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8 V!’U HDAY, .TUNE u, 1887.
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Meeting— Subscribers to Stock of Greenwich
Park Association.
Special Notices —Straw Hats at Jaudon’s;
Notice, E. E. Cheatham, Superintendent Scav
enger Department.
Prices Good Until Fourth op July—K.
Power.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted For Kent; Ixist; Miscellaneous.
New Millinery —At KrouskofT’s.
REDrcrioN in Rates to New York—Via
Charleston and Savannah Railway.
Saving* Department— Savannah Bank and
Trust Cos.
Steamship Schedules - Ocean Steamship
Company: Baltimore Steamship Company.
Amusements —The Fords at the Savannah
Theatre.
Strawberry Cordial— A. M. &C. TV. West.
Circular No. 90—Railroad Commission of
Borgia.
Legal Notice - label for Divoree.
Grand Free Lunch—Chas. Kolshom & Bro.
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Men that live too fast may expect to die
suddenly. Nature’s punishments are in
evitable.
The North notes with pleasure that as the
size of the Georgia watermelon increases
the price decreases.
The country patiently awaits the next
“issue” to be discovered by Republican
Presidential aspirants.
It seems that a sensation is not to be
squeezed out of the Georgia convict system.
Thus another “issue” is lost to Republican
organs.
At a recent horse race Congressman
Felton, of California, won $60,000. Georgia
once had a Congressman Felton, but he
never bet on horse races. Ho staked his all
on a thing called the Independent party and
lost.
Orange, N. J., is to have a school of
philosophy, patterned after that of Concord,
Mass. Considering that Orange is a great
dairy centre, a school to teach people how
to drink natural milk philosophically would
bo more appropriate. *
The Christian at Work is authority for
the statement that a Yankee has taught
clucks to swim in hot water with such suc
cess that they lay boiled eggs. If any but a
religious paper had made the statement
nobody would believe it.
The weather in Texas is very warm, but
it doesn’t interfere with the prim drill at
Houston. The troops drill in their heavy
uniforms uncomplainingly. Texans care
nothing for the weather when they have a
chance to win something.
New York city and Yale College propose
to follow the example of Hartford, Conn.,
in erecting a statue to the memory of Nathan
Hale, the “martyr spy.” There are other
revolutionary heroes who deserve to be
honored in a similar way.
Mrs. Blaine, who is in London with her
husband, is very ill. The physician attend
ing her. Dr. Verndon, declines to describe
the nature or deny the seriousness of her
malady. Mr. Blaine, it is believed, will
have to alter the plans for his tour.
The centennial of the Federal Constitu
tion will be celebrated in Philadelphia on
Sept. 19. The Governors of all the original
States will be present, and it is hoped that
the Governors of all the other States may
also be induced to attend. Tho exercises
will be very interesting.
A few days ago the leading newspaper
publishers of Philadelphia invited Mr. John
YY\inamaker, tlie merchant prince, to ac
cept a dinner commemorative of his 50th
birthday and his quarter of a century of
mercantile enterprise in Philadelphia. It
was proposed to have present at the dinner
the representative journalists of tho coun
try. Mr. Wanamaker declined to accept
the proffered honor, upon the ground that
he was yet “on the scaffolding of an incoin
pletod building” in the sphere of his proper
life work. Mr. Wnnainaker’s modesty does
him credit, but by declining to accept the
honor tendcml him he prevented thoyoutlis
of the country from having the record of a
useful and inspiring life.
The various Republican clubs of the
country have been considering for some
time tho advisability of holding a conven
t fin in New York. It has now been decided
that the convention will be held in October.
Each club will send five delegates. The
business to receive attention will be the
selection of the issues upon which it would
lie well to make the contest in ISBS. Tlie
early activity upon the part of the Republi
can clubs suggests that the Democratic
clulis ought to be reorganized. The Re
publicans will make a desperate fight next
year, and there is no reason why the Demo
crats should delay preparat. on* to meet it.
leisure of the summer months will
word ample opportunity for reorganizing
Domooratic club*
Cincinnati's Broken Bank.
The friends of Harper, the Vice President
of the wrecked National Bank at Cincinnati,
and of the first assistant cashier of that in
stitution, appear to have totally deserted
them. The two officials spent Thursday
night in jail because of their inability to get
bail. They are not entitled to any sympathy,
and the sooner they are convicted for their
breach of trust, and placed in tlie peniten
tiary, the better it will bo for the banking
interests of the country. If a couple
of burglars had broken into the
bank and robbed it, and had
been arrested, nobody would have expressed
any sympathy for them. They would have
stood a much bettor chance of being lynched
than of being released on bail or of being
condoled with by friends. The Vice Presi
dent and the first assistant cashier of the
mined bonk aro entitled to no more consid
eration than if they had broken into the
safe with burglars’ tools and carried off the
valuables. Indeed, they are not entitled to
as much, because they not only carried off
the bank’s funds without leaving any
security, but they proved false to the trust
reposed in them.
The enemies of national banks may cite
the wreck of the Fidelity bank as evidence
that national banks are not much, if any .safer
than other banks. It must not be forgotten,
however, that it is about impossible to en
act laws Uiat will make bank officials honest.
The government in the case of the Fidelity
National does not appear to have been re
miss in its duty in any reßpeot. At the Inst
examination of the bank’s uffairs everything
was found to lie satisfactory and doubtless
was satisfactory. It was not until a few
days before the failure that Hurper began
to unlawfully use its funds. He lioeame
involved in a big wheat comer, and wrecked
the bank in trying to maintain the corner.
He ought to be put in the penitentiary for
gambling in grain, if for no other reason.
A man who has millions of dollars of other
people's property entrusted to him ought
not to engage in any gambling transactions.
This much can be said for national banks
that cannot be said for other banking insti
tutions: all of their circulating notes are
good whether they fail or not. In the case
of other banks, when they fail their notes
become worthless. There is another thing
to be said in behalf of national banks. It is
that the stockholders are liable for douhle
the amount of their paid-up stock, so that
when the banks are ruined their depositors
are pretty certain to get a part, if not all, of
their money. As the assets of the rui nod Fi
delity Bank are hardly worth considering, it
is proliable that the stockholders of it now
sincerely wish that t hey had never held any
of its stock; or, at least, that they held none
of it now. It is probable Hint Harper will
be dealt with as Fish, the President of the
wrecked Marine Bank of New York, was.
He deserves no better fate than that which
overtook Fish.
Baker Palmer's Buns.
New victims of Baker Palmer’s buns, in
Philadelphia, are Iming discovered. It scorns
that both children and adults have been
suffering and dying for months in the
neighborhood of Palmer’s bakery. It is
probable that that bakery would have con
tinued to be a source of disease and death if
Dr. Stewart had not traced the sick
ness of some of his patients to it. His
investigations led him to the conclusion that
his patients were suffering from lead poison
ing, and the next thing he sought to discover
was where the poison came from. After
many inquiries his attention \va.q directed to
the buns sold at Palmer's bakery. An
analysis showed that they had been sprinkled
with chromate of lead to give them an at
tractive yellow color. The cause of the
sickness of so many people in the vicinity of
the bake shop was at once apparent.
Palmer’s buns were popular, and their color
added much to their popularity.
Palmer, who is a German, and who, his
counsel says, is very ignorant, thought that
the stuff ho was using to color his buns was
nothing more than -vhat is known as con
fectioner’s yellow. It is possible thut he is
innocent of any intention of wrong doing,
but the authorities ought to be pretty cer
tain that he is before granting him his
liberty. A baker who is so ignorant that
he cannot avoid poisoning his customers is
certainly too ignorant to be permitted to
conduct a bakery. When the suffering and
deaths ho has caused are taken into con
sideration the conviction can hardly l>o
avoided that he ought not to be let off too
easily. The introduction of poisonous adul
teratiou into food articles is becoming
altogether too common. A few examples
ought to be made of the guilty parties.
It is strange that in such n city as Brook
lyn there should be anybody ignorant
enough not to know that a divorce can be
obtained only through the operation of the
laws. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Peace, of
thut city, were married two years ago.
They did not live happily together, and
agreed to separate. The wife gave the hus
band a paper bearing the following state
ment: “I hereby give my husband, Janies
M. Peace, a free and absolute divorce, giv
ing him full power to marry again, w ith
the understanding that I will never molest
hint or have him brought in any court
whatever; and that I will never lay any
claim for support under any circumstances.”
A few days ago Mrs. Peace learned that her
husband was paying attention to a hand
some woman. She consulted a justice, and
when informed that the jiaper she had given
her husband was not a legal divorce, she
had him arrested. The husband was in
dignant, but he will doubtless lenru thut he
is still too much married to be ablo legally
to take another wife.
The Blaine organs are amusing their
readers by printing alleged dispatches from
London regarding the movements of the
Maine Ktatesmun. Among other things it
is stabs! that his exceptional treatment at.
tho hands of prominent English statesmen
has made u marked impression uj>on him,
ho having licen received “with us much
consideration and with as conspicuous evi
dences of recognition of his prominence us
could lmvo Imen evinced toward any man
not of royal blood.” This sort of talk is in
tended to make u favorable impression ujion
the voters of this country, but it will fail of
its purpose.
It is stated .hat the pay officers of tho
army are receiving circulars from a firm
offering to advance money on duplicate pay
accounts. The temptation to accept the
offer is strong, for it quite frequently occurs
that an officer finds himself in need of
ready money, which he cannot borrow on
the instant from |ys friends. The firm that
sends out the circulars ought to be arrested
and puuished. If there is no law covering
the case, one should be enacted.
A New York professor teaches people not
to forget. There are many people who
would prefer to be taught to forget.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. JUNE 25, 1887.
Utah to Seek Admission.
The Mormons appear to be determined to
have their own way about polygamy. They
pay very little regard to the laws which
have been enacted for its suppression. In
view of the fact that Congress has been
trying for many years to put. an end to it,
without much success, the Mormons are
justified in thinking that they will finally
succeed in doing as they please with regard
to it, and they will do as they please unless
much more vigorous measures for its sup
pression are adopted.
They have called a convention to meet in
Salt Lake City next Thursday for the pur
pose of forming a State constitution for
Utah. They propose to make an effort to
have the Territory Admitted into the Union,
and the present indications are that they do
not mean to give up their peculiar institu
tion. If their effort should lie successful
they would be in a position to enact what
ever laws they desired for the protection of
polygamy, and there is no doubt that they
would take immediate stops to fasten it
more firmly U]>on the people of the Terri
tory than it has ever been.
There is no probability, however, that
Congress would consider favorably their ap
plication for admission to the Union ns long
as they insist upon retaining polygamy.
They will only waste their time, therefore,
in framing a constitution unless they pro
vide in it that the evil shall be abandoned at
once. If they go to Congress with a consti
tution which will meet the approval of the
entire country they may get a favorable de
cision, but they will have tA give satisfac
tory guarantees that they are sincere, and
that it is their purpose to comply fully with
the laws for the suppression of polygamy.
They are not yet ready to do this, h< vever,
and the probabilities are that they will con
tinue to knock at the doors of Congress for
a good many years.
The sentiment of the country is that
polygamy must go. It is rather remarkable
that the government has not been able to
rid Utah of this evil. The measures which
have ecn taken against it are apparently
stringent enough, but somehow or other
they don’t effect the purpose for which they
were intended. The average Mormon con
tinues to take to himself more than one
wife, and that he will keep up this practice
as long as he can there is no reason to
doubt.
It must be ndmitted that the Mormon
problem is a very difficult one to solve, and
that the means adopted for its solution are
far from being effective. Doubtless the
question relative to polygamy will occupy
a very considerable part of the attention of
Congress next winter. AVhat is wanted is
a vigorous enforcement not only of existing
laws against polygamy, but also of all those
which may be passed for its suppression.
The government is certainly strong enough
not only to suppress the evil but also to
drive every Mormon out of the country, if
it finds that p ffygamy cannot be got rid of
in any other way. It has certainly permit
ted itself to be defied long enough. WLii
the Mormons apply for the
Utah they ought to lie told by Congress in
unmistakable terms that tender treatment
will lie accorded them no longer. Utah
cannot enter the sisterhood of States until
she has removed from herself the polyga
mous stain. •
Our Overflowing Treasury.
During the jubilee celebration, and while
the monarchs of Europe were sending their
congratulations to England’s Queen, the
thought occurred to close/ibservers of cur
rent events that this country is immeasura
bly better off, from a financial standpoint,
than any of the great countries of Europe.
About all of them have empty treasuries,
and they are so deeply in debt that they
must sometimes think that they see the
shadow of bankruptcy. , .
The debts of the continental )nWdrs of
Europe now amount to $26,000,000,000, the
interest on which is .?1,000,000,000 a year.
The cast of maintaining their armies and
navies is $906,000,000 a year. Every year
they get deeper in debt, and there is not a
statesman of one of them who (loos not con
template the future of his country with
feedings of uneasiness. Ho sees the taxes
increasing while the people are becoming
less able to pay them. A point must bo
reached after awhile where they cannot pay
them.
In this country, on the contrary, tho
Treasury is overflowing. The government
has more money than it knows what to do
with. The question is not how to increase
the revenue, but how to dwease :'t. And
the people are not seriously •omplaining of
burdensome taxes; they can easily pay nil the
government needs, and it will hardly be de
nied that it needs a great deal.
Who killed Winfield J. Scott is .the all
absorbing question in Milwaukee, Wis. Mr.
Scott was one of tho toaux of the city, and
was a model man in every way. He was a
trusted employe of a national bank. He
was young, handsome and extremely bright.
The story is that Mr. Scott was very atten
tive to a lady, the daughter of a prorninout
citizen who lingers too long at tho wine cup:
“One evening ho was calling upon her when
her father returned home from a club din
ner considerably under the influence of wine,
and without the least provocation savagely
assaulted Scott. He struck the young man
in the eye with his fist, and the member was
badly injured. There was no publicity of
tho trouble, but it ''roved a very seri
ous thing for the young man. A death
notice a few days ago stuted that ‘his suf
fering was the result of an accident which
caused the loss of an eye and in the efforts
to save his life made several painful opera
tions necessary.’ A tumor formed as a
result of the blow, and the sufferings of tho
victim were terrible. All that skill could
do to save him was done. But the injury
baffled all treatment, and finally resulted
in death.” This should be a warning to
young men who admire the daughters of
men who do the slugging act when they
have tuken too much drink.
Tho Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun gives the following list of
names that are being canvassed in connec
tion with the interior portfolio upon tho
assumption that Secretary Lamar is to be
appointed to the liench of the United States
Supreme Court: 11. L. Mulilrow, of Missis
sippi, Assistant Secretary; George Jcnks, of
Pennsylvania, Solicitor Genera); Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina; Senator Col
quitt, of Georgia; ex-Senator Davis, of
West Virginia; Gen. Patrick Collins, of
Massachusetts, and Gen. John M. Palmer,
of Illinois. The prevailing opinion is that
if Secretary Lunar is appointed to the
Supreme Court the President will take his
successor from the South.
The Frohihition contest in Rome grows
hotter every day. Personalities are freely
indulged in. It is to be regretted that tho
< contest has taken this turn. ,
CURRENT COMMENT.
They Choose the Same Color.
From the Few York Evening .Sun Und.)
It may seem queer that the Anarchists and
the Salvation Army should b'th choose red for
ft repressuLat ive color, but it isn't. They both
want blood. The Anarchists sigh for the blood
of their fellow citizens and the Salvationists
are hot for the blood of the grand old sinner,
Satan. But, how do they know that the devil's
blood is red ?
If He Were in a High Office.
From the Few York Herald, (,Ind.)
"'ith Gen. Fairchild in nuy high office the
country could have the novel pleasure at sitting
down on a volcano. He Is an able man, a very
charming man personally, we are told; but
politically ho is a kind of coyote—empty, hungry
and howling for office. He hits business ability
—especially in the manufacture of a varied
assortment of curses.
Sherman’s Windless Boom.
iFrom the Missouri Republican (Dem.)'
Aineeting of members of the (4. A. R. in Cin
cinnati lias resolved that it "views with dis
favor and alarm the tone of tho Democratic
press," after whicli it proceeds to point with
pride to tho Cinchmati Commercial-Gazette,
which is printing from ten to twenty-five
columns a day in its conniptions over the
Southern Confederacy. All or which goes to
knock the wind out of the Sherman boom.
Not Disturbed.
From the Boston Ilerabl ( Ind.)
The manner in which leading Southern News
papers have treated this battle-flag business,
sliows more sense as well as a truer patriotism
than those who “slopped over" in their
"palsying" operations, or screamed out other
wise for the purposes of party capital at the
North. The South has a calm consciousness that
the Union is restored, and is disposed to accord
not much notice to people who would strive to
make it appear otherwise.
BRIGHT BITS.
No sane girl ever burns a love letter.— Detroit
Free Press,
“Yes," remarked a fond mother the other
day, "my son is very fond of his cornet. He
insists that he is only an immateur player,
although a number of the neighbors say they
think he really deserves to be called a “vigor
oso. Err ha nge,
A little girl who had not learned the table
for wine measure was much puzzled by reading
on the blackboard: "If a quart of wine costs si,
how much will three hogsheads cost?" Finally
she asked: “Teacher, how many hogs will there
be if there's three heads?”— Albany Argus.
"You went out too soon," said a wife to a hus
band, at a recent concert. "Patti responded to
a third encore and sang‘Coming Thro’ the Rve.’
It was simply divine. I fairly drank it in.” '‘So
did I," he answered softly, with a slight suspi
cion of a hiccough, “and lean taste it yet.—
Puck.
A teacher said to a member of the State
Board of Health who was investigating the con
dition of her room: “No, I haven't any ventila
tors; I don’t see any use for them."
"But how do you keep the air pure?”
"Oh, I've got a thermometer."— Albany
Argus.
"Strange how I always seem able to forge
ahead," said a Lewiston man*to his wife, as ho
pegged up a twenty-four hand.
"If you are so good at forging ahead, you
had better forge anew one yourself. You for
got to send up the wood to-day.” The rest of
the game was played in sullen silence.— Lewis.
•ton ( Va .) Journal.
Well, John,” said the judge to a pig-tailed
Celestial, "what can I do for you?”
"Want to gettoe name changed.”
“What's your name bow?”
“Sing Sing. No goodee. Too much aldelman.
Get tee changed to Walbee Twice.”
"To Warble Twice?”
“Yep. Alice same Sing Sing.—Pomeroy's
Democrat,
Enterprising Speculator— How is that gas
well of mine getting along?
Superintendent—So gas there, but we struck
a little petroleum. •
"Eh: In paying quantities?”
“Oh. no, only a small stream so far.”
“Well, keep boring. If it don’t make an oil
or gas well it will do for a medicinal spring.—
Omaha World,
"Where do you get all the funny things you
print in your paper?” asked the inquisitive sub
scriber.
"Out of my head, sir: out of my head,"curtly
replied the bothered editor.
"Are you really, now?" said the inquisitive
subscriber, pityingly. "Well, I rather had an
idea that something was wrong, but I didn't
know it was so bad as that.”— Somerville Jour
nal,
I met a freckled village boy,
Who loitered by the way;
His hat was off. his briekdust curls
With balmy winds did play.
“Ob, whither bound, Imreheaded boy,
Beneath this blazing sky?”
“I'm going home—but have to wait
Until my hair is dry."
—Detroit Free Press.
“That Parisian trick—the vanishing lady—
that Herrmann does is a great one.” said Jones.
“He covers a lady with a veil; and, after a little
maneuvering, removes the veil, and the lady
has disappeared.”
"That's nothing to a young lady in our board
ing house," answered Brown. “I have seen ten
or twelve persons in the parlor, and this young
lady come in, sit down to the piano, and begin
to play and sing. In two minutes all the rest
had disappeared. Talk about Herrmann I He
ain't a patch to her.”— Musical Courier.
“Young man,” said a sepulchral voice, as tho
night-capped head of an old lady was thrust out
of the w indow, "w hat reasou have you got for
makinga noisy with that gourd, and singing and
disturbing the neighborhood?'’
“This isn’t a gourd. Mrs. Jackson, it's a
mandolin, and I’m not disturbing the neighbor
hood, I hope. lam serenading.
"Well, I don't think its very gentlemanly or
very proper for you to lx> coming around here
at this time of night singing out tor vour darling
Josie to meet you at the gate, and saying it so
loud that everybody can bear. There ain't airy
girl named Josie in this block, as I know of; and
our Mary Jane's got the cholera morbus awful
1 wish you’d git further awa y."—Forth's Musical
Journal.
PERSONAL.
A street in Buffalo has been named Cleveland
avenue, in honor of the President.
Mrs. Thcrue:: still insists that American
opera will sweep the country—next year.
Adonis Dixey believes it a mascot to wear a
plain gold hand on the right thumb tolow the
joint.
Theodore Bioresten, the Swedish tenor, is
en route to this country. Gounod calls him the
new Mario.
Mme. Christine Nilsson, the Countess Miran
da, now owns the house where Admiral Coligny
was murdered.
Willis H. Bocock, who was last week elected
Professor of Greek in Hampden Sidney Collage,
Virginia, is said to be the youngest college pri -
fessor in the United States. He is St years old.
When John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia,
makes a speech be puts his hands together as
though he were nliout to pray. His long expe
rience as a Sunday school superintendent has
begotten the habit.
The wife of the late Mark Hopkins, ex-Presi
dent of Williams College, survives him. She
was Miss Mary Hubbell, of Williamstown, and
murried Mark Hopkins in IHJM. Three daughters
and four sons are also living.
The young lord Porchester is soon to attain
his ninjority and an income of SOOO,OOO. He in
herits the Chesterfield estates. If this is not
sufficient to give him a Chest rfieldian address
he needs nothing more than an introduction to
Red Shirt to give him the entree to the best
London society.
Christopher A. Buckley, otherwise known
as tlie "Boss" of Snn Francisco, has consulted
the chief oculists of London and by them en
couraged to hope for a restoration of his sight.
11c has now proceeded to Parts lo to examined
by doctors there, and on a similar errand will go
to Berlin and Vienna.
C. P. Hvntinoton, the railway magnate, runs
to all the fires in New York when able. He
takes a morbid delight In seeing tlie flumes leap
and bearing them roar, and frequently remains
for hour* at conflagrations. Occasionally he is
accoiiinunied by Mrs. Huntington, who has the
same desire in a modified form.
Ex-Congressman Orlando B. Potter is one of
the ablest debaters in the New York Chamtor
of Commerce. Much of his vast fortune was
mode in real ■■state, however, but he is on tho
retired list now . His years probably aututor
01. but ho entries them gracefully and well.
Only his beard shows an occasional “silver
thread among tho gold."
Edwin Booth, in speaking of his capabilities
as a ImsiiiosH man. said the other day turn Law
rence Barrett and Henry Irving knew more
about M-coiintH In a week than be did in a year.
"1 hate frequently destroyed Important vouch
ers," he added, “and In a certain business trans
action I bad with Boston people, and which oc
cupied n good deal of my fim in the last week
lam unable lo asrertaion whether 1 am SB,OOO
out or stioo in. 1 suppose It will all turn out
riicht. ”
REFUSED TO TIP.
Earl Rosebery and the Commercial
Traveler.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Earl of Rosebery was on a journey to a
race meeting at Ayr, and for his companion in
the railway carriage had a remarkably pushing
specimen of the commercial traveler who at
tempted to force a speaking acquaintance. See
ing his Lordship perusing the Racing Calendar,
he “broke earth’ f with the remark:
“Racing is a great institution. Suppose you
are going to Ayr meeting ?”
“I am going as far as Ayr,” replied his lord
ship.
“Pity young swells get fleeced by blacklegs,
Some noblemen, I hear, drop fortunes on the
turf.”
"Indeed!”
“Do a bit myself sometimes-a tenner ora
pony’s about rny cut. Know anything good for
to-day worth my while touching?”
“I am not a tipster."
“Beg pardon: saw you reading the Racing
Calendar, thought you might know.”
“Well,” replied his lordship with a quiet smile,
“if I give you the straight tip will it bo of ser
vice to you?”
"Depends if I fancy it.”
“Put your tenner or pony on Lord Rosebery's
Chevronel for the Welter cup.”
“Not for Joseph! I never back Lord Rose
bery's horses. Tney say he’s a regular chump
kin."
“Indeed! perhaps they're right. However,
fou asked me. I can only add that I heard
-ord Rosebery himself tell what you term a
chumpkin to back his horse.”
“Depend upon it, if it was all right he would
not let you overhear ills conversation. Mum
would then be his game. Why, the-e’s a lot in
that race. I'll bet you a pony Lord Rosebery
don't win it.”
“Really, lam not accustomed to bet in rail
way carriages with strangers.”
“There's my card. Fact is, you ain’t game to
bet.”
“I think you'll lose your money: but as you
challenge me let it la- a l-t. You'll see me in
the steward s enclosure at the course. I have
no cards with me.”
“Agreed. It's abet, i bet you an even pony
against Chevronel for the. Welter Cup. Hut
wnat’s your name, young fellow?”
“Primrose. Sometimes I am otherwise ad
dressed.”
"All right, Primrose; pay and receive after
the race.”
The companions separated at the station.
Chevronel won in a canter, and the commer
cial received next morning a short note by
a messenger from the stewards' stand: “Mr.
Primrose (Lord Roseberry) would feel obliged
by Mr. handing to his servant £25, which
his lordship will have much pleasure in forward
ing as a donation to the Commercial Travelers’
Orphan Asylum.”
The commercial man paid his money-, looking
very crestfallen, and was heard to ejaculate!
“Done! Who on earth would have dreamt
that the good-looking, affable young fellow,
who I imagined was a chumpkin, was, in fact,
none other than I lie Earl of Roseberry, giving
me a good, houest tip about his own horse, by
which I was fool enough to lose £25! Anyway,
he is a regular trump, and he’s right—l’m the
chumpkin, Rfter all!’’
Beans "Yru Ain’t a Tattler, Be You ?”
F om the New York Tribune.
The other day the new minister in a smart
Connecticut innimfaeturihg village started out
to make calls. After ringing the hell at the
front entrance of one of the few substantial,
old-fashioned farm houses still standing on the
outskirts without gaining a response, he fol
lowed a narrow footpath around the hottse to a
door opening toward the sunrise, upon which
he rapped gently- with the head of his cane.
Immediately the sharp click of a slipping bolt
was heard, and the gooa-natured face or a si out,
elderly woman appeared in the slowly widen
ing crack, and the expectant dominie was
astounded by this query:
“Look a-here, now, sir, you ain’t a tattler, be
you ?”
“That isn’t supposed to he a part of my
vocation,” laughed the clergyman; “I am
Mr. .”
“Oh, yes; I know- you. If you ain’t a tattler,
you can come in this way; if you be one, y-ou
can go to the front door and I’ll let you in
there. ”
"All your culinary secrets shall remain safely
locked in my bosom,” promised the parson, who
was growing a little curious.
“IV ell,” said the woman, throwing open the
door and allowing her visitor to enter her spot
less kitchen and sit down in the ancient chiuoz
eovered rocker, “this seems real nice and as if
fou meant to be a sort of one-of-our-folks. Now,
11 tell you. I'm cooking beans, and I wouldn't
have anybody in this village know it for all the
world!”
“Why?” asked the new minister in surprise.
“Beans are cheap. Every- one in this village
feels above eating beans. It would be the nine
days' talk if it should get out. If you had ever
lived in a factory- village you would know your
soul isn’t y-our own; it belongs to the neighbor
hood. I’ve got five bushels as nice beans as was
ever raised on this farm, but I dar? not try to
sell them, and when once in a while I venture to
cook a few for my own eating I keep .the
doors locked.”
“We are al! fond of beans at our house. I w-ill
buy a bushel of yAirs and we will eat them and
endeavor to turn the current of public opinion,”
said the minister, with a laugh.
“It wouldn’t do. No one would go to hear
you preach if It got talked around that you cat
beans or codfish. We need a minister here the
very worst way, so now you are here, don't do
anything to set folks agin ye. And don’t tell
what you found me a-eookin’. for if you should,
there isn’t a soul on the street would speak to
me. for all I am worth money enough to buy
and sell them all off in a lump.”
Capt. John Was Disgusted.
Frovi the Chico Enterprise.
Capt. John, an old Indian who lives on the
Rancho Chico, and is a well-known figure about
our streets, was the centre of an amusing crowd
of citizens on Broadway to-day. Someone. for
a joke, had dropped some quicksilver on the
stone pavement in front of the post office and
awaited developments. Capt. John and Old
Daniel, the one-eyed Indian, soon hove in sight,
and the glittering but seductive quicksilver
caught their attention. John made a grab for
it with his thumb and finger, anil he was aston
ished when he found he couldn't pick it
up. He was determined to have that quick
silver. anyway, so he unwound the bandana
handkerchief from his neck, and, spreading it
down, got a chip and scraped the quicksilver
into it. A look of triumph shot from his eagle
eye as he gathered up the four corners and
emptied it into his pocket: but it was soon
replaced by one of terror and disgust when the
metal ran through his pocket like a sieve and
trickled down his leg to the sidewalk. Looking
at the metal for a moment, as it lay on the
ground, in a puzzled sort of a way. he launched
a vicious kick at it and uttered ejaculations that
were foreign to his childish nature.
“Me geta eben; white man maybeso too
smart."
He turned on his heel and left the quicksilver
for some other untutored son of the forest to
experiment on.
A Parsimonious Elderly Lady.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
“A day or two ago," writes a correspondent,
“an elderly lady of high position, and enjoying
an income of some £B,OOO or £4,000 a year, sent
to a neighboring frost office to inqire the proper
postage for a certain foreign letter. The Post
master lieing oqt his deputy undertook to an
swer the question. When the Postmaster re
turned he found the letter in the liox, insuf
ficiently stamped, as he thought, end very con
siderately supplied the deficiency, which
he subsequently claimed and ' received.
But the lady, having afterward con
sulted hm* ‘Postal Guide.’ discov
ered that were two route i, by either of
which might have tra eled, and that
it was Stamped for the elie 1| ", ,
Then'll drove down to the p. st ofilee
and was well, sunn- more stampm •
In into n violent passion, am! x j r .
nostmasu r with liming i boat,-I
her. ■■pToA-mn. only expo-idm,•
rotund fie exss postage #vo j>cm, which
this wealthy aristocrat was not ashamed to
rocket. And while scenes of tills kind occur
folks wonder at the spread of democratic feel
ing,” The correspondent does not send the
lady's name. Wn heard a similar storv some
time ago of a dowager duchess. Wo wonder if
she was the heroine of this incident.
Memories.
From the Cosmopolitan.
Listening, in the twilight
Very long ago.
To a dear voice singing
Very sweet and low.
Was the song a ballad
Qf a lady bright,
Baved from deadly peril
By a gallant knight?
Or a song of battle.
And of flying foe?
Nay. I have forgotten,
’Tis so long ago.
All that I am sure of
Is that long ago
Mother sang at twilight
Very soft and low.
—Lotus* A. Chapman.
WIt.UAM Rykis went Ashing near Leota Ijind
Ing. Mies., and while he was trying to impale a
minnow on his book it wriggled from his finger.)
aud clipped into his mouth and down hia throat
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A tattoos!! is making a f ntune among the
workmen in New York city. He does his work
daring the noon hour.
Buzzards are strangled by the o lor that Issues
from a Muncie flnd.l gas well, which is a failure
in every other respect.
The champion marble player of Cumberland,
Md., according to the News, is a lad named
Hilty, who shoots with his toss, havii g lost both
arms in a railroad accident.
Ax American coming back from Mexico smug
gled, at no little cost and trouble, some “opals”
he had paid a good round sum for. When he
arrived in New Orleans he found that the opals
were glass, and worth Si 25 per gross.
It is a well known fact among railroad men
that on railroads running north and south the
west rails wear out the faster; that five rails
will wear out on the west side of the track
while three are doing service on the east side.
A New York man goes about the city- accom
panied by a frame scales, swinging platform,
and a stout barrel in a go-cart, pushed by his
laboriug man. Whenever he sees a dump of
coal on the sidewalk he offers to w eigh it for the
buyer.
A Tennessee mountaineer recently- found,
under a ledge of rocks, the sword of a Confed
erate officer. It proves to have belonged to a
Captain who was killed in a skirmish, and one of
his command hid it that it might not fall into
the hands of the Union forces.
After the death of an eccentric Nashua, N.
H., man recently, who wa not supposed, even
by his wife or children, to have a cent in the
world, between S3OO pnd SIOO wore found hidden
away in old letters, boxes, bags, the lingers of
gloves and the toes of his stockings.
Great complaints have been mnde about the
Impure drinking water at Baltimore. Mr. Mar
tin, the chief engineer, says there is a bad taste
in the water, which is due to a very small red
au which now infests the w-ater. The ants are
(fling out, and the water will have its proper
taste soon. •
All associations of women, having for their
object the discussion of political questions at
public meetings, are interdicted within the juris
diction of the Prussian laws of association; and
it is stated officially that political economy is a
political question, when it has to do with the
subversion of tfie present social status.
Last month, says the London Truth , the fine
lantern tower of Peterborough Cathedral,
which has been rebuilding for more than four
years, was completed. The splendid illumi
nated ceiling has !>een repainted: but the unique
oak carving of the fourteenth century has been
carefully preserved in it original condition.
Among the subjects to lie discussed at the
next convention of the Bankers’ Association
will be that of the insecurity of bank safes as
many are now manufactured: a subject w hich
has been discussed in financial journals recent
ly. Statistics maintain that over one hundred
safes are opened by burglars every- month in
this country alone 1
The Italian government has ordered the
excavation of the site of the lost City of
Sybaris, in that part of Southern Italy- known as
"Magna Greeia. The city- lies seven feet under
the water of the river Crati. where it has re
posed for twenty-five centuries. The results are
expected to be as interesting as those attending
the resurrection of Pompeii.
A peculiar blunder occurred in the engraving
of the plate from which the reverse side of the
five-dollar certificates were printed. It will be
noted that on the back of the certificate arc the
fac similes of several silver dollars. The third
one from the left corner of the certificate has
"trust ” spelled “trast.” Where the word ap
pears in other places on the certificate it is
spelled properly.
A Glasgow engineering firm have constructed
what is said to be the largest planing machine
in the world, especially- intended and designed
to lie employed in connection with the prepara
tion of steel plates for the girders of n railway
bridge in New South Walas. The weight of this
vast machine is stated to be some thirty-five
tous, and is capable of planing the edge’ of a
plate thirty-eight feet in length by five feet
wide.
Houston, in Idaho, which three y-ears ago
started out with 500 enthusiastic inhabitants, is
now- an almost deserted village, having, all told,
but nine residents. The Virginia City Enter
prise explains that the town sprung upon the
strength of a big copper prospect; the copper
“petered” and the people skedaddled, many of
them leaving behind furniture and all else ex
cept clothing and some light and valuable
goods.
While a freight train on a Southern Pacific
road was running about twenty miles an hour
near Cucamonga, Cal., an iron rail which had
beeu left too near the road by the section hands
suddenly shot up through the Upor of the
caboose, demolishing the chair upon which Con-,
ductor O'Leary was sitting, smashing the desk
at which he was writing, went through the side
of the car over the door, and clear through the
roof of the car.
Durino the last term tbero were 28,157 matric
ulated students aud 2.138 unmatriculated students
in Germany, or 30,30.5 in all. Of these 20 per
cent, were studying theology, 20 per cent, law
and 31 per cent, medicine. The proportion of
students to Instructors at the different universi
ties is as follows: At Kiel, six (o one: at Heidel
berg and Jena, seven to one; at Giessen, Ros
tock and Strasburg. eight to one; at Bonn, Got
tingen and Conigsberg, nine to one; at Berlin
and Leipsic. nineteen to one, and at Wurzburg,
twenty-one to one. *
Whatever may be said for or against the
speculation in coffee which has advanced the
price of the bean in this market 200 per cent, in
the past year, the growers in Hnyti are pleased
with it. The price in Ilayti in September was
$8 per hundred pounds to the dealer, but at the
last advices he was getting sl2 for the same
quantity. As the imports and exports to and
from that island showed an appreciable falling
off lost year, the dealers now feel encouraged
and the cultivators feel that they can now be
less parsimonious.
An Anglo-American exchange is proposed by
Americans in London. It is to bo built on the
Thames embankment, and is to include under*
one roof a gigantic hotel, a banking establish
ment, a theatre for the production of purely
American dramas and an assembly room, in
which travelers from the United .States may be
fairiy certain t o meet compatriots who arc doing
the tour,of Kurope. Ample funds for carrying
out the'scheme have been subscribed or are
within easy reach, and a site for the building is
now being secured.
The name of C. G. Iceland is signed tofthe fol
lowing story: It Is usual at Cambridge to an
nually give a handsome sum—l think it is £IOO
—for the best poem. Some years ago a wag
gish undergraduate, for a mere jest, made a
|>oem by piecing together fragments of all those
which had for many years been the winners
He expected that the committee would laugh at
it and throw it aside. What was his horror at
learning that he had been adjudged the prize
and that his name was published all over Eng
land as that of the victor. Ilow lie got out of
the scrape I know not, but no harm came to
him that ever I heard of.
In Mexico beggars are called by the expressive
name "Pordioseras" (“For-Qod-Rakes”). Sat
urday is universally recognized as “Beggars’
Day,” and on that day they appear on the
streets in full force, plying their trade with the
great est industry. It repulsed they will niakoa
stately bow and murmur a benediction upon tho
hea l of the person who refuses them. They
always hove plenty of children and dogs, and
lead n very happy, careless life. The idea that
you have no small coin Is not a valid excuse
with these beggars, for they generally hove a
well-filled hag of silver, which they produce and
courteously offer to make change 'in any desired
amount.
No romancer has devised a story more sad
thau that told In the news dispatches of the
young bride who shot herself liecause she could
no longer endure the loneliness of her life | n
New York. It seems that she came from a farm
in Ohio, where she had lived with her mother
Her husband, a bartender, was away all day
and till lute at night. As they were boarding
she liad no occupation whatever, and when rpe
man came home at 1 o'clock on Friday night
and throwing himself on the bed, went to sleep'
she took his pistol from the closet and shot her
self through the head. Her husband, awakened
by the sound, caught her in his arms, and she
expired alter begging him not to leave hertodte
alone.
A Ki'BSTiTT-rK for whalebone Is being made of
goose quills at Three Oaks, Mich., by a process
described in this way: The quill Is first run
through the stripping machine and striped of
Its plumage; second. It is run tbrongh the split
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winch takes out the pith, to lie used as a fertll
zor; fourth, it Is run in a machine which cuts
It Int/i fine shreds; Afth, several of these shiv, s
are wound together by a machine which makes
a strong cord; sixth, four of these cords are
eeaved •Together by another machine, which
mal es it a Aat. featherbone and reedy for use.
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