Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
A b1rTLE SERIOUS TALK.

met some celebrated steamship captains
In London. Referring to steamship cap
talns or masters, must say here that lit
seems to me they are expected to do good
deal and die as soon as they can do no more.
A steamship captain is REQUIRED to look out
for the interests OF the company, the interest
of the ship, the interests Of the passengers,
both spiritual and temporal, and while he
risks his life every moment he is in the SER
vice, when he can no longer sail, he may
die in poverty or commit suicide as he
chooses, so far as the great world of traffic
is concerned. This is manifestly unjust.
So the average captain saws: 1.-THE only
safe thing Tor me is to make my last voy-
age" that is, to go down with the boat.
Think OF that, you who have trusted your
own lives and those of your families to
these men. Think of 1t and talk of it until
there is pension or provision for those
who give their whole lives to their fellow
men.
The Johnstown baby, whose name Is
Moses Williams, came over on a recent trip
Of the City of Chicago, according to Surgeon
Peter McSweeney. The Johnstown baby
was named Moses because he was found on
the food, not exactly among the bullrushes,
but borne on the bosom OF the terrible del
uge. while his mothers house was floating
down to death and destruction. 1t is not
necessary to say that Moses owned the ship.
He got about $75 from enthusiastic Ameri-
cans on board and practically was monarch
of all he surveyed. He was lucky to put off
his, birthday till the time of the terrible
food, for, Pharaoh's daughter in the shape
of American generosity has rescued him
from obscurity and poverty, and hereafter,
when he says: "My name is Moses Will
Jams, was borne on the breast of that terri
BILE torrent in Johnstown," the ready wallet
will come forth and Moses will be on deck
even if the light goeth out.
ELIXIR EXPERIMENTS.
Many curious experiments were made in
Par by DR.. Brown-Sequard, in the early
stages Of his elixir experience according to
the local physician there. Most of these
experiments were made on animals. He
was greatly gratifed. Into the foreleg of
an old horse, that was so worthless on ac-
count of age that in another day he would
have been in the soup-the mock turtle soup
OF Paris-he elected his elixir. In an hour
afterward, with bright red nostril and tail
neatly draped over the dashboard, he sailed
up the Shonz Eleeze knocking spokes out of
valuable carriages all the way up to the Arc
of Triumph, where he Clipped out about
cents worth Of the corner OF that great work
and piled up DIR. Brown-Sequard in chaos
OF clothes and contusions His first anxiety
was to find out, of course, whether the hy-
phen had been knocked out of his name.
Finding that it had not, he returned to his
experiments.
He also secured an old dog with thick
hearing and pronounced tagging of the
mental powers. The dog was SO old that he
had forgotten everything and SO blind that
a French soldier in red eored trousers did
not startle him any more. After a dose of
the elixir, he wagged his tail, thing he
had not done for years. Then he yawned
and ate some grass. He then noticed a cat
on the lawn. one that had grown old with
him, but had not had nip of the elixir. He
took after her and in two minutes he had
her quivering remains on the grass. By4
o'clock he had gone back to puppyhood and
had chewed up DIR. Brown-Sequard's white
CATERS, pair of lace curtains and a child.
BILL NYE.