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CljcHTorningTlchis Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SVNIJAY. .JUNE 1“ • IHS7. Regntlerrd at the Pott Office in Savannah. Morning News is published every ciav in fhe year, ami is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and SlO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00: three months, 50; six months, Jo 00; one year. JlO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $£ 00: six months. $4 () one year. SS 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs davs and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. *2 50; ona year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. S'ihM-Hptions payable in advanre. Remit by postal order, chec k or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. heifers and telegrams should be addressed “ Morning News. Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—To Railroad Contractors; Chatham Superior Court; Business for Sale, Graham & Hubbell: Savannah Cadets; Practi cal Watchmaker, Etc., A. Krieger; Townsend 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. Picnic— St. John the Baptist T. A. B, Society. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale: Personal: Ix>st; Miscellaneous. Dry Goons at laiw Prices -Gray & O'Brien. Best lame Juice, Etc. Nicholas Lang. Savannah Yacht Club—Regatta on Ladies’ I>ay. Peremptory Sale op Silverware, Etc.—M. Sternberg. Summer Resorts— Alleghany House. Ciarkes ville; Glenbumie, Marietta. Ga.:The Arlington, Gainesville, Ga.: Arden Park Hotel and Cotta ges, Arden. N. C.; Tabard Inn, Rugby, Tenn. 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, ft for a month or ?2 50 for threA 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 a the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly 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. 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. 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