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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
PLAIN MIR. EDISON STILL.

The King of Italy has made Thomas A.
Edison, our great inventor, Count Mr..
Edison has now the felicity of adding the
insignia of grand officer of the Crown of
Italy to his other decorations. Some years
ago the French Government conferred upon
him the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and
Union College has given him the honorary
degree of Phi. d. 1t was but last week that
Queen Victoria wrote a letter with her own
hand congratulating Mr.. Edison upon his
invention OF the phonograph. Had he
been an Englishman she would have
doubtless given him a commandery Of
the Bath, and pressed upon charming Mrs
Edison an India shawl. But Edison will
not regret his nationality, seeing that he
always can command bath and India
shawls may be bought for song.
Mr.. Edison's friends will be puzzled to
know how to address him if his ennoble-
ment continues at this headlong pace. They
are at liberty now to call him Count Edison,
Chevalier Edison, Doctor Edison, or just
plain M Edison. But if we do not mis-
take the man the Wizard of Menlo Park
will insist upon the Mister. Under that
Democratic appellation he has made fame,
fortune, and a multitude of friends. 1t
may be said sby the unthinking that the
United States is at disadvantage because
of inability to confer distinction by title
upon her great men, and the case of
Mr.. Edison would seem to justify
the charge. But the rewards of
greatness in this republic are larger than
the Kingdoms and emperors of the Old World
can bestow. Greatness has room and plenty
of encouragement to grow here. Great men
are not hedged in by petty fences of caste
and form and fortune in these United
States Mr.. Edison's career illustrates this
truth. From humble origin in the little town
of Alva, O.. he has risen by his own efforts
to a commanding pre-eminence in the scien-
tifc and inventive arena. The people all
know him. His name is not inscribed upon
any herald's tablet, but whole nation re-
veres it. Wealth is his; the honor Of men is
his, and the whole world waits upon his
utterances. Mr.. Edison needs no title to
illuminate his name
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
NO TIME FOR DELAY.

1t is a comforting view of yesterdays
strike at the Exposition to learn. that il
really expressed nothing stronger than the
desire of the men to attend their trades
union picnic; and it is to be hoped that the
statement will be corroborated by the
prompt settlement of the trouble and the
resumption of the pressing work at the Ex-
position to-day. The amount of work to be
done between this date and the opening of
the Exposition will require all the time
that is left; and it is certainly to be hoped,
both for the public welfare and the standing
of the trades unions. that they will not ac-
cept the responsibility of subjecting an en-
terprise of such magnitude to the risk of
failure in order to shut three non-union
men out of work, over which the Exposition
managers have no control. Clearly the
public interest in the business will require
that the dispute be compromis ised to-day and
the work be pushed without further delay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
PREMATURE GLASS CUTTING.

The statement that a wholesale window
glass firm in Cleveland has declared its in
tention to sacrifice its stock in anticipation
of glut after the Jeanette establishment
gets its product into the market, may easily
be magnIfed to greater Importance than it
deserves. A very adequate treatment of the
announcement would be to notify all whole
sale firms that if they wish to sell glass at a
loss they are at liberty to do so and pocket
the loss themselves.
1t is probable that the tank furnace plan
of making glass will increase the supply
and lower prices, but it is by no means
likely that it will tumble the
prices of glass to ruin at single blow.
1t is not yet known exactly what
the economy of glassmaking by that system
is; nor is that question likely to be definitely
settled until the new factory has had pro-
longed test. When that is done there is
still the question whether it can supply all
the demand at prices below the cost of pro-
duction in the pot factories. If itcan do so,
the old factories will have no choice but to
shut down until they can build tanks for
themselves, but there are several contingen-
cies to be settled before it becomes certain
that the price will be lowered to the sensa-
tional degree which seems to be appre-
hended.
One swallow does not make a summer, and
the declaration of a single jobbing house
that it is going to cut prices to pieces, does
not prove anything more clearly than the
possibility that this single firm, if it carries
out its announcements, may lose its own
money!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

LUCY STONE is Il She be gan lecturing on
woman's rights and wrongs in 1S47.
1T is said that the Queens estate at Osborne,
if broken up and sold in small farms, would
fetch about $3.50 an acre.
Mr.. MOODY will hold a convention Of evan
gelical ministers and laymen at Chicago for
ten days, beginning on September 20.
HoRATIo BoNAR, the great hymn writer,
was favorIte pupil of Dr. Chalmers, He
bore marked facial resemblance to Mr.. Glad
stone.
DIR. AMELIA B. EDWARDS has made engage
ments for 80 lectures in America during the
coming season, selected from among 800 appli.
cations.
GENERAL GRENFELL., the British comman-
der in the war against the slave traders on the
Nile, is At years old, q man Of handsome pres
ence and literary tastes.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD will visit this country
next winter In the course of his journey around
the world. He will be for time the guest of
the President Of Harvard.
Mr.. HENRY JAMES is spending the dreary
months Of August and September in London,
iting all the harder because he has yaca-
ton from his more pressing social duties.
JUSTICE LAMAR, of the Supreme Court of
the United States, has recently made q tour
through Alabama. Mississippi Louisiana and
Texas. and has found, he says, notable indus
trial progress almost everywhere.
SECRETARY RUsK will leave Washington
to-day for Deer Park. aud will accompany the
President to Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
From Indianapolis he will 20 to Milwaukee,
where he will attend the forthcoming Encamp-
ment He viii be absent from Washington
three weeks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20

forcing the law against prize fighting is
even a greater farce in Mississippi than the
entire absence of any enforcement in the
North.
We do not think it probable that any
such reduction of penal sentence to a mere
pretense will take place in the case of Sulli-
van. He has a much easier way of evadins
a sentence. That method is so evident on
the face of the case as to create
the suspicion that the legal au-
thorities Of Mississippi were satisfied
to go through the form of sentencing
him to a severe term of imprisonment, and
then let him go upon bail which is practi-
cslly certain to be forfeited. Sullivan's
bail to return for his imprisonment some
time next year is fifteen hundred dollars.
The appeal is mere form; but it gave him
the opportunity to give bail and come
North. The amount of bail is less than he
can make out of weeks exhibition of pu-
gilistic performances, and about what he
would expend in a few days spree. That
he will forfeit such an amount before going
back to spend year in the Mississippi
prison, no matter how light the treatment
may be, is to be taken as foregone con-
clusion.
That men who have money enough can
thus reduce the sentence of law to mere
matter of cost, is not reassuring to those who
think that the law ought to be enforced;
but that seems to be the way Of the world at
present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
WHERE FOOLS BLOSSOM.

1t has been the experience of many
travellers that a sea voyage on board one
of the great Atlantic liners not infrequently
brings into blossom the fools of the COM
pany Whether it is the salt air, or the
agitation of sea-sickness, or the seductions
Of Switchboard, that induces the weak
minded to explosive feats, is not known.
Perhaps it is that the wise are more often
silenced by the sea than the foolish, and
thus the latter obtain opportunities for e1-
plotting their silly selves they could never
command on land.
In this way the sensational idiocy of
Bruce Ismay came to pass. Bruce is British,
and beautiful sample of the Anglican
idiot at large. 1t is said that he is stock
holder in the White Star line of steamers.
He came over in the new steamer Teutonic.
AS usual in such cases, when the passengers
gave concert they looked about for some
exemplary nonentity to preside. Naturally
they chose Bruce Ismay. This was his
grand opportunity. He made a speech de-
clining the honor in favor of Sir Lyon Play
fair, the English NJ. P. But before he sat
down he managed to make a comparison of
the English NJ. P s with the American Con-
gressmen, to the latter's disadvantage.
Naturally there is tendency on the part
of some of the American journals to let the
eagle scream over Mr.. Ismay's detraction of
American statesmen.
But it is not worth while to do so. Even
Tim Campbell and the immortal Frank
Lawler can afford to let the insular
remark go for what it is worth-which is
very little. The fact is the important
thing. As Mr.. Bruce Ismay's detraction
cannot lower the Congressional character
half as much as a single caucus in a corner
grocery, SO all the indignant patriotism of
the American press will not raise the actual
Congressional standard by the measure of a
hairs breadth.
1t is not worth while to answer fool ac-
cording to his folly. That is likely TO
create the impression that there is a certain
degree of parity in mental caliber between
you and the other disputant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
AN INDIAN $50 YEARS OLD,
A Man Who Wus n Grandfather in 1s7O
Still Alive.

Still Alive.
SAN Francisco, August l9.-For several
years there has been domiciled at the Monterey
County Hospital an Indian known by the name
Of "Old Gabriel" AS to the exact day, month
or year of his birth proof is absent but of the
fact that he has passed the wonderful age of
l50 years there is quantity of proof.
Gabriel was born in Tulare county, this
State, but during childhood removed from
there to the town of Monterey. Father Juni-
pero Sierra arrived in Monterey in ITO, and it is
well authenticated that at that time Gabriel
was grandfather. The youngest age at which
Indians married was Is years. If Gabriel fol-
would necessarily have been at least 81 or SO
years old to have been grandfather at the
time Of Father Junipero landing there.
Father Junipero taught Gabriel the art of
cutting and laying stone, and at the time of the
building of the first chapel on the site of the
present Carmelite mission below Monterey in
the years III and 1772 Gabriel was present
and assisted in the construction of the walls
de became so very expert at his trade that he
managed and assisted in the construction of
GaImela Soledad and San Antonio missions in
IIsl. He was then married to his second wife.
Gabriel still proudly speaks of the skill he ac-
quired as a stonecutter
Father Sorrentini, parish priest, and Bishop
Amaf reached Monterey some time in the year
lS45. The former says that old Gabriel was
many years the senior of all the other old in
'habitants. He was then known by the same
name and was said to be at that time over Il0
years of age. A widely-known old lady by the
name of Castro, who died five years ago at the
age OF 90 years, in testifying to old Gabrieps
age. said that when child she saw old Gabriel
and at that time he had children several years
older than she then was.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
QUEER FREAK OF NATURE.
MARYLAND Hill Sinking Into the Earth Out
of Sight

CAMBRIDGE, ND, August ia curious
freak of nature is reported in tn Q lower end of
Dorchester county. An old resident named
Alfred James was In town last week, and in
speaking of the affair said: II have been liv-
ing on the strip of land that makes out between
the Wicomico and Nanticoke rivers for the
past 80 years, and have never seen anything
like this land sink before. About two months
ago we noticed that place about go feet
square, where there has been hill ever since
could remember. had begun to sink down. and
ever since then 1t has been getting lower and
lower ever week. At first we did not notice it
very much. but now everyone on the place
seems to be afraid to 60 near the spot, and. in
fast, 1t Is dangerous to go too near. The place
has now sunk about IL feet below the level OF
the earth. and is filled with water. The land
around the hole Is sort OF crusty, and will
break up like stone
"We can assign no reason for 1t. except that
there is an undertide that gets in somewhere and
Is eating away the land. This is the second
strange thing that has been discovered there in
the past 40 years. About 1859, while making an
excavation at this place. about 40 rods from
where the land sink Is, some men discovered an
Indian canoe. containing the skeletons of four
men, about 20 feet below the earth. In the
canoe were found several Indian pipes, and
bows and arrows. The boat was of very fine
workmanship and handsomely carved. It is
supposed that the skeletons were those Of In
Cians, as the Nanticoke tribe used to stay
along the Wicomico and Nanticoke rivers. /
tell you we have.a queer place down here now,
and If the land keeps on sinking you will see rs
all getting away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
PARAGRAPHIC PLEASANTLY.

NEW ORLEANS Pfcayune: Heaven is easy
for angels to reach. 1t is only one flight up.
WASHINGTON Capital. Whenever trouble
arises in the church choir everybody simply
takes his chants.
SoMERvILnE Journal: If fewer men should
drink before the bar, fewer criminals would get
behind the bars.
CHICAGO Herald: The Shah has left Paris
for Baden. If all the stories are true, the Shah
is rather a bad 'un himself.
SAN FRANCISCO Alta: The revenue cutter
Rush is still in Behring Sea, ready to rush
things when poacher appears.
BINGHAMToN Republican: A bee-trothal
naturally creates buzz in society, and quite
as naturally leads to honeymoon.
BALTIMORE american: Lord Tennyson
walks three miles every day. OF course, he
uses his poetic feet in measured way.
FLORIDA Times Union: Uncle Jerry Rusk
wants to know whether horn flies be pestifer-
ous." If the horn flies to your head-it be.
TERRE HAUTE Express: That the moon is
made of green cheese is a mere idle fancy, but
that the honeymoon is made of taHy is an es-
tablished fact
NEW YORK World: Queen Victoria cannot
bear to hear a cannon fred. This may be be-
cause she is big gun herself and would object
to being fred.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
A DISTURBING REPORT.

1t is disturbing to the public to be in
formed by high detective authority that the
long-sought for Tascott is probably not the
murderer of Smell. This not only excites
the public incre6ulity from the obvious ar
gument that il he were not the Chicago
police would long ago have bagged him;
but it is as iconoclastic of received modern
ideas as the attack upon the story of Tell.
After Tascott has been sought for In all
parts of the world, and been arrested in
most of them; after he has been made
famous as the man who cannot be found;
and has risen to the proud position of
standing subject for the professional news
paper wits, to be told that he did not do the
murder, which alone has made his name
known all over the country, is not dis
appointing only. 1t destroys our faith.
After this we will not know what to be-
lieve; and we can hardly blame those who,
with regard to Tascott, emulate the in
fidelity of Betsey Prig and "don't believe
there amt no such person"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
ONLY A FARMERS WIFE.
The Fate of Brilliant and Beautiful Long
Branch Belle.

Ano Chte oi u Driiuant ana beRuIl1ui Long
Branch Belle.
LONG BRANCH, August ia woman to-
day drove huckster wagon along Ocean
avenue. stopping at the hotels to sell her
goods, who was II or Is years ago a belle
at these hotels. She was q brilliant and
beautiful woman then and much sought
after. She had magnificent diamonds and
costumes and wss driven about in luxurious
yictorias. Now she wears coarse, homemade
clothes and her face is bronzed by exposure
to the weather. But it is beautiful face yet,
though the expression is worn and sad. This
in a tumble-down house. "Brick" Pomeroy,
who was down here this week, recognized her
when she was described to him. He said her
name was Louise Gay Her father was Capt.
Gay, formerly of Richmond, Va. He was a
wealthy man, and Louise was his only child.
just before the war he removed to the North.
making his home near Buffalo. lie and his
daughter used to visit all the summer resorts
She was accomplished and intellectual
Many fattering offers of marriage were made
to her. One day she disappeared from the
hotel here. The head waiter, a colored man,
was also missing They had gone away to-
gether. When Captain Gay learned of it he
was crazy with rage. He said he would kill his
months later, leaving his fortune so that his
daughter could never be benefited by it.
"Louises mother died when she was a child"
said Mr.. Pomeroy, "and she was brought up by
servants. For that reason / always felt like
excusing her." MIS- Beatty never speaks to
any one except on business matters. She is
Only farmers wife.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
THE TENEMENT HOUSE FATALITY.

Another tenement house fire has destroyed
half score of lives in New York. The loss
in property represents less thousands of dol
lars than the number of people who were
burned to death in their beds. The full facts
have not vet been brought out by investi-
cation: but it seems clear enough that in a
building little better than a fire trap, res
taurant kitchen was located in the basement
over which number Of tenants slept. A
drunken cook let the fire get red hot; it COM
municated with the woodwork and nine peo-
pie were roasted to death. OF course that
sort of thing will 60 on, with all the variety
that has been developed for the past few
years, until an example is made of the
property owners who are responsible for such
fatal conditions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
IF TONIGHT WERE THE LAST.

'The Lord watch between me and thee, whe
ve are absent one from another. "-Gen. 3l:49.
fyou knew that tonight were the last
You would clasp my hand in your own,
That tomorrow far stretches of earth
Between us might roll, bleak and lone
Would you know, too. that this hand OF mine
Would miss, dear, thine answering thrill,
Would reach for thine vainly, with longing!
Would you know that loved you still?
II perchance mine eyes. that SO often
Have gazed into thine, deep and true
Dear eyes-with light born ofloving,
And tender as heavens own blue
Should on earth ne'er again behold thee;
Meier watch for thy coming. until
In q better country they greet thee
Would you know that loved you still?
II we knew that again we'd not stand
Hand to hand, face to face, dear heart,
Not again-tiil the great All-Father
Home hath called us, no more to part
Would your heart that has beat responsive
To mine of, yet this truth fulfill
That distance,s no barrier to hearts. dear?
Would you know that loved you still?
While we're absent one from the other,
May God watch between thee and mel
And bless thee. my friend, as He, blesses
All loving hearts like unto theei
TIL once more we may meet each other
On earth, II God will; II not-till
In the dear, glad country Of heaven,
You will know that Ilcved you still.
-cetia Richmond IN Louisville soxrBah
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
DUTCH TITLES DON'T COUNT.
Decision on an Interesting Dispute Regard
ing Certain New York Streets.

OOSAoAOu Ou ~ AhtCFcstAnB Dfsputo hGkhEu-
ing Certain New York Streets.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, August 19.-The Manhattan
Elevated Railroad appealed from judgment
for damages obtained by w. ]. Mortimer and
other property owners on the Bowery, the
ground Of appeal being an allegation that the
Bowery was a street laid out by the Dutch, and
that, under Dutch laws, owners of abutting
property had no right or interest
in the streets. The general term of
the Superior Court affirmed the judgment
to-day. Judge Trua1 has been looking up the
old decisions and finds that the Bowery was q
street. or road as early as 1856. He finds that
the English held the island by right of dis
covery, and not by right of conquest from the
counted for nothing. as the United States
courts have held. Judge Truax says: 81 am of
opinion that the title of the Bowery, and other
streets in the city that are known as Dutch
streets, was never in the Dutch Government,
and that 1t was. prior to the Revolution. barred
by the rules Of the common law, and not by the
rules of the Dutch civil law"
Judge Freedman. in concurring, says: '1t is
a question purely between the public authori-
ties of the State of New Y York and the citizens,
and as such, controlled by the decisions re-
ferred TO by Judge Truax. to the effect that the
English title by discovery was superior to the
Indian title. This was acknowledged by the
whole world. and that being SO, it follows in
contemplation of present law that neither the
Dutch nor, the Roman law ever prevailed de
jure, and that the common law Of England
must be deemed to be the original source of all
our laWv