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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11

posing to adopt either method, and stops
short at the simple adoption of the indexing
reform.
This is on the plea that the indexing re-
form is the first step. That may be true
enough; but with the experience of Eng
land, Australia, New Zealand, Ontario and
Manitoba in the establishment of indefeasi-
BILE titles and easy transfer, why stop at the
first step? 1t should be borne in mind that
the indexing reform, while it may be great
step in cities, is not so vital in country dis
tricts, and that uncertainty of titles and dif.
6culty of transfer will still hamper real .es-
tate transactions all over the land. Mr..
Olmstead objects that the preliminary
examinations required for any public
guarantee. of titles will cause a great
deal of work in cities; but that is
only an argument for providing
that full time shall be given for such work.
The important point Is to proceed at once
to secure a plan which will perfect titles and
make their transfer easy-the important
features of the Torrens system. If Mr..
Olmstead's preference for reaching this
result by a short statute of limitations is
agreed to by tine majority of expert opinion
there is no reason why that plan should not
be adopted. But the point which would
seem to be obvious to the lay mind is that
when any attempt is made to effect reform
in land transfer all three leading purposes
Of the reform should be effected instead OF
only one of them.
These criticisms are not offered as any
derogation upon the value or authority of
Mr.. Olmstead's views. We must recognize
that in this question he is the expert on
whose researches we must rely and whose
opinion must be regarded with great respect.
But when he himself specifies the further
objects to be gained in making land trans
iers as easy and as unquestionable as trans
ters of personal property. it is legitimate for
those less versed than he to call on him to
abandon the conservatism. if not the timor-
business, which causes him to halt at the first
step of the work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
STATUS OF THE SITE QUESTION.

The reports with regard to the action of
the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie
Library at its last meeting, while correct
enough as to the statement of facts, seem
calculated to produce some confusion as to
the significance Of the action. AS this is a
subject in which the entire public is deeply
interested. it is well to have the present
situation exactly understood.
Two lines of action were proposed at the
meeting. One was that the Board should at
once proceed to the discussion and selection
of sites. The other was that rough plans or
sketches should be prepared, indicating
what might be done in the way of erection
of buildings and showing the possibilities
of the various sites, either at the park en-
trance, or for local Libraries, or for por-
ton of the central buildings on any other
eligible location, and that the site question
should be determined in the light of the
information thus afforded. After full dis
cussion, the latter course was decided upon,
with the distinct understanding that the
site question was still left open.
1t will thus be seen that the burning issue
between the park and a downtown site is
still an open one, provided the advocates of
the latter can present an eligible location
near the business center of the city. It
should be understood, however, that the
tendency of events is strongly in favor of
the park entrance for one reason. That is
the difficulty of obtaining an eligible site in
the closely built-up part Of the city. Up to
this time the advocates of the downtown
idea labor under the disadvantage that no
location has yet been presented, adjacent to
the business quarter, with sufficient area
for the necessary buildings, at cost that
will not cripple the building fund. If
those who think the central library should
be located near the center of communIca-
ton can designate good site at a cost that
will not leave the project in the Anomalous
position of having more site than buildings,
it will be entitled to fair consideration. But
unless such location can be produced in
the immediate future, it will be the obvious
duty of the Board to make the selection
from such sites as it has before it.
At present the choice is between locating
all the main buildings on the park entrance
and putting a portion Of them on the Bed
ford reservoir property. Unless new con-
are presented within the next
few weeks, the question will have to be
settled by weighing the respective advan-
tages and disadvantages of these two loca-
tions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
ENTERTAINING EXTRACTS.

Four-Eyed Moravian Cattle-Divorced Thir-
ty-Five Times-A Greedy Pelican-Cana-
dian Newsboys-Curinglthe Grip-Versa-
tile Daniel Webster-Old-T Time Etiquette.
A dispatch from Vienna says that the winter
In Moravia has been SO extremely severe that
the whole country has been covered with a
mantle of snow since November. The refec-
tion of the light upon the snow has been SO
binding that tens of thousands of heads of cat
tie have been attacked with ophthalmla. At the
suggestion of DR.. Verlncourt. of the Govern
ment Department of Agriculture. quite num-
Der of farmers have had recourse to blue spec
tacles in order to preserve the eyesight of their
herds, and on one farm of a single province
over 4, 900 animals now meanderlng about
with the aid of blue eyeglasses.
On the principle that it is an Ill wind that
blows no one any good, the entire supply of
blue glasses in Vienna has been exhausted and
1t is found necessary to obtain additional sup
plies from Paris and London. 1t is said that
the Chambers at their next session will make
special appropriation to reimburse the farm
ers and stockkeepers for the outlay thus in
volved. An English farmer who is in Vienna
says that the sight of thousands of cattle CROP
ing their way through the snow with their eyes
encased in immense blue goggles is one that
can neither be imagined nor adequately de-
scribed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11

on that day two trees were cut down in the
yard of one OF the ward school houses.
In the matter of ornamenting the city with
trees, Pittsburg is far behind many places
of one hundreth its importance and wealth.
1t is possible to secure more embellishments
at less cost in this way than in any other.
Yet Pittsburg, at time when it is making
new streets and spending millions in inn
provements. fails to add the inconsiderabIe
cost of setting out the trees that in few
years would fill streets with foliage and
beauty. This is not as it should be; and it
is to be hoped our people will make an at
tempt on the second date for Arbor Day to
get out of the lethargy that prevents them
from adopting the cheapest form of public
establishment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
QUEER sUPERsTITIONs
About the Handling of Newborn Infants
Some Notions.

About the Handling of Newborn Infants
Some Notions.
According to Yorkshire, England, notion. a
newborn infant should always be placed in the
arms of a maiden before it is touched by any
one else; and in some instances its right
hand is bound in a cloth during the
first day of its existence in order tha
it may gather riches when grown to manhood
or womanhood estate. says the Chicago Times
In many parts of the United States. Germany
France and Holland, as well as throughout the
British Isles, it is considered very important
that an infant should ''go up' before it goes
down in the world.
Thus. if child is born in the lower story of
a house 1t is instantly bundled up by one of
the old women and carried up stairs; if the
event occurs in the upper story the same old
woman is expected to take the child ill her
arms and Chamber upon the top of the table.
bureau, even chair, anything TO get the lit
tie one up in the world.
In the NORTH of England, when q child is
taken from house for the first time, il is
given an egg. some salt and little loaf of
bread and occasionally small piece of money,
these gifts being supposed to insure the child
against her standing in need of the common
necessaries of life. In the East Riding of
Yorkshire few matches are added to light the
In Holland, Sweden, Norway and parts of
Russia the mother of the newborn babe, if
not too poor, provides small cheese, which
Is cut in small slices and distributed among
the unmarried ladies of the neighborhood.
Any young lady who receives her share of the
cheese and eats it, without asking where 1t
came from or who sent it, will meet her
future husband at a cross path or crossroads
within the month. In Northumberland a cake
called the dreaming bread' is distributed in
the same way, the young ladies who partake of
it being supposed to dream of their future hus-
bands the same night In the United States,
as well as in many other countries, book,
piece of money and a bottle of liquor is placed
before the infant the day 1t is year old, the
object beng to test what its after inclinations
will he.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
DEAN LITERARY SOCIETY.
Very Pleasant Evening Passed at the
Annual Reunion.

A Very Pleasant Evening Passed at the
Annual Reunion.
The Dean Furies. the society paper of the
Dean Literary Society of the High School, was
SO appropriate to the name when read at the
last years annual meeting by a young gentle
man, that for the meeting last evening young
lady had charge of the furies Sheet and the re-
suit will not be quite so disastrous. The paper
was, as usual, bright and witty and
abounded with pointed paragraphs. Miss
Nellie r. Nobbs was the fair edi-
tress. A large audience that fairly
filled the High School hall and overfowed into
the side halls listened to the reading of the
paper and the other numbers that constituted
the twentieth annual entertainment of the
society.
Rev. ]. T. McCrory invoked the divine bless
ing, after which Mr.. John Floyd, master of
ceremonies. delivered the address of welcome.
ing light. THE Whistllng Regiment
was declaimed by Miss Anna NJ. Mcconnell,
and Miss 1nez NJ. Griffith followed in a vocal
solo. "Behind the Curtain" an essay, was read
by Miss Lillian T. Beck, and Mr.. James E. Tib-
hey declaimed THE Tragedy of London"
"The Negro Question was the ambitious and
exhaustive subject undertaken by Mr.. William
81. Stanton, and Mr.. Otto G. Gaub recited The
Revenge" The reading of the "Dean Furies."
concluded the entertainment. The society
numbers 43, exclusive of the officers
who are as follows: Guardian, B. H. Patter-
son; President, Harold F. Norton; Vice Presi-
dent, Thomas l.. Kane; Secretary, 1nez M.
Editors Oliver r. johnson, Edwin .Lugsmith;
b. Editors, A. b. Kiser, Alfred Young; A.
Critic, John Floyd; b. Critic, Lillian Beck; A.
Judges of Debate, Anna M. Mcconnell, Lotte
Northrop; A. Marshal. I. c. Hays: B. Marshal,
w. T. Benirz
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
Curing the Grip.

' Almost everyone has enjoyed some sort of
an attack of the grip, the Chicago Post
Growler imagines, and almost everyone has a
sure cure for. it. The GROWER has had the
grip. 1t was not as deep as well or as wide as
a church door. but it answered every purpose.
What gave him more trouble than anything
else were the "sure cures' recommended to
him by solicitous friends.
"Grip?" queried one of them, as he regarded
the Growler's weeping eyes and limp handker-
chief pityingly. 'I can knock it for you, You
go right home and boil kettleful of water
Just before you retire you put your lips around
the spout of this kettle and inhale the steam.
Next morning you will be all right"
The Growler followed directions and still
lives. The red pepper steam took all the peel
ing from his throat and made his lungs feel
ike fiery furnace. Next morning he was
better than he expected-that is. he was alive.
81 can cure your grip" said another sympa-
thetlc friend. You just rub your chest with
chloroform liniment. Rub it hard. That'll fix
you"
1t did. Being fiayed alive is not pleasant
fate, but chloroform lniment does cleaner
job than an oyster knife.
Mustard. my boy" said another amateur
physician. big COB on your chest and your
feet in hot mustard bath. Sure cure"
1t is painful to walk around on feet that re-
semble Holsters, and mustard should never be
placed upon spot where chloroform liniment
has been grazing: but the combination gives
a stranger good idea of the great Chicago
fire OF 1871.
What the Growler is after now is a sure cure
for blisters and few friends who will loan
him some new skin. His grip is cured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
Canadian Newsboys.

Something in the shape of reciprocity be-
tween the newsboys of this country and Can
ada is sadly needed says the Chicago Tribune.
The latter are numerous enough. heaven
knows but they are not posted on the goods
they have to offer. If the Queen should be
taken Off suddenly, or the Prince of Wales was
to put bullet in his heart, the Canadian news
boy might v0uchsafe to yell the information.
On everything else in the way of news he takes
it for granted that you are as well posted as he.
He stands on the corners and calls out his pa
pers by name. and then becomes silent 1t is
possible that this Indifference comes from that
of the publisher. The morning paper comes
out with monotouous regularity. and is made
up just the same the year round. The eyes of
the reader are never feasted with the line
Extra or "Second Edition." The afternoon
papers are issued with the same regularity and
without regard to the news of the day. Twelve
o'clock 8 and are the issues.
If one of these afternoon papers should re-
ceive information at noon that His Royal High
ness the Prince of Wales had taken his mother
by the back hair and thrown her down the
stairway of Windsor Castle the afternoon paper
would hold back the news until the next regu-
lar edition. If at 6 o'clock the news should
come that Mr.. Parnell had taken jimmy and
gone through the "Old Lady of Threadneedle
street," or that the Grand Old Man" had cut
his throat, the afternoon paper would leave the
important news to the morning contemporary.
And when it appeared the newsboy would
never be any the wiser. SO far as calling 1t out,
and neither would the paSsersby.
Some of the afternoon papers ara simply re-
issues OF the morning paper. They contain all
the news of the morning issue, the same edIto.
The only fresh news is what may have trans
pired within the radius of the day-police re.
porter's rounds. This afternoon edition is for
the benefit of the laboring man, who gets 1t for
penny. If the newsboy has not the hustle of
his American cousin it must be laid at the door
of the publisher.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11

and the fourteenth direction commands you to
pray to God and-have a hole in your night
cap!
A little later on Sir John Harrington, author
of the famous translation of Ariosto and a
favorite of Italian-loving Elizabeth, wrote
"The Dyet for Every Day" and "On Rising,
Diet and Going to Bed" showing us exactly
how wise fops or wise coquettes should conduct
themselves in these particulars. Sit he says]
in the winter season somewhat by the fire, not
made with turfe or sinking coale, but with oake
or other wood shat burneth clere;' comb your
head at least 40 times, and make your mind
'linnen napking." Always work in the fore
noon, he continues;wear sapphire, an emerald,
or yellow amber, "for in stones, as also in
heartes. there is great efficacie and virtue"
and people who wear emeradS have Aristotle's
testimony that they Are "good against falling
sickness"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
MIR. oLMsTEAD,s REFORM.

We have before us pamphlet by Dwight
H. Olmstead, ESQ.,, on land transfer reform,
with an explanation of his block-indexing
act. 1t furnishes valuable information on
a topic which has occupied attention in con-
nection with proposals to adopt the Torrens
system of guaranteeing titles, and though it
consists of an address delivered to the
American Bar Association last year, its
character is such that it can hardly be di-
gested except from studying it In the printed
form.
Mr.. Olmstead is able and conclusive in
his explanation of his proposal to simplify
the work of examining titles by the block
index system; but he is not SO conclusive,
and in some points approaches prejudice, in
his comments on the other proposal to extend
the work of facilitating land transfers and
securing titles. He shows beyond dispute
that in lessening the "area of search" by
making up separate indexes for each block
in cities and for specified area as in
country districts, a great deal of difficulty
will be removed; but when he comments on
other proposals not necessarily antagonistic
to his he shows an unwillingness to
give them a fair hearing. Thus one
of his objections to the Torrens system is
that "its plan OF indexing is fatally defec-
tive," while, as is apparent on the surface,
there is no valid reason why the good feat
ures of the Torrens system which Mr.. Olm-
stead's plan does not cover should not be
united with his plan of indexing. He ar
CUES weakness in the Torrens plan of es-
tablishing indefeasble titles, and then
shows how that weakness may be made
good, but dismisses the subject without pro-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
Divorced 35 Wives,

A tourist who had Just returned from the
East says that the day he left Yokohama the
native paper in that city mentioned case of
man, aged 40 this year, living in the province of
Bizen, who has married and divorced 55 wives,
and is now married to the Seth. He was mar
ried at L. and the reason assigned for this ex-
traordinary example of inconsancy is that he
has younger sister of extremely jealous and
rancorous disposition, who, from the moment
that bride enters the house, institutes system
OF persecution, which soon drives the unhappy
woman to ask her husband for divorce. The
uspanu ~; Is nelpless TO restrain Tue Yagarles OF
his sister, and cannot turn her out, 80 the
wretched business goes on year after year. The
native chronicler adds circumstance which is
improbable, even in the East. He says that in
two cases the brides arriving at the door of
their future home changed color, and declaring
that they recognized the house as one where
they had already passed some months of most
miserable wedlock, fed without further parley.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
THE SUCCESS OF RECIPROCITY.

The progress of the Spanish reciprocity
treaty toward complete success was reported
by cable in Yesterdays DISPATCH. When
completed it will add another point to the
success with which Secretary Blaine has
pursued that policy, and fully vindicates
the support the press and public gave to
his ideas last year.
The Brazilian treaty was the first fruit of
that policy and the establishment of better
commercial relations with Cuba will be the
second. Several smaller Governments in
South America and the West Indies have
taken the first steps, while the British West
Indies are showing a decided tendency to
move in that direction. The extension of
the same policy to Mexico and Canada is all
that is needed to place the United States in
the most intimate commercial relations with
the most important countries of the West
ern Hemisphere.
Indeed, the only check which Secretary
Blaine's broad and statesmanlike policy has
received has been the success of our own
small-calibred and jealous politicians in
preventing 4 decent consideration of the
question of reciprocity with Canada.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
Pelican and Catfish.

For several years couple of patriarchal
pelicans have hshed for a living just of the end
of my wharf. I have repeatedly begged their
lives Of sporting tourists, and SO accustomed
them to my presence that could row within
an oars length of them without their taking
flight, says a writer in Forest and Stream, 1
have often watched their operations with
curious interest, and was really much attached
to the solemn-looking couple who, with their
smooth pates and beard-like pouches, re-
minded me of feathered carlcatures of Father
lime.
Yesterday, on coming down to the beach,
discovered one of my pelican pets drifting
helplessly toward land. When he came within
reach l found that he was dead, while in his
pouch, with its head completely closing the
BIRDS throat. was catfish, still alive, and
measuring IA inches in length. Its horns stuck
out through each side of the pelican's pouch.
and thus the unfortunate bird had been unable
to either swallow or reject its unwelcome prey.
The pelican's pouch was also torn and per-
forated in a number of places. showing that the
struggle between the would-be-swallower and
the would-be-swallowed had been a long and
desperate one. The fish died few minutes
after being removed from the trap into which
he had fallen. The bird measured feet 8
inches from tip to tip of his extended wings,
and. from his general appearance. was evidently
patriarch of his race.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
CONSUL J. O. KERBEY's RECALL.

The Pittsburger Hasn't Received It and
Doesn't Believe 1t Was Demanded.
1t was recently reported from Washington
that ]. o. Kerbey, who is well known in Pitts
burg had been recalled from Para, Brazil,
where he had been sent by the present admin
is.ration as its representative in the capacity OF
Consul. 1t seems to be common report in
Washington that complaint had been made to
Secretary Blaine by the Brazilian Government,
or perhaps by the local government of Para,
that Mr.. Kerbey used his ability as news
paper correspondent in manner not altogether
pleasing to our South American neighbor.
Mr. Kerbey wrote exclusively for THE DIS
PATCH, so the readers of this paper can COM
petently judge of the grounds upon which
complaint would be based.
However, Mr.. Kerbey writes to The DIS
PATCH to say that he has never received any
recall, and he is therefore still Consul. He
adds that a recall would be very welcome-in-
deed, he has asked relief from his post
by every mail that has left Para since the first
week of his experience as Consul. He has had
great plenty of life beneath the equator in
an official capacity. and intends, as soon as he
can shuttle off the trappings of power, to make
an expedition of exploration to the head waters
of the Amazon. Mr.. Kerbey says he does not
believe either the Brazilian or Para Govern
ment has demanded his recall.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
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