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4 She |Horuiu§ |\nrs. JtWHirAKKBSTEKET. SAVANN AH. GA. FEBKOARV U 4. IXB7. A*i :■ tiered at the Pott ojtce m .vnisiiiiA. The Morning News is published daily, in eiucl’Es Sunday. It is served to subscf.bers *. the c tv. by newsdealers and carriers, on then own account, at ZZ cents a week, II *) a month, II 00 lor six months and $lO color cue year. The Morning News. by mail, fncluduig pur. day. on*' month, |1 00; six months, $5 SO; one wear, 110 CO. The Morning News, by man, six time* a ■reck (without Sunday issue/ .six months, ti 00; ace veer, IS 00. Sunday News, by mail, one year, 12 00. Weekly News one year, $1 25. Incluhaof tTe, one year, II 00. ■ Subscriptions payable In advance. Eemit by postal order or note, check or registered letter. Currency sent by mail at nak o' ■coder*. Fetters and telegrams should be addretsed "Horning News, Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on applica tion. INDEX TONEW ADTEBTISEMEKTS. Meetings—Zerubbabel Lodge Vo. IS. F. And A. M; Mount Moriah Lodge No. 16, F. A. M 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. __ Salting ptmbtr. Jp mill 13 /afe, k 1 won ■ MOST’PERFECT MADE Prepared with strict regard to Purity, Strength and Healthfnines*, nr. Price s Paking Powder contains no Ammonia,Lime,Alum or Phosphates. Dr. Price’s Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., flavor deliciously. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. Chicago OKI CL LsaX iPrtl CSooDo. GRKAT ~~~ CleariM Out Silt OF MEDIUM AND FINE* EMBROIDERIES SLIGHTLY SOILED, AT CrobaD & ion's, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna <& Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. 2 AAA YARDS fine finished Hamburg Em • UuU broideries, from to 3) i inch* wide, slightly soiled, former prices 10c, 12J.,c and 15c a yard, now 8j 3 c. 1,500 yards extra line finished Hamburg Embroideries, from 3i4 to 7 inches wills, slightly soiled, the regular price of the goods were 25c, 30c, 85c and 40c a yard, we will close the entire lot out at 21c. 75 dozen Misses’ and Boys’ French Ribbed and German Hose, broken lines in black aei colored, the recent prices of these goods bare been 40c, 45c, 50c, 80c and 85c, we will dose this lot out at 3 uairs for 41. 100 dozen Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s White and Colored Bordered Handkerchiefs at sc. 75 dozen Ladies’ White and Colored Bor dered Pure Linen Handkerchiefs at 18c and 22c; worth 20c, 25c, 30c and 35c. Gentlemen’s Laundried and Unlaundried Shirts. Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Collars and Cuffs CORS ETS! Imported and Domestic, in great variety and in the most graceful and health-apprord shapes. ORDERS. All orders carefully aril promptly executed. Samples sent free oil charge and goods guaranteed to be fully up 1 to the quality shown in samples. I Cnln&Dmd TELEPHONE NO. 401. NOTICE, In order to make room foi ray Spring stock I will offei great inducements in all Wm ter goods. I will offer from this dal my entire stock of Combina tion Suitings at cost. J. P. GERMAIN! 132 BROUGHTON STREET, (Next to Fiirber’s.) ©rtrntal ffwittn. __ A BWN 0F BEAUTY IS A JOY FOBEVE DB. T. FELIX tJORATO'S Oriental Cream ,or Magical Beaitifle „ •-- W *Ufc#n taltrj t* lb* iVia, a fli; FKRD. T. HOPKINS, Manager, 4> * >1 root, N. Y. , rrn Mi. kr 01 h.„ UM hM. i.IM 1.1. - y. We (. WM, m 4 |W, W w. ... Scotch Thistle Fum* / < IVKS RELIEFfrom Asthma In* '*A * I t’eriali) cure for Catarrh and Price per hox $1; (l boxe-*6. I ot;P* ,j jiarte of tho world. Address JA MORRISON, llcllairc, Ohio. —< "QtTKICN OF SHFBA.'' „|| ‘>o7 r.-JI'IK THE QUEEN ——l •))*' sold Pi dote. 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