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Charleston Relik* Fund— Excursion for
the Benefit of the sufferers.
The amateur base ball towns of the
South seem to have gotten more real en
joyment out of the sport this year fban
the league cities.
Powderly will not resign or be assassi
nated—if be can help it. This should set
tle the various rumors that are being cir
culated about the great labor leader.
About the only real crumb of comfort
tie New York Republicans have is there
npenine of the fight between the County
Democracy and Tammany Hall.
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria might
get a good position as president ot a life
insurance company if be would agree not
to apply for a large policy on his own
life. '
While doctors tbewere disputing about
the cases or fever at Biloxi, Yellow Jack
stalked into New York without so much
as receiving a challenge and began at
once to take a good look at the city.
Billy Maloney, of New York boodle
fame, is said to be in Switzerland and to
be getting very homesick. Let this coun
try hurry up its new extradition treaties
and bring all its distinguished exiles
home.
The Hc*6ian fly is said to be doing
great damage to the wheat crop in Eng
land, where it has recently made its ap
pearance, but Americaa farmers have
not been called upon to aid the sufferers
for this plague of the revolution.
Tne recent rumors to the effect that ex-
PresideDt Tilden’s will would be con-,
tested are discredited by his executors.
It is now believed that the will, with its
famous bequests to the city of New Y*ork,
will be admitted to probation without ob
jection.
The New York milk inspectors are do
ing their duty so thoroughly that it is
said to be very unprofitable in that city
to adulterate the lacteal fluid that is sold
to the people. It has been discovered
that many ot the dealers diluted their
loiik with as much as 35 per cent, of
water.
It is stated that some of the leading
capitalists of New York fee! a little un
easy on account of tbs honors being paid to
Henry George by the workmen ot the city
There does not seem to be any cause for
alarm while the real estate market re
mains unaffected by Mr. George’s Social
istic Vagaries.
Some of the provincial papers are brag
ging about how much enterprise they
displayed iu rushing their correspondents
Into Charleston alter the quake. The
Morning News has said nothing about
It so far, but it was ahead, as usual. Its
correspondent was right on the spot,
ready to take note ot the first shock.
Senator Rlddleberger has printed a card
complaining tbat he has been greatly in
jured in consequence of his associa.ing
with hlahone. Mabone has also been
greatly injured by associating wiih Rld
dleberger. The great trouble with the
Tirglnla Senators is that they have not
gnly disgraced each other, but themselves
also.
The great American earthquake of ISB6
is being worked for all it is worth by the
scientists as well as the journalists of the
country, some of whom seem to think it
was worth all it cost. It is to be hoped,
however, that we will not have anything
slse oi the kind at any price. This section
ol the Union has had just as much earth
quake experienoe as it wants.
Since it has been announced tnat J. L.
lngersoll, the well-known and devout
Christian and temperance orator and a
brother of Bob lugersoll, has been nomi
nated forCongross by the prohibitionists
of the Second Wisconsin district, the
country may feel that there Is yet ground
for faith in human na'ure. Col. Bob ap
pear* to be about the only real black
sheep of the lngeraoli dock.
The determination of the German gov
trnment to abolisU private instruction,
except in specido Instances, where the
puMio schools are insufficient, Is the
most dcided step towards tho throttling
f the growing Democracy of the empire
khathas been taken or late. J'orbaps it
will provoke a epirlt of opposition that
will ultimately lead to a more liberal
government in Germany.
Accounts from Maine Indicate that
filaine is getting almost desperate as the
election approaches. His blatant abuse
bf the Democratic party, just as he thinks
It is too late for him to be replied to, will
k> obably prove its own nr.tidote. The
plaine people ought to know Blaine well
enough to appreciate the fact tnat he Is
Very lar from being a man who would
Utkc' be -hr hi tkaa to be President-
The Vermont Kleetiou.
About the only matter of a general in
terest connected with the Vermont elec
j tion was the effort of the extreme Blaine
K publicans to secure a Legislature hos
tile to Senator Edmunds. The Legislature
elected Tuesday will have to choose Mr.
Edmunds’ successor. Mr. Edmunds is a
candidate for re-election, and the result
on Tuesday was in his favor.
The hostility of tne extreme Blaine Re
publicans to Mr. Edmunds grows out of
bis refusal to take an active part in the
last Presidential campaign. While ail
the other Republican leaders were doing
their utmost for Mr. Blaine's election Mr.
Edmunds said comparatively nothing.
He made one speech during the campaign,
but it did Blaine more harm than good.
It was a rather colorless production, with
nothing about Blaine in it. It has been
asserted by Republicans that it helped to
secure Blaine’s defeat.
When, towards the close of the cam
paign, it became evident to the Blaine
managers that tneelection would be close,
and that tbe time had come to put fortn
every effort in Blaine's behalf, an appeal
was made to Mr. Edmunds to make a few
speeches of a positive character for
him, and he refused.
It is not surprising, therefore, that
Blaine's friends have no love for the Ver
mont Senator, and would like to see his
efforts to secure a re-election to the Sen
ate defeated.
They are doomed to disappointment,
however. Mr. Edmunds has about as
strong a hold on Vermont as Mr. Blame
has upon Maine. There are, of course,
plenty of Republicans in Vermont who
believe that it he had made a few speeches
in New York during the Presidential
campaign, and had given Blaine a vigor
ous indorsement, the Republican party
would still have control of the govern
ment. They would rather see a
Democrat elected Senator than
Mr. Edmunds, and their aim on
Tuesday was to secure the election
of enough Democrats. Prohibitionists.
Greenbackers and anti Edmunds Repub
licans to the Legislature to defeat
Mr. Edmunds. They tailed,
and it is probable that Mr. Edmunds will
remain in the Senate a good many years
yet, where he will not hesitate to use his
official position to tbe extent of his
ability to punish bis political enemies.
The Outlook in Maine.
The Republicans of Maine are begin
ning to feel alarmed about the outcome of
the campaign in that State, The prohibi
tionists are showing a great deal more
strength than it was thought they pos
sessed, aud the indications are that they
will draw very heavily on the Republican
vote.
Senator Frye’s attack on the prohibi
tionists a few days ago showed that the
Republican leaders in Maine are fully
aware of tbe danger which threatens the
Republican party of that State from the
prohibition movement. He is himself a
prohibitionist, but be does not believe in
permitting prohibition to injure his party.
Representative Reed, who is a candi
date for re-election, and who is the Re
publican leader of the House of Repre
sentatives, is in danger of being defeated.
His district is a very close one, and at
the last Congressional election his majori
ty was very small. He is caliing loudly
for help and several of the best campaign
speakers of his party have been sent to
his assistance. Mr. Reed’s defeat would
be a serious loss to the Republicans in
the House.
Although the chances are that tbe Re
publicans will carry the State, there is a
possibility that they will not. A defeat
in Maine, or a very considerable reduction
of the majority by which they carried the
State at the last State election, would
hurt Mr. Blaine’s prospects very badly
lor obtaining the Presidential nomination
of his party. He is taking an active part
in tbe campaign, and is making an extra
ordinary effort to pull his party through.
He understands what the failure to
show that tbe Republicans still have a
firm hold ou Maine means, and so do all
of those who hope to see him nominated
for tbe Presidency again. It means bis
political death. He would no longer be
among tbe Presidential possibilities, and
would not again figure in tbe political
arena. It is not to be wondered at, there
fore, that every possible effort is being
made for success.
Mr. Purnell’s Snccese.
Mr. Tarnell, it is announced, will intro
dace his land bill to-day or to-morrow,
and be hopea to have it discussed before
the debate on the estimates is concluded.
It will hardly be denied that the permis
sion to Introduce this bill is a great tri
umph for Mr. Parnell and the Irish
cause. It was not expected when
Parliament met that any concessions
would be made to him. Indeed, It was
announced by the Conservative leaders
that nothing but the question of supplies
would lie considered, and that when that
was disposed of, which would oe in a
couple of weeks, Parliament would take
a recess. Any effort to vary this pro
gramme, it was said, would be treated as
an attempt at obstruction, and would be
put down with a strong hand.
The question of supplies has not yet
been eonjidered, and Parliament, al
though it has been in session more than
two weeks, has none little else than dis.
cuss such matters as have been suggested
by Mr. Parnell. This looks very much as
if the government were not so sure of the
support of the Liberal Unionists as it
would like to be, and has, in consequence,
modified its programme very considera
bly.
Bv his land bill Mr. Parnell hopes to
help the Irish tenants meet the necessi
ties of the coming winter, ar,d also, to a
certain extent, unite the different turnons
of the Liberal party. He has been so gen
erally succossfui that it would not be sur
prising if be should be successful in this.
It is certain that the defeat ot Mr. Glad
stone in the late elections has not had the
effect of lessening interost in Kngland in
the home rule question.
Last week the report was circulated on
the streets in this city that Cuba had
sunk into the sea. Of course the report
was not beltoved. A dispatch was pub
lished in the Nmva yesterday, however,
that several springs hsvo recently ap
poared near Havana oi such proportions
as to form a large lake and threaten an
adjucent village with inundatmn. it
would be an interesting inquiry whether
these springs have any connection with
tho earthquake.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, ISS6.
Charlesion’s ‘Wrecked Buildings.
The Charleston authorities have
acted wisely in taking steps to
have all unsafe buddings con
demned at once and pulled down. It will
be much eaier to do that now
than later on. It is not improbable that
there will be a general resistance to the
pulling down of buildings as soon as
business begins to move along its accus
tomed channels. The verdict of the com
mission, however, shou Id be carried out
to the letter.
While there has not as yet been anv op
position to the orders of the City Engi
neer it is not improbable that there soon
would have been. He doubtless has
thus far only ordered those buildings
to be taken down which no one
doubts are unsafe. But as soon as be
began to inspect those buildings about
tbe safety of which there may be ground
for doubt be would have found all sorts of
obstacles thrown in his way. Man who
are in a position to continue business will
be willing to take quile serious risks rather
than to have it interrupted by
the removal of the old buildings and tbe
construction of new. The owners of par
tially wrecked residences also will be apt,
as a rule, to insist on repairing rather
than rebuilding them, even where they
cannot be so repaired as to b entirely
safe. The necessities of mauy will induce
them to take risks that they would not
take if they were more favorably situated.
It is important that the buildings which
cannot be so repaired as to be safe should
be taken down, not only because every
time there fs a high wind tnev will be
liable to fall, but also because they ob
struct tbe rebuilding of the city. To in
sis' that all buildings which cannot be
made safe shall come down may work a
temporary hardship to a few, but such a
course will be for the best interest of the
city.
The 17-7 Earthquake.
The New York Tribune prints some old
letters showing that the same kind of
earthquake phenomena, witnessed at
Charleston and vicinity, were witnessed
at Newburyport. Mass., 159 years ago.
If, therefore, mere is an impression that
the Charleston phenomena were the first
of the kind on the Atlantic coast it is
erroneous.
There is a record compiled by the Rev.
Matthias Plant, who was rector of the
Protestant Episcopal church at New
buryport, dated Oct. 20. 1727, in which a
brief but graphic account of the first of
the series ot earthquake shocks occurring
at that time is given. The record is as
follows:
Being the Lord’s day. at 40 minutes past
10 the same evening there was a most
terrific, sudden and amazing earthquake,
which did damage to the greatest part of
the neighborhood, shoo* and threw down
tops of chimneys and in many places the
earth opeut-d a foot or more, it continued
very terrible by frequently bursting and
shocking our houses, and lasted all that
week, tbe first being the loudest shock,
and eight more that immediately followed,
louder than the rest that followed, some
times breaking with loud claps six times
or oltener in a dav, and as often in tbe
night until Thursday in tne sad week,
and then somewhat abated. Upon Fri
day in the evening, and about miunight,
and abiut break of day, and on Saturday
there were three very loud claps. We
also had it on Saturday, the Sabbath, and
Monday morning about 10, tho’ much
abated in the noise and terror.
According to the record the shocks con
tinued about two weeks, though most of
them were barely perceptible. In just
about a month, however, on Nov. 19, there
were two more quite noticeable shocks,
and they appear to have been the last.
Iu connection with these manifesta
tions were phenomena much like those
noticed at Charleston and vicinity. Fis
sures were made in the earth through
which sand was forced. One writer
speaks of the ground having been broken
and from fifteen to twenty loads of sand
thrown out of tbe fissure. Springs ap
peared where there had been none pre
viously. These springs, however, soon
disappeared, and the holes from which
the water flowed filled up.
Even more remarkable in some respects
than the Charleston and Newburyport
earthquakes was the New Madrid, Mo.,
earthquake in 1812, to which attention
has been called quite frequently lately.
It is a matter of history that at the time
of that earthquake shocks of earthquake
were felt in South Carolina. The New
Madrid earthquake was one of almost in
cessant quaking of tne ground tor several
mouths. In that respect it has had,
perhaps, no parallel. The surface
of the country in the vicinity of the
centre of disturbance underwent some
extraordinary changes. Lakes and
islands appeared to the astonishment of
the people—some of the lakes being ns
much as twenty miles in extent. While
lakes were created, some already in ex
istence disappeared. The bank of the
Mississippi for many miles sank eight
feet, and giant forest trees were twisted
out of shape.
So far as tbe Charleston earthquake is
concerned, there is no reason to doubt
that the shocks are about over. If there
should be any others they will, in all
probability, be of such a minor character
that they will not be generally noticed.
An Augusta man sent to .a New York
paper a statement that the earthquake
had made an entire change in the topog
raphy of the country in that vicinity. He
says that many houses on the sand hills,
the aristocratic part of the city, which
before could uot be seen from the city,
are new In full view, while other land
marks ha ve disappeared. The correspond
ent insists that these changes are attract
ing much attention and tnat there is no
doubt that there has been a considerable
settling of '.he earth there. Doubtless he
is evidently excited over the earthquake
business. The country will do well to
wait until it hears from the Hon. Pat.
Walsh before believing that there have
been any remarkable changes in the face
oi the country about Augusta.
The newspapers appear to be getting
considerable amusement out ot the fact
that the opposing candidates for Gover
nor of Tennessee are brothers. One paper
says that the people of Tennessee have
occasion to congratulate toeinselves on
getting rid of a nr,id-slinging campaign.
"The It''publican candidate cannot well
call his opponent a slab-sided son of a
saw-log wltnout reflecting at the same
time ou hi* own origin, while the Demo
cratic candidate will be restrained, for
the same reason, from hurling the charge
against his antagonist that his grand
la ther stoic a sitting hen from her nest.”
CURRENT COMMENT.
Good For Our Civil Service.
Fr< m the Eastern Poet (Dem.)
In tae Canad an service, the piss examina
tion sv-tein was introduced a lew years aso.
but its operation 19 far from satisfactory. The
rules relating to the civil service in this cons
try. and especially in this State, appear to be
more practical, and better adapted for the se
lection -.f the iltte-t thanthose now inforce in
Great Britain or the British possessions.
Stand by tlie Blair Bill.
From the Xael.ville Union {Dan.'.
It is a measure that speaka for itseP. It is
its own advocate It points to all the children
of tbe South and savs these are my argu
ments. To relieve them from illiteracy is my
tnis-ion; to bu Id school houses in the South is
my work : to make an intelligent instead of an
ignorant race of people is what I am tryine
to do. All the politicians in America can't
keep us from standing by the children.
When Politic* I.o*es Interest.
From the Boston Herald ( Tnd.)
Judge Thayer appears to think that the
chief reason for the lack of interest on tbe
part of the old men who have done service In
the Republican partv is tlie feeling that the
younger men do not want them to engage in
its work. May there not be another. nd th l *.
that the work is not congenial? Politics has
come to be chiefly the pursuit of office of late,
and this does not especially appeal to the in
terest of men who have got through with
office holding.
Rooting out the Weeds.
From the Philadelphia Record (Rem.)
Of the seven D mocrats in CongreFS from
New York two were elected by Tammany
flail, Messrs. Abram 3. Hewitt and .John J.
Adams, and both votp for tariff reform. The
other five, who voted against the Morrison
bill, were elected by the County Democracy.
Tammany Flail in her worst days showed
some fl a ity to Democratic principles, a
thing which con Id never he said of the County
Democracy. There are cheerful indications
that the Tariff Democrats of New York city
will this vear receive a loud cal! to stay at
home. They are a sorry lot. anyhow.
BRIGHT BITS.
It is refreshing to read of the business-like
manner in which the West Virginia Press As
sociation at its recent meeting appointed a
committee of 'hree to fix a limit to personal
abuse of one editor by another.— Philadelphia
Times.
Ben. BrTLER snubbed our interviewing re
porter the other day. But as he held the door
open for him to depart and remarked in a
pointed manner that he was out of politics
now his came eye drooped so much more than
u-ual that the reporter had nod fticulty what
ever in making two columns out of the inter
view.
For 150 years the inhabitants of the coral
and volcanic island of Bermuda have feared
that an earthquake shock would pluuge them
into the sea. They cannot reasonably com
plain, therefore, that they have not hart ample
letvure’in which to move Everybody In Ber
muda might by this tune have been settled in
the United States aDd blown away by a cy
clone.—Courier -Journal.
Association of Ideas.— They went out In
the gloaming, listening to the music of the in
sect world. “Arthur,” she exclaimed,break
ing the noisy silence, “how delichtful, and
yet how sad, is the monotonous chorus of those
toadstools!'' “Toadstools!' mv dear!” replied
Arthur; ‘ I think you mean crickets ” “Yes,
crickets; that’s what I mean. I knew it was
something to sit on,” —Boston Transcript.
As indicating the maddening whirl of in
tellectual life in Baltimore, we may state that
people down there are going wild over the
thrilling drma of “East Lynne,” which is
now having its first performance in that Place.
Thi-great event and the prospect of two do
nation parties and -everal mite society meet
ings, pound parties, etc., are regarded by the
Baltimoreans as pledges of the most brilliant
soma’ ln the history of the town.—Phil
adelphia Press.
Prof. Stow* of late years had been ready
and willing to die, feeHng that his life work
was ended, bnt he retained a grim humor
that produced a story that is characteristic.
About a vear before bis death be used to re
mark to a frequent visitor: “Tell (a young
minister whom he knew) that I want iilro to
come to my funeral. It will not interfere
with his summer vacation. I shall be dead
and gone before that.” This message was re
t eated several times, and at last the sturdy
old ProtesAor changed the message to: "Tell
lie ce’d not come to my funeral. I will
go to tea.” —SprinjJisVl Bepublican.
“My pear,” said a voung Chicago wife to
her husband after they had returned from the
wedding tour and settled down to housekeep
ing, “in looking over this box of books I find
your father’s old family Bible. • ud here is an
eniry under the head of ‘Births’ which says:
‘Albert W., born May 3. !BPV Didn’t \ou fell
me you were 37 years old?” “Ah,” replied
Albert, pleasantly, “that’s a cony of the old
version. It’s full of mistakes. In my office
down town I have a family B'ble of the new
revision. I’ll bring it home this evening.”
Albert’s new family Bible was found to con
tain a different version of bis birthday, and
the slight cloud that had hovered over his
household was dispelled.— Chica/jo Tribuns.
The Chestnut Bells—
Hear the ringing of the bells—
Chestnut bells.
What a ih'ill of horror tbeir melody foretells.
As they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
Half hidden out of sight.
And the grins begin to wrinkle.
Faces with their eyes a twinkle,
With a crystalline delight.
Calling, “time! time! time!”
In a horrid sort of rhyme.
That suggests there’s something olden that
doth smell.
Hence the bells, hells, bells.
Chestnut bells.
The chilling, killing, willing chestnut bells.
York Dispatch.
PERSONAL.,
Mrs. .James K. Polk was 85 yearsold Tues
day of last week.
Gen. Sherman will go to New York this
week to look up his future home.
Ex-Gov. Extra Billy Smith, of Virginia,
has just celebrated his noth birthday.
President Cllviland Is steadily gaining
in weight in more senses of the word than one.
Senator Logan made twelve speeches in
one and >y wliiie looking at the natural beauties
of Oregon
A nkphkw of Senator Sberman is said to be
growing wealthy in the real estate business
at Washington.
John A. Loon. Jr., son of the Illinois Sen
ator. has a real estate and loan office at the
national capita 1 .
Ex-Prf.Blpf,nt Arthur states in his own
handwriting that his health lias very much
improved during his sojourn in New London.
Col. R. G. Inoehsoll’s latest utterance is
to the point that "no American can be truly
happy unless he spendseach year a little more
than his income.”
Stanley Matthews’ return to this eonn
try will be has'ened on account of the injury
sustained by his daughter in the accident
with Senator Evarts.
senator Beck, of Kentucky, says that
Blaine’s soeech is not up to the standard of
his utterances: that John Sherman is the
ahlesl statesman among the Republicans of
the Senate, and that lieed. of Maine.occupies
a corresponding position in the House.
Several newspapers In various parts of
New Jersey announced last wee* that Gov.
Leon Abbott was engaged to be married to
Mrs Sbarpeteen, a very wealthy lady, for
merly ' f Philadelphia, hul now a resident of
New York. She has been spending the sum
mcr ni sea Girt. Gov. Abbott’* law Arm bus
charge of Mr*. Sharpstcen's immense estate,
and on the occasion of several visits to Sea
Girt the Governor spent much lime in the
lad Vs society. This, the Governor's son says,
probably gave rise to the rumor, but that
there is not a particle of truth In it.
A Richmond. Va., special says: Miss Va
rina A. Davis, the youngest daughter of Hon.
Jefferson Davis, is in ihe city, visiting the
family of Kov, Dr. J. William Jones, the sec
retary of the Southern Historical Sooh'ty.
Miss llat ia was born in th. confederate Ex
ecutive Man-lon here, not long before the
close of the war. and for that reason her
fattier cal Is tier “The Daughter of the Con
federacy *’ This is Mis-Day s'fl't visit hi re
■dnei she left, a babe, on the eventful night of
Aprll3. when thecaiii.il of the Con fed raev
was evacuated hv the Southern armv, She is
voung, pretty and accomplished, and during
the several week* of h r stay here will be
warmlv welcomed by the Kicltinrnd peop'e.
“The Daughter of the €■ nfcrt.racv” expec ts o
he here on the occasion of ihe laying of the
corner .alone of the K E Leo monument on
net. 73. Mr. Davis In also expected here at
that time if his health will admit of h i com
ing. M ss Davis was accompanied from tier
h uue, Beauvoir, Mias..by Mrs. Jones, and ar
rived SuudaA. They were escorted from
Beauvoir, aslarna Lexington. Ky., by Col.
J. X. he barf, of Baltimore.
England No Smoker's Paradise.
From the St. James Gasstte.
Several reasons hav/i been assigned for
grswieg tobacco in England. One that should
have been obvious, yer, has been over
looked. Either smokinj: must be encouraged
by making the loathsome plant a native of the
soil, or England, as a sjnokng country, will
soon be nowhere. The | -eople who have never
been able to see the justice of allowing others
a cigar when they do ;iot smoke themselves
will learn wit h surprise; that the average Bel
gian -mokes four times as much as the aver
age Englishman. There are 550 pounds of to
bacco consumed in Belgium for every 100
inhabitants. Holland, Germany and Austria
come next, aud France stand- seventh. Of
all the European countries England very
nearly smokes least. Spain, which is the low
est in the list, averages over one pound per
head, and England’s average is only 18S
pounds per 100 inhabitants, if Spain did not
fritter away its time over cigarettes, Eng
land would be the country that smokes least
in Europe.
A Musical Beast.
Prom the AVo Orleans Poop line.
A minister named M C . who has since
passed into “Innocuous desuetude” by falling
front graco. had a circuit in Southern Indi
ana, The horse he rode was a spirited ani
mal, and would sot let a blacksmith shoe
him.
The preacher was a great revivalist and
singer of revival songs—noted for his “power
of song,” in fact.
A smith in the coun'ry seat, the centre of
the circuit, learning tne preacher’s horse
would not be shod, meeting the divine one
day, said:
“If you'll bring that horse to my shop to
morrow and follow my instructions I’ll shoe
him all round, and it won’t cost you a cent.”
Accordingly the preacher was on time at
the smith’s shop with his refractory steed.and
after the animal had been divested of saddle,
blankets and all but the bridle the smith said:
“Now, hold your horse by the rein close to
the bridle bit and sing one of your llvliest
camp-meeting songs, and when that is ended
strike up another, and keep on singing until
I finish shoeing the horse.”
The preacher obefed, and to the astonish
ment of all the animal was passive until the
work was completed
As the blacksmith clinched the last nail he
drooped the animal’s foot, exclaiming:
“There, J knew you could sing religion into
that horse."
A Long Sleep.
From the London Xews.
F.udoxie Adelouin. the sleeper of the Salue
triere. has awoke from her long sleep, which
was continued, without a moment’s interrup
tion, for nineteen days. She had had a slum
ber of fifty days earlier in the year in the hos
pital where sbe now is. and has been for many
years. While she was on both occasions sleep
ing relays of medical men kept watch by her
bedside. Some hours before her second period
of somnolence ended she showed great ner
vous agitation, often started, and had inter
mittent tits of trembling. Sheat length opened
hereyes in the midst of a burst of lond laugh
ter, which continued for about ten minutes.
During that time she stared fixedly and ap
peared, although laughing so bard, as if und-r
some painful apprehension. Then she spoke
as if she were addressing hermotbor, who was
not with her. in an endearing manner, ana on
being banded a glass said she only saw her
mother's image in it. She has since become
quite cheerful, but seems to have hardly any
ideas except those suggested to her by the
doctors. Contrary to what is observed in
most hysterical eubjeote. the sense of taste re
mains while she Is under the influence of sug
gestion Thus if she is given aloes, and told
it it sugar, she will swallow It. hut make a
wry fac.o to show dislike. If told to driuk
w ‘ter from a champagne glass, she shows ex
hilaration. and If a packet, which Dr. Voistn
says contains an emetic, is put Into her hand
she has violent flte of nausea.
Almost Human Intelligence.
Prom the Xeso London Telegraph.
Dr. Peters, of New York, cx-President Ar
thur’s physician, has a cottage at the Pequot,
and keeps several horses in the Pequot
stables. He is also the possessor of a mag
nificent fit. Bernard dog. The doctor had a
horse struck with paralysis la*t Wednesday,
and he was relating this circumstance to’a
friend while his dog was lying at his feet.
The doctor noticed that the dog pricked up
his cars and 9eemed to pay extraordinary at
tention to the conversation, and his great soft
eyes beamed with an intelligence almost
human. When the conversation was ended
the dog started out on a run. This -trange
liehavior surprised his master. He called and
whistled for the dog. but the call was not
answered. Dr. Peters and his friend then
started to look up the whereabouts of the
dog. He could not be found in any of his
usual haunts, and it was not till a stati’eman
informed the doctor that the dog was tn the
sick horse's stall that anv suspicion of the
animal's phenomenal intelligence was thought
of. An investigation was made, and the dog
was found licking the troth from the sick
horse’s mouth and brushing the flies from his
eyes and aistrili. The dog w-s removed, but
the m ment he regained his freedom he ran
for the stable again and recommenced his
labors of nursing. Whenever the dog was
taken away from the horse he whined and
cried so that It would have been cruelty to
keep him awav from his eqnlno friend, and he
is now a regularly installed nurse.
It Caes.
from the Somerville Journal.
Tremendous is the plumber’s bill,
Maria, strike the gong!
The doctor makes hia patients ill,
Maria, strike the gong!
In summer girls demand toe cream,
AVhene'er tbay see a snake they scream.
Their forms are seldom what they seem.
Oh!
Mari*, strike the gong!
Chicago feet are verv large,
Maria strike the gong!
The rtent'st first learns how to charge,
Maria pull the gong!
A mother-in-law's an awful bore.
And tnough you may your wive adore,
You hate the old lady more aud more.
Oh!
Maria, strike the gong!
The minstrel’s jokes are never new
Maria yank the gong!
Paragt spliists are that way, too.
Maria, jerk the gong!
St. Louis girls have blanket oars,
Young idows quickly dry their tears
And marry again in about two years.
Oh!
Maria, strike the gong!
This song I sing is very nice,
Maria strike the gong!
I'm sure ymi’M want to hear it twice,
Maria strike the gong!
Mavbe von won’t, though—l can’t tell,
If you don’t want to gsv so—well,
Just go and buy n chestnut bell.
And
Gently jerk the gong!
The Kells of Moscow.
Mot row Corrttpoiulen-.e Iffw York Journal, of
Comrnorc a.
Last Sunday we wore waked by a grand
crash of bells. As almost evorv one of the
hundreds of churches has a set of four or live
bells, you will understand that when all ring
together, they compel a hearing. None of the
bells are very near us, and the sound of the
harshest was mellowed by distance. Thov
were all pitches,from the deepest bass to the
shrillest trehle. I could not make out a tune
in all the noise. The bells are not rung as
chimes. Kaoh one seems to work “on its own
hook.” and to be striking a continuous (Ire
alarm. After listening to the racket for hslf
an hour one feelslike turningovor for another
nap. But the attempt is useless. The
bell-ringers are as punctilious in
their performances b if they were the most
essential part of religion. They will not
shorten the prescribed hours of this labor hv
a single sec md. Among the profound notes
that cogue b aiming orer all the green roofs
before my windows I fancy I bear the voice
of a monstrous brasen-throated creature
whom I patted on the back the other day. He
is kept In the stronghold of a tower withiu
the Kremlin about ISO feet from the ground.
Without vouching for measurements I should
sav ho Is 12 feet wide at the flare or rim and 14
feet high. His tongue weighs about two tons.
Sounded with ’be ferule of my umbrella he
gave a little muffled roar. The man in charge
offered to tap mm gently with the ponderous
clapper swinging there. But I did not oare
to bear him more clenrly at short range and
declined. But one would willingly nay a
numPerof rouole* 10 hear the Czar Kololtl >
struck if that dethroned morarch of all the
bells could be set up again. Bu’ there he re
mains, mutilated and filont forever. The
pictures of the great bell of Moscow had not
prepared me to see bow neatly U had been
broken. The detached fragment, which now
stands by the side of the ruined bell, might
have heenentfrom it with a knife,sosiralcht
and clean nre the lilies of breakage. One
weilrt think that it might ho put hnek again
ana the last trace of a scar be obliterated
with solder. Hut that would not restore its
voice to the bell, for it has ten or a dozen
cracks, some of thorn many feet long, and
each one has spoiled It. If there Is any con
siderable percentage of silver In tills he I—ss
seems likely on Inspection, uod it weighs Idu
tons, we aro told— It would be verv valuable I
as eid metal. But it Is still more precious to
M' scow ns her unique and most interesting i
treasure.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An electric fish, an 800-pound porpoise and
a couple of sword fish were among the strange
things caught last week at Block Island.
A kucalyetub tree fifty feet from a well
in Alameda county. Cal., sent two roots
through the brick wall of the well fifteen feet
below the surface and completely covered the
bottom with a mat of fibres.
A snake killed near Columbus, la., is said
to have measured nineteen feet three inches in
length and thirty-one inches around the
largest part of its body. Its head was nearly
the else of a water bucket and was covered
with a scaly skin and scanty hair.
A Bio bear attacked a colt on Dry Creek,
Cal. Its mother came to the rescue, and,
while she fought the bear, the colt ran to the
house of its owner, who. went out to see what
was the matter, and round the faithful mare
dead and the bear sitting on the body.
A missionary enthusiast in Kngland
wants to raise money to buy balloons for for
eign missionaries. T hey would be handy, ne
thinks, in escaping from cannibals and other
carnal-minded h< atlien, and at the same time
would strike the natives with awe and make
it ease to convert them.
A bio black at and a big black bat bat
tled for three hours in the Kansas City post
office before the cat succeeded in killing the
bat. The bat's tar tics were to get on the cat’s
back and chew his ear; and the cat’s were to
run under a desk and scrane off the bat, and
then renew the conflict.
The common nutmegs are poisonous In
large doses. In a case which came under
medical treatment adady had eaten a whole
nutmeg and a half, which caused extreme
drowsiness, then giteat nervous excitement,
followed by subsequent depression and pain
in the region of the bjeart.
At Saint Ginophe, in Savoy, there died re
cently a woman, Muse. Richard-Dietrich, at
the age of 123 years. She was married in 1783
for the first, and in USB for the third time. Up
to tier 109th year she enjoyed good health, and
her eyesight was perfect;'the last years of her
life, however, she spent in a somnolent condi
tion.
Eleven-year-oli> J>a vi and Bbeitenbucher
of Rondout was terribly kicked in the face
by a horse. Whilf this physician was sewing
up the wounds the ipov’s mother could net
restrain her tears, bm Liavid never flinched.
“Don’t cry. mamma,” he said: “I ain’t hurt
much.” All of his frant teeth but one in both
jaws were knocked ou t.
W. W. Adams, of Mapleton post office,
Cayuga county, exbth! ts to us nineteen finger
rings and one silver 1 etter seal recently dug
up by him in the to'.vn of Fleming. They
were contained in a c noe and there was with
them over 400 beads a lid pieces of wampum.
On the same day anil near bv he found a
wampum belt contain! g over 700 beads.
Mr. C. Henry Beliun, of Burlington, H.
J.. has received a letter from Mr. Theodore
Green, of Woodbury, t ame State, giving an
account of the carrier bird that was picked
up in the hotel yard aboutlten days ago. Mr.
Green says that the bln:, with nine others,
was liberated for Millville on Aug. 5. and that
it became lost from the othe rs and kept flying
uptil it died of startation. It is the custom
of these birds n< ver to give up their search
for the point they are flyieg for. They will
refuse to eat in strange Pi sces, and will keep
on the wing until exhausted .
The cable tells of a fresh outfly of fire at
Vesuvius. Here is something from a letter
just at hand from Naples: "'The new crater is
between 80 and 100 metres iii diameter, being
somewhat elliptical and hav.ing a double apex.
Explosions of steam tale place at intervals
from the eastern division, grinding u’> the
materials that have recently crumbled in,
and showering dust and ashes srouud to such
an extent that, although verv Hungry, wo had
to wait until we came down before we could
cat our lunch. I.ava is still fto irvng in abund
ance across the Val u’lnferno.”'
Every able-bodied Inflian in Maine, says a
Lewiston paper, has a dog and < ivory Indian
who is not able-bodied has two They play
the old-Nick with the sheep of title neighbor
ing fanners and run down a few deer. They
are the homeliest, gauntest faml ly of dogs in
the State. A man in Perry recently lost
twenty-six sheep by the teeth of these curs
and made a row about it. He went to tb“ In
dians and threatened to sue I hem, Thev
laughed at him. One old Indian addressed
him as follows: "White man everything; In
dian nothing. What going to an d The argu
ment was unanswerable.
W. W. Seymour, a cousin of the 1 ate Hora
tio Seymour, was placed by his fat her in the
insane asylum at Middletown, N. Y„ last
January. He atcaped. came to Philadelphia
ten days ago. shipped before the mast on a
coal schooner, and worked his way to New
York. He is not insane, but was sent to the
asylum on account of his love i'or strong
drink. Some time ago he escaped from the
asylum at Utica, where he had been placed
for the same reason as ai Middletown, and ihe
authoritiesehared birn into Canada and there
lost sight of him. He got into the coal busi
ness, in the employ of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad Company, ana
made a grf at deal of money, but spent it as
fast as he could. His lawyer will seek to
have the asylum authorities restrained from
in'erfering' with big (Seymour's, personal
liberty.
The shining metallic incrustation found
upon the teeth ot some of the cattle which are
pasturing along the hanks of the Carson
river, California, has been popularly pro
nounced to be a coating of gold and silver
deposited upon the teeth from the mineral
impregnation of the water and grass, at
tracted through the magnetic action of the
animal’* body. Some of the bullion incrustra
lion or deposit was submitted recently to
Prof. F K. Fielding, chief assayef of the
Consolidated California and Virginia assav
office in this city. Upon critical analysis of
the material he pronounces it to he pure cal
cium sulphide, with not the least trace of
either gold, silver or quicksilver Thus an
other hopeful delusion is dispelled, and the
contemplated source of revenue from scrap
ing the animals’ teeth periodically rendered
useless and worthless.
Yesterday, savsa recent Paris letter.tliere
started for the United States quite a number
of travelers of an interesting nature—a Hum
ber of splendid horses bought at the last trot
ting match at Nogent sur Marne by Ameri
cans from Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Michi
gan. Wisconsin, etc., for the purpose of Seep
ing u•' the I'ercheronbreed in America. Your
countryman,such hr Messrs. Dunham,Degans
Bowles, and many others, come every year at
this time to visit the I'erche, and buy the >ot
horses they can find. The medium price Is
*2.000 (lO.COOf.). The first horse so
exported crossed the Atlantic in
IS3B with Edward Harris, of New Jer
sey. The horses of that breed are verv
much appreciated still. In 1851 M. FulKing
ton took across the ocean ano her horse of the
same brped; be called it f.ouls Napoleon, but
his friends preferred naming it Fullington's
folly. The folly was profitable. liowevcn, and
the sons of Lottie Napoleon are as much val
ued as those of Philippe Egalite, as Harris’
acquisition of 1889 was called. The Perche
ron stud book is very well kept, only horse*
lxrn from Perchcroivs in P. rche can he re
corded. M. M. Dunham, who was hfere a few
days ago, offers each of his stallions some fifty
amiable wives, and a*eaeh year hr/buys some
800 Percherons, one may judge of the impor
tance of his Illinois stud. This year some
1 200 stallions are leaving France for the
States.
Gen, M. C. Minos, of Washington, has
written to Mr. H. W. Pitkin, of Philadelphia,
a letter In regard to the asphalt pavement in
Washington, taklngthc ground that asphalt
pavement costs but a trifle more than granite
block pavement, and Is incomparably bettor
In all the qualities that go to the making of a
first-class roadway. The granite block pave
ments laid In !Bft) cost *1 79 per square yard;
asuhalt pavenymt. *1 85 per square yard.
The annual c/t of repairs ef the asphalt
pavement on Pennsylvania avenue has been
from lO 2'* cents per square yard, with a
good foundation of hydraulic cement, sand
and hr ken stone. The asphalt surface is
durable, estnfortable to drive upon, and
vastly more favorable to health than any
other. There is an impression that asphalt
pavement is not the best for neavy traffic, but
Mr Ferule, an English civil engineer, com
menting on Gen Moigs’ letter, shows that tm
pi esslon fblw erroneous. Cheapside, London,
which Is conceded, he says, to ha<e the heav
iest traffic of any street in the old world,
has now been paved with ssphalt for
ten years, and during thut time
has never been dosed a day for. repairs.
It has lieen.he affirms, the experience of Lon
don snd Paris that asphalt will si snd more
wear than either granite orlron. The virtues
claimed for asphal', to put them briefly, are
that they are noiseless, have no vlhr.iHon.no
dust, no innd. are easily cleaned, very durab.e,
aud are easily repaired.
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