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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large volumes have been pub lished, and others are going through the press, while a number of other reports remain unpublished, including those by R. Dodge, the statistician of the agri- ICultural department, on fruits and or- Char ds, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow.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.