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One Month n Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, lyeir.. 10 00 Daily Dispatch. lnchidlngStmday.Sm'ths. IN) Daily DisrATCH. Including Sunday. 1 m'th. 90 SrxDAY Dispatch. One Tear SW V eekly DisrATCii. One Tear 1 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 31 cents per week. or. including Sunday Edition, at ;0 cents per week. THURSDAY. MAT 5. 1S32. TWELVE PAGES Till: COUN1T .ND Flteii 1JKIUG1S. Tho idea broucht out in the local col umns of The Dispatch yesterday with recard to tha use of county funds for the crect'on of free bridges is one of the great est cogency. It is supported by numerous considerations, all of decided bearing on the question, and make3 the solution of the frce-bndge problem a comparatively easy one. In the first place, the cities of Allegheny snd Pittsburg have in the past quarter of a century contributed vast sums, to be reckoned, as Commissioner Mercer has shown, by the hundreds of thousands, for the erection of county bridges throughout the rural sections. Five-sevenths of all the money raised by taxation is paid by Iho population of the two cities, and that proportion represents what the cities have paid of the expenditure for rural bridges. This is not presented as a hardship; but is it not a sound argument for the expendi ture of county money for bridges within the cities, particularly when the rural dis tricts will be benefited thereby? At what other point will the people of the county be so much accommodated by free bridges as at Pittsburg or Allegheny? Free bridges across the rivers within the cities will be of evident value to the rural population. Every dweller in the county who drives into the city.either to sell prod uce or purchase supplies, or who lands on the north or south side of the rivers and is forced to cross,has to pay toll. It is doubt ful if the toll charges to the rural popula tion, comprising as they do the toll on vehi cles, are not larger per capita than the toll charees to the city population. The ex penditure of a share of the county funds equal to what t he cities have paid for rural bridges will relieve the people out side the cities as well as Inside" from this tax. e Beyond that it is an inteiesting question whether the county cannot proceed more tatisf.ictorily.than the city for the con demnation and purchase of existing bridges. Every consideration unites in pointing the justice and utility of applying county funds to the work of opening free transit across both rivers. AN ADVERTISING CRANK. The Douse of Commons yesterday wit nsssedan exbibitionof unparliamentary behavior which can only be understood by some knowledge of the principal per former. During the discussion of a bill to enable local authorities to enforce the sale of estates that they may be cut up into small holdings, Mr. Cunningham Graham made himself conspicuous by interruptions entirely out of order. The result of his continued defiance of the Speaker is that he is suspended for a week from taking his seat in the Blouse or engaging in its business. Mr. Graham is a gentleman possessed of a desire to pose as a martyr. He glories in his Socialistic principles, and seeks on every occasion to put himself in a position that can be perverted to appear as a per secution for the convictions he professes. lie goes out of his way on every possible occasion to place himself in opposition to the authorities, and then maintains that their action in upholding the laws is an unjust attack on the ideas of which he claims to be the chief exponent, when his own personal waywardness is usually the sole source of trouble, as it was in last night's incident Graham's constituents will lose little by his enforced absence from the House, and the only thing to be regretted is that the gentleman has obtained another advertise ment of the kind he lives for. He is a curious compound of democratic con victions and petty conceit, in which the latter largely predominates, and by his actions he frequently casts discredit on causes that are not unworthy of serious consideration. A SINGULAR CLilM. The comments of our friends of the Third Party concerning the possibilities of their movement with regard to the elec tion of a President indicates an insufficient knowledge on their part of the Constitu tion of the United States. Congressman Simpson, of Kansas, is reported in an in terview as expressing great jubilation over the growth of the People's Party in the South. He thinks the party will carry a number of electoral votes in the South, which he declares jubilantly "will be al most certain to throw the election into the House." As the same idea has been put forward by other sanguine mouthpieces of the People's Party, it is pertinent to state that, supposing the realization of the glow ing expectations, the grand result of which the granger statesmen are boasting themselves before putting on their armor would be to carry States now set down as surely Democratic, in order to make the election of a Democratic President and a Republican Vice President a dead cer tainty. If the election is thrown into the House the vote will be by States. The Democratic candidate will get 30 States, the Republican candidate will get 12, and the People's Party candidate will get 2. In the Senate, on its present membership, the Republican candidate for Vice Presi dent will get 47 votes, the Democratic candidate 39, and the People's Party candidate (if lndecrat Kyle votes for him), 2. Exactly what the Third Party would gain from their yet unliarvested victory does not appear from the above. But Re publicans who are tempted by the Third Party movement will be put on their guard by the fact that the utmost claim of what that party expects" is to elect a Democratic President, beyond all possi bility of failure, for that is the result of throwing the election into the House. GOVERNOR AND CORPORATIONS. The New York papers have of late been attacking the sincerity of Governor Patti sou's stand against the anthracite coal com bination. At least such is the intimation orthe World, while the Herald asserts that hev"lost the opportunity of his life" when he "left thQ, vindication of Pennsylvania's Constitution to the roundabout decisions of the courts." The Prest likewise takes the partisan view of jeering over the posi tion of the Democratic Governors .Ab bett and Pattison in opposing monopolies in public, but relying on corporate favors in private. "With regard to Ahbettthe course of his party supporters in railroading a bill through the Legislature at the dictation of the combination, and his own lame excuses for the deal in vetoing the bill, leave little foundation for confidence in his present profession of opposition. An official who opposes monopolies only In obedience to public clamor is a bruised-reed for the popular interest to lean upon. But with regard to Pattison we fail to see that the criticisms of his course are well taken. These rest on the assertion that the Governor had some power in his hands to dissolve the combination once. The Herald says that he should have dealt it "a fatal blow when it was first organized." A tolerably close ac quaintance with the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania fails to discover any power on the part of the Executive to deal with corporate aggressions except to bring them before the courts. This Gov ernor Pattison, acting through his At torney General, has done. It was right that the Attorney General should examine the case so as to be sure that it was done; but only a few days were taken for that pur pose. So far from dilatorincss In pushing the case, the corporations have been forced to answer scarcely more than two months after tue announcement of the deal, which for equity proceedings is un usual urgency. The Dispatch has from the first been clear that it was the duty of the State ad ministration to use all the means in its power against this combination. It sees no reason now to doubt the sincerity of the steps that have been taken. The real criterion will be the ability and urgency with which the trial is carried on. And when the Attorney General has pressed the case to a conclusion it will devolve upon the courts to take some means for giving their decisions a more permanent effectiveness than was secured for the nullified rulings in tho South Penn case. HAD BETTER TAKE IT. The report of the special committee on legislation to the World's Fair Directory declares that Chicago does not want tho 55,000,000 asked from Congress as a loan, because "it would not be in accordance or in harmony with the spirit of the law un der which we have prosecuted, up to the present time, all work connected with the Exposition." The committee is right in saying that the loan would not be in accordance with the spirit of the law or the ngreement by which Chicago secured the site. That spirit was expressed in the declaration of Chicago's representatives that "not a cent would be asked from Congress except the appropriation for the Government ex hibit" The law was based on that under standing. Since Chicago has failed to keep that pledge and has come to , Con gress with an application for 55,000,000 the majority of the country has taken the view that tho national Interest should out weigh the fact that the pledge has not been kept But with that fact fresh in the memory of the public the exact value of the new Chicano proposition, that they will raise 53,000,000 if Congress will sub scribe $5,009,000 to the stock, may be esti mated at zero. Chicago will do wisely to accept the 55,000,000 without further recalcitration, and be thankful that she gets it There is an old proverb about a certain class that should not exercise too fastidious a choice. A JOURNALIST'S ENTERPRISE. The day before yesterday Angus Sin clair, Editor of Locomotive Engineering, rode cramped up on his knees in a small iron box on a locomotive, for two hours and three quarters. As will be seen from the story of his trip In another column, it was no matter of light recreation. His ob ject was to test the capacity of tho engine, and he exhibited a devotion to science and a spirit of enterprise well worthy to rank with heroic actions sung of by the epic bards. From time to time when an ex plorer drops out of sight, or a professor loses life or sustains serious injury in the midst of and owing toresearch. we hear of martyrs to science. Yet there are num bers of men to-day who engage in occupa tions entailing discomfort at best, and en dangering life and limb on occasion, in the cause of investigation, though their actions are lightly passed over because they are fortunate enough to escape acci dent AN EXCUSE TOR LYNCH L4W. The theory of Southern lynch law, that the punishment of capital offenses by the regular methods of justice often fails, re ceived strong corroboration in the case of Mr. Biakeburn, of Mississippi, recently banged for wife murder. Whether it was because it was his own wife, or because a new system of hanging was to be tried under the law and the Mississlppians wished to see how it would work, Mr. Biakeburn was unusually favored in be ing permitted to enjoy the more leisurely process of statutory justice. The process in his case consisted in jerking him six feet from the ground by the noose, letting him drop back three feet and hang there thirty-six minutes until life was pro nounced extinct But the difference in Blakeburn's case continues in that his story does not end here. Relatives took charge of the body and started to take it to the family burying ground thirty-five mile$ distant On the road there a scratching and kicking was heard inside the coffin. On opening the box it was found that Biakeburn was not in fact, however he might be con sidered in law, a defunct personage. When the burying ground was reached the family was able to decide, with Blake burn's aid, that there was no need for a funeral, the Sheriff having failed in his duty of furnishing the corpse. At last ac counts Biakeburn was out, a little stiff in the neck but to all appearances good for several more hangings. These facts bring up several questions. Mr. Biakeburn is dead in law But alive in fact It is difficult to see how a person executed by the law and formally declared dead can hold property, convey real estate, inherit, vote or serve on a jury. These disabilities would be balanced in Pittsburg oy ine odvious iact tnat no one can collect taxes on a aeaa man; out m .Mississippi, where taxes are light, owing to the diffi culty of collecting anything else, it does not make much of a compensation. There are some people unreasonable enough to think that justice has not been satisfied and who urge the Sheriff to make another appointment with Mr. Biakeburn. But both hanger and hangee object to this. The Sheriff says ho hanged Biakeburn ac cording to law, and the legal records con tain convincing proof of his death; and the records are not to be overset by any such irregular proceeding as a man walking about after his death. Biakeburn on the other hand pleads the universal principle of law that a man must not twice be put in Jeopardy for the same offense; and how a man can be put in greater jeopardy than to dangle by the neck six feet high be tween heaven and earth with, a drop of three feet according to the new and ineft fectual Mississippi method Mr. Blak'e burn, like therest of us, is unable to see. The greatest puzzle In this case is yet to come. The victim of the law, being ad dicted to wife murder and other similar amusements, is likely to come before the courts again. But how can the courts indict, arraign, convict and condemn a man who is officially shown by their records to be defunct? We think It will have to be understood that the next out break of Mr. Biakeburn will have to be treated by lynch law, in which case the relatives can proceed with the funeral un disturbed by doubts as to the actuality of his demise. There is a movement on foot in several directions to adopt the system of selling eggs by weight. Too much wait Is little calculated to Improve tho quality of fresh ncss. Citizevs anxious to economize in mu nicipal expenses by dispensing with a de linquent tax collector can do best by a prompt payment of taxes on their own account, and an energetic movement to show that delinquents are unworthy citizens In seeking to evade tliolr duties by dis creditable negligonco in paying their debts. "rVlTH the prevalence of heavy thunder storms, tho fearful should remember that the promise has been made that the end of the world shall not como by water. Current events point to the probability that some of the elcctrie magnates are about to receive severe shocks. The war is on and the opposing batteries will soon be engaged so actively that electrocutions threaton to become frequent. The surviving party will naturally be the one most capable of han dling the wires. The precent discussion as to smoke con sumers should suggest something to cig arette manufacturers. Can't they sell one of these machines with each box? When coal has been successfully and economically pulverized at Connollsvllle, watered, and piped to Now York, Pittsburg may wake to the advantages and feasibility of a pure water supply even if it should have to be brought from a distance. But it is to bo hoped that so long a waiting will not bo necessary. The trial of Pipes at Wayncsburg has nothing to do with smoking, though thero was a good deal of weeding out before a j ury was impaneled. Those passengers on street cars at crowded seasons who have long felt that tneir payment of the fare was not a large enough recompense for the privilege of standing will no doubtliave their sense of justice satisfied now that pickpockets are doing a profitable business. Governor Pattison has had a rather remarkable streak of Judicial luck. In a little over a yeur lie has appointed eight judges. Harbison's greatest recommendation is found in the enemies he has made among machine politicians In the distribution of patronage. Ills most piominent weakness Is the lack of courage he has shown by violating his civil servico reform pledges in the same matter. Vegetation is growing as rapidly as Presidental booms just now, but the former h.ts the mote continuous progiess of the two. The large number of uninstructed dele-gate-i to be sent to Minneapolis indicates the present ignorance of manipulators ns to where they cm make the most profitable deal of votes in exchange for patronage. There is a strange predominance of igno rance and foretfulness among those con cerned in the Baltimore Teimlnal lawsuit. Heredity promises to be a prominent issue in the Presidental campaign with Harrison under his grandfather's hat and Lincoln in the shadow of his father's martyrdom both before the nation. By steering clear of narratives on makes and fishes a man has a chance to establish a reputation lor truthfulness at this season. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and moonshiners are enjoying a re spite, as the impassable condition of the roads necessitates the postponement of raids on illicit distilleries. The wind may be tempered to the shorn Iamb, but the absence of umbrellas and gum coats is a piovocation to thunder storms. The anti-Harrison movement will give some ot the little fellows a better chance of securing patronage plums than usual if the Big Hat" be lonnd at borne in the White House for another term. Cloonan has been found guilty of murder in the first degieu, so he has a strong chance of dying a natural death. Men not interested either in baseball or politics havo little to interfere with their attention to private business. If they have no business they bad better sleep or travel for a lew months. Our nine were quite at home yesterday, as they played hero and lost the game. GrOVER CLEVELAND is reported as re fusing a number or invitations to make ad dresses. The address he is most desirous of making is "G. C, White House, Washington, D. C." - Licenses are greater necessities than pedigrees for dog-owners Just now. MINNEAPOLIS AND CHICAGO. All four of the Ohio delegates to the Re publican National Convention are members of the G. A. R. Dayton Journal. Ix the Republican National Convention there will he 833 delegates. Necossary num ber to make a nomination, 449. ITarren Chronicle. By the end ol the week It will be posslblo to make a very fair estimate of the composi tion or tho Minneapolis convention. At toona Tribune. Minneapolis is getting ready to hnmp her self over tho convention, but SL Paul ex pects to rake in its own share of the ducats. Cleveland World. The force of uninstructed delegates to the Minneapolis convention is likely to be strengthened bv a woman delegate from Wyoming. Brooklyn Standard Union. The seating capacity of the Democratic wigwam in Chicago is now placed ut 19,300. It is proposod to put Tammany in one corner and pin down the roof securely, so they can all yell at once without lifting it Chicago Inter Ocean. ' There will be 35Q seats set apart for the representatives of the press at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. This is a larger number than has been assigned forthis purpose at any previous national convention of either political party, bnt there will bo none too many. .Boston Herald. WAR ON THE TRUSTS. Rivalry Between Congressmen for the Honor or Having Started the Anti-Pool Attacks The Rlvor and Harbar Bill Under Consideration in Spite of Hoi man Comptroller Lacey to Resign. SPECIAL TELEORAMB TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, May 4. Representati ve Scott, of Illinois, is on a crusade against the trusts. To-day his resolution passed, calling on the Attorney General to explain what legal steps weie being taken to prose cute the sugar pool. Mr. Scott will lollow this up at once by another resolution. calling upon the Attorney General for information as to what stops are being taken to prose cute' the membeis of the alleged cordage trust. "Tho Attorney General has the right under tho law," said Mr. Scott, "to prosecute these trust offenders, both in the civil courts and in tho ciimlnal courts. But instead of choosing the criminal branch he had begun a suit in equity to vacate the contracts be tween a trust and the various individual in stitutions forming the trust. We want the trust men prosecuted criminally, for they will begin to dissolve their pools when they find they have committed a crime instead of a civil breach of equity." Theie has been quite a rivalry among Con gressmen for the honor of being foremost in the crusade against trusts. Representative, Stout, of Miohlgan, was the first to Introduce a resolution to investigate the Sugar Trust. He did not push it, howover, and it was dis placed by the Scott resolution. Mr. Stout feels that ho has been thus robbed of some of his thunder, but he has reconciled him self by proposing investigations into the Reading Railroad combination and the tele phone monopoly. On the other hand, Mr. Burrows is insisting that he Is really en titled to the credit of startingthe waragainst the trusts. He says that more than a month ago he called on Attorney General Miller and persuaded that official to begin legal proceedings against the trusts all along tho lino. Rivers and Harbors to the Front. Mr. Holman finds the role of economist a thankless one. The river and harbor bill was taken up to-day. In spite of him. as a result of a combination between the foroes inter ested In a number of measures which Mr. Holman is trying to defeat. He Is against the river and harbor bill, as a whole and Item by Item. But the combination effected inhchalfofthe bill is so powerful that the advocates or the bill say they will defeat every more of Mr. Holman by four to one. The consideiation will consume several days as each one of the great many Items which it contains has 10 be explained and debated. A hot contest is expected over what is known ns tho deep waterway pro ject, which contemplates a 21-foot channel through the Great Lakes and connecting rivers from Chicago and Duluth to Buffalo. Mr. Whiting, who represents a lake district in Michigan, will lead the opposition to the project. He will offer an amendment re ferring the entiro plan to a board of army engineers. The amendment directs that the engineers investigate the possibility of a lowering of the level or the lakes by an in crcassd depth of channel. Mr. Whiting contends that the removal of obstructions in the connecting rivers and the deepening of the channel allows a greater outflow or water, which is gradually draining the tippor lakes. He says that this accounts largely for tho fall of tho water level at Chicago and elsewhere His amend ment furthei more directs tho Board or En gineers to leport upon the advisability of damfiing the Niagaia liver as a means of stopping this gradual diain on tho waters of the upper lakes. This plan amounts In enecc to camming tne .Niagara tails a pro ject so vast that it has aflVnded some amuse ment heie to-day, nlthough engineer officers declare it entirely practicable. Comptroller Lacey Going to Quit. The Government will soon have a new Comptroller or the Currency. Comptroller Lacoy has underconsideration several offeis which have been made to him lecentlyto tako the management or one or several banking houses in Chicago. Ho says he has not yet concluded which of them ho will ac cept. His friends say, however, that thero is no doubt as to his accepting one of them. His retirement fiom the Comptrollership of the Currency would take place at once if it weronot lor the fact that Congress is now investigating the aption of theComptiolIer's ciffico in the Maverick and the Keystone Ii.inlc failures. Mr. E'.icey does not wish to retire under such circumstances, as he feels certain that the investigation cannot lesnlt other than the vindication 61 his course. Ho has already satisfied tho Maverick deposi tor'" by giving them 75 cents on the dollar, while tho Keystone depositors feel that tho fault was in lax inspection by bank ex aminers, who failed to report the status of affairs to Compti oiler Lacey. A Mall Superintendent Resigning. A. D. Burt, superintendent of the Fifth division of the mail service, from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, is in Washington for the pur poso of resigning. He has accepted a position with the Bell Telephone Company. HE .LOOKS TO NEW Y0BX A Vermont Opinion of the Empire State in Convention and Election. Rutlakd, May i. Judge H. Henry Powers, Chairman of the Vermont delegation to the Minneapolis convention, said yesterday: "The Vermont delegation is uninstructed, but I believo that the delegation is. and I am sure that I am, for the man who Is sure to win. My first choice is for tho man who is sure to win and my second choice Is for tho man who Is most likely to win. "I legard the situation as simply this: As NowYoikgoes at the convention, so go we all: or in other woids, I think the New York delegation will determine the nomination. I would say also that New York is the key to the election, una the nomi nee ot whichever party carries Now York is the winner. If New York at tho convention says Harrison I think he will bo the nominee. IfNew Yok says otherwise I think he will not be nominated, nnd the Im portance of this can be fully leallzed if wo lecognlzo the fact that New York deter mines the election in November." A COMET VISIBLE. If Yon Are Oat Long After Midnight Per haps Tou'll See It. Mr. G. W. Davis, nn astronomical student of Osawatomle, sends the following inteiest ing communication to the Kansas City Timet: "A comet is now visiblo to tho naked eye in the eastern sky before daylight. It rises about 1:30 a. it. It forms a great equilateral triang'e with Antnies in the Eagle and Alpha crucis. It is west of and forms a smaller ti tangle n itli the two western stars or the gre.it square of Pegasus. It has moved about in a northwesterly direc tion towaid the constellation Cygnus since the morning of April 23, when I first ob served It. The nuclous equals in size a fom tn magnitude star, and the tail Is about Z m length, but very indistinct, pointing to ward the constellation Dolphin or Job's Coffin." HIGHER EDUCATION FOE WOMEN, Their New Graduate Department In the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, May 4. A new departure in the higher education of women was in augurated by tho University or Pennsyl vania to-day, when the Graduate Depart partincnt for women was lot mally opened. Women were admitted to tho post-graduate conrses of the University some years ago, but no especial provision- was mado lor them. The new department will start with 'a force of 33 professois, and will grant to women the degrees of Master of Science and Artmnd Master of Philosophy. Theie will be 21 distinct lines or work, with man v sub divisions. GH0WIH OF THE WILD WEST." The Census Pnt to Shame by World's Fair Closing Petitions. Chicago, May 4. The people who are try ing to close the World's Fair on Sundays have made a sad mess of it. They turned, in petitions from tho States of Michigan and Ohio to-day, and in both cases the number of names is several hun dred thousand more than the last United States census of the States. On the Michi gan petition the number of names is 00,000 greater than the census returns. Harmony Is a Good Thing, St. Louli Globe-Democrat. Harmony is a magnificent thing for the fellows who have got the other fellows down. ECIEHTIFIC GHOST BT0B1ES. Interesting Stories Read Befora the Society for Psychical Research. Bostox, May 4. The meeting of the Amer ican Branch of the Society for Psychical Be search this evening at the rooms of the Bos ton Society of Natural History was fairly well attended and as entertaining as usual. Prof. William James, of Harvard, presided, and opened the proceeding with some inter esting remarks in regard to the question sheets sent out for the purpose of collecting testimony with respect to psychical phenomena. Out of 5,000 replies received, M0, Prof. James reported, had been affirma tive, showing that about one person out of HO in the community had experienced hallucinations. These experiences ranged from cases where' the so-called sub-con-sciousnoss had recalled to memory occur rence which had not been attended to at tho time to cases so complex as to be be yond the power or explanation with our S resent datu. The prophecy made by Prof, ames some time ago to the effect that a psychical investigation might obtain some verv intoiestlng irsults by experimenting with the Inmates of lunatic vsylams had. he remarked, been partly vcrited, and In proot of this he cited somo startling discoveries made recently by Janet, the distinguished Fiench scientist. Dr. Shaw's paper described a number of successful cases of thought transJorroncos and spokeof the advantage of more frequent experiments of this nnture. The next paper, "On the Indications or Continued Knowl edge of Terrene Facts on the Part of Phan tasms of tho Dead," opened with the obser vation that "Whatever else a ghost may be, it ceitalnlyis one of the most complex ot phenomena," and proceeded to illustrato this fact by a number of very good ghost stories, most of them startling, and some of them decidedly amazing. The amount or knowledge and of good Judgment displayed by phantasms of the dead was shown to vary considerably. Thus it appeared that some ghosts refused to reveal just how much they did know, somo displayed surprising ignorance and some a groatcr or less degree of knowledeo on subjects unknown to mere mortals. The remarkable experience of a physician who died and then came back to life ended the papers. THE B0SX0N12INO OF PITTSBUBG. A Case of Melpomene Being Put to Sleep by Mercury. New York Evening World. John L. Sullivan had a $1,200 audience to mumble to at Pittsburg last night, while Mine. Helena Modjeska waltzed around the Forest of Arden and curved the sweet sen tences of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," with that exquisite Warsaw dialect of hers, to an audience that didn't represent more than $100. It was a case or Melpomene being put to sleep by Mercury; or the mlmlo art getting it in the neck from tho manly art. There will be great rejoicing in Court street. Spring lane and Scollay Square over this news or the Bostonizlng or Pittsburg. The victory of brawn was emphatic; the dis comfiture of the buskin was distressing and undeniable. The idealizing of fustian must hereafter give way to the idealizing of fist on the banks of the Monnngahola, and the Marquis of (jueensberry will be looked up to with as much reverence in tho smoky metropolis ns he is around the Back Bay or the South Cove. Mine. ModJ eska was rash In pitting an airy phantasm 'like Rosalind against a robust Tom-and-Jerry-ish characterization such as John L. cavorts around in. Shakespeare was all right in his way andgood enough for tho aistheticism of the sixteenth century, such as it was, but his gigantio and teeming "conch" never conceived the idea of a tank drama or a horse race tragedy: he conldn't have written a play for "Spike" Hennessy and "Kid" McCoy, and he wouldn't know how to begin to fit a Chicago divorce with a gown-garnered comedy. Ho at leat might havo put four-ounce gloves on Rosalind in the Forest of Arden scene, but there's noth ing sporty about Shakespeare. MOKE TIN PLATE C0NCEENS. Welsh Manufacturers to Erct Plants In New Jersey and the West. New York Herald. J A plant for tinning steel plates will be in operation by fall at Ellzabethport, N. J. Tho firm of E. Morewood & Co., the largest tin plate makers In Wales, will establish a branch in this country so their Ameilcnn agents, George B. Morewood & Co., or No. 121 Front street, informed me yesterday. Ground for the Ellzabethport works has been purchased. It is three acres in extent, and is situated on the waterfront near the Central Railroad tracks. Mr. II. F. More wood, whom I saw yesteiday, said that plans for the buildings are expected in a short time from Wales, and tney will be erected ut once. The plant will have a capacity of 4,000 or 5,000 plates a week. For the present tho plates will be imported fiom Wales, wheie the company manufactures its own steel, and only the trimming process will bo car ried on in this country. .Mr. Moiewood, houever, showed me a let ter from John H. Bogors, the managing pai t nerof the concern, promising gt eater things lor the future. Mr. Rogers is the Chairman of the Tin Plate Association of Wales. He was in this country two years ago, when ho made an exhaustive survey of the field nnd the possibilities or raanulucturing the plate here. In his letter he states that tho com pany proposes later to erect in the West an extensive establishment in which they will manufacture their own steel. Mr. Rogers also writes that two other establishments, which he does not name, are to be removed to this country from Wales. Slight Go on Belva's Ticket. Toledo Blade.l Colonel Elliott F. Shepard would like to be a candidate for Vice President of the United States. Wo have no objection, If he will go on thoLockwood ticket. Ought to Bottle Their Harmony, Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Ohio Republicans are harmonious again. '1 her should take a largo bottle of harmony -with them to Minneapolis. DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE. Prof. John K. Lovoll. John E. Lovell, widely known as the founder of the I.ancasterlan School In New Haven, died Tuesday In Milwaukee of old age. He was born in Huntlngtonshlre, England, 1795. He came to this country In ISC! and soon afterward opened his school In New Haven. After a few years he accepted proiessorsnip in 111c Jiount Amherst, lie at that time 1'iensanL Acnumv gave lessons In clocutlun to Henry Ward needier and Arrhblshop iially. He returned to New Haven later and resumed charge of the Lancas teriau School. AJiong Ills pupils have been Gov ernor Henry B. Harrlsou, Governor James E. En glish. 1'rof. Day, of Yale, and other eminent men. He taught In I ew Haven more than 30 J ears. Harry Stevenson, Washington, Pa. Harry Stevenson, a son of Rev. Eoss btpvenson, of Washington, Pa., and a brother or William btcensou, of the Carnegie i,lbrary, died Tuesday night at his father's residence. Mr. Stevenson was a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College and had lately been attending .Mc cormick seminary at Chicago, it as his Intention to enter the University. Sl.ijor Samuel Given, Carlisle. Major Samuel Given, one of Cumberland county's wealthiest citizens and President and principal stockholder of the Mt. Holly Paper Com- fany, died at Carlisle yesterday, agea as years. Ie was unmarried, and Miss Amelia Given, who gave Jit. Holly Its line public library building. Is the only representative of tne family In this coun try. Obituary Notes. General Miquil ausea Is dead in the City or Mexico. THOMAS R. Gilland, a prominent lawyer of tho Franklin county bar and a leading Democrat, died at Carlisle. Pa. , Tuesday night. William M.buiTH. President of Philadelphia Common Councils, died at Atlantic City yesterday lnurnlng of llrlght's disease. A. J. NzafIE, one of the oldest actors on the American stage, died Sunday at his residence In New York, lie was born In New York In Novem ber. 1315. Captain Axdbkw McWilliams, one of. If not the oldest of men In Westmoreland county.dropped dead at his home near Harrison City Tuesday even ing. He was aged 96 years. William M. SMrrn, President of Philadelphia Common Council and KeDUbllcan representative of the Twenty-seventh ward, died yesterday morn ing. His Illness originated in aa attack of the grip. Mas. William Huev, aged ;o. died Tuesday at Bellerldge. She was the wife of William Uney, an old-time river coalman, known from Pittsburg to Sew Orleans. He was formerly owner of the Bellvue Coal Works. Don Miguel Acza, Judge of the Mexican Su preme Court of Justice, died yesterday. He was prominent In Mexican history of the recent pastjn politics and war, and wh Governor of the State of Jacatecas at one time. SEEN IN SOCIETY. Western Theological Seminary Commence mentTalking About Good Thing to Rat and How to Get Them Donation Day at Charitable Institutions. The sixty-fifth annual commencement of the Western Theological Seminary will be held, to-day at Bellefleld Chnrcb. There will be a meeting of the alumni at 4:30 p. x. Her. Dr. R. F. Sample, or New York, will deliver an address, nnd Bev. O. A. Hills, D. D., will tender a welcome to the senior class, to wliioh Mr. J. S. Nichols will respond. The alumni dinner will be partaken of at 5:30 p. it. The evening exercises will commence with prayer, after which Rev. Dr. J. L. Witherow will make an address. The diplomas will be presented by Bev. Wro. II. Jeflers, D. D., LI D., and the proceedings will be brought to a close with the benedic tion. Tho W. T. S. Male Quartet will sing several selections during the evening. At the sale of art needlework in the Monongaheia House on Friday and Satur day, Mrs. M. Rath Merrill will give 5 per cent of the receipts to the Saturday and Sunday Hospital Association. There is a very fine collection In Mrs. Merrill's room, most of it made by her pupils among the ladies of Pittsburg. There will be an ex hibition or handsome embroidery and other styles or art needlework during the two days, which will alone make a visit worth while. The ladies this week are giving their time to commencing pieces of work, leaving them in such a condition that the Enrcha'sers can finish them, and thus learn ow the work Is done. The Pennsylvania College for Women was yesterday morning the scene of an in tensely interesting lecture on domestic science. Mrs. Dallas Albort, the "Elllco Setena" of The Dispatch, was exceedingly happy in the presentation of the subject, and held the attention of her audience to the close. No theme is so essential to health and well-being as cooking, for "cooking means much tasting and no' wasting; It means Eng lish thoroughness, French art and Iiosdi talitv; it means tne knowledge of all herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness in inventiveness and watchfulness; tho economy of our great grandmothers, and the science of modern chemistry; in fine, that the wife Is always to be a lady or loaf giver, and to see that everybody has some thing nice to eat." At 10 o'clock next Wednesday morning another lecture will be delivered on the same subject. Miss Warren, the Quen Mother, Xito crii, in the Allegheny General Hospital bene fit at the Alvln Theater, was unable to take her solo, "Lift Up Thy Soul From Ont tho Dust," last night owing to a slight illness, her physician so advising her. The manage ment, as well ns Miss Warren, regretted this cut In tho programme, but they promise lo atone for it the balance of the week by in troducing in addition to this a second song, specially arranged for her beautiful voice. This will be donation day at the Protes tant Home for Incurables. Alargennmber of visitors are expected at the pleasant Home in Lawrcnceville.wblch is at all times an interesting place to visit. The ladles or the Home are about to put in a new hy draulic elevator, and it is hoped that this donation day will do much toward raising sufficient funds to pay for the work. The charitable are invited to the Chris tian Home for Women, Allegheny, to-day, when donations will be received for the In stitution. Anew home Is needed, and it is hoped that there will be liberal contribu tions to the building tund, of which a legacy or $5,C00 from the late Captain K. C. Gray makes a respectable nucleus. Social Chatter. Mrs. Theodore Hostettki gives luncheon to-day at her home. Western avenue, Jor 13 ladios. The Microscopical Society will meet next Tuesday, at tho Academy of Arts and Sciences, in regular monthly session. The annual May fair and festival for the benefit of the Aged Colored Women's Home. win be neid to-aay ana to-morrow ac uiiay ette Hall. The annual meeting of the Academy of Arts and Sciences will be hold to-morrow evening, when officers will be elected for the ensuing year. Madame Cokstauce Howard gives her third leccure recital this evening bofore the pupils of the Pennsylvania College for Women, East End. A splesdid collection of Turkish embroi deries is on exhibition at the Monongaheia House. The work has been done by the poor women of Turkoy and Bulgaria, under the auspices of the "Turkish Compassionate Fund." The Father Mathew Association gave a pleisant musical and literary entertain ment In Duquesne Hall, last night. Among those who took part were Misses Lulu Cook, Estclle McCloskeyand Rita Cook and Messrs. Joseph A. McNamee, Rohertshaw, Griffin, Simpson and others. The accompanists were Misses Mary McDeimott and Mane Cook. There was a good attendance. SOLVING THE BEIDOE PK0BLEM. The Scheme Proposed by Commissioner Mercer Is Perfectly Feasible. Chronicle-Telegraph.! County Commissioner Mercer holds that the county shonld provide free bridges over the Monongaheia and Allegheny, and his argument is sound. It is unjust that the only sections where county bridges are not built are In Pittsburg and Allegheny, which pay live-sevenths of the county taxes. The proposition that the county should build a bridge across the Monongaheia and also one across tho Allegheny will receive public ap proval and should be acted upon. Toll bridges within city limits are as great an an achronism, as would be toll gates in city streots. If county action could be secured in this direction, it would afford a happy solution to the Southslde problem. The natural loca tion for a county blidge across tho Monon gaheia would be downtown, so as to afford a direct route to the Court House. The city bridge could then be put uptown, so as to make that section of the Southslde a part of the East nd. The scheme is perfectly feasible, and all that is wanted is tho vigor ous push of public opinion to set the official machinery In motion. FAVORITES OP P0RTDNE. Mb. Gladstone cut down his first tree when he was only 10 years old. Speakek Ckisp is constantly in receipt of invitations to attend various celebrations and Is uniformly declining them. Commissioner Carter, of the General Land Office, will probably resign his office about the end of the present fiscal year. There is no truth in the report that Mrs. Harrison has suffered a relapse. In lact she was better yesterday and sat up several hours. THEKing of Italy, like his famous father, Victor Emanuel, only takes one meal a day when lie gets away from court pomps and ceremonies. Jay Gould, accompanied by his two daughters and E. L. Sargent, lert El Paso Tne.'day, by special train, for a trip through New Mexico. The winnings made by Baron Hirsch on the turf last year, amounting to jE7,000, havo alt been sent to hospitals and institntions of a similar philanthropic nature. Dr. James Martineau, famous as a theologian and ethical teacher, and no less famous, perhaps, as the brother of Harriet Martineau, was 87 years old April 21. Governor Reynolds, of Delaware, has tendered to James T. Wolcott, or Dover, the appointment ot Chancellor or tho State or Delaware, to succeed the late Willard Saulsbury. Miss Mary Anderson declares that nothing would induce her to return to the stage. She leads a quiet, homely kind of life in the pretty house near Tunbrldge Wells bought by her husband, Mr. Navarro, shortly after their marriage. Fannie Kemble at 82 is a sadly broken woman. She cannot write a letter except when a friendly band guides the pen across the paper for her, and all the spirit and vivacity for which the gi eat actress was once famous have left her. Representative Springer, Chairman, presided at the meeting ot the Housu Ways and Means Commltteo yesterday for the first time In several months. Mr. Springer is be ginning to look like nimself again but he is still weak and easily fatigued. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There is a man living at Liberty, Ind., who eats newspapers as a regular diet, so it Is said. An absent-minded Philadelphia barber tucked a newspaper under his patron's chin and gave him a towel to read. The authorities of 3Ieran, In the Austrian Tyrol, have forbidden the outdoor wearing of long trains by women. Columbus described three mermaids which he himself saw floating on the waves. Many other early navigators give similar accounts. A man who enlists in the TJnitedStates reznlar nnny may hereafter. If he chooses, wear a cravat. Hitherto he has been denied that privilege. Four families of Penobscot Indians lived last winter in a board shanty at Cape Elizabeth and earned together $110 a month at basket making. The flimsy paper called tissue paper was originally made to place between tissue, cloth ofgold or silver, to prevent Its fraying or tarnishing when folded. The gastronomic law that oysters shonld not be eaten in the months without an B In them was laid down by a person named But ler nearly 300 years ago. A West Philadelphia clergyman re cently received an envelope containing an old-fashioned copper penny as his fee for performing a wedding ceremony. The Chinese have a kitchen god, which is supposed to go to the Chinese heaven at the beginning of each year to report upon the private life of the families under his care. An old way of interrogating fate in love affairs is to slice an apple In two with a sharp knife. If this can be done without cutting a seed the wish of the heart will bo fulfilled. In olden times the Ottoman believed that eclipses of the sun and moon wero caused by some gUantic dragon or serpent who was doing his best to devour those luminaries. A rare relic of aboriginal life, the skull of an animal with a flint arrowhead im bedded In tho frontal bone, has been ex hnmed on the farm of Edward Albin, south or Springfield, O. A little colored boy was struck by the tall of an alligator while he was wading in a pond in JcflVTson county, Fla.. one day last weeK ana nau one teg Drosen in two places. The stroke threw him on shore. The teak, which has passed into proverb as tho best material for ship building. Is superior to all other woods from tho fact that it contain" an essential oil which pre vents spikes and nails driven Into it from rusting. The collection of fabrics in the Drexcl Institute promises to become one of the fin est in tho country and of the highest impor tance to student". The series or Indian prints Is remarkable nnd the Chinese em broideries comprise icveral notable speci mens. The French Ministry of "War has been engaged for more than a year in making ex periments In the preservation or meat. The experiments have resulted In the discovery that frozen meat can be kept for eight months, without any change in Its appear ance or powers ofnourfahment. From the twelfth to the fifteenth cen tury small mirrors, carried In the pocket or attached to the girdle, were regarded as in dispensable adjuncts to ladles' toilets. The fiockct mirror was a circular plaque of pol shed metal fixed in a shallow box and cov ered with lid. A tool has recently been invented that may be attached to any drill press for bor ing any geometrical figure, such as round, square, hexagon, octagon, triangIe,diamond, star, oval, half round, etc. It can be fitted to bore any shape of hole having straight side" or curved sides, or both. Any machin ist of ordinary ability can successfully nse the tool. The Zoological Society have jnst ac quired three samples of the gigantic Japan ese salamander. This creature is interesting as being the largest existing amphibian. In former periods of the earth's history, large newts and frogs were tho rule, rather than the exception; bnt nowadays these giants of old are represented by a puny and degener ate race. The use of horse flesh as an article of food has made great progress in Paris, where about 1,000 horses per week, are said, to be slaughtered, the animals eve bu&g im ported, for that purpose. The snail Is becom ing another lashionablo article of diet in France. Snails were highly esteemed by the Romans, and in the sixteenth century tho Capuchins of Fribourg possessed the art or fattening them. There have deen during the past years a series of fashionable crazes in Japan. The year 1S73 was the rabbit year. The Japanese went wild over these little quadrupeds. A3 much as X3C0 wns paid for a single specimen, and 'speculations in X100 and -C200 rabbits were of daily occurrence. Cock-fighting, printing dictionaries by subscription, boat ing, whist, waltzing, gigantic funerals, and table turning are among other recent crazes. The streets of Berlin are soon to be en riched by a large numuer of so-called "Cra nia pillars." of which it Is proposed to set up In all 300. These pillars will be about IS feet high, constructed or cast iron, and will each contain a clock, meteorological instruments, weather charts, astronomical and geograph ical announcements, and also, as in the streets of Pari", a plan of the neighboring streets in enlarge d form to enable strangers to find their way. A dispatch to the Indianapolis Hews re lates that J. C. St. John, of Greensburg, Ind., is theownerora dog of the terrier species. which has voluntarily taken upon himself the task of rearing four motherless chicks. The dog is their constant attendant, and when harm seems to threaten ho rnshes frantically to the rescue, bristling for a fight, and the chicks huddle about him seemingly In perfect confidence of his abil ity to protect them. Small conver mirrors of glass were made In Germany before the sixteenth cen tury, and were in demand until compara tively modern times. They were prodnced by blowing small glass globes, into which, while they wero hot, was passed through a pipe a mixture or tin, antimony and resin. When the globe was coated Inside it was al lowed to cool, and was afterward cut into convex lenses, which formed small but well-defined images. LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS. "I guess the sand man's come," said Mrs. Hlnkley. as the baby began rubbing his eyes. "I think so." said Mr. HlnVley. "I Una his bin on the table there. We mast economize oa groceries, Maria." Harper' t Baiar. " Oh, love comes like a summer sigh," Beneath her window sang A love-sick youth, and his voice rang out Till the midnight echoes rang. But It didn't come that way to him. As he sang his midnight song; It came as a brlcK. and It fell on his neck. For he'd got the nuinher wrong. Harlem life. "The still small voice of conscience seemj never to reach him." "No. He's gotten so tough that I suppose It la no longer on speaking terms with him. Washing ton Star. The gloss is worn off" the Easter hat Andfewoflts beauties to-day make mention, But life for the mala Isn't stale or flat. Kor the bathing suit now claims attention. What thongh It is meager In point of size. And hard. In a trnnkful of clothes, to find. Some persons declare that It occupies Sometimes the whole of the female mind. AtutTork Prut. j?ido "What's the matter, Grip ? Grip Life Is not what It used to be. Fldo, since the tramns have been using cayenne pepper ou . their clothes. Judge. Daughter First, he kiised my hand. Mother (severely)-An essentially low proceed ing. Uanghter But, afterward, he kissed me on the forehead. . Mother (more severely) Then he went too far. Smith, dray C'o.'j Monthly. How often does Moneybags yonder reflect, As he sits In his pen overswollen with pride. Oflhe eye of a needle he's got to go through. Ere he reaches the Isles of the blest, o'er the tide? Sao Torkllerala. Elderly Eelative (to school girl) Aman da, you are looking oale. Ton most not be too am bitious. Tell me the truth now haven't yun been burning the midnight oil? Miss Amanda (her paleness all gone) Why. yes. auntie, but hut not much. We turned th lamp down very low. Chicago Iribunt.
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