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THE ULAIXE TIDAL, WAYK.
The Blaine wave lias gathered such
headway that at present it is sweeping all
before it The hold theSecretary of State
has upon the hearts and imagination of
the masses of the Republican party is so
powerful that it required but little effort
to set the demand in operation for his
nomination. Unless there is some unex
pected check to the movement, Senator
Quay's prediction in an interview else
where stands a good chance of fulfillment
by the nomination of Blaine on a single
ballot, after which the convention will
proceed to deal with the Vice Presidency.
As an accompaniment to this comes a
story from Michigan that Mr. Blaine's
letter of declination was written at the
demand of President Ilarrison in order to
prevent division in State and district con
ventions, while now that the delegates are
all chosen Mr. Blaine feels at liberty, to
give the convention a free choice. The
story can be taken for what
it is worth, but the developments of the
last week make it tolerably certain
that Blaine has determined to let the call
for him be given by the utterance of the
convention; that his health permits him
to take the leadership, and that the con
siderations which produced the letter to
Clarkson have no longer anj weight with
him. It is hard to imagine a more power
ful incentive to this conclusion than the
assertion emanating from Ilarrison circles
last week that the Secretary of State has
become mentally and physically incapable.
Such stuff would inspire almost any man
with the determination to make a prac
tical demonstration of its falsity.
By this nomination the Republican party
will place itself squarely on the platform
of protection to homo industries and the
development of foreign trade by reci
procity. It will prepare for a spirited
ampaign in which the personality of the
candidate will arouse all the force of Re
publicanism to a united effort for victory.
THE OUTPUT OF IKON.
The decrease in the output of iron and
steel for the first quarter of Ihe year, as
reported by the bulletin of the Iron and
bteel --ociation, is larger than it ought
--ttr-be. - i.'..d, -as the previous year was
below the high-water mark of 1890, the
falling off for this quarter is very con
siderable. Nevertheless, the signs of im
provement are such as to permit us to
hope that a decent year's record will be
made. An improvement in the tone of the
market is being accompanied by indica
tions of enlightened policy on the part of
the railroads, which," by reducing freights,
afford at least some encouragement to the
industries which originate them. Although
the quarterly statistics do not show it, the
deduction from trade indications is that
Pittsburg has retained her last year's rec
ord of maintaining a large output, while
the rest of the country underwent dullness
and shrinkage in the volume of production.
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CANALS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
A New Castle correspondent of the
class who wants canals built several thou
sand miles away from the United States
undertakes, in a communication published
elsewhere, to condemn the Ohio River
and Lake Erie Canal project, and to boost
the Nicaragua scheme by the force of his
dogmatic argument The former enter
prise is impracticable, because there is no
water supply. The latter is in the line of
manifest destiny, and will bring Cuba and
the Sandwich Islands under our flag. By
these assertions our correspondent settles
the question in his own estimation.
The insufficient supply of water for the
Ohio River and Lake Erie Canal was one
of the standing objections of the op
ponents of that scheme of development for
some time. The question was thoroughly
investigated by competent engineers. The
report of the State Commission included a
clear demonstration of tiie means of ob
taining an ample water supply and the
estimate of the cost of that work as a part
of tho cost of the canal. Our correspondent
Is only peculiar in the persistence of his
ignorance of this fact and his adherence
to this threadbare objection two years
after it has been fully exploded.
As to our objections to the Nicaragua
canal project we have none for any cor
poration which chooses to put its own cap
ital into the enterprise. Our position on
the proposal to load it onto the Govern
ment has been fully stated The proposi
tion that the Government shall endorse
bonds for it to an amount 835,000,000
greater than the engineer's estimate of its
cost stamps it as a job of exactly the same
pattern as the Pacific railway subsidy on
twice as large a scale. The value of such
an indorsement as giving the Govern
ment control is simply nil, from the fact
that in case of war the canal would be
seized by the strongest naval power. As
for the flamboyant "manifest destiny" ar
gument of our correspondent, if it be true
that the project would add to our citizen
ship the ignorant and corrupt populations
of Cuba and the Sandwich Islands, every
thinking man should protest against the
canal m order to avert such a calamity.
Finally, there is neither justice nor com
mon sense in using the funds or credit of
the United States to build canals thousands
of miles away from the population of the
United States when ten times as much
good can be done to our interests by
waterways through the interior of the
country. In our correspondent's' own
town, at a recent date, business was de
pressed, furnaces were standing idle and
labor was out of employment, because the
iron industry was unable to bear railway
charges for transportation. We take it
that the people who pay the revenues of
the United States will be much more ben
efited by a canal which would give their J
industries permanent prosperity than by
one which will carefully keep those bene
fits so faraway that they never can feel
them.
THE MEMORY OF THE DAT.
To-day the anniversary returns on which
the nation commemorates the patriotism
and services of the men who put their lives
in the breach during its period of need
nearly a third of a century ago. That
time of struggle and sacrifice becomes
more remote in memory year by year; the
veterans who bore the burden of the strug
gle grow gray and pass away from among
us; but the celebration of this national
day, in which the thoughts of the whole
people are turned back to the lesson of
patriotism and devotion, is universal and
Impressive as ever.
It is true that for a large portion of the
younger generation the day is notable
chiefly as a holiday in which they lay aside
work and devote themselves to leisure and
enjoyment So far as this makes the day
an occasion of dissipation or vicious in
dulgence it is a profanation; but innocent
enjoyment, such as we may hope the ma
jority will turn to, contains nothing incon
gruous with the spirit ol the anniversary.
The men who gave up their lives in tbat
great conflict could hardly have done so
from a higher motive than that they should
preserve for the next generation a country
prosperous and happy. JNor is n a deroga
tion to their services to commemorate
them in a festal rather than somber tone.
Nevertheless, the day cannot be fittingly
observed unless with all the enjoyment
apart from the formal celebration there
is not this memory. All this we owe to
the sacrifices of 1861 to 1861. The pros
perity, the happiness, the greatness of the
nation is due to the struggle and the blood
of the men who sustained the nation in
that period. We may make our Memorial
Day an interval of rest and pleasure, but
we cannot contemplate the subject of the
commemoration without taking to heart
the lesson that if the time should come for
another effort of sacrifice and duty we
must show our worthiness of the example
held up for imitation to-day.
As for the remaining members of that
patriot army who take charge of the ob
servance in honor of their dead comrades,
and are themselves the living mementoes
of that time, no honor can exceed what is
due them on this occasion. Late years
have shown that the time is coming when
the veterans of the war will become few.
In a few years more the work of observ
ing the day must fall on younger organi
zations, and the veterans of to-day will
join the ranks of those whose memory we
celebrate. Both living and dead share the
honor and glory of to-day, having earned
it equally by deeds which cannot be for
gotten while this nation is worthy of its
name.
ELECTORS BY DISTRICTS.
The Michigan idea of choosing Presi
dental electors by districts is obtaining de
cided recognition In some Democratic
circles. The Republicans are unable to
see in it anything but what it really was
intended for a arp dodge to get certain
electoral votes from the other party. The
side of the political house which does not
loose by the scheme in its present form
can afford to look at the matter impartially
on its merits.
Of tho constitutionality of the election
of Presidental electors by districts there is
no reasonable question. In fact it is more
nearly constitutional than the present
method which, while observing the letter
of the Constitution, does not carry out its
intent of an actual choice by the electors.
The Michigan method hardly restores
the liberty of choice, but it would not
reduce the Electoral Colleges quite so com
pletely to the plane of prearranged puppet
work as at present
J. Randolph Tucker, one of the leading
political minds of Virginia, has written a
letter to Governor Lee in which he claims
decided merit for the general adoption of
the plan. He points out the great objec
tion to the system of solid electoral votes
and the predominance it gives to the few
pivotal States He makes a strong point
by showing how the district method would
break up the power of the States which
claim to hold the casting vote, both in the
nominating conventions and in the elec
tions. With the district system New
York's heavy electoral vote would not be
the prize which brings conventions to
obey the orders of her politicians and the
merchandise for which immense campaign
funds are distributed the day before elec
tion, nor would Indiana be the field of
political debauchery. Each of these
States, like all the others, would represent
so many Congressional districts, and the
number of doubtful districts would be so
large that to select the pivotal ones would
be impossible.
All of which, together with the minor
consideration that the spectacle of a con
stitutionally elected President who re
ceived less votes than his opponent, would
be less frequent tlian now, is a fair argu
ment for the system as a whole. But
when we come to consider how the system
shall be put into practice, the matter is
reduced to the rank of an abstraction.
In the intimation that Mr. Tucker is in
favor of adopting it in Virginia there is an
evidence that he places his idea above
party advantage. But the fact remains
that the system will be adopted or not
throughout the different States as it suits
party exigencies. A Democratic legisla
ture will adopt it, as in Michigan, only
where it fears the solid vote will be given
to the Republicans. A Republican legis
lature will reject it when reasonably con
fident of carrying the State. Abstractly
and as a whole the change would be a
good one. Concretely- under the varying
action of the States it is simply a scheme
for grabbing votes, which under the prac
tice of the last half century belongs to the
opposition. The only way in which the
proposed change can be made uniform is
by a constitutional amendment. And if
the Constitution is to be amended why not
secure the same results moreperfectly.and
conform the form to the fact, by electing
the President and Vice President directly
by popular vote?
RATHER WEAK OBJECTIONS.
The bill introduced into the Senate to
give United States courts jurisdiction in
cases of crimes that involve the violation
of treaty of obligations struck some of the
conservative Senators as a decided innova
tion. The main objection was that, if the
courts should try offenders by the laws of
the States where the crimes are committed,
forty-four different systems of law would
be constituted under the jurisdiction of
the United States courts. By this argu
ment on the surface, and the political ap
prehensions of the Senators as an under
current, tiie bill was laid over, without
much probability of being called up before
next session.
The objection looks like an alarming
one; but it really is not serious. If it is a
reproach to have forty-four different sys
tems ot law it Is a reproach that already
exists. The only difference under the hill
would be that another court would take
cognizance and lurisdictlon under each
system in Us proper jurisdiction a state of I
affairs that also exists to a limited degree
in cases where an appeal lies from the State
to the United States Courts. What would
not be the case, however, is two systems
of law in force with regard to these of
fenses in the same State. Th'at it is the
obvious purpose of the bill to avoid. It is
clear, if this view is taken, that such a
provision is the simplest and best, if the
United States Courts are to undertake the
enforcement of the guarantees offered by
treaties.
Of the need for such an enforcement
occurrences like the New Orleans and
Rock Springs outbreaks leave little doubt
Of its conformity to the constitutional
theory there is also no room for dispute.
The Constitution expressly brings cases
arising under treaties within the jurisdic
tion of United States Courts. Madison
and Hamilton, in their writings, pointed
out the need of such provisions. With
these authorities before us, it is plain that
the constitutional tremors of the Senators
on the subject are really due to political
apprehensions lest the measure should be
unpopular with the hoodlum and jingo
element If there is such a popular senti
ment against fulfilling the obligation of
protection to foreign residents, it makes
little difference whether the bill is passed
or not If Juries nullify the action of
State laws in State Courts, what is to pre
vent them doing the same thing in United
States Courts?
It is about time for the regular spring
report about peaches to be Bent out from
Delaware. There will be no crop as usual,
but the markets in July will bo flooded Just
tho same.
It should be specified that the article in
our brilliant cotemporary the New York
Sun, beaded "A Bolter's Panic," does not re
fer to the panic In which Senator Hill bolted
out o( the Senate chamber when In danger
of being called on to vote on the silver ques
tion. The head is descriptive of that occur
rence; but the esteemed Svn has carefully
forgotten to mention David Bennett Hill's
latest demonstration of alleged political
acumen.
Colonel "Watterson, after his unsuc
cess with the Democratic ticket, is trying
his hand at modeling the Republican ticket.
But, then, the Colonel always was flighty.
It is explained that Senator Hill's
record-beating escape from the Senate was
due to a fear lest ho should be called upon,
If tho silver question came up, to explain
the difference between free silver coinage
and free bi-metallic coinage insisted on in
his Elmira speech. No one else knows the
difference, and it would be painful for the
Senator to disclose the sources of his ex
clusive knowledge.
The tameness of the Prohibition and
Third Party conventions that have been
held recently is suggestive suggestive that
silver has not been free enough yet.
The unexpected has happened. The St
Louis QlobcDemocrat, which has been
strongly for Harrison, has swung into line
for Blaine, and says he can "see bis title
clear to the Presidency, if he wants It."
And so the tidal wave rolls westward.
Spirits gave a Chicago Bport "the tip"
at the races the other day and he won. Gen
erally it is another kind of spirits that tip
the sports at Chicago races.
It is reported from New York that money
Is getting easy and will be easier before the
summer is over. Practical politicians in
New York expect to do their share toward
inspiring an active movement in money
about the middle of November.
The Texas jailer who accompanied nine
of his prisoners when they escaped laid him
self open to an accusation of sticking too
closely to his charge.
England is indulging in a weak imita
tion. Tho hail storm which destroyed the
fruit there last week only developed hail
stones as big as "a bantam's egg." But
everything in England is bnilt on a smaller
scale than in this glorions republic.
It is sugeested that the country roads be
repaired. Useless advice. We haven't any
country roads. The wet has washed them
all away.
It is curious how the crevasses in the
levees of Borne of the Presidental candidates
growastho June days draw near. Pretty
soon tbey will be large enough to allow the
entire field of dark horses to creep through.
Only eight or nine more days of agony
for some of the "P. C's." When they are
over some of them will wish they never had
a boom.
There will be quite a lively sociable
gathering at Minneapolis a week from to
morrow. It will be entirely too lively for
some of the slow booms that nave been
sprang on an unsympathetic publio lately.
What is the difference between a Demo
cratic promise and its fulfillment? ' $100,000,
000," answers the present Congress.
Another rush at the "Sunday side door"
in New York yesterday is reported. Some
one has suggested that it was led by Ken
tucky colonels. This is unkind, because the
"Star Eyed Goddess" was in that vicinity.
Senator Peffer's whiskers lost a fine
opportunity by being absent when that last
Kansas zephyr was let loose.
It is an evidence of the exigencies of pol
itics when Thomas B. Reed has to come out
in support of James G. Blaine. Not that he
dislikes Blaine less but that he hates Harri
son a great deal more.
TnE prophets of fair weather will have
to persevere yet a little while longer.
According to reports from Rome that
Mr. Wm. Henry Herbert is about to beoome
a monk It is a logical inference that Mr.
Wilfred Murray, wherever he may be, is
quite sick.
FAVORITES OP FORTUNE.
General Wistar, now President of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, is an enthusi
astic yachtsman.
Mrs. Mabv Kussell Day has been
made State Librarian of Kentucky, the
Legislature appreciating her eminent fitness
for the place.
General Lee, December 26, 1799, first
applied to General Washington the phrase,
"first in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen 1"
Judge Joseph Tucker, of Plttsfield,
Mass., will deliver the oration at the unveil
ing or tho monument to General Paterson,
at Lenox, Mass., on Monday.
It is rather depressing, all things con
sidered, to learn from Kate Gannett Wells
that the women no longer worship the
minister, but the thing he represents.
Senator Buicb wears on his coat lapel
aboutonniere instead of the single flower
which other Senators affect. This is con
sistent with his well-known fondness for
rainbow hues.
Ex-Governor Uicholls, of Louisiana,
who has been appointed Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of that State, is a graduate of
West Point, and lost a leg, an arm, and an
eye in the Confederate service.
Edward Everett Hale, Jr., who
graduated from Harvard In 1SS3, has been
made the professor of English in the Iowa
State University. He has been an instructor
in the same branch at Cornell.
Congressman- Tillman, of South
Carolina, is said to be tho most vigorous
man for bis age in Washington. He Is now
CG, and his beard and hair are white, but he
is as straight as an arrow and has a constltu-
tion of iron.
NON-PARTISAN THEOLOGY.
I WRITTEN FOB TIIE DISPATCH. 1
I hope that the General Assembly will
excommunicato Professor Briggs and lay an
interdict upon the Union Theological Semi
nary. Not that I disapprove of Professor Briggs.
I believe that be is in the right. The Bible is
a book to be studied. It is worth studying,
and is great enough and true enough to en
dure any amount of critical examination
and come out sound at the end. And the
Bible is going to be studied. No General
Assembly in Christendom can help that.
And when 1 say studied, I mean lead with
an entire purpose to find out its real mean
ing. That is the only genuine kind of study.
Anything else is but a sham. To learn what
a modern theological professor thinks tho
fathers of tho Reformation thought about
the interpretations of the patriarchs of the
first centuries, is not study. No
man is worth the name of student
who does not undertake his subject
with a sole interest to find out
truth. That is what he wants and all he
wants. And if be discovers that what has
been taught for truth is really error, he is
bouud to say so. Prof. Briggs is as right as
Galileo. All the conservative doctors in the
whole Calvlnistio establishment cannot
change that. Tho exoommnnication of tho
General Assembly will amount to exactly as
much as the Pope's bull against the comet.
Good Mrs. Partington, in her cottage by the
sea, tried one day with her trusty mop to
keep out a high tido. But no mop can keep
back tho Atlantic Ocean. And no ecclesi
astical decree can greatly hinder the pur
suit of truth.
Nor, as I said last week, have I any grudge
against the Presbyterian Church. The
only parson who sat down the other
night at tho Pittsburg banquet was
a Presbyterian professor. And although
he was invited and welcomed out of
respect and admiration for his position
as a man and for his personal good qualities,
the choice was nevertheless notable and
significant. The most valuable institution
in Pittsburg is the Presbyterian church.
What would become of us without it? Pitts
burg is for its slzo the most decent, the most
orderly, the most moral city in tho country,
largely owing to the good bringing up that
it has had at the hands of the Presbyterian
church. No: I would be 3orry to see this
great religious society definitely commit it
self at Portland to the lost cause of tradi
tionalism. It would be as disastrous as the
old blundering and ill-fated alliance between
tho Church of .England and the Stuart Crown.
It is not from lack of goodwill toward Prcs
bytcrianism that I hope to see the General
Assembly set itself against scholarship,
against liDerty, and against truth.
A Free Theological Seminary.
It is because of certain good results
whioh might follow out of such disaster.
Notably this the setting up in this country
of a free theological seminary.
For Union Theological Seminary is bound
to go on. The seminary can get along, and
if necessary will get along without the
ohnrch. Would it not be a good thing if it
should?
There has taken place in this century a
great emancipation of publio intorests out
of slavery, not to religion, but to denomina
tionalism, that is, to partisanship. Tho
publio schools have passed out of denomina
tional control. Andthe academies and col
leges are following Into the field of freedom.
The most successful presidents to-day are
no longer the parsons, but the laymen.
Eliot, of Harvard, and Low, of Columbia,
are notable examples. And, although there
are many ministers still at the head of
educational institutions, and many of them
conspiouously able, they owe their efficiency
not to their clerical position but to their
own ability and energy. The Chancellor of
the Western University is stirring up that
excellent institution and putting new life
into it. and bringing it into lino with tho
new PittsDurg. Not so much by his ortho
doxy as by his good, plain, earnest common
sense. That is, he commends himself and
his cause chiefly by those qualities which
we look for in a layman. Tho time will come
when there will not be a denominational
college in the country. The time will come
when a Presbyterian college will be as ab
surd as a Presbyterian arithmetic, and a
Baptist university as ridiculous as a Baptist
rolling mill.
Charity, too, the hospitals, the homes, the
agencies Tor helping those who are down
all this is getting disentangled from the de
nominational not.
Two Kinds of Church Success.
TnESE great interests, educational and
charitable, were never more religious, never
more genuinely Christian, than thoy are
to-day. It is not Christianity which is losing
its hold: it is only that unfortunate pre
sentation of Christianity which is made by
denominationalism. We are growing out of
the narrownoss of partisanship. Dr. Mc
Connell, of Philadelphia, who preached
here the other day at tho Church of the
Ascension, said that there are two kinds of
possible success in the work of tho Christian
Church: One is the success which is evi
denced by great buildings and immense con
gregations and largo figures in parochial re
ports; tho other is the success which is
shown in the bettering of men, in the up
lifting of character, in the qnickening of tho
conscience of the community, in the amend
ment of sooioty. The second kind of
success is not so conspicuous as the
first, but it is incalculably better. It
is won not by the oxaltatlon of the Church,
but by the exaltation of the individual.
"Ye are the salt of tho earth," tho Master
said; but salt has not begun to do its work
until it has hissolved and dissapcarcd.
Denominationalism is salt undissolved. The
denominatlonallst labors first of all not for
truth, not for the good of society, not for
the advancement of religion, but for the
glory of his sect. And he has been found,
again and again, willing to distort truth and
to i otard religion for the sake of his party.
We want no more of that. Especially, in
our Institutions of education, vo want men
who are under bonds to no master but tho
truth, who will not bo hindered either in
study or in teaching by any party bias.
There is enough bias in human nature with
out importing any more into it. We do not
any of us see all around the truth; but let
us.at least, abolish the wearing of theologic
al and esclesiastical blinders.
Non-Partisan Theology Coming.
Now, why not apply this not only to the
college but to the divinity schoolt Why
have even theology taught by partisans?
I believe that the time will come when
even the theological seminaries will be
emancipated from denominationalism. It
will piobably be a long time. But if our
brethren at Portland will but persist just
now in their insistence upon traditionalism,
and say hard words about Union Seminary,
and put that institution under the ban, why,
there will be an Immediate divorce, in all
probability, between that great school and
the great church with which it has been
associated. And Union Seminary will then
be free.
And what will that mean? Why, it will
mean that the sole requisite for the position
of professor in that school will be conspicuous
ability to perform tne duties of his chair. Tho
professor of Hebrew will bo chosen for his
efficiency In teaching Hebrew. It will not
matter at all what he thinks about pre
tention. The business of the instructor In
Church History will be to teach the history
of the Christian Church exaotlyas it hap
pened, not in the interests of any party;
with an entire desire to learn the actual
truth and to make it clear to his students.
The teacher of Old and New Testament Ex
egesis will have it for his sole business to
understand and to make others understand
the real truth about the Bible, absolutely
regardless of all doctrines or inspiration
and of all the pronouncements of the
orthodoxy.
That, if It ever comes to pass, will make
Union Seminary the best theological school
in the country. It will be its emancipation
from the bondage of blighting traditional
ism. It will make it 'the alma mater of
bright, clear-sighted, and wide-minded
young men ont of all denominations, who
will go thence into their parishes, hating
partisanship whole-souled champions of
Christian truth.
Never Anything but Bombast.
Chicago Tribune.)
At Its best the Hill candidacy was never
anything but bombast. It Is now a boom
burst.' t
AN ANTI-PAKNELLITE CALL.
Money Needed for Election Expenses In
Every District In Ireland.
London, May 23. An eleotion manifesto,
signed by Messrs. Justin McCarthy, Timothy
Healy, Thomas Sexton, William O'Brien,
Thomas P. O'Connor and B0 othor members
of tho antt-ParncllIte section of the Irish
Parliamentary party, willbe issued Monday.
It will say tho opportunity the people have
been anxiously looking forward to during
the last six years is now close at hand. The
snb-cominltteo nppolnted to sit nt Dublin to
arrange to meet tho impending struggle, has
the full confidence of the party. The mani
festo adds:
"Arrangements will be at once completed
to hold county conventions to enable every
Nationalist constituency to provide itself
with a snitablo candidate. This is not
enough. We are threatened with harrassing
contests in all the Nationalist divisions.
The verdict of the electors is not doubtful,
but tho determination to give full effect to
the will of the Irish of our country's destiny
will involve heavy election expenses. The
constituencies themselves should take im
mediate steps to provide for these expenses.
"We are on tho eve of the most moment
ous general election of this century. The
policy of desperation to which the enemies
of Ireland havo been reduced, and the
gro ing friendliness of the British public,
afford us confident reaRon to anticipate a
united expression of Irish Nationalist opin
ion that will result in the triumph of the
cause to which have been devoted the un
told labors and sacrifices of patriotic spirit.
Of the good sense of a majority of our fellow
countrymen we havo received proofs in
abundance. All that is now necessary is to
make sure that no constituency, however
poor, be deprived by the expense of vex
atious contests from lecordlng its judgment
on the great issue to which the country is
about to bo summoned to declare Itself.
"The time is short, the necessity urgent.
We are confident that it will require no
words to impress Nationalists with the vital
character of the duty now devolving upon
them to ensure a prompt and effective re
sponse from the country."
SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
A Feeling That They Are Natural Allies,
Commercially and Otherwise.
Madrid, May 29. The inauguration meet
ing of the "Grand Casino" of the club
"Union-Ibero-Amerioan," to receive the
American guests who are arriving for the
Columbus celebrations, has been held here.
The Minister of Public Works presided.
The speeches were enthusiastic and full of
protestations of mutual regard between
Spain and her American children. It was
acknowledged on all hands that there had
been a certain estrangement and lack of
commercial relationsbetween Spain and her
South American natural allies. She should
seek alliance with her own children, and if
any large protecting power wero reauired
Spain should covet the friendship of the
United States rather than an alliance In the
Old World. If the United States wants a
friendly ally in the Old World, that ally
should bo Spain, with her great colonies and
her position in Europe.
As to commercial relations, the United
States had at this moment the "most favored
nation" clause as far as the Spanish colonies
are concerned, and it is not at all probable
that any other nation will, at least lor some
time to come, obtain a like clause in any
treaty of commeice to be negotiated.
Several points in regard to the new com
mercial relations between tho United States
and Spain are still unsettled, but the nego
tiations are on the eve of a successful issue.
The admission of Philippine sugar into tne
United States duty fiee is an important mat
ter to the Philiiplne Islands, the sugars of
which place will be virtually excluded,
owing to the Imposition of a high tariff,
lroin the Spanish markets after July 1 next.
A $4,000,000 Eb.B.TS.
In the Heart of St. Paul Claimed by the
Heirs or an Old Soldier.
St. Paul, May 29. Late yesterday a case
was filed in the United States Circuit Court
calculated to affect the title to possession of
property in this city worth nearly $4,000,000.
About 45 years ago a soldier in the
United States army, whose name is
not divulged, received a warrant
from the Government entitling him
to 160 acres of publio land wherever ho
might choose to locate the same. He was
killed in the Mexican War, and tho warrant
was held in the United States Land Office
for the benefit or his widow and surviving
children. The widow renewed the warrant
and subsequently transferred it to a second
party, who located the 160 acres on the spot
now occupied by the Minnesota transfer
Minnesota
and property immediately adjacent thereto.
Numerous transfers lots have followed.
Mlots have followed,
s having been in
several hundred holders having been in
possession, and the original property is now
worth nearlv J4.000.00n. A few days ago it
was rumored that the title to tho land was
to bo attached, and the suit was brought
yesterday. The action is brought on behalf
of the children of the original grantee of
the wairant namely, the soldier who
was killed in the Mexican war. These
parties live in Philadelphia. It is claimed
that the children had an interest in that
original warrant separate from and inde
pendent of their mother, the widow. Pro
ceedings are instituted against 500 different
holders.
THE GBANT LETTEB NOT IMPBOBABLE.
A Prominent St. Louis Republican Tells
What He Knows on the Subject.
St. Louis, May 29. A correspondent in
terviewed Emerson McMillon, President of
or the Laclede Gas Company, of St. Louis, in
regard to the Grant-Conkling letter. Among
other things, he said:
"I received a telegram from Mr. Brlckoll,
of Columbus, last summer, asking for the
address of Mrs. Page or Mr. Page's executor.
Mr. Page may have given the letter away
during his last illness, at which time he did
dispose of many such souvenirs. If this is
tho case, and it fell into the hands of a Har
rison man, it will probably not come to light
just at this time.
"Ineverthouiht of doubting its genuine
ness. I think it sounds very much like Gen
eral Grant's style. It is conceded by many
that he wrote a letter of similar import to
Don Camei on. Would he not have been
much moie likely to have spoken his mind
to Conkling. his close friend?"
Mr. McMillon 1b a Republican and a promi
nent member of the Loyal Legion.
The Everlasting Topic of tho Season.
New York Press.!
Summer has come, but whether with the
intention of spending the season or merely
on a two or three days' excursion remains to
be seen. New York is a great summer re
sort only when summer resorts here.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Sirs. Robert Leighton, Centenarian.
Mrs. Kobert Leighton, aged 101, died at
Buffalo Friday night. Up to the time of her death
she retained all of her faculties. She never tired
of telling how the Americans captured Toronto In
1812 ana burned the city. When she was 35 she
married a boy of 17. and lie lived until a few years
ago. She leaves 12 grandchildren and three great
frandchlldren. Three vears ago she fell and broke
icr hip. The bone never knit, and she said the In
jury would hasten her death.
David Tllghrmn.
David Tilghman, of Duquesne, who was
accidentally shot last Tuesday, died Friday even
ing. Ills remains were taken to his uncle, u. v.
Tilghman. of Sharpsburg, and burled In Green
wood Cemetery yesterday. He was 23 years old
and was la business at Duquesne.
Obituary Notes.
Gkxeral 1. D. Nusset died of dropsy at his
residence In Washington yesterday afternoon.
Bear admiral Richard Charles Matjie,
Member of Parliament, Is dead in London, He
was a Conservative.
Rodxrick II. Aldridqe, one of the oldest and
most prominent nailers in Steubenvlllc, died Sun
day night at Rochester, Pa., aged 6d. He worked
at his trade for 30 years, at one time when wages
were 25 a day for skilled men.
William B. White, one of the wealthiest hat
manufacturers In the United States, died In Dan
bur, Conn., Saturday, aged 82. He was Vice
President and a director of the Danburv National
Bank, and took an active interest in public affairs.
THE LIVING DEAD.
IWRITTBN FOB THE DI8PATCH.J
Bring flowers fresh, oring flowers fair.
In garland twined or bright bouquet,
And place them on the green beds where
The honored heroes sleep to-day-Sleep
on for are!
Strew flowers white, strew flowers red
O'er those who wore the Blue, when Gray
Sent shot and shell that filled with dead
The noiseless cities where to-day
They dwell for aye !
Place flowers sweet, place flowers bright.
Nor stint the praise In speech or lay
For those who battled In the right
For those who live, though dead, to-day
Shall live for aye I
G. A. M.
PirrSBono, May 29, 18W.
PATTISON'S VETO POWER.
Practically Impossible for the Republicans
to Secure Two-Thirds or the Next Legis
lature Tho Eockeye Democratic Fac
tions Other Political Points.
Therk is very little prospect that the
coming Legislative elections will affect Gov
ernor Pattison's veto privileges to any con
siderable extent. Many of the Republican
leaders have expressed an ardent wish that
they might be able to secure a party major
ity of two-thirds in both branches, and not
worry about the opinions of the Democratic
Executive. As far as the Loner House is
concerned such a result is more than prob
able. Four years ago the Republicans
elected over two-thirds of tho members
easily, and tho result in this Presidental
year is likely to be similar.
But the Senate will provo a stumbling
block. Thanks to the Republican dissensions
which two years resulted in Democratic suc
cess in such strongholds as the Beaver and
Crawford districts that party has a de
cided advantage in the hold-over Sena
tors. The Republicans will elect a good
working majority without trouble, but to se
cure the two-thirds necessary to pass a Fatti
son measure over a veto they would even
have to carry rock-ribbed Berks county,
good for anywhere from 0,000 to 10,000 Dem
ocratic majority. Therefore, unless some
political miracle interferes and Governor
Pattison is supported by his Dartv friends
his vetoes will once moie worry the opposi
tion managers.
This state of affairs will very possibly
again prevent a reapportionment of the
Congressional, Legislative aud Judicial dis
tricts. It is difficult to see, though, what
the Democrats gain by obstructing tho
former measure. The Republicans could
hardly make any districts more favorable to
themselves than the present assortment,
while, in addition, they have a practical cer
tainty on the two Congressmen at large
elected on the general ticket. When the re-'
apportionment is finally a fact, if it is based
on the actual increase in population, Alle
gheny county will have three Congressmen
entirely within her borders. But political
combinations, or complications, may inter
fere with the county getting full justice in
the distribution.
Second Place Probabiltles.
A. well-known Republican, who is a
careful observer of national politics, said
yesterday: "While there is so much talk
for and against Blaine and Harrison, even
le3s noiso than usual is being made about
the second place on the ticket. I have been
looking into the matter a little and have
about come to the conclusion that it is nearly
certain that Vice President Morton will not
be renominated, no matter who gets first
place. If Blaine Is named, the convention
will go farther West than New York for his
running mate, and either Alger, Lincoln or
Gresham will be chosen. Morton has ap
parently been coquetting with the anti-Harrison
people, so thnt even ir the President
is renominated his influence is likely to Do
thrown in favor of a new candidate for sec
ond place, presumably Whltelaw Reia, who
is ambitious and is supporting the adminis
tration in the present crisis. Of course, if
Blaine should prevent the use of his name
the old ticket might be named entire in the
interest or harmony,"
But slight as has been the speculation as
to candidates for Vice President on the Re
publican side, its absence has been even
more marked in the ranks of the opposition.
The Democratic attention has been entirely
absorbed by the bitter contest between
Cleveland and Hill. If, as now seems prob
able, the former is nominated the second
place will, of course, go farther West. Ex
Governor Campbell would be a formidable
aspirant for the niche, but be declares he
has no aspirations in that direction. Both
Morrison and Palmer, or Illinois, have been
mentioned. The lozic or the situation,
though, points to either Gray, of Indiana, or
Boles, ot Iowa. Both of these shrewd indi
viduals are believed to have announced
themselves as candidates for first place with
the intention of allowing themselves to be
persuaded to take second. Or course, if anv
combination is formed strong enough to
prevent Cleveland's nomination the slates
win an nave to De rearranged.
Interest In Legislative Contests.
The returns from Saturday's Eepub
lican primaries in tho Second Legislative
district will be read with interest and some
disappointment by politicians throughout
the State. Tho fight made by ex-Senator
Rutan had attracted a great deal more than
local attention. George E. Mapos, Chairman
of the Independent Republican Committee
of 1890, in conversation In Philadelphia the
other day, said:
"I would like to sec Rutan again at the
State capital, not for any particular politic
al reasons, but because he is likely to lend
some life to a legislative session. Allegheny
county has a few members who take an ac
tive and influential part in the work at
tho' State House, and the average
ability of the members is no doubt high, but
considering its number the delegation
usually does not make much of a sensation.
I have no definite information as to the re
snlt of the contest In the Second Allegheny
district, but if Rutan comes out on top I look
for him to add interest to the proceedings at
Harrisburg this winter."
A number of others, especially of the old
timers, spoke in the same vein, and hence
will feel somewhat disappointed at the re
turns from the Northside primary contest,
which indicate that their hopes lor the com
ing session are not likely to be fulfilled.
Another legislative struggle upon which
the politicians are keeping an eyo Is the
effort of ex-Chairman Andrews to once
again represent Crawford county at the
State capital. The majority against him
for the Senate two years ago was about 800,
and his opponents claim they will at least
give him a close fight this year. Andrews
and his friends, though, rely upon the close
drawing of party lines in a Presidental year
to pievent any considerable disaffection.
The Tlnekeye Democratic Factions.
The Democratio convention In Ohio
does not meet until nearly the middle of
June and only a week before the gathering
of tne national conclavo at Chicago. Prom
present indications the Buckeye meeting is
likely to witness a lively contest between
the contending factions.one being led by ex
Governor Campbell and Allen W. Thurman
and the other by John R. McLean, Lawrenco
Neal and Congressman Warwick. Senator
Brice is in sympathy with the last-named
leaders, and has so far avoided making any
definite expression and may po9o as a peace
maker. Warwick has declared openly for nill nnd
strongly opposes Cleveland. Ills regard for
Hill is due to the work which the New York
Senator did in his district when McKinley
was defeated by such a narrow margin two
years ago. Neal used to be a Cleveland ad
herent, and is probably against him now be
cause Campbell Is for him. Neal and Camp
bell have constantly got in each other's polit
ical nath for heveral years past. All of tho
leaders named are ambitious to be delcgatos
at large to Chicago. Campbell and Brice are
firactically sure winners, but there may be a
Ivelv struggle for the other two members of
the Buckeye Democratic big four.
Quite a number of the district delegates in
Ohio have already been chosen, and so far
aie almost evenly divided between Cleve
land and tho opposition. Ohio Democrats
have never adopted the unit rule of recent
years, even for such a home candidate as the
elder Thurman. The State platform will
probably mention Cleveland personally, but
without iron-clad Instructions.
Views of Silver Men on Blaine.
It is' hard to tell what the Republicans
and Democrats of Colorado and Nevada pro
pose to do when they get to Minneapolis and
Chicago. Both parties have instructed their
delegates to vote for no candidate for Presi
dent who is not favorable to the free coinage
of silver. These resolutions are under
stood to have been particularly aimed at
Harrison and Cleveland respectively, but
whom they are meant to favor is a mystery.
Blaine is certainly not a free silver advo
cate, while Hill has dodged the question
with the utmost care. If the Colorado and
Nevada delegates obey their instructions
literally they will have to hold a convention
all by themselves.
The Nevada Democrats went to great
lengths upon the subject and imitated their
South Carolina brethren by refusing to pen
a resolution pledging support to the Chicago
nominees. As the Democrats havo nothing
to lose in Nevada, however, the threats of a
bolt In that section will not cause much of a
6en8a tion.
Such well-known Republicans as M. M.
Esteo and Colonel Trnmbo, who have large
mining interests in Nevada and California,
In conversation with the writer some
months ago in San Francisco, declared that
-while the silver Republicans would be luke
warm ir not hostile to Harrison they would
rally to the Blaine standard no matter what
tne position oi tne juaine man upon ine
white metal might be. They regarded
Blaine's personality as such is to obscure all I
minor and side issues. ) L. D. B. I
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Why Ho Backs n Great Grab.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What is the animus of your opposition to
the Nicaragua Canal? Do you not recog
nize its paramount importance? Our local
Erie ship cinal would be a very valuable
adlunct toour transportation facilities, but
unfortunately for the enterprise, there is no
water to supply a canal of sufficient depth
to answer the wants of modern commerce.
The area of basin available as a watershed
and the average annual rainfall in that area
at once demonstrate the impossibility of
securing such a waterway. This whole
question of a ship canal from Erie to Pitts
burg may as well be dropped at once. There
is nothing in it. The plan is impracticable
and incapable of realization unless you can
devise some plan whereby the watershed of
the Shenango can De increased. This you
know cannot be done.
In opposing tho Nicaragua Canal yon
array yourself in opposition to the most im
portant enterprise of modern times, and to
the American people an enterprise most
vital In its direct bearing on the question of
our supremacy. If we build the canal under
tho management and permanent control of
the Government of tho United States we
shall have by a single stroke converted the
Gulf or Mexico into an American lake. Its
inlands must fall under the dominion of our
flag. This result is inevitaole, and must be
apparent to yen. The North Pacific, too,
would become Americanized. Our influ
ence would be tho dominating force over
its entire area, and the Sandwich Islands
would fall under our control from sheer
force of gravity.
Havo you ever thought about the relation
the West India and Sandwich Islands sus
tain to us? Do you know that we have to
own them? This much ought to be apparent
to you. Have you a realizing sense of the
greatness of the United States? Cannot vou
see that onr manifest destiny is thegrandest
to which any people were ever called or,
perhaps, ever shall be? What wo need is a
statesmanship broad enough to grasp in all
its force the full significance of the mighty
forces now at work througnout the world.
The grent powers of Europe are allotting to
themselves a scheme they have been en
gnged in for hair a century and apportion
ing tho entire nrface or the earth not pre
viously controlled, claimed or owned Dy tne
civilized nations. England is and always
has been the arch enoray of the United
States. The American name is fraught with
evil to her and her aspirations. Her uni
versal sovereignty of the seas is threatened
by us, and she knows that sooner or later
her suzerainty must cease and her glory
pale before the groat nnmo of America.
We are the greatest factor in the world's
history and it is time we knew it. What we
want is possessions around the wide earth.
Givo us such possessions (and this canal is
an important step toward that end) in everv
zone nnd cro many years our sails wifl
whiten every sea and our commerce dom
inate all the marts'of the earth. Wo need
nothing so much as a revival or onr foreign
commerce, as we are now paying $150,000,000
annuallv for freight carried In foreisrn bot
toms. This vast sum keeps the trade bal
ance against us, and this balance we have
to ettle in gold. J. A. Field.
New Castle. May 27.
ITALIANS UP TO THE TIMES.
Steps Taken to Have Their Country Prop
erly Recognized at the Jllg Fair.
WASHiNOTOX.MaySO. At the fifth meeting
of the Italo-American Board of Promotion
of the World's Columbian Exposition, had
in this city, yesterday, C F. Z. Caracristi was
elected President, and Prof. Francis R.
Fava, Jr., Secretary. Resolutions were
passed thanking Ministers Fava and
Porter for their labor in obtaining the
official representation of Italy at the World's
Exposition: also, providing for a joint
American and Italian celebration of the
four hundreth anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus in Washington;
also, requesting tho President to appoint
a naturalized Italo-American on the Na
tional Board or World's Exposition, and an
Italo-American to be one of the orators at
the proposed international naval review at
Hampton Roads, in honor of the four hun
dreth anniversary of the discovery of
America.
Mr. Caracristi and Prof. Fava presented
the board with a bas relief or Columbus In
onyx and Jasper to be presented to the
President of tho Senate for the Congress of
the American people as a token of regard
and esteem from tne compatriots of Colum
bus living in this country. The new Ex
ecutive Committee of the board consists of
C. F. Z. Caracristi, Whlneton, D. C: Sal
vator Cortez, Rome, Italy; Francis R. Fava,
Jr., Wnshington, D. C; A. Stefani. Chicago;
Pror. E. Michalangeli. Cav G. Btrsotti and
O. C. Marchese, New York City: Mira Zanoni.
Memphis, Tenn.; P. Gonnella, P. Dante, and
A. Beanchlnl, Richmond, Va.; P. Rallo and
E. Desir, Washington, D. C.
HE AWOKE IN HIS GBATE.
Ghastly Evldenco That a Soldier Was Bur
ied Alive in Arizonn.
PHOEifrx, Aniz., May 20. A ghastly sight
met the eyes yesterday of men removing the
remains of a soldier from Fort Lowell to the
National cemetery. The evidences were
plain that James Deviney, who died there I
years ago, was buried alive. The head of the
body was found turned over to the left and
the right arm lying straight down by the
side. The left arm was thrown over the left
thigh and the lower limbs were crossing
each other.
From the appearance and position of tho
lower Jaw and parts of the face which were
yet intact, it is clear that animation returned
after burial, and that he subsequently died
in great agony. Deviney's supposed death
was caused by a kick from a mule.
BLAINE'S TIDAL WAYE.
If Blaine keeps his mouth shut nine days
longer Harrison will be surely dumped. St.
Louis Republic (m.).
The Blaine boom goes right on Jnst the
same, whether the enemies of it desire or
not. Toledo Blade (Rep.).
Hescefobth the wise man will class the
Blaine boom among -the real properties.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.)
Mr. Blaise's boom is the most boomfnl
that bas ever cast a gloom over the original
Harrison man. Zouirvilte QourierTournat
(Dem.).
Blaise's eyes are a little weak from over
work, but he can see his title clear to the
Presidency, nevertheless, if he wants it St.
Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.).
Blaise will be the next President of the
United States. This is subject to the re
vision of tho Minneapolis Convention
which, however, will duly record the fact
stated herein Springfield News (Rep.).
The people want Blaine. There is no mis
taking this fact. Go East, go West, and as
yon go ask the men you meet whom tbey
prefer for the Presidency, and if tbey are
Republicans they will, nine out of every ten,
say that they want Blaine. What the peo
ple want they should have. Cleveland World
(Rep.).
TnE robust Blaine schism in the Repub
lican party U viewed with radiant encour
agement by the keepers of hotels and board
ing houses in Minneapolis, whose only fear
now is that tho Plumed Knight may be
nominated on the first ballot, and thus cut
short the proceedings. Kansas ,CUv Star
(Dem.).
TninE is no disputing tho fact that James
G. Blaine stands first in tho hearts of tho
Republican masses of the United States.
Since he was first considered available Pres
idental timber there has never been a tlmo
when he was stronger politically or opposed
by so few tactions as at present. Los Angeles
Times (Rep.).
There is the best of reasons for believing
that Mr. Blaine's health is fully restored,
and that he is in his vigorous prime, even
more robust than any one of tho other can
didates of either party named so far. And
even if be were not he is quite well enough
to be elected President, no matter who is
nominated against him. iV. Y. Advertiser
(Ind.).
He Gave His Wife a Coffln.
Beloit, Wis., May 29. Mrs. Deacon A. J.
Cowles has died in the 87th year or her age.
Her husband is an eccentric man, and one
of his peculiar ideas was making a coffln for
himself. He also presented nls wife one oa
her last birthday.
Prophets Prepared for Any Emergency.
Chicago News.
The individual who "told yon so" has by
this time arranged his prophecies and Is
prepared for any emergency that Minne
apolis may bring about.
IlayBesult Disastrously To-SIorroir.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The 31st of May in New York may knock
out 22d of February In tha Presidental
boom - starting line.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
A historic collection of railroad tickets
will be one of the exhibits at the World's
Fair.
In Charleston the other day a woman
testified in court that she was the mother of
20 children.
The locomotive engine was known, it is
said, in China at the beginning of the eight
eenth century.
"The butcher plant," one of the car
nivorons vegetables, is lound only in the
near vicinity or Wilmington. N. C.
A popular drink called gin-sling takes
its name from John Collins, formerly a cele
brated waiter in Limmer's old honse.
Japan has 700 earthquake observing sta
tions, and the records of the 500 shocks that
annually visit that country are accurately
J1UICU.
Cotton is now grown in Turkestan and
the Russian provinces of Central Asia, tha
quantitr prodnced being 31.630.000 pounds, or
.say 0,000 bales, in 1S83, and KLKO.OOO pounds
inl8S9.
No one knows when whisky was first
made, but, according to Mr. Ash'ton, it was
hardly known until the tlmo of the Pre
tender, being a drink strictly of the High-
landers.
Andover, O., has quite a natural curjf
osity in the way of a boy, 12 years old, wbtS is
abont two feet and a hair tall, who can'klck
nls own hat off and can stand on one foot
and tickle his ear with the other.
While three woodcutters were sitting
on a bench in their lodging house near
Everetts, Va.t last Sttnrday, singing "The
Old Ship of ZIon," the house was struck by
lightning and all three were killed.
This globe has had GG,627,842,237,075,2G3
human inhabitants since the beginning of
time. To even bury this vast number tha
whole landed surface of the globe, every
inch of It, wonld have to be dug over 120
times!
Millions of Colorado beetles were
washed np on tho shore of Sea Isle City, N.
'., the other day, and the residents are at a
loss to explain the remarkable occurrence
or form any idea as to where they cams
irom.
The gray rat came to 'Europe from
India by way of Russia, nnd is nowpopularly
known as the Norway rat, from a mistaken
tradition that it came from Norway to Eng
land and from the latter country to
America.
The rate of progression of a storm is
often SO miles an hour, and a series has often
been traced in a direct lino from north to
south si distance of 400 miles. The average
altitude of thunder storms has been found
to be not over 3,000 feet abovo the surface of
the earth.
One of the worst "calamity howlers"
that has appeared lately 19 Howling Bear, an
Indian who proclaims that within two years
a great famine will spread over the entire
country, and that there will De neither corn,
wheat nor gras. and that all animals will
die of starvation.
The orohippns, the ancestor of the
noble horse of to-day, is first known to havo
existed in the eocene period of geological
epochs. Somo of the species were as small
is the common silver fox of to-lay, and all
had 16 hoofs, four on each foot, Just like tha
cow brutes of the present age.
Ouvriere states that 80 per cent among
the cutters of silex. 70 per cent among
needle sharpeners, 65 per cent among file
cntters. 5 per cent among lithographers, 48
per cent among grindstone cutters. 7 per
cent among cement workers, and 5 per cent
among tinfoil workers die of phthisis.
One of the worst "calamity howlers"
that has appeared lately is Howling Bear,an
Indian who can give points even to Tottrn.
He proclaims that within two years a great
lamine win spread over tne wnoie country;
that there will be neither corn, wheat nor
grass, and that all the animals will die of
starvation.
Following Pasteur's advice, it is said,
the Greek Government called in the aid of
the well-known German bacteriologist. Prof.
Loeffler, of Greifswald, who has put an end
to the mice plague by causing fatal epidemic
among the mice. This Is a triumph of bac
teriology practical enough to suit the most
unscientific taste.
London has found that suppliers and
consumers do not understand what is meant
when speaking of lighting gas, per 1,000
cubio feet, or per 1,000, so in future it Is pro
posed to speak and write per Murdoch in
stead. Water supplied by meter is for simi
lar reasons to be sold at so mnch perMyd
delton. Milk per quart, says the Jocosa
Engineer, is to be sold under the old name.
M. Napias pointed out that the attituda
of tho body during work has a great Influ
ence on health. The sitting position con
gests the digestive organs; the bent posi
tion (like that of bootmakers) leads to car
diac affections. The standing position
Imposed on shopgirls and women was pro
dnctlve of much suffering and disease, and
should be forbidden those who serve in
them.
It is customary in the town of Quito
when a visitor takes off his hat npon enter
ing a room to beg him to put it on again, and
in the absence of permission leave is gen
erallv requested. This, it is said, arises
from' apprehension that cold will be taken
by remaining uncovered. The same persons
npon going out of doors take off their hats
to flashes of lightning, no matter whether
rain is falling.
The Provident Surgical Society, of
London, distributed last year 6,223 artificial
arms, legs, teeth and noses. One of tha
noses was brought back to be exchanged. It
was a pronounced Roman nose that had
caused the young woman, to whose face It
had been attached, to be unmercifully
chafled. She was given in place or it a pretty
little nez retrousse, which secured her an
offer or marriage.
Every man brewed his beer up to tha
seventeenth century. It was in the reign of
Elizabeth that public brewine had bogun at
Burton, which is now the metroplis of En-
f;!ish bear, and which owes its pre-emlnenco
n this respect to the quality of its water.
The city, singular to relate, "still maintains
the importance of beer as a beverage by
keeping an alo Conner, whoso duty is to
taste ales and see that the price charged is
not excessive."
Itats are natives of Asia and their raids
westward belong to comparative modern
times. From the fact that it is not men
tioned by any ot the early Europeans, it is
surmised that it was unknown west of tha
Ganges in ancient times. The black rat first
came from Asia to Enrope in the sixteenth
century along with tho plazue and was
first known as the "Gravevard Specter," be
cause he preyed on the flesh of those who
died during that awful visitation.
IDYLLIC HUMOBESQUE3.
Cholly Pahdon me!
Harwy Don't mention It. m desh bhoy.
Cholly Ew. pahdon me foh begging yonr ph
don. Puck.
When the parson made mention of the bona
of contontlon.
Deacon Jones looked at Smith then and Both
faces wore
A mysterious imlle. for the deacom were thinking
Of the bones they had fought for the evening be
fore. -Yew Tork Herald,
Jlicroscopist "Did you ever look at a
I, 000 bill through a microscope?"
Impecunious frlend-"No; always used a tele
scope?" Chicago Hems.
"I beg you to desist, sir. I shall permit
no man to kiss me until I am engaged to htm."
"But you are engaged to me."
"Engaged to you?"
'Yes, forthenext dance." Kev TorkPrtSI,
It used to be the proper thing
For every girl to make
An effort to learn how to sew.
And likewise how to bako.
The dainty ballroom fan unto
The needle made its bow.
And aprons took the place of arms
They do not do it now.
Cloak Review.
,:Do you really care for HarryV asked tha
postmaster of his daughter.
"Yes. papa." replied the maiden, softly.
"Harry belongs to the first class males. Detroit
Free Press.
"Your practice will kill yon," said tho
doctor to the young woman suffering from too
mnch piano playing.
That's all right," she responded spitefully,
"yours kills other people." Uariford Courant.
An old and crusty bachelor am I,
Worldly and bald, and Just turned forty-three;
And yet I quake with terror when I think
Of the leap year summer maiden by the sea.
Colorado Sun.
Bingo Twenty years ago I was married
at high noon In a dress suit.
Klngley-Well, things are different now.
Bingo Not much. I sUll have the same suit.
Pomona Timss.
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