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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Social Chatter.

A FAIR by the Kings Sons and Daughters of
the Shadyside Select School was held yester-
day afternoon in Miss Wards schoolrooms, on
Ellsworth avenue. The proceeds will assist in
furnishing bed in the Homeopathic Hospital
THE Rt Rev. John Watson, D. D.. of CoIum-
bus, will lecture at Lafayette Hall, on the
evening of December 4 on the subject, 'The
Papacy." The lecture is to be given under the
auspices of the Columbus Club.
REV. DR.. T. ]. LEAK delivered lecture
last evening, in the Walton NJ. E. Church, on
Through Palestine on Horseback" !" which he
made very interesting.
THE advanced class of Thuma's dancing
academy will give an evening reception on
Monday evening. December !, 1890 from to IL
MRS. r. s. WIGHTMAN, of Craig street. Oak
land, gave very pleasant card party last even
ing.
Miss BIRDIE FINK, of Buena Vista street.
gave a reception last evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
TIMELY WITTICISMs.

Indian summer being over the trouble
with the savages out West may be that they want
to go a-saying. g.-PhiLddeLphtG Times.
Notwithstanding Congress reassembles
next week. the celebration Of Thanksgiving Day
was general and hearty. Philadelphia Ledger.
The largest thing you chance to find may
not be a great prize;
You cannot judge lovers heart entirely by ita
sighs.
-Ne0 York Herald.
"Do you know why they call the Repub.
Iican party an oblate spheriod now?''
''Certainly. Because It was hattened at the
polls.-NeU York Sun.
The pamphleteers are after DIR. Koch with
sharp sticks but the doctor, wishing to bag larger
game. continues his pursuit Of the microbe.-EeU
York World.
Proprietor of Cigar Store-I like enter
prise, Jim, but you're carryin' things little too
far.
Assistant-How's that.
Proprietor-Why, that sign you've got up,
s'Real Imported Havana Cigars Made While You
Wait" 1t won't hardly do.--BsO York Herald.
Husband-The marks on my collars are
getting so faint can't read them.
Wife-Then wish you would get another bottle
OF that indelible ink.-NeD York Sun.I
How persuasive politics are! Even
wish-bone can't be worked without . ''pullr'-
Eeto York World.
She-That was funny story you told me
yesterday about donkey, Mr.. Griggs.
He-Do you think so?
She-Yes, Indeedl after this, whenever I Iyeea .
donkey it will remind me OF you.-MaHsey's
Weekly.
"Five years ago." began the stranger to
Wentman, II sought that woman to be my wife.
/ believed her congenial, light-hearted ana
beautiful. Has our married life been pleasant
Nopi
''No? Why not?'' asked wentman.
"Why notl Because she declined TO marry me.
of course!'' American Grocer.
ALAS! YES.
Strive as we may. we never can
Tell who are the happy, who foriorni
The eutest Little shoe OF tan
May hide very painful corn.
-xsRot0tns's Essos.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
SALES OF MILLETs ANGELUs.

A Statement of Its Different Sales and In
creasing Valuation.
From the Pail Mall Budget.l
Here is table setting forth the strange
eventful story of the appreciation of Millet's
"Angelus." The picture has been bought, by
the way, not for the Gallery of the Louvre (as
has been stately, but for the private gallery of
M. Chauchard, who was formerly q director of
the Magas1ns du Louvre (hence the confusion).
Sold by the painter to N. Feydaau...........S ~
Who sold 1t to M. blanc (of Monaco) ....... 120
Who passed it on to MIR. Stevens, who sold
it to Nj. Van Praet. 200
When, after passing through several hands,
it was bought by NJ. wilson .............. Is, 200
Al whose sale NJ Secretan bought it........ 6, 400
At whose sale the American Art Associa-
tion bid @. 900
While NJ. Proust for the French Govern
ment bid ...... r. 12u
Chamber refused the money. Picture went
to America, and has now been sold to M.
Chauchard for ........ .................. %. 900
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
How His Word Went.

SoME Pittsburz parties were drilling we'll
last month in the Brush Creek field, and a
farmer whose land adjoined the well agreed
with them to lease to them if they found they
wanted 1t. They had the derrick up and the
well had been drilling for good while when
an oil scout representing another firm got hold
of the honest farmer and tried to induce him
to let him have the lease.
mo, 1 can't do that" said the farmer; "pve
given my word to them fellers drilling over
there. wouldn't have no peace with my con-
science if broke my words My neighbors all
know my words out; 'twouldn't be right, an
my old wonan'd take on terrible if
'See here, my FRIEND" said the tempter,
you've given your word, you say-do you
know what they'll do with you? That wells
nearly down, and if it's duster they'll not give
you cent for your land, but if it comes in big
you'll not get anything like what your lands
worth-not half what I'll give you."
IF the we'll comes in big" the farmer re-
peated slowly, shutting one eye, "oh, we'll
Why then my word amt gullty-my word amt
guiltyr'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
The Hunters Were Happy.

Enough gunpowder TO blow this community
to-next Thanksgiving. say-was burnt by
the sportsmen of Pittsburg on Thursday. At
one establishment which makes business of
loaning guns by the day or week. every availa-
Bile sh otgun had been lent when Thanksgiving
Eve came. and the total number of requests
for small artillery reached the astounding num-
Der of 800. If the stories of the hunters who
turn ed up lame and more or less disfgured,
yesterday, are to be accepted as samples of the
gen eral experience, all the quail rabbits,
phe asants and other small game in Allegheny
county are dead. 1t was pretty good day for
hunting z, everybody agrees, and it may be taken
for fact that more game dinners have been
eaten here in the last day or two than for many
years past. The abundance of quail continues
to be source of wonder and rejoicing where
ever Johnny gets his gun in Western Pennsyl-
vania The open winters that we have enjoyed
in this latitude for two years have brought
some sort of recompense to the hunters by
en- suring the survival of quail and Other birds
that extremely cold weather usually thins out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

WE find in the Philadelphia Press the
following as an example of the desperate con
dItion of the English under the system of taxa.
ton in this country: In free trade England
where the blessings of direct taxation prevail,
man cannot keep a dog-cart, light vehicle OF
carriage without a license" 1t is neither sur
prising to find this presented as an example OF
the oppressive taxation in England, inasmuch
as protectionist Pittsburg has exactly the
same sort of vehicle license tax. 1t may be an
antiQuated form of taxation, but the people OF
Pittsburg had not found out that they were
ground down in the dust by it before the Press
told them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
A Sovereign Remedy.

HCoULD you give me something" said a
young man whose face was long enough
for three men and boy and as cheerful as a
map of the Dark Continent, yesterday, to a
clerk in a downtown drugstore. Gould you
give me something that would blot out the last
chapter of the past, obllterate yesterday. in
spire me with charity, make the world seem to
me less like dreary, dark, desolate dream OF
dyspepsia, and bring my tongue and my head
back to something like normal sze?'
You have been giving thanks, see," said
the philanthropic compounder of drugs, as he
poured out about three fingers of dark fluid
under the counter, land need dose of hair
restorer."
"Hair restorer?' echoed the invalid.
"Yes-hair of the dog that bit your
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
MELODY AND RHYTHM

To Distinguish the Twenty-Ninth Free
Organ Recital This Afternoon.
Melody and rhythm will distinguish the music
OF the twenty-ninth free organ recital at Car
negie Hall this afternoon, commencing at 8
o'clock. The vocalist of the occasion will be
Miss Ada Scandrett, the charming Northside
singer Her selections are unusually good, and
she will be remembered especially as the singer
at the first of this remarkably successful series
of popular concerts.
In instrumental numbers the programme is
rich in high-class dance music, notable ex.
amples being Strauss ''Morgenbtatter
Waltzes," and Gottschaller's La Scintilla
Mazurka." That pretty gavotte, Loving
Hearts which Innes played as a trombone
solo. VIII also be rendered. A potpourri Of
"Boccaccio" is also upon the programme.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
1t is Supported in Australia and Will be
Scientific in Nature.

1t is Supported in Australia and Will be
Scientific in Nature.
A generous Australian, who has already done
much to promote the exploration of the South
ern Continent, says the PaU Mall Budget has
offered to contribute $4,000 toward the pro-
posed Antarctic Expedition, provided it is got
up and equipped on an adequate scale. He has
a strong hope that the various Australian Gov
ernments will come forward and share in the
enterprise, and he does not think it would be
expecting too much that the home Govern
ment should also vote sum for the very de-.
sirable object. The gentleman in question is
confident that little can be accomplished with
SO small sum as 10000. and he quite disap-
proves of the proposal to combine commercial
INQUIRIES with scientific investigation. He is
confident that in this, as in SO many other cases
the interests of commerce will best be served
by giving at first exclusive attention to the COL
lection of data which will be useful to science
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
SHE WANTS TO WED.

Peter Miller's Advertisements for a Wife
Brings Him an Answer.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
NEW YORK, November 28-There is letter
at the Barge Office for Peter Miller. who Is
looking for wife from among the immigrants.
Peters matrimonial request has been written
about in the papers, and a letter was received
to-day, of which the following is verbatim
copy:
CATAsAQUA, November T.-Dear Sir: have
seen a advertisement in the Phiadefa Rekord
about Man by name of Peter Miller in search OF
wife would be very Pleased to hav him Send me
his Photograph this is all ihave to Say at Presents
Miss May Mckeever, Katasaqua,
Lehigh County Pa
This letter will be sent to Peter Miller for
consideration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Call for Football Shoes.

The demand for football shoes at present is
something unprecedented, says the Lewiston
(Me.) Journal Manufacturers say that the
call has trebied since 1885 No shoe called for
must be so tough and elastic as the article worn
by those who play football A favorite style is
to make the upper of lightcolored French calf,
made with or without the ankle pad, as spikes
or rubber soles are not allowed in football.
Leather cleats running across the soles are ex-
tremely useful and popular.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
THE NEW TELEGRAPH CABLES,

Important Communication by Cable With
Southern Points.
From the New York SUM-
The preparations for laying telegraph cable
from Australia to British Columbia, across the
Pacific Ocean, are advancing in an orderly way,
and there are prospects of success in finding a
suitable bed for the cable. The work of laying
the new cable between Guatemala and the
United States is making fair progress, and
there is good hope that we shall soon have tele-
graphic communication with several countries
of Central America. The two new cable enter
prises here referred to are of great importance
to the commerce of the world. We trust that
both the telegraph lines will be in working
order before this time of next yeaK
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
THE CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT.

Arranged for by the East Liberty Y. M. O..
A Sunday Lecture.
Tue Young Mems Christian Association of
the East End have already prepared for their
Christmas entertainment. 1t will be given on
Christmas night and will be musical and
literary entertainment. The programme in
ciudes the names of some of the best local
talent. The rooms will be thrown open to the
members and their friends
A special meeting of the Association will be
held Sunday afternoon to hear Rev. s. A. Tag
CARTS address on the subject; THE Work of
the Association in the United States and
Canada" This lecture begins at 4 o'clock P. M.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
SOME CHINESE STATISTICS.
Interesting Facts Concerning Land Values
and Family Holdings.


and Family Holdings.
Tsheng-Ki-Tong in Asiatic Quarterly Review.1
Statistics are often very valuable aids to the
proper understanding of the actual state of
affairs in a country. The following statistical
figures will speak for themselves; and though
they are only approximate, they are not ex-
aggerated.
The total value Of our cultivated land in
China now exceeds the sum of f72. 600, 600, 900;
this sum, divided among 400 COO, 900 inhabitants.
leaves to each individual the sum of flSO A
single family, on the average, consists of six to
seven people; this would give the family CAPT.
tai of fl,OSO, and as money is at least six
times as valuable in China as in the West. and
without even considering the great domestic
economy where there is joint family life, the
sum of at least $1,000 would, according to
Western ideas Of value, represent the average
capital in land at the disposal of a family of
six members
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

AND now West Chester, Pa, discovers
that her census is nearly 60 per cent short of a
full enumeration. If Pittsburg would take the
same course that West Chester did, namely,
straightforward recount by the local authori-
ties, she might make similar discovery.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

THE spaniel ''Yip," one of whose bones
has been utilized in New York hospital for
grating upon the leg of a boy has been re.
chrlstened Charity" The sentiment of the
new name is appropriate; but if the spanieI's
opinion could be consulted the chances are
that it would be decidedly to the effect that
charity begins at home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

WHEN it was learned that the Charley
Ross discovered by the New York Police De-
partment and the World did not wish the dis
covery to be made public, because he expected
to go to Chicago when the Worlds Fair is
opened and do a big business on the strength
of the announcement at that time, it was plain
thar this was not a good enough Charley Ross
to last until after the election.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

The statement that while the Louisiana
lottery's circulars are stopped in the United
States mails, those of foreign lotteries are car
ried by international postal agreement. If we
suppress our domestic gambling shops, we need
not feel any especial responsibility for the
foreign variety. But international postal
agreements which permit foreigners to violate
our laws, should be subject to amendment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

IT is reported that Speaker Reed is appre-
hensive that he may not have a working quorum
for business when the House meets next Mon
day. The Speaker seems to have become con-
vinced from recent events that the policy of
counting quorum anyhow is liable to run
through itself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

AFTER the goose bone and oyster-shells,
and various other inanimate weather prophets
have got in their full work for hard winter,
it is calculated to restore the cornstalk to
popularity to learn that it predicts that the
backbone of the coming winter will be broken
before it begins to have an existence. With
gas at Is cents a thousand and still going up,
the cornstaIk will merit public gratitude if it
can bring about yerifcation of its prophecy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

Now that Mr.. Jay Gould has shown his
financial ability to buy up various railroads,
i. would seem good time for the Govern
ment to request him to pay that little bill which
the Union Pacific owes the Government By
so doing he would add undoubted value to his
recently acquired property.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
A Graceful Speaker,

Rev. P. s. Henson, of Chicago, in his lecture
last evening at Old City Hall, sustained his
reputation as pleasing, graceful and interest
ing speaker. 'The Golden Calf" was the SUBJ
ject of his discourse, and the wit and humor for
which DR.. Henson is noted as well as his
sound logic, pervaded the entire address. The
lecture was the second of the Y. NJ. c. A.
course,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

A CONFERENCE which took place. the
other day between Governor Hill and Colonel
Dan Lamont is thought by the New York
papers to be pregnant with political results.
Possibly, however, it may be more pregnant
with results to the New York corporations
which Colonel Lamont has been industriously
exploiting since he retired from public posi-
ton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
WORK FOR THE DEACoNEssEs.

Mrs. Lucy Rider Myre to Talk on the Subject
Next Week.
Mrs. Lucy Rider Myre, of Chicago, Manager
of the Deaconess' Home and Training School,
will be in the city next Tuesday and make two
addresses on the subject OF '.Deaconess' Work
in American Towns and Cities" In the after
noon at 2:30 Mrs. Myre will speak at the Christ
M. E. Church on Penn avenue and in the even.
ing at the Smithfield Street NJ. Z. Church.
The work of the deaconesses and city mis-
sionaries is Just begun in PIttsburg, and this
lady is the first 20 speak on the subject.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

The appearance of White Caps in New
England indicates the need of that as well as
other sections of the country for a vigorous
administration of justice which will set the
ruffians who undertake to regulate their neigh
bors by mob law at useful work in the peni-
tentiarv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
THE sins of women occupy more pages in
history than their sOrrows.

/ 1hE SluS OIL WOultn OCCupy MUEc pdSeS III
history than their sorrows
DID you in your young days live where the
winter came earlier than it does here? If so
the first snowflake made your eyes dance and
| your heart Jump. DIDN'T 1t? When you awoke
early in the morning and saw frost on the
window panes and snow on the lodges and
hedges you didn's tarry long in the warm
bed did you? Visions of a smooth, white road
way up the long hill, bright ice on the big
| pond and the slow running river, huge balls
| rolled in the covered meadows. rude white
| giants fashioned by mitted sculptors. red
checked, merry Inaidens-seds. skates, snow
| shoes, toboggans--came with the tracery on
the pane and the fakes on the frame. In
your ears echoed the jingle of slvery bells, the
| joyous cries of merry company, the laughs
| that go with a romp In the snow. slide down
| the hill, race on the Ice. The chill warmed
| the heart the frost freshened the blood,
| the snow summed the sorrow. To the
children of the Nortllland. where winds cut and
| frosts sting. where the air is dry, the
| snow crisp tAe drifts high, winter
| is hailed with chi dish earnest joy. Mitted and
muffied they roam over the ice-coated stream
and through the snow-covered fields-tireless
| and fearless. They zee not the shivers of the
aged, the low fires cf the poor. the frost-bi
fingers of the gloveless. the swollen
| creeps into the chinks of the cabin
warns before it reaches the nest under the
thatch. The frost that means a frolic for the
| youth means a struggle for the elders. of
course. But the happy little broods sleeping
on feathers and straw are snowblind to the
SORROWS and the trials that come with
the wintry blasts. And surely their
| merry laughter breaks through the white
woe which settles on some. The sparkle of
their bright eyes, che vapor of their hot
breaths, the roses on their chubby cheeks shed
light and heat in the frost-bitten homes. The
chill, too. makes all charitable In the winter
we visit the abodes of the weepers. In the
sprngtime we visit the graves of the sleepers.
Sunshine for the one, flowers for the other.
PLUCK can give luck cards and spades and
win out.
THE woman who wears a leveled of hat to
the theater is very levul headed.
SHE is Kings Daughter, she lives DER the
water.
Her home is in Allegheny;
My hearts in fiutter, 1 love no one but her,
And we will be married some day.
LEATHER balls are crowding out the leather
covered books in the colleges.
THE soldiers seem to be the only ones on the
warpath out West
handicap.
THE deeds performed in Africa seem to be
darker than the c0uDtrv or re- na0nla
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Hutchison,

Mrs. Margaret nj. Hutchison died yesterday
afternoon at the age of6S years. She was the wife
of David Hutchison, q wealthy and influential
resident OF the sixth ward. The funeral will oc-
cur Sunday evening at her late home, corner
Stevenson and Bluff streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Africa's Distribution.
From the New YORK Times.l

FtOm Ine NtW Ork I1me5,1
So much of the contention over Africa is
made by England, Germany, Portugal and Italy
that comparatively few people may know that
France has larger part of the Dark Con-
tinent under her control than any of these
countries and than any other power. The fig
ures given by geographical authority are in
round numbers, 2,s0o0oO square miles for
France, against l,e0s,OO0 for Great Britain,
Loa6,oo0 for Germany and 775ooo for Portugal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
HERE IT is AGAIN.

HERE 1T is AGAIN.
ANOTHER MAGNIFICENT NEWSPAPER,
To-MoRRow's DISPATCH,
CONTAINING
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COLUMNS SPECIAL FEATURES. COLUMNS
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IT GOES EVERYWHERE.
READ KIPLING'S STORY.
THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT
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BYNEWS AGENTS
AND BY MAIL
LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE STATE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

WINTRY weather like that of yesterday
is a vast improvement on the fall weather
which preceded it. If the winter keeps on the
way it has begun we may have some compen-
sation for the wet season of 1890
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Wrs, W, X. MCDOWELL.

Mrs. Charlotte Anschutz MCDOWELL wife of w.
X. Woodwell, of the we'll known firm of Joseph
Woodweil & Co., died yesterday at 12:l5 p M
The funeral will take place from the family resi-
dence on Penn avenue, near Lang avenue. Mon
day at2P. NJ
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

THE death OF the King of Holland affords
new example Of the princely lines which be-
gan gloriously and ended by complete peter.
ing out of mental and moral qualities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

IF the gas shortage continues much longer
It may provoke an inquiry whether companies
have adopted the favorite corporate method Of
limiting the production of gas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29
Mrs. Mariah Short.

the Home of Incurabies. Eighteenth ward, at the
age OF years. The funeral will occur to-day ct
s:30P. ~.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-29

buildings; but it cannot afford to have
buildings OF even half the cost put up with
embellishments of jobbery and dishonesty.