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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
TIE WHITE HOUSE LADY.
Mrs. Harrison is Her Own Housekeeper
and Superintends Things.

Mrs. Harrison is Her Own Housekeeper
and Superintends Things.
Philadelphia Times.l
The domestic routine of the White House
is very much similar to what the Harrison
household was in Indianapolis. Mrs. Har-
rison is her own housekeeper. She looks after
everything. Every morning she gives her
orders to the retinue of servants. The
steward gets his instructions regularly every
morning. So does everybody else. Mrs.
Harrison's management of the Executive
Mansion is the personifcation of simplicity.
She goes about the residence portion OF the
White House, which is the west end part,
as though she was in a little quiet, unpre-
tentious home. She is not awed of the
great high ceilings. the big rooms, the
stately furniture or the inmeese portraits of
dead Presidents and their wives, who look
down upon her out of their gilded frames.
Mrs. Harrison is very active and of very
cheerful disposition. She goes shopping
and carries bundles back to the White
House, and gets out of common coupe
with as little pretension as though she was
entering her old home in the West. The
servants of the White House have come to
like her. She has kind word for all of
them.
So far four servants have been discharged,
a drunken waiter, who drank too much on
Inauguration day; drunken watchman, who
thought he had been there so long that he
couldn't be discharged, and two colored laun-
dresses, who marched off for several after
moons at o'clock with the KEYS of the
laundry in their pockets, and who didn't
return until o'clock in the mornings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
ODDS AND ENDS.

-Twenty-seven persons were arrested at a
dog fight near Wilmington, Del, and were yes
terday fined sum aggregatiDg, with costs
$6lS SO.
ALI female students in the New En-
gland Conservatory of Music, at Boston, were
made i'll on Wednesday evening through the
mistake of substituting machine oil for olive
oil in the salad at dinner.
While Messrs. Britton and Acker stood
in front of the dispatcher's office, Pottstown, a
penny dropped at their feet. AS there was no
one about at the time they watched and found
that the coin was dropped by sparrow. The
birds roost in the cornice.
"A Jersey City postman recently saw q
piece of paper sticking out of a crack in fire
alarm box. Being man of experience, he in
vestigated and pulled out letter. He mailed
the letter and then followed it to its address,
which was in the city. There he learned that
it was dated seven months before.
The death of David A. Gage, at Charles
ton. N. H, recalls an episode in the history of
Chicago in which the deceased played leading
part. Fifteen years ago he was one of Chica-
go's best citizens being at different times sole
owner of the largest hotels in the city. Two
years after the big fire he was elected city
treasurer, and it was while holding that ONCE nc
that he emptied the treasury of about 81, ,OOO,-
600 and caused commercial panic in the city
for time.
"A wagon-load of silver dollars is twice
a week transported from Woodstown to Sa-
lem, N. j., under charge of Messenger Powell,
of the City National Bank of Salem. Between
his bank and the one in Woodstown there is
no business afiliation, and consequently he
must collect at Woodstown the cash for the
checks drawn upon the bank there and
handed in at the Salem institution. His load
on Tuesday last was 800 of the big round Shin
ers, and he was guardedb by two men.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
BOGUS ANTIQUE F0RNIFURE.
Some Made of Old Lumber and Some
Stained to Look Old.

Some Made OF Old LuWber and Some
Stained to Look Old.
Boston Advertiser.1
An old furniture repairer said the other
day that at least three-quarters of the alleged
antique furniture for which wealthy people
pay fabulous prices is bogus. "How are
they made?" says he. "When an old build
ing at the North End is torn down there
is always a good demand for the an
cient oak timbers and sheathing. They are
sound, we'll seasoned and Enthusiastically old.
This lumber makes up into excellent antique
furniture. Those who make it are cunning
workmen, and they all know how to apply
chemicals which have the effect of aging
the completed article so that it is difficult
even for an expert to detect the fraud.
'But these clever cabinet-makers are not
always scrupulous enough to have. their
clawfooted chairs, cabinets and so forth
made up of old wood, but work up fresh
young maple or oak, and stain or color it in
such way that you would believe the arti-
Gle century old. Some of the purchasers
of these wonder why they snap and crack
as they stand in their rooms. OF course
they wouldn't do it if they were genuine
antiques. By and by the veneering scales
of or the joints draw apart, and the thing
is brought to me for repairs. / always know
when see one of these antiques coming in
that someone has been paying too much for
"a whistle
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
An Appropriate Committee.

A clergyman, now the Vice Chancellor of a
prominent Eastern university. wrote a book a
few years ago. He wanted to have the pub
fishing house of the Society of Friends, in
Philadelphia, issue it. With this view he
waited upon the serene old broad brim in
charge.
II can't say whether we can take thy manu-
script or not. Thee must see the committee.p
What committeeP"
"Does thee know the history of our society?'
"Only in general way"
''Well, years ago we were subjected to much
suffering and indignity by persecution, in all
quarters. A central committee was formed
here in Philadelphia to aid our prosecuted
brethren. 1t was called the Committee on Suf-
ferings. We live in happier times. The Friends
are no longer prosecuted. Hence the commit
tee has no more work to do in the way of help
ing those who are oppressed. But it still exists
in connection with our publishing work; and
now when authors offer their manuscript to us
we refer them to the Committee on Suffer
ings."
The future Vice Chancellor regarded the
name and function as peculiarly aptl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
SISTER SUES BUDGET.
Resume of the Week in Local Religious
and Charitable Circles.

CIRCLE E, of the Kings Daughters, under
the leadership of Mrs Fulton, held bazaar in
the Telephone building on Saturday evening.
The proceeds are to go toward the "Flossie
Howe Cot"
IF the presbvteries of Pittsburg and Ale
gheny consolidate, the new Presbytery will be
one of the largest in the United States 1t will
consist of 200 MEMBERSHIP ministers and 100
elders-representing 100 churches. A meeting
will be held this week to determine the matter
ALEcTURE was given Friday evening in the
Central Reformed Presbyterian Church, Sam
dusky street, Allegheny, by Joseph Bowes,
Esq, on the subject, struggle of the Scotch
Covenanters for Civil and Religious Liberty0
The lecture was instructive as well as interest
ing, giving the history of the Presbyterian
Church of Scotland.
MANY of the Sabbath school classes of the
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church are am
bilious TO make large offering on Easter Sun
day for the benefit OF foreign missions. A par
lor bazar was held at the home of the Misses
Dougherty, on. Federal street, Wednesday
evening, in which three of the classes partici.
pated under the leadership of their Several
teachers. The bazaar was generously patron
lied and netted Sl50.
THE Boarding Home for Girls, the gift Of
Mrs. Felix r. Brunot to the Woman's Christian
Association. is now undergoing thorough re-
pair, and it will be ready for occupancy by the
1st of May. The home is located on Stockton
=
for the location of such an institution. The
building is four stories high, and contains
without the basement, "A rooms. They are
well finished, and heated by gas. The halls
are wide, giving ample room, while the parlors
are handsome, after the old fashioned STYLE
carved pillars supporting the archway between
the lower parlors. The latter rooms will be
used by the Board of Managers in their gem
eral meetings. Miss Tomilson will be placed
in charge as matron.
The annual dinner for the benefit of the
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Women
was held Thursday in Lafayette Hall. Those
in charge Of the dinner were Mrs. G. Bell. Mrs.
E. Hawkins, Mrs. Gatewood, Mrs. Watson,
Mrs. Granderson, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs NJ. E.
Moseby. Financially it was a success, netting
500. In the evening bazar was held. The
booths gave quite festive appearance to the
hall, making it very gay and pretty with their
brilliant drapings. The committee in the even
ing included Mrs. Daniel Dorsey, Mrs. Jane
Granderson, Mrs. John Edwards. Mrs. James
Johnson, Rev. George B. Knox. Mrs. E. Haw-
kins, Mrs. Ball, Mrs. Moseby Rev. John Holli-
day. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bond, Mrs. Ellen Cain, Mrs.
Phoebe Stinson, David Richards, James H
johnson. Mrs. Noses Watson, Mrs. T. j. Gate
wood, Mrs. William Watson, Rev. William
Brooks, Daniel Dorsey, Mrs. David Richards,
Miss Sarah Mahoney. Mrs. Fanny jackson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14

the spring of 1882 at Mentone. The
potentate of Monaco-or rather his
entourage-actually expected visit from
the English Sovereign, and laid themselves
out to give Her Majesty fitting reception
according to the ceremonial in force at the
Court of Pepin of Reristal. Only the
Princes priry councillors and "the relig-
ious," who never quit his pillow, could tell
us what wild dreams haunted the Princes
mind at that time Perhaps he thought
that the Queen would ask to review the
troopsl Any way, the throne was furnished
up and made to look like new. The pro-
prietors of the Casino, knowing the Queens
artistic tastes, put in their programme every
Thursday (that is the classical music day)
the Symphonic la Refine" Weber's over
ture to ''Jubel" (Which contains the melody
of "God Save the Queen?'), and Mendels-
sohn's "'Scotch Symphony" Itwas even said
that the croupiers were secretly taught the
words of the English national anthem, and
were to sing "God Save the Queen!"
in chorus as the Sovereign entered the gam
bling roomsl
BOUQUET REFUSED.
Every Thursday morning they said,
"The Queen is coming to-day" and all
through the concert people looked toward
the Princes box; but there was no queen
therel As some sort of consolation, the ad-
ministration offered the public the King
and Queen of Saxony. One day, however,
the arrival of the Royal break was reported;
but the Queen, who, as all know, strongly
protests against the continuance of the
tripot, and anxiouslv desires its suppression,
declining to be attracted by the music, and
passing in front of the gardens of Monte
Carlo, walked up to Old Monaco, admired
the view, and then returned to Mentone!
What an outrage! Louis XIV. would
not have been so hurt If Queen
Christina of Sweden had refused mis-
hospitality at Fontainebleau. A few days
previously the gardens of Monte Carlo had
sent the largest bouquet ever seen to Queen
Victoria at Mentone; but, without even
opening the box which contained the flowers,
the Queen caused the bouquet to be returned
to those who had sent it to herl Happily,
few days after, the ex-Empress Eugenie
came to pour little balm upon this wound,
and to console the puppet monarch for the
cruel lesson taught him by the greatest lady
in Europe and the Indies. Although with
out diocese, the principality possesses a
mitred abbe-a bishop in partibus, who
must have at least three parishes under his
jurisdiction before he can obtain a bishopric,
and at Monaco there are only two. But, as
the most cordial understanding exists be-
tween the church and the tripot, both
having the same clientele, the mitred able
obtained from Mime. Blanc, who was ex-
cessively pious, third parish, appropriately
christened "N Notre-Dame de la RouletteP'
PICCADILLY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
SUNDAY THOUGHTS
MORALS 4N0 MANNERS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
BY A CLERGYMAN.


Christianity is above everything else, a
life. 1t is not outward, but inward. 1t is
not what we say, but do; not what we are
reputed to be, but are. Its springs are
found away down in that hidden realm, be-
low human law. below observation, where
we are the sole spectators of ourselves.
There, where thought originates, where mo-
tives are fashioned, where feeling begins, is
the real Christianity.
But though inward in its nature, it is out
ward in its manifestation. Religion is self
evidencing-like the sun in August. Like
the air. 1t is for everybody. Starting from with
in it works itself out inevitably and affects
every word and every deed.
When religion is profession, infidels soon
and unbelievers cavil. When it is a life, help
full, patient, generous, loving. the world re-
iolces. 1t is easy to argue against Christianity
when it is put into creed. 1t is impossible to
controvert it when it is enshrined in daily
practice.
This gives power. A merchant lives his be-
Hef. Men straightway exclaim: II have done
business with that man for years. His religion
it genuine. He is honest as the day. His
word is as good as his bond, and both are gilt
edged" A woman is Christian in her home.
The children say: Mother is saint How
sweet she is, how charitable, how seIf-sacri-
ficing. Her heart-throbs are prayers" The
servants testify: "She is genuine. She brides
her tongue, keeps down her temper, and does
as she would be done by.
Such a Christian will silence all galn-sayers,
and go far to convert the neighborhood. Why
is not the church full of them? The fault is
not in Christianity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
ORNITHOLOGICAL LORE.

Ancient and Exploded suDerstitions Regard.
ing Birds-The Wren's Queer Habits
The Riddle of the characterization
Fowls without Feet.
From the London GIobe.1
Gilbert White published his Natural His
tory exactly 100 years ago. All who have read
it must have been struck by the sagacity, as
well as entertained by the quaintness, of the
way in which he examined the case for mIgra-
ton of birds Well as he was informed on migra'
tion generally, and ,candIdly as he admitted
that the whole case for migration stands or
falls together" yet the swallow was standing
puzzle to him. So hard it is, he says, ito shake
of superstitious prejudices; they were sucked
In, as it were, with ones mothers MILK, and so
much evidence there seemed to be that the
swallows might retire under the water. Was
1t not John Hunter who told US first how the
lnterloplng cuckoo, blind and independents
though he is himself, elects the lawful nurse
hngs from the nest-how he maneuVers his
trembling, naked frame, until, little by little,
ne edges each nesting up the side Of the nest
and tips him over into the ditch below, like the
heartless little rufian that he is? The nest OF
tne nedge sparrow or the robin would seem but
Tiny structures for so large a bird as the
cuckoo to lay its eggs in, but we have learned
tnat the cuckoo lays her egg first upon the
ground, and then transfers it to the nest with
her bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
Jennie Wren,s Strange wav,.

The common wren has a habit of making
several nests and leaving them in a more or
less finished condition before she finally deter
mines where to nest in earnest Most country
persons are familiar with these. One sees
them in such situations as the sides of hay
stack, the roofs of out houses, the holes in a
taggot stack, etc. "Cock wren's nests" the
boys call them, supposlng that the cock bird
roosts in them while the hen is sitting. It is q
quaint thought this-wily old paterfamilias in
his snug retreat. There may not be room for him
in the nursery, but his head, at any rate, shall
not go roohess. Unfortunately for this theory
there seems more probability that these extra
nests are intended as roosting places for the
young when hatched- They are certainly used
as such. If you steal very quietly up to the
haystack as soon as it is dark, and slip your
hand over the entrance Of one of these nests
you will often find soft, warm body-or sever
INSIDE. Usually the occupants are little
coletits, but sometimes one finds there little
bunch of wrens.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
The Doctor Soaked Hi. Lantern.

A Stockton doctors wife recently asked
him to draw pail of water. 1t was quite
late in the evening and the doctor took a
pail in one hand and lighted lantern in
the other and started for the we'll. A hook
and pole was used in the absence of a pump.
The doctor carefully fastened the lantern to
the pole and lowered it into the we'll, SUBJ
merging and entinguishing the light. 1t
was only when the lantern was drawn to
the surface that the mistake was discovered.
He must be the doctor that sawed off the
wrong leg!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
A Need for Union,

At the approaching annual meeting of the
Presbyterian General Synod, to be held in New
York City May 1880, the question of an organic
union between the Northern and Southern
wings will be again considered. The union
should be effected. The seamless robe of
Christ is shamefully rent and parcelled out
recalling the rattle of the Roman soldiers under
at once the weakness and the reproach of
Christianity. American Christians had better.
learn a lesson from Japan and close up.
1t was wittily said by an Episcopal rector
awhile ago that there were so many divisions
within the Episcopal Church, it was no wonder
Episcopalians regarded their communion as
having all the truth there was. Beside the
traditional styles. of high and crazy. low and
lazy, broad and hazy, there was every imagina-
BILE combination of these styles-order like the
primeval chaos without form and void"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
A Few Bright Thoughts.

AFeW DEIKHI 4HUuBHIss
Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, that subdueth.
-LonQIetLot0.
But that one man should die ignorant who
has the capacity for knowledge, this I call
tragedy.-CdrLyLe.
The paucity Of Christians Is astonishing, con-
sidering the number Of them.-LeiOh Hunt.
To man q woman Is always q conundrum,
which he Is never willing to give up.
An agnostic Is one who thinks that he knows
all about everything, but that other people
know nothing about anything.
How can man love but what he yearns TO help.
-R. BroiOnin0.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
MACHINE OIL IN SALAD.
How Some Young Lady Students In Boston
Were Made Very Sick.

WCEt CIChs
BOSTON, April 12-There was something
the matter with the salad at the New En-
gland Conservatory of Music last night. To-
day, with the several hundred young lady
students at the institution, the usual scale
running and solteggios have become mat
ter of less than secondary consideration.
For the nonce, indeed, the girls are thor
oughly at odds with life and off tone with
music.
1t is all through mistake Of the Con-
Eervatory's grocers. Big grocers they are
the biggest dealers of their sort in the city,
aud their mistake was correspondinRly big.
They had an order for large lot of salad
oil, COR the Conservatory tables. In place of
it they sent machine oil. That's what allied
the salad. And that's what allied the girls.
No fatalities are looked for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
And This is Fame.

Americans who have visited Geneva, in
Switzerland, will recall the Church of st.
Pierre, one of the oldest in Europe. Parts Of
the structure date back 1000 years. The edi-
fee is TO be enlarged and partially rebuilt at
cost of 100000. This is John Calvin's old
church.
Apropos, and as illustrating how transient
fame is, the writer of these lines being in &C.
neva year ago, asked the guide, bright and
intelligent young fellow who spoke English
well, if he knew Calvin's house
CALVIN said he, "what was his first
name ?'
"Why, John-John Calvin"
"What was his liner
HE was in the theological business, and was
a prominent dealer"
He had never heard of himl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
The MnIoSIorous VuIture.

The late Charles Waterton was at one time
engaged in controversy with the American
naturalisrs as to the means by which the vul-
ture finds its prey. The Americans maintained
it is by the eye alone, crediting the bird with a
very imperfect sense of smell; Waterton, on
the other hand, that it was by the marvellous
acuteness of this very sense that the vulture,
itself at an immense altitude. is guided to its
tainted quarry. though hidden in the jungle far
below. None who have read the Essays are
likely to forget the whitening scorn passed upon
the heads of the would-be naturalists, the
''clOset naturalists" as he was wont to call
them, by him who had lived many a long year
alone with nature in all her moods. When at
last they tried by ruse, which reminds one of
the old story of Apelles, to make the public
believe that the Vultures had descended on
torn holes in ''coarsely painted picture of a
dead sheep" then the contempt of the gentle
wanderer found utterance thus: "Pitiabie in
deed is the lot of the American vulture His
nose is declared useless in procuring food at
the same time that his eyesight is proved to be
lamentably defective. Unless something be
done for him, It's ten to one but that he'll come
to the parish at last; peIlis ct ossd, a bag Of
bones.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
A FootIe,s Fearbcred Cre.ture.

When that pride of the Aru Islands, the
King Bird of Paradise, was first brought to
this country in the shape of skins, those who
saw it were rot more struck by the beauty Of
its plumes than by the curious fact that it had
no feet. The wise men therefore concluded
that it never settled, but slept suspended in
the ether by the play of those wonderful wing
coverts. And forthwith they named 1t "apoda,"
the footless bird. Years after the traveller
found that the Malays. to facilitate their rude
taxidermy were in the habit of cutting off its
feet-for it had feet. as any other bird. Yet
"apoda" it remains to this day. Which things
are parable. We all are children, and we live
in an age destructive of old beliefs, and if we
must even let the ostrich go-whO used to bury
his head in the sand and leave his eggs to be
hatched, like the crocodile's, in the sun-as in
deed we must, he is but another added to the
list of dear, if inconsequent old friends that
charmed our nursery DAYS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
Anew Way to Kill spnrrows.

Saginaw News.l
A Bay City man has found new meaps
of reducing the English sparrow flock. He
arms the birds with tiny steel spurs and
makes them fight as chicken fancier
would a pair of game cocks. The birds
are so pugnacious that battle generally
ends in the death of one of the CONTESTANTS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use Hor.fOrd,s Acid Phosphate.

DR.. ]. j. McWilliams, Denison, Ia, says: 81
have used it largely in nervousness and dvs-
pepsia, and consider that it stands unriyaied
as a remedy in cases of this kind. have also
used 1t in cases of sleeplessness with very 0rati
flying results"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14

LIST. maiden, though you're keen of wit
And though of many charms possessed
You'll never, never, make hit
Unless with pearly teeth you're bIest
Unless upon your toilet stand.
Your Sozodont's kept close to hand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
Allowance for Errors.

Burlington Free Press.l
Tubbs-I hatter myself that honesty is
printed on my face.
Grubbs-WelI-er-yes, perhaps-wiih
some allowance for typographical errors.