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4 C|c||lorntng < Hctos Mormflg News Building, Savannah, Ga* MONDAY, JVSI 47. 188T~ Registered at the Post Offer in Savannah. The Moains# News is published everv day in fhe year. and is served in subscribers in the city, bv newsdealers and carriers. cm their own ac count. at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six month* ami $lO 00 for one year. The Morxino News, by mail, one month, $1 00: three months, $0 50; six months. $5 00; One year. $lO 00. The Morning N xws, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months. $£ CD; six months. $4 00 one rear. $ CUi. The Morning Nr we, Tri-'frcekJT. Mondays. MVdDeedays and Fridays. or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. ’sl 35; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 ill. The Sunday Nm. ly mail, one year. $3 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 26. fkitsimptions parable in advance Remit hy postal order, cneolt or registered letter. Cur rency sent bydfcail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Monxnw Nrws Savannah. Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX~ TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT! Meetings—DeKaib Leslie No. 9. I. O. O. F.: Calanthe Lodge No. 38, K. of P.; Georgia Tent No 151, LO. R; Cricket and Athletic Club; Sa vannah Yacht Club. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transatlantic Cos. Onions— C. M Gilbert * Cos. Cheap Coldis Advertisements Help Wanted; For Sale. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably m ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be 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 (hould 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. A short time ago the Wellesley College girls unveiled a statue of ••Elaine.’’ Some of the Republican papers printed it “Blaine. ” Blaine needs no further unveiling. Within ten days 139 guests of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, sailed for Eu rope. Hotel clerks say that the rush to Europe is greater than ever before. They say, also, that many tourists from England, Scotland, France and Germany, are coming to the United States. The Bavarian government having officially declared King Otto to be insane, it is probable that the regent, Prince Luitpold. will be enthroned. Bavaria has had so much trouble with mad kings that she might find it to her interest to try a Repub lican form of government. Eminent blood-thirsty Republicans in the North and West have stopped congratulat ing eaeh other on account of “patriotic utterances’" about the captured flag episode. The truth is, there was so much congratu lation that the episode was turned into an emente —for the Republicans. None of the illustrated periodicals of this country were enterprising enough to send special artists to England to make sketches of the Queen’s jubilee. They waited until they received the English illustrated papers and then made bad copies of the illustra tions. Artistic and literary independence is not yet in sight in the United States. At their convention in St. Louis the drum mers adopted resolutions demanding 1,000- mile and excursion tickets from railroads at reduced rates. In case their demand is not granted, they will divert freight and other business from such lines as ignore them. The railroads have generally treated the drummers kindly, and it is not likely that they will begin to .treat them unkindly now. It seems that Kentucky is not to have a monopoly of monkey labor. The Jomal do Comercio, of Rio Janeiro, says that on a hemp farm in Brazil seyen large monkeys have been taught to cut hemp and prepare it for sale. The Jomal also says that they work more quickly than negroes, and the cost of feeding them is trifling. - Perhaps fifty years hence the disciples of Darwin will be agitating for “the release- of our prototypes from slavery.” A St. Louis court has decided that it is not a violation of law to beat a collector. A grocer presented a bill to one A. H. Spink, but failed to get the money. The bill was then given to a mercantile agency to collect. Spink sent for the manager of the agency and gave him a terrible beating. The man ager prosecuted Spink for assault and bat tery, but lost his case. Spink then sued the manager for damages for false arrest, and recovered SSO. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun relates an incident, which he says is not in the least exceptional, that gives an idea of the wild hunt for office. A $1,200 vacancy occurred tinder the light house board, and in a very short time there were not less than 500 applicants for it. Of these only eight had the nerve to enter a competitive examination, and Jainus F. Linder, of Baltimore, was the successful contestant. The incident ought to teach office-seekers that offices in Washington do not hang on trees to bo shaken off by the first comer. It is stated that the officers of the Pana ma canal have been suffering for some time noth financial ]>aralysis. Funds have not been sent by M. De Lesseps to keep the work going. Indeed, work has been almost entirely wapended. The director general, the cashier, and the secretary have gone to France in search of funds. Should they fail to obtain assistance, it is believed that as far as France is concerned the canal will be a dismnl failure. A suggestion has been made that the United States may take up the work and complete it, but it Is not like ly that the suggestion will be acted upon. When Congress convenes the old mem bers will miss a figure tliat was long famil iar about the House end of the Capitol. This was a little dwarf named Willie How ard. Through the kindnesx of ex-Speaker Carlisle and Congressman Holman he was appointed a page and assigned- to duty in the rooms of the House Committee on Ap propriations. He went to the Capitol every tlay during the session of Congrem in a wagon drawn by two goats. The other night he died from a spinal trouble with which he suffered from Infancy. The little follow was known as "TUo Child of the VHouse.” The Negro’s Future. The discusaon of the question of the future of the negro in the South continues to occupy a fair share of public attention. There are good reasons for saying that those who contend that the negro race is dying out and those who hold that it will become amalgamated with the white race are mis taken. The statistics upon which both theories are hasesl are taken from the cities, and the negroes in the cities are but a small part of the negro population. The death rate of negroes in cities is very large, par ticularly of negro children, but it should not be forgotten that the birth rate is also large. About all the negro women marry, and. as a rule, each has quite a large number of children. A fair percentage of those who do not marry help considerably to increase the race. Outside of the cities it is pretty safe to say that while the birth rate of the negroes is larger than that of whites the death rate is no larger. An increase in the number of mulattoes in the cities is noticeable, while in the country districts the disappearance of the mulattoes is equally noticeable. When the fact is taken into consideration that as the condition of the negro race improves its Self respect will increase, it is apparent that the number of mulattoes even in the cities will decrease. Instead of the negro race be coming lost in the white race, therefore, the prospect is that it will become more dis tinctively black. Unless there shall be other powerful influences to bring about an amalgamation of the rates the line of separation will become clearer, instead of more blurred, as the years go by. But it does not follow that because the stronger race will not alorb the weaker one. the latter will not have a future of which it will have reason to be proud. The colored race is not going to leave the South, is not dying out, and is not being amalgamated with the white race. It is slowly but surely advancing to a higher plane of civilization, and will develop along side of the white race, though it will be sep arated from it by a line which neither will care to cross. Even now, although occupy ing a much lower plane from the standpoint of intelligence, the negroes are organized upon the plan of the white people. Thej- have their social grades, their church organizations, their secret and benevolent societies, their prominent men and their tramps, their rich and poor and their good and bad people. Whatever there is in the society of the white people exists among the colored people on a smaller scale. Here in the South some very marked changes have been witnessed within the last twenty-five years among the negroes, and changes still more marked will be wit nessed in the next twenty-five. The negro lawyer, doctor and merchant are almost unknown now, but they will be known before another quar ter of a century. It is probable that negro professional and business men will seek business among their own race, and that race will furnish it. The negro is bound to accumulate wealth, and though his progress in that respect may be slow, yet, in the course of time, there will be a very fair sprinkling of rich and well-to-do colored men in every Southern State. They will use their money just as the white peo ple use theirs; and, therefore, it may be ex pected that they will be found in every profession and in all kinds of business. They are in the South to stay, and to increase. • The Use of Military Titles. It is rather strange that an objection to tho use of military titles should come from an Alabamian, but such is the case. It seems that the Alabamian in question was visiting a small town in the interior of the State, and at the hotel which he honored with his presence the proprietor introduced himself as 4 ‘the Colonel. ” The Alabamian expressed his pleasure at meeting “the Colonel,” and quite naturally inquired: “Of what regi ment were you Colonol?’ “Never you mind,” replied “the Colonel,” “I am the Colenel, and that is enough for you to know.” Subsequently the Alabamian learned that “the Colonel” had been the keeper of the penitentiary during the war, and that he had not only not served in the army, but that he had never been near enough to a battle to hear the report of a cannon. Thoroughly disgusted, the Ala bamian now wants Congress to pass a law restricting the use of military titles to officers of the Federal army and the State militia. Tho use of military titles by all classes of men iu tho South has often been tho subject of satirical comment, but such titles con tinue to bo usod. Indeed the further the war recedes into the past the greater becomes the number of captains, majors and colo nels. There are young lawyers in Georgia, for instance, who were born just as the war was closing, or even after tho last gun was fired, who are as proud of being callod “the Colonel” as if they had won the title by pro motion on the battlefield. Nothing could be more absurd. Not only is this true, but the indiscriminate use of military titles detracts from the dignity of those to whom they are applied. From captain it is but an easy step to “cap,” from major to “maje,” and there is not much doubt that colonel is the unabbreviated form of "cully.” To he called “Mister” is a distinction because the title is so seldom used. A Georgia newspaper once undertook to destroy most of the captains, majors, and colonels by what was thought to be an effi cacious scheme. In printing tho nomas of men all titles wore discarded, so that “Capt. J. Jones” became plain “J. Jones,” “Maj. J. Bi-own” plain “J. Brown,” and “Col. J. Hmith” plain “J. Smith.” The consequent loss of subscribers caused the newsi>aj>er to return to tho use of titles in loss than three months. It goes without saying that no other newspaper in Georgia attempted to carry out the scheme. Perhaps the Alabamian is right. If there is ever to be a reform in tho use of military titles, Congress must pass a law restricting their use to officers of the Federal army and the State militia Tho only objection is that such a law would deprive somo mon of the single thing they value. Mr, John Wanamakor, the merchant prince of Philadelphia, has added another generous act to a list already long. On the birthday of Miss Annie McDowell, Secre tary of the insurance association of his em ployes, he established a library for the bene fit of his women clerks. Ho directed Miss McDowell to select tho books, locate the cases, make the rules, and put the library in operation. In honor of her he named it the “McDowell Free Library.” A strange suicide occurred the other day at Amsterdam, N. Y. Mrs. John Lyons, agod forty years, drowned herself in a bar rel of water. It Is noticeable tliat, as a rule, people who commit suicide select the most awkward way to do it. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JUNE 27, 1887. A Suggestive Story. Soon after the close of the war six young men entered college from a small town in Georgia They were the sons of gentlemen who had bvn fortunate enough to save something from the wreck caused by the abolition of slaver}- and the invasion of the Federal armies. The young men ranked well in college, and when their course was completed they were fairly equipped for making a living. Five of them became lawyers and one of them a doctor of medi cine. Of the five who entered the legal profes sion one became dissatisfied with his pecu niary gains at the end of two years and ■made up his mind that he would have noth ing more to do with courts and juries. He determined that he would educate himself to work with his hands. Accordingly, he went to Massachusetts and entered-a school of technology. He had just money enough to pay his expenses during his course, and, consequently, made the most of his oppor tunities. He graduated as a skilled machinist, and at once sought em ployment in the shops of a railroad in a State which borders on Georgia. His employers were not slow to discover that he was of great value to them, so they gradually promoted him until he became Superintendent of the shops with a salary of $2,500 a year. Under his guidance the employes became better workmen. In the course of time the owners of the railroad found it unnecessary to send North for engines and cars, for the young Georgian demonstrated that they could be built in the shops under his control. The President of an Illinois railroad made his acquaintance, and was favorably im pressed by his ability. The result was an offer of the position of superintendent of large railroad shops in an Illinois city. The salary was $3,500. When the owners of the railroad for which the young Georgian was working were informed of the offer, they said; “Stay with us; we will give you $5,000 a year.” He stayed. In less than a year he .was made general superintendent of the railroad, with a salary of $7,500 a year. Subsequently, he was offered a position as general superintendent of a Canadian rail road. He accepted the offer, and he now re ceives for his services SIO,OOO a year. The five young men whom the young Georgian left in his native town continued their struggle to win fortune and renown. Two of the lawyers have served terms in the General Assembly. Only one of them has made and saved as much as SIO,OOO. Two have property worth, perhajK, $2,500, but they are dependent upon their practice for their living. The fourth would have starved if he had not had his father’s assist ance. The physician is still alive, but he has saved nothing and is in debt. The sts>ry of these young men teaches a lesson. The professions of law and medi cine in Georgia are so crowded that only a few can make reputation and money in them. The man, however, whose mind and hands are educated can hardly fail to take a high position and to gain a competency, if not a fortune. A sermon recently preached in the Mor mon tabernacle at Salt Lake City by Elder E. D. Wooley, indicates that the Mormons care very little about the laws affecting their jeculiar faith and customs. Among other things Elder Wooley said: “We expect to fill the Territory and spread over the whole earth as a temporal kingdom. This is believed by the Saints as a fact, as well as as a theory, and we will reign throughout the earth. We are here for the purpose of learning to govern first ourselves and our passions, and then our neighbors, and then the people of the whole earth. The young Latter Day Saints of to day must be better fitted for this work than their forefathers, anti must be taught and instructed in every possible way in the work of governing. All the persecutions that can be heaped upon us, and all the laws that men can make will not effect the staying of the order of pro gress. Now there are 2,000,000 Saints set tled here, and they own the greater portion of the Territory. They must reserve to themselves all that they have in this Terri tory. Wo are spreading to the east into Colorado, and on the other side into Idaho, Nevada and Arizona, and wo will spread all over tho country and shall enter into possession of it.” Tulane University, of New Orleans, has conferred tho degree of LL. D. upon Gen. G. W. C. Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee and President of Washington and Lee Uni versity, Virginia. In conferring the degree Col. William Preston Johnston, President of the University, spoke of Gen. Leo as an ex emplar for the young men of the South. Asa student at West Point Gen. Lee took first honors. Asa soldier of the old army he won high reputation. Asa general of tho Confederacy he distinguished himself. Asa professor in the Virginia Military In stitute he performed tho laborious duties of Professor of Engineering with great credit. For the past seventeen years as President of Washington and Lee University he had conducted one of the first institutions of the country as a worthy successor of his father. In concluding his remarks, Col. Johnston said: “Fulfilling every duty as citizen, sol dier, and Christian gentleman, his life a model for the youth of the country, we feel that there should lie conferred upon him the first honorary degree conferred by Tulane University upon anybody.” A fresh illustration of how politics some times separates people bound to each by ties of blood is given in a case now pending in a New York court. In the fall of 1880 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamburger hud a son born to them. The mother named it Arthur Chester, in honor of the Vice Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket. The child’s grandfather wus a Democrat. Nam ing their son Arthur Chester so incensed the grandfather t hat he cut off the Ilom burgers in his will, leaving the child, how ever, SSO. When the old gentleman died he left SIIOO,OOO. Mrs. Hamburger now tries to break the will, so that her sou may in herit part of the fortune. Mr. William K. Vanderbilt is preparing for a long voyage in his steam yacht, tho Alva. Accomjmnied by his family and a select party of friends, he will sail July ‘J for Cowes, stopping at the Azores on his way, From the Isle of Wight he will go to Southampton, and after spending a few weeks in England and Scotland will sail up the Mediterranean Sea. The voyage is ex l<eeted to last six or eight months. Mr. Vanderbilt seems determined to extract at least a little pleasure out of his immense fortune. Mexico has caught the base tiall fever. The first game was played in Chihuahua the other dny Wtween Americans and Mexicans, resulting in a score of 10 to 8 in favor of the former. Unices the luck of the Mexicans changes soon, it may be expected that they i will kill a few umpires. CURRENT COMMENT. It Is, and the Best. From Wilmington (If. C.) Morning Star (Deni.) The Savannah News issues a 16 page weekly, ’ and it is probably the largest in the whole South. Mr. Blaine and the Bucking Horse. From the If etc York Herald (Ind.) When Mr. Blaine visited Buffalo Bill's show in London he did not try to show an English au dience what happens to a man when he tries to ride a bucking horse. That little exhibition is reserved for America and 1888. Suspicious Bodies. From the Jfete York Evening Post (Ind.) A branch of the ‘•American Shipping and In dustrial League” in San Francisco has held a meeting "to consider remedies to prevent the decay or American shipping. ' An old skipper would naturally recommend tar, but these in dustrials recommended bounties instead. A resolution was passed endorsing the bounty bill that failed in the last Congress. We have grave suspicions of any body of men who call them selves Labor, and equally of those who give themselves the title of Industrial League Both are sure to want something at the expense of the industry and labor of other people. The Reconstructed South. From the Boston Herald (Ind.) It is very pleasant to observe that, in the dis cussion of the battle flag question, almost every expression from the South is good-natured. The South does not want the flags; they are all right where they are: they are not worth a hard word or thought. This is the universal senti ment from the South and it shames the perfervid eloquence of a few Northern politicians, with their theatrical curses and desperate appeals. Indeed, the discussion has not disturbed the era of good feeling, but has confirmed it, by show ing how far the South has left the war behind in its new record of progress, and how easy it feels in its natural relations under the old flag. BRIGHT BITS. The real reson why negroes live to such an extreme old age is that they don't know exact ly when they were born.— Shoe and Leather Re porter. Young Student Physician (to charity patient! —I—I think you must have a—a—some kind of a -a fever; but—our class has only gone as far as convulsions. I'll come in again m a week.— Harper's Bazar, Little drops of margins, Little deals in wheat. Turn the man of money Into a dead-beat. —Chicago Mail. Insanity.— Old Mother Peter, She went to the meter. To see how much gas she had burned. She danced a cotillion When she read seven million, And her mind was forever o’erturned. —Cincinnati Telegram. “I don't care what others say, but I will never, never forgive the rebels. My heart is as bitter as ever against them. When I drew the sword I drew-it forever.” "Then you were in the army?” "Yes, sir, and I'm proud of it.” “What battles were you in?” ‘‘Oh, I wasn't in any engagements. Our regi ment, you know, only went as far as New Bed ford.”— Boston Transcript. Hotel Clerk— Well, how do you like New York? Western Guest—Too slow. Hotel Clerk—Too slow! Merciful heavens, what did you expect to see here? Western Guest—A lynching every ten minutes. I was informed that this was a humping town. I tell you, stranger, I'm disappointed. You lust want to come \\ eat if you want to see civiliza tion at its height.— Tidßits. They were arguing as to the restraining effect on others of capital punishment. Brown thought that the hanging of one murderer deterred thousands from taking life. "Nonsense!” was Fogg's rejoinder; “capital punishment has uo weight whatever with the man intent on crime. Look at Ananias and his helpmeet. They were struck dead for lying. I haven't heard that their terrible punishment has caused the habit of mendacity to lapse into desuetude." Brown says it is use less to argue with a man like Fogg who always wanders from the sub ject.— Boston Tianscript. Omaha Man—You are a very strong partisan, I understand. Stranger—l ought to be. I had a nice fat office until a Democratic President was elected and then I was kicked out. ‘‘So I heard and they say you then took an oath that you would not get shaved or have your hair cut until the Republicans were in power again. You have several years’ growth of hair now, I see.” "Yes, but there wasn't any swearing about it. That's nonsense.” “Then why don’t you go to the barber's?” ‘‘Can't afford it.”— Omaha World. First Omaha Man —This practical jokin' may be all right, but, there ain't no punishment had enough for a man who goes to jokin' in church. Second Omaha Man I should say not. Do you know of a case of that kind? “Yes, and we've called a session of the elders to kick the feller out of the congregation, last Sunday he sneaked up the step-ladder and turned the clock back during an experience meeting.” “Oh, well, that didn't do much harm, did it?" "Harm! Great St, John! It kept us singin’ and prayin' andj.-onfessin’ our sins for five hours before the inhu / au rascal got caught.”— Omaha World, “Hot day,” said a stout gentleman to a stranger on a crowded Main street car yester day. “Hey?” said the other. “Hot day,” said the first something louder. “Excuse me, I’m somewhat deaf and hardly caught your meaning. What did you say?” “I say it's a hot day!” howled the fat man, glaring at his neighbor and getting red In the face and ears, as everybody in the car looked up from their papers. “Ah, yes, yes. bow much must you pay’ Five cents; that's the fare on this line." Whereupon the corpulent individual said some bad words under his breath ami got off the car. “Yes.” said the deaf man gently, "that’s the tenth man within an hour that s told me it was a hot day. P'rhaps they imagine I don't know it,” and he smiled sweetly und fanned himself with his hat. Buffalo Courier. PERSONAL. Count Miranda is a sort of Spanish looking “Hamlet,” with jet black eyes and moustache. Either Mr. Stowe, his nephew, or Mr. Sco viile, his son in-law, will succeed to Henry Ward Beecher's pulpit. The young American violinist. Hettin Carpen ter, uses a bow which was a gift to the young prodigy from Emperor William. Phillips Brooks concludes one of his lectures on “Tolerance" by saving: “My triends, be more afraid of the littleness than of the large ness of life.” The new coins which are to be issued in Eng land in honor of the Queen's jubilee bear the likeness of her majesty ivitha small crown above the widow’s cap and veil. A. K. OurriNO is in New York arranging for a lecture tour, during which he means to give an account of his sufferings in the Mexican prison and the international questions involved m his ease. A Mns. Jacobus, who is said to have been the Burst' of President Cleveland, died a few days ago at Caldwell, N. Y. She was bom in 1805, and had been blind and paralyzed for over a year. Paor. Crouch, of Baltimore, who composed “Kathleeu Mavourneen” whilo walking along the banks of the Thames, has been made Fellow of the Ixmdou Hodety of Arts, Letters and Sciences. Wohd comes of the death of Count Clam, leader of the ultra-Conservative Czechs in Aus tria, a very great aristocrat, a man of mat wealth nnd a statesmen with a notably Targe personal following in Parliament. The Princess of Wales is this year for the first time an exhibitor at the Royal Society of Paint ers in Water Colors. She sends a dainty picture of Windsor, seen from the river. Mr. Ruskln sends two pictures, one painted os lately os February last, Mns. Lanothy writes of Mary Anderson with an elegance and refinement of diction that would do credit to a fltbwoman: “Ho ‘Our Mary’ has slipped up, hasn’t shef They say she will never do In Ragland again. 81u> has posed too much and siokeued the public with her pub lic puffing," Miss Lucy M. Hai.mon has lteen appointed to the Associate Professorship of History at Vassar College. Khe is the author of “Appointing Power of the President,” Is a graduate of Michi gan University, aUKUm history there after her graduation, has had charge or the work in his toiy at Terre Haute, and has held the Fellowship in History at Bryn Mawr College, Mn. Kusxin desires to contradict the “partly idle, partly malicious” rumors which have lately got abroadconcernlnghislienltb. 'Whenever, ’ he says. "1 write a word that my friends don't like, they saw X am crazy; and never consider what a cruel and wicked formrof Itbsl they thus provoke against the work <if an old age tn allits convictions antagonistic to the changes of the limes and in all its comfort, oppressed by Vuom. ” Young America’s Quick Wit. From the Biddeford Journal. A quick-witted youngster who is always in dirt, got into disgrace the other day. The teacher, fertile in hand, called him to her desk, and on the way thither the boy made a hasty preparation for the approaching ceremony by hastily drawing his tongue across the palm of his right hand, and wiping the latter upon his pants leg. Arriving at the desk, and at the word of command he extended the newly cleaned hand. The teacher looked at it a mo ment in silence, and then in a solemn and re proving voice, told the little culprit that if he would ahow her a dirtier hand in that school she would let him off. Quick as thought the little fellow whipped out his left hand from be hind his back, and looked up with a smile of triumph. The feruling was indefinitely post poned. ____ An Adventure in India. From the Lahore Tribune. About a month ago two planters were riding through the Nuainaluka Tea Garden in the Terai. The sun was just setting, but it vas broad daylight. They were going at a fast trot, when suddenly out jumped a tiger from the tea, and made for them. The pace they were going at caused him to miss his spring, and he landed on the road just behind G. V>. H.’s pony. In their fright the ponies jostled, and G. W. H. was slightly delayed. The tiger made another spring, but the pony jibbed, and he lit beside the pony instead of on it, almost touching G. W. H.‘s boot. G. W. H. took off his topee, shook it in the tiger's face, and shouted—never mind what he snouted, it may not have been one of Dr. Watt's hymns— but it startled the tiger, and the pony, encour aged by the human voice, or getting suddenly over his temporary paralysis of fright, bolted as hard as it could. The tiger made yet another, but a half-hearted sort of spring, but my friends §ot off safe. I have heard many tiger stories, ut never before of a tiger attacking Europeans on horseback in broad daylight, and that too without any provocation. The Will a Parisian Made. From the Pall Mall Gazette. There died last year in Paris a well known Parisian who had established a great reputation for cookery and art. He was very rich and very eccentric, and his tastes, his wealth and his peculiarities have been emphasized by his will. He was a bachelor with many relations, who had all great expectations, and they have been contesting the validity of a will which disap pointed all equally. This testament was varied by many codicils, in which the benevolence of the testator seemed to alternate between the kitchen, the studio and the stage. By his first will he left 800,000f. among a certain number of his friends, and constituted as his residuary legatees the poorest and most miserable French painters of the day. His mind then seems to nave turned toward the stage, and a codicil of £2,000 was left to the poorest French actors, in cluding supers. Then he remembered he had done nothing for the kindly assuagers of his hunger. He used to dine a great deal at Bre bant s, and so he left a donation of £2O to each of the employes of the great restaurant. He died soon afterward. The will has been fought, and the litigation is only just concluded. His good will toward cookery is respected. The waiters and cooks at Brebant's get each their £2O. The rest of the will is inoperative. Roman Builders in a Race. Rome Dispatch to the London Times. A novel strike is threatened in Rome The construction of houses in the new part of The city, and especially in those sections which have been demolished and rebuilt, has been carried on under regulations so bad, or so easily evaded, that the new quarter Is the most disgraceful ap rx-ndix to a great city to I* found in all Europe. The houses are huge, tasteless, stucco palaces, so high as to shut off the sunlight, necessary above all things in Rome, from the lower stories of the houses opposite. They are ill-con structed, so that in more than one case they have fallen into the spaces in front of them, and flimsy and ill-contrived, so that one hears the common domestic sounds from apartment to apartment, and from 6tory to story. There is the least possible attention to the sanitary requisites which decency would permit—in short, the quarter is a huge congeries of “jerry" dwellings, built on specula tion. in which no person who regards personal comfort would continue to reside except on compulsion, and it is in general, aesthetically and economically, a disgrace to Rome. To this condemnation there are but few exceptions, so that the new Rome is compromising the charac ter and injuring the future prosperity of the capital. The municipality, becoming finally awake to the state of affairs, has enacted new and more rigorous regulations for future con struction. which will in part prevent such mons trous failures as some of those now visible. The contractors and speculators have called a gen eral meeting to protest against this interference with the acquired rights and interests of the building trade. They threaten disorders among the workmen, and decline all responsibility for them when they are arise owing to the stoppage of the works. Building has been a huge specu lation here for years past The subject is of in calculable importance to the future of Rome. The High-Bounding Broncho. From the Dakota Bell. There was a young man who came out to the West — Came out from the East that is shop-worn and busted— And much there occurred that troubled his rest. But chiefest of these was the broncho he trusted I For that broncho he bucked, and that broncho he tore. He tipped up behind and he reared up before— This self-rising broncho, this rip-snorting broncho. This broncho which made the young man so disgusted 1 He mounted the critter to take a short ride, And tried to start off with a Central Park trot, But that broncho had cusseduess stored in his hide, And mentally whispered he guessed he would not. Then he crooked up hi3 back with a terrible hump, Got up on his hind legs and proceeded to jump— And the young man shot through' the atmos phere— Away toward the firmanent calm and clear, Far up among the stars so high, That nightly wheel athwart the sky: Up from this world of doubt and care, Up from where bronchos pitch and tear— This high-flying young man, this sky-scraping young man. This young man who mounted the broncho which seemed hung in the air. Making a Practical Application. From the New York Tribune. In a certain Harlem church, when prayer meeting night comes around each week, a small but business-like club reclines by the lecture room door and the sexton scans each new arri val with the yearning, anxious look of one searching for a long lost brother. Some meetings ago a small, seedy man with gray hair, una a nose like a cranberry tart, glided into the room and took a back seat. The subject for the evening was "Cheerful Giving," and one of the deacons, who lives in One Hundred and Twenty-second street pleaded for more liberality In the churches, ami became very earnest. The small man was deeply inter ested and made several notes on a scrap of paper. The meeting was a very good one, and when it was over the pastor remarked with con siderable pride that it all New York churches had such live prayer meetings they wouldn't close up like the oyster trade through the months that do*6t have "r" in thorn. After the the deacons lingered to dis cuss plans Aged Widows' Retreat, and when the the church, who lives in One hundred ar^^H|ty-secondstreet, reached liis house lie man with a ben-on light nose sitti on the steps. "Good be remarked picas antly, '‘YORKS' late. I’ve been waiting for you. ’ “Indeed sir, what is the object of your visit?" “I dropped into prayer meeting this evening, Deacon, and enjoyed your address extremely. Onesentenae so exactly agreed with my views that I thought I would call uround and mention It. Here It is." The small man extracted a crumpled slip of natter from ids pocket, and holding it to the light of a street lamp, read: “Tne fact is, brethren, none of us give enough. If every man would put his hand In hts pocket and re lieve hunger and thirst and misery as he meets them, there would bo little of those ills remain ing.” “That sentence,” said the small man critically, “does you infinite credit. I am hungry ana thirsty, deacon, and I am compelled to ask you for an Immediate loan of fa.?’ "You scoundrel, sir," said the deacon angrily. “My dear sir, lam not. I ntn simply taking you at your word. As soon as you can matte the change I am ready.” The deacon wanted to kick the small man down the steps, but he glanced at the piece of patter and said: “1 I was referring to the Re treat for Aged Widows." "There was no mention of widows in your re marks, deacon." “Well, coufound you, here’s $2. Now get out." And he did. Hut the sexton and the club are prepared to make the small man's renppenraneelntnat Har lent prayer meeting both Interesting and in structive. Mas. OurvßLAtcD wore anew costume for every day she spent at her old college homo. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A vicar in England has greatly distinguished himself by refusing to baptize a child “Jubi lee. ” The Alaska mission authorities have deter mined to allow no language to be spoken by the Indian pupils but the English. Is plowing and planting a quarter section of land near Bethany, 111., two farmers killed ISO rattlesnakes, some of them big fellows. The Farmers’ Alliance of Texas has 250.000 members. It is confined exclusively to farmers, and is similar in detail to the Agricultural Wheel organization. There is a cute Yankee in an Illinois town who plants a sunflower seed in every hill of beans. The stalk serves for a beau pole, while the seed is utilized for chicken feed. Ca.pt Willi am Votaw, of San Antonio, Tex., who is worth $250,000, owns 80.000 acres in Mav erick county, and nearly as much in Dimmitt, has been indicted for "stealing a cow-bell." There are now over 1,000 Young Men’s Chris tian Associations in this country, with a mem bership of 140,000, expending for Christian work $785,000. The aggregate of property in build ings, libraries, etc., is over $5,00(5,000. The New York Chinese mission has between 4.000 and 5,000 Celestials in its Sunday scoools. About sixty have joined the various churches. The first Sunday school for these people was founded in New York about eighteen years ago. French physicians have discovered from study of the manner of death at the great fire in Paris that it never conies more painlessly than in the interior of a burning theatre. Many victims are frightened to death and the blood rushes to the heart. Others die from asphyxia due to carbqpic acid. The Philadelphia Crematory Association has decided on plans for its crematory building, which will be 57x9C feet in size, 97 feet in height, and consists of a crematory chamber and over that a chapel. The latter will be 32 feet square and 40 feet high. Brick, Ohio sandstone and iron will be the principal materials used. The Future, a publication that prognosticated the weather two years in advance, is now a thing of the past. The editor pathetically re marks in the valedictory number that those who did not consider him a weatber-guesser thought he was a crank, and as his time is worth $lO per day he doesn’t propose to waste it upon a lot of idiots. The new opera house at Shepherd, Mich., was opened to the public a few nights since, and the people of that town were surprised at the mottoes that adorned the place. In the centre of the stage are the words, "In God we trust.” The proscenium reveals the words, “All the world is a stage of action on which we should prepare for the eternal world,” Over the entrance the visitor reads, "Jesus saith lam the door—by Mo if any man enter he shall be saved.” Mr. Beecher always wore a soft fur hat with wide brim. He never varied the style to any great extent. One day he went into a store in Brooklyn and found anew style of hat. He tried one on and said: "This will do; send me home six of them. There is no use buying one hat at a time," The bats were sent, with the bill. When Mr. Beecher’s frugal wife received the hill and the package she immediately re turned five of the hats and asked for a correct ed bill. The word “platform," when used for the pro gramme of a political party, is often classed as an Americanism, but it is really a revival of a use of the word that was very common in Eng lish literature iuthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though less common, perhaps, as a noun than a verb, meaning to lay down princi ples. For instance: Milton, in his "Reason of Church Government," says that some “do not think it for the ease of their inconsequent opin ions to grant that church discipline Is plat formed in the Bible, but that it is left for the discretion of men.” Tiie other day a young man in the suburbs of Paris saved the life of a yoimg woman who was trying to drown herself. When a reward was offered to him for his brave act he refused it, saying that he had loved the young woman whose life he had saved and wished her hand as his reward. The young woman refused him, however, because she was in love with another young man, whose failure to return her love had made her determined to take her life. At last accounts the young woman was still bent upon killing herself, and her preserver was thinking or following her example because she would not love him. Olive Logan has never identified herself with the woman suffrage movement. “But,” she says, “I have kept myself fon years in touch with women, and they are taking such place in modern activity that it is hard to see how that single distinction on accouqj of sex can be main tained much longer. I can remember when Margaret Fuller's. Let them be sea captains if they will' was too absurd even to laugh at; but two women have become captains within the year and a woman has obtained a pilot license this past month. The inconceivable has turned into the actual. People laughed at Lincoln for years. They have almost stopped laughing at Lucy Stone and Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony now; they may reverence them, too,’by and by.” The late James Grant, the novelist, was form erly very popular in Edinburgh. Whenever his magnificent face with its black mustache, al most a novelty in those days, was seen in Prince street, the passer-by nudged each other with awe and said, “There goes the ‘Black Dra goon.”’ Mrs. Grant in those days was one of three sisters who were all very “fine and large.” They were present at all the social functions in the Scottish capital. It was a standing joke that it was not safe to invite to any one house more than two of these ladies at one time, on aecount of their great weight. Mrs. Grant on festive occasions was wont to appear in gorgeous garments of yellow, and Mr. James Grant's ‘‘Yellow Frigate" was then extremely popular with the rising generation, the novelist and his wife being generally alluded to as the "Black Dragoon" and the "Yellow Frigate.” Leslie, in his “Reminiscences,” relates that forty-nine years ago, at the time of her corona tion, Queen Victoria had a pet spaniel, which always was on the lookout for her return when she was away from home. On the day of her coronation her majesty had, of course, been separated from her pet longer than usual, and when the state coach drove up to the palace steps she heard him barking joyously in the hall, ana exclaimed: “There’s Dash,” and was in a hurry to doff her crown and royal rob* and go and give Dash his bath. “I don’t know why,” said Leslie, “but the first sight of her in her robes of state brought tears into my eyes, and it had this effect upon many people; she looked almost like a child.” Thomas Campbell, the poet, who was present, said, in his application fora ticket to the Earl Marshal, that "There was a place in the Abbey ealled Poet's Corner, and perhaps room might be found in it for a poor living poet." At a recent performance of an Italian version of “Macbeth” at Rome, the principal roles were taken by Ristori and Rossi. A correspondent writes regarding Ristori: “It is at most once a year, and only for some charitable object, that the Marchesa dell Grille leaves her aristocratic salon to appear on the stage as Ristori. And the magic of her name, whose fame once filled the Old World and the New, is still so great that the house would be sold out were the actress of 70 to appear as “Juliet.” And we cannot find fault with the attitude of the Roman public Her achievements are still interesting. Her movements are graceful and noble; her gait easy nnd elastic; her hoarse voice never fails to mark the tones of horror, anger, madness, ami it is amazing to see with what certainty she command i the remnants of her art. But to the heart these tones do not speak, because they do not come from the heart any more. It Is from her memory that the artist reconstructs her roles, and not from her feelings." 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