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Per Quirter 200 Daily Dispatch, One Month 70 Dailt Dispatch, Inclmllne Sunday, lyesr.. JO 00 Daily Dispatch. lncludlngSunday.Jm'ths. 250 Daily Dispatch Including Sunday, lm'th. 90 FrxnAY DisrATCH. One Year I VI Wfekly Dispatch. One Y'ear 1 25 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at jf cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at IP cents per t eelc. THURSDAY. APRIL tS, 18)2. TWELVEPAGES OUH HEALTH 1'EOrEClOKs The annual meeting of the Ladies' Ilealth Protective Association yesterday, fully reported elsewhere, afforded strong evidence of the society's usefulness and 6honld result in a rally to its support. There is no object worthier of individual and collective effort than the improve ment of our sanitary conditions, and there is a vast field for its exercise. The pres ence of a proper public spirit would min imize the necessity for the use of law in restricting the smoke nuisance. Butwhile coal users are alike indifferent to the health and comfort of the community, and blind to the saving they might effect in their own expnnses by the adoption of proper appliances, it behooves the suffer ers from existing evils to cause the enact ment of ordinances carefully framed to restrict them. The garbage question is on a different basis, for it would manifestly be an in justice to a large section of the city's in habitants to expect them to accomplish the impossible feat of getting rid of their refuse in a satisfactory manner by their private and unaided action and at their in dividual expense. It is, indeed, a disgrace that cities of the size of Pittsburg and Al legheny should be unprovided with mu nicipal machinery for the disposition of their garbage. It is high timo that a proper ordinance should be passed to deal with the matter. And there is only one method in which it can be effectively dealt with. The cities must establish and main tain well constructed garbage furnaces for the consumption of refuse with proper ar rangements to prevent the emission of smoke or noxious fumes. An ordinance providing for the floating of refuse down the river would simply aggravate existing evils, and if framed in such a manner as to create a monopoly would go out of its way to add unnecessary expense and moral obliquity to its inherent physical nnwholesomeness. With the expectoration nuisance private agitation is alone competent to deal. Hen who behave as hogs in public places, whether conveyances or sidewalks, should be socially ostracised, and that is the only way in which their manners and sense of decency can be improved. Pittsburg's hygienic conditions can be infinitely Dettered so soon as its citizens demand it, and the sooner they awaken to a proper sense of the necessity the better it will be for them. THE SENAIOK SLIGHTLY OFF. Either Senator Stanford is a victim of looseness in reporting or of his own ignor ance on matters which every public man should have at his fingers' ends. In one interview published in the city press yes terday he is reported as saying that the national debt is $2,000,000,000, the fact be ing that the last debt statement showed the aggregate of interest and non-interest bearing debt to be 971,000,000, against which there is a gold reserve of a little over $100,000,000. Another report puts him in the light of saying: "Why, the bonded indebtedness of our railways ap proaches nearly the national debt;" which is even more unfortunate, as the bonded indebtedness of the railways of the United States is now a little over 55,000,000,000, or about six times the net national debt The third report is not quite as bad, as it says: "Look at the bonded indebtedness of the United States over $1,000,000,000," which is not quite twice the correct amount The Senator should cither inform himself on questions of public finance or see that the reporters get the figures down cor rectly. AUTHORITY ON ALOHNUM. A most intelligent and authoritative statement of the present and future status of aluminum has been made by Mr. Alfred C. Hunt, President of tlie Pittsburg Re duction Company, ne does not encour age the idea that aluminum is to be made "dirt cheap;" but as he considers it prob able that the price will be ultimately brought down to 1820 cents per pound, a cheapness is indicated which will have important industrial effects. One of the priucipal respects in which a lowering of the cost is expected is in the electrical energy required for the process of deposi tion, which now makes up one-third of the cost Mr. Hunt thinks that the power to be developed at Niagara will prove "one of the best in the world for the manu facture of aluminum." Among the uses for which aluminum has developed great fitness is one for cooking utensils, its perfect freedom from corro sion having great value in that respect It is even better than silver for many forms of surgical instru ments. "A small percentage of alum inum makes a very handsome bronze with a tensile strength of 80,000 pounds per square inch, while a limit of 130,000 pounds is attained and can be sup plied under contract. Constant process is made in developing other valuable alloys of the metal, which is one of the most promising fields for its future. The rapidity with which these methods of use are developed is shown by the fact, that the deuvind for aluminum in 1891 in creased tenfold over any previous year. Among the most important uses for this metal is that indicated by Mr. Hunt in the declaration that it is feasible to make a ft ire of aluminum, alloyed with silver, titanium or copper, whichwill have as compared with copper weight for weight an electrical conductivity 70 per cent greater than copper. In view of the magnitude of the problem of transmitting electrical power, this declaration that the aluminum-titanium alloy will bo the cheap est and most advantageous electrical con ductor has a vast importance. The value mm of the metal for construction underwater by its resistance to corrosion, its great strength and its light specific gravity, all indicating its usefulness for the sheathing of vessels, has been referred to. On this authority it is interesting to re count the leading and important qualities of the new metal. They are: Its relative lightness; its non-tarnishing quality; its extreme malleability; the ease with which it can be cast; its influence and value in alloys; its high comparative strength and elasticity; its high specific heat and its conductivity of both electricity and heat These qualities invest the reduction of its price to the level expected by Mr. Hunt with the importance of an industrial revolution. rlTTSBUKG'S SAVAL SAHESAKE. The report that Secretary Tracy is de bating whether to name the 7,500 ton cruiser No. 12, or the 5,500 ton cruiser No. 6, "The Pittsburg" indicates that this city will soon be represented by a namesake in the new navy. It also warrants a sugges tion as to the harmony of things in select ing the namesake of the Iron City. That Pittsburg is entitled to a credit able representative in the navy for which she hs furnished so much of the material does not require any demonstration. As The Dispatch said long ago, when It first agitated this question, it need not in the natural fitness of things be the largest, swiftest or most beautiful vessel of the navy, for Pittsburg does not claim to be the chief among American cities either in size, speed or external attractiveness. But a vessel which is superior in stanchncss, which meets the winds of adversity un shaken, and does whatever comes as her work sturdily and thoroughly, will be an appropriate representative on the seas of the characteristics of our community. Cruiser No. 12, generally known as "The rirate," is expected to be such a vessel. Secretary Tracy will exhibit his usual good judgment by naming her after the iron center of the country. When he does so oar people can show their appreciation of the honor by coming to the front with stands of colors, services of plate and other embellishments for our naval name sake. THE GRAKT MONUMENT. The laving of the corner-stone of the General Grant memorial yesterday was an appropriate celebration of the birthday of the illustrious dead. It permits the hope that many more years will not elapse be foie the same anniversary is more appro priately observed hy the dedication of the completed work. The delay in erecting this monument has been the subject of sharp sarcasms at the expense of the metropolis which undertook the monument. But this evi dence that the work is actually in pro gress, if followed up by active efforts for its earliest completion, will earn the ap proval and sympathy of the whole nation. Grant's fame is the property of the whole country, as his services were for the benefit of the entire nation. The site of his monument has a promi nence appropriate to his national char acter, and if it is crowned in the near future with a fitting memorial the nation need no longer feel the discredit of his unmarked grave. The corner-stone cere monies yesterday contain the promise that this will be done. When it is com pleted the country will cheerfully accord to New York the credit of having fulfilled her pledge. THE BIRTHDAY BANQUET. The annual banquet of the Americus Club last night was as usual a pleasant and fitting celebration of the birthday of that great American, U. S. Grant Prom a social point of view there was every op portunity for keen enjoyment Politically speaking the gathering was no less suc cessful. The attendance of able thinkers and brilliant speakers was well up to the average, and mental and physical food vied with one another for supremacy. The strength of the club is growing and its political influence bids fair to become national rather than merely local in its ex tent The personnel of the guests changes, but the cause which they represent re mains the same. Four years ago General Harrison was present and was thought little likely to become President More improbable things have happened than that the next Chief Magistrate shall prove in November to have beenamong the visitors last night A BLOW AT THE TRUSTS. The decision of Justice Smith of the NewTork Supreme Court in the recent case against the National Harrow Com pany is the most radical declaration of the opposition of the law against combinations to suppress competition. The decision granted an injunction restraining that company from.bringing suits against the Clipper Chilled Plow Company, of Elmira, for infringement of patents in the manu facture of harrows. It takes the ground that a combination or corporation formed for the purpose of creating a monopoly is so obnoxious to the law, that it has no standing even for the enforcement of the pateuts it may control. The validity of the patents does not seem to have been passed upon. The decision, as reported, concedes that the patents may be good in proper hands; but it rests upon the radical, though salutary principle, that an organ ization formed for thepurpose of violating public policy and nullifying the law in its very existence has no claim on the pro tection of the law for upholding it in the position by which it antagonizes public interests. Such a ruling following on the unbroken line of "decisions is a striking example of the warfare between the Uw and the ille gal combination of capital. It suggests anew the interesting question which of them will prove the more powerful. But, if the combinations under the decisions of the courts can neither maintain their pat ents nor enforce their contracts, might it not be pertinent to remind those who have taken that method of seeking illegal profits that they have placed their interests in a very perilous position? St. Louis is to be the first city in the country to use pneumatic tubes for the trans mission of mails. But its postoffico officials need not put on airs. It is one of the penalties of President Harrison's apparent walkover that the man should pop up who claims to be "the first to su--ge-t Harrison's rcnominatlon." But ne expected better and inoro original things iroin the gifted Chatincoy 31. Depew than that ho should lay clnim to that honor. The fact is that the suggestion was supereroga tory. Piesldent Harrison needed no out sider from Xciv York to put that Into his head and Mr. Russell B. Harrison has all along shown that the thins suggested itself in the Presidental tamlly. There is an increasing number of mill ionaites, but they are still scarce enough for tho death of one of them to attract a good deal of attention. ' A NOVEL view of the results of the cur rent railway reorganizations is presented byn Wall street correspondent, who de clares that as one outcome of the reorgani zation of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas system H. K. Enos was broken down la health, ana In the Richmond Terminal T. P. Olcott has 'been made seriously ill. This is a maiked departure from the most stereo typed result of such reorganization, -which has been heretofore that the outside in vestors were all broken up. Kepresentative Hooker, of Missis sippi, in relerence to Blaine's dlplomatio ac tions and in praise of the same, said: "When a man comes to be premier of this Govern ment he is not a partisan representing a party but a statesman representing a coun try." These are words of wisdom nnd should be well remembered. But an ideal politician does not wait to attain so high a position be fore realizing that the motive of his actions should bo other than the inspiration of a mechanical organization. Once more defeat onr colors struck, on Held of bail and bat. If thus wo onward run amuck, where shall wo llnish art The New York Tribune summarizes the duel business by saying: "The occasion of it was that one had called the other a liar and a coward, and tho other had no other wny to disprove It than by uoing out and seeming to try to kill the other fool while the other foot apparently tried to kill him." But it fails to point out tho utterly disap pointing character of the duel as a social corrective, in that, with all the fuss, it did not result in any reduction in the population of fools. Gay Paris is more fitted just now to be come the resort of wotild-be suicides than of people seeking social festivity. Expected oratory usually falls short of anticipations. Perhaps it is natural, bat it is nevertheless n fact which presents itself in tho reports that Chauncoy ST. Depew's "greatest effort" at the Grant monument ceremonies yesterday foil decidedly Into the level or commendablo mediocrity. These were seven Republican and one Democratic State Conventions yesterday, and the country still lives. The sentence of life imprisonment im posed on Bavachol. the Parisian Anarchist, is not calculated to have much deterrent effect on brutes of his stamp. If capital punishment be ever justifiable, this embodi ment of criminal vice should have been sent to the guillotine Choker is infinitely better fitted to be New York's next Mayor than Hill Is to be America's next President. Forger Stoddakd's appeal from the Jeisey City jail, that he be released in order to elect nill, should strike an answering chord in the Senator's heart. How can he succeed in statesmanship with the political elements repiesentcd by him cruelly locked up in jail: It will not be Senator Stanford's fault if the People's party have no Presidental can didate. The criminal folly at the root of dynamite outrages in the name of social reform is well Indicated by an explosion in a Swiss con sulatc: ror Switzerland has the most com munistic government in the world. Just about this time the early worm real izes the folly of Lis matutinal habits. Grant of America was honored in mem ory yesterday, while Grant of New York was absent from his post on behalf of a man whose selfishness is his most striking char acteristic Ashland is an appropriate name for the scene of a devastating Arc. KX0WN TO THE WORLD. Mrs. Depew says that she never allows her children to read fairy stories. Nor to hear them? or does Papa Depew tell no sto ries at home? , Dr. & "Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia specialist and author, lsatd to be one of the foremost living authorities on the subject of snake poisons. David D. Wells, son of the distinguished free trader of Norwich, Conn., is ajunior in Harvard. Ho has written a play that is about to bo brought out at Cambridge. On the occasion of the golden wedding of the King and Queen of Denmark, the Em press or Russia will present her father, King Christian, with six white horses, all of pure Arab race. Miss Marie Adelaide Belloc is one of the numerous young newspaper women who are demonstrating to a previously sceptical pub lic that beauty and brains may inhabit the same earthly tenement of clay. Mr. Dering, Secretary of the British Em bassy in Home, declnros that American travelers alone spend $35,000,000 a year in gold in Italy, while other foreign travelers expend fully double that amount. The marriage of Miss Lylie Freeman Schultz, youngest daughter of the late Mar tin Schultz, of Philadelphia, to Mr. John B. DaCosta lUcci, son of Baron DaCosta, Ricci, of th Portuguese legation, took place in London Tuesday. Doubtless the oldest inventor in this country is Mr. Joseph Francis, a native of Massachusetts, whoso devices to aid life saving caused a revolution in coast-gnard methods. Sir. Francis is 91 years old but In possession of all his mental faculties. Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary, and her tn o sillers, the Misses Halstead, are said to resemble, each other so closely that casual acquaintances distinguish between them with difficulty. They make no attempt to dress in a way to decrease the resemblance. CALMED BY WHALE OIL. now a Tempestuous sea Bcoame Smooth Dorinc a Storm. PnitAPEtrnn, April 27. A terrific storm, driving before it a huge sea like a tidal wave, struck tho Btittsh steamship Dews land, whilo bound from Bilbao to Philadel phia, laden with Spanish iron ore. The wind blew with great fury, and an effort was made to run the vessel before the wind, but without success. Suddenly the waters subsided almost as quick as they had risen, when what ap peared to be a black rock was seen some distance awav. As the vesel approached closer It proved to bo a dead whale of im mense size Tho carcass was at least six feet above the sur,ace of the water ana cov ered with countless birds or all sizes and descriptions. A stream of sperm oil was oozing out upon the sou in all directions from the fatty derelict, which all hands be lieve had tho effect of quelling the heavy sea. The efficacy of oil w as first discovered by whalers watching the effect upon the tea near dead whales. FB0F. LflDD GOING TO JAPAN To Lecture "by Special Ztrqaest on tho Phi losophy of Religion. New Havejt, Coxy., April 27. Special Rev. Georgo Trumbull Ladd, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, has accepted an invitation to lcctuie before tho students and professors of tho Imperial University of Tokio. Japan, on the subject, "Tho Philoso phy of Religion." Ho is also to lecture on similar lines at Doshlsha, Kyoto, and a sum mer school in the mountains of Japan. He mils from Vancouver, May 15, and will be gono until September. This is the first time in history that educa tional authorities of that country havo come to the United, States fora lecture ou relig ious subjects, anil this occasion is not only an honor to Prof. Ladd, but to the Univer sity. Mrs. Grunt's Tribute to the Orator. New Yons,' April 27. Special. At the conclusion of Mr. Depew's oration to-day Mrs. Grant, who hnd been profoundly af lectedat times duting tho eloquent recital of her dead husband's noble nnd soldierly qualities, warmly shook the hand of Mr. De pew, remarking, "Alter the great soldier comes tho groat orator, and you nio he." Mr. Depew bowed low in acknowledgment of this compliment. The Trust Has a Capacious Maw. Detroit Free Press.) Everything but elephant and tree trunks are gobbled in by the ne w trus C , OF NATIONAL INTEREST. tue L & o. disorder. . THE EOAD question CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS, H High Tribute to Blaine 'by a Southern Democratic Congressman Bow the Possible Cruiser Pittsburg Came to Be Called The Pirate Bering Sea and Seal Poachers. Washington, April 27. The opening hour of the House session to-day was an un usually dull one. Varions measures were presented for action, all of local importance, but after the time had been consumed In the reading of the bills-and reports, objec tions to their passage were interjected. By unanimous consent (the Walker expunging resolution still blocking tho way of the reg ular order) tho House' went into committee of the whole, Mr. Oatcs, of JUabamaj' in tho chair, on tho diplomatic -and consular ap propriation bill. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, paid a high tribute to tho success of Ameri can 'diplomacy. It was "diplomacy whioh had settled our Chilean difficulties. It hnd been diplomacy which had settled tho Borlns Sea" controversy. Fortu nately for the country, it had in the position of Secretary of State a man of such large and dlplomatio ability that he had settled these questions by diplomacy. Mr. Blaine had shown himself to be a great statesman by tho manner In which He had treated those questions. When a man camo to be Premier of this Government he was not a partisan representing a partv. H was a statesman representing llio country. Mr. HItt, of Illinois, moved an amendment, having for its effect tho separation of the missions of Colombia and Ecuador, which tho pending I Din consolidates in one mission. The amendment was rejected. Mr. Hltt made several efforts to prevent the consoli dation of missions and the reduotion of the salaries or ministers to the South American Republics, but his efforts were of no nvail. He then offered an amendment to restoro to $7,500 the salary of the MJnistor to Venezuela the committee having cut it to $5 000. No quorum voting on the amendment, tho com mittee rose and the House adjourned. After routine business in the Senate to-day Hie army appropriation bill was taken up, the question being on striking out the House proviso which prohibits payment for trans portation of troops and supplies of the army over any of the unbonded lines owned, con trolled or operated by tho Union Pacific Railway Company orby tho Southern Pacific company over the linos embraced in its Pacifl" system. After a long speech b v Sen ator Morgan the House proviso was struck out yeas, 26; nays, 20. Mr. Morgan was the only Democrat who voted with the majority, and Messrs. Peffer and Pettigrew the only Republicans who voted with the minority. Tho bill was then passed and the Senate adjourned. It is considered not unlikely that the new cruiser, which Is commonly referred to as Tho Pirate, will be oliristened The Washing ton. She will be launched from Cramp's shipyard about July 1, and the Seoretary of the Navy will havo until then to decide on naming tho ship for the National Capital or for New Orleans, Brooklyn or Pittsburs-. No matter what the ship is named, she will al ways be unofficially roierrod to as The Pirate. That title has stuck to her ever since nn engineer used it one day in con versation with a party of newspaper cor lespondents. An Englishman came over to this country to write a paper lor a British naval magazine, and he called the new cruiser The Pirate intgood faith. Last year the term crept into an official report of the Navy Department, and u bottle of champagne smashed across her bows and a christening pionounced by a pretty young girl are not likely to chance that name. Such a ceremony may change it in official reports, but In ward room and forecastle the shlp't name will always be Tho Pirate. Officials at the State Department place no credence in the reports that Cana dian sealers propose to enter Bering Sea under the protection of Governments other than Great Britain and the United States. They say that both countries would resent such a palpable fraud, and that it is not unlikely that any other country would con sent to the use of Its flag for the solo purpose of violating the laws of the United.Statos In regard to seal pouching. An agent of the North American Commercial Company In formed tho Treasury Department, this morninr, that it was reported that the poaohcrs intended to sell their vessels to Mexicans nnd enter the sea flying the flag of that country, but that nrroneattacbedmach importance to the roport. The annual fortifications appropriation bill has been practically agreed upon by the Fortification sub-Confmittce of the House Committee on Appropriations. A cut amounting to more than 33 per cent has been made from the bill of last year. Representative BnAin introduced a resolution in the House to-aay instructing the Committee on Ways and Means to renort a bill imposing an income tax sufficient to meet all the expenditures for pensions, and also a bill to repeal all taxes Imposed upon currency Issued Dy authority of the States. The following bills were reported to the House to-day: Appropriating $25,000 for the orection of a monument to William Henry Harrison (the grandfathorof Piesidont Har rison) at North Bend, O.: appropriating $25, 000 for the erection of a monument at Put-In-B.iy, O.. commemorative of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and tlio.e who weio with him at the battle of .Lake Erie. The Treasury Department has decided that customs officers are not authorized to permit the original entry of Chinese persons on submission of naturalization papers is sued by another Government. A SALVATION AEMY IN CHUBC& The Novel Spectacle VI itnessed by a Boston Congregation. Boston, April 27. Special. The Salvation Ainiy, with its banners aud uniforms, en camped in the new Old South Church nnd doing missionary work on the Back Bay, as a remarkable spectaclo last evening to those who have not forgotten that but a few years ago there was no Christian church in the land so 'poor nnd humble as to even tolerate them inside its door. Not only were they permitted to hold serv ices in tho church, but the pastor. Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon, opened the meeting, and then made a few remarks, expressing the greatest sympathy with the work of tho Salvation Army. He nlso closed the services with a benediction. The congregation ad dressed was a large one. GOSSIP OF SOCIEIY. Weddings, Entertainments, Receptions and Other Pleasant Events. Iir Philadelphia this evening Mr. Stephen Tener, of the Oliver & Roberts' Wiie Mill, will lead to the altar Miss Katharine Ran dall, daughter of a well-known magistrate of the Quaker City. ltev. Henry C. McCook will pel form the ceremoiy. After a wedding trip tho young couple will resides on Hazel wood avenue, this citv. Addisojt A. Shook, son of Jacob Shook Chief Enginoer of Jones & Laughlln's Iron & Steel Works, and Mis Carrie Fnnalock were married by the Rev. F. K. Farrand of the Southsldo last evening. Tliev left on the liiidni.-ht train for the West, expecting to visit Chicago and Rock Island. The third act of "Die Melster3ingor"is to be given by Madame Constance Howard this evening at the Art Society's rooms. This will bo the last opportunity of hearing this charming ladv In Pittsburg It Is said that tho third act of this comedy is tho best of all. Next Sunday Trinity Church will most likely be lighted by electricity. Hitherto gas has been used. The congregation aro looting forward to the change with great pleasuic. It Is expected that it will Improve tho appearanco ot tho interior very much. At St. Brondan's Chmch, Copoland, Inst evening, tho marriage of Miss Sadie Tour, daughter of Mr. James C. Tour, to Mr. Georgo Bailey took place in tho presence of u lawo numbor of relatives and friends of the high contracting parties. A r.ECEPTios will bo given this afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. John Jl. Dunlevy nnd the Misses Dunlevy, In honor of Mrs. William L. Fi-azier, who as Miss Elkins. Alaigo number of cards havo beon issued. The Coraopolis Cornet Band, under the dliection of Mr. T. F. Kirk, is to givn a con cert in the Presbyterian Church, Coraopolis, Tuesday evening. May 3. A good piojrummo has been prepared. To-maiiT there will be a concert In Old City Hall for the benefit of James A. Gar field Post No. 215, G. A. It., underthe auspices of tho Superior Choral Union, of Allegheny. Fidelity Cocsoil No. 19, Daughters ofLlb erty, will give a reception in New Tumor Hall, Thirteenth street, this evening. TnE Glee and Mandolin Club, of tho West ern University, announces a concert at Car negie Hall to-morrow evening. "David Gabbicx" Is to b3 given to-morrow evening in the Sewlckley Opera House by the Amateur Dramatic Club. Mrs. A. W. Bliss, of Unlontown, gave a luncheon yesterday. Keeping Up a Bad Beeord. Evening Lender. Tio Law and Order Society still keeps up its record as an as on cy for bringing crimi nals to this city and paying them salaries out of a purification fund subscribed by Christian reformers. Within a period of a few days, two of the society's agents for the suppression of Sunday papers were arrested, one for wife desertion and another for the samo offense coupled with adultery nnd sun dry other misdeeds of a grave character. Yestoidaya third salnrlod Puritan was ap prehended on tho charge of subjecting an unfortunate woman to treatment punishable with a penitentiary sentence. The occasion is evidently ripe for the establishment of a new Law and Order Socioty charged with ridding the city of social pests. That a breedlnsr-place of crime and debauchery, such as the Law and Order headquarters proves to be, should be suffered to exist and to keep the police of this, city constantly on tlte qui vive is asking too much of public patience. Morals Seemingly Mot In It. Evening Presi. The high moral standing of the men who work for the Law and Order Soolety is being illustrated more and more impressively as time goes on. Agent McClare is reported to have said that the society has nothing to do with the morals and character of its agents. This Is a weak excuse that will not weigh at nil with the true moral sentiment. The dirty privato character of the agents,- com bined with the dirty work they do for an in consistent, fanatical society, has excited the disgust of all decent people, and tho work of the Law and Order Society must be hurt by it. The fact appears to be that decent men cannot be Induced to do the indecent work required by a law and order conspiracy for boodle. Meeds a Little IUelC Chronicle-Telegraph. The Law and Order Society seems to need a dose of la w and order as badly as nny con cern in these parts. Tho rovelatlons made as to the character of its agents give new edge to the parable in regard to getting rid of the beam in one's own eye before at tempting to extract the mote from another's eye. WHAT AKE WE C0MIHG TO. A Good Chance for the Superstitions to Predict tho End of the World. Omaha World Herald. There Is a good clianco for superstitious people to indulge tholr superstition, or for fearful people to indulge their fears, on ac count of the end of the world predicted by several "wise men." Not onlv is California trembling with earthquakes, Wyoming with war and Europe with anarchy, but within a month a new comet has been discovered, which, since its discovery, has grown tre mendously in size. Last week Prof. Bar nard, of Lick Observatory, was able to photograph It very successfully, although it is lully 100,000,000 miles away. Within the last ten days several new tails to this comet have made their appearance and a singular and unique phenomenon was observed by the astronomer on the southern side of tho main tail, and, as he expt eased it, 3 from the head, a large projecting mass issued from the tall at a large an?le, and fiom thl a new tall shot forth parallel with the main tail. In speaking of this matter last week Prof. Barnard said: "I was at onco struck by the tremendous growth of the comet. To tho naked eye the head was as brilliant as a star of the third magnitude, and a long, slender tall could be easily traced to a distance of 20 from the head. I carefullv sketched the place of the tall among the stars and accurately meas ured the position or the nucleus with the necromoter. The telescopic view was very suzgestive and revealed a complexity of the tail that was remarkable." As long as the comet- remains 100,000,000 miles away it will not greatly disturb the equanimity of the people hereabouts, but.lt it continues to approach us and to grow in size nnd to develop additional tails, some of us may be willing to agree with Prof.Totten, of Yale, that we have reached the beginning of the end. Wo certainly read in Revela tions that: "There fell a great star from the heaven, burning as It were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part or the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the starts called wormwood. A third' part of the water became wormwood, and manv men died of the waters because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel soundod and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon and the third part of tho stars, and so the third part ot them was darkened, and the day shone not for a tliirrt part of the time and the nizht likewise." We will agree that the sun and the moon and the stars have been sorely smitten of late, nnd have not shone for even two-thirds of the time. Perhaps Prof. Barnard's comet is getting in Its work. Will Interest the Creme-de-la-Creme. Chicago Times. New York will make a special feature of her dairy exhibit at the World's Fair. This will enlist the sympathies of the creme-de-la-creme of Fifth avenue society. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHEnE. Dr. William B. Stewart, Klttanning. Dr. William H. Stewart fell dead Tuesday night at a meeting of the Masonic Lodge in Klttan ning, from a stroke of apoplexy. The meeting was hastily adjourned amid Intense excitement, and the horrified friends removed the remains to his late residence. Ir. Stewart has been fearful of some 6uch an end, and lie had often expressed the belief that his call would come suddenly. Ou St. John's Dav he was present at a meeting of Masons in Pittsburg, and after the meeting became dizzy or had some kind of stroke, and fell down the stairs la Masonic Hall, fracturing a rib and breaking his arm. Dr. Stewart was about 44 years old and un married. He graduated atWashlngtonCollegeand took Ms degree at the Jefferson 31edical Institute, Philadelphia. He spent a number of years in the hospitals of Vienna and Paris. He was a most em inent physician and surgeon and was largely con sulted by physicians In this State. Daniel Adre, Steel Manufacturer. Daniel Adee, formerly a well-known pub lisher and the first manufacturer of cast steel In America, died at his home In Williamsburg. N. Y.. of coiiRestlve chills Monday, ne appreu? tlced himself to Harper Brothers, after which he went into business for himself. He was the first publisher In America of Newton's 'Trinclpla." He published the New York Press and the Mer chants' Record. In 1815 ho began the manufacture of cast steel. His Arm failed In 1870. when Mr. Adec went back to the printing business. Baron Castlemalno. Baron Castlemalne died yesterday in Lon don. He was born Julys. ISM, and succeeded his father, the third Baron, July 4, 18HTT He married, Feb ruary 10, 1857, Hon. Louisa Matilda, daughter or tne second Baron Harris, lie will be succeeded by Ills eldest son. Hon. Albert Edward Handcoct, late a lieutenant In the Fourth liattallon of the Ko) al In nlskllllng Fusiliers. Obituary Notes. Silas Kirr, aged 65, one of the oldest engineers on the West Peun Railroad, was buried at 1'rceport yesterday. Mns. HUGH B. WICK, who has lived In Youngs town more than CO years, died yesterday afternoon, aged 70. leaving lour children John C. Wlct, of Wick. Dros. Co.. bankers; Henry Wick, Mrs. W. Scott liumell and Mrs. Emily Bomell. jAJiESHANLYdiedat Greenville, Pa., suddenly yesterday morning at the Natlnnil Hotel. He was awake at !i u'clork nnd talked to li3 room-mate. At ft o'clock he was fuund dead In bed. He was a bridge contractor, and had friends l.l Pittsburg. Thomas Owell Speii", a New York architect, Tuesday night accidentally shot and killed himself at his home la South Orange, J) . J. He was a member of class '.-7 of Princeton College, and de signed the new athletic building at Princeton Col lege. Hon. John 15. Brattoit, for many years editor of the Volunteer, of Carlisle, died jesterday after a lingering illness, aged 75 years. He was a leading Democrat, having been nominated for Congress scleral times, ami was l'ostmasler under President Johnson's administration IlAr.r.V B. HUDSON', who was burled on Tuesday In the Actors' Fund plot at Lvergrecu Cemetery, New York City, was an actor of considerable ex perience, and was at one time an excellent comedian. He was born 52 years ago. His last engagement was with the "Money Mad" com pany. Brigadier General James Carles, for 22 years Inspector In the United States Public Stores, died in New York Tuesday ulglit. At the outbreak orthe Civil War he enlisted as a private. He was ?romoted from time tn time, and was brevetted I.ijor Qeneral for gallantry In leading a force across the James river. DoraBranscombe, an actress and singer, died in Boston Sunday, aged 80. She had been on tbe stage since childhood, and as a contralto singer and soubrette had played many good engagements. She was with the "Eight Bells" company at the time of her death. Last year she traveled with Pauline Hall's opera troupe. A Lad's Views on nn Important Matter Work for Convicts. The following essay on rnrat road Im provement Is from the pen of a Pittsburg schoolboy who will not be out of his teens for several years: Good roads' are a necessity in every State, and the way to get them made cheaply and good is to have the Legislature pass laws compelling all convicts in wOrkhoases and prisons, now employed In making barrels, lead kegs and shoes, and hired .oat by con tract labor, which interferes with free labor, to be put to work at making better roads, by breaking stone, making the ' roads straight and wide, so that two wagons can pass, giving them good grades, digging ditches on each side ' to drain them, and where the ditch is at the side of n hill sloping it well back to- prevent tho frost from loosening the earth on the sides, as when It leave? the around tho dearth slides into the ditch nnd fills it, and heavy rains comlnir on would make bad washes in the road. The stone should be broken to about the size of IK to 2 Inches square. After the roan has been graded the stone should he thrown into it to tho depth of one foot. Upon this a quantity of grnvel should be scattered to the depth of from three to five inches. The road should have a crown of about six inches in the center, draining to tho ditches on cither side. At present in many places the ditches alons the roads are very shallow, and In some places there are none at all. Tho w,iy roads are kept in condition at present is: A great many farmers work out their tax ln.tho summer, Wieu tbe roads are in good condition, by working ns little as they possibly can, sitting under a shady tree, where it, is cool, talking their time away. If a small road tax was levlod on this kind of people, and the roads made bet ter by tho convicts, the farmer would save a great deal' of money on both his horses and wagons, and it would also bo a crreat benefit to him, as he could get his products to the market at 'nil times of the yeaC while tho roads wo have now are in good condition only in the summer. It wonld also make a good road for wheelmen, who have been virtually driven off the streets in cities by the cable and electric cars. It is very dan gerous to ride on tbem, and the authorities will not allow wheelmen on the pavement. It would be a great act of humanity to havo good roads for the poor fanner's horse, who nearly drags himself to death pulling one-third of a load through mud which is up to the hub of the wagon. On a muddy road in winter the water lodges and freezes, and when the horso steps on this lie breaks through the, frozen crusts of mud, which often cut his legs very badly. In Allegheny county, whero we have 736 convicts in the workhouse, we wonld soon have better roads if the convicts were put to work in this way. Then some of them would not like to be sent to the place they call their boarding house. Stone suitable for road-makinz can be found all over the county, and in many places farmers have large fields on which are many stones, and some farmers would perhapi ply to nave them removed. But the roads get the some consideration as the man who lived in a house with a leaky roof. When tho sun shonn It didn't leak, hut when it rained it could not be repaired. The same with roads: in the summer the roads are in good condition, while in the winter thoy cannot be repaired. G. H. H. Pittsduro, April 27. DEFENSE 0? ALUMINUM. Its Use for Drinking Vessels Defended In England. A Birmingham Arm has addressed a letter to a local paper on the use of aluminum for cullnary vessels. "Having long been iin pressed with abelletin the economic uses of this metal, owing to its lightness, strength, color and apparent purity and wbolesome ness, we have for the Inst two years been ex perimenting with it, with a view to intro ducing it, made up into ordinary tableware, and the following are some of the results ar rived at: A flask made of it has been in constant use by one of our friends for the past 18 months, contain ing nt different times brandy, sherry, claret, beer and milk. If any of the dangers pointed out had resulted from its use, not the possessor of it alone, but many of his friends as well, ought to have suffered seriously; but, so far, not the slightest ill effect has ever been perceptible, and not the least smatch or bad taste has ever beeixlm parted to the liquor, as is often the ense with common me ml or poorly electro plated flasks. For dishes the result so far seems equally satisfactory; neither meats, gravies nor sauces (hot or cold), no matter hoiy long they have been allowed to stand, Jiavo any effect upon it, neither are they acted upon by the metal. "Appfe-Juce, which is considered n severe test, and acts nnd is acted upon hy most metals, with aluminum appears to be quite Innocuous. Tea also appears to be equally wholesome when made in an aluminum ves sel as in u real sliver one. and even after standing several days there was no discolora tion of the metal, and no perceptible change in the tea. Vinegar, which nets upon most metals, does not appear to tonoh aluminum, nor be affected by It, neither does potash nor soda water. We all know that tin is a perfectly pure and harm less metal, and that fish and meats may be preserved in it for an Indefinite period, but not so with the common solder with which meat tins are put together hence the many fatal results from eating tinned salmon and lobsters. Had the Ger man water bottle referred to been carefully assayed, in addition to the contents being analyzed, it is more than probable it would have been found to be made of an impure and spurious alloy, not of pure aluminum." CHANCES THAT AEE MISSED. Commerce With the Southern Countries Neglected hy Americans. Chicago, April 27. "I have just recently come up from a Sonth American and Mexi can trip, "said Mr. Hcillger Wegant, of New York, nt the Grand Pacific, yesterday. "What I was most struck with was the way in which we Americans have neglected com merce in those countries. Never till 1 made a personal inspection had I an idea ot tho short-sightedness of American merchants. We might just as well be selling millions more nnually to our Southern neiihbors than we do. The bulk of trade is, of course, in the hands ot the German", French and Enellsh.Among the ladles of Bio de Janeiro, Paris fashions are adopted and Parisian houses have established magnificent stores. Enelish dress goods, too, are largely bought. "The Germans have an immense trade on staples and the common necessities of lire. In the provinces German merchants cer tainly control the bulk of trade. They know how to go at It. Most of the partners of to day w ere tho clerks of years ago. They have studied the peculiar needs of tho people and supplied the articles. Now Americans will go down there nnd sell by sample or photo graph. Your German merchant, having studied his subject, has his goods on hand to supply at short notice He establishes a con fidence nnd extends credit. Americans won't do this, and thereby they lose trade. In the City of Mexico practically the same state of affairs exists, except that for instance our machinery finds iavor down then. A Chi cago firm recently furnished the first last printing press ever used by 'the Mexican Government. The engineer who designed the machine went down there to set it up, and spent six weeks in tryine to instruct a crack' 'irreaser' machinist how to run the. press. Those fellows don't tako kindly to Intricate machinery until the knowledge of it is hammered into them."' Has Made a Great Beeord lor Itself. Washington Star. Tiie present Congress will go down in his tory with a great record for economy and lepartee. AXAKCHISTS IN PAEIS. Califorkia's earthquakes are safer than the bombquakes in Paris. Peoria Jfcws. The only sure way of converting Anarch ists is by way of the gallows. Sao York Evening World. Frasce has arrested 75 Anarchists. This country may congratulate itself that there are so many who havo not found their way hove. Washington .Star. If the Paris bomb-throwers keep np their present gait tho Frenehmon may find It to their interest to import a few Chicago po licemen. Washington Post. If Anarchists go on insisting that they are outlaws society may conclude to take them at their word, which would be extremely uncomfortable for the Anarchists. Sew York World. Though all our Anarchists have corao from Europe, all tho European Anarchists havo evidently not come bore. Enoueh are left on tho othor side to make the Old World capitals tremble. Toledo Commercial. The Paris Anarchists havo wrecked tho saloon in which Ravachol, their leader, was arrested. When the Anarchists begin to wreck saloons it looks as though they were really determined to abandon tholr base of supplies and burn their bridges behind them. Aety York Press, A good camel will travel 100 miles day for ten days. A. silkworm's, thread is one-thousandth part of an Inch thick. London contains 2,000 more doctors than the whole of Ireland. The total length of the Turkish railway system is now about 7Si miles. In China, slips of mulberry, bark eervo as money in the interior towns. - It is computed that no less a sum than 15,000,000 is annually spent on Sunday drinking alone in the United Kingdom. A Georgia shoemaker has made for the use of a customer a pair of shoes with soles H inches long and 5J Inches wide. The temple of Hom-mon-ji, at Inke garni, begun in 1232 and finished in 1203, is one of the most famous religious structures In Japan. A New York man tried to get the Legislature of his State to pass a bill provid ing for the death penalty for owners of dogs whose bite caused death. Of the 60 women who are engaged in ac tive newspaper work In the State of Mich igan, five publish their own newspapers In--dependent of any associate. In olden times, when every part of the body had Its price, the beard was valued at 20 a large sum for the time while the loss of a leg was only estimated at 12s. The city of Paris has 87,635 trees in its streets, and each tree represents a cost to the city of 175 francs. This makes tn round numbers $3,000,000 worth of trees in the streets. Bees are believed by many to be good weather guides, being sluggish and inactive in the morning If the dav is going to be wet, and active and lively ff It is going to turn out bright and fine. A late census of the city of Lima, Pern, shows it to have a population of 1C3.955, of which 49,350 are males and 54,103 are fe males; 70,931 of the Inhabitants can read, and 32,995 can neither read nor write. For long-distance swimming the shark may be said to hold tbe record, as he can outstrip the swiftest ships, apparently with out effort, swimming and playing around them, and ever on the lookout ror prey. There are towns in England, and suburbs, too, of the great cities, where cul tivated women have hardlv any chance of marriage at all, the men all going to a dis tance to make their fortunes if they can. There are evidences on all sid"s that the song birds imported from Germany have taken root, as it were, In Oregon, and are rapidlv increasing in nnmber. There is a considerable number ot them about Oregon City aud Salem. The Suez Canal, which, up to the date of its completion was the most stupendous undertaking of its kind In modern history, extends from Port Said on the Mediterra nean to Suez on tho Red Sea, the whole length of navigation being 83 geographical miles. A curious and interesting exhibition has been opened In Vienna on behalf of a charity. It Is a model an a large scale of the battle of Custozza. in which the Austrian troops, commanded bv Field Marshal the Archduke Albrecht, defeated the Italians In 1S63., A little while ago, in Yorkshire, a mother bronght her male Infant and asked that he should be christened "Princess Beatrice." This name the clenryman refused to accept, but tbe proud mother would onlv ttlve wrv so far as to substitute "Prince" for "Princess." The average American is the head of a family of five persons, earning $l,C00ayear. He pays ?33 or this Into the national treas ury, S30 into State, connty, city or town treasuries, and, at a moderate estimate, $23 more for the indirect cost of methods of collection. Eogland has taken up with the whale back idea of steamship construction. A con tract is reported from there for a cargo steamship on an entirely new principle. She Is to carry 3,200 tons on a draft of 13 feet, and will have a net register tonnage of only 1,200 to 1,250 tons. Japanese auctions are conducted upon a plan.whlch gives rise to none of the noise and confusion which attend such sales in Britain. Each bidder writes his name and JId npon a slip of paper, which he places In 'a box. When tho bidding is over the box is . opened by the auctioneer and. the coods de clared the property of the highest bidder. In 1G11 a sea woman was taken alive near the island of Boro. She was five feet long. After surviving four days she died, not having eaten anything. Her head was like that ot a woman, the oyes light blue and the hair sea green. The npper parts of her body were almost at white asa woman's, but the lower part was llko the tail of a fish. A curious marriage custom is recorded by Dr. Post as existing in Southern India nmong some of the more primitive non Aryan tribes. This consists in wedding a girl to a plant, a tree, nn animal, or even to an inanimate object, tho notion being that any ill-luck which may follow an actual marriage will be averted by a union or this kind. Tn preachins against the sin of flirta tion the other day a French priest grew quite warm In charging the women of his congregation with tbe offense. Snddenly he took off his skullcap, and pretending to throw it said: "I'll throw my cap at the worst amonsr you." Immediately every woman In the congregation ducked her head. In every plaster of Paris statue which nn Italian carries through our streets for sale thore is one pound of water to every four pounds of chalk. The air we breathe contains five grains of water to each cubic foot- of bulk. The potatoes and turnips which aro boiled for our dinner havo, when in their mw state, the one 75 per cent and the other 90 per cent or water. Chamaret, a small French township of about 00 inhabitants, has a windfall which will forever relieve the dwellers of that happy spot of the burden of taxation. On the will of an old miser being opened it was found that he had bequeathed G00.CC0.', the whole of his hoarded wealth, to the com munity. This wIH'hring in -a yearly revenue or about $5,CC0. sufficient, it Is said, to defray all the expenses of the parish. The only States that have large salaries for their Governors are New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which give their chief executives $10,000 annnally. Tho salary or $G,000 prevails in California nnd Illinois. Seven States have salaries at $4,000; four States pay as little as-$2,000, viz.: Dela ware Maine, Michl.'an and Now Hampshire, and two States, Oregon, and Vermont, pay annually to each ot their Governors the munificent sum of $1,5C0. JOKELETS FIJ03I JCBGE. Mrs. Duton Sirs. Kuriche has an "at home" on the twelfth. Mrs. Knickerbocker-Is that so? I'll have one the same day and invite her. That will square things. "Perhaps I'm fortune's debtor," Said tlie actor In his plight. "If they had liked me better I'd have had no fruit to-night." Old Gentleman That's right, little boy. See a pin and pick It up and all the day you'll hare good luck. Little Uoy Give me a light, will yerf Bemuse May first I moved away A hundred wounds I bear. It was indeed a moving day; It moved me to despair. "This article on lightning freaks ought to be Illustrated." said the editor. "Have we any. thing In stock' that will do?" "Yes: we have a font of Chinese type." "Good. Hnn In a dozen letters. " Though full of flats this town maybe, These days of spring rem! Jd one That. If disposed to move, you'll see How hard It Is to find one. Skidds So you are married? Hippie Yes. Skidds And yet It Is less than six months slnso you told me yon had determined to remain single. Hippie I know: but, you see, Mamie had decided to get married. I visited the actors' fair. Though all was fair as fair could be Some tMng3 by far were fairest there The actresses especially. Lady How do you sell these handker chiefs? Clerk (briskly) Eight cents a piece or three for a quarter, 'm. . Lady-I'll take three. Tourist (delightedly) Your reasonable rates are a pleasant surprise. European host (to clerk) Charge the genUenu 20 franc for a'pleasant surprise. I '1 M. i . I i m mtmwimm 2lt r irfriahk.-tfSfc MSAar- ' -Jj-1 1 jr.rjtTOOJFnBi -siu,wwiWMawQnBEfii it dl , M u ,. . .
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