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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, APRIL
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SUNDAY. APRIL It 1SK.
HIIX'S USELESS TICTOKY.
The vote of the House on the Noyes
Rookwell case is widely taken as a victory
for Hill. It is characteristio of Hill's vic
tories that they depend on seating Demo
crats, even when the evidence fairly con
vinces a majority of the Democrats, -who
in esticate the cases, that the Republican
are entitled to the seat
There is no doubt that Hill made an
especial effort to secure the seating of
liociiwell, and to commit the House to the
principle that party spirit should refuse a
fair verdict to the candidate honestly and
legally elected. In this effort he was aided
by the Tammany machinery and had
a powerful assistance in the re
sentment of the Southern members
over equally flagrant actions in contested
election cases by the Republican majority
of the Ust Congress. So far the victory is
with Hill.
But it is hard to see how this victory has
much influence on the Presidental ques
tion. In the first place it puts him before
the country in his proper light as a rank
advocate of partisanship as against honest
popular representation, which is a fatal
quality for a Pres'dental candidate- In
the next place, the election of delegates is
nearer the voice of the people thau a vote
of Congress can be, and that has already
pronounced against Hilhsm.
THE LICENSE WOItK.
The Judges of the License Court yester
day handed down the results of their five
weeks' labor, which completes their task
except as regards seven cases, which are
held for further hearings. The Judges have
investigatcdl,777 applications.of which 389
were granted in Pittsburg, 121 in Alle
gheny 143 in the boroughs and townships
and 128 w holesale licenses. The work has
been an exacting one, and while exception
may be taken to the details, no one will
dispute that it has been performed with
thoroughness and patient care. The re
sult shows a comparatively slight decrease
In the retail licenses and a rather sharp
cut in the wholesale list; but It was
evidently the judgment of the Court that
it was impolitic to try to hold the list down
to the narrow totals established in some of
the preceding years.
Parenthetically, might not the fact that
two of the Judges of our courts have been
occupied for five weeks in investigating
the character of saloon keepers convey a
suggestion that an economy of valuable
time could be effected by making this
process biennial or even triennial, with a
strict exercise of the judicial power of
revocation?
TOE COKKECT ATTITUDE;
In his reply to the citizens of Wyoming
who arc opposed to the wealthy cattle
men's raid, the President states that the
United States troops were ordered to in
tervene, only upon the application of the
Goieraor, and that the prisoners will be
turned over to the civil authorities as soon
as the latter are ready to receive them.
This puts the Administration in the cor
rect attitude; and as The Dispatch yes
terday commented on an apparent inter
ference of the troops with civil justice, it
is only fair to recognize that if there has
been such a temporary interference, it will
be entirely corrected by the steps specified.
The reports have stated that the Sheriff
of Johnson county had already demanded
the custody of ihe prisoners; which, if cor
rect, indicates that the officers in charge
of the troops had in refusing the demand
taken a position which the President will
not sustain. By the statement of the
President, it will be left with the courts of
Wyoming to decide how to deal with
wealthy citizens who arrogate to them
selves the right of private murder.
A qualification for immigrants.
The interview with Mr. R. D. Layton,
the United States Inspector of Immigra
tion, on the class of immigration which
this country has been receiving, confirms
the belief which The DisrATcn has fre
quently expressed, that our present Immi
gration laws are really of little service. A
few classes of immigrants which are
highly undesirable are kept out; and
others, who might be valuable citizens, are
also excluded. But the number of both
Is a mere drop in the bucket beside the
mass of ignorance and poverty which
is pouring into the country by the thou
sands every week.
The trouble with our present immigra
tion laws Is that they place too much stress
on the external circumstances of the im
migrant, and too little on the real quality.
That defect could be remedied by the un
doubtedly timely suggestion of Mr. Layton
that an educational restriction be placed
on immigration. Education need not be
the bole criterion of an immigrant's fit
ness. Respectable and law-abiding char
acter should accompany it If these quali
fications were insisted upon in the case
of every immigrant, there is no doubt
that there would be a vast improvement
in the quality of our accessions to popula
tion, at the same time that there was a
material decrease in the quantity. Sir.
Layton's position is a sound one and is
worthy of attention.
It might be supposed to follow that
when we reach the point of forbidding
ignorance to swell our population, we
would also forbid the right of suffrage to
new citizens -who are equally ignorant
But who will say that the country would
be worse off if it should exclude both
immigrants and new voters who are not
up to a reasonable standard of intelli
gence? A DAMAGING KECOIL.
The threat of Senator Teller, in his
speech on the monetary question last
week, that if the Republican party con
tinues to oppose free silver coinage, the
four silver States, Colorado, Nevada,
Montana and Idaho, will be found oppos
ing the Republican party in future, con
veys a very emphatic lesson on the policy
of making States for party purposes.
All the States mentioned were brought
into the Union with the idea of strength
ening the Republican jjarty in Congress
and the Electoral College. TVhen the two
newer ones were brought in, The Dis
patch pointed out not only that the policy
was a vicious one, but that the Republican
party was leaning on a weak support in
that respect. The admission gave the
voter in the new States six times as much
influence as the voter in Pittsburg, for the
creation of Congressmen and electors.
That power it was supposed would be
used for the Republican policy, but it did
not require very much foresight to see that
in the rise of new issues it might be used
in the other direction.
Senator Teller's threat shows that the
warning was notmisplaced. On the ques
tion of silver, it is declared by the leading
representative of those States, that the
electoral and Congressional votes created
by Republican policy will be used either to
dragoon the Republican party into swal
lowing the silver dose, or to defeat it The
carving out of States which, with a popu
lation half that of this Congressional dis
trict, contribute, each, three electors, two
Senators and a Congressman, to the Gov
erement of this country, returns to plague
the inventors.
There may be some retributive justice
in such a miscarriage of the pohcy of
making States for party advantage; but
that will not be much consolation for the
country, if Senator Teller's plan should
result in the enactment of free coinage.
At present the chief obstacle to the en
forcement of tBe threat is likely to be that
between Harrison and Cleveland the sil
ver States will have a hard time finding a
free silver President to vote for.
MODERN CHURCH WORK.
The Cincinnati clergyman, whose work
in running a building and loan association,
a commercial college, classes in languages
and a kindergarten, in connection with his
church, forms the subject of one of our
specials, evidently has a very active idea
of keeping the church in touch with mod
ern times. The church in question was
one well nigh abandoned by the removal
of members to other parts of the city.
This young clergyman had the problem
before him of bringing the non-church-going
classes, of whom there is every
where an abundance, into the church; and
he seems to have worked it out most suc
cessfully. The salient lesson of his work is the
value of making religious and charitable
organizations a live force in the everyday
existence of the people. Plenary inspira
tion and predestination may bo important
points in the logical construction of a the
ological system; but to the masses a re
ligious organization which carries its influ
ence into their daily lives has much more
vitality. It is also a possible view that
more tangible social results are accom
plished by a church which, while urging
the precepts of morality upon the people,
extends to them aid and instruction in the
daily struggles of actual life, than by any
amount of work In extending orthodox
views on apostolic authority or the doc
trine of election. We venture the predic
tion that churches managed on the plan
of this clergyman will never have to com
plain of the lack of popular attachment to
the church.
SCIENTIFIC IDIOCY.
The gifted Italian, Prof. Lombroso, who
is engaged in upsetting all previous beliefs
about the nervous sensibility and fine
mental organization of woman, has com
mitted the fatal errorof proving too much.
Having first demonstrated to his own sat
isfaction that the sensibility of the female
sex to pain is less than, in the male sex, he
comes out with an explanation of the dis
proportion of female to male criminals.
This, he remarks; Is due to the inferior
intelligence of women, the criminal im
pulse being more readily developed in a
person of the higher intellectual order.
In this deliverance, the learned Lom
broso succeeds in ranking his own intelli
gence more clearly than that of woman.
Perhaps the penitentiaries and jails are
collections of unrecognized talent Pos
sibly crime increases as intelligence grows.
But when we come to a sociological asser
tion which leads to the conclusion that the
truly virtuous and law-abiding communi
ties must be sought among the most ignor
ant savages, we must respectfully decline
to accept it and all the theories built upon
It, even including the dogma of the pro
found Italian school, which takes the in
tellectual inferiority of women for granted.
Even supposing that the remarkable theory
of the intelligence of criminals was to be
accepted, the women can retort crush
.ingly upon Prof. Lombroso. He builds
his conclusion upon the statistics Of crimes
that are detected; and the women may
point to that fact as an evidence of the
superior cleverness with which women
conceal their misdeeds.
The Italian savant might as well abandon
his work of showing the insensate inferi
ority of the female sex. He has already
sufficiently displayed his own intellectual
rank by writing himself down an ass.
Upon his own theory, we may rest assured
that Prof. Lombroso will never commit
any worse crimes than those against scien
tihe reasoning in his essays on women.
TOO MUCH INNOVATION.
The intelligence conveyed by a special
article contained elsewhere, that in the
translation of what is to be presented as
the new American Bible, the moral teach
ings are to be omitted from what have
heretofore ranked as among the s trongest
passages of Scripture, is startling to say
the least Those who have 'opposed the
doctrine of plenary Inspiration have done
so on the ground that passages, like the
genealogical passages, were not of the in
spired kind. But when it comes to emas
culating passages Jlke the familiar "Re
member, now thy Creator in the days of
thy youth," it is permissible ti say that
the effect of such a revion will be more
damaging to the success of the new ver
sion than to the standing of the old one.
To judge by the new form of that chap
ter the version, which the new translators
propose for the acceptance of this country,
does not rival the old one in purity aud
impresslveness of language; and, in the
instance mentioned, Its main claim upon
public notice is the daring innovation of
striking out as unauthorized one of the
most impressive moral passages in the
Bible. Those who talk of the language of
King James' time being obscure and
archaic, should remember that it is the
dialect elevated by association to the high
est and most sacred forms of expression.
Any translators who imagine that they can
produce clearer and more impressive ver-,
sions than the old Bible must show very
strong justification for that idea in their
works.
A version which proceeds on the basis
of modernizing, and consequently vulgar
izing the language of the Bible, and ac
companies that idea with the novel policy
of rejecting the purest moral teachings
will defeat itself. The public will be apt
to conclude that the authority-of the elder
translators as to the authenticity of these
passages was as good as that of the inno
vators. It is not likely that the old Bible
hallowed by centuries of sacred associa-
tion will be cast aside for a new version,
which emasculates the moral teachings
and lowers the standard of its verbal
beauty.
The attempt to fores Mr. Blaine into a
Presidental candidacy against his trill after
the fashion proposed by the Chicago Blaine
Club is offensive foolishness. It is too late
to revive the Blaine movement. Even if the
Secretary of State could be induced to re
consider his declination, his change of atti
tude would seriously damage his strength.
Beyond all that, the reasons he Has given
are such as the nation must respect. There
is no national exigency requiring a man to
take an office which he feels would seriously
impeiil his lite.
It is an interesting discovery that the ar
dent Democrats who published Henry
George's free trade woik iu the Congressional
Record have thus put themselves on record
as declaring In la vor of absolute free trade,
the abolition of customs, the repeal of all n ?
tlonal and State taxation excepting only the
favorite single tax on land. The moral or
which to the energetic Congressman is:
Bead what you Intend to incorporate in your
remarks, before publishing it as you; opin
ion. The silver men have determined on hav
ing their convention, which they are per
fectly entitled to do. But the convention
method of exploiting the silver cause will
never turn the tide as long as that cause
represents the scaling down of the unit of
values and silver monometallism.
Senator Palmes is determined to fight
against the Cleveland and Morrison move
ment in Illinois. Which promises that the
Democratic Convention will not present
that dull and deadly harmony whioh
threatens to prevail in the Republican gath
ering. Mb. Depew announces that Cleveland
will be nominated at Chicago, and that the
convention will declaie for tariff reform
This demonstrates Mr.Depew's ability to see.
clearly through a millstone when there is a
large hole in the center of it.
The call of an extra session of the Sew
Tork Legislature by Governor Flower be
trays a mistaken apprehension on the part
ofXew York's Executive that the Legisla
ture has not yet been given sufficient rope
to hang itself effectually.
That story that ex-Speaker Reed would
not speak in Vermont if the delegates were
to be instructed for Harrison, conveys the
diead information that Sir. Beed would de
cline to count in a quorum for the President.
The trusted cashier who did the Roths
childs out of a million marly was paid the
munificent salary of $1,250 per annum. Tet
people wonder at the plunder of wealthy
firms by their confidential subordinates !
The modesty of States with Democratic
favorite sons is something remarkable this
year. Only in case Cleveland is not to be re
nominated will they leap their dark horses
into the breach.
Another twenty-five cents advance in
the price of anthracite coal. The energy
with which the combinations pursue their
professed purpose of lowering prices is an
awtul example.
Ex-Senator Inqalls denies that he is
coming back to Congress; but the people of
Kansas put in the most convincing denial
for him, in the elections of 1890.
Is there a man in town this morn, to
whom the hope hath net been born, that
Pittsburz's club, from second place, may
Jump to first and win the race?
Sow can marriage be a failnre when the
Supreme Court of Kentucky says that a
man's mother-in-law is a part of his family
and he must support her!
The report is abroad that few tront are to
be found in the mountain streams this
spring. Is this an outbreak of the peach
crop liar in a new placet
The removal of the Drayton-Borrowe-Mllibans-Fox
fuss without feather to Eu
rope is a great teller. There is a strong hope
that it may stay there. '
The New York Legislature whitewashed
Judge Maynard; but what power is equal to
the task of whitewashing the New York Leg
islature! What is it that draws the French army
to Dahomey? Booty or beautyt
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Lord Brassey, with his yacht, Sunbeam,
has arrived at Cowes. He is enthusiastic
over his trip to America.
The Marquis of Ailesbury gets from
.15,003 to 20,000 yoarly by the withdrawal
of his opposition to the sale of Savcrnake.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., sailed for
France on the steamer La Bretagne yester
day in company with her cousin, Mr. Charles
JIcAhstor and his wife, of Philadelphia.
General A. P. Hill, in whose honor a
monument will he unveiled in Virginia soma
time during May, was one of the bravest
fighters in tbo Confederacy. He was Lee's
trusted lieutenant.
John Fiske, the historian and evolu
tionist, is so overwhelmed by letters from
people unknown to him that lie feels it im
possible to undertake to answer them, and
many be is unable to read at all.
The betrothal of Prince George, only son,
of the Prince of Wales, and Princes Mary
Victoria, daughter of the Duke and Dnchess
of Teck, has been definitely decided upon,
aud it will shortly be announced.
Lord Tennyson is greatly pleased with
Augustin Daly's success with "The Forest
ers," anjl the largo sales of the work here.
The poet, who is in excellent health and
spirits, is entertaining a house party at Fresh
Water.'
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte is de
scribed by Kate Field as a man with the most
correct taste in the matter of dining of any
man in Washington. Kate adds that he is
one of those persons who will always carry
a walking stick, but will never need it.
"Miss Sarah Nicholas Randolph is
lyingcriticallyillat her residence in Balti
more. She was the youngest daughter of
the lato Colonel Thomas Jefferson Randolph,
of Edgehill, Albemarle county, Virginia", and
a great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson.
Special arrangements have been made
by the interested railroads for the proposed
tour of George W. Chtlds and party across
the continent. The party will leave Phila
delphia May !, coming direct to Chicago
over the Pennsylvania road. There they
will take the Burlington route for the West.
SMALL TALK OF THE DAY.
The Ups and Downs of the Pittsburg Car
rlage Horse Forbes Street's Lost
Prestige The Business Man's Lunoh
Fighting Duels With Wind.
WElTTXIf FOB THI DISPATCH.
In the semi-prehistorie days, before
natural gas and cable and electrio roads in
Pittsburg, everybody seemed to own or in
some way control at least one horse. It was
a time when this was a city of magnificent
distances, and if you wanted to go to Troy
Hill or Wilkinsburg you arose at daybreak
and took yonr lunch and a change' of linen,
unless you had a horse. The iron manu
facturer, the glass man, the coal mine
operator and all other classes drove to their
offices or made business calls on each other
in dilapidated buggies drawn by horses
trained to stand all day in one place.
These equipages were so familiar that
they were lecognizable at a glance. Ire
member one day while walking .with an
iron-maker he uttered an exclamation of
disgust and hurried on saying, "Excuse me,
but I see So-and-so's in the Such-and-such
bank, and if I don't hurry he'll have all the
money they've got'to lend." I looked in
vain for Mr. Soandso, all I could see was a
long haired horse and a buggy in its second
childhood both asleep iu front of the bank
door. I was young then In the' art of put
ting two and two together and making six
out of it, and for a time thereafter I admired
the man who made that remark as one who
commenced with spirits.
The wives and daughters of people iu
Allegheny, or the East End, came to tne city
in vehicles of all sorts, from big family arks
or neat broughams to buckboards and plain
canvas-topped spring wagons, and they
took the marketing and sundries home with
them. Life insurance" companies whioh
knew their bnslness are said to have placed
clauses in their policies forbidding the In
sured from prowling around on Forbes
street between Craft avenue and the big
bridse, or on Penn avenue near Point
Breeze on Snndavs, just as they forbade
them from going to yellow fever and cholera
countries during hot weather. Those places
were sacred to people who know how to
drive fast horses, or thought thoy did, and
life ana limbs were always in danger unless
you rode In an ice wagon. It wasn't even a
dead sure safe thing to sltonthe front poroh,
unless it was reached by a goodly 8 trot oh , of
steps, for you never can tell what will hap
pen when young men who have indulged fn
beer indulge in chariot races with livery
stable rigs. There was something plotur
esque and rural in all this, and you could
almost fancy yourself in Youngstown, O., or
Ebensburg, or some other lively but em
bryotic town.
A Deradence and Then a Bevlval.
Then this epoch became history, which
means it Joined the other ages whioh ate
subjects of promiscuous lying. The gas com
panies cut up the ntipets to lay pipe) sewers
and water pipes seemed to be in demand
everywhere, and there was no place to drive
in the city limits. Carriage horses became
scarce and fancy turnouts weie about as
plentiful us tney are in Venice for several
years. That was a time when new friend
ships and new associations grew apace, for
you could not get yourold friends who lived
some distance off to come and see you, and
you had perfoice to get acquainted with
your own family and your neighbors. Then
Magee, Fliun and (Bfgelow Invented Sohen
ley Park, and there was another magical
change. Horses and carriages became more
numerous than ever, and of a new and pre
tentious character. Victorias, drags, mall
phaetons, English park carts, depot wagons
and nondescript two-wheeled and four
wheeled affairs in yellow and orange flitted
and do flit unto this day in and through the
suburbs and the park drives.
Even four-in-hand coaches have come
into vogue with us, although it is rather
on the installment plan so far, and
in the way of liveried coachmen
footmen and grooms, we are nothing if not
peculiar. As a rule footmen are only used
here for park purposes, it being understood
that they are safe there, as the moo cannot
oreaif into tne gunstores ana get out again
in time to do much execution. Then, too,
the small boy's ponv aud the roadster of bis
elder brother and sister have multiplied in
the land until there are droves of them
scampering about and a very pretty sight
it is. Once the Juvenile mud piemaker or
marble shooter paused in bis avocation to
greet the equestrian of either sex with pro
longed shouts of "Lady on a horseback!
lady on a horseback!" a oustom of doubtful
origin and uncertain purpose but of late it
has lost its hold on tbo youthful mind and
bids fair to loin kissing games and other
pastimes of the mound builders.
Fqrbes Street Has Seen Its Day.
And yet, though there be a plentitude
of horseflesh, and what a financier might
playfully dub "accommodation horseflesh"
at that, the streets in the lower portion of
the city liave not regained their lost traffic
of this nature. The ladles have grown
nervous about accidents owing to the num
ber of cable and electric cars which seem to
chase you hither and thither.
"When mamma goes to town in our car
riage," remarked a laughing girl In a street
car the other day to her companion, "sho
hints that the rest of us ought to stay at
home and do Ale service 'for a person gone
to sea' "and she thus described? a great
many mammas very neatly. The tables of
calculations, showing the striding force of
an electrio bnbtailed car, are dlsoouraglng,
when an ordinary carriage is the point of
impact. It is in the eastern portion of the
city one sees the driving, and Howe street,
which is paved with asphalt and is quite
level, has altogether eclipsed Forbes street
and the other old favorites of the horsemen.
Business Men Learning to Live.
Another thing which has changed won
derfully within a few years, is the character
of the "business man's" lunch in Pittsburg.
Through what may be aptly called the city's
middle ages the lunch was invariably regu
lated by how much it would cost and not by
what it consisted or. The rule was "some
change lett out of half-a-dollar." There
might only be a balance of a nickel, but bal
ance' of some sort there must be. Boast
beef or raw oysters and a cup of coffee was
the ruling biu'of fare prefaced with bitters,
and the v had to be bolted in half an hour.
Nowadays the cafes have upset all the
traditions, the city fathers have yielded to
the wiles of the French chefs, things with
"a la" in the middle of the names have
triumphed over roast beef, the menu has
been extended to goodby lengths, there is a
decided tendency to linger and talk shop or
gossip over the post prandial cigar and all
that remains unchanged from the days of
darkness and Egyptian bondage is the bit
ters before lunch. It would be of interest
to interview some old physician on the com
parative statistics as to dyspepsia.
Duelling at So Much a Column.
I wonder if it is at all true that Bor-
rowe and Milbank, the "duelists" of Cole
man Drayton-Astor fame, are to do work for
a Now York literary syndicated How de
lightfully ingenuous! 1 suppose they will in
clude "Modoc Fox" in the partnership in or
der that that accomplished Indian fighter
may do the writing and sell the letters which
the otheis obtain or which they write to
each other. A good steady income might be
obtained by judiciously selecting notable
victims to be syndicated or shot at as the
exigencies of the case demanded. Think or
the thrilling subjects Fox would have to
deal with: "How It Feels to Be Shot at,"
("All rights secured"), "On the Field of
Honor," "The Ping of a Pistol Ball." "How
I -Got Cut With a Sword," "Fooling the
French Police."
Jt really brings up the question as 'to
whether in the future duelling for space
rates or by assignment will not take its
place in American newspaper offices of the
'advanced" class. Here would be aohance
for editors, indeed, to kill two bit ds with
one leporter by having someone whom they
have bad a quarrel with challenged and shoe
on assignment. The hated one would be re
moved, and tho office would, of course, have
a scoop of much detail. Who was it said
of everything "they do these things better
in France?" Do they, indeed! No; thev are
primitive and go duelling without any
notion of regarding the rights and privileges
of the press.
An Affair of Honor in Maryland.
Speaking of duels, I know or an affair
once something like this much-written-
about one of Borrowe's. It was over in tho 1
Western Maryland mountains, in the days
when farmers went to market with a long
muzzle-loading rifle thrown across tho
pommel of the saddle and when catamounts
and "critters" ot that ilk. were too thick for
comfort and notions of "honor" were as
loose in some lespeots as tney were rigid In
others. Two farmers, both famous as hunt
ers and notable in local politics, had enjoyed
a fuud of long duration. Somehow ft did
not take the shape of poltlng.each other
fiom behind trees as they did in West
Virginia Just across the backbone. At last,
however, things must have te-iched a crisis,
but how it came about and what was at the
bottom of it I do not know.
I was at the house of a farmer named
Beillywith some other boys getting ready
for wild pigeon shooting one morning when
two men rode up to the bouse, each carrying
rifles and looking particularly savage. Old
Eeilly was a noted wag and always ready for
practical Jokes, but a man of great nerve and
much respeoted by the mountaineers for his
prowess as a hnnter. He was told of the
coming of visitors, and in a few moments he
appeared in the front yard, where the guests
still sat on their horses silent and grim. The
other boys bad whispered tn me In eager
tones the main facts ot the fued, and told me
that the men in the yard were the heads of
the respective disagreeing- families. To
make matters more interesting the oldest of
the yonng Belllys opined that they had met
by chance and had decided to settle things
UD.
To say that we were in a state'of mind is
to put it mildly. I was a city boy fresh to
the mountains, but through the assistance
of Mr. Beadle, Captain Mayne Held and
others I had a very pretty collection of ideas
as to duels and shootings of all sorts, in
which, however, there were usually an as
sorted lot of Indians for targets. At last
one of the Bellly boys whispered: "Here
comes pap" and Kellly pere appeared on the
poroh.
"Get off, men, and come iu," said Bellly
cordially, ignoring the black brows of the
mounted men.
"No: I 'bleaged," retorted the nearest
mountaineer. "We uns is got bizness on
hands. Say, John," and he loweied his
voice "him an' me is goln' to settle it, an'
we all wanter know ef we kin fight on your
lan'T" '
Beillv's face remained inscrutable as he
'exclaimed: "Good God, men, shorely you
uns ain't gointer shed blood!"
"That's our bizness. Kin we fight yere
ennywarest"
A Joke Spoils a Bloodletting.
Beilly seemed to ponder a moment and
then rubbed his chin refieottve)y with the
palm of his hand as he drawled out in an ir
resistibly comlo manner: "Wall, men, ef yer
bound ter fight, yer mouc ez wall fight outen
ther mender thar, cuz ther lan's powerful
poor thar an' mebbe ther flght'U do't good."
" First there was a snicker and then a roar
from the interior of the house and tefore we
boys knew whether to laugh or keep qniet
and burst, both duellists' began to grin.
Within five minutes the pair of visitors were
beside the fireplace and Bellly had patched
up a peace which was cemented, not with
blood, but with that wondeiful "mountain
.dew," which like other aew, comes in the
night, and no man knowoth whence it
cometh.
We boys felt that we had been robbed of a
good thing, and none ofusueie satisfied
until, after fooling with the rifle of one of
the duelists, whioh had been left out of
doors according to mountain etiquette, the
pieoe suddenly went off without apparent
cause, and the bullet killed a young pig out
by the pump, while the butt of the gun hit a
yonng Bellly in the stomach on theiebound,
and he forgot he was going shooting. This
incidental gunnery gave tho elders food for
talk and ultimately for supper when the pig
was cooked. P. L.-W.
K0T IN FAV0B OF BZV0LTJTI0H.
, Prominent Liberal ot Hawaii Favors
Constitutional Agitation Only.
Hosoiuiu, April 9, A significant speech
was made by Hon. John E. Bush, at a meet
ing of the Liberal party, April 7. Bush was
formerly one of the opponents of the present
regime. He has been elected to the next
Legislature as a representative of the
Liberal, or revolutionary party. In his
speech be said!
"Hon. C. W. Ashfofd will not speak to
night on annexation He is waiting until
the decision of the Supreme Court in our
noble contest case Is given, which will
probably be next week, wnen he will discuss
annexation, republicanism and monarchical
government. There is tiouble ahead. Mr.
Wilcox is feared. For myself, I have no
connection with these so-called revolutions;
out 11 our yueeu continues to louow tne idle
advice of a few moneyed men, trouble may
follow. I prefer quiet. I do not wish to
revolutionize the Government. Some desire
to gain power by force. I do not
want that. But if yon people
want to follow others you may do so.
"I am certain we would lose our independ
ence in a way, and would come off worse
than ever, though we are under a strange
Government to-dav.
"Our Queen is influenced by a native of
the South Sea islands, and that gentleman
has baffled the policy of the Cabinet. Has
our Queen done a single thing beneficial to
you, Hawaiian? It is sifld tbe Queen has
refused to sign the American treaty. She
did that because she knows she would not
be benefited bv the treaty, and not from
love for you. What is Minister of Foreign
Affairs Parker dolngT I think be is the great
est idler under tbe sun, but I believe the
Queen will have him to form a new Cabinet
it the present one resigns. Should this con
tinue, sandbags will not sooth tbe heart
aches of the people.
"We are jqstlflea in expressing publicly
our grievances against tbe Queen. That is
better than conspiring against her. If peo
ple come to tempt yon tojoin In a 1 evolution,
regard them as as your bitterest enemies.
Wilcox says we can't have a new consti
tution without bloodshed. I think other
wise. I believe if the people In Hawaii hold
conventions and ask the next Legislature
for a new constitution, the Legislature will
grant our petition. Foreign powers are con
centrating their attention upon you to-day.
Yon must do something to show them you
still prize yonr rights."
DIED 7B0M A BABE DISEASE.
The Patient's Veins Wore Out and Wouldn't
Hold His Lire Fluid.
PHrLAnMTniA, April 23. A peculiar death
occurred recently which has set the local
medical profession to thlnkingt About four
weeks ago Alexander Zellnsr, of the firm of
Zellner & Prioe, dealers in canned goods,
at Hi South Front street, was taken IU with
what he thought was an attack of the grip.
Paying no attention to the matter he con
tinued at business until his condition be
came so serious as to compel him to remain
at home. As he was a remarkably healthy
man, who had never known a sick day, he
resisted the advice of his friends and family
until he could hold out no longer, and Dr.
George Goebel was called in. By this time
small blisters, which seemed filled with
blood, had. made their appearance on his
face and chest.
Dr. Goebel, after a careful diagnosis,
reached the conclusion that his patient was
suffering from an extremely rare, but singu
larly fatal disease, known as purpura hem
orrabagla, or hemorrhage of the veins. He
had never seen a case like it before, but was
able to recognize the typical symptoms,
wblc were clearly defined. He ordered tbe
patient to bed, and enjoined perfect quiet
and repose. Mr. Zellner lingered for two
days, all the while losing blood. The doctors
were in constant attendance, but nothing
seemed to have any effect. Finally he was
seized with violent pains in the head, which
proved to be feemorrhages of the brain. This
was tho beglrinlnft of the end, and after suf
fering Intensely for several hours he lapsed
into unconsciousness and quietly passed
away. An autopsy was held and tho body
was found to be nearly empty of blood. The
veins had simply worn out and had small
punctures in them as if some sharp point had
pierced them.
G00DBI TO THE LOTTERY.
Goodbt to the Louisiana Lottery! .Barton
Herald.
The Louisiana lottery ticket drew a blank.
Same old story! Peoria Ledger. .
Votes for the Louisiana lottery appear to
have been about as scarce as prizes in the
drawings. Milwaukee Neva.
Now if Louisiana will amend ,hcr prize
fighting laws she will be quite respectable
company for the rest of the States. Chicago
News.
The returns from Louisiana mako it cer
tain that the Farmers' Alliance ticket has
cut a big, wide swath. Evidences multiply
that tho farmer is going to be "in it" on this
trip. .Barton Globe.
Neither Louisiana nor Mississippi in elec
tion methods is quite up to some of the
States of South America, where only one
side is allowed to vote, and if objection is
made the culprit is promptly imprisoned.
CMoag'o Inter- Ocean.
Tax defeated candidates in the Louisiana
election now burden the air with complaints
of fraud, bulldozing and ballot-box stuffing.
This is an item of news which may be stereo
typed and kept standing far use after every
Louisiana election Chicago Times.
THE THREE INFINITIES.
The vast remote blank darkness of the skies.
Where Silence foldeth the immortal chime
Of wheeling stars in avrful companies.
White whispers 011 tbe lips of ancient Time:
Tbe hollow waste of tbe nnfathom'd deep
Where no sound Is, and light is bat a gleam
Lost In dim twilight shades, where never creep
The dying rajs from daytlde's golden dream:
The dsrt, obscure, zn sterious human heart.
Where flerco tides ebb and flow lor evermore,
-Where' thoughts and dreams 'and hopes forever
part
For ruin or baven on some unknown shore
O vast abvsm, more deep than starry night.
More awful than the mid-tea's tonadlest nlrhtl
William Sharp, in Barper't JCieatine,
SECRETS OP THE SENATE.
Oliver P. Morton Once Investigated How
Executive Setsiou News Gets Out John
Itasaell- Tonne's Itemoral Would Be
Humorous. If Not So Unjust The Facts.
rwBirrzjr fob the dispatch.!
If anything were needed to commemo
rate the comedy that has been playod in
Washington since tbe foundation of tbe
Government, under the title of "Executive
Session," tbe reoent exhibition in the .high
est legislative body of the nation rounds
the play out admirably. Were it not fin
ished with lines of cruel injustice, where an
employe is eruclfled for what tbe Senators
themselves are responsible for, the custom
would have been made ridiculous, rather
than savage. There is not now, has not been
for'years, and never will be "secret ses
sions" of the Senate, as its dignified 'mem
bers would have tho term understood
throughout the land. That li, unless tbe
journalism of the country relapses into its
oustoms of before tbe war, new impossible.
To all newspaper men of identity about the
National Capitol, executive sessions are,
and have been for years, one of the humors
of their work.
How do they reach what goes on behind
the scenes?
The answer is easy. From the Senators
themselves who are there. Laughable
stories that would All a big volume could be
told by writers who have often lifted the
"secrets" out of these grave personages. The
truth is, that this tafc la about tbe only
really attractive, even fanny work, that
comos into the haid lives and exacting
duties of journalists who labor at Washing
ton. It is tbe harshest and most thankless
post in the profession. For 13 years my ex
perience with the "seoret session" sol
emnities was varied and most interesting,
but not more so tbanthatof mostotbers who
hunted in the same woods.
The siftlngs of the debate in the "secret
session" the other day, when the' clerk who
records the proceedings of that misnomer
was deposed without a hearing to furnish a
sacrifice for the weaknesses of its own mem
bers, must create a laugh among all news
paper men. During my years of service nt
Washington, I knew Mr. Young intimately,
and now, as then, always enjoyed the honor
of his close friendship. But after he became
an employee of the Senate, I would have as
soon thought or begging Peter for the keys
of the Golden Gate, as to havo asked Mr.
Young a single question In relation to what
went on under his eye, and within ear reach,
when the Senators were oloseted for debate.
He was ever the soul ot honor. The mem
bers of the Senate are themselves too easy
game for the Journalistic gun to lndnca a
writer to fool away his time in trying to get
something rrom an employe. He can fasten
tho badge of authority on what he writes,
from the master, which be could not do upon
the words of those who schrve them. If Sen
ators are ignorant of. these facts, they must
be strange beings indeed.
What Oliver P. Morton Learned.
An incident which occurred some years
ago with the powerful Oliver P. Morton will
illustrate the point made, and answer this
question: "How was it done?" One day, dur
ing the "secret" debate on one of those
famous Southern Senatorial election cases.
Mr. Justin S. Colburn, chief of the New York
Times bureau, for which I was the working,
said: "Lookout for the 'secret session;' it
will be very important to-day."
Naturally from that moment mymlnd was
centered for the day upon that duty. After
the "secret session" ended I walked up
Pennsylvania avenue with a very able and
well-known Senator, now dead. Before we
had reached tbe National Hotel he had,
without knowing It, given the gronndwork
upon which hinged tbo success of my task.
The rest was now easy. I left him at tho
entrance or tho hostelry, saying I had an
engagement tbere about that hour. He
passed on, while I entered, remaining a few
moments. Then I walked very leisurely up
tbe street, and another Senator soon over
took me, whom I knew, and for a time we
talked about everything else but the sub
ject uppermost in my mind. Finally I com
mented upon a speech of a Senator during
the proceedings behind the closed doors.
ine aegree ot icnowieage 1 seemed to have,
which was almost all conjecture, soon
opened his mouth, and before Willard's was
leached my task was virtually ended. Yet
he was not garrulous, only off his guard, and
did not measure his words. Besides, as I
seemed, to his mind, to know about what
had happened, there was less reserve than
usual. A social visit to one or two other
Senators during tbo evening, with like re
sults, made the story complete. It was then
easy to write a vory good description of
what went on in executive session that day,
and yet who told the story? '
It was printed next morning, and the pa
per reached Washington about the opening
or Congress. Having had several experiences
such as this, I did not legard it as of especial
consequence, dismissed it from my xnindand
went about a new day's work. That evening
I was astonished npon going to the office to
havo Mr. Colbum call me into his private
room and announce that the very Senator
who had given me tbe lever with which to
get tho news I wanted out of his associates
had, after the doors were olosed for the
"secret session" of that day, read the dis
patch, and made seveial comments npon the
fact that It was seemingly impossible for
the Senate to have any secrets from the
newspapers, and olosed his remarks upon1
"tbe outrage" bv offering a resolution
authorizing the Committee on Privileges
and Elections to investigate the ways oy
whioh the rights of the Senate were being
violated.
The Source of Information Is Sacred.
Mr. Oolburn laughed heartily, for he
knew in confidence where the meat for the
dispatch came from, as was bis right. We
discussed the subject at some length, and in
closing he asked what my policy would be
in case I was called before the committee.
"No question relating to the sources of my
Information will be answered by me."
"That is right," said he, "and you may
rest assured that yon will be protected in
case the matter comes to an issue."
Later the same evening Mr. Colbnrn called
npon Oliver P. Morton, tbo great Senator
from Indiana, Chairman of tbe committee
charged with the duty of making the inves
tigation into the "corrupt means" used by
newspapers in finding out the "secrets" of
the executive sessions. During the conver
sation Mr. Morton told the journalist that
he had a great curiosity to know how it was-
possioie ror nis guna to earner wnat went
on in "secret" session. Mr. Colburn gave
him such answer as he desired, but what
followed- may furnish the clew to his re
marks. The office was a door or two distant from
the hotel. I was summoned, there and shown
into the Senator's room. I think Mr. John
M. Carson, clerk of the Committee on Ways
and Means of the last Congress, ,who has had
many such experiences himself, as 'the one I
am relating, was present, or came in during
the conversation. At least he knows all
about it, for he was Mr. Colbnrn 's chief lieu
tenant in the work of the office. I was asked
for the story of how I secured the material
for the dispatch of tbe day before, which
had created such a commotion. Without
mentioning any names, I gave the plant lac ts
to Sonator Morton. He seemed very much
amused, and asked if that were the general
practice among writers who sought the
"secrets" of the Senate. An affirmative
answer was readily given. If I remember
right he asked if I had ever received infor
mation of any character from an employe of
the Senate about an executive s:ssion and I
answeredhim candidly: "Never, nor never
asked for any from them, and I do not be
lieve any other newspaper men ever did."
At this he grew thoughtful, and quite a
conversation occurred about tbe general
methods ot procedure, and he leceived the
explanation of how easy the task was to get
the news after a start was made. The Sena
tor turned to Mr. Colbnrn and suggested a
desire to know-particulars. They were not
difficult to give.
Foreknowledge a Powerful Weapon.
Any subject, went on Mr. Colburn, im
portant enough to be discussed with closed
doors was caiefully watchea in every well
regulated bureau far in advance of its dis
cussion in executive session. The temper of
Senatois toward it was quietly obtained,
when they had a right to discuss it us freely
as any other citizen. This was kept in mind
until the necessity for its use came, and
then the journalist was as well equipped as
the Senators upon the subject, and. knew
how most of them felt in relation to it.
When the issue came his thoughts were, all
centered upon this one matter, while the
Senator to be reached was not so deeply en
grossud with tho one duty of the hour.
. This gave tho newspaper man an advantage
to stare Willi, ana sometimes n single woru
nould recall what the public man had said
nocks or months before; That lixed his
place now, and was tho beginning or the
end. Weaving his own theory, the writer
used the one word or Idea caught enabling
him to talk with a good degree of learning
npon a matter supposed to be seoret.
Frequently much was gained from a
Senator's manner. In talking; with several
of them npon the same subject a great deal
was gathered from their negative words and
action that was of value in making up the
communication. ' All these elements joined
gave the newspaper man the power to write
a dtspatob, wbleh the Senators bad wittingly
or unwittingly given out, that read to them
udder his manipulation, as though someone
had told "tbe secrets of the prison bouse."
The mighty man of public- affairs from the
West seemed exceedingly interested at this
recital.whlch was notas much of a revelation
to him as some men who sat in the Senate
Chamber with him made it appear it was to
them. It is needless to say the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, of which he was
tbe Chairman, found it "inexpedient" to
make any inqniry, save tbe one be made in
private into the "methods" by whioh the
executive session reached the newspapers.
Henry Watterson, the able Jonrn alls t, was in
Congress but a short time; but long enough
to find all this oat, and now tells tbe Vlee
President what Senators should have known
and did know long nso. Yes, they knew
more, for men new in the Senate, as well as
some of those who have gone out, havo time
and again for self-interest or' to. serve some
purpose of their own. deliberately given out
the "secrets" or the Senate to some friendly
newspaper man wbonvthey could trust with
"secrets" he did not want to keep.
The Action Is All tor Effect.
There are many men still treading the
old path between Newspaper Bow and Capi
tol Hill who can tell even better stories than
this about that thoroughly un-American
"secret sessiou" business. The woods are
full enough of them to make tbe enstora not
only ridiculous, but cruelly so where "Sena
torial conrtcs7" behind closed doors is used
to assail men's reputations without their
having a chance to strike back. This solemn
farce and jsmblcm of torture- might have
been a valuable arm to legislation a half a
century ago; but since the days which began
with the war, when readers demanded all
the news from the papers, it has become an
old granny's night cap which might have
been thrown into the rag bag, but for the
present controversy.in whiob not only every
Journalist, but every citizen in the land is
Interested and concerned. Therols no longer
a single personality in it, but a great princi
ple is at stake. The solution of this contro
versy is easy. General Boyntau,' equal in
character and veracity to any man in the
Senate, has made specific charges which are
easy of proof. If the Senate will order an
investigation of them, the world will soon
see whether the Journalist or the Senator is
at fault, it fault there be.
Senator Sherman's declaration the other
day that they must have less employei pres
ent dnring "secret" sessions will not help
the case a bit. The Senate may put out every
employe it has, and sit In supreme solitude,
with only tbe hard walls as listeners, and
ydt the Journalist assigned to the duty of
finding out what has been going on and said
within the charmed circle, will print tho
main facts tbe next morning, unless all tbe
Senators are struck both deaf and dumb be
.fore tbe doors are opened. This symposium
Of indignation among the "nobles" is only
for effect on people who do not know the
facts. FBA3& A. Buss.
SEEKING A MISSING ABCHDTJKS.
The First Austrian Warship to Visit
San
Francisco for 17 Tears.
San Fhauoisco, April 23. Tho Austrian
corvette Fasana reached 8an Francisco from
Valparaiso this morning. She flies an Ad
miral's flag, although 'she is the only ship of
her nationality in Pacific waters. The
Fasana is also the first Austrian man-of-war
that has touched this port in 17 years.
Prior to the arrival of the Fasana it was re
ported she had been searching for Arch
duke John, brother of Emperor Francis
Joseph, of Austria, who, under the name of
John Orth, left Auckland, New Zealand, in
a German sailing ship abont two years ago
for Valparaiso. He had with him a woman
of muohpeisonal beauty, who he said was
hi" wife.
The story, as told by Ortb, was that
he left Austria because he was not
allowed to marry the woman of his
oboice. From Valparaiso, also, came news
that Orfb had been drowned in tbe barbor
about 12 months before. When spoken to
aDout the matter the officers on the Fasana
said their vessel bad not been loqking for
the missing Arohduke. The corvette Donau
was employed for that purpose, but she re
turned to Tries seven months ago, as it
had been proved beyond peradventure that
John Orth Is dead.
PB0F. SWIFT'S LATEST C0XBT.
The Bemarkable Disappearance of One of
Its Tails Canses Comment.
Boohzstxb, N, Y., April 23. Prof. Swift got
another glimpse of his cometyesterday. He
said to-day: "Prof. Barnard's observations
were made bef 01 e the moon interfered and
the report Is probably correct. The first
report of observations that came from San
Franoisco was absurd, as it stated them to
have been made after the moon had come.
Tbe disappearance of one of the tails is a
remarkable mystery. The result of Prof.
Barnard's work is very unusual."
Dr. Swift presents as a possible explana
tion of tbe two tails the idea that tbe comet
might have one tail which i a hollow cylin
der, whirling around ranldly and tberebv
giving tbe appearance of a double tall. "And
yet," he added, "no explanation of these
comets is apt to be correct Every such ex
planation put forward is destroyed by phe
nomena presented by later comets."
Booms With Their Wires Cross ed.
Washington Star.
There is reaaon to fear that some of the
Presidental booms have ot their wires
crossed.
C4LIF0BNIA HAS THE SHAKES.
What Italy says to California: Shake!
Detroit Journal.
It seems that California once in 20-odd
years knows what an earthquake "as is" an
earthquake is Washington Star.
The earthquakes in California are becom
ing quite serious. Still, tbe elimate ont there
continues to be quoted as "glorious."
Nothing can shake the reputation of Cali
fornia's climate. New Tork Advertiser.
Calitoehia seems determined to hold a
prominent place In the public mind. Just
when interest in talk about the "glorious
climate" 'begins to wane she has an earth
quake or two for a change. Cleveland
Leader.
Them was an earthquake in California
yesterday, and while the scientists bave not
completea their investigations of itscanse,
it is the general opinion that Mike De Young
dropped one of his Worl's Fair editorials.
Chicago Times.
EAirraQUAXE shocks occurred In Chile as
well as in California and a German scientist
who predicted the Chilean selsmto dis
turbances annonnces repetitions to-day and
next Tuesday. What's tne-matter on the
Pacific slope of the New World? Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Rev. J. Howard Nixon.
Eev. J. Howard Nixon, D. D., formerly
pastor or the First Presbyterian Chnrch In lndlan
apoUs.ln which President Harrison was bv him or
dained a ruling elder, afterward pastor of the Cen
tral Church at Wilmington, Del., and for many
Tears prominent in tbe general councils and as
semblies of the Presbyterian Church, died at his
resldeuce at Webster Grove, a suburb of St. Louis,
Friday evening, aged 62 years.
Joseph Borland, Centenarian.
Joseph" Borland, a half-breed Indian of
the Pokagon tribe' of the Fottawatomes, died at
South Bend. Iud.. Friday afternoon at the age. ae-
cornlng to hlsown assertion, of 110 years. He is
positively Known to have been Kb years oia. nor
land was a noted character durlnf bis life in North
ern Indiana and Southern Michigan.
' Alexander McGlll.
Postmaster McKcan 'received a telegram
from Charlerol yesterday announcing the death of
his uncle. Alexander McGllh He was 85 years old.
and lived on a farm near the new town for the last
22 rears. He was rormerly a resident of Ilulton,
anil is well known In Pittsburg.
Obltnary Notes.
JOH.flf. MARIS, a weU known Philadelphia bus
iness man, died yesterday, aged 7-1 years.
J amis H. JlAitDEViLLE. a well-known Wash
ington lawyer, was found dead in bed Friday. He.
was a native of New York, and was about 50 years
of age.
Samuix Smith, one of the oldest and most
wealthy farmers of Sewlckley township, nearMc
Keesport, died lnhls7sth year Friday. His aged
wife died ten months ago.
E. S. Jajtbat. head of tbe New York drygoods
house orE. 3. Jaffray & Co.. died yesterday after
noon. Mr. Jaffray's illness It the sequence or a se
vere attack of the grip, which visited him In Janu
ary. He was 70 yean old last month.
Isaac S. Jump, of Trappc. Md. aged 75 years.
and his wife, aged 66, died Friday within a few
hours of each other and.wire Burled to-day In the
same grave in Eutom 'They both had the grip
during lbs winter and died from its effect. Mr.
.Tnmnw.. mmhF nt th TfflSUttlirfl Of 1S6S.
being-the colleague of the late Governor Thomas.
Jthemt
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Chicago people used 63,532,000,000 gal
lons or water last year.
Every fifth boy in India is at school,
and only every fifteenth girL
A new medicine just discovered It
called isobutylorthoeresoliodide.
There are 21,000 cases on the docket of
the United States Court of Claims.
Gunpowder was discovered from the
falling of a spark on some materials mixed
in a mortar.
Pendulum clocks were invented after
Galileo stood observing the lamp In a chnroh
swinging to and fro.
Dona Isadora Cousmo. of Chile, is wit
$200,000,000, making her the richest woman, IX
not the richest person, in the world.
On a farm at Palmyra, Me., is a tree
utterly devoid or bark. Its trunk is smooth
and of a light buff color, ana the tree flour
ishes finely.
A brood of chickens was hatched near
Jtadisoavllle, La., last week, one or which,
began crowing when it was three days old,
and has continued to crow ever since.
The total estimated investment in
electrical industries in the United States at
the close or 1891 was S700,COO,000. one-half of
which was invested iu electric light com
panies and electric railways.
A superstition of this kind is current:
Anyone that has an empty purse should be
careful that tbe moon does not shine in it, or
else that purse will not have anything In it
as long as the moon dotn last.
The nnmber of suicides is not increas
ing largely In Prussia; as is generally sup
poed It 1883 it was 6,171; in 18"4. 5.900: in
1885, 6,028; in 1886, 6,212; in 1887. 6.899; in 1S8S,
5,393; in 1SS0, 5,615, and in 1830, 5.U65.
A lady in Springfield has a large cage
full of red birds. She owned at first one
tame red bird, and one wild bird after an
other came visiting him till the cage was
occupied by tho voluntary captives.
The total force in the naval service
afloat in 1890 was 53,359 officers and men, of
whom 30,020 were between tbe ages of 15 and
21, 17.310 between 25 and 35, 5.150 between S3
and ii, and 870 above 45 years of age.
The falls of the Anio at Tivoli are to be
utilized for tbe lighting of Home. A turbine
plant of 2,000-horse power has been pat
down, which is capable of driving dynamos
generating currents at 5,000 volts pressure.
The cocoloba wood or seaside grape, a
product of Florida, is becoming popular for
knife handles, the pink and violet tint of
the wood, added to its great hardness, mak
ing it very desirable for that special pur.
pose.
An amateur bird fancier in New Tork
City exhibits with pride a canary sitting
on four egzs in a nest with a bird less than a
month old from her latest hatching. Six
otbers or her brood perished in the cold of
two weeks ago.
That anomaly, a woman hermit, may be
found in Glynn county, Ga., in the person of
Miss Ann Piper, who has spoken to but three
persons in the past IS vears. Although she
lives within two miles of a railroad she has
never seen a train,
A Canadian electrician states that elec
tricity causes the tides, and demonstrates it
by electrifying a rubber comb by rubbing it
through the hair, and then drawing it over
the top of a glass filled with water, the re
sult being that the tidal wave follows the
comb.
The forms of sea life in the upper por
tion of tbe ocean waters may descend to a
depth of 1,200 feet or so from the surface, but
there cben succeeds u barren zone, which
continues to within 360 to 300 feet from tbe
bottom, where the deep sea animau begin to
appear.
Dealers in human hair recall the in
structive tact that the panic, of 1378-1 sud
denly stimulated the trade among the
French Canadians. The hardships of that
period drove the women to selling their
hair, and considerable quantities were sens
to the United states.
'It has been estimated, " says the
Tropical Florida, "that there is in this State
350,000,000 tons of moss hanging on our trees.
This, when gathered an d cured, is worth 4
cents per pound at our doors. If it is worth
1 cent a pound it would amount to the
enormous sum of $7,000,000. "
The coldest region in the United States
lies along the northern border of Minnesota,
between the southern point of the Lake of
the Woods and the Dakota border. Tbe tem
perature along that line often falls as low as
50s below zero. In 1873 the instruments at
Pembina registered from 56 to 60 below.
There is a tree about 40 miles from
Charleston, X. C, which is 31 feet in circum
ference near the ground and divides into
Ave enormous branches, each of which
would make a fine tree. The tips of the
branches nearly touch the ground at about
30 yards from the trunk. It is a live oak.
The Italian peasant probably consumes
more flour than the peasant of any other
European country .because the manufacture
of flour into various forms of macaroni is
common in all the poorer Italian house
holds. Italians are peculiarly ingenins also
in their treatment of dough, which they
make into many curious and appetizing
forms.
The diamond to be cnt is mounted in
solder, contained in a brass cup at tbe end
of a piece or copper wire, which is held in
tongs on the mill disc. The revolving dlso
is charged with diamond dust and oil, pre
senting, so to speak a diamond surface, upon
which the diamonds, soldered in a cup, are
cut and polished. The mills run 3,600 revolu
tions per minute.
The most wonderful woodpile on record
is owned by a man of Oxford connty. Me. In
tbe pile of eight cords, all cut from one
piece of forest, are no fewer than 20 different
kinds of wood, viz., white birch, yellow
birch, whits manle. rock maple, white ash.
brown ash, black cherry, wild cherry, apple
tree, elder, Deech, moosewood, wilfow, flr,
dogwood, spruce, sugar plum, elm, poplar
and hemlock.
A new penny-in-the-slot machine has
been fitted up in England for the collection
of letters. It is in electrical connection with
the Postal Telegraph office opposite the sta
tion. On dropping a penny into the slot and
pulling out tho Mlde, a brown colored en
velope containing another envelope and a
card appears. Tbe act of withdrawing tho
slide sends tbe call signal to the telezrann
office, ana a messenger is at once dispatched
to the station to take the message.
PICKINGS FEOM FTJCK.
"Waters A man takes awful chances when
he lifts a horn to his Ups.
Toots Yon bet; It goes In wlad, and it's liable
to come out "Annie Kooney."
Leap Year the lover needs no lute
Bis passion 10 aiiesi;
Now. he has but to press bis suit.
And she will do the rest.
Superintendent of Police "Well, sir, what
do you want us to do with this young man?
Fond Parent I woufu ULe you to giro him an
opportunity tostudy for the ministry.
The eye that often with coquetry flash es,
Shouldbe Imprisoned with fifty lashes.
Miss Minnie Ball Miss Oldangiddy wa
deadly sick of the grip, bat recovered by sheer
force of will.
airs. Wanter Noe How was that?
Hiss Minnie Ball The doctor told her it was only
fatal to persons in advanced year.
Juno I want a couple of your strongest
winds to raise a storm on the Atlantic Immediately.
Eolus I am sorry. Madam; but all our strongest
winds bave been In use In Chicago since the
World's Fair was located there.
Policeman Herel Mind your eye,
youngs terl
Bobby Backbey-1 beg pardon: intl do not see
why the master should obey the pupil.
First Spectator That play seems to have
been written with the single object of pleasing tha
hoodlums In the gallery. Who Is the author?
Second Spectator I don't know. Are any of
our statesmen writing plays now?
Do not consign distressing things
To that o'er heated clime below:
For should you when the sexton rings
Your knell, fall to procure your wings.
You'd meet with them again, you know.
City Man You have enough on which to
retire. Why don't you seU your aim. anduve hi
the city?
Farmer Furrow City life won't suit me, noj
slrreel big tall bnlldln's all round everywhere. Ye
never can teU which way the wind 's blowin. nor
how th' sky looks to th west'ard nor nothln.
Aunt Fnrry Low (reading) Here's where
two men went down in one of the dry sewers and
were kUled by sewer gas. What do they want gas
In a sewer fer, I wonder?
Uncle Si Low (In deep disgust) To see by, of
course. Do you think sewers bare winders la
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