jppPMlWpMMre fPj BffjMWWtllffi JW f " 4 THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,, SATURDAY APRIL 9. 189a t X- O TWENTY-FOUR PAGES -rsr- TO- n - And they will be filled -with the best reading to be had. COJIMAXOEK BARBER, Of tlie Monocacy, writes of the mission a ork in China. BRIGHT, FRESH LETTERS On a a ariety of topics interesting to every reader. Here Is an Outlins of To-Morrow's Treat: Iu Fiction A Dash to the Poie, by Herbert D. "Ward. The Heal Thing, by Henry James. In Travel Money of Brazil, by Fannie B. Ward. Italian Fishcrfolk, by Edgar L. Wakeman. In Science Facts About Sonnd, by Prof. TyndaU. Inventors of America by Georgo lies. In Religion ', Talm Sunday by Rev. George Hodgoo Election or the ,w BU.k Pop. In Research The Ocem's Floe by Cvrus C. Adarcs. Patents or Women by Mary Temple Bay-xrd. In Reminiscence Cavalryman Forrest, by Lord Wo'seley. Tailor Fott Sumter, by Mrs. de Tontalne. In Europe Horsemeat in Paris, by Ids M. TarbclL Late Public Qno-tions. Dy W. G. lvaufmann. 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SATURDAY, APRIL 9, JSK TWELVE PAGES Parties who lia changed their residence vlll please lcat o new addres at the busi ness office, in order to insure ilia uninter rupted dcliiery or The Dispatch to Iheir homes. A NEW KEA'O.N TOR OUR CANAL. The framing of a bill for the establish ment of free ports in this country, now under Senatorial discussion, as described in our special telegram from 'Washington, is a matter of highest importance. There is a great deal to be said for the proposal itself, and its accomplishment would have the additional advantage of completely removing any excuse for that fallacial outcry lor "tariff reform." It would tend directly to increase ourforeign trade while providing additional demand for our labor and suffering no foreign production to compete with home industries. Such are the national aspects of the r.ise. There are local feature in it. too Acity wherein a free port was established ' would have an immense incentive added to its inclination to grow. Such require ments as would be necessary to the estab lishment are not possessed by Pittsburg to-day. We have now an inland city en tiicly dependent on railroad facilities, so called, for its commerce. But we mean to remedy tlu state of affairs ere long by the construction of a canal to Lake Eric. With such a waterway there would be no rity in the country better fitted to contain a free port than ours. Our geographical titration being so much nearer to the mar l:etof the world would make us superior to either Chicago or Duluth, which are al ready suggested for the purpose. Our leading manufactures are peculiarly fitted for export, and wc haVc here an aggregation of skilled mechanical labor and inventive genius which is unsurpassed. There arc rer.sons enough already for strenuous efforts to obtain the canal, and this possibility is an additional one to urge us to press on and insist upon its achieve ment A IOOL1SU SI OUT. The revival of the previously fully exnloded story that Secretary Blaine could be induced to reconsider his de clination of the PresMental nomination wrs a foolish performance in whatever liclit it is regarded. The theory on which it is founded an assertion that the Secretary of State was hounded into writing the letter of withdrawal is not complimentary to Sir. Blaine, and is far from furnishing a satisfactory basis for renewing a Presidental boom. ( So long as .Mr. Blaine had not clearly and positively declined tne candidacy The Dispatch decidedly regarded him as the most available man whom the Repub licans could select It was also well known that nothing more than his consent was needed to make his nomination a fore gone conclusion. Under these circum stances the Secretary declined the nomina- Hfje B$a!qj. tion in as unmistakable terms as it was possible to use. That declination, on every theory not discreditable to Mr. Blaine, settled the matter. It is not a compliment to Secretary Blaine to sup pose that he is such a weathercock as would be necessary for him to write .that letter and thus throw away the chances he had at that' time, only to turn around later and reverse his positive determina tion. Of course Mr. Blaine is not put in any suchunfavorablelightbvanyactofhisown. The story was probably a pure invention of the space writers in the absence of any political wire-pulling scheme that could be furthered by it TN DEFENSE OF PROTECTION. The Manufacturer, the recognized and official organ of protection, takes a clear and bold stand in favor of divorcing the protective system from trusts and combi nations, as illustrated in the recent con quests of the Sugar Trust It says : Congress has provided that many millions of revenue heretotore obtained from sugar duties shall lo diverted from the public treasury and be given to the people. The trust, under the shelter given to it by Con gress for a wiso and fair purpose, proposes in turn to divert a portion of this money from the pockets of he people to the pockets of the members of the trtfet. Brethren, we say to you that if tho protective system is to be employed for such purposes as this the game is up. This is sound protectionist doctrine. It could be extended so as to put the case more forcibly. A duty of one-half cent per pound was left on refined sugars in order that a stimulus might be offered to domestic competition which would ensure a more reliable cheapness in refining than if the country was left to rely on the for eign markets. The trust has undertaken to defeat this purpose. It net only fur nishes the opponents of protection with ammunition, but it deliberately sets to work to prevent the object of protection, which has been and must be avowed, wherever and whenever that policy comes before the public to mean increased do mestic competition. The Manufacturer strikes the vital point of the situation in declaring that the friends of protection cannot afford to enter the present campaign without declaring in the most positive manner the opposition between protection for the enlargement of competition in manufactured articles and trusts for the suppression of competi tion. This declaration can be made in the most unmistakable manner by the intro duction of bills to put on the free list all products controlled or monopolized by anv land of combination. NOT DISCOFRAGING. Trade reports for the past week on the whole show a slight improvement. Tak ing into consideration the variable weather that has prevailed, the condition of aUairs cannot be considered discouraging. Sup ply continues to exceed demand in several directions, and the restoration of a bal ance is taking longer than was expected for its accomplishment, But the read justment must take place in the near future. That individual producers, manufactur ers, merchants and their employes are likely to suffer somewhat in the process cannot be denied. But for the nation at large the exces of production over needs is not of necessity a discouraging sign. It involves a decrease in the price of the necessaries of life and eventually a de crease in the hours of labor. Both of these results will be beneficial and point to an improvement of the general social conditions. A cheapening of commodities soon increases a demand for them. A lessening of hours of employment will prevent an overglutting of the market as a reaction, while providing better oppor tunities for mental culture and healthy recreation. It is more than possible that the present crisis may be passed without either of these changes, but there is no doubt that they must be the ultimate pre ventive of a recurrence of such condi tions. EXPENSIVE JUSTICE. A few days ago TnE Dispatcii com mented on the large share of that bequest to Henry George which was consumed in litigation. Although not so bad as at first reported, the fact that of an estate of fG.OOO nearly half disappeared in the legal effort to settle whom it belongs to, fur nishes a commentary on legal methods not by any means flattering to this era of civ ilization. The same subject is presented on a larger scale by the statement of the distribution of tho Tilden estate. This was worth about $7,000,000 at the start. The percentage of shrinkage by the legal methods is not so large as in the smaller bequest an illustration that wealth counted by millions has a better chance under the established order than that counted by thousands. The lawyers' fees, expenses, commissions and incident al expenses, however, foot up 51,091,000 a very neat sum to pay for tho authorita tive settlement of the fact that the de ceased statesman's will was worthless. It can hardly be deemed indicative of an j ideal system of democratic justice when the appeal to the law involves such pluck ings as these. The aspect of a small estate half swallowed up is a graver one than that of a million dollars used in settling up an estate of seven times that sum. But neither are consistent with the theory that justice is open and accessible to everyone. When such percentages as these are de ducted from the properties in litigation a wise man will submit to a great deal of injustice before he has anything to do with the law. It is clear that the theory of justice would place a prompt and unerring de cision of his rights within the reach of every man who applies to the courts for a statement of them. When to the law's de lays and the frequent miscarriages of jus tice are added such illustrations of large sums swallowed up in litigation, the ques tion whether a reality that strays so far from the theory docs not need reform be comes a very vital one. THE DEFENSE OF IXSANITV. The recent appearance in print of an expressed, though perhaps not expert, opinion that Senator Hill is mentally irre sponsible opens up a new branch of the subject of mental alienation. The plea of emotional insanity and various kinds of monomania has been made to do full duty In various criminal trials fGr a generation past The Presidental bee in the bonnet has also been hinted at: but this is the first time that a formal plea of monomania on the subject of the Presidency has been offered in connection w ith the acts of an alleged eminent statesman. It hardly seems that the allegation of an ordinary case of monomania will be a suf ficient defense for the New York Senator. Tho necessity of putting the theory on a broad basis may be met by studying the line of defense foreshadowed in the case of Deeming. He is asserted by his counsel to be ''a moral idiot;" and an equally sweeping incapacity to comprehend the ethics of political con duct will probably be found necessary to cover all of Senator Hill's eccentricities. The man who steals legislatures, holds two offices at once, defies the courts, makes corrupt bargains for political suc cess, and tries to face both ways on the coinage question without understanding either side, calls for as .inclusive a plea of inability to comprehend honesty in poll tics as that proffered In Australia for the criminal's Inability to recognize the moral and statute law against murderous crimes. With this amendment and enlargement of the defense of mental incapacity for Senator Hill, tho public verdict will be merciful. The pertinent reply to the same defense offered in behalf of criminals under the reach of the law is that if the defense is true the lunatics must be shut up in asylums. If Senator Hill's friends will put him under restraint and retire ment the public at large will consent to an acquittal for the present offenses. THOSE GOLD MOnTOlGEi Senator Stewart's explanation of that list of twenty-six mortgages owned by him in which interest and principal are made payable in gold, no matter, what the circulating medium of the United States, seems to exonerate him from the charge of advocating one thing in public and ex acting another In private transactions. But it is by no means without its bearing on the issue, which'that Senator cham pions. The Senator's statement is that the mortgages were the result of sales of property made through a firm of brokers, and that he never saw the documents. That they contain the gold clause, how ever, he admits for the reason that all mortgages on the Pacific coast have con tained that clause since 1863 und?r th "Pacific contract law," by which the gold standard was maintained in California during the war. So far so good. But the sincerity of the Senator's assertions that free coinage will work no injustice as between debtor and- creditor Is not fully established by the reference to this local custom. On the contrary, the existence of this custom furnishes a very pertinent explanation of the peculiarly fortunate position of the millionaire Senators from the Pacific coast In being able to advocate free silver in public while their private c'aims are fully protected by this clause in whatever mortgages they may be so fortunate to possess. They can run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. If they secure free silver coinage their prop erty will rise with the general inflation while their claims under mortgages will not be affected by the diminution of the monetary standard. The Central Pacific, for example, can pay its debt to the Gov ernment, and thus to the people of the United States, in the depreciated cur rency, and the Southern Pacific Company could pay interest and principal on S43, 000,000 of bonds in the same coin; but the millionaires of these corporations can ex act gold, or the premium on it, on all mortgages they hold. If Senator Stewart desires to bring his private attitude fully in accordance with his public professions he can instruct his brokers to surrender the present mort gages and take in their place mortgages payable in lawful money of the United States. "When " he has done that he will stand on an equal footing with other credi tors as regards the chances of a single silver-standard. Parkhurst found that playing catch-as-catch-cau can hardly be regarded as a suc cess. While everything should be done to make a great success of the National En campment of tho G. A. E. at Washington, there is a good deal of justice in tho objec tion to the appropriation of national funds, because the citizens or the capital pledged themselves to raise the necessary monoy when competing for tho honor with other cities. The Wisconsin man who believes he has found gold at the bottom of his well naturally believes that -'All's well that ends well." Later on ho may find that it is a case of -'Much ado about nothing." John Kusselx Y6ukg's appointment to tho fourth vice presidency of the Heading Deal shows a sad falling off in the change ironi successful journalism to the accept ance of office under an illegal combination. But the fall from grace is not a direct ono, as he gave up active journalism moie than ten years ago to become Minister to China. 0"E account states that the President is hunting plover and another that ho is gun ning snips. It is at least certain that ho Is not engaged in sealing, and that he is. look ing for a second term. A 2IEXBEK ot the Canadian House of Commons who urged tho necessity tor rec iprocity with this country was accused of veiled disloyalty and of being nn annex ationist. Canadians owe loyalty first of all to Canada, and the sooner thej-iealize the fact tlie better for their country, ana the better for England, too, for that matter.' IP a competition of fire engines come off, by which tho city shall obtain an englno of the successful manufacturer free of cost, the Atnoskeag "test" will have been of some slight'use after alL ANTOKE who knows the crowded condi tion of the "poets' corner" in Westminster Abbey will acknowledge the jnstice of Dean Bradley's regretful relusal to have a monu ment to Lowell placed there. The Dean's suggestion of a memorial window in the chapter house is the next'best thing and should be adopted. 3rosT people have regarded the Pittsburg Postofflcoas first-class for some time past. Postmaster McKean and the city are to be congratulated on tho Federal recognition of the fact. The recent canards to the effect that Blaine withdrew from the Presidental con test under compulsion would, ir true, havo cast as much disci edit on him for pusillan imity as on Harrison for perversion of power. They are simply symptomatic of tho futile kicking of very dark-horse ofllce seekcrs. It appears that the man who bit himself and snowed other symptoms of rabies is in moio need of Kceley treatment than of Pasteur inoculation. BOYS who attempt to derail railroad trains in order "to see the fnn" are fit sub jects for cabtigation. How they have been permitted to reach an age of 15 years with out being taught the value and sacrcdncss of human life, to say nothing or the rights of property, should be mado the subject of investigation. Srxcn Mexico hat just been luxuriating in a snow storm there is no icason why wo should not have a spell or sleighing weather before long. Meat and Milk Inspector McCutclieon is keeping a sharp lookout for adulterated milk, and is emptying any cans lound to contabi it. This Is all right and proper, but the best way to stop tho offense at once is to prosecute all offenders according to the utmost rigor of the law. When gold is discovered at the bottom ofa'water -well it will bo about time for Kceley to retire from business. In speaking to the farmers at Tarentum Mr. Dalzell made plain tho degree in which agriculture and manufacture depend on ono another. Tho farmers will do well to take to heart his words as to the advantages they n ould gain from a canal between Pittsburg and Lake Erie. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE. Now tbat more than the usual amount of attention has been drawn to the election of the next Legislature because of the Sena torial contest, it is of interest to consider some of the purely political aspects of the situation. I do not mean as to matters pertaining to tho candidates or their merits, bat ns to the unusual conditions of the contest between the tn o leading parties this fall. There is some danger of a loss o? the upper branch of tho Legislature, which is .anoma lous. It comes about through the fact that tho Democrats have a heavy majority of the "hold-over" Senatorships. At present the Senate of Pennsylvania contains 31 Republicans and 19 Democrats, which seems to be a safe enough majority under ordinary circumstances, but which is very delusive this ynr. Of the 23 Senators to be elected this year, 22 are Republicans and S Democrats." The odd number districts elcgt in November, and the outgoing Repub lican Senators are jGcorge Handy Smith, Osbourn, Porter, Grady, Robinson, Mylln, Thompson. Gobin, Harlan, Newell, Packer, Bates, Keefer, Woods, Williamson, Lemon, Bobbins, Shownlter, Upperman, Steel, Mehard and McCreary. The Democrats who retire are Green, Hincs and Sloan. Of those who will sit in the next Senate there are but 9 Republicans and 16 Demo crats. Tho Republican hold-overs are Messrs. Becke'r, Thomas, Penrose, Cronse, Smith (of Lancaster), Crichfleld, Nceb, Flinn and Crawford. The Democrats are Ross, Mnrkley, Henninger, Laubach, Mc Donald, Rapsher, Herring, Rooney, Brown, Monaghan, Lloyd, Meek, Hall, Brant, Dun- lap and Logan. In other words, the Republicans must elect at least 17 members out of the25tobe elected in order to retain n bare majority of one, while the Democrats need elect but ten to have control by tho same slim flgur.. The Democrats are certain to cany the Eleventh and Twenty-first districts, the first named being Berks and the second parts of Luzerne, and Laokawann.o. Ttiey had about 7,500 majority in tho Eleventh for Green in 1390. and 1,2W in the Twenty-flrst for Hines. It is wholly improbable that a Democrat will be elected in the Thirty-seventh district to succeed Sloan, as he was elected by the fl-rlit between Hood and Bond, when they frittered away a normal Republican majority of over 3,000. This loAves the Democrats In control of IS Sena torships and the Republicans with ten. Of the remaining 23 districts, three are de cidedly doubttul and tivo are conditionally so. The doubtful districts are tho Third, Twenty-ninth and Thirty-ninth, and those where thero are Democratic possibili ties are tho First, Seventh, Seven teenth, Thirty-first and Forty-ninth. The Third district is made up of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twentieth wards of Philadelphia, and in 1SS8 Osbourn had a bitter fight for his seat with C. P. Devlin, the Democratic candidate. Os bomn was given tho best of it by the Senate Committee on Elections, which declared ho had 181 majority. Senator Keefer carried his prut of Schuylkili county, which com poses the Twentv-ninth district. -by 148 ma- joritv, while Bobbins, in Westmoreland, which is tho Thirty-ninth district, had but 199 over John Marchand, his Democratio competitor. These thiee districts ate still hichly uncertain in temper even in a Presi dental year. Of the trio theThlid is the most dependable from a Republican stand point. The personnel of the candidates is everything in the other two districts, and a very popular Democrat, aided bv the pecul iarly combative quality of the "Republican leadeis, could easily be elected. What i call the conditionally doubtful districts may tall into line and be as reliably Republican as any others if there are no in ternal differences. The First district is com posed of the First, Second and Twenty-sixth wards of Philadelphia, and it is good for 3,500 Republican majority ordinarily. This year a fight has grown up against George Handy Smith and it Is said a section of the regular party organization will strive to pre vent his eleotion. It is not likely that this will occur, and the plaid-cravatted states man or some other Republican will in all probability be on har.d lor tho First district when the roll call begins. In the Seventh district, also Philadelphian in make-up, thero is more show of fight and greater chances of the opposition amounting to something. This is the district which is at present tcpresented by John C Grady, and it is reported that both Bill Le?ds and ex Boss McManes will endeavor to slaughter him at the polls if he is renominated, as he probably will he. Grady is not popul-ir rfnd is kept in office by slelght-of-hand His majority in 1SS8 was only 879. In the Sev enteenth district, which is Lebanon county, things are more peaceful now than four years ago when General Gobin had only 233 majority over Henry C. Grlttengor, who ran ns an independent Republican. This is well known as a "kicking district" and a row can be started on shorter notice and do more business on less capital than almost any where else In the State. The Thirty-flr&t district has Pcrrr, Mifflin and Juniata as its territory, and gavo Senator Woods S53 ma jority last time. This also is shaky countrv for these three counties onlvgave Boyer298 in 18S9, while Pattison got 427 in 1890. and in these davs ot political uncertainty a chance of3D0 votes in a total or 13 500 is not a task requiring a Heiculcs. Eiio county, wnich is the Forty-ninth district, turned out 833 for McCrearv in 'S3, but Pattison carried it by 7 in "90. I think these fig ures nnd facts Justify the assertion that thoicisnl least an interesting elemontof doubt in regard to the comfoi table control of the Senate. Thoie need he no figuring on paity lines in the House of Representatives for tho Republican majority tnere i3 biir enouch to stand some sqncfizing, being 10 clear over Democrats and Fnsionists at the last session. There is a possibility of an extremely lively time when the conferees meet to se lect the man who will succeed George Huff, of Greensbnrg, as Congiessmau from the Twenty-flrst district. This is a difficult dis trict at best in which to get a nomination, and just now thore are many things at work which will make it more than imially hard to handle. Mr. Huff is ambitious politically. and Intends to go down to the Potomac flats again if It is in the wood. At the same timo he has a hankering for tho next Guberna torial nomination, and ho will be one of thoe who will test the strength of General D. H. Hastings, who at this time has every thing apparently in his own hand'. This double-barreled candidacv may result in less than a single ono would. Two year ago Huff w on only after very potential influences had been brought to bear in his favor. This j ear there will be four candidates afoot, and each of them means to win if he can. Arm stiong has alieady put Heiner in the field; Jefferson will present the name or S. A. Craig, who was the member from this dis trict in the Fifty-flrst Congress; Indiana will settle op a candidate on the 9th instant, which will mean that Huff will have West moreland nlone. In Indiana theie is u stiff contest on between Captain Jfesbit, a well Knnwn old soldier, nnd District Attorney S.M.Jack. Tho veteran soldier is an im portant clement in Indiana county politics, lor there are 1,800 of them there. It is be lieved that theie will be a coalition or Indi ana, Armstrong and Jefferson, and that eittier of tlie two first in tho list will get the plum. The primaries take place to-morrow in Indiana. There was such a bitter fight over the Indiana postofflce that Huff drew on him self the hostility of all theanti-Elkin faction when ho appointed ex-County Chairman Langham to the place. Langham's oppo nent was an old soldier, and that clement will therefore De arrayed azainst Huff thioushout the district. This Indiana postofflce matter lias an odd story back of it in which an Episcopalian dignitary, n Cabinet officer, a Metliodist leader, a high Judicial official, a Congress man nnd a couple of pioiiiineut Democrats am nil concorned. It is not a badstory this, nor a discreditable one, but it shows how strangely politics assimilates all that enters its maw. TnE Indiana county primaries are also interesting, necausoof the contest for nom ination to -the State Senate between M. Clark Watson, a leading lawyer, and Bell, who is the Elkins candidate. Tho two tac tions have each candidates for national del egate, ono member of the Legislature and District Attorney. I Tlie county does not seem to havo taken up thematterof Quay or Dalzell's candidacy and in the event or so doing it would without doubt be strongly for Quay, as both lacttons aro led by hfs Hiends. I am told by a gentleman whose own standing and political position, together with his intimacy with Governor McKlnloy, are amplo indorsement of his statement, that the tariff champion is not at all disin clined to become a Presidental candidate, in spite of his recent statements to The Dis rATCR. He is about the only man in activo Fiolitical life In Ohio who could count on the iillest support of Sherman and his friends and Foruker with his following. He has the friendship and good will of every one of the leaders opposed to Harrison, unless, perhaps, It may be ex-Speaker Tom Reed. There has been a great deal of talk about Governor McKlnloy having given a pledge to Secretary Foster not to be a candidate against Harrison. This is entirely untrue, I am told. Major Mo Kinley Is iree-handedas to the Presidency. During the recent Gubernatorial struggle in Ohio, it was not Secretary Foster nor any-, ono close to him nor anybody particularly allied to the national administration who helped tho gallant Mnjor to victory either with flnnncial help of any size worth men tioning or with personal effort. Then, too, there ilia never been much love between Ohio's executive and the Sheik of the tribe cl Benjamin since tbat notable contest be tween the tariff bill championed by the ono anQ the force bill, the pet measure of the other. It is true that McKhiley told Foster he would not mnke an aggressive campaign, nor would he seek to enter the contest with a pledged delegation ftom Ohio, hut that was all tho assurance hegavethePresident's ambassador. i If New York or Pennsylvania shonld in sist upon the candidacy of McKln ley as a tariff champion against Cleveland, ho would take the nomination. This is well known to those who really have the Governor's confi dence. P. L. W. COLLEGE GISLS ABE ATHLETIC. At Amherst Tfaey Are Preparing a Boat Crew to Compete With Tale. Philadelphia, April 8. Dr. Edward M. Hartwcll, Professor of Physical Training in the public schools of Boston, presided at to day's session of the American Assochition for the Advancement of Physical Science. Dr. Charles Enskuske, of Boston, delivered extemporaneous remarKS on "Some Anthro pometric Notes on Pupils in tho Boston School." Exhaustive anthropometrio-tablcs, compiled at Wellesley Seminary and Am herst College. Mass., were distributed in the audience. Anthropometry is the science derived from tho measurements of height, weight, giith, depth, breadth, length and strength of a given number of subjects, showing tho relative proportion of parts of the human frame in an average normal and symmetrical development or physique. The measurements show the size of the ankle, calf, knee, thigh, hips, waist, chest, arms, neck and head or male and female types. Miss M. Anna Wood, Director of Physical Training at Wellesley College, called atten tion to the progress attained by young ladies in physical development, as shown by the statistics submitted. She said the girls had started a boat club and were training a crew to match Yalo or Harvard. The Wellesley girls are up to all grades of college athletics except football. The afternoon session was brought to a close bv an exhibition drill in the gymnasium by 40 handsomely-developed, athletic-looking young ladies, who form a class in Swedish Apparatus Gymnastics in the Boston Normal School. KETTJBXED TO THE FOLD. Rhode Islaud w still Republican, But not so much so as it was iVeio York Evening World (.Dem.) The Republicans are singing "Boom -tarn!" on the result of the Rhode Island elec tion. Quincy Herald (fnd) "Come on, Democrat'. Let us carry homo the dead from Rhode Island. iVeto York Commercial Advertiser (Hep-) After wandering off after strange gods for several years Rhode Island is back again in the household of the true faith. St. Louis Olobe-Demoaat (Rep.) Now listen, nnd you will hear the old Democratic cry of "F-r-o-d!" over the result in Rhode Island. It is an old dodge, and deceives nobody. Toledo Blade (Rep.) Rhode Island Republicans made a hole in the Democratic lines largo enough to permit fpurmen twice the size of Cleveland to walk through in company-front order. Chicago Mail (Rep.) The result in RhoJe Island raises among the Democrats the familiar question: "Wns Cleveland knifed by Hill?" And to It may be added the anxious inquiry: "If so, will such knifing be confined to one State and one section?" Washington Star (Rep.) The total vote of R)iode Island Wednes day was but about 6,030 more than the regis tered vote of Cleveland. Not much of a State, tobe sure, but the victory won by tho Republicans was a glorious one. Gcvetand Leader (Rep.) Everybody who keeps his eyes open knew to a moral certainty 'which way the elec tions would go in Rhode Island. There was no earthly reason why that State should not keep np its prestige and furnish a Repub lican plurality for local officials. New York Her aid (Dem.) CONGRESSMEN IN TE0TTBLE. Many Members Fear Holman's Economy Will Keep Them at Home. WASnisoTox, April 8. Special. Those members of the present Congress who are interested in public buildings which have already been acted upon or are still pending aie somewhat discouraged by the rumor that no provlxlons will be made for new pnbllc buildings in the sundry civil appro priation bill. Mr. Holman. who is giving forsonal supervision to the preparation of lie sundry civil Dill, declines to say at this time what the policy of the committee will be in dealing with the subject. Several members introduced public hnild ing bills, and their renomlnation and elec tion largely depend upon the fate of these bills. As the session weais on and the on- position to providing for new bnildings, gi ows stronger In the Committee on Appro priations, the anxiety of the authors of these hills incroases. They aro unable to obtain any satisfactoiy assurances from Mr. Hol man, and unless their Senators come to their rescue, and Insert the items In the bill hen it goes over to the Senate, they are afraid they will not be returned to the next Congress. INDEPENDENT V0TEBS DI3CHABG2D. Mobs Threaten the Salt Works and Saw Mills That Took tho Action. Manistee, Mien., April 8. One hundred and fifty Polish laborers at Eastlake, near this city, claim to have been discharged on the Peters salt block and saw mills for vot ing contrary to the wishes of the managers at the recout election. The plant is in the hands of the Michizan Trust Company as receiver. Great excite ment prevails, and damage to property is feared from the mob. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE, Captain William B. Gallagher. Captain "William B. Gallagher, Chief of the Marine Coal Department or the Beading Eall road Company, died Thursday night at Philadel phia, aged 61 years. Years ago Captain Gallagher was a well-known commander of sailing vessels. Before he was 21 Tears of afce he comu amled one of the finest barks that allcd from Philadelphia. For a number of years he commanded vessels plying between that port and London, engaged In trade for Richardson. Bpcncc A Co., and during tbe period known ai the "Long Strike, " many years ago, he was placed In charge of a vessel which sailed from Philadelphia with a cargo to Liverpool lor the sufferers at Manchester. He was President of the Captains' Society, or which Stephen Olrara wasainemher, one of the oldest corporate bodies In existence. Kev. O. P. nargrave, Greensbnrg. Kev. O. P. Hargrave, a prominent minis ter in the Baptist Church, died at. his home ni Greenshurg j esterdar morning of paralysis. He was 63 vcars old. Mr. Hal-grave has been the pas- tor or the Baptist Church la Greenshurg for the pastlS years. He lcaTesavwle and six children; live or the children arc married and lire at Home stead. He was widely known all over this part of the State. Obituary Notes. J. F. CAKE, Tor a number of years leisee of Con gress Hall, Cape May, and Wllhird'a Hole, Wash ington, died suddenly iu Philadelphia, Thursday night, aged 07 ears. Joseph JIcCluke. aged 89. who was a member of the Legislature In 1840, died at his home in Greentrec. Pa., yesterday morning. He was a banker for many years. Albert H. Watsox an invalid and a retired dryKOods merchant of TJnadllla. Mich., died sud denly on a Cincinnati Southern train near Somer stt, Ky., Thursday afternoon. JossrnMcCLUnE. of Hart township, Lancaster connty. died Thursday night, aged SS years. Mr. McClure was a member of the Legislature for sev eral terms, and was President or the Strasburg National Bank, Judge D. G. Abxold, son-in-law of Senator Stockbrldge, died at the latter's residence In Washington. Thursday afternoon, of Bright' disease. He was 6J Tears of age. and had been prominent In Michigan politics. The remains will be taken to the lormer home of the deceased In Arlington, Mich. Paor. B. B. Williamson, years old, and lately living In New York, died suddenly Thurs-' day night In the reading room of the Flfth'ATenue Hotel. Prof. Williamson was bom In Winchester.' Va. He was of an old southern family and a chemist, and was for a long time professor In the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. OF NATIONAL IMPORT. A Tariff Kcform Democrat Speaks Against tbe Freo Cotton Bagging Bill Jerry Simpson Comes Oat as a Fall-Fledged Free Trader The Senate Votes 8100, O0O for the G. A. K. Beqnion. ' Washington, April a There was little of interest in the proceeding-! of the House to-day. After a brief passage at arms be tween the Speaker nnd Mr. Burrow, which was the aftermath of tho more acrimonlons passage which occurred a few days ago, dur ing which Mr. Burrows was ordered to take his seat, tho House quietly, in commltteo of the whole, resumed the consideration of the cotton bagging bill. Mr. English, of New Jersey, tho poet, author of "Ben Bolt," journalist and statesman, a Democrat announcing himself a tariff reform Democrat, opposed the bill. He wns in poor voice, but as he stood in the area in front ot the Speaker's desk be wns surrounded by his colleagues, who listened attentively to his remarks, and thoroughly enjoyed his flashes or humor. Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, came out flat-footed ns an abso lute free trader, without reservation, and his admission that he had voted lor the anti Chinese bill, though believing it to be a dis grace to civilization, was an honest one. He Justified his vote on the ground that the proteetlve tariff had so disastrously affected labor in California that some measure for its relief was necessary. Interest in the tariff discussion is steadily on the decline, and the attendance in the House this morning was small. - On motion of Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, a resolution was adopted directing the Com mittee on Public Lands to examine into the circumstances under which certain leases for parcels of ground In tho Yellowstone National Park were made In March, 18S9. by the Secretary of-tho Interior to the Yellow stone Park Association, nnd why they were afterward rescinded nnd the same granted to one S. S. Huntley. The Houso then went into Committee of the Whole on the cotton bagging bill, which, after debate, was re ported to the Houe, and a recess was taken until 8 o'clock, tho evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bills. The Senate to-day passed the bill appro priating out of the United States Treasury $100,000 toward entertaining tho G. A. R. veterans at their reunion in Washington by a vote of 41 to 10. Those voting in the nega tive were Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackbnrn, Coke, Colquitt, Irby, Jones (Ark.), Mills, Pngh and Vest. Me. McCkeaey, in the House to-day, introduced for Mr. Springer a bill to author ize the holding of an international mone tary congress. The bin, which is long, cov ers all the details of the -congress. It pro vides tbat the congress shall meet in Chi cago August 3, 1893, and continue its session Lot the will of tho majority. Twenty-one delegates are to represent the United States, seven to be chosen by the President, seven by the President of th Senate and seven by the Speaker of the House. The President's apnofntees aro to be citizens not holding office: the others are to be Senatois and Representatives. The appointments are to be divided as equally as possible between the political parties, the. Secretary of State and the Director of the Mint to be addi tional delegates. Tbe President is author ized to invite foreign Governments to send representatives, each Government to deter mine the number of its representatives, but to bo entitled to only ono vote. Tho Secre tary of Stato is to call the oongress to order, and is to preside until a permanent offi cer is elected. Yesteedat the advocates of Sunday closing of the World's Fair made tbelr argu ments before the House World's Fair Com mittee, and to-dav the oocositlon was beard. xilan Moon, of 'the National Liberty Asso- elation, a resident of Chicago, advocated adherence to the doctrine of non-interference by the Government in religious mat ters.and the separation of Church and State. He doubted that the gentlemen who favored Sunday closing yesterday represented tbe sentiment of the majority of the religions people of the country on the question, and lie denied tbat labor organizations had petitioned Congress in favorof closed doors. From an investigation made by him in this connection be had not discovered an organization favoring this movement, and, indeed, some of them were diametrically opposed to it. W. H. McEee, editor of the Sentinel, of New York, said the regulation of Sunday closing was a matter to be dealt with bythenlace where the business is trans acted, and it was not the duty of Congress to say whether the Fair should be closed on Sunday or any other dav. As the United States did not own the World's Fair site, it consequently could not properly exercise any municipal control of it in general. Ho was of the opinion that the authorities of Congress could be invoked only in matters relating to tbe industrial exhibit of the Government. The matter of special restric tions and regulations to be placed npon the exhibitors at the Exposition rested solely with the local management nnder tbe mu nicipal ana State laws of Chicago and Illi nois. Congress had no municipal control over the cltv of Chicago during the Fair, and it couldn't enforce a law for Sunday closing if it were passed, nor undertake the enforce ment of any local law in Illinois. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day settled the controversy over the selection 4 of a site for a publio building at Pueblo. Col., to-day by accepting the property at the southwest corner of Fifth and Main streets, donated by O. II. P. Baxter. The Secretary said he had given this subject moro than ordinary attention, and that while be is not altogether satisfied with the sites offered, hois unable to find sufficient reason for reversing the Judgment of the Treasury Commission which investigated the subject and recommended the selection of the Baxter site. Kepeeseittative Hopkins, of Illinois, to-day introduced In the House a bill au thorizing a national bank in tne city of Chicago, which may be designated by tho World's Columbian Exposition to conduct a banking office upon the Exposition grounds, to open and to conduct an office as a branch of the bank subject to the same restrictions and having the same rights as the bank to which it belongs. The Senate to-day confirmed a nnmber of postmasters' appointments, among them those of G.W.Stebon. nt Cambrldgoboro, Pa.; J. B. S. Zeller, Mt. Joy, Pa.: R. L. Templin, Calla, O., and W. F. Albright, Eaton, O. Secbetaby Noble this afternoon sent a telegram to the special agents of the depart ment in Oklahoma, postponing the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation until Tuesday, April 19. Commissioner Car ter, of the General Land Office, has sent to the regisrars and receivers of the Land offices at King Fisher and Oklaboma City, In Oklahoma, letters of instruction which will govern their action nnder the forth coming proclamation by the President, open ing to settlement the surplus lands of tho Cheyenne and Aranahoelndhin reservation. The Conimii-Rloner directs that, in view or the expected crowds of neoplo at these offices when the lands shall have been do claicd opentosettIement.no person bo al lowed any advantage over any other person. To this end be directs that no person be permitted to make more than one entry on his own account and ono ngent, if such ho shall be. Alter making these entries tiieap- fillcants will be required to step out of the Ine and givo place to the next person in order, and if desirous of making other fil ings he shall tako hisplnco at tho foot or the line and await his piopsrturn. The Com missioner further instructs the local officors that the use of the mails will not be per mitted for filing homestead declaratory statements. Several important naval orders were issued to-day. Tne United States steamships Yorktown and Adams, at San Francisco, were ordered to proceed at once to Port Townsend, and report arrival. The United States steamships Charleston and Balti moic, also at Sim Francisco, were oidrred to pioceed to Astoria. Oregon, to participate in the Columbia River Centennial celebration, May 12. While no oiders havo been given to that effect. It is understood thut the four vessels named will bo emnlovcd in natrol- ling the waters of Ber'ng Sea wnen the sea son opens. The United States steamship Mohican, now at Port Oi chard, will proba blv be used for similar duty. The United States steamship Concord, now at Matau i za, has been ordered to proceed to Mem phis, to take part in the bridge celebration. May 12. Kepbesentative Dickebson, of Ken tucky, to-day reported to the House, from the Banking and Currency Committee, n bill to lequire the redemption or banknotes' which may have been lost .by or stolen'from any National bank 'and'put in circulation betoie being signed by the 'officers of tbe bank, or where they were issued upon the forged signatures ot snob, officers. MONET FOB ISVESHQATIOHS. Large Sams to Bo Needed, Especially for thePcnslon OSes Matter. WASHrsoToa-, April 8. ISpectat. A special resolution is to bo reported from the Com mltteo on Appropriations making provi sions for the various investigations now in progress nnder the direction of the House. A consultation between Speaker Crisp, Chairman Rusk, of the Committee on Ac counts, and Mr. Sayres, Chairman of the sub-committee of the Committee on Appro priations, in charge of deficiencies, was held to-day, and it was shown that the appropri ation provided for the Committee on Ac counts is not sufficient to meet the demand that will be mado npon it. The subject of investigating committees ramo np, and it was held that in the future it would be welt to restrict cacti special committee ap pointed to a specific sum. Tho iianm investigating committeo has not yet submitted its accounts, but it is understood it will require n large sum of money. Accordingly, it was azreed that a special snm shall be provided to cover all the expenses of the pending investigations, and thns relieve the Committee on Acconnts from further embarrassment. So fearthl was Chairman Rusk that Ills appropriation would be exhausted, he refused to approve certain bill presented. As a lurther effort in the direction of economy, the long distance tele phone nsed in Hono lobby for the conveni ence of members n as cut off last week. 'A PENSION FOB MBS. DAVIS Unanimously Asked or the Confederate States by tbe War Veterans. New Orleans, April S Special.1 The third annual reunion of tbe United Confed erate Veterans assemble I to-day in Wash ington Artillery nail. There were present delegates from all the Confederate States, and from Maryland, the Indian Territory and Arizona, tho Texas delegates eqnaling those from nearly all the other seven States combined. MayorShakespeare delivered an nddress of welcome on behalf of New Orleans. General J. E. E. Gordon, president of'the association, presided, nnd a largo nnmber of ladles wa in attendance, includ ing the widow of Jefferson Davi. and his daughter, Miss Winnie Davis, tlie "Daughter of the Confederacy," as she is called. The convention unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the Legislature of each of tho Southern States to vote an an nual pension to Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow of the President of tho Confederacy: ad journed at o'clock, nnd marched in a partv to the French Opera House, where the orator ot tho reunion, Senator John W. Daniel de livered a panegyric on the Confederate soldiers. After the speech the veterans were given a Innch by the ladles nf New Orleans. The convention will ireit again to-morrow, and complete Its labors. In tha afternoon the parade will tak p'ace, in which the local militia and all tho vislti-jg delegates will take part. THE C0TTNT IS A GENTLEMAN. He Will Not Tell Why Miss Flelschmann Is No Longer His Betrothed. Chicago, April 8. CountEngeneLogithetti confirmed to-day the report that his engage ment to Mls,s Fabette Fleischmann, the beautiful daughterof th-j great yeast maker, had been broken. He Is the manager of her father's bnslness establishment in this city. Asked t'jls afternoon about tho state ment that the reason for his rejection was bis refusal to become an American citi zen, the Count replied: "Thnt story is ridiculous. J lo not wish to say why we are not to be married. That Is a personal matter between Miss Fleischmann and my self. I nm a true gentleman, and under no circumstances will I tell the reasons that Miss Fleischmann gave for calling our engagement off. I am yet the intimate iriend of the Fleischmann family and will continue to be. Althonzh my iriend. Mr. A. Qacherl. and I are about to engngo In the manutactnre of insect powder In this city, I will retain my position as manager of this concern." "Will yon spend the coming summer months at the Catskills with tho'FIeisch manns as you have been acenstomed to do?" "I fear that I will be too busy this year." PAINLESSNESS OF A GBEAT FALL. A Man 'Who Drops Forty Feet Says Thero la No AgoDy'Aboat It. Sax FnAitcisco, April 8. Special. Two months ago Georgo Clark, a young English carpenter, fell 40 feet from a scaffold nnd fractnred the base of hi' skull. Tbe doctors said the case was hopeless, hut he lived. To day he told how it feels to fall from such a hehrht. He said: "I have often heard people say thnt their whole life with every detail pased before them in a few seconds they were falling, but I think such stories aro romance. I did not have a single thought from the timo I began to fall until 1 struck. If I wanted to commit suicide I would go and Jump from some great height. If one is instantly killed it would be painless, I am sure." Orlnda Cotillion at tho Linden Clnb. Notwithstanding the inclement weatherof last evening, the Linden Clnb was tho scene of a brilliant gathering. It was the compli mentary dance given by the Orinda Cotil lion. The stage was piled high with palms and exotics, partly concealing the musicians. rntinq ntlrpnTi(!pnlIin,fhA mnafpfnna 'j. no ladies were ueantiinuy gowned, nnd tne air was heavy with the perfume of roses. The Committee of Arrangements was Dr. Geo. S. Proctor. Mr. F. StPiren, Mr. P. C. Schoeneek, Mr. Lang and Mr. E. W. Dravo. The affair was one of the most successful of the season. The Conemnngh Goes to BIga. PmtADixrniA, April 8. The Russian Re lief Committee, at its meeting this after noon, docided to send tne steamer Cone maugb, with her laid of provisions for starving Russians, to Rlga.a port nearer tho famine district than Libau, where the Indi ana was unloaded. Tne Conemaugh will ar rive here next week, and the work of plac ing her cargo on board will be at once be gun. A Good Example to Follow. Washington Sar.l Cincinnati has a girl to be proud of in the young woman who refused'to marrv a count unless he becamo an American citizen. Where Is the Star-Eyed Goddess? Washington Post. Colonel Wattcron is showing no disposi tion to catch up with the situation. Can Itnrn Now to Their Clams. Boston Herald. The good people of Rhode Island can now return to their clams. NAMES FRI QUEMTiY SEEN. General E. Bcrd Geubb nnd his young bride are to return to this country this spring and enliven the wilds or Aeff Jersey. Dr. Mary P. Jacobi, in JTew York, and Dr. Mary Hoxou, in Washington, are each reputed to earn $40,000 a year at their pro fession. In addition to plenty of cash ex-Governor "Bob" Taylor, or -Tennessee, is winning great fame as an orator by means of his lecture on '-The Fiddle and the Bow." Hobaet C Taylor, one ot Chicago s bright literary lights, is encaged npon a play fov Jano Hading, which will bo pro duced dnring her tour through this country inlSD3. Baron Von Kettlee, appointed Ger man Secretary of Legation in Washington, vice Herr Von Mnmm, will sail lor America April 12. Minister Phelps is much pleased with the appointment. It- is thought that Mr. Jnstice Lamar's wretched health is largely dno to his great absorption in his books. Ho Is almost un manageable by his wife when once he gets Into his library. He is passionately fond of reading. A rilBENOLOGfST one? passed this ver dict on Mr. James Payn. the novelist: "This is the head or an individual born to benefit his rellow creatures in the paths or practical I science: he will go far as a builder of bridges." Sam Small, the evangelist, has grown a beard that curiously alters his appearance. Ho also, much as ho has to say ngalnst diides, shines resplendent nowadays in patent leather hoes and a very elegant black frock coat. Amelia EI.Barr lives in a pretty little cottazo on tbo'mountaln-slde nearDcerllill, opposlto old Storm King. Mrs Barr accom plishes tho greater part of her work in tho morning, sometimes In summer rising as early as 1 o'clock to take np her pen. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Cats do not stop growing until are year old. Oxford has won 25 and Cambridge 22 boat races. The world consumes 4.000,000 of steel pens dally. On board ship the day is divided into seven "watches." The oldest English public school is Winchester, founded in 13S7. Ten million dollars worth of German toys are sold in England yearly. An American doctor reports a case of a woman, 71 years of age, who sheds her bones. The ordnance survey of England took 65 years to make, and was completed in is;u. It is said that 127,000,000 boots aad shoes nre yearly manufactured in the United Kingdom. "" The fastest ship afloat is the City of Pekin owed bv the racmc ainH Company. Sbo cost $1,000,000. In 1835 a tame elephaDt could be bought in India for $223; now their prices ranza from $750 to $1,000, s Fruit that drops on to your ground from the branches ofyour neighbor'3 trees over hanging your land Is yours. In spite of the introduction of machina lace, there are at least 1,000,000 workers In the various Eurooean countries. Eabbits, which were unknown in Ayr shire prior to 1777, aro. now a perfect nuis ance to the farmers In some districts. Delivery wagons, the motive power of which is electricity, are the newest vehicles in London. A green grocer had tho first. The American, Italian. French and German exhibitions cost neirlv $2500000 and were visited by over 0,000.000 of people! Burglary insurance is the latest noveltv in tbe insurance business. It is being mado a feature of by a company which covers tho general accident insurance. Faris doctors are considerably exercised over some fatal cases of an epidemic thought to havo been caused by birds brought from South America. A Philadelphia funeral team did ser vice at a wedding a few days aso, and the dozing driver allowod the horse to carry the bridal couple into a cemetery. A Camden, X. J., lady deposited her pnrso containing $257 in a lamp-post letter box Wednesday instead of the letter It was restored to her by Postmaster Browning. The Xavajo Indians are very supersti tions. Not one will ever enter a hono In which death has been, and tho wide domain of this triDois full of huts abandoned lor- The average number of letters written per head of tho population is: England and i.' n, otiana.39 Ireland, JG: United Ital 7 France" ;; Germany. 11: and Ten years ago capable authorities esti mated the Gaelic speakers of Scotland to number 300,000, but tho census returns for this year show that only 23I,6v2 profess to "have the Gaelic" F In the event of war Enssia could show an army of l,e00,C00 men. besides Co-sacks- " France, on a war footing, an army of 2.850,1 000: Germany an army of 2.3J1.C00 under twelve years' service. When the Cameron Highlanders marched out or Edinburgh the other day, after a four years' residence, over S50 youn" married women were left behind, the wives ofmen "married without leave." A curious fact has been noted in Ireland from the recent census. While the number of Christians, inclnding all denominations has decreased dnring tho past ten vears tho number of Jews nas increased 231 per cent. The earliest known lens is one of rock crystal unearthed by Layard at Nineveh. This Ions, the ago or which is measured bv thousands or years, now lies in the British Museum, as bright and as clear as it was tho day It left the maker's hands. The Hindu places a clock in his show rooms, not because ho ever desires to know what the hour to, but because a clock is a foreign curiosity. Instead, therefore, of contenting himself with one good clock, ho will perhaps have a dozen in one room, A balance of 3 cents claimed by the New York Customs collectors and disputed by an Importer, was collected last week, nn der threat or placing tho claim In the Dis trict Attorney's hands. Tbe importer paid it by means of a certified check for tha amount. . In jSpan, when an author is ready to put his ideas on paper, he shuts himself in his study and begins painting at the back of all the pages of his new book. He uses paper of a yellowish tint, marked with per- Sendlcnlar and horizontal blue lines. A eautifully ornamented ebony plate holds his Ink and several bamboo brashes, which serve a3 pens. The origin of menageries dates from the most remote antiquity. Their exlstenco may be traced even in the obnmro tradl- I tlonsof tho fabulous aces, when the con- '.. ..., . ... ..... -.. tests oi tne D.iTDarian leaner witn nis reuow- men were relieved bv the exploits in tha chase scarcelv less adventurous, and when the monster-queller was held in equal esti mation with ttie warrior chief. Tbe Puritan fathers, who settled in America, were greatly addicted to smoking; indeed, the practice became so common that even these strait-laced observers of time and seasons actually smoked in chnrch. This custom noon caused very considerable an noyance, as the religious exercises wrro greatlv disturbed by the clinking of steels and Hints and tho clouds of smoko in church. Black is the almost nniversal mourning color in Europe, but there nre a few excep tions. For Instance, in Russia black is never nsed for covering csffins, the cloth be ing of a pink shade when the 'leccascd Is a cnild or young nerson, a crimson color for women and brown for widows. Italians do not use black cloth, white being used in tho case of a child and purple velvet in tho caso or adults. A Itussian athlete, M. Valowski, hav ing made a bet that ho would coyer the dis tance betweoa llordeaux: and Angouleme. there and back, on foot, a total distance of 113 miles, in 24 hours started on a recent Sunday morning. He returned on the fol lowing Mondav morning, having accom plished the donblejonrncy in wminutes less than the stipulated timo, thus winning the wager or 2,000 franca. In Hungary nnd Brittany the young girls assemble on certain feto days, wearing red petticoats with white or vellow borders round them. The nnm ber of borders denotps the portion the father is will ing to givo his daughter. Each white band, representing silver, de notes 100 francs per annum, and rach yellow band denotes gold, betokening 1,000 francs a year. TICKINGS rROJI PUCK. Mr. J. Boomer Kangue We arc going to call onr new city In Dakota --Leisure." Mr. Newport de Vorse Why? Mr. J. Boomer Ilangnc So that the people who mirry In haste can go there to repent. "The days are a string of pearls," &ln?s a poet of great renown: And we fancy they are smoked Over in London town. "Did you hear about Lowell's works being thrown ont of the Boston Public Library?" 'No: whst was the trouble?" Some one told the trustees that Lowell was a humorist." TheCaptain (excitedly) 'What's the matter-man overboard? Tour-it Cjorrowf ally) No you don't tike me for a cannibal, do yon? Jcanie I can be nothing more than a sister to yoc. Jack. Jack Ask your sister to come downstairs and see if you can not be, at least, a sls-er-in-law to me. "Miss Keats," said Cholly Van Antwerp to Ms young Boston friend; "what do you Boi tonlans think or our Madison Square Diana?' ' "Well, she Is like most or yoor New York women." returned Miss Keats; fln In figure, but tou er too decolletcc for Boston. "While walking down the path of life Imct a highway-woman brave. Who robbed me of my heart and peace. And since has kept hie as her s.ave. 1 called on Love to rescue me. Who tus did mournfully reply; In sorrow we arc brothers now; For you're her slave and so am I." Street Car Conductor How old are yon, my little girl? Little Glrl-If the corporation doesn't object, I'd prefer to pay full rare, and to keep my own statistics.
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