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4 OcDTonunglletos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. MAY J), ISS7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in fhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on tlieir own ac count, at #5 cents a week. $1 00 ft mouth, $5 00 for six menths and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, Si 00; three months, $2 IjO; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), threu months. $2 00; six months. $1 <X) one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and "Saturdays, throe months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by moil, one year. $1 25. Sul‘script ions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mall at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—DelCalh Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; Oalanthe Lodge No. 28, K. of P.; The Southern Mutual Loan Association; German Friendly Society. Spki oat. o'oTifF.3 — Chatham Real Estate nnd Improvement Cos.; Notice to Water Takers; Bananas. J. S. Collins & Cos. Amusements— Base Ball To-Day, Charleston vs. Savannah. Steamship Schedule —Baltimore Steamship Cos ; General Transatlantic Cos. Aktiov Sales—Furniture, Etc.. Closing Sale of Pictures, by J. McLaughlin & Son. Attention. Ladies —Gray & O'Brien. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed: Personal; Miscellaneous. Educational— University of Virginia. Coal and Wood—D. R. Thomas. For the Garden—Palmer Bros. Feed, Cow Peas, Etc.— G. 8. MeAlpin. The Vice Presidential l<ee makes but. little honey for the man in whose bonnet it buzzes. In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns —to his uncle, with whom he intends to hypothecate his winter garments. The man that condemns Spanish bull fights and commends American prize fights can’t spell the first syllable of consistency. There will never be any genuine reform in this country until investigating commit tees forget how to use the whitewash brush. An Italian has invented a crank with which to operate the piano. The invention is a superfluity. There arc already enough piano cranks. “Senator Sherman is Ohio’s favorite,” says a Republican politician of that State. What difference does it make? President Cleveland is the country’s favorite. Ex-Secretary of War Robert T. Lincoln says that he goes to church with his children in oi-der to set them a good example. He may therefore be rated as a reformed Re publican. Ex-Gov. R. A. Alger, of Michigan, thinks Mexico the most God-forsaken country he ever saw. Perhaps this is the reason why United States special envoys to that country so easily go astray. Senator Joe Black bum, of Kentucky, thinks that ex-Speaker Carlisle is the right man for the Democrats to nominate for President. The ex-Speaker is a sound Demo crat and a statesman. JohnS. Wise, of Virginia, says that his State will break loose from the solid South, provided he is on the tail end of the Repub lican national ticket. Evidently the ijting if Wise’s Vice Presidential bee has unsettled us mind. Senator Edmunds and Mr. Conkling are said to be more bitter in their hatred of the Maine statesman than ever. Republican harmony is a thing of the past, and of course the country will profit by the fact. When European powers attempt to bor row money a war scare is the result. When Ohio attempts to borrow money it simply means that her Republican Ktate adminis tration ought to give place to one that is Democratic. “A Wool Hat Boy,’’ who writes from Pickens county, predicts that another Presi dent of the State Agricultural Society will never be elected Governor of Georgia. This is the hardest blow yet given to the State’s agricultural interests. The contributions to erect an equestrian statue to Gen. N. B. Forrest at Memphis amount to nearly SIO,OOO. When the war ended Gen. Forrest didn’t sulk in his tent, but went to work to rebuild the lost fortunes gf his State. For this, as well as i for Ms gallantry as a soldier, ho deserves to be honored. The Pittsburg Post prints interviews with all Hie Democratic'members of the Penn-, sylv&nia Legislature, showing that out of a total of seventy-one President Cleveland has fifty supporters for a second term. Editorially the Post says that the Pennsyl vania delegation in next year's convention will unquestionably be for Cleveland. It is stated that the immense mass of gran ite and marble known as the Washington monument, expands and contracts at reg ular intervals. Perhaps.the expansion is due to pride on account of the greatness of the people of the Union, and the contraction to shame on accoufit of the littleness of some of their political representatives. Boston anglomaniacs seem to be even wilder than the New York variety. • Rev. W. E. C. Hmith, of the former city, proposes to import an iron church edifice from England, and has written the Treasury Department to inquire if it will be entitled to free entry. Of course all the Boston anglomaniacs will now join Rev. Mr. Smith’s church. One hundred Hungarians, who are on strike at the Mount Plentiant, Pa., coke works, leave purchased tickets and will re turn to Hungary. They think the strike will last several months, and that in the meantime they can live more cheaply in Hungary than in this country. If the strike should end suddenly they will probably wish that they had remained on this side of the Atlantic. Patti was billed to sing in Baltimore on Friday night of last week, but at the last moment her engagement was canceled owing to the heat and consequent fatigue” endured by the prints donna when she aj>- peared in Washington. It is said in Balti >more that the true reason for her failure to ■iug was the small advance sale of seats. Alxnit $3,000 was realized, while Patti re quires $4,001) for oach performance. A Good Recommendation. The grand jury, in its report published Friday, recommends such legislation as will give this county a board to equalize assessments. The recommendation is a good one. The Mokmng News has advo cate! for years such a board for this and every other county in the State. With boards of this sort the rate of taxation could be considerably reduced, because the chronic tax dodgers would have to stand ou the same footing with honest taxpayers. The present method of levying taxes would be good enough if all property owners were honest and conscientious. Asa matter of fact many tax] m vers think their projierty, wlimi they offer it for sale, is worth about ten times as much as when they value it for taxing purpose. A board of equalization, selected from different parts of the county, would be well qualified to pass upon the value of property, and it would, also, put on the tax books a great ileal of property that escapes taxation altogether. Not long ago it was found that a tract of land in this county, worth S2OO an acre, which could be sold for many thousands of dollars, had not been taxed for a number of years. It seems it hail been accidentally left off the tax books on one occasion and the owner had not taken the trouble to have it put oil again. In another case the owner of a piece of land, worth about $20,000, had Leon returning it at SSOO because he was getting no income from it. Instances of this sort could be multiplied easily. The above two, however, are sufficient to show that the county is deprived of a great deal of the taxes to which it is justly entitled. If the Legislature wants to do something for which the whole people will be gratified, let it first give the State an assessment law that will prevent tax dodging and will t*nd to put all taxpayers on the saino footing. Public Education. The Commissioner of Education has just issued the fifteenth annual report of his de partment, presenting a detailed view of edu cation in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1885, together with a brief summary of education in foreign countries. The report deals wjth all classes of educa tion, including industrial training, schools of theology, schools of law, schools of medi cine, dentistry, and pharmacy, training schools for nurses, schools for deaf mutes, schools for the . blind, and schools for the feeble minded. That part of the report which deals with State systems of public instruction is full of interest. At the end of the year for which the report was made the school population of thirty-eight States was 10,863,265, anil for ten Territories 306,126. The enrollment in private schools in twenty-five States was 659,694, and in two Territories 2,227. Pri vate schools in other States and Territories were not reported. For the entire country eighteen different school ages were reported, the longest being from 4 years to 21, and the shortest from Bto 16. The school year ranged from sixty-two days in North Caro lina to 198 in Maryland. The number of pub lic school teachers in all States and Territo ries, except Idaho, was 319,549. Twelve States and three Territories made no dis tinction in salaries, teachers receiving from $23 30 to SB7 84 a month. For the remain ing States salaries for men ranged from S2O 36 to $l4O 50, and for women from s2l 28 to $96 01 a monjuh, the total annual salary depending, of course, upon the dura tion of the school year. The total annual income for public schools in all the States and Territories, except Kentucky was $113,- 521,895. In the South Atlantic States public edu cation was reported in a “growing condi tion.” In North Carolina there was an in crease of 14,723 in the school population, 13,850 in enrollment, and 12,583 in average attendance. Owing to insufficiency of funds, the school system of South Carolina was seriously embarrassed. No statistics of the system in Georgia were available, except for the chief, cities. Florida gave evidence of unusual activity in respect to public edu cation, one ,of the most satisfactory out comes being an increase of $163,806 in the exjienditure for the schools. Of the difficulties in the way of public education, the report says: “One of the • chief hindrances to the progress of our common schools is the multiplicity of school districts and of independent • local authori ties, with the 'inevitable result of small schools, low standards, low wages for teach ers, poor supervision or none at all, and want of funds.’ Wherever, these ‘petty school sovereignties’ have been abandoned, the schools are flourishing; where they are retained, the reverse is true.” flfhe report, which is of very great value, contains 325 pages of official reports, 511 of statistics, and 317 of the Commissioner's re port proper, making a volume of 1,153 pages. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat claims to have made the astonishing discovery that the Democratic party has never caused a dollar to be added to the value of the South ern people’s property or the profit of their productive forces. It also claims to have discovered that the Democratic party has not helped the Southern people in the least to secure capital for the development of their resources and the extension of their business enterprises. It is certain that the Republican jiarty has not helped the South ern people. On the contrary that jiarty did all it could to ruin the South, and nothing but the undaunted determination of the peo ple to rehabilitate themselves prevented it from succeeding. It is true that Southern prosperity began before the Republican party was driven from power, but that party deserves no thanks on that account. Southern business enterprises have pros pered wonderfully since President Cleve land was inaugurated, and the develop ment in all directions has been rapid and substantial. The Southern people will never be convinced that the Democratic party has not aided them in their progres sive march. It seems that there are members in the Michigan Legislature who are willing to ac , cept boodle in a small way, and this, per haps, was the reason why Dakin, the expelled member, thought they could be bought. In the room of the Committee on Municipal Reform there hung a placard with these words: “We smoke; if we don’t, up goes your bill. ” The Senate Judiciary Commit tee is naturally a more solemn body, and in its room was a leas familiar admonition to the same purpose: “The tender of cigars facilitates business.” After all, it may be that Dakin’s mistake was that lie didn’t con duct his bribing business in the right was'. Recent disclosures of outrageous swindles in connection with the construction of pub lic buddings in other Ktotes, may well cause Georgians to congratulate themselves that their Capital Commissioners arc the personi fication of honesty. THE MORNING NEWS: 9, 1887.> The Tide of Immigration. A table prepared by the Emigration Com missioners of New York city for the past year shows that only 6,126 of the 300,887 im migrants arriving there, whose destination was recorded, settled in States south of the Potomac river. The following figures will indicate the general distribution: New York 100,554, Pennsylvania 42,103, Illinois 25,502, Minnesota 12,317, New Jersey 10,432, Michigan 9,684, Missouri 5,288, Ohio 9,202, Wisconsin 9,145, Virginia . 203, Kentucky 724, Arkansas 158, Alabama 133, Georgia 209, Mississippi 94, Louisiana 474, South Carolina 108, North Carolina 73, and so on. Commenting upon the small preportion of the foreign population of the country that settles in the South the New York Graphic says that it is due to two causes. First, im migrants suppose that there Is a lack of business opportunities in this section. Sec ond, Southern railroads have not shown sufficient enterprise to place agents at Cas tle Garden for the purpose of pointing out the South’s advantages. The Graphic is right about its facts. It should lie remembered, however, that the conditions in the South and West are very different. The West is mentioned because a large proportion of the immigrants credit ed to Northern States eventually settles in that section. In the South the railroads do not possess largo tracts of undeveloped lands, as is the case with Western railroads. In consequence, the owners of Southern railroads feel no more interest in the ques tion of immigration than do ordinary citi zens. This is the reason why Southern railroads are not represented at Castle Garden. In a large measure the wealth and pros perity of the West have been built up by means of foreign immigration. The South should profit in the same way, and it may do so if the people and the railroads will consent to act in concert. The owners of lands might agree to dispose of part of them at reasonable prices, the railroads under baking to act as agents for that purpose. Suppose, for instance, that the owners of lands along the line of the Central railroad, and the officers of the latter, should adopt the plan suggested, it would cost but little to carry it into execution. A small sum from each of the parties concerned would defray the expenses of the agent at Castle Garden, and would also pay for 'whatever advertising might lie necessary. Just now immigrants are coming to this country in great numbers. Many of them are hardy English, Scotch, Irish and Ger mans, classes which the South would bo glad to welcome. If the advantages of the South could be properly set forth, and cheap lands and cheap railroad fares could be offered, there is but little doubt that a fair propor tion of these immigrants would turn in this direction. A few days ago the Morning News noted the fact that some interesting politi cal talk was going on in this State. “A Prominent Republican,” who makes Atlanta his headquarters, now intimates that the Republicans expect to capture Georgia with the aid of high tariff Democrats. The plan is thus outlined: “It has been slowly dawn ing upon the Republican leaders that elec tions can no longer be carried on sectional issues. It is hardly possible that we could rally the Irish as we did in the last campaign, .N ow the plan is to strike for the South. Lead ing Southern Republicans have taken to the idea and insist that in this ]ss tfo sal vation of the Republican part®, jjfheWhites are already divided on the Brombiiian is sue. There are Democrats In Grmrgtuv for instance, who despise Senator Colquitt be cause he is a Prohibitionist. There are others who loathe Senator Brown because he is an anti-Frohibitionist. In Texas you have right now an example of the divisions which this question has caused. Then the tariff question lias pushed its way into Southern politics. The northern districts of Alabama, four districts in Geor gia, two districts in South Caro lina, and a fighting chance for all in Tennessee and North Carolina, are claimed by the tariff advocates under the new order of things.” The plan will fail, but this sort of talk ought to arouse genuine Democrats. It is time for every man in Georgia who claims allegiance to the Demo cratic party to show his hand, so that friends may be distinguished from enemies. Hon. Jefferson Davis’ criticism of Gen. Lord WoLseley’s recent article in Macmillan's Magazine on the life and military services of Gen. Robert E. Lee is quite severe. Mr. Davis approves of all that Gen. Wolsefey says in praise of Gen. Lee, liut he thinks there was no necessity for making wrecks of reputations of other Confederate soldiers in order to make a foundation for a monumeut to Gen. Lee. In conclusion Mr. Davis fires the following shot at Gen. Wolscley: “In the comparison instituted between the cases of Gens. Washington and Lee, and the hypothesis of a Mr. Davis, the first im pression made was how very puerile, and then, unable to realize that a British o fiicer of high grade could lie so ignorant of the many imi>ortant differences in the cases, the question occurred, why he should lie so perverted and spiteful against one who does not remember ever to have seen him, or to have felt any interest in him, except when report created the unrealized hope thrtt he would save Gen. Charles Gordon from im pending sacrifice." When Miser Paine, of New York, died he left a fortune approximating fci.uoo.ooo. Before his death ho called in three witnesses, to whom it is said he stated that his will bad been stolen. John H. Wardwell, of Bristol, R. 1., claimed to tie Paine’s sole heir under a will which the latter failed to sign. Others set up a counter claim, and the courts were called on to decide the dispute. A few days ago Wardwell died, leaving his wife in destitute circumstances. If his claim is not allowed, it is supposed that her relatives, who are wealthy, will provide for her. Relatives bf Wardwell live in this State. In Washington it is common talk that the Republican leaders havo lost all the confi dence they displayed at the beginning of the last session of Congress in their ability to win in the next Presidential contest,. “They privately admit,” says the Boston Globe, “that Cleveland is daily gaining strength with the people, and they see that they have m op hill fight on ban! in tBU. n . Col. W. J*. Canaday, Sergeant-at-Arras of the United Htates Senate, denies that lie ever said he was going to cui-ryseven Southern States for Senator Sherman in the Presi dential election next year. W ise Col. Cana day ! President Cleveland has a lien on all the Southern States. \\ ashington Husband (to wife, who is to give a , “alb—Are the arrangement* completed? w ire (with a sigh of satisfaction) —Yes; even to the ordering of the police from the station hou mi.—TulVilt, CURRENT COMMENT. A Wish That Should be Realized. I-'rom the New York Herald (Ind.) The Anarchists say there is to be a tremendous rising In 1889. Well, good luck to them. When they begin to rise may they keep going up anil never come down. Bad Policy for Cities and Newspapers., From the Chattanooga Times ( Dem .) Sneering at, even abusing and belittling every thing Southern, and lecturing the South as if it were a collection of deadbeats and criminals, has so far not henfited Cincinnati or her newspapers. Good sense, good manners and good neighbor ship require that this sort of thing should cease. The Result of Democratic Rule. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) Stephen W. Dorsey has returned from Europe. Of course the eminent star router says that Blaine will be nominated and elected in 1888. With Dorsey, no doubt, the wish is father to the thought. Star-route swindles and land-grabbing have not been flourishing for the past two years. A Leap Never Made. From the Montgomo-i/ Advertiser (Dem.) And now they are putting forward Chauncey Depew as a man who can carry New York for the Republicans in 1888. From railroad presi dent to President of the United States is a leap no man has ever made or ever will make. The Democrats couldn't ask an easier thing than to beat a railroad magnate. BRIGHT BITS. The surest way for sweet girl graduates to get into print is to wear calico dresses on commence ment day.—Lowell Citizen. The stamps that we pay 2c. a piece for cost the government 7c. a thousand. The govern ment evidently wants the earth.— Puck. A course in apiculture has been added to the curriculum at Cornell. The Presidential bee will not be included in the course. —New York World. The cheapest riding is to places you do not want to visit. The cheapest goods are those you do not want to buy. —New Orleans Picayune. “How are we going to give the base ball um pire his just deserts!” asks an exchange. We can't say. It is against the law to hang a man more than once, we believe.—JVeta York Mail. Tell us not in prosy numbers Butter rolls are what they seem! ’Neath their golden edges slumbers Product never churned from cream. —Dayton Herald. One day the Grand Old Man of Ha warden; Went out to fell trees in his gar warden; He fired a big chip ’Gainst a church warwarden’s Up, And said most politely “Beg parwardon.” —Norristoum Herald. A youno man and his wife went house hunting last week. '‘We want a fiat," said the husband to the first landlord he encountered. “All right; I have fiats to rent. How many are there of you?” asked the landlord. "Just two flats," was the serene answer.— Detroit Free Press. Czarina —Wbat’s in that enormous box, my dearvitch, that is being unloaded from the droslty? Czar—The box contains a big cake of soap I’ve just had made to order, f shall have a hole dug in it large enough to crawl into, and then sit there and snap my fingers at the baffled An archists.—New York Sun. There is a couple living in the vicinity of Bos ton who two years ago were nursed in the lap of luxury; that is to say they were very wealthy. In a fatal hour the husband took to amateur fanning and the wife became her own milliner and dressmaker. The last seen of this unfortu nate pair was last week when they entered the cars cn route for the State almshouse.— Boston Transcript. Baoley—l understand you and Miss Robinson have come to an understanding in that breach of promise case. Bailey—Yes. Bagley—What do you pay her? Bailey—Pay her! Do you think I'm going to throw away $5,000? No, sir; sooner than do that I offered her my hand again. That'll stave mat ters off for five years more. — Tid-Bits. A young man escorted a young lady to the opera one evening. As they yvere coming out he remarked, by way of opening a conversation, “Do you like the weather so coid and raw?” She must have misunderstood him. “Yes,” she said, “I like ’em raw; but,” she continued, looking sweetly into his eyes, “don't you think they are a great deal nicer fried?” They took’em fried.— Columbus Dis patch. Nephew—l don’t go much on these old proverbs. Uncle—Why not? Nephew—Because you can't rely on them. You know there is a proverb to the effect that silence is golden. Uncle —Yes. Nephew—Well, you get yourself examined for a position in the custom house, as I did, and keep silent when the examiners ask you ques tions, and then tell me where the golden part of it come*. 1 was rejected on the first ballot.— Texas Siftings. PERSONAL. Attorney General Garland was* the first member of the Cabinet to don a straw hat. In 1885 Viscount Bury ascertained that there were as nearly as possible 400,000 cyclists in the United Kingdom. The great Russell Sage was fined SIOO by Judge Donahue, of New York, for failing to serve as a juror when drawn. Queen Kapiolani is allowed an income of sß.(kio by the Hawaiian government. This can hardly be called a royal income. The Duke of Saxe-Cobucg-Gotba, now nearly 70 years old, is n great sportsman and lias shot in bis Thuringian forests some 1,100 stngß. A portrait of Judge Mac Arthur, who has just retired from the Supreme Bench of the District of Columbia, will.be placed in the court room of the General Term. S. C. Bartlett, son of the President of Dart mouth College, will next fall become an in structor in English in the American missionary training school at Kioto, Japan. Oscar Dickson, the great merchant and muni ficent patron of the Vega expeditions, has been ennobled by his friend King Oscar, of Sweden, and it r.ow properly styled Baron Dickson. Prof. Young, of Princeton, wiU observe the total eclipse of the sun in August next at Kire sbama, in the government of Kostroma, Russia. His companions will he the scientific representa tives of Russia and England. Edwin Booth s reappearance as a capitalist is noted by the New York papers, which record a $20,000 loan of the great tragedian to Ephraim Drueker, of Grand street ami South Fifth ave nue. Real estate Is given as security. Qceen Victoria wrote a cordial and sympa thetic letter to the Duke of Cumberland on the occasion of the Duchess' loss of mental health. It was the first communication between them since their quarrel more than six years ago. Eighty new members were received into the fellowship of Plymouth church on Sunday, and even Mr. Beecher's friends are beginning to ad mit that Emerson was light when he said: "Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.” Mme. Offenbach, widow of the composer, is dead. She was sister of M. Robert Mltcnell. edi tor of the Bonapartist Pngs, their father Is-ing Irish and their mother Spanish. Mine. Offen bach's receptions in her husband's lifetime had great popularity. Miss A. C. Baker was sent ns a, delegate by St. Luke's church, Chadd’s Ford, to the Penn sylvania Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal church She was refused admission by the Committee on Seats owing to her sex. Woman suffrage has never been very eagerly championed by the Episcopal church. Dwight L Moody is making gr3at prepara tions for the evangelization of Chicago. He pro poses to erect u training school in that city for the education of female missionaries for "local application." Two hundred and fifty thousand doflnrs lias las'll suhscrilied for the purpose Fifty thousand dollars will erect the building and s'2<X*,ooo will be Invested as an endowment fund. ■ Announcement has been made of the death of wVil. Sir Thomas Gore Browne. Thin gallant commander won distinction half a century ago in Afghanistan, covering the retreat of the Brit ish army after the disaster at Hykulzio, lending his regiment at the battles of Canduhar. Cabul and Uhuznec. commanding the rear guard dur ing the inarch through the Khylstr Pass, and di recting the storming of the hill fort at Istalilf, the most daring action of the war. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who is to be the next Governor, of Kentucky, is a mun of middle stature, with small, piercing blue eves, snow-white mustache and Imperial and a rather ruddy face He Is between 65 and 70 years of age. He is wealthy. His real estate in Chicago 1# said to be worth $500,000. About two years ago hi- married, as his second wife, a reigning belle of Richmond. Va They have a bouncing boy a year old. The General's name is Bolivar and his wife's Betty. Hence the nlllt erativ’e war-cry of the Bucknaiteii now ringing through Kentucky of “Bolivar, Betty aul the Baby. * THE BARBER WON. He Generally Does, and This Was No Exception to the Rule. From the Chicago Herald. A lank Hoosier, with a bony, mottled face ran Into a Madison street barber shop just as the sun was going down last evening and informed the proprietor that he wanted to be shaved in; ‘■dura short order." His beard, which was heavy and wiry, extended far down his sunburt neck. The barber tilted the granger in a chair and swept the bristles off with a graceful flour-, ish of the razor. “You need a hair cut,” the artist said, drench ing the up turned face with bay rum. “No, I don’t nuther,” replied the granger. “Intend to braid it pretty soon?” “Naw.” “Wear it in a net?” “Naw.” .j “Then you ought to get it cut. 1 * “Hain’t got time.” ;r “It won’t take five minutes.” “Go long.” “Telling you the truth.” “You can’t do it in twenty minutes.” “Do it in five, X tell you.” “Betcher $lO you can’t.” “You don't know what you are talking about." “Well, I’m betting you $lO you can’t do it.” “In fifteen minutes?" “Yes, but remember, I mean no half-way hair ness.” "I’ll take your bet!" exclaimed the barber, covering the granger’s money and seizing a pair of clippers. The cold steel instrument was placed at the base of the Hoosier’s brain, and when “time” was called by the bootblack there was a whiz and a zip that nearly threw the granger out of the chair. A belt of hair, hemi spherical in shape, rolled off the cranium and ■ fell upon the floor. Another whiz and zip and a great strip of hair fell off near the right ear. The cjjppers were plowing through the scalp lock when the granger, with bulging eyes, ex claimed: “Hold on, tliar! What the blazes areyou do-, ing?” ;♦ “Winning that $10,” replied the barber, send ing the clippers around the left car. Let me see watcher’re doin’ behind thar.” One small mirror was placed back of his head, and another in, front of him. When he beheld the two bare avenues running down the back of his head be yelled excitedly: “That’s not fair; that’s no go!" “What’s no go?” asked the barber. “Cutting a feller’s hair with a jack plane. You’ll win the money, stranger, butcher played roots on me. Now shave her all around so she’ll agree.” The job was done in four minutes and twenty seconds, and the granger went out and nearly, froze to death on the comer. A Diplomatic Story. From the London Times. The story goes back to the year 1880. The re lations between Germany and Russia were strained. The German newspapers complained of the excessive massing of Russian troops on the frontier. The Russian newspapers replied by attacks on the attitude of the German press. Gen. Von Schweinitz, in spite of this tension, en joyed the highest credit with Alexander 11., to whose private circle he alone of all the ambas sadors was admitted. He belonged to the small number of persons who played at the card par ties which the Emperor was in the habit of join ing every evening. One evening the Emperor, seeing the Germap ambassador enter the room, went up to him hurriedly and in almost violent language complained of the attitude of the Ger man press, of the perfidy of Prince Bis marck and of the indifference of the Em peror William, who tolerated this violence of the press and this underhand policy of the Chancellor. Gen. Von Schweinitz was quite taken aback. However, his habitual self-posses sion soon came to his relief. He said nothing. He had sufficient self-command to take his place at the Emperor’s table and to remain there the whole evening. On his return home he pre pared a report, which gave a faithful account of what had occurred, with the exact words used by the Emperor. When, at about 3 o’clock in the morning, he read over his report he became alarmed at the consequences to which the faith ful reproduction of the words of the Emperor might lead-words of which the immediate result would be his own recall. He took the re port, threw it on the Are, and went to bed, in tending to sleep over it and to write his report in a calmer frame of mind. He awoke very uneasy, and was about to breakfast when an aide-de-camp summoned him to the Emperor. Alexander 11., who was very emotional, threw himself into his arms, explained how- nervous he had been overnight, begged him to forget what he had then said, and talked in the friendliest way of Germany, the Emperor and the Chancellor. Two months afterward all was arranged, and Gen. Von Schweinitz, being on leave of absence and on a visit to Prince Bismarck, told him what had passed between him and the Czar. “My dear ambassador,” said Prince Bismarck, tapping him on the shoulder, “remember that I have rendered greater service by what I have not said than by what I have said.” If Gen. Von Schweinitz should go to Rome, placed between the King and the Pope, both now Germany’s allies, he will often have occa sion to remember this remark, and will do as much sendee by silence as by speech. Blase. Ella IVheeler Wilcox in l.ippin rot Vs. The world has outlived ail its passion; Its men are inane and blase, Its women mere puppets of fashion; Life now is a comedy play. Our Abelard sighs for a season, Then yields with decorum to Fate; Our Heloise listens to reason,— And seeks anew mate. * * * By the lady like mindr of our mothers We are taught that to feel is “bad form;” Our effeminate fathers and brothers Keep carefully out of life's storm; Our worshippers, now, and our lovers, Are calmly devout—with their brains; And we laugh at the man who discovers Warm blood in his veins. * * * But j-ou, O twin souls, passion-mated, Who love as the gods loved of old, What blundering destiny fated Your lives to be cast in this mold? Like a lurid volcanic upheaval In pastures prosaic and gray You seem with yourAervors primeval. Among us to-day. You dropped from some planet of splendor, Perhaps, as it circled afar, And your constancy swerveless and tender You learned from the course of that star. Fly back to its bosom. I warn yon. As back to the ark flew the dove; The minions of earth will hut scorn you Because you can love! Had Been There. From the Detroit Free Press. The other day when a Michigan avenue grocer was in a great hurry and his store full of cus tomers lie wanted some change, and handing a $5 bill to a young man who had been asking the price of plug tobacco sent him out to get small money. The messenger returned in a few min utes and laid $1 .'>o in silver on the counter. "How this?'queried the grocer. "It was a $5 bill I gave you.” "Exactly.” “And here's only $4 50.” "I know it. The other 80c. is in mv pocket." "You hand it over or I'll have you arrested!” “Go ahead, my friend. I’ve been right there before. It's simply breach o’ trust, and such cases don’t hold water in our courts. You can't even get a warrant.” "You scoundrel! I’ll call an officer!” “And I’ll wait!” The grocer ran out and found the patrolman and told him the case and was replied to with: "I can't arrest him without a warrant, and I don’t lielieve you can get the warrant.” He went liaek to the store to lick the placid sharper, but the latter peeled off and put him self on the defense, and tho job was aban doned. "What ails you," he said, as he prepared to depart, "is lack of gratitude. I could have kept the whole $5, but my conscience wouldn’t allow it." A Picnic for Robin Hunters. From the Baltimore American. “There is another." said one of the doorkeep ers at the White House one day this week. "What’s that?” asked one who was standing near by. "Why, a cigar fiend,” was the reply. “See that man going off there,” and he pointed to a very respectable-looking man walking away puffing at a naif-smoked cigar. “We have regu lar customers here - men who make It a practice to come to the White House once or twice a day and nick up stumps of cigars thrown on the porch or walks leading to the House. Cabinet days are their chief days, and when Congress is in session they live high. They know that Cabi net officers and c ,enators smoke goml cigars, and often they have Just lighted one before reaching the House and throw it away. You would he surprised to know the men who come here daily to pick up these east-off sttunps -robins I lielieve the actors call them. The White House, you know, Is the place which all the prominent men of the country, in town, visit. These men in variably smoke good cigars, and It is a picnic for'robin hunters.’ Watch the porch some day ami see for yourself. There is one statesman, however, who has lost so many cigars in that way that he is‘on to them ’So lie carefully hides ills Rclna Victoria behind one of the big pillars.” “Funny people here In Washington,eh?" And the stranger answered, “Yea, verily.” ITEMS OP INTEREST. There are twenty persons whose gifts to col leges in this country aggregate over $23,000,000. Three of these—Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins and Asa Packer—gave over $14,000,000. A priest in Salt Lake City came upon a girl of his congregation just as her sweetheart was kissing good night in front of Pier mistrest gate. He boxed the girl’s ears, rang the bell, and, when the mistress appeared gave her a short and instructive lecture on the duties of women in her station in life. A package containing $1,600 in banknotes, among which was a small piece of paper bear ing the words, type-written: “This money be longs to Cook county,” was received by the j County Commissioners of Chicago on Tuesday. It is suspected that the money had been “boodle" until its recipient had an attack of con science. A Spartan-like judge had his own son before him in the Adams (Ind.) Circuit Court, at Deca tur, and punished him from the bench for in toxication and assault and battery, but he seems to have let up lightly upon the young man—s 2 for the drunk and $5 for the assault. The son, who was recently admitted to tne bar, is 21 years old. Very few people know that, as the violet was the chosen flower of the Napoleons, scarlet car nation was the choseitflowers of the Stuarts. To this day mysterious hands yearly deposit at Frascati, and in St. Peter’s, in Rome, where lay' the remains of the Cardinal of York and other members of the House of Stuart, -wreaths of • scarlet carnations. A negro cook at the Los Angeles (Cal.) jail kept eighty-five prisoners at bay the other day and prevented their escape. Fifteen desperate characters overpowered the jailer and got away before the cook heard the disturbance. He faced the remainder with a carving knife, which he threatened to use with all his skill on the first that came within his reach. Delaware shad fishermen haven’t much faith j in the government efforts to -propagate these, fish. Old Capt. Gossar probably voiced the average sentiment when he said: “Let the guv'ment keep its taraal ‘Fish hawks;' an’ sich, to hum. All the guv’ment has to db ter make shad thjeker 'n' Jersey skeeters, is ter,make laws as 'll let God 'a' the shad ’tend the pro p'gat’n wuk theirsel’s. They knows their busi ness!” When the Cornell University base ball nine were in Elmira recently they thought it proper to serenade the college girls. So, after dark, ! they- assembled in front of a large building which was lighted and began with “181 Await My Love.” Before they got through a man came out and asked them to make less noise, be-' cause they were disturbing a prayer meeting. The boys had mistaken Rev. C. K. Beecher s church for the Elmira Female College. A correspondent says that by actual count - < there were last week 805 actual and legitimate actors behind New York footlights, men and women cast in speaking’parts, in .twenty-four theatres—not including variety theatres, concert halls, or dives. This leaves out all dancers, figu rantes, supernumeraries, and, in fact, all but ac ■ tual actors and the operatic artists supporting Patti, In six regular theatres in Brooklyn there are 100 more actors. An old farmer at Kingston, N. Y., was hailed a day or two ago, says the Freeman, by a man who wanted a ride. The farmer looked at the man a moment and then asked: “Be you a Pro . hibitionist or a Demmycrat ?” The man answered ■ that to a certain extent he was both. He said he believed in prohibition, but always voted the straight Democratic ticket. “Git out,” shouted the farmer. “I’ve got a jug of old apple whisky in my wagon, an’ I couldn’t trust you together.” An Albany, N. Y„ newspaper tells of a well to-do but very careful gentleman who recently told a friend in good faith that he had discover ed how to save on his butter bills. “Just spread your bread with butter,” said he, “then scrape it off as closely as you can, and hold the but tered side down when you eat' it. Your tongue strikes the butter at once, and you get just as much flavor as if you had three times as much butter and ate it the other way.” John Glover, the noted lumberman of the Northwest, has a phenomenally loud and shrill voice. A few years ago he was invited to de liver a Fourth of July oration and did so with much credit to himself. After it was over (sev eral days after) a certain Gen. Harriman was asked how he liked it, ‘TI-m-m-m,” said he, “I liked what I heard of it.” “But, General, didn’t you hear all?” “Oh, no!” he replied, “you see I was twelve miles away when it was delivered.” In the Newcastle Courant of June 80, 1781, is the following recipe to make a perfect woman: Duchess of Devonshire’s countenance, lady Salisbury’s figure, Lady C. Talbot’s, grace, lady Jersey’s forehead, Mrs. Bouverie’s teeth. Lady Essex's eyes, Lady Dashwood’s nose, Miss Ho tham’s chevalure. Lady Horatio Walpole’s com plexion. Lady Maria's neck. Duchess of Rut land’s hand and arm, Mrs. Darner’s foot. Lady Sefton’s majesty, Mrs. Conyers' good humor, Lady B. Talmash’s wit and Lady Betty Henley’s vivacity. There are in the United States 5,338 libraries, each with 300 volumes or over. Of these 2,981 have each 1,000 volumes or over. Forty-seven have each over 50,000 volumes, and among the forty-seven are the public libraries of Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati, and the libraries of Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Cornell and Brown Universities. These forty-seven libraries aggre gate 5.026.472 volumes, and the whole list or 5,- 338 libraries aggregate 20,622,076 volumes, or one volume to every three persons in the coun try. In rotmd numbers the United States has one library to every 10,000 of population. Much excitement has been caused at Dart mouth College Toy the expulsion of the manag ing editor and business manager of the JEgis, an annual publication gotten out by the Junior class. This year the JEgis contained a full-page cartoon aimed at President Bartlett. The car toon was entitled, “A Suggestion for a Memo rial Window for the Rollins Chapel," and was a wood-cut representing the burin] of Ananias. The date of the President’s birth was boldly affixed, so as to prevent any uncertainty as to whom the lampoon was leveled. The faculty, not being aide to ascertain the individual male factor, expelled the editor-in-chief and the busi ness manager. While some workmen were opening a sewer in the back cellar of the Ship Hotel, in Dublin, the other day, a pickax struck upon a curious box or casket covered with rust, and very strongly locked. The box, which is about 18 inches in length arid 12 in height and width, is heavily constructed of half-inch iron, and stud ded with heavy clasps. The moment it was moved the workmen gave a cry of joy, for there was the undoubted chink of coin "within. A locksmith pried open the hasps with difficulty, and the mysterious chest was found to contain a collection of coins of the sixteenth and seven teenth centuries, principally copper. They are in a good state of preservation, and must have been stowed away before 1810, when the Ship Hotel was built. In New York the girl whose costume is not of the color of heliotrope is “aw’ay off.” “I never knew such a croze for a color before," said a Broadway modiste, “The popularity of crushed strawberry and all those old colors was nothing in comparison with heliotrope. Dresses, hats, feathers, gloves, stockings, and even corsets are tinged with it. It’s a happy hit, because it U a color that, will go with almost any face or coin piexiou.” "I thought purple was a hard color to wear,” said a reporter to whom the lady was talking. "So is is, nut the slight cast that turns It into heliotrope changes its effect entirely, as the shading does in green. However, everything that comes within a mile of the color is called heliotrope now." “How did the color become fushionable?” “No one can tell. Probably from the popularity of the perfume.” It is, perhaps, open to doubt if the toad hears the precious jewel in its head of which the poet speaks; hut a French cure, a correspondent of M. Frandsque Sarcey’s, has met with a toad which had a fortune in its throat, had It only fallen in with an impresario. The cure hap pened to call the othor day on one of his poorer jmrishloners. who, in compliment to hiH visitor, added u fresh provision of fuel to the lire, which at once blazed up, c.mitting a welcome glow. Attracted by the warmth, as Ft would seem, an enormous toad emerged from under an old chest of drawers standing in a corner, hopped slowly up to the (Ire. and stationed himself in front of ft like a pot animal, which, in fact, he was. The peasant, after a few prefatory words, proceeded tf) drone out an old Gascon ballad and sang a verse 0 f It through. To the ahbe’s Intense us touislmieht, the toad continued, or rather added a sort, of coda to the melody the moment his master stopped, singing first a la, then a fa. re turning next to the first note, and concluding on mi. Tne voice of the little singer was plaintive and musical, reminding the abbe of the notes of the harmonica. The peasant continued the bal lad to the end. the other amateur chiming in regularly with the same four notes at the end of each stave, keeping Its eyes fixed on its master throughout the performance, and evincing in its expression and attitude a manifest desire to do Its part in the concert, to hiH satisfaction. The peasant, who was ill at the time, died soon after; and the cure, who had meant to adopt the other inmate of the hut, could find no trace of him when he went to fetch him. REMEDIES. 'jP UTTLE G RAN D CHILK Cleansed, Purified and Beautu fled by the Cuticura Remedies of a large both We poulticed it, but Suo ™ purpose. About five months after it be.-?™ running sore. Soon other sores formed !,? then had two of them on each hand, and as hi? blood became more and more Impure it re i less time for them to break out. A sore on the chin, beneath the under lip, which very offensive. His head was one solid seal? discharging a great deal. This was his c2‘ tion at twenty-two months old. when T took the care of him, his motheTSvlngX when he was a little more than a year old ?, consumption (scrofula of course). He coni! walk a little, but could not get up if he down, and could not move when in bed havim. no .L ls fv. of^ liancl8 ’^ 1 immediately cominen,!? with the Cuticura Remedies, using the fw? Cuba and Cuticura Soap freely, and when hi had taken one bottle of the Cuticura Res?! vent, his head was completely cured and hi was improved in every way. We were verv much encouraged, and continued the use of thk remedies for a year and a half. One sore afhi another healed, a bony matter farming in each one of these five deep ones just before healC which would finally grow loose and were taken out; then they wouldTheal rapidly. One of these ugly bone formations I preserved. 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