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Not Kicking.
Base Ball —Amateurs vs. Warrens.
Amusements -The Fords at the Theatre.
Tremendous Sacrifice— At Eckstein's.
Virginia Si-mmer Resorts—On the lane of
Norfolk and Western Railroad.
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Savannah Yacht Club—Regatta on Ladies’
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The Morning News will begin the pub
lication next Sunday of a very bright and
intensely interesting story, entitled “Nora
of the Adirondack*,” by Anne E. Ellis. This
story was written for the Morning News,
and it will be found to be well worth read
ing. It contains thirty-eight chapters, and
grows in interest with each chapter. The
President’s annual fishing excursion to the
Adirondack* lends new interest to that sec
tion of country, and a story in which some
of its features are described can hardly fail
to be appreciated.
A St. Louis man ate eleven restaurant
pies at one sitting and survived. He would
make a good soldier, for bullets wouldn’t
hurt him.
A California woman who manages two
ranches values her property at SIOO,OOO.
But you needn’t go West, young man. She
already has a husband.
The Toronto Telegram claims to have dis
covered that men who wear white plug hats
never begin a row. They show their wis
dom, for white plug hats would have a
rough time in a row.
Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, doesn’t
find life as pleasant as it was a few weeks
age. Evs>n some of the Republican news
papers of his State intimate that ho is the
tool of the corporations.
The immigration question will doubtless
tax the wisdom of the next Congress. There
is a growing feeling that greater restric
tions should be placed around the admission
of foreigners into this country.
Speaking of books for the seaside, the
Hotel Gazette suggests that the poeket-book
Rhould not bo forgotten. The note-book is
quite as important. When the pocket-book
is emptied notes serve a good purpose in
quieting the importunities of hotel keepers.
President Cleveland’s visit to Gov. Hill,
of New York, will doubtless cause the Re
publican organs to grieve for at least a
month. They have been insisting for quite
a while that the President and tire Governor
were not on good terms with each other.
The visit explodes the story.
One of the elaims mode by a citizen of
the United States against Mexico was filed
seventeen years ago, mid is still unsettled.
It is for '520,000 for a slap in the mouth
given by a Mexiiau to a Boston man. Per
haps the government has not insisted upon
the payment of the claim because the Bos
ton man got what he deserved.
Among the curious suggestions made for
the celebration of (Jticen Victoria's jubilee
is the pro]K)sal that precisely at noon, on
June 21, privuto individuals shall play on
pianos or other instruments, “God Have the
Vuecn,” aiid tliat all the bands in* Great
Britain shall publicly play the same na
tional anthem. It is now easy to under
stand why so many people are emigrating
from Great Britain to America.
The day after the Vicksburg Southrons
refu.vsl to march behind the negro compa
nies at the national drill a lady left a small
wngon-load of strawberries at their camp.
Among the strawberries was a card bearing
these words: "With the regards of a Savan
nah lady, who appreciates your action in
Wednesday’s parade." The Name lady aho
presented a wagon-load of strawberries to
the Memphis Zouaves. The Houtbrons are
anxious to know the lady's name
General Master Workman Powdorly’s
troubles continue to multiply. Home of his
enemies among the Knights of labor de
clare tlml his days as a leader are numbered.
They uccuae him of using the order to pro
mote his poinotial concerns, chief among
which is his desire to be the Issb.r oandi
'late for tlie Presidency. About the worst
the General Muster Workman over
•mad.* wvu move into that Philadelphia
j. Uu troubles dale from that time.
Old Age.
Hr. Clark W. Dunlop, in Home Knot ti
ed ge for June, has a very interesting article,
entitled “When Are We Oldf The subject
of t he article was doubtless suggested to hint
by his observations in his practice. Physi
cians in treating a patient take into consid
eration his age, and his age is not to be de
termined so much by the years heltas lived;
as by the number he is likely to live. Many
people are old at 40; others are young at
tliat age. There are plenty of men and
women of 00 who are younger than many of
40 or 45. People grow old quickly if they
are subjected to great hardships, or have
great troubles. They show physical decay
early in life if they indulge in dissipations,
or if they live in an unhealthy climate.
The late Prof. Faraday said that a man
should live to be a hundred years old, and
the eminent scientist. Dr. Farr, entertains
the same opinion. The duration of a man’s
life is believed to be rpeasured by the time
of his growth, and it is thought that he
shotdd live five times as long it takes him to
reach maturity. Asa rule, a man is twenty
years in growing, and he ought, therefore,
to live a century.
Dr. Dunlop divides life as follows: Child
hood, from 1 to 30; a young man, from 20 to
40; a middle-aged man, from 40 to 00; apt
elderly’ man, from 00 to 80, and an old man,
from 80 to 100.
Prof. J. R. Buchannan says that both the
medical profession and popular opinion un
derrate the limits of human longevity, and he
also says that when men are bred and trained
with as much care and wisdom as horses
and cattle the limits of human life will lie
placed at 140, instead of 100.
The number of men who live Iteyond a
century at the present time is very large.
The eminent Russian scientist, M. Kohl, re
cently published a statement that is rather
astounding. He says: “Despite their enor
mous consumption of vile liquor called
‘vodki,’ the Russians are stronger, healthier
and more long-lived than any other Euro
pean nation. In the whole Russian empire
there die annually 30,000 men above 80 years
of age—that is to say, a third part of
the yearly obituary—ooo above 100
years of age; 50 to 55 who are
more than 120 years old; 20 above
150 and 8 above 135; while on an average
2 or 3 may he annually reckpned on to at
tain the age from 140 to 155.”
In other countries frequent instances of
longevity are mentioned, but the percent
age of long-lived persons must be greater in
Russia than elsewhere, if M. Kohl’s
statement is correct. Mr. Parr, of London,
was famous for his age, being 155 at the
date of death, and it is mentioned that so
great was his vitality that he might have
lived much longer had he not been taken
to the Court of King Charles and permitted
to eat too much rich, highly seasoned food.
Dr. Dunlop calls attention to the French
chemist, Chevreue, who lately passed his
100th year, and who is still in the full vigor
of his intellect. A man lately died at St.
Petersburg at the age of 122, who, at 118,
enjoyed excellent health. A few years ago
there was on exhibition at Chicago a man
named Creely, who was 133 years of age,
and a few weeks ago there died a colored
woman in Kansas City who was alleged to
be 125 years old. Therfdis a farmer named
O’Leary, at Elkton, Minn., who is 112 years
old, and Noah Raby, of Plainfield, N. J.,
who has passed his 115th year, still supports
himself by his labor.
There are a good many old men who are
still active in the airairs of the world.
Gladstone has passed his 77th year, and Em
peror William, of Germany, has celebrated
his HOth birthday. M\ Grevy, the President
of the French republic, is 70, and Von
Moltke, the General of the German army,
is 80. There are eight editors in Boston
who are past 80, and there is a railroad
President m Connecticut who is more than
97. David Dudley Field, one of the most
active lawyers in New York, is over 80, and
Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who is
still a vigorous man, is 87.
No, it will hardly do to say that a man i3
old because he has lived a certain number
of years. Youth, says Dr. Dunlop, is merely
a relative idea and “the best summing up of
the whole matter may be found in the old
saying that ‘a woman is as old as she looks
and a man is as old as he feels.’ ”
Epidemic Conditions.
Au article in the New York .S’far, written
evidently by someone who is familiar with
yellow fever epidemics at New Orleans, ox
presses the opinion that the chances are
against the spread of yellow fever this year.
Attention is called to the fact that the hot
weather liegan very early every season that
the fever assumed an epidemic form at New
Orleans, and that the atmosphere was ex
ceedingly humid. During the season of
1878, when the fever spread all through the
lower Mississippi valley, the weather was
hot and humid in March, and in April it
was almost unbearable.
The fever has been in New Orleans and
other Southern citi<>s many times without
spreading. In 1872, for instance, a whole
boatload of infected refugees from Shreve
port landed at New Orleans, and many of
them died there, but the disease did not
spread. In 187 H Gen. Hood, his wife and
several of his children died from the fever in
the heart of the most aristocratic part of the
latter city, and yet there was no epidemic,
and the nearest neighbors of the Hood
family suffered no harm from it.
The generally accepted opinion is that cer
tain atmospheric conditions must exist be
fore the fever can spread. Ono of these
conditions is that the summer weather must
liegip rtutMifkahly early, and another is that
it must be very hot and Immid. Three con
ditions have not been noticed this year, and,
besides, Key West , which is the only point
in this country whero the fever has made its
uppearnneo this year, is sixty miles from the
mainland.
The most ordinary precautions ought to
be sufficient to contino the disease there.
The ploco is certainly more isolated than
the majority of quarantine stations, and
there ought to bo no difficulty in preventing
it from getting beyond its limits.
The jieople of the City of Mexico are
gi-eatly excited over the rumored presence
of the Hour lion Priuce, Don Carlos, of
Hpain. It is said that he is there in disguise.
The newspapers warn him to leave, and in
timate that if he should attempt to make
himself Emperor he would lie killed. The
excitement is unnecessary, for recent tele
grams report the Prince as traveling in
Houth America. Besides, to make himself
Emperor, the Prints* would need the assist
ance of a European power, something that
he could not obtain.
Dr McGlynn seems to be a mere tool in
the hands of Henry George. The latter has
again stated that*tho doctor has no intention
of going to Rome. A long-suffering coun
try would like to have the question def
initely settled, ouj way or the other.
•THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
Technical Education.
While the State has been prei>aring to
establish a school of technology, one, under
private control, in a quiet little town in Mid
dle Georgia, has successfully demonstrated
its usefulness. This is the school of tech
nology connected with Emory College at
Oxford.
In I**4 friends of Emory, South and
North, who were interested in industrial
education, provided a small fund for the
purpose of making an experiment. The
school was opened at. the tdamning of that
year’s college term, and at once met with
favor. Subsequently the fund was increased,
nnd buildings with all ue<-essary appliances
were erected. Rev. Dr. I. S. Hopkins, the
accomplished President of Emory, has taken
great interest in the school, and to him is
due the credit of its success. He says of the
school that its object is to supply the State,
and the South generally, with a class of
citizens who shall he skilled as workmen
and at the time be educated men.
Further, ati attempt is made to prove that
mechanical science has in itself an educative
power of the highest possible value, in the
di velopment of the perceptive faculties, the
taste, the judgment and the reason. Work
is done in the shops with the idea
that it goes into the market
with other productions of skilled labor, and
must stand or fall by its excellence and
merit. Contracts are taken for all kinds of
wood ami ir work, thus giving the stimu
lus of variety and gradatious of work to
the pupil. Brackets and mantels, from the
simplest shelf to the most elaborate article,
pulpits, pew-ends, and all kinds of orna
mental and useful wood-work are made.
Lathes and engines are manufactured, and
those in use are' said to be equal to the best
made in the North or West. Three years
are required to complete the course of
study. The number of pupils now in the
school is thirty-four. The number would
doubtless be greater, but'thore is not room
for more in the workshops.
The testimony of Dr. Hopkins regarding
the elass of young men who enter the school
is interesting. They are all from educated
and refitted families. Some are the sons of
men who possess means. All apjtear to be
glad of the opportunity of fitting themselves
for some pursuit other than law, or medi
cine, or merchandising. They pursue their
studies with enthusiasm, and when they
graduate they are competent to take the
positions of master-workmen.
As Dr. Hopkins says, it is the reproach of
the South, that with all its material re
sources, so few natives of the South have
been found who, by education or training,
are prepared to develop those interests
which involve a knowledge of the mechani
cal arts. Now that the school at Emory
has proved its usefulness, and has shown
that many of the most respectable
young men in the South are anx
ious to acquire a technical education,
it is altogether probable that the
reproach mentioned by Dr. Hopkins will
not long remain. The opening of the State
school of technology will give great ipipetus
to technical education, so that within the
next ten years there should be no need in
Georgia, at least, for the owners of manu
facturing and mining enterprises to send to
the North for trained men to manage them.
Crime Among the Young.
If the reports recently printed in the
newspapers are evidence, crime among the
young is on the increase. A number of
atrocious murders have been committed by
boys, not out of their ’teens, in the North and
West within the last few weeks, and on
Wednesday last one of unusual brutality
was perpetrated in the South.
It seems that Richard Smith, a 10-year-old
negro boy, murdered a negro baby that was
left in his charge at Bartlett, a small town
near Memphis, Tenn. The boy
is an orphan. and had been
living with the parents of the baby.
On the day of the murder the father gave
him a severe whipping, and the boy resolved
to be revenged. Finding himself alone with
the baby he took a double-barreled shotgun
and deliberately fired it at his helpless
charge, blowing its brains out. Ho was
arrested and lodged in the county jail. He
is said to show no remorse for his crime.
He declares that he intended to kill the baby
at some time, but not just when he did it.
He claims that lie did not know the gun
was loaded. He says that he does not care
what is done with him, provided he is not
hung.
The fact that the boy who committed this
horrible crime is a negro may explain his
indifference concerning it. Ho doubtless
never had the training that the young of
the white race have, and therefore fails to
understand the nature and consequences of
his act. But there is a satisfactory explana
tion for the crimes committed by youthful
whites. Almost every case reported con
•cludes with the statement that the jierpetra
tor lacked parental control. Sometimes this
is because the youth is an orphan. Asa rule,
however, it is because parents fail to dis
charge their duty. Parents who permit
their sons to rove the streets day and night
ought to know what the consequences are
almost sure to be. It is easy for a boy to
find evil associates, and when there is no
check upon him this is just what he is likely
to do. Under the influence of such asso
ciates the boy rapidly descends to the com
mission of crime. In the newspaper reports
of the misdeeds of youthful criminals it is
quite common to find the statement: “Ho
belonged to a gang of young roughs.”
Those whose business it is to rear the
young, whether parents, guardians or teach
ers, have the gravest responsibility resting
on them. They would do well not to let
their charges wander too far away from
restraining influences.
At Parkersburg, W. Va., the other day,
the mule showed his ability to do something
besides kick. Abe Bradford, a driver for
tlio Parkersburg Mill Company, lost the
power of speech eight .years ago, and had
never after been able to speak above a whis
per. On the day in question he was driving
two mules, when the animals became obdu
rate and refused to pull the load. Bradford
grew angry, his face wrinkled and twisted
in speechless rage for a minute, and then, to
his astonishment, he found himself giving
utterance to a volley of oaths. He has since
been able to talk as well as anybody else.
It is believed that the Emjieror of Ger
many Is really in a critical condition. He
has fretted a great deal over the malady of
the Crown Prints?, and suffers from in
somnia. His physicians, it is said, have to
give him morphine to produce sleep. Grave
fears are entertained that death will
end his career.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has declined an invi
tation to attend the Texas military encamp
ment on the ground that his health will not
pemiit him to do so. It is not thought prob
able that he will live much longer.
CURRENT COMMENT.
How It Will Win.
From the .Veto York llemUl (Ind .)
The Democratic party, if it buries local con
troversies out of sight, will go into the tight
next year to win. Ami it will present rather a
novelty to the voters of this country, too. for it
will not only go in on its own merits, but will
win on its merits.
Speak Out, Senator.
From the Worthington Pont (Dem.)
Gen. Lee, of Virginia, will accompany the
Rol>ert E. loe Corps of < ’onfederate veterans to
Boston, where they will bo guests of the John
A. Andrew Post of thr G. A. R. What did you
say. John Sherman? We can t quite hear that
last remark of yours. Speak up! Don’t be
afraid!
Just Commencing.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
The great period of college commencements
is at hand. In a few days a regiment of young
men will pour forth to conquer the world. They
will enter upon the task with the certainty that
they know ail about it. and it will take most of
them many, many years to learn that they have
just commenced the serious portion of their
studies.
Alas, the Poor Senate!
From the New York World (Dem.)
Ex-Secretary Chandler last night secured the
Republican caucus nomination for United States
Senator in New Hampshire. He seemed to have
things pretty much his own way. There is talk
of organizing a bolt under Marston, but the in
dications an? that Chandler will secure the prize
which he has so long had his acquisitive eye
upon The gradual lowering of the standard of
the United States Senate goes on now with a
regularity that can only be compared to the
phases of the moon.
bright bits.
“So you think you could love Evangeline?”
“Love her? T could love her even if she were
my wife.”—Yen; York Mail.
A sermon thief received the following from a
parishioner who had detected him:
“I liked the part you stole the host,
Go to! go to! and steal the rest.”
A young lady In Alabama was rendered
speechless for a week by smelling a bottle of
camphor. The married men in that community
are all looking for that bottle.— Fort Worth Ga
zette.
An awkward driver runs over an old woman
and injures her so badly that the doctor declares
that she has not an hour to live. “What can
you do for this unfortunate victim of your care
lessness?" he exclaimed. “I offer her a life pen
sion.”—French Fun.
The circus proprietors advertised no show on
account of tnc serious illness of one of the ele
phants. "What is the matter with the animal?”
was asked of one of the circus men. “Oh, he
got into the lemonade room last night and drank
a quart of the stuff before he was detected.’V-
Tid-Bit.n.
It requires some little knowledge of military
manoeuvres to get a brass band into position on
parade. When in ignorance of the proper way
to wheel into line, we should advise the officer to
whom the duty pertains to use a wheelbarrow
and make a day's work of it.— H'o6um*.lduer
tiser.
Tiie Standard Oil Trust, the Cotton-seed Oil
Trust, the Cattle Trust and the Rubber Trust
might give the superficial observer the im
pression that the trust system was becoming
prevalent ; but this idea is dispelled by the
Increasing frequency in fhe stores of the sign
"No Trust.”— Norwich Bulletin.
“Have you ever been in Springfield, Ohio, Mr.
Shariiedge?” sheasked of a commercial traveler
in the hardware line.
"Oh, yes.”
“It’s a beautiful town, is it not?'.
“Beautiful town?” he repeated, with some dis
gust. "I have never succeeded in selling a bill
of goods there yet.”— Traveler's Magazine.
A correspondent asks how it is that persons
who are detected in literary thefts almost always
say that "they were not aware that they had
ever seen it before" Where there is only a sen
tence or two that,bias he true; if there be more,
and that excuse 'ituUffered, or any other, our
correspondent’s qt#ry finds its answer in the
old proverb: “Tlitfy that steal will lie.”—Chris
tian Advocate. rv *
Oh. red are the noses of topers [ T[ -
Who loud auaiust the Puritans cry, 1 ‘
And think that the nation is ruined tori
Because all their whistles are dry. 1
Oh, white are the woebegone faces j
(>t sellers of whisky ana beer,
Who Weep in their empty cash boxes
And cry “There’s no liberty here!”
Oil blue, very blue, is the Sunday—
No matter how sunshiny o'erhead;
Yet isn't a deeply blue sabbath
Much better than one painted red?
— Cleveland Sun.
They tell a good story about a little incident
which occurred at one of the Hon. Clarence
Pullen's lectures. You all know Mr. Pullen, the
tall, broad shouldered, brown-bearded, genial
ex-Surveyor General of Mexico. His interesting
lecture on Mexico he is accustomed to illustrate
with stereopticon views, and not infrequently
lias to pick up a man to operate his light and
the slides as he best can. Sometimes the man
knows his business, sometimes he does not. It
so happened that an indifferently good operator
helped Mr. Pullen not longago when he lectured
before the American Geographical Society in
New York. The society is a grave and reverend
body, and was listening to Mr. Pullen's narra
tive description and lively comment with close
attention, paying especial attention to his pic
turds.
“Now.” said the speaker, “I will show you a
typical Mexican citizen,” and the operator stuck
the slide into the lantern. In another moment
the light flashed upon the screen the smallest
little Mexican donkey “burro” they call them
down there that was imaginable. The chorus
of laughter that followed may be imagined.—
Boston Record.
PERSONAL.
One of Queeu Victoria's titles is “Kaiser a-
Hind.”
Miss Georgia Cayvan will spend the curreut
month in Paris.
George W. Childs, who is a great admirer of
long Branch, has promised to erect a public
library building there.
Mas. Henry Wooo. the English authoress, left
£36,000 to her relatives. Her copyrights are
to be retained by her family.
The Berlin Germania admits the truth of the
report that the Puke of Mecklenburg-Sehwerin
has returned to the Roman Catholic Church.
Nvbar Pasha will represent the Khedive at the
jubilee ceremony and present to Queen Victoria
a priceless necklace of Egyptian antique gems.
Gov. C. C. Stevenson, the Republican Gov
ernor of Nevada, is the brother of Gov. E. A.
Stevenson, the Democratic Governor of Idaho.
Cots. Bancroft Gherardi. United States
Navy, lias passed the examination for Rear
Admiral and will be promoted on the retirement
of Admiral Franklin on Aug. 4.
Miss Emily Faithfci.i. lias cut loose from
Liberalism and joined the Primrose League.
"Modern Liberalism,” she says, “is fast moving
in the direction of communism.”
The statement is made that Jefferson Pavts,
Simon Cameron, A. P. Kennedy and Hannibal
Hamlin are the only men living who were mem
bers of the United States Benito when the war
began.
Col. Moshy’s daughter is writing up the
“Adventures of a Boy Soldier," the material for
which she procured from a member of her
fnther's command who enlisted when only 13
years of age.
Wuen King Humbert, of Italy, goes driving
he wears a well-fitting, light-weight overcoat of
black diagonal, a silk hut and yellow kid gloves.
He curries in his hand a long, light whip, which
he handles gracefully.
In an old butcher shop at Greenwich, Eng.,
have lust been found twenty seven ]iahels
painted by Hogarth and his father-in-law, Kir.
James Thornhill Those by Sir James are sere
pictures; those by Hogarth an* allegorical.
Gen. Becker’s baby aided in getting 1R
father the Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion in Kentucky and ex-Keeretury Chandler's
sl-yenr-old boy, the grandson of John P. Hale,
may secure a united States Seriatorship for his
father.
COUNT Karolyi, the Austro-Hungarian Am
bassador nt Lindon. will resign bis post next
month and retire to private life in order person
ally to direct the education of his children. He
would have done so a year ago, but was jier
suaded lo stay in his office until after Queen
Victoria's jubilee.
Laiiy Seton has, and takes groat pride in
showing to all her visitoi-s at Durham House,
probably the earliest autograph letter of Queeii
Victoria iu existence. It Is in childish print
characters, and runs thus: “How do you do,
my dear Sir Henry? Your little friend, Vic
toria." It was addressed to Sir Henry Setou.
Mrs. h. D. E. N. Socthworth. whose prolific
non has proiluctpd u vast amount of Action in
the past twenty years, is making her annual
visit to her old home in Georgetown Heights, D.
C. Dur ing th“ greater part of the year she re
sides at Yonkers. N. Y. Mrs. South worth re
i-eives a large salary for dovot.ng her entire
thuo to the u.taresU> of Ifcu New York Ledger.
A PRETTY STORY.
Maidenly Ingenuity—Fatherly Solici
tude.
From the True Flog.
There was once a tailor who had a beautiful
daughter. All the young men from far and near
came to visit her because of l*er beauty. Two
rivals sought her one day and said: “It is on
your account that we have come hither.”
“What do you want of me?” she replied, smil
ing.
“We love you,” returned the two young men,
“and each of us wishes to marry you."
The maiden, being well brought up. called her
father, who listened to the two lovers, and then
said: “It is late: go home now, but come again
to-morrow, and you shall then know which of
you may have my daughter.”
At daybreak the next morning the two young
men returned. “Here we are,” they cried to the
tailor; "remember what you promised yester
day?”
“Wait a little." he replied, “I am going to
town to buy a piece of cloth. When I return
home with it you shall learn what I expect from
you.”
When the tailor returned from town he called
his daughter, and on her appearance he said to
the young men: “My children, there are two of
you and I have but one daughter. To whom
shall I give her? Whom shall I refuse? Behold
this piece of cloth. I will cut from it two suits
of clothes exactly alike: each one- of you must
sew one of them; he who finishes his task first
shall have my daughter.”
Kaoh of tue rivals took his task and prepared
to set about it. The father called his daughter,
and said to her: ‘ Here is the thread; make it
ready for two workers. ”
The maiden obeyed her father, and taking the
bundle of thread seated herself near the youag
men. But she was as clever as she was beauti
ful ; though her father did not know which of the
young men she loved best, nor the young men
themselves, she knew well enough. The tailor
went away; the maiden prepared the thread, the
young men took their needles and began to sew.
To the one shs loved the beauty gave short
needlesful, but to the other she did
not love she gave long needles
ful. They sewed and sewed, in eager
haste. At 11 o'clock the work was not half done,
but at 3 o'clock the young man who had short
needlesful had completed his task, while the
other had yet much to do.
When the tailor returned the conqueror
brought to him the completed suit, while his
rival still sat sewing.
"My children,” said the father. “I did not
wish to favor one more than another, that was
why 1 divided the cloth into two equal parts
ana told you, ‘He who finished his task first
shall have my daughter.’ Did you understand
me?”
“Father,” replied the two young men, “we
understood you, and accepted the test; what
must be. must.”
The tailor had responded thus: “He who
finished first will be the most skillful workman,
and consequently better able to support a wife:"
but he never imagined that his daughter would
give long needlesful to a man she (lid not wish
to marry. Cleverness carried the day, and the
maiden really chose her own husband.
HOW THEY GOT ACQUAINTED.
A Bashful Couple Who Were Fond of
Flowers and Also of Each Other.
Said a florist the other day to a Boston
Traveler reporter: “Last spring I used to notice
a couple going by here—a fine, manly young
fellow and a girl pretty and dainty, with lovely
brown hair and dark-blue eyes. They didn't
know each other, but when the young man
went to business the girl was sure to lie some
where around where she could see him. She lived
right around the corner, and she used to come
in here and pretend to be examining
the flowers as he passed. Then she would iook
up and watch him as he went down the street.
One day as he went by she looked up and said
tome. ‘Oh, what a funny hat,’and then care
lessly, as she began picking among the flowers:
‘I wonder who he is. I came very near laugh
ing. for the previous day the young fellow had
been in to ask me who she was, and had sent her
some flowers. About a week afterward she
came in with a friend, and I heard her telling
the fyiend how somebody had been sending her
flowers every morning, and she did wish she
could find out who it was.
“Well, the best part of it all came afterward.
One morning he came in as usual and the gar
dener toox him back into the conservatory.
While he was there the girl entered and stood
near the counter looking toward the window
Presently he returned, and as he started for the
door briskly he said: ‘Well, send these flowers
as usual up to 24 street,' Neither knew the
other was n-ar, and, hearing the number of her
house mentioned, she turned around and they
met face to face. Well, I never saw such an
embarrassed couple in all my days. She had a
big Jacqueminot near her face, and it would
have been hard to tell which was redder, the
rose or her cheeks. She turned to the flowers
and he passed out. They didn't come any more,
hut not long ago I saw them going together.
They both looked in, aDd when they saw me he
laughed and she blushed. ”
Her Only Fault. “V
What are your faults?
Fie, fie, my sweet!
Perfection you.
From head to feet.
Fair is your face,
But not more fair
Than is the soul
That's mirrored thet
True are your eyes.
But not more true
Than is the heart
For which I sue.
An angel—yes.
To that I'll swear-"
All haloed round
With golden hair.
My world, my sun.
My moon, iny star,
My heaven itself.
So fair and far!
“But there are spots
E'eu on the sun,’’
You say again
When I have done.
“And I have faults
That mark and mar;
So now, I pray,
Say what they are!”
Well—if I must— ,
Yes, you have one;
Your only fault
Is—having none!
—M. M. B.
The Tale of an Old-Time Pun.
From the Bouton Transcript.
It in a safe presumption, if one is tempted to
make a pun upon another's name, that the same
pun has been made in the person's hearing at
least twenty times, no matter how weird and
recondite it may seem. There is one case which
recurs in the Listener's memory, after a lone
lapse of time, which may be illustrative. It was
In the ease of a gentleman of his acquaintance
whose name was Higginson, and who had a
family of children, and a niece and nephew or
two living at his house. One day the Listener
whose offense had nothing but youth to palliate
it, ventured, in saluting this gentleman, upon
the following inquiry:
"(food morning, Mr. Higginson. How are the
little Higginsons and Higgmdaughters. and the
rest of the Higginchildren this morning '' l
Mr. Higginson sighed deeply. "See here, my
boy; do youJtrow that that poor, impertinent
joke has rie®/>t off regularly ever since there
were any Iligglnsons, and that I myself used to
be called one of the Higginchildren as long ago
ns I can remember? The good die young, my
boy, but wicked old jokes like that live forever
My grandchildren will bear it after they are
grownup, hut they won't enjoy it any more
than I enjoy It tow.”
Mr. HiggmsoW took his departure frigidly, and
the listener has never made a pun on a mans
mimK, before his face, from that day to this.
Mtj Ho Knew They Were There.
1? From the German.
’ A rich old speculator imagined that he knew
about art .whereus he was an ignoramus in re <-ard
to everything, in fact, except in making money
This old fraud determined to make a valuable
present to his son-in-law, who was a preacher
It was suggested to him that an old painting
representing ‘Daniel in the Lions’ Dcn f ’ would
be very appropriate, so an order was given to a
painter to produce the work of art. It was
almost finished when the old s|ieculator was
called to inspect- it. It represented a cross sec
tion of the den, with Daniel walking about
among the lions. When the old man saw the
picture he refused to take it. He Insisted that
if Daniel was in the den neither lie nor the lions
could be seen, and the artist had to cover Dan
and the lions with-a thirk coat of black paint.
When the son-in-law was presented with the
picture he was somewhat daard to know whnt it
represented.
"It represents Daniel in the Lion's Den,” re
plied the art, critic.
“But I don't see either of them."
"Thut makes no difference. They are In there
1 saw 'em myself.”
You want to know the derivation of the word
gumption, do you Eulalia? Very well; It Is
derived from gum and sbum. and a girl who
has gumption in one who shuna gum. Chew sec?
—iilt.turg L nivnit.lt. I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Chicago police go around the town early
every morning and give poisoned meat to all
untagged and unmuzzled dogs whenever en
countered.
Sunflowers make a good, hot fire, and for
centuries have been raised for fuel in Tartary
and Russia. Now they are being cultivated 'tor
that purpose in Dakota.
Bunker Hill Monument was completed on
July 23. 1842. The obelisk is 30 feet square at
the base. 15 feet square at the top. and 221 feet
high. It is built of Quincy granite.
The six largest cities in the world are London,
with a population of 4,164,312; Paris, 2,269,0231
Canton (China), 1,500,000; New York, 1.449,000;
Aitchi (Japan), 1,322,050; Berlin, 1,122,330.
A woman who lives three-quarters of a mile
from the natural bridge of Virginia has never
heen nearer the curiosity, though having hun
dreds of opportunities in the last twenty years.
Some Illinois girls tried to see who could walk
the farthest on the rails of a railroad without
falling off, and three of the crowd went through
a cattle guard in a heap and fell upon a tramp
and killed him.
A leaf of the giant waterlily (Victoria regia)
has been known to measure 24 feet 9)4 inches in
circumference, its weight being nearly 14
pounds. One of the flowers was 4 feet 2 inches
in circumference.
In Chicago the pawnbrokers must give written
reports of all property that goes into their
hands, under penalty of incurring a heavy fine
and having their licenses revoked. This makes
it easy for detectives to hunt up stolen property.
The wilt of an old lady who recently died in
Vienna left all her property, valued at 30,000
florins, to her 19-year-old niece, on condition
that the latter would never wear clothes of any
other cut than those worn by her aunt, and the
niece accepted the conditions.
A citizen of New York, whose house was
robbed, went to report his loss at a police sta
tion, but says that when he had made known
his errand the sergeant in charge answered,
“Oh. go hang yourself.” He sensibly wrote to
the newspapers of his treatment instead.
The first mention of ice cream that is found
in our history is in the account of the festivities
following Washington's first inauguration as
Presifk nr in the city of New York in ITS!).
Among the ices used on that occasion was ice
cream, which is said to have been prepared, or
at least suggested, by Dolly Adams.
A Leeds, Eno., lady has a tame magpie, which
is accustomed to receive dainty little-bits from
the rosy lips of its fair owner. One day it
perched on her shoulders as usual, and inserted
its beak between her lips, not, as it happened,
to receive, for. as one good turn deserves an
other, the grateful bird dropped an immense
green fat caterpillar into the lady's mouth.
Apropos of “Croker of Ballinagarde,” the
Sheriff who conducted the evictions at Bodyke,
a correspondent writes to us: “There is a story
told of one of those. Crokers of the same place,
how when he was dying he had himself brought
to a window that he might look out upon his
lands for the last time—the lands which his fore
fathers dishonestly got. ‘Sweet Ballinagarde,
how can I leave you?’ said he in much anguish.
‘Oh, you are going to a better place,’was the
soothing expression of one of the auditors. 'I
doubt you,' was the touching rejoinder of the
dying man."
A trunk that was found among the unclaimed
baggage, after the recent Champagne disaster,
says a Paris special to the New York World, was
opened a few days ago to trace its ownership. On
the trunk was the name of a German staff offi
cer. In the trunk, cards bearing the same name
and rank were found. There were also in this
trunk very accurate and complete sketches of
various forts and protected places in France
which were clearly the work of a spy. There
were other papers in the trunk which further
established the identity of the officer in ques
tion, who it is now believed, was lost or drowned
during the disaster. •
Out of 237 pupils in the senior class of Har
vard 99 have sat for a composite photograph,
and the other 138 are going to come in. Great
interest is felt in the experiment, and much
curiosity is the result. Everything in a com
posite photograph tones down and fades away
until the average mouth and the average nose
and eyes are produced, so that, even though ten
or fifteen men might have regular Kossuth
beards, these beards would melt away before
the men like snow in spring. The last diagnosis,
however, encourages the class to believe that
there will he a moustache on the picture. Since
then bets are up on whose moustache it will
most resemble.
The new steel sloop now- being built by Gen.
Paine, at Wilmington, Del., as a defender of the
America's cup, will carry considerably more
sail than the Mayflower. Like the Thistle, and
unlike the Mayflower, she has a clipper stern.
She is 3*4 inches longer on the water line, has
2te inches less beam and 1 foot more draught.
It will thus be seen that the cutter element in
her dimensions is more pronounced than that in
the Mayflower. The area in square feet of her
midship section is 96 feet to the Mayflower's 80
feet. The bilge of the new sloop is fuller and
the freeboard straighter than the Mayflow
er's. The new sloop's mast will be 3 feet, her
main boom 2 feet and her spinnaker boom 2 feet
longer than the Mayflower’s. She ought to be,
the experts say, a very powerful boat.
Minneapolis printers have in their midst
what they regard as a phenomenal typesetter.
His name is Miln, and he hails from Sioux City.
He is known as the “Missouri River Rusher'”
but his experience until very recently was con
fined wholly to country newspapers. He was
employed for n time on the Sioux City Journal
and subsee.uently went to Chicago. His first
work on metropolitan papers was in Chicago
He is now employed on a Minneapolis paper!
He was put on a case a week ago and worked
seven successive nights, pasting up a "string” of
101,000 ems. This is an average of 14,128 ems
per night. The work was on “Straight matter ”
Miln havinghad but very little ''phat" and no
bonuses during the week. He can set 2,000 ems
per hour with comparative ease. Minneapolis
printers are thinking of putting Miln against
any printer in the country for a week's type
setting match.
A private letter, dated June 3, from the
Seminole Agency, Indian Territory, gives a de
tailed account of the legal execution, by shoot
ing, of two Seminole Indians named Atowah
and Saunds, at a point on Little river, iwthe
Seminole country. The crime expiated was the
murder of a companion in a drunken frolic in
the beginning of May. Detection, trial, convic
tion and sentence followed with rapidity The
condemned were middle aged men, handsome
and stalwart. The execution occurred at noon
day in the presence of about ano persons, many
of whom were relatives of the murderers or
their victims, the audience including a number
of women and children. Religious exercises of
an impressive character preceded the shooting
in which the doomed men joined. Both
then inado a brief address, say
ing in substance that the cause of their
present situation was whisky, and urging all
especially the youth, to lie temperate. Thedeatli
w arrant being read, the men were conducted to
a blanket which was spread upon the ground,
the ends of which were staked down. They
knelt, a bandage was placed over tbeireyrs. and
their hands, taken by officers, were stretched
out on either side. The executioners then ad
vanced, pistols in hand, and. taking delilierate
aim at the hearts of the condemned, firedstniul
t aneously. The men fell forward on their faces
dying in about six minutes. The bodies were
given to friends, who had them interred with
considerable ceremony. The execution, though
not unusual, made a deep Impression, and the
spectators dispersed in silence, apparently re
fleeting on the scene.
A splendid sample of Russian methods of ad
ministration Is afforded by the case of the emi
nent Prof. Ivan Dityatin, who has been expelled
from the Kharkoff University. He has for some
yeais occupied the chair of Russian law there,
and is a nmn of distinguished literary and scien'-
tillc attainments. For many years tie has been
a constant contributor to the Russian Gazette
a Moscow daily pa;or. and to Russian Thnuaht'
a monthly review. These are both JJlornl or
gans or are supposed lo be hi bend at heart
and herein probably lies the gist of the trump
ery charge against Prof. Dityatin, A domicili
ary police visit was made to his private resi
dence, which led to nothing. A
second domiciliary visit w.is there
fore ordei-ed, and this time the officers
were charged ostensibly to search the cellars
for dynamite. The pretext was insulting and
preposterous, lint it sufficed. Dynamite or no
dynamite, a man whoso cellars were searched
lor such a murderous commodity, no matte- if
jui absolutely unfounded suspicion, must full
finder the ban of the Minister of Public Instruc
tion, who accordingly issued at once his decree
of expulsion, and indorsed his imssport with the
formula "dismissed for extreme disaffection
against the government” The intercession of
the professors friends availed nothing. Not
only the universities, hut all scholastic estnb
me I its of Cl cry kind In Russia, are now closed
to him. There I* not a particle of evidence
against him. His civil and legal rights are now
"JTj otHy lvy the precarious protection of
what iu L'lviu is called a * wolf's passport."
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