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In Osaka, Japan, it is said that there are
256 dressmakers. The husbands of the place
must be liberal souls to support such a large
number.
The foreign dispatches say that Emperor
William, of Germany, has sneezed again.
Such thrilling news ought to be told by in
stallments.
It is said that a man in Florida uses a
■wart on the back of his neck for a collar
button. If he is manned his wife ought to
be a happy woman.
New York is to have a club in which men
and women may meet on the same footing.
It is supposed that no drinks stronger than
cold tea will be allowed.
The two receivers of the Wabash railroad
each receive a fee of $112,500. It is a poor
railroad that doesn’t make enough money
to pay its receiver well for his services.
The illness of Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the
Washington philanthropist, causes general
regret. In the South there are many who
wish for his speedy and complete recovery.
Five thousand guests were invited to the
wedding of the daughter of Congressman
Burns, of Missouri. Of course the number
of wedding presents was correspondingly
great.
The announcement is made that Tenny-
Bon will write an ode to Buffalo Bill. Per
haps the novelty of tho subject may inspire
the Poet Laureate to exhibit some of his
old-time fire.
O’Douovan Rossa, who is in Brooklyn,
has received a letter informing him that
twelve men have sworn to kill him. Rossa
professes uot to be afraid, but he takes care
to keep himself well guarded.
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The New Orleans Picayune says: “The
most charming talkers are those who think
as you do.” Oh, no; the most charming
talkers are those who never interrupt you
except to say “yes” or “no.”
A number of Southern men are sub
scribing to the fund which the New York
Star is trying to raise for tho Grant monu
ment. Senator Brown and ex-Congressman
Hammond are among the number.
The other day Columbia College, New
York, graduated its first lady bachelor. Her
name is Mary Parsons Hunkey, and her
home is in Garretsons, S. I. It is said that
her class standing was admirable. A lady
bachelor is something of n paradox.
At the funeral of ex-Vico President
Wheeler none of his old associates in Con
great were present. It seems, also, that no
member of the Senate over which he pre
sided for foin- years was present. The most
thoroughly forgotten man in the world is
one that has permanently retired from pub
lic life.
Congressman George I). Vise, of Virginia,
is confident that the Democrat* will carry
that State next fall. The Legislature which
is to be elected will choose a successor to Sen
ate! Riddlebcrger, which makes tho contest
interesting. As to how Virginia will go in
the Presidential election next; year thcro is
no fear. I will go Democratic.
Canon Wilberforoe, of England, said in
Boston, tho other day: “Everybody knows
that what Boston does to-day America will
follow to-morrow, and what America does
the whole civilized world will attempt to do
after it.” It may now be expected that the
Browning societies in Boston will nil lie
turned into Vilberforce societies.
Tho other night Rod Shirt, one of Buffalo
Bid's good Indians, visited the House of
Commons. Baron do Vorms asked him
wliat he thought of Parliament Red Shirt
replied that he did uot think much of it,
and that law's were passed much quicker in
lih country than in England. He ought to
have added that the quicker they uro passed
the worse they are.
A* the Prohibition campaign in Texas
Progresses it liecomes warmer. The Hoof
ton Pont says: “If it had been told that
the time would ever come in Texas when
the lowest phase* of blackguardism would
regarded ns necotwnry to the settlement
of a great moral question, tho Punt would
not. have believed it. And yet, discredit
able ns the fact is, we :iee just such methods
in this Prohibition campaign.”
An Improbable Story.
The story that lias been circulated at
Washington for a day or two, that the In
ter-State Commerce Commission is illegally
organized, and is, therefore, without author
ity to act, and that when the attorneys of
the railroads get ready they will attack it
in the courts and show that its decisions
have no binding force, is doubt
less without much, if any, foun
dation. It is bast'd upon the
theory that, under the law, the Comfnission
should have been appointed lief ore the ad
journment of Congress, and that its mem
bers should have been confirmed before
exercising authority.
It is true that the interstate commerce
law provides that the commission shall lie
appointed by the President by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and it is
also trueAhat the sections of the law which
provide, for the appointment of a commis
sion took effect immediately after tho sign
ing of the bill by the President, while the
other*sections did not take effect until sixty
days after that time. Thjs would seem
to indicate that it was the inten
tion of Congress that the commis
sion should be appointed before the
adjournment of Congress, so that
its members could be confirmed, but it does
not follow that, because the commission was
not appointed until after Congross adjourn
ed it is an illegal body. The President has
authority under the constitution to fill all
vacancies that may exist during the vaca
tions of Congress, and it will hardly be de
nied that the offices of tho commission were
vacant at the time the appointments were
made.
When Congress meets the Commissioners
will be reappointed, and, doubtless, con
firmed. If they should not be their com
missions would expire at the end of next
session of Congress. The President delayed
appointing the commission a long time, not
because he did not wish to submit the names
of his appointees to the Senate at its last
session, but because he was anxious to get
the very best men obtainable as Commis
sioners. That he succeeded admirably in
doing that is shown by the fact that what
ever may have been said against the inter
state commerce law not a word has been
said against the commission.
But why should tho railroads want to
have the commission declared illpgal and its
acts to be without force? Tt> e y have been
lienertted by what tho commission has done.
The long and short haul clause has been sus
pended in about every case in which a sus
pension has been asked. If it had not been
for the commission that clause of the law
would have been in force in all parts of the
country. The railroads have been lienefltod
by the commission according to their own
showing, and the}' should be the last
ones to complain of the acts of which
they have taken advantage. The truth,
doubtless, is that there is nothing in this
Washington story. It was given currency,
perhaps, with the hope of creating a
sensation. It would appear to be a little
more reasonable if it were alleged that those
who want the long and short haul clause en
forced, and who fear that the suspension of
that clause will be renewed after the present,
suspension expires, were intending to attack
tho commission. It. is not probable, how
ever, that anybody is going to attack it at
present.
The Vacant Justiceship.
The opinion appears to be growing that
the President will offer the vacant place on
the Supreme Court lieneh to Secretary La
mar, and that Mr. Lamar will accept it.
The Presides has a very high appreciation
of Mr. Lamar, and, besides, he knows that
his appointment, to the vacancy would lie a
satisfactory one. Mr. Lamar is popular at
the North as well as at the South, and that
he is a man of superior ability there is no
question. When he was in the
Senate he ranked among the lead
ers of that body, and no Senator
was listened to more attentively than he.
When he was ap|>ointed to his present posi
tion it was freely predicted that he would
prove to be a failure, but those who made
such a prediction are willing to admit that
they were mistaken. 110 is making an ex
ceptionally good Secretary of tho Interior,
and has done more in the way of reform
than any of his Republican predecessors.
He may not find much plcasuro in looking
after the details of his burdensome posi
tion, but he does look after them because
his high sense of duty will not i>ermit him
to neglect them, and he also finds time to
inaugurate reforms that will result in sav
ing millions of dollars to the government
annually, and in opening to settlement mil
lions of acres of the public lands.
Mr. Lamar may not be as well read in the
law as many other lawyers who would like
to fill the vacant Justiceship, but his fa
miliarity with the great, principles of the
law, and his ability to apply them correctly,
will make up for his want of knowledge of
cases and precedents.
It would be a much easier matter to fill
the Supremo Court vacancy satisfactorily
than to fill tho vacancy in the Cabinet
which his appointment to the justiceship
would create. If he is appointed a justice,
therefore, it will not be because the Presi
dent thinks ho can got a better Secretary of
the Interior, but because, while maintaining
the high standard of the court, he gratifies
a faithful and deserving public servant.
Ktate School Commissioner Oustavus J.
Orr announces that tho Peabody Institute
for 1887 will bo hold in Atlanta, the term
commencing on Monday, July is. Tho corps
of instructor has boon carefully selected.
Prof. W. R. Thigpen, of .Suvunnah, will
teach Algebra aud Geometry. Arrango
ments have been mado for mluood trans
portation for timbers who may wish to at
tend.
A group of Anarchists, numbering ninety
men and women, lias been discovered at
Columbus, O. A blasphemous secret circu
lar issued by the group advocates arson and
murder, and even tho killing of the wives
and children ot' capitalists. The Knights of
Labor in Columbus unsparingly denounce
tlie Anarchists. Nothing but hemp will ever
teach the lesson the Anarchists' ought to
learn. .
Since tho Shamrock's wonderful show of
spei-d on Tuesday in the twenty-second an
nual regatta of the Atluntic Yacht Club it
is a question whether she, the Atlantic, or
the Mayflower will be selected to defend tho
America’s cup against the Thistle. If she
does as well in heavy wind ns in light it is
probable that she will lx* chosen.
When a Carson City (Nov.) Justice of the
Peace marries a couple ho asks the bride
groom : “Do you, sir, as a citizen of Nevada
and a lawful voter of Reno, solemnly do
dare that you will forsake all other evils
and cleave only to this onef” There is a
suspicion that the Justice is a reformed
Mormon.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1887.
A Long Trial Promised.
If the time occupied in securing a jury in
the Jacob Sharp casein New York is any
indication of the time that will lie consumed
by the trial, it is pretty safe to predict that it
will be midsummer before the jury will
have a chance to agree upon a verdict. Tho
opposing lawyers of the case
are in a fighting humor now, and it is pre
dicted that they will come to blows before
their work is (lone. One of the lawyers for
tho defense insists that one of the District
Attorney’s assistants is a dude, and that the
dude will get a threshing if he doesn’t con
duct himself more discreetly. It seems that
this one of the defendant’s counsel has been
shadowed by detectives, and he is mad be
cause his integrity has been questioned.
The fact is that detectives apjiear to have
a g(Kj 1 deal to do with the case. From the
reports which appear in the newspapers a
good many of them are employed by both
sides, and they manage to keep the lawyers
in a very uncertain condition of mind. The
prosecution is told by its detectives that
this or that man who has been summoned,
or accepted, as a juror cannot be trusted,
and the defense is told the same thing by its
detectives. The result is that neither side
feels entire confidence in any of the juror;-.
While the lawyers are wrangling and
talking about duels and slugging matches
the defendant, Sharp, appears to be taking
things very quietly. He sleeps part of the
time and when he isn’t asleep he refreshes
the inner man with milk from a bottle
which he keeps near him, and from
he draws the nourishing fluid through a rul -
bor tube much after the manner of infants.
After the jury is sworn he will
spend his time during the trial, when
not in court, behind the bars of a prisor.
His lawyers are making a big fight for him,
and when the trial is over he will be a much
poorer man than he is now. He may
escape the penitentiary, but ho will not
escape bankruptcy, if his financial condi
tion is as bad as his attorneys represent it to
be. But he will have the reputation of
having figured, as principal, in one of the
most sensational trials that ever took place
in this country. That, however, may not
be a source of much satisfaction to him.
It seems that the order of Congress in
1786 directing an inscription to be placed
upon the monument erected in Washington
to Gen. Nathaniel Greene was not obeyed
until recently. Secretary Endicott called
the attention of Col. Wilson, Superintend
ent of Public Buildings and Grounds, to the
omission, and the latter has had the inscrip
tion cut in the pedestal. It is as follows:
“Sacred to the memory of Nathaniel
Greene, Esq., a native of the State of Rhode
Island, who died on the filth of June, 1886,
late Major General in the service of the
United States, and Commander of their
army in the Southern Department. The
United States, in Congress assembled, in
honor of his patriotism, valor and ability,
have erected this monument."
Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost is the pastor of
a Congregational church in Newark, N. J.
On Sunday last he preached a sermon in
which he boldly indorsed assassination.
Speaking of Nihilism in Russia, he said:
“When one of these young Nihilists kills the
Czar, ami if the history of Russia were writ
ten after the manner of the Bmik of Judges,
it would be said that God had raised up a
deliverer for the jx'oplo. Tho man who kills
tho Czar under existing circumstances will
be a great patriot. Of him we may say as
Lamartine said of Charlotte Oorday: ‘The
assassination history will not applaud, but
the sublime self-denial she will neither stig
matize nor condemn.’ ” Dr. McGlynn has
made a convert.
The Boston Herald gives the high tariff
organs this nut to crack: The English estab
lishment for the manufacture of hosiery,
which the blessings of protection had brought
over, with its machinery, its “pauper labor
ers” and all to settle at Thornton, R. 1., lias
failed to make a profit and has shut down
its works. The “paupers” employed in the
establishment say tliat they are worse off in
the attempt to make a living in this coun
try than they were at home. If the voters
of the United States would only inform
themselves as to the workings of the high
tariff, the protectionists would lie buried out
of sight St the first election thereafter.
At Knnsas City, Mo., the Christian
Science people have suffered a serious chock.
Mrs. Hattie Updike, who was sick with
dropsy, was placed under the Christian
science treatment by Mrs. Emma Beahan.
Mrs. Updike was told to try and convince
liei-self that she was not diseased, but merely
suffering from imagination. While she was
trying, gangrene made its appearance on the
instep of her right foot, and gradually ex
tended until the right leg was covered with
it. Mrs. Updike died in great agony. Here
after when Kansas City people get sick it
is likely that they will send for an M. D.
A Southern Republican newspaper figures
out the vote Mr. Blaine will get in the
national convention as not less than 580.
The number necessary to nominate is 411.
The newspaper in question thus apportions
the vote for Blaine: New England States,
25; Middle States, 116; Western States, 152;
Southern States, !85; Pacific States, !i4;
Territories, 18. Total, 580. If the appor
tionment is correct Senator Sherman might
as well confine his attention to natural gas.
To continue his campaign would be n waste
of time and money.
The testimony taken in the Britannic-
Coltic investigation seems to show that the
Britannic was to blame for the collision.
Blio did not give any signals to indicate the
course she would take, either before or after
the Celtic had signaled her course. When
the whistles of the steamers were first heard
tho fog was so light that the lookouts could
nee a distance of a mile and a half. It was
just before they collidod that the fog thick
ened.
The Honolulu Gazette charges King Kal
akaua with having accepted bribes from a
Chinaman who wonted license to sell opium.
According to the Gazette the king received
$75,000 and a baked pig, nnd then granted
the license to a rival of the briber. Tho
matter has been placed in tho hands of the
Chinese Minister at Washington. It would’
be well for Queen Kapiolani to return home
and straighten out iier coffec-colored hus
band.
America is much larger anil vastly more
important than England, but America
takes more interest in English affairs than
England takes in American affairs. Can it
be that it is because there are more snobs on
this sido of tho water than on the other !
The Chattanooga Commercial says: “We
do not know of any class of people who at
tain us much glory for the same service as
military men.” Considering that C’hatta
nixiga has no base l tail club the C’ommer
oial't ignorance is o&vtuubic.
CURRENT COMMENT.
What O’Brien Takes With Him.
h'rom the New York star {Di m.)
William O’Brien takes with him on his home
ward voyage the respect and admiration of
Americans for a brave heart, sound judgment
and firm will consecrated to the service of a be
loved country.
Inflictions to Be Avoided.
From the Baltimore American {Rep.)
Another murderer has written n book of his
life. Fortunately, there is not much prospect of
his being released or there would be another
lectqjer os a candidate for fav. •r. A shortening
of the time between the passing of sentence
and the falling of the drop would save many of
these inflictions.
Too Much “ Paternal Government.”
From the New York Sun iJnd.)
The proposition that the government should
own the telegraph 1 , and that the Post Office De
partment should be enlarged by adding the tele
graph to it, is not new. To adopt it would in
crease the power of the government and
diminish the power of the people. It would
make the political machine ponderous and
potent, and lessen that freedom of individual
action which is the glory of tho citizen und the
safety of the republic.
“The Life of Business.”
Prom. the Nerc York World (Dem.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer protests against
any action by Congress looking to a reduction
of taxes as “an attempt to disturb business and
destroy the policy of protection, which is the
life of business.” Would it not be a healthful
disturbance of business to leave in the pockets
of the people the $100,001,000 a year now taken
out of them in superfluous taxes? And if a
prolonged war tariff is the “life of business.”
now is it that eleven years out of the last four
teen have lx-en years of financial panics, busi
ness denresssion, labor troubles and more or less
hard times?
BRIGHT BITS.
A colored gentleman was beard to remark:
“Times am changed; de hog law, lokal octinn,
an’ bar'd wire fences am a gwine to min de
country."— Brenham {Tex.) Banner.
First Kansas WiAian— l didn’t see you down
at the caucus last night.
Second Kansas Woman- No: I couldn't get
away, John wasn’t feeling well, and I had to
clem- off the table and wash tile dishes.- Tiil-
Bitc.
Yount, Stayer fat 11:55 p. mj— What a
chawming song that was. I wish you would re
peat it. What is it called?
Miss Bored—l chose it because I thought, it
might he new to you. It's entitled "Going."—
Tid-Bits.
Husband—What are you reading, my dear,
that you seem so serious?”
Wire—" Saturday Night Thoughts,” in this
afternoon's paper.
Husband—By Jove; that reminds me that I
must order a case of beer for to-morrow.— Puck.
Jack's sister (“fishingly”)—Jack, the class
races are awfully Interesting, aren't they*
Jack (who has someone rise's sister in view
for that day)—Yes. dear, but they are terribly
brutal affairs. Every man recovers on a
stretcher. (Jack's sister shudders and feels re
signed.)—Harvard Lampoon.
”1 deeply regret it, sir, but honor and my
altered circumstances compel me to release
your daughter from her engagement. I cannot
enter your family a beggar. In the recent deal
ill the North End stocks. 1 lost my entire for
tune.”
“Not another word, my boy, not another
word, I got It.”— San Francisco Examiner.
Fun for the Children “Did you catch
him?” inquired a Western Dakota woman of her
husband as he returned from going with the
vigilantes after a man wlfo had stolen a horse
from him.
“You bet we did!"
"But where's the horse he stole?"
“Well, I swear—l'll be doggoned if we didn't
forgit to fetch it hack with us t But great guns:
you orter seed ths way that feller swung and
kicked! I wish the children had been along ter
see it ."—DakoUttßell.
A wealthy voting Chicago gentleman, son of
a leading lard merchant, walked into a furnish
ing store last week and inquired for some tallow
hosiery. ”1 don’t believe we have any,” said
the clerk; "I never heard of that kind before.”
‘‘They’re all the rage in New York,” explained
the wealthy gentleman. “I was at the Fifth
Av'noo three days, and all the boys were talk
ing about their tallow hose. I think they wear
them out driving.”
“Possibly they were referring to the tally
hos?”
“Perhaps so. I would like half a dozen pairs.”
—Chicago News.
“O, the drums were heard and the piccolo
note, as the circus uptown paraded, and the
shom-off mule and the whiskered goat and the
elephant umber shaded. I followed it calmly at
early mom, my work and my labors spin ning,
anil I harked to the sound of a rusty horn with
a wild and unhallowed yearning. Few and short
were the tunes they played, and they paused
not at all to monkey, so I slowly followed the
route they made at the heels of the lop-eared
donkey. I bought up a seat at the show that
night, and looked at the limber woman who tied
herself in a knot so tight she seemed more like
hemp than hutnan. And I eagerly looked at
the wondrous bloke who swallowed some cotton
blazing, and blew from his nostrils a cloud of
smoke till I thought he was sheol raising. And
I watched the clown as he ran and rolled anil
stood in a dozen poses, and worked off a string
of jokes so old, they came from the time of
Moses,” — Atchison Globe.
PERSONAL.
Jay Gould telegraphed to Dr. Brown-Sequard
in Paris, for a prescription for neuralgia in his
shin.
Although twice condemned to death Editor
Cemuschi, of the Paris Steele, flourishes still in
a hearty old age.'
Charles Crocker, second Vice President of,
t.he Southern Pacific railway, says he considers
he is worth about $80,000,000.
Mrs James Mkilson, a sister of the late Hor
ace Ore -ley. is very low with pneumonia at New
Brunswick, N. J. She is 79 years old.
Mayor llkwitt says he smiles when men talk
to him of working eight or nine hours a dav, be
cause he works from twelve to seventeen hours
himself
Lord Salisbury remarked at the recent Royal
Academy banquet that he could not call to
mind a single statue of a man attired in a
“claw-hammer” coat, and Mr. G. A. Sala adds
that he wishes some sculptor would try the ex
periment.
Fifty years aoo this month Chief Justice
Waite was graduated from Yale. He will lie
present at the commencement exercises of his
Alina Mater this year. His vigorous health is
remarkable when the amount of work he has
l>erformed in the last half century Is considered.
“Mb.lp.vino has hit upon the happiest possible
method of celebrating the jubilee,” says the
Pall Mall Gazette. “On the afternoon or June
21 he will throw open his theatre to as many
children of the Ragged School Union as can be
squeezed into it, and he will perform for their
benefit ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ ”
The only Russian ever decorated bv the
public, the favorite actor, Basil Saniolloff, is
dead. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his
connection with the stage the public presented
him with a magnificent decoration enriched
with diamonds. The Emperor gave him per
mission to wear this as an imperial decoration,
Katk Field is in San Francisco securing ma
terial for a lecture on the Chinese question. She
declares that Congressional legislation has not
mitigated In the least the evils of Momionjsm
that there are ns many plural marriages in
Utah ns ever, but they are kept secret, nnd this
makes the situation worse than lief are the pres
ent law was enacted.
Mr. Rutter, a young American, was in he
Opera (fomique, Paris, at tho lime of the fatal
fire. 11c is a son of the late J. H. Rutter, of
New York, oneo President of the New York
Central railway. He was in r. box with tlireo
friends. When the tiro broke out they at
tempted to escape, but found tho door of
box locked. They kicked the door open ainiafl
caped with difficulty.
hi is ntcroirrin In 1/jndon official
the press will not *<-- forgotten in
tion of Jubilee honors. Sir Algernon HoNPnhrk.
proprietor of the Morning Post, and Mr. Law
son, who owns tho Daily Telegraph, are to re
ceive baronetcies. Edwin Arnold, the managing
editor of the latter paper, and Editor Buelno,
of the Times, are to lx- knighted, while Mr.
Walter Is to be rewarded for the assistance ren
dered the government by his series of articles
on 'Paniellism and Crime.” with the peerage
for which he has importuned so many successive
cabinets.
David Neal has heen busy in Baltimore paint
ing portraits in Mr. T. Harrison Garrett's
family, Mr. Garrett is the younger brother of
Mr. Robert Garrett. He married Miss Whit
rnlge, of Baltimore, who is a tall, fine looking
woman. They have two handsome boys, and it
is on portrait# of these children and Mrs. Gar
rett that.Mr. Neal has ls-en at work at their
country residence near Baltimore. Mr. Garrett
has not quite the busineas talents or abilities of
his elder brother, but having a large fortune
and no great ambitions he fakes life easily, and
is apparently satisfied to shine as a lessor light
than the Baltimore and Ohio fraddeut.
CAUGHT A GRIDDLE.
The Wonderful Fish Story Told by
Capt. Jack Hussey.
From the -Yew York Evening Sun.
Dan O'Brien, Grand Commander of the World
and Dover Post, repeats ope of Capt. Sack
Hussey's fish stories nowadays with great eclat:
I was always mighty fond o’ the water," said
Capt. Jack, "an' before I left the ould counthry
at all I wentfishin’ wan day in a big pond near
Castlemarthyr. where they said a mermaid used
to appear waust in siven years. For nine days
afther her appearin' you might as well be flshin'
in a washtuh. for the little craytliurs used to be
so frightened that thev all stuck their heads In
the sand an’ wouldn't look at their nearest rcla-,
tions. 1 threw in me line wud a bent pin for
a hook ai’ a inagxot for a bait. Well,
wan hour wint, so did another an' another, an’
divel a bite I bad. I was gettin’ terrible hungry
meself an’ I didn't many nice things about
that wather witch, tßSintermaid, when all on a
suddent you see I feit a tHK at the line. ‘lt
must tie a big wan ?' I said to meself, so I played
a little while, and then with, one clane sweep I
landed me darlin’. Wpat cl .o you think it was?
It was a griddle they used to bake bread on all
over the counthry. T r needn't tell you I was
taken down. But that griddle fell into a furze
bush right behind me. It struck a flint stone
an'the little spark set fire to the furze. There
was a hare uijdher the bush—an’ maybe the
poor thing was sleep in'—for she was roasted to
the queen's taste, at)’ I sat down an’ate finer
dinner than Dehnonico could gim me.”
Reviving the Lying Industry.
From fne.Son JYspictsco Chronicle.
This Eastern boon), 1 mean the boom made by
Eastern people with money, has started up some
of the old dead industries of California. With
the easy progress of civilization, the good old
industry of lying had almost died out. It got
discouraged, and so many wonderful things had
happened elsewhere that it was hard for the
Californian imagination to meet the necessities.
It was easier to give up lying to strangers alto
gether, for even the most untraveled Eas
terner could ring the bell on the Californian
guide or stage-driver. These gentry are uow
awakening from their lethargy and beginning
to make the Yosemite and other trips lively. A
friend of mine from the East has just come
back from the Yosemite and he relates his ex
perience. The stage-driver found out that he
was seriously afraid of snakes, and immediately
proceeded to make his hair stand on end.
"Venomous reptiles? You bet. I don’t know
what reptiles is, but them snakes you can just
bet your life is venomous. Why, one day I was
a cornin’ down here drivin’ a wagon, when I
catches sight of a snake in-the brush, all ready
for a spring, My horses starts an’ I whips ’em
up fast to clear the snake, don’t you see, afore
he could spring. He makes one dear spring,
the snake does, an’ he misses the horses."
"That was lucky—but you—you"
“Lucky! You bet your life it was lucky. He
missed the horses, the snake did, but he stuck
his fangs clean through the wagon.”
"You don’t say!"
“I do say, and mabbe you won’t believe it;
but it’s a fact. He stuck his fangs clean through
that wagon, an' that wagon it swelled all up so
bad that we had to leave it by the wayside and
take the horses home."
Room for Doubt,
From the Merchant Traveler.
Billy Bliven has worn an 18-karat high polish
bald head for the last live years or more, not
withstanding the fact that he is still a compara
tively young man, It is said that his baldness is
due to the mental exertion involved in trying to
remember just what he tells each of his ac
quaintances relative to the number of goods he
has sold, so that he will not be in danger of tell
ing the wrong story to the wrong person. The
otner evening he met a near friend in the hotel,
and Billy straightway became confidential.
“Charley." said he. "did you ever have much
experience in love affairs?”
"No,” replied Charley, promptly, “I am a
traveling man and never have time for that sort
of thing. Are you ir that sort of trouble?”
“I don't know-—that is, I knov I am, but I
don't know whether she is or not.”
“What is the situation?”
“Well, you see, it is just this way. She has
been taking painting lessons and she wanted to
paint me a hat band. I told her hat bands were
'way out of style, but she insisted and I gave
in.
“I'm sure that sounds favorable enough,”
“Wait till you hear the whole story. She
painted the hat-band, and, after I had duly
complimented it, she sewed it into my hat.
When I got back to the hotel, I discovered, or
rather some of my friends discovered, that
that band wasn't dry when it was loosely
basted into my low-crowned chapeau. When
I went and looked in a mirror. I found the top
of my head artistically frescoed, with B. B.
daintily interwoven with lilies of the valley anil
forget-me-nots, and I’ve had to wear a skull-cap
ever since. Now, Charley, do you think that girl
really loves me?”
A Queer Battle of Beggars.
„ Paris Letter to London Telegraph.
An extraordinary spectacle which lately
amhzed and amused many passers-by in the
Rue de la Paix has just had its final drop-scene
in the Police Court. This was a battle between
beggars who, giving the lie to Beranger’s verses,
to the effect that people who live by asking alms
love each other dearly, felt to fighting in the
open streets with a fury worthy of savages from
the Cannibal Islands. One of the combatants
was a man who was professionally blind, named
Zfiriger. His opponent was a person with
another Teutonic name—that of Schubert—who
w as commonly known as the old iron-legged pen
sioner. The beggars were generally chaperoned
by two women, and the quarrel orig
inated between the female associates who had
some words about gains and precedence in a
certain part of the street near the Vendome
Column, where eleemosynary contributions fell
thick and fast at certain hours of the day. The
tiuarrel was continued by the men, and the
iron-legged monster, lifting up his terrible
prop, smote the sham blind begger on the right
shin, breaking that, member and necessitating
its amputation. “Jambe de Fer” was con
demned yesterday to four months imprisonment
and ulterior police supervision. Ilis victim,
ivhen restored to Ills profession after his stay in
hospital, will at least have the satisfaction of
being able to take up a good position in the Rue
de la Paix and to show a good reason for asking
public contributions.
A Girl I Know.
From the Judge.
See, she stauds with eyes cast down,
Powder on her tresses brown;
Beautiful In form and face,
Such a figure well would graco
Lady's fan or Sevres vase,
Cupid loves a Watteau gown.
Yes. the dainty elf so bold
Hides beneath her train's rich fold;
'From her eyes his darts he sends;
Both Ids wings, as fan, he lends.
Lavishly his gifts he spends,
Grants her all his charms untold.
Came she over sunny seas,
Wafted by sonic fev'riug breeze
To this land of ice ana snows?
Fair as love’s young dream she glows
In his colors, noire et rote.
Is she not some belle marquise?
Belle marquise, you ask ? Oh, no.
She is just a girl I know;
Anv morning you may meet
This fair maiden on the street,
Toward the market haste her feet;
Yes, she's just a girl I know.
Kindness in Its Sweetest Form.
From the Button Courier.
A young lady belonging to one of the oldest
nnd in t'ambridge, who tenches
a class co®C' -ed mostly of shop girls in one of
our city Sabbath schools, Inst Sunday, noticing
that one of her scholars looked unusually worn
nnd tired, proposed to her that she take a vaca
tion of a tiny, offering herself to supply her
nlace at the store. The girl was naturally a
little reluctant at first to accept sneb a snei iflee,
but was profiled upon, and promptly at *
o'clock the laWy reported at the store tor duty
and remained until its closing at (1, The fact
! hat the store was a confectionery establish-
Mp'.ment, and that as many candies as Ihc snles-
FTrl could eat were considered lawful perqui
sites. might at first seem t detract from the
'nobleness and unselfishness of the sacrifice, but
that the position was in facta very hard and
exacting one will appear when it fa known that
the store was connected with an ice cream
saloon, and among the duties of the candy clerk
was the washing each day from 135 to 150 nan
kins. _
Violating the New Law.
From the Dakota Bell.
“Seen a man go along here lately?” asked a
Dakota conductor, leaning off the platform, ns
the train passed a farmer at work near the
track.
“Yes.”
“Red whiskered man?"
“Yes.”
"(trip in each hand?"
“li'lieve so."
“When did he pass?"
“ 'Bout ten minutes ago -he's Just 'round the
curve. He's walkin’ lutu’llng fast, though."
“That's jut the trouble, but I’ll catch him or
run every wheel off the engine! I've no objec
tions to his walking if he's in a hurry, but he
wants to put up his fare first , and you bet he'll
have to if we catch him! Hi, there, Bill, pass
the fireman some more of thobu dry ex ureas
packages 1"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A young woman in Fonda, N. A., is said to
have gone on hiccoughing for three months
past, except when under the influence of opiates,
until she is now a mere wreck.
An unknown man who threw himself in front
of a locomotive on a railroad in Litchfield,
Conn., and was crashed to death on Tuesday,
was observed kneeling near the track in an atti
tude of fervent prayer before the engine came
along.
A Connecticut eagle picked up a small bull
dog from the highway and went sailing off with
it, but as soon as the dog got over his first as
tonishment he seized the bird by the leg and
made him come back to earth and do some very
humble begging.
Among the titles of reoent books and pamph
lets of English writers are: "London!” "Horri
ble London!” “Starving London!" The Modem
Babylon!’’ “How the Poor Live!” “Seven
Curses of London!” "The Modern Plague of
London!” and “The Bitter Cry of Outcast Lon
don!”
A little girl at Lewiston, Me., fell into a feed
box 12 by 15 inches running from a hay loft to
the trough below. She fell in head first, and
slipped out through a broken board iu the trough,
frightening the horse so he ran away. All she
said about ner accident was: “Ma, the horse is
loose.”
The gossiper of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
claims to have found anew way to test the
freshness of eggs. Wipe the large end of an
egg, he says, quite clean, and then touch the tip
of the tongue to the central part of this big
end If the egg is good, there will be a little
warm spot inside the egg w hich will be plainly
perceptible to the tongue.
A TWENTY-FIVE MILE HORSE RACE Was TUU at
San Francisco recently, and was won by one
Anderson, who covered the distance in one hour
eleven and a half minutes. His only opponent
was disabled while mounting for the second
mile. According to the conditions the con
testants were to have five horses apiece, and to
change animals after each mile.
The following table is from an English source
and claims to be measurably correct as to the
ages of birds mentioned: Blackbird lives 12
years, blackcap 15, canary 24, crane 24, crow 100,
eagle 100, fowl, common. 10, goldfinch 15, goose
50, heron 59. lark 13. linnet 25, nightingale 18,
parrot 60, partridge 15, peacock 24. pelican 50,
pheasant 15, pigeon 20, raven 100, robin 12, sky
lark 30, sparrow hawk 40, swan 100, thrush 10,
wren 3.
The fire waste record for 1887 in the United
States and the Dominion of Canada promises to
be the heaviest ever known, already
that for the corresponding period in 1886 by
about 20 per cent and steadily growing. A pe
culiar feature of the situation is that the great
bulk of the property now being reduced to ashes
is what underwriters class as the choicest risks,
while the kind usually counted extra hazardous
and insured only at the highest rates, if written
at all, is escaping destruction
In February last Perry Lampman, an old
widower residing in Orange, lonia county,
Mich., deeded his farm of forty acres to Mrs.
Eunice Wright, in conformity with an agree
ment between them that Sirs. Wright should
marry him after he had so deeded the farm.
After getting the deed she concluded she didn't
want to marry bint, while she was so reluctant
to deed back the land that a suit has been begun
to set aside the deed, and a special guardian has
been appointed for the innocent old chap.
“An attempt on the life of the Czar” is a
favorite game with Sicilian urchins who have
heard their fathers and neighbors talking poli
tics. But the mock Nihilists found a serious
ending to their play the other day in Messina.
A little fellow, the son of a miner, found a cart
ridge charged with dynamite, and, delighted
with his discovery, summoned his companions
for the fun. One of the boys represented the
Czar, the others formed an ambush of Nihilists,
and at a given moment one sprang out and
flung the cartridge at the feet of his pretended
sovereign. The charge exploded with such dis
astrous effect that the poor little mimic Czar
was terribly wounded and died a few hours
later.
A pathetic scene took place in a Philadelphia
boarding house a few days ago. Hearing the
crying of a child in the room of Mrs. Ebert, one
of the lodgers, Mrs. Peters, the landlady, tried
to enter. Finding the door locked, she had it
forced open, and found Mrs. Ebert lying dead
on the bed, while her 2-year-old child was hug
ging the corpse; trying to wake her by crying
piteously: “Mamma! mamma!” A post-mortem
examination revealed the fact that death was
due Io a dose of cyanide of potassium. It ap-
F?ars that the woman’s husband disappeared on
riday last, sending a letter to his wire in which
he said he would not return before Wednesday,
and that if she would go to the post office she
would learn the cause of his absence. It is sup
that Mrs. Ebert feared her husband had de
serted her, and decided to end her troubles by
taking her own life.
The Queen Regent of Spain is knocking the
blue laws of Spanish etiquette to pieces at a
jolly rate. The other day she called a meeting
of the Ministry at the Castle of Aranjuez.
When the statesmen reached the gate of the
park they found the Queen and the Princess
Isabel waiting for them. The Queen was in a
victoria, and the Princess Isabel was in a drag
and four. The Queen was driving. She invited
lienor Segasta to take a seat beside her. and the
other Ministers were accommodated in
the drag. On reaching the Castle coffee was
brought, and the Queen ordered cigars to be
produced as well and offered to the gentlemen.
The Ministers seemed to hesitate. In all the
annals of Spanish history no subject had ever
smoked iu the presence of a Queen. The Queen
Regent, however, gave the command, and the
Jlinisters, like dutiful subjects, obeyed, Gold
Sticks and Chamberlains have been ever since
in hopeless despondency.
“ ‘Non, non, non!” exclaims Mme. Valot in
the San Francisco Examiner, “you must not
sink Mme. Sarah, wit her sweet leetle voice
like you hear her on the stage, has ze best tem
pair in ze world. Zat is her business to be
‘charmante’ when everybody is looking, but
'mon Dieu!’ you should hear her sometimes
‘a la maison’—how you say zat? Ze hotel.
Naturallay she is ze great Bernhardt, and she
can have ‘ses nerfs' when everybody come in
and feel sorry because she is ‘souffrante.’ 51.
Grau bring smelling salts, and Monsieur Mayer
take out from ze room ze leetle ‘chiens’ who
make ze 'aboye,’ bow-wow. Zen ze room is
made very dark, Madame Sarah she sleep, zen
she open one eye and because she no see poor
Valot. who has gone out for one leetle minute,
she begin with her 'saperlotte, cristi sac-a-papier,
non d’un petit bouhomme’ Valot. why is it you
‘ubanclonez’ me all alone among strangers? Ifat
is only one of ze times when Madame Sarah
show she have too. a leetle tempair. but some
other times, ‘Oh, mon Dieu,’ you should hear
her in he grande rage.’ ”
A correspondent of the Globe-Democrat at
Pana. 111., tells of an alleged miraculous cure of
stammering at a revival in slontgomery county,
that State. The person on whom the alleged
miracle was worked is William DeWitt, an old
citizen. Until the moment of his conversion he
had always been a wordly man from the Bible
standpoint, and had also suffered from stam
mering. So great was the extent of his afflic
tion that even his most intimate friends and
associates found much difficulty in understand
ing him whenever he attempted to con verse with
them. ’ During a recent revival of religion, con
ducted in the old-fashioned style, with the
mourners’ bench accompaniment, and where
the seeker is expected to ffcrsevero until posi
tive that from his feelings the blessing of for
giveness and acceptance have come upon hint
and he may arise a saved sinner, DeWitt
became a convert. The most wonderful part
about the circumstance is that when he became
convinced that lie was really through the ordeal
he also discovered that his speech had been
made perfect, and that he could talk os
smoothly and easily as if he had never been
afflicted with stammering. Old acquaintances
who knew him for years nave heard him talk
and are also witnesses to the remarkable fact.
A queer case of suicide was that occurring
recently of a man named Orummond, at Grand
Rapids, slicU Grumtnond was a newspaper
man of considerable cleverness, but thriftless
and careless. He was continually getting Into i
debt and then calling upon wealthy relatives in
Detroit and upon newspaper men all over the
country to help him out of his trouble. slany
in Chicago have received his grotesque letters.
For some time Orummond had been working
oil a liewsiiaper published in Grand Rapids by
Lloyd Brazee, whom be looked upon as a sort of
patron. Finally, Iteeauso of Grnmmond’sirreg.
tilar habits, he was discharged. He did not socm
much affected, hut nevertheless walked out of
the office and took morphine enough to kill two
men. Medical assistance was called in, Mr
Brazee himself working hard with the ap
parently dying mau, and he finally recovered
sufficiently to sit in a chair, to reproach those
who were trying to save him, and to lie declared
out of danger by the doctor. Grtimmond him
self insisted that lie was going to “croak.” "I
tell you," he said to Brazee. referring to a de
partment In the paper called “The Raven"—"l
tell you this is the last croak of the raven!" He
knew what lie was talking about. He sat In the
chair for half an hour or so and then suddenly
pitched forward dead.
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