Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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THE FOLLY OF PEBSEOUTIOg, The caso of Giordano Bruno, to whom a statue.has "been erected and recently unveiled in Iiomt, illnatrates the folly of persecution and the shortsightedness of incn. Bruno owes Ms present famo and his immortality, bo far as a statue can confer it, to thoso who persecuted him three hundred years ago. He was not a remarkably great or good man. Born in 1543, he entered a convent at Naples at tho age of fifteen, intending to devote his Lifo to tho priesthood. Bat being naturally bold and skeptical, he soon do vclopcd a tendency to heresy that brought him under tho displeasure of his superiors. Escaping from tho convent, in 1575, he becamo a sort of wandering lecturer and agitator. He was a natural controversialist and took sides in everything. Erratic, aggressive and irrepressible, ho was a thorn in tho aide of Home. He talked and wrote a great deal, and published tracts, essays, dialogues, systems of philosophy, theological arguments, etc. Yet he was not a remarkably able man nor a molder of opinion. He was moro an irreprcssiblo agitator. Finally, as was the custom in thoso days, ho was denounced to the Inquisition, arrested and eentto Rome, and there burned at tho stake in 1600. Bruno was hardly worthy to be burned at the stake. Ho did not begin to bo as worthy of martyrdom as hundreds of other noble reformers of that day. Ho was not a reformer not much moro than a '"kicker." His writings were not great, and such as have survived are only regarded as literary curiosities. Had ho been let alone his name and writings would have parsed iuto oblivion centuries ago. Bit persecution made him a great man. Burning a man at the stake advertises him to posterity. It may dispose of him very effectually for tho timo being and remove him as a present nuisance, but ho is apt to break out again in a new place and in a worso form than ever. Bruno, burned at tho stake in 1C00, breaks out in a very aggravating form in 18S9. The Pope of that day who ordered his execution could hardly have foreseen that his successor in the Vatican three hundred years later would be scandalized and worried almost to death by the unveiling of a statue to the heretic in tho very city where ho was burned. The seed sown in tho sixteenth century springs up in tho nineteenth. Persecution is somewhat slow to germinate, but it is a 6uro crop. QftfiLTNACEAN BEFOBffATIOS. It is inexpressibly refreshing to bo permitted to turn aside from tho wranglings of theologians, the investigations of gory crimes, or tho embittered mutteriugs of tho deposed party, and read, a.s a pointer milleniumwartl, that Connecticut has a law forbidding hens to trespass on other people's gardens. The hen, in her proper element, scratching industriously in her own environment, clucking maternally where she belongs, or presiding, beautifully browned , at a family repast, is an admirable and commendable bird; but the hen vagrant, the hen depredatory, is a sight obnoxiously familiar to tho world, and an unmitigated blot upon its boasted civilization. It would, indeed, be impossible to make any just estimate of the bickerings, the violence in word and deed, the life-long enmities, of which this fowl, mild and lovely though she may appear, has been the originating cause. The cackling goose may have wv tho ancient city, but tho squawking hen, scratching without right

or title, in wild flight over flower beds, or scuttling in demented bewilderment behind shrubbery, has wrenched the Christian graces to immeasurable lengths from their moorings, and fearfully imperiled many a human soul. That this obstaclo 'to spiritual progress has been removed, even in so single an instance and in bo remote a region as Connecticut, savors cheerfully of advancement, and imbues with hopeful courage districts yet unemancipated. When this idea shall have spread, and the universal hen shall have been bound down by law to scratch and cut-cut-cu-dah-cut on her own territorial claim, the labors of home missionaries shall be appreciably lightened, and righteousness and peace may be quoted as kissing each other without cxtraucous solicitation. In times past Connecticut has been subjected to unkind and disrespectful remarks on account of her connection with the wooden nutmeg traffic, but as pioneer in this valuable reformatory movement the pat is obliterated, and she stands rehabilitated in the national regard. THE VALUE OF THE CLOWN. Tho jest's prosperity may, lie in the ear of him who hears it, but an equally satisfactory prosperity clusters closely about the purse of him who makes it, as is evidenced in the statement that the well-known minstrel, Billy Emerson, receives $500 a week for his services in amusing the public. It is thus significantly indicated that much worse fate might befall the average man than being born a good clown. With tho grand army of pessimists pronouncing life not worth living and marriage an unmitigated failure with the strawberry wave at neap tide and the home base-ball team behind its expected record with the magazines still publishing dialect stories and a rainy June setting in, it does not at all conclusively appear that tho genial Mr. Emerson is overpaid, or that tho office of public clown to the American people can be too frequently instituted or too competently tilled. The American sense of humor is no ordinary affair. Though a movable feast, and often the prey of purely local and ephemeral themes, it argues very nimble wit, both as regards evocution and consumption, and implies for its sustenance the indispensable production of much pabulum, and that of the very finest , and freshest quality. Though perhaps just "the same that our fathers have been," the jests that amused preceding generations are but dreary reading nowadays. Many side-splitting jesters of only twenty-five years ago gather dust oa the shelve, or awaken but wan and feeble smiles when communed with. This is accentuated, doubtless, by the fact that the modern clown is such an irrepressibly numerous fellow. Humor Jias become the universal habit, and so many men, and women, too, have caught the knack of jest-making, so many comic papers and periodicals congregate on the book-counters, so many newspapers havo their funny columns and witty paragraphs, that a smile lies hidden in nearly every ounce of literary, social or commercial intercourse. The glittering thread is woven even into pulpit teachings, and the doctor's potion fails in efficacy unless it goes down arm in arm with a jest. Amid so much widespread joke-construction, then, and in tho face

of so evanescent and perishable a material, the man who can professionally find something truly humorous and novel to say, and can say it in a manner unmistakably diverting, is assuredly phenomenal, and entitled to the hearty plaudits and substantial indorsements of a too serious world. "Fence against illhealth and the other evils of life by mirth," says Sterne; and let it be acknowledged; with due obeisance to the clown, that whoso plants even one smile where no smile grew before is indeed a public benefactor. W0MEH AB BEADEBS. In "The Editor's Study" of Harper's Magazine for June Mr. W. D. Howells makes the very unseaworthy statement that "the 6cx which reads tho most novels reads the fewest newspapers." This is a rash conclusion, ill-supported by facts, and debatable on double grounds. That "the sex" referred to by the learned author of certain profound theses on "The Mouse-trap, The Register, The Elevator, and the Parlor Car, "is not, beyond discussion, tho sex which reads the most novels is maintainable. This assertion has been so long accepted with out investigation that it may be almost? said to havo becomo traditional; but statistical examination would, no doubt, leave it without visible means of support. Mere casual scrutiny reveals that book-dealers, news-venders and librarians report men as composing a large proportion ot their fiction-patrons. Many lawyers and doctors systematically unbend over tho . pages of a good novel, and these grave professions furnish many devoted admirers of even "Ouida" and the "Duchess." The agility with which tho pulpit arose, as one man, to controversial consideration of "Robert Elsmere" betrays tho cloth, also, not wholly ' indifferent to the charms of imaginative literature. In business circles, too, the novel has its votaries, many merchants being known to refresh themselves, between sales, with dips into Dickens or Dumas. The commercial traveler buried nose-deep in .a paper-covered novel is as familiar a sight as the literary elevatorboy, who takes his inevitable ups and downs solaced by a sweet morsel of "Seaside" or "Lovell." That woman, as the autocrat of afternoon tea asserts, represents tho sex which reads the fewest newspapers is equally contestable. Every intelligent woman and the reading woman is always such is a voracious newspaper reader. She keeps abreast of the times, and knowledge of current events and issues is as much her daily bread as it is requisite to the existence of the sterner 6ex. Politics, base-ball, and even trotting records do not escape her all-searcliing eye, and the amount of miscellaneous news-gleaning that her nimble wits compass is often matter of astonishment to students of feminine ability. The very 6copo and construc tion of the newspaper of to-day argues

woman its expected and insatiable reader; and if Mr. Howells really indorses his own statements, he has either been pronouncedly unfortunate in his feminine acquaintances, or he has made the fatal error of deducing his conclusions from that remarkable collection of women with which his own pages are peopled. '

Dangerous Plumbing. The gas explosion of last Friday is another lesson that ought to be heeded. There was a guilty carelessness somewhere. Gas is a luxury which no one can afford to do without, where it can possibly be had, hut it is fraught with too many dangers to be left in careless hands. It is clearly a case which demands the immediate exercise of the police power of the State, and in the absence of State control the municipal authoritvof the several localities where it is used should at once be applied. TheJournal will not anticipate the result of the investigation which is to be made as to the responsibility for the recent explosion in this city, but it undertakes to say that as soon as State legislation can bo had, such carelessness as that which resulted in the death of one victim at Haughville, should be dealt with in tho criminal court. We punish criminally a great many acts not as mischievous as these which lead to such damage. This is the only security the public can have, and this is hardly adequate. We are at tho mercy of plumbers and so-called gas-fitters whose honesty and skill cannot be known until tested, and the amount of imposition practiced by them is incalculable, not to mention the imminent peril of hundreds of families who Jittle suspect danger. A case has recently developed which may be representative of many. Rev. T. A. Goodwin had his house piped nine months before tho street mains were laid, hoping to be among tho first of his neighborhood to be supplied with the new fuel Not to be imperiled by unskillful workmen, he employed one of the best-known - plumbers in the city at about 20 per cent, above the price his neighbors paid for like work, but it had so shrunk, or warped, or got out of joint, during the hot weather, that it leaked at a half-dozen points when gas was finally introduced. Still intent on having a first-class job, he clung to the high-priced plumber when it came to the making of connections, and he at last got his fuel, supposing that of course the boys mere youths, about sixteen or twenty who were sent by his high-priced plumber, were skilled workmen. During tho winter a leak developed here and there, but he was told that was unavoidable, and he paid first-class prices for repairs on his firstclass job, until, a few weeks ago, on going in the morning to light the fire in a stove which had been used all winter, he discovered that the connection with tho mixer was severed, and that the gas, ay lien turned on, escaped into the room. This disconnection occurred in the night, when no one was in tho room,' and after the shutting off of the gas, abont 9 o'clock-possibly by the act of turning off the gas. On examination it was discovered that the screw which connected the pipe with the mixer never had" been screwed up, and could not be, because the threads would not correspond. A con,. nection had been made merely by the in-' complete hitching-on process, which is possible where the threads will not work to getber, and thus it had remained all winter. That a fatal explosion had not occurred at any time is not to be credited, to the plumber or his cubs, whom he passed" otf as skilled workmen, intrusting to their skill and integrity the 'life: and. property of his employer. Now, who can tell how many families are living over just snch a mine! May not the explosion of last Friday be attributable to somo such a fraud? Is there any protection but to hold such wretches criminally responsible? Until tho Legislature can make such offenses against life and property subject to criminal prosecution, the city authorities should do what they can toward seeing that men shall not be intrusted with this business who haye not the skill to do it well, and the honesty not to palm off such a job as this as first class and safe. Will another explosion be necessary to secure action on this subject? Many persons go away from home in search of health who never think of adopting a strict regimen or practicing hygienic rules at home. Change of air and""diet is generally beneficial, and the free use of water, with bathing, exercise and regular hours will always bring good results. Hut m many instances the same-practice would bring almost as good results at home. Physicians say the water at Hot Springs has no specific medicinal or curative quality. Its merit lies in its purity and its temperature. The free use of water externally aDd internally, hot or cold, is one of nature's simplest or best remedies for many ills. ' A gentleman of this city tested thia to his satisfaction a few days ago. Ho had been suffering for some time from bilious disorder with occasional chills and general miserable feeling. Medicine did not seem to benefit him, and ho determined to try selftreatment. Supplying himself with half a gallon of Lodi water he drank a quart and then went immediately for a hot bath. While in the bath he drank the other quart of water. The result was a prof us perspiration which seemed to carry oil tho impurities of the system and left him feeling better than he had for months. In'this case the treatment was no doubt aided by the medicinal qualities of the Lodi water, which is not only very searching on account of its purity, but is" shown by aualysis to possess valuable qualities. Other Indiana waters, notably the French Lick and West Baden, are almost equally as good, and are destined to take their place among the best in the United States, if not in tho world. When people come to understand the uses of these waters they will rank them in value with petroleum and natural gas. The Supreme Court of Kansas recently adopted a new rule of damages in a suit against a railroad company to recover for the loss of a limb through the partial negligence of the company. The lower court gaVe tho plaintiff $7,000 damages. The Supreme Court, in reviewing the case, said: The Judgment "will be reversed unless plaintiff within thirty days remits $2,000 thereof, in which case the .ludinnent will be athrined. Otherwise a new trial will bo ordered. The court further r.drts: if the plaintiff had loct the por tion of his limb which has been amputate l in the service of his country he would be ent tied to a pension, under the law, of at least $30 per month. That would be $300 per year. The yearly interest on $0,000 at 7 per cent, will be 350. In other words the court adopted the United States pension law as a rule for the measurement of damages. Have you a silver dollar in your pocket? Look at the female head on one side of it, and you will see it is a classic face. Tho chin'is rather heavy, but the noso is purely Grecian and the profile classic. The face was drawn from life. The original is Miss Anna W. Williams, of Phidelphia. Miss Williams was a student at tho Academy of tho Fine Arts, when engraver George Mor-,

gan. who made' the pattern from which the dollar was copied, was casting about for a model. Some ladies among tho students at the academy were selected to pose. The contour of Miss Williams's features was chosen as coming nearest to the pure Grecian ideal. Before the pattern was finally adopted it was sent to the academy to get the opinion of some artists as to its artistic merits. The profile was criticised in several particulars, chief among -which was what was regarded as a too prominent chin. But the authorities at the mint thought it one of the most. beautiful types of faces that was ever submitted for the head of a coin, and it was adopted. Miss Williams has just been appointed instructor in philosophy and methods of kindergarten training at the Girls Normal School, in Philadelphia. In past vears the enercv of our people has

been largely devoted to destroying the for ests. The time is likely to come when they will be even more anxious to restore them. No fact in nature is now better settled than that the destruction of forests is followed by disastrous results in various ways. Hon. Emil Iiothe, a close observer and writer of note, says: , Have you never tried to find out why southern Ohio has ceased to be the great fruit country it was formerly known to be! Why is it that ve can not raise any more peaches in our 8tate, while they used to. bring -eure crops not more than a quarter of a cantury ago! What is it that makes our olimate, once so favorable for mankind and for vegetation, more unsteady from year to year! Look at the woodless hills of southern Ohio and you have the answer. Let the hills be deprived of tho rest of the protection which the forests afford, and half the area of this Btato will be sterile in less than fifty years. The rain will wash the soil from the hilltops first, and then from the slopes; the limestone which is now covered with productive humus, loam and clay, will bo laid bare; the naked rocks will reflect the rays of tho sun and increase the summer heat; the north storms will blow unhindered over the country, and every change of wind will cause an abrupt change in the temperature; the rain-fall will be diminished and become irregular: snow and rain-water wiU at once run down In the valleys and cause periodical freshots, which wiU ultimately carry away the best part of the soil, even from the valleys. Such will be the unavoidable results of further devastation of timber. - - A resident of .Denver is authority for a story illustrating the sharpness of one of the trustees of a colored church in that city. It seems there has been quite a religious awakening and excitement among the colored people, and the colored brother referred to determined to utilize it for the benefit of his church. Through a friendly real estate agent he secured options on a great many lots in the best residence parts of the town, several being on Capitol Hill. His plan of campaign was to dig a commencement of a foundation and call on the richest of the neighbors with a statement of his intentions, as follows: ."We, the colored church, having secured the adjoining lot, are about to build. As you would, of course, like to have as fine a building as possible you will no doubt give a good subscription." In every instance the building scheme met with decided opposition, and the neighboring residents subscribed lib erally toward" erecting the church, somewhere else, m this way the thrifty brother accumulated a building fund of $16,000. A cuttle-fish, sometimes called an "ink-fish' was captured near New Haven, Conn., a few days ago by persons dredging for oysters. It it. one of the curiosities of tho 6ea,: This one was about eighteen inches long and weighed two and a half pounds. Its distinguishing characteristic is the presence of an ink-bag containing a black fluid called "sepia," which the fish ejects when disturbed. The backbone is not unlike an old-fashioned quill pen, and the ancients used both the bone and fluid for writing purposes. The fluid was once largely used in the manufacture of India ink. . The fish was escaping from the dredge as tho latter reached the surface of the Wafer. Almost at the same instant it threw forth an inky black cloud of the fluid which completely enveloped it, and but for the use of a scoop-net it would have escaped. Following is an extract from a story vWritten for her class by a little girl seven years of age. She seems to have pretty correct ideas regarding "political husbands." She says: Now a)out this time Mr. Bimpson began to pervade the county, lie was a good liver and a hiph politician, but not much of a father. Mrs. eiiBtison was of a good family, but was not very good at training her children, so they came very near not having any very good parents. Mr. Simpson boarded at a house where there were a good many other political husbands. One night he came home, he had lost his politic, though he had had the situation nine years and had exIectcd to kef p it f or twenty, or at least for ten. Jut now he had lost it and was almost pockeUess. TnE Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette, in enviously facetious comment upon a recent letter from the Journal's talented London correspondent, animadverts pleasantly upon the statement made that Queen Victoria was to "have a birthday." In this case, vaulting hypercritical ambition o'erleapt itself. Shakspeare, Webster and Worcester all define birthday as "the anniversary of one's birth." So her Majesty, God bless her, can duplicate the day every year that she lives, without soliciting consent from critics not up in good English. TnE annual catalogue of DePauw University shows a total enrollment in 1889 of 002 students. The past has been the most prosperous year in the history of the institution. The college, preparatory school, theological, law, normal, music, military and art schools make favorable exhibits. The largest percentage of increase is made by tho College of Liberal Arts, the Theological School and the Normal School. The graduating classes number sixty-eight, and every department of the university is in a flourishing condition. A large part of the early strawberry snpply for this market comes from southern Illinois, Centraha being the principal shipping point The crop this year was unusually large, there being shipped from Centralia 70,200 crates, each containing twenty-four quarts of berries. The neighboring station of Walnut Hills shipped 30,000 crates. This crop represents the yield of over 1,000 acres, and brings a handsome profit to the producers. A large part of it goes to Chicago, St. Paul and the tributary towns. The Christian scientists of Syracuse, N. Y., have been . chartered as a church, and hold regular Sunday services. There, as elsewhere, the practice of the healing art by the believers lid been quite extensive; so general, in fact, that it has been denounced from the regular pulpits as a delusion. In five recent cases death has been ascribed to the interference of these healers, and scandal has been created in consequence. A correspondent from the lower part of the State writes that much valuable time is squandered by certain natives thereabouts in sitting on tho banks of the Ohio river in expectation of seeing frightful relics from Johnstown drift past. One negTO servant recently returned home very much disgusted, saying: "I done sot thar three hours, and didn't see nothin' but two dead bosses and a mule." Queer thoughts will pop into the human mind in spite of occasion for seriousness. Just after the Johnstown horror, a lady in this city confided to a friend that her very first thought in connection with the disas

ter was that she was glad E. P. Roe was dead, so the publio would be spared a novel on the subject. To Uie Ertltor ot the Indianapolis Jonrnal: What constitute the Rocky mountains and which is the highest peakl g. jl. w. Crrr. The Rocky mountains include all the mountains in North America between the great plains and the Pacifio ocean, extending to the Arctio ocean on the north and to Mexico on the south. The greatest expanse is between the- thirty-eighth and forty-second degrees of north latitude, where the system has a breadth of 1,000 miles, chiefly in Utah, Colorado and Nevada. The highest peak is Mount St Elias, in Alaska, which rises to an altitude of 19,500 feet above the sea level.

BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Prof. Georq HANSSEN.of Gottingen,the Nestor of German political economists, has just celebrated his eightieth birthday, and received many tokens of friendship and respect from all parts of Germany. The oldest living poet is Lord Teynham, who has just completed his ninety-first year. He entered the army only a few months after the battle of Waterloo, and retired more than sixty years ago. Gladstone's activity in his eightieth year is one of the remarkable elements in British publio affairs. Tories are waiting for him to show signs of senility. But he obstinately refuses to accommodate them. In order to provide against the sale or neglect of the little grave-yard at Rochdale, where his own remains and those of his family lie, John Bright recommended in his will that his sons should set apart the sum necessary to maintain the ground becomingly in perpetuity. Michael Saltykoff, the Russian poet who puzzled his admirers once by publishing a peculiarly stupid article, and afterward explained that it was to illustrate the only class of literary productions that the Russian censorship would permit him to publish, died recently at St Petersburg. The Empress of Russia, like her sister, the Princess of Wales, never wears highcrowned or large-brimmed hats, which, indeed, would be unsnited to the delicate type of her beauty. Everything must be small, and ueat, and comfortable, whether hat or bonnet. Her favorite colors are pale blue and mauve. Father Stephen Zimmerman, a Hungarian Jesuit, who has spent the last few years as a missionary in central Africa, on the Zambesi, and who was supposed to have died, after a perilous journey, has arrived at Lisbon, where he is negotiatingwith the Portuguese government for support to his mission. He gives a vivid description of slavery in Africa. Mrs. Henry B. Flanker, of Cleveland, has given to Marietta College (Ohio) a fine herbarium of 15,000 specimens, gathered and arranged by herself and her late husband. The collection was chiefly made in the Ohio valley. Missouri, Georgia, Michigan and the upper Mississippi region, and was enlarged bv exchanges with botanists in all parts of tho world. Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park, writes a neat and regular hand, lie appears to be about fcrty-three or forty-fouryoars-of age, and is short and thick 6et. "llis face. -whiCh is smoothly shaven, has a peculiarly wise look. In speech he is very deliberate. At present he is apt to wear an iron-gray' suit and a soft light hat. When traveling he registers Irom Orange,. N. J. The London correspondent of one of the principal Scotch papers announces that the Bishop of London "has fallen into a condition of irritability which renders access to him both difficult and unpleasant." Dr. Temple has for many years been in the habit of drinking strong tea in quantities which would have startled even Dr. Johnson, and probably his excesses in this beverage have upset his nerves. Buckle, on a visit to Naples, went into a cafe where chess was played, and was challenged to a game. "For one lire, I suppose?" said his antagonist. "As you like." "Perhaps for two lircf" "For two, then." "xou raigutpreier nvei ' va. nunurea, n you like." There was a pause, and the Italian was thoughtful. "Perhaps," he said pensively, "you are Signor Buckle! In that case I will not play with you at all." "The wire-pullers at the Vatican," says London Truth, "have played their cards, in connection with the projected marriage between the Crown Prince of Italy and tho Princess Clementine, of Belgium, in such a way as bitterly to exasperate both King Humbert and Queen Marguerite, for they ostensibly favored the match, and only took steps to stop it when the negotiations were far advanced, so that it has been broken off under circumstances very mortifying to the tuirinaL" It is the pet ambition of tho Princess Maria Theresa, of Bavaria, to own more dogs and know more people than any other member of the royal families of Europe. She is unmarried, and travels with a maid of honor and a chamberlain, to whose tender mercies are confided the fourteen animals that compose her traveling menagerie. When in Madrid she carried a tame rat in her arms when she walked abroad, and was followed by her chamberlain, who was chained to a small cinnamon bear. A touching proof of the universal sympathy for the Johnstown sufferers was given at the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. As the convicts are allowed only weekly papers they did not know of tho disaster until tho following Wednesday. At once numbers of them were heard knocking on their wickets to tell the keepers they wanted to give 6ome of tho earnings which they make by working extra time. Of 1,110 prisoners, 546 gave $542.96. or an average of almost a dollar a man. And this average is the maximum that a convict can earn in a week. Mits. Harrison recently said to a friend: "It may be that after a time I shall get used to the unpleasant features of my present position, but just now I am not in a contented frame of mind. I don't like the White House as a residence, I detest the publicity which pertains to our home life, and I regret that I am obliged to see so little of my husband. Is it not absurd that my father and the! babies should be gossiped abont all over the country I My husband is President, but that is no reason why the rest of us should be made publio characters." There was a charity bazar the other day at the Princess d'Areinberg's residence in Vienna, and one of the most beautiful stallholders was tho Marchioness PallaviccinL An English millionaire who was present ottered to pay 10,000 florins close upon 5.000 to the charity if only the Marchioness would give him one little kiss. Touched by such devotion and anxious to help the cnarit3, she consented to tho joy of the onlookers, for even in "V ienna you do not see a millionaire kiss a high-born beauty in public every day. Dr. Pinet, the celebrated doctor, whose specialty was insanity, was once told by an Englishman that he could detect an insane man at once. A few days later the Englishman was invited to dine at the asylum, and after dinner the loctor inquired if he knew which of the guests was insane, for he had iuvited one or two to the feast. "Oh, yes," replied the Englishman, "the man who gesticulated and talked loud about inventions. "You are mistaken, my friend," said the Doctor, "the man you designate is Honore de Balzac, the celebrated writer." A delicious story i. "going around" anent Mr. living's and Miss Ellen Terrry's visit to Sandringham to play before the Queen. It appears tnat all was going beautifully with the "Merchant of Venice" her Majesty seated in front, stick in hand, and all attention until Miss Terry's time, came, as Portia, to deliver her great speech about "Mercy.' But the Queen quite mistook the usual pause for Borne sudden failure of memory, began prompting her quite low, "The quality of mercy." etc., but Miss Terry did not take the cue, and herMajesty then repeated, rather more loudly and encouragingly: "The quality of mercy is not strained." This was almost too much for Miss Terry, but. with a violent effort to suppress her twinkling merriment, she controlled herself and gracefully accepted her . cue..

CONDITION IN CLAY COUNTY

What a Correspondent Observed on a Trip Through tho Mining Districts. Reports of Distress Exaggerated by the Promptin? of Politicians-Statements Strikers Gave Mr. McCulloch on Ilia Visit to Them. BraxU Special to Commercial Gazette. The highly-colored sensational account of the situation of affairs in tho block-coal fields here are confined to Democratic and free-trade papers, and are manufactured for them on order. It is 6aid nine thousand miners, including women and children, aro on the point of starvation, all on account of a strike against an unjust reduction in their wages. To obtain food with which to sustain life it is said tho miners sacrificed their household furniture weeks ago, and that now they aro selling the children! trinkets and tho women their weddingrings. Pictures of individual suffering ara grouped into chapters of horror, whose widespread publication has startled the world with an experience hitherto unknown in Christian civilization. A posse of reporters has been turned loosaupon our community by the leading free-trade organs of the country, who have swooped down like vultures on their prey, and the result is not a green blade of grass is loft growing. Starving Ireland is nowhere. A small group of these ghouls met on the street corner last night All were smoking and chatting. "By George," says one, "ain't we having a picnic this wcekl I'll have the best string' this month that Pvo had for a year.'' What about the reports? Take tho Cincinnati Enquirer, for a single instance. No such chapters of horror in civilized lands ever before appeared in a newspaper. Truef Hear what the correspondent himself says, as published in an afternoon paper here: "lie said the situation here was badly overestimated. He said he found the greater portion of the miners in good condition, Sossessing property of their own. good garens, cows and pigs enough to keep them from starvation for many days." Comment is unnecessary. Another correspondent, who has written columns of misrepresentation, yesterday sent his paper the following, in substance: "Governor llovey is subject to severe denunciation over his proposed proclamation for the relief of the miners. Strikers hereafter would appeal to tho Governor for aid, and thus strikes would be encouraged. The merchants do not particularly sympathize with the operators, but they say the; miners must surrender, and that every move to aid but wrongs them." On May 1 the block-coal miners, about two thonsanain number, struck against a reduction from eighty-live to seventy cents. Ten relief stations have been established, at which 5.230 dependents are reported. Aid amounting to $461.22 has been reported. This has been equally divided among thoso dependent, for no exceptional cases are mentioned. The miners have been deprived of their ordinary means' of eupport, and they are lacking many of the luxuries of life that they once bad. llelief committees hare appealed to the publio, for the miners. for the most part, belong o no order, ana the public is their mainstay. Longer strikes, throneh winter months, have been endured, and it the affair was mentioned, by the newspapers it was with the advice that strikes were wrong, and that the miners should. go to work. One of the relief committees fell into the hands of Democrats at Indianapolis, who held a publio meeting and appointed committees to receive contributions. Prior to this Congressman Brookshire, Democrat, who owes his election to an extraordinary fight made here in his behalf, had given $30. Senator D. W. Voorhees and ex-Governor Gray had also contributed like amounts. A cry of starvation was raised by State Senator Byrd, Democrat. This was repeated and magnified by the Democratic press until any thinking man can detect the motive. With nil that has been said perhaps not $000 has been collected, not as much as the Democratic newspapers have paid out for telegraph tolls and to correspondents. Seventy-five per cent, of this amount has been raised outside of Clay county, and about 90 per cent, of that from Democrats. ; Brazil should have first been asked for help, and the appeal to the public should have come from her. This would have been tho case if matters were as represented. A committeeman, who has nearly 1,000 dependents under him, says ho has spent two weeks in giving away two barrels of flour and fifty pounds of meat, and he now has one-half barrel of flour and twentyeight pounds of meat left In every caso he has nad to look up parties to receive the 1 aid. and then carry it to their homes. There is some call for charity. Where so many laborers are idle there always is. But it is also true that charity to sustain the miner in his strike is a positive wrong to , the miner himself. lie is idle to-day not more on account of his strike than because the price he has received for two years past, and for which he is contending, has 1 been so high that his coal has been driven from the market before competition. Since. January, four days, then two days, and 4 finally one day was all the time he could make in the mines. During the month preceding the strike, one operating firm got orders from customers that had previously used all their coal, for only two cars, because other coal could bo obtained cheaper. Sir. McCuUoch'a Account. Rev. 0. C. McCulloch was in the Clay county mining districts on Friday. A Journal reporter met him yesterday afternoon and asked him what he saw there. "1 went," he said, "through Perth, Cardonia, Pontiac and Carbon. With regard to wages there is absolutely no question that the wage average through the year of block-coal miners is only $5." "Did you find nine thousand starving people as published morning after morning in tho Sentinell Did you find 6ix thousand!" "The statement was made yesterday, through committees at Brazil, that 5.CC0 persons needed relief, and the amonnt of money on hand there yesterday, which was divided among the committees representing these people, was $204. I met a committeeman and he showed me the amount he had to carry back to his community. It was $U.C0 for 283 people." 'How much money has been made by tho operators? Have they made anything tho past year!'' "I have nothing to say about operators. It came to me from a mine superintendent that it was an unjust reduction; that the mine operators had made clear at least 8 cents a ton. I am not going to talk against the operators; that doesn't enter into tho case at all. I went over to see what suffer ing was there." "Did yon find any starvation!" "One may infer suffering from Various things that aro seen. The' re was perhaps no actual starvation, for to reach that condition requires tme. The miners have had no work since the first of May. The margin of money that even the most careful and saviug among them had on hand must have been ttmall. Little enough can be feaved out cf go a week." "How much money has been sen! to them thus fart" "Thus far $V has been sent in from tha outside, and that is all these people havo had to live on. 1 went to see the committees in each place I visited. Ail fay there is great sullering. and that the people are desperate iu their diro distress. 1 asked about special cases of sullering, and they had no difficulty in giving mo a number. One was the case of a woman who went into a store, and, being refused credit for a small hark of flour, carried it away, as he said, for her sullering little ones. An officer sent to arrest r.cr, upon learning tho circumstances, refused to do so, and paid for the flour himself." "Have tho bituminous coal-miners done) anything toward relieving this fiutleringf' "Each bituminous coal-miner has agreed to give 25 cents a week to a fund for tho sullering. -There are about 3,000 of these bituminous coal-workers. There are more miners of that class t .n of block. In my opinion, there is no asonable doubt that there is much suiTc'ip ' Clay county. Yo