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and Morgan. of New York. The effect OF
this transaction will be disastrous to the
New York and New England road.
: THE proposed Nebraska Central Railroad
will build from Omaha to Fort Dodge, Ia,
use the Mason City and Fort Dodge track
from the latter place to Mason City, and
build from Mason City north to Duluth.
STILL another report has been launched
concerning Finley, whose resignation as
Chairman of the Western Passenger Associa-
tion takes effect Friday. 1t is now said he
has accepted the position OF Traffic Manager
OF the Chicago St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railroad.
ENGINEERS are surveying route for q rail-
road from Layton station, on the Pittsburg,
McKeesport and Youghiogheny,to to the Belle
vernon Railroad at Fayette City. Both these
roads are operated by the Vanderbilt oom-
pany, and the branch, which will be about
l. miles long, will be built and operated by
the same company.
A CHARTER was granted yesterday to the
keystone Northern Railroad Company,
whose line will run from a point of junction
with the Pittsburg and Western at or near
Wurtemburg. Lawrence county, over the
most convenient route to Rose Point, same
county. The capital is 50,000 f, L. Stephen
son, Allegheny, is President
Now that the Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that the railroads may
make particulars without violating the
Interstate commerce law, the Chicago, st.
Paul and Kansas City will renew its applica-
tion, made some time ago to the Western
Passenger Association, for authority to es-
ablish rate of cents per mile Tor parties
of ten or more travelling in body.
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GIGGLES AND A LADDER.
Give Away Seminary Double Elopement
Scheme-The Girls Sent to Their Chicago
Homes and the Boys Go to Jail-A Cruel

c,- - n,,. r,,,.nt
A - go.
echeme-ihe 'iris sent 10 heir o"no"so
Homes and the Boys Go to Jail-A Cruel
Janitor.
ROCKFORD. ILL. Nav 17-rSpec,al +
The Rockford F.mo1o Sar,inorr lost two
- - 81 Chio.a a.e .."1' seminal rs.w.r,.d @
pfe.ty onicago seudents To-Day ihey 'fi'o
to elope last night. Two young men were
found in their room on the third floor Of the
seminary and the girls were bundled off
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
BUSINESS BREVITIES.

NEW YORK State tanneries will close down
within 60 days.
A HEAVY wheat bull operator in Liverpool
failed yesterday.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
has declared a dividend of S. share.
A BREWERS strike a day old at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was won by the men yesterday.
DIRECTORS Of the Tamarack Mining Com
pany have declared dividend of 81 share
THE rice crop of the United States this
year will be 80 per cent heavier than last
year.
ABOUT 15O Chicago granite cutters struck
yesterday, to help their fellow-workmen in
in the East.
ENGLISH syndicates are invading Mexico
buying up cigar factories and coffee and
tobacco lands.
PHILADELPHIA granite cutters have struck
against handling non-unjon granite from
New England.
Two HUNDRED and fifty lathers struck at
Philadelphia Monday for 81 IS per ], 200 laths
and two-thirds of the boss plasterers COM
piled with the demands.
The New York Life Policyholders, Com.
mittee has made q final report. The com
mittee reports that the reorganization Of
the company is now complete.
The following charters were granted yes
terday: The Keystone Northern Railroad
Company, of Lawrence county, to run from
Wurtemburg, Lawrence county, to Ross
Point, Lawrence county, IA miles; capital,
$l5o,oO0. The incorporators are: F. L. Ste
venson, ]. NJ. Porter, Allegheny; J. L. D.
speer, Charles E. Speer, James R. Kerr,
George l. Whitney, Charles DonnelIy, John
Wilson, Pittsburg; j. 8. Tehny, New York;
H. w. Biddle. J. n. Hutchinson, Philadel,
phia. The Old Reliable Building and Loan
Association, of Allegheny; capital stock,
$3.50, 900. The Glenwood and Homestead Ferry
Company, of Pittsburg, to run ferry on the
capital stock, $4,000. The Bennett Public
Building and Loan Association, Of Millvale;
capital, Sl,000,0O0.
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Fitful Flashes From Afar.

REDMOND, the Parnellite leader, will ad-
,ess New Workers.
HUNDREDS are dying of cholera every day
Hurrar, East Africa.
GERMANY contemplates prohibiting all i'm
igration from Russia.
The Victoria colony, Australia, will come
1t 81, SOC, 900 behind this year.
RUSSIA is building a military road from
srnoyo to Eastern Ferghana.
HERR GERLoFF has been arrested for COM
icity in the frauds of Jaeger.
TIE Argentine Congress will inquire into
q legality of the Presidential election.
A TRANsooNTINENTAL canal is proposed to
N meet the Rhine and the Danube rivers.
7 HE London Graphic calls upon Parliament
rive Newfoundland q wholesome lesson.
GosHoRN & Co., at Calcutta, have failed
rough losses in indigo and exchanges.
ebts, e250, 200.
OF the late Greek Ministry only one passed
the general election. Tricoupis will have
tbree-fourths majority.
TINTED STATES MINISTER PORTER was the
ret diplomat to call on Signor Brin, the
~ Minister of Foreign Affairs.
OWING to the heavy outlay caused by the
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failure of crops, the Russian Governments
has ordered that retrenchment be made In
all the Government departments.
THE Peruvian Charge dAtfairs in London
states that his Government has cabled him
authority to declare that the Peruvian Gov
ernment is firmly resolved to fulfil Its con-
tract with the Peruvian corporation
AT Hungerford, Kennedy Bell, q clergyman
OF the Established Church. was arraigned,
charged with assaulting two young women
in railway carriages. The clergyman az
first Indignantly denied his guilt. but AFTER
ward admitted having been too famlliar
with the girls MI. Bell was held without
bail.
THE report from Astrakan that steamee
had foundered in the Caspian Sea with 2oo
passengers, has caused much excitement at
Caspian ports. As q recent disaster was at
tended by almost equal loss of life, there Is q
general opinion that the Russian autnorl-
ties do not attend with due vigilance TO the
inspection of steamships in those waters.
THE Kaiser has made another break. In
his latest speech, which was in response to
a toast at a banquet given him by the Diet,
OF West Prussia, at Dantzsic, occurs this
passage: "May the sons of this country &C
cept patiently whatever Providence has In
store for them, and await with confidence
the result which their Emperor Will achleVe
in the course of the tollsome future"
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NOT ON THE BILLS.

CIeopatra's Strange Eulogist-Extraordi-
nary Scene at St. Louis Theater-How
Man Who Had Good Time Capped
the Climax.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 17.-When the cur
tain fell for the last time upon "Cleopatra"
and Fanny Davenport had come before
the drop in answer to call of the
audience at the Grand Opera House Sat-
urday evening, and at the very moment
that she was about to come forward for
a recall, strange gentleman, who occupied
a seat in box on the lower left hand tier
next the stage, arose from his place and
stepped quietly over the FURNISHED rail TO
the corner of the stage.
He was tall, dark-haired gentleman,
dressed In a gray suit and white straw
hat.
When the gentleman began to read, the
audience was on edge to listen. His cards
became disarranged and his sentences had
no connection. The few who were near
enough to understand him heard wild ex-
aggerated epic upon the glories of the act
ress. His poem became more and more
senseless, until the audience broke into
laugh. He then made short speech in
very loud tone.
Ladies' and gentlemen" he said, 'I had
a good time and you had good time, and I
don't care who knows it I've got plenty of
money and can do just as please"
His voice was drowned in the increased
laughter of the crowd, and in his confusion
he threw his cards among the people. On
the face of them appeared:
Charles Konneker, fruit and produce
commission. Reference, New Orleans Ma
tional Bank, Office in store % North Peters
street; Stalls l and q French Vegetable
Market, New Orleans.
The attention of the stage manager had
been drawn to the strange scene on the stage.
The instant Mr. Konneker returned to his
seat an usher let down the screens in front
OF the box and he was hidden from view.
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MYTH AND MOSES MIXED.
How the Madagascarans Tell Their Story
of the Worlds Beginning.

How the Madagascarans Tell Their Story
of the Worlds Beginning.
The people of Madagascar, in their story
of the beginning, get myth and Moses
strangely mixed. The man was first created
as in the Mosaic account as found in Genesis,
and was set to trim and prune large
grove, with the injunction to let none of
the luscious fruit which grew thereon pass
his lips. After years of horticultural work
he thought to try the taste of some of the
finest and ripest fruits which grew in his
garden, and was so well pleased with his
first experiment that he tried a specimen of
everything that grew in the grove.
That night he was terribly afflicted with
ulcers, boils and carbuncles which appeared
on all parts of his body. On the following
morning, when almost ready to give up in
despair, one of the monster boils on his leg
burst and out came a beautiful girl. She
Immediately set about ministering to the
wants of the boil-aff1icted man, and soon had
him restored to health. On the ninth day
after the girl had come from the leg of the
man they were Joined in marriage by God
himself in the center of that Madagascarene
fruit groves.
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DANCING OF THE CHOIR BOYS.
A Custom Of Seville Brought Down From
the Middle Ages.

A Custom Of Seville Brought Down From
the Middle Ages.
Cornhill Magazine.1
There is one custom peculiar to Seville
which now really forms the prettiest scene
to be viewed during the carnival, although
it is religious, not secular, and is a protest
against the licentious gayeties of the time,
instead Of being part of them. This GUS
tom is the dancing of the little choir boys
of the Cathedral before the host every
evening at 5 o'clock.
The origin of the dancing is not attested
by any documentary evidence, but is be-
lieved to date from the conquest of Seville
by St. Ferdinand from the Moors. It is a
survival in fact of the autos sacramentales,
or miracle plays, accompanied by music
and dancing in honor Of the sacrament,
which are chiefly known to European read
ers outside of Spain through the beautiful
compositions of Calderon. The Autos Of
Calderon carried these performances to the
highest point of literary art, but they had
been customary in Spain throughout the
Middle Ages at Corpus Christi and other
festivals. Not only boys, but also women
used to dance before the host until this
part of the ceremony was suppressed by
authority.
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BEAUTY BECOMING GENERAL
Mary Queen of Scots Would Attract !
Attention in These Days.

Mary Queen of Scots Would Attract No
Attention in These Days.
1t is comforting theory that is advanced
nowadays that the human race Is becoming
better looking, and that there is more
beauty generally diffused among our women
than in the bygone times. "Beauty grows
as the race Develops" says modern writer,
stand the increased refnements of existence
are undoubtedly affecting the characteristics
of the species.
If Mary Queen of Scots, or any other
beauty who has become famous in history,
were to walk into modern ballroom she
probably would not attract attention in any
way, and not only are the individual types
higher, but beauty has become very much
more general; no one who keeps his eyes
open can fail to be struck with this circum-
stance" Race admi1ture has also undoubt-
edly had great deal to do with this fact, if
it is fact
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A CURI0UsLY FORMED SENTENCE.
1t Spells the Same Backward, Forward an
Has Other PecuIiarities

1t Spells the Same Backward, Forward and
Has Other PecuIiarities.
The following curious sentence, "Sator
arepo tenet opera rotas," is pretty bad
Latin, but may be freely translated: 81
cease from my work; the sower will wear
away his weel" 1t has these peculiarites
First-It spells backward and forward the
same.
Second-The first letter of each word
spells the first word.
Third-The second letter of each word
spells the second word, and so on with the
third, fourth and fifth.
Fourth-The last letters, read backward,
spell the first word; the next to the last, the
second word, and so on throughout.
Fifth-There are just as many letters in
each word as there are words
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A Big Collection of Books.

The progress of the Bodleian Library at
different periods varies much, in later years
the books increasing at an infinitely acceler-
ated rate. In 1649 the volumes had &C
cumulated to 1875, one-third being folios.
By 1714 the shelves contained 80, 169 vol
umes OF printed books and 5,916 volumes of
manuscrip pit. In 1849 the number was
900, 900; in 1860, $50, 900 and in 1888, 44O, 900
printed books This is the largest collec-
tion in the United Kingdom, with the ex-
ception of the library of the British
Museum, which now contains 1900, 900
printed volumes
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THE FIRE RECORD.

Philadelphia - Patrick McNally's large
boarding stables, with p horses and mules.
Loss, about 81, ,00U; insured.
East St. Louis-The works Of the Steel
Foundry Company. Loss, SIS, ,0O0 Molten
metal and water coming in contact caused
an explosion.
North avenue, Allegheny-A fire broke
out last evening in the boiler room of
Walkers soap factory. 1t was easily put
out; damage about 500.
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Anofher Case OF 1hree B1ack Grows.
London Daily News.l
A notable example of the "three black
crows" class of fiction comes from York
shire. A Scarborough clergyman on open
ing his newspaper the other day found
therein an utterly unfounded statement to
the effect that his consort had presented him
with triplets. He Immediately caused in
quiry to be made as to the source of this
astounding story, and he found it was as
follows: His married daughter and her
children had arrived at his house on a visit;
the event had been described by one neigh
Dor to another as ''an addition of three to
the minister's family; by the natural law
of evolution, that was transformed into
case of triplets; and local correspondent
getting hold of the story sent it in that form
to the newspapers.
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Chicago Ironworkers Give In.

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE strike of ironworh.
ers at the Worlds Fair has come to a close,
and tomorrow the men return to their en-
ployment on the old terms. Some of the
workers during the strike have been leaving
one contractor to go to another with view
to having the strikers called in. A general
notice has been issued by the Superintend-
ent that If this policy is continued he would
Issue general order to the effect that O
workman leaving the employ of one con-
except through the consent and recon-
mendation of the first.
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Whisky Trust People Give BAN.

CINCINNATI, May Nv. N. Hobart of this
city, to-day appeared before United States
Commissioner J. E. Bruce and gave bond to
appear in Boston during the May term of
a ue bis bond 70 answer 70 second ind5ct '1 re-
ment as a member of the Whisky Trust
His bond was fixed at $5.0O0 and his partner,
Lewis o. Maddux, was accepted as his bonds
man. Lewis II. Greene, the other indicted
member of the Whisky Trust, will give
similar bond tomorrow.
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NOT A SINGLE LIFE-BoAT
rrried on a Caspian Sea Steamer, Which Is
Lost With $50 Lives.

ST PETERSBURG, May 1.-THE Caspian
a steamer Alexander Wolcow, which it
sreported from Astrakhan yesterday had
doubtedly foundered, left a Persian port
Baku toward the end of March. No
ubt is now entertained but that she
Indered in a hurricane which occurred on
29th of March.
The Wolcow did not carry single life
at, and her 80 passengers are given up
lost. She was hampered with heavy
ok cargo, and it is supposed that her
rgo shifted, causing her to capsize.
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sWEDENBoRGIAN's WILL APPEAL
They Employ an Attorney to Further Con
test a $4,000 Will Case.

They Employ an Attorney to Further Con-
test a $4,000 viii Case.
CINCINNATI, May 1.-THE General Con-
vention of the New Jerusalem (Sweden-
borgian) Church, closed this evening. The
officers elected were:
Rev. Chauncey Giles, of Philadelphia,
President; Rev. John Worcester, of Boston,
Vice President; Rev. A. E Frost, of
Detroit, Secretary; Rev. Francis Benson, of
Boston, Treasurer.
During the afternoon an offer was re-
ceivcd from Prot. Layman B. Norris, of the
University of Michigan, rendering free of
charge his services as an attorney to carry
to higher court an appeal from the de-
cison of the Hamilton county courts,
whereby the will of Mrs. Allen, of Glen
dale, giving the church bequest of $50, 600,
was set aside The offer was accepted.
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A Narrow Escape From Actual War.

LONDON, May 17.-Sir George Baden
well made his first public speech yester-
Y since his return from Bering Sea. 1t
5 at a meeting of the mission to deep sea
hermen. He assured the audience that
eat Britain at one time was close upon a
II with the United States. but that they
now agreed to settle the matter in dis
tie by means of arbitration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

THE Snow Fork and Hooking Valley Rail
way Company has been organized at Zanes-
vile. The line will run Irom New Straits
vile to Athens and will be a coal feeder for
the Baltimore and Ohio.
The Rhode Island and Massa chusetts
Railroad was bought by Messrs Rockefeller
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Harrisburg Drys in Convention.

HARRISBURG, May 7.-[Special 1.-The
Prohibition County Convention was held
here to-day. The selection of ticket was
left to the Executive Committee. These
delegates were elected to the Scranton Con-
vention: Rev. J. j. Stoffer, H. A. Neitz,
Nathan II. Botdorff, H. j. Posey, j. G.
Farmer, L. W. Turner, Mrs. Agnes Kemp.
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Burglars Make a Rich BauI.

NEW YORK, May Tz.-[Special THE
house of Michael c. Bouvier, No. IA West
Forty-sixth street, was. entered by burglars
Monday night. 1t is reported to the police
that the thieves secured over $50, 900 worth
of plate and jewelry. The matter was only
reported tonight
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
THEY'RE AFTER ME
The Song Sung by Man Before He suicid-
ed on a Train.

The Song sung Dy Man Before He Sufcfd-
ed on a Train.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, May 1I.-[SpeciaL J.
Just after the southbound fast train due to
pass this city on the Hudson River Railroad
at 4:1O this afternoon left Hyde Park we'll
dressed man rose from his seat in the parlor
car, and, shouting, "They are after me, }" cut
his throat from ear to ear.
There was great CONSERVATION among the
passengers, the ladies screaming with
fright. The stranger died soon after the
train arrived here. From papers found on
the body the suicides name was learned
to be Alfred L. Stanton, of Jersey City.
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mother Victory for Archbishop Ireland.

ROME, May 1.-THE Vatican has sent
'cular letter to the American Bishops,
commencing the formation of a national
ZION against Cahenslyism, or the project to
point Bishops of the same nationality as
people whom they are to spiritually
rect
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
THE PERsPIRATION OF A KANGAROO
1t Resembles the Red Sweat of the Hippo
potamus of the Nile.

potamus of the Nile.
London Telegraph
On casual inspection the ''red kangaroo"
at the geological garden appears to be a
perfectly average kangaroo. Its reddish
coat alone distinguishes it from the COM
moner variety, which is exhibited in an ad-
joining cage. 1t possesses, however, very
curious popularity, not easily made out
while the animal is alive. On the throat of
the male, at any rate, the hair is stained of
a crimson color, suggestive of a serious dis
agreement with it's fellow-prisoner.
This crimson stain is, however, not due to
any wound, but is caused by substance
secreted from the skin. 1t is curiously
analogous to the blood-red ''sweat" of the
hippopotamus, and is not any more easily
e1plicable. Why both these creatures, SO
widely separated in the scale of life, should
produce, apparently perfectly gratuitously,
similar crimson dye is hard to understand,
unless indeed this natural rouging is as
attractive to the opposite sex as the artificial
kind is supposed to be in our species
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
France to Increase Her Navy,

PARIS, May 1.-THE Chamber of Depu-
IS reassembled to-day. NJ Cavaignac,
mister of Marine, demanded supple
sntary credits for the navy amounting to
100000 francs. These credits, he said,
IRE due to the necessity of increased
pidity of building and greater ornaments
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18
A Warning to leo Cream Eaters.

St. Louis Repubic.1
The person who rashly swallows great
mouthfuls of frozen milk should remember
that every time it comes in contact with the
nerves of the throat the whole nervous
system is injured to a greater or less extent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18

BRUSSELS, May 1.-THE Belgian Gov
nment has been unoficially informed of
desire of the United States Government
at the International Monetary Conference
: held in Brussels
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White Mountains, N. H.
MAPLEWOOD.

East End of the famous town of Bethlehem.
Grand center of all the White Mountain at
fractions. The great resort of health and
pleasure. Maplewood Hotel opens July g..
Maplewood Cottage opens June 10. 10 FUR
NISHED COTTAGES. Send for illustrated
booklet to AINSLIE & WEBSTER, Managers,
No. 60 Boylston st., Boston. Also of Hotel
San Marco, st. Augustine, Fla.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-18

MEMS summer underwear, silk, Isle and
JAMES H. AIKEN & Co.,
100 Fifth avenue.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-28
Thursday, April 2S, 1892.
ABDUCTED HER OWN CHILD.

Bridget Murphy Forcibly Takes Her
 seven-Year-Old Daughter From the
 County Hone-The Mother Just Re-
 leased Iron Jail.
 Bridget Murphy, who has but recently been released from jail, bids fair to soon become & boarder at shat institution again. Yesterday afternoon she forcibly abducted her seven-year-o daughter from the county home, to which she had been com mitted through the efforts of the Humane society.
 Several months ago the Murphy woman was committed to jail for keeping e disor- derly house at 425 State street. About the same time, through the efforts of Attorney O. B. Matthewson of the Connecticut Hu- man society. the seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. Murphy was committed to the county home. Tuesday morning Mrs. Mur phys term in jail expired and upon her release she at once set out in search of her daughter. Ascertaining that she had been sent to the county home, Ars Murphy went there yesterday afternoon and forci- ply abducted her own child. The police were notified and are now on the lookout for the woman,