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TIE TYPICAL DEMOCRAT.

A 81. Louis Philosopher Thinks Girl Of 16
the Best Example.
st. Louis Globe-DemocratI
The girl of sixteen, think, is the typical
Democrat all over the world. When was
going to school I used to wonder why it was
that all the pretty girls showed favor to the
bad boys and gave the cold shoulder to the
best ones. / couldn't understand it, and
never did until long after had left school
and gone ont into the world. Then I began
to see that the girls were the best judges,
after all. 1t was not that the girls liked
the bad boys.
1t was that they liked those of force
of character. manliness and aggres-
siyeness, and were not attracted to the milk
sops who called the other crowd bad. When
they get older, unfortunately. there is a
change, but up to this age of sixteen the
girl is Democrat of the most unerring in
stinct.
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STATESMEN WITH THICK EECKs.

PhenomennIly Large Collars Worn By Lead
ing English Politicians.
The collars of leading Englishmen form
the subject OF study chosen by q London
Journalist, says writer in the Boston
Transcript. Mr.. Gladstone by common
consent is admitted to wear the grandest old
collar in England. 1t is '19, and has
peaks so pronounced, 50 high. rising three
and one-half inches from the hand, that the
tradition is that the great statesman lets
himself down behind them to enjoy q nap
undisturbed and undetected, or to conceal
his emotions when attacked or preparing an
attack.
No one ever dared draw Mr.. Gladstone's
collars until young man on Punch -staf
depicted them in their true proportions and
Immediately found himself famous. Prince
Albert Victor, eldest SON Of the Prince Of
Wales, goes BY the sobriluet OF collars and
cuffs" He wears what is known as ''iam
not" collar, q tunnel of stif linen with no
space, very suggestive Of formal sore
throat. Vernon Harcourt wears turn-down
19; the Speaker, II, and John Morley, q
16. Lord Randy's collars give his face
the appearance Of head borne on charger.
It Is noticeable that the leading English
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
A EiQHTEttE 5Hl1kBT.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

Just two weeks ago yesterday New York
boy named John Barry was taken away
from home in aqueer wagon that rang a bell
as it rumbled along over the rough streets.
The bell warned everybody to keep out of
the way. A man sat in the wagon under
the bell and held John Barry's arms. The
boy didn't know where he was. The queer
wagon was an ambulance hurrying John to
Bellevue Hospital to see if the doctors there
could cure him. He was in bad way.
The horse cars, trucks, carriages, wagons
and drays got off the road when their own
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
THEY DON'T CATCH ON.

Yale Student Couldn't MIKE the English
Understand Slang.
New Haven Palladium
A Yale student returning from abroad is
disgusted with the slow appreciation of the
English people. He says that on the trip
home he had occasion to make use of the
phrase sin the soup" As it was new to
British ears it provoked the curiosity of one
old gentleman, who begged an explanation.
The embarrassed young man began with a
cheerful homely example. "If," said he,
started for America, and my trunk was
by some inadvertance detained in Liver
pool, should be sadly >inconvenienced,
would I not? Well, then my trunk would
be in the soup, and so would l." "But,"
broke out the Englishman. ''I cannot see
what your trunk has to do with an article Of
diet. -
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Little Buy Blue.

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.1
Little Boy Blue, go blow your horn,
The wind is caroling through the corn,
The sun is climbing his meadow of blue
ana drinking his early cup of dew;
Little Boy Blue, the sheep and COWS
rave strayed in the fields for a royal browse
Blow, till your lungs are full and free
AS the wide worlds morning minstrelsy.
Little Boy Blue, when the leaves are dead,
And summer her plumage green has shed,
Inc wind will carol another tune,
The sky will have lost the blue of June.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

Years afterward this same little boy
stretched rope across Niagara Falls and
walked across it as easily as If it had been
barn floor. and then the whole world re-
sounded with the fame of Blondin. And
one day, after he had performed in Paris in
the presence of thousands OF people, he sat
IN his tent and told me the story of how he
had run up the long rope to save his sister.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

will be able to ever harm her again. But
know who was the witch you met in the
woods!''
who was she?" eagerly asked the
Prince.
ut is your stepmother. But you hurry
home and she will not escape from punish
ment."
The Prince and Amalda departed, thank
ing the kind fairy over and over again Tor
what she had done.
When the two arrived at the house of the
Prince, the stepmother stood at the castle
gate, but no sooner did she see and lecog-
nize Amalda when she fell down dead.
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ANSWERS.

805-A cato '-nine-tails.
SO6-Honesty. The word is formed by taking
s'hn from three" 20" from -four, - ~" from
s.naught.n .se" from ''one," ''sr from ''seven,
''t'' from two" and y" from forty" Leaving
a perfect word IN each case"
SO7-Creek. reek, rec.
SO8-
"F Fun many a gem, of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves Of ocean bear.
Full many flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
8O9-Fourteenth 1.-THE fortune).
Sl0-Men-age-rie.
Sll- OCCUR TER
Max ERATE E
o T s IL
LENT ANDO
EMPYR AL
TRIM URT
lila TIoN
CA A @ OIL l.
ANC H OR ET
l. G WHINE
sl2-Pallah, Allah. palla. pail, pal. all
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s19-MErAGRAM

What we all wish to do who obey natures
laws;
Or, If not, then transpOse me. and ind out the
cause;
I am reckoneda curse, but transpossd Pm no
better.
Though Pm part of church, If you drop the
first letter
Mix again, and yOu'n find me as false as De-
lilah
Behead and curtail, and stand all alone,
So I'll bid you goodbye till the answer be
shown. 8. MOORE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
Little W1TTlEH'E PEnE
Hl1 PEHEiIH.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.

Jules Goodman, the artist, and his
wife, who writes as we'll as he designs,
are well-known people in the world of
letters and art What child who loves
a good old-fashioned circus, with the
daisies growing all about the fresh-made
ring and the grass carpeting the ground
over which tiers of seats have grown like
Aladdin's palace, does not delight in such
stories as that which the Goodmans made
with pen and pencil a week or two since in
Hdrper'S Weekly, a story of the old-fash-
ioned county circus in all its glory.
These talented folks have a little girl who
already, at the age of z makes pictures of
people, and good pictures too. Not long
ago she sat down in her mothers parlor,
while her parents were talking to a friend
of theirs, and drew on a sheet of white pa
per a likeness of their friend which was so
true it seemed to speak! She sent it to him
in a letter and he sent her book in return.
This is her letter:
WEDNESDAY.
'tmy der mr. florence:
thank you very much for your book. read
one of your stories-i like it very much am go
ing to see the rIVals-i hope to see you again
yours gladys goodman"
Gladys may make a famous artist after
a while. she draws much better than she
writes. Her friend is William j. Florence,
the popular actor. who plays with Mr..
Joseph Jefferson.
When Mrs. Cleveland, who lived in the
White House before Mrs. Harrison went
there, was little girl, named Frances Fol-
som, she wrote little story called "LittIe
Mol, " of which this was the plot:
A young writer on famous New York
paper has to write every day in the crimi-
nal courts. The ferreting out of crime and
the arrest of criminals and their daily pun
ishment are hour by hour reported by him.
Stories of crime black and foul as were evers
written are Qnrolled before him, until his
belief in human nature nearly perishes.
But his faith is preserved through meeting
poor news girl who comes and goes daily
to the Office for copies of the journal on
which he serves. The sequel can be imag-
ined. The reporter, STEPPED as he is in
visions of the worlds iniquity, and in daily
danger of his life (since he had incurred the
enmity of the criminal classes), has his life
saved by "Moll." In return he places her
at school, and ultimately marries her, after
which be leads life of happiness.
How many little girls can draw pictures
and write stories if they will only try?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

number of other fairies, who all oi them were
servants
Only once a year would Oinda Quanda
and her servants leave the golden castle be-
meath the forest stream, and that was In the
beginning of the spring, Immediately after
the ice had disappeared from the water and
the snow had been driven from the ground
and the trees by the warm rays of the sun.
That was a very busy time for the fairies.
because they left their house for
very important purpose. In short they
went throughout the vast area Of Olinda
Quanda's dominion to plant the seeds for all
the beautiful flowers that grew within the
wide wood. Fitting over the ground, they
dropped a seed here and another one there,
and thus the anemones, the wood-sorrels,
the woodrufs, the dogwoods and all the
other beauties that grow beneath the shade
of the forest foliage were brought to life.
The world had again laid off the heavy
mantle OF snow and ice; the dreariness of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
a1a-nrn.prrAnrnrs

Ny colors stand for State, or clique, or crew,
For am called IAN ensign" false or true.
Remove my head, Wombril, by the way,
like the deed so well, "again" say,
Then take another head, twill bring no tear,
For stole negative is now my sphere.
Once more to skillful surgery resort.
And am one of the ''adhering" sort.
Again decapitate me and tits plain
That I'm > '1iquid" found in sober Maine.
MEDIUH.
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s2O-HALF soUABE.

i. Devilish. Unnamed persons. A TO
dent mammal inhabiting South America.
Arab princes. 8 Saltpeter. G The principa
goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. 7. Cent
IAbbr.1 8. A Roman weight of twelve ounces
9. A letter. ROBERT lie DIABLE.
S21-DoUBLE LETTER ENIGMA.
In "fume;''
In "groom:"
In ''states;"
In "hates;''
In ''steers'
In ''rear;'
Whole is nurse" and nothing more
You've heard of this ofttimes before.
G. A. PRICE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
OliDda Quapda.
BY ERNEST h. HE1NR1cHs.
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.l

LIMA W ANA
was one of the might
lest fairies Of the for
est. Her castle, which
was built of pure gold,
with windows in it Of
the rarest and most
brilliant Of diamonds,
was hidden beneath
the noisy waves of the
stream. Here, under
meath the waters sur
face, Olinda Quanda
lived among q large
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
a22-REBus.

One hundred and ffty-seYen,
II you Alright transpose.
Will show what you should always be
To both your friends and foes.
s. MOORE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

public men take large collars. Perhaps this
is an indication Of tine large physical consti-
tuition which keeps Englishmsn strong in
power long after the time when American
politicians have been placed per force on
the retired list. The English leaders are
mostly of that big neeked, bulbous-headsd
type which. according to DR.. holmes,
"steams'' well.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
The Lack of a Mechanical Education.

Jimmy-I'll sit here and keep watch
while you 60 in, and if anybody comes I'll
rattle this piece Of wire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

816-DIvERSELY READ.
Take one of a certain religious sect,
In business said to be second;
When the two are combined in q union com
pact
You've musical instrument reckoned.
w. WILSON.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
address comnswnfcattonsJ for tafs department
TO E. R. CHADBoURN. LesOfston, Maine.
813-wHAr BOOKS ARE ON THE TABLE

S14-ALMoST A WEDDING.
Once upon q time, so I've heard say,
An awkward woman was taking her way
Through forests shady and meadows green,
Where daisies and lilies were often seen.
When rural god, residing nearby.
This woman ungraceful happened to spy,
Like many another in love he fell,
For what earthly reason no mortal can tell;
His suit 30 earnest, no denial would take.
Such passion as his through all bars will
break.
At last she consented to be wed on the spot.
so parson was summoned to there tie the
knot.
Symbolic Of union through fair and foul
weather,
He made them first their hands join to-
gether:
When, strange to relate, like lightning fash.
The punishment came for an action so rash
They both disappeared, and now on the spot
Was only pudding all steaming and hot
The parson surprised such wonders TO see,
Chagrined. indeed. at losing his fee.
But delicious steam his nostrils inflated,
Tempting his appetite now TO be sated;
The pudding he found was made up in slices
OF apple and bread with plenty Of spices;
And that day, at least, it could not be said
That praying and fasting he went to his bed.
n. G. WooDFORD.
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A Confederate senntor.

Saunders and his friend wandered down.
stairs and roamed about the corridors for some
time. Then firing of the monotony of that oc-
cupation Saunders announced that he was 90
ing on the floor of the Senate"
"But they will stop you," said his friend.
81 guess not" answered Saunders, and he
marched around to the doorway at the rear of
tho Senate chamber, used to admit Senators
and employees of the Senate during secret ses
sion. The doorkeeper, as was his duty, tried
to stop him. Don't you know sir, that am
Senator from the Southern confederacvn
said Saunders, iercely, and before the door.
keeper could make up his mind what course
he should follow, Saunders was within the
chamber and listening to the proceedings. He
part of the night session. After a time the
doors of the galleries were opened, and the
part of the crowd that had not left the buiid.
ing was admitted again. Saunders looked
young friend sound asleep on one of the
benches. He came to the conclusion that II
was time to go, and, as the proceedings were of
little interest then, he left the chamber and
went upstairs. There sat his friend, bolt nm
right and sound asleep. Beside him on tbe
floor reposed his boots, for the feet of the
young men had become weary with mncb
wandering that day. Saunders aroused his
friend and told him to put on his boots Tt1pos
easier to say it than to do it. Tight boots were
very fashionable at that time, and his friend,S
feet had swollen so during the time he had
been asleep that it was impossible for him to
squeeze them into their customary coverino
SO he gathered up his boots and in his stocE.
inged feet walked to the bus that at that time
conveyed passengers from the Capitol to the
residence part of the city. The man with the
swollen feet is now Senator and sits in the
Senate chamber by authority of the Legisla.
ture of Nebraska, which last fall elected him tn
serve second term. His name is Charles F
Manderson. O'BRIEN-BATN
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
LIFE SAVING ON THE RAIL.
Subject of the Utmost Importance Taken
Up by the Commission.
rr-o,,, tIa phfIadaIpbfo Raoord

A Subject of the Utmost Importance Taken
Up by the Commission.
From the Philadelphia Record.l
In circular addressed to the labor organ
izations throughout the country the Inter-
State Commerce Commission invites attention
to the great number of accidents that overtake
railroad employees and passengers, and to the
general opinion that many accidents might be
avoided in the future by the adoption of poper
measures Of safety The commissioners re-
quest the labor organizations to express their
views as to the best means of regulating rail-
road transportation so as to protect human life
and limb. In order to systematic the inquiry
the organizations are asked:
What laws have been adopted by the several
States for security in railroad travel and what
has been their efect9 How have the various auto
matte coupling systems operated and what sys-
TEN should be generally recommended? What
progress has been made in methods of lighting
and heating of cars9 and, finally, what measures
of security in railroad transportation should be
adopted by Congress?
1t is highly creditable to the Interstate
Commerce Commission that in the midst of its
labors it should have directed attention to this
important subject But it may well be doubted
whether the General Government can take
effective steps to reduce the number of acci-
dents by rail, as this is matter that lies ex-
clusively within the jurisdiction of the several
States. The defective coupling and heating
arrangements by which so many lives are sacri-
feed should be reformed by the railroad COM
panies themselves, without the intervention of
National or State Governments. Anything,
however, that Congress may legitimately ac-
complish in this direction would be most
heartily welcomed. The Interstate Commerce
Commission is entirely within its own jurisdic-
tion in its attempt to arouse public attention
on this subject
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
NOT OUR MISSION.

Prof Drummond, the English explorer,
in a recent magazine article, urges the
United States to join Germany in the sup
preston of the slave trade in Africa. If
the crusade against the barbarism which
still exists in the Dark Continent can be
kept clear of any purposes of territorial or
commercial aggrandizement, the United
States can unite in such movement just as
it did generation ago, against ocean
slavers. But the course of Germany both
in the Pacific and at Zanzibar is not calcu-
lated to apay the suspicion that she has
more interested motives than pure philan-
thropy in her attacks on the slave trade.
The United States has no mission in the
line of helping Germany to conquer Africa,
in order that Germany may enjoy the
usufruct of the conquered territory,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
In TroublOus Times.

One Of the best known railroad attorneys
in the West is ]. L. Saunders, chief counsel
for the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana.
He is not only well known as a lawyer, but he
is sfamous in his own country as a politician.
He was the Republican candidate for Congress
last year and was beaten by the present dele
gate, J. L. Toole. A story that Mr.. Saunders
tells of his first experience in Washington will
interestnot only his friends but the friends of
a man much more widely known than he. It
was at the time that Andy johnson was pre-
siding over the deliberations of the Senate that
Saunders and another boy from Canton, O.,
came to Washington. When cali them boys
perhaps should rather say young men, but
they would class men of that age as boys now
1t was in March, 1861, the last night of the
session of Congress. that Saunders and his
friend sat in the gallery of the Senate intently
watching the proceedings. There was much
feeling in the galleries as well as on the floor.
for it was at time when party strife and sec
tional feeling ran very high-a time when the
nation was in danger. The Southern Confed-
eracy had not been formed, but it was as good
as organized. The demonstrations of approval
and dissent in the galleries finally became so
decided that Charles Sumner proposed that
the galleries be cleared. johnson was at this
time engaged in currying popular favor and he
opposed the proposition. 1t was debated for
fully two hours, Mr.. Sumner and his friends
coming off victorious. The visitors retired
from the galleries in some disorder,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
A CASE oF PROFIT SHARING.

The experience of profit sharing, which
has been in operation for two years, at the
great mercantile establishment of John
Wanamaker & Co., Philadelphia, appears
70 be very satisfactory. The result OF the
years operations were announced last week,
when on salaries of S5S,OO0 nearly SAG, 600
of shared profits were distributed. In two
years the employees have received by this
plan nearly S214,O0O. As this almost
doubled their salaries there can be no doubt
that it works satisfactorily to the employees
As to the other side of the bargain neither
the most ardent admirers nor the sharpest
critics of john Wanamaker' have ever
claimed that he did business for love.
There is every reason to believe that the
amount of money distributed has been fully
balanced by the gain from the interest which
every employe has in the prosperity of the
establishment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20
Secretary Mobiles Mail.

Secretary Mobiles mail holds about one hun
dred letters day, and the answers that are
sent to most of them are written by Private
Secretary Hume without reference to the Sec
retary and are to the effect that the cores
pondent's papers have been received and put
on file. 1t is astonishing what comfort an ap.
plicant for office can derive from one of these
formal Acknowledgements. Its value is nil 1t
is merely an assurance that the Postoffie De-
partment has done iuswork and the letter has not
gone astray. Yet the anxious applicant looks
upon it in the light of an assurance that his
letter has met with favor in the eyes of the
Secretary. The Executive Mansion seal or
letter head, has more than ordinary significance
in the eyes of these innocents One of them
called at the Interior Department day or two
ago and asked to see the Secretary. He was
told that the Secretary was busy. But have
a letter from the President" said the visitor.
The letter was produced. Private Secretary
Hume took it and read it at glance. 1t was
signed by Private Secretary Ege Halford, and
it contained the simple information that the
correspondents letter had been received and
time. Mr.. Hume smiled.
"The Secretary is busy at present with the
head of one of the divisions and you will have
to watt he said.
"But don't letter from the President get
me in?' asked the applicant. He was informed
that that class of letter did not.