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ODErTO NEffADVEBTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKalb Lotg r - No. 9. I. 0.0. F.;
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Special Notice— As toCrewof Ger. Bark
Hestia.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steam
•bii'Co.: Generate Transatl mtlque.
Amusements —Miss Kate ca?tletou in
► eras ■’ Patch ” at the Theatre.
Legal Notices—As to Demands Against
G. H. Broughton’s Estate; Administrator's
Sale.
Now the Time to Speculate— H. D. Kyle,
Banter and Broker, New Y rk.
Cheap Coi.uan advertisements—Help
Wanted: For Bent; Lost: Miscvllanoous.
Auction sale— Dry Goods, Etc., by C, H.
Porsett.
Lai npry Soaps—C. M. Gilbert A Cos.
Partnership Notice—C. L. Montague A
Cos.
There appears to he too many Indian
summers to please the plumbers.
It is announced ibat Boston has secured
anew pitcher. Wonder if it was made to
fill out the set with the America’s cup.
it rema ns to be seen whether the Re
publicans w ill be able to play a thimble
rig eame with the Legislatures of Mew
Jersey aod Indiana.
If rich silver mines have really been
discovered in the Indian Territory, as re
ported, it is to be (eared that the booming
Ct the Oklahoma boomers ill be eclipsed.
Keeley is said to be getting up anew
intention to make his motor “mote.” It
s ems that the thing he wants now is
something to make his stockholders keep
on “moting.”
Blaine is said to be in love with his pen.
He ought also to form an attachment for
aletter crematinefurnace. He would do
well to burn most of his letters as soon as
he writes them.
It is a question in the minds of some
people whether or not it will be necessary
for Gen. Sherman to again call on the
War Department to save him from the
consequences of his mendacity.
A Boston paper says the Harvard chaps
feel more self-important than ever since
the celebration. If they don’t mind they
will be takeu down a button hole or two
before the next sporting season closes.
The New Orleans Law and Order
League proposes to try to secure the en
forcement of the Sunday laws in thatclty.
The job is almost as stupendous as the
undertak nr o’ M and > Lessens at Pauama .
The handsom st ladies of Georgia are
said to have visited the gallery of the
Georgia House of Representatives Satur
day. If that is true it may be safely wa
gered that certain able members didn’t
do any legislating of consequence.
It is gratifying to know that some of
Ihe ablest members of the General As
sembly are endeavoring to pass a law to
Secure the proper and equitable valua
tion of property for taxation. It is to bo
hoped their efforts will be crowned with
success.
An enthusiastic legislator has intro
duced a bill to regulate the holding of
Justice Courts in this State. If he can
accomplish the object he will be entitled
to a great deal of credit. Some very able
statesmen bavo tried to regulate Justice
Courts and tailed signally.
It will be strange if the Republican
papers do not find some political signifi
cance in ex-Preaiilont Davis’ visit lo
Kentucky to attend the church dedica
tion at bis birthplace. It may be, how
ever, that the record of the visit will be
eavea and worked over during the cam
ps ign of 1888.
A leading colored politician of St. Louis
bas tiecome convinced that bis race is not
quaLflsd to conduct the politios of the
country, and that the less the colored
people meddle with governmental mat
ters the better for them. A good many
aensible colored men in this State ar
rived at that conclusion several years
ago.
The New Yorkers comm nded tbem
aeives by giving the Pennsylvania Uni
versity boys who rendered the play ot
Aristophanes, ‘‘The Acharnius,” a bigger
and better bouse than they gave Patti.
Of course it was all Greek to them, but
tbatdldn’t make any difference as long as
they were able to laugh and cry at the
right time.
Montreal is again making great prepa
ration for Its grand winter carnival
and other sports, to eclipse anything of
the kind ever before held. There is no
small-pox there r.ow, nnd the people arc
getting aucn low railroad rates that they
expect to have thousands of Americans,
other than defaulters and embezzlers,
visit them,
The Philadelphia Pieas is gratified lo
observe tliat two Southern Democratic
papers, toe Atlanta Constitution and the
Mobile Register, agree in the belief that
the free-trade whisky ring element ot the
Democracy controls the party in Con
gress. The u lie 1 anccs ot sums of
our Southern protection J turuale no
not seem to bs gratifying to any hut He
publicans.
Tbs Boston liniald wants the Penney 1-
vaeia protectionists to answer ice ques
tion : Why wages under the high protec
tion tariffs of Daly and Gerruiuj arc
about half what tucy aic In “free *. ade”
ttugluudir This is a question that the wise
pioi-ououisis piofcr to ignore. An ate
tempt Ut answer it would knock whole
volumes of their most specious arguments
#tc a cocked hat.
The Usual Cry of fraud.
Of course nothing else was to be expect
ed but that the Republican organs would
raise a great bowl on account of the
defeat of smalls iu the Seventh Congres
sloi sfl district of South Carolina. The
howl is late coining, but it has come at
la<r,Tfnd it'l* a long and loud one.
The New York Tribune has a special
irom Washington which purports to tell
how it was done, and which claims that
a Republican majority ot 25,000 was over
come by the “vigorous Democratic cam
paign,” and the Democratic candidate
elected by 770 maforitv. It follows the
usual mendacious Republican method of
denying indisputable facts, and asserting
as facts falsehoods that will serve most
of the readers of that paper as well as
facts. It is stated that there was no Re
publican disaffection, and the cele
brated triangular contest in the district
is ignored.
There is one peculiarity about this
howl, however. It does not lay so much
stress on the alleged lact that the negro
majority was overcome by shrewd man
agement, and that a great wrong was
thereby perpetrated on the negro vo
ters. The loss of Smalls’ vote in Congress
is deplored by the protectionists. A promi
nent Republican, most probably James G.
Blaine, is reported as writing to a friend
in Washington: “Will the leaders or our
party continue to submit to such out
rages? Will the protectionists submit to
such a theft by the free traders, reducing
so Urge a majority to an inferior mi
nority ?”
This shows that a desperate effort will
probably be made in the future to array
the negro vote in the black districts of the
South against the revenue reformers of
the North and West. Smalls, no doubt,
can get the boodle necessary to satiety his
supporters in ’BB. The robber barons
want bis vote, and the Democrats of the
Beaufort district will have to keep well
organized and prepare thoroughly for the
next campaign or they will get it. Now
is the time to unmask Smalls before his
colored constituents, and show them that
tbeir true interests are safest in the keep
ing of the Democratic party.
What are Necessary Occupations.
The Sunday laws vary in the different
States, and the extra legal discretionary
powers assumed by the police and court
auihorities vary more than the laws do.
In many cities the merchant who would
open his store and sell dress goods and
notions would be vigorously prosecuted
and boycotted by the religious part of the
community while his next-door neigh
bor is allowed to sell whisky and beer
without hindrance. It seems to be the
sentiment in such places that the latter
are necessaries, while the former are not.
Barbers have nearly everywhere been
allowed to pursue tbeir calling up to the
church-going hours on Sunday forenoons.
It has been generally conceded that they
are engaged in a work of necessity—as
things go in this world—for cleanliness
and deoency are considered by all good
Christians as next to godliness. The Su
preme Court of Massachusetts, however,
has upeet this doctrine.
The testing of the question came about
In a rather odd manner. Last sprint
the Journeymen Barbers’Union of Wor
cester joined the Knights of Labor and re
solved not to work on Sundays any more.
They got an order or ukase troin the City
Marshal ordering the shops to be closed
on that day, but one boss name Dextera
refused to obey the order. He was ar
rested and oonvicted. The case being
taken to the Superior Court on an appeal,
tie lower court was sustained, and
finally the judgment was confirmed Friday
last by the court of last resort. I’he
court held that everybody that requires
such a service should shave Saturday
evening or go unshaved on Sunday. Bar
beries, therefore, can neither be com
pared to plucking the ears of corn and
eating thorn or to pulling the ox out of
toe ditch.
Tlie Ladies vs. Liquoi.
One of the most remarkable crusades
of the times in some respects was brought
to an end last week in Pennsylvania. It
was a campaign ot the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union against the liquor
dealers on the occasion of the annual ap
plication of the latter for licenses, in
every county in the State, except two or
three in which the discretion of the offi
cials charged with granting licenses
is limited under special laws, the ladles
filed voluminous petitions protesting gen
erally against any increase In the num
ber of saloons licensed, and objecting
specially to the licensing of persons who
w- re known to be disreputable. In sev
eral strong temperance counties the ladies
protested against the granting of any
licenses.
The work was done quietly, but thor
oughly. and the liquor men were greatly
surprised in many instances to see their
applications postponed from day to day
and week to week. In one county a spe
cial commissioner was appointed to take
testimony for aod against the petitioners,
and several weeks were thus consumed,
and in another county all the old licenses
ran out and limes were “dry” for several
days.
The result was that nearly a thousand
applications were reiused, aud the ladies
considered that they had wou a great vic
tory, and have been quite jubilant on that
account. In five counties no tioeuses at
all were issued this year.
It the temperance people are in earnest
in tho cause they should tight for it in
every practical manner possible.
What they should aim for is results, aud
not the carrying out of fanatical or im
practicable theories. In some sections
prohibition works well, aud in others It
caixiiot be enlurced, but restrictive
measures accomplish the greatest good.
In sumo insiauces, where the restrictive
law* are not enforced, tne ladies of the
Temperance Union are taking steps to
insko the officials charged with the en
forcing ut Ue laws do their duty. Their
plan seem* to he, tirsi to petition the au
iborities, and, if t.iat doesn’t secure the
proper a' llou, to call lliw otlicials to ac
couul at tne liar of public os inloo.
The Chicago t ribune seems to bave sot
the political history of the last twenty
years transposed. It rays; “The great
principle holding the Democratic pany
together Is |is organized aj polite foi
office, eud nothing else, spoil or cloy
that appetite, and that parly would / all
to ph ce* like a wnisky barrel with tie
hoops knocked off.’’ |'< map*. C.ow< ver,
ika< is only nos of Lucie MoUlll's DlUe
i1Okie.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1886.
The Kgypiian Question.
The question of English supremacy in
Egypt seems to be rapidly approaching
a crisis. There are reasons for believing
that England will either have to with
draw from that country in accordance
with the wishes of other powers, or
strengthen her hold on it by boldly an
nexing it as one of her dominions. It is
Impossible to predict what the result
of annexation would be. but it is difficult
to conceive bow it could be peaceably
efi. cted, unless the powers more directly
interested should become involved in
other disputes that would render them
unable to resist or resent such a step.
England has long he'd a mortgage on
the land ot the Pbarashs, and she would
be glad of any opportunity to foreclose
it. When the opportunity presents itself
the pretext will not be wanting.
The strategic position of Egypt is of lar
more importance to England than its in
trinsic value, though that long exhausted
land, no doubt, still has many undevel
oped resources which might bedrawn out
under any enlightened and beneficent
government.
As to the masses of the Egyptians it
probably makes little difference to them
wno their masters are. For many genera
tions they have been sunk in degradation,
and have been ao less the victims ol
ignorance and superstition tnan tne prey
of their various conquerors. They
would probably be better off under
British rule than under any they have
submitted to for hundreds of years. They
have so long been the subjects of oppres
sion and misrule, however, that they
would be slow to take advantage of such
conditions ot progress as England’s
agents might inaugurate consistently
with the practice of extracting from them
all the tribute they can pay.
The Solid South.
Since the Congressional elections, in
which the Republicans gained some re
markable victories in Virginia and North
Carolina, the talk about the probable
breaking of the solid South has been re
newed by the Republican politicians.
Notwithstanding the evidence to the con
trary, they continue to assert that the
Republicans gains weredue tothegrowth
of the protection sentiment, and that the
protectionists generally voted with the
Republicans.
An analysis of the returns from the
States named seems to show to the contrary
of what is claimed. It was in the agricul
tural sections generally where the Re
publicans gained Congressmen, while in
the cities the Democrats generally held
their own, notably in the Richmond dis
trict, where the protection sentiment is
said to be strongest, but where a Demo
cratic revenue reformer was nominated
and elected by a large majority.
There is no question but that the Dem
ocratic losses were due to the apathy
caused by the want of organization and
direction of the campaign by men who
knew how to bring out the Domoeratic
voters, and who appreciated the dangers
of a failure to develop a vigorous and ag
gressive contest.
No doubt these reverses will serve to
teach anew to the Democracy of those
Slates the necessity for thorough organi
zations, such as Mr. Barbour inaugurated
in his campaigns against Mahone. Tne
apathy was, perhaps, not so much in the
voters as in the party leaders, who failed
to sustain their claims to the qualifica
tions that should belong to leaders.
There is little reason to fear that such
a state of things will prevail in 1888. A
Ksson has been taught the Democrats of
these States that they will hardly forget
in the near future. There is little reason
to doubt that the South will he as solid
two years hence as it was two years ago.
Improved Railway Service.
in the recent changes in schedules to
suit the winter travel the most important
one to Savannah is that ot the East Ten
nessee, Virginia aud Georgia railway in
connection with tho trains of the Savan
nah, I lor da and Western railway. Three
trains are now run over that railroad to
Macon, Atlanta and the West, as follows:
Leave Savannah 7:0t! a. in,; arrive Macon
2:00 p, in.; arrive Atlanta 5:35 p. m.
Leave Savannah 8:45 p. in.; arrive Macon
7:35 a. m.: arrive Atlanta 11:30 a. m.
Leave Savannah 1:30 p.m.; arrive Macon
11:20 p. m.; arrive Atlanta 2:2j a. ni,
Tne East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia is also runuiog a traiu leaving .lesup
at 8:50 a. m and arriving at Brunswick at
11:20 a. m. These changes, together with
fast and frequent trains, are of great ad
vantage to the business men of Savannah
as well as to travelers, because they give
them prompt communication with a large
area of territory, the irade of which comes
almost exclusively to this city. Mr. B.
W. Wreun, the chief of t:ie Passenger and
Ticket Department of the East Tennes
see. Virginia and Georgia Railway, is oue
of toe most competent and energetic men
in the Southern railway service, and has
done bis full share toward giving tin- peo
ple ample and prompt railway facilities.
The South Carolina State Board of Can
vassers gave Smalls a patient aud fair
hearing in his contest agaiust Col. Elliott
and got 133 votes more than were allowed
him by the county boards, but be is still
534 votes short. He says he is going to
carry his contest before the House ol Rep
resentatives, but be will probably have
small clianoe of success. He seems to
have been allowed all ho was entltud to.
aud it may be that Col. Elliott will in
crease his iua)ority by having two pre
cincts in Beaufort county thrown out.
It seems to be more tuan possible that
8u alls’ career as a statesman has come
to a “final end.”
Under the new constitution of Florida
the He ll ate consists ot .12, and the House
of Representatives ot oh members, mak
ing 100 in all. The Senators hold their
offices ior four years, but oue-half are
elected every two years. The members
of the House hold their offices lor two
years. An attempt was muds In the con.
vei tion ol 1877 to incorporate similar
provisions in tue constitution of Georgia,
but without success. Tne making of mu
Senate a more s'able body tuan tne House
seems to be a wise measure aud in ac
cordance with the genius ot our form of
government.
Ibe new constitution ol Florid* is not
as elastic as the constitution of our Niaui
wltn regard to tne limitations placed on
sessions of the ia*gitls'ure. I'he regular
in-salons i sub'll be extended beyond sixty
days, and exits sessions are I nailed ut
twenty days, Bienula! a-ssiout ai* tne
r ol*-, commencing on the Ural Monday in
April next
CUKRENT COMMENT.
Can’t Head Him Title Clear.
Frota the S’ere Ytrrk World (DemA
There is no ex-President of iho United
states now living wnh the exception of Mr.
Haves, mil his title to be so considered is not
altogether clear.
A Fopu|ir S-ni'n'us,
From t\r St, Louis Republiern (Deni.)
The news that Col. Benton has been re
stored to his office will add to the zest with
a hn h Democrats will r. ;nl tne addresses de
iiyered by Speaker Car is e and senator Beck
at the Iroquois Club banquet last mgut.
The Benton Restoration Approved.
From the Sr to York Time* Ind, Rep,
We regard the action of the President as
that of an honest and fair-minded man, who
felt i hat to confirm suspension try removal in
this instance would neither oe just to the in
cunibent nor for the good of the service. And
vie regard this conclusion as on the whole
reasonable.
Virginia s Eitsrm for Arthur
From the Richmond Dispatch f Item .)
'Vo would speak of the dead none but good
words. We in Virginia should, according to
our customs and traditions, have a place for
Mr. Arthur in our esteem because he married
a lady belonging to one ot our most honored
families We do not mean to intimate that
he had any faults to be covered up by eulogy;
for we have never heard anybody speak ill of
him.
Arthur’s TJoaita'Dsd Reward.
From the .Veto York Re aid Und.)
lie looked truly for a reward he was not
destined to attain He never regarded him
self as being truly a President, but he hoped
ibat be had so commended himself to the re
spect of his countrymen that they would otter
to raise him, formally and per-onahv, to the
exalted station which ov accident he had first
obtained. This was not to be. Perhaps if it
hail been Arthur might now have been alive,
and ihe Republican party would assuredly,
win or lose, have stood uetter than it now
stands.
BRIGHT BITS.
Someone says it is the hill which produces
the echo. And here we have lived all of these
years thinking it was the holler.— Binyhamton
Republican,
The cartwheel dollar is a blessing after all.
The last express robbers left all the hags of
6ilver behind—carrying them be n g evidently
100 much like work.— o...aha World.
The giant baby in London lias been attached
for debt. The credit r will have a picnic on
his hands wnen thi.enormous infant trkes the
colic in the middteof the night.— Philadelphia.
2* ewe.
The uncle of the Mikado is traveling in this
country, borne one calls him a franl. He
can’t be auy more of a fraud than several of
“The Mikadoes” traveling in this country.—
S' or ristown JJcrald.
There will be some doubt as to whether
Mr. Armour’s buck wheat was poisoned. It
hardly seems likely that so ri ha man as Mr.
Armour, who can always have pie, cats buck
wheat.—Courier-Journal.
The Chicago Inter-Qceau says: “Protec
tion eo‘ anew winter overcoat on Tuesday, all
wool and a yard wide,.fast colors, home-made
and warranted lo wear.” Well, Protection
will need it, for soon it is goiDg to be very
cold weather for Protection.— Boston Rost,
Ma. Gosse and Mr. John Churton Collins
continue their anim ned warfare through the
English newspapers; and the St. James Ga
zette thus sums up the case;
John Churion Collins loudly thunders
That Gosse’s book is full of blunders;
And Gosse, as plainly as he can,
Hints Collins is no gentleman.
The world amused beholds the two,
Aud thinks both chargee nearly true.
The Law and Profits—Mrs. bumpkins’
olde-t boy had gone West, and a friend of the
family was making some inquiries about him.
"I understand John is an attorney,” he
said.
"Ves, aod he’s got lots of business,” she an
swered, with a mother’s pride.
“Is he a criminal lawyer?”
A shadow fed upon the good old lady’s face.
“No, not yet,” she said. “Leastwavs he
bain't told me. lint I’m afraid he will be.
The law is so dreadful tempting.”— Tid-Bits.
A Thrke-Bali, Ballad.—
How dear to my heart is my jacket of seal
skin,
Which all summer long has been hidden
from view.
With its soft silken lining and velvety real
6ktn.
Which glistens like sunlight when shining
on dew.
How often last summer I’ve wanted to don it.
When waves which were frigid compelled
me to pout;
Tho’ coid blew the breeze o’er my bonny straw
bonnet.
That jacket of sealskin I couldn’t get ont.
That sweet sealskin jacket!
In c motor they park it.
That dear i-calskiu jacket that hangs “up
the apou tv” KtysinJudye.
PERSONAL.
Gen. Milks is the guest of Senator Came
ron in Washington.
Henry Georoe has been invited to make
an address in Boston.
Miss Cleveland has written a story for
Godey's Lady’s Book.
Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut, and his
bride have sailed for Europe.
Hbrr Barth, a lending German Liberal, is
the guest of ex-Presidsnt White, ot Cornel!,
Ithaca.
William R. Travers writes from Ber
muda that be is better aud thinks he will
“pull through.”
Joseph I’clitzer is said to have recently
invested a cool quarter million in Um.ed
Stales 3 per cents.
Liei t. Henn. the p'uckv English yachts
man. has been elected a member of the
Eastern Yacht Club.
Emperor William has contributed 50,000
mars* to the fund for the erection of a Luther
monument iu Berlin
Congressman William D. Kelley will
stari on his lour through the coal and iron
districts of Tennessee and Alabama uext
Saturday.
Henry M. Stanley is en route from South
ampton to New York on the sturdy stenn
sh p Ailer, which, bar mg accidents, will ar
rive ou Thursday next.
Mr. Blaine has purchased the lot just
South oi tli at owned by William Wa'ter Phelps
at Seubright, where he i mends erecting a cot
tage for his summer use.
THE wife of Secretary Whitney says that
thepurpo-eof Mrs. .James Brown Potter’s
visit to Europe Is to assist her uncle, Minister
Mel.ane, inbis rceetilions,
Edwin Booth has been playing in fine stylo
anil to more appreciative audiences this week
than ever before in New York. His recent
illness, costly as it was, has been a blessing in
disguise, because of the rest It brought.
Justice Miller, of the United States Su
preme lieneh, is the John L. Sullivan of that
learned body. It is said that lus skill with
Indian clulie and boxing gloves has won him
as much reupeet as his knowledge oi musty
laws.
A LITTLE STR PRISE PARTY MRS given to
Gen. John M. t or.e, Boston’s postmaster, at
which Ills friends presented a bond for
$:>00,000, which they bud signed smt placed on
file Without Ins knowledge. It isn't every
man who gets such a tribute ot confidence.
!>k Hamilton Grinin, stepfather of Mary
Anderson, is at present in Denver. Col. He
has purchased a ranch in that Htate for his
son Kriiuk. and the two will occupy iln m
seiveswtib cattle raisingon their2.Out) acres ~f
Mature, fir. i.r llin says that Mis- Andcr-ou
will again appear in London during Jan
uary.
Tlix President con lam plates giving a Christ
mas dinner ut Oak View to a select part , of
lilemls, and has written to Ins sister, Miss
ltos.i Klizalmth < leveland, asking her to spend
the holidays with him and Mrs.) eveland.
M s Cleveland has not been m Washington
since the President's marriage.
bi'NHKT ( ox has written a letter to Prank
G. < irpepier, of Hie ( leveland la ader, m
which lie suvs: "The remarks of the press
aiwui me oi wnnaciion with the Hpaakership
or com at 11 tees in the next Congress are all
awry, as I have had my appcllie fully ,u.
fled with limiters of Gils Lin I and shad an
oiuvnr to male* only s good local liepre.
■M-nisiivo Thai it the height of my ambi
tion ”
i is ai oi r i mat ilu< '/ .en It. gem
( hristir.a of "pain will go out of dtsep mourn
ing on No , ' . that b-dng Urn snuivers.iry of
Ihu dimlU ot AI foil so \|| rhe ladies ol tie
XI idi ii an ion ary ..-gefi tl>* i/u> cu tu grant
iliei* permits! ,h lo pr s*lit h*r with Up first
dress she will wear lit the first . tax" ot her
widuwif .1, n i ih< favor listi“a been a,
isuM, dii ilrr sis now i* pr* i ,+rslh.o. If
w' 1 t.r ip ■ of ivory velvet wiik a ritiu of
l> ti ir ire, s> el ih* body trim Wed mum
xMttMKa iua same out or
Her Challenge.
Fvr,n the Bwt n Courier.
Tbe maiden sat so near niy arm,
Around her wai t I threw it;
And then not meaning an> harm,
1 kissed uer ere she anew it.
the tli ew an anvrrv glance at me.
Her fa<*e grew red. and then
sb*- frowned and i-aid: “I’d like to see
You just try that again!”
“Why certain!?, sweet in''id,” I said:
I did—*couid f be blamed;
Thu time ehe omy bl shed and said:
“You ought to he ashamed!”
Effect of Cut tire-i i rattling.
From Drake's J lagasins.
“Is your little girl goiDg to school now, Mrs.
He Browne?” inquired the elderly clergy
man. “Yes, air. but not to one of the public
schools; I send her to a very select private
echoo .” “Do you suppose that she is likely
to learn more at a private school?” “It is
not so tnurh wnat she learns that 1 am par
ticular about as what she does not learn.
The Misses Smithson have none but the
nicest children at i heir schools, and there is
no chance for Jeuniu to learn slang or
naughty ways.” “That is a good thing, to b
sure; come here, lenme. and give me a kiss.”
“No. you don’t!” tartiy replied the young
lady; “we gals don’t tram with ao iialu
heatied old rip—not if we know tv!”
Horace Gtee.ej's Blunder.
The Journalist..
Mr. Greeley was a queer character, and
could be funny when he liked. He was one
of the originators of the American Institute,
ana naturally took a deep interest in its we -
fare. When the annua! exhibition was in
progress the Trilnt e columns were full of it.
Sometimes Mr. Greeley took a hack at it him
seif. Though a -trictly temperance man he
one day astonished i he staff Uv writing a par
agraplt on the wine exhibit, si.ving that it in
cluded port, sherry, claret, Cltquot. Mumm.
Uoderer and champagne The staff were
laughing O'er the old gentleman's b under,
when he came in and asked thecanse. The slip
of his pen being pointed out, Mr. Greeiev re
marked in his squeaky voice: “Wa’ai, I'm
snout the only man on this paper who could
make such a d—d foolish mistake as that.”
Ancient Perfumes.
Two ancient Egyptian perfumes have been
reconstituted through the researches of a
young French professor at Lyons who has de
voted bimse f to stud' ins Egyptian sepulture
and the pUntsof the Nile Vailey. By hunt
ing s-hrough the papyrus texts and the inscrip
tions on the walls of the temple lavatories he
has found the recipes for the manufacture oi
“tasi” and “kyphi.” The former was a tem
ple perl ume, used to annoiut the statues of
the Egyptian Venus. “Kyphi” was more iin
p irtant, and Oesides being used at botno for
the rites of Isis aod herapis was imported
into Greece and Rome after the conquest oi
Egypt. It then became the favorite perfum.
among the luxurious G eek- and Romans,
who were anointed with “kvphi after the
hath, and were sprinkled with the essence
during the grand banquets, while sometimes
it was used to perfume ihe w ine
A Great Aiueiic n Accump lshment.
Fr om the Court Journal.
It is quite a trick to jumD off' a tram going
along say at thirty miles an hour, and the
Americans take a pride in cultivating dex
terity in this trick. It takes considerable
practice before it can he done successfully.
The way to jump is always with ihe train and
on ihe eft hand side of ihe latter, lettiug Up
right foot rest on the step. and the left fool
swung from the step. Then jump so that the
left foot will touch the grouiid first, and thi
right foot immediately follow it, so as to he
able to run. some of the meo jump from the
middle of the train or the front, hut most o
them go to the rear car and jump, so that if
they fall they will not roll under me cars. A
correspondent says; “The best man f ever
saw. and the only man who could hold hi
feet and stop himself without running at all.
wis Charles Thi lip-. He could jump from a
train running thirty-five miles au hour, and
stop without running a foot.”
Made a Wanderer by au Epidemic.
A Middleton (N. TANARUS.) dispatch to the New
York World of Nov. 12 says: Alalignantillph
theria is reported as raging in Dingman
township. Tike county, Pa. Early last week
the sister of Charles Garvoile, a French far
mer. died from it aud a few hours later hi.
only child fell a victim. The bodies were
given a hasty burial and soon afterward Gar
voile was seized with the disease. Knowing
that he would die he charged his wife that if
she had no sympt uns if the disease at that
time to leave the infteted house immediately
after he was buried. He died toward eveuing
and as soon as lie was buried Airs. Garvoile
left the house, she being the only one of the
fami y left. None ot the neighbors would
permit her to eater their houses. She wan
dered about until midnight when she was
allowed to enter a vacant house on a clearing
through the Intervention of two men wnohad
taken pity on her. Tuey could not obtain any
bedclothes for her. and the next day word
was sent to her brother in New York, who
who came for his sister aud took her home
with him.
A Smart Boston Boy.
From the Wuehi njtnn Critic.
A nice little boy, reared in the intellectual
and heterodox atmos- here of Bos>on, hap
pened to be a witness in a case in Cinciouat ,
and the question arose as to his being old
enough to understand the nature ot an oath,
so i he judge investigated him.
“Well. Wendali,” he said, kindly, “do you
know where bad litt;e buys will go when the.
diet”
‘•No, sir,” replied the bov, with confidence.
“Gooduess gracious!” exclaimed the Judge,
in shocked i-ururise; “don’t you know they
will go to hell?”
“No, sir; do you?”
“Of course I do.”
“How do you know it?”
“The Bible says so.”
“Is it true?”
“Certainly it is.”
“Can you prove it?”
“No, not positively; but we take it on
faith,” explained the Judge.
-Do you accept Ibal kind of testimony in
this court?" inquired the boy, coolly.
But the Judge didn’t answer; he held up
his hands and pegged the lawyers to take the
witness.
Worth as Much as a Live Indian.
From the Chicago Herald.
“What is a five-foot wooden Injun worth?”
repeated a carver in wood yesterday. “Weil,
that fellow over in the corner with a bunch of
tobacco leaves in las hand and a ring in his
nose sells for $25. A six-toot Injun costs
more, for the reason that we usually put a
little more work on him. We generally give
him a war bonnet of Turkey red, Veuitian
blue and Naples yellow, and a "gun or a club
of cucumber wood. With this sort of an out
fit he is Worth all the way ircm $35 to SSO. A
fresh coat of paint now and then is all that i
- to preserve a wooden injun to a green
old age. What becomes of him after he taps
into desuetude is a in . stcry to the trade, But,
mind you. it takes many a long year for a
wooden Injun to lose his grip. Hecomesdown
from generation to generation as a necessar ;
chattel in the tobacco business, and it often
happens that in Hie course ol bis existence lie
serves a score or more of his masters either as
a mascot or a Jonah. 1 1 may seem strange t
vo •, out it is nevertheless a fact, that out of
iheoOO wood, u Injuus in Chicago only twelve
have passed away in the last e gbt years.
Seven or these were burned, two were
wrecked by the wind, one was sawed in two
by a drunken carpenter and the other
two, which, by the way, were built in Boston
nity-Uve years ago, fell to pieces under ihe
sheer weight of years. There isverylittie
demand for lujuus, the sales seldom aver
aging more than twenty a year.
A Ghost at the telephone.
From the Hutton J'ott.
I heard a story not long ago of an under
taker who was called up ill the night by a
ring which the ceutral office operator said
w as from one of the great cemeteries, and the
voice that called hup was so strange that It
made him shudder It wat wonderfully dis
tinct, and yet so slow, so cold, so lar away,
that it sounded like nothing else that lie
bad ever heard, li uttered uot a single word
crept a long drawuoul “I(el—lol liui-10-u-o!
llei— l-o-o-00-o!” aml 11.0 more he shouted
hack, iho more that ouo ghostly rad came
over the wrnto h tu. IMiiiibi.uimled at lust,
lie hung up his l epuonu ami eat down, hut
mrdftaioe uneasily, while the sound
still r ng in hi. cars. Then he jumped up
niul rang for the centra office. 1 Give me
No. —he raJed eui. That was the ceme
tery, Presently tie had Ihe connection. “Were
you railing inr just now V” he listed, "l ad
ing you? Orlalßly not. Haven't called to
night.” Then hsobjurgate I heeciitrui . fficc.
“i crtain y the cemetery did ass for you,”
sit and t lie operator, "un.l I made the coimec.
imps ” NeM night lliu same call cuiin , sod
the siuiddeMiig undertaker heard the same
ghostly "llel-m u-o,©” iiiilll he i ould liear it
no longer Then the same colloquy with the
c m cry ode e sod til. central operator lei -
1 .well. I am t Id tlisl the on irriaker grew
a most insane nub Ihe ghost c >|l, as he so..a
la gan to iog .rd It, se.l had the t* iup> one
la.su out of oi* step, to th< great detriment
ol h.s trade, out that lie after* .rd nad ll ra
pine. and, and, though be ha* not since Issaa
i sited up try (os ois from Uot other world,
be sits m subtly diaad of it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A rotjNG uDr is driving a cab in Berlin.
Bbe asks ihrice the ordinary fare, beoaiue
she sits bv the aide ol her employer vv hiie she
drives him.
An orange tree over four hundred years
old, iu the urangerie of Versa ilea, was first
olanted lt>’Klenora de Castille, the wile ol
Charlea 111.
A cat with six young kittens was removed
from Milton to Greenfield, X. 3., a distance of
sixteen miles. She was not at all pleased
with the change, and took her family all the
way back.
A fkaomknt of shell was removed last week
from the pericardium or heart sac of Officer
Charles Whitney, one of the victims of the
tvnamite bomb explosions of Chicago. At
last report the officer was doing well.
A woman of Lewiston, Me., who is a store
keeper, while talking with a customer crum
pled a tio bill in her hand. Then she forgot
what it was and tossed the little wad into the
tire >ht remembered it when her cash that
eight was *lO short.
A Philadelphian and one of the largest
newspaper advertisers in the country knows
i good thing w hen he sees it. He says: "I
confine the adv. rtieing of mv soap to the
newspaners. because me man who does not
read newspapers does not use soap.'’
One of Maine’s bust citizens is Dudley C.
Bridges, of Penobscot. He is 82 years old and
a painter by trade. He gets up at 3 o’clock
•uch morning, sculls a boat acro-s a river,
works ten hours at his trade, u-es neither
iquor nor tobacco, and, as he says, •‘never
wen t on a strike.”
After the death of 8. H. Thompson, a wel -
known restaurant keeper of Chicago. *134,000
in bills were found in his safety deposit vault
He could not write, and it is thought that, his
-ensitiveness on this point led Dim to keep his
money in bills rather than let it be known
thatbecould not write a check. If tlieold
zentleman had not thus tied up his fortune it
is thought that he would have been worth
{300.000.
Last July a Nebraska settler erected a
cabin on his claim, and before he could move
in it was taken possession of by a swarm of
bees. He smoked them out, but another
ame. and after two months he was obliged
to tear the structure down and erect it on
another site. He had only got comfortably
settled when a spring burst forth aud flooded
he place, and the hou-e was moved aya n,
Rattlesnakes appeared in great numbers to
•rive him off the third site, and the di gusted
man picked up his traps and gave up the light.
A number of American publishers have
ately found that it pays to gat their wor
lone in Europe. The constant dissensious
vitli printers in regard to prices is not known
•here, and a book can be contracted for a year
i r two ahead and -tin both printer and pub
isher be satisfied. Not only in London, but
in Berlin this i-rtone. Workmen are obtained
familiar with the customs of Am era* an offices,
and type is cast of exact ly the same faces that
we use. A saving in price is efleced, aud the
took is done, as well as it would be here.
When necessary, proofs are sent.
A small dog fell into a vat of tanning
iquid in a New London tannery an i was
ikely to drown, for it was at ntght aud the
building was closed But in swimming
wound he found a peg about six feet Ion:
bat stops the hole in the bottom of the vat
where the liquid is drawn off, and his en
deavors to perch ou the top of this peg loos
cned it so that it popned out of the hole. Thei
he liquid ran out and the dog was found the
next morning shivering on the bottom of tin
empty vat. No one saw all ihis, but the cir
cumstantial evidence is strongly in favor o
he explanation.
At a recent meeting of the Koyal Archaeo
logical Institute in London, a letter was read
from the Rev. Joseph Hirst, dated from
Smyrna. Oct. 2D, in which he states that the
Turkish government has wi harawn all per
mission given to Englishmen and other lor
ugners to excavate ancient sites within the
Sultan’s dominions, and also that large quan
itiesof finely sculptured pillars, walls and
stones are being sold and utilized for modern
building purposes, and a motion was carried
that the institute should take action, alon y
witn other learned societies, in protesting
against this act of vandalism.
The brewers of Belgium recently took ad
vantage of the outcry against German beer in
Paris to institute likewise a “patriotic” agi
tation against the “Biere de Munich.” They
published letters in the Belgian i apers as
serting that Bavarian beer contained salicv
ions ingredients, and finally forced the pro
prietorsof restaurants in which that beer wa
sold to submit it io the analysis of the heaiili
bureiu. Tne result has been a complete vin
dication of German beer, which has been
shown to oe absolutely unadulterated, and
the Belgian brewers are now exteu ively ad
vertising their home-made “Munich Beige. ’
In the matter of 151 entries made in Hum
boldt couuty. Cal., under the timber land act,
on which patents have been issued, the Sec
retary of the Interior has advised Suit to va
cate said patents. This action is the result ol
an investigation upon which the department
holds that the entries were fraudulem ly made
in the imerest of a Scotch corporation, or
ganized for the purpose of obtaining control
•f all of the valuable red wood timber land
in that county, and that the foreign corpora
tion was aided in its work by a firm in Cali
fornia and men employed by that firm. The
Secretary, in his letter to (he Attorney Gen
eral, characterizes the scheme liy which the
patents were obtained as an “extensive cou
spiracy culminating in a monstrous fraud.”
In the majority of cases the Russian priest
is the son ot a priest; sometimes he comes
from the small shopkeeping class or from ibe
peasantry. He passes six years at the dioce
san seminary. where he is taught theology,
ihe Scripture*, and a very little Greek and
Latin. Those only who satisfy the examiners
ire ordained as priests, the remainder receiv
ing the inferior degrees of deacon and psalm
si. The meuiners generally of the Ku-siau
clergy form a class apart, and are never in
vtted eilher to the castle or the house of the
middle-class parishioners except for official
purposes. In money matters they are exact
ing. One of tnem, a very hone t man. and in
intelligence above the average, said recently.
“The year has been a bad one fur me; ihi re
wi re lew births and marriages. There were
plenty of interments, hut i cop’e pay more
cheerfully to be married than they do for
buriais.” Sacraments sometimes are refu-ed
to dying persons whose friends cunuot afford
to pay tne usual fees.
A PROMINENT manager of one of the largest
and most prosperous life insurance compa
nies in New York city states that some twen
ty-five years ago, when as a timid youth he
went into the business at the suggestion of an
ucle because of his aptness at figures, he
stuttered so fea fully that be could n it carry
on a couversalion, ad c msequently lie found
it very difficult to achieve any success iu a
pursuit that required so much explanation
and arithmetical demonstration. In the em
ergency of failure or leaving the business lie
invented a system of elaborate printed ex
planations, which su'-cinoily stated all ibe
facts and duia which it would have taken
ails.v for him to verbally say. even if lie bad
secured hts victim iu a corner bv a I' .pe. This
printed tom was so successful that it led
to iisg idi ral adoption by uli the companio ,
whose-. ulars give so much detail that
everything i- plain to the dullest comprehen
sion, and now consequently ibe labor of the
agent Istnnch simplified. It sm nil lie added
Unit thei ng.jn o is youlu, now 000 of the most
iiilluential citizens, lias since cum letcly
cured himself of the habit of stuttering by the
process of tapping or beating time with his
lingers while speaking.
Madrid recently feted two of her most
popumr citizens. Une is an opera sing- r and
the other Is abu 1 killer. Sixteen year* ago
Gayarre used to get tour franc-, a night for
singing at a well known little music hall at
the capital. Now be bus Just signed an en
gage"! i" to sing 111 tv uiguu, at the opera, (or
ivntoll ha is to receive ii .I'.uouf But one is
accustomed to Hie iq ami downs m op-ralic
life. Ino great olid tig-iter's experience* are
ibuic tutervviing. fo llie laming rrmv of
the Madrid public the great Don Luis Mag.
/.annul is on his way lo Havana. A baoqoel
was g'Ven to linn Hie night before he sinned.
Twobiindred guests assisie.l aud the iioists,
the nproarlousehi ers, and Hie pathetic adieus
made lbs - sue ulm-ai Without parallel, foe
grim man—who a c ouule of years ago was a
email •tatlon master, wi h a nary ol A4 Ot.
a toon'll—ls c nsoled in his grief at leaving
the mcim of Ids triumphs. II" iai.cn w thhioi
in ready opine/ sb.oOci#,, a paiinefit on ac
count by bis Impresario of the l&o.oont,, wBo h
ho la lo recent, when he has earrispi out lua
share of Ilia t .nl act ll< Is lo cross Ho
le. an lo take par. in • ighl mill fights aiol to
hi" a initilioom ol -txijr tour aiooials, T
add to the charm of the . rfonoan. es. and to
guard aga |.t alt (a, sditllty of o>i earn ,gg,
lion laiois takeakiis victims with him a It) .
fo-r l/ull* were pu uu hoard the steamer at
i sells amidst the cheer* of an cAc itad ppu-
palling
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iffe DMsnw.
This week we will exhibit
an extraordinary large stock
of underwear in superior
qualities for ladies, gentlemen
and children.
Our Stock of Lamb’s Wool and Merino Un
lervests includes all sizes in a variety of
grades, commencing at the low price of 250
for Merino Goods.
Gentlemen’s Lamb’s Wool Medicated Scar,
let Under rests, all sizes, in medium and heavy
weights.
Gentlemen’s Lamb’s Wool Medicated Scar
et Knit Drawers.
Gentlemen's Lamb’s Wool and Marino
White Knit Drawers.
Gentlemen’s Canton Flannel Drawers in
heavy and medium weights, commencin'* at
25c.
Gentlemen’s Wool and Merino Half lloe
Gentlemen’s Ealbriggan and English Half
Hose.
50 DOZEN
Gentlemen’s Solid Colored Half Hose,
double heels and soles, full regular made,
regular price wo will ofl’er the lot for
this week at 25c a pair.
Ladies’ Misses’ and Child
ren’s Hose.
Having purchased direct from the manu
facturers this season an unusual large stock
of these goods at from 10 to 15 percent, less
than jobbers prices, we are able to offer ex
ceptional good values in all goods in this de
partment. We have ail sizes and shades,
black and unbleached included.
A Heal Bargain in Bleached
Damask.
10 Pieces Bleached Double Satin Table
Damask. 70 inchev wide, all handsome pat
erns, at 83c; worth *1 15.
Special Sale of Full Regular
Made Undervests.
15 Dozen Norfolk and New Brunswick Full
Regular Marta Ladies’ and Gentlemen'!
Mei-ino Underve; ts, broken sizes, at {l3i
apiece.
The former price of these goods has been
from $2 to $3, according to size.
Crolrtloi.
IRe!cl.
•I iof 'lie dfcngsea which atldOfc mua-mU
i;lj GAUtoed by a disordered < a md.tioao: tby LtVfc •
tor Ti complaint* of iai* kind, bach an
iu Li er. BuioUAueas, *\ervou. liyspyn 4 .
lion, iirefuluril/ ot the iio vcK Constijp'i. on. i
leucy, Eructations uud burr.ing ot tn- JJ®™ .
(som-tiineH called Heart bum), Mjasin.i.
bloody Flux, Cuiilb and bever, Breakbone i
Kx]iansU.iou bnioro m niter > evers, Oi.runJc
than., Wh of Appetite. Headache, boil
irrefpilar ties incidental to Female*, h'- p/L
down Fains, Backache, Ac., Ac. tTAp*vS
AURAN Ml .a invaluabio not
for all disc os, bnf will COKF. It
de livfr,Stomach B *Jv ( ‘rrtW
The comploiMn from awaxv.j* - _ .
to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely
gloomy hpirits. It ta one ol the *,tr
and of the Blood, and vafr-'J'™'
STADICER’S AURANT”
l‘or sale by nil Drugt?PncCl 0
C. F. STAOICER, K=roprio t o r ,
.40 SO. FRONT ST., Philadelphia,
<•) Dne Joto rrliji'fls Ncitralqla- c h gi|
prevent Chill* * Fever, B ul,r .f'°^? c i .i| y *
realh. Clear the Skin, Tone (ho N l ’'*'.,-
h . Vigor lo the tyflem. ' ! . N , tho * |U tN
ry them onco end >oti will o*f £• isf
rice. 26 cent* per bottle. Sold by Pj'fflSLi t
•iflcind Dcior*i gorerallv. r
•Ice In stainpe, postpaid, to guy eddress.
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