Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, , NOVEMBER 21, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1889.

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NEW Y 0RK-Glley House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemblc. 3733 Lancaster avenua. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawley & Co., 151 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. , ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, . House. D. G Riga House and Ebbltt Strange to eay, the name of that eminent reformer, Sim Coy, does not appear among those of the philanthropists at the National Prison Association in session at Nashville. , Twenty-five or thirty members of the State Democratic committeo in attendance at a called meeting, and every last one of them a candidate! No wonder harmony is not flourishing in Democratic circles. Governor Lee and other Virginia Democrats are talking about adopting some ballot-reform law. When Southern Democrats go in for reforming the ballot wo may look for tho political millennium right away. The periodical talk about Mexican annexation is again revived, and the partisans of the idea Rive little thought to the fact that tho Mexican people are so radically different from ourselves in their language, their laws, their customs, their moral standards and their methods of thought that it would take centuries to bring about anything like homogeneity. That was a very sensible decision of the Knights of Labor on the eight-hour question, namely, that the matter should bo regulated by demand and the different kinds of labor. There is a tendency in many, if not most, departments of labor to shorten the hours of work, and the desired change will come about gradually and with less friction than by enforced legislation. The unfortunates who in these days of natural gas aro compelled to burn coal need not flatter themselves that tho discovery of a new two-hundred foot vein of anthracito means a reduction in the price of that commodity. Far from it; tho rule doesn't work that way, but if a two-hundred foot vein should suddenly come to an end the consumers would as suddenly be confronted with increased bills. The "laws of commerce" are beyond tho comprehension of common folk. The National Grange, holding its annual session in California, adopted a res- . olution favoring the testing of seeds in experimental stations before distribution by the government, and also a resolution favoring co-operation. A committee was appointed to present the legislation to Congress. Now, what was tho use of this formality? The policy of the Agricultural Department under this administration is to encourage the testing of seeds and plants in experiment stations, and if' members of the grange want to engage in co-operativo enterprises there is no law to hinder. The way to co-operate is to co-operate. With Sim Coy, who was a year and a half in the penitentiary for complicity in tally-sheet forgeries, writing a book on prison and other reforms, and Allen O. Myers, who spent part of the year in jail for being mixed up in ballot-box frauds, protesting against boodle methods in the Ohio Legislature, the prospect for reform in tho Democratic party is far from encouraging they being tho only Democrats who propose reform, "When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be; when the dovil was well the devil a monk was lie." When Coy and Myers were behind tho bars they projected theso benevolent j and moral schemes as an offset to their sins, but having1 worked them off they will return to their old tricks. What is bred in the bone of such Democratic rascals cannot be reformed out by a few months, more or less, in jail. The Louisville Commercial, discussing tho question of government aid to ocean steamship lines, says: . There is a stroug demand in this section of country, and in all the Mississippi valley, for the establishment of lines of steamers from Tampa to South American porta. Government aid, such as has been extended to railroads, or such an (.treat Britain pays to her line to India, is desired to secure tho establishment of this route, and its advocates are not to be scared off from their demands by any nick-names which mud-road politicians apply to them. Well said. If this country wants foreign trade it must adopt the methods used by other countries to get it. Tho way to compete is to compete. There is not a civilized government in tho world, except tho United States, that does not pay largo sums to establish and maintain ocean-steamship lines. If we want to extend our foreign trade wo must do tho same. The Louisville Courier-Journal, replying to some remarks of this paper iii regard to the proposed Democratic gerrymander iu Ohio, justices tho scheme on tho ground that the Republicans have done the same thing in New York. Then, addressing this paper, it juke, triumphantly, if tho Journal means

to infer that the New York Republicans nro not honest men. The Journal means not to infer, but to assert, that any party or body of men who enact a redisricting measure, commonly called a gerrymander, which is plainly intended to securo nn unfair political advantage, are neither honest nor wise. Two wrongs do not mako a right, and the fact thatono party has perpetrated a dishonest trick or a bold fraud does not justify the other in doing so. It is time for both parties to get beyond the era of barbarism in politics.

' THE STREET-KALLEOAB QUESTION. Tho recent discussion of the streetrailroad question has removed all doubt, if any existed, as to public sentiment in tho matter. There is a consensus of opinion, first, that the city needs improved . street-railroad facilities and rapid transit, and ought to have them as soon as practicable; second, that if the present company is prepared to make an advantageous offer regarding such facilities it should bo met and dealt with in a fair and liberal spirit, but under no circumstances should any new, enlarged or extended franchise be granted without a full and fair equivalent to tho city. The city docs not want unimproved real estate in the country, and is not to be put off with vague promises. Tho company cannot expect to get valuable franchises in exchange for chips and whetstones. Whatever proposition it has to make should be open and above board, and should bo based on the idea of trivincr a fair equivalent for tho valuable franchise it desires. The Journal is inclined to tho opinion that tho most satisfactory basis of settlement would bo a yearly license fee on each car, with suitable requirements as to street improvements. Tho city of Louisville granted a franchise for thirty years and charged $00 a year on each car. Memphis gets 20 a year on each car, Kansas City $23 a car, and Chicago $50 a car on some, if not all, lines. The advantage of an annual cartax is that it furnishes a steady revenue, and will increase as the lines are extended and tho number of cars increased. If there is any better basis of negotiation than this it should be adopted; but we doubt if there is. The longer the franchise, of course, tho more valuable, and tho higher should be the tax. If the Citizens' company desires a new franchise let it come out frankly with a proposition, so that the Council and people may know what it is willing to pay and do. Underhanded methods will not win. WHAT NEXT? A cablegram from Paris says the return to Madrid of Senor Castelar, who has been spending sometime in Paris, is construed as an indication of pending political agitation in Spain, ending, possibly, in a republican revolt. It i3 indic'ative of tho feverish political condi tion of Europe that the movements of a private citizen should bo construed as a menace to monarchism. But republicanism seems to be in the air. With the empire overthrown in Brazil and a republic established in a day; with Portugal sympathizing and Spain trembling in tho balance, monarchism is in hard lines. Recurring to Castelar, it is not surprising that his movements should be connected with political agitation in Spain. Don Emilio Castelar is one of the ablest statesmen in Europe. Celebrated as an educator, author, journalist, orator and man of affairs, he is also one of the most advanced republicans in Europe, and one of the ablest defenders of popular rights. Once sentenced to death for participation in political disturbances, and afterwards Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then President of the short-lived republic established in Spain in 1873, ho is still the recognized leader of his party in Spain, and one of the ablest advocates of popular government in Europe. Castelar is an enthusiastic and intelligent admirer of American institutions, and prominent Americans who have met him have been impressed by his great ability, his varied accomplishments and his intense devotion to republican ideas. He is exceedingly popular with the Spanish people, and if a republican movement does break out in Spain, Castelar will be one of its leaders. A3 TO CHEAP EE POSTAGE OK MERCHANDISE. Democratic papers are agitated over tho statement that Postmaster-general Wanamaker favors and will recommend a reduction of postage on merchandise sent in tho mails. They assert that this is a move in the interest of largo retail houses, like Mr. Wanamaker's, and would work great injury to small dealers throughout tho country. This stylo of argument is about ou a par with that in which all public questions are treated by tho Democratic press. If they ever rise above tho level of low demagogy and misrepresentation it is by accident, and they soon flop back. Tho question of lower postage on merchandise has been under consideration for quite a length of time, and somo of tho brightest Postmaster-generals in recent years have favored it. It is a question of large interest to tho people, as well as of important financial aspects in connection with tho postal service. The idea of those who favor the movement is to make that branch of our postal service as popular and as much of a public convenience as the penny-parcels post in England. That a cheap rate of postage on merchandise would be an accommodation to the public is undoubtedly true, but it must be remembered that merchandise is bulky, and its admission to tho mails at very low rates, even in small packages, would add materially to the cost of the service, both in handling and transmission, and probably increase tho present deficit in that branch of tho public service. Tho carrying of merchandise does not seem to bo as legitimately a function of tho government as tho carrying of letters ami printed matter, and if the expense of tho X)ostal service is to be increased tho question occurs whether it had not better bo in improving legitimate mail facilities, instead of extending the carrying trade. However this may be, it is evident the question involves other in-

tercsts than those of dealers in mcrchan-, disc. The suggestion that it would work injury to retail dealers throughout the country comes with poor graco from papers which profess to favor free trade in the interest of the people.

KEEPING CLEVELAND IN VIEW. ; The following correspondence seems to have escaped tho notice of tho New York reporters. It explains itself: Watdack, Tex., Not. 10, 1SS9. Hon. Gf-v-r CIt-1 nd: ' Dear Sir The Wayback Club, for the preservation of the Constitution and the dissemination of Jefferson i an simplicity, at their last meeting, unanimously adopted the following: Resolved, That this club has heard with feelings of mingled lnliniatioa'and distrust that the Republican Vice-president of tho United States has erected a palatial structure for the sole purpoe of retailing costly foreign wines at war prices to a tax-ridden people, while he, clothed in purple and line linen, stands behind the bar the embodiment of a corrupt aristocracy. Resolved, That in marked contrast with tho foregoing, wo point with prido to an honest Democratic ex-President who. true to tho principles of the only national party in this country, takes his whisky plain in adversity as in prosiK-'rity, and, instead of attempting to profit by the nefarious provisions of a robber tariff, actually contributes out of his own iocket to the revenues of the country every time he takes a drink. Resolved, That the Hon. Gr-v-r Cl-v-l-nd is hereby elected an honorary member of this club, and that the secretary be directed to notify him of the fact. J. Killuuck, Secretary. J. Killback. Secretary, etc: My Dear Sir I am profoundly grateful for the kind and flattering terms in which, by your note, just received, you inform me of my election as an honorary member of tho Wayback Club for tho preservation of tho Constitution and the dissemination of Jeli'ersonian simplicity. I assure you, and beg you to assure tho club, that 1 am deeply sensible of the honor conferred. If it has happened to me to have been placed by the un bought suffrages of the American people in a position where I was able to do something toward rescuing the Constitution from the combined assaults of iguorauce and superstition, acting through a powerful and dangerous political organization, I have found abundant reward for my labors in the consciousness of duty well performed. 1 ask no higher reward, and I hope no Dent ocrat from Wayback would begrudge me this. Permit mo to add that I heartily sympathize with 3'our indignant protest against the rising tide of corruption and vice, which, under a robber tariff, threatens to desolate our beloved countrj. Yours, very truly, Git-v-it Cl-v-l-nd. Tiik Journal is in receipt of a circular issued by the "eldest aud greatest advertisement office" of Amsterdam, saying that its intention is "principally to give more extension for publicity on our Dutch merchants and manufacturers in the foreign newspapers and to animate the relations." Not doubting that it shall ha ve success "by this way," the firm asks for copies of the Journal, in order that its agents can "let soo your newspaper to clients intending to advertise." After asking certain information, tho circular concludes by expecting a reply "soonly." This circular, whose mean ing is perfectly clear in spiteof its bad English, is probably the result of arduous laboron the part of a clerk who "understands, English perfectly' or, perhaps, of a professor who informs his contiding pupils that he speaks English liko a native. Whoever wrote it learned the language from books, and the matter is only referred to as showing the impossibility of learning a foreign tongno accurately m that way. The proper arrangement of words and tho shades of meanings can only come from long-continued conversational practice. The people who spend a year or two study ing French aud German, aud, after a flying , trip abroad, are supposed by their friends to be accomplished linguists, would probably produce a more atrocious circular in either of those languages than. the. one quoted from. The mastery of a language is the work of a lifetime. Missouri newspapers are taking an active interest in tho Kentucky discussion that is seeking to arouse a stronger public A" A sentiment against niuraer. fcucn a sentiment is needed there as badly as in A. t 1 T1 i , neniucKv, wnero coionei watterson as serts that "it is safer to kill a man than to steal a loaf of bread.,: On one -day last June a criminal court jury in Kansas' City sent one man to the penitentiary for two year for taking a human life, and another seven years for stealing a horse, A flow of natural gas reported at Cherryvale, Kan., may turn out to be one of those little "pockets" of gas found in so many parts of the country and speedily ex hausted. If it should prove to be a sqpply in quantity, it will be a very valuable "find," as it will, of course, bo followed by other discoveries of the same sort. The great need of Kansas is a cheap fuel. Douhtless we need to be - protected against loreign mineral water. Owners of mineral springs in the United States say we do; but is there no way by which an innoceni. ana inonensivo puouc can no pro . tected from the flood of vile-smelling Amer ican mineral-spring and artesian-well water now threatening to overwhelm and sweep them from their moorings! Some of the Cronin suspects aro making a pretty good showing with their alibi a; i . I , t testimony, um wuaiever may oe ine caso with thejury, it will require Etill more convincing evidence to causo the public to believe in O'Snllivan's and Coughlin's inno cence. - A XON'-partisax civil-service reform club has been formed in Nashville, and adopted the name of Andrew Jackson Club. If tho ghost of "Old Hickory" does not rise and walk in Nashville, popular faith in a conscious hereafter will be broken. Fortunately for Senator lngalls, most of the "fierce opposition' to his re-election is in tho mugwump papers of the East, which have about as much influence in Kansas as the London Times or the Paris Figaro. And 6o, according to a local McAllister, St. Louis has eighty-seven ladies and gen tlemen ht for respectable folk of other cities to associate with. Well, eightyseven is a good many, considering. To the Editor ot tho ImlLixiipoIia Journal: What is Bill Nye's real name! II. Crismax. BumvAN.Ind., Jsov. 19. Edgar W.Nye. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Edison, the inventor, receives about one thousand letters a day. M. Zola declines to enter politics. He says that ho cannot afford to get 'down in tho mire. Frince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been reported engaged to three diflerent women m as many wccks. The death of Lieutenant-colonel Jackson, in England, removes one of the last four survivors in that country of the battle of Waterloo. Mrs Richard A. Proctor has come beforo the public, reading'her late husband's lectures and displaying the samo illustrations that ho used. Buffalo Bill contemplates taking his Wild West show to India. Certaiu Indian potentates who visited Paris this summer advised him to do so. In Japan where Julius C;sar has been brought out, Shakspeare is called "Sekisu-

Siya." This is one of the few ways that hakspeare never thought of spelling his name. Alphonse Daudet's novels have won a fortune for him, but his plays on tho stage have boen failures, and his jealousy of Sardou's success is set down by his critics to be intense. It pays to make the public laugh. Nothing tempts their generosity like cheerfulness. Mark Twain is rich. Bill Nye is making $20,000 a year. Bob Bnrdette has a large bank account. And, now, .Max O'Rell gets $:j0.000 for a series ot lectures in this country. The vital force which has characterized Mr. Oliver Johnson through life still keeps

him among the living. It is doubtful, however, if the veteran Abolitionist would wish his friends to pray for his recovery. He has fought a good tight and may honorably long to be at rest. Some one has discovered that M. do Bcrgerac, a French writer of tho seventeenth century, described a machine like the present phonograph, and somebody else has showed that the telegraph idea was fully three hundred years old. So it goes. There is nothing new under the sun. When Guzman Blanco ruled in Venezuela, although ho was neither king1 nor emperor, he had five life-sized statues of himself erected iu Caracas, and upon each ho caused 4be following inscription to be Jilaced: "To that Illustrious American, the 'aciticator and Regenerator of the United States of Venezno!a,"Gen. Guzman Blanco." A former steward to Pierre Lorillard says that Mr. Lorillard is the most extravagant host in the world. His associates aro men of wealth and extravagant tastes, and to these he caters. He never sets a table for less than twenty-lour diners, and these little treats cost all the way from $500 to &G0O. A.iadies' iuncb, with table ornaments, llowers and boutonnieres. will cost double that amount. Only the most expensive wines are provided, while Baltimore terrapins and canvas-back ducks are his favorite edibles. Citizen Train's daughter, Carrissima Sue, seems to be having a delightful visit in Milan, Turin, Venice, Florence, Genoa, Rome, Naples and Sorento among tho classics of the Italian studios and galleries. She is chaperoned by the Warrens of Chicago, who reside in Paris when not on their summer holiday. She will return to her New iork nome in December, deli shtoa witn tuo French exposition and enthusiastic over the coming world's fair "Columbiad." Citizen Traiu declares that he will not return to New York until he collects his $200,000 damages from Boston, and he means to have the money or burn the town. A New York special tells a queer story about George Law, the millionaire, whose reckless waste of money on his periodical jags lias caused so much talt. it seems that Mr. Law was invited, by a New York gambler, to go to his room and pla. Law went, lost $4.", all the money he had with him. and then began to plunge ou credit, He lost about 5?10,000. The next day the gambler politely asked his debtor for tho amount, or a part of it. Writh a cold staro Law informed tho man that he did not know him, and knew nothing of' the alleged debt. Tho festive millionaire evilentl3T has decided not to throw away any more money. Chief Joseph, the famous chief of the Nez Perccs Indians, who defied the United States a few years ago. is fully six feet in his moccasins, and weighs two hundred pounds. His features are fine, and denote decided character: his forehead is broad and high, slightly sloping from a pair of heavy, beetling eyebrows, above a pair of piercing black eves. His hair, black and straight, is remarkably fine for an Indian's, and is glossy without any bear's grease. His hands and feet aro small and wellshaped; . of the former ho is proud, and spends much time in manicuring them. His skin is of a light copper color, and in tho sunlight takes ou a beautiful reddish hue. . During tho last illness of the King of Portugal, when he was signing decrees, it became so evident that he had not strength to get through them all that the minister in attendance had to separate them according to their importance, putting aside those that were not urgent, and just mentioning the nature of their contents as he did so. Among them was a pension of 100 reis (sixpence) a day to an old woman, and that, after being named, was, without hesitation, placed by the minister at the bottom of tho rt'jec ifu neup, inn jviiik Byiug iiuiuiug. When he had. with difficulty, trot through the important heap, he said to the minister: "aow hand me the old woman's pension. for that must certainly be signed, ' and 60 the old lady got her pension of sixpence a day. COMMEXT AND 0PIX10S. Verily, it looks as though the day was near at hand when the friend and coddler of "the saloon in politics" would have to take a back seat. It cant come any to soon. Detroit Tribune. Whex the Republic of Great Britain is ready to organize, it will find valuable hints for peaceful and expeditious work in the rcpoits now coming in from Brazil. Philadelphia Inquirer. TiiiRP-party Prohibitionists find supporters iu every Democratic newspaper aud every Democratic voter, and yet cverj--thing of Democratic antecedents and purposes is for low license. Iowa State Register. : Land becomes vested in private hands becauso tho common senge of mankind teaches that land ueeds improvements, and that a private owner will make greater iniI provements than a community will. Chicago Inter Ocean. Nothing is truer than that trade follows tbe tlag, and if we are to become the mercantile power we ouco were we must also be enough of a naval power to make the stars aud stripes stand for something positive and deiinite iu the eyes of tho world. New York Tribune. Canada is now the only important section of the American continent that bows in submission to monarchical forms of Government. Canada should keep her eye on Brazil, and see how the new scheme works. Perhaps sho may get a few points from tho republican movement down there. Philadelphia Press. Silver has been kept on a par with gold in the exchanges thus far by the knowledge that its coinage was limited. If all restrictions as to amount of coinage hou!d be swept away the silver element of tho currenci' would sink to its bullion value, and widespread business disaster would ensue. St. Louis Globe-Democrat So far from believing that the country is in danger of an inundation of free silver, it may' be doubted whether any change from the existing status will be recommended, and no plan of unlimited coinage can be inaugurated unless it may come about through a Republican defection backed by the combined action of Democratic congressmen. Boston Advertiser. These revelations thoee in tbe Mormon trials should be sufficient to warrant Congress in dealing with Mormonism upon the basis of treason and in wiping out every vestige of polygamy and reducing the disloyal Mormons to submission. It is not only useless but dangerous to waste further time or sentiment on Mormons, or to temporize with tho question in any way. Chicago Tribune. Not the least noble act of the late Emperor of Brazil was the yielding of his throne, without an ellort to retain it. He bowed to the will of the people with calm dignity, when he might have precipitated a war for his own stilish interests. Doin Pedro was doubtless the best republican in Brazil, and did more in his career as Emperor to build up a peaceful republic than any of his subjects. St. Louis Post Dispatch What Experience Teaches. TMhulelphia Press. The Democratic managers in Indiana aro already sending out vast quantities of political literature and preparing for the next campaign, and explain their policy by say iu 15 that the members of their party in that State "need educating." Tho force of this argument none can dispute, but it has been proved by experience that the more you educate an Indiana Democrat the more likely you are to make a Republican of him. lngalls 'Is AH Right. Kansas City SUr The New York Times is led into error by its Democratic correspondent in Kansas, who represents Senator lngalls in muni-

.Statesmen of verv popular In the editorial rooms ot tnejNew loric Times, but they are mighty powerful in Kansas. When lngalls is overthrown it will be by a much more serious tornado than has yet been presaged outside of a few Democratic communities. r T. " . .. Vv , . THE CAPTURE OF JEFF DAVIS. Sergeant Lane's Story of now It Was Ef- .. fected Tell-Tal Cavalry BooU. Plttubnrg Special to St. Louis Globo-Democrat. There is at. least one man in this city who is reading of the dangerous illness of Jeffersou Davis with peculiar interest. His name is T. J. Lane, and ho is a conductor on the Fifth-avenue traction line. Mr. Lane is tho man who tirst laid hands on Davis when he was captured in Georgia while trying to escape after the surrender of Lee. The capture was made by a remnant of the Second brigade of tho Second division, composed of tho Fourth United States Cavalry and the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. Lane was a sergeant of Company M of the latter regiment, and he and two members of .the. Fourth Michigan were in advance of the body of troops. They discovered a female coming toward them supporting a person who appeared to 'be an aged woman. .This person was attired in a man's dressing g"owu and wore a big sun-bonnet, which completely concealed the face. When the soldiers reached tho pair the woman announced the person , in the gown as her mother, and said she was takiug her over the hill whero she could get a drink of spring water. As tho twain made a ste p to continue their journey tho gown, which had not been fastened at the bottom, opened slightly, and revealed to the soldiers a pair ot cavalry boots, uue of the Michigan men immediately branded the man as Jell" Davis, and commanded him 'i to surrender. Davis, seeiug that he was caught, threw back the gown, and, baring his breast, exclaimed: , "Shoot me! shoot me!'' The soldier brought his rifle to a level, and was just about to fire.jsvhen Sereoant Lane rushed between the man and Davis and ordered him to lower his gun. Tho soldier obeyed, and Lane, stepping up to Davis, made him a prisoner, at the same time assuring him that none of the soldiers would barm him. 'his was a great sur prise to tho ex-rresident of the conicucracy. as he afterward told Lane he expected to be shot down, upon being recog-. nized. In the meantime Mrs. Davis, for it was she who accompanied her husband, had fainted, and the rest of the troops had come up. Lane turned Davis over to Col. Pntchard, the officer in command, and . Mrs. Davis was placed in an ambulance. The troops then returned to Murfreesboro, Tenn., where Davis was kept for awhile, and afterwards removed to Isashville, and subsequently to Washington. A corporal in the Fourth Michigan, who happened to be near the place where Davis was captured, but took no part in the rapture, accompanied the distinguished prisoner to Washington. Here the corporal was represented as the captor of Davis, and he was immediately rewarded with a lieutenant's commission in the regular army. Tho real captors have not to this day been rewarded in any way, though Lane says ho heard that Colonel Pritchard received some money for the capture. Lano savs that Davis, after tho excitement attending tho capture was over, accepted tho position philosophically, aud was a very obedient prisoner. Judge Over, of the Orphans' Court ofv this county, was also present at Davis's capture. Ho was a member of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. m A "WILD RAILWAY RIDE. Seventy-six 3Iiles in Sixty-five Minutes Experience on the Fast Transcontinental Mail. San Francisco Special to Chicago Tribune. Owing to a hot journal on tho engine at Rock Springs, just east of Green river, at the point signalized by tho massacre fivo years ago of twenty-eight Chinamen, tho train was delayed twenty minutes. At Green river the train pulled out without the special coach. The absence was not noticed for twelve minutes. The return caused another delay of thirty-eight minutes. Thus there were thirty-eight minutes which had to bo made up between Green river aud Ogden. It was not possible to recoup tho loss east of Evanston, Wyo. The grade was up the mountains at the rate of 211 feet to the mile, audit was all the engine could do to make the, new schedulo time without loss instead of gain. But east of Kvauston to Ogden the grade was rapidly downward. So great was tho decline at times as high as 250 feet to the mile that there would have been no trouble in regaining the loss if it had not been for the multiplicity of sharp curves. The roadway is through canyon after canyon and thero is not a straight pieco of track a hundred yards long. "But I will make Ogdon on time' said Bill Dow!i'.ng, the engineer, in answer to General Manager Dickinson's anxious inquiry. The run began at Castle Rock. At Devil's Gate, where the track was not so crooked, the pace was awful. Three miles in two minutes!" gasped Captain White, reading the speed indicator, which had been placed in the special coach. At Tapioca the train struck the sharj' curves of Washawnuc canyon. Engineer Downing did not abate his speed a tittle. - Down tho winding lines of Tapioca Gulch the special coach on tho rear was swung from side to side like a school-boy on the end of a string of his mates playing whirligig in the snow. Still Bill Downing did not slacken his speed. Half the newspaper men fainted through nervous exhaustion in trying to keep their balance. Nearly all tho remaining passengers had already succumbed. Suddenly, in rounding tho reverse loop at Antelope Gap, the coach wascareened until it only hung to the rail by ono wheel. As soon as the terriblo moment of suspense was overand the coach righted General Manager Dickinson sprang to his feet. "Pull the bell-rope, Brown! Then run forward and tell Downing to stop this if he ; wants us to reach Ogden alive. Let tho schedule go," said Mr. Dickinson to the press agent of the road. Then, in order not to run such a risk another eecond, the General Manager sprang to the rear platform of the coach and himself swung the brake with all his might. The train slowed up perceptibly. But the engineer was determined to lose no time. It required a second order from the general manager to force him to desist from imperiling tho lives of his passengers. "If you fools in the rear coach had let mo alone I would have reached hero on schedule to the dot," said the disgusted Bill Downing as tho train drew up in Ogden after recovering thirty-eight minutes of its lost time. Tho seventy-six miles of intricately curving track had been ridden over in one, hour and fivo minutes. It was a hair-raising record, and several passengers who went through it havo not yet recuperated. From Ogden to San Francisco the ride was ordinary in comparison with the transit of those Beventy-six miles. A little more alkali dust than usual was stirred up in regaining tho remaining twenty minutes of lost time while crossing the Great Americau Desert. But no incident in keeping with the rido down Tapioca Gulch occurred. INTERESTING NEW INTENTIONS. A Cheap and Ilandy Type-Setting Machine An Electrical l ire Watclu Brooklyn Eagle. I met a Brooklyn man here in New York the other day who has invented a cle er arrangement for setting type, which, he thinks, will revolutionize the whole business. It's a very simple-looking little machine, something like a type-writer, or at least the key-board is the same. When the compositor strikes a lettered key it throws up into line a matrix which remains in place, the next key struck places the next along side, and when a lino of type is formed, melted typo metal is poured in aud tho type is thus cast and set up at the same moment. This is removed and tbe second line formed, ami so on, the work requiring about ono-half the ordinary time consumed in such matters, and the result being that the typo is always fresh and cannot be pied, as each line is a solid block. As soon as the stereotype is made tho type ' goes back into the melting-pot and is ready lor use again. The New ork Tribune and the London Times have for a year or inore been employing type-setting machines with a great deal of success, but the machine is a laborious and clumsy allair, and tho Brooklyn man thinks ho has improved on it as much as the second order of sewing-machines improved on tho old "com-shellers" that Howe tirst put upon the market when it was ih'tt iuvented to save women stitches, but which required about a two-horse power to work. Tbe inventor claims he can make theso machines and sell them for &X)0, and that they will do tho work of three men. lie in as

nent. danger of overthrow, the In call tvn mav not bo

enthusiastic as most of these inventors are. and thinks his machine is going to create dismay in the typographical unions. After awhile there will bo tiothing more for men to do; machinery will do it all. Therein another Brooklyn man who spends the great part of his days in New York, who is also an inventor, lie is rich and belongs to wellknown society people, but likes to dabbla in electrical matters lor his own amtiMment. His . latest device is an electrical nose, which, when it smells smoko rings a bell, and if it pmelis a very great deal ot smoke turns in a tire-alnrm. That sound like a ioke. but it is an actnal electrical fact. -The diaphragm of tho machine is m treated that the action of smoke upouit causes- it to tuovo and set an alarm bell ringing, and thiscflect. increased, connect with a tire-alarm. It is curious to seethe model, which is set up here in the owner office, when the inventor pulls a mouthful of smoke from his cigar upon it. The bell rings wildly, and, if ho continues to blow the smoke in it makes rrompt connection with a fire-alarm, n inventing this uoso the Brooklynito stumbled upon what is probably one of tho most remarkable discoveries since the discovery of electricity itself. This new discovery has not yet been sufficiently tested for the discoverer to be willing t inform the world of its nature, but it is likely to create a great revolution in tho manufacture of fabrics of every description when he has made sufficient experiment to be sure of his ground. Theso inventions stumble so closely upon each other's heels that tho facultj' of wonder loses its sensibility, but where a means of suspending a great natural law is reached one hnds it impossible to grasp with tho imagination the possibility of man's-futuro control over the inanimate world.

CUR YS ANTHEM U3I CULTURE. How New Varieties Are Produced Big Priced Paid for Them How to Care for theVlanU. Atlanta Constitution. It is impossible to rely on the seed of the chrysanthemum as a reproducer." he aid. "You plant the 6eed from the finest varieties, and thero is no telling what will com up. Tho only way to make reproduction a certainty is to take a cutting from tho parent plant. After onco getting a new lloweryou can multiply it ad infinitum by this means." "Is it difficult to find a new variety!" "It is, indeed. You may make two or three thousand experiments before you attain any result at all. ,It is entirely a matter of chance, and no particular skill is required. The pollen or seed cells of ou plant is thoroughly shaken over the pollen of another, aud, when the flower blooms, an utterly worthless combination may bo the result, or, occasionally, an exceedingly beautiful variety is the llorist's reward. When he does get a new now er all his labor is well paid for." "How much is a varioty worth?" ;- "Big prices are paid for them. The Mrs. AInheus Hardee was discovered in the way I have described by a lady after whom it was named. It was exhibited at the chrysanthemum show last year in New York, aud Messrs. Pitcher &. Mander, who aro florists at Short Hills, N. J., paid l,btX) for tho plant." "Ilow did they cet their money backT They had no difficulty about that. They planted a quanty of cuttiags, and as they grew they took other cuttings and sold them for one, two aud three dollars apiece. I had several sent to mo which I paid $10 for. I did not have any hero ou exhibit because they are late, bloomers, and are not out sufficiently yet." "Where do tho finest varieties come from!" "The Japanese know more about chrysanthemums, and the art of growing them, than auy other people on earth. They seem to havo tho requisite patience, and also tho skill. In some way, known only to themselves, they will train the llowers to grow up perfectly straight and then burst into bloom at 'tho very top. making a perfect umbrella of tho brilliant flowers. The idea, however, that chrysanthemums were orginally brought to this country from Japan or any whero elsi is a great mistake. We have always had the chrysanthemum here, though "it was a small variety, and was known as the winter pink' "Are they difficult to grow!" "Net if pioper care is used. I hear ladies constantly complain that, after netting out their chrysanthemums, the new plants, which spring from tho roots of tho main one. deteriorate. It is oulv because thev don't take caro of them as they should. The chrysanthemum throws out roots in every direction; from theo 6hoots break through the ground and become other plants. Naturally, if nothing is done tho vital forco is all wasted in tho matting root. If, however, tho plant is taken up every year aud the worthless roots are removed, and if, where tho ofishoots have appeared, they are cut. oh1 and separated, instead of de; eriorating. t lie 11 owe era will constantly improve. Caro' should also be taken to provide rich garden earth, and also to place strong sticks near tho plant, to which it can be tied and so prevent its being beaten down." Varying the Monotony. Kansas City JonrnaL The engagement of a rich American girl to a much richer German nobleman is announced in Berlin, aud causes something of a flutter. The young man. Count Kleist von Loss, is the inheritor of three large estates, and has a supply of "cash on hand." The young woman. Miss Elizabeth Thompson, of Detroit, has Standard Oil connections. Both being wealthy they can afford to indulge in a love match. Not as Smart as lie Thought. Philadelphia Inquirer. Wade Hamptou's letter to Postmastergeneral Wanamaker doesn't give as much pleasure to South Carolina Democrats as tho writer thought it would. They are disposed to doubt whether a letter addressed to Hon. Wado Hampton, "My Postoffice," South Carolina, would go to Columbia. Nye's Autograph. Philadelphia Tress. Bill Nye, on his recent visit to this city to lecture, called upon a well-known music lover, and while there was aked to write much better than it sounds." Can Always Crawl Into Chicago. Chicago MaiL Another now mammoth cave has been discovered down in Indian?. This is fitting. There will come a time when Indiana folks will want to crawl into a hole in the ground and stay there, and theso discoveries seem to provide against that time. . Tho process of evolution is going on. Ho Has Louj: Serred That Purpose.' Atlanta Constitution. It is stated that Allen O. Myers, of Cincinnati, is 60 enthused over the recent Dem dc ratio victory iu Ohio that he threatens to join the Republican party. Without regard to party we beliovo that Myers would be an ornament to any gang of political ruffians in the country. i m -' .-' Realizes His GlitUrJng Blander. Baltimore American. Senator Wade Hampton now wishes that he had never written that undignihed letter to Postmaster-general Wanamaker. It was entirely unworthy of a man in his position, and developments nave convicted his statements of something inoro seriouf thanhaste A Liberal Oner. Pbllsdflph's Inquirer. If the new Republic of Brazil is sufiering for men of experience to run tho government, this country would bo glad to ship it a few hundred practical politicians, assorted, and it need not bo particular about returning them. m They Can't Do It. Milwaukee Sentinel. Fitz John Porter has called on Hay and Nicolay, who aro writing the life of Lincoln, to do him justice. They can't do it; they are not authorized to carry out the finding of a military court-martial after Congress has set it a4ide. No Decadence In New England Manufactures. Chicago Journal. President Harrison was nominated a little more than ono year ago. During tho past year there has been an increase of lJOrtih the number of manufacturing establishments of Massachusetts. Keep tho rascals out. Takes a Microncope to I'ind It. r.nfTalo Time. Thero is a growing sentiment in Ohio in favor of tho return of ex-Senator Tkunua to the United States ScuaW

in an autograph album. He did so.and.amoi g other tilings, wrote tbe following: "Warner's music. 1 have been informed, is really