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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-11

misssiooers. etc. A copy will be
sent you - soon 20 1t can be obtained.
The document met with great praise
from al quarters.
A. very little can be done before
the Senatorial fight 10 disposed Of,
many Of the friends Of the leading
candidates propose to begin ballcting
without delay.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-11

.E'''ns Needed 10 Every Household.
T.. Mrs. Ia'ro has secured the agency
n osgget.s Patent Rooster and
',.ef' . new kitchen utensil which
~. a % wanted by every good house.
.. "' : ~ Is able to pay for It, 4. i,
..s '' Its cost in two or three bakines,
. ."a pays for itself every time i. is
,.s ~ the saving Of time effected
-. ''e 'a0rougdness OF ito cooking.
n, "e price o: this new Rooster and
~0, 'a'ges from el.25 to 1925.
'u'ng to size. II is the verv best
Invented. ''''
-. - can call At Mrs. T.,ro. to
~. '"e H0aster and Baker, or thew
.eb.. ~" At Mrs. L.B.rgs'.. who i.
agent 'od will take orders.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-11

The Phantom Bail New Years Nleht.
Tho Phantom Ball 1T the HALEY
Hot Springs will take place on New
Years night, the 6rst of January,
1891. Music by the Wood River
orchestra of eight pieces.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-11

A dance will b given in White's
Building, Main street, on next Friday
night Des. II, to inauRnrate the
opening Of dancing class by Prof.
D. G. Needs. Tho dance will be
free, and all are cordially invited.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
Social Chatter.

THE little folks in step one of the Bedford
school, were invited to doll party yesterday
afternoon by the principal, Prof. John Golden,
and Miss diary Blaney, their teacher. The tiny
guests were all accompanied by their mammas,
and after the exercises, which consisted of
recitatons, singings and calisthenics, each little
mortal received doll as a present.
A THEATEB party at the Opera House last
evening was given by Miss Maud M. Byers, and
the guest of honor was Miss Baldwin, of De-
troit. After the performance the company
were served with an elaborate supper at the
Byers' residence in Allegheny.
MRS. MURRAY WERNER gave a delightful
german last night at her home on Penn avenue.
Several hundred guests paid their compliments
to the hostess and danced away the hours.
A MUSICAL and literary entertainment was
given last evening at the Fourth Ward School
Hall by Mrs. Lizzie Pershing- Anderson and her
pupils.
Mr.. c. A. CHIPLEY, of Penn avenue, enter.
tanned 25 gentlemen at his home in the East
End last evening to a o'clock dinner.
A PIANO recital will be given this evening at
the rooms of Mr.. Basil Brennan by his ad-
vanced pupils.
THE Merry Matrimonials were entertained
by Mr.. John G. A. Leishman, of Bidwell street,
last evening
A CARD party enjoyed the evening at the
residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. II. Z. bravo last
night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
AFTER LIGHTNING BUGS.
An Expedition 10 Cuba in Quest Of Move

ornaments
PHILADELPHIA, January 3l-Society will
soon have new chance to adorn itself with an
ornament that has the attraction of being novel
and unique. Philip G. Martinez will soon go TO
Cuba, where he will spend a few nights in gath
ering lightning bugs, which he will bring back
to this city, to be worn in beauty's hair or
corsage as the Cuban ladies wear them. These
bugs are the exact counterpart of those that
swarm around here in the warm evenings Of
April and May, except that they belong to the
unabridged variety, measuring as they do from
oue-haf to three-fourths of an inch in breadth.
They have luminous spots on each side Of the
head--eyes they are called-as large as q small
pea, which glow with a constant mellow light
These bugs are worn by Cuban bellies in the
coiffure, on the eorsage, anywhere that orna-
ments can be worn. The means of securing the
unique gem is simply to push fine hairpin
down over the bugs neck and there it stays. In
its patient struggles to escape the wings are
constantly lifted, letting out the full glow.
After the ball is over the bug is released put
under glass jar with bit of sugar cane. and
is happy once more. The bugs with this treat
ment will live about two months and retain
their luminous quality, which is so great that
half a dozen in a dark room viii enable one to
read quite easily.
These unique little animals are very numer-
GUS in the West Indies at this season of the
year. Mr.. Martinez, who is native Cuban,
expects TO have about 10, 900 bugs in the United
States within the next month. The steamer
which he takes sails from New York, where he
will sell part of his importation and bring the
rest to this city. He expects frem the tone OF
Mr.. Blaine's reply to his query in regard to the
tariff to bring them in free of duty. The bugs
will be placed in a peculiar hollow gourd, that
grows in Cuba, Tor the voyage, or in fine wire
cages with piece of sugar cane inside.
There is a tradition in Cuba in nregard to these
bugs that they will tell the age of the owner.
III the bup is Dlaced its back reDeaseQIy II
will spring up till the age Is marked by the
number of jumps
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
PARTISAN sauARRLING.

The politicians continue to fight solely for
partisan advantage, and each loudly de-
nounces the usurpation of the other in doing
at one place exactly what it is doing itself
in another. If this sort of thing is kept up
the public will be disposed to give enough
credence to party leaders on both sides to
believe that all are prepared to go to the
length of usurpation, where it can be sue
cessfully employed to secure partisan advan-
tage.
In Congress the Republican majority are
using the absence of all rules and the arbi-
tIary decisions of the Speaker, to secure
the seating of Republican contest
ants, without fair or adequate investi-
cation of the testimony as to who
was honestly elected. In the Ohio
Senate, the same method is employed by the
Democrats to unseat the Republican Lieu
tenant Governor. In West Virginia it is
intimated that the Democrats are prepared
to vote their man into the GoVernorship
solely on partisan lines, though they have
had the respect for appearances involved
in permitting the case to be fully argued.
Everywhere, where there has been a close
election, the party effort has been, not to
make an honest decision, but for each party
to vote in its own man, irrespective of the
abstract question OF honest elections
While all this squabbling goes on, which
could be wholly avoided, if both parties
were governed by decent respect for re-
publican principles, the public business is
at standstill. 1t ought not to take the
peoplelong, whose real interests are neglected
for the sake of party supremacy, to get tired
of this sort of thing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
PITTsBUR \. SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 1890.
PROTECTION OF THE wATER SUPPLY.

The opinion of the City Attorn y with re-
gard to the pollution OF water by the schin-
derry at Beck's Run shows that the city has
an undoubted remedy, if the pollution can
be proved. The penalty may not be ade-
quate to the ofense, as that official states;
but there is little doubt that proceedings of
the character indicated, if kept up vigor-
ously and persistentlY, would cause a COM
plete abatement of the nuisance.
Such being the case the promptest meas
ures should be taken by the city. Indeed,
q proper appreciation of the Importance of
the subject would have called for action
days ago. Every day that impure water is
permitted to be served through the pipes
constitutes a wanton violation of the public
welfare. Every day, after complaint has
been made, before the complaint is investi-
gated, amounts to neglect of the city's duty
The preservation of pure water supply is
SO plainly part of the city's contract with
its citizens whom it taxes for that purpose,
that to neglect the duty is clear repudia-
ton its obligations.
The city should now direct the investiga-
ton to take place at once, as to whether it
is the schindery that causes the pollution of
the water on the Southside. If so, the
nuisance should at once be abated. If not,
the city should at once proceed to furnish
pure water from its mains on this side of the
river,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
APARABLE FOR MIR. GEORGE

Henry George is no believer in half meas
ures; he is radical of the radicals. As a
humorist he has not acquired lame yet, but
his proposal to settle the liquor question out
of hand ought to establish his reputation in
the field of fun. He thinks the rum power
in politics is double-distilied evil, and he
wishes to destroy it. He has little plan
for its destruction, the joke of which will be
appreciated best by the saloon keepers them
selves. The plan is to take off all restric-
tions of tax aud license that fetter the rum
seller. Then, having nothing more to gain
in politics, Mr.. George is sure the rum
seller will abandon political activity.
Could anything be more humorous? Any
thing more insane?
A tiger once resided in convenient
jungle above little village in Central In
dia. The tiger was good-uatured beast,
and never took more than three COWS a week
from his subjects the villagers. But
the pious Hindoos ungratefully grudged
this trifing tribute, and held a suggestion
meeting to find way to avoid its payment.
A certain middle-aged Brahmin was present
at the meeting and he surprised his hearers
by saying: Fellow citizens, the tiger is a
corrupt and cruel tyrant and ought to be
destroyed. An heroic remedy is needed. 1
advise you to leave open your cattle pens,
and the doors of your houses-placing the
children and women in accessible positions
that the tyrant of the tawny stripes NAV
have all he wants. He will be sickeued by
the surfeit, of course, and you will have no
further trouble with him."
The pious Brahmin's advice was taken
and in a short time the inhabitants of the
village, with their focks and their herds
were at rest-inside the tiger. Mr.. George,
like the pious Brahmin, when he starts out
to solve knotty question does not think of
the final result of his argument He mounts
hobby, or persuades others to mount it,
and cares not if it takes him or them to
destruction,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

MISS GERTRUDE MAGILL, daughter of the
President of Swarthmore College, is about to
enter the Christian ministry.
THE Hon. Warner Miller will address the
Lincoln Club of New Hampshire at its annual
dinner on February Il at Concord.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoRLIss, of North Dakota,
is only 81 years of age. He is tall, angular,
black-haired man. His salary is 81, 900 year.
THE Hon. John D. Long, of Boston, and Mr..
Ellery NJ. Brayton, of Columbia, S. C., are re-
ceiving contributions to the fund for the relief
of the families of the negroes who were mur-
dered at Barnwell month ago.
LEWIS KLoPsCH, the well-known journalist
who, with his wife, has been travelling with DR..
Talmage on his foreign tour, is passenger on
the Cunard steamer Aurania, due at New York
next Tuesday, Mr.. Klopsch while in London
bought control of the American edition of the
ChriStidn Herald. He promptly made arrange
ments with DR.. Talmage for the editing of the
paper. of which the great Brooklyn preacher
will assume editorial charge Immediately upon
his return to America.
JUDGE WILLIAM H. TAFT, of Ohio, who
was yesterday nominated as Solicitor General
of the United States, vice Judge Chapman, de-
ceased is son of Judge Aphonso Taft, who
was Attorney General under President Grant,
He is graduate of Yale College, and at pres
ent holds the office of Judge of the Superior
Court of Cincinnati. He is about 35 years old,
and bears an excellent reputation as lawyer.
He was not an applicant for the office of So
licItor General. The salary of the Office is ST.
600 year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
TO INSURE SUMMER CONCERTS.

The Directors of the Exposition Society
are thoroughly impressed with the desira-
bilitv of giving the public series of popu-
lar summer concerts. Mr.. johnson has
ascertained what the expense would be, and
is in readiness to secure an orchestra ofgreat
repute, with which he has been in negotis-
tion. The scheme would be well under way
but for one thing. The Directors of the
Exposition Society do not feel justified in
assuming all the risk in the enterprise. The
full liability is not large sum, not more
than twelve thousand dollars, and we under
stand that the directors would be willing to
go ahead if some public-spirited men would
pledge themselves to pay the deficit, if any
should occur, up to five or six thousand
dollars. We do not think that a deficit of
anything like that size could possibly be the
result of a well-managed series of concerts
extending over three weeks in June. The
Directors of the Exposition are right to take
no undue chances, and their modest request
for a guarantee fund we commend most
heartily to our readers. Probably the guar
antors would never be called upon to pay a
cent, and they would have the satisfaction
of enabling their fellow citizens, rich and
poor alike, to enjoy an elevating form of
recreation that comes at the time of year
when Pittsburg is desperately dull.
The benefit of the proposed concerts we
believe would not stop at the audiences, but
would extend to the Exposition as an institu-
ton a. the time, and later on. The concerts
would attract our neighbors TO this city,
would aceustom our citizens to finding in
the Exposition building refined amusements,
and would swell the number of music lovers
here. All these results are good in the
highest sense, Merely four or five, or a
dozen of our many wealthy men can assure
this pleasant event for next June. They
should do it, and THE DISPATCH hopes
they will.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
THE FORTY-MILE RADIUS.

The question of the forty-mile radius on
coal freights, which was up before meeting
of railroad officials in New York yesterday,
is a somewhat complex one. On the face of
it, the arrangement which charges a coal
mine 40 miles west of Pittsburg, the same
rate for transporting coal 100 miles, as is
charged one 40 miles east of Pittsburg for
hauling it 180 miles. does not seem to be
based exactly on the equities of the case. But
there are great many other factors in the
matter, some of themimportant from the pub
lie standpoint, and others for the corporate
convenience, which make the arrangement
at least convenient one. 1t is evident that
there must be districts from which the rate
shall be uniform, and it is possible that the
division of the Pittsburg coal field into
smaller districts with variation of the
rates from each, might not, under existing
railway conditions, prove especially advan-
tageous to those west of Pittsburg that are
not reached by competing lines. 1t may be
taken for granted that the decision of the
New York body will be ruled more by the
railroad convenience than the interests of
the coal trade,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
FROM EASTERN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK World: The danger of an ice
famine has passed. but the peach crop per-
sistently maintains its intention of being a
failure.
PHILADELPHIA Times: Seventeen hundred
and sixty-two private pension bills were intro
duced into the House at the close of last week.
No wonder Congressman are clamoring to be
allowed clerk each.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The GOODNESS which
has arisen between Bismarck and the German
Emperor may make things warm for the latter.
In case of trouble the Iron Chancellor may be-
come the Red Hot Iron Chancellor.
NEW YORK Star: Burglars entered the
house of President Harrison in Indianapolis on
Wednesday night and stole clothing and Jew
elry valued at s., 600. The burglars do not have
any more respect for General Harrison than the
Republican Senators.
NEW YORK Sun: Canada paid 81, ,0OS last
year for 432 damask napkins for the use of the
Governor General in Rideau Hall. 1t seems
rather tough on Canada to have to pay $50, 900
a year for a Governor General and then buy
4S2 damask napkins for him to bury his talents
in.
NEW YORK Press: The Press has long con-
tended that Governor David b. Hill was too
thin to spread out over the whole country, and
now has full confirmation of its judgment in
the refusal of the Democrats in Congress to
accept him as an authority on parliamentary
law.
NEW YORK Tribune: There can be no OBJ
lection to Major Serpa Pinto coming to America
for the benefit of his health, or for any other
good and sufficient reason, so long Ms he doesn't
undertake to establish Portuguese protector
ate anywhere on this continent. America isn't
Africa.
NEW YORK Times: The patriotic scheme of
Worlds Fair in 1892 to celebrate the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery Of
America is trembling in the balance in conse-
quence of the contemptibly narrow partisan
spirit of Tom Platt's puppets in the Senate of
the Empire State,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARsE.

Somebody's baby was buried to-day,
The empty white hearse from the grave rum bled
back,
And the morning. somehow, seemed less smiling
and gay,
AsI paused on the walk while It crossed on its
way,
And a shadow seemed drawn o'er the SUMS
golden track.
Somebody's baby was laid out to rest.
White as a snow-drop and fair to behold,
And the soft little hands were crossed over the
breast.
And the hands and the lips and the eyelids were
pressed
With kisses as hot as the eyelids were cold.
Somebody saw 1t 90 out of her sight
Under the coffin lid, out of the door,
Somebody finds only darkness and blight
All thro' the glory of summer sunlight
Someone whose baby will waken no more.
Somebody's sorrow is making me weep,
know not her name, but echo her cry
For the dearly bought baby she longed so to keep,
The baby that rode to its long lasting sleep
In the little white hearse that went rum
bling by.
1 know not her name, but her sorrow know
While l passed on the crossing lived 1t once
more
And back to heart surged that river of woe
That but in the breast of mother can fow,-
For the little white hearse has been, too at my
door,
Ella Wheeler H1tcOz in Demorsst's Mega
zine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
A SHOWING OF GROWTH,

The figures which are published in our
local columns, on the expansion of the postal
business of Pittsburg, give remarkable
evidence of the gain in population and
traffic that has taken place in this CITY
within the past five years. An increase of
about 14O per cent in the total of letters and
postal cards delivered is an astonishing
growth while the increase of gross receipts
by the ratio of 81 per cent is, perhaps, a
more reliable indication of the actual ex-
pansion of population and traffic during the
past four and half years. These statistics
warrant the expectation of remarkable ex-
hibit of growth when the census is taken
this year. In addition they emphasize the
necessity for hurrying up the new postofice
and furnishing adequate quarters for the
transaction of this rapidly expanding postal
business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
4 DINING ROOM FOR LADIES.
Clhe Duquesne Club Extends Privilege TO
the GentIeF Sex.

Clhe DnQuesne Club Extends Privilege TO
the GentIeF Sex.
A peep in the ladies' restaurant of the Du-
quesne Club House yesterday afternoon re-
vealed everything in perfect readiness for the
bevy of gay shoppers and the trim walters that
will people it next Monday. On that day the
initial lunch will be served and the ladies who
are fortunate enough to be wives sisters or
mothers of members of the club, or friend OF
some wife, sister or mother of mem
Der, can be seated in the most ele-
CANT little public dining hall in the
city, and on the pretty, snowy-covered tables
of white oak. in delicate china, be served with
all the dainties and substantials OF the season.
Mr. James Riley, the new steward of the
club, says the LADIES' restaurant will be con-
Quoted in the most approved style, and will be
open from 10 A. M. to II o'clock in the evening
for the accommodation of patrons who attend
parties. Mr. Riley was connected
with the Algonquin Club in Boston,
and for the past two seasons has taken
charge Of their country house-the Cohassett.
The gentleman is in person pleasant and pre-
possessing and filled with enthusiasm and am
bition in his speciality. He has had considera-
BILE experience in his line, having been con-
nected with and served his apprenticeship in
some of the best clubs of London, among them
the Naval and NJ ilItary and the United Univer-
sity before his arrival in this country some five
years ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
PROGRESSIVE RAPID TRANSIT.

The extended review of the operation OF
the cable roads, published elsewhere.
spropos of tie opening of the Central
Traction line, contains interesting data
about a system of transit which has become
leading feature of our city.
The details of the operation of the cable
roads and the factors which give it the cer-
tsinty and adequacy of performance, that
are its best characteristics, are not alone in
teresting of themselves. They permit THE
DISPATCH to indulge in a mild expression
to the effect that il told the public so.
Seven years ago. when the cable roads were
just coming into vogue east of the Rocky
Mountains, THE DISPATCH pointed out
that this system was exactly adapted to the
hills of Pittsburg. The prediction was
made then that the construction of cable
roads in Pittsburg would yield rich har-
vest to the capitalists who introduced the
system and an immense expansion of Pitts
burg's growth. 1t is gratifying to note how
completely experience has verified the pre-
diction which was made repeatedly for
years before capital was induced to put the
work in operation.
Transit by cable roads in Pittsburg is
prominent fact; but it should not be con-
cluded that it is perfection. The possibili-
ties of electricity as a motor are yet to be
developed. If that system can rival the
cable roads in economy Of operation, with
the additional gains of independent opera
ton for each car, the advance in the future
may be as great as it has been in the past.
One lesson has, however, been learned.
The greatest gains, both for the public and
for the enterprises themselves, are to be OBJ
tained by the highest attainment in our sys-
tem of local transit With that lesson
taught by experience, we may be sure that