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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
AS TO MINNEAPOLIS.

| THE strongest argument Minneapolis
] could give the Republican National Com
| mittee to secure the Republican Convention
| was that it is close to st. Paul, who advised
| people to take little wine for their stom.
] ach's sake-St. Louts Republic.
NEW YORK yields sorrowfully but grace
| fully to the committees decision, and con-
| graduates is enterprising Western com
| petitor on its good fortune. We have no
| doubt that Minneapolis will prove worthy
| of the honor which has come to it.-NeD
| York Tribune
The choice of Minneapolis as the location
of the Republican National Convention of
1892 is not likely to have any material in
fuence upon the nomination of candidates.
There have been occasions when the loca-
tion of the convention controlled the Presi-
dency.-PhiLadelph Times.
The next President of the United States
will be nominated in Minneapolis. We had
hoped the National Republican Convention
OF 1892 would be held in Cincinnati, but the
National Committee yesterday, on the sew
enth ballot, awarded the prize to the Flour
City of the Northwest. We extend our con-
gratulations to Minneapolis, and promise to
swell the throng that will be in attendance
upon the convention with full quota from
Ohio.-C Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
goes to Minneapolis, and she and her recon-
ciled twin sister, St Paul, are to be congratu-
lated. The West is not muffing anything
that comes within reach. and her woolliness
is the woolliness of the Golden Fleece. We
are afraid that some of the visitors to the
convention will have to lodge on the electric
cars between the Twin Cities, but Minnesota
is a pleasant place except in winter, and the
scenery is fne.-NesO York Sun.
The National Republican Committee on
the seventh ballot last night selected Min
neapolis as the place for the next Repub-
lican National Convention, as against the
claims of New York, Omaha, Cincinnati,
San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburg and st.
Louis. The action of the committee means
that the growing West is to have the care of
the Republican party hereafter, and that the
States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Nebraska are to be given all the help that
can possibly follow the holding of the
national convention. There has been dis
position shown to wander after strange
political gods in the booming Northwest re-
Gently, and the Republican leaders evidently
recognize the need of a vitalizing force in
that scction.-Ohio State Journal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
Indian Lead Mines Rediscovered.

Meadville Tribune. Rep.J
1t would not seem at all improbable that
the discovery which Is just now causing so
much speculation was the Indian mine of
earlier days. W. H. Forker, the gum
smith, whose father, Samuel Forker,
one Of the early residents here. was
also a gunsmith and had consider
able dealings with the Indians. In reply to
a query, he said he had often heard his
father tell about certain Indians bringing
lead to town to sell. This was along in the
twenties, and the Indians were always very
careful to keep to themselves the place from
which they discovered the lead. II anyone
wanted to buy quantity of lead, for bullets
or other purposes, he would tell one of the
Indians to get it for him, and in from three
to four hours lhe rcdskin would be back
with all the lead he could carry. Where
they got it no one could ever ind out, al
though repeated attempts were made to trail
the Indian lead merchant when he started
out after fresh stock. Their course, when
started after a supply Of lead, was east and
past where the Unitarian Theological School
now stands; but it was generally thought
that after getting away from town the cum
ming redskins changed to an entirely differ
ent direction, and that the start eastward
was merely blind. In any event they were
always successful in keeping the location of
their lead mine a secret, and when the In.
dams disappeared their secret disappeared
with them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
THE RUSSIAN WHEAT UKAsE.

The ukase of the Gar prohibiting the
expectation of wheat is viewed in variety
Of lights. Two opinions which look at it
unfavorably seem to give the Cars Gov
ernment scant justice, with regard to its
manner of dealing with very difficult
and perplexing problem. One of them as
serts that the Gar takes this action solely
as blow at Germany. But it is plain
that if Russia has any surplus of wheat
above the needs of its population such
step would injure Russia more than Ger
many. The Germans can get wheat from
other quarters, notably, the United States.
The Russians if they have any surplus,
would be deprived of the returns from its
sale, which would relieve their need of
ready funds-a need that is second in
Russia only to the need for food. On the
other hand, if there is no surplus of food
in Russia the purpose of keeping the peo-
pie alive would outweigh even with the
most selfish Government the Importance
of injuring neighbor.
Another newspaper recognizes the fact
that Russia has no more wheat than is
needed for her population, but says that
the ukase will do the starving peasantry
no good, because the wheat has all passed
into the hands of spectators. But that
presents just the circumstances under
which such a ukase might mitigate the
horrors of the famine. If the wheat were
in the hands of the destitute peasants, the
ukase would not be needed. But as it is
in the hands of the spectators, they
might sell it to Germany for the reason
that the Germans have more money to pay
for it. But when they are confined to the
Russian market, they have got to sell to
the Russians; and, so far at least as the
stock of wheat goes and the Russians
have money, there will be a chance for
some of them to buy food.
The Cars Government is very singu-
lar one, and an embargo on commerce is a
very extreme procedure. But if that Gov
ernment never does anything worse than
to try to keep its stock of food at home
while its peasantry is starving it will make
a vast improvement on its former record
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25


and only one life was lost In the entire
trouble. The Fonseca government is at
an end, and it remains to be shown what
will take its place. The political quality
shown in the readiness of government
to upset constitutional government, on its
own part, and then to submit 10 its deposi-
ton by force, does not argue well for re-
spect to the forms of representative gov
eminent; but it is to be hoped that the
new party in Brazil will have more real
attachment to genuine republicanism.
Finally, the number of organs in this
country which, for some inscrutable rea-
son, chose to represent military absolut-
ism as republican government, and to as
sert that the opposition to it in Brazil was
nconsiderable, will have, as in the case
OF Chile, the pleasant task of explaining
their blunder But fortunately that blum
der has not, so far as is known, had time
to extend itself into our diplomatic rela-
tlons with the Brazilian people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
AN INCREDIBLE CASE

The statements that are made concern.
ing the arrest of Wong Chin Foo, the nat.
uralized Chinaman, on the charge of
illegal registration, are of such startling
nature that it would be well, if it were
possible, to deem them incredible But the
fact that the charge was trumped up one
is made so plain by the acquittal, that we
are forced unwiliingly to accord at least
some attention to the story Of all the
charges of illegal registration single one
has been sent to courts by the police
officials OF. New York. That is the case of
Wong Chin Foo, which on trial was
proved to be unfounded Now the state
ment is specifically made that the real
reason why the well known Chinese
journalist was, arrested was that, he has
been active in exposing and breaking up
the Chinese dens in Mott street, and by
that means the Tammany revenue of
blackmail from these dens has been cut
down. In other to resuscitate the revenue
the arrest and imprisonment of the
Americanized Chinaman was attempted,
and only defeated by its exposure before
an honest jury.
If such things are possible in the prin-
cipal city of this country-and it is only
an exaggeration in degree over other
things of the same kind reported in other
cities-are we better, in some respects,
than the most corrupt government that
ever existed. The pictures of Roman de-
cadence, of the government of Oriental
countries underline pashas, and even of the
corruptions of Chinese offcialism, contain
nothing more strikingly destitute of all
considerations of honesty and ius-
tice than police officials first estab-
fishing revenue from levies of black
mail on the business of vice; next
directing their enmity against the man
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
SAID TO BE FUNNY.

Ribbon Clark-When you are at liberty
wish you would come down to the Office and wit
ness my will.
Hamburg Clark-Do you expect to die soon?
Ribbon Clark-Lffe is uncertain at the best: be-
Sides the floor walkers best girl in a few min
utes ago. and I told her he had gone out with
wheelbarrow to deliver some goods.-Nep York
Herald.
Seeker-Are you in favor of this woman
suffrage movement?
sageman-very much in favor of the movement,
yes The trouble is. however. they don't move 1t
far enough. If they'd only move it to No-Man's
land they'd settle it right where it'd fit to dot
Boston Courier.
"what do you think of Miss Blank as an
actress?''
..Well. her carriage is bad
..That's SO. And it's fault that is hard to REM
edy.''
it. t.,'-Philadetphta Press.
THE ENIaRANr AND THE AMERICAN FLAG.
Of the land of your birth you may freely
brag.
But here carry only the American flag.
You are safe from the tyrant's bolts and bars
Meath the shetering folds of the Stripes and Stars.
While over your heads this ensign waves
No monarch may call you his servile slaves.
IT'S flag that is loved by Americans true,
And good enough Flag it shoul be for you.
-Tel1 York Press
Here are two items that are dangerously
near each other In the local columns of Georgia
weekly:
.Our mo.her-in-Iaw is visiting us this week.,
1--WE are going in the country tomorrow for the
benefit of our health. Atlanta, Co., Copstits-
tion.
Says the editor of the Gibson, Ga, Record:
.we lost our old suit OF clothes between here and
Augusta. The baggazemaster. through mistake,
handed them off to someone. We would be glad to
have them returned not because they are worth
much. but so wen have two suits and be aboye the
averu &c editor"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
What Howling Social Success Costs.

"1t sounds like an exaggeration, but women
who are devoted to society very often suffer
from a peculiar throat trouble as a direct re-
suit of their "social duties," said Pittsburg
doctor yesterday. "It is not caused by
decollete dresses, as might be supposed,
either, or the rapid transitions from hot
rooms to the cool outer air, although these
things are not conducive to robust health.
The affection refer to comes from a strain
ing of the vocal cords, and often takes on the
form OF tonsilitis. Anyone who has attended
half dozen fashionable receptions, and
especially those at which women only are
present. must have noticed how the clamor
of many tongues in crowded rooms
makes it necessary for one to raise
the voice to be heard. The fact is that
when so or 100 women meet in parior, often
a ridiculously small room for such gather
ing, the average woman who wants to get a
word in even edgewfse must shout at the
top of her voice. Let her keep this up for
half an hour in a generally superheated at
mosphere and her throat is bound to suffer.
When she gets home she feels as if she had
caught cold, and very likely for a day or
two after she Will have an aching in her
throat which she will blame on the abomin-
able climate, that stupid girl Jemimah, who
would have the dining room window open,
or some other innocent thing or person.
She is literally paving the price for making
Rome howl, and 1 tell her so when she
comes to me and wants me to diagnose La
Grippe in her symptoms"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25

who has been active in breaking up the
dens; and finally invoking the machinery
of justice to get rid of the obnoxious re-
former. Besides such saturnalia of cor
ruption Fra Diavolo becomes respectable
citizen and the Old Man of the Mountain
a pillar of law-abiding society.
We are still disposed to take refuge in
incredulity and to regard the cha rye as an
outcome of political enmity. But the
mere possibility of such an assertion justi-
fies decent people in pausing and asking
themselves whether all the developments
of civilization have left US no further ad-
vanced in official decency than the most
corrupt eras of which we have any record.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
AN EASILY DEPosED DICTATOR.

The ease with which the rising in Rio
Janeiro overthrew the Fonseca dictator
ship at once shows that the reports of
popular dissatisfaction at the usurpation
in Rio were well founded, and demon
strates that the ruler who tries to eStab-
lish personal absolutism Oil the ruins of
republican government alienates popular
support. The reports show that even
more than In the case of Balmaceda, the
people who gave an outward show of ac-
quiescence in the Fonseca dictatorship
were at heart so much opposed to him
that his overthrow was easy. So half
hearted was the defense of Fonseca's au-
thority that none of the popular party
were killed in the attack on the arsenal,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
THE IMPOSSIBLE FOE WOVEN.
They Can Manage the Men, but Not Those
OF Their Own Sex.

They Can Manage the Men, but Not Those
| OF Their Own Sex.
st. Louis Republic.l
| In these later days women are finding out
that they can do almost anything they
please. Last year one of them became seri-
| GUS wrangler in mathematics, and only last
| week another passed q top-notch examlna-
tion for Mississippi river steamboat pliot.
| There is no doubling the capacity of women
to achieve the possible, but they have al
ready begun to discover that impossib1lities
| do exist and when they find one. mighty
| fuss they make in their despair over 1t. One
Of these impossibflities for the highest femi-
nine intellect is the successful management
OF its own servant girl. We had supposed
and hoped that this was conceded as an i'm
possibility, but the highest feminine intel
lect is once more making dead set at 1t in
the magazines and newspapers.
Now it is perfectly clear to any man who
gets at the realities of things that 1t is i'm
possible for one woman to manage another
woman. She can manage a man without any
trouble at all. Whether he's her husband
or the hired man, she knows how 20 Dr1ng
him into subsection and keep him there. But
in the parlor or the kitchen every woman is
equally prone to believe that her way Is bet
ter than any other woman's way. If one
woman submits to another and yields her
WHY, IL Is only temporarily anu "lbh
mental and sometimes with an expressed,
reservation, which covers the whole case.
She will not do 1t one moment longer than
she can help it.
1t is Il curious and interesting fact that
man who has tried to manage one woman
and has failed hopelessly; who is managed
by his wife because he is philosophical
enough to see that it is really tho best way
out of 1t. can go from his home to his factory
and manage a hundred and several hundred
girls, so that everything will seem to run
like clockwork, while his wife at home, the
very woman who has him completely "under
her thumb" can't manage her cook and
housegirl to save her life. If she insists on
carrying the hopeless attempt too far, the
cook and housegirl leave the house and hire
out aS the factory, where thew are managed
without the least trouble. Whereupon the
highest feminine intellects conclude that
the presence of factories in this country is
largely responsible for what they call the
servant girl problem"
There is no problem about it-none what
ever Women do not object to being man
aged by any man they do not expect to
marry or have not married alrea dY, but they
do always, and they always will, object to
being managed by another woman, and
when they submit to it, it is only until they
can escape from It. If they have nowhere
else to go, of course they cannot go any
where else. but if they have-they will.
Next to starvation itself, the greatest evil
for woman is in being managed by another
woman,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25

CHAUNCEy NJ. DEPEw, in an interview
on the subject OF Thanksgiving dinners, pa
triotically exalts the elories of the old-time
Thanksgiving feast and declares: "These
French chefs don't know anything about
that sort of thing, and q man who will eat a
Delmonico dinner on Thanksgiving Day,
when he can get anything else, doesn't
know what is good" Mr.. Depew might have
put it more strongly and asserted that the
misguided individual who commits error
places himself under a suspicion of in
civieun
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
True to Lite-Or Death.

The Philadelphia Inquirer prints cartoon
representing "the modern Rip Van Wrinkle"
meaning Philadelphia-in the act of
awakening from his long Sleep" The most
striking feature OF the picture is the smooth.
freshly shaven face with which the vener-
able Rip appears to be rising up from the
grassy couch on which he has lain undis-
tnrbed SO long.-ohicago Tribune. You don't
fully understand. The artist did; he well
knew that the typical Philadelphian sleeps
SO soundly that mis- beard stops growing and
what he has SO truthfully depicted is the
resurrection from that death-like slumber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
FRANCE yerv kindly undertook the task

FRANCE very kindly undertook the task
of a protectorate over Madagascar by agree
mentwit England and Germany by which
the other powers took possession of large
slices of Africs. But the stupid Malagassy
do not want a French protectorate and are
besotted enough to say that they will not
have it. 1t may yet be necessary for France
to resort to the argument of smokeless
powder and other triumphs of civilization
to convince these simple savages that they
must take what the European statesmen
prescribe whether they like it or not.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25

CLAUS SPREcKLEs in returning to this
country declares his intention Of keeping
up his tight with the Sugar Trust, and says
that he is making expenses where the Trust
is losing money. This is good for Mr..
Spreckels who is to be credited with max
ing the first break in the Sugar Trust's mo-
nopOly. But the fact is that the Sugar Trust
as power to impose high prices is back
number. It's teeth were drawn by the re-
duction in the sugar duties and the sum-
moning of the competition of all the sugar
redneries of the world with only half cent
protection to the Trust ref1neries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
STRAY STATE TOPICS.
War Library and Museum

In Philadelphia, and elsewhere in the State,
efforts have been made from time to time to
secure funds for the erection of a building in
which may be preserved the records and
relics of the War of the Rebellion. Recently
the State has appropriated $50,0oo and the
Commandery of the Loyal Legion has agreed
to raise twice that sum, SO that on April l5
1892 the anniversary of the death of Abra-
ham Lincoln, the corner stone Of this build
ing will be laid. This building will be known
as the War Library and Museum.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
Photographic Ghost Effect,

Inquiries have been frequently made us to
the best and easiest method of producing
ghost pictures in photography. The ghost
consists of a person completely covered
with sheet, which is so adjusted as to give
a dim outline of the head. When in posi-
tion, a short exposure of about half an inch
of magnesium is given; then, as soon after
ward as possible. without moving anything
with the exception of the ghost (which is
is made BY means of 4 magnesium flash
light of the other figures that are required
for the picture. In this way excellent re-
suits are obtained, the pattern on the wall
appearing through the ghost, giving it quite
q realistic appearance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
A Surprising Wonder in Texas.

"A great conundrum in Texas these days
is Why did the East Texas editors in their
recent reunion return a basket of cham
pagne, unopened, to the donor? The Waco
Day seems to doubt that tine champagne was
SO returned, but thinks, If it was, thas the
editors didn't know how to open the stuff.
Another cynical Texas contemporary sug.
gests that the editors mistook it for ginger
pop, while the Houston Post, whose ideal of
journalism is lofty, suggests that the editors
were in session for business pertaining to
their profession, and not to get "inside
points on irrigation" Take it all in all, the
problem is one OF the most mysterious that
has come up recently.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
AN example Of the progress of aluminium

AN example Of the progress of aluminium
is given by the fact that at present the ca
pacity of the two, reduction works in this
country is so crowded that they have been
compelled to decline large order from the
German Government. While the demand SO
far exceeds the production it is not likely
that there will be much further lowering of
the price beyond the present level Yet new
uses are constantly being found for the
metal, and as the demand increases the ca
pacity of production will be sure to increase
with it. When improvements enable cheaper
production and the supply is SO enlarged as
to bring prices down, even greater industrial
revolutions may be expected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
Tried by the Last Ordeal.

Miss Frances Willard has faced the bat.
teries of the liquor interest undaunted; she
has triuInphed over the Vaccinations OF
secret enemies and false friends: she has
met and vanquished calumnintors and put to
fight whole armies of foes of temperance
and stands to-day like rock of adamant
prepared to receive all attacks. But will
she be able to withstand the assaults of the
poetasters, who began q lively fusillade
upon her at Boston the other day? This fs
the burning question of the hour in W. C. T,
q. circles. II she shall emerge unscathed
from this ordeal she will deserve a laurel
wreath such as only the greatest of con-
duerors have worn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25

ONE of the effects of the effort to exclude
the painting of "The Fall of Babylon" from
this country is that engravings Of it are
widely published. and before the case is
settled more people will have seen it in print
than would have seen it on exhibition. The
result of the reproductions will be to con-
vince the public that. while the assertions as
to its morality may be doubtful, its artistic
qualities are unquestionably Internal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
Cheap Telephony in the Future.

While we in America are wondering how
much longer we are to be under the thrall-
dom of the Bell telephone patents, the En-
glish are steadily moving onward toward q
cheaper telephone service. The Chamber of
Commerce in England has passed a resolu-
ton to the effect that as tine chief telephone
patents have already expired in England,
and other minor patents will also shortly
expire, thus rendering telephonic communi-
rights, it was desirable to get the telephone
system of the country placed under such
regulations cas- shall enable the business
community and the general pnblfc to enjoy
the greatest telephone facilities at reason
able rates. -