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NO ROOM rOR DISPUTE.
The dispute as to the form of the tickets
to be issued by the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth for the first election
under the Baker act does not have much
foundation. The intent of the law is clear
enough on this point, when all its provis
ions are taken into account. It provides
that the voter can either designate his
choice by making a cross mark opposite
the name of each candidate, or, if he
rushes to vote tne straight party ticket,
by makinc; the cross-mark "opposite the
party name or political designation." To
do this it Is necessary that each party
ticket shall be crouped under one head.
II is the plain .purpose of the enact
ment that "the names of all the candi
dates so nominated by such political party
shall be arranged in groups as presented
in the several certificates of nomination
with the party, descriptive words or po
litical appellation at the head of the
group. " i
On the other hand, the law provides that
in the case of nomination by nomination
papers "the names of candidates for cacli
olhce shall be arranged under the designa
t.on of the office in alphabetical order ac
conlinc to their surnames." Thus the
law makes a di stinction between the two
classes of nominations. It is one of those
discriminations against the minor parties
which gives foundation to the charge that
the law was manipulated in the interest of
the greater parties for the express pur
pose of making voting difficult. The dif
ference between the treatment of nomin
ations by parties casting over ten per cent
of the vote and by nomination papers was
introduced in the Senate amendments,
with the result that the party voter cau
cast his vote correctly by simply making
the mark opposite the party title, while
the independent, or minor party voter,
must hunt out the names of his candidates
from various alphabetical lists.
This is the law as it stands. The dis
crimination is an unjust one, introduced
for an illegitimate purpose, but it permits
of no doubt as to what the form of the
ticket must be under the law.
ENGLAND'S LABOR SITUATION.
1 he English press has been po'nting the
finger of scorn at America's industrial
situation, saying all sorts of harsh things
about our policy and our wage disputes.
They took a long range view through a
free trade telescope, and adjusted it
so as to magnify things according
to their own liking. But while
taking observations they were care
ful not to bring the editorial glass to
bear on their own manufacturers and
w orkingmen. This was left for the news
gatherer, and now the cable brings gloomy
reports from England's industrial ceuters.
In the cotton working districts the de
pression Is disheartening. The workers
there are restless, too, and the agitation
in favor of an eight-hour work-day
promises to add a strike feature to the
gloomy situation. On the Clyde ship
builders are laying off squads of me
chanics and laborers, the only excuse be
ing lack of work. A discharge or a tem
porary cessation to a toiler eking out an
existence on the meager pittance doled
by employers in Free Trade Britain
means a great deal hunger at
least, and perhaps starvation. In
protected America the average arti
san and even the lowest-waged laborer
can stand a rest, be it of his own choice or
enforced, without facing the wolf on the
instant.
The awful pictures the English Free
Trade editors have painted about Ameri
ca's epidemic of labor agitation should be
turned to the wall They can find gloom
ier and sadder ones at home.
NOT A VALID IMPEACHMENT.
Mr. Bobert Bonner thinks the recent
record-breaking exploit of Nancy Hanks
was due to the pneumatic tire and ball
bearing sulky with which she accom
plished her feat Therefore he intimates
rather than claims that she should not be
credited with having taken the laurels
away from Maud S and Sunol, which
fliers are Mr. Bonner's properties.
The fact that the records in trotting and
, pacing were lowered with the new sulky
gives a good deal of color to the theory
that it is an aid to fast time. But that
does not at all invalidate the right of the
new goers to claim supremacy from their
records. It might as well be claimed that
because a horse has made 2:20 with an or
dinary sulky on a good track, therefore
its record is no better that one that has
failed to make that time drawing a road
wagon. Maud S and Sunol made their
records with all the accessories of har
ness and vehicle invented so as to afford
the least burden to the trotter; but rrb one
claimed that this consideration should Im
peach their superiority to the record of
Goldsmith Maid.
If Mr. Bonner wishes to show that his
trotters arc still superior to the mare that
has snatched their laurels, he can do so
by letting them beat 2:07 drawing the
new sulky. The public will welcome
such a feat with the same enthusiasm as
it accorded to Nancy Hanks' so far un
rivaled mile.
AS EDUCATIONAL, AGENCY.
Among the gratifying results of the new
Catholic summer school just closed at
New London, Connecticut, is that stated
by Rev. Morgan M. Sheedy in an article
published elsewhere. The welcome afforded
liy the people of Now London to" the
visitors shows that all people cau meet on
ilic common urounds of educational ad
vancement and the universal principles
of religion. The same quality appears In
in another form when the Catholic Church
adopts methods of advancing general in
telligence that have been peculiar to ad-,
vanced Protestantism. Tho name, of
Catholic Chautauqua, and tho fraternal
hospitality extended by the Puritans of
New London to the visitors, to that educa
tional feast, show how the sectarian hos
tility which was tho bequest of past cen
turies is giving way to the influences of
intelligence and common purposes.
Among the new features that arc to
come from the New London meeting is
tho formation of an assembly of the
national organization in Pittsburg. Such
a means for popular study will reach
many not accessible to the ordinary agen
cies, and will be of tho greatest use. ' The
heartiest wishes for success will attend
tho new organization.
A SALIENT CONTRAST.
In Leeds, one of the noted manufactur
ing centers in England, a prominent city
official was asked not long ago If he knew
of a workinpman, mechanic or engineer
who owned his own home. The reply
was: "If I were on oath In court I should
be obliged to answer no."
This affords one of the most
pointed contrasts between the condi
tion of labor in this country and in
England. Even in nomestead, where
the struggle caused by concentrating a
great masS of labor on one hand and a
great mass of capital on the other has
been accentuated to a dangerous degree,
ownership by the workmen of homes of a
superior class presents a prominent feat
ure. As a rule the first ambition of a
young worklngman and hi? wife is to buy
a home of their own. Willi the good
wages secured under the protective sys
tem this has been dono to an
extent that is creditable alike to the
w orkingmen Individually and to the
nation as a whole. In Philadelphia
170,000 workingmen own their own homes.
Here tne proportion may op less, Dut mere
is no doubt that of the 00,000 owners of
Pittsburg real estate three-quarters in
number belong to the working class.
A striking illustration of the same con
trast is presented in a statement of Mr.
Cooprr, of the British Hosiery Company,
which runs a hosiery manufacturing estab
lishment in Rhode Island, having removed
it from England. The wages paid in this
establishment are with scarcely an excep
tion 100 per cent greater than England.
The manufacturer adds that in eight years
several of his hands have saved enough
to buy their homes and others are doing
the same. The system under which work
ingmen Lecome property owners Is the
safe one for a democracy to adhere to.
That under ihich it is impossible for
them to own their homps presents few at
tractions to workingmen.
THE CAfAL QUESTION.
There is something exasperating in the
fatuity with which some of our Philadel
phia cotemporarles, in discussing the
projects for internal waterways, refuse to
take anything into consideration except
the proposed canals for connecting Phila
delphia with NcwTork harbor and con
necting the Chesapeake with Delaware
Bay. The intimation that the East will
support such canal projects is most unde
sirable, because, it degrades the compre
hensive and far-sighted canal policy into
a matter of grabs for the benefit of separ
ate localities.
The canal projects to which our Phila
delphia cotemporaries are now devoting
their chief attention are really projects of
minor necessity. They are supported on
the plea of providing a protected water
way along the coast and bv statements of
the magnitude of the commerce of the
ports engaged. But the great mass of this
commerce consists of direct exports and
imports which would not use the canals.
No one can claim that it is one half so im
portant to provide a limited waterway
for a commerce which already enjoys an
unlimited one as it is to provide a water
way for commerce of equal or superior
magnitude which now has no such means
of transportation.
It is time for the people who are inter
ested in canal work to take outspoken po
sition on this point. The canal policy
should be placed on a national basis, in
which the first article shall be that the
works of imperative necessity and nation
al magnitude shall have precedence.
While there is no adequate access to the
Great Lakes, except through a foreign
country; while the great grain andiron
staples are forced to bear the burden of
railway charges, which might be supplant
ed by water transportation, it is little less
than antagonism to the canal policy to
claim precedence for a project which will
give New York and Philadelphia a merely
local addition to their present facilities, in
the improvement of which large sums
have already been spent by the nation.
The completed canal policy may very
justly contemplate the construction of an
internal waterway along the coast. But
the working out of that policy should be
placed very clearly on the principle that
the different works are to be taken up in
the order of their importance.
INTERNATIONAL SPITE.
There is a petty triumph for the French
in their success at killing off the Berlin
Exposition that does the French character
little credit Early in the year the Ber
liners formed the idea of a grand exposi
tion in that city in 1806 or 1898. The
Kaiser gave his sanction to the plan, arid
the Berlin people were working themselves
up to a state of enthusiasm when the ma
lign Parisian influence interposed.
The Figaro rushed to the front with a
proposition for holding in 1900 a grand
Parisian exhibition which should outshine
anything the world had ever seen. It was
not to be held as a rival of the Berlin
show, the Figaro was careful 'fo say, for
how could Berlin rival Paris? The Par
isians welcomed the proposition with en
thusiasm; Berlin heard of it with wrath.
The Parisian boom progressed till the
French Government gave its sanction to
the project. The gloom cast on the Ber
lin project increased until the Kaiser an
nounced in the official organ that the Em
peror on the advice of Von Caprivi had
withdrawn his sanction from the Berlin
project
This is humiliating for Germany in the
commercial sense; but it is a petty sort of
humiliation which reflects no credit on
France. The woman who gives a party
or wears a dress simply to outshine a rival
is acting on petty motives which are no
less small when adopted Dy a nation. We
see It said that if Bismarck had been
Chancellor the Kaiser would not have
suffered this defeat It is news that Bis
marck is so popular in Paris that he would
have been able to prevent the Parisians
from acting the marplot with Berlin's am
bition. It is reassuring to learn from onr cotem
porarles that the banana skin possesses n
liber from w liicli can bo made uno and beau
tiful cloth, and that thus every part of the
bannna cun bu mado to contribute to the
welfare or mankind. Tills will bo a radical
reform. The function of the banana fekln
has been to lay In trait for the unwary and
to cause mankind to perform Involuntary
and hazardous pigeon-wings on city side
walks. That It Is to be Induced to mend Its
ways and make Itself nserul to man instead
of leading a short lire of malicious mischief
is a promise of improvement that cannot too
soon be realized.
When we hear of temperatures of 100
in the shade at Vienna, and of tho birds
dropping dead lrom tho trees in Madrid, wo
are Impelled to conolnde that the tbermom
oters of Europe are operated with vigorous
imagination.
Love is being talked about a great deal
now. But It isn't the sentimental sort just
tne namo lor nothing In tennis.
An inquirer asks the New York Sun
whom it would name as Poet Laureate if
this country possessed such an office. Tho
esteemed $un professes to . know where a
posslblo Laureate exits, but declines to
namo him; which course strengthens the
conclusion obvious to most people that we
have not cot one. This may be tin embar
rassing conclusion; bnt it is not so much so
as if it were necessary to appoint a Laurcato
and the same tlisoovery should ba made.
Thore was a time in England when Colloy
Cibber was tlio Poot Laureate.
What commentary on the cleanliness of
tho average Frenchman is this: "Do certain
to take a good wash before you dress." This
from a Freuch writer on personal beauty,
too.
Texas Democrats have split in two, but
it is reported that tho Hogg win? still con
tinues to monopolize the tiougb.
We admire the enthusiasm more than we
can approve tho judgment of a Philadelphia
cotemporary which ejaculates: "Even if tho
. Park Bonlovard does cost $6,000,000 it will be
well worth the money." The opinion
is based on the utility of educating the Phil
fidelpbians up to wide streets; but the edu
cation ought to be accomplished by much
less expensive illustrations. A park boule
vard is a very nice thing, but $6,003,000 of
Tublio money is no less than $6,000,000 of
private funds.
Is Congressman Cobb to be allowed to
sink into the forgetfulness of oblivion?
Some one ought to stir him upngain.Just to
tbiovr a littlo life Into tho situation.
Somebody recently left Emperor Will,
iatn $2, and the Empoior well, he put it in
his pocket.
The observers at the Lick Observatory
saw SchlnparelU's canals in the double form
in our neighboring planet, Jsnving first dis
covered themslngle. Thisseems to vindicate
the Italian's discovery of the double canals,
with the qualification that they aie not
canals at nil, unless, lndped, It is intended to
claim that Mara, adds to its unique feature
or having new moons four times a day by
possessing canals which are single one week
and double the next.
Jay Gould has again proved himself an
artful dodger, lie managed to reach New
York from out West without bolng inter
viewed by the wayside.
A strong solution of silence seems to
have been injected into the campaign lead
ers lately.
Perhaps it may be worth preserving in
the list of curious coincidences that the cool
wave spiead over tho country the weok that
our esteemed cotemporary Charles A. Dana
suggested to the Cleveland managers that
D. B. Hill be retained to ante up the anti
lorce bill literature for the Democratic cam
paign. Somebody should furnish the campaign
with pneumatic tires anda kite-shaped track.
Perhaps then it might move along at a
swilter gait.
It is hinted that Cleveland now haB his
stationery boxes labeled "write side up with
care."
After five months in the West Mr. Jay
Gould has arrived in New York and is re
ported to be "a's brown as a Western cow
boy." Is that an augury of the color to
which the lambs will bo done: or are we to
expect that his operations will ninke the
atmosphere of Wall street blue?
And now a soda water fountain in the
East bursts and kills a man. Is there any
thing lett that is perfectly Bate?
The ides of November will soon be here,
and what will poor Cleve and Steve do then?
The scientific opinion of Prof. J. Me
Anllffe that in the tuture "onions will be an
important part of the diet of every man
training for a fight" presages that the wnt
farc of pugilists with their mouths is to be
moio deadly than ever.
FAYORiTES OP FORTUNE.
M. Labsen, a rich Danish banker who
was the imago of the Czar of Russia, is now
in an insane asylum.
Governor Fifer, of Illinois, was so
poor in his youth that when he enlisted as a
Union soldier he walked barefoot to Bloom
lngton. M. Felix Tisserand, the new director
oftheraris Observatory, is a professor of
astronomy and mathematics. lie succeeds
Admiral Moucnez.
The widow of General Thomas Jonathan
Jackson retains the soubriquet coupled with
her husband's name in the army, and signs
herself "Mrs. Stonewall Jackson."
Lord Salisbury's disinclination to ac
cept a dukedom is not shared, it is said, by
Lady Salisbury and several members of the
Cecil family, who are most dealt ous that lie
should accept it.
General A, W. Greely, the head of
tho United States Signal Corps (though not
of the Weather Bureau, nsmany people still
suppose), ridicules tho idea of signaling the
people or Mars.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone started for
Hawarden, thoir home in Wales, Saturday
morning. A large crowd had gathered at
the station and the Prime Minister was
given an ovation.
If Senator Cullom is correctly reported,
he has been telling gome one that Senator
Hoar, before sailing for Europe, declared
that he never expected to return to his old
duties in Washington again.
Pope Leo XIIL will celebrate two jobi
lees next year if his life xliould be spared so
long. On February 19, 1893, half a century
will have passed since he was called to the
episcopate by being appointed Bishop of
Dnmietta, and on December- IS, 1S93, 10 years
will have passed awav since ho received the
Cardinal's hat.
MassWon's New Church.
Massilloit, Aug. 21. Special The largest
nember of strangers ever seen in this city
at one time were hero to-day. The occasion
was the dedication of St. Mary's German
Catholic Church, and also the semi-centennial
celebration of the organization of the
church. Bishop Horstmanu, or Cleveland,
conducted the ceremonies, assisted by 12
priests from other cities.
Th Characteristics of Two Die Cities.
.New York Press.
This is characteristic: New Yorkers are
dredging in the sea for lost gold, Chicago
ans are dredging in the lake for lost whisky.
Labor Pays the Piper.
Baltimore American.
It is the worklngman who has to eventu
ally pay the cost of strikes and oC the law
lessness that accompanies them.,
An titter Waste of Money.
Toledo Blade.
Abont November Joe Pulitzer will wish
ho hadn't put $10,000 into the Democratic
campaign fund.
The Defaulting Cashier Classified.
Detroit Journal,
Defaulting cashiers belong neither to the
ago ol gold or bronze, but to tho shortage.
SECOND SlGHT TOURS.
Iwhittsn ron the dispatcim
One of the advantages of a second sight
of Europe is that you have more leisure for
details. The first time one gets a general
impression. lie sees the outside. Be gets
an idea of the looks of streets and of the
shape of roofs. He remembers how the spires
and towns stand out against the sky. When
one comes again all that is in a measure
familiar, and there is inclination and. oppor
tunity to look closer.
The quick look has its compensations. The
hasty visitor who "sees" Rome in a day may
get a very vivid and even a true impression.
Anyhow, he will probably be able to tell
other people more about Rome than bo will
after a second visit, when he has seen more.
There is profound philosophy in the remark
or the man who complained that he
could not see the city for the
houses. He wanted to see the city but,
whatever way ho Iookod, the houses ob
structed sight. It often happens that people
talk best about the subjects of which tlioy
know little. They are not embarasscd by
details.
The hasty tourist may often look at a city
with a truer sense or perspective than the
oldest inhabitant. He is apt to recognize
hotter the relative importance of the sights
of the town. He can stay only six hours,and
ha wants to get all he can into those six
hours. So he discriminates. He singles out
the most important, tho most Interesting
sights and sees them. People who live
within touch of these interesting places and
mny see them any day, sometimes far that
reason do not see them, or, if they do see
them, they grow, accustomed to the sight
and It loses its importance.
Everybody who reads Stookton's stories
will remember how in "The -"House of
Martha" the hero comes back from Europe
full of the most delightful memories of
Interesting sights and lomnntia adventures,
here ho has been and theie, this and that
great man has ho seon, and he wants to tell
everybody- ho knows. But, bonoldl the
people of the little town In which he lives
aie far mora interested In the parochial
measles than they are in the Pope of Rome.
They care a great deal more about the
chronicles of the sewing society than about
the fcenery of Switzerland. And the un
fortunate traveler-is forced at last to hire
somebody to sit still and hear him tell his
tales It is a great thing to have an ap
preciation of perspective. Often thoBe who
aro acquainted with many details lose that.
Pittsburg's glected Treasure.
I WAS talking the other day with a mem
ber of Parliament who had once made a
visit to Pittsburg. What," faldho, "doyou
suppose I went to look nt first?" Well,
what was iff The Court House? The great
mills along t;he rlvera? The palaces of tho
East End? No, but the site of Fort Du
quesne, and the Old Block Hnusel And I had
to confess that I had lived a good many
years in Pittsburg and yet have never made
my pilgrimage to that historic shrine. Really,
I suppose,the ground where that old foi tress
stood is the most inteiestingspot between
the Allegheney and Monongahola rivers, but
yet. If there should be a law mado disfran
chising all onr unpatriotic citizens who had
never seen that historic building, what a
email vote would be polled in Pittsburg next
November!
Ybt I balanced that by happening to know
moio about a cettain tomb in Worcester Ca
thedral than the vicar of a neighboring
parish. King John is buried in Worcester
Cathedral, in tho choir in a very conspicu
ous tomb in fiont of the high altar. That
old reprobate, now that he Is dead, lies thei e
In the church like a saint nnd martyr.
There Is an ancient efflgy of him on top of
tho tomb, and on eithet side are carved two
smallor Azures In monastic dress, and
Kins John Heslbetween them. And I found
great fatisfaction in assuring my good
friend, the vicar ofGrimley, four miles from
rt'orcester. that even as far away ns Pitts
burg wo knew how King John, when he
came to die, being greatly and 'quite natur
allyafraid of the eternal burnings, caused
himself to be wrapped up In a monk's gown
and cow, the cowl being drawn over his
face, and ordered that he shonld be bnried
between two saints. On the Day of Judg
ment the old sinner thought they would all
rise un together there In -Worcester choir,
and John being in such .excellent com
pany and in suoh' penitential dress, St.
Peter -would think that biidsof a feather
had flocked together, and would take him
for a saint. The vicar, unless he was do-
ceptlvely courteous as peoplo sometimes
are when they hear old stories told over
again had never bothered hi) head to
think wnat a satire upon medieval religion
was written In stone on that old tomb which
he bad seen a thousand times.
Rare Itellrs In nclent Chester.
It is the delight of a second journey that
there is leisure for such quaint details. At
Chester I found that I cared lest this time
for the cathedral than I did for the Roman
teltcs in the museum. Here were stones
which wore hewn out and handled by mon
who lived along these same old streets so long
ago that St. Peter and St. Paul and St John
were alive then! Here was a town that had
been continuously inhabited and of im
portance for more than eighteen hundred
years! I remember especially an altar there
which was erected by a physician. Tho doc
tor was a Greek and he had Journeyed up
from Rome in the train of the Emperor in
the days when Britain was a pleasant,
though somewhat insecure, place of summon
i osorc for the aristocracy of tho capital. It
had been a long Journey, not without
perils by the way, and the good doctor, get
ting safely to the end of It, devoutly re
turned thanks to the god Terminus, or what
ever his namo was in Greek, for his protec
tion. Ho had this altar made, and had an
inscription cut into it in Greek letters, and
upon the top, in a little hollow for oil, he
had ponred'out an ablution and said his
grateful prayers. And while the doctor was
on his tourney, St. Paul was no doubt upon
one of his Journeys, setting on foot a now
order of things which should one
day make the old gods obsolete, and leave
the old attars to he broken and burled and
inherit the strength of the empire! Ono
thinks such thoughts in front of sncli a
piece of stone. Suoh stones aro impressive
in any museum. We must get some one of
these days for the Carnegie Library. But
here upon ,the spot, where it all happened
there is a wonderful addition of interest.
Unbeaten Paths the Most Charming'.
On a second journey, too, one is more apt
tostrayofftheiouteof the tourists, and to
see sights which are mado doubly delightful
by a certain sense of discovery. Thus I re
member a round tower at Aghadoe, beside
the Lower Lake of Killarney. There are sev
eral hundreds of round towers In Ireland,
built, some say, In the old days when men
had to be on the watch against the piratical
Danes. The way up to the Aghadoe tower
lies along a stoney lane, bordered with
hedges. Few people visit It. But tho
ivy grows picturesquely over the
broken walls, and yon can see
out over the fair' lake, and it
Is all so still up there, and so untouched by
the irreverent hands of later civilization,
that the old past seems to come back, and
tho lords and ladies seem to live again, and
from the turrets of the wall the watchman
looks out towaid the salt water for the sails
of Danish ships. The old ohurch beside the
tower pleased mo more than Muckross
Abbey. For Muckross belongs to everybody;
even the cook people go there; but Agbadoo
Church seems a personal possession.
So. too, with delightful and eyer-memor-
vable Grlmley. Who, except me, has ever
been to Grlmley? The vicarage, with its
quiet and trim and beautiful gardens, the
old church amid the graves, who will dis
pute possession of thorn with me? It Is like
a discovery of Eden. To walk to church
aoross the fields, summoned by a bell which
is dated 1193, to find one's way along the
lanes botween tho briok walls and beside tho
thatched cottages, to go between the ancient
yew tiecs, and by the old Roman coffin of
stone, and the broken churchyard cross, and
to Bay one's prayeri in a church which tho
monks built while IVllliam the Norman, or
William his son, was yet alive, is to enjoy
an experience whlcl) Is permitted to but few
of the most fayored'pf mortals. Of course,
there are people who to church at Grlmley
every Sunday. But tpey havo grown famil
iar with it. EverythinY depends upon ap
preciation. And to appreciate the quiet
corners of this fair countrA the Ivy and the
nenges ana tne gray towertvi tne enurcnes,
one nerds to como from Pit
Even in
.Pittsburg we have nothing oj
) this.
THE CANALS OP MAR?.
Novel Ideas Advanced by Dr. Paul Glbler
Their Posilble Ue.
Dr. Paul Glbler In New York Herald.
Though I Have not the honor to bean
astronomer, none the less I take a keen in
terest in everything that can give us a more
accurate idea of this universe, one of whose
citizens I am. Furthermore, what I have to
say has only an indirect relation with the ce
lestial system. Many interesting things have
been said of late in rerard to the nlanet
Mars, bnt one point, so larasl know, has.
tCbClVCUilUVUIIBlUClUUUll, BHU II II Ul WHO,
the meaning of the canals of Mars and their
connection with the social status of the
planet's Inhabitants, If indeed thero aro any
canals and any inhabitants there, that I
wish to speak.
Let mo assume, onoo and for all, that Mars
Is inhabited and that Its vast canals have
been due by intelligent hands. Perhaps tho
object of theso canals is to carry water
inland, where it has already begun to be
scarce. Mars is much older than the earth,
according to the evolutionary theory of plan
etary growth, which teachos that on all of
them there is a constant tendency toward
the total absorption of both air and water,
and the combination of both with the solid
elements making up their mass. The moon,
where tho evolutionary process is still more
advanced than in Mars, seems to have
reached the state of absolute solidification,
so that life, as we know it, is no longer pos
sible mere.
Another useful service may bo served by
the Martial canals that of lessening the
eflects of periodical convnlsions, like those
felt on tho earth, in a lesser detrree, on ac
count of tho precession of the" equinoxes.
The seas of Mars in moving from one hemi
sphere to the other in obedience to these
forces, mnyflow through the canals In ques
tion, and the submersion of tho continents
may thus bo averted. Lastly, the canals
may sorve as means of communication and
transportation between the inhabited con
tinents. The excavation of these canals could not
have been effected without the employment
of forces so enormous that we can form only
a feeble idea ortliem. Moreover, tho whole
population of Mars must have worked to
gether in harmony, united as one man, or
rattier as one communltv, to bring to its
conclusion a task so truly Titanic
It is quite legitimate to suppose since the
Inhabitants of Mars beiran thoirdevelopmont
at a far remoter date thun did those of tho
earth that the present social status of these
tcsidontsof the skies is that toward which
we, too, are tending that Is to say, they
evidently must be united in ono ereat and
homogeneous nation (for their sakes, it is to
be hoped) and consolidated in one vast
fraternity. Alas! how many million times
must onrenrth travel so its huge orbit around
the sun before wo arrive nt such a stasre of
development? It is trne that then will have
begun the decrepitude of onr star.
After all, the know ledge and appreciation
of a great and common danger may have
brought about the universal pence which
innst iehrn on Mars, and a similar Influence
would doubtless tenoh us the same lesson:
but nothing is more difficult than to make
men see where lies their real and veritable
Interests. Were it otherwise, the inhabit
ants of each planet would Oesin where their
successor? will end, and Cain would not
have killed Abel.
OUR MAIL POUCH.
One Cause of lin Present Unrzst,
To the Editor of The Dispatch : ,
In your Sunday edition you have an inter
esting article on tho "Allurements of Social
ism." with speeches of one A. W. Wriyhtin
regard to the Government buying tiie rail
roads. That this movement is at the bot
tom of this spti t of unrest among workmen
I believe, and it springs from a speech of the
Poot Lamartino in the French Corps dn
Legislatlf, in which he warned the nation as
to the abuses that would follow if the rail
way companies were allowed to own the
land on wtiloli they operated, and I he
llevo that the French Government
leases the land for 09 years in order
that the people shall be stronger than the
railway compnnles. Some suppose that
the reason why France received suoh a
beating from Germany at their last en
counter was because nil tho speculators,
seeinz no olianoe of money making in rail
way stock in Fiance, threw their weight in
favor of Germany, and advocated that
country to purchase the railways. Germany
did purchase them and it Is said some spec
ulators made 00,000 marks in one week by
the advance In securities.
Governor Flower, of New York, Is reported
as saying: "The railways are not making
any money, and I would not advise the
workmen to invest In them, but to put their
money In homes." And yet Socialists, work
men, etc., would like to aid speculators and
organizers tn pell out railway stookthat
don't pay, and some that does, .to the people
at fancy prices, or they propose a revolur
tion directed against railway companies to
acquire their property by force.
If it was a mistake to give the railway
companies tho ownership of the land, the
mistake has been made, and the working
men are not astute enough to solve the prob
lem how to nndn It, but they should be care
ful not to fall into the clutohes of specula
tors who will use them for dollars and cents.
Pitmbubo, August !L S. W. W.
A PB0VINCE 02 LEPEBS,
Terrible Inroads of the Dlsoase In a District
of South Ainorlca.
Pakama, Aug. 21. In the district of San
Andreas, Department of Santaud, leprosy is
said to be progressing with alarming rapid
ity. It is the general opinion there that If
Providence does not interpose within a few
yeaisthe district will be a veritable lazar
etto. To-day the Alcalde sent 12 lepers to
the capital of the Province to be sent to the
lazaretto, and it is expected he will continue
sendinz in order to diminish the number of
the unfortunate".
To-day they are collecting, those ill with
leprosy to send them to the lazaretto, be
cause the disease has declared Itself in many
persons, and now one can scacely find a per
son to employ who is free from this terrible
infirmity.
TEE NEW STAB IN AUGIBA.
A Nebula With n Stellar Nnclens, as Seen
Through the B'g Telescope.
San Fbakcisco, "Aug. 21. Prof. Edward S.
Holden telegraphs to tho Associated. Press
from Lick Observatory that visual observ
ations made by Prof. Barnard and the spec
troscopic observation by Prof. Campbell
last night, show that the now star In Auglra
is a nebula about three seconds in diameter,
with a stellar nucleus of about one-tenth
magnitude, and that it has not moved ap
preciably since last March.
He also finds that it exhibits a nebular
spectrum of three characteristic bright
lines, besides two others not yet fully iden
tified, with a background of faint continu
ous spectrum.
NON-UNION MUSIC FOB LABOR OAT.
Chicago Bands Demand Higher Sa'arles
Than the VTorklngmen Will Pay.
Chicago, Aug. 21. Tnere Is a serious split
among the trades unions, and the chances
are that there will be two parados and pos
sibly trouble on Labor Day. The difficulty
arises from the action of the Chicago Mu
sicians' Union demanding $7 per man for
.Labor Day, instead of $3, us heretofore.
Tlie laboring men wno are to act as cap
italists and foot the parade expenses object
to the Increase and have made arrange
ments with non-union bands. Others will
pay the price asked, and much bitter feeling
has been engendered.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Thomas A. Daly, Actor.
Thomas A. Daly, one of Boston's best
known actors, died at the McLean Insane Asylum,
Somervllle, Mass., Saturday, aged 33. He was ono
of the brightest and most original of the Daly
fxmllr. Captain William Daly, Dan Daly, the
comeulan: Lizzie Daly, llio soum-ette and dancer,
and the bright and lively- dancers in Purltanla"
arc brothers and sisters or the dead man. The
latest venture of Mr, Daly was a drama called
Irish Heads and German Hearts." In which
Thomas A. Daly and his wife. Lizzie Derioas Daly,
were marred, A few seasons ago Mr. Dalywaj
brutally assaulted by stage hands In a Chicago
theater, and ibe injuries which he received about
the head at that time, it Is said, arc directly re
sponsible for bis mental condition.
Captain David I'ortor Dobbins.
Captain David Porter Dobbins, of the
life saving station, died SaturdaT at his home In
Buffalo, after a short Illness, at the age of 75 years.
Captain Dobbins was well-known all orer the
lakes and coast as the Inventor of the self-righting
and balling lifeboat and various other life-saving
devices. He at one time commanded the revenue
steamer Commodore Perry.
Obituary Notes.
Cahdinal Fn'ruDmcn von FoEnsxmDUBO,
Archbishop of Olmutz, died Friday.
JOH-t Freemak a pioneer of Stark county, O..
is dead at his home in Perry township. He was 83
years of age, and for the greater part of more than
b0 ; ears he had lived with his wife on the farm on
which he died.
Bexjamix M. Blooding, of Wheeling, one of
theuldost and most prominent business men of
that clt r, died yesterday evening, aged 70 years.
He was' for years a manufacturing chemist and
wholesale druggist, and lately a leaf tobacco
broker.
HAY FEVER HINTS.
The hay fever season Is here. "Hay
fever Is the popular title for an annual re
curring affection of the mucous membranes
of the ocular and respiratory tracts," say
the authorities, but thero is so much un
certainty as to what really causes it that
the authorities do little else but develop
. theories that fo far as finding the root of
too evil are practically useless, says a writer
in tho New York Recorair.
"Hay fever" Is undoubtedly a misnomer,
for it is now known that the disease is most
prevalent long after the hay making is 'over
ana the bay is safely in the barns. "Rose
cold," the early summer form of the disease,
generally comes In Juno, before the hay
inakfng time, and though the "roso cold" Is
commonly attributed to floating pollen from
the flowers there is no certainty about that.
Occasionally victims are found who suffer
both early and late, with a cessation of the
disorder in July, and this only serves to
further pnzzle the doctors. That humidity
causes the disease has never been proved.
In 1885, when there was an early drought,
with frequent and heavy rains in July, fol
lowed by revived vegetation in August, the
hay fever was the worst experienced in
years, and there is no certainty whether
this shouldheattributed to August humidity
or to the revived vegetation.
Learned doctors have held that a
wicked little bacillus is at fault, hut if a had
little bu does tbe mischief where does be
keep himself at seasons of the year when
there Is no bay. fevert Another theory, and
one which is perhaps better founded, is that
the bay fever Is an Inherent nervous disor
der associated with engagement of the mu
cous membrane, and this has been so widely
accepted that the name Coryza Vasomotoria
Periodica, appropriate from Its resemblance
to the sneeze, ban been applied by tbe scien
tists to the dlscaie and pretty generally
adopted.
A well-known New York dootor says that
he was biought to believe in the inherent
nervous disorder theory by observing a
patient who, though living in New York
one summer and In Savannah, Ga., the nexf
summer, was atTected on exactly the same
day In August both years and this in spite
Of the sreat difference in the climates of
two cities and the marked difference In tbe
character of the vegetation at that season
of tho year. He admits that vegetation may
have caused it, but he regards that -as ex
tremely doubtful under the changed condi
tions, and be treats the dlscnso ns a nervous
disorder with varying success. Another
argument he advances In support of the
theory Is that the sufferers are almost
all mon and women who lead sedentary
lives. Cases of bay fever among the labor
ins classes, even outdoor laborers who work
under circumstances that would bring them
most in contact with floating pollen, are ex
tremely rare, and it is for this reason that
the disease is i ezarded as fashionable, and
affected by foolish people who really never
have had it. There Is a great deal of'this
affectation among people who havo slight
colds nnd who think hayfeverls "the proper
thing;" bnt real sufferers do not rejoice that
their disease is ono of tho aristocracy like
out, nnd physicians have no difficulty in
eterminlng tho real from the spurious
cases. Another well-known New York doc
tor has proved to his own satisfaction that
nay lever is the result or anatomical mal
formation of tho nasal cavities. He oper
ates npon his patients and uses electricity
with great success, it is claimed.
Tiiese are all mere theories and the
met remains that no one really knows what
causes hay fever. The symptoms, however,
aie known quantities though they vary
much in individual cases. About the middle
of August tbe eyes and pharynx begin to
itcli like anything, and the sufferer sneezes
himself almost into a state of imbecility.
Sometimes tlie fun begins earlier and some
times later, but the middle of August Is the
average date. Citizens who are ordinarily
respectable looking develop redness of eyes,
redness of nose until they look like drunk
ards. Sneezing seems to be provoked by most
trlval things. Bright light, cool currents of
air, hot currents of air and slight exposure
to the oidinary causes or catarrh all set the
sufferer off Into violent sneezing fits anil
sometimes these fits occur when It is impos
sible to assign any cause. They aro most
frequent upon getting up In the morning, or
when the viotim is guest at dinner, or is
being introduced toa pretty girl upon whom
he is particularly desirous of making an im
pression, Tne least exertion increases the
paroxysm. After the ordinary sneeze the
Bneezer experiences a feeling of relief, but
after the hay fever sneeze there is none
-and the sneezer sneezes right along without
getting Any satisfaction.
At the end of about a week after the first
attaok the throat generally becomes as dry
hs a chimney, nnd the victim, if be hasn't
high moral principles, generally takes to
drink. There is little or no saliva and a
mean, ticklish cough develops and rivals the
sneezing.
Fortunately hay fever patients never get
any further than this stage nnd suffer along
on the same old lines until the last part of
September, but in very many cases asth
matic symptoms of varying acuteness fol
low, nnd, from the most severe, death some
times results. The asthmatic turn of the
disease generally takes place about August
25, and is generally brought on by an un
usually severe coughing spell, or exertion,
or by a change of wind accompanied by a
thunderstorm.
Not the least puzzling feature of this
mysterious disease is the places that are
free from it. Not one of them is altogether
free from pollen, and even the advocates of
'the nervous disorder, apntomic malforma
tion nnd organic change theories admit that
pollen, dust, beat, humidity and eleotric con
ditions of the atmosphere promote the dis
ease. Seasidp places that are free from the
scourge, nnd there are many of them, are
only those that receive no land breezes ex
cept tnoso mac pass over long siroieues or
water first. Every physician has his favor-i
ite spot.
The methods of treatment employed bv
the physicians in hay fever eases are as vari
ous ns aro their theories as to lt3 canse.
President Chester A. Arthur was a sufferer
from the disease. Upon tbe advice of a
noted New York physician he sprayed his
nostrils with a solution of tannin and al
ways found temporary relief. In the acute
cases with asthmatio symptoms, physicians
administer morphine and regard it as the
most valuable remedy. Chloral, musk, cam
phor, asatetiiia and stramonium have their
advocates and good results have probably
been obtained with all. Burning saltpeter
papers and various cigarettes with which
anodynes aro incorporated afford relief,
according to the anodynes used, and some
ot them are undoubtedly very valuable to
the sufforer both in the mild and acute
stages of the diseases,
Tiiose who go to the mountain or seaside
hay fever resorts to avoid their annual at
tacks should be careful to go before the at
tack has begun, for there have been many
cases where the disease obtained a start and
was aggravated by the dust of travel to such
an extent that the relief expected at the re
sort did not materialize, and the victim suf
fered more than had he remained at home.
The journey should be made as much as
possible by boat, and ir tTavel by rail is un
avoidable it should be taken on a rainy day
No avoid dust.
Arrived at tne retreat, care snoutu, uy no
means be relaxed. The patient should eat
only simple, nourishing food and should
avoid all undue exertion. He should wear
light woolen clothing, with thlu flannel
next the skin; and should bathe frequently
with water at an even medium tempeiaturo.
The causes of ordinary colds and catarrhs
should bo carefully avoided. Alcoholic
drinks should not be taken, but on smoking
'there is a wlde,dlffereiico,of opinion. Some
physicians absolutely forbid hny lever pa
tients, particularly those hoe dlsordor
reaches the acute asthmatio stage, to use to
bacco: whilo others claim that tho tobacco
smoko toughens and hardens tho mucous
membrane so that it is much less susceptible
to the affection.
SEE WAS SILENT TO THE END.
A Fennsy'vunhi Woman Who" for Eleven
Years Itefnsed to Speak.
Mobbistowk, Aug. 21. A singular Instance
of long continued silence on the part of a
person ablo In every way to talk Is recalled
bv the death yesterday of Mrs. Matilda
Erney at Hatfield, this county. She had not
uttered a word for over 11 years. Twelve
years aeo she became mentally unbalanced,
and was taken to the Morrlstown State In
sane Asvluni for treatment.
Shortly afterward, without apparent ex
ouso or reason, she suddenly ceased talking.
Repeated attempts were made to surprise
her into speech or conversation by aunounc
lug interesting news and wonderful Intelli
gence, bnt no inducement was found suffi
cient to lend her to open her lips to spent a
syllable, and during all those years she
maintained an unbroken silence.
One ot the Possibilities.
New York Advcrtlser.3
Labouehere cot 'left because the Queen
thought be was too funny. The idea of an
English editor being funny I
BBIOHT PAIGE IN THE 8X7.
A Phenomena at Ben That Puzzles
the
Hydrofrraphlo Officer.
PmLAPELPuiA, Aug. 2L Hydrographlo offi
cers are puzzled over a report made by Cap
tain Flndlay, of the steamship Missouri.
The Missouri arrived yesterday from Lon
don, and Captain Flndlay made a report of
having experienced a phenomena on Au
gust 15 and 17.
On the evening of August 13, between 9
and 10 o'clock, the ship was in latitude 45.57,
longitude 5152, when there appeared a
br-tbt patch in tho sky at about 15 degrees
altitude, appearing and disappearing at in
tervals of abont SO seconds and bearing east
one?half south from the ship. In character
it resembled closely tbe northern lights, and
later in the evening the samo phenomena
appeared in the west southwest true.
On tbe 17th in latitude 10.39 longitude 68.58
the phenomena was again seen in the north
west at an altitude of about S3 dezrees and
remained visible from 10-50 until 11:15 in the
evening.
In speaking of the matter yesterday
Captain Flndlay said that tho same appear
ance might be produced by a search light
when thrown on the sky. James L McGold
rick, who Is in charge of the Branch Hydro
graphlo office has referred the report to the
Hydrographcr at Washington for informa
tion. He is of tbe opinion that the strange
light was produced by the moon behind a
cloud shining on an iceberg.
MUSIC FE0M AIL LANDS
And Beasts From Kvery Clime to Be Gath
ered at the World' Pair.
New Yobk, Aug. 2L The Germans of this
city are taking much Interest in two novel
enterprises for the World's Fair. One of
thete is a series of concerts and the other is
an exhibition of wild beasts. Dr. Florence
Zlegreld, President of the International
Temple or Musio, has returned alter 12
months' absence in Europe in charge of the
arrangements for the concerts, which will
begin on May land continue until the close
of the Fair. He has already engaged Dr.
Hans von Bulow and the Philharmonic Or
chestra in Hambnrg, oomposed of CO mu
sicians. Ho has also made a contract with
Mme. Niklta, From Pestb will come Yoros
Mfaka's Choir and from Russia will come
Naukoff's famous band of singers and
dancers. In Paris Dr. Ziegfeld secured 31.
Glllet, composer, and obtained aeontraot
from him to prepare a new piece of mnslc
each week during six mouths that the Fair
will last. Arrangements with other musi
cians are still pending.
Tho idea that a display of wild beasts
would prove unusually attractive is duo to
a tow wealthy Chicago bankers. Carl Uagen
bech, of Hambnrg, tho well-known tamer or
wild animals, has signeda contract. In which
he agrees to bring to Chicago 2.000 wild
animals and to give exhibitions with them.
These exhibitions will be given in a circus
nt a little distance south of the World's
Fair Park.
PYTHIAN S ABE IN 0AMP.
The Big Crash of Visitors at Kansas
City
Has Now Falr'y Begun.
Kaitsas City, Aug. 2L Camp George B.
Shaw, where tbe Uniformed Rank K. of P.
go into encampment, was transformed to
day from a silent city of tenantless tents
Into a scene of bustling martial activity.
Companies, regiments and brigades were ar
riving at the camp throughout all day, set
tling down in the quarters and accommo
dating themselves tu tbe necessities of camp
life.
Thirty-eight hundred men went into
enmp to-day. The reception of members of
the Uniformed Rank lacked no detail to
make it perfeot, so minutely had all their
wants and requirements been anticipated.
All that was required of them was to simply
disembark from tnelr train, fall in line be
hind their escorts and follow their noses to
tbe camp grounds, where they were taken in
charge by their quartermasters or the Re
ception Committee and shown into their
quarters. Two hundred and four trains
were received at the Union depot to-day.
It is estimated that their passengers aggre
gated 15,000, including 3.8C0 members of the
Uniformed Rauk.
SULLIVAN BUILT JOB A FIQETIB.
A Medical Expert Finds That the Cham
pion Sits High and Stands Low.
New Yore, Aug. 21 John L. Sullivan's
forthcoming book contains a complete
physical analysis by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent,
of Harvaid University. To snm up Dr.
Sargent's examination in a few words, Sulli
van is built for a fighter from the crown of
his head down to his toes. The length of
his legs is' not proportionate to his enor
mous body, but the wise examiner finds in
this an additional aptitudo tor self-defense.
During his medical career Dr. Sargent has
physically examined and measured 8,000.
men. With the maximum measurements of
this vast army, Sullivan's brawn, bone and
sinew has been carefnlly compared. In his
standing height Sullivan snrpasses 88 per
cent of all those examined, and in his sitting
height, 95 per cent. In the height of the
knee the pugilist surpasses but 70 per cent
of those examined, and in the length of the
thigh only 45 per cent. It will be seen,
therefore, that the big fistic champion ''sits
high" and "stands low."
VILLAGERS KAY BE SWALLOWED,
The Top of an Abandoned Coal Mine la
Bapldly Caving In. g .
Jackson, Mich., Aug. 21. Woodvllle, a
small village three miles west or this city,
is in danger of sinking bodily Into the earth.
About ten days ago the Standard coal mine
became flooded and had to be abandoned.
Since then several cavo-lps have occurred
over the deserted mine, tn one Instance the
bottom dropping out of a cistern. The
Michigan Central track has sunk somewhat,
and the company has men watching day
and night for fear the track will go through.
The area covered by tho holes extend over
probably 50 or CO rods square, while the
undermining section Is probably half a mile
square. Besides this, thete are other aban
doned mines In that vicinity. The can-e for
the sinking of tbe earth is not positively
known, soma claiming that it is causod by
quicksand, while others think it is due to
defective timbering in the mine.
Burst by n Sparrow's Nest.
Beaver Fails, Aug. 2h Special. During
storm at Rochester yesterday afternoon the
rain conductor on the Masonic Temple
burst and tho water damaged several hun
dred dollars' worth of furniture and carpets.
It was afterward discovered that the pipe
had been clogged up by a sparrow building
its nest Inside.
The Cardiff Giant Resurrected.
IirDETESDESCE, Ia., Aug. 21. To-day the
body of the famous Cardiff Giant, which
has been burled under a livery stable in this
city for 20 years, was exhumed, by Bruce L.
Baldwin and F. C. Cnramlngs, "circus man
agefs, and will be exhibited by them. This
was Barnum 4 Older's giant fraud of 1871.
Give Them Ko Quarter.
Boston Herald. 1
"The new silver 25-cent pieces have been
counterfeited. Thepublio is requested to
give them no quarter!
CAHTAIGN WDISPEES,
Tne time for planning Is over and tbo tima
,for execution has arrived. Chicago alobe.
Tub four-leaf clover has been adopted as
the badge of the Democratic party during
tho campaign. It means "you don't know
where to find It." Detroit Journat.
Get out your campaign uniform and polish
up your torch. The days of the political
procession are approaching, and every good
Republican should ba ready to fall into line,
N. Y. Becorder.
Texas, which usually votes one ticket, has
now six political elates to solect from. Two
Democratic, one Populist, one Prohibition,
and the straight Republican and tho "Lily
Whites." Denver yews.
Possiblt you may have observed that
Democratic conventions are -not as fierce
and boisterous as they used to be in de
nouncing the "wasteful extravagance of the
last Republican Congress." Chicago Tribune.
PaoTECTioif has built upa great glove-making
Industry in this country and made it
prosperous, but that wA not prevent tbe
Republicans from handling the onemy with
out gloves from now until November.
Cleveland Leader.
Tbe brigadiers down South are getting to
gether on the "force bill." But tho high
privates in the rear ranks are not bothering
their heads about It. And they can out-vote
the brigadiers without half trying. If, Y.
Commercial Adver,Uer.
CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS.
Women began work In printing offices'
as early as 1520.
Newspaper advertisements were un
known until 3832.
Sawdust, compressed into blocks, is
used for building purposes in Germany.
The Mohammedans, -it is baid, consider
silk unclean, because it is produced by a
worm.
It is estimated that the jewels worn on
a drawing room day represent a value equal
to 1,500,000.
The grain, the smallest weight in use,
was thus called from being originally tho
weight of a grain of wheat.
Butterflies to the number of 150.000 will
be shown in the Pennsylvania exhibit at
the World's Fair at Chicago.
For the murder of a City Marshal, a
man has been sentenced at Corpus Christ!,
Tex., to 99 years imprisonment.
Three hundred and sixty different moun
tain peaks within the limits of the United
States each exceed 10,000 feet in height.
The hardest known wood is said to be
cocus wood. It turns the edge of any ax,
however well tempered, so It is claimed.
One million dollars in gold coin would
weigh 3,685 8 pounds Tho same amount of
stiver coins would weigh 53,939.9 pounds.
A convention of German horse butchers
is to open a restaurant in Berlin to educate
the npper class to the use of horse flesh as
food.
A collection of butterflies long owned
by Baron von Fielden.of Vienna, was recent
ly sold to Lord Rothschild, of London, for
$5,000.
There are said to be over 23,000 Indians
in the United States who can read English
and over 10,000 who can read Indian lan
guages. The Queen of Spain is superstitious.
She believes that articles manufactured by
blind people i ring luck to those who use or
wear them.
A Mr. Goodman, of London, bet that
he could smoke 88 cigars down to an inch in
less than 12 hours. He did it with 43 min
utes to spare.
In spite of its ice and severe cold, Lab
rador possesses 900 Bpccies of flowering
plants, 59 ferns and over250speclesof mosses
and lichens.
Vulcan, the British ironclad, is pro
vided with a rudder weighing 32 tons, or
something like six tons heavier than the
rudder used on the Great Eastern.
An orange fad is among the possibili
ties of the day. Free consumption of the
frnit Is said to be good for the complexion,
and many ladies are testing the claim.
The Chinese have a kitchen god, which
is supposed to go to the Chinese heaven at
the beginning of each year to report upon
the private Hie of the families under his
care.
The fish-hook of thirty centuries back
was precisely similar in every respect to the
fish-hooks of to-day, save only in tbe metal
employed, which then was bronze and now
Is steel.
Prom January 1 to the end of June
19,223 immigrants havo gone into Manitoba
nnd the Northwest Territories. For the
same period last year tbe number was less
than 8,000.
The largest book ever known is owned
by Her Majesty Qaeen Victoria. It Is 18
inches thick and weighs 63 pounds, and con
tains tbe addresses of congratulation on the
occasion of Her Majesty's jubilee.
Chemical action formed a stone in the
stomach of La Marshale, tho famous hurdle
Jumping horse of Paris. Ho died, and the
stone, a ball nearly eight inches lit diame
ter, is in the museum of a Parisian veter
inary. Workmen found on Friday about 4,000
historical documents, some of which are re
Sorted valuable, under the floor of tho
reslau Town Hall in Berlin. They hava
been sent to the Eaiser Frederick Univer
sity, in Strasburg, Germany.
If you could cut sections out of the side
of soap bubbles, and then had some delicate
contrivance with which you could handle
the pieces, you would And that it would take
50,000,000 mlms laid one upon the other to
make a pile one Inch in height.
If the boundaries of Custer county,
Montana, have not been recently changed,
they still 'surround 38,cc0 square miles of
terrlt.ory;.Traklng that one county larger
than the fife states of Vermont, Massachu
setts, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhodo
Island.
A valuable goblet has been purchased
for the sum of 312,000 francs by a member of
tho Frankfort branch of the Rothschild
family. The goblet is of exquisite work
manship, and is said to havo farmed part
of the municipal treasures of Osnabrick, iu
Germany.
The wine cellar of the House of Com
mopa is capahlo of storing away some $150,
000 to $200,000 worth of wine; as it is, the
present stock now amounts to over 15,000.
The cellar itself is about 210 feet long, and
there are innumerable sub-cellars arranged
on either side.
According to M. Flammarion, the
French astronomer, the mean temperature)
of Paris during the past six years has been
about two degrees below the normal. It Is
also stated that Great Britain. Belgium,
Spain, Italy, Austria and Germany have also
been growing cold.
At the banquet given at the opening of
the Royal Albert Dook In June, 1SS0, there
were 500 waiters. 300 cooks, 4,000 dishes, 24.
000 forks and spoons, 12.000 knives, 13,000
glasses, and 15,000 plates. The dessert con
sisted of 500 pounds of grapes, and 2,000 bas
kets of strawberries, in addition to other
fruit; and the tables and tablecloths ex
tended to a mile and a half.
The stratified masses of the earth's
crust, where most fully developed, attain &
united thickness of not less than $100,000 feet.
If they were all laid down at the most rapid,
recorded rate of denudation, they would re
quire a period of 73.000,000 of years for their
completion. If tbey were laid down at the
slowest rate they would demand a period of
not less than GSO,000,000.
The Falkland islands produce no trees,
but tbey do produce wood in a very remark
able shape. You will see, scattered here
and there, singular blocks of what looks like
weather beaten, mossy, gray stones of vai
ions size. But if you attempt to roll over
one of these rounded boulders, you will
find yourself unable to accomplish it. In
fact, the stone Is tied down to the ground
tied down by the roots: or in other words,
it is not a stone, but a block or living wood.
SUJIMEK SILHOUETTES.
First Benedict My wife has a mission.
Second Benedict Mine has nary a mission.
First Benedlot Happy man! If she has nary a
mission she won't want to be a missionary. Kent
York Frets.
She alwayg used to praise the cat,
And thought I was contrary;
No longer she Is doing that.
Since puss ate tbe canary.
Sew York Evening .
"Mamma, what does 'eating humble pie"
mean?"
"It means eaUngaple that has no npper crust.
Finish your mush and milk, my son." Chtcaja
Tribune.
"The postman came to-day," she cried,
' 'alas 1 what can the matter be?
"They said they'd send It sure, and yet he left n
bathlngsult for me."
Cloak Review.
A maiden rare and sweet was she,
Though corpnlent, forsooth:
She knew not what her weight might be,
Sbe feared to learn the truth.
One day she Inadvertent strayed
On scales for heftlnz bay:
Whereat, at last, this rare, sweet maid
Did give herself a welith.
Detroit Ira PrtM.
Julia Are you real well acquainted with,
Mr. Brlcktop?
Hattle No, not exacUT. Vou see we were only
engaged for one week last summer.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
She Now, you wouldn't be content to
marry and live a cat and dog life, would you?
He-That depends on which of u was to be th
Pomona Timet.
He loved the maid and she loved him,
Jnst as they all begin H:
ne introduced another man.
And now-he Is not In itl
-Smith, Gray A? Co.' i Monthly.
"1 don't think I'll ever marry," said th
summer girl.
"Why?"
"Because then I'd have to quit becoming en
cued." Washington Star,