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Meetings—Pulaski Council No. 153. R. A.;
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immense territory through which they do
business.
Advertisements will be received for this
edition up to lOo’clock Monday night.
It is a very general question now
whether the earthquake paralyzed any of
‘die great revivalists.
Some counties in Virginia believe in
protecting the infant spring chicken, and
pay large sums as bounties (or hawks
Willed or trapped.
Cotton is ripening rapidly and the har
vest is going on actively all over the
South. What has became of the cotton
harvesting machines?
It having been stated that Blaine wants
to sell his Washington mansion, it is
charged that be already begins to feel the
need of a campaign boil.
It is believed that the Republicans
North will he compelled to have their
elections during the watermelon season
U they want to keep the solid colored
vote.
The Chicago gamblers, it is stated, now
gamble behind iron doors, which are
Closed to prevent police raids. This is
only anew kind of barricade. They used
to gamble behind the bars of the various
saloons.
There are thirty-four coffin factories in
this country which manufacture each an
average of 150 burial cases per day. The
number of cradle factories in the country
is unknown, but there is no very great
profit in cradles.
The Dow liquor law in Ohio is to be
tested in the courts. There is no law in
Ohio, though, requiring liquor to be tested
before it is permitted to be sold to the
consumer. There Is no discrimination
against lusel oil there.
The Illinois Republicans are almost
dismayed at the prospect of losing the
labor vote, the Knights of that State be
ing apparently enthusiastically in favor
of the third party movement, in which
they hope to enlist thousands of fanners.
It is said that many Democratic office
seekers are learning the tricks at which
the Republicans of late years have been
so expert. The administration will doubt
less be very careful not only to turn all
the rascals out, but to keep all rascals in.
Some of the wis>r Tennessee Republi
cans are very sorry it was arranged for
Bob and Alf Taylor to canvass the State
together. Tbay are sure Bob will not only
outtalk Alt', but that he will “out-mag
netize him,” and finally outrun him by a
phenomenally laige majority.
It has been demonstrated beyond pos
sibility of doubt that a man may be a pro
hibitionist and not be a teetotaler or even
a sober man, and that a man may be a
teetotaler without oelng a prohibitionist.
In some of the looal option contests in
Georgia many habitual drankards wore
Very earnest and effective workers and
voters on the piobibition side.
An affecting Incident Is related by a
New York paper. It ocourred at the ex
hibition of tbe cyolorama of the 6elge of
Vicksburg in tbe former city. ('apt. L.S.
Hudson, who aided in serving the Chicago
Mercantile Battery which is depicted in
action in tbe canvas, aud who is tbe leo
turer at the cyclorama, waa rehearsing
tbe incidents of tbe bard-fought day when
a gentleman among the spectators step
ped forward and said: “Do you remember
whom your battery engaged at the battle
of Champion Hill ?” “Yes,” replied Capt.
Hudson, “it was the F'irst Mississippi
Light Artillery. I shall never forget It,
for with Gunner Gilmore, underourCapt.
White’s orders, I sighted the gun which
killed tbe handsome Gen. Tllghinau, our
opponents’ commander,” Tbe visitor’s
eyes filled with tears. “Gen. Tilghman
wae my father,” be said. There was a
moment’s silence, and than Mr. Tilgb
man. who is a prominent broker in Wall
•treat, turned to Capt. Hudson, eitended
bis bad and said: “Tbe war ie over; let
forget and forgive.”
Getting at Pacts.
j Now that the people of Charleston have
i bad time to look about them and form an
! estimate of thedestruction wrougbtby the
| earthquake, they find that tbe damage to
I tb“ city is not so great as the reports
J which were first sent out from there indi
! cated. This is very gratifying. The ac
j tual condition of affairs is bad enough,
but the whole country will rejoice that it
is not so bad as it was generally believed
to be the day following the disaster.
There is, no doubt, great need for belp,
and it is gratifying that offers of assist
ance have been so promptly and general
ly made in all parts of the country.
Whatever Charleston needs will be
promptly tendered her.
It Is impossible as vet to tell with any
degree ofaccuraoy how great the number
of killed and wounded is. Many may be
buried beneath ruins, and their fate may
not be known even to tbeir nearest
friends. The fact that a person is miss
ing would hardly justify the conclusion
that he is a victim of the disaster.
It is probable that the statement in our
special dispatches this morning, that only
about one-eighth of the houses is
damaged, is pretty close to the truth, and
when an investigation is made it would
not be surprising if it should appear that
ot this eighth only a comparatively small
number is o badly wrecked as to be no
longer habitable. The first reports of any
great disaster are, as a rule, exaggerated.
They are mere guesses, which are made
at a time when the mind is not in a con
dition to look at the situation calmly.
But. admitting that the disaster is far
from being as great as it was thought to
be. still it is a terrible one. Not only Is
the loss of life large, but the damage to
property amounts to millions of dollars.
Oneot the most conservative of the esti
mates places the amount at $5,000,000.
That is an enormous loss for any city,
and particularly for a city of the size of
Charleston. To repair such a loss will
require several prosperous years. The
people of Charleston, however, are plucky
and energetic, and will bear their misfor
tune as bravely as anv other people
would bear a similar misfortune. They
will go to work at once courageously to
rebuild their homes and their public
buildings. In a year or so tbe marks of
tbe earthquake will be almost, if not
wholly, obliterated.
Earthquake Effects.
Two things in connection with the
earthquake have attrae’ed considerable
comment, One Is that very many people
were dizzv, or afflicted with a sickness
similar to seasickness hours after the
sbock that did tbe damage. The other is
that even as late as yesterday a very
large percentage ol tbe people found it
extremely difficult to attend to their ac
customed duties with any degree of sat
isfaction. Reference to the dispatches
will show that the feeling of sickness and
dizziness was not confined to this city nor
to this section of country. In Cincinnati,
where the earthquake was comparatively
light, it attracted attention. Doubtless
it was very general. The peculiar motion
of the ground was, of cqurse, calculated
to make those who are very sensitive to
anv swinging motion sick temporarily,
but itisnoteasv to understand why so
many should complain of dizziness, pain
in tbe head and a sick feeling eight or ten
hours after the shock had been felt.
It is said that the inability to attend to
routine or any other duties was more
mnrked yesterday than the day before,
although the probability that there would
be other shocks was not regarded as so
great, Everybody was perfectly willing
to attend to business, but, try as they
might, they were not wholly successful.
They were conscious of a feeling of appre
hension and a nervousness that appeared
to some extent to paralyze their will
power. If there are no more shocks this
feeling will, of course, wear oft very
shortly.
It interfered yesterday In this oity,
however, with the transaction of busi
ness in a very marked manner. Men
whoe nerves ordinarily are not disturbed
by anything were startled bv the slightest
unusual noise, and they were not infre
quently deceived Into believing that they
felt the buildings In which they were
quiver as if shaken by another earth
quake.
The I’ost Office Affair.
Mr. Wilson is no longer Postmaster,but
it isn’t his tault that he isn’t. He held on
to tbe office as long as it was possible for
him to do so, and be didn’t relax his grip
on it until he was forced to. Mr. Wilson
is a typical Republican, and In the tenac
itvvvith which he held on to the post
office he illustrated the remarkable liking
of his party for the offices. When a Re
publican gets an office he apparently
would rather lose his life than the office.
Of course Mr. Wilsoh did not expect to
he able to prevent Postmaster Lamar
from taking possession of his office. He
is a man of intelligence and good judg
ment, and, therefore, must have known
that the government would not be trified
with, doubtless had no other idea
than that he would be put out just about
in the manner that be was.
In refusing to give up the office, there
fore, he must have bad some other object
in view. What was it? Clearly to draw
attention to himself and his removal with
the view ol making a contest before the
Senate. It is hardly probable that he has
anv purpose of contending for the office
in tbe courts. To do that would require
considerable time and money.
The case may become an interesting
one if the Republican Senators ueoide to
take hold of it. Whether they will do so
or not may be determined by circum
stances which may exist then rather
; than now. It may also appear that tbe
cause lor which Mr. Wilsou was removed
is different from that which was pub
lished.
There are curious happenings on ocean
steamers. A Couutess, a day or two ago,
met on tbe French steamer Bourgogne
an old sweetheart in the steward. The
Countess had been a Boston girl and tbe
steward belonged to a very respectable
and once wealthy Boston family. He ex
plained that poverty bad placed him in
bis present position. He had this in his
(avor: He was too proud to beg but not
too proud to work.
It all Republicans were ns gushing in
tbeir praise of Mr. Carlisle as the Kepub
can Congressman Butterworth i*. Mr.
Carlisle migot become the Presidential
candidate ot bit party with a reasonable
expectation that he would have no oppo
sition.
SAVANNAH .MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1886.
The “Deadly” Ailantus.
The enemies of the ailantus tree having
had their say, its friends now demand a
hearing. Its ablest defense so lar comes
from Philadelphia, where its merits have
long been recognized and its alleged de
merits considered and discussed.
It is claimed that the ailantus is the
only tree that dense and continuous
smoke will not Injure, and that illumina
ting gas permeating tbe soil will not de
stroy. Its exceedingly rapid growth, its
freedom from the ravages ot insects and
blight, and its beauty o! form and foliage
have long been recognized.
Unlike most trees, and like the mul
berry and some few other species, the
sexual attributes of tbe ailantus are not
contained in tbe same individual. In
other words, it is not hermaphroditic.
The female tree is entirely free from of
fensive odor, which only pertains to the
pollen of the male tree during the bloom
ing season, which is usually in July
aud August. It is not charged
that the female tree is inju
rious to health, and it is not believed that
the male tree is injurious except during
tbe season named, it is claimed that
even then healthy persons are not
affected by the offensive odor, but it
seems to be admitted that invalids are
affected by it, and many instances are
cited where diseases, fevers especially,
have been greatly aggravated by the in
haling of the pollen.
To those places, Pittsburg and Alle
gheny City, for instance, where scarcely
any other kind of tree will grow in tbe
streets, tbe discussion is an important
one. It must also become a matter of in
terest to those sections of the country in
which forest culture is followed, the
rapid growth ot this tree and its useful
ness and great value as a timber tree
making it for many purposes preferable
to many other varieties. It will he
only necessary for those interested
in propagating the tree to
cultivate the male plants, though the re
jecting of such plants may be objection
able in forest planting on the score of
economy. In sections of the country de
voted to timber culture, however, the of
fensive odor is not very objectionable. In
cities there need be no obstacle tn the
way of selecting female trees for trans
planting as tbe Increased cost will not
probably be great enough to be onerous.
There are very few men who know when
they have got enough money. Tbe more
they accumulate the more they want. A
writer in the New York Times says that
when Jeremiah P. Robinson died
Brooklyn the other day he left an estate
whose value is generally estimated at
from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. Long years
ago when Mr. Robinson was a young and
driving business man he had an ambition
and the ambition was to accumulate a
fortune of $50,000. “When I get that
much money,” he said one day to one of
his clerks, “then I’m going to quit busi
ness right short off and enjoy the rest ol
my days in ease.” And several years
went by before anything akin to the figure
he had fixed upon as satisfactory was ap
proacbed; but Ihe closer he got the less
he had to say about “$50,000 being enough
for any sensible man.” One New Year’s
day he entertained his clerk. “Will,”
he said, “I’ve been making an inventory
of things this morning, and I find that I
am worth something over $50,000.” “Then
you are going to go out of business, I sup
pose,” the clerk remarked. “Go out ol
business! Why, man alive,what are you
talking abont? Go out of business! 1
bave only begun; my figure is $150,000;
that’s enough to satisfy any man, and
more would be a burden. But $50,000
don’t begin to look so big when you get
close to It as it does when it’s about, $49,-
000 off.” Neither did $150,000 when D
came to look as big as It did once, and its
possession was but the incentive to more
energy and bigger enterprise.
A couple of young American cheese
makers adopted a rather novel mothed to
gel up a correspondence with pretty girls.
The method is explained in the follow
ing communication to the London Dally
News:
To the Editor of the Daily flews: Sir—
Un Tuesday lust one of my assistants, on
cutting open an American cheese, much
to his astonishment discovered in the
centre of the cheese a tin box. Enclosed
in the box was a cardboard box, contain
ing a letter, the purport of which was to
the effect that the writers, two young
men, would be pleased to receive corre
spondence from two young ladies, the
names and addresses of the writers Peing
given. The letter was dated June 11,1886.
Stony Stratford, Aug. 13. G. T. Pett.
Young men have lrequently written
upon eggs, which they put upon the mar
ket, soliciting any young ladies into
whose hands the eggs might fall to open a
correspondence with them, and young
ladies bave done tbe same thing, but the
young cheesemen have distanced all com
petitors In the novelty of the method they
employed to strike up an acquaintance
with pretty girls. If this method is
adopted parents will begin to suspect
that aoheeso Is a dangerous thing to admit
into poacetul homes.
The Southern Lumberman of Nashville
is not howling for a continuing of the war
tariff. Neither is it worried much about
the dilemma which troubles a lot of specu
lative Michigan people. It says: “The
Canadian government wants reciprocity,
in other words,free trade, in lumber with
tbe Untied States, and has placed an ex
port duty of $3 per thousand on pine logs
and $2 on spruce logs, in retalliatiou for
an import duty levied on Canadian lum
ber by the United States. Some Miohigan
lumbermen have made heavy puroliasos
of Canadian timber lands, and from these
conditions several questions, more or less
Affecting various lumber interests, have
arisen among our Northern contempora
ries. Difference of opinion prevails.
Whether free trade will have a tendency
to protect American forests; whether it
will lower the price of American lumber,
or merely advance the prioe ol Canadian
stumpage, are some of the questions dis
missed. It is a matter that does not affect
the lumbermen of tbe South, and free
trade or a high tariff on Canadian lumbor
are matters of no consequence to them.”
The number of blockheads and cranks
that want to jump off tbe Brooklvn bridge
and swim tno whirlpool at Niagara In
creases. and the policemen are kept busy
trying to keep them from carrying out
their designs. The only sensible thing to
do, it seems, Is to remove ail restrictions
and let the epidemic run its course. A
few ratal attempt* would put an end to tbe
business.
CURKENT COMMENT.
The Right K'nd of a Tariff.
From the Rashrille American ( Dem,)
We suppose no man objects to such protec
tion as a tariff, limited strictly to tbe require
ments o: economical government will give,
and bearing chiefly upon articles of luxury
and lightest upon tha necessaries of life, as
the platform requires
Kicking Their O'd Friends.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.)
The same Republican party, seeing that the
prohibition vot. s were slipping from its grasp,
has through its leaders pandered to it, in sled
it, and isnowattemptingto belittle its leaders
by the most virulent abuse It Is in a position
where it must have both the liquor ami the
anti-liquor votes, by fair means if possible,
and if not, then by foul means.
Ths Lngiis View of It.
From the Pou'svillo Courier-Journal ( Deni,)
And so free trade after all is a good thing!
That is to say gome free trade-in fact all the
free trade that is permitted us. And there
are many people in this land who can not un
derstand why if free trade among the States
and free trade among the nations in some
articles which Mr. Blaine mentions are such
good tilings, why free trade in general would
be such a bad thing.
When to Show Bpunli.
From the Chicago News (Dem,)
Col. John C. New. the venerable editor of
the Indianapolis Jouimal, has been prowling
around the shire tow ns and cross roads in In
diana, and he has come to the conclusion that
ih Hoosier Republicans don’t want to make
another trip with Jim Blaine in 1888. W hat
broke their hearts was Blaine’s withdrawal
of his libel suit against the IndianapolisSonti
nel on the grounds that he couldn’t get justice
in Indiana. Col. New his taught the people
of Indiana that if ever there’s a time when a
man should show his spunk it’s when the
r utation of a woman is at slake, and Col.
New Is right.
BKIQHT BITS.
The Troy Telegram hears that the Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland have already hd a
row in the Adirondack*, "in one of ihise
cranky North Woods boats, too.”
He was a careful man.—Mariner—Sail, sir?
Nice breeze on no v, sir.
Mr. Isaacs—Yot! After a dinner as cost me
three-nn-thixpeath? Not me.— runny hoiks.
•‘My (r end,” said the Colonel to the new
recruit, "what nay you be by profession?”
“Colonel, 1 am a poet.”
“A poet 1 Ah. then, we will make a capital
undercook out of you.” —From the French,
“YES.” said a lady, when interviewed on
the subject of servant girls, “I find that
the Swedes make the moat capable and trust
worthy seriants. I never had a Swenden
borgian that did not give perfect satisiac
tion.”—Chrletian Register.
“WH at the people have a right to complain
of is the nigh rate which is demanded of them
r or the use of the telephone ” The telephone
monop lists should take into consideration
the choice language used by most of the talk
ers,—R Chester Post Repress,
“Tom, I gave you a very liberal allowance
when I sent you to the college, neverihcless
l’ear that you have had some trouble in
meeting your hi Is.”
"Not the slightest In the world, father. 1
assure yon It has been all I could do tokeep
out of their way.”— Merchant TraeeJer.
Firs* Editor—Been after any of the fash
ionable resorts this vear?
Second Editor—Well. no. not exactly; was
out. three days bill collecting, though. Have
you been anywhere?
First Edibnsi—No* ex.tc’TV. no; but fbave
ce ft ,i -eticriiv-three summertaotehoirciilars.—
Omaha World,
“You sit on your horse like a butcher,” said
a pert young officer who happened to be of
royal blood, to h veteran General who was
somewhat bent with ace.
“It is highly probable,” responded the old
varrior, with a grim smile; “it is because all
my life I’ve beeo leading calves to the slaugh
ter,”— FUegende Platter.
The habit of dodging Rhode Island prohibi
iou by importing whisky in porcelain eggs
-uagesis to tbe ban Francisco Alta a change
in that stirring hymn, “The Little Brown
lug,” which might run; If I had a hen that
aid Sueh mi a Ik stockings on her
egs. Of rote* Rweetyt’d build her nest aid
make her fay f, r dgv And night, and suck her
egg*MUTtraa tight.”
Hr customer is
trying to e.qt a herring “an benrre noir.”
\brnprly he mils the waiter. “This herring
i • execrable.” he cries. “You can only taste
the vinegar.”
•‘What are yon complaining about,” re
plied the garcon. shrugging his shoulders; “if
it were not for he vinegar vou would not be
able to eat it at all.”— French Paper.
Interviewer (to famous English actor,
who i about to land In this country for the
first time)—What do you think of America?
English Actor-You are too late, my young
friend.
Interviewer—Too late?
English Acior—Yes; I gave my lmpresson
if vour great and glorious country to the cor
responuent o' a C iuago paper when we
uoarded the ship.— Life.
“Who was Bella?”
On her breast a dahlia nestled.
Deep maroon in pink and white;
In her dimple* graces wres'led.
In her eyes dwelt heaven’s light.
And her lips! Who could discover
Two such treasures side by side?
Closed, they would distract a lover—
When she opened them she lied.
This was Bella.
—Philadelphia Mews.
First Drummer—Had any fnn this trip?
Second Drummer—We tried to have some
in Louisville, hut it did not turn out verv
well. W e painted the nose of one of the boys
i brilliant red and sent him into a revival
meeting,
"They must have thought him a fit subject
’or conversion?”
“Well, no; they all rushed up to him,
grabbed him by the hand, said they were glad
to see him back from Europe and naked for a
puffin the Courier-Journal.”— Omaha World.
PERSONAL..
An Eastern paper says Elijah M Haines Is
a more pic:uresque figure in Illinois politics
tl a:i John A. Logan.
JrnoF. William Veale. of Texas, is in Chi
cago soliciting aid for the drouth sufferers in
Stephens county, where terrible destitution
prevails.
Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, declines
to accept the Republican nomination for Con
gres-. He wauls to go to the Senate if the
Legislature turnßOUt to be of the right com
plexion.
Archduchess Vai.krik, the youngest
daughter of the Austrian Emperor, is to wed
the Duke of Modena she is not a beauty but
Is described ss having a delicate bloom and
youthful brightness wnich makes her verv at
tractive. She inherits her mother's love ol
horses.
Mr. Jkriah Bonham, of Lacon. 111., dis
putes with K. W. Blai-dell. of Rockford, the
honor of being the first to name Abraham
Lincoln for the Presidency. Mr. Bonham
claims that he first suggested Mr. Lincoln in
a "ringing editorial” rmtsd In the Illinois
Gazette of Nov. 8. 185S. whereas Mr. Biais
deU’s "ringing editorial” suggestion was not
printed in the Rockford paper till March 17,
1851). Next.
Rev. Duncan .J. Jerome, who eame from
Spurgeon’s College, London, England, to this
country ns an evangelist, only a short time
age, wa- announced to preach for the congre
gation of the Vine street Congregational
church, Cincinnati,on last Sund iv night, but
lie did not make his appearance. It appears
that last week he joined the "Perf ctionisls,”
on Walnut Hills. And he explained to one of
the gentlemen who went to the church ex
pecting to bear him that the Lord had ex
cused him.
Ten years aoo John Moody, of Bridgeport,
Conn., was studying for the Episcopal minis
try, hut WAsobltged to g vo up on account of
overtaxed eyesight. He went West and
started A ranch for raising fowl*. There he
fell in with a wealthy lady from Virginia aud
married her. She and her child are now dead,
aud all her money has gone to Mr. Moody,
who invested heavily in Colorado, and the re
sult now Is a large Income. He has some
back, and at Albanr will finish the last year
or study and become a minister.
Mas. McKean, of Brooklvn. N. Y., is a
vvealiliy ladv, said to be worih *l.ffuo,##o in
bank stock alone Her Income is estimated at
from *2UO.<IOO to $400.10# A year. She own* Jew
ell's Island, Me , for welch -be paid (s.O 0,
and proposes this fall aad winter to build a
dozsn cottage* wherein she tnav another sea
son entertain hsr friend*. When she is ill
and needs a doetor she hoists a signal, which
Is noted on Munjqy's Hill, Tort and. and a
physician come*. wh*n she is in need of provi
sions and the weather Is bad -he hoists an
other flag, and a Portland steamer is seut
with stores. On the island the ladv has thir
ty-five sheep, many lambs, two yeke ot oxen,
ilvn cows, a bull, five bogs ana a donker.
Bacon was Shakespeare.
From Tid Bits.
She read Goethe till it hurt her, thenlet Schil
ler almost kill her, for a rapt poetic
spurter was this lovely Amarilla!
Read Lucretius, grew facetious, with her jaw,
sir, over Chaucer; for this maid was rich
as Crmsus, iu her deep poetic awe, sir!
In her bower Schopenhauer, made her jolly
melancholy, and she'd sit for many an
hour mourning over mortal folly.
Not with fool men. hut with schoolmen, her
relations and flirtations,tor these medie
val cool men warmed her icy admira
tions.
This Minerva sighed with fervor and with
woe, sir. forSpmoza: George and Henry
could not swerve her like Matilda, Sue,
and Rosa.
“Be my own one,” sa’d a lone one. ‘‘let thy
taken heart awaken!” “No,” she said,
"I’ve never known one whom I've loved
but Francis Bacon!”
A Story from West Point.
It isn’t often that a good story comes from
West Point; there is the land of the chestnut
inc mparable; there stories that Chauncey
M. Dep*w coined seasons ago, tickling tales
that Horace Porter told in his first after-din
ner speech in the boyhood of Noah, go the
rounds as fresh specimens of the cuteness of
this latter day, and the man who has a yarn
to spin need never hesitate to handle it for
fear its burrs may prick him. There is only
one known instanceonrecord where any pro
test against ancient history was heard on
West Point ground. That was during
this last commencement season, when
Gen. King, Gen. Francis T. Nich
ols. Gen. Horace Porter, and two or
three of their newspaper friends were
met together to kill a half hour that
Intervened oetween aconpleof events of in
terest. Gen. Porter of course followed the
Instincts of his nature and began to tell a
story It was a good story—Horace Porter
never told a story that wasn’t good—and the
recitation was hailed with applause. Only at
its end one of the New York newspaper men
said with a diabolical calmness; “General, it
seems to me that somebody stole that story
from you when I was a bov, for I’m sure I
came across it then in a book that was writ
ten by* person named Marryatt.”
“Ah. my friend,” quoth Horace Porter in
quick reply and all unabashed, "you are right
so far as you go; but the fact is that the man
who sto’e that story first was Arist phanes,
Io boldly put it into one of his Greek come
dies. You see that I suffered before Mar
ryatt’s day.”
Disadvantages of Ho’ Climates.
From the London Observer.
Hot climates are pleasant in their way. It
must be delightful to swing under the shade
in agrats hammock, and eat fresh mango
failing mangosteen—and smoke Trinchino
poli cheroots, and drink sherbet, or perhaps
brandy-pawnee. But the drawback of every
tropical heaven is to be found in its insects,
-nakes will let you alone, if you let them
alone. But insecis wage determined war on
man wherever they find him. 80 we are as
,ured by Mr. H. Thwaites (H. M. 8 jis at any
rate the case in Ceylon. Centipedes in Ceylon
••grow to the length of ten or twelve inches.”
and are said br the natives to be “very veno
mous.” The spiders are Urge en- ugh to kill
<nd suck the young of small birds, and are
often detected in flagrante delicto. Moeqoi
t ies and the cimex uomestirus Mr. Thwaites
considers it quite nnnecessary to mention.
Luckilv for < evlon. it seems to be free from
that curse of all ships that have to cross the
tropical zone—the ship cockroach or blatta
orientalis. This pest i* from an inch to two
inches, or even more in length, and, coming
in swarms, it makes its meal off yonr hair,
your beßrd, your toe and Unger nails,
and your corns, if you have *nv.
In this latter case you are in fortune,
for the creature is a most conscientious and
thorough chiropodist. On the w hole, we are
lucky in England, where wo baye only the
familiar “Norfolk-Howard” and the cheer
ful, semi-domesticated flea Rut we are not
entirely exempt, for some people are worried
nut of their lives by gnats, and others by the
so-called “harvest bug.” And the genuine
mosquito, with no mistake about his diaboli
cal trumpet-call, has for some years past
made his way up the Thames, and has ren
dered gauze mosquito curtains a necessity in
more than one large metropolitan hotel.
He Wanted a Pass.
From the Chicago Tribune.
A man of somewhat imposing appearance
stepped into one of the general railway offices
in Chicago a few days since and inquired for
the passenger and ticket agent. The officer
was pointed out and the visitor walked up to
him and addressed him thus:
"I am the editor of the nuzzle department
of the Shawcross Blizzard. I have for some
time contem sted visiting Niagara Falls,and
I nave always admired the liberal policy of
tbs read. I would like a pass for myself and
wife —Vfr.and Mrs.AlonzoW Ferguson, Sbaw
crose. Puzzle Department Blizzard.”
“On what grounds, Mr Ferguson,” said the
railway magnate, "do you ask for the pass?”
"Why, I am the puzzle editor, as I to dyou.
I get up the column of charades, and enigmas,
and word squares; and mv has written
several articles for the Blizzard. Perhaps you
have seen them. She signs herself ‘Aurora
Borea l*,’and write-f ir the temperance de
partment of the paper. I would like the pass
good for ninety days. Of course I expect to
keep up the charade column right along, and
any favors you extendTo me will be recipro
cated. For instance, I can work up your road
mio a first-class enigma or make an acrostic
out of your name in the very next—”
“I hardly think. Mr. Ferguson.” interposed
the general ticket agent, "that I can grant
you a pass on these grounds.”
“And I think also,” said the visitor severely,
“of writing a book—”
"I hope not, Mr. Ferguson—”
"In which this grasping monopoly will be
shown up to the public !u its true light. It’s
n vampire, sir; a bloodsucker, a soulless Dd
hide-bound corporation. Just you look in the
puzzle department of next Week’s Blizzard
and you’ll dnd this whole institution worked
up into the most crushing acrostic you ever
saw. That’s all. Good day. sir.”
To Repair the Castle of Chlllon.
From the London Daily Telegraph.
It is said that the Canton de Vaud is about
to repair the castle of (. hillon and to make it
a residence tit far human habitation. We see
no reason why one of the most interesting
buildings in the world should not be rescued
trout damp and decay, so that it may afford
shelter to happier human beings than the
luckless prisoners who once pined within its
gloomv dungeon wails. The lake which laves
and gently kisses its foundations Is said to he
HOD feet ileep beneath the windows which still
dimly light Bon Iv ai d’* cell, and in the
seven pillars which Byron has Immor
talized the irjn rings to which the early
Roformors were chained are deeply imbedded.
The furrow wrought in the stone pavement
by Honntvard’s footsteps during his six years
of incarceration Is still risible, and across his
ell stretches a wooden beam black with age,
from which it Is said that the condemned
were formerly suspended. We entertain no
doubt that the dungeon occupiod for many
generations bv nameless prisoners, and cele
brated hv Rousseau and Lord Byron, hnslong
brought In a good revenue to the Syndicof the
(lanton, in which it is situated. To be on the
Lake of Geneva without visiting ( hillon
would be tantamount to pntting "Hamlet”
on the stage without assigning a part to the
Prince of Denmark. Even, however, if (Jhil
lon be repaired and modernized, the flow of
English and American visitors will probably
know no decline. Far different won ditbe if
Kenilworth, or Tintern Abbey, or Tantallon
Castle were handed over to the too often mer
ciless restorer. Wc have but to cast our eyes
across the channel in order to discern and ap
preciate the mischief wrought In France by
King Louis Philippe when he undertook, with
out taste, without reverence for the past, and
Without a competent architect to guide him,
to repair the ravages perpetrated by the fury
of the French revolution u; on the modumval
castles and mansions roared by Valois and by
other French Kings and nobles.
Job Bi.ackburn, of Kentucly, lives In the
pleasant little country townof Versailles, and
on one occasion a member of the Lexington
City Council came over to Inspect some Im
§ movement or other, and the Senator showed
Im around
“Have you gas In town?" asked the visitor.
“Not vet; but we are going to have.”
“No street cars?”
"Oh, no.”
"Water works?”
“No. but we’ve got one of the finest distil
leries In the country handy, and that’s good
enough for us.”— Washington Critic.
A Rrakonarle Supposition.— Visitor-
Well. Jones h* paid the debt of nature.
Merchant— Why, when was he hung?
Visitor—Uung? What do you mean? He
died a natural death.
Merchant—Oh. I supposed that nature must
have gotten her debt as the reet of us always
did—by execution,
Alwatf take your whisky straight. Ac
cording to the < imaha World, lightning struck
a saieon in Kansaa City the other dav ana
killed n customer who was waiting for the
bartender so mix him a drink. Had he been
satisfied with whisky straight he might have
got eat apd escaued.— Cineiiuusti Xi.irolrtr.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Now that fashion has declared that the pug
dog must go, perhaps the dude can catch on
again.
A traveling man was arresteif in Oberlin,
Kan., tor singing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,’
on the hotel porch Sunday evening.
Albert R. Foster, of Otsego, Mich., has
been fined SIOO and sentenced to ninety days
in the Allegany county jail for selling hard
cider.
Capt. A. J. Frte has another fine, green
walnut hurl on hand that weighs 500 pounds,
and is better in every respect than the one
recently sold to an Indianapolis veneer com
pany.
There will be a great deal of work during
the coming winter in the Wisconsin pine re
gions burned by the forest fires. Millions of
feet will have to be ent and put into water to
prevent the destruction of the log) by worms.
The shipments of buffalo bones from the
Northwest are growing larger. From twenty
to twenty-five Canadian Pacific cars loaded
with this class of freight arrive at Fort Ben
ton, M. TANARUS., everv week, consigned to fertiliz
ing works in the' East.
While dragg ng Lake Koshkonong for a
shotgun Burton Esterly, of Whitewater,Wis.,
fished up a gun valued at S4OO that Mr. Dell
bay, of Chicago, lost ten years ago. It shows
much less injury from its long submergence
than might have been expected, and is proba
bly in condition to do good shooting yet. Mr
Esterly subsequent! v recovered his own gun,
which is vamed at $250.
Chicago is to-day manufacturing more
Bessemer steel than any other city in the
world. The North Chicago Rolling Mills are
turning out 175.000 tons of finished steel rails
every year; the Union Steel and Iron Com
pany 150,000 tons a year, and the Joliet Steel
company, which is virtually of Chicago, 155,-
000 tons. Chicago is some 450 or 500 miles
noarer than Pittsburg to the great Western
market, from whence comes an ever increas
ing demand for the product of furnaces and
rolling mills.
A terrible accident happened at Him
metberger & Co.’s saw mill, located at Buf
fington, Mo„ a man by the name of Baines
being struck in the left side by a piece of tim
ber thrown in some way from the saw. The
timber, which was smaller at one end than
the other, entered his side, just below the
nipple, and penetrated him through and
through, coming out on the other aide. Drs.
Kendal, of Sikeaton, and Bartlett, of Poplar
klnft, were called and the timber removed.
The doctors have no hope of his recovery, hut
he wa- alive next day and getting along
very well.
A number of the delegates to the Ohio Re
publican Convention remained in Columbus
in order to see the sights. One party was
under the charge of Hon. Fred Bader, mem
ber of the Legialature from Cincinnati. Gov.
Fornker was called upon. A genuine intro
duction and handshaking ensued. One good
natured German soon tired of the visit and
proposed to leave. Turning to the Governor
he said: “Come on and pull one.” (Take a
drink.) Ills Excellency tried to explain that
he was busy, hut his German friend Insisted
that he must “pull one.” No person could
satisfy the visitor, and he left disgusted. “I
can do mid oud him,” he said.
John S. Rhea, Congressional candidate in
the Franklin (Ky.) district, was recently
challenged to fight a duel by Mr. Small, of
Todd county. The challenge grew out of
some references made by Mr. Rhea in a speech
a week or so ago. Mr Small had formerly
been for Mr. Rhea in his race, but had turned
over to Halsell, and Mr. Rhea said the rearon
for the change was that, Halsell had bought
him with a promise of the Elkton pot office,
or words to that effect, or that he had under
stood as much. Small demanded a retraction
and an apology. Rhea refused either: hence
the challenge, which Rhea yerv wisely de
clined to accept, both, as he said, on legal and
on moral grounds.
A Paris special says there was an exciting
incident a few days ago in a traveling menag
erie at the outer boulevards fair. A beast
tamer named Graconette was in the lions’
cage, when one of the lions, which had been
in a surly humor all the morning, sprang
upon Him and, burying its claws in his thigh,
bore him to the ground. The spectators were
horror-stricken, but Graconette, iu falling,
managed to keep his eyes fixed on those
of the beast. In this way. the
eves of beast and man glaring
at each other, he managed to regain
his feet and slowly backed out of the cage,
holding his whip high in the air in a menac
ing attitude. Just as he reached the door the
blood sourted in a stream through bis tights,
and the anlma’. with a fierce growl, sprang
toward him. With a sadden movement, how
ever, he sprang to the grating, striking the
animal on the nose as it retired to a corner
with a lonk of baffled savagery upon its face,
and the unfortunate man fell in a dead faint.
There is said to be a superstition attached
to the Goddess of Liberty that stands silently
on the dome of the capitol at Washington.
Though it is not widespread, it is said to be
deeply rooted in some mnls. Had Congress
decided to gild the goddess It would perhaps
have been found difficult to get any one to un
dertake the task. It is well known that when
the dome was thoroughly | aimed several
years ago, the painter who worked about the
gnddess lost his reason, declaring that she had
life and was possessed of the spirit of the Vir
gin. At a certain hour in the morninj. very
hoar the moment of sunrise, there is one poin t
in the head-dress of the statue that reflects
back the light, appearing as a star. It is only
for a short time that it can be seen. Every
morning this ensnared painter would knf el In
front of the capitol and worship the star
crowned goddess as long as the star was visi
ble. Others are said to have come under the
influence of this bronzed goddess, and have
imagined that she exercised some mysterious
power over them. Some imagine, it is said,
tnat, should they look too often at the star
that shines on her forehead at morn they
might suffer the fate of the poor painter.
The other night a party of eight or ton
masked men, armed with guns, repaired
about dusk to the residence of Bimon Dolph,
a farmer, about 35 years of age, residing two
miles north of the village of Rome, O. As
they approached the place, he was going
from the barn to the house. They ordered
him to stop, and threatening to snoot him if
he made sny noise, compelled him to march
in an easterly direction to a clump of trees,
alnnt forty rods from the house. There they
stripped him of his clothes, and forcing him
to walk naked to a btirvlng-ground nei r
Rome, tarred and feathered him from head
to foot. Thev then marched him at the head
of a procession to the village square, where
they built a bon-flre and made him walk
around it several times, in the full gaze of the
citizens. If he demurred to anyihing. they
threatened to shoot him. After this they let
him go home, his Irack thither being traced
in the morning by leathers and chunks of tar.
Dolph is said to have made himself oonoxious
in the community by quarreling with his
neighbors and by declaring that he had been
intimate with nearly every woman in the
neighborhood. About a month ago an at
tempt was made to get him out of the house
at night, but he opened lire on his tormontf rs
and compelled them to beat a retreat. For
several years he has been afraid to leave the
house at night, for fear of meeting his neigh
bors.
A Texas man relates the details of another
Mexican outrage, which appears to have es
caped general publicity. “Caleb George,” he
said, “is a citizen of Texas and well known
personally to the Governor as an industrious,
hard-working man, who has been a sailor all
his life. He has prospered and is dow the
owner of three sailing vessels that arc In the
coasting trade. Two years ago he was In
command of his shin, the Adriana, lying in
the harbor of La Pax. Mexico. A party of
armed men came on hoard, and. pretending
that he had violated some customs require
ment, seized his vessel, plundered her tore
down the American flag which he had flying,
refused to let him send anv message to the
United States Consul at Ia Paz (who is a Mr,
Viosoo, I believe, a Mexican him
self), bnt imprisoned both George
and his crew. They kept the crew in
jail three months. When they were released
Capt. George was sentenced to five years’ Im
prisonment. and served sixteen months of It,
when he was set free, by whoeo order ho does
not know. Hie ship, cargo and qnite a sum
or monev were taken, and that is the last he
has .eon of them. He says he did trv to get
something done by the State Department
under Mr. FieTnghnyeen, hut, * he wrote
from San Francisco and had nooaetohelp
hltn. he could never grt action." "And you
say,” the gentleman was asked, “that George
dm* not know what hie offenae was?” "He
has not the slightest Idea.” was the prompt
reply. "The Mexican Governor disavowed
the act, and state* that It was committed br
persons not the government, but that
M alike could Cu out at than.”
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