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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

L.Kimberly, Sharon iron man, and
Representative j. s. Fruit, of the same place,
registered ut the MonOngahela House last
evening. A. Mckinley, of New York,
brother of the tariff advocate, is also at the
hotel. Mr.. Mckinley is IL drummer
Evan Evans, the representative of Car
negie Bros. i'll London, and George I. Bishop,
commercial agent of the Glover Leaf "
route at Cleveland, are stopping ut the Du-
quesne.
Captain George A. Mushbach and wife,
of Alexandria, are i'll the city. The Captain
intends to purchase mil plant and rolling
mill in Ohio to bc removed to Virginia.
T. C.. Boone, an old gentleman from
Salem, was married ut the Monongahela
House yesterday morning. The name OF the
bride could not be learned.
John E. Thompson, d coffee merchant
from Bio Janeiro, took dinner at the Monon-
gahela House yesterday.
Frank j. Hearne, manager of the River
side Iron Works, at Wheeling, is at the Mo-
nongdhela house.
John Dick, a brother of the Meadville
banker, S:rInuc! Dick, was in the city yester-
day.
w f.. Rooney, of the United States
Navy, put up ut the Duquesne yesterday.
James N. Moore, of Butler, is guest at
the seventh Avenue Hotel.
j. C. Mckinney, the Titusville oil man,
Is at the Anderson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
SLIGHTLY ABSENT MINDED.
While Talking About Others He Forgot to
Take His Own Change.

New Iork Herald.1
There are n good many absent minded men
among the business men of New York as the
records of the postoffice will show. Those
who mail letters without any address and
those who mail addressed letters without
any stamp are on hand in force every day
The man who incloses money in such letters
is not wanting. 1 went over from the Astor
House one day and talked to a clerk through
a 6-inch window about it, buying a dollars
worth of stamps at the close of an evidence
of good faith. When 1 arrived home, some
six miles away, 1 discovered that had given
$5 bill to the stamp man and had come
away without the change.
The next morning l was somewhat nerv-
GUS concerning that "a, and fastened to the
postoffice. The stamp clerk was serving a
long line of customers, but as soon as L ap-
preached and uttered the first word he i'm
mediately and silently handed out four 81
bills.
II didn't know but what among so many
FOOLS" said l, 'you might easily forget
one."
Possibly" he dryly retorted. "But you
were the most conspicuous one yesterday.
Two's did you say, sir2''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Bishop Thomas v, French,

News has been received by telegraph that Rt.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Valpy French died from sum
stroke at Muscat. in Arabia, on the shores of the
Persian Gulf. About four years ago Bishop French
resigned his Bishopric ut Lahore, Punjab, to en-
gage once more in missionary work, and he had
since been laboring in Algiers, Syria and Arabia.
Bishop French a of distinguished scho-
arship. He entered at University College, oxford,
England, and graduated in 1916. He was
fellow and tutor of his college, and prose Latin
essayist, having taken tirst-class In classical
honors. For many years he was distinguished
missionary in India, and at intervals he held high
clerical preferment in England. He was rector of
st. Panls, Chelienham, vicar of Leith, and rector
of st. Ebbe's, Oxford. He established the Divinity
School at Lahore. and started an Afghan mission
in the Derajat. When the Bishopric of Lahore,
Punjab, was founded by the Indian Government
DR.. French was by universal consent acknOwl-
edged to be the right man for the post, and was
cOnsecrated first Bishop of Lahore on December q,
1877. In India he was known THAT many
tongued man of Lahore - for he could preach in
English Persian. Hindustani, Pushto, Hindei,
Tamil and Punjabi, and was an eminent scholar in
Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Latin. For
his devoted labors In behalf of the British soldier
during the Afghan war he presented by the
Government Of India with ''swOrd of honor.'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
A BIG WASTE OF MONEY.
Carloads of Government Printed Matter No
Better Than Old Rubbish.


Better Than Old Rubbish.
LFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
WAsHINGTcS June 16.-If the committee of
Senator Henderson, which proposes to in
vestigate the operation OF the Government
Printing Office, were to make the rounds of
the departments at this time they would find
much interesting matter for their report to
Congress. Within the last day or
two there have been sent to
Cabinet officers. assistant secretaries,
chiefs of bureaus, assistant chiefs
and other officials. q cartload each of Gov
ernment publications., well printed and
solidly bound in sheepskin. They contain
executive and legislative documents, COM
mite reports, scientific, commercial and
other reports Great volumes OF the
"Records of the Rebellion" useless because
the set cannot be made complete, and =
tumble OF other works, SO trivial, OF SO little
import tance to anybody, that the wonder is
they were ever printed at all, to say nothing
of publishing elaborate and costly editions
for general distribution.
These carloads of tones are dumped into
the offices of the officials for whom they are
intended. These gentlemen group through
them for something of sufficient Importance
to preserve. Probably out of the cartload
they each find two or three volumes of some
interest to uhem Then the clerks are in
vited to go through them, and u few more
volumes are selected. The remnant. which
is the;great bulk of the cartload, is again
loaded up and taken to the out OF the way
rooms where such costly rubbish has been
of volumes lie to be eaten by the worms or
destroyed by damp or mould Those to
whom they are sent would prefer never to
see them. The stuff that is sent to them is
not even valuable for waste paper, though
in the aggregate it represents an immense
sum in material printing and binding.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Five Dollars Found and Lost-How to Spot
Rich Mantle Coolest of Women and
the Warmest of Men-GOssip of the Dav

Five Dollars Found and Lost-How to Spot
Rich Mantle Coolest of Women and
the Warmest of Men-Gossip of the Day.
THEY were standing up in southside
horse car, when the taller man of the
two suddenly let go of the strap, stopped
down, picked up something on the floor: put
it in his vest pocket and then drew himself
up again. He maintained his composure
and silence with an apparent effort till the
car neared Fifth avenue and Smithf1eld
street, when he walked out to the platform
and said to the conductor; "I've found
something valuable on the floor of the car
If anybody reports loss to you, you can re-
fer him to me; my name is, and can be
found at" Then both men left the car
"Did you notice how l managed that? I
made no fuss; didn't say word, but just
pocketed it quietly" said the taller man,
and without waiting for answer or comment
he went on: "Now if you'd found it you'd
have got excited, and told the whole car
about it, and somebody to whom it didn't
belong would have claimed it. It's lesson
to you, my boy, to be careful how you an
nounce n find like that. You can't be too
careful
''what was it," asked his companion
meekly.
"a five dollar bill" was the reply and
genuine FLYER came out of his vest pocket to
Substantiate the assertion. "Of course if the
owner of the bill claims 1t shall pay it over,
but to present intents and purposes it's
mine. propose that we have q nice little
dinner and bottle, eh?'
'I'm in favor of the dinner" said the
other, "but hadn't we better go slow and
save some change out of the ="
mo, sir" interrupted the lucky discoverer,
''we'l have good dinner and wash it down
with the very bestn
And they had as good a dinner as a man
can get in Pittsburg; plain meal without
more frills than q small bottle of wine con-
stitutes. As they were gently putting the
smoke of two Henry Clays across the table,
after the waiter had carried away all but
ten cents or so of the five dollars, the gentle
man with the entirely unearned dinner un-
der his vest remarked: "That was deucedly
odd, your finding the bill on the floor. l
wonder whose it was? 1t couldn't have be-
longed to you, could it?'
"Of course not" replied his host, you're
the blankdest fellow 1 ever knew for i'm
agining absurd things. The bill was dropped
by =" as he spoke he had been unconcern-
edly thrusting his fingers into his pockets,
but as he passed from hisvest to his trousers
pockets and from thence to the change
pocket in his coat, his hand moved more
rapidly, and at the words dropped by" his
face flushed and his left hand joined his right
in lightning search of all the cavities and
lurking places of his clothes
Great scott! that five dollars was miner
he exclaimed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
OYR UNCoALED NAVY.

The humorous phases of the Itata affair
reach climax in the statement that the
extra consumption of fuel involved in the
chase of that steamer and her final return
to this country eXhausts the fund for the
purchase Of coal for the navy. The spec
tacle Of great power possessed of navy.
which it is building up at a cost oftens of
millions annually left without coal for its
ships till the beginning of the next fiscal
year is the finishing touch to all the funny
incidents Of the first capture of the Itata,
in which the captors proved to be the VIC
Tins; Of the search for that vessel in the
harbOr of Acapulco while she was quietly
straming down the Pacific, and of her
final surrender by the Congressional party
in Chile with an intimation that the
United States could have her, after her
ability to get away had been fully demon
strated. ...- -...-
Indeed this final development leaves the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
FrNNY FELLOWS FANCIEs.

Jumpuppe-COnfound these theosophists.
Jasper-Why?
Jumpuppe-They convinced my wife that she has
seven bodies. and she went of and bought dress
for each one.-T0TOI1to Hail.
De Beere-Your painting has one quality
at least, that of innocence
De eSmeere-InEOcence?
De Beere-Yes. 1t is so oart-less.-Ee1o iYork TeLe-
0rJIHI.
When Satan grasps new guests hand,
And starts to show him through,
He first inquiries in accents bland,
'.Is it hot enough for your
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Murray Hill-Do you like pastel
coloring MIR. Breezy?
Mr. Breezy-Well, no: / cam say that do. I've
heard that some of it is poisonous. Plain white
molasses candy is good enough for me.-Neao York
Tsle0T0m.
"And the heather cooked the missionary
in his cothes?''
''Thcy did"
..ThcY were hungry, 1 suppose, and couldn't
take time to undress him..
..So ouess II was for the seasoning. You see
he had on u pepper and salt suit. .''-NsD Iork
Press.
Lady Noodleby-Isn't American aristOe-
racy very cheap?
Miss Veripert-weT 1 don't know. find that it
is not hard to buy European nobleman at a bar
gain.-Nelo I0rk Herald.
Blizzard Bill-What's the subject fer de-
bate at the Etiquette Club Tonight?
Six-card HendersOn-''Whic Is the improper
est for a man to eat with his hat on or his coat
ofT!''-TndioRapoiis Journal.
Young married man-What would you do,
nv Gear, if were one of those men who are in had
hnmor when they get up in the morning and use
bad language because the breakfast Is cold!
Young wife-I would make it hot for you-D'"10s'
Teacher-The lesson this morning is,
.sWhen your father and mother forsake you then
the Lord will take you.up.'
/ Wicked Dickey Hicks-Sposen de ole folks never
goes back On ye; what dens-Hsao York Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
Obituary Notes.

JOHN G. KOCH, veteran of the Mexican War;
died at his home in Newark late Sunday night, 90
years old.
JOSEPH ELLINGER famous Hungarian vocal
ist. who was first chorus singer and finally be-
came q tenor of great popularity, died recently at
Buda Pesth, ut the age OF IL.
Miss SUSAN WINsoR, of Scituate, Mass, who
lived for many years with the Misses Abby and
Becky Bates. who alone with FIFE and drum,
frightened the British army from Scituatc in the
War of 1872, died Friday at the age of ~.
CAPTAIN WALTER +. BATES, a noted pilot iii
Hawaiian waters, died 1t Honolulu May 10. He
was native of Colassett, Mass, but had lived in
Honolulu since 1852. He was for a time Chief of
Police in Kalakaua's capital, and then took en-
ployment from the Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

IT is significant of the kind of republican
government prevalent in South America
that the Brazilian Congress has adjourned
without passing the new laws necessary to
put the new Constitution into effect As
this leaves Fonseca in control as military
dictator it will be seen that the unique and
arbitrary character of military rule under
the Brazilian Government has not been ma
terially altered by recent steps. With Hip
lolyte, Balmaceda and Fonseca as our allies
the fluctuations of the United States over
its influence in establishing free government
in America are, decidedly humorous.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
extended trip through the Eastern cities, the
young couple will be at home to their friends
at 81 Sixth avenue

extended trip through the Eastern cities, the
young couple will be at home to their friends
at 81 sixth avenue.
1FRIGID ice cream and luscious straw berries
were very much appreciated last evening by
the Bellevue people who thronged the NJ E.
Protestant Church of that place. The pretty
little chapel was fresh and radiant In new
attire, and the affair was in the nature OF
hOuse-warming. A musical and literary pro
gramme was enjoyed in which, under mgsi raG
Mrs. +. W. Keifer, Mrs. Nettle McraQoeh
Hunter Miss Ella Mcintosh and Miss Lena
Rhoads. The tables were presided over Dy
Mrs. W. II. Warwick and Mrs. James lrwln-
Presley O'Mally, of Pittsburg, was mar
ried at Oil. City last night to Miss Mamie
Fisher, daughter of Daniel Fisher. Tne
ceremony took place at the home OF the
brides parents in the presence of large
number of friends and relatives. Inc resi- eis
dence was handsomely decorated, and the
wedding was a society event. Dlr. ana Mrs.
O'Mally left on the O'Clock train for Pitts
burg, where they will make their home
MISS LILLIAN A. REDDICK was rendered
complimentary concert last evening" under
the auspices of the British American Asso-
citation, in the Moorhead building. Those
appearing on the programme were Henry
Lorenz, Annie Orr, Messrs. Graham, Sc
VIII anu EtnefN, IntO n. hcHIL, IhccSAos 1lO-
field Davis, Heming and Ehrhard, Miss
Hannah Baster. William Montag Miss kath-
leen Dengle, Misses Reddick and Miller.
Social Chatter.
Nv. J. Cook, rate clerk for the Pennsylvania
road at Johnstown will be married June %
to Miss BERTHE J. Bolsinger, of that place.
The young man is well known among rail-
road men In Pittsburg.
WILLIAM HANEY and Miss Sophy Phister
were married yesterday. Two carloads OF
friends of the young couple went to jean
nette last evening to celebrate the marriage
feast.
MRS SMITH NEWELL the charming wife of
the cashier of the First National Bank, OF
Cleveland, was the guest during the week OF
Miss Gertrude Campbell, ut her Penn avenue
home.
THE Engineers Society of Western Penn
sylvania held it's regular meeting last even
ing in the Academy building. Mr.. Harry j.
Lewis read paper on Bridge Design"
THE Kings Daughters of the Avalon Pres
byterian Church gave strawberry and ice
cream festival in the school hall at West
Bellevue last evening.
THE George jerks river excursion last
evening was to many panacea for all tile
suffering of the exceedingly hot day preced-
ing it.
THE Young Mems Club, of Braddock, held
their second annual fete champetre at Idle
wild Park yesterday.
THE Sandusky Street, Allegheny, Baptist
Church will picnic at Idlewild on the 25th-
The Thompson-McKnight marriage to-
night.
THE Meade woodburn nuptials this even
ing.
THE Heyman-Raum wedding to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
BLACK SNAKE VERSUS FISH.
A Novel Contest Between the Two Ended by
Third Party's Stick.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
LEXINGTON, WA, June 16.--A black snake
about feet long was seen swimming in Tom
linson's Run yesterday with a fish, COM
monty known as bullhead, in its mouth. The
fish was nearly inches long. The snake
had succeeded in swallowing the fish, be-
ginning at the tail, up to just back of it's
head, where its forward fins are reinforced
by strong horns OF spines. Beyond this
point the snakes jaws could not get, for 50
long as the fish survived just so long would
it instinctively raise its fins and horns
whenever it felt the end of the snakes jaws
touching them.
With a strong forked stick the snake was
lifted out of the water, whereupon the fish
fell out of the snakes mouth. Evidently it
had been there some time, for it was LAGER
ated, livid in spots and its life blood seemed
to have been horribly sucked out of it, leav-
ing the most of its body pallid and colorless
When released it sank head first to the bot
tom of the pool, then revived and came to
the surface and afterward swan slowly and
laboriously away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

THE London Court Journal makes a COM
plimentary explanation of the reason why
Englishmen marry American girls. 1t does
not need explanation, although the attrac-
tive qualities of the American girl usually
strike the English mind with most force
when backed by large bank account. But
we think what is earnestly to be sought for
IS some credible reason why American girls
should marry Englishmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
THE KANSAS WHEAT YIELD.
Secretary Mohler,o of the Agricultural Board,
Gives His Estimates.

Topeka, June 15.-Secretary Mohler, of the
Agricultural Board, returned this morning
from q trip through the northwest part of
the State. He declares that the crop reports,
which have been collected by the various
newspapers in the last few weeks, are very
misleading "The fact in the matter is" he
said, that there never was time in the
State when there was such differences be-
tween adjoining wheat fields.
"In the Solomon Valley, for instance, L
found fields which would make 30 bushels to
the acre, while adjoining fields will not pay
for the cutting. The statement that the
Weld will reach 60, OGOO0 bushels is also er-
roneous. There will be the largest acreage
that the State has ever had. 1t will reach
3OOoOOO acres and as nearly as can be esti-
mated there will be a three-fourths crop of
$50 bushels to the acre."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

IT is not calculated to contribute to the
pride of the United States that it shares with
Turkey the position of being the only power
in the world that has failed to assent to the
international treaty to suppress the slave
and rum traffic in Africa. Turkey hangs
back on account of a sneaking fondness for
the slave trade. Is the great republic dila-
tory on account of q secret bondage to the
rum traffic?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

CAMILLE PLANTATION says that the
earth intercepts only half millionth of the
SUMS rays. We hope NJ. Flanfmarion has
no intention of asserting the platform that
the earth needs to intercept any more of the
suns effulgcnce than it is getting ut present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
CONGRESSMAN DUBARRow, of Cl

CONGRESSMAN DUBARROw, of Chicago,
is quoted as desiring to have as one of the
features of the Worlds Fair the President
and Cabinet, the members of the Senate and
House and the Supreme Court all in session ut
the Fair. The Congressman is indiscreet. The
body of which he is a member makes show
of itself sufficiently in the regular sessions
without giving any supernumerary exhibi
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

EXPECTATIONS are still held out in Phil
adelphia that "Bartlsley will tell all" in his
statement before sentence is passed upon
him. This is very sanguine view of the
situation. The success which has so far at
tended the efforts to prevent the inside facts
from getting out is not likely to break down
at the close. Some one has too much intiu-
ence to permit Bardsley or the others to tell
all they know.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
MATERIALS of home manufacture should
only be used in the Ohio platform.

IT Is noticeable that the bulk of settlers
on the new lands in the Northwest are near
ly all Americans, Germans and Scandina-
vians. The Italian and Slavonic elements
are singularly absent from the list of actual
settlers but when they learn that they can
get farms of their own for the cultivation of
them they may develop in eagerness to take
advantage of the opportunity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
Mrs. Catherine Hughes.

Mrs. Catherine Hughes died at New Brunswick,
N j., Monday, aged 107 years. She was born
in New Brunswick, Nj, April 16 IVA, and has
lived under the rule of every President of the
United States. During the latter years of her life
she was blind. Children of four generations are
living, though only one of her own children Cap
tain Matthias Tce, survives her. She was married
six times, and leaves, besides her son. nine grand
children II great grandchildren and six great great
grandchildren.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
Sowing Good Seed.

San Antonio Examiner:
Ifthe farmers of the Southwest will build
community churches and school houses,
hire competent teachers and plant hogs,
they need have no fear but that prosperity
and immigration and increased land values
will come,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

CONSIDERING all the fuss made about
that difference of a half per cent interest in
the extension of the 416s it is worth while to
remember that Secretary Foster has Stated
that he has money enough to pay off all the
bonds, and that people who do not wish to
take per cent can take their money. That
ought to make the whole matter very simple.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
Symptoms of Riches.

"Ir is hard to tell a rich man when you see
him." said a hotel clerk to me yesterday.
Sometimes wealth runs to fiashy clothes,
sometimes it is concealed beneath a stink
ing demeanor and hand-me-down suit, and
general unobtrusiveness. The happy mean,
which l take to be well-made clothes, q
courteous bearing to all men and a nice COM
bination of Self-assertiveness and respect
for others feelings is hardly ever seen by q
hotel clerk, for the reason, l suppose, that
rich men of this caliber do not live much in
hotels"
just then an elderly man, whose tangled
gray locks had not felt barber's shears for
many moons, whose black frock coat bore
the traces of many an accident by soup and
gravy, whose face was not over clean and
whose shirt was not merely soiled but wilted
and brown near the neck whore it ended in
a collar that might have been white q week
before, broke in upon our conversation and
said to the clerk: "What's yer rates by the
dav?"
The clerk gave the figures and the old
man, after consulting big open-faced gold
watch, remarked that he might be back
later in the day. As the possible guest de-
parted the clerk added to me: "I'd like to
amend what said about the difficulty of
discovering mans financial status from
his exterior. There is one description of
rich man can always identify without trou-
Bile. He is the man, in whom, as in the old
fellow who just spoke to me, dreadfully
dirty shirt front Is combined with an expen-
siye gold watch. I've never known those
signs in conjunction to fail"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17

THE outbreak of complimentary refer
ences in the New York papers to Mr..
Chauncey NJ: Depew's oratorical and per
sonal attractiveness warrants the conclusion
that the journal alistic applications for sum-
mer passes have been honored with Mr..
Depew's regular nberality.