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, 1890-12-25
THE GLANCE INrERRoaATony.
The Lower End OF Talieyrand's Scale
OF Table Msnncrs


Talleyrand, like most diplomat
lists, WAS famous for his attention to
the details of etiquette. He prided
himself on an ability to adjust his
mode of address TO the rank and po-
sition of the person to whom he was
speaking. On one occasion, when
n mum ber of distinguished men were
dining with him, he varied his
formula, when inviting them to par
take of beef, In such n manner as to
suit the rank of the respective per-
SONS.
"May | have the honor of sending
your royal highness II little beef"
he asked IA prince of the blood. To
duke he said: "Monscigneur, per-
nit me to send you little beef.n
"Marquis," he continued, "may I
send you some beei?n "Viscount,
pray have little beef.p "Baron,
do you take beet?n ran the next in
terrogution. Monsieur" he said
to All untitled gentleman, "some
beef?' To his secretary he re-
marked, casually: "BeefP' But
there was one gentleman left who
deserved even less consideration
than the secretary, and Talleyrand,
posing his knife In the air, favored
him with II mere look of interroga-
tiop
, 1890-12-25
THE oLpEsr LIVING INDIAN.
Muddy Water, Who Fought In the
Seminole War.
philadelphia Times.


The oldest living Indian is per-
haps Muddy Water, Seminole
ch ief, residing In the family of DR..
Hamilton. OF Seminole agency, |.
r., who has just entered his i00th
year. He has been blind for some
years now and unable to perform
any work except that of making
baskets, in which he is ali expert,
producing some very pretty, tasteful
work. The old fellow is extremely
garru lous, most unusual thing for
one of this race, and is very proud of
his English, which is very good.
Besides his blindness he ID also a
great sufferer with wound in his
left leg, which will eventually cause
his death. He claims to have re-
ceiyed this wound during the Semi
mole outbreak In 1918, when he SAYS
he killed in one day eleven white
men with his own hands.
From what can be gathered from
his "reminiscences he WAS at the
time 32 years old. He has un-
bounded admiration for Jackson,
whom he describes as one "Great
man with eagles eye." and says the
, 1890-12-25
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
THE PROPOSED APPROPRIATION
The Press OF Eastern Washington on
the Subject.


Co,fax Commoner: There is an old
story about three sisters, who, in order to
keep up appearances, spent all their
money for single dress, two of them
staying home while the other went out
in IT, They thus deprived themselves
of much, in order to appear what they
were not and to move in circle to
which they could not afford to belong.
There Is o certain number of jealous
gentlemen. who in the ardent fervor of
their love for Washington, are advocat-
ing the appropriation by the legislature
of $3.50, 600 for the worlds fair. They
wish her TO indulge in lavish expendi-
ture for the sake of appearing ms
popuous and wealthy as her older sis.
ters, and when answered that she can
not afford 1t, they wax indignant and
accuse their opponents of being su-
premely selfish and emnently un-
patriotic.
There is no accusation which man
dislikes more to incur than niggardli-
ness, and it is possible hat the ex xclama.
tions of these gentlemen, who nre so
willing to be generous with other peo-
pies money, will have some effect. the
Commoner, however, will not be stopped
in its course by vituperation without
reason nor by damnation without argu-
ment.
We do not believe that any man. how.
ever patriotic he may be, would have
proposed to the state of New York that
IL appropriate 81, $50 600 for the Colum-
bian exposition, and yet that common.
wealth could much better afford to APP
propriate this amount than Washington
can S25l000. This is q fact that can
neither be evaded nor denied.
TO put our position briefly, the Com.
moner does not believe Washington
ought to spend so large n sum of money
for display at the Chicago exhibition.
She must live within her means, and
until sho arrives at position in the sis
terhood OF states which will vie with her
older and developed sisters is not able to
indulge in luxuries.
Colvills Miner: The Washington
Worlds Fair Association is asking tho
membcrs.e!ect of the next Legislature to
appropriate $3.50, 900 from the state treas
ury in assisting to collect suitable ex-
hibits from the state at tho worlds big
fair at Chicago In 1893. The sum is
enormous 1t is far too much the
Miner believes. to be taken from tho
public fund. Ii there nre not cnou, h
public spirited men in the state to sub
scribe $l5 900 nfter the state has do
mated Slv0, 900. then W. are very much
mistaken in the makeup of our citizens
Spokane Falls itselfif approached prop
erly to hid in any enterprise will sub
scribe hulf OF that sum in less than "a
week, The state should make a liberal
nppr:priation, but the state should not
40 alone in the matter. Let the people
OF Washington help.
, 1890-12-25
AN OLD RESIDENTER.
In the Days of Gold He Owned Part
San Francisco.

In the Days of Gold he Owned Part Of
san Francisco.
An old Kettle Falls residenter Is
in the city. He Is Captain McCor-
mick, who once owned consldera-
BILE of the townsite of the city of
San Francisco. His fortune turned
several times, and now he is an old
man. He owns considerable prop
erty In Kett le Falls, and delights in
telling stories of pioneer days. In
conversation with friends ut the Pa
cific hotel yesterday he mentioned
the days when he paid SIG for an axe
handle. He enumerated the incl
dents and accidents of life In those
days when sixteen ounces of gold
was paid the men for days work
in the mines.
''I remember" said he, ''once we
had no tacks in this whole North
western country. Some fellow got
hold of u trunk full of ordinary
carpet tacks and shipped them to
the Sound country, where he sold
them for $40 paper. Tacks were
worth their weight in gold in those
days"
Captain Mccormick believes in u
prosperous future for Kettle Falls,
where his interests are.
, 1890-12-25
The columb,a should Be Opened.

Olympia tribune: The farmers from
Eastern Washington are coming to the
legislature to demand an open river to
the sen to get out the grain which the
railroads can not carry. To the United
States government belongs that duty,
and the Legislature should send n me-
mortal to congress, which our two sena-
tors and representative should follow up
from day TO day until the appropria-
ton IL made.
, 1890-12-25

1T may take years to close the split in
the Irish party. Both sides seem de-
tetmiued 10 fight to the bitter end.
Poor, dear, unfortunate lreiandi II Is
she who will have to bear the matricidal
blows OF both partieA
, 1890-12-25

PICTIsH TOWER OF MoUSA
and Fitful Head, of both of which
you have caught glimpses from your
steamer. The Shetland mainland,
in its general conformation, extends
north and south In narrow strip
of laud about seventy miles long
and from three to five miles wide,
with an arm perhaps twelve miles
long extending westward from its
center, something in the form of
Greek cross with Its eastern arm
Topped off. Lerwick and harbor
arc located where the eastern arm
would fit into the socket. and about
midway from LerwiclS to Sumburgh
Head, the islands southern ex-
tremity OH the eastern coast, is the
island of Mousa. A good walker
can Journey from Lerwick to Fitful
Head, opposite Sunburgh Head,
seeing the tower of Mousa on the
way, and return in one day, thus
ins pecting the southern nearly one
half, Of Shetland, and yet never
stand on single spot where either
the German or Atlantic ocean are
not visible.
The road to Mousa and Fitful
Head traverses the township of
Flad ddabister, where you will find
nearly all tho 'peerie lairds,' or lit
tie lords who own their lands In
freehold cad sulk aud strut In pow
erty and In pride of their pure Morse
descent, now remaining In Shet-
land. a boat must be hired at
Sandlodge, seat Of the Shetland
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
HURRY ALONG TEE ExposIr1oN,

The figures 1890 which have just come
into popular use ought to wake up every
body to the need for prompt action in the
matter of the Worlds Fair, to be held in
1892. The time is only two years away.
How quickly year can slide into the past
the people who finally make ready the
great Exposition will be the first to find out.
gigantic labors as will be needed to make
the Exposition worthy Of comparison with
that which recently made Paris the center
of the world. For the Paris Exposition men
were scheming, imagining, working in
council chamber, studio and shop ten years
before the event.
Nothing can be done until Congress de-
cides where the Exposition is to be held.
The committee to which the selection Of the
site has been left has done nothing vet 1t
will not move an inch until after Congress
reconvenes next week. But it must set to
work in earnest then, or upon it grave re-
sponsibility will be cast. A fair hearing
should be given to the representatives Of
the great cities who aspire to the honor Of
having the Exposition within their limits,
but there is no reason why such hearing
should be allowed to consume more than a
few days. In fact, we presumc that the ad-
vantages which Washington will be able to
show over its rivals will lead to q speedy
decision in its favor. To which ever city
the Exposition is to go. let the choice be
la1h Al
Exposition of 1892 will never get beyond
the wind overture to which the nation has
been treated by the discordant orchestras of
New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Wash
ington,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SPEAKER REED has been travelling incognito.
He refused to register recently at a Philadel-
phia hotel.
D. BREWER Associate Justice of the su-
preme Court left Leayenworth yesterday for
Washington. He is accompanied by Mrs.
Brewer and his second daughter, Miss Eta.
HENRY A BRAND, of London, England, an
ex.member of Parliament, is visiting this coun.
try. 1t is rumored that he will write a book
about u.s. 1t is to be hoped that this Brand will
be plucked from the burning. This country
has no desire to be branded.
IT is understood that the Prince and Princess
Hatzfeldt will live in New York City in the
great house which Mr.. G. P. Huntington is to
puild on Fifth avenue. 1t was stipulated by
Miss Huntington that she should live with her
parents, and that the new house is being con-
structed accordingly.
IT is stated that Mrs. James @. Blaine, Jr., is
still in q precarious condition, and that she
will probably soon leave New York for change
of climate. Her physician will have to decide
whether she can renew her original contract
with the manager of the Lyceum or must give
up her stage aspirations as hopeless. The lat
est gossip hints that her sister, Miss Nevins, is
contemplating theatrical career.
IT is said that there is q skeleton in every
house, but If is perhaps not generally known
that there was one literally in Robert Brown
ing's apartment in the Casa Guida in Florence
some 80 years ago. 1t was kept there in cup
board, and was intended as model for anatomi-
cal drawing. One night, however, at time
when Home, the Spiritualist. was in Florence,
and constant visitor at the Casa Guida-for
both Browning and his wife we're firm believers
In Home at this time. though the husbands
belief faded in the face Of the disclosures of
after years-the skeleton fell from its resting
place and frightened lady visitor into a TT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
THE DANGERS OF COCAINE.
Some of. the Serious Effects Resulting From
the Use of the Drug.

Some of. the Serious Effects Resulting From
the Use of the Drug.
The use of cocaine in substitution of ether
and chloroform, says an English paper, is not
unattended with a certain amount Of danger.
An Oxford professor a short while ago nearly
died from its effects. Suffering from acute
toothache he had some cocaine injected into
his jaw, and Immediately became unconscious.
Artificial respiration was resorted to, and after
six hours consciousness returned. The pro-
fessor says that though lifeless and unable TO
speak or move, he heard all that was going on
around him. In the Archives de Medicine DR..
Bafatoux relates the case of druggist who.
under the impression that he was attacked by
diphtheria, sprayed his throat with a solution
of cocaine. The result was very serious. For.
seven hours he passed from one synecope to
another until he finally succumbed. In the
same periodical, DR.. Abadie mentions the case
of woman, Il years of age, who, under
going an optical operation, received an injec-
tion of four centigrammes in her lower eyelid.
At the close Of the operation she tainted, and
her face became as purple as in asphyxia, In
spite Of the fact that artificial respiration was
resorted to, and that hypodermiS injections Of
ether and caffeine were made, the unfortunate
woman died within five hours. Although this
drug Is so dangerous when injected, it is. at
least 80 Mr.. st. Clair Buxton, OF tho Western
Ophthalmic Hospital asserts, perfectly safe
when merely applied to the surface.
An American physician, DR.. Hammond, Of
New York, having got it into his head that CO.
caine aided the mental and moral tone, as op-
posed to the influence of alcohol thought fit to
experiment upon himself. He found that three
grains produced great disposition to talk,
with vivid imagination. Writing was accomp-
lished with ease, and wonderful progress was
made with medical work which he was pre-
pairing. On the following morning however,
a fnnnh n he m
sense, nothing but mass of Incoherent sent
ences and disconnected ideas. his opionion Of
the eleyating power of cocaine have in conse-
quence undergone decided change.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
II Is THE RUSSIAN BEAR.

So we are compelled to take influenza
seriously. 1t is not to be frowned down or
laughed out Of court. There is q new
disease among US; apparently the same as
that which has tweaked royal noses and
harassed whole nations in Europe. Evi-
dence of its presence in Pittsburg is saccumu-
lating, and in another column will be found
an authoritative confirmation Of the much
asserted presence of Russian influenza, Ia
grippe or what you may please to call it, in
America. DR.. George f. Shrady, the editor
Of the Medical Record, and q doctor whose
professional services To the late President
Garfield gave him a national reputation,
comes forward to introduce the American
people in full form to the unwelcome Wis
itor. DR.. Shrady identifies the disease as
the counterpart of the European epidemic.
But be does not argue in an alsrmist strain.
He asserts that not death has directly re-
suited from influenza in America as yet.
The disease is disagreeable, but only dan
gerous to the aged or feeble. It's symptoms
are not unlike, Judging from DR.. Shrady's
statement thereof, those of a bad cold.
Pains in the head, back and extremities,
with febrile rather than catarrhal condi-
tions, are the principal phenomena Of the
disease. DR.. Shrsdy particularly empha-
sizes the fact that pneumonia and bronchitis
do not at all necessarily result from inHu-
enza. The usual remedies for severe cold
seem also to be the best for the newly-named
disease.
As THE DISPATCH has done from the
first, DR.. Shradv deprecates exaggeration
Of the epidemic. 1t is infectious appar-
emily, but not contagious, and it is the re-
suit probably of the extraordinary climatic
conditions. The disease can be avoided or
Its attack deprived of all danger if people
will avoid over-fatigue and exposure and
take sufficient food and sleep. That is, keep
the human furnace burning properly and
infuenza can only enter it to be destroyed
Finally we are rejoiced to hear that DR..
shrady predicts the early disappearance of
influenza altogether.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
TERMs oF THE pIsPATCa-
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY. JAN. 8, 1890
pIkINIsHTNe ZEE pANGER.

The active agitation of the electric wire
question which has started in this city can
not possibly fail to do good. II all the tele-
graph and Light wires harbor no peril to the
public, as the interested parties assert, in
forming the people of the facts must be
beneficial to everybody. On the other hand.
il there is certainly a present danger,
as is alleged by Superintendent Morris
Meade and other competent persons, in the
abundance of dead wires, it is the duty of
the owners of these wires to remove them at
once
The electric current which can kill a
horse is not the sort of thing with which
human beings, not even the officers of
electrical corporations, wish to be
brought in contact. Whatever the pre-
else origin of the current which
executed the quadruped on a city
street, the TACT remains that there is great
danger to human life in the multiplication
OF all sorts of wires containing the deadly
current THE DISPATCH has no desire to
harass the, companies concerned, but the
suggestion must again be made that policy
looking to the early burial of the wires
would be profitable one for them to adopt
Perhaps for the time, as temporary ex-
pedient merely, the cable system as out
lined in our news columns to-day, would be
worth considering. Mr.. Meade states that
it is entirely possible to string the electric
light wires in cables overhead, and he adds
that the New York companies using the
cable system are supplied by Pittsburg
manufacturer, 1t is reassuring, anyhow, to
hear that the City Government is going to
have the dead wires removed at once. When
the lives of our citizens are imperiled there
is no excuse for delay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
KEEPS PACE WITH PROGRESS.

why n CotempornFy Unhesitatlngly Call The
Dispatch "a superior Newspaper"
From the Franklin (Pa.) Evening News.1
Its large list of readers in this city and vicini
ty will sanction our application Of this term to
THE PITTsBURe DISPATCH. 1t leads the
newspapers in that important section of which
Pittsburg is the industrial center and it is among
the foremost, ablest, most influential papers in
the country. The growth of The DISPATCH
has been even more phenomenal than that of
Pittsbure's other industries Under judicious
management its circulation and popularity
have kept pace with its enterprise and increas-
ing facilities. With its vast newsgatherIng
machinery, its reliable market reports, its full
sporting record. its clean and choice miscellany,
its progressive and independent policy, The
DISPATCH has become great present power
in Journalism, with the promise of a greater
future.
We have spoken Of the cleanness of this
paper. This is a specially commendable feat
ure Of the Sunday edition, which has now
reached circulation Of over $4,000. This edi-
tion, with its 20 pages made up of news and
vast magazine of choice contributions from the
ablest minds of the day. differs from the mass
of Sunday papers in the fact that it contains
nothing to debase or corrupt the mind. but is
Gle: Being published SO near at hand, THE
DISPATCH is naturally in high and growing
favor in this part of the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03

equal The public win admit that the man
OF millions should have the same chance,
but no greater. As q matter Of fact how
ever, considering the scarcity Of the million
aires-they do not grow on every bush-snd
the numerousness of the other class. 1t ap-
pears that the former have singularly
large proportionste representation in the
United States Senate; and when the Ohio
canvass is seen to lie entirely between two
very rich men on the Democratic side, with
Mr.. Foster, third, presenting his own
claims to the Republicans, it is irony to ask
for the millionaires merely the ''same
chance as the poor or moderately well of,
seeing that the latter are excluded from the
canvass.
Demagogism in the sense of trying to
make capital by appealing to popular
prejudices unjustly is contemplate in the
extreme. But it is quite another thing to
set the people to inquiring fairly how far
the power and prestige of money should con-
troll in politics. If it were possible to treat
the choice of Mr.. Brice or Mr.. Thomas for
the Senate from Ohio, coming after that of
Mr.. Payne, as a mere coincidence, the
public would gladly look at it in that way.
But the charges of bribery arising out of
the Payne election. and the renewed talk of
the undue use of money in Ohio politics
now, compel serious attention to the sub
ject. As for Mr.. Brice, be is probably
more capable man than some of his critics
assert; so. doubtless, is Mr.. 'Thomas-but
whichever may be selected the impression
will undoubtedly remain that it is not be-
cause of exceptional intellectual fitness, but
because of the influence of wealth that they
were taken up while hundreds of citizens of
as good, and many of better capacity, were
passed over. i.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
WISDOM OF THE WITS.

"This cat purrs like a house a-6re."
swell, shut the damper. ''-Puek.
Will someone tell Us if MeGintv il down
50 .,,a - a,,o,,z.9 Rsorns,, Js,s-,rs..
"-.- -,
"Jay Gould, says an inaccurate financial
editor, 'fs on record as having made IS 900 900 In
as many years. -lUe"'
The best way 70 carry out the family
ideas in accepting candidates for once is to re-
member we are all children OF Adam.-Pwck.
W. ba0in tn hear of manv d;s..t-o,. sx-
49, 80 49, - - Nls@s.lous -
plosions aOous ,ne ano " yeaf' Inc HlnHS
blast Is Already oio"inR up the FalleyS.-PEek
"You say that both duelists fell dead7"
.SYes.,' "Great heavensI What were the
weapons used9,, sThe American toy uistoi. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
THE Expos1r1ors APPROACHES.

Now that it is virtually settled that we
are to have q series of populaI concerts in
the Exposition building this spring-that is
during the period called spring in the
calendar-it will do no harm to put the
approaches to the Exposition into
decent shape. At present the pave
ments Of the streets by which access
is had to the Exposition building are in a
poor state of repair, and the Department of
Public Works beset bys never-ceasing food
Of claims from parts of the city more
traYersed than the streets near the Point
very possibly and naturally is inclined to
postpone the renewals we refer to until the
regular opening Of the Exposition in the
fall
But the concerts in the spring call for an
earlier start in this desirable work. Not
only will our own citizens attend the concerts
in great numbers, but thousands of visitors
from neighboring towns may be expected,
and good streets will be very much in de-
mand. We have no doubt that Mr.. Bige-
low, with his customary foresight, will at
tend to this by no means unimportant aid to
the success of the Exposition concerts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-03
Generally 1t Isn't Kept
From the Oil City Blizzard.l
Keeping diary is like keeping good resolu
NEW FEARS RESOLUTIONS.


BALTIMORE Herald: Now make your good
resolutions and stick to them.
MILWAUKEE Wisconsin: In the language Of
the greatest Of American poets, every man
should SO live that each tomorrow finds US
farther than to-day"
Boston Globe: If you have been unable to
prepare good set Of resolutions for 1890 take
the Ten Commandments and resolve that you
win keep them They cover the ground about
as near as you can get at it
CHICAGO Times: Keep all your intentions to
yourself. Don't tell your wife or sweetheart
word about the great things you are going to
do. Then you won't have anything to weep
over when you fail to deliver the goods.
LADIES Home Journal: Numerous lives Of
honor and Achievements can be traced to some
determination of purpose made upon an occa-
sion such as the first day Of the year affords for
fresh start in the journey of life. Weailde-
sire success; the problem Of life is its winning.
Every person carries in his or her own hand
the key that unlocks either the door Of success
or failure.