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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
ATHLETICS AND MORALITY.
With the Diffusion of tho First Goes an I'm
provement OF tho Latter.

Omaha Bee.1
The fact that for years athletics and ath-
letes have not been of the highest repute
does not initiate against the value Of phys
ical training when pursued in proper
spirit and with a proper aim, Many kinds
of sports and many forms of exercise have
been brought under the ban of the critic
and the church because Of the evil associa-
tions which have been made to surround
them, but this does not prove that they are
essentially evil. Much harm has been done
by tn1udfcfous opposition to the ordinary
forms of harmless sport and exercise by
people who ought to have known better.
Forty years ago students Of divinity were
excluded BY publ, ophInidn
sports. They were forced to conform their
lives. their dress and their diet almost to
the ascetic standard of the Middle Ages.
This idea is still rife, but is not so general as
it was a generation ago and is steadily losing
ground.
The fundamental maxim of the new physi-
cal training is not to produce few great
athletes. but rather to raise every individual
to the highest symmetrical development;
and the maximum of health and physical
beauty of which nature has made him per-
efficiency of form and muscle, are the de-
sideratum. Dr.. White declared his confident
belief that If to every schoolhouse In every
land there were added an extension, or
story. giving single large, sunny room, into
which judicious variety Of the appliances
OF well equipped gymnasium could be put,
and if every child, from the youngest to the
Oldest, could receive 10 minutes of drill by
competent instructor each day, and have
that training supplemented by instruction
in the important laws of health, the total OF
crime and the numbers OF the criminal
GLASSES would, in the following generation,
be diminished fully one-half. To develop
strong arms and chest and legs is the surest
way also to produce a clear and powerful
brain. In other words, the best form OF
physical training must needs bring power
full contribution to the moral and intel
lectual ell-being of the subject. The testi-
mony of professors and physicians in the
universities all over the world establishes
the fact that hand in hand with the diffusion
OF the athletic spirit goes all Improvement
in the morals of the Students and that in
large maj jority of instances the men who are
most successful in athletic sports excel also
IN mental attainments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
THREE BRAND NEW STARS
Two of Them Are Comets and One an As
for0id. All DiScovered in Eurone

Two of Them Are Comets and One an As
teroid, All Discovered in Europe.
BosroN, MASS, March pa cable message
from the European Union of Astronomers
to John Richie, Jr., announces the discov-
cry on Friday evening of two new comets
and one asteroid. One comet is a return Of
Winnecke's periodical comet, and was dis
covered at Vienna in the following posi-
ton: March 1s40. Greenwich mean time
R. A. II hours 43 minutes, e7 seconds, declin-
alton north 800 IS minutes 3S seconds.
The second comet was discovered by w.
F. bennington, an amateur astronomer of
Bristol, England. 1t is described as faint
with a northwestern motion of nearly de-
Greenwich, midnight was r. A % hours A
minutes: declination north 500 The aste-
roid is of the 18th magnitude and was dis
covered by DR.. Wolf, of Heidelberg. 1t is
No. 325
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
CIVILIZATION RADICALLY ROTTEN.

DIR. Dixon's Opinion of the Causes Which
Produced the European Famines.
NEW YORK. March 2O.-Rev. DR.. Thomas
Dixon, of this city, preached to-day on the
hunger riots of Berlin and elsewhere. Said
he:
'The secret of the trouble must be deeper
than in politics and there is something
radically rotton at the heart OF civilization
ITSELF Should not the men Of wealth read
in these signs anew the deep obligations
laid upon them to rescue and save society,"
Can we feast and dance and banquet while
our brethren starve? No man has the right
to do what he pleases with what he pos
sesses. He only has the right to do what he
ought to do"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
A BIG EIsTEDDF0n.
Welsh Singers Preparing to Add . Good
Feature to the Worlds Fair.

Welsh Singers Preparing to Add . Good
Feature to the Worlds Fair.
SCRANTON, March 2o.-[Spectal l1-Prominent
Welsh singers held q well-attended meeting
in this city last night and took preliminary
steps toward perfecting arrangements for a
great Eisteddfod, which it is proposed to
make q prominent feature Of the Worlds
Fair. Mr.. John Edwards, of Chicago. a
member of the Executive Committee, was
present to promote the movement.
Mr.. Edwards said it is the intention to
make the Chicago Eisteddfod an inter-
national one, and assurances have already
been received that Welsh choir from
Great Britain will be present and contest.
Scranton has one of the grandest Welsh
choirs in the United States, hence the
anxiety felt by the committee that this city
should enter the lists. Mr.. Edwards said
that present indications are that there will
be 100 600 people at the Eisteddfod, and it
will be opened on Sunday with an old-fash-
toned Welsh cymanfa and continue until
Saturday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
WENT WITH THE TIDE,

A Bottle Cast Overheard by Mrs. Morton
Follows Her Party.
NORFOLK, Va, March 20.-[Spectdl. EAbout
a week or ten days ago Mrs. Vice President
Levi P. Morton left Washington in company
with q party for Virginia Beach Hotel. and
while coming down the Potomac river she
wrote q note put it in q bottle, corked 1t up
and threw it overheard. The note read as
follows:
"If any person finds this bottle and will
return the note to the Washington Post
they will be paid S."
She signed her name in full. 1t was picked
up Friday on Western Branch by gentle
man named Creecy and was brought to this
CITY. Mr. W. S. Langhorne forwarded 1t for
him as directed. It looks rather strange
that the bottle should follow the party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
LEPERS IN LOUISIANA

A White Girl Dies in q Hospital Of the
Dread, Incurable Disease.
NEW ORLEANS, March 19.-New Orleans has
a novelty in the shape of hospital for
lepers, which, until yesterday, contained
four inmates.
About a month agoa white girl, Miss Naomi
Ribbi, came to the hospital from Iberville
parish. She belonged to one of the Creole
families in that section, and was only 20
years old. Iberville is the home of a number
of lepers, and from some one there the young
found she was beyond even the alleviation
of her pain. Both her eyes had been eaten
away. She lived month, passing through
terrible tortures and dying IN great agony
yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

THE wrath of the gas consumer has been
f1aring up during the recent cold snap.
Pretty soon it will grow dim and finally die
out. The only Opaque object connected with
the subject is the bill which will be pre-
sented later on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

The IRISH extraction of one of the seconds
in that unmaterialized Drayton-B Borrowe
duel got in its perfect work. We can credit
to it that pleasing statement in the report
to Borrowe that his seconds decided to
stop all further correspondence with Mr..
Drayton." and consequently wrote to him
"the annexed letter marked d."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

BLAND and Harter have agreed to post
pone their joint debate on silver. Mr..
Bland doesn't feel equal to the task owing to a
slight touch of influenza caused by the
weather. For once the people can afford to
hope the weather will continue bad for
some time to come.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

DIRECTOR HOLMAN, who poses as the
watchdog of the Treasury, has never thrown
q straw in the onward march Of Patti and
Bernhardt through the country. Tho great
objector will have to be more wAtchful OF
the interests of his fellow-country1nen be-
fore he can win an indestruotible place in
their memory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

DAVID B. HILL may be enlarging his
Presidential boom to imposing proportions:
but he is not yet able to make the House
Committee on Elections refuse Justice to a
Republican Congressman-eiectbec because Tam
many methods order the seating OF the
Democrat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

strike in defense of their boards, has had its
moral effect. The hotel keepers have aban-
doned the sumptuary dictation that the
walters shall go smug-faced. and the latter
can serve entrees and pursue tips in such
hirsute fashion as suits them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

THE proceedings in the matter of that
fast driving track in Central Park. New
York indicate that the owners of trotting
horses have more OF u pull with Tammany
than all the rest of the people and press put
together
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

SCOTCH home rule may naturally come
before Irish homo rule, as Scotch union pre-
ceded Irish union. But as Ireland has done
the fighting for home rule these many years,
it is possible to take the view that she is en-
titled to the first fruits Of victory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Tho Railroad Y. M. C. A.

HARRISBURG, March 90.-TSpeciaL 1.-The
semi-annual conference OF the Railroad
Mems Christian Associations along the line
of the Pennsylvania Railroad was held here
to-day and tnis evening at Marysville. Dele
gates were present from Columbia, Philadel-
phia, Harrisburg, Blairsville, Altoona, Derry,
Pittsburg and Roanoke.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

THE story of the intended formation of q
ribbon trust is alleged to have been started
by an exasperated husband who couldn't
find the exact shade his vito wanted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

THAT miners strike to decrease the sup
ply of coal in England thundered so loudly
in the index that it has hardly lasted to the
end of the first chapter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

IN the Reading deal, the New Jersey
Legislature appears to have secured q full
hand of winning cards. Some say they
drew to flush and filed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

GREAT BR1TAIN's foreign trade fell off
$22, ,O00, 900 last year. This explains why the
free traders object so strenuously to the Nc
Kfnley protection bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Judge George briggs.

Judge George briggs, Of the Circuit Court
In Chicago died suddenly Saturday while sitting in
chair at his residence. The cause was quinsy
sore throat which had been troubling him for
some time but had only interfered during the past
few days with bis labors on the bench. Judge
practiced extensively At Washington, D. c.. and
Columbus, o.. and for q long time was the assist
Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

IT begins to look as If the enthusiastic
ana sometimes too loquacious William of
Germany is beginning to learn that the will
of the King is not always the supreme law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

Developing Wild and Woolly Statistics.
Washington Post
The present tariff debate is developing
some wild and woolly statistics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

THE rumor that Governor Russell, of
Massachusetts,, smokes cigarettes has burned
q large-sized hole in his boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER is finding
the Chicago Beef Trust a tougher. morsel
than he anticipated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
william A. Hoyt, Newspaper Man.

william A. Hoyt, Newspaper Man.
William A. Hoyt, for many years a we'll
known newspaper man of Philadelphia, died Sat-
urday afternoon, aged so years. His death was due
to q complication Of diseases. During the war he
enlisted In the Nineteenth Regiment. Pennsylvania
Volunteers. for the three months service. and he
re-ehlisted in the Second Pennsylvania Reserves.
He was made Assistant Adjutant General on the
staff of Generals Buck and McCandless. Mr.. Hoyt
was employed the staff of the Press political
editor for long time and became military editor
Of the same paper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

TEXAS takes great pride in its great
plains. but it objects to being called little
hilly
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

If outsiders are not allowed too much
license in the License Court this time the
agony will not be as long drawn out as usual.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

CLEVELAND is willing and Hill will-if
he can, is about the way the situation stands
now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

IT is satisfactory to learn from Boston
that the spirit of liberty manifested by the
hotel walters, who were getting ready to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Obituary Notes.

HENRY NJ. LUTHER, resident engineer for the
Reading company. at Ashland. Pa, died at At
lantic City. Friday.
T. A. CHAPMAN Milwaukee's leading drygoods
merchant died Saturday night Of pneumonia,
after an illness of three days.
JOSE ENRIQUEz. one of the most prominent
politicians in Southern Mexico, and Governor Of
the State of Vera Cruz, is dead.
ELIZABETH GIBSON POWERS. widow Of Hiram
Powers, the distinguished American sculptor. died
at Florence, March Q. He remains were inferred
in the Protestant cemetery there.
P. A. KNOX died at his home in Waynesburg
Yesterday morning. He was prominent member
Of the WaynesburR bar and leading citizen. He
had flied the once Of United States Commiesloner
for over Is years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

wheeling's Bishop May Be Promoted.
WHEELING. March 2o.-[SpecicS]-A we'll
founded report is in circulation here that
Rt Rev. John j. Kahn, Bishop Of this Catho-
lie diocese, is to be promoted to be Coadjutor
Of Bishop Ryan, of the Buffalo diocese.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
RUM AND THE BLUE LAWS.
WRITTEN FOR fHE DISPATCH. ,


THERE was nothing, believe, in the
Blue Laws about drinking. Our Puritan
forefathers were as ignorant of license courts
as they were OF Sunday papers.
1t is worth WHILE just now, while this mat
ter of strong liquor is uppermost in the In
terests of the community, to record the diff
ferent way they had of doing things in the
days when the Blue Laws reigned supreme.
Most Of the Puritan meeting houses were
erected by drunken men. At least, there
was regularly provided on the day OF the
raising" such profusion of invitations to
inebr1ety that a man with perfectly clear
head must have been in a very small mi-
nority.
1t is written in history that "when the
Medford people built their second meeting
house, they provided for the workmen and
bystanders i've barrels of rum, one barrel Of
good brown sugar, box OF fine lemons and
two loaves of sugar" In Northampton, in
17SS, ten gallons OF rum were on hand to
assist In raising the Westinghouse.
The ordination OF installation OF a new
pastor was celebrated i'll tho Puritan
parishes by an enormous supper, and one of
the most conspicuous items on the bill of
fare was grog. Sometimes they mixed the
grog in punch-bowls on the meeting-house
green; sometimes this ceremony was per-
formed on the very steps Of the sanctuary.
Often there was special brewing of malt
liquor to honor the great day. Rev. Mr..
Thatcher, of Boston, wrote in his diary on
the Goth OF May, 1884, ''This daye the ordina-
tion Beare was brewed."
Liquor Sold at Church Doors.
IT is the author of ''The Sabbath in
Puritan New England" to whom 1 am in
debted for these interesting facts. Portable
bars, she says. were sometimes established
at the church door and strong drinks were
distributed free of charge to the entire as
semblage. AS late as 1928, at the installation
of DR.. Leonard Bacon over the First Con-
gregational Church In New Haven, free
drinks were furnished at an adjacent bar to
all who chose to order them, and were "set-
tied for" by the generous and hospitaDle
society.
A bill for the entertainment of some par
sons at an ordination in Hartford in 1854
reads as follows:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Great Cry and Little Wool,
Toledo Blade.1

The debate on free wool in the House 70
minds one Of the process Of sht BRING pig
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

To which our author ftly apponds from
Falstaff-"O monstrous! but one-half penny
worth of bread to this intolerable deal of
sackv'
"a jolly ordination" says the Rev. MI.
Smith, of Portland, writing in the early part
of the eighteenth century. "We lost all
sight of decorum."
Barrels of rum and cider and metheglin,
bowls of flip and punch and toddy, boxes
of lemons and caves OF sugar, figure as reg
ularly in the records of these religious serv-
ices as do the sermons and the praYers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Matthew Connor Borland.

Matthew Connor Borland, an old and re-
spected citizen of Bulger, Washington county, Pa,
died Saturday morning, 18th inst. after q short
period Of suffering, in the 72nd year of his age. He
Vile Allegheny county. He moved to Washington
county about 1870. He is Of the descendants of
the Connor family so well known in the annals of
early Indian warfare. He leaves Q wife and
daughter to mourn his loss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
RHYNKLES AND RHYNELETS.

"We are going to have late spring this
year, said Mr.. Hicks. anxious to ssave off the
spring clothes question
.'Then shall have to have another winter bon
net ;, said Mrs. Hicks. And then Mr.. Hicks
wished ne had staid in the frying-pan.-Hdrper
Bazdr.
All, yes! and not to be outdone in this,
The annual bursting carnival, you'll see
The old waste basket gorge its deep abyss
And burst with lyric. ode and epopee.
Boston Courier.
Angelina (of Boston)-sNow. Augustus,
since we're engaged to be married. wish to in
quire If you believe in the practice Of oscuaton.'
us-.'Well-not-a"-
Angelina-'.Oh! I'm very much pleased that you
do motifs so very plebeian. ''-Judoe.
"What is the dollar of our daddies?'"
asks a college paper.
It's what the average undergraduate pays his
wagers and anti-temperance subscriptions with.-.
7sras Sytinos.
He purchased suit that was English,
cane that quite up to date.
A hat that was natty and stylish
To cover his vacuous pate;
Then this dude did . thing quite surprising,
A thing that will surely appall,
He took q thick purse from his pocket
And honestly paid for them all.
-Ae10 York Herald.
Inquiring Constituent-They say there's
some talk of issuing fractional currency again.
How do you stand on that question?
Congressman from the 'Steenth District Slowly
and impressiyely)-When 1t comes to currency,
Mr. Kadser my idea is to take all you can get sir
take ali you can get.-Chicd0o Tribune.
Hiawatha-Pride of the setting sun, will
you be miner
Minnehaha-Oh. 70 and do as the pale-faces do.
Go and buy me OF my father.-Pack.
IT'S oft worthy gem of art
In an unsightly frame we hnd.
And pictures. Of our lives part
Are ruined by our frames Of mind.
-Wdshfngton StaS.
She-What are you going to do In regard
TO visiting the theater during Lentf
He (uncersain) Give itup
NE tapptovinsly'T THAT'S nGhs s-D~s~ sss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

SOME of the Presidential dark horses are
blanched just at present.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
Rev. John Kerr.

Rev. John Kerr died yesterday at Fair
field station, on the Allegheny Valley Railway. He
was the father Of Allen @. Kerr, the well-known
large circle Of friends. He had nearly reached the
scrfptura limit of fourscore being over 70 years Of
age The details Of the funeral have not yet been
arranged,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

All, yes! and not to be outdoie in this,
The annual bursting carnival, you'll see
The old waste basket gorge its deep abyss
And burst with lyric. ode and epopee.
Boston Courier
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

she-what are you going to do in regard
to visiting the theater during Lentf
He (uncersain)- )-Give IL up.
shs tappfovingly,T That's hsht-D'ss~ sss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

construction, termed a locomotive steam
boat, built at KristaDstud, for the naviga-
tton of a chain of small lakes, separated by
falls. the boat being fitted for this purpose
With With Wheels I fitting a track, and power may
be applied to either the propeller or the
driving wheels of tho locomotive part of the
track; the latter is feet inches gauge, with
grades of / in 80, and having curves of q
radius of 100 meters.
No chemist has ever produced brighter
colors than are secured by the Maine Indian
basket makers. For the greater part of the
material ash logs are taken, though maple
ia cut for rims and handles. In the salt
marshes sweet grass is found, which when
dry gives out fragrant order. Alder IS
STEPPED for pale red, white birch bark tor
bright red, cedar boughs for green. sumach
for yellow; black comes from white maple
bark. light solution Of maple, however,
shows purple instead of black. Lazy Indians
buy logwood for black, redwood for red,
and fustic for yellow.
The bodies of the spiders of Ceylon are
very handsomely decorated, being bright
gold or scarlet underneath, while the upper
part is covered with the most delicate slate
colored fur. So strong are the webs tnat
birds the size of larks are frequently caugn5
therein. ana even the % small ous Mr,per Re~s says
that he has often sat and watc neg tne ye,.
low monster-measuring, when waltlng ior
his prey, with his legs stretcneo out, tuiy
six understanding across the mloole OF tIe
net and noted the rapid manner In which
he winds his stout threads round the un-
fortunate captive.
-On a Thursday morning recently the
Inhabitants of Grand Manan, a large, well
populated island of the Maine coast, oo-
served single nre-the sick signai-ourn-
ing on Three Isles, six miles seaward, but as
a gale was blowing and the sea running
high nobody could land there On SUNDAY
evening physician. accompanied " tnree
in a binding snow storm Fifteen OF the 10
inhabitants were sick abed, leaving one man
barely able to crawl to the headland and
bofore weather moderated su mciently 20
allow the relief party 20 return home ana
In that time the sick were relieved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21
ride Of the setting sun, will

Minnehaha-Oh. 20 and do as the pale-faces do.
Go and buy me OF my father.-Psck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

Angelina (of Boston)-"Now. Augustus,
since we're engaged to be married, wish to in
ouire If YOU believe in the practice of osculation
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

"What is the dollar OF our daddles?
asks a college paper.
1t is what the average undergraduate pays his
wagers and anti-temperance subscriptions WITH
Isrds SJftinos.