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Gladstone's Cabinet.
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Xcw York Anarchists.
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PinMRUG. SATUKI1AY. AUGUST S. IK,
IRTEE1 PACES,
WOKK FOR EVERYBODY.
The Chief of the Department of Public
Safety says the city officials are prepared
to take stringent measures to protect
Pittsburg in case the cholera reaches this
country. The means outlined is a species
of quarantine regulation on railway travel
and prompt isolation of any cases that
may appear. This will no doubt be use
ful precaution if the disease should de
velop in this country, which it is not likely
to do this year in time to attain epidemic
proportions. But it is not the first or the
most necessary work. "What can be done
now, and what should be done without
delay, is to take urgent measures to clean
up every spot in the two cities where
filth accumulates. People with their eyes
open know of plenty of such spots, and
their thorough disinfection is more impor
tant as against all possible contingencies
than any watch on railway travel can be.
This is a work in which not only city offi
cials, but every citizen is interested. Every
individual can aid in the work of cleaning
up, and every person has his share of re
sponsibility in it The man who lets a pool
of filth or heap of garbage remain on his
premises, or who knows of such a thing
elsewhere, without using every means to
secure its abatement, not only imperils his
own health, but permits the existence of a
threat to the health of the whole com
munity. The man who secures the clean
ing up of any such spot contributes his
hare toward the perfect sanitation of the
ty-
The work of bringing the city into per-
t sanitary condition should be taken in
1 by public officials and private citi-
alike. Remedies for cholera and the
developments of protection by in-
woulAion promise to rob the disease of
muchW its terror. But, if the city is
brought to a condition of perfect purity,
we draw tne teetn not onlv ot a cholera
epidem but of the less dreaded, though
more common, scourges of typhoid, diph
theria, smallpox and scarlet fever. Every
one should clean up rigidly.
AN EAHLT DECAY.
That heroic effort of the New York
World to carry the whole Northwest from
furthest Kansas to Wisconsin is going
agley even sooner than its initial attempt
last year to carry Rhode Island for the
Democracy. In that effort the World got
bo far as to get the predestined Presiden
tal candidate of the Democracy to speak
there, with the marked though reaction
ary result that Rhode Island went Repub
lican stronger than for several years be
fore. In its present effort, however, although
pursued with all the urgency of double
leads and letters from the lights of De
mocracy, used with daily iteration, the
boom has fallen into the sere and yellow
leaf in the initial operation of raising a
subscription. That grand effort, which
was to convince Northwestern voters of
the purity and honesty of the Democracy,
was started with a 10,000 subscrip
tion from the proprietor of the
World, Four Democratic millionaires
MjeBiMWj.
testified their attachment to De
mocracy .by chipping In fl,000 each.
One man accomplished a unique
fame by subscribing (200 as "a member of
the Manhattan Club." Nine enthusiastic
Democrats Crave $100 each, and then the
boom dropped with a dull thud Into the
passe stage of twenty-five, ten, five and
single-dollar subscriptions and even of
quarters and dimes. The result of this
double-leaded appeal, outside of the f 14,
000 with which it was started, has been the
raising of about (5,000. i
The (19,000 .thus brought into the polit
ical field, may be the methods of New
York Democracy to carry the great North
west for Cleveland. As far as experience
goes, however, it is Jiot much more than
enough to convince the doubtful voters of
a single ward in Chicago. The fatality of
the esteemed World't political booms tends
to create a suspicion that they are boom
erangs. t
A FREE TRADE FICTION.
The Philadelphia Beeord thinks it has
discovered a discrepancy between the cur
rency statistics and Governor McKinley's
declaration that the past year has yielded
a favorable balance of trade amounting to
5200,000,000. It goes to the Treasury
statement of the amount of currency in cir
culation and finds that there lias been an
increase in eight months in the amount of
money in circulation of but $23,000,000.
Therefore it considers as pertinent this
question, What has become of the money?
It says: "The official reports of the Gov
ernment give no hint of the whereabouts
of this money." On the contrary it cites
the fact that the exports of coin and bull
ion the past fiscal year netted thirteen
million dollars.
On the face it seems that our free trade
cotemporary desires to impeach the state
ment as to the large balance in favor of
this country as between exports and im
ports. To do so it would have to ignore
one set of statistics in favor of another, as
the reports of the Treasury Department
show the large balance of trade in our
favor more indisputably than the amount
of currency in circulation, as the latter is
largely a matter of estimate. It does not
really do so, but acknowledges an excep
tional year, asserting that in payment of
the balance of trade the foreigners "sent
back old debts due them for redemption."
There is a further intimation that they
did this because the McKinley bugaboo
would not let them send back textile fab
rics and other necessaries of life as if the
obliging foreigners had been abstaining
from collecting their debts due them by
the hundred millions in consideration of
the privileges allowed them by the pre
ceding quarter century of the protective
tariff.
This is a very specious attempt to be
cloud the issue by playing upon terms of
equivocal meaning. For "old debts due
them" read evidences of debt, such as
corporate securities, and the Becord's
subterfuge is clear. The failure of gold
to come this way in the face of the large
balance of trade in our favor is one of the
monetary phenomena of the year, but it
has been clearly explained. The European
Governments want gold so badly that
instead of letting it come to the United
States they are sending back stocks and
bonds to be sold in New York. Now will
the Beeord kindly state whether the coun
try is worse or betteroff for taking a 5200,
000,000 balance of trade in its own secu
rities at the valuation of its own markets?
It requires little candor to recognize that
a large balance of trade rectified in that
way adds more to the wealth and invest
ments of the country than an addition
to the stock of gold in the banks.
Our cotemporary's figment of a balance
of trade paid by foreigners in "old debts
due them," applied as it was to show that
the farmers did not do well by the exports
of their products, carries an intimation
that the suffering farmers have had to take
the old foreign debts of some one else in
payment for their grain. It would be
very interesting for the Beeord to produce
an instance of that sort
INSPIRED BY PREJUDICE.
The London Economist, in speaking of
the approaching monetary conference,
says that "so far as the rehabilitation of
silver is concerned that is foredoomed to
failure." It goes on to predict that when
the expectations of the United States in
that respect are falsified the apprehen
sions with regard to silver payments will
make it necessary for the Government to
take energetic action and' protect its stock
of gold.
The promptness of the Eeo nomist to take
the failure of the conference as a foregone
conclusion may be a case in which the
wish is father to the thought That organ
of the monometallists would be very glad
to see the purpose of the conference de
feated; but it does not necessarily follow
that it must be. It is not certain, nor is it
a very hopeful possibility, that the confer
ence will accomplish any definite results.
But the fact that a conference is called to
increase the monetary use of silver implies
a recognition that there is a necessity of
reinforcing the world's stock of gold by
restoring silver to its own use. If Eng
land attends the conference, as has been
hinted, the Economist'! comments would
imply she would do better to stay away.
But in case the conference proves futile
it does not imply that any wide apprehen
sions would follow in this country. There
are no large interests here relying on the
conference. Free silver advocates are not,
else they would not push their coinage
measure in advance of the conference.
The gold men would certainly not be dis
appointed. The class between the two
who desire to see the silver question set
tled by restoring silver in a way that will
not depreciate the currency may feel an
abstract disappointment; but their appre
hensions are not likely to affect the money
market especially.
It will, however, be clearly the duty of
the Treasury to protect itself in such a
case. When it does so to the extentrthat
foreign nations cannot draw on this conn
try for gold at will, England may make
the discovery that it would have been
wiser to assist instead of obstructing the
effort to increase the world's stock of
money metals.
A NECESSITY FOR SUPPRESSION.
Last spring Mr. Lodge, of Massachu
setts, charged that the Democratic party
was "the natural allyof the free silver
movement." The assertion was justified
by the attitude of the majority of the
Democrats at that time. The National
Democratic Convention by its correct
plank on the monetary question appar
ently took that disturbing issue out of the
campaign. The effectiveness of this dec
laration has been somewhat clouded by
the subsequent action of Democrats in
Congress on the free silver bill.
While the Democratic position on the
silver issue is thus uncertain, it is a re
proach and a danger to find double-faced
representations as to the attitude of the
Republican party on that subject Every
party has its full quota of organic donkeys
who make misrepresentations that are sup
posed to catch votes; but when the mis
representation comes from a source near
to the candidate it is something to be
promptly corrected. Yet we "find the
Helena, Mont, Journal, which has at
tained fame as being the property of Bos
sell B. Harrison, indulging In the follow?
ing: "The Bland free silver bill and the
Stewart free silver bill, passed by the Re
publican Senate, were strangled in the
Democratic House in the Interest of Grover
Cleveland's candidacy."
It has been heretofore necessary to sup
press Mr. Russell Harrison; but when it
comes to representing to the people of
Montana that the Republican 'party Is
favorable to free silver, and the Dem
ocratic party unfavorable to it, the neces
sity for complete silencing is more urgent
than ever.
NOW THE TIME FOR PREVENTION.
The spread of cholera has reached a
stage at which the neglect of all proper
precautions amounts to criminal careless
ness. Optimistic skepticism of such obvi
ous danger is as bad as, or worse than pes
simistic panic-stricken credulity.
So far the Government officials have
made a most signal and culpable failure
to appreciate the extreme gravity of the
situation. Procrastination in adopting
strict and rigid quarantine regulations is
the very acme of folly. Any petty incon
venience arising from the use of proper
preventive measures is utterly insignificant
when compared with the Incalculable evils
which will ensue if tne disease is once al
lowed to obtain a foothold on these shores.
Foreign bills of health should be treated
as so much waste paper. Absolute re
liance mustbe placed in American quaran
tine officers. They must be allowed to
take nothing for granted, and compelled
to be thoroughly radical in their exami
nations. The most scrupulous care should
be taken in excluding rags and all other
merchandise coming from districts which
have been within reach of infection.
Nothing can compare for an instant with
the value of human life, and the safety
of thousands of Americans depends upon
due care at this time. The dire results
which may follow a superficial exami
nation of passengers are strikingly indi
cated by the sudden death from cholera
of two men within a few hours of their
passing the inspectors at London.
Now is the time to act, and without
further delay the Washington officials
must issue peremptory orders for an ade
quate quarantine blockade.
A CORPORATE DEFIANCE.
The attitude of corporate combinations
toward the law is strikingly illustrated in
the remarks of the master-mind of the
Reading concerning the decision of the
chancellor of New Jersey against the
Reading leases. There is nothing new in
the decision itself, nor indeed is the defiant
nullification of the law unprecedented.
But the decision states old and well-settled
principles, while the pronouncement of
the President of the Reading Railroad
represents the late theory that law does
not bind the great corporations unless it
suits their policy.,
The ruling goes over principles of law
which have been declared again and again
by the highest courts. It tears open every
evasion by which the illegal purposes of
the Reading combination were concealed.
It shows that the leases were forbidden
by law; that their object is to create a
monopoly of the anthracite coal trade;
that when a corporate act tends to public
injury or the defeat of public policy it
may be restrained; and that, as equity
looks at the substance and will
penetrate disguises of form to deal with
it, the creation of subsidiary corporations
to escape responsibility will not alter the
case. Does anyone suppose that this
thorough and conclusive ruling from the
highest court of New Jersey will alter the
course of the" Reading? Let Mr. McLeod,
President of the corporation make the
answer: "The decision willhave as much'
effect as If the injunction were directed
against the Sioux Indians."
Here we have one of the issues of the day
clearly set forth. It has been presented
before in the equally conclusive ruling of
the Pennsylvania courts in the South Penn
case; but the PennsylvaniaRallroad officials
were not so brutally frahk in their defi
ance of the law. Mr. McLeod goes to re
markable length in his declaration that
his corporation yields no more obedience
to the courts than a Sioux Indian would.
The court clearly sets forth that the
illegality of the whole combination lies
in the illegal purpose which inspires it
Mr. McLeod does not seem to think it
necessary to pretend that there will be an
abandonment of that purpose in defer
ence to the law. Not at all. The differ
ence between the combination magnates
and the Sioux Indians with which he com
pares himself is that he proposes to make
some changes in "forms of operation" so
as to attain exactly the illegal purpose
which the court has denounced as a new
set of disguises and evasions of exactly
the same class that the court has exposed.
Federal officials who persist in ignoring
the necessity to guard against the 'dread
dangers of cholera will have a heavy weight
on their shoulders if the disease make a
landing in America,
That Reading deal was very nearly as
distinct a violation of law as the destruc
tion of propel ty by striking switchmen.
HoiiUAK, who was more conspicuous in
his opposition to the granting of national
aid to the World's Fair than any other Con
gressman, has applied for and received ten
complimentary tickets to the opening oere
monies. The Chicago officials are evidently
adepts at the coals of fire business, and be
lieve that it is never too late to mend even
Holman.
Small boys who make a practice of
pelting summer street car passengers with
bean-shooters should be treated to a course
of spankings and sent early to bed.
The days of the straw bat are numbered,
and the seer-sucker coat will he relegated to
office use ere long.
Private citizens will best appreciate the
injustice of exempting certain corporations
from taxation by remembering that they
themselves have to pay more than their fair
share toward the maintenance of the city in
order to make tip for this Invidious discrimi
nation. -
Trials of the Tennessee rioters are to
begin in a. day or two. Trials of the law
abiding citizens in the neighborhood of the
mines began a long while ago.
The situation at Bufialo now is that a
number of the striking swltcnmen have lost
their situations.
' Personally and individually the mem
bers of the Cooley gang are no doubt as In
significant as disreputable. But as a dis
turber of the peace and dlsrespecter of the
law the crowd of them is of sufficient Impor
tance to demand prompt suppression.
"Wheee there's a will there's a way,"
and private enterprise shonld provoke public
enthusiasm to Becure the Ohio Elver and
Lake Erie Canal.
Aeronautical fatality is rapidly be
coming recognized as a synonym for balloon
ascension. )
It is about as wise to postpone learning
how to swim until tho accomplishment" Is
absolutely necessary to prevent a drowning
at to abstain from proper quarantine pre
ventives of a cholera invasion until the
disease Is well-nigh In onr midst.
There was a strong suggestion of Nov
ember in last night's atmosphere .well calcu
lated to give some Of t tie local politicians the'
shivers.
The worst and commonest sidewalk
obstruction of them all is the habitual
loafer.
What with fear of- cholera, excitement
over labor troubles and interest in the ap.
proaehlng prize fights to say nothing of the
chronio absorption In baseball Presldental
candidates are finding It a hard task to
attract publlo attention.
Suicides resulting from blighted affeo
tiona could hardly choose a less romantic
exit from life than the rough on rats routs
The police and the militia may come to
blows before the present trouble blows over.
The International Peace Congress is
meeting this year in the quiet of Berne, In
Switzerland. Next year it is to assemble
amid the bustle of Chicago. Its members
evidently believe in variety and change of
scene.
John Moeley's re-election by an in
creased majority is a nice bit of encourage
ment for the new British Government.
"Circumstances alter cases," and 'cir
cumstantial evidence settles a good many.
Gladstone's resignation will occur
only when his majority has been proven to
he controlled by men obstreperous and un
controllable enough to give the anti-home
rule party a new lease of office.
The wise man keepeth his house in order
at all times, and even the fool should put
aside his folly when plague Is in the air.
Government employes are as busy as
beavers at the Beaver dam.
Reports of the transactions of the
twenty-first district Republican oonferees
might as well be stereotyped at once with a
blank left for the number of futile ballots
taken on each occasion.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Marquis Visconti Vewosta, ex-Min-lster
and Senator, has been appointed
Italian member of the Behrlng Sea Arbi
tration Commission.
The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, is
said to be an excellent pianist, and part of
his daily routine consists in giving a couple
of hours' Instruction to his daughters.
The Queen of the Belgians is among the
latest recruits to photography, and pursues
her studies with the utmost diligence. A
Brussels photographer goes down to Clerg
non twice a week to give her lessons.
Dk. Tanneo, the Irish M. P., suffers
from deafness, the result of being hit upon
the side of the head by a well-directed sod
thrown by somebody in a crowd of patriots
who objected to his speech upon the hust
ings. E. P. Scott, of Clifton Forge, Va,, is
one of the wealthiest colored men in the
district, and a largo property owner and
prominent business man. He struck the
place several years ago with no money and
a long-suffering appetite.
Senator Gorman's family have been
occupying bis new rural home near Laurel,
M&, for about six weeks, hut both houso
and grounds are far from being finished.
The mansion is roomy and handsome, on ah
elevation, and about five miles from a rail
way station.
Prof. William James, of Harvard,
does no't conceal the fact that he is "the
brother of Henry James, the novelist," But
he is better known as an eminent scholar
and suggestive writer. He Bays "orthodoxy
is almost as much a matter of authority in
science as it Is In religion."
Mrs. John1 A Logan, Chairman of the
Rotunda Committee, has invited Mrs. Har
rison, Mrs. Morton, ijho ladies of the Cabinet
officers' families, Mrs. V. S. Grant and Clara
Barton to assist her in reoeivlng at the
Grand Army entertainment in the Capitol
at Washington, September 19.
William A. Sutherland, of Ro
ches ter.Natlonal Republican Committeeman,
sailed for Europe yesterday on the Fuerst
Bismarck. He will spend about three weeks
abroad, being commissioned by tne Scate
Department at Washington to attend to a
delicate diplomatic mission. He will visit
London first then proceed to Paris, from
thence he will go to Stockholm and from
there to Rome.
STRENGTH OF METHODISM,
Some Interesting Figures From the Reports
of the Census Bureau.
Washington, Aug. 26. The Census Bureau
has issued a bulletin giving statistics of tne
Methodist Episcopal Church in the United
States. The bulletin shows that this church
baa 102 annual conferences, not Including
ten or more in foreign countries. Connected
with these conferences are 2,210,351 oommu
nicantg. This term includes both members
and probationers, the latter being candi
dates for full membership. North of Mason
and Dixon's line the Methodist Episcopal
Church has organizations in nearly every
county. Though represented in every
State, it Is not so strong in the South as Its
sister body, the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, the statistics of which will be given
in a forthcoming bulletin.
Of the 2,790 counties in the States and Ter
ritories, the Methodist Episcopal Church is
represented in all save 685. It has 23,861
oi uamzatlons, with 22,841 chnrch edifices
with a sealing capacity of 6,302,703 and an
aggregate. valuation or $96,723,408. This valu
ation, which does not include parsonages
and other church property. Is the largest
reported by any denomination thus far, ex
cept the Boman Catholic.
SAIN FALLS IN BBCKETFCLS.
Dry
Creeks Transformed Into Raging
Elvers in New Xorlc Btate.
Watxbtown, N. Y Aug. 26. Dispatches
from St. Lawrence county report an unpre
cedented downpour or ram yesterday,
amounting to five lnohes. At Ogdensburg a
little girl was drowned in a creek which was
perfectly dry the day before. Sewers have
burst and cellars are flooded. At Fotsdam
a oltizen attempted to wade across :a street
and narrowly eseaped drowning in a hole
which the water had made.
Some small bridges have been swept away
in other parts of St. Lawrence county. At
Carthage, this county, the fair has been
abandoned on account of the excessive
rain. No damage has been done in this
locality exoept to the crops, though the rain
fall since Wednesday night measures 3V
Inches. '
DAH1EL D0UGHEBTT TOBY ILL.
His Condition Critical, Though the Doctors
Have Some Hopes.
Philadelphia, Aug. 26. Special Daniel
Dougherty, the famous lawyer and orator,
who has been sick since June 1, still lies in a
critical condition at his residence, 2021
Spruce street. His physicians held a consul
tation this morning and announced that
while his condition was not absolutely hope
less there were alight chances for his re
covery. D. Webster Dougherty, his son, said to
night that there had been a slight improve
ment in his father's condition during the
day. He had taken some nourishment and
also had some sleep. His condition, how
ever, is critical. Hn is suffering from a
complication of diseases, which the doctors
fear may end in brain fever. He has been
confined to bis bed since July 13.
John L. a Tons orlal Artist.
Philadelphia Times. '
Corbett, the, fighter, affects the pompa
dour, style of wearing the 'hair. Sullivan, If
given a chance, will bang It for him. ,
T
All Equal Before the Law
Detroit Free Press.
Organized labor has Its rights and so has
unorganized labor. Before the law they
stand on a perfect equality and any violent
interference with this condition is simply a
crime,' " '
METEORIC SHOWERS.
The display of meteors this month does
not appear to have been greater than usual.
There was, Indeed, no special reason to ex
pect thatlt would, except that popnlar.faney
naturally conneoted them with the planet.
Mars, with which, of course, they have noth
ing to do. The August meteorlo display,
which Always takes place on orabcut August
10, appears to proceed from the constellation
Perseus, whioh Is therefore known astro
nomically as the "radiant," and the meteors
of this month are for this reason called
Perseids. In the Middle Ages they were
known as the "Tears of St. Lawrence."
Though the' August display Is increasing, it
is not nearly so much so as the November
display which occurs every S3 years, the
meteors of whioh are called Leonids, because
they seem to prooeed from the constellation
Leo. The last display of Leonids occurred
on November 14, in 1866 7-'8, so that the next
display will not occur until 1899.
The explanation of this periodic display
is that there is a long, thin stream of
"meteoroids" distributed through space,
each of whioh is revolving around the sun
in a conlo section, and having a period of
S3 years. The length of this stream Is so
meat that the most advanced members are
six or eight years ahead of those at the tall
end. They cross the earth's orbit with a
velocity of about 26 miles a second, and, as
the earth meets them at an oblique angle,
they have a vcloolty of from 40 to GO miles a
second when they reach the upper atmos
phere. For reasons which it is not neces
sary to enter into here, says a writer in the
New Tork2Vt6un, the day when the Leonids
are seen is moving along the calendar at the
rate of about a month in L000 years. In the
year 902 A. D., for lnstanoe, the display
occurred on October 13. An interesting
fact connected with the Leonids is that the
comet known as 1866 1 moves in- almost the
same orbit. In fact, this comec is generally
regarded aB Itself a meteoioid, and that fact
suggests that the Leonids may be portions
of the comet which have been expelled
from it by some Internal convulsion. In
deed, the larger deduction that all meteor
olds are simply bits of disintegrated planets
seems to be entirely in line with wnat we
jtnow oi tue planetary system.
Another period when meteors may be
expected is on or about December 7. Since
these meteors proceed from the constelhv
tion Andromeda they are known as An
dromeda, All these facts prove that at cer
tain periods the earth pluuges through what
may be called rivers of meteors whose posi
tion and character are so well known that
the date of contact with them can be accu
rately foretold. Moreover, It is pretty cer
tain that there are other streams of moteors
revolving through space whose "radiants"
are not yet known, but which may yet be
discovered. Further than that. It is likely
that the whole of our solar system contains
a countless number of meteoroids, varying
in size from a mere particle to bodies weigh
ing several hundred pounds, all of which re
volve around the sun. Of these bodies
those which lall on the earth are called
meteorites, and a large number of them are
to be found in collections in London, Paris,
Vienna, Berlin and various cities In this
country. They differ in some respects from
terrestlal matter. They are generally cov
ered with a thin, blaok crust, doubtless
caused by the Intense heat to whioh they
have been snbjeoted. Their outside surface
has evidently been melted, but so rapidly as
nottoaffeot the Inside. Sometimes one sur
face is only browned. Indicating that there
was a fractme after the body entered our
atmosphere, and sometimes there is only a
crack. There are qneer, cuplike cavities on
nearly all of them, the cause or which Is not
known.
Metallic iron enters largely into the
composition of these meteorites, and it is al
ways accompanied with nickel. When the
meteorites are broken they usually have a
grayish interior, and exhibit a peculiar
globular structure. Occasionally meteorlo
fragments have been picked up several
miles apart, which fit together perfectly,
showing that they were originally one
piece. Generally the stones are too warm
to be handled when they fall, thougn cases
are on record in which they were verv cold.
They nearly always penetrate the giound,
the distance, of course, depending upon
their momentum and the softness of the
earth where they strike. Usually they are
not very large, a stone of 100 pounds being
exceptional. The total weight of stones found
after a rail has seldom amounted to more
than 1,000 pounds. Meteorites weighing an
ounce or less are most common. In the
opinion of the astronomers, the largest me
teoroids that enter our atmosphere weigh at
the most only a few thousand pounds, but
such bodies are almost immediately broken
up into smaller bodies by the Intense heat to
which they are subjected, a process which is
the moire easy because of their generally
friable Character. It is. of course, natural to
suppose that a body which gives such a brill
iant light as the shooting stars occasionally
clve should be verv larire. because we In
stinctively compare them with the planets;
but it is estimated that the smaller shooting
stars may be only as large as coarse grains
of sand, and yet do large enough to furnish
all the light exhibited by them.
No new element has been found in the
meteorites, a met which goes far to Indicate
that the planets of the solar system, are all
composed of the same elements. The three
most common elements in these bodies are
iron, silicon and oxygen, which are the
three most common elements on the earth.
As to the number of meteors, Daubree esti
mates that about 600 or 700 stohes fall on the
earth every year. The number of small
meteors, or shooting stars, is inconceivably
large, and most, if not all of them, are
burned up before they reach the earth at
all. It is estimated that at least 20,000,000 of
these partlclestcome In contact with the
earth every day. Thus, in addition to the
larger meteoroids, which are supposed to
float through space about 10 or 12 miles
apart, the whole solar system appears to be
filled with small particles of matter which
have been most happily named "star dust."
Few intelligent people need to be told
that the luminous appearance of meteors
and shooting stare is due to the heat pro
duced by their friction with the atmosphere.
When they first appear it is estimated that
they are about 80 miles from the earth, and
they rarely get nearer to the earth than 23
miles. This, of course.does not apply to the
larger stone meteors, whose weight causes
them to fall on the earth. That all the me
teors which we see are solid, and not gase
ous, is pretty certain, lor a caseous Dody,
when striking the atmosphere", would imme
diately scatter and would not become lumi
nous. Nevertheless, there have been few, if
any, fatalities due to the fall upon the earth
of theso bodies. The reason is that the
number of stones which actually fall on the
earth is very small compared with the area
of the earth. As a matter of faot, we owe
our safety from these wandering
bodies of space to our atmosphere,
which acts as a gigantic cushion, on which
they fall and spend themselves harmlessly.
It used to be a theory of astronomers that
the moteoroids are constantly falling into
the sun in large numbers, and that they are
In fact Its fnel, but that theory Is now gen
erally discredited, since it Is found that the
metebrolds have their own orbit around the
sun, Just like the planets. Whether they
originated from the breaking up of former
planets by some great cataclysm, or whether
they have always been thus floating throu gh
space through the uncounted ages of eter
nity, or whether, at some future point in
time, they will be gathered together to form
other worlds, are questions which will piob
ably never be answered. The one thing cer
tain is that a study of them is one of the
most fascinating branches of astronomy,
for they ure a concrete connecting link be
tween this earth and the great mysterious
void of the universe.
The Indian Territory Frozen Out.
Washikqtos, Aug. 25. The Attorney Gen.
oral has given an opinion to the State De.
partment that the Indian Territory is not
entitled to repiescntatlon on the World's
Columbian Commission, as the President is
authorized to appoint commissioners On the
commission only from such territories as are
organized and have a political status under
the acts of Congiess. The Indian Teiritory,
the Attorney General holds, has no existence
as a political organization.
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEffJlEBE. '
John C. McRae, Engraver.
At his home on the New York bay shore,
In Bayonne, N. J., John C, McRae, who achieved
a wide reputation as a steel plate engraver and
printer, died Tuesday afternoon in his 77th year,
Mr. McRae was a naUve of Edinburgh. He learned
the art of engraving before he came to this country
35 rears ago. For over a quarter of a century Mr.
McRae conducted a business in New York City.
bubsequenUy ne was connected with Joseph C
Lang, a printer and pub.lsher.
Obituary Notes.
Emahcel Waqkek, a prominent farmer of
Lima township, near Newark, O., while returning
home from Patalfcalo,' dropped dead in his wagon
shortly after leaving that Tillage.
LIICTSSAKr T. Drx BOLLEs, U. 8. N is
dead at San Francisco from heart disease. Lieu
tenant Bolles was apnotnted a midshipman In 18M,
and has had IS rears' sea service. He was in
charge or the branch bydrograpulo office at San
M ranciircu.
CHAUTAUQUA AMHBLY CL08H),
Another Successful Season of the City of
Brains and Brilliance It Over. v
CBACTAVquA, N. T., Aug. 28. ISpeetaLJ At
the last session of the Eoonomle Associa
tion meeting held this morning Frank P.
Bennett told about the endowment craze in
Massachusetts, given elsewhere in this
Issue. Barr JTerre gave some interesting
statistics of crowded living In New York in
an address on "The Architectural Problem
in ureat cities." The association oloses Its
meeting to-day. This afternoon was spent
In committee meetings. Miss Anna Haydn
Webster amused a large audience in College
Hall to-day. She teaches that exoitement
and loud talking ruin the voice, and says If
an attempt were made to murder her she
would not make an outcry, for fear she
would lose the sublime rhythm of her voice
when, a few seconds later, she would ask St.
Peter to open the gate. Miss Webster ob
jects to being called Christian scientist.
She admits being both a Christian and a
solentist, but savs she Is not the combina
tion. V
Lake Chautauqua Is slowly flowing Into
the Dead Sea. The rain of the past two days
has caused the lake to rise about SO inches,
and this evening it reached the lowest point
la Palestine Park and filled up the river
Jordan and the Dead Sea. The lake has
torn loose large pieces of ground, and they
are floating on the water. Some of these
islands have quite large trees standing in
them, making a very pretty sight on the
lake. To-night tbeN lneteenth Chautauqua
Assembly closed. The usual exercises were
held in the Amphitheater. From now on
there will be no barrier between this city of
brains and brilliance and the common out
side world.
A LONG COUBTBHI? ENDED.
After Waiting a Quartar of a Century
Conple at Last Are Married.
PHiLADBxrHiA, Aug. 28. fiperfat After a
courtship lasting 23 years, Henry B. Free
man one of the best known and wealthiest
members of the Philadelphia tar, was mar
ried at Cape May to Miss Anna M. Dlmond,
a member of one of the best families. An
nouncement of the wedding has just been
made, and the couple nave started on a tour
of the Fast. Miss Diinond was a daughter
of Andrew Dlmond, head of the firm of An
drew Dlmond A Co., book publishers, which
a half century ago was one of the leading
establishments of the city. When the head
of the firm died, his two orphaned daughters
retained an interest In the business, which
passed into other hands. Young Harry
Freeman and Miss Dimond were playmates
then. A rascally bookkeeper wrecked the
house and the daughters were In very
straitened circumstances.
The pride or Miss AnnaDlmond prevented
her from listening to any offer of marriage,
and, although Mr.-Freeman and Miss Dlm
ond continued fast friends through succeed
ing years, their courtship was not ended un
til Tuesday week. He was a Protestant, she
was a Catholic, and by special dispensation
of Arohbishop Byan the two were married
by Rev. Theodolphus Degan, pastor of the
little Cathollo Church at Cape May. Mr.
Freeman Is well known in legal and political
circles, and was once a , Democratic candi
date for Clerk or the Courts. His father,
Charles D. Freeman, ex-Presloent of the
Camden and Atlantto Ballroad, was also for
many years Alderman of the Flf tn ward.
AN UPHEAVAL IN PEALBLE 80CIETT.
Colonel Smeed's Will In Favor of His Affl-
ancad to be Bitterly Contested.
Omaha, Nxb., Aug. 21 The death of
Colonel E. C. Smeed, Chief Engineer of the
Union Pacific Ballroad Company, promises
to lead to a highly sensational law suit In an
attempt to break the will of the deceased,by
the terms of which the property la to be div
ided equally between his daughter, Mrs. C.
S. Cross, of Emporia, Kan., and the woman
who was referred to as "his affianced wife,
Mrs. Jeanette Nicholas, Omaha." Nopapers
in the case will be filed until after Monday,
on which day the funeral will be held at
Emporia, but the family has already secured
attorneys and will fight the case to the bit
ter end.
The contestants will allege that Colonel
Smeed was not in condition to make a will
at the time the will was executed; that he
was unduly Influenced in the matter, and
will also make charges ot a very sensational
character. The family Is very highly con
nected, and from the prominence of some of
the members, much interest is attached to
the case.
VENEZUELA'S LATEST DICIAT0E,
A New Complication to Increase the Murkl
nesa or the Situation There.
TKntrcAD, W. L, Aug. 28. Urdaneta Soix
has deolared himself diotator of the Repub
lic of Venezuela and has formed a Cabinet,
with Casanas as Minister of the Interior. At
first, it is said.he proposed to retain Villegas
as a figurehead, but subsequently changed
his mind. Congress has been dissolved and
several Senators have been arrested.
Crespo is massing all bis forces about Vic
toria in preparation for a general and de
cisive engagement. The banks in Caracas
are all closed and the Inhabitants of the city
are in a state of great excitement.
COMING CABINET CHANGES.
Premier Abbott's Lease of Power In Canada
to Be Bather Short.
MoHTaEAi, Aug. 28. The Canadian (French
Conservative) to-day makes some peculiar
political prophesies. It declares that the
Conservative party Is preparing for several
important changes.
Sir Jonn Aooottis very work anacaunoc
remain any longer at the head of the Cabl-
net. Mr. Haggart will bo nls probable suc
cessor, he having large mnuence witn tne
Canadian Pacific
Hallway and his own per-
sonal political boldness.
THE STRIKE'S LESSON.
The strike has accomplished nothing. The
immediate resort to violence was bound to
defeat the strike because it alienated publlo
sympathy. Columbus Dispatch.
The country generally can be congratu
lated that the strike at Buffalo is ended and
that business can now he resumed without
further delay or trouble. Chicago Mail.
The movement has plainly been on its last
legs for some days. It had no chance of
succeeding, and the sooner It was laid in the
graveyard of abortive strikes, the better for
all concerned. Boston Herald.
The strike was a piece of folly at the start
and degenerated into crime almost imme
diately. This is likely to be the case in
every instance when the leader of the dis
satisfied men is unfit for his position. Brook
lyn CUizm.
The Important lesson of the Buffalo strike,
and one which all labor organizations
should not fail to heed, is that a strike ac
companied by violence and law-breaking is
doomed to failure from the start, and de
servedly bo. Philadelphia Timet.
It is said that Sweeny will try again at
Chicago or some other Western point. He
Is not likely to he even as successful as he
was here. Frank Sweeny Is that most
pitiable of objects, a discredited labor
leader. He has msTde the cast of his life
and lost. Buffalo Express, j
The one impressive lesson of this whole
business is that arbitration must be utilized
before, and not after, a strike. Every
means to adlust the differences of labor and
capital must be exhausted before publlo
opinion will countenance or support a
strike. New York Recorder.
That strikes and force are not the motbods
by which workingmen can hope to gain
their desires has been shown tn the strong
est possible light at Homestead and Buffalo.
Ballots, and not bullets or bulldozing, are
far more powerful. The inheient fairness
of American employers will do the rest.
Kansas City Star.
The Buffalo strike was bound to fail from
the moment that wholesale crime was re
sorted to in the vain attempt to coerce the
railroads, and the publlo can be congratu
lated upon the vigor with which the au
thorities stamped out mob violence and en
forced the rights of persons and property.
Cleveland Leader.
No Chance for Halrpnlllng.
Chicago Tribune.!
Why should Democrats want Cleveland
and Hill to "get together." Neither one has
any hair to spare.
A New Tronble Brewing.
Boston Herald.
Only two weeks more vacation for the
school children. Then trouble begins.
Timely H lnt for Grover.
Toledo Blade.
Solomon never wrote letters. This is
probably why Solomon was a wise .man.
I Buzzard's Bay papers please copy.
A DAYAT.HASSELLBILL.
The Coffers of the Church at the Good
Shepherd to Be Enriched by a Fete
Other Churches Poshing th Same Good
Work Vigorously Polite Chat.
A LAWN fete for the benefit of the new
stone- Chnroh of the Good Shepherd win be
held on Tuesday afternoon and evening,
September 6, at Hassell Hill, Mr. Hill Burg
win's residence, Second avenue, Hazelwood.
The church has just been completed, and
will be consecrated this autumn. The ob
ject of the fete is to raise funds to furnish
the church in a way befitting the elegance
of Its architecture and the general beauty of
the structure. The Eev. A. D. Heffern Is the
present lnoumbent.
At the fete all kinds of fanoy and useful
articles will be on sale. The ladles of the
parish have been busily at work all summer
making articles of every description. The
Supper Committee has promised an excel
lent meal, and menu cards will be on the
table, so that it will be strictly a dinner a la
carte.
Amusements of every nature will be in
readiness to make time pass pleasantly for
the small boys and girls. There will be a
good band in attendance also. The popular
orange tree Idea is to be carried out under
the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Johnston.
Hassell Hill is especially well adanted for
an entertainment of this kind: the grounds
are large and nicely shaded. The complete
committee list is: ,
Executive Commlttee-Chslrmsn, Mrs. George
C. Bnrgirln: al3, Mrs. Wiley. Mri. CorneUn.
Miss Burgwln and Mrs. Johnston.
. Fancy Goods Booth Mrs. CD. Frsser aided by
ladles of the Alur Society.
Cake-Mlsa Pbffllps, Mrs. Todd. Mrs. Heffern,
Mrs. Lytton, Mrs. J. Stanler, Mrs. Lace, and Mrs.
V. Cox.
Bapper-Mrs. Johns McCleave. Mrs. Wiley, Mrs.
u. vox, Mrs. Cornelias. Mrs. Jonnstoo. Mrs.
!or, Mrs. Cornelias. Mrs. Johnston,
ucvrxa u. iiarKwiii, jurs. , omiui. Airs, xiarry
Bingfer, Mrs. Coo. Mrs. Alker, Mrs. Phillips,
Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Bank and Mrs. Hill Bargwls.
Ice Cream Miss M. Bnrgwlii. Miss Alter. Miss
A. Patterson, the Misses Council and the Sunday
School classes of Miss Edith Cornelias and Miss M.
Barwin.
Lemonade-Miss Wuey, aldea by her Sunday
school class.
Amusements-Mr. BakeweU Phillips and Mr. W.
A. Cornelias.
Booths. Lights, etc St. Andrew's Brotherhood
and the Boy's GnlM.
Children's TaWr-TheMlsses Elizabeth Johnston,
Marlon Kiddle and Anne Bnrgwln.
Vocal Music-Mr. John Stanler, Chairman, and a
committee.
Gate Keeper Mr. Harry McKinley.
Me. Thomas r. Ashfoed, Sr., has
kindly granted the use of his expensive
lawn and grounds for a harvest home under
the auspices of Grace Episcopal Church and
for its benefit. The fete will continue for
three days, and every pleasure-giving
project that thoughtfulness could suggest
or care provide nas been arranged, and
many of tnem are so novel and agreeable
as to make It safe even at a distance to
predict a most enjoyable season of merry
making. Dancing has been provided for,
and the American Military Orchestra, under
G. W. Gaston's leadership, will furnish the
musical part of the programme. The grounds
are situated at the corner of Virginia ave
nue and Kearsarge street.
An overland trip by carriage to Canton,
O., and back to Pittsburg, taken by Mr. E.
W. Wallace, of Allegheny, In a party of six
friends, came to a pleasant conclusion a few
days ago. They drove from Washington,
Pa., on August 8, and arrived in Canton in
time to attend a reunion of the McBirney
family, which Is of prominence in Colum
bus. The novel procedure was much en
joyed by the six taking part.
Social Chatter.
Me. Dauqhertt and his bride, who was
Miss Nellie Bunting, will take possession of
their new home in Charlerol on Monday.
Mrs. Daugherty was one of the most inter
esting girls In a little circle in Ben Venue,
and she takes away with her to Charlerol
the best wishes of her old friends.
Mb. aitd Mas. T. T. Braxshaw, or Buena
Vista street, Allegheny, left Atlantic City
this week after a pleasant sojourn, and are
now in New York eu route to New England
by way of the Sound. They expect to be
home about the middle of September.
Mb. Chablxs D. Tnosiraos-, of Omaha. Neb.,
a special correspondent of the Chicago
Times, and a tuorongh representative of the
bright, breezy West, was in the city for a
few days this week. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Thompson.
Bowkha Lakdos, M. A., of Columbus, O.,
has been elected to the cbairof Rhetorio and
English Literature In Dnquesne College.
The autumn term of that institution begins
September 6. when MiS3 Landon will enter
upon her work.
The family of J. G. Bennett , Esq., of Sou th
Highland avenue, are established at homo
azaln. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett came from New
York by way of Llgonier, where the young
people were staying, and all returned to
gether to town.
Mas. Fba-sk Milleb, of Shady lane, is on
her way West to join Mr. Miller In Chicago,
and from there visit various points of In
terest. Their friends do not expect them to
return to Pittsburg for six weeks at least.
The steamer La Bretagne, which has sailed
from Havre, France, and on whose list of
cabin passengers are the names of a number
of.Pittsburgers, has been ordered into quar
antine upon arrival outside of New York;
Mb. ahd Mas. Saxuxx Axmox, of the Ken
mawr Hotel, who spent all of August at the
Argyle, Atlantic City, 'retired at the ap
proach of cold weather to New York, where
they will be for some time to come.
Amoso the early "swallows" to indicate
"summer," or dropping the figure, the pre
monitions of the season, was a 5 o'clook tea
yesterday given by Mrs. Seaver. It was in
honor of a charming young niece.
MB3. Gzoboe A. Dexnistox, Miss Elizabeth
Robb and Miss Edith Dennlston are ex-
Eected home from Atlantic City September
The party have been gnests at the Argyle
during the month of August.
Miss Alice MoirrooxiBT, who Is visiting
from Tidloute, in one ortna suburbs, during
the cool weather, was welcomed by a
luncheon at which Mrs. S. W. Cramer, of
Belle view, was hostess. '
Acconnnio to a cablegram received in
town yesterday, Mr. George A. Whitney's
party are hurriedly leaving Berlin and
taking to Northern Europe, to escape all
risk from cholera.
Amoho other parties enjoying the pleas
ures of Llgonier Valley Is that composed of
Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Eiohenlaub, Mrs. M.
E.Kaylor and Miss Bose and Mr. Harry
Kaylor.
The Sewickley home of the Morrison Fos
ter family in Sewickley is closed up tem
porarily during Mrs. Foster's absence In the
West. She is accompanied By her family.
Ahoito other Bedford Springs solourners
were Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Ayres and family,
who returned yesterday, and have opened
up their town house.
Mbb. Ann Mas. George BraoHAir, of the
Hotel Kenmawr are enjoying the sea air at
Atlantic City. They are registered at" the
Hotel Brighton.
Miss Brows and her brothers, Messrs. W.
A C and Howard Brown, return to Alle
gheny next week after spending a month at
Atlantic City.
Mb. LuoiAir M. Zell, or Philadelphia, is
spending a part of the summer vacation
with his brother, Mr. W. Thompson Zoll, of
Irwin, Pa.
Mb. awd Mns. W. B. Hobsxb and Master
Wheeler Horner have returned from Bldee
view, where they spent three pleasant
weeks.
Mb. and Mrs. Samuel KEixvand family, of
the .East End, who linve been spending the
summer at Bldgeview, are in Pittsburg
again.
' Mb. and Mas. Jakes L. Cooks, of Kelly
street, Brnthton, le turned this week from
an extended trip to Niagara Falls and the
lakes.
Mr. George M. Hcohes, general manager
of the Atlantio and Danville Bnllwav, West
Virginia, Is visiting his people in Braddock.
The series of evening hops at the Kenmawr
Hotel are to begin azain, the Introductory
one coming off to-night in the big parlors.
The family of S. U. Trent, Esq., returned
to Pittsbunr this week from a season spent
at Bedford Springs and Deer Park.
Mrs. David Meredith entertained a dinner
paity last night in honor of Miss Emma
Grler, of Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Mart A Johns, or Niagara street.
Oakland. left last Wednesday on a brief
visit to Youngstown, O.
Mas. D. A. Jokes, or McKee place, Oak
land, is sDendlng some weeks with friends
in Youngstown.
Amoho Atlantic City sojourners are Mr,
and Mrs. Albert Garrett, of Thomas street,
Point Breeze.
Mb. Gzoboe H. Ladlet, o f Euclid avenue,
East End, has left for Oil City to remain for
some weeks.
Mb. and Mrs. Sahuzl Chadwicx, of the
East End, are spending the summer at Ocean.
Grove.
Mas. CDXBZBTSONLpf New York, Is the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Brown, of Sewickley,
JcdoeKennedtIs in town again after a
summer spent at Berkeley Springs, Va.
Mb. and Mbs. H. IuHonr are registered at
the Hotel Bichmond, Atlantic City.
Mas. Thoxas Cabneoie exnecta ' to go
abroad in a short time.
Mias Olins Jones will be In town again
September L ,
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Brick was used 4,000 years ago.
Umatilla, Ore., lays claim to an Indian
130 years old.
Advertisements in newspapers made
their first appearance In 1632.
The first theater to be lighted through,
ont with electricity was the Gaiety In Lon
don In 1873.
There are 7,320 hansoms and 3,809
four-wheel cabs in the metropolitan district
of London.
The sonl-movlng
aceordeoa was in.
vented by a
Vienese musician named
Damlan In 1S23.
The world consumes 3,000,000,000
pounds of paper a year and is supplied by
4,600 paper mills.
The gold the dentist buries away in
human teeth amounts to 1,800 pounds a year
In the United States.
A Massachusetts confectioner is putting
In a cough drop machine that will cough out
one ton of drops every day.
There are no great woolen factories in
Egypt, but looms are scattered In small
numbers over the whole country.
At a late spiritualistic seance in Lon
don the ghost of Voltaire misplaced his h's
and was unable to anderstand Frenoh.
One of the richest gold discoveries ever
made in Eastern Oregon is reported to have
been made recently ty two men near Olive
Lake.
A New Orleans dealer advertises: "Can
furnish live alligators at any time and of
any length from nine inches to nine fees
long."
A resident of Florida, speaking about
the many attractions of that State, relates
that there never had been a case of sun
stroke there nor a mad dog.
The famous 1500 sword presented to
General B.M. Prentiss, the "hero or SMld),"
was recently discovered in a New York;
pawnshop and purchased for $55.
The British general elections are never
on one or the same day. because an elector
bas the right to cast a ballot in every dis
trict in which he owns property.
A street car in Fitchburg. fitted with
steel ball bearings a3 an experiment, has
been run for several months without being
oiled since it was first put in service.
A town ont "West the other day
"shipped a carload of hogs in which were
several pigs which woighed over 1,000
pounds each." The weight of the hogs is not
stated.
In a hen's nest at Sahlonega, Ga., a
soft-shell egg, about seven inches in length,
was found. It was "round like a marble at
one end, and tapered off sharp as a pencil at
the other."
A pair of shoes and stockings were
found in the stomach of a shark elgnt feet
long, which was caught at Brunswick, Ga
on Saturday.
If this globe were cooled down to 200
degrees below the zero of centigrade, it
would be covered with a sea of liquefied gas
ZSfeet deep.or which about seven feet would
be liquid oxygen.
The formation of a new island in the
Caspian Sea, near Baku, Busila, by up
heaval, is announced. Its surface is re
ported to be Irregular and composed of
blackish gray and yellow hardened mud.
By judicious marketing the South
Carolina melon growers have made the 950
carloads which they have shipped this year
pay them $71500, twice as much as they re
ceived for 1,169 carloads shipped last year.
Mrs. Patsy Shears, of Howard county,
Ind., is dead. Her family was noted for Its
longevity. "Her father lived to he 100 years
old and her mother died at the age of 108
years. Her husband lived to be a century
old."
Chemical action formed a stone in the
stomach or La Marsbale, the famous hurdle
jumping horse or Paris. He died, and the
stone, a ball nearly eight inches in diame
ter, is In the museum of a Parisian veter
inary. The world-famous grapevine at Hamp
ton Court, the largest in England, and sup
posed to be 125 years old, bore nearly
1,200 bunches of ripe grapes this year. The
fruit was packed in boxes and sent to the
Queen.
When Sunol trotted a mile in 2:08
and Nancy Hanks went under the wire in
2:07 both horses were shod with aluminum
shoes. The hoises making the best time
this year were all shod with the new light
metal. J '
While lhe Duchess of Albany was dis
tributing prizes at the annual show of the
Cottage Garden Society at Sandown Park a
fox terrier ran from the spectators, mounted
the royal dais and, standing on it3 hind legs,
begged for a prize, too.
One of the greatest novelties inweaving
machinery recently invented is that de
signed by an Englishman, in which the pile
in plush fabrics Is gained in an expeditions
manner dnring the weaving. The picks or
wefts are actually cut before being driven
in.
A woman nonplused the Information
bureau man at the railroad station in Port
land, Ore- some time ago by telling him
that she had forgotten her destination. He
calledoff the names of a long list of stations,
but she was unable to recognize the name of
her place.
According to statistics recently pub
lished, the United States buys from Munich
each year more works of art than Bavaria
does and nearly as much as the rest of Ger
many. And this in spite of the fact that the
fashion In America for buying foreign plot,
ures no longer favors Berlin.
A Frenchman has recently made im
portant advances In the wore of photo
graphing colors. One of his plates gives a
view of a stained glass window, containing
red, green, blue and yellow: others show a
group of flags, a partl-colored paroquet
and a plate of oranges with a poppy lying on
the top.
A Captain Blondell at Oxford, Ala.,
offered $25 to anyone who would get into a
boat and allow it to be blown up with dyna
mite, so that Blondell might show his life
saving methods. A young man named Neely
accepted the offer, and was blown about 40
feet into the air unhurt, but on his return to
the water's surface lie alighted on the frag
ments of the wreck and received a fracture d
leg and other injuries.
In Paris an interesting series of experi
ments is being carried on by MM. Caliletet
and Colardean, in which they are seeking to
verify the law of falling bodies, and at the
same time those of the resistance of the air
to the passage of bodies. In order to carry
out their work: the investigators have in
stalled their laboratory on the second land
ing of the Eiffel Tower, which gives them a
free fall of 120 metres, or about 370 feet.
PIROUETTES FROM FUCK.
Mrs. Jackson Parke Do you remember
the great Are?
Mrs. Hoppin I shonld say I dldl and the fire
sales that followed.
Van "Wicker I called oh a girl the other
night, and sat down on a chair that immediately
began playing a tune.
Clubberly-You don't say! What was the tnnef
Van Wicker Home, Sweet Home.
Mr. Huckleberry No one admires me.
Miss Wallflower No one admires me, either.
Mr. Hqckleoerry We had better orranlxe a
mutual admiration society. I admire your eyes.
What do you admire about me?
Miss Wallflower Your good taste.
"I have a family tree," ha plead,
To aid me la my suit."
"Perhaps you have." the maiden said,
Bat I don't like its fruit."
Elder Berry Joblots strikes me as agood
deal of a crank.
Dr, Thirdly What has he been saying nowf
Elder Berry He thinks there would be more gen
eral Interest in the church If we had a change of
text books.
Old Hayseed is a simple wight,
Quite far.Undeed. from being sage.
I think that man was very right II
Who aald his was ' green old are." m
Jokem (gloomily). I can't see why I
never can write anything that will please you I
Editor (cheerfnUy). Very liarif "' because I
never can make a decision that pleases yon.
"This is the first poem lever wrote,"
said the maiden, as she untied the pink ribbon and
smoothed ont the roll.
Ah I" replied the unfeeling editor, as he went
over the lines; "and It is n't much of a poem,
either."
Head of firm. Have you any excuse for
missing the train this morning, sir?
Penwiper (a suburbanite)-Yes, sir. I came la
with my wife.
Penwiper (a labarbanltej-Yes, sir. I came la - m
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