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PITTSBURG. MONDAY. NOV. 7. 1832.
THE MANNER OF VOTING.
The use for the first time at a general
lection in Pennsylvania of the official
allot to-morrow creates apprehensions
.hat many people trill lose their votes by
errors In the marking of their tickets.
This Trill be a novel and unfamiliar mat
er to a large majority of voters; but at
sntion to one or tvro simple rules will
eatly reduce the probability of vital
"orts.
The voter vrho wishes to vote a straight
irty ticket can do so by marking the
ace opposite the name of his party
aerever it occurs. On the ballot pro
ded each regularly constituted party has
column to itself, but the party name oc
curs at the head of various groups. For
each time the party name occurs the voter
must place the cross-mark in the space op
posite and must mark no individual
names.
Voters who wish to "scratch the ticket,"
'as the old phraseology would have it, or
to vote for certain candidates of one
party and others of another party, as well
as those who wish to vote for the minor
parties whose nominations are by nomina
tion papers, have a more prolonged task.
They must look up and mark each indi
vidual name they wish to vote for. In
oting for candidates of the People's.Pro
ibitionist or Socialist parties this -work is
Tjplified by the fact that each party has
olumn to itself; xfK in such cases every
e ,must, be med even to vote the
traight ticket Also, if a voter desires
to split his vote he must mark
every name for which he wishes to vote
To mark the party name under the im
pression that this will be a vote for all the
candidates, except where the candidate
for the other party Is voted for, -would be
simply throwing away the vote except for
those candidates whose individual names
are marked. But a voter can split his
vote in one group by marking all the in
dividual names and vote a straight party
ticket on the other groups by marking the
party name.
The most arduous task of all is for the
voter who wishes to vote for men whose
names are not on the official ballot and
will therefore have to write them out
"EuVttTTuch cases will be so rare in this
election as to form no appreciable factor,
much comment need not be wasted on
them at present
raiPAKTIALITT NECESSARY.
The arrest of the Salvation Army on the
streets yesterday was a step which might
be necessary if it was clear that it was
the only way in which the blockading of
the streets could be prevented. But It
also was a proceeding of a nature that re
quires absolute certainty of its necessity
in order to free it from questionable pro
priety. The justification of the arrest will be
made manifest or the contrary on the
trial. If it is shown that the Salvationists
after clear notification to the contrary
persisted in stopping to gather crowds
the streets, having a church
for them, it will fol-
w u . tnearrest was necessary to main
tain police authoriJTt But it should also
be made clear that tiieSe religious gather
ings are not suppressed merely because
they are of rather uncouth character, or
because the participants are obscure and
poor. The Salvationists have just the
6ame rights as anyone else. They are en-
-ito alMegal rights and they are also
eligi. e to arrest if they persistently vio
late the law.
What should be insisted on, however, is
that there should be no partiality in the
matter. The night before the arrest the
streets were blocked for hours to give
play to the taste for political parades. It
should be a very clear case of defying
legal authority which leads to the arrest
on the subsequent day of a few religious
.nthusiasts for gathering a crowd of five
updred people.
TREE TRADE LOGIC.
Tfie campaign of education this year
las produced some striking idiocies which
'emonstrated that the authors of them
.vere beyond the power of education.
None of them, however, were equal to;the
outbreak with which the New York
Herald finally got down off the fence on
-he Democratic side, and thereby lent
aioral aid and comfort to the Republicans.
The Herald's outbreak consisted In
scattering throughout its pages compari
sons of American wages with English. In
ne place it showed that British lace
lakers earn $6 per week; American, $15;
'.nglish locomotive engineers get $1 46 a
iy: American, $3 22; English iron rollers,
l 29J a day; Americau, 57 39Ki and so
through a long list of occupations. This
exactly the sort of comparisons on which
e Republicans have been making their
figiU; and without further context their
appearance might create an apprehension
that tVe Herald had burdened the Repub
lican prty by flopping to its support
But malic the sapience of the
Herald. If this disparity of wages
Is kept up b maintaining the tariff, the
Herald affirms there will be an influx of
British workmento this country. Argal,
saith the profound organ of public opinion,
we must inaugurate the free trade policy
and stop this dangerous disparity, of
wages.
This Is delicious. Workingmen, your
wages are from twice to two and a half
times those of the English. This is very
dangeroas. If it keeps on you may be
overrun by an influx of English artisans.
ro forestall that calamity so vote that
jur wages may bo cut down to the level
of the Lancashire weavers and Midlands
Iron workers. If that --- safety
Is attained you will be all right When
Iron rollers In America get but $3 29 per
day the English iron roller who gets as
much will have no object in coming over
here and pulling down wages. Thus has
metropolitan journalism illumined the
entire political situation as by several are
lamps of logical electricity.
We have only to advise all workingmen
who are impressed by the Herald' $ reason
ing to follow its advice and vote for the
reduction of their own wages. ,
A DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION.
There is a very remarkable confession
In the Democratic outcry against permit
ting the United States Marshals In New
York to make arrests for attempts at il
legal voting. The Democratic organs
with one voice raise the shout that this
must not be, because the power to make
such arrests will "intimidate" voters and
make them stay away from the polls.
The assertion that the New Tork Tam
manyite is of that shrinking and fearful
nature that he will avoid the polls for fear
of arrests for which there are no good
reasons is a pathetic one; but it fails to
reach the public confidence. If this is the
case the Democracy must lose their time
worn title of the "unterrified" and accept
instead thenew adjective of the frightened.
But we think New York Democrats are
not so timid as that They know that If
one of them is arrested without reason
they have their civil remedy. Conse
quently we shall expect to see the mass of
legally qualified Democratic voters in New
York casting their regular and straight
ticket
But the Democratic assertion of "in
timidation" may have a foundation in the
case of another class. The repeaters, the
colonized voters, and the ballot-box
manipulators may quite p ssibly be in
timidated by a certainty of arrest To
them the possibility of damages for false
imprisonment offers no alleviation to the
terrors of arrest That is the only class
of men who have as much heart as mice
that can be intimidated by the deputy
marshals. The unanimous Democratic
outcry therefore resolves itself into a con
fession that the Democrats hope to carry
New York by the vote which has reason
to fear arrest
A TARDY DISCOVERY.
The shipment of 200 tons of pig iron
from New York to New England is made
by the Boston Herald, a free trade organ,
the subject of a homily on the fact that
pig iron is nearly if not quite as cheap in
this country as in England. Therefore the
Herald concludes that the duty on pig iron
Is needless.
This, with Us subsequent animadver
sions regarding the duty on iron ore, can
be left for what it is worth. The Interest
ing point Is that this free trade organ has
at a late day before election discovered
a leading case in which the tariff is not a
tax. If the duty is unnecessary because
iron is so cheap it plainly does not impose
any tax on the consumers of pig metal by
raising the price. The fact is that the
cheapness of pig metal which the Herald
comments upon is an illustration of the
law of domestic competition which is the
principle at the bottom of protection.
The time was when the pig iron Industry
needed protection to save it from being
wiped out by the competition of cheaper
European iron. But the tariff stimulated
the development of our resources until pig
iron is so cheap that the duty is no longer
a tax.
We doubtif the timehasyet come when
the pig iron industry could flourish with
out any protection at all. But it is true
that a large share of the duty of 56 72 is
unnecessary for protective purposes. But
as by the Free Trade organ's showing it
does not Increase the price of the staple,
it would be interesting to have it state the
fact plainly to its readers that when
domestic competition brings down the
price the tariff is not a tax.
TWO OBNOXIOUS MEN.
The New York Democratic press is at
present dividing its attention between
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and John L Daven
port It is a little difficult to tell which
of these characters is most obnoxious to
our Democratic cotemporaries, but as the
attacks on both are exceedingly virulent
it is evident that they are persona non
grata o New York Democratic opinion.
Each of these prominent gentlemen have
made persistent attacks on species of vice
which arc in the nature of corner stones
to the Tammany edifice. Dr. Parkhurst
has attacked, exposed and threatened with
overthrow the toleration of vice from
which the Tammany organization draws
its local revenue. Davenport attacks the
ether Tammany method of controlling the
polls of colonized voters and repeaters.
It is clear that if Tammany had neither
the disorderly resorts to assess a revenue
tariff upon, with incidental protection
to the same, nor the power to pile
up votes by its control of the voting
machinery, It would quickly become as
Samson shorn of his hair. It is evident
that Parkhurst and Davenport are foes of
Tammany, which may sufficiently account
for the virulence which possesses the
Tammany organs when either of them do
anything.
Nevertheless it may be questioned
whether it is discreet for the Tammany
press of New York to display so plainly
the animus derived from the fact that
Tammany draws its revenue from the
haunts of vice and wins its battles by
frauds on the ballot
When Tammany promises police pro
tection to voters who put themselves under
its care it naturally considers it unwarrant
able interference fortho United States offi
cials to come in with protection for the
remnant.
The Governmental Signal Service made
another record ot rather bad breaks in its
predictions last week. The morning indica
tions, as published by The Dispatch, ac
companied by statements of the course of
the storms and areas of temperature, gave
a tolerably clear forecast; but the afternoon
predictions struck an area of decidedly low
pressure in the line of verification. After
predicting clear and cooler weather with a
persistence which only produced the rains
and snows of Friday and Saturday, a new
tack was taken on Saturday afternoon, and
the public was warned of a small-slaed
blizzard which was to freeze ud everything
wltn a SO to 25 degree temperature. Un
fortunately this was followed by wea tuer
which showed that if the bureau had stuck
to its prophecy of clearing weather it would
have scored a hit, as Sunday was an almost
ideal appioach to the Indian summer. The
Signal Service is a useful institution, but it
strikes streaks of hard luck and hard
weather at times.
To-dat is the last day for the campaign
torchlight marcher and the candidate
bleeder. Likewise let us bo grateful that the
election bettor's leaso of lire cannot run
much more than three days from date.
The inability of the Democrats to agree
upon their representations pursues them up
to the very eve of election. The Boston
Herald (Democratlo organ) editorially as
serted at the close of the week that in Colo
rado there weremany reports of conversions
for Harrison but none to conversions to
Cleveland on account of the attltnde of the
latter on the silver question. This was in
tended strictly lor consumption in the East,
where silver Is unpopular. At the same
time the Democrats were claiming ttiat the
votes of several Western States are by the
co-operation of the Democrats to be east for
Weaver on the silver and Kindred issues
which, the Democratic leaders wisely point
out, is the same as voting for Cleveland.
We are pleased to learn that the Hon.
John C. New is confident. There was a
corking fear that Mr. New might have come
home from London for the express purpose
of having doubts on the subject.
The opening of the fair for the benefit of
the Eoutbside Hospital in the old United
States building, corner of Fifth avenue and
Smithfleld street, transforms that unattrac
tive and unsentimental building for the
time being into a place of beauty and pleas
ure. The pleasure in the attractions of the
fair will be enhanced Dy its charitable pur
pose; and the enterprise of its management
in locating ' it at one of the most prom
inent places of the city will secure its
financial success. Everyone will Join in
wishing the charitable enterprise a large
revenue, and the vast majority will give
those wishes a tangible form by visiting it
and affording it a liberal patronage.
The storm wave has passed for the pres
ent. But about to-morrow night some san
guine political prophets will think that a
cyclone has struck them.
The mistake of the Providence Journal
in crediting the phrase, "Claim everything
with confidence," to Uncle Dick Thompson,
of Indiana, is corrected by the Washington
Pott, which says it was John T. Thompson's
contribution to political literature "when
he was chairman of the Ohio Democratic
committee and was making a great effort to
elect Gov. Bill Allen." The esteemed
Post has the authorship correctly, but is
mistaken in the date. The richness of the
phrase consists in the fact that the sanguine
Thompson set it afloat in the late '60's or
early '70"s, when the Democrats did well if
they carried one State in five.
Sunday looked like Republican weather
whatever Tuesday may be. Such lovely
skies are grateful to all but the calamity
party.
Democratic fatuity never appeared
more strongly than in the circulation of a
story that Colonel Shepard bad flopped to
Cleveland. This report, based on tbeaUeged
change of a Massachusetts Shepard, was ex
pected to create an impression that the
only Elliot F. Shepard had gone baok on
Harrison. This is untrue, but if the Demo
crats could make the people believe
that Elliot F. has gone ovor to the enemy it
would be votes in the pocket of the Republi
can party.
Since the Loudon Times does not care a
continental who is successful, we presume
the election can now go on.
A revolution has taken place in Jersey
City which sets an example to the nation.
The customers of a restaurant there rebelled
against the extoittons of the waiters and
left the place entirely to the waiters. When
the proprietors found it out the waiters
were called upon to leave the place and the
customers came back. The sufferers from,
the tip nuisance have only themselves to
blame for it.
Bismarck: and Wilhelm continue their
rivalry as to which can exhibit the most un
timely garrulity within a given time.
KEAR THE TOP RUNG.
Senator Carlisle Kentucky,having
neglected to register, will lose his vote this
year.
The Rev. R. Heber Newton, rector of All
Souls' Episcopal Church, Kew York, will,
because of ill health, take a year's rest.
Proe. G. if. Lane, Harvard's learned
Latin teacher, used to keep a comio al
manac in his desk to regale and refresh his
mind in the intervals between recitations.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale has a step
so quick and a voice so vigorous that not
seeing him one would never suspect that he
he was a white-haired man over 70 years of
age.
Whittier's homestead is now owned by
a retired merchant of Haverhill. Mass., who
is willing to sell the estate on condition that
it shall be properly and permanently cared
for as a memorial of the poet.
The Earl of Crawford and Balcarries,
who is now visiting this country, is a tall,
big and jolly gentleman, who owns the big
gest part of the coal mines of Wlgan and has
more grouso moors than he can shoot over.
Marshal MacMahon so earnestly re
sents certain passages in Zola's book "La
Debacle" that he thinks of publishing the
five volumes of his memoirs memoirs which
he bad not intended should see the light
until after his death.
Mr. Justice Desman, who has long
been one of the most famous of British
Judges and who is soon to retire from the
bench, has occupied his leisure during re
cent years in translating G lay's "Elegy"
into Greek elegiac verse and in turning the
first book of Pope's Homer's "Iliad" into
Latin elegiacs. ,
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Special Wires Manned by Several Operators
.Will Bring In the News.
Washisotoit, Nov. 6. Special. President
Harrison was among the worshipers at the
Church of the Covenant this morning.for the
first time since his return from Loon Lake
with his lamented wife. Dr. Hamlin made
a delicate, but sympathetic allusion to the
great sorrow which recently visited the
Harrison household, and the occupants of
the President's pew weie visibly affected.
The President will have every lacllity for
learning the results of the election as soon
as It can be ascertained, for special wires
have been run into the White House, and
several skilled operators will assist Execu
tive Clerk Montgomery in receiving the re
turns. .All or the members of the Cabinet
have promised themselves the pleasure of
voting the Republican ticket, and Mr. Hal
foxd, too, will lemain in Indiana to cast one
ballot for Harrison and Beid. Secretary
Tracy and Secretary Elkin3 are the only
members of the Cabinet whose homes are
near enough to make it possible that they
should vote and then return to Washington
in time to receive the returns with the
President.
The Piesident will be the least excited of
the people who read the returns at the
White House Tuesday night. Ho believes
now that the Republican party will be suc
cessful, but success will not be a peisonal
triumph to him, nor will failure be a selfish
disappointment.
MANUFACIUEEES IN MEXICO.
An Excursion Party From the North
to
Investigate Southern Resources.
Mohterev, Mux., Nov, 6. Georgia G. Gon
zales, of New York, is arranging for the re
ceipt of an excursion party of 300 prominent
manufacturers from New York, Chicago and
St. Louis, who will arrive here the latter
part of November on their way to the City
of Mexico.
They will visit the principal cities of
Mexico with the object of becoming ac
quainted with the manufacturing resources
and varied industries of this country. Ifris
expected that this proposed visit will result
In great value to the commercial interests
of this country.
DAK SICKLES HAS A SCHEME.
Be Would Give All the Increase in Tariff to
the Workingman.
New Yoke, Nov. 6. General Daniel E.
Sickles, speaking at a Tammany Hall meet
ing in the Nineteenth district last night,
said that if elected to Congress he would in
troduce an amendment to the McKinley bill
which would provide that in all cases where
the duty was Increased on goods manu
factured in this country the wages of the
workingmen employed in their manufacture
should be increased proportionately.
Beaten Before She Started.
Boston Herald.
We think Candidate Victoria Woodhull
Martin is beaten out ot her boots.
Bnt Stuck on the Democratlo Boot,
Toledo Blade.
Cleveland is like a dentist. He has taken
the stamp.
AN H0DR WITH MR. STEAD.
rwRrrrzK tor the dispatch, i
I Went one day in London, with some
trepidation, to call on UK Stead. 'The call
was one of curiosity. I wanted to have the
pleasure of seeing Mr. Stead, and shaking
hands with blm, and hearing him talk. The
trepidation was caused by the faot that I
had nothing in the world to say to htm, not
even the shadow of an errand, and no possi
ble excuse that I could think of for obtrud
ing myself upon him. It is true, I had a
card of introduction from Canon Fremantle.
But even that aid not suggest any real rea
son for inviting myself into Mr. Stead's
apartments. I wondered if he would ask
me old St. Bernard's question Ad quid
venistiT What are you here fori
Mr. Stead's office as editor of the Review of
Reviews and manager-general of the uni
verse, is in Norfolk street, a little way from
the Strand. The windows look out over the
river, with the houses of Parliament and
the Archbishop's palace at Lambeth In full
view, enabling the editor to keep his eye
upon the headquarters of both Church and
State. Peter the Great had lodglrgs in this
neighborhood when he made bis memorable
visit to England) and William Penn was also
once a tenant of one of these old houses.
Here it is that Master Penn is reported to
have contrived that ingenious peeping
hole by the front door that he might know
who knocked. One who waited called out to
his servant to know if his master would not
see him. "Friend," answered the servant,
"he hath seen thee, but he does not like
thee." Probably he was a man with a book,
or with a bill. Mr. Stead is unprovided with
any such precaution. The man who wants
to see him Is the man he wants to see.
Not Difficult of Access.
It was at the corner of this same Norlolk
street that Sir Boger ae Coverley, when the
Mohocks chased him, got away. Mr. Stead
is a good policeman in that once dangerous
thoroughfare to make war on all Mohocks
who obstruct the traffic or spoil the pleasure
and the peace of mankind in general.
Tneieareno high buildings in London, as
there are in all our cities here, with offices
among the clouds. Mr. Stead receives his
visitors iu the second story. The door of the
sanctum opens, a servant announces that
the editor is at liberty, and in we go. Any
how there are two of us and only one of him.
So courage and push on. But Mr. Stead be
gins to talk at once. He hardly waits to get
our names. Before we are fairly seated he
has begun with the "Pittsburg" written on
my card and is asking me questions, at the
rate of 20 a minute, about the troubles at
Homestead. There was no occasion for dif
fidence, and no use for wondering what
would be a good topic for our conversation.
Mr. Stead took all that quite into his own
hands.
The sanctum of the Review of Reviews, the
office of the lay parson who has taken the
whole world for his parish, is a good, large,
sunny room, with a big desk or two in it
littered with papers, with its walls lined
with well-filled Dookshelves and with every
remaining nook and cranny filled up with
photographs, chiefly of celebrities who
have been pictured and perhaps pilloried
In the Review. One familiar face is that of
Mr. Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie had written to
him, Mr. Stead remarked, to come and visit
him, but be had assured him at the same
time that he would not talk, and Mr. Stead
has no use (or men who will not talk. There
are two doors in the room, one for entrance
and one for exit. Over one is written "Un
dertake Great Things for God," and over
the other, "Expect Great Things Prom
God."
The Keynote of Hfs Purposes.
These two sentences touch the keynote
of Mr. Stead's purposes, ambitions and ac
complishments. He is a man of religion,
first and all the time. He looks at every
subject from the religious point of view. It
is true that ne is not Quite the kind of
Christian that might content the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. He was described in
one of the reviews the other day, with Mrs.
Humphrey Ward and several others, as an
"amateur Christian;" that is, as one who
knous something about Christianity, and is
very muoh interested in what.be knows, bnt
does not know It all. Nevertheless, with all
his departures from the orthodox theolo
gies, Mr. Stead is that most desirable sort of
Christian, the man with a longing to do
good. He has a passionate hungeran 1
thirst to make the world a better sort of a
place to live in. He is Interested in i every
thing which looks in this direction. He
measures the value of all events and all
policies, according as they will help or
hinder this great purpose, or upliftto bene
fit, to save men from their sins. All of Mr.
Stead's visitors come and go out tpder these
significant sentences. f
The conversation began with Homestead.
State arbitration, Mr. Stead seemed to think,
is the only way out of the present industrial
bog. And State arbitration is a long step
toward that State socialism which
Mr. Stead would not he sorry to
see prevail in all English-speaking
countries. Then he spoke of the condition
of the laboring classes in England, and of
the efforts to change the conditions and
make" them easier and better. Naturally.we
discussed the agencies whlcih are at work in
East End of London toward this reforma
tion, especially Toynbee Hall and Oxford
House. Of these two notable university set
tlements In that abode of poverty, Mr. Stead
was most enthusiastic about Oxford House.
They are religious people there, he said.
They have been converted and they want to
convert somebody else. They are not afraid
nor ashamed to be religious. He was not so
sure of Toynbee HalL It was a bit too liter
ary, secular, intellectual, for him.
As Restless as an American.
All this time he was walking up and
down the loom. A tall man, with brown
beard, and quick, alert eyes, evident
ly made of nerves, restless as an American,
an easy and interested and interesting
talker, seemin; to takej us Quite into his
confidence. Ho knows 'evervbodv In En-
land, and has an instant, definite and epi
giammatio opinion of everybody. My
friend had been staying at Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain's. "Well, ank what," said he,
"did you think of Joseptm Has he any con
science?" Tom Mann was mentioned the
great Tom Mann the heatjl of the Dookers'
Union, and one of the leaders of the new
Trades Unionism. Ab, bit he had a rod in
pickle for Tom Manul What did he mean
by going dpwn and making speeches
in favor of Sir Charles Dilke (in the Forest of
Dean? And that, too, after ft is assurance to
Mr. Stead that be was on the right side of
that bad business.
And then the flood gates opeped. Twice
we got up to go, but he waved ujydown. A
dozen times cards were brought in'itrom the
ante-room; but no; the visitors mfust cool
their heels till Mr. Stead had told-us the
story of Sir Charles and Lady Dilke. Vlt was
not a pleasant story, and did not assume
any rose-colored hues in the telling. ?,Mr.
Stead bad written up Sir Charles in the Vast
nnmDer of the Review of Reviews, and ills
mind was full of the subject. In spite of !U
the objections of good people Sir Charl
had been elected. -and Mr. Stead was nat
rally indignant. So he talked and talk-
Mr. Stead is immovably convinced that
uiiaries ana ijauy jjiikb are a precious l,
oi rascais.
That, I think, was the last topic of our
conversation. Then we went out, an ft' the
impatient people in the ante-room, one by
F
one, uo doubt came in.
The Kentucky World's Fair Figlir.
Xocisvili-e, Nov. 6. In the Franfcjlin Cir
cuit Court at Frankfort Saturday morning,
Judge Monfort decided that tbVe State
Auditor had no right to pass upon (the con
stitutionality of the World's Fair appropria
tion of $25,00o, and a mandamas was1 awarded
directing the auditors to pay the, warrant
for $23,000. The Auditor took an appeal.
Osman Digna Foiled in One Scheme.
London, Nov. 6. A dispatch frdm Suakim,
on the Red sea coast of Egypt, iays Osman
Digna, the Soudan cnleftan, lfiis failed to
induce the different tribes to JplJn him in his
proposed revolt against the Egyptian Gov
ernment, and that he has retired to Amet,
where he is collecting his own forces.
What the Oratory Cftst,
Chicago News. h
It is said that over $1,000,000 Jims been ex.
pended for campaign oiatorW, By a rough
calculation this must have (been at about
rati nf SI Wn nrfttnr. Ill
TO PENETEATE AFRICA.
W. Astor Chanler to Enter the Unexplored
Regions or That Continent.
New Yobk. Nov. . Special The Dis
patch has already told of William Astor
Chanler's proposed expedition Into the un
known parts of East Alrleo. This young
man bad roughed it in East Africa as a
hunter and at last beoame imbued with the
desire to add to our .. knowledge of
the Dark Continent. He spent a
large sum of money in fitting
out an expedition for his proposed work.
His purpose is to ascend the Tana river to
Mount Kenia, climb that mount, then if pos
sible travel north to Rudolf and Stefanle
lakes and plunge into the wholly unknown
country northeast to the head of the Judes
river, which he will endeavor to descend to
its mouth.
A letter containing some interesting in
formation about the expedition after it
readied Africa has been received from the
well known explorer Lieutenant Von Hohel,
whom Mr. Chanler secured to accompany
him. The letter shows that the explorers
have left nothing undone that might con
tribute to their success. The writer says that
after three months' preparation they
were to start up the Tana river
on September 16. The three
Europeans in the nartv are Mr. Chanler.
Lieutenant Hohel and Chanler's servant,
George Galwln. The force of natives num
bers 178, Including 160 SwabeliDOters, 13
Soudanese and 6 Somali Boldiers. The party
has 15 camels, 13 donkeys, 2 Samoli ponies, 10
cattle for beef, SO goats and sheep and 8
doss.
During the three months of preparation
the white men were very seldom together,
being at Zanzibar and various places along
the coast hurrying forward the prepara
tions. Hohel says the equipment is one of
the best that has been taken In Africa.
The camels, which is hoped will sur
vive the rough work before them,
were the finest that could be procured In
the North, and Hohel wrote that the entire
expedition would watch with anxiety the
effects of the Journey upon the animals. It
is likely that Chanler will be able to report
bis progress until he gets beyond Mount
Kenia, after which it is probable that the
explorers will not be heard from for upward
of a year.
TO fiOMSABD THE CLOUDS.
General Dyrenforth Starts fortho Southwest
With a New Explosive.
Netv York, Nov. 8. General B. G. Dyren
forth, special agent or the Department of
Agriculture, started for the Southwest yes
terday afternoon, on his second ralnmaklng
expedition. The coming operation. General
Dyrenforth said, will be conducted mainly
with roselllte, a new explosive invented by
Dr. Rosell, which can be easily made from
nitrates, chlorates and asphalt OIL Besides
the materials for making rossellte the expe
dition will carry a quantity of compressed
oxygen in cylinders and apparatns forgener
atlng oxygen and hydrogen gas to be used
in Inflating balloons.
Speaking of the work of the present expe
dition General Dyrenforth said: "It has
been proved, I think to the satisfaction of
most people, that where heavy clouds are
present, which, if left undisturbed, would
pass away without rainfall, concussion will
cause agglomeiation and precipitation in
the form of rain. It has also been shown. I
believe, to the satisfaction ot those who
were really present at an actual rainfall op
eration, that moisture laden air currents
can be brought from a distance to the lo
cality of the operation, but this is not gen
erally accepted as a fact. I shall give this
matter a crucial test, and it be a fact will en
deavor to demonstrate it in such a manner
that it will be generally recognized as
such."
THE LARGEST IB0N WORKS
In the World to Be Managed In Mexico by
Collls P. Huntington.
Durakqo, Mex, Nov. 6. Special One of
the laigcst mining deals ever known in
Mexico has just been consummated in the
purchase of the wonderful iron mountain
near Durango and tbe extensive r.teel and
iron works in this city by Collis P. Hunting
ton, President of tbe Southern Pacific Rail
road. The price is a private matter, but it
will run high into the millions. It is believed
that Mr. Huntington alieady had the bar
gain as good as made when he extended
the Mexican International Railroad into
Durango.
Mr. Huntington Intends to make of his
new possession the largest iron works on the
American continent, controlling not only
the iron market of Mexico, but of South
America. This iron mountain is the largest
deposit of iron in the world. The ore is
parted from the earth's surface and yields
65 per cent of iron. The famous traveler and
explorer. Humboldt, proclaimed it tbe
'eighth wonder of the world. The mountain
was owned by a syndicate of Scotch Eng
lish and French capitalists. It has been
worked in a desultory way for centuries.
A LONG JOURNEY BY WHEEL.
Wylie, tho Dead Broke Cyclist, Arrives In
Chicago From New York.
Chicago, Nov. 6 Harry Milliard Wylie,
the "dead broke" cyclist, who rode from
New York to Chicago by way of Indian
apolis on a wager that he could complete
the task without the expenditure of a cent,
finished his Journey at the Chicago City
Hall this afternoon at 5:05 o'clock. He was
met at the Pullman by members of the
Chicago Cycling Club, who, after a royal
dinner at the Hotel Florence, acted as an
escort of honor while entering the city.
Wylie left New York October 17 at 9:30 A.
jr., and was given threo weeks to make the
trip. He has some 15 hours to his credit.
The trip, although a tough one, was very
pleasant, and he was tendeied every cour
tesy by different clubs along the way. He
will make Chicago hl home for the present.
As a result, about $3,000 chamred hands. The
wheel used was a pneumatic safety.
STRIKERS ENTER BUSINESS.
Journeymen Electricians of New Tork
Organize a Co-Operative Company.
New York, Nov. 6. The striking electric
wiromen ot this city have organized a co
operative electric company, which will
make contracts and transact business tho
same as any other firm. All contracts
entered into by this company will be ac
companied by a guarantee that the work
will ue performed without trouble of any
kind and completed within a specified tlino.
Tho suitors are fighting a combination of
13 films and expect to come off victorious.
A FEW LAST W0EDS.
Tite doom of Clevelandlsm is about to he
consomme-ted. Sew Tork Recorder.
The intelligent voter's motto: Let well
enough alone. New York Advertiser.
Evekt Democratic organ East is whistling
louder as it approaches the political grave
yard. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Republican party deserves to win,
and tbat is a flrst-rate reason for believing
that it is going to win New York Tribune.
The brilliant outlook for Democracy
which some members of that party profess
to seo leads to a strong inference that they
can't see beyond the end of their noses.
SI Paul Pioneer Press.
The Press relies on the loyalty and intelli
gence of tbe nation to prevent this disaster
and disgrace. Tbe re-election of Harrison
is as imperative as was the re-election of
Lincoln. New York Press.
TAMatAKY's appearance on the political
stage as an advocate and champion of
honest elections in New York City winds up
a dull campaign- with a brief season of
screaming farce-comedy. Chicago Tribune.
Right up to within four or five days of the
election in 1833 most persons thought the
Republicans would be beaten, but the party
rallied and knocked out the Democracy. It
has just made another rally. (St. Louis Globe
Democrat. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Mrs. Betsey S. Wilklns, Centenarian.
JIrs.Betsey Steenburg Wilkins is dead at
Galwar, Saratoga county, N. Y aged nearly 101
years. She was bora lu the town in Half Jloou.
April 26, 1T92. Her parents were among the nrt
settlers of the county. All her ancestors lived to
rema rkable old ajre. Bhe retained all her faculties
In great degree. Hermrmory was excellent, and
her eyesight almost perfect to the last.
Rev. William MacMlllan.
Kev. "William MaoMillan died in Cincin
nati on Friday at the age of 65. Mr. MacMlllan was
the father of Mrs. W. Dwlght Bell, wife or the as
sistant cashier of tbe People's Natlonsl Bank of
this city. Funeral services will be held at 10
o'clock to-morrow morning at Samson's Chapel.
General Ferdinand Vand error.
General Ferdinand Vandervor died very
suddenly at bis borne lu Hamilton, O., Saturday
night He was born In 1823, served gallantly in the
iiniran war and served as colonel of the Thirty
Lflfta Ohio in tut laU war.
OUR MAIL POUCffi
Where the Southern Tendencies to Free
Trade Originated.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Tbe genesis of Democratlo tendency to
free trade dogma seems to have been for
gotten in the lapse ot time.
Upon the adoption of the Constitution la
1783, Washington, Jefferson, Madison and
most Southern statesmen were enthusiastic
protectionists as to domestic manufactures,
and many of them abolitionists, with respect
to African slavery.
It was only when the cultivation of rice
(which demanded African slave labor be
cause of its fatality to white labor) and cot
ton became very profitable that the value
of the slave become recoznlzed and the ne
cessity for feeding him cheaply, as a means
to cheap production of cotton and rice, be
came apparent.
Then attention was drawn to the ract that
the establishment of manufactures through
tbe influence of protection existed almost
wholly in the North and that the diversion
of labor from agricultural pursuits and cre
ation of a home market for agricultural
products had Increased tbe price of grain
and provisions and consequently the cost of
feeding slaves and producing cotton and
rice. Then the Sonth became Interested in
reducing the North to a purely agricultural
country, and they became free traders ac
cordingly, that the work of protection might
be undone. The South dominated the Dem
ocracy then and has ever since, but the
manufacture of cotton fabrics, iron, steel
and other goods, made posslDle by protec
tion, and the prosperity resulting there
from, are making an impression in the South,
which in time will teach lessons of intelli
gent self-interest, which even hereditary
tendency to Democracy and free trade can
not overcome. H. E. C.
PlTTSBDEG. NOV. i.
The Need for Co-Operation and More Pub-
lic Enterprise in Pittsburg.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
This Is an age of keen competition among cities,
so less than among Individuals. The fittest city
survives, and the city fittest to survive is the one
which Is best united to promote Its own interests,
secure its own rights, and display Its advantages to
the world at large.
Public spirit can do more for Tlttsburg than pri
vate enterprise, and private enterprise should see
that It can derive immense benefits by pooling its
issues In general matters for the advancement of
the municipality as a whole.
This clipping from the able editorial in
The Dispatch of November t, under the cap
tion "Union Is Strength," ougbt to be keps
standing in every newspaper in the city un
til it has been read and pondered by every
man interested in the progress and prosper
ity of this capital of the iron, coal and oil
industries until every citizen of Western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia or Eastern
Ohio realizes how the prosperity and devel
opment ol this entire region is so indis
solubly bound up in the prosperity of Pitts
burg tbat they will see their plain duty to
their best Interests is to rally round their
industrial capital and enable Pittsburg to
speak with the power andautborlty of 2,000,
000 of people. The main trouble with
public spirit here is too much talk
and too little do an entire willingness
to have the General Government, or the
State, or anybody else carry out undertak
ings for them, instead of doing what is
needed themselves. Another trouble Is slow
ness and timoious handling of needed im
provements. A live city would have built
O'llata avenue, and opened to Foibes street
a widened Diamond street, since we have
been talking and doing nothing else about
these improvements. When Pittsburg daw
dles over such municipal trifles and looks
on the absorption of Allegheny as "a Hon in
the way," and begs, prays and fights for a
free bridue instead of building half a dozen,
it is hard to arouse her to contemplate the
value of her position and how completely it
is in her power to amend unjust discrimina
tions by railroads by opening the magnifi
cent waterway transportation which leads
cast, west, south and north from her doors.
Looking back on tbe progress of the past
half century is it futile to attempt to meas
uie the accelerated pace of development in
the future, and what may we not hope lorif
Pittsburg and her people make the most of
their opportunities. If they reach up and
grasp the advantages nature offers so lav
ishlv we will then see the Allegheny slack
watered to Olean, the Monongahela to West
Vitglnia and the Ohio to tbe Mississippi, as
would have been done long since but for the
interested opposition of the railroads to any
and every kind or competition.
But the flist great object of Pittsburg
should be the opening of a ship canal be
tween Cleveland and Beaver and the sen
sible improvement of the Ohio to tbe latter
Soint. Such a work is entirely feasible, and
y opening the Great Lakes would bung to
this port a volume of trade whose onward
rush would never stop until it reached tide
water through the valleys of Wills creek
and the Potomac, enabling Pittsburg man
ufactui ers to load their products in vessels
for delivery to tbe utmost parti or the
earth, without the leave or license of any
railway corporations. But perhaps Pitts
burg, as usual, will wait until rival lines
make the effort to hold her own sufficiently
costly. Wait till ocean waterways are under
way through New York via the Eiie Canal
or Lake Cbamplain, or through the James
and Kanawha rivers and Miami to Lake
Michigan.
PossiDly our children or grandchildren
may do this work and place our city on tbe
pinnacle natue lntenaea lor ner, ana until
we feel able in our day and generation to
abolish smoke, put electric wires under
ground, build a free bridge, widen an alley
or tv o into streets, or determine in our own
minds whether tbe city belongs to the
citizens or to a Philadelphia syndicate or
two, may be we had bast not try anthing
great, but it won't nurt our people to know
wbat their duty is to the city of their love.
PirrsBuno, Nov. i. Ei.ai:EEE.
The Bond Issno in Allegheny Reasons
Given in Opposition.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The question about to be considered by
tbe citizens of Allegheny, viz., tbe issuing
of over $2,000,000 ot bonds, is one worthy of
considerably more explanation than has yet
been given by any of the advocates of tbe
scheme. As the matter now stands, they
say, "Give us the bonds, and we will expend
the money on water, soners, streets and
light." No detail is given as to how any of
these improvements are to be carried out.
Before any intelligent person can vote on
the proposition, this lnlormatloii should be
furnished. As an example, we should know
how the water supply 13 to be made better.
Is it by a system of filteis? If so, where are
they to be placed, and what will be the cost,
and by what authority i3 the estimate made,
and is the authority fully competent to
make such an estimate? And, again, what
evidence have we that the filter svstem will
do the work required? If an extension of
the influent pipe is proposed.how far is it to
be extended to Willow Grove, Six-Mile or
Nine-Miie Island? Wbat estimate has been
made of this, and who made tbe estimate?
Aie they competent to make sach an esti
mate, and wbat evidence have we tbat this
plan is the correct one?
Tho construction of water works is a
branch of mechanical engineering that is
well understood, and there should be no
trouble about getting the information de
slted. It is doubtful, however, if such in
formation can be secured, except from com
petent engineers who make a specialty of
the work. At all events. It is only proper
that this Information and a proper plan of
the nork Intended should have been sub
mitted to tbe citizens, and to me it is sur
prising that Major Kennedy would submit
such a proposition as wo now have before
us without any plan or information, exoept
that the money will be expended.
This tame Inquiry will apply to all the
other items of the proposed expenditure,
and until this is supplied it should not, as a
business measure, be entertainod. The
pieseut Council may be honest. At all
events' it is very incompetent, and if they
have not beon able to conduct tbe affairs of
tho city in the past as they should have
been is it proper to entrust them with a 10
sponsibility such as is proposed? I think
not, and will so vote.
It is sold a new Council will be elected in
February that will be competent. If these
bonds are authorized, it will simply be an
Inducement for the ring that hus controlled
our government for so long to redouble their
efforts in February and retain control of
our City Councils and tho heads of depart
ments. To this end every city employe will
make such a canvass and man tbe polls so
effectually In February that the gentlemen
who wish a new Council will not "be In it."
and the same old gang will be m com
mand with a fund of $2,003,000 at
their disposal. And if we aie to Judge
the attempted purchase of afire engine as
a sample ot their methods, I am afiala the
$2,000,000 will fall short of what Is needed
and a duplicate of the amount will be re
quired. The proposition as it now stands should
be voted down. At the February election,
it will then be possible to have a sufficient;,
number of new Councilmen elected who
have not been identified with the ilng, and
who will be competent to conduct the affairs
of the city in an honest and satisfactory
manner. Then it will be time enough to
authorize the issue of the bonds needed for
the requirements of the city. Auegbeht.
AitEOHisT, November 4. '
IHE BUNGLED BALL0L
The Beform Association Says the Inconven
ience Is Due to Iu Enemies.
Philadelphia, Nov. 6. The Executive
Committee of the Pennsylvania Ballot Re
form Association has Issued a long address
for the purpose of calling attention to tbe
fact that the inconveniences complained of
are not those of the system but are the work
of its enemies. After stating their belief
that the difficulty of operation of the new
ballot law is overestimated, the committee
flies these as the principal charge s against
tbe act:
First, the great size of the ballot: second,
the requirement or tbe affidavits of flye per
sons to the qualifications of the signers of
nomination papers; third, the provision tbat
no words shall be used in any nomination
papers to designate the party or policy rep
resented by the candidate named in such
papers, as aforesaid. Identical with or simi
lar to tbe words used for tue like purpose in
certificates of nominations made by a con
vention of a political party, which at the
last preoedlng election polled three per
centum of the largest vote cast; fourth, the
provision for tbe allowance of assistance to
voters in case oi aisaouity."
The address concludes: "It is hoped tbat
at the next session of the Legislature they
will be remedied; at any rate, an amending
bill will be Introduced tor, it is not believed
that the people when they have once ex
perienced the benefit of tbe seoret ballot
will be oontent until they have tbe system
in its perfection, and it is believed that the
system, even with the lmperfeotions laid
upon it, will prove itself fully worth all the
trouble, all the expense and all the annoy
ance which its introduction has caused."
ENFORCING THE QUARANTINE.
A Number of Atlantic Liners Held by the
Health Officers.
New York, Nov. 6. Special The Treas
ury Department's latest construction of tbe
President's proclamation of September 1,
which quarantines all ships with Immi
grants in cabin or steerage for 20 days,
caused the detention of the Hamburg-American
steamship Suevla and the Hill Line
steamship Richmond Hill in the Upper Bay
all day to-day. The Suevla has 243 cabin
passengers Among them are 89 citizens
and 159 aliens. Some of the latter Intend to
settle in the United States.
Eight liners aie due to-morrow that have
about 1,000 steerage and 1,600 cabin passen
gers aboard. Among the fleot are the Au
ranla. of the Cunard Line, from Liverpool,
with 202 cabin and 500 steerage; the Aller, of
the North German Lloyd, from Bremen ana
Southampton, with 230 cabin and 20 steerage;
the Trave, of the North German
Lloyd, from Bremen and Southampton,
with 191 cabin and 6 steerage,
all American citizens; La Bretagne,
of the French Line, from Havre, with 243
cabin and 14 steerage; the Penniand, of the
Red Star Line, from Antwerp, with 223 cabin
and 80 steerage; the Devonia. of tue
Anchor Line, from Glasgow, and the Zaan
dam, of the Netherlands-American Line,
from Amsterdam. Each of these ships after
being cleared by tbe health officer, will have
to get special permission from tne Treasury
Department to proceed to her dock.
WASHINGTON TO BE BLESSED
With Another Afternoon Faper, Edited by
a Couple of Able Men.
Washington, Nov. 6. Special. A long,
romantic, dramatic history might be written
of the Washington daily newspapers tbat
have sprung up, rioted through moro or less
momentous careers, and dropped into tbe
vast cemetery filled with the ghostly re
mains of dead ventures in their line. For
some time there have been but two dallies
in Washington; the evening Star and the
morning Post. Another, an evening paper,
the News, is soon to be added, and much is
expected of it in the way of brightness and
ability, as it will be under the management
of Messrs. Alvord and Guthridge, whobavo
been for a long time at the head or the
Washington buieau of the New York H erald.
Mr. Alvord succeeded Charles ordboffas
the telegraph editorial writer, and Mr.
Guthridge has been tbe chier of the bureau
lor six or seven years.'
It is said there is ample capital at the back
of tbe venture, and the best success is hoped
and wished for it. The local papers are ex
cellent and prosperous, but in a city ot the
size of Washington, and the capital of the
country, to boot, there should be room for
more without the least detriment to those
which are now passing through careers &o
piofitable and brilliant.
THE TEXAS SR0UIH BROKEN.
Copious Bain Falling; but Too Late
Benefit Pasturage.
El Paso, Tex, Nov. 6. The drouth
to
in
Northwestern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
and Northern Mexico has been broken, rain
falling almost steadily for the past 24 hours.
It has come too late to bo or benefit to grass
unless a warm spell fellows, as the grass has
already cured and water will rot It. It has
served another purpose, however, in filling
all tbe water boles.
In New Mexico stock lias been and is
being sbipped and driven into Utah and Ne
vada in gieat numbers. Tho loss has been
great from want of rain.
COUNTY RECORDS IN PERIL.
Fire Bugs, rorgers and Mutilators at Work
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
FobtWavne, Isd., Nov. 6. An attempt
was made last night to burn the Allen
County Court House. The flro was evident
ly the work of an incendiary, ana but for its
timely discovery the valuable county
records would have been destroyed.
The Gazette has been publishing discov
eries ot forgeries, illegal fees and mutilating
records in the various offices, and the entire
county is in a ferment.
Another Homestead Worker Dead.
John Boliski, the man who took sick sud
denly on the street last Friday, and who
died at the Homeopathic Hospital while
being taken up to tho ward in the elevator,
was identified at the morgue by bis wife
yesterday. She took the body to her homo
in Chartiers. Boliski was employed at the
Homestead Steel Works, where lie took sick
and was on his way homo when he fell from
sheer exhaustion.
General Elections in Italy.
Rome, Nov. 6. The general elections for
members of the Italian Parliament were
held throughout Italy to-day. Among the
candidates successful are SIgnorl Pelloux
and Bonacci, members of the present Cabi
net, and Signori Colombo and Barzilal, mem
bers of tho last Ministry.
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.
Among the passengers on the limited for
Chicago last evening were George M. Pull
man, Lottie Collins, tho musio ball singer,
and Frohman's comedians. Mr. Pullman is
going home to vote and is confident Har
rison will be elected. He doesn't believe
the people want a change.
Colonel J. M. Beid, of Connellsville, J.
R. Cambcll, of Oil City, and Abner Mc
Kinley, of New Tork, a brother of the Ohio
Governor, put up at the Monongahela
House last evening.
Gus Thai, a St. Louis drummer, is at the
Schlosser. Ho says the People's party will
cut down the Democratic majority in Mis
souri, but the State will be tor Grover any
how. George L. Pearson, of New Castl?, and
B. D. Wood, of New Orleans, were among
the guests at the Anderson yesterday.
J. P. McDowell, of Sharon,, and S. P.
Ewing, of New Castle, are stopping at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel.
George "W. Shaw, of New Castle, and
Robert Ball, of Wheeling, are registered at
the St. Charles.
Charles McCarthy, of Butler, and Peter
Murphy of Washington, are registered at
the St. James.
Thomas Maxwell, of Hazelton, and P. F.
Walsh, of Struthers, are at the Central.
James D. Smith, of Bradford, registered
at the Duquesue lust nignt.
Pittsburgers In New York.
New York, Nov. 6. Special. The follow
ing Pittsburgers are registered here: G. R.
Amsley, Murray Hill; J. F. Atche3on, Albe
marle; J. D. Blain. C II. McClellan, Gedney
House; F. Burbee, N. Patterson, A. W.
Smith, E. n. Thlel, Bartholdi; N. E. Canter,
Continental; E. E. Clark, II. S. McKee, Grand
Union; W. H. Conley, Westminster; K.
Gerry, St James; H. L. Goebring, D. Stew
art, Brunswick; O. C. Hcnple, Astor; M. L.
Kesner, J. P. Thompson, Imperial; W.
Martin, Slnclali: A. Mc'iigh, Metropolitan;
E. and Rahn, St. James; C. Bobbins, T. H.
Wnllace, W. C. Winterhnlter, St. Denis; T.
VUsack. Stnrtevant A. M. Murdock, H. K.
Thaw, Miss R. A. Treaoy, Fifth Avenue,
CURIOUS (MDMSATIMS.
An electrical machine in the Xondoa
Mint counts the coins.
The smallest known qsadrnped it th
pigmy mouse of Siberia.
Chinese control almost the entire lhoa
maklng business in California.
In India there is a species of crow that
laughs just like a human being.
There is but one sudden death mong
women to every ten among men.
' More births occur in February than in
anv otber montn. Julyis the month of few
est births.
The tallest woman in Idaho lives at
Boiscity. She stands 6 feet-5 inches in her
stockings.
Tennyson is reported to be the 1,173d
person whose body has been deposited in
Westminster Abbey.
Glass in oven doors is a new contrive
ance. It enables cooks to watch the food
without opening tbe doors.
The Dead Sea Is nothing more than ft
small but very old salt laker now in. an ad
vanced stage of evaporation.
The Michigan lumbermen carry cedar
knots in their pockets as a cure and also as
a preventive ot rheumatism.
The longest word in the new Century
Dictionary is DalatopharlngeolaryngeaL
The next longest is transabstantiationallst.
There Is a tooth of Buddha, preserved
and worshiped in an Indian temple, which
probably all the gold in the world oonld not
buy.
Herculile, the new French explosive,
is so powerful tbat half a pound of it, in a
recent test, displaced a stone weighing 30
tons.
It hardly seems possible:, yet figures are
said to prove tbat tbe entire population
could find standing room on a field ten mile
square.
The Guadolonpe bees lay their honey
in bladderi of wax about as large as a
pigeon's egg and not in combs. .The honey
never hardens.
The largest orchard in the State of
Kansas is that belonging to Judge WelL
bouse. It Is locatdU near Tremont and com
prises 1,078 acres.
The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that upon which the Eddystone
Lighthouse stands. At time of low water
it is only 30 leet in diameter.
The Czar of Bussia is the largest indi
vidual landowner In the world. The area of
his possessions is far greater than that of
the entire Republic of France.
There is a tree in Jamaica known as the
lire tree on account of its leaves growing
even after being severed from tbe plant.
Only by Are can it be entirely destroyed.
It does not seem to be generally known
that the turkey was domesticated by the
Indians long before tho discovery of this
continent by white men, but such is) the
case.
A ten-pound cannon ball was recently
dug up at Lakeside, Ind. It has been
identifiedasa relic of the times when Mad
Anthony Wuyno was in command there
abouts. A Passaic inventor has devised a novel
projectile, which i3 rifled to correspond to
tho bore of tho gun. The grooves are pro
vided with bearing pieces to diminish
friction.
The effective size of the molecule is
never larger than tbe Ave hundred-millionth
of an inch, and in some cases it may be
found to be no larger than the thousand
millionth of an inch.
The founders of Phcenix, Ariz, "builded
better than they knew" iu naming their in
lant town. In some recent excavations
there the ashes of prehistoric residents were
found Inclosed in urns.
Algeria is the greatest' cork-producing
country in the world, having 2,500,000 acres
of cork forests, of which 300.000 are made to
yield regular crops. The finest cork is ob
tained from that province.
The "school age" is a variable quantity
in this country. In six of tbe States and
Torrltorie-', children are admitted to the
publie sbools at the age of 4 years; in 19, at
0; in 20, at 6; in 3, at 7; and in 1 (Texas), at 8.
The Italian Ordnance Department Ms
considering tbe purchase of a projectile
which, whon it bursts, will produce a
luminous disc of 100,000-candIe-power. It
would light up an enemy's camp with great -brilliancy.
California has formed an association for
the preservation of the old mission build
ings. Each member pays $1 a year and ob
tains special rates on the railroad when the
club gives an excursion to any of the mis
sion ruins.
The oldest arm chair in the world is the
throne onco used by Queen Hatafu, who
flourished in Egypt IC00 B. C. It is made of
ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hard
ened with age as to appear to bo carved from
black marble.
An Bnglish railway carriage company
is building for an Indian potentate three
snperb railway carriages, which will consti
tute a palace on wheels. In tbe framework
of each carriage is to be used XtO worth of
teak, to resist tbe ravages of insects.
Children's hair grows more quickly
than that of adults. Some say that light
haired people are longer lived than their
brethren with dark locks, which is not so
consoling to the latter, since more than
half of the inhabitants of this country have
dark brown hair.
In a cave in tbe Pantheon the guide,
by striking the flaps of bis coat, makes a
noise equal to that produced by firing a 12
pound cannon. In tbe cave of Smellln, near
Viborg, Finland, a stone thrown down a cer
tain abyss makes a reverberating echo
which sounds like the dying wail of soma
wiia animal.
A Cartorville, Ga., man is the owner
of a curiosity in tho shape of a walking
stick. It Is of buckeye wood and is literally
covered with incriptions incident to tho
Harrison anil Tyler campaign. It is said to
contain a history of Harrison's life, a list
of the members of his Cabinet, with cuts
of a log cabin and surrounding grounds
and names of numerous of Harrison's offi
cials. In the 20 universities of the Geman
Empire the medical students for last summer
numbered 8,S3S. Tbese were distributed
among tho various universities as follows;
Berlin, 1,185: Bonn. 323; Breslau, 2JZ; Erlan
gen, iU; Freiburg, 481: Glessen, 172; Gottin
gen, 200; Greitswald. 393; Halle, 2&; Heidel
berg, 273; Jena, 212; Kiel, 335: Konigsberg, 255;
Leipzig. 83i; Marburg, 26l; Munich. 1,U;
Rostock, 138; Strassburg, 333; Tubingen, 230;
Warzburg, 743.
ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE.
TO A TWO-CEST POSTAGE STAMP.
Our friend, who sticks much closer than a
brother.
You are essential to us every one;
And 11 ever you are called to other regions.
We'll build a monument for what yon'Te done.
For Jnst a wee fraction of a dollar.
You carry lovers words which make yon ill;
And tales of woe that breads some loving heart
string.
Well, those, I know, you carry 'ealnst yonr wllL
A business man Intrusts his business with yon.
The secrets which to him are very dear;
And, sometimes, 'een a tailor's biU you shoulder
And tale It to the debtor without fear.
You bring us invitations to a wedding.
And unless we are Invited to the feed.
You carry back our cards of declination.
And never criticise us for tbe deed.
Bat the time when love Is greatest for you. Posty,
When we would your brow with laurel dec.
It when you bring for such darn silly writing.
Tbe ever welcome correspondent's check.
TLATTEBED.
"I'm tickled to death," said Jones, the
poet,
"Why?" asked his wife.
"I sent some of my work to the 'Foetle
WeeVlj' and only Inclosed a penny stamp, and
when It was returned this morning the postmaa
collected a penny."
. "Well?"
"That shows the Government thought It flnt
class." XX EXTEEME CASE.
"My boy," said "Willy Merry, "You
don't know what it is to be bard up. Watt until
you have to soak your watch ind scarf-plna before
youtalr."
"My dear fellow," repllea Tommy MIddletown,
"I have long since passed tb tt stags. Why, only
this morning I mailed aleier to my home, and
had to soac my pocketbook for a stamp that was
sacking to it." 1 cuicx.
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