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I. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 189a .KasMHRMaefiasISel'SWBHK1 ,fsSi?15lewiMEFIHnHPIr yvBfs&fflzwyS 1 igpafrlj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUAUY VoU 74. No. 34-Enterea at Fittsburg FostoOce JOTember, lfcs7. as second-class matter. BUSINESS OFFICE, . Cor. Smlthfleld and Diamond Streets. Newa Booms and Publishing House, 78 and 80 Diamond Street Xow Dispatch Uuilding. EASTERN- ADYFRTISING OFFICE. ROOM 7S. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW TORE. where complete flies or THE DISPATCH can always be lound. THE DISPATCII is on sale at LEADING HOTELS throughout the United States, and at Brentano's, S Union Square. New York, and 17 Avenue 4le 1 Open, Paris. France. TEKMS OF THE DISPATCH. roSTAGE ritcr. in t-ie cximd states. JiArLT nisrATcn. OneTeir. t 8 W Daily Disr-ATcn. Three Months 1 00 Daily Disfatoi. One JlonUi TO Daily Dispatch, including undxy. lyear.. jnCO Daily D bpatcii. including Sunday. 3 m'ths. SSn Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, 1 month 90 Ci.DAYDisrA OI. One Year. ISO IVep.kly Dispatch, One Year. 12 The Daily Dispatch Is delivered by carriers at 3!centsperweik. or. including Sunday Edition, at I cents per week. . EEMITTAXCES SHOULD ONi-Y BE MADE BY CHECK. 5IONEY OKDErf, OK REGISTERED LETTKJ: TObTAGE Sunday Ine and all triple number copies. Ic: slnglcjind jlaublc number copies. Jc riTTsBUKG. MONDVY. NOV, H. 1S91 M'lisDOM OF DELIBERATION. A special telegram from VTashinfjton indicates that the radicslanti-tanff crowd, which naturally flocks to the capital after the victory, is certain that there is a popu lar demand for the extra session. This element is reported to show, in private conversation, a praiseworthy dread of business troubles following upon hasty and radical tariff reductions, but they seem to regard the extra session as the best way to pet over the difficulty on the principle of plunging into a cold batli in order to get done w ith it Of course such a way of un:ing that course is sufficient to condemn it in all sensible minds. To suppose that legisla- 'on affecting business interests is to be shod through Congress in obedience to liar clamor so hastily that the regular us of Congress cannot be waited for 'ie all the Democratic professions ..-standing the importance of the .uiit. Far-reaching business legislation, by the professions of both protectionists and tariff reformers, is only to be enacted after mature deliberation. If the Demo cracy is to signalize its victory by hasty aiwl sweeping changes its lease of power will be short The recognition of this fact even among the extra-session shout ers is tolerably good evidence that there rtill be tense and conservatism enough in ' ie party to rescue it and the nation from ic dangers of that course. In this matter of the extra session we nay see a question raised four years ago n a new light When the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1888 there was much talk of the hardship in the rule that a Congress elected in one year must wait a year Defore commencing legisla tion; and a constitutional change was actively mooted. The Dispatch: at the time pointed out the wisdom of the con stitutional provision that the new Con .xess should have an interval to get over thi-beat of the campaign and to consider Matters n.aturely before inaugurating new policies. The Democratic party professes great attachment to the spirit of the Constitu tion. In nothing is the spirit of that in strument more clear than in the provision for delibera'ion in inaugurating new leg islation as the result of party changes. The Democracy will dj wisely to tike the year which the Constitution prescribes for considering the complicated task of refoiming the tariff? 3IOKE THAN AYEHAGE CROPS. The November crop report gives a toler ably fu 1 anfi reliable summary of the crops of wheat and corn in this country. Tho corn production this year is placed at 1.000,000,000 bushels and the wheat crop a; 090,000,000 bushels, as against 2.000,000, ciQ bezels of corn and 600,090,000-bushels of wheafSJast year. This decline of 20 per cent in corn and 16 per cent mNyheat cannot be regarded in the light of a misfortune in view of the extraordinary siz3 of the United States' cereal crops last year. The yield this year is far above the average, and with the sur plus left in the country from last year there can be no doubt that the available supply both for home consumption and exportation will be equal to all possible de mands. Indeed it is within the range of probability that the United States may re ceive nearly as great a return for its ex portable surplus this year as it did in the last. With a light acreage of wheat in Europe and abundant products in this country the prosperity of the nation rests on too stable a basis to .be overthrown by anything short of the most destructive and reckless political interference. NON-PARTISAN LESSONS. There are some very instructive deduc tions to be drawn from astudy of the elec tion returns in the light of ante-election ostimates. The light which is thrown by the returns on the boasted foresight and judgment of the practical politicians ought to be of great value to the American people. In the first place it is a feature which seems to escape comment that the laud elide was least pronounced where it was most expected. Of the former Kepub ican States where some weakness was ipposed to exist few went for Cleveland, ..jile the avalanche took place instates which were generally conceded to the K'e publicans. Iowa which had gone Demo cratic in two preceding State elections Michigan and Massachusetts were in the same category, and Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana and "Wyoming, where fusion was expected to do the trick; furnish Gen. Harrison nearly half of his electoral vote. Oi. the other band Illinois, California abd Wisconsin, two of which were never thought to be doubtful and the third was hardly considered seriously, trans 1 erred C2 votes from Harrison to Cleve land, and Ohio had a narrow escape of shifting 23 more. There seems to be a very strong indication here that the boasted ability of the" practical politicians to judge of the popular sentiment is a negative quantirv. There is even a stronger evidence of the outcome of the Democratic schemes of throwing aside principle to get electoral votes. In Michigan, where tljey dis carded the usage of a half century and adopted a principle that the parry rejects in sure Democratic States, 'be ot five votes. In Nebraska, Minnesor ami South Dakota their bos throwing Democratic pri" ' board to vote for Third T Tt Stesej States jainl? I Italia of r- - WljeB I brought in plainly on the silver revolt I The Democrats of Michigan and the Northwestern States have thus exhibited their readiness to violate Democratic usage and throw Democrats overboard, simply to secure 18 electoral votes which they do not need. In other times It would be interesting to ask whether it was worth while to sacrifice so much principle for so little return; but as principle does not seem to count for much in politics nowa days the question may have little perti nence. There ought to be, however, pertinence in the Michigan returns. The Democrats had complete control of that State, and signalized their partisan recklessness by the redlstrictsig and gerrymandering mat gained a national notoriety. There is a decided suggestion as to the value of legislation solely for party interest in the fact that Michigan in the midstof the gen eral landslide went more solidly Republi can than ever before, electing a Republi can Governor, 12 Republicans out of the 14 Congrtssmen, and a Republican majority of 26 on joint ballot in the Legislature. Here we see not only thatthe politicians' judgment as to election methods and re sults is likely to be very faulty, but that the politicians' plan of shaping legislation for partisan Interests is liable to meet with the proper return of a popular con demnation. AN INTERESTING 3IOYE3IENT. The address of the Industrial Alliance, to be found in our news columns, presents objects for the immediate work of the Alliance in municipal politics, which all impartial citizens can indorse. The ar raignment which the address brings against the present condition of politics in the city and county contains a good deal of the hyperbole that is natural to such documents. But there can be no dispute that an organization of workingmen to re form whatever abuses exist in our munici pal system is a proposition which all well- wishers to our city can heartily indorse. Indeed it can hardly be ignored that to the indifference of the laboring classes much of the responsinility for the evils that do exist is to be laid. Without the support of the majority of the wage workers, given wittingly or unwittingly, the politicians whom the Alliance de nounces in such unmeasured terms could not maintain their power. If the In dustrial Alliance proves its ability to bring the working classes into a united support of honest, impartial government, which administers city affairs solely for the public benefit and grants franchises so as to. serve only the interests of the people, it will establish a cogent claim on the gratitude of the people. But in order that the public may under stand exactly what it is called upon to support there should be a more definite statement of the policy which the Alliance will urge upon municipal representatives. Is its purpose to insist on the reduction of the tax levy, to oppose an increase of the debt, to urge a reform in the grants of franchises? Or is It to influence a change in some manner of the administration pf justice in cases where labor difficulties have resulted in a breach of the laws? It is easy to see that there is a distinct separation between the tywo policies, and in order that the public may act under standmgiy the Alliance should define the objects it aims at .with the utmost clear ness. There Is no doubt that an organization of workingmen for neeled and actual reforms would be an immense engine for good and would command hearty support outside the ranks of wage-earners. AN EGREGIOUS UXTJSTRATTON. The after-election exposures of that re markable transaction in Philadelphia by which the Republican vote of the Third Congressional district was turned over to a Democrat like a round lot of grain are very entertaining. The returns show that in that district there were 9.2G9 votes for Harrison and 12,093 votes for Cleve land. Of the Democratic vote Captain Ker, one of the Democratic contestants, got 5,505, leaving 6,593 for McAIeer, the other Democratic candidate. Tlnsprove3 conclusively that if a decently strong Re publican had been put up in that district the Republicans would have gained a Congressman by the plurality of 2,700. This was not done, however. Some power interfered and turned the entire party vote over to a Democrat, securing his election. Before the election it was evident that it was an unprecedented case of transferring the voters like an invoice of sheep from a Western ranche and of desertion of the party interest by some one in high party standing. It is now stated, and a telegram is quoted in substantiation of the charge, that the 9,269 Republican votes were transferred to McAIeer in exchange for enough Demo cratic votes in two legislative districts to secure the election of Republican State representatives who will support the re election of Matihew Stanley Quay. "This," says the telegram quoted by the Philadelphia Times, "carries out every thing." The allegation is one thatrequires either confirmation or denial. The basis of the politicians' power over the vote of the masses is the doctrine that everyone should be loyal to the interests of his party. If it is true that a party leader holding great power by the inculcation of that doctrine has seen fit, in a campaign where party policy was vitally at stake, to sell out a seat in Congress, transferring 9,000 Republican votes to advance his per sonal interests, the people should know it They have in such a case a wonderful dis closure of the very slight value placed by professional politicians on the party prin ciples which they impose on the masses. The report pf this bargain calls for some explanation or denial by Senator Quay. Whether the deal is exactly as'reported or not, there is abundant room for explana tion why the opportunity to gain a Con gressman for the Republicans was will fully and wantonly thrown away. THE TORT BID FOR TOTES. The extremely Democratic, if not Socialist charactei of the new Tory programme adopted at Edinburgh -last week is illustrative of the very great difference between a party when it has the power and a party when it wants the power. It is a paradox to speak of it as the Conservative programme, as the English political phrase has it, for a con servatism which advocates electoral reform suffrage for female rate payers, local control of the liquor traffic, the dis franchisement of illiterate voters, state provision for old age, assistance to Work ingmen to acquire land for building, and greater employers' liability, is only to be called conservative on the principle of lucus a non lueendo lucut. The programme containing the above features adopted for the Tories at Edinburgh-is a viery praiseworthy one for a Democratic or workingman's party. That the Tojfv leaders intend to catch the labor tvbte by. outbidding Mr. Gladstone and 'lusdrawlng the.EDglisb workingmen iiTnr.frrim'thATBiiTmnrt Af-fcVTnmAit'RuIn a collection of radicalisms presented by the Tories will be to suggest to the English workingmen a question of the following "shape: The Tories have just closed a period of six years in which they controlled a majority that enabled them to carry through any measure the Government indorsed. If in that six years the Tory sympathies for labor did not produce a single bill for any one of these professed reforms, how much faith is to be placed in tbe professions of attachment to these re forms, now that the Tories have not the pother to carry them through Parliament, and can therefore make the promises without responsibility for performance? American politics contains some shining, examples of bids for votes; but nothing of late yeiirs has equaled the Tory readiness to turn its conservatism topsy-turvy in order to outbid Mr. Gladstone for the labor vote. The New YorkSKn thinks that "to round up properly the historical, lecord" it ought to be lemctobered that Piatt, Miller, Fassett and others voted in tlie National Republican Convention tor James G. Blaine, and that Shcpard, Depcw, Hiscoclc and others voted for Benjamin Ilarrison. True; but with equal pertinence it might be recalled that Croker, Cockran, Sickles and other eminent representatives of the New York Tammany Democracy voted in the Dcmociatlc con vention against Grover Cleveland, and de clared with emphasis that be could not be elected. Since only those five electoral votes weio got from Hichiean, and they were wholly unneeded, the Hon. Don. II. Dickin son's rainbows do not appear to have much more substance now than four years ago. Political instruction is given in the publication by a Tammany organ of a story that just beloro election Croker, the Tam many leader, received a letter from a man in the interior oi New Torfc asking that his son be hunted up in New York and in stiuctedbow to vote. The letter concluded, "He'll vote any way you tell him." The young man was hunted up and his vote secuicd. This gives ovidence as to the intelligence of the Tammany voting force which is more interesting than compli mentary. AriER the Signal Service had predicted "fair and colder" for Sunday with a pialse worthy persistence the obstinate weather went it one better and gave us fair and waimcr. WniLE Mr. Michael Cassius McDonald, of Chicago, is probably orry he flopped and called Cloveland a "stiff," he has no more cause to be sorry than the Illinois Republi cans. The discerning Republican managers of that State shonldat on co offer Mr. Mc Donald a largn premium to flop back again and relieve them of his burdensome society. It is intimated that the Hon. Charles B. Farwell will be able to discard sackcloth and ashes beforo the New York Sun learns how to take its jubilation without a wry face. We take pleasure in informing the anx ious public that neither the Hon. Tom Wat son or tho Hon. Jerry Simpson have under gone assassination. The principal sufferer in the Populist cause is Mrs. Lease, who is credibly reported to have lost everything but her voice. GoVEMfOR Flowek deferred his Thanks giving proclamation till after eleotion. Ho was able to put more heart intohis gratitude when he knew what he was to be thankful for. It seems that that political expert, Mr Joseph Manloy, of Maine, knew all along that the McKlnley bill would rieleat General Harrison. But he kindly abstained from dis couraging his Republican friends Dy hold ing his peace about it till after the election. Amid the wreck of matter and the crash of States it is a mitigation to note that the old rainbow of carrying West Virginia was lollouedbyno worse than the usual result. Is the Hon. Edward Murphy, of New Tork, mentioned as tho slutcd successor of Senator Hiscock, the same gentleman to whom our Democratic cotemporaiies, the New Tork Times and Post, used to refer with such scant respect as "Ed Murphy?" Wires' ex-Governor Campbell asked the country to keep its eye on Ohio it is not too much to say in all senses of the phrase that he was hitting the bull's eye. The. election being over, it is amusing to observe that the Xcw York claim organs are returning to their normal occupation of charging to "the tiolley's ravoKes" all acci dents due to increased speed for street cars. FiYORITES OP rORTUNE. Ella Knowles, a woman, has been elected Attorney Gener.il of Montana. TCnute Nelson, the Governor-eleot of Minnesota, was horn in Xor ay, and was 6 3 cars old when no came to tMs country. MRS. BELMOXT, widow of the late August Belmont and mother of August and Perry Belmont, is dying at her residence in New York. Dr. Henry A. Slade, the Spiritualist, whose career in London and subsequent tria 1 for fraud cieatcd a sensation 11 years ago, is nsane. All the members of the Cabinet except Secretary Llkins have loturned to Wash ington and are at work on their annual le ports. Eugene WoLFr. the famous correspond ent'of tho Berliner Tageblatt, is reported to be rapidly approaching n is African destination, Uganda. Miss Frances E. Willaed, who was recently visiting Lady nenry Somerset in England, expects to do so again soon, and is to sail fiom this country next week. Amono the passengers on the French line steamer La Bourgo na, which arrived in New York jesterdar, was Paul Philip poteaur, Egyptian Minister of i'ino Arts. General Lew Wallace, author of "B -n tlur," and Mrs. Wallace are in Wash ington on their way to Asheville, Jf. C., to spend the winter. Mrs. Wallace's health de mands a niijder climate than that of In diana. A FOBTUHE FINDS ITS OWNER, He Is a Kansas City Saloon Porter, a Prodigal and a Mild Lunatic Kaksas Citt, Nov. 13. Cail Wihelm Amondorf, heir to the estate of his lather, worth $1,000,000, in Germany, has been located in this city. Ho is a porter in the saloon of Henry Woolstein, and is known as "Pencil hailey." Before ho became a saloon porter ho peddled pencils nbout the streets, and thus gained ins nickname. His family lives in Boilin and his father was very wealthy. The son was very wild and run nwny Irnui home 12 ycais ngo. shortly aftcrn nrd his faihcr died, and sinco then no trace of tho son could be found, although diligent effort was made, until a description or tho missing mm was re ceived here, and it was found to fit "Pencil Charley." His mother was notified, and she promptly sent money with which to pav her son's pissago home. Amondorf scums to be suffering from a mild form of lunacy, and h.irdly realizes his position. Henry Steubeneach has been appointed his guard ian and will attend to his business until he can arrange to send him hack to Germany. A SODTHEEN CHINESE INVASION. Mexican Smugglers Pljing a Regular Trade TVitU Impunity. Sajt Aistosio, Nov. 13. It is claimed by the Federal it uthorlties along the Kio Grande border that large numbers of Chinamen are crossing tjio river from Mexico into tho United States each week, and that the cus toms offlcfaii are unauio to prevent this wholesale! violation 'of the exclusion act, o nine to ilaokpf river irunrd. A creoS many of .these -Chlnnmn are many ottnese l,.tnr.l. ySwtt, ' rim Cttxr 'nf Lr..i. .! ia WIVUKIHf At w,l. vw VJ . w. iUCAlULJ KUU lUV ' SALVATION IN THE SLUMS. tWBITTEN FOB TUB DISPATCH.l I have a friend in London who has spent 40 years of a long life in prison. Lest anybody should imagine that bisielations with the penitentiary have been either official, as an inspector, or philanthropic as a reformer, I hasten to add that ho has been flogged eight times. He was thrust into keeping by Her Majesty's magistrates, and he stayed inside stone walls because he oouldnotget out. My friend will not see the interior of a jail again, unless ne makes acquaintance with It as the Salvation Army did a week ago in Pittsburg. That, however, is always possible, fpr he is a member of that military order, and a fighting member. In the mean time he sees the outside of the prisons every day. Upon his cap, in the photograph which he was good enough to give me, are the letters "P. G. B.:" and theseletters stand for "Prison Gate Brigade." This man's office is to wait beside the doorsrof the great prisons, and to greet the men who come out discharged to face a suspicious world again, and to try and set them in the ways of decency. My friend himself came, out one day after 11 years of durance such was the length of his last sentence and was met by some good soldier or this. Christian army, and taken hold of, and really made into a man, into a well-conducted, Christian citizen. And now he is doing what he can to return that kindly service, and to save some other man out of the pit. Two Clever VThltechapel Guides. I am sorry to say that I do not know ray friend's name. During our acquaint ance, which was but brief, I was privileged to call him "Dad." Everybody whom we met called him "Dad." And "Dad" he is. and with no other name, in my memory of our friendship of a day. "Dad" was my guide about Whitech ape), when I made a tour tin ough the back alloys to find out what is being dono there by the Salvation Army. But "Dad" was not my only guide. For a portion of the time I had another, re cruited not from the ranks of ciimebut trom the ranks ot poverty. This was a slender young man, in a coat which was very shiny at the shoulders and very ragged at the wrists, with a pocket book which was absolutely emptv. It was one of tho con ditions upon which he accompanied me, that I was to put something into it. This young man belonged to tho great multitude which is just now menacing Lon don from the eminence of Tower Hill. Ho was one of the out of works. He had been sick, and had lost his Job. That made it im possible for him to pay his rent. In conse quence he was set out into the street with his wife, his five children, and their ncanty fumituie. Another landlord took them in at- a smaller rent, but quite forgot to tell them that the previous occupants had most of them left in coffins, dead of scarlet fever. Into this unfumigated place thoy moved, and when I saw him disease was written underneath poverty in his list of woes. His children were all sick with scarlet fever. And work was no nearer than beforo. Just here came in the Salvation Army. They had taken hold of the poor fellow. Their nurses were caring for his little child ren. His name was on the employment list. No Job had as yet offered itself, and he was waiting: the army, in the meantime, giving him food. When I came to the headquarters, asking for a guide. Colonel Baiker sent for this poor brother and nut me in his charge. Examples of Salvation Army "Work. These two instances will show, I think, what sort of good work the Salvation Army is doing in the East End of London. Multi ply them by several thousand and you get somo sort of idea of what is going on. Every day these good pffople are lifting up our poor, disheartened, enslaved and down trodden brethren out of the mil e. Under the guidance of these two men I was ablo to fee a good deal of the worst parts of the Whitechapel district of East London. It is in these worst parts that the stations of the Salvation Army are es tablished. ThoAimyis not afraid of tho devil. These men in red jerseys, these women in poke bonnets, are at work in the very blackest districts of "darkest Eng land." Two Salvation Army institutions inter ested me especially. One was tlie"Aik," the. other was the "Elevator." Tho Army has always shown gicat aptness in the important part of calling things by their right names. The Elevator is a workshop where men, who are about as low down as men can get, are taken in and given employ ment and paid for it, and set upon their feet. The Ark is an atlng and sleeping place, where the submerged can climb up out of the mire and get into an abode of cleanli ness and decency and dinners. There aie several of these workshops, and of these food and shelter depots, and the Army hopes formoie. v Tho Elevator is full of the ragaedost look ing rascals that one could rake up out of any gutter. They are all at woik. Some can do this, some can do that; the man in chargo tries to find out what. A good many can do nothing better than split wood and bind it into bundles for kindling. I talked with one man who had once been a sign painter. He had made himself into a walking sign for a whisky shop, had lost his place, bis charnc. ter and his coat, and had one foot over the edge of the nether pit, when the Army pulled him back. For the Army, whatever may be said of its orthodoxy, has no taint about it of Cain's heresy. It is not w illlng to let its brother go nnhelped and unhindered to the devil. No Idlers in the Army. The Elevator people had set the sign painter to work making wall-texts for tho Army barracks. He was helped by another man, a fallen drawing master, who drew drew moro corks than pictures, and now, rescued by these life-saving Christians, paints Iambs and doves and crosses for the adornment of tho mission rooms. Every body is set to doing what he can. These woikmen are paid partly in money, partly in tickets which entitle them to the hospitalities ot the Lighthouse or the Ark. The Ark is one of these good lodging houses. I ont into the kitchen. It was as clean as nny kitchen I over saw. In the dining room, thouch it was not tho busy time of day, a number of men, pins hats and minus coats, were eating soun nnd bread. The surround ingsweienot luxurious I did not apnly for accomodations. But everything was clean and good. The boarder were not tho borof folk whom respectable po plo Invite to dlnnor. But they were quiet, and decently behaved. It is trno that tho front door had been kicked in half a dozen times that week, but this was done by drunken men who did not really intend any malicious mischief. One can cot a dlnner.of soup, potatoes and bread at the Ark for two-ponce; and lodg ings lor two-ponoj, four-pence', or sixpence, according to accommodations. For six pence you can have a littlo box of a room all to yourself. For fourpence, yon must share yourroom with tluec. If you have but two pence, you sle jp in a coffin umlor a black blanket. That, at least.is what it looks likej. The bedsare laid in long lines upon the flour. They are plno boxes without bottoms or tons. The four boards can be taken apart for cleaning. In this box is put a mattress of sea-weed, covered with some black ma terial which looks like oil-cloth. The one covering which is provided i3 made of tho same stuff Both mattiess and sheet can bo washed off every day with a hose. Every night these boxrs are filled with, sleepers. Every Plan for Ee claiming Is Tried. The Salvation Army leaves no plan un tried for the reclaiming and uplifting of these poor people. It is tho business of the' officers to become acquainted with them. to prevont them from making tho cheap J lodgings an excuse ror laziness, to get some sort of ambition and hope into their hearts, and, chief of all, to Eave their souls. For, after all, the soul dominates the body and determines the life. Set that right, and you have beun to set everything right. .Accordingly, all thfi walls of these eating and sleeping places are garnished, with the wurus oi limy Bcnmure.anu inaue to preaon sermons, one seconding, plain, direct and effective. Every nleS after 'dinner, there;' is .atservloe In tne-dl:, room. Nobody is unduly urged jto atl ".herelsnojirht-r - .j . .." . speeches that everybody goes. Every night some soul Is touched. I was im pressed with the cheerfulness, the patlonce, the enthusiasm and tho wholesome relig ious spirit of all the Salvation Army officers with whom I talked. It is a great thing to have men and women so devoted, so earn est, so wise nnd such excellent examples, brought daily Into contact with the publi cans, the harlots and the sinners of East London. I know very well that there Is no end of criticism of the Salvation Army. As forthe men and women wno,wete hustled into the patrol wagon the other day, and accorded the treatment which the law provides for drunken men and disturbers of the peace, I confess with shame that I know nothing. But I have only words ofcommendation for the Salvation Army in Its splendid work In Engjand. Their Mission Not Among the KIclu A GOOD deal of the criticism which is visited upon the Army is as irrelevant as it wonld be to criticise the attire of a coal miner fi'om the standpoint of a full-dress dinner. This man in dirty clothes, with his face as black as his coat, would indeed bo out of place in drawing rooms. But he is perfectly in placo in the shafc of a coal mine. It is the gentleman in the expensive shirt front and the swallow-tailed coat who would be an incongruity there. Let people dress 'according to the occasion. And let people do their work according to the work that is to be done. The Salvation Army has no mission to tho people who livo in good houses and talk good grammar and have nil possible oppor tunity to be good Christians. Their service is with an altogether dlfforcnt class of peo ple. Therefore it is nono of our business what they do, so long as they succeed in roaching these people. We have tried our host to reach them with our dress suit 10 ligion, and we have failed. The Army has another plan, and this plan works. It in volves the use of brass bands, and hallelujah lassies, and stteet preaching, and shouting, nnd had grammar It believes in slang as a means of salvation. It would never help us into Christian living and believing. But it does help the people to whom it is addressed. The truth is that we have fallen Into the old idolatry of the bow and arrow. If men would hunt let them use bows and arrows as our fathers before us didl Out upon these innovators who would Introduce powder and shot! Whereas, tho only purpose of hunting is to got game. And any way that will get game is a good way. And any way that will save men is a good way. With a prayer book and surplice if you can; but with a brass band and a ragged coat if that will do it better. So I say, the more of the Salvation Army we can have, the better. lam not surprised that the police are stirred up to put them down. They are their rivals. Ono of these days, when wo have enough good eoldiers in the Salvation Army, wo will dismiss the police. They will be left without an occu pation. A BATTLE OF NAILS. The Cnt and "Wire Patt-rns to Be Competi tively Tested by Uncle Sam. SusECTtv, Pa., Nov. 13. A contest for superiority between the manufacturers of wiio nails and cut nails, involving the pro duction ot 9 000,000 kegs of nails per year, is attracting general attention here. An asso ciation, with which is connected Van Alen's Northumberland Iron and Nail Works, has issued a citcul.xr to the wire nail manufac ture's throughout tho countrv. requesting them to be present at and to take part in a series of tests to be made at the United States Arsenal, Watertown, Mass., the Gov ernmental tenting office. The tests will com mence November 30. The object of the test is to ascertain the comparative holding powers of cut nails and wire" nails of equal lengths and weights when driven as in actual uso into the common building material say, spruce wood. It is proposed to conduct the test Dy pulling ten cut nails or given length and weight, and then pulling wire nails of the same lengths and weight, thus testing the nails in pairs until the list is exhausted. CHICAGO'S BIO 'SCOPE. It Will Be Finished, According to Contract, In 18 Illonths. Chicago, Nov. 13. President Harper has at last concluded the purchase of the gicat 40 inch lenses made for the University of Cali fornia, and from now on no time will bo lost in the erection and completion of the great est astronomical observatory in the world. The lenses aie now in the bands of Alvin G. Clark, of Cambridge, Mass., who is under contract to have them in readiness In 18 months. President Harper is confident they will be completed in 12. "Where will tho observatory be locitedT" "Tnat is still nn open question," said President narner. "Much depends upon the atmospheric conditions. If wo can secure these in Chicago wp want the ob servatorv located right in the city. But, to ray mind, tbo observatory should be nlaced as near as possible to the center of Wash ington Park. If our leqnest is granted, Chi caao will possess the most complete astro nomical observatory in the world." GOOD HUES COKING FOB MEXICO. A Long Drouth Broken, and Bountiful Crops JSelng Harvested. Citt of Mexico, Nov. 13. The Government has leceived crop icports fiom nearly all the States or the Republic during the past few days, except the section around the city of Zacratas, The outlook for a bountiful coin nnd bean crop is reported as yerv Siomising in the States ot Michaocan and alisco. The corn is now being harvested. The yield is immense and the official repoits estimate that these two States alono will dispose of over $3,000,000 worth ot corn in tlio markets of tho adjoining States during the next lew months. Them has been nn nbumlanco of rain in tho States of Chihua hui, Coahuila and Durango, and the pro tracted drouth there has been completely broken. A Non-Striking Labor Union. Chicago, Nov. 13 The National Brother hood of Electrical Workers began its second annual convention to-dav. Henry Miller, of Lima, is the president. Tho convention ap pointed committees on Credentials and llules nnd adjourned to Monday morning. The Biotnei uooa is essentially a non-striking oiganization, its objects being mutual aid and education. One More Eskimo Baby. CrtiCAOO, Nov. 13. Increase of population is steady and rapid at the Eskimo village at Jackson Park. To-day a boy baby was born there. The rejoicing was great in tho village when the news was known. It looks no i as if thcro would have to be a wholesale christening, and when that event comes this, tho last baby, will in all probability be called Christopher Columbus Palllser. Got Left on the Vici. St. Louis Globe Democrat. We venl'd. and we vldi'd, but wo got left on the vici. " DEATHS HEBE AND ELSEWHEBE. Ex-Judge D. W. Cooley. Ex-Judge D. W. Cooley, of Dubuque, la., died of tiralyl yesterday morning at the home of his son-in-law, J. F. Douglas, in New York City. 'J uago Cooluy was well known as a b-inker. lawyer and capitalist. He was a prominent member of the bar of Iowa and for several rears previous to his death be practiced law at Washington. Ho was lor 20 Tears President of tho First National llank, Dubuane. and for some time nast was President of the Iowa State Bankers' Association, lie was at one time a, member of the Iowa Senate, and was Cnmmissionerof Indian Affairs under President Lincoln and President Johnson. Ho was secretary of the Republican National Com mittee In ISM. Ho made many girts to entireties and colleges, chiefly those of. Metuodifin in Iow.a." Captain Ellbu Enos, Politician. Captain Ellliu Enos died at "Waukesha, Wis., yesterday, aged 68 years. Ho was a native of KuMton countv, N. Y., and a graduate of the State University at Albany, for elent years lie was a member of tlio National Republican Committees, and lias for years been recognized as a leading poUtlclau of Wisconsin. Obituary Notes. Denewore. chief usher at trie White iCAt'TAI: House, (111 inWlilgton rfsterdaT", after an III ral months. , Bnr.KE, for many jears a prominent Icial and recentlj- connected with the ness one MAJOR railroad b Llvennore Foundry, died la Memphis, Friday night, antdf years. iWAtpaSi Chief of the Junta Z - K . - r i POSSIBLE TARIFF CHANGES. New YokeNo v. 13. Under the caption, "Possible Tariff Changes," Matthew Mar shall writes as lollows ror to-morrow's Sun: The general conrse of the stock market since tho Fresidental.electlon has shown no wavering ou the part of the public in the confidence it had evinced previously that tho success of neither party would injure tho country's commercial and financial prosperity. An attacfupon prices Wednes day morning produced little effect and soon ended. Later in the week, however, a con siderable decline took place la the stocks of the American Sugar Kefining Company, based upon an apprehension that the advent of the Domocrats to power will lead to the abolition of the duty on refined sugar, and thus materially l educe the company's profits. The stock of the National Cordage Company also suffered from a similar fear that tho duty may be taken off of binding twine. Otherwise the week may be said to have been uneventful, not oven the final declaration of the long expected stock div idend by the Western Union Telegraph Company having caused any more excite ment than did the Presldental election. Whatever the Democrats may ultimately attempt in the way of reducing or abolish ing the dntles on sugar and on binding twine, or on imported goods generally.there is little probability of such action on their part for a good while to come. Apart from the fact which I pointed outlast week, that any proposed Interlorence by Congress with one vested interest benefited by a protective duty calls forth immediately tlio opposition of the repiesentativesof all other interests In a simller condition, the necessities of the Tieasury aie such as to foibid atpresout any reduction of the customs revenue, and on the contrary demand an increase. The Outgo Greater Than the Income. It is pretty well understood, though not formally acknowledged, that the national income during the current year has fallen short of the demands upon it, although by nn ingonous system or postponing the pay ment of claims and of appropriation? palp able deficit has thus far been avoided. Wo may expect in the lorthcouiingreport of tho Secretary of the Tieasury, a statement to be made which will imperatively call for legis lation to relieve his pressing needs. Under tho tariff now in force raw sugar is admitted ireo ot duty, while upon lellned sugar a duty is imposed of half a cent per pound and upward. The abolition ot the old duty of three cents per pound upon law sugar caused at one blow a loss ot revenue to the country of from $50,000,000 to $00,000,000 a year, beside requiring the payment of boun ties on home-grown sugar to the amount of $15,000,000 a year. A return to the old duty and the abolition of the bounty constitute the readiest means of raising the additional amount demanded by the necessities of the moment. A duty upon raw suar would In volve nieaujustuieut of that upon the le aned article, and in that readjustment the' margin of pront which the American bugar Kefining company now enloys might be diminished, but only in this way could the value of its stock as an investment be seri ously impaired. The duty on binding twine is unimportant as an item or revenue, and its repeal, being clamorously demanded by every farmer in the country who uses the twine for binding his sheaves of grain, may be accomplished. How tar the repeal will diminish the p.odts .of the National Cordage Company only those familiar n'ith the companj 's affairs can com pute, but the making of twine is not the com pany's whole business, and if it should be given ud altogether it would not mean utter ruin. Tlnplate Duty Bound to Drop. The duty upon tinplate, which is now yielding several millions of dollars a year to the Treasury, will also probably not long survive the accession ot the Democrats 'to the contiol of thei Senate, which is expected to take place next March. In spite of all the speakers and wiiters have said In it3 be lialf, this duty has not yet demonstrated its usefulness as a means of establishing the manulactuie of tinplate in this country, and itsiepeal would cause no great loss to the few onterprising persons who have em barked their capital in the business. If the duty is to bo repealed eventually, the sooner tnoiepeat taKes place tiie better, DOtn lor the saue of the tinplate manufacturers and that of the consumers of the article. To compensate the revenue for the loss of these duties, new ones might bo imposed, if necessary, on coffee and tea, which are now free, but which, as they cannot be grown in this country, do not compete with any home product. This measure could not possibly bo tcststed as being in conflict with the Democratic declaration against protection, but it would be unpopular with the great multitude of consumers, and could therefore only be resorted to in the last extremity. Perhaps wiaes and liquors would bear heavier duties than those now laid upon them, and if tho internal revenue tax upon whisky were concspondingly augmented tho resulting addition to the public income would be considerable. The internal tax and the customs duties upon tobacco might also be increased. Frefe Trade Not Anticipated. These are the changes in the tariff that suggest themselves as most likely to result from the approaching need of an increased national income. That a DemocruticCongress will not revise tho entiro list of duties in ac cordance with its Chicago ante-election dec laration I maintained beforo the election, and I maintain it still. If the declaration weie honestly carried into effect it wonld involve the repeal of every duty which at present incidentally protects a home indus try, and the levying of duties exclusively upon articles which, like coffee, tea and silk, are not capable of being piouuced In tills country, or of which, like sugar and hides and wines, the country docs not pro duce enough to supply its consumption. A measure of this nature would lead to an industrial catastrophe all over the country, and the mognitude of the interests opposed to it preclude its being even considei ed. It cannot be denied that the Democrats have before them a difficult task, and one which will lequire the best talent in the country to peri orm. They have to provide lor an expenditure, enormous in amount and beyond their power immediately to diminish. If th cy low er existing duties, so as'to stimulate importations and thus in crease at the l educed rates the total amount collected, they will make enemies among thp home produceis of tho articles which compote with those imported. Ir thoy in crease the present duties, and add new ones, they unavoidably, to some extent, make that duty a protection to homo industry. Fuithermore, the various uiticles upon which duties maybe collected have such complicated relations to one another that a thoroughly sclentiflo adjustment of the tariff demands a widespread and accurate knowledge of all branches of UL-siness haid to find in any man, and especially so among membeis or Congress. A Needed Reform Bound to Come. The difficulty of the adjustment U en hanced by tho separation which exists, under our system of national government, between tho administrative and legislative depaitments. In tho constitutional coun tries of Europe tho head of the administra tion is also the dhector of legislation. The Minister or rtnancc makes up his budget for a year to come, devises the menne lor ob taining the revenue-he will requiie during that year, and has the necessary laws enacted. With us the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury, aubmittcd to Congress at the beginning of its bOssions. are raeie suggestions with which Congress deals at its own good pleasure, and usually with a sublimes indifference to the preserva tion of a equality between recelnts nnd expenses. Thus it may an the one side take off duties upon which the Secretary has counted, nnd, on the other,, it may vote expondituies for which hfl has mado no provision. Tnis dis coid has not as yet resulted fu any serious mischief, but it will do so some time or other, and then we shall seouro the needed reform. M'SEESPOET WITHOUT WATEB. Another Breakage Stops the Wheels of tho Department Completely. McKEESror.T, Nov. 13. Special. Tho dan ger so long appiehended hereof another break that would suspend the city's wnt-r service has materialized into an unpleasant reality. The Water Department is literally or pouse to McICeesport to-niht. Another break occurred this morning, which has compelled the water works to shutdown. The city is entirely without protection, so far ns tne water service is concerned, iu tuo event ol fire. Both sets or pumps at the water works aro bioken; one sot of boilers is condemned, nnd the reserve, set, the only ones Ief;, nreso eaten by the ac.ds in tne river water as to make their uso cxtiemely hazardous. At present some water is being forced by power trom tlio Tube Works reservoir, in which tho stock on hand which is supposed to tide over such emergencies is practically empty, and in most places' tliero is no water to ha had from the city mains. That Is All It Is. !4inaiuaMuaEcnunei,;js23,jx'itete3iL&iSB , itodlanaiwlUScniUnjI&'j !WmtiS3GS2&faJ& r INDEPENDENTS IN BELIGION. A New Yorli Babbl Speaks In Defense of Dr.Briggs. 1 New York, Nov.13. Special The Sunday services at the Temple Emraaonel were re sumed to-day, and Dr. Joseph Silverman lectured on "Independents in Religion," with an especial bearing on the Briggs case. He began by declaring that the independent in politics is a product of American institu tions.' The precursor of the independent in politics was tho independent' In re ligion. America .was tho refuge of tho In dependent pilgrim fathers, who were perse cuted for their religious convictions. -This age, lie declared, Is an ago of soir-nssertton, freedom and independence. Of the Briggs case he said. "Tho question at Issue Is of vital Impor tance to the Presbyterian Church bocanse it goes to the primary source of the Church's belief. Dr. Briggs is condemned by the Genoral Assembly for denying the verbal lnerranoy of tho Bible, and the Church thereby shows its disapproval of the criti cal study of the Book that should be of all books the subject of study. The Church does not admit that human understanding of unrevealed truths can have progressed or developed." He continued: "A similar trial was threat ened in the case of Dr. Newton, but it has for obvious reasons never materialized. The sympathy of the intellectual world will always be with men like Dr. Briggs and Dr. Newton. If Protestantism meant anything in the days of Luther it meant a protest against inlallibility of Pope, doctrine or Bible. All truth Is relative and depends npon the point of view. Luther was the first and foremost of uiodorn independents in religion. Dr. Briggs is the lastup to date. Protestantism must go on developing inde pendence of thought and countenancing critical study.of the Bible and religion. "Tho present trial of Dr. Briggs is one of the greatest religious farces of this century. Dr. Briggs will come out of it a greater man than he ever was, bo the result what It may. Ir he is vindicated, his independence of spirit becomes glorified, and he is the lion of the day. If he is not vindicated, who will say ho has been dereatedt Have not the others rather been defeated who have tailed to "vindicate him? He will bo a martyr another Luther, another Spinoza, another Kenan, ndded to the long lists or independ ents in leligion. It is such men who are the saviors of mankind, not those who sit in Judgment on them." Dr. Silverman concluded by saying that he believed that "every minister should be subject only to the approval of his own con gregation, and that evoiy congregation should be an independent religious body. All church synods and ecclesiastical bodies which seek to dictate religious policies and to issue 'bulls' are not in harmony with the spirit of the nineteenth century, and should be done away with. They are lelics of the days of barbarism and tyranny." NO TIGHTS ON POSTERS. Boston Working Girls Start a Movement Against Indecent Show Bills. Bostoit, Nov. 13. Boston has been pla carded conspicuously of lat6 with theatri cal posters or women in tights. Yesterday the Working Girls' Clnbs held a meeting, and vigorous denunciations of those dis plays were made. This petition was pre pared and will be laid before tne Board ot Aldermen Monday evening, bearing the signature of the representative women in this city "We, the undorsignod.do hereby earnestly protest ( against the di&plav of indecent theatrical posters and show bills, believing that such plav bills, as are at present shown upon our streets, are most offensive to every clean-minded man and woman, and deeply corrupting to the unformed standard of youth. We do, therefore, respectfully urge that in the licensing of theatrical com panies there shall henceforth be a strict sur veillance upon the posters whloh such coin pan les intend to display, and a careful ruling out of all those which are an offense against modesty and decency." IN LOVE WITH HIS PBINCESS, A Pretty Story That Leaks Ont After Nearly a Half Century. fBT CABlX TO TUB DISFATCH.1 BEutnr, Nov. 13. A pretty love story con cerning the late Dowager Queen Otea, of Wurtemberg, was published yesterday in Stuttgart. Forty-eight years ago, when she was the greatest beauty at the Kussian court, Princo Bariatiski, an officer in the Imperial Guard, fell in love with her. When he learned that .she returned his love he be came alarmed, obtained an audience with Czar Nicholas, and tailing on his knees, im plored pardon for his audacity for having loved the daughter of his sovereign. Pleased with his honorble conduct, the Czar created him Field Marshal and made him Governor of tho Caucasus. One year later the Grand Duchess Olgu was married to the Wnrtcmberg Prince. BarlaMskl ac quired some fr.me in the Crimean War, but never recovered from the moroseness fol lowing the disappointment of this love. MAIL SEBVICE ON 8TBEET CABS. A movement Designed to Check Puturo Strikes Like That at New Orleans. New Orleans, Nov. 13. A movement has been inaugurated to establish the United Statesman on the street cars. The object is to prevent a recurrence of the delay and annoyances caused in the delivery of mall during the Vecent general strike. As the bulk or the mail is delivered at points remote from the general office the cairlers aro required to soelc stieet ear transportation as Iicquentlv as our times a dav. During the tleup of the street cars the delivery was interfered with, and in this the frameis of the movement found cause for their proposed action. Using the street curs lor mall service would tiring them under the protection of tho Government nnd tenr' to make striking car drivers keep hands off. WOHEH PAT. AN ELECTION BET By Trundling in a Wheelbarrow a Demo cratic Voter of Beading. Reading, Nov.13. The hel.hth of nonsens ical bets on tiie Trcsldental election was reached hoi e lust night, when a well-known Democratic voter was hauled on a wheel barrow up Pcnn street. Heading's principil thoroughfare, by two wives or Republlc.in neighbors. One woman pushed the barrow and the other walked in front, pulling with a rope. As the result of another bet, Charles Wal brom, a Pennsylvania railroad employe, had bis head smashed, THE CRUISER CNCLNXATJ. A WAnsnir of high speed ono of tho most complicated and delicate machines of mod ern times. Kew York Tribune. Bv the successful launching of tho cruiser Cincinnati a valuable addition to our navy was set afloat. ew York Herald. Tnis will bo ahpnt tho last addition to our navy, as the Incoming national administra tion don't believe In navies. Ohio Siate Jour nal. ArTEitawhllo there will be so many ships that naval officers won't be able to spend so much of their time ashore. I'hiltdelphia Vail. Sue will be a neat addition to our navy, which it will be the pleasing duty of the Democratic administration to complete. A'ew York Advertiser. Sccu vcsiels ns havo been recently built forthe now navy of this country are as per fect specimens of marine construction as could he devised. Baltimore Amcric n. Sun is suro to bo a valuablo addition to the new navy of the United State), a terror to her enemies, if she over has any, and a constant pride to her namesake city. BrooLljjn C glc. Tue new cruiser Cincinnati Is described as ono of the most graceful and beautiful of tho new naval vessels and ono likely to prove a most formidable adversary in case of war. tliitadelphio Ledger. We launched yesterday the now cruiser Cincinnati, and commend her to the espe cial care nnd protection of tho. Democratic party. No matter who is in power, we must have ships able to defend the Hag. Tnat is ono policy on which we can all unite. -Yew York Becorder. Tne Cards Were Not r.ecel ved. No little annoyanco has bean c.iuied by tho stationers falling to deliver all the cards for the McKeo-Sutton wo (ding, as promised. Part of then nrrivod on time and were mailed; the rest havo sinco been leceived and mailed, bat nave not ben delivered. ,- A California Quake Breaks Windows. SaxEbascisco, Kov, 13. A. heavy shock-of rthnakflatfrisjHt,at.M5 aTstoekthta CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. There are 300,000 commercial travelers ,in the United States. A revolver has been invented thafc shoots seven times in a second. Lancashire has a larger population than Middlesex or any other county in tho kingdom. ?The man who is perfectly proportioned weighs exactly S0J pounds for every foot of his height. The Koumanian crown is made of metal from Iho cannon captured from tho Turks atj Plevna in 1377. A leading Philadelphia society lady has hair 63 Inches in length. Sho 13 only 61 Inches (5 feet 1 inch) in height. During the last 1,000 years there ha boen ono sudden rise of the Nile, that of 1823V' when 30,000 people were drowned. It is stated that there are 50,000,0001 volnmes in the public libraries of America,1 while there are but 21,000.000 in Europe. ' Mrs. Lewis "Washington, of Charleston,' W. Va., owns tho family Bible which for-' merly belonged to General Washington's' mother. The longest canal in the world is th one which extends from the frontier of; China to St. Petersburg. It measures in all' i,l"l miles. In Sitka, when an Indian wife has lost her husband by death, sho goes into mourn, ing by painting the upper half of her face deep black. The hairspring of your watch weighs but one-twentieth of a grain per inch. Ono mile of such wire would weigh much less than a half pound. , The earth, in addition to its diurnal and annual revolutions, has a slow- wabbling ot its axis, a motion seldom mentioned even in the text books of astronomy. In nature we have morning, noon and night; fish, flesh and fowL Hundreds of trees, vines nnd grasses have their leaves and blades bet in groups of three. Drowning, as a punishment for crime, was legally enforced in Scotland up to the year 1611. The samo punishment prevailed In England up to a few years before thas date. Contraction of the iron used in con structing the great Eiffel Tower makes that famous structure eight Inches shorter in, winter than it is during tho hot summer months. Center county, Pennsylvania, has a natural curiosity in tba shaoe of a iO-acro pond which appeared in a single night on ground never known to bo covered wita water before. There has been but one total eclipse of the sun at London since .the year 1H0, that of 1715, and, according to Pror. Holden, thero will not be another until after the opening of the twenty-first century. T. J. James, who lives in Boone connty, la., five miles northeast of Perry, has raised tho largest squash ever known in that pars of the country. It is 5 feet 11 Inches around in the middle and weighs 129 pounds. England imports annually about 50,000 tons of palm oil; but it is considered that this is a very small amount compared with what might be the case were the enormous supplies fully or even moderately realized. Borneo, so far as is now known, is the only island or country on the globe that Jirodnces a specfts of flying lizard. Tbesa Ittle flying saurians have all the grace of a bird, and as great a variety of colors as a tropical butterfly. It is not generally known that an orangs bit In the exact center by a Title ball will vanish at once from sight. Such, however. Is the fact. Shooting it through the center, scatters it in such infinitesimal pieces that it'ls at once lost to sight. The professors in charge of the com. mission to determine the exact longitude of Montreal found that it took but a trifle over a second to telegraph from that place to London and got a reply. The distanco traveled by the electric current was 8,009 miles. The "life- tree" of Jamaica will con tinue to grow for months and years after ic has been dug up and its roots exposed totho son. Leaves severed from the limbs will remain perlectly green lor weeks. The na tives say that the tree can only be destroyed by fire. Much research and investigation war rant the assertion that man is not the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh and rear upon their hind feet while fast asleep; dogs bark and growl and in many other wujs exhibit all their characteristic passions. "Tipperua!em" City, Ok., is a compro mise mime. It was built upon the land of a. Hebrew and an Irishman. The former 'wanted the city named Jerusalem; the lat ter wanted it named Tlpperary. Neither would give way to the other, hud Tipperu salcm is the result. The little hamlet of Boseburg, S. C, is to the fore with a curiosity n hich is ahead of all others. This is a 3-wceks-oId baby whose right hand bears the imprint or a hu man face. This luco occupies nearly the whole palm, and is as clearly outlined as if drawn on porcelain. Entomologists in general concede that npward or 100,000 species of insects have) been recognized and named: some authori ties placo tho-e figure 10,000 higher, and even tu;se latter figure are believed to not rep resent more than one-tenth of the number actually inhabiting the globe. The most curious and unique clock in the United States, or in the world for that matter, was constructed by Amos Lane, of Amedeo during tho past sammer. Lane's curious clock, which, Dy the way, is all face, hands and lever, is attached to a geyser which slioois upward an immense column of hot a ter every 33 seconds exactly. The Australian jungle fowl (Jlegapo dins Tumulus) makes Its nest in tho shape) or earth mounds of prodigious size, ono of which measured 13 feet In perpendicular height, and having a circumference of 130 feet. These heaps aro placed under shelter, and often are so enveloped in loliirze that, in spito ot their great size, they can scarcely be discovered. Soma of the tribes of India have a mar riage ceremony which calls for the presence of a cow and a calf at the ceremony. The principals and tho priest drive a cow and a calfinto the water, and there the bride and groom, ns well as the clergvman, clutch tha cow's tall, while the officiating personage pours water upon It from a glass vessel and utters a religious formula. ORIGINAL AND JOCOSE. TOE UUJtOIIIST. He was invited out the other night, To.play a a me of cards. ProgresshetieUre and tliey drew To find out wiio were pards; lie drew a very pretty girl. As frwli as ear y spr n;. She thought, 'cause he a Joker was. That tluy 'd take everything. he's done ron. She lived in a new, Old Colonial house. It was located in a ten acre lot. wlilc't was laid eat in beautiful lawns, lovely flower bid and charm ing shaded walks. Just like the places we read about in novels. Of course, there was a comarra tory to the house, which was filled with the choicest orchids, cliryssnthemums palms ot all descriptions, and, In fact, everything from a roo gcraulum to a centurv plant. Sho being an Iron manufacturer') daughter, with nothing lo do, made the care of conservatory and grounis her especial charge: and so lntcreitedr.ll the become in her work that she took up Hit study of botany. Ilic Willie boys or ber scr, knowing her hobby, and also being aware of the fact that sh? would some dty be Tery wealthy in her own name, took to the same study thinking, no doubt, that they would stand better in her sight. The other Sunday afternoon, one of liermost ardent admirers called, and, after paying his respects to her pana and mamma, said: "illssBcss'e." that was hernaine, "won't vou come a-botanlzlng with int!" Delighted. lam sure." tald lllss Bessie, and puitlnft on a fetching hat of large dlmensois. said: "I'm ready." They started off and had no sooner struck the main road, which leads upover a red mud hill, when heaildi "Ab. Miss Kcssle, I adore nature. I Tore tbo trees, and the flowers, and, being of a poetic turn of mind, delight la writing poetic truths about them. Heboid that grand tree on yonder hill. Now that Inspirit mi." And taking a notebook and pencil rro.u his pocket, wrote aa ha moke: Ou yonder tammlt Hands a mighty oak. W hich "Stop," cried JIlis Bessie; "You said yoa loved , ...... .-.. ....... j... . . truths, but. If what yoUharoJutg;V aaiplc. . I , Insist :oa Truer, calling mSJ to wrlie poetic truths. ;wrIiteo;!ia.ias L T s torinoIiU. iojyS .StaJeyJpjBblieisfcsWltiae l 'fc