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SATCRDAT. MAY 08. 188 T.
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Excursions—Steamer Pope Catlin.
Steamship Schedule—^Ocean Steamship Cos.
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Legal Notice—Notice in Admiralty.
At Private Sale—Brick Residences, D. R.
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President Cleveland and his wife will
have a lonely time up in the Adirondacks.
No newspaper reporters accompanied them.
The New York World is building a bal
loon to spy out the land. It is to be hoped
that no new Presidential booms will be dis
covered.
Queen Kapiolani is on her way to England.
She carried money enough to pay her assess
ment in case Queen Victoria invites her to
a jubilee dinner.
The Prohibition contest in Texas has
caused political enemies to become friends.
The question is one that causes all others to
sink into insignificance.
The trial of Bartley Peak, at Mount Hol
ly, N. J., was begun on Wednesday last.
The prisoner manifests great coolness. The
trial attracts large crowds.
The Star of Bethlehem may now be seen
in the northwestern heavens. It is said to
be quite brilliant. It has been 300 years
since it made its last appearance.
Henry George says that the Democratic
party is the Labor party’s only real antag
onist. It is evident, therefore, that he re
gards the Republican party as dead.
Prince Bismarck is silent just now, but he
is doubtless doing a good deal of thinking.
In case there is war it goes without saying
that he will do a good deal of lighting.
A New York Nihilist predicts the death
of the Czar in less thau thirty days. If the
prediction is to bo verified those who seek
his lifo will have to learn to shoot with
greater accuracy.
Ex-Speaker J. Warren Keifer is again
figuring in the public prints. At Spring
field, 0., the other night, his residence was
burglarized and much family silver plate
taken. It is noticeable that whenever the
ex-Speaker’s name appears it is in connec
tion with something unpleasant.
In November or December the Republi
can clulis of the country will hold a conven
tion in New York. It is not stated what
the object of the convention will be, but
there is little room to doubt that prepara
tions will be made to celebrate the funeral
of Republicanism next year in becoming
style.
It is announced that Senator Ingalls, of
Kansas, is speaking against woman suf
frage, but that his remarks on the subject
lack the force, directness and audacity
which usually characterize him. It is
even said that he s[leaks as though he were
afraid of something. Perhaps the Senator’s
wife has heen interviewing him in the wee
sma’ hours.
Prof. E. Stone Wiggins lias been prophe
sying again. He says this time that the seis
mic disturbances in Mexico will not cease
until next September. At that time violent
earthquakes will be felt in Western Europe
and Eastern America. Canada will suffer
most. If the professor lives long enough
and continues to prophesy he may strike it
right one of these days.
Tho Blackwood case has lost interest for
South Carolinians. They arc now discussing
the death of Amy Avant, a negro woman
123 years old. She died in Marion county
ou Tuesday last. She was remarkably well
preserved, and returned nil her faculties up
to the time of her fatal illness, previous to
tffcich she claimed that she hod never taken
Udose of medickie. Her death was caused
pw measles.
George cxpreszca the opinion that
||ftr. McOlynn will not go to Rome. George
Bi s that Dr. McGlynn would not only be
but glad, to go for the purpose of
(Bating his ideas clear to the Pope, but that
he is not ilispoaed to accept dictation from
Rome in regard to his politics. Jt is thought
by some that if Dr. MeUlynn finally decides
not to obey the Pope, ho will still be sup
ported by hi* Catholic friends.
The dynamite bomb seems destinod to
figure among all soits and conditions of
pcoplj. It has ended the life of a Czar, him
killed policemen, and has oorno dangerously
near stopping Evangelist Sam Jones’ flow
of eloquence. At Viacom!'*, Itid., the other
day it knockod a widow out of lied. That
•t didn't kill hor was due, perhaps, to tho
fai t that she is sweet and pretty. Her name
is Richey, and it is supposed that tho bomb
thrown by a rival.
Florida, Past and Future.
Hon. William D. Kellej r , of Pennsyl
vania. has spent a good deal of his time
since tho adjournment of Congress in the
South. Ho lias made quite a thorough
investigation of tho South’s agricultural,
mineral and timber resources, and has em
bodied his conclusions in a series of articles
which are to be published in the Manufac
turers' Record Of Baltimore. The first of
the series deals with the past, present and
future of Florida.
Mr. Kelley visited Florida in 1875, and he
draws a comparison between what he saw
then and what he saw during his recent
visit to the State. Tho change which has
taken place within the twelve years between
his first and second visit, he regards as little
less than marvelous. In 1875 the people, he
says, displayed very little energy and not
much enterprise. They did not seem dis
posed to utilize their immense timber
resources, and apparently had little idea of
the possibilities of their soil. They culti
vated sweet potatoes extensively and
depended largely upon their winter visitors
for what cash they needed.
This picture of the condition of affairs in
1875 is, of course, exaggerated, but doubt
less the parts of the State Mr. Kelley saw
made the impression upon him which the
picture indicates. It was difficult to travel
about the State because there were only 484
miles of railroad. Only ten years had
elapsed since the close of the war, and the
State had only begun to recover from the
poverty which it had caused. In fact, when
the war ended the State had only a popula
tion of 178,000, and 410 miles of railroad.
The people and the roads were bankrupt.
For the first ten years what the people
were doing was not apparent to the visitor.
They were, however, laying the foundation
of the prosperity which came to them in the
next ten years. This, Mr. Kelley did not
see, and he, therefore, makes the mistake of
thinking that they were doing nothing.
It is probably true, as he says, that the
sale of 4,000,000 acres of land to Hamilton
Disston gave the State an immense boost to
wards prosperity. The $1,000,000 which
was received for the land cancelled bonds
which tho State had guaranteed, and put
new life into railroad enterprises. Railroad
building was begun at once, and was prose
cuted with such vigor that in 1888 there
were 1,900 miles of road. What the num
ber of miles is now Mr. Kelley does not say,
but it cannot be far from 2,590 miles.
With the opening of new railroads to was
sprang up and population poured in. South
Florida, which a few years ago was almost
a wilderness, is now being rapidly trans
formed into orange groves, peach and fig
orchards and vegetable gardens. If the peo
ple appeared to Mr. Kelley in 1875 to lack
energy they do not so appear now. He
speaks of their energy and enterprise in en-
thusiastic terms, and says that they have a
very full realization of the advantages they
enjoy. He concludes thus: “Why, in view
of Florida’s immense and infinitely varied
resources, may not I part with my subject
in terms of glowing congratulation and as
surance t® the State and her jieople that a
career of unbroken and increasing prosperity
awaits her aud her rapidly augmenting
population.”
There is one thing to which Mr. Kelley
calls attention in his article tliat ought to
attract great attention in Florida. It is the
possibility of the profitable culture of silk
there. The mulberry tree, on which the
silkworm feeds, is indigenous to every part
of the Slate, and the climate is all that could
be desired. Mr. Kelley believes that silk
culture could in a comparatively short time
be made to add millions of dollars annually
to the wealth of the State.
Of course Mr. Kelley has something to say
about protection. That is his hobby. He
introduces it on all occasions and has talked
about it so much that he has come to be
lieve that the country couldn’t get along
without it. However, he will not sqcceed
to any groat extent in making Floridians
believe that their prosperity is dependent
upon it.
The Interstate Law and Rates.
There is no longer any doubt that the
fourth section of the interstate commerce
law, to which there is so much opposition,
will bo enforced. It may be suspended in
special cases in which it is satisfactorily
shown that it works a great injury to the
complaining interest, but thore will be no
general suspension of it.
The law went into operation April 5, and
the fourth clause was soon afterward sus
pended so far as a number of Southern
roads were concerned. A comparison,
therefore, of the earnings of the railroads of
the country for April of this year with their
earnings for April of last year is not a
wholly safe one to show the effect of the
law upon railroads. The comparison, how
ever, in so far as it is to be relied upon, does
not show that the railroads have suffered.
Tho earnings of ninety-nine of the principal
roads for April of this year wore $2,374,899
greater than for April of last year. This is
an increase of 18.3 per cent. The increase
is not duo to an increase in the uumlxjr of
passengers and the amount of freight
carried, because it is a fact that there was a
falling off in the freight business soon after
the law went into operation on account of
the uncertainty respecting rates.
It is pretty clear that the increase in the
earnings is due to an increase in rates. It
is probable, however, that these rates will
not be maintained when the railroads under
stand clearly in what way they can adjust
their rates under th-vlnw so as to best pro
mote the interests upon which they are de
pendent for business.
Tbe suggestion that the railroads have
advanced their rates for the purpose of
making the interstate lnw odious, in order
to secure its repeal, is hardly worth consid
ering. They are disposed to do what is fair,
and it. is probable that when it is fully
agreed what the requirements of tho law
are the present rates will be considerably
mollified.
M. de Lesseps’ Panama canal has received
a serious check. A dispatch to tlu> New
York Herald says that in one of the largest,
longest and deepest cuts, high up aliove the
prospective carol work, water Ims been
ntruck. Tho amount of earth and rock
taken out of this section counts up into
millions of dollars. All the work represented
by tbe-e millions is valueless, as the water
has washed from tho side of tho nuuiutnin
more than sufli -ient to fill all the cuts. It
seems tliat ou tin* isthmus, as in the geolog- 1
ical formations posse* ing the same charac
teresties, the purest water is to be found in
the higher strata mi l not in tho mud.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company pro
p-isos to got into Now Y ork by way of a
tunnel under the Hudson river. It is be
lieved that in time thnt river trill bo honey
combed with tunnels, so that railroad jtus
renger.i to aud from New York will no
ia-ira have to use the ferry boats.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1887.
Art Critics and Old Masters.
There are very few people who know any
thing about the value of paintings. The
judgment of many of those who are i-ecog
uized a* connoisseurs in art matters is not
worth much. Even artists and experts rely
upon the name of tho painter in fixing the
value of a picture. That this is true is
fully shown by the testimony taken in tho
ease of Mr. Jacob H. Studer against tbe
Manhattan Warehouse and Storage Com
pany, which was tried in the Common Fleas
Court of New York city this week. Mr.
Studer sued the company for $25,000 dam
ages to a picture, which he said was painted
by Salvator Rosa, who, he claimed, was
one of the greatest of the old masters.
The testimony was conflicting and
amusing. Several artists and art critics
testified for Mr. Studer that the picture was
a Salvator Rosa, and they gave what doubt
less appeared to them to be very satisfactory
reasons for their statement. They knew all
about old masters, particularly Salvator
Rosa. They knew his style, his subjects,
his coloring and many other things which
picture dealers talk about with wonderful
glibness. When they got through it seemed
as if the jury could do . nothing else than
find a verdict for Mr. Studer.,
The storage company had some witnesses,
however, and they too knew all about paint
ings and old masters. The first point they
made was that the painting was not that of
an old master. The second was that it was
not a work of Salvator Rosa, and the third
was that Salvator Rosa wasn’t much of an
old master, and that about the only voluo
his pictures had was that of relics. That
was not very encouraging for Mr. Studer,
but there was other testimony that was
still more damaging to liis case. Several
well known experts said that the painting
was not worth more than S2OO or S3OO, and
that if it were offered for sale in Europe it
would not command more than $75. But
what caused Mr. Studer the. greatest sur
prise was the production of the pedigree of
the picture, which proved that it had been
painted by an obscure Italian, and that it
had been sold in Cincinnati for SIOO.
Doubtless there are many pictures in the
picture galleries of this country which are
thought to lie old masters, and on that ac
count are -valued at fabulous prices, but
which are only the works of imitators
of old masters. All that gives them their
value is the belief that they were painted by
one of the great painters of the past. Con
noisseurs pretend to see extraordinary merit
in them; and millionaires, who have
more money than they know what to
do with, give small fortunes for them and
are happy in the belief that they are the
possessors of one or more of the rare works
of art of the world. In view of tho fact
that they are unable to distinguish an old
master from a dollar chromo the most of
their joy must come from the fact that they
possess something which cost a vast deal of
money rather than from an ability to ap
preciate the beauties of meritorious works
of art.
Correcting a Great Abuse.
A company of cavalry has been ordered
to Cheyenne to assist the representatives of
the Land Office in that section of the West in
cutting the fences which unlawfully enclose
public lands. This order illustrates the dif
ference between the Republican aud Demo
cratic methods of treating rich and influ
ential violators of the law. For years
wealthy cattle men have fenced public
lands for pasture grounds, and have pi-e
--vented settlers from occupying them. They
liavo been powerful enough to prevent set
tlers from taking up these lands oven where
they have purchased them and obtained
titles from the government.
When Mr. Teller v&s Secretary of the
Interior his attention was particularly
directed to this abuse, and when the At
torney General proposed that troops should
lie used to cut the fences and clear tho lands
from such obstructions, he replied that
the courts were sufficient to deal with
such matters. That was his way of protect
ing the cattle men. The courts did not
interfere with them, and when the present
administration came into power the fencing
of the public domain by cattlemen was still
practiced. The President issued a proclama
tion ordering all the fences to be removed,
but the cattlemen paid no attention to it.
The President now proposes to see whether
the cattlemen can defy the government
with impunity. If ono company of cavalry
is not sufficient to clear the lands of fences
other companies will be ordered to nssist in
the work. _ The cattlemen will find that the
administration has as much regard for the
poor settlor, who has only a few dollars,
worth of property and his strong hands with
which to make a living, as it has for a cattle
king whose wealth amounts to millions of
dollars.
Congressman Barry, of Mississippi, is the
last statesman to have a fling at the inter
state commerce law. He is of the opinion
that the railroad corporations are deter-
to make the law odious if they can.
He thinks, also, that public sentiment is un
dergoing a marked change with regard to
the law and the commission. Ho says: “At
first tho railroads succeeded in creating the
impression that the law would work serious
injury to commerce, ami they even raised a
feeling of prejudice against the commission.
But the people are liegiuuing to see through
the selfish designs of the railroads. Asa
general thing the people are slow to see the
real drift of a question like this, but they
never fail to discern the truth in tho end,
and when they do they are immovable. The
railroad corporations have made an issue
with the people, and, now that the issue is
understood, public sentiment will sustain
the Interstate Commission in a rigid enforce
ment of the law.”
It seems that the two Southern companies
that fell out of the parade at Washington
the other day did not do so because negro
companies were placed ahead of them. The
Now York Star says that the troops moved
out of camp nil right and passed in review
before the President’s stand in tho order to
which they were assigned. The two com
panies knew bi-fore the march began that
the negro companies were in front, and
made no objection to the arrangement. If
tlu-y dropjied out afterward it was on ac
count of tho extreme heat, aud because they
know there was no occasion to prolong the
inarch after passing the President. Thus do
the Republican organs lose another “issue.”
Chicago is an enterprising city. It ia
hinted that her condemned Anarchists will
not be executed until after the next census
is taken, it being her purpose to keop alive
as many citizens os possible in order to make
o big showing as to population.
The sweet girl graduute comes to the
front next month. She is all ready, having
completed her graduating drew. Her ossay
glves her small concern, for she husafriend
who knows how to write.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Chivalry Ia Not Dead Yet.
Prom the Neu> York Herald (Ind.)
Lord Laasdowne’s followers have substituted*
paving stones for arguments. They may not he
able to deny O'Briens statements, out they can
get him into a back al's aud shoot his coach
man. Chivalry is not and nl yet.
Henry George’s Good Side.
From the Boston Herald (Ind.)
Thore has never been the least reason to sup
pose that Henry Geortre would, under any cir
cumstances, support Sir. Blaine for the Presi
dency, or advise workingmen to do so. Mr.
George may be erratic in some points, but he is
thoughtful, earnest, thoroughly sincere—in a
word, as antagonistic to Mr. Blaine’s methods in
public fife os it is possible to conceive.
On the Fence.
From the New York Star (Dem .)
George William Curtis has discovered that
-‘sitting on the fence,” in American politics, is
the post of honor. We wonder whether he meant
a post and rail fence. It is certain that a major
ity of citizens will rail at the post he has as
sumed. And isn’t it a little funny that Mr. Cur
tis should have eulogized John Shermnn, who,
Instead of slttlnc on fences, devotes his main
energies to mending them?
Journals That Lead.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
But certain superservjceable protection organs
at the North are not ashamed to cite the num
ber of protective newspapers in the South as an
evidence of the changing convictions of the
Southern people. They even go so far as to
say that there are few of the leading journals
in the Southern cities which favor a tariff for
revenue. The leading journals are the journals
that lead, not the whipper-snapper conuams
that go about with a nigh tariff bit in their
mouths. The Galveston Scuts, New Orleans
States, Savannah News, Florida Times-Union,
Charleston News and Courier, Wilmington (N.
C. I Star, Richmond St a tc, Baltimore Sun, Louis
ville Courier-Jottrnal, St. Louis Republican, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Timesß.n<\ Ar
kansas Gazette, are specimens of the journals
which speak the mind of the South.
BRIGHT BITS.
A New York newspaper declares that Sarah
Bernhardt is a "born ruler.” Aha; so the fel
lows who thought it was a broomstick were
’way off.— Burlington Free Press.
First doctor, who is ill, to brother doctor,who
is attending him—l can t tell what ails me.
Wbat do you think the plumbago begins with?
Second Doctor—Why, with a P, of course.—
Texas Siftings.
“My youno friend." be said solemnly, “do
you ever attend a place of worship?"
‘ Yes, sir, regularlv. every Sunday night,” re
plied the youth. "I'm on my way to see her
now.”— New York Sun.
The State Medical Society at its recent session
at Lansing took no action against writing pre
scriptions in Latin, and the public will still have
to puy 81 65 for a vial of salt and water, written;
Chloride of sodium, three saw-teeth; aqua
fontana f. s. m.— Detroit Free Press.
Citizen (to tramp)—What do you do for a
living?
Tramp—Walk.
Citizen—And what do these fellows sunning
themselves on fhe bank do?
Tramp—Oh, they are lay brethren.—Burling
ton Free Press.
First British Nobleman—Have you—aw—
seen the Wild West show?
Second Ditto—l cawn’t say that I have.
“It represents life in the city of Buffalo, you
know, most realistically rendered by United
States Congressman Bill. wh. ■ presents a Buf
falo borough."— Toledo Cos? at.
First Sweet Child—oh: i u'i it lovely! How
I wish I could have some real old lace, too.
Second Sweet Child—Mamma bought this yes
terday. It’s just common lace like yeurs.
F- S. C.—Why, I thought it was the same kind
those Bonanza children wear.
S. S. C-—No, I just tumbled down in the mud.
— Tid-Bits.
A darky, being brought before the magistrate,
was asked;
“Haven’t you been in jail for stealing chickens
once before?”
“No, sah: no. indeed, t hsin't. Praise de Land
for his infinite mussy. nobody bn in’t notched me
yet. Hit seems as ef 1 was purtected by de
higher powers.”— Kxchapge.
First Omaha Man—Going away this summer?
Second Omaha Man—No. Can’t afford it.
“Rent your house furnished?”
“Tried that once. Cost more for repairs than
the rent came to.”
“Then lock it up?”
“1 tried that once, too. It’s too expensive.”
“Expensive P’
“Yes, a gas meter goes like a steam-engine
when there is no one to watch it.”— Omaha
World.
First Young Wife—What on earth are you
doing at that mirror, Clara?
Second Young Wife—l’m practicing making
wrinkles; I’ve almost forgotten how.
“Wrinkles. Of all things! Don't you know a
man likes to have his wife look young? ’
“Indeed I do. John is going with me to select
anew bonnet this afternoon, and if he sets his
mind on a cheap bonnet he will discover that it
makes me look as old as his grandmother.”—
Omaha World.
One of our leading organists not long ago re
ceived anew piano pupil—a young lady—who,
in order to show her stage of acquirement,
played a piece which she had brought with her.
It happened that the piece ended with the same
chord several times repeated; but when she
reached the closing passage she struck the chord
once and then stopped, letting her hands fall
into her lap.
"Well,” said the teacher, “why don't you play
the rest?"
“Oh,” replied the young musician, with a
shrug, “what's the use? The rest of the chords
re all like that one." —Harper's Weekly.
PERSONAL.
Verdi i3 said to have the finest stable of
horses in Italy. Most of them are thoroughbred
racers.
Sir Algernon Bobthwick, editor of the Morn
ing Post, Is the only man in London who wears
kid gloves all through dinner.
A Frenchman, M. Jean Marield, invites all the
Jews of the world to go to Madagascar and
establish there a great Hebrew empire.
Gen. Viscount Tanni, Japanese Minister of
Agriculture, now traveling in this country,
keeps two secretaries at work recording his
observations.
Toe Duke de Vcragna. of Spain, is a lineal
descendant of Christopher Columbus and a
breeder of fighting bulls. He has just been deco
rated by the French ftovernment with the order
of Agricultural Merit.
British Minister Sir Lionel Saekville West
will go to England next month. This will Ije his
first visit to nis native land since be went to
Washington six years ago. Ho has improved
greatly in tennis during that time.
M. Lamoukeux, tho plucky manager who
lately produced “Lohengrin ’ in Paris, has a
beautiful daughter, and the chivalrous anti-
Wagnerians plotted to disfigure her face with
vitriol if he did not withdraw the opera.
Lieut. William L. Howard, who recently dis
covered the Ikpikpuk river iu Alaska, is ia Wash
ington writing up his report to the government.
He has fully- recovered from the terrible expo
sure and want bo was obliged to undergo.
The Russian Count F.ugene de Mitkiwitsz, for
many years resident in America, has gone to
China to establish an extensive telephone system.
He is said to lie an electrician of exceptional
sir'll and to have tho support of abundant
capital.
On what is called “tho highest authority,” it
Is aid that Mme. Gersier is spending the spring
In Paris visiting, shopping, driving and devoting
herself to her two children, Linda and Bertha,
bright little girls of 5 and 1 ! years respectively.
“Amina," in "La Bonnambul.i," is still her fa
vorite ro'o, and she bxpocts ere long to re
sume it.
Fathick Gimiohe and his band wore recently
obliged to wait two hours for ft train at Warren.
111. The citizens made up a puree of g.Vi and
offered it to the director on condition (hat ids
musicians would play one selection. Mr Gilmore
Informed them tnat a little music would cost
them ®I.V). Warren did not bear the great band
that day.
Gromit: Anrazn Towssnsn is not pi iscd with
th" Garfield statue at Washington. ifo thinks
the robust ness of the original is not represented.
Tltc attire is too fashionable, and the statue
looks (is though the sculptor had attempted to
make Garfield “look excetKgivcly pretty."
“Something of a foreign air was about the
countenance and posture, as' if Mr. Ward had
ben dabbling too much in French prints and
studying from French sculptors."
Sib (ißonor. M. Pi’tAHA.s’s father was a cabi
netmaker. Tbs great, ear manufacturer was
brought up to the same trade. When his father
died Oeonje M. Ihillman for yearn supported and
educated Els brothers and sisters. When success
came to biui lie still continued his generosity
towards his relatives. There ore no narrow.
‘*ll lull Streaks in his nature, gome papers have
■Hiked a good deal of fun nt the Indian title of
knighthood conferred on Mr. Pullman, but the
fact is the man is a thorough Amt-r.oon, broad
minded and far above feeling u snobbish satis
footioi. u* too emutv honor ot ravaj recosrnit'uu
HIS LITTLE TRICK.
An Armless Man Who Appeals to His
Fellow Men’s Sympathy.
While a group of men in front of Leggett’s
Hotel bar were discussing the attempt upon
Editor O’Brien’s life at Toronto on Saturday a
man with two empty sleeves walked briskly in
and asked for “a little old rye, please.” Quickly
the glass, d-canter and a napkin were produced,
but the stranger did not move. For several
seconds silence almost painful ensued. Then
the customer raised his eyes and said: “Excuse
me, sir, but, as you see, lam armless. Will you
kindly pour out my drink?"
“Certainly, ’’ rejoined the urbane bartender,
grasping tue decantur. “Tell me when to
stop.”
Half a glass of fluid fire trickled out and the
stranger cried "Halt!” Then, bending forward,
be seized the rim of the glass with his teeth,
threw his head backward, and swallowed the
dram without a grimace. With another apol
ogy he asked the bartender to wipe his mouth
with the napkin. He Aid so, and was about
departing without paying when a bystander in
quired, ’ Where did you lose your arms, sir,
may I ask? Gettysburg?”
“No, sir; I was too young to fight for my
country.’’
“Perhaps a circular saw, powder explosion
or ”
“No, no,” broke in the strangor, “none of
those things.”
"Well, how was it, pray?”
“To be candid, sir, 1 must confess that I am
not a hero, and have figured in no frightful ac
cident. I never had any arms. I was born with
out them, and I live upon the charity of ethers.
I am forced to do it, simply because I cannot
work ” and tears seemed to glisten in tbo crip
ple’s eyes. “Of course, gentlemen, if you can
smre any small change, please drop it in my
side pocket and you will have ray gratitude.”
Instantly the souls of the listeners were fired
with generosity, and they went down into their
pockets, Several quarters, half-dollars, and
three dimes found their way in the maimed
man’s pocket, and lie bowed himself away and
out the door. Down Park row he hurried. At
Chambers street he turned toward Broadway.
A few doors further on be mot an acquaintance,
who saluted him with. “What luck, Dan?”
"Budy, old boy, step into this hall way.”
In they dashed. There, after conversing for
a moment in an undertone, Pun's coat and vest
were removed by his companion, and a pair of
stout, robust arms were exposed to view. Dan
had taken his hands from inside the waistband
of his trousers. He resumed his raiment, the
money was counted out and divided, and the
men reappeared upon the street. As they
passed the observing reporter, Dan said: “Now.
Ike, it’s your turn to do the act.”
A CHARITABLE WOMAN
And a Young 1 Man Who Felt a Fit
Coming On.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
People sometimes make very strange requests.
The other day a well-dressed man who stood on
the doorsteps of a Prospect street residence rang
the bell, and when the lady of the house went to
door said:
“Excuse me, ma’am, for troubling you, but
may I have a fit in your vestibule? lam sub
ject to them and feel one commg on now.”
The man seemed very much distressed, and
the kind-hearted woman said hurriedly: "Come
right into the house and lie down in the par
lor.”
The man went in and the woman heard his
spasmodic gasps as she hastened next door for
a physician, wno happened to lie a neighbor.
Returning with the good doctor the woman
found the parlor empty and two or three pieces
of rare bnc-a-brac missing. She looked into
the hall and saw that her husband's best spring
overcoat was gone: then she found in the band
of an old derby hat a slip of paper on which
were the words: “Many thanks, dear madam; I
have had my fit, but it is not the kind you sup
posed. lam still having it. It is dependent
upon your husband's overcoat which will make
the fit continuous as loug as I wear it. Let me
warn you against the ingenuity of the unurinci
gled brotherhood of sneak thieves. The bric-a
rac I shall keep as a souvenir of your kindness
and charity.”
The doctor, who had been so hastily sum
moned, while he found no occasion to use his
skill in the expected direction, wag unexpected
ly called upon to minister to a woman of shat
tered nerves whose condition was made more
critical by the extremity of her anger.
A House Invaded by a Steer.
From the New York Tribune.
John Fitzgerald, who tried to guide a herd of
long-homed steers through the streets of
Williamsburg on Monday, was held by
Justice Naeher yesterday to suffer the
punishment of one who drives cattle through
the streets without a permit. In the Police
Court the story told by the complainant, Wil
liam Wagner, a butcher at No. 8 Busbwick ave
nue, took on the color of a "Buffalo Bill” Wild
West Show broken loose among the crowned
heads of Europe. But the performance had no
glamour about it, and as it resulted in no se
rious accident to the participants, it can be de
scribed in cold, chaste language. Mr. Wagner,
however, thought he was hotly chased The
steer ran down the street fringed with side
walks that bore crowds of startled, horrified
women, children and men, who were going home
from the work entailed upon them by individual
anti-poverty societies.
The conduct of the steer showed his apprecia
tion of the progress of the extreme musical cult
of Germany. He went to Wagner's shop and
carried his enthusiasm to such an extent that
Wagner himself fled into his living rooms behind
his meat block and beef hooks. The steer fol
lowed with excessive enthusiasm. Mr. Wagner
made an exit through a window, in the style of
an unpopular actor, whoistooeordially received
by his critics. Mrs. Wagner dropped her chil
dren one by one out of the same window, just as
she would have let potato balls fall into her fry
ing nan, if she had been suddenly caught at the
work. Then she followed them with entire
unanimity. Mr. Wagner’s aged mother was in
the sitting-room adjoining the kitchen. The
steer gazed reproachfully out of the window,
and then walked into the sitting-room, and with
the assistance of his horns Mrs. Wagner was
fimvyut of the window among her relations.
fWCThe steer smashed everything smashable
in the rooms and shop before he was lassoed and
taken away to the slaughter bouse. Little dam
age seemed to have been done to the family of
Mr. Wagner.
Gentle Woman’s Revenge.
From the Chicago News,
Husband and wife had had a little tiff. He
buried his nose in the morning paper, while she
gazed out the car window with persistent in
tentness. Thus an hour and thirty miles
passed. A lady entered the ear. Husband
dropped his paper and looked at her admir
ingly.
“Ab,’’ said lie, “that's a fine woman. And a
widow, too. Don’t you think she's handsome?”
“Yes. rather. You s-vm to like widows."
“Indeed I do. They’re just charming.”
Husband evidently thought this would pique
his partner ! ut it didn’t.
"Alfred.” said she. tenderly, and placing her
hand softly on his arm, “Alfred,! guess 1 was
in the wrong a little while ago. when I became
angry at you, and I’m Sorry, so sorry. Will you
forgive your little wife?"
“Certainly. Don’t say another word about
it."
“And will you grant a little request I have to
make of you, hubby dear?”
“Of course. Anything that lies in my power.”
“You say you think widows are so charm
ing?"
“Y'es; I did say so, but——”
“Then make ine one: that's a good husband
mine. Oh, 1 shall huso happy.”
The Right Road.
“I have lost the road to happiness—
Docs anyone know it, pray ?
I was dwelling there when the mom was fair,
But somehow I wandered away.
“I saw rare treasures in scenes of pleasures.
And ran to pursue them, when, lo!
I had lost the path to happiness—
And 1 knew not whither to go.
“I have lost the way to happiness
O, who will lead me hack?”
Turn oif from the highway of selfishness
To the right—up duty’s track!
Keep straight along, and you can’t go wrong;
For as sure as you live, I say,
The fair, lost fielils of happiness
Can only be found that way.
Eli-a WliEEiJsn Wilcox.
•
The Longest Words Known.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
A Berlin newspaper lias been offering prizes
for long words, and this is the stately winner:
TrttnsvaaltmppentropentramxirHrampcllhier
treiberrauungsthranentragodie.
The interpretation of this somewhat, involved
idea would he “The tearful tragedy of the mar
riage” (thoiwh why tragedy aiul why tearful?)
“or a dromedary driver of the transport of the
Transvaal troops to the tropics.”
Another gigantic attempt at alliterative word
making looks hardly less appalling:
Mokkamusclmauucnmasrmmctichelnionlcrm
ohrenmiitennartnormonumuntenmacher; which
is supposed to mean “the maker of a
marble monument for the Moorish mother of a
wholesale eseasein among the Mussulmans at
Meoce.” It is only in Germany that they can do
this sort of thing.
Tits late Justice Wood* carried a life insur
ance Policy of Sio.tyw.
ITEMS <j*yjggplE3T.
There are only the world which
have a larger population than
Minneapolis. They tire cS§fjfci."-na, Stockholm
and Copenhagen, “nneepons has 50,000 Scan
dinavians.
The following colleges on Dec. 1 last reported
over 1,000 students: Harvard, 1,690; Columbia,
1,189: University of Michigan, 1,475; Oberlin,
1,302; Yale, 1,134: Northwestern, 1,109; Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, 1,069.
The origin of gcomety is ascribed to tho
Egyptians, who, having their landmarks an
nually washed away by inundation, in efforts to
devise a plan for readily restoring them dis
covered the principles of geometry.
Six widows live on six adjoining farms in tho
town of Venango. Pa., and what is more re
markable. they are all Hendersons, being tho
widows of the late Henderson brothers, Thomas,
Samuel, Andrew, Stewart, William and Alex
ander.
They have a gas well near Grand Rapids,
Mich. It has produced no gas thus far, but as
that is what the drillers are after the well is so
known. At 2,300 feet “a bod of natural
asphalturn" was passed tbrougb. Its thickness
is not stated. .
Ax odd effect of the interstate commerce law
is the resurrection of various dead towns along
the Mississippi river. The old steamboat
wharves are being propped up ready for busi
ness, and the yawning inhabitants aro rubbing
their eyes and wandering if the days of railroad
traffic "since the war havo only been a horribte
nightmare.
Tim Hiram I -edge of Masons, at New Haven,
still continues to defy the Grand Lodge of the
State mid goes on conferring degrees. Many
other lodges in Connecticut have signified their
desire, it is stated, to unite with the Hiram
Lodge to form anew Grand Lodge, to be knowu
as the Neov’England Grand Lodge. Any mem
ber declaring allegiance to the Grand Lodge
will be suspended.
The Siamese believe that the human body is
composed of four elements—fire, earth, wind
and water. They diride the body into thirty
two parts. and tench that it is subject to ninety
six diseases, caused by the disturbance of the
elements ovhich enter into its composition.
Fevers are traced to an undue proportion of
lire. The wind is the fertile source or ailments.
If you ask a native what is wrong with him the
chances are ten to one he will reply: “Wind.”
The poem “If I Should Die To-night” ha s
been ascribed to Miss Susan Woolsey, Henry
Ward Beecher, and “H. H.” and others, but
without foundation. The Boston Transcript
says: “The namo of F. K. Crosby is attached
to one copy we have seen. This may possibly
refer to Miss Fannie Crosby, of New York, a
blind lady, who is the author of several hymns
and religious poems, which are to be found in
selections of church aud Sunday school music.”
Prompted, no doubt by the exaggerated ac
counts of Harvard’s extravagance, Prof. George
H. Palmer, of Cambridge, has been inquiring
what it costs Harvard students to live. Most of
the members of the senior class have answered
his questions, and he reports: “It is evident
that the style of living here is much simpler
than it is popularly supposed. One-third of
those who have written me spend under S7OO a
vear, one-half under SI,OOO, three-fourths under
$1,200.
Mils. Seth Monroe, of Kent, Conn., was feed
ing the chickens the other morning, whan a
sudden squawk of anguish behind her caused
her to turn in time to see a fox making off with
a big hen that it had just seized. Mrs. Monroe
is an active Woman, and she had that fox by the
tail before it could get through the fence. She
clung to the fox, and he clung to the hen, and
there was great screaming and cackling in tho
barn yard until the two house dogs came, and
that was the last of Mr. Fox.
For many years the late ex-President Arthur
and Hugh J. Hastinge were chums, they always
addressing one another as “Chet” and “Hugh.”
After Mr. Arthur became President, Mr. Hast
ings called on him one day in Washington, and
the formality of “Mr. President” and "Mr.
Hastings” was so irksome to the latter that
after a very few moments he said: "I guess
I've had enough of this and will go.” Mr. Ar
thur, with his old genial manner, to this
responded with, “Come, Hugh, let's take a
drink.”
A while ago it was decided that Bishop Tay
lor needed a station at the mout h of the Congo
as a storehouse for goods intended for his mis
sion settlements upfhe river. Mr. Judson was
sent to Banana to buy suitable land for a build
ing. He has just reported that real estate at
the mouth of the Congo ;s held at prices as high
as a good many lots in New York city. He says
Bishop Taylor’s enterprise has riot money
enough to buy land at Banana, and be advises
that the storehouse be built at Kabinda, thirty
five miles north of the Congo’s mouth.
The British subjects in the vicinity of Boston
will send (to Queen Victoria) for June 81 a con
gratulatory address in which will be joined
Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen and a few
rather unenthusiastic Irishmen. The address is
interesting chiefly for the shape in which it is
being put on paper by L. S. Ipsen, who has de
signed for it a border into which he has cun
ningly and artistically twined the rose, the
shamrock, the thistle and —triumph of the
artist’s cleverness!—the leek. The arms of the
United States, of England, of Massachusetts,
with the St. George and St. Andrew’s crosses,
not to mention sundry and divers other devices,
are also included in what will boa really beauti
ful piece of work when completed.
Gen. George A. Sheridan relates this story,
which ' picked up in New Orleans. A delega
tioi jl citizens of that place visited President
Lincoln to beg him to remove Gen. Butler from
command there. The President listened while
they presented their thousand and one grievances
and then said: “Weil, gentlemen, much as you
dislike Gen. Butler, at least he has done one good
thing for you, for by his wise sanitary regula
tions he has kept the yellow feTer out. One of
the delegates, a Creole, skipped before the
President ajid replied excitedly: "Pardon.
Mistab President, pardon; it was not Butler vat
keep ze fevaire away from ze city; it was God.
He stiil have a leetle mercy for our poor people.
Ho do not send Ben Butler and ze yellow fevaire
ze same season; no sare.” the President
laughed heartily.
JohnP. Hale was a most incorrigible wag,
and he delighted in making Senator Foote, of
Mississippi, who in an unguarded moment had
threatened to hang him as an abolitionist, a
butt for his jokes. One day, after a visit to Now
York. Senator Foote came smilingly in and took
his seat at his desk, rather astonishing tho other
Senators, as his previously bald pate was cov
ered by a fine, curly, black wig. Up rose Mr.
Hale, and demanded a special committee to ex
amine the credentials “of the youthful upstart
who had assumed Senator Foote's likeness and
chair." Senator Foote rose up, aud bowing
jiolitoly, convulsed the Senate by quickly remov
ing the wig and hanging it on his umbrella with
the observation: "With this motion on my part
which is quite in order, despite my illustrious
colleague's the committee is not necessary.”
There was a round of applause.
TnE death is announced at Leghorn of Mine.
Sara de Rossi, nee Israell-Tadesehi. Her mother,
according to the Jewish World, was Rachel
D’lsraeli, aud elder child of Benjamin D’lsraeli,
grandfather of Lord Beaoonsiield. Benjamin
DTsrneli was twice married, and his daughter
Rachel was the offspring of the first, marriage
The first Mrs. Benjamin Disraeli was Rebecca
Furl ado. who was born ill Portugal, and, to
gether with her mother, had to flee from the
clutches of the Inquisition. Her grave and that
of her mottier are still to be seen In tho cemetery
in Milo-cud, with the story of the escape in
scribed on the tombstones. Lord Beacons!) eld'*
father was the offspring of the second marriage
It it curious to observe that the great Earl in
his introduction to has father’s collected works
adopted tho history of the Furtados ah a family
tradition of the D’lsraeli's. Mine, de Rossi was
90 years of age. She died in the faith of her
fathers.
A sap tale csrnes from Chicago. There is a
hotel in that town conducted on impressive pro
hibitory principles; so utterly so, indeed, that
rumor says two bell-boys were disebargod be
cause it was ascertained that tlmir names were
“Tom” and “Jerry. ■’ Well, the Hon. Mr. St
John piits up at that hotel when he is in Chi
cago. He did so recently, and hail a room just
under that of two real wicked young men who
neither would wear blue ribbons nor vote third
party tickets. During the evening Mr. St. John
observed several times a white object pass up
and down outside hir. window. His curiosity
was piqued, and on Its next passage he took a
look at it. It waR a naughty, naughty pitehcr
of wicked, wicked beer, which the young repro
bates were hoisting to their room by means of a
cord and the connivance of n desperately wioked
small boy. The appalled ox-Gorernor grablwd
at it—b't it be hoped, not to quench liis thirst,
lmt to defend the virtue of the hotel. But he
missed the mark aud only succeeded in spilling
tho wretched stuff ad over his own prohibitive
person. This gave him such a shock that lie
had to rush down stairs at once ami sign the
pledge again. And they say that when tho
eminent teetotaller rushed into tbo hotel office,
dishevelled and redolent of beer, there was a
panic that it took twelve policemen and a flic
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