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MONDAY. AUGUST 1. 1892.
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PITT-Bt'ltt.. MONDAY. AUGUST 1. M&z.
PAFAL HOSOES FOK COLUMBUS.
The letter of Pope Leo to the Catholic
clergy of Italy, Spain and the two Ameri
cas, on the character of Columbus, is at
once a striking testimonial to the great
discoverer, and a signal illustration of the
enthusiasm and breadth of view that char
acterize the present head of the Roman
Church.
The whole world is this year signaliz
ing the achievement which four hundred
-3 ears ago revolutionized the aims and
sebpe of civilization. The secular recogni
tion of the Columbian anniversary is well
nigh universal; but it, is a novel and to a
certain degree surprising feature to find
the head of the Catholic Church pointing
it out as a celebration in which the Church
can fitly lead. It is a pleasant surprise
when the interest of the Church in efforts
to benefit mankind is testified to by such
utterances as those of the Pope. The tra
ditions of the Church are too apt to deal
mainly with acts of antiquity and to neg
lect if not to avoid contact with the in
fluences that have shaped the modern
ttoild. This utterance of the Pontiff in
dicates that the Church to-day is keenly in
sympathy with the conditions of thf hour,
and is ready with aid and encouragement
for the living and honor for the dead who
labor in anyway to make the world better.
It may require an enthusiastic optimism
to recognize as the chief purpose of Colum
bus' mission the spread of Christianity.
But it is true that the result of his discovery
has been to carry Christianity wherever it
carried civilization. It is one of the phe
nomena of history that while Mahomme
danisin, Buddhism and savage idolatry
survive in countries that were known to
Europe before Columbus set out on his
first voyage, Christianity either Catholic
or Protestant extends over both the conti
nents which were peopled as a result of
liis discovery. The, boundaries between
Christian and heathen nations have been
only slightly altered in the Old World
Eince his time; but the New World has
given an immense addition to the total of,
Christian people.
The attitude taken by the Pope in sig
ifc Vf W1 " " JllA jf,-ry of Columbus
is graceful and well chossn. It accords
well with his liberal and progressive char
acter, and will lend new spirit to the
world's celebration of the great discovery.
A CONGRESSIONAL CATACLYSM.
The squabble over the sundry civil appro
priation bill in the House received a new
feature Saturday when the Government
Printing Office promptly shut down at the
expiration of the term for which the ap
propriation had been extended. The
spectacle of members bereftof the diurnal
luxury of reading their own names in the
Congressional Becord is one so subversive
of Congressional precedents that it is ex
pected to bring the filibusterers to terms.
The movement is considered -at Wash
ington a sharp one to put the opposers of
the World's Fair appropriation In the
wrong. But a day's reflection may put
the matter in anotherlight. The support
ers of the appropriation have as much ap
petite for the Record and the other lux
uries of the Government Printing Office
as any other members. Moreover, Mr.
Holman moved to extend the appropria
tion, and this was prevented by the peo
ple who had prearranged the movement.
If the responsibility for the closing of the
printing office is an unpopular one, those
who are really responsible may discover
their mistake in supposing that they can
put the onus on tbeir opponents.
The public responsibility is not a very
grave one. Congress can close up its
business without the Congressional Becord
if it chooses. But it cannot do so without
stopping partisan foolishness and going to
work in real earnest
THE PKOPEE DISTINCTION.
,The most vigorous indictment of the
anti-option bill yet made is that of Senator
Iliscock. It pointed out that, the sale of
grain and provisions being absolutely pro
hibited by the measure, it would prevent
contracts for delivery unless the mer
chandise were actually in the warehouse
at the time. The commission merchant
could not contract to load a vessel sixty
days hence with grain to be brought in
from the country districts In the .mean
time. The vessel owner who wishes to
carry a cargo of wheat on a ship to be un
loaded next month must buy only Wheat
actually stored at the time. On this
foundation Mr. Hiscock charged that the
bill was actually devised in the interest of
the elevators and millers, and that it
would be "the basis of the most gigantic
trust that was ever conceived by the
human intellect"
This theory of the enactment In the
form it was urged has as much support in
the character of the bill as any other.
Such a measure is more likely to have this
effect than to stop speculation. People
can still find ways of betting on the rise
i-4 fail of products;- but it would be hard
o find any substitute for the legitimate
and non-speculative uses of future con
tracts. The substitute for this bill proposed by
Senator George Is deserving of examina
tion to see whether it avoids this danger
of obstructing legitimate commerce. The
substitute discards the original idea of
taxing speculation out of existence, but
evokes the power of Congress over Inter
state commerce to regulate the evil. The
newspaper summaries do not make it
quite clear whether it prohibits all dealing
m futures or only speculative future con
tracts. If the former, the bill is subject
to the same objection as the original
measure. If the latter, It makes the
proper distinction and sets up a criterion
as easy for the law to take into consldera
tion as the Intent with which a man strikes
a blow or enters a house There is plenty
of room for discussion whether a law
against business gambling would not be
as much of a dead letter as certain other
enactments that are eminently proper in
spirit but futile in effect It is also a
matter of discussion whether such legisla
tion should not be left to the States as
clearly as laws against swindling or theft
But it is pertinent that -whenever and
however the laws are passed they should
make the offense turn on the intent of the
bargain, L e., whether it was intended
merely to win or lose money on the rise
and fall of the market or to perform a
legitimate commercial service by the re
ceipt and delivery of the commodity.
THE M7GARKAHAN BARGAIN.
The Democratic attempt to make it ap
pear that the President vetoed the McGar
rahan bill in the interest of the New Idria
Mining Company was thoroughly venti
lated by the full text of the message that
showed that the reason for the veto was
the extraordinary favor shown in the pro
visions of the bill for the interests of that
great mining corporation. The suppres
sion of this feature of the measure in the
news reports is one of the singular Indica
tions of that class of legislation.
The primary condition of the dispute
over the contested property was that either
McGarrahan or the New Idria Company
was the legal owner. If McGarrahan's
claim Is good the New Idria is a tres
passer; if the New Idria's ownership is
legal McGarrahan's claim is void. Pro
ceeding on the assumption that former
decisions and rulings showed McGarra
han's claim to be valid, the bill was repre
sented as simply allowing it to be adjudi
cated by the Court of Claims. Itwas not
until the President disclosed the fact in
his veto that the bill excepted from the
patent all the property occupied by the
New Idria Company and made the Treas
ury liable to McGarrahan for the value of
the property taken by that company. In
other words, supposing that there has
been a usurpation of the property, the
United States is to pay for the usurpation
and the usurper is to be left in full enjoy
ment of its wrongly acquired property.
This puts a very different face on the
measure. It now appears to be an ar
rangement between the contestants to
settle their dispute at the cost of the
United States. It suggests the pertinent
question how this vital feature of the bill
came to be entirely suppressed in the
news reports.
TBUTH IN BEBLIN.
The fact that Bismarck is now only
experiencing the reverse action of the
system of absolutism which he more than
any other man brought into existence was
freely commented upon in this country
during the early stages of the controversy
between himself and the Emperor. It is
interesting to learn the same idea bas
reached Berlin. An old Liberal writes to
a Berlin paper that it is only retributive
justice that has overtaken the old Chan
cellor. No one ever insisted on the prerogatives
of the Crown more strenuously that Bis
marck did when he was the one to exert
those prerogatives. If the present Em
peror believes he is the supreme ruler,
before whom all public opinion and pri
vate interests must give way, it was the
instruction of Bismarck that implanted
that idea in his mind so firmly that its
revival has driven the instructor into
private life. There has rarely been in
political history a more signal example of
poetic justice than the man of blood and
iron bumbled and dismissed by the arbi
trary power which he was so imperious in
caIlingintoexistenceandmaintaining;, The
statement of this truth in Berlin may not
be especially grateful to either Emperor
or ex-Chancellor; but it is no less true.
Perhaps Bismarck can now understand
that the establishment of the Emperor's
will as the supreme law has its public as
well as private inconveniences. But he
might adopt a more dignified method of
digesting the experience than by the com
plaints which make it evident that the
arbitrary power he believed in was the
arbitrary power that Bismarck should
wield as prime minister.
THE CONNECTICUT SQUABBLE.
The last finding of a Connecticut court
on the long standing dispute over the
gubernatorial election leaves the Demo
cratic position with hardly a leg to stand
on. After maintaining a deadlock forthe
greater part of the term the question has
got into the courts, where it should have
been taken promptly in the first place.
The Superior Court of New Haven last
week decided that the Bridgeport ballots
were legal, which is practically a decision
in favor of the Republicans on the pivotal
question of the whole dispute.
Under the Connecticut Constitution if
no candidate for Governor receives a ma
jority the Legislature must elect The
Democratic claim was that 122 ballots re
jected in Bridgeport by Democratic elec
tion clerks left their candidate with a ma
jority. The ground of the -rejection was
that the ballots were marked for identifi
cation. While refusing to go into the
Legislature for election the Democrats
displayed an equal indisposition to submit
their claim to the .courts. The result
showed the correctness of their unwilling
ness to try the case from a partisan point
of view. The outcome of the trial was to
establish the legality of the ballots. The
alleged marking was shown to have been
made accidentally by the printing ma
chine, and the judge so decided. On any
other theory than that election clerks are
the court of last resort from whose decis
ion there is no appeal the entire Demo
cratic case in Connecticut falls to the
ground.
It has been a peculiar exhibit of our po
litical vices that "the partisan dispute has
prevented the constitutional methods of
self-government from operating in Con
necticut for nearly the entire term of the
Governor to be elected. It is probable
that the dispute will still be kept up so as
to exhaust the entire term and permit a
new "Governor to be elected before the
election for the present term is finally set
tled. THE ENGLISH SITUATION.
The impending session of Parliament is
divided by the completed returns into 315
members supporting the Salisbury Gov
ernment and 355 opposed to it This
seals the doom of the present Cabinet; but
it requires a very confident view of the
future to classify it as giving Mr. Glad
stone a majority of 40. If he had a com
pact majority of that number he might be
able to carry on the Government with
good hope of pushing through the leading
party measures. But nine Parnellites and
three labor members form a very un
reliable factor of that majority. Any
course sending them into opposition re
duces his majority to 16. Further than
thaVa course which does not satisfy the
Nationalists on one side and the Liberals
on the other may cause the majority to
disappear altogether.
Under those circumstances the Liberal
programme must be very adroit to ac
complish even a moderate lease of life for
the" Gladstone ministry. There Is,- of
course, on the Tory side the usual display
of enmity to the Idea of Mr. Gladstone's
accession, in which that estimable but
prejudiced woman, the Queen, leads the
display. She showed her hatred of Mr,
Gladstone at the time he came into power
in 1885 quite plainly though quite use
lessly; and late reports -are that she bas
again summoned the Duke of Devonshire
to form a ministry with the result of being
told that the only alternative to her ac
ceptance of Gladstone as Prime Minister
would be her own abdication.
Notwithstanding the futile display of
royal opposition Gladstone will take the
reins of government; but the duration of
his administration Is a very dubious
matter. The outlook presents so many
aspects of difficulty and doubt as to give
force to the (Suggestion of a possible
compromise on a plan of local self
government which would bring back
enough of the Liberal-Unionists to form
with the Liberals and Nationalists a
strong and reliable majority.
As a variation on the resurrection of the
old Calhoun theory of the unconstitutional
ity of the tariff, the negro spook is appro
priate to the Bourbon Democracy. Thirty
years ago the Democratlo howl was about
"nigger equality." Now there la a desper
ate effort to make the gbost of "Negro
Domination" stalk through the land. If
Democracy conld stick to modern Ideas
through an entire decade It might do very
well; but that seems to be impossible.
Full reports of the Astrakhan cholera
riots leave Western readers In doubt whether
the doctors or the people were most uncivil
ized and Ignorant.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the New
York Telegram, sagely offers as hot weather
advice tbe following: "One thing to be re
membered with especial advantage in this
hot weather is to eat loe eream slowly."
Young women will bear this In mind till
tbe next hot term, and then demand of their
young men an opportunity to follow the ad
vice by eating slowly all the Ice cream they
can get.
Mb. Cleveland puts in part of his time
nowadays writing lines to friends, and the
rest of his day's work consist in dropping
lines to fishes.
The Democratic Congressman from the
South who asserts that the World's Fair
appropriation is unconstitutional, but offers
to agree to its passage In December so as to
avoid trouble with the southern cities,
affords a new definition for unconstitution
ality. The unconstitutional quality of doing
anything to lose votes belongs to the un
written constitution of partisan politics.
Of course there was a breeze in Congress
when Watson accused his colleagues of ap
pearing on the floor "three sheets in the
wind."
A meeting of the coal combination pro
duced the phenomenal result for this year
of leaving prices where they were. An
organ of the combination says that "it was
plainly inexpedient to raise prices when
that would decrease the demand. Conse
quently the combination must wait till cold
weather before It can squeeze consumers
any more with impunity.
The cool wave that was predicted for
Pittsburg evidently had its sharp, penetrat
ing corners lopped off somewhere on the
road.
One of the curiosities of the season is
the earnestness with which Republican
organs are reproving Watson,of Georgia, for
asserting that members of the House get
drunk. That is a privilege which Republi
can organs reserve strictly to themselves,
In the form of asserting that the Democratlo
statesmen are too bibulous.
Chautauqua,, and similar talk-away
snmmer resorts are now at full tide and
doing a "swimming" business.
The proposition that Sioux Falls, S.
Dak., shall go into the saloon business and
sell whisky at 25 cents a drink indicates an
imDressIon that the people who go to the
Western town in search of divorces will
stand anything.
Belta Lockwood says marriage is not
a failure. That settles it. Belva Is an ex
perienced authority.
Habitual offenders of the peace are
now in danger of coming into contact with
the depraved small boy who has been swim
ming in the rivers. They should be given
protection.
With the weather cooling off will the
generation of speclflo heat in the- House In
crease ordlminisht
The thermometer fell 20 degrees in Chi
cago the day that Uncle Jerry arrived there.
He ought to be invited to Pittsburg If he
has such an effect on the weather as that.
Much may be forgiven to the Weather
Bureau ir the present temperature holds
during August.
Anything from a pancake to a sausage
can now be made from the banana. What a
great and glorious future lies before the
luscious paw-paw or the persimmon!
An impression is going about the coun
try that Columbus was in favor of the
"force" bill.
The reason for Vanderbilt's desire to sell
the Alva is not hard to guess. She's been
watered too much and she hasn't been
raised for diver's reasons.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
Senator Hill is not going to Europe
and he is not going to resign, but he is going
yachting.
Bjornsteene Bjornson gets a pension
of $450 from the Norwegian Storthing. He
writes politics with poetry.
Justice Lamar's long locks have been
clipped close and are now quite gray. Chief
Justice Fuller's mustache still flaunt defi
ance to tbe shears.
Prince Bismarck is said to hare a
comfortable income of $250,000 a year. It Is
our Information that the wolf nevor prowls
around bis back door.
Tricoupis, the great Greek Premier,
dresses like a New York broker. He has a
broad bold brow, a magnificent dark eye and
a heavy, drooping mustache.
Thomas Jefferson Coolidoe, Min
ister to France from, the United States, has
announced his Intention of remaining In
Paris throughout the summer.
Mrs. Crugeb's pen-fiame of "Julien
Gordon" finds a oontrast In Mrs. Cratge's
"John Oliver Hobbes." Still there are no
hobnails in the style of either of these gifted
Americans.
Alexander Eussell Webb, the Uni
ted States Consul, in Manila, is reported to
have become a convert to Islam, and when
he returns home he expects to preach the
Eastern faith.
'One of the newly elected .Gladstonian
members of Parliament is Mr. W. J. Ingram,
eldest son of the late Herbert Ingram, M. P.,
founder of the Illustrated London Newt, of
which the son is one of the proprietors and
managers.
Victob 0. W. Cavendish, nephew of
the Duke of Devonshire, and heir to tbe
dukedom, was married Saturday morning in
Westminster to Lady Evelyn Emily Fita
maurlce, eldest daughter of the .Marquis of
Landsdowne.
They Need a Vacation.
Chicago News. f (
me iceman, tne coroner, and. the under
taker will now take a muoh-needed rest
I. 1
THE CHANGING CENTURIES.
I WRITTEN TOR THE DIgFATCH.1
There is a great picture in Paris, in the
Gallery of Luxembourg, .whieh is really
three pictures In, one frame. A shepherd
boy, alone among the hills at night, is look
ing up at the stars. He Is watohlng a great
bl?ze In tbe sky. In the middle picture, a
bishop in gorgeous vestments, with a jew
eled crozier in his hand,ls on a journey over
a wild and traokless country. There is a
small white-headed boy, clad in lamb's wool
and looking Ilka a little St. John Baptist,
who is showing the reverend father where
to go. The bishop and the boy are hungry,
and down out of the clouds comes a big
eagle bringing a fish for tbeir supper, to tbe
small boy's infinite amazement. The third
picture shows an old man, clad in the dress
of a poor farmer, working away in n
plowed and planted field. There Is a great
ci owd of birds up in the air who have been
stealing the good man's barley. Tbe farmer
is preaching to tho Dirds. "See here," he
say8,"my brothers and my sisters, the birds,
who needs this barley roostt Is it you, oris
it IT For if you need it morn than I do, take
it, and God be with you; but if not
away!" And away they go.
These three pictnres are scenes in the life
of fit. Cuthbert. Tho shepherd boy, the
bishop and the farmer are Cuthbert, In his
youth, in his manhood and at the end of his
long and holy life.
Cuthbert was a sbepherd boy on those
Scotch hills which He about Melrose. One
night he saw a vision. He was not the sort
of boy tbat commonly sees visions. He was
strong, stirring, the liveliest of lads, the
leader in all the games and pranks of the
neigbborbood, aud especially skillful.'the
ola ohronioler gravely Informs us. In the
difficult art of standing on his head. But
his work was to tend sheep. And that gave
Him time to think. And there was enough
to think about in the wild days when Cuth
bert was a boy. The battle between pagan
Ism and Christianity was still going on In
Northumbria. Everybody was taking sides
and the Issue was unoertaln. And one night
Cuthbert saw a great and strange light in
the sky. And that night, away off on Lin
dlsfarne, the soal of a great saint, Aldan the
Apostle of Northumbria, went to his re
ward. Aud when Cuthbert heard tbat he
was sure that the light that he saw in the
sky was the glow of the passing of that good
man's soul. And he took the vision for a
"call." Somehow he translated it into a
message, summoning him to be a mission
ary. The Shepherd Boy as a Monk.
And presently, there came the sound of
vigorous knooklng at the door of the Monas
tery of Melrose, and when they opened It,
there was Cuthbert asking to he made a
monk. To be a monk was the life which In
that day almost all earnest Christian men
who wanted to do religious service, natur
ally chose. To be a minister, and to be a
monk; meant, then and there, precisely the
same thing.
So the sbepherd boy became a monk, and
by and Dy, in ways whioh it Is no part of my
present purpose to narrate, was made a bish
op. I don't believe that be wore all 'the
fine clothes which the Luxembourg picture
arrays him in. Anyhow, whatever good
olothes be may have owned, it is not likely
tbat he wore them on bis long tramps over
the wild hills. They would not have an
swered there. Copes are not convenient
garments for climbing. More likely he car
ried an alpenstock rather than a crozier.
But tramp he did, no doubt, as he used to
tramp and teach at Melrose. They used to
build up a place for him with tree trunks
and brandies and he would stay a week
there, and from all the neighboring villages
people would come to listen and to have the
hands of tbe good bishop laid in apostolio
benediction on their heads.
So he worked, as long as he had strength
for work. And then he gave it up and rowed
out to a little wind-swept hermit island and
said his prayers and sowed his barley, like
any otber plain, good old man, till the angel
of death paid at last his welcome visit.
They say that there were five days of fear
ful storm, so that nobody could get over to'
the island, and Cuthbert was there alone.
And when the storm abated and tbey got
across to him they found him nearlv dead
with hnnger and exposure. They cared for
him as tenderly as they knew how and gave
him all tbe love and comfort they were able,
and in tbe arms of his good monks the old
saint breathed his last. Tbey wrapped the
body in a great sheet of fine linen, which an
abbess had once given him for a sbroud (the
klndB of gifts which saints were wont to ex
change in those queer days!), and they car
ried all that 'was mortal of Cuthbert after
many wanderings to his resting place in
Durham.
After Fire Hundred Tears.
Ax. the beginning of the twelfth century,
after Cutbbert had been dead 600 years and
more, they opened his coffin. That was a
great event. Flambard was then Bishop
Half Flambard, the worthy minister of that
bad King William Rnfus "the low-born
Norman priest, tbe scandal, amuiement and
horror of his age."
Flambard- was then Bishop; and among
other splendid building that be was doing
In the cathedral, he had made a fine shrine
for the body of St. Cutbbert. The saint had
long Iain in a tomb in the cloister. Now he
was to have the place of honor. There were
various opinions about the body. Some
thought it was not there at all; nobody had
seen it for 600 years. Some thought that per
haps the dust of it might be found these.
Others maintained tbat It was there and
uncorrupted. So they opened it to see.
A little company of good men was chosen
from among the monks, and one night they
brought their lanterns into the church and
set about their sacred task; They opened
the strong outer box with crowbars, and
within a great bide-bound chest was discov
ered. This they opened in Its turn, and
there was another box inside, covered with
coarse linen clotb. This they knew to be
the Coffin. They brought the coffin out Into
tbe middle of the choir, that they might
have more room, every man of them pray
ing silently and In great terror lest the saint
should rise up and smite them for irrever
ence. Ho never, they got tbe lid off safely,
and found beneath it a board with two iron
rings fastened to it and a copy of the Gos
pels lying upon it. They rt.Ised the board
and ther? (so goes the history) was Cuth
pert's body, perfect and entire, lying as if in
sleep.
Tbey hardly dared to look. They fell
upon their knees and wept and .recited
penitential psalms, praying that God would
not be angry with them. Then, creeping on
their hands and knees, in the dim light of
tbe lanterns, they saw tbat tbe wholu coffin
was filled with relics, with bones of saints,
and precious belongings of tbe boly Cuth
bert. And so they closed the coffin, opening
it the next day to let an lncrdulous abbot
verify their story. And then they had a
great festival and consecration of the shrine,
and tney marched about the church in a
gieat procession, and, stopping at the east
end, the" bishop preached a sermon a long,
dull one, the old chronicler says, Flambard
probably not being very good at preaching
In tbe midst of which the good St. Cuth
bert, taking pity on tbe weary congregation,
sent down a sudden stout shower of rain
which cut tbe sermon short; and returning
with hasto into the church, they placed the
body in the shrine.
A Change of Sentiment.
Finally the Keformation came. And with
its coming the glory of St. Cuthbert's shrine
departed. Tbe king's commissioners ar
rived at Durham and proceeded at once to
lay hands upon St. Cuthbert's gold and
Jewels, taking a jeweler along to estimate
tbeir value. They then turned their atten
tion to tbe sacred body. Tbe coffin was
found to bo bound wlthlron, and the Jeweler
had to do some vigorous hammering to get
it open. Once open, the jeweler beheld a
sight .which, amazed him. There lay the
body of the saint, whole and entlio, arrayed
in his gorgeous vestments. But so free had
he been with ax and hammer that he had
broken on of tbe saint's legs. Ho called
down to the commissioners from tbe lofty
platform of the shrine and told them what
be had seen and done. Whereupon one of
them said: "Throw tbe old fellow's bones
over!" To which the workman answered
that the sinews and skin held the bones to
gether and be couldn't pull it apart. Upon
which tidings up scrambled the commis
sioners to see, with whatever wonder their
avaricious sixteenth ooatury" mind war
capable of; And tbey carried off the coffin
into tbe vestry room and bnrned tbe body
and buried the ashes underneath the shrine.
Sic transit! So obange tbe sentiments of
men not always for tbe better.
CATCHING. C0HTBACT LAB0BEBS.
Ignorance of Some of the immigrants Who
Are Returned Home.
New York, July SL Commissioner Weber,
or tbe Immigration Servloe, has granted
permission to President Samuel Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor, to place
four "pickets" of the labor unions at the
landing place of immigrants to aid tho regu
lar inspectors in detecting contract laborers.
This action is one of tbe outgrowths or tbe
Homestead labor troubles. In answer to
quetlons tbe Immigrant Inspeotor said:
"How do -we detect thee particular par
tiesT Simple enough. They go from the
steamer to tbe transfer barge. Then they
come to the island. We pnt them in the big
pen to be examined. We separate one from
the lot one who seems to know something,
perhaps, more than tbe rest. We see how
much money he has. Ha hasn't much. They
never have, for that's what tbey come for.
We tell bim he is little better than a pauper,
and we can't admit paupers. We tell him he
lias no Job and is likely to get into tbe poor
house likely to become a public charge.
He Is veiy quick to say he will not that be
has a Job, and Is onlv anxious to get to it.
Where is tbe Job? He is very fresh to tell
where it is, nud then we draw from him how
he happened to have the Job. We take him
to a notary publlo and he makes oath to
the facts. He belongs to a gang. He swears
that tbey all hired out to tbe same man to
come to the Pennsylvania mines.
"As many names as he can remember he
eives. They are carefullv taken down. But
there are others. He calls another or twoor
three in to help him remember the names.
Among them they know all the names.
There are lorty odd of them. On the facts
thus gained a nroceedtn? is based. As fast
as possible an affidavit is filled out for every
fellow to sign and swear to. They all recite
the same general facts. Eaoh man is eager
to sign it, for the stern officials make him
believe that his admission depends upon do
ing the thing up right.
"It is the same story with the Russians,
only it is more trouble, for tbey are not as
smart as tho Italians. Some of these foot
hlllers, In fact, have but little tbe call on
idiocy. Their mental density stolidity is
something approached only in tbe lower
animals. Seems as though a cow with or
dinary talent would compai e favorably with
some of them. Alongside a real smart
American dog they would be In the shade.
This may be a little extreme, but you would
think so If you could see them and hear
them try to express a coherent Idea or
thought. Thev, too, go back by the steamer
that brought them. There Isn't a man In
three among them who oonld comprehend,
If we took the trouble to tell him, why they
are being sent baok. They are a little the
worst lot I ever saw, and I've been at this
business for some time."
THE EXPIRING CONGRESS.
The closing days of the Fifty-second Con
gress are likely to live as tbe most disgrace
ful in our history. Chicago Mail.
Wnzif members of Congress begin to
charge each other with drinking It Is about
time for a committee to be appointed to
ascertain if microbes have got into the
House restaurant teapot. Philadelphia Times.
With tbe public business deadlocked, the
House finds time for personalities and par
tisan recriminations. Recent proceed
ings reflect no ciedit on tbat body in which
they occurred or on the American charac
ter. Washington Star.
"Blessios brighten as they take their
flight," but it is different with a Democratic
Congress. The nearer it comes to adjourn
ment the more muddled it grows. The
scenes in the House recently were worthy
of a ward caucus. Cincinnati Times-Star.
Filibcsteriho Is not a dignified perform
ance and does not require any great expen
diture of brain power. It turns the national
assembly into a national donkey reserve,
and gives to Tom Reed and the fool-killer
the lofty port of the patriot. Chicago News.
Watson, as a Third party man, is in a posi
tion to observe the House from an unbiased
standpoint, and this he seems to have done.
Anyhow, the country believes him, and tbe
best thing tbe Democratic House can do is
to say nothing and chew cardamom seeds.
New York Advertiser. x
The spectacle that bas been presented for
three days of a gang of filibusters blocking
tbe proceedings of tbe House to prevent the
consummation, of legislation that had
already received the sanction of the Senate
and of a majority in the House itself, Is dis
graceful aud calculated only to beget con
tempt for those engaged In it. New York
Times.
Harvest Hands Going to South Dakota.
Hubojt, S. Dak., July SL About 30 harvest
hands reached here to-day from Iowa and
Nebraska and report that others are com
ing. Parties weie here to-day from several
counties to secure harvest help. Dr. Smith
of Ree Heights says 100 men in excess of
thoBe already there will be needed to gather
the crops in Hand county, while other
counties will lequire an equal and In many
instances a greater number.
The Faster the Better.
Baltimore American.!
A Republican club of bicyclists bas been
organized In the West for Harrison and
Reld's election. In this case, tbe wheel is
decidedly for the weal of the nation.
The Republican Trinity.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Three things whloh belong together
American capital, American industry,
American protection.
DEATHS HEEE AND ELSEWHERE.
Charles Harrlion.
Charles Harrison, one of the best known
and molt competent newspaper men In Western
Pennsylvania, died at the Qood Samaritan Hos
pital In Cincinnati at 4 o'clock on Saturday after
noon. The deceased was a delightful gentleman.
He was highly educated and he bad all the rare
qualities that command respect and merit affec
tionate esteem. Charles Harrison was born In
New York City in 1844. He was educated for the
law. He was admitted to the bar at an early acre
and practiced his professlou for several years, lie
attained considerable distinction and was engaged
In many cases that attracted general attention.
Some 15 years ago he lost bis hearing and was
lorced to abandon tbe law. In 1880 lie came to
Pittsburg and engaxed In newspaper work, and his
special articles attracted attention. Five years ago
he connectet himself with the Oil City Derrick and
three years ago he was assigned to tbe Toledo
Commercial as editor in chief. He held that posi
tion until bis death. About a year ago his health
failed. Last May he went to California, but re
turned from there without noticeable improve
ment. Five weeks ago he went to Gate Springs, in
East Tennessee. His southern trip did not benefit
him, and on last Thursday he started for his home
In this city. On his way home be became ex
hausted and was taken from the train to tbe hos
pital at Cincinnati. His wife was notified. She
arrived at the hospital Saturday morning. Her
husband was conscious and recognized her, out she
had only been with him a short time when he died.
Tbe widow, with the remains of her husband, ar
rived lu Pittsburg last night. The ead editor will
be burled on Tuesday from bis late home, Nn. 130
Washington street. He has a brother living in
New York. He bad no children.
Ttaron Joseph A Hubner, Diplomatist,
Baron Joseph Alexander Hubner, tbe well
known Austrian diplomatist. Is dead. Baron Hub
ner was born In 1811 In Vienna. He was appointed
Charge d' Affaires at Lelpslo In 1844 and was shortly
afterward Consul General of Austria. During the
troubles of 1848 Baron Hubner was Intrusted with
the conduct or the Archduke Regnler's correspond
ence as the Viceroy or Lombardy, and when the
populace got the upper hand he was detained at
Mllau as a hostage, but was soon exchanged. In
1856 he signed tbe treaty of Paris, having during
the Crimean war been Instrumental, it is supposed,
in preventing his sovereign from taking part with
Russia and in Insuring his neutrality. Baron Hub
ner was recalled from Paris In 1889, and after being
employed In several delicate diplomatic missions,
especially at Naples and Rome, he was recalled
from the latter city In August, 1889, in order to en
ter, as Minister of Police, tne new Cabinet which
had Just been formed In Vienna. In January, 1868,
be was-agaln placed at tbe head of the Austrian
Embassy In Rome, and In October, 1887, he was in
trusted with tbe conduct of the necotlatlon with
Rome in reference to the repudiation of the Con
cordat. He Was toon anerward recalled.
Obituary Notes.
Associate Justice Bigbee. of the Cherokee
Supreme Court, died yesterday. He was ap
pointed a year ago.
Dr. Samuel E. Fetzib, the oldest physlcianlat
hanoy Plane, Pa., was found dead In Ms room
teraay. tie was aooui so years oia.
Wabd T. Fbistoe, of the Columbian TJnl-
ltr. died Saturday1. a?ed 62 veari. He was a
duato of the Virginia Military Institute.
BS. Fxizahitb Hxatox died at 9:30 P, IT. Sat-
ay nlcbt. She Is the wife or tbe late Captain
o ileaion, or Baiem. iter age was 83 years.
kt Faithtdl Gabet. ex-Associate Judge
of Supreme bench, of Baltimore City, died Frl
dayWght of nervous prostration. He was born in
Baltfcore in 1821.
Coftiou. John C. Lowe died suddenly at bis
homeAfu Dayton. Saturday evening, aged 75 years.
GenerG P. Thurston, of Nashville, Is a
step-solLnd the wlfeof Hon. George W. Honk,
Coarrufc'rc from this tlitrlet, is nKB-daugawr,
PECULIAR OBSTRUCTION.
The loaders of the House Filibustering
Against Their Own Followers Republi
cans Going; to Make a Strong Effort to
Cut Out Some Southern States.
tronnxsroxnEiccx or the dispatch.
WASHiaoTOJr, July 3L The present episode
stands by itself in legislative history. Never
before have tbe leaders of tbe House been
compelled to filibuster n order to defeat
those whom tbey lead. Rut it has been long
painfully evident tbat the Democratic ma
jority or the present House are without
leaders. They have gentlemen, some able,
some amiable and some neither tbe one nor
tbe other, at tbe head of tho various great
committees of the House occupying tbe posi
tions fi'.led in former Congresses by men
who actually led in the debates and the acts
of that body. But the gentlemen who oc
cupv these places at this time seem to bo
utterly unable to control tbe action of tbe
members of their own party, and are, there
tore, in no true sense to be termed leaders.
The plain truth is that the Democratic ma
lority In the House has hardly a first-class
man on the floor. They have a good many
talkers, but neither orators nor debaters.
They have a good many men who are
capable of excellent work in the oommltteo
room, but who are unable to hold up thoir
own as against suoh men as Reed) and Bur
rows. The result of all of this, of course, has
been that the Democratic majority has
floundered about in the sea of legislation
much after the aimless fashion of a ship at
sea without a rudder.
After Soma Soalhern States.
The managers of the Republican national
campaign propose to make an earnest and
intelligent effort to carry tho electoral votes
of certain or the Southern States. Ever
since 1S76 It bas been one of the cherished
dreams of the Republican managers in the
national campaigns to break up the solid
South. Every effort made in that direction
so far has proved unavailing. There was a
time when It was hoped that Virginia had
swung permanently away from her Demo
cratic moorings; but owing to causes not
necessary here to enter upon, Virginia re
mained wedded to her Democratic Idols.
Now, however, the situation is more hopeful
than at any time since the solid South bo
came a political fact.
The rise of tbe Third party through the
Farmers' Alliance has done much to break
down party linos throughout certain South
ern States and may result in tbe loss or the
electoral votes of some of them to the
Democratlo party, which heretofore, at tne
Presiaental elections, has been enabled, in
political figuring, to begin with every vote
from that section as absolutely certain.
Several of theso Southern States have
become very close in Presldental years, but
none of them so far has come entirely over
to the Republican party. West Virginia
only gave her electoral vote at the hue
eleotlon to Mr. Cleveland by BOO or COO
plmallty. Old Virginia only gave a Demo
cratic plurality of a few thousands.
States That Were Once Certain.
North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee
are States that under any otber condition of
affairs than tbat existing in tbe South or
late years would be certain to vote against
the party which believes the system of pro
tection to American industries to be a
crime. These five States have been held in
line in the Democratic party by the chimera
of negro domination. This always was, and
is now, a political impossibility. But the
prejudices of the whites against the blacks
have been so successfully worked on the
one band, and the sympatnles or the white
voters or these States with tbe whites of
those States in whlcb the colored population
is In the numerical superiority on tbe other,
that no appeal to reason, common sense, or
self-interest has in any previous election
been able to make them break awavfrom
the Demociatlo party.
The adherents of the Third party In those
States at a whole see and proclaim the folly
of this cry of negro supremacy. They do
not, therefore, propose to have tbeir votes
directed by tnis political bug-a-boo any
longer. Tbey are putting independent State
tickets in tbe flelu and nominating Tblrd
party presldental electors. In some of these
States the Republicans will run a complete
State ticket and their own electors, while In
others they may support the candidates of
the Third paity. In North Carolina it is
probable that tho ReDubllcans will support
their own Presldental electors and the Third
paity State ticket. Under these circum
stances if a free vote and a fair count can be
bad tbe electoral colleges of one or more
and possibly or five or these States should
be arrayed against tbe Democratic candi
dates and some of them be favorable to the
Republican candidates.
Something to Think About.
In other words while tho Democratic
party is endeavoring to carry certain West
ern States out of the Republican column no
matter where, so long as they get them out
of the Republican column the Republican
managers propose to give them something
to think about and to do in the States which
have heretofore formed tbeir stronghold.
For these reasons a great deal will be said
by the Democrats during the campaign,
particularly in the States mentioned, of the
so-called force bliL Every effort will be
made to rouse dying racepiejudlces and pre
serve the States to tho Democratic party by
means of tbe strict drawing of the oolor
line. Rut it is not too much to expect that
enough whites In those States would refuse
to be mislead by this false crv to give a
different complexion to the political affairs
ol tbat section.
Every sensible man in the South know
tbat tbat bill if it had become a law would
not have worked to the injury of the white
people of the South nor in anyway have
taken tbe control or their own affairs out
of their own bands. Nevertheless, every
Democratic orator and writer throughout
tbo entire soutu will howl and scilbble
against the force bill and the terrific
dangeis with which it threatens tbe beloved
Southland, not because tbey believe any
thing they say or write on the subject, but
because tbey will proceed on tbe idea that
it will prove "a good enough Morgan until
after election."
Busk Not in tbe Line of Succession.
Most of your readers, perhaps, are of the
opinion that the Secretary of Agilculture is
in tbe line of succession to tbe Piesidency
in the event that there should be a vacancy
in tbe offices of both President and Vice
President. Suoh, however, is not the case.
At tbe time the present law regulating the
succession was passed, in Jauuary. 1SSS, the
head of tbe Agricultuial Department was
not a Cabinet officer and was not included
In tbe list. When tbe act was passed giving
the head of the Agricultural Department
the title of Secretary and making him a
Cabinet officer nothing was said concerning
the succession, nor was anything done in
regard to it by tbe last Congress. Eaily In
tbis session of Congress a bill as intro
duced into the House by Mr. Hatch, of Mis
souri. Chairman of the Committee on Agri
culture, adding the Secretary of Agriculture
to the list of Cabinet officers, who are to
succeed to the Presidency in certain events.
Tills bill passed botb Houses or Congress
and went to tbe President. There It was
discovered that by a singular oversight
nothing was said in the body or the bill as
to what particular act the bill was Intended
to amend. It was, therefore, recalled by a
resolution. Even here a blunder was made
because the resolution adopted by the House
recalling the bill was simply a House resolu
tion, when It should have been a concurrent
resolution of both Houses. The bill was
finally returned to tbe House early lasfMay
and was immediately referred to the Com
mittee on tbe Judioiary, where it has since
remained. And this Is why Uncle Jerry is
not in the line of succession.
A SEBPENT IN THE SET.
The Remarkable Narrative of a Sea-Going
New York Pilot
New York, July 3L The pilot of tbe
steamer Trlnacrla, Mr. Sullivan, of pilotboat
No. 10, says that on Monday, July 25, at 7 P.
M., in latitude 41.23, longitude 63, a sudden
shock or vibration lesembling an earth
quake was felt. It appeared to approach
from the northwest. At -the same time he
saw a distinct streak ot light from zenith to
hotizon resembling the coil or a serpent,
with a distinct seipent head, whloh lasted
for an hour. There was no commotion of
the sea, but a peculiar vibration.
Captain Thompson, of tbe Trlnacrla, re-
fiorts that he saw the same peculiar cloud or
Ight lormatlon, but did not notice anything
resembling the earthquake shock. He was
about 60 miles distant from the pilotboat at
the time. His barometer fell fioru 29.39 to
29.29, and quickly rose when the cloud dis
appeared. There were heavy tide rips all
around the ship. .,'.,
Needs a Radical Cure.
New York Press.:
Candidate Cleveland proposes, it is said,
to "modify" the tariff plank in the 'Demo
cratic platform. That plank needs some
thing of the kind. It should be "modified"
with a club If Mr Cleveland wants to poll
any vukjs in tne great manuiaciurcng.Dwies
UfiOTIDMa
Una KABBUOX'S IXFS0T2XEKT.
Thanks to the Mountain Air, She Is Get
ting Better Every Day.
Sabajtao Lake, July SL The past week
has been rather a quiet one at Loon Lake,
where Mrs. Harrison Is staying. The report
tbat Mrs. Harrison had quick consumption
and was dying was absolutely without foun
dation. Mrs. Harrison has improved won
derfully sinbe her coming to tbe Adlron
dacks. so much so, indeed, that bernhysi
eian did not worry upon leaving her for
several day during the week and making a
visit to Washington. When Mrs. Harrison
first came to Loon Lake she was carried
from the carriage to the cottage in the arms
of her husband. She was then very weak
and all was sadness for several days. Tho
President walked about tbe cottage for
hours at a time, apparently In a dejected
mood. As soon, however, as Mrs. Harrison
begun to show signs of improvement, there
was a marked change In the manner or the
President, and he lauzbed and talked freely
to all who approached him. '
Mrs. Harrison still takes her meals in tho
cottage, while Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker
and Mrs. Dunnick eat in a private dining
room or the hotel. When tbe party first
came to Loon Lake they were seated at a
small table about In the center or the gen
eral dining room. AH went well and every
body was satisfied until several persons
"who wanted to see the Preslaent" came
along, and gazed with tbe greatest curiosity
and wonder upon the Chief Executive.
They were so bold and offensive In their
manner that Mr. Harrison requested to be
given a private dining room, that tbe dem
onstration might not be repeated, for, as be
said, "he did not think he should be treated
as a dime museum Irenk, for be came to the
mountains the same as any ordinary guest."
The Improvement in Mrs. Harrison's con
dition has been marked, and as eaoh day
passes she approaches nearer the goal of
good health.
WHEELMEN AND COWBOYS
Will He Interesting -Vnr.'ollons of Knights
Templar Week In Denver.
Deisveh. July 31. As the time for the great
Knights Templar conclave approaches the
different committees of tho local Templars
are hard at work completing the details of
the reception and entertainment of their
visiting brethren. On August 10 the differ
ent bicycle clubs or the city will giye a
parade, in which many wheelmen from tho
surrounding towns will participate. It is
estimated that 2,000 wheels will be in line,
and many ladies will add beauty to tbe pro
cession by taking part in it. Prizes wilt be
given for the finest decorated wheels, and
also for the most fantastic and weird make
ups. ,
Beginning August 4 and contlnning
through the concl.ive week the National
Cowboy Tournament, in conjunction with
Dr. W. F. Carver's Wild West show, will
give peiformances daily at River Front
park; A band of 50 Indians from Jicarilla
reservation will lend realty to the scene.
Among the Indians are Camilo, the oldest
Indian in America, and the famous chiefs,
Garfield and Vincent.
LEVY CHALLENGED BY BE M0EES.
An Outcome of the Coroners Efforts In
Baking TJp the Marquis Becord.
New York, July 31 Since the Marquis
de Mores killed Captain Mayer in a duel, tbe
prominent Hebrews of New York have been
investigating the Marquis past record. On
the day the news of Captain Mayer's death
reached the country. Coroner Levy met
several of the leading Hebrews of this city
and a conference was held. Arrangements
weie made to collect evidence against the
Marquis de Mores to present when his trial
comes up in France.
Coroner Levy.in his indlgnation.oxpressed
himself as indorsing Captain Mayer's cour
age in challenging De Mores, and said that
he would have done the same thing himself.
This interview was widely copied, and
Coioner Levy has received many letters
from Hebrews throughout the United States
commending what he had said, and offering
flnanoial aid in prosecuting De Mores. A
few days ago, however. Coroner Levy re
ceived a letter signed "Laurencello de
Mores," challenging him to meet the writer.
A OBEAT SNAKE MOUND.
The Peabody Museum Slakes a Singular
Discovery In an Ohio Township.
Lkbaxox, O., July 31 A very important
archaeological discovery bas been made in
Hamilton township. It has been known for
a long time tbat there were evidences or
Mound Builders' monuments ,on tbe old
Stubbs farm, but from the peculiar location
and varied character of the fields they were
not Identified nntli Dr. S. S. Scoville discov
ered tbat they were parts or a single earth
work, a Berpeat mound. Prof. Putnam, of
tbe Peabody Museum, has verified the dis
covery, and pronounces It one of the great
est of American antiquities.
Mr. Metz, or the Peabody Museum and
World's exposition, has surveyed it, and
with Pror. Putnam is making explorations
in It. - The snake is about 1,900 feet long and
about ten feet through. The'lamous Adams
winntv aernent is much smaller, and was
"supposed to be the only one in existence.
A ne new nnu is sown uuiica uciun a au
cient, in a rich arcbieologlcal district.
THIRTY HOWLING DEEVISHES.
The First to Leave Their Native Land Will
Show at tho World's Fair.
New Yoek, July 3L One score and ten
howling dervishes, sons or the Desert or
Sahara, were passengers on the Anchor line
Trlnacrla, which arrived from Mediter
ranean ports last night. This is the first
visit to the country of dervishes, being
against the religious principles of the sect to
which they belong to permit them to leave
tbeir native land.
Their presence in this country to-day is
due to the activity of one of their country
men well known in this city, who brings
tbem here for the pnrposeof money making.
By traveling five days across tbe desert they
reached a British colony, and. being under
tbe protection of the flag or England they
were allowed to go tbeir way. They were
dressed in Oriental costume last night and
squatted about tbe deck of tbe rteamer in all
postures. Tbey will go to the World's Fair
after displaying tbeir alleged powers lu this
city.
LIGHTNING PE0M A CLEAB SET.
It Strikes a Man, Though There Was Not
a Cloud in Sight.
Desveb, July SL At 6 o'clock p. m. last
Sunday L Hougb, a laborer at Castle Rock,
was driving a pin in the ground with a
hatchet. The sky was clear, but a bolt of
lightning rushed down from it and struck
Hongb. Tbe top was taken off his hat and
consumed, and tbe rim of the bat was split.
His hair was singed all over his head, and
upon the crown It was bnrned in the shape
ola tonsure, a piece about the size of a quar
ter being wholly bare.
A livid mark Is left across his breast, from
shoulder to shoulder, and directly above hla
beart a hole was burned In his shirt. Hough
did not know wbat struck him. He remained
unconscious till 10 p. x , but then quite re
covered his senses and is still alive.
TOM HEED'S LATEST BHEAZ.
He Pnts an Offensive Personality Into an
Epigram and Passes It for Wit.
New York Press.!
"The Prophet and the ballot box both
stuffed that is the Democratic war cry."
Ex-Speaker Tom Reed uttered tbis bon mot
at Washington Friday while surrounded by
a gtoup of Republican members of tbe
House who were gathered about a window
or the Capitol trying to catch a breath of
air somewhat cooler than 100. Ten minutes
afterward the saying was all over tbe big
marble building, and soon it will be all
over the country.
"Tbe Prophet and tbe ballot box both
stuffed" is a sentenoe which will be one of
the epigrams of this campaign.
The More of Them, the Merrier.
Boston Globe.3
If all the reports are true, Columbus was
born in several places. He was also burled
In several places. So it is not entirely incon
sistent tbat the anniversary of his discovery
should be celebrated on several dates.
A SteaDenvlIle Hotel C hinges Hands.
PrxTjoEirvniE, July SL Special. Last
nigbt the Mossgrovo United States Hotel, of
tbis city, which bas been in the hands of the
Mosgrovefpmlly since 1847, passed Into new
hands. J. P. IlcffTor Richmond, Ind., having
purchased tbe establishment.
In TJi&tT is Strength.
Chicago In ter Ocea:
There are no d
igruntled Republicans in
New York, says
Depew. The same thing
may be said of alljtbe country. The Repuo-
lleans hayo no quirreU to ettleat the polls.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
The University of Berlin offers students
tbeir choice of 71S lectures.
The manitee, once numerous in Cali
fornia, is now regarded as extinct.
Bombay has a population of 821,760,
and Calcutta with its two immediate suburbs
a population of 741,140.
Snakes are so numerous in Atchison,
Kan., that they crawl into the houses and
play with the children.
Quill pens were first nsed A. D. 553;
steel pens were invented bv Wise, or Eng
land, U03, and improved by Gillott 1822.
The fourth verse of the twentieth chap
ter of Revelations contains more words than
any other verae in the New Testament 83.
Artesian wells were known at Thebes
as long ago as the time of Timerion, 2,000
years before the beginning of the Christian
era.
The Puget Sound oysters are the largest
known, being sometimes two feet across and
weighing, Inclusive of the shell, as much at
60 poundH. a
Though the next total solar eclipse dcet
not take place until April 15, 1893. astrono
mers are already astir making plans for ob
serving it.
A dwarf residing at Shigaken, Osaka,
isSSyearsoIdandbut 17 inches high. Ho
is well educated and earns a livelihood by
teaching penmanship.
The total acreage of Scotland is 18,.
916.634. Of this comparatively small landed
area ono nobleman owns 1,3:6,000 acres and
IiIj wife 149.879 acres more.
Extraordinary prices were paid at the)
sale or the Comtesse d'Yvon's collections in
Paris last month. A piece of tapestry after
Wuttcau realized $25,200.
The condor soars higher than any other
bird, spending nine-tenths of its time float
ing in the rarified atmosphere at a distance
of three miles above sea level.
Alhozen, an Arabian born in the year
1000 A D., first taught the present theory of
vlson, and explained why we see but one
picture of an object with our two eyes.
Pro Douglass has succeeded in manu
facturlng miniature cyclones and tornadoes
by means of electricltv, thus proving the
electrical character of the "prairie terrors."
In 1774, Maskelyne, the Astronomer
Royal orEngland.first calculated the weight
or the earth. The writfht, as estimated la
an encyclopedia is ,000,CKX),000,OOO.OCO,000.000
tons.
John ilcDarby, of Salmon Falls, Mass.,
has double teeth all around, and a stomach
which doesn't rebel when he obews and
swallows glass, stones and other indlgesti
bles. The evidence obtained from the three
enumerations of 1372, 1881 and 1892 tends to
show tbat the bill and forest tribes of India
are gradually being incorporated Into Hin
duism. There are still over 8,000 widows of
veterans or the war of 1812 on the rolls, not-,
withstanding the lapse of nearly three gen
erations since the close of tbat interesting
struggle.
The United States manufactures 65,000
hats every day, while England manufactures
about 40,000. Tbe largest hat manufactory
in the world is the Brussels, which turns out
10,000 bats a day.
It is predicted that in the course of
time Northern Thibet will become a second
California, perhaps even richer than tha
first In precious metals lying in the soil over
the vast surface or the desert land.
African travelers tell us that the white
rhinoceros frequently dies from eating
poisonous plants which have no effect on.
the black one, probably because tbe flno
scent of the latter tell3 hlra it is dangerous.
Sometimes a porsupine will remain in
a hemlock tree a week at a time, hugging
close to the trunk at night and feeding dur
ing the day. This curious little beast Is tba
only known living thing that eat the foli
age of the hemlock.
The soldering of aluminum, which has
long been a difficult problem, has been re
cently solved. By sprinkling the surface to
be soldered with chloride of silver, and
melting down, the soldering is effected sim
ply and satisfactorily.
The ancient Egyptians believed that.
Iron was the bone or Typbon, the enemy of!
Osiris, and lor this reason it was considered '
Impure. Nou one conld make use oflt eveuT
forthe most ordinary requirements of Hfei
without polluting his soul.
The finest grades of razors are so delk
cato that tbe famous Damascussword blades
cannot equal them In texture. It Is not gen-'
eraliy known tbat the grain of a Swedish
razor is so sensitive tbat tbe general direc
tion is cbanged after a sbort service.
Lackharaba J, India, is the latest scene)
of a school teacher's bravery. The young
woman in question was attaoked by a lion,
but managed to keep tbe animal at bay with,
that peculiarly feminine weapon a com
mon broom until assistance arrived.
After the Salina county (Kan.) cyclons
a grocer missed a washing machine which
was standing on the pavement Jnst before
the storm. It was picked up tbe otber day
on the open prairie, several miles front
Salina, in a perfect state of preservation.
It appears that a colored or dark pig,
ment in the olfactory regions Is essential to
perfeot smell. In cases where animals are
pure white they are usually totally devoid
of both smell and taste: and some, the white
cat for an Instance, are almost invariably
deaf. .
In making railroad tunnels, cuts, etc.,
and in sinking wells and pits in Nevada,
Utah and Arizona, salt strata are often
struck at varying depths, sometimes as
much as a hundred yards beneath the sur
face. Hundreds or fish, perfectly preserved,
are fonnd In blocks of this pure rock salt.
The gold diggers of Thibet, most of
whom are Chinese, make air do the work of
water. That is to say, they use the same
process by which farmers used to winnow
their grain Defore fanning mills were in
vented. They lift the baskets containing
earth and gold to an elevation and then
slowly empty the contents to the ground.
In the Japanese capital there is a gigan
tic image of a woman made or wood. Iron
and plaster. Tne time or Its erection and.
the name of its designer are in dispute, but
it is known to have been dedicated to Hach
iman, the god of war. In height It measures
54 feet, tbe head alone, which is reached by
a winding stairway in tbe interior of the.
figure, being capable of holding a company
of 20 persons.
SC3IMEB SILHOUETTES.
Young cucumbers,
Crisp and green,
Willie slumbers.
Aged 13.
, Kansas City Journal,
Ob, blister weather, ere you're lost,
In that kind which Is not.
Pray tell ns wiib your latest breath
Where did you get tbat hot?
Detroit Free Press,
Nellie Summergirl We've been engaged?
over a week. George, dear! Don't you think vr3
ought to break it?'
George Indemand Break the engagement) Whyt
love, are you tired of me so soon?
"N-no: but don't you think I ought to give the
otber girls some c nance at too. seeing you're tba
only wan here?" Boston Seics.
In the suburbs. "Hark! I hear a lawn
mower at work on your lawn, don't I, Mrs. Bran
son?" 'No. ma'am, you do not. Tbat is dear little)
Willie playing with bis new rattle. ' ' Chicago ieie,
A good many people are puzzled just now,
And their brains are set In a whirl.
For they really want to know, you know,
"Whence comes the snmmer girl?"
In answer to those who do not know
I would simply briefly state.
That the now snmmer girl, Jnst a month ago.
Was a "sweet girl graduate."
Brooklin Eaglt,
Alice "What broke off the match between
Grace and Fred?
Jennie Silly thing, tbe got mad because he gave
her,aeopy of vangellne" lnsfead of a pair of
suspenders for her birthday gift. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"Do you like yatching?"
"No." replied the girl with a limited wardrobe,
"I am not accostumed to It." ' Somerset Sews,
The weather has been so unlucky
That to stand it a man most be plucky.
For the heat, so they state.
Brought discomfort so great.
That they even want rain In Kentncry.
Washington Star,
"Waggles The mosquito reminds me of a
profetiloaal sinner.
Jsggles-How that?
Waggles When It baa got through It Mactt--
prescnu its oiu. aev iqtk evening so,
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