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It is probable that 1884 will go down in
history as the great biscuit year of the
age.
Vicksburg is on the high road to pros
perity. It proposes to organize another
military company.
The papers have been predicting a cold
wave for nearly a week. Let it come,
and long may it wave.
It is feared that the lish in the neigh
borhood of the Tallapoosa wreck will ac
quire intemperate habits.
Henry George is said to be living on a
farm. It is not believed that he carries
out his doctrine aud pays the rent to all
mankind.
Memphis is a good place for newspaper
men. One of the gang in that city has
actually fared so well that he has con
tracted dyspepsia.
The price of sheep will probably ad
vance in the near future. Dr. Hammond
says women who desire to be beautiful
should eat mutton.
Time brings its revenges. A pie baker
in Philadelphia died lately from indiges
tion. In an unguarded moment he par
took of his own wares.
Tennessee farmers want to establish
several more large creameries. They ap
pear to be finding out on which side
their bread is buttered.
Charles Bradlaugh will begin to lecture
in America in October. Col. Ingersoll
should hasten in out of the wilderness if
he wants to get with a sympathetic per
son.
Oysters will be fully ripe to-morrow,
and the harvest will be in full blast in a
few weeks. When Mr. Mason gets his
cotton picker perfected, he must try his
hand on an oyster shelling machine.
An enterprising newspaper has figured
out that in the United States Senate the
veto power lies in the representatives of
1 ess than one-fifth of the people of the
Union. It does not say, however, what It
is going to do about it.
Although Cincinnati has been having 2
law and order revival the efficient police
man is not allowed to take his constitu
tional nap without risk. The nimble
thief sometimes gets away with the poliee
*“““ ® revolver \% ni that dignitary is on
duty.
The managers of the Moberly. Mo., fair
have not quite enough modern enterprise.
They invited Frank James to lie one of the
lions at their exhibition, but they appear
to have slighted Oklobama Payne, Sitting
J*ull and several other etniaent robbers
"and cutthroats
The pill rollers and the hay lever vic
tims held their conventions at the same
time, but about 1,000 milts apart. They
should have held both meetings in the
same town. They might have devised
some scheme that would have been mu
tually entertaining and beneficial.
The Republican newspapers have very
little to say oflate about the demand of
the “business interests” of the country
for the continuance of their party in
power. Outside a comparatively few
monopolists the “business interests” ap
pear to be remarkably solid for Cleveland
and Hendricks.
It seems that all the world has gone to
raising sugar. Immense quantities are
produced in British India. The largest
cargo ever received at Sew York came
from that far off land. It consisted of
32,5!* bags, making 2,850 tons, and it came
into port Tuesday. The Louisiana sugar
growers have been almost dwarfed into
insignificance.
Tenants in Havana are not complaining
of high rents just now. It is stated that
4,000 houses in that city are vacant, while
owing to the general depression many
landlords are allowing those who have
been good tenants, and who are now un
able to pay, to live in their houses free of
rent. The real estate market is broken
up. There seems to be no hope that the
end of the trouble is near.
The desperate pressure the Republi
can Committee is bringing to bear on the
government clerks to force them to make
voluntary contributions to the campaign
fund is rather amusing to democrats. It
is reported that the threat implied in
Gen. Raum’s last circular is having an
effect the revei se to what was intended
and desired. Several clerks who intended
to contribute now say they wont give a
cent.
There is one seventeen-year-old girl in
Boston who does not wear eye-glasses.
She it was who caught two men in the
matrimonial net. This fostering of a
monopoly in the husband business does
not suit the other spinsters of the Hub.
There are not near enough men in the
city to give the women one husband each,
and now that the fair young bigamist is
in jail, she is not getting much sympathy
from members ot her sex.
Edison is a philosopher as well as an in
ventor. He is said to be glad that he is
very deaf. He says few men talk to him
unless they have something to say, and
hence he escapes the persecutions of the
inveterate bores to which ordinary mor
tals are subjected. It Mr. Edison will in
vent some method by which a man can be
very deaf when he wants to, he will con
fer a blessing on thousands of business
men and—heads of families.
The rather remarkable fact was devel
oped by an inquisitive detective the other
day that there is no reward offered tor the
arrest of Capt. Howgate, who left the
government to mourn his departure with
a bag of cash several years ago. A re
ward was offered by the Marshal, from
whose custody the prisoner escaped, but
that has lapsed, and now there is no in
ducement for anyone to make extra ef
forts to ascertain the absconder’s where
abouts and secure his arrest. It is be
lieved that certain detectives would
bring Howgate to Washington within a
week if a suitable reward could be se
cured.
The Maine Election.
The State election in Maine occurs a
week from to-morrow. Outside of the
politicians It does not excite a great deal
of interest. It appears to be generally
admitted that the Republicans will carry
the State.
At the election two years ago the Re
publican majority was 7,175, and in 1380
it w as 4,4600ver the combined Democratic
and Greenback vote. There is no par
ticular reason for thinking that the Demo
crats have a chance of carrying the State
'this year.
The Republicans are trying to secure a
very large majority and, it is alleged, are
spending a great deal ot money. An in
creased majority in Maine, they think,
will have a good effect in other States.
Blaine is giving his personal attention to
the canvass and makes his appearance at
public meetings whenever he can con
veniently.
The Democrats haven 't done very much
open work yet. It is understood that they
are making a still hunt for votes, and that
they will put their best speakers on the
stump this week. The fact is they haven’t
any money, and without money they are
unable to make much of a showing. They
hope to keep the Republican majority un
der 10,0)0. If they succeed in doing that
they will be satisfied.
There are strong reasons why the Re
publican majority should be larger than
it was two years ago. The Repub
lican candidate for Governor is a
very popular man, and besides, the
fact that the Republican Presidential
candidate is a resident of the State
is sufficient to keep Republicans loyal
and induce them to very generally go to
the polls. If they gain the State by a very
small majority, however, it will be about
as bad for them a6 if they had lost it.
Chinese Possibilities.
While all the world has been sneering
at Chinese imbecility and cowardice,
there is no ddubt that the people of the
Celestial Empire have made substantial
progress within the past few years. They
have learned the value of steam, elec
tricity and nearly all modern inventions,
and there are some slight indications that
with improved arms and proper training
Chinese troops may make very respecta
ble soldiers.
China is making considerable efforts
to have certain classes ot her
leople learned in all the lore
of the “Western Barbarians.” It may be
that eventually her rulers may learn
something about the science of govern
ment. Properly ruled China would soon
become one of the richest nations on
earth. The people can live on nothing,
almost, and are generally industrious and
thrifty.
If China should make as rapid strides
in Western civilization as Japan has,
in twenty years she would be a formidable
power indeed. With plenty of money in
her treasury, and the best of war ma
terial, and millions of men at her com
mand, she might defy the world. It is
not likely that her troops will long be
taunted with want of courage. A few
little wars may teach them how to fight.
The population of China is not far 6hort
of 400,000,000. It may be that the military
organization of the Empire will one day
be so perfected that in an extreme emer
gency 20,000,000 men could be put in the
field. This would be about five times as
many men as were in the largest levy of
troops ever made in the history of the
world. If the Chinese should become bold
and aggressive, what nation could stand
against them ? They might overrun the
world like a tidal wave and establish
their hordes in the fairest portions of the
earth. What could all Europe do towards
stopping the march of even 10,000,000 of
courageous aud well armed fighting men?
Future of Agriculture.
The Nashville American records the
successful trial near that city of a gang
plow drawn by a traction _ engine. The
ground in which plowing was done
was hilly, and was extremely dry and
haul, so much so that it was impossible
! to plow with horse power. The 7%x10
traction engine drew a gang of six plows,
each cutting a furrow fourteen inches
wide. A half acre of land was broken
well in half an hour. The experiment
was pronounced a great success.
The American is mistaken in its asser
tion that this was the first steam plow
used south of the Ohio river. Steam plows
' have been in use for several years inLoul
| siana end Mississippi, aud perhaps in
other States of the South. The plow 9,
however, are drawn by means of wire
ropes attached to engines at the ends of
the rows. Perhaps this was the first in
stance of a steam plow being used in the
South where the gang of plows was at
i taehed direct to the engine.
It seems that this experiment created a
good deal or excitement on the sub
ject of plowing by steam in
Tennessee. There is no doubt
that it is both practicable and advisable,
where the ground is free of stumps and
stones and fuel can be obtained without
| much cost. A steam plow complete,
however, requires the outlay of enough
money to buy a small farm, and few farm
ers comparatively will be found willing
to put from $1,500 to $2,000 in an invest
ment of this kind. The negro and mule
are likely to maintain their supremacy
on the farms of the South for a long time
to come.
There is a strong probability that the
use of plows drawn by steam will never
become common. By the time agriculture
reaches the point where a substitute for
animal power for plowing and hauling
shall be generally demanded, in all prob
ability the electric motor will have been
so perfected as to take the place of the
steam engine for almost all purposes
where power is required. With improved
accumulators ’ farmers will utilize the
wind or water power, and while they are
asleep the elements will be storing up
hitherto wasted energies to be devoted to
the service of man. There will be no un
due heat, no smoke, no danger of explo
sion, no cutting wood or hauling coal.
In all probability not only will the elec
tric motors be made to do the plowing,
but the planting, harvesting, threshing,
ginning and hauling as well. Perhaps in
fifty to a hundred years from now horses
will be rarely used in agriculture.
When electrical progress shall have
reached the point where the power of the
elements can be utilized with economy
and certainty, farming may be robbed of
many of the hardships that at present at
tend it. Even the housewife may use it
for sewing, churning, washing, ironing,
cooking, heating and lighting. It is to he
regretted that this generation will not en
joy the good time that seems to
be coming. Perhaps the next generation
may only partially reap the benefits ot
scientific progress, but the happy period
can hardly be delayed beyond the third
generation. The present state of the
electric science is an earnest of what Is
sure to come in the not very remote fu
ture.
Very little more probably will be heard
from the Republican papers about the
stampede of Irishmen to Blaine and Lo
gan. It seems that the grand old party
is doomed. The managers may make the
bird-o’-freedom shriek and pretend to
twist the tail of the British lion, but the
intelligent Irish-Americans will not be
caught by clap-trap and transparent
tricks.
The Indians and Chinese in British
Columbia do not get along as fellow
heathens should. It is stated that battles
take place between them nearly every
day, the Indians generally coming out
victors. The Indians rob the Chinamen
every time anything valuable is found in
their possession.
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1884,
Barbarity in War.
Under the code of laws acknowledged
by civilized nations, war has been divest
ed of a part only of its most revolting
features. The idea still obtains to a great
extent that an enemy, whether armed or
a non-combatant, has no rights which an
army is bound to respect. War trans
forms many men into savages, and many
natural-born criminals find their way into
armies, so that when an army occupies a
country the most rigid officers cannot en
tirely prevent outrages on the persons
and depredations on the property of civil-
ians.
There are outrages of another charac
ter committed in war during modern
times. Often attempts are made to justi
fy them on the ground of military neces
sity, but the sentiment of enlightened
people should judge each case on its mer
its, independent of what merely military
authorities may assert.
The bombarding of cities, the burning
of towns and country residences, the
wholesale devastation of territories on
which thousands of women and children
depend for sustenance, are scarcely ever
anything less than inexcusable outrages,
and they can seldom be justified, or even
palliated. Unless military stores and
munitions of war are so stored in a city
as to make it impossible to destroy them
without injuring the property and endan
gering the lives of unarmed and innocent
people, a commander should no more
entertain the thought of shelling it than
he would of shelling a city of a friend
and ally. Armed soldiers, and forts and
war ships are legitimate objects of attack.
Women and children and old men, to
gether with their homes, should be held
sacred all the world over. It is to be re
gretted that the sentiment in favor of
hero worship makes success the only cri
terion by which it judges its idols. The
officer who has devastated a whole region
of country; who has expressly permitted
his troops to sack a town; who has left in
his march a line of 6moke by day and of
fire by night; who throws thousands of
bombs into a city of homes wantonly,
*>ught not only to be censured by public
opinion, hut ought to he condemned in
the most unequivocal manner. Instead
of this, however, he is flattered and
courted and promoted.
The spirit of the age is such that the
civilized world has a right to demand of
the nations provisions for the enforce
ment ot those humane laws which should
govern all civilized people when involved
in war.
Foreign Money Lenders Again.
The Morning News has often warned
its readers against the policy of borrow
ing money on long time at exorbitant
rates of interest. One or two foreign cor
porations began lending money on land
mortgages in Georgia some lour years
ago. It was advertised that the money
was to be loaned at 8 per cent, interest.
Practically the interest amounted to a
much greater percentage.
The plan of doing business was sub
stantially this: On desirable farms the
companies would lend one-third the
amount of a low valuation of the land on
five years’ time, at nominally 8 per cent,
interest, the interest to be paid annually,
and if not paid when due it was optional
with the mortgagee to declare the whole
claim, principal and interest, due, and
foreclose the mortgage. When a farmer
went to borrow money he was required to
pay all expenses of investigating and
making a transcript of title, to pay an
agent of the company about s6*i>er day
and expenses for examining the land, and
to pay the attorneys through whom he ob
tained the loan 20 per cent, for drawing
up the papers and negotiating the loan.
If a man wanted S7OO he would apply
for a loan for SI,OOO. If his land was
worth, at a very low valuation, $3,000 he
might obtain the loan. Out of the amount
S2OO would go to the attorneys, and the
other expenses would amount to nearly
another SIOO. The farmer then would get
about S7OO, on which the interest was sso
per annum.
The warnings the people have had
against becoming involved with these
money lending companies were not
founded on vague and idle fears. Already
some of the borrowers have begun to reap
the fruits of their folly. Although not
half of the five years have elapsed sev
eral suits have already gone to judgment
in the United States courts. It will be
remembered that no loan of less than
S3OO would be made. This was
for the purpose of bringing the claims
within the jurisdiction of the United
States courts. The suits that have been
instituted for foreclosure are all on claims
that have become due on account of the
non-payment of the interest, for none of
these foreign claims have yet become due
by the expiration of the time lor which
the loans were made. Should the farmers
of Georgia experience another such unfor
tunate crop year as the last it is likely
that three-fourths of those obligated to
these foreign companies would find their
mortgages foreclosed in the United States
courts.
Again, those who are thinking of bor
rowing money from these parties will do
well to think twice before they take the
step.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Sight for Godg and Men.
Baltimore Day (Pern.).
We fail to find the protectionist editor of
the Philadelphia Press referring to the con
dition of things in the Pennsylvania coal
fields, where the wives of miners have asked
to be sent to jail with their husbands because
they had nothing for themselves or their
children to eat except a little corn meal!
The Virginia Outlook
Washington Post (Dem.).
In the light of recent startling revelations
in Virginia and the rapid rate at which Ma
hone and his following arc going to the
“demnition bow-wows,” the 44,000 majority
which the Old Dominion gave for Hancock in
I*Bo is likelv to be doubled for Cleveland in
18n4. Honesty and independence are surging
to the front.
Praise of Honest Poverty.
.Veto York World (Dem.).
Blaine is a millionaire, Butler is a million
aire and Cleveland is a man in moderate cir
cumstances. Mr. Cleveland has had oppor
tunities to enrich himself in office, but he has
attended to public business as though it were
a solemn trust. Old-fashioned people, who
believe in old-fashioned honesty, will vote for
the man whose official record is unstained by
jobbery or unfaithfulness— the man who has
never had in his pocket a dollar dishonestly or
shamefully earned.
Malionc and Cameron.
Mew York Times (Ind. Rep.).
There seems to be no further room for doubt
that the breach between Senator Mahone and
Gov. Cameron in Virginia is irreparable and
that Mahone’soid lieutenant, SenatorKiddle
berger, is with the Governor in the fight. The
contest between the two leaders will be car
ried into the Congressional conventions which
are to be held to-day, and there the first test
of strength will be in ade. Precisely what the
effect will be on the electoral ticket cannot
be calculated, but the Blaine vote will cer
tainly not be increased.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A full-blooded Prince, of Papal alliances,
teaches piano playing in the Naples villa gar
dens. “One night,” says a London corre
spondent, “this roi en exil made me a serious
and business-like offer to adopt me, and here
after to bequeath me his illustrious name —for
a consideration, of course. The consideration
was in francs, and could be spelt with two
figures!”
There is a popular idea that a silver plate
is inserted in the skull after trephining. Dr.
Brinton says, according to the Philadelphia
Clinical Record, that he has very carefully
examined all the aneient ami modern litera
ture, and failed to find a single instance re
ported of any metal plate being inserted after
trephining. Nor has he found any scientific
reference to it.
The Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal
gives the increase of California physicians at
240 per annum, a number which the State
cannot support. It appears that Los Angeles
has 100 regular physicians. The editor sayß
that the doctors arc ambitious to flourish in
the large cities, and will endure “philosophi
cal starvation” rather than settle in some
thriving town where they might ultimately
do well.
The prospects of opera in England arc just
as clouded as here. The season at the one opera
house, Covent Garden, has been a mixture of
opera in Italian and opera in German, and if
the former has failed to arouse the interest
exhibited in its regard in days of yore, it is
certain that the latter has met with even a
more unkindlv fate. The Germans have sung
to thin aud unappreciative audiences, and it
is not likely that the experiment will be re
peated.
A man who has been working in the har
vest fields at Solaro, California, has created
considerable stir among the cats and people
of Fairfield, and he is under arrest on the sup
position that he is crazy. Every cat he could
lay hands ou he would take to some secluded
spot, cut its tail and legs off. and then rip out
its liver. He offered $3 each for black cats,
and $2 50 each for other varieties. When ar
rested and searched 154 was found in his
pockets, besides a large number of cats’ claws,
legs, ears, livers, etc.
At the wedding breakfast in England re
cently one of the bridesmaids expressed a wish
to see that mystic document, a wedding li
cense, which she had never beheld. The re
quest occasioned a fearful discovery. The
clergyman had quite forgotten to ask'for the
license; the bridegroom had left it to his “best
man” to procure it, and this the “best man”
had forgotten to do. Of course, the marriage
was uo legal marriage at all. The wedd,.;.
party broke up in dismar. and the ceremony
was performed again the next day.
The wedding of Sam Hing, a wealthy
Chinese merchant of El Paso, Texas, and a
respectable Creole girl named Miss Louisa
Sidonia Veque was quietly performed by a
Justice of the Peace Monday night at the resi
dence of the bride's parents in New Orleaus.
The young lady is really beautiful and accom
plished, with an unblemished reputation. She
was neatly attired, and the happy husband
was dressed in a black broadcloth'suit. His
long plait of hair was carefully coiled and
placed on the top of his head. Mr. Hing has
been in business at El Paso for some time. He
furnishes supplies and labor on the Texas
Pacific Road at that end. He has amassed
quite a large sum of money which he and his
wife hope to enjoy.
Florence, the actor, got a little fun out of
the anti-Jewish crusade at the summer hotel.
His jovial face has Irish lines in it, but no
lineament that could be construed as Jewish.
He had read about the situation, and it came
into bis mind as he walked up to the resnstry.
He wrote tn the book ‘ 8. Isaacs, New York.”
The clerk looked at the signature in sudden
alarm, and then gazed earnestly into the
comedian’s visage. “Is that your name, sir?”
he stammered, quite thrown off his usual
steady balance. “Dot ish my name, yes,” was
the reply, in excellent dialect. “I-socks—
Solomon I-socks.” “Tnen I am sorry to say
that we can't give you a room.” At this point
the hvstanders laughed, and the actor’s joke
was duly noted for publication.
Thf. largest two hotels at Saratoga would
be crowded by other persons than guests dur
ing the hours of music and dancing were not
restrictive measures adoDted. The houses
cannot be thrown open to all comers,as at small
resorts, with no other rule than that those
who enter shall be well dressed. Therefore
doortenders put the question, “Are you a
guest?” to all comers whose faces they do not
recall as belonging to boarders. But the au
dacious and expert belle from a $2 boarding
house does not let resentment serve to exclude
her from the most coveted privileges of the 45
establishment. Wheu the sentry challenges
her, she removes all expression from the rest
of her pretty face and concentrates in her
eyes the greatest amount of scorn she can
command. Then she turns her eyes fixedly
ou the hireling, murmurs “certainly, sir,”
aud moves smoothly, unhesitatingly, slowly
past him. He knows that she lies, but what
can he do about it?
The Youdoos of Louisiana— those nagroes
who still make the eve of St. ’John an orgy of
weird incantation—were recently viewed at
the funeral of a negress, one of the Queens of
Voudoo. In a shanty she lay in fantastic
garb. On her head was a garland of bay
leaves, while absut her neck a dead snaks was
twined. The fitful light from a bunch *f re
sinous pine cast a smoky glare over a hundred
negroes, who, with joined hands, sat en the
ground and swayed their bodies bacl and
forth to tiic rhvtliin of a monotonous dinning
song, ever amt auon letting out an unrirthly
6crcam. Then came a march by torchlight to
the grave. The torches were ilashed u> the
ground, ami the dance above described was
repeated with such vigor this time that jefore
it ended many of the dancers had fallen to
the earth from sheer exhaustion. Then the
clothes of the dead woman were thrown into
the grave, one garment at a time, some of
them being torn in tno before being cas; in.
“Science” gives some curious figures with
regard to the membership of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Of the 2,011 members more than one-third
come from New York (349) and Massachusetts
(341) conjoined. Ohio has 208, the District of
Columbia 129, Canada 120 and Pennsylvania
111. No other State has more than 100 mem
bers. New York (153), Boston (142), Cincin
nati ana Washington (each 127; are the cities
which furnish most members, while Philadel
phia (51) is distanced by Montreal (71). The
scientific showing of Montreal and of Min
• neapolis (31) is explained bv the fact that the
last meetings of the association were hid in
those two cities. There is no doubt that the
membership of Pentisy'vania generallv, and
of Philadelphia in particular, will greatlt in
ereu.-c this autumn, and it is to he hoped that
h large proportion of those who join in orler
to participate in the privileges of the coming
meetings Mill become permanent members.
I>r. Albert Day publishes an article on
medical delusions. as a notable in
stance of these the wonderful cures which
were effected in the New England States dur
ing the last year of the past century by what
were known as the Perkins metallic points.
It seems that a certain Dr. Perkins, of Plain
field, Conn., made and patented metallic
tractors. One part was composed of steel,
and the other of some metallic compound.
The operation of cure consisted in uniting the
large euds, and then drawing the sharp points
over the diseased parts. Letters are given
from a number of professional men and promi
nent merchants, testifying to the miraculous
effect produced. The fame walked, the rheu
matic were relieved of their pains, inflamma
tions of all kinds immediately subsided, and
even confirmed cases of cancer yielded imme
diately under the magical pressure of the
Perkins tractors. The inventor was not, how
ever, able to ward off disease on his own ac
count, for he died in the height of his fame in
1797, His son took out a patent for the trac
tors in Englad. There, too, the success at the
outset was astonishing, and the younger l)r.
Perkins quickly made $50,000.
BRIGHT BITS.
J. Warren Keifer will, it is said, practice
law in Washington. It will now he harder
than, ever to persuade good men to run for
President.— Philadelphia Call.
New style cabman (to military chap on
the avenue)—“Hansom. Captain?” Supposed
military chap—“ Well, y-e-s—so they tell me.”
Cabman (sotto voce)—“The bloody mug
wump!”— Life.
The raid on the Mother Hubbard dress in
the West is not attributed to the pelisse. The
girls, it is of-flchu-Iy stated, will 6eek re
dress. (This is a sort of full-dress paragraph,
and we jabot in here simply to fill up. We
didn’t know whether to waist basque it or
not.) — Morristown Herald.
“Did you read those horrible stories of the
Arctic sufferers living off of each other?”
asked Mrs. Lumply of her husband.
“Yes, I read all the particulars.” “Dread
ful, isn't it?” “Oh. it’s nothing when yon
once get used to having people live off of you.
I used to kick when your mother, and your
sister, and all the rest of them came to live off
of me, but I’ve got so used to it now that I
never complain.”— Texas Si/tings.
New York Alderman—“No use letting
John go to the public library. All ot them
are closed on Sundays.” Mrs. Alderman—
“Oh! you must be I know one
was open on Sundays this spring, because I
was there mvself.” Alderman—“ Yes, it was
then, but we'have had them closed up since.”
Mrs. Alderman—“ Why, what for?” Alder
man—“ Well, the fact is, they interfered with
the business of my saloon.” —Philadelphia
Call.
“Couldn’t you find room enough for your
self on that bench without pushing that little
boy off on the floor?” asked an Austin school
teacher of the bad boy of the school. “I
didn’t wan’t any room for myself,” was the
reply, “I wasn’t crowded at all.” "Jekam why
did you push him off?” “To givafi.' TJmore
room. He was the boy who was# JKed, so
I pushed him off to give him pie A? or room.
There is a great deal more room .LX fa bench
than there is on it.” —Texas SiflivßA^
First inventor—“llcllo, Geor QfWhat
are vou at now?” Second
est invention of the age. Shall sell millions
and make millions sure.” “But what is it?”
“A thermometer.” “Oh,pshaw!” “Yes, but
this is a thermometer for summer hotels.”
“No money in it.” “But this i6 anew and
improved kind. It has more mercury in it
than the old kind, and will sell like hot cakes.
Summer hotel proprietors will pay big prices
for them.” “More mercury? Why, what ad
vantage is that?” “Can't you see? When the
real temperature is 65 in the sun, my ther
mometer will register 125 in the shade.” —
Philadelphia Call.
Out in the cornfield, grouped together,
A flock of crows discussed the weather.
Observing them, thrifty farmer Nick
Declared that the crows were “gettin’ too
thick."
“I must have a scarecrow—that is true:
Now, would not that old umbrella do?”
So into the house the farmer went.
And away to the field the umbrella sent.
One rainy (lay the farmer went out
To view the cornfields laying about;
He neared the umbrella; looked inside;
And what he saw, made him laugh till he
cried!
For in there, out of the rainy weather,
A dozen crows were huddled together!
So the farmer laughing as farmers should.
Said I lear my scarecrow did little good.”
—St. Micholas for September.
PERSONAL.
Gen. N. P. Banks, whose daughter contem
plates a speedy debut upon the stage, was
himself once an actor.
William Drvsdale, known in both Phila
delphia and New York journalism, has gone
by the steamer Ci nfuegos for a long tour
among the West Indies and inSouth America.
John C. Calhoun, nephew and namesake
of the great South Carolinian, has just been
reconciled and united with the young wife
from whom lie was separated nearly four
years ago.
At Cettinale, near Siena, Italy, lives Fran
ces Elliot, thfe “Idle Woman” of Spain and
Italy, in the midst of a vast forest, in the
spectre-haunted Chigi Villa, built by the fa
mous Cardinal Flavio.
The Misses Grant, Lawrence and Winslow
are mentioned as being the most admired
among the young American beauties who
went (town to Cowes in the train of Lady
Mandeville when Prince George, of Wales,
was made a Knight of the Garter.
Cyclonia is the name given to an Indiana
baby, and it is no misnomer. She was born
during the frightful cyclone in Jamacia two
years ago. which swept away villages aud
forests. The house in which the mother lay
was demolished—all except the four walls ana
celling of the room in which she was.
For the comfort of the Newport Angloma
niacs it may be definitely stated that the
present Duke of Wellington, Henry Welles
ley, is a young man of 38, married only two
years ago to the daughter of the late member
of Parliament, Thomas Peers Williams, and
that the husband of the actrcss,Kate Vaughan,
is in no danger of immediately succeeding to
the title.
Richard Grant White’s “own individual
opinion,” after his anatomizing of Shakes
peare, “is that if he (Shakespeare) had been
sitting with ‘King Lear,’ ‘Hamlet’ and
"‘theilo’before him in manuscript, unacted
am\ 'inread but by him, and Southampton
nad offered him j£ltiO (nearly $15,000 now) each
to destroy them and never rewrite them, the
tragedies' would have flitted into the tire and
the money have been gleefully locked up in
the poet’s strongvbox.”
Emperor William’s favorite flower is that
most prosaic, pretty, uninteresting corn
flower, the blue bottliv-without any perfume,
but which looks so bright and healthy in a
large field of wheat aud so fresh aud innocent
in the hair of a fair young girl. His grand
mother had this same curious taste in respect
to flowers. The Emperor is tall and well
built, and when he was young had a fine,
manly presence. Though he is now very old,
he still’ has a wonderful dignified attitude,
and it is astonishing—as well as fatiguing for
those who are with him—to see how long he
can stand without getting tired.
BOOK NOTICES.
Life and Public Services of Gro.ver
Cleveland. By Pendleton King. New
York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
This little volume contains a brief re
cital of the main features of Gov. Cleve
land’s early life, and a complete sketch
of his public record as a lawyer, as Sher
iff, as Mayor and Governor. It is a cheap
but valuable campaign document.
Rutherford. By Edgar Fawcett. Funk Jk
Wagnalls, London and 10 and 12 Dey street,
New York.
This is a very readable society novel of
New York life by the author of “An Am
bitious Woman,” “A Gentleman of Leis
ure,” “A Hopeless Case,” “Tinkling
Cymbals,” etc. It is in a cheap and con
venient form—being one of the Standard
Library series.
Seven Hundred Album Verses. In paper
cover, 15 cents; cloth, 30 cents: J. 8. Ogil
vie A Cos., publishers, 31 Rose street, New
York.
This is a very pleasant little volume, con
taining 128 pages of choice selections of
prose and poetry, suitable for writing in
autograph albums.
magazines.
The September Magazine of American
History will interest a wide audience,
among the hills and valleys of the Ameri
can continent. From the variety of sub
jects treated, the scope and possibilities
of this growing power in the field of his
toric literature cannot fail to be recog
nized. The frontispiece is an excellent
engraving of the portrait of Murillo, from
the painting by himself, and its pertinence
is apparent toall who read the Query on
Eage 281. The leading illustrated article,
y Mrs. Lamb, furnishes a truthtul and
spirited “Glimpse of the Valley of Many
Waters,” its settlement and development,
and is in itself a mine of historic informa
tion concerning that particular region of
our country beyond the Rocky Mountains.
This magazine is proving itself an unfail
ing source of historical and documentary
evidence of the growth and expansion of
our vast country. 30 Lafayette Place,
New York city.
CASE OF MALPRACTICE.
Curiosities of Bible and History.
Correspondence of the Morning Mews.
Irwinville, Ga., Aug. 26.—The usual
'tedium and silence that generally reigns
supreme in our little village was broken
somewhat this morning by the prelimi
nary trial of one Dr. M. G. Brady, who
was brought before Justice Marcus Luke
on a warrant charging him with mal
practice and manslaughter in causing
the death of one Rebecca Rogers. He was
her attending physician and, according
to the evidence developed at the prelimi
nary examination, his mode of treatment
seemed to have been at variance with all
rules of medicine. He came to this coun
ty about three years ago and commenced
tue practice of medicine, but has never
succeeded in doing much, only among
the more ignorant class of people. His
registry ia the Clerk of Court’s office
reads as follows:
“M. G. Brady, Wilkinson county. Ga.
Diploma. Granted by Eclectic Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia, I’a. Date, April 27, 1851.”
After a patient hearing of the case, Jus
tice Lifke fixed bond at SI,OOO, in default
of which he was committed to jail. One
sad feature of this case is that Brady is a
man about 60 years ot age.
“Every Indian is provided with his
charm, or fetich, revealed to him in some
awful hour of ecstacy or drunkennes. He
carries a fetich suspended to his neck; he
praises it or chides it; if successful, his
fetich receives glory ; if he fails, his fetich
is disgraced.” (Indian Mythology, page
44.).
CURIOSITIES OF BIBLE AND HISTORY.
An old friend called my attention
ko the following facts a few days
ago: Grecian history states that a
wheel driven by steam conveyed
water out or the Nile river into
Lake Moeres. Heroditus Archimedes, the
great scientist of ancient times, it is
stated, used engines of war driven by
steam, even as be is alleged to have
burned Roman ships miles distant by
means of powerful or many lenses.
When Ctesar was in Egypt there was
exhibited a toy steam engine something
on the order of a tea kettle having two
spouts.
ftChinese records say that steam has been
used as a propelling force from time im
memorial.
And it seems that hundreds of years
before the Saviour was born a telegram
was sent and the lightning employed as
a messenger. “I will send the lightnings
and say, 10, I am here.”— Job.
Nahum said they (the locomotives)
“ran like the lightnings.” They jostled
one another (had smash ups probably).
They made the trees dance. ( What was
this?)
Dynamite.—l don’t know whether
Daniel was a dynamiter or not. But he
went down to the riverside one morning
and gave a huge crocodile a pill of dyna
mite or cun cotton wrapped in flesh. The
monster swallowed it and was blown to
atoms.
Court convenes here on the fifth Mon
day in September. Judge A. C. Pate, of
Hawkinsville, has announced his decision
to retire from the bench at the end of his
term. This announcement has been
heard with regret by his friends here.
Our farmers are busy picking cotton.
Paul.
Negro Superstition About Brooms.
St. Louis Republican.
“Ef you put a broom in the cornder
always let de broom part he on de flo’ an’
de handel stickin’ up, kase if you don’t
bad luck gwine come to dat house des as
sho’ as you do it; deed it will.”
This was a queer statemfent in the
opinion of the market men, and the idea
beingAidiculed, Uncle Billy appealed to a
colored man whom he called Dick, where
upon Dick enthusiastically indorsed his
old partner by declaring:
“Unk’ Billy is talkin’ de right sort er
talk, gemmen. He am tellen’ de truf, ef
eber she wos spoke. Whatever you do,
doan’ come to my house an’ set a broom
up de wrong way, and let her stay dat
way ober Dight.”
Dick further strengthened his testimony
on the broom question by saying: “Ef
you think dis ain’t de truf doan let man
make pass at you wid a broom what been
settin’ up de wrong way ober night, kaze
ef you does youg wine ter jail sho’.”
“Go to jail!” someone exclaimed.
“Yasser, go to jail! Dat’s what I said,
an’ 1 know what I’se sayin’, kaze I done
bin dar. Man made pass at me wid a
long-hanel broom, an’ bless grashus ’fore
de nex’ night I was in de calaboose.
’Course, tain’t no hurt to have ’im make
pass at you wid a wiss broom, kaze dat’s
no harm.”
“Hear dat?” said Uncle Billy, as he
hugged his fish tighter and started to
walk off leisurely, while the Teutonic
fish vender laughed immoderately and
repeated his former assertion that they
were a set of “grazy goons.”
Describing the cranial differences ob
servable in men and women, M. Manou
vrier considers that while the parietal is
less developed in women, the occipital is
generally larger in them than in men.
“ELI PERKINS” IN GERMANY.
pow to be Fashionable at Wiesbaden—
The Excitement Produced at a Hotel
by a Guest Wishing an All-over WArm
Bath The Dresden Masterpieces
Cook's Tickets.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Mews.
Wiesbaden, Germany, Aug. 16.
Wiesbaden is one of the “swell”
watering places of Germany. It has
about 20,000 guests and at least
twenty large hotels. The Wies
baden water is hot. It runs out of
the ground boiling hot. It is about the
same as Saratoga water heated. This
water the people drink before breakfast at
the hot spring, in the centre of the town.
In the afternoon they bathe in it for rheu
matism. A physician tells me that any
hot water will help, if not cure, rheuma
tism.
To be fashionable at Wiesbaden, you
arise at 7 o’clock, go to the hot spring and
promenade up and down a long veranda,
with an eye-glass or parasol in one hand
and a mug of hot sulphur water in the
other. When the band plays the fellows
ogle the girls and do a little sly flirting
when the papas and mammas are not
looking. At 9, breakfast of coffee and
rolls. At 10 you go to the Koursaal, a big
social board of trade, where you hear a
band play, read the newspapers, drink
beer and flirt with the girls.
When I say flirt I don’t mean that girls
know how to flirt as they do in America.
The girl’s mamma alway sits close by her
and hears every word she says. Some
times the poor fellow sits between the
two. Then he is between Scylla and
Charybdis. He is hot on one side and
cold on the other. He has to talk Cupid
out of one side of his mouth and Minerva
out of the other. It is not so in America.
In Saratoga the American girl gets out on
the back balcony of the States and raises
an umbrella over a fellow, and their hands
get mixed up under the morning newspa
per, and he sighs and she sighs, as he
drops soft words of love right on her ear
pan. That kind of flirting means busi
ness. But this talking about the beauties
of the Rhine, the height of the Righi, or
the coldness of Mount Blanc to mother and
daughter—in fact, the whole idea of court
ing a girl and her mother at one and the
same time would not go down in America.
The fellows are not selfish in America.
One girl at once will do for them. In Ger
many the girl only says yah, yah, yah,
while her mother does the talking. She is
always agreeable. It is such an event
for a German girl to be courted that she
is too happy to live, in America a girl is
often courted by two or three fellows at
once, and some of them get a decided
“no” now and then. A German girl has
but one courting and no flirting. She
means business from the start. She says
“yah” with her eyes before she has been
asked.
At 1:30 comes table d’hote. You eat
soup, fish, roast, game, salad and pre
serves, crackers and cheese. After dinner
girls pretend to tell their mammas every
thing a fellow has said to her, but if her
hand has been held she lies about it.
At 8 all go to the Koursaal, where mu
sic and dancing fill up the evening.
There is no dressing at Wiesbaden. My
wife brought some Saratoga things, but
didn’t take them out of the trunk. At the
big ball last night there was not one long
dress. Men wore hunting suits and busi
ness suits generally. It look to me more
like a schuetzenfest in St. Louis instead
ot a grand ball at Saratoga. The swellest
Dutch girls drank beer between the
dances. Imagine an American girl in
full toilet at a ball at Newport or Sara
toga retiring to a dingy table and drink
ing pint ruugs of beer, while her sweet
heart loads up a pipe.
No, there isn’t any style or fashion at a
German watering place. It is a Dutch
schuetzenfest. If you take the champagne
and long dresses out of the Leiderkrauze
ball in New York, you will have left the
grand ball at fashionable Wiesbaden.
When I was in W iesbaden in 1867 there
was a good deal of gambling there. This
was stopped by the King of Prussia in
1870.
ORTHODOXY IN GERMANY.
Southern Germany is ail Catholic and
Northern Germany is all Protestant. The
Etnperor William and bis household are
Protestants. * Berlin on Sunday is as sol
emn as any Protestant city in America.
The stores are all closed and shutters are
up. The Prussian capital is a very moral
town. Even tbe photographs of the nude
pictures in the Paris Salon are not allow
ed in the Berlin store windows.
“Tell theifi in America,” said the ven
erable Dr. Broutberger, of Philadelphia,
as we came out of the Kaiser Hof, “that
this morality among the Germans is
caused by King William being a praying
Christian; the King kneels down and
prays every morning.”
Tlie satre change about Sunday is going
on all over Europe. Even the shops in
Paris begin to close on Sunday. In five
years Sunday will be observed in France.
Old travelers who remember Paris of 1870
would not know her now on Sunday.
Europe is becoming cosmopolite in ev
erything. Costumes are disappearing.
Y'ou could not tell a resident of Munich,
Berlin, Dresden or Paris from a New
Yorker. The character of architecture is
also becoming cosmopolite. You can
hardlv tell Berlin from New York. Y’ou
never see a national costume unless in the
mountains of Switzerland. The average
German, Frenchman and Englishman
wear clothes alike.
DEAR, DEAR, DEAR WATER.
The most expensive thing and the hard
est thing to get in Europe is plain water.
At tbe hotels even in Switzerland, where
the ice-crowned Alps are in sight, they
charge you for ice-water to drink. There
is no water on the cars, and at the sta
tions they look at you in amazement if
you ask for it. To protect myself, I now
carry a bottle of water strapped to my
carpet-bag.
One day in the Bon Marche, in Paris,
where they employ at least two hundred
clerks, my wife, who was making pur
chases, asked the clerk to be kind enough
to give her a glass of water.
“A what?” he exclaimed, in utter
amazement.
“A glass of water —plain, wet water,”
repeated my wife.
“There isn’t such a thing in the store,”
said the clerk.
“But in this great store what do you do
when you get thirsty?” asked my wife.
“Why, we wait till noon or night and
drink a bottle of wine.”
But if it is hard to get a glass of water
in France, Switzerland or Germany to
drink, how much harder is it to get enough
for a bath. The idea of water enough to
bathe in all over sets them wild. At Dres
den, the boasted art centre of Europe, my
wife wanted a hot bath. In America
when a guest wants a hot bath, he rings
for the chambermaid, turns on the hot
water, takes it, and finds twenty-five cents
charged for it in his bill. Well, I went
down to the office and saw the clerk about
it. He seemed half dazed at the idea of a
bath, and went off to see the proprietor.
The proprietor came puffing back to the
office, and asked me what I wanted.
“My wife wants a bath,” I said.
“All over—bath all over?” he gasped.
“Yes, all over, in hot water.”
“Hot water—hot water all over—mein
Gott in himmel!” he exclaimed, throwing
up his hands.
“Yes, a hot water bath,” I said; “tell
the girl to turn on the hot and cold
water.”
“But there isn’t any hot water,” said
the landlord; “we’ll have to send a com
missioner to the bath-house on Frederick
Strasse and have it brought here.”
“What!” I said, in surprise, “send for
a bath tub and hot water—send out for
it?”
“Yes,” he said, handing the commis
sioner a note; “it will be brought here in
an hour.”
I wdnt up to the room and awaited re
sults. The hotel was in an uproar. It
was a great event to take a bath in Dres
den, and I’ve experienced the same trou
ble and surprise in Berlin and Cologne.
After waiting an hour, there was a great
noise and clatter in the hall. Pretty soon
a man and his wife came to the door.
They were carrying something that look
ed like a coffin. It proved to be a long,
black, rusty bath tub. They placed it in
the middle of the room. Then they went
down two pair of stairs to a wagon stand
ing in front of the hotel, and 'commenced
Winging up hot water in large tin buckets.
This water had been heated at the bath
house, a half mile away. They soon had
the bath tub full, and my wife took her
bath. Then the thing was carried down
stairs to the wagon again.
When I paid my bill I w’as charged 3
marks ( 75 cents ) for this hath and 30 cents
for the commissioner. You can never get
a InW 1 bath in Europe for less than 60
cents. It is 5 cents for a drink of ice
water, even with your dinner, in a Paris
restaurant, and from 2 to 5 cents for going
into a cabinet pour dames or a cabinet
pour hommes (water closet). The other
day I felt smoky and sticky on the train,
and looked around at the station for a
chance to wash. The big Seine river was
running the other side of the depot. An
old woman in the wash-room had a pint
of water in a tin basin and wanted half a
tranc for the use of it. I told her I was
not going to destroy the water, but would
simply use it a moment. She was inex
orable, and I paid the tax that cleanli
ness always has to pay in barbarous
Europe.
EATING AND DRINKING IN GERMANY.
The Germans feed better than the
French. Their food is more substantial.
They are stronger than the French. Ger
man meals consist in strong coffee, bread
and butter for breakfast, a table d’hote
dinner at 1:30 of soup, roast mutton or
beef, chicken or duck, and sweet meats
for dessert, and beer for supper iu the
beer gardens. Berlin has hundreds of
beautitul beer gardens, where rich and
poor congregate nightly. Beer seems to
be taking the place of wine all over Eu
rope. In Dijon, the centre of the Burgun
dy wine district, I saw nothing but beer
in the gardens and cafes. In Wiesbaden,
surrounded by the Rhine vineyards, it is
all beer. The price of beer is usually 3
cents per pint glass, except in Munich,
where it is 3 cents per quart mug. The
Bavarian beer is always the best,-aud is
sold in Saxony and all over Prussia.
lam pained to see dram-drinking in
creasing in Germany. The English bar,
with brandy and whisky, begin to occupy
conspicuous corners. Plain beer is too
thin for the habitual drunkard. He can
never drink enough to kill himself or
bring on the delirium tremens. He can
hardly get a red nose from beer. So when
he wants to paint his nose red, get the
delirium tremens and kill himself, he has
to resort to the English bar, where the
poison is stronger and its results more
deadly.
THE DRESDEN MASTERPIECES.
The great feature of the Dresden gallery
are the two rival Madonnas painted by
Holbein and Raphael. Travelers always
pass by a mile or two of pictures by such
men as Teniers, Rubens, Van Dvck, Cor
reggio, Murillo, Tintoretto and Ruysdael,
and walk straight to the masterpieces of
Holbein and Raphael. Raphael's Madon
na is called the Sistine Madonna, because
it was painted for Pope Pius Sixtus,
whose portrait is in the foreground in
tently gazing at Mary soaring away with
the infant Jesus in her arms. The picture
was painted in 1505. The cheek of a Pope
getting on to the same canvas with the
Virgin Mary is sublime. It would be just
as proper for Beecher to hire Meissouier
to paint the Virgin Mary and infant
Christ soaring away over the Hudson
with a picture of Henry Ward and Mrs.
Stowe in the foreground. The Romans saw
the silliness of the Sistine Madonna, and
would not have it in Rome. So the Duke
of Modena sold it to Dresden ,for $40,000.
The picture has been so advertised by the
engravers aud photographers that it
draws hundreds of thousands of people to
see it every year. I have no doubt that
this picture 'draws to Dresden a half mil
lion of dollars annually. It pays these
European Kings to keep these works of
art. The “Venus de Medici” has drawn
millions of people to the Ufflzi Gallery at
Florence, and Rubens’ “Descent from the
Cross” keeps the art pilgrims streaming
into Antwerp.
Every one feels a great dispointment on
seeing a picture like the Sistine Madonna.
The artists all say there is really nothing
great about it. The engravers have im
proved it as they improve Turner’s pic
tures. The picture occupies an entire
room. It is about 9x12 feet in size. It is
labelled simplv “Raphael Stanzio. Born
1485, died 1520!”
Holbein’s Madonna also represents a
falsehood, or rather an impossibility. It
is called the Madonna and the sick child.
But whose sick child is it? Why, it be
longs to the Burgomaster of Basle, who
lived a thousand years after the Virgin
Mary! The Burgomaster’s child was
dying, and the Burgomaster is represent
ed in the picture with his entire family
praying, while the Virgin Mary has laid
down Cnrist and taken up the sick baby.
The sublime cheek of the red-nosed Bur
gomaster of Basle taking the infant God
out of the Virgin’s arms and putting a
Dutch baby in the place of Omnipotence!
This is ancient art! •
cook’s tickets.
When I started for a general tour in
Europe my intention was to buy my own
tickets at the different station's. I con
tinued this for a spell, and then fell back
to the Cook tourist tickets. Cook has
headquarters in every city of importance
on the continent. His tickets often an
swer as a passport. They save a world of
trouble. By simply showing them to a
conductor, lie immediately takes you in
charge as if you were a baby and sees you
through safely. Custom house officers
glance at your Cook ticket, and your
trunk is not opened. They know you are
tourist, and, as your ticket is printed in
English, they know you are an English
man or an American. I advise anyone
coming to Europe to use Cook’s tourist
tickets. I would use them if they cost
more than the regular ticket, but they
happen to cost much less.
SLAVERY IN EUROPE.
Many people think slavery has been
abolished in Europe. They are mistaken.
The other day in Belgium I saw women
harnessed like horses to canal boats. The
Captain sat on the bow of the boat smok
ing, while another woman acted as pilot.
The old slavery of Georgia was a mild and
fatherly apprenticeship compared to this
modern slavery in Europe.
Eli Perkins.
A HOODOOED RAZOR.
Why a Pennsylvania Barber’s Razor
Would Not Shave.
Pittsburg Commercial.
“Drat de razzer,” said a gray-haired
old barber in an Alleghany shop, Satur
day morning, as his victim gave an agno
nizing yell. He stopped, ran his thumb
along" the edge of his ancient horn-handle,
and said: “She is got all de ’pearance of
bein’ sharp, but dese razzers am curus.
Now, I’se had dat knife goin’ on eighteen
veahs, an’ dis am de to’th time she’s gone
into dem sulks.”
“What do you mean by that, uncle?”
asked the victim as he wiped a bit of lath
er out of his left eye.
“W’y, doan’ you know a razzer’ll hab
de sulks jest like a ’ooman or a mule?”
continued the old man as he gave a finish
ing touch with the strap' to a bone-han
dled instrument preparatory to a fresh on
slaught.
“No; do they?”
“W’y, bress yah haht, sonny, dey does
hab spells now'an’ den, an’ yo’ can’t do
nuffin wid dem. Mebbe a razzer’ll shave
along all right for six months, an’ mebbe
for a veab, an’ den all at once she jes
commences to scratch an’ pull je6 like yo’
was being shabed wid a han’ saw. I’ve
seen ’em jes offen a hone sbabe one man
jes as clean an’ so easy dat he’d be jes go
in’ to sleep, an’ de next time mebbe a boy
ud set down in de char wat hadn't any
more har on his face dan yo’ has on de
palm ob yo’ han’, an’ dat razzer’d jes com
mence an’ let out her teeth an’ pull till dat
feller ud jes yell right out.”
The old man straightened up here to re
lieve the tension on his rheumatic old
joints, and the victim asked:
“What Is the cause of it, uncle?”
“Somebody’s done put a hoodoo on it, I
spec.”
“A hoodoo! What’s that?”
“Bress yer innercent soul, doan’ yer
know-water hoodoo is? W’y its whar a
pusson wid de power puts a spell on yo’
or yo’ tools, or somfin w’at yo’ owns.
Dar’s an ole ooman libs down on de alley
w’at has a cat, an’ I killed de cat ioh get
tin in my- cubbard an’ eaten a piece ob
libber. Well, dat ooman has worked de
debbil ginst me ebber since. Spec I’ll hab
ter make a ’formashum ginst her foh de
Mayor.”
The old man stopped lor a minute <or
two as he dried the face of his victim. Sud
denly he broke out:
“Boss, is yer a ’surance agent?”
“No.”
“Does yer sell books?”
“No.”
‘•W-’at is yer, den?”
“I am a reporter.”
“1 thought you was sumfin of dat sort.
Next!”
Planting a Cocoanut.
To the gentleman who has written me
that he read of the cocoanut growing nice
ly as a house plant in Brooklyn, and that
he desires to start one, and wishes to
know whether the DUt should be planted
with the eye up or down, says a West In
dia letter, I must confess that of my own
observation Ido not know. I always took
it for granted that of course the eye and
stem should be planted upward, unless
the planter desired to have his tree grow
through.to China, for the benefit of Mon
golian unbelievers. But lam surprised
to find, in a trustworthy work on cocoa
nuts, the following directions: “They
should be planted as follows: Place the
ripe nuts about four inches under the soil,
and about twenty feet apart. Care should
be taken to plant the nut with the end
that is attached to the stem downward, as
the milk inside of the nut will then cover
the eye and germinate the young sprout
that produces the tree.” But if you follow
these directions, my dear sir, and subse
quently the proud owner of
a growing upside down,
please me.
iUattttH.
W anted, a mTn
versant with the wholesale a “q r S',
grocery business; can furnish rerereL t f 1
honesty and sobriety. Address B.,News
\Y ANTED, two first-class stick eiTT
makers; must be steady Hu.l re wi y
pve references. FRANK E. BLOCK \t’
g°°d grocery clerk;
4 > has been in the busincs-; must
well recommended. Apply Monday
RUSSAK A CO., 22 and Bsrnlv.Utr”!?*’
ANTED ‘ a strictly temperance y o m^
’ V UM ‘ n > H position; writes a g(„| hand
good at figures. Address J, W. 41. , this office
w ANTEr ,\’ a B irl , for general
* * a small family with no children t- n
quire 189 McDonough street. ‘ ,n ‘
w ANTED TO SELL, a family
\\ Synagogue Mikva Israel; liberal term?
Inquire store 160 Broughton street. *’
w ANTEI \ everybody to know tliat'hl
4 price of Photographs made by the n
instantaneous process is reduced ; ('ar.u iM
per dozen; cabinets $3 per dozen. J \ \\ t\ ~
ON, 21 Bull street, opposite ■Screveii H., Us€
WANTED, a first-class minineiTmuTTirr
4 4 good trimmer and competent to take
charge of work room; highest salary and
steady employment. Apply to 8. Kitur*
KOFF’SMi Ltd S ERY llot’SE, corner Whit,'
ker and Congress lane.
\\T ANTED, ladies and gent’emen in city 0 -
4 4 country to take light work at their oven
homes; $3 to $4 a day easily made; work sent
by mail; no canvassing. We have good de
mand for our work and furnish steady enp
ployment. Address, with stamp, CRbtYli
M’P’G CO., 290 Race street, Cincinnati, o.
TIT ANTED, ladies and young men wishinz
4 4 to earn $1 to $3 every day quietly at
their homes; work furnished; sent py mail
no canvassing; no stamps required for reply’
Please address EDWARD F. DAVIS A CO
uSSouth Main street. Fall River. Mass. ”
£• ttrttt.
U|4WO Tery de-irahle front rooms, furni-htd
X or unfurnished, with use: of bath room
and parlor, single or en suite; suitable for
light housekeeping or sleeping rooms for gen
tlemen. 37 Abercorn street, fronting the
square.
FOR KENT, that desirable brick residence
X No. 53 Gaston street; possession -ivon
Nov. I. next. Apply next door. No. 55, or to
M. N. DeLKTTRE, No. 125 Broughton street.
IAOR RENT, house ou Waldburg street, lie
tween Barnard and Jefferson, No. 180-
water and gas throughout; southern frontage’
possession given Oct. 1. Apply ou premises. ’
tTXJ RENT, a nicely furnished room, with
X use of bath; convenient to ‘ i avannuh
Florida and Western Railway. 37 < harlton
street.
XpOB RENT, desirable offices in building
X south side Bay, corner Lincoln street. ,r
15. RIPLEY, 118 Bay street.
RENT, two suits of rooms, second and
third floors, centrally iocated. Address
A., P. O. Box 143.
JpOR RENT, floor ol four rooms, with bath
room. Apply 38 Charlton street.
TO RENT OR FOR SALE, the three-story
brick house No. 204 Bryan street. Apply
to THOS. BOSTOC'K, No. 5 Montgomery st.
RENT, from Oct. 1, flat of six rooms;
separate bath. Apply at 132 Taylor street.
FOIt RENT, nicely furnished rooms, with
use of bath room. Apply at 136 state
street.
Fl'Oii RENT, one new two-story house, sec
ond from Habersham street south of An
derson; sl2 50 per month. Apply to 1> 11
LESTER.
FOR RENT, parlor floor, containing five
X rooms; large, airy rooms, with use of
bath; possession given Sept. 1. Apply No. 215
Hull street.
TO KENT, store corner of West Broad and
Hall streets; the building new and stand
desirable. Apply on premises.
IT’OR RENT, three or four desirable rooms,
furnished or unfurnished; centrally lo
cated; bath room and gas; references. Ad
dress I>„ P. O. Box 232.
FOR RENT OR SALE, house No. 121 Gor-
X 1 don street, with all modern improvements,
in perfect order; for sale on very liberal
terms. Z. FALK, corner Congress and
Whitaker streets.
TO RENT, one or two nice front rooms,
second door west of Whitaker, on Perry
street.
IpOR RENT, one floor of four flue rooms
’ with bath-room and closet. ApplytoNo.
50 Harris street.
for Sau\
I? OR SALE, Jasper, Workman anil Trailers’ "
anil Merchants’ anil Mechanics’ Loan As
sociation stock, C, H, DOKSETT.
IT'OH SALE, a piano; rosewoou case; just
1 thoroughly repaired; low tor cash.
C, H, PORSETT.
I ’OR SALE, one f ingle horse spring freight
Truck, suitable for light or heavy work;
recently painted anil as good as new; not
large enough for our business, and we offer it
at a bargain. LUDDEN & BATES’ SOUTH
ERN MUSIC HOUSE,
F’Olt SALE, six lots, 30x70, near crossing of
the Middle Ground road and S., F. and \V,
Ry.; two of the lots have a one-story house
20x20 on them; will be Eold in one lot or
separately. J. F. BROOKS, 135 Bay street.
Ij’Oß SALE, or would take in a partner,
-an old established manufacturing busi
ness (1565). Address M., News office.
TJRESSES FOR SALE. —To make room for
Anew machinery, I offer for sale the
following Printing Presses; 1 Super Royal
Hoe Cylinder; 1 Medium Hoe Cylinder; 1
HaK Medium Liberty Press; 1 Quarto Me
dium Liberty Pres3. The machines arc in
good order, and can be seen at work in
Morning News pressroom. For further par
ticulars, apply to or address J. 11. ESTiLL,
Savannah. Ga.
' foot.
IOST. a brown Spaniel bitch pup (5 months
j old. A suitable reward will be paid for
its return to J. A. STEVENSON, Montgomery
aud Huntingdon streets.
StraijeD.
STRAYED off from my farm. White Bluff
road, early Friday morning, one extra large
sorrel horse anil one medium-sized sorrel mare
mule; both without shoes; auy information
in regard to 6ame will be (thankfully re
ceived. C HAS. H. DIXON, office No. 6 Dray
ton street.
poarDiiiQ.
rpABLE BOARD at 135J4 Congress street,
oyer Mr. Flint’s jewelry store. ______
JgOARD reduced at Catoosa Springs, Ga.
PER WEEK for best hotel apartments
at Catoosa Springs.
PER WEEK for clean, quiet cottages
at Catoosa Springs.
SOUTHERN Boarders wanted; first-cliuw
rooms, with or without board; central lo
cation; terms moderate. Address 218 and 252
West Twenty-fourth street. New York city.
|ionnfptti.
RsTfraNZESKA DlTTMAN,Graduated
Midwife, No. 35 Dravlon street, corner
President street. Savannah, Ga.
litctmt to Joan.
MONEY TO LOAN.
CLEMENT S A USSY, Money Broker,
No. 12 Whitaker street.
LOANS made on Personal Property. Dia
monds and Jewelry bought and sold on
commission. Cash paid for Old Gold, Silver
and Mutilated Coin.
MONEY TO LOAN.—Liberal loans made
on Diamonds, Gold and Silver Watches,
Jewelry, Pistols, Gnus, Sewing Machines,
Wearing Aapsxel, Mechanics’ Tools, CiockA
etc., etc., ai Liccnseu Pawnbroker House, Ist
Congress street. E. MUHLBKftG. Manager.
N. B.—Highest prices paid for old Gold ana
Silver.
iSoDa IBater, <str.
MIKE T.QUINAN.
Manufacturer and Bottler of Belfast
Ginger Ale, Cream Soda, Soda, Sarsapa
rilla and Mineral Waters generally, is now
prepared to supply any demand. My goods,
being prepared from chemically pure water
and extracts,defy competition. Having ample
facilities for filling country orders, I only as*
a trial from those doing business out of town to
demonstrate what I can do in shipping prompt
ly. Syrups of all kinds furnished. Orders
from physicians for highly charged Siphons
for sick patients filled at any hour of the day
ol Dav— Factory, 110 and 112Broughton street.
Night—Residence, 8C Troughton street.
Soda stands using fountains will save money
by ordering from me.
trDical
EAST INDIAN
OPIUM ANTIDOTE.
PERSONS addicted to the use of opium
should try the aliovc remedy. The princi
pal ingredients composing it have seen useu
witli remarkable success in the English Hos
pitals of China, and prescribed by the most
eminent physicians of the day. sent securely
sealed to any receipt of price,
Send money by registered letter.
EOUIS N. BERUBE, Barney,