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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS.

sI guess the sand mans come" said Mrs
Hinkley, as the baby began rubbing his eyes.
~ think sou said Mr.. Hinkley. II find his
bill on the table there. We must econon.ize
groceries, Maria. ''-Hdrper'S Bazar.
"Oh, love comes like summer SIGH"
Beneath her window sang
Alove-sick youth. and his voice rang ont
Till the midnight echoes rang.
But it didn't come that way to him.
AS he sang his midnight song;
1t came as 4 brick. and 1t fell on his neck,
For he'd got the number wrong
seThe still small voice of conscience seems
never to reach him."
mo. He's gotten so tough that suppose 1t ID
no LONGER on speaking terms with him.-Washin0-
ton Star.
The gloss is worn off the Easter hat
And few of its beauties to-day make mention,
Rut life for the maid isn't stale or fat.
For the bathing suit now claims attention.
What though 1t is meager in point of size,
And hard, in a trunkful of clothes, to find,
Some persons declare that 1t occupies
Sometimes the whole of the female mind.
-SeD York Prsss.
Fido-What's the matter, Grip?
Grip-Life is not what it used to be, Fido, since
the tramps have been using cayenne pepper ON
their clothes.-Jud0e.
Daughter-First, he kissed my hand.
Mother (severely)-An essentially low proceed
ing.
Daughter-But, afterward, he kissed me on the
forehead.
Mother (more severely)-Then he went too far
Smith. Gray Co. IS Monthly.
How often does Moneybags yonder reflect.
As he sits in his pen oyerswollen with pride,
OF the eye of a needle he's got to go through
Ere reaches the isles of the best DER the tdef
-Ee,o York Herald
Elderly Relative Ito school girl)-Aman-
da you are looking pale You must not be too am
bilious. Tell me the truth now-haven't YOU been
burning the midnight oil?
Miss Amanda cher paleness all gone)-Why. yes
suntie but-but not much. We turned thu lamu
down very low.-Chicaoo Tribune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Rivers and H8rbors to the Front,

Mr.. Holman finds the role of economist a
taken up to-day, in spite OF him. as result
OF combination between the forces inter-
ested in number of measures which Mr..
Holman is trying to defeat. He is against
the river and harbor bill, as a whole and
item by item. But the combination effected
in behalf of the bill is so powerful that the
advocates OF the bill say they will defeat
every move of Mr.. Holman by four to one
The consideration will consume several
days as each one of the great many items
which it contains has to be explained and
debated. A hot contest Is expected over
ject, which contemplates 2I-foot channel
through the Great Lakes and connecting
rivers from Chicago and Duluth to Buffalo.
MIR. Whiting, who represents a lake district
in Michigan, will lead the opposition to the
project. He will offer an amendment re-
engineers. The amendment directs that the
engineers investigate the possibility of
lowering or the level OF the lakes by an in
creased depth of channel.
Mr.. Whiting contends that the removal of
distractions in the connecting rivers and
greater outflow of water, which is gradually
draining the upper lakes. He says that this
accounts largely for the fall of the water
level at Chicago and elsewhere. His amend
ment Furthermore directs the Board OF En-
gineers to report upon the advisability of
dam0ing the Niagara river as q means of
stopping this gradual drain on the waters
effect TO damming the Niagara Falls-a pro-
Ject so vast that 1t has afforded some amuse-
ment here to-day, although engineer officers
declare 1t entirely practicable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
MORE TIN PLATE CONCERNS.
Welsh Manufactures to Erect Plants In
New Jersey and the West

Welsh Manufacturers to Erect Plants In
New Jersey and the West
New York Herald.l
plant for timing steel plates will be in
operation by fall at Elizabethport. N. j. The
firm of E. Morewood & Co., the largest tin
plate makers in Wales, will establish
branch in this country-so their American
agents, George B. Morewood g. Co., of No. 121
Front street, informed me yesterday.
Ground for the EliZabethport works has
been purchased. 1t is three acres in extent,
ana is situated on the waterfront near the
Central Railroad tracks. Mr.. II. F. More
wood, whom 1 saw yesterday, said that
plans for the buildings are expected in
short time from Wales, and they will be
erected ut once.
The plant will have a capacity of 1000 or
5000 plates q week. For the present tho
plates will be imported from Wales, where
the company manufactures its own steel,
ried on in this country.
Mr.. Morewood, however, showed me let
ter from John II. Rogers the managing part
ner of the concern, promising greater things
for the future. MIR. Rogers is the Chairman
of the Tin Plate Association of Wales. He
was in this country two years ago, when he
made an exhaustive survey of the field and
the possibilities of manufacturing the plate
here. In his letter he states that the COM
pany proposes later to erect in the West an
extensive establishment in which they will
manufacture their own steel.
Mr. Rogers also writes that two other
esta blishments, which he does not name,
are to be removed to this country from
Wales,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
FAVORITES OF FORTUNE.

Mr.. GLADSTONE cut down his first tree
when he was only 10 years old.
SPEAKER CRISP is constantly in receipt
of invitations to attend various celebrations
and is uniformly declining them.
COMMISSIONER CARTER, of the General
Land Ofice will probably resign his office
about the end of the present fiscal year.
THERE is no truth in the report that Mrs.
Harrison has suffered a relapse. In tact she
was better yesterday and sat up several
hours.
THE King of Italy, like his famous father,
when he gets away from court pomps and
ceremonies.
JAY GOULD, accompanied by his two
daughters and E. L. Sargent, left Ell Paso
Tues day. by special train, for a trip through
New Mexico.
THE winnings made by Baron Hirsch on
the turf last year, amounting to E7,OOO have
all been sent to hospitals and ins titutions of
a similar philanthropic nature.
DIR. JAMES MARTINEAU, famous rs a
theologian and ethical teacher, and no less
famous, perhaps. as the brother of Harriet
Martineau, was 81 years old April 2l.
GOVERNOR REYNOLDS, of Delaware, has
GenQ6rcu To JdllcS L. w OlCOLt, OF Dover, Gn0
appointment OF Chancellor of the State of
Delaware, to succeed the late Willard
salisbury.
Miss MARY ANDERSON declares that
nothing would induce her to return to the
stage. She leads quiet, homely kind o. life
in the pretty house near Tunbridge Wells
bought by her husband. MIR. Navarro, shortly
after their marriage.
FANNIE KEMBLE at 80 is sadly broken
woman. She cannot write a letter except
when q friendly hand guides the pen across
the paper for her, and all the spirit and
vivacity for which the great actress was once
famous ave left her.
REPRESE NTATIvES SPRINGER, Chairman,
presided at the meeting of the House Ways
and Means Committee yesterday for the first
time in several months. Mr.. Springer is be-
ginning to look like himself again but he is
still weak and easily fatigued.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Comptroller Lacey Going to Quit.

The Government will soon have a new
Comptroller of the Currency. Comptroller
Lacey has under consideration several offers
which have been made to him recently to
take the management of one of several
banking houses in Chicago. He says he has
not yet concluded which of them he will ac-
cept. His friends say, however, that there
is no doubt as to his accepting one of them.
His retirement from the Comptrollership of
the Currency would take place at once if it
were not for the fact that Congress is now
investigating the action of the Comptroller's
Office in the Maverick and the keystone
Bank failures. Mr.. Lacey does not wish to
retire under such circumstances, as he feels
certain that the Investigation cannot result
other than the vfndication OF his course. He
has already satisfied the Maverick deposit
tors by giving them IS cents on the dollar
while the Keystone depositors feel that the
fault was IN lax inspection by bank ex-
aminers, who failed to report the status of
affairs to Comptroller Lacey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
WAR ON THE TRUSTS.

Rivalry Between Congressmen for the
Honor OF Having Started the Anti-P
Attacks-The River and Harbor Bill
Under Consideration in Spite Of Hol-
man-Comptro!ler Lacey to Resign.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAMs TO THE pIsPATCH.I
WASHINGTON, May 4-Representati We
Scott OF Illinois, is on a crusade against
the trusts. To-day his resolution passed,
calling on the Attorney General to explain
what legal steps were being taken to prose-
cute the sugar pool. Mr.. Scott will follow
this up at once by another resolution. calling
upon the Attorney General for Information
as to what steps are being taken to prose
cute the members OF the alleged cordage
trust. Tho Attorney General has the right
under the law, said Mr.. Scott. ito prosecute
these trust offenders, both in the civil courts
and in the criminal courts. But instead of
choosing the criminal branch he had begun
suit in equity to vacate the contracts be-
tween a trust and the various individual In
stiuutions forming the trust. We want the
trust men prosecuted criminally. for they
will begin to dissolve their pools when they
find they have committed o crime instead
of a civil breach of equity"
There has been quite rivalry among Con-
gressmen for the honor of being foremost in
the crusade against trusts. Representative
Stout, of Michigan, was the first to introduce
a resolution to investigate the Sugar Trust.
He did not push it, however, and it was dis
placed by the Scott resolution. Mr.. Stout
feels that he has been thus robbed of some
OF his thunder, but he has reconciled him
self by proposing Investigations into the
Reading Railroad combination and the tele-
phone monopoly. On the other hand, Mr..
Burrows is insisting that he is really on
titled to the credit Of starting the war against
the trusts. He says that more than month
ago he called on Attorney General Miller
and persuaded that official to begin legal
proceedings against the trusts all along the
line.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
SCIENTIFIC GHOST STORIES.
Interesting Stories Read Before tho Society
for PsychicaI Research.


for Psychical Research.
Boston, May 4.-The meeting of the Amer
lean Branch of the Society for Psychical Re-
search this evening at the rooms of the Bos-
ton Society of Natural History was fairly
we'll attended and as entertaining as usual.
Prof William James, of Harvard, presided,
and opened the proceeding with some inter-
esting remarks in regard to the question
sheets sent out for the purpose of collecting
testimony with respect to psychical
phenomena. Out Of 5000 replies received,
$40. Prof. James reported, had been afiirma-
tive, showing that about one person out Of
A0 in the community had experienced
hallucinations. These experiences ranged
from cases where the so-called sub-con-
seriousness had recalled to memory occur
rences which had not been attended to at
the tfme-to cases so complex as to be be-
yond the power of explanation with our
present data. The prophecy made by Prof.
James some time ago to the effect that
psychical investigation might obtain some
very interesting results by experimenting
with the inmates of lunatic esylums had. he
of this he cited some startling discoveries
made recently by Janet, the distinguished
French scientist.
DR.. shaws paper described number of
successful cases OF thought trans.errences
and spoke of the advantage of more frequent
experiments OF this nature. The next paper,
"On the Indications OF Continued Knowl-
edge of Terrene Facts on the Part of Phan-
tasms of the Dead" opened with the obser-
walton that "Whatever else ghost may be,
1t certainly is one of the most complex OF
phenomena" and proceeded to illustrate
this fact by number of very good ghost
stories. most of them startling and some of
them decidedly amazing. The amount of
knowledge and of good Judgment displayed
by phantasms of the dead was shown to
vary considerably. Thus it appeared that
some ghosts refused to reveal just how much
they did know, some displayed surprising
ignorance and some greater or less degree
of knowledge on subjects unknown to mere
mortals. The remarkable experience of
physician who died and then came back to
life ended the papers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
HE LOOKS TO NEW YORK.
A Vermont Opinion of tho Empire State in
Convention and Election.

A Vermont Opinion of tho Empire State In
Convention and Election.
RUTLAND, May A.-Judge H. Henry Powers,
Chairman of the Vermont delegation
to the Minneapolis convention, said
yesterday: "The Vermong delegation
is uninstructed, but I believe that
the delegation is. and I am sure
that 1 nm, for the man who is sure to win.
My first choice is for the man who IS sure to
win and my second choice Is for the man
who is most likely to win.
Il regard the situation as simply this: AS
New York goes at the convention so go we
all: or in other words, think the New York
delegation will determine the nomination.
would say also that New York is
the key to the election, ami the nomi-
nee of whichever party carries New
York is the winner If New York at the
convention says Harrison think he will be
the nominee. IfNew York says otherwise 1
think he will not be nominated, and the i'm
portance of this can be fully realized If we
recognize the fact that New York deter
mines the election in November"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Obituary Notes,

GENERAL MIGUEL AUsEA is dead in the City of
Mexico.
THOMAS r. GILLAND, prominent lawyer Of the
Franklin county bar and leading Democrat, died
at Carlisle, Pa, Tuesday night
WILLIAM NJ. SMITH. President of Philadelphia
Common Councils died at Atlantic City yesterday
morning of Brlght's disease.
A. j. NEAFIE, one of the oldest actors on the
American stage, died Sunday at his residence in
New York. He was born in New York In Novem-
Der, 1915.
CAPTAIN ANDREW MCWnLIAMs, one of, IL not
the Oldest of men In Westmoreand county, dropped
dead at his home near Harrison City Tuesday evcn-
ing. He was aged 96 years.
WILLIAM NJ. SMITH. President of Philadelphia
Common Council and Republican representative of
the Twenty-seventh ward. died yesterday morn
ing. His illness originated in an attack of the
grip.
MRS. WILLIAM HUEY. aged 20. died Tuesday at
Bellerdge. She was the wife of William Huey, an
eId-tme river coal man, known from Pittsburg to
New orleans. He was formerly owner OF the
Bellvue Coal Works. : '.. -s#
Don MIGUEL AUzA. Judge Of the Mexican Su-
preme Court of Justice. died yesterday. He was
prominent in Mexican history Of the recent past in
politics and war, and was Governor Of the State OF
Hacatecas at one time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
A COMET VISIBLE

If You Are Out Long After Midnight Per
haps You'll See 1t.
Mr.. G. W. Davis, an astronomical student
of Osawatomie, sends the following interest
ing communication to the Kansas City
Times:
"a comet is now visible to the naked eye
in the eastern sky before daylight. 1t rises
about l:30 A. M. 1t forms a great eQuilateral
triangle with Antares in the Eagle and
Alpha Crucis. 1t is west of and forms q
smaller triangle with the two western stars
OF the great square of Pegasus. 1t has
moved about 113o in a northwesterly direc-
tion toward the constellation Crgnus since
the morning of April 25, when l first OBJ
served it. The nucleus equals in size
fourth magnitude star, and the tail is about
SO in length, but very indistfnct, pointing to-
ward the constellation Dolphin or Jobs
Coffin" ..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Prof. John +. Lowell.

John E. Lowell, widely known as the
founder of the LancasterIan School in New Haven,
died Tuesday in Milwaukee of old age. He was
born in Huntingtonshire, England, 1795. He
came to this country il, 1922 and soon afterward
years he accepted a professorship in the Mount
Pleasant Academy at Amherst. He at that time
gave lessons in elocution TO Henry Ward Beecher
and Archbishop Baily. He returned to New
Haven later and resumed charge of the Lancas-
terrain School. Among his pupils have been Gov
ernor Henry B. Harrison, Governor James Z. En-
glish. Prof. Day. of Yale, and other eminent men.
He taught in New Haven more than 80 years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
SOLVING THE BRIDGE PROBLEM.
The Scheme Proposed by Commissioner
Mercer Is Perfectly Feasible.
y,la

Chronice-Telegrapb.1
County Commissioner Mercer holds that
the county should provide free bridges over
the Monongahela and Allegheny, and his
argument is sound. 1t Is unjust that the
only sections where county bridges are not
built are in Pittsburg and Allegheny, which
pay tive-sevenths of the county taxes. The
proposition that the county should build
bridge across the Monongahela and also one
across the Allegheny will receive public ap-
proval and should be acted upon. Toll
bridges within city limits are as great an an
achronism as would be toll gates in city
streets.
If county action could be secured in this
direction, it would afford happy solution
to the Southside problem. The natural loca-
ton for a county bridge across the Monon-
gahela would be downtown, so as to afford
a direct route to the Court House. The city
bridge could then be put uptown, SO as to
make that section of the Southside part of
the East End. The scheme is perfectly
feasible, and all that is wanted is the vigor-
Gus push of public opinion to set the official
machinery in motion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN,
Their New Graduate Department In the Uni.
versity OF Pennsylvania.

versity OF Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, May "A new departure
IN the higher education of women was in
augurated by the University of Pennsyl-
vania to-day, when the Graduate Depart.
partment for women was formally opened.
Women we're admitted to the postgraduate
courses Of the University some years ago,
but no especial provision was made Tor
them.
The new department will start with n
force of 33 professors, ana will grant to
Arts and Master of Philosophy. There will
be 21 distinct lines Of work, with many SUBJ
divisions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THOSE passengers on street cars at
crowded seasons who have long felt that
their payment Of the fare was not large
enough recompense for the privilege of
standing will no doubt have their sense of
justice satisfied now that pickpockets are
doing profitable business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

CITIZENS anxious to economize in mu-
nicipal expenses by dispensing with a de-
linquent tax collector can do best by q
prompt payment of taxes on their own
account, and an energetic movement to
show that delinquents are unworthy citizens
in seeking to evade their duties by dis
creditable negligence in paying their debts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

HARRISoN's greatest recommendation is
found in the enemies he has made among
machine politicians in the distribution of
patronage. His most prominent weakness is
the lack of courage he has shown by
violating his civil service reform pledges in
the same matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Harry Stevenson, Washington, Pa.

Harry Stevenson, son of Rev. Ross
Stevenson, of Washington. Pa, and brother OF
William Stevenson, of the Carnegie Library, died
Tuesday night at his fathers residence. Mr..
Stevenson was a graduate of Washington and
jefferson College and had lately been attending Nc
to enter the University.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THE large number of uninstructed dele
gates to be sent to Minneapolis indicates the
present ignorance of manipulators as to
where they can make the most profitable
deal of votes in exchange for patronage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

HEREDITY promises to be a prominent
issue in the Presidential campaign with
Harrison under his grandfather's hat and
Lincoln in the shadow of his fathers
martyrdom both before the nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

IT is an i'll wind that blows nobody any
good, and moonshiners are enjoying a re-
spite, as the impossible condition of the
roads necesstates the postponement of
raids on Illicit distilleries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
OUGHT to Bottle Their Harmony.

Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
The Ohio Republicans are harmonious
again. They should take large bottle of
harmony with them to Minneapolis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

of what that party expects is to elect a
Democratic President, beyond all posi-
bility of failure, for that is the result of
throwing the election into the House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

MEN not interested either in baseball or
politics have little to interfere with their
attention to private business. If they have
no business they had better sleep or travel
for few months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THE present discussion as to smoke con-
sumers should suggest something to Gig
arctic manufacturers. Can't they sell one of
these machines with each box?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THERE is movement on foot in several
directions to adopt the system of selling
eggs by weight. Too much wait is little
calculated to improve the quality Of fresh.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

WITH the prevalence of heavy thunder
storms the fearful should remember that
the promise has been made that the end
of the world shall not come by water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

GROVER CLEVELAND is reported as re-
fusinS number of invitations to make ad-
dresses The address he is most desirous of
making is &c. c., White House, Washington,
D. c."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THERE is strange predominance of igno-
rance and forgetfulness among those con-
cerned in the Baltimore Terminal lawsuit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Harmony IS magnificent thing-for the
fellows who have got the other fellows
down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

VEGETATION is growing as rapidly as
Presidential booms just now, but the former
has the more continuous progress OF the
two
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

GOVERNOR PATTIsoN has had a rather
remarkable streak of judicial luck. In q
little over year he has appointed eight
1udgeS-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Major Samuel Given, Carlisle.
ior Samuel Given. one of Cumberland

Major Samuel Given, one OF Cumberland
county's wealthiest citizens and President and
principal stockholder of the Mt. Holly Paper Com
pany died at Carlisle yesterday, aged ss years.
He was unmarried, and Miss Amelia Given, who
gave Mt. Holly its fine public library building. Is
the only representative of the family in this coun-
try,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

THE trial of Pipes at Waynesburg has
nothing to do with smoking, though there
was good deal of wedding out before jury
was impaneled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

CLooNAN has been found guilty of murder
in the first degree, so he has strong chance
of dying natural death.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
A Mai, Superintendent Re,irn,np

A. D. Burt, superintendent of the Fifth
division of the mail service, from Pittsburg
to Cincinnati, is in Washington for the pur-
pose of resigning. He has accepted
position with the Bell Telephone Company