This we think is an erroneous view. The
question in its entire character is one of
commercial policy affecting an interest
from which the United States gains a cer
tain revenue. It is pecuniary and commer
cial in all its bearings, and while a shift of
position or failure to maintain the modus
viendi during an operation may affect the
self-respect of the nation if it were accept
ed without a murmur there is no question
of honor in connection with it that is not
fully covered by such a protest as this
communication contains.
After thus putting itself squarely on the
record the administration can afford to let
the arbitration drop, or else adopt the sug
gestion of The Dispatch to end the whole
subject by letting the lessee company kill
all the seals at the rookeries, and corner
the seal-skin marker. There is no "threat
of military coercion" in the communica
tion nor will the sober sense of either
nation permit their Governments to get
into a war over such a dispute.
BENIGHTED MISCONCEPTIONS.
For sheer depth of pathos the spectacle
of People's party Representatives sup
porting the Bland bill is unrivaled.
The zealous sincerity of these would-be
friends to farm and laborer is only sur
passed by the gross ignorance and misun
derstanding which they display of the
fundamental principles at stake. If this
party had a particular hobby to ride one
had always imagined hitherto that it was
a strenuous opposition to any class legis
lation provided of course that the
class specially legislated for was
other than their own particular favor
ite Yet we find them supporting a
measure of which there is nothing more
certain than that it is class legislation of
the deepest dye; the object of which Is to
provide a market for the products of plu
tocratic silver-mine-owners the world
over. Their consistency of behavior in
the matter is equaled by the Illog
ical want of thought shown in
the speech made by Mr. McKeighan, of
Nebraska. In one breath he asserts that
"It must bo a case of willful prevarica
tion for anyone to claim that creditors had
any right to expect payment in any except
the least valuable money," while In the
next he says that "The standard silver
dollar is of 100 cents, and the clap-trap
about a 70-cent dollar is simply an assault
upon the dictionary." If the second
statement were correct, it would be hard
to find a reason for the first That the
standard silver dollar is of 100 cents is cer
tainly indisputable, but that its purchas
ing power,and so its value, would decrease
30 per cent by the enactment of the Bland
bill is equally indubitable. If, therefore,
Mr. McKeighan wishes to put his con
stituents on record as being willing to
violate their contracts by defrauding
creditors of thirty cents on the dollar his
integrity is about as scant as his intelli
gence. POINTS ON THE TRUSTS.
The absorption of the Philadelphia
sugar refineries by the Sugar Trust under
its New Jersey cognomen of the American
Refineries Company, together with the an
nouncement that a new enterprise has
been at once set on foot, with a capital of
$5,000,000, illustrates three vital points in
the trust or combination policy.
The first point illustrated is that the
purpose of the trusts is to cheapen the
cost of their product by dint of their large
capital and impro ed methods. It is true
that sugar has been comparatively cheap
for a year past, but the fact is disclosed
that this cheapness 'was due to the pres
ence at Philadelphia of three competing
refineries not much inferior in capacity to
the trust If the trust combination were
a factor in cheapening the product it
would not have been necessary for it to
buyout its competitors. If its purpose
were to suppress competition in order to
have the power to advance prices, it
would have to buy up the competing es
tablishments at the long prices it is re
ported to hae paid.
In the same connection, the statement
that the owners of at least one of the re
fineries w ere given a gentle jog in the di
rection of selling out by the sales of
sugar in their district at less than cost,fur
nishes another illustration on the standing
combination plea that free competition is
ruinous. If there had been no hope of
forming a combination" the persons who
sold sugar at less than cost would have
simply thrown away their own money.
The hope of getting back this loss with
Interest, through a combination, was tho
genesis of this sale below cost as it is of
all other cut-throat deals. In other words,
the cut-throat competition, of which so
much is heard, is not competition at all; it
is a well-defined method of the combina
tion policy.
The weakness of all combinations which
hate no extraneous means of shutting off
outside competition is evident in the case.
The palmy days of the Sugar Trust raised
to their present magnitude the establish
ments which it has just absorbed, and the
latest acquisition is no sooner made known
than a new $6,000,000 competitor steps
into the field. So long as this Is the case
the ability of the trust to advance prices
will be but temporary, while the day will
surely come when it will discover that it
can no longer pursue the policy of offering
a premium to anyone who can build a
sugar refinery by buying it In at very lib
eral prices.
Finally, it is worth remembering that
even the temporary ability of the Sugar
Trust to extort high prices from the con
sumers of sugar is much restricted by the
fact that the moment it exceeds half a
cent beyond the natural prices, foreign
competition will step in. That indicates a
very effective method of shearing- the
power of any trust that maintains exces-i
sive prices In a tariff-protected industry. .
THE SAME EARTH CAN HOLD THEM.
Now that it has been demonstrated to
the satisfaction of an agitated aristocracy
that Messrs. Borrowe and Drayton can
exist within the confined limits of an At
lantic steamer for a week, tho conclusion
is evident that the same earth will be large
enough to hold them both for the rest of
their natural lives. This is a matter of
mathematical demonstration. Take the
square feet In the two decks of the Ma
jestic, and suppose that the two antagon
ists could not have stayed longer in that
space without telling blood; and the rules
of proportion will show that the afea of
the earth's surface is sufficient to let them
live together on it something like a thou
sand years longer before it becomes abso
lutely imperative to wade in each other's
gore.
The ability, therefore, to get along with
out high-toned murder, should be utilized
to let the heroes of the scandal retire to
that privacy which they are both better
fitted to adorn than the excessive publicity
in which they have recently been posing.
Considering that the fameot the sensation
does redound especially to tho credit of
either the male participants, and that the
trumpeting of its details is at the expense
of the reputation of a woman, who, by the
nature of the case, is debarred from de
fending herself, it is permissible to con
clude that there will be no loss tq the
public if Mr. Borrowe and Mr. Drayton
are permitted to cease to occupy the first
place in the public attention and to sink
permanently into obscurity.
SAN FRANCISCO'S COMPLAINT.
The long-standing grievance of Califor
nia shippers against the Southern Pacific
Railroad for Its discriminations is reported
by an eastern cotemporary to have shifted
to a complaint against the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, which, to use the
words of our informant, "discriminates
against San Francisco in the fine old com
mon carrier style." "Of course," con
tinues the journal from which we quote,
"a city with only one railroad entering its
gates and only one steamship line enter
ing its harbor cannot expect any very
lively competition for its favors."
Here is an involuntary but correct state
ment of the source from which vital dis
criminations grow. It is the railway
dogma that they are created by competi
tion; but the facts, when frankly recog
nized, show that they are rooted m monop
oly. The further features of this case as
cited show that the real cause of this com
plaint lies in the exclusive control of the
situation by the railroad. "The San Fran
cisco merchants wish to see San Fran
cisco made a port of distribution for
coffee, among other things, and have
discovered that it can be shipped from
Central American ports to Europe and
then back to the United States ata cheaper
rate than it can be sent from Central
America to San Francisco and thence
East"
It is clear to anyone giving' a moment's
consideration to this case that the control
of the railway corporation is its strong
hold. The Pacific Mail is subsidized and
owned by the Southern Pacific; but, if rail
road competition would permit livingrates
for the San Francisco coffee trade, the
steamship company could not forbid it
The tramp steamer which, though vili
pended by the regular lines, is the real
governor In the rise and fall of osean
freights, would hasten to carry the freights
to any railroad line that would make a
joint through rate at living percentages.
The difference is that the ocean route is
open to the vessels of anyone who wishes
to conduct that class of transportation.
The railroad, a public highway in law, is
subject to the exclusive use of the railroad
corporation. Hence, discriminations can
spring from the latter monopoly, which
could never bo maintained in tho free
competition of transportation by sea.
The Opera Houss at Atlanta had been
used as a courtroom for a murder trial. In
the evening a minstrelsy performance was
interrupted while the Judge mounted the
stage to charge the jury. The jnry with
drew, but the'lawyers remained, with the
prisoner whose life was at stake, to enj oy the
humorous performance. This is a suggestive
Incident for 'Allegheny county, where capi
tal punishment is treated as a farce. Mnr
derers could be tried to tho accompaniment
of avariety entertainment, and be permitted
L to leave at the end of the show.
Chicago will be in a lamentable position
If there is a failure to bring the boodlers to
Justice on account of dissensions among the
prosecutors.
Commissioner Raum has a discrimin
ating Intellect. He sees no Injustice in dis
charging officials himself without giving
them a hearing. But, when the same prin
ciple is applied by another to his own son,
he is under the impression that it is a very
impioper one. It is the old story wherein
the ownership of the ox makes all the differ
ence as to its being got ed.
The bodies ofjjhe Hill Farm mine vic
tims are bui ied, bnt tho heroism called out
by the disaster will live for many years.
It is said that Sewickley has not yet
learned that road-making is a science. Se
wickley does, not stand alone. Yet road
making Is one of the simplest of sciences if
onlv the people interested will take the
trouble to inquire into the results of tho
experience of others.
If the Bland bill should become law the
laborer would have to work the harder for
his living.
Kaisee Wilhelm is going to hunt
Geimany may expect peace while he has
good sport. Bnt should he be forced to And
occupation in affairs of state, owing to ab
sence of game or bad marksmanship,' riots
and ructions will again become the order of
the day.
Wirepulling can do a good deal, but it
requires a strong aim to carry Armstrong
county.
The prosecution of the charges against
Jndge Maynard should be just about enough
to annihilate Hill's Presidentaloom. Fame
and notoriety have some features In com
mon, bat they cannot exist in one individnal,
and the former never follows the latter.
The fact that this is leap year probably
accounts for the jumps in the weather.
If the Memphis grand jury succeed in
Indicting the lynchots they will have set on
foot a movement which will tend to remove
the disgrace of lawlessness from their city.
Surprises in Allegheny affairs have be
come so lreqnent as to be expected.
Mayor Godbxey, as the author of sev
eral school "readers," and ex-Mayor Wyman,
who never read his. city's charter, stand out.
in noticeable contrast.
Guests at the farewell banquet in White
law Reid's honor tyred well.
It should be expected that the com-
manders whose vessels are to patrol tbe
neighborhood or the Bering Sea will set out
under sealed orders.
Sharpsburo is fifty years old and just
In Its prime.
L.
FAVORITES OP FAME.
There are people mean enough to hope
that Miss Frances Willard may never re
cover that gripsack full of lectures.
The best evidence that the Emperor
William is improving In health is the fact
that he is getting ready to go on a hunting
trip.
During his recent visit to Salt Lake City
President Eliot delivered an address to an
audience of 7,009 peoplo In the Mormon
Tabernacle.
Judge Peter TURNEY.-Dcmocratic can
didate for the gubernatorial nomination in
Tennessee, is 6 feet 1 inches in height and
weighs 230 pounds.
Pullman's daughter Julia selects the
names for all of his sleeping and palace cars,
and he is said to pay her $1,000 a year for the
exercise of her ingenuity.
Broxson Howard -will remove to his
sumniei home at New Rochelle, N. Y., April
1, anil settle down to the work of writing the
dialogue of his new play.
It was announced last night that on his
recent visit to Ann Arbor, Mich., ex-President
Cleveland was elected to membership
and initiated into the Signia Chi, a college
secret society.
Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton, who was famous
40 years ago as the pioneer poet of Indiana,
still lives at Indianapolis, in her 77th year.
Her most famous production perhaps is
"Paddlo Tour Own Canoe," published in
1850.
The Georgians just now are reveling in
tho possession of what they describe as the
most magnetic and eloquent orator of the
day. This young man Is a Mr. Seaborn
Wright, and some or bis friends want him to
nominate Hill in the Chicago Convention.
Ex-Oongressjian JohnI. Eeding, of
New Hampshire, who first took his seat in
Congress at the extra session in May, 1841,
and enjoyed the acquaintance of Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun,
Thomas H. Benton and Silas Wright, is still
living at the age of S6.
BEBNHAEDT AS CLE0PATHA.
Tho Audianoa Immonil and the Play In
teresting Though Vary Long.
The drama "Cleopatra," by Sardou, Is not
adapted to display Jlrao. Bcrnhardt's powers
In any special degree The play is speotacu
larraore than Ammatio, as much bo in the
French original as in tho English veision,
whioh Fanny Davenport pioiented hero last
season. This very fact that so much of the
play is pictorial probably had something to
do with filling tho Alvln Theater last night.
There was hardly a vacant seat in tbe house.
The chamotor of Cleopatra does not suit
Bernhardt nearly so well as some others,
but she gives tho Fgyptlan olmrmer a dis
tlnotandnewpoisonallty, which is interest
ing to examine. Hoi" Cleopatra does not
merely depend upon an appeal to tho senses,
to the passions, for its enohantment. There
Is a mental allurement, tho strong charm of
a queenly and potential woman, as well as
tho grosser and purely physical weapons of
the enchantress. Mme. Bernhardt brings out
much more of the Egyptian Queen
and loss of the amorous woman than
Miss Davenport did. Hor creation was seen
at its best in the cleverly constructed scene
with the messenger, wherein the latter de
scribes Antony's new wife Octania, and in the
stormy meeting with her Roman victim An
tony before Actium. In the invocation of
Typhon, she iosefully to the occasion. But
the leallstic features of the tempest, which
really outweighed everything else In the
Davenport production, were entirely lack
ing. We do not state this as an artistic de
fect, but as a fact which the public is likely
to deem important. There is no whirlwind,
waving trees, or crash of thunder.
The only actor In the castwho approached
Bernhardt in artistic conception of his
role was M. Daimo it, who played Antony.
He was forcible and picturesque; his chief
fault again be'ng a tendency to rant on
small provocation.
The scenery of "Cleopatra" was, no doubt,
very handsome when it was new, and some
of the sets, the terrace at Memphis especial
ly, are still) effective. Tho costumes ana
mounting generally show many signs ot
hard usage, and the production as a wholo
does not approach tbe magnificence of
Davenport's.
xne immense auaience were liDerai in
their applause, .and most of them stayed un
til the play was over, at 11 50.
UNC0VEBED AN OLD CITY.
laborers Find the Bemains ot One of the
Aztec Communities.
Phqsmx, Ariz, March 25 Yesterday a
party of Mexican laborers, while digging In
the extension of the Santa Cruz Canal, came
upW one of the strangest of the old Azteo
cities. The struck the first inin in cutting
through the desert about 20 feet below the
sui face, where it had doubtless been cov
ered up by sand storms, which are very se
vere here in the summer. Everything about
the old building had been wonderfully pre
served, owing to the alkali in the sand. Tho
Hi st building consisted of a triangular
structure about 300 leet ii length and 200 in
width. The roof, which had doubtless been
thatch, had caved in, but the wooden pieces
by hich it was held together weio sound as
when put in thousands of vears ago.
They were pulled out of the old wall and
are on exhibition at Tucson. In the build
ing was a stone trough about the entire
width, and made in sections, held together
w ith a kind of cement. There were 18 bod
ies in tho building, all of them of medium
size, and their flesh was mummified. They
weio clothed in a kind of cloth made from
the fiber of the Cholla cactus. Their attire
consisted of a mantle and leggings. They
had bone bracelets on then wrists, and near
wlieie one of them was lying the laboiers
dng out a beautiful tmqnois, tamlsomelv
polishcd, and in another portion they found
one of tho idols heretofore found in other
parts of Arizona and Xew Mexico, and
which nre supposed to be pain gods. The
discovereis aie still excavating. It is
thought to be a part of the ctty to which
Casa Grande belonged, though that ruin is
nine miles distant.
How the Tariff Is a Tax.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The tariff is a tax, of course a tax on for
eign manufactures for the benefit of do
mestic industry and enterprise.
KHYKKLES AND EHIMELETS.
"Where were you last night?" asked
Jolllboy, addressing Chappie, nho waj looking
very much out of sorts.
"My mind in a blank, " 6ald Chippie.
"That's not wlist I'm tilting about, " said Jolll
bov; "I -was isklng you where yon were last
night." iew Tori, lYess.
Ecommit's the road to wealth;
But what we'd like to have rrvcalcd
Is some sly pith w here? we by stealth
Can qulckl) cut across the field.
Puck,
"Your daughter is a very substantial
girl," said the proprietress of the young ladies'
EChool. "Shelias no liking for what is lijhtor
frivolons "
"It seems so," replied her mother, regret
fully. "Even herbrtad is heavy." Jirotherton
Jleratd.
Oh, saintly one, have you forgot
That shadowy nook where faint perfume
Of hot-house flowers came floating in
And gave J our cheek au added bloom?
Have you forgot the way I gave
The longing of my heart free vent
And touched It too? Ah, rac! 'tis past;
The sermon's done; this psalm 's the last
She's keeping Lent.
Judge.
Wibble I suppose you are aware that
monkeys have quite an extensive language!
Wabble Yep.
"I was Just wondering if we shall ever see the
monkey shine as an after-dinner entertainer."
Indianapolis Journal,
"With guns that "weren't loaded"round,
And microbes never sated.
It is a wonder that the world
Is not depopulated.
WasMnptnn star.
."Do you play marbles?" inquired the
little boy from the West.
"No," said hii little Boston cousin, "when I
feel like tAlne recreation I read a few pages of
Aristotle, I tell you," he added, with enthusiasm,
"Arlstoile was a a regular James exquisite 1"
Chicago TrUnmt,
SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Congressmen All Broken Up by an A1I
"Mlght Session Corrections Doe to Mis
prints A New Presldental Proclamation
The Government Has Its Quota of Sil
ver on Hand for Awhile. ,
Washington, March 25. The free coin
age flgnt had a demoralizing effect on the
private bill calendar in the House of Repre
sentatives to-day. The piolongatlon of yes
terday's session until 12 40 o'clock thi3 morn
ing proved a severe trial to most of tho
members, and when the House met to-day
not over 60 of the S36 members were In their
seats. Later Jn the day other members
strolled in, bnt at no time during the day
would a roll call have developed the pres
ence of a quorum, and it was found impossi
ble to take decisive action upon any import
ant measure. After prayer by tho Chaplain
thei 0 were a number of members on their
feet asking for corrections to be made In the
Record and the Journal. Most of theso cor
rections were directed toward a roll call in
the Record, which was Incorrectly printed
by the printing office. Tho caption "Xot
voting" was placed over the list of the mem
bers oting in the negative on one of tho
motions made last night, and this error lea
to some coniusion. The error was nm ma
terial, but it was sufficient to bring Sir.
Reed, of Maine, forward with the sarcastic
remark, "I am glad to notice that this mul
tiplicity of errors which has apparently oc
curred in this Congress Is not an evidence of
moral obliquity as it has been in some Con
gresses." Laughter.
The Speaker The Chair will state to the
gentleman that what appears to be a multi
plicity of eriors grows out of a single error
at ine punting omce in pninng over me "
of those who voted "Xny" the words "Xot
oting." It is simply the transposition of a
sub-head.
Mr. Reed Theso errors will happen. I
want only to point out that fact.
Mi. Bynum, of Indiana I call the gentle
man's attention to the fact that in the pies
ent Congiess v. e have au opportunity to cor
lccteirois after they aie discovered. In
some pievious Congresses we have been pio
hibited from doing so.
The Journal having been approved, the
House went into committee of the whole,
Mr. McRae, of Arkansas, in the chair, on
the piivate calendar. Three hours were
consumed in the consideration of the bill
for the lelief of tho personal representa
tives or Henry H. Sibley, the Inventor of the
"Siblev" tent, but no determination was
reached. The committee having aiisen, the
House adjourned, the evening session being
dispensed with.
A bill was reported in the Senate to-day
for tho establishment of a fish hatchery in
Montana. Calendar. Mr. Sawyerintrodnced
a bill to encourage postal savings, to invest
the same, and to divide earnings among de
positors. Refeired. The Senate then, on
motion of Mr. Sherman, went Into executive
session. When the doors were reopened,
legislative business was resumed. Mr. Wil
son, from the Judiciary Committee, reported
a bill changing the time for holding circuit
and district courts of West Viiginia, and it
wsH unseed. Senate bill, aumooriating
M0O.00O 101 a publio building at Helena, Mont.,,
was tak.en irom tne caienaar auu paaaeu.
The benate then adopted resolutions, offered
by Mr. Starford, and in respect to the
memory of the lato Senator Hearst, the
business of the Senate was suspended, in
order to enable his associates to pay a
ptouer tribute of re-nect to his high char
acter and distinguished public services.
Eulogies weie delivered by&enatois Stan
ford, Vest, Stewart, Voorhees. Bate, Dolph,
Moigan and Pelton, (Mr. Hearst's suc
cessor), and then, as a further mark of re
spect, the fadnate adjourned till Monday.
A message from the President trans
mitting a communication from the DIstilct
Commissioners, accompanied by a letter
fiom the chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the G. A. R. Encampment, to be
held next September, was laid before the
Senate to-day An appeal Is made for $100,
000, one-half to be paid by the District
for tho expenses ot the encampment. The
Piesident says: "The event is one of na
tional interest, and the attendance of sur
viving Union soldiers will probably be
larger than at any encampment that has
ever been held. The parade of the survivors
of our great armies on Pennsylvania avenue
will bring vividly back those momentous
days when the great armies of the East and
West matched through the streets of Wash
ington in high parade, and were received by
our citizens, with joyful acclaim. It seems to
mo that it will be highly appropriate for
Congiess suitably to aid in making this de
monstration impressive, andin extending to
tho3e soldiers whose lives abeneficent Provi
dence has prolonged an opportunity to see.
In the security and peaceiul development
and prosperity which now so happily pre
vail at the national capital, the fruits of
their sacrifice and valor."
In view of the fact that proclamations
will soon be issued by the President, open
ing to settlement the surplus lands of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe leservations in tbe
Indian Territory, and also the lands recently
ceded to tho United States by the Sisseton
and Wahpeton Indians in Xoith Dakota and
South Dakota, Secretary Xoble has taken
steps to nave all intruders promptly re
moved therefrom by the military. The
lormer reservation will be opened to settle
ment between the 1st and 10th days of April,
and the latter on the 15th of thesamemonth.
This action is taken not only foi the piotec
tion of tho Government, but in the interest
of the intrndeis themselves, as under the
law persons who enter upon these lands
prior to the date fixed upon by the President
in his proclamation thereby forfeit their
rights under tho proclamation. Similar ac
tion has also been taken with lespect to the
removal of intruders from the Cherokee
strip in tho Indian Tcriitory.andall persons
found thereon, i nether whites or Indians,
will bo pipmptly iemoed. The lands to be
opened aggiegate 674 257 acres.
Acting Secretary Spauldino has
issued a circular to Customs officers In re
gard to the treatment of imported mer
chandise intended for exhibition at ,the
World's Columbian Exposition. He says it
is intended by the Department that so far as
is leasonable, precedence shall be accorded
to entries of thf 3 kind, and that collectors
shall afford eveiy practicable facility for
tho speedy transmission of these exhibits to
Chicago.
The Dockery World's Fair investigating
sub committee of the House Committee on
Appropriitions will not leave Washington
for Chicago until after the silver ques
tion is disposed of in tho House. They were
to have started to-day.
THE Navy Department has received in
formation of the arrival of the United States
steamship XewarK,at Laguyara, Venezuela.
Sho nas ordered there to look after the
Ameiiean interests during the revolution
said to be in proziess, but In the dispatches
received no reference is made to any
trouble.
The House Committee on Agriculture to
day authorized a favorable report to be
made on the Paddock pure, food bill, which
passed the Senate somo weeks ago. The
committee made several amendments to
the bill. Representative Geary, of Califor
nia, to day intioduced In tbe House a bill to
pi event the use of substitutes for hops or
puie extractor hops In the manufacture or
ale or beer. .
The offers of silver to the Treasury De
paitment to day aggregated 939,000 ounces.
The amount purchased was 170,000 ounces at
prices ranging from $0 8330 to .8834. The
Director ot the Mint announced that the
Government having puichased its quota of
silver lequiied by faw for the present
month no further offers will be considered
until Friday, April L
TOTTEN'S JUDGMENT DAT.
In saying that March 20 was the beginning
ol Judgment perhaps Totten was thinking of
the baseball umpire season. Philadelphia
Recoid.
LIECTE3HKT Totteit says that the 20th of
Maich v,as tho beginning of judgment. In
thecaso of Totten's Judgment it might be
difficult to specify the beginning. Philadel
phia Rccoi d.
Prof. Tottejt Axes on March 20 as tho be
ginning of the day of judgment. We have
chalked It down in our calendar, and we
await the fulfilling of the prophecy with
true christian composure. Boston Herald.
According to that chief of modern cranks,
Lieutenant Totten, tho day of Judgment
began yesterday. As the Democratic party
is still in existence, we fancy the Lieutenant
must have missed a figure or two in his com
putations. Toledo Blade.
Lieutenant Tottbn, whose avocation as
Professor of Military Science at Yale is in
cidental to his business as a millennial
prophet, announces that Judgment has
begun. There is nothing in which Lieuten
ant Totten stands more in need. Af 10 York
Evening Blar.
THE BOND 0? LANGUAGE.
English a Hundred Tears Hence Will B
Universally Spoken.
Portland, Orcgonlan.
Robert Johnson, director of the Colonial
College, London, has been making this
prophecy about the English race:
"looking forward but a few short years, Is
not the following a probable forecast? Can
we not seo the great English family occupy
ing the whole of North America, Australia,
New Zealand, a great part of South Africa,
and many other parts of the world as well?
In America, Canada and tbe United States,
hand Joined In hand, command alike the At
lantic and Pacific. The United States of
Australia and Xew Zealand and the United
States of South Africa command the Indian
and Southern seas, while all are united in a
firm and indissoluble alliance with the
motherland from which they sprang, the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land." Tho activity of the great English-speaking
family throughout tbe world is immense,
and Is spieadlng with an over-increasing
rapidity. But great as it is now, it will be(
incomparably greater in that future time
when America shall have reached an ad
vanced stage of development, and shall find
It necessary to obtain employment for her
energies In all remote parts of the world. In
America, within 200 years, we shall have
600,000,000 of people speaking the English
language. Long before that time this torh
guage will have gained so much over every
other as to be practically the one language
of the world. The commercial energy of the
race, emanating thus far chiefly from Eng
land, is carr Ing the language and planting
it everywhere; but the timb will como when
tho United States will be the head and center
ol this species of conquest.
History proves that language is the ereat
bond nmong men. It gets in motion forces
that triumph over differences or situation
and distinctions of race; it brings, through
progress ot time, the most diverse elements
of population into homogeneous conditions
and relations. One hundred years hence
the man who would be a citizen of tbe world
must know English; culture and business
will not be possible without it. The lan
guage will spread everywhere among peo
ple of Intellfzence and commercial activity,
and will be unknovt n only among those who
are fixed and provincial in their ways, have
little or no intercourse with tbe world and
are quite unprogressive. The spread of the
langnage, world-wide, will, moreover, create
an alliance among men stronger than any
bond of international treaties. Wars be
tw een peoples sneaking the same language
are not impossible, of course, but they are
rare, and the interests of commerce, and
feeling of kinship that language creates, will
make them rarer. The civil wars in Eng
land and onr own civil war do not contra
dict the position, because these wars were
incidents in the evolution of the inner life
of nations,",not conflicts of opposing nations
with each other.
KISSES ?An THE DEBT.
How the Ladles of a Michigan Town
Balsed the library Indebtedness.
Otseqo, Mich., March 25. When this town
was but a hamlet a Ladies' Llbiary Associa
tion was organized. This was 20 years ago.
and association and town seemed to simply
exist, but recently when tbe town began to
boom, tbe association decided to awake also,
and the members decided that a beautiful
edifice was no more than they deserved, con
sequently they placed their heads together,
and the outcome is a most beautiful build
ing, one that not Otsego alone is proud of,
but the wholo county, and one that the
State, too, should bold in esteem. The cost
of the building ran well up into thousands,
and this had to be paid for by the 75 ambi
tious members of the association. But at
last all was paid up bnt $400. The ladies then
placed their heads together again and de
cided that each and every one should earn
$1 by some means out of her regular routine
of business and daily life. This being accom
plished thevwere to hold an experience
meeting and charge a rational fee, each one
then to lelate her manner of earning the
necessary $L
The first to give her experience was Miss
Maggie Smith, local editor of the Union,
President of the W. C. T. U. for this district,
and poet. Miss Smith gave her Idea of a
successful beggar. She had sold spring
poems to one merchant and lotailed a kiss
to a clothing merchant. Then other ladies
found that kisses sold well, and the neu est
escapade went over the town like wlldflro.
and the crowd poured into the store where
the kisses were sold and blocked all effoits
at commercial business. Someone then sug
gested that the ladies be put In a machino
so that others could drop a nickel in the slot
and receive a kiss. G. E. Bardeen, president
of the Bardeen Papei Company, and Ot
sego's millionaire, broke up Mills' business
by offering 60 centB each to ladies who would
como to his office and perform a like oscula
tory service. The women all flocked to his
office and left Mr. Bardeen many dollars
shoiter, but far happier in term of mind.
The business interruptions caused so much
trouble to many of the merchants that each
offered to be one of 40 to pay for the build
ing. AB0B HEN'S FLATFOBM.
The Patrons of Iudastry Makes Known Its
Principles to the World.
Toledo, March 25 The Supreme Council
of the Patrons of Industry to-day concluded
their work on the revision of the constitu
tion. A long Declaration of Principles was
discussed and adopted, of which the follow
ing is the substance:
Legislation should check the advance of
corporations in power and wealth and crush
out trusts. All stockholders of corporations
.should be individually responsible lor cor
porate debts. Heavy specific taxes upon
corporations should be imposed. Pnblic
lauds should be leserved for actual settlers.
Federal revenue laws should be so amended
as to protect farmers, laborers andpiodue
ers from the ruinous competition of foreign
production and cheap labor. Rebates or
duties to corporations or individuals should
be. abolished, Internal revenue taxations
on spirits or tobacco shonld not be repealed
or rednced. A graduated income tax should
be adopted. Tho Seci etary of the Treasury
should be prohibited from aiding Wall street
in ease of monetary stringency, while
neglecting torolieve the stringency of farm
ers for 25 yoais. The enactment of more
stringent laws to prevent food adulteration
and to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
oleomargarine Is demanded. AU publio in
stitutions should be made self.supporting as
nearly as possible. Tho union of farmors
and laboiers for the general welfare is rec
ommended. DEATHS HERE AXD ELSEWHERE.
J. B. Wlckersham, Inventor.
J. B. Wickersham, a well-known Phila
delphlan, died in Philadelphia yesterday. Wlck
ersham had a genius for Invention which de
veloped in early life and continued to tbe last. He
obtained patents for Improvements on a number of
useful arts and was successful In their introduc
tion. For many years he was extensively engaged
in Xew York in the manufacture of ornamental
farm railings and fences, as he was afterward
again in Washington and Philadelphia, hecoratng
widely known from his work at the .New York
Cry t il Palace. While In that city he conceived
the plan of an elevated railroad in orjer to relieve
the crush of vehicles on Broadway. Beyond all
question he was the pioneer In this Improvement.
1 a njtri v as 1M4 the illustrated newsnaoers In Xew
York gave drawings of W lefcersham's Elevated
Terrace, with ample description of the benefits II
would bring to tho people: but the time was not
ripe and he made no application for the patent.
iithnr iftprwarrin resned the credit and the re
ward. He turned his attention to the perfecting of
Are escapes of which he became an extensive
manufacturer.
W. J. Frost.
W. J. Frost, Secretary of the Southside
Hospital Association, died yesterday at his late
residence. 1237 Sarah street, of pneumonia. Mr.
Frost wa superintendent of the galvanizing de
partment of the Republic Iron Works. He leaves a
widow and three children. A member of the as
sociation, in speaking of Mr. Frost yesterday, said
that he was a thorough business man. always
carrving out anything he undertook, and that he
would be sadly missed by them. A meeting will bo
held at the hospital this evening to tale action on
his death.
Obituary Notes.
MRS. Mahgaret RAT (colored), aged HS, died
at Glen Gardner, X. J.
JonvHvMETT.one of the prominent oil men in
the Belmont field, died yesterday afternoon at
Salama, W. Va.
Mas. Jonv B. Wardei died at her home In Se
wickley Thursday evening aged 18. bhe was a
widow and the daughter or the late Joseph Fleming.
Mas. Rebecca Bcbkbalpeb, aeed 81 years,
died at her home In McKecsport of old age Tburs
dey morning. She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church from childhood and lived In Mc
Keesport all her lire.
Charles Dovel. aged 65. one of the largest land
owners In West Virginia, died Thursday night. He
and his brother, or Providence, R. I., owned Im
mense tracts in Wayne county, t . Va., where
Mr. Dovel died. The remains were sent to Provi
dence. Joseph ExOUER, an old resident of Stcuben
ville died Thursday night, aged 91. He was sexton
early in the history of the town, and hurled the first
xnan,Vwoman and minister In the Union Cemetery,
where there are now thousands resUng. 'His chil
dren, granuchlldren and great-grandchildren nam'
WORKING FOR HEATHEN.
Kind Hearted Ladles Finish Their Labors
, for the Good of the Missions Books
for the Library Gossip of the Social
Events of a Hay.
Yesterday afternoon's session of the
Women's Home and Foreign Missionary So
ciety of tbe Presbyterian Church was de
voted to foreign missions. After prayer and
singing, Mrs. George A. Kelly, the Treas
urer! read a report, which showed that dur
ing the year there had been con
tributed for foreign mission work $12,
620 92, a gain of $873 over the previous year.
Mrs. J. A. Laughlln, who has been doing
missionary work in Iorth China, gavo an
exceedingly interesting narrative of her ex
perience. The general supposition that
missionaries have a rather pleasant life was
somewhat dispelled by Mrs. Langhlin's ac
count of the privations to be endured and
the danger sometimes Incurred in travel
ing through strange lands. The speaker
said that the Presbvterian missionaries
were doing a great work In China, but that
there was still greater work to be performed
and that the Christian women of America
should not only contribute liberally but
should pray fervently for their sisters who
are at vi ork among the heathens.
Mrs. Gillespie related interesting! v her ex
perience dnnng "A week In Canton,'" giving
an account of the missionary station, the
schools, churches and hospitals. The meet
ing was concluded with tho election of the
following officers: President, Mrs. J. P. E.
Kumler; vice Presidents, Mrs. S. S. Gilsou
and Mrs. Nelson Shaw; Corresponding Secre
taries, Mrs. L. G. Shrom, Jliss Jennie
Brooks and Mrs. K. S. Waring; Leaflet
Seci etary, Mrs. A, C Patterson; Recording
Secretary, Miss E. Forsvtho: Treasuier, Mrs.
George A. Kelly. After singing tho dox
ology the annual meeting adjourned. It was
the most successful ever held and 56
churches were represented at it.
The following books will add to the in
terest of the bookcases at the Pittsburg
Library, where they just haobeen placed:
Denzil Quarrier," George Gisslng: "Princess
Mazaroff," Joseph Hatton: "The New Mis
tress," Geoi.'o Manville Fenn; "Ciphers,"
Ellen OlneyKirk; "Darkness and Dawn,"
F. W. Farrar; "Judaism and Christianity,"
Prof. C. II. Toy; "The Bookorlsaiah," George
Adam Smith.
MP. Johx Thokpe, Chief of the Bureau
of Horticulture at tho World's Fair, in his
day exhibited flowers at tho old Exposition
building in Allegheny. n these days (a
similar calamitous condition existing.it is
said, at present) outside people were more
encouraged than thoso at home. Mr. Thorpe
onpnally hailing from somewhere down
East, came to Pittsburg with his exhibition
and was very successful. He It was who
first made Americans acquainted with
the marvelous and beautiful capabilities
of the chrysanthemum, so that he might
practically be known as the foster father of
the Japanese posy in this country. He is a
manot advanced ears, and has passed the
gieater part of his life In growing flowers.
Mr. Thorpe was the largest geranium grow
er in the United States at the time when that
flower was so universally iopiilnr. The
chief is receiving very numerous responses
to his circular, and reports that the pros
pects are for a superb display at tho Fair.
An international chrysanthemum show is
expected to be held in the Horticultural
Hall of Chicago next November.
THEPni Kappa Vi Society held its annual
meeting last night at the High School, when
an interesting programme was presented
and received with much pleasure. The in
terest centered round a debate on the ques
tion: "Are Great Combinations of Capital an
Advantage to the Country?" Mr. Stanley C.
Reese made a firm defense, and painted a
most glow ing condition of things that might
almost have converted Henry lieorge conld
he have heard It. A voung lady, Miss Bessie
McCord took tbe position of negat'on. and
displn ed a sequence in reasoning and pro
foundness of Judgment that proved her a
w orthy opponent for Mr. Reese. Some things
of a lighter nature supplied the evening
with all the gradations from "grave to gay
and livoly to severe," it being declared to be
truly an enteitainmcnt. The society scored
qnite a tiiumph with its meeting, which was
held at the High School.
Mb. Walter Emerson's cornet playing
was a most enjoyable part of last evening's
entertainment given in Old City Hall bv the
Toung Men's Christian Association, of Pitts
burg. The finale was an effective hit of
grouping and the clever arrangement of the
music, together with Miss Mac Fowler's
reading, made it most realistic and pictur
esque.
The Secretary of the Young Women's
Christian Association writes that the asso
ciation will removo to HI Penn avenue on
April L- For purposes of convenience alike
for teachers and pupils the class in English
literature will organize at 7.30 on Monday
evening next to decide on tho hour ana day
henceforth. Miss Mary McDonald is the in
structor, i'ot the same purpose the Ger
man and bookkeeping classes will meet on
Tuesday evening. Miss Hartwell and Miss.
Ralph have charge respectively of German
and bookkeeping.
A rERFOKMASCE of "Damon and Pyth
ias" took place In the Wllklnsburg Opera
House last night for the benefit of the
Brushton Volunteer Fire Department. Will
Robinson was effective in the title role, and
George Gallupe made a satisfactory Pythias.
Mrs. Dr. Simpson was the Ilermxon. A large
attendance was present and a good sum
will bo realized for the lire department.
Prof. Byron W. King directed the perform
ance. About CO people spent last night at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 11. Hamil
ton, corner Center and Whitney streets,
Wilkinsburg, to assist in the celebration of
the fifth anniversary of their wedding. Tho
host and hostess weie congratulated on hav
ing passed so far on a flowery path of matri
mony, and the hope wns expressed that they
would survive to ceicDraie wieir goiucn wed
ding under similar happy auspices. There
were a number of presents, and nearly all
typical of the anniversary, that of wood,
and many of a laughable nature.
Wii.kixsburg Council No. 700, Koyal
Arcanum, is making arrangements for its
anniversary celebration on the 11th of April,
in the Wilkinsburg Opera Il6usc It will
consist of the production of a comedy.
Lend Me Five Shillings," bv a rompany of
students of Duqncsne College, under he tli
lection of Prof. Byron W. King, and music
under the baton of Prof. Charles Davis Cai
ter, assisted by Miss Sadie E. Ritts, Miss
Julia E. Beech and Mr. Louis Crltchlow and
The All American Mandolin and Guitar Club.
Altogether, Indications point to an agreea
ble entertainment.
PEKKSYLVAHIA IN THE LEAD.
So Other State's Exhibit at Chicago So Far
Advanced.
Habriseoro, March. 25 Although it will
soon be a year since the appointment of the
Pennsylvania Board of World's Fair Mana
gers, tho appropriation of SSCO.OOO remains
practically untouched despite the fact that
the work m the State bas been rapidly and
systematically pushed forwaid. The Chica
go authorities state that Pennsylvania has
made more progress in the World's Fair
matters than has any other State. Execu
tive Commissioner Farquhar, in order to
disabuse tbe public mind of tho erroneous
idev that the State board has been extrava
gant, issues the following financial state
ment: Resources: State apprODnation, $390,000;
expenditures of members of the board in at
tendance upon board meetings, $3,093,13; ex
penses of committees and attendance at
meetings thereof, $1,153,13; salaries of Execu
tive Commissioner and cmploies or the
board, $5,4t4,99: Executive Commissioner for
incidentals. WOO: Pennsylvania buildings at
Chicazo. $1,887,34; miscellaneous, 5447,60: cash
in hands of treasurer, $7,511,5S; balances,
$.18,000. Somo 340 Pennsylvania firms have
been granted space alrcadj- for exhibits at
Chicago. An Important meeting of the Exec
utive Board will be held on April It.
Iowa Republican Against Prohibition.
Keokuk, Ia., March 25 A petition was cir
culated here to-day and S'gncd generally by
Republican business men, asking the Lower
House of the IowalLegislaturo to reconsider
Its action and to pass the Gatch local option
bill. A delegation of Republicans will take
this petition to Des Moines for presentation
to tbe Legislature.
Content to Retain tho Chair.
Chicago News.
Mr. Thaver, of Nebraska, still retains his
claim to the Governor's chair. Mr. Boyd, of
that State, will be contented to retainmcrely
the chair.
Will Have the Same Old Smell.
Chicago Tribune.!
Exit tbe Standard Oil Trust. But kero
sene by any other name will have the same
old smell.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A postoffice in Kansas is called Zero.
The entire coast line of the globe IX
136,000 miles.
The Mohammedans consider silk nn
clean, because it is produced by a worm.
Fifty .thousand pounds worth of gold
Is added to the world's stock every week.
In England,atthepresenttirae the ratio?
of public houses Is one to every SCO of the?
population.
In almost every school of Japan it is
the custom one day in the autumn to take
the pupils out rabble hunting.
The name "yokel," applied to an awk
ward rustic, was originally applied to ono
who yoked oxen or other animals.
The statue to the late Bishop Praser, of"
Manchester, is the only statue erected in a-
Subllc place to a Bishop of tho Chnrch ofi
ngland.
It is not generally known that the in
vasion of Australia bv foreign nations has
been premeditated no fewer than four times
withiu tho last 35 years.
I Bridgeport (Conn.) High School girls
will not sing because they fear the exercise
will spoil their good looks. The School Board,
has voted to make them sing.
The City Council ;0f Elizabeth, X. J.
has introduced an ordinance to keep yonnrf
girls from picnics and balls, unless acconn
panled by parents or guardians.
Newfoundland exhibits much original
ity in it3 stamp designs. It has on various
issues a seal, a codfish, a Newfoundland
dog's head, Her Majesty in a widow's cap,
tho Prfnce of Wales in uniform and a whaler
in full sail.
India furnishes a market for large num
bers of w hite diamonds, as well as for vel
low or colored diamonds, or stones with,
flaws or specks In them. Tho natives invest
their savings in them and in other precious
gems, as we do in stocks and shares.
Although known in this country 33 far
back as the sixteenth century, very littla
effort has been made to cultivate the tomato
as an article of food until late years: aid it
was only within tho last ten vears that ita
value in this respect has been "properly an-1
predated.
The Japanese are unsusceptible to scar
let lever and smallpox, which wa3 at ono
tlmo rife among them, ha3 been checked and.
almost exterminated by voluntary vaccina
tion. The mortality of Tokio, a vat city
which covers 100 square miles of ground 13
only 30 per 1,000.
Towards the reign of Elizabeth coal was
becoming a popular kind of fuel, though a,
strong prejudice lingered against it, and tho
Queen prohibited its burning In London dur
ing tbe sitting of Parliament, for it was
feared that the health of the knights of the
shires might suffer."
The lowest estimate of production of
the 300 to 400 crated water manufacturers ia
London Is SO 000,000 dozen per annum. The
total amount consumed or exported of
aerated waters, temperance or other drinks,
and mineral waters amounts to probably
550,000,000 dozen per annum.
The Turkish cavalry still has Win
chester carbines and will retain them for a
short time. The infantry has 500,000 Henry
lartlni nfles and 200,050 Manser rifles of 0 5
millimeters calibre. An order was placed in
Austria a short time ago, moreover, for
2S0,000 Mannlicber rifles of 7.5 millimetres
crlibre.
"If every human being on the American
continent were to bo taken out of exist
ence," raid the late Prof. Asa Gray, "andthet
whole work of his hands were cleared away,
so that no trace remained, subseauenc histo
rians conld prove that the Caucasian race
existed upon it by the flowera that would bo
found growing there."
There is no European country in which
women clerks are more employed than in
France. Indeed, it 13 raro to enter a French
shop and find a man serving .13 an account
ant. Bookkeepers are paid from. X40 to 120 a,
year, and accountants ninch the samn. In.
the commercial houses, where tho women,
clerks arc also employed they often have
an Interest in the business.
Nowhere in Europe is the struggle for
existence fiercer at the present moment thn,
In Germany. Tho nation is growing at tho
rate of 13 percent per annum, practically as
about the same rate as the British. Allow
ing for deaths, there is an addition to tho
population of 600.000 yearly, which, deduct
ing 200,000 who emigrate, leaves an increase
of 40O,tO3, for whom room most bo made and
food provided.
There is a worm which feeds on ice
with as much avidity as others do on the
common or garden cabbage This ice fiend
has been known to the scientific societies
and to tbe Polar explorers for many years
half a century at least. It is believed that a
Red Star steamer, which came in contacc
with an iceberg in mid-ocean in 1870, brough e
the first of this peculiar species ot worm to
tbe Atlantic coast.
The curious custom of "telling tbe
bees" is observed In some parts of nearly
every country in tbe world. Those who ob
serve the custom always go to the beehives
and tap gently 011 each one, then stoop and
whisper under the cap or lid that Mary,
Jane. Thomas or William is dead. This ia
done to keep tho little honoymakcrs from
forsaking their place of abode should they
have to wait and find out the new3 of the
calamity themselves.
The distressing illness which afflicts the
laborers employed In the construction ol
the mountain railways in South America,
has recently formed the snbjectof an article
bv a French engineer. M. Charles Lcgrnnd.
Theso railways attain j. height considerably
greater than that reached by the Jungfran,
Muttcrhorn and Right railways namely,
15.0C0 feet. A long ncclimttisation period 13
necessary. M. Lcgrand says, before physical
work can be undertaken.
One of the most remarkable instances
of discoloration of seawater is reported
from Fort Jackson, the harbor of Sydney,
New South Wales. Suddenly the water pre
sented in places the color of blood. 'I his
was lound to bo duo to the invasion and
ranid devclonment of a microscopic Gler.-
odinm, which in the course of a few dnvs de
stroyed half of the shore animals. Nearly
all the bivalves in the place which it affected
died, tho oyster beds being seriously in
jured. According to gypsy idea3 the clouds are
daughters of the Mist' King, and the light
ning flashes the sons of tho Fire King, who
would soar up high Into space, bnt the Wind
King comes and drives them down to tho
Earth, their grandmother. In their flighs
before the Wind King the lightning and its
progeny verv often lose the roid to their
father, the Fire King, who dwells deep in
the earth, and fall prostrate in the wrong
part of the earth, where they are changed
to stones.
The county of Nottingham is in som
way an epitome of England. It has lt3
black country, whero a great part of tha
people are engaged In mining industries; lt3
foiest scenery, where there are yet to bo
found spots w Inch seem to have como (Iowa
unchanged from the time when it was a
hunting gronnd for PlantagenetPnnccs and,
their kindred; and on the eastern frontier
wo come upon rich and well-cultivated soil,
grand meadows and pastures, whero En
glish agriculture may bo seen almost atitjt
beat.
A rapid writer can write SO words in
1 minute. To do this he must draw his pen
through the space of a rod, 16Jf feet. In 40
minutes his pen travels a furlong, anctin 5
hours a full mile. He makes on anaverago
16 curves or turns of tho pen for each word
written. Writing at tho rate of 30 words per
minute, he must make 8 curves to each
second: in an hour, 23,800; in 5 hoars, 144,000,
and in 300 days, working only 5 hours each
day, he makes not less than 43,J0O,0CO curve
and turns of the pen.
When the head of a Bulgarian family
perceives that ho Is about to dio ho sends
for the priest and begins to bargain with
him about tho cost of his funeral- Tho mo
ment he dies all pots, pans and kettles in
tho house are turned upldo do n to pre
vent his soul taking refuge in any of them,
and great care is taken to prevent either
man or animal especially cat or dog from,
stepping across his body, as otherwise. In
the opinion of his 'amily, he would turn,
Into a vampire, and so bo a continual
nuisance to them and their neighbors.
The most wonderful book in the world,
is'one which is neither written nor printed.
Every letter is cut into the leaf, and as tho
alternate leaves are of blue paper It is as
easily read as the best printing. The labor
required and the patience necessary to cud
each letter may be Imagined. Tho work is
bo perfect that It seems as though done by
machinery, yet every character was made
by hand. The book is entitled "The Passion
ot Christ." It is a very old volume, and was
a curiosity as long ago as 1640. It belongs to
the family of the Prince de Ligne, and Is no" -rein
France. Eudolp IX of Germany offered,
for it 11,000 ducats.