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6 Cjjc|!lffnung|lclus Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATI’KOAT) APRIL. *3. I**7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Mornino Nk vs is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 35 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Mousing News, try mail , one month. $1 00; three months, J3 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The MiiBMSH Nf.ws. by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 35; six months. $2 50; one year. $6 00. The Sunday News, In/ mail . one y'ear, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable itt advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. Index to new advertisements. Special Notices— As to the Sale of the Dil lon Tract; Grand Excursion on Steamer Pope Catlin; Dr. Nunn. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Auction Salk—Receiver's Sale of Furniture, by C. H. Dorsett. New Spring Butter— A. M. &C. W. West. Coal and Wood— Dixon & Murphy. Publications— Harper’s Weekly, Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Harper's Young People. Excursion to Charleston— Per Charleston End Savannah Railway. Paints, Oils, Etc.— Lloyd & Adams. .Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Board; Lost; Miscellaneous. Herecting —L. & 15. S. M. 11. Legal Notices— Notice in Admiralty; City ||lUhal's Notice; Notice of Application for Charter of Savannah, Vernonburg and Rosedew Railway. It appears that Henry George makes his ■hade of anarchy pay. He receives $75 for an hour’s talk. If Henry Clews owns any of the spurious Virginia bonds a prolonged howl from him may be expected. Germany's attitude toward France sug gests that Prince Bismarck is pining for just one more fight before he dies. There is room enough in this country for all the Europeans who want to work, but there is none for idlers and political agi tators. As far as the Governor of South Carolina and Georgia are concerned, the prospects are that it will be a long time tietween drinks. The Houston Post wants to know if the Morning News considers Texas a Southern State. Yes, for it has the Southern ear mark —a boom. The London Times, otherwise known as “The Thunderer,” will find that it will take lightning to kill the influence' of Charles Stewart Parnell. A daily paper devoted to the interests of base ball has made its api>euranoe. Now let’s have one devoted to the interests of mumble-the-peg C. P. Huntington, the railway magnate, wants to go into t e hote business. He has already equipped himself with a colored neck-tie and a diamond pin. The weekly press of Georgia manifests a disposition to force Republicans who are masquerading as Democrats to disclose themselves in their true colors. Canada, Japan and Mexico are all mak ing faces at the United States. In spite of his pacific intentions, Uncle Sam may yet lie forced to go on the warpath. •—Atlanta is disposed to plume herself l>e gjiMßclii' is no longer the “umpire” city of the South. The Southern Base Ball League comfortable on account of the .’Tjib United States refuse hospitality to and jumpers of Europe; why not {SRjPt hospitality to the upholders of the * Wcnkg who find their way across the At lantic? The Boston CUobe thinks the fact that Harvard is to have anew drinking foun tain is suggestive. Parents who have sons nt Harvard will doubtless wonder why the fact is suggestive. A* far as Chattanooga is concerned the ■war is over. The ex-Union soldiers of that city are giving valuable aid to the fair held in that city for the benefit of disabled cx- Coufederate soldiers. Adam Smith said: “Man is the animal that make 6 bargains; no other animal does this; one dog does not change a bone with another.” New York and Chicago might find it profitable to elect dogs to i ifllce. In justice to A. B. Corliss, the Dare town, N. J., teacher recently accused of teaching his pupils to play jioker, it is proper to state that they playod the gome with “historical” cards. A good deal was learned about kings and queens. G. W. Smalley, the Ixindou correspondent of the New York Tribune, writes that Mrs. James Brown Potter is steadily improving in her dramatic work at the liny market Theatre. American pluck will toll, even among the “blarsted Britishers.” London, Ky., conn's to the front with the ■trangost case on record. A few days ago a man named Perkins was tried in the Police Court of that town for using profane language in the presence of drummers, and was sent to jail for thirteen days. The press of the country, Democratic and Republican, has offered many explanatioiLs of the Republican defeat in Rhode Island. The explanation is of no importance. The only thing that should attract attention is the comforting fact that a Democrat is now Governor of tlint State. Edward Atkinson says that the into estate commerce law is a measure “to obstruct free commerce among the several Hue* uudTurritorios of the Union.” It is stange rslimMNtthoo sind and one objections to tiie ' • m:‘ | lending m fotign-,-,. ' l ' i • Hp>i ■ Bt - iii* 1,11 ’ ■. Hi* ’ ' t.< k 4 will Is- C|*vrUui4 and BPw ’ll Hi., | 1,. Alderman Bogart’s Amendment. Alderman Bogart’s proposed amendment ' to the city charter is entitled to very care ful consideration. It is intended for a re forin, and it is for the people of the city to say whether in their opinion it is a reform, and if so, whether they want it. They are the ones who are interested, and as it will come before the Council for its action in a couple of weeks it is time for them to be thinking about it seriously. It is much 1 letter for them to express their views with regard to it now thay to wait until the Coun cil lias acted upon it. Its aim is to have always in the Council men who are familiar with the affaire of the city, and, also, to increase the chances of al ways having a Council that bo devoted to the city’s interests. There is no doubt that the proposition to give the Mayor the veto power is a good one. Asa general rulo the Mayor can be depended upon to act in accordance with the wishes of the majority, and to do what he believes to be for the general good. Being the hoad of the government he naturally fools a greater degree of responsibility than an Alderman. If the government is bar! he has to bear the most of the blame, and if it is good ho gets the credit. He very naturally exerts him self, therefore, to give the city a clean, economical government. There is another thing to be considered. It is that more care is exercised in selecting a Mayor than an Alderman. The jieople want a man at the hend of municipal affairs of proved ability and recognized qualifica tions for dealing with public mattors. There is not much reason, therefore, for thinking that anything but good results will come from clothing the Mayor with the veto power. But the proposition to elect only lialf the Council every two years ought not to be adopted hastily. It nuiy lie a good one, but the people ought to be satisfied that it is be fore assenting to it. It is certainly advisable to have men in the Council who are throughly acquainted with city matters, but is there not danger that the six holding-over members might manage so as to perjietuate their power ? It the Mayor were in sympathy with . them they could do pretty much what they pleased, and for four years, at least, they could have everything their own way. Of course it would tie a rather remarkable state; of affairs if the holding-over six and the Mayor should agree to burden the city with debt or do some other thing obnoxious to public sentiment, but similar agreements have been made elsewhere, and they might be made here. Under the present charter an entirely new Council is elected every two years, so that if the people are dissatisfied they do not have to wait long to put the city in charge of new men. If the members of the old Council have proved themselves worthy of public confidence they all stand a chance of being re-elected. Some of .them are generally re elected, so that the new Council is not often without experienced members. Of course the choosing of only half the Council every two years would not lessen election expenses. The cost of electing six Aldermen would be as great as that of electing twelve. There is much to bo said for and against Alderman Bogart’s proposed amendment, ami those who are interested in the city should think of it carefully before deciding for or agaiiLSt it. The Street Hucksters. The Council is determined apparently to drive the hucksters from the street. The proposed ordinance requiring them to pro vide themselves with badges will have that effect, and that is the effect doubtless that it is intended it shall have. The street huck sters are a deserving, class of people. They are very poor, and work hard for all they earn. If they are forced to purchase badges, however, it is probable that the most of them will give up their calling altogether. There is very little to bo said against them anil a great deal in their favor. There ore a few jieople who object to the noise they make in the early morning in crying their wares, but it is doubtful if there iR much complaint against them on that account. Housekeepers appreciate them. It is not always convenient to go to the market for a few vegetables, or shrimp, or a little fruit, and if the hucksters arc forced off the street people will have to go there, however insig nificant their wants may be. There is an other thing which the street hucksters do. They keep prices for such articles as they sell within reasonable limits. Remove them and the probabilities are that the prices of fruit, vegetables and certain kiiuls of fish will advance at once. The poor classes of people are interested in get ting food articles as cheaply as possible. There is very general complaint that living is higher hore than in any other city in the South. Dear living, of course, operates against the city. It keeps people from coming here. Those who rent stalls iu the Market want the selling of food articles on the streets prohibited of course, liecause it interferes somewhat with their business, but they all appear to be getting along quite comfort ably, and the little the street hucksters soil wont ruin them. The Council should aim to legislate so as to make the necessaries of life as cheap as possible. The drummer generally looks out for him self. In Eatentou not long ago the Putnam Rifles had a fair for the purpose of raising funds for new uniforms. One night four teen drummers were present. One of thorn was prevailed upon by a young Italy to auc tion off certain goods which seemed to tie a drug on the market. He agreed to do so after having first conferred with his brother drummers. Next day it was discovered that all the articlos auctioned off had brought big prices. It was also discovered that while the drummers had been lively bidders, nothing had Is-en sold to them. It finally leaked out that the auctioneer had agreed that if his brother drummers would run the bids iiji he would make it convenient to kins k down the articles to unwary bidders from the town. Drummer* are not us jsip ular in Hutonton now as they once were. Tin* Rhode Island Legislature is deter milled that railroad ivtssongeiK iu thaiKtab slmll I** properly protectisl. It has just cn a<-ted a law requiring that every passenger ctr on the railroads of the State slmll carry two clietnleal lire extinguishers, with printed instructions for use and a set of wrecking tools, mid forbidding tie* use of kerosene, lump* iuul stoves. The railroads will now l* tmi|*'ll*l to attempt Mm solution of tin problem of wife lighting and heating of cars. If tli cannot solvi It traveler*till lUk**' Island m <t winter will have tv '■••■tenlf With It-fill I’old mid dmkuiv- e' Tie- I'.'ini.yhttHlu lAgl-Iflttire lifts nlril j tele*J tie pal tax iu tad Mtats. "Manfvi’sl 'll' 'V Mm. imetvss aimUtor Loom, but j i it t* a Luoui ol a vwaWul oria.M, j TTTE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. Curious News Items. The average newspaper reader does not no- ; tiee what may be called the curiosities of the j news. The news feature of an accident or a , suicide or some other thing alone interests i him. There are, however, a good many cu- j rious things to lie found in accounts of the occurrences of the busy world from day to day. For instance, when a novel murder, or suicide, or other deed that has marked pe culiarities of an original character is pub lished it is very apt to be duplicated in a day or two. A week or so ago there was widely published an account of the suicide of a convict in Mississippi. The convict’s death didn’t attract much attention, but the unusual way in which he sought death did. His sentence was for ten years and lie was quite despondent. He was one of a gang engaged iu felling timber, and as a large tree was about to fall he placed him self directly in its way and was crushed to death. On last Saturday at Austin. Ind., J. W. Middleton, with his two sons, was engaged in felling trees on his farm. An unusually large tree hail been chopp'd u util it was tottering, when the young matt sought a place of safety. On looking to see what had become of their father they wore horrified to find him standing with folded arms and smiling face directly in a lino with the fall ing tree. He was killed of course. Doubt less he had read the account of tho Missis sippi convict’s suicide. A few days ago the girls employed in the woolen mills at Monasha, AVis., struck lie cause the foreman ordered the windows of the factory facing the main street painted. They could not, of course, satisfy their cu riosity about what was going on in tho street, and they decided to quit work until the foreman consented to remove the paint from the windows. This is a rather cu rious item in itself, but it would not be at all surprising if there should be other strikes shortly for similar reasons. Those curious features to be found in the news columns of the press furnish interesting subjects for the investigation of metaphy sicians. Anarchists and Police. It is noticeable that the Anarchist rarely fails, in the course of his harangues, to urge his fellows to kill the police. Sometimes, as was the, case in Chicago, the advice is followed. Asa rule, however, when a col lision accurs between Anarchists and the polico the former quickly yield, and no blood is shed. The hatred the Anarchist entertains for the police is largely dire to fear of the latter. Most of the Anarchists who mako this coun try tho theatre of their ravings and mis deeds are natives of Russia or Germany. In each of those countries tho police exercise great power. In Russia they may arrest any person whom they suspect of either penal or political offenses, and they are therefore a constant menace to Anarchists. In Germany the power of tho jiolioe is not so great, but it is sufficient to keep the An archists in subjection. When the latter take up their residence in this country they are unable to rid themselves of their fear of the police, and they therefore lose none of their hatred of them. A ludicrous illustration of tho Anarchist’s fear of the police was given in New York a few days ago. A follower of Most, the ex-cou vict, was standing upon a plat of grass m one of the public squares, breathing curses upon capitalists and defiance to the law. He was surrounded by a smail crowd of eager listen ers, some of whom sympathized with him, while others were merely curious to hear what he had to say. A one-armed police man, charged with tho care of the square, approached the crowd and exclaimed: “Come off of that grass!” The Anarchist, who had but a moment before declared that he wanted to lend a general crusade against the police, stopped his harangue and slunk away like a whipped dog. A block away he recovered himself sufficiently to shout baric: “Down with the police, curse.them!” His hatred came to the surface close upon his exhibition of fear. The polico reciprocate the Anarchist’s hatred with interest. It is, perhaps, fortu nate that this is true, for whatever failures the courts may make in dealing with the Anarchist, it may be considered certain that tho police will always do their duty in deal ing with him. Secretaries of the Treasury. The New York Times lately published a very interesting article on “The Nation's Financiers.” The purpose of the article was to give a few leading points about each of those who have occupied the |i.-irion of ' Secretary of ttie Treasury. Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary, and at the time he was appointed was only 82 years of age. He was the youngest and perhaps greatest of all the Secretaries. There have befen thirty-eight Secretaries in all, includ ing tiie present Secretary, Mr. Fairchild, who is 44 years of age. Only four of tho Secretaries wore ns young as 40 years at the time of appointment, and only twelve under SO. The oldest was William Duane, of Pennsylvania, who was 78. Seven Secretaries have been appointed from Pennsylvania, four from New York, and four from Ohio. Several of flic States have f urnisho 1 three each, and about a ih izeu of the other States have furnished the oth ers. Hamilton was born in Nevis, one of tho West India Islands. Gallatin, the fourth Secretary, was born in Switzerland, and Wolcott, the second Secretary, was born in the Island of Jamaica. Gallatin hold ollice for nearly twelve years. Crawford served eight years and four m<intlu. Wood bury remained in oifiee six years and eight moutht. Hamilton served five years and five moutlis,J and his successor, Wol cott, held office five years, and f u mouths. No Secretary since Woodbury has held over tho term of tho President who first appointed him. McCulloch served four years and four months, and was the only Secretary uncalled to office after other Sec retaries had held tile pkic? nml retired. The shortest term was that of Secretary Philip Francis Thomas, who was called in by Bu chanan when Howell Cobh resigned,and who held U,< o!!i"o just one month uu<l two days. Gen. l)ix, Thomas' successor, held the place one month and twenty-five days, and Gresham held it, one month an I four days. Dexter was in oillo four months. Ewing held th' Secretaryship six mouths, and Duane was only four months in office. Kol g r wm two yeara and uiiie months S.iere t try, and Manning completed hi t second year with g'S’d mwMurc. hill's* I4NU tie' number of iltlL'i-ste cbll dri ll ill MiwsnchU'i'tt* tins increased Ho flu thy.onfi i'U,is. assigned is that Vt is.su 'ffiite tteiMtvutst.il. • morelnteHMt in athletic •|> ttn mi I prize lighting to in iu ••Ineati'Si. .Chaplain limvira, of lho MoAsuriiuwita Htato jmi*oii, thinks IJixl ill* liarg'-d |it**s iibci* drmid unlive lien* attention from Itu elniri !| .. He la qij t> nr lit it !• the Luwni .i vi chart too tv ra’Mita tnw til ;t. 1 CURRENT COMMENT. Tho "If Is Unnecessary. From the Boston fjlobe. I Deni.) Hr. Cleveland will riot refuse a renomination, nml a renomination he can have if his adminis tration during the next twelve months is satis factory to the Democratic party. The Answer to Senator Sherman’s Speech. From the Missouri Republican (l)em.) Our Republican friends need not fret beimusc no one ls answering John Sherman's Tennessee speech. That State will newer it at the polls with the usual Democratic majority. Arbor Day. From the Austin Statesman (Drill). Nowhere is shade so much needed as in the South, where tiie summer sun sends down such scorching rays. And a day most suited to the planting of trees should lie selected, and that day, all over the State, should, if not made a holiday, lie the occasion of universal planting of trees that will promote comfort and secure beauty. A Timely Amendment. From the Boston Advertiser (Rep.) The Bn u declines to join in the crusade of Rev. Dr. Fulton for the overthrow of the Church of Home. It: suggests instead a union of all churches for the purpose of breaking down in fidelity. After this task is satisfactorily com pleted, it, will then consider the question whether there is any Christian church that should lie broker, down. Tho bun's order of proceedings is a timely amendment. It shines for all in this matter. BRIGHT BITS. “Why do yon make that knot in your hand kerchief:'” "Oh. so that I shan’t forget that charming melody,” —German Payer, Mistress (to new servant)—We have break fast, generally about R o'clock. New S t-vant—Well. mum, if I ain't down to it don't whit, —Harper s Bazar. Young Physician (who has just lost a patient, to old physician)— 1 “Would you advise an autop sy, doctor)" ' Old .tjto'aioiajl- “No; I would, aqyvsb an in quest."—Puck. Anxious Oraniimaxm i (watchful of widowed •and coquettish daughter-in-law)—Johruy, go down stairs, and if Mr. Brow n Ls with mamma tell her 1 want to speak to her Literal rendition by Johnny—Mamma, grand ma says if Mr. Brown is here you're to come rigid up stairs. Accident Kews. A young lady went into a store to ptu'chose a diary, and had about concluded to secure one shown her, when she changed her mind and said; "I guess I'll take a purse for the diary.” An old lady standing near, and who only par tially heard the foregoing announcement, went over and said in a loud whisper: "Miss, don’t you do it, take blackberry cordial ßoston Budget. * Mrs. Brimmer — l don't see when a man has a good trade why he should prefer to lie a burglar. Mr. B—Who are you talking about ? Mrs B -That man who was caught breaking into a store last night. He’s a machinist. Mr. B—Who told you that ? Mrs. B—The paper Says that while be was at the station house and the officer was making his report the burglar made a bolt for the door. —Boston Budget. Stranger— What in the world are those great embankments for? Omaha Jlaii—They were left by grading the street. "But don’t they cave in?” "Sometimes.” “And they must kill people wl-.o happen to be under them?” "Yes, but if the streets weren’t graded it would kill the horses."— Omaha World. Miss Gushington— Wbat! Europe! Mis'* Lushiugton—l didn't mean to say it, but it’s out now. Miss G.—Well, misery loves company. We are going there, too, this summer. Miss L.—But you have u place at Newport. Miss G.—Pa had to si H it. Miss L.—l don't sec what's got into business. My father announced last evening that every thing had failed, and lie couldn't even afford a cottage at Long Branch. We’ve got to sail as soon as the season opens,—New) Orleans Pica yune. A story is told in regard to a christening in the lower end of the city. Mother, father and infant were on band. Also the godfather. The good old priest proceeded with the ceremony until it was necessary to name the child. The godfather, as usual in such cases, had written the name on a card, and when the ceremony had reached this point he dived into liis vest pocket and handed out one. The priest took it and a look of horror came over his face. The god father turned a fiery red, went down in' Lin pocket again, reached out another card, handed it to the priest, ami received in return the one he had first given tiie good man. and the cere mony proceeded without interruption. The one he hail first handed to the priest read: "X am somewhat of a liar myself.”—Pro rat Transcript. Omaha Paterfamilias (reading)—Mourning dinners are the latest Parisian folly. Twelve young ladies, dressed in the deepest mourning and heavily veiled compose the party. Tito dining-room is drnped in black, silver wreaths and tombstone! take the place of pictures. The chairs are shaped like coffins net on end and hung with immortelles. Knives and forks have bones for handles and the champagne is served in skulls. The dinner is eaten in silence to slow music. Omaha Daughter—Are they given by people who lost relatives? “No. The paper ; say it is only a whim, but I don't see how the guests can keep from laugh ing at tho ridiculousness of it.' 1 Maybe, papa, invitations are only issued to voting ladies whose fathers have refused them a new dress. —Omaha World. PERSONAL. f'aiMK ill-mannered people who live in Massa chusetts say that George W. fable is a better Sunday school teacher than author. The house of the Hartford defaulter, Bar tholomew, has been leased by the Rev. Mr. Dive. The whirligig of time plays curious pranks. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Howells will sail for Europe in June, to lie absent a year. Mr. Alex ander Agaasiz will go to Alaska in May for a year's absence. # Queen Yil-okia has received enough jubilee gifts to fill a storehouse as bjg as Windsor Cas tle. MenV of them have to -be given away lor want of place to put them. ■ M. DtiHlt/iwiTZ. the famous Paris correspond ent of the London Times, recently gave a din ner in the French capital, at which MM. Jules Sinicin, Do Lessops nml Lock toy assisted. Kino Leopold Uhk had four children, one son and three daughters. The Princess Louise was married to tile l>nk ■ of Snxi'-t'ohurg. Princess Stephan!" to Prince Rudolph of Austria, aiid Princess Clementine, unmarried. The Duke of IS won dure, lather of the Mur qtlis of iim tingtou, is sola t> Ik- seriously ill. If is death irould lie an event of considerable po litical importance just now. its It would elevate tiie Marquis to the House of Lords. Nathaniel Lheene, of Newport, R. 1., is a grandson of the famous Revolutionary General of the same name. He is u prominent citizen of Rhode Island, and President of the .State So ciety of the Cincinnati, a ixmltlon which his il lustrious ancestor first fillisl. Prince Roland Bonaparte is at present vis iting Austria, whence lie will proceed to Kervia and Uuunittnia. Before leaving Paris the Prince gave a rich present to the Ethnographical Mir e tint ol t.'io Trooadero, containing a precious col lection ul'objects, milling them the sceptre of Queen Pomure. Prince Victor Napoleon, exiled, now resid ing in Brussels, .holds weekly receptions Among his regular visitors are a numlier ,>l the Boimpartlst meads)r c.f the ('liumber of |mjm ties, wlio make a weekly pilgrimage to Bel giui'll" pay their respects to the representative of the house of Napoleon and to try to bolster ti)i its "lost cause.’' Guv. Church, of Dakota, tells this story: A year or s<• ago. when 1 was making a journey lytq the Black Hills, the train stopped ju the prairie, ami looking cut I saw a solitary house 1 lie roniJuclor eliaiieel to i mile along nrd I asked who lived there "Tbal," said I Is wlmo • Mi livei and prints ids pajs-r ' 'I 'tv wasn't another house within a liuudicd mile Ex Mayor Hurra, Ilf rllUodelphul, sent copies of ids message last year to ail parts of i|„. world li Mayor iif eu-It large riri m ihi* cu'ißtry received a copy of th • pri eb its docii merit, so I it* Hayo s' of .lisldo. Japan, and o* ( onsLtnUuoi lc. torse,, were iiia-wi.o h'*n ori'd. Adltius Lx press Company now eelL on tpo city ot Philadelphia to puy #ltf, ou th" copras s ui out Coi ST Itoerr. m ill* gitbiiate hr itber id king MUr W r ol inly turd italiaa MtltlsL-t at i vietuur for teaqj (sear*. Mu* tv r>'igu hr* l*<-lii'n •* I • igu MlhDlt of Italy sa l t ■ omv an sir. 4 :ao<* mm tnMiami f;i ■•••. . tl 1 f'W tills . fee U coi ling to l a pjg.,, ) re tits 'Sibilv Is *, fi* .1. stree ,n it*. Itullsn Keu fml i e‘!"'u ’Tmg DID THE DOG OV/N THE GIRL ? A Photographer on the Unpleasantness of Taking Canine Pictures. “No. I do not like to photograph dogs," said a well known photographer to a reporter of the Detroit Free Press, “not even if I am paid double for the work. What kind of an cxxires sion can I get on a dog's face? And just as I am going to have an impression he moves, and knocks the whole thing into a cocked hat. Now look at that object." The object was a white, silky, flossy little ani mal that, like Grace Greenwood's little boy in his new pants, could hardly tell whether it was going to school or coming home. Its bangs covered its face, but on close iusiiection a piair of eyes were discernible. It sat up on a hassock, crossed its front paws in obedience to the dictum of its young mis tress, had a blue ribliou bow adjusted, and was taken by the instantaneous method. "All the ki vis seem to lie having their pic tures taken iately," observed the photographer. “They don't cry the way babies do, but who on earth wants the iiieture I if a dog?" The man of Chemicals had evidently not much acquaintance with the Landseers, Beards and Bonheurs of the animal kingdom. lie retired grumbling into his den w ith the pictured poodle. As the representative of tho hr or Press left a round-eyed pug with a snub nose am I -a har ness ot lielU was on his way up. He was ac companied by a pretty girl, whom he evidently owned. "Come, Toby, dear,, that’s a dear dog—come up now! You’re going to have your picture taken." l’erhaps the possibility of a bench show, when ell the “darling dogs" of the community will be offered fur prizes, has something to do with the sudden demand for dogs’ photographs. LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN. A Much Misunderstood Man Set to Rights in the Public Eye. From Texas Si ftings. After having studied at the public schools he was sent to the University of Oxford. By close application he developed his intellect to such an extent that he could smoke Allen & Guiter s. cigarettes all day long and never turn a hair. Even liefore lie graduated he was thoroughly imbued with the idea that everybody else was a fool. While at college he was very extravagant in everything except attendance a: prayers, and his favorite tipple w as Perrier Jouel. He graduated with honors, but having a wealthy father, the celebrated Admiral Penn, he whs not obliged, like most college graduates, to whack a st reet ear mule for a living, or to sod grass at tWc. a day and find himself. His hats were all made to order by Dunlap, of New York. About this time he attended a Quaker meet ing and was converted. He swung around the circle preaching sermons, and they must have been pretty tough, as he was arrested and locked up. About this time Charles the Second made Penn a present of tho .'iiuiy,r>i Pennsylvania for an old debt. How lie came over to this country in one of the Canard Line steamers and founded the city of Philadelphia is well known. He was accompanied by Frank Siddall, who afterward invented soap. It was upon the condition that he took this mob with him that King Charles gave him the land to settle on. After this England flourished greatly, and King Charles and tiie people of England were very grateful to Penn for the greiff services he had rendered the country. They presented him with ten pounds of Hecker s Buckwheat and a bottle of Boker s Bitters. Rhyme of the Rail. Crashing down embankments, Rattling off of ridges, Shooting off of arches, Tumbling off of bridges, Splashing into rivers. Burning in the dale — Bless ine! it is pleasant, Riding on tbe rail! Newsboys at the stations, Through ttie car well-filled, Crv "Another horror!" "Fullest list of killed! 1 ’ High ami lowly people. Birds of every feather, Buy ami read in silence, Nervous grow together. “Sixty killed and wounded'.’’ "Fearful holocaust!" “Six cars full of people O'er a bank are tossed!” “Rescuing the victims l" “A survivor's tale!” Bless me! it is pleasant, Riding on the rail! Throw your paper from you, Look out at the pane— That is doleful reading Riding on a train! Looking out will cheer yog, At the muddy yards. Till you pass a high bridge Lacking any guards! Turning from the window. Calm your nervous soul, Sleeping till awakened By tbe rattling coal That, with a deal of clatter. An honest brakeiuun hove— Meanwhile whistling gayiy— Into a red-hot stove! Rumbling into darkness Go the rushing cars. Night will hide the (lunger That your comfort mars. No bridge; no. nor high bank Now vour spirit damps, While the cheery brakeman Lights the oil-fed lamps! Crashing down embankments, Rattling off of ridges, Shooting off of arches. Tumbling off of bridges, Splashing into rivers, Burning in the dale— Oh. it's very pleasant Baling oil the rail! —C. M. Thompson. Humors of the Jubilee. From the Liverpool Mercury. Talking of the Jubilee—Oh. the Jubilee!— there are some good t;t<>rios about the Jubilee collections in Birmingham hidden away in the Moron College Magazine. A lady iu the birth town of the caucus, having spent several hours in collecting for the women's fund, in a not very fashionable part of the town, with the magnifi cent result or tl-sb was delighted at last to meet with a good natured old dame who unhesita tingly proffered 2d. “But mind.'' she said, earnestly, “It mustn’t go to a statoo. Them statoos ain't truthful. There's t'un of George Dawson; I've Vard i;n preach many's the time, and "e alius won- a dower iu is button'ole, and 'ail trousers on as fitted ’im.” Klch and poor alike seem to look with con tempt upon the people who go about collecting money for the Queen A lady was on one oc casion shown into a fashion.il.lt- drawing room, and had the misfortune to disturb some kind of social function. Tim hoste.v,. indicating the hapless intruder with n patronizing wave of iim hand, remarked, with crue! sooni, to her guests, "Tins is a Jubilee person, I suppose. " Birming ham can cheer tin* Queen, nut "evidently does not believe very much in Jubilee memorials. They have not Tennyson's desire for something “regally gorgeous.” , A New “Col. Sellers." From the New York Time*. John T. Raymond is dead, but “Col. Sellers" still lives, in one of the private parlors of the Fifth Avenue a miniature road with wooden tracks lias Ihm*ii built for the purpose of illus trating the practicability of a bicycle railroad car. A k!tittle t rack underneath mul one over bead is all that hi necessary according to the plan. Two wheels above urul below the car an* sup[K>H4Hl to bo Hiubciont to hold it In pirn* while it is indue pulled along at the rate of 100 miles an hour. The man who is reKpor.rohlo for tin* bicy cle cur is very outhuniaatic ovor it. H** was fig* wring on its prospective value while talking with a capitalist whom he wanted to interest in tin* ••chenie to the extent of &>i. *1 will give you S?HJO,(XiO worth of slock outright," lie went on. “aud an option on s|,arvukih at |*ar. "jlow much do you estimate it will Is* worth in six moutli*?" inquired the mao of m<>uoy. A linn dn* tto one, M ws the reply. “Every dollar of lock will lx* worth a hundred. M “let me m**\“ "•aid the capitalist “if 1 look |IOO,<Wh now ilia* i " uld Is* si.www.diiOth. ti. Suppo .• i call'd my i option on of atock at p.u\ That would Is SJOO,ixi.(XA). making me worth $100,010,000 in six months. J guess I'll invest s.*) um a flyer. M lie Huddenly Kerri umbered. Front th< Sew York thy Ijinni* l ltinnirlr A merchant doing biiiu< *• m u** interior la said to no remarkable for his utter aleteut* j min ioducfss Ufioii '#<'>ti*fu Koi/i<* yeu n ago. I while visiting tins city to make his usiail nfirffi ( j purchase*. n vi/.ja*<i >iie owning a onthl*- - uptown tiwatre in the 1 our* t*f Um* |*U>. amcii a as* 1 i*dod< unut. tia- I*er-mia got inu.t a ! very b* I • rap- and Cn men boot wmaxaudj if •** ted iltHi la# uA-itiaiiy shed L*,r* Joef at that loot lieu* w|w n <4m • *i|y a ansi* in t in* J,< u*m • ' of f|M t 1 ► I i|i 1 ,1 nofe *n * 4isU i*nfi tor nit ioafant Slid is niuiod si" i* o b. n ying hk oaod dowfi imiu rebound ; Uifc slap ihi hi* i&imh* in 1 uiilo 1 that ■w-ij/v ~, .>;•*# a *J m Kmi vp amji |*w,i iug I —• ffttWWSMS' < uf|M>!•.* .uuisu<# mo-i !■•“?}'hr V *“ ITEMS OF INTEREST. The most uncommon names in English are those which begin with X. There are none in the New York directory. Philadelphia, how ever, presents the names of Xaviers, Xander and Xandry. During the past winter Mrs. Mary Miller, of Hillsborough, N. H. (where the season still lin gers), fed daily eight gray squirrels, which came to her door from the woods every morning and departed after having had their breakfast. Young chickens, the Microscopical Society of Sun Francisco fears, are filled with the seeds of consumption and may communicate the disease to people who eat them, but this trill hardly bear the market for broilers to any extent. At Athens an archaic statue of Athene has been found, composed of two plates of brass nailed together, each plate showing the same face. It is supposed to have formed part of a piece of furniture, and shows traces of paint. Joliet, 111., reports the case of a woman who has been lying three months in a trance condi tion at her home in that city. It is stated that the only signs of life she has exhibited have been when attempts wore made to put liquid food in her mouth. She would then close her jaws rigidly, and her eyelids would at the same time be tightly compressed. Washington Territory Indians, when they find a drove of deer in the woods, take a lot of well-worn blankets and fasten them at short in tervals on the bushes until a long line is thus decorated. Then they surround the deer, driv ing them toward the bushes, and when the frightened animals smell the blankets they run along the line, refusing to pass it, and are then shot down easily, A little story comes from India which shows how deftly modern science and modern appli ances lend themselves to carry on rites and cus toms celebrated on the Ganges a thousand years ago. A sepoy died a long woy from his home and country and his caste fellows duly cremated him, and, having done this, they went to the telegraphic office and wired as ’follows to his En rents: "Binda Persod died last night. Bones y post.” A native Persian lectured before a Sunday school in New York lately, and a published re port states that the young ladies of the audi ence laughed when Mr. Neesan told how the Persian youth was allowed to take one kiss from bis future wife on the eve before their marriage, provided he could find her in a dark room full of other ladies. They were silent and sympa thetic when he told how, although he was en gaged for three years, he never got one kiss in all that time. A gentleman interested in the commerce of the great lakes says it is going rapidly to large hulls. Twenty years ago a propeller that could carry 50.000 bushels of grain or 1,000 tons of coal was considered a monster, but there are many now in the trade between Buffalo and Chicago and Cleveland and Duluth that carry over 100,- 000 bushels of grain in a single cargo. The Onoko, one of our great iron propellers, takes 120,000 bushels of oats in a single cargo. These large vessels are fast crowding the smaller pro pellers and sailing vessels off of the lakes. A New York lady, who wears a beaver hat, tells a correspondent how she keeps the nap so smooth and shiny. Siie says: “First brush the hat thoroughly, so as to get all the fibres straightened out in one direction. Then take a silk handkerchief and pour into the middle of it about a half-teasjioonful of salad oil. Hub the handkerchief in your bands until the oil is thor oughly distributed through it. Then go over your hat time after time with the silk thus prepared. Lay the handkerchief aside, and use it every day upon the hat, without, however, re plenishing the oil more than once a week. The hat in this way will be kept in perfect order, and even an ordinary wetting will not disturb it.” Theodore Stanton says that M. Hector Pes sard, the well-known Parisian journalist, has many revelations to make concerning great peo ple, of both the past and present in bis spicy rec ollections now appearing in the Revue Bleue. It appears that in 1865 Gumbetta paid a visit to the Count of Paris, who was then, as now, in exile. During the conversation the great-grandson of Philippe Egalite, he who voted for the death of Louis Capet, exclaimed; "It is a mistake to con tinue any longer to defiantly throw in the face of the world the head of Louis XVI.” “But that ought not to bother you very much in your house,” interrupted Gambetta, with a loud laugh. The Count of Paris, like a polite host, pretended not to see the point of the joke. A startling discovery was made the other day by a lady liviug iu the Rue de St. Charles, Paris. She had been absent from Paris for a fortnight, and on returning to her apartment, which had been untenanted during her sojourn in the country and carefully lock's!, she discov ered in her bedroom the dead body of a man. She immediately rushed terror-stricken out of the room and ran down the stairs calling out for help. The police having come to her assistance, the body was removed and examined by a doc tor, who stated that tb deceased had succumb ed to an apoplectic stroke. The calling of the dead man was made easily evident by the dis covery in his pocket of a burglar's jimmy, a pair of knuckle dusters and a long sheath knife. The Persians have one never-failing subject of conversation; that subject is their health. The pleasure of talking about the weather is denied to them; for, as 11 months out of the 13 are fine in Persia, the subject does not present sufficient variety. But a Persian to whatever class of society he may iielong, is never tired of talking about his ailments, real or supposed. In his eyes all Ferringhis (Europeans) are doc tors, and the European doctor is the very best of all. For many years at Shiraz there lived an old Swede wh had walked into Persia in his youth. He knew nothing of medicine on his arrival: but, finding that the natives constantly solicited his advice, he bought a few medical books and literally acquired a certain amount of knowl edge by carrying out the good old principle of “Fiat experinientum in corpora vili.” Happily the Hakim Sahib also believed in the “vis medi catrix nulura.-.” Asa rule his drugs were harm less. “I have different colored liquids," said he, “and as long as then-is bread and water to la' had, lam never at a loss for a pill." The pills were floured for the common people and gilded for the rich. At 70 yearn of .age the Hakim Sahib died. He held the position of physician to the forms of the province, and was deservedly respected by natives and Eiirt>i>eans. Gen. R. Nicholson, in the St. Louis Globe Democrat, relates that in 1870 he was a member of the Yale College expedition which Prof. O. C’. Marsh took across the plains. One peculiar ity of the professor was that lie was a very nervous and rather timid horseman. He was C ontimudly talking to his horse, checking it and exclaiming, "whoa! whoa!” in loud tones. After we had been out a couple of months we fell ill with some friendly Indians, one of whom we hired as a guide. The professor hud a great ambition to impress these children of the wild erness, and we Knew that nothing would please him so much as to receive some name from them indicative of the character of his pursuit. The Indians certainly were impressed by him. hut not ill the way he exiHNited and desired. One day a member in our party came to the pro fessor and said: ’Professor Marsh, Indian Jim has given you n name.’ Marsh drew himself up. and. with a good deal of suppressed eager ness, asked wtint it was, expecting to bear something like the White Chief or'Big Medi cine Bone .Han, - referring to Ids fossiliferoue pursuits. 'Jim rode with you yesterday and noticed the way you uuinag'sl your horse, aud you are now known to the Indians as the ’Keaji Whoa Man.' The profossor said not a word, hut el! through tiie day preserved a most mo rose and gloomy aspect, and to this day there is no means hy which ids ill-will can so certainly be secured us by calling niin the ‘Heap Whoa Man ’ ” Tint Berlin Deutsche Iluutlurhau continues its series of recollections of Wagner ami publishes for the first time many of the grout musician's private letters, Several of them are devoted to singing t lie praises or Ids protector, the young King of Bavaria. Ludwig II who, It will Is' ie nieiiils-re I, conimil t'sl suicide lasi summer. "At tin- moment when 1 was finishing at Lmvni.my * ’I rial an,’ *' writes Wagner; "when I was exert lug su|s'iliiiinr.o i :.o: if to make it to establish luyw If on German soil; when, ills,-our ag"d ami m <l>p:iir. 1 finally turned toward Paris and luuiich.'d out uin> eolcrprise* repug u nit to iny nature, at licit moment tldi young man of 15 wits pr>w t,t a:, t he [lel-formamv* of my IsiiiengriM. and ausso pr if. m fully ulfocte i by (f that he lieoime Ottiitivafud Willi lit) works ami flame, -figin look#*.! upon no as his only muster, lienor, ielimle l lus to ever) lusty as well ns Ui me laUsi Ills father died, and my guardian angel i me* to tile throne si an hour when (hud ulucot l"s! sil hois- Th” Kings envoy finds nut In my lo iguig*, Invito* tie to court utal is or <lrred to fake '/.id tohlrri/Vsl mael-r some souvenir of me a pened, a pen, something " Tins cut fuel from another letter is s rent e\ tea*again!* V‘eieehi) ** ei. /11igitg yum fe-Uig mails ready forgiving the Nil* Unigea, | •as si dmrl oy the m*i Miloos el e o 7 this ills in* I'siug ding *e U' fwi id.a throwing 0, V self st nir tun 11] wo ' nipt eg I pin A sgaaa s.e, it* bio i-. ii paaiMksia *4 ih* iiagt* end i h*i uwsioii ts*d sl4 In it* Marian id tea lie wrote ’ f lain Let scab 1 w young kug it* is so iiauidautis , let fil l and spirit sold and yi s n'h tli that )wy u*,4int Arutp isuruai. 4m*! *inc hi* ill* wUi i an v*t tut* ** ntd>uisttl npui DRY GOODS. infill SUCCESSORS TO B. 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