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NEXT SUIIjlKU'S DANGER.
Wuiic there lia ulvii a little too mnch
promptness m jumping to the conclusion
that ali danger from choler.. is ocr, it is
time to recoji.ze that for the present the
tl rea is removed. The disease has prac
t c ul been stamped out anions; the quar
antined people m Xew York bay. The
spread oi tne infection to the shore has
been rrevent"d. The cool weather of Oc
tober is tinfaorablc to the development
if ii fehoald ajram pass the quarantine bar
riers. I i permissible to conclude that
ti ere is little danger of the disease devel
oping in this country dunnp; the pressut
J oar
But that does not show that it is right to
re'ax all precautions for the future. On
XL" "iu.r in, the danger of its appearance
Lt x e r has from the first been the most
pit i ,!)U peril We know that in various
)vr -. ol Europe the infection exists. Ex
p r e c li . shown that it can lie dormant
ii w nter and reappear in the spring.
Th pusaioilily tuat the germs of the dis
. - mar reach this countiy during the
t. , 'i r or ear.'s next year is ore against
i 1 a'i uus&ible precautions should be
i. p ; d.
i e (-access which has attended the
e ui k t f precaution and sanitation, stimu
1 u i bj the threat of the epidemic, en
i -es the wisdom of continuing these
s t g-iarJs In full force. The danger for
ii j ear is not so immediate, as that
vuieu has just pa-sea by, but it is of
p e-ter magnitude. If the epidemic
sLouid act a start early m the summer its
ra' ges would naturally be far greater
b. n if it had appeared m September.
W rave seen tnat it is poss'ble to arrest
t di e o at oar doors by strict qiiaran-
t
Y e have learned tne value ot tlior-
a
--.i ation of all cities, not alone as a
i .-ua'-il aaainst chokra but for the dim-
n "i t a.l filth diseases. With these
ue work stiou.d continue. The
i .atch lor anj possibility of infec-
u I 'o kept up atall ports. Every
it in tlie country should adopt
it s tl' irough regulations for securing
1 1 i iLanlmess. By gucb means the
t t bij?et of guarding the public health
' ' ifaip'eJJly attained. After such
-s n fighting off cholera this fall lax-
ir nc!igence should not bo permitted
pen the vray to the greater danger
o
FRANK COOLEVS DEATH.
A treer of lawlessness and crime was
r ropnaw'y terminated by the shooting
oi i k C ioley at his father's bouse in
i i s iHiit ru part of Fa ette county last
i iu Ijis outlaw, with his following
r . 's and bullies, bad successfully
. i ! the rather lax enforcement of the
j t. in rhat county for a long time. But
. hi1m bound to come; and since it is
. idi it that the mountain freebooters
id not be put down in any other way
t i b being killed while resisting the
jw n i not to be regrettei.
1 de d. tae only point of criticism is
t .. the Li.hng in the legal form in which
i arred was not done much sooner.
!!-. not seem from the circumstances
i r quired anj very great expendi-
i f e n-rgy to find Oooley. Ills law-
' i ss . nd outlawrt ha e been beyond
i f ir many j ears. It was the duty
h ofneeis of the law to have pursued
' i uii J Ins associates so incessantly and
'. a 'Ueh frce that be would have
i iiiher apprehended or shot
li e- riier in lus career of freebooting.
t cr, the fact that his career is
it tj a bloody and sudden end
s a cood deal for the delay and
i v It ts to be hoped that the example
ii ,f 1" lost on others who mry have
1 1 "-ae't d b v the temporary success of
u jvv in holding the law at bay.
' ugli the law may seem in its
j. .v,d although it may be burdened
l lency or malfeasance, the neces-
r r -.ult of defying it must be either the
i Jcnn of its penalties or such a death
;(r iiev met.
T nt th warning may be complete no
y ii' -jould be spared in hunting down
r i amning out the rest of the gang. It
f ine to dmonstrate beyond the possi-
' t of a doubt that the law is supreme
i i( iut the length and breadth of Penn-
no sYYii'ATiir rou Tmar.
.a uj tears will be shed on this side
c Ha Atlantic over the information that
1 s.euniship companies are in a quan
' rv as to what they shall do with the
( r r is of immigrants left on their hands
, t..!i the restriction on immigration
f jm'I y th quarantine of this country.
1 ii - h-v teken charge of some thous
iiius ol thi s people under a contract to
jr tide ,iai.itenancc for them until they
. andel in the United States. This
fi ' mentha nig in self-defense inter
t i cheeks to the flood of immigration,
sitamship companies cannot land
1 r passengers here. Offers have been
r i t tne immigrantsto take them back
' .1 starting paint, which were natur-
. cl'ncl Attempts have been made
" the care of the Immigrants on
" i u'jlic chanties in the ports where
' r- waiting; but this has no less
3 - , ily been declined by the authori
" a. rs.c steamship companies are therc-
'men hat pathetically asking what
v' shall do.
TL only answ er is that they must devote
.j-e prtof the profits heretofore made in
t unsporting immigrants -to the lodging
unJ feeding of those now on their hands
tnt 1 such time as the United States can
t-f 'y admit them. That is the contract
v u - they have made, and if they lose
vnej in carrying it out they lr ,ie to
cje for it but themselves. I lhlie
ion will regard such a lc :her
Wi
light than that of natural justice. The
course of mostef the transatlantic com
panies in conducting the transportation of
immigrants has not been such as to estab
lish any claim to public sympathy. They
have been free in stimulating the most un
desirable classes of immigration, in aiding
the violation of our laws, and in secreting
the introduction of infection. The pres
ent "case is due to their readiness to make
the profit of the business outweich consid
erations of health and safety. If they had
entertained any care against the spread of
infection they would have stopped the
transportation of immigrants from infected
parts before the quarantine left these
thousands of steerage passengers on their
hands.
If the steamship companies have been
caught by their own methods in a losing
contract they should pay up the loss and
resolve to be somewhat wiser the next
time.
ORGANIC EXIGENCIES.
The exigencies of the New York Even
ing Post in an organic character must be
exceedingly trying. In one issue last week
it took occasion to argue against the prop
osition to run an independent municipal
ticket in New York "because it would
further familiarize the New York public
with the helplessness of the respectable
element in the voting population." As
this amounts to advice that the respect
able element shall make a complete sur
render for fear its weakness should be
discovered it should be ILbcrnian enough
to suit Tammany and humiliating enough
to appease the spirit of machine politics
for all the offenses of a once independent
journaL
Nevertheless that is not so decidedly a
display of party subserviency as the resort
of the Post to square misrepresentation in
the following sentence, from an article on
the currency question:
The Democratic platform, in sassestins a
return to a State bank currency under
uroper safeguards removes the practical ob
jection vi hich many have felt regarding the
repeal of the, silver law, and as a conse
quence of such repeal the possibility of a
checked and contracted volume of money.
Everyone who has read the Democratic
platform knows that it does not propose
any safeguards whatever for return to a
State bank currency. It simply calls for
the unconditional repeal of the prohibitory
10 per cent tax on State bank circulation,
thus throwing open the gates to whatever
vagaries in that direction the 44 different
Legislatures choose to permit.
If it were not for this we might charita
bly hopo that the Post's further remark
about the connection of this question with
that of the sd er issue was due to ignor
ance. So long as there are millions or su
er dollars stacked up in the Treasury the
silver question has nothing to do with tho
volume of circulation; it is a question of
standard. The State bank notes would
not settle the standard question. On the
other hand those issues which maintained
relat'ons with the standard would be re
deemed in whatever com should be au
thorized as a legal tender; and a vast num
ber of them would be something beside
which cen a sixty cent dollar would be a
joy forever.
The only relation between the silver and
the banknote questions is that free coin
age is sound and conservative finance be
side the proposition of the Democratic
platform. The exigencies of party work
are pow erfully illustrated when a paper
that once at least had the virtue of intelli
gence is compelled to swear to all the
Democratic vagaries of Calhdunism and
wild-cat banknotes to stay up the cause of
its candidate.
AJf INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION.
A well-founded call for an investigation
has been made by the German papers as a
consequence of the dispute of United
States Consul Burke and the Hamburg of
ficials over the responsibility for issuing
clean bills of health to infected steamers.
The remark of one of them, that either
Burke should be removed from his post or
the Hamburgers xrevented from again m
flictiug such danger on the health of the
world, is entirely to the point
It will be with the approval of this
nation that such an investigation should
be made searching and without favor. It
is possible that Burke may come out of it
with little credit; but it is hard to see how
the Hamburg administration can escape
with vindication. The entire course of
that city until tho matter became too
great for concealment was based on the
plan of serving Hamburg's monetary in
terests, no matter what danger of epidemic
was turned loose on tho world at large.
If one of the results of the investiga
tion should be that Hamburg loses her in
dependence and comes under imperial
rule it will only emphasize the stupidity
of her course in dealing with the early
stages of the disease.
TITE PLACATED POLITICIANS.
The last week or two has lifted the load
that has burdened tho political situation
since the date of the conventions. While
the country was laboring under the doubt
whether Hill was still a Democrat and
Piatt still a Republican tho campaign
could not well go on. With this cloud of
uncertainty darkening the political atmos
phere the marching club delighted not the
heart of the politician and the art of eluci
dating economic issues by torchlight pro
cessions was left to the small boy who col
lectively invades the front yard of the citi
zen and bones him for cash to help us out.
Now, however, the cloud is lifted. Both
those eminent New York politicians have
testified to their placation. Hill has called
renewed attention to the fact that he is
"still a Democrat," and Piatt has certified
to the world that he remains a Republi
can. The organs on their respective sides
have leaped for joy, and the organs op
posed have virulently quoted the expres
sions of disaffection indulged in by each
in their day of discontent But it is settled
bejond the possibility of dispute that Hill
and Piatt are in their places. Therefore
the campaign can go on.
With due recognition of this re-establishment
of serenity in the partisan skies,
the mind cannot refrain from heterodox
speculation. Suppose that Hill and Piatt
had not come down to their fodder. Let
us Imagine, indeed, that the two gods of
the machine had repeated the act of Full
Private James and Major General John,
by letting Hill bo a protempore Republican
and PJatt becoming a Democrat for the
purposes of this campaign. What would
the material difference have been? Could
not the people have voted and tho politi
cians claimed everything, until the returns
were in, with the same zest? It is possi
ble that the drum major might have strut
ted less multitudinously and the torch
light last its glare less widely; but wo
think that he American- people might
have managed to select a President with
Hill and Piatt sulking in their tents.
Indeed, the heretical mind may go so far
as to inquire if the New 'York political
managers have not skillfully timed their
alienation and their placation with more
care for the interests of Hill and Piatt
than for those of their respective parties.
Tile official returns from the Maine elec
tion afford a basis for the accurate compari-
t son of tho vote -wltU that'ot 18SS. This year
tho Republican vote was 67,585, a loss or 11,
820, nd theDemocratlc vote was 55,073. a loss
of 6.27G. This goes far to corroborate The
DisrATCH's viow of the apathetic condition
by widen there is alight vote In sure States.
Tno Republican vote tell off nearly twice as
mnch as the Democratic, whicH Is rather
beyond what Is to be expected from the or
dinary rule that tho majority party in a
certain State shows tho greater shortage In
a dull campaign. Perhaps the Slaine vote
was affected by tho failuro to nominate) Mr.
Blaine; but the mala fact In this campaign
eo far-is tiiat It does not enthuse.
TAliurKO about ice-wagons, there is room
for Inquiry whether tho whole campaign on
both sides is not-dominated by the refriger
ator. TrrEEB is novel-information in the report
from Chicago that certain persons aro solic
iting subscriptions to pay them for obtain
ing legislation In Illinois that will reduco
telephone charges, on the claim that . they
have dono so In Maryland, Virginia and
Pennsylvania. If tmyono has succeeded In
reducing telephone charges In this State it
would be exceedingly Interesting for the
pnblio to find It ont. Tho reduction which
Pittsburg has experienced would have to bo
Investigated with a microscope.
Cleveland is to bo perpetuated in clay
by a female sculptress. This is the first real
mud-slinging of the present campaign.
Mn. Clark Howells, of Atlanta, Go,,
is very severo in denouncing the "antl
snappers" movement In Now York Clt7 for
an independent municipal ticket, because it
"threatens national success." To somo
people the fact that the Clevoland causo is
so thoroughly bound np with Tammany rulo
of tho New York spoils might bo considered
severo on the alleged roform candidate.
But that idea has no force in the latitude of
Atlanta,
The chickens will not roost so high in
Fayette county now that Frank Cooley has
been removed fiom its rocky bosom.
There is instruction and amusement in
learning from the Democratic organs In
Ken York thatanothor round lot of boodle
street radway franchises has been givon
out and then studying in their columns tho
evidences that the alliance between Cleve
land nnd Tammany is so strict that the
once-independent papers cannot, for fear of
injuring reform campaign No. 3, say a word
against Tammany.
For October weather, Sunday's clear sky
and bracing atmosphere were all that could
be desired.
Bishop Pottee's article in the October
Forum In favor of opening the World's Fair
on Sunday, together with Bishop White
head's previous utterances to the same
effect, afford a striking commentary on the
strict morality of the politicians, headed by
our own Matthew Stanley Quay, who will
not permit that to be done.
If the Paper Trust should put up prices
voting under the Baker law will be Indeed a
luxury.
TnE cholera scare is over, the frost is in
tho night air, but garbage heaps still breed,
disease and sanitary work should be prose
cuted vigorously.
It is now in order for Judge Gresham to
exclaim "Where am I at?"
The Chicago short rib cornerers made
hogs of themselves, and it's but meet for
Justice to step in and demand a share of tho
port.
FAVORITES OP FORTONE.
Sib John Terence O'Bkien, Governor
of Newfoundland, who had been on a visit
to London for somo time past, sailed for
home Saturaay.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, accompanied by his wife.
Princess Irene, arrived In London yesterday
from Germany.-
The President has recognized John Bar
row Alexander as British Vice Consul of and
for the city of Tacoma, in the State of Wash
ington, to reside at Tacoma.
Rev. Fatrek Palladius, the famous
Russian missionary, hasbrought out, aftor 20
years of labor, a Chinese-Russian dictionary,
containing 11.C5S hieroglyphics.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia are
soon to pay another visit to their Invalid
son, Prince Goorge, at his mountain retreat,
Abbas-Tuman, in the Caucasus.
Professor S. A, Whitcomb, a Univer
salist preacher in Washington, has aban
doned his old chutch connections and en
tered the Episcopal denomination.
Frederick Huntington Gillett, ot
Springfield, Mass., whom the Republicans
have Just named for Congressman, was the
father of the Anti Free-Pass bill that passed
tho Massachusetts Legislature.
' "William B. Davenport, the Pnblio
Administrator or Brooklyn, is a collector of
scarf plus. Rumor has it that no fessthan
S6j pins, one for each day in the year, com
prise Mr. Davenport's collection.
Mrs. Dora Wheeler Smith is doing
decorative woik on the colling and friezo of
tho Woman's Building, at tho Chicago
World's Fair, without eharge, which would
have cost $3,000 if done by anyone else.
Captain Thomas J. Spencer, now in
the employ or the United States Pension
Office, served in 45 battles of the Civil War,
was captured three times and escaped
twice, and saw tho Inside of seven Confeder
ate prisons.
COLOMBIA OPEN ONCE "MORE
For All Vessels Balling From Ports on the
Atlantic Ocean.
WASnntGToir, Oct. 2. The State Depart
ment has been qnite successful in its effort
to secure a modification of the orders of the
Colombian authorities la closing the port of
Colon to all vessels from the Atlantic ports
of the United States and virtually stopping
commerco across the Isthmus ot Panama.
Secretary John W. Foster received a cable
gram last night from Minister Abbott, at
Bogota, statintr that instructions had been
given to the Panama authorities to permit
fhe entry and unloading of American
steamers proceeding from Now York, upon
being adTised by the Colombian Minister In
WashlnRton, or the Consul In New York,
that there was no cholera In that port, pro
vided they do not carry European mer
chandise, except Spinish, and due precau
tions are taken respecting the cargo.
HEW CASTLE'S HEDICAL HERO.
Tho Only Doctor Who Dared to Fight
Smallpox Is Stricken lllmselt
New CASTLE,Oet.2.-Speeiat-Dr.R. W.Bell,
the city physician In tho smallpox cases In
this city, has been stricken with the disease,
lie is the only physician In Now Castle who
would consent to take charge of the eisht
patients suffering with the disease here, and
his case is considered serious.
Tho public schools will reopen in the
morning, after being closed fourteen days.
Now that Dr. Bell has fought the disease so
nobly and successfully for others, there is
genuine public sympathy for him.
Preserve tho Old Landmarks.
Indianapolis Journal.;
The "Daughters of the Revolution" who
live in Pittsburg have gone to work In a
practical way to demonstrate the usefulness
of their society. Pittsburg has many his
toric associations and a few relics of Its
early history survive. Ono or these is a
century-old blockhonse or fort, and posses
slon of this has been secured by the women.
It will be restored, externally and inter
nally, to resemble a frontier fort of the lost
contnry, and the surrounding shops nnd
tenement houseB will be removed to give
free approach to it. Americans are slowly
learning to have respect lor sneh historic
landmarks, having learned that It Is not the
new but the old -which gives charm to the
cities of tho old world.
A Summary of Graver's Views.
New York Advertiser.
The best summary of Cleveland's tariff
views Is that he seems to bo In favor of free
trade but "agin" its enforcement.
GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH LIFE.
IWHITTEN TOE THE DISPATCH. I
I WROTE a letter one day last summer to
the editor of the London Daily Telegraph and
asked him to correct the headings of his re
ports ot tho troublo at Homestead. Tlioso
reports were labeled, day after day, "Tho
Mining Riots in America." I told him that
the men at Homestead wero not miners, had
nothing to do with miners, and probably
knew less about mining than they did about
printing. There had, indeod, been riotous
mtneis out in Idaho; but Idaho, I assured
the editor, was some miles distant from
Pittsburg; somewhat further away. In fact,
than Constantinople is from London.
Thoy do not know everything in England.
After the death of George William Curtis
the Athenaeum, which is supposed to have
some acquaintance with Enclish litoraturo,
described him In a brief paragraph as the
editor otUarpcr'a Magazfoe und an authority
on educational matters!
Nevertheless, I read the English papers
last summer with considerable interest and
profit. They are not so bad. It is true that
thero is not nearly so much reading matter
in them as there Is in ours; but I am not will
ing to account that as a disadvantage. What
there Is, Is good. The news is so arranged
that the reader can discover it readily,' and
look it over quickly and quietly. A good
many of our newspapers are managed on
tho foghorn principle. Tho reporters are
allowed to yell their information in the cars
of a patient public through the speaking
trumpets of obtrusive headings. The head
ing in tho English paper may not always be
accurate, but it is always quiet, nover
slangy, never objectionable. The editor
takes it for granted that his readers do not
paitlcularly enjoy flash dialect, even iu
print.
Benefit of tong-ltango News.
Of course, I hungered and thirsted for
news from Pittsburg, and the meagre dole
of the daily London papers seemed only an
aggravation. Yet, after all, tho ohlof facts
got across the water. They wero not em
bellished with a great many adjectives.
They were lacking in local color. They wore
not elaborately attired by repoitorial tailors.
Bat tho main facts were leported day by
day., And it is likely that wo wore in pos
session of the real truth about Homestead
as much as if we had read tho Pittsburg
papers. Perhaps wo knew even more than
was known at home; or, at least, knew the
situation in better perspective. It is often
n disadvantage to see an object too close at
hand. It looks biggor than it really is. At
a distanco the details are obscured, and the
great outlines of tilings aro evident.
It is not unlikely that if we know less
about somo things we might know more
about them!
One curious thing about tho American
news in English papers was the translation
of intelligence into the language which
passes orer there for English. The freisht
cars which were burned in Buffalo became
"parcels vans" in London; the rails wero
"metals;" the crnductor was tho "guard;"
the engineer was tho "driver." The English
language in England is a curious kind of
speech. One is tempted to say that with a
little knowledge of English one can get
along very well anywheie in Europe oxcopt
in England.
Some Pleasant EnjUsU Customs.
It may have been on account of previous
acquaintance that I liked things In England
better this time than I did before. I liked
tho big round loaves of broad, with the little
round loaf on top, and the informal fashion
of patting the broad on the table whole, and
letting every lodger take a hack at it; and
oven the butter without any salt in it. I
liked the pleasant custom of having five
meals a day bi eukfast at 9, and luncheon
at 1, and tea at 4, and dinner at 7, and supper
at 10. The afternoon tea is as regulara meal
as dinner, and qnite as delightful; and, when
it goes oat or doois andbecomos a gardon
party, where are the words to compass its
fascinations? England is interesting indoois
and out; it matters little. But to drink tea
In one of the fair gardens of the precincts of
Cantebury, amid the hedges and the grace
ful trees and the velvet lawns, beside the
turfed mound that was made by the casting
up of the earth when tho cathedral crypt
was dng so many years agotbat It makes
ono dizzy to think of It with the splendid
towers rising Into tho blue- sky, and the
bolls counting tho hour, and In tho best
company in England, Is to catch a glimpse
of perfect bliss.
I remember a garden party at a vicarage
near Knebworth. The vlcaraze Is several
miles from the parish church, but distance
in Hertfordshire is only a prolonging of de
light. I did not see tho houses of the peo
ple; bnt the people in England do not count
for so much In the parish as they do with
us. It was enough to seo the vicar and the
vicarage. Here Is the parson of a country
village, miles from a railroad. In Pennsyl
vania he would be a careworn man, with a
careworn wife and seven hungry children,
and thoy would be living in a small frame
bouse, of a style of architecture which Is tho
most hideous in the entire history of Dulld
Ing, "upon a salary of $303 a year. Thoy do
things differently in England.
What tho State Church Accomplishes.
It is all very well to abuse the "estab
lishment," and to rail at the State church,
bnt, with all its defects, it does succeed in do
ing this: It place in eveiy English hamlet,in
the remotest districts of tho country, and
among tho poorest people, a minister of the
gospel who is a gentlemun and a scholar,
and enables him to live as a gentleman and
a scholar ought to live. Tho country par
ishes with us are opportunities for slow
mnrtyidom. Thoy are tho result of th o de
sire of the people to wilte half a dozen dif
ferent adjectives befoio tho noun "ohnrch. ' '
They are the logical consequences of our
un-Chrlstian division. The parish is small,
the salary is small, tho people are small, the
parson has to keep on oonstant guard
against being small, sometimes the Chris
tianity of the place is, correspondingly
small.
But here Is a large fair house, with vines
growing over its walls of stone; the rooms
aro wide and sunny, and linng with pictures,
nnd rich In books. Outside aro lovely gar
dens, with flowers and long reaches of
smooth grass, and winding walk?. Every
thing indicates comfort and content. From
the front door you see tho square tower of
the ancient church, built centuries ago, ven
erable, stately, consecrated with a thousand
associations, a symbol of the grace and sta
bility of religion. This is a pioture of G rim-
ley, where I spent four memorable days; and
of Hnrsley, where tho vicar showed mo
Keble's study: and of Clorelly, where Charles
Klngsley's father was the vicar, and Charles
Klngsley's daughter "Lucns Malet" is the
present vicar's wife. And of the vicarage
near Knebworth, whero I enjoyed the hospi
talities of the vicar's garden party.
A Rostonian Figaro of Speech.
It was in this garden that a bright
young English gill showed mo a familiar
vegetable among the leaves and asked mo
what it was. "That," I answered, "is a
squash." Whereupon the young woman
laughed till she cried. "Squash!" she said,
"squash! That means mashed together. It
is the name of something to drink a lemon
squash! I never heard such an absurd
name." "What, then," I asked, "do yon call
a squash in what you imagine to be the
English Inngnage?" "Vhy," said she, "It Is
a vegetable marrow!"
Llfo is lived mote leisurely in England
than here. And bettor so. Tho working
day begins Inter and makes np for it, as
Charles Lamb said, by ending, earlier. In
London men are taking down the shutters
of the shops at 9 o'clock. The streets are
full of people, but thoy are not all of them
.rushing for a train as we are. They have
more than we of the spirit to which Matthew
Arnold gives expression in that poem of
his, which wo ought to learn by heart and
recite every morning before breakfast, on
"Quiet Work." Tney know tho meaning of
"toll unsever'd from tranquility." And
they appear to get as much accomplished.
World's Medals to Be Made In a Hurry.
Washington, Oct 2. Assistant Secretary
Nettleton said this afternoon, in regard to
the medals and diplomas for the World's
Columbian Exposition, that tho work on
both will be pushed vigorously by the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing as soon
as the designs shall nave been agreed -upon.
Preliminary gkctohes of the designs have,
been prepared by the Bureau and await
ouly the sanction of the Committee on
A.wrds. ... , -
THE FIRST DEACONESSES.
Consecration of Three Young Women by
Bishop Potter The Ceremony.
Nbw York, Oct 2. Spteial. In Grace
Church to-day Bishop Potter consecrated
the first deaconesses of the Episcopal
Church in New York. There were three
young women, dressed In black with white
at theneck. Their hair was brushed smoothly
back from their foreheads, and their faces
wero as unworldly as their severe and
somber garments.
The ceremony of "setting apart" was sim
ple and brief. In the early part of the ser
vice the yonng women, whose names are
Sarah K. Barkor, Mary E. Greene and Kate
Newell, were Beated In one of the front pewB
surrounded by friends. At the proper time
they weto brought before the Bishop, who
sat near the holy tabic. After the Bishop
had read two addresses and a prayer, and
had called upon anyone who knew causo
why the youug women should not be "set
apart" to speak forth, the Magnificat was
sung, and then the Bishop put theo ques
tions to the candidates, who answered ac
cording to the form:
"Havo you woll considered in your own
mind your purpose to serve God In this of
fice and ministry?"
"I have so considered it."
"Will you endeavor, so long as you shall
hold this office, falthfnllv to fulfil the dnties
of the same without fickleness or wayward
ness?" "I will."
"Will you diligently ask of God the graco
to enable you to cling to this endeavor, and
to make this purpose good?"
I will."
After they had made these vows tho
Bishop laid ills hands upon their heads, one
after another, and said: "Tuke thou author
ity to exercise the office of a deaconess in
the Church of God, whereunto thou art now
set apart. B'esd bo thou of the Lord, mv
daughters. The Lord recompense thy work
and a full reward be given thee of the Loid
God oi Israel, under whose wing thou art
come to trust. Amen."
Alter prayers for those in need and neces
sity nnd for final blo--8edness, the Bishop
pionounced the benediction in Romans xv:
13. In his sermon Bishop Potter talked of
the position of woman in Christian soolety.
Ho regarded the belief in the superiority of
man as a peculiarity of Paganism or Pagan
ized Christianity, and not in accoid with
the, teachings ot Jesus or tho practice
of tho early Church. He said that the equal
ity of men and women as proclaimed by the
early Church in appointing women to the
office of deaconess was a daring protest
against the universal boliof and practice of
the Pagan world. Ho thought that the mid
dle ages, when ecclesiastics became puffed
up by pompous oeromonials, the doctrines
ot tho brotherhood of man nnd the equality
or men and women as a result woie lost
sight of.
The deaconesses will work among tho
poor, nursing in the homes of the sick and
relieving necessity. As Bishop Potter said
in closing, this first consecration was bnt a
small beglnmngof what heand bis ministers
expect to make a great movement.
A SOFT SNAP BE0KEN TJP.
Street Car Conductors rind a Way to Make
Bloro Honey Than tho Company.
Cincinnati, Oct 2. For six weeks tho
South Covington and Cincinnati Street Rail
way Company has had a spotter at work on
its road to ascertain why the receipts of the
company have shown such a discrepancy as
compared with tho number of passengers
carried. The leak was exposed yesterday,
when the detective made his report. The
conductors in the employ of the company
have been making mora money, on a salary
of $12 a week, than tho company has been
able to with an Immense outlay of capital:
Their plan was an ingenious one. When a
conductor received a ticket for a fare be
would return an old punched ticket at the
office. The unpunched tickets leceived by
the conductors from passengers i ere sold
on the cars, and the conductors pocketed
the cash. The tickets cost themjust-icents
apiece and they returned them for a 7-cent
fare, thus making $5 on every 100 passengers.
Some of tho cars carry as many as GOO passen
gers a day and moro during exceptional
days. The punched tickets were obtained
by a fireman, to whom was entrusted tho
ork or burning them up. He sold them to
tho conductors for $2 a hundred. The
punohed ticket plan of robbing was an ex
tremely clever one. It would be almost Im
possible for a "spotter" to detect any con
ductor in it. The conductor conld ring and
i eistcr every time he received a ticket. All
he had to do was to watch the ticket register
and mark a separate slip each trip, so that
he would know the exact number of tickets
he had to account for.
A GARFIELD HUT FOB THE FAIR.
5 -t-
It' Is Built Entirely of Ties and Rails of the
Temporary Track to Elberon.
Chicaoo, Oct. 2. An Interesting historical
exhibit has been suggested to Major Moses'
Handy at the Department of Promotion. It
is a Garfield hut which is made entirely
from ties that wero used in building the
temporaiy railroad on whioh President Gar
field was borao from tho Pennsylvania
tracks to the Franklin cottago at Elberon,
N. J. Olivet Doud Byron bought the entire
track the day after the dead Presi
dent's body had been removed and
had the hut constructed. Even the spikes
driven Into the ties havo been used In the
building, and three yards of the rail form
the ridge pole in the roof. Inside the spikes
that could not be used in building the hut
ate hung here and there on the walls and
pieces of the ties, nicely varnished, aro
made into shelving.
Since its ereotion Mr. Byron has nsed it as
a studio, and it is an object of Interest to
many visitors in the neighborhood of
Monmouth. Ho is willing to send it to tho
Fair if ho is assured of its care while in
Chicago.
THE EEF0R1IED CHUBCH SYNOD.
Its Saturday Session Devoted to the Theo
logical Seminary Question.
lBWiif,Oet.2. BpectaWl In the Pittsburg
Synod's meeting of tho Reformed Church
Saturday nearly the entire day was given
over to the discussion of the report of the
Commltteo on the Theological Sominary.
Ono'ltem of the leport calls for the Synod to
elect at this time a new professor to the
seminary, who shall fill tho chair of theol
ogy auout to be endowed by tho Synod.
At the close of tho afternoon session a
votq was reached, adopting the committee's
recommendation. As is the custom of the
Synod, their regular synodioal communion
vi as held this morning.
The Argentine to Doctor Its Finances.
Buenos Atkes, Oct. 2. President Pena has
called an extraordinary session of Congress
to consider the questions of the budget and
a new system of taxation.
DEATHS HERB AND ELSEWHERE.
Joseph E. Renan, Philologist.
- Joseph Ernest Renan, the distinguished
philologist and author, whose serious Illness
was announced Saturday, died In Paris at
an early hour yestercay, after enduring Intense
suffering, or congestion of the lungs. He was
destined for the church, but the winning of the
Valney prize for a treatise on the Semitic
languages determined his career. Ue was sent
br the Academy of inscriptions and Belles Lettres
In 184U on a literary mission to Italy, and brought
back materials for a historical essay on the pblloso-
lier Averroes. Ho was afterward attached to the
epartment of Manuscripts iu the National
Library, and in ISM was elected to the Academy.
lie translated the Boole of Job and the Book of
Canticles. He explored Tyre and Sldon at the
heid of a scientific expedition. He was appointed
professor of Hebrew In the College de Frauce, bat
his opening lecture aroused such fierce opposition
that he was removed. Ho published a Life of
Jesus and many scientific works.
Valentine Pf coffer.
Valentine Pieuffer, of 126 Pius street,
died at his home yesterday morning. Deceased
was very well known in St. Michael's Catholic
parish, and held, at various times. Important lay
ofilces in the church. For 25 years bo was a carrier
for TnE Dispatch, and during that period
amassed some money. Mr. Ffeuller wis 56, years
old wheu be died, and was eminently respected by
all who knew him. He leaves a widow and family.
The funeral services will take place from his late
residence on Plus street, to-morrow. Uleh mass
will bo sung at 10 o'clock at St. Michael's Church.
Obituary Notes.
Michel Eblanqer, the well-known French
financier, is dead.
IIIHAM Atkins, editor of the Argus and Patriot,
of Montpeller, Vt, and Chairman of tbe Demo
cratic State Committee, died Saturday evening.
He was 83) ears olu.
Mrs. Rev. J. M. Robinon, a native of New
Wilmington, Pa., a sister of J. H. Porter, of that
place, died Saturday at Bethel, N. Y. She was
married only a short time prior to her death.
Edwabd O'Niiil, a ball player, lormerly of
the Milwaukees and Fdrt Waynes, and well known
throughout Massachusetts, died suddenly Friday
nlRlH of asthma. He was about 33 years or age a id
unmarried.
Aunt Maby Ttleb. colored, died Friday night
at Keoknk, la. She claimed that she was 18 years
old at the close of the, Ketolntlon. She was born a
slave in Ueorgta and iwaa freed by the emancipa
tion proclamation avMempliU.
SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.
The live Topic of the Times In European
Capitals Llebknocht's Programme Be
ing Strictly Followed Ont-A Prince Dies
as a Second-Class Cabman.
TBT CABLE TO TnE DISPATCH.
Berlin, Oct 2. Copyright. The
Social Democrats have taken advantage of
the uncertainty nnd confusion prevailing
In domestic politics to begin the most ag
gressive campaign or tho last few years.
Liobknccht'3 speeches iu Marseilles last
week were part of his programme to start a
new and vigorous agitation for the social
revolution. His utterancos against Ger
many's policy toward France, as well as his
unmeasured woids of condemnation of
Prussia's action in and after the war of
1370-71 weie intended doubtless to tempt the
German Government to prosecute him and
thus give him the chance to rally hi3 party
with the cry of persecution as he did in the
days of Prince Bismarck's repressive laws.
Count Caprivi, however, is too clever to be
caught by snoh n transparent trick. Conse
quently thero is no tnlk of prosecuting Lieb
knecht for his tieasonable speeches, and
only the most rabid anti-Socialist nows
papors have devoted space to the discussion
of the Marseilles incident.
In South Germany Liebknecht only hurt
the party by his speeches, for Herr Von
Vollmar, the Social Democratic leader, will
not tolerate anti-German agitation in his
wing or tho party, and would require only a
few moro hints from Liobknecht's central
committee to drive him and his out of the
party altogether.
Liebknecht has, however, injured him
self with the whole party, the mnjority of
which think that the withdrawal of the In
dependent Social Democrats would cripple
tho national organization beyond recovery.
As the party is working now.despite radical
differences among tho leaders, it certainly
is accomplishing alarmingly much. In
three municipal districts of this city they
have Just smitten their opponents hip and
thigh, and have sent to the city Council
throe new representatives. The now comers
havo shown their nggressiveuess by nt oneo
Joining in a movement to oust Dr. Strycts,
chairman of the Council, who is accused of
taking his course so as to cuny favor with
the Emperor and the Governor of Branden
burg. The Social Democratic leaders aro
now abroad in the provinces boasting of
their victory here and exhorting their fol
lowers to prepare for new successes by
Dringlng fresh converts into the Social
Democrntlc fold. Vollmar speaks daily in
Wurtemberg, Foster in Saxony, Molken
buhr lii Westphalia and Behele, the finest
orator of them all, in Palitilate.
Liebknecht will to-morrow begin hold
ing a series of great meetings in Baden,
with a view to repairing the post neglect of
the rural population by his party. Some of
the leaders, notably Vollmar, doubt the wis
dom of this course, as the German Michel,
they think, is too conservative and dense to
be accessible to the doctrine of the revolu
tion. Liehknecut's plan, however, will be
thoioughly tried, lie will be assisted at
each meeting by several experienced rural
agitators, and the appeals to tho people will
be made on such comparatively conserva
tive Issues as land reform and broadening
of the franchise.
The scoring of Vice Consul Burke in
Hamburg for having given clean bills of
health after the appearance of the epidemic
in the city, and Burke's shifting of the
responsibility upon the Senate's Chief of Po
lice, have stirred tho German newspapers to
demand an investigation of the whole mat
ter. The Coelnuche Z-ilung commented yes
terday upon Vice Consul Burke's charges
thus: "Charges as sorious as these requlie
thorough and immediate investigation The
Senate and citizens of Hamburg, as well as
of tbe whole of Germany, are interested in
proving that such unlawful concealment of
the existenco of the terrible disease
lor the sake of a mere commercial and
money advantage is impossible among the
German officials on German soil. If the
charges are mostly or wholly false, Vlco
Consui Bui ke's exoquator should be with
drawn. This would be the smallest punish
ment he deserved. If the charges be found
half or wholly true, the Hamburg Chief of
Police ought to be dismissed and the citizens
of Hambnrg ought to insist upon a thorough
reorganization or their Government. The
Imperial Government, moreover, ought to
arrange matters so that a future repetition
of such serious neglect of international
duties would be impossible."
At the beginning of the week the city
was entertained by the discovery that one
of its second-class cabmen had been for sev
eral years a prince. The man, while drnnk,
fell from his cab and fractured bis skull on
the pavement At the hospital papers were
found on him showing that he was Prince
LipinskI, of one or tbe most ancient and
noble Polish families. Drink and gambling,
he said, had ruined him. In his room wero
found other proof that corroborated his
story.
TnE Emperor is still at his Eominten
shooting box. He is hunting dally, and has
shot several deer, which he and his party
have found exceptionally plentiful. The
Empress is Just able to leave her room at tho
marble palaco In Potsdam. Tbe inrant
Princess is doing finelv, and receives daily
her yonng brothers and a few of the ladies
attached to the court. Conrt will not come
to Berlin until November, when tho exten
sive alterations of the royal residence will
havo been completed. ,
The Foreign office is following closely
the dlspnte between the Netherlands and
tho Congo State. When King Leopold of
Belgium was last at Berlin he persuaded
Emperor William to influence Premier
Muckay in lavor of participating in the
Brussels anti-slavery conference. Tlenn
hoven's Liberal Cabinet, liowfiver, reversed
Mackay's policy, and now insists upon tho
removal of the Congo custom duties on the
ground that they are harmful to commerce.
Germany, while ngreelng that the duties
might better be removed, does not advocato
such removal for fear it might be followed
by the bankruptcy of the Congo State and
the reversal of tho territory to France by
virtue of the treaty right of pie-emptlon.
In both Berlin and London It is known that
the Netherlands and Franco are arranging
a plan of combined action.
The decision of the Government to re
fuse admission to Russian Uebrow emigran ts
tnrncd back from America is being strictly
enforced. The decision has been pending
for somo time, a's an ever-increasing nnmber
of penniless Hebrews' barred ont from the
United States ports havo become pnblio
charges. The complications resulting from
the cholera quarantine simply hastened the
Government's action. Officials have been
forbidden to sell the returned emigrants
railway tickets, or to allow them to travel
on German railways. The emigrants must
proceed to Russia by sea, and, regardless or
nrotests. must be landed at a Russian port
At Cuxbaven and Gnestemnndo parties or
returning Hebrews were stopped last week
by officials supported by the people, and
were compelled to re-embark. The emi
grants weie not even allowed to seek or rc
celvo aid at either port
The golden wedding of the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Sixe-Welmer will bo
an affair hardly second in splendor to the
recent celebration in Copenhagen. Tho fes
tivities will begin on Wednesday, although
they will not reach their height until Satur
day. Among tho guests at tbe Giand Ducal
Palace will be Emperor William, probably
the Queen and Queen Regent of the Nether
lands, the King and Prince of Saxony, tho
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden,
the Regent or Brunswick and his wire and
some 30 other rulers and heads of princely
houses. The Czar, it is said, will be repre
sented by the Grand Duke VJadlmir.
WniLE in Hamburg recently Empeior
William visited tho Italian painter Corrodl
and bought from him a picture of pilgrims
washing their feet at the Holy Well. The
Emperor will present tho picture to Jlosque
Omar in Jerusalem.
WEEVILS IN OHIO WHEAT.
Farmers In Many Places Compelled to Rush
Their Grain to Market
Cincinnati, Oct. 2. Complaints havo been
coming into Cincinnati or tho depredations
or weevil upon wheat in this State. At first
they attracted Dut little attention. They
have oontlnued coming In so regularly and
from so many quarters as to be regarded
seriously. They aro from many points of
Kentucky, from Southeastern Indiana and
fiom the Sloto valley in Ohio.
Reports are that farmers In the last named
place are rnshing their wheat orop to mar
ket. Some car loads of wheat shipped South
from here heated greatly on the way. '
The Joker Eliminated.
Detroit Free Press.
The modern gams of politic eliminates
.the joker.
CONCEALED IN HIS OWN HAIB.
An Eccentric Ohio German Who
Detests
the Light of Day.
Conneaut, O., Oct 2. Special Wllhelm
Schmidt, living four miles soath of this
place, has become one of the mostremarkable
"freaks" outside the museums. He basltved
iu this country 31 yoars, but Is nnablq and
unwilling to speak a word of English, living
with his wife and daughter on an isolated
little farm that yields corn and potatoes
enough for tho trio. A visitor from curiosity
called on tho old man to-day, and thus de
scribes wnat he saw:
" What proved to be Schmidt sat In an arm
chair in the center of tho one-roomed house.
Only n lingo mound of hair surmounting his
shoulders was visible not a human featnup
to be seen. Schmidt nropped his cane
against his chair, and with both hand pulled
this shock or hair open, showing his face,
which was bleached and uncanny looking,
like vegetables grown under cover. Only
for a minnte was the old man's face to be
seen, for he dropped the curtain or hair back
over It, saving in German that he did not
like the light and could not endure it. The
great mass or hair Ml as thickly over his
face in front as over the book of his head.
Ont of his ears grew tufts of hair a foot long,
und another lock ns long hangs from the
point of his nose. Schmidt has worn his hair
as a hiding place for his head and face for 18
years, and steadrastly rernses to have it cut.
His evesight has been practically destroyed
by having the light shut Irom it so long."
DIXON ON BACB T2ACS3.
The New York Preacher Thinks They
Should Go as Lotteries Have Gone.
New York, Oct. 2. Beroro his regular ser
mon to-day, Key. Thomas Dixon, Jr., deliv
ered another of his characteristic talks. To
day his subject was the Garfield Race Track,
of which he said in part:
"Garfield Park in Chicago has for years
openly defied the moral sentiment of tho
nation. It has been an open slaughter pon,
in which manhood, honor, decency, truth
and virtue w ere daily bntchorcd. It was the
favorite resort of the most desperate classes
of the scum world.
"The people of Chicago were recently
shocked at the foul murder of two police
mon by a desperate gambler on these
grounds; and if tho people of Chicago toler
ate snch a hell hole in their midst, wet with
tho blood of tho officers of tho law. thev
should take donntheir statue InHavmarket
square and confess that civic order has
failed after all. Garfield track is typical of
the race track of to-day. Tho whole dirty
business is of the siine piccrt. The con
science of this nation has outgrown it. Tho
race track must go as the lottery has gone.
The plain tact Is that the lottery is a small
evil conipaied with tho races."
GERMAN AID FOB FRENCH SIB1KEB3.
The Serions Labor Situation in Carmaux
Mining and Glass District.
Pabis, Oct 2. The striking French minors
at Carmnnx have received a subscription of
500 francs from the German Socialist Com
mittee. Tho troubles at Carmaux have been
in existence for a long time, and not only
are tho miners on a strike, but tbe glass
workers also, many of whom are employed
in tho Carmaux district Many riotous acts
occurred until finally the Government mado
an attempt to induce the mining company to
agree to arbitration but failed to do so.
Baron Reille, chairman of the company,
has been summoned before tbe Minister of
the Interior. Ho says tbe company's atti
tude is a question or principle. The strikers
demand three thlnzs reinstatment or M.
Cilvignac, who was discharged upon his
election as Mayor, a definite arrangement as
to the days and hours during which the
Mayor will be Iree to attend to his dnties
and tbe taking back of nil the workmen who
have participated in tho affair.
WHITNEY AND TEOLLEY E0ADS.
The Democratic Leader Defends the Ac
tion or New York's Aldermen.
I New York, Oct 2. William C Whitney
has mode the following statement in refer
ence to the action of the Board of Aldermen
in passing the various applications of tbo
Metropolitan Traction Company for tho
building and extension of street railways in
this city: "I am a stockholder in the trac
tion company. I am not committed to any
trolloy railroad, and I am quite sure none
will be built unless the public shall want-It
done. It is rather1 hard to accuse the Board
ot Aldermen of voting for a trolley when
what they did was to vote to leave the kind
of road to be built whero the law leaves It."
Mr. Whitney lurther said there was no
similarity between the action or the present
board and that of the board ot 1831, as in the
latter instance the meeting was a secret one.
A LET-TJP ON IMMIGEATI0N.
Two German Steamship lines Stop Carry
ing Steerage Passengers for Awhile.
Washington, Oct 2. The German Charge
at Washington has notified the Secretary of
State of the receipt by him of telegraohlo
information from Berlin that the Hamburg
American Steamship Lino has given orders
for despatching the steamers Bbaetla and
Dan la from the port of Cuxhaven, carrying
cabin passengers and cargo only, and has
decided to transport at present no cuoin
passengers from Hamburg.
Tho Charge also says that tbe North
German Lloyd Steamship Company will
likewise nt present carry ho more steerage
passengers, although all the ships of that
company wnicn uuvu urnvuu m wiu umteu
States up to mo present
free from cholera-
time have been
JUDICIAL LEASES AND LAND COURTS
Advocated for Ireland by Michael Davitt in
a Glasgow Speech.
, London, Oct, 2. Michael Davitt addessed
a meeting of Irishmen at Glasgow to-day.
He said he believed the time was ripe for a
movement to glvo English, Scotch and
Welsh farmers tho protection of Judicial
leases and land courts for the revision and
reduction of rents.
"Such a movement," he said, "will glvo tho
Argylls, the Devonsliircs, the Balfours and
the Westmlnstois, who are now encourag
ing the Irish landlord campaign, onongh to
do to defend their own intorests. Tne mo
ment the landlord campaign is opened in
Ireland we will start a laud league in Great
Britain." "
Electric Railway Building This Year.
Chicago, Oct 2. The present year is show
ing a remarkable record in the amount of
electric railway building, both in the num
ber of new roads constructed and In the
nnmber of old ones extended. During the
last 12 months, says Electrical Industries, the
number of roads was Increased from 333 to
469. The increase in capital stock has been
from $155,037,873 to $205,870,000.
A New Pittsburg Minister Ordained.
New Yobk, Oct 2. Rev. Alexander Vance,
of the Pittsburg diocese, was to-day ordained
at St Animstlno's Protestant Episcopal
Church by Bishop Whitehead, of Pittsburg.
Harrison Already In It
Boston Herald. 1
The candidates should get aboard of the
pneumatic sulky. That is tho winning
vehicle.
TREASONOUS TALK.'
Iv there is such a thing as treason against
the State, there cannot be mnch question
that the proceedings of tho Homestead
"committee" come undor that head. Phila-de-phia
Times.
Ip the acts committed by the strikers at
Homestead did not constitute insurrection
nnd rebellion against the peace and welfare
of tho State, It would be difficult to say what
would. New York Evening i'ost.
Evset man in Pennsylvania who possesses
property, or is Interested In any degree in
the maintenance of the peace and dignity of
the State, will feel the more secure by rea
son of this action. It is an announcement
that tho State is still under tho domain of
law. Philadelphia Press. ,
Undoubtedlt some things were dono with
a high hand at Homestead. The Carnegie
managers may find It difficult however, to
convince a Jury that there was also high
treason, as charged in the warrants issued
yesterday against the Advisory Board.
JVfto York Ev-nxng World.
The arrest of the leaders of tbe Homestead
strikers for treason comes very qcar tbe
line of Judicial persecution. Pennsylvania
has laws, severe enough as every one knows,
for the pnnisbment of riot and murder,
which, if any laws at all, ought to reaoh the
leaders of the Homestead strike If they have
been guilty of oitxa.Ihdjomojxlit.Bent1rul
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. .
4 At tbe present time the average height
of tbe tides the world over is only about
three feet
Ireland has occupied one-half of the
time or the House or Commons during tho
last II years.
Before a theater can be opened for stage
plays in Dublin a patent, which last3 2
vears has to bo obtained from tho Lord
Lieutenant. Fine rubies are enormously more valu
able than diamonds. A flno ruby of real
pigeon-blood color and eight carats is worth
irom $J5,0CO to $50,000.
Lord Yarborangh calculates that tha
cost of keeping the 230 packs of hounds in
the United Kingdom and maintaining tha
hunts amounts to over $4,000,000.
-Most people are under the impression
that it ii less fatiguing to go downhill than
up, but that is because most people know
very little about mountaineering.
The town of Guelrna, in Algeria, is
now lighted by electricity, the installation
bavins recently been completed by the So
ciete Franco-Algerienne d'Electricite.
The Mohaves believe that all who dia
and aro not cremated are turned into owls,
and when they hear an owl hootlmrat night
ti'ey think it the spirit or somo dead Mohavo
returned.
The only specimen of fossilized orpetri
fled cavo man ever found in tbo United
States was that discovered by an exploring
party nt Craighead Cave, near Monroe,
Tenn., In 183i
There is a large factory at a small town
near Chicago omploying about 100 to 150
workers, which Is wholly given over to the
manulacturo of useful articles from waste
animal blood,
The American President receives his
salary in monthly instalments. On the 2oth
day of every month the Treisurer of tha
United States sends to tho White Honsa a
cheque for $4,100.
Itaw onions contain aq acrid volatile;
oil, sulphur, phosphorus, alkaline, earthy
salts, starch and free, uncrystallized sugar.
The freih Juice it colorless, but by exposure
to the air becomes red.
There are two distinct places of tha
earth lying under the eqnlnoctial line whose
difference of longitude Is exactly 86 de
grees. and yet the trne alstanco between tho
two places is not 80 miles.
The nebula in Orion is a fine telescopic
object now. The great black space in this
nebula is known among nnpoetic stargazers
as tho coal hole. No star has ever been seen
iu this hole in the universe.
A glass factory at Liverpool now has
glass Jonrnal boxe3 lor all of its machinery,
a glas3 floor, glass shingles on the roof and a
smokestack 105 feet high built wholly of
glass bricks, each a foot square.
There are three distinct places of tha
earth, all different both in longitnde and
latitude, and removed from each other 2.009
miles exactly, and yet they all bear upon
tho same point ot the compass.
There are two distinct places on tho
Continent of Europe so situated In respect
of one to the other that, though the first
doth lie exactly east of the second, yet the
second is not west irom the first
Immense stocks of coal are constantly
kept on hand at St Vincent, Madeira, Fort
Said, Singapore and other Oriental coaling
stations, there being often as much as 200,000
tons in store at tho last named place.
It has been found by actual calculation,
that if Aphides wsjro left unchecked to onlyi
the tenth generation, tbo descendants of a
single pair would be equivalent, in point of
actual weight, to 500,000,000 heavy men.
As a proof of the manner in which tha
civilization of the West. Is seizing bold on
Japan and all that Is Japanese, it Is stated
that in a private mission school In the town'
of Kiota there were 400 Japanese women.
Light travels at the rate of 213,000
miles a second, a velocity which causes tha
ray3 from the moon to reach U3 in a little
lesi than a second and a quarter. The rays
of Jnpiter are 52 minutes In reaching us.
The greatest nnmber of people ever
killed by an earthquake since the dawn of
history was 190,000. The date or the terrible
disaster was 1703 and the scene or the most
violent disturbance at Yeddo, Japan, and
vicinity.
, Among the most-remarkable inventions
at the recent paper exhibit at Berlin was a,
set of paper teeth made by a Luebeok den
tist in 1878. They have been in constant nsa
for moie than 13 years, and show absolutely
no wear whatever.
The Spanish youth has a rather indif
ferent time of it when he goes courting. Ha
is expected to turn up every evening beneath
the balcony or his Udy-love's house, and
there to twang the sort guitar and warble
gentle to her or hl3 heart's desires.
Burial at sea is to be abolished for
those who have money to pay for the trans
portation of their remains in case of death
on board ship. Air-tight steel caskets for
the transportation of bodies are now a part
of the equipment of all the best steamers.
Some ingenious contrivances are nsed
by thieves. The latest looks like an ordin
ary walking stick, but is so arranged that by
pressing a snriiijr at the handle the ferrule
will spread apart and form a sort of spring
clip that will take hold of anything that la
within reach.
Piscatory authorities of the highest
standing tell ns that were It not for nature's
grand "evening-up" provisions, the fishes of
the soas would multiply so rapidly that
within three short years they wonld fill tbe
waters to such nn extent that thero would
bo no room lor them to swim. V
A Paris doctor, who had been investi
gating tho question, has Just published somo
statistics showing, tho nnmber of baths
taken annually by each inhabitant of tho
city since 1850. The average, be states, has
varied very little during the last 42 years,
and is one single bath every two years.
Some German scientists have recently
furnished information in regard to the ages
of trcos. They assign to the pine tree 500 to
700 years as the maximum, 425 years to the
silver fir, 275 years to the larch, 215 years to
the red beech, 210 to the nsDen, 200 to the
birch, 170 to tho ash, and 115 to the elder, and
130 to the elm.
The red glow of the planet Mars has
puzzled everybody bnt a French astrono
mer. Who gives It as bis opinion that tho
vegetation of that far-away world is crim
son Instead ofsreen. He also says that ha
hasn't the least doubt but that there are
single flowors on the war god's surface
which are as large as the Incorporated
limits of Paris.
IDYLLIC nUMORESQUES.
"Wbat did Miss Marvin do when yon
kissed her?"
"Hung It np on a little bell punch she carries."-
Chicago Aews.
He was a stranger from the East,
And on a Western train
Ue boujrht the train boy's mild cljtari
lie won' t do eo again.
Next day they found him In a heap
Inside the smoking car:
He'd gone to his eternal sleep;
He'd smoked his last cigar.
Hew York Herald,
Parent This is your birthday, Tommy.
"What can L do for you that will cause you pleat
ure?
Tommy-Spank Johnny '.Texas SiHngt.
Though fishing be an idle sport,
It teaches one to wait;
For fish are very hard to court.
And slow to take the bait
New Turk Sun.
"I observe, Miss Georgians, " said ther
professor, thatyouspeakorMarsaa she.' Why'
doyoado thai?' ,
"We speak or a man-of-war a she,,prores3or,)
replied the young woman, "and why not the godt
of war?" Chicago Tribune.
The small boy taunts the teacher new
And she In vain may fret
She knows whatever he may do
He's "mommer'a little pet"
Detroit Free Press.
Sirs. Hardhead I can always tell what
kind of a wife a man has by his views on the
woman question.
Stranger I have all sorts of views.
Mrs. Hardhead Then you are a Chicago man,
hew lork Wiekli.
In grove and forest, field and mead
The eye new charms perceives.
And natnre's book we all may read.
For autumn turns the leaves. ,
Sew York Press. (
ifvrTl J "r TS, '
"tvuj, uo you suppose jats. .niyer wear
such loud clothes?"
"So she won't hear her bnsnand growl
the blBs, Isuppose." CMcagoIntcr Pcarm.
v., f. !
JM