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Special Notice Congregation Mickva Israel. Steamship Schedule-Baltimore Line; Ocean Steamship Company. Bank Statement —Mert hunts’ National. Cheap Column advertisements— Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale; Personal; Lost; Found; Miscella neous. Seed Rye, Etc.—W. D. Simkins & Cos. Auction Sale—Furniture. Horses, Mules, Etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son. Low Pricks for Coal— D. R. Thomas. We Do It— David Weisbein. Tie Annual Spenia! Edition —OF THE Savannah Morning News AND THE— Savannah Weekly News, —WILL BE— ISSUED ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 7, Instead of Saturday, Sept. 4, as heretofore announced. This postponement will give merchants a few more days to prepare their adver tisements and take advantage of this com bined edition of the Daily and Weekly Skws, covering every portion of that 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.” SMftMWMamxr' -I-ill Q pßicg /& Hi I SPECIAL , i ® J iw™jt MOST PERFECT MADE ’repared with strict regard to Parity, Strength an lealthfulness. Dr. Price’sßaking Powder contaii to Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Dr. Price's Extract Manilla, Lemon, Orange, etc., flavor deliciously. Hwbrrllao, <slt. New Gingham Umbreilas New Alpaca Umbrellas. New Silk Umbrellas. AT Cnto k Dooser’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKENNA & CO., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. Having recently purchased an umisuat large invoice of Gingham, Alpaca and Silk Umbrellas from one of the largest and most reliable manufacturers in this coun. try. We will offer them on next Monday at the following prices: 26 dozen 10-Rib Fast Black Gingham Umbrellas, from 20 to 32 Inches, atsl $1 25, $1 50 and $1 75, worth $1 25, $1 5o! $1 7o and $2 25. 5 dozen of Ferguson’s Extra Fast Black Imported Gingham Umbrellas at $2, $2 53 and $3, worth $2 50, $3, and $3 50. Alpaca Umbrellas, A choice assortment of fine Alpaca Umbrellas, in 8 and 10 Ribs, with Olive Partridge, Orange and Bamboo Sticks from 24 to 30 inches, at $1 25, $1 50,12, $250,|3, $3 50 and $4. Silk Umbrellas. We have the largest assortment of Silk Umbrellas in this city to select from—in Plain, Twilled and Double-Faced Colored Linings—and for goods of the same quali. ty their prices cannot be equaled. We will continue for another week the sale of our mixed lot of Ladies’ White and Colored Bordered Hemstitohed Hand kerchiefs at 21c, formerly sold at 25c, 300, 35c and 40c, Crohan & Dooner, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKENNA & CO. CORSETS. Thomson’s G. F. Corsets in grades “R.,” “H.,” “G.,” "P„” “Abdominal,” "Nursery,” “Linen,” "Ventilating,” etc, French Woven Corsets—“C. P.,” ‘‘Syl via,” “Common Sense,” "Beatrice,” etc. Dr. Warner’s Coraline, Dr. Strong’s Tampico, and other popular Corsets. Gentlemen’s Linen Collars and Cuffs. Ladies’ Linen Collars and Cuffs. _ 3sS?&i(Utai. A FINE “ Fill'll Ti! Mr.Foster S. 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