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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
ON LIGHTNING'S WINGS.
Why the Wonders of TeIegruphy Are NO
Longer Marvellous in Our Eyes.

Why the wonders OF Tetegruphy Are NO
Longer Marvellous In Our Eyes.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.I
We Americans are so addicted, as one might
say, to the use of the telegraph 1--WE send more
than 80, 600, 900 messages annually by one sys-
tem) that this marvellous slave of man is no
longer marvellous in our eyes. 80 Byron
played with old oceans name. Yet every hour
it is doing things that are, one is almost tempted
to say, impossible. 1t takes a stiff faith to be-
Iieve that maps and pictures may be trans
telegraph makes nothing of such task. And
when it tells US the exact spot at which a cable
has parted, down in the depths of the Atlantic,
it seems to have more sense than a man."
When again we learn that several messages
can be sent along one wire simultaneously, we
would be disposed to draw the line and ask
what people took us for, did we not know that
the ears of the lovelier portion of mankind are
capable Of receiving and transmitting to the
brain, without confusion, all the various cur
rents of conversation tina may be circulating
in the vicinity; she, too, having more sense
than mere man.
One singular reflection IN regard to the tele-
graph is that, although 1t seems to be as far re-
moved, in its essential nature, from locomo-
tive as from a sewing machine or reaper, yet
the invention of the railroad made imperative
the invention. In some form, Of a system of
telegraphy. Without the telegraph it would
be simply impracticable to operate any great
and complicated railroad system.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
AN ILLOGICAL CONCLUSION.

The general tenor of the Supreme Court
decision on the subject of wholesale licenses
affords satisfaction in overruling the ex-
treme and severe restriction of the whole
sale liquor business which had been en-
forced by the License Courts of Philadel-
phia and Allegheny counties. Neverthe-
less, there are some points in the decision,
which, from purely logical view, are open
TO criticism. One of them is pointed out by
the Philadelphia Press. to the effect that in
passing judgment on the Pittsburg case,
Chief Justice Paxson cited and relied upon
the liquor law of April 3, 1872. which is ap-
plicable to Allegheny county only. and
when he reached the Philadelphia case,
treated it as governed by the decision in the
Pittsburg case. Thus, it appears that a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
A Clerical and Wise Politician.

From the New York SUM-
The philosophy developed in the Rev. ]. w.
Mckay, of Pittsburg, by the late temperance
election in Pennsylvania, is not for day nor
for Prohibitionists only. When it was his turn
to discuss the last prohibition defeat, at
meeting in Silver Grove, according to THE
P1TrsBURG DISPATCH, he submitted this con-
clusion:
say again that we will never carry the amend
ment until we get party behind It. We can
never harmonize the Republican and Democratic
temperance people.
This Presbyterian clergyman has reached the
bedrock of politics. No political principle can
be established or maintained without a party
for it. All new principles need new parties.
Sometimes an unimportant or transient idea
can be realized through the machinery of an
old party, but prohibition is too big and revo-
lutionary TO achieve success in this manner.
The Prohibitionists have been dreaming Of
working out their salvation through the organ
ization of the Republicans; and on the other
side of the great divide the free traders have
been attempting the same insane and per-
nicious scheme In the camp Of the Democrats.
Yet neither can succeed.
Mr.. Mckay thinks that parties can neither be
converted nor perverted. Before they expert
eIice either fate they must break up and 60 out
of business. And be is right.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
REvERIEs OF A PHILOSOPHER.

Eternal vigilance enables a man to carry
the same umbrella for years.
The man who cannot stand prosperity will
find it hard to stand adversely.
To keep good company always you must
keep your own company good, for you alone
sometimes.
We sometimes say: Out of sight, out of
mind, but we do not necessarily imply that blind
man is insane.
''Truth stranger is than fiction" This is
true,
Not only stranger. but much rarer, too.
IT Is COMING.
Now levelheaded druggists everywhere
Are laying In supplies Of arnica;
There is a smell of powder in the air;
Again we're nearing Independence Day.
Ambjguous.-"Doctof, how do you find
your patient to-day?''
ssOhl Mr.. Jones' he is nc worse. -
'.Do you anticipate fatal results?''
''Fatal results laWell, medicine never failed to
do its work YETI
Quite True.-Tom-I tell you, men NAV
pirate they please of the extravazance of woman,
but she can dress on a sum that would Keep a man
looking shabby.
Jim-I believe you there. my boy. The sum that
my wife dresses on keeps me looking shabby
enough.
THE SMALL BOY.
About this time, he carries in his pockets
lot Of crackers, red lights, blue lights rockets.
Toy pistol matches, pin wheels and torpedoes-
What patriot celebrates the Fourth as he does?
He gives that day full play to his emotions.
And on the next his wounds need cooling lotions.
THEY'RE HERE AGAIN.
June smiles in her beauty, the gay feathered
throng
The groves and the orchards make vocal with
song,
And the flies and mosquitoes they now settle
And tickle the bald-headed mans polished
crown.
It Wasn't Impossible. you
know Miss Brown
Jones-I have spoken to her, but never met
her.
s.-spoken to her. hut never met herr Come.
come, that's impossible.
J.-It isn't impossible. I've spoken to her
through the telephone.
S.-Come and take cigar.
HOW SHE SAYS IT.
The Boston girl-when Sol begins to glow
Anddzys are conveniently warm
Who how you stand the weather wants to know.
Puts not the question in It's vulgar form.
Adjusting in her fascinating way
The gold trimmed glasses that assist her view.
She asks, lis there caloric, sir, to-day,
SUFFICIENT In the atmosphere for youy''
JUST NOW.
We want our clothing very thin;
From morn to night our brows are beaded.
The oysters out, the clam Is In
Except In ehowders, where tits needed.
The woods are fun Of pesky ants,
The summer girls are dressed like f.irsss
And men who love stif stimulants
How wink ~ the spothscarisz.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
London TO Surely See the Only.

The cabled report of the closing Of q contract
by the Barnum-Bailey circus to play in London
in the fall was confirmed to-day by Manager ].
A. Bailey, VINO, with Agent Louis e. Cooke
came to town to complete the arrangements.
"Our present tour" said Mr.. Bailey, twill close
on September % at Altoona. We come directly
home and get ready to sail October II. A feet
of steamers will be chartered, for the show is to
be carried over intact, cages, wagons and all;
indeed, we are going to add performers, curios
and animals, in order to give London q pro-
gramme that will astonish it. England has
never seen q three-ring. double-stage circus,
such as we now have. For several years we
have been preparing for this venture, Now we
are in ii, and we mean to startle somebody.
Our money is up, and we will surely be exhibit
ing in the big Olympia by November L"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

The plan of having the Johnstown suf-
ferers make affidavit to their losses; to have
the afidavits examined and approved by
the local committee, and to have all of
them registered before the relief is distri-
buted, appears to be full of precautions
against numerous possible mistakes. But
as Hamlet remarks, while the grass grows
the horse starves, and the proverb is as
musty as the relief may be before it reaches
the destitute sufferers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
THEY WANT THE LAKES BED.
Ohio's Canal Commission After the Bottom
of a Big Body Of Wafer.

Ohio's Canal Commission After the Bottom
of n Big Body of Water.
COLUMBUS, July 2-The Canal Commission
will go to Massillon Thursday to consult with
the authorities of that city in an effort to dis
cover whether Sippo Lake. connected with the
water works, does not properly belong to the
State. Sippo Lake is artificial, and is dam
across a valley down which runs Sppo stream.
The dam was authorized in lS45, rolling-mill
company securing the contract for IS, 600 and a
perpetual water lease. 1t was afterward owned
by an individual and was used as feeder for
the canal. In 1858 the dam was blown up and
shortly afterward rebuilt and is part Of the
city water works.
The commission lays claim to the 600 acres
covered by the dam. as they say it was pur-
chased by the State before 1S45 at $50 an acre
Deeds from the original owners have been
found, and there is no record of the States
transfer TO other parties. The land is worth
about 81, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

wages in the Pennsylvania and Ohio iron
mills" says the Providence Journal This
shows the failure of the esteemed Journal to
understand the situation. The wages scale
Is being adopted with the slightest possible
degree of friction, by the simple device of
the Amaleamated Association presenting
moderate scale and the manufacturers ac-
cepting it. There has not been year, for
long time, in which the wages scale was
settled with so little trouble and such
practical unanimitY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

The greatest stroke of policy comprised
in Chicsgo's recent act of annexation has
only been developed within the last day or
two. 1t appears that Chicago has annexed
some half dozen of the suburban cemeteries.
1t may be relied upon that wnen the census
enumerators 20 around next year Chicago
will not miss a single dead man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

Mr.. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw certifes that
the President means to do what is right.
As an illustration Of the idea of what is
right entertained in the Vanderbilt man.
sion. the President can hardly do less than
make good this Endorsement by sending in
the nomination of Colonel Elliot F.
Shepard as Minister to Russia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

A REPUBLICAN organ turns up its nose
at the report that Bishop Oberly proposes to
establish paper in Washington to advocate
civil service reform of the Democratic va
riety. A journal OF that sort might be a
proper subject for jeers, but 1t would not
have half so difficult a task as the organ
which tries to advocate civil service reform
of the Clarkson variety. Such an organ
would have to be published with blank edi-
torial columns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

THE green midges which lately alighted in
the Washington, Pa, wheat fields had a brief
career Nothing now remains of them but
dirty little dried-up sacks" They have not
harmed the wheat The theory is that they
found it too hard to pierce, and died Of starva-
ton.
AT the house of family named Wheatland,
in the First ward, Williamsport, Pa, large
extension table, which had repeatedly bafied
the attempts of several men to get it through
door in an adjoining room, was found, after
the food had subsided, TO be all safe in the
other room, and how it got through that door
is mystery.
THE valuable colt of A. T. McKirsch, of Oil
CITY, Pa, which had been found in the stable
with its tongue cut off, and subsequently with
its ears cut of, was found still later lying
dead in its stall with its throat cut Feeling
runs high among the people at the repeated and
daring acts Of brutality.
A. FISHER, New Castle merchant showed
an ostensible ignoramus how to draw up $50
check, and finds that the lesson has cost him
that amount.
Frederick township, Montgomery county. Pa,
is afflicted with whooping cough.
A KENsINGToN, Pa, teacher explained that
postpone" meant to put OH, and told boy to
use the word in a sentence. His answer glibly
given was: II am going to postpone pack of
shooting crackers on the Fourth"
PHILADELPHIA has received number of
carloads Of wool recovered from the Johnstown
mud to be secured.
THE latest thing in Philadelphia is a plush
piano stool, showing no wood, and resembling
toadstool magnified.
THE warm weather yesterday made. Amos
Wallace, of Columbisna county. Ohio, seek an
ice house to keep cool. He fell asleep, and
when found six hours afterward was nearly
frozen to death.
Preston county. West Virginia, while bathing
in the Cheat river, caught fish ina curious
manner. He was standing in shallow water
Just about to take step when large trout
took hold of his big toe. He gave kick to
free himself Of what he thought was turtle,
when the fish went flying up on the bang. The
Rowley family enjoyed the fish hugely for sup
per that evening.
LANDLORD LIsK. of the Columbia Hotel, at
Portland, shot garfish day before yesterday
that measured q inches.
THE whistle of the bob-white Is heard in
Mifiin county. Pa, denoting that the harvest
time IL near.
JOHN LuBBURs an old man. OF Ash.abula
county, OhioYwhiie bending ever his pigpen
fixing the trough the other day, lost his balance
S~r1 a. <tn u ~oy~c
mad hog and doubtless would have been killed,
had he not had the presence Of mind to take
his pipe from his pocket. that beiag the only
thing he had with him, and with 1t stab the
hog to death. He was injured quite severely,
but is now recovering rapidly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
General snowden's Appointment.

Fr0m the fnlIHueipnlA hecUru.I
The appointment was genuine surprise to
all politicians, because it had been matter of
gossip among them that there was not the most
friendly feeling between Senator Quay and
Colonel Snowden, owing to the latter having
supported Harry Oliver for State delegate to
the Chicago Convention last year. when Quay's
slated candidate. Reed. of PIttsburg. was
beaten. 1t now turns out that the politicians
were wrong in their assumption OF strained re-
because it can be stated upon the best of
authority that Quay had urged Snowden for
the Directorship of the Mint, but the latter de-
clined to become candidate for the place.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
MADE TO DO RIGHT.
An Amish Farmer Forced by his Church to
Pay Five Yeara' Taxes.

MILLERsBURG, o., July 1.-The Amish peo-
pie in this county are noted for their honesty
but case Of peculiar dealing has come out
against one Of their number named Yoder, WHO
worked a sly scheme to avoid paying taxes.
Some years ago this man, it is alleged, sold
large farm to his boys for $4,000. taking long
time notes. Afterward he concsiyed he would
have to pay more taxes on the money than on
the farm. and it is said he destroyed the notes
and then affirmed to the assessors that he had
no notes. The County auditor got onto it. and
finally the church of which he is a member. A
committee of Amish church members was ap-
pointed to investigate the matter, and it called
on the auditor and found out the facts Then
the committee called on Yoder and demanded
the righting of the wrong under pain of expul-
sion from the church. He called on Auditor
Uhl and settled back taxes for four or FIVE
years. He said he would get no rest from the
church until he did 1t. The matter raised big
commotion in the Amish church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

The dissatisfaction Of Cleveland that it
cannot continue to have the advantages
over PIttsburg, in the matter of freights,
that have transferred to that place large
share of the iron and steel industries that
belonged here, is a natural outcome of old
inequalities in transportation. People who
have had the benefit of discrimination for q
long time always squirm when they have
to give it up.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
when You,ve ExercI,ed Too violeutly.

"When your mans asleep is the time to tell
how he stands work" says William Muldoon,
speaking of the amount of training an athlete
should have. So long as he sleeps well he's all
right, but when he begins to be restless and to
have night sweats, and shows similar evidences
that his nervous system is strained, then let
up a little on the work. You've heard men
say they were SO tired they couldn't sleep;
well, that's literally true when man has had
too much exercise. But you need never worry
ais long a. your man sleeps soundlY."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
California Atmosphere and Newspapers.

From the Louisville Courier-JournaL.l
Newspapers printed in San Francisco can
never have national circulation. The type is
SO fine that nobody beyond the Pacific coast
can read it without powerful glasses. Yet if
the publishers were to resort to ordinary type,
such is the clearness of the California atmos-
phere, the papers would look like circus posters,
and their home subscribers would all drop of,
declaring that they were being swindled out Of
their regular quantity Of reading matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

VISITORS to Paris this year are making
the discovery that, while the EIffel tower is
very high, there are two or three things that
are higher. One of them is the price of
hotel accommodations, the other is the time
which some of the visitors to the French
capital are having.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

The friends of Henry M. Stanley have
received authentic information that the ex-
plorer is safe and well. The only trouble
that he is likely to experience from this
time on will arise from the necessity of
rescuing his rescuer. the bicycling Stevens.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

THE Pottery Trust seems to have come
to the appropriate termination of grand
smash before it got into operation. Pottery
combinations are too fragile affairs to swim
down the stream of commerce where they
will come into collision with the law of
competition,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
DISAPPOINTED BUT CoNsoLED.
Failed to Get One Work OF Art, bat se-
cured Another.

Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, July 2-The trustees and
friends of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art are very
much disappointed at their failure to secure
Millett's famous painting, The Angelus"
which was sold for 554,0O0 francs at the Secre-
tan sale in Paris yesterday. Special agents Of
the gallery were sent from America 10 the SALE
with the requisite funds and instructions to
bid for The Angelus'' up to 100000. OF course,
when the French Government entered the lists
as a bidder, IL meant that it was determined TO
rel ain the picture in that country as the prop
erty of the nation, at any price, and it was
therefore practically useless for other aspirants
to contend tor the prize. Stills stated above,
the bidding went up to $4,000, when other
contestants withdrew from the struggle for
that particular picture.
Some consolation for the disappointment ex-
perienced by the gallery in this respect is found
in the fact that 1t has succeeded in securing one
of the best paintings in the collection land
scape by Theodore Rousseau. 1t is entitled.
THE Farm in the Woods" and though not
large, is an exceedingly fine example of the
artists best work. It is also likely that other
pictures in the collection will be acquired by
the gallery before the sale closes, as its dele
gates have ample means and authority to that
end.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
Tn. p.epes. Abyss OF vexatiou.

New York Sun.
There are various sorts of annoyances con-
nected with amateur photography, but the man
who bought one of the small cameras the other
day and, understanding that it was ready for
business, spent a morning in taking shots at
what he thought might be eligible views, and
then, starting to develop his plates, found the
holders empty. no plates having been put into
the camera before it was sold. thinks he has
touched the bottom of the deepest abyss of
yexation in the photograph business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
A CHANGE IN THE CODE.
The American Morse System of Telegraphy
for Use in the Army.

for Use In the Army.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-By general order
issued from army headquarters the American
Morse code will hereafter be used by the army
for all purposes Of signalling, whether visual
or acoustic, and the use of the English Morse,
or Continental code, will be discontinued. This
action was taken upon the recommendation of
the chief signal officer. with view to the
simplifcation of signal instruction and to the
ready employment and utilization In time of
war of skilled civilian telegraphers for mill
tary purposes.
English system, but it is slower than the
American system, and its continuance would
involve the employment of specially trained
experts, who could not be procured in sufi-
cient numbers in an emergency.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

AS United States Minister to Hayti,
Fred Douglas will find some difficulty in
transacting the business of the United
States with the numerous governments that
are claiming to hold power in that island.
A man who represents the United States in
country that has two Governments ought
to have O double salary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
Welded AWAY FROM HOME.
Two Pittsburgers Seek Their Mates in Other
Cfties

The wedding of Miss Vesta Lockhart, daugh-
ter of,Mr. L. B. Lockhart, of the Standard Oil
Company, this city, and Mr.. Frank Stevens. q
weil-known business man of Cleveland, took
place yesterday at Chautauqua. 1t was wit
messed by large gathering of friends from
this and other cities.
Yesterday Mr.. Bert Smith, of Ben venne,
and Miss Ada McFall Of Indianapolis, were
married at the residence of the brides parents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
Too Young for Highwaymeu.

James Krebs, James McGue. Tom Dolan,
Willie Atchison and Mike Hogan. all under ID
years of age, waylaid small Levi Coder, in a
Brooklyn side street last evening. Jimmie
Krebs ordered him to throw up his hands. and
Mike Hogan threatened to blow of the top of
his head if he made an outcry. Young Coder
kept quite still while the kids went through his
pockets. They took his jack-knife. three sticks
of gum and IS cents, and warned him that any
subsequent complaint on his part would result
in his death. Young Coder scampered of to q
police station, nevertheless, and had them all
arrested. They were remanded to-day for
further examination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

THERE is a suggestion of ghoulish glee in
the point raised in an esteemed Philadel-
phia cotemporary, that in view OF the re-
cent wholesale license decision, the title may
come into use, in connection with the Su-
preme judicial tribunal, of "the Supreme
Quart"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
The Uncertaiu,y of Life in Chicago.

From the Chicago News.j
In order that there may be no uncertainty
about the intentions of Camp 20 it would be
well for that mighty institution to issue to in.
offensive citizens of Chicago certificates read
ing as follows:
THE bearer, John Smith, has permission to
live until further notice.
This certificate is not transferable.
CAMP 2op
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03

THE tri-weekly railway wreck and fire
was located in Virginia yesterday. Only
five people having been killed, the public
will not regard the affair as worthy of
much attention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
SECOND sIsh, bat Ne FIr.. sIeht.

From the New York Tribune.js
A Nebraska clairvoyant has just lost 81, 900
by investing that amount in bogus mining
scheme. 1t is mournful fact that many peo-
pie who are gifted with second sight have very
little first sight