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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
SMALL HOUSES CALLED FOR,

The need of small houses for the labor
ing population of Pittsburg, as already
pointed out by The DISPATCH, is at once
attracting public attention and receiving
such corroboration as places it beyond dis
pute. Elsewhere will be found the testi-
mony of real estate authorities that a thou
sand such houses suitable for the class that
paws from 500 TO 500 annual rent could be
rented in a single week. In addition to that
is the somewhat startling assertion that the
loss of population to Pittsburg, by the in
ability of this class to find houses, amounted
during the past year to 5000.
The importance OF supplying this demand
is apparent on the surface, while the profit
from such investments is equally plain. 1t
is certain that the acres of property made
accessible by electric and cable roads ought
to furnish sites for thousands of pleasant
workingmen'S cottages as well as the more
pretentious sort of suburban residences.
The policy urged by our real estate men is
the construction of two and three-roomed
houses, which will no doubt yield quick
and certain return on the investment. But
it may be questioned whether a more far
sighted course will not be the erection of a
rather better grade of cottages to rent at the
same money. To construct two or three
roOmed houses in large equantities would very
soon degenerate the district where it is done
into tenement and shanty property. On the
other hand, the construction of neat double
cottages containing four or five rooms each
any neighborhood attractive, and also be an
actual benefit to the public.
1t is certain that if the present activity in
building does not provide good homes for
workingmen, as we'll as fine residences and
snowy middle-class houses, it will miss one
of its main purposes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
GLIMPsES OF LONDON.
A GRAPHIC PEN PICTURE FROM REV.
GEORGE HODGES.

A Life Time Required to See the Metropolis
of the World-New York Streets Seem
Almost Deserted in Comparison-Music
Everywhere.
7 oNDoN IS a great city. Even the children
in the kindergartens know that But you
must go there to recognize Its greatness
Get on top of one of the thousand omnibuses
which have their rendezvous at Charing Gross,
and take morning journey through the
crowded streets. Direct your course along the
Strand and Fleet street to st. Paul's. or up to
Oxford street and along Holborn to the Bank
OF England. The first wonder is to see the
driver make his way. 1t looks impossible and
impossible ahead. The press of vehicles is like
the push of shoulders along crowded side
walk. And yet along you go. never grazing
any body's wheel nor running over anybody's
toes. This is one of the most interesting sights
OF London-you never get weary of ito sit by
the driver, away up on the high seat of an
omnibus, and see him drive
Really the New York streets look empty after
the throng and the multitude in the thorough
fares of London. The New York stores are
finer, tn buildings are handsomer and higher,
the shop windows more attractive. There Is
not anywhere in London such jewelry store
as Tiffany's, nor such bookstore as Scribner's
or Dutton's. There are stores in Pittsburg
which might well astonish the eyes of cock
neys But the crowds-they have no equal
anywhere!
And the sights in the streets! Along the
curbstone go long lines of sandwich men, carry
ing great emblazoned placards behind them and
before, announcing play at theater or ad-
vertising merchants goods. At the corner
are sellers of strawberries and roses The big
gest strawberries you ever saw-every one fit
for oliahs breakfast. three good bites for any
common mortal-and the reddest roses. In the
the side streets you will not go farther than
block or two before you will come upon some
kind of music. In walk of a mile
you will hear as many kinds of instruments of
music as were ever played at the sitting up of
any golden image in the country of King Neb-
uchednezzer. The 'piano-organ," as they call
it, is omnipresent, and fairly melodious, some
times really worth listening to, and almost al
ways an improvement on the hand-organ of our
own highways and byways In the dirty lanes
little dirty children will be seen merrily dancing
in time to its tunes, sight both pleasant and
pathetic. OF course. there is punch and
Judy" on the curbstone, with an interested
audience.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
DEATHS OF "A DAY.
Mrs, Nancy A. Beymer.

Mrs. Nancy A. Beymer, mother of Simon Bey-
mer, President of the Beymer- Bauman Lead Com
pany, died yesterday afternoon at the late resi-
dence of her son, No. 462g Fifth avenue East End.
Mrs Beymer was in her S5th year and was WELL
known in this city for her beneyolence and many
acts of charity. She was always interested in
church work, and her death Will be regretted by
the charitable ladies of the city, who found in Mrs
Beymer q valued friend and a trusted adviser!
She had been ailing for some time, but on account
of her advanced years the physicians could not
pull her through, although she mad the best medi-
cal attention in the city. She sank gradually un.
til yesterday, when surrounded BY family and
friends her spirit passed away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
A FOUNTAIN FREE.
Streams of Water Running From Maple
in Dry Weather.

Streams of Water Running From Maple
in Dry Weather.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
RUssELLvILLE, KY, October l9.-Deputy
Sheriff j. w. Lamb of Logan county, who was
here this week with prisoner. brings a strange
tale from the Red Oak Church neighbprhood
in Logan county. The people there are greatly
agitated, and many of the more superstitious
fearit portends evil. In the front yard of John
Lyme are three maple trees of fair size. Two
weeks ago, and at a time when there had been
no rain for fortnight, water in
streams began to run from the tip
of each limb. The water has soaked
the ground thoroughly and enough falls to wet
a man who will stand under the trees through
and through in five minutes. The water falls
at night the same as in the day. heavy mist
continually hangs about the trees, no matter
how warm the sun may shine. There are other
trees in the yard only few feet from the weep
ing naples but they are unaffected.
MANY believes the phenomenon portends
evil to the family of Mr.. Lvne. but that gentle
man only laughs at the prediction. Prof. Ry-
land. President or Bethel College, in this city
and Prof, Firqua, also of the same institution,
have both visited the place and say they are
unable 20 account for the occurrence. except
nv a theory that a superabundant and nomi-
nalIy late flow of sap has something to do
with it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Catholic Politics in Italy.

From the Osservatore Romano.1
The political programme of the Catholic
party of Italy is based upon the restoration of
the temporal power of the Pope. but accepts to
great exteht Italian unity and the maiute-
nance of national representative body. 1t de-.
mands political liberty and the respect due to
religion, the reform Of taxation. direct tax on
all incomes from private and public sources,
large measure of municipal e1f-government,
and good relations with other powers in order
that Italy may not become isolated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
The Oldest Place in America.

From the Chicago HeraIuJ
"Do you know the oldest place in all Amer
ica?n said General John B. Henderson. of st.
Louis, to q circle of friends last night. II don't
mean the oldest town in the country or on the
continent, but the land first tfound on the West
ern Hemisphere? No? Well, L thought not.
1t is Mount Marcy, in the Adirondack Noun
tatns. Agassiz and other biologists have fig
ured out that Mount Marcy was the point of
land that made its appearance first above the
water when the Western Hemisphere was
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Out-of-Town Banking.

From the New York saturday GIobe.l
There is a revival of the old scheme to es-
tablish a bank in New York to make specially
OF the business of out-of-town banks. One of
the downtown trust companies Is said to be
interested in the scheme, OF which the capital
will be sl.O0OGOo. 1t is stated that the New
York banks handle something like 81, 600 900 of
country drafts and checks daily.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
The Age of Majority.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
Will you please inform me why male person
attains his majority at the age of 21 and at what
period OF history was this rule adopted and
oblige. IGNORAMUS.
NEW BRIGHTON, October Is, 1890.
tTwenty-one is not even now the majority
age in all countries The adoption of the Con-
stitution made it the legal age in the United
States for males. In some States. notably Ohio,
a woman is of age at Is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
A Little Red Tame.


You write the titles of the books you want
upon blanks, signing your name and indi-
eating the number of the desk where you will
read. These you put into basket by the IL
brarian's table. and in due time the books are
brought. The tables for readers radiate out from
the central circles of desks like the spokes OF
wheel. Zach table is lettered. and each place
is numbered Every reader is provided with
ink and pens and q blotter and a book rest and
a place to put his hat. The chairs are comfort
able. The space is wide enough and sufficient
ly secluded. The light is good. And all the
books in the world are at your call, except the
novels. If you want a novel you must explain
in writing to the librarian the exact scholastic
reasons for your singular request.
There are no pictures in the British Museum.
These are in the National Gallery. This is an
other place in which the visitor who would see
all that can be seen should spend AT least two
lifetimes. The best way to do is to know be-
forehand, from the study of your guidebook,
just the 20 pictures which you really
first, and then if there are others they may be
looked at afterward. The. only trouble
are SO many of these others. Raphael
is here, and Murillo. and Titan.
and Landseer. and almost every great painter
walls with their glowing colors, and their
pictured stories, and their living pictures, are
the most beautiful in England. And the Deo-
pie appreciate the privilege of the great gallery
the rooms are full of men and women often in
their working dress, who come to see the pict-
ures. You resolve to come here every day.
But there are SO many sights beside!
One might go on writing about London with
out end. Every corner rempts you to stop.
There is so mucn to tell about. 1have not be-
gun. and yet here is the end of my paper The
rest must wait week. 6. H.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

THE committee of citizens in Philadel-
phia organized to detect and prevent frauds in
voting is already proving it's usefulness. One
assessor has been discovered who placed on the
registry lists of his district 126 false names,
and that opportunity for getting in fine work
has been closed. This method of checking
frauds before they are committed will earn the
approval Of honest men without regard to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
HEALTHY PARTY CRITICISM
Praised by an English M. p, Who Col
demns the Policy of Obstruction.

Praised by an English M. p, Who Con-
demns the Policy of Obstruction.
In recent address by Mr.. R. S. Donkin, NJ.
P, to his constituents at a Conservative meet
ing in Tynemouth. England, he took occasion
to pertinently remark that while he was con-
demning obstruction in language than which
he wished he could find stronger and better to
convince them, he would like them to clearly
understand that he was the very last person in
the world who would wish to mInimise or lessen
healthy party criticism. Party criticism was
the very -blood-the very pulsation of the
life-blood Parliament Without it he would
trust no party. whether Whig, Gladstonian,
Radical or Tory. Without that wholesome
stimulus of party criticism he considered there
was national danger to the country. THear.
hear.1 But party criticism was one thing, and
scandalous obstruction was another. [Hear,
heaE] Criticism ought to be based on the
of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

SENATOR PLUMB informed New York
interviewer that he represents the State Of
Kansas and not the State of Pennsylvania. 1t
seems so, but then why does not Senator Plumb
go out where Senator ingalls, is making such
violent effort to continue representing the State
OF Kansas, and give the Kansas people grounds
on which to decide which of them represented
the State best.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

A WOMAN living in Newport, who while
away from home took more wine than her head
could stand, drowned herself rather than re-
turn home in disgrace. This is a very severe
remedy; but if it were made to apply to the
male sex it would effect a remarkable decrease
in intoxication as well as population,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

In view of the avowal of the Governor of
Oklahoma that he is afraid of being assassi-
mated on account of the war over the location
of that Territory's capital. it is obvious that
the scheme suggested by the New York Sun of
letting both the contending towns be capitals,
is the correct one. Every town in Territory
should be capital rather than have the Gov
ernors wasted. 1t may amuse the towns and it
will not hurt the rest of the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

Mr.. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw informed his
hearers here, that what has been written about
labor and capital is "mostly trash" and then
proceeded to say that ''labor cannot get along
without capital and capital Is useless without
labor As this is what is asserted by all the
volumes to which Mr.. Depew referred so slight
ingly, we are driven to the conclusion that Mr..
Depew regards it as his function to add to the
stock of trash.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

UNITED STATES TREASURER HUSTON
is quoted as saying that if Indiana should go
Democratic this year it would make President
Harrisons denomination certain in 1892 Per-
haps this is to be construed as indicating that
the private business" of Dudley and New In
Indiana this fall is to see that the State goes
Democratic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

The steel conference develops the fact
that while the Government standards cause de-
lay in furnishing material for the new navy, it
results in puttipg nothing but the best ma
terial In the ships. The public opinion will be
likely to say that it is best to 60 little slower
and get the best results that can be attained.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

MRS. FRANK LESLIE is informing admir-
ing audiences in the West that Henry VIII was
an epigrammatc talker and that Charles IL had
a ineshape. Thus we perceive the full fruition
of all that advertising which the Marquis de
LeuviIle succeeded in obtaining for the fair
lacturer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

"HIGHER-PRIcED hops means higher
priced beer. Higher-priced beer means fewer
Anarchists" !" remarks the Baltimore Anse,fcd7.
Is this intended to assert that the drinkers of
cheap beer are Anarchists and that they will
reform their opinions if they have to pay ten
cents glass? If that is so, what collection
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Who Can Give the Information?

To the Editor of The Dispatch
While in New York some weeks ago noticed
man selling sticks of some material by
which, if small piece were cut off and placed
in pipe of tobacco and touched with water a
light was obtained. Can you inform me what
1t was and whether it can be reduced to liquid
form? AMATEUR CHEMIST.
ALLIANCE. O., October II, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
sunpressing the sihxL

From the Minneapolis Tribune.l
Boston did just right in suppressing the sibyl
tombstone show. Why, she didn't even have
on pair of spectacles, and her stockings, in
stead of being dark blue in color and rolled
back over her boots were creamy pink.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Because Legally Dead.
From the Boston journal. ]

From the Boston 5ournaI'I
AUGUSTA, Me. October lS-The will of
Micah w. Norton. the convicted murderer,
sentenced to State prison for life, has just been
fled in the Probate Court of Somerset county.
His son Sumner is appointed executor. Norton
leaves an estate of $4,000 and makes his will,
as when he goes to prison he is legally dead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

Jacob Stein. of the Fifteenth ward. died yester-
day at his home. 35l9 Butler street, from the
effects of an abcess hack of his ear. Mr.. Stein
was A years of age. He had resided in Lawrence
vile for many years, and was prominent in local
politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
LincoIn,s Call for Troops.


To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Please decide bet and state what was Pres
ident Lincvlns trst call for men, and what num-
Der. when the Civil War first broke ort?
ALLEGHENY, October Is, 1890. THOMAS.
[In April. 1861, President Lincoln called for
rs 900 men to serve three months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

of Anarchists we have had in all our cities
these years past without ever finding it outl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

LAST week was a remarkable one for
weather. We had two pleasant days in sue
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

THE duty on champagne under the new tariff
is sS case and the bottles are taxed three cents
apiece, making a total duty on quart bottle
692s cents. 1t will cost more to break their
necks or your own now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Mrs. Frank Leslie,s Guest,

From an Interview in the Chicago Tribune.]
am looking for a husband, but he must be
the right man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
Blame where you must,
Be candid where you can,
And be each critic
A pood nafured man

Party criticism consisted in opposition to
measures which were generally dislIked, but
obstruction such as they had it in the last ses-
sion of Parliament was the obstruction of all
measures which came from the Government.
and many of the measures which the party op-
posed they had often advocated and brought
forward themselves and the only object of the
obstruction was the discrediting Of the Govern
ment [Hear, hear.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
The peepestshaft in England.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please inform US which is the deepest coal
shaft in England, and state the depth.
PITTsBURG, October Is. 1890 MANY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

THE girl who now the largest check can draw
Amid the throng no more's speck,
Since it has been decreed by Fashions law
That she must wear the largest check.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

A FORTUNE can be made with or without
tools or machinery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
A Money Deposit is Usually Accented,

To the Editor of the Dispatch.
Is money as good as real estate on bond
i. e.. TO bail any person in a criminal court?
APOLLO, October IL. 1890. EVERYDAY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

some were Transactions of various learned
societies, not easy to get, not on sale in book
stores. Not one was missing out of that great
catalogue. Every book was there and more
besides them. In half an hour L had piled up
upon my desk pretty nearly everything that
had ever been written about the life Of st.
COLUMBIA and about the little island which he
made historic and sacred by his dwelling IN it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

BOYS, when you marry don't quit making
love. II there was little more of it stretched
through and beyond the honeymoon the di-
vorce courts would not be quite SO busy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

WOMEN can match dress goods and arrange
matrimonial matches with neatness and dis
patch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
THE fanatics of one generation are the
heroes of the next.


heroes of the next.
Do YOU dream? Or are your slumbers SO
sound that the ghosts refuse to walk neither
night or day? Surely we all dream more or
less-weird, bewildering, mysterious, pleasant
or horrible dreams-dreams that cheer, or
dreams that depress; dreams we wish were fact
instead of fancy; dreams we are glad to have
vanish. leaving only faint vision of unutter-
able horror, black trail of misery across the
mysterious plain we traverse in the Land of
Nod. But surely life IS sweeter with the
dreams. How we do sometimes revel in the
delights of tour through Dreamland-wander
amid flowers fairer than earth's choicest
growths, stroll through fields greener, trees
grander, castles older; rest beside seas bluer,
brooks clearer, rivers wider; hear lighter laugh
ter merrier music, sweeter voices; see fairer
faces, brighter stars, bluer heavens than
while ploddlng along in the waking hours.
These the dreams we cling to; but, alas. these
be the dreams that fit, that vanish, leaving only
faint shadow memory vague. touch light,
joyless joy, faded fancy. Did you ever try
to pick up the missing links of a pleasant
dream? And how they do refuse to be welded
by memory into that long chain which stretches
from the. cradle to the grave. They dance be-
fore memory's eyes like wicked little fairies,
fitting in and out, refusing to be grouped
culluren OF une uark AFRAID OF Ine lSnt-a lOSG
chord in melody never composed but which
will be composed again. Then the bad dreams
dreams which wake with shout, shiver,
moan-a vision that appalls, ghost that
alarms, memory that haunts. These the
dreams which cling. Ugh, how they do annoy
us. to be sure. We try to chase them off, to
erase them from memory's slate with
the sponge of will wet with
the sweat drops that came when the Horror
scared off sleep and lifted our eye-lids with its
clammy fingers. But tn ere it stands. mock
ing monster from the sea of sleep, ghost
from the Land of Dreams. But dreams must
come to all To you perhaps pleasant; to you
perhaps sad. To he of the clear conscience,
joyful; to he of the trou bled mind, joyless. To
he who fears neither the darkness nor the light
they have no terrors; to he who sees shadows
in the sunshine and monsters IN the murk they
are hideous frightful nightmares -fends of the
frolics in the mysterious divide that lies be-
tween the land of the living and the region of
the dead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

IF the N Northwestern tier goes for Pattison,
Delamater will tear his hair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

SOME people believe the State Capitol will
be removed to the Standard offices, Broadway
N. Y, if their man wins.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

THE baseball players favorite song should
be There's no place like honle.'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20

AN unclinched lie is generally accepted as
truth after awhile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-20
LOVES labor's light.

PITY the Mckinley bill placed heavier
duty on imported drygoods. The decollette
dress will now be cut lower instead of higher.