aogMatjjgj FVpfT1 W - 4 '? T-V THE PTTTSBUIIG- DPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80, 1892. KaK?2ai ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1846 VoL 47. No. Si Entered at Pittsburg Postoffice November, 1637, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets, News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFirE. ROOM 78, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK. 'where com plete flies orTHE DISPATCH can always be found. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertlcre and friends of THE DISPATCH, while In New York, are also made welcome. THE DISPA TCH is regularly on sale at Brentano,s. I Union Stuart. Sew lork. and 37 Ave def Opera. Parts. Trance, where anyone tolto hat been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. POSTAGE FREE IX TOE U5ITED STATES. DAILT DisrATCH, One Year S 00 Dailt Dispatch. Per Quarter. 2 00 Daily DiSPATcn, One Month W Dailt Dispatch, Including Sunday, lyear.. 10 00 Daily Disrvrcn. lncludlngSunday.3m'ths. 2 50 Daily Disp vrcn, Including Sunday, 1 m'th. 90 Sckday Dispatch, One Year I M Weekly Dispatch, One Year I SJ The Daily DiSPATcn Is dIIvered by carriers at 15 cents per week, or. Including Sundav Edition, at 10 cents per week. Parties, changing their resi dence will please leave new addresi at the buslnes office. In order to lnsnre the uninterrupted Deliv ery of The Dispatch to their homes. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1S92 TWELVE PAGES LET ARBITRATION PROGRESS. The ratification yesterday, by a larjre and unanimous vote of the Senate, of the Berinj? Sea Arbitration Treaty was a wise action and the only logical one left The settlement of this main point of the mat ter at issue will cause universal satisfac tion, except to those jingo-possessed spir its on either side of the Atlantic who seek to make the most of the least international friction. The remaining question as to the methods to be adopted pending the re sults of the arbitration are in a fair way to be settled, and cannot fail to be satis factorily arranged In a few days unless diplomacy go wof ully astray. This treaty should be but the forerunner of a perpetual one to arrange for the arbi tration of any and all matters that may in future cause discussion between America and England. "When such a treaty is signed the spirit of cordiality cannot but grow between the two countries. And with such a bond their united Influence should be a potent example and factor in maintaining the peace of the world. LOCAL P. K. K. IMPROVEMENTS. A published interview "with a Pennsyl vania Railroad official states that the old transfer station at Twenty-sixth street, about which some talk was heard awhile ago as a sort of concentrated produce warehouse, will be used as a local freight station. The intention Is stated to be to use it for freight for the upper part of the city, while that consigned to or received from down-town shippers will be handled at the foot of Liberty street This ought to furnish some relief to Liberty street from the running of freight 1 trains on it It is not all that might be wished for that street, which if relieved of the tracks would by location and width naturally become the Broadway of Pitts burg. But half a loaf is better than no ' bread; and the news that a large share of the railroad freight now hauled over that street will be handled at the upper depot will be accepted as a decided improve ment It is to be regretted that with this news 4 definite Information is not forthcoming ' concerning that long-hoped-for passenger station at Seventh avenue. As to that , much-desired benefit, it seems that Pitts burg must possess its soul in patience for awhile longer. POLITICIANS OF THE EIGHT SORT. Rev. Dr. Rylance, of New York, is quoted as having said in a sermon on the political abuses of the day, "Never bring up your children to be politicians." Of course, what the clercyman advised was that children should not be brought up to be politicians of the class which makes a living by wire-pulling and jobbery. But the expression makes it pertinent to point that the right course is the exact oppo site of what the words signify on their face. The correction of the evils and abuses which threaten our social system lies in bringing our children up to be politicians of the right sort Teach the rising gener ation that the great duty of the citi zen is to take an active part in politics for the benefit of the whole com munity. Let it be the universal sentiment that political power must be exerted only for the common welfare. Let our suc cessors be instructed to readily see through the shams and pretexts by which public affairs are perverted to the profit and privilege of a favored political few, and -let the political instruction of the masses teach that it is as dishonorable to gain wealth or power by the misuse of the tax ing function as it would be to make the same gain by robbing cash drawers. "When the masses are made politicians of that sort the abuses of political rings will be come as impossible as the pursuit of a till tapping enterprise on an open and whole sale basis. Teach our children to be politicians of the class whose politics are founded on a basis of scrupulous and impartial honesty. In the creation of a new breed of politi cians by this means lies the salvation of the Republic A POSSIBLE REVOLUTION. The possibilities of the Russian distress, pointed out in these columns some time ago, are now occupying the attention of agitators. Of course the most immediate result of the famine is disease and death for millions; but back of that, with the recollection that just such a famine pro duced the French Revolution, looms the possibility o'f a popular outbreak in Russia. Stepniak, in the Fortnightly Review, very forcibly points out the extent of the prevailing calamity and its possible consequences. The dis tress is so vast that the utmost efforts for relief cannot be expected to do more than keep the majority of the peasantry alive till the next harvest But the question what that harvest will produce, worked by famine-plagued farmers who have been left destitute of horses and cattle, indi cates how the results may be extended for years. The question of revolution, according to tliis writer, depends on the attitude of the agricultural population. It is not likely that a revolutionist like Stepniak would underestimate the chances of revo lution; but he certainly presents a far from sanguine view of the situation by saying that unless the discontent of the rural population produce an outbreak the towns cannot rise. On the other hand, if there should be extensive peasant upris ings the towns where disaffection has long honeycombed society would become revo lutionary centers, and if the outbreak should come the army, which ,1s the sole reliance of the present regime, might be found to be as much undermined as, the educational institutions and the profes sions. - It Is hardly possible that such an up rising could prevail in Russia without excesses rivaling in horror those of the French Revolution. But if it succeeded, its final results, after the people had learned how to use their freedom, would prove, like'the French Revolution, to be a great advance. The present calamity is used by Stepniak as a forcible indication of the benefits which could be obtained under a free political system which would give the people access to the knowledge needed for better agriculture; the power of associa tion, which would enable them to carry into practice this knowledge; and the public control, which would secure the proper employment of the vast funds which a free government would donbtless subtract from military expenditure and put into productive hands. RECOGNIZING THE SITUATION. The vigorous albeit sometimes rather excited effort of the New York World to carry out its self-appointed task of electing a Democratic President, leads it to recog nize the logic of the situation as pointed out by The Dispatch some months ago. In other words, it perceives that the dead lock between Tammany and the Cleveland Democracy has ruled out Cleveland and Hill alike. As a result of this discovery it turns to Governor Pattison. The World's recognition of Governor Pattison's availability is more Intelligent and forcible,because it does not indulge in any rainbow-chasing about his carrying Pennsylvania for the Presidency. It concedes that this State will vote for the Republican candidate whether Pattison is nominated or not It takes a broader view of eligibility as follows: And yet why sbould It ije required that a candidate shall carry his State? Ought it not be enough that he is a good Democrat and would make a strong candidate before the country and a safe President? With that view of the situation our New York cotemporary rests its boom for our Governor on his strong qualities as an Executive and a candidate. There is cer tainly much force in the argument that a man who went through two hard-fought State campaigns and as many city fights and never made a mistake, who as a re sult of his victories shows an unbroken record of clean and vigorous Executive work, who is free from the factional en tanglements of New York politics, and who is burdened neither by the free-silver taint of the West nor by corporate affilia tions of an Eastern candidate would make a candidate of such strength as the Demo cracy is not likely to find at its disposal elsewhere in .the present year. It may be questioned whether the major ity of the Democracy are ready to emanci pate themselves from the idea that their candidate must be one who has a fighting chance of carrying his own State. Gov ernor Pattison is not a candidate, and the Pennsylvania delegation will go to the Democratic Convention to support Cleve land. But when the convention has per ceived that neither Cleveland nor Hill can be elected they can easily do mnch worse than to unite on a candidate like Pattison, who will reflect honor on their ticket whether he Is elected or not THE CANADIAN DILEMMA. The platform on which Mr. Macdonald presents himself as a candidate.to repre sent -Toronto in the Ontario Legislature will evoke a vote on the question of Canada's annexation to this country. His address contains some forcible truths as to Canada's present commercial condition, and some powerful arguments on behalf of annexation. Thoughtful Canadians are acknowledging the necessity of a political union with this country in increasing num bers. There cannot be a doubt as to the gam which such a movement would bring to Canada. If the Dominion can once make up its mind to ask for union with us, England would be powerless to resist it In fact, England would have very little to lose commercially, and would politically gain by the amputation. The only obsiacle in the way of the Ca nadians,once they have made up their own minds on the matter, would be offered by partisan politicians here fearing the un known quantity which would tend to upset the balance of party organizations. That their objection would be serious can be judged from the manner in which is decided the admission of Territories to Statehood. There is little chance for Canada's union with us until our people asert their rights and refuse to be governed for the benefit of machine politicians. THE JURY SYSTEM'S WEAKNESS, No less than three New York Judges have lately had occasion to express their surprise at the action of juries who, in clear cases of capital crime, have either disagreed, brought in a verdict of insuf ficient degree or acquitted the prisoner al together. Another case, of the same sort appears in Philadelphia, while our own jail is full of murderers who rely, with a confidence that is not entirely un founded on getting off with a term of im prisonment One of the Judges declared on the bench: "Crimes of this sort are growing more numerous daily, and in my judgment the blame must be placed upon jurors who refuse to act upon the evidence and who travel outside of it to find excuses for the crime. The jury box has become a nursery for such crimes." This is strong lan guage, but, aside from the authority with which it is spoken, is it not justified by facts within the observation of every In telligent citizen? It is this weakness of justice that gives the excuse and furnishes the stimulus for lynch law. The resort to lynching Is a non seqtiitur, because the people who must commit the lynching neglect their duty to see that the law is vigorously ad ministered. But when we are confronted on every side with such failures of Justice, it becomes evident that there must be either a vigorous reform of the methods of selecting juries or else the juries will be reformed altogether out of existence. At the presgnt way of going the Jury system Is setting the seal on its own con demnation. If intelligent legal reformers cannot find ways to make it more active and efficient they should address them selves to the task of devising a substitute. A farmer who lived sixty-seven years before committing suicide had naturally accumulated wisdom enough to make him considerate for his survivors by ordering his own coffin. The Interior Department is much more likely to rouse Indian animosity andferocity by restricting the methods in which they shall consume their food than by allowing them to have their rations as they want them and eat meat cooked or raw according to their appetite and fancy. If the Chilean Congress do Indorse tho enormous claims of the Baltimore men, their action will indeed be strong evidence of a desire to maintain cordial relations with us. France most be far indeed from a day of eight hours' work, when It is necessary to pass a bill limiting the employment of fac tory women and children to eleven hours a day. While clerks In Government depart ments have the privilege of thirty days' fur loughs, it is difficult to see why other Gov eminent employes should be discriminated against In the matter. Here as elsewhere sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, too. When a burglar's remains are discov ered in a cellar pirtly eaten away by rats it is not surprising to hear that he had gone to the dogs some time before. Now that belligerence is on all sides acknowledged to be out of place In the Bering Sea matter, arrangements may safely he made for gathering the fleets of all nations at New York - to celebrate the quadro-centenary of America's discovery. A man who dies at an age of 106 years, leaving 150 living descendants, has certainly done his part toward the solution of the immigration problem. Wisconsin has now come to the fore with supposed cases of official boodllng. If there be any State in the Union whose publio officers. Federal and local, .can all snow a clean record for, say, two years past, It sbould be heard from now as a curiosity. A Florida hotel man says that State is going out of favor as a winter resort. Sena tor Quay, at least, continues to prefer it to Washington. Newspaper enterprise Is highly com mendable, hut if the Interviews with two leading Anarchists published by the Figaro be authentic, the conductors of that journal are hardly good citizens In keeping back in formation from the police. Little TJraguay has set an example of farsightedness to penurious England by an appropriation of $240,000 for the World's Fair. That the Standard Oil Company is en tirely contrary to the spirit of the law, even since its re-formation, is undoubted. But that fact does not Justify its victims and opponents in adopting illegal taotlcs to destroy its property. Now that umbrellas and parasols are to be controlled by a trust, there should be on Increased trade in big hats and gum coats. It is impossible to tell just how much credit the Foraker faction should receive for McKinley's self-abnegation in refusing to accept the hypothetical honors thrust upon him in connection with a Presidental can didacy. That sidewalk ordinance would not have been passed so easily had not some of the Councilmon been booked for a walk. The population of France has been on the decrease for some time. It will be still further lessened by the expulsion of Anar chists. But quality is certainly preferable to quantity in this connection. Objections are still raised to electrocu tion as the method of capital punishment in New York. But any system which upholds the law Is better than one which causes its wholesale evasion. Bultj-fighthtg will boom in Mexico Just now, since one of the bull-fighters has met his death In the arena. If anyone be nominated for the Presi dency on the single plank of free coinage be will find it as hard to maintain his bal ance on so narrow a platform as it would be on a greasy pole. ,-The Reading deal continues to grow, and It promises to be a deal bigger than Is healthy for the publio. It is about time that the officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad gave evidence of more knowledge of the when and where of a new station for Pittsburg than the publio is possessed of. POINTS THAT ARE PERSONAL. Ma Gleadowe, British Commissioner on Sealing Claims, will sail for New York from London on the Teutonic to-day. The writer of a successful play is certain ofa fortune. Bronson Howard's royalties and interests are said to be not far from $75,000 a year. Certain citizens of El Paso will give Jay Gould a lot there and the railroad mag nate says he will accept and build a winter residence on it. Queen Regent Christina, of Spain, has received Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, who presented his credentials as British Ambassador. Speeches of the most friendly character were exchanged. M. Ribot, the French statesman, ascribes a large share of his success to thesagacions encouragement he has received from his wife, who was formerly Miss Burch, daugh ter ofa Chicago hanker. John Stuart Mill struggled with Greek verse at nine and Cardinal Newman at five was doep in Ovid, while the younger Pitt went up to the university at 16 with a store oflearning that amazed bis tutors. Colonel Watterson at present is im pressed with three facts that Hill is an adroit politician, Cleveland a clever dreamer and Carlisle a Democrat. This looks as though Carlisle were poaching on Hill's pre serves. Lucy Hooper says that Alexandre Dumas, whose fine collection of paintings is soon to be sold, once told her that "if Provi dence had not made of me an author, I should have liked to become a merchant of bric-a-brac." Henry Miller, probably the largest land-owner In the San Joaquin, Cal., valley, was 40 years or so ago a butcher boy. with scarcely a dollar of his own. He individually controls over a million acres now, and is be lieved to be worth between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. Emperor William must have a rare sense or humor. According to the London World if a guest makes the slightest slip at a court ball the Emperor not only laughs loudly but audibly criticises the unlucky person to the royal staff, who Join in the merriment as in duty bound. AFKAID OF AUEBICAN TBADEBS. Canadians Fressine the Necessity for an Entente With Newfoundland, Ottawa, Out., March 29. A. G. Mann, of Newloundland, and W. A. Munn, of Mon treal, members of the firm of Stewart, Munn & Co., which does a very large trade be tween Canada and Newfoundland, are here for the purpose of pressing upon Premier Abbott the necessity of some entente being arrived with Newfoundland prior to the opening of navigation. They contena that even now Americans are driving Canadian products out of the market and that unless some agreement Is reached before their ships begin to ran again they may as well go out of business so far as Canadian products are concerned. Queensland Lacks Laborers. BEI3BAUE, Queekslasd, Maroh 29. The Governor of Queensland, in opening the Colonial Parliament to-day, announoed that, as sufficient labor was not available to main tain the sugar Industry, a bill would be pro moted extending and regulating the labor of Pacific Islanders and blacks lor a period of ten years. Bough on John Bull. New York Morning Advertiser. We think there will be no fight. There is too much of the Charles Mitchell In the English Government. SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE. Excitement In the Ellis Island Investigation Irregularities in Connection With Voucher Confirmations by the Senata New Oleomargnrlne Law Proposed. -Washington, March 29. The Ellis Island investigation by the Joint Senate and House Committees on Immigration to-day was marked by animation and tartness. There was a spirited controversy between Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the Treas ury Department, and Chairmen Chandler and Stump, of the committees, particularly Between the two first named. Chairman Chandler, in questioning Mr. Nettleton, sought to plaee upon him the responsibility for the policy under which the the depart ment used immigration head money for im provements at Ellis Island. Mr. Nettleton resented this as an attempt toflx on him a responsibility not properly attaching to him and accusing the two Chairmen of hos tility to him. Senator Chandler went so faras to charge Mr. Nettleton with making a false statement, and this charge the Assiscant Secretary resented in language as severe as that used by the Senator. Subsequently Mr. Nettleton withdrew the accusations he had made against the Chairman, and peace and harmony reigned. A still more sensational turn was given the investigation a short time afterward, when Assistant Secretary Nettleton read a letter calling the attention of the Secretary of the Treasury and of the President to the management of the office of Superintendent of Immigration by W. D. Owen. In brief, the letter said that Mr. Owen was Incompetent, thoroughly untrust worthy, guilty of circulating mRlicious slan ders against his superiors, and slipshod in the handltnz of public moneys. There was also aspeolflc allegation that Superintend ent Owen had attempted to secure improper Sayment of a voucher. Superintendent wen explained that there was an irregu larity In connection with the voucher re ferred to, but that he was notresponslble for it. He denied having circulated any slan derouB or untruthful reports about Mr. Net tleton. The bill creating a Board of Begents of Education for the Indian and Oklahoma Territories recentlv introduced into the Senate by Judge Perkins, of Kansas, was drawn by Bev. Dr. Malcolm MacVlcar, Sup erintendent of Education of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The bill has received the highest indorsement from the Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of the Board of Indian Coirmissioners and the Secretary of the Indian Rights Associa tion, as well as from some of the most prom inent religious and secular newspapers in the country. Confirmations by the Senate to-day were as follows: John H. Baker, United States District Judge for the District of In diana. Daniel L. Hlndman, agent for the Indians of the Slsseton Agency, S. D. Mr. Hatch, from the Committee on Ag riculture, to-day reported to the House a bill designed to make oleomargarine manu factured in one State or Territory for ship ment into another State or Territory sub ject to the laws and restrictions of the State or Territory into which it is shipped. Mr. Hatch also reported the Paddock pure food bill. At the conclusion of a conference be tween Speaker Crisp, Mr. McMillin and others, this afternoon, the opinion of Chair man Springer as to the best course to pursue on the tariff bills was again requested, and Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, was designated to confer fully with him and report his views to the Democratic majority of the Ways and Means Committee. At the conclusion of this conference, Chairman Springer, whose physician has all along protested against his design to close the tariff discussion, sent the following letter to the acting Chairman of the Committee: WASHIXGTOX, D. C, March 29, 1392. Hon, Benton McMillin, House of Representatives: Mv Dear Sir I am advised by my physician that the condition of my health Is such that the making of a speech In the House In the near future would probably cause a. relapse which might result fatally In my present exhausted condition. I must, therefore, abandon the Idea of closing the debate on the bill "To place wool on the free list and rednce the duty on woolen goods." This and the other bills should be passed and sent to the Senate at as early a dav as possible. I hope to be able to appear in the House on Monday next, and moTe the passage of the free wool bill above men tioned. I am faithfully vonr friend, William M. Springer. This letter will be spread before the Demo cratic members of the Ways and Means Committee to-morrow by Mr. McMillin. and there is no doubt the programme to-day sub stantially agreed upon will be adopted sub ject only to concurrence by the Democratic majority of the House. 'It is likelv that in view of Chairman Springer's condition. Representative MoMillin, who has had en tire charge of the tariff bills in the House, will make the closing speech In advocacy of the bill. The recent and now famous trip of a party of Congressmen to the mountain town of West Liberty, Ky., for the purpose of officially witnessing the burial of the late Representative Kendall will cost the Gov ernment $2,185 56. The bills nsiendered to the Committee on Accounts foot up that sum. The items are as follows: Joseph Steiner, professional nurse, three days, $30; George M. Bond, for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, eighteen persons from Wash ington to Morehead, Kv and return, at $28 each,$520 20; ticket for corpse.$U 45: luncbes, $9; meals on dining car, $18: special train from Huntington to Morehead, $160; special car AusteTlltz. $13; commissary "npplies furnished by Pullman Company. $173 9i; W, M. Kobinson, hotel at West Liberty, Ky., for fifteen meals and lodging, also lunches and "miscellaneous items," $45; lodging and meals for William Phillips, $5; E. G. East man, for carriages and hearse across conn trr, $314; J. William Lee, undertaker, casket, $350: lining, extension handles and silver en graved plate, $100; copper metall'o Uning,$10: hearse, $7: sundry other expenses of under taker, $183; total, $2,186 53. During the recent proceedings of the Senate in executive session, the question came up whether the Senate has power to expel one or more of its members for violat ing the rules and regulations governing executive sessions. Senator Pugh, as a mem ber of the Judiciary Committee, took the ground that the Senate has the power to pass upon the qualifications of the members and punish them for any violation of the rules. The question was put to him whether the Senate had the power to deprive a State of Its full representation in that body, and the answer was that the House and Senate have the rlzht to sav whether their members are duly elected, and also whether they conform to. the rules and regulations in accordance with the oath they subscribe to when they are sworn in. Senator Pugh argued at con siderable length in favor of the expulsion of anv Senator or employe who was convicted of revealing the seorets of the executive sessions. Several other Senators, whose opinions were sought on this subject, agree with Senator Pugh that there is an unwrit ten law to the effect that any Senator who is found guilty of betraying the secrets of the executive session is subject to expul sion. There is not a case on record where a Senator was punished to this extent for an offense of the kind mentioned, and there is no Immediate prospect of setting a prece dent in that direction. There are so many new Senators In the body that Senator Sher man and some of his followers thought the fresh men ought to he taught a severe les son with regard to executive sessions. FB0M HEW Y0BK TO 'FBISCO AFOOT. A Scientific Scholar to Make a Long Trip With Englishmen. New York, March 29. Dr. Emil Doon, who for several years lived In London and cor responded for a number of scientific Ger man and Austrian periodicals, is contem plating a walking tour this spring, from New York to San Francisco. He will make this Journey in the Interest of science, and will publish his experiences In book form. He expects to make the Jour ney in ISO days, and will have as his compan ions three young Englishmen, who will reach here trom London next week. Dr. Doon has been in New York since October, engaged in studying civil and political con ditions in America. What They Are There For. Philadelphia Record. "We are not in the Council forour health?" said a Chicago Alderman. Clearly not. It was wealth, not health. This Is a Tory Strange Country. Detroit Free Press.J Strange country this. Kansas is trying to exterminate the wolf, yet the tiger continues to flourish in New York. When the People Are Educated, New York Recorder. J Dr. Rylance is right. Our Government Is what the people make It. When shall we bare the reformt THE DI8APPEAEIHQ GUH A SUCCESS. Its Great Mass Loaded ana Fired Withont the Least Difficulty. Sandy Hook, Maroh 29. The new disap pearing, gun carriage which has been in position at the Proving Grounds since November was to-day put through proving test. The' tests were conducted before General J. M. Scofleld and the members of the United States Ordnance Board and a number of Congressmen. ' The carriage was tested by its owner early In December and a defect was found In its working. This was repaired and the owner's test proved to be satisfactory. The carriage was then turned over to the Government and to-day's testa were intended to try its powers and work ings before i ecommending its acceptance by the Government. The machine Is a triumph for American skill and genius, and is the first carriage of its kind that has been successful. A large number of tests have been made by England, Germany, France and Russia to find Just such a carriage as this, but all have been un successful. The test proper began at 3 o'clock, the gun being mounted on the para pet of an old fortification with her muzzle turned toward the lightship. When prepared to load ho part of gun could be seen from the beach in front of the parapet but the moment the loading was completed the machinery was set at work and hi an Instant the big gun, weighing 67,000 pounds was raised above the wall. The ele vation for fire was eight feet from load position. The gnn was fired with an electric primer and the recoil was easy. The time elapsing from the completion of load Sosition to its recovery alter reaching the re position and dropping back was less than half a minute, and it is estimated that the gun could be hoisted, fired and lowered to its original position in less than 12 seconds. The gun nsed to-day was one of the new 10-inch steel rifles, and the projectile nsed weighed 575 pounds. It was fired with a re duced charge. The explosion shattered most of the windows on Hook. The carriage was designed by H. H. Spiller, one of the designers of the Terror, and was built under his dlreetion by the South Boston Iron Works. Its operation is automatic. Its weight complete is 55 tons. Its main principle is compressed air, which laises and lowers the gun and aots as a cush ion for the recoil and is used to load the piece. It force varies from 325, when the gun is at Are, to 1,000 at the recoil. LIGHTNING MARRIAGE RECORD. A Young Man Wedded and Divorced In a Day Merely for Money. Topeka, Kax, March 29. Special. Mar ried and divorced the same day is what the records in the clerk's office in this city show was accomplished by a young financier of Napoleonic talents. His experience was had In 1883, but it was only brought to light to-day through the efforts of Miss Etta Bead, tde leading lady in the Corse Peyton Comedy Company. She went to the clerk of the District Court and said a friend of hers, an actress, had recently married an opera singer In New York, whose real name was Svlvester Smith. Smith told his wife he had been married and divorced in Topeka on the same day. Suspicion was aroused, and Miss Reed had been requested br her friend to investigate. The recoids show that Smith was divorced in the District Court here in January, 1883, but no record of his marriage could be found. The suit for divorce had been filed and the divorce granted on the same day. There was a fraternal order here in the 70's known as the Marriage Aid Association. It was formed to aid unmarried people to save money, which was paid back to them on their wedding day. Shares were $10 each, and members were limited to three shares each. On his or her wedding day each was entitled to draw, for each share held, 50 cents a day from the time the share was purchased. The money was raised by assessments levied on the members. Smith had throe shares, purohased in 1830. He kept his dues paid up, as he hoped to draw a large sum when he took the last step. He was engaged to a young lady at Garden City, but she went back on him at the crit ical time, and he came to Topeka. Shortly afterward he learned that the association.ot which he was a member, was about to go under, and he was in danger of losing his money. The only way to save It was to marry, so he hunted up a woman who agreed to share the bounty and they were married. He gave her $1C0 to get the divorce, and paid the costs. The whole proceeding of filing the petition and setting the divorce was attended to in a few hours. He drew over $1,200 from the as sociation, and after all his marriage ex penses had $1,000 left. TEE DAMAGE QUESTION. Soma Very Interesting Figures on the Far Seal Business. New York Tribune. Washington, March 29 Officials who are Informed on the subject estimate the seal catch of the Canadian poachers in Bering Sea last season at 28,000 skins. This is exclusive of the number of seals killed and not captured and the pups who starved to death on the islands because of the slaughter of their mothers at sea. The catch during 1390 was slightly less than in 1891 and In 18S9 was less than In 1890. The fact that the catch in 1891, when sealing In Bering Sea was wholly prohibited, was larger than in 1890, when it was only partially restricted, is ex plained by the fact that there were many more vessels engaged In sealing in 1891 than in the preceding year. These figures are interesting as tending to indicate the amount of damages the United States would be required to pay in case this Government agrees to Lord Salisbury's proposition for a modns Vivendi, with an indemnity liability in the future contingency that the arbitiators decide against the United States on the question of its Jurisdic tional rights in Bering Sea. On the other .hand, if Lord Salisbury's S reposition Is adopted and the arbitrators ecide against the contention of Great Britain, that Goverement will be liable for the claims of the North American Commer cial Company against the United States for non-performance of contract, etc. By this contract the catch wns limited to 60,000 skins the first year and 100,000 each subsequent year.. Under the terms of the modus Vivendi the company was restricted to 7,500 skins. OXLAHOMA AGAIN HAS A BUSH. Baser Would-Be Settlers Gathering in Long Files, Beady for an Opening. KiNoiSHBR,OBX.,March29. Special. Gov. Seay was here yesterday arranging for sur veyors to go the various comity seats in the new Territory. These are to be laid out in lots, blocks, streets and alleys. The rush continues here. Every train is crowded. People began forming in line at the land office dopr ou Friday night. Yesterday the line was increasod to 53. The wind blew clouds of dust all day, but the men In line sent out for goggles and, thus protected, re tained their places. Food was carried to them by friends, and they declared their in tention oi remaining tui tne iana was opened to entry. A special from El Reno says: The situation in El Reno is ohanged only by an increase in the excitement pending the opening of the new lands. Every manner of man Is here, from the gambler from Deadwood to the capitalist from the Eastern States. Just now the waiting crowd is undecided as to the future. It is said that a telegram has been received from Washington saying that the country will be opened on April 10. It Onght to Be Copyrighted. Washington Stir. Some political orator should get In ahead of his cotemporarles and copyright the re mark that we are on the eve of a great strug gle. The Came or William's Ailment. Washington Post. Perhaps the Kaiser's sore ear was caused by the harsh grating of the remarks of his critics. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. General Kostamin Von Alvexsleben hasjust died In Berlin at the age of 83. Prince de chijiay. Minister of Foreign Af fairs, who had been 111 for some time past, died yesterday at Brussels. Hon. Charles Yousq, Judge probate, died yesterday at the age or 80 years at Cbarlottetown, R. E. His death was due to grip. Philip St. Pierre, one of the best known engineers on the Hudson river, is dead In the C5th year of his age. He was born In Canada. He was the engineer of the Daulel Drew for 20 years. Mbs. Marian Foster Millen. wife of C. S. Mellen, the future general manager or the New YorksndNew England Railway, while vlsltlna her sister, Mrs. Julia M. Hanaford, died Monday nl St. Paul. Chevalier Dominico Tooetti. the artist, died at his home in San Francisco Monday aged 86. He was born In Borne and did a great deal of noted work there, especially in connection with the Catholic Church., Daniel Lillt Tailikr died at Waterdown, Ont.. yesterday at the age or 108 years. He was a native of Ireland. He had full possession of his faculties up to the time of his death, and had used rum and tobacco all his life. IN SOCIAL CIRCLES. Clan- HcPherson Listens to the Strains of Bagpipes and Applands the Sword Dance An Evening of Music Some Lenten Diversions. A jolly time was spent at Masonic Hall, Allegheny, last night. It was the third an nual concert and assembly of Clan McPhcr son No. 59, and there was a goodly gathering of the clans to participate in the amuse ments of the evening. The exercises opened with a discourse on Scottish bag pipes, which was evidently much enjoyed by the enthusiastic Scots present. The rest of the programme consisted of songs, instru mental musio and several characteristic dances. Among them was a Highland fling by Mr.G. Urqubart and the "Ghillie Callum" or sword dance by Mr. T. McEwan. Others who contributed to the evening's entertain ment were Prof. Weeden, Mr. T. J. Smith, Miss Murray, Miss Tillie Mcintosh, Miss Brookie, Mr. McDowell and others. The en tertainment was most enjoyable, as well as being novel. It was characteristically Scotch, of coarse, and the breezy smell of the heather seemed to be rampant in the ball. The attendance was very large. Invitations are out for the first annual entertainment of the Literary Circle of the Yonng Men's Hebrew Association, which is to take place to-morrow evening in the Cy cloramu. parlors. When Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote these lines For neTer yet did heaven's sun shine on Or stars discover that phenomenon In any country or in any clime Two maids so bound by ties of mind and heart They did not feel the heavy weight of time In weeks of scenes wherein no man took part . she didn't know anything about the year 1892, but was speaking entirely for the tlme3 In which she writes. Nowadays the more fashionable a woman is the less she has to do with men. The dove funotions are driv ing everything else to the wall, and for one danoing party you can count dozens of afternoon teas, breakfasts and luncheons. Either the American man is not a success socially or he does not try to he, or on general principles be is no 1 oncer a diversion, excepting as a possible husband or as the business end of the household. More and more are the evening hours being encroached on by the women, and the men are being left out in the cold. In New York women's luncheons are becoming things of the past, and 8 o'clock dinners aro being substituted. It seems as though beforo long men will be dethroned entirely so far as social life is concerned, with two possible exceptions in the doning of their dress suits when they marry and when tbey die. A DSLIOHTFUL evening of music was spent at the residence of Mrs. John Arthurs, in Oakland, last night. Aside from the so cial pleasure that was assured the guests by Mrs. Arthurs' peculiar fitness for the duties ofA hostess, there was some good music by Miss May Beeslev, Miss Noe Lewis, Mrs. Mary Scott and Mr. F. J. Bussman. The ladies of the Sharpsburg XT. p. Church gave a pleasant entertainment in the hall or the Y. M. a A. last night. Shake spearian tableaux were the piece de resist ance of the evening. Chancellor W. J. Holland's lecture on "Japan and the Japanese," illustrated by lantern slide0. Is to be given to-morrow evening at the East End Hall of the Y. M. C. A. . A correspondent puts the following supposititious caset Upon the marriage of the elder daughter Should the card accom panying her visiting card (supDoslng this last to be written Mr. and Mrs. Jones), and bearing her maiden name, be Miss Smith or Lottie A. Smith? There- is no social rule re quiring the card of a young woman recently married to bear an accompanying identifi cation. Her old friends know or ought to know who she is without it, and to new acquaintances the Information would have no particular signification. Moreover, she has no longer any right either to the title of Miss Smith or Miss Lottie A. Smith, and as Mrs. Jones only should be known. This refers only to the laws governing the polite world of England and America, which, of course, are the only drawing room ethics that have weight in the United States. Miss Annie M. WHBEN,theaccomplished and youngest daughter of Samuel Whren, proprietor of the Kellyman House ofHolli- daysburg, was married at her father s band dome residence yesterday afternoon to John L. Foster, a young business man of this city. The ceremony was performed by Bev. J. F. Patterson, of Pittsburg. The couple left last evening on an extended tour. Mb Adams will take another "illus tratedjourney" at the Pittsburg Club Thea ter to-morrow evening. His audience will accompany him "In and Out of London." A necktie social was held last evening at the ball of Post 162, G. A. R., under the auspices of Ladies' Auxiliary No. 1, to Union Veteran Legion. The students of King's School of Oratory gave a creditable entertainment last night. Besides a nnmber of recitations, they ten dered a two-act comedy entitled "Stage Struck." The characters In the comedy were sustained by Miss Nina Milligan, Mr. Lewis Todd, Miss Kathryn M. Carney and Mr. Thomas Sweeney. COSTA BICA 8T0PS 60LD EXPORT. The Coin Has Been Disappearing Too Fast to Salt the People. Saw Jose, Costa Rica, March 29. The Gov ernment has deemed it necessary to resort to extreme measures in order to restore the country to a normal condition. Prominent merchants and financiers have been invited to confer with the President and Cabinet re garding the depreciation in paper money and the disappearance of the country's coin. It was decided that a restrictive law as to the exportation of the latter sbould be passed immediately. The official Organ, La Gaceta, publishes a strenuous request that rumors of alarm should not be heeded or given impulse. It explains the difficulties of the situation by saying that exchange on the United States and "Europe has gone up to the tre mendous premium of 130 and 123 per cent as a consequence of large importation and a scarcity of the principal exportable commodity, viz: coffee. And because of this the temporary resource of exporting the country's coin has been re sorted to, which has caused something of a panic among the country people. BHYNKLED RHTMELETS. "ToUB wife must take more exercise." "But, doctor, what can I do? She refuses to stir." "Give her some money to go shopping with." Harper's Bazar. He was a mighty pugilist, Whom all men saw with fear. Till he became quite deaf and dumb That ended his career. Washington Star. Bagley What ever possessed you to name your parrot "Wine?" Brace oh. I understood that wine was a mocker. Pomona Times. Kabbidge (cigar dealer) Here's some thing new In cigarettes, Mr. PutTer won't you try It? Pnffer What la It? Tobacco? Smith. Gray 4 Co.'s Monthly. Who seems to think as he goes by All men should bend before '1m, And has the supercilious eye Of some high cockalorum? Tottrto not know him? Is It so? Why, then, my friend, you oughter; That man is as most people know An Independent voter. Sew York Press. "1 wonder why it is," said the tramp, "that 1 alius feels most at home In a caliker shirt?"; "I know," replied bis partner. "It's cos It won't wash. Judge. Ctnch What have -you given np for Lent? - Pinch Thirty dollars for my wife's Easter bon net. Puck. "What is the Lenten period kept for?" Was her Interesting question. "Is it for sinners' penitence or Simply a rest for tired digestion?" -Sew York Herald. Practical Father So you want to' marrymy daughter, eh?" Poetloal Lover Yea, sir. I would lie down and die for her! Practical Father H'm! Would yon get up and work for httt Harper's Bamtr. CUEI0DS CONDENSATIONS. The residence of a Jeffersonville (Ind.) man has been burglarized seven times within 15 months. When a cat washes itself and puts its hind leg straight up behind Its ears there) will be rain. An Eskimo village, inhabited by from 50 to 75 natives of the frozen regions, will ba one of the sights at the World's Exposition. A cocoon of a well-fed silk worm will often yield a thread 1,000 yards long, and one has been produced which contained 1,235 yards. The majorit'y oi 'recent calculations of the sun's pace place it at about 10 miles per second, or nearly 3,000 times as fast as an ex press train. A French naturalist has stated that an insect which attacks hop vines can produca 6 000,000 000 young ones during the month or six weeks of its existence. There is a whirlpool in the Santa Fa river, three miles northwest of High Springs, Fla.. into which 1.000 feet of line has been lowered withont finding bottom. Green Mudd was the name given by a dark colored man when he took the stand la the Louisville City court upon the charge of breaking Into his aunt's house. Mudd was fined $20. Among the instrumental resources of the John Hopkins University is a thermom eter valued at $10,000. The graduations on the scale are so fine that a magnifying glass Is required to read them. St Paul's, London, is to have a new clock. The old clock strikes the hour on the old Phelps bell, but the new one will strlko upon Great Paul, which Is nearlvlT tons weight, with a hammer weighing 680 pounds. The new countries are not the only one in which towns expand as with a mushroom, growth. Thus Crewe in England, which in 1831 had a population or 51 onlv. and tea years later could only boast of 203 inhabt tant, all told, now numbers 30,000, who are most all railway employes. Some one has been taking the trouble to reckon up all the advantages of the new fangled labor-savine: appliances for veloci pedes, as described by their enthusiastic in ventors and the conclusion arrived at is that a machine fitted with them all ought to go without any motive power at all. On reading in a Southern newspaper ofa heroic act of a young woman in Mississippi, William Jones, a young business man of Delke, Go., wrote her, exDressing admira tion of her courage. A correspondence lol lowed, together with an interchanje of pho tographs. Last week the young couple were married. A man in Evanston, Wyo., has invented a new style or railroad which he claims ought to transport passengers across the country at the rate of 200 miles an hour as easily as trnins can now be run at 0 miles an hour. The cars are to be run on a single elevated rail placed upon posts and steadied by side rails. Miniature arrow heads cut-out of jasper and camelian are found to this day by Arabs in the desert sands and strung in necklaces for charms. The Etruscans of old nsed to mount similar arrow heads In gold, and one tees them worn even now In scarf pins. Thus is the stone age brought down to the very present time. In Iceland the Protestant religion is the national one, for there is not a single Roman Catholic place of worship on the Island. There are very fewEoman Catholic Hebrews, or Dissenters In the Scandinavian countries,' the percentage of non-Lutherans (Lutheran Ism being the established Scandinavian re ligion) being barely one of the total. The blackbird and thresh are "wander ing souls" whose sins must be expiated on earth, hence they are forced to endure tho rigors or winter. Rooks, jackdaws, bats, hawKs and owls are animated bv lost souls. The wagtail is called the "devips bird'- for no other reason than that it cleverly evaaes the missiles thrown at it. A dead wagtail is a rara avis. On New Tear's Day, at the capital city of Thibet, Lh'asa, there begins a season of festivity. One of the entertainments is called the "Spectacle of the Flying Spirits." The performers stretch an enormously large rope made of hide, all the way from the top lv mo uubiom uijuu jrocaio; men rney fasten grooved blocks of wood to their chests, and sail down the line like so many swallows. Horse chestnuts and potatoes carried in the pocket to keep off rheumatism or for other superstitious purposes are amulets. The-Vtrtues. supposed to be possessed by amber beads are variously familiar. Belief in the supernatural qualities of amber is verv old Indeed. It arose originally from Its peculiar electric quality, from which was derived the word "electricity," electron Be ing the Greek name for amber, A convict made his escape at Brenbam, Tex., a few days ago In a curiou3 manner. With a number of others he was working on a railroad embankment. When none of the guards were looking, the convict laid down in a hollow made by the spades. The gang near him threw dirt over him until he was completely covered. When canrn was reached and the roll called the escape was discovered. He has not been captured. That a knowledge of mythology (as taught to yonng ladies and others) should be common in the Greece of to-day is only natural. You shall find the urchins in the village school at Delphi reciting the lives of heroes and saints, ol Samson and Herakles, of the vlrzin huntress and her who wns greatest among women, in a breath. All are equally real to them, as they might have been to their forebears IS centuries ago. An odd belief is current among the Roman populace that Beatrice Cencl has finally got into heaven. The legend was that when she was executed she went to pur gatory, and that she was to stay there as long as the Borghese family, to whom ths Pope distributed the Conci property, kept ie with profit and enjoyment. The Borgheses are now almost ruined, and so it is believed and reported in Rome that Beatrice's pun ishment is cnuea. One of the latest methods of testing; the academic proficiency of mail clerks has Just been devised in San Francisco. It consists ofa case of 141 pigeon holes, each of which represents a country postofflce. The victim gets a number of cards having written ad dresses on them to represent ordinary let ters. He is then timed with a stop watch in order to ascertain how long It takes him to get all tho cards in their proper pigeon holes. In California alone there are 1,450 minor postofflces, so it may be Imagined that the task is not an easy one. M. Koebele, who has been for the sec ond time searching in Australia and New Zealand for "beneficial insects," has discov ered that Orcus cnalybeus, a steel-blue lady bird, is a most important enemy of the red scale. According to Nature he has found them by the hundred, and has observed tha mature insects eating the scales. The trees were "full of eggs," and the larva wera swarming on all the orange and lemon trees Infested with the red scale. M. Koebele has sent to America a large quantity of the eggs and many of the adult beetles. Curions evidence shows that a cubic Inch of air at sea level contains about 350, 000.000 nfolecules. If the law of regularly diminishing density holds good, a cubic inch of air at the height of 100 miles will contain about 350,000 molecules, and at less than 223 miles only 1 molecule. Opinions differ, how ever, as to the actual height of the atmos phere's upper surface. Prof. Young declares that no definite upper limit can oe stated, while Prof. Forster, of Berlin, contends that a thin air connected with that of tho earth, pervades the whole solar system. Java has thunderstorms on the average 97 days in the year; Sumatra, 86; HinUostan, 55; Borneo, 54; the Gold Coa3t,52: Rio da Janeiro, 51; Italy, 38; West India, 36; South Guinea, 32; Bunos Ayres, Canada and Aus tria, Hi Baden, Wurtemburg and Hungary, 22; Silesia, Bavnria and Belgium, 21; Holland, 18; Saxony and Brandenburg, 17; France,Aus tria and South Russia, 16: Snain and Portu gal, 15; Sweden and Finland, 8; England and the high Swiss mountains, 7; Norway, 4; Cairo, 3. In East Turkestan, as well as In the extreme north, there are almost no thunder storms. The northern limits of tho thunder storms are Cape Ogle, northern part of North America, Iceland, Novnja Semelja and the coast of the Siberian ice sea. How many people who are fond of eggs and eat them daily, ever stop to think what a wonderful thing an egg is. It is one of tbo greatest wonders of nature. What part of egg Is the animal? The clear white part? No. The yolk? No, that is merely food. Break a raw egg, and beside the white and the yolk what do you find? On tho mem brane which covors theyolk you will see a little whitish circle. That is the animal. When nature brings the young animal at an. early period Into tho outer air or water it provides it with means to live. A young alligator, no larger than a tiny lizard, takes to the water the moment it creeps out of tha shell, and begins to devour what it can. 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