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4 C|c|itonung'|^los Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. lIOXDAV. JI NK 18. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 85 cents a week. $1 00 a month. $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; jr>‘ year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, fa 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 85; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed "Morning News, Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; German Friendly Society: the Southern Mutual Loan Association, Series B. Special Notices—Cadets’ Annual Shooting at Greenwich Park; As to Crews of Giovanni, Petrus and Ithuriel; Metropolitan Savings and Loan Company. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; Lost; Found; Personal: Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule—General Transatlantic Company. The Morning: News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well is the new address. Those who desire to have their homo paper promptly delivered to them while away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will he given to make this summer service satisf aeb >ry 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 Adirondaeks,” 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, ami 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. Perhaps that earthquake up in Canada was looking for Prophet Wiggins. There is not much difference in the sound of lioom and bum, and sonic politicians who are on the boom now will be on the bum next year. A contemporary asks the question: “Why should there be financial depression'” Doubtless because there are too many empty pocketbooks. Chairman B. F. Jones, of the Republican National Committee, is one of Mr. Blaine's roost earnest, friends. He holds the Ameri can end of one of the strings Mr. Blaine will pull while in Europe. An exchange asks: “Why should a man want to be Governor:” The history of the country since t he war seems to indicate that the only reason is that he may try to be United States Senator. A Philadelphia undertaker says that a man can die and be put under ground cheaper in Philadelphia than in any other city in the country. The fact will hardly induce immigration to the City of Brotherly Love. At Hazleton, Pa., the other day, an elo quent Salvation Army loss Had her mouth shut by a handful of mud. It was an out rage, but the mud slinger was pardoned when ho explained that he meant the mud for the bass drum. Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, widow of the late Vice President, is visiting New York. She is said to retain in n marked degree her w ell-known courtesy and grace of manner, but show’s signs of her comparatively ro ci*ut great affliction. The gentlemen in charge of the Grant monument fund are discouraged. They do not believe that it will lie possible to obtain fci.o $1,000,000 w anted. It is likely that a monument to cost about $200,000 will be erected. The New York Star's fund amounts to a littlo over SI,OOO. The Chicago man who paid SI,OOO for a Bible goes marching on. The London pa pci's are now printing his numo and exploit. If he could be induced to sit down and read the Bible lie would create such a profound sensation that tho Chinesa newspapers would probably print the details. Sonic of the hotels at summer resorts are advertising that they will not entertain guests who bring children and dogs. Un doubtedly. dogs in hotels are a nuisance. Children, however, are not necessarily so. The most zeivioless lwycott in the world is one against children. A Washington lady who had partaken freely of strawberries became very sick, utvl in a short time was afflicted with strabismus, or “cross eyes.” Every young man would do well to teH bis “liest girl” alsiut this case, and also to inform her that ice cream this year has made several people blind. Vassal- College confers the degrees of “Doctor of Philosophy” and “Bachelor of Arts” upon young women. This is a case of sticking to tradition without good ex cuse. The Vassar faculty ought to lie equal to the tusk of inventing more appropriate names lor degrees to be conferred upon women. Two yews ago Senator (Sherman said in del site Unit “any representation or device is jusUfiablo which tends to the defeat and ox- Unetion of the Democratic party.” The Senate r practices what, lie r!i,n‘ t>7 ’ lor hi-< "T o *** nt Spring uNu in., wanc misrepresentation from bc k tn.Ui.i2 to cud. Mr. Chandler’s Ambition. Ex-Secretary of the Navy, William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, has received the caucus nomination of his party for United Statos Senator, but it is not certain that he will be elected. A ballot will be taken at a joint session of the Legislature next Tuesday, and it is freely predicted that if he is not elected then he will not In dented at all. His party has a good major ity, but there is a strong minority of Re publicans opposed to him, and this minority, if it can effect a combination with the Dem ocrats, may defeat him. Mr. Chandler has been trying for a long time to get into the United States Senate, and if he fails this time it is not probable that he will ever have his ambition to figure as a Senator gratified. He is a shrewd politician and has done an immense amount of work for his party. In working for his party, however, he has always kept a good lookout for chances to promote himself. In fact it may be safely said that his chief idea has always been to advance his own inter ests. His was tho busy brain that con cocted the scheme that put Hayes in the White House, contrary to the wishes of a majority of the people. When other Repub lican leaders hail given up the contest in 187(i, and were ready to admit the election of Mr. Tilden, he arranged tho fraud pro gramme. It is gratifying that there are Republicans in New Hampshire who cannot be induced to assist in honoring a man who took a lead ing part in that disreputable transaction. Tf the New Hampshire Democrats cannot themselves elect a Senator, they might do a wise thing by helping to defeat Mr. Chand ler. No opportunity should lie missed to put the brand of condemnation, not only upon the fraud of 187 G, but, also, upon all who had a part in it. Insanity Among Farmers. Statistics show (hat the percentage of fanners who become insane is greater than that of those engaged in other occupations or in any of the professions. A facetious writer some days ago suggested that the main reason why so many farmers become insane was that their reading was almost wholly confined to the agricultural papers, and that what they found in those papers was enough to drive the strongest minded men crazy. Of course this was intended to lie a humorous thrust at the writers on ag riculture. A farmer, in a communication to the New York Sun, gives some reasons why the num her of farmera who become insane is so laige. Asa rule they are not as prosperous as they have a right to expect to bo. Their crops fail, or partially fail, frequently, and it is with the greatest difficulty that they are able to make a living and meet their ob ligations. The great majority of them are in debt and have mortgages on their farms or personal property. These things are a source of constant worry to them. Having very little to occupy their minds outside of their farms and homes, their minds dwell almost constantly on the unhappy condition of their worldly affairs. Constant worry and the continual dwelling upon one sub ject finally unsettles the minds of many of them. There is another thing that contributes to bring aismt mental disorders among them. It is their food. Asa general thing it lacks variety and is badly prepared. The same diet is adhered to pretty much all through the year, and what they have is not cooked as it should be. Physical ailments are pro duced which affect the mind. Of course we do not refer to the very prosperous fanners who are not oppressed with debt, and who giveasmuch attention to their tables as those lieople who are in the most comfortable cir cumstances, but to the great body of work ing, striving fanners who are always hoping for some happy turn in their affairs that will put them out of the reach of poverty. Of course the merchant and tho profes sional man have their troubles, l>ut what worries them one < lav is not what woiries them the next. A great variety of things occupies their minds, and they are thus pre vented from falling into the dangerous habit of thinking about one thing all the time. They have, besides, many pleasures of an intellectual and social character, which help to keep their minds buoyant and free from gloomy forebodings. A farmer’s life is a very pleasant and de sirable one, provided it is not burdened with too much care and too much hard work. A farmer who owns a productive farm in a healthy locality, and is entirely free from debt, is to bo envied, but how small is the percentage of farmers in this enviable con dition! Poor land, poor food, debt and lull’d work are things which tho great ma jority of farmers of this country have to contend with, and they contend with them bravely. The wonder is that, considering their hardships, tho percentage of their in sane is not larger. Ex-SjieaUer J. Warren Keifer says; “I have discovered that Blaine men are not fighting Sherman.” It is gratifying that the ex-Speaker lias at last discovered some thing. His conduct about the oration de livered when the Garfield statue was un veiled ted tho country to think that he couldn’t make a discovery of any kind. A Southern Congressman is quoted ns saying that tho creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission will ultimately cause the abolition of State railroad commissions. It i.s hardly probable that there will lie such a result. Tho State commissions regulate some matters over which the Interstate Commission has no jurisdiction. The committees appointed by tho General Assembly to serve during tho recess, with out pay, have not.yet accomplished much. It is now only a few weeks until the General Assembly meets for tho summer session. If the members of tho committees mean to show’ thoir patriotism, it would lie well for them to get to work. A Kansas City preacher, a victim to the real estate craze, announced his text not long ago from “Block 4, lot 5. of Matthew's addition to the New Testament.” That preacher is evidently too much interested in the riches of this world. Rhode Island hasn't had a Democratic Governor long, but it is said that the people of that State are already in love with him. It is not surprising. There is something very attractive about u Democratic Gov ernor. It is reported that certain church memliers in New York intend to engage in a crusade against the McGlynn-Ueorgo Anti-Poverty Society because it meets on Sunday nights. If iet alone the society will die soon enough. If tile authorities of the State fair mean to make it a success it would bo well for them to begin to let the people know wliat attractions they will offer. It pays to ad vertize fairs us well as other enterprises. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1887. Cheap English Reprints. In conversation with a resident of this city, the other day, a bright young English man made a suggestive statement. “When I feel homesick in your country,” he said, “I go into a bookstore and soon ob tain relief. You see, your bookstores are really hits of England, for they are filled with English publications. cheap re prints seem to have driven American publi cations out of the market.” It is a fact that this country is flooded with the works of English authors. Any number of “libraries” are printed in which the works of these authors are reproduced at a trifling cost. The result is that the average reader Lakes his literary food from English sources. Ho is familiar with the works of only two or three American au thors, E. P. Roe, as a rule, standing at the head of the list. For historical, political, religious and other works that inform and instruct, he cares nothing. The “libraries” are within the reach of his means, and as the “libraries” comprise little else than fic tion it is fiction that he reads. There are published in this country a number of illustrated papers and magazines. Some of them arc not wholly American. They are filled with reproductions of pic tures that have appeared in English publica tions, and in some instances the reproduc tions are so badly executed that their effect is extremely disagreeable. Tlie people of this country boast of their independence of all the world. In a politi cal sense perhaps the boast has foundation enough. Where literature and art are con cerned, however, the Ixiast sadly lacks foundation, and so the case will continue until something is done to place tho works of American authors and artists within as easy reach as those of foreigners. Another view of the matter suggests it self : It has already been said that there is more fiction than anything else in the cheap English reprints that flood the country, and that the average reader cares nothing for works of a higher order. The fact is a misfortune, for there can be but little growtli for the intellect that foods on noth ing but fiction. American publishers are to blame for whatever evil comes from cheap English re prints. Literary piracy is wrong under any circumstances, but it is doubly so when it has the effect it is having in this country. The Illinois Legislature lias passed an anti-conspiracy bill, meant as a blow at anarchy. It provides that if two or more persons conspire to overthrow the existing order of society, or bring about local revo lution by force, or attempt to overcome the legal authorities of the State, and a human being is kilted, all perse ms engaged in such conspiracy and seeking to carry into effect their common design shall bo deemed guilty of the crime committed, nnd shall lie punished according to the laws regulating the commission of the crime. The bill further provides that it shall not lie necessary in order to establish a conspiracy to prove that the parties charged ever came together and entered into any agreement to it; and it shall he sufficient proof, if it ap pears that the parties charged were actually pursuing in concert the unlawful purpose, whether acting separately or together, pro* videil that the acts of each were knowingly tending to the same unlawful result. The bill is a good one, and will doubtless lie signed by tho Governor. The New York Tribune says that a diminutive, mild-eyed, meek-looking man, in an ill-fitting suit of gray clothes, stood, the other day, at the frorner of Broadway and Twenty-third street, in New York, with a strap around his neck to support a case in which papers were offered for sale. He did not look capable of saying “Ba” to a sheep. The pa[>ers which he had for sale, neverthe less, wore fierce enough. They were copies of John Host’s Anarchist sheet and of Chicago publications of a similar character, in which were dire threats of bloodshed and destruc tion. Considering that he wore a gray suit, it is strange that the Tribune didn’t charge tho mail with being an ex-Confederate. A letter from Paris says that an interest ing story is current there in connection with the illness of the Crown Prince of Germany. The story tells how the old Emperor, long before ho was even King of Prussia, had his fortune told by an old Gypsy woman. She predicted that lie would wear three crowns, but that his son would not succeed him. The same prediction was made to him after he hod become Emperor of Germany. He now virtually wears three crowns—those of Prussia, Hanover and the German empire— and his son is afflicted with a dangerous dis ease. t .. .. At a banquet in New York the other night, the following were some of the toasts: “Why Do Banks Bust?” “Tho Rapacity of Lawyers.” “The Criminal Classes and Their Intimacy with the Prosecuting Officers.” “Our Cemeteries.” “The Cheeky Insur ance Agent.” “The Influence of Kindling Wood upon tiio Modem Stove." “The Sharks of Wall Street.” Tho Civilizing In fluence of Soap.” “Will tho Coming Man Drink Rum." “Ananias and Sapphira.” New Yorkers ought to be able to appreciate such toasts, and to make feeling responses to them. Hereafter lot no man lightly handle anoth er's umbrella. It is an implement that de serves more mqieet. An attempt was made, tho other day, to wreck a passenger train on tho Western Murylaud railroad. A young man who was walking along the track between two stations found four ties piled across the rails. The train was in sight, running at full speed. The young man opened his umbrella and waved it franti cally. The engineer saw it, put on the brakes, and succeeded in stopping tho train within a few feet of tho obstruction. Gen. J. T. Torrence, of Chicago, who has been nnrsiug Gen. Phil Sheridan’s boom for the Presidency, says: “I am as strongly con vinced as over that it is advisable to nomi nate Sheridan for President. I have re ceived over :JOO letters from old soldiers con gratulating me on my outspoken advocacy of the General's nomination.” Gen. Tor rence doesn’t seem to know that there are more than tK),000,000 of |>eoplo in this coun try. Ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock bus gone to Rhode Island to give a young son the bene fit of sea air. While passing through New York he spoke of running a (Southern man for tho Vice Presidency in a way that con firms the belief that ho counts himself a Democrat. Tho ex-Govemor is shrewd. He wouldn’t be a Democrat if he didn’t know that the Republican party is in a dying condition. Tho Young Men’s Republican Club, of New York, is pledged to support Mr. Blaine in 18HS. It is sail tiiat some young men will persist in going astray. CURRENT COMMENT. Ho Will Have to Wait. From tlie Philadelphia Record (Dew.) Gov. Foraker says that Ohio Is for Sbemmu. Of course. Ohio is for the offices, and for the old wool tariff, and for many other things which she is not getting just now to any great extent. Sherman will hare to wait until Brother Biaiue skull tuni his thumbs up. The-Saddest of the Year.' !fn From the Missouri Republican From this date until J uly 1 there will be more general attention paid to such questions as “Whither Are We Drifting?” “Is Character AJI - “The Grand Cyrus and His Court,” “Flowers of Hope,” “Conscience the Beal Touchstone” and kindred issues than at any other season. The graduating days have come, the saddest of the year. Ir . . ■ ' lit The Sherman Fiasco. From the Botton Herald (Ind V The fiasco made by John Sherman in his Springfield speech becomes more apparent the wader are the responses It brings. It, is one of the most lamentable eases of a lost opportunity that we remember. The Impression has pre vailed for some years that Mr. Sherman was fated never to be President, but few expected that he would destroy, with his own mouth, such chances as were open to him at quite so early a day in the preliminary canvass. Stirring Up a Hornets’ Nest. From the New York World (Dem.) Gen. John Pope will stir up a hornets' nest in New England by his assertion, in the North American Review, that ’’during our civil war, the most tremendous convulsions that •is re corded in history, New England produced neither a great soldier nor a statesman of commanding influence.” The explanation which the General suggests of his alleged fact is that the tendency of the uniform education in New F'.ngland for a generation or two had been, and still is, to "turn out men as much alike as buttons from a fac tory,” blighting goßius and preventing individ ual development. Sumner nnd Wilson, Hamlin. Fessenden and Blaine, Collamer and Morrill, were perhaps not great statesmen, hut they ranked well w ith those of the war-time. BRIGHT BITS. A statistician has discovered that Europe hasn’t nearly as many colleges as America. That explains why base ball never received much de velopment in Europe.-- Philadelphia North American. A lady recently appeared at a fashionable masquerade as a mushroom. She was quite as successful as are a great many mushrooms who appear at fashionable masquerades as ladies.— Merchant Traveler. In a Western co educational college female sophomores haze good-looking freshmen by blindfolding and then kissing them. About 2,000 more comely young men than the college ran accommodate want to become studenbs there.— Norristown Herald. Wife—No need to ask John anything about the merits of Somerville minister's. 1 haven’t been able to get him inside of a church once since we were married. W Husband—Why, Mary, you know better than that. Your sister Belle and Fannie Hartley were both married in church, and you know we went to both weddings— Somerville Journal. Hawy—T hear Johnson has applied faw r mem bahship in the club ? Cholly—Yaas, so they tell me. "We cawn’t admit him, don't you know.” “Aw?” “Not a bit of it. Why. the hpggah pawsitive ly doesn’t owe a cent in the vvohltl!” "Gad! How can he expect to be pahmitted to associate with gentlemen.”— Pitsburg Dispatch. A young physician of small practice noticed a man buying some cucumbers, and he followed him home and waited outside for developments. Four hours later the front door opened and the man came hastily down the steps, “Want a doctor?” gasped {he impecunious physician. "No,” responded the man, “I’m going around to the grocer’s for some cucumbers.”— New York Sun. He—l see that between 60 and 100 persons in different parts of the country have been poison ed by ice cream. She (turning pale)—-Did any of them die, George? He—N-no; but somcr’or them were very sick. She (color slowly coining back)—One cannot be too careful, George, where one eats ice cream. Hereafter let us stick to Delmonjpqls. — Harper's Bazar. fa ‘ Things seem kinder quiet ’round here tuy night,” remarked a Western citizen, ap-pb#, stepped into a Third avenue saloon. “Yes, sir,” replied the bartender, instinviiv-v ly reaching for the black bottle, "the boyffweWr liaving a little game of poker, but it got th ’fte bedtime and they all quit." > Surf “Stopped playing poker just to go to bed*'' said the Western man with disdain. "It must have been a mighty poor game.”— Drake's Magazine. ”Bov. are you acquainted around here!” he asked of a lad on Michigan avenue “Yes, sir.” “1 want to find the Civilized Cornice Works.” “Never heard of ’em.” “But it’s an old concern and I was told to come to this corner. There’s a big sign on the roof. ” "Oh, you mean Galvanized Cornice Works. It’s right aroiuid that corner.” "Bub, did I say civilized?” “Yes, sir." "And the proper word is galvanized?” "That’s it. "Here -come here. Here’s a dime for you and you just keep mum about what has passed. I'm going to run for Supervisor this fall on the strength of being a self-made man. who got his education by the light of a corn-cob candle, and 1 don’t want the infernal opposition to got hold of the fact that the candle went out on me too soon."— Detroit thee Presx. PERSONAL. Lord Lansdowne will In? made a duke in the distribution of the jubilee honors. Clark Russell's new novel has the highly ex citing title of "The Frozen Pirate." Thk first social call President Cleveland ever made at Washington was on W. W. Corcoran. Ex-Senator and Mrs. Conger, of Michigan, will spend most of the summer at Washington. Thomas Burgess, long secretary to James Gordon Bennett, has assumed that relation to Albert Pulitzer. The magician. Hermann, who has just died at Carlsbad, was the original, and an uncle of the Hermann who is still on our stage. F’rank Hatton says: “Michigan and Wis consin are close Statos. Ido not believe Blaine could carry either of them against Cleveland.” JoxquiN Miller has sold his log cabin in Washington for $5,100, and its new owner has rented it to Mr. Adee, Assistant Secretary of State. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Premier of Queensland, and Lady Griffith reached San Francisco last week oil their way home from London. A great deal of pressure is being brought to lx>nr to secure the appointment of Gen. Rose crans as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey Rev. J. P. Knight, who. while sojourning in this country in IK'tO, composed the song, "Rock ed the Cradle of the Deep,” died in England last week, aged 75. Billy Florence is a member of the Manhat tan, Lotos, Jockey and laml> cluhs in this country, and of the Beefsteak, Garrick and Green Room clubs abroad. William L. Gilbert, of Winsted.Conn., offers to give-il(in,o<)n for the endowment of an educa tional Institution for girls, on Condition that the town false $20,000 for the imrchasc of a site. Lady Cocnstanck Howakd, daughter of the Farl of Wlnchelsea anil writer of the following novels: “Mated with a Clown,” "Mollie Dar ling" and "Only a Village Maiden," says shia made only SIOO out of them. jfl Ex-Senator Thcrwan was accompnniciMK Boston by Mrs. Thurman, who keeps the newspaper rWMi at bay. Like the old Roman, she is friendly to press representativet, but Mr. TlnirMtiti Is sick now and can’t be interviewed. Mgr. MoaiERKA is making a handsome fortum* by the nilptvototinn in value of liar town lots in LosfAngelcs. She was n shrewder or luckier in vcsVr than her husband, for lie put Ills money chiefly in vineyards whteli are lint paying well. Tns recent celebration of the ninth anniver sary of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com|mny of Boston recalls the fact that Ben: Periey Poore contemplated crowning bis literary career by writing a history of the venerable organization. Court and Sorieti/ says many English admir ers of W. \V. Story, sculptor and author of those two charming hooks, "Roba Di Rama" and “Flamfnetta, will bo glad to know that the University of i txford has announced Its Inten tion of bestowing on him an honorary degree. Attorney General Rtwrs A. Ayers, of Vir ginia, ha* made himself liable to Imprisonment for contempt of court by refusing to obey an order of Judge Hugh L. Bond, of the United Suites tVmrt, restraining him from bringing suit against anybody tendering the Stale of Virginia tax rtoetv&Uc coupons In payment of taxes. A PALTRY “V” WAS NOTHING. Three Swells Talk Grandiloquently Before Justice Murray. Prom the New Yoik Star. Samuel Johnston, James Cue and Fred Ash land, three very "heavy” swells, went into on Italian barber shop on the Bowery early yester day morning and after refusing to pay for hav ing their faces whitewashed and raked, under took hi clean out the place. They wen* arrested and taken to Essex Market Court. When ar raigned before Justice Murray and asked what they had to say to the charge’ of disorderly con duct, Ashland, the youngest of the party, said: “You ask us th-r-e-e poor, lone mortals what we have to say to the charge made against us. Have you the audacity to propound such a query to us? Know you, Judge of this court, who we are ? You do not, and vro soe fit to al low' you to remain in blissful ignorance of our identity. To you it matters not who or what we are. Here we stand, subject to the ridicule of this court, my friends and I. Ah, awful magistrate, our influence, our power, is beyond mention.” "Answer the charge,” said his Honor. “Judge,” put in Johnston, “we are in a dam ” "What?” said his Honor. “Damageable position,” continued Johnston, “and if you ” The Judge could stand it no longer, but burst out laughing. Ashland became enraged at this, and, raising his voice to its highest pitch and gesticulating wildly in the air with his hands, said: "Ye may laugh, ye legal luminaries, but we are by far the most learned and most eloquent group in this spacious and dirt-begrimed room. Ye may do as ye please with us. Fine us if you choose. The wealth of New York, ay, even of this vast and glorious Union, is at our backs. To us a paltry V seems as naught.” “You're discharged,” said his honor address ing Ashland, and the others were fined a “paltry” V each. This took the breath of the prisoners away, and after skirmishing around for Sid for two hours, they finally obtained it and were released. THE QUEER LITTLE MAN. Two Ladies Make a Bet With a Re markable Result. From the New York Evening Sun. Two Indies and a gentleman were conversing in the post office corridor yesterday afternoon, when a peculiar looking man passed along. Ho was below the medium height, of spare figure, with long, straight hair, that hung far down his shoulders, and a countenance that showed the scholar's pale cast of thought. He was dressed in a well-worn suit of black, wore a high slouched hat, and carried a small valise in his hand. “I'll bet that man is one of our celebrated poets,” said one of the ladies, going into rap tures over the queer little man. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Stedman, Geogheghau, or Stoddard. “I'll rake that bet,” replied the other, play fully (lulling her purse out of her reticule. “I am sure the man is an artist, and will wager you a package of caramels.” The bet was recorded, and the ladies delegated their companion to decide the dispute for them. It was a rather delicate piece of business, and the man was in a, quandary how to act. Retried to talk the ladies out of the dispute, and even offered to pay for the caramels himself, but they were so ifetermined that neither would give in. The man walked up to the stranger, hesi tated a moment, twirled his mustache medita tively and said: '‘You must excuse me,sir,but the two ladies whom I just left were so impressed with your distinguished apfiearance that they made a little wager as to your profession. Would you mind informing me'whether you are a poet or an artist?” ‘‘Appearances are deceptive in this world,'' replica the odd little man, smiling pleasantly. “While I am neither a poet nor an artist, my calling in life is no less important. I have here,' placing the valise on a shelf and producing a small box, "an invention of my own which I guarantee will remove all corns and bunions. Thank you, sir; here's my card, so you'll know where to find me when you want some more." The bet was declared a draw, but the ladies went home with their pockets full of corn plasters. A Summer Sell. A charming maid, a red sunshade. A dreary drift of Hummer weather, Quite free from guile she seemed the while; We roamed the breezy flehis together. Her sweet consent she quickly lent To plans of w alking or of riding. And none would dream the faintest gleam Of sham within her breast was hiding. A confidence, fair lips from whence The feelings of the heart were uttered, When she averred she "much preferred My company," my heart it fluttered, This charming maid, this red sunshade. Beneath whose crimson dome we wandered, Became the theme of thought and dream, And oft on my good luck I pondered. ********** My window sash falls with a crash, I raise my eyes from off my reading. And lo! athwart the mowing lot I see the shield of crimson leading. Beneath its shade a man and maid: He holds it tenderly above her, A stranger guest from regions west, Unknown at noon, at night a lover. O. king of spades, and all sunshades, Front cardinal to brightest yellow! I plainly see she smiled on we, Because there was no other fellow. O, bright sunshade! ne'er may you fade, Or lose your sheen of silken lustre, But long proclaim by your red flame “There s danger here, you cannot tmst her.” F. W. F A Gentleman. lYom the London Christian World. Some amusing stories are told of the wit and wisdom of London school children. A class of boys in a board school was being examined orally la Scripture. The history of Moses had for some time been a special study, and one of the examiners asked: “What would you fay of the general character of Moses?” “He was meek," said one boy. “Brave,” said another. "Learned,” added a third boy. “Please, sir,” piped a pale-faced, neatly dressed lad. "he was a gentleman.” “A gentleman?” asked the examiner. “llow do you make that out?” The boy promptly replied, in the same thin, nervous voice, “Please, sir. when the daughters of Jethro went to the well to draw water, the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, and said to the shepherds, 'Ladles first, please, gentle men.’ ” Why She Adored the Minister. From the Chicago Herald. The Rev. S. K. Calthrop, Unitarian Minister in Syracuse, speaking of getting encouragement recently, told how he got some when he preached down in Marblehead. His wife had come to him and said there was a dear little girl who hud injured herself. She had been such a regular attendant at church. She had such a great admiration for Mr. Calthrop she had never missed hearing him. even wading through the snow—that he ought to visit his young parishioner. He went. He was met by the little girl s mother, who began a repetition of the story that the minister’s wife had told, as they walked along to the sick-room. The child lay. propped up, and overheard the last statements from her mother of her own delight in tne pastor’s preaching. “Yes. sir,” chimed in the girl, as the minister stood bedside; “It’s beautiful to hear you praME; you holler sol” A Convenient Customer, From the New York Tribune. “I sent for you to try on your coat because I promised U> do so; but It Is all right.” Thus an up-town addressed a customer the other ■ •‘Why are you so sure of It?” was the re sponse. "Because 1 tried it on myself last evening, "re plied the tailor. “I've made my clothes by your measure for the last four years, and they have fitted bettor than any I ever had before. You know I can’t measure myself, and you are just my sire and shape to the fraction of an inch.” The customer looked at the corpulent form he fore him iu surprise, not unmlxed with indigna tion; but happening at the same instant to catch his own reflection in the pier-glass, concluded to suy nothing. The coat fitted well. A Romance of the Period. From the Omaha World. First, Omaha Dame—And so the weddlngof Mr. do Million and DoUie Dumpling has been postponed ? Second Omaha Dame—Yes; they arc both sick. “Well, Mr. de Million isn’t quite as young ns he tjsed to be, ami It don’t do for a man of his age to stand at a gate every night until 11 o'clock this weather." “No. thut’s true. His great granddaughter told me his doctors were afraid he would not Ist In good health again for some time. He is still suffering from a wound, the result of a kick from a mule during the Mexican war you know.” ■*Yes; by the way, what is the matter with Dolllef" “She has the mumps.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. Wilton, Minn., was one of the most flourish ing villages in the State a few years ago. A railroad left it out in the cold by running its line a few miles away, and the old town site is now converted to farming land. Wohkmkn who were making excavations for the foundation of the new mill at Warsaw 111., dug up a quantity of well preserved buffalo meat at a depth of 12 feet. The ipeat was tasted and found to be sweet and fresh. The* Corean government, it is reported, has concluded a contract for three iron steamers. It is also stated that one of the Commissioners of Customs has started out to find a favorable place on the northwest coast for a harbor. During the time the squirrel scalp bounty was in force. Whitman county, W. TANARUS., issued receipts for about 406,000 of them, representing an ex penditure, in round numbers, of §23,800. The squirrel population was diminished nearly 500,000. Woodbridge, N. Y., with a population of 800, has two septuagenarians, eighteen octogena rians and two nonagenarians, aggregating about 1,900 years. In 1885 there were in the town twenty-five citizens ranging from 80 to 90. The average is about the same still. Cambridge, the seat of Harvard University, has, it is said. 3,623 illiterates out of a total population of 47,692. There are indeed a sur prisingly large number of illiterates in Massa chusetts, but as they are not allowed to hold office the old commonwealth feels that they cannot do so very much harm after all. “Pinafore” is soon to be revived in New York amid realistic surroundings. It will be given upon the deck of a ship, anchored in real water and furnished with masts, yards, sails, etc., which have been made from models of a man-of war. The characters, and sisters, cousins and aunts, who form the chorus, will be rowed alongside in the Captain's gig. A singular auto-da-fe occurred last week at the Palace of Justice in Moabit, Berlin, which quite a number of booksellers had been invited to attend—namely, the burning of the “History of the Franco-Prussian War," by Gigl, pub lished in 1871 by O. Hartleben, Vienna, all the copies of which had recently been seized by the police on account of some incriminating passages contained therein. The London Medical Record says that there are more deaths from apoplexy in Bordeaux than in any other city in the world, and it at tributes that fact to the bibulous habits of the Bordelais. It seems that Bordeaux is given to wine-hibbiing to an extent which produces an abnormal amount of disease of various kinds. It might have been supposed that Bordeaux drank pure wine, but such is not the fact. There is quite as much adulteration of wines in tended for home consumption as of those sent abroad. Two i .ntlemen visiting Marshfield, Wis., had a narrow escape from lightning during a recent thunderstorm. The current struck one man on the shoulder, and passing down his leg passed over his foot and wrist, directly through the sole of his shoe, making a clean-cut round hole and entering the floor. A jiortion of thecurrent also visited the other man's body, passing like wise downward through his slippers into the floor. Through the ion of each slipper can lie plainly seen six round clear-cut holes, each about the size of a darning needle. An Oxford county, Me., paper tells of a fa mous old-time school teacher who wanted to find which one of the boys had stolen a ragged little urchin's knife. He called the hoys up and for some minutes lectured them severely on the wickedness of thieving, and then said, sudden ly, “There is a big fly now crawling over the nose of the boy that stole the knife.” Quick as thought one of the boys clapped his hand to his nose. He was fairly caught, and after restoring the knife to its rightful owner, had to take his thrashing like a little man. London Truth speaks of a lady who bought a horse on Sunday, and on finding t hat she had been swindled sued the seller. In announcing a decision in the case the learned English Judge said the.plaintiff had no redress, inasmuch as the transaction had taken place on Sunday. If a herring instead of a horse had been purchased the presumption would have been that the pur chase was made to satisfy hunger, and had the herring proved to be baa the purchaser could have recovered. In other words, edible Sunday swindles in England are actionable and horses are not edible. Mme. Jane Uieulafoy, wife and assistant of the Asiatic explorer, and recently made a mem ber of the lAtgion of Honor, showed the ques tionable taste of appearing in male attire at the Opera Comique, a proceeding which is said to have caused the prefect of police to revive an old regulation forbidding that practice, to all members of the fair sex, except in carnival time. The opinion of the press appears to be di vided as to the propriety of the police measure, but the public at large is evident ly unanimous in condemning the lack of tact on the part of Mme. Dieulafoy. Bismarck, like many other men whose brain is abnormally active, is sometimes subject to vivid hallucinations on sleepless nights. One morning he said; ‘ Last night for the first time in a long period I have had a few hours of re freshing sleep. Ordinarily I remain awake, the mind occupied with all manner of thoughts and anxieties. Then Varzin suddenly appears to my vision, perfectly distinct down to the minutest details, just like a large picture with all its colors —the green trees, the rays of the sun on the smooth bark, and the blue sky over all. It is impossible, notwithstanding sill efforts, to escape this apparition.” One of the employees of the union depot, who is a member of the Pennsylvania Relief Associa tion, says the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette , recently told a funny incident in connection with the relief fund. It seems that the first member killed was an Italian laborer at Twen ty-eighth street. The company buried the body and forwarded to the man’s father in Italy a check for §509. The old man was so overjoyed at securing so much money for the loss of a son that he immediately despatched another one to this country, with instructions to get a job on the Pennsylvania railroad ami become a mem ber of the association. He is still working on the road. The Turners of Berlin recently celebrated the jubilee of the noted post-Turner Carl AVeise, of Frienwalde, near Berlin. Sixty years ago he entered the Turner guild as an apprentice and has since worked his way up to become one of the masters of his art and profession. Amid the sound of music a procession of the guild, headed by the President, surprised the worthy man. now 74 years old, with an artistic diploma, con ferringupon him the title of “honorary master, in recognition of his services for the promotion of the trade, and as an example to be remem bered by all the professional brethren of the poet-artisan in Germany.” A generous banquet closed the interesting ceremony. Edwin Booth tells a curious story about a dog that is worth printing. Mrs. Booth had a little pet dog of which she was very fond, and Mr. Booth was in the habit of holding this dog on his knee, and perhaps during a conversation, pinching his ear in a kind of unconscious way. They’ went to Europe and left the dog at home, ami, as they were away for some time, when they returned the dog did not Herni to remem her them much. Mr. Booth indeed did not seem to be recognized when be came back, and for a week or so the dog went about them in a purely perfunctory w'n.y. One day he had the dog on his knee, and in the old unconscious way began pinching his ear. The dog looked up at, him for a moment, and then jumped up and licked his hand, ami made every possible demonstration of delight. He had not recog nized Mr. Booth until that old habit disclosed their familiar relations. BuaoLAn Jimmy Hope's unwilling return to New York recalls some interesting facts In the career of his pal, Big Frank McCoy. The latter was a New York boy, the son of respectablo parents His mother left, him a snug fortune, which the young man spent in riotous living! Thieves and cutthroats were his companions, and when his inheritance was spent he drifted into crime. He was a man of fair education nnd good address, and ho married an attractive woman. For some time he lived the life of a gentlemanly burglar at New Haven. Conn. He and his wife lmil rooms at a fashionable hotel, and ware on easy terms with the pleasantest people in the house. The daughter of a former governor of Connecticut became deeply interested in the couple. McCoy was subject to mysterious disappearances, but for the most part ha lived a life of elegant leisure in and about the hotel. AVhlle he was recovering from a serious illness the Governor's daughter loaned him n novel whose hero led a douhle life, that of a business man and that of a burglar. McCoy handed the hook hack with the dry comment that the story was interesting, but highly im probable. Boon after McCoy had one of Ids pe riodical absences, nnd one morning the Gov ernor's daughter was shocked to learn that he had Ihmmi arrested for complicity in a hank burglary at Wilmington, Del. McCoy went to the whipping-post, but he did not stay long in the Delaware .jail. He r.nnenrod In the jail cor ridor one morning and safil to the Sheriff's wife: "Good-bye. Mrs. Grubb, I'm going." "Oh, I'li scream if you do,” was the answer of the help less Mrs. Grubb, and then McCoy sped through the open door. 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