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£hf)ftorning Httos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY, MAY 17. 18S7. Registered at the Pott Office in Savannah. The Mornino News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in Me city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $t 00 a month, $5 00 tor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one rear $lO 00. The Morning Nfws try mail, six times a week ‘Without Sunday issue), three months, $5 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $S 00. The Morning Nfws, Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdavs and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, 6u mail, one year. $2 00. The Wifely News, by mail, one year. $1 26. 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. Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX~TO MW ADVERTISEMENTS" Meetings— Teiitonia Division No. 3. U. R. K. ®f P.; Savannah Lodge No. 1153, K. of H.; Catholic Library Association. Special Notices— To the Members of the Bar; Cars for the Blues Picnic; Grand Family Ex cursion by Steamer Pope CatliD. Auction Sales— Barroom Fixtures, Etc., by 1. D. Laßoche's Son. Axtsements— Guytons and Amateurs at Base Bail Park To-day. Change or Schedule — Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. The Biggest Thing Yet—David Weisbein. Cheap Column Advertisements-Employ ment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Board; Lost; Miscellaneous. Proposals— For Furnishing Ship Chandlery' and Rations for Revenue Vessels. Vale Royal Manufacturing Co.— Savannah, 9a. Coal and Wood— D. R. Thomas The Cash System—L. &. B. S. M. H Magazines— At Estill's News Depot. Ken.slafx Ice— Kennebec Ice Coai'iany. A Home Within the Reach or Any—C. H. Dorseft. Real Estate Dealer. Cow Peas. Etc.—G. S. McAlpin. Legal Notice—Application for Discharge as Receiver of East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia Railway. Abuse of Got. Taylor has killed one Ten nessee newspaper. Thus do the truly good biumpb over the wicked. Peace has this -ouutry in its grip. The Generals and ex-GeneraLs have stopped fir ing paper pellets at each other. Between Pennsylvania editors and British bondholders Virginia is having a hard time. Why doesn't the Old Dominion homestead on its assets? It is estimated that the annual mortality due to car-coupling accidents in this coun try is 459. It is strange that somebody doesn't invent an automatic coupler that can be used. About that little “How will Alabama do for its name,’’ mistuke, the Anniston Hot Blast is silent and sorry. Congressman Crisp is also silent and sorry. The country is disposed bn be hilarious. It is again positively asserted that Secre tary Lamar will become a citizen of Georgia as soon as his term as a member of the Cabi net expires. It is intimated that he desires to represent Georgia in the United States Senate. ______ Before departing for Europe, it is under stood that Mr. Blaine will appoint “Gail Hamilton" and Col. Whiteluw Reid joint guardiuns of his Presidential boom. Of course they wil! lavish a woaltb of proxy pareutal care pon it. The Boston Globe has found an old lady who declares that “nobody ever heart! of a casus belli In old times, when people used to behave themselves, come in early nights, and live on plain viddles." It really is alarming how new diseases multiply. “Under a Democratic administration the country is going to the dogs!” shout the Re publican organs. Yet Senator Sherman and other Republican leaders are said to be making more money in real estate and man ufactures than they ever made lieforu. Smart people live down in Texas. Some of them who wanted to import wool from Mexico without paying duty had a flock of sheep driven across the border and then sheared the wool and placed it on the mar ket, As the duty on live stock is small they saved SO jier cent. The Mayor of Toronto deserves to rank as the meanest man in Canada. Even a bat tered tramp wouldn't have sent a covert in sult to a man by telegraph, C. O. D., but the Toronto flunkey sent one to Editor O’Brien. It is to the credit of Editor O’Brien that he refused to receive it. The Houston /Vs? mentions the case of a Philadelphia girl who advertised for “a sit. in pri. fain.'' She meant a situation in a private family, no doubt, but a girl who so shortens the English language would be likely to kick against anything long, in cluding hours of labor. The woman’s suffrage piNiple of Brooklyn are at war with each other. They have just expelled Mrs. Hopfaronia Venus Twichell from their association, upon the ground that she “made them tired.” To lie consistent they ought now to expel them selves, for they make tha country very, •tery tired. There are bite of information which, when once set aflout, never entirely sink out of memory. All the new.spajjers in the coun try except one have announi'eil that Ella Wheeler Wilcox says “the world has out lived till its passion.” The single exception having now also made the- announcement, it is V, be hoped that Ella will withdraw her statement and apologize. A New York woman agreed to make LJStf.) buttonholes for otte Kilverburg, who was to pay her §9 10. When the last hole was completed Bilverburg refused to pay, upon the ground that his ) wittier had run off to Canada with ull the linn’s cash. The woman sued, nnd the court awurded her the amount she claitntxl. Kilverburg ought t)o have been made to pay a better price. Think of it; 1,699 buttonholes for $9 10. A Georgia man refused to take stock in n new railroad because he was opposed to Hunday trains. The railroad wits built through his land, increasing its value 100 per cent. To ease his conscience ho has given the land to his son, with the under standing that it shall be sold and the pro ceeds used for the benefit of the poor. His neighbors are willing to bet a year’s crop that he eonxidei* himself the only really The Supreme Court Vacancy. There have been at least a dozen names mentioned in connection with the vacant place in the United States Supreme Court. Among them are those of Attorney General Garland, of Arkansas: Gcii. Lawton and ex-Congressman Hammond, of Georgia; Hon. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia; ex- Gov. Hoadlev, of Ohio: Judge Jackson, of Tennessee; ex-Sonator McDonald, of Indi ana, and Senator George, of Mississippi. Doubtless many more will be suggested before the vacancy is filled. If it is true that the Senate Judiciary Committee lias reached a tacit understand ing that it will not report for confirmation anyone for Supreme Justice who has passed his 60th year the list from which a selection mast be made will be much smaller than that which finds its way into the news papers. Hon. Randolph Tucker, for in stance, would doubtless stand an excellent chance for getting the place if he were not so old. He is several years beyond 60, although he is much more vigorous, men tally and physically, than a large propor tion of the men of 50. It is probable that the President will not fill the vacancy before Congress meets. He would not like to have a nominee to so im portant a position rejected by the Senate, and if he waits until December he can find out whom the Senate will confirm before he makes a nomination. It is not improbable that he would like to give the place to At torney General Garland. It has been un derstood for a long time that the Attorney General has no higher ambition than a place on the Supreme bench. The Presi dent would be very severely criticised for appointing him. however, because of Mr. Garland’s connection with the Pan- Electric telephone scandal. While fair minded men will not admit that Mr. Gar land was guilty of anything but indiscretion in that matter, there is, nevertheless, a feel ing in the public mind that he did not guard his honor us a Senator with the vigilance that he should. He was very popular with the Senators, however, when he was in the Senate, and if he were nomi nated to the Supreme bench he would un doubtedly be confirmed. Mr. Justice Harlan, who was appointed from Kentucky, is at present the onlj 7 Southern member of tlie court. That State, however, belongs almost as much to the West as to the Sonth. It is reasonable to suppose that a Southern man will bo ap pointed to the vacancy. There are many eminent lawyers in the South, and the President will have no difficulty in finding among them one every way qualified for a place on the Supreme bench. The only Democrat of the Supreme Court is Mr. Justice Field, and it has been rumored lately that he thinks of retiring. He is getting well along in years, and has served long enough to entitle him to the pension which his position gives him. No one of the Justices was appointed by a Democratic President. Mr. Justice Miller, who has served longer than any of the other Justices, was appointed twenty-five years ago by President Lincoln. Four of the Jus tices are quite old, however, and as it is pretty certain that the next President will be a Democrat the chances are that within the next three or four years very nearly half the court will be Democrats. Earnings ot a Great Singer. Patti left for her home in Wales on Sat urday. While in this country she gave fifty four performances, for which she received $220,000. • For each appearance in concert she was guaranteed $2,500, and was given an interest in the receipts. The average amount that shn got out of each concert was $3,800. Every time that she sang in opera she was paid $5,009. She spent money freely at all the hotels at which she stopped. Her expenses at tlie Windsor Hotel, New York, were $75 a day. It is estimated that she carried to Europe with her as the profits of her season in this country $200,000. It is doubtful if any other singer ever had such earning power as she has. The most celebrated singers of the past did not com mand anything like the prices that she does. Indeed, the greatest writers, lawyers and business men fall far behind her iu their earning capacity It is probable that there are great speculator; who now and then make more than $200,000 in the course of a few months, but they do not depend upon tlieir knowledge anil skill alone. They are aided by an im mense capital. Without that they could do nothing. Patti depends alone upon her powers as a singer and her reputation. Those who struggle through the world, barely able to keep the wolf from the door, must think thnt fortune's favors are very unevenly distributed when they read of the immense sums which are paid her for sing ing a few hours in nn evening. The world, however, can afford one Patti. Fears are entertained at Washington that the national drill will prove a fail ure. All efforts to provoke enthusiasm with regard to it luive failed. Some of those who are interested it( it blame the railroads. They claim that the railroads made a mighty pretense of offering cheap excursion rates to Washington, but ate really keeping the people away by refusing to allow put ties of less than twentv-Hve to profit by the reduction. If the drill is not a success some of the Washington hotel keepers will feel like going into mourning. Joseph R. Buchanan, editor of the Labor Inquirer , which is published in Chicago and Denver, charges thnt General Master Work man Powderly is a member of the Social Labor jiarty, that be holds its red card of membership, and that lie saluted its blood red fiag when it was carried iu a labor pa rade last fall. He offers to print, the Gen eral Master Workman's reply to the charges. The latter says that lie dix-sn’t intend to hold office for another term, a declaration which seine understand to mean that lie is afraid to attempt a reply. Lysandcr Spooner, who died in Boston last week, was called tho father of cheap postage. In 1844 he established a private mail from Boston to New York, and after ward extended it to Philadelphia nnd Balti more. He carried letters for 6c. each. The government prosecuted him, and force* 1 him to abandon his entei-priso, but he showed that cheap jtostage was possible, and, in 1845, Congress reduced the postage rates. The next time there is need for anew stamp, Spooner's likeness ought to grant it. H. Riiler Haggard, the English novelist who originated the He, She and It litorii ture which is deluging the world, intends to institute suit for damages against nu en terprising American publisher. The latter advertises the novel called “King Solomon's Wives, by H. Hider Haggard.” Haggard thinks such a parody upon one of his best novels and Uis name a grevious Injury to his reputation. Tho suffering public will ' ■■■ •- hi biaAuit. . TIIE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1887. A River Front Railroad. Why ip it that the projected railroad along the river front of this city from the Central railroad wharves to those of the Savannah. Florida and Western railway has not been built? The right of way was secured several years ago, and it was ex pected at that time that the road would bo constructed at once. The road would be of the greatest benefit to Savannah. It would not only enhance the value of the wharves and warehouses along the river front, but, also, would en able the wholesale merchants of this city to handle their goods at much less expense. The buildings which are adjacent to the wharves have an immense storage capacity, and their lower stories, in many instances, are now useless. If the road in question were built, merchandise of all kinds could be re ceived and shipped by river or rail at much less cst than it can now be here, or at any other city in the Soutd One of the chief objects of Savannah should be to increase her trade. She can do that better by underselling her rivals than in any other. In order to sell goods cheaply she must handle them cheaply. Every unnecessary expense mast be lopixxl off. The expenses of doing business con sume tiie profits of it. A railroad under the bluff would increase the facilities for doing business, and would do away with the expense of transferring merchandise from one point to another by drays and trucks. The cars and steamers would deposit goods on the wharves close to the warehouses, und would, also, receive them there for distribution. The city, the merchants, the wharf owners and the railroads are all interested in having this road built. Why, then, do they not take some action towards building it ? If they would all pull together there is reason for thinking that it would be con structed very soon. It would certainly pay a big interest on the money invested in it. Let some of the enterprising merchants agitate this matter. If the road is built it will be money in their pockets, as well as in tlie pockets of the river front property owners. Admission to the Bar. A Swedish gentleman who recently visited Georgia expressed much surprise to a friend on account of the youth of the men whom he found at the head of important business enterprises. His surprise, however, gave place to pleasure when he observed how suc cessfully such enterprises were conducted. Subsequently he inquired at what age one could obtain license to practice law or medi cine. The reply, as far as it related to license to practice law, evidently astonished him, for he wrote in his note-book: “Intie State of Georgia, U. S. A., boys are per mitted to practice law! What a country!" A statute of Georgia once required that an applicant for admission to the bar should be 21 years of age. When Thomas R. R. Cobb completed his college course he ap plied for admission, but was refused because he was too young. His friends, who were determined that tlie obstacle in his way should lie removed, induced the General Assembly to repeal the statute that has been mentioned. It has never been re-enneted, and hence a boy of 15, if he is prepared to pass the necessary examination, may obtain license to practice in the Georgia courts. Since the war a very large number of young men not of age have been admitted to the bar. The result has certainly not been altogether bad, but it lias not been clitirely good. It is believed by many that.tlie liar of Georgia does not average as high as jt once did. An old lawyer, one who will never fotgive Jack Jones for introducing his “short forms” into the practice, says that breaches of professional honor are more numerous now than formerly. It is doubt ful, however, if the youth of those who are admitted to the bar is the cause of this un happy fact. It is more probable that the farcical examinations of applicants are the cause of it; for it is well-known that men of small legal attainments and of less charac ter are thus sometimes admitted to a circle from which they ought to be debarred. The chief objection to admitting very young men to the bar is that a majority of them lack both judgment and a knowledge of the law. Very few of them devote them selves closely to the study of the law. The truth is, there are lawyers in Georgia whose library consists of the Code alone, und who devote the greater part of their tune to local politics. The Georgia Bar Association has had the question of raising the standard of admis sion to the bar under consideration, but, it seems, has been unable to reach a conclusion. It could not do the State a greater service than to advise the raising of this standard. Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, does not believe in permitting politics to interfere with the harmony of tho Veteran Associa tions of that State. Home opposition was manifested to John S Wise becoming a member of lan* Camp, Confederate Veteran Association, nnd Gov. Lee learning of it, wrote a letter in which he said: “[ write to express the hope that no objection will be made upon the part of any member to Capt, Wise joining the association. Tho creden tials and membership are based upon tho Confederate’s record as a man, uml not upon liis politics, and I should be, very sorry to bear that fealty to either political party w as the test of qualification to membership of the lee Camp.” The Now York Sun says that Mrs. Hetty Green, the Wall street woman of many millions, “is mighty particular in selecting the modest room she occupies in n boarding house. Her first question to the landlady is. ‘Are there any rojiortor* in the house?’ If not, she inquires, ‘Have any reporters ever lived in the house? If such a disaster has occurred to the landlady. Mrs. Green cares not to hear when it happened: the mere fact that reporters have had a habitation in the house is enough. She says ‘Good-day,’ and Is gone.” Clearly, Mrs. Green stands more in awe of the reporters then tho reporters do of her millions. The Rev. Mason, of Paterson, N. J., tried to make a second Kant Jones of himself, lmt failed, lie denounced his hearers us liars, hypocrite, 1 leasts anil devils, and character ized the churches which differed from his as “places where oid devils taught, young devils to be greater devils than they them solves were.” His hearers retaliated by pelt ing him with bail eggs aud dead cats. This country hasn't room for more than one Sam Jones, and it doesn’t want him long in one place. It is thought that foreign immigration to this country this year will add 1,000,000 to the population. Russia, Austria, Hungary,, Roland und Italy arc the countries that are sending over the largest number of immi grants. Tho Knights of Labor are not pleased with the outlook. They think there _are already cuough ULorors m CURRENT COMMENT. A Suggestive Theme. /V om the Cincinnati Enquirer iDem.) 1? Gov. Hoadly desires to make another speech upon our common schools h>- might take this theme: If they would try to teujh les3 they might teach more. The Millennium in Sight. From the Xew York Herald Und.) The Tribune praises Mr. Cleveland's speech at the unveiling of Garfield's statue. If this sort of thing is to go on we shall have to reprimand the little boy who defines “Republican" as “a sinner mentioned in the Bible." Mr. Randall’s Two Sides. From the Missouri Republican 1 Deni.) Mr. Samuel J. Randall says President Cleve land should be renominated, and if be is, Mr. Randall wilLundoubtedlv do what he can as a Deinocraticpartisan to secure his election. In the meantime, as an un-Democratie partisan, he will go on doing bis best to make the election of any Democrat impossible. English Jubilee Mercy. From the Washington. Star Und.) The English government does not see its way clear to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee by releas ing any Irish prisoners whatever The quality of English jubilee mercy is exceedingly strained, and drops only upon distant India, where no danger exists that a mereiful sovereign may be called upon to forgive the unpardonable crime of boycotting. For the Irish the jubilee of the ' Queen of Ireland" is marked not by merciful releases, but by making new prisons, and by the threat of savage coercion. BRIGHT BITS. The coat-tail flirtation is the latest. A wrin kled coat-tail bearing dusty toe marks, means: "I have spoken to your father."—Detroit Free FTess. “Can the mind conceive of such a thing as no time S’" frenziedly asks the sceptical reformer. Easily, man; easiest thing in the world. The three days of grace is note time.— Binghamton Republican. Tiie streets of Canton are only three or four feet wide, and when a woman with a bustle on gets into one of them, she lias to go clear through before she can turnaround. — Burling ton Free Press. On the Avenue—Professional Beat: Dear boy. glad to see you. Come and dine with me to-day. Kicii Friend-No, thanks. I'd sooner lend you S'i.—Toum Topics. The towels used in the Treasury Department have the monogram "U. S. T. I). woven in the centre of each. It is supposed to stand for “Uncomfortably Small and Terribly Dirty.”— Washington Critic. llioh Old Style Dauohteii -Are my feathers on all right, ma! Mother (with opera glasses)—l will see. Oh, yes; they are all right, except one I put the step ladder away, so that I can't fix it. but it don’t look so bad, my dear. -Merchant Traveler. “I have a friend,” said a Syracusan, “who paints gra|>es so naturally that birds leave the real article to peek at the pictures.” ‘ Oh, that’s nothing,” replied a Utican. “I have a cousin who reproduces dogs so well that be has to muzzle them to prevent their bark ing.”—Rochester Union. . “Doos ar l among the flowers that bloom in the spring,” remarked the snake editor. “What is the matter with you;'” asked the horse editor. "Nothing. This is the spring, Isn’t it?” “Ye:..” “Well, I went into the woods yesterday and round the dog would blossom.”— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Chicago girl— s'es, indeed. Chicago is becom ing dreadfully literary. My brother wears a Browning overcoat and Byron collars aud we girls have just formed a Kir Waiter Scott Club. Omaha girl— Have you had any meetings? .“Only one so far. You see we concluded lie fore beginning with his writings we would read a sketch of his life, but we found that would take an awful long while aud we feel quite dis couraged.” “I should not think it would take long.” “Well, the librarian told ns we would have to read a good deal of American history in order to understand Scott’s part in it.’’— Omaha World. “Oh. come where the cyanides softly flow. And the carburets droop o’er the oxides below; Where the rays of potassium lie while on the hill, And the song of the silicate never is still. Come, on, come, tumpti-tum-tum, Peroxide of soda aud urani um. “Where alcohol’s liquid at thirtv degrees. And no chemical change can afreet m’nganese; While the alkalis flourish and acids are free. My heart shull be constant, sweet science, to thee; Yes. to thee, fiddle-dum-dee, Zinc, borax and bismuth and H2QIC.” Detroit F\ee Press. We have prepared a set of notices for Dakota business men. to be hung up in their offices to save talk and lubricate matters generally. They are neatly printed 'with type standing 10 inches high, and well proportioned, on heavy cardboard of a bright crushed-yellow-dog tint. The set in cludes the following: “I am Not Out Here for My Health.” “This is My Busy Day.” “I am Something of a Liar Myself.” “1 came to the Territory the Fall Before you did.” “Funeral of the Last Agent at 3 p. m.” “I am Raising a Fund for a Public Improve ment Myself.” “Yes. it is a Very Hot (or Cold) (or Rainy) (or Dry) day.” “I also have Real Estate I Wish to Si: 11.” “Yes, I Don’t Care if I do Step Out aud Have Something, Colonel.”— Dakota Bell. PERSONAL. Mme. Patti-Nicolini has bean learning to play the zither. The Ex-Khedive of Egypt is suffering severely with gout. Recently at a social gathering in London Edwin A. Abbey sang a duet with Mary Ander son. Pattt does not rehearse for any of the operas she has sung repeatedly during the past twenty years. Ex -President Hayes has quite recovered his health and now takes long walks accompanied by his wife. Henry 51. Stanley, takes snuff when traveling in very hot regions. He says that it helps to preserve his eyesight. Rfhnu arut rides horseback like a trooper, and while in New ark. S. J., took a horseback ride on the Orange mountain. Capt. Anderson, who sailed the Coronet, is a skillful painter of marine views and frequently takes a flyer ou Wall street, too. The Duke of Manchester has very little to do with his son and heir. Viscount Mandeville. The Viscountess, however, is a favorite with her father-in-law. Count Herbert Bismarck. Imperial German sUnlter of Foreign Affairs, will speud the holi day lie is about to take in Dublin with the .Mar quis of Ismdomlerry, the Viceroy. 51. J. Ezekiel, the Cincinnati sculptor, who made the statue of Religious Liberty in Fair mount Park, lias received from tlie Grand Duke of Kaxe-Meiuingfu the Cavalier’s Cross of Merit. The venerable comedian. Danielson, recently completed his sixtieth year of unbroken service on the Hanover Court Theatre stage. The Ger man Emperor sent bun on the occasion a purse of 1.000 marks. Mon. Capei, is again spoken of at Rome for a missionary bishopric. It is said tlint the erratic prelate has become an expert fisherman, and tha' lie is preparing for a season with the trout of the Adirondack*. The oil portraits of Secretaries of the Treas ury, in the department building r.t Washington, now extend from Hamilton to Folger. and the officers iu charge ure planning to add .Messrs. Gresham mid slunuiug to the list. Queen Olga, of Greece, is fond of swimming, ami a pond lined with white marble is to lie con structed iu the grounds of the royal pol ice at Athens so ibui tie - Queen Coil disport herself with her attendants like Diana and her maids. Ever since the year that Gen. Custer camped at Yankton. Dak., there lias lsien a heavy crop of blue grass on the old campground. It is sup p .sed that the ill 'nfed command carried baled nine grass for forage, and the scattered sited took root. Cm., ltics. Gov. Hill’s private secretary, is a youthful looking mun, wuh a smooth face and blonde l air. He is about 21) yea. -of age, but does not look over 22. He is affable in muuner, nnd extremely popular In Albany society, lie is u clever politician, ami as invaluable to llill as is Lamoiit to the President. Prop. Albert Russell Wallace, the English naturalist, who greatly aided Darwin j n oping the evolution theory, is traveling and lec turing In the West. He says the orang outang, chimpanzee and gorilla have strong iioints of reseinblaiKV to mun. Prof. Russell' is more t ban ever convinced of the truth of evolution. Htrangely enough he i a Spiritualist. He does not believe that there, is such a thing nsabsolute death. He believes that men live hereafter in a state of progression, lie has. be says, a good deal of faith iu the doctrine of bvuslenborg. AN ALGERIAN DUEL. Fierce Encounter Between an Arab General and a French Journalist. F'rom the Manchester Courier. There was formerly in the French service in Algeria a general of Arab origin, Yusuf by name. One day all Algeria was moved to laughter by a satirical sketch of Gen. Yusuf in the local papers under the title of “Monsieur Joujou. The writer, it was said, was M. Arthur de Fronvielie, the editor of the paper, who took the responsi bility. Soon after, one tine morning, the jour nalist heard a terrible knocking at the door. "Come in!” It was Gen. Yusuf, who showed his Arab visage at the threshold. He was fol lowed by an ordnance officer. M. de Fronvielie was still lying tranquilly in bed. “Are you Monsieur de Fronvielie?” asked the General. "Yes.” "Was it you that called me ‘Monsieur Joujou?' We must fight!” "At vourcommand. General. I will have a couple of my friends—" “No! no! None of that nonsense!” thundered Yusuf. “We will fight immediately. Under stand? I want to kill you!” "Ah', in that case permit me to rise. And where shall we fight, if you please. General?” “Right here*' “In my bedroom?” "Yes.” “All right. And this gen tleman will serve as a witness?” “Yes.” \ery well. I'm ready for you now.” Yusuf drew' liis sabre, and at a sign his ord nance officer did the same. The bedroom was veiy small -nothing cheerful about this strange duel. “Take your choice, monsieur,” said the General, holding out both swords. Fronvielie took the officer's sabre. Yusuf threw off his tunic, rolled up his sleeves and held his sable in his bale arm, which was corded with the muscles of an athlete. His white teeth shone from his swarthy face. Uttering yells like a jackal, and bounding like a tiger, savage and frightful.be was making ready to transfix his adversary with his first stroke, this stroke the newspaper man fended, but it cut him terribly on his right arm. Yusuf stuck the point of his sabre in the fioor and said: “You can't use your arm: to continue the combat would be murder. We will finish this affair after you are cured.” SI. de Fron vielle saluted. The second day after the fight the General presented himself at the wounded man's lodg ing, and regularly every morning thereafter. ”1 hope you will forgive me for getting well so slowly, General; a little patience and I am with you,” said Fronvielie. “I am very patient." an swered Yusuf. When the wounded mail was able to go out at last, Gen. Yusuf was the first to meet him. But it was to offer him his arm. and ask him to lean on it. All his auger had slowly changed to esteem. Billy. It was a boy of 7 who provided last Sunday's fun in the pew of a city church, writes Gilsey in the Utica Observer. His elderly father has been gouty this spring, and had a lot of leeches ap plied to his refractory legs. After the innocent leech had been used he put the little fellow into a fish globe and made what he called a natural barometer. He drew my attention to their pc culiarities. When the weather was fine the leeches were near the top: when it was stormy they hugged the bottom; when it was windy they went rattling around like circus riders. One particularly large and active leech was the boy's favorite. Johnny fished him out with a paper cutter and named him Billy. He fed him on the back of the cook’s neck and on his oldest sister'd pug dog. So Billy waxed lusty and very hilarious. After hours of play Billy would lie put back with his relatives in the fish bowl. Sunday found the small boy at jieace with all the world and anxious to shim' its pleasures. To that end Billy was fished out of the bowl, im prisoned in a pomade pot, and carried off to church. The boy's two maiden sisters were taking in all the bonnets and thinking how sweet their family doctor looked in a check suit, when they became conscious that their little brother was groping around their feet. • what is the matter with you?" snapped the elder; “sit up on your seat.” “I don’t want to,” whimpered the boy; “I want to find it.” “Wait till after church,” suggested the other lady, supposing it was a china alley or an agate. •’lt'll be lost forever if I wait,” persisted son ny, “an’ I wouldn’t lose him for a dollar.” ' What is it you have lost?” asked the elder, as she grabbed the boy's hand, that was travel ing carefully up her garter. "Billy; he's been gone some time,” said the boy. almost crying. "Billy, the leech?” gasped the horrified wo man. "Do yer suppose it’s Billy the Kid?” sneered the youngster. Pul— with horror and all the ghastly possibili ties of the accident, those two women rose and pushed-out of the church. The boy made a rapid search of the hassocks and carpets, and with a sort of instinct rushed after his sisters. He overtook them in the vestibule. Mary was clenching her clothes in the neighborhood of her waist and holding the garments as far away as possible. Martha was asking her in broken tones if she thought she’d got it. "Let me see,” says the youngstei "Youain'sso apt to have it as Martha, for site was next to me when Billy skipped." Martha, thus encouraged, gave a yell and clutched her bust?.;. “Oh, dear, soar thing stuck me like a pin,” sobbed the disturoed maiden. “Billy, fora doughnut,” shouted the wretched boy, as the blaze door swung open and the people began to pour out. "What's the matter?" asked an anxious parish ioner of the disturbed maiden. "They're hunting Billy, my pet leech," ex plained Bub; "I lost it loose in church.” Amid great laughter the girls escaped and flew on the wings of fear for the paternal man sion. In less time than they ever undressed be fore the ladies disrobed and hunted for Billy. "It much be back in the church.” groaned the iad, as his sisters came down stairs after the un successful search. Twenty minutes later, when the family and a few friends were sitting down to luncheon, there came a triumphal howl from the boy: “Unbut ton me quick, it’s Billy. I got him myself all the time!” And sure enough, Billy hail ridden back in safety in the seat of Johnny’s little Knickerbockers. Queer Use for the Darlings. Prom the Los Anqeles (Cal.) Times. A fanuer named August Pircli, who lives near Garvonzn, is the happy possessor of a dozen fine, healthy children. These youngstei-s grow fast, eat three or four hearty meals a day. and the way they wear out clothes is enough to make a woolen factory think a cyclone bad struck it. Mr. Pirch has been in hot water with his little fishes for years, and was about to give up in despair when a bright idea struck him. He had a tract of land that could not he used for the want of water. But how to irrigate the land without speling a large sum of money was a mystery. A ditch would cost thousands of dollars, but corner 1. is have not been so plentiful in the Pirch family asthe happy father could have wished, and his bankbook' simply showed a balance of a few hundreds instead of thousands. He figured on the cost of a well am! found that he could stand a sixty-toot. well, a cheap pump and one of those great big family swings which are noticed at pleasure gardens and German picnic grounds. The well was bored, the pump was set up, and the swing was put in working order. “Here, you little rascals," said the elder Pirch to his little fishes, “come out here and get in this swing. I'm going to give you something fc. play with.” In five minutes the children were flying back and forth through the air. The pump worked up and down, making a merry time,and a fourteen-inch stream of water flowed from the well. The children don’t know that they ore working, as the swing is some distance from the well, and is connected by an iron rod which works the pump, as the swing vibrates back and forth. Mr. Pirch is positive that the youngsters will pump enough water during the day to irrigate a large tract of land. Woman’s Work. From Vox Populi. “Men work from morn till set of sun.” They do. •' But woman’s work is never done. ” Quite true. For when one task she's finished, something's found Awaiting* beginning all year round. Whether it lie To draw the tea Or bake the bread, Or make the bed, Or ply the broom, Or diist the room. Or tloor to scrub, Or knives to rub. Or table to set, Or meals to get. Or shelves to scan. Or fruit to can. Or seeds to sow. Or plants to grow, Or linens bleach. Or lessons teach. Or butter churn. Or jackets turn, Or polish glass. Or plate of brass. Or clothes to mend. Or children tend, C)r notes indite Or stories write— But I must stop, fo:- really If I should Name all the oars, take me a day it would. Bo many ure there that I do di-clare More Ism Is than I could count might have a pair, And yet enough be left; and, nien-folk these Same oars propel your barks o'er household seas Into sunny havens where you rest at ease. And, one Word more, don't you forget It, please. It is relate!! that a Chicago woman who has hod three husbands, all of whom she has "dis einliaiTaased' herself of. la writing a book on "How to Make Howe Hopin'." —Chicaua Tuna. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Accor Mas ox Ecxixs, of Clinton, Mo., dropped dead in her dooryard the other day while feed ing her chickens. She was 106 years old and a negro. Capt. W. H. Mprcheson, of Medon, Tenn., had fasted fifty days on Friday last. During that time it is claimed that he has not taken a swallow of either food or drink. He sits up and talks freely. Three years ago a small moth flew into the ear of J. G. Staib of Wilmington, Del. It re mained just inside the drum of the ear until the other day, when the application of milk poul tices amf salt water resulted in its removal. It was alive, and flew several feet. At the present time there are on the pension lists of the British army the names of widows of officers to whom pensions were granted seventy years ago. Some of these widows must there fore be from 100 to 130 years of age. But the average Englishman is sceptical on this point, preferring to believe that there is fraud some where. A 3-year-old Waterbury boy, whose legs were deformed from birth, was taken to the New Haven City Hospital, where the surgeon broke one of the legs three times, and the other one twice, and then straightened and reset the bones. The child endured the operation well under ether, and now walks long distances with only a slight limp. The charges against Pastor C. C. Herriott, of Westminster Presbv'terian church, St. Paul, who has been asked to resign, are peculiar. They are that he used the study attached to the church as an office lor his real estate speculations; that he made §9,000 in booming real estate, and while advising his flock to give one-tenth of all they possess to the Dol'd, made no such partition of his own profits. A party of excursionists from Boston recently visited the town of El Paso del Norte, in Mexico. “They came into the shop,” said a merchant of the town, "but that was all l ight Then the first thing I knew they walked hack into our living part of the house and went to pulling over things and looking into drawers just as if they were at home. My wife had to ask them to go out. and had to push them so she could shut the door. They only laughed and thought it was a great joke that Mexicans should have any feel ings.” A clergyman of Auburn, Me., after eating luncheon in a railroad eating house, picked up what he thought was his bag and went on’his journey. When he got home the bag was opened in the presence of his wife, who was grieved to see lying side by side several bottles which, according to their labels, contained fire water of the strongest kind. the bag belonged to a drummer for a liquor house, and the drum mer was probably also surprised when he found that in the bag that he h*a were three solid, or thodox sermons. A society man in Buffalo, N. Y., telks how near he came being arrested for a pickpocket : “I was walking along absent-mindedly.” he says: "when I happened to notice the car that I had been waiting for had passed me. I threw up my hand suddenly to motion to the conduc tor to stop, and got my fingers entangled in the watchchain of a gentleman who came up. I suppose he thought I was trying to rob him. for he made a grab at me and ran after me half the way to the car. Then he went back, hut I sup pose he told the police what a narrow escape he had.” Watches have an interesting history. The first one was about the size of a dessert plate. It liad weights, and was used as a pocket chick. The first great improvement was the substitu tion of springs for weights. This was done in 1540. The earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of steel. The watches had only one liana, and being wound up twice a day, could not be expected to keep the time nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve hours. The dials were' of silver or brass. The cases had no crystals, but opened at the back and front, and were four or five inches in diam eter. A plain watch in those days cost about §I,OOO. It took a year to make one. Cardinal Manning, who was one of the speak ers the other afternoon at Grosvenor House, London, in support of the Royal Victoria Hall, related the following anecdote: One evening he was walking in West London, and passed a laboring man. who, with his pipe in his mouth, was walking along. “Good night,” said the prelate, by way of beginning a conversation, which before long turned on the temperance question. The workman, it appeared, had not taken the pledge, having consulted a friend about the matter, who thought there was no need for him to do so. as he was no drunkard. The Cardinal, probably thinking that example is better than precept, told the man that he had taken it. whereupon the latter promptly replied by asking: "Did you want it, your reverence?” “To plume one's self ” comes from the Hun garians, who placed in their caps a feather for each Turk killed, and, therefore, were decorated according to valor. The usfe of the white feather as a sign of withdrawal from a contest or as a truce undoubtedly arose from the fact that in leaving the field the white feathers were the most easily seen. The sending of a white feather to one intending fighting meant usually a warn ing from some friend that discretion would be the better part of valor. The question has often been asked why the feathers of the peacock, beautiful as thov are, have the reputation of bringing bad luclc to the wearer. The East In dians and the North American Indians believe that feathers endow their owner with the vices or virtues of the bird from which they are plucked, and as the peacock is vain, arrogant and greedy, he can scarcely endow one with all the virtues. The kingfisher has been a highly honored bird, and to possess one of his feathers or a bit of his skin has meant great fortune. The Tartai-s firmly believe that he who touches a beautiful woman with a kingfisher's feather will gain her love. As Policeman Warren, of the West End pre cinct, in Boston, was standing at Cambridge and Temple streets about 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning, he was startled by the sudden appear ance of an apparition in white gliding out of Lynde street into Cambridge street. Warren started after the ghost, which began to run at great speed, its hair streaming out behind. Bv a hard spurt Warren overtook and seized it. The ghost materialized into a good-looking young woman, in bare feet, and an embroidered night dress: but the maiden said nothing, ami War ren, thinking she was insane, took her to the station, where she still maintained silence. It was evidently a cose of somnambulism. Lieut. Gaskin laid his hand upon the young woman's should ■!• to see if it would rouse her. when she suddenly threw her arms about his neck and laid her head upon his manly breast. She was still unconscious, end the embarrassed lieutenant had great difficulty in escaping from her em brace. A physician was sent for, and after about fifteen minutes she roused and was terri bly shocked by the situation in which she found herself. She was wrapped in a quilt and taken to her home on Lynde street. Hon. Henry Edwards, member of the Penn sylvania House of Representatives from law re nee county, says that a few days ago two boys, agod 10 and 12 years, sons of prominent residents of New Castle, Pa , broke open a powder house a mile from that oity, and remov ing u keg of powder, opened it anil poured it on the ground in a circle 10 feet in diameter. A laboring man named Thomas Andrews lives in the woods with his family a short distance from' the powder house. Four of bis children, the oldest 8 year* of age, were playing about in the woods, and the two hoys who hud spread the powder on the ground induced the four children to “come out in the road and see Rome fire works.” The boys got the four to stand in the ring of powder nnd then ignited it. The chil dren Inside the ring were all terribly burned. Two of them had their eyes burned out, and the Injuries of all four are so serious that their re covery is doubtful. In the event of their getting well they will la. horribly disfigured for life. The parents of the two New Castle boys have offered large stuns to settle the wretched affair with the father of the four injured children. In there days of war rumors the French A unuaivc Militinre for tho current year Is most interesting reading. The Ait nun ire tor 1887, al though it falls fur short of the German I'any und Quartii i-Listo in accuracy and complete ness of detail, is nevertheless a vast advance and great improvement on l be meagre volumes which used to appeal- of old. Contrasting it, 'with that of 1879. which was a modes! tome, it shows what an immense change has taken place In the French army during that period. The army of 1870 had only 610 infantry chefs de bat aillon, whereas to-day the number is 997. Offi cers of other ranks and arms of the service have increased In u corres ponding proportion, the only reduction being the number of Marshals, of whom then' are now but three against seven who formerly held that rank. The Marshals who have disappeared from the Annuuire art; Vulllunt. Baraguer d’Htllleni, Randon anil Fnrey, who are dead, ami unlucky Baznine, who has lilerally been drummed out of the French uruiy like a common private. Another notice able change in the present Annuatre from that of the old days Is toe large increase in the num ber of staff oflliTirs. Before the Franco-German war the staff was composed of 580 officers of all rants. The largest number of officers detached in this manner is at the Ministry of War, which is also full of soldier-clerks. 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