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4 C|c|Pfli‘ni!ig Hctus Mcrnincr News Building, Savannah. Ga SATURDAY, APRIL SO, 1887. Registered at tke Post Office in Savanna A. Hie Morning News is publish***! * very day in the year, and is served to subscrib-i** i:i the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their >wn a< count, at “25 cents a week, ;$ 1 u) a month, $5 00 for six months and S!0 00 1< r one year. The Morning News* by mail, one month. $1 00: three months, s*' 50; six months, $5 uO, one year, $lO (X*. The Morning News. by mail, six times a reek (without Sunday thive months, $2 U 0; six months. $4 (X) one year. *8 00. The Morning N i \vs. Tri-VVeekls. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and “Saturdays, three months. $1 25; six months. $2 50: one year. $5 *X) The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. _ The Weekly News, by nwit, on** year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal older, .'heel; or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters r.iid telegrams should be addressed. “Morning News, savannah, Ha." Advertising rites made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings— Catholic Library Association; Sa rannah Lodge No. 217. I O. B. B.; Zerubbabel Lodge No. 15, F. & A. M Special Notice— Policy Holders of the Ala bama Gold Life Insurance Company. Legal Notice—Libel for Divorce. Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com pany. Circular No. 88—Change in Classification, Georgia Railroad Commission Cheap Column Advertisements -Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Strayed or Stolen; Raffle; Lost; Found; Miscel laneous. Auction Sales—Church Building, by R, 11. Tatera; Household Furniture, by J. McLaughlin It Son. It is to to hoped that May will be less boistroos than April It is time for the winds to give us a rest. Georgia and South Carolina are again at peace. A policeman forms th link which unites the two in amity. It is said that tiie number of good artists in the country is increasing. The public would doubtless like to see some of their works. Having succeeded in strengthening his memory, Mark Twain is now lookiug for a recipe for strengthening bis humor. It is to be hoped that he will find it. Senator Sherman thinks the Southern boom is well enough, but the boom that pleases him most is of the Presidential vari ety and it is lutoled “Sherman.” Jay Gould says: “Stocks ought to go up now; only artificial causes can keep them down.” Wall street brokers are wondering if Gould considers himself one of the “aiti- ficial causes.” Compared with the figures of last year railroad earnings are decidedly on the in crease. Perhaps they will continue to in crease if Congress will pass a few more laws “to regulate,” etc. Col. W. P. Canaday, Sergeont-at-Arms of the Onitod States Senate, thinks the Repub licans will cany North Carolina next year. The Colonel has been rather weak-minded ever since that horse fell on him. The editor of the Butte (M. TANARUS.) Mine) has written a book entitled: “How She Pelt in Her First Corset.” Asa set oil somebody should write a book entitled; “How He Felt in His First Trousers.” A New York druggist complains that when a man gets beastly drunk in that city, somebody takes him to a drug store for treatment. In Savannah when a man gets beastly drunk he is put in “the cooler.” P. Blauvelt, of New York, is persecuting Sarah Bernhardt. He follows her wherever she goes, and sends a dozen letters to her every day. He has oilered to marry her, but as he is 55 years old she scorns his offer. The Columbus Enquirev-Sun declares that the Salvation Army is undoubtedly doing much good in that city. It is reas onable to suppose, therefore, that the En quirer-Sun does not look upon the members of the army #> tramps. The number of female students in the ool of this country is said to be 180,000. should all graduate at one time, the surplus in the United States cover the exjiensc of providing graduating dresses? C. Ives and his W all street col leagtics are said to have paid President Gar ret AOOO,OOO on accoun. of their Baltimore and Qliio railroad option. This would in ntt’afie thut railroad options are luxuries which only the rich can enjoy. Lillie Mai-tiu, a comely Chicago girl, has taken out a license to marry Wong Wing, a Chinaman. The groom told a reporter that Lillie had done all the courting. Her course Indicates that she lielieves the way to re deem the heathen is to marry them. Charges liave lieen preferred against a New York broker for matching quarters. They ought to lie pressed. No broker should be allowed to engage in potty gamb ling. He should lie made to understand that he mast play only in big games. Miss Abigail l*odge, better known ns “Gail Hamilton,” has finally been persuaded to deny that she is the author of the “Arthur Uichntoitd” letters. Mr. Blaine also says that lie is ignorant of their authorship. Thus tlie public is at least partiully relieved. Gov. Tnylor, of Tennessee, has Is-gun to strike hack at. his enemies. He admits that attempts were mu ie to bribe him, but he says h< indignantly repelled them, lie ought to have kicked the parties who made the attempts into the middle of the stra t. 4 - Col. W. If. Gilder, who start'd in a whit • flannel suit on a ramble to the North Pole last, August, is preparing to ramble in that, direction again. It is said that his first imnihie was a failure because he couldn’t Induce the polar hears to use English as she is spoken. The voting women of Newton, N. J., have formed an “anti-vice society." The mem ber* are pledged not to receive attention from young men who useuhsiholic liquors or tobacco. L’uless the eoehly disband* Nett U>n, one of these days, trill lie filled with JBUiidr and eats. The Atlanta Heflin nr, a negro organ of Unsavory reputation, warn * tin- UepubjieuMs to tpnnlueUi Robert T. IJlb'oln foi IVesi deni* The /teflanre says that if be should be itauuulol “tail* would Is* •u**h cry for **uir Boli' tlml ’we r roining Falb**r Ale-ahum, fiUD.bOff m*>u Would sliakc Uuu The Friend of the People. In the case of Guilford Miller the Preident bas furnished another conspicuous instance of his independence, self-rviianee and will ingm-ss to accept responsibility. His letter 11 the Secretary of the Interior in this case will do as much to increase his popularity with the people as his veto of the dependent pension bill did. The President is strong with the people because he Is in harmony with them rather than with the politicians, o irporations and monopolies. When a question is presented for his decision he asks, On which side is the right? In what way can the people to ton otited? He does not want to know how he can increase his popularity, or how he can favor powerful friends or rich monopolies. In his Calhoun oration Secretary Lamar said tiiat the President had been found fault with because he insisted upon keeping his promises to the people. The President ought to welcome criticism of that kind be cause it proves that he is faithful to the trust which the people elected him to ad minister. The Guilford Miller case has attracted a great ileal of attention because the parties to it are the Northern Pacific railroad, a powerful corporation, and a poor farmer in Washington Territory, and, also, because there are a great many other similar cases. The Northern Pacific railroad w as chartered in 1 564, and was given a strip of land 40 miles wide extending throughout its entire length. This magnificent grant includes 50,000,000 acres. The only condition im jiosed upon the company was that it should complete its road in twelve years. It has not completed it yet, but it still holds its great through the indulgence of Congress. As some of tho lands within the 40-mile strip had been occupied by settlers under pre-emption and home stead laws the company was given permis sion to go outside of it and select lands to make up the amount to which it is entitled. This selection, however, bas never been made, because the company does not yet know the amount it ought to have outside of its strip. In 18T8 Guilford Miller settled on a quar ter section, 50 miles from the line of the road. He w r as 10 miles outside of the com pany's strip, and felt that he would be safe in making improvements. In 1883 he en tered his land as a homestead. It seems, however, that at the solicitation of the railroad company, and in pursuance of the policy of favoring great coi-porations which characterized the Republican party, the Interior Department had in 1872 withdrawn from tho operation of the land laws millions of acres of lands outside of the 40-mile strip in expectation that they would be needed to make up the full amount of the grant of the company. Guilford Miller's homestead is on these withdrawn lands, and there are thousands of other home steads on them. In 1885 the company demanded Guilfurd Miller's homestead. He appealed to the In terior Department. The officials there differed on the question whether the land was his or the railroad's. The department had permitted the homestead entry to lie made and it had also withdrawn the land tor the benefit of the railroad. The Attor ney General’s opinion was ask>d. He de cided in favor of liie railroad. Guilford Miller thou appealed to the President who, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, holds that as the railroad company has never selected any lands outside of the 40-mile strip, and as it doesn’t know how much it is entitled to outside of it, Guilford Miller ought to have his farm, and that all the other farmers who claim homesteads on the land which the railroad wants should have their farms. He thinks that the railroad can get all the land it is entitled to without driving Guilford Miller and other farmers from their homes. The President's letter will make him friends all over the West. It will make him friends in other parts of the country, because it stamps him a* a friend of the people and the champion of the w eak and oppressed. Pistole and Politics. The warlike words with which some of the Now Orleans editors are assailing each other may lead to pistols. The indications are, however, that the present trouble will l>e fought out with pen and ink. There are throe parties involved, all of whom have had more or less experience with pistols at ten paces, and nil have reputations for the sort of courage that is required for affairs of that sort. The trouble tognu with a publication in the New Orleans Pi err i/u no about the suit begun by the Attorney General of Louis iana against tile American Cotton Oil Trust Company. That journal published a brief sub-editorial approving the suit, and on the following day an editorial appeared in its columns condemning it. It was explained that the first article appeared without the editor’s knowledge. Au afternoon paper, the States, took occasion to criticise the course of the Piea yunr rather harshly. A good deal of blood curdling language followed in each journal. It is said, and perhaps truthfully, that as these journals represent the opposing factions of the Democratic party in Louisi ana, this war of words over the Cotton Oil Trust suit simply indicates that there is going to be a hot light for the ixilitical con trol of the State. The Picayune represents the reform element, of which Senator Gib son is leader, and the States the faction which now luri control of the city and State. A Governor Is to be elected at the nest elec tion, and a Legislature that will have the choosing of two United States Senators. This toing the condition of nffaii-s, and the fight having been opened so early and in so dramatic u fashion, it may reasonably to oxjiectcd that the newspaper editoi-s of New Orleans will furnish the jieoplo of tliut city considerable entertainment during the long and hot summer. The Depew Story. The story telogrnpiied a day or two ago tiiat if Mr. iilninc couldn’t get the Presi dential nomination of Ids party he would to able to control it for Mr. Chnuncey M. l)‘|a'W, 0/ New York, does not ap|M<ar to have hud any foundation in truth. It mav lie considered as ■ ertain that Mr. Illaiue isn't going to control the muni tuition for anybody, lie is lor Illume first, last and ail the time. It lie can't get the nondimtiou he will not help anybody else to It. He isn't tue sort ol 11 muii to help imoihur in a mum where the pel /,<• is mi great. N 'twiflisluh ling all I lei talk about All. win uiid Mliei nun 1 and ttolr Imini* it Uulsait certain lluit Mr. Wains will be the Itopuhli • ■un rtnidhbito lie l working for I to ii-uni nation, mil th*M# wto rontiol Die |*grtv rntflf- “• ‘f if 1 "' • lut’Uof the Country m tor Mm. iwy saktaWsu.ke, I rw*(P**rta I<W ■,<* TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, APRIL 30. 1887. Sir Edward Thornton's Mission. j Sir Eiward Thornton, the representative ' of British holders of Virginia bonds, is at j Riciur.oad, and will soon be able to learn I pvhaps what the Virginia legislature is willing to do towards the settlement of the claim which the British capitalists have against that State. It seems somewhat re markable that this distinguished diplomatist should have accepted a mission of this sort unless he has some other purpose in view than that which appears upon the surface. A sensational Washington dispatch sug gests tiiat. instead of being the agent of the British bondholders, he is the representative of tho British government, and that if the Virginia Legislature will not agree to a satisfactory settlement, there will he a de mand upon the national government at Washington to make good this claim which British subjects have against the Virginians. While there does not appear to he much ground for the suggestion contained in this dispatch, nevertheless there may lie some foundation for it. The troubles with which the Salisbury government are now contend ing at home are very serious, and it may have decided upon an aggressive policy with respect to British interests in this and other countries for the purpose of directing tlie attention of the British people to other mat ters than domestic affaire. In support of this view it is urged that, lately, the British government made a demand upon the Hay tiau government for $1,000,01)0, which it owes British subjects, and also upon the government of Venezuela for the $50,000,000 which it owes in England. The Salisbury government understands that if it should call on the government at Washington to assume the indebtedness of Virginia to British bondholders it would do a great deal to draw attention away from the struggle that is now going on in the English Parliament over the Irish problem. It is hardly probably, however, that this government would entertain such a proposi tion. There is, of course, more reason for asking the National government to pay tlie Virginia debt than any other State debt because the National government deprived Virginia of a very large amount of taxable territory when it created the State of West Virginia, yet that is hardly a sufficient reason. If the National govern ment should pay the debt of Virginia it would pretty certainly be called upon to assume the debts of other States, and if a precedent in this matter were once established States would lie continually run ning into debt with the expectation that the national government would come to their assistance when pay day came around. In this connection it is worthy of notice that a resolution was introduced into the West Virginia Legislature a day or two ago proposing that that State should assume $3,000,000 of Virginia’s debt, which is sup posed to he somewhere near $45,000,000. West Virginia should certainly pay some part of Virginia’s debt. The fact that she is not now a part of Virginia ought not to he an excuse for not doing so. She was a part of that State when the debt was contracted, and she ought to pay the part she would have had to pay had she remained a part of Virginia. All that Sir Edward Thornton does at Richmond, in connection with this bond business, will he watched with keen interest. In the fervid language of the Hot Blast. Anniston, Ala., is about to “astound and astonish” the people of this country into “speechless wonder at the sight of a most magnificent and unparalleled undertaking.” The undertaking in question is intended to advertise Anniston. A train, consisting of an engine, a fiat car, a gondola, a freight cur, a stock car, a mail and baggage oar, an express car, a passenger coach, a buffet car, and a boudoir car, all made in Anniston, of material found in the neigh borhood, will be ran from Anniston to New York, and thence to Canada. Detroit, Cin cinnati, Louisville, Nashville, and then back to tho starting point. Tho cars will be painted red, and besides a number of distin guished guests, will contain samples of Alabama products. A representative of the Hot Blast will go along, and will distribute 100,000 copies of that paper. At Washing ton a stop will be made in order to allow President Cleveland “and his beautiful wife” to inspect “this gorgeous and unpre cedented undertaking,” about which “in no way is there the wild Utopian fancy of Ori ental dreamer, whose castles and palaces and grand and beautiful achievements ever float away from jxissession or enjoyment like the mirages of the desert.” It must be admitted that Anniston’s scheme is ahead of Atlanta’s Gate City Guard advertising tour. Speaking of President Cleveland's alleged refusal to accept a ivnomiuation Senator Vest says: “This is all there is of the mat ter —that, if President Cleveland consults liis own personal wishes h does not desire to be a candidate for President. Personally he does not wish a second term. He is not seeking a renomination at all. lie is never theless the present choice of his party, and if the convention should be held to-morrow would be unanimously renominated. His personal wishes have nothing to do with the question whether he will run again or not. In the present state of things he could not refuse.” In New York, a few days ago, a young clerk borrowed sc. from a friend for car fare. Looking out of the window a moment later, he saw Mr. Astor walking briskly to word his office. Mr. Astor was robust and briglit. The clerk wav thin and sallow. It w ill not only be money in your pocket, young man, but walking will also lie good for your health. Try it. Washington liarkeepers are appealing to Webster's unabridged dictionary as a legal authority. The law forbid* them to keep their bare o]H'ii on the Sabbath, and they claim that the dictionary defines the word as tho “Eleventh day of the week,” or Sat urday. Unfortunately for the barkeeper* the courts refuse to accept tho authority to which they up|>ea!. Mr. James Brown Potter says that his wife will make her debut in this country nt Washington “lielore the President.” Sin* desire* to havi the highest social and Intel lectual recognition, mid she thinks she enn obtain it only in Washington. What a sad blow to Boston and Chicago! In Philadelphia, the oilier d<iv, Thomas P. Coleman, agisl 111, former city editor of the Isrtyer, married a young woman ag<*| MO. II" win at the ti'ii" lying ill iiel very ill. Coleman is rich, which U the rea whi, perli|M, why lb" young woman ism m iii si to marry him It may tea lie duo <• the int ivlat. <snn ineiiie fit*, but It U a fact Hint lii.oiy m ws |it;*>r* u*i l*airr |-imt irili"i*l |*isofuii* Imbjs • p* utllt tin* of country new* istunl i is patiently u m ait big the i4Ni'&uuo I übuwt Pi ukwit ul Clavetuial. I CURRENT COMMENT. A Mean Insinuation. From the Mrmjuiis Avohi/ic\e ! T>emA The mean ipsi 11110110110* several of the Repub lican newspapers that the >rdrv of }'resi<l**iu Cleveland’s int ntldtt t > w rtf • i I fter< ‘cliniug to become a candidate f 4 r w-eleciion, and re fusing to allow his naiii • t .lv used in any con nect ion with the Presidorwy oi 'BS. was a mere “feeler, 11 thrown out: t<s airerr-.du the jopular sentiment, is too ridiculor - for a moment's con sideration. Quite Rig-ht. From the Chicago Tribune {Rep.) Taking a bird sey * - vi,*w nf Southern senti ment as portraved in the expressions of opinion iriven by most "of tin - lehdpig journals between the Ohio river ami the Gulf Mexico, we are constrained to sny that the* apiare of Senator Sherman by a I,and of brigands would have heeu regarded bv the j’ "f that sce tiou as a calamity not won li n.eutioning in com parison with the frost on the early tobacco. The Second Term Canard. From tlir Houston Pwf ( Lem. > While the leading and most tm.-twortliv Dem ocratic papers of the country appeared consider ably cast down so long es there <vas a probabili ty of the truthfulness of the report, the Republ.can journals were, ' the other hand, correspondingly jubilant. TTitt means a great deal, and to people in this seetiMi of the conn try. fur removed from to 1 great political centres, no better evidence can be obtained upon which to base a judgment. An Immigration Solve Needed. From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Lem.) The fact that pauper-,, lunatics, criminals. An archists and Mormons are coming here from Europe in numbers out of all proportion to the j respectable immigrants ought to suggest to Uncle Sam the purchase, at, once; of a big im migration seive. Our own native wickedness and thriftlessness are quite enough for one con tinent, ami if these things are to lie doubled or trebled on us, the future of tit-- United States will lie as dismal as the narrow est monarchist could wish. BRIGHT BITS. A Pole was arrested in New York for stealing a lot of needles. Perhaps lie was the magnetic pole and the needles stuck to him.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. After a midnight lunch on mince pic, a South End citizen complained of having horrid dreams, in which he was chased by pirates “Mince pirates. probably,” calmly responded his wife— Boston Transcript. lle fat dinner)— May I assist you to the cheese, Miss Vassal’? Miss Vassar (just graduated', -Thanks, no: I am very comfortable where l am! But you may assist the cheese to me, if you will!— Pu-k. "Beloved, dost know the news? Dost realize that my flinty-hearted father has purchased a fierce and bloodthirsty dog? And that this dog is even now prowling about the house and may appear at our trysting-place at any moment? But thou dost love me, dues thou not, dearest? I await thy answer.” But he had already dusted.- -Pittsburg Bul letin. “Did the great chief of the Wang-Wangs see any evidence of tlie decadence of onr race in tlib East ?" asked a Western Indian of the chief who had been on a mission to Washington. "Yes,” replied the doughty warrior. “•Te are fast disappearing. Figures of base bail men now stand in front of cigar stores—places that, onr ancestors have occupied for centuries.” —Tid-Bits. “i may not be so eloquent ns some of them, said the Senator from Mid itei.u-k, “but when I make a speech nobody is able to answer it.“ “Very likely,” replied file honorable Senator from Mampsex. “Did you ever hear of an echo to nothing?” The Senator from Miildlefork is still wonder ing what the honorable Senator on the left was driving at.— Boston Transcript. “Gesklkr! Who is Gessler?” said Mrs. Beck ram to her husband. “He was a tyrant, my dear, and also a life in surance agent” "What do you mean bv such nonsense?" 'There is po nonsense Venn it. Mrs. Beckram, I assure you, Does iit William Tell’say to •dossier' in the third act: 'Ha. tyrant, hast thou not given me assurance of my life?’ Your hus huud. madam, never makes a statement that he is not prepared to support by documentary evi dence. '' — Texas Sigt in </.>. A Brsixjss max of Detroit has just discharged a clerk for being too facetious. It is to be hoped the lesson will be heeded by other young men inclined to be funny. The employer sent out to purchase a blue led pencil. When the boy returned with the pencil the clerk remarked gravely: "That expense might have been saved, sir.” By w hat means?” demanded ids employer. “Any ordinary pencil can be made to write blue.” “Indeed.” said the gentleman becoming in terested. "how would you manage it ?” "By simply writing b-1 u-e. Detroit Free Press. Mottier —Tommy, how are coming on at school? Tommy—First-rate. ina. "Mention the names of some of the domestic animals.” "The horse, the dog. the pig.” "Mention some more, Tommy." “The goose, the lien, and the duck.” “Yes. I was thinking of four legged animals. What animal is that which lives mostly in the house, but which often makes a dreadful noise so tiiat people cannot sleep?” "Four-legged animal?” "Yes.” "Don’t let people sleep?” "Yes.” Tommy (triumphantly)—The piano.— Texas Siftings. PERSONAL. At the great anti Coercion meeting in Hyde Park, London, a huge coffin bearing Mr. Bal four's nam** was paraded about and finally set up tx-hind Mr. Stxfou as a sounding Isxird dur ing his address. Sir Annum Sullivan lias paid a recent visit 1 1 Berlin. He colled on Bismarck and was cor dially received. Bismarck is sad to ne very fond of the music of "The Mikado,” mid quite taken with the character of "Pooh-Bah." MoxuviiE I* Conway writes to tlie .tthenerum that Walt Whitman is engaged, >n a biographical essay on Elias Hicks, the founder of the Hick site Quakers. Hicks and Whitman were both born in Brooklyn. A. G. Sr.\ :.!mno. President of the Chicago Base Bail Crab, is said to be worth over >O'. It,, has made his money from his sport ing goods business. He has a big factory in Michigan, which turn* out hull bats by the million Te Hen Hen bax presented to the New Zeeland government fora public park the “wonderland” of that country, incl'iiling the volcano T niga riro. the volcano Ruapehu. Mount N/a ruahoe. and the ho: lake district. Te Hen Hen is a great chief of the Ngatutawbaretoa Maorie*. Sigourney Butler, the n Second Comp troller of tlie Treasury, paddled down the Su-.- qiiohamei in a earns' along lth B*,y|e ti’Hcilly. atnl Mr. Mos“ley. the new clerk of tie Interstate Commerce Commission, ]stddl"d down th" Mer man*' wit li Mr. I VReilly, i >n the u hole. -u_t s the Boston llerol l. we advise nn> ambitious young men to piste,ire a canon uud cultivate Mr. O'Reilly's u,quaint, mu*'. In the Democratic primaries held hi Keutucky last Saturday ii was practically decided that (b'n. Simon It. Buckner, ot Hart county, would be tho next Ireviuuor ut the State, (nit ot the 817 delegate* elected 375 were elected by his triends. and a irnmlxT of others have since an nouie 0,l thut they will suppurt, him In the con vention State Senator Bryan livid, for Lieu tenant Governor. Tile other Contests are still in doubt. The National Academy of Sciences is a very conservative bMy. Year after year il has black balled Director Powell, of the lleologiual Sur rey. altliougli lus name is fatuous in the world of science The academy is very shy of govern ment official*. It is now in n state of excite, meal over the proposition to admit I Jen (freely, "blrf of t lie signal service. Many of Hie m*m ts'rs mail,tam that lire*'ly'* KuHtnlflu at ton inents are not t reat enough to entitle him to membership Ip Ii fl)c present time, however, be has not Inmti official!) reject" ! The lab'Mrs <‘utlirriue Yun Itenxsela t Hale, I Mobile, Ala . was the last surviving grand daughter of Hen*-raj I'tiilip Schuyler L'l tan ■ rp iuii In eliildb sit* uas adopt".! by her aunt, Mrs U* xund*T Hamilton, and after the lltt*l llatiiiltnu Iturr duel she went to live with ber uncle, 111" Patrrsffi Stephen Van Rensselaer The Patissni. -m usd to relate, would let the voting folks it,'tv, tivqMenl eiitertaiuments In lbs mansion, but he ouH xuy: ,Mv children, I ■ ami't give \ou p'lniiisston to aane<i, for too iiiuii) pr.ncr have liarn ofl’erssl in these room*. ” Ti.k injur* t*i < art Ncliunc. winch was made i'gllt of wllrl! |r ■ Sirred lias prosed 1,1 la* seri ous. Ite lu* ise-ii a-'*l srseial weeks ami wtfi.it m **id, is* Ha re several months ncire. with a IMl.lful |*,el of I All,"ties * ben te- does pet •if* He e*ilTereJ a h*d |iii|-seu fooler* of the me)* lusviiirr. B„t( as lie* breaker • ,g the ,'r> *' Ibp Isue* under Hie the k lever* uf lines LSI 'V*- I 1 * “ I* T**i|jr <4lll <H Mt* >**'% WiftJto* 3MIUM I isenlsu** S reurw* tie* fre* iuis* mwi. The leuu >4 He i.iltiui end of tavululiUt) luoUoa U W) •*.*•. MR. BIRD’S LITTLE JOKE. Why the Dauntless Let the Coronet Come in Ahead. London. April 21.—At the dinner of the Cork Yacht Club iu honor of the Dauntless and Coro net people. Mr. Bird, the Secretary of the New York Yacht Club, established himself as the wit of the party. There was nothing elaborate in the way of speechmaking with the wine, but rather an informal chat on the features of the race and yachting matters generally. In the course of the chat one of the gentlemen put the question to Mr. Bird: “Will you tell us frankly why the Dauntless came in'so far behind the Coronet? There is none of those reporters here now t forget tin gone or two), and we would like to know what came over the old craft. - ' “Mr. Bird saw his chance, and immediatefy assumed a niysterioua air. “Gentlemen, lie said, rising. “I could a tab* unfold, but 1 am afraid it would leak out and compromise my position as guest on the Dauntless." “Oh, we ll keep it quiet,"* shouted the others. “Then you will pardon me. gentlemen, if. as a sort of collateral, as it were, for revealing the true cause of our defeat. I shall demand a solemn promise from you all to never di\ ulge it m all your lx>rn days. * “We certainly will not.” “You swear?'* “We swear!” and down came the glasses to emphasize the oath. “Will Admiral Smith Barry instruct the Sec retary to record the oath?*' said Mr. Bird, sol emnly turning to the representative from Hunt ingtonshire, the wealthy Admiral of the Cork Yacht Club. The oath was recorded. “Now I may unburden myself,” said Mr. Bird. “The fact is. gentlemen, that l*m a Christian mon. Sos Colt, so's Staples, so are we all Christian man. And recognizing the fact that we were coming into a Christian port of a Christian country, we were w illing to stand in glorious defeat rather than violate your sense of religious decency by coming up tne harbor on Sunday like those heathen Coroneters. Really, gentlemen, we were in sight of Fast net light on Saturday afternoon, but we stood off and on, waiting for Sunday to come and go. that we might come up the coast like respectable yachts men, and ” The party saw* the point, and sent up a shout that brought the steward out of his ante-room a very scared man indeed. Lightening 1 the Burden. From the Xew York Ledger. “I/*t me carry your pail, my dear, Brimming over with water?” “No: 1 11 take hold, and you take hold,” Answered the farmer s daughter. And she would have her own sweet way, As her merry eyes gi*ew brighter; So she took hold, and he took hold, And made the burden lighter. And ever}’ day the oaken pail Over the well-curb slipping. Was upward drawn by hands of brawn, Cool, and so softly urippii g. And every day the burden seemed Lighter by wing divided; For ne took hold, and she took hold, By the self-same spirit guided. Till by and by they learned to love And each trust in the other, Till she for him. one twilight dim, Left father and left mother. The wedding bells were rung at morn. The bridal blessings given, Ami now’ the pair, without a care, Entered an earthly heaven. When storm and sunshine mingled, they Would seldom trouble borrow’, And when it came, they met the same With a bright hope of to-morrow. And now they're at the eve of life. While the western skies grow brighter, For she took hold, end he took hold, And it made the burden lighter. M. A. Kidder. Peerless Patti’s Early Experience. From Interview in Hart ford Times. “How old were you when you made your first appearance?" “I was 7 years old, and the occasion was a concert at Tripler Hall. I was so small that I was put ui >oll a table near the piano. 1 sang ‘Una voce' and ‘Casta Diva. 1 1 made a success, and my parents, who were in want, through the dishonesty of an operari# .ynanager, made money. I was really a merephtyd, 15 years old, when 1 made my debut in ‘Lucia' at the Acad emy of Music, on Nov. jM, 1859. Ullman had to be urged to allow me to appear. He thought I would not amount to much. The performance was the evening of Thanksgiving day. Mrae. Anna Bishop was advertised to appear at the matinee. Underneath it said: In the evening, debut of Mile. Adelina Patti in “Lucia di Ummennoor,” supported by Brignoli and Amodio. How proud I was of that advertisement! Next year 1 sang in Boston, Philadelphia and other large cities of the I'niterl States. In 18(11 I went to Europe." Mine. Patti also said that Elsa, in “Lohengrin," she con sidered the most exquisite of all operatic hero ines, but that she did not dare to sing Wagner's music for fear ot injuring her voice. “l)o you sing ‘Home, Sweet Home’ from senti ment." I asked, “or merely for effect? Pardon the bluntness of the question, but mauy jieople say you .sing the air merely for effect. 11 “1 was born in Madrid Feb. 19, 1818. My father was a Sicilian, my mother a Roman, hut we came to New York in 1844. and the first lan guage 1 spoke w as English, and, as 1 said before, my only home was that of my childhood here. Hence, I sing ‘Home, Sweet Home* for its senti ment.. 11 “What was the first opera you ever heard?" “I suppose 'Sonnambula. 1 My mother sang it in Madrid on Feb. 18,1848." In Spite of Prohibition. From the Boston Transcript. Speaking of l>eer, I amvremind<*d of an inci dent of >* living trip I made to Kansas, Ordi narily. it must be confessed, it is rather difficult to get liquors of any sort there; but your hotel proprietor will provide them when he*finds that you arc “all right.’' The ding stores will sell them cautiously. I fell in at one city with a Chicago lawyer who wanted to show me “the way to get a drink in Kansas," arid, purely as an investigator. I decided to go with him. He was an odd individual, and ha i a lisp that made his speech picturesque. He took me to a corner drug store and made a sign to the apothecary, who began t<* catechize us. “It ith nethethary," my friend explained to me, “togiveon’th name and rethidenth. Your name ith John O. Blank, and you live in Both ton. My name is Thilath Tbcudmore and I live in Thyicago. Now, Mr. Druggitht. go ahead." “The name?" asked the druggist. “Thilath Q. Blank more," said the Chicagotu “Residence?" “Botheago." “Disease?” “Lathitude." “Beer or whi— 11 “Whitlikey." “How much?" “About five oimtheth—eh. Mr. Blank?" “I told i1 im that I though five ounces would certainly Im* sufficient, and a liberal allowance was poured out on our “prescription." The form of the law was doubt less observed and the apothecary hail a valuable record of the “case!" The Great Big Bird. From the Boston Transcript. Eveiy newspaper man knows that there is a great difference ftietween the speech spoken and the sjmms’li printed that the cruditi**'; and cor ners which even the In’st speaker pTmit* to es. - ajM* him are tiolished down bv the reporter and the proof reader. Apropos of this, to the jour nalist well known, truth, tin* IKu*ner heard a story which is worth telling and has the addi tional advantage of being a Concord utorv, which makes it all 1 he more aceeptable in the latitude of Boston. When Kossuth spoke in Concord lie wisht*l to compare the course of Austria with that of the desert bird, that in hiding its head think* it conceals its body. “What you call your great big bird?" whim pered the great Hungarian *to those who aat about him. “Eagle!" nald one. “No. 110; not eagle. 11 “Ostrich," quietly explained Emerson. “Ah! yes, trie ostrieh, that's it." gratefully exclaimed Kossuth; and continuing from the point where his English had for the moment failed him. plunged into a noble peroration on the short tfigiiteduettM of tli* House of llapstiurg, using that souoroua English of which lie was so ready a master. The Rule Did Not Work Both Ways. From the Ban Frunc.im'o Fast. Mr. (\ V\ { Inrke, of (’incinimfi. w*U a passen ger on 11 recently arrived Atsirilinu sterner, It wa* on Himday tlmt the gentleinan readied Sydney, and without losing time he made for the hotel bar There he ua K roti/routed by a decidedly antique iNirinald. who plaeidlv iitu very firmly p 'nrmed him that it was ugumst the law of trie colonh * towdl liquor njs.n tin* Kahiiath unless M could l*e shown that the npph • *4tit Inul aetuiilly tiaveled fifteen mil*-. u|*ii (hat day The landlord was finaliy in to nulmtaiMiat* the tact, that the pleader at the bar had Just eonie ail the way from Hanl’ian cUm'o Hu* duns wan funkromnig, but alum >1 * hose U'gait to leasoii that If a uiauwhu lias traveled fifteen nillm l* entitle I Uiinie nruifc, tieatiolias mm' * \,*ht tuilee ought to have a many drink* n* 15 is c uM t i.sd In f *0)0. timli the luij i s* 1 and tin* Ismlkir4 turitJ |al* although cam her wMihl manna y Um imtw of Uii mat hr ma 1 ival Wga . ITEMS OF INTEREST. IT was a Boston woman who refused Jto buy some sugar-cured hams the other day on the ground that she never bought anything that had been diseased. “For you know, ’ she said, “that even if it has been cured some hidden germs of disease tnay still linger in it." There are two Knights of the Iron Cross now living in Berlin who took part in the war of lib eration against Napoleon Bonaparte. One is the Emperor. The other is an ex-tax collector named Friedrich Willie, a jovial old fellow, now in his both year. Martin Pindor. who died early ii March, was another veteran of the anti-Napo * conic wars. He claimed to be 103 years old. A few days before his death he was acting as a railway servant. One of the colored porters of a parlor car company was tried before Justice Henderson, of Meridian. Miss., recently, ou an affidavit made against him by the Meridian Temperance Re form Club, charged with selling liquor in the cars contrary to law. The accused was fined a small amount and imprisoned for one hour. The company has instructed their employes not to sell any more liquor in the cars in the dry counties of Mississippi. A youth of tender j ears, who, it would seem, had his lines fall in pleasant places, was asked the other day what he preferred to be when he grew to be a man. Without loss of time for idle thought, the observant youngster replied: “Why. a letter carrier, of course. He is the happiest man about; everybody smiles at him; every bodys waiting for him and says something pleasant to him. and be is always sure of a nice Christmas present. My mind's made up, and I'm going to be a letter carrier . Here is a story of childish precocity, illus trating the way these little ones puzzle their elders. The incident took place only a few days ago in Boston. Pater familias, in a spirit of mischief, was attempting to eontound the knowledge of bis 6-year-old by asserting that the face of a clock was not a face, because it did not have eyes; but:in 1 alphabet was fresh in the child's memory, and she immediately upset her parent’s argument by pointing triumphantly to the Roman numerals II upou the dial, with a convincing, “Oh, yes, they have; there are two Is." The Interstate Commerce Commission is an interesting body. Little Judge Cooley sits at the head of the table and presides with calm dignity. He is a small man physically, with gray hair and l>eard, and wears gold-rimmed spectacles. Morrison and Walker cannot sit still for any great length of time, They are the humorists of the body. They have struck up a great friendship. Bragg ami Schoonmaker are solemn and stately and remain quietly seated opposite Judge Cooley for hours without stirring. The Commissioners have so far shown a great? capacity for hard work and do not hurry over details. “A sober, intelligent man, and not inclined to be superstitious,” and who acts as a watchman on the Boston and Providence railroad at the point where the bridge disaster lately occurred, rushed into a police station the other night half (lead from fright to escape what he believed to be a long figure, like that of a woman, which bad pursued him with a gliding, noiseless mo tion from his post to the police station. Ho says that when be first saw it he determined to “tackle it,” whatever it might be. until he ob served that he “could see the street lamps shin ing through its body like a window.” The watchman was confined to bed next day from the fright. The following has often been told as a joke, but it really happened in a down-town cigar store the other day. A gentleman whom we will call Smith was buying a 10c. cigar when a seedy acquaintance who may be called Brown, came in and was invited by Smith to have a cigar. He of course accepted the cigar and Smith laid down 20c. in payment. At this point Brown got in his fine work. Turning to the dealer he asked if the cigars just bought were not sold at the rate of three for a quarter. Oil the dealer replying that they were, he fished out a nicltle, and laying it on the counter remarked: "Well, then, I'll take the third cigar, if it is all the same to you.” And he did, to the unspeak able astonishment of Smith and the dealer. German papers call to mind that Kaiser Wilhelm in his 90 years has survived no fewer than seventy-two reigning sovereigns who were his contemporaries, viz.: Fifty-two kings or queens, eight emperors, six sultans and six popes. Of these three were Kings of Prussia, Frederick William 11.. Frederick William 111., Frederick William IV.; two were Kings of Han over, two Kings of Wurtemburg, four Kings of Bavaria, three Kings of Saxony, one King of Westphalia i.Jerome Bonaparte), one King of Greece, one King of the Belgians, three Kings of Holland, three Kings of England, three Kings of France, five Kings of Sweden, four Kings of Denmark, three (or four) Sovereigns of Portu gal. five Sovereigns of Spain, five Kings of Sar dinia, six Kings of Naples, two Emperors 'of Austria (one of whom was the last of the former line of German Emperors), two Emperors of Fiance, four Czars of Russia. He lias also survived twenty-one Presidents of the United States. Miss Maida Craioex, says a correspondent, has again figured as an actual heroine on the stage in a part not down onV he bills. In “A Scrap of Paper,” at the Boston Museum, she plays the role of “Mathilde. and makes her first entrance in a riding habit, running merrily in from a door at the back of the stage. “At this point last evening.” says a Boston Pont writer, “she tripped at tbe doorway and landed almost in the middle of the stage with a violence that must have been in the highest degree un pleasant. There was just an indication of a giggle from the audience at her mishap, but it was instantly drowned in a burst of applause as Mira Craigen rose, bowed and went bravely on with her part. The whole incident (showed at once the courage of the actress aud the good breeding of the audience. 1 could not help recall ing at the moment Miss Craigeu's brave act on the opening night of ‘Harbor Lights,' when she ran in from the wings to extinguish a lamp that had fallen on the stage, and the thought occurred to me a woman of so plucky a spirit as hers could not but succeed in the career she has under taken.” The zither (pronounced tzit-ter) is an instru ment which has of late been engrossing the at tention of quite a number of people, and bids fair to become popular in fashionable circles. In European cities it has attained unusual prom, inence. and won well-merited distinction.V idle in Uvs oo'iutry, for luck of good teachers, it has failed to r**c*ive projjcr attention. Its name is derived from th*- (rreek (Kithira). the precise shape of which is not known, but it is supposed to have resembled the lyre in construction. It has l*vn said that Fran/. Liszt was very fond of the in-triiinent. It has Ik*.*u wonderfully im proved within the last half century, and to-day is as complete as any instrument of its kind known to the world. Its qualities are rare, having a degree of refinement and deli cacy possessed by no other instrument ex cept the human voice or the violin. It, like other musical instruments of th* higher order, has its technicalities, l>eing capable of portray ing a variety of emotion and expression if man ipulated hya first-class performer. Its advanta ges are many, being small in comnass. easily carried from place to place, esp “dally adapted to parlor amusement, and furthermore com prisin' In *♦ ;“lf melody, lass and accompani ment. According to the form of to-day, tiie in strument has live melody-strings, tuned in fifths, comprising in th** chromatic order a range of four octaves and two or three semi ton* .> and twenty hv* or more boss anti aceom jMtnimeni strings. aim- tnx*l in fifths, compris ing a range chromatically of two octaves or more, ft has created quito nn interest among the ladies. being well adapted to leisure mo ments. and will in a short tune become a favor ite among men. The habit of smokiug cigarettes among pub lic official* is alarmingly on the increase. It js due, no doubt, to the fact that the cigarette affords a means of satisfying an Appetite or craving f, r tobacco and affords enough pleasure to th** smoker to lust for the time it is wanted. “A cigar >r a pipe is too much of u smoke,* 1 said nu official talking to a bn l( mere .imrrn'an nqiresenlalive About the matter, “in the office, when* you ■ *r• liable to be called **n at a mo ment's u<*tie** by a lady or Mimmone<l into th** in M*nce •#t u superior. In ai emergency of the kir and tin* htti** thing ean be (hrovwi aside. The cigarette \<-u m ■*. is cheap. A good cigar less than Ide. in thrice is nu? considered tie* tuing to Is keen in tie* month ef an official with Home authority. Tie cigarette also afford* a little pleasure, and if i' verv convenient. 11 The yanic argument was found to prevail among all the officials who were h-**;i using the little article. Army officers us a iule v,er* notic'd to b ad* digits] largely 10 the hah t of imiug the cigar ette. Tb* y tbi'l it diiMier in the long rim (hun errors. It nas now Im*coiiio common among them to offer friend a cigarette. If refused the iiMtly is, "Well, I lined to smoke cigaix. irtil I flu I tiiat (he cigarette U more convenient." Nearly all the young men arid, in U* t. n*t a few of the old men in high social life ran hr Meet! smoking them At any of then* c.*ptjofiit MCUHi'imary now Op sec growj<*-f lie ai in i tic gentlemen's ru*iii puffin' sway rig irouslv on tie* "little delight " It (a a ranty to ms* a cigar on *urh A large toiac * •aas' hers h''* I In < auvAgMil on t #d*> ilia* tie* wal*? of c*gaj*u*m aa* eoormou* Idlme “ fc ||r ilAled th*2 ILm- 4sSu leuight largely <4 them tf l they **u*Mi*lr*d it imal* f* r them to u* miihs sly *Witg HOTELS. Indian Harbor Hotel GREENWICH, CONN. ’ Will Open Saturday, June 18th, Address WM. H. LEE Grand Hotel, 81st street and Broadwiv v Vork. - ' -vew NEW HOTEL TOGNi; (Formerly St. Mark's.) 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