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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
PEOPLE AND POTENTATES.

THE Duke of Argyle's youngest daughter
will marry a Lancashire cotton spinner
named Emmott, a Quaker and wealthy.
THE Empress of Austria is as busy as q
schoolgirl with her linguistic studies, and as
cultural projects.
PROF. GOULD, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, has nearly completed his report on
the labor question in Europe for the United
States Labor Bureau.
GENERAL A. W. GREELY is in Spokane
Falls, Wash, experimenting the laying OF
the new cable across the Strait of San Juan
de Fuca to the Island of Taltoosh for signal
ing vessels.
GEORGE W. CHnDS has presented to the
Mount Vernon Regents the proof sheet of
the .AmeTicdn Daily Advertiser, dated Septem-
Der Is, 1876, containing the farewell address
of Washington, corrected by himself. The
relic is handsomely framed in hard cherry.
JUDGE VEAZEY, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, who has travelled widely
in other countries as well as in his own saws
frankly that while he is a thorough Ameri-
can he believes that the people of the United
States might well adopt many European
ideas.
Mrs. ANNIE BEsANT does not like to
talk to people after her lectures, so her init
mate friends say. 1t is not that her even
ing's task has been such an arduous one, but
because it is the last of many labors that she
has carried on during the day, and she is
ready to go home and go to bed.
AGNES REPPLIER is one of the few quiet
and careful essayists among women. She is
a native of Philadelphia and lives a quiet,
studfous life among her books, sending
frequent and serious articles to the Phila-
delphia and New York journals and to the
Atlantic Monthly and delivering occasional
lectures during the season.
Mr. GLADSTONE is strongly in favor of
admitting women to the Board of County
Councillors, and his answer to the deputa-
tion proposing the bill was extremely lucid
and straightforward. He had gathered that
in County Council work there was a field
for women's energies and real want for
them to supply, and he heartily indorsed the
bill.
JANE STEVENS, whose pictures are on
exhibition at the Royal Institute of Painters,
spent the best years of her life as a clerk in
one of the departments at Washington, and
now, without lesson in drawing, without
assistance or encouragement from artists,
her natural genius, expressing ideas in bold,
original and unconventional work, has won
international honor.
CHRISTINE NILSSON entertained at din
ner not long ago the two divas, Patti and
Albani, and the three queens of song were
attired in the sumptuous simplicity of the
Valois or Tudor period. They hummed a
few snatches of songs together, as they did
long ago, before titles troubled them, and
were charmingly sweet to each other but
they did not appear together in public.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
HE TOOK $50, 900 VOLTS.
A Pittsburger's Wonderful Test at Colum-
bia College.

Dla COlAeSe.
The Electrical Engineer will print this week
a description of experiments with an alter
mating machine by Mr.. Nikola Tesla, the
Pittsburg expert, in Columbia College last
week before the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers The experiments were of
q brilliant character and suggestive of de-
velopment in the line of artificial illumina-
tion In the future. The principal test was
with a spark coil, and he showed that by
wrapping an insulated wire of about one
foot in length about one terminal and touch
ing the other with brass sphere held in the
hand streams of light would emanate from
ALI sides of the wire. When the sphere was
removed the stream disappeared He then
showed by the use OF the dialectic that the
spark was induced to jump between the
separated spheres by increasing the specific
inductive capacity of the medium, and that
the streaming discharge passed easily
through thick glass plates, rubber plates
and book.
This was followed by a demonstration of
how exhausted plates might be made to
glow in an electroslatic field. Placing two
large sheets of zinc against the terminals q
tube between glowed brilliantly and could
be moved about freely. 1t was when he
came to show the physiological effects that
Mr. Tesla made the most remarkable exper-
iment By touching one terminal with
brass sphere he raised the potential of the
coil so enormously that stream of light
came out at the other end, the estimated
difference of the potential or force of the
brass balls in the hands to protect them
from burning he then astontshed those pres
ent by receiving the total discharge into his
own body without hurtful effect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
Grand Opera House,

The horses belonging to Prof D. NJ. Bris-
tolls Company are great deal brighter than
many of the human actors that an unkind
fate permits to torture the public The
Grand Opera House was the scene of the
debut of these equine thespians last night,
and large audience appreciated the per-
show at this house, which was given by Mr..
Bartholemew's animals, was clever enough,
but 1t is an unquestionable fact that Mr..
Bristops horses perform a programme con-
ures. Comparatively speaking Mr.. Bristors
are variety horses, whereas most equine per-
formers belong TO the legitimate drama.
The trick mule Denyer's antics are most
laughable, and the tricks performed by the
other horses are many of the new and all
amusing. The horse Sultan is the chief star
of the troupe; but there are several wonder
fully intelligent animals beside him. A bet
ter entertainment for children could hardly
be cOntrived.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
VALE-TA-TA!
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
Under close-reefed sail she rode the gale,
As the wind to the south was veering;
While the tars afoat on the steel-ribbed boat
Were the decks for action clearing.
Abaft below the gunners in row
Were shelling out grape and shrapnel,
After every one had cleaned his gun
That with foe he d be able to scrap well.
On the starboard tack she kept a-track
OF a sail on the dim horizon,
Which the boatswain bold of the for ard hold
Did curse as he cast his eyes on.
Then in accents soft he piped aloft,
Every salt for his grog pro-rata;"
But all of them swore they would drink no more
Until they had caught the Itata.
So naught of the grog did their minds befog,
And vain was his little side trick;
From miZzen chains speak-easy strains
Piping for Piper Heidsieck.
Thus the stern chase keeps up its pace,
Though they don't the stern chaser unlimber,
While with sea dog leer each denies all fear
Without as yet shivering timber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

John Robb, G. F. McKenna and Charles
Montooth went to Philadelphia last evening.
The wholesale license cases will come up be-
fore the Supreme Court. MIR. Robb thinks
Fifty cases were appealed. They may stop
at Harrisburg on the way back, to see the
Governor about the new judges. Mr.. Robb
favors the appointment of L. G. Lazear.
James A Chambers left for Chicago on
private business last evening. He says the
of fire July l. He thought a new scale OF
wages would be fixed in August. He thinks
the combination between Eastern and West
ern manufacturers will soon be made.
J. G. Mckinney, Ttusville oil man,
the Pittsburg, Akron and western road,
were at the Anderson yesterday. Mr.
Lynch says half-mile Of the line remains to
"Clover Lear route with Chicago.
James B. Scott left for Harrisburg yes
terday to look after several appropriation
bills not yet passed. He states that the bill
to provide farm and home for the chronic
insane will so through. 1t may be modified
slightly.
All Ba Sundera, an East Indian convert
of the Salvation Army, passed through the
CITY yesterday bound for Titusville. He
hopes some day to see his people converted.
He complains of the Army girls making love
to him.
DIR. J. G. Hierholzer, of the West End,
and his mother, Mrs. NJ. G. Hierholzer, left
for New York last night and will sail from
that city tomorrow for Europe. The doctor
will take course of study in Vienna.
Joseph S. Brown and Henry H. King,
with their families, T. Howard Childs and
his sister, Miss Carrie, and two of the
Sweitzer boys, started for Europe last even
ing to spend the summer.
T. A. Eberle, passenger man for the
~ Il T. ~
saws the trade with South America is grow
ing. and that Mobile is becoming great sea-
port town.
Chief Brown and A. G. Robertson left for
Harrisburg last evening. They have been
going there often, recently, but they were
Silent about their motives.
P. L. Kimberly, the Sharon iron man,
agent of the B. & O. at Somerset, are at the
Monongahela House.
w. C. Reed, of Indiana, and Mrs. Nc
Gavey and son, of Brookville, were among
the messengers from Helena and Spokane
Falls yesterday.
G. E. Milligan and wife, of Parkersburg
and Charles E. Blake, of Lynn are among
the guests at the Seventh Avenue.
NJ Reibenauck, auditor of passenger re-
CENTS for the Pennsylvania road, has gone
to California with his family.
R. j. Hardin, editor of the Chicago Horse
man. and L. H Durling of Baltimore, are reg
istered at the Schlosser.
Edward Ely, Superintendent of Motive
Power of the Pennsylvania road, was in the
city yesterday.
F. R. Cross, of Columbus, and n. B.
Billingsley, of New Lisbon, are at the Du-
quesne.
Captain George w. Mckee, of the Phila-
delphia Arsenal, is at the Schlosser.
Aaron French, the springmaker, and W.
L. Abbott went to New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
OYSTERS WILL BE HIGH.

The Sad Forecast of an Expert Bivalve
Planter of Jamaica Bay.
New York Herald.l
"How's oysters?" shouted as we passed
the schooner Mary Ann Eliza, of Canarsie,
busily engaged in planting seed in Jamaica
Bay, the home of the Rockaways.
The skipper shook his head.
"Bad, very bad, !" said he. "They're higher'n
all tarnation."
"How's that?'' asked.
"Why, you see the seed didn't set this
year. 1t didn't set at Bridgeport nor at New
Haven, where the seed mostly comes from,
an only one man, an he at Milford, had any
luck He's struck it rich, tell you, for he's
sold over $400, 900 wuth of seed this spring.
But all the rest is in the doldrums."
"Going to make oysters scarce next fall?"
81 rather suspect it be-" And the skipper
resumed his task of strewing the bed of ia
maica Bay with lime-cased lusciousness,
while we went on our way in mourning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
BETTER FIRE PROTECTION.

The Chief of the Department Of Public
Safety responds to the public demand for
better fire protection in the business part
of the city with a communication to Coun-
ellis in which the whole subject is exhaust
lively discussed, and remedies for the
present situation pertinently suggested
The communication opens with an
acknowledgment that the fire protection
for the lower part of the. city is insult
ficient. Indeed, it brings out that fact
more clearly than any of the complaints.
The protection now afforded is exactly
what it was in 1870, while the larger num-
Der of business buildings, and especially
their increased height, have multiplied the
need for fire protection several times over.
No more convincing proof of the necessity
for action in this respect can be given than
the statement that the protective force has
stood still for q years while the growth Of
business has gone on at a rapid rate.
For the supply Of this need Mr.. Brown
recommends the purchase Of movable
water tower, of a fireboat for theriver front,
the location of an additional engine in the
downtown part of the city, and the pur-
chase of three firstclass engines to replace
the smaller ones which can be transferred
to the residence wards. 1t is unnecessary
to discuss the details of these propositions
They are all in the line of more complete
protection On the economy of expendi-
lures for the promptest and most efficient
methods of suppressing fires there can be
no dispute.
Whatever complications Pittsburg may
suffer through past municipal errors, she
can afford to spend all the money neces-
sary to secure the best fire-fghting appli-
ances; and she cannot afford to do any
loSS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

on the list under consideration for the ex-
pected vacancy in the Russian mission may
seem to be an infringement on the claim of
the newspaper profession to that position.
But the Colonel as an ex-newspaper man is
eligible, and the press of Pittsburg will hope
that he may get it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
BRIGHT BITS BORROWED.

Consider the man who is always punctuA
how much time he wastes waiting for other peo-
ple.-Elmird Gazette.
'SYes, you are quite right; that Mrs B
the Councillors wife. is silly, stuck-up person,
regular oluster horn!'' [Enter Mrs B-.] "Ah,
Mrs. B., so delighted to see you; we were juss
talking about youl''-L3stioe Btntter-
We once knew provincial masher who
actually wrote to q Paris tailor: II want you to
make me two suits Of clothes; you can take the
measure of the Apollo di Belvidere-just my 1T. -
La Vie de Fdmiae.
Young Sprigg-Mr. Bidquick, am worth
Is. 900. and love your daughter.
Mr.. Bidauick (retired auctioneer)-Sold.-LOndo
It'd Bits.
Someone praising English public schools
to Charles Landseer said; ''All our best men are
public school men. Look at our poets. There's
BYRON. he was Harrow boy.''
ssYes, " interrupted Landseer, there's Burns,
he was plow-boy. .''-Ee,0cGstle Ca1onieIs.
Clarice-And so your engagement with
Maitland is really of?
Isabel-Yes got tired OF machine-made love.
Clarice Machine-made love? What DO you
mean?
IsaDel-He wrote all his letters on typswritsr.--
Boston Beacon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
THE HAND OF CHARITY.

Semi-MonthIy Report of the Association
for the Improvements of the Poor.
The semtmonthly meeting of the Associa-
ton for the Improvement of the Poor was
held yesterday afternoon. The reports sub
mitted showed that there were new.appli-
cants, 495 families visited, 24s families aided,
1O27 persons included, 1853 visits made to the
poor, "a visits made for the poor, children
placed in Sabbath school, l person sent to
the City Farm, child sent to the Children's
Hospital, 81 days work and situations OBJ
tanned for 8.
The following groceries were distributed:
Six hundred and ninety-four loaves of bread,
270 pounds of rice, 339 bars of soap, 240pounds
of oatmeal, los quarts Of cornmeal. Through
tea, pints of mutton broth, 397 pints of
milk, 10 pounds of tea, 2s1 pounds of sugar.
There were 305 grocery orders, 1,60O bushels
of coal, 1s4 garments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

In view of the wide discrepancy between
the press reports as to whether the trial of
the Vesuvius' dynamite guns was a success
or failure, it is satisfactory to learn that
the report of the trial board averages the
thing up by steering middle course. 1t
does regard the guns as a success, but thinks
they might be improved, and recommends
further trials. This is probably wise course,
but it is nevertheless beginning to be appar-
ent that we cannot count on possessing the
destroyer of the worlds navies in the dyna-
mite cruiser
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
THE STATE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Erie to Receive the Various Communicates
and Treat Them Well.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
ERIE, May 25.-This city is preparing for
holiday during the State Conclave of the
Knights Templar of the State of Pennsylva-
mia, which holds its first session tomorrow,
and will continue until Wednesday evening.
The Pittsburg Commandery arrived here
this afternoon and presented an imposing
appearance as they marched to their head
quarters, where they were taken care of by
the Committee of Reception. Commander
les are arriving tonight on every train and
from all parts of the State, and it is expected
by tomorrow fully 200 Knights will be pres
ent.
The city is preparing to decorate hand
somely, and the grand parade will be an
event long to be remembered, preparations
being made to have it the most imposing
that ever occurred in this city. After the
business meeting has been done with and
grand parade over, it is the intention of the
local commandery to give the visitors sail
across the lake to some pleasant place in
Canada, where they will spend few hours.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

The Swift and Russell Dramatic Company
presented "The Hidden Hand" at Davis
Fifth Avenue Museum yesterday afternoon
and evening. 1t was very creditable dram
atization of Mrs. southworth's famous story,
and the one hour and half of enter
tainment was possessed of merit.
The company is creditabe, all the
cast seeming to handle their roles
intelEgently with the single exception Of
the "Capitola. This part was in the hands
of very raw amateur. The "Lady Rowers," :"
owing to a railway accident, did not arrive
until last evening, but got down to business
at once, and will be seen during the balance
of the week.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

The project of a ''theater ibre" in Bos-
ton is now mooted. The "theater libre," or
a free theater, is one at which ambitious
authors can have their plays acted-presum-
ably at their own expense. The promoters
of this enterprise are calculating upon a
rush at the box Office from the playwrights,
and if they secure that the rush from the
theater-goers will be an important matter in
both senses of the word.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

THE story of the New York Herald about
Secretary Blaine having lost his mind evil
IDENTIFY had a certain degree of foundation
in the Herald Office. That soap advertising
boom of the Herdtds for Blaine proved that
there was a clear case of mental alienation
somewhere. The only mistake was the
usual one of the lunatic in asserting that the
other mans mind was wrong.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

HARDLY any better comment on the latest
products of the ultra school of American
realism in fiction is needed than the report
that ouida is protesting against their in
decency. When Zola joins in the protests,
our most advanced novelists will know how
to rank themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
Obituary Notes.

FRANKlLUTz, formerly member of the Ralston
School Board, died yesterday morning. He was
only sick one day.
COLONEL HENRY LANE KENDRICK, a we'll
known member of the regular army, died in New
York Sunday evening at the Union League Club
where he had lived since his retirement from ehe
army in 1880.
j. FULTON well-known resident of Burgetts-
town, Pa, died Sunday of heart trouble. Mr..
Fulton was aged about n years, and was lifelong
resident of that community, having been born
within few miles of the place where he died.
EX-GOVERNOR DAVID BUTLER died suddenly
yesterday morning at his home near Pawnee City
Neb, of heart trouble. He was Nebraska s first
Governor and with the State Treasurer and Auditor
selected the site for the present Capitol He So
years old.
JAMES G. CONVERSE, the venerable President of
the National Tube Works Company at McKees-
port, died at his home in Greenfield, Mass, on
Sunday, after an illness of about three years. He
was "a years of age and the father Of E. G. Con-
verse, who is the general manager of the plant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

GOVERNOR HILLS reference in message
approving a tax bill as his last legislative
act is taken as an assertion that he will not
add to his duplicate functions that of a cam
didate for the Legislature. But Mr.. Smith
NJ. Weed stands grimly by and reflects that
the Governors promises of this sort do not
go-unless he finds it for his advantage to
keep them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
A DREADFUL CHARGE.
1t Was Against Two Young Church of
England Clergymen.

Notes and .Queries.J
Some 20 years ago, when prosecutions for
"ritualism" were in vogue, a High Church
clergyman was appointed to a country parish
near to a Low Church town He was young
ism and unmarried, and so was his curate.
The local newspaper, ever Jealous (as local
newspapers so notoriously are) for evan
geIical truth, soon informed its readers
Of the new rector's crimes. He turned to
the east; he bowed at the Gloria; in the pull
pit he wore a surplice-that characteristic
garment of the Scarlet Woman. And there
was one accusation which touched both the
said the pious print, ''that they openly prac-
tice celibacy, even in the public streetsn'
This charge was meant to arouse, and no
doubt it did arouse, the spinsters and widows
of the neighborhood to a timely vindication
of the rights of woman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

CONSIDERING the experiences of the past
few months in South America it would not
be strange if the enyious opposition should
suggest that it might be well to cultivate
trade relations with quarter of the globe
where perennial revolution is not the chief
product of popular industry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

THE Italians in Boston are making a
record by raising money for the erection in
that city of statue to Christopher Colum-
bus. They propose at once to show the lib
erality of the modern italian citizens of this
country, and to suggest to Americans that
they owe something to Italy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

officers at their own terms. But the build
ing of branch lines and feeders would be
immensely increased if outside capital
had the assurance which the law gives it
in theory, but which the railways deny in
practice-that they shall have equal rights
in the transShipment of freights.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
MEETING OF THE MAGNATES.
Jay Gould and Judge McWhorter Have q
Short Interview.

Atlanta constitutional
Judge McWhorter is President of the
shortest railroad system in the world. 1t is
something more than three miles inlength,
between Crawford and Lexington.
OF this road Larry CAN'T tells good story
on the Judge.
"Hamp was in New York a few months
ago." said Larry, and while in Colonel John
Inman's office he met Jay Gould. He was
introduced to the Wizard as the President
of the Lexington Terminal
eyes said Mr.. Gould 4 am glad to meet
YOU You have q nice road BY the way,
Mr.. McWhorter, how many miles are there
in your system?"
sfsNearfy five, replied Hamp
"'AIl under one management asked Mr..
Gould from force of habit.
fsAnd the little Wizard darted under the
table to save himself from being hurled out
of the sixth-story window"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
Worlds Museum.

Miss Nora Belmont and Prof. Max Berol
show something startling in the super
natural way at the Worlds Museum Theater
this week, and numerous other curiosfties
are on exhibition. A programme of con-
siderable size and merit is interpreted in
the theater by Kellstrom's Scandinavian
Comedy Company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
One Scared Editor.

Cleveland PIain-Dealer, Dem.1
Washington dispatch to a local morning
Republican paper notes "a prominent He
brew" as saying that the third party move
ment is sporadic. So is an earthquake, but
its results are none the less farreaching.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

The Department of Public Safety wants
to secure better fire protection. So do the
people. Every one will agree that the best
is the cheapest; but there will still be good
deal of squabbling over what is the best
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
Or Too Greedy.
Minneapolis Tribun

Minneapolis Tribune.]
For O unanimously Democratic State,
Florida is sadly lacking in unanimity in the
choice of Democratic Senator. There may
be such thing as being too unanimous.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

THE announcement that the Elder Kip
ling is now to come into literature with
book on India, moves us to remark that this
is superogatory. One Kipling is enough.