Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Page 7

THE TIN PLATE CIRCUS.

SOME ORIGINAL. TRICKS OF CLOWN M’KINLEY. Statistician Peeie on the Question of Wages —Senator Dawes Is Battled—Rebates i Favor Foreigners—Our “Happy Farmers” —Crockery Duties and Prices. Performed at Philadelphia. We doubt if there ever has been in any previous campaign anything comparable to the silliness of £he “American tin” performances which Mr. McKinley and his associates have been guilty of. When McKinley spoke in Philadelpdia Sept. 23, the following solemn buffoonery was gone through with in the Academy of Music, according to the Philadelphia Press: “While he was telling of the new industries that had been built up in this country, a banner made of tin and bearing the inscription, ‘ American tin, 1892, made at Norristown,’ was carried down the platform. The applause which greeted the appearance of the banner interrupted the Governor, and he turned and looked at the banner. ‘ Another trophy to a protective tariff ’ was his comment, and then cheers were given for American tin." Col. McClure exposed the humbug of this performance completely a few nights later, but the manager of the “American Tin Works at Norristown” has since added the final touch. He says the works have been shut; down, and their sixty workmen thrown out of employment because of the delay in the arrival of material from Wales. There are, he says, 250 tons of plates on the way, all of which have been rolled in Wales, and that when the plates arrive, they will be dipped at the works in tin. As for the sources of his tin supply, he says: “I purchase it from the importers in New York. It comes from various parts of the world, and I am frank in saying that although I have looked high and low for the American article, I have never seen it.” . He goes on to “give ' away” the entire business by adding: “I am willing to tell the truth about this matter, and nothing but the truth, and therefore I mean exactly what I say—that the sheets, pig tin, and palm oil are imported. Therefore, if at any time there should be a delay in the ar-' rival of these materials, we would be compelled to shut down, as wo have done this week. We have ten tin-men at work this week, and they are all men jvho were employed in the factory at Wales.”

That is the plain truth about the tin banner which McKinley pointed to with pride as the symbol of a new American industry. It was made entirely of foreign piaterial, by foreign workmen imported for the purpose, and there was nothing American about it save the glamour of humbug which McKinley threw over it. His antics with it were only a little more intense than were those of the Republican candidate for the_ Yice-fresidency and Warner Miller at the Ccoper Institute meeting here last week when they passed around among the audience “samples” of American tin made in a similar manner. The distribution of small plate 3 among the school children of this city is another variation of the entertainment. What is to be said of the intellectual and moral caliber of a great party whose leading minds conceive that the people can be induced by su.-h exhibitions as these to bear patiently a tax of $25,000,030? The manager of the Norristown works says he lias not been able to discover any Amer.can tin, and his testimony is confirmed by that of every other man-who has tried to buy any. The entire product is absorbed in samples for mass meetings and Republican newspaper office windows, and much of this, like the Philadelphia banner, is made of foreign material. The Temeseal tin mines, whose product was in so much dispute for a considerable period, have been shut down because of failure of the ore, and tho Tribune of to-day has extracted from Congressman Bowers the valuable opinion that they are full of tin, but that they have been shut down by their English owners in order to “ireeze out” some of tho stockholders. Mr. Bowers is convinced of this because he visited the mines and was not allowed to look into them!—New York Evening Post.

Senator Lawes Rattled.

Tho Question Clubs of Massachusetts have been putting some queries to Senator Dawes in resrard to the McKinley tax on wool, reminding him that he was in favor of free wool in 1860, and asking him if it was true, as reported in the Boston Journal, that he believed that “whenever raw material entering into manufac uring here cannot be produced here in su iicient quantities and at such cost as to make its use in manufacturing h re profitable, it should be admitted free of duty.” The Senator answered that he had been correctly quoted, and that “by that test the clause alluded to (.the one increasing the duty on carpet wools from 25 to 32 per cent.) must, with me, stand or fall. But he does not think the McKinley bill can “bo best judged by piecemeal, any more than a house can be best judged by testing liere'and there a brick in it.” That is to say, tho Senator would be in favor of knocking out the wool brick and many others, in accordance with the demands of his constituents, but thinks the riddled McKinley edifice would still be fair to look upon. At any rate, he is unusually bold and frank for a Kepublican in a Presidential year, though we fear it must be charged to the fact that he is not seeking re-election. It is impossible to conceive of the Hon. Henry C. Lodge at this interesting political juncture admitting, with Mr. Dawes, that the “McKinley law is not perfect.”—New York Evening Post,

Jekyl-Hyde-Medill.

Tlio following extiaet from an address delivered by Hon. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, before the American Agricultural Association of the West, appeared in yesterday’s Republic, but it is worth reproducing: “I understate the truth when I 6ay that the farmers of the West and the planters of the South are charged s>oo,000,000 a year on their goods, for the profit of protected Eastern manufacturers, moie than is fair and necessary on the p.inciple of live and let live.” This is Mr. Medili's real opinion, to •which he gives utterance during three years and nine months out of every four y ars. During the remaining three months,, just preceding a Presidential election, he advises the farmers of the West and the planters of the South to vote, for a party that imposed and keecs up these unfair and unnecessary tuxes.—St. Louis Republic.

No Secrecy Asked by Labor.

Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, who ought to be designated rather Commissioner for Capital Peck, states in his reply to' the court at Albany that every time he sent out circulars asking for information he “invariably gave pledges of secrecy. * It is a curious fact in the transactions carried on by Commissioner Peck that it was only protected monopolists who desired this pledge at his hands. Labor has asked no secrecy from Peck. If there be a workingman from end to end of this country whose wages have been inoreased by the McKinley bill he will excuse Peck from keeping the fact secret. If the McKinley bill had raised the wages of any rank, or any division of workingmen, they would be eager to

proclaim the fact Where are these men? Who are they? In what industry are they occupied? No workingman wants to rob a tariff law or any other law of the credit due it for raising his wages. Labor asks no secrecy about its fortune under the McKinley law. — Chicago Herald.

How Peek Is Supported.

In its attempt to bolster up the foolish and fraudulent figures put forth by Labor Commissioner Peok, the Johnstown Republican thus refers to the report of Commissioner Wadlin of Massachusetts: “Labor Commissioner Horace G. Wadlin of Massachusetts has reported that wages have been increased in the Old Bay State, during the first year of the McKinley tariff.” We are greatly obliged to our contemr porary for citing Commissioner Wadlin, Here is the testimoney submitted by that very accurate and upright official. X. Average annual increase ot wages for the six years previous to the enactment of the M'Kinley tariff £12.16 Annual increase of wages for 181)1 under the McKinley tariff 8.97 Decrease under McKinley tariff.. $8.19 2. Average annual increase in total wages for six years previous to the enactment of the McKinley tariff $4,960,411 Annual increase in total wages for 1891 under the McKinley tariff.... 3,335,945 Decrease under McKihley tariff.. $1,624,466 3. Average annual increase in materials used for six years previous to the enactment of the McKinley tariff $12,000,000 Annual increase in materials used for 1891 under McKinley tariff.... 9,774.595 Decrease under MoKinley tariff.. $2,225,101 4. Average annual increase in manufactured product for six years previous to the enactment of the MoKinley tariff $23,700,000 Annual increase in manufactured product for 1891 uuder McKinley tariff.... 8,078,053 Decrease under McKinley tariff.. $15,631,947 The Massachusetts report shows that the McKinley tariff has stunted the State’s industrial growth, checking the Increase for six years previous in the average wages, the total wages, the materials used, and the manufactured product It has impaired the efficiency and reward of labor and deprived industry of the advance which six years had entitled it to expect. This is the result of McKinleyism in Massachusetts, dear Republican, and we have no doubt the result in the State of New York is substantially the same, the statements of the discredited and disgiaced Peck to the contrary, notwithstanding.—-Glover-ville Standard.

Wages in Building Trades.

That statistical evader of justice, Mr. Peck, has produced some more figures in which the protectionists seem to find great comfort. They purport to show that wages in the building trades increased from 1890 to 1891. As a matter of fact, wages in the building trades have been going up for many years. No one, however, but a headlong, thoughtless, open-mouthed swallower of protection lies would ever suppose that carpenters, masons and people engaged in kindred pursuits owe their prosperity to the tsxes which the Government levies on them. There is no law on the statute book, and even Mr. McKinley would not undertake to invent one, that taxes houses imported from Europe, or roofs, or , stairs or paved streets or ceilings. The art of driving a nail or of carrying a hod is not taxed. And, as we allT know, there is no duty on carpenters or engineers or lathers or stonecutters. Tne wages in building trades have had a tendency to advance for at least half j a century, and the great reason for their ! going up is becauso the men are more their own masters than are the hands employed by a trust or a single protected capitalist. Tho mind that supposes that a bricklayer or a stair-builder can be protected by a tariff which increases the cost of his living, itself needs a protection that 1 it is far beyond the power of any statute to grant. Perhaps such a mind may take its first step in intelligtn o by grappling with this problem. A correspondent of I tho World, who has the courage to sign j his name, A. Murcrofti, writes as foli lows“In this city carpenters are getting j $3.50 a day of eight hours; in Brooklyn ! they get $1.25 per day of eight hours; i in Jersey City $3 per day of nine hours; in Hoboken they get $2.75 per day of nine hours, and in Westchester County $2.50 per day of ten hours. ” How can the tariff account for these differences? It is an easy problem if tackled cautiously, and if no protection professor is consulted. —N. Y. World.

Republican Romance .Spoiled.

Lately the Bepublican papers outside of Indiana have be n referring to an alleged report made by State Statistician Peelo, showing an advance in wages since tho enactment of the McKinley tariff. The Bepublican papers of this State are not referring to it, because no such report has ever been male. In order to disprove this Bepublican falsehood, Statistician Peele makes the following statement for publication: “I have made no repoit since the report for 1890 was issued. The report for 1891 will not be made until the next Legislature convenes, next January, when it will be submitted to them printed. It will be a general report of statistics of Indiana, but there will bo no comparison of wages in it, because I have nothing to compare it with. There is not a scrap of data in my office giving any in’ormation or the wages received by Indiana workmen prior to the passage of the McKinley tariff. How is it possible, then, for me or any one else to make any comparison witß the wages receiver, since the passage of the McKinley bill? You see, therefore, how false the statement circulated by Repub* licans is. It is a Republican trick. “I do not believe there is a workman in Indiana whose wages have been increased on account of the McKinley tariff. But we all know here that the coal miners of Indiana receive less in wages now than before the election of Mr. Harrison. No one can deny that statement. ” A few weeks ago the Indianapolis Sentinel advertised for the photograph of an Indiana workman whose wages had been increased on account of the McKinley tariff. It is said that it received tut one, the photograph of a printer of a county paper who had made extra money setting up sheriff sales. Mr. Peeie was elected in 1890 on the Democratic ticket and is the Democratic nominee for the same office this year.— New York Times.

Columbian Parade a Failure.

A great oversight was made by the managers of the Columbian parade in New York. The banners and the floats were symbolical of music, art, printing, physical science, etc., but the greatest institution of modern times, the one thing that has made this the greatest of modem nations, was entirely forgotten in the make-up of the parade. No banner bore that most significant of all American words—“protection," the newly discovered method of increasing protection and enriching a nation by taxation. The biggest float of all should have been an American tin-plate mill in operation and showing the recently lauded Welshmen in the act of dipping impprted steel sheets into the imported tin and imported palm oil, with a special agent of the Treasury stamping “American” on each shining sheet. These should then have been made into suitable emblems of “protection" and distributed broadcast to the millions of

spectators, Including the thousands o! school children of New York, who had not previously been supplied. The spectacle would have been inspiring, and would have made ah indelible impression upon all present. It is to be hoped that this great idea will reoeive proper attention at Chicago next year.

Crockery Duties and Prices.

W r e hear a great deal lately about a “free breakfast table* given to us by Republican reciprocity. Of course, it Is a fraud. Sugar still bears a duty of cent a pound, every mill of which Is collected by the sugar trust. Tea and ooffee have been on the free list for years, and the only change that “reciprocity” oan make is to put a duty on them as has already been done when they come from certain countries. But civilized man eats his breakfast from dishes. Did McKinley make these free? Let’s see! The following table gives the net wholesale price for the various articles making a set of crockery needed for the farmer’s table, In England ana tliq United States; also the difference between the English price and American prioe, and the amount of duty that must be paid when the goods are imported. The kind of ware for which the prices are given is what is known as white granite ware: Wholesale Price U. S. U. 13. Eng. U. B. Prices, Duties. Higher 1 dozen bakers SB4 $1.40 $66 $46 1 dozen bowls 47 74 27 26 2oovered butters.. 23 47 19 15 1 dozen Individual butters 9 15 6 5 1 doz. handled coffee cups 44 80 36 24 56 dozen covered dishes 1.12 1.30 68 C 2 56 d o z e n ordinary dishes 23 40 17 13 2 creams » 20 ll <is 1 dozen flat plates.. 35 60 25 19 1 dozen deep plates 35 64 29 19 1 doz. fruit saucers 14 23 oi) (« 2 sugars 21 38 17 12 1 dozen handled tea cups... 37 67 30 20 1 tea pot 12 23 ll 7 A set of crockery as above, costing $5.10 in England, costs $8.71 in the United States, the United States price being $3.61 higher. The duties on the ware alone amount to $2.81. Duty at the rate of 55 per cent. Is also levied on the packages in which the ware is packed, and the other expenses of purchase, which, added to $2.81, make the whole duty equal to the difference between the English and American price. The beneficiary is the crockery combine.

Rebates Favor Foreigners.

Many intelligent citizens find it hard to believe that' our protected manufacturers sell their products cheaper to foreign than to our own consumers. There are many reasons, and one of them is that our manufacturers can afford io sell cheaper to foreigners. Our tariff makers intended that this should bo done when they inserted the “rebate” clauses in their “protection" measures. These rebates favor foreigners by giving our 'manufacturers cheaper raw materials when they manufacture goods for export. If any one doubts this, let him read the following from the Sac (Iowa) Sun, copied in the American Economist of Oct. 14: “The present protective tariff rebates the duty—pays it back—on all raw material imported and manufactured into articles which are then exported, 1 per cent, only being retained to pay expenses of collection. This is done to enable our manufacturers to secure raw materials (not produced in this country) which are to be manufactured for export as cheap as they can be had In foreign countries, and thereby to compete in other countries with foreign manufacturers, which they are do ng very largely.” The McKinley tariff may be hard on foreigners, but it is much harder on Americans, who get no relief from its burdensome taxation and prices. “Protective” or “American” tariffs, as their friends like to call them, always discriminate against Americans and in favor of foreigners.

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.

With the duty higher and the price of wool lower than ever before, Bradstreet’s of Oct. 1, says: “Manufacturers show a greater inclination to take wool. The market has 6® several grades, and there is good to believe that it will go lower beicss.javaneing. Present conditions are difficult to explain on the basis of supplies. And yet we have a party with gall enough to send the authqr of this calamity amongst the flocks of Vermont and Ohio to express sympathy by trying to bleat with the sheep. It is no wonder the sheep in Vermont took to the woods when they heard the wolf’s voice. It is said that consternation is also seizing the herds in Ohio, and that when Gov. McKinley appears on tho - Republican side of the field all of the wise old rams, followed by the Test of the flock, make a break for the Democratic side of the field, where they huddle together bleating and trembling until the Republican wolf in sheep’s clothinsr is safelj out of sight. The Democrats are be. ginning to understand the meaning o, the enthusiasm and noisy demonstrations that attend McKinley in these regions, and well they intend to takegooa care of the frightened lambs.

“Happy Farmers.”

The American Economist of Oct. 14th quotes from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that “Ogden farmers are in good humor .over the protection prices which are being paid for their produce—barley at 73c, with tendency upward; potatoes firm at 50c, and cabbage $3 per hundred.” The Ogden farmer must have a narrow mind and be of a happy disposition if he can extract sunshine from cabbage, potatoes and barley when his neighbor’s protected wheat, corn, oats, rye, wool and horses are selling for unusually low prices, and wh.n farm lands everywhere are declining in value. As long as prices of our leading farm products are determined in foreign market the farmer need not Irouble himself about trying to change them by tariff legislation. But there is need of his troubling himself about the price of what he buys, which consists largely of things imported and the price of wSich can therefore be raised by legislation. This Is the end of the tariff rope on which he should do his pulling unless he prefers, as he seems to do, to continue in the debtor class.

Low Wages in Protected Mills.

It is undisputed that wages are htgher in unprotected than in protected Industries. Carpenters, masons, engineers, and printers belong to the best-paid class of workers. This is not an accident, but is a logical outcome of a tariff that fosters combines. It is but natural that protected manufacturers organized to take advantage of a high tariff by advancing or sustaining prices, should use their consolidated power to dictate terms to their employes. Another reason for the lower wages and Ucusually harsh treatment of labor in the mills of protected monopolists is found in the tact, explained at length by Andrew Carnegie, that the officers of great corporations deal at long range with their employes, do not come into daily contact with them, and lack that sympathy which would often prevent strikes, lockouts and riots. Hence it is that workers in protected mines and mills constitute our worst-paid, mo9t insecure, and therefore dangerous classes. Bcbke wrote the “Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful” when about 28.

WHAT OCR WOMEN DON.

FASHIONABLE OVERGARMENTS ARE THE THING. A Handsome Dolman of Chinchilla Goods Ornamented with Lace and Ribbons—The Latest Wrinkles In Drawing Room Arrangements. Gossip fTom Gotham. New York correspondence.

SEASON of fancifully fashionable overgarments is at hand, and so thin women are at a n advantage over thick ones. Many a stylish mantle or cloak won’t do at all for broad figures. Typical garments in tho new styles are herewith depicted. The initial fashionplate shows a dolman or palatine,, made ot chinchilla goods and ornamented with lace and ribbons. At the

Joining of the sleeves with tho front breadths folds of gray silk are placed. The lace, falling in the form of a collarette and forming a straight collar, is ornamented with bows of gray ribbon. The second garment, sketched full length, is a pelisse made of poplin, or broad-ribbed bengaline, and trimmed with sable. The bias at tho bottom, the cape and yoke are all made of maroon or brown velvet. Behind, both sides of the cape are hidden by the large double fold in the midst of tho back of the pelisse. The straight collar is trimmed with fur. The yoke of velvet is adorned in front with ornaments of pas-etui ntcrie and at the back with a band o' fur. At the bottom the trimming is do..bio. This pelisse can be made in cloth or any other adaptable material. The little girls, bless their doll-faoos and coquette-hearts, are delightfully picturesque In tho new cloaks. Look at the one in the picture. In the original It is mode of cashmere. The wedded yoke Is of the ordinary shape, and tho pleated folds are sewed on straight beneath it all round. It Is lined with surah. The coat is fastened in the front It is trimmed with fur, and or-

A PELISSE.

namented by large rosettes of ribbon, the long ends of which fall down to tho bottom of the cloak. The turned-down collar is trimmed either with feathers or fur. The sleeves are large and puffed, either wadded or lined, gathered in at the wrist, and trimmed with fur. Tho rosettes and ribbons are not absolutely necessary, and their omission does not injure tho general effect. Little Mrs. Clever tolls mo that she is never bored by people coming on hor “day” and staying and staying. Do you know what the little woman does? She has tho most uncomfortable c-hairs that ever were made put In hor rooms on her reception day. She declares nobody can sit in them more than five minutes. Of course the guests do not realize why they cut their calls so short, and Mrs. ClevCr does not mean them to, but all the same, it is the chairs. Tho things look pretty, you know, but oh! to sit on them! Wicked, isn’t she? Talking of chairs, what a blessing it is that tidies and scarfs and so on are being dispensed with. What more awkward than to gather up one’s own draperies and take along a chair scarf, and very likely the chair, too. How delightful to emerge into (he sunshine with a tidy sticking on the lpack' of your sealskin cloak. How lovely to be ornamented with a fringed orange bow where you least want it, or to bo decorated with a motto trimmed with bells and spangles. A November caller is shown in the fourth sketch. Her froca is of pekin woolen material, with jabot of lace. The bodico only comes down as far as the waist and i 3 fastened in tho center. The back breadths have no seams, the middle thereof being indicated by a stripe, and care must be taken to make the stripes perfectly correspond. The jabot is made separately in embroidered batiste, silk muslin or China crape. The bodice is ornamented 1 by two ribbons

A LIVE DOLL.

that form a corselet, being taken at the seams under the arms. Tho balloon sleeves on tight-fitting lining are trimmed with sateen or silk. The bottom flounce Is made of the same stuff as the jabot and edged with a small ruching of the same. There is a movement of fashion to clear boudoirs, parlors and salons of the clutter of bric-a-brac that for so many years has crowded all space. Let us hope the movement will be successful. But do you know whence the fad for crushing things together in our rooms came? From royalty itself. The draw-ing-room of the Princess of Wales, at Sandringham, looks like a magnificent auction room. The two great rooms are separated by a curtained doorway. The drapery is dark and very heavy plush. All the woodwork, walls, etc., are painted light. A fireplace and mantel, surmounted by a great mirror, is at the end of the larger room. The folding

doors from the hall are at the side and flanked by pier glasses. All the mirrors are bracketed with candles. There is a grand piano with fringed cover. An enormous basket of growing palms is in the middle of the room, and over in a corner some great plumes of feathery dried grass—like what we see here dyed pink and blue—are set up high. There are dozens of tables of all kinds except solid kinds. They are all laden with bric-a-brac of the must perishable sort. There are quantities of chairs uoholstered in all materials and all styles. There is a divan phenomenally broad, and even then jammed with pillows, which are magnificently covered, usually with velvet on one side and damask or silk on the other. Vases crowded with flowers are everywhere. The walls are all panelled and no pictures are hung. Several screens are spread, however, and on the leavos pictures are mounted, which is rather a good idea. Ihe pictures are thus brought within easy inspection'range. An exquisite marble group is in the center of

A CALLER.

the smaller room, representing a young mother with a child climbing about her knee. She is nude to the waist. Tho podestal is volvet-covored, and surrounded by blooming plants. Across a corner of this room Is a desk table: it is littered with dainty writing tools and somewhat crowded with framed pictures and a three-leafed screen sot with a loti of family cabinet photographs, The table is lighted by four candlos, oach with a dainty shade, and placed hero and there on tho table. In tho corner back of the table is an enormous palm. The rooms are lighted by candles. The floors are Inlaid wood, and are strewn with rugs. Things are so arranged that little pathways load in and out abput the furniture, but it would never do to get lost in the Princess’ drawing-rooms at night. Como to think of it, maybe the rooms are all different now. They wore as I have described a year ago when I was in London. Possibly their boing cleared out is what has started the movement of our bric-a-brac in this country. The last picture gives a promenade costume capable of serving as a skating dress. As drawn here, it is an armoured sergo of a grayish green shade, trimmed with velvet of tho same color and with gray feathered trimming or fur. Thotakirt Is cut as usual on the bias, but is trimmed with a bias of velvet edge by a narrow band of feathered trimming. This bias is lined with muslin, hemstitched onto tho skirt and sowed on together witli the feather trimming. Tho upper part of tho skirt has the darts necessary to make it sot well on the hips, These darts arc very carefully sowed and pressed, in order to make them invisible. At the back the dress falls In folds. The bodice, which is joined to tho capo, dosconds some inches bolow the waist and the front breadths of it are lined. Tho yoke is of velvet odgo with feather trimming, to

IN THE PARK.

which is adapted tho fold (hat crosses the yoko. This fold can ho either made in silk tho same shade as tho dress or in a different shade. It gradually diminishes as far as tho hdfck, where it entirely disappears underneath the cape. The vest is perfectly straight, is fashioned on muslin lining, without darts and lined with silk. In cutting the cape, as it is somewhat difficult, it would be better to try It in any worthless material first, so that thero win be no danger of spoiling the fabric. It is cut of a single pieco. The pleated sleeves are sewed onto the armholes of the waist and trimmed with a band of velvet. The cape may be wadded and lined with silk. Copyright, 1892.

Pavements of Jerusalem.

The principal pavements made in Palestine arc in Jerusalem, and it Je only within recent years they have been constructed in accordance with anything like modern requirements. The superior and massive Roman pavements, over two thousand years old and still In fair preservation, are here not taken into consideration. The material for streets is stone, cut about the size and shape of ordinary bricks or a little larger. This is laid in sand, the long and narrow side up. The stone used is the well known Jerusalem marble. The cost varies from one to two dollars per square yard. The foundation is almost invariably the rubbish of the ancient city, which has accumulated during centuries. India-kubbeu trees are reported to be growing wild in Lee County, Florida. This is a matter worth the while for enterprise to look up.' Rubber is an important article of commerce, and if trees from which it is obtained grow wild in Florida they can be cultivated with success in that region. The London police arc giving up their old bull’s-eye lanterns, which, up to the present, have been their only means of flashing the light of intelligence upon the dark spots whore criminality festers. They are now supplied with little electric lamps. Fabaday’s father was a blacksmith, and disapproved of his son’s experiment! with chemicals.

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OP EVERY DAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show That Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. Dr. Dunstmaier. of Germany, according to a report in a Berlin paper, lias been conducting a series of curious experiments to substantiate the theory of Dr. Jeager, that the soul of man or animal is to be found in the characteristic odor exhaled by eneh. He put a number of rabbits in a cage in a room, and then admitted a savage dog. The dog, of courso, rushed at the cage and endeavored to get at the rabbits, frightening the timid creatures almost to death. After he had worried them for two hours, lie was killed, and his nerves of smell, with tho mucous membrane of his nose and throat, wore removed and rubbed up in a mortar with glycerine and water. The doctor’s theory was that thus he should obtain a solution of the timid souls of the rabbits; that this was the fact the following experiments seem to prove: A few drops of the mixture was administered to a cat, and, after it lmd been given time to take effect, she was put into a cage with some mice, Instead of taking a dinner of fresh mouse meat, a _* one would naturally suppose, tho timidity of the rabbit had been instilled into her soul to such a degree that she made repeated efforts to get away from the mice, seeming to fear that they would nctuully pounce upon her. By a subcutaneous injection of only two cubic centimeters of the extract, a largo bloodhound was mndo so cowardly that ho away and tried to hide* when put in an njiartmont with some rabbits. Dunstttiaier says that ho hag extracted tho soul substance of cowardly men and administered it to the bravest of the Prussian soldiers with the effect of making them so timid that they would not leave their rooms or tents after nightfall. On ouo occasion he swallowed a doso of his “psyeliotypie timidity,” which had tho effect, of making him doubt his own marvelous discoveries.

A peculiar case of bone-breaking near Bnrboursville, W. Va., is attracting the attention of the medical fraternity throughout half tho State. Mrs. Peter Kelly, wifo of a well-known citizen, is the victim of a disenso which tho local surgeons and doctors, for want of a better name, call fragilitas osiuru. Mrs. Kelly, who is a delicate lady, wns just getting around after a long and serious illness when, a few nights since, she got out of bed anil started downstairs to get a drink of water. When but a few steps down one of the bones of her right leg broke with a peculiar, glass-like snap, without having come in contact with anything and from no apparent cause. She called her husband, and lie phkod her up and started back toward the bedroom. with his wife, when tho bones of her right and left arms broke in several places with tho same peculiar simp heard and felt by tho woman when tho first, fracture occurred. Mrs. Kelly was carried to the bedroom and laid on her bed, when the bones of her left leg broke in tho same manner. A surgeon was immediately sent for. He sot the broken limbs and bandaged them. Mrs. Kelly said that slio felt no pain when any of the fractures occurred, and that 'the setting and bandaging of her broken limbs occasioned her not the slightest discomfort. The disenso is a strange one, and the outcome is awaited with a great deal ol' curiosity and interest. The physicians say the bOtio-brcnktng is caused by a deficiency of animal mid a superabundance of mineral matter in tho bones. They say the bones will knit very rapidly, but that tho disease is difficult to cure.

“Human VAMrniEs”are often referred to but they are seldom seen. However, thero is a verituble one in tho prison at Washington, D. C. His name is Brown, and his case is one of the most remarkable in criminal annuls. Ho is a Portuguese, and when about - tweuty-two years old he shipped as cook on a fishing smack from Boston for a trip up tho coast in the summer of 18(17. Thero was a crow of about thirty men, and one day ono of the men disappeared. It was thought that ho liud fallen overboard. Next tho mate was missed. Two days afterward his body was found hidden in the hold, and near it the body of tho suilor. There wore small cuts in various parts of tho bodies. The men sot a watch and were rewarded by seeing Brown steulthily creep up to the bodies and move them to another part of tho hold, where ho was cough , sucking their blood. He was placed in irons, taken back to Boston, and tried for murder. The defense was insanity, but the jury brought a verdict of guilty and Brown wus sentenced to bo hanged. A few days before the day set for the execution President Johnson interfered and ordered him removed to the Government Insane Asylum at Washington. But before the transfer was made Brown killed one of the keepers with a cleaver, and when discovered he was lapping his victim’s blood. Ho was Anally sen 1 , back to Massachusetts, where he remained for fifteen years, but he is now at the prison in Washington. Thirty-five years ago his crime was tho talk of the nation.

I)n. Laudeu Buuntox, a London physician, has made a discovery which, according to the Daily News, ought to entitle him to the gratitude of all who live by intellectual labor. It is nothing less than the secret of how to have ideas at will. One night, after a long clay’s work, this eminent physician was called upon to write an article immediately. He sat down with pen, ink and paper before him, but not a single idea came into his hend, not a single word could he write. Lying back, he then soliloquized: “The brain is the same as it was yesterday, and it worked then; why will it not work to-day?” Then it occurred to him that the day before he was not so tired, and that probably the circulation was n little brisker than to-day. He next considered the various experiments on the connection between cerebral circulation and mental activity and concluded that if the blood would not come to the brain the best tiling would be to bring the brain down to the blood. It was at this moment that, he was seized with the happy thought of laying his head “flat upon the table.” At once his ideas began to flow and his pen to run across the paper. By and by Dr. Brunton thought. “I am trotting on so well I may sit up now.” But it would not do. “Themoment,” be continues, “that I raised my head my mind became an utter blank, so I put my head down again flat upon the table and finished my article in :hat position.” A new field of competition vith men, recently opened up by that indomitable spirit of progression chancteiizing women of the present, is tbit of atilt racing. It is unique, though after all would seem to be but lapsing back to first principles, since it is primarily one

of the pleasures off childhood to be enjoyed regardless of sex. It bids fair, however, not only develop into an art, but, in common with baso ball, cricket, and other games dear to the heart of the small boy, to have a fine financial outlook. The key progress in thin new line of occupation has been sounded strangely enough, not by America, biit France, where, according to Kate Field’s Washington, a race on wooden legs recently took piace from Bordeaux to Biarritz and back, a distance of 303 miles. The entries for the race were eighty-one, and when the cavalcade on stilts set off from the Hotel de la Gironde to tho inspiriting music of a brass band it was accompanied by a company of bicyclers who were to follow in the wake to insure the observance of fair play. Among the racers was a man who claimed to have traveled on stilts from Moscow to Paris. A quarter of an hour after the start had been accomplished the band was again called upon to play for eighteen women and girls who essayed' to mako the run of fifty miles from Bordeaux to Cerans and back the same day.

The quaint old Austrian custom of a bride being cast off, ns it were, by her countrymen, when she takes to herself a foreign husband, was an interesting feature at the recent marriage of the Archduchess Louise of Tuscany. In describing tho ceremony the Brooklyn Citizen says: Tho archduchess entered the church followed by a long train of royal and noblo Austrian ladies. They stood in a semi-circlo around her until tho moment tho bridogroom placed the ring upon her finger; then they turned ana left her, for she was no longer a coun-try-woman of theirs. For a moment tho princess stood alone—unattended; then a number of Saxon ladies ranged themselves behind her—she had become a Saxou. At tho marriage of Mario Antoinette this custom, which in her case was observed only on the French frontier, lmd a pathetic denouement. When tho Austrian Judies attempted to leave tho new daupliiness of Franco she refused to bo left, and, us if foreseeing what her fato would be in her adopted country, clung to them and entreated them to take her back to Austria aguin. Actual force had to be used to separato her from her attendants. A man who met *with shipwreck off tho coast of Cuba and had to take to an open boat, tells of the peculiar hallucination, called by sailors the “Paradise craze,” brought on by exposure to the terrific heat of tho sun’s rays. He says: “Tho sea nppeared to be transformed into a mighty mcadqw, bright with flowers and musical with song of birds. Cool springs burst from crystal rocks and tricked over golden sands, and men and maidens danced beneath the trees. Thoy seemed beckoning mo to join them, and I plunged over the side of the boat into forty fathoms of brine. The bath brought mo to my senses, and I reached the Cuban coast moro dead than alive. Tho mania is of frequent occurrence in tropical seas and is often referred to by tho poets.” There has just died at Wharton, Ohio, one of the most remarkable of creatures, an “infant” aged twenty-nine years. Tho child, or young man, or whatever it could bo called, was tho son of Austin Bodon, and during all tho years of its life was nothing move than a moro iiabo. It developed in no respect and died in its cradle. It could not walk nor talk nor recognize any one, and was as helpless when it reached its manhood as tho day it was born. Doctors were completely baffhd and could do nothing, mid for twenty-nine years its. death had been patiently awaited. There woro born in Aspen Col , rt)v cent-iy to the wifo of John Hughes a second edition of tho Siamese twins, differing onjy in the manner in which they were joined together, these being face to face. The children are two wellformed boys,'weighing sixteen pounds, with well-developed heads, arms, and legs, but with but one body. The mother is twenty-three years of ago, and woighs'but 100 pounds, She has been married four years. A rajlhoad man named Ross Ward lias tobogganed down Pike’s Peak on a bourd three feet long and a foot and a half wide, to tho bottom of which was nailed a cleat to serve as a keel. This keel fitted between the rack rails of the cog railroad. The distance covered was nine miles, with a descent of 8,000 feet, and the time made wns 11 14 minutesWurd did it for a wager of $23, but says he would not repeat the feat for $0,000,000.

Wonderful, But True.

Two persons may be born at the same place and at tho same moment exactly, and yet, after fifty years have rolled around, they may both die at the same instant, and still one may be more than 100 days older than the other. I think I hear some one say “impossible,” and “How could such a state of affairs bo brought about?” but it is not impossible; it is simply an astronomical and geographical fact, very easily proven. A culm reflection shows this oddity turns on a very obvious problem in circumnavigation. Suppose now, that two persons were born at the same instant in Philadelphia, from whence a trip around tho world may easily be made in one year; if one of these persons constantly goes toward the west, in fifty years he wifi be fifty days behind the stationary inhabiants, if the other sails equally as fast toward the east he will bo fifty days ahead of them. One, therefore, will have seen 100 days more than the other, though they were bcu-n at the same instant, lived continually in the same latitude, and died together.

AROUND THE HOUSE.

An ingenious housekeeper has fashioned what she calls the most useful thing in. her sewing-room, out of an ordinary soap box. This is how she did it: First, she secured the cover to the box with a couple of strong hinges. Then she lined it throughout with blue cheese-cloth. The outside she covered with cretonne in blue with a pattern of apple-blossoms running over it. The completed whole she uses for odds and ends of. unsightly sewing, such as stockings that need mending and half-finished articles that must lie kept at hand, but that give a cluttered appearance to the sewing-room when left lying about. The cost of manufacturing at home this utility box is less than $2, whilo it is, when in working order, worth SSO t« any orderly housewife. At this season of the year, when many heavy articles, counterpanes, etc., ate to be washed up before winter, it is well ta know of an easy and perfectly safe method. Into an ordinary-sized boiler, half full of boiling water, put One teacup ol this mixture: One pound Babbitt’s potash, one ounce salts of tartar, one ounca muriate of ammonia; add the clothes and boil half an hour; rinse through tw« waters aadfcj.