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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. .MONDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1899.
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GKIER'S FLEA OF CONFESSION".
We are inclined to regard Mr. Pomeroy's
disclosure of a Democratic plot to use the
cumbrous ballot to purloin the vote of the
State as savoring considerably of the ante
clectiou roorback. But 3Ir. 'Grier's reply
to Mr. Pomeroy, and especially bis letter
to the Democratic State Chairman on the
subject, published in self-defense, records
an attitude on the part of the State officials
at Harrisbur;- hish is little if any better
than what is charged by Mr. Pomeroy.
Oner's letter giving the benefi: of his
official knowledge to the Democratic man
agers disrlcses several interesting facts.
First, it shows that the State officials un
dertook to fix the size ot the ballot, which
Attorney G?ner.U IIeii.il now says they
had no power to da "The change in the
Biz of the ticket" is what Mr. Grier
wrote about. "We are now preparing a
form," says he, and goes on to detail the
dimensions which that form will entail.
Next, it shows that this attempt to fix the
size was made with the full knowledge
tint it would defeat- a fair and full elec
tion. It "will prevent some counties in
the State from holdingan election," writes
Mr. Grier in one place; in another, "but
irry few printing ofiires in the State have
s perforating machine;" and in a third
"there is not enough paper in the country
ot sufficient size to pr.nt the ticket"
Thiid, Mr. Grier shows himself in his own
letter as using his official knowledge of
the matter to advise the Democratic
Chairman how it can be used to the Dem
ocratic advantage, by making early con
tracts to supply their strong Democratic
counties w.th tickets. These are the im
portant points of Grier's coursa in the
matter as set forth in his own letter.
There may be a difference of opinion
about terms. We are willing to let every
one find a name for tho thing to suit him
self. But when we have set before us the
joint action of the Democratic officials to
illegally prescribe a cumbrous and im
possible ticket; their foreknowledge and
avowal of the fact trjat the tickets cannot
be printed; and' the use of this official
knowledge to tram the Demoeratic'Gbalr
man to supply the strong Democratic cen
ters with ballots, it is difficult to see
wherein the facts of the case differ mate
rially from those as set forth by Mr Pom
eroy. If Governor Pattison desires to main
tain the former high reputation ot his ad
ministration for freedom from scandal he
fchouid take an early opportunity to clear
the Harrisburg offices of all the officials
and subordinates who have been engaged
In this very shady transaction.
THE NEW PirE LINES.
The value of the policy which The Dis
fatch has always urged, of stimulating
competition in the refining and transpor
tation of petroleum, appears in the nego
tiations reported elsewhere between the
Oil City Exchange and the independent
pipe lines for the issue of certificates and
the provision of tankage by those lines.
The progress which has been made in
building up new competition Is evidenced
bv the f?ct that five new lines are pre
pared to offer transportation and storage
facilities and issue certificates as proposed.
The Oil City Exchange shows a proper
appreciation of the importance of the new
lines by the proposition to establish a rate
lor tankage in excess of that now charged
by the Standard lines. It might be doubtd
whether this advanced rate would attract
much business to the new lines if it was
not nccompanied by improved facilities
lor delivery and private tankage. But the
offer of the Oil City Exchange, indicating
asit does close relations between the crude
oil interests and the competing lines,
rrgues a solid foundation for the indepen
dent enterprise.
The movement at Oil City is based on
the belief that it will result-in an Increase
of speculative holdings. We are less con
cerned for such an outcome-althongh it
appears mare than probable than for the
encouragement and maintenance of new
methods of communication between pro
ducers and consumers. The burden of
the petroleum trade for nearly twenty
years has been the more or Ies3 stringent
monopoly of all means of communication.
The negotiation referred to gives tangible
F round to the hope that the monopoly is
terminated.
The openiDg and maintenance of inde
pendent lines is what The Dispatch has
always urged. Persisted in, it will open
a new era for the petroleum interests of
Western Pennsylvania.
THE COLUMBIAN CELEBRATION.
The preliniinary celebration of Colum
bus' great discovery which opens this
week in New York will fitly commemorate
the estimation of that event by the people
of this country. NeTv York as the great
seaport of the northern continent leads in
the commemoration, while Chicago by the
cedication of her World's Fair buildings
takes the first step in her function of pro
longing and enlarging the celebration by
n detailed exhibition of the progress of
c.vihzition since that achievement.
Words will be exhausted this week in
the attempt to fitly state the service to
mankind rendered by the great discoverer.
The fact is that the results are so great
that even to-day a finite conception can
hardly grasp them. Mr. Chauncey M.
Depew has said that Columbus' most
sanguine dream could not have been even
a faint conception of the results flowing
from his work. But so far is
that from indicating the magnitude
of the subject that it can be improved
upon by saying that the modern mind,
with all the advantage of nineteenth cen;
tury training, can hardly take it.ail inT
We can sum up the totals in hundreds of
millians of population and thousands of
millions of production; but, when the mind
tries to form the picture of the vast areas of
industry and civilization which by that
discovery have taken the place of wilder
ness and savagery, it is obliged to confess
its inability to grasp the whol.
With the simple statement that Colum
bus called into existence a new world om
both hemispheres, the magnitude of the
commemoration is most adequately recog
nized. This nation as the leader and
representative of the New World cannot
be too enthusiastic in celebrating the
event and in honoring the memory of the
seaman who disclosed its existence four
centuries ago. In devoting the next
twelve months to the varied and compre
hensive recognition of Columbus' services
to mankind the nation will reflect credit
on Itself as well as do honor to the dis
coverer. HENSEL'S WAY OCT.
Attorney General Ilensel undoubtedly
finds the way out of the ballot muddle by
saying that the size of the ballot is not
fixed by the Secretary of the Common
wealth. It is a rather small hole for the
State administration to creep through, but
it i ill permit tho County Commissioners
of each county to make the ballots of such
size as to permit the election to be held.
It is indisputable that there has been an
effort In the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth to make the function of
that office in transmitting the form of the
ballots include their size. Ic is also evi
dent that the effort comprised announcing
the size, whicli was extravagantly large,
and which would make it impossible tor
all the ballots to be printed and handled
in the prescribed time. If the announce
ment from Harrisburg with regard to the
size of the ballots were not proof enough,
the letter of William Hayes Grier on the
subject furnishes the necessary corrobora
tion. Mr. Hensel's assertion that the size
is not fixed by the authority of the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth showed that
this attempt was unauthorized, and it per--mits
county authorities to print ballots of
reasonable size.
Tnere is a trifle of dtsingenuousness In
Mr. Hensel's assertion that if the ticket
has lo be extended in some counties be
yond the size of 59 inches "it is the fault
of the Jaw and not within the regulation
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth."
Beyond the fact that there has been an
attempt to set up such a regulation there
is the further point that the law sets up
no requirements which will make a ticket
of that size. The law requires the names
to be printed in brevier, to be not less than
four inches by six, and to have space for
the cross mark opposite each name. In a
length of CO inches there is space for 280
lines nf hriwipr. nnd in n width nf 22
, ,. -
inches the space will permit six columns
ot3 inches in width. Allowing thirty
per cent of the space -to be taken up by
the head lines and spaces, a ticket of the
size talked of could be made to contain
1,372 naiues. It is wildly improbable that
any county will have more than sixty of
ficers to vote on. That would require a
ticket having 300 names and a blank
column, or about one-fourth the size of
the ticket which has been announced as
required by Mr. Harrity's subordinates.
The County Commissioners everywhere
should take Mr. Hensel's view of it and
prepare nckels of such sizs as can be fur
nished promptly and voted conveniently.
If this is done with intelligence and judg
ment it is safe to predict that there will
not be anywhere within the State an offi
dal picket -ijhjcIi over half the cumbrous
and i&possible 22x52"inches. -
PLUNDEB, AS A FINE AKT.
A striking example of the morals of
corporate manipulation is afforded by that
famous Hocking Valley case which has
for the third time been decided in favor of
the defendant Judge Stevenson Burke.
The syllabus of the three decisions might
be paraphrased to lay down the legal
principles that corporate managers are
entitled to divert the property of (he cor
porations to their own pockets without
redress for any one who has been injured
thereby.
The question lias been tried in various
forms, but the last judicial ruling by
Judge Ingraham, of the New York Su
preme Court, is most frank in recognizing
the fact that the proceeds of the sale of
securities of the Hocking Valley Railroad
Company were diverted to the private ben
efit of the defendant. The judicial view
is set forth in the following words:
The bonds or their proceeds wero appro
ptiated by the officers' of the company to
their own use in violatidn of the covenant.
No sum of money was therefore ever real
ized by tho company or came into its pos
session, which could be said to be property
that had been acquii cd by the company so
as to be covered by the mortgage.
Consequently the bondholder who was
the plaintiff in tbis suit has no claim on
the monej". The fact has already been
stated by the Court that the stockholders
have no claim because they were not
stockholders when the money was diverted.
When that very sleek transaction was
effected the parties to it were their own
stockholders; and the courts have asserted
that they had a perfect right as officers to
plunder themselves as shareholders, with
the reserved privilege of unloading their
shares on a confiding public before the
diversion is discovered. Neither sharehold
ers nor bondholders having any remedy,
it is indisputable that Judge Stevenson
Burke is entitled to credit as the inventor
of a successful plan for railroad managers
to put the money of their corporations in
their own pockets with impunity.
It is only left to say that if this is law
it is very bad law. With a view to pre
venting pxactly such delusions as this
the law makes it impossible to distribute
the funds of the corporation to sharehold
ers without the formality and publicity of
a dividend. There having been no such
formal declaration in this case, and the
money having been taken by private
means, every one whose rights arc preju
diced thereby should have his remedy at
law.
NOT KOBE THANSENTIMENTA1.
Students of natural history who have
been examining into the evidences of the
birds and beasts existing at the discovery
of America by Columbus, find that many
have become extinct by the destruction of
reckless hunters. This evokes from the
Boston Globe some justifiable indignation
over the "melancholy rapacity persisted hi
under the name of sport." But when the
Globe goes on to assert that there has been
a material loss to the nation in the de
struction of these animals, it gives the
subject too much importance.
It may be taken as a general law that
animals which flourished in a wild state
and are extinguished by civilization would
have little actual value in a civilized line.
The buffalo is the most notorious example
of the sort, aud while his commercial
value stimulated the wanton slaughter, it
is an obvious fact that he could not have
been made available in a country brought
under tillage. The "herds of cattle that
have taken his place on the plains have
something like, ten times the value, head
for head, that could.be realized out of pre
serving that snaps?, surly and tough
specimen.
The point; is of course well taken that
the thinning -out of birds has permitted
the growth of Insect -enemies -of vegeta
tion. But It isto be questioned whether tho
extinction of entire species of birds which
would live in a settled country has any
such existence in the records of natural
history as the wiping out of animals who
must inevitably vanish before the march
of population.'
All the trade reports ihovr a large
volume of bnslmws on a healthy oasis. It
remains to be seen whether our Democratic
friends trill denounce the trade agencies
furnishing these satisfactory statements as
traitors and liars. But campaign denuncia
tions make no dtfftirence as to the satisfac
tory facts. The material progress of this
country may be hampered, bat It cannot be
stopped by the assaults of irresponsible and
reactionary politicians.
The cholera ghost is laid lor tbis year,
but active precautions will be required to
prevent its reappearance with the warm
weather of next season.
Mr. William Hayes Grier should take,
warntng by the remark of the man. who was
convicted of larceny after being defended
by a very Juvenile counsel, assigned to the
task by tho Court, wfaith, if I'd bad an
other," said be, "I'd have been hung." If
Mr. Grier should publish another letter in
bis own defense lie could scarcely escape
capital punishment.
Cleveland has deserted his Gray Gables
nest with bis lamily and bis belongings. It
is even said that lie carried away an idea for
another letter.
Since Attorney General Hensel has let
out the fact that the Secretary of the Com
monwealth cannot prescribe the size of the
ballots.County Commissioners can go ahead
and bave the ballots printed according to
law. They will fliid Utile difficulty in meet
ing the requirements of the act and turning
out a ballot that will permit the election
to go on.
All who contemplate voting this year
should go into active physical training be
fore attempting to cast a Baker ballot.
The way in which the innocent Tammany
politicians are deprived of the natural right
in the nay of colonizing voters by the bad
Dave Martin, of Philadelphia, is calculated
move the sympathies even of the once
independent New York Post.
General Apathy will be responsible
for somebody's defeat this fall. The General
is a great warrior in some campaigns.
The female suffragists can thank their
stars that they are barred from the polls in
Pennsylvania. Weak womankind is too
delicately constructed to carry and deposit
the Harrity-deslgned 22x52 Dlnnkct ballots.
Some free trade politicians are making
their marks in this campaign. They are
signing checks for election expenses.
Five independent pipe lines in close re
lations with the oil exchanges permit specu
lation as to whether tho Standard monopoly
did not really go out or business when the
Staudaid Trust was dissolved.
Noming points so directly to the fact
that, as a race, poets are extinct as the
recent verses on Tennyson's death.
Guessing on the result is a favorite
occupation Just now. In a month or so
several million will be wondering how they
could have been so far out in their calcula
tions. Trotting has been made easy lately. All
that is necessary is to start the horse and
the sulky does tbe rest,
Let us have a reasonable ballot The law
permits it, and the County Commissioners
have the power to furnish it. The work of
muddling the election has gone far enough.
"Political Brigandage" may not be a
new name for an attempt to steal a State,
but it fits tho situation.
The politicians may rage, and the calam
ity party imagine vain things, but tbe pros
perity of the country goes light along with
out stopping lor partisan necessities.
There was only one Columbus, but he
must have had many disguises, if the artists
are to be believed.
TrfE warmth of the campaign seems to
have set In about the same time as the Octo
ber irosts. The doctrine of compensations
still gets In its beneficial work.
Time has turned the tables, and now all
America is doing its level best to discover
Columbus.
PERTIXENr PERSONALITIES.
MONTAGU WILLIAMS, Q. G, the well
known London barrister, is believed to be
dying.
Mme. Hyacisthe Loyson advocates
opening the World's Fair lo the public un
Sundays, but only lor observation, not for
barter.
Ministeu Egan expects to visit Mr.
Blaine be lore proceeding to bis home in
Lincoln, Neb. He has been informed that
Mr. Blaine intends to take an active part in
the campaign.
John Joy Edson, chairman, and B. H.
Warner, treasurer of tbe Washington Citi
zens' Executive Committee, have presented
to President Harrison a handsome souvenir
medal of the late G. A. E. encampment.
Mr Bobekt M. Lane, ex-Minister to
France under Piesldent Cleveland, who
went abroad early in the summer in feeble
health caused by an attack of pneumonia,
has returned to Baltimore entirely recov
ered. One brother and two sisters of the two
poets Longfellow still live Alexander, of
Portland, Ale., long connected with the
United States Coast Surrey; Mrs. Mary
Greenleaf, of Cambridge, Mass., and Mrs.
Ann Longfellow Pierce, of Portland.
The daughter of the late Bishop Colenso,
of South Africa, has continued much of the
benevolent work among the Zulus begun by
her father. She has taught a number pf
chiefs to speak English, and has translated
into their tongue large portions of the
Bible.
M. Patenotke, the Trench Minister,
wbois at home for the purpose of being
married, has presented to his Government
for consideration the question of pui chasing
the residence of Vice President Morton, on
'Sco'tt Circle, Washington, for the French
Legation.
Ministeb Lincoln left London Satur
day to embark on the Etruriafbr New York.
Secretaries White and Post and all tbe other
members or the Legation staff, together
with many ladies, gathered afthe Euston
station to wish him a pleasant voyage. Mr.
Lincoln will return in about two months.
Quicksand Ruins a Bridge Site.
Biaytb Falls, Oct 9.-fi!peeiat-The site
for tbe Pittsburg and Lake Erie bridge
across the Beaver river near Home wood, to
connect with the Pittsburg and Western,
may have to be abandoned. In the. work or
putting in the west abutment there has been
encountered a vein or quicksand 60 feet
deep. For two months excavation lor the
foundations has been pushed without Inter
mission, but the quicksand Alls up the dig
ging as fast as the best machinery can
make it
Camp Low a Permanent Quarantine.
Cavp Low, N. J., Oct. 9. Tbe qnestlon of
making Camp Low a permanent Federal
quarantine station has been practically set
tled by the announcement hero to-day that
on the recommendation ofSnrgeon General
wyma. permanent buildings are to be
erected containing a complete steam plant.
CHURCH DOTTED ENGLAND.
twT.rrriw for the dispatch.:
One marked difference in the appear
ance of leiigion between America and
England is in tite fabric of tbe churches.
This is sufficiently striking in the case of
the great cathedrals. Not only are there
few buildings in this country so venerable,
but there are few so vast Tbe choir alone in
Canterbury Cathedral Is larger than Trinity
Church, Pittsburg. And the nave is three
times as large as the choir. And besides
tbe choir and the nave are the transepts,
and tbe great ambulatories, and the wide
chapel spaces behind tbe altar. And under
neath all, wide ns a dozen ohurches, is tbe
great crypt
But the difference is equally marked be.
twecn tbe parish churohes of the two conn
tries, and especially with regard to the
churches of the rural parishes. Everybody
knows how the country churoh looks in the
American village. It is built of wood. The
architecture is carpenter's gothlc. It Is
plain even to nsliness. ' And poverty Is
printed in blunt letters on every clapboard
and shingle of it It is the meanest looking
building in the town. It is the necessary
consequenoe of that condition of division
with which some Christian people claim to
be oontonted, which opens a gate by which
the devil outers into every little community
to persuade the people that they onght to
have five or six different kinds o( Chris
tianity. They run in debt to pay for the
expensive privilege of writing half a dozen
different adjectives "before the noun
"chuich;" and the result is that they ate all
poor-the minister the poorest of all. And
the miserable church buildings symbolize
povorty alike of pocket and of soul.
Ancient and Hallowed Sanctuaries.
But in England, in every smallest and
remotest parish, stands tbe ancieut and
venorable church. The gray tower rises
above the tops of the trees; the graves are
set about the ivied walls; youappioacb, per
haps, underneath an archway. of bending
yews, which were old when Richard of the
Lion Heart was young; the bells which in
vite yon with their cheery voices were Just
as musical in the days when 'Christopher
Columbus saw the other side of the great
ocean; you enter by a porch which the
monks built in the age of the Norman con
quest; tho stone floor is worn into waves by
the feet of the men and women of genera
tions pjst, whose family names, still borne
by the living, are cut into marble tablets on
tho walls, or engraved in the ancient brasses
sunk In the chancel pavement: in tho stone
pulpit men were preaching when preaching
was pei ilous business, and when an excess
of fire in a seimon might mean an
application of very real Are nt the stake;
prayers wero said before the altar In the
days when the service was In Latin; and
looking out of tbe pictured windows and
up into the rafters of black oak, men sat in
armor in the time of the crusades, and in
black robes in the reign of Cromwell. Every
church 4ms its consecration or delightful,
interesting and blessed memories. Qiimley
Church was built by the monks of Worcester
Abbey; at St. Nicholas, Harbledown, tney
had an aisle for lepers; St Cross. Winchester,
was founded bytlie Knights Hospitalleis or
Jerusalem; at 'Hursley, John Keble was
vicar; at Bemerton, George Herbert prayed
and wrote his poems; at Clovelly, Charles
Kingsley as a boy listened to his" lather's ser
mons. And the church is everywhere. By the
cliffs of Cornwall, and on the moors of
Devon, out of even the faintest hearing of
the cry of the locomotive, everywhere is to
be se'en the steeple ot the square tower, and
theie are iviod walls and veneraDle church
yards. Whenever the coach stops to change
boises you climb down and look into one of
these ancient and hallowed sanctuaries, and
the effigies of old knights lie along by the
windows, or the pew ends are carved by
medioval artists, or there is a font in which
babies were baptized before the Saxons and
the Normons foujrht at .Senlac. Every child
in England is brought up in daily sight of a
building which is a symbol not of the pov
erty or religion, and not of its un-CCristaiu
divisions, but of its dignity, ol lis stability,
of its relations to the past, the piesent and
the luture.
"What the Parish Church Should Be.
That is a great thing. It is true, in
deed, that the most Important building in
the parish is that which Is built up out of
the living stones, is erected out of the good
deeds of the parishioners. But it must not
be lost sight of that we are made with eyes,
and that we learn with our eyes', and that It
makes a difference even with mature men
and women, still more with boys and girls,
t hat the symbols or religion look like. The
appearance of tbe church edifice affects the
Christianity of the parish. It ought to be
made as good as the parish can make it It
ouxht to express the highest thought which
the paiish has about the value and the
meaning of religion. No parish has any
right to be content until the parish church
is a better and more worthy bultdinz than
the house of the wealthiest parishioner.
Now, in these churches, what kind of a
service do they have t Almost every where
the service is choral; that Is, the responses
ate sung, and the psalter Is sung, and the
prayers are sung, and everything is sung
except the lessons and tbe sermon; and tbe
choir is composed of men and boys in sur
plices. This is the custom in the cathedrals,
I believe, without exception, and it was
followed .in every parish church which I
attended. Never, in the course of two sum
mers in England, havo I heard the servioe
read except at an eaily celebration, or when
the choir was off on a holiday; and never
bave I seen any other choir than this com
pany ol men and boys in their white gowns.
In the cathedrals this seems natural and
fitting. Even the intoning of tbe prayers,
for which I confess I have no liking, seems
in these great buildings the only right way
in -n hich to lead the devotions of the people.
uniy d- intonation can tue voice be easily
carried over wide spaces. Listen to tbe man
who cries the. departure of the trains in the
Union station; he intones bis announce
ments. So do the newsboys at the corners
of the streets. Any other than a choral
service would seem unnatural, bare, thin
and unworthy in u cathedral. And such
celestial music! It is like the carolling of
the Bethlehem angels. I suppose that there
is no service In Christendom so touching, so
appealing, so uplifting, so rich in inspira
tion and devotion, so true a voicing of all
that is ideally best in human prajer and
praise and aspii at Ion, as the service which
is sung day alter day in some of these great
sanctuaries. The golden gates are set ajar,
and you hear the echoes of the choruses of
heaven.
The Heart Not In the Music
The other day I spent a Sunday at
Wells. They sing the "amens" at Wells as
they aro sung nowhere else. The prayer is
ended, the priest's voice dying away in a
falling cadence, and you bear a single note
away up in the treble, high and clear and
sneet, and then another voice Joins in, and
another, and piesently the tenors and tbe
basses. It is like a rain of silver bells out of
the night sky.
The singing in the parish churches did not
please me so well. The service was not any
where so hearty as those to which we are
accustomed here. Even in the cathedrals
the anthems were not anywhere sung so
well It seemed to me as they are sung in
Calvary. In the parish churches lor the
most part the service was pooily rendered.
And a poor choral service is distressing
both to the ear and to the soul. It is an
elaborate fracture or the third command
ment I have heard the prayers intoned in
Eneland in a manner which I would con
sider disrespcctiul to the multiplication
table. And I have heard a parcel of school
boys cabbie thiougu the chanting of the
psalms as if they were reciting that ancient
incantation of the playground beginning,
'eeny, lneeny, mony my." The people did
not Join iu the service so generally as our
people do, though tbey did sing better in
tbe hymns. The choir seemed to steal the
servioe as the boy choir often does withus,
out of the lips of the congregation.
Several small differences I noticed between
the English waj s and ours. Tbe choirs are
usually smaller than, ours. I have never
seen more than IS men and boys in a choir,
not even in Canterbury or York or- West
minster. Tbey do not come or go out sing
ing as ours do, except, I believe, at high fes
tivals. I have never Been a processional
cross In England. Nor do the choir boys
turn to the altar at tbe glorias after the
psalms; though always, in. every sort ot
churchithat I saw, they do turn eastward at
tbe creed. Black stoles are almost univer
sal. So are altar crosses, and altar candles,
though I never saw a function made of tbe
lighting of the candles during the service,
nor did I ever see the women of the congie
gation falling down on their knees at the
words "and was made man" in theNleeno
Creed, as I saw them doing at the Cburcb of
the Transfiguration in New York when I
came back. One other difference I will
mention of equal importance or unimpor
tancewith all these:they always sing all the
verses of the hymns. If there are 15 verses
they will sing 15 verses.
GOTHAM IN HKR GATEST GARB.
Scenes of Magnificence During the Week of
Columbus Celebrations.
New York, Oot 9. Special Columbus
services weie hold in most of the chnrcbes
to-day. AH of the discourses were prepared
with speciureonsideration for the children.
This evening the Italian colony, under the
auspices of the Minister, Baron Favn, began
its Columbian celebration at the Lenox Ly
ceum, with a concert and a discourse by Dr.
Luigi Beversi on Columbus. In the after
noon many people visited the Italian trans
pot t, Garigliano, which brought over the
Columbus monument
For the first time in somo weeks, tbe
sounds of the hammer and saw were not
heard. Tho decorations or tho public and
private buildings aro all completed. Flairs
and b .nners are streaming from every pole
along the line ot march of the four big pro
cessions. A very pouular feature or the
celebration is to go to the top or some high
building und enjoy a birdseo view, whicli
shows a long line or colors stretching from
the Battel y to Central Park, and from, river
tc river, with flas waving from the house
tops on an blues.
Tho trellis aroli at Twenty-flist street the
Manhattan Club bnildings and the lesidence
of ex-Seeretary Whlmey were visited by
thousands to-day. Alonir Firth avenue Irom
Madison Square to Thirty-fourth street,
theie were a series of standards 100 bundled
in number, from which depended pointed
gonfalons and Venetian flags bearing the
arms or Ferdinand, Isabella, Columbus and
others.
I'rom the Morton House to the Plaza deco
rations aregeneiaL.The City Hall is probably
the most profusely and artistically draped
edifice in the city. The New York Life Insur
ance Company is striving for tho flrst prize
offered for the be Decorated building.
Between 900 and 1,000 incandescent electric
lights will cover the front of the building m
globes of red, white and blue. An electric
star ten leet high will surmount these deco
rations, and beneath It "149MS92" will ap
pear in electrio lighted numbers. Besides
the illuminations the front and sides of the
building will be coveted with' 600 American
flags of vurious sizes, and a big portiait of
Columbus, trained in the national colors and
surmounted by the American eagle, will
bang on the front door.
In addition to the big stands at the City
Hall and in Union Square, Madison Square
and Washington Park, many smaller ones
have been put up. Seals on all or the stands
will be tree for the school and college parado
to-morrow, except a lew hundred seats al
ready sold. Nothing else will bo leserved.
The stands in Madison Squaie, City Hall
Park and Union Square are free only to
women and children, and the first come will
be flrst served. There will De an awful rush
for these seats, but Superintendent Byrnes
lint arranged excellent police protection.
All along the line and near all tbe big
stands temporary wooden patiol boxes havo
been placed. As the celebiation diaws near,
thieves, pickpockets and crooks ot every
description re beginning to come out from
their hiding places. They are waiting lor
the big crowds next week. Superintendent
Byrnes will do as he did during the Wash
ington celebration, when his drag net pulled
in a big load ot professional thieves. Orders
were Issued to-day to anest all suspioious
characters and look them up until the cele
biation is over. The Superintendent has in
structed Inspector McLaughlin to make the
laid.
To-morrow the secular part of the celebra
tion will be opened with a school and college
parade, with over 20,000 in line.
LOIS OF CALIFORNIA ALMONDS.
Hundreds of New Orchards Add Their
Products to the Market
San Fkaxcisco, Oct. 9 -Growers report the
crop of California almonds and walnuts will
will be large this year oning to the number
of new oichards which are coming into
bearing all over-the State. With an Increase
of acreage planted yeaily, it is a difficult
matter to estimate the yield, but experts
say it is safe to add anywhere from 10 to 15
per cent to the yield of the preceding year,
wbioh was estimated at 3.COO.0OO pounds, or
about ISO carloads, the greater part of which
found their.nay taat.
The n umbei of pounds shipped East this
year will exeeed last year's si ipments,
almonds beiiuin good demand, owiug to a
podr crop in Europe.
CONSPIEING AGAINST H1PP0LYTE.
Treason Bampant in Official Circles of the
Little Black Republic.
Kiotstou, Jamaica, Oct. 9. Advices re
ceived from Haiti are that trouble is again
imminent in that island. All the principal
cities and towns, excepting Jaemel, havo
turned Liberal. Even members ot the Cab
inet have been conspiring against Hippo
lyte, and Haitian Consuls at ditterent ports
are auspeoted ot supplying inlormation to
the refugees.
Two men, one an officer on board one of
tho gunboats, have been arrested for com
municating with Manigat and attempting to
corrupt national seamen.
A Lost Train Fonnd In a Ditch.
Dehveb, Col., Oot. 9. At midnight the
Santa Fe had lost a freight train between
Denver and Puelilo. The Rio Grande, that
rUns parallel with tho latter, reported find
ing the lost train in the ditch is miles this
side of l'ueblo, making a bad wreck. Under
the engine lay the engineer, fireman and
brakeman. . All three were dead.
A Green Glass Strike in New Jersey.
VwEtANo, N. J., Oct 9. The Vineland
Green Glass Works, which went Into blast
last week, has a strike on its hands already.
Yesterday the pioprietors undertook to ie
duce the wages of the tending hoys, which
caused a revolt, and until they return to
work all departments will -have to suspend
operations. -
DEATHS HERE A.ND ELSEWHERE.
Stanley H. Fundenberg, M. D.
Stanley H. Fundenberg, M. D., died on
Saturday of typhoid fever at the residence of his
mother, Mrs. Xluilna Fuudenberr, Amber strett.
East End. He was corn In Liconler, Pa., 1814.
He received a collegiate education and enjoyed'
from bis boyhood the instruction of bis father, the
late Dr. Georse B. Fundenberg, au eminent nliy
slclau and surgeon or Maryland, and a classical
scholar. Ur. Stanley H. Fundenberg graduated
from Bellevue llosoital Medical College. ew
York. In 1867, and commenced the practice of med
icine with his lather In Cumberland, Md.. after
ward locatlnK at Ocean, Md. After 15 years of
practice he was Uilured by the bursting or machin
ery at his stock farm near Cumberland aud re
tired from professional life. Dr. Fundenberg mar
ried Eliza, daughter of the late Joseph Slirirer.
President or the First Notmnal Bank of Cumber
land, who. with three cnildren. survives him. He
. was a brother of Drs. W. F. and Gtorjro I!. Fun
denberg, both practicing physicians of Pittsburg.
Dr. IV. A. Sandles, Braddock.
Dr. TV". A. Bandies, probably the most
popular physician of that vicinity, died yesterday
afternoon at Braddock. His ailments were dropsy
and an affection of the liver. He was 47 years old.
Dr. Sandles was born at Saltsburg. Indiana county.
In 1845. and when only IS years old enlisted In the
fourth Pennsylvania C'avalry.servlng three years.
Subsequently he graduated from the Jefferson
Medical College, at Philadelphia, and came to
Braddock -.0 ears ago. His wife died some ten
years since, and he leaves only a daughter, a miss
of 10 years. He was a member of Major Harper
Post 181, O. A. It., which wilt have charge of his
funeral. TucBday afternoon.
Thomas TYooIner, Sculptor.
The death of Thomas "Woolner, E. A., is
announced from London. When 13 years of age he
evinced a talent for sculpture and was placed in
the studio of William lichues, under whose ablo
guidance he studied with great diligence Tor six
years, acquiring remarkable skill as a sculptor anil
becoming an accomplished draughtsman, lie
took a leading Dart
in esiauusuing me wrm. a
short tired periodical in
which the Ideas of tim.
artists who were afterward called "Pre-Hsnli.i l.
ltes" first found expression. Mr. Woolner's con
tributions consisted of a number of graceful
poems.
Obituary Notes.
MRS. Eliza fJElTFiN, mother of Dr. Ham Grif
fin, Mary Anderson-De Navarro's stepfather, died
Saturday at Louisville, aged 76 years.
Judge E. S. Sampson, ex-Congressman from
the Sixth Iowa district, died Saturday at Ottumtra,
la. He bad been ill a long time from complica
tions following a severe stuck of tbe grip.
JESSE WILLIAMSON, brother of Isaiah V. Will
iamson, tbe Ule, millionaire, philanthropist, and
lastsurvlvlng member of tho rnnlly, died J ester
day at tho residence of his son in Lancaster, aged
82 years.
EdiioxddeJolt, architect or the Chamber of
Deputies, Censor of the Socletle Central des Arehl
teftes, expert of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine,
and an officer of tbe Legion' of Honor, Is dead In
Paxil. He was 08 years of age.
OUR FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
;SPECIAI, TELIOKAM JO TUB DISPATCn.t
New Xobk, Oct 9. Matthew Marshall's
article for to-morrow's Sun is on "America's
Financial Strength." It is as rollows:
The festivities attending the Columbus
celebration will probably absorb public at
tention tbe greater part or this week, to the
exclusion of everything excepf absolutely
necessary business. Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday will be devottd to parades,
orations, fireworks and shows of various
kinds. Thursday and Friday will be needed
lor rest and recuperation, while Saturday Is
a legal half holiday, any way. Tbe direct
costnf the amusement will be very great,
but its indirect cost in loss of timo to the
participants and their personal expenses
will be far greater.
If men lived for the making or; money
alone, and notbing more, I should deprecate
this suspension of their efforts, but inas
much as money is only a means to an end,
and spending it quite as important as get
ting it, I cannot fl uu fault with them for
giving up eVen a whole week to enjoying
themselves in the way they prooosc to.
Besides, no expenditure, however great,
which may be made, in celebrating tbe dis
covery of America, will boar any appreci
able proportion to the finanoial value of the
achievement to the world. Historians,
essayists nnd orators usually exhaust them
selves in extolling the sagacity, enterprise
and perseverance or Columbus, and I do not
suy that he rails to deserve all the praise
bestowed upon htm. But, to my mind. CIS
greatness is only comparative. What he
did any one of bis coieinpiorarles might
and should have done it they bad not all
been as stupid as owls.
What Was for a Long Time Know.
For centuries it bad been known that the
earth was a globe. Its dimensions bad been
approximately computed by the Greek as
tionomer, Kmtosthencs, 260 years betore
the Christian era. The area or the know
portion of Its surface showed conclusively
that a vast region remained to be explored.
The westward voyage from tbe coast of
Spain was no more hazardous than tho
northward voyages which the ancient
Phrenlclans made continually from the
Straits of Gibraltar to the lirittsli Isles
without even the help of the mariner's com
pans. Ail this was known to thousands as'well as
to Columbus, and that nobody boforo him
had undertaken to do what be did demon
strates tbe torpidity, in his time, of the
human intellect. He was merely among the
flrst to catch the inspiration of the new era
whicli bad been ushered in by tbe invention
of printing, and which has since culminated
in the numerous applications of steam and
electiicity characteristic of the present
epoch, flow blunderingly he groped his
way, and how Imperfectly he comprenended
the immensity of, his exploit is a matter of
recoid. He thought he had merely found
only a new road to a familiar country,
whereas he had stumbled upon a hitherto
unsuspected continent, and Increased by
one-half the accessible sar.ace of the earth.
A Value That Defies Computation.
Considered in this aspect alone, the finan
cial value of America defies computation.
Heie were presented suddenly to tbe eyes
of Europe, as upon the lilting of a ourtaln,
millions, not of acres, but of square miles, of
fertile and well-watered land, rich mines
and endless quantities of game and fish. At
flrst. indeed, tbe little accumnlations of
gold and sllvr which the unskillful labor of
the aborigines had in the course of ages ex
tracted from the earth, monopolized the at
tention 01 tbe newcomers. It was only
after these bad ail bean gathered up and
carried away across the ocean that the
more permanent and remunerative riches
ot the land received tbe attentio they de
seived. Nevertheless, even the small supply
of the precious metals thus procured Was
immense in comparison with that which
Europe already possessed, and the subse
quent additions to it, resulting from a more
thoiough and efficient working of the mines
by modern scienee and modern enterprise,
have been, as we know, the most extensive
in the history of tbe world.
The exaggerated reports of the importance
of these metallic tieasuies awaiting tbe
grasp of the hardy adventurer served, no
doubt, to stimulate tbe exploration of
Ameilca much more powerfully than did its
soberer and more lasting merits. In the
search for gold and silver the Spaniards, de
terred by no hardships, pushed across to the
Pacific and down the western coast or South
America. They were followed on tbe water
by the English, most of whom, I am sorry
to say. were pirates rather than peaceful
seamen, and who robbed in their turn tbe
robbers of the natives. Between tne two
the number of European ships multiplied,
amazingly. ,
former Naval Strength of Spain.
Columbus had difficulty in procuring
from Spain three small vessels with which
to prosecute his voyage of discovery. A
century later the same country sent out
from Its harbors the great Armada, men-of-war
destined lor the conquest or England.
The expedition miscarried, as we know, but
that it was made at all demonstrates the
naval strength of Spain, while that or England-was
eqully demonstrated by her suc
cessful resistance. The ships and sailors
thus brought into existence found occupa
tion later in the cariyiugof emigrants and
the planting on these shores or the Euro
pean stock from which our present popula
tion is descended, and when we look at the
vast multitudes which cover both North and
South America a'nd reflect that 100 years ago
the region tuey now occupy was nearly un
uninhabited wilderness the magnitude or
thQ'Workof which the discovery or the
countiy was the commencement over
whelms ns.
While America bas thus been to Europe a
treasuie house to be plundered and a nur
sery in which to rear a numerous offspring,
it has returned a mllllonfold the invest
ments made upon its toiritory. Not to
speak or the macs or gold and silver whicli
it has in four centuries contributed to the
general stocks, it lias in the hnmble potato
alone, added an article or enormous value
to the supply of human food, besides an
nually taising mill ons of bushels of Indian
corn and exporting it abroad. Tobacco,
though it may be reckoned lather a luxury
than a necessity, is another product exclu
sively of American origin, and to it tho peo
ple not only of Europe, but or tbe whole or
Asia, are indebted lor a narcotic which,
however detrimental it may ue to tncir
liealtb. contributes immensely to their en
joyment. Cotton, too, which originated in
Asia, has become a characteristically Amer
ican ciop. whilo our petroleum has abund
antly supplied tho market with a now and
cheap material for the production of arti
ficial light.
The Work of Nature, Not Art
These things, however, are rather the
work of nature tnan of art. They were but
fruits of the earth, -which domanded only
opportunity to como into use, and if Amer
ica had contributed untiling else to the
world's wealth its discovery would bo enti
tled to be called only a lucky accident. But
to tbis natural wealth its people.particularly
thoso ot the United States, have added that
created by an Inventiveness unparalleled in
pi evious times. The cotton gin has mado
that btaple available lor use undgiven to Un
numbered millions cheap aud comfortable
clothing. An American flrst applied steam
to the propulsion of vessels and started the
buries ofimpiovenientslii water . tiansport
allouof which the monster steamers now
traversing the Atlantic Ocean aio tho Iatesc
result Another American invented the
electric telegraph, another tho telephone,
another the electric light, and ir the rail
road was received by ns irom England, we
have made improvements on it, and on
cars and engines, which render it almost
rmrnwn.
Ot tho numorous less Important Inven
tions distinctively American, nhich in
crease tho productiveness or labor ami the
comfort of daily life, it would bo a waste of
time to speak. Tho nholo world recognizes
their value and gives us the credit lor them.
It would be too much, perhaps, to claim
that these achievements of human ingenu
ity could not have been accomplished if
America hud remained undiscovered, and
etlc 'is certain that the. conditions arising
from the entirely new mode ot lilo whlcu
Is possible only in a newly settled country
have been more favorable to them than
those of tbe Old World.
A Financial Power That Grows.
However this may be, it is a fact too
plain for dispute that the financial power of
America has been steadily growing, until
it is now a formidable rival to that of
Europe, and may soon be a tuc'cessful one.
I can alreadysi e an 'Immense ndvrtuco to
ward this result since the days nlidi every
American banker and merchant looked to
Europe nnd regulated his business with
refeience to tho European money market.
We are still, it is true, greatly indebted to
European capitalists for a-sistance in our
business enterprises, but the debt Is becom
ing smaller year by year. Within the past
two years we have paid off a considerable
amount or It with the product of our gold
mines, and everything points to n continu
ance of the process until it is completed.
Then perhaps we shall be a ration ot capi
talists, and lend money to the rest of the
world instead of borrowing It. A-Ut is, wo
have been able to supply an immense for
eign demand for gold without incon
venience, and all the lantastio tricks which
Congress have played with, our currency
bave as vet, owing to our 'Solid financial
tiength, lulled to do any serious mischief.
TUsED 0? TEACHXHa BAS SOTS.
A School Ma'am Poisons Herself Because
She Failed to Control Her Pupils.
Chatham, Ost., Oct. 9. Overcome with
shame and anger at her inability to punish
one of the refractory boys in her school yes
terday afternoon, Miss Alice Granger, a
school teacher, took her own lire last night
by means ot morphine. Miss Granger bas
bad oharge of the school for threo years and
bas always been successful with her pupils
until the present term, when a hair dozen
incorrigible boys came under her authority.
For six weeks they bave made lire a burden
to her by refusing to obey rules and Insti
gating rebellion among younger pupils.
The teacher appealed several times to the
Soliool Board lor assistance, but as two of its
members are the fathers of tbe troublesome
students she neverrecetved any. Sne finally
determined to take lorcible action in the
matter, and, after n particularly bad out
break, tried to use a rattan on Harry Bort
llng. He rebelled, and in tho scrimmage
other boys came to bis aid and blackened
the teacher's eyes. She at once closed the
sohool and returned home. Last night she
was found stretched acros3 her bed, dead.
An empty.phlal of morphine lay beside her,
and In ber hand was found this note: "1 am
tired of trying to teach bad boys."
STATEHOOD FOB OKLAHOMA.
The Lusty Infant la Already Outgrowing Its
Swaddling Clothes.
Washisotos', Oct 9. The annual report of
Governor Seay, of Oklahoma, has been re
ceived by the Secretary of the Interior.
The population of the Territory Is shown
to have increased from 00,410 in 1S90 to 133,
100 in 1892. These figures do not lnclndo In
dians who still maintain their tribal rela
tions. There is a growing feeling or distrust, tbe
Governor says, as to whethor tbe policy of
allotlngthe Indians tbe obolcest lands of the
Territory and making them Inalienable and
non-taxable for 25 years is fair and Just, and
whether, if this policy is persisted in, the
future prosperity of the Territory will not
bo seriously retarded. The people of the
Territory will ask to be heard next winter
by Congress on this question. With a fair
prospect of an early decision by the Su
premo Court, giving "Greer connty" to Okla
homa, the Governor says the Territory will
be entitled to statehood, and wUi soon usk
Congress for admission to the Union.
F3EHCH TK0UBLES IN T0NQUIN.
Fierce Battles TYltb the Black Flags Alarm
ing the Paris Government
Paris, Oct. 9. Letters received here from
Tonquin contain tbe information that sev
eral battles recently took place between the
"Black Flags" and the French forces on the
frontier, where tho French soldiers were
reconnoitering. Fighting was fierce and
determined on both sides, and in one of the
engagements the French sustained a loss of
six killed and 13 wounded.
The commander of the French forces asks
for reinforcements in order to suppress the
frontier raids, whicli he declares are Insti
gated by mandarins. The French press
speak in an alarmed tone of the serious con
dition of affairs existing on tho trontler, and
nrges the Government to demand an ex
planation from China.
A COLUMBUS OAT 15 OLD SPAIN,
The
Queen Eejent "Welcomed at Cadiz
and Hnelva by the Populace.
Cadiz. Oct 9. The Queen Kegent and the
royal party, en route for Huelva to attend
tbe Columbus celebration tbero, were wel
comed on arriving here with thunderous
salutes from the forts and from the Spanish
and foreign men-of-war lying in the haroor.
The Queen Regent and party attended mass
in the Cathedral this morning and then em
barked on the Condb Venadeto, which will
Btart for Huelva to-morrow morning, es
corted by Spanish and foreign vessels.
To-night tne city and harbor were illumi
nated, presenting a brilliant spectacle, and a
grand ball was given at the Town Hall, at
which the Queen Regent was represented bv
Admiral Beranger, tbe Minister of Marine.
JIBS. HABBIS0N STILL THE SAHIB.
No
Change Worthy of Note in the Con
dition of the Invalid.
Washington, Oct. 9. There was no change
worthy of note to-day in Mrs. Harrison's
condition, and her physician said, after
making bis last call for tbe day, that she
was resting easily. She took the usual
amount of nourishment to-day. There has
been a slight relaxation in tbe nervous
affection since Mrs. Harrison's return from
Loon Lake, and her sufferings from that
cause are less severe. Her nights aro mod
erately comfortable. She sleeps for an hour
or more at a time, and then wakes and re
mains nwake for some little time before she
again falls asleep.
The treatment by massage with oil, which
is applied about 9 o'clock In the evening, is
of material assistance in producing rc3t
PAENELL'3 MEMOS'? LIVE3.
AH Parts of Ireland Turn Out to Deck His
Grave at Dublin.
Dublin, Oct 9. The people who took part
in to-day's demonstration in honor of tbe
late Charles S. Parnell equaled in number
those who attended bis funeral a year ago.
Thousands or visiiors came to this city from
Cork. Gal way and the North or Ireland.
Floral tributes in the shape of wreaths,
hnrp and other designs were received from
political bodies throughout the country and
completely filled tho memorial car and two
cart. The procession to Parnell's tomb
was accompanied by bands playing the dead
march, and the corporations of Dublin and
Cork, who attended in state. J. J. O'Kelly
delivered an oiationat the grave.
Why It Is Called a Pivotal State .
Chicago Tribune.
New York has more Turners, It Is claimed,
than any other State in the Union. Per haps
that is why it is called the pivotal State.
Famous for Its Collapses.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1
The People's party is doing more col
lapsing than any other political organization
of tho period.
TEE BLANKET BALLOT.
There is no sense in providing a ballot
more than four feet in length when a sheet
of paper 15 Inches long will contain all that
is required in fairly good sized print
Scranion R publican.
It Is a sorry condition of affairs that Penn
sylvania's ballot law is so full of snares and
pitfalls, so lull or barriers and obstructions,
that a largo percentage or her voto will bo
lost Harrisburg Tc't graph.
Tbe ballot reform law U inadequate in
still Yinot her re ipect. It does not provide
an ambulance in whicli to send voters home
after the labor of voting the blankot ballot
has knockoi them out Ph'ladhia In
qturer. If there aro opportunities in this big blan
ket ballot to give the e'ectoral vote of Penn
sylvania to Cleveland or to preve it it from
being counted for either party, the Demo
crats may be trusted to tako advantage of
them. Ocvtland L cuter.
Tue Baker ballot law, ir Colonel Grisr,
State Superintendent or Printing, has not
made a mistake. Is likely to provo itself not
"an unqualified success." It ! pretty-late
In tho day to have tho discovery mado that
the ticket canuot bo printed by the ordinary
appliances of tho printers' art. Erie Times.
It Is beginning to appear as though the
Demorraticofilcials at Harrisburg, bv inter
preting the Baker ballot law In a way its
framtrs and supporters could nos have in
tended, desire to gain two ends the discour
agement of ballut reform legislation and the
invalidation of the vote or the State this
fall. Altoonu Gazxte.
The people will submit to ibis wanton dis
comfort for one year, but there wilt bo such
a demand lor honest oallot reform when the
next Legltlature meets that even the ma
chine leaders will bend to honest amend
ment rather than be brdken. Ilallot reform
has come to stay and don't forget it! Phila
delphia Tins'.
Nornt30 would suit tho enemies of the
new system any better tnau to have this
apprehension Justified. It need not be and
will not lie unies's those who have been de
termined to brini Into disrepute inPenn
s'lvaiiln the system now in operation in
three-fourths of tho States have been more
successful ln.cncumborlng tbe net than was
supposed. Philadelphia Prea. ,
CUBI0US CONDENSATIONS.
Silkworms are sold by the pound In
China.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are said to be
the only fish that never sleep.
The new British coinage will bear the
Queen's bead without her crown..
In Samar beehives hanjr in 'the form of
oblong gourds irom tho branches of trees.
Thirteen tons of postage stamps are said
to have been sold in New Tork City last
year.
In 1841 each individual consumed 13
ounces of tobacco; in 1E91 he consumed 23
oun ces.
Some people have taken to puttint;
crape on tbe walking sticks as well as on
their arms.
Bismarck's tenants present him every
year with 101 plovers' eggs on the anniver
sary or his birth.
If a well could bs dug to a depth of 46
miles tbe air at the bottom would be as
dense as quicksilver.
Artificial teeth are so much in use now
adays that it took 40,000,000 to supply the
demand last year.
Among the wealthy classes of Japan it
is considered undignified to ride a .horse
going faster than a walk.
In China wealthy people buy their cof
fins long before they need them, and exhibit
them as ornamental pieces of furniture.
In the 25th of Henry "VTIX it was
enacted that no person should keep above
2,000 sbeep nor bold more than two farms.
Tidal, one of the most famous last dee
ade sculptors of France, was stone blind at
the time when be executed some of his most
lamous works.
A dish-washing machine has been for
some time in use in a London hotel. With
two persons to attend to it, it washes 1,000
dishes an hour.
Cranes, storks and wild geese fly fast
enough to make a trip from Northern
Europe to Africa in a week, bnt most of
them rest north of the Mediterranean.
In accordance with Chinese etiquette,
all business of state requiring the Emperor's
attention is transacted between the boars M
2 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the morning.
France has a population of 38,218,903,
comprlslngabout 30,000,000 families, and of
these 2,000.000 couples have no children,
while 2,000,000 have only one child each.
A California company makes a splendid
article of toilet soap from the froth skimmed
from a boiling compound. It 13 supposed to
be a mixture of borax, alkali and mineral
oil.
At Baku, Russia, there is an immense
oil well that "ebbs and flows" with tho same
regularity as do tbe ocean tides. It is be
lieved to bave some mys terious connection
with tbe sea.
A curious superstition is alleged to
exist among tbe Hindoo sentries at Bombay.
Whenevera black cat passes they salute it
in the belief that it contains the soul of an
English officer.
The Brazil nnt contains from 15 to 24
seeds, which all germinate at one time. The
most vigorous one gets flrst through a small
hole at tbe top to the open air and there
upon it strangles and feeds upon the rest.
Bush Talley.TJtab, has a mine of nat
ural shoe blacking. An analysis of the pe
culiar stuff reveals the fact that it is com
posed of 16 per cent of carbon, 18 per cent of
bitumen and tbe remainder aluminum, al
most pure.
The leading theologians of the world,
who have been figuring from Scriptural and
other data for some time, bave come to tbe
conclusion that Christ was crucified shortly
after 9 o'clock on the morning of Friday.
April 10. A. D. 30.
The streets of London are cleaned be
tween 8 in the evening and 91n the morning.
Many of the carriage way3 are washed daily
by means or a hose, and tbe courts and
alleys inhabited by the poorer classes are
cleaned once a day.
The term "tabby cat" is derived from
Atnb, a famous street in Basdad inhabited
bv tbe mannfactnrers ot silken stuff called
atlbior taffety. This stuff is woven with
waved markings of watered silk resembling
a "tabby" cat's coat
The Brazilian pottery tree contains
sucb a large percentage of silica as to make
it ashes a valuable Ingredient in pottery .
making. When screen its wood cuts like
soft sandstone. To the botanists it is known
as Moqulled utllls.
A person who baS totally lost the sense
of hearing in one car, althouth he may im
agine that the defect Is nt little consequence,
cannot locate the direction of a sound to
save his life, even when the center ofdis
tmbance is quite near him.
Lepers in India were treated with
shocking inhumanity De'ore Christianity
entered that country. Many of them were
buried alive. The English rulers have put a
stop to this cu"tnm, and tor 11 years there
has been a special Christian mission to the
133,000 iepers in India.
One of the most curious stones in the
world is found in Finland, where it occurs
in many places. It is a natural barometer,
and actually foretells probable changes in
the weather. It is called seinakuir, and
tnrns black shortly before an approaching
rain, while In fine weather it is mottled with
spots of white.
They have a Derby in Persia. A lot of
teen enter their horses and deposit the
entrance fees with the Shah. Tho race is
then run, after which the Shah takes pos
session of tho winner, and sticks to ail the
entrance money. There Is a businesslike
simplicity about sport in Persia which
speaks lor itself.
A curious book, in which the text ii
neither written nor printed, but woven, has
lately been published in Lyon. It is mado
of silk, and was published in 25 parts. Eicli
part consists of two leaves, so the entire
voinme only contains 50 leaves, inscribed
with the service of tbe mass and several
prayers. Both the letters nnd tho borders
are in black silk on a white background.
One of the latest methods of loosening
tho earth to a depth of two or three feet,
and allowing tbe absorption of considerable
moisture in periods of draught, is by the
nso of dynamite electrically fired. The in
ventor of this ingenious tilling of the soil
drills holes two or thiee feet deep and five
feet apart, making l.fiOO to the aero, in
each hole is placed a sufficient quantity of
the explosive, cunnecied with a wire lead
ing to the battery, and after the earth is
trumped down tho wholo is discharged by a
spark.
r.HYNKXETS AND KIIYMELETS.
The Maiden Then you find married life
b.ippy?
The Wife Yes; bnt then I seldom see my hus
band, you know. iwittA, Gray & (JoSs Monthly.
"His ef e3 are a? bright
As the stars at night,"
Tbe girl to tier friend did relate.
"And their brilliant light
Enraptures mc quite-
In them I can see if my hat's on straight'
Chicaso Aet.
"William," said she, severely, "how
many more times are you going to ask me to marr
you?"
"Clara." saiJ he, "I can't answer that question,
but 1 think I'll not bother yon much longer. One
of the other three girls I'm proposing to shows
signs of weakening." Texas Silings.
The chill of the autumn is in the air,
The meadows are growing sere.
And the galluses worn by the maiden fair
Are furled until next year.
.Vcr lark Prut.
He I am not worthy of yon, darlinj.
She I know It Henry, but no other man 13 either,
sa I will accept yoo Sue lort ilenild.
AVIien he starts in to tell his love,
IlelhlnVsh has It "pat."
But soon he ond. to his dis'iiay.
He's mixed the thing, and Ii is to sar:
"My love, where was I at?"
Brvilyn Eagle.
Young "Wire Darlins, I made these cun
ning little bread sticks Just to show yon how I can
cook.
Husband (breaking one)-Yes. pet and they are
made of natural wood, too I see. Pretty ex
pensive, eh iCnieago Inter Ocean.
The small boy taunts the teacher new
And she In rain may fret.
She knows, whatever he mar do.
He's "mommer's little pet "
Detroit Fife Pett.
Xew Arrival (in the spirit world) Ami
this Is the great Christopher Columbus I Why. yoa
do not resemble In the slightest degree the pictures
they are printing of you on earln !
Christopher Columbus No, thank bearsal
Chicago TrUwi4,
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