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AT FOREIGN COURTS.
Carpenters Gossip About Our Leading
Diplomatic officers.
SALARIES NEVER MEET EXPENSES.
Careers Of Charles Emory Smith, Whitelaw
Reid, Phelps and Others.
PALMER AS TIE FARMERS FAV0RITE
roonREsroNpESoE OF THE p1srArcH.l

rooRREsPoNDENCE OF THE pIsPATcH.l
WASHINGTON, June lahore than 100,-
600 Americans will visit Europe this year.
All Of the steamers leaving New York are
packed and number of Congressman, in
cluding Senator Stanford, are now on the
other side. There is no truth in the state
ment that Stanford is crazy and his private
secretary tells me that his berth on the ship
was taken two years ago and at the same
time he says he wrote for Stanford to the
leading hotels of London and Paris ana
other places in Europe where he had stopped
on his previous trip and engaged rooms for
him, to be in good order at dates given two
years off.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford will at the
close OF his stay at the springs, make tour
through Russia. Senator Stanford gave
orders before he left that none of his Elec-
tioneer colts should be sold at any price as
the old horse was in delicate health and the
stock bade fair to run out He was be-
sieged during his last days here by some OF
the noted horsemen OF the country who were
anxious to know in what race Sunol would
beat Maud SIS record during the summer,
but as the Senator did not know himself it
is hardly probably that he told.
THE RUSSIAN POST,
The immense increase of travel to Europe
makes our foreign ministers and consuls
more important than ever, and the Minister
to Russia, in view Of George Kennan's ex-
pose of the Siberian prison atrocities, is one
Of the most interesting figures in our diplo-
matte corps. American travellers in Russia
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tive, and he made himself name in Con-
| gress. He Is a very curious fellow for q
millionaire. He dresses in business clothes.
affects the brightest of red neckties and he
bangs his iron gray hair over his broad and
rather low forehead. When he first came to
Congress he was called the New Jersey dude,
and the older members rather laughed at
him.
MORTGAGE ON BLAINE'S HOUSE.
One day, however, he took the floor and
made his first speech. It was a masterpiece
and it put him at once to the front as a
leader of his party. Since then he has
ranked with the few men at the top. He is
Secretary Blaine's closest friend, and he lent
Blaine think about $25, 900 on his house
some years ago when he was in financial
straits. know he had mortgage on it,
but think this has since been paid. he
managed a number of Blaine's campaigns for
him and he has given no end of money to
the Republican party. He still owns
great deal OF property here in Washington,
and his estate is increasing in value every
day.
Colonel Fred Grant has Just sent letter
to friend here stating that heis we'll pleased
with his lite in Austria. Mrs. Grant spent
some time with him last summer, and the
Colonel and his vile were anxious to have
her remain, but she pined for the flesh pots
of America and would not The popularity
of a Minister depends largely upon his ex
penditures and poor man can hardly make
good record at any of the great posts on
the misery salaries granted by our Govern
ment Here at Washington the Russian
and English Ministers have salaries about
equal to that Of the President, and they re-
ceive in addition to this somewhere near
$50, 900 apiece every year, which they are ex-
pected to expend in entertaining. It is the
same with the Chinese Minister, and at all
of the foreign courts our Ministers have to
compete with men receiving such salaries
and such allowances.
A CONTRAST AT CoNSTANTINoPLE.
At Constantinople the English Minister
has a service of gold plate and two or three
palaces furnished him. He has big allow
ance and big salary, and our Minister gets
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$40, 900 more than this to pay his house
rent. Still once heard Whitelaw Reid
make speech at an Ohio press dinner in
which he spoke of the days when he was
working for So week and he is no more
snobbish to day than he was then. There
is on Newspaper Row in Washing ton the
old desk on which he wrote his dis
patches for the Cincinnati Gazette at a
salary OF perhaps $50 a week and there are
men on the row to-day who worked with
him side by side.
He made the bulk of his money by his
marriage with the rich daughter OF the
millionaire, d. o. Mills, and it is said that
Mills gave his daughter 81, ,000. 900 as q
wedding present. Mr.. Reid was then con-
nected with the New York Tribune. Short
ly after the wedding statement Of the
ownership of the stock of the Tribune was
made in which it was shown that Reid
owned 75 shares, his wife 80 shares and
Ogden Mills % shares, or in all 150 odd OF
the 200 shares of stock. Whitelaw Reid
lived like lord in this country as soon as
he could afford to and paid $400, 900 for his
city house and had q country home which
cost considerably over Q quarter Of q
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million. He will doubtless live well in

million. He will doubtless live well in
Paris.
THE SENSATION OF BERLIN.
The same is true of William Walter
Phelps, who is making such a success in
Berlin. Mr.. Phelps new house on Doro-
theen strasse is in the center OF fashionable
Berlin, and when Mr.. Phelps began to re-
model it month or 50 ago it made the Ger
mans open their eyes. He had the whole
house papered in American style, and fur
nished with elegant hangings. He surprised
the people by taking the doors off their
hinges and making alcoves and arches be-
tween the rooms. He covered the floor with
wooden mosaic, and it is said that there is
now no interior in Berlin such as that of
William Walter Phelps.
It's ballroom is the wonder Of the German
nobility. and its vestibule, in which the
American and German flags are wound
about over immense mirrors, is the talk of
the capital.
Mr.. Phelps is an old diplomat. He has
served with honor at Vienna, where he went
in 1881 as President Garfeld's representa-
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Little Lady Receives an Elegant Upright
Piano for Her Fifth Birthday.

Little Bertha Moersch, 212 Market street.
Pittsburg, held certificate No. SO, in the
Everett Piano Club, and receives beautiful
Upright Grand Piano, just in time for a
birthday present. Her father, a cultivated
musician and thorough business man, saw
the advantages of the Everett Club system,
and took certificate for Bertha She now
has an elegant piano, only pays 81 per week,
and saves at least S75 from the retail price.
A visit to the showrooms of the Everett
Club will repay any lover of the beautiful.
The handsomest pianos in the city are found
there. and the prices and terms will suit
anyone. Call and see for yourself, or send
for circular to the manager,
ALEX Ross,
Tusu 1S7 Federal st., Allegheny.
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81, 500 a year and rooms himself The last
Minister, Mr.. Oscar Straus, of New York,
spent at least $50 900 year in entertaining,
and he was by all odds the most efficient
Minister we have had in Turkey for years.
Quite number of fat diplomatic posi-
tions will become filled within the next lew
weeks. Senator Palmer, when he was here
in Washington few days ago, said that his
determination to resign the Spanish mission
was fixed, and that nothing could keep him
away from his new log cabin on his old farm
in Detroit. He has go Percheron horses
there, each Of which is worth 81 900, and he
prefers to hear the lowing Of tine Jersey cow
to the picking of the Spanish guitar. He
was at the head of the Agricultural Com
mittee when he was in the United States
Senate, and he has always posed as the
great friend Of the American farmer. I
have heard it said that his friends will push
him forward as the farmers candidate for
the Presidency during the next campaign,
and there are few men in the United States
who have more available parts in this re-
gard than Senator Palmer.
He can show the people one of the model
farms of the United States and the picture
of man who mas an income of at least $500
q day walking about in his shirt sleeves and
feeding his stock, blowing up stumps with
dynamite and setting the steam engine to
work to pump water into his artificial lake
in which he is raising fine drove of Ger
man carp would thrill the mortgage-laden
toiler of the far West. The fact that he
lives in log cabin would make him popu-
lar throughout the frontier, and no one
would stop to ask whether the cabin cost
$12 or $12, 1000, as it actually did. At any
rate Senator Palmer prefers his farm to
Spain, and there is a 81, 900 place for some
other statesman.
TREATED AS BARBARIAN.
The mission to China will probably not
remain much longer in the hands of Dem
ocrat. The American Minister has house, the
rent of which is paid by our Government,
and he has about five acres of ground sur
rounded by high wall and covered with
low one-story buildings. One of these build
ings constitutes his office. Others of them
are given up to his secretaries and his ser
wants. All of the Chinese mobiles think that
he is barbarian. He never sees the EN-
peror, is never invited into q hIgh-toned
Chinese family, and he relies upon the
European population of Peking, consisting
of about 100 families, for his society.
The head of the Corean Legation at WASH
ington tells me that our new Minister has
just reached Seoul. He has by no means a
bad post. His salary is $500 year, and
he has guard of eight soldiers furnished
by the King, and when he goes out he rides
in chair borne by eight men in livery, and
the soldiers go in front and yell out to the
common people to keep out of the way of the
High Muck-a-Muck. The country is full
Of good meat, vegetables and fruits, and
there is no need Of Minister cooking q
Corean baby now and then, as ours is
charged with doing by the natives.
Another vacant mission will be that of
Siam, and here again Uncle Sam owns his
own quarters.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
25c. 2Sc. 25c.
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will be closely watched and complications
of serious nature may arise at any time.
Charles Emory Smith, who is now on his
way to Russia to act as Minister to the Court
of St. Petersburg, is eminently fitted for the
position. He is born diplomat.
He is a great friend of Whitelaw Reid and
William Walter Phelps. and he will prob
ably spend some time in Berlin before going
to St. Petersburg. He is one of the young
est Of our diplomats, and is. Judge, about
IS years of age. He began his newspaper
career on the Albany Journal He was
strong Conkling man, and the other editors
of the Journal wanted to support Garfield.
They tried TO freeze him out, but he wouldn't
freeze; but when he finally saw that he could
not be of much good in such muddle, he
accepted $15,0 900 for his fourth interest in
the paper and nominally left 1t for time,
intending to go back to it later.
RELUCTANT TO GO TO PHILADELPHIA.
Just about this time Calvin Wells, the
proprietor of the Philadelphia Press, was
looking around for an editor. He had lent
lot Of money to John W. Forney, and
had, I think, taken Press stock for COL
lateral. The result was that when Forney
died Mr.. Wells had to take the Press to save
his loan, and understand that it cost him
about S154, 900. He got several editors to
run it, but change after change found the
paper still running behind. Whitelaw
Reid suggested Charles Emory Smith, and
Mr.. Wells thereupon went to Albany. He
found Smith not at all anxious to 90, and it
required considerable urging.
Mr.. Smith said that he would have to
have a large salary, and Mr.. Wells told
him that he would pay him whatever he
wanted and asked the amount Mr.. Smiths
ideas were not as large as they are now, and
he fixed the figure at Sc, 900 a year and an
interest in the paper. To this Mr.. Wells at
once consented, and Charles Emory Smith
became editor and business manager. The
paper began to boom as soon as he took hold
of it, and it made, am told, $3.50, 900 last
year. Charles Emory Smiths stock has
made him rich man. He expects, I am
told, to spend $4,000 year more than his
salary, which will make his expenses $27, 500
a year, and ought to enable him to entertain
very well. Our Consul General at ST.
Petersburg will help him. There is no more
popular consul in the service than John M.
Crawford, and he is the only American Con-
sui General who has ever had the honor OF
a private interview with the Gear. Mrs.
Crawford was received by the Empress not
long ago, and Crawford's popularity with
the Russians comes about largely through
his translation of the great epic poem of
Finland, which is thought much of in Rus
sia.
WELL REPRESENTED AT PARIS.
whitelaw Reid will do great deal of
entertaining this summer. He pays $27. 900
a year for his Paris house and his ex-
penses " ill probably run close to $10O, 900.
II,
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Recent Patents.

Higdon B. Higdon, patent lawyers 127
Fourth ave-, Pittsburg, and opp. Patent
Office, Washington, D. c., report these
patent just granted. M. A. Cutter, lock
hinge; G. II. Everson, cold rolling tubes;
]. b. Jones, pencil sharpener; G. NJ. Kim,
hose carriage; Jacob Reese, mfg. iron and
steel, all of Pittsburg and Allegheny. ]. d.
Altoona, valve; b. C. Evans,
Bristol, pencil clasp.
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DABBs does not believe anyone will ever
tire of a really good crayon portrait Few
competent artists, however, will make them
as they cannot get the price they think they
should. A really good crayon should indi-
cate flesh, muscles. skin. etc.. the same as
an oil portrait, and takes time and study
besides artistic handling.
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BY DIR. J.vAN DYcK, Electro surgeon, oz Penn
ave. Pittspurg. This is a purely scientific
opera.lou and indorsed by all physicians as
beng positively the only method in the world
by which hair can be destroyed forever. DR..
Van Dyck has operated for IA years, has
treated hundreds of cases and will forfeit S. 900
in gold in any case in which he fails to destroy
has a regularly developed beard. This is in
deed g0dsend to every woman with hair on
her face Every lady thus afflicted who has the
least regard for her personal appearance should
stop using the depilatories, tweezers, scissors
or razor DR.. Van Dyck will make special
terms to all who consult him during this month.
ONCE 500 Penn ave-, Pittsburg Hours 8 to g.
Sundays 10 to Book free.
The doctor also successfully treats moles,
varts wens, birthmarks, red nose, enlarged
veins of the nose and every blemish. disease or
scalp, Ofacc 6o2 Penn ays. myS1-ssu
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The Mantel Business

Seems to center about our warerooms Take
a look at the new wood and slate mantels
we have put up lately. They just touch
high water mark on style and low water
mark on price. JAMES @. THOMPSON.
$40 Liberty avenue.
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Juue Wedding Gifts.

The handsomest stock in the CITY. Ele-
giant china, sterling silver, cut glass, clock
sets, onyx tables, bric-a-brac. No trouble
to show you-many clerks, cool stores, new
art room, interesting place.
E. P. ROBERTS & Sons,
Fifth ave. and Market st.
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Of negotiation would occupy oomuch space.
Among them, however, may be named the
paper mills. the Pittsburg breweries, the
Newark, N. j., leather concerns, the Salt
Trust and the rubber combination.
L. s. M,
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American Dress Ginghams.

100 pieces of latest style and fast col
ored dress ginghams closing out at 1Oc and
1910 per yard at b. J. Lynch's, 4Ss, 40
Market st. WFsu
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For finely cut, neat-fitting suit leave
your order with Walter Anderson, 700
Smithfeld street, whose stock of English
suitings and Scotch tweeds is the finest in
the market; imported exclusively for his
trade. su
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READ Edward Groetzinger's ad.

HOSIERY and underwear bargains for
Monday.
KNABLE & SHUsTER, 35 Fifth ave.
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Canada Malt

Leads in the estimation of brewers. Our
beer partakes largely of this element, as
well as Western malt.
rrhsu D. LUTz & SoN. Telephone 5000.
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$50 mohair dress goods to be sold this week
at 35c yard; double width.
KNABLE & SHUSTER, 35 Fifth ave.
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EMBROIDERED Swiss houncinps half
price and less. RosENBAUM & Co.
ThFsu
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25c. 25c. Q5c,

Ask to see our fast black stockings at 25c.
Come on Monday to get them.
KNABLE & SHUsTER, 35 Fifth ave.
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COAT ROOM bargains for Monday and
Tuesday. Summer dresses cheap.
KNABLE 8 SHUsTER, 30 Fifth ave.
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LADIES, come get fine mohair skirt pat
tern, finished with a silk stripe, only 81 SO
each. KNABLE & SHUsTER,
30 Filth ave-
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ANOTHER invoice beautiful styles zoe
sateens, 11Hc, to be opened up on Monday
morning. KNABLR & SHUsrER,
35 Fifth ave
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The seasonable Beverage

Is beer. The correct brew is that OF q.
Wainwright 8 Co. All first-class bars keep
it on tap. Families supplied direct if de-
sired. Telephone 5525. wFsu
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MATTRESSES made and renovated.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO and "a Water Ut.
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CABINET photos 81 per dozen, prompt de-
livery. Crayons, etc, at low prices.
LIES GALLERY,
rTsu 10 and II Sixth u
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3 FLOATING PALACES. 8
Menagerie, Exposition of wonders and Grand
Opera House. The grandest show ever seen; an
original idea. None other in the world
15 Monster Aggreations in One. Is
A Moral, Refined and Instructive Entertain
ment for Ladies and Children. GRAND FREE
EXHIBITION on the river bank each day at l
o'clock. We will positively give our exhibit
tions, rain OF shine, on our own Palace Boats at
the foot of Market street, every Afternoon and
Night FOR ONE WEEK, COMMENCING
MONDAY, JUNE 23 Tickets can be secured
8 days in advance at Box Office on arrival Of
Palaces. Secure your seats and avoid the rush.
Peoples popular prices. Doors open at and7.
Performance one hour later. Carriages can be
ordered at 4:30 and 1880. 1el5-S4-su
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15o challis, Is wide, to go at loo. Come
on Monday to secure them.
KNABLE & SHUsTER, So Fifth ave.
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b. OF l.. II.

Annual Picnic Mt Rock Point on Tuesday,
June IL, 1890.
The Pennsyl rania Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets at 40 cents for round trip
from Pittsburg. Trains leave at 7:15 A. M.
and 1920 P. M ThSu
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INDIA silks reduced-beautiful designs
and colorings-regular 81 25 quality at 81
a yard. HUGUs & HACKH.
TTSSu
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READ Groetzinger's advertisement to-day

SILKS reduced. Black goods reduced.
White goods reduced. Trimmings reduced.
Come Monday morning.
KNABLE & SHUSTER, 35 Fifth ave.
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DRAPERY nets, entire new designs,
opened this week. The best assortment
shown, and prices the lowest.
TTssu HUaUs b HACKR
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WEL1 REPREsENTEp Ar PARIs.

whitelaw Reid will do great deal of
entertaining this summer. He pays $27, 900
a year for his Paris house and his ex-
penses will probably run close to $1OO, 900.
His salary is only S17, 800 and it thus ia kes
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GREAT moquette sale at Groetzingsr's.
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SUPERFLU0US HAIR
On the Female Face

On the upper lip, chin. cheeks, forehead, be-
tween the eyebrows, on the nose, neck, hands
and arms destroyed forever by the
ELECTRIC NEEDLE OPERATION
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Paris may be said to have gone racing
mad since the Iegallzing of the mutuals, and
now everybody bets, men, women and chill
dren. The women bet almost as much as
the men and appear to be far more success
full in spottlng winners One old woman +!
know Of goes every day to the races and
takes 81. 900 worth Of tickets in the mutuals
on what she considers the best thing of the
day for place. She told me the other day
that she had never lost yet, but that some
times she only won $50 for her rSl 600 staked;
That she will be 'stonery brokery old
woman some fine day if she only keeps on
long enough goes without saying.
But il is beginning to be apparent TO even
the feathery minded Psrisians tnst tnere 10
Zoo much racing and that they are being sys-
tematically robbed by the leeches who run
she Paris Mutuals ofcourse not one franc
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TTsu
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-08-21
He Stopped the Paper.

About two months ago, a sub
scriber of the APPEAL becoming
angered at something in the paper
requested the publisher to stop
sending it.
He then went to some people
with whom he was friendly, and
asked them to stop their paper.
He found one, saloon-keeper,
who was willing to do so at his
request. The result was rather
peculiar. There were five people
who were in the habit OF seeing
the APPEAL in the reading room of
the saloon and after looking for
the paper morning after morning
and not finding it, and -. liking
any other saloon read q fc. N as
well, they all subscri I 10, the
APPEAL. Result-loss rtw sub
STRIKERS and gain of ii
Finally the saloon ,er be-
coming tired of constan il diries
for the APPEAL ordered t..o paper
left at the saloon actin.
As a result the patrons who
took the APPEAL because they
could not get it at the saloon
ordered their paper stopped as
they found it cheaper to get it in
the saloon. Total result of the
deal, loss of one subscriber.