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6 ®k|pflrttrngiletos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SUNDAY. MAY 15. JBS7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Tlic Mohmxo News is published even <lay in the year. and is served tn subscribers n the city, bv newsdealers and camera, chi their own ac court, at tf> rents a week. $i 00 a month, §5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, ly mail, one month, $1 00: thiv<* months, $2 50; six months, $5 (X): odo year. S!U 00. The Monning by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), thn*e months, $2 00; f-ix montlis. g-4 ft) one year. $8 00. The Morning Nkws, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or I'ut'sdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $! 25; six months. $2 50; one year, s.*> (*O. The SrxnAY News, bv mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News. f>y mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah. (Ja. M Advertising roie* iiuu.l* known on application. INDEX T 0 NTMKiITiSEMENIS. Meetings —Brunch No. :18, C K. of A.; 18th Annual Convention Grand Lodge K. of P. of Geqj-giu. Bp*cial Notice.—Savannah Volunteer Guards Bra*-and String Band; Notice of Retirement. John L. Hardee: Townsend's Rivals and His Helpers; Notice to Bail Players, J. iV. McAlpin. Great Bargain Saws—At Platsliek’s. Condensed Hig it land Milk.—S. Guckenhelmer & Son. Sole Agents. Medical—Bradfteid’s Female Regulator; Dr. Whitehead's Great Remedy, P. P. P. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Boarding: Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous. Potatoes, Lemons, Etc.—Kavanaugh & Bren nan. Summer Resorts—The Mentone Villa, Sea Cliff. Long Island, N. Y.; Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Sweet Springs, West Virginia. Amusements— Guytons and Amateurs. Special Attention—Lovell & Lattimore. Auction Kale—Valuable Property, by T. P. Laßoche’s Sons. Paris Novelty Store—l 39 Broughton Street. Paris needs either cats or Chinese. The rats in that city are said to number 2,500,- 000. The professional humorist never says any thing funny except by accident, and the ac cidents are few and far between. A Dr. Herff says: ‘‘The poorer the cow the richer the milk.” If he ha/1 said: “The closer the pump the thinner the milk,” somebody would have believed him. Congressman Reed, of Maine, professes to believe that if every man were a Democrat the world would have to live in tents. The world wouldn’t care, as long as there were no Republicans. The London Titries wants Editor O’Brien arrested for sedition. The Times evidently doesn’t relish the unpleasant truths Editor O’Brien is telling the Canadians about the way Lord Lansdowne treats his helpless tenants. The 50,000 workmen who are on strike in Chicago exhibit singular inconsistency. They declare that they are opjiosed to “boss ism,” and yet they unhesitatingly obey the order of half a dozen of their number to be come idle. ® Adelina Patti’s husband says that he doesn’t think she will ever sing in America again. Then it was a mistake to call her recent tour a “farewell,” for it Is well known that a singer’s “farewell” tour means “I will see you later.” On the cars of the New York elevated railroads, last year, 1,700 umbrellas were left by passengers. Not one of them was afterward called for, the owner of each doubtless thinking that it had been loaned to a friend “Just for a few minutes.” While he was attending the Macon drill Gov. Gordon kissed all the members of the a>nior class of Wesleyan Female College. If kissing pretty girls is to be a perquisite of the office there will be more than two can tidates for Governor at the next election. ■The New York Tribune alludes to “The Lucy Club Institute, at Athens, Ga.” In view of the fact that clubs wore needed in the neighborhood of the institute a few days ago the mistake is excusable. Tribune doubtless had reference to the Lucy Cobb Institute. In New York, the other day, George Thwaites was arrested for beating his wife. Mrs. Th waites told the officer that Th waites asked her to marry him the day she buried her first husband. She doubtless under stands what it is to marry in haste and re pent at leisure. Gen. B. F. Butler has almost- recovered from the injury he received some time ago. Ho visited New York last week, but he didn’t call on Editor Dana, of the Sun. The General no longer loves Mr. Dana as he once did. That little Presidential boom for W. Tell Coleman, of Californio, is thought to be the cause of the coolness. The practice of throwing liaimnna skins on the sidewalk is a reprehensible one. It is full of danger to pedestrians. Several jx>r- Kins iti this city lately havo narrowly es caped serious injury from falls eausisl by them. The police would do the public a great service by arresting any one they dis cover pur}xisely throwing baimanu skins on the pavement. Mr. Chauncey M. Depow, of New York, who is sometimer: mentioned as the probable Presidential candidate of the Republicans ■ext year, is President of the New York Central railroad, the Union lyeuguo Club, and the Yale Alumni Association. If tl:o Republicans nominate hint tho Democrats will see that he doesn’t become President of the United States. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt announced the other night that only throe Assembly districts in Now York city had in tho Legis lature men who represented the solid and decent citizens of the metropolis. The dis tricts in question are solidly Republican. The citizens of tho other districts are dis posed to think that “dudeism in politics" has driven the Hon. Theodore mad. Despite the repeated assertions to t he con trary, there are reasons to believe that Mr. Parnell's health Is rapidly failing. He isde ■cribed as much emaciated and ns Ix-ing ex tremely nervous. It is thought that ho is suffering from Bright’s disease. The London correspondent of tho New York Times tele graphs that Mr. Parnell has no intent iou of resigning his position a: tho loader, of the Irish, but intimates that ho raev soon be re moved by death. Mr. tjlMtli uanUj would lie u serious blow to ontf, but there are others n ho won id hOAtIEsM tilH Mj ugaio ty/u home rule. Tho Northern Pacific’s Wise Decision. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company lias decided to lie guided by the policy marked out in the President’s letter in the Guilford Miller case. In our dispatches yesterday it was stated that the company would at once select the lauds which it claims without disturbing Guilford Miller and thousands of other settlers who have located themselves within the “indemnity” belt. This decision of the com pany is a wise one. If it had determined to make a fight in Congress for the lands occupied by set tlers it would have met defeat. It may be accepted as certain that in the future Con gress will be guided by a different jiolacy in dealing with the land grant railroads. For years these roads have exerted a powerful influence in Congress. They have got about everything they have asked for. The reason was that they were owned by some of the richest men ir. the country, and members of Congress held their stock and were their at torneys. They complied with their contracts only in so far as it was their interest to do so. They felt sure of their land grants, whether they built their lines within the time specified in their contracts or not. The Northern Pacific Company has failed many times to comply with its contract, but it lias suffered no loss of lands on that ac count. Indeed, it has been dealt with very tenderly. Not only lias its land grant, forty miles wide throughout its entire length, been reserved for it but millions of acres of lands outside of its grant have lieen kept out of market for yeai-s for its ben efit. They are called “indemnity” lands, and the company has the privilege of taking so much of them as may be necessary to complete the number of acres its con tract calls for if there is not sufficient for that purpose in the original grant. It is on these indemnity lands that Guilford Miller's farm is located, and there are thousands of other farms of honest settlers upon them. The company wanted these farms because they have been made valuable by improve ments, and it would have taken them, in all probability, if the President hadn’t pre vented it. 1 The Republican organs have had no word of praise for this act of the President. They dare not assail him for it, liecause it would be unpopular to do so, and they dare not commend him, because that would be to condemn about all the Republican adminis trations and all the Republican Congresses. They show their hostility to hi l ; policy, how ever, by bitterly assailing officials of the government who were instrumental in bringing tho land-grabbing scheme of the Northern Pacific to his attention. One of these officials is the Commissioner of tho Land Office, Gen. B[>arks. For months the New York Tribune and other Republican organs have been waging a bit ter war against him. Their aim is to drive him out of office. The reason for their hos tility was not apparent to tho public until it became known that ho was fighting tho land grant railroads, and was insisting that the greater part of the celebrated Maxwell grant in New Mexico, which Messrs. Dorsey and Elkins, Blaine’s managers, had sold to a Hol land syndicate, was fraudulent. Commissioner Sparks, howover, has not been greatly disturbed by the abuse of the Republican organs. Ho has tho conscous ness of having done his duty. Thousands of settlers on the “indemnity” lands will thank hint for fighting so valiantly for their rights and saving them from tho rapacity of the Northern Pacific railroad. When Re publican newspapers attack a Democratic official, it may be accepted as about certain tlmt he has obstructed some scheme of ras cality in which Republicans are interested. The land grant roads ought to be satisfied with what has been given them. In all, they havo had about 155,000,000 acres, or territory enough to make at least four States of the size of Georgia. They will not find tho present Congress so ready to grant concessions to them as previous Con gresses have been. Tho President’s course indicates a change of policy. It would not b : surprising if there should be a strong effort made next winter to bring about a forfeiture of land grants which havo not been earned. J. Harris Rogers, of Pan-Electric fame, has come to the front again. In a pamphlet recently published he decribes anew inven tion of his which ho calls “Visual Synchron ism.” 110 says of it that it enables one in effect, though not in reality, to see by elee trictity any number of revolving wheels or moving mechanism, thousands of miles away, so that absolute harmony or syn chronism is preserved to them all. The new system may lie applied wherever wheels or moving mechanism may bo utilized in telegraphy, electric locomotion, horology, printing, etc. It solves the greatest prob lem of electrical communication, and will render messages so cheap, it is predicted, thut all governments must adopt it, and ultimately send their letters by wire instead of by rail. Rogers also says that by his system lie will bo able to transmit pho tographs, landscapes, and handwriting by electricity. Ho invites capitalists to invest in “Visual Synchronism” stock, but he says that “Pan-Electric statesmen of the high stepping variety need not apply.” It is to be hoped that “Visual Synchronism” will not become a political issue. The country couldn’t very well stand Pan-Electric and “Visual Synchronism” at the same time. At the annual banquet of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, last week, Senator Hawley responded to the toast, “The Presi dent of the United States.” Among other things he said: “It is our especial pride that wc, as Americans, recognize him who re ceives the greater number of votes, irre spective of politics, as our President, the executor of the w ill of 00,900,000 of free people. I, as an American, take pride in saluting a President of the United States, whatever his politics. lam roady to com pure the Preeidonts of the United States for the past 100 years with the rulers of any nations for tho same period, aud linve no fear of the result.” Senator Hawley ox pressed tho sentiments of all patriotic Americans. The President is the ruler of all the people, and as such ho is entitled to their respect. Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, thinks that prohibition in that State has been taken out of jrolitics. Tho question will Ih> decided at a special election to lie held in September, thus avoiding all other issues. Gov. Taylor i is of the opinion that no prohibitory amend ment will Ire thoroughly .effective, except one to the national constitution. He thinks prohibition in one State accomplishes but little good as long as liquor is sold in adjoin ing States. Gov. Taylor's brother, Alf, ou ter tarns similar views. t Bon thinks she is jmrehed over an v natural gas. Thu remainder of til V thinks so, too. ■ THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. A Growing City. There is n saying that commercial cities on the sea coast arc not. ‘’built up, but grow up.” With the exception of Savannah ant Charleston all the seaport ; on the Atlantic coast hold the same relative josition at pres ent that they, did tweuty years ago. Charles ton has about the same number of inhabitants she had in lSt5O. Savannah lias about three times the number she had at that date. * Brunswick is quite an old town, and it has always been ambitious to become a large city. It is only within the last two years, however, that she has shown the energy and enterprise which are necessary to promote the growth of a city. The reason that she has not shown these charac teristics before is, doubtless, that she did not have as many enterprising and progres sive citizens as she has now. Brunswick is certainly growing, anil that, too, in a way that gives promise of a splendid future. In fact it may not be too much to say tnat she is about the only comparatively small place on the entire coast which promises to become a large city. The character of her new buildings are beginning to attract attention. They are handsome in architectural features and im posing in size. The old wooden buildings are gradually disappearing, and they are being replaced by structures which would be an ornament to almost any city. Bruns wick has gas and water works, and will soon have street railways. She has two wide awake daily newspapers and a third one is projected. Her new hotel wall soon be ready to receive guests, and a very pretty and commodious hotel it is. The new stores aud residences which are in the course of construction lielong to the better class of buildings, and they add much to the solid and prosperous appearance of the town. Of course all of these improvements indi cate clearly that Brunswick has a good many citizens of the enterprising and pro gressive kind. They are demonstrating what well directed energy and pluck can do, and their success will be sufficient to induce many to follow their example. Those of them who are merchants are reaching out beyond the State’s line for trade, and they are getting it. A great deal of trade, which they once unsuccessfully sought, now comes to them unasked. Their magnificent and well stocked warehouses are advertise ments which holp to build up their business. Brunswick is not without advantages for controlling a iarge trade. She has two rail roads, one of which traverses tho richest part of this State, and the other extends from one limit of the State to another, pass ing through several of its most flourishing cities. Brunswick has also a flue hnrtor— one of the finest on tho coast—and of which her people are justly proud. The people of Brunswick have been wait ing for years for the very thing that is now happening to her, and her present prosperity is, therefore, all the more appreciated and enjoyed. But satisfactory as their prosper ity now is, still greater results are aimed at. They appear to be determined to make their town a rival of the leading South Atlantic seaports, and who can say they will not suc ceed? Recent Southern Literature The movement in Southern literature, which has recently been considered or suffi cient importance to merit the attention of at least one essayist, provokes, just now, con siderable comment at home. As ffif as Ac tion is concerned it cannot lie dotifbd tftat Southern literature has had its principal de velopment since the war.) Mr. Cable, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Harris and others, have ele vated Southern literature out of tlie realm of provinciality, so-called, and they justly deserve whatever honors have been accorded them. Before their day, however, there were writers of fiction who gave the public works of singular charm, and they did not place Southern character in an objec tionable light in order to achieve success. It is not menut that all the writers of the post bellum school have sacrificed truth to gain applause, but it is suspected that some of them havo done so. There is a disposition in the now school to portray as the typical Southerner a half educated, half dressed, and alto gether ill mannered individual. What makes the portrayal still more unpleas ant is the not infrequent introduction of an individual from some other section of the country who is quite too elegant and cultured to live and move anywhere except among Utopians or angels. This is unfair, and it tends to give the uninformed an erroneous impression of Southern life. Sometime ago a story in one of tho New York magazines had its scene laid in one of the most cultured towns in Georgia. Since a hundred years ago the people of that town have been noted for their education and re finement, and for more than fifty years the councils of the nation were given dignity and force by the presence in them of men who claimed that town as the placo of their nativity. Law makers for a dozen States, Governors for at least half that number, several noted members of tho lower house of Congress, at least two of the rhost dis tinguished Senators that ever represented the South, jurists, educators and divines who are known wherever Georgia is known, and some of the most gallant sol diers that ever boro arms were bom and grew to manhood in that town. The story in question, however, introduced to tho public ns typical residents a set of cut-throat ruffians who would have lieen a disgrace to a typical mining town in the West. People who recognized the description of their town ns given in the story could not understand why the writer so unpleasantly misrepre sented them. They wondered, too, why the writer, himself a native of the town, should apparently bo so anxious to belittle South ern character. There can lie no objection to tho stories which depict life among the lower classes in the South, because they are truthful, as a rule, in all their details. There can be no objection to tho truthful portrayal of char acteristics among the lietter classes of Southern people. When, however, Southern writers dolilierat ly crente false impressions of their own people, they are guilty of a wrong for which there is no excuse. Tho writer of stories, who treats tho South ern jieople as they are, will not only be the pioneer in a field of unlimited possibilities, but he will deserve the gratitude of a people who have suffered much from misrepresenta tion. George P. Woods. Esq., of tho Huwkins vllle Dispatch, has an order for 10,000 long necked gourds. They are to be manufac tured into drinking utensils for use at the springs throughout the country this season. | Water tastes better out of a long-necked gourd than it does out of a silver cup. I These gourds, when bound round with silver I* ” " |l as useful, i many yars mu L imiMß latcd a ui’g* frt in tlmt way. CURRENT COMMENT. Sherman On Leo. From the Galveston News ( Dem.) For Sherman to criticise the military capacity of Jams is a farce of immense proportions. There was not much of the torch and smoke element in Lee’s generalship, but in all the essentials of a great military chieftain he was too far above Sherman to be mentioned in the same connection. Between Our Boys and Our Girls. From the Boston Globe (Item ) Between our boys and our girls this is getting to be an embarrassing country to stay in. If the elders have already become so foolish and degenerate that they must needs fall back upon the undefLled wisdom and virtue of the rising generation, we should all liegin to set our house in order for the new change of base. Powderiy and the Presidency. From the Few York Evenin’ / Sun (Ind.) Mr. Powderiy Is quoted this morning as saying that he wouldn’t, accent the Pres dincyof the United States if the office were offered to him. Avery great man once said that the Presidency was neither to be sought nor declined. Thou sands of men have disobeyed the tlrst of these suggestions, but the man fs yet to be found who did not follow the last one. The Discarded Ex-Speaker. From the New York World (Dent.) Keifcr, the discarded ex-Speaker, succeeded in inflicting himself upon tbe society of the Army of the Cumberland yesterday. He worked off a portion of his address at the unveiling of the Garfield monument in face of a salvo of art illery and more or less music by the band. His humiliation would have been complete had he jKissessed either sensibility or dignity. Hav ing unveiled himself thoroughly to no purpose, it is to he hoped that his half dozen indiscreet friends in Ohio will beckon him back to the oblivion which so gracefully becomes him. BRIGHT BITS. A Frenchman in London claims to have dis covered a certain root which allays hunger and thirst. He probably refers to the root of all evil. — Boston Transcript. You have no children. I suppose?” said the landlord to the prospective tenant. “Indeed, no I " was the shrill-voiced reply, “I’m a woman’s suffrage advocato. "—Puck. An old lady from up river, on alighting from the cars, turned and with an inquiring look at the locomotive said, “Well, Ido declare. That fa the first time I ever sailed in the cars.”—Ban gor Commercial. Hetty Harkxn3 of Hartford, Ct., Was amazingly proud of her pt., Which pride to express, She held up her dress, And thus a fine figure did Ht.— Life. A lovely young lady of la. With her fellow got ready to fla., But her beau did not ctime, And, remaining at home, She still waits for the scandal to de. Washington Post, My dear, if you don’t quit annoying me I—l shall really have to move to Mexico,” said a Washington mail to hfa wife the other day. “What good would that do. I’d like to know?” “There is a law there compelling males, and males only, to wear pantaloons.’’— Washington Critic. “How's business?” “Oh, it’s picking up. How’s yours?” “Well, mine’s falling off." “So? What is your business?” “Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. What’s yours?” *Tm a ragpicker.”— Tid-Bits. “Yes,” said Miss Clara to her bosom friend, Miss Ethel, “I met young Mr. Folderol last even ing, and, Ethel, he is perfectly delightful.” ‘Does he wear whiskers?” inquired Miss Ethel with equal enthusiasm. “Whiskers! Why, Ethel, he has such lovely mutton cho|w that it makes one hungry to look at them.”— Harper s Bazar. French patriotism is indeed extraordinary in its manifestations. A shopman arrested in Paris the other day for robbing his employers of 5.000 francs made the following defense" before the Connnissaire de Police: "If I took the money it was all through patriotism. I was absolutely in want of it to get to Noveant to kill GautscU and revenge M. Sclyiaebeles.”— London Globe. A lady entered a fashionable grocery store in this city not long since and put this question to one of the polite attendants: “What kind of cheese have you for invalids?” This reminds us of a tall, lank, red-nosed man who came into a country store with a large jug which he placed upon the counter with the remark: “I want a gallon of rum—baby’s sick.”— Boston Gazette. Tough (in apothecary’s shop)—Say, young feller, gimme ten grams o’ strichnine, right away, in a big hurry, and don’t you forget it. Clerk—Rats. Tough—Now, look a-here, I don’t want any of your slang, or I'll jump overtnere and spoil that dude collar o’ yours in bout four seconds. He was waited on immediately.— Harper's Bazar. The latest addition to the list of the young scholars’ definitions is expressed in the follow ing sentence of suburban production: ’’A constellation of physicians had been sum moned.” At first sight this might be considered a deli cate tribute to the professional standing of tho medical gentlemen alluded to, but the fact is that the compliment was wholly involuntary.— Boston Transcript. There is a cruel rumor afloat that Col. Broad water, of Montana, and the Bernhardt h. and an encounter on Monday. As the story goes, when at tlje Ryan the Colonel has been in the habit of having parlor A assigned to him. This is the one that the Bernhardt had. The Colonel sailed into it Monday unaware of the divine presence behind the doors. She jabbered French at him and the Colonel called up his choicest Helena verbs and nouns, aud politely retired. That was all, save the blush of embarassment that still clings to the Colonel's cheek.— St. Paul Pioneer- Press. PERSONAL. Jay Gould's purchases of Arkansas lands cover fully 10,TOO acres, located in three differ ent counties. Miss Endicott, the dnughter of the Secretary of War, is one of the best lawn tennis players in Washington. Col. Sam Donelkon. Poorkeeper of the House of Representatives, is a member of the famous Douelson family of Tennessee, where three generations have distinguished themselves in politics. President Norvin Green’, of the Western Union Company, occupies a handsomely fur nished big room for his office in New York and sits there in modest state, with a clerk or two near by. Puin’ce'l.i. an important member of the Chi ne'e Grand Council, who wished to resien from office, has lieen commanded to retain his post for another term ofy ears, "his advice being too valuable to lose.” Cyrus W. Field hears from the presidents of two railroad companies that the Interstate commerce law is benefiting companies and that the two presidents alluded to Lope it will not be repealed. William Sinclair, who was Grover Cleve land's steward in Albany, is now in charge of the live stock at Oak View. He takes great pride in the fresh eggs, rich milk and delicious butter with which ho tickles the palates of Oak View guests. Mrs. Grant has just received from Charles L. Webster a check for $33,884 S8 as additional profits on the sale of •Gen. Grant's Memoirs.’’ She has thus received to date a total of $391,- 451) 63. The financial success of Grant's book is unprecedented in the history of literature. That picturesnue rascal, the Maharajah Dhu leep Singh, who has been prowling around Mos cow and St. Petersburg, disguised as the body servant of Mr. Patrick Casey, of Ireland, has had some interviews with M. Katkotf, looking toward Russian aid in his treasonable design in India. When the Prince of Wales was leaving Man chester the other day a member ot the Town Council pushed himself forward, and, in a burst of loyalty, said: "Ilring the old woman with thee next time.’’ The Prince looked surprised, not exactly understanding to whom the civic dignitary was referring. Observing this, the latter said, *‘l mean your mother." A statesman who visited President Cleveland last Saturday morning found him In unusually good spirits. The-President furnished the rea son for it by saying: ’’l entertained rovaltv last night, you know, for the first time in mv life. 1 awed with a Oueett." "I thought vo-j always ilid that nowaday. , came the ipbc's rejoinder from one of the visitors, to which the President gracefully smiled a si!, nt acquiescence George W. t'-cu,.. the distinguished Phlla delphut Journal!-■ was the marked feature of the remarkable bro, net given in Huston Tuesday night ( :• :.;or Taylor, of Hr- Uloh, Mr. Childs occupio tb* 1 post of honor, lie wrer makes a si r i,, but all the sp’-ukers rv ferns I to him In Me h ■niipUmeiiiury terms that at one s*uge ot tl, proceedings be was com jwlhsl t<> rise up and give the vast assemblage of nearly (liners a chance to look upon him.’ He wn* greeted with the Mildest applause, and the room for five minutes was white with waving napkins and handkerchief?. CAUGHT BY A LUMP OF SUGAR. The Monkey’s Fatal Curiosity Proves Its Ruin—A Clever Trick. From the New York Mail and Express. A gentleman who returned recently from Aspir.wall toils the following curious story of the manner in which the natives of the interior of the Isthmus of Panama capture monkeys: “Almost all the pet monkeys in this country.” said he, “come from Goigona, .a small village half way on the line of the Panama railroad. The inhabitants are mostly native negroes, for no white man could live in the village a month un less he drank whisky and took quinine con stantly. The surrounding country is swampy and covered with a dense mass of luxuriant vegetation. At nightfali a thick miasma rises from the ground and hangs over the forests like a cloud. This place is the monkey’s paradise. They travel through the forests in troops, going wherever the king monkey leads. When the natives have been apprised of the presence of a troop they go about warily to capture them. Their plan is a simple one. A hole is cut in the shell of a cocoauut large enough to admit a monkey's unclosed paw. The cocoanut fa scooped out and a lump of sugar placed in the hollow. A string is then attached to the novel trap and the ne groes conceal themselves until the monkeys pass by. Curiosity is one of the chief charac teristics of these little creatures, and when they espy the cocoanut lying upon the ground they come down from the trees and proceed to inspect it care fully. The lump of sugar does not long escape their notice, and one of them thrusts a paw through the aperture to grab it. With the lump of sugar clasped in his hand be finds it impossible to withdraw it, nor will his greedy nature allow him to abandon his prize. The negroes have lit) difficulty in drawing him nearer and nearer to their ambush, the whole troop scampering madly about him, chattering and gesticulating'as only monkeys can. When they nave arrived w ithin easy reach a large net is thrown out and they are made prisoners. Twenty or thirty are often captured at one haul. The natives sell them to the employes of the Panama railroad, who in turn dispose of them in the American market.” A CELEBRATED CASE. A Performance at Poole’s Theatre Not Advertised in the Programme. From the New York Evening Sun. There was a scene at Poole's Theatre on Wed nesday night not on the programme. “A Cele brated Case” was being played, and “Valentine de Mornay” had just had a stormy interview with the pretended Count. The case containing the family jewels lay on the table, and "Valen tine” sadly lifted the lid to make a selection for the evening’s reception. "Bracelets, rings, lockets,” she murmured, “and this necklace She drew from the box a glittering necklace that flashed and sparkled and threw back at the footlights then- flickering rays, “Rubies, sapphires aud emeralds,” she said mechanically, as if repeating something that she had once heard and ill remembered. Then she sprang to her feet and cried out: “It is the necklace that was torn from the neck of murdered Madelaine, and which Jean Renaud said would detect the murderer. My father is the assassin.” She fell back in the chair. A burst of passion shook her as the summer storm shivers the aspen. The scene was solemn and Impressive. A lady in the parquet sobbed aloud for sympa thy, and a newsboy in the upper gallery said audibly: “Der poor girl takes it rough.” Valentine intutively felt the sympathy, and bent to more passion gusts, while her white forehead rested upon the table in an abandon ment of woe. For a moment there was an awful silence. A large black cat which had lieen sleeping be neneath Valentine’s chair had been awakened by the violence of the storm above. It walked out with dignity, and after casting a reproach ful glance at the sorrow-struck girl, advanced to the centre of the stage, and, looking at the audi ence as if to say, “I’m not responsible for this, and I want you to understand it,” jumped over the orchestra leader's head and disappeared up the centre aisle. Then there was a gust of laughter that Valen tine could not understand. Uncle Seth and Emerson. A man named Em’son, so they say, Got off a purty phrase one day, About a chap—l don't know who— Who “budded better than he knew.” In spite of Em’son, now, I swau He was built on a curus plan. Accordin’ to a strange idee That don’t at all resemble me; In spite of all that I can do I’ve budded worser than I knew. I was a young and lazy lout. But had my palace all planned out; Its beauties never can be told— Rosewood, mahogany and gold; I tell ye ’twas a sight to see, With all its gilt air filagree; But my real house scarce stops the rain, An’ has an old hat in the pane; I did the best that I could do. But budded worser than I knew. I used to build my stately ships An’ laneh ’em grandly from the slips, An' in my dreams did oft behold Their freight of ivery an' gold. Oh, they swep’ grairly roun’ the Horn, An’ rode the oshim like a swan; But the real ship I set afloat Was nothin’ but a leaky boat, Without the seantest thread or sail— I bale it with an old tin pail; But for a flailin' smack twill do— -1 budded worser than I knew. Yes, Mr. Em’son, very few Have budded better than they knew; 'Tis ten to one, howe’er we watch, We’ll make a bungle an’ a botch. It ain’t because I don't know how, But my ban’ trembles so, I swow, An’ my eye squints so bad, I vmn I caunot set the timbers plumb; An’ so it, is my life all thro’— I’ve/buildcd worser than I knew. S. IV. Foss. A Queer Case. From the Texas Siftings. Ajrinn named Gobing was up before an Aus tin Police Judge the other day, charged with committing assault and battery upon the per son of another individual named Gobang. A rather stupid witness was sworn, and the follow ing dialogue took place: Judge—Did you see the quarrel? Witness—Yes, 1 seen it. "Who struck the iirst blow?" "Gobing He hit the other fellow, go bang:" smiting his right fist into the open palm of the other hand with a loud report. "Hid Gobang hit him back?" "No, he didn't hit him in the back." “Where did he hit him?” "He hit him in the face, go bing!" Another fist pantoinine. "Was that all?" ' Ail of Gobing?" "No. all of the fight." “With Gobang?" "I’ll go lrnng you it you don't answer my question properly. Now tell a straight stcry of this affair." “Well, your honor, I stood talking with him—” "With Gobing?" “No. with Gobang; and the other fellow came up and hit.—." "Gobang?" "No. Gobang was the fellow that came up and then it was go bing! and go bang! (more pantoinine) first one and then the other. Then they clinched and went down, tho other fellow on top.” “Gobing?" "No, Gobang. Then the police come, and, your honor, that is all I know about it.” “Well, it seams to have been a drawn game, anyhow from jour account of It. You can go home, Gobing, and you, too, Go bang." "And where shall I go?" asked the witness. “Go bang!” She Knew Him. From Tid-Hits. “Did my husband come in on this train?" anxiously inquired a very masculine looking woman of the depot master. "I never saw your husband, madam. Don’t know whether he has come or not. Where did he come from?" “Syracuse." oil, come to think, there was a man with his pants in his boots, got otr the train." “He was very much frightened at first, but when he had looked about the depot, and didn’t see tile one he was looking for, he kind of braced tip und went awaj\" "Thut's John!" she said, and she sumed on her heel to hunt him up. He Chriatened It. From the Merchant Traveller. They had had l heir chicken for dinner amt eup per the day before, and on each occasion the landlady had announced that she guessed that would finish It. "Will you pos'; the l*at!i chicken?" asked the old boarder, gravely, at breakfast the next day. ■The which r" "The I’ntti chicken." "1 fail to see why you coll it by that name," said the landlady’ suspiciously, as she handod It over. But everybody else saw it. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The champion hymeneal story of the season comes from Haley, Tenn. A man bearing the name of Smith married, a girl there a few months ago, then tired of her and procured a divorce, and, finally, married the girl s widowed mother. It is said that in every hotel and boarding house in Russia where foreigners are received, some person in the establishment is required, under penalty of a heavy fine, to act as spy over the guests and to report to the government officials the results of such surveillance. An English experimenter finds that, contrary to general opinion, a growth of ivy over a house renders the interior entirely free from moisture. The ivy extracts every particle of moisture from wood, brick or stone for its own subsis tence, by means of the tiny roots, which work their way even into the hardest stone. Chinamen in rival Sunday schools in Chicago have organized base ball nines and will contest upon the diamond. Or.e nine, when ready for business, will stand about as follows: Hip Lung, left field; Sing Lee, right field; Hung Wah, centre field; Wung Hing, first base; Sing Yuen, second base; Gwong Lee, third base; Hong Sine Long, short stop; Hong Shing, pitcher, and Kong Sing catcher. The Garfield monument at Cleveland, 0., will not be completed for two years more. The ex terior will reach completion this summer, but it will take a long time to perfect the interior decorations. The body of President Garfield will remain in the receiving vault of the ceme tery until the monument is completed. The dedication ceremonies will not take place inside of two years. No arrangements have yet been made for that event, and the question as to who the orators will be has not been consid ered. Anew variety of pressed brick, made of ashes and cinders, is now being manufactured in San Francisco. Says the Examiner of that city; “The result is a brick of unusual solidity, hand some in appearance, of a most durable charac ter and made entirely without burning or bak ing. All manner of experiments have been tried with the bricks in the way of subjecting them alternately to intense cold and heat, but without any injurious effect. The best quality have even been boiled for hours, without cracking or show ing any signs of dissolving.” On April 26 a handsome young woman re signed her clerkship in the Navy Department and was married. She was, according to cus tom, entitled to full pay for a month succeeding the 26th and leave of absence. Secretary Whit ney, having received cards of invitation to the wedding, had his attention called to the case. Having changed her name, was the young woman entitled to pay after her marriage f Sec retary Whitney has just decided that she was not and that she owes the government sll, sal ary from April 26 to 30. His decision is severely centured in Washington. Theodore Tilton is in Paris. “I am, just now,” he said the other day to a corrospondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, “giving the last touches to a manuscript that will eventually form my third volume of poems. It will appear in due season. I always carry one of my rhymes with me, and in a cafe, street car or concert an improvement often occurs to me w'hich I make forthwith. For instance, here is a ballad based on the Magna Charta episode in English history. I have had it here in my pocket all winter, and it is now quite ready for the printer. Poetizing is, therefore, one of my chief, and perhaps I may say one of my most agreeable, occupations in this beautiful and inspiring city.” Field Marshal Archduke Albert, of Austria, who lias just completed his sixtieth year of military service, is a familiar figure to all the Viennese. He is to be seen daily in the streets, at the races, at reviews, at the opera, every where, and is always greeted as a popular favorite. He is short in stature, has snow-white hair and whiskers, wears spectacles and lias a thoroughly jolly expression of countenance. Even at Budah-Pesth there is much kindliness manifested toward him, though it is by uo means forgotten that he was Governor General of Hungary from 1850 to 1860. It is a common remark throughout the empire that had he been in Benedek’s place, Sadowa would not have ended as it did. Senator Nye, of Nevada, went to Secretary Stanton one day to make a petition for some dead soldiers' orphans. It was in the darkest days of the war. Stanton said: “I have not time. Mr. Nye, to see what you want.” “Sup pose you take time. Mr. Secretary.” “You are unreasonable. Mr. Nye, in pressing such a thing at this time,” said Stanton. “Permit me to say that you are the unreasonable man." answered Nye. “If you were not a United States Senator I should say that you were very impertinent," said Stanton, haughtily. “If you were not a great Secretary of War I should be tempted to say you were makinga blanked fool of yourself," replied the old Gray Eagle, with his eyes blazing. Stanton looked at him a moment, and then, softening, said: “Maybe I am. Jim, who knows? Come inside and tell me all about It.” “Now, Ned, my boy, you are growing sensible,” said Nye, and the business was quickly arranged. At Bayfield, Mass., last week, Mrs. Newell Rogers,aged less than 16, gave birth to a healthy male child, which makes six living generations. The line is as follows: Mrs. Rhoda Kent, aged 94 years 6 months, who buried her husband, James, last year, aged 95, the first generation; their eldest child, Marv, who married a Gould, and is now- the widow of James Fee, aged 73 years, is the second; her son Joseph Gould, aged about 57 years, the third; his son, Henry Gould, aged "8, the fourth: his daughter Etta, who married Newell Rogers, aged 5 years and 6 months, the fifth, and the baby born last Mon day. not yet named, the sixth. These facts are attested to by a host of reliable witnesses, among whom are Dr. R. B. Root, the physician who attended the delivery of the sixth repre sentative. Town Clerk Frank L. Ferguson, of New bury; Mr. James Kent, aged 71, son of the venerable Rhoda and a younger brother of Mary, the second in the line, and others. The group of six generations will be photographed. A New York correspondent, writing of po lice surveillance of thieves, tells this story; A neatly dressed, rather substantial looking man of middle age, sends in his card to Inspector Byrnes at police headquarters. The name on the card is that of a burglar, better known by an alias, say “Red Leary,” for instance. “Well, w hat do you want?” Mr. Byrnes asks gruffly. He has an especial tone for men of that class, And it is a tone tliat forbids familiarity and sug gests mastery, a very different tone from the quiet and easy one he has for his friends. *“I would like to lie in Wall street fifteen minutes to morrow, Inspector." says the burglar. “I want to see about a personal matter.” “I will have one of my corps meet you at Broad and AVnll at noon sharp,” says the Inspector. The burglar thanked the official, for it is a favor to such a man even to be allowed to go to the money centre with a detective at his shoulder all the time he is there. To go without this per mission and escort means a certainty of being arrested and locked up. The bronze statue of Voltaire, recently set up in the Rue Drouot.. Paris, has an interesting his tory. It was made by M. Emile Lambert, who owns and dwells in the famous chuteau of Fer nay. M. Lambert made it from a pastel by Latour, which represented the philosopher in the bloom of early manhood, and not, as usual, in weazened age. Having exhibited the work at the Salon, he intended to keep it in his garden at Fernay. hot bis friends persuaded him to give it to tin: city of Paris. It shows the young phi losopher with his head well thrown back and a smile on his face, while his dress is richly em broidered after the court pattern of the period. By his side he carries a sword and in one hand a copy of the Ilenriade. On the marble base of the statue there are two has reliefs, one represent ing Voltaire, also as a young man, reading one of his poems in the bouse of Ninon de l’Eucios, and the other showing him in his old age dis tributing alms among the poor of Fernay. On the back of the slab are two masks, personating Sul ire and Poetry, underneath being the Vof tanvnn motto, “If God did not exist it would have been necessary to invent Him.” About a dozen years ago, says a writer in Lon don Life, London 1 was hanging about the Strand one afternoon killing time till the Great Eastern train started for Harwich. I walked into Simp son’s divan, hoping to get a quiet game at chess. I was a total stranger, and knew nobody in the room. By and by a quiet looking man came in, sat down at a table and began reading a news paper. I jumped to the conclusion that he, like in; self, was a stranger in the divan, and was anxious to have a game, though he did not venture to challenge anybody. I accordingly stepped up to him and asked if he cared to play. "Yes," he said, “with pleasure.” So down we sat, and. as my opponent got the move, he ■ lmed with the Evans gambit. I played with desperate caution, but do as I liked, uiy oppo nent always seemed to have his hand on my throat. After we had played eight or nine moves I looked up and found that every man in the room had gathered at the table, watching the game with I know not what feelings. ,1 tint at my shoulder stood Herr Rteiuitz, whom I had seen some time before at a "partle” In the proviuees. I turned to him with the utmost naivete, and said: “This gentleman is rather too strong for me." "Ah.'' said mein herr quietly, "do you know who your opponent Is?” “No." “Mr. Blackhurne!” 1 looked across the table and laughed. So did Blackburne, and I resigned with tue finest grace imaginable. DRY GOODS. Ewpfail Jniitiii H OSI ER Y at Grohan & Dooner’s SUCCESSORS TO B. F. 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