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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

BY the time that the Government has
paid indemnity for few more anti-Chinese
ris is like that in Milwaukee, it may dawn
upon the minds of the public that the best
way of treating this non-assimilation of the
Mongolians is not in the direction of assim-
ilating their property by mob law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

were not afraid to show themselves plainly
in the sight of all men here. These vices
have not been extirpated, but they have
been driven into hiding. The growth in
public virtue is demonstrated by the retire
ment Of vice. Taking the city as whole,
temperance, decency and morality in gen.
eral are daily taking stronger hold, and
all that is criminal and vicious is being
beaten down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
DON'T PAY FOR HONESTY.
The Small Salaries Paid Men Who Hold
Responsible Positions.

Responsible Positions.
From the New York SUM-
"It isreparkable," said welEknown bank
official the other day. what small salaries are
paid to men who are entrusted with the daily
handling of vast sums of money. Take the
cashiers, the tellers and the bookkeepers in
our large financial institutions. Their salaries
are comparatively small, while their RESPONSE
bilities are immense. know President Of
bank note company in this city who receives
$4,000 year. He handles at least one thou
sand times that amount of securities every
year, and his opportunities for theft are tre-
mendous. His position compels him to live
high. and yet he has little income outside of his
salary A cashier of one of our banks testified
at the Kerr trial the other day to handling un-
limited 81, 900 bills, and yet his salary is less
than 81 800. 1t is a wonder to me that there are
not more defalcations."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
The Desire of Kicking.

From Detroit Free Press.J
The American baseball players are having
some remarkable experiences in England.
They will attend services at Westminster
Abbey on Sunday. When during their visit
the Speaker of the House Of Commons over
ruled point of order made by one of the
members Anson shouted: kick, you bloom
ing chump, kickl Don't let the umpire do
you up!'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

The scarcity of farm hands in the pro-
vince of West Prussia has led its Governor
to propose the introduction of Chinese Ia
Dor. If Germany wants coolie agricultu-
raj population this country will take the
German bone and sinew and make American
citizens of them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

WHEN will syndicate of railroads de-
velop the grand stroke of policy of hiring
the President of the United States to resign
for the purpose of taking bigger salary
fIom the combined corporations?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

THE announcement by railroad official,
in an interview published yesterday, that
the railroads will not be the first to violate
the Interstate commerce law" is very re-
assuring from the fact that if the railroads
do not violate the law, no one else can.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

THE report that the Lincoln monument
at Springfield, ILL.,, is falling into decay,
fills the heart of the patriotic New Workers
with swelling local pride They are TAX
ing great care that no damage of that sort
shall affect the Grant monument.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
A nIissing nIan Heard From.

Andrew Van Buskirk, of Brooklyn, grocer
who disappeared on January q, has written 70
his wife from Denver that he went away be-
cause he could not make any money in Brook
lyn. He instructed her to sell out his business
and pay his debts, and ends by bidding her
goodby. Beyond announcing that he will
not return to Brooklyn, he says nothing as to
the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
CAUGHT ON THE GRIP LINE.

THE moon that eve was usually bright,
And 1t turned the darkness into light,
And o'er the hills in my buggy few,
While seated beside was girl In blue;
And the man in the moon looked on and said:
''My boy and girl you should not wed,
For marriage is o failure
We needed not the green cheese man,
And faster and faster the old horse ran,
Until the minister's house we reached,
And he tied the knot and then he preach ed
In direct opposition to the man in the moon,
For instead of q failure he decl AIRED 1t boon,
AndI am sure we have found 1t that.
SINGS of the times-Barefeet and sodawater.
CAsHIER-You will have to be Identified be-
fore can cash this check.
Dainty maiden-I thought would. So just
brought my photograph along. Amt that me,
and amt me thatg
HUsBAND-My dear, am afraid this cake
will start to weep.
Wife-Why?
Husband-It's so very sad.
BuMLY-Barkeeper. there is nothing in this
lemonade but seeds and sugar.
BaEkeeper-Well, my friend, II you stay with
that free lunch much longer those seeds will be
lemons.
"GIvE me paper that has all the news,
With editorials to match.',
The newsboy put his hand In his pile
And pulled out PrTTsBURG DISPATCH.
Q. 8. o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
ECONOMICAL PEOPLE.
some Residents of New York Who Live Mt a
Small Cost.

small C08fs
NEW YORK, March l6.-The Chinese Of this
CITY. who number over 5000, live more cheaply
than the people of any other race to be found
here. The Italians come next to the Chinese
in the cheapness of their living, and the Bohe-
mians stand next to the Italians in this respect
The mortality of the Chinese residing in New
York is greater. in proportion to their number,
than that Of any other race, though most of
them eat American food. They are apt to find
our climate hard on them.
A well-informed italian resident of this city
recently said that most of his laboring country
men here live at an expense of not more than
40 cents a day, and hoard what they may earn
beyond that sum. The Bohemian cigarmakers.
who number thousands, are compelled by
necessity to live as cheaply as possible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
ANOTHER GEORGIA WONDER.
A Living Man Whose Legs Have Turned to
Wood or Stone.

ALBANY, GA, March 16-Guy Jones, col
ored, works with Mr.. F. A. Clegg, of Lee
county, and is unlike any other man only in
that his legs and hands are petrihed. These
members are as hard as ordinary wood, and the
pressure which one could impose with finger
nail failed to make any indentation in the
flesh The negro says that he has no feeling In
them whatever. but that if they are cut the
blood will flow as from the person of an or
dinary man.
Guy is free to talk about his oddity, and says
that it commenced on him nine years ago. The
doctor told me then that it would kill me in
four years." said the man, "but," with grin,
II am here yet"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
GraspinR Hoo.ierdom.

From the New York World.l
Indianapolis has doubled her police force.
The grasping tendencies now dominating Hoo
sierdom are well illustrated by the determine
ton of her capital to keep the peace.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

The Indiana Legislature seems to have
adopted the prevalent idea that it can shut
out the products of other States, the Con-
stitution of the United States to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Paid for Their Happiness.

The three men who applauded when Thomas
B. Kerr was acquitted of bribing the Doodle
Aldermen, last night, were arralgned before
Judge Daniels, in the Supreme Court, this
morning. They were Chauncey F. Kerr, brother
of the alleged boodler; Hugh J. Connell, who
married his cousin, and Lawrence 81. Irwin,
his bookkeeper. They all acknowledged their
offense, but declared they were so oyerjoyed at
the verdict that they didn't know what they
were doing; they certainly intended no disre-
spect to the Court. They were all three fined
S25 each, in spite of Colonel Bob IngersolPs
plea that he has seen the lawyers engaged in q
successful suit get on the table and give three
cheers. In answer to the plea. Judge Daniels
said: SITS lucky the counsel in this case did
not initiate them" Mr.. Bird, Kerr's other
lawyer. paid the fines. Bob lngersoll ought to
have done so as he received e25 900 his fee for
defending the alleged boodler-slo,O 900 as re-
tainer and the remainder on getting the YER
dict
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Mrs. LnnRtrx Recovering.

Mrs. Langtry is better to-day, and even her
physicians now think she can fulfill her Phila-
delphia engagement The tonsilitis has disap-
peared, and with it the weakness that is its ac-
Compartment The operation on her nose has
been so successful that she says she has not
been able to articulate so clearly for year as
she can now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

The report that the son of the Prince
of Wales will visit the United States and
Canada next summer, puts Anglomaniac
society in futter from Boston to the Col
den Gate. =
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

SAN FRANCISCO, March ls.-Morton Cheesman,
an old resident and prominent capitalist, died
years old, and was q native Of New York. He
leaves q fortune Of f500, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

COLONEL FELLOWS seems to have been
highly successful in his efforts to prosecute
the New York boodlers so as to guard
against the possibility of conviction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Convenient for High OmciaIs.

From the Boston Herald.1
The Governor of Pennsylvania uses graph
ophone. 1t enables him to talk to Office seekers
and 20 visiting at the same time. 1t nils q
want long felt by high officials.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
A New AnImnl Discovered.

From the Chicago Times.l
Jugwumps is what the Prohibitionists down
East call the high license party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
JEAN INGELOw's HOME.
Despite London Fogs 1t is n Bower of
Beautiful Flowers.

The London home of Jean Ingelow is in
Kensington. The house is built of light-colored
brick, and is surrounded by pretty garden, in
which flowers are Kept blooming in the winter.
Inside the house there are more flowers in pots
and in vases. Miss Ingelow is so fond of flowers
that she writes oftener in her conservatory
than anywhere else. All her writing is done
before easlight or rather before night. for
London fogs render gaslight often necessary at
very early hours in the day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

ST. PATRICK's Day will have very
quiet and orderly celebration if the Sunday
liquor law is enforced to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

Mr.. Cleveland's opinion, as expressed by
our esteemed cotemporaries, were the five
disloyal States?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Not Frightened or BY Carnegie.

The directors of the proposed building to
take the place of the Madison Square Garden
deny that they have abandoned their under
taking because Of Andrew Carnegie's intention
to build big music hall at Seventh avenue
and Fifty-seventh street. They say that the
company is in good shape and that there Is
every reason for predicting the success OF the
undertaking. The reason it has not begun to
build is because all the money necessary to
complete the structure hasn't been paid in
and the directors did not want to stop for want
of funds after they have once started.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

Voluntary contributors should Keep copies Of
articles II compensation is desired the price
expected must be named. The courtesy Of re-
turning rejected manuscripts SciH be extended
Dhen stamps for that purpose are enclosed, but
the Editor Of THE DISPATCH tciH under no
circumstances be responsible for the care Of UT'-
solicited manuscripts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
NEW YORK AT A GLANCE.
"A Co-Operntive CIubhouse.
rNEw YORK BUREAU spEcrAr.s. I

NEW YORK, March l6-The Authors Club
proposes to build big combination clubhouse,
eight or ten stories high, in which the dozen or
more clerks clubs in the city which. like itself,
have no need Of an entire building, may have
their headquarters. The lower half Of the
building will be devoted to such clubs and the
upper half to studios and apartments for those
club men who will want to live under the same
roof with their clubs. The building will be
provided with elevators. and probably with .
restaurant which would serve the other ten.
ants as well as the clubs. 1t win also have a
common hall, which each club may use for
banquets. receptions and other occasions re-
quiring plenty Of room.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
The Elouueuce Of Shadows.

The people who made and used sun dials
were leisurely race of men. In no haste, they
liked to be sure, and this requirement their
timekeepers possessed in an eminent degree.
For If they failed to tell The tale of the pass
ing hours for days and weeks at time, when
they did undertake to play clerk to the sun,
their word might be accepted with the utmost
confidence. Dials never got out Of order.
They required no regulating or cleaning. Hav-
ing no escapement, it was hopeless for the most
knavish artizans to affect the necessity Of put
ting in new one. Day in and day out, the
shadow of the gnomon moved, telling silently
the hours of toll and the hours of play. the time
when the dinner horn was to be sounded and
Then, when the sun set and the dial was
shadowless, the village thought of sleep, and
certainly not of work
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
THE AGE OF Sun DIALS.
Curious Lore Regarding the TsmepIeces

Curious Lore Regarding the Tsmepieces Of
Primitive Race-A Strange Icelandic
Dial-Memenfoes of an Ease Loving
People-ConntrIes Without Clocks.
From the London Standard.l
Sun dials, like clepsydre and candle-clocks,
have SO long been superseded as time-meas-
urers that the extraordinary collection Of lit
erary lore relating TO them, embodied in the
late Mrs. Gatty's work on the subject. is likely
to prove sort of revelation to most OF its
readers. Until well into this century very Few
people in Iceland owned clock, the only dial
In use being the natural horizon of each town.
ship, divided into eight equal parts by noun
tain peaks, where such were situated conven-
iently, and by pyramids Of stone when natural
marks were wanting In the district OF Sond-
ford. IN Norway, town CLOCK OF ike
construction was in use, and, to the end OF the
last century a device of the same kind existed
at Settle, in Yorkshire. A pile of rocks on
hill behind the town casta shadow upon large
slabs of stone placed at regular intervals, and
marked with numbers corresponding 70 tne
hour of the day. Even yet country folk VIII
set their clocks by noting the moment Wnen
the sun strikes along groove in the moor Just
within the house door, and at an angle with
the threshold, and to this day the Greenland
ers at a dreary post in the Waigatz Strait Watch
for the Sunbeams on particular cnlnK IN INC
mountain opposite, in order to regulate their
timepieces, after the long night Of four months.
OF course the wealthy Eskimo may now acquire
some kind of watch, and the progress OF Eu-
ropean ways is fast rendering the pocket dials,
once SO common in Japan, as obsolete fashlon
as the Daimios and their two-sworded retalners.
Time Was Not Always Money.
From the time when Ahaz, Of Judah, reared
his famous gnomon, to the hour when the Eng
lish parson set up one on the gable end of the
vicarage, these measures of time were well
fitted for leisurely nge, In which few
minutes more or less were of no earthly ac-
count whatever. Babylonians and Egyptians,
Greeks and Romans, PeruVians and Mexicans,
were energetic, but not breathless, peoples.
Knowing that time and they were match for
any other two, they did not work at high
pressure. The hanging gardens were not, we
take it, offered to open tender, and, Judging
from the way pyramids have lasted, these
structures were not built by contractors under
heavy penalties to hand them over by stipu-
lated date. A people in no great hurry could
afford to indulge in easy ways of noting the
lapse of time. They had floral clocks, like that
which LinnRus set up in the Garden of Upsala,
in which the hours were rudely noted by now
ers which opened and shut at fixed periods.
Then there was still quainter dial in the
grounds of Wentworth Castle. the numerals
being cut in box edgings, while clipped yew
tree in the center acted as the gnomon.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-07
MOUNTAIN HOMES.
Agricultural Claimants May Pre-empt
Snow-Belt Lands

Agricultural Claimants May Pre-empt
Snow-Belt Lands.
The Interior Department has forwarded
to the Federal Land Office in this city its
decision in the case of F. Wagner, pre-
emption claimant for certain lands in the
upper foothills of FL Dorado county, hold
ing in his favor. The case turned upon a
point that is of greatimportance to agricult-
ural land claimants.
Back in 1885 the case of Morrow VS..
Clough went up from the local land office,
and in deciding it Commissioner Sparks
held that lands which, by reason of their
altitude and the depth of snow thereon in
the winter months, were not habitable at
all seasons of the year, were not subject to
entry under the agricultural laws That
decision precluded from settlement a vast
belt of country on both slopes of the Sierra
Nevada, Rocky mountains and other ele-
waited ranges.
The decision was reversed by Secretary
Lamar shortly before his retirement from
Office.
In the Wagner case (which involved the
same question at issue) the Sacramento
Land Office and the Commissioner, relying
on the precedent in the Morrow. Cl0ugh
case, rejected Wagner's final proof Secre-
tary Noble now reverses the decision of the
Commissioner, and has ordered the accept
ance of Wsgner's final proof, and also that
final receipt be issued to him.
This coincidence of decisions by Secre-
taries Lamar and Noble may be fairly con-
sidered as final in determining the right of
entry by agricultural claimants upon either
arabic or grazing lands the altitude of
which is so great as to preclude winter resi-
dencn
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-07

THE news of the capture of Emin Pasha
by the Mahdists, if true, means the de-
struction Of all hope that he will ever be
returned to his home, for if the report OF
his defeat in the fall of 1888 is confirmed,
We may settle down to the conclusion that
the brave and talented explorer i, dead
Until something further is ascertained
we should hope that the news is error
Stanley reports it as reported to him, but
it is significant that he has been unable to
meet Emin, and that in the summer OF
last year he had a message from him urg-
ing speed, as he was in need of assistance
against the slave-traders, who are behind
all the assaults that have been made
against the courageous and brilliant sci
enlist. 1t was grave mistake on Emin's
part that he refused to accompany Stanley
back to the Aruwimi in 1887, when the
intrepid explorer reached him on the
banks of Nyanza. If Emin and his fol
lowers have been destroyed, civilization
owes it to itself to organize such an expe-
dition, equipped as no other ever has been,
as can accomplish the penetration of the
African continent, the suppression of the
slave trade and the determination OF
tthhe remorseless and inhuman wretches
who prosecute it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-07
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

H. P. Merritt, of Yolo, is in the city.
| w. B. Corwin was up from San Francisco yes.
| terday.
Mrs. o. R. Runyon and Miss L. Runyon, are in
| the city.
D. H. Haskell, of San Francisco, is registered
| at the Capital Hotel
| District Attorney futile of Placer county came
| to the city yesterday.
Louis Winter and wife leave this morning fol
trip to Capay valley.
Ex-Secretary of State Beck was registered at
| the Golden Eagle yesterday.
Brainard +. Smith, Clerk of the Folsom Prison
came up from San Quentin last night
Mayor Gregory has returned from the Bay,
where he went TO attend the funeral of the late
| Mrs. Charles Croker.
Isadore Townsend left for San Francisco yes
| terday afternoon, and on his return will pro-
coed to Washington Territory, to be gone q
| month.
William Johnston, Jr, and Frank Hollister
| the famous nimrods of CORTLAND have just re-
turned from trip to the hills They succeeded
in Staying four bucks each, and all of this week
| they are Eat home to their friends.
| Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday; H.
P. Merritt Yolo county; Miss Maggie Campbell,
| Woodland; &. B. Green aud wife, Mrs. c. S.
Crombie, Courtland D. b. Haskell, San Fran
CISCO Mrs. o. r. Runyon, Miss l.. Runyon,
| CORTLAND; A. F. Williams and wife, Freeport;
| John f. Dwyer, Colfax; H. p. Holland, Rock
| ford, ILL.,; W. J. Williams, city NJ. Mobley, San
| Francisco.
party was given last evening at the resi-
dence OF l.. Bell by Miss Hattie Bell and Miss
| Eva Reeves. There were present Misses Josie
Frost, Rita Kennedy, Grace Hopkins, Matte
| and Etha Beaumont, Anna Fountain, Letta AL
| sip. Lottie Robinson, Maude Bell Hattie Bell
| and Eva Reeves, Robert Greer, Sam Hendricks,
| VIII Matlock, Clarke Williams. VIII Hendricks,
| John Laurie Will CoburD, Robert Duzenberry,
Horatio Harper, Fred Kestler, Arthur Strsub.
There was dancing, music and refreshments,
concluding with an old-fashioned candy-pull-
| ing.
| Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday:
H. NJ. Carlock, Portland: J. Hemingway, Chi
| cago; Mrs. Thos. B Inch, Eureka; Miss Minnie
| Radcliff, Emma Marble, James G. Peskes Dor.
| othy Rossmore, f. Mories, Mrs Mer, rlossie
| Ethel, C. A Hascom, c. J. Williams. Fred A.
Cooke. George Cooper, J. C. Campbell, Little
Lord Fauntleroy Company; S. A. Carleton, Bos
| ton: n. b. Whitaker, Stockton; H. X. Wheeler
and wife. Bridgeport; James L. Moore. Agent
| Barnes, of New York: f. Story, New York; ]
| r. Stevens, Boston; NJ. Brown, Chicago; J. A
Sanford Stockton; T. ]. Crowley, San Rafael
E. A. Montgomery, Martinez; NJ. Cohen, l.
Abraham, J. II. Simpson and wife, w. B. Cor
win, NJ. Phillips and wife, J. Kraker, A. NJ
| Bergwell, San Francisco.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-07
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
A Stanislaus Criminal Tries to Pick On
City Jail to Pieces.

A Stanislaus Criminal Tries to Pick Our
City Jail to Pieces.
John Malone, the Stanislaus convict who
was lodged in the City Prison last Monday
night while en- route to the Folsom Prison,
attempted to break out of the Jail, but his
object was frustrated by officer Higgins
The latter had his attention attracted by
unusual sounds and proceeded to investi-
gate. On going to the cell occupied by
Malone, from whence the sounds came, he
noticed the prisoners foot in the wicket of
the iron door. Malone had ripped the cell
blanket IN strips and fastened them to the
ceiling SO as to make a loop, in which he
placed one of his feet, using the wicket as
rest for the other. In that position he
succeeded in breaking off piece of the
sheet-iron lining of the ceiling, and was
picking hole through the ceiling when
discovered by the officer