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PACIFIC COAST..
Fine Lithograpic Stono
Found in Utah.
FRESNO RAISIN SHIPMENTS.
CI&ub Spreokels' Son Purohasos the
Entire Street Railway Sys
tem at San Diego.
Pcjtrlct fever is at Klko, Nev.
Pendleton Iscleaniiigouttbegaiublers.
Portland is determined to enforce the
Fnnday law.
In Millard county, Utah, fine litho
graphic atone baa been found.
Los Angeles is being flooded by "green
good " circulars from New York.
The wreck of the bark Charles Devens
at Coos Hay is to be removed at once.
Ranchers around Idaho Falls, Idaho,
are offering potatoes in the field at 10
cents per 101) pounds.
Raisin sbipmenU from Fresno are now
ateraging twenty carloads a day. The
total shipments will reach 1,000 carloads.
The prospects for the completion of a
railroad from Salt Lake to Ixs Angeles
are fair according to a report that reaches
liOB Angeles.
A. B. Spreckols, son of Cluus Sprock
ets, has purchased the entire system of
street-car lines at Ban Diego, and will
apply electricity in ojierating them.
(leorge E. llolden, a Chicago sporting
man, was robbed of nearly $8,000 be
tween Albuquerque and Pomona. He
carried the money in a small handbag.
fleorge'Clark, who is charged with the
killing of Superintendent Oalavotti
while the latter was taking a bar of gold
to Nevada City, has surrendered' to the
authorities.
Prof. Martin W. Sampson, professor of
English in the State University of Iowa,
haa been appointed assistant professor
of English in the Leland Stanford (Jr.)
University.
Two well-known guuablers at Portland
charge that there is a gambling trust in
that city, and that from M.OOO to 4,000
is collected monthly and given to officials
to insure the gamblers from being inter
fered with.
His just announced that three East
ern parties, whose names are withheld,
have donated 1M.000 to the endowment
fund of the Pomona College and $25,000
for a building to tie erected during the
coming spring.
The United States government has sent
a gold watch and chain to be presented
to Captain D. D. Rood of the British
bark Norcrdss at Victoria, B. C, for the
rescue ot the crew of the American ship
William McUilvray in AuguBt, 1889.
While the penitentiary commission
ers were in session at the Santa Fe
prison, three prisoners, "with "wooden
revolvers," wrapped with tin foil, held
up the guard, and two escaped in a car
riage which was in front of the building.
From reports gathered from fruitgrow
ers in alt parts of California south of
Fresno it is found that the total prune
rop in that region this season has been
one-eighth of a full crop. In Pomona
Valley it has been even smaller than
that.
John'Moran, a section bes on the
Atlantic and Pacific atNeedleB, has ben
arrested at Albuquerque, and property
which was stolen from a Pullman sleeper
on the 20th ult. and belonging to Mrs.
McClernand of Fort Wingate Was found
n his person.
EDUCATIONAL.
Weslorn Unlvenity Student! In Alle
ghany Abandon the Cnno Rush,
and Substitute Boxing.
.
New York ha ni k 1m ii night schools.
MlHHourl linn 1U,HK country school
teachers,
Only I ' per cent, of thn jMtilutin of
India Van road and write.
The Imperial University of Toklo, Ja
pun, liim 2,000 scholars enrolled.
An eleven year-old Kansas Uiy was
granted a teacher's certificate Iiim t week.
Mcmtier of the same family seem to
have a tendency for Hit' same kind of
work, of Urn (I.IHM) lady teacher II,-
000 are MtHti-rtt.
Western rnivcraity students in Alio
ghany abandoned their c;ui rush and
Niilwtituti'il a turning iniiU'h for joints
between leading freshmen and sopho
more. It Ih now announced that the unknown
giver of $50,00.) to found a McliolarHhip
itl Clark University, Worcester, in
-.ember, IHHii, wan tin late Hon. George
8. Barton,,
Tim director of the Lutheran Theo
logical Soniinarv, now locutcd at Get
tysburg, have Ih-hii considering for some
time tin- plan of removing that institu-
Uion to Washington.
At llio North estcrn University (co
educational) at Evanston, III., thitt
year, iln young women arc not permit
ted to receive callers except during the
hour front 7 to H p. in. On Friday the
young men Stay until l:!(0 p. in.
tMolier 8 Colonel Amos A. Parker
ol riuwiiiiain, .v II., ceienraieo nisonc
hundredth birthday. So far as in known
he Ih the oldest collide graduate in
America. having finished the course at
tlit University of Vermont in lHi;.
The Kaytirweather lieiiuest will go far
toward meeting the expense of many
necessary improvement! in Dartmouth
College. More apparatus, bathe and
locker will soon be udded to the gym
nasium, and improvements in Reed
Hall will also Iw puide.
The Methoiliat I'liivemity of Waah
invton Ih rapidly taking ahaiie, and in a
short time the tine aife, which Iiuh U-en
tmrchaHed by means of the contribu
tions of the residents of the Capital
City, will preaeut an active scene as the
various uuiiuuiKS are erecieu.
In lt42 Harvard graduated a class of
nine members. A hundred years later
the graduating class numbered twenty
four. A century later yet the number
had doubled again, and in IHiA) Har
vard gradimteu her first clans of 100
iiiemlH-rs. Twenty years later the
Hansen had more than doubled again,
and now the entering clans of this year
more than quadruples that number.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
The Lady Managers Decide to Establish
a Model Sanitary Kitchen in the
Woman's Building.
Florida's World's Fair building will
reproduce old Fort Marion.
Niearaupa 'wants half an Bcre for the
site of itsbuildiiig at the exposition.
The government building lor toe
World's Fair is making satisfactory
progress.
A bill to appropriate MM.COO for the
World's Fair exhibit has been intro
duced in tho Brazilian Congress.
The old curiosity shop which Dick
ens immortalized will lie one of the in
teresting exhibits at tho World's i air.
Tho World's Fair at Chicago will con
tain a pumping plant of 40,000,000 gal
lons per day, and its cost will be $15 .),-
000.
The Hamburg-American Packet Com
pany, ot wnien uari M'-mirx is ine new
S'ork director, lias subscribed $5,000 to
the exposition stock.
Ouartish. the noted London book
dealer, intends to send to the exposi
tion an autograph letter of Christopher
Columbus, for which he paid $5,000.
Virginia's building at the exposition
will be of the old colonial type, meas
uring S3x7ti feet, two stories high and
surrounded by a plaia fifteen feet wide.
Its cost will be $20,000.
The great imitation coast-line battle
ship, which is to constitute and contain
the government's naval exhibit, is in an
advanced state of construction. It will
all be inclosed before winter weather
sets in, and all the interior work, will be
completed by spring.
The little old building on Arch street,
Philadelphia, where Betsy Uohs made
the first ilag for the United States army,
is likely to be removed bodily and
taken to Chicago for exhibition at the
World's Fair.
The nine lady managers resident in
Chicago, called together by Mrs. Pot ter
Palmer, have decided to establish a
tnruhd RRnitarv kitchen in the woman's
building at the exposition. An effort
will be made by a Bpecial entertainment
or otherwise to raise the $4,ouu neces
sary for the purpose.
The women of Illinois, who have the
spending of $80,000 of the $800,000 which
the State appropriated for its represen
tation at the exposition, have been
granted, for their exclusive use, one-
tenth ot the spaco in the Illinois Duna
ing, which, altogether, is something
more than an acre ana a halt.
One of the unique features of the
Mexican exhibit at the fair will be the
celebrated Panduxa famly, consisting of
five persons, who are probably the most
expert workers in clay and modelers of
figures in the world. The family will be
sent to Chicago by the State of Guadala
jara. It is the intention to provide a
Mexican house for them to live in dur
ing the fair and a work shop, where their
work may he inspected.
EASTERN ITEMS.
t
River Making Inroads
on New Orleans.
ELECTRICAL PROCESS IN IRON
Black Diphtheria Spreads at Alarm
ing Rate in an Iowa Nor
wegian. Settlement.
Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
The Supreme Court of North Dakota
sustains the prohibition law in every
particular.
The people of Brooklyn have sounded
an emphatic call for another bridge
across the East river.
Nicaragua needs water badly, and
American well drillers with pumping
out tits are Mi demand.
(ieorgia. statesmen have resolved to
return to the old custom of aniiual.ineet-
ing of the (.legislature.
A rich amler deposit, it is reported.
has Ix-en discovered in Ontario, the esti
mated value of which is $7,000,000.
Iuiisiana sugar men are objecting
strongly to the atqiointment of . negroes
as inspectors under the Ixmnty law.
The inroads of the river on New
Orleans continue, and may prove a
rather serious matter for a part of the
city.
A canal to connect Jamaica Bay with
the (ireat South Bay. on ttie south
shore of Jong Island, is sjioken of as
pronatiie.
Before the close of the year four new
cruisers two at Baltimore, one at Nor
folk and one in l hiladelphia will have
been launched.
The numlier of postofiices in the
United States is otlicially stated to be
04 ;!H1, showing an increase of 2,000 over
imhi year ai tins time.
By an order the Secretary of War has
reduced from thirty-five to thirty years
the maximum age at which army re
cruits w ill lie accepted.
Ignatius Donnelly has " begun two
more liliel suits against the St. Paul
I'iuiiffr-I'rmt. He is not satisfied with
the verdict just given to him.
The IVIaware Indians have just re
ceived $454,000, being one-hs'i of the
sum given them by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory.
An ingenious jierson in Chicago has
invented an automatic Adelina Patti.
It is a Ufe-Bixed wax figure, which imi
tates her smiles, gestures and poses.
During the last eight months the
numlier of locomotive engines exported
from the United States was 250, against
ninety-three in the corresponding period
of 1800.
The New York naval reserve artillery
is rapidly filling up its ranks to the
maximum, and is inaugurating a fixed
programme for the winter's drill.
All the tiauor dealers in Bar Harbor.
Me., including proprietors of summer
restaurants, have been indicted for al
leged violation of the liquor laws.
The government proposes to build
another timber dock in the navy yard
at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. It
is. to be about 000 feet in length.
The Commercial Club of Kansas City
haa called a convention to meet Decem
ber 15 and 16, to urge upon Congress
systematic improvements of the Mis
souri and lower Mississippi rivers.
The Governor of Tenneesoe has offered
a reward of $5,000 for the arrest and
conviction of 'the leader of the Brice-
ville riot, and a reward of $25 each for
the capture of the escaped convicts.
An agreement'' has been concluded
with the Tonkawa tribe of Indians of
the Indian Territoay, by which the
Indians cede to the United States 80,000
acres of land, the consideration being
f30,00.
Kansas City officials have been
wrought up to a high state of excite
ment by the discovery of gold in samples
of Btrata pierced by a drill while drilling
for the water-works tunnel nnder the
Missouri river.
President Noel of the Olympic Club at
New Orleans has telegraphed Sullivan's
agents in New York offering $15,000 for
the Slavin-Sullivan contest for March ;
also a solid gold pitcher emblematic of
the world's supremacy.
Black diphtheria is spreading at an
alarming rate in a Norwegian settle
ment in Soldier Valley, Harrison county,
Iowa. Fourteen persons recently died
of the disease. One family of ten lost
six members. The place has just been
quarantined.
Collis P. Huntington, the railroad
king, is defendant in a suit brought by
Perkins, Goodwin & Co., paper dealers,
to recover from him $15,027.40 for paper
furnished in 1888 to the Star Printing
Company. Mr. Huntington held $00,
000 of the $300,000 of the capital stock
of the company. It is now sought to
hold him as a stockholder.
The recent wreck of the EI Dorado on
the Bahama banks has led to the dis
covery of an ingenious method of cheat
ing the government. Nine cases were
marked linen goods, while only three
contained toweling, the rest having
costly kid gloves. The goods were dam
aged, but being in bond were shipped
to New York, and the government ap
praisers in seeking to ascertain the
loss discovered the cheat. There is a
hint that the San Francisco Custom
house would be involved.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Bardsley's Occupation in the Pennsyl
vania Penitentiary it Making
' Pepper Boxes.
It is no longer good form to call thA
Emperor of Japan the Mikado. He is
now called Kotel, and the Chinese Em
peror answers to the title Bakudahan.
Charles Stewart Parnell according to
Thomas Blggar Harrison was the person
who dubbed Prince Alliert Victor, Queen
Victoria's eldest grandson, "Collars and
Culls."
" Holiest" John Bardsley's present
occupation in the Pennsylvania peniten
tiary is making pepcr boxes. He has
gained twenty pounds in weight since
his term liegan.
. Kmile Grainer, a wealthy Frenchmen,
has taken the liveliest interest in the
building-tip of Uncommercial prosperity
of the State of Wyoming, and has al
ready sppnt $400,000 in tne work, upon
which he has been engaged for the past
eight years. 4
Von Milium, the German Secretary of
legation and Charge o" Affaires, will con
tinue to represent his government at
Washington until a successor to the late
Count von Arco-Valley is appointed.
Mumm is a very proper name for a dis
creet diplomate.
Of the land pertaining to the late
Chief Justice Chase's home near Wash
ington, D. C, called "Edgewood," about
seventeen acres have been laid out for a
villa site, but the remaining thirty-six
acres Kate Chase still retains with the
old mansion, which continues to be her
home.
Achille Perelli, who died a few days
ago in New Orleans, was one of the most
distinguished sculptors in the United
States. He was horn in Milan, Italy,
ami was a pupil of Galli, a celebrated
Italian sculptor. After fighting many
battles while in Garibaldi's armv he
came to this country, and resumed hjs
artistic work in Louisiana.
Victorien Sardou's wife met the fa
mous dramatic author for the first time
at breakfast one morning at her own
home, where tie had come to consult her
father. M. Soulie. Director of the Palace
of Versailles. It was a case of love at
first sight, and before Sardou had left
the house she had given him her heart.
Even the famous people have tl eir
vanities. Meissonier was proud of his
shapely and delicate hands. He said
that Ins fingers were so sensitive that he
could w ith his eyes shut lay on the ex
act amount of color that he wanted on a
given spot if somebody placed the point
of the brush upon it. ,
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown of Or
ange, President of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, is a daughter of Prof.
Ralph Emerson, for many years con
nected with the Andover Theological So
ciety. She is a handsome woman of fine
physique anu an accomplished linguist,
speaking half a dozen languages fluently.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Assistant Secretary of the Inte'rior
Depatment Files His Report
for the Fiscal Year.
Assistant Secretary Bussy, of the In
terior Department, has filed his report
for the fiscal year. The report reviews
the work of the board of pension ap
peals. It shows that January 1, 1891,
there were 5,028 appeals pending before
the board, as against 5,030 July 1, 1891.
Mr. Bussey points out several defects in
pension legislation, and makes a num
ber of recommendations looking to their
correction. He asks that Congress be
requested to enact a law ttiat shall ex
pressly authorize the department to
treat all improper, illegal and excessive
payments of pensions, whether caused
by" fraud or mistake, as payments to be
charged against ttie current pension,
with a view to readjust or equal the cur
rent pension payments within the dis
cretion of the Secretary. He suggests
that in case of insane, idiotic or other
wise helpless children of deceased pen
sioners, of pensionable age, the limit be
abolished, so as to admit such children
at any date to the pension roll. He
also recommends that persons who
served in the Confederate army and
afterwards enlisted in the avy of the
United States be given the same pen
sion accorded those who served the Con
federate cause and then enlisted in the
army of the United States.
Under the authority of the act of
Congress, approved September 28, 1890,
the Director of the Mint has prepared a
new design for silver coin, which has
been approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury. The design is intended for
half dollars, quarters and dimes. On
the obverse face of the coin is a female
head representative of liberty looking to
the right with an olive leaf and Phue
necian cap on the back of the head. On
the band, or fillet, over the front of the
head is the word "Liberty," and over
the head at the top of the coin, "In God
We Trust." Around the medallion are
thirteen stars, and at the bottom the
date of coinage. On the reverse side
appears the seat of the United States,
as adopted in 1782, an eagle with open
wings. On the breast a shield argent,
six pellets gules, a chief atmre. In his
dexter claw the eagle holds an olive
branch, representing peace, and in the
sinister claw a sheaf of thirteen arrows,
representing war. In his beak the eagle
Holds a scroll containing "E Pluribus
Unum," entwined above and about the
head with thirteen stars, environed by
clouds. This will be the design of halves
and quarters. The dime on the obverse
side, in place of the stars, will have
"United States of America." "In God
We Trust" will be omitted from the
dime. The reverse of the dime will be
the same as the present dime in use.
The reverse of the half and quarter is a
return to the design of almost the first
coinage of the country.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Jerusalem Becomes a
Jewish City.
BRAZIL TO FOSTER THE VINE.
The French' Senate Passed the Bill
to Admit American Pork
by 179 to 64.
The French Senate has passed a bill
to admit American pork by 179 to 64.
The epidemic of smallpox, which re
cently prevailed in Honduras, is over.
A split has len discovered in another
big British gun a sixty-seven-ton gun.
The Canadian Cabinet crisis is over.
Chapleau will retain the SecretarvshiD
of State.
Russia is establishing new ports of
commerce and naval stations on the
Black Sea.
An epidemic resembling la grippe has
attacked many persons at San Jose, ;
There are fears of a famine in North
ern Hungary, owing to failures of the
potato crop.
Prince C.artoryski, Vice-President of
the Upper House of the Austrian Parlia
ment, is dead.
Advices from Africa report that Car
dinal Lavigerie is seriously ill at Algiers.
The Pope has sent his blessings to the
Cardinal.
Natives of South Africa are building a
telegraph line across Mashonaland at the
rate of three miles a day.
The Russian government has placed
an order for 500,000 small-bore repeat
ing rines with a trench nrm.
Orders have been issued by the Porte
for the construction of eighteen new
cruisers for the Turkish navy.
The extraordinary rainfull of the past
month all over England has produced
the heaviest floods since 1875.
Negotiations have reached an advanced
stage with the Rothschilds in Paris for a
Spanish gold loan of $15,000,000.
5Iel bourne, Australia, has just com
pleted a splendid system of cable roads
about eighty-five miles jn extent.
Great Britain still pushes her claims
to the ownership of the valuable mines
in the eastern portion of Venezuela.
The Italian railroads have prepared a
zone tariff project for the carriage of
parcels not exceeding twenty-two pounds
in weight.
Rumors from Nicaragua are to the ef
fect that a number of persons will be
exiled in addition to those already driven
from the country before long.
The Dreyfus motion relative to the
prosecution of the Archbishop of Aix
was withdrawn after an exciting debate
in the French Chamber of Deputies.
Grand Duke Alexander of Oldenburg,
chief military expert of Russia, is tak
ing part in a strategic conference now
proceeding between French and Russian
officers.
As there is a popular superstition in
China that telegraph poles cast baleful
shadows on the graves of deceased an
cestors, the wires are being buried to
save trouble.
Fifty huge chests were required to
transport from Greece to Berlin the su
perb collection of the relics of Troy left
by the late Dr. Schliemann to the Berlin
Museum of Art.
A new naphtha spring of immense ca
pacity was recently opened in Bakoo on
the Taggieff grant If it continues with
the same power as at present, it will be
the richest naphtha fountain in the
world.
A Portuguese mail boat from East
Africa has arrived from Marseilles, and
reports a recent encounter between
British and Portuguese soldiers at Lo
renzo Marquez, in which two were killed
and fifteen injured.
France is supposed to be preparing to
sweep all Russian refugees over the
border, their absence from French soil
being one of the conditions the Czar ex
acts before he will visit the Republic.
The Inman line steamer City of Rich
mond, which cost 125,000 sterling to
build, was offered at auction at Liver
pool, and the highest bid was $6,000.
The vessel was withdrawn.
When,Kicking Bear of Buffalo Bill's
Indians went through St. Paul's Ca
thedral the other day he examined the
muskets on Wellington's funeral car
and grunted, "Gun no good!"
The total tonnage of the port of Liver
pool during the last fiscal year was 9,
772,605 tons. The Mesey Dock Board
received from duties on vessels and mer
chandise the sum of $5,670,000.
In the last annual report of the British
postoffice it appears that of the $7,960,
000 received in the money-order depart
ment from foreign countries there came
from the United States $5,580,000.
The Theosophical Society people in
London are chagrined at Sir Edward
Arnold's departure for America. They
had been making preparations to ex
ploit him aa one of their own sort in
order to gain luster from his reflected
light. It had .been announced that he
was to preside at the next meeting of the
society.
A conflict between Turkish troops and
an armed band under the command of
Chiefs Zanlus and Mauris, champions of
the Cretan Christians, has occurred
near Melopotamos. Thirty of those en
gaged in the fight, including Chiefs
Zanlus and Mauris, were killed.
AMMONIA AND SUICIDES.
On. ot Ih. Mnil C.rtalH Af.nU lor
C.ualDff V.ath lr Slow V oLanlng.
Of the number ot those seeking sui
cide by swallowing some form of poison,
probably there are few who have sought
to kill themselves by means of ammonia.
Nevertheless ammonia, althoughit is the
active agent in most of the salts sold to
women for their gilt decorated and per
fumed scent bottles, is poisonous when
taken internally in a concentrated form.
To attest this there have been recently
in New York several cases, the most re
cent being that of Herman Ilarowitz.)f
w hich Deputy Coroner Jenkins said that
death took place in a comparatively
short time after the ammonia was taken.
In another case, that'of a child, Dr. Jen
kins said death resulted in five minutes
after swallowing the ammonia solution.
There are on record also cases of slow
poisoning from ammonia administered
with intent to commit murder. Further
more, the appearance of workmen in
guano factories, where ammonia is set
free by grinding guano, has been noted,
and in every case there is an unmistak
able system of poisoning. Thi is dis
coloration of the skin of the face, which
assumes a blotched, dirty appearance.
First to take on this appearance is the
skin of the nose and forehead. Autop
sies of those who die from ammnioa poi
soning reveal a dark hue on the mucous
membrane lining the stomach and intes
tines. As an agent for causing death by slow
poisoning, ammonia is one; of the most
certain and most difficult of detection,
owing to its volatile nature. This qual
ity lias led physicians to believe that
some of the mysterious deaths that have
taken place in the history of modern and
mediaeval crime are due to ammonia. It
is known now that months have elapsed
between the first symptoms of sickness
and the death of a person from ammonia
poisoning. On the other hand, death
Las resulted in four minutes from the
time a large draught of ammonia has
been swallowed. It has been found in
cases of gradual absorption of ammonia
in the human system that there is a gen
eral elimination of healthy oxidation of
the blood and a consequent lowering of
the bodily strength. In the cases of Im
mediate poisoning, death comes with
frightful agony, as in the case of Haro
witz. Blood gushed from his nose and
mouth.
Statistics in England put ammonia
thirteenth in frequency in the list of
poisons. Alexander Winter Blyth, med
ical omcer ol Jiealth in the ot. Maryie
bone district, London, cites thirty cases
of poisoning by ammonia swallowed for
the purpose of committing suicide, or
administered with the purpose of com
mitting murder, or abtorbed uncontciovt
ly in food. Of the suicidal cases six were
fatai. Of twenty accidental cases twelve
were fatal. Of cases of murder with
ammonia, Dr. Blyth notes two, both of
them children. New York bun.
Fl.ating Prsiric. .f Uililui.
A curious phenomenon is to be wit
nessed at the Ames' crevasse, and, in
deed, is one of the causes of the great
damage it has done. Under any circum
stances the water from this crevasse
would overflow the rich country lying be
tween it and the gulf of Mexico, causing
damage to the umount of several million
dollars, but to the surprise of many, not
content with running down stream and
overflowing the country below, it haa
taken to running apparently, np stream.
Some curiosity was felt over this phe
nomenon, and the case on examination
hows it to be due to the prairies trem
blantes the floating or trembling prai
ries of southern Louisiana. All along the
gulf coast the large border of land floats
on the surface of the water. The land is
made by fallen timber and grasses. It
gradually accumulates dirt and becomes
in the course of time sufficiently firm to
support brashes and even trees, but the
soil is only three inches or little less thick,
and below it is the water, upon which it
floats on account of its lightness. Occa
sionally pieces of trembling prairie, are
detached and become floating islands.
There are quite a number of these in
Salvador, these lands, floating from side
to 6ide, being frequently carried at a
rapid rate by the breeze, trees acting as
sails to catch the wind. The current
from the Ames crevasse has carried these
floating islands down stream and torn a
number of others from the trembling
prairies. Cor.St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Mr. Tihlen'i Disputed Will.
Two judges have decided in favor of
the Tilden will and two judges have de
clared against it. The case will soon be
argued before the New 'York court of
appeals, which will finally decide wheth
er New Y'ork is to have the $5,000,000
library or whether Tilden 's great bequest
is to be absorbed by his nephews.
No man doubts that it was Mr. Til
den's purpose and intention to found a
great public library with his money.
He carefully executed a trust for that
purpose, and died in the belief that the
beqnest wis so well .guarded that bis
heirs could not have it set aside by any
quibble of the law And yet h purpose
so plain and unmistakable has been de
clared invalid by two judges, who inter
pret a law" which is described as "the
perfection of common sense."
It is this extremely technical interpre
tation of the laws' provisions on the part
of law judges that justifies the presence
of lay judges on the bench of New Jer
sey. Among the lay judges of the New
Jersey court of appeals there would not
be two opinions regarding the intentions
of Mr. Tildeu in the testament he exe
cuted prior to his death They would
unanimously decide in favor of the will.
And so, in fact, would our law judges,
who have on some notable occasions
demonstrated that with them law is, in
deed, the perfection of common sense.
Newark Journal.
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