Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1893, Page 12

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[ of Donglas. | ck, secratary of Titn HEE pub Jishing company, duss solemnly swenr that the Actual eiroulation of THE DALY BEE for the woek ending April 20, 1803, was as fol10ws Sunday, April 2 Monday. April Tuesday. April Wednerday, Apri Thursdny. A pril 27 Kriduy. April 28 Saturday, April 21 GKO. 1 TZSCHUCK cfore mo and subscribed in my pres th dny of April, 1503 N, IFELL Sworn to enco this Notary Publie Average Circulation for March, 1893, 24,1 Y OVER in Washington they now call M=, Maxwell's place of business the abattoir. THE provosed reopening of the Balti- more sugar refinery is indicative of the outlook for increased activity in the sugar industry in this count These immense works were first opened in 1891 and ran for a'y A New York and Boston syndicate secured possession of them and it is claimed that the company | has never had any connection with the sugar trust. THE case involving the disposition of the funds arvising from the sale of the | Mormon church property in Utah, now | in the hands of the receiver, is not likely to be decided by the United States supreme court this term. In the mean- time it is asserted the money is disap- pearing at the rate of $30,000 to $40,000 | a yeal If the litigation is tobe pro- longed much longer it requires no spe- | cial perspicacity to perceive what must ultimately be the practical solution of the case. OMAHA and Nebraska need not dis- tress themselves over the refusal of the sailroads to sell half rate round-trip tickets to the World's fair. Chic; will draw at least $2,000,000 out of this city and state within the next six months and not a dollar of that money will ever come back to us. We can af- | ford to forego any further reductions | if that will keep people of no means and moderate means at home. This may be a | selfish view to take of the Columbian ex- position, but it is the business view. AT 10N is being directed to the new gold discoveries reported to has been made in the Taos valley, New Mexico. Prospectors are said to be flocking there in- great numbers. The | placers are said to be exceedingly rich and of extensive area. A new town called Amizett has been laid off in the new region, twenty miles cast of the town of Taos. Experience of late years teaches that all stories of the dis- covery of rich placer diggings any- where in this country nowadays may ins of doubt, THE National Conservatory of Music of America, New York, proposes to ox tend the sphere of its usefulness. On June next it will inaugurate a special summer term for the purpose of placing its superior advantages within the reach of those who are engrossed with school duties during the greater part of the year. This will enable the conserva- tory to greatly enlarge its valuable work, which has accomplished a vast deal for musical culture in this country. With Dr. Antonin Dworak, the famous composer, at its head it now ranks with the best schools of music in the world. IF THE big monolith quarried. at Prentice, Wis,, for ercetion to the memory of James G. Blaine, over is transported to the World's fair as now suggested, it will prove more at- Sractive than any of the Cleopatra Needles that have been transferred from | ‘he banks of the Nile to the banks of the dudson, the Thames or the Seine, It is probably the biggest stone ever quar- ried. Its length is 115 feet, or forty-six feet longer than the longest of the Cleo- patra monoliths, ten feet square at the base and four feet at the top. But it is hardly probabie, owing to the cost and difficulty of transportation, that it will ever get to Chicago. is AN EXCUSE will proba again he afforded Anthony Comsteck to demon- | strate his peculiar recognition of t | when the New York Press club tempts to placo on exhibition grosse’s famous canvas, *“The Babylon.” The painting is on the | French steamer due in New York on | Sunday and Comstock has threatened to seize tho picture on its arrival, as there i too much realism in the nudity of the Hgures. Experts look upon the produe- tion as one of the greatest works of art | of the century. The public will await | the outcome of the struggle between this | prudish Fecksniff and the putrons of art with not a little interest, = THE gratifying progress made by Omaha in providing hospital accommo- dations bas been noted by THE Bee. In this respect the city vanks well in com- parison with other and much large vities. For instance, in Minneapolis the number of beds per 1,000 population is but 1.6, while Cincinnati's ratio is 10; Denver's, 1 New York's, { Philadel- phia's, 6. . Louis', 4.6; Omaha's, 4.3; Detroit’s, 3; hansas City's, 3.9, and St. Paul's, 3.9. Hospitals of all religious | bodies ave included in this estimate, | Omaha has gained a reputation abroad | for her public spirit and benevolenco, in spite of ministorial traducers and pro- | hibition defamers. Omaha is all right. | by air at- Roche- IFall of | tion | for a purpose of this kind, magnificent | constituting of themselves a city whose | | wonders and treasures and b | ment, | one i ; enterprises. | railroad men have been long familiar | hours apparent time. | daily at | ne: | hour, | sharp competition likely to result, a OPENING OF THE WORLD'S FAIR, The event which the American poople have been looking forward to with steadily increasing interest, and which | s prominent in the attention of the poo- | ple of foreign ln 1%, isat hand. Tomor- | Columbian exposition with appropriate cere- | and for six months will be the | attraction for millions of people from all sections of our own land and from every quarter of the earth. It was on February 24, 1800, that congress voted to hold a fair at Chicago in com- memoration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the western world by Columbus, After a considera- ble time occupied in organizing, ‘ting a site and arranging plans, during which there seemed move than to be danger that the great enter- prise could not possibly be completed at the time appointed for the opening, the | work was begun and pushed with a vigor that commanded universal astonishment and admiration. The result isa collee- | of the finest structures eves row, May 1, will be opened monioes built | in extent and beautiful in architectur uties will represent the highest achievements of the genius and industry of mankind. Although the exposition will not be completed when opened and it may be | a month or longer before all the exhibits | are in place, it is safe thsay the fair will be by far the greatest the world has seen in the extent and vari of its displays, and that even those who visit it during | the opening days will be fully the enjoyment of the exhibits that will | be veady for their inspection, There | L most unpatriotie effort in some quarters to belittle this great en- terprise and to criticise its manag but such fault-finding, whatever | its motive. cannot alter the | fuct that the exposition the most stupendous undertaking of the kind in the world's history, and that it has been carvied forward with an | energy s unparalleled in such No such vast and plans were tempted in connection with fair ana the difficulties to be overcome have been very great. it 1s not, ther fore, surprising that everything will not be in"a state of complete readiness on | the opening , but it is rather a ma ter of wonder that so much has been ac complished. It is an example of Ameri- | can energy, push and pluck without a parallel, That the suceess ther be great and vig compre- before at- a world's hensive ever 18 position will be a financial is reason to expect from that fact not to be lost sight of that there are sev- i eral causes which may operate against | One of these is the apprehen- sion that Chicago may be visited by cholera and other infectious disecas during the summer. There small reason for such a fear, since it is safe to assume that the authoritics will make xtraordinavy efforts to prevent the inva- sion or development of the discase that might become epidemic. An- other cause the belief, which has been sedulously cultivated in some quarters, that all the people of Chicago are united in a conspiracy to plunder eve visitor to that city. Doubtless for a-time living in Chicago will be more | than ordinavily expensive, but the facil- | ities for accommodation are ample and | the competition sharp, so that this mat- ter will speedily regulate itself and the people who go there a month or two hence will probably not find the cost of living so extravagant asis now generally | anticipated. Another cause that .may operate against success is the railroad rates,which, if maintained at the figures now proposed, will deter many people from visiting the exposition. To a ve large number of people, particularly of the class who will most desire to see the exposition, the cost of transportation is the most important factor in their cal- culations of outlay. But notwithstand- ing these deterrent influences there will be a great rush of people during the next six months, bility being that the flood of visitors will be greatest in the last threo months, when everything will be in complete_order and the exposition will be seen at its best, is the great and general interest being manifested in it, but the SuCcess. is to Chicago | the proba- RAPID RAILROAD TRAVEL. has been during the last few | notable progress made in this in introducing rapid passenger m the principal railroads. All The years count, sorvice S5 with the great speed of certain lines in | Great Britain, whose tlyers have been the boast of the Britisher as unequaled anywhere else in the world, but Ameri- can skill and enterprise have taken away the prestige of the foreigner and now the fastest travel in the world is done in this country. For more than a year & daily train has been running between New York and Buffalo, a distance of 444 miles, at an average speed of fifty-thvee miles an hour, and it makes its time with perhaps greater cortainty than any other train | upon the road. A nearly equal speed is attained by trains between New Yor and Washington and New York and Bos- | ton. For parts of the distance over all | these routes a much higher rate of speed is reached. The present year will und ness a still further developiment in swift traveling. A start in this direction will be made today, when the attempt will be made to run a train from New York to ( in twenty hours by New Y or in nineteen | The plan is to | to leave New York | the close of the busi- s day there, and to run it through to | | ubtedly wit- | time schedule a train o'clock Chieago so that it will reach that city at 10 o'clock in the morning, Chicago time, of the following day, or at the opening of the business day in that city. | To maintain this train will require an | average speed of about fifty miles an but in view of what has been demonstrated to be foasible in rapid service there is slight reason to doubt | the succoss of this undertaking. 1If | it should be successful all the | teunk lines will establish spe- ciul fast trains to Chicago, and in the | greator spead even than is now expected | may be uttained. Of course such sor- | | the Coliseum | have not thus far shown as much con- | cern for the success of the undertaking | local manufacturers that | nent annual attraction for Omaha they | be worthy of their attention, and the | bility for this purpose, | that our locai | enthusiastic | not fail | Scidl orehestra, and a lavge | in the cause of musical eulture will not THE OMATA DAILY B vice 1s designed only for those who want to save tima and will not consider the cost in order to do o, for this fast travel will be expensive. The result of the experiment that will be inangurated to- day will be very interesting to the rail- road world THE MANUFACTURERS The prepartions for turers exposition, which will open at in this city May 22, are progressing most satisfactorily, and the outlook is excellent for a splendid ex- hibit of the manufacturing industries of the state. It is especially noteworthy that the manufacturers ountside of Omaha are manifesting a most zealous interest in the exposition, and while this is not intended to imply that the manufacturers of this city are not inter- ested, ivis to be said that some of them | APOSITION the manufac- as could be desired. It seemns necessary to suggest to the | if th desire to have the exposition become a perma- must make It becatse the every effort to render it a was located here last year | manufacturers of this city contributed most largely to the exhibit, and unless they continue to do this they may expect that an effort will be made | 1o take the exposit In view of the fact has | for yoars heen find special would people sUCCess, m elsewhere. that Omaha endeavoring attraction to the city to | that and | some draw xperience of last year with the exposi- tion having demonstrated its availa- it would seem manufacturers would be in promoting this ente prise. It is quite enough to submit this sug- gestion witnout eluborating it. 1t can- to be understood by those for whom it is intended and it is to be hoped » their serious conside TIVAL The management of the Apollo ciub is manifesting a zeal and enterprise in be- half of musieal culture in chis city which onght to command a most generous sup- port. A short time ago it brought here superb musical organization, the mpany of | giving an entertainment of Wagner music which will be long membered with pleasure by those who heard it, A far greater undertaking has been assumed by the elub in its ar- rangements for the May festival, which will be a musical event of unsurpassed interest. As oal- | announced, the Apollo man- | agement has arranged for the appear- ance of Mr. Sousa, for years the conduc- tor of the celebrated Marine band, and his new concert band, one of the finest organizations of the kind in existence [t has also arranged for the appeavanc of the New York Symphony orchestra, of which Mr. Walter Damrosch, a mu- sician of international fame, is the con- ductor. Both of these organizations will be accompanied by voeal and instrn- mental soloists of national reputation. Tt is unnecessary to say that this is an | immense undertaking for the elub, and inorder to make it financially success- | ful, it must receive the most liberal popular support. The Apollo club is an organization of which Omaha is justly proud, but commendation of its efforts sin sustain it. It must have that generous substantial support which cities no better able than Omaha to give accord to their musical organizations. What may be termed the musical constituency of this city is large, but it is questionable whether Omaha is keeping pace with other western cities in musical advance- ment, and if this be so it mani- festly argues a lack of the interest and zeal in the cause of musical education that ave shown by other communities, At any rate, there is unquestionably room for improvement in this direction. It will be pertinent to suggest in this connection that one of the urgent nceds of Omaha is a commodious music hall, and some one of our wealthy citizens could in no hetter way provide for worthily perpetuating his memory than by giving this city such a building. ANOTHER VICIOUS TRUNT. Comparatively little has been = about the School Book trust, which threatens to become a peculiarly vicious combination as soon as it has absorbed | all its competitor: Attention has al- ready been divected through Tue Brg to the pernicious ef frequent changes in the text books under the new law recently onacted in Wyoming. This law, like similar laws in other states, had its inception in the scheme of co rupt concerns that publish school books. The same condition exists in Idaho. The people of that state are wrought to the pitch of excitement over the opera- | tions of the agents of the school book monopoly, and Governor MeConnell very properly declines to name the men who are to select books for the public schools of Idaho until the time approaches for them to act. By pursuing this policy | the governor thwarts to some extent the B mes these booksellers hatl The Sfa'esm of Bise, cymmanting on | the afair, says that the execntive “will | not appoint any man whom he does not eve t) be abive bribary, but it wus wise not th give the agents of this un- serupulous teust months of time: in whic to seck out possible weak points in the charactor of any of the hhard and by playing on them seek to debauch the men.” in view, Roference is als) made to th tions of the character of the trust, known as the American Brok com- pany, as revealad by an investigation by a committee of the Illinois legi Five of the largest houses in the coun- try, Van Antwerp, Bragg & (o, D, Appleton & ('o., Harper Bros., Ivisin | Blakeman & ¢ A. 5 Barnes & (', constitute the combination that secks to control the trade, and control every school book published in the country The Chicago Inter-Ocoan, in reviewing the work of this committee, asserted that it disclosed that the “American Book company hud bsen guilty of heib- | evy and corrupting move school boards, | more school supevintendents, bhath county and state, more legislators than | West Virgini | is sugy | seetion and we | great | branches discussion. | the railroads. [ law 50 as t6 overcome | rages in Go | the huml | malest e o SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1893~TWENTY PAGES. any and all other organizations in this country comMihd.” Tn Ohio, Missour, Mississippi, Now Jorsey and several other states cognizance of the corrupt ‘Practices of the company has been had and steps taken to put a stop to them. In the state of Washing- ton four of the trust's agents were in- dicted for their nefarious methods Members of the San Francisco school board were -h)\t:‘ln have been guilty of taking bribos.” tn view of these facts it is likely that the further efforts of these establishments gill be more closely watched than retofore. That the trust has not already raised the prices of their publications to the consumor and bled the public like the coal trust, is undoubtedly, as the report of the cor mittee says, ‘‘due to the other very nificant fact that pleted its monopoly. o it has not yet com- AN INOPERATIVE LAW, The Transmississippi congress doubt- less did not intend to be satirical when it passed this resolution referring to the interstate commerce law: “That it is the sense of this congress t the law regulating commerce between the states should be so amended as to insure to the people of every state and section equit- able freight and rates, and that a tribunal be.created or designated to decide questions between the people and transportation companies.” What ed by this resolution, whether so intended or not, is that the statute | known as the interstate commerce act is inoperative and tnat the commission to enforee the actis not doing its duty, or at any rate is not meeting popular tion. The feeling expressed by the congress at Ogden is a very general one, and yot everyone who is familiar with the pro- visions of the interstate commer law understunds that they were intended to insure equitable freight and passenger rates to the people of every state and e believed to be ample for this purpose. If they ave not then a deal of time and thought wer wasted in the consideration of the act, for few national laws have ever received more thorough, careful and general dis- Evel il of the law was with great care in hoth of congress, by commercial bodies and in the newspapers. The best legal and practical judgment of the country was directed to its study and The result wasan act which, while nobody | ever claimed perfection for it, wa ieved to be suflicient accomplish what is now demanded by the Transmississippi congress. Further- more this act provides for a commission whose clearly defined duty is to decide questions between the people and trans- portation companies. The functions of this commission are to that rates are reasouable and equit- able and to prevent discrimina- tions both begween sections and be- tween individdals doing business with In order to give the com- mission all thé power necossary to do this, its authority having been to a con- siderable extent’ynulliied by judicial ions, she last congress amended the the effect of the adverse decisions. Theve appears to be no doubt that the commission now has all the power to thoroughly enforce the xpee cussion. considered see decis | law which congress can confer. But a congress of representative men from nearly half of the states and tervi- tories of the union in effect declaves that the interstate commerce act is a failure, and this opinion pre- vails in other portions of the country. A Boston paper recently | said that although the business inter- ests of that city had made repeated ¢ forts to have certain discriminations against them remedied they had been unable to secure any relief. There is no general opposition to the cardinal prin- ciple of the law. There are even rail- road managers who admit this to be sound. As we have said, the law was most cavefully framed to meet the popu- lar demand for railvoad regulation that would insure equitable freight and pas- senger rates and do away with all forms of unjust disevimination. Why, then, is the law not meeting these requirements? The only explanation is that it is not prop- erly enforced, and it is natural to assume that for this the body charged with its enforcement is mainly responsible, It is true that the commission needs help of the people. Every merchant who believes that he is a vietim of dis- nination ought to regard it a duty to | investigate and if he finds a faiv ground for complaint present it to the commis- sion. If this were more generally done there undoubtedly would be less reason for such a demand as that of the Trans- mississippi congress. But if there were areater zeal and vigilance shown by the commission the results would certainly be more satisfactory, and popular confi- dence in the remedial power of the intor- state commerce act could be very much strengthencd. an extensive ancient Indian arrowhead mine has been dis- covered in the Wiyoming foothills, about forty miles cagh@f Laramie peak. If the new find is syoh as reported it will prove one of the/most interesting dis- coveries in the{ history of Ameri arch Afbaccount of the di ery savs that as @¥imated by pract I 15 said that olog | miners who exdimlped the workings of the mine it wowldake a hundred men two years ) do Yhe w by modern methods. One wff the shafts, partially filled with the drift of time, had a la troe growing iniits center. The rock mined is an whege of variegated hue, milk white predwmnating. Tho site of a once large Indigvillage, strewn with broken fragment$® of arrow and lance hoads, stono nxes, ete., s also soen on the mosa and its fmmediato vicinity on | the head waters of the Muddy. It 18 gratifying to learn that in the opinion of 8o substantial an ant ity as the Atlanta Constitwtion there not likely to be any more white cap out- wgia. That “herearter oven t and most friendless of our and black, will be safe in and no lawless band will them.” This satisfactory pros- pect of a more general recognition of the rights of citizouship than has always obtained in certain of that state Las been established by the drastic is poople, wh their hom s soetions to ! | ood for the entire term of the exposi- | mar as w | less e | Justioo meted out to eloven ‘‘respectable citizens of Carroll county.” A fow days ago they decided to get rid of some of their objectionable neigh- bors, According to the accounts published, they invaded the houses of the persons in question, whipped them and ordered them to leave. The eloven octable citizons” thus engaged have just been sentenced by a fontloss judge, Sampson W. Harris by name, to terms in the chain gang. The judge in pronouncing senten reminded the prisoners that in Georgia even the state authorities have no right to whip and banish anybody. 1t just such sum- mary administrations of justice that will enable Georgia or any other southern state to maintain a good name for re- gard of law, justice and order. This white cap business has disgraced some regions of the south long enough. The indications are that it is to be now sum- marily disposed of in other states as well as Georgia, and the prospect aftords matter for congratulation To SAY that the Iliinois legislators are miffed at the unceremonious way they have been treated by the World's fair managers faintly expresses their in- lach ent three photo- aphs of their respective selves to the committee on admission, but only about half of them received in return passe tion. Then they learned that no arrangements had been made for their reception at the inauguration next Mon- day. 1In fact, no invitation has been, nor is likely to be, extended them to be present. The management say haaghtily that they can discern no reason why these Tllinois solons should be invited as the exposition is not a state aflair Snubbed, “hence those tears.” THE smallness of Governor Altgelc action in removing the custodian of the old Lincoln homestead at Springfield t the insigniticant post to a politic striker is in itself sufticient to ¢ comment. But the incident other significance to the public. old keeper of that interesting landmark | at the Tllinois capital has the most com- | plete and valuable collection of relies of | President Lincoln known to be in ex- istence. Of the removed cus- todian will not leave this collection, which is his own private property, be- hind, and thus the hundreds of visitors to the former home of the martyred president annually will be deprived of viewing one of its hitherto most attrac- tive features. POss course WHEN the announcement was mace that the New York legislature had ¢n- acted and Governor Flower had signed an anti-poolroom bill the people of that state at first thought it an attempt to trespass on their credulity. Now as | they realize that the law is so carefully drawn that if enforced it must entively break up pool selling their surprise changed to wonder how o clean a met ure could emanate from so phenome- nally unclean a source. The law makes this method of gambling a felony and ovasion of its provisions seems impossi- ble. If the law is strictly enforced New Jersey will get the monopoly of all the New York horse racing and legalized pool gambling. THE Episcopalians of Massachusetts will meot in convention on Wednesday to elect a successor to the late Bishop | Phillips Brooks. The two most promi- nent clergymen heretofore mentioned in this connection are Rev. Dr. Dix of Trinity and Rév. Dr. Green of St Bartholomew's church, New York. The first is the ideal candidate of the high church and the latter of the broad church denominational party. But neither of these distinguished divines are inclined to relinquish their re- spective rectorships, and it is given out that Dr. Green has positively announced that he would not accept an election as bishop of Massachusetts Koystone State's Pur New York Wl As long as Pennsylvania permits her resi dents 10 be persecuted for publishing Sunday newspapers and _ofticially honoved for stea! n the state treasary, the rest of the 1 regurd her laws with more or less astonishment, cal Loaws, Where Charity should tegi St Louts Post-Dispateh A member of the Transmississinpi con 8es government aid to the N 1'as long as there is not money cnou he waterways within “our own It is possible that improvement, like charity, should berin at home. — - Saloon Question i South Carolina, Kansas City Jowrnal, Prohibition states from Maine to Kansas have had a checkered experience with their offorts to shut out the liquor tral but they have had a sufticient publi ment to_prevent a repeal of their is doubtful if South Carolina maiutain its ground ve: all classes of its people di experiment even before it has practice. been put in —_— - nt Credit, Times, well established in Use of Govern Two facts are pretry the public mind by t one is that the will use its credit to any e ry to strengthen its gold holdings 5o as to meet all demands | upon it; the other 1s thut the form in which | birds, a that creditshall be employed has not yet been fixed apon, and will be determined by the administration carefully and after fuil advisement B d ns a Compro Chicago 1) Advocates of German in the public schools will act wisely if they do not try to disturb the decision arrived at by the Board of Edu ation in reference to that so-called study German should be abolished from the gran- | Las from the primury schools. It has no proper or defensible place n eith Its retention in the granunar and its aboli tion in the primary grades, by the action of the school board, is in the uature of u com promise and ought to be accepted as such il S It Was Loud-speak Holdrege Citizen I'he lieutenant governor and a number of | the state senators have been on i tour up in | the Rocky mountains and the Yellowstone park. As all of them were the opponents of | the maximum feeight bill they have been re ceiving lots of criticism. It 10oks s 1f these tors took this occasion to hold up the railroad companies for free transportation to pay for their apposition to this bill. There are doubtless many objections that can be urged agaiust the bill and many have doubt nscienciously opposed 'its passage. But the actions of these senutors do not in 1 that this was the principal reason for their action Ado bune, sen Mrs. Bradley Martin expended $60,000 on her daughter's wedding and it lasted only fifteen minutes. Four thousand dollars & minute is rather a costly exhivition of social stauding untione considers that the public paid $125,000 Tu presents to see PERSONALITIRS, M. Julin Want Howe is making an album of rll"‘flll’l& of woman ministers for the Columbial orld's fair, Princess Marin of Parma is pretty, evon for a royal bride. She has o long, large countenance, disfigured by a very long and substantinl nose, and it s ungailantly said that her face looks like that of a horse, The Countess Tolstol, wife of the ereat Russian novelist, transcribos all her hus band's works before they go to press, and it is related that ju° the case of the CKreutzer Sonata' she copied the MS. four times before the book was compl Sir Julian Pauncefote's salary has been in creased from 30,000 to &5,000 i of his promotion to the rank of an ambassa dor to this country This makes his com pensation exactly double that paid to our ambassador to the court of St. James Mrs, A. M. Maukly has vequeathed to the city of Washington a large sum of money for the erection and maintenance of o homie for destitute women us o memorial to her mother. In wemory of her husband she has willed to the Children's Aid society 30,000 for the erection of a home, The late Emin Pasha (assuming that he is dead this time) was born Edward Schuitzer, in in, in March, 1840, and a brother of his, Dr. Schnitzer, is, or recently , o practicing physician in St. Louis. He became bey and afterwards pasha in the iy ptian service in the name of Emin. In ny he has nearly always been rred to as Dr. Emin, dstone’s unappeasable appetite for v is indicated by the fact that a rent consignment of books sent to hin his request by & London dealer containe everal works in the Cornish language, an account of religion in England in - Angl Suaxon times, Griesinger's history of the Jesuits, Dr. Stoughton's “Religion in Eng land Under Queen Anne.” Adams' book on life of Cromwell, an early English ssary and other mental pabulum of cqual variety When Lord Beaconsfield was living Hughenden manor, which his nephew has ust taken possession of, he once, as the story goes, had a funny encounter with two women of the opposite political faith, He wits one day walking on the terrace in the S\ t and old slouch hat which he frected in the country, when two women of strong Gladstonite opinions entered the gate. Supposing him to he a keeper or g nw something of that sort, they inquired if he would show them over the ‘blace, which he at once undertook to do. While' they were wilking about they overwhelmed him with questions as to the habits of the master of the manor, and one of them fnally said +Do you think vou could manage to get us sight of the old beast himself Madame said Lord Beaconsfield, “the old b has the honor to watt upon you now.' A L ELECTRICAL st An el for th 1t is said partm aon by vie mail service is ty of Cleveland, O, that the German telephone de- it intends to connect Berlin and Lon- clephone Among the ele cently patented a contemplated strical heating devi » gridirons, muffs, heater and a hat brim softening device., The electric railway lines now under con struction in Ohio amount to nearly 400 miles in length, for the most part being in the uorthern section of the state, One of the latest inventions in connection with the application of clectricity to street car service is a self-lubricating r for trol leys, which needs no attention after being onece put in operation. The growing use of electricity as motive vower for surface cars has given something of a boom to car building, All the firms en t industry ave said to be rushed with orders, and most are behinahand on their engagements, A Memphis man has | retution exterminator, of which is to kill rank veg ads and highways, The n i A roadside without tion would be wmtolerable, Indigo is now made by an electrolytic pro- which consists of oxidizing the yellow liquid formed from the dried plants steepead in water by passing an clectric cu s through it from copy clectrodes. The in- digo thus formed is said to be purer and tiner than that produced in the usual way. An ingenious electric light device for ho ing water consists of resistunce coils arranged in the bib cock that when th water is turned on it becomes heated before it escapes from the cock. A 1 stat, von- nected within e ch, provides for gi ing to the wate of temperature required The Missouri Pan ‘elephone com- pany has been organ St. Louis. The new company will take advantage of the ex- piration of the Bell patents and erect lines atonce. The same company put it . number of instruments in St. Louis in 155¢ but was defeated by the Bell company in lawsuit and its telephones confiscated An electrical instrument has recently bee invented which is suficiently delicate to de- tect the presence of one-cighth of an inch of steel or iron wire at a distance of six or eight inches from itself. It is intended for use in locating small picces of magnetizable metal, such as uneedles, 1, iron i that 1 1 the them- 'S e wetal an “elec- the object tion along A must be any vegeta ten {5 a A highly satisfuctory trial trip of the lighted by the new Young-Muskowitz r way electric hghting system was made over 1 railroad of Jersey f ark to Roselle and return, with car which s cquipped with the necessary lights and as already been run over 000 mi sck as a test, 1t is an or vailroad passenger conch, in wh twenty-five S-candle power incan desceut lamps, one of which s in t namo room, the small apartment ording BROWNING, KING used for toflet purposes. During the tr | the lights were clear, white and steady, st the motiom of the car in no way affect. | them, sufffciont light boing given to ful t least two such vonch - - PANSING JESTS, Tndtanapolis 3 Y nal 0w the evening | e ity Yo you u Mr. Fitts Young Mr. Fiet roposed (0 you L romember the oxuet wor "1l be hanged i1t 1 ever could wandered ieath the tent 1sawt likewise the tattooed gon oothless Hons growl, while men spangled elothes stepped fenrlesdly fnto. the s and whacked them on the nose. 1 s the saered clephant spout water (hrough § trunk, the salamnnds nting lead and Junk: T heard the merry clown g Jokes we used to know wher) w tthier, Ton, so tWonty years ago sume old horses waddled round th J of wring: the same old comic vocrlists provi that th e old hipp o disgust; the old humip noox was kickl the dust: the su rheumatic acro! awle puinfully wround, wnd ossified contortionist were rolling on the ground; and ladies ba haeke As Lo nasie sad and slow sine old girls wo used to see hington Nows: | Tom, 1sut Iy fron Bor Lheard to the of th some twent Inter Ocenn: “Proctor goes rogus larly to one theater and says he hasn't seen DOOT plity in the lnst throw yoirs." Groat Jupt Whitt s he seen? sy Yos; hats” Did b Dotroit Free Pross: Mrs. Bordie Tsn't tha young Mr. Doless who comes here: so. nu ratl clined to talk through his hat? { Miss Bordie (wearily) T don't know so mue't whout that. 1Us his iclination to talk throug four or five hours that paralyzos me. Now York Pross Durgines sked No," she said, cniphatically up at the clock You are hrave Lt isn't that,” she at the cloek: “hut burglirs nre not Hkely come to this house, The fdea prevadls thi you stuy till duylight every night.”! “Do you have any toar o as shie glance, said, with another look Detroit Fr tor, my wife's ton of her head tell me you car will it be, aoe, it is? anger—Doc from the vot. They How much extri tongue just as| Prose: Honest How did our brother, the editor, di SDead game! SRt L “Chock fu you have a new s friend o other mar dressed so shabbily t people kept taking] B for the head of the firm Trath: He o Didn' tes from the revolut il was neve tain whether in Brazil or 1 i you k 1. Weary Raggles— Wot yor Willyun; Billy 8 ot e les Uniph Willyuni 1 work! weeping- Poor nunts i d’ Dat's noth . Know. But de're makin' hin Pittsburg ¢ tea Bicomy (e SN Py« ike un infant Made ‘hicken-hearted, 1 answered ¢ ‘Great Seott!” ejaculi- an Italian at one sit- then burst out ironic ir this . and Judge Kate Pleld's don't arn some useful trad Dusiy Rhodes 3 1am an actor Dogood - arker in front of i museum! Dusty Rhodes No understudy for the ossi- fied min Washington: — Dogood - Why tle Soundings: Chumplelgh (after catehs her b, trivial trickr - April fool! fire,, Chumplelgh -Well, T eather bo April fool thitn one every month in the year. b Ll WERE RED, an| WHY MARY'S E Ot why aro Mary's oyes so oy sult tears straying Adown the face wher tobe a-playing and why are happy smiles were wont What sudden grief unjustly hears upon so fair womnide Whose soul and self than distant Aiden, ntitted less for earth Hasdeath or fate brought unto naught fair Mary's drean of mati Ah! no. "Tis not so bad She s grating. et S A HINT OM PARLS. s that—horseradish Ewropean Edition New York Herald. A DINNER DRESS. Dress of orange satin, drapery round neckd and sleeves of pale yellow mousseline de soie belt and band round edge of sl s of gold beaded galon, Bodice laced at the back., & COo. Lurgest Muautu turors wal Rovallard of Clothing in ths Worll Our Tailors They are the people to whom you should re- ! 7| turn thanks for the elegant designs of the May suits now shown by us. to blame for They are not this beastly weather, thouzh we expected to sell suits--than we did. very nice If it rains this May like it did a showing now. -the Its a we're more of them collection year ago you will want to invest in one of our mackintoshes, that looks like a light weight over- coat. Umbrellas are not so much the style now since these new mackintoshes have come to be the rage. and in stripes and plaids. We have them plain dark and light colors We can fit anybody and when we've fitted you to one you'll take itand like it, too. BROWNING, Store open every eveningtiil 8.3k Suturday w10 KING & CO., S, W. Cor. 160 and Donglas it