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•INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—DeKalb Ixxige No. 9. I. O. O. F.;
Clinton Lodge No. 54, F. A. M.; Railroad Loan
Association.
Special Notices— A Card. Jos. Rosenheim
A Cos.
Steamship Schedules— Baltimore Steamship
Cos.; Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transat
lantic Cos.
Railroad Schedule— Central Railroad.
Lottert — Louisiana State.
Gas Fixtures. Globes, Etc.— J. Nicolson. Jr.
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Lost: Miscellaneous.
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It is said that there is a church choir in
Massachusetts in which there lias not been a
quarrel for three years. The explanation,
no doubt, is that the choir has only one
member.
Notwithstanding all his vehement shout
ings about the battle flags, Gov. Fornker, of
Ohio, will not get the Vice Presidential
nomination of his party. What a dema
gogue he is!
j Mrs. Mary A. Livermore says there are
327 occupations now open to women. One
of the number is providing for a shiftless
husband, and there are more women en
gaged in it than in any other.
A scientist who has been experimenting
with sea air triumphantly proclaims that
there is not a particle of salt in it. Perhaps
not, but there is health in it, and that is
quite enough to make sea-air desirable.
What are the New York dudes, who ape
English manners and ways, going to do to
wards celebrating the jubilee? The celebra
tion begin;; to-morrow and they ought to be
ready to carry out a programme of some
sort _ _
It is estimated that the receipts of the
Treasury during the three summer months
■will be about $17,000,000 more than the ex
penses of the government. It is time Con
gress was doing something to get rid of the
surplus.
An alliance between England and the
United States is proposed. A genius who
wants all English-speaking people united
suggests that Queen Victoria either give
Buffalo Bill one of her daughters or marry
him herself.
An enterprising Washington correspond
ent has discovered that there is a cat in the
"White House. There is a suspicion that it
■was left by Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
when she moved out to make room for the
President’s wife.
Gen. Drum thinks that if he were a better
lawyer he would not nave suggested the rt -
turn of the battle flags. As he is too old to
learn much law now, when he has another
suggestion to make it might be wise for him
to consult a lawyer about it.
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It is hardly probable that dynamite will
mar the jubilee celebration, although the
dynamiters would doubtless like to get up a
scare in England’s capital by throwing a
few bomb, among those who will make up
the jubilee procession.
The niece of Mr. Alfred Sully, the rail
road magnate, graduated at Metger Insti
tute, Carlisle. Pu., a day or two ago, and rn
the day of her graduation he presented her
with a check for $•'>0,000. Mr. Sully is the
land of an uncle worth having.
The Orphans’ Court of Somerset county,
N. J., has a tangled will case to decide. The
will under consideration is thn' of John
Holmes. Several women are claiming to be
the widow of Holmes. It is said that
Holmes at one time had seven living wives.
Yesterday was a remarkably hot day, but
the thought that the Tyl>eo railroad is
almost completed, and that by another Sun
day old ocean’s beach could be quickly ex
changed for the hot streets of the city beljied
the average citizen to bear the discomforts
of tho weather.
It seems that Gen. Sherman fully ap
proves of the violent language of Gen. Fair
child relative to the proposition to return
the battle flags. No doubt John Sherman
approves of it. Hu would bo likely to ap
prove of anything that promised to assist his
Presidential boom.
It is said that George W. Childs, the pro
prietor of the Philadelphia Ledger, never
tires of doing good. When Mr. Childs bids
farewell to earth there will be more obitu
ary notices written of him than has boon
written of any man in private life since the
beginning of tho century, and they will be
from the heart.
• The Geu. Tuttle who lately made no much
noise in opposition to the proposed visit of
the President to St bonis is represented to
have been a cotton grabber during the
war. It doesn’t need much evidence to
satisfy anyone that Tuttle was looking after
bis own interests during the war rather
than those of tho Uuiou.
Retain the Cadets.
The naval officers and the officers of the
revenue marine service generally favor, it
is said, the filling of vacancies in the latter
service from the graduates of the naval
academy. Indeed there is no very excellent
reason why the revenuo marine should not
baa part of the navy. The appointments
in the revenue marine are now made from
civil life, while many naval cadets, each
year, are given #I,OOO each, and pennitttd
to retire to civil life because there are uo
vneancies for them in the navy. Conu
Schley says that there is no reason why the
revenue marine should remain outside of
the navy and Com. Walker says the same
thing.
The cadets who return to civil life will,
except- in a few instances, be unfit for the
naval service in a few years, and if they
should be needed they will not be ready to
respond. They will become engrossed in
civil pursuits and will lose their inch nation
for the naval service. Having been educated
at the expense of the public they ought to be
so employed as to be ready at all times to
serve the country in the service for which
they were prejiareil. Those who do not get
appointments in the navy would rather go
into the revenue marine service than to
enter civii life, and if that service
were incorporated in tho navy
it would afford them a splendid opportunity
to advance in their profession. The present
officers of the revenue marine favor being
incori>oratod into the navy, because it would
insure them better pay, and a pension when
they became too old for service. There is
no obstacle in the way of uniting the ser
vices that cannot be easily overcome.
The Mask Off.
It is quit* common for Republicans to
take credit for whatever good is in the civil
service law. They claim to bo its origina
tors, although it is very well known that a
Democrat was the author of it. The Re
publicans frequently charge that the Demo
crats are insincere iq the support they give
the law, coolly overlooking _ae fact that a
Democratic President has done more for
civil service reform than any of his Repub
liean predecessors. It is therefore refresh
ing to find that in at least one section of the
country there are Republicans honest
enough to throw off the mask and confess
that they are opposed to the law.
The Board of Public Affairs of the city
of Cincinnati was created by theiLegislature
of Ohio to assist in the government of the
city, and was charged with the management
of all dejiartments of the government ex
cept those of fire, police and education.
The Governor appointed five Republicans
to serve on the board, publicly saying at
the same time that he wanted it to represent
the Republican party. It seems that among
the city employes controlled by the
board wore a number of Demo
crats, all of them thoroughly quali
fied for their duties and discharging
them faithfully and honestly. This did not
please the Blaine Club, a Republican or
ganization which has lately shown much
interest in the city’s affairs. The club held
1 a meeting and adopted resolutions requesting
the board to discharge the Democratic
employes. Accordingly, at its last meeting,
Gen. Young asked the board to comply with
the request. He offered a resolution which
declared that “the so-called civil service
reform has proved a delusion and a snare
under all administrations since its inception,
whether Republican or Democratic, either
in Federal, State or municipal
governments.” The resolution also declared
that “it is the policy of this Board, with a
view solely to perpetuate the preponderance
for the public good of the Republican party
in this city, and by its example in every
Republican county and municipality in the
State of Ohio, that all appointments here
after made, or to be made, 'by it shall lie
good, honest industrious Republicans.” The
resolution was adopted, and the Democratic
employes were discharged.
There is little doubt that the action of
.these Cincinnati Republicans will be ap
plauded by the members of their party in
all parts of tho country. If the Republi
cans had control of the national govern
ment they would quickly get rid of the
Democratic officeholders. The Republican
party has frequently nullified laws, and. if
it ever has the opportunity, it will do so
again whenever it suits its purposes.
Democrats obey the laws and endeavor to
execute them to the letter. The course of
the present administration proves this.
Alabama Towns.
The real estate boom in the new Alabama
towns has been succeeded by a building
boom. Birmingham, Anniston, Decatur,
Bessemer and other towns are improving
with wonderful rapidity. Lass than a year
ago the site of Bessemer was a forest. Now,
besides numerous dwellings, there are four
immense blast furnaces, a $500,000 i
mill and a four-story briejj and stone news
paper offlee in course of erection. At Bir
mingham there are many hundreds o f houses
under contract, and hundreds of thousands
of dollars are being invested in industries of
one kind and another. The same spirit of
improvement is observable at Anniston and
Decatur.
While millions of dollars of Northern
capital are being invested in those towns,
Southern men. and Southern capital are
mainly instrumental in building them up.
Tho impression has, to some extent, been
spread abroad that Southern men have
little share in Alabama's industrial enter
prises. It is a mistaken one. Southern
energy and talent are entitled to the credit
for most of them. No one of the growing
new towns have a mushroom growth. They
have a solid foundation, and are certain to
realize all of the expectations
entertained of thorn. It is true
that in about all of them speculation has
forced the prices of real estate higher than
they ought to be, but prices will soon
flufl their proper level, if they have not
already done so. The improvements which
are now l>eing made are so groat that in a
comparatively short time the demand for
vacant lots will boas great as it has ever
been, and prices will doubtless advance
again. There is every reason to think that
the future of the new Alabama towns will
be a great one.
The Andover Seminary squabble will, in
all probability, be carried into the courts,
and learned judges will have a chance to
decide whether Prof. Srtiythe, lately dis
charged by the Board of Visitors, is a
heretic or not. Tho professor is sustained
by tho Board of Trustees, and a lively tight
is theroforo probable.
The Bishop of Mississippi, Dr. Hugh Miller
TUonijwon, talked too inueh about the
liumiUon-Gambrell tragedy, anil he is now
hnviug a livel}- tussle with the Prohibition
ists, who think that as a minister of the
gospel he ought not to openly sympathize
"*tU luo alleged ii.ssu.iooj ul' Giunbreli
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1887.
A Missmsippian's Big Undertaking.
A Mississippian, who claims that he has
been studying the jxtllticnl institutions of
this country ror forty years, declares that tlw
cause of ail the troubles which vex tho
people is too many laws. Others have made
the same declanUirin, but they have failed
to suggest an acceptable remedy., Tho
Mississippian proposes a remedy, but it is
n* -t likely that it will ever l>e fried. It is of
sufficient interest, however, to lie described.
He would have ail existing constitutions
a: 1 law.-- abolished. For State government
he suggests that a constitution lie adopted
providing for the protection *uf life,
liberty and property. Under this
constitution he proposes that a
legislature and five Governors shall be
elected. The former is to be composed of.
men at least 50 years old, moral and well
edueatod. The fiveGovemors are also to be
moral and well educated, and they areAo be
at least. 00 years old. Tbe Legislature is to
pass the simplest laws possible for the three
purposes named in the constitution, and is
then to elect a Judge, a Sheriff and assist
ants, a Tax Collector, and a Superintendent
of .Schools for each county. These officers
are to execute the laws, and are not to en
gage in any other business. They are to
hold office five real's and lie ineli
gible for re-election. Tbe five Governors
are tq have advisory powers only, but are
to require a monthly report of the acts of
all county officers. These reports are to be
consolidated and presented to tbe Legisla
ture. Like the county officers, the five
Governors are to hold office five years and
then be ineligible for re-election. Members
of the Legislature are to hold office ten
years, but they are not eligible for re-elec
tion. The Legislature is to meet every
fifth year and sit sixty days. It alone is to
have the power to punish officers who fail
to discharge their duties faithfully
and honestly. When any Governor
or member of the Legislature dies
the people of the State, without further no
tice, must hold an election within ten days
to fill the vacancy. When any county
officer dies, the people of the comity must
hold an election to fill the vacancy five days
after. Elections for the entire State are to
lie conducted by the county judges. Those
for counties are to be conducted by the
superintendents of schools. These officers
are also to declare the results. Every iaw
passed by tile Legislature must be submitted
to the people to be ratified or rejected.
For national government the Mississip
pian would have the people elect a Presi
dent, a Vice President and a Congress. The
President and Vice President must lie at
least 60 years old, and no man under 50 is to
serve as a Congressman. The terms of these
public servants are to be ten years, and none
of them can be re-elected. They are to be
paid by the the States out of
a fund collected for the support of State and
national governments. The President, Vice
President and Congress are to have no
power except over the foreign relations of
the country. Vacancies caused Ijy death are
to be filled thirty days after they occur, the
States holding an election for the purpose as
in the case of the death of a Governor or a
member of the Legislature.
No explanation is needed to show that the
Mississippian’s remedy would hardly lie an
effective one. It Is not huzarding too much
to say that any of the plans of government
suggested by those who are going about de
claring that the system established by the
fathers needs reforming have little or no
merit. There are too many laws it is true,
but what is mainly needed is the enforce
ment of those already in existence.
The New York press is pretty certain that
the jury system in that State wants a good
deal of reforming, and it is about right.
The effort to get a jury in the Jacob Sharp
case showed it to be very defective. Several
of the judges have spoken so plainly and
forcibly in and out of court in relation to
the subject, and the popular attention has
been so thoroughly excited in the matter
that a movement for the correction of the
existing imperfection is in the natural
course of events inevitable. It does not
take long to select a jury to try an offender
whose pockets are empty and whose case is
not sensational. But when distinguished
lawyers are employed for the defence and
the prosecution is put upon its mettle, it is
unavoidable that objection should be made
to most of the talesmen in the procession of
imbeciles, deaf men and all sorts of people
otherwise disqualified that pass under the
ordeal of examination.
A British officer who recently visited Rus
sia says that shortly after the assassination
of his father, the Czar, Alexander 111., had
recourse to stimulants in order to nerve him
self sufficiently to meet the real and
imaginary dangers which beset him. In
this way ho formed the habit of drinking,
which has taken such firm hold upon him
that he has booomo a ho]xjloss ami oTttimes
helpless sot. It is said that ho has several
times suffered from delirium tremens, and
that while the fit was on him his cruelty to
those so unfortunate as to come near him
was appaling. A good many stories dis
creditable to tho Czar get afloat that have
no foundation whatever, and this may be
oue of them.
Mme. Bernhardt and company left Now
York for England on Saturday. Her man
ager states tluit her tour in this country was
a tremendous financial success. From the
commencement of the season irt South
America about two hundred and fifty-two
performances were given, from which wus
realized a grand total of $1,000,000, half of
which was a clear profit to tho managers
and the star. Tho celebrated French actor
Coquelin will visit this country and South
America next season, but it is hardly prob
able that he will carry home with him as
many dollars as Bernhardt did.
Dakota is getting ready to demand ad
mission into tho Union next winter. The
Philadelphia Itecord, suggests that if Con
gress divide? tho territory of Dakota into
two States, it lx> by a north and south lino,
rather than by one east and west. The
reason of this is that if the lino were run
oast and west, the Northern Pacific railroad
would own one State, ami tho Union Pacific
railroad the other. Those two
jxvwerful rorporations are pretty
certain to run the two States,
whether the territory is divided by a north
and south or an east and west line.
The Rev. John R. Paxton is said to lead
nil the other clergymen of New York in
eloquence, originality and independence of
thought. He gets a salary of $30,000 n year,
and his congregation represents $000,000,-
000 of wealth. He probably deals tenderly
with the rich.
One by one the cities of tho North and
West are enforcing the Sunday law. St.
Ixmis is the last to enforce It, and tho brer
drinkers of that city had to purchuse yes
i terday’s supply of boor on Saturday night.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Fatal to Him.
FVom the Boston Herald (Ind.)
Mr. John Sherman is just now the subject of
general explanation and apd >gy and other de
fensive attitudes on the of the Republican
press. Of such, successful candidates for tho
Presidency are not made.
They Have Shaken Hands.
J'ro’a the yew York Herald (Ind.)
Here is exactly a ease in point. A regiment
of Southern soldiers was yesterday the guest of
a Massachusetts regiment. Side by si le they
assisted in the Bunker Hill celebratiou. That is
a sign of the times. The men who were opposed
to each other in the war have shaken hands and
so sworn anew their allegiance to "the red,
white and blue.”
His Great Heart Is Broken.
From the Sew York World l Dem .)
According to his own testimony. Gov. For
aker, of Ohio. Is a patient ami long-suffering
man. He can stand a great deal, but tbe battle
flag episode is too union for him. It wrings from
him u specimen of Her}' eloquence that has not
been matched in this country since the days of
Patrick Henry. 1 can stand the rehabilitation
of Jeff Davis." he says, and "I could keep the
peace while Rosser was ordering Sheridan to
krep out of the Shenandoah Valley, but when
the President goes Ashing on Decoration Day
and orders these flags to bo returned to the
South. I can Keep silent no longer. My great
heart is broken, and I demand to be nominated
for Vice President of the United States,” or
words to that effect.
BRIGHT BITS.
The Analyst savs that canned goods should
be eaten the day they are opened. Is it possible
that some people, are silly enough to eat theta
the Any before)—Philadelphia Call.
Teacher—The wisest mnn that ever lived said:
“There is nothing new under the sun."
Little Boy (enthusiastically)—But I’ll bet they
never had a baby at his "house I—Acte York
Ledger.
A French exqixeeb, after a series of experi
ments with a pie baked by a Vassal- College girl,
now announces that he believes the project of
tunneling the Rocky Mountains is entirely prac
ticable.—St. Imuls Magazine.
A Providence man astonished his friends one
day last week by saying that he was consider
ably interested in flowers and intended that day
to plaut some “Christian anthems.” He meant
chrysanthemums.—Providence Journal.
The man who's on the ocean
And seasick in his bert h
Amid tho storm's commotion,
Is the man who wants the earth.
—Boston Courier.
Jones (who has been interrupted in telling a
long story by Smith’s sudden departure)—By
the way, old man, I have quite forgotten what I
was telling you the other day.
Smith (gratefully)—'Thanks.— Sew York Ex
press.
A scientific writer tells how water can be
boiled in a sheet of writing paper. We don’t
doubt. We have known a man to write a few
lines on a sheet of writing paper that kept him
in hot water for three years.—Christian at
Work.
"Oh, muffs are entirely out of use now!”
observed the high school girl in a discussion
with Amy.
" ’Deqil they ain’t, Mildred!” replied Jimmy,
who overheard the remark: “you ought to go to
a base ball game."— Pittsburg Chronicle.
“Have you heard the sad misfortune that has
befallen our friend Maier?"
“No! What was the matter? Why, only last
night lie joined us at supper, well and hearty as
usual!"
“Yes, and to-day, only six hours afterward,
he was married V'—Madgeburger Zeitung.
A boss said to a candidate for the nomination:
“J.et us dine together."
"You do me a very great honor,” said the
candidate for the nomination eagerly, "and I
gladly adopt the suggestion. I will be the, host."
“I have planned it differently,” said the toss,
with a bleak light in his eye; "you will be the
dinner.”— San Ah-ancisco Examiner.
Clear-eyed, dear-brained,
At all things deft,
Success he gained
And ne’er was left.
But turned to clay.
Of life bereft,
One frigid day
He here was left.
—Boston Courier.
Philanthropist—l am nearly dead. I be
lieve I have tramped twenty miles to-day, and
have had to almost run in order to get through
m3' labors before night.
Citizen—l am nearly dead, too. and I feel as if
I'd walked forty miles; utterly fagged out. By
the way, what have you been doing?
“I am President of the Society for the Relief
of the Unemployed but Able-bodied Women.
What have you been doing?”
“I have been trying to hire a servant girl.”—
Omaha World.
"I think I’ve got rather the meanest husband
in Detroit," exclaimed a little woman on the
car the other day. Her friend asked ner to ex
plain, and she continued: “I found that he was
smoking 50c. worth of cigars per day% and I got
him to agree to give me as much piu-raone>- per
week as the cigars cost. He stuck to it one
week.”
"And then what?”
“He bought him a clay pipe and a pound of
10c. smoking tobacco, and my income is cut
down to 2c. a week. —Detroit Free Press.”
PERSONAL.
Gen. Feron, the new French Minister of War,
is an expert violin player.
Henry Oeoroe, since he has become proprie
tor of an anti-poverty society, smokes 20c.
cigars.
Scsan B. Anthony is G 7 years old. But her
heart is young anil strong in defense of woman’s
rights.
Kansas City has recently named an avenue
after Attorney General Garland. It is in Bis
marck Park.
W. W. Corcoran, the paralyzed public bene
factor of Washington, D. C., has known every
President except one.
Enoch Platt, who died at Cheshire, Conn.,
last Monday, was the first American to learn
the trade of brass-casting.
Terence V. Powderly says that he never re
tires before 2 o’clock in the morning. To this
fact he attributes his present delicate health.
The largest landed proprietor in the world
lives in Connecticut. He owns 2,000,000 acres
of land, and his name Is Wilson Waildiughaxn.
“Patti Is as brown as a nut, as cherry as a
bird, as lively as a cricket and as full of melody
as auy first-class angel on either side of the line, ’’
says a Mexican paper.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Socthworth is 08 years old,
has written sixty-eight navels, uud is apparently
good for many more before death calls her to
lay down her prolific pen.
Thf. late William A. Wheeler had a modest
estimate of the importance of the Vice Presi
dential office, and thought, with Benjamin
Franklin, that its occupant should be called
"His Supertlous Highness."
Ameer Abdcriuiixan, of Afghanistan, admin
isters justice in person to all of his subjects
within his reach. Ho has only two sentences
for all offenses. “Bekoushid “cut out his
tongue"—or “Gagara Kouuid”—“hang him.”
Mexican Minister Romero will spend his
vacation season abroad, sailing for London the
first week in July. It is his intention to pur
chase across the water many new curios for the
almost completed k'gution building.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde dresses after fashions of
her own. At a recent afternoon reception in
London she wore a snuff-brown ulster wrap
reaching from her neck to her heels, u black
lace veil and a black lace bonnet of no deserib
ablc shape.
Gov. Chvrcii, of Dakota, is just now wrest
ling with a grave social question. He has moved
to Bismarck, where the chewing-gum habit is
ulinost universal, ami the question which is
racking the Gubernatorial intellect is whether
or not he shall learn to masticate the fragrant
sp. uco.
Viscount N. Watanabe, of Japan, president
of the auditing deportment of the Treasury,has
come to this country to study the American
system of National finances. He will spend
most of his time at Washington, hut will also
visit Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and
Boston.
Frederick H. Rindoe, who has given anew
public library to Cambridge, Mass., worth $125,-
000, was a member of the class of ’7H at Harv
ard. Until the past few years he and his father,
Samuel 11. Rindge, have lived in Cambridge.
They are now cltieens of California. F. 11.
Rindge has teen visiting Cambridge recently,
tuid there learned that the library of 20,1)00 vol
umes needed new accommodations.
Cadet Shunk, of Pennsylvania, who has teen
graduated at the bead of his class at West Point,
is a grnmlsou of a former Governor of the Key
stone State. Gov. Hhuuk was a self-made man.
He was obliged to go to work at 10 years of age.
but managed to “pick up" sufficient education
to become a school teacher at 15. He taught
school for nine years. He was twice elected
Governor of pennslvania. Ills strength, industry
and ability huvo evineutlv bueu Inherited by his
grandson.
AN INCIDENT OF THE RECEPTION.
How a Happy Bridal Couple Amused
the President and the Visito* s.
A dispatch trom Washington to the New York
Herald says: “It was a hot, perspiring crowd
that found its way into the East Room to-day
to attend tin; President's tri-weekly reception.
He was dressed with scrupulous care. He wore
anew, well fitting suit of blade broadcloth, the
sombreues* of which was relieved by an ample
expanse of snowy shirt front. A jaunty white
scarf encircling his high ‘choker,’ as a substitute
for his conventional black tie, completed his
costume. He smiled with unusual graoiousness
ujion the pretty girls and young children, and
was quite as cordial and deferential as ever in
his deportment toward the eldery callers.
“One of the newly married couples present
seemed to afford ibe President considerable
amusement. The husband occupied one of the
easy chairs. His bride sat in his lap. There
they billed and cooed during the entire recep
tion. They were apparently' oblivious of their
surroundings, but none of those present were
oblivious of them. Every few minutes the
President glanced in their direction, and each
time their amusing antics caused a broad smile
to illuminate his countenance. ,
"Finally, when all his visitors had paid their
respects and the room was deserted, with the
exception of a few newspaper men, the Presi
dent’cro.ssed over to their corner and disturbed
their dream of love by suddenly asking if he
could not have the pleasure of shaking hands
with them. The young husband was so con
fused he nearly threw his bride to the Boor iu
his effort to gain his feet. The President, with
out apparently noticing their embarrassment,
chatted pleasantly with them a few moments.
When they took their departure the President
gave them a cordial grasp of the hand and in
vited them to call and see him again when next
they visited Washington, an invitation they were
not slow to accept.”
A Thieving Marshal.
From the Youth's Companion.
When Augereau was made a marshal-duke,
the Parisian workingmen received the appoint
ment as a compliment to their class: for the
marshal was born in Paris, his father was a ma
son, his mother was a street fruit vender, and
he himself had worked as a mason, served as a
waiter, and won promotion's a soldier. He had
one merit as a soldier; he was as brave as the
bravest, though a poor general. He was also
good to his mother, who lived to see her boy a
duke and a marshal.
Once at at a state pageant, where he was
arrayed in the plumed hat and purple mantle of
a Senator, he gave her his arm in public, amid
the applause of the market women.
He was, however, an inveterate looter, as were
Soult and Masseua, and plundered palaces and
churches. But he was so ignorant of the value
of tho things he stole that he sold pictures,
jewelry and silver plate for any sum that was
offered him in ready money. He was caught
once and yet dared not open his mouth.
On his return from the Spanish campaign he
brought to Paris a robe, encrusted with dia
monds and rubies, which he had stripped from
a statue of the Virgin Mary ina Biscayan church.
One night he went to the house of a Jew re
ceiver with the robe rolled up under his cloak.
The Jew was out, but his wife was in, and she at
once took Augereau in.
She pronounced the jewels paste imitations,
but offered him 10 louis for the lace.
“Ah. those brigands of priests!” exclaimed
the disgusted marshal, pocketing the money.
A few months afterward Augereau, ascertain
ing that the jewels were genuine, went in a fury
to make the Jewess disgorge. She received him
calmly, and, looking him straight in the eye,
said: “We will have the jewels appraised in
court, if > r ou like.”
The swaggering marshal slunk out in the state
of mind of a fox who has been caught mealing
a chicken.
We All Have to Work Up.
From the Texas Siftings.
The Pacific Railroad Commission have been
examining Jay Gould. Their object was to ob
tain information that might shed light on the
shady transactions connected with that road.
The result was not satisfactory to the Commis
sioners. They might as well shear a hydraulic
ram for wool as to question Jay Gould for Infor
mation he don’t care to give.
Speaking of Jay Gould reminds us of a little
incident that occurred in Galveston on the occa
sion of Mr. Gould's visit to that city some seven
years ago. Accompanied by a number of lead
ing citizens he was inspecting the Cotton Ex
change, when a small boy was seized by one of
the gentlemen just as the gamin was picking
the great railroad magnate s pocket.
“What did the iittle fellow do?" asked Gould.
“He stole your pocket handkerchief, Mr.
Gould, and I am going to turn him over to a
policeman.”
"Don’t do that,” replied Mr. Gould, smiling
good naturedly, “let him go. We should not
discourage young beginners. I had to start out
in a modest way myself when I went into the
railroad business,” and reaching down in his
pocket Mr. Gould brought up a quarter and
gave it to the boy, to encourage him to aim
higher.
He Wasn’t Qualified.
From the Dakota Bell.
“Did you hire that young man who applied
for your school?” was asked of a Dakota school
district officer.
“Well, I should rather say we didn't!”
“Why not?”
“His edication didn’t come up to the scratch.”
“What in?”
“Gram’er.”
“How did you find it out?"
“VV’y he got in my wagon to ride from the
field to the house, an’ says I, ‘Did ye ever drive
much?’ ‘Of late years,’ says he, ‘I have driven
very little.’ 'Drove very little, ye mean,’ says I.
‘I beg yer pardon,’ says he, ‘but I mean driven.’
‘Drove is right,’ says I. ‘No, sir,’ says he,
‘driven is the most grammatiealest.’ ‘Oh, well,
mebby ye know,’ says I, sorter sarcastic. ‘I
reckon I do,’ says he, ‘l’m jes’ cornin’ out here'
to learn you folks something.’ ‘Do ye see that
road?’ says I. ‘I does,’ says he. ‘Well,’ says I,
‘it goes to town an’ you want’o git right out an’
humpen verself down it mighty fasten ’cause
I’m goin’ to togiu to kicken ye in about a
minute by the clock!' He saw I knowed more
’bout gram’er than he did, an' he got out o' that
wagon and scooted down the road. You bet
we're going to have a teacher that understands
gram’r or none at all.”
Who? What? Which? Where?
From Life.
When the young debutante gets sight of a beau,
She scarcely can peep thro’ the leaves of her
fan,
Her heart doth so flutter, her cheeks do so glow,
As she asks all a-trembling; "Who is the
man!'”
Twenty doth bring her to years of discretion,
No longer she blushes, but changes her plan;
With thoughts of the pocket, the place, the pro
fession,
She questions the circle with: “What is the
man*”
At thirty each day the thought doth appal her,
That hour by hottr her roses grow wan:
Her circle of lovers grows smaller and smaller
She duns each deceiver with: “Which is the
many”
Forty changes her tune, and she grows romantic,
Deems it charming to simper as much as she
can;
Haunts steams the Atlantic,
For the query of life uow is: “Where is the
many”
A Woman’s Quiet Heroism.
From the Troy Timet.
Many a heroic deed passes by unnoticed, and
many quiet Ayes have elements i>f courage and
fidelity humanity. Such a life ended
in this f fnat long ago. A young women
whose hiMand had died leaving quite a number
of unpa*ebts behind him, determined that
she wdevote her life to the payment of the
obligor is. She was left without any means
savj# ®lt the labor of her hands could' give her
r®. about the task before her. lie
fn*hg to accept the canceling of some of the
debts, which was offered her by her creditors,
she toiled early and late.
But her health was not strong enough to hear
the burden, and she gradually sank into hope
less dlseuse. Almost to the very day of her
death, however, she cheerfully continue 1 her
efforts to maintain the honor of her husband by
removing all claims which had stood against
him. The brave fidelity of such a life shines by
contrast with by far too many deeds of a selfish
world.
Sir Dunderhead Murgatroyd.
From the Traveler's Magazine.
"It is an Interesting and astonishing tact,"
said Mr. Murgatro.vd, at the breakfast table,
“that most of the great women of history have
been childless ”
“Queen Elizabeth,” observed Billings.
“Charlotte Cushman." suggested Huai nos.
“Susan B. Anthony," insinuated another
boarder.
“Of course I am not speaking of women wbo
never married, hook at that lady whom wb nil
revere, Mary, the mother of Watblngton. She
went childless to her grave."
"Are you quite sure*" Inquired little Miss
Bird. "I may be mistaken, but it seems to mo
that it was the wife of Washington who was
childless.”
“His wife? How could that be? Well, I don't
know; perhaps .retire right; but Iliad always
supposed It wo* his mother."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
M. B. Gossett, of Austin, Tex., has a pointer
dog that chews and swallows nails, tacks, metal
buttons, and even manifests a decided partiality
for such delicacies as broken bits of glass.
The suicide of an army officer who had gone
about San Francisco under a half dozen differ
ent names, and whose identity they are unable
to discover, has been puzzling the police of that
city.
Tuesday. June 14. was formally celebrated in
Hartford, Conn., as the. 110th anniversary of the
Stars and Stripes as the national emblem. A
liberal display of the national bunting was tho
chief feature.
An experienced sportsman says that the hard
est things to shoot are bats. They are quick,
make sharp turns in all directions and are diffi
cult to kill. Shot holes through their wings
will not bring them down, and a story is told
of one tot which flew away with thirty holes in
its wings.
Nearly two centuries and a half ago a Herr
Rahmsauer arrived in North Carolina. Some of
his still living near Fort Worth
in Texas. "I found,” writes a gentleman who
recently had occasion to look them up, “that
the family name had undergone the following
changes: Ramsauer, Ramsaur, Rarnser, Ramsir,
Sirram, Ram, Sheep, Lamb.”
PnoF. Carl Meyer, who made a balloon
ascension at Erie the other day, attained an
altitude of more than 13,000 feet without suffer
ing any inconvenience whatever. At that height
he says: “My pulse stood at 72 and my respi
ration was 20 a minute, or about twice faster
than ordinary, but I felt first, rate and the air
seemed bracing and exhilarating. The ther
mometer registered 02°.
James Nolan, an eccentric bachelor of Kear
ney, N. J., was taken seriously ill early last
week, and the physician that was called to at
tend him vainly tried to get him to relieve him
self of a heavy pair of trousers he had on. The
probable reason of his refusal was developed
when he died on Wednesday, and notes, money
and evidences of indebtedness amounting to
nearly §3,000 were found in his pockets.
Germans are hailing as a toon to mankind the
invention by Messrs. Lorenz, of Carlsruhe, of a
steel-clad bullet with a slight alloy of antimony,
which, in addition to increased powers of pene
tration. gives a much flatter trajectory and is
warranted to pass through a mans body with
out causing unnecessary discomfort. This is
killing two birds with one stone. It will kill
two. or even three, men at one shot if they hap
pen to stand in the way.
In one year in Vienna over 62,000 notices of
eviction were served for non-payment of State
and municipal taxes. The population of the
city proper being at the time roughly 753,000, it
follows that about one in every twelve Viennese
had the legal sword suspended over him. In no
fewer than 14,795 cases the evictions were ac
tually carried out. Equally suggestive is the
fact that in 1885 alone outdoor relief had to to
given there to 107,856 persons,while 35,708 arrests
were made for vagrancy.
Ben: Pbrley Poore wrote his life of Grant in
two months (2,500 words a day). Victor Hugo
wrote a novel in three weeks on a wager Dr.
Johnson wrote “Rasselas” in the nights of one
week in order to pay for his mother's funeral
expenses. Longfellow wrote his poem "The
Wreck of the Hesperus' to! ween supper and
bed time. "Sheridan's Ride” was dashed off by
Buchanan Reed one morning in less time than
it took Sheridan to do it. Sir Walter Scott wrote
his §42,000 novel, “Woodstock,” in three
months^
The Hilty toy, who a few months ago lost
both arms in a railroad accident, says the Cum?
berlaud (Md.) News, is a remarkable lad in
many respects. It will be remembered with
what nonchalance he tore his sufferings, and
that in an amazingly short time after the opera
tion he was out on the streets, as bright and
chipper as you please. His misfortune has not
prevented him from enjoying himself in many
respects as other boys do. For instance, lie
plays marbles, and plays far better than many
boys who have two arms, eight lingers and two
thumbs. Iu short, he is a champion of the ring.
He does much of his playing on the West Side,
and it is said he has “broken” a number of the
best players over there. Of ourse, the reader
will have by this time guessed that he plays
with his toes. That's what he does, and his
"shots” show wonderful accuracy and force.
Perhaps, as he grows up. he aean train these
substitutes for fingers to do useful and even ar
tistic work. There are well-authenticated cases
of this having been done.
The Baltimore American says that while rail
road laborers were excavating reck about four
miles east of Anderson, W. Va., the explosion of
a charge of powder revealed an opening into a
cavern of yet unknown extent. During the
afternoon it was explored for upwards of a mile,
and wonders rivaling in extent and grandeur
those of Hie celebrated Luray Cavern were
found. Half a mile under ground a stream of
clear running water was discovered, which, for
purity and sweetness, is unequalled by any of
the mountain springs. Stalactites of every con
ceivable shape and size were found scattered
through the various chambers, and the ex
plorers loosened some beautiful specimens and
carried them to a room near the entrance. The
galleries and apartments all have smooth stone
floors, and the former range from seven to
fifteen feet wide by as many high, while many
chambers are thirty to fifty feet in width by
seventy-five or a hundred long, and are forty or
fifty feet to the vaulted roof. No evidence of a
former visitation by human beings, or even ani
mals, have so far been detected.
The officers of the American Board of Foreign
Missions at Boston have received tidings of a
famine prevailing on the Cilicia plain, in Asia
Minor, a region about one-half as large as the
State of Massachusetts, bordering on the Medi
terranean Sea and embracing the ancient cities
of Tarsus and Adana. The harvest time has
just passed, but not a single sheaf of grain will
be cut in all the plain ordinarily so fertile. Rev.
G. F. Montgomery wrote on May 5 from Adana
of a severe winter with much suffering, during
which the people had lived on in the hope of
better times at hand, but the spring is worse
than the winter. Already most of the farming
villages in the vicinity are deserted. Numbers
of people are trying to sell coppe vessels, beds,
furniture, cows and oxen on the street at one
fourth of their worth. Cows are being sold at
thirty piasters each, about $1 25. A committee
appointed at Adana has presented an appeal to
benevolent people in America. This section
of the country contains over 100,000 inhabitants,
of whom 80,000 are destitute. An earnest ap
peal for aid is made by the American Board.
“The Prince of Montenegro and his family
left Vienna very suddenly for France,” says the
Vienna correspondent of the London Times ,
“the Prince having, it is said, been advised by
his doctors that the waters of Baden would do
him no good. This is the official explanation of
the matter. A more probable cause of the
Prince’s hasty departure is being whispered—
namely, this, that his highness received a polite
hut plainly warning that the policy he has been
following toward Austria is one which, if not
abandoned, must inevitably'bring him to trou
ble. The Prince on all his visits to
Vienna has been accustomed to raise
little loans for public works in
his mountainous principality. Through high
influences, exercised with more kindness than
confidence, the money which he sought has
always been forthcoming; but the public works
have been left unexecuted. Instead of putting
loads, the poet Prince has bought rifles, revolv
ers and cannon, and has scarcely denied that in
case of disturbances in the Balkans he would
watch his opportunity for overthrowing King
Milan, rousing Herzegovina, and trying to re
store the old Servian empire of Stephen
Douchan the (treat, with himself as king.”
At an insane hospital in Amityville, Long
Island, Coorge Hurd, 40 years old, died on Mon
day of paresis, leaving three other brothers in
the same retreat. They are Charles, Walt* r
and Schuyler Hurd. The latter, who is the
youngest, is 26, and is suffering from melan
cholia. The other two are afflicted with chronic
Insanity. All the cases are incurable The
patients are the sons of the late Judge Hurd, of
fleneva, N. V., who left un ample fortune to
provide for their care. Their cases have at
tracted widespread attention in the medical
fraternity. Their insanity is unaccountable
Their family has been traced back 250 years
Dr. Elou N. Carpenter, Superintendent of the
Home, states, and no trace of in
sanity can be found. George
ami Charles were enllego graduates,
and their Insanity was at first, attributed to
oyerstudy. Judge Hurd gave his third son,
Walter, an academic education only, but it did
not prevent him from liecomlng a victim to the
malady. The fourth son, Charles, was given a
simple common school education. He married
which none of the others did, and two years
after that event be lost his sense*. Charles Is
In perfect bodily health, He reads, plavs ball
and has a thoroughly good time. Walter is rel
served, and iqieiids most of his time pacing the
hall Schuyler destroys his clothing, but is not
otherwise violent. He lias boon iusane for
six years, and Charles and Walter for twelve
years.
The most extraordinary exhibition of cheek
we have heard of is contained In the following
pollle request of a non advertiser to an ndver
llyer: "I see you have advertised far a clerk. !
M ill you lie so kind as to scud me a list of the !
rejected applicant* after you have made vour
•election. '—Burlington J/y-ic Frets.
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