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4 Site fttotniug S WHIT A KER STREET. SA V A \ N AII.GA. ' ThDKSUAT. JA ■ BAK\ fl IKS,. “sS^K££o ~Nl* s *6published It i served to subscriber# if iAf ‘ ti. bv newsdealers and carriers, on tbe’r own ac'cmm, at cents a wA, *1 J month, 5 00 for ix months mud *tS OOfor ®ThV Mornino NKWS.frv Pnndav, one month. *1 00; six months. L 0. Cn News, bv Erect (without Sunday issue),six months. J. 00, err year, 48 00. t 0 M Sunday News, byvatil. one yew, MOO- Wrkely News Otto year, *1 25. In clubs oi five, one year, tl 00. Subscriptions payable In adTancc- Reno by postal order or note, check or registered letter. Currenoy sent by mall at risk oi eners and telegrams should be addrossed “Morning Nkw, Savannah. ha. ~ Ad ertising rates made known on applica tion. -- INDEX TON G WADYERTISEIENTS. MEETINGS— Haupt Lodge No. 08.1.0.0. 1-.. Georgia Hussars; So omou’s Lodge No.l, F. A. M.; Republican Biues; Workman’s and Trade's’ Loan and Building Association. Special Notices—Bills Agamst lir. Steam ship Hartburu; Notice, John Westerman, Beal Estate for Sale. Che tp Column Advertisements-Hclp Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Tor Sale; Lost; Personal; Board; Miscella neous. aja Seep Poiwois, D. Simkins & Cos. PUBLICATIONS— Harper’s Periodicals. Heating Stoves—Cornwel * Chlptnan. Medical —French Hospital Remedies. Steamship schedule—Ocean Steamship Company. Notice—Pony, Saddle and Bridle at Auc tion. fc ______ The new year has given us a terribly cold shoulder so far. It Is to be hoped she is reserving her smiles lor a more in timate acquaintance. Senator Vest says that he is gratified With the work of the administration. The Senator knows good work when ho •ses it, and good whisky, too, perhaps. It is worth noticing that the Czar never denies the stories about his intemperate habits. Perhaps the national drink ot Russia is different In its efiects from the wicked mescal of Mexico. Tho venerable ex-Gov. Curtin, of Penn sylvania, says that the President is be coming stronger with the masses every day in his Slate. And so he Is in every State, and the star-eyed goddess will make a mistake if she lorgets it. Railroad and sasters are becomiug ex tremely frequent, and deatn by burning appears to be the dire fate of many of the victims. Why not beat ears by steam from the engine and dispense with the stove entirely ? It Is announced that the battle of boodle has begun in California. For lear there may be some wbo do not understand this announcement it is explained that the rich men of California are engaged in try ing to capture the office of United Slates Senator from that State. The Journal de St. Petersbourg denies that the Czar is either insane or a drunk ard. The editors of the Journal would in cur the penalty of an enforced trip to Si beria by an admission of the imperial weaknesses. Very great perspicacity is needed to safely run a newspaper in Russia. The Boston Herald tbs year is trying the plan of sharing its profits with its em ployes. Alter paying all obligations ami a reasonable on thojHfct the profits will a •.i * ers and regular lorce o,tue 'HE\ A little Letter work all round iW3(?d a handsome sum to eaoh man's saiT^f* Again it is rumored that SecreKK Manning will resign before the end present month. It is also asserted tha* ex-Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, will succeed him. The country will be sorry to lose Manning, but if Hoadly is his successor be will be succeeded by an able and hou." est man. Senator GorbanxTgls done his best to defeat the renc/uaation of Supervising Inspector At last accounts there aas doubt Wfffetber or not he bad suc ceeded- When Curran’s place is filled [here will no longer be delay probably n filling the office ol inspector ol this district. It is announced in a Republican paper that the President doesn’t intend to freezi cut Attorney General Garland.. The President is too dignified to encage in a game of freeze-out. it he wanted the At torney General to go ho o. uotwl hstandmg lypi’ n—j!tjfwinv iorm policy. Don Piatt, in the North American Re view, thinks that the “Author Rich mond,” who wrote the attacks on Seer#-, lary Bayard and the President, has ,r much better opinion of his own abllUid ;han the country has. There is no dmft that “Autoor Richmond's” open letter to; the President showed that the writer ha more malice than brains. w Senor Castelar, in a speech In the Span ish Parliament recently, made a strong Argument in lavor of universal suffrage nd denounced the Russian Czar as the { greatest revolutionist In Europe. Castelar # a great admirer of the United States, ind regards American institutions as the panacea for ail the politioal ills of his own Country. But physloians always grad. ‘Jjelr medicines to suit the particular con Itltution ol the patient, and a peonle must be educated by degrees ud to the point when the responsibility of popular gov sruinent may be safely intrusted to them. Ol the population of Great Britain re lent etatistlcs show (hat one In every thirty ie a pauper. Every year'at least ISO,OOO persons are arrested lor drunken ness. Tuere arc 360,000 barmen and bai • maids, and 150,000 saloon keepers atu! beer sellers. Tho annual expenditun lor drink is $730,000 ot>o. Nevertheless. England expendss7,ooo,ooo per annum i missions to the heathen as a set-off to be: Itinr comings, against only $.">00,000 spen by Germany for the same purpose, sßo,oo< by France, or $1,000,000 lor tho entir continent ol Europe. It is a very pooi exhibition, it is true, and as soon a U.io e Bam has swept bis own door step quite clean be ought to look into tbemat ter with a view to •ome^^micmicikw. Republican Tariff Tinkering;. It is stated that next Monday tbe Re publicans will introduce into the House a bill reducing the duty on sugar 20 per cent., and repealing the lax on tobacco and on spirits used in the arts. This bill will amount fo nothing. It will, ot course, be referred to tbe Ways and Means Committee and will never be re ported trick to the House. It is probable that the purooso of Intro ducing It is to keep tbe Republicans in different parts of the country quiet, wbo are clamoung for a reduct.on of the rev enue. 1 1 is rather significant, however, that it should be proposed to out down the sugar tax. It shuwstne Louisiana sugar planters what they have to expect from their Republican allies. When the motion to take up the Morri son bill was before the House at the be ginni: g of tbe session nearly all the Lou isiana members voted with the Republi cans against it. They thought they could rely upon them to let sugar alone in any legislation for the reduction of the reve nue they might propose. They were mis taken. It is apparent to everybody that the revenues must be reduced. For the gov ernment to collect $120,000,000 a year more than it can economically distribute means ruiu to all business interests A reduction must be made, and tbe Repub licans are not going to permit the manu facturing monopolies to be disturbed il they can help it. They are ready to sac- rifice sugar in order to serve these monop olies. Perhaps the representatives of the su gar interests know what they are dolug. They have been warned frequently that their interests would be safer in tbe hands of the tariff relormers than of the protectionists. They have not heeded this warning, however, and it begins to look as If they have made a grave mistake. II Mr. Randall could have his way he would repeal both the whisky and tobacco tax. While he will not admit It, he wants to tax tbe necessaries of life and make whisky and tobacco free. The common sense of the country will not permit him to do that, even thouih he has the support of the Ilupublican party. Tbe whisky and tobacco tax should he the very last tax repealed. Those who smoke and chew tobacco and drink whisky are noteomplaining. Why then should Mr. Randall be so concerned about them? If the wbisky and tobacco tax were repealed It would still be impos sible to get a drink of first-clasß whisky lor a dime or a good cigar for a nickel. Tho Doctrine of Probation. The recent trial of the Andover profes sors and tbe shaking up which the Ando ver creed is getting are calling from the pulpit a good many expressions of opinion respecting the question of piobation after death. Mr. Beeober, who, perhaps, is ad mitted to be one of the ablest preachers of tbe present day, had something to say ou this subject |at Sunday. Releyring to the Andover trial and the chief of the Issues which are being dis cussed by those engaged in it be said: “Men are up in arms over the problem o( probation after death. Wbat a schoolbov question! What a piokaninny matter! We shall find after death that we are all imperfect; that death is but a step for ward in the great life. Over beyond the grave God is preparing rules for us. We may be fitted lor tbis life, but there are changed conditions there to which we must conform. That we must be taught at some intermediary place, some half way house between this world and final immortality, there is no doubt. People say they want proof of this, but 1 cannot , —ye itk Therefore I W. IVY hA It**** another nKiA. ® r " ■ 1 firmly believe. Vhe only live wffrld. The k not all lazy, and they will send Mwbpeople into the kingdom of God. They will not be My c us. God has not limited His fertility W Ls" making of mau. But wbat will these multitudes of people be like? Tell me if vou can. We must kill the old idea of mechanical dying, after which a man goes direot to heaven, perfect and angelic. Heaven is net a place where angels stand around like wax figures and sing hallelujah. Death Is a swelling ot a seed which lay upon this earth; it is the bursting of a bud in April; it is the enter ing upon summer; it is the going out ol a prison house. Christianity, alter 2,000 vears, ought to have taught men that it is going to everlasting peace. Don’t drape tbe hero in black, or the dead child in sombre hues. I( you know of some poor wretch who has gone to bis death, put on black lor bim; but don’t wear it for your father, or mother, or child. You say you fed better in m liming. Perhaps [s ou do, but you should not.” E-A well-known Catbolic Bishop is re- said lately that it looked a ®Vh>*r' o ' the l’ rotßß lh ntß were trying the purgatory of his ebureb, \l'“Mather may not be aiming at any thing ot that kind, hut, doubtless, his views respecting an intermediary stage are rather more liberal than many, even of his own admirers, have beeu accus iturned to. His ideas about the wearing tk i mourning will strike many as being Mery sensible. -1.-..—..1 I.— -■ .. ■■ 1 I I. !■ objection on the part of the Knights JRjjWr fO pay Mr. Powderly a salary of ,2>,*30 per annum is quite consistent with what appears to be a salient dogma of the orderfKtial auy occupation, other than is not labor at all. As well might th¥si amen detach the rudder from a ship ancUpast it adrift as useless, as for labor toward brains as a valueless fac tor in its organization. Quite recently Mr. Powderly was re-elected tbe chief ol die Knights. He must possess ability, oi lie would scarcely bare received so pio nounced an indorsement. He was cer tainly re-elected with reference rather to uis brains tbnu bis musole. Wbat, theu, among the Knights, is to be the market value of bruins. It is said that Judge OrotraMMA writ teu a letter deciarlug It to nat Blaine will be nomioaleiniV Isms. Blaine couldn’t give uis Doom a bigger loost than to publish it. To be Indorsed >y Judge Oresuam is almost enouAi to uducu the Mugwumps to givemiun mother inspection to see if they bawii’t >een laboring under some mistake with regard to him. 1 The people of contriWted - golden tbroue jubi- SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JANUARYITtSBTI^ An Insignificant Appropriation. It seems that only $4%000 is to oe ap propriated for the Savannah harbor at Ibis session of Con less. That will uot be sufficient to compl te the im-rove uients under tbe existing survey. The last appropriation was a small one—al together too emu!], if it is desired that the improvement snail be completed with in a reasonable time and for a reasonable amount; and now it is proposed to sup plement that with a picayune appropria tion that would be exhausted mouth# be fore another river and harbor bill would be passed. It is remarkable that Congress is so short-sighted. Tbe cry is that millions are wasted on rivers and harbors, but whose fault is it? Dies not the blame rest upon Congress? If a sufficient amount were appropriated to push lor ward the work on each improvement vigorously and continuously, better re sults would besecured for half tbe money that is now expended on rivers and har bors. There is no better illustration of this than the Savannah harbor. The appropria tion made by the Forty-eighth Congress was exhausted long belore tho appropria tion made by the Forty-ninth Congress became available. Work was stopped, and for months nothing was done. Tbe improvement was injured and the river shoaled rapidly. It will, doubtless, re quire thousands of dollars to place the river in as good a condi iou as it was the appropriation was exhausted. And now the same thing is to be re peated. Assuming that no more than $45,- 000 will be appropriated at tbis session, there will not be another appropriation available, in all probability, beiore a year from next September. For months the im provement in our harbor, that is ap proaching completion, will be virtually abandoned, and will, perhaps, suffer a greater damage thau can be repaired by theexpenditureof au amounteven greater than it is proposed to appropriate for the present year. Two things which Congress appears to stand greatly In need of are courage and common sense. Holman for the Senate. Judge Holman, the great objector, has Senatorial aspirations. He is being led to think by admiring friends that he cau succeed Senator Harrison in the United States Senate. Tho contest in Indiana for tbeSeuatorship is going to be a very close one between tbe Democrats >U Republicans. Both parties think they have the Legislature, and while there is no doubt that the Democratsiiiii'e A legiti mate majority on joint ballot jtbe Re publicans are planning to unseat enough Democrats to give control of the Legisla ture to their party. In the kind of a contest that Is promised, Mr. Iloiman would, perhaps, be the best man the Democrats could select for a candidate If there are waver, ing Democrats or doubtlul Independents in the Legislature Mr. Holman,on account of his recognized honesty and thorough sincerity, would probably command their support. Mr. Holman would be missed in the House. Doubtless there are many there who would gladly miss him. He keeps too sharp a look out (or jobs to suit them. There are occasions, however, when his objections are harmful rather than bene ficial. He hasn’t always time to make bimself acquainted with measures for which appropriations are asked, and his objections, often interposed without good reason, delays or defeats them. He seems determined to maintain bis reputation as an objector, however, even at the risk of making a mistake now and then. In t'iikii^fP**'''* 8 objections could o(jn more easily than -SfT House, where tUe rules JoL -xTort) t apparently, for obstructing Viute'*t&an facilitating business. John 1 loach’s Cancer. The opinion prevails quite generally that the cancer from which Gen. Grant died was caused by excessive smoking. That opinion may be correct, but if it is, wliat caused the cancer from which John Roach is suffering, and which is ex pected to cause hi# death wituin a very few days. John Roach’s cancer is located in the roof of his mouth, and is exactly the same kind that Gen. Grant’s was, which was located in his throat. Gen. Urant was a great smoker ot strong cigars, and his cancer was quite naturally attributed to his smoking habit. John Roach, however, has never smoked either a cigar or a pipe. It is asserted that he has never used tobacco iu any form. It is pretty certain, therefore, that his cancer does uot have its origiu in the tobacco habit. The conclusion is irresistible that the kind ol cancer from which he is suffering can he caused by some hing else than the smoking ot cigars, and a legitimate in torence is that it is never caused by It. John Roach has had his cancer cut out once, but only a temporary relief was ex perienced. In a lew months it reappeared. Its progress has not been rapid. It, has been very perceptible, however. Doubt less the worry tuat Mr. Roach endured in connection with the dispatch boat Dol phin, wbich tbe government #t first hesi tated to accept, helped to develop his dis ease. In lact, it may have caused it. Worry, which causes a strain on mind and body, is doubtless the cause of many dis eases. There are no doubt, oases of can cer, of the kind which killed Gen. Grant, and which will kill John Roach, occur ring all the time. Tbe Victims not being prominent, are not heard of by the geuerul public. The failure of a great ranch company in Texas, not long since, is rather a matter for than regret. It is not good pjpicv for the people to encourage the of immense bodies of lard by syndicates or individuals for purposes or speculation. The small farm system, with tne land brought up by skillful and ftcicntilic farming to the highest point 01 productiveness attainable, is the policy to encourage as leading, by the most di rect road, to general prosperity. A cor ner in land has all the ohj ctiouuble features of a corner in wheat, arid tends directly to the Injury of tdoso whoso (arms adjoin the monster ranch. The plumbers just now are radiant. They can afford to be. They flourish to some extent on tbe misfortunes ol their neighbors, nml their smiles, to the victims of “busted” water pip s, are regarded as the revelations of n cvnioal s.ilrit. It is an Hi wind—(rom the CURRENT COMMENT. Negntive From tbe Baltimore A <>>e icin (Ind.) Cali no uiMii nappy u' til he is dead. Hint to Til o D'icil C'HMliltf. From the WanUinvt' n Poet (D*m,) In pome hundred message* and letters of condolence add re*o I to ors. Logan, uhich h ive been pmdished in tho papers, only two iia-i an> allusion?* whatever to the Supreme Being or 10 the constitutions of relizion. 15j T i lr Own Crp*il. From th* C’erel md ( O .) Plain Dealer (Dem.) Th stand ml of the Christian iruth in the i ongrugational Oh*#h i* the C- ngregaiional freed, and if what the Andover pm feasor* le.ti n i-? not sanctioned fov tout ceed tin y are guilty of hei esy, noinutter whether what they teach is in itself true or ial c. A Or##n*y Subject. From the Philadelphia Bee rd(Dett .) The huines-* of inak iie old butter into new, which was interrupted y ilu* o > -margarine incursion, will now be renewed, liit* a well e-tablished fact that the supply til good dairy outter is entire! V inadequate for the home uc mand. A return to the grease of former flays is au unpleasant tiling i think upon. If good •leomarganue was delusion and a snare it was at least a pleasant delusion by compar ison with the reality wc may look forward to in place of it. BBIGHT 1U l. “Wocld you say the poultry is very tender •r the towl’irt very tender?” a-ked the hoard ing house mistress of one of her victims at inner. “Neither” was the reply. ••What-, then, would you say?” * I’d say tne chicken is migluy tough,” came rom th- boarder with emphasis.— Yonks e Staten in n. Clergyman’s wife 'at an evening party:— I am so glad to see, my dear, that jou do not lance. Omaha Maid -I nm afraid to. ‘ Yes, indeed, I w u dn’t take such a risk for anything; when did you determine to stop?” ••When 1 found my bustle was loose!”—Om iha W tld. “However did you get the heels all scraped off your shoes?” asked Cora. “I was at a too (ggaumg party last night,” replied Mm one. " \ nd didn’t you know what to do with your feet?” • Why, of course I did,” was the scornful response; “but tho gen Mem n in fron of me was a minister, and 1 thought lie might be offended iT I put them in his lap.”— lnden. Omaha Man—So you are getting up an opera c -nip my, eh? Who is your soprano? 1 mpresano—Miss .Jones. Omaha Man—And your tenor? Impresario—Mr. smith: and I have secured Brown lor basso and Miss Green for contralto. Omaha Man—Triat is doiug well. What do you i itend to call u ? The Grand Italian Opera Company from Maarid— Omaha Wald, “Did vou spill the ink on the new sofa?” isked Mrs. Verger, angrily, of her little son l orn my. “Yes, ma,” w s the reply. ‘•Wei l ,l have a not on to tell your father when ne comes home, and have him whip you within an inch ofvour life. That sofa will • ■■ok nice when we have company.” “That ink spot don’t amount to anything. You can sit on it when your visitors call.”— Tex ih Btfiin<j%. First Chic ago an—How’s your wife? Sec nd Clucagoa —llaveu’t got any. “Wh.v; divorced?” “Yes.” *• Wii>. vou are the third husband she's been div *••• and from.” “Yes.” “ •• - quite literary, isn’t she?” •*Y'es “W nut Is she doing now?” “She’s writing a book about ‘How to Make Home Happy.’ ”—5 *t n c> u ier . “I'm go ug from you now, dear John,” Her voice was weak and low; “I always worked t > help you on, But now I have to go. * I’ve tried to do the best I could, To be a model wife: l always sawed and split the wood, Wmle going through this life. “f sewed your b ittons, stockings knit, I was nocostlv buyer. And you, dear John', can but admit 1 always lit the Are.” “Yes, wife.” eab! John, “to that I’ll swear, lon were in ail thing* right; Be comforted, vou’re going where You'll have uo fire to light.” !’;> Record • PERSONAL Secretary Lamar is tho best swordsman in Washington. Dr. Mary Walker is beginning to show the effects of age. The Prince of Wales amuses himself by playing on the banio. Farjeon. the novelist, is a son-in-law of Joseph Jefferson, the actor. Thomas a. Edison is now reported to be beyond alt danger lrom bis sickness. Ferdinand Ward is th n and haggard and shuns the eyes of ad visitors at Bmg Sing. When a southern girl loves she turns her heart into a sale and loses the couibin Hion. Lord Randolph Churchill declares that at 60 years ot age tie expects to lead Europe. Andrew Carnegie is on his feet again, and his healih may be better for many years thau it nas ever been. S ; \ ator Maxky calls a Mugwump “a pes tilent ebudiiion.” The Mugwumu is expect ed to subside at once. Princess Beatrice is so terribly taken up with thai bles-ed baby that even royalty is compelled to stand around. Lfoy McKkonb Stapleton is the poetess wlio sends nut the sweetest verse# written in the Rocky Mountain region. POPZ Leo XIII. has appointed Mgr. Ra cine, Bishop nt sherbro k ■. Canada, as as sistant at tbe Pontifical throne, Mr. Gladstone, according to Mr. Laboti fhero, is at present eng iged On a work con nected with the Olympian religion. It is stated that Ben Butler's portrait hangs in the xeraxlio of the sultan, but we doubt it. Tho mi Ban is too jealous a man. The five Arab horses given to Queen Vic toria l>y the -u ian of Muscat are valued at 417.5>0. but lie* presents tent to him in return only cost 47.•’>.i0. Miss Elsie DeWolfe is a New York lady upon wlio-e shoulders, according to a New York paper, “the nuuileof Mrs. James Brown l’otter ecin to have lallcn.” SENATOR STANFORD, of California. to lie lh‘ George Vt . Childs of lies ers in ihi* city savih.il lie 410.0' 0 ou presents for tne poor. Miss Tii.lik Martin, who is to receive 1 with Mrs. Cleveland inis winter, is a fair aiul slender gill of 20. She is ihc daughter of Mr. Henry J. M iriiu, of New York. Browning, the poet, may write bulldozed verse, but li knows a good pdaeo when lie -e s one. us In pro od When he r. .ecled the l’aiuzto oa the Grand canal at Venice. lUruDKTTE, tie humorist, dale, his jokes from Bryu Mn>vr \\ e must caution him against ilia; capital “M" a “tv ” People m ghl imagine lunl U stood for brandy and water. 1)K. Ruchiro Naini. a surgeon in the Japa nc-e navy, is nhout to utility iiieillclue in the Umv rsitvof Peiiiisv.vania. The American method ot culling U legs differs from tuat of Japan. Rev. Dr. J, C. Hidden, of Lexington. Ivy,, who has boon called to the William street tl.ip: Ist t hurett of Now lie Her i, M. 0.1,, i, puicd to he, ou# of the most brilliant orators m tbe Mouth. Mark Twain said to a fri 'nd me other dav thai he del uo like to oome to Now York with his wife. ”8h is v< rj anxious to have very one llnnK sie dre-ses ke a New Yorker.” hesaiil. ’’.and yet wh neveraho l uvs anything in a store in I Ills citv the cl rg ‘ e nf( '• sk, ’W hat hotel shall 1 send this to, ma'am?’ ” Julius L. stkwaht, tho voting artist whose handsome studio ► an Is in the Rue ( opernlc. lias jn 1 (inis 1 *il a si 1 ••riciai.d por ir.pl-of som ol lll’’ pro Mine, and N'"rm i. . M e, m I a .11 iw dress ng in si a well contrived to#i 1 off hur and irk o ant^pin (lunzhonrg. 't he last named lady’s tins i.>ml dijecl* to lit- wile’s ps>; ran being exhibited. The politic will, therefore, be deprived of the ol nsure of admiring one ol ftp* serte.utihe (rivals exhlhi lon. which wt I probahly lie II id in the early soring at the Mirliton Club. 1 Is a charming por>ralt. in gray evening gtapp. with a posy of gotten flowers on the America’# ftlgeest Diamonds. From the Rochester Union's New Y >rk Letter . The largest diamond in the coitntrv is saut to be the one worn oy Mini ie PalmCM II is called “the President Cleveland.” The next largest is owned by Tiffany, and is on exaibi tion at bis store. The. third largest is in the possession of Charles Lew. the proprietor of a Centre street cate. He brought it from the South African mines. When first cut it weighed 152 karats. It has since been trimmed down to 55 karats, aud it is now said to be one of the finest -tones of its size iu the world. It is valued at 440.000. These figures show that the diamonds of to-day iar outstrip in value those worn in Tweed’s tun •. Jim Fisk’s g( eat i oadlight cost only 418,000, 80-s Tweed’s was never vauted at more than 420. 00 and Judge Barnard’s kicked the beam a $7, 00. Retirement ot a Veteran Printer. The Charleston News and Courier an nounces the retirement of that veteran printer and amiable aud honorable gentleman, Mr. William L. D .ggett, who for twelve years had been the bead of its job departments. Mr. D.igeett was foreman of the old Charleston Courier thirty years ago. Just after the close of the late war tie was connected with its reporlorial and job departments. Previous to his late engagement with the News and Courier he was superintendent of the Morning News job de (Mrtuieut*, which position he resigned tu return to his old home. Char e-ton. The employes of his department made him a haudsome prese it as u token of their e.-teetn. and the News and Courier in a quarter of a column editorial says -uch things about him as few meu ever have the pleHsure of reading übou themselves. The Morning News joins with is contemporary in its good wishes, ami agree# won it when it says: “Di every phase of his business life the appreciation of li s employers has accompanied him, and their e-leern and regard go with him.” It hopes that Air. Daggett will be spare many years to enjoy that rest which fifty four years of life in newspaper office entitles him to. Sympathy with Due lug iu Prussia. * mm the London Times. Berlin, Dec. 14.—Y esterday’s sitting of the Reichstag was devoted to a discussion of • luring—a matter wbich occupies either the Prussian or the Imperial Parliament every year, in some form or other, with no other re -uit than to leave the question precisely wnere it was. Cabinet orders and other forms of legal pro hibition have been issued from time to time within the last sixty years in Prussia against tbe practice of ordeai by battle, but alftne e edicts have beeu iu variably administered with a laxity amounting to positive indulgence, aud there is still uo sign of an earuo t desire on the part of the go’ eminent to rescue them from the desuetude in which they have so long lain. Yesterday’s discussion hinged on the motion 01 a Clerical Deputy to insert a clause in the criminal code against the practice of so cal ed American due.mg, as we 1 as to beg the im perial govern ment to take energetic steps to w rd suppressing the growing practice of dueling in the army and at the universities. But it was clear from the debate that this proposal did not eujoy tne hearty sympathy of the majority 01 the House, Uiough it • referreo to a select committee for detailed consideration. Perhaps tne sense of the majority tvai best expressed by Herr von Puttkamer, Prussian .Minister of the Interior, who, claiming 10 speak as a merely priva e person, sai l that in tile motion and resolution belore the 11. use ho merely beheld what would presumably prove an unsuece-siul attempt to solve a great problem, which past centuries had al ready vainly tried to aoive. lire Le-rued Sister. />■ m the San Francisco Post. Lady Lawyer (to witness) -You have been an intimate friend of the family, haven’t \ ou ? “Yes ” “Yon have seen tho defendant hero ill use his^—” H ’ Lawyer—l object. The question is im proper, luo court—Objection sustained. Lady Lawyer—Haven’t you seen the de fendant He Lawyer— Ibjec; same ground. The Court—Same ruling. Lady Lawyer—Well, th n, what I want to know is, hasn’t his wife, my client, been shamefully ill He Lawyer—lbjec. Court—Jectiou stained. Lady Lawyer— I’lease state, then, what you know about the cruelty of the man to He Lawyer—lbjec. Court—Same ruling. Ask the witness, madam, to te l what he knows. Lady Lawyer—Well, tnai’swhat I’m doing! Now, sir, teil us what you kuow. Witness—About what? Lady Lawyer—Why, about the cruelty He l,awyer—lbj< c. The Court—Jectiou stained. No more of this, madam. Lady Lawyer- Very well. Now, then, wit ness, tell us what you know. Witness—Ask me questions and I’ll answer ’em. Lady Lawyer—Why, just, tell 119 how vou have seen him abuse—Oh, dear mo. I forgot, Weil, tell us-Oh, Judge (breaking do u in tears), he knows perfectly well what I want him to say! The Court—Rece9s for half an hour. Our learned sister can employ the tune in com posing herself. Soottkiug siy. uj> lor c wtniyi. From the Mundan Pioneer. The Northern Pacific train from the West came into this tow n a few day* since wi h 1 wenty.fi• e or thirty cowboys, bouu 1 for Fori, Worth. Tne festive cow punchers had taken pos-ession of the emigrant sleeper. Kvery one •if them had a huge revol er smug t > his bell, a I of Ihem were lull of bug juice, each man sporting a bottle of forty-rod w hisky When the Dakota division conductor came into the car for their tickets they refused to produce 1 heir pasteboards, drawing in-mad their bot tles of clia 11 ligi.tuiua, a.id insisted on the ticket puncher drinking witu them. A quiet old German passenger who had been much annoyed by the hilariousness of the wild riders of the Western plains, took the con ductor to one side and said: ••tf I were conducior of this train I would expend a half dollar at some convenient drug store for opium, aud slip 11 into their bottles. ’ On reaching Bismarck the conduct r acted on this happy suggestion, and sent li s brake m.mto a drug s.o.e lor 50c worth of tne quieting drug. The In akemau went into the oar and accepted their generous . fl'er to im bibe. and. w line preten dug to drink, qnietiy slipped a .mail quantity of tne southing dra in each b itUe. Quiet -00 ure gued a here bc r re a 1 had beeu pandemonium These deni zens of the wild, rowdy (V est were soon sb m>- mg sounder than th • Cardiff giant. The exultant conductor rolled them over i|g e |..g*. went throug i their pockets, punched the r tieke's. and rolled them back m their berth. A more peaceful ear ol pa singers never traveled over the Northern P.cdlc-in fact the train load of deaf mute excursionist- of the past summer were hilarious when com piled with the quiet Texas cowboys. They were turned over 10 the conductor of tne Minnesota division at Fargo, with tho re mainder of the unexpended drug to use if au .emergency should arise belore reaching bt. t’aul. A **o'*g of LDo. Ry R hertOjden Pow er. Tslffe worth living? Life is sweet, men say, But life being sad, far sweeter is while Death Who sets Time as a watch upon our way. Until our bauds are breath. What help is here? fW’irs' fa hold? The old gray earth with all Its hours and years, It's change*, day and darkness, heat and cold. A Utile laughing, pam aud parsionute tear . Tho God-borno Ocean ever that abides. With all her gu Is and straits and salt-sown sands. Her mighty, yearning, quivering, trembling tides, Uplifting ever to God her dripping bands. Whal does life hold? The burden of child bearing. A grievous burden, and love that wears to shame; In pain brought forth, in pain we too forth bring. Fulfilling, suffering, Borrowing in God's name. What help Is here for him whose eves revert Back through tho devious way* wherein he trod? Whose living sonl hath suffered grievous hurt Quivering beneath the intolerable rod of Go<>; Who suffers sore fo be made one with death, To him, lif>’ is a bitter, barren thing; “I have gone softly all inv and ys,” lie scith. And mournelh with sad. wistful sorrowing. Wliat help Is here? Give up, go down, lot be I What hope is here, or or nirtb? : LI Vls nore grids--., V*tiilhe sail-down S#a Or any hitter htossffwtf^f**^** ITEMS OF INTEREST. A ckm ENT very ranch used at the present day in China and Japan is made from rioe. It is only Deceasary to mix rice flour intimately with wa er and gently simmer the over a clear fir*-, when it readily tonne a dgF" irate and durable cement. Miss Amelia Hand, of Cape rafja */ House, N. J., was a great city" j in health. Now' that she ia has established telephone cqrf'*V'J Jll- P'i wp/ra 8 :4o pm her room and the Mcthodt X transmitter is on the pulpit ct!4X ** p Hand can h ar everything thac * also the singing. X."* . It is said thit a corapauy of well-to-do San Fraucisco gamblers propose to add to the excitements of the coming legislative session at Carson, Nev., by opening a furo bank with $50,000 in the drawer. Any one entering the place will have to buy S2O worth of cbeoks. Should he not see lit to play he enu return the checks on going ori ami receive his money. Paul Williams, the 12-year-old son of G. B. Williams, of Meudon, Mass., has neither arms nor legs—only stumps iroin his shoul- about two inches long, and stamps, about eight inches long, for legs. Yet he i* a (l ie wr ter, holding a pen or brush betweeu his chin and one eliouidor stump, and moving It with his head. He is a good artist, and is a pupil o£ high standing in the MenUon high school. John Penzel, of Jackson, Mo., an aged German, has made two sound and serviceable c> iliu-. one for himself and one for his wife, and they t-tand in his house ready for use. When Ins own whs fiuisned he tried it on, and b und that he hadn’t allowed for his left leg, which is bent ai the knee and stiff, so he made anew eoyei. which permits him to ue c m for ably iu the eofliu after it has been closed properly, Sam Temple, a colored citizen of Mont gomery, sent hi3 8-year- Id boy for a jug of whisky. On the way home the boy thought that wha was good for his father must be g 'od for him, and he took a pull at t I’ben he took several more, and whe nome was stupidly drunk, iiis niflwT r .. him to bed, and he was undisturbed until the next morning. Then when she called him he was dead. Prop. Udson, a violinist, of Warren, 0., was engaged to Miss Jenny Thompson of Copenhagen, when he quit that city for America. A few weeks ago he sent for her. and the day after Christinas she arrived in .New \ork with her grand piano and many trunks She was met by her lover, who took her directly to W irren,wnere three days later they were married at me institution where the husband teaches music. A young Irish sailor nsmed Welch, in the United States navy', is ere lited with hav ing invented a remarkable an 1 complete life buoy. It is a ciroular belt in which are mounted six verticle hollow tube*. These re e eh filled with, Jirst, Greek tire in suffi cient quantity to burn fifty seconds; second, Uo nan cmdles that explode every ten sec onds, and third, wi h a sort of rocket to u Inch are attached life lines. The e, as the rocket explodes, are projected in six different direc tions, giving the drowning man os many chances for nis life. A writer in the San Frau cisco Chronicle tells of a glass roadbed in the Yellowstone Park. In a certain part of the park volcan c glass, or obsidiau, abounds, auu to make a carriage vay fires were built along the pro posed route, and then when cold water was dashed upon the heated surface, thus cooling itsu demy the glasGf broke into fragments, which w reut-ily TebibvM. until thus a road was formed. The Cos freeze dent writes that tile glass <ozes from tjne<j*i*',ks like gum from a tree. It is aiDK**t b ank, quite opaque, and the edges f it, when qlpppsd vff at a proper angle, areas-,snarp^ Of it the In dian* fashioned wif bi ds, weapons and tools. A well at Yjtkpfcsk, has been a standing puzzHi to lists for many years. It was began in 18^8,given up at 30 feet because it wtvt still m frozen earth Then the Russian Acancmirof continued for some mouths the worfcof deepening the wel , but stopped when lr had reached to the ex tent, of some 882 feet, when the ground was til ill frozen a-* hard as a rock. In 1844 the academy h id the temperature of the excava tion carefully taken at various depths ard */r m the data thu-* < b aned the gr mud was estimated to he froz n to a depth of 012 feet. As external cold could not freeze the earth to such a depth, even in Siberia, geologists have concluded that the web has penetrated a frozen formation of the glacial period which lias never thawed out. In r recent lecture before a London institu tion. Dr. B. W Richardson elated that the work of the heart in a healthy man is equiva lent to the feat of raisin* 5 1-5 tons 1 foot per hour. 125 tons in twenty-four hours, The use of eight (••nice* of alcohol causes the heart’s work to show an excess of twenty-four foot tons. Illustrating this powerful engine's performance by anew calculation, he as sumed that the bo*od is thrown out by an ■u erajre or sixty -nine sr. hi s per minute, and at the force of 9 feet to each stroke, which would give the mile; ;re of the blood through the body as 207 cards tier minute, seven miles per hour, b 8 mites per day, 01.220 tubes pet tear. or 5.150,8*0 tabes m a Itle Ime of 81 years. In this same lon* life the great jottrnev of the blood would be Hie result oi the grand total of 2,860,770.000 heart neats. Lkihtning flashes have sometimes been observed which, starting at oito point, have ended in several. Some- markable forms of Hash have been lately described bv Herr I.evst, . f Pawlowsk Observatory. In one case a Hash went a certain distance in a north easterly and ret ton, then divided, the two branchs- forming an angle of al>ont. 75 degg. When these bid retched about 36 deg*, from each other, they turned nrd united again in one line. The path of the lightning (hits formed a quadrillion'.■' figure. It win further observed that Ihc lightning fla-hed back iu the same path, as if there were in •scillating discharge. Itt another interesting flash, the path wns n ‘t n crooked line, but a wavy band, whielt was :,t uji four times in succession with equal brilliant;;'. The time between the sec ond and third . nd the tiiird and fourth fl ishes seemed longer tnan that between t' C flrst and second The thunder which followed lasted alnult eighty seconds. Thb w ater power of [he falls of the Mis souri is marvelous. At a low stage. Saint Anthony’s, at the head of navigation of the Mississippi, has a flow of ah >tr. 1,000,000 cubic feet p r minute and about IS >.OOO horse pow er, while Gieat Falls, at low stage, hits a fl >w of iib.int un."o i cubic feet per minute and nearly 2,b1’0.m)0 hors•• power. St. Anthony's nae a fa I of ah nr 10 feet: Great Falls and the -mailer one* re it fa lof nv< r 100 foci. wt. Anthony’s has lint one fail and little room to build ini Is. Croat Falls bus tyve ve fulls, ami extend a distance of seven miles. Bt. Anihmty’s lound.it! >n is eofl limestone, and r-qnires great expense to keep it in place Ureal Falls'* of sand t ote, and has not va iled perceptibly in eighty v> urs. St. \n ,th ttv’s is in dry se non-very low. The lb w at Giut.it Falls never fails In volume. In addition 10 litmli"r and wheat, tlm country ar> und Greet Falls lias inc.xhsuatible rc sonrers and facilities for supplying wood cool iron, tit to ra *. stmd., unit h I the raw mi male conducive to a rapid and jicrutauen inuuufacturtug growth. In avk a gteat belief in the efficacy of Are engines against a mob. remained nu officer. Wile otheadamp ardor; fuv men are brave when void and w et; and this fact is so well known that a certain French politician .tving in Paris dti' ing the period of excitement was In ttin habit, a l"on its he rn*e, . f looking out of tho 1 Indotv, and if he f .utvl that tt was raining would win m wifi n >'rv of relief; ••No revolution to-day.” We also learn ilia! yvtie’i Louts l’hlll ppe was rcnUcng ,V tpo- I eon's slat lie on the enlumn In the Place Ven ilottie t he Napoleon lets n--cmMe I onttuunl t y in excited crowd* round the pedestal. The crowds yyoro. however,'! sper-ed ttv copious streama ■ t water being pumped o them. I’lte materia' effee 1 of a -Iream nf yyater pro jected front a lire engine thmuth a hose i eons durable. No ma t can stsnd uea.nst it. Betides, on the principle that the mishaps nf otticis afford human b ongs avert iin amount of sat shu tion, the mem ers of a crowd are sure to laugh at seeing their compani its yvettod, and a crowd which b'gins to laugh •eases to be dangerous. I would, the eforc. suggest that whenever a serious dls'iirlmucp is anticipated a feiv lire engines should he placed at the tllsposal nf the po ice. “So vor woulil like an olliee, my frlcndf ’ sapl the President. •• Yes. sir," replied the applicant. “Your roc "iutnendattoti say you haye'lone some effucilvu work at the polls. In what wav'" _ of my regular business, sir." c* lAisinessV'’ *' i vs. slf!Wl|i.“ barber.”—Teteas Si Aina t. jPafeing ycnufrm f (Tfet——. " * NATURAL FRUIg flavors J MOST PERFECT MADE] Prepared with strict regard to Purity, Strength, aM lealthfulness. Ur. Price's Baking Powder cuntigß jo Ammonia,Lime.Alum or Phosphates. 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