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4 Ck|Hflrtting|lflos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga WEDNESDAY, APRIL ‘2O. INS 7. Registered, at the Post Office in Savannah. The Moiamn News Is publish! h rery fhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own a*- count, at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month. $o 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Mormxg News, by mail , one month, $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morntng News, by mail, six times a week (without Sundav issue), three months. $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-W*ekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50: on** year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 Of*. The Weekly News, by mail . one year. $1 25. Subscriptions pavable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk <*f senders. Letters ariil telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. {Savannah, (ta.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings—Magnolia Encampment No. 1, 1. O. O. F.; Golden Rule Ixxlge No. 12, 1. O. O. F.; Landrum Lodge No. 4K. F. & A. M. Special Notices—Election for Commissioners for the Town of Warsaw: Change of Name of Town of Lincoln to Rosedew. Watchmaker, Etc—August Krieger. Cnr.AP Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; For Rent; For Sale; Boarding; Lost; Per sonal; Miscellaneous. Excursion The Tenth Annual Excursion of S., F. A W. and C. &S. Rys. E. M. R. Associ ation Flour Hecker’s Superlative. A Card—Prof. T. F. Collins. Notice—For Act of Incorporation. Auction Sales—General Sale, by D. R. Ken nedy. Attractive Baroains—D. Woisbein. It will not be long before the Georgia watermelon will respond to the farmer's thump with a sound curiously like ‘’dollar.” The solicitously paternal tone of fte In terstate Commerce Commissioners’ fulmina tions suggests that there are no bachelors among those distinguished regulators, George H. Sheridan characterizes as "a moral and intellectual ' The distinguished infidel will object to the characterization. kjjSwator Sherman," says a Western pa delighted with the South.” The campaign next year will afford .if H. announced that I): Nnrvin Green. Pwßfcent of the Western Union Telegraph "Company, isn’t in first-rate health. Per haps the water in his company’s stock doesn’t agree with.him. Lord Alfred Tennyson says that he doesn’t object to the adverse criticisms of American newspapers as long as American poets ac knowledge the beauty of his recent verse. Lord Alfred is rough on the poets. Last Sunday, in New'York, 156 liquor sellers were arrested. It is rumored that the side doors of the barrooms will be closed next Sunday, so that those who warft drinks will have to enter by wav of the skylights. At a recent ball in Paris the drinks con suinod included 60,000 glasses of lieer, 2,500 bottles of champagne and .‘l,OOO punches. It is not recorded how many dancers required the aid of the police in returning to their homes. Large numbers of negroes are being car ried from Virginia to New York to work on the new Croton aqueduct They claim to be “Nights of Labor,” but it is feared that the K. of L. assemblies will repudiate them and that trouble will result. When a Western Congressman was told could no longer tie obtained in on Sunday, In* exelaiuesl: then, wii.-tt lie use..:' being a lt is probable that lie f.ry •• |§H.i e could still draw his salary. ; g*r. -or * ,i; ■ allowed to wear cap and gown wid'** in M-h*>!:v.tic d'M •- They ii.tr*t They already wear cap and gown JMffglit, and they ouglit notobject to wear ing different apparel during the day. A Georgia cracker who named his last baby “Arethusy Naiuanthy Ann Frances Cleveland Yum Yum Jones,” without at tracting the attention of the press, can’t understand why so much fuss was made whe.n Secretary Whitney gave his last baby “sech a puny name as Dory.” It is stated tliat. the greatest achievement of the Paolo (Kan.) Natural Gas Company was effected in running the rolling mills in that town twelve hours on less than nine ounces of gas. What a saving to the coun try it would lie if the Paola company could he induced to undertake the job of running Congress. A young lawyer who hangs out his •hingle in a Northwest Georgia town hopes to live to see the timo “when the General Assembly of the State will be composed of men under the age of lit) years.” He will be disappointed, unless he lives to see the time come when no man will live longer than thirty years. Mr. George Hiddle, an actor who fuiled to meet with success in Boston, says that he hojxss to exist without the approval of a city “whoae damnation is purely local.” This is dreadful. No other man has dared to say such a thing of Boston, and it would not bo surprising if that city should send its cham pion, Col. Jobu L. Sullivan, to annihilate Mr. Kidd!** The murder of the unknown girl at Hall way, N. J., has led to the discovery that fifty girls aro missing from the great cities near by. It lias also brought out the fact that girls are missing from many small towns in all part* of the country. Perhaps it might Ik* well to establish a bureau at anno central {Kiiut charged with searching fur the missing, A New York gns-er says that the plan of advertising what he has to sell by placing wimples on the sidewalk near the door of his store is very costly. People who pass by frequently help themselves to whatever they fancy, and u heavy loss is sustained by such jwtty thefts. It may also Ik* said in opposition to tlie |ilun that the samples crowd the sidewalk and thus become a nuis ance to pedestrians. In New York, on Mun>lay night , Henry George lectured on “Tile Crime of Poverty ." Hpcokiug of lalmr, In* said: “Then* soemt t/i be a surplus of labor looking tor employ meet This ma y be tru in sum* of tie* large cities, but then- is plenty of work out ■de of them There would Is lit tin am plaint of a “sui’|ilu of labor” if men would go s way from the cantm* of p*>|HilsUoti atef •ass employment in kswilUos wbeue tin Wiaus ars not m orowded. Florida’s Common Schools. The report of Hon. A. J. Russell, Flori da’s efficient Superintendent of Public In struction, shows that educational advan tages have contributed greatly to the growth and progress of that thriving State. One of the first questions asked by those prospecting for a desirable place for homes is. "What are your educational advantages.'" It is the good fortune of Florida to be able to give satisfactory answers. Florida has now 3,000 public schools in operation. This gives an average of fifty one schools to each of her thirty-nine coun ties. "Estimating her entire jiopulation at 250.000, she lias a school for every 175 in habitants. This is fully up to her present needs and indicates tliat those in charge of her educational matters are in entire sym pathy with the most advanced sentiment in favor of education. Tlie number of schools in the State in 1884 was 1,504: in 1885, 1.734, and in 1881). 1,919. The attendance in 1885 was 02,337 and in ISSO, 70,997. Three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars is annually expended for public schools, making the expenditure for each child between 0 and 21 years—the school age—ss 01; for each child enrolled $o 37, and for each child in daily average attendance §7 37. The Legislature appropriates a sufficient sum for holding annually normal schools for two months at Tallaliassee and Gainesville for the benefit of negro teachers, and for conducting institutes in the various coun ties. Th" institutions of higher grade, under the control of the State, are the West and East Florida seminaries at Tallahassee and Gainesville, and tlie State Agricultural Col lege at Lake City. There is also a blind and deaf mute institute at St. Augustine. Superintendent Russell makes an earnest appeal for the establishment of industrial schools, where the youth of both sexes can be trained in the use of toois. Schools of this character will almost certainly be estab lished in Jacksonville during the approach ing summer for the benefit of the negroes, who have been assured of assistance from the Slater fund, as soon as certain conditions have been complied with. The people of Florida appreciate the im portance of common schools, and no jxirtion of the taxes is more willingly and promptly paid than tiiat for school purposes. The common school fund is steadily grow ing. Last year the interest of it amounted to $24,318, or 41c. per capita. A bill pro viding for a poll tax of $1 as a pre-requisito for the right of suffrage is pending in the Legislature. It is expected that it will pass and that the proceeds of it will go to the public schools. Florida is to lie congratulated upon the creditable condition of her common schools. Her wonderful growth and development ai e largely due to them. The Gullibility of Men and Women. The disappearance of Mrs. Howe, the Boston banker, with $50,060 deposited with her is made the occasion for discussing the question whether women are more gullible than men. Not very many months ago Mrs. Howe was arrested as a swindler, and sent to the House of Correction. She pre tended to do a legitimate banking business, and offered to pay enormous rates of inter est. The feature of her business was that she received deposits only from women. She is a very benevolent looking woman and a plausible talker. Women deposited with her cautiously at first, and then more freely. When she hail accumulated a large sum her true character became known. All the facts connected with her business, her arrest and her conviction were widely published. About everybody in Boston must have heard of her swindling operations and of her im prisonment. She no sooner regained her liberty, however, than she resumed her re markable banking business. She promised to pay 8 per cent per month on deposits, and, strange as it may appear, there were women who trusted her. It is difficult to understand how women of sense could have believed that she meant to deal honestly with her customers. Those who entrusted their money to her must have heard of her previous swindling opera tions, and must have known also that no legitimate business would justify the pay ment of such enormous interest. It may be that they did not think that Mrs. Ilowe was engaged in a legitimate business. In tliat case they are entitled to no sympathy. They aro not much better morally than Mrs. Howe is. Each probably thought she was shrewd enough to protect herself against loss, and that the other depositors would lie the losers. With respect to the question whether women are more gullible than men, it may be urged that men would not have risked their money where such an enormous in terest was promised, because they would have known that it was impossible tor any honest business to pay it. But did they not risk their money with Grant & Ward* Tliat firm did business on pretty much the same plan tliat Mrs. Howe did, and yet some very good business moil put their money into it. Like Mrs. Howe's custom ers, they, of course, came to grief. A day or two ago a lot of “green goods” swindlers were arrested in New York city, and the correspondence found by the police in their rooms showed that there were hun dreds of people in the South and West who were anxious to deni with theiti. It is hardly probable that all, or even u majori ty, of those applying for the alleged coun terfeit notes hiul not read of the swindling operations of the “green goods” men. Why wits it, then, that they were so eager to take the chances of being swindled! Were they not just as gullible as the women who de posited money with Mrs. Howe? Women do some very foolish things where money is concerned, but there is ample evidence to show tliut the men do things just about as foolish. Mrs. Howe and the “green goods” swindlers have a pretty thorough knowledge of human nature. It is even probable, in view of the success that other convicted swindlers have in**t with, that Ferdinand Ward will re eitnbli.h his banking business on the old piau as soon as he is released from Slug King, and that, too, wall a fair prospect of meeting with encouragement. Anarchist Most, who is Haiti to be “month” personified, delivered all •ldr*ss in Phi la delphiu Sunday tou small audience. Among other tilings he wild: “IsthiH a republic, (his Ani'rien? LUs'rty is a lie: your govern ment is on Infamous swindle. tt H* threat etc*d the r‘port •i - * with death, iv.iled the church, and ‘lwlurad it no crime to kill po He Indorsed tic* (‘nicago An archisu, nicl umciuicil that "capitalists, i up*, aid all dinting order* of **i eiety were m*l* -tuned " Tii p. iiiti nlurv In tlei l***t place for a fellow like Most, aid it !*• pity tliat tic llln-rty enjoyed mills country permits turn to be at hug*. THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887. Senator Coke’s Letter. Senator C’oke, of Texas, takes a wist* eour>e respecting the prohibition issue in that .State. He was asked to sjieak at the State Conv* ntion of Anta-Prohibitionist;, to lie held in May. and in a letter refusing he says that he thinks it would lie suicidal for the Democratic party of the State to either favor or oppose prohibition. He might have gone further and said that in no other way* could the cause of prohibition be dam aged so much as by bringing it into politics. However, he i not interested in promoting prohibition. He does not believe in it, and can be depended upon to oppose the adop tion of the prohibition amendment to the constitution, w hich is to be voted on in Au gust Senator Reagan and ex-Senator Maxey, while not in favor of making prohibition a party issue, have written letters in favor of the prohibition amendment, and their influ ence will Is* thrown in favor it. The letters of these three prominent public men on the prohibition question have greatly increased the prohibition excitement throughout the State. The friends of prohibition would make a very grave mistake by permitting the issue to become a political one. They’ would lie certain to be defeated and the temperance cause would receive a set-back from which it might not recover in years.) At the last State Democratic Convention a resolution was adopted declaring that prohibition was not a fiolitical question, and if it were now forced into politics the masses of the Demo cratic ]iarty would vote against it and would, of course, defeat it. Senator Coke says there are tens of thousands of Demo crats in the State who favor it, which is true, but they do not f rvor it to such an extent as to be willing to see it bring disaster to their party. The next three mouths will be exciting ones in Texas. Thoughtless Handling of Weapons. Fatal results from the careless handling of deadly weapons are occurring all the time. There were two on last Sunday, one near this city and the other at New,Orleans. The vic tims ill each instance were young men oc cupying good social and bitsiness positions. In the case in this locality the playful but 1 bought! e* handling of a rifle by one of a small party who were enjoying an exclu sion down the river resulted in the death of a member of the party. In the New Orleans case two young men, belonging to promi nent Creole families, having en joyed with others a . wine supper on Saturday night concluded to give an exhibition with foils. Midnight had passed and Sunday had come, and all the party were in a joyous mood from the effects of the wine. It is true that buttons were on the foils.but the faces of the fencers were unprotected with the masks worn on such occasions. The sport had not pro ceeded far before one of the swordsmen thrust his foil into an eye of the other. When the church bells rang, calling the people to divine service, the wounded young Creole was dead. It is probable that these fatal accidents from the thoughtless handling of deadly weapons will continue to occur. People will not appreciate the danger there is from the careless handling of weapons. Men fence with swords without proper protec tion. or point guns at each other, not mean ing to pull the trigger or believing them to be unloaded, and seem unconscious of the danger to others or themselves, notwith standing the constant occurrence of fatal accidents resulting from such conduct. Ac cidents of this sort affect not alone the vic tims of them. Those who are responsible for them, particularly if they are of a Sensi tive nature, are for the rest of their lives burdened w’itli an ever present sorrow for the consequences of their acts. When Senator Sherman left Nashville on his way home from his visit to the South, lie discovered that his railroad passes had expired. The conductor told the Senator tliat he would have to pay fare. A minor official of the Louisville and Nashville rail road, who w’as on board the train, rushed up to the conductor and excitedly whispered: “Great Scott, man Don’t you know who that is* That’s Senator Sherman. Take his pass and it will be all right.” “I don’t care if it. is the Lord himself,” replied the conductor, “the pass has expired and I must collect fare.” The Senator paid, but the railroad authorities found fault with the conductor upon the ground that he was dis courteous. Some railroad authorities seem never to have heard of tlie wt rd “consis tency.” _ L Mr. Jay Gould says that he thinks that the interstate commerce law shoukl have hiul a “thorough test before suspending any of its features. It would have been more satisfactory to the public to havo first de monstrated that the long and short haul feature should be suspended than to suppose it would, and to suspend it on a supposition.” Doubtless the su-pension that has been granted is against Mr. Gould’s interest. If it benefited his interest the chances are he would think it all right. Mr. Algernon S. Sullivan, one of the leading Democratic jioliticiansof New York city, says that the statement that there is great dissatisfaction amid Deni K-ratic lead ers in that city with President Cleveland is not true. He says that the President is stronger with the Democratic masses than when he was inaugurated. In the face o£ this testimony tlie growlers will havo to shut up or furnish proof of their statements. The Now York Sun concludes that the Hon. John G. Carlisle Ims no chance of Ik>- coming President because his State—Ken tucky-owing to the reported discovery of immense iron and coal deposits within its limits, will soon favor protection. The Sun will cease to shine before Kentucky declares for protection, and it is pretty sure that the S mi‘.s light will not lie less bright for many years. The effect of the enforcement of the Nun day law was very noticeable in Washington last Sunday. On th<* previous Sunday—tho law was not then enforced—there were twenty-five arrests for drunkenness. On last Sunday there were only nine. There would liuve Imssi no arrests at ull, probably, if it had not tesui that whisky was obtain able just on tie* outskirts of the city. The prohibition <• mtest in Texas is already having dreadful results. One of the iimst harrowing is the anti-prohibition jgjetry printed in sour* of tit" newspaper*. Here is a sunp'" from tlie Hoirton /*?.* "it erotiiliuliiii i.ally mhmls to pioliilat ll must V 'irk lu a :* .übulshle *> *> I*' be’ lll"li ea> Mid ilrillW ~li UUH N'atar** msjii a***rislsT sway.” Tin* Jute William 11. Vai**i*TtiiJt was blind in ote eye, lint lie was careful to kx*p tlie Imi*< from tie* |nil<lie M* protnibjy (bought that If b wise Isle*v**d la* couldn't am* well aUsU|4 to get tlie liettss Of bun 111 iMUgaiU* would I m more ii*quint and ysoatatvut. CURRENT COMMENT. • : The Truth by Implication. From the Sew York V'orld Oem.) “Protection,"’ sav* th*- Tribune. “is the wedge j that will cleave open the solid South.' It is re freshing to be totl. even by implication, that | the soliility of the South is not preserved through the suppression of the negro vote. America for Americans. Form the Washington Post 1 Deni.) There is no reason whv aliens should lie al lowed to own afoot of soil bid ween our two oceans. By prohibiting it absolutely we should lose little foreign capital, and we should gain enormously in that local feeling and ]>atriotic interest which are invaluable. A Great Idea Grasped. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) Mr. Terence V. Powderly grn ps a great idea wh-n he declares that th* "Labor party to suc ceed must lie thoroughly American." Having progressed thus far, he is fairly on the road to the conclusion that while it remains a class party it can never be a ••thoroughly American” party. Trying to Do Too Much. From the .Veto York Herald (Ind.) It Is an American fault to try to do too much. The suicide ot‘ poor young * iatewood. a cadet of tile Naval Academy, on Friday at Norfolk is a sad case in point. A similar one occurred a few months ago, and several other instances of brain trouble have occurred within a year or two among the students of the Naval Academy, arising from the„same cause. There is no poorer economy conceivable than that of overstudy. Diligence is a good thing, hut like all good tilings it may he exaggerated. It is better not to burn the candle at all than to bum it at both ends. BRIGHT BITS. The Presidential Bee 0, give us a rest from tiie buzzing bee, The bee that bothers our great men. It never rests: "tis the greatest of ix’sts, And addles the brains of statesmen. There's a big difference between a traveling salesman and a drummer. The drummer sells car loads of goods and gets his salary raised, while tite traveling salesman doesn't earn his salt- and gets discharged.— Somerville Journal. “Sav. do you ever read the letters that are ad dressed to your wife? " (With indignation) “Never.” “What, you have absolute confidence in her?” “Oh. it is not that. lam afraid that I would And something in them that might be disagree able for me to know, and I adore her.” —From a French Patter. “James." said the high school girl to her brother. “I wish you would elionize my jiedal integuments for me.” “Oh. I'm no dentist." replied Jim. “A dentist! I oniy want you to black my shoes.'" “Then why don't you talk I'nited States and say so?”— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Visitor (in penitentiary!—My good friend, what brought you to this place? Convict—Bank burglary, sir. Visitor—And you look back on your past life with regret and shame? Convict—Well. I dunno, sir. Ten years ago I was nothin" but a common sneak thief, an' now I'm up for liank burglary. Nothin’ to be ashamed of about tbht. —Kansas City Times. Foer-year-old Serif, had done something wrong, but her mother had forgiven her anu promised not to tell her pa. "Oh, ma!” she exclaimed as a thought struck her. "when r>a dies will the laird tell him what I did?" “Yes. I think he will." said the mother. “Well” said Susie, after another long pause, “I think he is a regular tattle-talv, don't you?” —St Paul Herald. “Lost time,” said the pastor solemnly, “is lost forever.” “So is anything else* that you lose," said the new boy from Bitter Creek." “Oh. no," replied the pastor: “you may lose anything else and And tt again.” “Then 'tain t lost,” said the new boy, and somehow the minister didn't just exactly know how to go on with the conversation. And yet he had been warned against that very boy.— Brooklyn Eagle. He had been going to see her for a loug time, but would uever state the object of his visits. Last night he mustered up sufficient courage. “Will you be my wife?” lie asked simply and earnestly. “Yes, Henry, I will." she replied, all in a tremor of blushing excitement. “Ah, thanks," he said. "I bet Ohollie Brown a package of cigarettes you would say yes.' Do you smoke? It’s quite the thing, don't you know. Washington Critic. “What do you think of allowing a woman to vote.” “I’ll tell you what I think of it. You know what poll parrots women are—how they'll talk for hours about nothing? Why. last week mv wife went to town to buy two or three yards of stuff, and I’ll be hanged if she hasn't been enter taining her friends in recounting her momen tous adventures ever since, and she’s likely to keep it up for the next six mouths s faras I can see. Now. if women were allowed to vote, of course they’d run for office. Think of a Legis lature of women! Why, man alive, they’d talk a thing to death and we'd never get any more laws." "Think so? Perhaps it wouldn't tie a bad idea to have a woman suffrage, after all —Boston Transcript. PERSONAL. Prof. Wayland, of Yale, will build a Sd.ooo Baptist mission chapel in New Haven. Mr. Drixkwateu was a candidate for member of the Denver (Col.) City Council recently. Senator Hoar thinks, with "Little Robert Green," that tobacco is a filthy weed, and says he will never, never use it any form. Senator Edmends is said to lie very partial to a particularly Hue brand of old rye, and seldom drinks wine ivheu there is any toddy around. He also smokes and chews. Miss Alice Jordan, who took the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the Yale Law School last June, lias just been admitted to practice in the Superior Court of Michigan. Reskell Cox. of Holdemess, X. 11.. who is ninety years of uge, is suffering from a severe attack of whooping cough. His mother, who died recently, had the v.hooping cough when she was 101 years of age. David Urqehart. Mrs James Brown Potter's father, is a tine looking old Southerner, with a white moustache aaid pleasant face. His man ners arc cordial and polished. When in New York he lives at the Brevoort. Jins. Dinah Mclock Ciuik thinks that women Winded to bad husbands ought for their chil dren's sake to leave them: not by divorce, which only enables the bad men to make cither women unhappy, but by judicial separation. Rev. O. A. Glazetirook has withdrawn his ae ceptauce to the cull to Holy Trinity I’. K. Church. Harlem, ami the Rev. Dr. Himline, presi dent of Kenyon College, lias been chosen in his stead. It is confidently expected that he will accept. It is now understood that Mr. George M. Dili man. of Chicago, will decline the decoration and title recently conferred upon him by the King of Italy, not deeming their acceptance consistent with his principles us a citizen of a republic. Henry 0. Lea has at last completed his “His tory of tlit* Holy Inquisition,” the labor of years. Only two histories 'of the Inquisition have issm heretofore published, and both of them are limited, covering only a part of the Acid. Mr. Leu's work will be in three volumes. Lee Meriwether, whose “Europe on Fifty Cents a Day" has uttracted general attention, bus just completed a careful Investigation into the work and wages ot working girls of New Orleans for the Federal Lalior Bureau, anil is about to begin the same inquiry in Philadelphia. Postmaster Mowry, of Charleston, S. (!,, is in luck. At the o)M-niug of the forty-ninth Con gress he was apisiinted clerk to the Committee mi Public Buildings anil Grounds at a sulary of Sl’.OiW per annum. Recently the I‘iesldeut ap pnliitod him Post muster at Charleston at a salary of jM.edu. Under the recent de Ision of the I'nited States Supreme Court he will draw both salaries until December next. Sidney Wihii.i.ett, the elocutionist, lias are uiurknhje ini-’iior-y. A friend in England once lei him Dial he .. uilti not walk from Richmond to l/Jiidou, a distance of twelve iiules, in less t lut'i four hours and commit to memory a |ss-m SO that lie could rejieut il at the end of the jour bey Ti e | is 11 sets ted was isHti’fellow's • King Itoln-it ot Sicily," which is composed of nearly *lO Ini.-, Wmillett walked tin- dl*itni.v 111 tln ee hours and tweutv Are minutes mid wa* dead letter |s-rfect before he readied Dm. don. Mrs Mi.iuki Daviit, who is an American, and who was uiuied during her im lwii l s re cent tom in \, njo received a royai Welcome ‘ ti id in ns land The Ie st, j* ,p,c pre ti t\it , , • iwifiiiiinf % ill, uiit*' mite* irtti . f lUiMii ' dlUni KaUm HIM In | M, Uf !ii' uHi Mr* f)t4( fl*#* i l’hii'ifi‘4 \m <‘i I 4 whu\i v tt * ; hy H I+mIMWHP ttf H>*' b" ttpm l i ffwlfv# kl'liw '<iu irs*tuii* • fi*. i,hu i iy\mt •im i M* 41*, iUi (|| trtuajy Um< j ImAU *U it v4*u<i THE FATHER OF BILLIARDS. Mr. Cochrane, of Chicago, Whom Every body Likes to Talk to. From the Chicago Herald. An old gentleman with whit* 1 chin whiskers and a jolly smile on his face trotted nimbly into George Slostton's place the other day. He glanced around him with a smile while a dozen voices said: “Hello, Mr. Cochrane,“ and a dozen hands were stretched out to grasp his George Slosson took him over into a corner and told him about t he big game and showed him anew cue. and John Thatcher got the “short ston" medal out of the cigar case, brushed a si took of dust from the riin and held it where the sun would strike it and Mr. Cochrane could see it to ad vantage. Mr. Cochrane is “the. father of the hillianl players.” He somehow seems out of his element at first, a sedate looking old gentle man among a lot of youngsters, but after awhile one ceases to notice'the disparity of ages and thinks only of the old gentleman as one of the boys. “He is,” said a billiard player, ”a fine old gen tleman. Ho has been a lover of the game for fifty years—he's close on to 75 now—and he has seen every big game in the country that he could reach. Even at his present age he would travel miles to see a good coutest. He is wealthy, a bachelor and an owner of plenty of real estate, and billiards is about his only amusement. He is even more a lover of the game than Judge Gary, who likes billiards more than anything else under the sun, unless it is to sit down on fresh lawyers 31 r. Cochrane has a table hen* and another one in a Michigan summer resort, and every good player in town has a standing imi tation to go to one place or the other and play billiards with the old gentleman. Most wealthy old men are more inclined toward billiards than any other pastime. It has an aroma of old fashioned respectability about it that few of the other sports possess. Judge Lyman Trumbull plays a stiff game even now, and his sons are •letter than he is. One of them. Perry, used to be considered about the best amateur player in the country.” A Pistol Duel Across the Table. From Dueling Days in the Army. A few days after the battle of Waterloo a Mr. Trevor and a certain captain, while at a dinner party, quarreled about a lady. The Captain being a splendid shot and Trevor almost blind, the latter demanded that they should fire at each other across a table. Someone secretly suggested that the pistols should le loaded without ball, and this was done. The two adversaries, who believed their last hour was come, were as pale as death: but if thev were a prey to deep emotion, not a l.mscle trembled. “Who will give us the sig nal? “ asked the Captain. The person who un dertook to give the signal said, with a trem bling voice,"Raise your pistols.” The muzzles touched the breasts of the combatants. “When I count three, tire. One—two—three!” They fired and recoiled from the shock. “What’s the meaning of this?” exclaimed the two com batants. “Who has dared to make fools of us? There are no Kails in the pistols!” “Honor is satisfied,” exclaimed the friends around them. Trevor ground his teeth. “The remedy is easy enough,” said the captain, pointing to some swords suspended from tne wan. He took down two. measured them, and presented one to his adversary, who seized it eagerly. “Now there shall be no trickery!” he exclaimed. “Stand off sir.” They stood face to face and the blades glistened. The contest was short. One of them soon fell—it was the captain. He ex pired without a groan. “Oh, my God!” ex claimed Trevor, “What have I done? Is all this a reality?” and in terrible despair he Hung himself upon the corpse of his rival, which he shook convulsively, as though to bring it to life again. Lirtle Jim. Our little Jim Was such a limb His mother scarce could manage him. His eves were blue. And looked you through, And seemed to say, “I'll have my ay'.'’ His age was six, His saucy tricks But made you smile, Though all the while You said: “You limb, You wicked Jim, Be quiet, do”’ Poor little Jim 1 Our eyes are dim When soft and low we speak of him. No elatt'ring shoe floes running through The silent room, Now wrapped in gloom. So still he lies, With fast-shut eyes, • No need to say, Alas! to-day, “You little limb, You baby Jim, Be quiet, do’.’’ —George R. Sims. Good Case of Absent-Mindedness. From the Chicago Herald. “The worst case of absent-mindedness I ever knew of." said a hotel keeper out at Elgin, "oc curred in my house a few weeks ago. The per petrator was my night porter. 1 was at the desk one night when a man came in so drunk he couldn't sign his name. He was a traveling man whom I knew, and so of course I decided to take good care of him. ‘John,’ says Ito the porter, take this man up stairs and put him to bod. ana put his valise away in the check-room.' Just then I was called away by the sickness of a member of my family, and I thought no more of my guest nor of the porter, whom I saw at tending to his usual duties an hour or so later. But next morning a strange discovery was made. The chambermaid on the second floor reported that in the bed of room 10 she had found a valise, and that there were no signs of any person having occupied the room during the night. It flashed over me in a second that that porter of mine, who was a queer sort of a fellow, had made some blunder, and 1 went up stairs to investigate. There was the valise, sure enough, but no sign of the traveler. I hunted all over the house without success, and had al>out given up in despair, when I happened to go into the check room for something, and then* lay my trawling man asleep on the floor, with valise check No. 03 carefully tied around his neck." The Falling Out of Friends. From the London Truth. There has been some talk this week about the split between M. Taine and the Princess Mathilde, of whose salon he has long been a habitue. While at work on his book on Na poleon M. Taine told the princess that he was afraid that sh** would not read his judgments with pleasure. The princess very kindly re plied that she naturally could not judge Na poleon so severely as M. Taine probably would, for, had it not been for the great Emperor, she might have been selling oranges in the streets of Ajaccio instead of receiving her friends in the Hue dc Bern. “Nevertheless," she added, "I trust to your tact and good taste." Well, since the publication of his two articles in the Remit' den Deujc Monties M. Taine has not appeared at the princess' receptions, and. irritated at his neglect,the princess has deposited her card with I*. P. <\ in the corner, in the safe keeping of M. Taint**# concierge. The story runs that, at the Academy last Thursday. Taine opened his soul to M. Kenan, and said: "I shall never cease to regret having lost so old a friend on account of a book.” “.Won am/," replied M. Kenan, “in order to have the right to s|)eak freely mv thoughts I broke with a greater lady than the princess.” “What lady?" “The church.” Spared No Expense. From tlic Arkannaw Traveler. Boston father (to newly-graduated daughter) —I am glad that your mind has taken such a turn towards art. for you know that more is ex pected of you than if you lived in Chicago’ Daughter— Yes, father. Father—And I hope that you will distinguish yourself in more than one way. Daughter- Yes, father. Father I distinctly desire thut you become noted as an essayist Daughter--Yes father. Father-I liave spared neither pains nor ex pense in your education thus far, but not with standing this Immense outlay of time and money, if yon can think of anything which you lielleve will add to your equipment for the ca reer which you are alxnit to begin if you can suggest some other way of refining your taste, please do so. Do you know of any tiling else? Daughter Ye* father. Father What is it > speak out; never mind the exfieiiMo. I daughter Well, father. I’d like to go this nf ten loon and see Prof. Sullivan thump that yap from the country. The American “Olt.” KnyliMh fiirln in 1/ouUm Truth. What ad* light fully umfitJ expression is the American “(Jit |t emu*** aliimsf as handy as tie* Herman ’ Ho," which can lx* used tu Midi a variety i#f ways that it emulates those patent ' medicine* which are advertised to cutw every thing from a hi•>*♦*.i i*g to# ciiilMtin I <mi> line tong to le aid*- to say “y\\ " Imt | have y*>t dated hit instance. alien * nun )**** clmiiay compliment, it w<*jldt** d*d|c*o’ a , it 'lim‘4aeert him with a mtutrnlnl 'lilt," or, j * fw*n he talk# m ae niMniii aixmf *onu -thing ' thritUug him lent gha't'/u# If amiki I w t- ei him io*4( in the uirror *if a * oui* mfrfuou* litiU* j ' 4 di, gu, “ mui awe what no au< > h u 1 reaJ)> thudi J muM Imm any ihi U woapj j iw tfU ms wnnrlui hUi* 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tnc AVtrr, of Neoga, 111., publishes the fac simile of a letter written to its editor by Mrs. Susan Johnson, of that town, who will be 70 years old in June, vrho never went to school in her lift*, and who first tiegan to learn to write three months ago. The writing is very plain, and bet ter than that of the majority of women of her age; the spelliug is correct, and the only no ticeable errors are in capitalization and pune- I tuation. A prominent junk dealer recently received an order for 10.000 old tomato cans. The dealer explained that much of this kind of tin is used for corners and edge pieces on a low grade of trunks, while many people use it for flushings on roofs. The deafer m obliged to melt toe solder off. straighten the cans out into flat sheets, pack the pieces in flat bundles for ship ment, and only gets about $lO per ton for his trouble. In Philadelphia the school rule requiring scholars to bring physicians' certificates in case there is any sickness in the family is certainly enforced. The other morning a teacher saw a doctor enter the home of a pupil, who appeared in school soon after without a certificate. “Go right home,” said the teacher, “and don't re turn until you have a certificate from the doc tor.” The* child disappeared, but soon after re turned. gleefully approaching her teacher, ex claimed: “Please, ma'am, but it's a little boy baby—and the doctor says it isn't catching!*' There is a cheap restaurant in Now York that feeds 8,000 jieople a day! It is never closed, nor night nor day, and has three different re!aj*s of waiters, cooks, cleaners, cashiers and other hands. It is not noted in the city, but is famous in all the country towns and villages in New York State. New Jersey and Connecticut, which are its chief source of patronage. How many reservoirs <f soup and how many tons of beef it consumes daily are matters for the considera tion of metropolitan correspondents of country newspapers. But the figures are astounding and interesting without sensational elaboration. The picturesque castle of St. Angelo at Rome is no more to be the scene of those annual fire work displays for which it has become famous. A commission appointed by the Minister of Pub lic Instruction, who has jurisdiction in these matters, in consequence of the castle being “an ancient monument—i. e.. Hadrian's mausoleum has reported that the fixing of the great set pieces inflicts great damage on the building, and that last year great holes were knocked into its walls by the pyrotechnics. So the Minister has forbidden its further devotion to rockets and squibs, and the municipality is at its wits' ends. “Long John" Wentworth, of Chicago, is erecting an immense granite monument for himself. When asked the other day what epitaph he would put on it he replied: “Nothing; not a word. It's going to be just like me, a plain, unsophisticated monument. Then a inanil come along and say, ‘Whose monument’s that?' and somebody'll say. ‘Wentworth.' Then the man’ll say. ‘Wentworth? Who's Went worth?’ And lie'll go and buy a biography of me aud remember it. If I had a big inscription on it a mail'd say, ‘Wentworth, humph! Went worth, eh!’ and go on aud forget all about it be fore he got out or the cemetery.” A correspondent from Nanking, China, under date of Feb. 10. says: “One of the missionaries had occasion to send for an official on the night of Feb. 14 to disperse a crowd which had gath ered at his gat** clamoring to have him come out and clear away the fog. which was very dense, and which they claimed he had brought on.” The shunpao mentions that on the night of Feb. 13 the city of Nanking was enveloped in a dense fog, and the street lamps, which were 100 feet above the ground, were invisible. On the fol lowing night the fog was accompanied by a smell of sulphur, which caused the inhabitants to fear that there was a conflagration. It, how ever, disappeared in about two hours. Astonishing as the statement may appear, it is nevertheless a fact that there are within the borders of the State of Colorado the wealth in coal of two or even three States like Pennsyl vania—coal sufficient to meet the demands of the nation, even for many decades, if not cen turies, to come. For the* vast trans-Missouri country, eastward even to the valley of the Mis sissippi, Colorado is the great present and future storehouse of the fuel which the demands and necessities of its varied commercial and indus trial life will require. Many generations hence, when Colorado shall have l>ecome an old State, when the frontier days shall have been forgot ten. when gold and silver mining shall have ceased to be profitable, even then will the coal fields of Colorado be yielding their hidden treas ures of fuel to supply the demand. The handwriting of Attorney General Garland once seen would ever after be recognized. It is distinctly the worst in the Cabinet, and is a series sf scratches to the uninitiated. His signa ture can never be developed into A. H. Garland even by his intimates. * He writes A. H. and Ark. very plainly, and the Ark. goes with every signature, so that those who know his initials and the State he hails from can guess at the rest. The Garland is written as though it spelled Earle, and it has frequent y been so deciphered. A friend of the Attorney General in Arkansas in reply to a letter from Mr. Garland addressed it A. H. Earle, and it took no little time to con vince the law adviser of the Cabinet that the in correct spelling of the name was not for the purpose of ridiculing his signature. The At torney General thinks he writes his name legi bly. The players whose dead comrades are buried by the command of a resistless sentiment from “The Little Church Around the Corner,” in New' York, upon whose quaint presentiment Joseph Jefferson invoked God’s blessing, frequently complain of the provoking indistinctness of the service, save the choral feature. The reading of the Scriptures and the intonation of the sublime, form sanctioned by the episcopacy for funeral observances are generally most incoherent and leave no more of intended impression on the un familiar than if recited in a foreign tongue. The cause of complaint is attributed to tb** age and infirmity of the venerable and beloved rector, but the help of a vigorous young assist ant, with just elocutionary pretentions, could readily be secured. “All!” was the recent com ment of an old actor, “if they would let one of our profession be selected for the purpose! You remember the story about the elder Booth re citing the Lord's Prayer. Jt was a revelation to the listening ministers!” Senator Hkarst, of California, is a big man of generous nature, fond of companionship and exceedingly cordial to his friends. He has been in New York frequently of late, making his headquarters at the Hoffman House. It is re j>orted that within a short time he has become associated with two or three other wealthy Cali fornians, who made their money in gold mines, ami a syndicate of New York capitalists to oper ate in the mining of gold on tue Pacific coast in South America. The gold belt is said to stretch all the way from Alaska dowu to Peru on the Pacific coast, and Californians are begin ning to look up and down the coast in both di rections for new fields of mining ven ture. In a chat with friends the other day Senator Hearst said that he an ticipated a revival of activity in gold mining within the next year or two. Senator Hear t’s wealth is estimated at as much as $8,000,000. His education has been classical A story is told that two Californians engaged in a dispute one day over the proper method of speaking. They agreed to leave it to the next man they saw , who happened to be George Hearst. He was seated on the stoop of a hotel with ids feet on the railing. One ot the gentlemen stepped up to him and said: “Sir. my friend and I nave l*een having a dispute about a matter of speech. We have agreed r• leave it t< the nest men we meet. Are you a grammarian?” “A what?” naked Senator Hearst “A grammarian?” was the repeated inquiry. “No, sir. Not by a long sight,’ was the emphatic response, “I am a Mis sourian.” Tiik Empress Eugenie is going to pay a visit to her native land. She has not lieen in Spain since 1803, when she went there with a double object. One was to bring the Spanish govern ment to send art army corpa to Rome to protect tbe Pope and so enable tnc French to corno away. The other was to Influence the Spumsh < 'oiirt of Api>eal, before which there was a long pending suit brought by the relatives of the Empress Eugenie on the Montijo side against her miiierial majesty If the suit were decided against her there would he a stigma placed up on her birth. Notwithstanding tier efforts, and iM'ihafis ticca uni* of the attempts of tin* J>u<* do Mont jiennie.- to f runt rate her, she lost, and them was. therefore, much smvaMii spent upon her Kfh in Paris and .Madrid. All that, however, is now very ancient history which will ***rtulnly i not lx* reiiienjlicrcd when slje is In Spain The K|*4idiirds will only in her a countrywoman who lias tasted of tlie sweets of existene** tmd then of mII the hit ler* sate that of poverty. 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