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4 C|c|HonthtgfTrius Morning Mews Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY. JUNE IS. 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The MorSing N kwh is published every day in he year, and is served to subscribers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. Si 00 a mouth, 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Mbrnino News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times n week (without Sunday issue), three months, jx l 00; six months. $-1 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six* months. $3 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, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Oa.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices—Robertson's Sticky Fly Paper; Election Notice; Melons, J. S. Collins & Cos. Change of Schedcle—Savannah, Florida and Western Railway; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway'. Base Ball—Savannah vs. Amateurs. To the Front—Krouskoff's Millinery House. Auction Sales—Books, by J. McLaughlin & Son; Unclaimed Freight, by D. R. Kennedy, Educational —Ward's Seminary for Young ladies, Nashville, Tenn. Amusements —The Fords at the Theatre. Cheap Column Advertisements Help WaDted; For Rent; For Sale; Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Com pany. The Morning News for the Summer. ' Persons leaving the city for the summer m have the Morning News forwarded by Hie earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three montlis, cash invariably in ad ranee. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should lie taken to mention the old as well, •as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while a way should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. The Morning News will begin the pub lication next Sunday of a very bright and intensely interesting story, entitled “Nora of the Adirondacks,” by Anne E. Ellis. This, story was written for the Morning News, and it will be found to lie 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 liardly fail to be appreciated. Georgia had her full share of hangings yesterday. When Gen. Grant said, “Let us have peace,” was he joking? Just now the South seems to be doing “the fraternity act” all by itself. . Patrick McGuire, of New York, keeps nineteen dogs in a yard back of his saloon. It goes without saying that '‘dead-beats” give him a wide berth. Mr. R. B. Hayes, who once occupied the White House, goes to market every morn ing with a basket of eggs on his arm. He’s not proud a bit, but he’s thrifty. ! Democrats would do well to keep an eye, on the Congressional elections next year. The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives ought to be increased. “Is it right,” asks a contemporary, “for a member of the General Assembly to go with out his coat?” It depends upon where he is going. If he is going to bed it is all right A lady in this city whose husband belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, two benevolent.societies and a military com pany, doesn’t call him "hubby.” She calls him “clubby.'’ Visitors to the prize drill at Houston, Tex.,are notified that they would do well to provide themselves with india rubber stom achs. Either the water or the liquor at Houston is bod. The statement is made that the music bills of the Saratoga hotels during the months of July and August will amount to fully SBO,- 000. The bills about which the guests will make music will amount to a great deal more. The Princess of Wales took a ride in the Deadwood coach at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show tho other day. She sat on the box with “the Hon. the Col. W. F. Cody.” Royalty in England is becoming quite Dem ocratic. The Lomax Rifles, of Mobile, have given Miss Voss, their sponsor at the national drill, a magnificient jtair of diamond earrings. The gift was deserved, for no doubt Miss Voss’ smiles encouraged the Rifles to win the first prize. The Mayor of Des Moines, la., has been fined seven different times for breaking or dinances he worked to have passed, and he has finally threatened to resign If the police don't let him alone. To resign would be the best service ho could render his city. Mr. John H. Inman, of Now York, is said to have made a largo stun of money by the collajrae in the coffee boom bubble. It is not stated that he is going to invest any of it in Southern railroads. Ho hasn't recovered from his Covington and Macon experience. It is stoted that before returning to the 1 nitod rtates, Mr. Blaine will make a cir cuit of the globe. Hu expects to be met at Han Francisco with the Republican nomina tion for the Presidency. It is a very nice scheme, but nobody knows wliat a year will bring forth. Would it not be a good plan for the gov ernment, to return the United States flags captured by the Confederates, and recovered after the war, to the Southern States pro rate, and give the Confederate flags, cap tured by the Union troops, to the Northern States in the same way? That would prob *' y rpß ton' that harmony which some after dmner orators from the South are so fond 01 rcicrrmg to. The Battle Flags The angry and bitter protests of some of the Grand Army people against the proposi tion to return the battle flags stored in the War Department at Washington to the States, from the soldiers of which they were taken during the civil war, were wholly uncalled for. The Commander in Chief of the Grand Army,Gen. Fairchild, made use of expressions of which lie ought to be heartily ashamed. If his remarks represent the pre vailing sentiment at the North, and the ex pressions of Gov. Gordon, of this State, on the same subject, represent the prevailing sentiment at the South, it is evident that the South is a long way ahead of the North in the work of burying sectional issues and bringing about fraternal feelings be tween the two sections. Gen. Fairchild talks like a small politician who wants to keep alive sectional feeling for po litical purposes. Gen. Gordon talks like a brave soldier who realizes that the war is over, and like a statesman who wants the sections to clasp hands and work together for the good of tho whole country. Surely there was no occasion for the sort of talk that some of the Grand Army peo ple indulged in. If they did not like the proposition with regard to the battle flags, thoy could have said so in a very quiet, pleasant way. A simple request that it was not agreeable to them would have been heeded as quickly as the ill-tempered resolu tions they adopted. Neither the President nor the Adjutant General of the army, who proposed the re turn of the flags, hail any other object in view than the proper preservation of them. They are stored in the attic of the War Do partment and are receiving no care. There are 545 of them in all, of which 150 have a complete history recorded and 150 have only a partial history on file. The remainder are without ldontracation. The Adjutant General thought that it would be a wise thing to do to send the Union banners to the States which have a claim to them, and the Confederate banners to tho States with which they are identified. The President, without a careful examina tion of the law relating’to the flags, approved the idea of the Adjutant General. When he found that there was objection to the re moval of the flags from Washington he ex amined the law more closely and found that he had exceeded his authority, and, there fore, withdrew his approval. That is the whole story, and yet Gen. Fairchild wants the man who suggested the removal of the flags stricken with palsy from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. Does it not seem as if there were “bloody shirt” politics at tho bottom of this Grand Army indignation and excitement? It cer tainly looks ns if the Republican leaders and organs have stirred up the excitement over the proposition to distribute the flags with the hope of getting some fresh campaign material. If that were the purpose of the bitter speeches and resolutions it is doubtful if they will meet with much success. The hearts of the people are not filled with hate and bitterness, and they are not likely to be influenced by sectional issues. It is worthy of notice that the Confederate veterans from Richmond were given a most enthusiastic reception at Boston on Thursday, and that the people of that city vied with each other in showing their kindly feeling for them within the shallow of Bunker Hill monu ment. The small politicians may hqwl themselves hoarse, but the hearts of the masses will not respond to the doctrine of hate. The sentiments of Gordon will be applauded by thousands where those of Fairchild are applauded by oue. Excavation Permits. It is doubtful whether the ordinance intro duced into the Council by Alderman Duncan, at its last meeting, prohibit ir-g excavations of any kind within the city limits without a permit from the Sanitary Commission, is a wise oue. There does not appear to be any reason for it, and the Council ought to lie able to decide when the making of excava tions would be dangerous to the public health. Doubtless the Sanitary Commis sion would depend largely upon the opinion of the Health Offii ur as to when excava tions should or should not lx- made, and the Council can get the opinion of that officer when it wants It. The people, it is pretty safe to say, prefer to have the Council, which is directly responsible to them, and which is almost wholly made up of business men, exercise authority in this matter rather than the Sanitary Commission. The chances are that if Alderman Dun can’s resolution wore adopted the making of improvements during the summer months would be greatly interfered with. It could hardly be otherwise than that there would be a good deal of circumlocution in getting permits, even in cases in which they were finally granted, and this would be discour aging to those anxious to erect buildings. Building should not be checked unless there is an absolute necessity for doing so. There are many mechanics and laborers who depend upon their daily work for the means of living, and it would be a hardship to them to be forced to remain idle for the greater part of the snmmer. There is as much building going on in this city in the summer as in any other season, and without excel lent reusons it ought not to be stopped. Just now the sanitary work which ought to be attended to is that connected with some of the old privy vaults of the city. The clean sing of these vaults, the purifying of Bilbo canal uiul the enforcement of sanitary regu lations relative to private premises are mat ters to which tho Sanitary Commission might give its attention with benefit to the public. The committee having in charge the erec tion of a monument to tho late President Arthur at tho Itural Cemetery, near Albany, N. Y., has collected much more than the SIO,OOO desired. The surplus will be used to erect a monument in New York city, which will take the form of a life-sized statue in bronze. President Arthur was a popular man, ho mado an acceptable President, and it is fitting that his memory should be honored in the way proposed. Ex-Speaker Carlisle has been interviewed in Cincinnati. Ho expressed himself de cidedly in favor of an extra session of Con gross. It is said in Washington tlint the President places great reliance in the ex- H(>eaker"s judgment, and will probably call Congress together in October. Mr. Randall opposes an extra session. The Grand Army of the Republic winks at Senator Sherman and whispers: “You wave the bloody shirt, we’ll kick up a row in another direction; and if together we don't solidify the gone old ]>arty, it will be duo to the fact that decomposition lias set in too far.” R E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, of Pdehtnond, Va., had a good time while visiting Boston. When Boston shakes hands across the bloody chasm and says “Let’s lie l friends” she seems to be in earnest. THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1887. Street Railroad Facilities. Tho part that the street railroads are playing in building up this city is a very considerable one. They afford quick trans portation to localities that are quite distant from tho business centre, and thus encourage the building of dwelling houses in those, localities. Within the last five years the sandy, barren commons southeast of the park has lieen built up with handsome resi dences. A single block there is now worth more than a hundred acres were ten years ago. Improvements iqioii a large scale have also been made jn the southwestern section. Without tho street railroads the improvements in the localities indicated would have been insignificant in comparison with those which are to lie seen there now. There is still a lack, however, of street car accommodations. The section south of An derson street lias a population large enough to justify the extending of a street car line through it. Street car facilities would aid greatly in building it up, aud the street car company which recognizes this fact,and acts upon it, will do a good thing for itself and for the city. In proportion as improvements are made the demand for mechanics and laborers will increase, and the prosperity of the city will keep pace with the increase of that demand. The disposition to build is now very marked. New houses are being erected in all the southern part of the city, and the indica tions are that within the next twelve months more laiildings of one kind and another will be erected than over before in the same length of time in the city’s history. The street railroads can help along the building boom by extending their accommo dations to the localities that are being im proved. The ro'l of the Senate of the Fiftieth Congress was completed by the election of Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire. There are thirty-nine Republicans, including the ex-Readjuster Rlddleberger, of Virginia, and thirty-seven Democrats. Some ques tion may lie raised in connection with the election of Senator Turpie, of Indiana, and it seems that the Governor of West Virginia refuses a certificate of election to Senator Faulkner, of that State, but the settlement of these questions will not disturb the pres ent political complexion of the body. In the very near future the Senate will no doubt be Democratic. An Atlanta man was in the city yester day, and his prohibition proclivities natu rally led him to wander down to the river. He saw one of the black flags put up bj r the dredging company floating near a small boat which lay partly under water. “Good gracious!” he exclaimed, “look at that now! Here’s the whole country lieen trying to catch those filibusters without success, and yet Savannah lets ’em run their boat right up to the city, with the black flag flying. By George, I believe Savannah’s in league with ’em.” The Atlanta man is always smart —in fact there are times when he is too smart. The Rahway murder mystery has come to the front again. A man arrested at Salem, 111., says that he is one of the mur derers of the girl, and Sergt. Conger, of the Rahway police, has a surviving relic of the mystery in the shape of a young rooster that lias been hatched from one of the eggs taken from the basket found near the mur dered girl’s remains. The chicken is of a remarkable variety, with large feathers on his legs like the wings of a Mercury, and it is the intention of the police to endeavor to trace the purchase of the eggs by the breed of the roaster. In Derry Township, Pa., resides a Miss Sorrows, who claims that she has been be witched by an old woman of the place. She says that between 4 and 8 o’clock in the morning a black cat appears before her and yells in the mast frightful and unnatural manner. The strangest thing about her story is that it is believed by the people of the place. The grand jury has determined to investigate the matter. Perhaps Penn sylvania will distinguish herself by burning a witch. * Col. Ballington Booth writes to the Brook lyn Eagle emphatically denying that there is any immorality in the Salvation Army, lie also denies that the army is bankrupt. He says that the army in this country now numbers 800 corps, under the supervision of 700 salaried officers, and is no more English than any similar organization, but embraces every nationality under the sun. Outside of Savannah, Atlanta aqd Columbus, the army is not meeting with favor in Georgia. That will be an interesting meeting at Millodgeville when Gov. Gordon goes there to attend tho commencement exercises of the Middle Georgia Mechanical aud Agricul tural Coljege. Gen. D. H. Hill, the Presi dent of the college, and Gov. Gordon both served the Confederacy in Virginia. The meeting between the two will be celebrated with imposing ceremonies. Keely, the motor man, is out in another card explaining that he is now engaged in “graduating” or “adjusting” his engine, and that when he gets through with this process he will be prepared to astonish the world. The stockholders in this part of the country wouldn’t object, jierhaps, to his hurrying up his adjusting process. Here is a bit of information that is inter esting: Of the 258 Popes of the Catholic church, 104 were natives of Italy, fourteen of France, nine of Greece, seven of Ger many, five of Asia, three of Africa, three of Spain, five of Dalmatia, one of England, one of Portugal and one of Holland. The Chicago Tribune says: “John Sher man is a great man, but his Presidential boom appears to lie frozen hard enough to skate on already.” Just so. To have pre vented it from freezing he ought to have kept it at a safe distance from himself. The pirates of Sumatra are said to bo more numerous and daring than ever before. Consuls on the island warn all captains of vessels that they must keep a long distance off the east coast, unless protected by a man of-war. A man nanus! Kansas Nebraska Bill, who lives in Connecticut, has a brother named Lecompton Constitution Bill. They indig nantly deny that they have any acquaint ance with tho family of Due Bills. Henry George has four interesting chil dren. It is to be hoped, when they grow up, that they will depart as far as possible from the ways of their father. Having exhausted the pronouns the novel ists are beginning to use the verbs as titles for their productions. The latest is a novel called “Am.” v The capitol at Nashville, Tenn., is said to be about to fail down. If it does, there will be at least ore homeless legislature. CURRENT COMMENT. It’s English, You Know. From the Boston Globe (Don.) New York cold-shouldered Kapiolani, but the bells of Trinity will ring the jubilee of Victoria next Sunday. It’s . you know; quite , you know. Watch Mr. Rossa. In Spite of Ccprolitic Remains. From the Missouri Republican ( Dem.) ( handlers speech to the caucus of Republi can members of the New Hampshire Legisla ture was an echo of the Springfield shriek, but the country will move forward in peace and prosperity iu spite of the coprolitic remains of fossil Radicalism. No, They Do Not. From the Memphis Avalanche (Dem.) The Philadelphia Press, quoting from the Avalanche the sentence that "while President Cleveland has been true to his pledges regard ing civil service reform, he has also been true to his party in the matter of offices,” says: "See how the Democrats smile.” evidently the outs don't think it a laughing matter. Need the Treasury at Their Back. From the New York Evening Sun (Ind.) Gentlemen who combine to buck against wheat ought to have the United States Treasury at their back. Fjve millions of dollars is a good deal of money, but it isn't enough by a good many millions to corner wheat. This is a great coun try and it produces more bushels ot wheat a year thau Uncle Sam gets in dollars. BRIGHT BITS. To find out how old a lady is—ask some other lady.— Dansville Breeze. Even fishermen who wouldn't steal are always ready to hook something, if they get a chance. —Journal of Education. Food suspects that some of the money spent for flowers during the Kapolani visit went for toddy blossoms.— Boston Transcript. Tiiehe's a fellow by the name of '‘Scattering” who seems to be getting a great many votes all over the country.— Philadelphia Call. A dry goods c lerk is not necessarily a good soldier, although he may know about drilling and fie accustomed to counter marching.—Bos ton Bulletin. It is authoritatively announced that freckles are now in the height of fashion. They knock the spots off everything else in the market.— New HavenNcws. A country subscriber inquires: “What is cheesecloth?” Cheese cloth is a delicacy that frequently clogs your teeth when you tackle a free lunch.— Washington Critic. “Little things tell” is an old aphorism. Big sisters who kiss their beaux in the presence of their little brothers understand how much there is iu the saying.— Whitehall Times. The counter-irritant is the woman who sails into a dry goods store without thinking of buy ing and wants to see all the new goods just about the time her favorite clerk wants to goto his lunch.— New Orleans Picayune. “You girls want the earth,” said a State street father, when one of bis daughters asked him for $K for anew jacket. “No, papa,” said the ingenious child of 20, not the earth—only anew jersey.”— Trenton Emporium. A carpenter fell from a staging and died, And sorrow was known in that town; “What a pity poor John has gone up,” many sighed, While tue pity was that he went down. —Boston Budget. A gentleman who has just returned after an absence of a few montits, meeting a friend, said: “I regret to hear that you arid Miss Schmidt have nothing more to do with each other.” “Yes, that’s so,” was the sorrowful reply. “What's the cause?” “We got married about two months ago.— Texas Siftings. In a cemetery at Sag Harbor, N. Y., five tan dem wives of the same,pian rest side by side; and at last he died also. One of the headstones contains this suggestive superscription: Behold, ye living mortals passing by. How thick the partners of one husband lie. Wise and imsearcboble the ways of God; Just and severe his chastening rod. ~-New York Tribune. Onx of the drol'est incidents that have ever occurred in the presence of the editor of this “Drawer” happened many years ago when we were traveling in eastern Massachusetts. The story has never been told, but it is a good one. We were standing in the one room of a small railway station and post office combined, when a typical old Massachusetts woman entered and asked, with a delightfully rasping New England twang; “Be there any letters for Mrs. Brown?” The clerk handed her a large yellow envelope, which she broke open with nervous haste and read aloud: “You have drawn a blank in the X X Lottery. She had opened her hus band's letter by mistake!—Not from Harper's Drawer.— lndependent. PERSONAL. * Almost enough money has been subscribed to build that summer cottage for Walt Whitman. Mrs. Mary E. Cramer, sister of Gen. Grant, is speaking in New York at an “in-door camp meeting.” “Brick” Fomeroy thinks that no man who u--es intoxicants of any kind should hold any political office. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is reading the plays of Sophocles in the original this summer at her home in Newport. The King of Saxony intends to present Queen Victoria with some splendid pieces of Dresden china as a jubilee gift. Gen. Boulanger has written to friends in Baltimore, Md . that he is in good health and a contented frame of mind, Dn. Bridge, Dr. Stainer, Dr. Stanford, Mr. Barnby aud Mr. Cusius. all eminent English mu sicians, are to be knighted. Prince Louis, eldest son of the regent of Ba varia, and heir to the crown, is 43 years of age and the father of nilie children. Pretty Maud Granger, with the gold-brown eyes anil shapely form, first earned her liveli hood by running a sewing machine. Wai?t Whitman, says the Rost & Globe, “will shortly take up his residence in Boston, aud be come one of the wise men of the East.’’ The Queen celebrated her birthday at Balmo ral by presenting small gifts made with her own hands, to the members of her household. Thompson, the big pie-man of New York, is said to have cleared $1,000,000 this year by the sale of that delectable article. He will want to belong to the “upper crust.” Rev. Jin. Henry M. Scudder has given in hts old church in San Francisco a farewell lecture on Japan, pi eparatory to going to that country to spend the remainder of his life. The mother of Clara Louise Kellogg straiueil every nerve to give Clara a musical education, and at one time was a professional spiritual me dium. Miss Kellogg failed three times. Mtss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, was the daughter of a small fanner in Nantucket, who was obliged to eke out his income by teach ing school at $2 a week. Maria was constantly occupied with household duties. R. B Sears, the champion lawn tennis player of America, is a young man wit h blonde hair, a delicate blonde moustache and a very ruddy complexion. He wears eyeglasses, is always carefully dressed and smokes cigarettes. Of course he is delicate. Vassar College has just conferred the hon orary degree of LL. D. on Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, of Baltimore, whose attainments in mathematics and logic had previously been rec ognized by her appointment os fellow of the Johns Hopkins University. Lafcadio Hearn, whose lost book, “Some Chinese Ghosts,” has won the admiration of lovers of literature, was a few years ago a re porter on a Cincinnati |iaper at a meagre salary His specialty was “feature” articles, and in this ho ilia some very good work before he became known to his present large audience. Dn. Georok W. C’BU.Ds. while acting as Presi dent of the Board of Visitors at West Point, visited the cemetery, and finding that many graves of officers were not fittingly marked with memorials for the brave men there in triTed, guv to an architect to make tm provement*. He has also ordered a tablet to commemorate the change of .Mess Hall to "Grant Hall." The number of nickels swallowed by the Sc.- weighing machines throughout the country is enormous. Strangely enough the inventor, an Englishman named Pereival Everftt, is making money out of his clever device for collecting the small change of the community. A company of which Ernst us Wiman is President, has charge of the machine, and Kveritt receives a good roy alty on every sale Geokok W. ('HU.hs never does things by halves. Gens. Sherman and Sheridan expressed a wisli while at ’.Vest Point recently to have their port utils placed Iwside that of Grant in Grant Hall. Mr. Childs, who presented West Point with the portrait of Giant, told Sherman ana Sheridan that he would gladly add their pictures to bis girt, and added that.;,hay were at lllierty to choose their own artists. The tstr traits of the two Generals are to he the same aizu on that of Gen Grant. She Got There. From the Detroit Free Press. A Detroiter with an office up four pairs of stairs on Griswold street was inquired after by a lady yesterday at the elevator, and the boy askeij: "Are you a book agent, madam?'’ “No, sir!” “Come about some charity?” “No, sir!” “Whnt his influence in temperance or poli tics?” “No, sir!” "He is very particular whom he sees, madam. Will you give me your name?” “I am hts wife, sir!” “O-h-h! you are! Well, please wait here until Igo up and ask him if he will see you. Take a chair,'madam, and I will do my best to bring about an interview.” Collecting' for Dog Bites. From the Texas Siftings. “I am a permeable man,” sit id the intruder, grasping a large club With both hands, “but if you don't come down with sl7 50 damages for my lacerated feelings the bombardment will begin at once. Your (log has bit my son, and I’m going to have sl7 SO or gore.” The owner of the dog paid down the money, as he was afraid the other fellow might exas perate him if he hit him with a club of that size. The owner of the dog also said that he was sorry the dog had bitten the intruder’s son. “Why, he ain’t my son," said the intruder, pleasantly, as he stowed away the money. “Whose son is he, then?” asked the astonished owner of the dog. “He is tbeon of a friend of mine who owed me sl7 50, but he is poor, and the only available assets he has are these dog bites on his son’s body, which he turned over to me for collec tion.” “Well, I’ll be blowed!” “Oh, yon needn’t complain; you are getting off dog cheap. I ought to make you pay in ad vance for the next time that boy is going to get bit by your dog. If a dog ever bites you or your ssn, give me the bill to collect, aud I'll only charge you 10 percent, commission.” Mr. Keely’s Invention. From the Nero York World. Oh, the funny man may giggle, but it’s coming by and by— The derided Keely motor, I am building on the sly; ’ Hitch a belt to this invention and a power will then go forth That will whirl the equinoxes and the axis of the earth; It will wrench the solar system, twist the orbit of the sun— Please invest a little money, for it isn’t hardly done. It needs another piston rod, perhaps another screw— •But the motor will be ready in about a week or two. It will wield a mighty power which I cannot here rehearse— But when it gets in action it will shake the uni verse. A deep, mysterious power that will reach forth wide and far, > And rattle through the galaxy and shake the polar star. The distant Pleiades shall feel this motor of re nown, And the northern “Handle Dipper” shall turn over upside down! But I need a little money, a few thousand—just a few— And the motor will be ready in about a week or two. Vividly Recalling the Incident. From the Washington Critic. They were over in the camp last evening, talk ing about military matters, and war and so .on, and the talk drifted around to personal bravery, and finally someone brought up the subject of presence of mind in danger. "That reminds me,” said the Colonel, “of an incident that happened when I was but a lad. 1 was very fond of crows’ nesting. One day I discovered a nest in the very top of a lofty bull pine, fully 100 feet high. Up I swarmed. In the nest were four young crows and one egg. It was the work of a minute to wring the young crows’ necks and throw them out. Then, placing the egg in my mouth for convenience, I commenced my journey down. It seems but yesterday,” said the Colonel, softly. ”1 looked ife the beauti ful blue sky was above me, ana the crows,, whose nest I had despoiled, were wheeling in short circles, uttering angry cries. Suddenly, without an instant's warning, the limb on which I was resting broke and I fell—ninety feet from the top! I lived a hundred lives in that one mo ment! ’ The Colonel's voice trembled. He brushed his hand across his eyes. "What, you fell ninety feet, Colonel?” ex claimed a young subaltern. The Colonel gazed at him compassionately. “No, you young ignoramus. I was ninety feet from the top when I fell; consequently* I fell about ten feet. But the jolt I got broke that egg. Bah! I can taste it yet.” The Colonel gazed around suggestively, and he got something to take the taste out of his mouth. And they all had some. How to tell a Baltimorean. From the Baltimore Amencan. A group of gentlemen were discussing art and other things in the lobby of the Metropolitan Hotel a few days ago. Saidyme of them to his neighbor: "Don't you know that I would have guessed you were a Baltimorean?” “Why.” said the other, in rather an injured tone. “I've no hayseed in my hair, have I? And I don’t look like I had a razor in my boot?” "Oh. no,” was the reply; "but I knew you were from that city the moment I heard you pronounce it.” “Explain.” “Will you spell the word Ba-l-t-i-m-o-r-e, and it’s a word ot three syllables, isn’t it? Well, you Baltimore people never give it three sylla bles. You swallow the middle syllable and clip off half the last. You say Balt-utah. You never say Ball-te-more. I can't imitate it, and I don't believe anybody can, who isn’t born and bred in your city. But I have noticed it, and the moment I hear a man pronounce the word in that way I know he's a Baltimorean.” “Yes,” added another of the group, a lawyer. “I've noticed that pronunciation of the word, because I won a case on that very point in Phila delphia not long ugo. The main witness for the prosecution was a colored man, who swore he was born aud raised in Baltimore. He called it the Philadelphia way, Ball-tee-more. Then I made the very point you spoke of. I explained and proved, by reliable witnesses, that no man lxirn aud raised in Baltimore would ever pro nounce the name of his city in that way, and I proved my point to the satisfaction of the jury, for they acquitted my prisoner.” “Who the Dickens Kissed Me?” From the San Francinco Examiner. “I saw a strange thing happen up on the Northern Pacific the other clay,’’ said Ben Jor dan, a commercial traveler, fast night at the Occidental. ‘‘l had just come out to St. Paul from New York. "As the train left west-bound over the Mis souri river bridge at Bismarck, 1 noticed two aowboys aboard that I had seen around the Sherman House in Chicago when 1 had been de layed there an hour or two on my way out. "The boys recognized tne, and 1 fell into a pleasant conversation with them. They were dressed in cowboy style, with wide leather leg gings and broad sombreros, with thick straps around them for bands. They had been to Texas, they said, to look up some cattle mat ters. and were en route home to the range, where they were employed, on the Rosebud. “They were nice fellows, and one evening after we were out a day or two, one of them, who had a pack of cards, suggested 1 ask two young ladies who were with their mother just ahead of us. to join us in a game. The young cowboy saidAie and do it, but he was afraid of a woman. he could stand up and be shot at, but lie •Bdn’t do this. “Just tciaccommodate him, I asked one of them in my politest style, the young cowboy standing by at the time. The girl, who was a pert sort of a miss of about 90, who evidently had bufci kept so close at home t hat she was everything and everybody, blurted out as ((■K.-lanco# at the vaquero, that she didn't to play cards and she didn't want to ■‘That settled it. I didn’t care what the moral maiden said, but it made the cowboy mad. "That night at midnight the boys were to get off at Miles City, while the girls went on to their destination at Spokane Falls. At about 10 o'clock the girls, the old lady and the whole caboodle of them threw back their heads on the seats and fell asleep. "The cowboys then began bantering each other to kiss the girls. And they agreed to do it. I was called to their assistance, p W as arranged that when the train slowed up a! Miles 1 was to carelessly walk forward and open the car door. Then the cattlemen were to advance, each with his valise in hand, and swoop down and kiss each Ills girl. “‘Well, sir. those daro devils actually did it, skipjied off the car and escaped to the town. I lay back in the rear seat and nearly laughed my head off, while tile elder girl who, in her dreamy way, felt a mustache on her lips, linallv realized v.'hnt had happened, and, with a loud screech, screamed: ‘Who the dickens was that man that kissed me?” “Then the other girl awoke, and she, too, re alized what had occurred, but neither ever seemed to drop on who did It. It was an odd thing to see, I tell you, there in the milet moonlight of the mountains at mid night. But you ought to have beard the pas senger* rour when the pert girl shrieked out. It was uncivil, perhaps, hut tlieir sympathies were with the cow-boys.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. The monument to Gen. Grant at Mansfield, Vt., consisting of a pile of stones, to which every visitor is requested to add one, is growing large and tali. A tramp succeeded in making an upholstered pew in St. Peter's church, New York, his bed every night for two weeks lief ore he was caught at it. He is now on Blackwell's Island for the summer. ■Walter Pitt, of Sonora Township, Hancock county, 111., has in his possession a span of mules which he claims were engaged in hauling rock for the famous Mormon temple at Nauvoo about fifty years ago. One day last week as A. Z. Copeland, of Pato mac, 111., was crossing his father's farm, he discovered a buffalo head protruding out of a bank on Bean creek. It was firmly Imbedded three feet below- the surface. A man in the western part of Nebraska, who has been bound up in wedlock only five months, has applied for a divorce upon the singular charge that his wife will not trim her toe-nails, which he avers are of monstrous size. Senator T. W. Palmer, of Michigan, returned from his European trip on Saturday. Among numerous souvenirs which Senator Painter brought home is a sword of Damascus steel, which he found in an old curiosity-shop. Two graduates of Vassar, one of ’BS the other of ’BO, publish a weekly newspaper—the Atlantic Highlands Independent. They run their own press, aud, with the assistance of one compositor, set their own type. Their success thus far has been very good. A Rapid City, (D. TANARUS.) man bought some goods in Chicago, the whole amounting to $72. The freight to Rapid City reached ssl. A Hermosa man sent a carload of bones to Chicago and after they were sold there yet remained 50c. lacking to pay the freight bill. Rose growers who have heretofore killed all the lady bugs that appeared on their bushes will be glad to know that these insects are death to rosebush lice and chinch bugs. Mr. Hatch, of Suisun, Cal., offered an ounce of gold for an ounce of lady bugs not long ago, and got them. Sturgeon fishermen at Bayside, N. J., have captured what is called “a strange monster.” It was about six feet long, seven feet wide, count ing its fangs, and weighed about 500 pounds. It was black as ink, had a head resembling a sea lion's, and was spotted underneath like a leopard. The Japanese are extremely superstitious, and have innumerable signs and tokens by which to regulate their conduct and beliefs. At a marriage ceremony neither bride nor bride groom wears any clothing of purple color, lest their marriage tie be soon loosed, as purple is the color most liable to fade. Another of the competing companies at the Washington drill has adopted a boy. The com pany is the Sarsfield Guard, of New Haven, and the boy is a little fellow who followed them home from Washington, who has forgotten his own name, and who has lteen re-christened Patrick Sarsfield, and will be put in a way to make a man of himself, if it’s in him. The latest phase of Harvard College journal ism, as exemplified by the San Francisco Exam iner, is shown by the following headlines in a paper of recent date: "The Devil's Train—How an Unlucky Party of Thirteen Went to Hell- Using Blood for Fuel—A Thousand Miles a Min ute at an an Ever-Increasing Speed—Written for the Examiner by the Devil Himself.” Two Vincennes (Ind.) men were sawing a white oak log in two. When the saw penetrated the log some distance a strange noise was heard resembling the hissing of a goose. Someone lighted a match and held it to the narrow open ing, when a blaze shot up some six feet and burned with a steady, red flame. The flame was smothered, but again relighted, each time burn ing as before. !T Paul Berg, a Springfield locksmith, went to Decatur to open a safa. The work had to be done between 2 and 4 a. m., and when it was finished and he had. just stepped outside the door he found himself uncomfortably con fronted with several guns, and was ordered to throw up his bands. He had a hard time to convince the men that he had been engaged in honorable business. A post office clerk in Vienna, who was a sorter of registered letters, absconded recently with letters containing about 150,000 florins. The man’s name was Philemon Zalevski, and proba bly most of his spoil was in bank notes, of which he can readily dispose, for very little business is done by checks in Austria, and peo ple are so accustomed to handle paper m one v that they never think of taking the number of a note. A recent report of the Pasteur Institute states that out of 2,682 patients who have been treated 2,164 had been bitten by animals which were undoubtedly mad, and that out of these 2,164 only 29 or 1.41 per cent. died. Before the discovery of this method the lowest death rate for persons affected by rabies was 16 per cent., and the secretary of the institute claims that 317 persons owe their lives entirely to Pasteur's discovery. During a thunderstorm at Hazleton, Pa., lightning struck a penknife in the hands of High Sheriff Zierdt, who was bathing in a tub. When he came to nothing but small splinters could lie found of the tub he had beeu bathing in, and the water it contained was equally distributed over the floor its if done with a mop in the hands of a scrub-woman. The metal in the knife was incited. No other evidence that the lightning had entered the room could be found. A clergyman from Portland, Ore., told this incident the other day at the Baptist meeting at St. Paul, as illustrating the unsettled state of people's minds in the fat- Northwest. Among the residents of Portland he found a family with a letter from a Boston churen dating back thirty-four years. When he asked the lady of the family why in the world she had not some time in the course of those thirty-four years come in and joined one of the Baptist churches of Portland, her simple reply was: “Well, you see, sir, we haven’t been quite certain whether we should remain.” A Maine man says that the other day, when walking along the shore in South Goldsboro, he saw a fox coming down the bank. He stood perfectly still, and the fox, after seeing that the cogst seemed clear, walked down the hank and was quickly followed by seven young ones. They came within forty feet of where the man was standing to a black mussel bed, and here the mother fox tried to teach her children to eat these shell fish. But they were too full of fun to attend to eating at just that time, ami commenced a regular jubilee among them selves. At one time four of them stood up, joined hands, and had a “four hands around.” Upon the completion of his “Life of Christ” in verse, Mr. Joaquin Miller announces his in tention of permanently retiring from literary work. The poem in question will be a long one and is to be divided into five parts. It is prob able that the first portion of it will be printed in magazine form liefore the completed work is issued between book covers. "It is the lost thing I shall write,” says the poet,, “and Upon it 1 have spent the best part ot fifteen years. I am certain,” he continues, "that 1 shall write no more after this is completed. I have bought a piece of land here (Oakland, Cal.), a rough bit of mountain land, stony and steer) under foot, hut o'erhend it is as smooth as any man’s land’. And here I shall gather my people about me, teach them the lieauty of the world and the goodness of liod." The fact that the elder brother of the Emir of Bokhara is about to join the Greek church and marry a Russian lady is one among many signs that the faith of Mohammed is waning in some of its strongholds. It is not many years since the people of Bokhara were of the opinion that European civilization had so cor rupted Western Mohammedanism that the Turks were no better than infidels. The Emir who cruelly put Stoddart and Conolly to death lilt!" dreamed that this same civilization would soon knock at the doors of Bokhara, and would not knock in vain. It is his grandson who is about to join the Greek chhrch, while his other descendant, now on the throne, is speeding the advancing railroad, and his subjects me already using the road to send tlieir cotton and vuried manufactures into Europe, The Delaware Field Club, of Wilmington, Is an exceedingly aristocratic association. Its base ball nine is composed of young men from the liest families in town. A match was ar ranged for Wednesday on the home grounds with the Amos Scott Club, of Philadelphia. No one had ever seen or heard of the club, but the home nine was anxious to wipe out. the stain of a recent defeat, and the match mji s made by mail. One of the home club met We visitors at the railroad station with a hack. Judge of his surprise when he found that the Amos Hcotts were all colored men! There wan no help for It, however, as a large crowd assembled to see the game, Including many ladle* prominent in society. When the hack unloaded the visitors on the ball (found there was consternation in the minds of the home club. They were too plucky to back out, however, and went in and deloated their ebony-hued opponents bouudly by a score of twelve to two. BAKING POWDER. 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