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Rev. Dr. McGlynn appears to be in
IHreor again.
John Sherman’s Southern tour will
amount to nothing unless he brings along
a brass band.
The negroes of South Carolina continue
l*o seek graves in the river bottoms of Ar
rkansas and Texas.
‘ An Alabama man ban been discovered
I'Wrbo has never heard the word “boom.”
iPoor fellow, he is deaf.
Congressman Trigg, who said on
AVednesday, "Lobbyists don’t approach
hne,” must be a curiosity in Washington.
Yale College boasts a freshman thirty
.years old. It would be interesting to
Ikuow at what age Yale men become Btale.
Oyer in Alabama the booming cities are
■calling for “leaders.” They doubtless
(wish to be led out of the bondage of
fa peculation.
To-day was set for the beginning of the
V&ce between the yachts Coronet and
{Dauntless across the ocean, but the for
lyner not being quite ready, the start has
f/ieen postponed.
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TWs Boston colored man. TrpUeij, was
•confirmed at tbe last moment, and the
(President doubtless congratulates hina
jettlf in getting a colored man into the
(office of Recorder of Deeds of the District
ioi Columbia.
An exchange, evidently intending to
cay “Senators should be elected by tbe
(people,” declares that “Seuators should
jt>e elected by the police.” It would not
■be amiss sometimes tor Senators to be
iguided by tbe police.
Mrs. Gov. Ross and Mrs. Lieut. Gov.
"Wheeler, of Texas, have set the example
[in Uie bigh-hats-at theatres reform In thut
(Stare. Never did Mrs. Governors and Mrs.
(.Lieutenant Governors set a better
(example.
two New York Anarchists, recent
ly released fro'i imprisonment at Black
jwell’s Island, have been making spee hes.
■One of tbeni declared that “anarchy must
land will triumpb and annihilate tbe pow
ders that now control society.” it wAuld
jißeem that imprisonment doesn’t tame the
IvAnarubists. Remap? hemp will.
It Is said that Thomas A. Edison is
making a great sensation in Florida. The
Negroes think he is possessed of super
natural powers, and are inclined to shun
ffiim as they would au old-fashioned
ispook. In tbe meantime Edison is in
[very good health and spirits, and is re
fpocjed to be hard at work perfecting a
(number of inventions.
A number of Drominent Democrats
(bare suggested to the President that it
pwould be a good thing to appoint Hon.
iSain Randali Secretary of the - Treasury.
[The objection is that the President wants
>o man in his Cabinet who is not in full
iilympathy with the Democratic party.
has lately borne too close a re
semblance to a Pennsylvania Kepublicau
ao be in faor with the President.
Col. Gilder, the enthusiast who started
tout on foot to find the North pole, has re
urned to New York. He reached Fort
burehill, Man., too late to catch the
(Hudson Bay boat going north, and sud
denly discovered that he had important
tbusiness to transact in New York. Col.
is wise. Transacting business in
j,New York beats tramping over snow and
tyce in search of the North pole.
It is reported in Washington that Mat
thews, whom the Senate refused to con
tilrm as Reoorder of Deeds tor the District
;f Columbia, will be appointed Register
Wfthe Treasury, In place of Gen. Rose
iorans, who, it is said, is to be plaoed at
the head of the Geodetio and Coast Sur-
Cleveland is developing
than his most
Intimate friends thought be possessed.
Five young ladies in a New Jersey
toarding school have indignantly refused
to a pledge w'uioh would bind them
holding any oommunica-
Yton men. They are quite
right. TlimVno sense in such a pledge.
It is well enough to place proper re-
Htricllons about young ladies at boarding
schools, but there is no reason why they
should not have the privilege or casting
•‘sheeps-yjres” at the boy*.
‘•Doc” Wilson has turned up again.
■This time he Is reported to bo very sick
with heart disease at Providence, R. I
He occupies elegantly furnished rooms In
* fashionable hotel, and has two physi
cians and two nurses attending him. Hit
supply ol money appear* to be unlimited.
Provldenoe people think that Moen, Wil
•on’s alleged father, furnishes him with
“•wy. If this lie not so, then there is
•room to suspect that AVilson Is another
| Monte Criito.
The Forty-Ninth Congress.
The Congress which came to an end
yes’erday will be remembered ctjiefly for
having onactcd tbe interstate commerce
law. No one can predict with any degree
of certainty what effect that law is going
to have upon the business and prosperity
of the country. Asa general thing rail
road men think it will bo harmful to the
railroads and to business interests. The
people, however, are inclined to think
that it will prove io be helpful to them.
Doubtless it will be several months be
fore It will De possible to form au intelli
gent opinion respecting it. There are
many questions connected with it which
must be settled before it will work
smoothly.
The Forty-ninth Congress will also be
remembered for having passed an out
rageous pension bill, which, if it had re
ceived the President’s signature, would
have imposed upon the people au addi
tional pension burden of many millions
of dollars annually without any reason
able excuse. The dependent pension bill
was tbe work of pension sharks and
demagogues, and it got through Congress
because Congressmen were afraid to op
pose it. Both Senators and Representa
tives were forced into supporting it by
the threat that if they opposed it they
would incur the hostility of the ex
soldier element of the North.
When the Forty-ninth Congress m et in
its first session it was understood that
the House would pass a bill reducing the
tariff. No such bill was passed. The
people, however, know the reason. The
protection Democrats joined the Republi
cans and obstructed tariff legislation.
Mr. Randall is, in a great measure, re
sponsible lor the failure of the House to
pass a tariff reduction measure, Abie as
be is, and broad as he is in his views rela
tive to many other matters, he has never
been able lo see beyond Pennsylvania’s
interests where the tariff is concerned.
There is another thing for which Mr.
Randall is largely responsible, although
a day or two ago ne took occasion to deny
his responsibility. It is the backward
condition in which appropriation bills
were in the very last week of the session.
Great appropriation bills, carrying many
millions oi dollars, were rushed through
both houses at tbe last moment, and were
presented to the President for his signa
ture when there was not time for him to
examine them- One of them, the general
deficiency bill, failed altogether because
i' could not be got ready for the aotion of
the Senate before the hour of adj -urn
rnent arrived. Being chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations Mr. Ran
dall ought to have had the bills reported
to the House and passed In ample time to
give the Senate and the President an op
portunity to consider them.
The Forty-ninth Congress will not take
Its place In history as a strong Congress,
nor as a particularly weak one. It Will
rank as an average one, having more
faults than virtues.
The Senate.
In the Fiftieth Congress the Senate
stands 37 Democrats and 39 Republicans,
counting Uiddleberger as a Republican.
He cannot be depended upon, however,
io vote with the Republicans upon all oc
casions, and when they are most in need
of his assistance be may take a notion to
cause a tie by voting with the Demo
crats.
In the Congress which came to an end
yesterday there were 34 Democratic and
•12 Republican Senators. The Democrats,
therefore, have gained three, and it is
probable that in the Fifty-first Congress
they will have a majority of the Senate.
The seat of only one Democratic Sena
tor will be contested, that of Senator Tur
•pie, of Indiana, but even if the result of
the oontest should be against him, there
is no doubt that a Democrat would bo
elected in his place.
It is stated by New Jersey Republicans
that Senator Blodgett, who nas been
elected to succeed Gen. Sewell of that
State, will act independently of his party.
This statement probably does Senator
Blodgett Injustice. He has always been
a Democrat, and, as there are no charges
that his election was the result of a bar
gain with the Republicans, it may be con
sidered certain that upon all party ques
tions he will be found voting with his
party.
A Senator from Florida will be elected
in April. There is no vacancy, however,
Gen. Finley having been appointed to
suoceed Charles W. Jones, whose term
expired yesterday.
The River anti Harbor Bill.
It would be interesting to know why
tbe President failed to sign the river and
harbor bill. Does he think tbe press of
New York voices the sentiment of the
country with respect to that bill? If he
does he will in time find out that he is
mistaken. New Y'ork doesn’t want any
harbors improved except her own, and
she doesn’t want any rivers improved
which Influence trade away from instead
of to her.
The failure of the river and harbor bill
to become a law means that for six
months, and perhaps a year, after tbe
present appropriation Is exhausted noth
ing will be done on the Savannah river
improvement. Tbe channel will become
obstructed aud tbe commerce of the port
will sutler great damage. And, besides,
tbe cost of completing tbe improvement
will be greatly increased.
in view of tbe increasing difficulty
of getting appropriations for
rivers and harbors wliion deserve
improvement, it begins to look as if tbe
States would have to undertake tbe work
of improving tueir own rivers and
barbors.
It may be that the President refused to
sign the river and harbor bill because of
tbe appropriations for tbo Hennepin
scheme winch tbe Senate out into it. If
that is the cause it is full time for tbe
friends ot tbe riVers and harbors wbicb
are demanded by the commercial needs
of the country to out loose from tbe
schemes and insist upon a river and
harbor bill of their own.
D. F. Grover, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says:
“Now and thnn 1 have found a man that
thought Jackson or Hancock or Hill
ought to be nominated in preference to
Grover Cleveland, but seldom outside of
New York or New Jersey.” Well, well!
Tuere oan certainly no louger be any op
position to the Blair educational bill. It
is tbe duty or the nation to educate tbo
people of New York and New Jersey, at
least up to the point where they will
i understand that Jackson aud Hunoock
1 arc dead.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1887.
Insincere and Corrupt.
Since the last annual dinner of tbe New
England Society, It has become the cor
rect thing for the patriot with “a message
to the nation” to give utterauee to it
upon some similar occasion. Gov.
Forakor was heard from on Washington’s
birtbtjay at the banquet or tbe New York
Club, and bis message was received with
many manifestations of approval by the
Republicans. In Cincinnati, tbe other
night, ex-Gov. Hoadl.v, who has now
made his home in New York, was beard
from at tbe banquet of the Ohio Club. It
is not probable that nis message will pro
voke evon a single manifestation of ap
proval from the Republicans, because it
was a satirical, but none tne less vigor
ous, attack on their party.
Imagining himself to be a Republican,
the ex-Governor delivered what he said
ought to have been Gov. Foraker’s mess
age at the banquet of the New York Club.
The Republicans, he declared, emanci
pated aud enfranchised the slave; aud
then, for fear he should be too proud in
his new station, they organized the
Freedman’s Bank and stole all his prop
erty. They organized the great railroad
corporations that linked the East
to the West; but they organized
them so badly that the whole
investment of the government would have
been stolen if it had not been for the
Democrats. They ware friends of the
poor, and provided that any man who
snould go upon the public domain could,
by the mere fact of settlement and culti
vation, become the owner of 169 acres;
and then they gave the publio domain to
the railroad corporations, so that the
homestead law was fruitless. They or
ganized a great navy at great expense,
but they allowed it to go to rot and ruin,
so that what little there was left
of it—the Tallapoosa- was 6unk
by collision with a canal boat. They set
in motion the magnificent railway mail
service and organized the star routes, and
then they stole all the money tne Post Of
fice Department fiad to spare. They
passed tbe civil service reform bill,which
provided that no man should be appoint
ed to office who was incompetent, but they
immediately began to abuse President
Cleveland for enforcing tbe law.
The ex-Governor concluded his mes
sage by declaring that the Republican
party was a lamentable failure. It had,
by its acts, repudiated whatever good
principles it once had, so decilediy, that
its great meu, who had been nurtured
and who had grown strong in it, had
either to join the D ■moeratic party or die.
There was no other choice for them.
Seward, Sumner. Chase, Greeley and
Julian were all driven from the Republi
can party into the ranks of the Demo
cracy.
To what tbe ex-Governor said may be
added that when President Cleveland
was elected a very large number ot men,
who could no longer fraternize with tbe
corrupt men who were controlling the
Republican party, voted for him. Tney,
in common with many who were just be
ginning to enjoy the right to vote, turned
to the Deinooracy ior relief. Since Presi
dent Cleveland’s inauguration, there ha3
been no improvement in the Republican
party. Its representatives in Congress
have repeatedly thrown themselves in
the way of needed reforms, and have thus
made plainer than ever their insincerity
and unfitness to control the government.
Outside of Congress, the state of affairs
in the party has been no better. An at
tempt has been made—indeed, it con
tinues to be made—to push Blaine to the
front as the party’s candidate for the
Presidency, notwitnstanding the charges
against him, which cast a doubt upon his
integrity, and the fact that the country
has once repudiated him. In Congress
and out attempts have been made to re
vive sectional prejudice, either by wav
ing the bloody shirt, or by other means as
partisan ana as reprehensible. The
country cannot afford to allow such a
party to regain control. The country
wants good government, and it knows it
cannot have it with the Republican party
in power.
Honored at llieTomb.
On Thursday in New Orleans was
buried one of tbe best known and yet one
of the humblest women ot that city. She
was known as “Mammy” Wilson, and at
the time ot her death was 77 years of age.
For more than forty years she sold apples
and peanuts from a little stand in front
of the Academy of Music on St. Charles
street. Two generations of theatre-goers
ot the Crescent City have been accus
tomed to see the old apple woman as they
passed In and out of the academy,’ and
thousands perhaps were conscious of a
feeling of sorrow when they heard of
“Mammy” Wilson’s death. Until the
winter just closed she was seldom absent
from her post except wbeu there was an
epidemic of yellow fever. Her little oil
lamp burned far Into tbe night, and many
of her regular customers at 1 and 2 o’clock
in tbe morning, finding her asleep, would
place a niekel on the table, take its value
in fruit, aud pass on without disturbing
her.
“Mammy” Wilson was always treated
with marked respect by the “hoodlums”
as well as by the respectable people of
the city, not more because of her age and
well known integrity, than for the sell
sacrificing spirit she always displayed
wbeu tbe dreaded yellow fever visited
the city. In 1817 she first made a reputa
tion as a yellow fever nurse, aud in every
epidemic which followed she was always
among the first to offer her services in
that capacity. A, she was skillful and
faithful she was always iu demand,
Dou htless there are many In New Or
leans to-day who owe their lives to the
faithful watching aud tender care of tbe
withered and wrinkled old apple woman
whose body was accompanied to the
tomb yesterday by tbe Howard Associa
tion, various benevolent associations and
fire companies.
A few davs ago a very iuony thing hap
pened In South Chicago. On Feb. 14 a
preacher received a comic valentine, sent
by a boy who was a member of his Sun
day school. The preacher was much in
oensed, and the more he thought of the
valentine the greater became his dis
pleasure. Finally, when Sunday came,
he refused to preach, and, waving the
valentine over his head, be hotly de
nounced the Bonder. The church is now
looking for anew preuener.
Gsn. Boulanger Is beginning to wako
up. in fuel. It seems that while appar
ently asleep, be still kopt one eye open
lor Prince Bismarck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
■ ' '■
A Classic Ruin.
From the Hew Yrf.' Herald (Jnd.)
Mr. Blaine is one of the few reall7 classic
ruins in this country.
Evidences of Improvement;.
From the Philadelphia Inqui er ( Hep.)
Two members of Uie New York Legislature
and two or three of our own have reiurneil
their railroad passes. The world is certainly
growing better.
Punished for the Insinuation.
From the M itiuuri Republican {Pent,)
The newspaper correspondent who asserted
that the sbirt-hosmns of the Texas Legis
lature were stained with “ambeer” baa been
excluded from the floor and rebuked in a
resolution. The action is timely and proper.
The freedom of the press has its limits, and
when a newspaper- goes to the length of
pretending that the Texas Legislature can
not chew tobacco with grace and precision
the line shou.d he drawn at once.
The Man I!, hind the Gun.
From the Philadelphia Rea >rd. ( Dem .)
Russia, following tne example of France
and Germany, is about to provide itself with
anew explosive that possesses an exp osive
power fifteen times greater than gunpowder
and that does not produce any smoke. Each
new appliance for increasing the horrors of
war seems to have greater strength than is
predecessor; yet, efter all, there was a great
deal of truth in the remark made by Secre
tary Stanton during a discus-ion of the re
sijeetive merits of muzzle and breech loading
Titles, that it is the man behind the guu that
makes all the difference worth talking about.
BRIGHT BITS.
The English language should be called a
dead language, it has been murdered ofton
enough.— Li/e.
It is said that during the recent earthquake
in Nice the beds lu tne hotels there, for the
first time in many years, received a thorough
snaking up.— P‘.il,ift*l„lua Herald.
Nature seldom makes mistakes. She knows
pretty well what is needed. Wo speak of mis
because we notice that the river overflows
every year and gives Ihe Cincinnati people a
good, thorough bath.— Chicigo Mew*.
‘•How sty es have changed since I was a
girl.” said an old lady. “When X was young
we used to wear our dresses up to the necs
and gloves with only one button. Now they
wear the g oves up to the neck ana only one
button on the dress .—Couisollle Post.
"Why does that young man clasp that
young lady so closely ?” asked Miss Clara of
young Pousonhy as a couple passed them in
the giddy waltz.
“li’s fine of the ways of the whirled, I
suppose.” - responded Fonsonby.— Pittebu g
/in-/* i oh. •
L ttle Mamie’s grandmother is rerv old
ami hears considerable resemblance to an
Egyptian mummy. Mamie a-ks her mother:
“And did the wolf really eat up little Red
Riding Hood’s grandmother?”
“Yes, my child.”
“Poor wolf. I feel so sorry for him! What
a dreadful thing hunger must bei”— Texas
Si/tings,
A 7-yk ar-old, who is about to give a birth
day party, has sent out richly mounted in
vitations reading in this way: “My mother
wants to know if your mother will let you
come to my party.” Here is one pf the
answers, written by a little girl: “My
mother told me to ask you to tell your mother
I can come to your partyff’e.f Chester
{Penh.) Republican.
Bomno —Lent The policeman.
I’reva —Lent Poverty.
Si —Lent The Mugwump.
Re —Lent The usurer’s money.
Succu —Lent English scandals.
Condo —Lent “I toid you so.”
Redo —Lent The spring onion.
Truc(k)u —Lent The baggage man.
— C' lu ibut Dispatch.
A Big Drunk came staggering down the
street in a palpably tired and worn-out state.
He was mumbling to himself as he jogged
against the lampposts and upset the people
he met. “I’ll fix you,” said High License,
who was observing the career of the stag
gerer.”
"What’ll yer do, de fellar, eh?”
“Well I’ll put the saloons so far apart that
stagger into ’em .—Hartford Putt.
They tell a story in a Shasta town about a
justice of the peace who fined a citizen 515 for
some offense.
“T wont pay it,” said the man. •
“Will you pay ten ?” demanded the Justice.
"No.”
“By Gad, then, gimme five.” plead the
Justice, hut the delinquent swore he wouldn’t
pay a cent, and he didn’t, and that was the
end of it.— Sae. h *undue* Argue.
They sat snug y the fire light, while the
wind i rhed and soughed outside, occasion
ally slamming a shutter by way of emphasiz
ing the rhythm of its midnight symphony.
“Then you—hardly—think—that you would
he willing”—
“Oh. Algernon, that is not for me to say.
Pa’s office is the proper place for that, you
know.”
“Perhaps yon misunderstand. I was going
to ask if you would be willing to say a good
word for me to your friend. Miss De Smiley ”
Tableau—Mostly on the sidewalk with one
actor.— Hartford P-et.
PERSONAL
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the Indian fighter,
is the youngest L"uitod States officer of his
sriyle.
Tor thirteen years Jonn Ruskiu spent SSO,-
000 annually. He limits himself now to 51,800
a year.
William B. Allison, JamesG. ltlainc and
James A. Garfield were sworn into Congress
on the same day, Dec. 7, 188a.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, United States
Railroad Commissioner, is 80 this month. He
is one of the oldest Federal officeholders.
Francois Paul Jules Grevy. President of
Frauce, has a wreath of white hair and heard
running over his head and under his chin.
Philip A. Hoyne. of Chicago, has the big
gest unswellen head in that city, an iz hat
being-required to cover his cioselv cropped
curls.
Capt. William J. Haynes, of st. Louis,
will celebrate his centennial birthday next
fall. Ho fought with Jackson at New Or-
r lcuns.
George W. CrgTis (Harper’s “Easy
Chair”; has been threatented by a Western
poet, whose ver-es he had rejected, with fle-'
feat at the polls should lie ever run for a na
tional office.
Nina Van ZAnot was recently billed to
lecture to the Pittsburg Anarchists, a large
audience gathered, hut iho Chicago girl did
not appear -She didn’t even send a proxy
aud the X’ittsburg Anarchists arc much an
noyed.
Ben: Perley Poore’s widclvauotcd asser
tion that no President who called an extra
session of Congresstver secured a renomina
tion is picked to pieces by me Chicago Her
ald, which remarks that Aoraham Lincoln
called more than one extra session, and was
hotb renominated and re-elected,
Mrs. Noah, once a famous actress, is still
ltvmg at Rochester, N. Y.. in her SOI h rear
She says she .has not looked into a glass for
three year-, and will never do so again, be
cause she does not wish to die of fright from
beholding the evidence of her great age. site
lias promised to p a l.ady Aiachetn for a
benefit to be given in June.
Benjamin F. Butler's Injuries arc more
serious than was at first reported. After Ins
arrival in Boston on sttnd iv morning lie was
examined by his regular physician, who
found that the patient’s shoulder was badly
dislocated, and lie was accordingly „enl
his home at l.owcl! and put to bed. He will
not he able to leave his room fur a possible
mouth or more.
Hut. n* La Ramk (“Onl<Ut”) is getting
into London society and discarding the re
serve of her Florentine life. She was lately
entertained at dinner by Mr-. Bloomfield
Moore, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Wilde, the Viscountess Mandeville, Coi
Hiiglics-liulloU. M. I*., and Mrs. Hughe*-'
lludett. Col. Naunderson, M, P., and other
notable persons.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
Railway system, receives a salary of $25,000 '
year; President Harris, of the Northern Pa
cific, $25 000; President Adnuis. of the Union
Pacific, $80,000; President Strong, of the At
chison, Top-ka and Santa Fe. $25,000; :he
Presidents of the Chicago mid Northwestern,
Chicago, Burlington kud Quim v. and Chi
cago, Milwaukee and ht. Paul, $26,000 each.
Princ s* Miriam Likeukk died at Hono
lulu Kcti. 2. aged 3U years A sister of Ills
Majesty King Kalakaiia, she wr* Die daiigb
tet of the High Chief and Clilefess Kapaakoa
and Keohokalole. Princess Ltkelike was
murried Sept 22, IK7O. to the lion Archibal ,
Scott Cleghorn, member or tho House or
Nobles and of tho Privy Council of stale, and
is i he only member of the royal family having
Issue. Hence her only child, the Princess
Kutulanl, who wa* II years old Oct. 16, last,
is heiress presumptive to the throne.
HOW THE STRIKE ENDED.
Ais Old Negro Mau'a Blaus Upset by
HU Wife.
In the Negro-American, a large anti am
liittous magazine just started in Boston in the
interest ol the colored race, la the following
••llow the Strike Ended,” by Uncle Rufus:
“He was one of the Sons of Rest, and from
the day that he became a member his wife
has had to Support not only four small chil
dren. but their father as well. It was early
in the morning, and the wind was howling
outside, and the thermometer 10 degs. below
zero, when lie said to his wife as he tucked
the bed-clothes around him: ‘Wife. I’m
heartily iu sympathy with the strikers who
are now asserting their rights all over the
country against the grinding heel of mo
nopoly.’
“‘indeed,’ said the wife, with a strange
light in her eyes.
‘ Ye, I am. The time bai come when we
laboring men are forced to protect ourselves:
and I’ve half a mind to join ’em for the sake
of trie great principle involved, if lor no
other reason.’
•‘•So jou’re in sympathy with the great
striking element, are sou 2 Well.it strikes
me that the clock is striking 7; so vou just
strike out of bed and strike a light; then
strike out for the Woodpile; strike the ax into
some of it; then strike a lire in the kitchen
stove, and then strike for the well and get a
pail of svator. By that time I’ll strike out
aud get breakfast ready, and after you’ve
struck that it strikes me that you had better
s'rike nut and strike a job. and see how it
will strike you to earn some clothes for your
ragged vouug ones to wear.’
“And as she struck out of bed ho struck for
the door, and thus ended one of the most
threatening strikes of historv.’ ”
THB PARSON YELLISD “FIRE!”
A Cry Which Awoke the Entire Con
gregation lrom .Slumber.
From the Pitttbu g Prett.
They tell a story on an Allegheny preacher,
which, to the best of my knowledge, has not
as yet been in nnnt. It occurred on a very
warm day last summer, aud the congregation
was drowsy. The preacher was a long talker,
and after his sermon had been spread out
over the belter part of an hour the congre
gation was drowsier. Heads began to drop
on the respective chests thereunto appertain
ing, and long, deep breathing heeame notice
able in various parts of the church.
Then the preacher began to lower bis voice
gradually. Step by step he reduced his elo
cution from a fortissimo tenor pitch to a low,
soothing bass until eventually his voice died
out altogether. He looked carefully over the
congregation. All was still as death. No
one stirred. All were nodding. Then the
optics of the indignant servant of the Lord
filled with gore.
He leaueo over the pulpit, away over,
waited an instant in that position, and then
suddenly he yelled “Fire! fire!” in a voice
which sent its reverberations through every
nook and corner of the edifice. Tha: brought
the congregation to life as though a bomb had
burst tinner them. One old deacon jumped
up and yelled:
"Where? Where?”
That’s where the gag came in. and the min
lsior shrieked in tones of thunder:
*’ln hell! In hell, for all you sleepy sinners!”
Only strangers sleep in that church now.
Mrs. Potter tu Kugotad.
Of Mrs. Potter, G. W. S. writes from Lon
don to the New York Tribune: The Prin-o
and Princess of Wales showered invitations
on her aud expected her to recite daily. The
Princess arranged a visit for her to Osborue,
where the Queen was then staying, but Mrs.
I’oi ter was uuaole to accept it. Mr. Robert
Browning was one of those who most admired
her readings. “One day,” writes Mr. Brown
ing. “she recited to my surprise and pleasure
one of my own poems charmingly indeed. On
mv endeavor to acknowledge the honor she
asked for my autograph. I wanted to write
something more than my signature, but there
was no time for trying at even a sonnet. So
I put down the first lines that occurred to me,
from a poem, by I know not whom, which I
have not seen since I was a boy.”
Among the few to whom Mrs. Potter has
confided her purpose to become an actress
ure the Priuce and Prineessof Wales. Both
wore at first surprised, aud then, on hearing
her reasons, approved them, aud said that
her choice of the profession would make no
difference in their regard or social relations.
Having seen Per book, which you have lately
reviewed with praise, the Prince told Mrs.
Potter that she ought to bring out an English
edition. If she would do that he and the
Princess would accept the dedication of the
book This suggestion. I believe, Mrs. Potter
intends to carry out. if the copyright difficul
ties can be smoothed awav. For tnis also the
Prince offered nis aid, and he and the Princess
both assure i her that tliev would gladly do
all they could to promote her success if she
appeared on the Loudon stage.
llow Macs Can bo Dreamt iu Five Sec
onds.
From the Revue Scientifique.
I was sitting with a police official at his
office, anil we were discussing some lantastio
story, when an employe came in anil sat
down oeside us. leaning with his elbows on
the table. I looked up and said to hun. “You
have forgotten to mate the .soup.” "Xo.no;
coma with me.” We went out together, going
across long corridors. I walking' behind him.
at the college where I had been brought up.
He went into a wing of the house which I
knew well, and which led to the class rooms.
Under the stairs he showed me a stove on
which stood an oyster shell with a little white
paint in it (1 had been mixing water colors
the evening before). "But you have forgot
ten the vegetables. Go to the porter at the
other end of the courtyard; 1011 will find
them thereon a table.” 1 waited for a long
time; at last I saw him making signs to me
that he had found nothing, “it Is at the left
hand side,’ I shouted, and saw him cross the
yard, coming bag;k with an immense cab
bage. I took a knife from my pocket, which
1 always kept there, and at the moment wh n
I was going to cut the vegetal) e 1 was
awakened by the noise of abowl of soun being
put heavily on the marble top of the table
next to iny lied.
It appears to me that the idea of soup was
suggested to me by the smell at the moment
when the door was opined by the servant
bringing in the soup while I was asleep, and
it takes live seconds at the most to walk from
the dour to the bed.
Lssves,
The leaves were flying
Through autumn’s air
When drear November
Ruled everywhere:
Aud, dancing, whirling,
In brown and gold.
They wnispered uoeins,
Aud stories told.
When wintry weather
Drives all within.
And beans are happy,
Aud full each bin,
Tlicli a veb of music
Are flying round.
All making happy
At each glad sound.
Tong may the music
Of thoughts oVr kind
Cheer hearts all happy,
Though blows the wind;
For souls all loving
May e’er defy
Tlie winds most cruel
That haunt the sky.
Earl Marble.
Musin Surprint)* a Rustic Fiddler.
Denver Republican.
Nebraska Minin,
ttio virtuoso, ImiHS*! into rhc smoking car to
kill a lew "i the heavy momeuis incident t’ a
journey across the plums. He found a raw
counirymuu scraping a polka oil the string*
of a fiddle. He played with the proud con
selouenoss of a man who Is muster of his art
*-l,et me play you something,” said Minin.
Withouta word the fiddler handed the vir
tuoso the instrument. Putting ihe ihiug into
at least a suggestion of tune, Musin pfayed u
touching rarutini. and then the "Carnival of
Venieo.”*as arranged b, Paganini.
The player of polka and square dance music
opened bis inoutii and absorbed every note.
When Musin had finished he handed the fid
dle hack to its spellhouud owner. The coun
tryman shook hn head. The brilliant notes
of the Carnival wero still chasing each other
in a mad dance through his heud.
••I don’t want It,” ho said, laconically.
Why, indeed, should hi* want ity
Tall Men in the Senate,
• Washington better in the Chicago Nani,
There are a lot of tall meu in the prosont
donate - Beck, ishorman. (Jhonev, bolph,
I’lati, Ingalls, Saulsbury and Voorliocs, the
Tall sycamore of the Wabash—inn tw o of the
members of tlio next Senate met on the floor
to-day and overtopped all the men around
them. They me ••Silver Bill” Siewart, of
Nevada, and Stock bridge, ihe successor of
Conger, Coin Michigan. The pair are about
of a height, and idiibi, he six fuel lour at least;
StookUridge made hUfirst appearance to-day
and Ins colleague, Mr. Palmer, took him
around nud Introduced him to his future co
partners as a .iolly good fellow, and they all
i agreed that he looks it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Legal phraseology Is proverbially ob
scure, but the lawyers must have been more
than usually opaque who drew up a certain
clause in the regula'ions of a corporation
owning anew bridge in Boston. The clause
enacts that ‘*lll6 said proprietors shall meet
annually on tile first Tuesday in June, pro
vided the same does not fall on Sunday.”
The Mexican women are as much devoted
to black dresses still as women in the States
were for very many years after the civil war.
It is only within two or three years indeed
that blank has ceased to be nearly universal
for street wear. It will bo hard to get women
back again as a class into the somb. e habili
ments which were formerly almost universal.
A new woun has been coined in Franco to
reure-cnl a very rich American. It is not
sufficient to call him a “millionaire,” he is a
“milliardaire.” In fact, such is the present
extravagant European notion of the fabulous
wealth of the American railroad kings, that
an American who is a mere ••millionaire”
has ceased to he regarded in Paris as a man
of pecuniary importance.
According to a bill before the Massachu
setts Legislature, no report of any execution
of a criminal can be published, under a pen
alty of? 500. The prisoner’s counsel can au
thorize the publication of the criminal’s final
confession, declarations, or remarks, wbioh
means, it is suggested, that the said counsel
can sell to some newspaper the last words of
acrimiua! an l make quite a good thing out
of it. ,
One of the most vigorous women of her age
in the country is Mrs. Priscilla Goodsell, of
Redding. Conn., who has just celebrated her
one hundredth birthday. She wa'ks about
unaided, and her mind is apparently as vig
orous as ever. Another hale o and persen is
Capt Win. Jack Ha lies, of St. Louis, who
was with Jackson at New Orleans, and ex
pects to celebrate his centennial birthday
next fall.
A wicked EOT, who promised to give an en
graving o! Washington to aid in the decora
tion of a schoolroom in a Massachusetts town
on the anniversary of the birth of the Father
of hisCountry.gravelv handed bis leachsr on
the day of the Ci lebratlou an envelope with a
two-cent stamp upon it. This was of no use
to the scuoolmarm, who had left a large space
in ttio evergreen trimmings upon the wail to
receive the promised picture.
The steamer Quickstep, while operating a
trawl net for codfish last Tuesday iu the sound
near Brown’s Point, W. TANARUS., caught a shark
which measured 9 feet in length and must
have weighed between 400 an l 500 pounds.
The man-eater was brought to land and cut
open. Iu his stomach was found one gum
boot, flannel shirt, a shoe and a good-si/eu
codfish. The shark hud evidently been living
high.
Iris estimated that tnere are as many as
50,000 sifleides in Eiirope every year. The
largest number of suicides in proportion to
the population take place in Paris; then copie
Vienna, Berlin, New York and London, in the
order named. In Austria it has been noticed
that ’'ding women of Slavonic nationality are
mure liable to suicidal impulses than German
girls, and ill Italy and France th■■ number of
female suicides is larger than iu Germany.
An exhibition of food products is to be held
at Amsterdam, Holland, June-IfecemDer,
18S7. The large consumption of all kinds of
American products in Holland makes it a
malter or great interest to dealers in cereals,
c inned goods, etc., to take part in this exhi
bition. In addition to articles of food al im
plements needed for the proper prepa-ation
of the same may also be sent, while a course
of lectures appropriate to food, its prepara
tion. etc., is to be given.
George W.JUontsty was a slave, and was
sold from his parents in 185$, being taken to
Mississippi, He subsequently served as a
Union soldier all through the war, and flnal'y
settled at Lafayette. In i. While at the Wa
bash Station recently George fancied he
recognized two colored women who were
nassing en route to lowa. The recognition
was minimi, aud with tears, cries of joy, and
embraces, the mother, brother and sister
came together after a separation of thirty
three years.
A Lsnr from the South who is visiting Bos
ton, complains of the little deference which
young gentlemen of the North pay young
ladies. She says that they lack the gentle
breeding of Southern cavaliers. The lady
also says that North if a lady i3 seen twice
with the same gentlemen, she is straight ay
reported as “en aged” by industrious gossips.
Iu her home, in Georgia.'sheasserts, a gemle
mun may escort a lady to any nufnuer oi pri
vate parties or places of public amii-ement,
without being considered anything more than
a friend.
ABUAHIM Gould, Jay Gould’s brother,
formerly lived in Salt Lake, and the Tribune
says of him: “Many was the generous act
performed by him while here. He had a
fondness for surprising very poor people bv
unloading coal and chickens and turkeys and
vegetables iu their back yards, and when
questioned not knowing anythiug about the
affair He was fond of assuming to be a man
with a had sye who conld not be apnroached,
except through much red tape, when ail the
time his heart was as soft as a sick oyster or a
boarding house olive.”
Mrs. Martin Cravens, residing near
Clark’s Fork, Cooper county, Mo , has in her
hennery quite a curiosity in the shape of a
young chicken which was hatched irom what
is known as a double egg. It has four per
fectly formed legs and feet aud two heads
pointing opposite to each other, but only one
body. In eating only one bill pecks the food
at a time, and one head seems almost lifeless
when the other chirps. In running around
the hen-house, however, the two heads do not
always aaree, one head and a pair of legs try
ing to go to the right, the other heading lor
tiie left. Mrs, Cravens thmks she has auite a
treasure in this strange freak of nature, and
if it lives until spring she will offer it for sale
to some museum.
John A. Elder, the Richmond artist, who
has been at Beauvoir, Miss., engaged in paint
ing a portrait of the Hon. Jefferson Dav ,
writes to a friend: ‘‘l am using Miss Win
nie’s little studio to work in. It adjoins her
father’s library, which gives me an oppor
tunity to see Mr. Daws nearly every hour in
the (iav. My picture is finished, aud give
satisfaction. I have painted Mr. Davis stand
ing in the attitude of sneaking, one hand ex
tended, the other resting on the constitution,
lving on the table, on which are his books and
the sword he used in the Mexican w ar. There
hasnot been a day that s one friemisor stran
gers have not visited Beauvoir. I on't see
hmv he stands the tax. Inu he alwavs has a
smiling greeting for all. He comes in m,
room every twilight to have a talk, aud X tell
you it is a treat.
The German Imperial Printing Office at
Berlin employs ninety-flve artists and artists’
assistants, and the apprentices,
lads and girls number 770. The amount of
work turned out there in the interest of the
government is enormous. The different Ger
man and Pru-siun Govern
ment office* absorb together in common
printings about 120,000,000 sheets; the noil
aud telegraph 1:1,000 Oou sheets and H0.0D0.000
forms, cards, etc. The number if notes eic..
from the thousaud-iuark note down to the
lowest-priced post stump, printed during me
last bu-iness year at the Imperial Office
amniinled to 1,173,500.000, of the value of
2 059,900,000 marks, which gives an average of
7,700,(i00 marks per diem. All the poople
working in the "va ue departments” have to
remain the whole day on the premises and to
take tliclr meals ihere, lor which purpose a
kitchen has item cstali lshed, where they get
their food at reasonable prices, the profits of
which are every year distributed among its
customers.
Evidently Mmo. Henry Grevtlle was not
favorably impressed, during her stay in
America, with the American schoolgirl. In
her new American story. “Frankley’s Mar
riage,” the scene of w hich is laid to a great
extent in Boston, ghe lias this passage; "On
the benches in the cla-s room, in the streets,
on the way home, bovs ar j always at then
side. The girlsofLen goto groups, chatlering
ami giggling, carrying a little bug full ~i
books, tneir blond or brown hair haugii g
about thou- fihou ders, pro ruding from und< r
iv little red’knktted hood—winch is perfects
hid-ous. by the way.ann winch makes mem
look like poorly dressed boys, i ontinua Iv
visiting ca h other at alt hours of the dsy
meeting for lunch, for study and lor pleustne,
evi roe the go. seldom at re t; they breakfast
with iheir street things on, thu.- preparing
themselves Tor the lileof the average Ameri
can lady, who puls on nor bonnet at 8 in the
morning, iinddoea not take it off again until
dinner time. Oi cour-.it, these girls cauoi t en
dure these loug. -olilarv day- when illne s of
noy kind renders I ho bead 100 heavy lor work.
A irionil mav ran in 'or a insiant. out she is
immediately called off by some engagement;
this moment of sunshine} shed bv the fresh
smiling companion makes 'the hours that fol
low. still darker.”
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