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4 C|efsffrnmgsfcfo's Worning News Building, Savannah, Ga C==-:- . ■ , THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1 sst. Hegistere-d at the Post Office in Savannah. Thu Morning Niws is published every day m the year, and is served to subscribers in the nty, f.v lieWbuealers uml carrii'i's, on their own • count, at 25 cents a *t**k. Si 00 a month. £.' 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one monflu fd 00; three months, $2 SO: six months, sr> (X); one year, $lO (X). The Morning News, by mail, six times a wreck (without Sunday issue), throe months, £2 00; six months. $4 t>) one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six iDi- nths. $2 SO; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by moil, one year. $2 00 The weekly News, by max'. nn year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by rstal order, check or roistered letter. Cur acy sent hv mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should Ix3 addressed Morning News, Savannah. On." Advertising rates made known on application INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Zerubbabel Ixvlge No. 15, F. and / M.; The Savannah Mutual Loan Association; (Georgia Hussars. Special Notice—As to Crew of Norwegian JBarks Try, Platon and Flora. Proposals- To bridge builders, John R. Dil lon. Clerk C. C. C. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want ed; For Rent; Found; Lost; Photography; Mis cellaneous. CtIICKERIKG Pianos—L. &P,S.M. H. Real Estatf. Offerings— D. K. Kennedy. Auction Sales— Sundries, by D. K. Kennedy. The Real Estate Market—C. H. Dorset t. Novels have been written about “He" and “She,” and now an Atlanta man is going to #rv the neuter gender and lecture about *Ht.” A Boston man wishes the newspapers to inform him how he may euro himself of shewing tobacco He might have his teeth extracted, or, tetter keep his tobacco in 4iis pocket. It is believed in Tennessee that the pro hibitory amendment to the constitution of Jhat State will he adopted by a large t Majority. In that event there will be at, east one State that, will not send jugs into the prohibition towns of Georgia. Gilbert, the Ware county negro who has Just been convicted of gambling and sen- to serve twelve months in the ehain- Hng. was in on* sense of the word a valu- Btt citizen. In the last few years he paid fines and penalties SBOO into the county Ep'asiiry. ■Miss Winnie Davis will visit Chattanooga ■ April 15 to open a bazar, held under the •ft' i■ices iif the Ladies' Memorial Association ■ that city. She will te the recipient of (Many social courtesies. The “Daughter of Hk Confederacy” has liecome the most popu iu woman in the South. William McDougall. of Canada, the firing on the United States schooner by the Canadian cruiser off Beaver Harbor, last week, as a Very serious matter. He thinks it, will lead * ■ serious complications. The Vigilant's ft tion is a serious matter, hut no doubt the \Persident wdi take whatever steps may lie necessary for the protection of the interest; rl this country. A queer story connected with the celebra tion of Queen Victoria's jubilee colics from England. In honor of the jubilee the knights of the various British orders were Invited to a series of state banquets at St. James' palace. Accompanying the invita- t ions were notices to the effect that each might would lie expect >d to pay a certain Fum as the price of his seat at the royal tal >le. The English are much agitated on subject, some of them accusing the Queen of a desire to make money out of the banquets. Senator Bock, of Kentucky, declares that •*rcsi(’ent Cleveland will be the nominee of Its* iDir.ocratic party in letth. “Tin's is the only administration the country has had Bimv the war,” the Senator says, “that has hot tolerated corrupt rings, a fact that all honest thinking men appreciate. Then, too r Cleveland's economic principles are rigid. The Southern i>eople ought certainly to be solid for Cleveland, for he turned the rascals out. and gave tin- offices to good Democrats.” The Senator thinks that Alli son, of lowa, will be the Republican candi date. Tne negroes of the country will hold a “national political convention” in Indian apolis on June 1. Tte object of the conven tion is to discuss “the grievances of the nr groesofthe United States." it. is reported that many delegates will attend from the Southern States, and that, grievances with out number will te paraded. There is a suspicion that the convention will be in the Interest of the Republican piuty. and that W. attempt, will te made to have it indorse Senator Sherman for the Presidency. Sir. Blaine should te iti the neighborhood of Indiuuajiolis when the convention meets. At Castle Garden, New York, the other da y. a score of Turks and Armenians landed. They wore from the Holy Land. "They had in their possession herbs front the tomb of the Saviour, sand and pebbles from the •risl Jordan, 'pieces of wood and stone mentioned in secreil history, and other curi ous articles. Three of the Turks were held by the Emigration Commissioners ns pau pers, although'they insisted that they liud In their possession certain objects of great value. Inquiry developed that the objects in question were pieces of wood, alleged to have teen taken from Noah’s ark, and the twojelbow bones of Judas Iscariot! Thebeautiful rwult* of woman suffrage W*re aptly illustrated in Kansas in the cast* bf Mrs. Helen M. Gougar. When she be rher work of inducing the women to reg r preparatory to voting she was colli* l “Mi's Helen M. Gougar, the charming.” When the campaign liegan to grow warm the was eal led "Helen M. <tongar, the poli tician." When the day of the election ar rived she was called “Cougar, the dis turtier." Now that the votes have been cast Mid counted, and the disn|>|>ointe<l candi litti-s have hml time to catch their breath the in called "Gougar, the miseratila Mretdi who iilwled the women of The Alrhistnt (lluhc nays Mm. Gougar charged that the upjier stra turn of MH'ial life in heaven worth was frightfully licentious and that the trailing hi wives was something beyond mtimaUon. I*l u Utnhr thinks Mrs. Gougar has done a |reat deal of Inn in in Kansas, but lint a I l|*tii lo of good, and dis lanw that an o|*n I 1,1 '• w, 'ittcn l/y her to u mail wim attempt hi to ventilate hr record would do cradit to tl *' most leckless politician The (Hulh t'liaiaileriasa the quarrel now going on . the women i# Kansu/ a disgraceful. A Crude Law. The indications that Congress will have to tinker the interstate commerce law next winter are accumulating. Its crudity is daily becoming more apparent. Its most important feature has been suspended so far as a very large portion of the country is concerned, and protests and petitions with out numter are being sent to the commis sion in which it is point'd out that indus- tries and business enterprises of one kind and another will be ruined unless relief is granted. It is asserted that many of the manufacturing interests of Pennsylvania will te paralyzed if the law is enforced, te cause these interests dejiend for existence almost wholly upon discriminating trans port ition rates. The same condition of af fairs exists in other sections of the country. Tte recent decision of Judge Deady, of the United States Circuit Court, of Oregon, relative to the transporta tion of freight from Oregon to San Francisco, is attracting considerable at tention It is the first decision under the interstate commerce act, and defeats one of thi> objects which the law was intended to accomplish. The Oregon and California railroad, which is wholly within Oregon, is carrying freight for San Francisco from (mints along its line to Portland for less than it is charging for freight from the same points intended for Portland. The freight for San Francisco is taken to that city by a line of steamers which is not under the control of the railroad com pany. Judge Deady holds that the inter state commerce law is not being violated, although there is a clear discrimination in favor of the San Francisco freight. If, however, the steamship line and the rail road were under one management such dis crimination would not te permitted. Ac cording to this decision the Central railroad of this State cannot charge less for freight intended for New York from Macon to this city than it can for freight from Macon in tended for this city because it controls the steamship line to New York, but if the Sa vannah. Dublin and Western were con structed to Macon that road could make whatever rate it pleased for New York freight from Macon, or any other point on its line, to this city. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, says that he thinks that the friends of the inter state commerce law are finding out that the running of the railroads by an act of Con gress is going a little too far in the line of governmental interference with private busi ness and private rights. The suspension of the long and short haul provision, so far as the South is concerned, is, in his opinion, an admission of the impracticability of the underlying theory of the act. Senator Cam eron voted against the uet, however, and hence is not anxious for it to be successful, but it cannot Is* denied that there is a good deal of reason in what he says. The Baltimore and Ohio Mystery. The reported Baltimore and Ohio deal which attracted so much attention a few weeks ago, and of which comparatively little has lx*en heard lately, remains as much a mystery as ever. There arc those who do not hesitate to say that there never was much foundation for most of the reports relative to a proposition to sell the road. It is now stated that the work of building the road to New York is being pushed forward rapidly, and that the contract to build a bridge across Arthur Kill, on Staten Island, has been given out within the last day or two. In fact, the preparations for building the road to New York are teing made just as if there had been no talk of a deal that would take the property out of the control of Mr. Garrett. Of course there are still rumors respect ing a change of ownership of the road, one of them being that Henry Villard, who figured so conspicuously as President of the Northern Pacific railroad a couple of years ago, ami who is supposed to Vie backed by German capitalists with any number of mil lions of money, is trying to buy the projier tv. It is somewhat remarkable that Mr. Garrett and those who have teen trying to make a ileal with him —assuming, of course, that somebody lias been trying -have teen able so long to keep the public in doubt re specting; their real purposes and the details of their plans. Now and then the rumor gots afloat that Messrs. Ives and Stayner, Mr. Sully and Mr. Gould arc still in a position to take the road, at a price agreed upon sometime ago, whenever they get ready to do so. In these rumors, however. Wall street does not appear to take much interest. In fact, it appears to have pretty generally lost its interest altogether in the alleged Baltimore and Ohio dual. The Boodle Trainmen. The robbing of railway trains by masked men and the stealing o{ fares by dishonest conductors are things with which the read ing public is familiar, but this wholesale system of robbing freight ears by railroad employe-, which Ims teen dis.overed on the Fan Handle railroad, is something new*. It is surprising Hint the Pan Handle Company was unable to discover the thieves sooner. It is not known, of course, exactly what the loss of the company is, but there np penis to te no doubt that it is several hundred thousand dollars. The stealing began two or three years ago, and the thieves became so careless that lately ihey did not take much trouble to conceal their criminal work. They stole ateut everything that they could put their hands on, whether they wanted it or not, and they even went so far as to rain articles which they could not carry off from pure maliciousness. A great deal of the stuff that was stolen was in tended cars, and the government detectives exercised their in genuity to the utmost for a long time with out getting a trace that, promised to leal to the detection of the criminals. In view of the fact that a very large num ber of men were engaged in the criminal work, and that they were rather careless alsiut covering up their tracks, the con clusion is almost irresistible that the detec tives were not very shrewd. It is also rather remarkable that the thieving was done only on the I’an Handle road. Employes are con stantly changing from one mail to another, and it is not easy to understand why the system, which the thieves appear to have thought lieyoud detection, was not intro duced on other roods. It s|sks well for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine<>rs and the Hrothcriussl of Kiretneu Unit none of their members was engaged in the thieving business. The trials of tjie arrested tnen will Im* wat< lu il with interest, and may Is* productive of some interesting incidents. A \\ ashiugtou n-stMimint ks*|s*r says that closing hiii plai t* of busiiUKs on Huriday will cause him to tow *A,Ot)O a ymr. Hi* wishes to lica/l a movement to force the land lord* to iwlimi rents, u|sin the ground that the rest ’iiii'Ho^pi'<r-i and liquor d**al"iit ouglit unhsl'.j "foi. iw* to*-ywsUwa." * 7 j SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: THTRSDAY, APRIL 14, 1887. Protection for Rice Planters. I The rice planters have cause to rejoice. The Ttepartmeat of Agriculture at Washing ton has heard of the great los.-es they suffer annually from the depredations of the rice birds, and propose to try and rid the rice plantations of these pests. The experiment it proposes to try will prove to be an inter e-sting if not an effective one. It is based upon the fact that the rice bird is afraid of hawks. It is said that when a hawk appears in the vicinity of a rice bird the bird takes his departure at once. Some of the South Carolina planters, no ticing that the hawk is a good protector of rice fields against rice birds, suspended stuffed hawks in their fields. The plan worked well for a while but the depredators soon discovered the fraud, and they were no longer alarmed. The plan of the department is to import from Kurojie a hawk trainer, and offer him facilities for training young hawks to kill rice birds. Negotiations have already teen begun with an experienced trainer and it is expected that he will soon begin his experi ment. If he accomplishes what it is be lieved he can, the trained hawks will be sent to tin 1 rice fields of South Carolina and Georgia, ami the business of training hawks wherever the rice fields are robbed by rice birds will doubtless become an established one. In most parts of the country hawks and owls are killed as a nuisance, and in not a few States rewards are offered to encourage the killing of them. The reason of this is that there are some species of hawks and owls which destroy chickens. That this is a mistaken policy is shown by a statement relative to hawks and owls in Pennsylvania. The State enacted in 1885 a law author izing a reward of 50c. apiece for the destruction of hawks and owls. In a year and a half 120,570 of these birds werejlestroyed. As only three of the lifteen species found in Pennsylvania feed on poultry, and all feed on field mice and vermin, it can readily be seen that in the destruction of these birds the State suf fered a great loss. The Department of Agriculture states that the loss to the farm ers of the State, at a fair estimate, is not less than #11,857,180. Assuming that the damage done by each field mouse is two cents a year ornithologists conclude that each hawk or owl is worth to the farmer at least #2O. Farmers who look upon hawks and owls as their natural enemies should bear these facts in mind. New Converts. Almost every day new converts to the belief that Mr. Cleveland will te renomi nated and (re-elected are announced among those Democratic leaders who a few months ago thought it impassible to find words suf ficiently strong to convey their hostility to him and his administration. One Demo cratic Senator after another of the hostile faction is falling into line, and If nothing occurs to bring his administration into dis credit it is ateut certain that he will be re nominated with scarcely any opposition. It is beginning to be found out by Democratic politicians that the President has a linn hold upon the masses, end that their wisest course is to put themselves in harmony with the people. Doubtless a good many of these politicians would not like to have their crit icisms ( if the administration, which they were so anxious to have circulated a few months ago, brought to the attention of the public at this time. The New York World , which has been rather hostile to the idea of Mr. Cleveland's renomination, now says that his chances for renomination depend upon the “speedy adoption of a rigid, affirmative and aggres sive policy.” It isn't exactly clear whether the World thinks the aggressive policy ought to bo adopted by the Democratic party or Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland ap pears to lie aggressive enough, and his pul icy with regard to everything within his ju risdiction is certainly affirmative. Was he not quite aggressive and affirmative with respect to pension legislation! lias he not given his view very clearly on the questions of the tariff and silver coinage! Does the World want him to have a more aggressive policy with respect to civil service reform! As far as bossism is concerned there hasn’t been very much of it in matters in which he lias a voice. He has done about all the bossing that has been done. In fact, the party bosses haven’t had much authority since he has teen President. The World is too anxious to find fault to tea just critic. It even finds fault with the Democratic party for not striking more tolling blows against corporate capital. It would proba bly be well to wait and see what effect the interstate commerce law is going to have on corporate capital before advising other at tacks on it. At the recent convention of the Brew masters’Assemblies of the United States in Chicago, Louis Hock, the President-, Ojiened the proceedings with the following prayer: “O, God! Thou hast not only provided the water for our use, but, also, to the end that our leaders may te strengthened and our souls rejoiced, Thou hast granted us other and pleasanter 1 leverages, esjK'eially beer. Brewers, as we are, the instruments of heavenly will, let us pray earnestly that the greatness of the gift is not misapplied. To that end let us pray for good beer and plenty of it. and let us resolve from this time on to brew none other.” Western Prohibitionists intend to use the prayer as a campaign doruinent.alloging that its irrever ence amounts almost to blasphemy. The Anti-l‘rahibit ton ixt, the organ of the Texas liquor dealers, says; “When a mor bid, howling fanatical mob of soreheads, demagogues and liyinx-ritcs threatens by its actions the prosin*rity. progress and busi ness interests of the greatest State in the Union,the time is ripe for sensible, conserva tive people*—and surely these predominate— to rise up in their wrath and administer to the unkempt gang of savage iconoclasts such a general and wholesale rebuke us will ren der them limp, ini]Kitont and pmverleiss ever after. ’’ Perhaps the editor of the Anti- Prnhibitionist is wise enough not. to count himself among conservative people. The other day a Massachusetts church sent to a well known theological seminary for a student, sjiecifying as their chief desire that he should Ik a Christian. A sister seminary mvivtsl a I suit tie* same time u comuumiea tion from a rural church, riuming as fol lows: “We don’t want tiny voting *n*n; wo "eat hti old man, or a marriisl hum. The young men eituse trouble to the fond mothcra, flirt with the gil ls, and giw* u I'oal insfcml of Im of." • iss*” Wilson, of Wilson M*m*ii notoriety, i is in New York. He ilis sn't stay long at the taint* hotel, hut inniv* alkiut to avoid the detect!res who, he thinks, are siuulow ing him ll** has plenty of money, but will j liot explain w bent be geU it ! CURRENT COMMENT. A Matter of Gratulation. From the COfwntm* E‘<purer-Sun {firm.) It is a matter of gratulation to cult rat ors of the fleecy staple that there is no huger any doubt but the StAndai 1 <>il Company vill have competition in the manufacture of cotton seed oil. The New South. From the Richmond Despatch (ftfuA The “New South,' therefore, and for that matter the new North Lo a great mtent. is nothing more nor less than the legitimate out come of th** patriotism, brain and fortitude of the men ~f the old Socih- men w hom not only tlie South but trie nation should hold in patri otic remembrance. The Logic of Short Ratiors. From the Xetr York World (Y)evt. j Complaint is made in the South thatitoo many young men are forsaking th*? farms md dock mg to the cities; but this is an evil tha- is bound to correct itself in tiw? course* of fine. After awhile the youths who I hr* mg tif cities and fail to get work will yield m the logic of short rations and go bock io t h • rural districts. More Interesting 1 Sick. From the Missouri Republicon (hem.) Mr Blaine sick is more interesting than Mr. Blaine well when there is not a campaign in progress. It is a spier did method, to?, of test ing public feeling. The ears of tfce people straining for the faintest sound from 'Fort Gib son would l>e a valuable pointer for a prospec tive candidate. Mr. Blaine is very erterprising and he is never dull. BRIGHT BITS. “He makes faces and bn savs somebody, spiking of a certain artr- Having seen some of the laces we should think he would— Life. Miss Ingenue (aiivious’v but souewhat ab sent mindedly referring i her’ dog) ffe doesn't match my saeque at ail. . . •! I w ant him dyed. Tf you can do it without taking bin apart I'll leave him.— -Judge. lythe recording angel keeps a cash book and we believe he does a great many in this world are credited with He. piece-;, not withstanding the fact they have debited themselves with dimes. —Lowell Citizen. Little grains declining. Little drops in st ock-. Make the sea of trouble Swallow up the “rocksM — Tid Hit*. Maci>—l think it is just too hmiil for any thing. Here I've been standing over the side of the vessel for half an hour at <1 can't see it. Ruby i ari’t see w.m;, iiiv <!*•(.• Mainl Why, the equator. 'Hie captain said we were crossing it. Judge. What! are you 1 itll David Daggs?” asked an old lady of a middle aged man who had gone to his former country home to six-nd a vaca tion. ‘'Yes," responded th* gentleman. ••J haven't, seen you for thirty years. Why, how you have grown.' Judy*:. “Now, children, you can put up your books and rest awhile,” said a tea--her in one of the grammar schools the other day. ‘*l want to give you i fen points on polite ness.” he continued, ;is h*- took a chair in which a wicked hoy had placed a crooked pin. But for some reason or other he didn't keep his word. -Elmira Gazette In a Connecticut town, years ago. Dr. A was a fine practitioner, a rich but testy man. One day he was seen in hot haste nr temper to rush bareheaded out of the house and across the street, then turn al uid hasten toward the door again. A man called out, 4 “Doctor, Doc tor, what is the matter?” “My wife lias got a carpet ! Only carpet mi town! Noiw I've got to go to Cheshire to spit!' Youth's Companion. “What are you reading, Bromley?" “Holbrook on ‘How to Strengthen the Mem ory.’ ” it s all bosh. Barringers. I've a better plan than any be suggests. “How do you strengthen your memory, Bromley?” ”1 ask my wife every time I come home at night w hat it was that she had asked me to get for her during the day.' — Philadelphia Call. Kaii.road Masher Now that that man has gone into the smoking car 1 11 get up a little flirtation with that pretty woman he left be hind. Omaha Friend—Be careful. He may return suddenly. , "Oh. he won't be back for three or four hours.' 1 “Shure?" “Certain. He's her husband.” Omaha World. “Sambo! You infernal scoundrel’ Where are you?” “I)id you call, massa?" “Did I call! Oil no. I was just whispering to myself. Wh ire are those Shoes of miner” “Why, massa, you tole me to take 'em down an' bah 'em soled.” “Well," (impatiently) 4 ‘that was last week; it ought to be done by this time." “It am done, sah: I took 'em to a Jew on Sebeuth street, an* be sold 'em yesterday. Heah am de money, sah, S&V., sah.” St. Pont Herald. A man w ith brickcolored whiskers entered a Harrison street saloon yesterday afternoon, and leaning one gre isy coiu. sleeve on the mahog any, exclaimed; “Gimme sunn* of the best you've cot .*' The miui behind the bar set a glass full of water on t he counter. “What's th.at asked the man with the brick* colored wiuskers. “That's waier," replied the proprietor. “What do 1 want of water?*’ “You asked me for tbehetft 1 had and there it is,’ continued the barkeeper. Chicago Her ald. PERSONAL. Boa Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, is now a waiter in a restaurant at Santa Fe, N. M. Prince Albert Victor, of Wales, suffered terribly from seasickness while vovagiug to Gibraltar. K P. Ron. the novelist, has already received St,ooo royalty oil his last book, l ‘He Fell in Love With Ills Wife.” It is said that Terrence V. Powdorly is looking pale ami liretl. His position at the head of the Knights of Labor is no sinecure. Archbishop Kenrick, of St. lately gave his check for $80(1 fora ten years' bill which the gas company allowed to accumulate. Sir Charles Pilke will sell his lately inher ite-.l country seat. Belmont Castle, including tile six hundred dozens of unsurpassed old I*oll wine stored in t he cellars. Rev. Dr. ( hari.es K. Hekms, of the Church of the St 111 Tigers, in New York, has been invited to deliver this year's commencement address at the University of Georgia. The Duchess of Cumberland, who was re cently confined In a lunatic asylum is not ported to recover her sanity. She is the favor ite child of the King and Queen of Denmark. Lord Wolskley is incorrectly credited with inventing the euinel corps. Lord Napier usi'd one in Seinde when Wolseley was scarcely out of his cradle ; and Napoleon Bonaparte hail one in Kgypt hefoiv Wolseley was born. Riciiarii Randolph McMahon, who is talked of as the successor of Mr. Maynard as second Comptroller of the Treasury, is a journalisl and a poet He has been in the Comptroller's office for some tlmo and is a man of fine address and good business qualities. Vi SCO!'STEMS SntASuroßD. whose d**atb is just announced, met her husband through a review i\rilten by tin* \ iseount on 11 t*ook ot which she uxs (In* authoress. JHe was British Ambassador to Turk**y unit died several years ago, being tin last of his lino ami title. Alexander 111. oi Russia permits none of the f.'imlliapii ies fm? hin !*:•> which weru tcl ••rated l*\ bis fa! her. I'ho murdered Czar was i'lyquently kissed by rn aide-de-camp from the wrist '.q* to the shoulder in humble appreciation ot a kind sentence or two. Onk of the stammering stories of William R. Travers do s not seem to have l*een iviwatc,l since his death. A Newport girl askisi him, at a garden party one evening, what time it was. ■'ll b-b-b by the t t tint** 1 c-c-cau s s-s-say it ” he began, painfully, “it w-n will be s-s-s-seven o'clock!” Chano Yen Hoon. Chinese Minister to this country. Will sail with half his suite for Spain on April IT. lie will present his credentials m Hie ( port of Madrid ami return to Washing,m, ik'Xl tall. Ay* o' from now he will go to Peril to which country lie is also diplomatically oe' credited Till memory of the dinner Inst 1 Molar given to Justm McCarthy by the Irish Parlmmeniio* Assis'i.itlon lias Im'cii loyally euilM(liiii‘(| m a fssiuttfill little quarto volume, in tin* nnlloiail color, sent out In Hie chairman. Kiigem* K*'ll\ li contains n terisiiim repori of the s|m**v|i*‘s His minted in .it is I ml in green! and it is throbbing with sympathy for tin* Given >*o handsomest man at tin* Capital is aalil to Is* D'S'IH c) 1 lioiialdw.il of the Room* of Hot, Ivsentuilves lie I-six feet lall, lias Iron gray lialc, a sin,til eurlhig In nisi e *, a clear l, 1 ' - * '“d |nr of lirillhHtt steel iilue eve. He ISM. dll and lipiilai KIUI, lie always m smlsoii illlng himself “an ex relsd |m*im*|nhii i> candidate ill tiled. |,l tor Iks >rkt 1 .1 Hi*', nuing I on„iaii, uud, it Is lliougm Jba., •4 •** ■ * * ••/ A VERY AGREEABLE CUSTOM. Say “Christ Is Risen” to a Russian Girl and She Kisses You. Prom the New York Star. The “British Apollo,” when asked why kissing was so popular, what its benefit, and who its inventor, replied, “Ah. madam, had you a lover you would not come to Apollo for a solu tion. since there is no dispute but the kisses of mutual lovers give infinite satisfaction. As to its invention, it is certain that nature was its author, and it lx*gnn with the first courtship. 11 It seems difficult to conceive of a time when kissing was unknown in this island, and yet a Scandinavian tradition states that kirsing was first introduced into England by Rowena. the IK-autiful daughter of Hen gist. In Edward IVs reign it was usual for a guest, both on his arrival and at his departure, to kiss his hostess and all the ladies of her family. Again, in Henry's time, when Cavendish visited a French nobleman at his own chateau, the mistress of the house, at the head of her maidens, thus greeted him: “For as much as ye Im* an Englishman, whose custom it is iu your country to kiss all ladies and gentle women without offense, and although it be not so here in this realm, yet will I be so* bold as to kiss you, and so shall all my maidens.” Erasmus, grave and staid scholar as he was, writes enthusiastically of the practice: "If you go to any place you are received with a kiss by all: if you depart on a journey you are dis missed with a Kiss; you return—kisses are ex changed: they come to visit you a kiss the first thing: they leave you—you kiss them all round. Do they meet you anywhere- kisses in abund ance. Lastly, wherever you move, there is noth ing but kisses—and if you had but once tasted them! How soft they are how fragrant! On my honor you would not wish to reside here for ten years only, but for life.” In Russia the Easter salutation is a kiss. Each member of the family salutes the other; chance acquaintance on meeting kiss; princijuils kiss their employes; the general kisses his officers; the officers kiss their soldiers; the Czar kisses his family, retinue, court and attendants, and even his officers on parade, the sentinels at the palace gates and a select party of private sol diers probably elaborately prepared for this "royal salute. *' In other parts the poorest serf, meeting a highborn dame in the street, has but to say, “Christ is risen,” and he will receive a kiss and the reply, "He is risen truly/' What Fanny Said [When she freed her mind after hearing her mother read from Col. Higgitison’s paper in the. current number of Harpers Hazar: "An old doll is left to lie forever on its hack in the gar ret, gazing with one remaining eye on the slowly gathering cobwebs above if.“j Prom the Host on Transcript. I don't care what lie has written! I don’t care whet hejias done! I hate him ' Yes. I do, mamma— That Colonel Higginson! A dolly in t he garret! A dolly! All alone With cobwebs, mice and spiders! He must be made of stone. Why. .just tieoause she isn't new, Because she’s but one eye, A doll like that is dearer far Than any you can buy. You know her pretty liitle ways, And what a duck she is. You know when any trouble comes You have her sympathies. If you should bid me give away My darling with one eve, I s'pose Id have to niind, mamma, But I think that I should die. And so 1M choosy a quiet girl, Who'd give her tender care, And let her come to see my grave And scatter roses there. Till, like the princess in the book You read to me one day, She cried so for her mother dear, She wept both eyes away. But in a garret! Now, mamma. You know how fast 1 grow; Please promise when I get worn out, You will not treat me so! A Canadian’s Idea of Sunday. From the Detroit Tribune. Magistrate Alex. Martlet, of Windsor, besides being a wise ,bulge and respected citizen, is one of the pillars of the Presbyterian church in that town. Descended directly from the Scotch cov enanters, he has inherited all the pious regard for the sanctity of the Sabbath that distinguish ed that religious body. On that day “Sandy,” as his friends love to call him. banishes all sec ular pursuits and gives himself up to medita tion and study. The usual genial expression of his face gives place to a look of sombre asperity, and to broach any everyday topic in his pres ence is to grieve him deeply. Whistling on Sunday is also proscribed. The story goes that the magistrate was on his way to the “kirk” one fine Sunday morning, leading by the hand a juvenile member of his family. Mr. Harriet's face looked stern, almost harsh, bis broadcloth coat was buttoned closely about him. his “stock” tied carefully around a spotless collar of great dimensions. Not a word was spoken until the boy in a burst of youthful spirits, exclaimed: "Isn’t this a lovely day?” “Jeems.” said Windsor's chief ruler, gravely, “Jeems, my mon, this is no a day to be talking about days.” The conversation was dropp'd. Why a Newsboy Wanted a Cent. bYorn the New York Evening Sun. A tall man w itli a reddish goatee and a fur trimmed overcoat, who was evidently consider ably the worse for beer, tried to reprove a news boy at Fulton Ferry this morning. The boy had mud and a pleading look on his face when he asked for a cent. “Oh. get out! You want to gamble 1 with it,” replied the tall man. The hoy apparently felt hurt, and retorted: “No, I don’t. *Poii honor, boss, lam goiu’ ter buy an overcoat with it, just like that one you has on.” “Now, that ain't bad,” remarked the man with the fur coat, who could appreciate a joke notwithstanding his eccentric attire. "If I thought you would not gamble 1 would give you a cent/ 1 The boy inserted a grimy finger through an opening left by a missing tooth, wiped the finger on his leg, made a cross on his throat, and sol emnly recited: “This wet: this dry; May I be killed if 1 tell a lie! 11 He got the cent. Wanted It for Their Crazy Quilts. Prom the Indianapolis Sentinel , April 8. Gov. Gray was one of the most astonished persons ever seen for a few moments yesterday afternoon. Among the sightseers at the new State capitol building were two nicely dressed ladies who, after meeting the Governor and ho ing shown through with a great deal of courte sy. stopped before one of the beautiful lambre quins. which cost something over and both modestly requested that they lx- j>ennitted to cut “just a small, little piece,” as they were both making “such lovely crazy quilts.” and they wanted so much to have some of that love ly material in them. If women could vote the Governor would surely lose those two when the occasion presented itself. After the ladies had somewhat hastily departed he said iu conversa tion that it was remarkable what some people would ask for. Only recently he was asked to mail some of the ground of the State House yard to a man in Illinois, who stated in his let ter that he had a little dirt from the grounds of every State House in the Lnion except Indiana He got the dirt. He Did the Music. From Harper's Weekly. Many years ago, mid a newspaper man to me when rlie New York Herald was “personally conducted" by Mr. Janies Gordon Bennett, u young Irishman brought to the great editor a let ter of introduction from an old friend in New Orleuns. The letter asked Mr. Bennett to give "the lad" something to do on the paper. The “old man" read the letter, looked at the awkward youth and said: “Have you ever had any experience in news paper work? ’ “No, sir.” “Kver tried your hand at writing?" “No, sir?" “What is your line? Do vou know anything about anything in particular?" “No, sir." “Ah, yes Well, Mr. Hudson, I guess you'd better let him do the music." And he “did the music" tor many a year. The One He Forgot. From tlu fiipstnn Record. t “John. I would like to Invite ntv friend, Mrs. Smalley, this evening. Will you he able to Ist in ' “No. my dear. I must attend a meeting of the Knights of Honor to-night ” “Well, to | tte’fTow e\'.-tiing“l have the Ancient < Irder |of 1 nitcd Workmen, and you know " “What als lit Wednesday evening;-" “Oh, the Odd Eel ! lows meet tlist night, and on Thursday I have a meeting of tin* t'hoseii ! i lends to attend; on l-rlday the Itoyal Templars; on Saturday there's a sitei-ial meeting of tie* Mitsotiie lodge, und I couldn't mis .that; ami then Sunday, lei mewic ovliat is I beis■ on Smnhiy night, my dear 'the Grand and Ancient Order of i'hristlan kelh ovstiip “Why. 1 had forgotten, am la niemlsT of that let mews* “ "Mm you have forgotten ai'iitier -nelotv, John” “What s that ’ * ‘ • (f,.*,, A oitAss i liiest on die secretary of an anti ; Sabbath breaking IISS. *’la Iloti of (Tllengfl the \ oihei day. and sske l him Ui arise-1 the Inter ! at Sle comm,ice act because it. works on bun i day. | ITEMS OF INTEREST. Six horses were required last week to draw the single stone to be used in the porch of the new court house at Northampton. Mass. It is one of the largest dressed stones in the county, lieing 11 feet square, 10 inches thick and weigh ing nearly ten tons. The renewal by Gen. Wallace of the sugges tion that the Grand Army of the Republic should request Mrs. Grant to consent to the re moval of (ken. Grant's remains to Washington, that organization pledging itself to rear over them a fitting monument, is leceiving favorable comment in various newspapers. At last the Great Eastern is to be emploved in the trade for which she was construe t and, voyages to Australia. Her paddles will be tHKtn out and stronger engines will be put in, with which they hone to git up a speed of twenty knots She had made fourteen knots with her old engines. To accomplish the hopes of the new owners, 18,000 horse power will Ik? required. A well-known* firm of. Berlin engineers is now making a device of signaling the passage of a train by means of mercury. The deflection of one rail of the line caused by the passing of a train is caused to press upon the elastic dia phragm of a vessel fixed under the rail and containing mercury. The mercury is forced up a side tube so as to complete an electrical circuit and ring a bell or work some other in dicator. A fightino Quaker was encountered lately by one. Tanner, a saloon-keeper in Alliance, 0., who endeavored to assault the Friend, a noted Pro hibit ionist A local paper adds that the latter warded off t he blow and choked Tanner severely, saying: "When thee has enough say so; if thee can’t speak nod thy head.” The head was soon nodded, and Tanner now mourns the loss of sls fine and suffered a bad choking, and still didn't whip the Quaker. The 7-year-old son of a Boston newspaper man has heard too much profanity somewhere, not from his father as the latter claims; but at all events he lias heard it, and shows alarming facility in reproducing it. The other day his father reproved him fora breach of this kind that had come to the parental ears. "Who told you: " demanded the hopeful. “Well, a little bird told me?” The*boy stood and looked out of the window scowling at some sparrows who were scolding and chattering. "1 know,” came as an inspiration, "it was one of those sparrows.” The government method prescribed for clean ing brass, and in use at all the United States arsenals, is claimed to be the best in the world. The plan is to make a mixture of one part com mon nitric acid and one-half part sulphuric acid in a stone jar. having also a pail of fresh water and a box f saw dust. The articles to be treated are dipped into the acid, then removed into the water and finally rubbed wit.li sawdust. This immediately changes them to a brilliant color. If the brass has become greasy it is first dipped into a strong solution of potash and soda in warm water: this cuts the grease so that the acid has free power to act. Mrs. Moon is the name of the lady who has supplied most of the baby clothes required in the royal families of Europe within the last ten years. The good woman has just received and filled a commission for a cradle coverlet that proves r<i be a masterpiece *r‘ decorative art. The fabric is white satin lined with pale rose silk, and a deep fall of Mechlin lace finishes the edge*. This, however, is but the foundation for a design of exquisitely painted baby heads, sur rounded by rosebuds and fairy lilies, embroid ered in their natural colors. Under this be witching coverlet reposes the reddest and latest little royalty in the kingdom of Portugal. Miss Doha Goodale, who has opened a school among the Indians jn Dakota, has written to her friends ail amusing account of the first few days’ experience. The cleauing of the log school house and making a flag occupied the first day. The school did not open promptly, because "the worst thing about Indians is that. they will not get up in the morning/' but about 10:30 the children begin to straggle in. Mr. Littletail brought his two sons, “both 7 years old,” and when asked "twins?” he said. “Oh, no: two wives!' The children are given clean faces, hands and well-brushed hair, and are taught to sir. stand and move properly.. Religious exer cises. singing lessons, marches, broom drills and other exercises form the principal features of the instruction at first. The Indians are unused to order, and their whole lives are changed by the new lessons. It was a case of heaping coals of fire on the heads of those who were forced to live up to the provisions of the orders issued from headquar ters in compliance with the interstate com merce law-. And perhaps somebody's hair was singed a bit, though it couldn’t be helped. But it happened this way: A well known theatrical manager, whose large interests keep him dancing about the country, went into a railroad office where he was well known. He wanted a ticket for Toronto, and he got it by paying his good money. The transaction was accompa nied by some remark on the requirements of the new law. to w hich the urbane manage)- listened with patience. At its conclusion he took a little pad of paper from liis pocket and in a moment two passes to the theatre, each for two, had been written and were handl'd over with the remark, ‘ The interstate law doesn't affect my house. Good-day.” Webster bail an anecdote of old Father Searle, the minister of his boyhood, which is too good to Ik? lost. It was customary then to wear buck skin breeches in cool weather. One Sunday morning in the autumn Father Searle brought down his from the garret, hut the wasps had taken possession during the summer, and were having a nice time of it in them. By dint of effort he got out the intruders and dressed for meeting. But. while reading the scriptures to the congregation he felt a dagger from one *of th** enraged small-waisted fellow s, and jumped around the pulpit, slapping his thighs. But the more he slapped and danced the more they stung. The jx?ople thought him crazy, and were in commotion as to what to do. But he ex plained the matter by saving: “Brethren, don't be alarmed: the word of God is in my mouth, and the devil is in my breeches!’ 1 Webster always told it wit Irgreat glee to the ministers. M HEN Gen. A. W. Greely, Chief of the United States Signal Service, was in New York a few days ago he told his friends that his visit to the city was partly for recuperation from the op pression of Washington official life and climate He has found it difficult to get acclimated at the national capital and is obliged to rim away from Washington every two or three wi -l.s for a short breathing spell. While he was m New York he arranged tor the construction of tele graph lines to Jupiter Inlet on the east coast, of Florida, where Congress has authorized the maintenance of a signal station. Gen. Greelv st.vs it is an important storm observation point and Hint if the West Indies station could lie re established i in- s- rviee from this direction would lie greatly improved. The Signal Service has been crippled considerably by the failure of the deficiency hill to pass Congress. It. contained an appropriation of $30,000, without which a number of reports from the Pacific coast and the \\ est cannot he continued. Evkhy cow.and then curious little stories leak out about Lord Tennyson’s life and habits .Ten nyson’s home in the Isle of Wight is a modest one: he has only one man-servant in the house, hut it is as comfortable and pleasant us most households of the same class. It, is the poet’s manners and customs which give it Its individu ality. It is understood that visitors do not dis turb the great mail’s w ays, and that he behaves in precisely the same manner when he has com pany as when he lias not. Every morning" in hall rain or snow, th.- poet dons ills frouz.y cap and his frouzler slouch hat and promenades for an hour or so. none daring to disturb him Everyday at dinner a bottle of port is placed before the host, and Tennyson retires with it illy when dessert comeson) and leaves his gu"st ,at the table. The poet is to lie found in his study with Ids bottle by his side and a huge dock-glass holding a pint. This is tilled half with part and half with water, and the bard solemnly fills and refills till bottle and glass arc empty. I’hom 1881 to 1884 Dr. Guillemard was enduing about in the steam yacht Marchcsa in Chinese, Japanese and Malayan waters. Within those tolerably comprehensive limits he went every where ami saw everything. At the very outset he gives an opening picture of the giant preci pices Oil tile Formosun coast, whose sheer heights of 500 feet or so dwarf the cliffs of the \Oiieinile to nothingness, make the sea wall of H"V. in the Orkneys. sink Into insignificance, and overtoil, by more than double, the g.oou fret of IS Tis-lidienlmify which the IVnham d'Agnla in Madeira. op|i.s's (o the wide Atlantic surge, ’"file coast from (’liock-e-day to the north ward,” says ttiat useful lint, extremely pro saic publication, the China Sea Directory, "is the tsilde-l and most precipitous that can Is* conceived, the mountains rising feet from I h" w itci; • li'i Attracted by this unusual burst of superlative* ,n a generally Holier und emit ion. l guide, the Marchesa steered her course lor I It*- district .a eiiiliiisiiistleully dewrilssl and the still rose for her upon the highest sen pns>| pk in the known world.'' 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