.. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY MAT 4L 1892. ba ri V "Y jje m$Bm. ESTABLISHED FEBIIUAUY 8, ISM Vol. 47. No. 94.-Entcred at nttsburg Fostoffice November, 1S87, as tecond-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and .Publishing House 78 and So Diamond Street, in New Dispatch 13uilding. EASTF.KV ADVFBTI-.ING '1FKICE, ROOM 76. TRIBUNE BUII.DINM. NEW YORK, where rail plote liles. urTHE DISPATCH can alnavs lie inund. Foreign advertisers appreciate tlie convenience. Home advertisers and friends ofTUK DISI'AICH, while In New York, are also made welcome. T11EDISPATCUU regularly en salt at Brer-tan)'. 5! rnitm Square, Xno Tort, and V Are dcTOprra. liris. France, ichrre anyone lofts hat been disap pointed at a hotel neics etand can obtain it. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. FOSTAGE FEEE IS TOE UNITED STATES. 1ailv Dispatch. One Year t S 00 Daily Dispatch, Per Quarter 2 00 Daily Dispatch. OneMonth TO Duly Dispatch. 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On the other hand the conferences of Piatt, Dudley, a representative of Aleer and our own Pennsylvania bosses, in the strenuous endeavor to find another candi date go far toward constituting a testi mony of merit for Harrison. If the spoils politicians keep on with their opposition to the President people may yet think of lovinc him for the enemies he has made. But the Presidentlias most reason to fear danger not in the house of his friends, but in his own house. A news item has recently appeared sayiug that General Harrison does not fear either Quay, Piatt or even Blaine, so much as -he fears the breaking loose of Russell B. Whether this is a correct statement of the Presi dent's mental condition, it is certain that such a fear would be well founded. Hhv inu narrowly escaped from the central position in that Yellowstone Park srandal, Mr. Eussell Harrison recently proceeded to make things perilous for his father by a published interview about Blaine. The jouuc man proceeded to remark that Mr. Blaine is both a mental and physical wreck and could not be trusted even to discharge his duties at the State Depart ment. If anything can call the Blaine boom into active operation acain, and in duce the Secretary to reconsider his decli nation, it will b1 the wagsing of a Harri son tongue to such effect as this. If the President can keep the machine politicians in their present state of aceph alous opposition, and put a muzzle on his hopeful but indiscreet offspring, his path is clearer. But the latter precaution is imperative. OCULAR DEMONSTRATION. The facts in regard to the abatement of the smoke nuisance in Chicago, as given in Mrs, John M. Oakley's letter to The Dispatch, are highly encouraging to those striving for a cleaner atmosphere in Pittsburg. At the same time, the demon stration of the facility with which the ob jectionable blackness can be lessened adds to the discredit of those fuel users who are blind enough to their own interests and inconsiderate enough of public comfort to maintain practices wasteful for them selves and noxious to their neighbors. Proof upon proof is forthcoming of the economy and feasibility of reducing the amount of carbon in our air. Tet the spendthrift culprits keep their eyes closed to an opening for profit, and stop their ears to all entreaties. The agitation should proceed, and public action will achieve what individuals refuse to accom plish without compuls'on. AMERICAN TRAVELERS. Senator Berry yesterday made the as sertion that the Yellowstone Park was maintained for the benefit of the wealthy. But he was corrected by Senator Vest, who pointed out that the rich neglect home scenery to visit the Alps? rThe fact is that foreign travel is more the result of fashion than anything else. There is one excuse for European travel as compared to touring in America, and that is that from an educative point of view the trans atlantic visitors can learn much by ob servation of the people and customs of different races. But the excuse is not available, because the great majority of American tourists are actuated by noth ing more than a desire to occupy their leisure by doing the "correct thing." American men of money seldom or never travel in their own country to ad mire its scenery, but only to spy out the land for investments in lumber, minerals, real estate or railroads. It . is about time that the fashion should change and per mit a study of the national natural treas ures, which well repay a visit NATAL EXPERIENCE. The report of Admiral Gherardi, based on the voyage of the Philadelphia and Concord from Montevideo to Barbadoes proves the correctness of The Dis patch's view that it is well to experiment somewhat with the vessels that have been built before adopting too universally any sincle type of consfruction or motive power as the best The tendency has lately been to build steel hulls exclusively and to depend solely on steam for a mo tive power. But experience proves that stoel fouls much -more rapidly than the old-fashioned copper botton's. In the voyage referred to, although the Concord started with what was deemed an ample supply of coal, her bottom was so foul that her coal gave out, and if she had not been able to use her sails she could not hav reached port without assistance. From this the Admiral draws the obvious deduction that all cruisers should be sup plied with masts which might be taken down in preparing for action. The recommendation is so obvious that its disregard is merely a slavish following of the example of European navies. Even the cruisers, which are said tocarry coal enough to steam around the world, would be made more independent of coal- ing stations and could greatly economize their cost by usiug sail power at times i when speed is not reqn'red. Tho Alabama j I and Shenandoah prolonged their voyages Indefinitely by only using steam when necessary to overtake prizes or run away from United States war vessels of greater weight The fact should not be lost on our present ntval authorities. The coast defenders like the Miantonomoh, which are not expected to go far beyond our ports, do not need sail power, but cruisers should be able at least to hold it in re serve. In addition the fact that our new vessels are obliged after comparatively short voy ages to go into dock renders It pertinent to inquire whether science is unable to de vise any method of sheathing steel with copper. A XfilV PROPOSITION. A report was published yesterday ''that the Mayor, the Controller and the Chief of the Department of Public Safety are about to become sponsors for a scheme to issue 55,000,000 of bonds to be apportioned as follows:- $2,000,000 for street improve ments; $2,000,090 for parks, and $1,000,000 for bridges. The report contains the sug gestive feature that these officials will shortly leave the city, an adjunct of the proposition conveying the unconscious satire that such a course is the best thing for public officials to do after such a plan has been made public. We credit at least two of the three offi cials named with understanding that such a proposition would inevitably arouse in the public mind the memory of the bond issues of twenty years ago and the train of complications that followed in their wake. It is entirely competent for any public official to urge the submission of such a proposition; but it is not hazardous to pre dict that it would meet with the most strenuous opposition. The oppo sition would have the double founda tion of experience and reason. Pitts burg has completely shaken herself free from her old difficulties; she has expended between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in improvements during the past five years; she has opened two attrac tive Darks, and got them into a condition which calls for gradual rather than wholesale improvements in future; and she has accomplished all this by adhering strictly to the principle of paying for the work as it is done. There is certainly nothing so imperative in the improvements proposed as' to call for an issue of bonds. The parks can be more judiciously Improved by the policy of gradual expenditure than by wholesale outlay. Street improvements can be made as the property benefited is ready to pay for it. The funds already available for a bridge permit the work to be done before a site can be located. Tire Dis patch has stated its platform clearly in favor of such expenditures as are neces sary to the welfare and progress of the city. But the present industrial situation indicates the wisdom of retrenching ex penditure rather than expanding it In these departments the proper policy is to do the work required, and to pay for it as it is done. It is gratifying to learn that the city has a reserve of borrowing power, even if it Is obtained by the energetic expansion of valuations In the last assessment But that reserve should be kept for imperative exigencies and not spent simply because we have it to spend. For Instance, there is a possibility that within the next-few years it may be necessary in order to ob tain an adequate supply of pure water to tmild a conduit to some point where it can be fed by mountain streams. The necessity may arise in some other form; but whatever shape it takes it would be a bad commentary if the city were unable to raise the funds because it had exhausted its borrowing power the first year It had any. The work of municipal improvement in order to be lasting must be gradual and even conservative. At present, and in view of the doubling of city taxation in the past ten years, it is better to econ omize by postponing such improve ments as are not imperatively necessary rather than to launch out into profuse ex penditures to be paid for In the future. AN ART CRUSADE. Outlined elsewhere will be found an Im portant scheme by which it is proposed that public school children shall be sur rounded and familiarized with works of art The movement set on foot in Boston Is local in its initiative, but the hope is expressed that it will develop later into a national, and even an international, cru sad There is no civilized country in the world where there is so much call for the cultivation of artistic feeling as there is in America. Nor is it possible to think of any plan better fitted to Imbue the rising generation with a love and reverence for the beautiful than the one proposed. School days are days of susceptibility, and the mere association with standard works of art may be made a most im portant factor in the formation of char acter and inclination. There is a crying necessity for some effort to counteract the narrowing concentrative tendency of modern education, and the Boston move ment is a step in the right direction which deserves the support necessary to insure its success. A PATENT JOB. The way in which the patent system can be perverted from its legitimate object is illustrated by the official announcement from Washington that three new telephone patents were granted last week. These cover devices which have been in actual use under the Berliner claim for years. That a patent should issue to Edison may be presumed to be just; but when the de tails of the case are stated the method of juggling with the public interest is made clear. The application for these patents was made fifteen years ago. They have since been hung up in the Patent Office by the device of an interference suit on behalf of the Berliner devices, the character of whicli is made plain by the fact that both contended patents are owned by the same corporation. In other words the Bell Tel ephone Company has kept up for fifteen years the pretense of a suit against itself in the Patent Office slmply.ln order that, within a year of the expiration of the orig inal telephone patents, its monopoly could get a new lease of life. That such means should be resorted to by the corporation owning the patents is not worth much comment They are en tirely within the beaten track of monopo listic ethics. But that the officials of the Patent Office, serving the people and paid by the people, should co-operate in such a fraud on the public purposes of the patent system is a matter that calls for some notice. Even supposing that the Patent Office experts were so stupid that they could not of themselves perceive the ob ject of this sham litigation of a corpora tion against itself, they are estopped from pleading ignorance by the fact that their attention has been called to It by tho press. There is a strong prima facie casehere of public officials lending their passive aid to a preconcerted Jarndyce vs Jarndyce suit with the plain purpose of doubling the j duration of the telephone patents allowed by'the intent of the law. Patents obtained by such methods should be set aside as fraudulent But if the people .do not care to insist that their agents shall be above such methods, why should the courts undo the crooked work ? A SINGULAR DISCRIMINATION. The passage by Congress of a bill au thorizlng the American registry of foreign steamers under conditions that include only the City of Paris and City of New York practically acknowledges that it Is good policy to secure a certain class of foreign-built vessels for tho American merchant marine, with the compensation of an equal construction of such vessels in the United States. The adoption of this policy emphasizes the fact that the privilege is, by the limitations of the bill, extended to a single corporation. Tho incongruity of the action is the rhore marked because the company thus favored has for years presented a prominent example of American capital owning and operating vessels under a foreign flag. Is it to be taken as the theory of this bill that corporations which take that course are to be preferred to capitalists who may desire to build "Steamers but who have heretofore organized their enterprises under the laws of the UnitedStates? Is it wise to offer a premium for capital to organize under foreign governments to carry on ocean navigation schemes? The fact that the provisions of the bill only require the building of an equal amount of tonnage In American ship yards not ships of equal tonnage and speed, as has been reported is pointed out by the New York Sun. Further than that the bill does not actually require the building of the American vessels. It re quires them to be contracted for, but it admits the foreign vessels whether the contract is carried out or not This loose ness ia the drawing of the bill, however, is a small fault beside the grave one of conferring an especial and exclusive privilege on a foreign corporation owned by American capital, seemingly as a re ward for having carried on operations under a foreign flag. Southsideks want a tree bridge, and so does everyone Tint personally Interested in the dividends derived from tolls. But the cood time coming Is continually postponed, because a site cannot be chosen to please till parties equally. Meanwhile $200,000 Is lying Idle, which can be used to make a start with ns soon as a modicum of common sense has put an end to rurther delay. It Is very nearly time that some decision is arrived at, as, whatever It be, thorn cannot be any choice worse than the continued absence of free communication. ' Why not organize a Presidental trust and control all the candidates? But, then, there's hardly money enough In the scheme to. war rant its constitutionality. As A boop-pole politician Mr. Holman might have been expected to evince an overwhelming latere t in the circus per formance which Involves graceful leaps through tissue paper. But ho resisted temptation nobly and hold on to his prun ing knife like grim death, albeit his pretence in tho House -effected no reduction In the liberal appropriations passed by his col leagues. A Scotch checker editor has just retired after twenty-flve years of service without missing a week. There Is nothing checkered about bis career. These are various' advertising enter prises offering to provide freo trips to Europe lor the successful solvers of.obscure questions. The easiest method to cross the ocean without paying is to establish claims as an alien of criminal or insane ten dencies. Pity the men whose stainless honor is still uncleared from the accusation of per jury in the support of Law and Order. At a minstrel show the corner men are expected to be humorous adepts with the bones. In a city blessed with ranid, transit oorner men are wanted to keep down the accumulations of tragedies, converting human beings Into dead bones. For freedom from observation, a ticket-of-leave man Is better off than a Presidental possibility of the utmost remoteness. Blaine has distinctly refused to be a Presidental candidate. To instruct dele gates to vote for his nomination at Minne apolis in the face of this withdrawal is about as reasonable us a child's crying for tho moon. TnE elements came to Pittsburg's rssist ance yesterday, and we scored a victory because the Giants v. ould not play. The Women's Auxiliary Board of the World's Fair proposes to erect a glass build ing. Of course, as the ladles are on the in side, it goes without saying that the struc ture will be a good looking-glass house. When that proposed driveway has really beeu constructed. It will offer terrible temp tations to patrol-wagon patrons. The Yellowstone .Park can never be deemed unworthy of the nation's ownership so long as it continues to give rise to accusa tions of lobbying, log-rolling and corruption in general. Agricultural operations are in arrears in those "flooded and snow-covered areas. Agent McClure says that among the L. and O. deteotlves hewns known -as No. L It would be prematura to speculate as to the number which will replace his name by-and-by. The pound is lessening the weight unlicensed dogs that aroat large. of Anti-Harrisou men seem to know their negative wants muoh better than their posi tive ones, though they aro positive enough In the expression of the former. FAVORITES OF FAME. Lord Brassey makes it a rule to save a third of his vast income every year. Secretary Noble has gone to his home in St. Louis. He expects to bo absent one week. The Emperor of Austria is learning short hand. Since his son's tragic death he finds time pass with unsupportable slowness. Two ladies only have obtained the degree of Mus. Doc, namely, the Princess of Wales, and Miss Annie Patterson, of Dub lin. Gounod, the composer, is an eccentric individual, and will only work at his own time and to order. It is said that he has 12 unfinished operas lying in his MS. drawer. It is not generally known that, to her other talents, the versatllo Sarah Bernhardt adds that of the Journalist. She is, when In Paris, tho regular art critic of a leading daily paper. President Eliot, of Harvard College, who has returned from his Western trip, saysMregarding his Salt Lake specch,vtbat he does not intend to be interviewed by anyone on the snbjcot. Miss Katherine Tynan, the Irish poetess, is an interesting looking girl. Her father owns Whitehall, one of the largest farms near Dublin, aiid is said to know m"ore about nffsicultnro than any man In Ireland. Hon. Thomas C. Platt, of New York, is in Nashville, Tcnn. Ho refused to bo In terviewed npon political questions. He will attend the meeting of stockholders of the Tennessee 'Coal, Iron and Kallroad, Corn pan', at Tracy City, to-day. SMOKE IS CONSUMED. A Pittsburg Xady'si Investigations In Chi cago Down-Draft Furnace Success The Wabash Engines Fitted With a De vice That Works Successfully. To the Editor of The Dispatch: A few days ago Trie Dispatch alluded edi torially to the success of the down-draft furnace as a smoke preventer. To the best of my knowledge there is no such furnace ns yet in operation in Pitts burg: therefore I de cided to devote a part of my-bi ief stay in Chicago to seeing for myself upon how firm a foundation the reports of "Its success aro based. Thanks to the courtesy of the Sec retary of the Society for the Prevention of smoke, I was enabled to see this furnace in operation in one of the largo pork packing establishments in Chicago. The-'engineorln charge told me that he had experimented for IS years with as many different devices, so that his einphntlo recommendation of the down-draft furnace cannot be attributed to a lack of experience. It is, of courso, Impossible for roe to re peat his technical description of the merits of the furnace, or to rehearse the facts that have convinced him that almost perfect combustion is the result of its use, bnt I certainly can bear witness to the testi mony of my own eyes. Through all the tests to which the engineer was kind enough to subject the furnace ror my instruction, the chimney was practically smokeless. With intelligent handling it need not smoke nt all except when the grates are raked, which is done about once in seven hours. this fnrnace also possesses one great advantage in the fact that it can be erowdod without at all increasing Us smoke. At the establishment I refer to, the furnaces uro constructed for boilers of 150 horse power. On the testimony ofthocngineer, they have beon pushed to 400 without any increaso In the amonnt of smoke. This furnace costs about f600 a boiler, takes up no more room than tho average furnace, and would seem to be well adapted to all kinds of stationary boilers. , TnE Society for the Prevention of Smoke feel hopeful over the outlook in Chicago. Tho city is still smoky, very smoky, but there is much enoouragement In the fact that the amount of smoke has not in creased in the last ten years. There has been an enormous addition to the city's pop ulation In thfs time, but the smoke nuisance has not kept pace with it. The smoke pre venting devices In operation increase In the same ratio with the smoke producers. A city of l.OOO.CO.) inhabitants using soft coal in their households, 'must be, more or less, a smoky cltv. Independent of manu facturing plants, though for myself, I havo so Arm a faith in the Inventive jrenins of the age, that I hello vo household smoke will not linger long after it has been abolished irt the manufactories. Whether it be fuel gas or electricity that the invent ors will supply to use, I shall not undertake to foretell: my prophetic soul has simply a vision of the twentieth century dawning unon smokeless cities. The Citizens' Association, which initi ated the light against smoke, met their most determined opposition from the railway companies These appealed from court to court in the suits brought against them un der the smoke ordinance, and it is Interest ing tor Pittsburgers to note that in every enso the courts sustained the legality of the ordinance. The companies are now begin ning to weaken, and .tbe Society for the Pre vention of Smoke anticipate little resistance from them. The Wabash road has shown itself more alive tatne'popular feeling than any other railway entering Chicago. Every enzlne on this road, whether it be express, freight, or simply vard engine is now equipped with a highly successful smoke fireventer. Under tho guidance, of a mem er of the society, and of the. Master Me chanic of the Wabash load, I was enabled to study the actual working of this device. Wo rode first in thfe cab of an ejeptess en gine attached' to a heavy train of.passengor coaches. We stopped frequently in getting out of the city, and each time the, eniino slithered up its train without making mora than a gray'thread orsmoke, scarcely mora noticeable than the "smoke of coke. The device is a species 6f steam jet,'lne'xnenslve, easy to manipulate and' entirely, noiseless. The engineer told me thatitls'pure nonsense to say that smoke preventers eannofhe'hsed successfully on expiiees trains; . he had 'run his engine nt the rellrf of i75 miles an hour with thesmoko preventer turned on rail, and with.no more smoke issuing from the stack than I could see at the time he was speaking. After a fair trial on.tbe express engine, we were .transferred to freight, and worked our way slowly back into the city. In all the switchings and backings, to which the freight' engines treated us our experience was stilt the same ;there was at no time an annoying amount of smoko. I should esti mate that the amount of-smoke prevented by this'.device. is. rather more than 90 per cent. The engineers 'and firemen aro de llghted.wU lt."t yYe a're no fonder of smoke and cinders , than. any.one else is." one of them" remarked to me with emphasis. Mr. Brant, the master mechanic, told me that the firemen are ' carefully instructed how to stoke, and if an engine emits more smoke than ltshnuld.it fireman is promptly suspended. This much I can testify, that arter riding for three hours in an engine cab, I fonnd absolutely no cinders on my clothes. Now, If tiie Wabash road can abate so large a per cent of smoke, why cannot tho other roads? Why not the Pennsylvania companies and the Baltimore and Ohio, right here in Fittsburgt It is astonishing that these well-managed and progressive ronds do not reallio what a tremendous ad dition thoy could make to the comfort of their passengers by abating 00 per cent of their smoke nnd cinders. The traveling public would joyfully spare $75 worth of plush and mirrors from the coaches to see that amount expended in equipping engines with such a device as that on the Wabash road. What a rush of travel will reward that railway company that shall first Introduce In its llst'of special attractions, "No smoke. No cinders !" The master meohanic of the Wabash gave me permission tojmy that he will bo chid to answer any inquiries about this particular smoke-preventer; and should anyone Chlof Blgolow, for example wlh to learn how easily and Inexpensively railway smoke Chn be abated, he will be happy to extend to such a seeker after truth all the courtesies in his power. His address is Mr. J. W. Brant, Master Mechanic of the Wabash road, Chicago. 111. Mas. Jonir M. Oakley. Judgi Boarman Fonnd Guilty. WAsniKOTOif, May 10. The special com mittee of tho House Judiciary Committee, to which was committed the investigation of the charges made.agalnst Judge Boarman, of Lonisana, finds that in several instances the conduct of Judge Boarman in rulings and charges was culpable and that he was technically guilty or unlawfully holding funds of the registry of the court. He Looks After Bis Friends. Chicago Inter-Ocean.l Objector Holman is an economist except when nppronrtatlng money from the Federal Treasury, for use in his own district. Holman is not as bad as he is painted he looks after his friends. WontsAnother Mall in tho Coffin. Boston Herald. 3. The free coinage corpse is trying to make another disturbance,' in Washington. Put another nail in the coffin ! A PAIR. Honest John dldilovb, the fat office very dearly, ; While friendly Ben r Did wield tbe pen To help htm most sincerely. Oh pledges,' they are -useful things, thought Ben, when vote's are' nought But vote's obtained, No lienor's stained ' Byi'orgettmg'thems sought. Andwarlik'e mcWjes will do;to catch the people's ear; What matters it 7 , A little bit. Though they bring strire very nearT Above all other earthly things, 'tis office wo do love, , And we will strive, While we're allvo. For its sweets all else above. But when four years had passed away, the peppleknew them well: John Honest then, , And friendly Ben In the fall together fell. .':- ' ' F.J. M. CLUB WOMEN IH COUNCIL. Two TJnlqne Feminine Organizations Sleet In Chicago. CaiCAOo, May 10. Tho corridors of the Pal mer House were thronged to-day with ladies. The Federation of Women's Clubs is about to hold its biennial convention, and nearly 400 delegate have already ar rived. Many more are expocted. Caucuses are being held wherever a knot of four or five of the members could be found. To mono w the convention will hold its first session in Centqil Music Hall, and will bo called to order by Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown, of Orange, X. J., tho first President of tho Federation. Many well-known women will attend, including Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Susan G. Cook, Mrs. Mary E. Mil m ford and Jennie June. The object of tho Federation is to discuss and compare tho methods of conducting women's clubs the world over, In order to mutually benefit each other. The Association was organized in 1S89 at a meeting of the Sorosis in New York, but this is the first general gathering or me ueiegates. To-day the Xational Council of Women, a distinct body, held an executive session at tho Palmer House. The meeting was pre sided over by Mrs. May Wright Sewalf, of Indianapolis. Among those present were Miss Willard and Sunan B. Anthony. The reports of three Important committees, which have been at work for a year, wero made. The work of the council has been to secure equal rights in the divorce courts, and. to get for w omen equal representation npon the divorce committee, which is seek ing to have uniform divorce laws pissed in each State. The question of a suitable busi ness dress for women one which could be worn in traveling, on the treet and about work was considered by a committee con sisting of Mrs. AnneJenuess Millcr.Frances E. Russell, Dr. Emory, Miss Octavia W. Bates and Mrs. Frank Stuart Parker, while Mrs. Leland Stanford, Mrs. Laura M. Blonnt, Marie Deschayand Harriet Taylor Upton have been working to secure from the UnitedStates Government the passage of a bill exacting equal pay for equal work per formed by women and men In the service of tho Government. MANAGES AND DAN0EK TO WED. Amelia Glover to Become Mrs. John B. Russell Next Week. XxwYobk. May 10. Special. It was re ported in Brooklyn last night that Manager John H. Eussell. of "Tho City Directory," and Amelia Glover, tho graceful dancer in the company, known widely as "The White Fawn," are to bo married in this city next week. It has been understood that manager and dancer were affianced, and that they would wed this spring. After the ceremony they will sail for England to spend the sum mer In travel. Miss Glover is the sister of Ida Glover, the wife of Henry E. Dlxey, the comedian, and is in her 21st year. At the age of 9 she was in a children's ballot at tho Metropolitan Opera House during Mapleson's regime. Afterward she was with the Riralfys and other spectacular managers. In 18S9 she Joined "The City Directory," In which her dancing has ever Blnce been a featnro. Many experts oonslder Amelia Glover the best dancer on the American stage. Mr. Russell's first wife procured a divorce from him in a Philadelphia court several months ago, alleging desertion and non-support. He made no defense. The first Mrs. Russell was not an aotress. HON AND LAMB MEET. Judges Grcshara and Woods Sit In the Same Conrt and Settlr a Itnmor. Chicago, May 10. Judge W. A. Woods, the recently appointed United States Circuit Judge, and Judge Gresham sat together in the tatter's court to-day, and thus laldatrest the hints that Judge Gresham wonlddecllne to sit nn the same bench with Judge Woods. Judge Woods came up fiom Indianapolis this morning, and Judge Gresham invited the new appointee to share the bench with him. Judgo Woods leadily accepted, and the two jurists seemed very cordial toward each other. TALK ABOUT THE TRUSTS. Dissolution of the Sugar Trust would help to sweeten the poor man's lot. Pomona Timet. The Coidage Trust may be choked at the end of its own rope. New York Evening World. TnE Democrats are afraid to tackle tbe re fined sugar duty. Let the Republicans do it then, and crush the trust. Jollet Journal. Tue suit brought against the Sugar Trust need not deter Congress from repealing the act which made the trust possible. Detroit Free Press. The sugar combine, the coal combine and the cordage combine can sy.mpathlzo with each other. It if going to be a hot summer for them. Sost on Herald, Thf. Democrats have shamefully neglected their chance to attack the Sugar Trust, but the Republican officials are proceeding against it in the courts with zeal and deter mination. SLIxntls Globe-Democrat. Safe makers are necessarily familiar with combinations, but now they have organized a great big trust. Fortnnately their products ate not in great demand, but their action illustrates the monopolistic tendency In all industrial interests Joliet Journal. Republicans should hold a club over the head of every "trust." Trusts nre not in the interests of the people. If more legislation is needed to annihilate such iniquities, it should be demanded at once. Down with all 'trusts." Thoy cannot be trusted. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Ip Congress wants to repair the loss of prestige occasioned by its treatment of the tariff, now is the accepted time. Let it at tack the Pennsylvania coal combination and protect the people from its rapacity. New York Commercial Advertiser. Shows What the Stage Can Do. Chicago Times. The nctors' fair in New York netted over $100,000. This shows what the stfigo can ac complish by adopting church methods. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWIIERE. Pierre Marcelln Lortlc Pierre JIarceiin Lortic, the last of the classical artists in bookbinding who were really grent artists, is dead In Paris. He was the rival of Trautz-Bauzonnet and divided with lilm the en thusiastic admiration of the great book collectors. Edraondde Uoncourt's Judgment that Lortlc had not his mate in Jansenlst binding is accurate. Since the artisans of the Renaissance who worked for Grolier, not one had the gift of fitting morocco covers to books as If they were inseparable until Lortlc came. As a decorator of hook overs he was neither better nor worse than Trautz-Bsuzon-net; he made original and beautl'ul designs and glided them perfectly, without caring to make them express the books that ther covered. His fault was the fault of his time, and as he worked for Ambroiso Flrmln Dldot. a scholar, hut the most stubborn of old-fashioned collectors, he had little Incitement to he a reformer. If the book hinders of to-day had the mechanical skill of Lor tlc they would be perfect. ' Colonel William G. Halplti. Colonel William G Halpin, of Cincin nati, died Monday. He was Colonel of a Kentucky Union regiment when thc Civil War broke out and was made a Brlgaaler General. After the war he went to Ireland, where he was arrested as a Fenian and served four years of a 14 years sen tence In a British prison. After his pardon he re .Jnrncrt to Cincinnati, where he was made City Civil Engineer. Obltnnry Notes. Hox. John W. IiRECitlNniDGE, son of Vice Tresldenl Breckinridge under Buchanan, died at Mercd, Cal., Monday night. Mas. Samuel MAitqnis. aged CO years, was found dead In bad at her home in Mew Lisbon. O., Monday morning. Heart disease carried her off. Milton W. Mathews, State i-onator from the Champaign (III.) district, and well known as an orator throughout the West, died yesterday at his home in Urbana. Mas. Captain Buhb D. Wood died In New Orleans Monday afternoon. Her remains ac companied bv her bereaved husband, have arrived in Pittsburg for burial to-day. IlicilAnn S. Jenkins, a prominent attorney and for a) years prosecutor for Camden county, N. T.. died at Atlantic City yesterd.iy morning altera long Illness. Henry F. Randolph, eldest son or A. D. F. Randolph, the New York publisher, died yester day morning at his father's house from the effect oCstrychnlne, taken by mistake for quinine. Maktin C. McArthub. of Burlington. Ia., Is dead. He organized tbe business of the American Kxpress Company on the line of the Chicago, jlmllngtonand (jutucy when "that road was built through Iowa In I aid. Colonel J. VT. Avert, the Commander-in-chief of the Ku-Elux In South Carolina, died suddenly at his residence near Vtrzlula Beach Monday, aged 64. He received a wound near Ap pomattox, shortly Derore the surrender or Lee, 'from which he never recovered. AMATEUR ART. levers or Photography Make a Display in tho Academy of Art and Science Mar riage or a Well-Known Newspaper Man Gossip of Society. The parlors of the Academy of Art and Science nre covered with evidences of the artistic ability of the amateur photog raphers ot this city" and Allegheny. The sixth annual exhibition, nnder the auspices of the Pijtsourg Amateur Photographers' Society,' opened yesterday 'afternoon, and' will continue until to-morrow evening. The terra cottn walls of the parlors are relieved by large squares of crimson cloth, npon which are fastened hundreds of photographs of all sizes and styles. Thore are a great number of flash-light pictures, bosldes those that have had the advantago of a tempered sunlight, and tlie progress that has been made in photography during the last dec ado is well Illustrated by the different specimens shown, done by different processes. While only those taking an ac tive and practical interest in photography could toll exactly the sbades-of merit in some of the specimens, there is' enough beauty to be discerned even by the un practiced eye in the photographs on exhibi tion to make it a very interesting display even to tho casual observer. The awarding of prizes for the different photographs occupied' the Judges for about three hours. Tne result of deliberations wos as follows: The Darlington gold mednl went to C. C. Craft, of Crafton, Pa., for a figure of a young girl at tbe side of a wagon with, a basket of eggs beside her. It was entitled, "Counting yonr chickens before they are hatched." Listen to My Tale or Woe. Horace E. Moorhead's oiler of 525 for the best general exhibit was won by W.S.CIow with a collection of character pictures. One was a little boy playing a mouth organ, with a howling dog before him. It was called "Listen to my tale of woe," and another was two pictures Illustrating the making of apple butter. A 5x8 Universal camera and holder, given by John W. Morrison for the best picture in special com position, fell to C. C. Craft with exhibit No. 267. Mr. W. S. Bell's gold medal for best transparency went to A. R. Neeb. A "C Ordinary Kodak," given by the Eastman Co. for the best collection of not less than six kodak pictures, was won by L. S. Clarke. Diplomas were granted as follows: To W. S. Clow, for No. 27. landscape 3x7 inches and under: A. R. Neeb, No. 212, landscape 5x8 inches and over; C. C. Craft, 277, marine views, surf and sail: A. R. Neeb, 45, single figures, 5x7 Inches and under; Mrs. Amnion, 88.groups,5x7 inches and nnler;"W.S.Clow,9, special compositions: 31 re. Ammon, 220, ani mals; C C. Ciaft. 276, flowers, fruit una trees; Mrs. Ammon, 73, snow and ice, C. C. Crnft, 200. sculpture: A. R. Neeb, 4S, machinery and other manufactured objects; WS. Clow, 18, flash lights; w. S. Clow, 5, bromide prints: C. C Craft, 272, platinotype print". For blue prints the honois wore divide. I between Mr. Baker, for No. 42. nnd C. C. Cratt, for No. 14. Mrs. Ammoti was awarded diplomas for in stantaneous effects nnd the best collection of hind camera pictures. Mr. Hunter, was declared to have the Best pictures of interior views in the exhibition. Making a Record in Boston. The judges were John WBeattyand S. M. Robinson. Mr. Clow yesterday received word that he had been awardod the diploma at Boston for the, best general collection at the Joint exhibition in that city of photo graphs from Now York, Philadelphia and Boston, and any other cities in the United States. Mr. Clow had seven character pictures in Boston. This is the second year in which Mr. Crnft has takon the gold medal at the Pittsburg exhibition. A lantern-slide exhibition was given last night at tho Art Society rooms before a good-sized audience. Thdattendnnce in tbe afternoon was small, mainly on account of the bnd weather. Visitors and members of the society are requested to vote for the picture which, in their opinion, is entitled to tho highest honor. The picture receiving the highest number of votes will be suitably framed and placed permanently in the societv's rooms as the "honor picture for 1SJ2." A "district Skule" is to be held in the M. E. Church on Kirkpatrick street, Thirteenth ward, on the 18th, 19th and.20tu insts. All the lads and lassies of tbe congre gation will take part. ' There was a concert by the Superior Choral Union, under the leadership of Prof. John Vichards, in the Fifth U. P. Church last night. The Protestant Orphans' Asylum, in Al legheny, was a bright place yesterday. Everything about the great building wore a holiday appearance, and sounds of muslo and laughter were in the atmosphere from morning till evening. It wns the annual re ception, and the managers had made special piepaiatlons to celebrate it In proper style. The children wero made to feel that it was their own reception, by being allowed to give tho entertainment, and right well did the little ones enter into the spirit of the oc casion. The exercises opened with singing by the children, after which Dr. Purves ad dressed them on "How to Grow Up Well' His words were listened to with the greatest attention. Mr. Frank Lang was the master of ceremonies, and Mrs. Howard Lo?an read the yearly report. It showed that the re ceipts during the year from income, be quests, etc.. were $30,351 11, and the total ex pense9$2i,S72 90, loavinga balance of $G,978 21. This balance has been applied to permanent imnrovcmentsonthebuildincs. There have buen eight de.iths dnrins the year from vari ous causes. Some were delicate babies, and one, a little girl who was admitted two years ago, having diseased lungs. A number be came of age during the year, and all havo been given a gooa start in tne world. After the reading of the report a dainty supper was served to tho children on seven tables, with another one for visiting school mates, who had como to renew their ac quaintance with their alma mater. Tho tables looked very attractive, with their wiowy cloths and many colored, fragrant flowers. The Board of Managers are par ticularly pleased with the new offlco at the Home. It has been fnrnlshed in oak by some of the prominent merchants of the cities. The pretty matting on the floor was the gift of Miss Jane Holmes. A VERY quiet weddins was that which united Mr. John Lonrentz Steele, city editor of the CJironicle-l'elegraph, and Miss Mary Ella Hays at the borne of the bride, 5810 Cen ter avenue, last evening at 5 o'clock, ltcv. J. P. E. Kumler performed the ceremony nnd only the Immediate friends of the con tracting parties witnessed the ceremony. The bride and groom left fast night via tho Baltimore and Ohio for Cincinnati foraa ex tended trip south and west.afterwhlch they will be "at homo" to their friends at tho fcrmer residence of the bride. Among tho many beautiful wedding presents received was an after dinner coffee set from Mr. Steele's friends on the Chroniclc-TcUgraph. Mr. Steele is well known In newspaper circles. Ho Is a native or West Virginia, and his first introduction In newspaper circles In Pittburg was about 13S4, when he engaeed with one of the morning papers. Ho after ward became Washington correspondent for tho same paper, and has been connected with Pittsburg nuwpapcrs in various capacities since ills arrival here. The monthly meeting of the "Women's Christian Temperance Union was held yes terday afternoon In the Mt. Washington Baptist Church. The report of the Financial Secretary showed that there wns $S9 in the treasury. Keports were heard irom tho Superintendent of Sunday School's and Edu cation. These departments were shown to he in good order, and results of the work were shown to be manifested more than ever. Covers for 30 guests were laid for the (Xnner given last evening by tho Junta Club at the Duqiiesue Club House on Sixth avenue. The decorations consisted of three large mounds of flowers, glaxinles, sweet peas and roses being used. Between these were placed beautiful specimens ot maiden hair ferns. Boutonnleres of the samo flowers were placed on each plote. W. L. Chalfant wns toast-master, .nd responded to the tonst: "The Absent Get Nothing." Among others present and responding to tonsts were: George A. Macbeth, "American Art;" C. C. Bnggs, ,Bntness Principles:" Charles P. Orr, " it nnd Humor;" IL E. Col lins, "The Junta:" and John C. Shoemaker. "Vale." Tho Reception Committee consisted of J. J. Buchanan, L. M. Plumer and W. S. Pier. Tho Shipping Act Approved. Washington, May 10. The President appioved "Tho act to encourage ship build ing" this aftornoort within nn hour after its rbcelpt from tho House Committee on En rolled Bills. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are 300,000 commercial travelers in the United States. The value of the oysters consumed la London yearly is about (3,000,000. A summer school for female students Is to be established in the Eiffel tower. A Lebanon connty (Pa.) fanner has a calf 2 weeks old that Is only it Inches high, and weighs but 35 pounds. Edward McDonald, of Allentown, Pa., owns, or did own, a dog which weighed but four ounces when It was 5 months old. A merchant of Yazoo City, Miss., has-a young turtle with two distinct heads and necks, it is covered by one shell and has only ono set of legs. A Brooklyn girl who was supposed to have .died of a broken heart, was found, on. a post mortem examination, to have been a victim of stomach trouble. The last census returns showed 73,000 coachmen and grooms, 56,000 male domestic servants indoors, and 1,230,000 female domes tic servants, or 1,350,000 in all. The schooner Edna and Emma arrived from the Bahamas in Baltimore this week with H.C00 dozen pineapples, the largest' cargo ever brought to that port. Seals sleep upon land; they also do so floating upon their backs in the sea. This habit tbey mostly Indulge in when the weather is fine and the sea calm. In Bnrraah it is rather a suspicious thing to zive money for a charitable oblect. It is supposed to mean that the' donor has) beeu very wicked, and is desirous to make amends. It is not uncommon in Northumberland foca farmer to allow any of his laborers who wish for it the keep of a cow as part pay ment of wages, greatly to tho benefit'of their families. The oldest pair of matched horses in Connecticut belong to Eli Wakelee, of An sonia. They are 31 and 32 years old, and havl been owned and used by him almost daily for 17 years. The directory for 1892 of the Ancient Order of Foresters shows the Society to hav'' over 800,000 members and owning funds val ued at over $25,000,000. The average number of sick on the books is 23,030. It is said that some of the Venetians those who have never been to the mainland have neverseen ahorse in all their lives. A showman once brought one to a fair and called It a monster, nnd the factory bands paid 13 cents each to see the marvelous . It is now admitted that the inherent hne of water is bine. Even distilled water has been proved to bo almost exactly of the ame tint as n solution of Prussian bine. This is corroborated by the fact that the purer tbe water is in nature tho bluer is its hue. A French savant likens the quickness of volition In an animal to the telegraph. When a whale is harpooned, he says, the nerve telegraphs to the creature's brain, "Harpoon in tail;" upon which the brain telegraphs back, "Jerk tail and upset boat." The Chinese are ahead of the world in the preparation of roast pork for the table. After (t lias come out of tho oven, it is bung in the smoke of various aromatic herbs, which gives it a delicious flavor and robs it of tbe porky tasto which is offensive to some palates. Bargain day at the large shops in Har lem, especially on One-hundred- and-twenty-fifih street, brings a band of flower mer chants, who set np stands on the sidewalk: and soli overblown roses to tho bargain seekers at aDout half market rates for fresh flowers. This country was known 500 or 1,00 years before Christopher the Navigator was born. Chinese-Buddhist monks aro known to have settled in Mexico in the firth century of our era, and St. Brendan, the Irishman, visited some identified spot on our continent about 100 years later. The length of the ancient cubit, so often referred to in sacred and other writ ings of early date, varied according to tho race. Strictly. It was tbe distance from tho elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Becent investigation proves that the Boman cubit i was 18.47 inches fn lengtb. ' ' " Anew storage qattery is being em- , ployed on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for use In connection with electric lighting of Its cars. Twenty-four bells are placed under each car, and they supply eight 15 candle power lamps on the round trip from Cincinnati to Washington. The umbrella is, undoubtedly, of high antiquity, appearing In various forms npon the sculptured monuments of Egypt, Assy ria. Greece and Borne, and in hot countries it has been used since tbe dawn of history as n sunshade a use signified by its name, de rived from the Latin umbra, a shade. One of the vegetable curiosities of Cen tral Park Is a maple tree standing Just west of the west side tennis lawn. The tree Is fully five feet in diameter at the base, but Instead of rising ns one trunk it splits into 17 distinct trees, of which 16 are alive, and several are at least ten inches in diameter. An English firm has invented an in genious device for turning on tlie currents for electric lamps at a certain hour. An ordinary clock Is so adjusted that at the de sired moment a spring is released, permit ting a pair of pivoted con tu.es t to fall into mercury cups, thus completing the circuit. Parisians may soon be able to sit out side their cafes on the boulevards and drink their absinthe blended with water straight from a Swiss lake. This is quite on tbe cards, since a Swiss engineer has submitted a plan for supplying Paris with pure water from the Lake of Neufchatel at a cost of $100,000,000. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted, no hotels are allowed to open their bar doors from midnight on Saturday until Monday morning, and anyone driving past a place of worsnin at a faster pace than n walk while service fs in progress Is liable to be stopped and summoned by the police nian on duty. 3a! It is unlucky to try 'on yonr bridal dress before the bridal day; to see your future husband on the day of tbe marriage until the ceremony. Unluckv to marry out of your own position that is, a lndy to marry a servant or vice versa; unequal mar riages bring nngratelul children. To bring flowering hawthorn into a house denotes a death in a family. STABTEIM FOIt SMILES. Miss Eva What an extraordinary month the comedian has! Don't you think It's made'npf Mr. Smith (who knows him off the stage) Sot that's his regular month. Judge. "How can I prove my devotion?" He asked In accents deep. Then said she. with much emoUon, 'Give me a chauce to sleep." Colorado Sun. Jinks I've just picked up a treasure, an aotograph letter of Blcharrt the Third, dated only three months before his death. Spinls Ilnmph! That's nothing. Gully his one dated three years aft. r his death.-ue. "That is Mrs. Street Commissioner Jonei over there, isn't It?" "Jiotnotnow." Divorced?" "No; ber husband has been promoted. She Is now Mrs. Flt Assistant Deputy Subcomptroller Jones." Harper" Batar. There was a man in our town Who dressed In plaids and checks; Hejumpcd Into an apple tree. And smashed his Sunday specs. And when he saw his glasses break. He climbed npon a shelf. And ate cream cakes tlU he became A spectacle himself. Harper I Young PeopU. "I hear that Jiggins has a new phono graph." Yes. I don't wonder at it. No man could -de-the amount of talking he does and keep it up with- out help." Washing ton Star. She, I am engaged. He Oh. luckless fate. By what strange turn of chance Am I thus rendered desolate! She Engaged-but for one dance. Hem T6r Jlerald. She talks no mo re about dresses, She often gets on with one meal. She now wears salves and compresses. But you bet she can ride a wheel. Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Mrs. Chinner seems to have pleasant lime of It." very "Pleasant time? Why, that woman's life is one complete round of enjoyment." "It Is?" "It is that. She belongs to seven sewing r eles." Aete TorkPress. r?r 7i -I . ,3. r- ,airYi-MfA' f. i
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