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1848.
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PITTSBURO. SUNDAY. SEPT. 11. 18M2.
TAKE CARE OF THE RIVERS.
It is to be hop8d that if the project of
establishing railway quarantine stations
outside the city is carried out great care
will be taken as to the drainage from these
places. Oa that point may depend the
question whether such stations may not be
the surest way of spreading the disease, if
it comes so near.
It is to be noted that any station
established by the Baltimore and
Ohio would hare to be on the line
of the Yougbiogheny, and -that by
the Pennsylvania Railroad must be on
streams that drain either into the Monon
gahela or Allegheny. It is the record of
the cholera in Spain that it follows the
watercourses. One outbreak by letting
the germs get into the streams carried
them to other towns lying further down
the river. At Hamburg, also, it is well
settled that the disease- got its spread
by the pollution of the river whence
water supplies are obtained. It is
evident therefore that if there were a
cholera quarantine on either the Yough
iogbeny, the Eskiminetas or the Cone
maugh, a single act of carelessness might
be the means of spreading the disease far
"and wfdfynot only throughout these cities,
but down tle Ohio Valley.
It is to be hoped that the cholera will"
not get iuto the country. At present the
measures adopted for holding it outside
our ports seem to be meeting with fair
success. But if the time dots come for
local quarantines the location of stations
and their drainage will be matters requir
ing the utmost care and sleepless vigil
ance. AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE.
One of our special contributions this
morning is from a talented lady who after
some protracted observations in London
finds female beauty rather scarce there.
Cynics might intimate that an American
woman would he sure to find the English
women the reverse of ugly; but as the
mistresses of our hearts and homes ind s
putably represent the perfection of female
charms, the case is evidently one where
the British female suffers by comparison
with too high a standard. Nevertheless,
another shows that there are two ways of
looking at the question. Another corre
spondent has interviewed London dress
makers and modistes concerning the effect
of tennis and other athletic sports on the
female form. The testimony is that these
exercises vtill improve the feminine con
tour and make it more nearly
approximate that of Venus. But
American womenkind have for generations
determined that they do not wish to have
Venus-like forms. The entire parapher
nalia of corsets, dress improvers, high
heels and other inventions of fashion has
been with the idea of beating Venus all
hollow, at any cost whatever of life and
health.
But the interesting fact Is that in this
letter ve have the American idea that
British female beauty is a minus quantity;
and contemporarily with it the stolid
Britons come forward and assert that by
'lawn tennis and other recreations the
American women can more nearly ap
proach the beauties of health and figure
presented in the English standard. So
we are left to reflect on the fact that
female beauty is, after all, like beauty in
architecture, dress or equipage, a matter
of individual taste or public fashion.
A NOVEL CANDIDACY.
There is something grotesque in the in
formation that a Republican Congressional
Convention in Philadelphia-the other day
formally nominated William McAleer, tho
present Democratic member from that
city. Such an action by the machinery of
the party, with the active Mr. David Mar.
tin at the throttle, is calculated to make
ua ask if the hated Mugwumps have re
ceived new-reinforcement In the persons
of the machine managers of Philadel
phia. Inbtances have been known and highly
approved by The Dispatch in which
party lines have been discarded in nomi
nations for the judiciary, and in rarer
cases for local positions where politics
have no real pertinence. But the position
of Congressman is essentially a political
one. The only good reason for any party
to rnminate a Congressman is that he will
vorthily represent the principles and
measures which that party represents. So
we have in this case the authoritative
declaration that Mr. McAleer represents
the principles of the Republican man
agers of Philadelphia if, for the sake of
the argument, they may be supposed to
possess such a thing as principles.
It has also been possible in cases where
a party was in a hopeless minority for it
to make no nomination even for Congress.
But that act of omission did not meet the
exigencies of the case In Philadelphia. It
wm, owing to requirements which at this
distance are matters of conjecture, insuf
ficient to merely indorse McAleer. Ac
cording to the newspaper reports he was
formally put in nomination as the Repub
lican candidate for whom all loyal Repub
licans are bound to vote.
This throws a remarkublo light on party
ethics. The vital hold of the party man
agers is iu the theory of sticking to party.
If an Individual exercises an independent
choice and votes for the candidate of the
opposite party, he is a recreant. Butwhen
the party managers for rea sons of their
own choose to make a free trade Demo
crat the authorized candidate of" protec
tion Republicans, every Republican Is
bouud by the choice. The contrast beg
gars comment. To enlarge upon it be
yond the mere statement would be to
paint the lily.
FREMONT AND LINCOLN.
Ex'racts from the life of Mra. Jessie
Benton Fremont, published elsewhere; re
cite the old story of her husband's first
emancipation proclamation, with the in
tention of showing that General Fremont
was in advance of Lincoln on the ques
tion of abolishiug slavery. To those
whose memory runs back to war times
this is merely recounting familar history.
To the greater number whose memory
falls short of the first season of the war
the repetition of that fragment of history
will be of interest. The story is told from
the side of General Fremont in the article
referred to; but as to the main facts there
is no dispute. It is true that General
Fremont was so far in advance of Presi
dent Lincoln that lis issued an emancipa
tion proclamation in 1861; that it was
revoked by order of President Lincoln
and that this fact made Fremont the
favorite of the advanced or radical1 ring,
even in 1864, after President Lincoln had
come up to the emancipation platform.
The facts cannot change the world's
estimate of the two men, as it has stood
for thirty years. Fremont undertook to
settle the slavery question on his own au
thority, aud necessarily the President de
clined to have his administration's course
on the great political issue of the day pre
scribed by tlieNcommander of a military
department whose sole duty it was to be
at the enemy. Fremont was more than
a year in advance of Lincoln on
tho slavery question; but Lincoln's
was the rarer quality of bringing
the reform to consummation at the
time when the people were ready
for it, and when it would succeed. It did
not take very long for intelligent people
to perceive that if Fremont's proclamation
had been accepted by the administration
in 1SG1, enough people would have been
alienated in the North to hare made the
prosecution of the war very doubtful. A
year and a quarter later emancipation was
possible, and Lincoln as the President of
the United States proclaimed it.
General Fremont' was in many respects
a fine character and the disposition of his
family to exalt his record is pardonable.
But even that effort cannot put the rep
utation of thft impulsive, showy and in
discreet Fremont above the fame of the
patient, cautious and unerring Lincoln.
APATHY AT THE STATE ELECTIONS.
The lesson of the State elections that
have taken place so far is that of de
creased majorities in sure States on both
s'des. Alabama on one side fully offsets
Vermont on the other, and Arkansas does
not make much of a change, so that up to
the present time the honors of the cam
paign are even.
The Democrats think that the efforts of
Republican orsrans to explain the reduced
plurality in Vermont are very amusing.
That is usually the case when organs have
to explain things that do not suit their
side. It was the case with the D emo
cratic organs, when they found Alabama's
old hundred thousand majority dwindled
down to a beggarly ten thousand. When
Democracy is able! to turn a blind eye to
a somewhat lane fact of that sort, why
should not Republicans have the same
liberty to dodge around a little 5,000 to
10,000 decrease iu their Vermont vote.
The truth is that up to the present time
the State elections show that the people
have not much interest in the campaign
where the result is a foregone conclusion.
Whether that apathy on both sides will
extend to Novembers something that is
not presaged by the State elections. We
can only wait to see how it turns.
SUPPORT FOR A FAITHFUL OFFICIAL.
It is the geueral impression that the
local managing politicians and "slate
makers" have contracted for more than
they can perform in undertaking to beat
Country Controller Gner out of a renom
ination. The chief cause of this antagon
ism to Controller Grier is that he faith
fully and courageously defendd tho in
terests of the taxpayers according to his
lights on all occasions, and notably so
when he defeated the attempt of his co
officials to draw salaries about double as
large as they had been getting. A Con
troller who refuses a 4,000 addition which
he might have had upon his own annual
salary were he only pliant enough to
take it and who is willing any day to
incur enmity rather than shirk his duty, is
not of such common mould among office
holders that the public will -feel disposed
to kick him out at the bidding of those
whom his fidelity has offended.
In selecting Mr. Miller to run against
the sturdy Controller the managers ara
almost as unkind to Mr. Miller as to Mr.
Grier. Mr. Miller is a very popular and
estimable Republican, who would 'doubt
less make an acceptable candidate for any
executive position under ordinary circum
stances. But to plunge him Into a con
test for which there is so little defensible
reason or prospect of encouragement as
this, is not exactly a favor.
The intimation of the set-up against the
fighting Controller may, of course, only
be intended as a leeler. If the latter, it
has met with rather a chilly but altogether
sufficiently significant reception. It de
serves no encouragement
CANDIDATE BREEN'S OPEN LETTER..
Letters of acceptance are of notable
length this year. That of candidate J.
W. Breen, who is running for Congress
upon the Democratic side in this district
is no exception to the rule. It may be
predicted that while Grover Cleveland's
epistle, which is expected thi3 week, will
probably exceed Mr. Breen's in the num
ber of words, there will be no approach
to the latter in ratines of style.
The Dispatch entirely disagrees with J
air. -ureen in nis assumption or facts as
well as in his conclusions about the tariff.
It thinks the immense growth and sta
bility of the manufacturing interests of
Western Pennsylvania the best and quick
est local answer to the Democratic "ca
lamity" cry; but if the Democrats really
enjoy and persist in taking the calamity
view there is no one who can put it in
more striking and entertaining form than
their present candidate for Congress.
AN IMPEACHED CANDIDATE. '
The fierce sunlight of publicity which
beats upon a candidate for office has
got in its fatal work upon John M Burke,
who Is running as Democratio candidate
for Governor of Idaho. Various have
been the charges calculated to wreck a
candidate's budding hope of office; but
none were more Insidiously designed to
ruin a man with the Idaho voters than the
one brought against Mr. (probably
Colonel) Burke. It is not asserted that he
has wrecked a bank or got up a trust.
Such venal things might be excused; but
Colonel Burke's offense, as charged in.the
indictment, is more Inexcusable to the
Idaho mind than flat burglary.
The charge is that Burke, though prone
to swell the lofty jackpot and to draw to
the alluring bobtail, does not like to lose
his money. That is a universal failing,
and if confined to tho mere sentiment it
might find sympathizers even in Idaho.
But when Burke lets the sentiment find
concrete expression In the practice of pay
ing his losses in checks which his bankers
are instructed not to honor, Idaho Is
likely to express a solemn disapproval at
the polls. The man who will do that is
capable of going back on his party
workers and deceiving friend and foe
alike,
A great moral issue like thi3 injected
into the Idaho campaign causes economic
issues to pale their ineffectual fires. As
the people who hold Burke's dishonored
checks are making it llvejy for him we
mav expect Idaho to b'e thoroughly
warmed up to the question before Novem
ber. It is safe to predict that no man will
occupy the Gubernatorial chair of that
new State who does not play the royal
American game on the square.
THE KONGO TRAGEDY.
The news from the Arab rising on the
Upper Kongo is summarized in an article
elsewhere, which shows that the gravity
of the situation threatens the repetition
of the experience on the Nile. If prompt
measures are not taken the slave raiders'
hold on tho center of Africa will beoome
as deathlike as that of the Soudanese on
the Nile at and above Khartoum.
The Dispatch has often pointed out
that the mistake on the Kongo was not in
exhausting peaceful measures first, but in
failing to have a strong reserve of force
behind it When dealing with men whose
fortunes lie in murder and rapine the cer
tainty of collision must be taken into ac
count Military measures that would have
been effective were not hard to take.
Fortified stations at Leopoldville and
Stanley Falls a3 a base of supplies
for steamers armed with the small
est of Krupp guns could have made
the whole river untenable for the Arabs.
If these had been supplied such a punish
ment could have been inflicted for this up
rising as would have crushed it in its in
ception. The lack of it has cost the lives
of all the whites in a circuit of a thou
sand miles.
Now that the need of such measures
has been demonstrated they should be
supplied vigorously. It would be a humil
iating commentary on civilization if it
proved unable to suppress slave-trading
on the Kongo as on the Nile.
Cleveland hud better quit issuing in
vitations to recalcitrant members of his
party to dine with him, and settle down to
the composition of that letter which is ex
pected of him. He can write often enough
when he has nothing to talk about, and yet
now that Harrison has been obliging enough
to give him a topic he shrinks from making
use of it.
The national campaign is opening up
with somewhat of a fizzle, but it will end
with the usual bang along in November.
Whatever may be the grave faults of
the Government of Russia, no one can deny
that the Czar and Czarina have plenty of
courage. Their behavior in visiting cholera
patients in hospitals and kissing and shak
ing hands with them was noble if unwise.
This is a good day to emphasize the in
timate connection which exists between
cleanliness, Godliness and good health.
It is easy enough to make bricks without
straw nowadays. Bat It would be' utterly
impossible to govern this country success
fully without regard for American Indus
trie, and the Democratic effort to do so is
foolish in the extreme.
Whatever befalls, no harm can come to
Pittsburg from an immediate and absolute
cleansing. There's the Point.
The conferee system is evidently a fail
ure for settling tho claims of llval political
aspirants, and Queensberry rules might be
tried as a method quite as reasonable and
likely to be more effective.
The Democratic party is not even a unit
in New York, much less a mat ority among
Empire State voters.
It hat been suggested that Corbett should
bo nominated for Congress in California. If
the so-called People's party Is In existence
four years henco he might even receive a
Presidental nomination.
It is seasonable just now to sing with
Tostl's pathetic wall "Goodby, summer,
goodby, goodby."
Until the Cooler gang is captured the
sheriffs of counties suffering from their
depredations must lie under a charge of lazi
ness or cowardice. Both are discreditable,
but the chclce is open.
To-morrow the city will once wore take
council together, or Councils together will
take the city.
Property holders who harbor garbage
and refuse on vacant lots should be prose
cuted with the utmost rigor of the law. And
meanwhile the filth should be removed as
speedily as possible.
Those who do not want to go to church
can hardly plead hot weather as au excuse
any longer.
Allegheny's front office fund is to be
brought to the fore in Criminal Court to
morrow, and it is Just possible that some
relegations to the rear may result from the
legal investigation.
South American republics are a stand
ing example of the doctrine that might is
right.
Hupp ought to console himself for miss
ing the nomination in the Twenty-first dis
trict by the thought that he got out of the
deadlock alive.
And still fresh cholera germs are brought
within wind, carrying distanco of New
York.
Little luck can come to Grover from
that badge or fonr-leafed clover, for he must
add the name of Hill, to three he has to fill
the bill.
Cobbett and Sullivan are both ont of
eight, but the latter was knocked out.
That statement that Hill will "come"
out for Cleveland on the 15 lust, will para
phrase itself to most people Into "going" for
him. .
The poolroom is not infrequently on the
way to the pawn shop.
Let Grover Have nis Say.
Chicago Mall.
Now, Mr. Cleveland, come on with that
letter, but make it short.
. Vt hat a Mill Means.
Baltimore American. I'
A nrfze ficht Is called a "mill" because the
.other lellow is reduced to pulp.
FLOTSAM FROMjTHE LAKES.
Sending Flsh tj Seaport.
To a landsman who Uvea a good way inland
the arrival of a fishing boat at her dock nf tor
a orulse Is a wonderfully lnteroiting sight.
The other day I watched a boat unload its
finnv freight at the dock in Erie harbor.
The little tug boat which had be'eri out haul
Ingln the nets for ten hours Or more was
simply covered with silvery fish from stem
to stern. The speoial hold constructed for
these fishing boats was simply brimful, and
the men were shoveling the fish ont as if
they were sand or coal. They were mostly
fresh-water herring, with a sprinkling of
the more toothsome white fish and blue and
yellow pike. I asked tho boss of the fish
house whither most of the fish would bo
sent. To my surprise he replied: "the
bestpartofit to Now fork though we are
shipping our usual amount to Pittsburg and
other Inland towns."
This sounds liko sending coal to New
castle, but the fish sharp explained to me
that in spite of the remarkable plenty and
variety of the sea fish to De had In New
York's maikets. there is still a good demand
for some of the lake fish. It Is a delicate
thing to time shipments of lake flsh to New
Tork so that they shall reach there when
sea fish Is scarce and high. All the buying
and soiling of the lake catch is done by tele
graph. Now and then dealers in New York
get badly left. The other day. for Instance,
this Erie firm, of which 1 speak, consigned a
large quantity of the finest fish to New
York, and ns ill-luck would have it, for days
after its arrival the market was glutted with
salt water fish, and of course prices and the
demnnd almost mil to tnevamsmng point.
Another odd thing abont this lake fish busi
ness U that certain fish find favor with cer
tain classe' or customers to the exclusion of
all otlier kind'. ' .
"1 here's the yellow pike for example,"
satdmv Erie friend; "it is immensely popu
lar with the Hebrews, and in New York es
pecially they wlil,bny this fish in prefeience
to almost anything else in the mat kit, al
though thero are lots or finer flavored fish
In seasou at tho same time."
Fish for Winter Use.
The practice of preserving hike fish for
the winter season by freezing them is or
comparatively recent adoption, but it is be
coming a more Important branch of the
business every year. For example, an Erie
firm, which owns seven or eight tugs and
several sailboats and does easily tile larg
est business at that port, last winter stored
and sold 150 tons of frozen fish during' the
winter. They were filling their big rerig
orators with fish when I was there last
week. The method is this: The fish are
packed in flat tin boxes, high enough to
hold two layers, and these boxes are sub
jected to the action of a powerful freezing
mixture applied upon the same prlnolple as
that used in making ice cream. Tho result
isthat the fish are irozmi till they are as
hard as a brick. I saw the man unpacking a
lot or them from boxes, and every now and
again as he lifted out a cake of frozen fish
about 1 feet long and 2 wide, it would snap
in two crisply as u slab of ice might. In
this frozen shape they are stored away in
the big refrigerating chamber, nhere the
temperature always stands about 26 or 27
that is five or six decrees below the freez
ing point.
They don't look like fish as they stand in
stacks roachln from the floor to the roof,
but h lien you ear some of them next winter,
as you are likely to do, you won't know
them, I'm tol'J, fiom flsh that are Just lresh
from the water. A man who trlod some
Columbian salmon stored in this fashion,
six months after it had been caught, told
me that it had pieservod all its flavor and
firmness, as well as the less delicate evi
dence of freshness.
A Floral Gold Mlne.i
The cultivation of the canna as a garden
flower for common use about mlva to resi
dences is one of the prettiest results of the
new horticultural school's teaching. The
great graceful leaves of this plant are gen
erally at their best now, and tho crimson
plumes of their blossoms add greatly to the
plant's beauty. A landscape gardener of
note told me this little story which illus
trates somewhat the popularity of the
canna:
"Not long ago when Crozy, the great
French horticulturist, was filling an older
for Peter Henderson, of this country, by ac
cident some of the special canna seed he
had for hybridization slipped la. As soon
as tho consignment had been dispatched
Crozy discovered his mistake andwioteat
once to Hendeison to return it. Henderson
oomplled but not before some of the pre
cious seed had been sold to a nurseryman In
Charleston, S. C From one of the seeds thus
sold grew the variety known as 'Star of '91,'
which has already become famous for the
size and beauty or its blossoms.
"William falconer, who is one of the
greatest of our horticulturists and has
charge of Charles A. Dana's unique gardens,
saw the great valnoof the plan tan a secured
it befoie the world knew much about 'The
Star of '9L' Falconer arterwards sold his
stock to John Lewis Childs, of Queen's, who
sent the new canna out last year. Some
idea or its popularity cau be had from the
fact that 110,000 plants have been sold, and
at 75 cents to $1 2d each."
Their Last Camp In Life.
Some of these days when the trees grow up
and the grounds about it are terraced down
to the water's edge the Soldiers' Home at
Erie will become as famous for its beautiful
surroundings as tho laiger national institu
tion at Washington. It is rightly noted now
for its admirable condition, the comfort and
cleanliness of the soldiers' quarters and tho
spotless purity of Its account books. Unlike
some State institutions It has never sup
plied the newspapers with sensational hows.
It is situated on a slight eminence above and
to tke east of the city of Erie on a plateau
which commands the harbor entrance, and
lor that reason no doubt was chosen bv the
early settlors for the site of a i ude "fort.
Few if any real traces of this fortification
remain, but a lac-slmilo or the old block
house has been erected elose to the shore by
the State to mark the grave where 31 ad An
thony Wayno's bones lay till somo of his
relatives, with what seems to mo a
stupid disregard for historic fltues,
spirited them away. Major Tvson,
the superintendent of the Home, has "done
wonders with the grounds, which were in
nocent of any sort of cultivation, but simply
a dusty waste when he took them In hand
eight years ago.
The changes In the lake front of Erie since
Commodore Perry's time, I mean in tho
depth of thowatorin the bay and outsido
tho breakwater, have been very great. For
instance. Major Tyson pointed out to me the
place where Perry rook out tho boats he had
built in the harbor and with whicn he licked
tho British. In place of the channel that
existed in Perry's time there is now land
high and dry above the lake's level. It is
Major Tyson's Intention to break the high
bank witn terraces to the tide, and the water
front of the Home will bo adelightlul spot
in summer for old soldiers, or anyone else
who enjoys a marine prospect and a breeze
that would put an edge on a fatted calf's ap
petite. On the land side or the Home I noticed a
pretty idea worked out in the flower beds.
Each of tbem represented a corps badge of
the Army of the Potomao under Hooker.
Theie was the trefoil ol the Second, the an
chor and cannon of the Ninth, the star of tho
Twelfth, tlie Maltese cross or the Fifth Corps
and so on a pleasant reminder to the veter
ans of thegieat army in which they had
most of them solved.
A I ike Itsorl for Plttsbarg. ,
Talking of pleasant scenes near Erie, I am
reminded that a much more vigorous effort
to exploit this neighborhood as a summer
resort Is to be made next year. Of eourse
lots of Plttsburgers know all about Erie, and
upon returning from a trip to that town
nearly everyone will ask you simply and
solelj : "How's the Ashing"" Not every Pitts
burger knowfe, however, of the grand place
the shore of Lake Erie is as a playground for
children. I happened upon a camp lour or
five miles out from Erie itself, where hair a
dozen gentlemen had built themselves
cheap little villas aud lodged their families
there (or the summer. One belonged to a
Pittsburger, Superintendent Watt.or the Mu
nongahela Division of the Pennsylvania road.
You ought to have seen the oniony of chil
dren, sporting on the sands, swimming like
water lonL or eating like victims of itarva
Hon. In complexion they rivaled the rich
bronze of the original inhabitants of this
coast, the Erics, and most of them could
liavo snapped clothing with the savages
without occasioning remark.-
One or the additional inducements to sum
mer visitors next year will be the comple
tion of the new hotel which Daniel Tracy
Mrs. W. L. Scott's brother, is building on the
bay a short distance from the point called
the Head, at which the peninsula whloh
forms the harbor joins the mainland. It is
on the site of n place that had rather a loud
odor of late, called the Lone Flshcrmau's
inn. They say Mr. Tracy's hotel, which con
tains some 60 rooms, will be an ideal abode
for the angler and tho wonder is to me that
the Erie people have not made more oftbelr
water tiont in the way ot Dlensure long
ago. The Tracy inn is to be specially dedi
cated to I'ittsburgers. and you will see that
the Pennsylvania uanroau will cut down its
running time shortly between Pittsburg and
Erie, and the P. fc L. E. poocte have begun
to do It already. It is aggravating to think
how little our proximity to the cool, brac
ing air of Lake Erie is appreciated in Pitts
burg, but now that the Pennsylvania Com
pany, which has lots ot enterprise when It
OtiOe starts to move, 19 going to do its best
to make the Journey to. Erie a mere baga
telle, we may soon see a Pittsburg suburb
on the lake shore. Hei-bum Jousa.
LAST HONOKB TO IBB QtlAKEB POET.
Brilliant intellects From All Over the
Union Send Tributes for the Funeral.
AMESBunr.MASS.. Sept. 10, This quiet town
was thronged to-day with those who gath
ered from far and near' to gaze for a last
'time upon tho features 'of the dead poet,
John Gieenleaf Whlttler. All over the city
flags wero at half mast, and the public
buildings were decorated with emblems of
mourning. Tho remains of the departed
poet, encased in a rich broadcloth-covered
casket and surrounded with beautiful floral
tributes, lay in state in the parlor of the
home of the late poet, from 10 a. Jl. to 2 p. it.
During that time thousands passed in and
took a farewell glance at the calm, peaceful
face of the sweat singer.
At 2:30 o'clock the funeral services were
held in the garden in the rear or the hnne.
There was a large attendance. The Quaker
form of service was used in accordance with
the request of the deceased. Th interment
was In the Friend's section or Union Cem
etery at Bartlett's Corner. Floral tributes
were received from all over the country,
many nf the pieces being very elaborate.
The Haverhill city government was pres
ent in a body, coming on a special train. The
Loyal Legion ot tho United States was rep
resented by a delegation of ten members.
The Whlttler Club or Haverhill and several
other organizations were present. Tele
grams and letters were received from a
number of distinguished peoplo, expressing
sympathy and grier. Among them were
messages from James G. Illaine, Frederick
Douglas, ex-Govoinor John D. Long, Hon.
K. T.Davis and Alfred II. Love. Business in
the town was suspended throughout tho
afternoon.
TJ. a WAB3BIFS FOB VENEZUELA,
Strong Backing for American Interests In
That vrarliJsa Kepnblio.
Washikotojt, Sept. 10. Admiral Walker
was Instructed this afternoon by Secretary
Traevto sail in his flagship Chicago at day
lisrht "to-moirow morning for La Guayra,
Venezuela, to look after American interests
In that country. This action was deter
mined upon to-day ht a conference between
Secretary Tracy and Assistant Secretary
Adoe, of the State Department.
It is stated at both the State and Navy De
partments that no word lias been received
of late from our Minister in Venezuela rep
resenting that the occasion demanded a
stronger naval show. The Chicago was sent
only as a precautionary meaBuie to assist
the Concord and Keararge, which are now
due at La Guayla, in case of an emergency.
Accompanying Admiial Walker's orders
bweie instructions, the nature of whloh the
otocials refused to uivulue; but It is believed
he was directed to pin sue a vigorous course
In dealing with the situation, especially In
connection with foreign aggression, and to
protect American lives and property should
it be necessary.
PEOPLE OP PROMINENCE.
Mrs. Ole Bolt, makes her home in Bos
ton with her bi other Jo, who married one
of Poet Longfellow s daughters.
When Lord Tennyson is asked to read
his works aloud he alrno-st invariably selects
tho "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Well
ington" and after that "Maud."
Charlotte AT. Yonge, though 70 years
old, is one of the most popular woman
wrlteisin Englnnd. Sho writes legularly,
except Sundays, irom S in the morning till
1 o'clock and again from 6 to 7.
Petek JL Arthur, Grand Chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
lives in a handsome home on Euclid avenue
in Cleveland. He is a thrifty ancLeconomi
cal man an a is said to be worth $390,000.
Eev. L. T. Chamberlain, D. D., of
Brooklyn, took part in the recent parade of
ooaches and private carriages at Manchester
by-the-Sca. His victoria was decorated with
pansles and. Virginia cieepers on the Dody
and blackberry vines and nasturtiums.
Henry Laurens Dawes, the senior
Senator from Massachusetts, who has de
clined to stand for re-election, has been 35
years In public office, and 17 years in the
Senate., He is now 70, but vigorous and halo
and outsido of his political career he has
been a teacher, editor and lawyer.
Dr. Pieeson, of Philadelphia, who of
ficiated in Dr. Spurgeon's pulpit iu the Met
ropolitan Tabernaclo, London, during the
latter's final illness and who later acted in
the same capacity, has been Anally accepted
as the permanent successor to Mr. Spurgeon.
Dr. Pierson will assume his dutios in the
Tabernacle on January 1, 1S03.
General Anderson, ot Cincinnati, O.,
is lying critically 111 at Lucerne, Switzer
land. He is suffering from an inteinal
tumor. His son, Larz Anderson, Second
Secietary of the American Legntlon in Lon.
don, has been summoned to the General's
bedside so that he mhihe be with him in his
last moments in the event of a fatal termina
tion. The Queen will present a unique wed
ding present to Princess Marie, daughter of
the Duke of Edinburgh, on the occasion of
her tnairiageln October to Prince Ferdi
nand, the heir apparent to the throne of
Konmanla. The gift is a pleasure barge
fashioned in the form of a swan. The neck
and head form the prow, which is IS feet in
height. The body forms the cabin and the
feet are employed in propelling the beauti
lulcrart. Prof. Arthur Burqoyne, whose satir
ioal hits in ryhme, In tho "All Sorts" col
umn of the Leader, have Introduced a new
eta in newspaper poetry, has extended his
field by publishing tho words and musio of a
campaign song entitlod "Indiana Ben." It
is rather hazardous for a poot whose repu
tation has been made by unsparingly hitting
heads where he seos them to try the
laudatory muse; but Prof. Buigoyne i3 more
than ordinarily successful in his attempt.
"Indiana Ben" will take rank as one of the
dittios of the campaign.
Tho Ilobby of Crescent City.
Minneapolis Tribune. J
When New Orleans can have a lottery
or a prize fight in her midst she feels at
homo.
DEATHS HERB AND ELSE WHERE.
J. Edward Jrffir.
J.' Edward Jefiers died on Tuesday at 181
Sanduitrstreet, Allegheny. Mr. Jcffers liau been
ill for two years, and although Ills death was not
unexpected, the sudden attack of apoplexy by
which he was rendered unconscious from Sunday
night nntll Tuesdav morning, when healed, made
his death a shock and source of regret to his young
wife, Mrs. Jean McKte JcfTer. only daughter of
Joseph McKee. Their only son, Joseph McKce
Jeffert. was three years old on the day his father
died. Mr. Jeffors had no near relatives In this
city. He was born in Lawrence. Mass. Her. E.
T. Jeffers, at Oil City, is , a brother, and another
brother, Mr. William JclTers. lives at Leaven
worth. Kan. A third brother. Charles.' Is located
at Los Angeles, Cal.
Cnptnln J. H. Lawler.
Captain J. H. Lawler, United States In
spector of Customs In New Orleans, died suddenly
Thursday of heart dhease, agid 43. lie was a na
tive of Dublin, Ireland. He was a Lieutenant in
the Ninth Connecticut Volunteers during the Civil
War. He was prominent in the Fenian movement,
and served a long jcrm of Imprisonment In a llrltlsh
prison. After .his release he went to Louisiana,
where he became prominent In polities as a lie-
fiublican. He was appointed Inspector of Customs
n 1877. and he held the office ever since under all
changes of administration.
Obituary Notes.
MOST RET. JOHN Medlet, D. D., Bishop of
Freaerlcton and Metropolitan of Canada, died
Friday at Frederlcton, N. 11. He was 88 years
old.
GEORGE BnADLEr. onlT son of Colonel W. O.
Bradley, ot the National Republican Executive
Committee, died Friday of typhoid lever athls
Tiomo in Lancaster, Ky. He .was 23 years old and
his father's law partner.
TnoMAS B. Heed, for many years a citizen of
McKecsport, died Friday, aged years. Hla
death was due to a complication of troubles result
ing from grip. The remains were taken to New
Castle yesterday for interment.
Louis EDQAn SPEEit died Thursday at Savanna,
111. He wai the fourth son of the late L. IT. Spcer,
of flelievcrnon, and brother of Captnlu W, F.
Spur, brick manufacturer, and A. Q. Speer, of
the Speer White Sand Company, both of Pittsburg,
and J. P. Speer. His sisters are Mrs. . P. Speers,
nfEarlelg'i Heights, near Baltimore, Md.: Mrs.
Marv Park, wife of Hev. Thomas Park, recently
of Winchester, O., now of Tower Hill. IU., and
Mrs. Cells, (J. Porter. Wife of E. B. Porter, near
Pittsburg.
0EI GIN OP WfllTTlER'S BALLADS
While it was as the 'Poet of Freedom"
that Whlttler first became famous, fioilto
day best known by his ballads. The school
Doywhoig not familiar with a number of
these pleasing stories in verse would be
bard to And, and equally rare is the man in
whose mind are nob stored many of their
more striking stanzas. This fact of tneir
being common literary property makes
their origin of unusual interest, and not a
little discussion has nt different times been
indulged in relative to the seeds which bore
such literary fruit. Most of the following
faets are drawn from the latest biography
of tbeiauthor, one published within a few
months.
Of all Whittier's ballads the best known
is probably "Maud Mullcr,'1 who "on a sum
mer day raked the meadow sweet with hay."
This is almost entirely a Creation of pure
fancy. Its only roallty being that one day
as Wliittier was driving a'ong a dusty
rond he stopped at a wayside spring to
drink. In an adjoining field was a girl clad
in the scantiest summer attire, who en
deavored to cover her bare leet with the
hay she was raking, blushing all tho time
so that the ruddy blood showed plainly
through tho brown sun tnn or her oheeks.
From such a trifling Incident grew this
famous poem, or which its author said: "If
I had had any idea that the ptaguey thing
would have been so liked, 1 would have
taken mote pains with it."
John Brown and the Negro Child.
The barefoot hoy is autobiographical in
its character, being drawn entirely from the
youthful experiences of its author. Whether
John Bi own, of Ossawatomle really "stooped
between the Jeering tanks And kissed the
negro's ohlld,- will never be known. The
mon who guarded him as he was taken to
execution claim that nothing of the kind
occurred, but persons who were presen
Just as decidedly insist that it did occur. It
is not unlikely that without the knowledge
of the guards, with one of dls quick nervous
movements he did stoop and kiss some
child In the crowd through which he nas
passing.
It is an old English custom to tell the bees
of tho death of any of the family owning
them, and in many places the hives are
draped in black. Superstition says that if
tliU is not dono tho bees will leave their
hlve, which may bavo its origin iu the fact
that beos are very sensitive to the presence
of any dead body. This custom Is main
tained in parts or New England, and from It
has been drawn the pathetic ballad entitled
"Tolllii'-r tho Bees," a ballad In which a
lover long separated from the one he love,
rides to her home and sees the servant drap
ing the hlvos. He at once concluded that
his Mary is mourning the loss of her aged
grnndsiie, but In a moment he sees the old
man on the step, and finds that it is of tho
death of Mary that the bees are learning.
Thn Story of Skippr Irraon.
The story of Skipper Ireson was told
Wliittier by a schoolmate, a young girl from
Matblohead, and 30 years later it
proved tho foundation of the ballad.
It seems that In the early part of the
century Captain Benjamin Ireson was re
turning from the Gtand Banks in command
of tho schooner Betty. Off Cape Cod one
midnight bo descried a lumber schooner in
a sinking condition. With a high sea run
ningand a strong wind blowing the skipper
and his equally guilty crow made no attempt
to rescue its doomed sailor, but hastened
on toward home. Once there his com
panions placed all the blame on the Captain
and sf courso ho had no deiense.
Nothing was said I or some time, but finally
a secret meeting was held to discuss the
matter. On the following day Irescn was
thrown Into a condemned dory and his
hands wero bouud. A buoket of tar had
been prepared and the crowd, a hundred
strong, laid hold of a long rope attached to
the dory and started to drag it through )he
town. Having received a gift of two pil
lows from tho wife of one Captain BruCe as
thev wont along, they proceeded to tbe out
skirts of she village where the tarand feath
ers were applied and well rubbed in, two
lumps of tar on his temples being decorated
with gooso leathers. The march was then
resumed toward Salem, but the bottom com
ing out of the dory their victim was placed
in a cart. The authorities relusing to let
them come into Salem they released their
prisoner, who said: "I thank you for my
lide, gentlemen; but you will live to re
gietit." This was the only time he spoke
during the piooaedings.
Marblehead Never Got Over It,
One of his townsmen being asked what
effect the tarring had on the skipper, re
plied: "Cowed him to death, cowed him to
death." The original doggeral, as sung by
tho boys of Marblehead, ran thus:
Old Flud Olrson. for his horrd hort.
Was torred and feathere I and corrled In a cort;
He left folve mon upon a wraelr.
And was torred and leathered ail over his back.
Tho fact that the feathers were provided
by a woman probably gave Wliittier the
idea that the whole punishment was In
flicted by the women. The ballad has ex
cited the unappeasable wrath of the Marble
headers, especially the women,' who are not
piond or their portrait as sketched by the
halladist, and they have no use at all for the
Quaker poet.
In the summer of 1SS3 some young ladles
from Salem went over to Marblehead on a
boating trip, and while there went in search
ot Floyd Ireson'g house. As they wero in
quiting their way, a woman thrust he1 hoad
out of the window, crying, "Want to And
Flood Iieson's house, do yet Well, you
won't And out here, I can tell ye. Flood
Ireson was evory bit us good as you be; and
you treatin' his house 's if 'twas a curiosity.
You bettor go right awuy from here." And
shortly after another party on the same
en and were pelted with mud by the street
urchins.
Ton Pilings of the Palatine.
Edward Everett Hals says that "the most
charming and best authenticated of all our
tiaditlons is that commemorated in
Whittier's. beautiful ballad, the Pala
tine." It is a story of the pillage and
burning of a ship by wredkers, and its an
nual leappearanre as a phantom ship of
file. The ship Palatine driltea, ashoro one
night on Block Island. The wreckers
boarded her, and landed all the miserable
passengers except one woman who had
muoh gold and silver plate on board and
ielned to leave her treasure. The ship was
towed into a covo by the wreckers, who,
having pillaged her, fired her and set her
adrift with tho uutor.nnate woman on
board. In the darkness of a stormy winter
night the ship driftod away, her spars and
cordage painted in fire on the sky, and the
sea hlood-ied below, while tho shrieks of the
abandoned woman gradually grew fainter.
Aud there Is no hotter authenticated phe
nomenon than the mass of flame which to
this duv frcnnentlv nnnenrs on the sea
about Block Island, a pnenomenon which
has never been lully and satisfactorily ex
plained. ISarbara FrletchU and Her ring.
Whittier says that tbe story of Barbara
Frlctchie was no invention of his, but came
to him from sources whloh he considered
entirely tollable; that it had been published
in the newspapers, and had gained public
ct edence in Washington and Maryland be
fore his poem was written. But later, when
tho story had bcon denied in toto by cer
tain prominent persons, he wrote as fol
lows: The story was probably incorrect in some
of its details. It is admitted by all that
Barbara Frietehie was no mytb.bnt a worthy
and highly esteemed gentlewoman, intense
ly loyal, and a hater ot the slavery lobclllon,
holding her Union flag sacred and keeping
it with her Bible; that when the Confeder
ates halted boforo her house and entered
her doorway, she denounced them in vigor
ous laivuuge, shook hor cane in their mce3,
nnd drovo them out: and, when General
Burnside's troops lollowed close upon Jack
son's, sho waved her flag and cheered
them."
It Is stated that May Quantrell, a brave
and loyal lady in another pare of the city,
did waveherflagiu sight of the Confeder
ates." It is possible that there has been a
blending of tho two incidents. And It is
known that some of the officers, with char
nctetistic Southern politeness, raised their
hats to Mis. Quantrell, saying, "To you,
madam, not your flag." A niece or Barbara
Prloiohie claims thnt to her positive knowl
edge tier nunt did not wavo a flag, lor she
was in tho hnuio at the time, and she never
know anything ofit. Hut It is also claimed
that while tho Confederates were pasinir
the liouio she was hidden under tho bed
saying hor nrayors in German. Despite
whatever truth there may bo in the denials,
the ballad is one which will long preserve
tho story. T. C. IIlaisdell.
Another Feather In Pittsburg's Cap.
Cleveland Leader.J
Pittsburg capitalists are building a tin
plate factory with a capacity qf 3,000 boxes
per week, and $250,000 has been subscribed
by reliable man to push the enterprise. This,
of course, is only nnothor of those awful Re
publlcan campaign fcliomes. Men put up
$250,000 every day in that way to help the Ho
puUlican party, tf we'maybolievo imagina
tive Democrats, but for all that we thought
it worth while to mention this latest in
stance in Pittsburg.
BaUCK TELESCOPE A 8TJGCS6.
The Big Instrument for Harvard University
Satisfactorily Tested.
Bostoit, Mass., Sept. 10, The new Bruce
telescope, the wonder photographic Instru
ment which Mr. Clark has baen two
years making for Harvard observatory,
was successfully tested on the North
star this evening. The great instru
ment is mounted temporarily in Mr. Clark's
garden, where the Lick telescope was first
mounted, and now that it has been proven
ft success will be sot up on the Observatory
bill.
This Instrument is the gift of Miss Caro
line W. Bruce, of New Tork. It Is not a
visual telescope nt all! in lact, one cannot
see through It. There are four photograph
ing lenses two feet in diameter and In iron t of
these Is the prism for photographing tbe spec,
trumof stare. Its thickest edge is three
inches and the thinnest Seven-eighths of an
lnoh. The lenses are all made of the Anest
kind of optical glass, and their average
weight is 100 pounds each. The bed plate
will bo 10 feet 4 inches and Its
breadth 6 feet. This will swing on a
great steel axle ten feet long and weighing
2,200 pounds. The whuel to whloh the clock
work is attached regulating the movement
of the instrument to the motion of the
earth Is Ave feet In diameter, and the gear
ing Is exceedingly delicate and nicely ad
Justed. Prof. Pickering expects it to reveal 45
times more stars than have yet been known
to human astronomers. Pror. Pickering and
a number of other astronomers were present
nt the test.
A BSILLIAKT C0L0BED METS0E
Fa'aahes Across the Sky at Boston and Shows
Up Rnsntifally.
Boston, Sept. 10. One of the brightest
and largest meteors ever seen in this vialnlty
sped across the northern sky at 10:39 o'clock
last night. It 'wa. pear-shaped and in its
greatest apparent diameter was about half
that of the moon. The eourse ot the meteor
started very near a great circle through the
zenith and the North star and a little more
than half way from tbe horizon to Polaris.
Thence its path was eastward and down
ward at an angle to tho horizon of about 60
degrees.
Apart from its size the meteor was bril
liantly colored. There Was a distinct hncleus
of a dazzling white, oblong in shape, trav
eling on its longer axis. Around this was a
blazing band of color, mostly deep bine.
At the outside was a yellowish film, thin in
front of the meteor but gradually thicken
ing backward until it made up most Of the
tail. There was a triangular dark space
directly behind the center of the nucleus at
tho base of tho conical tali.
A VILLAGE AT HEW YOKE ftTJABAHTIHE
The Largest and Most Marvellous Foreign
Kxhlblt for the World's Fair.
New Yoke, Sept. 10. The steamship
Obdam, now at upper quarantine, has on
board, perhaps, the largest exhibit which
will be sent from abroad to the World's Fair.
It consists of a German village of 6,500
pieces, which will be erected on the Fair
grounds. The village will cover 17,500 feet,
and will represent farm buildings, markets,
shops, meeting hall and church, all in the
style of the sixteenth century. Besides
these there will bo a castle containing
antiquities, arms, harnesses, etc., among
which will be celcbiatcd pieces from the
Koyal German Museum at Mayence.
Tbe village will bo called "Chicago," and
the belief is that it will be adopted as a
permanent Institution In the Western city.
The nrlginal Idea is that or Dr. Ulnch Zahn,
the German ethnologist and has met with
tho approval of the Pool Commissioner of
tho Exhibition and Gehrmer Beglerungs
rath Wermuth.
STRENGTH OF E0UTHEBN HETH0D13TS.
What the Census Offles Figure Show In
Relation to It.
WAsniHOTOrr, Sept. 10. The Census Office
has issued a bulletin giving statisties of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South aud the
Congregational Church. The returns show
that the former has 42 annual conferences
in this country,exclulvp of three In mission
Aeids abroad, with 1,200,973 members and 15,
017 organizations. These organizations have
in All 12.6S7 13-20 church edifices, which, with
their contents and tho lots on which they
stand, are valued nt $18,775,363.
It is a foot worthy of note that of the more
than 200.000 colored members reported by
this church in I860, only a very few remain
in connection with it.
Ocean Slall Bids Accepted.
WAsnixoTOir, Sept. 10. Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker has accepted all of the bids
for ocean mail service which were opened
at the department last Tuesday, with the
exception or that for route No. 65, New Tork
to Bio. This bid will be rejected. In order
to accept a more advantageous service on
practically the same route.
MEMENTOS ON MORGAN.
J. PizaroKT Moroas has done a generous
act at Just the time when it will accomplish
the most good. Buffalo Inquirer.
The beneflcentimpnlse which inspired Mr.
Morgan to this humane and kindly act is
richly deserving of recognition and imita
tion. Philadelphia Record.
There aro not many men who could do
this if they would, and still fewer who
would do it if they could, but the great city
of Now Tork should not have been depend
ent on individual beneficence. Philadelphia
Times.
Mr. Morgan's offer of a steamer to tbe
quarantine authorities is one of those ex
amples of individual initiative in a good
cause which are more frequent in tbe United
States than In any other country. New Tork
Times.
There is no doubt that Mr. Morgan is a
philanthropist, nnd his latest helpiut act is
none the less philanthropic because it Is in
tended to help people who ordinarily are en
tirely able to help themselves. Brooklyn
Eigle.
No friendly hand was ever more timely
extended and no friendly hand was ever so
earnestly clasped as bis will be. Mr. Morgan
has earned the thanks, not only of tho im
prisoned and exposed Normannia's passen
gers, but the thanks of the city and country
as well. New York Advertiser.
Wht not give a public testimonial to J.
Pierpont Morgan? Surely no individual
more richly deserves it. The only qbjectton
to this would be made by Mr. Morgan him
self, who shrinks from publicity whenever
he bestows his generous bounty in the In
terest of the public New York Herald.
Mn. MoitQAn's generous act is one which
not only honors him, but the country which
produces such broad-minded, great-hearted
gentlemen. What he did in the depth and
breadth of his fine, human, sympathetio feel
ing the Federal Government or that of Now
Tork Stato or city should have done. Phila
delphia Ledger.
TnnouoH the active generosity of Mr. J.
Pierpont Morgan, provision is made at last
for a transfer of the cabin passengers of the
Normannia to more wholesome quarters.
Dr. Jenkins has accepted Mr. Morgan's offer,
and this solves In part a problem which
appears to present a numberof difficulties.
Washington Post.
Xinrn to Bove Tour Country.
Baltimore American. 1
Put the Stars and Stripes on every school
house, and teach patriotism to every
scholar.
WH T SAT THE PINES?
What do ye say,
O sighing plnest
O hushing plnesl
This happy day
Do whispering breezes bring
Glad welcome to the spring -Upon
her way?
Ah, sighing pines, who loveth her
Alone can say I
What did ye say,
O sighing plnest'
O moaning pines I
That dreary day
When cold winds wildly blew
Tour tossing branches through
And skies were gray?
Ah, sighing pines, tbe sorrowing heart
Alone can say I
What will ye say.
O sighing pines!
O dreamy pineal
In that sweet day
When summer woods are green.
And trouble that hath been
Is far awat? "
Ah, sighing pines, who hade thee speak
Alone can say I
TV. P. Curtis in Beaver's Basar.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
There are 20,000 kinds of butterflies.
The cows in the United States numbei
16,000,000.
Parrots' cost but 10 cents each to-th
dealers In South America.
Benjamin Franklin was the earliest
American china collector.
France is to establish commercial mu
seums in each of its oolonies. t
Platform scales were the invention of
Tbaddeus Fairbanks lathe yearl83L
The "Sketches by Boz" were printed
by Dickens when he was 21 years old.
Washington State, it is reported, is to
furnish all the flagstaffs for the World's Fair
buildings.
There are said to be 1,142 patent reme
dies for cholera in the list at the United
States patent office
The Krupp "Works, of Essen, co3ts?a
5,542 furnaces, which consume 1,663 ton of
coal and coke daily.
Porto d'Anzio, In Italy, was recently
overwhelmed by a waterspout, and the city
and beach nearly swept away.
There are in the field six Presidental
tickets the Democratic. Republican, Popu
lite, Prohibitionist, Nationalist aud Social
ist. Mrs. Gaines, the property of Eiehard
J. Auchmnty, of Lenox,Mass.."is said to do
the oldest war horse living. She ia 36 years
old.
A tulip show has been held annuallr at
the Orange Tree Inn, Butley, a small "tiaga
near Macclesfield, England, for the ast 67
years.
A scheme for a cable across the British
Channel was presented as early as 1817 to
Louis Philippe by a Frenchman named
Brett.
A tomahawk, said to have belonged to
tbe famous Indian chief. Tecumseh, Is now
in possession of Mrs. Lizzie Skinner, of West
Point, Ky.
If it were not lor the crows and similar
birds the amount of corn and wheat raised
In thi country would bo diminished by one
third in a single year.
The menu card of a Philadelphia Dutch
beer cellar Is appropriately called the
"Spljskuart," and has on it "vlsch, wijn,
room, koffle, pijpen nnd tabak."
A resident of Buckingham county, Va..
killed and opened 26 hawks before he found
out that the reward of $3 each offered by
Governor McElnley lor hawks' gizzards was
a hoax.
The most powerful and heaviest gun In
the world weighs 135 tons, Is 40 feet in length
and has a ttji-lnch bore. Its range Is It
miles, with a pojectile weighing LS0O
pounds.
A marvelous lake is reported to hav
been discovered In tho mountains above
Iciole creek.ln the Big Bend country, Idaho.
The lake is said to be or considerable size
and brimful of boiling water.
The deepest soundings ever taken in
tho Pacific ocean, or, in fact, any place on
the globe, were made in the vicinity of the
Ladrone islitnds, where the depth was lound
to be 26,850 feet or about five miles.
Paper manufacture is one of the chief!
industries In Corea. Tbe paper Is made in'
tbe most primitive manner from the bark of,
a tree which Is indigenous to the country
and which is closely allied to the mulberry.
The Central Pacific Railroad has some
monster engines in use on the Western end
of its route those maae at the Sacramento
shops in 1S83. Each of these gigantic loco
motives weighs, exclusive of tender, 123,000
pounds,
The latest triumph of Yankee inventive,
genius is an India rubber flsh worm. It Is
said to be a remarkably good immltatlon of!
the common earth worm, is Indestructible. I
and In actual use proves as alluring to tho
Ashes as tbe genuine article.
There lately appeared an advertise
ment in an English paper for an editor of a
first class Journal, it being expressly stipui
lated that "he must be a practical man o
tbe world. No ono who has graduated at
Oxford or Cambridge need apply."
It appears that a colored or dark pig
ment In the olfactory regions is essential to
perfeot smell. In cases where animals are
pure white they are usually totally devoid
of both smell and taste; and some, the white
cat for Instance, are almost Invariably deaf.
About four millions and a half sterling
are spent on hunting In Great Britain and
Ireland, independent of the expenses of
carriage horses, covered hacks, and travel
ing expenses. There are 330 paeks of bounds
and about 100,000 horses are required to fol
low tbem.
In Bellavista, near Portici, a small col
ony includes more than 20 people who ara
more than 90 years old, headed by a farmer
aged 105, who still works in the fields. They
are all natives, and have lived with hardly
any meat in their diet and drinking only
rain water from a cistern.
"While workmen were deepening aa
old stock well on the farm of Andrew Von
derah, near Kokomo, they struck a flowing
stream of water, which flushed out and
overflowed a part of the farm. The flow con
tinned at the rate of eight barrels par
minute, with no sign of abatement.
Tobacco consumption is increasing in
Great Britain. For tbe last year it averaged
one and six-tenths pounds per head of the
population. In France It averages nearly
two pounds. In England the consumption
of tea is rapidly increasing and coffee dl-minL-hlng.
Cocoa has increased 31 per cent
in Ave years.
The chateau of TJrville, where Emperor
William is to spend tbe middle of Septem
ber, was bought three years ago, but this
will be his first visit. It is near Metz, and
was acquired with a view to political effect
in Lorraine. It is rather large, unimpres
sive in architecture, and not luxurious. Is
cost $40,000.
The side-wheel steamer Goliah was the
first steamer that came to the Paciflo coast,
her trip having been made In 1849, and later
in 1671, she came for the first time to Paget
Sound. She is now owned by the Paget Mill
Company, and Is still in use as a towboat.
She still has her original machinery, which
Is In excellent condition.
A man found ill in a shanty on the out
skirts of Sacramento was taken to the hos
pital, and when stripped for a bath each leg
was found encircled with a garter made of
canvas doubled and the edges sewed
together. Each contained 15 $20 gold pieces,
making $600 In all. He also had $3 In his
pockets. He had every appearance of being
a tramp.
FUSILLADES OF FUN.
"My man," said the woman who wai
leaning across the fence, 'Is one or these here pes
simists." An', what's that?" asked the other woman.
"W'y. one of these here fellers that is aUers sure
that bad'luCK is a-comln to him. and is mightily
surprised when It comes. Indianapolis Journal,
The lover whe in June discloses
Bis love may find the maid unbending!
He is much wiser who proposes
Just as the summer season's enolng.
Kao XorHPrtsi,
Critical Enjoyed your new play
greatly last night. Scribblems.
Bcrlbblems (radlant)-That so? Whloh feature
did you like best?
CrIUcus The lovely long waits between the acts,
Chicago Sews Becord.
His father watched the merry paca
The thoughtless youngster set.
The theater, the wine, the race,
Tbe harrowing poker debt.
The lad exclaimed. "His eyes are shut
To all my little larks!"
The father, "Sons are nothing hut
A lot or ditto marks."
Washington Star.
Clara Do you love him well enough to
marry him if bo should ask yon?
Maude But tbe man hasn't asked me yet.
Clara I know It. But last night after I bad re
fused him he said he was going to. Detroit Am
Press.
"Full many a flower is bora to blush, un
seen. And waste its sweetress on the desert air;
But millions more are born in florists' shops.
And sold at prices that Just make one swear.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Bingo "Why don't you emulate Mr. f
Wltherhy'a example. He has sworn off smoking,
and his wife says be has saved enough money to
buy him a new suit.
Blngo-He hasn't got the new snlt yet, has her
Mrs. Bingo 1 don't know! Why?
Bin go Because I won all his money the other
night playing poker.-CTxi Bevista,
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