V'T THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20. 1892. 0Jje IttgpKfr ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 188 Vol. 47, No. 1G7 Entered at Pittsburg Foitoffica Kcveraber, 1SS7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. TATFMS AnVKRTTSrNO OFFICE. ROOM Tfc TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where eom Hlete files ofTIIE DISPATCH can alwaTB be fotmd. Foreign advertisers appreciate the convenience. Home advertisers and friends of THE DIBl'ATCH. hue in New York, are also made welcome. TBEDISPATCBU regularly on tale at Brentano't. t: Union Siriiare. tew lork, and V Ave del' Opera. Paris, trance, where anyone who hat been disajy pointed at a hotel newt stand can obtain it. T13UIS OF THE UISPATCH. rOSTAGE TTtEK IN HIE TOTTED STATES. 7UILTl)iBPATCn, One Year f B 00 Dailt Dispatch, Ter Quarter 2 00 DAILT DISPATCH, One Month 70 Dailt Dispatch Including Sunday, lycar.. 10 00 Dailt DiBrATcn, Including Snndar, Jm'ths, SCO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday. 1 m'tb.. 90 Eukdat Dispatch. One Year ;80 Wzekxt DiBPATcn. One Year. 13 The Dailt Di6FATcn Is delivered by carriers at :: cents per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at It cents per week. l'lTTMlUKG. WEDNESDAY. JULY SO. ISSi TWELVE PAGES IK. SHIKAS FOB, hUPKEJIE BENCH. Tlie nomination by the President of George Shiras to the vacant place upon the United States Supreme Bench is one of the best that could have been made. Mr. Shiras is not only a man of fine mind, 4mt his personal bearing during a longand successful career at the Allegheny county bar has won him the high respect of all, both in and out of his profession. Mr. Shiras' disposition is not of the sort which seeks honors, though his name has been frequently suggested by his friends for high places. Essentially he is not one of the class of men who thrust themselves in the way of public notice, or solicit dis tinction. At the same time such men often most keenly feel the appreciation which comes to them, and Mr. Shiras can not be insensible to that which brings him in this instance such high honor. When the personality of Mr. Shiras becomes more familiar to the country-at-larce in the legal profession his status is already widely known beyond the borders of this Commonwealth the entire fitness of the appointment will be admitted and praised. Meanwhile the Allegheny county bar and the local community cannot help feel ing complimented at the selection for the United States Supreme Bench of a man who, alike as lawyer and citizen, has lived upon the highest plane and commanded at all times their esteem. The appointee's legal experience has been varied and ex tensive in all branches of United States Court procedure. In this respect Mr. Shiras is specially well fitted. He is also in the prime of physical and intellectual life. He brings to the Bench not only mature experience but the academic and philosophic turn of mind which is at its best in judicial functions. IHE DEMOCRATIC BANKING IDEA. While the Democratic platform avoided the financial error of indorsing free silver coinage, and a still more narrow escape has been made by the Democrats in Con gress from committing the same error, it cannot be ignored that in proposing to re vive the.nld system of irresponsible Stat0 bank circulation it has lent its indorse ment to a financial vice of much more widespread and evil results. To reduce the currency of the country to the silver basis means but a single change. That made we would be on a tolerably steady basis with a dollar worth twenty or thirty per cent less than the present one. But to call into existence a system of State banks, as varied and as uncertain as that of forty years ago, means the introduction of a constant and always incalculable uncertainty as to the value of the monetary system. Not only would it vitiate the reliable and uniform value of bank note circulation, but it would extend the same vice to the whole system of bank deposits created by the new banks. The bank note circulation, judging by the past, would equal in volume the amount of coin passing from hand to hand. But the great mass of commercial payments is made neither in coin nor notes, but by the transfer of bank deposits through checks or drafts. To revive the old system of banking would be to infect the whole mass of such payments with an epidemic of worthlessness. We might expect to see the day return when a man learning of the failure of a bank would indulge in thankfulness, as men used to in the fifties, that he had neither the notes nor the drafts of that bank or any other. A party that adds this indorsement of financial instability to its remarkable at tack on industrial prosperity has .peculiar notions of the way in which to commend itself to the public favor. A LAND-GRABBING BUL, The announcement is made that an effort will be put forward duringthe closlngdays of the session to rush to passage the bill for the removal of the Utes from their res ervation in Southern Colorado to the mountains of Utah. The friends of jus tice and good faith in dealing with the In dians should be on the alert to defeat this job. The measure is simply one to get pos session of the fertile territory where the Utes have already advanced far in the peaceful arts. Since the Colorado boom ers want this land, the Utes miftt be ban ished to the rocks and barrens of Utah, re gardless of the treaty pledges by which they were guaranteed their present pos sessions, without caring for the fact that they have cultivated their reservation in peace for many years, and without any memory of the time when the Indians on this reservation maintained order and brought back the northern branch of the tribe to submission after it had broken out into bloody insurrection. If the United States Congress has any conception of the value of honesty, good faith and public gratitude in public dealings it will em phatically squelch this land-grabbing scheme. WHY BETE OFF OUR NOSES? The claim that if Canada persists in her discriminations against American com merce through her canals retaliatory measures must be adopted may be con ceded in the main; but, if the newspaper summaries of Senator Higgins' bill on that 'subject are accurate, there is need for the warning against biting off our nose to spite the face. This is especially evident in connection with the clause of the bill suspending the long and shorthand clause of the inter-' State commerce law. As this is about the only section of the law which the railroads make much pretense of obeying, it mani festly should not be cast aside without pressing reasons. On the face of the proposition it is only to suspend that rule in cases where a necessity exists from the competition of the Canadian railroads. But, if it is suspended on part of the through traffic, it will have to be sus pended on all; and the alleged -retaliatory character of the measure is sufficiently estimated by the fact that it will make no difference to the Canadian railroads whether the clause is suspended or not Other parts of the bill provide effective retaliation; but the Canadian railroads competed for Northwestern traffic before there was a long-and-short-haul clause just as actively as they now do, and they will continue to do so if that clause is abrogated. The real motive for this provision is the constant plea of the trunk lines that the clause gives the Canadian railroads an advantage in the through competition. This claim as The Dispatch has often shown is utterly fictitious. The trunk lines of this country have a large, if not a larger, amount of traffic exempt from that restriction as the entire traffic of the Canadian railroads, which Is not reached by our law. There is no likelihood of Senator Hig gins' bill becoming a law at this session, but these facts should be borne in mind when the bill comes up next winter. THE CHILE SETTLEMENT. The settlement of the Valparaiso in 'demnlty question by Chile's payment of S7C,000, to be distributed among the fami lies of the two seamen who lost their lives and the surviving members of the crew of the Baltimore wounded on October 16, is highly satisfactory. The announcement is all the more gratifying in that only a few days ago the assertion, supposed to have come round by way of Santiago, was made that the United States Government was preparing to press the claims made by the men amounting to two million dol lars -'when the time is ripe." The Dis patch has time and again shown the un just and excessive nature of those claims, and the folly of giving tliem the Govern ment indorsement without reducing their amount Judging from the date at which the offer -was made by the Chilean Government, it would appear that the rumor was nothing more than a canard. But whether or not there has been a change made in the posi tion taken by the American Government, the actual arrangement of the matter as now made is more in accordance with common sense and justice than the sug gested intention to demand the exorbitant payments as set forth in the claims of the survivors. The cordial acceptance of the sum received is one of the most creditable features of the diplomatic transactions growing out of the deplorable Incident SUNLIGHT ON THE ISSUE. The brilliant New York Sun, in its efforts to maintain its position as a Demo cratic paper without swallowing the rank free trade policy of the party, evoked an inquiry from a reader "whether the Dem ocratic platform is a free trade platform or whether it only asks for a revision of the tariff." To this poser the Bun, after quoting the remarkable and anti-Jack-sonian declaration of the unconstitution ality of any protection whatever, is obliged to confess that the Democratic platform "is a free trade platform .as nearly as it is possible to make ' one with any customs duties left In it at alL" But the Sun bravely alleges that the question of the tariff is substantially out of the canvass. "The force bill 'and negro domination" with a very large N. D. are the dominat ing issues, the Sun alleges. Consequently both free trade and protectionist. Demo crats must rally to the support of the ticket leaving subordinate questions like silver and the tariff to be settled in the future. This is a brave and picturesque effort to swallow the, absurdly radical free trade policy of the Democrats with force bill sauce. But it does not conceal the wry face which the dish compels. If there were any serious need of answering the argument it could be done in a few words. Platform assertions are not very convincing; but everyone knows that If the Democracy should gain control of the Presidency and Congress its first step would be to enact a radical reduction of the tariff, while when the Republican party had the Presidency and both branches of Congress the so-called force bill did not pass, and nothing more than the spook of Negro Domination stalked through the land. The number of Intelligent American citizens who do not know that the tariff is the pivotal issue of this campaign is much less than the number of readers who enjoy the brilliant, sometimes erratic, but always readable contents of the Sun. FALLING SHOUT TN COMFORT. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, is a new member of the House of Representatives, who has come to that body under the old-fashioned and effete delusion that it is the duty of the representatives of the people to do thevwork they are paid for. Consequently when the practice of the members to go off looking after private schemes or political fences leaves the House without members enough to do business, except by shutting its eyes to the fact that there is no quorum, the young member ob jects and makes himself generally obnox ious to the established custom of legislat ing by the unanimous consent of empty seats. With a view of converting Mr. Bailey from this reformatory obnoxiousness the esteemed -Washington Pott asks him to consider that 'the absent members may earn their salaries as well by staying away as by remaining In their seats. There is a novel force in this suggestion. The expe riences of the last Congresses teach that it would be money in the pocket of the nation if a large share of the members never sat in their seats at alL But un fortunately for the satisfaction to be de rived from this theory the Junctures when this public profit might accrue from sav lag of grabs are the ones when absentee ism docs not occur. When a treasury sur plus Is to be raided they gather like the eagles to the fray. This limitation to the Post's consolatory theory makes it necessary to extend it further, and suggest that the absentee members would be most valuable to the country if they were never elected to Congress. Perhaps such a reform as that may be hastened by Mr. Bailey's disposi tion to call public attention to their ab sence. NORWAY'S straggle for home rule has now readied a Blase so acute that some thing definite and startling may tie ex pected to happen very soon. Little Kaiser Wilhelm is evidently fond of hunting big; game. He lias hardly finished his literary sport with Blsmaick, before Indulging In a whale hunt. As he Is said to have succeeded ill catching a whale fifty-four feet Ions himself, it is quite ap parent he will be wise to confine his exhibi tions of prowess to sports where he cannot make himself look too ridiculous by acci dentally catching a Tartar. Cleveland and Stevenson are prepared to have the news broken to them gently to day without any great dancer of being shocked. Safety valves on natnral gas mains have their chief use in these days In indicating occasionally that the outlook for consumers and owners Is brighter by reason of a sup ply in excess of the demand. One of thorn at Homewood has recently proved Its value in- this way for the first time in six years. Somebset jail was evidently designed as a means tosave the county from the expense of keeping prisoners. Surely it is sad to think of the laborious tolls to which Congress is subjected in this season of vacations. And the whole country will rejoice In sympathy with the over worked Senators and Bepresentattves if they succeed in casting aside their heavy burdens In less than a week's time. Canada is beginning to realize that, by means of retaliation, a discrimination in tolls is a game that two-can play at. When the British Parliament next meets, Balfour will be in a more congenial position as the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons than he was as the leader of the Government forces when he mainly dis tinguished himself by a masterly inactivity. Aftek attacks from famine, typhus, and cholera, war can have few new horrors for Russia. Secretary Stephen B. Elkins shows his expectation of Harrison's success, In November very clearly by refusing to be come a candidate for the Governorship of West Virginia so that he may be free to re main a member of the administration. CHAntMAif .Cakter may be expected to know how to put bis shoulder to the wheel. Now that the McGarrihan claim has passed both branohes of Congress in one ses sion after waiting thirty-four years, it is evident that justice, albeit a trifle tardy, Is open to all in this great free country. CELEBRITIES IN CL0TEE. Abneb McKinley, brother of the great protectionist, looks very much like him. MissAdelin M. Iblson retires from the Cambridge, Mass., corps of teachers after 60 years of service. Cardinal Ledochowskt, Prefect of the Propaganda, by this time should bo en Joying village life at Lucerne, where he takes a rest every year. Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, was once a humble printer on a back -street, lie now lives handsomely in the house in which Ole Bill, the famous violinist, once lived. The Pope has finished the preparation o the letter (an answer to Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago), touching upon the participa tion of the Pope in tho woman's portion of the exhibition. It will be mailed shortly. Venerable Ex-President Chapin, of Beloit College, is thought to be at the point of death, lie has long been feeble and began sinking rapidly yesterday. When he resigned a few years ago be was the ablest college President in America. Don Manuel Antonio Matta, who was Minister c f foreign Affairs of Chill dur ing the Baltimore affair, and who wrote the dispatches concernlaer President Harrison, has prepared a book of 300 pages reviewing the controversy, and it is now in press. Joseph Cook, the noted Boston author and lecturer, is described as a broad shouldered man with a massive head and Intellectual face framed in becoming side whiskers of mixed gray and red, and kindly features illumined with a pair of large blue eyes. Monsionoe Zardetti, Bishop of St. Cloud, Minn., has followed Cardinal Le dochowski to Lucerne. Not having been successful in Borne against Monsignor Ire land, he hopes, in a daily personal contact with the Cardinal to be able to win success against the Archbishop of St. Paul. IW0 TALES ABOUT TOTS. One's Ilother Is Lost and the Other's Mother Wax Too Buy. Philadelphia, July 19, "When's my mom mer tomln't" , A tear-stained tot of a girl has been lisping the plaintive question every little while as she wearily waits for the fond embrace of her mother's arms in the police station at Fourth and York streets. Since Saturday, when the waif was found wandering in the streets, the child has been cared for at the statton.house. The hours have slipped by, but no loving mother has appeared to claim her recreant offspring. No anxious friends have asked for the child's whereabouts, and Lieutenant Scott has been entirely unable to obtain an inkling of the little girl's identity. "My name's Tatie. Mommer dot lost Tatie tan't flu' her." That is all that he learned from Katie's lips. Sbo is clothed in an old blue dress with a white figure, ad she is destitute of shoes and stockings. blmllar cases as this are rare. Parents usually claim their children within a short time after they are found by tho police. It is on record, however, that on one oc casion when police headquarters were at Filth and Chestnut streets a woman from the northeastern section wandered Into the old operators' room inquiring for her daughter. It was then tho middle of autumn. She gave a minute description or her daughter's ap pearance and stated her age. "When did she leave hornet" asked the of ficer. "Last June," was the astounding reply. Scarcely believing his ears the operator repeated, "Last June?" "Yes, but I've been so busy that I haven't had time to get down here." It is not recorded that the daughter was restored to her mother. TEST WEBB TOO AFFECTIONATE. A Loving Coup'e insisted on Kissing In Broad Daylight. New York, July 19. Chief of Police John Y. Mc llano sat by his windowin police head quarters at West Brighton yesterday after noon. The soft bunshlne and cooling breeze had combined to make him drowsy, and ho was almost asleep when he heard a loud re port like the snapping of a big stick. "Great thunder!" thought the chief, as he rubbed his eyes and looked out or the window. "What's thatT" he mutteiod, as he beheld a young man and a pietty girl hugging and kissing just across the street. "Can't be brother and sister," said Mr. Mc Kano to himself. "They are too much in earnest. Here, you two," he yelled, as the pair sat down on the curbstone and started to hug and kiS some more. But the twain never moved. For a quarter of an hour they embraced and kissed each other, never minding the crowd on the street. It made tho chief angry. "Well, I'll stop that," he said, dispatching one or his trusty reserves to gather in the affectionate couple. In the cliiel 's office the pretty girl said she was Ella Kissing, of Montclalr, and the man said lie was Allred Gannon, ot 106 East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street ot this city. Ella solemnly declared sho had known "Alfy" all her life, and had not seen htm in more than, a year, so she lelt at liberty to embrace hlm.y "Ally" said he could not shako the girl off, and had to submit to her caresses. "Well, Miss Kissing," said the chief, "you are lightly named, but you must go home. As for you, Gannon, you'd better go with her, or there'll be trouble." That is the reason the couple reachedhome earlier than they were expected. A Change of Front Welcome. Chicago Inter Ocean. Xt ,1s reported that "Congress begins to think about adjourning." People will be glad to learn that Congress is disposed "to think" auout anything else than some scheme "to make votes for our party." No Achilles In the Banks. 8U Louli Globe-Democrat. There is a chance that Mr. Blaine will make two or three rousing speeches for the ticket before the campaign closes. TherevwIU be no sulking among Bepubllcans anywhere this year. A LOOK AROUND. One of the things which will coma with the underground wires will bo a great revo lution in the telephone service in Pittsburg. Cheerfnl aud busy Manager Harry Metzgar, of the Central District and Printing Tele graph Company goodness, what a mouth ful of a name says that we only get perfect tion in heaven, but he is glad to listen to protests of bad-service and- all that sort of thing and promptly correct it. He says that . the Western Pennsylvania Company which controls the telephone has about 8,ooo in struments in service In its territory. The electric car Bvstoin,'tozothor .with the elec tric Rights ami the telegraph wires and all the incidcntalwlre breaks, storm troubles, render the city . service 'a thing which should only bo damned in an intelligent and disci iminating manner. The now long distance Instruments ..are wonderfnl things, through which you can almost hear your self think, and when the wires are buried they will be used together with a metallic wire system. Without -this kind of wire they are little better than the present ma chines. As you can imagine, however, an underground wire scheme involving hun dreds of miles of complicated connections or plain straightaway lines is not to be had in market offhand and taken home in a bas ket. Some time ago the Monongahela Water Company Increased its rates to' customers living en the hilltops on the Southside, in Knoxvllle, Mt. Oliver and other places in the fringe of tho municipal mantle. As a result of this some of, the wealthy business men wtfoso homes aro up where tho air does not have to be dusted with a whisk broom put their heads and purses together and chart ered water companies, three of them, one for Mt. Oliver, one for lower St. Clair township and one for Knoxville. These companies will proceed to lay pipos and will supply water to tho hill-toppers under a general combination with about $300,000 capital. It is rather singular that at Homestead the mailtla should be called out to protect the mill issue. For several days I have noticed sturdy looklng'men on the streets wearing hlue badges with gilt letterings. At first I thought there was somo kind of picnic on, but it was too continued for that and I got near enough to one or these badges to see it was marked "W. G. W." In a majority of cases, yes in a , great majority, on the opposite side of the coat from these emblems, these men wore another bit of blue ribbon. I looked at that one also at slioit range and found it hada face on it. One evening I sat next to one of these men In a restaurant. He hada big badge, the biggest "W. G. W." badge I had seen. It was large enough to have as a sort of postscript the word "President" on it. This man also wore the ribbon with the face as a counter pioce. Some of these days there will be "President" on that also, for the face is Harrison's, and the worklngmen seem to hanker after bim, and such brainy fellows as Ebcrhardt, the head of the Window Glass Workers' Association, are proud to show their preference. A new version of an old joke was cur rent last week: Cleik (to employer) I must ask for leave of absence to go to Homestead. I belong to the militia. Employer Oh I Going to be a soldier at Homestead, eh 1 Well, that's all right, but I want you to 'Send me somo of the fish. Of the many; qtfeer occupations that I have heard of, I tliink the queerest is that of "signature maker." What would you suppose it to be at first glance T A forger? Perhaps, but he is not in that line up to date. He simply forms your style as some other teachers form your spelling or style. There are many business men who have no especially characteristic signature. They want one, and they go to a man on Wall street, in New York, and he furnishes it. He asks your occupation, what kind of busi ness you expect to engage in or are already in and then tells yon to' write some notes, checks, letters and random sentences and sign them as you aro accustomed .to do. With this as a basis, he proceeds to write several suggestions for your future guid ance. He will give ypu an odd capital or a twist at the end and a conformation of letters which looks well and is hard to make, and then you copy it, until you are proficient. It looks like an 'absurdity per haps, but when you Bee the signatures of men who sign important papers and big checks, you must admit that -they do not usually have a "John Smith" look. It is upon this fact that this man operates. He gives yon a signature to live np to. A banker of this citv defines a member of the Legislature as a man who has some acts to grind. Walter. WITH BTAES AHD STBIPES The Inman Line Vessels Will Now Fly the Waters of the Atlantic. Philadelphia, July 19. Clement A. Gris com. President of the International Navi gation Company, it was announced yester day, has completed negotlatiops with the British Government whereby the steamships City of New York 'and City of Paris are released by that Government from all contracts under which, they were held liable for service in the aux iliary navy or Great Britain, In the event of war.andwete compelled to fly the En glish flag, remain under an Engllsn register and be officered and manned by a British crew. These steamers will be immediately admitted to American register, and will hereafter fly the American flag. They will be officered andmannod by Americans and will be praotlcally American ships. In compliance with the terms of this act, double the foreign built tonnage admitted to American register must be Duilt by the owner or owners of such foreign-built ships in Ameilcan shipyards, and, upon Mr. Grls com's return the details of plans for four American-built ships of the .same tonnage and power as the New York and Paris, and greater speed, will be completed, and a con tract entereo. into Between me international Navigation Company and the shipbuilding firm or William Cramp A Sons for the build ing of the ships. It is expected that Mr. Griscom v. ill return to tho United States early In August. He went to England for the purpose of securing the abrogation of the contracts between his company and the British Government early in the summer, and it was learned yesterday from a gentleman actively interested in tne international .Navigation uompany that, by "the payment of a large sum of money Just how much ho was not prepared to state the contracts had been abrogated and the company Is no w at liberty, as soon as the ships arrive in an American port of entry to , have them measured for tonnage and given an official number and registry papers by the customs authorities at that port. After tills has been done, under the general navigation laws of the United States, the ships must bo officered by American citizens and fly the American flag. MT. GEETNA'S FEAST OF BEASOH. A Purely Literary and Musical Day at Penn sylvania's Chautauqna. Mt. Gretna, Jnly 19. Special. Gotthold Ephraim Lesslng, tho famous Gcrm.tn author and literary critic, was the subject of Dr. Clarke Bobinson's lecture this morn ing. It was veiy well attended. The doctor portrayed to the large nudlence tho char acter of tho celebrated ltterateur, and re cited a few of his most classical composi tions. After Dr. Robinson's lecture Dr. Weidner, of Chicago, Deau of Biblical Science, gave a public talk upon "The Visions ot Zachariah; the Prophet." Ho followed with a discourse on "English Liter ature." Dr. Grandlson, tbo orator, was on thp pro gramme, and liadacoepted the invitation to deliver a lecture on "Negio Moods and Tenses" this afternoon, but for somo unox- Slained reason he tailed to be present. Dr. ax Hark, Chancellor, very acceptably took his place and doliveied a talk on Tennyson. This evening Dr. Charles Young, of Prince ton University, America's great astronomer, delivered his second serial lecture on "The Moon." It was well illustrated throughout. At 6:30 Prof. David CCrozler gave a classical entertainment on the piano. , Only n Question of Figures. St. Louis Glote-Democrat. "Illinois is doubtful!" The doubt Is as to whether her Republican majority will be 83,000 or only 25,000, 8XBLEI0fT OF A SKA COW. The Smithsonian Institute Has Secured a , Very Bare Curiosity. Washington, July 18 The officers of the Pish Commission steamer Albatros, br the expenditure of $150 and freight, have se- cureo. ior tne Smithsonian Instltutio a ca riosity, the arrival of which is anxiously awaited by the officers. It is on Its way here from tho Commander Islands, In the western part of Bering Sea, and is the skele ton of a sea cow, nearly perfeot, and the finest that has ever been obtained. This animal was discovered by Bering's expedi tion in 1741, and has since become extinct; tho last specimen having been seen in 1854. When full grown it weighed as much as 8,000 pounds, and its flesh is said to be very like beef. It was about 30 leet long and measured SO feet in girth. It had a small ana tootniess head and a rough hide, like tree bark, which was more than an inch in thickness, and so tough that the hunters had to chop it with nxes. Probably there were not more than 3,000 or the beasts at the be ginning. They were slow in reproducing their snecies, and the last of them was killed in 1767. They were nearly related to the .manatee and dugong of Southern waters. Eight years ago Dr. 8tjneger was sent by the Smithsonian Institution to the Com mander Islands to secure, if possible, one or more skeletons of the sea cow. The bones bad to be sought by prodding in the sand near the mouths of the streams frequented In former days by the animals. A great quantity of bones was obtained, from which a skeleton was made up, which is now mounted at the National Museum, The sec ond beet set of bones selected from the col lection was sent to Prof. Agassiz. There Is one nearly complete skeleton of a sea cow In Sweden, and another which once be longed to a young man in St. Petersburg. Theie are no more In existence, unless still buried and remaining to be unearthed by future searchers. The skeleton Just found was discovored by a native of the Com mander Islands. ONLY EICH IN HIS KIND. An Elevator Boy Creates and Gets Away With an Imaginative Fortune. Cincinnati, July 19. Hugh P. Campbell will be remembered by many Clnclnnatians as the elevator boy at the Emery Hotel who some months ago fell heir to $75,000 in cash. He went to Europe for the money, and re turning to this city was said to have spent money freely. He was reported as cutting the proper figure for a rich young man. He also cut his old curbstone associates, got married to an heiress and after traveling for some weeks settled down to the tea business at Evansville. Ind. That was the view the public had of the affair. It now develops that the fortune existed only in letters which he wrote to himself and read in the presence ot wondering bell hoys, and tho whole affair was a clever take to win the hand of a working girl in the Falrmount woolen mills, whose mother was reputed to be wealthy. The girl, Annie Wnlttcamp, scorned tho suit of the poor ele vator boy, but listened willingly to the rich scion of English wealth. They were married, went traveling and finally settled down as a tea merchant at Evansville, Ind. Then Annie's mother died, and her hoardings were found to amount to $500, which gavo Annie and her sister $250 eacn. Then it was that Annie learned the European fortune was a fake, that the trip he made to London for the money was merely a visit to an obscure East End boarding-house and that he was still a penniless young man. The $250 soon gave out, but Hugh eot plenty of money on his pretensions. Finally the notes matured and his creditors learned the true state of affairs. Warrants are now out for him at Evansville, Ind. His wife is back in Cincinnati trying to get her old job at the woolen mills and Hugh Is In parts un known. THE WOMEN OF CHAUTAUQUA monopolizing the lime and Attention of Everyone Thnre Just at Present. Chautauqua, N. Y., July 9. Special The Woman's Club held its preliminary meeting to-day. Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, who was at the bead of the club last season, is in the samo position again. The subjects this season are to relate to the home and home making. At the Girl's Club this morning the young ladles burlesqued parliamentary laws. "Mrs. Everlasting, of xaiicea out," introduced a resolution to prevent shoppers' idiotic lunches of coffee and charlotte russo. An amend ment was offered forbidding the school girls' lunch of one big pickle done' np in brown papor. A second amendment forbids the teachers' icecream lnnch, "and still an other condemns the business man who does not lunch at all. The latest returns say that the young ladies have not stopped voting, but are making the best of their opportuni ties. TheBrownine and revolution literature courses were continued to-day, both being attended by large and interested audiences. At 5 o'clock this aiternoon a university ex tension conference was held at which the work in America was discussed. This even ing Dr. J. T. Edwards talked on "Trees." He gave a number of fine illustrations of trees found in all parts of the world, includ ing some of the big red woods of California. HE WA8 TOO POLITE. A Colored Man Who Wished to Sneeze Got Ills Head Smashed. Orange, Jnly 19. Peter M. Dickerson, a colored man, aged 21 years, lives here and works in Newark. He is nothing if not po lite, especially where ladies are concerned. While on his way home In an Orange electric car thlB afternoon he wasjselzed with an un controllable desire to sneeze. Ho sat be tween two ladies, and not caring to offend them he roe, puc his head out of the window and sneezed. At the same Instant bis head struck one of the iron polos set botwecu the car tracks to support the electric wires. He was knocked back into the car senseless, and with a deep gash extending entirely across bis head, was taken to St. Michael's Hospital. The sur geons say the same blow on the skull of a white man would mean sure death. HE HAD PLENTY OF NERVE. While Almost Dying a Brave Condnctor Binds His Lacerated Leg. Halifax, N. a, July 19. At midnight last night a special freight broke into three sec tions near Sbubenacacadie, and subsequent ly the rear collided with the middle section. Conductor P. Y. Christian was thrown over the rail of tho van, but grasped it with suoh force as to dislocate his shoulder. Unable to hold on, he attempted tn throw himself clear of the rails, but failed, and the wheels of the Iron van passed over one leg, crush ing It terribly. ' With remarkable nerve he tied his hand kerchief around the lacerated limb and tightened it with a sliver trom a sleeper, so as to prevent bleeding to death. He was subsequently nicked up and taken to Truro, where he died shortly after his arrival. Elphlnstone Is Upheld. Chicago Herald. City Solicitor ElDhlnstone, of Allegheny City, takes a stand on the dog ques tion that will send a gleam of hope through the breasts of owners of unlicensed curs everywhere. In compliance with a re quest from the Mu-or, Mr. Elphlnstone has handed down, an opinion to the effect that dogs are property, and that the State has no more right to kill them for non-payment of taxes than It would have to burn donn a man's house. Mr. Elphinstone's decision seems to be logical, and sounds like com mon sense. DEATHS JlEttfi AND EI.sEWIIERr.'. John T. Shryrck, Publisher. John T. Shryock, one of the best known nc-Apaper publishers In Ohio, died at Zinesrllle late Monday night, aged 7S. lie n-as born at Greenaburg, Pa., anil was once owner of the Pitts burg Onzette. Moving to Zanesvllle in 1859. he pur chased the Daily Courier. He has been In the pub lishing business there ever since, where he was highly respected. John FlynnCoal Operator. John FJynn, one of the oldest coal opera tors In the Wllkesbarre region, died Monday in Ireland, where lie had gone a few weeks ago on a visit to his native home. lie was about 53 years old. He was general manager or the Old Forge Coal Company's mine, unit he was also a memberof the large coal firm of Mears 3l Flynn. Obituary Notes. TnoMAs Cook, the founder of the famous Cook trans-Atlantic excursions, is dead In London. Dr. L B. Massmt. an old and prominent phy sician of Sandusky, died in Chicago yesterday. He had been there some time nndcr treatment. TnOMAS Kobiktsox. who represented the Fourth Kentucky District In Congress In 1832 an 1 1834. died at his home in EUzabethtown, Kr.. yesterday. He was born near Hodgenvllle. Ity.. and was Commonwealth Attorney and a Kentucky Legisla tor before his election to Congress. THEY WILL ENCAMP By the Verge or a Lake and Get All tho Pleasures the Summer Day Contains Doings In, Out of and Far Away From Town. The Argonaut Club has completed ar rangements for its customary retreat in Au gust to summer quarters in Burt. Lake, Michigan. The few Pittsburg clubs have made their method of enjoying the sultry weather as scientific as has the Argonaut, and its popularity is en evidence; for to re ceive an invitation is almost equal to a writ ten voucher for many pleasant days. The club owns a yacht, which has been wisely put into the hands of an experi enced engineer and pilot, crnising and boating being among the most delightful of the amusements. The original three cot tages have been added to, their number now being half a dozen, and very pretty and comfortable cottages they are, too. Among those going when the club le aves August 9 arc: Dr. and Mrs. French and their three ch lidren, Mr. and Mrs. McCreery and Miss Maud McCreery, Mr. and Mrs. William Laird and family, Mr. and Mrs. Darbin, ao c ompanied by their two young lady nieces, Mr. Donald Bennle, Mr. John Bobbins, Mr. W. G. Griffiths, Jr.; Mr. W. M. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. Lashelle, tho Misses Shallenber ger and Mr. and Mrs. McCarty. They will return to town August 27. A party of young people who intend to leave Pittsburg for Ligonier on Saturday and to remain thore until Monday will be chaperoned by Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. D. P. Black and Mrs. Frank Slocum, whoso pre'ence will undoubtedly insure their charges a most enjoyable time. Among the guests are the Misses Stephenson, MIs3 Kin tor, of Oil City, Mrs. Lloyd's visitor: Miss McCanca, Mr. Lloyd, Sir. D. P. Black, Mr. John G. Stephenson, Mr. Allan Stevenson, Mr. Frank and Mr. Joseph McCance, Miss Davis, Mr. Carl Davis, Mr. Norman Wooldridge and juiss Stevenson. Mns. Clarence "W". Morris, of Chi cago, nee Bailey, who is staying with her mother, Mrs. E. L. Bailey, of Murtland ave nue, Homewood, is being made the recipient of a surprising number of social attentions, considering how many fashionable people are out of town. A charming little affair to come off this week is a luncheon in her honor, for which invitations have been issued by her sister. Miss Bailey. As Miss Bessie Bailey. Mrs. Morris was one of Pitts burg's belles, and when she became a bride the only mar to the happiness of her friends was the fact that society in this city was to be deprived of so agreeable an ornament. A climax in the art of drawing fine dis tinctions been reached by a small Allegheny girl, whoso grandparents live in the East End, where they occasionally enjoy tho pleasure orher society. She- and her grand father particularly have a famous under standing between them. A certain drawer in the bureau in his bedroom usnally con tains candy, which Is brought to light when the granddaughter arrlves She was in there ono day with her grandmother alone, her grandfather being absent, and the lady, seeing her looking wistfully at the drawer, suggested a search for the coveted confec tions. Holding the drawer with a hesitating chubby hand, this 5-year-old philosopher nobly declined to destroy the domestic hap piness thus ruthlessly placed at her mercy In these words: "Grandmother, yon see he's my friend, but then you are married to him. you loot" A visitor at this early period even can appreciate the great Improvement in that part of tho Exposition building devoted to tho band and its audience. Four of the large showcases forming the original boundaries at either end of the rows of chairs have been removed and their unoc cupied space added to the seating capacity. A large balcony has been thrown out from upstairs and arranged as a rising gallery wltn tiers of chairs. n all tne 1,000 chairs of last year will be tripled in number for tho coming exposition, and especially will the balcony be welcomed by those who find a part of their pleasure in music consists in seeing the musicians. By a clever arrange ment of mirrors behind the band stand the band of 40 will be apparently donbled and a great part of the audience reflected within tnem wltn quitn oniuant euecc. ao more marked Improvement is to be found than in this part of the hall, and none is likely to Interest the public more if one remembers the eager crowds invariably tobelound.in the region of tho music. A HANDSOMR, fashionably dressed young fellow dropped off the train at Homestead on the day following the outbreak. From plllato post ho was pnshed Inquiringly by the anxious workingmen, then the self-constituted authority, who were worked up to a tension to suspect hidden warfare In a yel low cur walking on three legs. Up one street and down anoth er he calmly walked, stopping when ask'ed to do so ana proceed ing with equally equable politeness when permitted, until Anally he was borne up the side of the bills overlooking tho town by a crowd of persistent pursuers still Intent to discover fits business. The fortification of hills are seen splendidly from this point and the young fellow's eyes did some fine execution, for a clay or two later plans from his pen were received by the Governor of Pennsylvania for the distribution or the militia upon its arrival at Homestead. The qniet looking young gentleman hap pened to be Colonel Elliott, of Governor Paulson's staff. Serial Chatter. Mb. Frank Burger and Mr. Harry Jf. Lnughlln are at Congress Hall, Atlantic City, enjoying a sojourn of several weeks at this popular watering place. Mr. I.anghlin will return to Pittsburg by Washington City, where he will make a visit of a few days' duration. T"p ta ArniWtAil tTtnf ! Tflt.lv .tmin lnwn fete at Mapln Shades will net its projectors at lease $i,uuv, wnen an sources are neara from. The promptly given encouragement leads the managers strongly to propose another entertainment when people come home. The Shadv Avenue BaDtlt Churc'i and the sanduskv Street Baptist Church oumlny schools will be In joint picnic to-day at Idle wild. Between five and six hundred .people are expected to participate. Mr. Oliver A. Griffith, an athletic younc member ef tho Western University Baseball Clnb, will leave for Deerfleld, O., to-day, to remain away until September. Mrs. Max K. Becker, of Ellsworth avenue, with Miss Becker and Miss Armstrone. will leave on Saturday for Morgantown, W. Va, Dr. GroROE PRocroR,-of Point Breeze, is at Eureka Springs Hotel, Sagerstown. Mr. and Mrs. Haoan and their family are at their stock farm at Aruen! Dr. and Mrs. Allan U. Norcross landed in England yesterday. Mr. Donald Miller is home from Atlantio City. . THE GODDESS INVISIBLE. She Was to Have Appeared on a Colored Man's Arm In V Iiite Ink. St. Louis, July 19 Thomas Duff y is locked up at East St. Louis police station, charged with obtaining monoy from John Miller, colored, undor false pretences. Miller says that Duffy mot him a couple of days aeo and offered to print a pictureof the Goddess or Liberty on his rorenrm in indeli ble white ink for $10. ne received the money Land promised to go over the river and ob tain a supply oi wnite ink, and also a plate or pattern of the fair ladv whom he expected to reproduce on tho colored man's arm. Miller was told to sit on a tie on the Vandalla trestle In St. Louis until Duffy returned. He sat there for eight hours before he concluded to unfold his tale to a policeman; the police man scoured the neighborhood and finally found Duffy in a saloon drunk. .'On Iresldental Candidate Less. Chicago Tribune. One of the saddest things that have come to light recently Is the fact that Bourke Cockran was not born In the United States. He can never be President A Valuable Text Book. New York Commercial AdverUser. As a text book lor the campaign of educa tion that the free trade party proposes to enter upon, the double leaded edition of the McKinley tariff will be valuable. Couldn't Make s Home Itnn. New York Press. It is a good thing for Cleveland and Stev enson that they are not running on their war records. If they were thoy wouldn't get very far from base, CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. The solar system has 20 moons: Mr. Gladstone's rate of speech average 150 words per minute. A German scientist claims that ail dia monds come from meteors. New Mexico is enjoying the first rainy season it has had for four years. More than 20,000 travelers visited Shakespeare's Dlrthplace last year. It costs the saloons of New York f 500,. 000 a year to replace their broken glasses. A person traverses about three-quarters of a mile in the course of an average waltz. James Cope, of Martin's Ferry, 0., claim3 to have an almanac for the year 1669. The long-handled parasol is defnnct, tho short, cluD-handled being in the ascend. ant. Out of 240,000 domestic servants fa London 10,0C0 are always out of employ, ment. Petalnma, Cal.m boasts of an artesiaa well that flows 30,000 gallons of fresh water every hour. Once every eight years all the locks on the United States Mail bags are changed to insure safety. Twelve members of the Senate have been Governors of States and five have been Cabinet officers. A species of crow in India has a note which exactly resembles tho human voice in loud laughing. An average of 2,000 immigrants a day arrived in this country during the business year Just closing. A horse will eat in a year nine timet his own weight, a cow nino times, an ox six times and a sheep six times. The first oil well was discovered in Wayne county. Kv.. in 1829. 30 years before the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania. A London firm finds a windmill the most economic means of securing the mo tive power necessary to run a dynamo. The smallest insect known, the etera tonas funainil, a parasito of the ichneuman. Is about one-nineteenth of an inch in length. Statistics recently compiled show that about 1,200 miles of new railroad were built in this country during the fir3t six months of this year. The first wheat raised in the New "World was sown on the Island ot Isabella in Janu ary, 1494, and on March 30 the crop was gathered. A blood beet measuring 15 inches in length, 14 Inches in circumference and weighing four pounds, is a curiosity or Ss. Tammany, La. The region about the Dead Sea is one of the hottest places on the globe, and the sea Is snld to lose a million tons of water a day by evaporation. Of the 30 stores in Machias, Me., six are owned and conducted by women, and are the most successful business establish ments in the town. In speaking of the solidification of a body by cooling. Prof. Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation ot a quarter of its weight. The Rajah of Indore, who likes showy things, has had made a furniture set all of gloss, glass bedsteads and chairs, huge glass stdebi ards and other articles of domestic use. A curiou3 relic of old Roman life found recently at Lanurium (Porto Porteso) and now stored in the British Museum, is a thin slab of stone tbat was anciently a circus poster. During a recent storm at Hopkinton, X. II., an elm tree, under which Lafayette and his partv stood at a reception given them In 1S25, was struck by lightning and demolished. Appropos of the alleged discovery of Nonh's ark on the top of Mount Ararat, it Is related that Colonel Ealazko, a Russian engineer who made the ascent In 1350, found no ark there. Investigations of rain drops lead to tha conclusion that some of the large drops muse be more or less hollow, as tbey fall when striking to wet the whole surface inclosed within the drop. . The bridge of the Holy Trinity, ?r ence, was b'dllt in159r It Is 33 feet long, of white marble, and is even now reckoned" as ' being without a rival as a specimen of tho bridge-building art. Toio has been rapidly gaining in popu larity in France, and there has been a good deal of play this season upon the ground bo longing to the Cercle des Pallneurs, in tha Bols de Boulogne, Paris. Berlin pays a salary to .a professional bird-catcher, who keeps scientific and edu cational institutions supplied with birds, birds' nests and eggs, and is the only man la the empire permitted to do so. A telegram received at The Dispatch office last night read as follows: James Dun lin, an 13-year-old son of James Dunlin, a Srominent citizen, was killed In a shaft at ewburg. His recovery is doubtful. The Brazil nut contains from 15 to 21 seeds, which all germinate at one time. The most vigorous one gets first through a small hole at the top to the open air, and there upon it strangles and feeds upon the rest. At the time of the Talmud pigeons were used In amusing games. The Talmud tells us that betting was Indulged in at tha pigeon play. The owner of the pigeon which, reached first the point designated was the winner. A young lady of Atlantic City took a clergyman to the Jail at May's Landing on Monday and Insisted upon being married to Albert Davis, awaiting trial lor highway robbery. The Sheriff refused to allow tho ceremony to be performed. The costliest mats in the world ars owned by the Shah of Persia and tho Sultan of Turkey. Tho Shah and the Sultan each possess a mat made of pearls and diamonds valned at over $2,500,000. The largest mat ever made Is ownod by the Carlton Club, of London, and is a work of art. That the world was inhabited long be fore authentic history began is now one of the generallvnccepted facts. There are said to be more than 3,000 prehistoric buildings In Sardinia. They are almost nil in the fertile districts and aro built In groups, which are separated from one another by wide and gen erally barren places. MISCELLANEOUS MIRTH. Miss Footlights I tell yon when Miss KIcklcy saw my Jewelry she fairly looked green. Mr. Kecne bhe must have actually been so If she was enrlous. Jewelers' Weekly. Little drops of water, Little grains of sand. A millionaire's fair daughter Make a summer grand. Sew York Bemtd, Policeman (on the Brownstone beat) Here, you'se boys git off the asphalt and go back to ycr own street. . llmy Grogan Why? Ain't this here street public propertr? Policeman That makes no difference. They's noldln' a meetln of the Society for the Ameeleeor atlon of the Poor In the corner house, and you got to be ont of the way when they come out. Chicago yews Rtcord. Of the tramp it is said By the sages who shed Their deductions of wisdom so grand That he's fickle as fame. That he nurtures no aim Steady purpose In life to command. Yet we're bound to confess. When we see his success In adjust! ne hlmseirthro his days To whatever lils search Recommends as a percb. That he's awfully "set" la bis ways. toston Centrist. Hannah I have heard a good bit about them Chicago buildings beln' ont of sight, but It's not so. Eben-Did you look for Tonrself, Hannah? Hannah I was bound to know ef It was true so I paid a nickel to look through a telescope and law, we, I could see the top plain as day. Chicago inter Ocean. A printer may set all kinds of type, And set them night and day; But he can't set a ben to saTe his life .Because she ain't built that way. -Detroit Fret Press. "Your son used to be quite a famous sprinter at college," said Mr. Degree. "Does he still keep In practice?" "Yes," responded the mother proudly, "his business requires It." "What kind of business Is he engaged in?" "llo's with tho Ptnkerton forces. "-.BaZtfssor Sum, -
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