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THE NAPOLEON' OF MAGIC WAYSTHATARE DARK AND TRICKS THAT ARE NOT IN VAIN. Taking a Glass of Champagne from Bis marck’s Vest Pocket The Professor a Mesmerist as well as a Prestidigi tateur. Prom the New York Evening Sun. The most deceitful man on the American continent to-day is the prestidigitateur, necromancer, magician, sleight-of-hand man, and worker of mysterious marvels generally, Prof. Alexander Herrmann, second cousin to the Old Boy himself. Deceit shines from his big, black, gleaming eyes, it runs down his coat sleeves, and trickles from his finger tips; sometimes it streams down his trousers legs and makes its ap pearance from the soles of his patent leather shoes. Personally the professor is the very em bodiment of the polished villain in the play. Erect and sinewy as an Indian, with Napo leonic moustache and imperial, he could challenge comparison as the ideal Mephis topheles. But Prof. Herrmann’s wicked ness lies only in his appearance. In reality he is one of the most amiable and virtuous of men. He is engaged in doing funny busi ness because it pays, and pays well. “The truth is, said the Professor in a dressing-room underneath the Bijou Opera House, “peeple like to see marvelous things. Asa rule they don’t care how they are mys tified. how the handkerchief is put into the egg. or how any of the numerous tricks is performed. They are simply content to be humbugged, as Mr. Circus Barnum says, as long as they are well fooled.” “Is your skill in feats of legerdemain mainly the result of education?” “No, sis-. My success is due to the fact that I was built that way. It is my inherit ance from the unknown. I have perfected •my manipulation by practice, but the initial motive comes from my heredity. My skill is not confined to my slight-of-hand per formances in public. I have pyschological or mesmeric powers which I do not display, because there has been so much humbug in that line. I will give you a simple of my power. Please stand up.” The reporter obeyed. “Put your feet close together.” The Professor then placed the tips of the fingers of both his hands on the reporter’s shoulders. He then directed another man standing behind the reporter to place his fingers over his (the Professor’s) fingers. “Now,” said the Professor to the third party, “nod your head in the direction you wish the reporter to fall.” The scribe saw he was caught and he looked down to see if the floor was oak or !>ine. His next impulse was to stretch his egs apart. But those dreadful black eyes wore on him. The third party nodded—in which direction the victim knew not. Al most immediately, while the Napoleonic demon was apparently looking down through him and analyzing the late breakfast he had eaten, the reporter felt a marked sensation down his left side, which quickened the action of his heart. He did not try to drive the feeling away by an effort of will, and slowly the sensation—which somewhat re sembled a prolonged shock of electricity— deepened and quickened, until he began to sway like a tree partly chopped through. He was beginning to size up the chances of falling through the looking glass, when the Professor removed his hands and with them the influence. "Such manifestations of power as those of which you have just felt the influence I re gal'd as perhaps my highest gifts,” said the professor. “Given the proper subject, I can cause him to fall to the floor without touch ing his body. While I don’t profess to be able to explain these phenomena, still I am possessed of the power to execute them.” The party resumed their seats, and the professor handed around cigarettes. When the magician reached his opened palm to ward the reporter, upon which lay two of the little tobacco stuffed cylinders, the cig arettes magically melted into one. As the scribe lit a cigarette the professor plucked another from the heart of the Jack rose in his buttonhole and presented it to him. “As I am rather pleased with your man ner and conversation,” said the professor, “allow me to present you with a slight testi monial of my regard,” taking a magnificent diamond ring from his finger and placing it oil the finger of his visitor. The ring fitted like the skin on the eel, and the lucky scribe had already begun to congratulate himself on his good luck when—presto, weto change! and the ring was gone. Bismall&h! the ring was picked out of the visitor’s pocket by the deft fingers of his occult jags, and it went through a series of open sesame changes, ap pearing suddenly upon the floor, shooting his tinted rays from its diamond eves, and again the ring flew out from between the professor’s choker and coat. “I will si low you one of my best tricks. Johnny, get a bottle of wine and some goblets.” Johnny returned with the wine and gob lets. The professor poured wine into three goblets until they were full to the brim. “You will obs'erye, gentlemen, that I will take this glass of wine and throw it fnt.o the air, glass and wine both, mid that it will disappear.” The "lass which the professor hold was of the ordinary size used for serving wine, The glass was so full of the liquid that the professor handled it with care lest he should Spill it. Tiie professor stepped to the middle of the room, holdiug the wine at arm's length. He gently lowered the glass, and then tossed it into the air. After it left tho magician’s hand the glass and wine disap peared, leaving no trace behind but a few scattered drops upon the floor. Slipping across the room, the wonder-worker took the glass of wine from the vest pocket of his visitor. After the exclamations of surprise had subsided, the professor said: “I performed that trick once in Berlin, in 1807. I attended a banquet given by the French Minister. Bismarck sat on my left, and when I threw the wine and glass into the air I took it out of Bismaivks pocket. Alien Bismarck told Emperor William what I had done he sent me an order to use the Imperial Opera House during my stay in the city without, rent. “The Sultan of Turkey was equally kind to me. We were on board his yacht and he asked me if I could do a trick with his watch, which was a most lieautiful instru ment, studded with precious stones, and probably worth $2,000. Alter everybody on hoard had admired the watch 1 deliber ately threw it overboard. The Sultan hardly know how to take such an apparently flagrant act. It was no joke to throw sc valuable a watch into the sea. “‘Your Majesty, said I, “will you send for a lino and a baited hook?’ “He did so, n*id in a,few moments tho sailor drew on board a large fish. When I cut the fish open out dropped tho Sultan’s watch. Ho wus so much pleased that he presented me with $2,500 ill gold.”' “How does tho magic practiced in Euro pean countries-oompai e with that of India, Professor!" “European mngic is for superior. Exag gerated reports of tho wonderful things done in India reach us. The larger part of their trteks nro performed in tho open mar ket places with the help of wicker baskets and holes in the ground. I can go out here in Broadway and cut a hole in the sidewalk and perform tricks which will collect such a crowd that the cam could not jmssthrough, and they would not Ist difficult tricks, either. Perhaps you have heard of tho story that a cortalii magician in India goes out into tho market place and throws a rope into the nil - . This rope goes up so high that tho upper’ end disappeam in the clouds. Them the magic maker climbs up the rojie until lie also is lost to view. Just about tho time you would naturally think he was knocking at St. Peter's gate down conics one of his logs. The mate fol iows in a few moments, folio wo 1 by both anna in succession. Then follows the trunk, and lust tho bead comes eddying down from somewhere out of the infinite. After all the muiuliers of the laxly have reached solid ground they quickly, "snd apparently of their owu volition, gather themselves to- gether and the perfect rehabilitated man is the result. Then the magician, like the rag picker, puts his basket under his arm and silently sneaks away. I kept a bright look out for that fellow when 1 was in India, but I never saw him. Perhaps he had gone up the rope and stayed there while I was in India. The Professor grinned at his little joke and took a piece of cigarette paper from his pocket. He tore the paper into shreds and handed it to his visitor rolled up into a little ball._ “Unroll the paper carefully,” said he. The visitor did so, and lo and behold! the paper was intact and had evidently never been torn. This was evidently the case, but confound the luck! how did he do it ? “I never explain how I do my tricks,"” said. the Professor. “If I should attempt to ex plain them probably only a few out of my audience would understand the explanation. I do occasionally partly explain how I do some tricks, but I usually leave the lookers-on much more mystified than they were before. It would not be right for me to give the secrets of tho craft away. A great many of the tricks performed by me are also performed by other men, and it would be an injustice on my part to destroy their stock in trade. Be sides, anything new in this line of business is hai-d to get, and is jealously preserved when discovered. I keep two men in Europe con stantly on the search for novelties, and it is my intention to sail for the other side in a few weeks on purpose to prepare an entirely new programme for my next season’s work. I am preparing a small book of about fifty pages, containing a record of curious things that have happened to me on the steam boats and railroad cars.” “Your skill must be an unfailing source of amusement to you when traveling, is it not?” • “Decidedly so. Recently I was coming to this city from Boston in a palace car. When the conductor came around to collect his tickets the passengers were unable to find them. Pockets were turned inside out, satchels were ransacked, and the cushions of the seats were turned over, but no tickets could be found. At last I said to the con ductor: “ ‘What is the difficulty, sir?” “ ‘The passengers have lost their tickets,’ he replied. “ ‘You have the tickets, sir,’ said I. ‘lt is to be hoped that you are not trying to de fraud the passengers!’ “He grew as red in the face as a pot of red paint, and replied: “ ‘lf you intend to reflect on my honesty, sir, I’ll knock your two eyes into one.’ “ ‘There is no occasion for you to lose your temper,’ said I. ‘lf you will take off your cap you will find the tickets inside the lining.’ “Sure enough, the tickets were where I had indicated. He apologized to me, and I afterward learned that lie went into the baggage car and examined the tickets with a microscope to be certain that they were not counterfeits. “I had quite a laughable affair with the colored porter of the same train. He askod me for my ticket, and when I told him that he already had it and pulled it out of his vest pocket his eyes almost forsook their sockets. He evidently thought I was in league with Satan, for he thrust his hands, palms outward, toward me, and his face was bleached a dirty ashen hue as he ex claimed: “ ‘Now you go ’way f’m me, Mr. Herr mann. I knows ye. Don’t want none o’ yer debbil tricks ’round yehe.’” 1 * When the Professor became animated in conversation he leaned over close to his visitor, and his eyes seemed to blaze with the uncanny fires of the infernal regions. Always self-poised and thoroughly master of himself, yet volcanic fires seemed burning beneath his cool exterior which might break foiqthat any moment, j No wonder the darkey feared him. Among the incidents which he related was one in regard to an episode in the Bur nett Hotel in Cincinnati. Someone asked him to play a joke on the barber connected with the hotel. After the barber hart lathered and shaved one side of his face the beard miraculously grew out again. The barber shaved him twice, and still there was as heavy a beard as when he began. The barber threw down his razor and left the shop> in a hurry. The incident had such a serious effect upon the barber that it was thought he would have to be sent to a lunatic asylum The professor is being assisted in his pres ent engagement at the Bijou by bis wife, who is an English woman. The professor is a Frenchman. Mi's. Herrman appears on the stage as a page, dressed ill velvet Knickerbockers, and wearing a blonde wig. She also goes to sleep in the air, with her elbow resting on the upper end nf a crowbar starsling in the centre of the stage. This is one of the professor's most wonderful rackets, but he stubbornly refuses to ex plain how ho does it. He closes his entertainment each night by jamming a dilapidated stovepipe hat into a mortar and then firing the hat up toward the ceiling. After flying round the room awhile like a monstrous bat the hat finally comes Juto occulation with the ceiling, from whence the professor dislodges it with a pistol ball, and it falls gently as a snow flake upon the head of its owner in tho au dience as smooth as though it had just come from the hatter’s hands. Another of his most successful feats is to roll two extremely lively rabbits into one. It is the intention of Prof. Hernnami to exhibit next vear in this city the $75,000 worth of jewels and medals of which he has been the recipient in his brilliant cai-eer. He regards America as the greatest coun try on the face of tho earth, especially for making money. His books show that Americans like magic, for in thirty-five weeks commencing in September last and euding in May, he realized a clean profit of $31,470. In ‘England, he says, there are pennies and shillings, in France francs, and in America dollars. Measuring the Queen’s Mouth. From Dr. Macaulay's “Victoria." Mr. Gibson, R. A., told us of his visits to Windsor when honored with sittings for his admirable bust of the young Queen. On first getting the commission and the com mand to attend at the castle, he was in much anxiety and trepidation concerning his in terview with royalty. The very first half hour put him perfectly at ease. He was charmed by the gracious and affable de mcaner both of the Queen and the Prince, and lie was surprised and delighted by the wide and varied knowledge shown by the Queen in conversation, for she talked frankly on many subjects. At one of the sittings he said lie wished to measure the mouth, if her majesty would allow him. “Oh. certainly,” said the Queen, “if I can only keep it still and not laugh. ” The proposal was apparently unexpected and so droll that it was some time before the Queen could compose herself, id only after repeatedly laughing. ... . Another day he said ho wished to see her majesty in evening dress. She came down the stairs with the Prince, who accompanied her, having like a fond young husband his arm round his wife’s neck, and said, point ing to the shoulder, “Mr. Gibson, you must give me this dimple." The only drawliack in the artist's pleasant recollections of those days was the disturbing presence of a dear bright restless child, of aliout 3, who kept dodging aliout with her doll. This was the Princess Alice. Whether the Queen no ticed the sculptor’s thoughts or merely as a diversion, she said to the child, “Go and give Mr Giboon your hand. The little thing bxldled up and held up her hand, which the artist took and kissed, after which there was stillness for a long time, and the artist’s at tention was not disturbed. After tho last sitting the Queen said: “Now, Mr. Gibson, I shall have pleasure in showing you what is worth seeing in the Castle ’; and the Queen and Prince took trouble to bring to his no tice all that they thought would most inter wit an artist. Mr. Gibson seemed pleased to tell all those details, and laughed in recalling tho Quoon’s on first being aj<kod permission to measure her mouth, adding: “I measured also her height, to a line, and it was exactly 5 feet " The flannel coats and vrats at B. H. Levy 4 Uro s. tiro ucat, nobby aud cool. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1887. SOME GREAT SMOKERS. The Popularity of the Weed That Soothes. From the London Standard. Despite the fact that many persons have a strong antipathy even to the smell of to bacco, there can be no doubt that as a habit there are few which can be compared to it for popularity in our own and other coun tries. it has been truly remarked that it embraces the circumference of the globe, it comprehends every class of people, from the most savage to the most refined, and includes every cli mate, from Siberia to the equator, and from the equator to the ex treme South. Thus, referring back to by gone years, Spencer calls it “divine to bacco,” but ■whether he indulged in the use of it is by no means certain, although it seems probable that he spoke in this compli mentary manner out of respect and regard for his friend, Sir Walter Raleigh, who has been regarded as having introduced the fashion into England. Hence Malcolm has preserved a tradition that he used to sit at his door with Sir Hugh Middleton, a practice probably promoted, he adds, “through the public manner in which it was exhibited and the aromatic flavor inhaled by the passen gers.” At the commencement of the seven teenth century smoking was in high popu larity and received a larger share of liter ary notice than ever after fell to its share. Like Milton, George Withers is commonly said to have indulged largely in the solace of his pipe, and many of his evenings in Newgate, during his long imprisonment, when he was weary of numbering his steps or counting the panes of glass, were re lieved with meditations over a pipe, which also afforded him an opportunity of moral zing, as thus: And when the smoke ascends on high, Think on the worldly vanity Of worldly stuff; "tis gone with a puff, Thus think, and drink tobacco. Charles Lamb, according to his own con fessions, was “a fierce smoker of tobacco;” but as he advanced in years he was com pelled to relax his intimacy with the favor ite weed, and describes himself as resembling “a volcano burnt out, emitting now' and then only a 'casual puff.” Eventunlly he took his formal leave in a “Farewell Ode to Tobacco,” and, in sending a copy of the poem to Wordsworth, he writes: “I have had it in my head to do it these two years; but tobacco stood in its own light when it pave me headaches that prevented my sing ing its praises.” In the course of the poem, which is one of the highest tributes ever paid to tobacco, he says: For I must—nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must leave thee. For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die; And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise. Addison had a pipe in his mouth at all hours, and Hobbes, after his early dinner, smoked pipes innumerable, and yet he attained the age of 92. The first Episcopal smoker in England was Dr. Richard Fletcher, successively Bishop of Worcester, Bristol and London, and was the priest specially chosen to attend on Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringny, on the day of her execution, Feb. 8, 1587. According to one account, his death has been attributed to “his immoderate taking of tobacco.” Arch bishop Whateley was another great smoker, and his pipe, when his little volcano was extinct, served him as a book-marker. In summer time he might be seen sitting on a chair in St. Stephen’s Green while he was smoking tobacco. Archbishop Laud was accused by the Puritans of being too fond of smoking; and Rotxjrt Hall, while at Cambridge, acquired the habit of smoking from being in Parr’s company. Being asked on one occasion why he had com menced, he replied: “lain qualifying my self for the society of a Doctor of Divinity, and this (holding up his pipe) is the test of my admission.” Dr. Parr, it should be noted, was an inveterate smoker, and when someone said to him: “Do you smoke, Dr. Parr?” he answered: “All great men do, sir.” Sometimes he would smoke as many as twenty pipes in an evening, and Dr. Richardson, in- his “Recollections of the Last Century,” relates how, at the dinner fiven at Trinity College, Cam ridge, to the Duke of Gloucester, as Chancellor of the University, Dr. Parr, upon the removal of the cloth, indulged in his eternal pipe, “blowiug a cloud into tho faces of his neighbors, much to their annoyance, and causing royalty to sneeze.” The noted founder of the “Atomic Theory,” Dr. Dalton, greatly enjoyed his pipe after his day’s occupation in the class room or the labratory, “or when taking his well-earned week’s half holiday with the bowling club at the country tavern, where every Wednesday he regularly attended,” his colloquial faculty tieing at its very best when over a pipe of tobacco. Dr. Aldrich, the noted Dean of Christ chureh, Oxford, was a liberal patron of the weed; and Por son smoked many a church warden. On one occasion it is related tliat he “dis patched a bottle of alcohol, besides smoking all}’ number of cigars.” Sir Isaac Newton indulged freely in this recreation, and Ben J orison was an equally ardent admirer of it. Byron, again, was an enthusiastic admirer of the weed and wrote in its praise. Thomas Howell was a great smoker, and in his “Fa miliar Letters” gives various allusions to his fondness for tobacco. Thus, acknowl edging on one occasion a present of toliac*- >, he writes: “I received tliut choice parcel of tobacco your servant brought me for which I send you as many returns of grati tude as there were grains therein, which were many, but too tew to express my ac knowledguient.” Even the very ashes ho praises, adding: “’Tis well known that the medicinal virtues of the ashes are very many, but they are so com mon that I will spare the inserting of them here.” Thomas Carlyle whs a steady smoker, as also is the present poet laureate. Cunip bell and Moore Ixitli delighted in their pipe, and John Gilson Lockhart was seldom seen without a cigar. Jernld and Fielding liber ally puffed their leisure, and the late J. M. Kemble, author of "The Seasons in Eng land,” was an inveterate lover of the weed. According to an old .Tollman, it was no small pleasure “to get Paley, on a cold winter's night, to put up his logs, stir the tire and fill a long Dutch pipe, lie formally declined any punch, lint, nevertheless drank it uj >as fast as we replenished his glass. Ho would smoke any quantity of tobacco awl drink any given quantity of punch." Van Holmont, traveling in desert places, argues that tobacco is beneficial and states that it protrots him for long periods against hunger or fatigue, and in addition he aids that he could make prolonged journeys with bo other subst moo, w Leaving, however, our own country, it may be remembered that Gen. Grant was much devoted to a good cigar, and, indeed, his love for this recreation has long become proverbial. Similarly, Count Bismarck is no less fond of this mode of solin'e. and on one occasion, when about to ligm his eirnr, observed to n friend that “the value good cigar is !m*m understood when it is last you possess, and there is no chance 9 getting another.” M. Guizot, when found one! evening by a lady smoking his pipe, was asked by her, in astonishment, “What, you smoke, and yet have arrived at so great an age?” “Ah, madam,” replied the veteran statesman and historian, “If I hod not smoked, I should have been dead ton years ago.” Victor Hugo was another vet eran smoker, and whenever his friends hap jMjncd to call they were invariably invited to join him by the fireside and share the hon ored pipe. Of the many striking anecdotes told or the fascinating charm of smoking, and they are legion in number, it is related how, in the year 1843, tho convicts in the prison of Epinal, France, who had been for some time deprived of tobacco, actually rose in revolt, their cry lieing, “Tobacco or death.” Further, when CoL Regboumo was marching in the interior of Surinam against negro rebels, and the soldiers had to liear most awful hardships, they smoked they chewed leaves and leather, and found the loss of tobacco the greatest of all their trials and torments. Once more Lilly, ill the “History of Ilia Life and Times,” men tion! a clergyman of Buckinghamshire who was “so given over to tobacco and drink, t hat when he had no tobacco he would cut the bell ropes and smoke them.” Eccentric as such an act may seem, tho* are never theless cases on record of the most extraor dinary axpedi-nts resorted to for the sup plying the deficiency of tobacco. A FUNERAL IN A TENEMENT. The Unostentatious Service Over the Death of a Baby. From the New York World. A little girl in a red-checked apron stood on tip-toe to tie two pieces of white ribbon to the front door-knob of the big tenement where she lived. It was in Rose street just around the corner. The ribbon was limp and old, and hung in a lifeless way against the worn panels of the door. She stepped back to note the effect, and another girl about the same age came out and joined her. The two little ones were the only signs of life about the great build ing that looked black and forbidding with its range of grated fire-esrapos giving it the air of a barred prison. The second comer stared at the first girl with bold eyes for a moment and said, pointing to tho fluttering ribbons: “What did you do that for?” “Baby is dead.” “Do you live in this house”’ “Yes; on the fourth floor.” “Huh,” with a sniff of contempt. “We live on the first, floor and we've got a baby carriage.” Then, in a more conciliatory way: “May I conic up and see it?” “I guess so,” and the two children, hand in hand, went up the dark steps to the little room fronting on the street, where the mother and the woman of the next room were preparing the child for burial. It was a bloodless little thing, the piece of clay tho women fondled in that lingering way they have with those they love. The mother seemed jealous of the attention her friend showed the child. She wanted to at tend to the last rites herself. She could not bear to have other hands touch the little thing No other hands but hers should smooth the pillow for its last sleep. There ' was no wild outburst of weeping on her part, and, beyond a certain queruTousness, no demonstration of affection. The mother did not even cry. She was too used to su ff er ing for that. She talked reminiscently of the bundle of white on the bed. She, told how she never expected to raise it; that it had always been thin and sickly: that it was the best child in spite of all that the world had ever seen; that she knew it could never stand the warm weather, and a thousand other little details that only a mother could remember and repeat. And every now and then she would begin again and go over its peculiarities finding some new charm to tell of. The other woman was sympathetic and receptive, petting the mother and calling her “Dearie” and “My darlin’ ” and flitting about the room putting things to rights with an air of proprietorship that would have been hotly resented at any other time. The two neighbors living so close together had been great enemieSj and had fought royally over the petty privileges of their fourth floor hallway. Blit all that was forgotten and laid aside now. Pretty soon a young man with a week’s growth of beard and a furred silk hat came in softly without knocking at the door. He said he was the undertaker. Noltxly knew how he had found out about the death, He had a book with pictures of coffins in it. He stepped on tiptoe across the room and asked in a subdued voice whether to-morrow morn ing would suit for the funeral. Then he said that for sl4 one could get a beautiful casket. He always called his coffins caskets. The neighbor took him aside and conferred with him, finally getting the sl4 casket for sll. Then he went away, after leaving a receipt for the $5 cash that had been jxiid on installment. The mother took the cold form of her child in her arms and rocked it as she had done so often iu life. It had a long, white gown, with a bit of lace down the front. She took a wisp of pink ribbon and fastened it at the baby’s throat. The neighbors pro tested that she must not do that; it would never do. But the mother persisted and the bit of bright color remained. The .husband came home frfim work at the usual hour and did not grumble at the cold supper that was spread for him. He kissed his wife in a way that he hod not done since they wore married. They were a loving couple, full of the truest affection for each other, but tho affection did not often find outward expression. He sat with his wife for hail an hour and then feeling him self in the way went down and joints! the group on the stoop. She did not care to leave tho room. Ho was working on a particularly urgent job and went off with his tools as usual the next morning. He kissed the mother of the little one again lief ore he left. The woman across the hall came in early and put things to rights. Then she disappeared ror a little space and returned, dressed in a newer gown of black. She brought a ox-eyed daisies with her and put them in the baby’s hands. The little girl who hail tied the white ribbon that served as crniio to the front door knob, came up wonderingly and felt of the flowere. Then she took one for herself. The neighbor and the undertaker arranged the casket, the woman quietly slipping the bit of pink ribbon from tho shroud Pat the quick eyes of the mother hew it and would not have the child de prived of the bit of color. It had always loved the bright string, she pleaded. So the pink knot rested there. A young minister came—he was hardly more than a boy—and read a chapter from the Bible and said a few words of conso lation in German. There were ten or twelve persons in the coom. He prayed for the bit of clay in the coffin. Then the undertaker’s mail took the coffin iu his arms and carried it down to the hack that Rtood waiting at the door. The mother cried softly to her self during the services, and her little girl stood by her side and stared at the minister. There was no hearse, and only oua carriage. The man put the little coffin on the front seat of the hack, the mother and her little girl and the neighbor, who had been so kind to her, got iu with it, one of the group wait ing on tne sidewalk slammed the door, and the carriage took its way over to Long Island to Cypress Hills cemetery. Nothing was sail lat the grave by any one. They took the little box anjl ’ put it in a great grave with half a hundred boxes of the same kind of precious dust that had been already laid awuy to rest. In the afternoon the three mourners came home. The mother went up to the room, and the little girl again stood on tip-toe at the door to untie the fluttering white. She tool; the ribbons upstairs, foidod them care fully and put them back in the box where they had tieen at first. They were the rib bons that her mother had worn tho day she was married. A Hard Story to Swallow. From the Chicago Herald. Two boys were flying kites out on Kings bury street yesterday afternoon. One of tho lads, wßose name was Yessup, railed his . father oat at tin* home to watch the flight hi >f tin* paper things. When about 400 yards %>f string had boem paid out tho Yessup txiy usked his father to write a message and send it up to the kite. The old man sat down and wrote thus: “Send somo rain. Yessi p." Tho message elimed up tho string. A bird circling high in tho air winged its way to the bit of ]taper, which it jx*okod viouifly. An hour later the kite whs hauled iu by the boy. The ]>apor was in tatters, the only , liart of tho mewago remaining intact being that portion of jthe signature “Yee.” Two. hours later a Sou'easter camo up, and rain fell in sheet - . • • "I Don’t Know What Alls Me,” says many a sufferer. “I havo tho ‘blues’ frightfully; I am troubled with headache and dizzineM; I have lost my appetite; there is a liad taste in my mouth ronstantly. What is tho matter with me?” We will tell i you; you an- “bilious.” Get a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Dtoxjvery,” use it faithfully, and you will soon be anew man again. All druggitU have it. < ECZEMA ERADICATED. (JenUemen—lt is dne yon to My that I think lam entirolv wall of •riseraa after takon Swift's Specific. I hare been tronhlyd with It very little in my face since last anrin* At the beginning of cold weather last fail it made a slight appearance, hut went awnv su’d has never returned. S. S. S no doubt broke It up; at least it put my system in good condition and I got well. It also benefited my wife greatly in case of sick headache, and made a nerfect *urc of a breaking out on my little threu yoar old daughter last summer Watkinsvtllc, Ga, Feb. 18,188. , K*v. JAMES V. M. MORRIS, ifxeattsc Ml Blood and Skin Diseases mallsd free. ____________________ Tal ‘ Sriciwo Cos., Drawer S, Atlanta, 4a. TRUMis ,\s 1 > SHOES. Our trunks Have Arrived, And we are ready to show you the largest assortment ever brought to Savannah. If you propose to take a summer va cation don't wait until you are ready to leave, but come around to see us at once and make your selection while our assortment is complete. Trunks, Trunks. Ladies’ Louisa Leather Saratoga Trunks, Ladies’ Lady Washington Leather or Zinc Saratoga Trunks, Lents’ Sole Leather Trunks, Ladies’ and Gents’ leather Satchels, Ladies’ and Gents’ Leather Club Bags. All styles and at Rock Bot tom Prices. Don’t Fail fo examine our Gents’ Calf $3 Shoes, in Con gress, Lace and Button, best in the city, at JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO.’S POPULAR SHOE STORE, 1 Broughton WATCHES AM) JEWELRY. :*ereiptorj Sale -OF— SILVERWARE, JEWELRY, CLOCKS AND Fancy Groods REGARDLESS OF COST AND VALUE. MTU'E beg to announce to our patrons and the W community at large that we liave re moved our stock, damaged by water at our late fire; to 116 1-2 Broughton St., DIRECTLY OPPOSITE LUDDEN & BATES, where we propose to sell the same regardless of cost and value, and invite an early inflection. We do not intend to bring these goods hack to our regular place of business, when com pleted, and mean to make this the JEWELRY BALE of the season. Those coming EARLY will have the best selection. M. Sternberg. THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO BUY WEDDING PRESENTS Buch as DIAMONDS, FINE STERLING SIL VERWARE, ELEOANT JEWELRY, FRENCH CLOCKS, etc., is to be found at A. L. Desbouillons, 21 BULL STREET, the sole agent for the celebrated ROCKFORD RAILROAD WATCHES, and who also makes a specialty of • 18-Karat Wedding Rings AND THE FINEST WATCHES. Anything you buy from him being warranted as represented. Oponi ninssos nt ( l OHt. HOOKS. SASH, ETC. VAUf TO WITH T \\V iff IS lHt 111 TO BUY White Pine Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Etc. I HAVE a very large and well assorted stock of all sixes of the above goods, which I am now offering at VERY LOW PRICER, in con nection with my usual Immense stock of Paints, Oils, Railroad, Steamboat, and Mill Supplies, Lime, Plaster, Hair, Cement, Hewer Pipe, etc. Call urn! get my prices on above g<**is. Also on .'late. Iron ami Wooden Mantels, all styles and prices. Grates complete, or any separate ploees Agent for Ft. Beck & Co.’s Plain and Decora tive Wall Papers, etc. NOTICE House. Fresco and Sign Painting a specialty, ANDREW HANLEY. PLUM BKII. L A. MCCARTHY, Successor to Choz. K. Wakefield, PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER, 48 Barnard struct, SAVANNAH, GA. Telephone Ji"3. SWIFT’S SPECIFIC. TRADE MARK. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, 1 HIE MIDI Lawn Mowers, Three Sizes, Ladies’ Garden Hoes, Hand Plows, Hedge Shears, Pruninng Scissors and Knives, Garden Trowels and Weeders, Fountain Pumps, Rubber Hose and Reels, —FOR SALE BY Palmer Bros 148 and 150 Congress Street. Mowing Machines AND HORSE HAY RAKES. EDWARD LOVELL k SDNS, , Corner State and Whitaker street*. PAINT'S ANI) OILS. LLOYD & ADAMS. 7 BUCCKHAORB TO ▲. B. COLLIN* A GO., The Old Oliver Paint and Oil House, WILL keep a full line of Doors, Sash, Blind* VV and Builder*’ Hurdware, Paint*, Oil*, Steamboat and Mill Supplies, Lime, Plaster, Cement, etc. Window Ulan* a apeetalt All Mizes and kinds of Packing. A large lot 1 d,I size Sash. Doors and HllnUs will lie sold - V count. AT THE OLD STAND, No 5, Whitaker St Savannah, Ga. JOHN Gr. BUTLER, 11/IUTE LEADS, COLORS. OIIA, GLASS, W VARNISH, ETC.; READY MIXED PAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL SUPPLIES, SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS AND BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Ag-nt for GEORGIA LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CE MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER. 6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia m. amis, mm, I8& House, Sign and Ornamental Painting 17XECUTFJ) NEATLY and with dispatch. j Point*, Oila, Varnizhez, Brushes, Window Glasses, etc., etc. Estimate* furnished on ap plication. CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS., Rear of Christ Church. ( ALVES’ FEET JELI.V. Calves’ Feet Jelly. Delicious for Desserta Very Nutritious for Those Who are Sick. A. M.&C.W, WEST'S, ELECTRIC BELTS. .. -- - • - e*e Jr'. Thiz Belt or Regenera te tfhfV.o. iftor is mode expressly forth* cure of derange W Sw'CnKVi merits of the generative v 1 agios. A continuous WtVvvi njC.Dti slieun, of Electricity / FORIV ixrnieul.ilg thro' the k '*Sfc"'~aas"* . imrtn must, restore I. V* A* if -J I hem to health) act ion. Ilf a, 4 ,<|V Do not uonfoutin this I With Electric Belts ad illl.ll , *t*SSw UIILI vertisod to cure *.ll ill*; It is I■ ir the one *| (Celtic purpose. For full in formation addre** CHKKVeA ELECTRIC BELT CO., lull M'sobiogbon lit., OhloMO Ul HOSE. Gas Fixtures, GLOBES & SHADES. Garden anil Street Sprinklers. MnH Sim ni Mi HOSE. lift ami Force Pumps. Wells Driven anil Guaranteed. John Nicolson, Jr., ■> AND 82 DRAYTON STREET. OFFICIAL. •H ARWTINE NOTICE. " ' Office Hcai.th i rricza, ) _ Savannah. Ga., May 1, 1887 f hron and after MAY Ist, 18*7. the city ordi nance which specifies the Quarantine require ment* to l*i observed at the port of Savannah, Georgia, for p<-riod of time (annually) from May Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly en forced. Merchants and all other parties interested will Is. supplied with printed copies of the Quar antine Ordinance upon application to office 6f Health Officer. From and after this dale anti until further no tate all steamships and vessels from South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, Sicily, ports of Italy south of 10 degs. North latitude. and const of Africa beweea 10 (legs. North and ll dogs South latitude, direct or via American port will be sub jected to close Quarantine and lie required to report at the Quarantine Station and be (rented as lieing from infected or suspected ports or localities. Captains of these vessels will have to remain at Quarantine Station until their vessels are relieved. All steamers and vessels from foreign porta not included above, direct or via American porta, whether seeking, chartered or otherwise, will be required to remain In quarantine until boarded and passed by the Quarantine Officer. \rither the ('upturns unr tiny tine on board of such rrsxrU trill he allowed to come to the eity until the vessels are inspected tnui passed ley the Quarantine Officer. As ports or localities not herein enumerated an- reisirted unhealthy to tile Sanitary Authori ties, Quarantine restrictions against same will be enforced without further publication. The quarantine regulation requiring the Hying of the iluarautine flat/ on vesuris subjected to detention or inspection will he riyidly enforced. J. T. McFarland. M If. Health Officer. ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to amend article LX. of the Sa vannah ('lty Code, adopted Feb. I#, 1870. so as to require all occupant* of house*, merchants, shopkeepers,gri icers and tradesmen occupying premises to which no yards are attached to sect) within their premises a liox or barrel of sufficient, size, in which shall ho deposited all offal, filth, runbish, dirt and other matter gen erated In said premises, or to put such tiox or barrel in the streets or lAos imder conditions prescribed herein. SacTtON 1. Bolt ordained by tno Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah lu Council assembled, and it 1* hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That section 2 of said article !*• amended so as to read a*follows: The ownors, tenant* or occupiers of house* having yards or enclosures, and all occupants of houses, all merchants, shopkeepers, grocer* and trades men occupying premises to which no yards are attached shall keep within their yards or premises a Ik>x or barrel of sufficient size, in which shall be deposited all the offal, filth, rub bish, dirt and other matter generated in said building and enclosure, and the said filth of every description as aforesaid, shall lie placed in said box or barrel, from the first day of April to the first day of November, before the hour of 7 o’clock a. m.,andfrom the first day of November (Inclusive) to the last day of March (Inclusive! t(cf(irc l he hour of 8 o'clock a. to., and such mat ter so placed shall Ire dally removed (Sundays excepted) by the Superintendent, to such places two miles at least without the city as shall lie designated by the Mayor or a majority of the Street and Lane Qpmxnittoe. Anil It shall be unlawful for any i occupant of a house, merchant, shopkeeper, grocer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit in any street, or lane of this city any paper, trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, but the same shall be kept in boxes or barrels as hereinbefore provided, for removal hy the scav enger of the city. Any person not buying a yard inny put the box or barrel containing the offal, rubbish, etc., hi the street or lane for removal by the scavengar, provided the box or barrel so put in the street or lane shall be of such char acter and size as to securely keep the offal, rub bish, etc., from getting into the street or bine. And any person other than the owner or scaven ger interfering with or troubling the box or bar rel so put In the street or lane shall be punished on conviction thereof in the police court by fin* not exceeding 5100 or Imprisonment not exceed ing thirty (lays, either or I Kith In the discretion of officer presiding In said oourt. Ordinance pussisl In Council June Ist. 1887. RUFUS tt LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank E. Hkbahrr, Clerk of Council HUAHANTINK NOTICE. OmeK Bcai.tr Officer, I Savannah, April 6th, 1887. f Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantine < (ffli-er is Instructed not to deliver Id ter* to ves sels which are not subjected to quarantine de tention. unless the name of consignee and state ment that the vessel is ordered to some other port, ap|iears upon the face of the envelope. This order is made nets -sary in consequence of the enormous bulk of drumming letters sent to the station for vessels which are to arrive. j. t McFarland, m. and„ Health officer, *H AH AM INE NOTICE. Office Health Officer, I Savannah, March 25th, 1887. t Pilots of the Port of Savannah are informed that the Sapelo Quarantine Station will be open ed on APRIL Ist. 1887 Htieeia! attention of the Pilots Is directed to seel ions Nos. 8d and 14th, Quarantine Regula tb ms. Most rigid enforce merit of quarantine regula tions will be maintained by the Health authori ties. J. T. McKARLANi), M. D., Health Officer. City Marshal s Office, ( Havannah, April 28d, 1887. I r U HE City Treasurer hits placed in my hands 1 Real Estate Executions for 1888, Privy Vault Executions for 188 H, Stock in Trade and other I jersonal property executions for IHBH, and Spa cific or License Tax Executions for 1887, com manding me to make the money on said writs iiy lie v and sale of the defendants’ property or by other lawful means. I hereby notify all per son* ill and ‘fault that the tax and revenue ordi nance will Is) promptly enforced if |tayment la not made at iny office without delay. Office hours from 11 A. H. to 2 f. m. ROBT J. WADE, Citv Marshal. ORDINANCES. An ordinance to )* nit the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia to erect stops, with covered arched area underneath, projecting beyond building line of land or said company. Section 1. The Mayor and Aldermen of tha city ot Savannah in Council assembled do here by ordain. That the Ontral Railroad and Bank ing Company of Georgia be and it is hereby permitted to erect steps with covered arched area underueath in front of its new building now hlhml to be erected on West Broad street, provided said stops shall not project more than ’seven feet six inenus i7 ft, B in.l, anil said arched area more than eight feet three Inches (8 ft. 8 In.) beyond tlie building line on which said building is being erected. Ordinance passed in Council May 27th, 1887. , RUFUS K. LESTER, Mayor. Attest: Frank K. Kedarkr. Clerk of Council, P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, tl DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. ESTIMATES promptly fuiuiatoKt for Huldia* X J qZ ejay 5