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DAILT Dispatch, One Year t s 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter. 2 00 Daily Dispatch, One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Snnday, lyear.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. including Sundav.Sm'ths. 250 Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, lm'th. 90 Puvday DiSPATcn, One Year 2 50 "Weekly Dispatch. One Year 125 TnE Daily DiSPATcn Is delivered by carriers at 35 cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 10 ccut6 per w eek. MONDAY. APRIL 18. 1892. Parties who have changed their residence tvill please leave new address at the busi ness office, In order to Insure the uninter rupted delivery or The Dispatch to their homes. IMPROVING THE RIVER. The slow progress of the Government toward the ultimate improvement of the Ohio river is given a more hopeful aspect by the information published elsewhere concerning the commencementof work on the new dam at Beaver. Although seven years have elapsed between the comple tion of the Davis Island dam and the be ginning of the one at Beaver, the actual start of the latter assumed an appearance of steady progress toward the final con summation of a continuous system of slackwater on the Ohio. The dam at Beaver, while it will not fur nish a complete stretch of deep water from Pittsburg to that point, will add greatly to the capabilities of river transportation. By covering the two worst shoals below the present dam it will enable light draft steamers to come to Pittsburg during many weeks of summer weather, when without the dam they are impassable, and our traffic by river will thus be per mitted an important expansion. The full possibilities of the river as a transportation route cannot be realized until four more dams are built between here and Beaver, and others at necessary points further down. But the addition to the period of navigable water by this dam will be of no slight importance to Pitts burg's industries. The very leisurely progress of this work should incite Pittsburg to the pushing of Its possibilities in respect to other water lines. The main relation of a six-foot waterway in the river with a fifteen-foot canal is in the increase of traffic it will bring to Pittsburg. But let 'Western Penn sylvania once get the canal under way and it will not be hazardous to prophesy that means will be found to set fifteen feet of water in the river as well. EASY MONEY MARKETS. One of the features of the business situ ation which developed quite strongly dur ing the past week is an abundance of money in the banks and low rales of inter est on good security. The New York money market is cased by a surplus re serve in the banks of over $15,000,000, while money on call is quoted at the al most unprecedented rate for the middle of April of i per cent. The larger Eastern cities are in like condition, while cities of the size of Buffalo have sums of a million dollars lying idle in their banks. This extreme ease of money in the mid dle of April, when it is generally the rule that a large amount has been taken to the interior to discharge the country settle ments, is significant of plethora in the money market before the summer is over. As it is accompanied by some indica tions of slow commercial movements, there is an element of stagnation in it; but even in that aspect it is a good sign. It shows that the liqui dation forced a couple of years ago by the closeness of the money markets ended, -and that business is now proceeding on so cohservatie a basis that its borrowers are restricted below the ability of lenders to supply. Every step now taken will be in advance. Of course, this abundance of money will cause good Investments to be in large de mand this year. This will in turn promote new enterprises, quicken business, and bring us by degrees to the stage where commercial demand will absorb the credit waking capacity of the lending interest The one feature of the situation that is not without its clement of danger is the probability that the concentration of idle funds in New York w ill be used to float speculative bubbles which may cause com plications in the future. TnE wroSIING OUTBREAK. The reports from the "rustler warfare" , in Wyoming are calculated to create the impression in the Eastern mind that our newer territories have reproduced the con ditions of Scotch lawlessness a century-and-a-half ago, when cattie-liftingwas the mark of gentility, and warfare over the theft and recovery of the stolen stock the normal condition of the border between the Highlands and Lowlands. But before concluding that the extreme West has gone back to the semi-civilization of that era, it may be wise to inquire whether the representation of cattle stealing as a vested interest and popular occupation is not tinged by the reports from the big ranche-owners. It is worth while to remember that these great land owners do not come before the court of public opinion with entirely clean hands as regards the equity of their own acts. Most of them hae obtained control of vast tracts by the simple device of pre empting all the water locations through their employes.and thus shuttintroff every one else from the use of the inter mediate ranges. This does not justify the stealing of their cattle any more than the stealing of their cattle justifies the murder of the rustlers. But it suggests the possi bilitythat a good manypeoplc represented to be cattle thieves may be merely settlers who have made locations obnoxious to tho ranche-owners. It is possible that some squatters have found locations overlooked by the ranchers which interfere with the continuity of their runs. It may be nat ural for the ranchers to view with suspi cion such settlers and to set them down as cattle thieves when they are really honest people, buch a theory is more in accord ance with antecedent probabilities than the story that the majority of the popula- tion outside the cattle-ranchers are organ ized and defiant thieves. No doubt there has been much cattle stealing, and that indicates the succession Of events which reduces a scattered society to anarchy. . The ranchers jjrab the land, and an irresponsible class springs up which Krabs the rancher's cattle. This results in unauthorized killing by the ranchers of the suspected thieves; and the last act in the tragedy threatened is the wholesale lynch ing of the ranchers. On the whole, the picture thus presented Is not an attractive one to a peaceful and law-abiding man seeking a home in the West TJNlVEr.SAE STREET TRACE. In another column a communication suggests the application of the street rail way track idea to all city streets In the same way as that proposed for the country roads a couple of weeks ago by another correspondent The last proposition is that every new street over forty feet in width shall have as an integral part of the pavement a double track of street railway, and the reasons given for doing so are quite cogent Everyone who has watched the hauling of heavy loads over onr streets is well aware that there is an immense saving of friction and draft the moment the wheels of a wagon are settled in a car-track. The plan of our correspondent proposes that this smoothness shall be provided on all streets to be paved hereafter. The additional expense -would be slight in proportion to the gain; and it Is a cogent question whether the relief of wear and tear on other parts of the pavement might not permit the cost of the tracks to be saved from that source. Our correspondent points out further that this plan would permit the tracks to be leased to street railway companies. A local difficulty in the way of this proposi tion is that, as at present nearly all ap proaches to the central part of the city are already engrossed, such a plan would con fine the bidding to existing lines. It is a question for the future to decide, however, whether exclusive ownerships of this kind can be established on the public highways. But when that question is properly settled a better plan of using these tracks would be to permit any or all companies operat ing movable cars to use them on payment of a reasonable royalty. At all events, the Idea is well worth con sideration. The value of car-tracks apart from their primary purpose is attested by the lines of wagons using them on the principal streets; and a possible cost of $1 60 per foot front should not be an ob stacle to extending the same advantage to every side street NO MONOPOLY OP IT. In the course of some pertinent remarks on the outcome of the "hold-your-wheat" circulars of last fall, and the expensive lesson taught those who followed that ad vice, an esteemed cotemporary makes the following assertion concerning "political farmers:" "Like labor leaders, they are as a rule demagogic and unscrupulous." This Is calculated to provoke the retort from the "political farmers" by an in quiry whethor they and the political labor leaders absorb all the demagogy and un scrupulousness. As this remark comes from an organ of political opinion, it may be supposed to believe that all the poli ticians of its part' are free from the de sire to court popular favor or to profess what they do not believe for the sake of catching votes; but unprejudiced opinion at large will retain the privilege of disbe lief on this score. The "hold-your-wheat" circular was an illustration of gratuitous folly; but re marks of demagogy from the regular party lines are equally foolish as of the pot and kettle order. THE OLD FIGHT AGAIN. Figuring up on the Presidental nomina tions is a favorite political occupation nowadays. A special article elsewhere reviews the prospects of the Democratic convention, with the result of showing that Cleveland is far In the lead. The estimate of delegates selected and to be selected places Cleveland's strength within 75 votes of the necessary two-thirds, while there are nearly two hundred scattering delegates. Of these, It is estimated, enough will come to Cleveland when that strength is demonstrated to make his nomination certain after the first ballot On the other side of the political fence there Is practically no organized opposi tion to Harrison. There are malcontents in nearly every State, but no candidate of the necessary strength has been found to unite the opposition. The Alger boom is a recognized device of the Michigan poli ticians to coax liberal campaign subscrip tions from the free-handed millionaire. From New York there come intimations of an attempt to fix that State's delegation for McKinley and Keid. But neither of these movements shows weight enough to put the nomination of Harrison in se rious jeopardy. When Blaine retired the one leader who could command united strength went out of the field, and the President's renomination became nearly a foregone conclusion. This foreshadows the renomination of the candidates of 18S8, unless there should be some revolutionary changes In the situ ation before the conventions meet That carries with it the fighting over again of the issues of 1888, without much change in the respective personal strength- of the leaders. The factional fight In New York increases the antecedent probability of a knifing for Cleveland there; while the dif ficulties arising out of patronage will lose Harrison some support that he" gained when he was a new man. The fact is that, with the candidates re nominated, tho issues will settle it The campaign Cf protection against free trade will be fought over again between now and November. The friends of protection should understand that -the struggle in volves the protective system, and that the measures rather than the men will decide the outcome. There hnvo been brighter Easter Sun days than yesterday; but as tliero was not an absolute luin tlio Weather Bureau may bo forgiven on a promise of reformation. A panic in Melbourne, Australia, has temporarily, at least, wiped out the biggest of her bunking corporate values, while Und failures which may bo presumed to be tau nt es of big land ouners run up to $35,000,000. What tlic special characteristics of tlie bub bles which caused this smash up were is not so important to the synthetic obseiver of commercial revulsions as the already fully demonstrated fact that in all quarters of the world bubbles must sooner or later be inflated to the bursting point. When the Nebraska Democrats give the departing fieo trade silver idea a parting Kick it looks as if the monometallic silver basis was not indefinitely postponed. Adelina Patti recently informed a repniter that her clear complexion and youtnlul vigor wero due to the fact that she always keeps her temper. This affords, the basis for excellent advice to youug women generally; but reports as to the diva's bear ing when things have not always gone as she wanted them at operatic performances makes it noocssary toenjoiu our wives und daughters not to keep the same kind -of tem per that Pattl does. Did William C. Whitney before galling for Europe take care that all the Standard oil barrels were safely stowed away out of reach of the Fresidental lightnlngt When Allison, Cullom, Blaine and Mc Klnley unite In declaring themselves out of the Presidental raoe there may be an Idea that the Republican party will bo hard poshed to find a candidate. But Benjamin Harrison remains ready to step Into the breach, if the party urges him.and the office holders are taking good care that 'the party shall not forget to urge him. Henry George might get even on hit lawyers' fees by suing a choice group of Congressmen for infringement of his copy right. Why should not the coming Republican convention demonstrate the mollifying effect of time by passing a resolution vindi cating Bardsley? Every one else has got a clean bill of health, and It looks like unjust discrimination to leave poor Bardsley out in the cold. If New York manages to annex Brooklyn and Jersey City, perhaps the Grant Monu ment will be finished. Gbeat BErrAiN has gobbled the Falk land Islands without the slightest respect to the Argentine Betrablio claim of ownership. Perhaps the English notion Is that this ac quisition can be taken as a sort of dividend for the English losses in Argentine bonds. The Easter bonnet had a on it, and perhaps that's sprinkled yesterday. flower garden the reason it Uncus Jerry's Republican weather bureau should take notice that the baseball season is now at hand. If the ball cranks and the farmers do not have weather to suit them the administration may hear of it about the first of October. There's any amount of water in the Niagara Palls syndicate schemes. There is a vital necessity for the staff of the Congressional Record to be enlarged by a cynical book reviewer armed with a large blue pencil and reinforced by a voracious office cat. THE WORLD'S POPUIATIOrT. Figures Based Upon the Official and Esti mated Data or Experts. Boston Traveller. Some of the figures given In the latest edi tion of the Statesman's Year Book relative to the present population of the globe are of a good deal of interest, though some of these have, of course, only the value of esti mates more or less accurate. The figures arranged in tabular form as to area and pop ulation are as follows, the area being given in square miles: Area. Population. 357,851. 580 825,954,000 168,4S9,017 5. 684.600 SS.36.084 33,342,709 11.170 Europe 3,797,410 Asia 17.089. Africa 11.S18.104 Australia 3.458.029 North America 7,952.338 South America 6,844.002 Polar Islands 1.689,854 Total 62,299,431 1,479.729,151 In the matter of density Java, China and Japan lead, with upward of 100 to the square mile, while portions of France, Bel glum, India, England, Portugal and Egypt have also a like density. Some interesting statistics are also given relative to the di viding up of Africa. Among the nations of tho w orld this partition has only been going on, on a large scale, for a few years, but there is now little of the Park Continent left unappropriated. The figures which are given by Mr. E. G. Bavenstien, a member of the Boyal Geographical Society, are based upon an estlmoti of 11,S18,101 square miles of territorv, and 168,499,017 population, and this is now divided as tollows: Area. Population. Great Britain Z.50,92li 40,764,100 France 2,102,6:4 Portugal 811.025 Spain 203.767 Germany 822.000 Italy , 602,000 Belgian Congo Stj'te ... 865.400 Hoer Republics...! 162,640 Switzerland . 6,370 Libera 37,000 Turkey 831.000 Unappropriated. .f 1.534,398 23,788,000 5,418.000 437.000 5,9u0.000 8,000.000 15,600.000 888,000 61,000 1.000, COO 7.180, 000 22,000,000 The partition of Africa Is, therefore, prac tically accomplished, since the lnrser part of the unappropriated section lies in the Saharan desert, which is, of course, of little use to anyone. In this partition of Africa we have tLe story of America over again, in that little or no regard is had for the lights of the native. It remains to be seen whether he is exterminated by civilization, as his brother in rod has virtually been on the American contlnont. CLINGING TO THE UPPEE GBUST. Spurgeon's widow announces that her famous husband left less than $10,000, Prince Bismarck is recovering from the illness with which he has been suffering several weeks. Wade Hampton was a millionaire, or very nearly one, before the war, but of late years fortune has frowned on him. Mb. Allison, of Iowa, is said .to be an ideal Senator studious, polite, stately, pop ular, and immensely useful to the Senate as well as to his constituents. XT. S. Attorney General Miller is enioute to Hot Springs. Saturday he was a guest at the residence of Judge E. E. Hnm mond, of Memphis, where he met the mem bers of the Memphis bar and other prominent citizens. Miss Anna Wood, director of physical training at Weliesloy College, looks forward with eager eyes to the time when her col leze boat crew can contest with Harvard and Yale. Congressman Tom I Johnson, of Cleveland, is a rare bird indeed, among men of wealth, in being an enthusiastic disciple of Henry George, while possessing a fortune of nearly a million. Julia E. Bulely has risen from the po sition of Superintendent of schools In Tlain field, X. J., to the associate professorship una dean of the woman's department of Chi cago University. Mrs. Harrison, whose condition Satur day morning was ranch improved, caught fresh cold yesterday, ana as a result, she be came considerably worse. Her cough be came harder and the fever Increased. Last night Br. Gardner, Mrs. Harrison's phy sician, said bis patient was a little better, and he looks for greater improvement to day. GEN. ALGEE TO BEItEE. He Will Shortly Announce That Ha Is Not a Presidental Candidate. Washington Star of Saturday. General Bussell A Alger Is in the "city. And General Bussell A. Alger is not in the race, if there is a race, for the Bepublican Presidental nomination. Of course the Gen eral is not making any such nssertlon just now, but he will make it before long. He has been consulting closely and at' length with many of his best fi lends people who are really interested In his welfare and they have unanimously advised him to with draw his name. Up to this time the General has not given" much appal en t attention to the wisdom of his associates, but it is very generally un derstood to-day that he will gracefully re move himself from "the blaze of sunlight (v. hich is dliected at every Presidental can didate) betore the rays become hot enough to scorch. General Alger's friends speak in the highest terms of his fitness for the Pres idental oflico, but they lealize that General Hainson is undoubtedly going to be renom inated. It is assorted this afternoon that General Alger will, within a reasonable pe riod, make formal and public announcement of his withdrawal from the contest. Report says that proud as he would be of the honor, of the Bepublican nomination ho will not permit his ambition to Dreed 6 trite within the Bepublican party. Some Days Without Revolutions. Chicago Newt. Every once in awhile there comes a day when no South American Bepublio declares itself possesscd-of a revolution. , How to Enjoy the Spring, Chicago News.) Lovely spring is at hand. Get out your carmuffs and pnt on -a couple of buffalo robes and enjoy it. HELPS FOR THE BETTER. WRrrrair fob tub dispatch. A friend of mine who is an Ethical Culture Leoturer in St, Louis has come to the conclusion, after five years of observa tion and experience, that everybody desires to be better. The deslro may Ho very far back in the neglected corners of the soul, and may not appear at all in the life, yet there it is In everybody, waiting to be developed. I believe that even better things may be 'said of man. I will hazard the assertion that everybody wants to make somebody else better. The truth is, of course, that a considerable proportion of the human raoe 1b not only go ing to the devil, bqt is taking a friend or two along for company. Tho newspaper every day is a revelation of human depravity. All the cases of demoniacal possession that are reoorded in the four gospels are outnum bered in the ohroniole of the doings of a mod ern day. It is hard to believe that some people have any vestiges of original right eousness remaining in them. Calvinism can find stronger proof texts in the dally papers than can bo discovered in the canonical epistles. As for the old doctrine of hell, the new theology may say what it will, there is hourly proof that we cannot get along with out It. If there is no hell there ought to be. There is nothing else that we can think of that is capable of making "tho punishment fit the criiue." Attentlve readers of the cur rent newspapers may rather find it some what difficult to believe in anything elso but hell. Nevertheless, every human animal does desire to be better, and in his sane or sober moments does desire to help somebody else to be better. Anyhow, let us try to believe that. All decent people, at any rate we are safe here have a real preference for a decent world about them, aud would gladly do what they COUld to lift up other people into nearer approach to decency. Three Ways of Looking and Thinking. There are three directions in which the better portion of the race, in modern times, has looked. Some have looked up, and some in, and some out. Some, that is, have thought more about God than about anything else; and some have thought more About their own souls than about anything else; and some have tbouzht most of all about their fellowmen. With some people the most emphatic word in religion is "worship;" with other people the most em phatic word is the word "sin;" still others set the supreme emphasis on the word "help." Of course, these lines are not lines of ex clusion. Every good roan looks in all three of these directions. The difference, as I have suggested, is in emphasis. And the em phasis depends largely upon temperament. In these three ways, with these three tem peramental tendencies, people are made. It is notable, however, that these attitudes of up and in and out characterize not only In dividuals but whole centuries and eras. Boughly speaking, the majority of good people in the Middle Ages looked up and emphasized worship. They built the great cathedrals. The majority of good people since the Reformation have looked in and emphasized sin and salvation. Bellgion has been individualistic and subjective. And hero we are now on the threshold of the Twentieth Century, and the third great at titude seems to be coming in for its turn. It looks as if we wero entering, in these days. upon an era when good people will emphati- cally look out and bo helpers. The reason why more of us are not helpers already is because we do not know how to help. We are ignorant of what to do. Most of us really desire to make life better and happier for some other less favored brother or sister of ours, hut we know not how to set about it. Humanity Needs Pleasure and Variety. And yet, there is no end to the good things v hlch might be done. Take the matter not on its religious side, nor on its physical side, but from the point of view of simple happiness, and mental and aesthetic enrichment. That is, I mean, let us for the present think not so much of con verting the souls, nir of increasing the wages, of the poor, as of bringing a little more pleasure into their blank lives. Human being3 need pleasure, and color, and music, and entertainment. Life is bound to be worse for the lack of them. Man de pends greatly upon enviionment. Everybody knows how difficult it is to be dignified in a ragged suit of clothes. No man or woman can llvo a cab horse life, driven all day long and sleeping in a stable, without getting to be like a cab horse, dull, stolid, without ambition, without intelligence. Some of the traction companies last sum mer gave band concerts in several of the parks. They did an immense amount of good. They were not conoeived as a public charity, so far as I know. They looked rather toward an Increase in three-cent and five-cent fares in the coffers of the com panies. So much tho better. Nobody was put under obligation by tnem. But they were really a most praattc.il and effective charity. I hope they will be resumed this summer and multiplied. Why Not Musical Missionaries? I wish that some of the big churches might be made to minister moiothan they do to the musical needs of the people. They have medical missionaries out In the for eign field, why not have more musical mis sionaries here? If there could bo au oratorio every Sunday afternoon, or even once a month, in the Cathedral, and in Tiinity, and in the first Presbyterian Church, it would do as much good as twenty sermons and at tract a much larger congregation. I mean an oratorio rendered by fine solo singers, supported by a large chorus, and a full orchestra. Some of our excellent musical societies might help in this way to better the whole city. A great deal of good might be done on a smaller scale by Sunday atternoon singing in the hospitals. People who have voices, and who are persuaded that a good voice is given to be used, and to be used not for personal or social ploasuro only, but as one of the uplifting influences of our common life, might do more good than they can easily Imagine by this kind of beautiful charity. A Suggestion Yor the Art Society. I wish that the Art Society, which is doing such excellent service in providing profitable evenings for appreciative people, -would take into consideration the adorn ment of the blank walls of our hospitals. Sheets and pillow cases and money are all very well, but these poor sick people need something more than a bed and a doctor. The long bare rooms are dreadfully depress ing. Mural decoration would be medicine for weary minds. Pictures would be a capi tal complement to pills. There are artists in Pittsburg who could make these ugly, monotonous wall-spaces glow with color, and preach sermons of comfort. At the least, prints and engravings aud photo graphs would be a benediction. The Art Society, it seems to me, might undertake here in this city, some of the good work that the Kyrle Society does in London. The purpose of the Kyrle Society Is to bring brightness and beauty into the lives of the common people. Theie is a decorative branch, and an open space branch, and a musical branch, and a literature distribu tion branch. They encourage the use of the green parks, they give concerts of high class music in the midst of poor districts, they give the poorest people a chance to seo good pictures. They believe that beautiful music and beautiful color ought not to be the monopolies of the people who have money. The Kyrle Sooiety is named after John Kyrle, of old time, of whom the Pope said that he "with a small estate pnBsed a long liie in contriving and advancing plans of public utility." A good example for any society, or any man. A LITTLE TOO REALISTIC. An Aetor In a Military Play Rehearsal Gets a Shot Full in the Face. New York, April 17. Robert Hilllard, who has the part of CWoiid Ralph Baker in "Across the Potomac," had a realistic war experience during rehearsal late Friday night. As he was leading the lorces in a supposed attack on the Confederates, one of the marines discharged his fowling piece straight into the actor's face. Bits of powder and asbestos had pene trated the skin in a hundred spots, but his eyes wero uninjured. For several hours yesterday physicians were at work remov lng the particles with good success. THE FITISBURG WOMEN. A Feminine Writer Has Something to Bay' About Our Dear Girls. 'Meg," the bright woman' or the Philadel phia Times, sends a column to that Journal on "The Pittsburg Women." Here's some of her paragraphs: Just imagine living in a place where as often as you put your hand down white you took it up black, where as often as you went to pay a visit you came in with a disfiguring smirch of soot across your face, and all the while you had been saying "prunes, poetry prisms" in blissful unconsciousness of hav ing the city's trade mark on your brow; and where you would have to forego all dainty clothing so distinctly a woman's own, wear material like your husband's or brother's, and as often as the season for new clotbes came round, buy a suit so nearly like the old that you had to depend upon the trimming and out for the proper recog nition of its newness. If you think you could not bear these crosses complacently or at least uncomplainingly, don't move to Pittsburg. 1 wonder why Pittsburg women do not brighten up their somber costumes with natural flowers T Though artificial flowers do get faded and old so much too soon in this smoky, sooty atmosphere, the natural would at least last as long as they do else where. Since I stop to think about it, I don't believe I was ever any place wheie flowers were so generally worn both by men an d women as in Philadelphia, and n prettier .fashion than this I am sure no city could have. In Pittsburg flowers are not commonly sold upon every crossing, as they are in Philadelphia, which of course accounts for their not being worn, since PittsbUrger's would never have time to so to a florists. Here it is hurry and go, all business-like activity, with women as well as with men, and, be it known, they seem quite as capa ble. There is a throb of activity in the air that is infeotious. I catch the excitement and chase myself around until I regularly come home breathless and a fit candidate for an infirmary. I have lived a good deal in this city, and naturally am a frequenter of the shops. I have noticed the same line of goods here that is carried in Philadelphia and go where you will these stores are as full of eager buyers as our own. The goods are sold, but after that they drop out of sight. Pittsburg women do not wear their best clothes on the street. Showy clotbes they, cannot wear on account of this horrid dirt and therefore the city has to depend upon shop windows for brightening effect. Just now these windows are particularly gay. Those showing headwear look so familiar that I frequently forget I am not on Chest nut street. Suspender gowns seem to have only Just reached Pittsburg. These gowns are not womanly and they would have to have that quality first of all to be adopted by women of this city. I certainly think there is as little nonsense displayed in the gowning of a Pittsburg woman as in that of any other known to me. Not but that thev spend as much or more money upon their clothes as do women of Eastern cities for tho money is hero and so far as the men are concerned the women aie welcome to any amount of it and they do spend It in buying the very best material that will make up into sub stantial looking gowns. But novelties are not ready sale for street wear and all light col ors'are kept for the house and for these, of course, there is more or less novelty cul tivated, which is their only respite from gloomy colors. There Is something wrong in the cut of dresses out hero, and I am not artist enontrh to tell just what it Is. Clothes do not seem to have the style or air they should have, and I am sure It is not the fault of the wear ers, for Pittsburg's women, as a rnie, are well formed and well enough cared for by Indulgent men to (eel their keeping, as we sav, and this, wherever found, insures a good carriage and bounding step which wo know more than any other endowments set off good clothes. Beally there should bo some Eastern dress makers imported here. The merchants are doing their part in bringing the best and most fashionable goods obtainable, the women who are to wear these things are lacking in none of the essentials that go to mako up a womanly woman, a leflncd woman or a stylish woman, but Just as a tailor can make or unmake a man so the modiste can make or unmake a woman, so far as appearances go and whois thore that will Bay Just how far appearances do got BELTZHOOVEB'S BOAST. He Bays Pattlson Can Carry the State Against All Except Blaine. Washington Post. "The Democrats of Pennsylvania," said Representative Beltzhoover, who has just returned from tho State Demooratlo Conven tion, over which he presided as Chairman, "are for Cleveland first andPattison second. We did not Instruct the delegates to vote for Cleveland because we thought that it would bo injudicious, but the feeling of the con vention, as expressed in tho vote, was about lour for Cleveland as against one for Hill." "Do you think there will be a hot fish at Chicago?" "I look for something of a struggle, of course, but not more than has character ized previous conventions. The situation will be such as to require generalship and tact. There is no question that Cleveland has a great hold upon the masses of tho people, and he will have earnest and stanch friends at Chicago. lie has, bow ever, oxpresxed his own misgivings as to the advisability of nominating him, and I believe that if the 70 votes of New York are persistently cast against him, he will not accept the nomination. This is simply my opinion." "Can Pattison carry Pennsylvania in a Presidental election?" "Governor Pattison has never been beaten. He carried the Bepublican city of Philadel phia for the Contiollershlp three times and has been tu-ico elected Govomor, the last time by 20,000 majority. Pattison can carry his State next fail against any Bepublican who may be nominated, except Blaine, and Blaine can carry the State over any Demo crat who may be named. That is the situa tion in Pennsylvania in a nutshell." NOW FOB A CELEBS ATED CASE. Highland Miners Take Oat 81,500,000 of Ore In Other Property. Deadwood, S. D., April 16. Miners em ployed in sinking a shaft in the Big Missouri mine to-day broke through into the under ground woikings of the Highland mine. An immense stone was disclosed, from which a vast amount of ore had been taken out and milled at the Highland mines. It is esti mated that the value of the ore taken is not less than $1,500,000. It is now believed that the Highland has been working in the Big Missouri ground for the last three years. The courts will be asked at once to enjoin the Highland, and the most important niinlnir litigation of the I decade in the Black Hills piomises to begin. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Ex-Preinler Alexander Mackenzie, Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, ex-Premier of Canada, died at 12:40 o'clock yesterday morning. He was born iu Perthshire. Scotland, In 1822, and came to Canada In 1H2. He was a builder and then the publisher of a newspaper. In politics he was a Liberal. He first entered Parliament In 1861, when he as elected to the United Parliament of Upper and Lower Panada for the Lamliln division. At the confederation In 1817, he was eleoted to the Dominion Parliament, and shortly afterward he was cnosen leader of the Liberal party. On the overthrow of the Macdonald administration in 1873. he succeeded to the premiership, and, with his party, remained in power until 1873, when the Liberals were defeated on the protection issue. Hard work while in office had undermined his health, and he soon resigned the leadership. For ten J cars he had been In poor health, and iu Janu ary last he became bedridden through a fall which brought on paralysis. Recently It was thought he would recover from the stroke, but he took a re lapse, and for many days had been hovering between life and death. Obituary Notes. Joinr Loftdf, aged 111, died In Alleg-iny, N. Y., Saturday. He was a survivor of the battle of Waterloo, and Berved In the war of the Crimea, lie had several medals of honor. Oardixeh Stephens, member of the Canadian Senate, Is dead, agea 52 years. Mr. Stephens was a Liberal in politics and was called to the Senate In 1876 as representative of the Bedford dl lslou. Jlojf. Johx D. Colviu. cx-Mayor of Chicago and a pioneer in the express business, dleriatthe winter re.ldenee of his son. Colonel John II. Col v'.n. In South Jacksonville, 111., Saturday after noon, lie was 77 years old. Eliz mETiI c Allex. wife of Alexander Allen, the" well-known Fraukstown avenue Jeweler, died yesterday at the home of her son-in-law, T. C. Jamison, on Collins avennc. She was 72 years old. 'Ihe Interment Kill be at baltsburg, l'a., to-morrow. Mas. Axjr IUttioah died yesterday at her home, Clilcora, Butler county. The fuueral will be from the residence of her son-lu-Uw, Captain W. J. Dick, 6820 Ellfworth avenue, on Wednesday rtot-tinnn . sTTn ntn In TslV- Is tii railLlriinwn attno I merchant of LawrencevlUe. THE RAIL ROADWAY. The Author of the Iron Track Idea Defends It Some Criticisms Answered Bow Half the Problem Has Been Solved Already. To the Editor or The Dispatch In your editorial in The Dispatch of the 2d inst., on "The Boad of the Future," you have 'fallen into an error in making an un-' analogous comparison, whioh you will prob ably see when attention is called to it. You said: "Pittsburg has bad experience of street railway tracks laid on unpaved streets." You then ask remembrance to the condition to whioh the spaee between tho 'traokj was reduced by the tramping of the horses and mules; all of whioh is logical enough as applied to Pittsburg, but which does not apply at all to common roads throughout the country. Irafflo of the heavy obarncter and of the Immense volume that the foremost iron city on the Western Hemisphere affords, would Justify the ex penditure of money for a style of street that elsewhere would be entirely uncalled for. The hustling little city of Youngstown, O., had a street car track for seven years on an unpaved street her principal thorough fare; but, where it is necessary to cross and recross.to pass and repass almost constantly, it is necessary, it is imperative to have the entire space paved. But throughout the country this side business docs not consti tute 1 per cent of the travel. Yet, on any paved street in any city, an iron track Is still a necessary feature, as it allows of much easier hauling, is comparatively noiseless and can still accommodate SO per cent of the trafflo without 'any particular wear on the roadway. He Files Some Exceptions. You are moved to say further: "It fol lows that the proposed track must be used in connection with an improved surface, either by macadamizing, graveling, cinder ing or planking. This would make the most expensive kind of road." To this the writer files the following ex ception, always keeping the fact In view that he is considering country and not municipal roads: It is not a fact "that the proposed track; must be used" in connection with any of the surfaces indicated. Is it not a faot that the roads are now used with none of the features mentioned? Is a half a loaf not better than no bread? Is not the greater part of this problem solved when once the load, when once the vehicle that bears the load, is provided for? The horse, on an unpaved footway. Is in no worse plight than now and not in such bad plight even, for, with an easier draft of load, there Is not the leveraze on his hoofs; bis fulcrums would not sink into the roadway as they do now. This is an important feature in the case, but one whioh the average layman does not readily take Into the reckoning. On a country road, 99 per oent of the haul ing is done right on the track, and conse quently a much less expensive surface will suffice to meet the remaining 1 per cent than would be necessary if all the traffic had to bedoneon the stone, gravel, cinder or plank roadway. But exception is further taken to the statement tbat the combination would be "the most expensive kind of road." Here are some facts. On this track the ca pacity of a team in hauling material for con struction is Increased 600 per cent over the team that hauls material over a new pike to construct a pike. If this be denied, the writer is prepared to prove that the differ ence is even greater. Then he will demon strate that less than one-fourth the other material and less than one-half the other labor of getting the surface into shape will amply sufflco with the iron tracks. The trnth is, that the Telford. MoAdam or gravel roads could each De made more economi cally by laying down an iron track on which to haul the material. The railway construc tors now frequently provide an expensive trostling to be used in flllinz up, and which is only of service until the fill is made. One Bogle That's Ever Present. The trouble with nearly all persons who endeavor to see an Iron traok road mentally, is, that they cannot bar out of their vision the picture of the chnrned-up-mortar-bed-condition of dirt road they have so many times seen, but the great factor that has been doing this In all tho ages is, in the plan under consideration, expelled, and the road can no longer present such condition. Take tho continuous cutting action of the wheels out of the case, ease up on the constant dead pull of the team and a small amount of ma terial, sand or gravel to destroy the sticky adhesiveness of clays, wlllsufilce. About passing on single tracks. This Is too simple a matter to waste words on. At given distances the traok can be doubled, paved places can be provided; but all this belongs to mere detail. A team can Jog along at an easy calt with a two-ton load; let no one imagine that the tedious pull of the present is to be continued. To put this road down in all necessary and completo oondltion at from $3,500 to $1,000 per mile, would be as line a "picnic" in con tracting as any reasonable person should desire. Tho great road of the future will be made for less than tho figures mentioned. But the suggestion of wheels with 12-lnch tires and tho rear carriage set out wider than the fiont, or vice versa, from an engineering point of view is somewhat comical, although on old-style roads, it is not illogical. But the fact is, the plan is simply to add a circular roadway to the wheel. In other words, instead of increas ing the soliditv of tho road, put the equiva lent In wheel surface and eternally haul so much additional road, because once in a while it is needed. It isonlyinoidernow for some mechanical f;enlus to suggest that, instead of wheels, rr.mense drums be used a number of broad pulleys strung on a shatt to facilitate turn ing and let this entire matter be solved in non-cutting rotarles that must remain on the surface, and which would close up even the horse tracks, leaving no trace or their passage. Such an idea would not begin to nresent as much unadulterated and un scientific foolishness as we can read of every day. There is something barbarous in speeding a horse on a stone or asphalt pavement; It Is a terror to a dumb brute and one to which man owes as much as he docs to the horse to put him on such a roadway for hard ser vice. Let ns hopo that the scientific genius of the age is capable orennceivingand the me chanical irenius capable of constructing a road to yield to the horse the full maximum of power with the minimum of hurt. It is little elso than mechanical treason to pro pose the same hard, unyielding surface to the hoof that is necossnry for the wheel. Brethren, let us reason together, N. A STSEET SUGGESTION. How City Pavements Could Be Paved and Hauling Msds Sluch Easier. To the Editor of The Dispatch; The city is about contracting for paving a number of streets. Let me suggest that you advocate the following plan of improvement over the old methods of paving. With each contract provide that double tracks of street railway lines be laid in all streets over 40 feet in width at the city's expense, for the following purposes: First To save wear and tear on streets. Second To give ease, comfort and speed in driving or hauling. Third To soil the fran chise of said lines of mils for a limited period, say not over 20 years, to any corpoia liim desiring to operate under same condi tions. I think if above plan had been introduced 30 veai sago it would havo saved the pcoplo millions in taxes, or reduced fares, and if followed out in years to come must save the city vast sums iu many wavs. The cost of such lines of railway track is much less than one would imagine from the capitalization of street i ail ways (all water in traction railways.) Let us examine the cost of a double-track line of rails, weighing 50 pounds to the yard, whioh equals 200 pounds for u yord ot double truck, or say 70 pounds per rnnnlnsr foot of truck, and at $10 per ton of 2,240 pounds would cost $1 25 per foot of track, or only $6,G00 per mile of double track. Add $3,10 for spikes, ohatrs and tie rods, and it will amount to $10,000, and add $4,000 more tor sills, cioss ties and Ubor, and n total cost of double track for a mile would not exceed $15 000, or say $1 30 per foot lrrnit to thi lot holders, if paid by them. The Duqnesno Traction Companv is said to have over 20 miles of track, say 10 of double trick. At ubnvu rate the cost fur track would be but $150,000. I do not count naving, equip ment, machinery.oriealestato. They would be the pi operty of the lessee. This seems like a radical departure from onr usual customs, but if it were left to me 1 would go farther. I would lay tour tracks on every street 30 feet and over in width. Take any lino of cars and look at the ve hicles on tracks, even when payed with asphaltum. The mntortnan U always ring ing the go tg lor them to turn out. Ic wonld not be necessary on n fonr-trocked street. The cost is so nominal, the advantages so enormous, not considering the sale of tho franchises, that 1 am astonished our worthy Chief of Public Works has not taken it up. PiTTSBURQ.'April 10. T. N, M. Taking Ui Urein Ills Bands. Chicago Times, In publishing his autobiography Ben But ler is taking his life in his bands. THE BHADE4CH JCEMOBIAL. Programme for the Dedication of the Firth Avenue Baptist Church. Preparations were completed yesterday for the dedication of the Fifth Avenue Bap tist Church next Sunday. In the forenoon Bev. Clarence A. Adams, D. D , of Franklin, Pa., with preach, after whioh Thomas Corde, treasurer of the building committee, will give a report of the finances. In the after noon at half-past two o'clock short addresses will be made b'y Bevs. J, K. Kramer, H. C. Applegarth, W.A. Stanton, D.D.. William S. Wood. H. C. Hall, W. W. West, L. H. Don ner, J. W. Biddle and others. In the- even ing Bev. A J. King, pastor ot the church, will make the opening prayer, and Bev. Clarence A. Adams, D. D will preach. The new church to be dedicated next Sun day was built as a memorial to the Bev. William A. Shadrach, D.D., whose name is a watchword In every Baptist home in the oountry. Dr. Shadrach was born at Swan sea, Wales, December 4. 1S04. At the age of IS vears he came tn this rnnnti-v tnri ninriA his home in Philadelphia. From Phlladel- Shla he went to Lewlsburg, Pa., was Dr ained and served his first pastorate at Mt. Pleasant. He also served at Peter's Creek, Grant street, Pittsburg; Loyalhanna, Salts- , uiuurai, anu aanausjty Btreet unurcn Allegheny. While preaching at Indiana he was elected Secretary of the American Baptist Publishing Company. He remained with them for six years, then went back to preaching again. After a long and success ful life, he died at Indiana, Pa., October L 1890. His body was brought to Pittsburg and interred. The newohuroh cost $8,500 and the pastor is Bev. A. J. King, who was called here from Verona. The church Is still in debt, but hopes to raise enough at the service next Sunday to clear all lncumberances. It has 80 members and a Sunday school with 200 members. 5AILISG THEM TO THE CBOSi Silver Men Will Compel Both Parties to Define Their Position on the Question. General A. J. Warner, of Harrietts, regis tered at the Seventh Avenue Hotel last evening. He is a member of the National Silver Association, which met in St. Louis two years ago. The Executive Committee, consisting or a representative from each State, will meet In Washington to morrow. General Warner represents Ohio, and was on his way to the Capital to be present. He says they Intend to put the silver question fnirly before both National Conventions, and compel the parties to define their position on silver. He thought the most effective way to accomolish this end Is to call another meetinir of the Associ ation, which will probably be done before the Conventions meet. At this gathering the usiuuuau wuo voieu against Diana a dm will be hauled over the coals in a vigorous manner. "The silver question," continued the Gen eral, "was defeated by New York Congress men. It was political trickerv In the inter est of Cleveland. The edics went forth from the bankers who are supporting the ex President to kill the bill, and the members under their thumb did it. The object was to advance Cleveland's inter ests before tho people. I now think that the Demooratlo nominee will not come from Now York. As between Cleveland and Hill, I prefer the latter, but I do not believe either or them will be suc cessful. The candidate will come from the West, and it may be a choice between Sena tor Palmer, Boles and Gray. 1 have great admiration for Gorman, and would like per sonally to see him nominated. MISSIOrTABY "WORK OF TBACIS. What the American Society Is Doing, Ac cording to the Secretary's Report. Washixotox, April 17. The Washington annual meeting of the American Tract So fa ciety was held to-night. Justice William Strong, President or the society, presided. Tho Secretary, in presenting his report, called attention especially to its work In the sparsely-settled regions of our country. In the mission districts of the cities and among the foreign-speaking people. The report says tho society prints the truth at home and abroad In l.iO language. The society has granted over $700,000 for foreign publica tions, and nearly $2,250,003 In home publica tions. The missionaries of this society have visited over 14,000,000 families in this coun try, engaging them In Christian conversa tion and leaving with them nearly 16,000,000 volumes of religious literature. In this work they have found thousands of families with out the Bible and destitute of all Christian literature. During the past year the society has em ployed 167 missionary reporters, who have visited 117,703 .families and circulated 86,196 volumes. In addition to this work it lias granted in the course or the year, in cash and publications, at home and abroad, $30, 0C0. The entire receipts for the year from all sources were. In round numbers, $316,000. The American Tract Society Is nOn-denom-inational but evangelical. It finds ready access to the people, and its publications are in large demand. It is preparing to make an exhibit at the World's Fair. THE BUSTLERS' WjR. If the rustlers out in Wyoming will now refrain from traveling eastward in the guise or a wild west show all will be forgiven. Chicago Newt. Ekcipbocitt seems to have a way all Its own among the cattlemen, horse thievesand other peculiar citizens of the far West, who recognize no law except the shotgun. Barton Globe. Tnu prompt Introduction of 43 funerals into the. families of as many eminent "rustlers" in -Wyoming hasapparentiyglven the cattle-stealing industry a serious blow in that State. Toledo Blade. We suppose that never did an invading army surrender with more cheerfulness than did the Wyoming legnlntors to tho United States troops that rescued them from the ru3tlers. New York Commercial Adver tiser. The "rustlers" and the stockmen seem to Jiave a kind of John Brown war of exter mination in the the new Bepublican State of Wyoming. Bnt to a peaceful Easterner whose education in matters pertaining to live stock has boen somewhat neglected it is not apparent which are the thieves and which are the regulators. Louisville Courier Journal A FSETT7 EASTEH CELEBSATI0H. How Councilman Ober Remembered the Orphans In St. Joseph's Asylum. One of the prettiest of the Easter celebra tions yesterday was that made by Mrs. John P. Ober, wife of the well-known brewer and Solent Councilman fiom the Thirteenth Ward, Allegheny. For years Mr. and Mrs. Ober have been giving the children of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, on Troy Hill, a treat of colored eggs. This year they de cided to entertain the little ones at their home. Accordingly, yesterday morning 200 of the inmates of st. Joseph's led bv Council man Pappert, who is a director in that insti tution, marched up to the Ober mansion, at the head or the Trov Hill road. In the great Droad hall Mrs. Ober received the children and to each at parting was given a pretty ouvenlr in the shape or a handsome red and white basket made in the shape of a nest. This was filled with gaily colored pges ami also small candy ones made In imitation of bird's eggs. On the top was perched a snow-white candy rabbit. This was placed there in honor of the famons German legend that on Easter the rabbits laid the colored eggs. What! A Pittsburg Man Who Boasts. New York Evening Sun.J A drummer from Pittsburg tells of a new grade of plate glass manufactured by the house he represents that is so clear that a brickbat can pa6s through it even when thrown by the merest child. THE EASTEK BONNET. Don't mike 'em IIe they use to done killed with too much style Fixed up with blrus an' ribbons, till you know 'era half ainlie; They call 'em "Easter ,bonnet, "ia the big store nindows liting Alu't nothln' lite the bonnets that they wore when we was young! How much completer, sweeter, and neater was the old Tlmo bonnet, shadln rosy cheeks an' ringlets black an' gold I Plain, with noflxin'sonit-wlthastrlngofredor blue; Bnt a kiss beneath that bonnet was as sweet as hoae'r-dew! Don't make 'em Uko they use to-done killed with too much style! An' yet the girls that wear 'em give a feller sich a smile. He kinder smooths It over-rorglves 'em so high strung But they're nnthn' like the bonnets that .they wore when ho was young) Atlanta Constitution. CUE10DS CONDENSATIONS. China can boast of a soap tree. The South African milk tree produces good substitute for cow's milk. Mr. Anne Young, the Gypsy queen, is dead. She was burled at Paterson, N. J. , Last year the aggregate loss of property from fire in the United States was $140,000, C00. The youngest New York burglar is said to be a 9-year-old lad captured a few days ago. A Tiffin, O., man carries a gold coffin screw 100 years old for luck. He found it iu a graveyard. Mrs. A. T. Branch, of Orient, Fit, killed a six-foot rattler iu her strawberry patch the other day. It h proposed to police Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, with patrolmen who are over six feet high. A New Jersey firm manufactures 80, 000 dozen eggs dally. They expect to manu facture spring chickens a year hence. A Missouri judge presented to the ex Confederate Home 53 cents, but they were) very old coins, and are to be sold at auction. The New York city flags were hoisted Good Friday. It was a blunder on the part of an employe. The flags were up until four o'clock. Five hundred thousand Londoners save five days per annum each by riding on rail wavs. a total saving of 3,500,000 days, worth 830,000. One million four hundred thousand pounds of sturgeon have been packed by a single firm in Kalama, Wash., this season, and shipped to the East. A man without legs is the latest freak to Join the Barrium aggregation. His feet connect directly with the body. In moving about he uses his hands and One foot. The people upon the two continents of North and South America, without the Arc tic regions, are less than 122,000,000 in num ber, or only eight to the square mile. Lizzy Kerwin, of New York city, early on the morning of March 29 paraded the streets in a somnambulistic fit, but nothing else. Saturday morning she fell from a win dow while asleep and was injured. A rat attacked a pigeon on the window sill of the upper story of the Boston Federal bulldinsr. The rat bit the pigeon, and the latter dropped its enemy off the sill, and it fell to the pavement. Both are dead. J. N. Puckett, of Obion county, Tenn., it is said, has a mule 29 years old. Notwith standing his aze he is nuite a mule, and his owner Is bareful never to leave him hitched to a wagon for fear he will run away and get spoiled. According to the "Secret Doctrine," we are now living In the Kail Yusa, the last of the Four Ages, and lc began nearly 5 000 years ago. with tho deatn of Krishna, B. C. 3102. The first minor cvolo of the Kail Yuga will end In the years 1897-3. In the matter of trans-Atlantic pas senger travel, the Whlto Star heads the English lines with 371,193 passengers; the Cuiurd comes next with 323,900, the Inmnn tollows with 322,930, and tho Gulon with 237, 836. The total or these amounts to 1,255,859. The Gulf of Georgia is reported to be almost choked with largo schools of herring. The Washington and British Columbia fish ermen are catching the fish by the ton with no trouble whatever, and are making crood money by packing them for shipment East. A German importer of immigrants has offered to settle 4CO.00O Germans in the Northwestern territory of Canada, but wants a price per capita for all whom be lands. But he can't guarantee they won't do ns tho Canadians do and emigrate to the United States. Ants are eaten by many nations. In Brazil they are served with a resinous sanco and In Africa they aro stewed with butter or grease. The East Indians catoh them in pits and carernlly mash them in bandfuls, liko raisins. In Slam a curry of ant eggs is a costly luxury. A man in New Jersey has been fined $500 for selling copies of the song, "Maggie Murphy's Home." This is not to bo taken as an indication of musical cnltnre on the part of Jerseymen, however. The only mule found with him was that be was violating the copyright law. J. A. Buchanan, of Obion connty.Tenn., has in his possession an old hunters' powder gourd, such as was uea by all the old pio neer hunters, In which they carried their powder, that belonged to his grandfather, and U, according to Mr. Buchanan's estima tion, over 100 years old. Rev. Sam Bettis, the cowboy preacher, is having a boat built under his direction at Clinton, East Tennessee, in which he pro poses to collect nn Anderson countv exhibit for the World's Fair. This craft when com pleted will cost $2,500, and is to bo finished with brns railinas, will carry two masts and a sufficient amount of canvas. Of the large number of orders of knight hood in Europe several are exclusively fe male. Some are of old or peculiar founda tion, but are spoken of as still existing. That of the Bee. in France, established in 1703, would suitably honor female industry; that of Neighborly Love, In Austria, dating from 1708, commends an excellent virtue. The Ottomac tribes of earth-eating Indians kneed tne earth into balls of five or six inches in diameter, which they roat by a slow fire nntll the outside is bard. They remoisten them when they are required as food, and, according to a monk who lived 12 vears among them, one of them would eat from three-quarters of a pound to a pound of this peculiar food in a day. Collectors who pick up strictly genuine apostle spoons tor a couple of dollars a spoon will be interested to know that a sot of 12 such spoons was recentlv sold at Christie's, in London, for $2,000. They had silver-gilt stems, surmounted by gilt figures of the npostles, bnt their great value arises from the fact that they were a present from Charles II. to the wife of Sir Bobert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London. Henry A. Bower, of Adams township, Hamilton county, in 1S51 slipped a small cucumber In a giassbottle, and he permitted tho vine to furnish nourishment until the enenmberhad filled thp available spaee in side the bottle. The vino was then clipped off, the bottle was filled with alcohol and carefully sealed. The cuenmber still re tains its original appearance, and it looks ns perfect as it did when bottled np 38 years ago. Pews, in the modern sense of the word, nnmely inclosed seats, did not come into usa until about tho period of the Beformation. In 1698 galleries wero introduced, and as early as 1614 pews were arranged to afford comfort by being baized or cushioned, while the sides around were so high as to hide the occupants a device of the Puritans to avoid being seen by the officers who reported those who did not stand when the name of Jesus was mentioned. SIFTINGS' PATENT TICKLEES. An exchange speaks of female lawyers; Yes, they are fee-males. Mrs. Knickerbocker I wonder why those people opposite stare over here so much? Mr. KnlckerBocker I suppose they are trying to find out why you stare over there. "Boss, hab you got any obdem confound cavortlc pills?" Yes. Do you want them plain or coated?" "Dnnno. I want dem ones what's white washed." "He got 'em." "Black is very becoming to you," re marked a Harlem gentleman to a newly made widow. "Xes, if my dear deceased husband had had any idea how well I would look In mourning I really don't believe he would have died," was the candid reply." "How is your father coming on?" asked Colonel Yerger of a darkey he used to own before the war. "He am deadl" "Dead, is he? He mast have reached an ad vanced age," "He did dat, for a fae'. Ho was llhln uptode berry Uay of his deff." Mr. Peterby I'll have to send Molly's shoes to the shoemaker. Mrs. Peterby Are they very much out of repair? It seeios to me she is getting new shoes every week. "I should say they were ont of repair. There Is such a big holeln tho sole of one of her shoes that she loses her stocking through it." Patent Medicine Man (to editor) You made a nice mess of that testimonial advertise ment. Editor-How? 'John Smith wrote: Yonr Lire Forever Pel lets are ilolu me a great deal of good, bend me another box.' and I told you to give it s prominent place," "I did Immediately preceding the death rates." "Yes; and the first death notice on the Ust was that Jobn Smith."
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