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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

NINE cradles have been presented to the
Duchess of Fife.
MR. GLADSTONE now appears to have
quite regained his usual health.
THE Hon. Hallam Tennyson, only sur
viving son and heir of the Poet Laureate,
enters upon his 40th year.
GENERAL Won VERDY DU VERNoIS, who
is the original inventor of the war game, is
regarded in Germany as the most scientific
soldier in Europe.
seYoU may" recently said Prince Bis
marck, "tell everybody that would regard
ANY diminution of our corn duties as a ma
tional misfortune"
NINE. THEIRS left to her sister, Mile.
Dosne, her far-famed collection of strings of
pearls, which it took three years to bring to-
gether and the price of which was 400, 900
francs.
The Haitian General, Hippolyte, is
about go years of age and of coal-black COM
plexion. He is the son of q college professor
of Port au Prince, and is man of consider
able learning and cultivation.
ELLEN TERRY's daughter, who some time
since adopted the stage name of "Ailsa
Craig has definitely resolved to make the
stage her profession, and will be q member
of the Lyceum Company next season.
SIR RICHARD TEMPLE will, presumably,
end his Parliamentary life with this Parlia-
ment. He has told his South Worcester con-
stituents that he shall not again contest the
seat, and that he,has no other constituency
in view.
SIR HENRY PorTINGER has just leased
in Norway what is perhaps the largest sport
ing estate in Europe, the area being about
the size of Yorkshire, and the game varying
from the elk to the rhyper, while salmon
and trout are in abundance. This immense
tract includes weld, ford, moorland, and
river, but is very thinly peopled.
ONE of the distinguished Americans at
present in London is Prof. Arthur Sher-
burne Hardy. the novelist and mathemati-
clan. Prof. Hardy is well-known as q novel
ist in this country also, by the "Wind of
Destiny" and by his historical romance,
"Passe Rose" He is Professor of Mathe-
matics and English Literature in q New
England University and he has just finished
two mathematical works.
IT is reported that the ex-Rev Hugh o.
Pentecost, who recently was o very prom
inent evangelical Evangelist" has an
nounced a change in his creed. He believes
now in no God, no devil, no angel, no i'm
mortality, no soul, no heaven, no hell, no
Bible, no church and no state. All these, he
says, are 11gments of the imagination. 1t is
curious to notice how things disappear from
mans view when he gets into q hole.
QUEEN VICTORIA possesses the oldest
watches in the world. She has two beauti-
full little gold ones by Bregnet that are sup
posed to be a hundred years old. They have
silver dials and are about the size Of q two
shilling piece One is a blind mans watch,
the other is a repeater. Both go perfectly
and are in constant use. Her Majesty's fav
orite watch is a largo plain gold one by
Nudge, the English maker. 1t Is about twice
as big as an ordinary mans watch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28

The ill-omened wings OF disaster have
spread in every direction, and have cov-
cred the-entire surface of the earth. No
sooner have the telegraph wires finished
the record of one calamity than they are
again called into requisition to furnish to
the public the history of other scenes that
make the blood run cold. The latest
horror is a railroad wreck in North Caro-
lima, where, during the dark, muir
ky air yesterday morning, a train
with eighty-fiVe souls on board
plunged sixty-five feet downward into a
roaring creek. Twenty were killed out
right, nine so seriously injured they will
not recover, and twenty more were Sc
verely injured. The cause was spreading
of the rails, and possibly could not have
been prevented, but as in other disasters
there must have been negligence some
where. Either the track was not properly
inspected by the men employed for that
purpose, or the material used by the road
was not perfect.
Inside of two months there have been
no less than twelve railroad disasters
causing loss of life. These have occurred
both in the old and the new worlds, and in
all cases the cause was traced to neglect of
proper precaution by employees of the
railroads. Other calamitous happenings,
such as the collapse of building in New
York, are also chargeable to negligence in
some particular. The fact that dereliction
of duty has been proven, however, has
not resulted in the punishment of those
who were culpable. Whether this has had
much to do with the accidents is ques-
ton that can hardly be answered, but it is
time that the experiment of Furnishing for
neglect should be tried 1t is not believed
that those who have been instrumental in
the past in sending to death the victims of
the disasters would have been careless if
they had foreseen the results, but the time
has come when heedlessnesS of duty should
no longer be tolerated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
THE STATE LEAGUE FIGHT.

Letters of Robinson and DaIzen Stir Up q
Commotion All Over the Subscriptions
Vary According to the Point OF View
Interesting Editorial Epitomes.
Scranton Republican,
The struggle for the presidency Of the
State League of Republican clubs has taken
an unexpected turn through the letter Of
Robinson appealing to Dalzell to withdraw
and thus avoid factional squabble. Mr..
Robinson in his letter proposes that both
the principals in the contest shall retire in
the interest of harmony. Mr.. Robinson pro-
fesses to feel secure with the old organiza-
tions which were recognized by the Execu-
tive Committee, but with the admission of
the s'mushroom" clubs that the Dalzell men
are organizing nightly throughout the
Western counties he is bound to be de-
feated. Robinson's letter may be regarded
as sign of weakness or bluff according to
the standpoint from which 1t is viewed.
That anything will come of the proposition
is extremely improbable and dispatches
from Pittsburg report Mr.. Dalzell as saying
not propose to get out for harmony or any
other consideration proposed by his op-
ponents. Whatever motive may have in
duced Robinson to make the proposal, it
should be promptly accepted by Mr.. Dalzell
in the interests of the party. The League Is,
it is true, a matter of small Importance in
itself and its usefulness remains to be
demonstrated, but ths most insignificant
matters are often the occasion OF nations
going to war and this League business may
become an element of discOrd to disrupt the
party. No one can tell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
SHERMAN SIZES UP SILVER.

1t is fortunate for the nation that two
such statesmen as Senator Sherman and
Major Mckinley have undertaken to make
the silver question intelligible, and to stem
the current of craziness and dishonesty
concealed beneath the plausible platitudes
of the free silver advocates. Last week
Major Mckinley ventilated the subject
pretty freely Yesterday that sturdy
master of finance, Senator Sherman,
threw such strong light upon the
real inwardness of the efforts to
upset our monetary system, and
upon the disastrous results that must en-
sue, especially to the laboring man in shop
and field, artizan and farmer, for whose
benefit the free silverites pretend their
plans are laid, that no one who reads his
speech in THE DISPATCH to-day can doubt
its clinching force.
Senator Sherman, as the friend of honest
money for generation, its chief defender
in times of danger like the present, as a
successful Secretary of the Treasury, and
still more as patriotic American full of
years and wisdom, is one of the highest
authorities, if not the highest,
upon mduU6IS Oh HIldDC6 duu pOlibl-
cal economy that the country con-
tains. His words are a warning which
will command attention far and wide.
Democrats as much as Republicans are in
terested in choosing the right course in the
treatment of silver. Party success not
only depends upon it, but also, what is
more important to the nation, whether we
shall enjoy or not the prosperity which
good crops at good prices, fair wages, and
industries developing and extending into
new fields under the tariffs protection
promise to us. 1t ought not to take much
cogitation for sensible and patriotic men
to decide after reading Senator Sherman's
speech that it is, to use his words, "better
to retain the good we have than to embark
in dangerous experiment that may leave
all our industries on silver basis, con-
stantly falling in value, with gold demon
etized, all contracts disturbed, and an in
definite issue of treasury notes, limited
only by the silver of the world"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.

"I am so glad, my son." said the loving
mother of the rising young architect. she fondiy
stroked his head, THAT you have done so well.
How much money do you expect to make this
year?''
srWel mother ~ replied the talented young
man. THAT is hard to tell but sure Of 81 400.
You see,'' he continued, gently pressing his
mothers hand, II have just got an order for four
$500 cottages
Smithkins-Hello, Doc! What are you
doing?
The Doctor-Trying to kill time.
Smithkins-Why don't you rescribe for hfm2
If all is true read about the girl
Who sports beside the blue, rip-roaring sea-
guess it's lucky that staid at home
1 don't believe she'd hardly look at me.
Shipper Clarke Ito his employer, leaving
the ofice)-Oh, Mr.. System, have mt you forgot
ten your umbrella? It's raining.
Mr. System-Can't help 1t. / we made q resolu-
ton to have one here and one at home. to provide
for all emergencies. Now. II 1 take this, they'll
both be at home.
Old Mr.. Hayrake-You city fellows are
very sly. You come up here and take pretty
girls out sailing and buggy riding; but notice you
never talk none about 1t.
Tom de witt-No when we 20 to see girl more
than once, the whole village does the talking
He advertised, as bit of spite,
For nurse for his little kids,
And Government-hke reserved the right
To reject all bids.
North-Is it true that you eloped with
old scroggs' daughter2
Eastman-That is Just what I should like to
know.
North-What do you mean?
Eastman-When 1 went to buy the railroad
tickets the agent wouldn't take cent and handed
me Scroggs' mile &c book.
Mrs. Young-John, did you succeed In
matching that piece of dress goods gave you this
morning?
Mr.. Young-No; my time was too precious; but
(trfumphantly) I've bought enought OF something
else TO make you . whole gown!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
SARAH BERNHARDTs NEW SCHEME.
A Professional Tour Around the World
With One-Night Engagements.

With One-Night Engagements.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.-To Sarah Bern
hardt belongs the credit of projecting the
most audacious theatrical scheme on record.
The idea is a tour of the world on a specially
chartered steamship of not less than 5000
tons, carrying the company, scenery, and
incidentally freight, to help defray the ex-
penses which would be nearly 81, 900 day
Henry E. Abbey was in close consultation
with Mr.. Spreckles, of the Oceanic Steam
ship line, on the subject during his recent
visit to this city. 1t has leaked out that he
had almost completed negotiations for the
exclusive use of steamer of the Mariposa
type for two years.
Nine. Bernhardt has figured that by going
around the world it will be possible to play
at all the leading cities at the height of he
season in each place. The company can
live cheaply on shipboard, heavy freight
rates on scenery will be avoided, and one
night stands be made possible even in the
Orient. 1t is proposed to sail from Havre,
touch at leading ports of Portugal and
Spain, thence proceed to the Mediterranean
along the river, running ashore to visit Ital-
ian and French Cities Vienna, Buda-Pesth
Bucharest Thence the troupe would go to
Paris, Alexandria and Cairo through the
Suez Canal, TO India, Australia, China, Japan,
Vancouvers, San Francisco, the cities of
Spanish America, the Argentine Republic,
Brazil Cuba and the eastern coast of the
United States. Then crossing the Atlantic
the company would finish its tour in London
and Paris.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
IMPROVING TRIAL BY JURY.

The committee appointed by the Ameri-
can Bar Association to consider the eX-
pediency of recommending change in
the present system of making the unani-
nifty of twelve men necessary to verdict
in jury trials, has this report to make to
the association at the Saratoga meeting:
Resolved, That the American Bar Associa-
tion recommend to the bar associations of
the States the support of such legislation, or
constitutional amendments, as will provide
for a verdict by three-fourths of the jury in
civil cases.
In coming to this conclusion this COM
mittee of eminent lawyers has been
largely influenced by popular opinion.
Men have been gradually losing their ad-
miration, they say in their report, for trial
by jury, and more and more mistrusting
its efficiency as means. of doing justice.
This feeling springs, they think, more than
from any other cause from the fact that
the verdict of the jury under the unanim-
ity rule is so often, in the opinion of both
sides, not the justice of the case, but a
compromise, and because that rule so often
produces a mistrial.
On the other hand, the committee ad-
mits that the result of the united wisdom
of the jury, if the jury be well selected, is
more satisfactory than the Judgment of
any one man could be in such cases as are
suitable for submission to the jury And
in this admission lies the secret of the un-
satisfactory working of jury trials. The
juries are not well selected. That is to
say, many men utterly or partially unfit
to judge any cause intelligently are called
into the jury box. The best men in the
community are generally anxious to avoid
Jury service, and jurors as rule do not
represent the average intelligence of the
population from which they are chosen.
If juries could be selected with a
view to their ability to understand the
case which they were called upon to
decide, without regard to political pulls or
other baleful influences, then trial by jury
would soon recover its lost ground.
There are other aspects of the case,
and the subject is one which may be
debated with advantage to the public
The remedy suggested by the experts of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Another Granite Glacial Giant.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
The glacial boulder referred to in Tues
days DISPATCH, on the farm Of william
Whaley, north Of New Castle, Pa. is far out
rivaled by granite boulder in Columbiana
county, o. This is a monster of the species,
and lies on the farm of Benjamin Pepple,
two miles south of Leetonia.
1t is Is feet and some inches in one of its
dimensions, over IL feet in another, has q
fat, slanting top and one end is over feet
high. 1t is the largest "hardhead" in the
State, and, making a fair guess at
what may be beneath the ground
surface, its weight may be put at l20
tons. In another locality, perhaps one
mile east of this glacial vagrant, on the
Bates farm, at the side of a small ravine, is
a group of boulders of unusual size general
ly pear-shaped, and from 81 to 4 feet high,
large masses of granite, but completely
dwarfed by the colossal specimen in the vi
cinity.
1t is really q considerable section of a gran
ite ledge, and was evidently lifted from its
bed and transported and deposited at its
resting place, without much wear and tear,
as 1t is angular with but little of that round
rocks. Those were stirring and exciting
days when the agencies Of nature were in
such commotion, that the rocks arose from
their stratifed beds and journeyed thousands
of miles over valleys and hilltops to take
their stations as silent sentfnels to testify
to what had been, tens of thousands of years
later when man had so advanced as to be
able to interpret the testimony. n.
WAMPUM, PA, August q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
A Donnybrook Fair.

FnllaOeipnla 1tieSrapnI
Congressman Dalzell has q sharp tongue in
his head, and he has been using it in char
acteristic style, in reply to the offer of his
rival, Jack" Robinson, to retire from the
contest for the Presidency Of the State Re-
publican League. Sometimes a man can in
dulge in this sort of sarcastic literature with
profit, and then again he cannot. 1t may be
quite true, as Mr.. Dalzell suggests, that Rob-
inson has only been playing part in this
matter for public effect. Nevertheless, this
contest has undoubtedly resulted in great
deal of harm to the Republican party. The
whole thing is not worth such an undigni-
fed squabble. Young men in politics should
be taught better practices than those which
seem to be prevailing in certain big circles.
If these clubs have any legitimate object it
is to make and bring out Republican votes,
not to disgust peaceable citizens and drive
them away from the organization. Every
thing indicates that the coming Scranton
convention will be regular political Donny
brook Fair. If this should be the case no
good, but only harm, will come to the Re-
publican cause. 1t is time this controversy
was ended, and Robinson's suggestion, as re-
marked yesterday, is one of the most sensi-
BILE things he has yet been guilty of, to put it
in that peculiar way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

'tBill' Crosby, of the Anderson Hotel,
bronzed, and CHEEKY as usual, has returned
. from a three weeks vacation trip at Cam
bridge. He says the water there has pecul
lar properties, one effect of drinking it being
it destroys all taste for fermented liquors.
In this respect the place is calculated to
rival Keeley's place at Dwight, ILL.,
David Fisher, chief of the fire depart
He has been here for the past three days en-
gagged in extinguishing the fire at the Cook
well. His method was quite successful.
w. S. Mccarthy, Arthur Shri yer, W. j.
Walker, w. o. Hoffman and f. Edwards are
party of Cumberland, Nd, men who have
run up to the city for brief pleasure trip.
They are staying at the Monongahela.
Anderson hotel guests last night included
C. c. Mckinney, Of Titusville; Miss n. Sher-
rard, Principal Of the Washington Female
College, and J. 7. Leary.- Pennsylvania
Railroad man from Fort Wayne.
Mrs. L. T. Mason and her daughter, Miss
the Anderson last night They leave for
New York this morning.
H. T. Ingraham, of Cleveland, Peter
Hitchcock, of Cleveland, and Judge Edward
Campbell, of Unfontown, are guests at the
Monongahela.
Captain Tony Hazlett, of Allegheny, AL
the arrivals from the seaside yesterday.
Manchester, was at the Anderson yesterday.
He left at night for Cleveland.
P. A. Mccullough, the Penn avenue
druggist, and DR.. j. c. Lang left last evening
for a trip to Atlantic City.
Mr. and Mrs C. L. Miller, of Vine street,
left yesterday for California, Pa, where they
will spend a month.
E. F. Latham, superintendent of the
plate glass works, Butler, was at the Schlos-
ser last night.
President William Smith, of the Flints,
returned last night from a business trip to
Watercure.
j. M. Warner, the prominent iron man of
Philadelphia, is guest at the Monongahela.
Edward A. Young, of the Duquesne
Bank, has gone East on his vacation.
Mr.. Chisholm, of Cleveland, and Attor-
ney Mckee went East last night.
M. H. Hoting left last night for New
York and other Eastern points.
James Wood, son of John A. Wood, is
home from his summer outing.
John f. Ford, the Baltimore manager, is
at the Monongahela.
Mrs. A. E. Hunt was an Eastward pas
senger last night
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
A PHILADELPHIA OPINION
Upon the Straight-Out Republican Agfta-
ton in Allegheny County.

Upon the straight-Out Republican Agita-
ton in Allegheny County.
Philadelphia Times.l
A convention calling itself Straight-Out
Republican Convention, and consisting
largely of ex-Republican offlce-holders, met
in Pittsburg on Tuesday and nominated
three Republican candidates for Judges OF
the new court created by the Legislature
last winter for Allegheny county. Governor
Pattison had already appointed two Repub-
licans and one Democrat to the new Judge
ships, and the regular party organizations
of both parties indorsed the Governors ap-
pointees for election, thus taking the selec-
tion of the new Judges entirely out of the
pale OF partisanship. The straight-out con-
vention was too straight-out to do SO sens
licans, neither of the two appoln ted by the
Governor and indorsed by both the regu-
lar party organizations being among the
number.
The weakness and folly of the so.called
straight-out convention are shown in the
reasons given for its action. There was but
candidates indorsed by both parties, and
that was their unf1tness for the position to
which they had been appointed by the Gov
ernor and for Wh,on theg were Of nfnu nnfitness m
was brought against them, however, but q
mild censure was visited upon the two Re-
publicans for having accepted What was
termed a mongrel nomination, that is
nomination by two party organizations, with
a Democrat for a running mate. In other
words, the only sin of the regular ticket was
that it contained one Democrat and had re-
ceiped Democratic Endorsement.
The voters of Allegheny county VIII
rightly consider this a fault that Is better
than most virtues and will cast practically
unanimous vote for the non-partisan judic-
ial ticket. If there is one thing the voters
of Pennsylvania have settled 1T is that they
want the Judiciary elevated above the mire
of partisan politics and movement in the
face of this clearly expressed sentiment is
certain to meet with scant favor. The Re-
publican party leaders in Allegheny county
were wise to bow to this sentiment and
movement aimed at their supremacy Will
need a better motive than that of opposition
to a non- partisan judiciary to command any
respect from any honest citizen. The Allie
gheny Straight-outs and their candidates de-
serve to be laid out, and they will doubtless
get what they deserve.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28
CHILDREN DISCOVERIES.
They Accidentally Found the Principle for
Making Telescopes.

They Accidentally Found the Principle for
Making Telescopes.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.I
AS in many other cases of discovery that
of the telescope appears to have been the re-
suit Of playful accident. Several stories are
told about it, but they are all similar. The
one most generally accepted tells how,
about the year 1880, just 300 years ago,
the children of Zachariah Jansen, a spec
tacle maker, residing at Middleburg, in
Holland, were playing one day in their
fathers workshop and observed that when
they held between their fingers two spec
tacle glasses, one some distance before the
other, ana looked through them at the
weathercock of the church it seemed in
verted but very much nearer to them and
greatly increased in size.
Their father, when his attention was
called, saw that one of the glasses was con-
vex and the other concave. He made ex-
periments and ended by fixing such glasses
in wooden tubes few inches long and sell
ing them for curiosities. Another account
tells us how one Lipperscheim discovered
the telescope in a similar manner. Descartes,
however, contemporary, gives the credit
to James Metius, glasscutter in Holland,
whose brother, professor of mathematics
and maker of burning glasses and mir
rors, hit upon the discovery in the same way
that Jansen's children are said to have done.