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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
NICKNACKs FROM THE BAzAR.

'rBlithers is the worst kind of cheat"
'Tcan't believe that. He sold me SO 600 house
for SIS. 600 once.''
'aThat Just proves what say. He's mean enough
to cheat even himself"
He-Give me your glove, will you?
She-oh, can't take it off.
He-Well take only the ''g'' of. then, and give
me the rest.
Daneing-master- understand you want
Paterfamillas tfather of two popular debutantes)
-Yes-and when to leave 1t.
Jaspar-What do you think of that for
fish story?
Jumunppe-You should get it patented.
8 Jaspar-Why?
Jumpuppe-it is such a marvellous invention,
He softly tiptoed in the room,
And caught her dozing in nap.
IL filed his soul with sudden gloom
To see his verses in her lap.
seRemember, my child, kind words can
..Naybe so. >, said the suffering woman 'sBus
they can 60 OF and stay for years and be given up
for lost.''
SIS love blind?"
IT Iam afraid my love is. She says she can't see
any advantage in marrying me-"
''Police p' yelled man as he rushed into
the street.
you'll have to call louder.r said bystander;
1.-THE baseball grounds are mile away
'eDo you think can see through you ?'
said an irate old gentleman to the buriy man in
front of him.
''You ought to be able 20, SIR, - returned the
other good naturedy; 1--we pain in my bach"
each, my trent, de harp it is romano, de
organ it IS heestory, de violin 1t Is boetry, and"
-s.what Is the Tyre. professor?'i
'.Feektion, sir, ohf course.''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
oNE-sIDED INDEPENDENCE.

The esteemed New York Eoeninq Post
has heretofore shown desire to maintain
a reputation as an independent journal.
It is fair conclusion from one of its re-
cent efforts in the line of discussing cur
rent political phase that it 10 longer wishes
that reputation, but has concluded to ac-
cept the character and work of one-sided
Democratic organ.
The phase it discusses is the tendency of
the agricultural element toward soft
money ideas The source of these is de-
clared to be the soft-money speeches of
Republican leaders. The Post quotes
from the speeches made by these men in
years past and on the strength of the ex-
pressions declares that the absurdities of
PETER and Simpson which we are now
laughing at were derived from Repub-
hcans like Blaine and Allison and ingalls,
and Kelley and Matthews"
The direct assertions which the Post
makes in this connection are true, but they
contain a Sltppressio 0eri on which direct
SuggeStS0 fGLsi is based. The conclusion of
our cotemporary's article is that the Re-
publican leaders are responsible for the
present soft-money craze, and nothing is
said about the attitude of Democratic
leaders or the soft-money and silver ques-
tiOns in the decade of the seventies. While
the Post was rummaging the records for
these speeches of Republican leaders did
it come across no speeches from leading
Democrats? 1t must have taken an ex-
traOrdinary discrimination on its part to
perceive nothing from such Democrats as
Pendleton, Hendricks, Beck, Voorhees,,
Vest Bland and others. The fact
is that during the period to which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Simon Holton, Inventor.

Simon Holton, who invented the CART ED
clock, died at his home in Middlebury, VT,
Wednesday. He was born In Mortified. Mass, on
July Il, 1s22 and went into business in Middlebury
in 1850. He had mechanical genius of rare order.
He was an expert matchmaker and most of his in
yentions were in this line. He was the originator
of the escapement. He invented the metallic ther-
mometer and the metallic barometer, and made a
self-registering thermometer which runs by clock
work and goes eight days q stretch. Hebu lit
the first sewing machine with the shuttle carried
a carriage u 1881 he made the celebrated Garfield
clock. which was exhibited at BunncIl's Museum
in New York. Every time 1t struck the hour the
clock reproduced in realistic way all the principal
of the President to the final appearance of Guiteau
upon the gallows. Another invention in this line
is an upright clock, the figures running from bot
tom to top. The hand runs from O'Clock at the
bottom to Il at the top. then drops to the bottom
and begins over again. Another curiosity is a
watch Which, with the exception of two portions
of the works, was fashioned entirely out OF ivory
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
THE TARIFF THE SOUTH,

President Harrison in an interview upon
his late tour through the South describes
| the wonderful growth of material interests
in that section since the war. Of all that
he says on the subject, nothing touches
the politics of the future more vitally than
his prediction, doubtless a correct one,
that the day will come, possibly for those
now living to see, when Birmingham and
Chattanooga will be as great cities as Pitts
burg now is. Passing over the necessary
reflection that by that time PittSburg, for
its part, will have made still more enor-
nous strides and be farther even than
now beyond rivalry or competition, it is
easy to see that the drift of the assertion
is to establish the solid community of in
terests which must hereafter exist between
Northern and Southern States.
Once upon time, it was not uncommon
to hear the protective policy under which
Pennsylvania has so magnificently pros
pered denounced as peculiarly Pennsyl-
vania institution. There was nothing in
the sneer, for the whole country shared in
the benefits of protection, if not directly,
indirectly. Henceforth, however, with
the development of manufactures through
the South, protection will grow to be of as
vital interest to Alabama, Tennessee, and
even Kentucky and parts of Virginia, as it
has been to Pennsylvania. The new feel
ing cannot establish itself in day. But
it is being sharply realized already through
the South; and it must grow as the local
manufactures of the South increase in
number and Importance.
The opponents of the protective policy
have blue lookout. Despite great boast
ing OF the impressions they were producing
upon the people, there is nothing ON the
horizon to encourage them. In the North
ern States they have won no substantial or
lasting success. Congressional elections
of last fall gave them temporary hope, as
they were either too blind or unwilling to
see that other causes contributed to Re-
publican defeat besides the misrepresenta-
tions of the effects of the Mckinley bill;
but in the operations of that bill to date
they can look in vain for basis for sue
cesSful national or even State campaign.
Should, as is certain to occur, several of
the Southern States also be won over
by their direct interests to the pro-
lection policy the opponents of that
policy will not succeed day after that
event in keeping the Democratic organiza-
ton in line in its attacks upon the tariff
system. That party is only in that hostile
attitude now in direct antagonism to the
wisest counsel of some of its ablest minds,
such as the late Samuel J. Randall, the
New York Sun and others that might be
named. Its statesmen will have to con-
slider these facts between now and the
Presidential nomination. We hope it will
not take them the whole period that Biz
mingham may require to grow up to the
present size of Pittsburg-as that would
be rather long lingering in the annual
shadow of the valley of political defeat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

well as the discipline of stubbed toes and
stone-b bruises.
But all this must go. We have offended
against modesty in praising the career of
sturdy and virtuous men who started as
barefooted boys. We have brought the
blush of shame to the cheek of Young
Persons, as Mr.. Veneerny puts it, by
putting barefooted boys and, most terri
BILE thought, even barefooted little girls, in
the pictures of American life. Beyond all
that we have subjected society to great
Generalization by throwing open our
schools to barefooted children equally with
those who wear French kid or russell
leather. This is the edict of the .purists
who run the schools Of Fitchburg
The most immodest aspect of such de-
eision is the indecent exposure of the
alleged mental faculties of the prudes who
place barefooted boys under the ban.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
WITH CROWNS AND WITHOUT.

PROF. ARNOLD GUYoT, of the Miami
(Ohio) University, has been appointed Pro-
fessor Of French in the Yale Scientific
School.
THE Marquis of Salisbury recently sent
magnificent lot strawberries, with
flowers, and other fruits to the Royal Horti-
cultural Society's show in London.
THE Czarewitz has been a most indus
trious student, and is now one of the best
informed men of his age in Eastern Europe.
He is especially well versed in the higher
sciences.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
commissioned the celebrated artist, Anton
Won Werner, to paint picture represent
ing the Emperor, the German princes and
the army officers in the act of congratulate
ing the late Count Won Moltke upon the
completion of his Goth birthday.
MADAM COLE had made arrangements to
start June 27 on a trip to the United States,
when she received the command of Her
Majesty the Queen to sing in the "Golden
Legend" at Albert Hall in July, on the oc-
casion of the visit of the German Emperor.
Her visit to her native land has been, there
fore, indefinitely postponed.
MISS LOUISE NICoLsoN, of Washington,
better known as Nikita, has lately finished
her third tour in Russia, which has lasted
over year and half. She has visited the
principal cities of Western, Southern and
Eastern Russia. Nikita is now in Germany,
and will take well-earned rest at Ems
previous to resuming her vocation.
The reported arrangement for the mar
riage of Pension Attorney Lemon and Mrs.
General Logan was denied in a card issued
by prominent G. A. r. man of Omaha,
close friend of the Logan family. Before
sailing for Europe, Mrs. Logan wrote him
letter denying that she contemplated marry
ing Lemon, and saying she would never
marry.
BARON ALFRED ROTHSCHILD during the
past week entertained q number of distin-
guished people at a most unique private
concert, at which Adelina Patti, Van Dyck,
the fashionable TENOR Maurel and Lassalle,
Edouard de Reszke, Wolff, the violinist and
HOLMAN, the cellist, contributed to the fund
of enjoyment. 1t is estimated that the
artists services alone cost the Baron over
5000 for the evenings entertainment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
DEALERS IN LIGHTING FIXTURES.

They Organize at Cincinnati and Elect a
Pittsburg Man Treasurer.
CINCINNATI, June 27.-The dealers in gas
and electric light fixtures from leading cities
in the country, who have been in session in
this city the past three days, completed their
organization to-day. This new association
lust formed is called the "National Associa-
ton of Gas and Electric Light Fixture
Dealers"
The following officers were elected: Presi-
dent L. B. Cross, of Kansas City; Vice Presi-
dent L, +. Brooks of Washington: Secretary
p. V. Dwyer, of St. Paul; Treasurer John
Kelly, of Pittsburg. The association ad-
iourned this afternoon, the time and place
of the next meeting to be fixed by the Execu-
tive Committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Other Changes in Economy,

THE church has undergone more change
in the undermining spirit than anything in
Economy. The bare oak planks of the
floor which used to serve the worshipers
hidden now under an ingram carpet of
warm tan tints, with cocoa mating in the
aisles' The benches of solid oak have re-
Gently been painted and grained in imita-
tion of antique oak-hardly an improve
ment. Many city church is not so COM
fortably furnished, and this was the place in
Economy that strangers were won't to con-
slider the one dispiriting, cold and purely
primitive feature of the settlement.
There may be more essential revolution
in progress in the society than anyone may
note in the town-there are not wanting
signs of the former-but 1t is hard to see how
the society can survive Mr.. Henrici in any
event. and it is mournful on many accounts
that Economy as Pennsylvania has known
it for almost three-quarters of century
will soon be thing of the past
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

In connection with the defects of our
Asiatic squadron, the New York Recorder
remarks of one of the vessels: "The
Monocacy is an old Mississippi sidewheel
steamer, good only for river travel" We
fear the esteemed Recorder is not fully ac-
quainted with river craft. A Mississippi
river steamer that should attempt the voy-
age to Asia would not live half way to Cape
Horn. The Monocacy is an old and presum-
ably not very valuable craft, but her first
acquaintance with the Mississippi river was,
we believe, as part of Farragut's glorious
entrance,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
The Ouaintness Gone.

THE hired help are all that one sees, with
an occasional exception, in the streets of
Economy these days-and they are simply
German immigrants for the most part
recently arrived, whose dress, speech and
manners are familiar enough in Pittsburg.
There is nothing distinctive or peculiar
about them, as there was about the
original population of Economy, and they
do not harmenize with the old-fashioned
picturesqueness of their surroundings. Even
in the old Rapp house opposite the church,
where one was wont to receive a gracious
greeting from Miss Rapp until two years ago,
and where Mr.. Henrici still lives, the mod
ern spirit has penetrated. A firm, though
very polite little woman in black, with q
brisk, business-like air and ready tongue,
meets you when you ring the doorbell-a
garish innovation that would not have been
tolerated in Economy few years ago-and
runs over the curiosities, pictures and
quaint furniture of the parlor with the glib
ness of a Washington guide, You feel none
of the awe that the parlor inspired in you
when the stately Henrici and quiet little
Miss Rapp received you there.
The big garden still salutes you with its
gay flower beds, its shady arbors, its fish
ponds surrounding the grotesQue band
stand, the odors are just as sweetly heavy
and strange, and the best of care seems to
be taken of it all. The tight-board fence
which separates the garden from the street
is new-handsome enough but desperately
new. And what sight is that? Great heavens!
a man crossing the garden with pipe in
his mouth, and the rank odor of tobacco is
waited to us with the scent of roses and
honeysuckle. A few years ago a man would
as soon have thought of smoking in
powder magazine as in Rapps garden, the
holy of holies of a place where tobacco has
long been anathema.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

it refers the only Democrat of
a national reputation who did not try to
make political capital out of the soft
money idea was Allan G. Thurman. Yet
the Post directly asserts that the source
of the present ideas in that line is entirely
in the Republican speeches of that period
which followed at respectful and tenta-
tive distance the Democratic heresies.
1t would be hard for the most purblind
partisan article to be more one-sided in
misrepresenting political history than this
exponent CT alleged independence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
DANGER IN ICE CREAM.
orty-Eight Partakers of the Vanilla Fla
vored Article Sick Almost Unto Death.


vored Article Sick Almost Unto Death.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.]
MALONE, N. Y, June H.-The Episcopal So
ciety of Brushton, N. Y, Saturday evening
served ice cream at their lawn festival in
that village. A short time after partaking OF
the ice cream some complained of feeling ill,
and soon after they were taken with vomit-
ing, nausea and severe pains, in fact, with
every appearance of poisoning. DR.. Hawkins
was called, but on his arrival found so many
suffering thathe summoned other physicians.
By early next morning all were pro-
nounced out of danger though some were
very weak and low, but all are now able to
be out. Forty-eight persons in all were poi
soned. There were two kinds of ice cream
served-lemon and vanilla. All who par
took of vanilla were sick, while those who
took lemon experienced no bad effect. Some
people think the poison was in the fiavoring
extract, but physicians say it was caused by
some product of decomposition in the milk
coming in contact with zinc of the ice cream
freezer,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
IN THE CLOVER.

Butterfly,
Flutter by,
Over the clover,
Under the sky.
Sail and falter and fail,
And cling to the fragrant spray;
Shift and shirk,
No weather for work
Falls on summer day.
Bumblebee,
Tumble free
Into the bloom of the tulip-tree;
Cease your hustle and boom,
Swing on a stamen and sing,
Or clutch fiagon frail and fine,
And drowsily drink the wine
And rest your rumbling wing.
Meadowlark,
Glow like spark
That will set the fields afre;
Tenderly whistle
On top of a thistle
A 'turilee'' to your mate up higher
In dusky locust-tree.
Therel There!
Away goes care,
And q dream comes over me.
IA buy tired out with play, IS -,
On a.snmmer holiday,
In the grass SO cool and deep
Letne lie and sleep,
While the butterfly goes huttering over,
Between the blue sky and purple clover,
- And the bumblebee BUNDLES
- And whirls and tumbles,
Where the meadowlarks nest
And her golden breast
Have clover
All over
For cover.
Maurice Thompson in July 81. NichoIds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

THE almost universal reports of big crops
and prosperity for the Western farmer may
not smooth out all the political complica-
tions, but it will make business prospects
satisfactory and roseate for everyone. This
is always subject to proviso that corporate
manipulators and banking fnanciers do not
get up panics or wrecks for their own di-
version or enrichment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
A FABLE.
The Firefy Who Works His Own Ruin by
Making a Challenge.

New York SUM-
To specter, whose palely blush form was
discernible crouched on tomb, enters q
flashing freely. "Well, you old exploded
superstition" exclaimed the insect, fitting
through and through the Shapes impalpable
person; "if couldn't glow any better than
that, 1 would try to shine.by reflected light"
81 hear the football of a mortal" returned
the specter, in hollow accents; "on him we
will test our respective powers of illumina-
tion." The freely, scintillating with all his
might, darted at the approaching boy, who
seized him with cry ST delight, which was
converted into piercing lamentations whom
he caught sight of the specter. In the
vivacity of the youths emotions and flight
the insect was destroyed.
In his scheme of popular entomology, the
judicious naturalist will leave an exalted
place for the bugabOo.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

FROM the energetic way in which the
Democratic organs are disputing whether
Cleveland is popular with the rank and file
of the party or not, there would seem to be a
general recognition of the fact that the
election of delegates to the National Con-
vention cannot be trusted to represent the
sentiments of the party masses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

To recognize the Congressional Chileans
as belligerents would be to recognize that a
state of war exists, and that those who de-
fend representative government have as
good a standing with the United States as
those who maintain dictatorship. Is there
anything inconsistent with the position of
great republic on that stand? +
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

CONCERNING New York politics, it is in
teresting to learn that Mr.. Smith NJ Weed
has recently declared in an interview that
he is not saying anyth 'ng. Mr.. Weed does
not even intimate that he is saving wood,
but that does not prevent a suspicion that
he may be occupying his leisure moments in
whetting a knife for the fifth rib of one
David Bennett Hill
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

CHIEF BROWN will earn some thanks
if he carries out his proposal to stop the
driving of cattle in the streets, excepting on
permits, and also racing upon the public
thoroughfares. With the network of cable
and electric cars going at high speed. the
perils of the road are necessarily great
enough without longer permitting process
sions of Texan steers and the trials of fast
horses in populous places. The Chief is to be
CONNIE ended for his stand on this matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Mrs. Christian O'Connor.
IA. Chri

MIS- Christian O'Connor, widow of
Thomas O'Connor, died at the residence of her SON.
in-law. Colonel s. W. HILL 33 Church Avenue, yes
terday afternoon, in her list year. She was well
known and highly respected by a large circle of
friends,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
AN ANCIENT BURIAL GROUND
Discovered by a Beaver County Farmer in
Clearing His Land.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
BEAVER FALLS, June N.-In clearing up q
farm in White township, near this place,
this week, William Clayton late purchaser
of the farm, discovered an ancient burial
place, supposed to be 100 years old, and
of which the oldest fnhabitant in this place
knows nothing. The popularity of the
graves is that each one is covered with q
huge slab about two feet from the surface of
the ground, and many of the graves are over
ten feet long. The graves will be opened to
ascertain if anything can be learned of the
race to which the dead belonged.
Many years ago, when Beaver county was
a howling Wilderness, it was the custom of
early settlers to bury their dead very deeply,
then cover the grave with q slab of stone
about three feet from the surface, then level
up the ground over the grave and SOW it in
grass or grain, thus effectually hiding all
traces of It. This was done to protect the
dead from the ravages of wild beasts, and
also from the scalping knife of the Indians,
who would as soon have the scalp of per-
SON dying from natural causes as that of one
killed In battle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Count Charles Albert Festetis.

Count Charles Albert Festetis died at
Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City, Thursday night He
was native of Austria, but had lived in this coun
ton. He was an eminent engineer and was idenfi-
ned with a number of big enterprises, among them
the laying of the four tracks for the New York
Central RairOad
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

TWENTY per cent Of the legislation passed
by the late Legislature was vetoed, and when
we come to consider the methods by which
legislation was governed in that body, the
wonder is that more bills were not vetoed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

THE contradiction of John Wanamaker's
assertion that he never held any stock in
the Keystone Bank is calculated to shake
confidence in the strict accuracy of that
statement of his Mr.. Wanamaker will have
to testify some more, or run for the Senate
in order to Yindicate himself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

JUDGE GORDON, of Philadelphia, recently
dismissed jury which had acquitted man
who was clearly proved guilty of fillicitliquor
selling with the remark that they had dow
cred the standard of the law, and that when
they went home and considered the matter
they would find that they had rendered a
verdict which was inconsistent with the
evidence" But Judge Gordon can hardly
1atter himself that such words will make
any impression on the class of jurors who
establish indemnity for speak-easy proprie-
tors. These jurors will continue to have the
last say until there is a reform in the selec-
tion of jurors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

THE death of young Brokaw, one of the
Princeton athletes, while rescuing others
from death, silences for the moment all the
current sarcasms about the muscular col
legians. The colleges have produced one
hero who demonstrated the right to the title
at the cost of his life