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4 £hc Corning iflefos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WXnnWAT.MiT 1 X. 1887. Regixter-d at the Pott Office in Savannah. The Moosisa News is published every day in br vr&r. and u smnl.to subscriber* tii the city, bv new (dealer* and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $ 1 00 a mouth, $o 00 for si* months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning Xlews, by mad. one mouth, $1 08: three mouths. $2 SO; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning Nno, try nail . six time* a week (without Sunday issue!, three months. $2 00; six months. $i id one year. sti 00. Tho Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and i Vidays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $0 .'<o; one year. $5 no. The .Si'noat New*. hy mail, one year, t- 00. Tile Wekely News, try moil, one year. $1 25. Sula-criptious livable in advance. Hentit hy postal order, check nr 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 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. 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