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INDEX TO NE\V ADVEKTISEMKNTS.
Meetings-—Golden Rule I-odge So. 12, I. O.
O. F.; Magnolia Encampment No. 1, L O. O. F.;
Chatham Gun Glub.
Special Notices—To Jurors of City Court;
Summer Clothing, W. A. Jaudon: Raffle, An
drew Hanley: To the Public, John rvrst; Notice
as to Extension of the Birmingham and Atlan
tic Air-Lino Railroad.
Railroad Schedule— Charleston and Savan
nah Railway.
Wool Wanted— sl Y. ITenderson
Cheap Colltcn Advertisements Kelp
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
Boarding: Miscellaneous.
Hummer Resorth— The Watauga Hotel, Blow
ing Rock, N. C.; Hummer Board at Olenbnmie..
Marietta, Ga.; Glenwood HoteL Catskill Moun
tains.
Steamship Schedules Ocean Steamship
Company.
Mr. Parnell has several college classmates
in this country. The}- all speak of him in
high terms.
Now that Editor O'Brien can write ‘M.
P. after his name, his enemies are begin
ning to write “Hon.” before it.
Roscoe Conkling is said to be a great
talker, but he intimates that he will waste
no words in favor of the Republican candi
dates next year.
It is stated that a syndicate of rich men
have gotten possession of 40,000,000 bushels
of wheat. They are not going to distribute
it among the poor.
How is this? Republican national ticket:
For President, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York; for Vice President, Col Thomas
Ochiltree, of Texas.
When the government completes the new
ships of war the little countries south of us
will probably be more respectful in their
dealings with American citizens.
Joseph Sknezypcnki, of Milwaukee, has
been found guilty of engaging in a riot. If
he was trying to tear his name to pieces the
jury ought to have turned him louse.
The Gate City Guard threatens to give
“Perfidious 'Albion” a black eye. She al
ready has a green eye, the one she keeps on
the Emerald Isle having turned that color.
In Texas the negroes rightly object to be
ing called “niggers.” They don’t object to
being called negroes, however, wisely prefer
ring that term to the nonsensical “colored
persons.”
His Majesty Dom Luiz of Portugal has
purchased a cabinet organ of American
make. All he has to do now in order to be
a leader in the Salvation Army is to pur
chase a bass drum.
Out West the women have organized a so
ciety to stop the us* of tobacco. Their
motto is: “We’ll stop it peaceably if we can,
forcibly if we must.” It is to be hoped that
they will succeed.
The Russian Minister of Finance pro
poses to tax the first twenty eggs laid by
every hen in the empire. No doubt the pro
tective tariff “gentlemen” will cite the case
as an illustration of the evils of direct taxa
tion.
Prof. John M. Klein, of Kentuky, claims
to have discovered the Star of Bethlehem
He says that it may be seen in the north
western heavens closely skirting the hori
zon. The discovery will excite great inter
est among astronomers.
Senator Don Cameron and ex-Benator
Mahonc have been conferring with each
other in Petersburg, Va. It is supposed
that they arranged to take charge of
the Republican party next year. The party
is in bad enough hands already.
A New York custom house official says
that Dr. McGlynn and Henry George are
working for Mr. Blaine, and that at the
right time they will come out openly for
him. When men lose sight of orthodoxy
they are very likely to get into bad com-
P*ny
The Boston Globe is authority for the
statement that 05,000 persons, now residents
of Europe, hold tickets for America, and
are only waiting for the steamers to bring
them over. Let them come, if they are the
right kind, but we don’t want any more
paupers or Anarchists.
The Birmingham Age not only wishes
Maj. E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, to be
elocted to the United States Senate, but it
also wishes the Democrats next year to
nominate him for the Vice Presidency. “If
we could have all wo want by wishing, we’d
wish the world a trout pond and all go
fishing.” _ _
When Queen Victoria and the Prince and
Princess of Wales left the Lord Mayor’s
mansion, in London, last Saturday, it was
discovered that two gold teaspoons were
missing. Of course none of the royal party
pocketed the spoons, but a butler who was
along was suspected of the theft. The
name of his office was against him.
In the course of a sermon on Sunday
morning last, Rev. N. B. Thompson, of New
York, said: “I want to raise my voice this
morning and say that God's laws are not
blue laws.” He then expressed himself as
opposed to closing the saloons on Sunday. It
must- be a strange congregation that em
ploys a preacher like the Rev. Mr. Thomp
son,
An engine, going atu forty mile rate near
Pittsburg, last week, struck a mail who was
walking along tte tracks and hurled him to
up insensible,
tSffWhmt Tiw>lnjure. ■ i
Reagan Lectures the Commission.
Senator Reagan. the originator of the
interstate commerce law, is clearly of the
opinion that the Interstate Commissioners
do not understand the law they administer A
In a letter to Commissioner Morrison he
talks to them in a way calculated to make
them regret that they have anything to do
with the law. !Of course all the trouble Is
in connection with the fourth section, which
contains the long and short haul clause. The
Senator says that the Commissioners have
no ]tower to susjiend that section, and he
does not believe that it is within human
power to show that it can work serious harm
to any general interest. He holds that it
may be suspended in special cases where it
is clearly shown that it works a hardship.
tVith reference to the question of tlie com
petition of the waterways he says that it
would "offend the common sense of man
kind, and be a criminal disregard of the
rights of the people, for Congress or the
Commissioners to manage so as to deprive
the people of the cheaper transportation af
forded by five waterways.” Of course he
lias reference to the efforts to have the
fourth section of the law -msjen led where
there is waterways competition. A suspen
sion of the law in such cases would
enable the railroads to prevent traffic on the
waterways by carrying freights for less
than the actual cost of transportation where
there is competition. They would make up
what they lost in that manner, he says, by
unjust exactions on way freights.
The point upon which the Senator lays
the most stress, however, is that if the
fourth section were suspended the railroads
would make all sorts of unjust discrimina
tions, and the sufferers from such exactions
would not dare to complain, either
to the Commissioners or the
courts, for fear that the railroads
would retaliate even to the extent of ruin
ing their business. He believes that without
the fourth section the discriminations would
be made more bur lensome than they were
before the law went into operation.
In dealing with the interstate commerce
law the Senator labors under two disad
vantages. The first is that he spent many
of the best years of his life in getting it en
acted. and. therefore cannot see that it is
roseihle for it to have any objectionable
features. The second is that he has not
beard the reasons, which are urged by
lljose most deeply interested, for the
suspension of the fourth section. If he had
been with the Commissioners in their tour
through the South, and listened to the state
ments relative to the workings of the law,
he might not feel so confident that it is im
possible for the law, or any part of it, to
work serious harm to any general interest.
The truth is the Commissioners, while
anxious to do what is right, are in doubt
whether it woukl lie wise to suspend the
fourth clause or not, and there is a great
difference of opinion among shippers as to
whether they want it suspended The ques
tion of suspending that clause is a difficult
ono to determine. In determining it the
Commissioners will have to lie guided by the
light to be gained from experience.
Young Senators.
It is a rather remarkable fact that the
four youngest United States Senators are
from adjoining States, Virginia and West
Virginia. The senior Virginia Senator,
Riddleberger, is 43, and the junior
Senator, Daniel, is 44. The senior
West Virginia Senator, Kenna, is 39,
and the junior Senator, Faulkner, is 40.
Daniel was a member of the House in
the last Congress, and a very eloquent
member he was. Kenna has been in the
Senate two years, and had made a reputa
tion in the Houso before he was
elected to tho Senate. He is
probably the most popular man in his
State. Asa campaigner he has no equal.
He not only makes a good speech, but he
plays the violin with a skill that captures
the hearts of his constituents in the moun
tain districts. He has introduced some
thing new in campaigning, however, which
has done more to increase his popularity
than anything else. It is the camera. He
is an amateur photographer, and it is said
that while his speeches please the
simple people of the mountains of
his State, and his fiddle fills their hearts
with joy, his photographs of family groups,
which he takes free of charge, make them
his staunch friends for life. If some of the
Congressmen who were beaten for re-elec
tion last fall had known of Senator Kenna’s
success with the camera they might have
utilized his discovery to such an extent as
to still be numbered among statesmen.
Judge Faulkner, who was elected to the
Senate a few days ago, has made quite a
reputation as a judge, but it remains to be
seen what sort of a place he will make for
himself in politics. It is expected, however,
that he will not be content with an obscure
position in the Senate.
The Oil Trust In the Courts.
The American Cotton Oil Trust Company
appears to have a very interesting legal fight
on its hands in Louisiana. A few weeks
ago the Attorney General of that State
Ix-gan a suit against tho cotn|>aiiy to prevent
it from doing business within tho State's
limits. This actiop. it was understood, was
taken at the request of cotton planters, who
thought that the company was depressing
the price of cotton seed. Owning 95 per
cent, of the cotton oil mills of the South, it
is in a position to dictate tho price of cotton
seed, and also the prices of the products of
cotton seed.
Tho company filed an exception, asking
that tho Buit bo dismissed on tho ground
that there was no cause of action. Thjs is a
very goneral exception, and permits almost
any defense that the defentlant sees fit to
make. There were exhaustive arguments
on both sides. The court overruled the
exception and the case will now have to be
tried on its merits. 'The trial promises to
lie an interesting one. The New Orleans
newsiwqiers have already hail a great deal to
say about tho caso, and a few days ago a
couple of editors of that eitv were supinwed
to be furbishing tip their weapons.
A member of the City Council of Rich
mond, Va., says that it is no use to try to
conceal the widespread and pinching pov
erty in that State. As proof of what he
says, he tells of a tax collector who went to
a house in the cojuntry to levy on a pig, and
who found the family living on parched
corn, they being too poor to have it ground
into meal. This dties not look os if the
prospect for the British holders of Virginia
Ixmds to get their money was very promis
ing-
The upper section of Mouth Carolina is
disturbed hy rumor* that the negro farm
laborers are preparing to strike. They
have an exteusiva secret organization, the
object of which is said to lie to stir up strife
between laborers and employer*. Home
employers fear a strike about June 1.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1887.
Congressman Crisp’s Critic.
The Philadelphia Press calls Congressman
Crisp's reference, at the (Columbus, Ga.)
banquet last Wednesday night, to the re
ported apjxaranee of an heir at the White
House, “another Democratic blunder,” and
says that “it has long been apparent that
the Democracy was banking more upon Mr.
Cleveland's marriage as a means of increas
ing his popularity among the people than
upon the carrying out of any particularly
wise and sagacious national policy. The
l>road grin of satisfaction that suffused the
faces of the Democrats last year when rumor
ripened into certainty and a marriage in the
White House was officially announced has
not yet disappeared. No one imagined, how
ever, that such an offensive exhibition of a
party's effort to make political capital out of
a matrimonial affair would lie given as Con
gressman Crisp lent himself to.”
It is difficult to see what Congressman
Crip’s action on the occasion referred to has
to do with the Democratic party. The ban
quet in question was not political in its
character. Congressman Crisp said what
he did as a citizen, not as a politician nor as
a Democrat. He thought the report about
the White House affair was true, and felt
that he was justified in making the allusion
to it that he did. Being a comparatively
young man. and a very bright and enthusi
astic one, it was natural that the report that
an event calculated to make the Chief Mag
istrate of the nation happy had occurred,
should have been looked upon by him as an
occasion for rejoicing. He is not to blame
for the falsity of the report.
The Press is mistaken if it thinks the
Democracy i* banking ui>on the President’s
marriage. The President’s straightforward
way of doing things, and his entire freedom
from false pretenses of any kind are what
command the people's respect. Even the lead
ing Republican organ, the New York Tri
bune, was forced to commend him a day or
two ago for his speech at the unveiling of
the Garfield statue. Such broad and lib
eral views are not heard from prominent
Republican leaders as were expressed in
that speech.
The Press ought to read again tho veto of
the dependent pension bill and the Guilford
Miller letter before insinuating that the
President’s popularity depends upon his
marriage rather than upon efforts to pro
mote the people's interests. Doubtless the
Press can see nothing good in the President
because its friends, the railroad land grab
bers and the pension claim agents, have suf
fered at his hands.
The Rules for Promotion.
The Civil Service Commission gives the
President the credit for tho new civil ser
vice rules which require that promotions in
the sendee shall lie based on fitness rather
than on favor. The Republicans, of course,
object to the new rules, and claim that the
purpose of them is to get rid of Republican
clerks and make places for Democrats. This
claim has no foundation.!' The Republican
clerks are afraid that many of their number
will not be able to pass the examinations to
which they will he subjected, and that is
the reason they are showing so much oppo
sition to the new rules.
Those who are oftenest promoted now are
those who know how to play the part of a
courtier, or who have friends in places of in
fluence and favor. The.really meritorious
clerks, unless they are in favor trttii thotr
chiefs, or have powerful friend*! sUlifidHtJe
chance for advancement.
Those who know most about geography,
grammar and arithmetic are not the ones
who will be promoted unless they have other
qualifications to commend them. The ex
aminations are intended as a test of intelli
gence rather than of fitness for the better
places. The clerks who are punctual and
industrious, and who understand how to
perform the duties required of them, even
if they are not well versed in grammar
and arithmetic, will be preferred to college
graduates who lack application and show
neither taste nor inclination for their work.
In brief, the rules are intended to secure for
the government the best men that can be
obtained. The President seems to think
that the common sense which a merchant
exercises in choosing his clerks should be
exercised in choosing clerks for the govern
ment. The people can hardly find fault
with the President in managing the affairs
of the government in that way.
Col. Pat Donan is not an anglomaniao.
He is for his own country, first, last and all
the time. Recently he said: “I am in
favor of a constitutional amendment pro
hibiting any untutored American citizen,
redolent of pork corners, wheat gouges, and
stock swindles, from going abroad to air his
gilded ignorance and vulgarity until
he has seen his own country. I would de
mand, as a prerequisite for permission to
visit London haberdashers’ establishments,
Parisian milliners’ shops and Italian skies
and macaroni hasherios, a certificate from
the President or general passenger agent of
some great Southern or Western or North
western railroad that the would-be foreign
voyager had visited all the glorious and
beautiful scones along the line.”
An Augusta. (Me.) dispatch to the Boston
Globe says that James G. Blaine, Gov.
Bodwell and Joe Mamiey, with a part of
Blaine’s well-known lieutenants, have been
at Bar Harbor for tho last few days making
preparations for tho summer. The state
ments that Blaine intends to sail for
Europe in June to be gone several months
do not seem to have mueh foundation. It
is said by his friends that he is making
ready for a vigorous campaign, and that
Bar Harbor will be his political headquar
ters this summer. Evidently Blaine has
been aroused by tho news from Ohio and
Illinois
William A. Ingham, of Little Falls, N.
Y., means to get even with the noble dukes
and dashing counts that have found wives in
tho United States. He has gone to Dresden,
Germany, where, on June 11, he will wed
tho Countess Jennie Graesse. The only
drawback to his anticipated bliss is the fear
that his neighbors will call him “the fellow
that married the Countess.” This, however,
would be better than having his neighbors
call his wife “the Countess that married the
fellow."
Treasurer Ferdinand P. Earle, of the New
York Decoration day fund, says that the
people of New York are fast losing all inter
est in Decoration day. He sent out 5,000
circulars asking for subscriptions to the
fund find received only 100 replies. The
amount collected was oltout $1,500. North
or South, it doesn’t speak well for the coun
try when the soldiers who loqf their lives in
the war are not fittingly honored at least
once a year.
It is in Missouri that the United States
language is at its best. A Kansas City man
say s: “Wo are going to shoot up a theatre
that will knock the socks olTn the measly
11 ■ ' n
CURRENT COMMENT.
What It Will Discover.
From the Missouri Republican (Vein.)
When the London Timex (jets “behind the
scenes in America." as it promises its readers,
it will discover that nearly 60.000 “V Americans,
exclusive of Indians not taxed, are in sympathy
with the home rule movement.
History Will Put it There.
From the Few York Herald < Ind.)
The Battlefield Memorial Ass'*'tatio-i may re
fuse to allow Pickett's men to put their monu
ment on the furthest point reached in the Con
federate charge on that fateful day. hut cool
headed and impartial history will put it there,
nevertheless, and,gentlemen, don't you forget it.
Senator Sherman’s Danger.
From the Galveston Feus ( Dem.)
A Philadelphia Republican ]>aper says every
body is talking about the change that has come
over Senator Sherman. and that he is becoming
affable and almost affectionate in his manners.
That is only natural. Even ice must yield to the
warming influence of the summer sun. The
danger is that Sherman will dissolve and disap
pear before the heat of next summer's cam
paign is ovgr.
Parnell’s Health and Leadership.
From the Few York Times (Rep.)
The brief allusion In our cable dispatches yes
terday to Mr. Parnell's health is not reassuring
to those who think that the Irish cause depends
upon his leadership. If it lie true, ns believed
by those who talked with him during his visit to
London, that ‘ his trouble is more nervous and
mental than physical." his resumption of his
very trying duties in the House is doubtful; but
then his leadership is by no means so essential
now to the Irish party as it was when Mr. Glad
stone was its foe and now its friend and ad
viser.
BRIGHT BITS.
Martvhs in the olden time were burned at the
stake. In these days martyrs hire a hall and
lecture.— Pittsburg Dispatch.
Minister—“l wish you could do something
with the choir to stop that constant chewing of
gum. It's detestable.”
Leader— "No, it isn't; it’s spruce.’ - — Judge.
When a man complained about a hotel with
no means of getting out in case of fire, Popkins
said that he didn’t care for means to get out of
a hotel. What he needed was means for staying
there.—Texas Siftings.
Yoc know, Miss Fitzjoy." said Young Small
witte, “I've got a very good th’.’ig to tell you.”
“Oh, I'm delighted. What is*it please?"
“I’m engaged to be married, you know to
Miss—
“ Well, I am more than delighted. I was so
afraid that vou were going to propose to me."—
Hartford Post.
Appearances are very deceiving. A little boy
at the opera, who noticed the gentlemen look
ing through their opera glasses at the dancers,
was of the notion t hat the opera glasses were
for an entirely different purpose. He said:
“Mamma, buy me one of those things, so I can
cover up my ej-es with it when those women
come on the stage.”— The Baltimorean.
First Ohara Patriot—Say, why didn't you
vote for my brother Bill ?
Second Omaha Patriot—Because he ain’t no
statesman.
“No statesman, eh? Why he's kept a saloon
in Omaha for ten years. No statesman, eh ?"
“He's no statesman, I say it again. Right
back of his bar he's got up a big, ugly sign: ‘No
Trust.’ ” — Omaha World.
A 4-year-old tot to-day invited three older
playmates into an ice cream saloon, where she
magnificently ordered four plates of cream.
When the delectable food had lieen eaten she
calmly proceeded to walk out of the place with
out paying for it. The proprietor stopped her.
Looking up in his face in the most innocent
manner in the world she lisped: "I ain't got
any money, sir. I'll pay you when I'm mar
ried.”—Philadelphia Feivs.
When your wife employed a cross-eyed girl
whose talent is to shirk,
■Who takes four afternoons a week and never
does her work ; ‘
Who talks back constantly, and her dire clatter
will not cease.
Who wears an apron spotted o’er with stains of
dirt and grease; ,
Whose grammar is distinguished by its most
surprising badness.
You may think your wife is crazy.
But there's method in her madness.
—Merchant Traveler.
“I reckon we ll have to give up the idee of
puttin’ pictures in the parlar, Miranda,” re
marked Jeremiah Turnipseed, as he threw the
bridle under the table.
“Why?’’ asked Miranda.
• “Too dear: Why. 1 priced one at the city to
day. and the dealer sez, sez he: ‘That's an old
master; its price is $5,000.’ ‘Why,’ sez I, ‘it
looks like a second hand pietur.' ‘Yes, it is,’
sez he. Then, thinks I, if a second-hand pietur
costs that much, it's no use to pi 'ce anew un.
So. Miranda, 1 reckon we'll have to hang up a
few mottoes, ‘God Bless Our Home,’ and the
like, and let the pietur* go."~-Pittsburg Chroni
cle-Telegraph. ,
Poor but Honorable Young Man—l want to
marry your daughter, sir. \‘. 1 '
Rich Fat her—Ah: HavA you spoken to the
young lady?
“And she is willing?”
“Provided you are."
“And if I say no?”
“Well ah—er—do you ever play cards, my
dear sir?”
"What has playing cards to do with the mar
riage of my daughter?” • i
“Nothing in particular. I merely desire to use
the game as an illustration.'”
“Well, yes; I play occasionally.”
“And after you play one card are you in the
habit of Showing your opponent the rest of your
hand?”
“Young man, you can have the girl and wel
come.”—Pittsburg Dispatch.
PERSONAL.
Susan Coolidge has a parrot which is said to
quote passages from her novels.
The Sultan of Turkey has established two
schools for women at Constantinople.
Queen Victokia has in Windsor Castle three
vases valued at SIOO,OOO and a Sevres dinner ser
vice worth $250,000.
The richest young man in Philadelphia society
is August E. Jessup. He is only 24, and has an
income of $70,000 a year.
Andrew Carnegie paid $3.10 for a box at
Walt Whitman’s lecture in New York, although
he could not lie present. It made the old poet's
benefit a success.
James \V. Hyatt, the new Treasurer of the
United States, was originally a Republican, but
went over to tin* Democracy in 1872, at the time
of the Greeley movement.
Bins. Gladstone nearly always accompanies
her husband to the House of Commons, and sho
never fails to wrap a stout comforter round his
neck when he leaves for home.
Miss Emma Abbott says she is the only prima
donna in the world who sings publicly seven
nights a week, and she can sing three notes
higher than any excepting Sembricb.
Nate Salisbury, who is Buffalo Bill’s partner,
proposes to introduce pop-corn in London this
summer. He has ordered 100 bushels of the un
popped vegetable from a New Y’ork dealer.
The King of Siam has sent a number of dig
nitaries of his kingdom in search of a score or
more of suitable maidens to be married to his
son, the youngster who was recently officially
declared “Crown I Vince."
Blacriue Bernhardt, whose kicking ability
makes him the admiration of the Mugwumps,
still lingers in New York. His mother has
vainly looked for his arrival in the West. He
prefers, however, to smoke his cigarettes in the
metropolis and has developed quite a fondness
for New York.
The President's midday receptions to the pub
lic still continue crowded. Strangers In Wash
ington always express disappointment because
Blrs. Cleveland is not present. "I hope Mrs.
Cleveland Is well," Is the usual formula, to
which Mr. Cleveland generally answers: "She
was very well when I last saw her."
In the pockets of the young Anarchist, Walter
Vroottian, who was mobbed in Pittsburg for in
sulting the American flag, were found a copy of
Henry <surge's book, a complete set of the
speeches made hy the Chicago A narehists be
fore Judge Gray, several Socialistic and An
archistic pamphlets and a copy of the Bible.
Liszt gnvean amusing account of the manner
in which George Sand used her lovers in fiction
after she had done with them in fact. First,
she limes her butterflies," he said; "then she
feeds them In her box with grasses and flowers;
this is the love period. After a time she sticks
a pin Into them; they struggle in their pain; but
she has had enough of them anil is now lient on
vivisection. In the end they will lie preserved
us dried specimens."
“I shall learn no more new parts and pro
duce no more new plays after next season,"
said Mine. Modjeska. in Chicago, “been use R is
too much for me, and it will not pay to can y
t lie scenery under the existing laws." When
this most gifted artist said these words she was
111 from overwork. “But next season." she
ndded, "I shall add 'Measure for Measure' to
my repertoire and ‘All's Well.’ if I can arrange
it for presentation." Iler favorite character is
•‘Ros’iiind," which rests her Ur its variety.
THE SPINSTER AND HER TORMENTS
A Quartette of Girls Who Made Life
a Burden for an Old Maid.
From the Chicago Mail.
Miss Virginia Penny is a spinster who lives in
flat A, rear 52 Pine street. She has contributed
to the newspapers and written an occasional ar
ticle for the Guide to Holiness. Her life has
been rendered dismal for the last two weeks by
the devices of a troop of young women who in
habit the same apartment house with her The
old lady had three of them in the East Chicago
avenue police court for disorderly conduct
Henrietta Conrad. .Amelia Gove and Anna Jones.
Miss Penny is precise, and began her statement
to the court in this wise: "April 26. about 10
o'clock, I heard a shrill whistle through my
speaking tube. I went to it and someone hol
lered: ‘ls that old maid on the flat yet?' I ran
out and looked over the banisters and saw these
young chits and a black-eyed one that I can t
And running away like rats from a hole. They
kept that up for four mortal hours, yelling
ugly messages through my tube and I don't
know what else. I missed some of my manu
scripts."
Henrietta broke in: "You called me a nasty
trollop."
" ‘Nasty trollop - you are too. I wouldn't have
anything to do with you."
' And you went round to all the houses in the
block to find out my character. You didn't
And anything, though.”
"You didn't have any to find."
"And you called Anna here, a cock-eyed
thing."
"Oh: Oh' I didn't. I never heard of the
word. Cock-eye. cock-eye; I don't know what
it is." After a half-hour's spirited dialogue and
testimony, which Justice Kersten permitted,
because he rat her enjoyed it himself, the girls
were discharged, and Miss Penny went away
with somewhat less respect than before for the
police court.
AN EYE TO BUSINESS.
The Tact Displayed by an Italian Fruit
Vender in Grand Street.
From the New York Evening Sun.
A fruit vender from Italy stood beside his
hand cart sorting bananas into small piles, sur
mounted with placards indicating the price. He
determined the value of each banana as he
handled it. Suddenly he puused and felt of one
more carefully than the others. He squeezed it
slightly at each end. Holding it out at arm's
length in his open palm, he cocked his head,
shut one eye, and critically examined it. As
though not entirely satisfied, he raised it to his
chin and ran it across his face close to his nose.
Apparently satisfied, he laid the lianana upon
the pile labeled lc.. and renewed his sorting.
Suddenly he stopped, as though his arm had
become paralyzed. He cast a pained look at
his lc. pile. Then he picked up the fruit so
carefully - examined, and. after another careful
scrutiny, deposited it on the 2c. pile. A few
minutes afterward he repeated the scrutiny,
and placed the perplexing banana once more
upon the lc. pile.
At that moment a district messenger boy,
with a cap two sizes too large for him, saun
tered to the cart, and ran his eye over the fruit.
The Italian watched him closely. The boy
threw lc. upon the wagon, and picked up the
banana which had caused him so much per
plexity. The Italian looked as though earth
had lost for him its every charm. For ten
seconds he stood looking at the urchin, who
buried his teeth into the luscious fruit. Then he
turned like a flash and transferred three bananas
from the lc. to the 2c. pile. Anew customer
was at his elbow. A smile as mild as his native
skies spread over the Italian’s face as he said.
"Banana! Sell-a ver’ cheap-a. Good-a banan:"
THE GAMUT OF CRIME.
From Genius to War on Society, Short
age to Total Depravity.
From the Washington Post.
The wisdom of many peoples in all ages and
lands ordains for the same act punishment of
various degi-ees of severity, according to the
guilt of the offender or the influence of circum
stances—particularly the latter Thus, homicide
may be only killing by accident, or slaying in
battle, or willful murder, or high treason, or
"served him right," according to the latitude
and longitude, in the same way the act of con
verting to one's use the money of another ex
hibits, in the light of our lofty civilization, vari
ous gradations of guilt, which, after the manner
of penal statutes, are siguifled by appropriate
names, the amount of the spoliation being the
principal criterion. Thus:
Takmg $1,000,000 is called genius.
100,000 “ shortage.
50,000 “ litigation.
25,000 “ insolvency.
10.000 “ irregularity.
“ 5,0 W “ defalcation.
1,000 “ corruption.
500 “ embezzlement.
100 “ dishonesty.
“ 50 “ stealing.
25 “ total depravity.
one ham “ war on society,
THE GOLD-DIGGERS’ NEWSPAPER.
Prosperous Condition of an Esteemed
Contemporary In Australia.
From the Auckland News.
I formed one of a party who visited the gold
workings near Barossa, about thirty-five miles
from Adelaide. The men work in pairs, and
each man did his share of cooking, digging,
washing and marketing. Their little tents
gained in simplicity what they lacked in com
fort, but sleep should not require much wooing
after a day’s digging in a hot sun. One tent, a
little larger than the rest, tore the following an
nouncement on a piece of card board:
Red Lion Hotel,
Sold here,
Das Reste Bier,
iced drinks,
all at 2d. per pint,
ty - clean glasses.
A newspaper Is published here under the title
of the Barossa Times. The copy I saw began
its leading columns thus: “Owing to the in
creased demand upon our space, we are reluc
tantly compelled to hold over our leader till
next issue.''
The Country Press Heard From.
From the Texas Siftings.
When the interstate commerce law went
into effect and free passes were abolished, the
country editor was too dumbfounded to speak
for some time. He couldn't realize that the
time-honored custom of "dead-heading" over
railroads hail been swept away. But he grad
ually recovered from his amazement, and then
he was mad. He took the railroad time-table
out of bis paper and killed every free railroad
advertisement. Then he began to Are away at
the roads and their management.
Below are a few extracts from the country
press that Texas Siftings has been able to cull:
It doesn't hurt us any to walk It is good for
us. In fact, when we had an annual on the X
and Q. road we always walked when wo were
in a real hnrry.— Flytown Ranger.
Hardly a day passes without au accident on
the alleged railroad that runs—or rather crawls
—through this town. Its rails are often broken,
like the company.— Borax Plaster.
Can nothing be done to stop the shrill w histles
of the locomotives on the X. 1. and T. railroad as
they approach the depot? People who live In
the vicinity find it impossible to sleep In the
morning, and sick folks are driven almost crazy
by it. It would seem that there are no rights in
this country that a bloated railroad corporation
feels bound to resjiect.— Coon Ranger.
One of our most valued citizens had a narrow
escape from being run over by the morning ex
press on the Snan-em-up line yesterday, owing
to the failure of the engineer to blow his whistle.
If our authorities do their duty they will have
that engineer hauled up and fined.— Sag City
Sentinel.
Wonder where the General Ticket Agent of
that combination of twin streaks of rust and
right of way, called the “Great Ca'sar Route,"
got his title of “Colonel.” He was in Canada
during the war. and no one thought of calling
him anything but “Zoke" until he got a position
as ticket agent. Zeke, we are onto you.— l Tp
creek Snorter.
Great and Small.
From the German. .
A sparrow swinging on a branch c
Once caught a passing fly.
“O let me live," the insect prayed,
With trembling, piteous cry.
“No," cried the sparrow, “you must fall,
For I am great and you are small."
The bir*l had scarce begun his feast
Before a liawk came by.
The game was caught ‘ Pray let me live:''
Was now the sparrow's cry
"No,” said the captor, “you must fall.
For I am great and you are small."
An eagle saw the rogue and swooped
Upon him from on high.
"Pray let me live! Why should you kill
Ho small a bird as I?"
"Oh," said the eagle, "you must fall.
For I am great and you are small. ’’
But, while he ate, the hunter came;
He let his arrow fly.
“Tyrant:" the eagle shrieked, “you have
No right to make me die:"
"Ah," said the liutiter, “you must fall,
For 1 aiu great and you are smalt,"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Saws Move*, of Lunsford. Pa., is 10 years
oid. weighs 305 pounds, and is talcing on fat at
the rate of two pounds a week.
Dnuso the past three months a New York
paper has printed the advertisements of 613
women in that city, living apart from their hus
bands. who want to remarry.
Two Boston gentlemen, who have just returned
from a trip to the Sandwich Islands, report that
they were very handsomely entertained by the
King, who plays a very good game of poker.
Lightning struck a tree near Kevin, Ind., the
other dav. Near the tree was a large pond.
Soon after the tree was struck the water m the
pond began sinking, and in a few days the pond
was perfectly dry.
Krcpp's new rapid firing gun consists of a
tube resembling that of a steel field-gun. pro
jecting from the port-hole of an ironclad; its
carriage being reversible, and having a seat for
the gunner at its rear.
A nephew oPcardinal Manning has been vic
timizing society people in San Francisco. He
was a "perfect gentleman" and borrowed jew
elry-watches and diamond rings—from the
young ladies, which he forgot to return.
"Man's queer inhumanity to man makes i
countless thousands mourn; my end is for
peace.” This poetic paraphrase John Marks
Poole, a London printer, wrote on n slip of pa
per as his reason for committing suicide. He
cut the blood vessels in his arm with a pair of
scissors and bled slowly to death.
Boston rejoices in the application of steam
power to toot polishing. In a shop located in
the midst of the disciples of Blackstone has
been fitted up an engine with a complex ar
rangement :of straps by which brushes are
whirled at a surprising rate. The customers are
seated on a broad bench and are polished off in
a very short time,
After last year's city government of Lewis
ton, Me., was organized, one of the Councilmen
gave a dinner. Mayor Cowan occupied the
head of one of the tables, and, running his eye
down either side, he said: "Gentlemen, if I was
disposed to to superstitious, I should refrain
from sitting at this table—there are thirteen of
us here:’’ Just about one year later all the oth
ers whonttended the dinner attended the funeral
of Mayor Cowan.
In 1832 a woman who worked in a mill at
Lowell, Mass., deposited $-10 in a savings bank.
At various times between that year and 1852 she
added to the deposit until it amounted to $153.
In 1875 the principal with dividends earned
amounted to $1,406. She has since drawn out
S7OO. and the whole amount to her credit in 1884
was $1 .027 She has since allowed SI,OOO to re
main on interest, and her income is S4O a year
She is now about 80 years old.
A St. Paul man has a pet dog of which he is
very proud. One evening recently, when the
gentleman was returning home, he saw the dog
emerge from the shadow of a neighbor's fence
with a hen in his mouth. The dog deposited the
fowl in a secluded spot and then went after the
house cat, which it seized by the neck and
dragged to the feast. Without going through
the formality of asking grace the dog tore the
chicken to pieces and helped the cat to some of
the choicest scraps.
A young man of Carbonate, Dak., thought
that he’d be smart and so began a correspon
dence with a foolish young woman in the East
whom he had never seen. She wanted his
photograph, and he sent her that of a hotel
keeper of the place. She was so pleased with it
that she agreed to go to Dakota and marry4i( r
correspondent. She started alone and arrived
at Carbonate the other day, but the young man
had fled. The paper that reports the occur
rence says: "The situation is very embarrass
ing for the lady. The hotel man would marry
her were he not engaged to another girl.”
An Indiana farmer, who told his boys to burn
every bumble bee's nest they found on the
farm, and who was complaining at the failure
of his clover seed crop, was surprised when
Maurice Thompson, the naturalist, said. "That
is why your clover seed fails you. Bumble bees
make your clover seed.” It is a fact that a
strong nest of bumble bees in a big clover field
is worth S2O to the owner: for these insects are
the chief agents in fertilizing the blossoms,
thereby insuring a heavy crop of seed. In Aus
tralia there are no bumble bees of our kind, and
they could not raise clover seed there until they
imported some.
A traveling sleight-of-hand man visited an
Indian encampment, near Lewiston, Idaho, the
other day. Seeing a small dog, he asked how
much they would take for him. The Indians
said that they didn't want to sell. “Him very
good dog,” said the magician, rubbing him
down the back, at each stroke taking a handful
of money from the end of his tail, also from his
mouth, ears and nose. The Indians looked on
in stolid silence, but after the magician went
away they took the dog down to the river bank
and killed and dissected him. To their great
chagrin they found that the sleight-of-hand man
had milked him of all the money.
M. Strakosch, who has just published his ex
perience as au impressario, tells its that Adelina
I’atti is a genuine enfant de la hella. She came
into the world on the stage at Madrid while
her mother was singing in “Norma.” She ap
peared in New York when she was only eight
years old. and was enormously successful. She
was at once christened “the little wonder.” At
that time she was satisfied with a doll for her re
muneration. She was reminded of this recently
when she refused £BOO for a single night’s per
formance. Ihe highest sum ever paid her was
£I,OOO per night at San Francisco. Neither Jen
nie Lind nor Grisi ever got more than £6O per
night.
L'riah Rinker, a farmer near Tannersville,
Pa., was cleaning his saddle horse on Friday
when the barn was struck by lightning and the
horse instantly killed. Rinker was knocked
senseless to the floor, and when he became con
scious was surrounded by flames and all means
of escape nearly cut off. By a desperate effort
he managed to catch hold of the door sill and
drag himself from the burning building. Just
as be crossed the sill his wife came, rushed to
to his assistance and dragged him to a place of
safety. His clothing was then ablaze and the
heat from the fire was so intense that Mrs.
Rinker s arms and hands were blistered. The
watch in his pocket was destroyed by the light
ning, and three long gashes were made in anew
toot on his foot.
In obtaining the vast and rich domain of Bur
mah the English government has come into pos
session, among other natural treasures, of im
mense forest* of teak, which, never very plen
tiful in India was becoming commercially quite
rare, and consequently of increased cost for in
dustrial pur)loses. Or all the woods grown in
the East this has been pronounced as, in some
respects the most valuable. This superiority
consists in its being neither too heavy nor too
hard; it doe* not warp nor split under exixjsure,
no matter how prolonged, to heat or dampness;
it contains an essential oil which possesses the
rare property of preventing the wood from rot
ting under wet conditions, and, at the same
time, act as a preservation to iron, and repels
insects; it is. in addition, a handsome wood, of
several varieties of color and grain, and takes a
good polish.
Cardinal Manning is described by a recent
visitor as “weirdly impressive at night.” Wear
ing his black cassock and scarlet cap, seated by
the blazing wood Are in his study, in which fifty
couples might waltz with perfect comfort, his
eminence will discuss any subject from the de
crees of the Council of Trent down to a para
graph in the society papers. No subject is too
large, no topic too small for him to converse
upon. He is a teetotaller—has been one for
years—as all know; and eats just ns much as
will keep the machinery of the body properly
lubricated and no more. When he was mode a
Cardinal, some seven years ago, some of hi*
flock sent round the hat to enable him to pay
the fee* (about $1,A00) without personally Incon
veniencing himself. “I should like to see your
eminence riding In something better than that,
shabby old brougham,” remarked an Influential
gentleman. “An!” replied the great ram, with
a laugh and a merry twinkle in his eye, “when
Cardinals went about in lino carriages they gen
erally went to the devil."
The wives of ambassadors only at the British
Court have the right to call on the Queen.
The American Minister falls below that mark.
But Mrs. Phelps determined that she, a* the
wife of the representative of one of the largest
governments of the world, should have this right
too. So with true Yankee determination and
energy she made her arrangements, called upon
the Queen and was received by her. Minister
l'helps’ posit ion at court, however, is not one to
be envied. At levees the six ambassadors are
given places of honor among the high nobility
nt the left of the Prince of Wales. Members of
the government stand opposite them at one side
of the room. Mr. Phelps, with the representa
thrwof small cm,tries. stands off at quite a
distance In a more humble plaoe. The American
Minister is allowed to run over and speak with
the members of the government whom he may
know, huthe cannot stand with them during
the entire time of the levee. At state dinners
our Minister is placed low down at the table,
with the Minister of Hayti on one side of him
and the Minister from Japan on the other, with
neither of whom 1* he able to apeak a word.
A WONDERFUL PHENOMENON.
The Celebrated “Walking Man" and
Why He Keeps Going—A Warn
ing to Others.
♦1 A aw ]^l- 6roe ’ ?, nd T ’ John Snider,
the alktng Man.” In 1884 he felt mu*
cular and nervous exhaustion, a stramie
restlessness, general uneasiness, and tto
only relief he could get was bv constant
wall - mg. For twenty-eight months he has
tramped in a circle around and around his
house, resting only four hours each day ard
it is estimated he has covered more'space
than the circumference of the globe ! He
has attracted universal attention, been vis
ited by hundreds of curiosity seekers and
has really become a public character ’ His
nervousness has shown itself in walking
other people’s nervousness acts in other
ways. Sometimes the person is restless
trembles, has nervous headaches, a sinking
at the pit of the stomach, a loss of appetite
inability to sleep, forebodings and generM
exhaustion. At other times irritabditv
peevishness and faultfinding are felt and
life is a fearful trial. When these things
come on something must be done, or this
nervousness will lead to insomnia, insanity
or death. Many people take morphine’
opium or narcotics: but they only deaden
the nerves for the time being. What peo
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