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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-08-06

American Association.

AT ST. LOUIS.
syracuss :.. .........i 9 3 q 8
Batteries-Ramsey and Munyan; Keefs and
Briggs.
AT TOLEDO.
Toledo Sdo;,:;:..................d ! o99
hocheeter... .................O u
Rochester refused to abide by the umpire's
q score of too
Batteries-Cushman and Sage, Barr and
MCGUIRE.
AT LOUISVILLE.
kouiSyille. % 5001 9 "a
.Batteries-Murphy and Bowes; Meakin and
Ryan.
AT COLUMBUS.
Athietic. . ... ...:...S Q Q IS
~ Batteries-Knauss and Doyle; Hughes and
Kappell.
Atlantic Association
AT WASHINGTON.
The game was forfeited to the Newarks on
account OF the non-appearRnce of the Wash
ingtons.
AT HARRISBURG.
harrisburg .......i1 0SOO1 %
new dAVen.......O 1 u @
- Batteries-Bowman and Gibbs; Gilliland and
Hofford.
AT BALTIMORE.
Hartford ..........2 % S-s
Batteries-Baker and Townsend; Mack and
Stallings,
AT WILMINGTON.
Wilmington .......1 % "a
Lebanon ...........1 o o o o o OIL
Batteries..Anderson and corcoran: Swift
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-08-06

Players League.
AT CHICAGO.
Chicago. ,.........0 o 2 . o o O.
Cleveland .........0 o o o o D o. 8
Batteries-Baldwin and Farrell: O'Brien and
Sutcliffe.
AT PTTTSBURG.
Pittsburg and Buffalo game postponed on
account of rain,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-08-06
BASEBALL GAMES.


Cleveland .........o o Q o 3 o o. q
Chicago. 0 2 1 1 x-l0
Batteries-Beatin and thinner; Stein and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT.

The Rev. DR.. Cuyler gave parlorlecture at
Saratoga last week on "Daniel Webster and
Abraham Lincoln"
Now that Mr.. Keeley's motor has got into
Philadelphia dime museum the public will have
a chance to see how long the thing will run.
EMPRESS FREDERICK, while in London,
visited number of large houses in order to
get some fresh ideas for baths TO fit up in her
own home.
THE third annual reunion of the Hartranft
family. of Pennsylvania, will take place at De-
wart. Northumberland county, on Wednesday
of this week.
CAPTAIN EBENEzER MORGAN. of Groton,
Conn.,, who died last week, frst raised the
American flag in Alaska after that country be-
came United States property.
CHARLES CooMBs TENNANT, brother of
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley. of England, wife Of
the well-known African explorer. is visiting at
the Fadden cottage, on Bath road, N Newport.
NINE. JANAUsoHEK will begin her next
seasons tour in Providence, October 2. with an
English translation of Dr. Heinrich Lauber's
"Graf Won Essex" acting, of course, the part
of Queen Elizabeth.
DIR. GEORGE WIsLEY, native Korean, has
made application to be registered as practic-
ing physician in Philadelphia he has a
diploma from a Chinese medical college and
from st. Petersburg, Russia
PRINCE HENRY of Battenberg and a COM
panion went poaching with ferrets the other
day in Hampshire. The companion was ap-
pretended and fined 10 shillings. but the
Queens son-in-law went free.
Mr.. AND MRS. kendall have purchased for
their next American tour o new one-act piece
which contains a strong part for Mrs. Kendall.
The new piece will not be played In England
before it is seen in the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
NEW OHIO BRIDGE.

One more bridge spans the Ohio. AS far
as the most important and difficult part of
the work is concerned the Ohio river bridge
connecting the Fort Wayne and Panhandle
Railroads was completed yesterday. A
deeply interesting and graphic account OF
this wonderful engineering feat will be
found elsewhere: The swinging of the
channel span of the bridge from the shore
to the piers, difficult and delicate as the task
was, seems to have been done without even
the smallest hitch. The perfection of the
engineers provision was demonstrated at
every point. This was the more remark
able as the method adopted of carrying the
massive structure to its final resting place
was to a certain extent an experiment. The
keystone Bridge Company is to be congratu-
lated upon the structure as a whole, and
more especially upon the skill with which
the great problem was worked out yester-
day. The bridge will be OF great value to
Pittsburg, in that it will relieve the con-
gested traffic of the Pennsylvania Com
pany's system. The building of this con-
Meeting link between the Panhandle and
TT. Wayne railroads reflects infinite credit
upon their able managers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20

the nation rise in unanimous protest
against a measure which would infict
on it the uncertainties aud irrita-
tions of such measures multiplied by
the hundreds. But, taking it for what
was really intended, it is difficult to find
any other meaning in it than an admission
of what THE DISPATCH has heretofore
pointed out as the vicious characteristic of
the elections bill, that it is for the purpose of
legislating party supremacy. The Repub-
hcans are to be kept in control, not by the
vote of the people, but by act of Congress.
After converting the surplus into something
perilously close to deficiency, and wasting
time in passing rules ''to expedite busi-
ness" and in unseating Democrats to in
crease the party majority, it is recognized
that to rely on popular approval is delu-
sive hope. and the Republican who does not
stick unfalteringly to the attempt to keep
the party majority by doing our own count
ing" is false to his political faith.
A harmonious companion picture to this
is found in a recent political special in the
Tribune, which is devoted to the congenial
task Of denouncing Hamilton Fish, Jr., as
a traitor. The act of treason which has par
ticularly aroused the TribuneS wrath con-
sisted of an interview in which that recreant
Republican actually recognized the possi-
bility that the Democrats might make some
gains in the close districts in the elections
for Assemblymen. mo more frank avowal
of treachery could be made" declares the
Tribune, and then proceeds to recall the fact
that Mr. Fish committed ''treachery to his
party" by not supporting Thomas B. Platt's
scheme for converting the New York
Worlds Fair project into an organization
to be ruled by Republican partisans.
The picture which the Tribune thus draws
of the qualities of faithful partisan is
striking, though far from attractive. He
must be ready to obey the behests of the
most reckless party leaders, whether to con-
troll elections by act of Congress or to turn
an international enterprise into a political
machine. He must never exercise the right
of individual judgment as 10 what it is best
to do, and must never recognize the possibiI-
ity of the opposition carrying close dis
trict. Such an outline of partisan require
ments is enough to convince men who own
their own minds that they want nothing to
do with political organization on such
basis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
rrrnpHoN1o INSANITY.
A Queer Case Developed by a Too Frequent
Use Of the Instrument.

A Queer Case Developed by n Too Frequent
Use Of the Instrument.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.1
"Can use your telephonef"
This question was asked of Mr.. Valentiner
BY a young man who entered his drugstore, at
the corner of Clinton and John streets, yester
day afternoon.
Certainly" said Mr. valentiner, pointing to
the instrument; "Go ahead"
but haven't any money"
''That's all right; I'll charge it to your
brother" said Mr.. Valentiner.
Something in the mans appearance attracted
the attention of an Enquirer reporter, who
happened to be in the store at the time The
young man clutched the phone with trembling
hand and giving quick. sudden ring, shouted
hoarsely into the microphone:
Give me 5000! No; that amt the number.
What's Stella's numberf know it's in heaven.
but what's the number?
BY this time the reporters astonishment was
almost uncomfortable, but, strange to say, Mr..
Valentiner did not seem to share 1.-THE simply
whispered:
Again the young man gave spasmodic ring;
1--WE been waiting long enough" ke shouted
again. II tell you, give me Stella. No, cam
find the number. No. won't wait. won't
wait. WON'T. Iwon't."
And in frenzy be dashed the phone against
the wall and rushed from the store.
There is one of the strangest cases of In
sanity on record" said Mr.. Valentiner. when
the writer had somewhat recovered from his
surprise "That young man was as sane as you
or 1 FIVE years ago. His name Is John Kicker
hof, and he lives here in the West End. Five
years ago he was shipping clerk for New
York exporting house. He had become SO
worried, being of an excessively nervous tenn
permanent, by the constant ringing of the
telephone all day in his ears that, though sane
on all other subjects, he Is crazy on this, and
runs into drugstores and uses telephones In
nervous, unstrung manner, calling the name of
former sweetheart, long since dead. His
case is curious psychological study"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
TAIL END OF A CYCLONE.

The somewhat abnormal weather which
we have been having for several days past
eliminated yesterday in a rain and wind
storm of great violence. But Pittsburg
once more suffered very. slightly from an
atmospheric disturbance which played
havoc elsewhere. In Wilkesbarre, and
many other towns in the same
region, many lives we're lost in
the cyclone, which wrecked houses and
destroyed property to the tune of hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The news from the
eastern part of the State shows that a storm
of unusual fury ragged over wide area,
Hereabout, as far as had been heard at
midnight, the storm has been rather in the
nature of blessing than otherwise. The
rain was needed. and the intermittent ac-
compartment of high winds appears to have
done inconsiderable damage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20

Ex-senator Lewis Emery is disturbing
element he is continually Jumping up
like jack-in-the-box where nobody ex-
poets him. The Industrial and CONNER
cial Association, whatever it may be, nomi-
mated Mr.. Emery awhile ago for Congress,
and yesterday the Bradford statesman
declined the nomination. He did
more than say no, however In
fact the negative plays a small
part in Mr.. Emery's letter, What readers,
Mr.. Delamater among them, of this epistle
will notice is that the Bradford statesman
regards himself as consecrated to the dis
agreeable duty of proving the Republican
candidate for Governor to be a bad man.
And we infer from Mr.. Emery's remarks
that he is preparing in cold-blooded way
to assassinate Mr.. Delamater's reputation
in the near future. That's why we say
that Mr.. Emery is a disturbing element.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1890.
THE RULE AND RUIN POLICY.

The last phase of the snarl into which
the Republican leaders have got themselves
is the circulation of pledge to which forty
nine signatures of members Of the House
are alleged to be attached, providing that
The tariff bill shall not be sent to the Presi-
dent until the Senate has passed the elections
bill. This looks like the naturalization of
Mr.. Dalzell's threat, the other day, that the
Senate would find that it could not rule the
House. If it is, Mr.. Dalzell will have
some occupation in explaining to Pittsburg
the theory of representing its interests oD
which he will defeat the tariff bill In the
attempt to make the House rule the Senate.
Such course would not be the "rule or
ruin policy, but it would be the determine
tion to "rule and ruin" The tariff bill
is a measure which the House leaders
have framed and to which they are
pledged. By their own standards Of
party fealty they are bound to its
support. But in this threat we have the
declaration that they will slaughter their
own offspring, to which the Senate agrees,
because the Senate is not yet ready to pass
measure Of entirely distinct character. This
is not only the platform of the whole hog or
nothing, but it is a virtual denial of the
right of the coordinate branch of Congress
to use its own Judgment on each measure
that may come before it.
Such an attitude is not only an attack on
the constitutional principles Of representa-
fire r,ouorpp,an3 bu+ ;f ;s a d;rn1ov Of l;s
regard for decent party policy. Every
sensible and unprejudiced man knows that
it is impossible to pass both the elections
and tariff bills and to finish up the necessary
business of Congress at this session. Most
sensible men are glad that there is such an
smpossibility in the path of a reckless and
senseless partisan measure like the former.
Senator Quay has shown no more than an
ability 10 recognize existing facts in his
proposition to do what can be done and ad-
journ. But this reported attitude of the
House Republicans is virtual declaration
that if the Senate does not swallow whatever
the House prescribes, the whole business of
the session shall 60 to wreck, and that Con-
gress shall adjourn with the record of failure
in everything it has undertaken, except the
task of elevating the Speaker to the position
of an autocrat and of unseatlng Democrats
to swell the Republican majority.
If this course should be taken, it would
add the finishing touch to the evidence
which has been furnished by the House
leaders, of their utter unfitness and inability
to conduct legislation with any decent
regard either to the public interests or to the
principles of constitutional government.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
PICTURE OF PARTIsANsHIP.

The beauties of the regulation partisan
tests of fealty to party organization are
being set forth in the political declarations
of the New York Tribune, at present, in a
way calculated to produce the effect of an
awful warning rather than of encourage
ment to thinking men to give their adhesion
to such political organization. The journal
whose founder and creator changed his ad-
hesion and became the Democratic candi-
date for President because his individual
convictions led him to that course, and
whose present editor made journey through
the wilderness of independence, is now en-
gagged in a set of deliverances calculated to
establish the dogma that individual judg-
nlent and personal convictions which are at
variance in any way with the behests Of the
caucus, or even Of certain set of party
leaders, are rank heresy and treason to the
party.
The requirements of the Tribune, in con-
nection with the Federal elections bill,
have already been made plain enough. 1t
demands that Senators shall yield obedience,
not to their own caucus-for the majority of
the Senate caucus has already refused to
pledge itself to this measure-but to the
behests of tine House caucus. And the ex-
quisite reason why Quay, Cameron, Plumb.
Wolcott and the others are false to their
party pledges Il they do not obey the orders
Of Reed, Mckinley. Rovell ct al, and prefer
the elections to the tariff bill, is declared by
the Tribune in burst of indiscreet frank
ness. to be that "the elections bill carries
ith It the assurance of future tariff bills
the hundredP'
this were to be taken literally, the ex-
snce Of Congress and the country over
tariff bill would be sufficient 10 make
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
A WORM THAT EATS STEEL.
Curious Jnvestigation Undertaken by the
German Government.

Curious Investigafion Undertaken by the
German Government.
From the American Manufacturer
A worm that feeds on common steel was first
brought into general notice by an article In
the Cologne Gazette in June, 1887. For some
time preceding the publication Of the account
mentioned. the greatest CONSERVATION existed
among the engineers employed on the railway
at Hagen, by accidents, which always occurred
at the same place. indicating that some terri
ble defect must exist either in the material or
the construction of the rails. The Government
became interested, and sent commission to
the spot for the purpose of maintaining con-
slant watch at the spot where the accidents
one of them attended by loss of life-had oc-
curred. 1t was not, however until after six
months had elapsed that the surface appeared
to he corroded, as If by acid, to the extent of
over 100 yards.
The rail was taken mp and broken, whereupon
IL was found to be literally honeycombed by
thin. thread-like gray worms. The worm is said
to be- two centimeters in length and about the
bigness of common knitting needle. It is of
a lignt gray color, and on the head it carries
two little sacs or glands filed with most pow
erful corrosive secretion, which is elected
everv ten minutes when the little demon Is ly-
inc undisturbed. The liquid when squirted
upon IRON renders that metal soit and spongy,
and the color of rust, when IL Is easily and
ereedily devoured by the little insect. There
Is no exaggeratlon," says the ofnoiai report Tin
the assertion that the creature Is one OF the
most yoracious, for it has devourea 10 klo-
grammes of rails In o fortnight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.


MANY sicker calves than the force bill have
been known to recover.
PNKERToN and his bloodhounds appear to
own large slice Of New York State, and it looks
as though there was no law that they are bound to
respect.
A APHILADELPHIAN has lived to the good old
age of lO6 years, and the New York Commercial
Advertiser is mean enough to say that he was too
lazy to get out Of breath and die.
I I 1
AFTER weighing the returns up to date the
Democratic majority in Alabama shows about 100. =
600. That is good State for Republican to stay
away from.
The next House of Representatives will have
as many millionaires as the Senate, but this does
not prove that millionaires make the best law
makers, especially for the laboring classes.
+ I I
THE music on the Boston Common is said to
be too classical and not to the popular taste. It
will be surprise to most people to hear that any
thing could be too bang up for that aesthetic and
musical city.
IF the death rattle of the Standard octopus
could be heard distinctly that of the lottery,
the people could breathe much easier.
A JERSEY CITY girl drank quart Of varnish
in an attempt to kill herself few days ago. She
is still stuck on living.
I I I
A NoRRIsTowN, Pa. woman lost half her
tongue last week while undergoing an operation
for cancer, but she is still able to talk.
I I t
YELLOW JACKETS that could not stand the
music. broke up a Maryland campmeeting on
Sunday, A kettle Of boiling water restored har-
mony.
fl I
THE difference between the two Kansas Sen
ators, says the Boston Herald is that Ingalls,
parts his hair in the middle while Plumb bor-
rowed q comb to part his and lost it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
OUR SHORT STORIES.
BRAcUpA:

WEARS ago there was in Cheyenne saloon
of the concert type, called the "Gold
Dust" It had one story architecturally-
historically it had many. and this is. one of
them. There was Spaniard in Cheyenne then.
His name it turned out afterward, was Ramon
Braguda, but those by whom he was sur
rounded, too impatient for foreign pronuncia-
ton, called him "Charlie."
Braguda was not sociable, but after he had
bsen in Cheyenne d while 1t was discovered
that he could dance and sing. There we're
plenty who could fling in Hlghlandish fashion,
and play the clog upon the sawdust floor OF the
Gold Dust" but the foreign rhythm OF
Bragudas favorite song and the mysterious
conyolutions of his dance placed him easily tne
favorite.
The last time that Braguda visited the "Gold
Dust" was in December. nearly Is years ago IL
was about IL O'clock at night Bradford mas
always claimed that Braguda had been drink
ing. but l, who was near the platform when ne
danced, am not so sure. The moment that the
pianist noticed him he changed fro m the KISS
Waltz"-a mighty popular composition IN tnose
days on the Western plains-to Braguoas
melody. Braguda began singing near the par,
lifted his wide brimmed hat from his Dlack
hair, flung it among the crowd and swung him.
self, half dancing, to the dais
Para iardines Granada,
Para majeres Madrld--
Para amores tus ojos,
Cuando me miran a mi.
That was the song. Most of US had learned
the words.
For gardens, Granada.
For woman, Madrid:
For love thine eyes
When they look at me.
Over and over again the last two lines
For love thine eyes
When they look at me-
When they look at me,
For love thine eyes,
And as Braguda danced and sang some tune
full ruffian in the audience began humming
with him-another joined and another until
there was a strong. harmonious murmur SWELL
ing threatening tumult.
The Spaniard's voice rose clearer and richer,
his dance seemed to strengthen it, giving him
breath. fire, purpose. Stevenson, who STOOD
near the door, was a small. nervous, excitable
man, who lived a nalf-intoxicated life. and for
whom music was mistress.
1t was Stevenson who pulled q revolver from
his pocket at this instant and fred through the
window. Nobody thought much of this then;
men we're in the habit of shooting to express
their feelings. The report of revolver was
simply louder expletive. But it happened
that the crack of Stephensons revolver met ex-
actly the strong beat in the Spaniard's song,
and with the fash of thought Braguda drew
his revolver and, still dancing and singing,
marked the second beat with shot toward the
low roof of the saloon-and then the third and
the fourth. The storm broke. The murmur OF
the audience became hundred shouts. twas
the fifth ball from Braguda's revolver which
stopped the dance and the song, and which
changed the delirium of the crowd to wonder
ing horror.
No one ever ascertained why Braguda shot
himself. A friend to whom told this tale the
other day, said that he could understand it
perfectly-it was, he claimed, the only artistic
thing that Braguda could have done.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-20
WHO WAS ABsENT-MlNDEp9

OTIS your Observation-Disclosures" he said, as:he
sat by the open window peeling yellow
banana.
II try to do the best. Harry" replied the
young wife, the hot tears half choking her ut.
terance. "You know your salary is"
"You knew what my salary was when you
married me- You said we could live like king
and queen on it. or some such romantic rub
bish."
"Harry, never inquired what your sal
ary-"
'Wen, you might have. But, as say. its
your confounded Observation-Disclosures; you're
away off,"
With that he hurled the edible portion of the
banana through the window.
Then look of horror o'erspread his counte-
nance. as he beheld only the cold and cheerless
peel in his uncalloused palm.