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All double end triple number copies of The Dispatch require a S-cent stamp to Insure prompt delivery. 1 riTTSBonn. sua. day. .idly si. i. THE REPRESSION OF DISTURBANCES. One of the questions growing out of the Homestead disturbances which may have a pressing interest for the taxpayer in the future is how to preserve the peace when largo communities are affected by labor or other troubles. The calling out of the National Guard of the State is an effective method; but disadvantages of a serious sort would attach to it If the operation should have to bo many times repeated. Particularly would this be true if the period of service on the field were long protracted. .The pay of $1 CO per day for the men represents to most of them a direct loss In money. This they cheer fully bear, on account of patriotic feeling, duringTthe time ordinarily required for drill and for annual encampments. But it would bo a serious hardship to many of the enlisted troops if they had to stay for long stretches of time on the field. If such possibilities became frequent, it is easy to see that either the compensation of the Guard would have to be greatly in creased, or the enlistment of the best material for it would greatly diminish. So far as expense goes, it must not be counted at all as against the end of assert ing whenever and wherever needs be the :co,"'T aCremacy of the law and of all the rights guaranteed thereunder. No matter what the expense, if It were to take the last penny in the Treasury the law will always be sustained. But, at the same time, if disturbances, such as too frequently have occurred through the country, are to be looked upon as among the possibilities, thinking people, includ ing the taxpayer who has to foot the bills, will inevitably begin to cast about for quicker and less costly methods than sum moning the State militia. Already this problem, as brought up in connection with the Homestead situation, has given rise in various quarters to a great many suggestions. The most com mon is the organization of a small special force for the State or for counties, to be permanent in its character, and liable to summons at any time and any place and for any period needed. The immediate objection' to this is that no matter how small the number, it would have the dis agreeable aspect of a standing army; and while less costly and quicker perhaps, than the calling out of the militia, it would lead the way to militarism and to perma nent burdens upon the taxpayer. Any suggestion looking to a steady mili tary organization, constantly In service and under pay, will always fall harshly upon the public ear. In the end, too, we have no doubt, It would come to be a heavy charge upon the public purse. But the worst feature of such an arrangement the one which should be most repulsive to the pride of good citizens is that it would do away with the claim which up to the present could generally have been made for all American communities, that they need no garrisons or standing mili tary organizations to keep the peace and enforce the law. A boast, however, no matter how much pride it evokes, is nothing unless the facts support it. The saving influence for our republican institutions must ever be the citizen's respect for and fidelity to the law and to legal rights. With this spirit fully prevalent, we would not have occasion for calling out the National Guard or getting up supplementary military organizations. This is the spirit not only for the Courts to enforce, but for good citizens on every hand to inculcate. ENTIRE EXONERATION. History is at times rapidly made, but to be unbiased and accurate its records must almost invariably be written at leisure. Aspersions are easily cast upon an indi vidual or an organization during a period of excitement, but a good deal of difficulty is apt to attend any effort to remove the stigma at a later date. During the agitation which Immediately followed the rioting at Homestead on the 6th instant, it was alleged that the can non which, in the hands of the workmen, so suddenly achieved notoriety was the property of and lent by G. A. R. Post 207. The allegation was hardly made before it received credence in several quarters, drew forth many imprecations and even a demand for the revocation of Post 207's . charter. In our G. A. R. department in this issue the full story of the ownership of the gun and the responsibility for its use appears for the first time. There It is seen that the cannon Is not the prop erty ot the post, that it was not even in Its keeping at the time of the outbreak, but that it was removed from the premises of Its owner who happened to be a mem ber of Post 207 and had lent his private property to that body for parade purposes on various occasions during his absence from home. Thus is the escutcheon of Post 207, and through it the fair fame of the whole G. A. R., saved from the bearing of a sinister blot, and one more example is given of the necessity for careful research before the formulation of serious accusations. THE GLUT OF CAPITAL, An extended examination into the indi cations of what is called a glut of capi tal is made by a recent article in the New YorkFMt It shows that especially In Europe, capital is unable to find Invest ments which are at once largely remuner ative and certain to continue the returns. This, with the indicative decline in the rate of interest, affords a basis for the prima facie conclusion that the supply of capital is in excess of the demands of the world for using it. Tetthe assertion is like saying that there is more bread or meat than the world can eat. There may be more of each than there Is a demand for at the given time: but to suppose that there is a permanent surplusage Is to suppose that there is a limit to works by which the productiveness of the earth can bo in creased. Such an idea, with less than a third of the world's surface brought un der the developments of civilization, is absurd. Perhaps some light on the alleged glut may be obtained from recalling former in stances. After 1873 there wps a plethora of capital in this country. It was not that there was a lack of opportunity to use capital; for the contrary has since been demonstrated. It was simply that the forms of Investment within the reach of the small capitalist had justly brought themselves under distrust. The same Is true to-day In great measure. The British investor has been notably the victim of the promoter, the stock-waterer, and the more undisguised but less reputable Jeremy Diddler. When the forms of in vestment have become generally tainted with the vices which make them the means of transferring the savings of the people to the pockets of sharp operators, the situation must eventually work out its natural result that the small investors will refuse to be bled further, by letting all suph investments severely alone. When properties as a rule are capitalized at three times their just value, it is small wonder that the investor gets a low rate of Interest on his inflated investment, or that after due experience he develops an extraordinary affection for the forms which can guarantee a sure return of something if only a miserable 2 or 3 per cent There are still abundant fields for the legitimate employment of capital in pro duction. But times indicate the necessity of providing better guarantees of fidelity In the management of corporate proper ties, and less of the prevalent belief that the successful man of the day Is he who makes the largest possible share of the money of others stick to his fingers while he is handling It, OLD NAME BUT NEW THING. The starting of what Is called a tee-to-tum in New Torkattractsthepubllc atten tion to a class of establishment which has proved very beneficial abroad. The name Is hardly a happy one, since by Its old use it suggests whirling and spinning at a high rate of speed, while the real character of the establishment is that of a house of resort, of the quiet and sober class, where no intoxicants arc to be had. It is noticeable that the origin of these establishments was purely commercial. The man who started them simply wished to popularize a certain brand of tea. He organized tea clubs, therefore, which, in addition to selling the tea, furnished whole some food to the members at low rates, and provided billiards and other entertain ments. The tea clubs under the name of tee-to-tum proved so popular that they multiplied rapidly and became social cen ters for the poorer people throughout London. In this country the enterprise is philan thropic. Some New Tofkers are trying it, first confining it to the sale of cheap and wholesome food. Eventually billiards, coal clubs nndsavings funds will be added, if the project turns out favorably. But it remains to be seen whether the American will take as kindly to the idea as the Lon doner, and also whether the change from the commercial to the semi-charitable basis leaves it on as substantiate footing. There is certainly a field for something in the form of a club which sells cheap and wholesome food at low prices. But if the idea should prove to meet a want in this country, it ought to stand on its commer cial merits. The man who is to enjoy the benefits of such an establishment will make the best use of them when he feels that what he pays for he has bought with out the intervention of any charitable do nation in the first instance. LABOR IN LONDON. The statement of the wages paid to the laborers about the London docks, brought out by Mr. Henry Tuckley in the letter published elsewhere, furnishes a striking exhibit of the poorly paid common labor of England. It is to be remembered that these are wages established in a locality where the demand for labor Is constant and Imperative. On the other hand, the number of workmen is so large that wages are brought down to the level stated. With due allowance for that fact, it is startling to learn of weekly wages of about ?2 50, while 55 00 per week Is a high average for steadily emplo3red workmen, with 7 50 regarded as a princely income. These rates of wages are all that thou sands of workingmen in London can com mand for the support of their families. Of course, workmen so paid cannot buy the best articles of food or supplies. The classes that they do buy are sold at higher rates than the better paid workingmen of Pittsburg pay for the same grades" with the single exception of tea. The London laborers get lower rents by living in gar rets and renting part of their rooms to others. Such an exhibit of the condition of labor is enough to show that all grades of labor are better paid, better housed and better fed In this country than In England. THE SEXES IN BANK BOBBERY. The robbery of a bank In Reno, Okla homa, which boasted a female cashier, is regarded by an Eastern cotemporary as an evidence that the female bank cashier is a failure. When the Dalton gang got into the bank and presented pistols at the feminine handler of the cash, the lady promptly fainted and the robber made off with about $10,000. Hence argues the New Tork Evening World, bank officers of the faulting sex will not do. The deduction fails to take in the whole case. Perhaps our cotemporary means to intimate that the masculine cashier would have foiled 'the robbers by clearing out the bank safe before their arrival. Out side of that exceptional and unsatisfactory safeguard against bank robbery, this case was not due to the exceptionally feminine proceedings. It has not been the rule for male cashiers under such circumstances, to demonstrate their bullet-proof capacities. The usual practice of the masculine bank official has been when confronted by a bank robber's revolver, to hold up his bandsWlth promptness and energy. Even a bank cashier's life Is worth more to him than the bank's cash reserve. The faint ing of the cashier in this instance was a feminine variation which made no differ ence in the main result If there Is any application to the spheres of the sexes, in this affair, it does not leave the masculine halt in a favorable light The enforcement of the laws and the suppression ot crime have hitherto been left to the men. The fact that the men permit a gang of desperadoes to rob trains and banks with impunity, is the most damaging one to the administrative energies of either sex. A GOOD APPOINTMENT. The nomination by the President of Mr. A. B. Hepburn for Comptroller of the Currency is one that deserves praise. It is directly in the line of practical civil service reform. Mr. Hepburn is without political prominence, but earns his -pro- .motion by his work as a national bank ex aminer, in which he has shown efficiency and thoroughness. The rule of promoting to higher position subordinates who have proved their ability and fidelity Is the best one for a reformed civil service; and it is especially applicable in the case of this bureau, having under its supervision the national banking interests of the country. There has been room for criticism in the recent conduct of the Comptroller's office, with strong ground for suspecting politic al influence. Whether the administra tion has recognized the magnitude of the danger involved in a lax or partial dis charge of its supervisory functions or not, there is every reason to hope that an appointment like that of Mr. Hepburn will correct all tendencies in that direc tion. THE BEGINNINGS OF PETROLEUM. Facts in the early history of petroleum which have borne the character of tradi tion are fully set forth and authenticated in a special article by the late L. E. Stofiel published in this issue. It is. interesting to find the beginning of a trade which ranks third among the products in the ac cidental product of the Tarentum salt wells, at first thrown away as a useless and damaging ingredient of the salt water. The first use of the lllumlnant which now lights the houses of both hemispheres by the miners in its crude form is a strik ing illustration of the small beginning for a vast growth; .wnlle the first mercantile use of petroleum as a medicinal prepara tion is another curious fact which seems to come from another age. But the fact that this small beginning of the petroleum business was but 33 years ago gives us another lesson on the rapidity of commer. cial transactions m this fast age. Heredity should soon displace schools as a necessary educative adjunct in Idaho, since lady school teachers marry off so quickly there that they will henceforth be required by the trustees to promise to re main celibate until the end of the school term engaged for, and to consent to the re tention of a substantial part of their salaries as surety. Russia la now trying to stifle the cholera epidemic by the press censorship, which is the Government's universal panacea. One newspaper refers to that member of the N. G. P., raised to national fame by the exuberance of his tongue, as "Private Jams." Possibly our cotemporary im agines that his first name is James, which, rendered colloquially, might afford an ex planation for the whole trouble. What a woman calls a perfect dream of a dress is generally a stern teallty to the husband who has to pay for it. Henceforth physicians will no doubt feel It their duty to witness all the prize fights within reach. Three of them were successful In saving the lire of one of the principals of a disgraceful exhibition at Lima, O., on Friday night by means of hypodermic Injections. After a time Congress may tire itself, as it has already wearied the nation, of ad journing Its adjournment. When McKeesport police officers allow a common cow thief to evade thoir grasp fonr times they have no excuse for vaunting themselves, but should be characterized by a most humble modesty. Romance notwithstanding, it is impossi ble to put any bnt a literal Interpretation on the wild waves' sayings. No Pennsylvanian can make his debts an exense for suicide, since a literal Interpre tation of the law mates enlistment In the National Guard a permanent protection from all civil process. A good many bathing costumes resemble summer vacatlons'in that thoy Degln too late and end too soon. From the encouragement that Mayor Kennedy's improvement propositions have received It really begins to look as though Allegheny City will have a riglit to be proud of Itself after awhile. Gladstone's health is just now the ob ject of mora solicitude than Ireland's de mand for home rule. Harrity's executive commltte is won derfully representative of the many varie ties of opinions whose owuersaro pleased to be known as Democrats. Canada is rapldlv approaching an atti tude of contrition In which to promise never to do it again. Tom BrntNS, the ball player, is enjoying a temporary notoriety that puts into the shade the fame or the poet of that ilk, whose first name was Robert. Any prosecution of BIsmarok is ex tremely likely to prove a bodmerang to tuo prosecutor. Thunder storms are refreshing enough, but where the lightning strikes the prostra tion is usually more complete than that due to mere heat. July leaves us and to-morrow will be an. August occasion. Giacomo Inandi is a youthful Italian, who has a great head for mental arithmetic It goes without saying that his brain works inaudtbly. ROUGE is unnecessary and powder in de mand. AH0THEB GEEAT SEBPEHT HOUND. The Latest Archas.iloglcsl Sensation on the Little Miami River. 'Lbbawow, O., July 30. A most Important arcbreologicul discovery, or rather Identifi cation, has just been made by Profs. Metz and Putnam, of the Peabody Museum, in a district rich'in soil structures, seven miles from ft. Anolent, on the Little Miami river. What lias hitherto been regarded as a sep arate work is now shown to be another "ser pent" mound, similar to- the famous one in Adams county, only much larger. The total length Is 1,000 feet. Accurate surveys and drawings are beintr made for the arclitcologi cl tcotlon of the World's Fair. To Bava a Good Tlinp. Toledo Blade. The probabilities are that the republicans will get considerable fun out of Adlal during the campaign. A LOOK AROUND. TnE seeds of the tragedy were sown without .the knowledge of anyone except tho big brown and white mastiff and myself. The mastiff lay on a rng in the vestibule, the heroine stood by the gate the baby slept in the carriage, and the nurse was doubled up in the shade of a treo, deep In a blue covered novel bearing the general ap pearance of having been published in Chi cago. Enter unto theso from a covered wagon the grocer's boy with twt baskets. One basket was for next door and was put down at the gate while the other was in transit to the kitchen. Fatal error. My heroine approached the 'basket, and it was half full of small green apples, abstracted several and ate two at once. The mastiff looked at the nurse and so did L She was in a state of coma over the woes of tho villain. Then the mastiff looked at me and said, "Well, I'm i" and walked Into the house. I tcok bis advice and boarded an electric car. The dog may testify at the Inquest but I shall not. Did you ever feel as though you would like to go to Europe and give it up with a sl;U because you felt you could not afford Jet Oh, you have! And yet you went to Atlantic City last summer and admit you spent about $250 in a couple of weeks. The year before you did the same thing, only you managed to get rid of three weeks and $300. This year jou feel poor. You have four weeks' vacation nnd do not, intend to spond more than $200, or say $250. This will go in the same old way for the same old things; tho sailing trips, jaolc pots, merry- go-rounds, things in tumblers and all that sort of nonsense. Now suppose you had energy enough in you to look up this European trip and seo what you could do it for. You would find ic rather surprising. You would learn, for ex ample, that there is such a thing as a "win ter late." Take, for example, the Red Star line. For a flrst-class cabin passage, which would cost you $175 one way between April 21 and July 31, you would find it cost but $140 for the round trip between August 1 and April 20. But you need not fly so high. You can so first-class from New York or Phila delphia to Antwerp on tho Red Star line and return on the Inman line from Liver pool to New York for $103 tho round trip. For your trip you need a satchel, a soft hat nnd tennis shoes in addition to your usual clothing. If you are willing to go second class on any of the big boats of these lines you can do it tor $S0 to $90, and be well fed and comfortably lodged for from soven to ten days each way. Let us suppose yon decidn to go comfort ably at $108. You have a delightful voyage, get a glimpse of the South of England coast as you go up tho channel; see the Isle of Wight, Brighton, the French coast and the Flemish country as you pass up the Scheld. You arrive early in the morning at Ant werp, spend $1 for sight-seeing, food and lodging that day and night. Eaily next morning you leave for Paris; fare $G. You stop ijtng enoutrh in Brussels toget a glimpse of the city, or you remain until next morn ing in'lhat notoriously cheap place. Then you go on through the fertile Belgian plains Into France with historic towns and cities all along the road. It is but six hours and a half run from Antwerp to Paris. In the latter city you can get a good, clean room for $1 a day. Your meals will cost from 20 cents to $20 each according to tne location of the restaurant and the name of the man over the door. You remain four days, spend say $10 which includes mora eights of interest and good things to eat than you hnvo ever before packed into four months. Then you are on: to London via Calais and Dover, fare seoond-class, (which is quite good enougU) about $9. You can get a fair idea of French life and farming at ex press speed fiom the windows of the car riage If you travel by day. That night early yon are In London. You have decided to spend $230 on the trip. You have so fnr spent $16S, say $170. You can live ana live well in London for $3 a day. You spend $20 for odds and ends for presents and $20 more for sightseeing, excursions and cabs. You leave London in three days, having say $30 left. Your rare to Liverpool is nbout $8. The remainder will take you home readily after paying fees. You have had a month of delightful nov elty, your mind is broadened, you have picked up data lor lies for ten years, and you vow you will do It again next year. If you want to do all this on a cheaper basis, you can cover the same ground for $200 easily. I have put tho figures at a fair esti mate, Including comfort and reasonable amount of knocking about. You can't bny the Louvre or take chambers In Piccadilly on these terms, 'but you can do it well enough for a modest young man with a mod est salary. The place would sell for about (290 a front foot, but that does not affect the ardor or the boys. With poles and white mulln they have rigged up a booth, a fair imita tion of those you see outside race courses or at a country fair. Beside the booth stands a marquee, tent .captured from tho lawn. Here sundry bright-eyed merchants, aged from (i to 8, dispense lemonade and watermelon to a hungry and thirsty public It is fun for the boys, and the elegant houses that look down on Firth avenue from' the hillside seem to take It good naturedly. There are folios of complaint uttered, if not published, about the trouble of getting good telephone service between the East End and the downtown districts. In the East End Itself it is easy to get on speaking terms with the person you wnnt, but when you call up Pittsburg proper, your worri ment begins. There seems to be a con spiracy on tho part of all your friends to either be busy or out when you sook to raise them, irsome agent of the company would try the service hero and there without giv ing warning bcfoiehand It would result in satisfactory changes no doubt. That the company can overcome great difficulties is shown by the manner In which they have almost obviated the electric car inuuctlon nuisance. In view of the type of man who made the attack ou Mr. Frlck and of the character of those who are thought to have inspired Bcrkman and assisted Dim, It is more than a singular coincidence that Andrew Carnegie himself should brve once been so much sus pected of being an extreme Socialist that he was put under surveillance. Not only Is this true, but in addition nil of Mr. Car negie's interviews and published utter ances in any form were collected and his career in this country and nbroad was thor oughly sifted to learn how far he united preaching with practice. It was somewhere in.1884-85 that this occurred. It was given out by the German Socialists that Mr. Car negie had contributed a large sum of money to the campaign flmd or Itadloal candidates for the Reiohstaz. This led the German Chancellor, ho who now battles through tho press with bis former master, to open up an inquiry through the German Embassy at Washington. About the same time Mr. Car negie violently attacked the Biltish royal family and monarchy generally through Interviews in American newspapers. This caused an inquiry on the part of the British Foreign Office. Agents of both the cabinets of Berlin and London were in Pittsburg at tho same time and much curious information bearing on causes and effects was said to have been col lected by them. It is also hinted that these Inquiries had much to do with social lines being drawn against the "Star-Spangled Scotchman" in a number of European coun tries, notably in England and Scotland. A friend of mine who intends going to Europe shortly showed me the passage cir cular yesterday of a loading steamship com pany. It announced that a charge of $10 would be made for monkeys, cats and dogs and $4 ror birds, and odds: "Dogs, cats and monkeys must be caged before being brought on tho steamer, and will then bo placed In charge of the butcher." This is certainly suggestive. What have become of those glowing promises of that amiable compound of Dana and Dickens who represents Western Penn sylvania on the State Fish Commission, anent the stocking of tho Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela? When he went into office he announced that brook trout would leap contlnuouily from Pittsburg water pipes into Pittsbprg frying pans, that black bass would Impede navigation between Davis Island and the West Virginia looks, that grayling, and shad, and salmon would chase each other through the streets whenever there was a shower and tuat aevnea craDS could be caught with a straw hat from the various bridges as they floated down stream. I Insist upon an investigation of this delin quency and suggest that even the market price of salt mackerel has not been affected. Let htm boat the pen with which he stayed the dragon into a fish hook and be con demned to catch a fish every day in either of our impoverished streams. Walter, FB0K OCEAN TO 002AK. Zoo Gayton Is Now Trying to Break Her Own Walklnc Record. PHiLAnnLPHiA, July 10. fXhe only woman who has ever walked from ocean to ocean, Miss Zoe Gayton, passed through Philadel phia oh her way to Chester last night. She has made a record 3,395 miles in 167 days, be tween San Francisco and New York, and is now walking against that record, to beat which she mnst walk from New York to the Pacific via New Orleans, n distance or 3,860 miles, in 167 days. If she succeeds she will win $20,000: ir ".lie falls she nets her expenses and loses $2,000. She says: "I will win or die on my feec" She is a splendidly proportioned Spanish woman, 37 years of age, who has spent the last years of her 'lire in this country. 81)6 has three traveling companions, "Beauty," her dog, a cocker spaniel, which is worth $5C0; Josoph Price, whose chief duty Is to keep her in a good humor and incidentally to "brace" farmers for accommodations, and William J. Marshall, her manager. WITH FORTUNE AND FAME. Pour living ex-Governors of Massa chusetts were born in 1818 Boutwell, Claflin, llice and Butler. Samuel Sloane, the millionaire rail road president, has a dislike for typewriters, human and mechanical, and writes all his letters in autogianh. Secretary Charles Foster took a party of lrlcnds down the Potomao yester day on the lighthouse tender. Jessamine, expecting to return Monday evening. The Shah of Persia has left Teheran for his annual sojourn at his summer palace, accompanied by a retinuo of 300 wives and regiments ofinfantry, cavalry and artillery. Emperor William yesterday morning started for Encland, where he will remain a weotas the guest of the Queen. One of the objects of his visit is to attend the Cowes regatta. ' Ernest Gdireatjd, the French com poser, according to Aurellen Bclioll, his eulogist, added several years to his life by persistently declining to open letters ad dtessed to him. Ex-President Hayes, who just now happens to be in Brat'tleboro, where he makes a visit every summer, is a believer in the negligee shirt, oven at a city hotel, ir the weather requires it. A. Barton Hepburn, who has just been appoin ted by the President Comptroller of the Currency, to succeed E. S. Lacey, re signed, is the present Examiner of National Banks in New York City. Henry Watterson is still confined to his bed at the Richelieu. lie is improving, however, at such a rapid pacothat hispliysi clan feels justified in saying that he will be able to leave his room to-day. TnojiAS Sexton, M. P., was the son of n membor of tho Irish Constabulary, who dying while his son was young, lert him to be brought up by his mother, who sold apples upon the streets of Waterlord. Mr. Sexton is a self-educated man. Hon. Huon McCulloch enjoys the distinction of being the only man who has twice held tho office of Secretary of the Treasury. His first appointment was in March, 1865, by President Lincoln; the sec ond in 1SJ5, by President Arthur. Mr. Mc Culloch Is in his 81th year. Variation on the Sea Serpent Mohtreax, July 30. A hurricane was ex perienced off the southeast coast of Africa by the ship Theodore A- Rand, which has Inst arrived here with a cargo of sugar from lollo. The decks were swept and two boats were washed awny. A water snake seven reet In length was washed on board by a wave and viciously made for a. seaman. After some trouble tho captain managed to kill the reptile with an ax. The snake was venomous. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Ex-Governor Chnrles H. Ilardln. Ex-Governor C. H. Hardin, of Missouri, died Friday morning at his home in Mexico. In that State. Charles H. Hardin was elected Governor of Mlsiourl in 1874 aud cerred two years, which at that time was the full term. Ho was born In 1820 In Kentucky, and while an Infant was brought to Mis souri br Ills parents. His mother was a sister of Dr. William Jewell, the founder of William Jewell College. Governor Hardin was reared at Colum bia, where he attended the State University. He subsequently entered MUml University, In Ohio, and graduated there. After leaving college he studied law and began practice at Fulton. Jlo., in 1843. In 131s he was elected Circuit Attorney of the Third Judicial Circuit, and In 1S.2 member of the Legislature from Callaway county, serving two terms. He was appointed member of a com mission to revise the laws of the State In 1853. In 1833 he was again elected to the Legislature, and In 18G0 lie was sent to the State Senate. Governor Hardin took up his residence In Audrian county la 18C1. and In 1871 he was elected to the State Senate from that district. He had retired from practice and was about to retire from active public life when called upon to accept the Democratic nomin ation for Governor. He alwavs took a deep Inter est In educational affairs, and founded Hardin Col lege, which he endowed with 37,000 In money and lauds. Rudolph H. Bartllnck, Journalist. Eudolph H. Bartlinck, editor of the Ger man Daily Express, Toledo, died suddenly at bis desk Just after noon yesterday from an attack of apoplexy. His age was 46 yeurs. He leaves a wife ana two children In Milwaukee. He was one of the most forcible writers on the German press In the Unit-d States, and had been employed on the New York UtaaU Ztilung, Milwaukee Herald, Chicago Stoats Zeitunj and other leading German papers. Charles Harrison, Jnurnalis-. Charles Harrison, a well-known editor and newspaper writer, formerly of Pittsburg, died at the Good Samaritan Hospital In Cincinnati yes terday afternoon, of BrlghOs disease, complicated Willi Btomacli troubles. At the time or his death he was editor In chief of tho Toledo Commercial. His age as 43 years. Obituary Notes. Pierre Edmosd Teissereno pe Bobt, the French statesman, died yesterday. William C. thayeb, 43 years old, a speculator of Chicago, died in New York yesterday. I EL80N Cook, a well-known artist, poet and portrait painter, died at his home In Syracuse Fri day morning, aged 75. Avpuew APHRIA, the oldest man In Southern Indiana, died Friday In Madlscn. He lacked Ave mouths of being 100 years old. Hox. J. 8. Tujiney. one of the most prominent men of Cleveland, died Friday. He was twice elected County Treasurer, and was also honored with many municipal offices. l'ltor. CnAHi.ES Kiddlemeter. Ph. D.. one of the foremost educators of German universities 25 years ago, has just died at tho Insane hospital at Kankakee. 111. He was 65 years old. William OsCAn CAnrEKTEB, a noted newspa per man, died at hit home In Troy, N. Y Friday evening. He was a contributor to New York, Bos ton and Chicago newipapers. and excelled as a dramatic critic. Ills age was C years. Rev. Jonw B. KtjElljr, rector of St. Mary! Church, of Marietta, O., died at his home yester day from a complication of diseases, aged62years. He look charge of tills church 18 years ago, at a time when It was badly involved financially. EDOAnBXOWDEN.rormany.years an editor of the Alexandria Oaittte, and a grandson of the founder ofthat ancient paper, died at the residence of his son in Washington, Friday. Mr. Snowden had beea In falling health for more than two years. GOEOE RODGERS Perbt, a grcat-grandnrphcw of Commodore Perry of Lake Erie fame, died In the Seney Hospital, In Brooklyn, Thursday of the effects of a surgical operation. He was 11 years old. He had bven undergoing treatment in the hospital for three dajs previous to his death. REV. Patkick CoKsoi.lt. pastor of the Church of the Holy Rosary, Elliabethport, N. J., died suddenly Friday night of apoplexy, brought on by heat prostration. He had just returned from a sick call. Death came ao suddenly that Father Kruie had barely time to administer 'the last riles of the Church. - JIBS. bUSANHIOE. who died at Oak Hill, Conn.. Thursday, was the widow of Captain William Rice, one of General Harrison's aides de camp in tho Indian wars in Florida. Her thrco sons en listed In the Fifth Connecticut Volunteers during the late war. and were alt killed in service. Sho was 97 years of age. ' J.T. JOOR'orNewOrlcansProresstirorBotany at Tulane University, and Cuiator or the Tnlauo Museum, died at CovIhgton.'Xa.. three days ago. He was a native tf Baton- Rouge and 4.1 years old. He graduated at the Sew Orleans bchool or Meal cine, and was forsome time In charge of the United States' qaarantlne station at Ship Island. YARNS OF THE VETERANS. K rWBITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.! It is more than 27 years ago since the war closed, and it is odd to see how the men who went to the front then and rose to command have stayed at the front since and occupied the first positions. A member of the G. A. E who has taken tho trouble to mako the curious calculation, tolls me that of Governors elected since Appomattox no less than 227 were old, soldiers. A large majority of the members or the present Congress were in the army during the strained relations which may be said to have existed between the various extremities of our common countrv. and this description includes every man from tho South in both houses who was born prior to 1813. Of theso veterans fromtlie North and South 10 were Malor Gonerals and 12 were Brigadier Generals, and field officers are numbered by the score. The history of theso men is tho history or the war. Wouldn't a history of the war by living Major Generals, each one contributing ten pages, bo a marketable book I We Can't All Think Alike. I was the other day told a story about a member of tho present Congress.whom I will call James Smith, by one of his colleagues, whom, also I cannot identify. They are from one of the border States and live near the line. "Enlistments," says the member, "wero secretly going on in onr neighborhood for both armies. Jim was an orator rather than a soldier. Ho never tired of addressing public meetings. But ho was excitable and apt to be with tho crowd at the moment.' One day he veiled for the old flag and the undivided Union and the next day he helped hang John Brown and Abe Lincoln in er flg.v. '"One morning when Jim was In town he was called on to haranzue a hundred or two men who were assembled In front of the corner grocery listening to the latest news. He climbed into a wagon, threw off his coat nnd sailed in. 'Ihuvebntone message for you,' ho shouted, 'go to the front! Many of your neighbors are on the line or battle and all calling unto you! Why stand ye here idle I Freedom, which shrieked whon Klzlosko fell, is in peril as never before. Fly to her rescue! Men mny cry peace, peace, but there is no peace! Freedom's battle, once begun, bequeathed from bleed ing sire to son, though baffied oft is ever won. Bally and organize a company right heie this day, this hour!' "'Well, stranger,' broke in about the only man present who didn't know him, 'which army shall we Jlnet Nawtb ur South?' "'Either! either!' shouted Jim, 'can't all thiivk alike!' "It made some fun at the time," said Mr. M. C, who was in the Confederate army afterwards, "bnt I'll be hanired ir I wasn't talking to Jim about it the other day, and he insists that he wasjust'rightl" Gibson and Bawley Are DoBbles. At least two of the present Senators who were Major Generals enlisted in the army as private soldiers Gibson, or Louisiana, and Uawley, of Connecticut. These men, both fine looking, have a curious resemblance and are sometimes mistaken for each other. Both, too, as their rapid promotion indi cates, had a romantic service. Han ley, nil old abolitionist, was tho first man to enlist in his State and was in 'tho army all the time to Appomattox. Gibson lost his fortune during the war, but recovered it afterward. From Colonel Down to Private. General H. S. Greenleaf, an able officer, and one of the most efficient of the present New York delegation in Congress, tells a good story: "In the fall of 1862, when Lincoln called for 300, 000 more, we were in Franklin county. Massachusetts, buckled in to raise aregi-J ment, I had been an officer of the militia there and happened to be the first person In Sherburne Falls to sign the enlist ment roll. When several companies were nearly full, Governor Andrew acceded in our request that we might select all of our own officers not only those of the line, but, through them, the field officers also. We organized war meetings and stumped two northern counties and soon the regiment was full to the minimum. Then we line officers assembled to choose our leader. I had had In mind for Colonel one Decker, under whom I had served when he was Colonel or the militia, and who had slnco been a year at the front as Lieutenant Colonel. Iliad aeon him and-he agreed to accept and had resigned his Lieutenant Colonelcy to do so. He was nn admirable man tho most accomplished military offloer I ever saw. When we met he was tue only one spoken of for the place. I was chosen to pi eside; . but Just before taking the chair a dispatch was banded me from Major Winn, one of our citizens then in Boston, saying 'Governor Andrew will not commission Decker under any cir onuistances on account of white feather shown at front under McClellan. You must nominate somebody else lor Colonel.') This was a bad situation. I read the dispatch and all was instant confusion. I folt that it was orue'.ly unjiftt anu said so. But we had to act, and we took a ballot. I was astound ed when every ballot save mine iras cast for me for Colonel. I had no practical experi ence and urged the choice ot somebody elso, but they persisted, and I finally agreed to take it till we could inquire into the Decker trouble. We sent to Boston. Andrew wnn immovable, and then the men who had fiven the information were still at the front saw Decker. He complained bitterly of the injustice; said that a lever drove him to the hospital; but he added, 'I'll go and show them! Make me your Quarter master and I will co with vnu. Colonel l' I accepted, wiote to the Govornor in his vindication, and nominated him as my Quartermaster. The Governor was still dominated by his first notion and refused to commission him. I was greatly grieved and surprised. Decker acted like a man about it, lie held the dispatch in His handa minute and then said, 'Colonel, I'm going with yon. I'll go as a private. Give me the muster roll!' and he enlisted as a private soldier. "I was much moved. This was the man who had been mv Colonel when I was 3. Lieutenant,and who had been nt the front for more than a year in alternate command or. a regiment when 1 had never heard a gun fired in anger. Only one thing was lert to do to vindicate Dooker. I went to one of our principal lawyers, told him tho story, and got hlui to go to tho. Army of tne Poto mac at my expence and get tho affida vits of officers or the field, staff and line as to Decker's conduct. They came at List, and wore unanimous in his f.ivor. Then tho Govornor tardily commissioned him us myaujutant, 'lor that pluco will test his courage,' he said. It did test it severely, and it never tailed or wavered. Decker was, I believe, the hoit adjutant in the whole army. He was an encyclopedia of knowl edge; a niiraclo of activity and industry. He was indispensable; an adinirable drill officer, a fine disciplinarian nnd vigilant in tho service of tho regiment. Although he had often commanded me, heneveronce for got our changed relations. He treated me like a brother, and I shall nover cease to be grateful to him." Trlbates to the Mlnlo Ball. The testimony of people who have been shot differs widely as to how It feels. I have heard more than a dozen members of the present Congress talk on tho subject dni have got as many opinions. Tho woi st shot man now in public life is probably General Oates, who was here recently looking up tho Homestead case. He lost his right arm in front of Richmond in his twenty-seventh battle, having previously been shot through the right arm, then in the right leg, then ia the left hip, then through the right thigh, then in the head, as premonitory symptoms of what was coming. "When 11 niiniebr.il strikes you," he said, "it stuns you us if you had been hit at shoi t rango with a club or a brickbat. Then tho devilish intruder gradually becomes hotter and hotter, asiryou had turned into a fur nace of live coals. Then perhaps you mer cifully drop into unconseiousnes-." "It felt when I v. as hit," said Colonel Hcr bett, of Alabama, speaking of tho matter to a comrade, '-as ir my shoulder was seared with cautlc; in fact, I never 'conld get over the impression that the Yanks were flung red hot balls." He experimented with four of them during his service, and has reason to know 1nst how thoy feel. The two one-leggnu men in Congress who manage thumselvos best in walking are, by general consent. Senator Daniel, of Ir ginhi, and Representative David D. nender son, of Iowa. They wore both veryyonng when they met with the loss of a leg, and, as Amos Cu minings says, "they probably hadn't got attached to it," A strangor would scarcoly suspect either man of using a wooden member. "When I was lilt in the head," says Colonel Henderson, "it didn't hurt much, ror I be came unconscious; but when my foot inter cepted the spiral flight or tho rifle bullot it seemed as If I had experienced an unequal collision with Jupiter, or, at least, one of the wildest and most dissolute comets. I never was so astonished in my life. Then came collapse." Wnllalng With a Cork Lag. Joe Cannon "next member from the Fif teenth district or Illinois," as be would prob- ably sign his name to-day If he were less modest, tells a good story of Henderson. "I had seen Dave Henderson around on crntcnes and I was sorry for him, and urged him to come and see us dance at one of our little affairs at the National. Well, do you know, he came without a crutch. Yes. And he enme tripping and bowing In a 'r u8 never had even a corn nnd he waltzed his corkleg with a patent leather boot on it up to one of my favorite partners and bore her off in the ciddv labvrlnths of the German, Just as if he bad Haifa dozen legs. Yes, sir, as iiveiy as ir lie was a centlpeue." And those who saw It say that the prize waltzer of Danville leaned against the piano paralyzed, superseded as beau of the nail by the moro or lesi disjointed but very vi vacious David. Getting Shot Near the Spine. "How much it hurts to he shot," said Sen ator Mandorson, who got several memento? of that sort during tho war, and he likes to exchange views with veterans, "depends on where and how you aro hit. If it is in an extremity, or in thick flesh, the wound is not generally very painful at once, and men have often been so struck, and even maimed, without knowing it. But get hit along that vital center, the spine, and you feel as if a red-hot spear a mile long Had been thrust through you." I asked Colonel Stone, the Kentucky sol dier, who is generally seen on crnthes: "I didn't know at first that I was wounded," he said. "I just felt a slight twitch at my troasorlcgas If a brier find canght it, or a playrul kitten hail touched it with her claw, but pretty soon I fell in the grass and lay there all day and all night while Morgan and tho rest of the boys marched away into Ohio." A Ball Cat Off His Whiskers. Senator Cockrell was drawn out by bis brother soldiers in the cloakroom one day. "I was shot through the loft leg without knowing it," he said. "I didn't even sus pect it. Tho boys discovered it when they wore carrying mo off, for I was hurt thiee other times In that same battle. The worst hurt wan made by a bullet that didn't hit 1110 at all. It p.issed under my chin with a satnnio whlsn nnd a slash 'like a saber stroke. It seemed as if the Federals were firing butcher knives. It stung me hotly and I thought my throat was cut, but when I felt of it a lot of my whiskers camooff in my hand. There was no blood, and the suffer ing was only momentary; but It hnrt worse than the clips that hit my arm orleg. W. A. CitoTinT. DISPUTED JOHNSON ISLAND. Kecords Seem to Shqjv Conclusively It Is Under American Protection. Saw Fbancisco, July 3a Considerable prominence has been given here to tne statement from Honolulu, that the British cruiser Champion has left that port with the Intention, it was understood, of annexing Johnson Island to the British possessions. The records at Washington show tnat the island is under the protection of tho Ameri can flag, having been taken possession of in 3852 by Captain Parker, of the brig Reindeer, who found there large guano deposits. Messrs. Roberts and Mayers, who claim to be the American owner of Johnson Island, not only claim it through a title from Parker, but also own stock in the Pacific Guano Company, which Parker formed. They will now prosecute their claim to the title of the island. Dnring the year 1856 Congress passed an act authorizing tho President to issue a proclamation and letters of protection to any person who might discover an island, covered with guano deposits and farther to extend the do mfnlon or the United States over such places, and give the discoverers full and valad titles to such islands, pro vided that when tho title to snch islands was issued tho work of obtaining guano should be dlltgentlv prosecuted. In accordance with this act Parker in 1S57 filed a declaration with the Secretary of State at Washington, and took In several others with him, forming tho Pacific Guano Company. In January, 1S53, the schooner Palestine, under command of Captain Her man, was sent to visit the Island and bring back specimens of guano. Parker accom panied the expedition, and landings were effected on Johnson Island and on one of the smaller ones known as Agnes Island. On each island a flagstaff and cross were erected, the latter being inscribed with the fact that Captain Herman had taken posses sion in behalf of the owners and charterers of the Palestine and In the name of the United States. When the schooner returned to San Francisco, the Pacific Guano Com pany was incorporated and the articles of incorporation wore filed with tho Secretary orstate, at Sacramento, cat. 0 TEMP0RA, 0 MORES! JosEpn Medill, editor of the Tribune, will fight the Marquis do Mores, who has chal lenged him, in the ring under Qaoensberry rules. Chicago Globe. Ir the Marqis de Mores means to fight all the, American editors who have said bad things about him he bad better begin to raise an army right away. Boston Globe. If Colonel Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, wants to kill De Mores, let tho fight take place in a Chicago alley. The odor will wipe out the Frenchman in one round. Toledo Blade. The Marqnis do Mores will probably re gret that be challenged Editor Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, to a duel. It gives the editor the choice of weapons, and he will probably stab the Marquis with a para graph. !?cw York Press. Tue prompt acceptance of the Marquis de Mores' challenge to a duel by the Chicago Tribune proves that tho American journalist is no coward, even if he does choose eight ounce gloves and a 21-root ring in preference to pistols at 20 paces. Cleveland Leader. The Marquis de Mores wants to fight Ed itor Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, because of his editorial comment on the recent duel in France, in which the Marquis killed ht3 man. The Marquis should have a care. Editor Medill i an Ohio man and has never yet tailed to get anything he goes after. 0i(o Stale Journal. Haviho involved himself in a war with Germany by offending Herr Heslng, Mr. Medill is about to blunder into a strife with France by acceptinga challenge to polish off the Marquis de Mores in a 24-foot ring. His only salvation is to make Bismarck and Peter Jackson assoclato editors of the 3X6 unc Chicago Times. THATlittle fire eater, the Marquis de Mores, has challenged Editor Joseph Medill, or the Chicago Tribune, and with the characteristic promptness of an American newspaper man Mr. Medill has accepted the challenge. If he doesn't do anything else he will make the Marquis ridiculous before ho is done with the matter. Phila'd-lphut Call. NEGROES EUSHIHG TO 0KX4H0JI4. Some or Them Sell Their Crops for a Song Berorn They Go. Mexfsib, July 30. The Oklahoma craze has broken out alresh nmong tho negroes in the western part of the State, and hnndreds of them have emigrated from this section within the past few days to tho alleged promised-land. The farmers in Shelby and Tiptou coun ties, being unable to secure laborer-, at any price to harvest their crops, they be come alarmed over the prospects of their wheat, corn and cotton rotting in the fields. In a number of cases negro tenants have Jumped their own crops and sold them in the fields lor a song to obtain money to pay their railroad fare to Oklahoma. Their Wish Shall Be Gratified. St. I.ouis GIobe-Democrat.3 The silver States wish the country to un derstand that their majority for tho Repub lican ticket will be as large' this year as It ever was in the past. A NEXT LOVE SONG. The Century. O Canada, sweet Canada, Thou maiden of the frost. From Flattery Cape to Sable Cape With love for thee we're crossed. We could not love the less nor more. We love thee clear to LaDrador; Why should we longer thus be vexed! Consent, coy one, to be annexed, t O, Canada, sweet, Canade, Our heart was always true; You know we never really cared For anyone but you. Your veins are of the purest gold (We've mined tbcm some, the truth he told) True wheat arc you, spite chaff and scorn. And O, your dainty ears (of corn). O Canada, sweet Canada, John Bull la mucb too old For such a winsome lass as you, Leave nlm to fuss and scold; Tell him a sister you will be. He loves you not so much as we; Fair maiden, stand not thus perplexed. Come, sweetheart, coma and be annexed. Charles Henry Phelps. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There Is a moth insurance company. The first telescope was used in England In 1608. Switzerland is now erecting its first sugar factory. Alabama negroes are estimated. to be; worth about $20,000,000. A couple were married one day last, week at Winston, N. C, after a courtship of 27 years. Electricity in its various forms of ar, plication is said to give employment to 5,1X0 COO persons. It has often been observed that the; nall actually grow on the stumps ot ampnj tated fingers. A rattlesnake 15 inches in circumfeib ence is said to be in the possession of a mam in Kentucky. The daguerreotype was invented 07 Daguerre, nnd the first miniatures were pio duced in 1833. Church bells were made bvPanlinnjj n n Italian bishop, to drive away demons, abont 400 A. D. St. Louis is organizing what is claimed! to be tho first Italian regiment ever formed! in this country. Playing cards were invented for the) amusement of the crazy Kins, Charles VLj of France, in 1380. The small photographic portrait was; first made bv Fovier, in 1357. and was at firs used on visiting cards. The number of certificated schoolmasv ters employed in Ensland last year was 19y 199, and mistresses, 23,621. The Emperor of China chooses his own,' successor, whether the person chosen is t member of the royal family or not. Breech-loading guns were invented by Thornton Hall, 1811. Breech-loaded cany lions were used by the Turks in 1253. Airgnns were first made by Guhrin Germany in 165G, and tho invention is also credited to Shaw, of America, in 1845. The great anxsth etic, chloroform, wa discovered by Gutnrie, Till, and was flrsf employed in surgical operations in 181&. The private in the German Army i paid $8 per month, out of which there 1 dally deducted 5 cents for mess expenses. In Sweden they always take a coll lunch, accompanied by rather strong spirits, before each meal. It is said to be an appe tlzer. Seven counties in Western Texas have refused to issue a marriage certificate to t boy 15 years of age and a widow 40 years old. with 13 children. There is a sign on the entrance to a cemetery at Xorth Wales, Montgomery county. Pa., which reads; "So admittance except on business." Labrador, a country which we always associate with Arctic snowdrifts, icebergs, etc., has BOO species of flowering plants, 59 terns and over 250 species of mosses and lichens. Harvest hands must be scarce in Or land, Cal., when women have to work at having. Therb wero two women dressed in men's clothing hauling hay into that towa last week. The laughing jackass, when warning his feathered mates that daybreak is as hand, utters a cry resembling a group o boys shouting, whooping and laughing In a wild chorus. A resident of Indiana canght a young crane in the woods near Hall's oreok on Monday. The crane was prevented frora flying by a live mussel shell, which was fas toned to its foot. Heads of thin iron are now sold in the fancy shops in London. The heads are saht to be well cast, and when enameled and finished by a handsome head of hair ara very good looking, Blaudyte is the name given to the new material made of Trinidad asphalt and waste rubber. It resists the heat of hlgH, pressure steam and lasts well in the prea ence of oil and grease. Masks are of very ancient origin. In s tomb 3.0S0 years old at Mycenm Dr. Schlie mann found two bodies with faces covered? by masks of gold. One of the masks repre scnted tho head of a lion. Dozens of carefully tabulated tests show that the blood of roan mates a com plete circulation once every 15 to 25 seconds-! aocordlng to the physical conditions of thai subject experimented upon. Some prominent German engineer maintain that the application of test loads(; to bridges has never yet led to the detection, of defects which could not have been found,' by calculation and inspection. The natural configuration of many mountains suggests the human face, and, sucn physiognomies cat out of the rocks on. a gigantic scalo aro commonly regarded by1 savages as objects of worship. A German cotemporary says that Berlin has lately been suffering from s plaguo of rats. Tuey came in droves into) the seven wholesale warehouses of the clty and wore of extraordinary size- ' A disease peculiar to Japan is known as kake, which is thought to be tbe result of a rice diet. The disease is a slow degenerat tion or tho nervous system and steadily in creasing weakness of the patient. Charles Goolidge. of Tacoma, "Wash., could not get n marriage license a few days aco, because he forgot the name of his bride. He knew her first name was Kittle, but could not remember hor lust name. A curious spot has been noticed as the) selection of a pair of wagtails for the propa gation of their species. This is on the rail way near Stanton, England, wbero a nest is) to he found in the hollow of a sleeper on tho main track, over which something like a dozen or more trains pass in a day. The famous story of the word "sirloin," or, moro properly, "surloin," is of recenfl creation. A king of England the "merry monarch," most likely coming in hungry one day from tho chase, had served up to him a favory loin of beef. So delighted was the famished king at tbe sight of his favorite dish that he knighted it on the spot, and is it not known as "Sir loin" even to this dayr, The manner in which trials are con ducted in Chinese courts would be a start ling surprise to all who have not personally attended a court scene. Torture is always resorted to in order to compel the accused to declare himself guilty of the charge against him, and to such an extent is it car Tied that it often results in either causing the death of the deceased or elso maiming, him lor life. JOLLY JULY JOTTINGS. Urs. Driffles (to her husband as he return from downtown) Why, Tom, you're all fagged out. What 1 it, the heat? Mr. Driffles (feebly)-No. I worked right In tb hot sun all day and frit first rate. Then I rods) home on a 6 o'clock cable car and He falatsj- Chicago Xncs Record. In winter, by the parlor grate. They used to line to spoon: Bnt now they choose the (tardea gate Beneath tbe summer moon. teui York Evening Sun, First Eeporter Hello, old manl Just back from Homestead? Covered yourself with glory, eh? Second Heporter-Hnmph: Don't know. I seems more like dirt. Baltimore A'ctcs. at the biach. The poet with ambition fired, The Journalistic Mck, The statesman and the man who's hired The caucuses to pack. The humorist with sunny brow, The editor austere. Sit on hotel piazzas now And drink their lager beer. And as they gate npon the sea In deep and calm content They tell exactly who will be Elected President. Kew Tor Prtss Gladdy Giddy (on grandstand at Easter Park) Bow queer of that St. Louis manager to M carrying hit garden gate arouud ia front of hlmalf. the lime. Her ecort Keep quiet, miss. That's the ap proved watch charm of the baseball magnate- Brooklyn Eagle. Alas, it bnrts the heart to see Chicago bothered so. While New York staada and grins with glee. And says: "I told you so!" Waihinaton Star Mr. Dolley Will you let me steal a kiss? Miss Gasket-If you will steal yoa must do it an aided. I do not Intend to be an accessory befot the "fact. Detroit Free Press, - .,-,.- , . JUiif fK JSMilIHBtfUC 5
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