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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
YANKEE AND SOUTH AMERICAN.

Some of the many differences of tempera-
ment, habits and constitution, which have
to be understood and adjusted before we can
establish close relations with our South
American cousins, are doubtless involved in
the statement that the delegates on the South
American excursion are worn out with ban
quoting and sightseeing before the trip is
half finished.
The South American is generally credited
with disposition to take life easily. He is
even charged BY his detractors with a tend
ency toward Incidence. Without accepting
that Impeachment, it may be believed as no
demerit that he likes to get all the sleep
necessary to reeuperate his fatigue, that he
takes time to fully digest his meals, and
that when he sees new thing be prefers to
be sure that he has seen it all before flying
off to something new.
Such peculiarities of our visitors might
have been worth taking into consideration
in planning a trip for their enter
tainment Instead of organizing it
to suit the deliberate and slow-going
Spanish-Americsn character, it seems
to have been taken for granted that
our visitors would at once adapt themselves
to the Yankee customs of riding all night
on the sleeping cars; of whirling through
dozen factories of manufacturing town in
single day, with a superficial glance at
hundred things each of which might re-
quire hours of study for them to compre-
hend; and of then sitting all the evening
running their digestion with banquets and
listening to speeches which few of them un-
stand and which those few discover to be
exactly the same in all cases.
When we come to reflect on the differ
ences Of nationality and habit, we need not
be surprised thatthe nations guests fail to
take kindly to a trip built upon the most
aggravated Yankee plan of dash and hurry.
Perhaps too, upon thinking it all over we
may not find our respect for them lessened
by the fact that they are tired of the at
tempt to crowd six months sightseeing into
three weeks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
CHICKENS BREED DIPaTHERIA.
Some Statements That May sfarsls the
Friends of Barnyard Fowls.


From the indianapolis sentinel.l
It is now said that the poor chicken breeds
disease. Coroner Wagner said there was no
doubt Of 1t. Pasteur has made investigation,
proving that fact to his own satisfaction. He
claims that diphtheria Is contagious from .
chicken disease. ALI medical men concede the
fact that fowls have q disease closely resem-
bling diphtheria- Pasteur has specimens in
his laboratory showing the progress Of the dis
ease in chickens That species of diphtheria
Is the most fatal wherein the fungi or dlph-
membranes by very hne pedicle. and hangs
curtain-like across the laryngial cavities. This
type Of the disease also Is more apt to spread;
and this is the very kind prevalent among
chickens-poor chickens. Ferrand, another OF
the great French savants. corroborates the
statement Of Pasteur on these diseases, further
stating that chicken suffering with II, closely
resembles one afflicted with the gapes.
s. y nave w seen an.y IN ny own practice said Coro-
with the fungus protruding from the nasal
orifces. On the onter surface Of the beak the
mouth Of chicken presents but very little
mucus for the fungus TO develop upon, conse-
quently it works downward into the body, as it
often does In the human. There are cases on
record Of the fungus being found In human
stomach. About one year ago family In my
practice had child 3years old lying Ill. An
other child about years old brought in pet
after both children were taken with diphtherfa,
while the three children Of the family who had
not played with the bird did not have 1t. One
OF the fi0ck Of chickens was killed and the
fungus was found protruding from the throat
when the head was cut OF. /"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
BIG GAME IN PIKE COUNTY.
Bear Trees a Clerk and 10 Slain BY a
Hunting Party.

Bear Trees Clerk ana 10 slain DY q
Hunting Party.
BELv1DERE, N. J., October 20-A party of
sportsmen from this place had an exciting ad-
venture in the woods of Pike county recently
The party consisted of Councilman McMutre,
County Clerk Theodore P. Hopler and Matt
Raisley and Stephen Douglass two old hunters
They left on Monday for Porter's Lake, intend
ing to spend the time in fishing. On Thursday,
when all the party except County Clerk Hop.
Ter were on the lake. large deer came to the
waters edge. Hopler had nothing but shot
gun, but fred wounding the deer. He gave
chase. and after tramping a mile, found the
and the deer fell; but Just as he was about
to capture his prize, he heard growl, and
looking around, saw a large black bear.
He was unarmed, and. according to his story,
scared and SO at once broke for the camp. The
whole party at once started in pursuit Of the
larger game, armed with shotguns loaded with
buckshot. They found the deer, partly eaten,
and after short time came up to the bear in
clump of swampy land. This they surrounded,
and walking toward the center. expected to
pour concentrated fire into old bruin.
Hopler was the first man to sight the game.
and at once fired. Bruin was struck and fmme-
diately made for the County Clerk, who, calling
for help took refuge IN tree. The whole party
then approached, when another big bear came
on the scene. This SO startled the sportsmen
that they st once beat hasty retreat, but not
until they poured volley into the bear having
the clerk up the tree. This animal they killed,
took the carcass away. The party returned
here to-day with the bear and l9l pickerel,
weighing 525 pounds IS pheasants and "a brace
of woOdcock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
SMALL-sIZED CRITICISM.

There is a large amount of unnecessary
and misplaced Stiffness in the intimations of
certain papers, that Henry NJ. Stanley is
doing something discreditable if the report
is true that he is gathering up large
amount of ivory, and bringing it to the
coast. The purchase of ivory in the interior
Of Africa is perfectly legitimate commerce.
1t is to open up that trade and make it take
the place of the barbarous traffic in human
flesh that Stanley's great achievements in
exploration have been performed. That
he has never, heretofore, permitted himself
to be drawn aside from the attainments of
greater objects is no reason why, on this
occasion. when he has performed his work
of relieving Emin Bey, he should not take
the opportunity of making some profit out
of honest trade, either for himself or for
these who fitted out his expedition. The
story may be true or false; but if it is true
no man with heart in him will begrudge
Stanley fortune out of his ivory trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
ODD ITEMS FROM ABROAD.

UMBRELLAS are being imported into India
in great numbers. Last year 100000 arrived in
Calcutta alone.
THREE boys, attending gymnasia or high
schools in Berlin, have shot themselves within
the last few days on account of disappointment
in not being promoted into higher classes.
THE Paris beauty show begins to-day with 30
candidates, including English, l Irish, 2
South Americans from the United States, 2
Russians, 2 Hungarians 2 Italians, 2 Rouman-
ians. French and Orientals.
On September 30 man was executed at
Ossuna. in Andalusia, for murder. who up to
the last moment was in full expectation of
reprieve from Queen Christiana. The reprieve
was actually signed, and orders were sent to
carry it out but it arrived just after the execu-
ton was over.
A NOTED gourmet recently declared that
there are not five parks in England where the
venison is now worth its currant jelly, and that,
in the course Of the previous season, he had not
met with more than one haunch that could be
cited as even noticeable, and not one that was
good enough to seduce him into a second plate
THE highest price which Wilkie Collins ever
received for novel was 5000 guineas, which
was paid to him for "ArmadaIe' before q line
of the story had been written. Thackeray only
a short time before his death, congratulated
Wilkie Collins on the transaction, and told him
that he had never himself made as much as
$4,000 by any OF his books.
In village in the canton of Lucerne, Swift
zerland, there is a society of old maids. 1t num-
bers so members. and, queer enough, it is under
the patronage of the st. Catharine matrimonial
agency. They perform acts of charity, and are
highly esteemed in their neighborhood. The
municipal council lately presented them with
banner, on which there is the following start
ling inscription: "Women are an evil, but they
are also = blessing. They remind us Of the
onions that make MS weep, but that welove all
the sama."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
TIE HEROINE OF THE CORONA.
A Colored Woman Who Sacrificed Her Life
tn Save OtherR.

10 save Otn0fBs
NEW ORLEANS, October 20.-In almost every
great disaster among the steamboats, of the
Mississippi river some ideal Bludsoe or realistic
Given has appeared to leave the impress of his
heroism and self-sacrifice upon the terrible
event. Charity Lambert, the simple black ne
gress whose bravery saved so many lives in the
recent explosion of the Corona. is one of these
heroic souls. Charity was born in Maryland
when she does not know. The crowning glory
Of her life was her heroism in this disaster, IN
which 40 souls were hurled into eternity with
out warning. Charity was taken aboard the
boat by Captain Blanks as chambermaid The
Inflated boat was ascending the river at the
usual rate of speed, and Charity was toward
the rear Of the boat ironing when she heard the
whistle blow.
The familiar footing of the Corona had
scarcely died away when the most terrific ex-
plosion that ever shocked her ears took place.
and the gallant craft shivered and shook and
seemed to be parting in two. Nanny had
scarcely time to look around when the door
burst open and the ladies ran in imploring her
assistance. Her quick intuition came to her
aid, and she saw that something must be done,
and done quickly, to save the passengers. Hur-
riedly, but calmly, she went to the place where
the life preservers were kept and parceled them
out to the terror-stricken ladies until all were
supplied but herself, and, needless Of her own
safety, she led the way to the roof
All who had been provided with life-preserv-
ers by the noble, selfsacrifcing old negress
foated on the surface and were saved, except
Mrs. Hough, who was struck by door and
drowned beneath the weight above her head.
Old Nanny after struggling in the water for
several minutes, was finally rescued by roust-
about. Ever unselfsh she begged her rescuer
to save the white ladies first and leave her to
take care of herself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
SOME RARE OLD VOLUMES.
Books of Ancient Date and an American
Map of 1914,


From the Atheneum.l
Among the many discoveries of unique
copies of books that have occurred during the
last 20 years only can call to mind several
that have come within my own limited expert
ence, as, for example, an edition Of the ''Sarum
Missal," dated 1887, and printed not by but for
Caxton; the existence of such book ould
have been treated as visionary had it been sug-
gested before its discovery In an old Shropshire
library. Then, again; who would have believed
in the existence of map of the world engraved
on copper, and dated 1914, with the name of
America marked upon it, till NJ Tross brought
it to lightf-the earliest map of the kind having
previously been supposed to be that printed at
Vienna in 1921.
1t is but few years since the British Museum
acquired an edition Of the prayer book of l549
printed in small quarto size for the use of the
clerk or leader of the congregation. This
must have been printed in thousands. yet but
one copy is known now to exist and until its
recent discovery suggestion of the
existence of such an edition would
have been treated with ridicule. Then,
again, the Edinburgh edition of Shakespeare's
Venus and Adonis, printed about 1921 and
the Bay psalm book, printed at Boston, New
England, in 165l-who would have suspected
the existence of such books till they actually
appeared?
would urge persons of photographed tastes
and knowledge who have access to Libraries in
Olu COuulE1 uOuScS anu udublOuo luu06u
any collection of old books that have lain un-
noticed and unexamined, to keep their eyes
open, for feel sure that the tracts of Columbus
and Vespucius must have been printed by En-
glish typographers, and may yet be discovered.
Nor is it only in old undisturbed libraries that
photographed rarities may occur, for it is but
a few years since that folio edition of Julyan
Notary's Lives of the Saints" was purchased
at a marine store dealers in Camden Town for
IS Cd and afterward sold for f2O0. Especial
nofian eh0uld hn piVnn n v0umps n trantg for
it was habit of our ancestors to bind together
thin pieces by the dozen, and it is only keen
and skilled eye that will detect the presence of
the grain of wheat among the chat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
TIE DREAD OF DEATH.
Facts That Seem to Prove That Men Do Not
Fear to Die.

From the New IDEAL
Sir Lion Playfair, in letter to Junius Henri
Browne author OF paper with the above title,
ency (the University of Edinburgh) for II years
in contact with the most eminent medical men
in England. have put the question to most
Of them. Did you, in your extensive practice,
ever know patient who was afraid to der
with two exceptions they answered No.
Zone OF these exceptions was Sir Benjamin
Brodie, who said he had seen one case. The
other was Sir Robert Christian, who had seen
one case, that of girl of bad character who
had sudden accident. I have known three
friends who were partially deyoured by wild
beasts under apparently hopeless circumstances
of escape. The first was Livingstone, the great
African traveller. who was knocked on his back
by lion, which began to MUNICH his arm.
He assured me that he felt no fear
or pain md that his only feeling was one of in
tense curiosity as to which part of the body the
lion would take next The next was Rustem
Pasha. now Turkish Ambassador in London.
A bear attacked him and tore off part of his
hand and part of his arm and shoulder. He
also assured me that he had neither pain nor
fear, but that he felt excessively angry because
the bear grunted with SO much satisfaction in
munchlng him.
1.-THE third case is that of Sir Edward Brad
ford, an Indian officer now occupying a high
position in the Indian Office. He was seized in
solitary place by a tiger, which held him
firmly behind the shoulders with one paw and
then deliberately devoured the whole of his
arm, beginning at the end and ending at the
sation of fear, and thinks that he felt a little
pain when the fangs went through his hand,
but is certain that he felt none during the
munching of his arm"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
THE MAN TO SUIT BLAINE.
One Very Interesting Phase of the Contest
for Speaker.

for Speaker.
Washington dispatch to N. Y. Times.l
If there is to be any opposition to the election
of Mr.. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, to the
Speakership it ought to be provoked to appear
as soon as it is learned that all the talk at pres
ent favors Mr.. Reeds success. Mr.. Cannon,
the Illinois candidate, is here, and he is talk
ing hopefully, but his strength in and out of
his own State is unknown. Mr.. ]. C..
Burrows, of Michigan, who is, per-
haps, as formidable candidate,
on some accounts, as any in the field is here to-
day. His strength ought to be great. If Mr..
Blaine is in earnest in his determination to
force the people into partnership with the
South American steamship lines and to use part
of the taxes to insure those companies greater
profit than they can make in the ordinary
course of Independent trade, Mr.. Burrows
would be altogether the most appropriate, we'll
informed, and boldest of the candidates to
carry out the objects of the administration.
Mr. McKinley's campaign has been quiet one
lies.
Pennsylvania is almost solid for Reed; New
York is to be unit for him. although that
does not mean that he is to be elected. Mr..
Reed may be fated to fall, as Hlscock did,
when he was cock sure of holding the prize
that Keifer grasped. By holding together un-
til the casting Of 10 votes will elect the man to
whom they are given the State that reserves
the vote may be able to make a very advan-
tageous bargain. If such bargain can be
made on better terms with Mckinley than
with Reed or Burrows or Cannon, it will be Sc
cured by the OHIO candidate.
If Blaine is to have any influence in choosing
the Speaker, the betting ought to be in Bur
rows favor, for he is the beau ideal candidate
of the Subsidy hunters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
CURIOUS PROVINCIAL CUSTOMS.
Habits That Can be Traced Back TO the
Days of Paganism.

Habits That Can be Traced Back 70 the
Days of Paganism.
Investigation into the customs and habits Of
the Provencals of our own day discloses the
fact that among these interesting people there
are still to be found vestlges of pagan practices
as they continue to observe numerous pecul-
iarities in their modes of worship and in their
social and domestic habits that can be traced
back to the days Of paganisrn. Curious in
stances Of this are supplied by the practice Of
libations, still followed by the peasants Of
Provence, who. after having concluded some
unusual transaction or an agreement of import
ance, commemorate the event by pledging
those present, after which they extend their
right arm and turn their glasses down, so as to
let the last drop fall to the ground.
Similarly, at the festival of Christmas, which is
locally known as "Leis Festos de Caleno," (the
Calends). solemn repast is partaken of. at
which the eldest and the youngest member Of
the family perform, amid the profoundest ST.
lence. the ceremony known as the 'benediction
of the fire." This act is performed by pouring
wine three times upon the burning log. which
must be of oak or olive wood. This is accom-
panied by the singing of some verses, in which
the excellence of the fire is praised and God Is
thanked for having given man heat. These
verses vary in different localities, but every
where the ceremony Of the silent libations pre-
cedes the supper, Of which the combined
household partakes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
THE MESSAGE.

She sat beside the window low
And sang sweet refrain,
Her face with JOY was all aRlow,
As blossoms after rain.
And swift as thought her needle new
Above her 'broidery rare,
And fast the silken roses grew
Beneath her fingers fair.
But now o shadow in the door,
A letter at her feet,
And quick the bushes mantle o'er
Her forehead pure and sweet.
With eager hands she breaks the seal
And opes the missive white.
But ahl what specter grim doth steal
From that dear face Its light?
For winter than the page she turns
Grows ruby lip and cheek.
While in her lovely eyes there burns
A grief she may not speak.
You tell me that words cannot kill2
Well, not the mortal part
But words when barbed with venom VIII
Stab unto death the heart.
--Harrfet Smead in Inter Ocean.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
ABABY OVER FIVE FEET TALL.

The First Infant Giraffe in the Country Born
at Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, October 20.-The female giraffe
at the Geological Garden, in this city. brought
forth young male giraffe this forenoon. This
is said to be the first born in captivity in Amer
lea. The managers of the Geological Garden
ssy that none have been born in captivity else
where except in London, and none there since
1871
The youngster at the Zoo" is nearly 5h feet
high, and his estimated weight is Loo pounds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

THE New York Press breaks out in an
appeal to the New Workers to put up the
cash for the Exposition in a single day.
New York ought to do that; but considering
the number of days it has taken her to pre-
pare a plan for beginning to get ready to
put up, the reasonable expectation will be
that it will take her about as many days as
it has to put up the Grant monument fund.
That number of days, as the country is
aware, is still unreckoned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

THE assertion of prominent New York
banking houses that money will probably
rule from Is to 25 per cent between now and
the LIST of January, indicates either that the
New York spectators nave been spreading
far too much sail, or that the New York
bankers want to get big slice of the revival
of trade. Possibly both are true.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

ANARCHISTS who hiss the flag and talk
of revolution are dangerous elements; but
the way to suppress them is to make sure
that no great corporations are permitted to
defy the laws, and combinations of wealth
allowed to burden the public. If we have
no privileged wealthy class. revolution will
have no meat to feed upon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

THE report that there is to be combina-
tion to put up the price of champagne,
arouses the opposition of the bright New
York EUeniag Sun. The Sun does not pro-
pose to have the regular tipple of its staff
interfered with.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

LIZ it be true, as numerous esteemed CO.
temporaries are assuring the public, that the
lands which have just been obtained from the
Chippewa Indians are worth not less than
$50, ,0OO, 600, is it entirely creditable to the
people of The United States to obtain the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
Omce Seeker. Go West.

From the Denver Republican,
Joe Smith is not satisfied with the $4,000 a
year he makes out of the fees of the office of
Clerk and Recorder. He has set up in addi-
tion a set of abstract books in the Court H ouse.
and he pays nothing for the space occupied, or
for the gas and fuel used by his clerks in
writing these books up at night. 1t is moder-
ate estimate to say that he must make at least
$4,000 more every year out of the abstract
hinci inns
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
HOUSES THAT WON'T BURN.
How South Americans Make Genuine Fire.
Proof Structures Of Wood.

From the New Orleans Picayune.1
They build fire-proof houses in Buenos Ayres
and Montevideo without thinking of it and
while using all the wood they can afford to,
and they use neither iron nor the arch. Trees
to be brought down from the upper waters in
hard woods. Being dear, little OF it Is made
to 90 as far as possible.
The floors and the roofs are supported by
joists of hard wood, as among us; across these
are laid fat rails of the same, and the spaces
between these are bridged over by thin bricks
l31z inches long, with their ends resting on the
rails; another layer of bricks is then laid with
lime, and generally on this layer OF tiles.
The doors and windows have no boxes, but
simply frames, which are set up when the
walls are going up and built in There Is no
lathing or wainscot or skirting of the bottom Of
the walls. A house thus built cannot be
burned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
Fortunes That Were Lost.

EfOm Lnt " WuSHIHRIOH I O5IsI
The daily papers last week related the Incl
dent of well-known resident of Pierre, Oak,
who sold a 160-acre tract on the outskirts of the
town for a song and now digs in the streets OF
a city he might have owned. The records OF
the land Office are filed with such incidents.
They will show that men who took up land in
the nighborhood of the rapidly-growing cities
of the West have sold it for almost nothing and
suffer in poverty for their lack of foresight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21

WHATEVER doubts there have been as to
the existence of one personal devil, the Chi
cago revelations seem to leave it beyond
question that the Western center of trade is
supplied with large number of him.