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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.


FREDDIE GERHARD smokes a package Of
cigarettes every day.
GEORGE BANCROFT is the Oldest living grad
uate of Harvard College, He was in the class
of 1917.
AFTER his 40 years lectureship at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, DR.. D. Hayes Agnew
on Saturday delivered his farewell address.
THE Rt. Rev. ]. F. Duhamel, Bishop of
Ottawa, arrived at New York from Liverpool
on the Umbria yesterday, and lett for Canada
last evening.
DIR. and Mrs. Harvey Lindsey, Mr.. Cleve-
lands Oak View tenants, will celebrate there
some time this summer the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding day.
THERE is division of labor at the White
House. Mrs. Harrison bosses the laundresses,
cooks and chambermaids. Mrs. Mckee looks
after the walters and crockery, while Mrs. Rus
sell Harrison sees to buying the victuals and
drink.
THE last President, when he had signed the
Statehood bill, gave the quill to William M.
Springer, of Illinois, Chairman of the House
Committee on Territories. He prizes it as
memento just as if he had had anything to do
with the admission of the new States.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has renamed cold and
distant so far as the administration is con-
cerned. he mas asked no 1aVorS OF MI. darr1-
son, has indorsed no Office seekers papers, and
has studiously avoided all comment on the
course of the new regime. The fact is that
Senator Edmunds grows more and more re-
served and unsympathetic as his years in
crease.
APPREHENSION is felt over the condition of
Ex-Governor Porter, recently appointed Minis
ter to Italy. Three days ago, upon returning
from walk, his feet were so badly swollen
that he could hardly remove his shoes, and the
next day the skin began to peel of, and there
was continuous pain. His physician is unable
to make satisfactory diagnosis, and his con-
dition continues not materially improved.
THE trustees OF the Kilmarnock Museum
have decided to print verbatim copy of the
holograph manuscripts of Burns first poems,
which were acquired by them last year. The
alterations made by the poet will thus be
shown, as well as many other peculiarities of
his work. 1t was at Kilmarnock that the first
edition of Burns was issued, copies of which
are among the rarest that are offered for sale.
ONE rarely hears the name of the great
leader of the Irish party in Great Britain, Mr..
Parnell, pronounced correctly; it seems much
easier to pronounce it in the usual American
way, with an emphatic accent on the last sylla-
BILE, and without any regard to the peculiar de-
mands OF methods of English as it is pro-
nounced by Englishmen. The correct punctu-
ation however, places the accent on the first
syllable as if the word were written "Parnul"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
OFFICE SEEKERS WOES.

DENVER Times: Men who are left behind by
the procession naturally drift into the ranks of
the soreheads.
OMAHA Herald: Chorus of waiting Repub-
licans at Washington: "And the office that we
longed for never came"
PROVIDENCE Journal: The question whether
Mr.. John Wanamaker or Mr.. Nj. s. QUAY will
appoint the postmaster at Philadelphia is still
unsettled.
ALBANY Argus: Halstead is contracting for
a 16inch dynamite gun, warranted to throw
shells from Cincinnati to Washington. 1t must
be ready by the next session of the Senate.
LOUISVILLE Courier-Journdl: Secretary
Noble will have TO seat himself frequently on
Corporal Tanner So unanimous a person as
the Corporal may do the party in power great
deal of harm.
CHICAGO Times: Bob Lincoln will do. Anv
man who has the nerve to ask an Illinois Sem
ator to accompany him to the White House
can be relied upon to twist the lions tail when
ever the occasion comes up.
SAN ANTONIO Express: 1t is a woful fact
that removal by Cleveland does not entitle a
Republican to pie at Harrison's table In the
language of a brilliant Northwestern cotem.
porary, the best way to get an Office is to rent
one.
& OnAOAuo 4e'"'A' LIS WEARY Return
when did you get back from Washington.
Sammy" Last week." "Come back on the
limited?" mo. That was the state of INV
finances. worked my way back on the
freights.'
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: When somebody
told the late Senator Conkling that one of his
enemies was about to be appointed to a foreign
mission he replied, ~ am glad of it: the for
eigner the better" Perhaps some of the Re-
publican Senators didn't think Germany for
eign enough for Mr.. Halstead
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
THE sTEREoTYPFp ADVICE.

This is the time of the year when our es-
teemed contemporaries abound with warnings
. against laying aside wraps and undercloth-
ing during the warm days. This the public
is vsrlously instructed is the surest way to
contract colds, with visions of pneumonia and
consumption lowering in the background.
The instructors on these points hardly ever
stop to reflect that an equally sure way is to
wear so much clothing as to become over
heated and then, by suddenly cooling of,
contract the Ills which are supposed to be
guarded against by the plenitude of raj
ment. They are also, as a general rule, un-
able to credit the public with sufficient
amount of common sense to follow the rule
that every one ought to know by heart.
That is to dress neither too warmly, so as to
perspire with exercise, nor too coolly,so as to
be chilled when quiet; but to have on hand
extra clothing in the shape of overcoats and
wraps so as to be ready for the variations of
temperature which constitute a character
istic feature of our climate at this season:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

IT is calculated to create apprehension
when we see in the list of newly chartered
corporations in Illinois the following stun
ming title: ''The United States Vogel-Kazo-
phone-and-Electrical Micophone- e-Trumpet-
Aucastic- -Electromoter- -Power-Musical-C Car
Distance-Loud-Speak Transfer Instru-
ment Company; capital, S65, ,OOO, ,oOO." 1t is
plain that company needs great deal of
capital to carry all those names; but on the
other hand, it can also be urged that with
all that imitation in the title, it might be
content without an equal initiation of the
millions of stock which it is to carry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
LITTLE PLEAsANTRIEs.

Optimist-Pleasant weather-overhead.
Pessimist-Ya-a-s. Trouble is so few people 20
that way.-NeI0 York Herald.
Venus has no moon. How in the world
do the farmers there know when to plant cucum-
bers, or 'EkilI pork?'' Or how can a storm ever
''clear of?''-Lo10sH Courier.
A Kentucky man while digging a rabbit
out Of hole came across keg of whisky 100 years
old. This incident will enormously stimulate
rabbit hunting in Kentucky.-Nsl0 York Tribune
Natural Selection-Dude-Mi Lu, gif
you'll bounce thai pet poodle OF yours I'Il marry
you. I've So 900 year.
Lu-Much obliged. IN make my own choice Of
puppies.
Teacher-What was there remarkable
about the battle Of Lookout?
Little Dick lat the foot of the class)-It caused
bangs on the brow Of q mountain.-Bi nghanton
Republican.
Lion in New York menagerie (snifing at
Gotham newspaper reporter who has just entered
the cage)-Shall we eat him?
Lioness-Eat him? FauEh! Can't you see hesa
cigarette smoker?-Chteago Tribune.
Of all the dirty families
In this big world Of sin,
The dlrtiest has just moved out
OF the house you've just moved in
-DaRSUtLLs Breeze.
The Best is Hard to Get.-Mr. wabash:
''You seem to value your butler very highlyT'
Mrs Van KnickerbockeI: ''Ies; lnever saw his
equal at handling a tray
Mr.. Wabash Csadly); II saw a man hold four
treys once. .i'--NeI0 York Sun.
TeAcher-It seems you are never able to
answer any Of my questions. How Is this my
little boy?
Little Johnnie-If knew the things you asked b
me- ma,am, dad wouldn't go to the trouble Of
sending me here-Hdrper's Bozar.
Curio Cookery-New Boarder: 1T strikes
me these biscuits are tough.
Mrs. Bazoo (the landlady)-''Young man, 1
made those biscuits, and I've made them before
you were born"
New Boarder (unabashed)-tT don't doubt it
Fam; but why don't you keep them in the curio
cabinet? Aren't you afraid somebody might break
them?,i-IDrake's Magazine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

The example of Tarrytown in the matter
of monuments should be instructive to
larger cities. That village having failed to
raise the funds necessary to build sub
stantial and handsome soldiers monument,
some one set up zinc statue of soldier;
and the people got so worked up over it that
the necessary funds for good monument
are now raised. Itmight be good experiment
to try on this villages big neighbor, which
in the matter of monuments might be appro-
priately Tarryopolis, to see if setting up a
zinc monument to q. S. Grant would not
work its millionaires up to fruitful condi-
ton of wrath.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
THE DEMONSTRATION OF EXPERIENCE.

The large loss by the burning of Hubbard
& Co.'S factory in Lawrenceville yesterday,
seems to emphasize the need of reinforcing
the ordinary fire department by the river fire
boat. Why the facilities for checking fire
by the land methods are not more adequate
in that important manufacturing district,
does not appear very clearly; but the testi-
mony is practically unanimous that if a
river fire boat had been on hand, the greater
part of the $500, 900 loss would have been
averted. A fraction of the extra loss would
more than balance the cost of the boat; so
that, in view of future possibilities in the
way of fires among the millions of dollars
worth of property along the river banks, the
economy of that expenditure is fully dem
onstrated. In its absence on this occasion,
however, the amount OF the loss lends
icogency to the inquiry why the regular
facilities were not more adequate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
A BROWN PAPER PARCEL.

Elevated Train Men Pelted Each Other
With if, Not Knowing its Contents.
From the New York SUM-
Elevated train guards not infrequent1y find
things in their cars. but finds of money are
rare. Some Of them have been kicking them
selves for months over an incident that occurred
one morning as a number of them were en-
route to One Hundred and Fifty-ffth street, to
go on duty. As usual, they were seated in a
group in the last car, indulging in chaf. One
of their number spied brown paper parcel on
an adjoining seat. 1t was greasy, and looked
about as ordinary as such a parcel can look.
"Hellor' cried this penetrating guard, 'here's
some Eyetalian's luneh," and with that he
hurled the brown paper mass at the head of
the man opposite him. In like manner the
parcel was passed back again and the fun
was kept up until the end Of the trip, when it
was suggested that it be presented to the start
er, with the mems compliments. The starter
took the matter seriously, opened the parcel
carefully, and then thanked the men gravely
for giving it to him. There was 81, 500 in the
greasy brown paDer. but the starter said he felt
obliged to hold on to it until the owner called
for it, which he did the next day. Trainmen
now invariably inspect brown paper parcels
with particularly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
A MONKEY-AND-PARROT TIME.
TroubIe in the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Fam
lily Over Its Business Policy.

lily Over Its Business Policy.
From the Philadelphia Record.1
There is trouble in the Pennsylvania railroad
family, and the railroad compaIy's hostility to
Phlladelphia's commercial growth is the cause.
The story is that President Roberts and his
following in the Board of Directors have waxed
angry lately at the movement for belt rail-
road in this city and the outcry against a de-
cline in Philadelphia commerce, and that these
officials have found unexpected enemies in
their midst. Peter Wrights Sons, it has
leaked out, have found their interests opposed
to those of the Pennsylvania Railroad in.its at
tack on Philadelphia's commerce, and have be-
come little too Independent.
This is responsible for part of the falling
out, but the trouble is heightened by
the recent default on the interest of
Girard Point Storage Companys bonds.
Since the railroad, by its diversion of
grain is responsible for this default there is
considerable feeling about the matter. The
late Thomas A. Scott was an extensive holder
Of elevator company bonds, and his executors
are determined to endure no trifling from the
railroad officials, but to stand out for their
rights. A number of those closely connected
with the big corporation are beginning to find
fault little with Its policy AS a prominent
broker said yesterday: "Some men are for the
Pennsylvania Railroad right or wrong;,others
think that some regard should be had to the
interests of Philadelphia"
And between these two parties no love is
lost just now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
To Prevent Discrimination.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
have carefully read Mr.. Carnegie's letters
published in your paper bearing upon the ques-
tion of discrimination against Pittsburg manu-
facturers and shippers, and am satisfied that it
will bear good fruit in the future, as it brings
to the notice of the public the manner in which
railroad companies discriminate against us, and
that his action will set the thinking portion of
our people to consider the best means to over
come this crying evil. 1t may not bring bene-
fits Immediately, or in the near future, but it
will before many more terms of our legislative
bodies shall have met and adjourned, requiring
them to modify and change the laws SO that all
shippers will be placed upon an equal footing.
Mr.. Carnegie is probably not aware of the
fact that there is now standing upon our books
a law that will help his cause very much. Ire
fer to the act of Assembly approved June 4,
1888 The first and second sections read as fol-
lows:
elimination by any railroad company or other
common carrier, or any officer, superintendent,
facilities for the transportation of freight within
this State, or coming from or going to any other
Section 2-No railroad company or other COM
mon carrier engaged in the transportation OF
any person, company or corporation, for the
transportation Of property. or for any other SER
vice greatersum than 1t shall cnarge or receive
upon like conditions, and under similar
circumstances; and all concessions in rates and
drawbacks shall be allowed to all persons. COM
panies or corporations alike. for such Transports
tions and service, upon like conditions, under
similar circumstances, and during the same period
of time. Nor shall any such railroad company
or common carrier make any undue or unreason-
able discrimination between individuals, or be-
tween individuals and transportation companies,
the furnishing of facilities for transportation.
Any violation of this provision shall make the Of
Tending company or common carrier liable to the
party injured for damages treble the amount Of
injury suffered" .
What this act needs to make it complete, is
an amendment tackled on to it, requiring the
Court in which suit has been brought to place
the same at the head of the next succeeding
trial list, for trial. This will give it prompt
trial, for it is the speedy bringing to trial of
evildoers that creates CONSERVATION rather
than the penalty attached to the crime.
If Mr.. Carnegie desires to have his ideas
made effectual. all he needs is to get this
amendment passed, as this act has been held
Constitutional Then a speedy trial will COM
pei the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, or
any other road, TO carry his freight for the same
rate it does that of other parties. The great
delay in the Interstate Commerce Commission
in making prompt and speedy decisions. Is what
makes their conclusions of little weight.
PITTsBURG, April & JUNIUs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
SPECULATION AND BUSINESS.

The Honorable Deacon S. V. White has
been giving the people of Plymouth Church
instruction on the subject of Wall street.
No one is better qualified to instruct the
congregation on the ins and outs of that To-
cality sacred to Mammon than the Congress
sional deacon, if he gave them plain un-
vanished facts. But the points which he
is reported to have brought out indicate an
attempt on his part to smooth things over
for which ''varnish" may be altogether too
polished word, and "whitewash" more
accurately descriptive.
Mr.. White evinces the usual inability of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
MARGUERITE.

oh, tangled tresses of tawny light.
So wayward and wildly forlorn.
Framing in with tiny golden strands
A face like the Easter morn!
Divinest eyes Of translucent blue,
A gift that the angels have sent,
Gazing out on this lovely world
In innocent wonderment.
starting bright from its trackless space,
That came to our wandering band;
Earthward borne in its eager flight,
To wander in fairy land.
oh, not more fair is the snow-whlte flower,
We christened for thee, oh, my sweet;
Pure as pearl, with its heart of gold,
The radiant Margueritel
oh, Marguerite! may thy days be all
AS bright as thy beautiful youth
Ever shine from thine eyes so blue,
The radiant soul Of truth.
San francisco Cali.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
A Once Royal Domain.

Appealed to for information concerning the
old manor, Mr.. Hindenach furnished a little
tract that has been distributed among the
Legislature. The information it gives is brief
and to the point PENIS favorite manor of
Pennsbury. Falls township, Bucks county.
which lay along the Delaware for several miles.
contained over 5000 acres of rich land. 1t is
now divided into nearly hundred different
tracts, in size from small lot to a large
farm. 1t was once a royal domain, called Sc
pessin, and was purchased of an old Indian
king, the reputed owner. The name is the
same that Lindstrom, on his map of 1916, gives
to the small stream in Falls that Penn after
ward named "Welcome" creek after the yes.
sci he came in. This tract was granted at diff
ferent times to others, before it came into the
possession of Penn. In 1864 Sir Thomas Carre,
the English commander on the Delaware,
granted it to Thomas Hyde and Thomas Nor
ley, and it was then called the Manor of Grim
stead. In 1872 it was granted to Matthias
Nichols. and three years afterward he con-
veYed it to John Barry & Company But moth.
ing came of these grants, and 1t was included
in the tract Sir Edmund Andres located for the
Duke of York, in 1876. 1t appears that Andres
granted this same tract to one Arnout de la
Grange, of New York. As the conditions of
none of these conveyances had been carried
out by the grantees. William Penn succeeded
to all the rights of the crown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
soup and its ingredients invariably open the
entertainment.

THE suggestion is made in the Illinois
Legislature that that State shall smash the
Binding Twine Trust by setting its con-
victs at work turning out twine at cost.
But inasmuch as the combination has cor
nered the raw material for this twine, the
proposition fails to offer much prospect for
squeezing the combination. 1t might be a
picnic for the cornerers to take the contract
of supplying the penitentiary, with mater
ials-of course at monopoly prices.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
ONLY THEMSELVES TO BLAME.
Senators Who Complain Without First Hav-
ing Suggested Anything.

Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
WASHINGTON. April IAN interview with
Senator Farwell, of Illinois, telegraphed here
from Chicago; makes the Senator complain
grievously because Mr.. Wanamaker's new su-
perintendent of the railway mail service, Mr.
Bell, OF Philadelphia, did not consult him in
regard to the appointment of Mr.. Montgomery
superintendent of mails for Chicago. Mr.. Bell
could not be found this evening, but another
high official of the Postofice Department says
neither of the Illinois Senators was consulted
because they did not ask to be. They never
expressed preference for anyone, or any in
Jerest in the matter. A superintendent was
needed, Mr.. Montgomery was known to be a
first-class man for the place, which Senator
Farrell admits, and he was appointed.
'Some Senators are queer creatures" con-
cluded the official. "They curse Office seekers
for annoying them, and profess desire to be
relieved of the whole business, but if an Office
is filled in their State without consulting them
they get awful mad about it."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

The Chicago Tribune notes sarcastically
that IN Nebraska is setting up howl because
she does not get all the Offices she wants. I"
The Tribune should not blame Nebraska
for that. She only tries to follow the fash
ions of the older States; and it is especially
natural in view of the tendency of the Ne
braska press to model itself on the example
of the Chicago newspapers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08
THE PALATABLE PEANUT.
Some Facts About the Industry Furnished
by an Expert.

by an Expert.
BALTIMORE, April 7.-Speaking of the ad-
vocacy of the peanut as a remedy for insomnia
by the Rev. 7. B. Lyman, Episcopal Bishop of
North Carolina, an expert on the peanut said
yesterday:
1.-THE peanut singly is light and airy trife,
but in numbers it is vast resource of agricul-
ture and commerce. Its food properties are
great, and rich, precious oil Is in every kernel.
The consumption of peanuts is 1900 O00 bushels
a season, and the highest production is but
70U,000 bushels more. All these peanuts are
raised in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennes-
see, but the Tennessee production is compare
lively small. During the peanut harvest the
people. the picaninnies, the dogs, pigs, and
nearly everything that eats get fat in the land
OF the peanut.
Peanuts are planted at complaining time
each kernel produces running vine like crab
grass, and each root develops about 20 pods.
When ripe the plough is run through the loamy
soil on dry day just before frost. The nuts
are dried and shocked up like corn to keep dry
before housing When marketed they go to a
cleaner, where they are put through steam
power machinery and polished, after which
they are graded according to size and variety.
The Virginia nut is the largest and finest"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

1T is with disapproval that we note the
suggestion of the reckless Chicago Mail that
Boulanger should come to this country and
start new career as mascot for baseball
club. There is already an overstock of
Boulangerism in the politics of this country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

THE Empress of Austria is reported by a
current paragraph to make her own soup;
but Col. Fred Grant goes to that court in
calm reliance on the fact that the ingredi-
ents of that compound have no relation to
his official career.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

A CALCULATION is afloat to the effect
that the new lands opened up in Oklahoma
will make only little over II, 900 home
steads at 16O acres each; and as there are 3O,-
900 %ould-be settlers, the inference is that
some one will be left. Necessarily this will
accentuate the demand to take some more
Indian reservations while uuearned railway
land grants are still held with the usual
tight grip of the corporations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

The usual rule seems to have prevailed
in that National bank defalcation out in
Minnesota. After the 100000 horse had
been stolen, the directors were very much
on the qui viUe in the matter of locking
stable doors,