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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
JoKELETs FROM JUDGE.

Mrs. Duton-Mrs. Nuriche has an ''at
home'' on the twelfth
Mrs Kuickerbocker-Is that so? III have one the
same day and invite her. That will square things.
oPerhaps I'm fortunes debtor"
Said the actor in his plight.
.If they had liked me better
I'd have had no fruit tonight"
Old GentIeman-That's right, little boy.
See pin and pick 1t up and all the day you'n have
good luck.
Little Boy-Give me light, will yerr
Because May first moved away
A hundred wounds bear.
1t was indeed q moving day;
Itmoved me to despair.
s'This article on lightning freaks ought to
be illustrated - said the editor. Have we any.
thing in stock that will do?''
Yes: we have font of Chinese type"
Good. Run In 4 dozen letters.'
Though full of flats this town may be-
These DAYS of spring remind one
That, If disposed to move, you'u see
How hard it Is 10 find one.
Skidds-So you are married?
Hipple-Yes.
Skidds-And yet 1t is less than six months since
you told me you had determined to remain single.
HIppe-I know: but, you see, Mamie had
decided to get married.
visited the actors fair.
Though all was fair as fair could be
Some things by far were fairest there
The actresses especially.
Lady-How do you sell these handkerL
chiefs?
Clerk Cbriskly)-Elght cents piece or three for
q quarter. IN.
Lady-I'n take three,
Tourist (delightedly)-You reasonable
rates pleasant surprise.
European host Ito clerk)-Charge the gentiemaa
20 francs for apleasant surprise.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
A BLOW AT TIE TRUSTS.

The decision of Justice Smith of the
New York Supreme Court in the recent
case against the National Harrow Com
pany is the most radical declaration of the
opposition of the law against combinations
to suppress competition. The decision
granted an injunction restraining that
company from bringing suits against the
Clipper Chilled Plow Company, of Elmira,
for infringement of patents in the manu-
facture Of harrows. 1t takes the ground
that combination or corporation formed
for the purpose of creating monopoly is
so obnoxious to the law, that it has no
standing even for the enforcement of the
patents it may control. The validity of
the patents does not seem to have been
passed upon. The decision, as reported,
comedies that the patents may be good in
proper hands; but it resSS upon the radical,
though salutary principle, chat an organ
ization formed for the purpose of violating
public policy and nullifying the law in its
very existence has no claim on the pro-
lection OF the law for upholding it in the
position by which it antagonizes public
interests
Such ruling following on the unbroken
line of decisions is a striking example of
the warfare between the law and the ille-
gal combination of capital. 1t suggests
anew the interesting question which of
them will prove the more powerful. But,
if the combinations under the decisions of
the courts can neither maintain their pat
ents nor enforce their contracts, might it
not be pertinent to remind those who have
taken that method of seeking illegal profits
that they have placed their interests in a
very perilous position?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28

Mrs Depew says that she never allows
her children to read fairy stories. Nor to
hear them?-or does Papa Depew tell no sto-
ries at homer,
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia
specialist and author, is said to be one of the
foremost living authorities on the subject of
snake poisons.
David D. Wells, son of the distinguished
free trader of Norwich, Conn.,, is junior in
Harvard. He has written a play that is
about to be brought out at Cambridge.
On the occasion of the golden wedding of
the King and Queen of Denmark, the En-
press of Russia will present her father, King
Christian, with six white horses, all of pure
Arab race.
Miss Marie Adelaide Delloc is one Of the
numerous young newspaper women who are
demonstrating to previously sceptical pub
lie that beauty and brains may inhabit the
same earthly tenement of clay.
Mr. Dering, Secretary of the British En-
bassy in Rome, declares that American
travellers alone spend S35, 100000 n year in
gold in Italy, while other foreign travellers
expend fully double that amount.
The marriage of Miss Lyle Freeman
Schultz, youngest daughter of the late Mar
tin Schultz, of Philadelphia, to Mr.. John B.
DaCosta Ricci, son of Baron DaCosta Ricci,
of the Portuguese legation, took place in
London Tuesday.
Doubtless the Oldest inventor In this
country is Mr.. Joseph Francis, q native OF
Massachusetts, whose devices to aid life
saving caused a revolution in coast-guard
methods. Mr.. Francis is 81 years old but in
possession of oil his mental faculties.
Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary, and
her two sisters, the Misses Halstead, are said
to resemble each other SO closely that casual
acquaintances distinguish between them
with difficulty. They make no attempt to
dress in a way to decrease the resemblance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
THE SENATOR SLIGHTLY OFF,

Either Senator Stanford is victim of
looseness in reporting or of his own ignor-
ance on matters which every public man
should have at his fingers ends. In one
interview published in the city press yes
terday he is reported as saying that the
national debt is $4,000 900, the fact be-
ing that the last debt statement showed
the aggregate of interest and non-interest
bearing debt to be s971, 100000, against
which there is a gold reserve of little
over s1OO,0O0,00 Another report puts
him in the light of saying: "Why, the
bonded Indebtedness Of our railways ap-
proaches nearly the national debit" which
is even more unfortunate, as the bonded
Indebtedness of the railways of the United
States is now a little over S., 600, 0O0, 900, or
about six times the net national debt The
third report is not quite as bad, as 1t says:
"Look at the bonded Indebtedness of the
United States-over 81, ,0OO, ,00O, ,0OO," which
is not quite twice the correct amount.
The Senator should either inform himself
on questions of public finance or see that
the reporters get the figures down cor
ractlv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1892
TWELVE PAGES
OUR health PRorECroRs.

The annual meeting of the Ladies'
Health Protective Association yesterday,
fully reported elsewhere, afforded strong
evidence of the society's usefulness and
should result in rally to its support.
There is no object worthier Of individual
and collective effort than the improve
ment of our sanitary conditions, and there
is a vast field for its exercise. The pres
ence of proper public spirit would min
imize the necessity for the use of law in
restricting the smoke nuisance. But while
coal users are alike Indifferent to the
health and comfort of the community, and
blind to the saving they might effect in
their own expenses by the adoption of
proper appliances, it behooves the suffer
ers from existing evils to cause the enact
ment of ordinances carefully framed to
restrict them.
The garbage question is on different
basis, for it would manifestly be an in
Justice TO large section of the city's in
habitants TO expect them to accomplish
the impossible feat of getting rid of their
refuse in a satisfactory manner by their
private and unaided action and at their in
dividual expense. II is, indeed, a disgrace
that cities of the size of Pittsburg and Al
legheny should be unprovided with mu-
nicipal machinery for the disposition of
their garbage. 1t is high time that
proper ordinance should be passed to deal
with the matter. And there is only one
method in which it can be effectively dealt
with. The cities must establish and main
tain well constructed garbage furnaces for
the consumption Of refuse with proper ar
rangements to prevent the emission of
smoke or noxious fumes. An ordinance
providing for the floating of refuse down
the river would simply aggravate existing
evils, and if framed in such manner as
10 create monopoly would go out of its
way to add unnecessary expense and
moral obliquity to its inherent physical
EMBELLISHMENTS.
With the expectoration nuisance private
agitation is alone competent to deal Men
who behave as hogs in public places,
whether conveyances or sidewalks, should
be socially ostracised, and that is the only
way in which their manners and sense of
decency can be improved.
Pittsburg's hygienic conditions can be
infinitely bettered so soon as its citizens
demand it, and the sooner they awaken to
q proper sense of the necessity the better
It will be for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
DEFENSE OF ALUMINIUM,
Its Use for Drinking. Vessels Defended in
England.

AtS Oso IOr DrlnkinG Vessels DcionOeO In
England.
A Birmingham firm has addressed letter
to local paper on the use OF aluminium for
culinary vessels. "Having long been i'm
pressed with belief in the economic uses of
this metal owing to its lightness, strength,
color and apparent purity and wholesome
ness, we have for the last two years been ex-
perimenting with it, with a view to intro
ducing it, made mp into ordinary tableware,
and the following are some OF the results ar
rived at: A flask made of it has been in
constant use by one Of our friends
iDg M at e didrens times Brandy snerry
claret, beer and milk. If any of the
dangers pointed ont had resulted from its
use, not the possessor Of it alone, but many
of his friends as we'll ought to have suffered
seriously; but, so far, not the slightest i'll
effect has ever been percsptible, and not the
least snatch or bad taste has ever been i'm
with common metal or poorly electro
plated TASKS. For dishes the result so far
seems equally satisfactory; neither meats,
gravies, nor sauces thot or cold), no matter
how long they have been allowed to stand,
have any effect upon it, neither are they
acted upon by the metal. -.
"Appfe-juce, which is considered a severe
test, and acts and is acted upon by most
metals, with aluminium appears to be quite
innocuous. Tea also appears to be equally
wholesome when made i'll an aluminium ves-
Sci as IN IL real silver one, ana even aItef
standing several days there was no discolora-
tion OF the metal, and no perceptible change
in the tea. Vinegar, which acts upon most
metals, does not appear to touch aluminium,
nor bo affected by it, neither does potash
nor soda water. We all know that
tin Is perfectly pure and harm
less metal, and that fish and meats
may be preserved in it for an indefinite
period but not so with the common solder
with which meat tins are put together
hence the many fatal results from eating
timed salmon and Holsters. Had the Ger
man water bottle referred to been carefully
assayed, in addition to the contents being
analysed, it is more than probable ir would
have been found to be made of an impure
and spurious alloy, not of pure aluminium"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
Obituary Notes.

SILAs KIPP, aged s., one of the Oldest engineers
on the West Penn Rallroad was buried at Freeport
yesterday.
MRS. HUGH b. WICK. who has lived in Youngs-
town more than 60 years. died yesterday afternoon.
aged 70. leaving four children-John G. Wick, Of
Wick Bros. 4 Co., bankers; Henry Wick, Mrs. W.
Scott Bomell and Mrs. Emily Bomel.
JAMES HANEY died at Greenville. Pa. suddenly
yesterday morning AT the National Hotel. He was
awake 1T 5 O'Clock and talked to his roommate.
AT q clock he was found dead In bed. He was
bridge contractor, and had friends iii Pittsburg.
THOMAS DWELL SpEIR, New York architect,
Tuesday night accidentally shot and killed himself
at his home IN South Orange, N. j. He was
member of class 81 of Princeton College, and de-
signed the new athletic building at Princeton Col
lege.
Hon. JOHN B. BRATroN, for many years editor
of the Voi,ateer OF Carlisle died yesterday after
lingering illness. aged Is years. He was u leading
Democrat, having been nominated for Congress
several times, and was postmaster under President
Johnson's administration
HARRY B. HUDSON, who was buried on Tuesday
in the Actors Fund plot at Evergreen Cemetery.
New York City, was an actor of considerable ex-
perience. and at one time an excellent
was With
pany.
BRIGADIFR GENERAL JAMES CARLES, for q
years Inspector in the United States Public Stores
died In New York Tuesday night. At the outbreak
of the Civil War he enlisted private. He was
Major General for zallantry in leading force
across the James river.
DORA BRANsCoMBE, an actress and singer. died
IN Boston Sunday. aged 30. She had been on the
stage since childhood, and a contrato singer and
seuorete had played many good
time of her death. Last year she Travelled with
Pauline Halls opera troupe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
AUTHORITY ON ALUMINIUM.

A most intelligent and authoritative
statement of the present and future status
Of aluminium has been made by Mr. Alfred
c. Hunt, President of the PittSburg Re-
duction Company. He does not encour-
age the idea that aluminium is to be made
''dirt cheap;" but as he considers it prob
able that the price will be ultimately
brought down to 1920 cents per pound,
O cheapness is indicated which will have
important industrial effects One of the
principal respects in which lowering of
the cost is expected is in the electrical
energy required for the process of deposi-
ton, which now makes up one-third of the
cost. Mr.. Hunt thinks that the power to
be developed at Niagara will prove zone
of the best in the world for the manu-
facture of aluminium. -
Among the uses for which aluminium has
developed great fitness is one for cooking
utensils It's perfect freedom from corro-
sion having great value in that respect
1t is even better than silver for
many forms Of surgical instru-
ments. A small percentage of alum
mum makes very handsome
pounds per square inch, while limit of
13O, 600 pounds is attained and can be sup
piled under contract. Constant progress
is made in developing other valuable
alloys of the metal, which is one of the
most promising fields for its future. The
rapidity with which these methods of use
are developed is shown by the fact, that
the demand for aluminium in 1891 in
creased tenfold over any previous year
Among the most important uses for this
metal is that indicated by Mr.. Hunt in the
declaration that it is feasible to make
wire of aluminium, alloyed with silver,
titanium or copper, whichwiil have as
compared with copper weight for weight
an electrical conductivity 20 per cent
greater than copper. In view of the
magnitude of the problem of transmitting
electrical power, this declaration that the
alumlnum-titanium alloy will be the cheap
est and most advantageous electrical con-
ductor has vast importance. The value
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO.
A Good Chance for the Superstitious t.
Predict tho End Of tho World.

Predict the End Of tho World.
Omaha World Herald.l
There is a good chance for superstitious
people to indulge their superstition, or for
fearful people to indulge their fears, on &C
count of the end OF the world predicted by
several "wise men," Not only is California
trembling with earthquakes. Wyoming with
war and Europe with anarchy, but within a
month q new comet has been discovered,
which, since its discovery, has grown tre-
mencously in size. Last week Prof. Bar
nard, of Lick Observatory, was able to
photograph it very successfully although 1t
is fully 100, 0,000, 900 miles away. Within the
last ten days several new tails to this comet
have made their appearance and singular
and unique phenomenon was observed by
the astronomer on the southern side Of tho
main tail, and, as he expressed it. 80 from the
head, large projecting mass issued from
the tall ala at large anTIe; and ib from this s neW
In speaking of this matter last week Prof.
Barnard said:
I was at once struck by the tremendous
growth of the comet. To the naked eye the
head was as brilliant as a star OF the third
magnitude, and long, slender tail could be
easily traced to a distance OF 20o from the
head. carefully sketched the place of the
tail among the stars and accurately meas
ured the position OF the nucleus with the
necrometer. The telescope view was very
suggestive and revealed .complexity Of the
tail that was remarkable"
As long as the comet remains 10000. 900
miles away it will not greatly disturb the
equanimity of the people hereabouts but. it
1t continues to approach US and to grow in
size and to develop additional tails some of
us may be willing to agree with Prof. Totten,
of Yale. that we have reached the beginning
of the end. We certainly read in Revela-
tions that:
"There fell great star from the heaven,
burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon
the third part of the rivers and upon the
fountains OF waters. and the name of the
star is called wormwood A third part Of
the water became wormwoOd, and many
men died of the waters because they were
made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded
and the third part of the sun was smitten,
and the third part of the moon and the
third part of the stars, and so the third part
OF them was darkened, and the day shone
not for a third part of the time and the
night likewise"
We will agree that the sun and the moon
and the stars have been sorely smitten of
late, and have not shone for even two-thirds
of the time. Perhaps Prof. Barnard's comet
is getting in It's work.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
GOSSIP OF SOCIETY.
Weddings, Entertainments, Receptions and
Other Pleasant Events.


In Philadelphia this evening Mr.. Stephen
Tener, of the Oliver & Roberts Wire MILL
will lead to the altar Miss katharine Ran
dali. daughter of q well-known magistrate of
perform the ceremony. After a wedding
trip the young couple will reside ON Hazel
wood avenue, this citv.
ADDISON A. SHOOK, son OF ia cob Shook
Chief Engineer of Jones s. Laughlin's Iron
& Steel Works. and Miss Carrie Funaiock
were married by the Rev. +. K. Farrand of
the midnight train for the West, expecting
to visit Chicago and Rock Island.
THE third act of "Die Meistersinger"f to
be given by Madame Constance Howard this
evening at the Art Society's rooms This
will be the last opportunity OF hearing this
charming lady in Pittsbura. 1t is said that
the third act of this comedy is the best
of all.
NEXT Sunday Trinity Church will most
likely be lighted by electricity. Hitherto
gas has been used. The congregation are
looking forward to the change with great
pleasure. 1t is expected that it Will improve
the appearance of the interior very much.
AT ST. Brendan's Church, Copeland, last
evening, the marriage Of Miss Sadie Tour,
daughter of Mr.. James e. Tour, to Mr..
George Bailey took place in the presence OF
large number of relatives and friends OF
the high contracting parties.
A RECEPTION will be given this afternoon
y
Misses Dunlevy, in honor of Mrs. William
L. Frazier, who was Miss Elkins. A large
number of cards have been issued.
THE Coraopolis Cornet Band, under the
direction OF Mr.: T. F. Kirk, is to give q con-
cert in the Presbyterian Church. Coraopolis,
Tuesday evening, May 8. A good programme
has been prepared.
TONIGHT there will De a concert In Old
City Hail for the benefit of James A. GAR
field Post No. 2l5 G. A. r. under the auspices
OF the Superior Choral Union, of Allegheny.
FIDELITY COUNCIL No. 10, Daughters of Lib
erty, will give Il reception In New Turner
Hall, Thirteenth street, this evening.
The Glee and Mandolin Club, of tho West
ern University, annogpces concert ut Car
negie Hall tomorrow evening.
"DAv1D GARRIcK" is to be given tomorrow
evening in the Sewickley Opera House by
the Amateur Dramatic Club.
MRS. A. W. BLISS, Of Uniontown. gave q
luncheon yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
THE ROAD QUESTION.
A Lads Views on an Important Matter

A Lads Views on an Important Matter
Work for Convicts.
The following essay on rural road I'M
provement Is from the pen OF q Pittsburg
schoolboy who will not be out Of his teens
for several years: ..
Good roads are a necessity in every State,
and the way to get them made cheaply and
good is to have the Legislature pass laws
compelling all convicts in workhouses and
prisons, now employed in making barrels,
lead kegs and shoes, and hired out by con-
tract labor, which interferes with free labor,
to be put to work at making better roads,
by breaking stone, making the roads
straight and wide, so that two wagons can
pass, giving them good grades, digging
bitches on each side to drain them and
where the ditch is at the side OF a hill
sloping it we'll back to prevent the frost
from loosening the earth on the sides, as
when 1t leaves the ground tho earth
slides into the ditch and fills 1t, and heavy
the road. The stone should be broken to
about the size of ~ to 2 inches square.
After the road has been graded the stone
should be thrown into it to the depth of one
be scattered to the depth OF from three to
five inches. The road should have a crown
OF about six inches in the center, draining
many places the bitches along the roads are
very shallow. and in some places there are
none at all. ...
The way roads are. KEEP. in condition at
present is: great many farmers work out
their tax in the summer, when the roads are
In good condition, by working rs little as
they possibly can. sitting under a shady
tree, where It, is cool, talking their time
away. If II small road tax was levied on
this kind of people, and the roads made tet-
ter by the convfcts, tine farmer would save
great deal OF money on both his horses and
YNTd n vn1c h<a hnvS
to him, as he could get his products to the
market at all times of the year, while the
roads we have now are in good condition
only in the summer. 1t would also make a
virtually driven or the streets in cities by
the cable and electric cars. 1t is very dam
gerous to ride on them, ard the authorities
will not allow wheelmen on the pavement.
have good roads for the poor farmers horse,
who nearly draRs himself to death pulling
one-third OF a load through mud which is up
to the hub of the wagon. On muddy road
when the horse steps on this he breaks
through the frozen crusts OF mud, which
often cut his legs very badly.
In Allegheny county, where we have 736
have better roads If the convicts were put to
work in this way. Then some of them would
not like to be sent to the place they call
their boarding house.
Stone suitable for road-making can be
found all over the county. and In many
places farmers have large fields on which
are many stones, and some farmers would
perhaps pay to have them removed. But
the roads get the some consideration as the
man who lived in u house with a leaky roof.
When the sun shone it didn't leak. but when
1t rained it could not be repaired. The same
with roads: in the summer the roads are in
good condition, while in the winter they
cannot be repaired. G. H. III.
PITrsBURe, April q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28

REPRESENTATIVE HOOKER, of Missis-
sippi, in reference to Blaine's diplomatic &C
tions and in praise of the same, said: "When
a man comes to be premier of this govern
ment he is not a partisan representing
party but q statesman representing coun-
try" These are words of wisdom and should
be we'll remembered. But an ideal politician
does not wait to attain SO high position be-
fore realizing that the motive of his actions
should be other than the inspiration of
mechanical organization.