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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
The Cats Tenacity of Purpose.

Two curious instances Of tenacity of pur-
pose in animals have been brought to light
by the pulling down of old buildings in Lon
don, says foreign exchange. In each case
the animal is a cat. The workmen, in pull
ing down part of the late Royal Naval School
at New Cross, S. E., discovered under the
floor of the old gymnasium the bodies of q
are an inch and half apart, and so placed
in wedge-shaped cul de sac-wider at the
top than at the bottom-that the cat cannot
reach the rat. There was absolutely MOTH
ing to prevent the escape of the animals ex-
cept the cats unwillfngness to leave its
prey. The skeletons were covered with dust,
and have undoubtedly been years in the
position in which they were found and
photographed. Exactly the same discovery
Of the skeleton of cat and Il rat together
under floor was made when, in order to
construct the Peoples Palace, some old
buildings were torn down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
A Woman's Pet Rattlesnake.

Not long since Sion Parish, living on Bird
song, Tenn, killed near his spring a rattle
snake, says correspondent Of the st. Louis
Gto6e-Democrat 1t was brought to town,
stuffed and hung in front of Priestly,s pre-
scr1pt1on case in his drug store. A peculiar
lty about it was that it did not give the usual
warning when Mr.. Parish approached. After
TWAS killed this was accounted for by dis
covering that it had been wounded some
time In the past, a scar being plainly visible.
After 1t had been hanging in the drug store
Ior some weeks, a colored woman named
Pettigrew went to Mr. Priestly's to have q
prescription filed and while waiting no.
tlced the snake: All at once she became wis.,
IDLY affected. She held it in her hand, passed
ner hand over it with great tenderness, while
tne tears welled up in her eyes. She made
inquiries in regard to its history, and then
related the following:
when was little girl I lived with nv
parents on the place where Mr.. Parish lives
upon one occasion I went to the spring,
wnlen comes out Of the side of a sandstone
dun, a1ter the milk that we kept in box
near by. In lifting it out spilled some on
the ground. had occasion to set the bucket
down, where left 1t for few moments
When returned noticed a small snake, not
over loot long, drinking the milk. Upon
my approach it ran under O large sandstone
roek. The next day and the next poured
milk out, and concealed myself and watched
IL come out. This was repeated for weeks,
summer l left milk on the ground, and it
came out. 1t appeared to know when was
coming, and became so gentle that it would
allow me to handle it. l have played with
1t Tor hours at time, and watched IL grow
year after year until it was as large as my
wrist and longer than my arm.
upon one occasion, about the time
usually went down, my father came by the
spring for drink, having his hoe with him.
My pet, thinking was near, came out but
when 1t saw my father started back, NY
rather struck at it with his hoe and nearly
severed its tail from the body. 1 met him
upon his return and he told me of the occur
renee and warned me to be careful Twas
then great big girl and knew that it was II
rattlesnake and dangerous, but knew that it
would not harm me. was afraid to tell the
family that 1t was my pet, for fear they
would kill it. l went to the spring and
traced it under the rock by the blood, but
could not see it. placed its milk where it
could get it. For week it did not touch it,
One day thought could detect that it had
drank some. 1 laid down by the rock and
called 1t. After two OF three weeks it came
out and renewed its friendship. 1 nursed
and petted it during the entire fall, until
the wound healed. I never heard it rattle
and for long time did not know what the
fattles were for. I left the neighborhood
four or five years ago and had almost for
gotten the friend and playmate of my
younger days. l recognize it by this wound
on Its tail. l am sorry did not carry it
with men
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
A CRIMINAL CURIOSITY.

In magazine article of good many
years ago, Richard Grant White recorded
a singular case, in which the body of a
beautiful woman with several marked
physical characteristics was identified by
the relatives of no less than three missing
girls, with the result that all three of the
girls turned up alive, and the identity of
the dead woman remained mystery The
case of the irlrecently discovered drowned
near TarTytown copies that to a certain
degree and then goes beyond it with a
f ture of unique character in criminal
history.
First the body was identified as that of q
variety actress supposed to be missing;
but the actress, as in the earlier case, was
presently discovered at Coney Island very
much alive. After the lapse of a few
days the new feature of the case appears
in the shape of young man who identi-
fed the body as that Of his wife, who had
disappeared two years ago. The identifica-
tion was complete and the mystery seemed
TO be partially cleared up, when the young
mans parents appear on the scene, dis
close the fact that he had given a false
name and residence, and that the morning
before appearing to claim the body of the
dead woman he had left his living wife
sound and well at his home in New York.
Whether this remarkable step on his part
indicates insanity OF a secret connection
with the crime is the question that IS puz-
Zing the police authorities.
AITnSrpfhar 4ba oaca ic ono fhot aon ho
recorded among the curiosities of crime.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
Pensioned an Aged Horse,

In 1867 there was born on the farm of La
forest Ellis, at Sidney, Me-, sorrel colt, and
could the horse talk he would furnish a
story that would compare in measure with
"Black Beauty" says the Somerville Mass. J
Journal. The colt grew well at his Maine
home, and at the age of years Charles and
Manson Ellis, brothers of his owner took a
fancy to the colt and bought him, paying
$500. They took him to Boston, and used
him about two years as q driving horse
About that time the fine qualities of the
horse attracted the attention of Springer
Brothers, and they wished to purchase him,
which they did, paying large sum.
For years Jack remained with them and
when, at the age of "a years, his owners
wished to have him spend the remainder of
his days as comfortably as possible made
arrangements with Mr.. Ellis, his first owner,
te have him go back for the rest of his life to
the farm where he was foaled. Mr.. Ellis says
that he is perfectly at home, and can open
the stable door and unite his halter the same
as when a colt. He seems as happy as a
schoolboy. Jack in his old age is well pre-
served, as he always had the best of care. If
others who have such faithful horses would
be more careful to have them used well
when they become old, it would be only just
to be kind to them for the years of service
they have given.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS REQUIRED.

The statement comes from Washington
that the conduct of Mr.. Drew, the Bank
Examiner, in connection with the Keystone
Bank failure sis now under investigation"
and that 'fhis longer continuance in Office
will depend on the results of the investi-
tion.'
According to the statements of the Con-
troller of the Currency, Nh. Drew's course
was sufficient to call for his retirement
from office. But according to the same
statement the Controller himself is a
proper subject for investigation. For his
allegation that the Examiner left the defal-
cation in the keystone Bank unreported
for three weeks includes the statement
that after that remarkable proceeding the
Controller left him as as practical guard
on the bank for three months. The asser-
ton is as severe on the Controller as on
the Examiner. 1t presents such a remark
able combination of official negligence as
to naturally arouse the suspicion that it is
put forward only as the alternative to a
confession of worse delinquencies.
If the investigation is confined solely to
Mr.. Drew, it will confirm the general
opinion that there has been an agreement
to make him the official scapegoat. 1t re-
mains to be seen how he will stand it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
GOSSIP ABOUT OUR BETTERs.


HENRY IRvING's two sons will follow
the example of their distinguished father
and go upon the stage.
EX-SENATOR TABOR will build magnif-
cent residence which he Intends shall eclipse
anything else in Denver.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH suggests the
formation of a club in Toronto where liter
ary workers can meetand fraternize.
THE proprietor and manager of the New
Orleans PicoD1a1e, one of the best known
newspapers IN the South, is a woman-Mrs.
Nicholson. She personally superyises her
business.
YOUNG Mr.. HARRISON, the Irish NJ. P.
who came over with the Parnell delegates, is
the mildest hammered of men. He has made
hosts of friends in America by his suavity,
his intelligence and his modesty. The
American girls pronounce him the hand
soonest Irishman who has come across the
sea in a decade.
PROF. w. X. BROOKS, of Johns Hopkins
University, who has just published mono
graph ON the oyster, probably knows moro
about this favorite bivalve and its habits
than any one else in this country. He has
made special study of his subject il five
different States, and has spent much time
in wading about in the Chesapeake to form
a more intimate acquaintance with the she'll
fish.
JOHN HAMILTON BROWN, the inventor
of the segmental wire-wound cannon that
bears his name, tor the trial of which Con-
gress has lately appropriated $4,000, lives in
Greenville, Nj, where he is constantly busy
in his shops over his inventions. Captain
Brown will be remembered by the public as
the long range rifle shot, who, with his own
standard military rifle, made the best score
at one thousand yards at Wimbledon with
the American team in England in 1888.
Mrs. O'SHEA PARNELL will always
have a hold on Queen Victoria on account of
the kindnesswhich Mrs. O'Shea's grandfather,
Sir Matthew Wood, showed to the Duke of
Kent Shortly before the birth of the Queen
Sir Matthew made the Duke of Kent a very
large loan, so that he and the Duchess were
able to live in England instead of in Ger
many. And SO it happened that Victoria
was of English birth. Fully approaching
the fact that it would have been difficult to
get the English throne if she had been born
in Germany, Victoria has shown her gratti-
tude to Sir. Matthew Wood by showering
every kindness upon his granddaughter,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
THE LIGHTS OF PARIS.
Slow in Using Electricity but Now Rapidly
Coming to the Front.

Slow in Using Electricity but Now Rapidly
Coming to the Front.
Paris is now on the eve of a revolution in
her lighting system, says Albert Shaw in the
July Century. Gas lighting was first intro
duced in England, but Paris followed in
good time and with a splendor unequaled
elsewhere. In like manner America, Ger
many and some other countries have been
earlier in the use of electric lighting; but
Parisians, with their superior taste and skill
in all matters of municipal arrangements
and appointments, are destined to make by
TAR the most brilliant use of the new illumi-
naut Within one year, or within two years
at the farthest, it is confidently claimed that
Paris, would be incomparably the best
lighted city in the world and that electricity
will have superseded gas in public use. In
1878, at the time of the Universal Exposition,
the municipal government ordered the eX-
perimental illumina ton of the Avenue de
pOpera and several open spaces with elec-
tricity; but the new system was not ripe for
large use, and the experiment was soon
abandoned.
Its principal effect was the stimulus it
gave to the gas company, which invented
and put into use certain large compound
burners using 1,400 liters per hour, and CIV
trfcal improvements of the past decade were
exhibited in the French exposition of 1882
and were studied with the utmost care by
the Partisan authorities and municipal en-
gineers. Undoubtedly the displays at the
exposition had the most pronounced effect
in stimulating the new zeal Paris is showing
for the appliances of the electric age.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
A Dog Saves His Friends Life.

"Old Huckleberry," has dog, Skipper by
name, an animal of the mongrel breed, but
a dog nevertheless that knows a thing or
two, says writer in the New York Telegram.
was at the Captains place, at the foot of
West One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street,
the other evening, watching crowd of
pretty young women from the Casino Com
pany disporting themselves in the water in
gay bathing dresses, when q maltese kitten
of an inquiring turn of mind walked delib-
erately out on to the float where the bathers
congregate and sat down near the edge of
the float. Skipper, with the sagacity of a
St. Bernard, saw his little feline companions
danger, and running. down to the float
caught pussy by the back OF the neck and
started back to the bathing houses He
dropped the rescued cat down at the feet of
his master, wagging his bushy tail, and,
81 have saved the cat; I'm hero"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
A Dogs Love for a Bell.

That dogs become quite attached to other
things than men and places is clearly proven
by the conduct of Will Thornton's pointer
dog Leo, says the Talbotton (Ga.) Ne,o Era
Before the Thornton House was burned Leo
made that hotel his headquarters, and al
ways appeared there regularly at meal times
to be fed. Several weeks after the burning
OF tho hotel the bell which had been used on
the Thornton House was placed on the Wes-
ton House, and the first time this bell rang
after its removal Leo was seen to run over to
the Weston House, whore he showed unmis-
taxable signs of joy at the familiar sound of
the bell. He had never shown any fOndness
for any person at the Weston House. and the
up at the new place since the first day the
bell was put up proves beyond doubt that
his attachment for the old bell caused him to
change his residence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
1T is interesting and also surprising to

IT is interesting and also surprising to
learn from certain quarters that some of the
Western Senators who are interested in land
cases have found Secretary Noble so OBJ
noxious to their schemes that they will use
their influence to drive him out of Office
The allegation that the Secretary of the In
terror has backbone enough to be obnoxious
to anyone is sufficiently startling; but, with
the recollection that he removed the agent
who procured the evidence against the Ben
son land ring, the assertionthat the Senators
at whose orders he did it are now working
against him is an even more sensational IL
lustration Of the ingratitude of Senator's
il you believe it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

The difference in the point of view, not
to allege an absolute partisan inability to
tell the truth, is illustrated by the simulta-
neous assertion of a New York Republican
organ that ''the alleged canal investigation
grows duller and less important with each
succeeding investigation" and of Demo
cratic organ that ''alI the corruption that has
been unearthed is Republican corruption"
1t is difficult to harmonic these statements
except on the theory that the Democratic
organ lied, or that the Republican organ re-
CARDS the exposure of Republican corruption
as a dull and unimportant matter-both of
which are on the whole entirely conceivable
hypotheses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
THE CONTINUED GOLD EXPORTS.

As will be seen by circular of Henry
Clews in our financial columns, the re-
newed.exports of gold present far from
roseate outlook for the -looked-for up
ward movement in stocks. 1t is not salts
factory, either, that at a time of the year
when the bank reserves in New York are
generally enlarged in order to stand the
drafts for the crop movements they should
be drawn down by the continued outflow
of gold to Europe. Former explanations
of this phenomenon fail to explain its re-
newal; but there is no doubt that if the
drain caused by the expenses of American
travellers in Europe and the large pur-
chases of foreign commodities were
checked, we would soon be in position
to demand gold from Europe.
This aspect of the financial situation
makes it very unfavorable time for stock
bubbles. There is also prospect for
tight money in the fall But if legitimate
business interests look ahead there is no
reason why it should interfere with them
Banks which profit by the experience of
the past two or three years and steer clear
of speculative loans will be able to meet
legitimate business demands. The more
strictly the line is drawn between specula-
tive kitefying and the regular operations
of trade the stronger will be the barrier
against the extension of speculative panic
into the realm of commerce and industry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

ford's latest. The author has moved into
another country, and has made himself de-
lightfully at home in it, as usual. The book
continues in that state of felicity to the end.
"Tourmalin's Time Cheques" is f. Anstey's
last book. You remember "Vice Versa"
and the others; queer, and funny, and quite
unique. So is this. Never such plot in
any book!
There are u books, round dozen, every
one readable, interesting, profitable, and
worth packing in your gripsack. Put in
"Colonel Carter, OF Cartersyille," for good
measure. The Professor of Things in Gem
eral is of the opinion that the habit of read
ing such books as these is not likely to be of
any serious harm to anybody.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

The identification of dead person with
the living is surpassed in morbid interest
by the act of the second identifer in claim
ing the dead woman as his wife, with a
wife living, in representing his child by
the living wife as the motherless child of
the dead woman, and in giving descrip-
ton of the latter which proves knowledge
concerning her, in connection with tale
about her the falsity of which was certain
of detection. 1t looks like case in which
insanity and criminality are about equally
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

1T is the regular season of the year for
Democratic organs to indulge in paragraphs
like the following, which we quote from the
Boston Globe: Extraordinarily protected
Pennsylvania is threatened with yet another
bitter war between capitalists and laborers
in the iron districts" The appearance of the
report this year is remarkable illustration
of the force of bad habit. If the esteemed
Globe had taken the trouble to read the
Pittsburg papers it would have learned that
wages in the iron industry for the next year
are being settled without even note of
discord. But the free trade habit is invet-
crate,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
His Ambition. Satisfied
New York Recorder.l
Parnell has home rule at last.
WHY

The wife who makes the homemade shirt,
The bore who stays and stays,
The maiden fair who dyes her hair,
The hen that never lays.
The college man with mandolin,
The girl who ''Dever plays"
The chestnut fiend (by Satan screened),
Those Emerald paper jays.
The 6 irl you love who don't love you,
The man with fours you raise,
He who regales you with the tales
You heard in baby days.
The man who borrows for a day
And never. never pays,
The humorist, the man of whist,
The hypocrite who prays.
The man who lies about the size
Of fish he meier displays,
He ION the brink'' who hates to think
That advertising pays.
And many more that might name
Beneath the suns warm rays.
Why don't they flee from wrath and see
The error of their ways?
Tim Aassoa In CIothier and Fv8iskel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
DIsTRIBUTIvE COOPERATION.
Why Such Stores Succeed in England and
Not in America.

Not in America.
Distributive cooperation has been, per-
haps, brought before the public most promi-
nently through the success of the so-called
cooperative stores in England, says T. B.
Thurber in the July North American Revieoo,
but such stores strange to say, in this coun-
try have not been a success. although other
forms of cooperation here have succeeded
admirably. The reason, however, is proba-
bly, found in the different condi-
tions. In England the retail trade had
grown into a system of long credits. Many
landed proprietors and others received their
incomes only at long intervals, and this led
retail merchants into the habit OF selling a
large portion of their trade on long time,
which inevitably resulted in considerable
losses from bad debts; so the dealers had to
raise their margins of profit upon all their
customers to point which would still leave
living. This was virtually making the
cash-paying customer support the customer
who did not pay at all; and when this abuse
became extended the persons with fixed in
comes who paid their debts naturally object
ed, and the result was the formation of soci-
eties for cooperative distribution on an
economical cash basis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
f., r, Babbage, Guide,

E. F. Babbage, the widely-known guide
to the St. Lawrence River region, died of heart
disease Mt Alexandria Bay, N. Y, Tuesday, 81
years old. He had acted guide for 10 years. For
ten wears of the time he was in the employ of the
ROYAL Mail line of steamers. 1t is said that he
knew every island bay and headland of the river
between Toronto and Quebec For six seasons past
he has published annual entitled Years on the
st. Lawrence; the People 1 Have Met and the
Things / Have Seen.n The edition for 1891 was
nublished on the day of his death. He was very
lat man, weighing over $50 pounds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

AFTER all it seems as if that apparently
futile trial of the railroad magnates was not
without its result. The Presidentof the New
York and New Haven road now announces
that all the cars of his road will be equipped
for steam heating before winter. Would that
the Pennsylvania Railroad managers could
say as muchl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29

Mrs. JENNEss-MILLER's business mis-
fortune at this time points out where she
made her mistake She devoted her ener-
gies to devising less restrictive feminine
garments for women; while the trend of
events shows that If she had turned to the
designing of gowns for- judges she would
have hit the fashion.