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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
uIusiye Southern Booms,

II am going back to Kansas" remarked a
gentleman to st. Louis Globe Democrat rep.
resentative from the New South. 1 went
down to the New South when the boom was
on. There was heap of talk about the minera
belt of Tennessee and Alabama Cardiff was
plated as town near Emery Gap, in Walden
Ridge, East Tennessee and prodigious fortunes
were to be made, not only in mining COAL max
ing coke and i'll making pig iron, but in real
estate deals and general speculation. So far as
Cardiff is concerned. the whole business has
collapsed The houses, hundreds of them.
which the company erected, nice stone build,
ings and neat cottages, are vacant and going
fast to decay. There is iron all through the
Walden Ridge, but the business has been over
done. and it did not pay TO open up the ore
beds or the coal veins on the Cardiff property.
Indeed the boom in the South is as dead or
more defunct than the boom which once cleo
trified the country about Kansas"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
FUNNY PHASES.
When lovely woman stoops to fasten

Her shoestring the crowded street.
Even necks of military training
Are turned askew to watch her feet.
-Tezds Sifttngs.
She-will you always love me, dear, Just
the same as you do now?
He--Always.
sbe-You wretched thingI why didn't you
protest that every year you would love me moreeA
SomerUiHe Journal
Frank-Should ask you to be nv wife
would you offer to be my sister9
May-No, your sisters sister.-Nelo York Her
aid.
The Majah--Has that fellow answered
your challenge, Colonel?
ColoneI-He has. san; but l shall not Eight him.
He refused to meet me, unless 1 would promise to
buy my coffin of his brother. who is a beastly un-
dertaker.-Indtlnapoli Journal.
"What have You got to plant to get a
family tree, anyhow?'' asked Wazg
'.Ancestors.' - returned Wiggles. - Beo YORK
Sun.
"Papa, what's the reason you call all
these fellers cranks that ride bicycles?''
because they are. my son.
(Aiter q pause) - '+Can you ride q bicycle,
Dapa?''
"N-no, my son on.''-Chtcago Tribune.
Dashaway - You know Wangle, who
treated me badly; well. got even with him the
other night. started to call on Miss Sandstone,
and just rs was about to ring the bell looked in
through the window, and saw he was there and
that she was singing TO him.
Cleyerton--And then you went in and sat on
him.
Dashaway-No. didn't 1 went away and ist
her keep on singing. g.-Harper's Bdsar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Natural Affinities of Lovers.

The reader is not obliged to believe the fore
going (possibly) fairy tales, but here are some
scientific facts which he may find fully as en-
tertaining:
Hermann Fol, one OF the most eminent of
living embryologists, while staying at Nice-the
Mecca of honeymo ooning-had his attention at
tracted to the resembances between young
married couples The popular notion that
married people lend by resembling each other"
was shared by Fol, but his trained vision de-
tected amongst crowds of young married
couples, characteristics that led him to suppose
a contrary proposition to be nearer the truth
they begin by resembling each other To put
the matter to scientific test he engaged in a
series OF observations and researches on the
photographs of young and old married couples,
ScientifQue. The following table gives his
statistical conclusions:
Couples Resemblance. Non-resemblances.T Total.
per cent. per cent.
Young. about &C. 66 ...66 about 49, 80. 1873
Od...... IS about 7l.70 l5 about 2S 30. 90
In marriages made at random the number of
resemblances would not amount to more than
two in a hundred. Among the non.resem-
blances were included some very curious cases,
where man and wife, though quite dissimilar
in every other respect. yet exhibited in CON-
mon certain traits constituting ugliness
more or less ridiculous" Fol infers from this
an argument in favor of the idea that candi-
dates for marriage do not fear the particular
form of ugliness to which their mirror accus-
toms them. Fol infers:
l. In the immense majority of marriages of
inclination" the contracting parties are at
tracted by similarities and not by dissimilaIi-
ties.
. The resemblances between aged married
couples is not fact acquired by conjugal life,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
COMPLAINS OF STANLEY.

Colonel Sanford Says the Explorer Has
Injured the Lecturing Business.
Colonel Sanford, the lecturer. was at the
Union depot last evening with his wife,
going to Lancaster, o. The Colonel states
that he has had a good season. coming out
g, 500 ahead of his previous records.
"The lecturing business in general" he con-
tlnued, has been good, but it would have been
better were it not for such men as Stanley and
Stepniak. Neither OF them can express them
selves well, and in the main have
disguised the people. Stanley. am told, goes
through the country like an autocrat. seeing
no one, and feeling his oats generally. His
wife certainly did not treat the ladies of Pitts
burg very courteously, and the women in other
cities have been steering clear of her, as re-
suit Why. Stanley has not Travelled as many
miles as Kennan, and his explorations have
been in one direction
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

SOME o. our Eastern cotemporaries are
surprised to Learn from the President of the
Kansas Farmers Alliance, that Judge Gresham
was the first choice of the Alliance TOR Senator
in Illinois. But the statement only shows that
the Alliance mer care more for having public
men honest. independent and free from corpor-
ate control, than for swallowing all their fnan-
cial vagaries. 1t also suggests that if the, Re-
publican party had been far-sighted and inde-
pendent enough 10 take Gresham in 1855, Kan
sas might still have been Republican State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
THE ANDERSON CRICKET DEAD.
It Had Been Living in the Elevator Since
the House Opened.

It Had Been Living in the Elevator Since
the House Opened.
I'VE have been mourning in this house since
the last food" said Chief Clerk William
Crosby, of the Anderson, yesterday, to COM
pany of drummers.
"Somebody dead!" suggested one of the SYM
pathetic commercial men.
"Yes," replied the clerk, brushing away
tear. .our cricket which has never failed to
chirp in the elevator has stopped its singing,
and l afraid the water has killed
the little fellow. At least it has not been
heard since the flood. 1t is strange about this
cricket Nobody has seen it, bus it, has been
living in the elevator since the house opened
six years ago. 1t would chirp most merrily on
all occasions, and many of our guests who
think that the cricket is lucky would sit in the
elevator and listen to it for an hour at a time.
One drummer in particular always asked first
about the ericket's welfare when he arrived,
and 1 thought he would take a fit when told
him it was dead. Well, your good luck Is
gone, and 1 am afraid mine has skipped with
it he said, sadly. Emma Juch liked to hear
the cr1ckets notes, and while stopping here
would often sing in the elevator with it. The
animal was fond of music and showed its ap-
probation by increasing its chirping sounds"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

who is responsible for the story. "that it ex-
stood outside the barn doors when harnessed
to the load. The horse pulled three times on
the load and failed to start it. had all conf
dence IN that horses ability to draw the load
but paid over the amount of the wager That
night had occasion to go around to the rear of
the stable and was surprised to find that the
underpinning of the building was not where it
should be. and on further investigation discov-
cred that hook on the loose end of a binding
chain on my load of hay had caught in the barn
floor and that the horse in his three pulls on
the load had actually started the barn Is inches
off its foundation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

IT seems that when Speaker Reeds
methods are adopted by a presiding officer of
another party, it makes all the difference in
the world. The Democratic Speaker of the
New Jersey House of Representatives has been
counting quorum and refusing to recognize
members on the other side, and Philadelphia
newspaper points out that the Democrats did
not object to it at ALL But it suppresses the fact
that the Republicans failed TO indorse this
adoption of the Reed precedents and kicked
like several yoke of steers. 1t always makes
vital difference whose OK Is gored.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Bad News for Smokers.

1t is becoming difficult matter to get good
cigars from Havana, as Gath" of the Clncin-
matt Enquirer, has discovered. Says his in
formant: THE Spaniard ruins everything he
touches. They have picked that island out
of its habits, its money. its pride; in the en-
deavor to crowd the Havana tobacco business
they have put upon the limited land which
raises the fine cigar tobacco all manner of gu
amos and phosphates which spoil the tobacco
and cause the smokers to eXclaim against the
importers. Now that they have in some places
ceased to put on this acid stuff which spoils the
tobacco leaf, the land, like drunken man,
feels the want of a stimulus"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Carnegie on Iron.

New York journal of Finance.l
Andrew Carnegie says that the production
and consumption of iron and steel last year
broke all records. Mr.. Carnegie fears that iron
market prices may go lower, but they will not
stay down long He says there is no reason for
asking Northern railroads to cut down freight
rates to aid Pennsylvania iron manufacturers.
He does not think the South is going to monop-
olize the iron trade right away
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
ST. PATRICK,S DAY
Be Generally Celebrated In PIttsburg

To Be Generally Celebrated In PIttsburg
and Allegheny.
st, Patr1ck's Day will be observed in Pitts
burg tomorrow by all good sons of Erin.
Special services will be held in nearly all she
Catholic hurches. In several OF them interest
ing lectures will be delivered. W. d. Nc
Auliffe will be Chief Marshal of the parade
He has appointed as his staff the following:
Assistant Marshal, p. nj. Morrow: Adjutant
General John Mcfarland; Chief of STAFF, John
Gilroy, Chief of Line Aids, Philip B. Duffy.
The parade will form in front of the Cathe-
dral on Grant street. and the route will be over
the principal streets of the city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

Mr.. EDWARD STRAUSS alleges that he
suffered during his trip in this country from
BLACK servants and temperance people" Pos
sibly the chief suffering which he charges to
these obnoxious classes was due to his convic-
tion that they did not swell his receipts by at
tending his concerts AS sufferer in this
country, Herr Strauss is not al especial object
of Mir
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
FUNERAL OF SENATOR HEARST.
Thousands of People View the Body, Which
Is Buried With Much Honor.

Thousands of People View the Body, Which
Is Buried With Much Honor.
SAN FRANCISCO. March l5-srhe funeral
services were held to-day over the remains of
the late United States Senator. George Hearst
Since last Thursday. when the body arrived
from Washington 1t has lain in state at Grace
Church, where it was viewed by hundreds of
citizens. The services were conducted by the
Rev. w. c. Foute, Of Grace Church, and the
building was crowded to the doors with people
Among the pail bearers were Governor Mark
ham Mayor SandersoD, Chief Justice Beatty
and others of the most prominent men in the
State.
Although the rain poured down steadily all
day thousands of people who could not gain ad-
mittaDce to the church lined the streets to view
the funeral procession. In the procession were
the Second Brigade of the National Guard of
California, Congressional and Legislative Com
missions. General Gibbons and staff, the Demo-
crat State Central Committee, the California
State Democratic Club, the IroQuois Club and
many civic organizations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Judges at a College Contest.

Rev. E. r. Donehoo has received an invita-
ton from the Cumberland Presbyterian Col
Iege of Waynesburg, to act as judge at it's ar
nual contest next Wednesday,. Hon. Henry
HoucK and Colonel Chill w. Hazard are also
to be judges. Mr.. DOnehoo said yesterday
that last year he had acted in similar capacity
for the college, and that one of the societies
had secured a special teacher for the contest
but when it was decided the side that had tn Q
teacher was defeated, and from the way Mr..
Donehoo was treated afterward he thought he
would never hear from them again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

get her invitation to the Worlds Fair; but the
excuse is obvious The bad luck which promi-
nept people in this country have had in not
getting their letters is explanation enough.
Governor and Senator Hill can tell the
Canadians how 1t happened.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
WOMEN HEALTH INsPEC TORS.
They Have Police Power and Do Some Very
Good Work.

Business Woman's Journal.l
Chicago has five women health inspectors;
Mrs Byford Leonard, daughter of the late DR..
Byford, Mrs. Clara NJ. Doolittle, Mrs. Marie
Owens, Mrs. Mary Glennon and DR.. Rachel
Hickey. Their salary is s., 900 year, the same
as paid to gentlemen for the same work. Their
especial duties are to inspect places where
women and children are at work. and If un-
sanitary conditions are discovered they arc en-
powered to order necessary changes. In many
places the conditions they find are sickening
and demonstrate the wisdom of the Woman's
Alliance, at whose petition they were ap-
pointed These ladies are clothed with police
power, and, if necessary, enforce their recon-
mendations by pointing to their star, which is
usually concealed. Already great good has
come from the work of these inspectors
Abuses have been discovered and put in the
way of being remedied or abated. Often the
terrible conditions surrounding workingmen in
shops and factories seem due to ignorance on
the part of employers and employed, and are
greatly improved by carrying out the directions
of the inspectors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
DEATHS OF A DAY.
s. w. Kenlar.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DLsPATcH.i
MEADvILLE, March lbs. w. Kepler,
proprietor of the Kepler House, this city. and one
of the best known hotel men in Western Pennsyl-
vania died suddenly at $3.50 this afternoon He
fell from stepladdcr Wednesday. and it was
thought he was only slightly injured. but it seems
he was hurt internally. He was conscious to a
few moments of his death. Mr.. kepler had long
been hotel man, and was prominent Odd Fell
low. He leave wife and large family.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

POSSIBLY by the time that the diplomat
lists get that seal question arbitrated, there will
not be any seals left to protect by international
agreement But the dispute will be settled by
pacific methods; and that is much better than
fighting over a question which is not worth a
single day of warfare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
THE FIGHT NARROWING DOWN.

Developments of the Day in the California
Senatorial Contest.
SACRAMENTO March 15.-There were no new
outward developments in the Senatorial con-
test Saturday. beyond the fact that Estee had
gained one vote, while De Young and FELTON,
lost one and three respectively.
The rumor is again asserted that the De
Young and FELTON, forces will coalesce on Mon
day and Tuesday, in which event the contest
will be narrowed practically TO two candidates;
and if it should follow that one should receive
the majority of the Republican votes in both
Houses, it is contended that 1t would be ac-
cepted as the same y decision of a party
caucus and would result in the election of the
leading Candidate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

j row that the Canadian election is over,
it is reassuring to learn from the Tory leaders
that all those harsh things said during the fight
about the United States are to be taken in a
strictly Pickwickian sense. Sir Charles Tup-
per declares the affection OF the Government
for this nation and its readiness to reciprocate
in any way that will not turn Macdonald and
Tupper out of office.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
CANADA AND ITS COMMERCE.
Macdonald Affects to BelittIe the Import
ance of Yankee Trade

.tH<VuOI-flEU
ance of Yankee Trade.
OTTAWA, March 15.-On reliable authority
correspondent says that he is in q position to
state that the Government regards the estimate
of the value that has been placed upon the
United States market as being far in excess of
what it is really worth to Canada, and if it fails
Washington the Government will either be
greatly surprised or disappointed. Sir Charles
Upper is going to see not only what France
will do. but whether Spain will not again con-
slider the question of a reciprocal trade ar
rangement with Canada.
1t is now stated that. although Sir Charles
Tupper will go to Washington shortly. it will
be merely to see Sir Julian Pauncefote, and
that Hon. Mr.. Foster and Sir John Thompson
will be the delegates sent down TO talk limited
reciprocity to Mr.. Blaine through Sir Julian.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

THE news that France is to enter upon a
tariff debate which is expected to take all sum-
mer, would justify the United States in send
ing to the French people our commiseration,
and Reed, Mckinley. Mills and Bynum to make
things additionally lively. ,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

WHETHER that bank at Monte Carlo ac-
tually lost the reported 500, 0O0may be doubted,
but the energy with which the fact is spread all
over the world leaves no question that the bank
management hopes to get more than that sum
back from the gudgeons who will flock to
Monte Carlo on account of the advertisement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
A Horse That Can Pull.

The proud owner of a valuable horse tells
the Madison, Me-, Bulletin how he once lost
SIS in a bet on that animals ability. The wager
was that the horse could pull a load of ten tons
of hay out of the barn. the hay to be loaded on
along sled the sled to be- PLACED on the bare
floor. "The sled was SO long" said the man
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Captafn j. S. Power.

Captain J. S. Power died yesterday at his
residence in Patton township. He served during
the war In Company b. sd Regiment, Pennsyl-
vanis Volunteers, and was severely wounded in
the left lung at the battle OF Charles City Cross
roads June go 1862. Hewa man of fine physique
and commanding appearance. He was loved by
all who knew him. At the time of his death,
Captain Power serving his fourth term as
Justice of the Peace.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

The Democratic papers are making a
good deal of fuss over the report that Brazil
does not want reciprocity; but as the opposi-
tion to reciprocity comes from newspapers in
Brazil controlled by the British interest, it only
shows that the English idea of free trade does
not include freer trade between any countries
out of which England does not get profit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
A Lecture on Alaska.

Rev. ]. P. White. who recently returned
from Alaska, delivered an address to the con-
gregation of the Southside Presbyterian
Church, corner Twentieth and Sarah streets
last evening. His subject was the country, the
people and church work among them. The
speaker gave quite an interesting talk. and was
listened to with attention by large audience
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

BY the way, We must give one weather
prophet credit for having had his predictions
verified. The groundhog's term expired yes
terday and there is a general impression that
his prophecy of winter weather was indicated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
MANY NEW CORPORATIONS,

Over Three Hundred Organized Within the
Space of Week.
CHICAGO. March l5.-The United States Cor
poration Bureau, of Chicago, reports the
weekly list of new completed corporations in
the United States for the week ending March
13 1891. viz:
Total corporations. S99; total capitalization,
S74, $50, ,225 distributed as follows: Mercantile
and manufacturing companies, 173, s23. .292 400:
banks and investment companies, 9, 81, $40 000:
gold and silver and other mining and smelling
companies, l3, S4.S05. 600; coal and iron COM
panies, TO- S2,0S7 000; light, heat. power and
transportation companies. %, sS,5l5,000; build
ing and loan associations %, S21 99I 900; miscel-
laneous, 81, Sl2, 169, ,325.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

A PARIS wood paving company has
failed with liabilities of three million francs.
The lesson of the failure is not obvious, how
ever, until We learn whether it was caused by
not making the pavements good enough
or by the vice that is unknown in this country,
of making them too good.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

IT is now alleged that the lions share of
the glory for defeating ballot reform IN Maine
is due Congressman and editor Boutelle. That
Republican leader took an early stand against
any interference with the Maine substitute for
blocks of five He has won victory which may
cost his party more than it comes TO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Frank Parker.

Frank Parker died yesterday at his home
on the Southside. He was member of Post ISL
g. A, r., Fort Duquesne Lodge, X. of T.. and
Lodge No. So A. y. U. w. His funeral will
occur tomorrow at P. M, from the M. L.
Church, South Eighteenth street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Two DictatoriaI Governments.

st. Louis Republic, Dem.I
Connecticut is still under the control of a
dictator, and civil government has not yet been
re-established In Guatemala. But in most of
the other American States usurpation is below
par at present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
Wears Socks by the Ya-d.

Nashville Americana
Hon. Jerry Simpson denies that foul aspersiou
with respect to the nudity of his neither limbs.
Jerry does wear socks. but we are authorized to
state that they are all wool and a yard wide
Ia
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
A Deadly Insult.

Boston Herald
President Harrison's hunting dog down In
Maryland answers to the name of Cleveland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

Vol. 46, No. S.-Entered at Pittsourg Postofice,
November Ia, lSs7, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
AFTER FORTY MILLIONS.
The Heirs of Colossal Estate In Germany
Hold Meeting.

KANSAS CITY. March 15-A meeting Of the
heirs of Louis Fisher, who died in l845, being
the sole heir to an estate of $40 600 00O was held
at Independence yesterday.
1t was decided to press the claims Of the
heirs. and money for that purpose was sub
scribed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16
TERMs OF THE DISPATCH.

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SUNDAY DISPATCH One Year. so
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THF DAILY DISPATCH is delivered by carriers st
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-16

Business Oface--Corner Snithf1eld
and Diamond Streets.