Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

12 HIS DEPTH 07 WOE. Oh. Kittle. I love ye. an’ faith I can't mend it, Yer lips are so rosy, yer eyes are so blue: With a smile that so ragman—the saints all defend it: That if I am ravin', the fault is wid you. Ye chide me an' frown, yet menelf it is thiikln’, More angry ye'd be wid me were I to go; Bure. Kittle, me heart like a stone would be sinkin'. If I thought that wid more than yer l ! ps ye said no. Then out on ye foolin', tne darlin". nor taze me: Hut end :h(* suspinse if ye value me life — In course there is many another could jilaze me, And make, like yerselt, me a tme, lovin' wife. Don't flash wid yer two eyes. 1 didn't quite mane it Though th“ truth *tis the same, and the devil sav no Then come to my *rnim*—oeb. must I explain itt - >?e socks are all out at the heel an' the toe. There's the pig, the poor darlin', an' sure he is failin', Wid groanin' an moanin'—begob, it's a sin! From moruin' till night the swate craythur is waitin'. An' no one to carry his sehwill to the pin. Thin come to me shanty. I beg of yez. Kit tie, Bay via, an' wid Joy I'll be dancin' a jig; If not for nu-self in yer heart ye take pity. Ocb, Kittie, remember the woes of me pig. —Charles H Tuhxke. SEA LORE. A Dialect With a Wealth of Distinctive Terms. From the Seattle Post-InteUtyencer. Not excepting the profession of the law, | there is no calling which has a greater ■wealth of technical dialect than that of the sea. The vocabulary of the ocean is crowd ed with strange words, and there are such nice shades or meaning which distinguish their uses that a landsman must often be perplexed at how to arrive at any intelligent understanding of them. The sage of Fleet street is never more entertaining than when he is trying to define some part of the ves sel's gear. At home with pretty much all other subjects in the world, Dr. Johnson ■was singularly unhappy in his treatment of matters marine, as a glance at some of the definitions in his dictionary will show. His description of a ship as a "floating prison” is of course figurative, begotten by his dislike of the sea and everything connected with it. His dictionary, however." is full of ludicrous errors, perpetrated in all seriousness in his attempts to fathom the mystery of a ship's equipment. The doctor confounds “tiller" with “rudder" over and over again, de scribes the “keel" as the “bottom" of a ship, and apparently thinks that "belay” and “splice” are convertible terms. This ignor ance on the lexicographer's part is inexcus able for the reason that sea terms have such nicety of application that room for confu sion of them should be impossible. No pro fession in the world has words to express such delicate shades of meaning as the sea. Take the words “aft" and "abaft" as exam ples. These are both adverbs of place, and noth mean almost the same thing, yet there is no single occasion where either of them may be used with equal propriety. The former means “behind'’ in a general sense, but the latter means behind in a relative sense, and can only be used in connection with some object, abaft the foremast, abaft the binnacle, etc. People would naturally think that the same word would be used to describe; anything which came over or through a vefwel’s bulwarks, whether that thing was animate or inanimate. Nothing of the sort. There are two words to use on occasions of this sort, to confound which is a heresy of the deadliest kind. A boat is said to be swung from the davits over the bulwarks “inboard,” but a man entering a ship has gone "aboard.” Heas break "in board,” but not marines—the latter come “aboard.” Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson are irresistible, and here is one which is not so frequently quoted as most. On one occasion the doctor was invited to spend a week on board a war ship lying in Plymouth roads. Rendered excursive oy enforced idleness, he was tempt ed into rambling about the ship, and coming to a particularly dark and mysterious closet had his curiosity whetted to ask a sailor its uses. “That,” replied the tar, “is the place where the lonlollyman keeps bis loplolly" an answer which so disconcerted the doctor that he jacked up his trunks and went ashore the same hour. It the strange worths he hears at sea are puzzling to a landsman, then doubly so are familiar words, which on a ship have a significance quite different to their shore one. VV liat is the unsophisticated to make of cats, of lizards, of foxes or of leeches : Then the use of the verbs to mouse, to house und to rouse are equally mysteri ous. The word lady at sea is olisolete now, but formerly it designated a functionary whose business it was to look after the giui netV small stores, and the place where the latter were kept was called the lady’s pan try. The sea is very conservative in its usages, and some of the terms wo have quoted above were familiar to mariners in the time of Columbus. Now and then a word sinks into desuetude, as President Cleveland would say, but it takes centuries of disuse to really render the word obsolete. A good expressive sea term has been lost in aliandouing the verb “to claw,” which for merly meant clutching and grabbing at the wind, in a ship's effort* to get away from a lee shore. Sails are not said to “shiver” in the wind nowadays; they “shake;” nor are the staysails “heaved out,” but "loosed and hoisted" in this nineteenth century. There bus been a groat deal of controversy about the use of the word “topgallant,” and, as usual, the sage of Bolton Court runs afoul otit most cgregioudy. Topgallant was a word used on shore long before it became the exclusive property of tho sea. Steele somewhere sj*-aks of the “topgallant sparks of the. town," using the word with n confl dence which only familiarity with it could give. According to the author of the “Lives of the Poets,” “topgallant” is the topsail. Now, the veriest tyro of the sea knows that topgallant is never used as a substantive, but invariably as an adjective, the topgallant, yard, the topgallant fore castle furnishing examples. A man going to bed at sea is said to bo “t urning in.” Men who sleep through the watches, like the petty officers, etc., are said to have “all night in;” that is, in their bunks or ham mocks. “Idlers” is a iieculiar wind, and meaus those exclusive of the officers who do not keep watches, like the carpenter, cook, butcher, etc. The monosyllabi'' word “lay” has many meanings, none of them very quickly caught hold of by the landsman. To “lay” aloft is lo go aloft, but for a body of men to "lay” along a yard is to extend along a yard. The word “lay” is also used in connection with coiling up a rope; thus, “to lay up a rope.” Jt would occupy 100 much space to adduce instances where the spelling uml pronuncia tion of sea terms are widely different. Fre quently, of course, this arises from the fact that Jack has got little breath to spare mid wants to sa v e verything us short as |Kisilj|e. Jim why it is easier to say “strop” than strap, or “rtinko” than streak, is not appa rent. The word tackle is short and handy onou li, in ell conscience, but in Juck's ni sii i it become* “laycle,” with the accent o.i the first syllable. J>rv hash at sea lie comas “eoue," and puddings or dumplings are known collectively as “duffs.” Shij/.s crackers are called “hanl brood" and Inker's loaves “soft tack.” “Fiddles” are jieculiur wooden frames strap]*-d on the table to pro rent tho dishes from slipping away. Burying the deiul horse is a coreinouy sel dom witnessed on American ship*, but on the East Imliamen of old time, as well as on the Blackwell liners of a decade ago, it was never omitted from a voyage. It consisted ni ilia burying of the effigy of a horse when the sailors ban Inen a month out at sea, to signify that their mouths advance had been worked off Neodlen to say there was con siderable circumlocution about it, many dreary chants living sung, a Iwrrol of tar ignited and all hands getting gloriously drunk In the evening. Compared with legal phraseology, that of the sea is Inlimtely richer and purer, and as we have noticed before it is capable of druwing flue distinc tions and discriminating between shailos of rm nnitig, ho us to almost raise it to a science. A little knowledge, however, is a dangerous tlnee. and ls*fi>re the confident lamisoiso HOMES FOIi THE PEOPLE. I Kitchen | Dining- FTM. Library 11x12* ? Al - fL h - EEIL-. Hall f Parlor ] up UL 7*xir iixia* Veranda 6x2l* first floor The above design was furnished us for publication by the Co-Operative Building Plan Association, a large firm of Architects doing business at 191 Broadway, New York, who make a specialty of country and suburban work, lieing able to furnish the drawings and specifications for more than three hundred different designs, "mostly of low and moderate cost. They invite correspondence from all intending builders, however distant. They will send their latest publication (called Shoppell's Modern Housra, No. 5) containing more than fifty designs, on receipt of sl. begins to talk of gudgeons and pintles he had better consult Mr. Clark Russell or some other naval authority, and ask him iu all simplicity what the terms mean. LISTENING WITH THE EYES. How the Deaf Mutes Heard a Service in St. Ann's Church. From the Brooklyn Foyle. An elderly man with a gray beard and a slender complement of gray hair stood at the reading desk behind the chancel rail in St. Ann's Chapel (Episcopal) yestei-day after noon in the full vestures of an Episcopal clergyman, and went through what to an ordinary person looked like an extraordinary series of unintelligible maneuvera. His Ungers revolved aliout each other rapidly, he flatted his hands together, stroked his breast, touched his forehead and pointed at his congregation, who comprised a score of men and women. Sometimes he used only one hand in these motions, making the Angers work very rapidly; at other times both hands were used. The emphasis and tlm punctuation used in these gestures was apparent even to one who had never seen them employed before. The fieople who watched the minister were deaf mutes of Brooklyn attending one of their regular services, which are held in St. Ann’s chapel twice a month. Tho minister was reading the Episcopal liturgy as it ap pears in the present system of deAf mute gestures, ami the congregation were hearing it by means of their eyes. The liturgy was not. cut at all. all tho prayers were given and all the psulms and scripture readings. At the proper time flu-congregation knelt and watched the prayer that was being said, and at the conclusion said a hearty “Amen” with their hands. They sang the hymns, too, and joint'd in the responses with the greatest interest, apparently, their gesticu itions being quite as pronounced and their faces as earnest as that of the minister. After the prayers and hymns and scrip ture i-eadings the minister preached a gesture sermon half an hour long from tho tenth chapter of Bt. John: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd givetb his life for the sheep.” The congregation sat with out a motion till it was all over and the service was ended, Then they shooks hands and greeted eafib other and tho minister very warmly. Their lingers flew like light ning as they asked and answered questions about their acquaintance and themselves. The minister was the Rev. Thomas Gal- Inudct, of the famous Oollaudet family, known all over the continent on account, of their work during the last two generations for douf inuti*. lie said, in answer to the reporter’s questions: “How do 1 like to preach with ni.v hands t Vory well. I’ve grown so used to it now that I think in the sign language and to use it is second nature. Wo have two deaf mute services in Brooklyn in Episcopal churches and one in Bt. Ann's, New York. The deaf mutes attend fairly well, though a few drift 1 away In infidelity. I am connected with I the deaf mute mission of the Episcopal ! church, you know. We'hold service* in I every big city in the country now, tho work has spread so greatly.” “I thought that many of the mutes could read the liiis and so could understand the sermons and service* in every churchf" “No; that system is very i’mjKTfect,. Only a few can road the lips. It is a kind of in tuition.” .Teona Birosau.. of Hartford, who him b." n arrested for emheszlauient, is (he politician whom Consul (letters! Waller, when be wiutGot ] emorof Connecticut, forcibly ejected from the ! executive chamber. The uffslr mode asensn -11*’ at the time ai*l was thought to be Waller’s political death-blow. His ueiiuu, however,re THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. PERSPECTIVE VI EW. DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN. x Size oe Structure —Front, 21 feet, 6 inches, not including the staircase annex; Side, 30 feet, 6 inches, not including veranda. Size of Rooms—See floor plans. Height of Stories — Cellar, 0 feet; First Story, 9 feet; Second Story, 8 feet 4 inches. Materials— Foundation, posts set in concrete or brick piers; First Story, claplxiards; Second Story, clapboards and shingles; Gables, shingles; R x>f, shingles. Cost—sl,soo to $1,900, complete, except gra’e; and blinds. Special Features —Throwing all of the rooms together by the wide openings prac tically makra one large apartment of the who.e first floor, when desired. lhi-> gives an air of elegance and size to a small house that is astonishing. Double doors can be used, or portieres, as preferred. Our estimate includes neat bard-wood mantles and fireplaces of pressed brick. Inside trim of clear pine or w hite wood stained and very handsome in design. The staircase hardwood of unique design. Stained glass windows over the stair landing. If a bath-room is required the small, rear bed-room can be converted into one. Two rooms can lie finished in the attic story, to which a stairway is provided. Plenty of closets, and over the kitchen a good storeroom is obtained. A Baltimore or fireplace heater placed in the parlor or dining-room warms two of the bed-rooms and hall above, and except in the most rigorous weather the other rooms w ill be comfortable. There is a small cellar under the kitchen only. A cellar under the whole house, with stone or brick walls, costs $l5O additional. For a seaside cottage the veranda can be carried around the side. If a bay-window is wanted it can be built in either the parlor or library at an addi tional expense of $5O. If a large dining-room is preferred, leave out the partition between the library and the dining-room, making it all dining-room, and build the fireplace straight instead of angular. Painted in proper colors this makes a very attractive and striking house. Its appear ance always suggests that it in a larger and more expensive house than it really is. THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION. A Few Points of the Great Show That is Attracting the Attention of Lon don. By the Rev. Timothy Harley. “Peace on earth, good will to men,” is a true revelation of the Divine Will, and the ages of tho world are witnessing its gradual accomplishment. An age of exhibitions is an age of progress and peace, anil an Amer can exhibition in the metropolis of Great Britain is a notable indication of inter national good will. That the flag of West ern freedom should be freely unfurled in the chief city of the Eastern 'hemisphere is a sign of the times, a proof that in commerce and common weal, origin and destiny, the two nations are twins, and allied by bonds of indissolluble affinity with the brotherhood of the whole race. Rejoicing in this evidence of national fraternity, I went yesterday, through the courtesy of the Director general, to inspect the grounds and buildings of the American Exhibit ion which is to be opened in London next week. Already those ground are white with tents and wigw anis and animated with cowboys and red Indians. The build ings are in the possession of hundreds of workmen, who are rapidly converting cou- I usion into order as they make ready for the opening display of the new world. The site of t lie great show is at the west end of the city. Its space is a rough triangle 23 1-2 acres in extent. There are seven entrances, and the railway approach from all parts of Ixindon is very oonvienent. From the main entrance the visitors will pass into the great court of the exhibition, which is 1,200 feet in length and 250 feet wide. This will lie divided into avenues and streets, according to the customary plan in the United States. The building is very simple in its construction. Ordinary rails, bolted together in pairs, constitute the sup porting pillars, ami the roof is formed of lighter rails, with iron rods, covered with sheets of corrugated iron and with glass. This vast hall has a light apjx'aranee; is commodious and cheap. Here will be exhibited tho various goods which required three large vessels, specially chartered lor the purpose, to bring them over the sea. t lutslde the exhibit ion court, on the north, will be an extensive garden, with attractive outdoor entertainments, such as the switch-back railway and the to lsiggan. Oil the other side the "great feature ci the show will be Buffalo Bill* Wild West exhibition. A circular arena over HiO feet in diameter has been laid out, with a grand stand or amphitheatre callable of accommo dating about 20,000 spectators. The whole troupe, which will exhibit the wild sports and hunting stones of the far West, consists of about l.ro Indians and cowboys, men and women, and 2!0 animals, including horses, buffaloes and elks. This may bo termed a private speculation, for obviously the government of tho United Btat<*s could not tuke official possession on foreign territory; but it is American none the less, for it is the enterprise of tho sov ereign jteople. The executive officers hnve undergone hard labor for the past three years, and now they are about to earn the well merited reward of their well directed exertions. Yesterday Mr. anil Mrs. Gladstone hon ored the exlijbition with a visit, and were received at the main entrance by the Mar quess of liOrne. Lord Ronald Power, Hon. Thomas M. Waller, Consul General of the United State*, and Mr. John H. Whitlev, the Director General of tne exhibition. Mr. Gladstone looked remarkably well for a loan of ~H years, l’ussing through the main budding he was conducted to the quarters of Ilio Indians, who received him with shouts o wi-come and with hearty shaking of Baud* ' ’• tone was "'l tioul n lv in forested in “Red Shirt,” the Sioux chief, with whom he conversed through an inter preter. After witnessing Buffalo Bill’s dis play the distinguished visitor was enter tained at luncheon in the director’* room, for American, like British hospitality, be gins or ends with a feast. Mr. Sutro’s Novel Aquarium. From the Ban Francisco Call. Mention has been made in the newspapers from time to time of an aquarium that 11 r. Adolph Sutro intended to build out upon tho ocean beach, near the Cliff House. Those who have been out to the Cliff House and have descended the steps that lead to the bach will doubtless have noticed a little crice sheltered between two high rocks about 100 feet from the steps. In this cove the aquarium is now being built. The aquari um will consist of a round wall of rock 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet thick, and 14 feet high, and will be roofless. The flooring will be made in a unique way, according to Mr. Sutro’s plans. Solid pathways of rock will be built around the interior of the aquari um, and between them there will lie little points of water that will be 8 and 4 feet deep at low water. The water will come into these jionds from the ocean with rtsh and other marine objects in the following man ner: A tunnel MOO foot long and H feet high will be bored through the rock between the ocean and the ucquariuni, and at the seaward side of the tunnel there will be wire-screen gates, which can lie opened and shut. At high tide the gates will be suffered to remain open, so that the water and the liv ing objects in it can mine into the aqua rium. At high water the whole aquarium will lie flooded—the pathways and every thing—and no one can go in then. When tho tid*' begins to recede the gate* are shut, and only the water can flow through them. The living objects will be retarded, and will seek the comparatively deep water in the ponds, and thus they will lie caught, as in a trap. When the waters have receded suffi ciently from the pathways the public will Is* admitted inside the walls. Sea anemones, devil Tish, angel tlsh, star ftslt, crustaceans, shells, ull varieties of largo and small fish, and perhaps even occasional seals may be caught in this aquarium. At low tide there will always bo something interesting to see there. Honoring a Woman with Children. From the Chicago Journal. When Mine, do Stael asked the Emperor Napoleon what kind of a woman he con sidered most valuable to tho empire, the little Corporal wounded the sensitive feel ing of that distinguished personage by sen tentiouriy replying: “The woman who has t’ao most children.” The spirit which prompted such a reply has evidently found temporary lodgment in the breast of an Illinois Central railroad suburban con ductor. The other day while 1 was coming into the city on that thoroughfare an honest looking woman IsiardeJ the train at Forty third street with seven small children of various ages. When tho con ductor, clad in anew suit of blue, made resplendent, with brass buttons, sternly demanded her ticket, a blush of con fusion swept over her honest countenance as she fumbled vainly in her pocket, for her puree, which she had left at home. “I haven't, my ticket, sir,” she meekly re marked, the look of confusion growing deeper as she observed the glances of the passenger*; “I left it home.” The conduc tor glanced along the row of chubby-faced boys by her side and said: “Are you the mother of those seven children!” “Yes, sir,” slip replied. “Well,” continued lhe conductor, "any woman who has done as much for her country a* that can ride on my train for nothing. And the conductor left the car, followed by the applause of the IVISKCII'CIM. Floor 1 Bed Room Id ■ ■ „ U I a ‘^ a ' c c L JJ| Bed Room H kSLn hall Up I 1 r “i 1— Bedßoom 3 Bedßoom CLOS. JiSV U |!Vl3‘ n 'I 1 Roof SECOND FLOOK. THE AUTOMATIC KICKEfd. He Kicks at a Strang-er and Tells a Story About Edwin Forrest. From the yew York Eveninq Bun. Q A faultlessly dressed, middle-aged gentle man, with little gray side whiskers, carry ing a silver-topped cane, was standing on the 'platform of the Third avenue ele vated railroad station at Twenty-third street yesterday afternoon. A tall, portly man, with a red beard, pressed close in front of him. As he did so the gentleman with the side whiskers suddenly derated his left foot and delivered a vigorous kick, which just misse l the big man’s knee. “What in thunder do you meant” yelled the big man, as he turned and glared me nacingly at the other. “I beg your pardon, sir, I couldn’t help it,” was the hurried answer. “Couldn’t help it !” “No, sir. I have a nervous a (feetion in my left leg. W hen it comes on I must kick. It’s entirely involuntary and very mortify ing, I can assure you.” The big man passed on, looking far from satisfied, but after he had watched the ele gantly-dressed man kick with great energy at thin air live or six times in the next two minutes ha smiled broadly, and said to a bystander: “If I was that fellow I’d wear a ,'O-pound weight on my foot.” “That would be rather awkwal’d,” said the kicker, who had overheard the remark, “hut it might work. I’ve had this trouble for years. Edw in Forrest was afliieted in the same way, though in a milder form. 110 once kicked an actor four or five times who was marching m front of him in a proces sion of Roman soldiers, and it brought down the house. If Forrest hadn’t been such a big, muscular fellow he’d have had a fight on nis hands. Oh. lots of people ifl e troubled that way, mid—” Just here the train came along, and the gentleman with the automatic Teg kicked himself into the car. ’ ALMOST HIT BY A METEOR. A Phenomenon at Sen Does it Ac count for Disappearing Vessels? From the Mew York World. A remarkable story is related by Cap!. Swart, of the Dutch bark J. P. A., now preparing to sail for Quebec. The Captain thinks that his theory, derived from a re cent experience, will account for the sudden disappearance of many vessels at sea. He says that Mfux’h 19 his ship, while in lati tude 37.39 and longitude 57 west, met a heuvy storm. At about 5 o’clock in the afternoon a meteor was observed flying through the air. It looked liko two halls, one very black and the other brightly illuminated. The latter fell, and as it seeimsi that it would strike the vessel she was hove to under storm sails. The meteor dropped into the sea close alongside, making in its flight a tremendous roaring noise. Before reaching the w ater the upper atmosphere was darkened, while below and on Isiani everything appeared like a sea of lire. The force of the meteor in striking the water caused heavy breakers, which washed over the vessel, making her roll in a dangerous manner. At the same time the atmosphere became uncomfortably warm and the air was full of sulphur. Immedi ately afterward solid lumps of ice fell on the dc'-ks, and the decks ami rigging became coated with an icy crust, caused by the im mense evaporation. The barometer during the phenomenon oscillated so violently Unit no reading could l>e token. After close examination of the vessel and rigging no damage was found on deck, but oi the side where the meteor fell into the water the ship appeared ail black and some of the copper sheathing was blis tered. "IN AN AC3 OP HIS LIFE.” A Game of Poker Which Accounts for a Familiar Phrase. Correspondence New York Clipper. “Several years ago I was traveling for a well-known house on a commission only, al though my expenses were paid. At the time I was almost desperate for the want of money. To add to my woes my wife was very sick, and the recent death of my mother had taken every cent I had saved to pay for her funeral exiienres. My last trip had been a wretched one. and I had sold only one small bill of goods. At the same time I had made large collections for the Ann on old accounts. “In my wallet I had a little over 31,000 belonging to the firm. Early in the evening I had taken several drinks to cheer me up, and when, a little later, a game of poker was proposed. I willingly made one of the party, recklessly feeling tliat if I lost my §25 I would not be much worse off. We .-tartol in at 31 ante and a 310 limit, and, having good luck, I soon ran my small stake up to *IOO. Meantime the game grew hot ter and the limit had been raised to SSO, while the ante grew proportionately. All the players except myself were men able to lose §I,OOO and never wink oven; but of course they did not know my own straitened circumstances. “An hour after midnight we agreed to play a farewell jackpot and quit. Each man put up 350, which made the pot * 250 to start with, as there were five of us. The cards were dealt several times, and none of its had openers. At last the man ahead of me and next to the dealer opened the pot for a §SO note. I looked at my cards and found three aces, but simply stayed, not wishing to drive the others out. The player on my left, the richest man of the party, saw the opening bet and raised another fifty. The next two dropped out and the opener simply called the raise. Then it was my turn and I hesitated, for I was in a frightful quan dary. My own funds were not sufficient to enable me to call, and until that momeflt I had never thought of using the firm’s funds. “From a dreadful mental struggle I was recalled to the fact that I must do some thing, by the dealer saying, ‘Come, come, X! Say something. I want to help the cards and go to bed.’ In a moment I formed a plan which meant either ruin or brighter hopes. I unbuttoned my coat, and, draw ing out the wallet with the firm’s money in it, I laid SSO of my employers money on the table. It was the supreme moment of my life; it was my first dishonest act—if boyish thefts on orchards don’t count —yet I was as cool as I had ever been in ray exist ence. The opener drew two cards, and, knowing I had him beaten, I, too, took two. The third man took none. His standing pat made me shudder, for I was now looking dishonor in the face. The original opener ■scanned his cards carefully, and then, in a confident manner, bet §SO. That he had filled 1 was morally certain; but, having gone too far to recede, I called him, me chanieallv, without even looking at my draw. ‘Fifty dollars mom than you!’ said the player next to me. The opener hesi tated, and then simply called the last raise. Hopelessly I looked at my draw. The first card was the two-spot of hearts, and with a feeling of despair I looked at the next. It was an aco of spades. I knew I had drawn to the ace of clubs and the two red aces. The revulsion of feeling made me faint, and I hastily gulped down a glass of seltzer near me. My knees knocked together under the table, but I managed to get out a hundred dollar bill and announce that I raised the pot §oo more. The ‘pat’ man immediately raised me §SO. The ojiener now laid down liishand, remarking that he had no further business in the deal. My single opponent looked me over carefully and said: “ ‘You can bet me §:150, if you want to, allowing me the privilege of a like raise.’ I bet him the full §250, and he promptly raised me a like sum. I saw this bet anil went §250 harder. My opponent hesitated, and then said good-naturedly: “ ‘Enough is as good us a feast, and I won’t press you too hard; so I'il call.” “At the 'same time he laid down four queens and reached for the pot. When I snowed my four aces he was the most sur prised man you ever saw, but without a word he arose from the table and left the room. I never touched a card again, for I had determined to kill myself had I lost.” A DAY WTTH PATTI. Nicolini’s Record or tna Diva’s Symp toms During’ a Few Long Hours. From the Boston Record. 11:03 A. M. —She is arisen. I hold a thermometer in each hand. Ze doctaires they felt her pulse and smile. She taste one little swallow of warm milk, and say “Nicky” so sweetly. 11:09 A. m. —Just now she shrug her shoulders, it is almost a shiver! Mon Dieu, if it be a chill, I say. She vow nothing at all the trouble. 11:10. —It is a real shiver! She haf not eaten beans, I vow it. 11:15—You may be going crazy, but I cannot help it now. 11:19—It was a wretch drinking ice water in the floor below. 11 :25—He is handed over to the police. 11:30 —The throat has been wrapped up in swan's down, and I have read her a poem by Walt Whitman. 12 M. —You need not be so foolish and fran tic. She is well. She breakfasts—a morsel of shad roe, a dozen leaves of Marechal Neil, a sip of Heidsick, a toothpick. 12:23 p. m.—She smiles and asks for the gray parrot. It is a great omen. The or chestra can rehearse. 1:02 p. m.—She wishes to drive upon the street. She is wrapped like one jieachblow vase. Have the east wind sent out to sea. 2:48 r. M.—She is gone und come back. She is gay and caroling. I point out to her upon the street the great Howells, looking in the store windows for his little novels. She recognize the maire as he come out of his big palace. I show her also the big museum on the hill, the one with the gold top. 4:00 p. m. —She run up and down the scales. Mo foil it is grand! She sol, sol, sol, then fa, fa, fa, and go up, way far up, like the man on the church steeple'. I hope you haf no dead-heads in the scat. 7:19 p. m.—She has wrinkled up her nose. Terrible. If she should sneeze! 7:19 1-2—lt grows! Awful! A doctor! 7:21—1 beg your pardon. I hope you did not worry. She was only making a grimace at the parrot. 7:4i —Send the carriage. And the Boodle Gets Into the Pants. From the < hicoqo Tribune. Boy—Father, is “pants” a good word! Parent—lt has been trying to get into the language a long time, my son, but I believe the best judges prefer the word trousers. Boy—llow does it happen that this word “boodle” was adopted in all the papers as soon as it came out) Parent—Boodle, my son, is a different thing. It can force its way anywhere. : A Pleasant Lemon Drink. Fifty cents and one dollar per bottle. Sold by druggists. Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. For biliousness and constipation take Lemon Elixir. For indigestion and foul stomach take Lemon Elixir. For sick and nervous headaches take Lem on Elixir. For sleeplessness and nervousness take Lemon Elixir. For lows of appetite and dobility take Lemon Elixir. For level’s, chills and malaria, toko Lemon Elixir, all of which diseases arise from a tor pid or diseased liver. A Prominent Minister Writes. After ten years of great suffering from indigestion, with groat nervous prostration, biliousness, disordered kidneys anil constipa tion, 1 have lieen cured by four bottles of Dr. Muaiey'n lietuon Elixir; und am now a well man. Rev. C. C. Davis, Eld. M. E. Church Month, No. 23 Tattnall street, Atlanta, flu. BROWN’S IRON BITTER^ A QUESTION ABOtJ? Browns Iroix Bitters answered. thin*?" Well, it doesn’t. Bat it doe* cure few which repuuble phywciin would ptwcniilS* Physicians recognize Iron as the pject known to the profession. ,nd loading chemical firm will substantiate trii- 2_ that there are more nreparationa of iron th.T? a other substance used in medicine This *-■ elusivcly that iron is acknowledged to be ■ ’ important (actor in successful medical oraeti T** however,* remarkable fact, that prior to th i “>*. s’JissSfeaisa4g£Js; BROWN'S IRON BITTERSfes headache, or produce constipation-all other a medicines do. BROWN S IKON BITTrtI cures Indigestion. Biliousness, Weak.. Dyspepsia, tlalnriii, Chills anil W Tired Fcellag,General Debility BROWN'S IRON BITTERsSS? minute. Like all other thorouh medicine* * * elowlr. When taken by m-nthe fi benefit is renewed energy. The muscles ther'oi® * firmer, th digestion improves, the bowels In iromrn the effect is usually more rnptd and ah 't 1 he eyes begin at onoe to brighten: the sk“2* op: hevithy color comes to the cheeks; nerr disappears; functional derangements becom! I. and K a norsmg mother, abnndsnt meLSI Is supplied for the child. Remember Bros In? Bitters istho ONLY iron medicine that is Junous. Phyaiciant and DniggUu recommeni *®" Tile Genuine hae Trade Mark and creased rel "nwrarPT. T.tKr VO OTHER.* CORSETS. ~ “ w 9 f/iiilion worn during the past six ~e This marvelous success is due— -Ist.—To the superiority of Coraline overii other materials, as a stiffener for Corsets. 2d.—To the superior quality, shape and wort raanship of our Corsets, combined with tbo low prices. <*■ Avoid cheap imitations made of various kits of cord. None are genuine unless g “DH. WARNER'S CORALINE" is printed on inside of steel cover. Watchsprin! q8oOO'1(>/0<XC.OCOOOOD003000WCAOO<OOoc 1 Patented Feb. 8,1887. ( .. otj With sliding 1 Detachable Springs. Cgr Better than Whalebone or Horn,JJ! and guaranteed never to break. Pricey $1.25* For sale by leading wholesale and retail estab . lishments. :V?AYER, STRQUSE &CO* 412 Broadway, N. Y., Manufacturers. • : I IQUII GOLD. -Warranted 19 contain PURE GOLD. Pries Sl R u gJzCt || ’ plw<^ Tbe exact color of t'nglißh Sterling Gold. PRICE 50c. Used by over 1.900 Manufacturers and Gilders Those splendid products have been before ™ public since 1878. and they have invariably*™ awarded the highest prize wherever exbibitc Thev were used to decorate the splendid none" of W. H. Vanderbilt. Judge Hilton. .<*• Grant, and many other wealthy and guislied Now Yorkers. They are ready form stant use and may be used by the most inexpe rienced amateur. . . . FOR LADIES. Elthernf the a hove Is invalua ble for Gilding Frames. Furniture, Cornir* . baskets. I ans. Photos. Silk Mottoes. I**'’™ l }* Painting, etc. Any one cun use them. Asst Williams' Gold or Ruby's Gilding, and rerun substitutes. . _ , . Sold Iwall Art. Dealers and Druggists. v New York Chemical Mfg Cos., 3 E. ub so. ■ ■ | Hither will bo sent by mull for Be extraj^ CORNICES. CHAS. A. COX, •1C BARNARD ST., SAVANNAH, GA., MANUFACTURER OF— GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES AND— TIN HOOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. The only house using machinery in doiis work. Estimates for city or country wt promptly furnish#!. * Agent for the celebrated Swedish Me tallic Paint. Agent for Walters’ Patent Tin Shifa PLUMMER. l. a. McCarthy, Successor to ChttH. E. Wakefield. PLUMBER, GAS ami STEAM FITTER. 48 Httmurd street, bAVANNAH* Toli*i>!ion JtT3. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS. WARNKB BROTHERS, 3Sb Brondway, W* w Vorh ~.Y-