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MONDAY. MABCH 23, 1S92
ELC5IEMS OF PROSPERITY.
Deacon S. V. TVTiite rises, like the
Phoenix, to display a very sanguine view
of tho outlook "in a letter published else
where. 'While his very confident view of
the future may be qualified with the re
mark that there are elements of uncer
!intv suffipipnt. to discouraze corners in
cither stocks or cereals, there is no doubt
that he correctly summarizes the factors
which constitute the basis of bur assured
prosperity.
It is true that we produce the supplies
of the world; that the threat of a silver
basis cannot be realized at least for some
years to come; that Great Britain and the
United States, notwithstanding the noise
produced by Jingoes and politicians on
both sides ot the ocean, are too sensible to
pet into war over a lot of seals which are
not worth the cost of a week's hostilities,
and that with the balance of trade in our
favor we are bound to receive from
Europe either the gold to pay that bal
ance, or what will be just as valuable to
- - "lis as the gold.
Mr. White discusses somewhat cava
lierly the question why, with our immense
Iwlance of foreign trade, gold is flowing
abroad rather thin in this direction. lie
does not even offer an adequate theory to
explain that phenomenon. But it is true
that, if Europe dors not send us gold, she
must send us our securities to pay the
balance. If we take our own securities, at
our own valuation in discharge of the
balance of trade, the wealth of the coun
try is increased as much, if not more, than
by tiie receipt of the same amount of
gold.
So long as the United States continues
to produce what the world wants, as she
is doing now, her prosperity rests on a
secme basis. There nlay be periods of
depression owing to speculation, unequal
distribution or temporary inflation, but
the total of prosperity is as certain as the
total of productiveness.
IT ST1IX RAGES HERE:
It is reported in the editorial columns of
the Philadelphia Jlecord that the recent
appointments of Ingham and Colesberry
to the United States positions in Philadel
phia conferred "peace and honor" on both
the Republican factions. That journal,
though not the highest authority on Re
publican matters, asserts that the appoint
ments are satisfactory to all sides, and
that they indicate the restoration of a
modus zirendi between the Administra
tion and the Pennsylvania Senators.
This recalls a characteristic of a lawyer
many years ago who has Tecently had a
certain degree of prominence in politics.
After exhausting his stores of logic and
eloquence to get the court to rule one way
lie would maintain his entente cordiale
with the bench by insisting, whichever
way the court might actually rule, that
that ruling was what he had been contend
ing for all along. There is a suspicion of
the same sortof determined satisfaction in
the intimations which thus seem to come
from the Pennsylvania Senators that they
are now entirely restored to harmony with
the President Whether that claim is
well-founded or not, it is necessary to ob
serve that the cruel war continues to rage
over th'c Western Pennsylvania offices.
J-VIIE SIGNS OF SPKISG.
There are signs of Spring elsewhere
than in the skies and the soggy, green
spotted fields. One of the sure symptoms
of departing winter is found in the bustle
and pvi'h noticeable in all sections of the
city given over to trade and toil. The big
windows of the mercantile marts are be
ing dressed in lighter and prettier garb.
Brighter colors now catch the eyes of
greater and gaver throngs. All this
means that the Spring Trade days are
here a sure sign that gentle Spring is not
afar off.
And the Spring signs observable on all
the business thoroughfares this season are
more numerous than heretofore, which is
a very healthy sign. It shows that the
city's mercantile men have confidence in
the present and are not at all nervous as
to the future. In the improvements, en
largements, elaborate and early displays
can be seen that reliance on the purchas
ing masses which the people appreciate
a sure sign of a busy Spring season, with
an increased volume all along the line.
Such Spring signs as these are encourag
ing. And the beauty of it is they never
fail.
a cse of falsi: KCOKOSir.
According to the report of the Foreign
Affairs Committee to the House, the re
forms in the line of consolidating foreign
missions have been confined to placing
our relations with Denmark, Sweden and
Norway under one mission, Colombia and
Ecuador under another, and Peru and
Bolivia under a third. This is well
enough as regards the Ministers Pleni
potentiary. But with regard to. the ap
propriations for the. consulates, on which
the summary of the report is silent, it Is
ilinVult to e? how the reduction in the
appropriat'on formerly reported can be
effected without damaging the efficiency
of the consular service. To do that at
this juncture would be a decided case of
fa!w economy.
The impiovement of the consular de
partment to aid in the extension of our
foreign commerce should be Ihe especial
aim of all s-tatesmen at present For
every dollar wisely spent in that direction
a score will come back to this country.
Secretary Blaine's policy has been strongly
directed to that end; and any legislator
who -would hamper that effort advertises
ftjjfofijL;
himself as"govemed by purblind partisan,
ship.
-If the Democratic Bouse can find no
better place to reduce appropriations than
with regard to the agencies that are to aid
in the development of American trade, it
will have to confess tht it has no mora
real economy than its predecessor.
THE SUTTER ISSUE.
Two esteemed contributors furnish com
munications on the sliver question, which
appear elsewhere. One, after ref errlnjj in
glowing terms to the obligations of citi
zens, declares that all the property of citi
zens is pledged to meet the obligations of
the United States. Therefore, as there
are two billions of circulating medium in
the country, as against sixty billions of
property, the volume of the circulation
might be doubled without difficulty.
This argument would apply just as well
to the issue of the same amount of United
States notes or paper without any silver
to back them. As such an issue would re
lieve the Government of paying 70 per
cent of the face of the issue for metal as a
basis of the circulation, economy and con
venience would suggest that the two bil
lions extra circulation should take tho
form of simple promises to pay. But
when that was done it would be found, as
it has been found before, that the vital
question would be: What can the note
holder get at the Treasury in redemption
of this promise to pay? So long as it is an
assured fact that the note-holder can get
in exchange for it a certain amount of
gold or silver it will have the exact value
of that gold or silver. Whenever a doubt
arises as to his getting that the depre
ciation in the note or the premium on the
metal will express the public estimate of
those chances. But as regards the ques
tion whether gold or silver shall be the
basis of our circulating medium, our cor
respondent's faith in the resources of the
country has no decided bearing on the
issue.
What we have said, however, leads up
to the issues raised by the correspondent
who puts his arguments in the form of
questions. In his first query why a sil
ver dollar, which will purchase the mate
rial for 1,400 cents, should be called "a
70-cent dollar" he brings out the real
status of the question. The copper pur
chased by a dollar will make 1,400 cents.
If those cents were an unlimited legal
tender, with free coinage, what would be
the result? As every one could pay 514
worth of debt with a dollar's worth of
copper, the dollar then would be one
fourteenth of the present dollar. The
silver dollar is in much the same position,
with the distinction that it is kept up to
the present standard by being exchange
able at the Treasury for gold. The term
"70-cent dollar" simply means that if the
silver dollar were forced to rest exclu
sively on its bullion value as it must
under free coinage it would place the
standard of value at a level approxi
mately represented by 70 per cent of the
present standard.
The oppositeness of asking what the
"calamity" to our industries would bs if
all the gold and silver coined or uncoined
in the world, amounting to an estimated
125 per capita, were dumped on this
country does not appear. No one with
any comprehension of the subject expects
even a remote approximation of such an
event. As a matter of abstract specula
tion it may be pertinent to say that if this
country had a stock of 125 per capita of
gold and silver in circulation, and could
not get rid of it, gold and silver would be
come a drug. The general purport of our
correspondent's inquiries can be answered
by saying that the evils of a. transition to
the silver basis would be, first, a tempo
rary stringency caused by sending gold out
of circulation by a premium, thus de
stroying one-half of our present circula
tion; second, by the readjustment of values
and wages to the new standard, in which
wages, as testified by the experience of
the world, would rise less rapidly than the
commodities which they must buy; and,
finally, by the fact that the lowering
of the standard would amount to a
scaling of debts, in which last respect
the term of the "dishonesty" of the silver
dollar becomes applicable. The effect on
industries of the decreased volume of
money, by sending gold to a premium,
would be temporarily embarrassing, and
the effect of the subsequent increase of
the silver coinage, after the displacement
of gold was made up, would probably pro
duce inflation. A dollar may be defined
either as to its metallurgical or legal qual
ities. It is sufficient for the present dis
cussion to say that the dollar is the unit
and measure of values In this country,
and the present issue is whether that unit
shall consist of a certain amount of silver
having one value, or a certain amount of
gold having another.
The Dispatch has frequently declared
itself in favor of seeking the restoration of
silver on a basis which shall secure its cir
culation side by side with gold, and which
shall not disturb the present standard.
But as the issue now presented practically
implies silver monometallism and a uni
versal scaling of debts, the proposition is
one which every man with a clear under
standing of what is to be obtained by bi
metallism must regret.
HARRISON'S ALLEGED TVITHDR ATV Al.
The interesting information is specially
telegraphed from Washington to the
New York Commercial Adtertiser that
President Harrison is not a candidate for
re-nomination. When the reader catches
his breath after this assertion, the blow is
made more gentle by the mitigation that
it is not asserted that the President would
absolutely refuse a nomination, if it were
offered with practical unanimity, and
with a reasonable assurance of his elec
tion. This qualification permits the Republi
can party to abstain from a panic for fear
that it will be left without a candidate.
Large numbers of candidates in past times
have indicated their desire that the nom
ination should be unanimous, and subse
quently taken it as they could get it
Indeed, if we mistake not, it has once be
fore been announced on behalf of the
President that he will not be a candidate
unless the mass of Republicans indicate
that they consider it necessary for him to
sacrifice himself once more.
Nevertheless, neither since the first nolo
episeopari, nor at the time of the second
one, has there been any observable cessa
tion of the very positive intimations to the
Federal office-holders that they must not
forget to be unanimous.
TnE factional strife anions the Ohio Re
publicans may be lively, but it can bo easily
exaggerated beyond its true value. One sldo
or the other may win the control of a politi
cal committee; but, when it comes to an Im
pottant national or State election, the Ohio
Republicans ha vo a habit of generally turn
ing in" and seeing the best man selected for
the place. If the Ohio Democrats bad done
as well, tho era of Thurman and Groesbeck
would not have been succeeded by that of
Payne and Brice.
It seems that Palacio, in Venezuela, is
determined to go the way of B&lmaccda and
Fonseca. Also a good many Venezuelans' are
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equally determine that" be shall complete
the parallel.
Fbom "the reports it is to be-concluded
that the Standard Oil Trust has been con.
verted and completely transformed into the
Standard Oil Trust.
The falling off in the exportation of
wheat, and the consequent deellne of. that
staple within the past week, demonstrate"
that issuers of those "Hold-your-wheat"
circulars did not know-quite all that the
future contained. Their Influence over
farmers who followed their advice will not
bo so great as it might have been if they had.
known enough to hold their peace
After this perhaps we had better have
ftn international law that no diplomatic dis
putes shall come up in the year when either
Government is going to hold a general
election.
Some cynic suggests that bathfulneis and
modesty have been keeping Quayaway from
the Senate. No one would have suspected it.
It is amusing to find that the articles of
the New York Commercial Advertiser which
Secretary Elkins thinks are "untruthful and
scurrilous" concerning him are asserted by
tbat journal to have been merely light and
airy wit. Our esteemed cotemporary
should avoid misapprehension in future by
adopting the course of A. Ward,.and label
ing its Jokes.
La Grippe may justly cover a multitude
of sinfulness, but, when it begins to figure
along with "emotional Insanity" as a de
fense for murder, the line should be drawn.
"Xew Yobk is going to have a perma
nent circus." Sew York Recorder. Has Tam
many taken out a perpetual charter?
Oitly a mere trifle of $350,000 is all that
stands in the road of the construction of the
Xew York Giant monument. Tho attention
of the inhabitants of the metropolis has
been called to this, and the money will be
raised even If theyhave to contribute some
of it themselves.
Is it possible that the legal proceedings
that have been Instituted against the Coal
Trust, of which we read, are responsible lor
the recent increase in anthracite prices?
Eussia, it is said, will aid in protecting
the seals. If that British lion doesn't look
out his tail will get sore in spots.
If China's anger at the anti-Chinese
legislation of the United States culminates
in tho withdrawal of all its representatives
in Pittsburg there will be nothing for Pitts
burg to do but to make the best of it, and
try to get along with some other kind of
laundrymen.
Keaelt, there is ground in that jitri
eThonnewr business for a suit against the
Duke of Morny by Mr. Ward McAllister for
infringement of his exclusive privileges.
There appears to be nothing between
Blair and the White noise, save a yawning
and impassable chasm.
The Weather Bureau's "severe storms"
scheduled for yesterday must have been
warned off by the political disturbances rag
ing in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
This is about the time when the Spring
poet is watching the thermometer'and pre
paring to spring.
Whek Brice remarks that David B.
Hill is not available for the Presidency that
professional candidate might as well rest
assured that the rainbow of hope is nowhere
visible in his horizon.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Herbert Spencer has an intense dis
like to eating his meals with or before other
people.
Kx-Ktko MrxAK, of Servia, is in great
request at Parisian weddings to act as wit
ness to the bride.
Oke of the most successful artists in
Paris to-day is Douglas Tilden. California's
deaf mute sculptor.
The Qneen of Greece is the best Royal
needlewoman in Europe; she cuts out and
makes most of her own underclothing.
Isaac S. Dement, the president of the
Chicago Stenographers' Association, has a
record of 360 words a minute, and is said to
bo tho fastest shorthand writer of the day.
The real name of "E. Werner," the Ger
man novelist, translations of whose stories
are so popular In this country, is Elizabeth
Burstenbinder; she is a spinster and lives in
Berlin.
General Iongstheet, according to
the view of a Birmingham reporter, "ap
pears to be in the best of health. His face is
rosy and ruddy, set off by his white side
whiskers. He is a strikingly handsome
man."
The handwriting of Algernon Swinburne,
the poet, is a scrawling schoolboy's hand,
bat his manuscript comes to the printer,
clear, legible and decided, with scarce an
erasure.
Me. Paul do Chailltt, the pioneer
African traveler, was born in Louisiana;
his father was a trader in the French colony
or Gambia, on the West African coast.
Young du Cliaillu went there as a child, and
picked up the language and studied the
birds and beasts.
POISON IN THE AIH.
It Is Generated In the Smoke Which Sur
rounds Manufacturing Towns.
Sparc Moments.
A now poison has been discovered in the
smoke which surrounds factory towns and
cities, and the danger from breathing this is
not inconsiderable. A part of the smoke that
goes into the air from burning coal is arseni
ous and mixed with carbon. Coal differs in
the amount of impure matter which it
throws off, but it is estimated that one ton
or ordinary coal burns off about 20 to 30
pounds sulphur. This sulphur is trans
formed into 60 pounds of sulphuric acid,
v hich leaves stains upon all marble build
ings and statuary. Along with this sulphuric
acid a great amount of arsenlous acid goes,
and the two breathed into the lungs contin
ually act as a strong poison.
Xoxt to this active poison the soot in the
air makes factory towns unhealthful to live
m. An examination of the amount of soot
which was deposited in London recently
showed that, on an averase, 1,000 tons were
deposited over the city every" ten days. The
amount of carbonaceous and other particles
deposited upon glass houses is a good indi
cation of what the atmosphero contains.
In most cities where factories are located
the glass roofs of houses and the window
panes have to be washed and swept every
few days to keep the soot from blackening
them, when all of this material is floating
around in the air it cannot be wondered at
that weak and poof health are noticeable
among tho inhabitants. Science has yet to
discover means to collect and hold this
smoke and soot as it comees out of the chim
neys. OWLS ADD HAWKS DEFENDED.
Why the Washington Extinction Society
Couldn't Preserve Its Existence,
Washisotox, Fa- Marbh 27. Special
The organization known as the Washington
County Owl and Hawk Extinction Society,
which sprang into existence about two
months ago, lias thrown up the sponge for
lack of runds. The association offered to
pay $1 lor the scalp of every owl or hawk
killed in the county.
For several weeks the destruction of these
birds was carried on merrily, huudreds
being slaughtered. The association has
been steadily opposed by a few authorities
on birds, who claim tbat both owls and
hawks, except a few species, are of leal
benefit to the farmers.
Flirting All Alsng the Ellis.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.3
Mr. Hill is now making eyes at Senator
Palmer, and the old man is flattered to think
that he may be the candidate But David
has flirted with every candidate mentioned
except Cleveland.
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WHEBE WE ARE FAULTY.
t WBITTE5 FOB THE DlgPATCn.
' . "We make a great mistake when we flat
ter ourselves that we are the most progres
sive people on the face of the earth. That is
not true.
I believe most enthusiastically in patriot
ism, and publio spirit, and love of country,
and national pride, and the large language
of the Fourth of July orations. I would have
the American Eagle spread her wings from
the Aurora Borealls to the Southern Cross,
and from the Garden of Eden to the Proces
sion of the Equinoxes. But I wonld have all
the exuberance properly tempered with
truth.
The most pernicious falsehoods which are
dealt In by tbat supreme deceiver, the
Father of Lies, are the falsehoods that we
tell to ourselves. It is one of the vagaries of
human nature that a man can sit down, and
with one-half of his brain deliberately
tell lies to the other half, and the other half
will innocently believe the lies.
It is a particularly bad thing for a man or
a city or a nation to get the habit of exag
gerated and unfounded self-esteem, because
that is the death of development. When
we account ourselves abont as good ae we
can be, we are about as good as we desire to
be, and the consequence is that we are abont
as good as we ever will be. Thorwaldsen
made a statue once which entirely satisfied
him, and he flung down his chisel in despair,
for he knew that he had come to the end of
his art. The most hopeless people in the
whole world are the Pharisees, who con
gratulate themselves that they are so much
better than anybody else, and the political
Pharisees are only a little less objectionable
than the religious.
Not Leading in Theological Thought.
This is a pretty good sort of country,
iand we are, on the whole, very decent peo
ple, and we have a thing or two to be proud
of. Nevertheless, to quote the homely
proverb, he is a wise child who can teach his
grandmother to suck eggs. And we are not
'so wise as that. Our old mother England,
over on her little island, is still a long way
ahead of us in more matters than the detail
of age.
The American delegates to the Congrega
tional Counoil that was held a few months
ago in London, were amazed at the speeches
of their English brethren. They fonnd tbat
theology in this country is JO years behind
the times. Dr. Hunger says that the Ameri
can parsons discovered that the Enzllsh
Congregationalists have so far parted with
Calvinism that they have no interest in it,
and tbat Biblical criticism with them is so
purely a matter of scientific investigation
and common sense, that to denounce it is to
denounce reading and writing and grammar
and history. They found that religious
thinkers in England have left away in the
background that selfish idea of Christianity
which still holds hero that the purpose of
the Christian is to save his own soul, ana
that the Church is a spiritual emigration
society to get men to abandon earth and
paokup their possessions in readiness for
heaven and that ethical Christianity, civic
Christianity, social Christianity, the idea
that wo are all brothers, and that we all
have duties to society and to the State, has
got possession of all hearts.
The most progressive nation to-day, in the
realm of theological thought, is not Amer
ica, but England.
Behind England in Self-Government.
But it wa3 not of theolozy that I was
thinking when I said that we are a back
ward people. I had in mind a more surpris
ing backwardness than that. We are fifty
years behind our English brethren in prac
tical politics.
This, it must be confessed, is an Interest
ing condition of things. The land of the free
and the home of the brave needs to take
lessons of effete- monarchies in the problem
of self-government! In our own particular
speciality we are out-distanced by the sub
jects of the Queen.
This is most apparent in municipal affairs.
The worst governed cities on the face of the
earth are to be fonnd between the Atlantio
and Pacific- oceans, and between the Great
lakes and the Gulf. ,That is, perhaps, a
sweeping statement. ! In 'Africa, in Turkey,
in Eussia, in South America, there may he
conditions, equally disgraceful. But within
the pale of Christendom and decent civiliza
tion, there, is nothing to compare with the
selfishness, the incompetence, the avarice,
the injustice, the corruption of the average
city government.
Dr. Parkhurst said the other day that an
officer in an important business was re
moved recently, because, though innocent,
there had been scandal connected with his
name; and then he compared with that the
condition of things in the largest city of this
country, where, he said, the most damning
thing that could be done agalns"t a consider
able proportion of its public officers would
be to publish the simple, frank and detailed
history of their past lives.
An American Political Blunder.
The best governed cities that are in
habited by English-speaking people are in
England. We are in the Middle Ages com
pared with them. There is as much differ
ence in civilization between Birmingham
and let us get a good way off, say San
Fiancisco, as there is between the English
village of to-day and the English Village of
the time when the baron's house stood at
one end of the main street and the priest's
bouse at the other, with the gibbet and the
btocks between.
All this bad business which is coming to
the light just heie in Allegheny is as noth
ing compared with the other worse business
that will never Bee the light at all. The
whole scheme by which municipal politics
are made a part of national politics is a
blunder from the beginning to tho end. It
is a wonder that with such a fool's way of
providing ourselves with public servahtswe
are as well served as we aie. A man might
as well expect to bo successful In his bus
iness who should permit all his foremen and
skilled workmen to bo turned out every
three or four years because they chanced to
hold with a certain political party. What is
needed in the American city is not a lot of
Republicans or a lot of Democrats, but a
company of efficient officers who shall be
chosen for their efficiency, and dismissed for
inefficiency. The political opinions of the
officers of the city of Pittsburg have no
more to do with their ability to give us a
well-governed city than their opinions about
the Westminster Confession of Faith, or
about the chemical components of the fixed
stars.
Politics and Progress Combined.
The most remarkable piece of pro
gressive work that has been done in munici
pal administration lor 100 years was done a
few weeks ago In that Tory city, London. 1
mean the election to membership in the
County Council of a body of mon who stood
for the votes of the people upon a platform
of municipal control of all local monopolies
and direct tax on land values for public im
provements. The London City Council is the most nota
ble legislative body in municipal politics to
day. They have accounted it as their task
and their responsibility to govern London
In the Interests of all its citizens. They have
provided open spaces, and public gymnasi
ums and baths, and bands of music in tho
park?. They have secured decency in word
and dress infill tho music halls of London.
They have regulated the traffic in alcohol io
poison. They have proceeded against 70,000
users of false weights and measures and 700
fraudulent coal dealers. Thev have pur
chased a 15-acre slum, a great moral swamp
In the midst of London, and have set about
draining it, "and shutting up its open doors
into the inrernal regions.
And now they are setting out again, with
tho encouragement of publio approbation,
to do what a public boi'y ought to do, to seo
that every citizen has light and air and pure
water,, and a decent" place to livoln, and
honest justice. And they are going to take
into their hands, as trustees of the whole
city, the gas monopoly, and the water mo
nopoly, and the street car monopoly. And
the peoplo whoso land increases in value in
proportion to the Improvements made in the
city are going to pay, as they ought'to pay,
for these improvements.
That, it seems to me, is the most encour
aging and beneficial kind of progress that
Can be imagined. And that is taking place.
ot, where it ought to he expected, in this
untry, where we thine we nave a govern-
ant bv the people, of the people, and for
tie people, but in the most progressive
tion of the race in. England.
CLOSE IMITATIONS 07 NATDBE.
Some Marvelous Specimens of Skin for the
World's Fair.
Washikotojt, March 27. One of the most
interesting portions of the Agricultural De
partment's exhibits at the World's Fair
will be the models of plants illustrating the
attacks of the various Insects and diseases
which destroy them. To make these
models, which have to be absolutely true to
nature, two English artists of marvelous
ability have been engaged. They are brother
and sister, and In this work far excel all
others, 'havirig'taken, medals for their work
at the World's Fair held in London in 1831,
and at frequent Intervals since. The models
of fruits are made of wax. and such remark
able skill has been exercised in their manu
facture that it is only by the closest scrutiny
that they are to be told from thereal article.
One specimen, a piece of an apple contain
ing a grub which has eaten his way into its
center, is so perfect that, when compared
with the original, not the slightest differ
ence can be detected. Even when
held to the light It is translucent in the
same spots as in the real apple.
Marvelous dexterity is shown in making the
most delicate leaves In the most perfeot
manner. Avery skillful piece or work by
these artists is a stalk of corn snowing the
ear destroyed by worms. The husk is
stripped back, exposing an ear with the
silkhangingdown. The stalk is a work of
art, but the ear is perfect in itself. The
destruction of a potato vine bv potato bugs
is another very skilfully executed piece of
work: though the bugs are so natural that it
is rather unpleasant.
The department will have many other in
teresting articles on exhibition. A . case of
reels, cocoons and other articles pertaining
to silk culture has been lately received from
Japan, which of itself will form nn interest-ins-
display, as silk culture is being success
fully carried on this country. Quite a num
ber of cases of small animals will also be
placed on exhibition in this, department.
These will be arranged in the most realistic
manner possible, the pose of the animals
and the construction of their dwellings
being closely copied from nature. One case
will cohtain a robin which has caught a bee
on an apple tree. Close by is an English
sparrow, waiting to take the bee from him
as soon as he has a chance. Tho whole is so
realistic that one almost expeots to see the
sparrow dart at the robin and fight for his
breakfast in the case.
EATS FIELD ON SCANDAL,
She Also Has a Few Words to Say Abont
Idle Women.
New York Commercial Advertiser. 1
Miss Kate Field, the talented editress, Is in
town. "No, I did not come up here to meet
the Majestic," she said emphatically to a re
porter vesterday. "Did all you New Yorkers
go to "meet the Majestic? They say there
were over 50 reporters, and I suppose all tho
papers were represented. Isn't it a pity that
not one paper in New York can afford to
leave out this scandal? The demand for
such news must indeed be great But I do
not care to talk about such subjects. Poor
woman is blamed for everything.
"Women are the cause of all these recent
scandals, and I presume yon expect me to
admit, as a woman and a journalist, that it is
the women who cause this immense demand
for scandalous literature. But, really, I sup
pose that the women are as much to blame
as the men.
"You know the old saying, that the devil
runs an employment agency for tho idle.
The women are as useless as the men, if not
more so, and the higher in society we go the
worse It grows A person who is in earnest
is a bore. It is the old. old story of empty
heads, hollow hearts and marriages without
love. The most of these women are not
worth the ink that is spilled on them, much
less blood.
They call Washington the most social
city in the United States. The ladies there
do nothing but make and receive calls. The
Senator's wife receives one day, the Repre
sentative's another, the President's another,
and so on. They waste away their lives
passins bits of pasteboard. It tends speedily
toward softonlnsr of the brain. It is me
chanical, inane, idiotic. What wonder that
a woman sometimes breaks away from such
a routine.
"You ask, 'Is there no cure.' It calls to
my mind the efforts of a friend to 'raise the
drunkard,' as she called reforming him. You
cannot reform the old drunkard. Yon can
cultivate the coming generation. Let us
hope that the future will give us a woman
wno prefers the freedom of a horseback ride
to this inane exchange of cards."
FIRST TO THE FB0NT.
Pennsylvania Troops Reached the Capital
Ahead of All Others.
New York San, 1
Here Is further light on the question as to
the first State troops to reach Washington at
the outbreak of the Civil War:
The Sixth Massachusetts Militia arrived in
Washington on April 19. 1861, and was the first
armed regiment to reacn there at the outbreak of
the Rebellion, thanks to the energy and foresight of
General Benjamin F. Butler, who commenced in
Januarv, ISfil. to pnt his brigade on a war footing.
The Are companies of Pennsylvania troops that
arrived on the 18th were unarmed, and expected to
receive arms and equipments in Washington. Tile
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was In Washington
six days before the New York Seventh reached
there. As to General Wlufleld Scott not feeling se
cure until the New York Seventh arrived. Major
Alexander K. MrCIare says in the Sun of October
4. 1891. that in April, 1861, General Scott was lu his
dotage.
This is signed by Neponset; it is interest
ing. Tho document to which we referred
last week is an extract from tho minutes of
Congress, authenticated by Mr. McPherson,
Clerk of the last House. It is as follows:
IS THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
July 22, 1S91. J
Mr. Campbell submitted the following resolution,
which was read. and. under the operation of the
previous question, agreed to, viz.:
Resolved. That the thanks of the House are dne
and are hereby tendered to the 630 soldiers from
Pennsylvania who passed through the lnob of Bal
timore and reached Washington on the ISth dav of
April last for the defense of the National Capital.
This shows what Congress thought of the
matter. One word more. We didn't say
that Scott didn't feel safe pntll tho Seventh
arrived, but that Wlnthrop's clever news
paper story and Colonel Clark's history of
the regiment gave one the idea that Scott
felt insecure until tbat well-historied regi
ment had come.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Patrick Dlnan, Chicago.
Patrick Dinan, the Chicago livery man,
whose white horse gained much celebrity In con
nection with the Cronln muider case, died yester
day morning. He had been 111 several months.
On thetliy Dr-Cronlu disappeared, Mav 4. 1883,
Dan Coughlln, a detective, told Dlnan that a friend
of his would call lor a horse and bnggr that
night. About 7 O'clock in the evening the friend
walked Into the stable and ordered the rig which
Dau Coughlln had spoken about. The white horse
whs bitched up and the man drove to Dr. Cronin's
ofilce and conveyed the unfortunate man to the
Carlson cottage, where he was murdered. When
the murder of Dr. Cronln was laid at the door of
Dan Coughlln and the other men who are in prison
rrlth him, the white horse played a strong part in
the chain nf evidence whifch convicted them. Af
ter the murder case was solved the horse was
placed on exhibition in a local dime museum and
attracted thousands of sightseers.
Dr. Watfley, Pension Examine; Surgeon.
Dr. "W. L AValfley, Examing Surgeon in
the Pension Office at Washington, died suddenly
Saturday of apoplexy on a Baltimore and Ohio
llatlroad train. He lived on Ills farm In Trlnce
George's connty,Md., and was accustomed to travel
dally to and fro between Washington and his home.
The Coroner gave a certificate of death from
apoplexy. The deceased wasa cousin of Mrs. Gen
eral Sherman and Secretary Blaine, being related
to the Gillespie family. Dr. Walfley was 54 years
of age, and was born in Lancaster, O. He served
through the late war as a surgeon, and at its clogs
resigned and went to Europe, where he spent sev
eral years In. Paris and Berlin, perfecting himself
in the knowledge of medicine. He went to Wash
ington ten years ago.
Mrs. Julia Wllmarth De Haven.
Mrs. Julia Wilmarth De Haven, the wife
of Isaac De Haven, head of the well known Alle
gheny firm of stove minnfacturers, died on Satur
day at the family residence on Allegheny avenue.
Allegheny. Mrs. De Haven was wlaelv known In
both cities, and her death is a loss to a large circle
of friends.
Obituary Notes.
Da. Mobbipon MuSrbnD, formerly editor of the
KansClty Times, died iu that cliy yesterday
evening. '
Geo ROE BnEPFAltD l'AOn, the millionaire
chemist of New York, who was removed to Morris
Plains Insane Asylum last Monday, died there Sat
urday. William Achre, one of Ihe most widely known
businessmen lu Greenville, died yesterday after a
short Illness, lie was a prominent candidate for
the Republican nomination for the Assembly.
Mrs. Ellen Bush, relict of the laie William
Bush, died in Wlimlhgtmii Del.; Saturday night,
aged 87t ears, after a lingering Illness. She leaves
a vast estate, including some of the 11 lies t property
in the city.
Mrs. Madia TnERESA Steex, widow of Isaiah
Stecn and mother of James T. Steen, tlie well
known architect, died on Saturday at the residence
of her sou on Dlthridge street. The funeral will
take place from her late l esldence at 2:30 this after
noon, U. t. SVmonds, vice president of the First N.1-
tionaiBank of Chicago and well known in financial
and lluslness circles in the West, died of ".right's
dlseaw at the St. James Hotel in Jacksonville. FM.
lu been thereabout six weeks, but was not
ered dangerously ill until ten days ago. He
jcara ui gci r
WALL. STREET AFFAIRS.
Deaeon White Tells Whv He Is a Ball
The Country Is Safe.
WRITTEN FOB THX DISPATCH.
The conditions in Wall street recently
have shown one of the principal speculations
among traders to have been the speculation
as to how far somebody else might be shaken
In his nervous system about something
which each Individual knew amounted to
nothing.
Thus when, a few weeks ago, poor old Aus
tria was buying a little gold here and ship
ping it to Vienna, every person knew for
himself that with a surplus reserve of from
15,000,000 to S20, 000,000 in the New York banks
alone, with a new issue monthly of $4,000,000
legal tenders for silver bullion, and above
all, with a balance of trade in our favor of
20,000,000 monthly, that there was no trouble
to arise in money, and tbat if Austria, a gold
consuming country, needed the yellow
metal, that we, a gold producing country,
naturally had it to spare. And yet we ran
about from one to another, and said, with
solemn gravity, where and when is this
thing going to stop.
So, also, everybody knew that a free coin
age bill could not pass the President's veto
if it ever got through the two Houses of
Conaress. And we also had abundant reason
to know that Europeans understood that as
well as we, and yet when the Committee on
Rules assigned a special day for Us consid
eration In the House of Representatives we
fairly gasped, all out of breath, as it were, to
Inquire what we each thought of silver.
Andjustnowwe all know that England,
with her great commerce and her great pos
sessions all exposed, and with no principle
Involved, is not going to war about $500,000
worth of Canadian poaching property.which
will have to take its chance, war or no war,
but very likely for weeks to come some one
will put out, oftener than twice in a while,
some report of naval vessels ordered here
and secret councils held there, and every
time we will rush off to our neighbor to ask
him if he thinks there is going to be a war.
Here let me say, that we have yet to learn
in this country to live up to our own great
ness, which in the order of events we are to
achieve.
We produce gold and silver and grain and
cotton and manufactures which we dis
tribute to all the world. The clearing house
for the world's wealth belongs where the
world's wealth is produced and the commer
cial center of the world is yet to be New
York and not London.
But before that time comes we have got to
have a body of financiers who can look with
complacency upon $5,000,000 gold sent to
Argentine, and $10,000,000 sent to London and
as much more sent to Paris or Berlin, be
cause as the bankers of the world, we are to
pay money where it is due, and to lend
money where It is needed and the security is
good, resting securely in the consciousness
that when our gold has fulfilled Its mission
where It Is most needed, it will come back to
us, with shekels added for its use.
Am I a Dull? Yes; upon things of merit.
There are rotten eggs in our basket, and a
rotten egg will smell badly if you put it in a
Jewelry case, and may even prevent a peiv
son from looking for a diamond by it3 side.
But upon tried things of value, such as the
dividend paying grangers, and the dividend
paying trunk lines and upon the dividend
paying coalers, and upon telegraph and
above all on the immensely prosperous in
dustrials, I am a believer in whom there is
no variableness. S. V. White.
Wall Street, New Yobk, March 26.
IN THE SILTER TUREEN.
Free silver is not quite so free and easy as
It was. CMcagt) Tribune.
Ma. Bland Is slightly disfigured, but be is
still in the silver ring. New York Advertiser.
The walk-over that was predicted for free
silver should advertise for a pair of crutches.
Washington Star.
It doesn't lessen the poignancy of the freo
coinage people being in the tureen that the
tureen is a silver one. Philadelphia Times.
Mr. Blahd's main difficulty seems to have
arisen from the fact that he struck his raatoh
before the train was laid. Phitadelphia In
quirer. Mr. Blaxs, of Missouri, seems to lack the
necessary blandishments. Free coinage
isn't exactly dead yet, but its eyes are sot.
Boston Herald.
TnE prospect is much more encouraging
to the friends of a sonnd currency than it
was before the battle of Thursday night.
Chicago Herald.
Mb. Bland will resume the battle for free
silver this week. He is determined tbat his
heresy shall do all the damage it Can to the
Democratic party. Buffalo Express.
Mb. Bland, though checked, is sanguine,
and he wants it to be distinctly understood
that the Democratic party is behind him
and his free coinage bill. New York Press.
GOOD E0ADS IMF0BTAKT.
To Reap the Greatest Profit There Must
Be Proper Thoroughfares.
Philadelphia Iqnlrer.3
Apple growing has become an important
Industry in Indiana county. Many orchards
of the best varieties of the fruit have been
set out during the past year, and the apples
grown in the county are unsurpassed in
flavor and keeping quality. The same thing
is true of the apples grown in such ptofuslon
in Sullivan and other counties which are
not well adapted to grain growing, and
which are too far from the city markets to
make it easy to find a profitable substitute
for the cereals. In these counties the grow
ing of apples for the late market would with
out doubt prove a paying business.
To reap the Greatest profits there must be
good roads. Wnen the apples are first har
vested prices are low, and the hiehest prices
ai e to be obtained in the early sprinir, before
the Southern vegetables have miulo their
appearance. But this is just the season
when country roads are at their worst. The
experiences nnd losses of the Indiana county
larmers should tir them up to building per
manent roads, as the farmers nf Delaware,
Chestcrand Mon teomery counties have been
doing since the failure of the road bill.
EATEN UP BY THE LAWYEBS.
How an Estate Valued at S30.000 Dwindled
Away in the Churls.
Philadelphia, March 27.-Mrs. George
Hutcbins, of Ancona, Camden county.whose
husband died about a year ago, leaving
property valued at $30,000, was sent to the
almshouse at Blackwood yesterday as a
pauper. Mr. Hutchins was a Spiritualist
and a warm personal friend of Henry George.
He took great interest in the hitter's book,
"Progiess and Poverty,'' and left tho bulk of
his property to Mr. George for the purpose
of disseminating the book,
Mrs. Hutchins Was left adoworand en
gazed counsel to contest the will. The case
was carried from court to court until the en
tire estate was eaten up. The courts de
cided that the will, although unnatural In
its provisions, must stand. At tho last set
tlement it was found that Mr. George would
only receive about $500 of the fortune. That
sum is now in dispute between Mr.iGerirge
and his attorney, against whom Mr. George
has brought spit.
AFIEE FAIR POINTS.
Commissioner Farquhar Sayk He Will HSep
Ills Eyes Opn In Europe.
Habbirbdro, March 27. Special. Execu
tive Commissioner A. B. Farquhar and wife
sailed trom Sew York yesterday for Europe.
Thev will be gone for five or six weeks.
Speaking of thepioposed trip, Mr. Fdrquhnr
suldi "My purpose in going to JCuropo Is as
much to gut ideas for the use and manage
ment ot Pennsylvania's exhibition at the
great Fail-A4lt is for anything else. I feel
nultestiic the Commission is in good shape.
Ihavelaldolit wolk for tlin assistants and
clerks to get through while I am away, nndl
khow I will get good reports froin tlleim We
nre sending out thoUSiiiids of letters and
circulars to business ineii throughout the
State, calling their attention to the Exposi
tion and putting ourselves in the way to act
in conjunction with them in getting up the
exhibits and bringing out the tesouices of
this State."
A Chance for the inventor.
Boston Herakli j
Who Is going to invent some new Wriilkle
that will enable the 2,030,000 bales of sUrpins
cotton to be utilized? Something must be
done with it.
Chicago Plays a New Game.
Chicago inter-Oceanij
Boodle, boodle, who has -the boodieT A
popular game tor an Unlimited number of
player ' ' '
OUfi MAIL POUCH.
Has Unlimited Faith In His Country.
To the Editor of The Dispatch!
Ourgrandsires pledged their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor and raised
the starry flag. In the upper room of the
old Bottler Sonoolhouse in the Valley of
Liberty, where my father, a Know Nothing,
divulged to his lodge certain information be
received in a Kentucky lodge, which caused
a break and sent one wing to Lafayette Hall
on Wood street, to organize the Republican
party, I first Joined the Union League. With
my hand upon the Bible, resting on the col
ors of the Seventy-seventh p. v., i pieageo.
my life, my fortune and my sacred honor in
support of the constitution of the United
States of America. AH that I am, all that I
have, or may ever have, stands pledged in
behalf of
The flag of the free hearts only home,
Br angels hands to valor given.
Whose stars have lit the welkin dome.
And every hue is born of Heaven.
By that lodge room act I indorsed every
greenback that has ever been issued, every
coin, gold or sliver, tbat has ever been
coined in our mints, every United States
bond, wherever it may be, and every silver
certificate we have thus far Issued or may
ever issue. I believe that every dollar's
worth of property, real and personal, in the
United States'is virtually pledged in the
same general principle, and that inasmuch
as we have but $3,000,000,000 of money and
$60,000,000,000 or property, we should not hes
itate to coin at least $2,000 000,000 more and is
sue certificates thereon. We would even then
have 1,500 per cent margin as security on the
back of notes and as a Government have
possession of the coin.
The amount of monev in the United States
at present is about $2 000,000,000. The popu
lation Is about 60,000,000. The valne of prop
erty, real andpersonsl. is about $60,000,000,030.
The coining of $3,000,000 of silver per month
seems like a good deal of monev: It makes
$36,000,000 per year, but that is 'but 60 cents
per capita (an Increase of 5 cents per month
for each of our people). I have observed
since within a short time after specie
payments were resumed some vears ago,
tnat gold was a very objectionable money
everybodv got rid or the gold piece as soon
as possible. Have seen thousands of in
stances where folk asked to have paper in
stead of gold coin.
With assets of $58,000,000,000 in excess of all
the several moneys now in use by our people
we can very safely indorse all the silver cer
tificates that will ever he Issued. This will
prooably bring the bullion valne of silver
up, and I will not be at all surprised If it be
comes a difficult matter to make any pay
ment of large amount in gold evenat par, as
it seems quite possible tbat the holder of
gold money may be lauzhed at, and asked
either to furnish paper or stand a discount
on the stuff ha proposes to pavfor thp goods.
Jomr M. Bruce.
Pittsdubo, March 25.
The Authorship of a Famous Ballad.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
W. G. Kanfmann, in the Suxdat Dispatch
of the 20th Inst., gives F. Xicholls Crouch
the credit of writing ''that sweet old bal
lad, Kathleen Mavourneen." But Mr. Kauf
mann is in error on that point, as well as In
ascribing the pathos i or inspiration of it to
any incident in Crouch's life.
In an interview some two or three years
ago with the editor of the Baltimore
Sun, In referring to the song, Mr.
Crouch is reported as making the
following statement: "The words had
been sent to me by Mrs. Crawford
from London, and as I was riding one day in
West England, on the banks of the Tamar,
thinking of the poem, the melody suddenly
came to me. I was so Infatuated with It that
I sang it to a large audience in the assembly
rooms at Plymouth, Devonshire, immedi
ately that I had written it down, and within
a week Its fame had spread."
Mr. K.'s acoount would lead the reader to
suppose that Mr. Crouoh is author of the bal
lad as well as the musio by which it has be
come famous, but In this he is in error as
well as to the time Crouch came to America.
He came to this conntry In 1810, with Max
Mnretzek, who in tbat year came to try his
success with an operatic enterprise,
but after playing in New York and Boston
he failed, and, the company being disband
ed, Crouch went to Maine, where he spent
some seven years in lecturing on music and
directing conoerta. He went to Philadelphia
in 1851, then to Washington CItv. where for
some three or four years from 1858 to 1861
he was organist in St. Matthew's Church.
Thence he went to Richmond, Yn... to lead a
church choir, and when the Rebellion broke
ont went into the rebel army as a member
or the Richmond Grays. He served to the
close of the war, when he went to Bucking
ham Court House, Va., where for a time he
was engaged as a laborer and gardener on a
farm. He finally drifted, as a wreck, to
Baltimore, where he still resides, compara
tively unhonored and unknown almost
forgotten, as is the beautiful mnsio with
which he gave Immortality to "Kathleen
Mavourneen," "Sing to Me, Nora." "Wonld I
Were With Thee,1' "We Parted in Silence"
and "The Widowand Her Child. G.L.E.
NEW BBlQEToa-, Pa., March 27.
Some Silver Questions.
To the Editor of The Dispatch!
You take quite an interest in financial
questions, notably the silver question, hence
I presume to write a teyr lines on this sub
ject, and put the same in the form of ques
tions. First As one silver dollar present stand
ardwill purchase the material for 1,400
cents, where Is the sense in the expression,
'a 70-cent dollar." Do you mean 70 of the
cents out of tbat 1,400?
Second As the entire gold and silver,
coined and uncoined, or the woild dumped
on the soil of the United States, would only
mnko $125 per capita of our population,
where and howwonld the "calamity" come
in following free coinage?
Third An the entire gold and silver out
put of the. United State"", annually, is only
$97,735,000 (or which $25,000,000 goes into the
arts, leaving $72,271,000. or $1 10 per capita)
now could free coinage hnrt our industries?
Fourth What is the general acknowl
edged effect or an increasing volume of
monev on a nation's industries?
Fifth As we hear much about one of onr
dollars being dIshonest,"wlIl yon or some
of your leaders please designate it, so we
can rereafteriefuse it?
Sixth As proper definitions of terms used
in considering economic questions are in
dispensible, will yon orsomeoryourreaders
please define the word "dollai?'f
J. H. Stevexsox.
PittsbuRQ, March 26.
A Great Year for Consecration.
New York Adrertiser.J
Minister Whitelaw Reld does not covet
a chase after the Presidency, but, if urged,
he will endeavor to "consecrate1' himself.
This seems to be a great year for conse
cration. LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS.
"I WISH I was twins," said "Willie.
'Why?'
"I'd send the other half of me to school, and this
hair would go fishing." Harper's Bazar.
The rays of thi sun are again getting
hut.
The buds show at last on the trees.
And the dude could b happy to-day ir tirere
not
For the bags In his pantaloons' knees.
Sew York Press.
Tom IToyes Wonder what's the matter
with Bonder; tic looks as glum a an owl. and yet
IliearhemadetG4.0EX)in Mo. P., last week.
Jim Bullem I know; lie told tne tills morning
that his wife had three dresmakers in tlie house
this week. Puck.
"With downcast eyes and lips devout
She kneels to pray across the aisle;
Yet I, poor sinner, can tint look
And ponder on her charms the while
The sunlight falls tipo'.i her face.
She heeds it not. her irilhd's Intent
On grare responses, and he dreams
Offastlng-dari sans cakes and cteams
She's keepltg Lent.
Jvdqe.
"Do yon know," said Gns de Jay, "I've
Iontmrha'tit?"
"Are you quite sure." responded Mils Pepper
ton, "that It is your heart anu not yourlieadr"
Washington Start
Though I'm a poet ot the spring
before iio editors I !UaIL
Because I've learned A thlnft or two
And send my rhymes to litem by lhall.
t , -.Vrtoitr Herald,
The class in meteorology at the" Univer
sity of Texas was up for examination.
"Has the raeatt temperature fallen offaurlng the
past three centuries?" asked Prof. Snore.
Student I ean't remember anything that hap
pened sd far WCck. I only entered the University
last year.-aEd tftfiM'-
CDEI0US CONDENSATIONS.
A petrified forest has been discovered
in Mendocino county, Cal.
The Druids are stated to have burnt
their human sacrifices in wicker cages.
More gold has been obtainod from
Spanish America than any other part of the
world.
The theaters in Germany take no notice
whatever of Christmas, as pan tomine is not
a favorite among Teutons.
Auctioneers" fees in'England and in the '
United States are paid by the seller. In
France and Holland the purchaser pays
them.
A statistician gives the number of
newspapers in the world at 83,000. Abont
one-sixth of these have the largest circula
tion on earth.
It is almost incredible that the average
production of novels, tales, and other works
of fiction duriDg tho past year was 17 a week,
or about four for every working day of the
year.
The Lamas of Thibet do a large busi
ness in fortune telling. Sometimes thev as
certain the fates with barleycorns: at others
they Dum sheep bones for the same pur.
pose.
There are said to be more than 3 000
prehistoric buildings in Sardinia. They'are
almost all in the fertile districts, and are
built in groups which are separated from
one another by wide and generally barren
places.
Here is something new for people who
keep their carriages. A mirror is attached
to the girdle or the driver of a fashionable
tupont in 8t. Petersburg. This enables the
lady who rides in the phaeton to see all the
following equipages without turning her
head.
The oldest striking clock in England is
one made at Glastonbury Abbey by Peter
Lightfoot, one of the resident monks, in 1323
and removed In Elizabeth's reign from Cantl
erbury to W ells Cathedral. It was exhibited
at the South Kensington Sfnseum, havin"
been lent by the Dean and Chapter of Wells.
Nearly all of the Parisian funerals are
managed by a syndicate of undertakers.
There are ten classes of funerals, six of
which are remnnerative. The first six ranae
in cost from -C4.000 to 320. An eighth class
funeral costs about 1; the ninth, 6s: and the
tenth is free. -The funerals directed by this
company average 673 a week.
Measurement of weight by the "stone"
arose from the old custom farmers had or
weighing wool with a stone. Every farmer
kept a large stone at his farm for this pur
pose. When a dealer came along he bal
anced a plank on the top of a wall, and put
the stone on one end or it and bags of wool
on the other end until the weights were
European ladles are often Invited to
visit the harems of the rich Moors in Mor
occo. Some time ago one of the inmates a
beautiful young girl-fainted at the sight of
one of the lady visitors removing her gloves.
The young lady thought she was removing a
thick skin trom her hand, and the sight
frightened her so much that it was some
timebefore she could regain consciousness.
Sweden Is the most Protestant country,
for out or a population or 4,774,409 only 810 are
Soman Catholics, oris out or every 100,000;
and next to It in this respect is Norway,
whloh Is under the same sovereign and has
only 602 Soman Catholics out or 1,818 853 in
habitants, or 27 out or every 100,000. In both
or these countries the mass or the population
adher to the Lutheran Protestant Church.
On Mount "Washington, in New Hamp
shire, lives a little colony or butterflies that
never descend below 2 000 feet from tho
summit. They are completely isolated from
others of their kind, butterflies beinir found
inanyotherspotlntheirlmmedlatevlcinitv.
It Is supposed tbat the remote ancestors of
this cunou3 race wero stranded on the
mountain at the close of the glacial period.
Specimens of the smallest known spe
cies of hogs are now quartered at the Lon
don Zoological Gardens. They came from
tho southern part of Australia, and are
known a "the pigmy hogs of the Anti
podes." They are welt formed, frisky and
nre about the size of a mnslcrat. They are
real hogs, and are not to he confounded
with guinea pigs, which are a species of
rodent.
The origin of the word cigar is of some
interest, and is not to be found in the or
dinary dictionaries. The word, or course, is
Spanish, and is derived from chrarra, the
Spanish name for erasshopper. When the
Spaniards first Introduced tobacco into
Spain from the Island or Cuba, in the six
teenth century, they cultivated the plant in
their gardens, which, in Spanish, are called
cigarrales.
The Imperial eagle, the largest of
species known, flies to a height from 10,000
feet to 15,000 feet. It Is a native of South
America and its habitat is among the lofty
mountains of that countrv. Its power of
flying to high altitudes is only exceeded by
the condor of tho Andes, which is said to
haveattained the height of six miles, or
within one mile of the greatest height ever
attained by a balloon.
Mr. Thomas S. Pyne has established a
mint at Cabul.whlch has turned out hundreds
of thousands of neatly-coined rupees and
copper pieces: he has erected a faotory,
where the Afghans make from 7.000 to 10,000
cartridges every day: he has trained tne na
tives to make the best rifles and other fire
arms with steam machinery, and he has even
established tailoring and boot and shoe
workshops on the most approved English
system.
One of the most remarkable sales of
old silver ever held was at Edinburgh lately
It included pieces belonging to the late Earl
of Dnnmore and the service of St. Martin's
Abbey in Perthshire. Several pieces were
bousht on commission from Jew York. Tho
highest price ever obtained-for old silver,
$80 nn ounce, was given for an early Italian
double-handled enp and saucer, $120 being ,
the price. The highest price heretofore had
been $50 an ounce
In the northern part of the historic
town of Castine, on the banks or the Baga
dnce river, is a house with a history. It was
built about tlie year 17S1 by John Perkins
and Captain Thatcher Avery.and was ut that
time the most imposinz mansion in that seo
tion. In 1814 the British occupied it as quar
ters for officers of rank, and under the
mantel sheir in the principal room 13 the
name or Lieutenant Henry Bishop, or the
British army, carved in bold letters.
Some genius in Syria, named Mousa
Rhouri, has discovered the secret by which
the silk worm makes silk. He can make the
silk bv machinery, without the aid or the
silkworm. In this way the cost or making
silk can beTednced one-halt. A mannrac
tory is to be started in Georgia soon by a
Syrian colony. To manufacture silk in this
way a larjro tract of land has been secured,
on which to plant mulberries, and the emi
grants expect soon to make their fortunes.
The newly elected Queen of the Paris
Laundresses is Henriette Delabarre. She
was chosen by the universal suffrage of the
profession. She is a young girl, 16 years old,
fair haired and pale, and was one of the be3t
pupils with the Sisters oV St. Vincent de
Paul. Her part is to ride In a triumphal cat
at Mi-Careme through the streets. Tho
Sisters are very much displeased at her elec
tion, and have warned her that the ride may
lead to her perdition, but she will not reject
the honor.
The Norwegian snow and Ice midwinter
is surprising to anyone accustomed to the
English climate. The very snow and ice is
what makes Norway and its customs to par
ticularly interesting to a stranger, or course
the cold is very intense, the thermometer
never rising above rrcezing point for
tnonths, and often standing at zero: but at
the same time the atmosphere is so wonder-
fully dry that the cold is not nearly so no
Iceable ont of doors, and indoors the houses
are kgpt very warm.
There is at the present moment a very
curious building being elected within the
harbor precincts of Hamburg. It is nn Im
mense house, which is being built without
tlie aid of scaffolding. The skeleton, en
tirely or iron, consisting of uprights and
cross-giiders and beams fitted together by
the holt syttem, Is already in position. The
brick wnlls or the house will he bnllt up
from the inside that is to say, the workmen
Will use the skeleton while building tho
outer walls nnd thus save the labor and ex
pense or scaffolding.
In the time or Alfred the Great the
Persians imported into Europe a machine
which presented the first rudiments of a
striking clock. It was brought as a present
to Charlemagne from Abdullah, King or Pet
sla, bv two monks of Jerusalem. In the year
Mn. Among the other presents, says Kjin
Jlart, was a horlogo of brass, wonderfully
constructed by some mecuanlcal artifice, In
which the course of the twelve hours ad
clehysdfam VertebatUr, with as many little
brazen balls, which at the close of each hour
dropped down on a sort of a bell underneath,
and sounded the and of each hour., . ,