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I Jjr. Randall will hardly reach the point TBhre he cuu tin hi-i uiantfuvres for the benefit of the Ktipublicitn Patty until to-rnorrow, nd may not then. The Deficiency nd Indian Appropiatiou bills will occupy thai House at least one day, and possibly a aeond. The special rule permitting the 1 paaBaRevof any bill under suspension of the rules by a two-thirds vote during the last six day of a8aion goes into operation to day. If Mr.

Randall can muster a -vote or tw-thlrds i of those present he can ac corjtpliah his avowed purpose, under this rule, but-there is no probability that he can 'data. If he cannot pans his Tobacco Tax bill, howerver, be may be able 'to force its opponants to resort to dilatory proceedings to irTent.hini, and this may leave tho House in a dead-lock. In the Senate a aonjewbat similar stato of things exists in connection with the Chandler-Hoar reao-Ijntion as te touthern outrages. It will -le jpreeaed at every momeut that the priv iletted appropriation bills will the Democratic Senator have decided not to allow it to pass, and it will probably be 4rwaed ia a sea of talk. It has another com petitoria Seaator Dlaii 8 pet measures as to etootarian iastruction in the pablio schools timA wemen suffrage, and on these the great New-Hawpahire orator will declaim when- over he gata a chance.

The Democrats of New-Jersey are finding tnat an alliance witn tne liquor pewer has serious drawbacks. There is no doubt that the brewers of the State helped to elect a Democratic, Legis lakare last Fall in the hope and expectation that it would repeal the high-license and ioieal-option law of last year, but though they may have controlled some votes noh the Democrats would not tier- is have obtained, they did not af fect the general sentiment of the State favorably te themselves. On the contrary. lavorai ij to- la sapp that that sentiment is stronger tport of the legislation of a year aso titan it was when ttie law was passed, and the Democrat do not dare to repeal it vrtmoat that they are disposed to promise is the repeal of the local-option pro and it is doubtful if they will even accomplish that As. was.

to be expected. their liquor allies claim the, right to dictate legislation an the subject! of excise, and they are threatening that if their ocm-aanda are not obeyed they-wili smash the i party at the next election. That will not help their case much, bat it may teach the Democrats that the liquor alliance in pol hies is a good thing to keep out of. LWhen the Brooklyn Bridge Trustees man- ago-to get together withoufequarreling long enough to attend to their business there are several matters that might engage their at- Eation. One is the manifest insufficiency ef to "nigh trains," particularly those leavi a sw-Tork at 1, 1 aad 1 0 in the morn- inc.

Throe bow consist of two ears each. Tho first is always uncomfortably erowded, knd the two following are frequently so. 'Lspoclally on tho mornings of Sundays and kolidays. A train of three ears might bo too heavy for ono of tho smaller engines. Rut would hardly be so for the larger ones 11 might be mora eABwamiaa to ran a train of two cars from each side of tho bridge, both being clear at that hour- Another matter that is a scandal, as well as a piece of bad management, is tho admission of drunken men (and sometimes of drunken women) to the can.

This is of almost daily occurrence, and is a nuisance to decent men and an outrageous insult to decent women. We have heard It excused on the ground that the bridge ears, unlike the ele vated roads, are the sole means of crossing the river. This is not true, as there are ferryboats where drunken persons can be put in the gentlemen's cabins, and if it were true, there is no good reason why a drunken person should not be left to get( sober on either side of the stream he hap pened to be. A third and minor matter is the very bad lighting of the bridge cars, which has long been an occasion of complaint. We commend this subject te Mr.

SwAif, Treasurer and oil merchant, and recommend him to study the lighting of the cars on the Kings County Elevated Kail- way. In the confusion of the last week of the session the restless Sprixokk of Illinois till horms to push through a bill admit New-Mexico a a State. SpniNGEii's tempera ment is as elastic an his political conscience, and wo sincerely hope that in this case he is self-deceived. There is no Just reason. not even a decent excuse, why New-Mexico should be admitted.

Its population, at the last census taken, in 1S85, was only and had increased only 10 per cent, in the preceding five years. Of this population the majority cannot read the English language, if, indeed, they can read at alL Why two Senators and a Representative in Congress, with three Presidential Electors, should be given to voters who cannot read the ballots they cast, no rational American can say. The sole motive that is discoverable for Mr. Springer's bill is that the Territory has a slight Deraocratio majority, less than ono in nine. Even on this ground it is a stupid bill.

Wanamakek could buy that majority with the profits made from his German pauper labor" in one year. The little circumstance that, unless an extra session is called by the incoming President. Congress will Dot be in Washington on the 30th of April, Is not to-be allowed to interfere with its coveted local celebration of the event that makes that day memorable. A Senate, amendment to the Sundry Civil bill, after recognizing the true centenary of Wash ington's inauguration by making it a legal holiday throughout the country, propose to hold a celebration by Connrwu on the second Wednesday of December next. The very fact constituting the'lastday of April a holiday everywhere will insure a celebration all over the United States si multaneous with thecrremoniesulrendy pro vided for in several great cities, and, above all.

in New-York. More than seven months after the proper occasion, si tall have been thus widely and adequately commemorated by the people, wit Senators and Represent atives individually joiuing in. Congress proKcs, as a body, a chestnut" recognition of the same event, on a day which has no historical significance what ever. Had it made timely provision for observing the coming 4th of March by special exercises coincident with those of tiro inauguration, there would have been some appropriateness in the act, because it would have thus marked the hundredth anniversary of a day of real importance. the beginning of proceedings under our Constitution.

But itto present scheme seems to propose a needless expenditure of money, time, and labor over a tardy rehash of what will long before have received ample and universal recognition. THE RA1LBOAD FEDEliATlOS. A beginning has been made in a tnent for the federation of the railroads of this country which is destined, sooner or later, to have very important results. Even if the experiment now entered upon in a tentative way should not prove successful we may be sure that the effort to secure a harmonious operation of the great railroad systems of the country will not be aban doned. The necessity of doing something to achieve the object aimed at will grow greater until It compels a solution of the problem, bnt it is probable that a more di rect interposition of the Government than is now proposed will be found essential in the end.

The Inter-State Railway Association, which is to be founded upon the agree ment signed by the railroad Presidents at Chicago last week, was intended to include twenty-two companies operating in the field which may be described iu a general way as west of Chicago and east of the Missouri River. For the most part their lines and connections stretch from Chicago, at the southern end of Lake Michigan, to the northwest, west, and southwest, occu pying a vast field for the collection and dis tribution of traffic, and one with another they come in competition at numerous points. The combination thus far effected is less complete than was intended, and so far as it lads completeness it necessarily locks strength. One extreme northwestern line known as the Soo Route" has been omitted from the first. As a con sequence, the other northwestern lines have shown some reluctance about coming in, being fearful of the competition of the outside line, and one of them, the Chicago, Burlington and Northern, has absolutely declined.

The Illinois Central has also kept out. on the plea that its charter would not permit it to delegate to any other power than its own Directors the establishment of rates, but in effect it promises to maintain rates In harmony with those of the assocl ated roads. Two other lines that were to have been included, which have distant southwestern connections, the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, have failed to into the agreement The leaving out of one competing line and tho voluntary standing out of four others will weaken the combination, and it will be difficult to bring these outside lines under coercion for tho maintenance of the association rates, and if they force com petition by cutting below those rates it will bfc a difficult matter to hold in those lines (which feel tho direct effect. The agree sent Itself leaves a loophole for tbem to bre ik through, and besides, after sixty days, tny of them may give thirty days' ootid of withdrawal. Thus it will be seem that bere is considerable chance of the as-social ion going to pieces in three months.

Still it may so far demonstrate the utility of associating as to make mpre perfect union feasible. The principal trunk lines which connect this or stem of Western railroads with the Atlantic seaboard, and. have important interests in common with them, have en tered into an agreement between them- selvei, having a purpose similar to that of the later-State Association, The main pur pose is to secure a system of stable and uniform rates for competitive traffic with final arbitration of differences. A meeting is to held this week at St Louis for the purp of forming an auxiliary association Of tb i roads west of the Missouri River. It is al said that the Northern Pacific and he Union Pacific Roadsh ave already react ed an understanding for a hannoaions open tion for the maintenance of their mnttial interests in transcontinental traffic.

aether or not these agreements and a- sociuftions are to be permanent they certainly indicate a strong tendency toward the association of railroad lines which occupy the .1 ime field aad come in competition with each other, and the federation of these in one vast transportation system. We are com inced that nothins of the kind can be acconplished and maintained until the Govi rnment affords a legal basis and sanction for it and furnishes what is now lacking, some final authority which can enforce decisions and settle disputes. This authori ty will be necessary, not only for maintaining agreements and making them effectual, but for tjhe protection of the public against the vast! power which such a federation, once established, would have over the business of the country. It is a serious question whather it would be Bafe to link Govern ment, autnonty witn such a creat railroad federation, bnt it would probably be safer than to leave the matter entirely to the devices of the corporations themselves, and it is a question at all events that will have to be iced. THE 11EFORM CVSFEREXCK.

The conference of friends of civil service reform in Baltimore on Saturday was a suf- ficicnt indication that the cause has not lost its interest by the election of Mr. Hamrisox. It was chiefly significant be-cati ie of tho active part taken in it by sup- rorjers of Mr. such as Mr. Theo- doiik Kociskvelt of this city and Mewsrs.

Foblke and Swift of Indiana. It may be taken for granted that advocates of the re- fori ii who sustained Mr. Cleveland fn the can paign of last year will not abate tbeir req lirements with regard to the administrate i of the Federal service. They have not very lenient to Mr. Cleveland.

whbse shortcomings they have commented on In a manner that has not infrequently puazled that gentleman himself. They may be Expected to be quite as exacting with MrJ Harrison. But the friends of Mr. Harrison, as appears from the proceedings of he conference, start out with an avowal of i heir requirements that leaves nothing to i desired by those who differed from the in the choice of a Presidential candi- da ire have already pointed out tho very delnite position taken by the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association through its President. Mr.

Foulke. It is exactly the sai no in all essential particulars with that tal on by the conference in Baltimore, at wl ich Mr. Foulke was present with representatives from Pennsylvania. New- York, and New-England. The President's pledges in the platform of his party and in hii letter of acceptance are recited, and the essentials of the policy embodied in those pledges are described substantially as follows: The enforcement of the law of 1883, in letter and spirit; the selection of competent men in sympathy with the reform as Commissioners; no removals for political reasons within the rules; the statement of reasons for removals when made, and, without tho rules, appointments and removals be determined by fitness and not partisan vices or the lack of them.

There were separate resolutions adopted, one of thle most interesting of which condemns the icitation of office by Congressmen ur readers need not be told that we re- gird these requirements as reasonable, or tljat the Republican Party and its President are definitely committed to satisfy tijem. We are not in a state of ardent con fisenoe that the pledges will all be fulfilled. bat we are prepared to give full credit for all that may be done in that direction. Of tie men who have control of the party, are its leaders in Congress and in iu conventions, there are not so many as a dbzen who will faithfully aid the President in this work. There is a certain number of tlem who will not oppose or hinder it bbt the greater number will fight it at efrery step.

The progress that is made will pend upon Mr. Harrihon himself, as der the present Administration it has ponded upon Mr. Cleveland almost oue. It is a substantial reason for en- lurageiuent that the friends of reform ho are also Mr. Harrison's friends should so outspoken and so unqualified in their clarations of what may and ought to be pec ted from hiia.

BIG BAIT FOB TASKEES. The Eiffel To wr, so M. Jules Richard iffirms in Figaro, is going to attract half lillion Americans across the ocean this pnng. The rest of the International si "on may nave an interest of one ind or another, but it is the huge iron tructure that is now rising fast above the hamp declare which' Americans want to ixamine. His perfervid Gallic mind ly foresees a number of Eiffel Towers ising later on in different cities of tho Jnion, all built by M.

Eiffel himself imitation of the building against which the krtists of Paris entered protest. Richard may bo right, but it is pos sible that he is arguing from false premises. ft was a French design, sot an American, to make a statue of Liberty bigger than kny thing of tho kind on tho hemisphere it I was a French idea, M. Richard seem to forget, aad not an American, to provide tho Exposition with the tallest kind of tower known to history. There is a certain airy eff-handness in shifting tho sting of his gentle satire from his own compatriots to the Americans, who.

if they have been known to boast of the bigness of their Republic and their hotels, have so far, with one exception, avoided putting their brag into practice by building useless structures and digging impracticable canals at a vast outlay of cash aad energy. The exception is the Washington shaft at Washington, p. C. which is, after all. more artistic than the Eiffel Tower.

Yet this tower is no entirely without merit of line so far as it now reaches. The curves of its four legs as it straddles the central avenue leading from the Trocadc'ro Palace by bridge across the Seine and through the centre of the Exposition grounds are rather fine. If its great height does not make the shaft appear too spin dling, and if the top has been designed with some attempt at art the result may not be so dreadful as it was supposed. The pictures of the tower as it will be when com plete, however, bear a stroDg resemblance to the electric light tower at Hell Gate or the elevator tower on Coney Island. Imagine that framework of iron twice as high as the Washington Monument, of thick iron beams, and with its four corners flaring or battering" outward near the ground.

and you have the Tour EiffeL But the construction of the tower is very different and will have points of interest to engineers owing to the devices to resist the action of the wind and otherwise to keep stable bo very lofty and narrow a structure. M. Eiffel bases his belief in the possibility of securing stability on his observations of lofty iron piers for bridges and viaducts. His tower is formed of sixteen ribs, four iu each corner, which approach each other at first quickly and then much more slowly. until at the height of about 200 meters they joiu and run up with a constantly decreasing diameter to about SOO meters, where a belvidere is to be.

Each group of four is strapped to gether by horizontal and slanting hands. The ribs are firmly anchored in ina4onwork foundations and the lower parts are connected by four great arches, above which comes the first great gallery shut in with glass. This has a view of the Exposition grounds and a good piece of Paris. A restaurant will be established in it, or the hall will serve for other purposes connected with the Exposition. As you leave the Trocadero in the direction of the river, with the bridge, before you.

the arch connecting the right and left hand leg of the tower frames the picture. ThisTower part will be painted in colors more or less bright in order to relieve the sembreness of the ironwork. About half way up the four groups are bound firmly together, by a heavy cornice which forms the second gallery inclosed with glass from which all Paris can be seen. At regular intervals above this the sixteen ribs are gripped by bands. Care has been taken to red nee the weight of the upper part without loss of strength by doing away with walls.

It is. in fact a very tall pyramid with four sides, each of which has beeu hollowed out so as to present tbe least possible surface to the wind. The cupola will have its balcony framed with glass. M. Eiffel has calculated the wind pressure on an iron tower of this height and come to the conclusion that in a gale there will not the enough movement to incommode people who are in the cupola, though this would not be the case were the tower of brick and stone like the tallest lighthouses.

for in theNe structures the oscillation is considerable. But so far as these materials areeoncerned they would also be iupracti cable from their cost Moreover. M. Eiffel had in mind the possibility of taking the tower down if necessary, and erecting it elsewhere, a feat which he calculates, perhaps with one able engineering eye on the Yankees, at about $150,000. This could not be done so neatly and so cheaply if it were of brick or stone, or a combination of iron and theso materials.

He thinks his tower by no means devoid of artistic worth, admires tho way in which it seems to spring from the ground, and states that whatever may be the opinion of it as a thing of beauty it is a useful work. Calculations of the hu midity of the air, wind pressure, snowfall. and air pressure at different points on the tower may be of great value; some as tronomical work, like photography of the heavenly bodies, spectroscopy, and so forth. will be feasible. Scientists are said to maintain that the freedom of such a tower from change under heat and cold make it for certain experiments better thau stone or brick towers.

In fine. M. Eiffel is charmed with his huge tower, and will be greatly disappointed if tbe big crowds of the big Republic do not vote his work the biggest thing ia the Exposition. TBE SEW-YOUK DIOCESES. The Federate Council of the different Protestant Episcopal dioceses of New-York, which holds an important session to-mor row in this city, was established in 187: to provide for joint action with refer ence to legislation for the incorporation churches.

It consists of the five Bishops representing New-York. Albany. Central New-York, Long Island, and Western New York, with eight deputies from each diocese four clerical and four lay. Its intention from the beginning was the unification of these dioceses as an organized whole. representing the collective interests of thi religious body in the State of New-York.

The occasional meetings of the council have more than fulfilled the aims of those who originated it. The church has nearly doubled in size since 1872, and many interests have arisen into prominence which were not then In existence, so th the present meeting ia the almost inevitable reaching out to a new position which hi been forced upon tho whole Episcop Church in the Stato of New-York by i growth and its relative position toward the rest of this eommuniom in the United States. The question that nresents itself to th Federate Council at this time ie understood to be that sort of action which leads in evitably to the recognition of the provincial system in the United States. This is the practical division of different parts of the American Episcopal Church according to certain geographical and national limitations. For instance.

New-York gathers into Itself interests which must be considered by themselves. Tbe five diocese have grown out of one. and each more or lees attaches itself to the original diocese which once embraced tbe whole State. Tbe New-England dioceses form a nat ural division by themselves, and their interests are protected by a certain affinity. Again, the Middle States on the' Atlantic seaboard and east of the Allegha- nies are a group by themselves.

The two Virginia dioceses and Maryland, including, perhaps, the two North Carolina dioceses. form another natural division. Ohio. In diana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Michigan lie in a group essentially by themselves. The great Northwest is a region which has its own needs, and is distinctly marked out as a future ecclesiastical province, tbe dioceses of th Pacific coast have a distinc tion which cannot be understood at the East The dioceses along the Gulf of Mexico are essentially a unit among themselves.

The Episcopal General Convention to-day is so unwieldy and has such a varied representation, at least in tbe House of Deputies, that its legislation is slow and unsatisfactory, acting for repression and tending to neglect things that ought to be done. In the State of New-York tbore are things to be done which no General Convention can provide for. It is here that the Federate Council begins to take on distinctly the provincial character. It means that sooner or later groups of dioceses in the Episcopal Church in this country must leg islate for tbeir own special needs and settle questions which belong peculiarly to their section of the country. The settlement of the relations between the white and col ored clergy of the Episcopal Church at the South, for example, is a local question, and is best left for settlement to those who have the problem immediately ia hand; and this very matter is a forcible illustration of the way iu which what is called the provincial system is gently but firmly asserting itself in distinct localities.

It is here that the importance of the directive action of the five New-York dioceses clearly presents itself. It would seem inevitable that at the next General Convention of the Epis copal Church legislation for tbe initiation of the provincial system will begin. 'Ihe Roman Catholic communion in this country is far ahead of the Episcopal Church in its ecclesiastical organization. It introduced the provincial system at an early period in its history, and has found it suited to its growth. A suspicion exists in certain minds that the provincial system, if adopted in the United States, would lead to an ecclesiastical develop ment semi-political in its character, like that of the Church of England, which most Americans would deprecate.

But it is fair to state that the Roman provincial system in this country works clear of political direction and is of service in pro moting wise and prompt measures for the development of that communion. It is in the light of this issue that the importance of tho present meeting of tbe Federate Council of the five New-York dioceses is to be understood and estimated. DAKOTA ISDIAS TROUBLES. The disturbances among tbe Chippewa half-breeds of Northern Dakota are due to an attempt by the Sheriff of Rolette County to collect taxes from those of them that live on lands outside' of the reservations. The difficulty appears to arise from the fact that tbe half-breeds have claims against the Government which have not been adjusted, so that they object to being taxed, and, indeed, may have dim ideas respecting tbe difference between county and Federal authority.

The trouble is aggravated by the small size of the reservation of the Pembina band of Chip- pewas, which consists of only two town ships set apart for them in 1884; and of late years tbe Indians have been jorned by several thousand half-breeds from Canada, some of whom wan to share the Govern ment rations. The question as to the right of the Turtle Mountain band of Pembina Chippewas to a great tract of land lying northwest of Devil's Lake is a somewhat complicated one. The tract which they claim consists of between 9,000,000 and 10.000.000 acres. and must apparently include not only this very county of Rolette which is now taxing their half-breed associates for the privilege of living there, but a great part of the ad joiping counties on the Canada line, Twenty-six years ago, in 1803, the Red Lake and Pembina Chippewls made an important cession of millions of acres belonging te them in Northwestern Minnesota and Northeastern Dakota. The present question is whether they ceded at that time the lands lying north and west of Devil's Lake.

Secretary Vilas holds that the half breeds of the two bands, who were even then in a vast majority, were not parties to the treaty, except that under one of its articles those of them who were citizens and had adopted the habits of civilized life were permitted to take a homestead of 150 acres, or scrip therefor, in the ceded territory, in lien of all claims for annuities. They received 464 pieces of scrip for 160 acres each, entitling thorn to 74,240 acres of land. Eight yean later, in 1871. a Board of Visitors found that the Pembina band, after having given up millions of acres, now a flourishing and well-settled region, had fallen into a deplorable condition. They were unfriendly to the Red Lake band and would not.liveon the Red Lake Reservation which contains about 3,200,000 acres, but wanted a reserve in the Turtle Mountain country, their old hunting grounds, north west of Devil's Lake, which they still claimed.

The Commissioners who negotiated the treaty of 1803 have left on record that this region was reserved by the Peio bina bands; and the Board of Visitor of 1871 also recognized the justice of their to co there. Bat. as a practical measure, they suggested that tbe full-blood Indians should be separated from the multitude of half-breeds who had no cLalms oa Government annuities many indeed belonging to Manitoba and should bo removed to tbe White Earth Reserva tion, The agent of the latter also urged soon that the department Should recognize their right to all their territory on Turtle Mountain and rive them tbe means to farm there or purchase a right on tbe White Earth Beserration and order them to remove." An appropriation was accordingly made for this purpose, and the Indians were -directed to go to the new home to receive tbeir annuities. But ex treme poverty, the long distance to be traveled, and the influence of those who hoped to benefit by payment at Pembina broke up the plan. Now, as has been said, they live on a small reservation of two townships within ten miles of the Canada boundary, and are surrounded by half-breeds living on the publio domain.

It is clear that the claim of the Pembina Chippewa to the Turtle Mountain region north and west of Devil's Lake has not been fully disposed of, and only a little more than eight years ago the General Land Commissioner refused to allow surveys on it In the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress measures were pending before both houses to' extinguish this claim, under the opinion of the Indian Commissioner that it was entitled to consideration. It happens that a bill is pending in the present Congress for the cession of the Rod Lake Beservation, and this might be supplemented by a provision for settling the title of the Turtle Mountain region. But according to Secretary Vilas tbe -half-breeds would not be entitled to the benefits of such a measure, and they are making the present trouble. The first prominent iocident in the his tory of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the Presidency of Mr. Mabquakd does not show much chance of liberalizing.

let us say of civilizing, that institution with reference to Sunday opening. Mr. W. Walters of Baltimore, having learned that the Museum could not be kept open on Sunday because it would entail a cost of $2,000 a year, generously sent to the Trustees his check for $10,000 to pay this added expense for tbe next fivo years. The Trustees returned it with the explanation that the change proposed would alienate so much strong support from the Museum that they could not afford to make it The contrast between New-Yorkers who will not allow the gifts of others to be shown on Sunday without withdrawing their own and the noble Baltimoreau who is ready to give largely for the benefit of New-York ought to have made the former blush when they read of it yesterday, even if it wss Sunday.

Cannot the' Museum Trustees compromise with these persons by agreeing to put their gifts in a separate room and lock them up on Sunday If not thoy might make a collection of the persons themselves and exhibit them in a gallery apart as specimens of paleozoic patrons of art An admission fee of 10 cents to this collection would soon replace the "strong support" the Trustees are afraid to alien ate. The passenger cars in the train that was wrecked on the Maine Central Road at Boyd's Mills on Saturday were heated by steam taken from the locomotive, the Sewall system having been adopted on that road a year two ago. Unfortunately, the rail way mail car was not heated in this way, but contained a stove. As the cars were piled noon the locomotive, it tuay be that they would have been consumed if there had been no stove in one of them, but it appears that the fire started from the over turned and broken stove. Such is the re port of one of tbe postal clerks who was drawn from the wreck just in time to save his life.

Three men were confined in the wreck and burn ed to death. If apparatus for heating cars by steam from the locomotive is used on a train it should be used on Bti Al AlAi A 111 tne cars oi me train, a stove in. one car endangers the lives of those who are in the team-heated cars attached to it A FEW CLEVER SAYINGS. Rather a good story is told by a dry goods man In Kingston. On the same blocs taere Is a tore "selling out," Tha other afternoon a wom an ruaned in.

saying: la tnla th atore where thar'r aellla' oatr She was wall dnaaad. and. a tha elark said. looked aa though aba mla-nt nave aoue money to Bpeno. is tnia tn store wsere tney-re aellln' out aha reneatML.

Well, yea, wa'ra selling oat as faat a we can." answered. 8etd tho woman, excitedly. I left my poeketbook oa the eountar. and 1 want Ik" That ehanged the phase of affairs, and the dry goods man carefully explained to her that the store she wanted was Just above, Atnffsum treeman. A man who wanted to learn what profes sion he would have bis son eater, put him la a room with a Bible, an and a dollar bllL If ho found blm whi-n be returned reading the Bible, ho would make a elerrysnaa of him; lf eating the apple, farmer, and if interested In tb dollar buL a banker.

Whan be return ad be found the boy attune on tbe Bible with tbe dollar bill in kla pooket, and tb apple almost devoured. He mad a politician ot hlm, ureeneoorougn fila) watenman. A friend of mine a few days ago got a note from bis foreman at tb works wbleh reaa: rleeaend me tome auroea olL" He pszxled over it for a long time and finally It oiyih upon nim it waa neroaen that was meant Next day he saw tbe foreman, who took ooaaalon to apologize. You will exeuae mo far asking for enrcen oil. bnt tbe fe la.

I couldn't think at the moment bow to spell coal oik am inncucs ismMU, Grandmamma had been explaining to the little girl bow our earth la kept from flying off into infinite space br the attraction of tbe sun, wblcb 1 constantly trying to draw tb earta to warn iiaeu, wane tse latter always keeps Its distance. Grandma." aala th littla sirL -1 shonld think the sun would cot dieeoaraa-ad alter a while and let It go." harper's itmng A Genoa (Nev.) blacksmith proposes th following scheme for securing water for Irrlgv tion: Lay pipe over tbe mountains to Taboo, root tho lake with an alr-tlgst ooverloc and then pump air nuuj the pressure la great enough to roru tao water through the pip. MoAt iiea. It sometimes happens that the boy who totes moet water to tb elephant la refused admission at the doer ef tb etrcu. Brother John Nw can wrestl wttu tula aace observation when he retire for silent meditation.

CAteopo xtute. A German savant asserts that woman's heart Is much smaller than man's. Probably woman doe net ear about thai her dia mond are larg enough. hemon JtutUUm. Why should it be necessary to carry the whiue heads to Angus ta get tb bntx crwwst Wouldn't It be as wU te Just yreotat jpiHOUT MR SOCIAL1S1S.

4 VOX CT STEAL LABOst TJf IO rAXst The Central Labor Union et again yJ terday. aad eeuated op its frees tad hew maey aata aad ga te the Beau. lata KepratUv fra 60 salon raapoedad the roll-cell. The el aerate eenxratalAted one another that the Sootausts had toft, as then Jesla Dyer tb Graatf Cattars Mal Cntea latTdmcd a set rssolnrjoaa taat were quickly pass. The reaoluUans aeolarad tbet.

In extraordinary proeeoUny tb last mestlas, the Castral Lbor Cnloa had proved equal to tb eteargcaeF that nnexyes. edly are, Th affloer who raraataed at tab pts aad earried eat tb provlaiaae of the eo sUtuUea were thanked, aad tfcetr notion were mdoraed. The resorutloa further said that as the enemies ef the Csetral Leber Union were endeavoring to InflaeDo pa 11 otKalo by Issuing falsa ttatemeate utratag th late trouble, a eomsmttt should fp appointed ts draw Dp a trna statement Moasra. Dyer.Jba O'Sb. Tompkloa.

Borer. Jotia Warner' i JL Baiilvaa. ana William war appelated to "2 committee, Tbe Judicial Committee or Seven, appointed lake evidence and furmaial ebarce against tb delegates, wheat tb ftciXtst had sMrgd with having taken bribe from tb pool braver, reported that they bad advertised for wit so appear befar them and farnish evidence, and had held thro aoeetina-a. bat a oae bad ap- -Prared. a aaotloa waa thereupon nsls that tbe eomtaitt boa HI try to get tb testimony and amdarlta that or in the, pa see as Ion ax-secretary bobs, that tb papers abouM bo read to tb accused delegate, aad that tby should be required to disprove the statements if tby could, aad that, afterward tb Bmute should examine all th evldesjr and ropaan to the Central Labor Union.

If. by next (Sunday, tb committee thoald not succeed ia getting these doeameaU It' should tabs aaktobedta-euargad and tb accused aefrgatea should exonerated. Tht moUoa wa adopted by a vol or 34 23. A letter was received from the clothing tera, asking leave to withdraw daring tb quarrel between the Central Labor L'nlea and th dissenting tanloae. Tbay wore told that they could withdraw at any time after paying whatever toey might owe te th Central Labor Union.

Ihe bra worker naked that tbe resolution- whleb the Central Labor Union bad passed Indorsing Edward t'onkilng'a notion durinx the last trouble should be reconsidered, and that Mr. Oonkllng ahooid withdrawn by bia union. The request was no granted, II was decided that tb Central Labor Union should aait In getting un'fca entertainment for tb benekt ot tha locked-oat ear pet workers. The Commute eu tb Convict lAbor Law asked that tb Ceatral Labor 1'nlon should protest against th repl ot the Yatc prlaoa law, and rcootnmauded an amen-dsant forbidding tb sale of goods mad 'In ey penitentiary vt reformatory institution. 1( waa decided to Place tne matter In eosreev Assemblyman Urabaov Tb beorotary wa directed to ask Gn.

Koger A. ITyor to jr to Albany and arga la favor ol tb amendment tb conspiracy law. A resolution waa passed aeuounelng a statement, said to have been mad by K. Phevltch at tbe eigbt-honr ma meeting, to tb sfiect that labor oreeoisatlaa war corrupt and were controlled br boodlora. and entiling upon blm to prove hi charge before aalnveatucatlng commit; ee er to n-tract thea aa sabllely as he mad tbem.

Tb Boycott and Ortsvane Committee were directed to confer wltsj tbe metal aectio In reference to tbe employment of aos-nnlon engineer and firemen In Uger beer breweries. Tb special eommittee to praler soars ce against pullema fur clubbing people daring tha car strike reported thabf It had abandoned that project In consequence: of fupenotaaiieat alorray'a statement that fjie folic Commis sioner would dismiss all Sch complaints. It rssonmiDiiN tuai mas munga mould, bo held to agitata in favor of ttto eur's taking Boa. session of all tbe railroads. I EH 21 AN A THE MRS.

LANGTRT AND Mlifc. POTTER WILL ATTEND TO-DAT EN.EtOLS The 10.000 persons attended the concert at the German Hospital fair last nlgbl gav very manllaataUou pleasure. 81e- aoldt's orchestra playad the? Riaxr vertnre, th andante from Beethoven's minor sym phony, aad. among other osm position, a festi val march dedicated to the: lair by Fred Bran- dels. Tb Arlon and Ltedsrkrans saag under direction of their respectlf leader, Yaa der Btuokan and Hennas, and tlfore were enjoyable solos br Ewald Btols, a Berlin trombon.

and Aiireu jaeger, cornet lay en, r-rau 11111 Leuiuaon-alalisali etood behind tbe flower table for two hours and sold a boat tyMto worth posies, bhe (tartod tb eat at S3, rait it up to then to flu, n4j Dually io 3 for a boutonaicr a roan. cr Ha user of i-ucX, Jaaob Bapport, Usorge Eh ret, Preeuirii! xneoaur ueiiman oi the ten Muee, rreeiaeat too hard altenrseyer et tbe Anon, William lain way, and Cummisalonor Guggenheim were -among tho fair aingar'a victims. Carl bleberi gav l.ooo Bouquets lor her Vable. and Mrs. Blacbotf bought esough df tuottt to eapply very body In tb Cafe.

After th last song by tbe Anon Mr, btetnway 4 marched tb me around to Fran Lehman sued a very pretty Beech te bar. and celled for three cheer. Tb men responded so lustily tbjst ta prima donna felt compelled to give eb on a Bower, and tbea to ail on Mr. etelhway for That gentleman cosld hardly lajiioro se striking a proof of th lady's trust In himself, aad he promptly delivered up am: was left of a hnadred-dollar bllL Herr Jteh was preaeat, and hid need hi wife to aisg Into tit pbono-grpb. 4 Plus F.

Ksserbmldt, 3to pnlated the scene from WaUenateln'e Lgnr." on ot ta most imposing pietare la tt really ties loan xst-bltiuo at th fair, la a yonn aa haroly so year of age. The picture represent three year' work. It took Ural ns at tb exhibi tion oi tne aionien Aeadaoty in law, and th grand medal at tb public exhibition la Munich the following Mr. John F. GlUig is th owner.

3 Mrs. Laagtrr I te be with Mrs. Free at tb bonbon table this afternoon, and Mrs. Pot ter bas promised to com a Mr. Abbey will permit her to do so.

Th Independent Schuetsea Corns have giver 85O0 for tb plaque sent ttam for tb fair by th x-Emprea Augusta, and If any outer oluu waa is it tney will bare totlu higher than that. A Ibree-bundred-dollar cornet from Mr. Barta- ing. and a valuable Flamieh dog from Mr. Lao-dry war among tb new ft yesterday.

apt. Louis ondeu aad ta First Battery attended in uniiorm. Tb receipts Saturday War nearly 10.000. making tb total to yeetoraay a round fwoOOu, BIO eiXDJCArspy XKXiCO. Kaksas Crrr.

Fen. 2. Ernest lore an. lata menaces th Iumaaj Line of ocean steam ers, waa In tb city to-dty. Be repreaeata a weaiuy unnan syndicate waica nss reoastiy purebaaed tbe Santa Calamine property, a tract ot 20O.0OO aer la tb State of Duraago, Mx-leo.

I The members of th syadieate have made preparations to oulrj vat large a part ef the traot aa possible, snd have purchased thorough-bred slock for breeding parpoae. Several Americana are Interests in the venture, aad United Mates Senator Fat-walk of IUiaoL aad Charles Wheeler ot this elty ar tmt of tb Director. Tb latter gentleman wilt leav bar tor Mexle noil Wednesday, la eom pany with Mr, I a man. Vt. Maori oe Read an, with whom Messrs.

litest and Wheeler have eoosalted, state that lb property 1 very fertile, and that oas-tblrd of It lies la the aotVon belt of Mexico. For agrlenltnr Mr. Babdea eonnldnr Duraago tb beat fitsvt la tbe republic ef ex too. 3 Tb yndieale waa organised by Emmet Bo of Kansas City. Heveral years ago Mr.

Boa went to Maxlou, aad while there ard tea ta Bnta Catallna property waa far aala. After assuring himself that tb title were gd, a ee-eurod aa option on tbe jpropoxty aad wal to England, wher be had bp difficulty ia orgaali-lnc the yndloat, which eoutains many wealthy men, Mr. Boss la still in England. TAGS11ST MILL 1 IK JMRSST CTTT. Evangelist B.

Fay Kills ef Philadelphia preached three times yesterday la Jeraey City. Is th morning the Bergen Baptist Church held aa enormous eongregaOotu Tbe platform beck et tb palplt was eeeunled by a shares ef 10O votoee. and befr tb Sermon sevaral hymn were sung In a maaaer nit eft beard. In tb afternoon about every adlt wh lives near th Bergen Preabrterlaa Cbroh a-atbered aar tbe vraober, end many prou could not get Instil tb bBlldln In the evening narly 2.000 persons tried to get Into tb old Bee gee Church, now knowu a tb Befgoa Reformed Church. Hundreds want bom llaappomtee.

The eer-moD. was th sams that was preached at th Baptist Chareb is tb morning. Mr. Mill will preaeb al different Jersey City eaureae every evening this week. rSRBOSAL IKTSLLietrCB.

Judge Thomas M. Coo ley of the Inter-Etete Commere Commtaaloa, Jadgs Uevtd Is Follett of tb Nw-Yort 8uprm Crt. Senator Franei BsndnakS ef SyT, Otf arose tnn Ueery Lbby of Virginia, aad Boery Fierce et Restoeere at the FllAve Hotel. I Lieut-Gen. Sir JohaRo-s, Prince Duleep Singh.

CoL W. Oswald, aad Capt Jenkins et Canada are at tee liotet BruaswKk. CoogreoRional Dele! ate Joseph K. Tnote ef Moatae and JdgB, W. list ef atntale, ere ta Ma Jama Us tal, Wimam Y.

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