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4 Oelflorning Hftos Morning News Buildinij, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY. .KM: 10. 18ST. Remitter erf at the Port Office in Savannah. Mornino News is published every 'lav in fhe year, anil is served lo subscribers in tlic city, bv ne"sdoaiers and carriers, on their own au count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 ft month, $5 00 for six months and §lO 00 tor one year. The Morninu News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, §2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. §lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), throe months, *2 00; six months. §4 (K) one year. §8 00. The Mousing News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and ‘Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. |2 50; one year, §5 00. The Sunday News, by mail t one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, chock or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings— Naval Stores Manufacturers; Jas per Mutual Loan Association. Special Notices — Forest City Gun Club; As to Early Closing on Saturdays; Notice, George Helmken; Notice, C. A. Vetter. Steamship Sen eiiulf.— Ocean Steamship Cos. Proposals— For Fuel, Light, Etc., for Custom House. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous. Auction Salks— Furniture, Hair Mattresses, Etc., by J. McLaughlin & Son. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad* vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while a way should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. 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. ■ 1 -■ • 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. BAKING POWDER. F] i ISF MOST PERFECT MADE Used bv the United States Government Endot red by the heads of the Great Universities and Public Food Analysts as The Strongest Purest,and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammorr'i Lime or Alum. Dr. Price's Extracts. Vanilla! Lemon, Orange, Rose, etc., flavor delieiouslv PRICE BAKING POWDER COMPANY 7 ' DRYGOODs ~ 111 GOODS! Mourning Goods! Crohan & Dooner, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 Broughton Street. 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