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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
PICKINGS FROM PUCK.

Citizen-These ignorant foreigners should
not be allowed to vote.
Statesman-That's just what 1 thinkin'.
Half of 'em LOOK so much alike 1 can't tell which
ones I've given s. bills to, an which ones I
haven't.
When Strephon, hearing in the dark
step, gave Bridget Daphne's kiss,
He evidently missed his mark
By having failed to mark his Miss.
Dr. Thirdly-We are told that hell is
paved with good intentions.
Mr.. Carr-Yes but not told that the devil
is going to tear it up to lay cable road
Stranger-Have you any frst-class saloons
here?
villager-No: only second-class ones. This is a
prohibition town.
He saw long, high trellis
Against chimney red
Its creamy purple flowers
And leaflets all had fed.
He clapped his hands in wonder,
And quered all a-stare:
'Mama. is that a ladder
For santa Claus over Thereof
Mrs. Ananias-What kind of man do you
expect to make. if you continue to tell stories:
Willy Ananias-Oh, a second Chauncey NJ. De-
pew, perhaps!
'sWhat is your objection to Charles,
papa?'' asked Maud.
'.He plays poker said papa.
but so do you. You played with him last
night
II know it-but he won."
craved one golden lock of hair
OF those that like a crown bedecked her.
She gave it to me, and ever since
I've worn 1t as a chest protector.
Young Husband-Why, my dear; this
pudding is burnt black. How did that happen?
Young Wife-I'm sure don't know. looked at
1t Just before you came home and it was all right
''But I've been home two hours
Dear me! thought it was only few min
utes.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
SENATOR CULLOM'S BOOM.

SENATOR CULLoM's friends are willing
lightning should strike in that direction
Boston NeaUs
SENATOR CULLoM, of Illinois, will blossom
into full-fedged Presidential candidate
Rocky Mountain Ne,0s.
The Cullom boom for the Presidency is
trying to start again. Perhaps Cullom is
urging an impossible claim for first place in
the hope of getting second.-Butalo Express.
THE Washington correspondents insist
that Senator Cullom's ightning-rod is in
good repair, and that the Senator himself is
braced up to pitch where shock of Presi-
dental lightning would be taken as matter
OF course.-Chicago Ne,Us.
SENATOR CuLLoM is being groomed as a
dark horse by his admirers. But it is of no
use. The Republican party is not likely to
nominate a man whose claim for considera-
ton rests on the fact that he looks some
thing like Abraham Lincoln.-BoSton Globe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
THE CHILEAN MUDDLE,

Press dispatches continue to resound
with talk of war with Chile. The hunger
of the new navy for the glory of actual
fighting causes the fact to be ignored that
the proposed conflict is one in which the
United States can win little credit and
may suffer the greatest injury to her ex-
tending South American commerce The
tone of the news also continues to eX-
hibit features which warrant the sober
and thoughtful consideration of the United
States in raising question as to its ac-
curacy.
For instance, latest kilograms refer to
Senior Matta's ''deiant reply" as render
ing war almost inevitable. A defiant re-
ply would be a rather annoying thing and
would be unjustifable if the United States
had given no cause for defiant feelings.
For that reason it is important, as THE
DISPATCH has urged, to know whether
diplomatic offenSe or defiant tone was
committed by Egan in presenting the first
note of the administration. The pertinence
of the inquiry is apparent, as it was so
represented at the time from Egan's vi
cinity.
But, as to the question of fact, was it
defiant for Senior Malta to put in calm
language the claim of Chile that the
United States Government is misled in this
matter by misinformation? Unfortunately,
there is too much ground for belief that
this assertion is not without foundation.
Some indications to that effect have al
ready been noticed Another has lust
been brought out. 1t was widely pub
lished that Captain Schley's demand on
Judge Foster, that witnesses from the Bal
timore before the court of inquiry be ac-
companied by an officer as counsel, was
refused. Judge Fosters letter to Captain
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
BEATS ON THE WRONG SIDE.
The Strange Place in Which Pittsburg
Mans Heart Is Located.

Mans Heart Is Located.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1S.-About IL o'clock last
night there drifted up the steep stairs to the
Highway Chapel, on East Front street,
man without a parallel in the country,
George Burns, of Pittsburg. The man was
probably 60 years of age, and must have been
at one time physical giant. Nothing
peculiar was noticed until he removed his
hat, when q terrible three-cornered scar was
noticed on the top of the head. The scar
on the top of his head was inflicted
by piece of a bombshell during the
bombardment of Fort Donnelson, where he
was an engineer on the ship Essex Of Com
modore Foote'S squadron. The skull has
been patched up with silver plate which
weighs six ounces. While chief engineer of
the steamer Savannah, in 1884, the vessel
went on the rocks at GAYS Head, on the At
lantic coast There Burns was terribly in
jured, but stuck to his engine to the last
moment and was in the act of reversing the
engine when the crash came. The vessel
was broken up and Burns caught IN the
wreck of the machinery and crushed almost
out of human semblance. The most remark
able thing about the mans injuries is that
while in the hospital undergoing treatment
it was discovered that Burns heart had
been forced from its normal position on the
left side of the breast over to the right side.
Those who examined the man last night
could detect no trace of heart action on the
left side, while on the right side the beating
of the heart could be plainly felt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

The proposed display of millionaire
Christmas charity in New York is getting a
ventilation that puts it in its true light.
The Arrangement by which the wealthy chill
dren who donated their secondhand Christ
mas gifts were to look down'from the alti-
tude of the boxes on the poor children
herded toge ther on the floor to receive the
gifts is being rfddled by the genuine charity
workers of the city under the lead OF DR..
Rainsford. The fundamental idea of the ar
rangament being to make a display of char
ity, of course it was to be expected that the
conviction of the great social superiority of
the donors to the recipients would crop out
in the details.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
THE FAIR CRAMPED FOB ROOM.
Floral Decorations Crowded Out, and 40
Acres More May fse Added.


Acres More May Ise Added.
CHICAGO, Dec. ls.-One question which has
troubled the Worlds Fair directors has been
that of securing sufficient space inside the
buildings. In satisfying the demand for
that, another cause for alarm has been
created. The great question now is to Sc.
cure sufficient space outside Of the build
lngs. Because of an elaborate allotment of
ground for outside decorations the space ac-
corded to pedestrians has been SO narrowed
down as to make it almost useless for the
purpose intended. Between the buildings
and the lake and the lagoon the authorities
ADMIT tnere is not sufficient space.
Ihe only way out OF the difficulty is to do
away with considerable of the space ac-
corded ior the purpose of floral decorations.
Even then it is admitted the space will be
insufficient. So crowded is the committee
for space that President Baker is now nego-
Initiating with the owners of property di-
rectly south and adjoining the grounds for
the lease of 40 acres,
Chief John Thorp, of the Bureau of Flori-
culture has just returned from the East,
where he has been to get plants and palms
position buildings and grounds generally.
Among those who have promised to con-
tribute are Jay Gould and George W. Childs.
MI Gould's contribution will be a collection
or palms, many of which are 45 feet in
height and centuries old. This collection is
said to be the finest in the world.
Messrs. Chance, of Birmingham, England,
nave sent a communication saying that
they would be willing to erect duplicate of
the famous Eddvstone Lighthouse upon the
lake shore. not only as an exhibit, but rs a
beacon light for the steamers carrying pas
sengers TO and from the Worlds Fair.
President Bonney, of the Worlds Fair
Auxiliary, has sent invitations to the famous
men of letters of all countries, asking them
to prepare especially for the Worlds con-
crosses some contribution of prose or
VerSe-ln most cases verSe-representative
of the best STYLE of the writer thereof 1t is
expected TO have songs and verses from the
ablest of Asiatic, European, Australian and
American writers. There are to be % con-
crosses, and it is hoped to have anoration and
poem for the opening of each of them by
famous orator and poet. 1t is hoped, for
instance to get Sir Edwin Arnold to write a
hymn for the opening of the congress on
Religion. Tennyson, Whittier and Holmes
are old men, but while they do not promise
to write they hope to be able to do so. Sir
Edwin Arnold has been made an honorary
member OF the Auxiliary and has accepted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
DRAWING ROOM GOSSIP.

fashionable Functions Push Each Other So
Closely That the Week Must Be Recon-
structed and dEnIarged-AIlegheny Chill
dren Write and Produce Play.
The Juvenile dramatic relative of the
Tuesday Night Club has decided to defer
performing play now being rehearsed at
Mrs. Jonn Haworths house, on Stockton
avenue. The unprecedented number of
functions tabled for the holidays renders
this necessary. bright young member, or
rather one among the many bright young
members, suggests, since this is the season
OF gifts, that some generous person present
the club with a name. He, she or it adds
further that satisfaction for almost any
cognomen is guaranteed
Mrs. Park Painter again treats her little
friends to a novel entertainment, consisting
of a play written by several children and
performed by them last night in her house
before company of juvenile acquaintances.
1t is called "The Ralston Case" and is said
to be rs full of meiodrama as street car
these days is of Christmas shoppers. The
cast was as follows: First Burglar. George
McMurty: Mr. RdlStOn, Southwark Hay; Sec
9nd Bargtar, Bedell Suydam: Soap Peddler,
Kenneth Painter: Butler, Marshall Bell. The
production was not thrown away upon an
unappreciative audience and the tragedy on
the stage was well balanced by the humor
IA bue duulcHCc lHe young dCLOIS NoIc
greeted with applause and fattered by nu-
merous encOreS.
1t is said that sentiment in favor of a
dramatic organization in the East End is
growing and f1ourishing. Pittsburg is be-
coming too large for the Tuesday Night
Club to satisfy all demands, and moreover,
it seems the larger it grows and the better
facilities become for reaching points hereto
fore far of the greater the people desire at
fairs to be within q stones throw of their
own caves. The desire to have q club is
indicative of a willingness to support such
should one ever he started
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

ers that THE DISPATCH has for some time
urged his duty of making clear and un-
mistakable declaration whether he will
accept nomination or not In default
OF this the mass of his supporters may
yet take Reeds theory of the situation as
correct and proceed to express their pref
erences on the assumption that Blaine is
out of the field.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
A Protestant Convent for Braddock.

BRADDocK, Dec. B.-[Specia.) "A Protest
ant convent is one of the proposed institu-
tions for this place. To-day two members
of the Redemption Order of the Protestant
Episcopal Church were in this city looking
for a suitable site. This order has bnt one
convent in this country, located at Jersey
CITY, and it is proposed to establish the first
branch here The aims of the order are
somewhat similar to those of the sisters of
Mercy, with the exception that creed and re-
ligious lines are not so closely drawn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

CONCERNING the report that Judg, Hol-
man is to be Chairmai of the Appesp%S,
ations Commas.ss the New York Press takes
it as an evidence that "Penuriousness is to
reign" As the penuriousness referred to
ms-as economy, it may be remarked that,
after the billioE-dollar experience of the
last Congress, a little penuriousness may be
time,s in order to save the public finances
frsm penury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
ALop 90 Feet in Virgin Soil,

NEW CASTLE, Dec. B.-ISpecia'. l-Excavat-
ors in this city made remarkable discov-
cry this morning. About 20 feet below the
surface they came upon a log, either bass
wood OF of an extinct species. The log was
remarkably well preserved, and as the soil
surrounding it was virgin, not the slightest
idea is hazarded as to how the log was de-
posted there. The relic will be carefully
examined by local scientists.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
THE DISPATCH Is READ.
A Place Secured for Bright Boy Who
Furnished an Item.

Furnished an Item.
Yesterdays DISPATCH contained n special
telegram from it's New York bureau telling
of the adventures of lad who has travelled
all over the country on his wits, and who
has secured halfpromise from Jay Gould
that his passage will be paid back to Scot
land, the boys home. THE DISPATCH mails
yesterday brought the following:
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The boy Tramp of this mornings paper, at
tracted my attention have ever fo1rd the Scotch
people honest aud trustworthy. If ts1s little fellow
fills the bill. he is not too old to mold into good
man. His experience, if true. shows nerve and In
genuty. If he read and write and can ind his
way to Williamsport Pa. with credentials that he
is the boy you speak of in this mornings Dis
PATCH, will try to teach him the life insurance
business. RILEY W. ALLEN.
PITTSBURG December 49, Hartford, Conn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19


that the eight messages of President Wash
inston did not altogether cover so much
space as the last one of President Harrison.
Probably the difference will be explained
by the 'billion-dollar country" argument or
in the tersec and more taking form used by
William Il. Travers, when someone re-
marked that he suffered more in New York
than when he lived in Baltimore: bigger
city," replied Travers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
ASSISTANT SECRETARY N

ASSISTANT SECRETARY NETTLETON
thinks the Treasury Department should be
divided into two parts, and the new part be
made the Department of Commerce, which
he thinks would furnish full employment
for a new Secretary. 1t is also intimated
that General Nettleton knows the man who
would, he thinks. be exactly suited to fill
the new secretaryship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

'IF the foreign wheat crop had been large
this year, what could we have done with our
SOC, O,O0O. COO bushels?" asks the Louisville C0ur-
ier-JoUnal. The grain would make good
bread would it not? And IS there any more
reliable form of surplus wealth than sur
plus of food?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

WARNER MILLER's recent speech on the
Nicarag Ia Canal stated that his company
does not asE Government aid. He carefully
omit I'D to say, however, that it will refuse
a Government loan of 100000 900 or a So, 0OO,-
iah
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

ONE of the most instructive features of
the rapid transit question in New York is
the activity and earnestness with which the
Gould and Vanderbilt organs are assuring
the public that they would never be satis-
fled with an underground rail.'ay.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
Three American Bishops Appointed.

NEW York, Dec. 1S.-A cable dispatch from
the Roman correspondent of the Catholic
Ne,cs announces the appointment of Very
Rev. Ignatius F. Horstman, ID. D., of the
cathedral, Philadelphia. as Bishop of Cleve-
land; Rev. Sebastian Messmer, ID. D., Profess
sor of Canon Law in the Catholic University
at Washington, as Bishop of Green Bay,
Wis, and Very Rev. James Schwebach,
Vicar General Of La Crosse, Wis, promoted
to the vacant See.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
Liberia Is Not a Glittering Success.

Washington Star.1 -
Liberia has not proved the glittering sue
cess that was expected from it as country
for colored colonists. There is small reason
to expect that the resources and opportuni-
ties of America will be abandoned for the
African coast.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
IT is supposed that the amendments to

1T is supposed that the amendments to
the Brooks bill will increase the total reve-
nue. from licenses about $sC0,OOO in the State.
This does not, perhaps, make sufficient al
lowance for the fact that there may be
fewer applicants for a thousand-dollar
license. On the other hand, the total reve-
nue. from licenses will go into local treas
uries, so that the gain to them will be even
larger than that amount. Which makes it
pertinent to warn local statesmen against
wasting the money just because they are
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

THE Irish leaders might dodge issues if
they were disposed to; but they cannot
dodge the volleys of sticks and stones,
which at present seem to constitute the
most impressive feature of Irish politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

THE store of private information which
Sir Charles Russell will have acquired about
the scandals of Great Britain. if he keeps on
a few years longer, will be enough to make
a Police Gazette reporter swell up and burst
from envy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

NATURALLY, our sailors are spelling
for fight with Chile. Fighting is their
trade and there is promotion in it. But
what is there in it for cfvilians?" asks the
Buffalo Express. The question is easily
answered. What is in it for civilians, is:
Taxes, and mater iaI for lingo politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

THE committees of the House give en-
phasis to the general impression that Mr..
Mills is not in it, and the free silver Demo-
crat is in the saddle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
Boston Is Tired OF Its Dynamiter.

Boston Traveller.l
Now that it is settled beyond doubt that
Norcross was the man, we hope we shall
hear no more of the details of this terrible
tragedy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

If Emin Pasha is in peril now, as re.
ported, it may be understood that he will
have to do his own rescuing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

AGood Place to Test Torpedoes.
New York Recorder.1
Chile would be a good place to make some
of those torpedo tests.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
away and probably forgets you, or you go to
form bit of q composite recollection.

4 have a notion about CarmeDcita. l
believe if you dropped in on her when she is
asleep you would find her poised on one toe,
with arms raised to pick kisses with the
forefnger and thumb of each hand off her
lips. 1 am as sure of it as if she had been
caught in the act"
MARION CRAWFORD GALLAHER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
LIVE WASHINGTON WAIFS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The Bureau of
American Republics is informed that the
congress of Bolivia has, by maj jorfty of
one vote, rejected the treaty made between
the Executive of that Republic and the new
Government of Chile. In this treaty Bolivia
granted to Chile the exclusive and perpetual
right OF sovereignty over the province of
Cobija, which has been in the possession of
Chile since the var with Bolivia and Peru in
1881. In consideration of this Chile ceded to
Bolivia the free and perpetual right of COM
mercial transit through the port of Antofa-
gasta, recognizing M the same time the
sovereign rights of Bolivia to establish
custom houses on the Bolivian frontier with
out any other restriction than those con-
tanned i'll the convention of May. ss5 The
Chllean Government also agreed to pay Bo-
lvla S4,0O0,000 for the benefit of Bolivian
subjects who suffered damages during the
war OF 1881. 1t is understood that the treaty
will be referred back for notifications de-
manded by the Congress.
The Bureau of American Republics is in
formed that the Government of Peru has
paid 1000 to Mr.. Anibal Villegas. the Peru
wan Minister to Germany, for the purpose of
paying the passage and travelling expenses
of 10 German families from Hamburg to
lquitos, where they will proceed to estab-
lish colony on the Amazon river. The
Peruvian Congress has also voted 500, 900 to
pay the expenses of the immigration and
settlement of so additional German families
in the same locality; which MI. Charles
Romer is about to bring from Hamburg.
A LETTER received by the Bureau of
American Republics from Dr. Jeronime
Zelaya, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the
Republic of Honduras, brings the informa-
tion that Colonel F. F. Hilder, of New
Orleans, has obtained a concession under
which he proposes to utilize the fiber of the
banana tree, and to that end he is going to
start banana plantations. DR.. Zelaya con-
tinues as follows: at is easy to obtain
lands on the coast at very low prices and
even gratis upon application to the Govern
ment. During the three months of our
summer the heat on our coasts both North
and South is intense, but not unhealthful.
In the interior of the country-as, for in
stance, here in Tegucigalpa Yuscaran the
Angeles Valley, Intibuca, Santa Posa-the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

TwENrY-FoURP PAGES
1t will please every reader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

THE French Institute has granted the
Cuvier prize of $500 to the United States
Geological Survey for the excellence of its
work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19

The Comptroller of the Currency to-day
appointed Frederick N. Pauly, of Los
Angeles, receiver of the California National
Bank OF San Francisco.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1891-10-01
SanbOrn's Orchestra.

This fav orably known organization has begun
rehearsing for the coming season, with substantial
ly the same Instrumentation as last winter. The
September publications of music have been re-
ceived from New York, and great pains will be
taken to present them in fitting manner, togeth-
er with later music as 1t appears. This orchestra
compares very favorably with those of larger
cities, and with its membership Of earnest
enthusiastic and skillfu musicians, reflects
great credit upon its native place. The roster
Including extra parts-is as follows: Percy
Sanborn, LIST Violin and Leader; j. V. Havener.
LIST Violin Ripieno; Percy Follett, I'd Violin; c.
f. White, Viola; c. o. Poor. Cello; j. II. Trus-
sell, Bass; e. II. Crosby, Boehm Flute and Pic
colo; F. J. Rigby, II. II. Shute, Clarionets; A. L.
Davis W. Ii. Wiggin, Comets; r. p. Chase, from
bone; M. G. Murch, Horn and Prompter; f. c.
Pitcher, Horn j. ii. Parker Drum.