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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.
FORSYTH, - - GEORGIA.
jsThe tenth census, “like a wounded
■hake, drags its wearied length along.’’
Thirteen large volumes have been pub
lished, and others are going through the
press, while a number of other reports
remain unpublished, including those by
R. Dodge, the statistician of the agri-
ICultural department, on fruits and or-
Char ds, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow.
Iflg and hop culture.
Leprosy is declared by the Lansing
•(Iowa) Mirror to exist to a considerable
extent among the colony of Scandinavians
■from Northern Norway, now settled near
the village of Spring Grove, in Houston
county, Minn. Doctors who have exam
ined the subjects, who are in three or
four different families (but are related),
are said to have pronounced the malady
•mdoubtedly leprosy.
Most readers of Shakespeare are aware
that Juliet was a very sweet young maiden.
The thrifty citizens of Verona take mer
cantile advantage of the fact. They sell
“Juliet’s tears,” which are confections
resembling liquid gum-drops, or brandy
balls. The correct tribute to leave on
Juliet’s grave is a gold-paper heart and a
dried rosebud, wrapped in a magnolia.
The Veronese tradespeople take great
•took in the popular reverence for the
fair Juliet.
Ex-President Arthur suffers from in
somnia. Until recently he has been in
the habit of trying to read himself to
aleep when in bed. “But not very long
•go, ’ says Harper'B Weekly , “having
placed a pitcher of ice water beside him
■on retiring, he awoke to find that he had
unconciously upset the pitcher and emp
tied its chilling contents upon the bed.”
The incident has caused him to break the
habit of reading in bed, lest some time
he should upset an oil lamp in a similar
manner.
i Joseph Arch, who commenced a move
ment in favor of elevating the condition
■of farm laborers in England some twenty
years ago, has been elected to parliament
-from the northwestern district of Norfolk
county. His opponent was Lord Henry '
•Bentinck. The business of Mr. Arch was
■that of setting out and trimming hedges,
'but he obtained a national reputation as
founder of the agricultural laborers’ un
ion. Farm laborers in this country are !
not elected to Congress, or even to State
legislatures.
" -
A correspondent of thp New Orleans '
Medical and. Surgical Journal tells of a re
mark able result, of the use of steam as a ‘
disinfectant of ships. The vessel to be
treated was made tight fore and aft, and !
the steam turned on for the requisite
time. Ihe hold was found to be in good !
condition after the cleansing, and the |
■disinfectors entered the cabin. But. I
they discovered that the fine furniture
•nd cabin work had fallen apart and lay
In a comprehensive heap on the floor. The
•team had melted the <due *-
A St. Louis hairdresser has invented j
an apparatus which, if adopted, would
revoluntionize railroad travel. His ob- {
ject is to overcome delay caused by stop- I
ping a train at various stations, and he
intends to have all trains speed on front :
terminus to terminus. At every inter- !
mediate station automatic machinery
would remove the rear car, containing all
those who wish to get off there, and an
other car, containing passengers who
wished to join the train, would be sub
stituted without decreasing the speed of
the train.
A Genoese gentleman has just disclosed
the fact that he is in possession of th e
chains with which Columbus was bound 1
after his discovery of America. The
gentleman has owned the chains for
twenty years without telling. In 1865,
becoming aware that the chains, were in
existence somewhere on this continent,
he came hither and secured them. He
was likely to have kept his possession
of them a secret for a still longer time,
but reading so frequently newspaper
paragraphs regarding the celebration of
the four hundreth anniversay of Colum
bus's discovery, his conscience reproached
him, and he permitted the facts concern
ing the chains to become known.
At a recent gathering of medical men
in Philadelphia, Dr. W. S. Janney, late
coroner of the city, made the startling
statement that "no healthy mar. or
woman ever dies in this climate from
cholera morbus.” He repeated the re
mark to the editor of the Medical and
Surgical Rejxrrter, saying that the records
of the coroner's office would substantiate
his words. He explained that by
*'healthy" he meant a person without or
ganic diseases and of average strength
and vitality. "Such a person," he said,
“when dying with symptoms of cholera
morbus, always dies from poisoning ( usu
ally arsenic), and the case is one of sui
cide or homicide." The ex-coroner tir>t
examined into these case' when a stout,
healthy man of his acquaintance died
after an illness of thirty-six hours with
symptoms of cholera morbus. He had
been attended by four reputable physi
cians, one of whom had signed the death
certificate. Yet he instituted mi investi
gation. and found enough arsenic in the
deceased to kill a dozen men. He after
ward met with five -or six similar cases.
Dr. Bartholow. in a conversation with the
editor of the Reporter, said that he had
not the least doubt of the correctness of
Dr. Janney’s assertion. Another promt,
nent physician stated his belief in these
views.
An exchange remarks that there is a
disposition on the part of some of our con
temporaries to get up a scare about
trichinae, and have probably succeeded
in alarming any of their reader- foolish
enough to regard this sensationalism as
enterprise. Nevertheless, the people eon
■ dnue to eat pork, and very few of them
j lie of trichiniasis. It will be noticed
chat in all reports of such cases the names
>f the victims show them to have been
German.
The fact seems to be that trichinae can
not survive great heat. If pork is
! thoroughly cooked, as it always should be,
t may be eaten without fear of contract
ing trichiniasis.
It will be remembered that a novel fea
! hire of the New Orleans exposition was
l the exhibits which the colored people as a
race were invited to offer for the purpose
of showing their progress in industries,
j education, art, etc. The experiment
| proved only fairly successful in the dis
■ play then made, but it has borne valua
| ble fruit in arousing interest in similar
undertakings. As proof of this the New
Orleans Times-Democrat says: “Excited
by the exposition, Mississippi held a col
-1 ored fair a few months ago, which was a
j thorough success; Tennessee has jus
-1 opened another at Nashville; South Caro
lina will soon follow suit, and it seems
highly probable that every Southern
State will, sooner or later, have its col
ored exposition.” We agree with our
Southern contemporary, says the New
York Herald, that these are encouraging
signs which betoken substantial benefits
to the colored people |and useful results
to the community at large.
It is curious to look over the educa
tional records as given by the Congress
men, says the Washington correspondent
of the Cleveland Leader. Bragg says he
was educated a lawyer; Smalls, of South
Carolina, was self-educated, and Houk,
of Tennessee, educated himself while
working at the cabinet makers’ trade, and
by reading by firelight at night. Judge
Kelley got his education as a printer and
proof-reader, and General Grosvenor was
trained in a country log school-house.
Pulitzer, the New York editor, had a
private tutor; Hepburn, of lowa, was
educated in the common schools and the
printing office; Oates was self-educated,
and Taulbee and Boutelle had pri
vate schools. One hundred and sixty*
four of the members of the present House
have had collegiate or academic educa
tions, and eighty put themselves down as
having been trained at the common
schools. The majority of collegiate-bred
men come from small country colleges,
academies and seminaries, and many
of them states that they have grad
uated at some noted law school, such a s
Harvard, Ann Arbor or New York. Har
vard has seven college graduates, Prince
ton, four: the University of Virginia,
four; Bowdoin, two; Dartmouth, four;-
Union, three; Yale, two; Amherst, two:
Brown, two; Ann Arbor, five; Jefferson,
two; Franklin, two. and numerous other
colleges one.
“It is a fact well known to the medi
cal profession,” said a prominent physi
cian the other day, 1 ‘that much less harm
is done in New York by those diseases
most feared by the public and the health
board than by diseases which cause little
alarm in the community. The so-called j
plagues are not likely to cause much havoc
in this latitude, particularly in a city
where the sanitary regulations are good.
No scourge is so much feared as Asiatic
cholera, yet the deaths from that disease j
in this city during the year of the great- !
est epidemic were less in number than the |
deaths from consumption last year. Yellow i
fever has killed fewer people in New
York in this century than whooping I
cough has destroyed in a single year.
Smallpox, which Ls causing so much
alarm at present, kills fewer persons here [
than does either measles, croup, or j
whooping cough. Tho deaths from
typus fever in this town has been for j
many years less numerous than those j
from typhoid fever. These statements !
may be surprising to many residents of
the city, but they can be easily substantia- l
ted by an examination of the death
records, which are about the only reliable j
records to be found in the health depart- j
ment. It would be well for the city, in
my estimation, if the sanitary officers
would spend more time in investigating
those diseases which cause the greatest j
mortality. It would be well, also, if ]
some of the newspapers would call ;
attention to the facts instead of causing
useless excitement in the public mind
about improbable epidemics of cholera,
yellow fever, or smallpox.”
Why People Were Buried.
When men began to bury their dead
:hey did so in the firm belief in another
life, which life was regarded as the exact
I counterpart of this present one. The
unsophisticated savage, holding that in
that equal sky his faithful dog would
Dear him company, naturally enough had
;he dog in question killed and buried
with him. in order that it mieht follow
aim to the happy hunting ground.
Clearly, you can't hunt without your
arrows and your tomahawk; so the fiint
weapons and the trusty bow accompanied
their owner in his new resting place. The
wooden haft, the deer sinew bowstring.
; the perishable articles of food and drink
aave long since decayed within the damp
tumulus; but the harder stone and
earthenware articles have survived till
jow. to tell the story of that crude and
simple early faith. Very crude and il
logical. indeed, it was. however, for it is
quite clear that the actual body of the
dead man was thought of as persisting to
live a sort of underground life within
the barrow. A stone hut was constructed
for its use: real weapons and implements
were left by it' side, and slaves and
wives were ruthlessly massacred, as stiii
i:i A'hantec. in order that their bodies
misrht accompany the corpse of the
buried master in his subterranean dwell
ing. In all this we have clear evidence
of a very ire insistent savage, material
istic belief, net indeed in the immortality
of the soul, but in the continued under
ground life of the dead body.— Coral ill.
PRESIDENT AND SENATE,
FORM 11. NTATFMKNT OF THF Hi.
j JOKITY OF Till: < OMMiriF.K
j Tin- Jndicinry Aerl ng the Krnatr’i Right
to Seod to the President for Paper*.
>eaator Edmunds on the 1 -th made a re.
| port to the United States Senate from the
i judiciary committee on the letter of the at
| tornev-general declining to transmit to the
Senate copies of official records and palters
I concerning the administration of the office
: of district attorney for the Southern district
| °f Alabama from January 1, 1885, to January
25, 1886. The report recites the suspension
; cn July 1~- 1885, by order of the
President, of George M. Durkin from the
j office of district attorney of that district, the
designation on the same day of John D. Bur
nett to perform the duties of the suspended
officer, and the nomination to the Senate
i on December 14, 1885, of the same John D.
Burnett to the said office, which nomina
tion was in due course referred to
the committee on the judiciary. The
report then declares that it has been the uni
form practice of the judiciary committee,
since the passage of the tenure of office act,
to call upon the heads of departments for all
“papers and information” in the possession
of the department touching the conduct and
administration of the officer proposed to be
removed and the character and conduct of
the person proposed to lie appointed. In no
instance until this time has the committee
met with any delay or denial in respect to
furnishing such papers and information, with
a single exception, and in which exception
the delay and suggested denial lasted only for
two or three days.
In the particular case under consideration
the report says, the committee addressed a
note to the attorney-general in the same form
and asking for the same papers and infor
mation that it had been accustomed
to do. The attorney-general not com
plying with the request, the committee, on
January 25, 1886, reported to the Sen
ate a resolution, which was adopted
the next day, directing that officer to trans
mit to the Senate the documents and papers
asked for. To this resolution the attorney
general replied on February 1, saying that he
had been directed by the President to say
that the papers and documents not already
transmitted to the Senate “having exclusive
reference to the suspension by the Presi
dent of George M. Durkin, the late
incumbent of the office of district
attorney of the United States for the South
ern district of Alabama, it is not considered
that the public interest will be promoted by
a compliance with said resolution.” This let
ter, the report says, “assumes that the at
torney-general is the servant of the Presi
dent, and is to give or withhold copies of
documents in his office according to the will
of the executive, and not otherwise.” The
report adds:
“Your committee is unable to discover
either in the original act of 1789 creating the
office of attorney-general, or in the act of
1870 creating the department of justice, any
provision which makes the attorney-general
of the United States in any sense the servant
of or controlled by the executive in the per
formance of the duties imputed to him by
law or the nature of his office. It is true
that in the creation of the depart
ments of state, of war, and of the
navy it was provided in substance
that these secretaries should perform
such duties as should from time to time be
enjoined upon them by the President, and
should conduct the business of their depart
ment in such manner as the President should
direct; but the committee does not think it
important to the main question under con
sideration that such direction is not to be
found in the statute creating the department
of justice, for it js thought it must
be obvious that the authority
Intrusted by the statute in these cases to the
President to direct and control the perform
ance of duties was only a superintending
authority to regulate the performance of the
duties that the ‘law’ require, and not to re
quire the performance of duties that the laws
bad not devolved upon the heads of depart
ments, and not to dispense witfPor forbid the
performance of such duties according as it
might suit the discretion or the fancy s of the
executive.”
The report then discusses the question
whether it is within the constitutional power
of either house of Congress to have access to
the official papers and documents in the va
rious public offices created by themselves On
this point it says “that from the very nature
of the powers intrusted by the constitution to
the t .vo houses of Congress it is ane .essary
incident that either House must have at all
times the right to know all that officially ex
ists or takes place in any of the departments
of the government,” and they have the
power “to obtain in one form” or another
complete information as to every paper and
transaction in any of the executive depart
ments, even though such papßrs might relate
to what is ordinarily an executive function,
if that function infringed upon any duty or
function of the representative bodies.”
A table is submitted showing that out of
about 1,485 nominations sent to ths Senate
up to January 5, 043 were nominations of
persons to take the places of officers
and pr oposed to be remove^.
The committee in conclusion report for
consideration and adoption the following res
olutions:
Resolved, That the Senate hereby expresses
its condemnation of the refusal of the attor
ney-general, under whatever influence, to
send to the Senate copies of papers called for
by it - resolution of the 25th of January, and
set forth in the reports of the committee on
the judiciary, as in violation of his official
duty an 1 subversive of the fundamental prin
ciples of the government and of a good ad
ministration thereof.
Resolved. Thai it is under those circum
stances the duty of the Senate to refuse it'
advic i and consent to proposed removals of
officers, the documents and papers in refer
ence to the supposed official or personal mis
conduct of whom are withheld by the execu
tive or any heed of a department when
deemed neecsiary by the Scnat and called I
for in considering the matter.
Res deed. That the provision of secicr.
1.754 of the revised statutes declaiing:
“That persons honorably discharged from the
military or naval servi.-e by reason of disn- !
bility re suiting from wounds or sickness in- j
curred in the line of duty, shall be preferred
for appointments to civil offices, provided
they are found to possess the business capaei
tv necessary for the proper discharge of
the duties of that office" ought
to be faithfully and fully put in
execution, an l that to remove or pro
pose to remove any such soldier whose faith
fulness. competency and character are above
reproach, and to give r-lace to another who
has not rendered such service, is a violation
of the spirit of the law and of the practical
gratitude the people and government of the
United States owe to the defender of con
stitutional liberty and the integrity of tho
government.
John B. Gough
HEATH OF THE CELEBRATED TEM
PERANCE LEtTIRER
John B. Gough, the noted temperance advo
cate, who was stricken with apoplexy in a Phil
adelphia church, oa the 15th.while delivering
a lecture, lingered until the ISth, when he
passed away in presence of his wife and two
nieces. The body was sent to his late home
at Worcester. Mass., for interment.
B. Gough was bora in Sandgate,
Kent, England.of very poor parents, in 1817.
He came to America when twelve years old,
and it was not until 1842 that he began his
work as a temperance advocate. In the in
terim he had worked as a bookbinder for §2.2-5
per week in New York; had sung and acted
in low theatres there and in Boston: had
seen his mother buried in the Potter's field
in New York, and had fallen into the depths
of intemperance and degradation. He was
induced to sign the pledge at a temperance
meeting in Worcester. Mass., in 1842. He first
, spoke as a reformed drunkard. His speeches
1 soon drew him large audiences, and he
i lectured successfully in Boston. New York
and Philadelphia. In 1853 he went to Eng
land, and again in 1557 and 1878, staying
| once three years and making 1.260 speeches
in all. He has delivered nearly 10.009 ad
dresses and traveled hundreds of thousands of
miles in the cause of temperance, and spoken
before more persons than any one man now
j living.
THE NEW.'.
Interesting: Happenings irom all Foiuts,
EASTERN AND .MIDDLE STATES.
The losses by freshets in Eastern Con
j necucut will exceed *1.000,090. Nearly the eu
tire eastern end of the State was inundated
Around Boston 10.000 people were renderec
temporarily homeless, and the losses are ui>
ward of $3,000,000.
! , strike for increased wages, begun bj
the operatives of the Amoskeag mills. Man
r *'■ 0,1 the I.sth. threw more that
,ouo people out of employment.
Johx B. Gocgh. the well known temper
tn'T E? C -.^ r ? r ’ was stricken with apoplexy in
Philadelphia on the loth while delivering a
lecture.
The subscriptions for the benefit of
General Hancock's widow up to late date
had reached about $30,000.
At the National Agricultural and Dairy
convention, held in New York.more than fifty
delegates were present. Various papers bear
ing on agricultural and dairy matters were
lead, and a committee was appointed to urge
the passage of a bill by Congress appropriat
ing slo,ooo to each State for experiment
: stations.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour’s fu
neral at Ltica was attended by Governor
Hill, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega
tion from the New York legislature, numer
ous officials, and many others. From
the Trinity Episcopal church, in which the
exercises were held, the body was conveyed
to b orest Hill cemetery. Memorial exercises
were also held in the Utica Opera house.
Mayor Kinney presiding. Governor Hill
ana others eulogized the deceased.
.A Chinaman was found in a IVaterburv
(Lonn.) laundry suffering from leprosy.
WASHINGTON.
The House silver committee, by a vote of
seven to five, determined to report adversely
Mr. Bland s bill for the free and unlimited
comage of silver. A proposition to report
favorably Mr. IV aite’s bill for the immediate
suspension of silver coinage was also lost by a
tie rote—six to six—one member being ab
sent.
The House ways and means committee has
adopted a joint resolution directing the sec
retary of the treasury to apply the surplus
above 8100,000,00(1 to the liquidation of the
interest-bearing public debt.
The committee on invalid pensions agreed
to report favorably the bills repealing the
limitation of time within which militiamen
can complete and present their claims, and
increasing the rate of pension for total deaf
ness of both ears from sl4 to S2O a month.
The President has sent the following nomi
nations of postmasters to the Senate: Chas.
A. IV hite, at Gardiner, Me.: George O. Guild
at Bellows Falls. Vt.; Dennis D. Dinan, at
VV estborough, Mass.; Joseph H. Wilder, at
Shelburne Falls,. Mass.; William J
Pousler, at Flemington, N. J.; M. O.
Bowdoin, at Griffin, Gn.; J. W. Renfroe, at
Atlanta, Ga.; Thomas J. Francisco, at Cuy
ahoga Falls, Ohio; George Moore, at Steuben
ville, Ohio; Nathaniel S. Bates, at Rensse
laer, Ind.; A. T. Bitters, at Rochester, Ind.;
Joseph Edelbrock, at St. Cloud, Minn.; James
J. Russell, at Muscatine, Iowa; Frank B.
Smith, at Wichita, Kan.; Samuel E. Rigg
at Beatrice, Neb.
Numerous inquiries are being made on be
half of loyal citizens whose slaves were en
listed into the service of the United States
during the late war as to their right
to compensation for such slaves. General
Butler has declared that these claims are per
fectly legal. There is a fund of $9,000,000
said to be available for the payment of such
claims.
The House committee on coinage, weights
and measures, by a vote of seven to six, has
laid on the table the bill providing for a sus
pension of the coinage of silver.
At a caucus of Republican Senators it was
resolved not to confirm the President’s nomi
nations unless, wlyn asked for, reasons for
suspensions are given. Nominations are to
be rejected when papers are refused.
The President has sent to the Senate the
following additional nominations: Pendle
ton King, of North-Carolina, to be secretary
of the legation of Jjhe United States at Con
stantinople; ex-Sator James B. Groorne, of
Maryland, to be cllector of customs at Balti
more ; I. FreemaijSl&asin, of Marlyand. to be
naval officer atisMaoure. Frank I. Phelps,
of Wisconsin, to l >^surveyor of customs at La
Crosse, Wis.; Alfred B. Judd, of Wisconsin,
to be pension agent at Milwaukee, Wis.;
William M. Campbell, of Minnesota, to be
United Slates marshal for the District of
Minnesota.
The sub-committee of the House commit
tee on postoffices, having charge of the postal
telegraph question, agreed to report adversely
to the full committee on all propositions for
the building or purchase of telegraph lines
by the government.
The eighteenth annual national con
vention of the National Woman's Suffrage
association began in Washington on the 17th.
Seventeen States and Territories were repre
sented.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of George N. Steams to be United States at
torney for the district of Massachusetts.
SOUTH AND WEST,
A fire at Flagstaff, Arizona, has laid the
entire business portion of the town in ruins.
One man perished in the flames. Aggregate
losses, §IOO,OOO.
Timothy Whelan, aged twenty-three
years, struck his father on the head with an
ax at San Francisco, Cal., killing him in
stantly. He then stabbed himself, probably
fatally.
Four small children were trying to build a
fire on Tangier island in Chesapeake bay when
a can of kerosene- exploded, and two of the
little ones were burned to death and the
other two fatally injured.
A passenger coach attached to a train on
the Ohio Central railroad jumped the track
at Ten Mile Trestle, W. Ya., and plunged
into the Kanawha river. Several persons
were killed and half a dozen more seriously
injured.
The counties lying along the Tombigbee
river in Alabama have been visited by an
earthquake. Chimneys were thrown down,
crockery smashed, and families camped out
all night, afraid to re-enter their houses.
The great McCormick Reaper works,
Chicago, have closed down, throwing 1,400
men out of employment. The suspension
was caused by a threatened strike against the
employment of non-union men.
Reports received indicate that the loss of
cattle in Western Kansas and Eastern Col
orado by the terribly cold weather will
amount to 25,000 head.
The liody of a clergvman named Jesse B.
Brady was found floating with the ice
in the Mississippi, near St. Louis. From
papers found in his possession it was clear
that the deceased had committed suicide.
FOREIGN.
Two Americans have been expelled from
Holstein, Prussia, for “having made them
selves troublesome to the authorities.'
The Dublin corporation has adopted reso
lutions demanding home rale for Ireland,
and expressing reliance on Mr. Gladstone's
ability to obtain it.
A revolution is in progress in Uruguay.
In Ireland 359 Presbyterian congregations,
numbering altogether 328,100 persons, have
adopted resolutions denouncing the project of
establishing home rule in the country.
The great Ursuline convent at Laeken, two
miles fiom Brussels. Belgium, has been de
stroyed by fire, but the thirty nuns and 105
girls who were scholars and lodgers were all
saved.
M. Simon Lock, a banker of Soleure.
1 Switzerland, has failed, with liabilities of
S4OO/ M )0. Hundreds of small depositors were
ruired by the failure. Lock was arrested on
a charge of fraud.
Mr. Gladstone has taken the office of
| lord privy seal in addition to that of premier.
; This is unu-nal and proves that Mr. Glad
s r.e is experiencing difficulty in se uring
suitable colleagues in the liritL-h cabinet.
The Mikado.—The grounds attached
to the palace of the Mikado of Japac
comprise twenty-six acres. The gate
ways to the inclosure are magnificeui
specimens of architecture, the roof-tim
bers, gables, and eaves decorated wit!
j gold chrysanthemums and much carvec
and gilded wood. One gate on each
side is set apart for the Mikado, anc
they are never opened for any lesser per
j sonage.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Among tfie Uld.'rt) shareholders of the
j Panama canal are 16.000 wo.non.
“No Man's Land." jus: s ufh of the far
corner of Kausas, has been seized by seitlers
■Sawdist burned to the windward saved
many Florida orange groves from the bitin '
| frost. *
Ie 1885 tho enormous total of 71.-500.000
tons of copper was mined in the United
j States.
The Pillshury flouring mills, at Minneapo
lis. divided $3-5.000 surplus profits among
1,100 employes last year.
About sixty patents are issued everv year
to women inventors. Last year the total
I number of patents issued was 22.000.
; Alabama eoa' is working its way into the
Gulf and trans-Mississippi States. Mexico
and the South American republics.
It is in contemplation to divide Loudon
J into ten municipalities, each to enjoy home
rule and an independent civic identity.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia girl, who made
many thousand dollars by exhibiting her
alleged electric powers, is now a student in
Shorter female college.
According to the latest official figures the
| number of_ workingwomen in England and
IV ales is 7. 706,. >45 They are employed in
■ 280 different branches of work.
A french physi ian c’aims to have found
a i asc of “sp ntaneous hvdiophob a" in a
; patient twenty-nine years'of age. who-had
■ neither been bitten nor scratched bv any
animal.
Moody and Sankey are drawing such
immense crowds in New Orleans that the
II ashington Artillery hall, where they have
their meetings, will" not begin to bold the
throngs.
I In Clark county. Kan., during the late
| storm, a flock of sheep crowded together dur-
I ing the blizzard, and the snow melting for a
while and then freezing, fastened the entire
flock together.
t A message was flashed last week from
New York to London, the business referred
; to in the dispatch transacted, and an answer
I received in New York in just six minutes
the quickest time on record.
PERSONAiT mention.
Representative Mills, of Texas, is tho
fastest talker in Congress, delivering 215
words a minute.
Dr. Schwenninger, Bismarck's physician,
is going to St. Petersburg to try and reduce
the fat on the czar.
Thomas P. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky.,
the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is
ninety-foui' years of age aud blind.
General Pope, whose retirement is at
hand, says he will travel in Europe for a time
and then make his home in Chicago or Cin
cinnati.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the ex-President
has not visited Washington for more than
thirty years, or since she retired from the
White House.
Senator Van Wyck has joined Congress
man Hewitt in urging the extermination of
barking dogs in Washington. Both suffer
from insomnia.
Mr. Tilden, who is outliving his conspicu
ous party rivals, associates and successors,
has gained twenty pounds in flesh within the
last twelvemonth.
The late George L. Lorillard made it a
point for a long time to give away about $40,-
000 a year to persons of merit whom he knew
would be benefited by gifts.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
now in his eighty-fourth year, is in excellent
health, and is at work upon the fourth vol
ume of his memoirs. He writes from six to
seven hours daily.
Miss Clotelle Palms, to whom United
States Senator Jones, of Florida, is paying
court, is the daughter of Francis Palms, the
Croesus of Michigan. She is about thirty
years old and the heiress to some $10,000,000.
Queen Victoria drives on state occasions
in a heavy gilded carriage drawn by eight
cream-colored horses, which are never used j
on any other occasion. They are a special
breed, raised in Hanover, which the queen is
permitted to use only because she is of Han
overian descent.
Porter Sherman, of the Yale class of ’65. j
left the college during the war and enlistsed I
in a Kansas regiment, without finishiug his j
college course. Recently he returned to com- j
plate his course and is now talked of by his 1
friends in Kansas as a congressional candi- j
date. He is a man of about fifty years aud i
is paying particular attention to tne science |
of political economy.
“The most devout man in sight from the j
galleriei of the House o Representatives,” j
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat , “is Mr. |
Henderson of North Carolina.” He is smooth !
shaven, of clerical appearance, stands with I
uplifted lace and eyes shut, his hands palm !
to palm in front of him. “As the prayer j
progresses Mr. Henderson, with a rhythmical !
movement, part; his fingers and brings them j
together again, keeping time to the well- j
roundel periods af the blind preacher.”
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
The Mapleson Opera Company has been
successful in Chicago.
To hear Patti sing in Paris one has to pay
$5 for the cheapest seat.
Lester Wallace has appeared in anew
play at his New York theatre.
Colonel Will S. Hays, the Louisville
poet, is traveling with a minstrel show.
Henry Guy Carleton, the author of
“Victor Durand,” is at work on anew play,
which is said to be intended for Irving.
W. D. Howell’s play, “The Garroters,’
lias been presented to the public in a Massa
chusetts village by a company of amateurs.
Modjeska has two new plavs for next sea
son, one by Louis Brereton—a romantic
French drama—and the other by J. Philippe.
An experienced vocalist has, it is stated,
during fourteen years cured any number of
cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the
free use of raw oysters as a diet.
Lawrence Barrett, who will manage
Edwin. Booth’s business next season, has
agreed to pay his star $150,000 for an engage
ment of thirty weeks, and to furnish every- :
thing.
Miss Clara Morris announces her inten
tion of trying her fortune with London
audiences. Since Mary Anderson left Eng
land American actors do not seem to have
been very fortunate in London.
Miss Lizzie May Ulmer, who was playing
in “Dad's Girl” at Liberty Hall, Pittsburg,
fainted one night recently after the close of
the performance, and upon regaining con
sciousness she was totally blind.
Signor Salvini’s brother died in Italy
recently, anrl the great tragedian, receiving
the news in San Francisco by cable, ordered
Baldwin's theatre closed on the next night
on account of his bereavement.
GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
A Kentucky Blow-up which Takes in Eight
Persons.
At noon on Tuesday a powder explosion oc
curred in the grocery store of Mary Wills, in
Winchester, Ky. The clerk was in the act of
weighing some powder from a can, when a
man standing near the counter struck a match
to light a cigar. The spark ignited the powder,
which exploded with terrible violence. The
house was badly wrecked, and eight persons
were severely wounded. James Hopper and
Will Murray are dying, and others may not '
recover. The man who struck the match es
caped unhurt. Mary Wills and two others
were unhurt. The house took fire, but the
flames were soon extinguished.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY.
How the Day Was Celebrated in Atlanta—
Parade of the Horse Gnard.
One hundred and fifty-four years ago George j
Washington was born.
His birthday was properly observed in ;
Atlanta. The* banks suspended business,
the public schools were closed, Sunday hours
were observed at the postoffice and it was a
i genera] holiday. In the afternoon at 4 o’clock !
I the Governor’s Horse Guard, thirty strong,
i turned out and paraded through the principal :
streets. They made a fine appearance and !
were under the command of Captain John ■
■ Milledge.
Railroad Through to Tampa.
• The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad was formally opened between Jack
: so*ville and Sanford Tuesday. Through
trains are now running, completing the last
link of the direct all-rail route to Tampa. The
j event wag celebrated at Sanford by the boom
ing of cannon and a public reception to the
railway officials and others interested in quick ■
; transit from New York to the West Indies.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES.
Too Tltirli.
“riood inorniug. Mi*. Gilligjo; how
is i'atrick this morning?”
“Sure, lie's no better, sir.”
> “Why dou’t you send him to the hos
pital to be treated?"
"To be treated, is it? Faith, an' it's
the dcl&riurn trimmins he has already
—Boston Beacon.
I.ikel) to Hob
A Pitlsburg woman who had a house
and lot for sale was visited by a stranger
who wanted the site for a factory. When
pressed to name her lowest figure she re
plied.
Two days ago I was axing SIOO, but
now I'm up to SI,OOO on indications of a
natural gas well.” *
“Where do you find them?”
“t ome back here on this porch. Phat
d’ye schtnell?”
"A dead dog, and there lies the
body.”
“So it is, or I'm a sinner. Well, thin
if it’s only dead doir, instead of a gas
well, I’ll drop back to my old figure,but
iu case of any more shmells afore the
papers is made out, I’ll hold mcself
privileged to bob anywhere between
four and six hundred.”' —Wall Street
Heie*.
Go o tb- Hornet, (lion SlitKtl&rd.
“If I had bceu Solomon,” said a curb
stone philosopher, "I don’t think I would
have sent the lazy man to the ant.”
“Where would you have sent him?’’
inquired a man with a drooping nose,
who needed shaving badly.
“I would have sent him to the hornet.”
“And what good would that have
done?”
“A gteaf deal, iny friend. One hor
net would have taught him more about
enterprise iu five minutes than he could
have learned from a whole colony of
ants in three weeks by the closest kind
of observa'ion. If you want t< limber a
man's joints in a hurry, send him to the
hornet every time, and you won't miss it.
The hornet means business from the very
start, and den't you forget it.” —Vhicxjo
Ledger.
A Iliaunilcriilaiiiliii;,
Lawyer Hobbs—“ Yes, the girl made
out a very good ease against the defend
ant, but when iiis turn came lie showed
very conclusively that there was no
breach of promise at all.”
Lawyer Nobbs— “Weren't they both
deaf mutes?”
Lawyer Hobbs—“ Yes, and she based
her claim on a conversation they had
during one of his calls on her, when, she
says, he put his hand on his heart re
peatedly, and in other ways made his
object known ”
Lawyer Nobbs— “How did the de
fendant get around that?”
Lawyer Hobbs “He swore that his
chest-protector persisted in getting over
to the left side all the evening, and that
his frantic efforts to keep it righted were
misunderstood. The jury all wore chest
protectors, hence the verdict.”
Bounced lor Cause.
“Beautiful day, isn't it?” said the bill
collector, as he walked in on Mulnuggcr
yesterday morning.
“Yes, charming,’’growled Mulnugger,
as he cast a hostile glance at the collect
ors, who calmly helped himself to a
chair.
“Most too pleasant to stay in doors,”
said the collector. “I really pity you
men who have to sit at a desk all day.
Ahem! could you do anything on that
little bill to day?” *
“Oh, you think it’s too pleasaut to
stay indoors, do you?” said Mulnugger,
raspingly, ignoring the collector’s last
remark.
“Yes, rather.”
“Well, don’t let me deprive you of the
delights of communing with nature.
Walk right out and enjoy the air and
sunshine. Fill your system full of the
free ozone of the prairies, if you like. I
wouldn’t interfere with your enjoyment,
oh, no! Git!” and the collector struck
the sidewalk at the foot of the stairs all
at once.
In half an hour Mulnugger was walk
ing toward the city hall arm in arm with
a policeman.— St. Paul Herald.
Coine to Stay
Mrs. Hendricks (to Mr. and Mrs.
Smith, who always manage to drop in
about dinner time) —“Now, you must
stay to dinner. The bell will ring in a
very few minutes, and *’
Mr. Smith—“ Oh. thanks. Mrs. Hen
dricks, but we couldn't think of it.”
Mrs Smith—“Oh, no, indeed. You
are very kind, Mrs. Hendricks, but I
left baby alone with the nurse, and
John, do you think the baby will ”
“Mr. Smith—“Oh, the baby is all
right, Maria, but it looks a little like
rain, and I think—er—perhaps we had
better ”
Mrs. Smith—“l don’t mind the rain.
We have an umbrella, and beside, I
haven't anything on that water would
hurt, but I’m afraid it’s getting late, and
I wouldn’t like to put Mite. Hendricks to
any inconve ”
Mrs. Hendricks (resignedly^—“Oh. it
will be no inconvenience, I assu -e you,
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Smith —“Are you quite sure?
Well, what do you think, John, shall
we ”
Mr. Smith —I’ll—er—leave it all to
you. Maria, just as you think best
about ”
Mrs. Smith —“Well, then, we may
as well stay; but really, Mrs. Hendricks,
we ought not to.” — Neve York Sun.
He IVas the Fifth.
A Michigan avenue grocerwhose fam
ily occupy rooms over the store was fumi
gating some bedding the other day in a
vacant room, and after a time the smoke
began to pour out of a broken pane
which he had overlooked. A pedestrian
saw the smoke and did not doubt that
the place was on fire. It was a good
chance for him to emulate the nonchal
ance of Mark Twain, and he suppressed
his desire to yell aud turu in an alarm
and entered the store, took a chair bv i
the stove,and calmly remarked:
“Quite a change in the weather?”
“Yes.”
“Don't look so much like an open
winter as it did ?”
“No.”
“Trade pretty good ?”
“Well, tolerably fair.”
“This would be a bad morning to
burn out?”
“It would that.”
“I suppose you are insured?”
“Not fully, but shall be to-morrow.”
“I’m sorry that you delayed so long,
for I came in to tell you that your whole
upstairs has been on fire these last ten
minutes!”
“Yes; thank you. Willie!”
“Yes, sir,” responded the clerk.
“Make another mark on the cheese
box! This is the fifth man man who has
come in with the same old guy this
morning, and I expect at least half a
dozen more!”
“But I tell you I saw smoke pouring
® from the window!” protested t
I stranger.
"Exactly. Let her ponr. I’m fum
igating. Next!”
When the stranger entered the stora
he was six feet tall. When he came
out he had lost five inches and was still
shrinking, and such a look as he carried
on hisfacewouldhavefrightenedahitch
ingpost. j Detroit Free Press.
An Ftntrrprlalnir Driuumrr'i Feat.
"I had a little experience the other
night,” ssid a drummer, "that took all
I my nerve and gall to bear up under.
Ever since I’ve been on the road I've
made it a principle to meet all engage
ments. Moie than once have I skipped
i three or four towns in which I was sure
of selling big bills of goods in order to
keep my engagement to call on some
girl or other. When I agree to be at a
certain place at a given minute you <
bet your last dollar I'll be there W<
the (.ther day I landed in St. Louis, a
suddenly discovered that iu a monn n
of forgeffulness I had promised to U •
two girls to the theatre that night. llk
girls were not acquainted either. I h .te
a liar and a sneak, and the girls’ broth rs
were customers of mine, and so, after
thinking the whole thing over, 1 made
up my mind I’d live up to my contra
So I bought my seats at two theatres
engaged ray carriaare, and prepared
the campaign, i sent word to the fir •
one that I’d cali for her rather early, and
to the other that I might be a f „
minutes late. I whirled No 1 < A
seated her, excused myself for a min ■
before the rising of the curtain, slipped
out, and in two seconds the horses w re
on a run for No. 2. I got her in her s .
five in mites after the curtain rose. Staved
the act out, excused myself, went
back to the other, a; ologizeil, and eve i
thing was all right. I spent the evening
flitting from one to the other, and .>t
niv money's worth out of the liacknn v.
as I made him hump. I made inquires
as to the hour the plays would be or •
and found I had twenty-live minutes' ■
way. Then I made such good use of
those twenty-five miuutes that I got V
1 home and was back after No. 2 ; ist ..s
tlie curtain went down. To do thi ost
me sl2. and the next (lav I had to skip
j out of town because the hackman w
after me with a bill for one of h'shor-i
which had died from overdriving, bit
not till after I had sold big bills of g. >i s
to the girls’ brothers. Beside. 1 had
the satisfaction of keeping iny enrug'.
ments and of |erforniing an impart.! e!e*
feat in theatre going business. Ta>i
the kind of a hustler I am.”— Ciicng,
Herald.
How Sing Sing’s Convicts are Guarded
Sing Sing is a massive granite struc
tore, and absolutely fire proof, from (he
bedrock of the Hudson river, ou which
it is founded, to the iron plates whi< o
cover its roof Built upon a little pom
running into the river, its three oute
sides are washed by the water to adept!
of nearly fifteen feet. ( lose under the
inuer wall runs the track of the N.*
York Central and Hudson River railroad,
with a station a few hundred feet from
the prison. The only entrance to the in
stitution is over a big stone bril e,
which spans the track and gives the ap
pearance of an ancient feudal castle,
with its turrets and towers and huge
walls in the distance and the m at in
front spanned by a drawbridge
The entire prison is surroundc i by a
high wall of solid masonry nearly ’-enty
feet high and wide enough for an. m‘o
walk upon with .ease. At slior it?-
tances along these walls are little tut
rets with conical roots and si of
glass. At each corner is a turret, nd
from the wide windows the rcstlc
of the guard is ever on the v .•
some unwary convict who is so f olish
as to attempt, escape. Besides tht men
in the sentinels’ little boxes another de
tachment.of watchmen patrol the walls
and walk with measured step each
carrying a sixteen-shot repeating car
bine.
The qualification of these men i- he
accuiacy with which they can shoot, and
constant training keeps them in pis .ce
so that the smallest convict in the ; >n
can be brought down by a rifleman at
the most distant corner of the ard.
this fact is well known to the prisoners,
and not one ever thinks of risking him
self to the fatal aim of the men on the
wall.
Among the 1,600 striped convicts a'
Sing Sing nearly every nationality is
represented. No distinctions, however
are made, for black and white, old and
young, are all put in together without
discrimination. —New York World.
Fat Men.
To the student of ethnology few thing
are more interesting than the different
views held by the eastern and the vest
ern worlds on the subject of corpulence.
In China corpulence is considered to be
one of the most important qualific ions
for the holding of any public office 1'
is regarded as a physical virtue, w inch
imparts dignity to the appearance, weight
to the judgment and solidity to the m nd.
In China the thin man is always m cdy
and disappointed; he sees himself ea-il
outstripped in the race of life by Lis
stouter contemporaries, and, enraged, at
the unjust distribution of nature ■> gifts
he retires usually into obscurity and
shuns the gaze of his fellow-citizens.
Banting, except as a punishment fo _
great criminals, is unknown in China.
The most popular gods in the Chinese
I’antheon are those remarkable for their
obesity. With us in Europe how dif
ferent it is! Daniel Lambert, whom
Chinese would have sent to a
as a mandarin, we sent to a museum sal
monstrosity. Byron’s tendency to gaw
fat was one of the secrets of his meian
cfiolv. and the declining years of the
first gentleman in Europe were rend ed
miserable by that stoutness which c en
stays could not conceal. It is true that
Shakespeare intended Hamlet to be fat,
feeling probably that it would be ch ric
teristic of such a lethargic nature, but
modern audiences are not ready to ac
cept lat Hamlets: they prefer thin Ham
lets, and even lean hamlets, and seem to
l e of opinion that there is an artistic
discord between romance and rotundity.
And indeed it cannot be doubted that
this opinion is very widespread. The
only in-tance to the contrary that we
know of is in the case of a lady who, on
being shown the Apollo Belvidere, re
marked that she preferred “stouter
statues,” but this lady was from Chicago,
and the idea of making bulk the test of
beauty is one purely American and is not
as yet accepted in European aesthetics. —
Pall Mall Gazette.
Uonnd With the World.
Oh. never mind what people say.
The world goes round;
They blamed yestereen, and they'll pra -
to-day.
The world goes round.
Keep your eye fixed on the beacon zht
The world goes round;
Steer through the breakers for the right*
The world goes round.
The woes of the past are now as naught
The world goes round;
And happiness sure is in the thought,
The world goes round.