Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-31

ton gained before making further pro-
gress. The composition OF the Ways
and Means Committee, to which all
Tariff measures would go under the
| rules, rendered hopeless any attempt
to change the whole body of the rev.
enue laws by sweeping measure.
Knowing this, the frienls of protec-
ton to American industry had no fear
of a general attack, and were concen-
trating their attention on the speclal
| measures now before the Ways and
Means Committee Townshend. OF
Illinois, profited by this sense OF Sc
eurity on the part of the otectlonists'
and by cunning trick managed to slip
! through the House unobserved, and
| into the Committee on the Revision OF
the Laws, of which he is member,
bill revolutionizing the entire revenue
system in the interests of Free Trade.
The fight was over the question
whether the record of the transaction
should be corrected, aud the bill sent
to the Committee on Ways and Means
where it properly belonged, or whether
it should remain where it was, with
the probable result of involving Con
gress and the country in general
Tariff struggle.
THE North Bend Chilled Plow, as
good a chilled Plow, and dollar and half
cheaper than any other, is for sale by
JACKSON & MITCHELL.
MORE than $50, 900 tons of material
has already been shipped from New
York and Baltimore to the interna-
tional fish fair at Berlin. 1t opens on
the Goth of April, and will continue
until midsummer. In the variety
and extent of its contributions this
show will far surpass the Norway fish
exhibition of 1865, and the two that
have since been held in France. The
modern tendency of worlds fairs is to
make them exhaustive specialties and
while spectacular effect and popular
interest may be lessened by this
method, unquestionably scientific i'm
portance and Institutional value are
enhanced. The Berlin show sweeps
the whole field of fishery science and
art. 1t includes specimens of all
fishes. edible or inedible, useful or
noxious, alive, dried, picked, potted
or bottled in spirits. 1t will cover not
only the vast variety of shell fishes
and Jelly fishes, but all aquatic an
imaIs such as the beaver and otter,
and all birds, such as gulls, that live
on fish. 1t will include casts. photo
graphs, pictures, drawings, and des-
criptions of fishes, and the history and
literature of the waters of the earth,
with all their contents, organic or
inorganic. This, however, is but one
branch of the Berlin fish show. 1t in
cludes also all the appliances and
methods of fshing-the Unreasonable
variety of ships, boats, hooks, lines,
sinkers, senes, travis, rods, tackle,
and these too, in their various stages
of improvement from the earliest to
the latest age. Allied to this will be
a great collection of maps, charts, and
models of fishing grounds, deep-sea
sounding machinery, and the statistics
of fisheries. Then comes the extern
sive field of artificial Matching, with
its varieties of apparatue and speci-
mems, enough almost to furnish an en-
tire exhibition. To these must be
added the great industry OF packing,
canning, and curing fish for food, and
the analogous industry of turning fish
into oils, guano, gelatne or glue.