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Meetings—Myrtle Lodge No. 6, K. of P. ; Pu
laski Council No. 153, R, A.: Landrum lodge
No. 48, F. &A. M.; Stockholders Piqnecr Steam
Brick Company.
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lolanthe; Paris Novelty Stock, A. S. Cohen. So.
cial Entertainment.
Amusements—Base Ball Between Savannah
end Amateurs.
Educational—Augusta Female Seminary,
Staunton, Va.
Notice—William P. Bailey & Cos.
Summer Re*drts— Mountain House, Cornwall
Heights, New York.
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Auction Sale— Hay, by D. R. Kennedy.
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The Morning News will begin the pub
lication next Sunday of a very bright and
intensely interesting story, entitled “Nora
of the Adirondacks,” by Anne E. Ellis. This
story was written for tho 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
Adirondacks 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.
The Houston Post predicts that the ma
jority against prohibition in Texas will be
68,276. The wish, no doubt, is father to the
prediction.
This is the time of year when the man
who lives with his children in a boarding
house sadly exclaims, “What is home with*
out a big back yard!”
George Gould has bought a yacht. If he
can’t be independent of his father in busi
ness, he at least means to be independent of
him in sailing the briny deep.
William Salmon and Joseph Trout are two
constables in Belleville, 111. Notwithstand
ing their fishy names they are never caught,
but frequently catch other people.
Within the last few days they have had
frost in Northeast Georgia. It was doubt
less the result of a conspiracy among the
proprietors of the summer resorts.
“What is war for?’ asks the Boston Post.
It is to make privates scarce. The lost war
In this country made them so scarce that
when one is found he is regarded as a great
curiosity.
The statement is made that churches iu
this country increase at the average rate of
ten a day, and saloons at the average rate
of forty a day. If this is true it doesn’t
tpeak well for the morals of the country.
John A. Mackay, the famous bonanza,
millionaire, says: “There is nothing like
mines to make a fortune.” Quite truo;
nothing like mines to make a fortune for the
man who has mining stock to sell, as is the
case with Mackay.
Gen. Lucius Fairchild, Commnnder-in-
Cliief of the Grand Army of the Republic,
says that the pension bill drafted by the
committee appointed by the army provides
pensions for all dependent persons who were
in the enlisted sendee of the government,
kheir widows or orphans. The amount to be
paid is |l2 a month. It is estimated that
there are 15,000 dependents. Trust to the
errand Army of the Republic to irduee the
mrplUi.
Secretary Lamar is again at his poet in
Washington, to all appearances much re
freshed by his visit to Georgia. Despite his
Katement that the President lias had no
conference with him regarding the vacancy
on the bench of the Kupreme Court, the
Opinion prevails in Washington that the
place is practically at his command. The
se -retary will return to Georgia soon to
ielfver an address ut the Emory College
kommencement.
Irishmen in New York propose to hold a
neeting at Cooper Union on the dny of
Queen Victoria's jubilee. The meeting is
lot, to be devoted to congratulations to her
Majesty, but, us the call tor it announces, It
will be held “to commemorate the dead of
■he Irish race who have perished on the
leaffold, in the dungeon, by famine, or
eviction, during the fifty years of Victoria’s
murderous reign.” The call is printed on a
black-bordered card.
United Btutes Consul Strickland, who is
at Goroe-Daka, Africa, makes an intermting
report to the State Department concerning
the progress of civilization on the dark con
tinent. New England rum and alcohol nro
Uiippcil to Goree-Daka in quantities of 1,000
barrels, at a time, while the Germans have
eight steamships carrying rum, gin and
alcohol to the place in enormous quantities.
These liquors may yet civilize the Africans
BIT ILe face of the earth.
The Interstate Commerce Decision.
It*is doubtful if many of the railroad
companies were disappointed by the decision
of the Interstate Conmieree Commission not
to permanently suspend the fourth section of
the interstate commerce act They had no
strong reason to cxjKX't that the commission
would take the responsibility of suspending
it, although they presented some very con
vincing arguments in favor of its suspen
sion. No doubt an effort will lie made to
induce Congress to repeal it, and in order to
secure facts upon which to base a request,
for its repeal it is probable that
no attempt will be made to evade it.
If there are railroad companies which
cannot comply with it and maintain their
solvency—and it is asserted that there are a
great many of them —Congress probably will
grant them relief by modifying it, or re
pealing it altogether, but before Congress
does anything of that kind it will have to be
satisfied by facts, drawn from the experi
ences of the complaining companies work
ing under the law, that the interests which
the fourth section threatens to destroy are
far greater than those which it promises to
benefit.
In view of the fact that the railroad com
panies entertain very different views as to
the meaning of the interstate law, and as
these views are of a necessity not in har
mony with those expressed by the Interstate
Commission, it is probable that the near
future will witness quite a large crop of
lawsuits. The railroad companies are told
that they must depend upon their own in
terpretation of the law, and take their
chances of being hauled up before the com
mission or called into the courts to answer
complaints of violations of it. Up to the
present time there have been few,
if any, complaints, because there has been
a sort of tacit agreement to wait for the de
cision of the commission on points pre
sented to it, but now that the decision lias
been received and the railroad companies
are informed that they must act on their
own judgment and responsibility, it would
not be surprising if complaints, both reason
able and unreasonable, were heard on all
sides. If Congress doesn’t interfere, it is
safe to predict that it will tie a long while
before railroads and shippers reach an
understanding upon which the transjxirta
tion business of the country can be con
ducted without great and constant friction.
Grain Gambling.
No doubt many of those who were the
principals in the recent “corners” in coffee
and wheat suffered heavy losses. Nobody
sympathises with them, and the public
wouldn’t experience any feelings of regret if
they lost every dollar they possessed. Gam
bling in articles of food, making it more
difficult for the poor to supply themselves
with the necessaries of life, is not to be com
mended. It is to be condemned, anti the
capitalists who combine to levy a tribute
upon toiling millions are public enemies.
The price of June wheat dropped at Chi
cago in one day a bushel, showing
that the price to which the ring had forced
it was fictitious. The claim that gam
bling in grain helps the farmer is without
much foundation. A few farmers may
get the highest price to which speculation
forces it, but by far the greater part of a
crop is sold at the lowest price which the
grain reaches after a “comer” in it is
broken. For instance, no wheat was ob
tained for export for weeks before the Chi
cago “comer” was broken, because the price
was higher in this country than in Europe,
but the very day the “corner” was destroyed
a half million bushels were bought for for
eign account at 73>£c., not at !>2o. at which
the ring held it. If it had not been for
speculation it is probable that the farmer
might have obtained coasiderably more
than 731£c., because when a corner is broken
the price generally falls below its natural
level.
Grain gambling is injuring the farmer in
another way. It is turning the attention of
wheat importing European countries to
other sources of supply. England is open
ing up the wheat fields of India and Austra
lia, and a large part of her supply conies
from those countries now. Russia is becom
ing a large exporter of wheat. If grain
gambling continues the farmer may find
himself without a market for a very large
part of his grain crop.
Of course these grain “comers” interfere
with many kinds of business. They check
transportation, interfere with the manufac
ture of flour and prevent the exjiortation of
both flour and grain. While there does not
, appear to be any way to stop grain gam
bling, there is not a little satisfaction in
knowing that the grain gamblers frequently
descend from affluence to poverty in a very
few days.
Police Justice Jacob Patterson, of New
York, thinks that when once a man gets
the Presidential fever he never gets over it.
“Let him once get the Presidency,” lie says,
“and he never wonts to let it go. Poor
Arthur literally died of disappointment.
The fact is, there is nothing left for a man
after he has been President. I remember
going to Gen. Grant, once, from the State
Committee to endeavor to induce him to ac
cept a position on the electoral ticket. The
vacancy was occasioned by quarrels among
the colored men as to who should represent
them on the ticket, ami as they could not
agree we thought it would lie a good way
out of trouble to put Gen. Grant on. I re
member how emphatically, but quietly, ho
saij: ‘No; I have been President, and 1 can
accept no subordinate jxisitiou nfter that.’”
The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun tells rather a funny story about
the way two government clerks didn’t light
a duel. Thtwtwo clerks, one in the Treasury
and the other in the Post Office Department,
one from the North and one from the South,
met after offieo hours and became engaged
in a religious discussion. The discussion
quickly developed into a red-hot dispute
over the Immaculate Conception, and words
anything else than religious, passed I n't ween
them. Finally the Southerner, deeming
himself grievously insulted, challenged his
opponent, to tight u duel. The Northerner
retorted by telling the Southerner that if ho
did not retract the challenge he would bo
reported to the District Attorney for violat
ing the anti-dueling law. The duel was not
fought
The Episcopnl cathedral to be erected in
New York city is to cost $f1,000,000, and it is
proposed to make the interior like that of
Westminster Abbey. Why not devise a
thoroughly American plan for the building,
inside and ouU Is there no originality in
this country! Must there be an everlasting
following after things foreign!
The New Orleans IHcayttnc says; “A ‘pol
ished' gentleman is expected to shine in soci
ety; but no one knows what a ‘jtyjjshcd'
gentleman can do.” Perhaps not, but there
is something that can be done to him: He
i cun be buried.
TIIE MORNING NEWS; FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1887.
Traveling by Tricycle.
A New York theatrical manager, whose
name is not divulged, snaps his fingers at the
interstate commerce; law and tho railroads,
and declares tliat he will take his company
on the road next summer at much less ex
pense than heretofore. His scheme is novel
and plausible, and, as it contains a sugges
tion that may be of value to some outside
of the theatrical profession, a brief account
of it may not be uninteresting.
The nameless manager’s company com
prises fourteen people. Ho has purchased
fourteen tricycles, built to withstand the
wear and tear of rough roads, and each IS
provided with an attachment for the trans
portation of baggage. Of course, all heavy
baggage wiil be transported by the .-ailroads.
The members of the company are now
Wming how to manage the tricycle, so that
when they start on the road each will know
just what to do. In order not to lose time
a route has been mapped out by which the
towns to be visited will be brought within
six hours of each other. It is claimed that
the tricycles will easily cover the distances
in the time mentioned.
If the nameless manager’s scheme proves
a success the tricycle will probably be
come a dangerous rival of the railroads.
Cei-tain classes of travelers thut flit about
the country with baggage as light as a
[taper-collar box, will no loiter patronize
the railroads. There are the commercial
tourists, for instance. Quite a large num
ber of them carry but little baggage.
They could roll through the country
at little expense to their houses
and much less to themselves. To give a
practical illustration, suppose that a com
mercial tourist representing a baking pow
der house should Vie provided with a tricycle
and then be instructed to make the most of
his opportunities. He could pack his linen
in a grip and his samples in a tin can. With
so light a burden he could scurry through
the country in a manner to put Father Time
to the blush.
Seriously, there is no good reason why
certain classes of commercial tourists should
not “make” their towns on tricycles. It is
claimed that the tricycle will easily traverse
twenty miles in five hours, provided the
roads are in fairly good condition. If this
be true, there are many towns that could be
easily reached in this way. In Middle Geor
gia, for instance, there are seven important
towns situated in a circle, tho distance from
one to the other being not more than twenty
two miies. The roads are always in fairly
good condition.
The other ways in which the tricycle
might be used are too numerous to mention.
One thing, however, should be pointed out:
The free use of the tricycle would develop
and strengthen the muscles of many who
now complain when they are required to
walk up not more than two flights of stairs.
It is to be hoped that the nameless New
York manager will make a success of his
scheme.
A. K. Cutting, who was imprisoned by
the Mexicans in the summer of 1386, has •
turned up in New York. He claims to be
the chairman of the “Executive Council” of
the “Annexation League,” which wants the
United States to annex Mexico. If the an
nexation scheme proves a failure, then the
league wants to gobble up Mexico and make
a ne\y republic of it. A convention will be
held in New Orleans, in July, to further the
league’s sch ernes. Cutting says that delegates
have been elected in Guaymas, Mex.. Mani
toba, New York, Missouri, Ohio, Kansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, California,
Arizona, Chicorra, New Mexico and Texas.
If Cutting is not cardful he will again bring
up in a Mexican prison, and he will not find
it easy to get out.
John McMackin, Jeremiah Coughlin and
Michael Walsh, the committee in charge of
the petition to the Pope for the restoration
of Dr. McGlynn, says the Now York Star ,
have issued the following official declaration:
“It has been decided to abandon the project
of sending a petition to Rome in reference
to the ease of Dr. McGlynn, the doctor and
his friends having expressed their strongest
approval of this step. Tho petition sheets
should be destroyed and no more signatures
solicited. No further signatures will be
taken with the sanction of any authorized
organization or committee.” It is supposed
that Henry George, who has constitued him
self Dr. McGlynn’s guardian, interfered to
prevent the petition’s being sent.
Mr. S. J. Loniso was appointed postmas
ter at Temple, Ind., President Cleveland.
He had many competitors for the office, and
when he secured it they boycotted him. He
tried for a month to rent a building to be
used as a post office, but failed. Becoming
disgusted he went to Louisville, Ky., the
other day, surrendered all stamps, postal
cards, money and effects belonging to his
office to the Louisville postmaster and then
resigned. He will not go back to Temple to
live. The postoffice at that place ought to
be abolished.
Michael Callahan, of Chicago, took a
mean revenge upon his sweetheart, the
other night. He was under the influence of
liquor when he visited her, tunl she ordered
him away. Finding the house raised up on
jackscrews preparatory to removal, Michael
got a handspike and commenced work on the
screws along the front. The result was that
the house toppled over and the inmates had
to crawl out of the cellar door and down on
tho underside of tho building, using the
joists for steps. Next day Michael was lined
$2.
The Thirteen Club of New York took its
annual dinner on Monday night at Mdrelli's.
Thirteen men sat at each table, thirteen
courses were served, with thirteen different
kinds of wine, and thirteen, speakers spoke
thirteen minutes, telling why they didn't
belive in old superstition generally, and m
the “thirteen” and “Friday” bad luck espe
cially, and thirteen candles flickered with
the applause that went up.
Dr. George Vaaoy, the botanist of the
Agricultural Department, hits just pub
lished an official bulletin on the “Grasses of
the South.” The subject is one iu which
the .South is very much interested. The
South, in the near future, will raise all the
hay she needs.
It is estimated that more than 100 amend
ments will be offered to tho interstate com
merce bill when Congress meets. It will
cause sadness when it is announced that
none of the amendments look to the altera
tion of the situation regarding free passes.
The dime novel has caused the death of
another man. Charles E. Morre, a retired
tailor of New York, read dime novels until
he lost his mind, and then committed suicide
by hanging.
The fashion papers aunounce that purses
are growing in size. The reason, no doubt,
is that silver dollars aro becoming more
plentiful and small bills iue disappearing.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Blooming Idiots.
From the S T eto York Star (Pern.)
Christopher Columbus: If the minor from
London turn America was really discovered by
Icelanders in 983 lie true, what a lot of blooming
idiots we've been making of ourselves for the
last 400 years
A Disregarded Opportunity.
From the St. lent is f/lobe-Democrat (Rep.).
There is an excellent chance for some railroad
company to distinguish itself by demonstrating
that the interstate commerce law does not for
bid the reduction of passenger rates; but we
regret to say that the opportunity is being dis
regarded with most perse-tent and provoking
unanimity.
They Ought to Run.
From the Washington Post Deni.)
Henry George and McGlynn declare that they
do not know whether they shall run tor the State
Legislature or not. They certainly ought to do
so. * According to their theory relief can be ob
tained only through statute law. and they ought
to go for it in behalf of the millions who want
their poverty abolished, and who ought to have
it abolished, if it can be.
The Lincoln Boomlet.
Front the Boston Herald (Itul.)
The solitary boom for Mr. Robert T. Lincoln as
a Presidential candidate still goes on in a news
paper of the city of Atlanta, which illustrates
Lord Dundreary's paradox of "flocking all
alone” to his end. “Our Bob” is the endearing,
but somewhat familiar, term applied to the son
of his father, who, by the way, is an excellent
gentleman, much too clear in the head to afford
room for any ambition of this kind to find a
place there.
BRIGHT BITS.
The interstate commerce law hasn't affected
the undertaker. He carries as many deadheads
as ever. Philadelphia Call.
You can get more wind out of a 10c. fan than
you can from a SSOO one. It's the same way
with a 10c. man.— Yonkers Statesman.
“Women are not backsliders as men are," says
a writer. No, but they would lie if it wasn't
foa their bustles.— Binghamton Republican.
The society writers are all busily engaged in
describing "new fads.” A “fad" is usually
nothing more than a faddle.— Cincinnati Com
mercial Uazette.
Anew style of hose has been imported, in
which there is a receptacle for each toe. The
agricultural papers note this as anew corn cul
tivator.—Buffalo Express.
Edward Payson Weston, the once famous pe
destrian, is now said to be a reporter on a New
York daily. It is supposed he writes the foot
notes.—Norristown Herald.
Countryman—Guess I'll try some of these here
vegetable oysters.
Waiter—lfes, sir.
Countryman—And, say, waiter, bring ’em in
on the half shell.— Tid-Bits.
Charlie—There, now, Em, Mr. Blunt’s hat
ain't a bit bigger than pa's.
Emma—Well, Charlie, what of it?
Charlie—You said last night that Mr. Blunt
bad the thickest head you ever saw.—Boston
Beacon.
After writing sentences one day the scholars
exchanged work for correction. A small boy
marked an error, and then at the foot of the
paper made the following explanatory note:
"He didn't begin Massychewsits with a cater
piller."—Harper's Bazar.
Visitor— Whet a magnificent copy cf la
Fontaine!
Bibliophile—Gorgeous binding, isn’t it? Done
over in Paris by some fellow or other. I don't
know his name, but he is way up in his prices.
Do you remember, by the way, who was la
Fontaine? My wife was asking me this morn
ing.— To wn Topics.
“My dear,” said her lover, “I am fired with an
ambition to win your hand. May I consult your
father?”
"Yes,” she softly murmured.
An hour later he was again "fired," but it was
not with an ambition to win her band this time.
There was more foot than hand about it.—
Drake's Magazine.
Saw Miss Spinster (no longer youthful. when
she heard that her friend Miss Marriwell was
going to wed: “Well, let those marry who wish,
out for my part t never yet saw a man 1 could
care enough for to lie his wife.” “That is tft
say, aunt,” remarked Kate, very demurely,
“you never yet saw a gentleman after your own
heart."— Boston Transcript.
First Politician—There's something about
this school board election I don't like.
Second Politician—What's that?
First Politician—Why, I mean in relation to
women voting. You see, I thoughtlessly bet a
hat with my wife on her candidate,and she won.
I've just discovered that the hat she picked out
costs $35. 11l lie more careful with my next liat
bet. — Omaha World.
They were having a heraldic discussion in the
Faubourg St. Germain. Said a marchioness a
ia mode, whose title is of this century, to an
elderly marquis, whose title was given to the
family when the megatherium and the masto
don innocently played together on the plains of
France:
“I see, dear marquis, that our coat-of-arms
are almost the same; we have each barrels in
them.”
"Yes, madnme, but mine contains barrels of
gunpowder, while yours contains barrels of
powder for your charming face."— Town Topics.
PERSONAL.
The Boston Papyrus Club has contributed
SOOO toward building Walt Whitman a cottage.
Gen. Boulanoer was nearly suffocated with
smoke while escaping from the Opera Oomique
tire, in Paris.
“Lav ante," the alleged posthumous poem of
Edgar A. Poe, recently published, is repudiated
in critical circles.
Mu. Alma-Tadema is said to be designing a
Greek costume for Mrs. James Brown Potter,
which she will wear in a play soon to be pro
duced.
Rosooe Conkling keeps a record of his daily
personal expenses, and its pages show that he
paid $295 tor street cur fore in the last twelve
months.
Samuel Minturn Peck, Alabama's favorite
poet, is preparing his second volume for pttbli
cation. His “Cap and Bells” found a ready sale
throughout the entire South.
Sarah Bernhardt remarked while gazing at
the porfonuane - in the Chinese theatre at San
Francisco: "It's a theatre for children, and it
makes one feel like a child to lie in it.”
It is a curious coincidence that during their
respective terms of office Presidents Pierce and
Buchanan were absent from Washington the
same number of days, namely, fifty-seven.
The Lee Memorial Association has erected at
Lexington, Va., a mausoleum costing $30,000,
which contains the remains of Gen. Robert E.
Lee and two female members of the Lee family.
Gen. Rosser is now a rich man, having, since
the war, made a large fortune in the Northwest
us engineer of the Northern Pacific road and by
speculation. lie lives in Charlottesville, Va.,
where he has built a fine residence.
Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, who
will be 78 in August, fissures his friends that he
feels like a healthy mau of 50, and is' constantly
counting hack under a vague feeling that a mis
take has been made in estimating his years.
John Nixon, of Philadelphia, one of the Revo
lutionary leaders, was the first person to read
the Declaration of Independence in public. His
granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hemsley,
recently died ill Philadelphia in her ninety-sec
ond year.
The Paris journals announce the approaching
marriage of her highness Princess Murat with
Don Joseph Curracciolo, Duke of Lavello,Prince
of Torella ami Grandee of Spain of the first,
class. Princess Eugenie is the eldest daughter
of his highness Prince Murat and Ids wife, nee
Princess of Wagram. Slip is a sister of Count
ess Goluehowsku and of Prince Joachim Murat.
Gov. Hill was asked not long ago what he did
to occupy his mind on summer evenings when
“everybody" is outof town. “I lean back in my
chair on the piazza," answered the Governor,
"and reflect. The reply is a good indication of
tlie Governor's character. He is a steady and
earnest thinker and he never takes a xtep of the
slightest importance until he lias weighed its
lull significance ut his leisure.
The late cx-Vlce President. Wheeler hod a
great reputation as a political prophet. Ho
foretold ttie panic of 1873 and even went into
minute details which were afterwords verified.
He prophesied the nominations of Tllden and
Hayes in 1878. He snidtw Blaine Just before the
Cincinnati convention: "Brother Blaine, don't
set your heart upon the Presidential nomina
tion The u|-xt candidate of the Republican
party for PrAident is now Governor of Ohio.”
Tennessee is beginning to win prominence in
the literary world. It is a fact not generally
known t tint Miss Murfree (George Egbert Crad
dock) has a brother who is making his mark in
fletlon under t he no mitt phi ms of William Perry
Bronn. Another Tennessee name which lias l
eome somewhat prominent in the same line of
late is that of Miss Willie A. Dromgoole, who
it one of ttie winners in the Youth's Com
ixisios prize comis'titlon last year. .She lias
been engrossing elerk for fib' Tennessee legisla
ture for two sessions. She is very clever ui de
picting life iu kho Tciuicbsec mountains.
AN INDIAN'S SHRUNKEN HEAD.
A Relic of the Lost Arts—Hair That a
Broadway Belle Might Envy.
From the Few York Evening Sun.
Over 300 years ago an Indian chief, who ruled
over a tribe on the Nopo river, near the head
waters of the Amazon, died. In accordance
with the custom of the tribe his hea-.l was cut
off and the skull split up the back. All the bones
were then removed from the bead and the eyes
were taken out.
By some process known to the Indians of that
locality at that time, the head was shrunk to
one-tenth of its original proportions, the face
retaining its color arid the flesh becoming as
hard as stone. By reason qf the shrinkage the
hair becomes matted so closely together that it
is impossible to part it sufficiently to reach the
scalp. One of these heads was shown to a re
porter at the store of the Scott Stamp and Coin
Company, on Broadway, this morning. A cor
respondent of the firm'in Ecuador recently sent
the head to this city.
The correspondent says that the knowledge
of how to preserve the (leads is not known to
the Indians of the present day; that is one of
the lost arts. The hair upon this miniature
head is black and lustrous, and about fourteen
inches in length. The lips protrude aud are
punctured with holes, from ’which hang a bunch
of twine.
A piece of twine is fastened to the top of the
head, which was evidently used to hang it up
tn the dwellnigs of the Indians. These heads
are worshipped by the natives as gods, and they
can rarely tie induced to part with one.
This specimen is the second that has been
secured so far, and it is the only one in the
United States. The other one is in France. The
head is valued at S3OO. It is intended to put the
head on exhibition soon.
That the specimen is genuine there can be no
doubt, as the expression on the face has been
wonderfully preserved, and the cut made in the
back of the bead and the stitches with which
the incision was closed are plain and distinct.
The hair is very flue, and apparently as glossy
as when its owner passed over to the majority.
Arbitration Among the Sandwiches.
From the Few York Tribune.
Two sandwich men met in Broadway and
stopped to converse. One was a little man with
a seraggly beard, the other was a tall man and
bearded also. The little man bestowed green
hand bills on those of the passers-by who would
accept them.
“This summer weather is varry try in’ between
the boards,” said the tall man, wiping the pers
piration and dust out of his left eye with a sec
tion of calico, “and the half holiday racket
doesn't seem to hit our perfeshion at all."
“We’re going to get a show,” said the little
man emphatically. “The man wot does the
Queen of May on I'ulton street was telling me
yesterday that the Queen of the Sandwichers is
here."
“You don't say so," said the tall man, with
much interest. “I didn't know there was any
sandwich wiinmen, though the Bowery Sand
wich Men's Protective Union has been doin'
some tall organizing lately,"
“My plan, said the lit l l- man, skilfully ram
ming a green hand-bill in the packet of an old
man who was passing, “is to rave the Queen
call upon some of the principal Arms as employs
sandwich men and do a little arbitratin' for ns
while she was here* The best artists in the
sandwich perfession can scarcely make a livin'
nowadays, and new dodges pilin’ on us all the
time. The two fellers-wot does the wild Injun
act on Nassau street told me they had been or
dered to give warwhoops. one every ten min
utes tjurin' bankin’ horn s. They want 15e. a day
more for whoopin', and there it is. I tell yer
the whole business needs arbitratin', and the
quicker the Queen gets in her work the better. I
say.” and the little man tightened up his boards
and started down Fulton street to see if there
was any change in the warwhoop deadlock.
Effect of a Child’s Tears.
From Washington Letter to the Baltimore Sun.
The divorce case of Emma V. Clarke vs. Ju
lius Y. Clarke, came up before Judge Merrick,
in the Equity Court to-day, upon a rule against
Mr. Clarke to produce in court his two daugh
ters, one about 14 veal's and the other about 3
years old. whom lie had carried off from the
orphan asylum, where they had been placed by
their mother. Tho return of the husband was
that the children were his own, and that as his
wife had refused to live with him. and had nut
the children into an asylum, he had taken them
in order to give them a proper home. This was
denied, and Judge Merrick said he, would have
to hear testimony before making a decision, and
he would fix Friday next for the hearing, and in
the meanwhile, as the children were
in the custody of the father, and
as he had the legal right to the care of
them, they might remain w ith him until further
orders. The 3-year-old listened attentively, and
putting her arms around her mother, declared
she would never leave her The court urged
upon the, mother the need of submission to the
law, and she ottered no objection, but. the girl
still clung with tears aud cries to her mother,
and the scene excited much feeling in the court
room. Finally Mr. Cook, counsel for the hus
band, said tbe father had consented that the
eldest child might go with her mother. The
mother and girl were moving off when the
little 3-year-old “Tot,” seeing her sister going
away, set up with her tiny voice an argument
as loud as had ever been heard in that court,
and quite as effective; for Mr. Cook at once con
sented to let the child go w ith its mother “if it
would only stop crying;’’and so the voice of
nature proved stronger than the orders of the
court. The mother took both children, and the
case was adjourned until Friday next.
He Wanted Snails.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
“Aw. hnwve you any snails?" asked a dys
peptic looking youqg man with a falsetto
voice and an eye-glass, at the Union liepot
restaurant. The colored gentleman who wins
waiting on him opened his eyes until they were
in danger of falling out, as tie gasped;
“Any whn-at, sail?”
"Any snails, me good fellaw?"
“I dunno, sah, whether we'sgot any oh dem
or not. I’ll see," replied the waiter, as he started
for the kitchen.
"Dah's a gen'nian wants some snails. Got
any ?” he asked of the steward.
"Naw; tell him he'll have to take treetoads on
toast,” said that disgusted individual, and the
waiter had to go back and acknowledge that
snails were among the very few things not on
the bill of fare,
Pittsburg is not much of a customer for edi
ble snails. The proprietor of Fulton market,
when asked about them, said:
“We couldn't sell a pint in five years. I never
heard but one or two i>eople speak about them.
There are men who acquired a taste for them
in France. If I had any call for them I could
get them easily enough by importing them di
rectly from France.”
When Jay Gould’s private car Atalanta passeq
through the city some time ago, it was held at
the station a couple of hours. The cook was
found out on the platform and asked about the
story thut Jay was feeding upon snails himself
at present.
“It's a lie, sah." said the Henagambian. “Use
his cook, an' I reckon I know wlpit he eats, an’
he doan’t touch any of dem things. Some
of dem New Yo'k report'ahs done make up dal
story."
That Miserable “If."
From the Columbus Dispatch.
She has grace,
And a face
That attention attracts.
And she socially plays the first role;
And no one would be
So happy as she
lf she could only hide thu’ oig mole!
It.
He has wealth,
He has health,
■F And can have, at command,
Anything that his fancy may please;
And no one would be
So happy as he
ll his pants didn't bag at the kness!
4 t We are nil—
f Short and tall,
Young and old, rich and poor—
Yes, we’re all of us in the same skill;
How happy we’d be
’Tis easy to see—
Were it not for that miserable “If."
Saved by a Rattling Jig.
From the Chicago Journal.
"Speaking of jumping board hills," said a
theatrical advance agent to me, “I have seen a
good deal of that. But the funniest experience
was once when I was a member of Emilio Mel
ville’s company. We struck one of those juv
towns so plentiful throughout Wisconsin, anil
played two nights to audiences of six one night
and thirteen the next. Well, we were all broke
and a big board bill due. We managed to get
our baggage to the depot, but Just ten minutes
before train time the constable arrived on the
scene with a writ of attachment for our baggage
in lieu of our board Irfll. We were pretty badly
seared, but a happy thought struck Cassello,
the jig dancer. He began u jig in the depot,
nml was instantly surrounded by the gaping
grangers, among whom was the constable, the
most Interested of all the spectators. Well,
while the Jig proceeded we were not idle, hut.
with the help of the trainmen, we soon hustled
the baggage aboard the train, and when the
lxll rang for ’all atmard' we were all safely
seated inside, and (’osaellostfil kept on danctng
till the last ear moved along, when he tossed a
kiss to the constable and jumped aboard. *
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A robin has built a nest in the mouth of one
of the Parrott guns that ornamert the burial
plat of the Maquokeca (la.) G. A . post.
A new use for the tobacco ph*nt has been
discovered. Its stems and waste, it is claimed,
are equal to linen rags iu the manufacture of
paper.
The Western Watchman , a Roman Catholic
journal of St. Louis, is responsible for the state
ment that there is ndt one negro worshipper in
all the eighty Protestant churches of St. Louis.
Mrs. Annie Macpin, of Gasconade county 7
Mo., is a well-preserved woman. She is 9S years
old, can walk two miles at a stretch, aud
seventy-two grandchildren rise up and call her
blessed.
Thirteen undertakers were on the train of
thirteen cars that formed the Bt. Louis express
that had a smash-up on the. New York Central
railroad at Spuyteu Duyvel (N. Y. ) last week,
but there was only one man injured, aud he not
seriously.
Some Pennsylvania men have started a couple
of skunk ranches, one at Little Corners and the
other at Miller's Station. Good skunkskius sell
readily at $1 apiece, and the idea is to keep the
market well supplied with the black and white
pelts without breaking down the price.
A large mastiff tried to pull from the rails
an elderly unknown woman he .was accompany
ing. some days ago, as she walked on the track
of the Concord aud Portsmouth, N. H.. railroad.
The engineer of an approaching train saw this
quite distinctly and whistled repeatedly. Tho
engine struck and instantly killed the woman,
and after the accident the dog howled piteously,
and refused to leave the body.
When Capt. Thomas Phelan, of Kansas City,
Mo., was stabbed in O'Donovan Rossa's office, in
New York, two years ago, he had an accident
policy for $3,000 in the Travelers' Insurance
Company. The company refused to pay the
money on the ground that Phelan had provoked
the assault by going to Rossa's office. Phelan
sued the company, and was on Saturday award
ed judgment for ttie full amount.
The other day a letter came to the North
Adams (Mass.) post office, addressed as follows:
“To the State of Massachusetts where North
Adams nestles mid the hills peaceful and fair,
there put in the post office, safe under lock
and key until calls and asks 'ls there
any mail for me?’ ” All over the face of the
letter was written the words "rata " and “chest
nuts” inscribed by the different mailing-clerks
through whose hands the letter had passed.
Theke is a community of Finlanders in Klika
tat county, W. TANARUS., and they are a
most industrious folk. When there is
anew addition to the community
from Finland the settlers gather together, and
in a few days build a house and fence a farm for
him. There is no season in which they are idle.
During the run of salmon they work at the
canneries and fish wheels. When winter comes
they are in the timber, cutting rails, posts and
fuel.
It is the custom among the poorer classes in
Panama to hire coffins to transport their dead
to the grave, after which the body is deposited
in the earth and the coffin brought back with
the mourners. The following is the form of a
Panama undertaker's advertisement: "From
this date hearses will lie hired from our estab
lishment at the following rates: $2, $.!, sl3 and
$lO. Coffin will be sold at lowest possible rates.
Coffins hired out for ONE DOLLAR, including
bench on which to carry deceased to the grave.”
The Courier-Journal, of Louisville, de
scribing a thunder storm at Hopkinsville, Ky„
says that while the storm was raging there were
incessant volleys of thunder and flashes of
lightning. A horse, without saddle or bridle,
galloped down the street, A dazzling blaze and
deafening clap occurred simultaneously. The
flying steed seemed to stand in a halo of flames,
and both shoes were wrenched off and buried
through the air like blueing coals. Ttie horse
galloped away and tfle,shoes were picked up un
injured. .... .
William Oakey induced Lois Fritz, of Erie,
111., to elope with hira'.f They tried to get a mar
riage license at Mbrrisou, but failed because
Lois was but 17 yeans old. Then they went to
Fulton, and there a license was refused. They
started for another town, but just about this
time the angry father overtook the young
couple. The would-be bride promptly threw
her arms around his neck ami pleaded her
cause so well that the old gentleman not only
forgave her, but helped them to get a license
and a preacher to tie the knot.
\V. J. Florence, the comedian, in a letter to
a Louisville subject, wrote this suggestion: One
gallon of whisky costs about $3 and contains
about sixty-five toe. drinks. Now, if you must
drink, buy a gallon and make your wife the bar
keeper. When you are dry give her 15c. for a
drink, and, when the whisky is gone, she will
have, after paying for it, 75 left, and every
fillon thereafter will yield the same profit,
his money she should put away, so that, when
you have become an inebriate, unable to sup
port yourself and shunned by every respectable
man. your wife may have money enough to keep
you until your time comes to fill a drunkard's
grave.
Alfred Motte, an inhabitant of Roubaix,
France, who died recently, made a peculiar pro
vision in his will. He bequeathed the sum of
425.000 francs to the municipality, though the
benefits are not to be realized yet. The name of
the benefactor is to be immortalized a century
hence, as a clause in the will directs that the'
legacy is to be invested in rentes and accumu
late till 1087, at compodnd interest. Whether or
not Roubaix will continue to be the flourishing
manufacturing city it is fast becoming, M.
Motte's foresight will have produced 20,000.090
francs, which sum is to be spent in constructing
suitable dwellings for the artisan and working,
classes. ‘
Says a St. Louis bookseller: “There is a
mania abroad for ‘Western Americana.’ and I
have a line of customers who purchase only
such works. I feel safe when I have a ‘Rey
nolds' Illinois,’ ‘Hunt’s MorniSn War,' ‘Lewis
and Clarke's Travels,’ or a last volume of the
‘Western Journal and Civilian,’ an old publica
tion, now very rarq. Two that are eagerly
sought for are a ‘Mormon Bible’ and ‘The Ex
empts of .St, Louis,’ or the parties who claimed
foreign protection during the war, many of
whom, by the way, have since become citizens,
voters and officeholders. Most of the other
books sent to a second-hand dealer are rubbish
that, only an accident will sell ”
“Beer,” said Bismarck not long ago in the
Reichstag, “is, comparatively speaking, the
beverage of a well-to-do class; but spirit is the
drink of the famous ‘poor man,' and spirit is
thus a drink which the laborer cannot always
dispense with. Boer makes one lazy instead of
exciting tne nerves. It has. moreover, a draw
back from the economic stuudiiomt -it is a time
killer. With us Germans perhaps nothing kills
time so much as beer drinking. Spirit has hi no
way this effect, and if you lot the workingman
choose between -.vine, beer and spirit he v. ill re
ject wine. I have never found that the laborer
when he found his work hard refreshed himself
witli Bavarian beer. The poor man needs spirit
—certainly to a moderate extent, but still a
small quantity daiiy for uournishment.”
An early friend of the Hon. Allen O. Thur
man recalls that the Ohio statesman's father
Pleasant Thurman, was a carpenter of shiftless
habits, but of a religious turn of mind. Now
and then he preached, and in aid-fashioned
Methodist “revivals’’ he was a great shouter
Allen was a slender tow-headed boy. pale and
delicate, and quiet in habits. He was not noted
for brilliancy, but was careful and industrious -
Before lie wins admitted to the bar he was a sad
dler, and while working at that trade he met a
Miss McArthur, daughter of a man of wealth
and social rank. He asked the privilege of es
corting her home from the gathering where they
first met, but she rather haughtily refused hini
not wishing to associate with “a mere mechan
ic-” But she afterward changed her mind and
became Mrs. Thurnittu.
A dispatch from Vassar, Mich., says; “Last
fall Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juniata, Tuscola
county, went to Denver to take possession of
SHU,OOO in cash and real estate left her, she said,
by an uncle. She reached Denver safely, re
ceived the money and made arrangements for
the management of the projierty. Since that
time nothiug has been heard of the woman, and
several weeks ago Mr. Brooks wont West to un
ravel the mysteryif possible. He reports t hat
no clew was found to the missing woman, and
t hat he placed the matter in the hands of detec
t'ves A sister of Mrs. Brooks, who ulso re
ceived 980,000 from the uncle, has put $10,(100 in
the hands of Denver officers to be used in find
ing her. Hi nee Mr. Brooks’ return home he has
received a letter from his wife, mailed at Bos
ton, hut Indorsed try the post office authorities
ns having been forwarded from California for
I w IK'1 K ' J!‘“ r ,t4 T is , 11 . r'ca f °r help. It says
that she (Mrs. Brooksi is held call ive by a gang
of men. who have already secured SBO,OOO of her
money and an- determined to have it nil The
woman's captors tortured her in every imagin
able way. She i.oes not say where she is held a
prisoner. Last week a Denver detective at work
tipon the case wire 1 Mr. Brooks that he haddis
ltie v. b “ l i tll "K in which Mrs. Brooks is
Imprisoned, hut hud not been able to communi
cate with her. To add to the mystery T. North
a vaasar bauker recently received a package of
letters written by 1 uscola county people to Mrs
brooks, but no reason is given for sending them
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