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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

ELIJAH HALFoRD, Private Secretary to the
President, has recovered from his recent ill.
ness, but is obliged to be very careful about his
diet and habits of work.
GOVERNOR FORAKER is anxious to take a
long rest before he begins the practice of law
after his term of Goyernorship expires. He
contemplates trip to Europe.
GLADsToNE's SOth birthday will be cele-
brated in England with considerable rejoicings.
1t comes on the 10Th of this month, and it is
curious that the venerable statesmen should
keep his golden wedding and his SOth birthday
the same year.
By the death of m. Eugene Bersier Paris
loses one of her most famous pulpit orators and
France the foremost pastor of her Reformed
Church. Pastor Bersier was well known in the
United States, where he spent the earlier years
of his career, and was surrounded by large
circle of American acquaintances and friends
at Paris
MRS. MARY 81. HUNT, who, as the head of
the educational department of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, received and pre-
sented to the XLIXth and Lth Congresses over
4, ,0O0 600 petitions for Federal aid to public
schools, has written to President Harrison,
thanking him in behalf of these petitioners for
his recommendation of this measure in his re-
cent message to Congress.
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN, the second and most
popular daughter of Queen Victoria, is on the
eve of entirely losing her sight. She has been
suffering for some time past from an affection
of the eyes similar to that which afflicted her
King George LII. OF En-
gland. and also her first cousin, the late King
of Hanover, both of whom were totally blind
during the last 40 years Of their lives.
The Rev. w. H. Millburn, the blind Chaplain
OF the House of Representatives, is a native of
and was born in 1872 He lost the
sight of one eye when quite young, and the
other soon became practically useless He mas
tered the blind alphabet, and at the age of 20
was ordained minister. After that he trav-
eled over 100000 miles, filling appointments to
preach in all the Southern States. Within the
last 80 years he has preached in nearly every
State in the Union and in some European
He has been Chaplain of the House
since 1883 and can, in all probability, hold the
place indefinitely.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
AN OLD RAIT.

1t is singular but interesting fact that in
the investigation of the Greene county busi-
ness complications, the old ten-per-cent-a-
month bait to catch gudgeons finally comes
to light. 1t was to be supposed that, by
this time, every one except children and
persons deficient in natural understand
ing. was too well informed to be victimized
by such a shallow device; but it seems to
have been one of the successful inducements
by which the Greene county folk were
brought to invest more money than they
had, in cattle enterprises of which they
could know little or nothing.
OF course, this is only new illustration
of the way in which the specious promise of
large gains is readily snatched at by the
public. 1t is not much more remarkable
than the disposition to surrender hard
earned funds to the tender mercies of trust
spectators, corporate stock waterers, or oil
or grain manipulators, except that it is
more threadbare and easily seen through.
But it has been SO often proved to be mere
deception that it almost seems as if anyone
who is caught by such shallow promise
must have been ambitious to figure in the
character of an easily-deluded victim.
1t is to be hoped that, as is reported else
where, no one connected with the Greene
county troubles has been guilty of actual
But it is necessary to point out
the fact that if there were any pledges of 10
per cent monthly profits out of corporate
they furnish proof presumptive
of a sWindle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
QUE MAIL POUCH.
The Nun of Kenmare Quotes DR.. Hutchinson
in Her Defense.

The Nun of Kenmare Quotes DR.. Hutchinson
in Her Defense.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The conversation which your reporter had
with the Roman Catholic lady 'who visits the
Ursuline convent every day." is curious. It is
rather hard to be pronounced insane because /
have said what the doctor of the Dixmont In
sane Asylum has said, that Sister Gonzalez
troubles have been the cause of her insanity.
If Sister Gonzalez family were insane, there is
all the more reason why she should not have
been subjected to treatment which has ter
minated In insanity. 1 know the rules of con-
vent life very well, and if the Sisters received
her under such conditions they made a mis-
take. am not responsible for what Mother
Gertrude or "a lady" has said, have simply
phonse in the presence of a friend and what
vas said to me by the French Sister and also
by Mother Gertrude's own sister.
The lady says that the Sisters who are under
censure get ''the greatest freedom about the
place." But later she says that their meals
are carried to them" This shows that they are
not allowed to associate with the other Sisters
and proves what Mother Alphonse told my
friend, that they are not allowed the same
liberty as the others; that they are, in fact
sent to coventry" to use the mildest term.
AS shall enter on these subjects fully on
Tuesday, shall say no more, except that be-
lieve what was said to me by the three Sisters
whom conversed with, and who have better
right to speak for themselves than any lady
who speaks for Mother Gertrude. l knew
Mother Gertrude's father, the well-known
London bookseller. l was not aware who
would have asked to see her and told her who
was. M. ]. CUSACK,
(The Nun of Kenmare.)
PITTSBURG, December 2, 1882
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
PITTsBURG. MONDAY. DEC. 8, 1880.
AN 1NEFFEcTUAL COMBINATION.

The reported combination of the sup
porters of New York, Chicago and st. Louis
as the site for the Worlds Fair agsinst
Washington, is not one that is likely to
demonstrate any great cohesiveness. 1t has
no merits in the natural conditions OF the
issue. and it will be certain to go to pieces
at the first stress of jealousy between the
commercial cities.
In the first place the claims of Washing
ton rest up on a very different basis than the
advocacy OF either of the other cities. The
real choice is between locating the eKposi-
ton at a commercial center or at the center
of government. If the majority of Congress
deem it wise to make the exposition ma
tienaI affair of such character as to keep it
under national control, all the combinations
of the other cities will not prevail against
its location at the nationa! capital.
On the other hand, even if a majority of
the Congressmen should not take this ma
tional view of the enterprise, the jealousies
of the contending cities increase its chances.
Whatever combinations may be made,
majority of the CEicagoans would rather see
Washington get the Fair than New York,
and most of the New Workers would rather
see it at the capital than at Chicago. St.
Louisdoes not count for much either way, but
its advocates would vote to locate the expo
sitiOn anywhere, if by that means Chicago
can be beaten.
The combination is not likely to do much
unless it be to delay matters, and that would
be great injury. The time is none too
long in any event. Congress should settle
the matter promptly and let the chosen city
commence operations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
THE SILVER MILESTONE.

There is one side of the silver question to
which neither the Secretary of the Treasury
nor President Harrison have adverted, and
that is the intense unpopularity of the silver
dollar as a circulating coin. II there are
good reasons for continuing the mandatory
coinage of this pOnderous inconvenient
coin-and Secretary Window, in his last
repcrt, expresses doubts of the utility of the
coinage-there can be no sound reason for
forcing silver dollars by the ton into circu-
latiOn. The people feel this imposition of
an out-of-date coin more than the weightier
evils pictured by Secretary Window as
likely to result from the present system of
mandatory purchase and coinage of silver
by the Treasury.
If dollars must be coined wholesale let
them stay in the Treasury vaults, and their
equivalents in silver certificates pass out
into circulation. The burdens of life are
heavy enough, without adding to them
these millstones of silver. Paper money is
modern requisite.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
UNIoUE HISTORY.

It is rather interesting to read in the cable
dispatches of the historical learning dis
played by the young German Emperor, on
his visit to AnhaltDesSsu, and then to
perceive in an extract from his speech
reference to the old Prince of that house
t'who was the teacher of the Prussian army
under my great ancestor, Frederick the
Great" 1t will strike most of those who
have read the history of the third Hohen-
zollern king as very remarkable history to
call him the ancestor OF the third Emperor
of the same race. All previous histories
have credited him with dying without chill
dren, and leaving the kingdom to his
nephew. 1t will probably be no more than
Just to credit the Kaiser with having used
the German word for predecessor" and to
suppose the word "sncestor" to be slipped
in by the translator. But, in the connection,
the statement is almost as unique as the
semi-Occasionsl newspaper references that
we see in this country, to ''direct descend
ants of George Washington.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
ELECTRIC nIsPuTAr1nKs

Cincinnati, Boston and Cleveland are all
experiencing trouble with the overhead
wires for electric street railways. In two
Of these cities the trouble has taken the
unique form of contest with the telephone
companies, which reveals the usual corpor-
ate idea of their exclusive privileges in the
public streets.
1t seems to be pretty well demonstrated
that telephone and uninsulated high tension
wires cannot occupy the same streets in
peace and harmony. As the very nature of
the overhead electric railway system re-
quires its wires to be bare. and as they
naturally occupy the leading avenues this
PLAYS hob with the telephone wires. The
result is that the telephone companies claim
the right to shut the electric railway COM
panies of, and the electric railways claim
it as their privilege to relegate the tele-
phone wires to the back streets. The prae-
teal assertion of each particular electric
company-that its rights in the public
streets are paramount, after pooh pooling the
rights of the public to keep the streets safe
and free from obstruction, ought to make
thepresent jHnetuFe Q Good one for informing
both these interests that they have no rights
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
AFAMILIAR ASSURANCE.

1t is pleasant to be assured by the new
Havtian Minister to the United States that
the people of the recently revolutionary
island are wholly contented with their new
Government; that there is no danger of any
further revolutions for many years; and that
the few dissatisfied persons are those who
have been removed from Office. But the
perfect reliability of these assertions is some
what lessened from their exact resemblance
to the deliverances of the people who obtain
Office under any administration. Even in
our own peaceful land, it is the regular
thing for the happy holders of offices to take
a roseate view of the political situation un-
der any and all circumstances. and that
the only people who are not contented are
the miserable minority who have been
kicked ut of Office. 1t is natural to sup
pose that the Haytians have had enough
revolution to last them lifetime; but more
impartial testimony than the Haytian Min
lister is needed to make us certain of their
utter and idyllie content
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
LOADING A PRINCES FAMILY.
A Hard Task 10 Get Albert Edward on 4
Train,
Paris Letter in New York Times. ]


Paris Letter in New York Times.1
Apropos of princes. the sight Of the departure
of the Prince Of Wales and his family from
Paris at the beginning of the week was some
what amusing one. Strange to say that on this
occasion the usual precautions had been neg
Iected and that everybody who listed was
allowed on The platform. There was quite
miscellaneous crowd by the time the royal
party came up. Up till then amusement
had been found in staring at the portly
Wallets arranging the travelling rugs and
cloaks in the salon car. On tne
neatly written copy of verses attached. sent Tor
the Princess by some friend. Jummy. the
Princess pet dog, was there In great state,
fed little brute and with the innate snobbish-
ness of dogs seemed to know who and where It
was. The royal party were fearfully moDoed
when they did come up. and the Wallets nao an
their work cut out for them to get passage
clear. 1t was not until, acting on brilliant
idea. the station master sent a trolly with hot
water bottles straight through the crowd tnat
the Prince and party, following IN lts wake,
were able to get up to the entrance to their
car. 1t was most amusing sight to see how
the servants got the Princess and then the
Prince into the train.
One could not help thinking of the old days
in Spain when to touch the Queen or one Of
the Princesses was to incur death, as one
watched the footmen hosting the Princess into
the carriage. The Prince gave them more
work. One footman gripped his right arm and
another got his two hands firmly planted
against the Princes back and one, two and
away. 1t seemed that it would have peen very
much simpler to have had stepladder. When
ali had been shot in the doors were closed and
the royal party stood at the windows like wax
statues to be stared at. The Prince took up
most peculiar attitude, crouenlnR so tn2t MS
head onIY appeared above the window sill.
The faces of some of the crowd were study.
Most of the people had their hats OF, and many
wore 4 devotional air such as one sees IN
church. Nobody loves lord more dearly than
does the French bourgeois.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09

burg shop girl I'VE cannot believe,D says the
writer OF this ingenious argument, shat Amer
ican manhood Will not sometime rise above the
unparalleled meanness of the protective tariff -
In this tariff town this article makes quite in
teresting reading. Willard B. Farwell in
"New Phases in the Chinese Problem, (" ques-
tions what can be done with the Chinese who
are here already. Not only is exclusion very
difficult, as the President suggests In his late
message, but those who are now within our
boundaries afford sufficiently grave problem.
Mr.. Farwell does not believe that any reforma-
Jion can reform Chinaman. DR.. Abbott has
an interesting paper on the days when the
mastodon was wont to chase the palaolithic
man across the frozen surface of the Delaware
river. A useful article is reprinted from the
Nineteenth Century on the ''MenJal and Ply
sieal Training Of Children"
~
The miseries and iniquities of tenement
house life in New York are described in the in
itial paper of the December Ec,T6neT'S. "How
the Other Half Liyesp is the title of the artlclA
JacobA. Riis, police reporter of the Associated
Press, is the author. Two cent restaurants and
l0-cent lodging houses, over-crowded buildings
and open drains. the Italian quarter, the Jews
quarter, the Chinese quarter, with their indis-
cribable denominations, are set forth with pen
and pencil. No remedy is suggested, Indeed,
there is but one remedy, and that is an awak-
ened public sentiment which will bring fear, if
not shame. into the hearts of the rich men who
own these breeding places of disease and crime.
Wnat t4e enlng needs Is Just sucn showing up
as Mr.. Riis gives it. Mr.. BunneT, in Mrs.
Toms Spree" writes queer little story NTH
an entirely unworn plot. Brittany and the
Bretons are delightfully."- described in Mr.
Norrhup's paper on ''Fhe Pardon of Ste. Anne
forced with pictures by Howard Pyle,
Kenyon Cox, Will b. Low and others
Contemporary American Caricature," as
exemplIfied more particularly in Puck and
Life, is appreciatively treated byJ. A. Mitchell.
The ''end-paper." by Mr.. Phelps, is entitled
'The Age of Words" Too many speeches,
too many books, too many newspapers, is the
burden of this clever essay. The national
printing machine at Washington turning out
"long- g-drawn-out and ostentatious reports of
what nobody wants to know; endless docu-
ments' that nobody reads; tables unlimited of
useless knowledge; Congressional speeches that
had no hearers and could find no readers; no
library could contain them,-only the paper
maker has use for them" is taken to be good
symbol of an age of words.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
SHORT HAIR IN FASHION.

While it is true that popular attention, as
evidenced by the popular songs of the day,
has been diverted from mans hair to his
hat-"Chippy get your hair cut" having
retired in favor of "Where did you get that
hat?''-considerable interest must be taken
in the proceedings of the BARRIERS ConVen-
ton now being held in Detroit We are not
as fully informed as to the dolngs of the
tonsorial artists in convention assembled as
we would wish to be-but one result of the
deliberations is clearly announced and it
alone is of immense Importance. It is
resolution OF the BARRIERS to keep American
hair short.
The resolution arose from a fight caused
by Figaro Louis Lassange's effort to have
the fashion of wearing the hair long in
dorsed by the convention. Mr.. Lassange is
a cultured barber of Boston, and he argued
for a return to flowing locks on aesthetic
grounds. When some one suggested that
barber who proposes long hair throws half
his income away, Mr.. Lassange rejoined
that any falling off in hair cutting would be
compensated for by the increase of sham
pooling which he reminded his hearers was
their greatest source of profit. But all these
arguments fell fat, and the short-hair ad-
vocates carried the day by vote of % to 8.
For the honor of Pennsylvania we are glad
to note that the delegate from Harrisburg,
Mr.. Rastern-Pittsburg does not appear to
have been represented-voted for aesthetic
ism and long hair.
1t will st1ll be impossible to distinguish
statesman from a pugilist by the cut of his
hair, the study of phrenology will be fos-
tered, and the national head will not need
an enlarged hat yet awhile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
STRANGE SCENES IN A MIRROR.
Remarkable Effect Of a Tragedy Upon a
Large Looking Glass.

Remarkable Effect of a Tragedy Upon a
Large Looking Glass.
NEW YORK, December 8.-There is large
mirror hanging on the wall of the store at 10
Fulton street, directly over the spot where
Stephen Pettus fell after he had been shot by
Hanna b. Southworth on the morning
of November % The mirror is feet
long and feet high. and is set in
a stout black walnut frame. Ii has
been there over year. During that time its
polished face remained the same. Since Pet
tus' death change has taken place in its gen.
eral appearance.
The quicksilver in the back has cut up pecu-
liar antics. 1t is liquid in parts and in flowing
about has formed the most weird figures and
pictures. At times it becomes unusually bril-
liant in parts and floats about like clouds in
moonlit sky. One day the quicksil-
yer evolved itself into q handsome
Landscapes; the next day the out
lines of a warrior on horseback could be de-
tected with a little imagination. More funereal-
looking sights occasionally assert themselves.
One morning this week when the foreman
opened the store in the morning he was greeted
with battle scene in quicksilver.
Yesterday the picture OF Christmas tree
glistening like diamonds attracted great deal
of attention. The clerks in the store look on
the mirror with ave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
BEAR-HUNTIKG IN JERSEY.
Bruin Scares His Pursuers, But is Treed
and Then Shot Dead.

Bruin Scares His PursuerG, But is Treed
and Then Shot Dead.
BRIDGEPORT, N. J., December 8.-The farm
ers of Bridgeport have been annoyed all the
winter by the depredations of some strange
animal destroying the young pigs. and watch
has been set by half dozen farmers along the
railroad, but in vain. Peter Schlagg, the JUS
tice of the Peace for Logan township, rode
over last night after Charley Maloney, at
Woodbury., late Assistant Collector of Internal
Revenue. Mr.. Maloney had double-barreled
Magistrate Schlagg had the good sense to load
one barrel with buckshot, which later brought
in supply of bear meat for both families.
By dawn yesterday the two gunners, with
cotton tails mile below Bridgeport. They had
bagged half dozen rabbits, and as the hunters
passed the edge of an impenetrable cedar
swamp the evening train went rattling by. Tbe
dogs came to halt at the foot OF fallen OAK
tree, and half way up the tree Sohlagg discov-
cred black bear. Bruin was as badly scared
as the hunters and tried to get further away
from the badly-frightened Nimrods. a. hasty
council of war was held and Schlagg insisted
on Maloney firing load OF rabbit shot at the
bear to bring him down the tree.
Maloney reluctantly fired and left the scene.
The dogs followed in rapid transit Mr.. Schlagg
stood his ground. and as the bear came at him
open-mouthed he stepped aside and let drive
with the barrel loaded with buck shot, aiming
behind the bears shoulder, with fatal effect
Schlagg fred the other barrel in the air, and
Charley Maloney returned. Bruin weighed l8O
pounds, and the two hunters carried their
trophy into Bridgeport.
In Great Egg Harbor, Atlantic county there
have been traces found of three or four bears,
which inhab1t the swamps near Egg Harbor
City. Senator Gardner, Mayor Hoffman and
ing party in this locality next week and expect
to return with at least one bear skin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-09
NO SUCH THING AS LUCK.
Wanamaker's Words of Wisdom Addressed
to Sunday School Pupils.

Wanamaker's Words of Wisdom Addressed
to Sunday School Pupils.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATcH.I
WASHINGTON, December 8.-When it was
announced that Postmaster General Wana-
maker was to make his first appearance in this
city in the role of Bible class leader to-day twas
naturally expected that there would be large
attendance on the occasion. As matter of
fact however, this was not the case. When he
stood up at $3.50 this afternoon to deliver an ad-
dress to the Sunday school connected with
who were not regular attendants, and there
were a number of empty benches. Probably
the reason for this is the fact that Gurley
chapel is a comparatively obscure place of
worship, situated near the outskirts of the
town and the meeting place for the residents of
that suburb known to Washingtonians as Le-
droit Park.
The Postmaster General was warmly vel
coined by those present He took as the SUBJ
ject of his address 1.-THE Four-Leaved Clover"
and after telling his hearers about the won
derful properties formerly supposed to be pos
sessed by this plant and the good fortune
which was expected to follow its discovery, he
went on to assure them that there is no such
sure road to success was by industry and econ
omy. 1t was good address, business-like in
its tone and Presbyterian in its doctrine, and
no stranger would have imagined from the
manner of its reception that the speaker was
the Postmaster General of the United States,
Mr.. Wanamaker expects to continue his Sun
day school work during his residence in this
city but has not as yet determined upon any
one place to which to devote his energies.