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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
Spring 0VercOats.

For Men! For Boys! For Children!
The best goods of all the leading American and
European producers constantly in stock. Over,
coats to accommodate not only the person
of average size and shape, but to fit
the tall and the Short the lean
and the fat Prices guaran-
teed at least IS per cent
under all other dealers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
MODERATION!

Still stands firmly as one of our
pioneer principles. We purchase for
cash the merchantable treasures of
the world at the closest margins
and sell on the narrowest limit of
profit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PROGRESSION!

procession in every
thing, never failing to indorse modern enter
prise. Show US a new way that is better
than the old, and you'll find US in the front
rank holding up the torchlight of advance
ment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

Pdoe TO Marie ATtoinette suppose Paris
looked 100 years ago? Thanks to the
Monde LlluStre, which this week has
printed lot of pictures on the subject, L
am able to answer the question, in a
rambling sort of way, it is true, but which
may not be without interest to readers of
The DISPATCH.
Then, as now, the Pont-Neuf was the
heart of the capital, the center of movement
and circulation, of the flow and ebb not
only of inhabitants but of foreigners who
came to Paris. A few steps from the old
bridge was the Chatelet, a building COM
posed of three towers, two of which pro-
tected the entrance to the city, and at the
summit of the other was a gallery or bal
cony surrounded by an iron balustrade, that
was reserved for the gatekeepers and night
wstchmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A CELEBRATED DUEL,

The chronicles of those days relate that an
officer having, one afternoon in the Bois de
Boulogne, In the presence of Mile. Maillard.
who was disguised as a man as was her
custom, insulted lady whom he accused of
having deceived him, the goddess of the
opera struck him with a whip; a duel with
pistols followed, Maillard wounded her ad-
versarY, and he learning the sex of his op-
ponent hastily left the city,
The Comedie Francaise then occupied q
beautiful house near the Luxembourg that
later on became the Odeon Theater When
the first days of spring had arrived, every-
body on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fri
days, under pretext of going to the little
church of the ancient royal abbey
situated at the extremity of the
Bois de Boulogne, went into the park
to show of theire finest carriages, horses
and livery. Dilapidated facres made way
for new and elegant coaches, and the latest
thing for style was the wiski, an imitation
of English vehicles, as dangerous for pedes-
trians as they were for those who rode in
them, on account of their shape and great
height, but that was of little consequence
for the most fashionable ladies never dreamt
of appearing at Longchamps in any other
kind. Later in the day, when the fashiona-
bic promenade was over, the CAV public
went to admire the charming house that the
Count d 'Artois was having built at the bot
tom of the Bois, a small, but charming
chateau, outside of which were grottoes and
wild spots, while inside were boudoirs
draped in blue satin, and this little bijou,
built in two months, he called the Baga-
ellie, and it is still standing.
HENRY HAYNIE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PRACTICAL ECONOMY! Cash :, buy

cash basis of trade, is the only sure practical
economy, and will live as the survival of the
lttest ages after the moss of Old Fogyism
hangs drearily dripping from dead and gone
Credit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PARIS In THE PAST.
Life in the Gay Metropolis During
the Merry Monarchy,
OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Swells, Bellies, Actors and Actresses of the
Last Century.
PR0MENADES, PRISONS AND PILLORY
OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
PRONEEGDES, PRISONS AND PILLORY
rcORRksroNDENcr or THE n1spArcH.,

P A r I s 5,
April 1S.-
We are in the
cente nniai
Y e a r o f
French lib
erty, and the
greatest Ex-
position the
world h a s
ever known
has been ar
ranged to eel
ebrste tn e
importan n t
events which
the e revolu-
tion brought
about. Well,
how do you
d..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
G. w. SCHMIDT,
9S and 81 Fifth 4

95 and 81 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
The largest holder of fine old Rye and
Bourbon whiskies in the United States
offers in bond or tax paid the following
goods,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
THSEVEN GREAT Pill LARS@ OUR HOUSE.
CosMoPoLoTIsM! MODERATIONl FAIR EXCHANGED
CONSISTENCY!

CONSISTENCY! One price rules at
our store, and one
line of policy as to bargains universally
of bargains all over the house. Each depart
ment has its own special inducements to keep
trade stirring.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
COSMOPOLITAN!

There is no line of demarkation at
our store, white or black, citizen or
alien, rich or poor, sect or 'set."
All are welcome, and there is room
enough in this big store for all to be
served fairly and honestly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
MEMS SPRING SUITS.


There another Clothing Ptsbug
and quality In
one-hrd We
desire We Suits
being
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

G. W. SCHMIDT will sell you one quart
of 1880 Pure Rye Export Whisky for ST..
95 and 81 Fifth Ave-, City.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
BOURBON.

W. a. McBrayer, Old Grow, Hermitage,
Bond & Lilliard. o. F. c. Carlisle. Hume,
Mellwood and Nelson. Telephone Num-
Der 666.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
RVE

Gibson, Melvsle. Monticello, Dougherty,
Mt. Vernon, Hannisville, Overholt Guck-
enheimer, Hermitage, Moss, Large and G..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

two years later made her debut with great
success, and her admirable voice, beauty,
imposing figure, and majestic manners made
her the most magnificent personi6catlon of
the grand lyric art of that period. She was
a very eccentric person, but this did not
diminish her success and popularity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

CASH paid for old gold and silver at
Hauch's, No, 295 Fifth ave. wFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

rendezvous Of all
idlersS sSnd elegant
women. Under
the chestnut trees
w arme d the
crowd of "mus-
cadins" or swells
of the period, and
among them were
the Duke de
Chartres, after
ward King Louis
Philippe, Mile.
Lange and Nine.
Cabdeille, cele-
brated beauties of
the last days of
the monarchy,
and the Marquis
de Bsgueville,
who tried to cross
the Seine oD
wings, and sue
ceeded in break.
ing his leg by
falling on a boat
belonging to some
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
HORRIBLE DUNGEONS.

This Chstelet had its cachots or dungeons,
in one of which the prisoner was fastened
by chains in such a manner that he could
neither hold himself upright nor lie down,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
FASHIONABLE RESORTS.

Then, as now, for that matter, the PaIais
Royale was the unique spot of its sort on
earth, and has often been called ''the capi-
tai Of Paris" A hundred years ago every
body went there, and no one found it easy
to drag himself away from this Aladdin;s
palace. 1t was morning and evening the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

and where, owing to filtrations of the Seine,
his feet were always in the water. and he
had for companions toads and reptiles. Into
others the unfortunate victims had to be let
down by means of a pulley. At the side of
the entrance to these dungeons was the
morgue, so called from the verb morguer.
which means to stare at, to look at fixedly,
as one would gaze on a dead BODY when
anxious to identify it. The morgue of the
Chatelet was composed of a very dark hall
and little room raised some few steps and
badly lighted by garret window. In this
room the dead body was washed with water
from well, which was still in existence in
1s4O. and was used by little restaurant in
the Rue Pierre-au-Poisson, just where the
Chateiet Theater now stands
The pillory, in full view of the shops, was
an octagonal tower topped with an extin-
guisher shaped roof, while on a platform
stood the machine with horizontal holes in
which the head and feet of the victim were
placed. The worst of it was this machine
went up and down at frequent intervals.
and the unfortunate devil in its embrace
was thus kept almost continually before the
public,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

OlASINO MUSEUM.
WEEK OF APRIL 20,
NELSON'S
Beau Ideal Dog Circus.
PAULINE AMES.
REED AND REED.
Master of Equipoise,
SINCLAIR,
In Slack Wire Act.
MILE AIMEE,
Sleeping in Mid Air
Prof. Greenbaum, Eureka Chicken Mill.
Dick James. Golden Haired Albino.
Master Willie. Boy Snake Charmer.
To conclude with CLARK GIBBS Roaring
Afterpiece.
May 2O-"Christ Before Plate" in wax.
ap2S-lO0
u G. REINEMAN-
81 AND 81 SIXTH STREET.
Headquarters for Costumes of all descriptions
for hire at reasonable prices.
mh17-S6-su F. g. REINEMAN. :
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
SPRING FURNISHING GOODS.

accompanied by low prices the direct of business being
People
glance that offerings and that display
of Fine Neckwea, Underwear, Shirts Waists,
krchief Collars and Cuffs Umbrellas Suspenders
be this
other departments the prices and
the LOWEST IN ALL CASES
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

Every cent spent with US brings
to the spender full value re-
turn. The purchaser of
small amounts is waited on as
if he were the purchaser of
tenfold the quantity, and no
discrimination is allowed be-
tween rich and poor, country
or city shopper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
BOYS And CHILDREN'S SPRING SUIT

made or onH if tmatw tour
come a in the as poib ef
Sa1 now at
the ma well Wowert
for
nc dememb berune eswe show then masavng
in the Of their giving satisfaction. Only let
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
A REV ROsTRUM.

Some ingenious and patriotic person has
suggested that Congress make an appropria-
tion for permanent rostrum to be built in
front of the White House grounds in Wash
ington. 1t is to take the place of the tenn
porary reviewing stands that are erected
from time to time to accommodate the Pres
ident. The rostrum is to be OF white marble
with Corinthian pillars, and wide steps ris-
ing from the White House grounds. 1t is
hoped that by this means the nation may
be spared the melancholy spectacle of an
administration foundering among the TIM
berS of collapsed stand.
But the rostrum may be utilized for more
purposes than merely reviewing professions.
To a President who is fond of making
speeches the rostrum would be very accept
able. Instead of shaking his hand off at
tiresome public receptions, he might address
the people from the rostrum once week.
These al JreSco orations would be hailed
with delight in Washington. Mr.. Harrison
is not fond enough of hearing himself talk
to care to establish such a custom, and he is
too cautious speaker to take full advan-
tage of the opportunities to blunGer. An
drew johnson would have added to his rep
utation as an indiscreet orator had the
White House rostrun been standing in his
day.
In a casual way also the rostrum will be
handy for Presidents who desire, like Mr..
Cleveland, for instance, to rate the Wash
ington newspaper correspondents, or like a
still more recent occupant of the White
House to express his opinion of the swarms
of ofice-seekers. Pessimlsts may also hasten
to point out what convenience the rostrum
will be to future Chief Magistrates who de-
sire to sell Cabinet places to the highest
bidders. An auction of this sort would be
most appropriately held in front of the
White House. But then pessimists say rude
things about everything and everybody.
Even a Presidential rostrum is not safe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24

and juries are sadly given to putting low
value on broken hearts if they be mascu-
line. But surely a mans heart is damaged
by being broken, even if the process of
fracture be not so painful as in the case of q
woman. Men who are unfortunate enough
to be Tilted deserve the sympathy of the
world, but jeers and jests are all they are
like to get.
There is one man in Ohio at least who
does not propose to let his feelings be trifed
with, his heart lacerated and his purse de-
pleted by heartless female without some
revenge. He has sued the wealthy widow
who gave him her heart, took his, and then
withdrew the former without word of ex-
PLANTATION. Good, substantial damages are
what he seeks for the breach in his affections.
We do not suppose he will win the suit, but
his courageous effort will be splendid ex-
ample for his sex to keep before them.
These trihers in petticoats, widows equipped
in all the panoply of experience, maidens
demure but dangerous, will be less un-
scrupulous and daring when they see that
the law has some hold upon them even in
the domain of love.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
Lively Day for the shoyeIer,.

For long time the Department of the City
Works in Brooklyn has been trying to persuade
the Long Island road to elevate its tracks to
the level of several streets newly cut through
and graded. Last week City Works Commis-
sioner Adams informed tho company that it
must elevate its tracks at street crossings Of
the Manhattan Beach road, and If it were not
done by to-day the city would cover the tracks
The company's attorneys were trying to get an
injunction to-day, when theylearned that Com
missioner Adams men were covering the tracks
with earth, and that several Long Island trains
were blocked. Street Inspector Hickey had
turned out in force to encourage the city's
laborers. The railroad men shoveled of the
earth as 1t was shoyeledon The blocked trains
got by finally, at moments when the railroad
shovelers outshoveled their opponents. The
situation was getting hot, and the railroad men
were being pelted with stones when squad Of
policemen arrived. The police stopped the
stone throwing but gave the street force pro-
lection. Then the track was covered over.
Somebody, amid the cheers Of the people,
planted an American flag over the buried
tracks,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
THICK SKINS.

Wiseacres say that hard winter is upon
us. They base their prophesy upon sundry
signs in nature, of which the thick skins of
certain fruits are one. If thickskinedness
is an omen of cold weather, what does it
portend in man? Take the habitual sinner,
the man who does unto his neighbor as he
would not have his neighbor do unto him,
who lives pariah and dies incorrigible, are
we to suppose that cool season awaits him
across the Sty1? We trust not. He is
more like to complain of heat than cold
where he is going to. Yet your incorrigible
sinner always has a thick skin.
In the arena of politics it is markedly of
interest to examine the pachydermatous
portents. Did you ever know a thin
skinned politician? Did you ever see a
crimson crow? There is no danger of in
justice in asserting that all politicians of
anyprominence are thick-skinned. Then are
we to suppose that they are doomed to see
cold day? Some of them may. nay, some of
them must experience the chill air of dis
content and defeat But in most cases the
thickness Of the politicians skin portends a
cold day not for himself but for the dear
public. The thicker the statesman's skin
the colder the weather for the taxpayer.
How thick are the skins of the political
leaders IN nation, State and CITY to-day?
About as usual-and the public will enjoy
its cold day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
A NOVEL WRITER INSANE.
Rejection of Her Manuscript Drives a Young
Lady Crazy.

Rejection of Her Manuscript Drives Young
Lady Crazy.
CANANDAIGUA, N. Y. October 2a-Mrs.
Jacob Reaton, who lives near Naples, Ontario
county, was startled early yesterday morning at
discovering young woman sitting on the steps
Of her house clad only In thin nightgown
She was moaning and mumbling to herself, and
when disturbed fed toward the woods. Mrs.
Reaton concluded that the girl was insane, and
summoned her son, who started in pursuit.
After long chase he overlook the girl, who
stoutly resisted capture. When she was at last
subdued the young man was horrified to find
that she was Hattie French. the I9-year-old
daughter of prominent and wealthy citizen of
Naples. She had been bright and favorite
member Of society, had taught school with sue
cess and had literary pretentions.
She was taken home and it was learned that
in the night she had become violently delirious,
and when her father attempted to subdue her
had fed from the house. Organized parties had
searched for her in the rain all night and 1t
was feared she had drowned herself In Canan-
daigus Lake. Miss French had worked hard at
her duties in the schoolroom and had added to
the strain upon her mind by literary work.
She was always great reader, and she had
lately been at work upon q novel, from which
she hoped great success. It was rejected by the
publishers and she brooded over her failure
until her mind became unsettled. She has
been placed in an asylum.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
"0f the Western herof"
"Precisely-but in the play"
TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS.
Quaint Old Document, Telling of the
Purchase of Manhattan.

ST. PAUL, October 23.-Samuel H Thayer. of
Minnesota, United States Minister at The
Hague, has written to the Rev. DR.. E. D. Neill,
Dean of Macallister College, inclosing quaint
and ancient document The letter and docu-
ment are self-explanatory. Here they are:
My DEAR DoCToB:-Knowing that the Histor-
ical Society sometimes accepts small contribu-
tions, 1 take the liberty of inclosing herewith
copies in Dutch and English text of the only docu
transfer of Manhattan Island from the Indians to
the Dutch in 1928. also send you under separate
cover photograph Of the original, which pro-
cured few days since. SAMUEL K. THAYER.
The following is translation Of the original
document:
To the High and Mighty Lords of the states-Gen-
eral at the Hague:
MY LoRps-There arrived here yesterday the
ship called The Arms Of the Amsterdam, which
sailed from the river Mauritius (now the Hudson),
IN New Eetherand, on September 23. Report Is
brought that our people there are digent and live
peaceably. Their wives have also borne them chill
dren. They had purchased the island of Manhattan
from the Indians for the sum Of 60 guilders. II
all kinds of grain In the middle of May, and reaDed
1t in the middle of August
send you small samples of the summer grains,
as wheat. rye, barley, oats, buckwheat canary
seed, beans and fax. The cargo of the ship con-
sists of 246 beaver skins, H. S12 otter skins, 43
mink. 36 cat-lynx, 80 mink, "a small rat, together
with a considerable quantity of oak timber and
lordships to the favor of the Almighty, am your
high mightinesses' humble servant
P. scHAGEN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
PITTsBURG, THURSDAY, OCT. "a, I8S
AN OLD CHARACTERISTIC.

The oil market, which proved such live
lydelusion to many speculative people here
abouts in times past, has lost much of its
activity, but not its old characteristic ofrun-
ming counter to the field reports. Yesterday
1t danced up to four cents above the dollar
line, utterly regardless of the late strikes In
the CHARTERS field and of the accounts of big
gushers in West Virginia. There was a
time when a sudden advance like this would
bring in u crowd of lambs, who generally
bought on a rise, but the attractions of oil as
a speculative commodity are not now nearly
so strong as formerly. There is healthy
reason for this, besides merely the expert
ence which was dearly bought on
the exchanges. 1t is neither more nor
less than the industrial growth Of this town,
and the recent multiplication Of opportuni-
ties for money making in SO many lines Of
safer investment. Alike the people with
large and those with moderate surplus find
profitable business openings in time when
growth and prosperity are the order of the day.
The movement in real estate-the extensive
buying and building of homes-also makes
diversion of funds from the merely specu-
latve channels into which they formerly
flowed.
The vagaries of the oil market will con-
tinue to be watched with curious interest; but
no very considerable part of the public will
be found taking such an extensive hand in
it as was usual three, five or seven years
aro
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24

to be the most injurious to Kansas borrow
ers. 1t ought to be evident to them that the
condition which will soonest bring them re-
lief from usurious exactions like this one, is
to have their notes and mortgages given
such security and reliability that investors
everywhere can take them with confidence
in their reliability. Of course, after the re-
suit of this suit is widely known, no East
ern investor, however desirous he may be of
getting or per cent interest, will buy a
Kansas mortgage; for the simple reason that
he can have no assurance of its security.
In this particular case there appears to
have been equivalent mixtures of fool and
knave on the side of both borrower and
lender. But the experience of the world
testifes beyond question that the most
stringent usury laws never accomplish their
object of bringing down interest rates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-24
WISE MODIFICATION.

The modification of that order Of the Pitts
burg and Western Railroad prohibiting the
shipment of nut coal and slack, so as to per-
NIT certain proportion .f the cars to be
used for that purpose, removes the railroad
from decidedly false position. 1t surely
ought not to require any argument to show
that railroad combining the obligations of
the public highway and common carrier.
cannot place one class of traffic under an
embargo in order to give others better facil-
tiles. That this should be done in the case
of so legitimate freight as nut coal and
slack, which is used in the production of SO
much other freight, is singular, and SO far
unexplained: idiosyncrasy Of railway oper-
alton. The modified order changes the rule
so that it amounts to distribution of cars
among the various classes of traffic. This
may be an allowable method of getting over
the car shortage; but it is q question
whether any shipper has not the right to de-
mand his proportion of cars and to use what
he gets in the way that his business most
urgently requires.