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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
PROBABLY A GOOD INVESTMENT.
PUZZLED BY THE IDIOMS.
Amusing Attempts at English in Library nj
Toxic. Japan.

Toxic. Japan.
A correspondent at Toxic has been inves-
tigating a circulating library there. An En-
glish catalogue was issued last year, and
this is the preface:
This catalogue is description Of owing book
of our company's estimating at, q, Meiji Octo-
Der, and the description of Japanese and
Chinese book was published already, therefore
if readers desired to search out the books of
that's part will hope to read of that descrip-
tion.
The rules relating to time Of retaining
books are as follows:
Fifth-The limit of time of reading is fixed
All novel and thin book is five days.
All scientific book is almost ten days
English language book which is not many
pages is limited.
Ten dass, but large book is IS days.
The exact limit of time and lending price
are mentioned on the back or face of all book
Sixth-Japanese styled books which are
many books is fixed not to lend above three or
five volumes.
One part of English languages book or
translated book in European style is only q
volume.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
A BUTTER THIEFS HARD LUCK.

The Judge Was nm Expert Grocer and the
Article Wns AwfnIly Bad.
American Grocer.1
A Judge up in Utica, who prides himself
on his thorough knowledge of the grocery
trade, had up before him recently the case
of poor devil charged with stealing a
frkin of butter. The Judge was disposed
to be lenient with the fellow until the latter
declared that he had sampled all the stock
in the establishment before stealing this
particular frkin.
Him; let me see the butterl'' said his
Honor, forthwith applying some to his lips
The whole courtroom watched the proceed
ings with intense interest and saw the
Judge make q wry face as he fairly
shouted:
Twelve monthsP'
Twelve months" said the prisoners
counsel. "That for?"
Total depravity, sirl I ought to have
made il ten years at hard laborl"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

thrown by the Prussians into Paris during
the siege, and Vice President Morton got
them while he was Minister to France.
The Vice Presidents study or workshop
is at the right of the entrance, in room op-
posite the stairway. It is almost oval in
shape, and it contains q bay window look
ing out on Rhode Island avenue In this
bay window there is a desk, at which one of
the Vice Presidents secretaries writes, and
the whole room is packed full of the work.
ing materials of public man. A fat-top
walnut desk, as big as a dining table, stands
in the center of the room, and the walls are
lined with cases OF books. Scrapbooks lie
on tables here and there, and
THE CENTER DESK
is Uttered with letters, papers and manu-
script. At one side of it the Vice President
sits in an armchair, and opposite him is his
confidential secretary, Mr.. Robert Chiffon,
who has been with Mr.. Morton for years.
The walls of this workshop are lined from
the oak wainscoting to the picture rod with
portraits, and the noted friends OF Mr.. Nor
ton look down upon him as he does his work.
In the center of the wall at his right there
is big photograph in black frame Of Gam
beta, who was Premier during part of the
time he was Minister at Paris, and on the
opposite side of the room is a fine etching of
President Garfield. while in corner next
to the mantel hangs a big photograph of
President Harrison, with halflength por-
trait above him of the President of the
French Republic, Mr.. Carnot
President Carnot sent this picture to Vice
President Morton few days ago with his
compliments, and the Vice. President, has
photographs of all the great leaders of
France. The msntel-piece is lined with
photographs, and there is fine old engrav-
ing of Lafayette, by AIRY Schaefer, on the
wall near the door.
TREASURE HOUSE OF ART.
Vice President Morton has good artistic
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A FEW ODD CHARACTERISTICS.

Ia the interior of Kentucky one still finds
some odd characters, and the plain, unosten-
tatious manner of administering justice at
tracts some attention whenever it is brought
to public attention. A friend of mine went
into that country once to report the prelim-
mary examination of man who had killed
his wife by means of broadax. The re-
porter had an all night driveof it, and when
he got to the schoolhouse where the trial
was to take place he found no one inside but
the headless woman lying on door. After
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

S64 in money. It is built in the Modoc
style of architecture and faces both ways,
like an independent paper.
Meals may be had there at all hours, and
baggage checked to all parts Of the world.
Sleeping car berths and pie are furnished at
the shortest notice, and you can get in
formation or victuals while you wait. NY
car was made up. so knocked out few
brains, disrobed and retired. Ny window
gazed upon the lunch room, and so 1 could
lie and watch people as they came in,
nestled up against the counter astride tall
stool, and basely betrayed their stomachs.
1t was rare sport.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
Sometimes woman would spring gayly
upon the stool, and, wrapping her heels
around those of the stool, would inquire the
price of cup of tea and, if not too high,
she would buy some in isolated cases. A
man generally orders about twice as much
as he can eat, and by his manner says,
"Darn the price. reckon will have
enough to eat as long as my money holds
ont"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
Torpid Liver.

It is hardly possible to prepare q medicine
which is so pleasant to the palate as are Ham
burg Figs, or which Is 30 eficacious in cases Of
constipation, piles, torpid liver or sick head
ache. & cents Dose, one Fig. Mack Drug
Co, n. 7. TTeu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

N the early gray OF
a February evening
a small party consist
ing Of myself, might
have been seen wend-
ing its way toward the
railway station at
Louisville, Ky. One
may enter the sleeper
there at 9 o'clock P.
NJ. and at 2:30 A. NJ.
he will start for Gin
cinnati.
Taking with me a
small fragment of
river water to use
when I get home for
securing knives, I
paid the bill at my
hotel and went to the
depot. The depot of
the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad
is a massive pile,
costing upward of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

and several other OF the leading society
ladies have gotten up class of ten young
girls to whom Miss Susan Hale, the sister
of Edward Everett Hale, is giving course
of lectures on English literature and
poetry.
THE MOTIONS IN PARIS.
Both Vice President Morton and his wife
are French scholars and their career in
Paris was most successful one in a social
as we'll as In diplomatic way. Mr.. Morton
was not hampered by the meager salary of
our minister at Paris in the keeping up OF
his entertainments and he spent much more
than the 81, 500 year which he received. In
Mr.. Morton's Paris salon all classes OF dis
tinguished people were found, and his din
ner parties were among the noted of the
French capital. 1t is the same here this
year, and Mrs. Morton has brought to
Washington the experience which she ac-
quired as a successful hostess at Paris.
The Vice Presidents term at Washington
will probably cost him several times the
amount of his s., 900 salary, and the addi-
tions which be has made to his house here
have footed up more than So, 900. He paid
nearly 500, 900 for the house when he bought
it from Telephone" Bell, and he has a
dining room which cost about half the
amount the President receives in a year.
Vice President Morton's stables at the back
of his house would be considered very fair
residence in many town, and the rooms
which he devotes to his receptions and din
ners would cover more than two of the aver
age city lots. You could turn
WAGON LOAD OF HAY
around in his big dining room without
grazing the walls, and you might drive
couple of Carriages abreast through the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

It's funny how much location counts In the
success or failure Of hotel The Sturtevant
House Is fortunate indeed IN its location,
Broadway and TWenfy-ninth St, N. Y. Rooms
81 and upward. American and European plan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
NYE AT LOUISVILLE.
Little Things Nature and WattersOn
Have Done for the City.
ODD CHARACTERS OF KENTUCKY.
A Roman Holiday Made OF the Hanging Of a
Man Who Slew Another.
rHE sHERIFFS LITERARY ABILITIES

lCoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DIsPATcH.I
On BOARD OF THE CARS
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A WAGON LOAD OF HA

around in his big dining room without
grazing the walls, and you might drive
couple of carriages abreast through the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

SAT in the press gallery to-
day and took q good look
at Vice President Morton.
He is more regular in his at
tendance upon the sessions of
the Senate than any Vice
President we have had for
many years, and he appreci-
atas the DIGNITY of the posi-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
A TREASURE HOUSE OF ART.

Vice President Morton has good artistic
tastes, and throughout his whole house YOU
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
MORTON AT HOME,
Life of the Second Highest
Government Official.
A SMILE WORTH A FORTUNE
PEEPS Into a Grand Mansion That
Rivals the White House.
WHERE AN IMMENSE INCOME GOES
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1sPATcH,l

WASHINGTON, February 15.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
SHOULD BE PURE.

The druggists of the country are IN
derstood to be strongly opposed to the
bill, introduced in both houses of con-
gress at the instance of Secretary RUsK,
to prevent adulteration of drugs. The
objection IS not to the official and eX-
pert examination of the drugs. Ger
tainly not, They are very anxious that
all the articles in which they deal shall
be absolutely pure. The methods are
obnoxious. The men in the East who
prepare the drugs are confident that
they should have the direction of the
inquiry. 1t will be remembered that
some recent partial, perhaps, but cas-
ual, examinations by inspection boards
indicate that adulteration is exceed
ingly common with drugs-so much so,
in fact, that persons using them have
little assurance that the desired effects
will be had. In all the states the drug
gists have sought and generally obtained
statutes for the protection of their bust
ness and keeping out those who have
not had certain experience. 1t is i'm
portant for the public that all who
handle drugs should know their bust
ness, but the laws aid in reducing com
petition, and enable the dealers to
charge higher prices. There is prob
ably no considerable line of trade in
which, perhaps excepting liquors, the
retail prices get so far away from the
wholesale as in drugs. One of the New
York papers recently made this a mat
ter of investigation. A reporter had
two prescriptions filled at thirty-Six
drug stores, and found no uniformity in
charges. but the articles were sold at a
profit of from 800 to 700 per cent. This
is made easy by the system of put
ting all prescriptions in Latin. Bills
are frequently introduced IN legisla-
lures to require all prescriptions to be
written in plain English. They have
been of late before one or two legiSla-
lures in the East, but they are generally
smothered in committee. Rarely is one
allowed to come to open discussion.
The subject was, however, so far in
vestigated before the last Illinois legis-
ture as to show that there is no possible
Latin prescription that cannot as we'll
be put in Ineligible United States
language. The physicians admitted it.
But it is one of the chief aids to make
the figures lucrative. One expects to
pay more for spiritus frumenti than
plain liquor, but the cost is not the
most material feature. Nor is there so
much concern for the Latin blind, but
it is essential that drugs should be
genuine and pure, and Secretary RUSH
will do good work if he can secure ano
enforce requirements of this kind.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
WHAT THE SENATE WILL Do.

1t will not be a matter Of much sur
prise if it proves to be the fact that the
Republicans in the senate will accept
the MCKINLEY work without any of the
overhauling and rebuilding that has
been anticipated. The strength of the
party withes, as shown in the house,
compelling scores of reluctant and
Quivering votes to come up to the fatal
line, will not be ineffective if exercised
in the senate. The members of that
body are not so directly in the range of
certain methods of discipline as the
house men. Few of them will be can
didates this year before party conven-
lions and punished TOR INSTRUMENTATION
by defeat for nomination. This was the
menace that drove into subserviency the
men from Western districts, who knew
that they misrepresented their constitu-
eDtS and endangered their reelection
by voting for the bill. To do otherwise
was to throw them out of the nomina-
ton or turn the machine operators
against them, if not beaten in conven-
ton. Kicking for home use was allowed,
but no man in all the North had the cour-
age to defy the demands of the caucus
in the final vote. The claim that this
action in the house completes the terms
of the contract with the men who filled
the campaign treasury, and that the
senate will be free to cheat them out of
the increased protection they paid for,
is not honest. Their purchase included
the party, not fraction. Quay and
the other high-toued negotiators will
not consent to this pitiful fraud. How
is the fat to come in the next hour of
need, and who will call for the $40 re-
wards and pledges if there is bad faith
now? The monopolists were promised
tariff that would afford them in
creased profits. 1t may be the fact that
BUTTERwoRTH and others had assur-
ances that the senate would largely
undo their bad work, but that was a
| theory designed for temporary use.
The obligations to the party. creed are
above personal pledges. The senators
are partisans first of all, aud the Nc
KINLEY bill is in unqueStioned har-
mony with the latest platform of the
party. If tariff is to be constructed
on the line marked out by the Chicago
convention, little fault can be found
with the house bill, except that it falls
short of the full and high measure. In
terests of localities have been allowed
to weaken the structure in some points.
and to cut away other material parts
would be bad faith to the interests that
have invested in the party stock. 1t
may be anticipated that the senate will
adopt essentially the work shaped in
| the other house.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
DON'T MEAN SO MUCH.

A considerate German paper in Iowa
advises its friends who are not partial
to the regime contemplated by prohibit
ton, to 60 little slow in their practical
differences in regard to original package
matters. In its view the construction
given it by the PrOhibitionists is made
broad-gauge in order to cause alarm for
all restrictive systems and induce con-
gress to hastily pass the WILSON bill or
something of that character. There is
no doubt that the opinion allows one
sale of the original packages, but the
misconception pertains to the character
of the original package. The German
paper does not believe the court would
tolerate as such any special device
gotten up to meet this eXigency in
particular line. No half-pint or single
drink of whisky or other liquor wrapped
in package by itself will pass
the court. No new definition will be
allowed. The line will be drawn as far
from laXity as possible. What has been
the usual commercial definition will be
retained. 1t is doubtful if even single
bottles of the common sizes used for
liquors will be allowed to pass, when
taken from the aggregation with which
they take their commercial journeys.
1t is true the supreme court of Iowa
last year took somewhat different
view. 1t understood the package to be
the vessel in which the outside shipper
put the article, whether it was a trit1ing
litfIn hntflo 40 Tho
transfer of the goods to different yes
sci in the state limits, however, made it
subject to the local conditions, But the
court, in combating this theory, held
that if, by virtue of national jurisdiction,
there could be any sale of the liquor
alter 1t came into prohibition state, it
might as we'll be sold in one package as
another. or in any quantity. The agent
could determine how he would sell it.
The court said that ''any other hold
ing" would lead to results so absurd as
TO be shocking alike to legal judgment
and the common sense of mankind"
Still, the United States supreme court
has differed with the Iowa body on other
points. and probably will in this.
A subordinate court in Iowa has
the past week held that in view
of the state law 1.-The keeping of a
place for the sale of liquors as a
beverage is nuisance, whether dealt
out in original packages or i'll some
other way, and that the late decision is
not in conflict with this view" Where
excuse is wanted for the failure of pro-
hibltion, it will be found in this opinion
of the highest court, but it stops when
the article becomes the property Of the
citizen of the state. There is no induce
ducement for traffic under it in states
that license the sale of alcoholics.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26

The Cokedale, Mont, strike ends.
st. Paul gets rain, hail and sunshine.
Ecuador is said to be nearly bankrupt.
Central New York gets an earthquake.
The City of Rome wins the ocean race.
Editor O'Brien calls the Irish police cow
ards.
A mad Hawkeye horse has thrilling race
with train of cars.
Omaha and Milwaukee are the Western
association winners.
Two men are killed and many injured by
an Ohio dynamite explosion.
Emperor William is thrown from car
rage, but not seriously injured.
Many manufacturers and importers seek
hearings on the Mckinley bill.
Charley johnson whips Billy Edwards in
twelve-round fight near Minneapolis.
Brotherhood players are said to be seeking
positions in Western association clubs.
Eight persons are drowned from a boat
load of pleasure seekers in Massachusetts.
A Lac Qui Parle county farmers body is
found in river with indications that he was
murdered.
The Republican congress is in fair way
to appropriate S1OO,OO0,000 more than the
governments receipts.
Henry NJ. Stanley speaks of the English as
grannies and fools, and they retort that he is
a gigantic lanu-grabber.
The brotherhoods of locomotive engineers,
firemen, conductors, brakemen ana switch
men vote to consolidate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
TAXING THE DEFUNCT.

A paper read by local scientist on a
recent literary occasion advocated some
of the advanced theories in the way of
checking the accumulation of capital
enormously in single hands. Beyond
certain limits it was proposed that the
government should have the chief ben
eft. Estates should not be handed
down i'll full and swelling volume. The
common impression is that there is a
peculiar sanctity attaching to the be-
quests of the departed, SO far as the
government is concerned. Lawyers,
administrators, executors and HILToNs
may ravage, but the common interest
must not have a share through the
action of the government. In conserva-
tive England there is less chariness in
this matter. Income taxes and assess
ments upon legacies are made to do
duty in filing the public treasury.
The legacy duty in 1888 paid the
government the very considerable
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26
ODD ITEMS.

Tiffany, the millionaire jeweler. never
wears a diamond. His favorite gem is
the opal.
August Young, merchant at Fresno,
Cal, recently remarked his wife, from
whom he had been divorced twice.
The nutritive value of salads is held
by eminent French authority to be due
to the presence of salts of potash, which
in ordinary vegetables are lost in the
cooking.
A new red glass has been recently
produced in Germany. Besides its use
for the manufacture of bottles, goblets
and vases of various kinds, it is applica-
bic in photography and in chemists and
opticians laboratories.
In cases where there has been excess
sive vibration noticed with engines
bolted to beams or girders of the upper
stories of buildings, hanging heavy
weights from the bottom of the engines
has overcome the vibration almost ell
tirely.
In using emery wheels it has been
found that at high speed one ounce or
wheel material would only grind off six
ounces of metal, while at lower speed
it would grind off eleven ounces. At
this lower speed the wheel was making
2, $50 revolutions.
King Humbert is prudent monarch,
and does we'll to be so in the present
state of the Kingdoms finances. Last
year the civil list for the royal house
hold was Is, $780, 90 0francs, and the king
spent 15.349.999 francs, leaving a cent
and three-quarters to his credit for the
ensuing year.
Exhibitors who won medals at the
Paris exposition are receiving diplomas
specifying the class of medals to which
they are entitled. If they want the
medal they can get it for spot cash.
ranging from about Sl3 for gold ones to
less than 81 for nice little ones in
bronze.
The Queen Dowager of Portugal on
one occasion brought home from Paris
1000 pairs Of shoes. Subsequently she
ordered no less than seventy dresses
from Worth, to be delivered together,
which On their way home were lost at
sea. Her majesty, no way concerned,
sent word to Worth to supply seventy
duplicates, and these reached Lisbon
safely.
Nature plays queer freaks with the
flower seeds sent out by the agricultural
who received package of seeds la
OSiHOH f,"up PohSy, Pioh1NA eiiShi III
a flower bed. and soon had small crop
Of turnips, while number of seeds la
belled double pinks" produced long
neck squashes.
The question which the Glover club,
of Philadelphia, is considering just at
present is whether or not the club shall
accept the cordial invitation extended
by James W. Scott, the publisher of the
Chicago Herald, to visit Chicago as his
guest on the third Thursday in June,
and meet some of the wits and celebri-
ties of the Windy City. This invitation
was extended by Mr.. Scott to the Clover
club at the anniversary dinner in Janu
airy, and Charles r. Deacon, secretary
of the club, has issued a circular to
members in order to learn what action
will be taken in the matter. Mr.. Scott
is nonresident member of the Glover
club, and has written that he would eX-
pect to have some of Chicago'S brightest
men to meet members, and wants to
know in case they cannot come in June
whether OF not they can come little
later on in the year.