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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

JAMES WHITGoMB RILEY found the musical
meter of his Hendricks ode in Browning's
'Lost Leader"
GILBERT. the English dramatist, begins his
literary work at about midnight and keeps on
writing until the sun has risen. He is great
consumer Of cigarettes.
MRS. GRADY, the widow of the Southern
orator, is at White Sulphur Springs with her
two children. The elder is a manly boy of Is.
the younger is pretty little girl.
SIR JOHN MILLAIs, the great English artist.
has curly hair that is hardly touched with
gray and bright eyes that do not show any
trace of their afliction-rhat Of long sighted
ness Millais terms for portrait are $4,000.
AMONG the passengers arriving from Havre
at New York Saturday on the steamer La Bre-
tagne were the Chinese Minister to the United
States, Spain and Peru, the Secretary of the
Chinese Legation at Washington, and Miss
Winnie Davis.
THE late Writ Dexter, of Chicago, once
made a remark that it had been the ambition
of his life to kill so mallard ducks in one day,
and that he had spent $4,000 trying to do it.
He eventually succeeded and at his death he
had record Of l35 ducks day.
UNITED STATES MINISTER sNowDEN likes
the Government and the people of Greece. but
not the country. As he luckily represents the
United States In Roumanla and SerV1a, as well
as in Greece, he is enabled to leave Athens in
the hot season and seek q cooler cline.
DONALD c. MITCHELL, who has for 40 years
past endeared himself to American readers as
Xix Marvel" is now 6S years of age. He lives
quietly at "Edgewood," which has been his
home since 1856, and which he has rendered SO
famous by his writings.
BIsMARCK's bedroom contains only three
pieces of furniture-an enormous wash hand
staud, a small camp bedstead and a bootjack.
There used to be couple of hair brushes.
take them away" said the Prince a few years
ago; "a towel will do to part my hair nova
days"
THE superintendent Of the Bible class OF the
Philadelphia Bethany Presbyterian Church has
completed arrangements tor an excursion to
Ocean City, N. j., next Friday, July II. The
excursion is given honor of Mr.. Wana-
makers birthday and will be the occasion of
the formal opening of the new Home by the
sea.
COUNT DILLoNs friends say he has been
compelled to go into trade to make good the
money losses he sustained in trying to make
General Boulanger dictator Of the Republic.
AS Dillon made his money by dealing in horses
and assumed the title of Count to aid him in
horsey transactions, the fall does not seem to
be great one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
A Queens Old Clothes.

T is not generally supposed that any society
woman in New York arrays herself in any
body's old clothes, but few of them have done
80, and been proud enough of the fact to tell
about It, though it does not seem to have
reached the ears of those gifted and imagina-
tive writer's for some of the papers whose vivid
descriptions of the petticoats and nightgowns
of society leaders whom they do not hesitate to
specify would seem to indicate remarkable
intimacy IN the boudoirs of ladies. But there
are women of abundant wealth and refined
taste who wear secondhand clothes, though
they do not 60 down to Bleecker street to buy
the gorgeous satins and cottony velvets which
hang at the doors of the old clothes shops In
such tempting magnifcence.
No, the possession of the cast-offs implies
voyage across the sea- and stamps the owner at
once as a woman of means and opportunities,
royalty, and are only to be obtained by the for
tunate few who can get in to the annual sale of
costumes OF Queen Margherita of Italy. And
it by no means follows that because they are
secondhand they are cheap. The modern
kings and queens appear to have degenerated
from the lavishness of splendor attributed to
old-time sovereigns, and to have thrifty salts
faction in turning an honest penny.
Queen Margherita is a beautiful woman and
is said to be one Of the best dressed in Europe.
The exigencies of court life, with its brilliant
pageants and ceremonials. require great many
splendid toilets in the course of the year, as the
same one can only figure at two or three OF
these grand functions. Nor can it be supposed
that any pretty woman neglects to live up to
her opportunities and to fulfill these require
ments. So, at the end of the year, the accumu-
lation of scarcely-worn fine gowns is sold to the
highest bidders by court chamberlain, or some
other royal functionary. with much pomp and
circumstances.
Happy is the American woman with money
in her purse who gets into one of these most
exclusive auctions; but oh! thrice and four
times gappy as Mr.. Virgil remarks. the woman
who brings home with her, as did the wife of q
rich New Yorker, lately. a sumptuous gown of
green velvet. with train of royal length and
strange. unique metallics embroideries. calcu-
lated to make every woman who saw her in it
mentally inquire: where in the world did she
get that gown" ar..4
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR 1T.


The strike of Pullman car porters for
wages enough to live on, independent of the
mild blackmail which these servicable gen.
tlemen levy on the travelling public, has
brought out indignant comments from the
press Very sharp though not unjustifable
language is used on the policy of great
corporation which pays its men from S15 to
$25 per month, and forces them to rely for
the rest of their living on the tips extracted
from people who have already paid large
prices for their accommodations.
But, while the severity of these criticisms
is not at all out of proportion, they are in
adequate in failing either to fix
the responsibility or indicate the
remedy. Such methods by which
greedy corporations levy unjustly
on the public will never be stopped until we
see that the people who are responsible for
it are those who pay the tips. They may
distribute the tips merely out of weak good
nature or from vulgar ostentation; but both
the cause and the remedy of this ability on
the part OF a great and wealthy corporation
to set its servants begging of the public, is
shown by the fact that if the public did not
pay tips the sleeping car company could not
get porters to work for it at SIS or SIS
monthly.
1t is not likely that the patrons of the
Pullman cars will either withdraw their
patronage or refuse to give tips, as measure
of correction; but it may help to a clear
understanding of the matter to have it
plainly asserted that every time they give
tip, they lend practical support TO the Pull
man scheme of paying half of what would
be starvation wages, and making the en-
ployes strike the public for the rest of their
living.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
A VETO Thrown AWAY.

The farce of pretending to legislate upon
an outrage to all law, the Louisiana State
lottery is nearing the tag. The State Legis-
lature having passed the bill for its owners,
the Lottery Company, Governor Nichols
vetoed it yesterday. We trust that Governor
Nichols did this without considering the
certainty of the Legislatures passing the
bill over his veto. A veto was never better
placed, but it will be OF no avail. The
lottery company is q poIyp that has fas-
tened its tentacles upon the whole State of
Louisiana. The only protection for the
country lies in Congress. We trust Mr..
Wanamaker will press for larger powers to
fight this Southern enemy. A great deal
of its power for evil may be cut off by
stringent postal regulations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Cholera Infantum and Typhoid Fever Due TO
AIbumenous Poisona.

Cholera Infantum and Typhoid Fever Due TO
AIbumenous Poisons.
ANN ARBoR. MICH, July THE regent OF
the University Of Michigan last year built and
equipped laboratory of hygiene at the re-
quest of the State Board Of Health. One of
the objects of this laboratory was the investi-
CATION of the causarions of diseases, and this
branch has been under the supervision Of Vic
tor c. Vaughn, the eminent toxicologist, who
a few years ago gave the world his discovery OF
tyrotoxicon, the poison so often existing IN
milk, cheese and ice cream. He has now, 1t Is
alleged, added another triumph to his former
success in the discovery of the cause of cholera
infantum and typhoid fever. He announces
that these diseases are due to albumenous
poisons a theory which subve-tS all previous
theories in regards to their origin
DR.. Vaughn discovered the nrst point lass
M Mirch, and has since added four more. He has
isolated three poisons, which were obtained
from the germs in cholera infantum, and two
from the germs in typhoid fever. These
poisons he claims, are fatal in any quantity,
and resemble closely in their action the venom
of rattlesnake. They are OF the nature or
ferments, and are the growth OF germs Dr:
Vaughn took the germs from the lntestines or
persons who had died from the disease, and
placed them in TASKS containing sterilized
meat The flask was then set in an incubator,
in which the temperature was the same as the
human body. A long, complicated and, con-
seeuently, inexplicable chemical process fol
lowed and the poison which resembles partially
inoculated with the product displayed the
same symptoms as the persons suffering from
one or the other of the diseases. A quantity
the same size of a pea killed a guinea pig In
IL hours, while twentieth of a grain Is fatal,
but killed only after from Is to 80 days. DR..
Vaughn has not named these poisons as yet
and viii now devote himself TO endeavoring to
discover antidotes for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
SUMNER READING.

Patrons Of the Pirssburg Library Don't
sleep All summer-What Books Are
Called For-The Most seasonnble Rcnd-
ing Matter ar Present.
"How do you keep coolr' was the question
asked Miss Mary Macrum. the popular libra
rian of the Pittsburg Library. yesterday after
noon as she sat in the intellectual atmosphere
of the Library.
'.By using fan and reading descriptive cat
alognes of the lake and mountain resorts. Just
look at the picture Of Lake Mackinac. Doesn't
it have cooling effect?'
And it certainly did present most agreeable
vision to the eye, and thence to the mind, as
compared with the hot, dusty streets OF tne
city,
you know it was In the delightful locaiities
surrounding Lake Mackinac that Constance
Fenimore Cooper laid the scenes Of her inter-
esting novel, Anne" continued Miss Macrun'
who knows all about every book and every sd az,
thor or authoress that can be mentloneoi anu ,o
when go up there this summer I'm gong W ~
take Anne as companion. nn,rv anu as IL
tell me her story in her native counsfy' 40 ~
were."
81 should think you would want to forge,
books entirely for the briei vacariIa Ias s,,c,
an abundance of literature Tor the resi- or
the year. Do many people read In tne sunninef
tims"
ers. do ali their su bstantial reading in the hot
weather. Just look at this collection and see
what you think of that for heavy rea1lng.
They have all been returned this morning
And, sure enough, there were works OF sncn
great depth that ordinary individuals. in trying
to fathom them. would share the fate OF tne
poor man whose obituary was sung 30 univers-
ally not long ago.
.'Of course" said Miss Macrum, 1--WE don't
give out nearly as many books In the summer
tims. as our Subscribers are scattered from inc
AIlantic to the Pacific coast at this time Oh
yea. We are already preparing for their re-
turn, however, in that we are buying any num-
ber of new books We have recently made
some very desirable purchases, among them
THE Pacific Slope in SO volumes, by Herbert
Hove Bancroft, and the Riverside Natural
History compiled in the same manner as the
Encyclopedia britannica
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
STATE NEWS NOTES.

A HEN at Hanover Is sitting on q nest Of
eggs in the top Of a willow tree.
CYRUS T. Fox has been elected President of
the Press Association at Reading.
A SCRANTON brewery was burglarized and
several kegs of the foaming beverage carried
off.
McKEAN county Republicans hold their
convention Tuesday, July %, next, to nominate
county officers.
JAMES A. RICHARDS, 81 years old, of Ches-
ter, who was prominently identified with the
early iron industries, died at South Chester on
Saturday
THE eccentric "Dr.n Teagle, of West Ches-
ter, has stepping stone in front Of his house
inscribed: Herb physician, Born March 4,
1878, DR.. Teagle.''
A BOND was fled at the Montgomery county
Prothonotary's Office one day last week in
which the names of the principal and the as
sured are exactly alike.
In the competitive examination for the
Annapolis cadetship at Warren, the Judges
have awarded the prize to Bert Galbraith, Of
Warren, with Harry Stout, of Tidioute, as
alternate.
THE Postmaster General has appointed the
following fourth class postmasters in Pennsyl-
vania: W. Keiner, Beach Haven; ]. Miller,
Germansville; Mrs. s. Deemer, North Sandy;
H. @. Swartz, Park Place; A. N. Stewart,
Quakake.
THE large barn of Michael Boylan. near
Wilkesbarre. together with all the contents, in
cluding three head of horses. was destroyed BY
fire yesterday. A frame dwelling adjoining,
occupied by Hungarian. was also burned to
the ground. Loss, 5000.
DAVID EBINaER, an oId-time hunter. states
ttofr ruhi drf vii frox Eru hing IN
of the biggest catamounts it has ever been his
luck to meet, passed in front OF his buggy
twice. This is supposed to be the animal that
has destroyed 10 many sheep in that section,
which was popularly blamed on sheep-hlling
doga
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
Hahits of the Emperor.

WHEN he is in Berlin the Emperor is as dem
ocratic as you could wish; he drives,
rides and walks about as freely as old Haroun
al Raschid ever did, ana he doesn't at all mind
stopping now and again to chat with common
folk. But when he retires to Potsdam, where
his private residence is, he Is quite different
person. At Potsdam he is as exclusive as a
sacred turtle. The doors of his palace-yes,
and the gates of his park-are closed against
everybody, and he shuns that recognition
which elsewhere he invites. 1t is hard,
however, to keep the small boy out of
what he ought not to be in. Three
or four urchins made practice
of climbing the wall inclosing the i'm
perial park and of playing at soldiers under the
splendid trees. AS luck would have 1t the EN-
peror and Empress rode one morning In that
particular part of the park and suddenly came
upon the little ragamufins. Instead Of throw
ing away their broomsticks and skedaddling
the urchins wheeled into line, presented arms.
and saluted the imperial couple. William was
simply delighted and told the boy she would re-
member them. So he did. Ascertalning who
they were and that they were children OF poor
people, he has sent them to military school
and will have them educated at his private cost.
The Emperor Is a great smoker and his cigars
are manufactured expressly for him. Not
long ago. sitting of an evening in one of the
apartments of his palace, he inadvertently
reached out and struck match on splendid
oil painting that stood on an easel hard by.
The Empress was as mad as wet hen. Your
Majesty" she said 'if you were not the EN-
peror and my husband / should chastise you"
And she would have done it too, for be it
known that Augusta is a husky dame and one
Of exceeding lusty temper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
NEEDS CT THE CITY.

Considering the trying heat Chief Brown,
of the Department of Public Safety, is
wonderfully energetic and enterprising these
DAYS. He starts reform or outlines an ad-
dition to the resources of his department
almost every day. With the thermometer a
thing of horror yesterday be revived the
scheme to have fire and police patrol boat
on the rivers, and indicated the need for a
municipal hospital. The patrol boat, with
fire engine powers, would certainly be useful.
If the city could obtain it, as Mr.. Brown
suggests, without increasing the expendi-
tures of the fire department to any great
extent, there can be no objection. As to the
hospital, the need for such an institution has
been shown on many occasions, and its es-
tablishment would mean the saving of many
lives. Chief Browns activity is to good
purpose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

Temperance reformer Ito street urchin)-
Does your father drink beer, sonny?
Urchin-Yep.
sIn moderation?''
s.Naw, In de growler. '-Ohicd0o Inter Ocean.
''Is this horse afraid of anything?" asked
Mrs. Nervous, out riding for the first time with
livery stable rig.
ssNot even of me, - replied Mr.. Nervous. gloom
ilv. as he vigorously, but yainly piled the whip
Somervfue Journal.
Mr.. Holmes Earlie-I saw young Bene-
diet at the club tonight
Mrs Holmes Earlie-You did? Stayed there I
suppose, and ne has just married, too'
NJ n E--That's why he stayed. perhaps.-
Boston Courier.
LADY customer-Do you sell ice here?
Dealer-Yes'm.
s.How long have you naoi on nanof
s.Since last winter. ="
fresh. .''-Chfcdgo Post'
Lady Ito small boy, who is crying)-What
,s the matter, my little ma7?
Boy-we were playing ball, and broke thss
name Of glass over there.
pIady-Well, l guess the lady viii not care much
about it.
won't give it back.-Boston Herald.
Man with watch (handing it oyer)-It
hasn't been three weeks since you cleaned and
overhauled this watch and It's out Of order again.
1t won't 20.
Matchmaker examining II. winding it up and
handing it ack)-That is all It needed.
Man with watch goes away in towering rage
and matchmaker has lost customer. Chied0o
Tribune.
Pastor-I should like to see you taking
q more active interest In religious things, Miss
Bessie.
Miss Bessie-I-pm afraid it wouldn't do Mr..
e. fdu1t ha Cd frnrra rt,o
Chicago Tribune.
The heart of man has much to stand
1fhe'd play his part here right,
And the Ice on the doorstep these morStngs vsrul
Isavery melting sight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
THE JOKE OF LONG AGO.

He stops you on the corner, and he gaily spins it
oier,
And you uause and listen, silent, though you've
heard it all before.
You remember every syllable, anticipate each
pause
And can point the usual times for interruption
and applause
IT'S to him thing of beauty, as an everlasting
JOY;
He finds the entertainment fraught with charms
that never cloy.
A tide of things forgotten at its call begin to
flow
That good old joke-that dear old joke that joke
Of long ago.
You have heard it in the orchard you lolled be-
meath the trees,
Sinking algebra and Latin for the humming Of
the bees.
You have heard 1t at the corner when, the DAYS
dull labor's o'er,
he leisure-blest assembled at the village general
y store.
Though each reciter altered it for fear it might
grow tame,
1t lived in the affection staunch and faithfu-still
the same.
All. one likes to hear him tell it-take his time
and tell it slow
That good old joke-thst dear old joke-that Joke
Of long ago. -Wdshington Post.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08
CHINA MAY DO THE SAME.

The declaration of the Chinese Embassa-
clusion law is kept up, there will be q
similar exclusion of citizens of the United
States from China, is an indication of the
result to which anti Chinese legislation has
been steadily tending. 1t would be a
strange commentary on the changes of the
past forty years, if the nation which, in the
ffties, was foremost in opening up the COM
merce of China and japan, should now turn
out to have set the example for China to re-
turn to her old exclusiveness, so far as the
citizens of this country are concerned.
Of course no one can deny the right of
China to shut up her territory to Americans,
just as we have shut up ours to the Chinese
Thirty-fve years ago it would have been re-
garded as insanity to suppose that the loss
to common labor by Chinese COM
petition could over-balance that to
skilled labor by the closing of the
Chinese market. 1t may be CALLING to our
national pride to be reminded that Ameri-
cans in China have for a generation been
doing exactly what we charge the Chinese
with doing here, namely, making fortune
and returning to their own country But
the fact is that American interests in China
have sunk in Importance SO that they will
hardly be weighed against the labor ques-'
tions involved in the admission of the Chi
nese. The Government can better afford the
loss of all Chinese commercial relations than
the admission Of Chinese labor into this
country.
1t is probable, therefore, that China and
tine United States will build up the absolute
wall of exclusion between each other. But
such result of our legislation may well re-
vive the question asked by Bret Harte's
Nye, in connection with the Heather
Chinee: "Is civilization failure?"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-08

THE customary outcry over Fourth OF
July accidents is thought by the Philadelphia
Times to be inapposite because fire will burn
upon that glorious anniversary as well as upon
any other day, and fools who hold their hands
over the muzzles of pistols are as liable to get
hurt on the Fourth as throughout the year"
True enough; but there is nevertheless con-
siderable pertinence in the suggestion that Tor
q whole nation to join in making fools OF them
selves on the national anniversary is not very
wise; and that 1t is not a good way to celebrate
our independence by sacrificing life and limb to
exhibit our slavery to the fetish OF the Chinese
fire-cracker.