THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, THURSDAY, - DECEMBER 1, 1892. flje B$ptf4 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 138. Vol. 74. No. SOl-Enterea t nttsburg Fostoffice hoTember, l&tt, as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE. Cor. Smlthflcld and Diamond Street. News Rooms and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street, Se Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 78, TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, where complete flics or THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE PISPATrn Isnn sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, ana,at Brentano's, I Union Square, New York, and 17 Avenue de 1' Opera, Paris. France. TERMS OF THE DISPATCH. TOSTAOE FREE IX THE UNITED STATES. MArLT DIsrATCH. One Year. t S 00 Dailt Dispatch. Three Months 2 00 Daily DitrATcn. One iionth 70 Daily DrsrATCH, including; Sunday. lyear 10 00 Daily D.sfatch, lncludingSunday.am'ths. ISO Daily Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 month BO SBXDAYDtSFA CH. 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The contrast between the European and American attitude on ship canals is shown by the fact that, while it is difficult irf this country to arouse public attention to the importance of such work, the dispute in this case is not whether the canal shall be built but as to who shall build it Inter national jealousy has been aronsed by the employment of French engineers in the survey, and the German susceptibilities are protesting against having a French syndicate do the work. The usual rail way enmity to such enterprises is also in timated by the declaration of directors of the Austrian railways that the estimate of 26,000,000 florins for the cost of the canals is insufficient, and that its total cost will be 40,000,000 florins. But as Bo hemia, Moravia and Lower Austria have pledged 12,000,000 florins to the enterprise it is considered certain that the work will be done under one management or an other. The estimates of the cost of the canal indicate that it is a work of somewhat the same cost as the Ohio river and Lake Erie project But it cannot contain anything like the magnificent possibilities that fol low the bringing of water transportation to this great mining and manufacturing Bection. Tet while Western Pennsylva nia has not j et arrived at the point of pledging the first ten thousand dollars to her project, the Austrian and German people have pledged millions and are dis puting over the contract In sucb things the Europeans are more far-sighted than our people. If we are to keep up our rep utation for enterprise and progress we should take hold of the subject of inter nal waterways with a new vigor. ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. The order of the Mayor for the suppres sion of disorderly houses in the city re moves what has been a topic of abstract discussion to the realm of actual experi ment What will be the effect of the order; whether the police will be able to suppress all such establishments everywhere; or whether if they are suppressed there will be a diminution of vice, are questions that may be best answered after a year or two of the vigorous enforcement of this policy. But one point, generally overlooked, rendered this order the only one which is possible. The law directs that such places shall be suppressed. Whether the law affords a solution of the problem is a very doubtful question; but that the police power includes a nullifying privilege over criminal legislation is a most indefensible proposition. Tet it requires an assertion of such an authority of nullifica tion to abstain from the enforcement of the law, because it is thought that the re sults will not be what the law Intends. It will certainly be wise to try the ex periment of a vfgorous enforcement of the law. But it does not require any gift of prophecy to foretell that no measures will be efficacious until both the law and society inflict the same penalties on male offenders against chastity as on female offenders. fab ruoai CONCLUSIVE. A case recently occurred in Bradford, England, which is held to be a demonstra tion of the futility of what is loosely termed socialist efforts for the improve ment of the condition of labor. A Brad ford manufacturer made a proposition, based on statements by the labor leaders, that if industry was operated under so cialist principles it would be greatly to the advantage of labor. He proposed to furnish the trades unions one of his mills thoroughly equipped, with working cap ital sufficient for a year's operation. If at the end of the year it was found that the operation of the mill by the workmen yielded better returns than the wage sys tem be would let them have the mill at a reasonable valuation on easy terms for permanent use. The trades union after careful consideration concluded that it was "expedient to decline the proposi tion," and the conservative element refer to it as a confession of impracticability on the part of professed reformers. Before accepting that conclusion it would be necessary to know more of the details of the matter in nearly every as pect In the first place if the socialism whose advocacy is reported to have evoked the offer was the true State socialism, the labor unions were justified in declining the proposition. However impracticable may be the idea of the industry whose ultimate control is that of the State or en tire community, the establishment of a single co-operative concern would not be a test of the system. On the other hand, if the alleged socialism was merely the advocacy of co-operation or profit-sharing, a dozen details, either in the condition of the mill, the state 6t the industry, or the equipment of the men to whom the offer was made, might make it necessary to decline such an offer. Thus it is generally understood that Bradford industries are at present de pressed. However firmly a man may believe in any method of conducting busi ness, ordinary wisdom will prevent him from making a test of it in an industry where everything is do.wn to a minimum at the beginning of the test Side by side with that is the probability that the mem bers of the trades union, while able to do certain classes of work In the industry, recognized their inability to undertake the business-direction. To acknowledge that labor cannot universally furnish the brains for business management is not a confession that labor might not beneficial ly to itself share in the ownership of the concern. If the proposition had been to open the way for the workingmen to acquire shares in the concern which was to employ them, and thus to become capitalists on a small scale, it would undoubtedly have been for the advantage of labor and of society. But even then it is possible that the trades unions might have declined so beneficial a proposition. It is one of the aggravations of the present situation that it tends to array the trades union spirit against more liberal and permanent devices to solve the problem by making workingmen their own employers and sharers in the capital of the enterprise. THE CONSTITUTtOXT AMD THE BALLOT. A recent expression from Hon. C. F. Black with regard to the purity of the new ballot law in preserving the secrecy of suffrage, under the present Constitu tion, brings up the discussion of an old subject The Philadelphia Presa rather sarcastically refers to the crushing defeat of the old proposition for a constitutional convention, and correctly says that the proper way of disposing of the matter is by an amendment to the Constitution. With regard to the ballot numbering clause it says: There are certainly very different opinions in the public mind regarding the numbered ballot. It was provided for when the pres ent Constitution was formulated as a means of detecting and exposing fraud. It was not designed, and cannot be used without a vio lation of law, to destroy the secrecy of the ballot. Under the circumstances it is very doubtful what the Judgment of the people would be in the matter of chancing it. It is one of the peculiar features of the debate on this topic that it nearly always takes into consideration the phrase that does not necessarily destroy the secrecy of the ballot and ignores that which does. The requirement for ballot numbering is a wise precaution against frauds in counting, and with the provisions of the ballot law is not at all destructive of its secrecy. But the succeeding sentence that "any elector may write his name on his ticket or cause the same to be written thereon and at tested by a citizen of the district" estab lishes a personal right which if claimed is wholly destructive of the secrecy. As long as the clause stands that purpose of the law can be nullified at any election. The Constitutional Convention propo sition was deservedly defeated, because it would open the door to wholesale tinker ing with the Constitution in which special interestsmight get a larger share than the public welfare. The proper way to make any changes necessary to complete ballot reform is by special amendment If the purpose of secrecy is to be attained the provision quotedabove should be amended. A wise amendment would be to restrain the numbering of ballots and to abolish the right to have votes attested. Such a change would maintain the precaution against fraud and at the same time defend the secrecv of the ballot. A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Pennsylvania is to be well represented at the World's Columbian Exposition. But Pittsburg's industries will be demon strated On a scalo altogether THIVfuiUiyuf their importance. There is still room for a sudden spurt, as all the space has not yet been alotted. But even that would not be sufficient to recover the opportun ities already lost by apathetic neglect When it is known as an example of the superior enterprise of other places that more applications for space have been re ceived from Erie than from Pittsburg, business men of this city ought to be a good deal ashamed at their failure to recognize a good thing when they see it It is about time that Fittsburgers should see the necessity for progresslveness, and set about a far-sighted advertisement of their city's claims to national and inter national recognition. FAJUXIAB DISCOVERIES. A Congressional committee last week resumed the Sisyphean task of investi gating the anthracite coal combination. The progress made in the extraction of evidence concerning that great combina tion is worthy of note. By dint of two or three examinations of such magnates as Mr. McLeod and Mr. Holden, flanked by their attorneys and reinforced by a convenient shortness of memory concern ing things that are better forgotten, the committee have drawn out admissions that the coal combination controls 113,030 of the 130,000 acres of coal territory; that it is able thus to restrict production in order to maintain prices; that the high and nominal freight charges before the combi nation have been advanced since then; and that monthly conferences fix the price of coal for the Eistern cities. In short, the progress of the committee shows that it will go near to discover what everyone already knows, and what the coal combi nation takes no trouble to deny accept when in the presence of the courts or of a Congressional investigation. If the investigating committees will add to their discoveries the fact that tbesa things have been proved time and again they may arrive at the conclusion that what is needed is not so much investiga tion as prosecution. The course of pro cedure in connection with the great mo nopolistic trusts has become so stereo typed as to be monotonous. Congressional or legislative committees are appointed to investigate. They extract information from unwilling or forgetful Trust mag nates; they report that a monopolistic combination exists contrary to public pol icy; and the matter stops there. This operation has been repeated something like half a dozen times with the anthra cite coal combination. If the present committee desires to vary the proceedings it will bave to take measures to make its investigation bear more tangible fruit When committees realize the situation sufficiently to report that there is law enough'to suppress such illegal combina tions, but that the machinery of the law stands benumbed and inert in the pres ence of aggregated wealth, it may go far toward indicating what has to be done to remedy matters. ANY movement that indicates a growth or Interest on the part of Individuals in- the government of the municipality Is wortbv of all encouragement. And these are the days when theie is most room and- most op portunity of usefulness for such things. A careful study of the criminal and pauper statistics of this county and country provides more than enough arguments for the necessity of imposing discriminatory restrictions upon immigration. There is still room for some of Europe's honest, In dustrious, healthy and intelligent surplus population. But once for all the gates of America should be strongly barred, and kept shut, against the criminal, the Idle, the diseased, the cripple, the unclean, the de prayed, the Ignorant or the brainless off scourings of the older lands. America can still aflord to provide an earthly paradise for those nt to occupy it, but the time has moro than arrived for patting a ston to making this country the dumping ground for the refuse of the woild'a humanity. Superintendent Potter, of the Census, is apparently trying to make the Census office a permanent bureau by de monstrating its effloieney in consuming time and money for the production of statistics. A permanent bureau of statistics could be made an extremely useful institu tion, Dut its value would depend entirely upon the capability or its management, the economy of its administration and the accuracy of its products. December is with us with its opportuni ties for festivity and generosity. And it is to be trusted that this last month of a re markable year will add nothing to its cata logue of catastrophes and something to its causes for Thanksgiving. This afternoon the Select Council of Pittsburg and this evening the Common Council of Allegheny will both have a chance to demonstrate a willingness to attend to public business occasionally. On the last advertised meeting or both bodies members managed to disregard their duties in sufficient numbers to prevent the attend ance or a quorum. That sort or thing must not be allowed to become habitual. College yells are a convenient vehicle for the expression of youthful enthusiasm and answer their purpose as such. But as specimens of rational thought or American language they are about as puerile and meaningless as possible. A little more attention to the suppres sion oi hypocrisy would do more good than discussions over alleged heresy. And an in crease in charity would make criticism more palatable. There is an amount or good to be done in this world in a number ot ways, so various that there is ample room for all efforts to hasten the millennium without the indulgence of the doers in the prevalent treading on one another's corns. And still the "Workhouse exhibits itself a9 a convenient medium lor the lelease of prisoners. A sentence to that institution will soon become synonymous with an acquittal at the present rate of deliveries. Judge Kolb is wise in deciding to ab stain from any hostile demonstrations dur ing the inauguration of Governor Jones, or Alabama, to-day. The latter received a ma jority oi votes and any attempt to contest his election ty force could only result in confusion for the contestors, a very proba ble bloodshed and a certain exhibition of contempt for law by those claiming to up hold it. The close of President Harrison's admin istration is marked with a succession of afflictions that cannot but excite public sym. pathy for the man who is undergoing so many trials in so short a space of time. The advantages of quarantine for the prevention or the spread of physical diseaso is universally recognized. And all the arguments on its behalf aro equally availa blerby analogous reasoning in defense of a sequestrating system for holding under control moral evils, the virulence of which Increases when opposition to their subtle spread is removed. The Chicago police are having plenty of practice in chaving street robbers. But the present success of the highwaymen in secur ing booty and eluding capture is hardly re assuring to the World's Fair visitor. "When the price of a commodity rises in spite of circumstances naturally tending to depreciate it, the rise can only be temporary and the speculator is seldom far to sees;. And the fictitious advance in prices due to the artificial machinations of the gambler canonly unsettle business and cause dis tress in. the long-rnnr The first part of the President's message to reaoh Congress will be its postscript, and in some quarters tbero will no doubt be an inclination to "let it go at that." FOLK TALKED ABOUr. The President yesterday appointed John F. Eu-ich, of Ohio, to be United States Con sul at Antigua, West Indies. Mrs. Lease is 40, strong-minded, full of fight, and a born agitator, and while once an almost lanatical Roman Catholic, is now an Agnostic. The Salvation Army is about to make a fiesh campaign in France, apparently. At any rate, General Booth is being exten sively advertised in the Paris newspapers. The Boston Boat and Shore Club (not Boot and Shoe Club, Mr. Fioofreadcr) has engaged only women as after-dinner speak ers for its forthcoming annual celebration. Vice President-elect Stevenson will stay in Washington during sessions of Congress, but ho ana his family will occupy their old home at Bloomington, I1L, the rest of the time. W. B. Hearst is said to be selling off his San Francisco property, intending to make his future residence in Europe. It is even said he intends to dispose of his inter est in the Ezaminer. Now that cool weather has come Presi dent Harrison has taken to pedestrian pleasures once moro, and there is scarcely a fine afternoon now when he does not go out lor a tramp of several miles. Ue did so ou Thanksgiving Day, after attending service. Patrick Egan, United States Minister to Chile, was at the Gilsey House, New York, yesterday, preparing lor his departure for Valparaiso. The Pacifio Mall steamer City ot Para, which is to leave lor Colon at noon to-day, will take Minister Egan back to his post. Nathaniel S. Haert, of Bristol, IT. II., is said to be the oldest living ex-Governor ofa State in the United States. If he survives until &f ptember 1, 1893, he will be a centenarian. He was a hoy ot very humble parentage, becitmo a tanner, as General Grant did, and in 1S61 was elected Governor or New Hampshire. ' The Holy See has declined to sanction the marriage or Prince 'Ferdinand, or "Bul garia, to the daughter or the cx-Duko of Parma, because in asking the Papal con sent. Prince Ferdinand stipulated that the issue of the marriage should be trained as members or the Greek Orthodox Church. The ex-Duke has, therefore, felused to as sent to his daughter's marriage to Prince Ferdinand. THE SPRITE OF BITUMEN. What alls the air at break of day. Enshrouds as with a clou J of gray. Bedaubs our clothes, destroys our light. Transforms twilight into night? The smoke. What blots the landscape with a cloud, And causes swear words big and loud. Writhes and wriggles in every crack. And leaves behind a trail of black? The smoke. What marks our walls with streaks of grime. Ages our buildings before their time, Tumi turret and tower an ugly hue. And makes us aU most deuced bine? The smoke. What soils our linen, discolors our laces. Destroys our beauty by daubing our faces. Brings to our streets a dirty slime. And makes cs sigh for another clime? ' The smoke. When to a party a maiden goes. With a large black streak athwart her nose. Who laughs to hlmseir with malicious glee. Who chuckles and grins, this sight to see? The smoke. What specks the collar of the dainty dude And makes him say, "It's just too rude?" What soils his glossy, well-starched shirt. With Something worse than plebeian dirt? ' The smoke. Where is the law by which to stop This malicious sprite of mill and shop? Vo the city dads think it all a joke? Bas the ordinance, too, gone up in smoke? Same smoke? Cleveland Leader. .SXSLwft THE SKIES FOR DECEMBER. rwniTTKx job the DispAicn. Having dodged comets with great suc cess during the past month, this trusty little earth or ours will peacerully continue this month on the undisturbed course which it has pursued every December since its crea tion. And as we have not been knocked into smithereens by Holmes' comet or, Bio la's comet or Jones' comet or Smith's oomet or Brown's comet, nor yet by any comet be longing to any other gentlemen who care lessly leave their property running around loose where it is liable to bump into us, why 1 suppose Dispatch rcadors may still be In terested in the celestial sights which will, present themselves to our gaze this month. But belore we take a look at the skies for December let us see -what we know about these wonderful, things called comets. What is a cometfanyhowT The name is derived from the Greek word "komotes" (long haired), and a comet may be defined as a nebulous body revolving around the sun. Comets, then, are bona fide members of our solar system, and, like the earth, Mars and other planets, they are held in their orbits by the sun's attraction. This fact, however, only became knon arter Newton's wonder ful discoveries. In which he affirmed the universality of the laws or gravitation. Provious to this comets were looked upon as anomolous bodies whose motions it was impossible to understand. The suddenness with which they blazed forth, their im mense size, their great velocity, their ec centric motions, sweeping toward the sun from all regions and all directions, made them objects of superstitious dread and terror, until finally the Irresistible hand of science swept an ay theso mysteries and put the strungo bodies in their proper category or solar satellites. Light on a Live Topic. The senseless and unreasoning terror which seems to have been cansod in some localities by recent comets is only a relic or the superstition of the Dark Ages. Authori ties agioe on thi-, at any rate, that there was no danger. Even if wo had struck the comet, the shock would probably not have been noticed. About tho best thing that was said In regard to the recent scare was in yesterday's Dispatch, 'where Pror. Jacoby is auoted. Ue said, "I think a great deal too much was said and written about the Holmes comet." But since so much was said and written, it is well to have a clear Idea or what we aro talking and rending about. To continue, then, comets revolve alound the sun like the planets do, but un like the planets their orbits are exceedingly eccentric. For instance Eucke's comot approaches to within less than 30,000,000 miles of tho sun, and its aphelion or greatest distance from the sun is about 400,000,000 miles. Vet Encke's comet is one or the least eccentric, borne comets nppioacn even nearer the sua and then retreat to a much greater distance, the orbits or many of them extending far beyond that or Neptune, the most distant plant. A comet approaching the sun from a great distance comes more and more under its influence, and so moves raster and faster, and soon dashes past the attracting body with the most tremendous velooity. When it once starts moving away, however, the sun brings it up with a short turn, and the comet turns sharply around, passes tho sun on the other side, and whirls away in almost the same diiection from which it comes, but with its speed con stantly diminishing us it lecedes from the sun's attraction, ' The comet of 16S0 had a very eccentric orbit. It came within less than 100,000 miles of the sun, and,s wept around it at the fear fnl rate or 1,000,000 miles an hour. It bas never been seen since, and probably has a neriod of revolution of about 600 years. Such a comet would or course retreat to a vast distance from the sun, and near its aphelion would move with a velocity as re markably small ns its velocity when near the sun was remarkably great, lc is likely there are dozens of comets floating along away outside of Neptune at a regular snail's pace or not more than a milo a minute. But their turn will come In time to be again the express trains of the solar system. The Tail of the Comet Is Mysterious. In regard to the tails of comets it -would take" several columns .to iqll what is not known about them".' They are merely the prolongation of the nebulous envelope sur rounding the nucleus, and but very little Is known of their character. It is the tail, though, that makes a comet consplouous. A comet without a tall, as many are, Is of little intei esc to the amateur observer. The tails sometimes reach enormous size. One attained a length of 120,000,00!) miles, or was considerably longer than lrom here to the sun. There are six comets recorded whose tails extended 90, or from horizon to zenith. Most readers of The Dispatch will remember the magniflcont comot or 1882, whose tail was 20 or 3(1 long. The periods vof comets naturally yary greatly. Encke's revolves around the sun in about three years, while another has a period estimated at about 3,000 years. One ot the greatest and most remarkable comets Is Holley's. In the years 21S, 314, 399, 1006, H58, 1531, 1607 and 1682 remarkable comets are recorded to have appeared, but Holley was the first to suspect (hem to be one and tho same body with a period of 73 years. He calculated its orbit and predicted its re turn in 1753. In that year, long after Hoi ley's death the comet punctually appeared, and also showed up on time in 1SJ5. It is consequently dne again in 18 years, and it is about as sure, as death and taxes that the year 1910 will again witness the return of this magnificent sight. May we bo there to seel What Can Be Seen In the Skies. The planets visible in December are Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Venus At 9 o'clock this evening Jupiter is high up in the south, far the most conspicuous object in. the sky, though not quite so bright as six weeks ago, when be was In opposition. Mars' day is past, and he now shines scarcely Drighter than an ordinary first magnitude star. At the hour mentioned the luddy planet may be seen rather low down in tho southwest. Saturn does not rise till long after midnight, and is not especially noticeable. As lor the unrivaled Venus, she is now the queen of the morning skies, and those whose duties call them out before dawn Is over, may see this brilliant planet glittering above the eastorn horizon as brightly as Jupiter did a dozen hours before. The- moon is full on the 3d and the new moon becomes visible on the 20th. The constellation for this month are the finest of the year. At 11 o'clock December 1, 10 o'clock December 15 and 9 o'clock De cember SO, the most brilliant constellation in the heavens may be seen high up in the southeast. This is the mighty Orion, the only constellation that can boast two first magnitude stars. These are Betelguese and Bigel, the former marking the light shoul der of the figure of the mighty hunter, and the latter the left foot. The three second magnitude stars midway between form the belt. Almost In a line with these three stars and to the southeast is the brightest star in the heavens, the famous Sirius, or Do-star. It is in Canis Major, or the Greater Dog. Procyon, a first magnitude star in Canis Minor, is halt way up from the horizon above Orion. The thiee stars Betelguese, Sirius and Procyon form a huge trianglealmostpenectly equila teral. They are all brilliant atari, and this large figure 'may easily be recognized, and the stars Identified from it. Other bright stars vlslDle.aroCapella, high up in the northeast, and Aldeboran, which is also in a line with tho three stars in Orion's belt, but toward the northwest. It is to be hoped that wo will have more clear evenings than in the month past, for the winter constellations are manidpent, and tho stars never soeai so bright' and sparkling as on a 'crisp; frosty winter night. Wylib. Heroic bat Hurt! nL Buffalo Express. Lawrenceville steel-workers struck out or sympathy Tor the' Homestead men. The Homestead strike is over. The Lawrence ville men have voted to continue their strike because they could not get their places back and there was nothing to be gained by surrendeiing. Winter is ap proaebingand want Is staring the poor fel lows In the race. In one sense their action bas Deen heroic, but It has been inspired by a wrong prinolple. By.thls time the work men should have concluded that a strike is the worst possible weapon with which to settle a dispute. - tmMVmKa amsmamvmmw w m miwrjfrmmmm i t r STATE TAX CASE8 DECIDED. Some Big Corporations Come Oat Second . Best, While Others Win. Habbisburq, Nov. ZX The lontf list or State tax cases was called this morning, with Judges Simonton and McPherson on the bench. Many cases were continued, several or the more important, on account or the necessary absence or Attorney General Hensel, by reason or the critical illness or his rather, at Quarryvitle. These cases were marked settled: Cumberland Nail and Iron Company, two cases, and (he Ridley Park Association. Judgments were entered for the Commonwealth In the follow ing cases: Pittsburg, Ft. Wavne and Chicago Rail way Company. $111 20 in one case and J71G 06 in another; WoodrnQ Sleeping and Parlor Coach Company, $463; International Naviga tion Company $1,628 82 in the first case, $1,885 84 in the second and $1,597 57 in the thiru. Verdicts for the defendants and against the State were given in these cases: Crane Iron Company, Lincoln Market Company, New York Mutual Telegraph Company (six cases), Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad Company (two cases). Pro ducers' Consolidated Land and Petioleum Company, Woodruff Sleeping and Parlor Car Company, Dunkirk, Allegheny Valloy and Pittsburg Railroad Company. MES. SUESAII'3 HOUSE WANTED To Add to the Collection of Cariosities at the World's Fair. Upper Marlboro, Md., Nov. 3a Special. A Washington syndicate is after an old resi dence here for which it has alieady offered $15,000. The house is a large ono and Is owned in Surrattville. It was at one time owned by Mis. Surratt, who was accused or being an accomplice or J. Wilkes Booth in the as sassination or President Lincoln. These curiosity-seekers nre said to be Washingtonlans who formed a syndicate lor the purchase or this residence to be con veyed to the World's Fair Just as it appears to-day. This house at the time or Lincoln's asassination was a hotel, and It is said that Booth stopped in the house on that night and made his future plans. The place is used as a boarding house during the summer, and has been lepalred to some extent, but not enough to change its old appearance. S0DVEHIE COINS COMING OUT. The Conditions Complied With and They Will Now Be Turned Over. WASHiHOTOif. Nov. 30. Lyman Gage, or the World's Fair Commission, has satisfied the Secretary or the Treasury that tho require ments oi the act or Congress appropriating $2,500,000 lor the purposes or the Fair have boeu lully complied vith. Arrangements will be made at once for the delivery or the sonvenir coins to the Fair dli ectory as rapidly as they are turned out. The first lot or coins will probably be delivered next week. Growth of the Carlislo Indian School. Capxisli. Ta., Nov. 30. Special. Captain R. H. Pratt, Superintendent and General Manager of the Indian Training School in tills city, to-day completed' his thirteenth annual report ana sent it to Washington. The progress and growth of the school nave been remarkable. The boys during the vear have earned $16 698 83, and the girls $5,170 15, a total cr $21,868 98. Their savings were $15,723 58. BISMARCK I.V HOT WATER. Some one should be placed In charge or the ex-Chancoslor. His tongue will get him in trouble. Philadelphia CulL Bismarck is undoubtedly growing feeble, but he Is still able to heave a brick every time Caprivi leaves an opening. Washington Pott. Caprivi has called Bismarck a liar. And yet for many years one or Bismarck's frowns was enough to set all Europe to trembling. Nashville American. Readers or future lives of the ex-Chancellor will have to stand a good way off In order to see his past glory over the top of his pres ent grumpinesa. Buffalo Express. Thihos are rapidly taking snch shape that no interview with Bismarck will be consid ered complete unless followed promptly by the Chancellor's repudiation. Washington Star. His confession or the crooked part that ho played in a momentous contingency will be not to provoke a good deal or unpleasant feeling toward him, notwithstanding the great things that ne nas uccompusuea ior the country St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There is now a mmor that Bismarck is coming to our World's Fair. We are de sirous that this event should bean entirely peaceful one; and it he and Kaiser William are here at the same time we hope that their respective friends will keep them apart. Boston Globe. What a weight or responsibility for human anguish, broken hearts and butchered thou sands Bismarck is willing to assume in tho eyes of God and man when he coolly an nounces that he forged the dispatch which precipitated the Franco-Prussian warf St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Again Bismarck has caused great indigna tion. He goes on telling the things he did in tho management of the old King William. He had to coax and worry and bully William a great deal to get him to be a great and fa mous man. Young William does not like it. All there Is or it is. It is the ola case or man hood against the royalties. Brooklyn Standard-Union. Bather Rough on Grover. "The new comet, which we take the liberty or naming the Cleveland comet." Atlanta Constitution. "The astronomers cannot find where the comet is e.t."Atlan'a Constitution (same date.) Will Have to Go Back. Baltimore American. Regarding Mr. Cleveland's visit to Ex more, it may be said that arter four years he will be an ex once more hlmseir. Dae to the Weather. Washington Post. John L. Sullivan's return to bis horizontal bar act was but a logical result of the recent cold snap. DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Judge Bernard IteiUy. Hon. Bernard Keilly, for many years prominent In the affairs of Schuylkill county and the State, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Helen Karcher. at 1519 North Ninth street, Philadelphia, yesterday morning. Judge itellly wa3 born In Ireland in 1814, and came to this country hi 1822. In 1841 he secured the contract for building a part of the main line of the Phila delphia and Reading Railroad, and was the last survivor of the men who built the road. Me built portions or the Pennsylvania, Lehigh, Northern, Central and other railroads. He tooK a great In terest In the old State militia, and In 18-11 was captain of a military company Judge Itellly was an ardent Democrat. He was elected to the -tale House of Representatives in 1851, and was chosen -an Associate Judge in the Court of Common Pleas or Schuylkill county n 186S. In 1372 he was ou the Presidental elector d ticket. Obituary Notes. HOOiiG. (XABK, General Western Agent of the Dupont Powder Company and one of the wealthiest citizens or Omaha, died yesterday of heart disease, Thomas Nolan, of the firm or Nolan Bros., the well-known railroad contractors and bridge build ers in lieadlng. died yesterday of apoplexy, aged 40 years. Prop. Eugene Lbtang, ror 50 years Professor of Architectural Drawing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died lu .Boston Monday, aged 50. Homer Asbacoh. a well-known potter of East Liverpool, O., died there Monday night. He was prominent among the Odd Fellows, and was a Past Uraud. Daniel Gilnix, Justice of the Peace ror 30 years. School Director and County Commissioner lor several years, as a Democrat, died at Upper Slrassburg. ri., yesterday, ageu 82 years. Jeremiah Plimpton, for a score of years Prin cipal or tha Dudley School lor Girls In Boxbury, Mass., and lur six years an official lu the United btates customs service In Masuchusstls. died Mon day at Roxbury, aged Si. J. M. Our. a prominent merchant of McKees port, died rather suddenly yesterday morning of acute pneumonia. A singular coincidence Is that his sitter, Mrs. Jane Clawson. or near Maysvllle. Armstrong county, died Tuesday afternoon of the same dUca:. Hon. Asaph Chdrchill. one or the classmates of Wendell I hllllps lu Harvard's class of '31. died Tuesday In Milton, Mass,, aged 74. He-had served as 1'rcsident or several banks and was President of the old Dorchester and Milton Kailroad. He was a member of the State Senate la 1857 Henry Bake, one or the smallest men In the world, died Tuesday at his .home near Saratoga. He was 36 years old and well proportioned, but was only 40 inches high. He was the son or the Rev Mr. Hake or Cnatham. N. r. He had had many offers to goou exhibition, but hid refused them all. A DELIGHTFUL RECEPTION. The Elegant Home of D. Herbert Hostetter the Scene or a Brilliant Gathering A Charming Eaat End Wedding Other In teresting Events in Society. The elegant residence of Mr. and Mrs. D. Herbert Hostetter, on Firth avenue. East End, was the scene or one of the most brill iant receptions of the season last evening. The decorations were marvels or floral beauty. The large hall was devoted to the orchestra, the front door being closed, and a screen or yellow lattice uork, twined and intertwined with trailing vine, hid the mu sicians rrom the guests. By this arrange ment it was necessary to nse the side door for ingress and egress. The mantel in the hall was lightened ud with yellow chrysan themums In vases and jardinieres. The dining room n as one of the prettiest apart ments in the house. The table was glitter ing with tall vases of white French cut glass in which loose roses were placed in an artistic manner. On the mantel and festooned above and about it was a magnifi cent pinkish bonganvillla that lighted np splendidly under the glare of incandescent lamps. The smoking-room a sanctuary for the men, indeed was resDlendcnt with red and yellow chrysanthemums. The recep tion room, in which Mr. and Mrs. Hostetter welcomed their guests, was embowered in tall palms that dtooped gracefully over the heads of the company and gave alight as well as elegant air to the anartment. The mirror was restooned with maidenhair ferns, while chrvsanthemums were disposed here and there. The library, with its heavy mahogany appointments, presented a scene or richness and splendor that was in har mony with the whole house, and it was not easy to say which room called for the most sincere admiration. Mrs. Hostetter wore a white benzaltne and turquoise velvet empire gown, the largo sleeves being of velvet. Assisting in receiving; were Mrs. Rosetta Hotettcr, mother or Mr. D. Herbert Hostet ter, who wore black velvet and point lace; Mrs. F. W. Gordes, mother or Mrs. Hostetter, in white and blue pompadour silk, en tralne andlow-necked.and Mrs. Herbert DePny.who wore a pink brocade. There were about 350 guest". The reception was distinguished by its quiet elegance and the number or the most rashiouable people o; the two cities who were in attendance. A pretty home wedding took place Inst evening ut the residence ol Mrs. Margaretta Friend, Aiken avenue, East End, the bride being her daughter, Miss Sevlila Friend, and the groom Mr. Francis Sprigg Qlbson, or Alexandria, Va. The bride, who is a brunette or stately beauty, wore a white silk wedding own, a long veil and orange blossoms. The bridemaids were Miss Priscilla Taylor, or Erie, and Miss Rett Friend, a stster or the bride. A little nephew, George Stephenson, held a bonquet of lilies or the valley in tho bridal train. There were about 80 guests, who all wished the young couple every happiness. Their wedding journey will take take them at far as Montana, where they will reside in future. Dr. Cornelia O'Keefe, of Penn ave nue, is visiting Irlends in Philadelphia and Woodbury, N. J., for a few days. A Rochester (Pa.) special says: A quiet but happy event here this evening was the marriage of Miss Elizabeth F. Winnett, sec ond daughter of Captain and Mrs. Mark Winnott, to Mr. Samuel F. Ewart, a lumber dealer and box manufacturer or Pittsbnrg. Tho ceiemonywas at the residence or the bride's parents, on Plnney street, at 7 o'clock, Rev. J. f. Jones, of Pitisburg, an old and intimate friend of Mie Winnett family, officiating. The maid of honor was Miss Clara Dicken, or rittsburg, and the best man wai Mr. Edward Dixon, also or Pittsbunr. The bride was attired- in heavy corded silk trimmed with lace, and carried white chrysanthemums. There is much interest in the next re ception or the Art Society, next Monday evening, December5. at the Pittsburg Club Theator, when Mrs. Edmund Russell will lecture on the "Art of Speech." There is such a demand for cards for this reception that members should apply for them before to-morrow, or they may not be able to get them. There is every indication that this reception will be one or the inoit notable as well as most instructive nl the entertain ments to bo given by the Art Society during the winter. A meeting in the interest of the Free Kindergarten Association was held yester day afternoon in the rooms of the Y. M. C A, Collins avenue. East End. An organiza tion was effected, with the following offi cers: President, Mrs. W. A. Herron;Vice Presidents. Mrs. Ben Thaw, Mrs. D. W. Bell, Mis. William McKclvy and Mrs. Jones; Sec retary, Mrs. Sullivan Johnson; Treasurer, W. I Thompson; superintendent: of the school, Mrs. Z. Adams. The object ot the association is to found free kiudergartens in connection with churches and charitable institutions all over the two cities. Wher ever it is possible to get a room in a locality wrier? there are many poor and neglected childrei', a kindergarten school is to be established. It Is intended to make this association a boon fur little ones who would otherwise bo almost witnout care. They will be taught in a rudimentary way, and be fitted for the common school", into which they will be admitted in due course. Social Chatter. This is the date set for tho wedding of Miss Harriet Patterson, daughter or Mrs. June F. Patterson, of Western avenue. Alle gheny, and Mr. Henry Frank Blackstone.- xne ceremony is to take place in tne North Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. Fox offi ciating. A bazaar Is to be held to-morrow evening under the auspices or the King's Daughter's or the Cnrisi M. E. Church, in the chapel of the church, for tho benefit or a Singapore maiden. The entertainment is expected to be a pietty as well as a novel one. The marriage or Miss Elizabeth Flo Win. nctt, or Rochester, Pa., to Mr. Samuel P. Ewart, ot Herronavenne, Pittsburg, was to tuko place in Rochester last evening. A large number or Pittsbnrgers w,ent to Rochester to attend tha wedding. Tins evening a bazaar and supper for the benefit of the Edgewood Presbyterian Chuich will bo held at the residence of Mrs. James H. Orr, or Edgewood. The entertain ment will last over Friday. Tnis evening Rev. George Wendllnir is to lecture in the Methodist Church or Sewlck ley. It will be the first or the Sewlckley Valley lecture course. The Christian Endeavor Society or the Central Church, Allegheny. will give a "Mrs. Jnrley's Waxworks" entertainment to morrow evening. A BEIDE GETS 55,000,000 By the Will of a Southern Admirer Who Failed to Win Her Hand. Reading, Nov. 30. Mrs. Abraham L. Stahlnecker, or this city, the bride or a month, who recently received word that she had lallen heir to several mill ions by the death or Harry J. P. Sands, an unmarried Iriend who had no relatives, near Montgomery, Ala., was again to-day visited by the execu tor, William A. Cox, or New York, who in formed her that her share will be twice what he first supposed. He now thinks she will get over 5,0.0,000. SENA10E GIBSON MAY SIB. His Physicians Aro Now Looking for the , End at Any Moment. Hot Sprisos, Are., Nov. 3D. Senator B. I Gibson, oi New Orleans, who bas been lying at the point of death at the Park Hotel for several days past, is reported worse. He has grown weaker since lust night, winch, owing to the nature or his ailment. Is regarded as very unfavorable by the attending physi cians. Tho attending physicians to-night admit that Senator Gibson may die at any moment. Hill Is One or Them. Washington Post.; It is true that daring tho course or the campaign Mr. Cleveland declared: "I aim a Democrat," but he didn't say what kind or a Democrat he is. There are Democrats and Democrats. Nine .Miners Dig Their Way Out, Black Hawk, Col., Nov. 30. A cave-In occurred to-day in the Bobtail tunnel. Im prisoning nine inrfn. They dug their way out without any ot them being injured. Got Both Frances and Tammany. Indianapolis News.: A former suspicion that Mr. Cleveland se cured both the lady and the tiger seems to be correct. Perhaps a Masquerade Ball. Philadelphia Press. ( Ball Is undoubtedly oar national game, bnt which style shall it J3e foot or baset CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. -fl-There are 1,800 varieties of roses. Tennille, Ga., lays claim to a 19-yer old cat. The lobster catch of this leasoa ii only SO per cent of last season's. A fullgrown elephant ii capable oi carrying a load or two tons. Two persons, on a average, die of itirr ation every week in London. . A sign in a saloon in New York readty "Three masted schooner of beer." Sweden has a larger area of woodland than any other country in Europe. Greek women went barefooted indoorf and wore sandals when walking abroad. Several thonsands of hair pins in many styles have been recovered from Pompeii. California roses contain 20' per cent more perfume than those grown anywhere else. The Queen of Siam has the smallest feet yet seen on any woman. She wears li in boots. The echo at the "Eagle's 3Test" Killar ney, Ireland, repeats a bngla note at least 100 times. The State of "Washington is one of tha ceaviest consumers of condensed milk: in this country. By the law of Missouri a third convia tlon for larceny carries with it Imprison ment for life. The salesman of a New York flower store heightens the summer effect by wear ing a straw hat. About 9,000,000 kids are slaughtered in Europe annually to supply the one town In France where gloves are made. In the chapel of the- Abercorn family, at Paisley, the closing of the door produces a sound which roars like distant thunder. A woman has patented a machine for making watch screws that is provided with a thread cutter so delicate as to be almost invisible. Cripple Creek, a well-known mining town of Colorado, now has a population or over 10,000 people, while one year agq there were less than 50 persons within itl borders. Between the two wings of the castle of Simonetta. two miles rrom Milan, the report ornpUtnl shot Is ropeated 60 times. Attba same place a single musical instrdment pro duces the effect ot a rail orchestra. It is estimated that it costs well-to-do people in this country $125,000,000 yearly to support charitable institutions, while about $500,000,000 are Invested in permanent build ings where the needy are carea for. German beds are furnished with a huge pillow or upper mattress, which answers tho purpose of ordinary bed clothing. Travel ers agree that there is not enongh or tha Continental bed that, in fact, it ends too quickly. Jane Halloway, a colored woman, said to be 103 years old, recently called on the Workhouse Board in Cincinnati and secured the release or her gay and festive son Sam uel, a giddy young fellow or 75, who was do ing time for beating his wife. The Chinese empire and dependencies, Mongolia, JIanchooria, Chinese Turkestan, Kokanor and Thibet, occupy an area or aC least 5,000,000 square miles, or about one third or Asia, 'ihe population is estimated at from 360,000,000 to 459.U03.000. Inigo connty, California, has a wonder ful natural enriosity which closely resem bles a monster petrified elephant The rock which nature has given snch an extra ordinary form is a dark gray eranite, al most the exact color or the Asiatic ele phant's skin. A German scientist learnedly discusses the question or driving a tunnel through the earth from Berlin to Chicago, through which and by means of gravitation alone tne Journey between the two places could be quickly and comfortably made. He ex presses a decided opinion that the scheme is physically possible. There have been numerous cases of poisoning among hat makers. M. Jungfleiscb. traces it to the nitrate or mercury used in preparing rabbit skins Tor manufacturing hats. He found hair a gramme ormferoury in, a hat in use. Retail hatters are, it is stated, not exempt from the dangers -of zai90ning by meroury In this way. j J A veteran English correspondent and traveler, arter much experience with'rall way lamps, has abandoned them for a candle perforated with boles through tho center, which he holds in his hand. The holes absorb the grease, and transform the otherwise inconvenient candle into an al most perfect illumlna'nt. . Among the whimsical titles which ap pear on the pages of national history, few aro more apparently frivolous than the "Duke of Marmalade,"tho "Count of Lemon ade," and the "-Earl of Brandy.'- All three names were those or places, the- first two being originally plantations, but latterly towns of some importance. An extraordinary sentence was passed upon a murderer in Neuruppin, Germany, a couple or weeks ago. The criminal was a workman who had murdered his two chil dren and afterward mutilated the bodies in a allocking manner. He was sentenced ta undergo ji years' imprisonment at bard labor, and at t he expiration of the term to be executed. "" The, greatest work of antiquity on angli-g is said to be tie Halleutica of Op plan, a Greek poet, who flourisned in the time of Severns, A. D., 133, from which wa learn that many artifices in fishing thought to be modern were known to the ancients. We also learn from Atheneus that several other writers had written treatises orpodms on Ashing some centuries beiore the Chris tian era. Some large cargo steamers 'are being built so large, indeed, that colossal' Is per haps tho most appropriate adjeotive in which to describe them. The 6tber week the launching on the Wear of 'a 9,000-ton steamer was reported, and last week a Tyneslde firm began to lay down the keel of an oil steamer to measure 459 feet in length, and to have a dekd-weight capacity of nearly 9,000 tons. Two well-known Munich physicians, Prof. Pettenkorerand Pror. Emmerich, have been making experiments with cholera microbe, with the result that their general health has not suffered, though both for a time snffercd from diarrhcea. Prof. Petten kofer conclndes, therefore, that epidemic cholera is induced only by local conditions, which thorough cleanliness and good sani tary arrangements can remove. The Amazon warriors of the King of Dahomey at Poguessa were armed with Win chesters and sharp sabers. The French have captured a number or European officers who were serving as officers la the army of King Behanzln of Dahomey. Three -Germans named Scbnlz, Pnecb and Weckel, and a Belgian named Engels, were captured re cently. There was a prompt and brier court martial, and at its conclusiou the four meo were immediately shot. ,. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE: DECEMBER. December, eighteen ninety-two, yon"ra welcome; And yet you toll the knell of the present year. Bat we'll rorgct the sadness of the parting. It will not cost as e'en a single tear. But do not hold ns to the Christian teaching it's better far to glre than to receive." For when we see a corking present coming. It's rather hard doctrine to belle re. -VERT EXTEKHE. "Here is a temperance fanatic sure," said Stringer, as he looked up from the paper ha was reading. "What's he doing?" "Waging a crusade against ice." "Icel What ror?" "He reasons it's the cause or many a skate on." BX MUST BE A W HIKER. "My dear," said Nellie to Agnes, who was reading very One print In a very dim light, You'll rain your eyes." "But." replied Agnes, "You haven't seen tht handsome young oculist that has Just located la town.'! THE K3ITTIR. She's busy now; she's knitting some puis warmers; The yarn It cost or pennies quite a few She's worked at least a week, and maybe longeri Oh, my, the silly things some women do. Take In the cost of yarn and knitting neediest Consider, too. the time It takes to make; Pulse warmers can be bought ror Just a ntcksl; For wasting tin the knitter takes, the eak. -. ' -cat
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