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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

KING KALAKAUA of the Sandwich Islands,
will be in the United States within few weeks
He is now flying about the sugar islands round
ing up all the money he can borrow and gather
ing IN all debts.
WHILE at Oakland on Wednesday President
Harrison's family we're weighed, Mrs. Harrison
tipping the beam at l57, Mrs. Mckee at LIS
Little Ben at 80. Baby Mckee at 10 and the
nurse at los pounds,
MRS. c. B. THOMAS, who is spending the
summer at Old Orchard, was the first woman to
enter the Baptist mission work among the
Karens in Lower Burmah, and has served more
years than any missionary in that denomina-
ton. She went to India in 1851
SIR ARTHUR HoDGsoN, who has Just ar
rived in this county from Australia, is known
at home as the KING of Queensland" He
was knighted In 1886 on account of his valuable
services as Honorary Secretary Of the In
dian and Colonial Exhibitors Reception Com
mittee.
SENATOR KENNA, of West Virginia, has
purchased lot on Capitol Hill, Washington,
on which he is going to erect Broom house
for the accommodation of his family for the
next six years. 1t adjoins q house which is
owned and occupied by Senator Barbour, Of
Virginia.
LORD TENNYsoN is busy over his new
patches of proofs. His new volume of poems
will appear in about four months. 1t is so
years since the Poet Laureate won his first
laurels. That was in 1879, when he carried off
the Chsncellor's medal for his ''Timbuctoo." q
poem in blank verse.
GOVERNOR OLIVER AMEs, Of Massachu
setts is seriously ill again at his North Easton
residence. and Lieutenant Governor Brackett
has been summoned from New Hampshire to
perform State executive duties. Heart disease
is the trouble, and the Governors physicians
say that the utmost care will be necessary on
his part to prevent serious results.
AMONG the Pttsburg exeursionists brought
to town yesterday by Thomas E. Watt, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on their way to Cape
May, the most notable figure is ex-Mayor Jared
M. Brush, who served two terms as chief ex-
ecutive Of the Smoky City. Mr.. Brush bears
his years well and takes as active an interest in
politics as he did score of years ago. when he
was the leading man in Pittsburg municipal
affairs.-PhilGdelphid Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
PITTsBURG, SATURDAY, JULY q. 1883.
PAYING FOR ITS WHISTLE.

Parliament wrestled with the subject of
royal allowances yesterday, with decided
disposition on the part of all but the Rad
icals to yield up the necessary funds for the
support of the ramifcations of the ruling
family. The argument of moderate Liberals
and Conservatives alike is that the original
agreement between Parliament and the
Queen having involved the surrender of
large Crown estates, it was the duty of Par
lament to grant the allowances necessary to
support the Queens family in comfort down
to the third, If not the fourth. generation.
1t is perhaps no more than just to say that,
with the premise conceded Shat royal fam
ily is necessary, the logic of the supporters
of this allowance has degree of consist
ency So long as England considers it
requisite to own the fgurehead and parade
of royalty it is no more than fair that En-
gland should pay for it. If this nation
should adopt the idea that it is necessary
for its national happiness and welfare to
maintain an exaggerated and peculiarly
expensive tin whistle, it would be no more
than fair deduction that it must pay for
the whistle. Or, to make the comparison
more cogent, if we should agree that it is
necessary to maintain favored class, to
absorb all the profits of business by trusts
and railway manipulations, then it would
be naturally expected to pay the profits of
those devices for enriching the favored
class-as we are doing now before the
premise is conceded.
If the English Radicals wish to be wholly
logical they should urge the abolition of
useless royalty in order to get rid of the
royal grants. Their abandonment of con-
sistency in order to make the appeal solely
to the British pocketbook is an apparent
failure; but the time will come when En-
gland will emancipate itself from the neces-
sity of paying for its whistle by refusing to
have any whistle at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
NO CHANCE FOR A COMBINE.

The report which comes In our specials
from New York, that English capitalists are
trying to buy up the drygoods stores in
New York, reveals an extraordinary appe-
tite on the part of the English for anything
in the line of American property, or else
indicates that someone is playing conf
dence game. One is about as credible q
hypothesis as the other.
The statement is that the retail merchants
of New York refused to sell their establish
ments; but that need not deter the English
men from going into the drygoods business
If they banker after that trade. II the New
York merchants will not sell out their estab-
lishments they will sell out their stocks of
goods, and the New York real estate men
will kindly contract to lease the Britishers
all the stores they need. And after our
English brethren have started their dry
goods stores they will md that their pos
sessions will do them little good unless they
can furnish the same keen business manage
ment and personal supervision that the
present stores have.
Anyone can go into the drygoods business
who wishes. That is the reason why sue
cess is won on the principle of giving the
best bargains for the least money, and why
prices are kept steadily on the basis of a
narrow margin of profit. This is the radical
distinction between legitimate competition
and the trust tactics.
If English money is to be obtained on the
hope that trust or combination can rule
the drygoods trade, it is only necessary to
remark that an extraordinary lot of fools in
England are seeking the opportunity to be
parted from their money in the promptest
manner
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
THE EXPOSITION OF 1892.
What is Being Done In the Interest Of the
Worlds Fair at Washington.

Worlds Fair at Washington.
ESPECIAL TELxeRAM TO THE pIsPATcH.i
WAsHINGToN, July 26-Secretary Ander-
son, Of the National Board of Promotion. is
working diligently in the interests of the pro-
posed Three Americas Exposition to be held
here in 1892 Standing committees have been
appointed by the Boards Of Trade in 50 or more
cities, and it is expected as many more will be
appointed before the 23d of next October, the
date fixed for the meeting of the Governors,
Mayors, officers and committees of Boards of
Trade and others composing the Exposition
National Board of Promotion.
That date was chosen for the reason that the
Three Americas Commercial Congress, COM
posed of delegates from the 10 American sister
nations, will then be in session in this city, and
therefore gives favorable opportunity to the
official representatives of the States cities, and
commercial bodies of the United States to
other American nations and formulate con-
cert of action for the greater event which Is to
follow-the Three Americas Exposition in
1892. The movement for the Exposition has,
for the three years 1t has been under way, been
earnestly indorsed by the Governors 81 40
states and Territories, the Mayors of SO leading
cities, l76 presidents and secretaries of boards
of trade throughout the United States, and the
masters and secretaries of most of the State
and Territorial oranges, all of whom have, by
formal letters, accepted membership in the
National Board of Promotion, which has
charge of the movement.
The standing committee appointed on the
Exposition by the Pittsburg Chamber of Com
merce is composed of William E. Schmertz,
81. Anderson, Reusen Miller, Charles W. Bach
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
CANNOT COME TOO SOON.

There is not a bit of doubt that Treasurer
Thompson, of the Relief Commission, per-
fectly expresses the requirement of the stu
alton as well as public opinion of the right
course in urging at once a distribution of
the whole money on hand for Johnstown.
No good reason can now stand in the way.
Governor Beaver and the Eastern members
judgment of the Western members, if indeed
they do not already fully concur. Distribu-
tion cannot be ordered too soon. Nothing
will help the Johnstown people more than
to realize whatever measure of temporary
independence and freedom of action the dis
tribution will give them. 1t will furnish q
stimulus, at least, to new effort.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
MnSQnITn HAWKS.

Some time ago THE DISPATCH pointed
out the innumerable benefits to be derived
from training some bird or insect to prey
increasingly upon the pestiferous mosquito.
1t was a mosquito hawk of which we sug-
gested the employment in places where the
bloodthirsty insect contrives to make life a
burden. Now, DIR. Robert II. Lamborn, a
philanthropic scientist OF New York City.
is prepared to give practical effect to our
suggestion.
1t has occurred to DR.. Lsmborn that the
dragon fly is the hawk of the insect world,
and that it must naturally have prefer
ebce for mosquitoes fattened on human
blood. Then, says he, the thing to do is to
raise dragon flies in the mosquito infested
neighborhoods. If only enough of the
dragon flies can be let loose in New Jersey,
for instance. that State will be entitled to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
BIG STORIES AND BIG SNAKES.

AN immense snake, with a head as large as
an ordinary sized bulldog" is frightening the
natives on the ridge near Millwood, Pa. 1t Is
said to have been seen by quite number Of
persons, all of whom drink the same brand.
A l2-FooT blacksnake was killed by David
Amalong. near Haryey's Five Points, Pa, o
few days ago. The snake pursued Mr.. Anna
long for quite a distance, and in his flight he
succeeded in securing stout club, when he
turned and slew the reptile
FRED LoRENTz, Marshal county, W. Va,
farmer. was moving a field of clover tine other
day, with a machine mower, and when he
finished he found that the mower had slaugh-
tered IL copperhead snakes and black snakes
Several of the poisonous coppers were over ?
feet in length.
MRS. ]. M. WoRLEY widow Of Denlson
Tex, lost her eye in very singular manner.
She visited the chicken coop for the purpose Of
removing large Plymouth Rock rooster to a
box When ths rooster was taken from the
perch it struggled violently and thrust spur
into the left eye of Mrs. Worley, destroying the,
sight forever.
A MAN named o. Ferrie at Bellaire, Mich,
and he is little hatchet sort of a man, says
that his turkey gobbler strayed of among the
byways of his farm and was missed for several
days. When found he was contentedly sitting
astride some hens eggs, from the nest of
which he had driven the hen. The old gobbler
has been given full swing. and the world
awaits the result Of his nursing.
A RATTLEsNAKE Al feet long was killed on
James Hardy's farm at 1rishtown, near Dun
bar, Pa, by three men recently. The snake
had charmed a ground squirrel which it was
about to seize when Keffer's famous dog Tray
discovered it. and interfered with its sport.
Tho dog would have made short work Of the
snake but was prevented by the men. The
RATHER was three inches in diameter and had
six rattles.
"A MAMMOTH rattlesnake, measuring IA feet
in length, was killed near Little Rock, Ark, by
a fisherman named ]. A. Van Horton. When
discovered the snake was coiled around small
sycamore tree, and the fisherman killed 1t by
bullet through the head The thickness OF the
reptile was between four and i've inches. and
there we're 50 rattles on its tail. When cut open
three young rabbits and 90 guinea eggs were
found inside.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

profit in the production of pig iron, narrow
though it is, has been sufficient to induce
private owners to keep their plants in blast,
even although stocks have continued to ac-
cumulate.
1t is apparent on the face of it, however,
that margins in the pig iron business are
very slight, and if the result of the increase
OF stock should be to cause a decline in
prices, it is equally clear that very slight
decline will turn the balance between loss
and profit. Much of the increase in stocks
may be due to the expectation on the part
of the trade that there will soon be an in
creased demand for iron products. Unless
that expectation prove to be well founded
within the next few months, the conclusion
is very strongly indicated that the accumu-
lated stocks will cause decline in the mar
ket, and corresponding decrease In the
production until the excess of supply over
demand is fully rectifed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
FUTURE OF THE AKGELUS.
Its Owner Cannot Stand the Expense Of
Bringing II TO America to stny.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.I


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArca.I
NEW YORK, July 26-James F. Sutton, of
the American Art Association, who bought
Millet's great picture, "The Angelns," after
the French Government failed to secure it at
the price at which it was knocked down at the
Secretan sale in Paris. on July ], arrived in
town to-day from France. on the steamship
Lain. Mr.. Sutton was enthusiastic in praise
of the picture, but said any patriotic American
who could appreciate patriotism in French
man. would be sorry that France was not to
have the picture. "The French made great
mistake in not keeping the picture" said Mr..
sutton. "and they are aware of 1t now. It's a
very sadthing for art in France, that it is to be
taken from the country. for believe the pic
ture is the greatest picture ever painted by any
artist 1t is my intention now, however, to place
1t on exhibition in Paris. for the benett Of
Mime. Millet, who lives with her daughter in
Paris, and is quite poor. AS soon as L can be
the benefit"
when will the .Apgelus' be brought to
American"
"Aht, hat dontknow about, "said MI. Sutton.
The duty Of 80 per cent on imported paintings
stops me. Otherwise would have it here soon:
In the first place, to the knock-down price OF
$4,000 francs (sll0 600), the Government adds
Zee OF per cent, as is customary, which brings
the amount to 5S0,650 francs, or sll6.l30 The
duty would be S34, ,S39 making the price, deliv-
cred in New York, sl50969. As the picture, ex-
elusive of frame, is 221< inches wide and 2511
inches in length, it seems that the .Angelus
would cost $500 a square inch. delivered in
over in bond, to exhibit it if necessary this fall
as the Vesretchagin pictures were exhibited in
New York last winter. Then 1 could take it
back to France. The picture 81 not for sale. and
will not be for sale. If itgoes out of our hands
1t will probably be presented to museum.
The Corcoran Gallery worked hard enough to
get it. Even If Mr.. Proust had bought the
picture for the Government i would have
brought it over this fall to exhibit with the
Bayer collection, to be shown in the American
art galleries. That is now entirely uncertain,
owing to the loss of small fortune in duties II
it is brought here to remain permanently. 1
hope Congress will pass it through the Custom
House free, by special act"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
THE LARGE IRON PRODUCTION.

The statistics Of pig iron production for
the past half of 1889 show that the out
put was greater than for any preceding six
months in the history of the country. This
is accompanied by the fact that the increase
in demand did not keep pace with the in
crease in the production, for the returns of
stock on hands have increased 5000 net
tons more than the entire increase in
product. These facts point to conclusion
exactly the reverse of what has been repre-
sented by trade reports, namely, that the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
IN JEST AND EARNEST.


"A Seasonable dlnt.-Iast summers
flannel shirt is now worn thin enough to be hearty
cool as nnen.-Puck.
Truth is mighty, but she is ignomini-
ously worsted when she encounters q fishing ex-
cursiou.-Merchant Traveller.
Ifr rou wont In ind ont all ahout vornen
Wv 49, " --a' - 80 -, 80 -.
anu 'nei. go 80. ga,,s. Er.-sss '
oeen
Two sucn oiinu men as Mison anu
nomer i.'ne r, p.'.r
0u. oi Hsh' ou. VI n',.
-Preacher-How did you IKE my sermon
to-day, Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. smith-Charming. q. tell me, who was
that odious-looking woman in the nrst pew with
the plum-colored hat?-- Time.
There are no politicians in heaven. If
there had been the streets would never have been
paved with gold. They would have run in brass
blocks on the contract and fxed 1t with the sur
yeyor at gold prices.-Nso Orleans Pfcdyune.
Not Great Barpain.-'sI GOT that dirt
Io,as 20 Mrs snitb ro,rt,r.
enesp, ss ssiu sssanan1-hsrd NJ. ,edding
.sInSI pa donse think such dirt,s chean at .uy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

THE loss to the Pennsylvania Railroad
by reason of the food is shown by its state
ments to have been 81, 149. 900 in gross earn
ings, AMI SS04. 900 in net earnings. The sur
plus earnings of the company for the year,
SO far, balance this loss, so that it is only
s2s2, 900 in net earnings behind the same
period for last year. The loss to the COM
pany in the expenditures necessary to repair
its tracks and bridges will increase this
sum very much. But the company is
fortunate in having a large surplus on
hands, by which this contingency can be
met. The presence of the surplus which
enables the company to meetthe demands of
this juncture without any probability OF
passing its next dividend, is one of the most
convincing demonstrations of the wisdom
of the policy which accumulated that fund.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
LIZZIE.
vonder cf all vimmiu air

Iwonder ef all wimmin air
Like Lizzie is when we go out
To theaters an concerts where
Is things the papers talk about.
Do other wimmin fret an stew
Like they wuz bein' crucined-
Frettin' show or concert through,
With wonderin' ef the baby criedf
Now Lizzie knows that gran'ma's there
To see that everything is right,
Yet Lizzie thinks that gran'ma's care
Amt good enuff FIR baby, quite;
Yet what am / to answer when
She kind NV fdgets at my side,
An asks NE every now and then:
81 wonder II the baby cried?n
seems like she seen two little eyes
A-plnin' FIR their mothers smile
Seems like she heern the pleadin' cries
Nv one she thinks nv all the while;
An SO she's sorry that she come,
An though she allus tries to hide
The truth she'd.ruther stay to hum
Than wonder ef the baby cried.
Yes, wimmin folks is all alike
BY Lizzie you kin jedge the rest;
There never wuz little tyke.
But that his mother loved him best,
And mex to bein' what be-
The husband nv my gentle BRIDE
ia wisht .wuz ,that croodlin' wee.
With Lizzie wonderin' eff cried.
Chicago Nssos
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
THE decision of a CINCINNATI Judge tha

The decision of Cincinnati Judge that
ice cream can no longer be regarded as a
luxury, but has become necessity, creates
good deal of comment. Coming from any
other city it might be regarded as surpris-
ing; but Cincinnati has always been famous
for entertaining unique ideas on the subject
of necessities and luxuries. 1t has been q
long-standing rule in Cincinnati that beer
is necessity of life, while pure water is
one of the widest and most extravagant
luxuries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

THE State of New York has now spent
about s., 900 in a discussion by electric e1-
perts of the question whether electric light
currents will kill or not. Yet free de-
monstration of the IA ct has been furnished
by unwary travellers on the streets of New
York City who have come in contact with
loose electric light wires; and it is probable
that any of the committee who have doubts
upon the subject would havebeen permitted
to make full tests in their own persons
without any charge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

IT is asserted by good authority that
sugar can be refined in the United States at
as small cost as anywhere else in the
world. This being the case, the fact that
the people of the United States are paying
about twice as much for having their sugar
refined ss any other country in the world,
should make it the business of our law
makers to ensure that things are put upon
basis so that sugar will have to be refined
as cheaply here as elsewhere, or else to let
the people buy their sugar of other
countries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

retain her place in the Union in summer,
during which period she has hitherto been
forced to remain outside.
More than this. DR.. Lamborn has gener-
ously offered $500 in prizes for essays on
dragon flies and practical plans for using
them effectively as hawks among the ac-
cursed mosquitoes. 1t might also be well to
include plans for preventing the dragon
flies from becoming greater nuisance than
the mosquitoes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

JULIAN HAwrHoRNE's information to
the country by carrier pigeon line, that the
scripps League expedition has got safely
halfway over the ocean. is more novel than
important. The pigeons are to be congrat-
ulated for their success in bringing the
news; but the country could have restrained
its impatience long enough to receive the
intelligence by the cable route.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

IT is rather interesting to learn, from the
indianapolis Journal, that while that Or
gan of the administration does not wish "to
raise false expectations" there is hope
that President Harrison will visit Indian
apolis this fall. The expectation is cer-
tainly founded upon justice. As Indian
apolis has visited the President at WASH
ington it is no more than right that General
Harrison should pay off the social debt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

grumble over municipal taxation should
ponder over the paragraph which comes
from New York City, to the effect that the
New Workers are rejoicing over tax rate
of only 81 95 on the 500 of valuation,
which, it is asserted, is the lowest rate for
thirty years. The comparison should cause
Pittsburg's 12-mill rate to be regarded with
q good deal Of philosophie liberation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27
His WIFE. Evidence the Best.

William johnson. OF 407 Seventh avenue, had
his wife arrested last night for assaulting and
beating him. In court to-day, "Jedge," he
said, "dat air woman's terror. She cum after
me wild big razor, an she'd a. killed me suah,
ledge. ef hadn't a. run like a streak. She
said ter me, she says, look out, Use a comm
fur yer den she plucked dat razor outer her
stockin'. an jes' cum fur me like sixty" Mrs.
johnson broke in:" He's a lynn like 2:40, Jedge.
Inever carried no razor in my stockin', cos
don't wear no stockin'. Seer she said, at the
same time raising one ankle, so the Judge
might look. She told the truth "Well, she
bit me, any way" broke In the husband. "Dat's
another lie, Jedge," said the wife. How could
bite him when I amt DO teeff Jest look
heah." She opened her mouth wide, showing
that she had only couple of molars in the
rear Of her mouth. swell, that's indIsputable
evidence" remarked the Judge. You're dis
charged. Before you bring her here again,
William, you want to buy her some stockings
and set of teeth"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-27

THE news that William T. Coleman, of
San Francisco, has sold his California min
ing interests for s., 900, 900 in cash is calcu-
lated to create an apprehension that Mr..
Coleman is about to indulge in the expen-
siye luxury of another Presidential boom.