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INDEX TONEW ADTEBTISEMEKTS.
Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge Vo. IS. F.
And A. M; Mount Moriah Lodge No. 16, F. A.
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Special Notices Dissolution, Barbour
Bros.; A Carrt, Jos. S. F. Barbour; A Card,_
JR. T. Barbour: A3 to Crew of Br. Steamship
Mercedes and Steamship Oakdale.
Cheap C'olcmn Advektisi mkxts—Help
Wanted; For Rent; Lost; Miscellaneous.
Sale— David Wetsbein.
ok Assignment MtTliE'Vd Bros.—
C^F-Mblcr.
Auction Sale—Handsom* Furniture, by
i . McLaughlin & son.
Awaken—L. *B.S. M. 11.
aeptennate bill moans peace for
Germany the Germans nave .no further
•ccasion to be disturbed about war with
Europe.
In offering the position ol Assistant
United States Treasurer to Henry Over
ride, of St. Louis, the government may
be considered sale.
Sunday is the only holiday that bas a
Strong hold upon the people of tne United
States. It la the only one that causes
them to close their stores.
When will Cougresa adjourn? Oh, be
lore the interstate commerce law goes
Into effect. Congressmen will want to
make farewell tours on their railroad
passes.
The West Virginia Legislature will
have to hurry up if it intends to elect a
Senator before Senator (amden’s term
expire?. March 4 is tho time fixed for
that event.
The Albany Sews and Advertiser wants
the luscious Georgia watermelon shipped
to the armies of Europe. If It would
soothe them as it does the negro, war
would be an impossibility.
In New York, the other day, a man
about 00 years old entered a store, drank
• glass of water, and fell to the floor un
conscious. Perhaps the water was re
venging itself for the man’s long neglect
cf it.
According to our Minister to France,
Mr. McLane, the wisest Frenchmen do
cot believe there is any immediate pros
pect of war between Franco and Ger
many. It is probable that these wise
men of France are about, right.
It seems as if the world were having an
epidemic ot earthquakes/' The earthquake
■bocks in the South of Europe, reported
in gpi dispatches this morning, were
more severe than any that have occurred
since the great shocks in this country on
Aug. 31 last.
alleged wonderful electric well in
Taliaferro county, sixty miles from Au
gusta, is cow pronounced a humbug. It
doesn’t matter. Electric girls arc much
better than electric wills, and Lulu
Hurst’s marriage removed only one of the
thousands that live In Georgia.
The Mayor of Atlanta says; “The
Chicago river Is a running stream of
cocktails and the lakes are bodies of
champagne. When a tire alarm is sound
ed they pull out the Rtopper ard let the
drink run.” Chicago ought to be an in
viting field for tne Prohibitionists.
It is related of a Nebraska man whore-
Oanfcy died at the age of 102 that Lo was
*nipwrecl:e<l many years ago and swam
■me miles with a woman on his back. If
■be were as buoyantly dressed as women
■re nowadays ha might have increased
the distance to nine times cine mile*
without fatigue.
The New York Sun’s candidate for the
Presidency, Hon. William T. Coleman,
of California, believes In the doctrine
that to the victors belong the spoils.
The Run’s other candidate. Benjamin F.
Sutler, believed in the same doctrine, if
the accounts of his doings at New Orleans
■ure true.
The latest phase of culture in Boston
takes the form of Sunday dote fights in
tic parlors of aristocratic mansions. No
wonder the literary men of Boston are
moving to New York and Chicago! They
cannot hope to compete with Slugger
bnlllvnn, Base llalliat Kelly, and Sunduy
dog fights.
The Naiional Council of tbo National
Union League will hold a meeting in
\\ asningtou o* March 1. I'roniineijt Re
publicans from all parts ot the country
will attend. It is not known w bat uusi
ne will be transacted, but it is sup
posed that a nutnjjgMß*’ Presidential
booms will be squelched.
In New York, the other day, John
Geisenauer, a painter, 50 years old, shot
his wils in the head and then jumped
•ut ot a fifth story window and killed
himself, tie left a note stating that bis
wite, who was also bis cook, gave him
•tale bread to is not the
first man who to a cook.
At far back as ls7^Hl|i,i(Jg^ley t of
Brandon, Vt., applied to the 7m<rnmeut
for a pension, alleging that she was a
widow, and that her husband had been in
the war and was wounded and taken to
a hospital. When he entered the place
she never heard of him any more and gave
him up for dead. In 1880 the minor child of
Ann Howley applied lor a pension, giv
ing the same story of the disappearance
or her father, and adding tnat her mother,
too, bad died. Last week Howley him
self applied for a pension. He bad beeu
living all the time In Washington. 11c
did not aay why he had not returned to
his wile and child after leaving tbo bos
_ pttal, but it is reasonable to suppose that
Vid* home was too tiovnoy lor comfort.
Protection in the South.
The protection journals at the North
continue to insist that the protection idea
is spreading in the South. That is because
they want it to spread, and not because
toey have any proof that it is spreading.
The Philadelphia Press, for instance,
says that the South is veering around to
protection principles, and in support of
this assertion quotes from the Birming
ham, At a, Age, acd declares that nearly
all of the leading Southern journals dis
sent from the course pursued by Speaker
Carlisle In refusing special
favors to the advocates of the bill for the
reduction of the tobacco tax. Indeed, the
Press is Inclined to think that this action
of the Speaker will cause a break in the
Democratic ranks on the tariff question.
If the Philadelphia Press and other pro
tection journals at the North are so sure
that the South is gradually becoming
converted to protection way da thsy not
publish a tew opinions gathered from the
leading manufacturers of this and other
Southern States, and of public men who
are in a position to know what Southern
sentiment is but who are not Interested
in any business which they think protec
tion wiil benefit. It has been stated time
and time again that the Presi
dents of some of the largest
cotton factories in this Slate do
I not lavor a high protective tariff. They
believe that a low tariff would not only
stimulate cotton manufacturing in the
South, but would enable the products of
Southern mills to compete wit.h the pro
ducts af England** mills in the markets
of South America.
No prominent Southern journal, with
one exception, has become au advocate
of protection within the last few years.
The New Orleans papers have always
been sort of naif and half, owing to the
sugar interest in Louisiana. If it were
not for that interest it is doubtful if there
would be muun protection talk beard in
tbatSt&le.
But of the whole press of the South how
much o! it is in favor ot protection? A
very small part of it. In this and other
Southern States the country press ts
almost entirely on the side of tariff re
form. These papeis are close to the
masses, and they express the sentiments
of the communities in which they are
jjubllshed.
The Macon Telegraph a few days ago
pointed to its own prosperous condition
as an indication that protection senti
ments tindtavor in this State. It is proba
ble that it would be just as prosperous it
it advocated tariff reduction. It has the
merit to succeed even if it doesn’talways
express sentiments in harmony with
those of a majority of its readers. Repre
sent ativo Blount, of the Macon district, is
a pretty good tariff reformer, and if the
voters of that district agree with the
Telegraph rather than with Mr. Biount,
why don’t they send an out and out pro
tectionist to Congress? The chances are
that the Telegraph wouldn’t make much
headway in trying to defeat the able Rep
resentative of the Sixth district.
No, the protection idea is not spreading
in the South, and if there is a break in the
ranks of the Democratic party it will not
lie caused by tho spread of that idea in
this portion or the Union.
'lhe OKI and the New Month.
While there can be no objection to the
use of the term “The New South ” it is a
question whether there is anymore occa
sion for it than there is for calling Mas
sachusetts “The New Massachusetts.”
It is true that very remarkable changes
have taken place in the South since the
war between the Rtates, but the same is
true with respect to Massachusetts, it
is a well-known fact that tbe people of
Massachusetts are rapidly losing those
characteristics which distinguished tbe
people of the New England States from
tue"people ot tee Middle and Southern
States. Ihe native population has largely
emigrated to the West, and its place has
been taken by a foreign population. The
lands of the State are gradually passing
into the hands of foreign born people,
and many of those entrusted with public
offices are either foreign born or are
separated from them only by a genera
tion.
At tbe inauguration of tbe Southern
Society dinner in New York Tuesday
night, the presiding officer, Mr. Sullivan,
in tbe course of his remarks, said: “We
meet with the spirit aud hopes of the new
South.” Doubtless the majority of the
Southerners who were present belong to
what Mr. Sullivan would call “The Old
■ South.”
Senator Colquitt on the same evening
attended a dinner given by the Y'oung
Men’s Democratic. Club of Brooklyn, and
he was asked to reply to the toast of “The
New South.” Ho very properly said that
the name of New South was only anew
term, aud that the section so designated
was as old as any other section of the
country.
The same people who controlled the
South before slavery was abolished con
trol It now. They lead In the professions,
direct commerce and till the soil. There
U au aggressive spirit of enterprise aud
progress noticeable, however, that did
not exist in slave tunes. This is new,and
lo it is due the term of “The Naw South.”
The Southern people are now showing the
sort of stuff they are made of. It was dis
played in the war. It is the kind that
will make any country great, and it will
make the South great.
It seems that a young English capital
ist, W. B. Russell, who bas been trying
for several months to capture a fortune
In Wall street by speculating in Southern
securities, has lost more than be has cap
tured. He is now visiting the iron and
ooal regions of Tennessee and Alabama
for the purpose ot making investments
there, lie may suooeed better with
Southern iron lauds thau with South
ern securities.
A resident of Chicago bag filed a claim
at tbe Treasury Department in Washing
ton for the redemption ot a $l,OOO United
hiatus bond, which he says he swallowed
m order to prevent Its tailing into the
hands of burglars. It would seem that a
man with a throat Urge enough to admit
the passage of a $l,OOO bond could insert
his band and redeem it himself.
!
On Sunday in New York, Rev. Mr. Fer
guson, a Methodist minister, tfhid that
fifty years ago no minister who wore a
full beard, or even a moustache, would
have been admitted to a conferenoe.
Times have changed for tbe better. It is
t ot ■ question of beards and moustaches
now, but a question of brains and rellg
-1 ton.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1887.
Til*- (Question of the Surplus.
It begins to look as if there would be
no surplus to dispose of when this Con
gress gets through making appropria
tions. The regular appropriation hills
have steadily grown larger tor nearly a
dozen years, ard those of the present
year are ruliy $80,00©,000 more than those
of tea years ago.
The present Congress has con
sidered bills, outside ol those carrying
the regular appropriations, w'hich appro
priate between $100,000,000 and $200,000,-
000. While only one of these bills bas
become a law—that providing pensions for
Mexican veterans—there are others of
them which stand a very good
chance of passing. All of them
have passed either the House or the
Senate, and the dependent pension
bill has passed both branches of Congress
and now awaits action on the veto. If
the President hadn’t vetoed this bill it
would have taken, it is estimated, $74,-
000,000 a year out of the Treasury. The
House to-day will decide whether or not
the veto shall be respected.
It is admitted that appropriations for
new guns, new ships and coast defenses
should be made, but there are protests
from every part of tne country against
the dependent pension hill. Even the
Republican papers and some Grand Army
posts are opposed to it, and desire that
the veto shall be sustained. The House
Committee on Invalid Pensions, however,
is unanimously in favor cf passing the
bill over the veto, and It may succeed in
carrying its point. There ought to be
men enough in Congress, however, with
sufficient courage to vote against it.
The aim ot the Republican Congress
men is apparently to put the Democrats
in tne position of opposing pensions, and
that is why they are so eager to force a
vote on the question whether or not the
veto shall be sustained. The Demoorats
hesitate to meet the issue presented by
the claim agents and Republican dema
gogues squarely, and it would not heat
all surprising if. the veto were disregarded
in the House. There is one thing pretty
certaiu, and that is that the bill cannot
be passed in the Senate over the veto.
If the bill should be passed, however,
and also all the other pending bills w hich
appropriate large amounts of tnom-y,
such as the Blair educational
bill, the bills for guns, ships,
fortifications, and for arrears of pensions,
the next Congress would in all pioba
bility have a deficiency rather than a
surplus to deal with.
Regrets for Senator Fair.
Senator Fair, of Nevada, is the subject
ot a good deal of gossip just at present.
His term in the Senate will end in a few
days, and it is not improbable that he
will never seek office again. He floes not
appear to have a talent for politics, and
would never have been a member of the
Senate, perhaps, if it hadn’t bean for a
desire for the honor attached to the office.
Notwithstanding the fact that he has
never made a speech during the six years
that he has been in the Senate, and prob
ably don’t know and don’t care as much'
about most of the great questions which
Congress is required to discuss as any
one of the Senate’s doorkeepers, he is
nevertheless one ot the most popular men
in public life in Washington. The secret
of his popularity is the dinners he
gives. The? are simply superb, and the
Senators and Representatives who think
as much ol a good dinner as they do of any
thing else in life are expressing deep re
gret that Mr. Fair’s public career has
come to an end. “We shall never,” they
say, “eat such dinners as Fair provides
when he has ceased to be a part of Wash
ington’s official life.’’
Senator Fair is not a dull man by any
means, and the possession of, $40,000,000
or $50,000,000 does not make hitu think
that he Is entitled to more consideration
than those who have only sufficient in
come to secure the ordinary comforts of
life, lie is perhaps the best mining en
gineer in the world, and nis judgment re
specting the value of mines is regarded
as equal, if not superior, to that of any
other man in the country. He is much
happier when knocking about in the
mines ot Nevadaor California, dressed in
a miner’s suit, tbau he is in his seat in
the Senate.
Although he fills less space, perhaps,
in the Congressional Record than any
other man who ever occupied a plaoe in
the Senate, he will be succeeded by a
Senator who doubtless will do more talk
than half a dozen Senators ought to. Mr.
Stewart has already served twelve years
in the Senate, and it is said that he talked
more than Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
does now, though not half so well. If he
still has the talking faculty he and Mr.
Morgan may have the Seriate chamber to
themselves a good part of the time.
The Trade Dollar Rill.
Tne promoters of the trade dollar
scheme insist that the government will
not have to redeem more than $5,000,000
or $0,000,000 of the trade dollars, since the
bill limits the time in wnich they oau be
presented to six months.
It is s(;ite'd that there are 35,000,000 of
them in circulation, in view of the (act
that they are worth only about 80c. on
the dollar, and can be obtained at that
price, it would not be at all surprising if
the greater part of them were offered for
redemption before the six "months expire.
The President has a good reason for ve
toing this bill. As it originally passed
the Senate, tbe recotnage of these silver
dollars was not to he independent of the
silver coinage ol $2,000,000 a month author
ized by the silver coin age law. The House,
however, insisted upon an amendment
which Increases the silver coinage to the
extent to which these trade dollars may
bo presented. The amendment was agreed
t.o by the Senate. The latter body was so
afraid, apparently, that the speculators
in trade dollars wouldn’t succeed iu their
speculation that it was ready to agree to
almost anything. The J'residetit isn’t as
friendly do the silver dollar a the silver*
ites would like him to be, and he may
deem it bis duty to send this trade dollar
bill back to Congress with his objections
to it.
The New York Times is authority for
the statement that Gov. Hill Is about to
become a stockholder in the New York
Run, If this be true the Run will have to
eliminate Coleman, o( CaJilornla, from ils
list of Presidential candidates to be
boomed.
Senator Frye will soon visit England,
it is well that his Intentions are pacific,
because the navy could not he spared,
just now, to protect him. It is too busy
protecting itself.
BRIGHT BITS.
Beard by Duly t ne Fair of Furs.
fro*. 1 1/ V/■ r )• rt 7WIIIW (Ftp).
It i* truly pathetic to hear the now coaxing,
now tore .item ns voice of ihe Democracy urg
'v.t .Mr i leve and to join the party vriuen put
him iu power*
He Needs lo be Let Alone.
From the B M. n Adcerfiter I Bep).
Now that all eyes are drawn to the strug
gles ot ihe Irish tc.nan( farmers, and the words
of :heir chammons in Parliament are tele
graphed to the ends of theeaith, there is a
tendency to forget that the needs of tbt* negro
demand attention tn this country and must be
provided for.
The Bloody Chasm Stilt Tivni,
From th Clereland Plain Dealer i Dem.)
Got. Fnrakcr’s bid for recognition from the
Sooth l y hts suggestion that someihing he
done to fence Confederate graveyards in Ohio
was taken up by Senator Sherman and was
repudiated In the lower house of Congress,
Foraker's blatant, demagogical speech takes
with greater favor than his legislative sugges
tions.
We May.
From the Baltimore Herald ( Rep.)
When we are gravelv informed that Cleve
land cam,ot be renominated: that Blaine can
i>e nominated, but ts sure to be defeated, and
finally that Phineas T. Barnum is ibe coming
man. may we not discern a hidden meaning
lu the words of the bard: ,
“This world isknit a fleeting show
For man's illusion given ?”
BRIGHT BITS.
i
The Kentucky “kunnels” and “majabs”
who t ok to the woods when the first whis
per of a war with Canada reached their ears,
can return. Tlure will be no fight.— Cour.tr ■
J urnal .
•'Mini, dear, you know that I am getting
a very small salary at| resent, but would you
he content to live * little while on "bread and
cheese and klssSs?”
“Yes. my darling; but vou kuow that I
don’t like bfead aud cheese.’’— Eaechanyt.
A Catholic priest, named McGlynn.
Did not think it a terrible synn
To take a firm stand.
And say, “Free is the land;”
But Pope Leo replied, "It’s too thynn.”
Tid-Bit*.
Miss Knickeriiocker—lf Talmage is right.
Mr. Snobberly. you ought to be a magnificent
dancer.
Snohberlv—Ah, what did be say?
‘•He says men of talent and commanding
intellect are never good dancers.7'ezws
Si J tiny*.
Visitor—Arc you papa’s boy?
Sonny Yes sir.
Visitor—Are yon mamma’s bov?
Sonny—> es, sir
Visitor—Bat how can you be papa's boy
and MDimii'n at the same time?
Sonnt- 'after a pause!—Can’t a pretty, nice
carriage have two horses?— Boston Beacon.
Wu e—John, what do vou think of the new
rook ?
Husband—Excellent, my dear, excellent I
nev. r enjoyed a better meal than my dinner
to-day. Where did you ever manage to find
such a remarkably goyip-lookiug young
woman, anywu - ?
In just five minutes by the watch the cook
was informed that she might find another
piace.— Peoria Call.
“I don’t mind giving up my neckties be
fore they’re half worn out,” said a society
young man yesterday, “because they look
pretty in erase quilts. But I’m going to draw
the line on my married lady friends here
after.”
‘■Way?” asked a friend.
“The last lot of scarfs I gave to Mrs. ,
her husband has been wearing ever since. Do
you blame me?”— Buffalo Courier.
At the Club.—Two gentlemen playing at
Ecarte; "Ilow is this.’’ cries one. “You
have counted three points!”
” Well, what of it?”
“But you only made two.”
“I assureTyou, monsieur ”
“I’ll bet you a louis that you only have two.”
‘•Softly, uty friend. Permit me. I am not
certain enough of it to bet; but I will give
you my word of honor”— French Fun.
Some time ago a narnund. who had gradu
ated at a Melbourne boot factory, married an
English baronet. One day an acquaintance
of the banmet called at his residence and in
quired of her ladyship whether Sir Henry-
Henry will do—was in. ”S’elp me. he’s not
in!” replied her ladvsliip; “I’m afraid he’s
on the booze again.” Lady is now in
Hinger and. and when she begins to talk she
will make the old nobility sit up and cough.--
Sydney (-V. S', it'., Bulletin.
“So you’ve been out West?” he qneried of
a citizen who returned the other day.
“Yes.”
" Lots of snow out there?”
‘•Millions of acres. I was snowbound on a
train lifteeu hours. There were twenty-two
ballet girls in my cat - .”
“And vour wife was with you?”
"Alas! yes.”
“Great bcott, hut how you must have suf
fered.”— Detroit Fire Free*.
Omaha girl—Mercy me! You surely don’t
mean to say that that beautiful Miss Million
is going to marry a Chinese laundryman?
New York girl—O! you misunderstood me,
dear; he is no; a laundry man, he is a member
ol the Chinese legation at Washington.
• 'But he is a Chinaman, all the same.”
“Yes, hut he is thoroughly Christianized.”
“Are you sure?”
'•Yes, indeed. He Is a graduate of an
American college and was the best pitcher in.
the ball club.” —Omaha World.
I’EKHONALi.
M. Grew is two years Mr. Gladstone’s
senior.
Claus Spp.eckbi.s, the biggest monopolist
in the world, was burn in Hanover, Bouth
Germany, and was a ’49er.
Major Ben: Pkrley Poore tells “Gath”
that every President who called an extra
session of Congress failed to get renominated.
Mrs. De Kovin. of Chicago, who is actin"
a hostess for her father. Senator Farewell, at
Washington, is a handsome woman of 25, and
has for several years been prominent in
Chicago society.
Prince Bismarck is 6 feet 4 inches tall
and very powerful. In the great trinity of
famous Germans he Is called “the baby,” as
lie is hut 72 years old, while the Emperor is
90, and Von Moltke is 87,
Mrs. 8. P. Hathaway, of Louisville, Ky.,
an expert stenographer, has been a Deputy
commissioner or the Chancery Court in that
city she has tho distinction of being tho
only woman commissioner ever holding office
in Iventucky.
Miss Edith Andrews, who is going to
marrv young John A. Logan, is the daughter
of wealthy parents, but wholly unspoiled,
bhe is blonde, small, graceful and attractive,
and posscs-es great dignity and a sweet dis
position withal.
The adopted daughter of the late William
If. sewanl has promised to give to the Art
Gallery of ihe University of California the
original painting or Leutze of his well-known
picture, “Westward the Course of Empire
Takes Its Way."
King WILLIAM of Hnllaud cclebraled the
seventieth anniversary of his birth on Feb, 13.
lu almost every Neihcrland village and town
there wore great festivities; in every church
a service, and there wus a general distribu
tion of bounty to the poor.
Congressman Perry Belmont isfifl. Mr
Dougherty, of Florida, and Mr. Tautbee. of
Kentucky, are the same age as their New
York contemporary. Ward, of Illinois, and
V'oorhees, Delegate from Washington Terri
tory, and McAdoq, o( New Jersey, are 34.
Next to Mr. Price, the youngest member of
Congress of the past decade, was Joseph 11.
Acklm, who was elected from the Third
f/ouisiana district In 1376, ami served two
terms.
Lord Randolph Churchill is an abler
man than be gets credit for. Ho believes that
the power ol England would be dissipated If
it lost ns ancient monarchical quality; but he
is desirous to piufc up alliances out of the new
Democracy, and he has quarreled with tne
Tory party because they would not follow his
policy. Ills I moth ur, the Duke of Marlbor
ough. is a Radical, nut lie has lost Ins charac
ter liv his debauchery and is socially aban
uoued in England.
Miss Varina Davis is a young lady whose
pretty head might well have been turned by
ihe Hdttlatioii and admiration II;at lia-been
showered upon her this past year. The way
this lovely and brilliant young lady con
quered llie North. Its soldiers anil statesmen,
no less than its women, must he of inesti
mable comfort to the unreconstructed. As
the daughter of Jefferson Davis tins young
lady's home is properly in Mississippi, blit she
spends much of her time in New Orleans.
Miss Davis has been u brilliant member of
one uf tbe best amt most attractive literary
clubs ever formed In New Orleans, and was
discovered liv the PangnosUcs to ben writer
of much eloquence. Mist Davis has recently
contributed a piper on “Irish Patriots” to
the columns of tho North American Review.
Banks and Paper Money.
The Rufat Hate Paper.
Tho Chinese invented bank notes in the
ninth century and called them “flying
money,” but the currency became so inflated
that two centuries later a £%) note would
only purchase a pound of rice. When Sir
John Mandeville visited China in the four
teenth century, the Emperor issued leather
money—-Which his majesty spent mod out
rageously”—aud some yeare later the curren
cy was transferred to a joint
stock bank of Chinese merchants,
who ultimately failed and paid
oulv two shillings on the pound. Au eminent
V.rgiuia statesman in 1777 named this money
"the itch,” and by this uame it was known
for some time.
In Europe the first bank was founded bv
two Jews in Venice in the thirteenth cen
tury, but uo regular bang of emission seems
to have been established until that of Mr
Palmstruck in Sweden, a few years before
Patterson founded the Bank of England.
Game and Vermin in Prussia.
From the London Time*.
Some interesting information is published
with regard to the quantity ot game and ver
min killed tn Prussia during - the year ending
March S], 18S3. The value of the game killed
is estimated at f3.000.00b, and this sntn would
have been much smaller but for the untiring
vigilance of the officials of woods and forests
and of keepers employed by the various hold
ers of land and shooting, who killed in the
year 140,209 head of vermin aud 119,031
birds ot prey.
The vermin comprised 84,301 foxes, 27.108
stoats, 23,578 weasels, 5,475 martens, 5,375
polecats, 5,051 badgers, 4,092 otters and 006
wild cats. Up to the present time crows and
magpies have not beeu ranked as birds ol
prey, but they will be in future, as it Is found
that they do an enormous amount of damage.
There are very few wolves in Prussia, only
four having been killed, aud it Is a curious
fact that the German wolves seem to have
followed tbe German army almost en masse
into France during tho winter of 1870, and to
have remained mere. In the provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine the number of wolves
killed during the year was 37, in addition to
2,620 foxes and 152 wild cats.
France’s War Pigeons.
From the Few York Sun.
Gen. Boulanger has rocently given prizes
to the best trainers of carrier pigeons in the
department of the Seine. Pigeon training in
Franco has become a branch of the military
service, and plenty of well-trained birds are
to be found In the costly and beautiful little
establishments that have been built for them.
They are furnished with modern improve
ments and luxuries that vulgar and ignorant
pigeons could never ayoreciate. Among the
pigeons now in the possession of the govern
ment are several veterans of the siege of
Paris, and one ataong them is a genuine old
hero. In 1870 this oird was taken up in the
Paris balloon called tile Niepce, and was cap
tured by the Prussians. Prince Frederick
Charles sent him as a present to his mother,
tho Princess Charles of Prussia, who put him
amoug her own collecttou of birds, where he
was treated with all possible kindness. But
he was a patriot. The bitter bread of exile
did not agree with him. He flew away and
reached his home in a pigeon hou>eiuthe
Boulevard CUcby. The owner of this estab
lishment handed him over to the military au
thorities. and he is now ouce more in the ser
vice of his native country, and doubtless
hopes to win additional glory in the futur •.
Serpentu as Urn. incuts tor Women of
Fashion.
From the London Daily Howe.
No little beetles or serpeuts have as yet ap
peared this season upon the evening toilet of
those of the earth who can afford to be eccen
tric. Twenty years ago French women had
a caprice about snakes. They made pets of
them.
The Princess de la Tour d’Auvcrgne always
kept a little one in her pocket, alive of course.
Her husband objected, and her friends did
not all quite like it, but no entreaties availed to
separate her from the little reptile teat she
loved. Mme. Musard wore a small viper on
her neck among her incomparable diamonds.
When she appeared in hip- box at the opera
every glass in the house was leveled at her
as she sal scintillating with diamonds, and
with the dark coil of the serpent’s body illus
trating the wditeness ol her neck.
Later on the Comtesse de Vitleneuve for
several mouths wore on her neck a beautiful
scarabeusbeetle. It was tethered to a ring by
a very slender golden chain. It could run
about on her shoulders; a sight which pleased
few who saw it. An American lady, a
few seasons ago, imitated this distinguished
example. In both cases the little creature
died of starvation.
First Love.
An angel blessed my childhood days,
A singer she of cultured lavs.
Upon the Broadway boards;
At matinees I used lo be,
Aud flung my heart upon the sea
Of wild resounding chords.
She always wore a robe of white,
Her cheeks were red. her curls were quite
As golden as my own;
My memory this sorrow brings—
I wept because she had uo wings,
And I had noue to loan.
Old Time sped on my life too fleet;
What though he brought funds lor the seat
Much nearer to my saint,
Wheu with it came the knowledge bleak,
Die blushing* of her dimpled cheek.
Were nothing more thanpamt!
I’ve seen the ocean roam and swell.
I’ve heard the tern oust shriek and knell.
For male and sailor lad;
It never thrilled me, like the storm
Of anguish, when I learn her form
Comprised the cotton pad.
Yet smile not at the solemn truth,
Which wisdom brought my fading youth -
My passion soon defiled.
My love I’ll worship as a man,
Alas! Alas! I never can
ltevere her as a child.
Walter Stephen Murphy in Puck ,
Illustrating the Short Haul Principle.
From the Chicago Herald.
A secdy-looking man got aboard a Chicago
and Northwestern train at Kacine the other
day. The train was about two miles out of
Kacine when the conductor came up and
asked him for his ticket.
••Ain’t got any, but I’m a railroad man mv
-BCI f
“Where do you want to go?”
“Chicago.”
“Well.” said the good-natured conductor,
reaching for the bell rope, “I’ll do the best I
oan for you.”
"Thanks, thanks. We railroad men should
stand together.” .
‘•Ye*. We have a heavy train to-day.and
thiß Is a down grade along here. I think the
train will run about 1,500 feet before it comes
to a stop. I’ll carry you that far with pleas
ure.”
A minute or two later the seedv-lookmg
man was jumping off into the snow.'
“Yon are very kind,” lie said “to carry me
even this tar. But, seeln’s we’re both rail
road men. you know, couldn’t you change
your mind and take me further?”
"Sorry I can’t oblige you.” replied the con
ductor," waving a “go ahead” signal to the en
gineer. “but the fact is that we have tobe very
particular since Congress bas got to passing
laws governing railroads. Under the law the
most I can do for you i to give you a short
haul. Good day."
And the train puffed on in the direction of
A SliuflPk'.l ted Actress.
The way in whichaclevcr actress contrived
to get a satisfactory costume is thus related
by the Springtlcld Kepublican:
'One of the adres-os Vho is now making a
animation among theatre-going New York
circles went the other day to a fashionable
dressmaker to order a costume for a certain
occasion. The intelligent young woman in
attendance who wan aelected to listen to her
want-, cried: “Oh. I have your Idea; you
dotire something unique. If there was some
place where a girl in my position could go,
where stylish women congregate, I could as
similate from the elegant dres<es what 1 am
not quite able to create?” “Yes, I un
derstand,” said the actress. "stand
back there and let ntc look at
you You are very like me.” The young
woman blushed. "Ah, you are aware of It, i
see. Very well, then, 1 have a plan. lam
Invited to the great inuch-talketi-of Lotos
Club reception. I must bo at rehearsal. It
is impossible for me to go- but—nevertheless,
1 accept, and you go in my place. Come to
my rooms—at such an hour. 1 will dress you,
I will tralu you, I will tell you what to say
how to pose. Y'ou are not to talk much, you
are to speak very gently ami say: •! must
save my voice. ’ I shall scud you in uiy car
riage. A friend who is u member of the club
will be in the plot and make everything all
right.” And so it happened that ine bright
young artist attended the most notable gath
ering of the season amt conducted herself so
admirably that new admirers went wild over
the actress, aud all theatre-going New York
is dellglitlog in the wonderful combination
that the young woman was able to coucetvo
in the way of a stage dress from the leaull ol
her exceptional experience
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ostrich farming in California continues
to be profitable. A carload of the big birds
fr'm Africa has recently reached Los An
geles.
Deer in the far West are fast going the way
of the buffalo. One dealer in Jacksonville,
Ore., in two months bought 1,300 deer skins,
and other dealers in Southern Oregon have
bought ns many. These were all killed for
their skins only, contrary to law.
A Massachusetts man who recently died
willed his horse, his cow, his cat, and his
fowls to the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.’and also 42,000, stipulat
ing that the socioty should tenderly care for
tne animals as long as they lived.
Five months ag ) George Hackeit, a Wis
consin lumberman, was bitten in the hand by
a rattlesnake. He drank much whisky, and
apparently all danger from the bite passed.
Last thanksgiving the hand began to swell
and pain him, and a few days ago be died
from the effects or the poison that had so long
remained in his system.
In West Virginia there is nothing required
to enable a man to escape all jury duty except
a mere request to nave his name placed on
the jury list. The law provides: "But the
name of no person shall be put on such list
who may have requested the court, or any
member thereof, by himself or another per
son, to have his name placed on such list.”
The undertakers of Pittsburg having lost
considerable money through the neklect of
customers to pay their bills, are talking about
a novel method of posting their debtors.
They would have large placards, on which
are printed detailed statements of each debt,
scattered throughout the cemeteries on Dec
oration day and other days when the ceme
teries are crowded, and the placards sure to
lie read. They would thus hope to shame
their debtors into paying up.
fN Grant county. Ore., where the bounty
on jackrabbit scalps is 6c. each, some of the
farmers stretch a wire screen across the
prairie, the screen having meshes just large
enough for a rabbit to stick his head through.
Then men and dogs round up the rabbits,
and drive them to want the screen, and. in
their hurry to escape, they stick their heads
through and are caught. Then the farmers
scalp the captives and let them go. hoping
that each will raise another sc. scalp before
long. This is the story told by the Grant
county News.
The forts which have been constructed
round Paris since 1871 are so far outside tbe
old forts and form so wide a circle that it
would require an incalculable number of
men to invest the city. It took 300,000 Ger
mans to encircle the old line; there are not
enougl men in Germany to encircle the new
one It would accordingly be impossible to
prevent tbe garrison of Paris from receiving
supplies and reinforcements, and the city
could hold out forever. The only way to
capture it la by assault, aud as this method
was considered impracticable In 1870, it is not
likely to be tried next time.
J.H. Whitelv, a wealthy young man of
Washington, Pa., was a leading church mem
ber, finely educated, and a favorite in the best
society. He was to have been married on
Wednesdav.last to Miss Mary C. Moore, a
wealthy young lady of Pittsburg. He was
arrested whi e dressed in his wedding suit
and while the bride and her maids were
awaiting htscoming, for stealing a lot of gold
peps. Although the merchant declined to
prosecute. the bride calmly removed her wed
ding robes and laid them away. The young
man had fitted up a magnificent residence for
his bride. It is thought that he must have
gone suddenly crazy, for the theft is other
wise unaccountable.
As an Albany (N. Y.) Journal representa
tive sat in the chair of a Maiden-lane barber
the other day, the genial artist of the brush
observed that the journalist sneezed when his
hair was combed. "Did I touch the sneezing
spot?” inquired the barber. He then proceed
ed to explain that the “sneezing spot” was a
sensitive place to the left of the middle of the
forehead. “Why,” said he. •'there are men
who come in here who sneeze regularly every
time I comb their hair or shave them jnst as
soon as the comb passe- over that spot. 1 had
a man in here yesterday who sneezed three
flmes just as hard as he could, all because 1
touched the ‘sneezing spot.’ It must be a very
small nerve that tickles the nostril.”
Senator-elect Reagan, of Texas, when
he speaks is never at ease, it is said, unless he
has a string in bis hand, and he keeps pulling
this through his lingers as he talks. His
favorite position, when listening to a discus
sion in tne House, is sitting back in his chair
with a piece of white letter paper in bis
hands. This he folds up carefully, aud with
his jackknife cuts through the folds. The two
pieces of paper he then lays together, folds
them, and cuts them in pieces. He reduces
these pieces still smaller in the same way, and
when he has used up one piece of paper he
takes another. So he goes on for hours at a
time, until his desk is Uttered with scraps ol'
paper ami the floor surrounding it looks like
that about the scissors editor of a newspaper.
At a certain party at which Sidney Sqjith
was present one of the company having said
that he was about to "drop in” at Lady Bles
sington’s. a young gentleman, a perfect
stranger to him, said, with the most • ‘gallant
modesty:” “(Jh, then, yon can take me with
you; I want very much to know her; you can
introduce me.” While the other was stand
ing aghast at the impudence of the proposal,
and muttering something about being but a
slight acquaintance himself, and not knowing
very well how he could take such a liberty,
etc., Sirtuey Smith observed: “Bray oblige
our young friend; you cando it easily enough
by introducing him in a capacity very de
sirable at this glose season of the year, Say
you are bringing with you the cool of the
evening.”
America’s latest and most novel idea is a
■ straw house. At the forthcoming American
exhibition, which is to open May 2 at Earle’s
Court, Kensington, will be a house of straw;,
now being made in Philadelphia. This house
is an American suburban villa, very hand
some and thoroughly artistic in design, two
and a half stories high and covering a space
or 42 by 50 feet. It is built entirelv of mate
rials manufactured by straw, foundations,
timber, flooring, sheathing, roofing—e ery
tbing in fact, including the chimney—the
material being fireproof as well as water
proof. The inside flnish will be in imitation
rosewood, mahogany, walnut, maple, ash,
ebony and other lino woods, theßtraw lumber
taking perfectly well tbe surface and color of
the desired grain.
An article in the Edinburgh Review touch
ing on Admiral Hobart Pasha’s habit of ro
mancing. reminds an English writer that
some years ago during the debate on Batoum,
Lori Granville and Lord Beaconsfleld made
diametrically opposite statements about Ba
touin. both on the highest authority. Aston
ished at the complete divergence of statement.
Lord Granville inquired as to the source of
the opposite story. He found it came from
Hobart Pasha, the very man who had sup
plied him with his own information. Hobart
knew all about Batoum. and he used his
knowledge to such excellent effect that ne
bad produced two memoranda, one of which
lie took to Lord Granville and the other to
Lord Beaconsflejd. both showing an intimate
acquaintance with the question and both
leading to diametrically opposite conclusions.
The statement recently published that the
sea serpent had been cut in two by a swift
vessel must be a mistake, la cause Capt. G.
Courtland Paine reports to the Mystic Press
that on Feb. 7, while hauling lobster pots net
far from Middle Ledge, he saw what surely
was the seq serpent. It whs black, ami Its
head and body, which reached forward a lit
tie arching, ex'ended six to eight feel out of
the water, being the whole length as big as a
hair barrel. The head whs shaped something
like that of an eel. The serpent was moving
with tremendous speed to the eastward, mak
ing a great commotion in the water. The
captain had left his sloop nnd was In a small
boat, and was so alarmed, he save, I kit If the
creature bail turned any nearer in ms direc
tion ho should base started for his sluoo in a
hurry. The Press says that Capt. Paine is a
reliable man.
The citizens of the Second ward, Pittsburg,
Pa., are mystified over the strange condition
of the ground in their locality, which from
some unknown cause has been as hot almost
as a baker's oven for nearly ten days. Many
people have been compelled to leave their
houses, Ihe heat communicated to the build
ings from the grouud luting unbearable. The
cellars arc so warm that even a rolling-mill
hand cannot, enter them, Several ho es have
been dug in the ground tor the purpose of
(lading me cause of the remarkable heat, but
as yet none has been found. It is believed
that a terrific Are has hr oken out in the huge
cinder banks bonus'h the blreets. and that it
has eaten Its way through the mass ot debris
on which the ward is located. lSxlcusive ex
cavations are to be made in varlflus p ri. of
the ward In the hope that the Arc may he
found aud exi.nguisbud.
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