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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
Miss waaamaker's Millions.

Who can compute Miss Minnie Wan
amaker's fortune? Two million dol
lars. one SAYS. Double that, SAYS
another. "A full $4,000, 600 by the
time she will inherit it, says third.
There are four children in the Wan
amakcf's family. two sons and two
daughters, and they can swim in mon
ey in any direction, saws a Washington
correspnndent OF the Philadelphia
Press. Miss Wanamaker is so pretty
that she would be a catch If she hadn't
cent. but the possession OF so much
gold makes Der the most interesting
giri Of the season, for she is newer than
Miss Letter and almost as lovely.
She knows thing or two about
money. and IS sincere enough to recog-
nize sincerity in others. The fortune
hunter who follows her will be unwise.
For over a year she has been learning
how to take care of money. Her IA
ther gives her an allowance, and she
buys all that she wears.
No one questions Miss Wanamaker
about her spendings, and even if she
oFerdraws considerably on her bank
account it only brings a laughing criti-
cism from her father. But what girl
does not overdraw?
They tell ine that many of them get
an allowance of from IS, 0O0to $4,000
per year, and the only girl in Washing
ton who has not overdrawn hers Is
Miss Florence Window. Ofeourse she
does not get that much, as the seere-
targ of the treasury is not very
wealthy man, but whatever Miss Flor
ence gets she came home after a shop
ping tour in New York short time
ago with % cents in her purse.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
$500 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.


Ia the month of January. 1860. I'm
going down the big river from Fiek4-
burg to New Orleans. happened to
strike a boat ON which were baaf a
dozen professional gamblers. There
were a large number OF other passefl-
gers, and d game was going on In tbs
cabin night aud day. | happened 10
fall In with two young men 1T the start
and incidentally learned that they had
been of on q speculation which turned
out disAstruusly and were returning
home close to dead broke that they
could only raise go between them.
On the second night one OF them came
into the game with this money. aud in
the course of an hour won $500. Then
luck shifted aud he was cleaned out.
As his last dollar went the banker i'm
quired:
Have you anything 70 raise . stake
on
Yes. whar's my niggerPn was the
reply.
..fere. Mars Johnr' answered voice.
and young and likely. as IL used 70
be termed. negro boy about ~ years
old entered the cabin and bowed very
humbiy.
'Thar's a niger who il worth 81
600 In gold. said the young man.
How much will you put up against
him?''
Twelve hundred
.'Doneis
In just forty minutes the last dollar
was gone. luck aud trickery being too
many for the young fellow. aud a. lie
rose up the banker called ont:
Luck seems 10 hate some folks.
Whsrss my nigger?1
No one could answer. but n search
for him was at once instituted. Three
or four men looked high and low, but
he could not be found. aud il was
finally concluded that he had gone
overheard. There was great deal Of
s.cussing around. but it didn.t heip
matters any. and all finally turned In
for the night. When / went 10 my
siateroom / found the washbowi full of
black water. and strange coat aud
hat on the floor. | was wondering over
these things when Que Of tile Young
men came in-the one who had not
played
Il came to remove these things.r he
explained. Il got into Jour room by
mistake. yon see. .
..But what does it meansF sFs
..It means that | am the .niggers who
was put up against twelve hundred
dollars and lost
What an ideat''
Yes. we ought to have made a thou
sand dollars apiece. but il WAS no 20.
Hope you'll excuse my intrusion and
keep mum
/ And all the rest of the wav 10 New
i Orleans the passengers mourned tte
death of that '.likely Niger aud won-
dered whether he went right down or
died by inches.-&. l.. sun.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13

little aninal ran mp a telegraph pole
and then started out on wire for the
next pole. Loo feet distant The wire
swung aavly III the breeze, but the
trembling traveller hungon aud reached
the next station in about an hour. He
descended the pole, and when he
reached the base he was 50 tired that
he allowed himself TO be picked up by
n spectator
A good story Is told OF Alphonse
karr. A youthful man of letters ar
rived at Etretat with letter OF intro
duetion 10 Alphense Karr. lie had
been particularly told of karr's ppssion-
ate love Of the sea; aud, finding the
author OF "Genesieven seated on the
beach. mending net he Immediately
began IN enthusiastic outhufst of com-
monplaces about the grandeur of the
ocean. Monsieur. Interrupted Karr,
Il love the sea; we have lived together
a long time. But if YOU have come NIL
the way from Paris 70 disgust me with
1t, ] can only say il is a wicked thing
10 dc,
Thomas A. Edison's latest achieve
ment Is the invention of light by
which pictures may be seen NJ night
with all the advantages of daylight.
Electric lights have heretofore thrown
either too brilliant or TOO yellow n light.
Edison secures a perfect light for pic-
lures hy placing nc the back of the
bulbs III his system OF lighting lead
piece covering hall the bulb aud fitting
il closely. Inside of the bulb Is coat
ing OF silver. The natural yellow of
the light aud the silver reelection com-
biae Is make Il light THAT brings out all
the colors in a picture hatmoniously.
IL was first used III the illumination of
the ..Aagrlas' In New York.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
Bernhardt a Clairvoyant.

Mime. Sarah Bernhardt is a firm be-
lever in the supernatural. She has
related that when at New York. on her
first American trip, she woke up one
night after terrible dream. in which
she had seen her son Maurice bitten by
two mad dogs. The vision made such
au impression on her mind that early
next morning she telegraphed to
Maurice. and received the reply that
he had been bitten by two dogs. that
the wounds in his arm were not serious.
Moreover. the dogs were not rabid. but
had been Immediately killed. Nine.
Bernhardt could. she affirms. mention
numerous other circumstances in her
life which it would be impossible To
put down TO mere chance or coinci-
dence
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
The jews Still Wander.

1t In remarkable that Emin Pasha
should be jew by birth. and one of
his rescuers-Vita Hassen-a Jew by
profession. But the presence of these
jews in Equatorial Africa does not
stand alone. From the time of Abra-
ham downward the migratory instinct
has been dominant in the race. Me-
sopotamia, Canaan, Egypt, Canaan
once more, Assyria. Babylonia. Persia.
Canaan third time. and then the
world at large-such are the successive
stages of Israers national migrations.
The Jews. indeed, have ever been the
'.tribe of the wandering foot In an
age when movement from one country
to another was a rare and hazardous
proceeding-in the twelfth century.
to wit-Benjamin of Tudela and Pc
taehia of Ratisbon travelled through a
great part of Europe. Asia and Africa.
and were thereby able to make con-
siderable additions to the worlds
knowledge The second Benjamin and
Halevy, who explored the Eelashas,
may also be mentioned The existence
of Jews in out-of-the-way corners of
the globe. the Felashas and Beni-Israef
and the Cochin Jews, has only been
made possible by the migratory ten
dency of the race. The four Young
men who kept last Yom Kippur in 50
queer. yet touching. a fashion IN the
wilds OF South Africa. are among the
latest Illustrations OF the tendency. No
doubt the wandering instinct has been
strengthened By prosecutions. but now
that peace and quietness are his in
greater measure. the Jew still retains
his prediction for travel--JeaDish
Chronicle.
ere are only i've workingmen
justices of the peace in Great Britain.
Three OF them are in England aud two
IN Scotland
Charles v. Piper. OF Seattle, has do
covered = new species OF pine.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
A Small Deer.

A remarkable little animal has been
added to the London zoo. Ii is deer.
though in size but trifie larger than
a full-grown cat. The cloven hoofs
proclaim its position in the mammalian
world beyond doubt, but it has no
horns. In the male two long canine
teeth project from the upper lip. and
tnesa perhaps serve in their stead.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13
A Modern King Lear.

An old mau named Daniel Murray
has been committed to the almshouse Of
Northampton county. Pennsylvania, at
his own request, because he can not get
the use of 81, 600. his own personal prop
srty, which he assigned to his relatives.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13

AT Dovlestown, Pa, J Monroe Sellen
berger, the lawyer whose forgeries an'
other criminal escapades recently cause,
such widespread sensation, has heel
sentenced 10 twenty-five years imprison
ment at hard labor.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-13

John p. Kunse, who was tried with
Coughlin, Burke, 0'Sullivan and Beggs
for alleged completely in the Cronin muir
der, was married in Chicago to Miss Ju-
Tia Ghover. the young lady who visited
him SO often during his imprisonment
and chsered him during the trial
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
BIsMARCKs SHADOW STILL.

The warmth of the greeting given by the
Berliners to Bismarck yesterday as he came
from the farewell audience with the En-
peror is not to be wondered at. But for the
life-work of Bismarck it is more than likely
that Berlin would be the capital of Prussia
merely, instead of that of United Germany.
However Americans, accustomed to demo-
cratic methods, may dislike the absolutism
which has lain beneath Bismarck's policy
at all times, they must recognize the genius
of the statesman who has accomplished so
much for his native land.
1t is curious how the shadow of Bis
marck's retirement obscures every other
event in Germany. The Labor Congress
continues in session. the Emperor fretfully
protests against the too outspoken comments
Of even the German newspapers, he assures
Austria of the permanence of Germany's
friendship, and the Pope addresses courtly
letter of congratulation 10 the young En-
peror on his efforts to solve social questions
with new keys, but Germany, and indeed
the whold world, talks not OF these things,
but of the Iron Chancellor, who is now
private citizen.
The tears that Bismarck shed yesterday
are not likely to be the only ones that will
be shed on account of his departure from
the Empires helm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
OBLIGATIONS OF THE CENSUS.

The taking of the eleventh census is well
under way. The popular interest in this
great national work becomes more general
and lively as decade follows decade. Pitts
burg is happily in position to await, with
calm assurance, the revelations of the
statisticians who shall investigate her stand
ing and reveal her relative proportions. 1t
is incumbent upon everyone who has the
best interests of this community at heart to
aid the census takers in every possible way.
Individual citizens may serve Pittsburg no
little in this way.
We need hardly remind the many Off
cials of the municipality and county that
they are especially bounden to aid Mr..
Porter and his assistants in the preparation
of statistics for the census. To great ex-
tent it lies with them to set Pittsburg and
nation. As the Superintendent OF the
Census rightly says: 'If they neglect the
opportunity, or place obstacles in the way,
the record will, as a matter of course, be i'm
perfect and contrast unfavorably with that
of other cities" But Pittsburg, we are as
sured, can rely upon the fidelity ana indus
try of her public servants in this emergency.
1t is not improper to call the attention of
the preparers of the census to a cognate.
matter. Schedules are being sent to the
officials of municipalities all over the coun-
ry, to be filled up with facts and figures
relative to the various cities. But the
schedules are apparently planned without
consideration of the fact that hardly two
cities in the country are governed with
identical methods and under identical con-
ditions A schedule WHICH fits the case of
New York exactly, and could be filled up
by New York municipal officers with ease
and dispatch, might not apply to Pittsburg
at all. We understand that such diff
Guilty has arisen already. and we trust that
census authorities will hasten to open the
way for the cooperation of our municipal
officers, who are anxious to give the desired
information.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

KING:MENELEK of Abyssina has just mar
ried his forty-first wife.
MINISTER WHITELAw REID arrived in
New York yesterday. He will remain about
10 days.
GENERAL NEAL Dow has just entered his
eighty-seventh year, in excellent mental and
physical condition.
MRS. HARRISON and party passed portion
of yesterday in Asheville. N. c. and left at
2 P. N. for Washington.
EX-GOVERNOR AMEs. of Massachusetts,,
has returned from the South after a sojourn
which has greatly benefited his health.
THE PRINCE OF NAPLES, heir-apparent to
the throne of Italy, is suffering from over
study. There is no royal road to learning.
SENATOR BLAIR's speeches on his misf1t
Educational bill would make two volumes as
large as those composing James G. Blaines
Twenty Years of Congress"
WILLIAM NORRIS, the English poet, is
writing novel the scene of which is laid in
the civilized world of 2O40 A. D. He is even
more visionary than Edward Bellamy.
Mr.. EUGENE LEvER1NG. the founder of
Levering Hail. has established lectureship on
Christian Evidences in the Johns Hopkins
University. The Rev. John A Broadus is to
be the first lecturer.
On board the White Star Steamer Germanic
which sailed for Liverpool yesterday, were
Lady Stanley, wife of the Governor General
of Canada. accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Isabel and son Arthur, and Miss Lister,
and Captain A. H. McMahon of the Gov
ernor Generals staff
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.


We have rer we'd from the American
Copyright Leagues number of documents
In advocacy of the international copyright
bill now before Congress. THE DIS
PATCH has always favored the bill; it is an
act of justice 10 foreign authors and a
measure of protection for American authors,
publishers, printers, and everyone con-
nected with the making of books. 1t is
ouly necessary to look at the names of the
lndorsers of the bill to comprehend the
strength of its claims. All the leading
authors of this country favor it. The
American Publishers Copyright League,
consisting of sIxty-five publishers, includ-
ing such firms as Harpers, Appletons,
Scribners, The Century Company, Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co., A. C. McClurg & Co.,
j. B. Lippincott Company, and Rand
McNallY & Co; the National Typotheta,
the International Typographical Union
containing forty thousand typesetters, and
other bodies. equally important, and equally
representative of the book and printing in
dustries, have Endorsed this attempt to OBJ
tam security for literary property. The
majority of book-reading Americans, we
believe, are in favor of the bill. 1t ought to
be passed by Congress without amendment.
There seems to be only one serious danger
threatening the bill at present, and this
arises from the revival of the royalty or
stamp copyright scheme. Mr.. R. Pearsale
Smith, of Philadelphia, is the father of this
scheme as now presented. 1t proposes:
() That any American publisher
shall be at liberty to print editions of
the works of anv foreign author under the
condition of paying to such author roy
slty of 10 per cent. of the retail price.
(2) That this royalty shall be paid by
the purchase from the author, in advance of
the publication of the American edition, of
stamps representing the above rate, as many
stamps being bought as there are copies
printed in the edition, and each copy of the
book that is placed in the market by the
spicuously affixed.
This is a ridiculously inadequate and
clumsy substitute for international copy
right Even the constitutionality of this
undertaking to set aside or nullify the right
OF private contract is very doubtful. 1t
would be direct interference with the
right of the author to select his own agents
and make his own bargains. To carry out
Mr.. Smiths scheme, foreign authors would
have station inspectors in the Offices of
American publishers to check off their re-
prints. But the objections to the scheme
are entirely too numerous to mention. As
Mr.. George H. Putnam says-and this con-
tains the kernel OF the question: "If
Congress will bring about the arrangement
for the necessary recognition and protection
of literary property, the authors and pub
fishers can safely be left to adjust between
themselves all business details, such as rates
OF compensation and methods of payment,
which details are properly matters of pri-
vate contract"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
A FORGOTTEN ELEMENT.

The latest move of the dress reformers of
the Jenness school, in the development of a
variety of the divided skirt by which women
may ride astride of horse instead of in the
fashionable sidelong style, is occasioning
much newspaper discussion. 1t is typical of
all discussions as to female dress, that almost
the entire comment on the question is de.
voted to the question of how women will
look, in one way or the other. The fact is
apparent in the editorial discussion of the
matter that this is the masculine as well as
the feminine altitude oil mind on all subjects
relating to feminine costumes. The fact that
Miss Mabel Jenness' new departure permits
the lady who prefers a mans saddle to look
nearly if not quite as we'll in it as the one
who adheres to the fashionable riding-skirt, is
generally recognized; and one liberal CO.
temporary goes SO far as to concede that
women can do as they choose about it, with
the decided reservation that the majority of
them will still be happily conscious of their
sex"
One might think that with the controlling
element of looks so nearly balanced, public
discussion might give some attention to the
relative safety or utility of the two methods
ofriding. The question, which is the frmest
seat OF gives better control of the horse is a
vital one to male riders; but when it comes
to female dress it is always ignored as
wholly foreign. If we could progress
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
wYoMrNGs TEMPTING OFFER.

The debate in the House of Representa-
tives yesterday upon the question of admit
ting the Territory OF Wyoming into the
United States developed some humorous
features, and precious little else. The oppo-
sition to Wyoming's admission is coming
from the Democratic side of the House.
1t is simply the fact that Wyoming's admis-
sion will add three votes to the Republican
column in the. Electoral College in 1892, and
same party, that excites Democratic oppo-
sition. From partisan point of view it is
good enough ground for hostility, too.
But the debate was important because in
its course the awful possibility of woman
being elected to the United States Senate
was foreshadowed. The gentleman who
called up this specter thought to damage
Wyoming's chances of statehood, but it is
by no means certain that he succeeded. We
echo the query of Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio:
Don't you think one good woman in the
Senate would help it some ?" and we are
ply in the affirmative. 1t would take more
than one good woman, of course, to save the
Senate. One good woman would have her
hands full. There are so many old women
there already that genuine feminine per-
sonality would find it hard to make an i'm
preston. But substantial good would be
in some directions. There
would be an end of the secret session TOM
(oolery. Not even Senator Edmunds would
have the icy and adamantine cheek to pre-
tend that executive sessions could be held
in secrecy with an intelligent woman pres
ent. just to puncture this colIapsing bal
loon of undemocratic practice, the admission
Of fair Senator from Wyoming would be
justified. To secure this chance of bringing
the Senate abreast with the age, we are
heartily in favor of Wyoming's admission
to the sisterhood of States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
PITTSBURG FOUNDED UPON COKE.
Henry W. Oliver Talks About the Natural
Resources of Our City.

Henry W. Oliver Talks About the Natural
Resources of Our City.
Gath in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
l said to Henry w. Oliver, day or two ago,
who is the President of the Pittsburg and
Western Railroad, which runs from Allegheny
to about Akron (some 15O miles): do you
consider that Pittsburg is going to hold its own
against all these later mineral Developments"
Undoubtedly. Pittsburg has a security
which is not often noticed by strangers. in that
there is no probability of any other large city
being established within $50 miles of it in any
direction. 1t has the best coke in the Western
world, and perhaps in the world, and plenty of
it. They talk about other Goals in America,
but let them coke any coal as good as ours and
in such quantity. We then have the experience
and a full understanding of our business, and
have a race of mechanics pretty much all
which make the Ohio. Whatever the rest of
the world discovers, we discover also; our nat
ural gas has become cheaper than anywhere
in the country and more plentiful Oil is at
our DOORS We have only to reach out our
hand, SO to speak, and we are on the lakes as
well as on the Ohio The distance from Pitts
burg to Lake Erie at several ports is not much
greater than from New York TO Philadelphia.
We have the situation and we have the popula-
tion. Our metropolitan population. though it
is divided into two or three jurisdictions, is
full 400, 200.
How much larger are you than Cleve-
land?"
cleveland has got to be large city, though
it is still countrified think they claim about
800, 900 people. They are our ferry to Michigan
and the Northwest, or one of our ferries"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27
CONGRATULATED BY THE POPE.
The Kaiser's Stand on the Labor Question
Commended by His Holiness

BERLIN, March 26.-The Reichsanzeiger pub.
fishes the letters that passed between Emperor
William and the Pope on the subject of the
labor conference. The Emperors letter, in
which he enclosed the programme of the con-
ference, announces that Bishop Kopp has been
appointed delegate, and says the Emperor
knows that Bishop Kopp is thoroughly imbued
with the Pope's ideas, and will materially con-
tribute to the success of the humanitarian
work
The Pope, in his reply. congratulates EN-
peror William upon taking the field for reso-
lutte effort in worthy cause. which meets the
Pope's heartiest wishes. After alluding to en-
cyclical dealings with the social question, the
Pope says he recognizes the high value of an
attempt to settle questions by an international
conference: appreciates the Emperor's acknowl-
edgment of the great efficacy of religion and
the Church in the solution of social questions;
hopes that the Church's servants will be sup
ported by the authorities in the exercise of
their functions in connection with social ques-
tions; warmly wishes the conference success:
expresses qualification at the appointment of
Bishop Kopp, and concludes with cordial
wishes for the welfare of the Emperor aud his
family.