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riTTeKCKO. SUNDAY. JfJNE M. SSC
THE IL.VKKISBUKG FATALITY.
The fatal accident on the Pennsylvania
31ailroad is another of those typical rear
end collisions which happen from a con
junction of unusual but by no means un
foreseen circumstances. The first section
of the Western express was stopped out
side of the station a little longer than
usual. The encineerof the second section
did not sec the sisnal, or the wrong signal
"was given from the tower. The result is
Mimmed up in the death of ten people and
the injury of about fifty more.
Such a calamity cannot by any means be
classed in the list of unpreventablo acci
dents. Only a little more care in each of
two or three details would have prevented
It and saved a half score lives. The con
3unction of circumstances may have been
out of the ordinary, but they were by no
means so extraordinary as to do away
with the need of guarding against them.
It is a significant fact that nearly all the
fatal collisions on the Pennsylvania Rail
Toad for some years past, which to the
credit ol the management have been few,
liave been caused by the loopholes or
aegleet of the block system. That system
3s a great safeguard, but no system can be
relied upon to do away with the necessity
for constant vigilance against the perils of
railroading.
THE END Or GORMAN.
" It is a pleasure to note that Hon. Arthur
P. Gorman, of 3Iaryland, in the Demo
cratic convention, like the Hon. Thomas
B. Iteed, in the Republican, was made the
subject of a subsidiary and collateral
dump, which, though not the leading re
sults of the conventions, are final and
conclusive so far as these statesmen are
concerned.
Like Mr. Reed, Senator Gorman con
ceived the idea that he was in a position to
ix a Presidental candidate sub rosa. He
did not have the nerve to present himself
in that light, after the bold manner of
David B. Hill. On the other hand, he
could not retain his attitude of discretion
long enough t prevent it from being seen
tliat after making representations to, all
sides he was really working for Arthur Pue
Gorman. As a result Democrats at large
notice that political alliances with the
Slaryland Senator cannot be appraised at
the value of the breath required to make
them.
Gorman may be rated at the most com
pletely flattened out statesmen among
the Chicago victims. Hill had effectually
broken his own neck some weeks before
the convention. Brice will chase rain
bows les attitudinously on account of the
convention. But not even Brice is so
thoroughly shown up and laid out as an
imaginary Presidental quantity in the past
tense, as Gorman, of Maryland.
A CAMPAIGN OF INTEIX.ECT.
The conventions of the two great parties
have now done their work, and already
there is begun a political campaign which
Will be watched with profound interest
everywhere that the economic principle at
Btake is understood. Tie issue of protec
tion or free trade is boldly set out It is
unhampered by personalities, as both
Harrison and Cleveland have already
filled acceptably the Executive chair, and
notliing is to be made by assaihng either
personally. The main issue is almost un
encumbered by other issues. True, the
Force bill question is raised by both an
tagonists; and there is some diversity in
their attitudes upon silver coinage but
these are only the garnishments of the
platforms served up by the conventions.
By common consent it is the case of Pro
tection vs. Free Trade that is to be settled
in November. Not alone the United
Slates but every nation in Europe will
follow eagerly each successive stage of the
contest
Our own State of Pennsylvania, and the
adjacent States of Ohio and West Vir
ginia, have thedeepest interest in the ver
dict Here, "where the success of the pro
tection policy is demonstrated upon every
side in the immense growth of our indus
tries there is no room for serious pretense
of a radical conflict of opinions; Local
interests all combine to secure a prac
tically united support for the economic
policy under which they have pros
pered. But it is not merely through the manu
facturing States that the immense benefits
of protection to American industries will
be recognized. It can be shown that the
farmers, for whose votes the Democratic
plank is a bid, and the agricultural labor
ers, like the workers in manufactories,
arc better off In every way than the same
class of citizens of countries where free
trade exists. It can be demonstrated that
the protection policy, while fostering and
supporting American industries, at the
Eamc time has had the effect of producing
such competition at home and effecting
MieB
; such reductions of prices on protected arti
cles as would not have been secured bad
our markets been left in the control of the
European manufacturers. The histories of
the steel and plate glass and carpet indus
tries, and many others which might be
named, will be full of instruction on this
point They -frill show that, while pro
tection has slnK out the competition of
foreigners, yet by making the home busi
ness profitable it has stimulated such
enormous activity and competition in this
country as to secure to the general con
sumer great reductions in the prices of
articles from those which prevailed when
the American factories were started.
If the tariff has ever been esteemed a
dry or difficult subject, it will surely not
prove so between now aud November, for
the best minds of the country will be en
gaged in elucidating it from a thousand
rostrums. The men of books and theory
will not have their own way, either. They
will have fo measure their theories up
against the indisputable facts and figures
of every branch of industry and trade, as
well as of the relative conditions of coun
tries employing the antagonistic systems.
Such a campaign will be instructive in
the highest degree. The protectionists
have nothing to fear, but, on the contrary,
everything that is desirable to expect
from it.
A DIFFERENCE IN SIZE.
We observe an announcement from
Washington that the State Department,
even in its present acephalous condition,
has come to the conclusion that it will not
take up the case of Mr. Poultney Bigelow,
recently expelled from Russia, for having
expressed his mind too freely about the
Czar s government while in this country.
The theory of this abstinence from eagle
spreading is, according to the Washington
Pott, that as Mr. Bigelow broke into
Russsia on his own responsibility, he is to
be left to take the consequences of his
action.
This may be all very well sofar.asMr.
Bigelow is concerned. That gentleman
has so widely advertised his intimacy with
the German Emperor that there is a cer
tain degree of justice in leaving him to go
for vindication and indemnity to his im
perial chum. But the United States Gov
ernment may appear slightly at disadvan
tage in the matter. It is not very Jong
since it was somewhat flamboyantly an
nouncing that the flag must bo respected
and the rights of American citizens main
tained all over the world at any cost If
there is any right of American citizens
more indisputable than the one of travel
ing peacefully in any country with which
we are in treaty relations, it is that of
writing his impressions of the country
after lie gets home. As these acts are the
sum total of Mr. Bigelows offending
against Russia, there is a strong impres
sion that the rights of American citizens
in Russia are not worth mentioning.
This is not on the whole a very great loss,
since intelligent American citizens can as
a rule protect themselves by staying away
from that flat and uninteresting country.
But may not the invidious remark be
made that the difference in the altitude of
our diplomacy, in the case of Russia as
against Chile, is due to the difference in
the size of the two nations?
A SUCCESSFUL CO-OPEEATION.
The association of workingmen to carry
on their own industrial enterprises has
long been recognized as presenting in the
abstract an ideal solution of the labor
problem. Where the workmen are their
own employers there can be no disputes
about wages; where they operate by their
own capital the common interest of capi
tal and labor is beyond question.
The practical results of this solution de
pends largely, of course, on the business
conduct of the co-operative or corporate
enterprise. Many cases in which such
projects have failed, for lack of efficient
or honest management, are cited as proof
that industrial co-operation is impractica
ble, but this argument forgets that a very
largo proportion of failures for enterprises
on the ordinary plan of organization can
also be found. It also is liable to be over
set when we find an enterprise in which
the workmen are their own capitalists
achieving a marked success. Such an ex
ample is described at length by the
Christian Union, and the statements con
cerning it are well worth pondering.
The enterprise in question was started
by a number of Swedes in Rockford, 111.
Sixteen years ago they were workmen in
a furniture factory, and as an offset to a
sharp reduction of wages they determined
to start a factory of their own. Twenty
five of them put in 59,000 of capital They
seem to have recognized that corporate or
ganization is ideal co-operation so long as
it is honestly managed, and the result has
proved their wisdom. After sixteen years
thpir single factory has grown to twelve.
Eighteen, hundred men are employed in
the works, of whom all but ninety are
shareholders in the enterprise. The profits
last year were 5150,000 and a like amount
saved by the men from their wages was
put into the concern as increased capital.
The workingmen as a rule own their own
homea The workingmen take their sons
into the factories to teach them the trade,
and the apprentices receive a graded
bonus for three years.
It is rather mortifying to our nationality
to have .the members of this successful
concern explain that its success, compared
with other co-operative failures, is due to
the good faith of thu Swedes with each
other, while, if an enterprise pays among
Americans, they at once commence trying
to freeze each other out It is beyond
question that greed and distrust would be
fatal qualities to any such enterprise; and
it is equally certain that, with honest con
duct, the. plan of making workingmen
their own employers is the most complete
solution of the laoor problem. In such a
concern each hand is interested in doing
good work, and thus contributing to the
prosperity of the concern. Habits of
economy and thrift are inculcated; and
every sacrifice to ensure the success of the
plan lays up something for the future, in
stead ot being wasted, as is the case in so
many strikes.
The corporation as it was intended to
work furnishes the ideal form of organi
zation for such enterprises. The corpo
rate record also shows how utterly the
legitimate and ideal purpose of that
method of organization can be perverted
and abused to enrich the few at the cost
of the many.
LIMITATIONS OF THE LEVEE.
It is an indication of awakening com
mon sense that the New Orleans Delta
is beginning to entertain a doubt whether
the stubborn adherence to the levee system
as the sole protection against floods in the
lower Mississippi is the wisest course. It
makes the suggestion that the treatment
of the Atchafalaya river has been a short
sighted one. New Orleans insisted upon
stopping up the head of that stream for
fear that the Mississippi in some of its
freaks might make that the main channel.
The consequence is that the outlet for
overflow being blocked, the whole force of
the floods is turned npon New Orleans and
the levee3 have proved each year to be
more and more an insufficient safeguard.
. . - . -
This illustrates the short sigbtedness or
the levee policy. The function of the levee
is very useful in confining and directing
the flow of the river as long as its volume
does not exceed the usual capacity of the
channel. But when the ordinary channel is
full and the danger line is reached the only
safety is in multiplying outlets. The fact
that the Mississippi river has made outlets
of this sort for its floods might have been
recognized as showing its necessity. But
tho desire to reclaim lands by means of
levees has been so great that it has taken
a vast expenditure of money and still
greater losses by floods to demonstrate
that the levee system is not sufficient by
itself. Yet it is better to learn the lesson
late than never.
The true policy beyond question is to
use levees and dikes for directing the flow
of rivers so long as they keep within their
banks. But when the great floods come
all the outlets that are available should be
employed to carry the water off easily.
THE POINTS OF UNCERTAINTY.
With Harrison and Cleveland pitted
against each other in the field once more,
the Republican mind turns naturally and
jubilantly to presages of a repetition of
the result of 1888. This is what all tho
friends of protection must bend then
energies to secure; but in order that the
effort may not be lax, it is well to consider
the doubtful points of the contest which
may possibly prove of importance enough
to turn the issue.
Besides the general verdict of the
people there is one place in which the
schemes and disappointments ot political
leaders may exercise a powerful result
That is the State of New York. In that
State, too, we have the peculiar case of
practical politicians on both sides, sup
posed to hold the lever of politics,
whose wishes have been notoriously
overriden by the nominations. Piatt has
not been more completely chagrined
by the nomination of Harrison than Hill
and Croker have by the nomination of
Cleveland. Dissatisfied managers in other
States may indulge the attitude of cold in
difference without materially affecting the
result But in a State so close as New
York the enmity of a leader, carrying per
haps no more than a few thousand votes
with him, may prove fatal.
The question in New York seems to be
whether Hill and Tammany can and will
knife Cleveland more thoroughly than
Piatt can and will knife Harrison. Of the
willingness to do this on either side there
is not much room to doubt The defeated
bosses on both sides are vindictive, and
their political future, if their parties suc
ceed without them, will be a nullity. It is
likely, therefore, to prove an important
question as to their respective ability to
take votes away from the respective
tickets. Tammany has a larger trained
following thoroughly dependent on it
than has Piatt For that reason we re
gard the element of discontent in New
York as more dangerous to Cleveland than
to Harrison.
On the other hand there is uncertainty
of another complexion in the possible
third party vote in the West and South
west Here the only question is as to
what the third party can do, for if it
affects the result at all, it will affect it in
favor of the Democrats. Say that it car
ries a State like Kansas or Dakota, which
otherwise would have secured the election
of Harrison. It will thus throw the elec
tion into the House and secure the election
of Cleveland. Say that it takes away
from the Democrats a Southern State
which might otherwise have given Cleve
land enough votes to elect him. The effect
will only bo to throw the election into the
House and makn Cleveland's victory a
moral certainty. The probability that the
People's Party wU carry any electoral
votes may be slight but to whatever ex
tent it exists it is a threat to Republican
success.
These two uncertainties, together with
the activity of the tariff reformers every
where, should warn the friends of protec
tion that they cannot be idle this year.
Vigorous work from now till November
will be required to make victory secure.
A MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING.
A novel project in the line of building
enterprises, and at the same time a marked
step In the progress and improvement of
the city, is reported elsewhere m these
columns. The enterprise for an office
building for physicians and dentists on
Sixth avenue is an interesting one; and
the large and ornamental building that is
to be constructed will prove a material
addition to the business architecture of
the city. While people do not generally
stop to think of the difference in require
ments for the offices of doctors and den
tists, it Is very clear when stated. The
new eight-story building will therefore
have a distinct usefulness and prove a
very creat accommodation to the members
of the healing profession and their
patients. The physicians who have or
ganized this project are to be congratu
lated on their progressiveness as well as
the future quarters which this enterprise
will give them.
SEVERAL visitors to the Democratic Con
vention have, strangely enough, already
reached home from Chicago in fairly good
health and without much damage to their
apparel.
Notwithstanding the general state
ment that Mr. Gladstone's meetings are the
only one3 undisturbed by rowdies in Eng
land's political field Just now, the Grand Old
Man has been struck by a stone while out
driving. Fortunately the miscreant's mis
sile did no harm. Besides its indication1 of
the heated feelings now rife in England, it
recalls the old Tory charade which of courso
no good Liberal could solve. "I would be my
first, if I had my second to throw at my
whole" or, "I would be glad if I had a stone
to throw at Gladstone." But the aged states
man seems proof against stones, material
and metaphorical alike, he comes unscathed
through all trials, ana his vigor is the envy
of many a younger man.
Wholesale dealers selling liquor in
Jugs have been warned that they are liable
to be jugged if they continue the practice
after this month.
England's cooler climate accounts to
some extent for the heat of the political
discussions over there. The heat of the
weather is conducive to a comparatively
temperate behavior among American poli
ticians, which is more conduoive to a log
ical determination of the issues than is the
system of physical fisticuff arguments re
sorted to on the other side of tbe Atlantic.
Congress only sat tor a minute and a
half yesterday, but it accomplished as much
as it often does in far longer sittings.
Visitors to a free concert at Highland
Park who know no better than to throw re
fnse into the reservoir ought to ,be thor
oughly ashamed of themselves. Efforts
should be made to prevent the recurrence
of such ill behavior by apprehending and
severely punishing the offenders.
Surely the Fourth of July fund is not to
be kept waiting long for a little matter of
between six and seven hundred dollars.
The architects of that proposed new build
ing for the accommodation of doctors and
I dentists exclusively should provide tuiok
J walla a t sJ rttait t-rr f arlnrlnnr OAVaAAseia -
wans aua plenty or winnow screens to pre-
vent the hourly turning in of fatso alarms
for tho patrol wagon or ambulauco by dls
tressod passersby.
TriEBE is evidently something serious the
matter with ' the Cincinnati players, for
Pittsburg beat them again yesterday.
So Depew has decided to keep his diplo
macy for private use until the end of this
term, at any rate. He has plenty of busi
ness offices to'fill hi;- time, and he will no
doubt find plenty ot occupation for bis
leisure on the stump in the campaign.
A number of people have left the city
to swelter elsewhere, but the street.loater Is
still with us rain or shine.
Stanley's electioneering experiences In
North Gambeth must make him regret that
the costermongers, whose votes he desires,
are not amenable to the soothing methods
which lie used to persuade the Atricans of
the superiority of his civilization.
That disastrous wreck at Harriaburg ap
pears to have been duo to some individual's
signal failure.
Queen Victoria hardly feels equal to
visiting and competing with the other
attractions at the World's Fair next year.
But she will not miss it all, as Buffalo BUI
and his wild westerners appeared before nor
at Windsor yesterday.
It is about time for Parisians to learn
that duelling' with an ex-cowboy is a serious
matter.
In locating the refreshment stands in
Schenley Part for the Fourth of July it is to
be hoped that the appetites of the menagerie
denizons, and conveniences for satisfying
the same, hare been taken into due consid
eration. It was just cool enough 'to breathe once
and again yesterday.
It is said that Kaiser Wilhelm intends to
witness the general election in England. An
intelligent observation of England's free
press and freo speech should do the hot
headed little monarch some good.
Congress proposes to begin to do some
work to-morrow.
They must have heard of the redoubtable
Perry over in France, as French shippers of
valuable diamonds to tho World's Fair are
loath to trust their treasures to the custody
of tho express companies.
Tennis arms and
able inflictions.
sunstrokes are season-
The only great difference between the
campaign of this year and that of four years
ago is that the polioy of Protection has four
years or strong evidence in its favor now
that it lacked then.
NEWS! AND PERSONAL.
Mrs Ballington Booth receives only
$7 a week for her services in tbe Salvation
Army.
Twenty-two pages of the British
Mu3eum catalogue are required to contain a
list of Mr. Gladstone's writings.
Prince Albert, eldest son of the Duke
of Edinburgh, who is sojourning in Munich,
has exchanged visits with Prince Bismarck.
"The French woman gains her liberty,
the English woman loses hers.and the Amer
ican woman continues to do as she pleases,"
as a result of the wedding ceremony, accord
ing to Max O'ltell.
"The first lesson in the art of money-
getting," says Andrew Carnegie, "is the
knowledgo that it isn't the man who does
the work who makes the money, but the
man who gets the other men to do it."
Mrs. Nellie Grant-Saetoeis now
lives in Loudon and is a woman of wealth,
tier fatbor-in-law left his estate to her and
her two children, on the condition that they
would make their residence in England.
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, has
been presented by George W. Childa with
the autographs of every President of the
United States, and also with manuscripts of
Thackeray, Dickens, Bulwer, Lowell, Hunt,
Bryant, Willis and Cooper.
Emperor William will make a visit to
England, independently of tho proposed
visit to Augusta, to witness tho yacht race
olTCowes. His departure from Germany is
put down for Juno 30, and the object of his
special trip is to watch the general elections
in England.
Mrs Amelia E. Bare has been elected
a member of the Advisory Council on Liter
ature of the World's Columbian Exposition.
Mrs. Barr's high attainments in the field of
literature and the excellent Judgment for
which she is so well known entitle her to an
Important position in the council.
Senator John W. Daniels, of Vir
ginia, Ex-Governor James E. Campbell, of
Ohio, and Governor McKinley have accepted
invitations to speakat Columbia, Tenn., at
the formal opening of the new arsenal on the,
13th of July next. A committee of citizens
from Columbia will leave for Washington
and New York in a lew days to invite Mr.
Cleveland and other orators of national
distinction.
Musc for the World's Fair.
Chicago, June 25. Washington Hesing re
ceived word by cable to-day from F. Zieg
feld. Director of tbe International Temple
of Music, who is now in Hamburg, saying
that a contract has been signed with Con
ductor Fritz Scheel to come to Chicago dur
ing the World's Fair. The contract also in
cludes the services of Hans Von Buelow's
oichestra and the Hamburg military bands.
BOX, iDLAI E. STEVEXBOIf.
I . .
Alf active, earnest ana uncompromising
Democrat, he has shown himself in publio
office and in privato Hfo worthy of any
honor and equal to any station. Louisville
Courier-Journal IDem.).
A better selection could hardly have been
made. Mr. Stevenson is a stanch Demo
crat, widely popular, and his selection will
be especially satisfactory to Mr. Cleveland.
Cleveland Plaindealer (Dem.).
It is a long distance from Thomas A.
nendricks and Allen G. Thurman to Adlal
. Stevenson, but that is the way political
parties generally come down stairs when
thoy start to-tumble. Philadelphia Telegraph
(2nd.).
In the oxerciso of "turning the rascals
out" of all the postofflces Mr. Stevenson
proved not only that he Is a Democrat, but
that In swinging an ax and cutting off heads
he is hard to beat. Hochester, iK 1', Adver
tiser Dim.).
Measceed from a political point of view
and quite without regard to personal con
siderations, it strikos us that Mr. Gray
would have given more strength to the
ticket than Mr. Stevonson can Co. Boston
Herald (.Ind.).
Mr. STEVEirson is a man of character,
ability, popularity, unconditional and unin
terrupted Democracy, aggressive partisan
ship and of marked power to organize and
impress the strength of the party. Brooklyn
Eagle Und.-Dem.).
His principal service to the country was
rendered as Assistant Postmaster General
under Vilas, and consisted of constant viola
tions of the civil service reform law in the
Interest pr the "hungry and thirsty." Phila
delphia Bulletin Rep..
It cannot be said that Mr. Stevenson was
chosen as the financial auxiliary of the con
test; neither can he be relied on for glittering
campaign oratory. He Is not exactly popu
lar in Illinois, Uut he has scarcely an enemy
from Chicago to Cairo. Chicago News (Did.).
It is surely a remarkable thing that the
two States which stand at tho head' of the
doubtful list, the loss of either of which
would be fatal, should be singled out for
especial disfavor. There is probably no
man in tbe country better pleased with the.
action of the Chicago Convention than Ben
jamin HarrlsonL Chicago Inter-Ocean Ulep.). J
onj
, A LOOK AROUND.
. J. M. Oabsonj of Butler, Beading Clerk of
the last Senate asd a well-known newspaper
man, was In the cty yesterday. He is a can
didate for re-election to hi old position. It
is probable that E. W". Smiley, of Venango,
will again be Chjef Clerk, and Anthony F.
Bannon, of McKean, is after the Journal
Clerkship once more. Senator .Fllnn is
Chairman or the oomralttee which will name
the slate of Senateofficeri.
The name of the latest large oil field sug
gested some reminiscenses to a party of gen
tlemen the other (lay and one of them re
marked: "I can say 'in all truth that the
most enjoyable fishing I ever had was when
as a boy I used a pia hook. I mean a good,
rnnt nwllnortf hrfl 14 Ylln Whffih Ibflnt IQV.
self nnd fashioned intoahook. With this!
have had many a day's snort in the Wabash
near my old homo. I have caught bass
weighing a pound with such a hook without
bending it."
The Republican County Committee was
In session at City Hall yesterday when I
Chanced to enter tho building, ana l spent
a few moments watching tbe proceedings.
It was a collection of remarkably shrewd-,
looking men. Nearly all the Republican
notables belong to this body, and there is
not a county or city office that is not well
represented, either by the principal or one
Of his clerks. Incidentally I may bo per
mitted to lemark that in addition to being
a matutinal philosopher when he adminis
ters justice at Central station Magistrate
and Chairman John Grlpp is a cool, even
tempered and very popular presiding
officer.
I have the honor to know a truly remark
able lady. She received a trunk containing
six new costumes from New York five days
ago and the trunk is stilt unopened. This
record is believed to be without an equal.
Chief Bigelow is delighted with the re
suit of Friday night's concert in Highland
Park. He says that at least 10,000 were pres
ent, which is a conservative estimate. What
pleasos the Chief most is the man
ner in which the crowd behaved.
There was not the slightest trouble or any
sort, no exhibition of drunkenness, nothing,
in shoit, which could be wished out of the
evening's events. Everybody and bis wife
were there, rich and poor, notables and un
knowns. Tho concert will be followed by
others, and it is to bo hoped thoy will prove
as agreeable all around.
Before long the Woods house in Bchcnley
Park will become a carefully managed
restaurant. The house is being remodeled,
wide veiandahs are in course of
erection and tho place will be put
in attractive condition. It will be put
into me nanus 01 somo careiuuy soiectea
caterer. This is decidedly u move in the
right direction and one which lias already
been muoh talked about by the people who
drive or walk in tho park. All paiks worth
the name have such public conveniences
and ours should be up in the first row next
tho oichcstra as soon as it can be placed
there.
Some day onr ball club will be manaoged
on the same basis as our rolling mills or other
business enterprises are that to have good
results theie must be good material well
bandied.
Why is it that the boats on both rivers
begin to fire up Justa.s they pass under a
crowded passenger bridge? It is a familiar
experience with pedestrians to be suddenly
engulfed in a sort of sooty Jelly from the
smoKestacks of river craft. It happens so
often that it looks as though somebody
thought it was lunny and it is noc
The prices of the leading restaurants for
some things are simply absurd. For ex
ample, why should Fittsburgers be charged
30 cents for a small dish of strawberries
when they are gelling for 6 or 8 rents
a bnx in the market? A little lettuce
is 25 cent', new potatoes are 10 oents each,
tiny lamb chops are a quarter each and other
things are in proportion. Prices are higher
for many things than at Delmonico's, which
is ridiculous, as most of them are home
raided and cheap. Of course this commont is
made with full understandings the cost of
service and comfortable surroundings, and
due allowance is made for wastage, but the
fact remains that charges are excessive and
the food not up to the standard or such
places. The service, too, Is not what it was
or should be.
The police are faking the position that
some kinds of dresses shall not beworn upon
the streets. Tho "suspender dresses," it it
to be hoped, will Boon obtain recognition In
the City Hall ukase.
How wonderful has been the inroads of
comfort and coolness in dress upon tradi
tions and stuffiness! It began with tbe
reizn of the flannel shirt when outdoor
sports took so sudden and general a spurt a
few say half a dozen years ago. Then
came all sorts of old and new materials for
shirts for men and waists for women, loose
things with comfortable collars and cuffs,
soon to be followed by ties of lawns, linens,
percales and shirting goods. All these are
loose and comfortablo in style with a small
modicum of starch in the makeup.
Easy shoes, cooler and lighter hats,
a thousand and one details known bet
to the tailor and milliner have come in the
train or summer wear and tho result is ap
parent on every hand. It adds to the neat
appearance of both sexes because so muoh
of it is on the surface there can be no shams
and no untidiness. It is a wise change, long
in coming but thoroughly taken hold of
wnen it aid come ana l cannot see now we
can ever go back to starch, stiffness, heat
and general discomfort.
One of the funniest checks I ever saw was
shown to me by a banker yesterday. It wns
drawn on one of the ordinary check forms
of the bank and read thus:
Pittsburg, Jnne 25, 1392.
National Rank:
Pay to twenty-three dollars if there i
that much to my credit. I think there is sixteen
dollars thero anil I will make up the rest on Tues
day of next week. So please oblige me.
John smith.
The Pennsylvania Bailroad telegraph
office had a number of anxious visitors yes
tei day morning. A number of Fittsburgers
had relatives or friends on the wrecked
train and were In a fever to hean from t hem.
The dispatchers answered all queries as
promptly as possible and rushed messages
to and fro until everybody was satisfied.
Waiter.
A Perlinont Question.
Cleveland Leader.
Where did "General" Stevenson get the
military title given him by Democratic
papers? It looks verv much like a case of
trying to capture the votes of old soldiers by
false pretenses.
JUNE AND AFTER,
A bright June day.
Cool lountalns play,
A hammock's gently swinging
A daimel fair,
With golden hair.
Sweet songs of love is staging.
A good cigar.
An old guitar,
Which skiirully Is played on
A young man dreams.
And all life seems,
A stage no pleasures fade on.
The hammock holds.
Within, its folds.
A youth superbly handsome
But more than all
For beauties pall
He's worth a kingdom's ransom.
She sings her best.
He does the rest.
Ue and the things sarronndlng
Slit lifts her eyes.
In soft surprise.
And soon her heart is bounding.
They swear to love.
All else above.
Each one of them the other
And love's old lay,
Is sung that day.
And not the lore of brother.
When autumn falls.
And fireside calls.
They talk of getting married
And wonder much.
Their love is such
That thus long they have tarried.
But when they're wed,
Their life is led.
In other circumstances
She soon lets out,
With pretty pout.
She wauts to go to dances.
In vain be tries.
To make her prize,
A dual situation
She loves to roam,
, Far, far from home,
In search of admiration,
X.J.M.
X0BB 07 BYQOHB OZBTTJBIBS.
A New Manuscript of Victor Hago's I Res
cued From s Mais or Waste faper.
Loirooir, June S6. Reference has been
made heretofore to discovery of the manu
soriptof Viotor Hugo's "Journal d'Exil,"and
as to doubts that were entertained in some
quarters as to its authenticity. M. Octave
Tzanne, who has examined the manuscript,
says there is no doubt of its genuineness.
Ho says he recognized In the manuscript
the writing of the lateFrancoU Hugo, the
poet's son; and in many of the conversations
Victor Hugo Is referred to as Moc Pere, and
Charles Hugo as Mon Frero. Moreover, the
corrections aro in Viotor Hugo's own hand
writing. Samuel Davey, who found" the manuscript,
says that M. Augnste Vacquerle, who is a
great admirer of Hugo, and who was one of
his close friends, is of the same opinion as
JU. Uzanne, and corroborates the strange
story -told to Mr. Carey's son. that this
Journal of 2,000 pages, with neatly 1,000 let
ters addi eased to the poet, were sold as
waste paper from Hautevllle House by one
of tho poet's relatives the preceding year.
The Kathscuulbibliothek or Zwickau,
Saxony, is In possession of a rich treasure of
letters of the period or tho Reformation.
About 4,000 of such letters have been found,
and the cataloguing of the collection is now
in hand. Among others of special valne aro
two from the hand of Johann Neudorfer, of
Nuremburg, the creater of tho German
Scbonschreibenkunst. The only specimens
of his own wrltine hitherto known to be ;.
'tant were his subscrintions to Albrecht
Durers pictures, "Die Temperamente," and
a single letter or his in the Nuremberg city
archives. Both the letters discovered at
Zwickau were written to Stephan" Roth one
in 1563, tho other in 1533.
J0HH P. SZ JOHN DECLINES.
Tbe Prohibitionists M.y Nominate General
BIdwell, of California.
CnrorsjfATi. June 25. The American pub
lic Is by this time accustomed to national
conventions, so that the announcement of
another for next week will not be startling.
The National Prohibition Convention meets
in Music Hall In this city Wednesday, June
29. The substantial building, in which the
Democratic National Convention of 1S80 was
comfortably accommodated when General
Hancook was nominated, has been appro
priately decorated.
The convention bids fair to outstrip Its
two predecessors at Minneapolis and Chi
cago in size. Tbe total delegate list Is 1,191,
and there are as many alternates. The
managers say that nearly all of these will be
present. The National Committee of the
party opened Its headquarters this after
noon at the Grand Hotel. Samuel Dickie, or
Michigan, Is Chairman. Preliminary to tho
convention there has been arranged amass
meeting lor Music Hall to-morrow after
noon, to be addressed by Miss Frances Wil
lard, Dr. W. H. Boole, Dr. A. B. Leonard and
others.
Chairman Dickie talks like a politician
about the expectations or the party. He
says it is not a church organization. He
wants it understood that not all Prohibition
ists are church members, nor, indeed, total
abstainers from alcoholic drinks. Many
men who drink favor the destruction of tho
traffic, and Mr.Dickie says: "We are a party
and must get votes from all available
sources."
The question of tbe nominee for President
naturally does not wear upon the persons
interested to any great degree. The flisc
man in the minds of most or the party. Mr.
St. John, peremptorily declines to permit
the uso of liia name. The next man sug
gested is General John Bidwell, the farmer
of California, whose land extends H miles
in length and three miles in width.
HONORS FOR TALE BOYS.
Ohio and Pennsylvania Xonng Men Gather
in Their Share.
New Haven, Cons., June 23. The "honor
list" of the graduating class at Yale, or the
senior appointments, as they are called, were
made publio this morning. Tbe number is
rather small, indicating only a moderate
standard of scholarship attained by the
class as a whole. Among them are: Philo
sophical orations J. W. Ingersoll, Marengo,
III.; J. D. Hutchlns, Los Angeles, Cal.; Percy
Findlay, Memphis, Tenn. High orations
G. H. Girty, Cleveland, O. Omtions O. II.
Fisk, Covington, Kv.; Abraham Mover, Chi
cago; M. P. Noyes. Evanston, 111. Disserta
tion F. H. Haisslein, Genoa, III.; Junius
Wheelock, Chicago.
First disputes F. W. Htnkle, Cincinnati;
H. B. McCormlck, Hnrrlsburg, Pa.; W. G.
.Pettis, St. Louis; E. E. Snvdaclcer, Chicago.
Second disputes S. C. Burt, Cincinnati; C.
R. Holden. Chicago; A. F. Lewis. Bozeman,
Mont; William Messick, Memphis, Tenn.;
E. It. Ridgeway, Gallon, O.; B. P. Holllster,
Cincinnati; A. C. Crisk, St. Louis. Second
colloquies C. N. McAllister, St. Joseph,
Mo.; E. W. Pease, Cleveland.
rOETT MILLIONS FOE AN EDIT02.
A Virginia Villager, the Descendant of a
French Family, In Great Luck.
Charlottesville, Va., Juno 25. M. M.
Dupre, city editor of the Virginia People,
hopes to get a share of an estate worth HX
000,003 In France. He is descended from tbe
Pupre family that was banished by Louis
5 IV., and came to this country. Some of
the Dupres returned to France and recov
ered their property. They have becomo
extinct, and the vast estate revert3 to the
branch of the family in Virginia, the Caro
lina; and Georgia.
M. M. Dupre is also a claimant for a large
estate in Virginia, through his maternal
grandfather.
The Peary ExpdIt!ou Brady to Leave.
New York, June25. The P.ed Cross steamer
Miranda, which goes to the relief of Lieu
tenant Peary's Arctic expedition, will call
from Brooklyn Monday for St. John's, N. F.
Tne party on board will consist of Prof.
Angelo Hoilprin, Henry G. Bryant, William
E. Mehan and F. W. Stokes, of Philadelphia;
Dr. Jackson Mills, of this cloy: C. E. Hill, or
Burlington, N. J.; Albert ft". Vorse and
Samuol J. Lntrlkin. At St. John's they will
take passage on the Kite and sail lor Green
land. Honoring thn Memory of Shelley.
LoirDoir, June 25. Rev. C. J. Boblnson,
Vicar of Horsham, Sussex, Mr. Hurst and
other admirers of tbe work of the poet
Shelley, are making arrangements to cele
brate the centenary or his birth, which oc
curs August 4 next. Shelley was born at
Field Place, near Horsham. Bather earlier
than this celebration was a dinnor given at
the Whcatsheart Restaurant to-day, 'which
was also to celebrate the birth of Shelley.
DEATES HERB AND ELSEWHERE.
Dr. C. W. Sprnnkling, Veterinarian.
Dr. C W. Sprankling, Sr., the veterin
arian, died at his home In Baltimore Friday. Hs
was CI years old. He was bora In Philadelphia,
but had lived in Baltimore 15 years. He was a
shipbuilder originally and an athlete, and had won
several contests In the prize ring. At one lime Dr.
Sprankllng was a United States detective In New
Tort. He also served in the nary. Ue passed an
examination in a Philadelphia college and received
a certificate, after which he practiced veterinary
sureery. Dr. Sprankllng owned a numlerofflne
trotting horses at different times. Much of his
practice was uevuicu to mo uoryes luu rauirs in mo
Wllkesbarre, Pa., coal mines. He married a New
York lady, Mary A. Barton, who, with one son,
survives him. The body will be creamated. accord
ing to the doctor's request, at Loudon Park.
Joseph Caras, Manufacturer.
Joseph Caras, senior proprietor of the
Caras Iron Works, died yesterday morning at
Matsllunofparalysli. He was one of tbe best
known Iron manufacturers In the country. Ho
was born at Tredgar. Wales. 72 years ago. and
started to work In a rolling mill at 12. He lormerly
couducted Iron plants at Akron and Glrard, O.
Ex-Congressman George W. Cassldy.
A State Silver Convention was held at
Beno, JNev.. Thursday and three Presidental
electors were nominated. During the session
George W. Cassldy, a'n'ex-Congressmin and Dem
ocratic nominee for Congress, fell dead at the close
of a speech.
Obituary Notes.
judge David a. Hashes, of Murfreesborougb,
N. C died Friday; aged 7S.
BEV. W.Y, SHEPPAnD, a prominent Episcopal
minister at Danville. Ky., died Friday night from
the effects of a sunstroke.
Charles F. GOLDSBonouon, Associated Judge
of the First Judicial Circuit. Cambridge, Md., died
at bis home In Cambridge, Thursday evening, aged
62 years.
T. CLARKE Oliver, the marine painter, aied at
Amesbury, Mass., Friday, aged 83. Some of his
works are widely known, particularly "Kcar
sarge," copies of which have been made la steel.
THE" Earl of Hare wood died Friday. Henry
Thynnee Lascelles, Earl of Ilarewood and Viscount
Lascelles was born Jnne IS, lS.'-l. and succeeded to
the Earldom on the death of his father. February
12, 18-37.
Ksv. Chester Newell, the I oldest United
States Navy Chaplain, died in Savanah Friday, in
his 80th year. He entered the serried in 1340 and
served in the Mextcau snd Civil Wars, being re-JiredlnlKU.
ETERNITY'S GRAND EON.
A. Little Bird to Carry Away the Globe Ap
palling Calculation Based on the Power
of Squared Numbers Tho Limited and
tbe Limitless.
IWRITTEK FOR THE DISFATCH.
There is something staggering to the
mind, in tbe thought of beginningless and
endless duiatlon. Our thoughts have to
do with the measured and the finite,
with little spans of time and infini
tesimal bounds of space. In only a
few years from onr advent we are back
again in the realm from whence we came,
and yet are apt to tnink that muoh was done
for onr especial accommodation; that some
how onr coming was something ot an event,
instead of taking rank as only a very little
and most common-place incident.
AH that is, was, has been and will be again,
though possibly not in to far as concerns
our own little world; but this also our
world with all its belongings Is only an in
cident among the infinity of worlds and the
occurrences in the cycles of that endless
duration, pertaining to the boundless, meas
ureless and beginningless past.
We will try to measure a little or this
eternal duration, to enlarge our conception
of our environment that we may see how
small a factor must be, all that we know and
can conceive of.
4. Few Tilings XTo K-iow.
Ve know something of the sphere we
are on. It has comprehensible dimensions,
form and composition. We know with
pretty fair precision its bounds ind move
ments; we may know approximately its age,
how and impelled by what force
it came, and what ultimate deitiny
awaits it. Wo recognize such
a fact as eternity and certain
conclusions relating to certain conse
quences, then follow Inevitably. In a small
wav, we know something or quantity. In a
feeble way, we know something of the
power of numbers to express it. We aro on
a globe of matter, having a diameter of
about 8,000 miles. We will now consider a
very gradual process or transporting this
matter, let us suppose, to other worlds and
try to grasp something of the Immensity of
time that would be involved in the transac
tion, and nse this as a basis in considering'
other quantities or time.
Let ns suppose that in the year 1900 a small
bird shall come, and grasping as muoh as It
can conveniently carry in its bill, shall fly
hence with It. Millions and billions, yes,
billions multiplied by billions of such bits
conld be taken from an ordinary farm and
the diminution of malaria would not be
noticed. But at the end of a thousand years,
which would be In the year 2930, a bird comes
again and seizing as much as on the former
occasion it flies away, leaving the earth
with that much less. But from this time on,
each visit on this mission of carrying away
matter will be measured by the time of the
visit Just preceding it, squared. Consequent
ly, tho next call,ulter the thousand year call,
will be after tho lapse of a thousand times a
thousand years, in other words, one million
years. A thousand thousands is onemilllnn.
ana a thousand millions is a billion. Think
ot it and try to grasp it, such an amazing
time and only three bill-lulls or matter car
ried awav. But the fourth visit will be
after a million of million of years, or what
we denominate n qulntillion or year", thn
1000,000,000,000,000,000. Those who have any
Idea at all ot the cumulative power of the
successively squared products will see to
what incomprehensible limits tills will soon
crtend nnd yet, there are now only four
little bill-tulu of material less on tbe earth.
But the fifth visit willbeaflor tho time ex
pressed by the square of one quintiliion,
which requires the figure one to be placed in
the 13th period and nfcer another visit, the
number passes to where no human language
has any terms to give it expression.
The rjgai es Too Itlg to Comprehend.
Now let this continue, each last trip
after the lap-o of the square of tne time of
the one preceding, until nil the contents of
the enti.e globo have been carried awayl
Yes, a time would come when the last atom
of the globe would be gathered up.
But think of it!
A sphere ns large as the earth, made up of
small type, each expressing a numeral, all
in a straight line, millions and Dillions and
trillions of times the distance duplicated to
tho sun, and- yet these cannot express the
centuries in tho half-way intervals even, of
tho time consumed in thus carrying this
globe away.
But vhon, after cycles of years, moro
numerous than the grains of sand in a
sphoro as large ns Arcturus, all this earth
has been carried away, bns an aunreefauin
portion of eternity paised? tia the knell of
one of Its seconds been tolled?
No!
Tho process may go on: tho squares of
time continue, until the moon, the sun and
every part or every orb in space bo carried
away, and even then all this will be as
nothing to eternal duration!
But why?
Because this process began and by virtue
of its own conditions mnstond:ithas limits,
hounds, dimensions and eternity has none.
No, all this would not be tho most infinites
imal part of a second in the great, the
grand, the stupendous law ofeternlty!
But what, then, raifst wo understand as to
the beginning or anything? Only this: How
ever tar back it is that anything had a be
ginning, it began: it must then have had a
definite commencement, nnd back of and be
hind that still lies an eternity, and to what
ever point backward we may reier a begin
ning, it would still bo a beginning and we
would find tho same condition, no matter
to how remote a time we unpashod
our inauirv. If everything that is had a
beginning then, back of and behind that be
ginning still laid an eternity during which
there was absolutely nothing, and if that,
that had the capacity to begin, began not
during an eternity, if, instead ot manifest
ing potency, it was impotent during an
eternity lnste.iu ol being active, was idle
during an eternity instead of being alert
was inort during an eternity, then nothing
ne's would or necessity by the force of the
logic of the situation have remained
nothing in all the eternity to come.
Our Conceptions Are Limited.
Bat since things exist now, since the
universe now exists, we aro forced, by the
analogies of the case, to tbe conclusion that
it has always thus existed; that it never be
gan. We are thus compelled to conclude
that matter and tho potencies of the uni
verse eternally were and were eternally
made manifest. It is tiius that we acknowl
edge the limitations and restrictions of our
owu finite conceptions instead of limiting
the great infinite.
Is there nny logical road to anv other con
clusion? Then, can thero bo anything abso
lutely new?
Yes nnd no. New to tbe newly formed re
ceivers of impressions, now as to its own
specific individuality, as the leaf of each
year is new, but old a a tvpe or race leaf:
so, In the rounds of infinite duration, all
that now is or ever win do necessarily
already must have been mapy, many times.
If, then, wo grap the great truth that
matter and the laws governing matter
always were, that the potency In the uni
verse eternally was, that creation, growth,
decay and disintegration have everlollowcd
each ether In an unceasing round, that this
great law bears aliko on ail forms from the
mightiest sun to the tinien thing, we may
indulge in somo observations on infinite
space, which Is tbe necessary complement
or corollary to etoriial duiatlon. As
is tho one so is tho other; both are
beginningless uivl eudles, at eternal dura
tion never bezan and never will end, so stel
lar space had never a starting point nor a
termination.
If. during all the tlmo indicated in the pro
ceding part of this articlo, nn electric cur
rent had been speeding out and on and on,
atitsrate of 283,000 miles per second, the
distance gone over in nil this amazing time
would still bo as nothing to the' infinite
space beyond.
Sp ice, Too, Stmt Be Unlimited.
Just as there can be no bound to
eternity of duration, so there can be no
limit to the space of infinity, nor to the
number of spheres in tills space nor to the
quantity of matter in thoso spheres in that
infinite space. Go where we would, to what
ever point, there would still be a beyond
and a beyond beyond that, in an everlasting
succession.
Situated, or located there, on nnyono of
the orbs of space, what can wo sec? Only a
speck, a mote of the infinite. A row thou
sand splici-03 with the unaided eye, somo
hundreds of thousands, it may be conceded,
with optical aid, bat this is as nothing com-
Sared with what still lies in nil directions,
eyond the field of vision. What are a lew
seconds as to etornity? As the space we see
is occupied, so Is the space we do noc see,
for thore cannot be something whose only
tenaut is nothmg.
How small and finite then are we and all
that our diminutive comprehension may
know and oven conceivo of. when we com
paiotho measured with the measureless,
tho finite with the Infinite the limited with
the limitless, time with eternity. Let us
then, as these great facts dawn on oar vis
ion be humble, seeing that alike we, our
time and our world, are so small a factor in
the great cosmos. Above all, let us bo de
vout in the pursuit of knowledge, reverent
to a great face and, while we uiay, do -some
good deeds that may live after us. N.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS-
There has been no
change In black
smiths' tools for S00 years.
The watermelon territory
ot South
Carolina this year is 5,000 acres.
The market price of awife in equatorial
Africa is ten bundles of hairpins.
A steel rail, of the kind used on rail
ways, lasts, with average wear, abojpt 13
years.
A church in St. Ives, England, has for
325vearskeptnp the custom of an annual
raffle with dice for Bibles.
A reside nt of Glover's Mill, N. T-, has
never drank intoxicants. Neither has ha
used water for 35 years.
Several girl students at Cornell are
taking the conrse in agriculture). One Cor
nell girl is studying veterinary surgery.
The loco weed, which U abundant in
Western Kansas, has a peculiar facination
for cattle, npon which it exerts an intoxi
cating effect.
At the present rate of increase in the
American production of tinplnte tho United
States will produce 100,000,000 pounds duriDg
the coming year.
"Lore your wife as yon would love
your soul, bat bea her as you would yonr -, -fur,"
is said to be The doctrine by which the
Kussinn peasant guides his matrimonial re
lations. Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools of Balginm. and
170 000 or the 600 000 primary pnptls have de
posited over $300,000. Great Britain has also
established the penny banks.
There is a decided difference of 6pT&ioEr
as to the number of men who ffrulfht on the
Confederate side daring thjsWarof tho Re
bellion. It is difficult to clve a correct esti
mate, but many authorities suppose the
total number was aboqtrcOO.OOX
Natural gas has been discovered on the
shore of the preat Salt Lake, within ten
miles orSalt,t,ako City. Several wells have
already boon put down to the depth of 67)
feet, ana is said that 50.000,000 cubic feet of
gas ay. how flowing daily.
A far as can be calculated the average
length of life, which is computed in the
seventeenth centnry to have been only 13
years, wa.s in tho eighteenth increased to OT,
and in the nineteenth to SS. Men used to be
considered old when tbey passed 50.
At the trial of a Lebanon, TiL, man for
the murder of a deaf mute a striking feature
of the prosecution was the appearance of
several deaf mute witnesses who testified
by signs snd br the use of a slate. In iden
tifying the prisoner their faoss manifested
the greatest horror and excitement.
The idea of printed dresses for mas
querading is not a new one. At least SO
years ago a yonng lady wore a party dress of
white doth which had been throngh tho
press of the Kansas Citr Journal of Cbmmerc".
The cloth bore theimprintor thoday's news,
being a reproduction of the regular daily
paper of that date.
The great painting- of the Chicago
fire which was on exhibition opoosite the
Wigwam during tho.recent Democratic Con
tion, cost that citv SK0.000. Nearly ,000
pounds of paint and oils were required for
thepioture. The workifithadbeendoneby
one man would have required over twenty
years to complete.
Porcupines, which abound in the 1am
bor woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania,
are great pests around the camps. They aro
passionately fond of pair, nnd should the
fonr sides ot the camp phinty be salted from
around to roof these littlo animals would
eat It down over the verv heads of the in
mates and not leave a splinterof it to mark
where it stood.
A place for "visiting babies" at tbe
World's Fair is under consideration, and a
space Is likely to be reserved near the
women's building, on which a house maybe
erected for this purpose. Nurses trained to
care for children will bp pnt in chnrre, the
mothers will act the children cheeked, and,
with calm consciences, enjoy tho tour of the
grounds unhindered.
The lamest university in the world is
at Cairo, Ecrypt, and has ILOOl students.
They come from every part of the Mohamme-'
uun woriu, nnu stuuy juussniman lav, ni.
tory,. theology nnd other branches needed to
confirm them In the faith of Jlohammod.
Thpy sit on tbe floor of an enormous court
nnd stndy alond, nnd the Western visitor
who calls on them during stndy hours mlzlit
think he had. struck tho original Tower of
BaboL
The largest masonry dam in the world
has lately been completed In India, in con
nection with the new water works for tho
city of Bombay. It is about two miles in
length: 118 feet htrh nnd 100 feet thick at its
greatest depth. The lake covers an area of
eight pqnnre miles, and will furnish a sup
ply of 100.000.COO frallons ppr day. The dam
has been five and one-half yeara in process
of construction nnd from 9,000 to I'J.OOO men
nnd 00 carts and animals have been em
ployed upon it.
A resident of Blakcly, Ga., has a new
mode of catching fish. The fish are baited
Tor some days with a mixture of flour and
magnetized steel filings mado into a stiff
pasto or dough. W.lien they begin to take the
bait a magnetized Iron or steel rod. coated
with tho same kind of paste, is let down to
them. Thev soon attempt to suck the paste
from it, and in doing so soon stick hard and
fast. It is not unusual for a fisherman to
haul out at one time a long string or rod of
suckers in this way.
A young Frenchman is astonishing the
people ot Taris with his marvelons feats of
mental calculation, which surpass anything
that has ever been known be tore of a simi
lar character. He performs multiplications
and divi-ions of numbers of 21 Azures, and
extracts tho square nnd cube roots of num
bers with almost Incredible rapidity. The
young calculator scarcely knows now to
read or write, and does not interest himself
in anv othor Dursuit than calculating, which
amuses him constantly.
Kenares, the religious center of all In
dia since countless generations befora
Christ, is described as a city which bears
the same relation tonindooism (or Budd
hism) that Bethlehem did and does to
Christendom. Its origin cannot, it is said,
be traced by man. It was occnp'ed by hnn
dreds or thousands of people over six cen
turies before our Christian era. There are
300,000,000 people in the world who bow to
the Buddhist rnith worshiping ns devout
ly ns ever Christian worshiped Christ.
The Dismal Swamp in Virginia, one of
largest of the swampy tracts in America, is
also one of the most promising areas for
reclamation. It contains fnlly 1,500 square
mile-), and is at present of little value, ex
cept for a supply of timber. It is an old sea
bottom, and the western boundary of the
swamp is a sen cliff nnd beach. Tho chief
animal population of the higher classes con.
sists ot water birds and snakes. Of the
larger animals, bears are abundant, and
thero Is a peculiar nnd verv ferociona spe
cies of wild horned cnttic. The"flhts of the
bears are said to be very exciting.
TICKINGS FROM FECK.
Jack (to his fiancee) I think ot getting
musical Instrument, Maud. Say. perhaps, a
cornet.
Maud (In dlsmay)-On. no! not that horrid
thing.
Jack (Insnrprlse)-Andwhynot, dearest?
Maud (Washing v!oIently)-It makes the lips to
hard.
Oh, for the wings of a dove,
Just fjr a wee little wees!
I'd go and exhibit myself.
And mate a big pile as a freak.
Eowne de Boat What did yonr wife say
when you got home last night. Cross?
Chris Cross First tell me how much time yoa
have to spare.
BownedeBout About ten minutes.
Chris Cross Then I can't tell you.
Sue Fred, you have been drinking.
I'red-I thought love was blind.
Sue 11 Is ; but blindness makes the sense of smel
more acute.
The goodnight kiss he gave her at the door
He'd fain repeat, encore and still encore.
Till she assures him. very firmly, that he's
Mistaken ir he thinks all farewells are like Pattl's.
Tourist (in Kentucky) That gentleman
sitting over there is the most taciturn person I ever
enconntered. Though I hive tried almost every
imaginable subject of conversation, I am utterly
unable to draw him out-
Laudlord-That'a Colonel Gore: try a corkscrew,
sub,
3Iy eirl just dotes'npon ice cream;
Withal, she has a heart
To help me save, she said: Now, Charles.
Do get it by the quart!"
Tantivy Tooler I see the Tribune says
that scrapplnr match was "avcrytame affair."!
understand It ended in a knock out!
Jack Lever Tes: the religious editor had the as
signment, and he's taken In so many church con
ventions, lately, .that he expects altogether tsa
much.
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