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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
BIGGER THAN THE LICK.
An Immense Telescope to Be Constructe
for the Paris Exhibition.


for the Paris Exhibition.
Paris Correspondence London Standardl
The idea started by NJ. F. Deloncle of MAX
ing an immense telescope the great attrac-
tion of the International Exhibition to be
held in FRANCE in 1900 has been laughed at q
good DEAL on account of some one having
pretended that through it the moon would
be seen as clearly as if the observer were
standing at no more than metres distance.
The project is, however. far from aban-
doned, Notwithstanding the great difficulty
OF constructing the huge instrument, which
is to be A yards long. M. Deloncle has just
had an interview at the Paris Observatory
with MN. Paul and Prosper Henry, assistant
astronomers; NJ P. Gautier, optical instru-
ment maker, and two architects. Accord
ing to information furnished by NJ. Deloncle,
the immense instrument, weighing nine
tons, will be 9 feet 10 inches in diameter and
1917 inches thi ok. NM. Henry, the great in
strument maker, fixed tn ese dimensions.
M. P. Gautier is studying the conditions
for the construction of the telescope, and
mirror will fall to the st. Goiban Glass
Works
The cost of the instrument with the neces-
sary foundations and structures, will, 1t Is
calculated, reach 2,500,000 francs. NM.
Paul and Prosper Henry, writing to the
Tsnaps, say that, from theoretical point of
view, there is nothing impossible in the
project but to carry it out in practice
might prove difficult. For the success of the
enterprise everything depends upon the
possibility of obtaining the necessary disk
for the grand rejecting mirror of the
dimensions given by NJ. Deloncle. They
point out that the largest disk yet made
weighs only l,200- weight, whereas the one it
is proposed to make must weigh nearly nine
tons. NJ. Gautier, the eminent constructor
OF the instruments of the French observa-
tories, Is preparing plans for the mechanical
mounting of this gigant tic apparatus.
The largest rejecting telescope in the
world-that of Mr. Conmons-is about four
feet 10 inches in diameter. The projected
instrument will, it is said, give four times
more light than the largest instrument
known, and will pc rmft Of the discovery of
stars four times smaller than any of those
now known. Its magnifying power, it is
expected, will be Is. 600 times, 30 that it will
be possible to perceive on the moon objects
no bigger than 81 square feet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
CELEBRITIES In CLOVER.

REMAIN the French author, is exceed
ingly fond of cats, for which, it is stated, he
believes some kind Of future paradise exists
"a labyrinth of back fences, out of reach of
missiles, most likely.
Miss ATTALIE CLAIRE SMITH, the
opera singer, known to the theater-goers as
Attalie Claire, and Alfred Kayne, the young
millionaire, of New burg, n Y, were married
yesterday in New York.
DR. LEE, of the State Board of Health,
should leave his address when he goes out
of Pittsburg. 1t has kept the city authori-
ties busy telegraphing to his supposititious
whereabouts for two days past.
MISS ANNIE YOUNG WILSON SPENCE
recently passed the examination of the Ed
inburgh Pharmaceutical Society, and is the
second woman in Scotland regularly regis
tered as a chemist and druggist.
RUDYARD KIPLING's earnings are said
to have been deposited in the New Oriental
Bank. which recently suspended; and the
writer was so troubled over it that he aban-
doned his proposed trip TO Samoa.
Miss MARY BkowNoLD HAMAKER, a
native OF staunton, Va, who has gone to
Berlin to prosecute her studies on the violin,
has been admitted to the conservatory
where the great master, Joachim, presides,
although but Is years of age.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, of New York
City, has accepted the invitation Of
Chauncey NJ. Depew, as President Of the
State Board of Worlds Fair Managers, to
make an address on the occasion OF the ded-
ication of the New York State buildi ng at
Chicago on October %.
REV. DIR. STRYKER, of the Fourth Pres
byterian church at Chicago, has reconsid-
cred his intention of not accepting the
Presidency Of the Hamilton College of New
York. He will notify his congregation Sun
day, and fortnight later will probably as
sumo his new duties at the 90 Iege.
JOHN G. BUTCHER, the new NJ. P. for
the ancient city of York, is an Irishman and
as bitterly anti-Irish in sentiment as only
one of his Cromwellian ancestry can be.
His father, the late Bishop Butcher, was
distinguished both as divine and as an
Orangeman. Mr.. Butcher is a fellow of
Trinity College and barrister by profess
sion.
QUEEN VICToRIA's HINDooSTANEE
doesn't come to her without hard digging.
She actually has Hindoo secretary, O fact
unknown to her American admirers. His
name is Munshi Hair Abdul Karin, and If
his pupil were not a Queen he would be
called q tutor. Mr.. Karin is a fat-faced,
dark-skinned gentleman, who wears Eastern
raiment and has a soft fringe of black beard
all round his cheeks and chin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
PITTsBURG. SEPTEMBER Is. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
NEW YORK,S LESSON.

1t has not yet been definitely ascertained
in Just what manner cholera reached its
victims in New York City. But it is posi-
lively known that the disease germs were
brought into this country from one or
other of the infected districts on the other
side of the Atlantic The dis covery that
the disease has made an entry proves con-
clusively that restrictive measures were
not adopted promptly enough in the port
of New York, and that an entire prohibi-
ton of immigration promptly imposed
was, and is, the only absolute safeguard.
And by analogy these deaths, resulting
from incomplete precautions-and tardy
adoption of them at that-demonstrate
the necessity for the establishment
of the strictest quarantine around
this city as a supplement to the
internal preparations by general cleaning
and disinfecting. The city authorities
and the State Board of Health should
work together in this matter, and the rail
roads must lend their assistance. A COM
plete consummation of the arrangements
TO establish stations for inspection of i'm
migrants outside the city, which are now
under consideration by the authorities,
should be reached as speedily as possible.
In selecting places for the inspection of
Immigrants, and their detention if such
should prove necessary, the extreme dan
ger of allowing either of the rivers to be
contaminated must be borne constantly in
mind and scrupulously guarded against.
Local inspection must be made thorough
and be entirely independent of any that
has taken place elsewhere. Promptness
and thoroughness in taking these precau-
tions are equally necessary, and both are
of supreme Importance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
Social Chatter.

MISS SYBIL CARTER, who has been for sew
eralimonths at White Earth, Mimi, teaching
the Indian women, will be In Pittsburg for
a few days. She will deliver an address in
the chapel of Sc. Andrews Church, Ninth
street, on the morning OF Tuesday, Septem-
ber q. at the monthly meeting of the
Woman's Auxiliary.
FRUIT festival was held at the Denny NJ.
E. Church last evening under the auspices
OF the ladies of the congregation. A musical
and literary entertainment of n creditable
character made the occasion an instructive
as we'll as enjoyable one.
SOME of the regular residents of the Ken
mawr who have been spending the summer
abroad, have returned. Among them are
Prof. J. j. Robinson, Mr.. George barr and
MI. j. j. MI ller.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
CONFUSION OF THE POCKET ONLY

p The American people will feel inter-
ested by the leisurely assurance from the
steamship companies that these latter
have now had enough of the foreign immi-
grafton business, and that after some
5000 immigrants now steaming this way
shall have debarked no more will be car
ried. With grim satisfaction also our
people have observed that this declara-
ton from the companies did not come
until a much-needed object lesson was
taught them on Wednesday, when one Of
the Hamburg-American line vessels was
permitted to leave the dock on her regu-
lar trip to Europe without a single pas
senger or an ounce of freight That Incl
dent showed the steamship companies the
improbable results of too pronounced
indifference on their part to the public
health.
But the circular is still coolly disre-
gardful of the public sentiment on one
particular. The companies acknowledge
having now steamers afloat with thousands
of foreign immigrants, some of whom
were booked from infected ports as late
as September 8. That was the date
nearly three weeks after the cholera had
begun to openly rage at Hamburg-when
the Hamburg-American line got together
its latest cargo of infection for the United
States The plea on which the steamship
companies justify these shipments is that
the immigrants had been ''booked" be-
fore the Presidents quarantine proclama-
ton; and, therefore, the agents naively
add they have to come to the United
States.
But the public will remember that if
President Harrison had issued the order
stopping such immigration, as was so
earnestly urged, these immigrants would
not ''have to come" Nay, the public is
aware that even now, if the right thing
were done, these vessels which started
from infected ports with foreign immi-
grants after the Presidents quarantine
order would be refused admittance to
New York bay at all and headed
promptly back at the expense Of the
steamship companies for the ports whence
they came.
The reason why these thousands of i'm
migrants in question "could not be turned
back" and chad to be forwarded was
simply and solely because the steamship
companies preferred to dump them on the
American shores rather than give them
back the money paid for their tickets and
reimburse them for their incidental ex-
penses. As these companies will have to
be dealt with from cholera standpoint for
probably a year yet, it would be
ar excellent thing if they were to
be shown now that foreign immigrants
from infected ports do not necessarily
shave to come" and that there may be
public interests and official backbone in
the United States which can, in great
urgency, rise superior to a steamship
company's conception of the obligations
under which corporations hunger for
profit places this section of the universe
and the people hereon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A FICTITIOUS LOSS.

The assertion of President Mcleod that
the anthracite coal companies have for
years gone on producing coal at loss is
taken up by the Philadelphia Inquirer to
prove that the coal combination is much
misunderstood organization. The prom
inence given to this plea warrants few
words of commentary.
1t would be a sufficient reply to such an
assertion to say that no one obliged the
coal companies to keep on producing coal
at a loss. Any one of them was at liberty
TO 60 out of business as many merchants
and manufacturers have been obliged to
do, some of the latter class having been
forced to that act because they depended
on these same companies. If any of the
anthracite coal companies had gone out of
business they were forced out by the
legitimate action of demand and supply.
But when they not only try to bring all
the producers into combination TO make
arbitrary prices, but in addition squeeze
out the smaller producers who could
mine coal at profit under normal condi-
tiOns, they show that there is something
deceptive in the plea which does not
bring its natural result
1t is not necessary to rely on this q
prGOri argument, because the subterfuge
has been fully exposed. If there had been
any question on the matter the case of
Coke Bros. made it entirely clear. The
anthracite coal companies have been
maintained by the railroads for the pur-
pose of selling coal at a loss after paying
an excessive freight TO the railroads which
own the coal companies. The device of
charging 81 60 per ton while the bituminOus
roads haul a greater distance for So cents
at profit, and maintaining subsidiary
companies to produce coal at loss, is
a method of taking money out of one
pocket and putting it in another. But it
has the effect of giving the corporations a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
JUPITER's NEW SATELLITE.
1t Is Little Thing and whirls Around In
Spacs at Rapid Rate.

Spocs ae Rapid Rate.
SAN FRANcIsKo. Sept A-Prof Barnard has
given more facts In regard TO his great dis
coverY Of new satellite of Jupiter. He
says that he found the new body at mid
night of Friday last, and very soon became
aware of its true character. Friday is the
Professors night with the big telescope,
and, although he had n reason to suspect
that there existed an inner satellite of such
magnificent dimensions, he resolved to look
specially for unknown moons of the giant
planet with the success already made
known.
Later Investigations have shown that Bar
nard's satellite revolves in q period OF IL
hours and SO minutes The young astrono-
mer made the micrometer investigations
himself and then computed the resulting
elements. From the amount of light re-
flected by this tiny moon, he says that it is
certainly not more than 100 miles in diane
ter, and is probably less. 1t is so close to
the primary that the greatest possible dis
tance from the edge o. Jupiter at which the
satellite may be observed, is 36 seconds of
arc, or say about two-thirds the diameter Of
the planet.
In speaking of his discovery, Prof. Bar.
nard said that the new satellite is certainly
as faint the thirteenth star magnitude
and probably much less. In the great Lick
refractor it appears as an exceedingly tiny
star in very rapid motion. The movement
micrometer measurement so that there
could be not the least doubt about the char
acter of the discovery.
Barnard spoke of one curious feature ap-
parent in the study of the fifth Jovian
moon. The period is so very nearly one
half solar day that for months at a time
only one elongation is visible at any one
place. For example, at the present time
only the Eastern elongation can be seen in
the United States, sin ce the Western elonga-
ton takes place during daylight. At the
European observatories the reverse is the
case, and, consequently, Vienna and Nice
will for some time secure careful observa-
tions of the Western elongation of this new
body.
According to the discoverer the new moon
is much more difficult to observe than the
satellites of Mars. These can be seen with
ordinary telescopes during a favorable op-
position, but the Jovian attendant can at
the best be seen only, as Prof Barnard re-
marked, with the 30-inch Pulkova telescope,
the 3oinch at Nice, the 2s-inch at Vienna,
and possibly, under the most favorable
auspices. by the 26-inch refractor at the
Washington Naval Observatory.
The new satellite was observed on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday nights, and the truth
OF the facts given is now beyond all ques-
tion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDoM.

Mr.. Bingley-Do you think your sister In
very much In love with Mr.. Scaggs?
Little Brother-I think not for heard her tel
ma he was a brute.
Mr. Bingley-Are you sure?
Little Brother-Ies sir; she said ne was just the
lion of the evening over at the big reception
Chicago Inter Ocean.
He asked her out to take walk,
They passed an ice cream store
And then the maid declared she was
Too tired to walk much more.
Detroit Free Prcss
First Office Boy-Dld you ask de boss ter
get OFF this afternoon?
Second Office Boy-Not much. You don't catch
me making no such break as dat.
First Office Boy-Why. what's de matterp
Second Office Boy-Didn't yer see de big package
of clothing dat came for his wife from the dry
goods store?-CIoak ReUieGo.
ONCE TOO OFTEN.
Upon his laurels he might have rested
And talked Of his powers and shown his Drawn,
But he tried again, and now he's bested,
Poor. and his prestige forever gone.
And this reflection alone can soften
The blow. since the day of his price is pasty
1.-The pitcher that goes to the well too often
Is sure to be broken in pieces at last"
-Neto York PresA
'T don't admire Mucklevanny's financial
shrewdness.'' .
'.How's that?''
..He had cents last night. He spent It to eet
his shoes blacked, then he walked home, three
miles, through a street full of Brooklyn dust. ~
Brooklyn Eagle.
As men exchange of court'sy find
In rum;
So women Oft their friendships bind
By gum.
indianapolis Jourad.
sT tell you," said the man with con-
fding nature, lit is mighty discouraging TO have
your wife laugh at your efforts.''
mime never does"
YOU'RE in luck.n
81 don't know. You see write for the comic
papers. - WashtngtoD Star.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
Little yashincton,s New Industry

WASHINGTON, PA, Sept. l5-[ ,ecidL 1.-The
Chamber OF Commerce has considered a
proposition from the Whitney Fire Arms
Company to remove its plant from Florence,
Mass, to Washington. The company ask
only the loan OF $40, 900. A committee was
Immediately appointed TO secure the neces-
sary amount, and tonight almost all of it
has been subscribed. The Chamber of Com
merce is also endeavoring to induce several
other Eastern firms to locate here.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

grip on the individual producers, which
can be used for their discipline OF extinc-
tion as the case may call for.
The specious nature of this plea of losses
in the anthracite business is exposed by
the simple fact that the greater services in
the transportation and distribution of
anthracite coal are performed at about
half the charge; and the business is found
to be quite profitable to corporations
whose stock is not excessively dropsicaI.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
SAW HER DEATH IN A VISION.
A Strange Arkansas Case of Either PRESENT.
ment or Fatal Fright.

Hot SPRINGS, ARK, Sept. 16.-A death oc-
CURED in this city late yesterday which,
owing to some circumstances surrounding it,
makes it of public interest. Miss Sidney
Kusler, a winsome young lady, died after a
brief illness and the cause was pronounced
apoplexy.
She entertained a party of friends the
night before. The night preceding that she
had had a premonition of her own death
within 4s hours in vision. LaGe in the
night, after the entertainment, she aroused
her mother by distressing cries, and when
awakened explained that she thought some
one carrying her away. Hysteria de-
veloped and the unfortunate young lady
continued to grow worse, lingering until
late yesterday, when she died. Up to the
time she had been in the best of health and
spirits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

How sore are the straits into which the
New York Democrats have been thrown by
Peck's report is shown, among other things,
by the efforts of some of them to controvert
its statements by the census statistics OF
one Porter, for whose inaccuracies they
could not until now find no abuse too
str0np
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

ATTORNEY GENERAL HENsEL'S opinion
that one man can form group needs to be
corrected by Lord Dundreary's answer to
the remark that "birds of feather flock to-
gether." "Of course they do" said the in
telligent gentleman. show could one bird
flock all by irselif"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A CHANCE FOR THE CHILDREN.

Samples of Their School Work Can Find a
Place at the Worlds Fair.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 15-[SpeciaS There
has been issued from the office of the
Worlds Fair Managers q circular which an
nounces that each public school pupil can
have an opportunity to place a sample of
his or her school work on exhibition at the
Columbian Exposition, provided that work
can stand the tests of examination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
A QUARTET OF NEW C0NsULs.
Among Them Mr.. Dent, Who Was Blaine's

Private Secretary for a Long Time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-The following Con-
sular appointments were announced to-day
by the State Departments: William R. Estes,
Consul at Nuremberg; Louis A. Dent, Consul
at Kingston, Jamaica; Hon. G. M. Barre,
Consul at Valparaiso, to succeed Mr.. Nc
Creary, who has resigned; Charles II. Cowan,
Consul ut Manila, PHILIPPINE Islands.
Mr. Barre is q prominent lawyer of Mlchi-
gan. Mr.. Dent was for a number Of years
Private Secretary to Mr.. Blaine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.


David Bruce, the inventor of the type
casting machine, died Wednesday at his home in
Williamsburgh, u New York City suburb. He
81 years old and was born in New York. His par
ents were natives of Scotland, and came to Amer
lea nearly century ago. The making Oftype in
his boyhood was done only by hand, and the most
rapid workmen could not turn out more than Is
type minute. In 1888 Mr.. Bruce got out various
patents that covered 4 machine run by hand that
would turn out go or 30 type minute. He went to
Boston and sold his patent rights after the machine
had been demonstrated to be Of practical use He
kept on experimenting until lie had perfected a
machine that could be used with steam. and which
turned out about l4O type minute. Up to within
short time of his death he Il contributor to the
Truth Seeker and the ReIi0to- Philosophical Journal
He was q thorough believer in spiritualism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

The Baker ballot law was probably orig
inally intended to prevent political corrup-
ton. But, thanks to its novelty and loose
phIaseology which gives an opening for
contradictory interpretations. its chief re-
suit will be IN many cases to obliterate votes
by giving opportunities for the perpetration
of technically illegal errors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

BY issuing circular congratulating the
country on the results OF the elections in
Arkansas, Vermont and Maine the Demo-
cratic National Committee has shown its in
clination TO be impertinent without the
least provocation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

EVEN in the face of the Chicago platform
and its brazenly outspoken tariff plank,
some of the Democratic organs are trying to
sugar the pill of free trade under the Elusive
euphuism of tariff reform"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

The dread of a disease so dangerous as
cholera is even sufficient to lead to the
description of a sudden serious illness on a
railroad train as due to "heart trouble
Onlv.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

WHEN the Fifth avenue market house
has been replaced by a respectable struc-
ture, one of the blots on the city's architec-
ture will have been removed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

A PERMANENT bureau of tax statistics at
Harrisburg would be an excellent institu-
tion and a valuable source Of informant ton If
it could be established and maintained on a
proper business-like basis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

WHILE Governor Pattison is catching
fish his Commonwealth, thanks to his apathy
in the matter of furnishing the State Board
of Health with funds, is liable to catch cnol-
era.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

DIANA of the chase is not chaste enough
for Chicago women unless draped in the
fashions OF this enlightened nineteenth oen.
tury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

HILL and Breckenridge are announced to
speak at the same meeting at Brooklyn. The
former will typify the coercive power of the
machine, while the latter represents the
persuasive power of oratory.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

PHILADELPHIA Councils highway
committee has passed an ordinance reSu-
lating the width of wagon tires which is
worthy of widespread emulation
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

TREE planting by school children is q
fitting method of celebrating the discovery
of America, and it ought to come oftener
than once in four hundred years.