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4 C|t|stontingftffos Morning News Building Savannah, Ga. SATI'KDAV, .UT>'E 11. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ”~T)ie Morxino tSktws is published every day in fhe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, br newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week, SI 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morni.no News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 (X); one year, $lO 00. The Morning Setts, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning 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 , one year, $2 00. The XYeeki,y News, by .mail, one year. Si 25. Subscriptions payable in advanoe. Kemit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters aiid telegrams should be addressed ..“Morning News, Savannah. Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT" Special Notices- - Closing of Heal Estate and Auction Dealers; Straw Hats, at Jaudon's; Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Cos. Steamship Schedules— Ocean Steamship Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous. Ho for the Mountains— Charleston and Sa vannah Railway. Railroad Schedules— Charleston and Savan nah Railway. Legal Notices— Application for Local Law to Pave, etc., the Streets of Savannah; Libel for Divorce. Picnic—Trinity Methodist Sunday School. CmrTLAR No. 83- Railroad Commission of Georgia. Auction Sale—Saddle Horse, Refrigerator, etc., by C. H. Dorsett. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning Nfiws forward**] by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, *1 for a month or $2 s*o 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 r as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper Tpromptly delivered to them while away 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. Perhaps it is in order to say emphati cally, although inelegantly, that it is the sad fate of filibusters to be “busted.” Queen Kapiolani, it is said, went to the circus while she was in this country, but didn’t laugh until she saw the elephant. Many who “see the elephant” feel too sad to laugh. _ Catherine Cole, of New Orleans, describes the sweet girl graduate as “a mixture of blue ribbon, safttiment, poetry and broken resolutions.” It is strange that Catherine should have forgotten chewing gum. Jay Gould telegraphed from Old Point Comfort to New York that he was enjoying three meals a day. Stocks on Wall street immediatelybegantori.se. It would seem, therefore, that Gould’s stomach has a good deal to do with finances. When Mr. Keney was involved in finan cial difficulties work was suspended on the big hospital he was building in Brooklyn. Now that he has regained his fortune the hospital is being rapidly pushed to comple tion. Mr. Seney is a true philanthropist. He gives without hope of reward, and does not blow a horn to let the world know what lie is doing. Only one New York paper has contained a word about the resumption of work on the Brooklyn hospital. Since the national drill the small boys of Washington have been crazy about military matters. In every part of the eity they march up and down the streets, mimicking the evolutions and movements of the “drill teams." They' are rigged out in nil sorts of uniforms. Some wear caps made of news papers and carry laths for guns. There is a general movement upon the part of the parents of Washington to use the laths in another way. but it would be cruel to inter fere With the sport of the boys. The New York World prints a story that will be of interest even in this country. A mem tier of one Of the most-illustrious fami lies in Austria, Prince Alfred von Wrede, has shocked the nervi* of the aristocracy by setting up as a greengrocer and fruit dealer at Perctfioldsdurf, near Vienna. The Prinee, having become financially ruined, decided that in order to make money, good trade was better than a small government appointment, and he sensibly decided, also, to attend to his business in person. Evangelist Sam Jones is rapidly acquir ing a reputation in Tennessee. In one of his speeches, so the Nashville Banner says, lie alluded to certain people in his audience as “flannel-mouthed Irishmen and galvan ized Dutchmen.” When somebody inter rupted him, he shouted: “Somebody knock that fellow’s teeth out of his mouth and I’ll pay the fine!’’ Commenting, the Banner says: “Would such utterances lie considered eminently proper from the lips of a resident minister? If not, are they proper from the lips of ntiy other minister P A naan who has more timo than money has taken the trouble to find out how far a farmer him to walk to cultivate forty acres of corn. To plow the ground with a sixteen-inch plow, he walks 250 milos; to harrow the ground thoroughly before plant ing, he walks fifty miles; to cultivate it af terwards, ho walks 300 miles, making a grand total of 700 miles, lie-.iiles the gather ing. Brooding over information like this is one of the things that makes farmers’sons too tired to stay on the farm. Asa set-oIT, somebody ought to find out how many miles a dry goods clerk walks in a day. In December, 1885, the Youth's Com panion, of Boston, offered prizes for serial und short stories to the amount of $5,000. More than (>,OOO manuscripts were submitted to a corps of assistant editors, who sptrit all last summer leading them. Every prize awarded was to a writer comparatively un known. It is said that many of the stories are unusually good. In order to create an American literature of the highest order all that is necessary is for publishers to encour age American author*. There is not much chance for American authors whilo the country is flooded with cheap English rc vriuta. Unfounded Rumors. A few of the State papers have published rumors that are calculated to give a false impression respecting the health of Savan nah. In view of the fact that some of Sa vannah’s own citizens, without the least reason, have peddled rumors of the same kind, it is not surprising that some of the State papers should have published them. If these papers had considered how much damage they might do to this eity by circulating rumors which they had no cause to believe were true they would not have given them a place in their columns, unless influenced to do so by a feeling of hostility. Asa matter of fact, Savannah was never in a more healthy condition than at present, and the opinion of the Sanitary Board is that it will remain healthy throughout the season. There have been no signs which justify fears of an unhealthy season. If there should be a ease of yellow fever here all the world would know it within a very few hours after it was known to the Health Officer. The policy of the Sanitary Board is one of frankness—not of concealment. When the announcement was made that there was yellow fever at Key West, and that Florida towns were quarantining against that city, there was some little un easiness felt hore, not liecauso of any l(x;a) signs of .threatened sickness of an unusual character, but because it was apprehended that the disease might creep up the coast and reach this eity before cool weather. The fact that Key West is about 550 miles distant in a straight line, and a good deal farther than that by the routes of travel, was not taken into consideration. Neither was the fact that Key West is about sixty miles from the mainland of Florida, and is not a much, if any, greater source of danger than Havana, where the fever is to be found all the year round, given the weight to which it was entitled. A few alarmists in this city for a day or two talked in an alarming way, but they have gotten over their scare, and have reached the conclusion that they have not much reason to apprehend danger from Key West yet awhile. It is not improbable, however, that their exhibitions of alarm were not without bene ficial effects, because they impressed the sanitary authorities with the necessity for vigilance, atul awakened the people to the importance of keeping their premises in a good sanitary condition. Savannah does not propose to invite the fever by a lax enforcement of quarantine or by neglecting sanitary measures, and the country tributary to her need not place any reliance upon rumors. The condition of the public health here, whatever it is, will be at all times fearlessly and frankly published by the health authorities. Two Suggestions. The Morning News published a com munication a few days ago containing two suggestions which it might be well for the city authorities to consider. One of them is that the garbage hauled from the city should be burned, anil the other is that Bilbo canal should be covered. While there may be differences of opinion whether there is harm to be apprehended from the garbage as it is dis posed of at present, there is no question that it would be rendered harmless if it were burned. The Bilbo canal presents a problem that cannot be solved as easily as that relating to the garbage. To cover it would not render it wholly harmless, although it is certain that if it were covered its power to do harm would be greatly reduced. It might he a wiser plan to do away with the Bilbo canal altogether by building a sower to Runaway Negro creek, and thus drain the city’s sewerage into Augustine creek. A member of the City Council said a day or two ago that it was not improbable that the building of the sewer in question might be undertaken by the present Coun cil. The cost would be large, probably $200,000, but not larger than the city could bear. Such a sewer would answer two pur poses. It would relieve the city of the Bilbo canal, and it would insure pure water from the river if at any time after the com pletion of the artesian well system it should become necessary to draw water from that source. The suggestion relative to the burning of the garbage might lie acted upon at once, and the other might lie taken under advise ment with the view, at the proper time, of adopting it or of building a sewer on the line herein indicated. The Next Census. Tlio announcement that Congress will be asked to make another appropriation to finish the publication of tho last census re port, justifies the suggestion that, perhajis, too much was attempted when that census was taken. Between $2,000,000 and $3,000,- 000 has been si>ciit already in publishing it, and between $500,000 and $1,000,000, per haps, will bo rcquii-ed to finish it. Many millions were spent in collecting informa tion for the last census anil preparing it for the printer, and, when the eat,ire work is done, it will lie found, probably, that the cost of it is extraordinarily large. From present indications tho census of 1880 will not bo completed lieforo the taking of that of 185)0 is begun. Indeed, the time is close at hand when the question of tho next census will have to lie considered. No particular fault is to be found with Gen. Walker, who superintended the last census. He doubtless followed the wishes of Congo's* in the matter. In taking the next census, however, it would be well to con sider the advisability of handling a less num ber of subjects, and to arrange to have it published within two years at least from the time the taking of it is begun. Thcro is no occasion for heavy essays on special subjects. The pi'ii] ile want the simple facts relative to population, agriculture, manufactures and other leading matters. It is doubtful if they care very much for the costly maps and tho exhaustive statements about things of comparatively minor importance, which accompany tho last census. They want the main facts anil they want them at tho earli est possible moment. Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, says: “I am tho only citizen of the Fourth district wl is thoroughly acclimated to the mnlnrinl atmosphere of tho House, and I mean to devote the balance of my life to saving any of my constituents from its banofdl influ ence.” Tho Judge is very kind, for they say that the “malarial atmosphere" of tho House is worse than any other brand of liquor sold in this country. The great natural gas celebration at Findlay, 0., opened on Wednesday last. At night 80,000 gas jets were in flame. The thirty-one gas wells of Findlay were all pipod Into tho city to aid in the illumina tion. There was much s]ieech-making, but it was not as effective os the gas from the wells. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1887. Mississippi’s Assassination Case. The Ilamilton-Gambrill assassination case, which has kept Mississippi in a condition of suppressed excitement for two weeks or more, is still the leading matter of interest in that State. Hamilton, a State Senator and lessee of tho penitentiary, Is, with two other men, charged with having assassinated Gambrill, who was tho editor of a prohibi tion paper. The killing of Gambrill oc curred within the limits of Jackson, the State capital, and Hamilton was himself quite severely wounded by Gambrill. An effort is lieing made to release Hamilton from jail on a writ of halieas corpus, and the proceedings under this writ have brought out about all the testimony there is to be obtained with regard to tho killing of Gam brill and the wounding of Hamilton. The theory of the prosecution is that Hamilton and two other men followed Gam brill in a carriage for the purpose of killing him, and that they began shooting at him as soon as they overtook him. The of the defense is that Hamilton and his party had no intention of attacking Gam brill, but that when they came up with him he fired at Hamilton first. Both sides have their partisans, and the entire press of the State has been engaged in a wordy warfare ever since the shooting occurred. Several difficulties of a personal character have been threatened because of intemperate language used by one side or the other, and in one instance a challenge was sent and declined. Even the assistant Episcopalian Bishop of the State has been drawn into the controversy on account of alleged expressions of opinion by him favor able to Hamilton. In a few days it will be known whether Chancellor Peyton, who is hearing the habeas corpus ease, will set Hamilton at lib erty. If he does, it is pretty' certain that Hamilton will never lie convicted of assas sinating Gambrill, and if he does not, it is by no means certain that Hamilton will be con victed. In the divided state of public opin ion it will be almost impossible to get an unbiased jury, and even if a perfectly' fair jury could be obtained it is far from certain that a verdict of guilty could be secured, liecause of the conflicting character of the testimony, although the lielief appears to be pretty general throughout the .State that Hamilton was the nggressor, and that Gam brill did nothing more than to try to defend himself against three men who wqre deter mined to take his life. Unfortunately for the cause of justice the ease is mixed up with politics. Gambrill was a prohibitionist, and the prohibitionists, who are strong in the State, have espoused the Gambrill side of the case. The anti- Prohibitionists have taken the side of Ham ilton, and the indications now are that the alleged assassination will he made a political issue, and play an important part in future political contests in the State. Immense Sums for Fertilizers. The Carnesville (Ga.) Register estimates that 2.000 tons of fertilizers have been pur chased every year in Franklin county, in this State, for the past fifteen years, and that the average price paid was S4O per ton. If only' 1,000 tons a year were purchased the outlay was $40,000 per annum; or S(XK,OOO in the fifteen years. If interest at the rate of 8 per cent, is added it will lie seen that the farmers of Franklin county have paid out $950,000 in tho time mentioned for fertilize!s. No doubt the investment was a good one, and that the increased yield of the land fully justified it, hut the question which presents itself is this; Could not the farmers have saved at least half of the $950,000 by paying more attention to the making of fertilizers at home, and have obtained just as good, if not better, results from their lands? Now adays farmers spend all they make for fertilizers, and even go in debt for them. The prosperous fanners of the Middle States do not spend a great deal of money for fertilizers, and yet their farms are very productive. They are very care ful, however, to collect and save all the material on their farms that can be made to answer tho purfose of a fertilizer. They produce hay and grain and raise stock and poultry, and the result is that their hog pons, poultry yards, anil barn yards, yield almost enough fertilizing matter to keep their farms in first-class condition. Tho manure they secure in this way, together with a little lime, produces amazing results. If Georgia fanners m e wise they will look a little closer after the home-made manures. They will even go into the forests and collect the pine straw which, when rotten, makes an excellent fertilizer. George Francis Train is indignant because the New York Legislature has made it a crime for children to feed the sparrows. He is also indignant beeaiLse the Legislature has turned Central Park into a parade ground and enacted Sunday “blue laws” on ford and drink, museums and music. He thinks New York city has Ihs.ii reduced to a “petty' Roman province,” and he intends to petition Congress to establish tho “New State of Manhattan,” taking in Brooklyn, Williams burg and towns south of Yonkers. He wants to know why America’s greatest shipping port should Iki outlaws! by “hay seed-hawbuck” legislation. Citizen Train has not forgotten how to use picturesque language, whatever may be said of the wildness of his intentions. There is a peculiar charm about the thea tre, and it is therefore not surprising that a very’ large numlier of people delight to wit ness the production of plays. Of course, however, in order that the charm of the the atre may lie properly appreciated all the “conditions” must lie just right. For in stance, if one obtains a seat in the midst of jwoplo who laugh and talk throughout tho performance, lie may consider himself hap py. But to be completely overcome by the charm of tho theatre, one must sit near somebody who hums, in tones some five or six octaves below, a song that is lieing ren dered on the stage. To be so situated, to use the language of a once well known Geor gia editor, “is enough to drown one’s soul in ecstasy’.” Some months apo, Eleanor Poston anl sixteen other young women from Cornwall, Eng., 'wont to Bolt Lake City with a party of Mormon converts. They did not like tbo prosjieet, and two of them resolved to make their eson]>e. Disguised in male apparel they boarded a train and got away safely. They then changed their dreßs and contin ued their journey. One found a home in Omaha and the other is now in New York, where she lias friends. Both give realistic accounts of the horrors of life among the Mormons. Just, now the "saints” are said to lie unusually active in making converts. It is said that money in Europe is so cheap that Wall street can ha,vo $25,000,(XX) from London at the shortest possible notice. Un fortunately the people who need money most have no Wall street connection* CURRENT COMMENT. The Georgettes will Stay There. From the Mew York Herald <Jnd.) Mr. George lias got his followers mired in an ugly kind of hole. That’s not strange; every body gets Into a hole once in a while. The wise man gets out, the stupid man stays there. The President at St. Louis. From the Missouri Republican ( De as.) President Cleveland has been invited to the Grand Army encampment by the Grand Army Encampment Committee, ami this Grand Army invitation has been supplemented by the people of the eity. That is all there is of it. The Grand Army must settle with those offensive partisans who are attempting to involve it in a partisan quarrel over a question of common courtesy. The Antidote. From the Boston Herald (Ind.) It is bad news for the sectional politicians that Gov. Lee. of 'Virginia, is coming to Boston. These occasions when Northern and Southern men meet on Massachusetts soil always make a lot more of conversions against the gospel of hate, which has just begun to be preached aeain by the leading Republican public men left in the country. It is not greativ needed, but it is more agreeable to see a stimulus to patriotic union than to sectional discord. Carrying Concealed Weapons. From the Washington Post < Hem.) The vulgar and pernicious practice of carry-* ing concealed weapons is responsible for the shooting of a superintendent of public schools in Kentucky by his principal. .The assault originated in mere jealousy and envy. Law makers should lend their ingenuity to the de vising of some measure making any man who carries a deadly weapon without obtaining per mission of the chief of police (on showing that his life is threatened), a malefactor }>rirna facie and subject to severe punishment. The unnec essary; carrying of concealed weapons is re sponsible for half of the murders that are com mitted. BRIGHT BITS. Savannah may favor the gun club team, And send big crowds every day; But she will not support a bum base ball team. Because she isn’t built that way. The statement going the rounds of the press to the effect that man is 90 per cent, water, lessens our dread of Ilerr Most. We had assumed from his speeches that he was 150 per cent, i blood.— Troy lb-ess. Van Spoarr goes by on the avenue with his new Siberian bloodhound. Miss A.—Splendid brutes, aren’t they? Miss B. —Which? Miss A.—Both.— Town Topics. “You are very late, doctor.” said the sick man, feebly. “I expected you an hour ago. lam afraid the delay may prove serious." “I am very sorry,” responded the physician, "but I got into an argument over the relative merits of the old and new schools of medicine, and couldn’t get away.”— New York Sun. “I'm out just $lO. I lent Jones that amount a month ago, and he went crazy yesterday.” "Jones, the actor?” "Yes.” “Well, you stand a better show of getting your money now than ever before. There's no telling what form his insanity will take."— New York Mail. In a Boston boarding house—That pie we had for breakfast was simply awful; the crust was like lead. Yes, and the doughnuts were soaked with lard. Perfectly indigestible! It sno wonder we women have dyspepsia. Come up to my room. I have some lovely pickles in the closet.— Washington. Critic. The Avenue; Midnight. Mendicant—Ah, sir, when I see you drivin' your four in ’and hup the avenoo to-day, it reminded me liof bold marster Lord liunkum; sir. You couldn’t 'ardly be ’is brother, could you, sir? or is son, maybe? Cubleigh —Naw. We’re not the same family (giving money). There. Drink me health. Goes home and dreams he was born to a peer age.—Town Topics. I like to see a little dog, And pat him On the head, Yet I like wot the restless flea That dog doth always shed. And if no license he doth pay, Nor muzzle clasp him round, I like to see that ornery dog IncontiehUy drowned. —Chicago Tribune. The following definitions were found in the examination papers of a private school in oneof our large Southern cities: Soplufster—One who sophies. Evangelist One who speaks from his stomach. Siren—Pertaining to Syria. Stably—Stables in general. Muse—To cry as an infant, Famine—Pertaining to the female sex. Doxology—Dropsy in the head.— Boston Transcript. “Do you suffer much from cold feet?" inquired the shoe merchant with kindly interest, as he complied with the lady's request and showed her the thickest-soled shoes he had in the store. "She suffer?" broke in her husband impetu ously. “Great Scott! She suffer? Not much. I'm the victim. I’m the one that has to suf—" "George!” said the lady. That was all she said, but George seemed to understand, and there was a silence that was not broken until the merchant observed in a deferential and funereal way that it looked as if there was going to be some kind of a storm if the wind didn’t change.— Chicago Tribune. PERSONAL. Mr. Corcoran will be 89 if he lives until Dec. 27, Palaeozoic coprolite is what the St. Louis Republican calls John Sherman. Canon Wilberforcb is studying the working of prohibition in Maine under the guidance of Gen. Neal Dow. Duke Paul, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, has re turned to the Roman Catholic church. The re port is officially confirmed. Robert Downing wants to do his "Sparticus” in London, regardless of the' number of Ameri can tragedians London has done. Gaudacr. who recently outrowed Hanlan, is a Canadian half-breed. His father Was an Indian and his mother a French Canadian. Prkmjdent Cleveland recently said that Sec retary Lamar's intellect was the clearest and most comprehensive he hail ever come in con tact with. Thomas Hall, the Boston sculptor, has com pleted a colossal statue of P. T. Bnrnum. in feet. In height, to lie placed in the park of Bridge port. Conn. The Crow n Prince of Italy is a very clever young man. He Is only is years of age, but can speak fluently five or six languages. He can talk strategy with a general or science with a scientist. T. W. T. Curtis, of New Haven, is well pleased with the career of his sons at Yale. Thev are twins and members of the present graduating class. One of them stands first in the class and the other third. The highly-illuminated town of Findlay, 0., where Senator Sherman lias just made so much money in real estate, has celebrated the anniversary of the uso of natural gas in the arts. Count Herbert Bismarck says he thinks his father would quickly settle the "Irish question” if he were Premier of England. “What you want in Ireland," he recently remarked, "is con tinuity of government. Now, one does-the next undoes." Cardinal Newman, at the recent celebration of the Feast of St. Philip Neri at the Birming ham Oratory, ap|>eared to lie more feeble than ever. He had to be supported down the • steps by two priests, and when lie pronounced the benediction his voice was not audible half way down the church. United States Senator-elect Blodgett, of New Jersey, has had eleven babies named after him since his election, lie lives in a pretty cot tage on Third avenue, Lotig Branch. He is a busy mail but takes life quietly, and w-oukU rather talk politics than eat and sleep. He ruajfl a 1 sink and u railroad. John BUHOtKiat, the well-known never iloes any lilenin work in the then feels particularly blue He laufthlriJßy re marked the other day that if he ever committed suicide it would lo in the spring. Mr. Bur roughs will visit C olorado about July 1, and ex pect* to s|iend live or six weeks there. “Cou. Dan. Lamomt," says the Mail and R.r. oreat, “tells fish stories that would make Hill Nye blush.” Mr. Nye, on reading the above, asserted that the writer eonld not know him personally. "I have read Lainont'a stories eary fully,’’ continued Mr, Nye, “and am confident that i slid not turn red. In fact, a week's so journ in New York has permanently impaired my blushing apparatus!" Mmk. CHAnutTTK Woi.tnbh, the famous tragic actress, on her recent twenty-fifth annlversarv, was presented to the Austrian Emnr-ss by her rightful title as the Countess O'Sullivan. But the Empress presented her to the court as Mme. Woltner. “I am proud of you," she said, “as the Woltner. That is the name by which I like to present you. i have so many Vsnintcase* court that your other title conveys uo disuuc- Uou.” HE ATE FIVE DOZEN EGGS. The Herculean Gastronomic Feat of a San Francisco Gormandizer. From the Son Francisco Chronicle, “Say,” excitedly exclaimed an East side mer chant, as he stopped Polibe Officer Gillespie at 8 o’clock night before last, “for God's sake go into that chop house. A young fellow is killing himself in there.” The policeman hastily entered the restau rant, and there saw a young man seated at the lunch counter. Egg shells were piled all around him. and Some fifteen as yet unbroken ejrgs lay on a plate before him. He was eating iiito the remaining pyramid as fast as he could. He paused when the officer questioned him, and raid that he had taken a contract to eat five dozen hard boiled eggs by 9 o'clock The contract was made as follows: About 6 ■ o'clock Fred Williams, a rather stout teamster, and Chris Knapp, a shoemaker, were smoking together, and were discussing the dinner they had just eaten. The conversation turned on eggs, and the shoemaker said that he was so passionately fond of them that he could eat five dozen of them at one meal. The other doubted his gormandizing capability, and 1 offered, if Knapp would eat the eggs by 9 o’clock, to pay for them. Knapp took the wager up, and they adjourned to the chop house at the corner of Mission and East streets. The proprietor, in some surprise at the order for sixty hard-boiled eggs, agreed to furnish them for §l. If Knapp was unable to carry out his contract he was to pay for the hen fruit. Williams deposited $1 and then went home, and Knapp began his task. He was allowed salt and pepper and as much water as he wanted. At just 6:28 he broke the shell of the first one. Thirty of the eggs he devoured like a machine, onlv stopping once or twice to sip some water. At the thirty-first he faltered and drank more water. Ten more eggs went their way, but much slower than their predecessors. After the fortieth Knapp liegun to feel bad. He broke an egg, but gasped when he tried to swallow it, and finally took a recess and a smoke. He went ltaok again, however, and with an effort suc ceeded in downing five more, when he again rested. He braced up somewhat then and swal lowed seven or eight with comparatively little trouble. At about the fifty-second he gulped badly and his face assumed a most disgusted expression. He persevered, though, and with many grimaces and gasps managed to get down his fifty-seventh egg. When he had this half eaten he suddenly paused, and, dropping what remained of it, he rushed out of doors. He returned to the coffee house blear eyed and very sick, but after a short rest picketl up the half-finished egg and ate it. Two yet remained, and slowly and laboriously he forced them into his rebellious stomach. He then smoked again, and pointing proudly to the heaps of egg shells, exclaimed: "Well, it's done!” He completed the last egg at just 8:18 o’clock, one hour and fifteen minutes after he began his feast. Yesterday Knapp, except for a light soreness, seemed little the worse for his fearful gastronomic feat. He is a young, under sized man, and looks’delicatc and sickly. A Sleeper Mystified. From the Chicago News. Milton Sawyer is one of the advance agents of the Modjeska company. He fell asleep a week ago last Thursday and did not wake up until yesterday. The ease, puzzled our best physicians. His respiration and temperature were normal and his sleep seemed to be simply a. healthy one. No amount of shaking or of restoratives oonld bring him to wakefulness. Electric shocks failed to arouse him. For eleven days he slept a heavy sleep, and in that time he took no nourishment of any kind. The case passed all medical un derstanding. Yesterday morning at 9 o'clock he Woke up in his room at the Palmer House , bright and chipper. The first question he asked was: “Where is Arkins?” “Arkins?” repeated the nurse in attendance. “Why. what do you mean?” “I mean Arkins, that Denver editor,” said the invalid. “There's no such person here.’’ said the nurse. “You must keep very quiet, for you've been sick.” “How long have I been here?” asked Sawyer. “Oh. a long time—more than a week,” an swered the nurse. "It's very queer,” said Sawyer, “but I can't tell how I came here: the last thing I remember about it is that Arkins stood at my extreme left.” Sam Jones as a Prophet. From the Nashville American. “Even Sam Jones can't always tell what's coming,” remarked a gentleman within hearing 1 of a reporter. When questioned as to the reason for such an ■ assertion he related the following. • "I was in Pulaski yesterday at the monster prohibition meeting. The court house square was blocked with people and an organ was bor rowed from an adjoining church and placed on the stand. Sam Jones was in the midst of his sermon when a dark and threatening cloud swept over the city, and caused the crowd to grow uneasy. The speaker was portraying the horrors of whisky with his accustomed elo quence, and seeing the imminent danger of a stampede, he said in ringing tones: ‘ “Don't be afraid: we are in the Lord's work, and he will not let the rain interfere with us; there is no danger of your getting wet.' Scarcely had the words left the speaker's mouth when the cloud burst with a vengeance, and the rain poured down in torrents. As the crowd rushed for shelter, a voice rang out clear and strong, ‘Partake freely of the water of life.’ ’’ June. From St. Nicholas. • O, June! delicious month of June! When winds and birds all sing in tune; When in the meadows swarm the bees And hum their drowsy melodies While pillaging the buttercup. To store the golden honey up; O, June! the month of bluest skies, 1 (car to the pilgrim butterflies, Who seem gay colored leaves astray,. 810w r n down the tides of amber day; O. June! the month of merry song. Of shadow brief, of sunshine long’ AH things on earth love you the best— The bird who carols near his nest; The wind that wakes and, singing, blows The spicy perfume of the rose; And liee, who sounds his muffled horn To celebrate the dewy morn: And even all the stars above At night are happier for love, As if the mellow notes of mirth Were wafted to them from the earth, O. June! such music haunts your name; With you the summer's chorus came! All He Had. From the San Francisco Wasp. ‘T regret to say it, Mr. Scadhunter.” said the Secretary of the new lawn tennis club to one of our most promising young society men, “but I cannot consistently indorse vour application for membership.” "Why not?'’ gasped the round dancer. turning pale. “It pains me to tell you," replied the official, sternly; “but the other night at the opera I overheard you say either instead of either Now a man who would do that would say ‘bath’ instead of ‘bawth,’ and ‘thanks’ in place of ‘lhawnkHi*wftilly.’” "No, no—not so bad as that,” pleaded the young man. “I re member the circumstance. It was my first offense. I was excited—off my guard.” “It’s not English—you knaw." “It shall never occur again. Don’t betray me. I beg of you. Remem ber, you had no heiress once yourself." "That's so—be gad,” muttered the richly made man, compassionately. "Then don’t ruin me. Keep my shameful secret, 1 implore you, and heaven will reward, and—and besides I will try to work you a bid to the Fatwallettes high tea. If I had a rich father and familv influence to back me I wouldn’t care so much—l could live it down, but, alas! my good name is all I have.” The that Breeds Fugt- Bank Cashiers. From the Buffalo Courier. “Where did the new tea kettle come from?” Inquired an East Side man who recently found his cook store unexpectedly adorned. ! ‘I made a trade witlt a tin jteddler for your old trousers," replied the fkudent little housewife. "How much to booty' "Not a penny.” "Nonsense: Those trousers were as full of holes us a lace cjwainand not worth 10e. for rags, while the JMlc would in* cheap at <loc." "I got the kettle Pfr the trousers, all the same," persisted the lit ple woman. "1 saw the peddler coming, and “while he was dickering with the neighbors J slipped that old brass medal you got at the Pbo tograpers' Convention into the trousers pocket. Of course the peddler gave your garment, a, careful examination, and iti so doing fait the medal in the pocket. 1 kept my eye on him so that he did not dure take it out. He thought it was a silver dollar sure, and when I said: ‘Now, no nonsense, give me that tea-kettle for the trousers or hand them back and begone,' it would have done your heart good to see how promptly he accepted the first condition," A Good Puzzle. From the New York Sun. A Pittsburg merchant, as an advertisement, offered a prize of $2O to the first person solving the following problem: "Take these figures, f, 2,3, 4,5, ft, 7, H, H. 0, add them together and make iUO without using an.v figure twice," There were great many answers, hut the oniy correct one received was sent in by a young lady, and was as follows; ' 100 ITEMS OF INTEREST. Gathering potato bugs is quite a lucrative business in parts of Virginia, and as high as s.’ a day is earned bv some of the women cugaged in it. Compensation is at the rate oi sc. per “yeast powder’ ’ can full of the insects. A Missouri man found quite a curiosity a few days since in the shape of a duck egg. On break ing the outer shell he found on the inside an other shell, hard and perfectly formed. Be tween the outer and inner shell was a white substance similar to the white of an egg. John E. Parson, Joseph 11. Choate, and law yers of their standing in New York make about $75,000 a year each, but if all the money made by all the lawyers in the city of New York were equally divided among them each one would probably receive for his share about SI,OOO. Thr Coiujregationalist grimly suggests the following as an appropriate name for some churches: ‘'The Society for the Promotion of Picnics, Progressive Euchre Parties and Theatri cal Entertainments, Successor to the Antioch Disciples' Association of Christian Character and Gospel Work.” Rev. Theodore C . Williams, of New York city, has in his possession a handsome ma hogany sideboard that once belonged to Presi dent John Adams. He picked it up at the shop of an honest Washington upholsterer who bad kept it many years in pawn for the descendant of the body-servant to whom Adams left it. E. R. Annable, of Paw Paw, Mich., owns a farm in Almeda township, Berrien county, on which are several boiling springs; and, as if this wasn't enough, one of them has commenced to throw up chunks of coal, Mr. Annable will arrange a coal-mining enterprise if the investi gations he is carrying on prove satisfactory. J. N. McConnell, of CrawfordviUe, Ind., nas a 1-year-old Scotch collie that stands on the drift of a small stream, and, by making a rack et will scare the fish out into the water where he can see them. Then diving suddenly he will bring a fish up in his mouth. This operation he will repeat until ho catches as many as he wants. The dog is very fond of the fish and eats all that he catches. There has been issued a return of the number of deaths in the metropolitan district of London during the last year upon which a Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death from starvation or death accelerated by privation. There were altogether 40 deaths—namely, 32 in the three Middlesex divisions. 2 in Westminster, 2 in Green wich, 1 in Newington, 2 in Southwark, and 1 in Clapham. Some London workmen found a robin's nest in an old tin cup in a disused sewer which runs through part of a market garden. One of the workmen found the cup and was about to ex amine it when out flew the bird. This so startled the man that he threw the cup down, whereupon another man picked it up and discovered the nest, which contained three whole and two broken eggs. Father and son, who were ormvieted in Sierra county, Cal., of enticing a man into the woods and robbing him, have been sentenced, the son to two and the father to forty years imprison ment.. With the latter it is virtually a life sen tence. since he is now well on to his 60th year. The Alta explains that “the excessive sentence of the father was meted out because his son was led to commit the robbery by his parental influence." In Buenos Ayres the government printing is done by convicts. Most of the work consists of ministers’ reports and official receipts. The manager, not a person in durance vile, it may lie well to state, but a practical, native printer, showed several volumes of these reports, and they were really well got up. All the tabular matter, however, was far from meritorious, little or no attention having been given to the mitering of rules, etc. Prisoners in the county jail at Canton, 0., annoyed by rats, caught a big one, formed a court, gave him a regular trial for his life, found him guilty, and the judge sentenced him to be hanged the next morning at sunrise. At that hour he was led out by Edward Maguire, held on a charge of highway robbery, who acted as sheriff, aiid when the execution was over Charles Danzisen, held for attempted wife mur der, cut the body down. An odd practice prevails in regard to mourn ing for deceased relatives in Corea. Anyone who has suffered such a loss goes about for a year wearing a kind of pointed hasket on his head, which completely hides his face, and nil one is permitted to Address or speak to him. It was by adopting the nmurner s bonnet as a dis guise that the early Jesuit missionaries suc ceeded in entering the country and making their way about unquestioned by anybody. The Ceylon pearl fishery promises to lie un usually successful this season. So also does the mother-of-pearl harvest in the Red Sea. These latter fisheries extend the whole length of the Red Sea, but are most productive near Suakin and Massowah. The shells are sold by auction at Jeddah, Suakin and Massowah, and' the bulk go to Trieste, a few going to Havre and London. The finest specimens are sent to Bethlehem, where they are engraved and sold to the pil grims. A wise thing was said the other day by a Buffalo physician whose "kidney cure" is widely advertised. Speaking of his Buffalo manufac tory and of the money he had made, he said bluntly: “And I'll tell you this: If all the ice houses in the country were to be burned to morrow I would go out of business.” In other words his observation has led to the belief that the consumption of ice-water is the cause of three-fourths of the kidney diseases in the United States. The proprietor of a saloon that is located on the line dividing Somerville and Cambridge, -Mass., has been having a good deal of fun with the officers of those towns when they would at tempt to take legal steps against him, by shift ing his bar and liquors to either end of his place as occasion might warrant. Last week the offi cers of both towns raided him simultaneously from either side of the line, and he is now in jail for three months in addition to paying fines of $75 to one town and SIOO to the other. The expressions of loyalty ma<le at the Queen’s recent visit to East London were not always free from sarcasm. One house displayed the royal standard with the Irish harp cut out. A woman in a tattered shawi, carrying a baby, said as the Queen's carriage passed: "Why don't you open Buckingham paluee, so that there might be a little more room for some of us who have to live like pigs ?” ‘ ‘Hear, hear, my good woman! You are quite right,” said a well known reverend socialist who happened to bo near the spot. The couplet, “Welcome Onr Queen, So Seldom Seen,’’ waved across the road iu the east end. Among the Americans enumerated as purcha sers of the French crown jewels are: A man from California, named C. F. Bonynge, who bought a shoulder knot with drops, set with 75 brilliants, for $5,000. Bonynge lives at London. Mr. Seligman. of New York, who bought one row of a necklace of 542 pearls, for which he paid $8,200. Four row s of the same necklace were lmiight by Tiffany for $36,000. Randall & Cos., of New York.bought a necklace of 5R pearls for $4,460. Ogden Goelet, of New York, bought a pearl and brilliant brooch and two pearl bracelets, for which he paid $26,65’,). Tiffany & Cos. bought a comb set in sapphires and brilliants for $3,600. * The following are the names of some of the newspapers in Kansas: Carbondalc Astonisher and Paralyzer, Cash City Cashier, Clay Centre Democrat and Little Hatchet , Colby (Thomas county)' Oa{, Coolidge Border Kufflan, Eustis Dork Horse, Faro Springs Prairie, Otel, Ford Boomer, Garden City Irrigator. 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