PRESIDENTIAL PLAY.
8ports and Amusements of the
Nation's Rulers.
Famona Qame Preserve Near the
National Capitol
When President Clovelanil goes to
his slimmer Lome on Buzzard's Bay
ho tnkes a few short Ashing trips, tmt
boyond thnt he indulges in no sports.
It is when he is living in Washington
that he goes on his moro important
shooting or fishing expeditions. He
usually does his gunning on the
shores of the Potomac river and Ches
apeake Bay. He likes duck, shooting.
His trips sometimes last a week, and
during part of tHit time he may be
inaccessible by mail or telegraph.
His hunting g.ound is substantially
the same that Benjamin Harrison used,
And constitutes what may be termed
the great presidential game preserve.
It lies south of Washington and takes
in the fotomao river and Chosapeake
bay to tho sea. The game includes
wild ducks (among which are canvas
backs), quail, pheasants and snipe,and
occasionally wild turkeys. If a presi
dent is a true fisherman and will Ash
with only the rod and reel, he
nay go upon the outskirts of tho
presidential preserve and And streams
where trout are tolerably numerous.
Prom the beginning of the govern'
rneut presidents have nscd these
grounds for their exploits with rod and
gun. General Washington, living at
Mount Vernon, knew every inch of
the land for miles np and down the
river. In his younger days he was a
thorough sportsman, but after he be
came president there is no record of
his shooting or fishing.
President Harrison was a good shot
He could nndorgo unusual fatigue and
hardship, and even shot ducks from a
Dink box, which, as every sportsman
knows, is a very uncomfortable thing
to do. He never rode horseback, and
for field sports he had no taste what
ever.
When President Cleveland goes to
the seashore he does not indulge in
swimming, although some of his pre
decessors have been very tolerable
swimmers. John Quincy Adams, nest
to Benjamin Franklin, was the groat
st of swimmers among public men,
In winter, when he was President, he
used to take long, solitary walks up
Pennsylvania avenue and around by
the Capitol every morning before day'
light, returning to the White House
just as the day was dawning. In sum'
nier his walk was in the opposite di
rection. Going up above George
town, he would there nndress and
plungo into tho Potomac for a swim'
Presidont Arthur was about the last
president who took a complete vaca'
tiou. One summer he and General
Phil Sheridan went out to the Yellow-
tone rogion. They camped out,
hunted and fished, and were often a
hundred miles from civilization. This
was his only prolongod vacation. He
was, however very fond of taking
short fishing trips. He handled his
rod well and loved angling for bass
and trout. Among fishing presidents
lie ranks nrst. When be was on one
of his offioial trips in the South, a
fishing club at Louisville presented
him with a beatiful rod with a German
ilver reol, on which were engraved
Iza Walton's famous words abont his
love for all good fishermen as a gentle,
kindly raoe of men. It is doubtful
whether he ever received a gift that
pleased him more than this. His pre
deoessor, Garfield, could shoot toler
ably, but never fished. General Gar
field was a boy in his love for other
sports. For some years the old Na
tioual Baseball Club boasted of him
as one of its honorary members. He
was a oonstant attendant at the games,
and knew the players personally, and
he used to play himself sometimes
-when ho was on the farm at Mentor,
He was a billiard player also, and
'when ho oame into the White Honse
the billiard room in the basement,
which had fallen into negleot and had
not boon used for several administra
tions, was renovate! and a new table
was put in. Here he used to play
noarly every afternoon. He was an
xoollont horseman.
Ail the earlier presidents were
horaobaok riders. Horseback riding
afforded an easier way of traveling
than a stage ooaoh, for tho roads were
almost universally bad, and the coach
es were built without much regard to
the passengers' comfort. Washington
was undoubtedly the best rider among
the presidents, and he enjoyed the ex-
roiBe greatly. He bad little time to
indulge the taste after ha became
general of the army, and was too old
for hard riding after he retired from
tho presidency, but before that he
was one of the most enthusiastic for
hunters in a fox-hunting country.
The gentle Madison ou the other
hand, was no sportsman. His ways
were those of the student, and he
lived the simple life of a country gen
tleman without engaging in any of the
sports that interested his neighbors.
His friend and mentor, Jefferson, who
lived twenty-five miles away, was
more versstuV. He rode a great deal
and much of his riding was for pleas
ure. It is probable that Jefferson did
some shooting, but it is not recorded
that he was a sportsman.
Monroe was a constant horseback
rider, and a few yoars before his death
he wrote to his friend Lafayette about
the fall he had from his horse. Now
York Sun.
The Burial Minister.
I went to a Wednesday-night
prayer meeting with some friends of
mine with whom I am stopping," is
the way in which a stranger in the
city began the story. "After the ser
vice one of the party saw fit to apolo
gize by saying that -dnring .the vaca
tion of the pastor his place was filled
by the burial minister, who was not
quite so interesting as the regular
pastor. 'Burial minster?' I said in
terrogatively. Yes,' was tho reply.
I walked on for a couple of minutes,
and then I asked my friend if he
would be kind enough to explain to
me what ho meant by the term burial
miniates. 'Why,' he said, 'in all of
the big churches of a city like Chicago
there is always an assistant pastor.
But his principal duty consists in an
swering calls to preach funeral ser
mons over dead people who, in their
lives, were not prominently identified
with the congregation.' I woudered
if such an assistant had to vary his
sermons, and unconsciously my won
derment formed itself into words.
'Not much,' was the reply, 'about all
he does is to change the names and
ages. It is usually considered a good
berth for a superannuated minister.'
I suppose that a burial minister is a
sort of companion-piece to a profes
sional mourner. Chicago Herald.
Chinese Tailors.
"It is wonderful how cheap clothing
is in Japan," said H. Milton Smvthe,
of Chicago, to a reporter. "I have
recently been in Tokio, Yokohamma
and other Japanese cities and I found
I could buy English-made clothing at
about the same retail prices it brings
in London. The reason of this is that
by a treaty with England only five per
cent in duty is charged and the
freight on a large consignment does
not materially add to the cost.
"Clothes made to ordor are eqnally
cheap. The tailoring is done by Chi
nese by pioce work at prices an Amer
ican could not make a living at, and
if you are not satiefiod with the At
you do not take it. You can get a
good bnsiness suit of imported cloth
made to order for $10. A fur-lined
overcoat, with boaver collar, can be
had for $30, which amount would not
pay for the material in this country.
Ladies' cloaks, silk and other dress
goods are eqnally cheap, and embroi
dered silk crepe gowns can be obtain
ed cheaper than the commonest of
dresses here. Clothing is so cheap
that anybody oan save tho cost of the
trip by laying in a supply."
Artificial Silk.
Trade is about to be enlivened with
a gennine novelty, silk without the
intervention of silk worms. Dr.
Lehner, an analytical chemist, Ger
man ty nirtu, wiss ny adoption, is
the inventor, wood pulp, waste of juto
or of cotton, is the raw material. XI
trio acid and alcohol digest the pulp
and a moohauical silk worm does the
rest. The change in the markets will
not be as great as that caused by
supplementing hum in spinners and
weavors with machines that for a time
nearly threw industrial England into
revolution. But as the new textilo
equals, aooording to all accounts, the
best China silks, it is certain to be
come a cheap and popular favorite,
Tne machine is tne second step in an
industry first promoted in England by
the introduction of mulberry trees
and silk worms by Henry VI., 400
years ago. As the machine oan be
operated with perfect success in all
olimates we shall probably hear of its
introduction speedily in the United
States. Chicago Herald.
There Wasn't '"'u.
"Cholly doesn't staud sea sickness
very well," said the owner of the
yacht, descending to the saloon.
"He claims to be gritty," said one
of the company.
"Gritty," said the yaohtsman with
a contemptuous stuff, "be doesn't
show it, then. I don't believe there
is anything in him at all. "
And the yaohtsman was right
New York Paoss.
(JUAIST AX1) CURIOUS.
Cork pine makes the best matches.
In Ceylon crows nre protected as
icavengcrs.
It takes twelve tea plants to produce
tne pound of tea.
The trolley is being used about
Pennsylvania coal mines.
One of the curious things about the
3nlf Htroam is that no whales are
!onnd in it.
Tho heaviest cyclist in the world is
mid to be Dr. Meldon of Dublin, who
rreighs 878 pounds.
A Long Island woman found a pearl
ne and a halt inches in diameter in a
(lam shell recently.
The Suez Canal is only eighty-eight
ailes long, but it reduced tho dis
tance from England to India, by sea,
nearly 4000 miles.
A fish with a hesd and body resom
oliug that of an alligator was recently
mptnrod off Fort White, Fla. It
ireighpd 1 ) pounds.
The robbery of " graves" is the only
srime under Chinese law for which the
thief may be justly killed on the spot
by anyone finding him out.
A machine has beeu inventod, and
is now in use in the Philadelphia
Mint, which will count 2000 silver dol
lars a minute and never steal one of
ihem.
An inmate in the narrisburg,
(Fenn.,) Insane Asylum possesses the
mrious hallucination that he is a
buttonhole with frayed edges. He is
lonstantly making appeals to have a
tailor repair him.
The discovery of the process of tint
ing white paper was the result of
ihoer carelessness on the part of the
safe of an English paper-maker, who
iccidontly dropped the "blue bag"
into a vat of pulp.
It is estimated that the yearly pas
trnger trips on the ferry boats be
tween New Jersey and Now York nura
aer 70,000,000 ; that the total for all
(few York ferries will excasjd 170,000
)00 ; that the numbor of boat trips
qual 1,800,000 and the number of
earns carried, 5,000,000.
Tho bank of Germany, like most
ther German public buildings, has a
Military guard to protect it In a
rery strongly fortified military fort
ess at Spandan is kopt the great war
xeastire of the imperial govornmcut,
?art of tho French indemnity, amouut
ng to several million pounds.
It is estimated that the sunflower
plant draws from the soil and exhales,
In twelve hours, twelve ounces of wa
ter. Tho nerves are all connected
sith it directly or by the spinal mar
ow. These nerves, with their
branches and minute ramifications,
probably exceed 10,000,000 in nun
ocr.
Foster Brooks of Tennessee, is 10
rears old, weighs 130 pounds and is
tix feet, six inches tall. His neck was
broken when he was five yean, old,
He remained helpless until two years
tgo, when ho began to grow. Before
that ho could not move hia hoad. Now
Se can use it as others do theirs. Doc-
wrs Bay it is the only oase ou record,
Dairying.
Dairy farmiug is lost exhaustive
than grain farming. The sale of but
ter removos nothing from tho soil. In
fact, by dairyiug the lost fertility of
the soil may be restored. While the
prices of dairy products are undoubt
adly low, yet dairying is still the most
profitable branoh of farmiug. Figures
joUectcd by the Canadian Govern
ment show that during the past tou
years prices for grain have fallen over
thirty per cent. ; during tho sumo,
period prices for butter and choc
have fallen less than six per cent,
This shows conclusively the relative
position of these two great branches
of farming.
But while there is still money in
dairying, it is to be found only in tho
better grades. Nobody wants poor
butter. It is the realization of this
truth which has led to the establish
tnent of the Canadian travelling dairy
cbools and the consequent hotter
mont of their butter.
The close connection between tho
quality of the article and the price is
thown by the oaloulation that if your
neighbors produced the bulk of their
outter in creameries instead of home
lairies, they would add over $1,000,
W0 to its value New York World.
Dread.
She When will you call and see
papa?
He (nervously) I - don't know,
When will be be out? New York
World.
Children are not admitted to most
publio sohools till they have attained
their sixth year.
Tito Autumnal
IN PINK SATIN.
Uowns In Pink and Peach.
A pale snlmon-pink satin skirt.
covered with coflee-oolored accordion
pleated chiffon, caught halfway down
with a gronp of pink roses and brown
foliage is illustrated in the double
column ' cut. The bodice of satin is
sovered with a lovely embroidery of
tinsel ganze elaborately beaded in
gold, and the chiffon is drawn loosely
round the decolletage, and caught up
with the roses on the top of each
houlder, while the sleeves are formed
of double puffs ol satin covered with
the chiffon looped again with the roses.
In conjunction with a peach colored
hot tweed skirt and sleeves is aoorsage
of deep peach colored velvet simulat
ing a sleeveless coat. This has origin
ally shaped revers turned back with
Eati de Nil foulard. The same silk
sovered with guipure forms the tight
fitting vest. On the hips the eoat is
3ut up in a very stylish manner ; the
fronts, lined with silk, are secured by
couplet of mother-of-pearl. The
jupe, slightly draped on the right
ide, shows the undershirt of silk oov
vered with lace. New York Mail and
Express.
The Jacket Still Reigns.
No matter how many capes or other
fanoiful wraps a woman may have in
her wardrobe, one jacket at least is a
necessity. The latest jackets are con
ipiouous for their enormous sleeves
and big buttons. Driving jackets are
made with strapped seams, and are
strictly tailor-made in the effect.
Jackets of black satin are among the
season s novelties. They are trimmed
lavishly with jet and cream laoe.
For vacation wear the most chio
jacket is of fine serge or melton cloth.
White pique is used as the trimming,
the jacket is made with large sleeves
and baa white pique revers which fold
back from a tight-fitting vest The
revers fasten to the coat with gilt
buttons on the outside and tiny white
pearl buttons on the inside ; when
toiled they are easily removed aud
tent to the washtub.
A dark-blue coat of melton cloth may
be provided with three or four sets of
different revers, so during the whole
teason it may be ever ohauging.--New
York World.
One Hundred Thousand Clipping's.
Speaking of newspaper files, they
are now so bulky that a condensation
loems preferable, and this has lea to
a new and very peculiar method now
used in a prominent Mew lork, library,
A scrap book of olippinga on all inv
portant subjects is under way and an
efficient newspaper reader is employed.
His task is renewed day by day and in
this manner his scrap book is con
stantlv increasing. Striotlv sneaking.
however, it is not a book, but a series
of pages of manilla paper, on which
the elippings are mounted, the sub
ieota being kept together in boxes for
referenoe. Thus far the oolloction
oontains nearly 100,000 clippings, and
it is already a favorite plaoe for re
search, as one can find many faots
which are not contained to books.
Troy (N. Y.) Times.
Eats One Heal a Day.
The Rev. John S. Eberile, a Baptist
minister of Glendale. Ponn.. eats only
one meal a day. For about thirty
rears he has eaten a hearty meal at
noon, but fasts during the other hours
of the dsy. In the morning, instead
of a nutritions breakfast on eggs.
ohops and hot cakes, he goes to the
well, draws a pitcher of oold water
and drinks copiously. In the evening
no salads or luscious fruits graoe the
table. Instead, he again fares sump
tuously upon cold water. New York
TriuuM.
Conceptions.
A PEACH-COLORED GOWN.
Plague Mtones.
There is a dreadful disease which
has been killing off thousands of per
sons in China that the wise men who
know all about such things say is the
same "plague" that visited London in
the seventeenth century. It could
not rage in London or in America now
as it did then, for we know how to
keep cities clean nowadays, and this
tsease is one that can only thrive la
dirty surroundings.
Many of you probably have read
about the great London plague in yonr
histories, and perhaps some of you
who have been over the water have
seen a "plague stone." There is one
in a museum in Warrinton, Lanca
shire, which was used in a little shop
on tho outskirts of the town when the
plague was there. It is of red sand
stone, abont two feet in length and
one in width, with irregular edges and
deep hollow in one end. This hol
low was filled with vinegar, which
acted as a disinfectant for the money
which those who came to buy dropped
into it
There is still another authenticated
relio of the great plague near Notting
ham. It is a huge atone, hkea butch'
er's block, and is known aa the "bread
stone." It stood outside the town as
a means whereby the plague-stricken
might obtain provisions without ex
posing others to contagion. rood
wonld be plaoed on the stone at cer
tain hours, and the poor wretches
would come for it and leave money in
its place. There is no record ot the
money ever having been stolon, though
thieves robbed houses in London
which had beon deserted by their terror-stricken
owners, and often caught
the disease by robbing the dead and
dying. New York Times.
A Five-Legged Cult.
An interesting little wondor made
its appearanoe last May in tho livery
barn of O. C. ess, at Lafayette, Iud,
It is a bay male colt supplied with five
legs. But the extra leg will never
serve to accelerate the speed of tho
animal, for it grows from the side of
the oolt's head, just above the left ear,
pressing the ear downward. It is
perfectly developed loft hind leg, be
ginning its growth from the head at
the point ot the atitle joint, in every
other particular this little freak has
the appearance of other well formed
and developed colts. The growth oi
the superfluous leg has nearly kept
paoe with the growth of the rest of the
body, but it is not a little strange that
the weight or presence of this extra
member seems to give the colt no in
convenience or incumbranoe whatever,
He is as happy and frisky a piece of
borse flesh as ever was seen. Without
the flth leg protruding from his head
he rvould be judged an extra finely
shaped uolt, and there is not the
slightest indicatioa that he will not
attain matured growth. Chicago
Times.
Swimming Wild Hogs.
Those swimming wild hogs of Arl
zona an doubtless of the razor-back
variety seen in the pine forests on
the eastern shores of Maryland. They
are fleet beasts, the razor back bog
of Marylaud, and good swimmers,
are all lean swine. Fat swime float
admirably, but when they swim their
sharp fore hoofs dig cruelly into the
banging flesh of the breast aud neck
and the swimmer is sometimes ex
bansted from loss of blood. Chicago
Herald.
Elijah Bryan, of Nevada, Mo., who
is now in his ninety-fifth year, as a
youth helped to defend the homes ol
the Missouri settlers against the raids
ot Black Hawk's wataiK,
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
ANOTHER COKE STRIKE.
The New Castle Poet Dead-Murder of
Hermit Aukney.
ahotihb cost status.
In the south end of the field the men cams
out Tunsilsy again and nearly all tha plants
south of L'ulontown am Idle ono mors. The)
strifes was a stunning surprise to most of the
operators and to the people generally, no lar
ns can be learned the strike Is not authorised
by the district authorities. Karly Tuesday
morning the men began to gather at
the BrownrtcM works. Several brnrn
bands appeared and there was some
tiring of dynamite bombs In certain quartern
where that sort of missionary work was sup
posed to be needed, and then the proenssion
ot strikers moved. Marching from plant to
plant the strikers called out the men at work
until nearly every oven lu tha southern end
ol tha region was deserted.
A KtW riSTLS roRT DEAD.
James n. Mnrsh, famous as the New Caatle
poet, died Hundny night at the age ot HO
rears. Msnr ot bis aiialnt noems bare been
copied In the leading papers ot the United
mate. He was a scnooimare oi tne into
Hon. John B. (toff, the great lecturer, and his
llrst wife, who died many years ago was a
mnld in the employ ot Queen Victoria. Ho
was married six times and was nearly blind
during the last twenty years ot bis lite.
Rot sine the t'mhergor murder in tssfl.and
tbn moonshine whisky troubles in 1890-1891,
has any crime occasioned so J mus t exclte
nient as the murder ot Hermit Joseph Aukney
n the mountains near Weavers Hills, seven
miles southeast ol Ligonler on Thursday last
by Mrs. niuboeh. The sentiment ot the com
munity Is that It was justifiable.
The fifth annual reunion ot the Odd Fel
ws ot Mgonler Thursday, drew a crowd of
about 8,000 ptcutckers to (dlewtld. A flneor
ebeatra furnished tha music lor the dan no.
The Ligonler, Latrobe aud berry cornet
bands were combined Into a band ot fifty
pieces.
Labor day was celebrated at Wilkesbarre
by a plemo at Mountain park, where (leneral
H. coxev was tne principal speaker, no
tame there under the auspices of the Knights
of Lsbor and made two speeches. They went
repetitions ot nis termer utterances on mo
evils that now afflict the country.
Robbers entered William Greer's house at
New Castle Thursday night anil stole abont
valuables. Jas. Vlynn's residence at Parks
town was burglarized, and several hundred
dollars worth of goods stolen.
Ooods in the oriental store ol L. Ootdsmltb
on Fifth avenue, McKeesport, caught Ore
from a gas Jet and immediately the whole
place was ablaze. The fire department re
sponded promptly, but tho damages will
reach tJ.500; fully Insured.
The big Chambers Olass Company'a works
at New Kenslugton, have started up, the
wage scale having been settled. The work
meu agreed to accept a cut ol 30 per cent.
Many Improvements bava been made about
the works.
Two masked robbers broke Into the resi
dence ol Dr. Mercer, at Beaver Falls the
other night, beat blm into a state ot insensi
bility, and robbed him ol tltfin money aud a
revolver.
A voung man named Oeorge Grunt was tun
over by a trelght train the other day at the
eat end ol Pittsburg, and his bead was sever
ed trom his body. He was a plasterer and
was on bis way to Lorain, u.
In the courts at Washington, William Gib
son pleaded guilty to involuntary mauslaugh.
ter. Ho s'.rr.ck Anthony Wolf with his fist,
killing bim Instantly, near Moaongahela laal
Juue. Seutenoe was deferred.
While the funeral sermon was being said
over the body ot Mrs. Iluubauan.nged BO, who
died of paralysis at Taylorstowu, Washington
county, ner husband, Alexander, aged 63, ill
in the same nojse, expireu.
Phillip Fink, a well known Republican pol
itician ol Altoona. 40 years ol age, la lying at
bis home in a dying condition, suffering from
lookjaw. Stepping on a rusty nail is tbs
cause.
Michael Hollobough, one of the strikers on
street work at Kittannlng, assaulted Harry
Forsythe, a boss. Tuesday a'tttrnoon, beat
him severely and ohewed off bis ear. li
was arrested and bound over for court.
Word from the Tine Creek lumber region
says that thousands ol dollars worth ol tlmbei
nos been aeetroyeu. cummings ami non
man had 1,000 worth ol bark burned.
A charter was Issued by the state depart
ment to Perfection manufacturing company
of, Allegheny, capital 1,000. The concern
will manufacture show cases and shelving.
Two negroes held up Butler Hhlpler neat
Ruffodale, Westmoreland oounty, and re
lieved him ol bis watch and tM. Then they
knocked him down and beat blm insensible.
Burglars robbed Jacob Small's house al
Adamsburg, Westmoreland county of money,
checks and notes aggregating la value
m
Fifty Italians employed on the sewerage
works by Harrison A Hons, at Klttuuniug,
Armstroug county, struck, and all street
work ceased.
Peter Hennlnger, a Jnstice'ol the peace in
Vernon township, Crawford county, was
found dead iu bed at home near Meadvllle.
licartdlsease killed blm.
Joseph Ne'Ils, of Summit, while digging a
trench Tuesday wasormbed to death by a
cave-In. His brother, John, was seriously in
jured. Dallas Parsons, of Beaver Falls, has been
arrested on a charge of belug au accom
plice in the roblwry aud beating ol Dr. Mer
cer. Cokeworkers ol near ConmlNvllle whllo
out serenading were tired on by an unknown
man. James Mickey was severely wound
ed. Samuel Llvermore, of Mercer, blew out the
gas before retiring at a hotel In New
Castle. He was dead when his room was
burst into.
Samuel Beck's 7-year-old son while play
ing in a Hour mill near Graensburg was
caught in the machinery, Uls injuries will
prove fatal.
W. 0. Herrlngton's drugstore at 8cottdale,
Westmoreland county, was closed by tha
sheriff.
Smith Bros.' Jewelry store at lit. Pleasant
was robbed ol watches and Jewelry aggregat
ing in value 300.
Tha Matleman Faking Company'a plant
at Easton, was levied ou by the sheriff on
judgments amounting to -t'J.SOS.
Beaver Falls citizens an considering how
to protect tha town from burglars. Forty
armed men are now patrolling th plaoe.
William Bums was arrested near Green,
burg, charged with embezzlement by O. l
Dunoon, a l'lttaburger.
J. F. Tarey was killed by an exploding
boiler at an oil well near Titusvtlle, He was
a laborer employed at tha well.
The Co-Operative glass-works, the Howard
stove-works and the Carnegia rod mill al
Beaver Falls have resumed.
Phebs Rungfie, ot Canonsburg, was found
guilty ol voluntary manslaughter, aad
sentenced to be Imprisoned Qvw yean.