The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, June 29, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

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4 Cltc'Pflrning'llctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29. 1887. . Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ’~The Morniho News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and 810 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. Tlie Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, 84 00 one year. $8 00. The Horning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays mid Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year, $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Meetings—Golden Rule Lodge No. 12,1. O. O. F.: Catholic Library Association; Of Subscribers to Stock of Catholic Library Hall Association. Special Notices -Last Notice of Receiver of Tax Returns. Cheap Column Advertisements—Employ ment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Miscel laneous. Steamship Scheduler— l Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos. Auction Sai.es—Commissioners’ Sale for Far tition by C. H. Dorsett. Fourth of .Tulv—Grand Picnic of Catholic Library Association. 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 in 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 away should leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will be given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. There seems to be a probability that Jake Sharp, like Boss Tweed, will die in jail. The man who consoles himself with the reflection that in two months more the backbone of summer will be broken is a philosopher. It is announced that the “typical Ameri can novel” is in press and that its author is a young lady of the South. Everybody will be anxious to know her name. Henry George likens Pope Leo and Cardi nal Simeoni to an organ grinder and his monkey. Such talk is not likely to help the cause of Dr. McGlynn, George’s friend. The country wonders why the Chicago beodlers should be punished more promptly than the Chicago Anarchists. Does Chicago value money more highly than human life? Salvation Army converts have been bap tized in Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta, and preparations are being made for a similar ceremony in Augusta. Col. Light is the •hief illuminator upon such occasions. If it be true that when people travel it is evidence that they have money then a large number of Georgians are well provided with funds. It is stated that more Georgians are traveling in this country and abroad than ever before. As an illustration of the transitory nature of fame, a New York paper notes that a college graduate alluded in his commence ment oration to “Gen. Boulanger, whoso capture by the Germans almost caused war some time ago.” Some of the Georgia papers are charging the managtment of the State fair with in competency. It certainly appears to be difficult to obtain any reliable information about the management’s plans. Perhaps a little new blood is needed. At the meeting of the McGlynn-George Anti-Poverty Society in New York on Sun day night Henry George said: “We cannot too carefully keep out the Chinese from this country.” So it seems that there is at least one class of human beings for whom George does not weep sympathetic tears. Since the arrest of E. L. Harper, the Cincinnati banker, all sorts of charges have been made against him. All his friends have deserted him. The only being who seems to care anything for him is his wife. It is hardly probable that Harper will ever again think of the word “wheat” with equanimity. An old soldier says that when the gradu ates of West Point Military Academy are first assigned to duty but few of them know anything about tactics. It seems that less attention is paid to military science at West Point than to any other subject. This is strange, considering that the academy was established in order that the art of war might be taught. Haskell Institute for Indians at Law rence, Kan., has conferred the degree “In dianorum Amicus Magnus" on Chancellor Lippencott anil George Innis, of Lawrence, and Rev. Dr. Marion and Commissioner At kins, of Washington. The degree is anew one. Considering the attentions shown the Indians of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Lon don, it is strange that it was not conferred pn a few thousands of Englishmen. In the course of a sermon on (Sunday last, Dr. Parker, of the City Temple, London, txpressod astonishment at the interest Ihown by Americans in the Queen. He la i<l that he knew of one Amer ican who had offered $2,500 for I ticket of admission to Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the jubilee ser vices. It would be interesting to know if the American in question ever contributed to tlie Grant monument fund, and, if so, bow much. Near Yalto Centre, Kan., the other day, a north bound Missouri Pacific train was caught in a terrific hail storm. All the glass in the wiudows on one side was broken. Pullman plate-glass windows were riddled, wid large dents were made in the sides of mfl r<a ea fPI t . . o' —iu i,ue siaes ui he cars. The engineer stopped the train vnd sought safety under his engine. The ‘tones were as large as hen’s eggs, and cov irert the ground to a depth of 14 inches. A* Joe Mulhatton was in Louisville on the oyofthe storm, it is probable that the the stones was not exaggerated. Agriculture. A letter in Posit, from Shelby, N. C., iltsWw s ! ,i ble length and very intelligently the sub ject of agriculture in the South. The con clusion reached is that the Southern farmer, although prospering in some localities, is, as a general rule, growing poorer. It is probable that this conclusion is too sweep ing, and that the impressions of the writer of the letter are gained from the condition of the farmers in his immediate locality. But, be that as it may, it is no doubt true that. Southern farmers are not making very encouraging progress, and, as about seven tenths of the Southern people are engaged in agriculture in one way and another, it follows that much of the business depres sion, of which complaint has been made in all the Southern States within the last year or two, is due to their lack of prosperity. Of course there has been great progress in the South since the war. Minos have been ojiened, manufacturing industries have been established and several kinds of business have attained such proportions as to attract wide attention—for instance, the lum ber and fertilizer business—and all have enjoyed a reasonable amount of prosperity. The farmer, however, has not made the advance that he ought. Both climate and soil are in his favor, and so many railroads have lieen built that he is reasonably near to market. What, then, is the reason that his material condition is not better! The writer of the Shelby letter in the Post gives several reasons, all of which are good ones. The Southern farmer cultivates too much land. Ho lias not yet got rid of the notion that success in farming is indicated by the number of acres cultivated rather than the value per acre of the crop raised. By culti vating half as many acres well he would realize much better results. He can’t some how get hold of the idea that the kind of farming that pays is intensive farming. The. few who have adopted that method have succeeded even beyond their own ex pectations, but for some reason or other their success has not caused many to follow them. Notwithstanding the constant efforts which have been made in that direction the Southern farmer will not adopt the diver sified system. He sticks to the one crop sys tem because he can turn his crop into cash quickly. Tlio fact that his expenses exceed his crop receipts does not convince him that he is making a mistake. He still goes ahead buying his supplias at ruinous prices on credit, and constantly getting deeper into debt. All of the returns from his cash crop have disappeared before he has finished pay ing for what has been consumed by his family and his stock. If he raised his own supplies his cash crop would furnish him a surplus with which to make improvements or to rid himself of debt. But that which makes the greatest drain upon him is the commercial fertilizer. Not producingdivorsifledcrops, and, consequent ly, having little in the way of hay, straw and stalks for fodder, he makes no effort to collect home fertilizers. He depends wholly upon phosphates. Unlike the manures col lected on the farm, commercial feritilzers do good for only one year. They must be purchased for every crop. The home-made fertilizers show bettor results the second than the first year, and evidences of their power are noticeable for several years. The commercial fertilizers can be obtained so readily, however, that less and less trou ble is taken to collect home fertilizers. What is the outcome of this condition of affairs? Mortgages, of course. No farmer can prosper who pays high prices for his supplies, buys his fertilizers and is burdened with either chattel or real estate mortgages on which a heavy rate of interest is con stantly accumulating. The Southern farmer to be prosperous must change his whole system of farming. He must save all the odds and ends and raise wbat lie needs for his table and for his stock. He must collect all the waste stuff about his farm for manure, and he must make his land, as near as possible, self-supporting. When the slave system of labor was destroyed there was an end to successful farming under the old plantation system. The small farms require a different system, and when the Southern farmer adopts a system fitted to the changed condi tions it will no longer be said that Southom agriculture is making no progress. Practical Knowledge. A young man who is very well educated, but who has never seemed to care to put his knowledge to practical use, complains that many men not as well informed as himself do not find it difficult to earn money. The trouble with him is that he has never tried to be practical. His education is merely an ornament. He doesn’t know how to apply it so as to make it valuable, and the result is that he is no better off than an ignorant day laborer. An incident which occurred at Mont Alto, Pa., the other day, aptly illustrates the value of practical knowledge. A party of men were telling funny stories, and one of them laughed so heartily that he dislocated his jaw. A quack living near by was sent for, and he immediately pronounced the man’s predicament a case of lock-jaw. lie put a big mustard poultice on the man’s jaw, plastered a fly-blister on the back of his neck, plunged his bare feet in boiling water, and then told him if he had anything to say it would be well for him to say it at once, as he would never recover—he was bound to die. A preacher on his way to the man’s house to offer spiritual conso lation met a medical student, who turned and went with him. When they entered tho houfiu they found the man incased in plas ters, his legs bully scalded to the knees, and his head wrapped in a blanket. The stu dent wished to make an examination, but tho weeping bystanders explained that it would be useless, that the man was going to die, and that nobody could do him any good. In answer to a question the student was informed that tho man’s jaw had become locked while ho was laughing. In spite of protests the student removed the blanket, held up the man’s heud, thrust his fingers into his mouth and struck him lightly on the jnw. It swung back into place, and the man was soon ns well as ever. The student knew how to use his knowl edge. W hen he begins to practice, it is alto gether prolmble that he will be in demand, and he will not find it difficult to earn money. It is so with nearly every other man who makes practical use of what he learns in the schools. The complaining young man should take heed and profit. The statement is made that in Portland, Me., there is a man with a false nose, a gla>s eye, but three fingers and one thumb, one ear, false teeth, false hair, and a cork leg. Considering that he has been married three times, his dilapidated condition is not to be wondered at. Tiie morning news : Wednesday, june 20, 1887. Making Political Capital. It seems to be understood at Washington that the Republican loaders are preparing to use the battle flags incident for all that it is worth. An edition of the National Tribune, a weekly sheet owned and pub lished by a pension claim agent at Washing ton, is to lie published containing an account of the circumstances connected with the proposed return of the flags. The edition will contain 250,000 copies, and it will be sent to all the Grand Army posts for dis tribution among the ex-soldiers. The National Tribune claims to be non partisan, but there is no basis for the claim. Tliis battle flag affair will, it is said, be writ ten with great care, not for the pur pose of conveying an unbiased impression with regard to it, but to arouse hostiliy to the President while seeming to be fair. The Republican leaders expect that Mr. Cleve land will be the Presidential candidate of tho Democrats and they propose toYirray as much of the soldier vote against his as they can. It is also reported that as soon as Con gress meets one of tho leading Republicans of the House will undertake to have tho flags displayed in someone of the public buildings with the view of making them aid further still in bringing about Republican success in tho next national election. The Republicans are shrewd and will not per mit any opportunity, which offers a chance to advance the interests of their party, to pass unimproved. Indeed, it would not lie at all surprising if they should attempt to get up an exciting debate in Congress- over tiie flags. It is a pity that the people are not always told the simple truth. It Is tune that they And it out sooner or later, but it would be much better for them if they could get it without first having so much falsehood im posed upon them. The Republicans intend to do their utmost to mislead the public with regard to the battle flags episode. It is doubtful, however, if they will succeed in doing Mr. Cleveland any harm. Every one will hear the truth before the national cam paign begins, and, besides, it will not be an easy matter to arouse a very strong feel ing against him. He has made a reputation for watching the interests of the people and doing what he believes to be right that cannot be easily damaged. If he were more of a politician the Republican leaders would stand a better chance of gain ing some advantage out of the affair of the flags. A special from Atlanta to the Now York Herald tells a story that will doubtless be the text of many lucubrations upon the part of Republican newspapers. Ij. is to the effect that a merchant, the owner of a cross roads store in Gilmer county, sent to Mr. A. McD. Wilson, of Atlanta, a note offering as security for a small debt a mortgage “on one negro man.” The negro, so the special says, was fully described. His name was given as Joe Addison, his age put at (55 years, and the description closed with these words: “He came to me by my father, and has been my property for twenty years.” The story is incredible. Gilmer county is not so far out of the world that the results of tho war are unknown there, for the county gave many of her citizen* to the service of the Confederacy. If the truth were known it would be developed that there is a newspaper correspondent in At lanta who doesn’t find it difficult to make a sensation out of nothing. The Washington correspondent of the New York Star has made a curious dis covery. He says that among the graduates who received diplomas at the recent com mencement exercises of the National Uni versity were two who held toward each other the relation of stepfather and stepson. The stepfather is a young man of 28, and is a clerk in the Land Office. Three years ago he became engaged to a widow in whose house he was boarding, sho being 44 years old and having’ a largo family. Last November they were married, and not withstanding the disparity in their ages, have gotten along well together. By his marriage the young man became the step father of three boys, aged respectively 24, 17 and 14, and of two girls. The stepfather is a 81,400 clerk in tho Land Office, while his eldest stepson is a 81,600 clerk in the Patent Office, and the two graduated in the same law school, in the same class, and at the same time. It is announced that when tho Grand Army of the Republic meets in St. Louis in the fall at least 500 resolutions will be offered condemning tho President for vetoing the pauper pension bill and for his connection with the captured flags episode. There are a few Democrats in the Grand Army of the Repnblic, and it is likely that the resolutions will cause some lively debates. It is worthy of note that the announcement concerning tho condemnatory resolutions confirms tho charge that a fow ambitious Republican leaders are trying to make the Grand Anny of tho Republic a huge political machine. Of the whole nundx'r of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ap pointed since the foundation of the govern ment down to the proaent, only throe were past the ago of (50 at the time of their ap pointment. These were Strong, Hunt and Blatehford. John Jay, tho first Chief Justice, was 44 when appointed, Marshall was 45, Joseph Story, when appointed Associate Justice, was 32, William Johnson was 33, Bushrod Washington 36, and Ire dell, one of the most learned Justices that ever sat on the bench, was ,18. Harlan is the youngest Justice now on the bench. New Orleans seems determined to have brass band music, and, at the same time, to let the people outside of the city enjoy it without having to leave their homes. Once a week the band of the Continental Guards gives a concert in Lafayette Square, Mr. Frank T. Howard, a wealthy citizen, pay ing the expenses. On these occasions the square is crowded with women and children, and by a system of telephones the music is heard on the plantations up and dowu the Mississippi river for several hundred miles During his lecture iu Chicago on Sunday night, Dr. McGlynn said that Henry George was elected Mayor of New York at the time ho ran against Mayor Hewitt, hut that he was kept out of office because ho was robbed of votes. This will be news not only to Mayor Hewitt, but to everybody else in Now York. Queen Victoria and the royal family of England seem to have drawn the color line with a vengeance. Queen Kapiolani, Prince Komatsu, of Japan, and a number of Indian Princes were not invited to the feasts given to the white-skinned potentate, but will soon be entertained in a bunch at Windsor. Mr. Lawrence, an American who lias been endeavoring to establish a claim upon the estates of Lord Norroys, lias been non suited in London. CURRENT COMMENT. Women and Anti-Poverty Societies. From the New York Herald (/ad.) If some of our wage earners who want the earth would discuss the proper method of get ting more wages and saving a port of them with their wives, we might get, a real revelation on this subject. Women have good ideas about an anti-poverty society. A Nuisance and a Menace. From the Missouri Republican (Dem.) Organizations of vteran soldiers are harmless until they liegin to attempt to dictate the poli tics, tocontrol.the policy-and to shape the laws of the country in their own interest. When they reach thnt point in their history—and they seldom stop short of it—they become at once a nuisance and a menace. Backward, Not Forward. From the Washington Post (Dem.) It is confidently asserted by adherents of the high tariff policy of Kelley, Randall & Cos., that converts to their faith are being made rapidly in Alabama. There is no tangible evidence of it. These people had one ri-presentative from Alabama in the last Congress and one in the Forty-eighth Congress, but have none in this Congress. High tariff reform seems to be marching backward, not forward, in Alabama. Mr. Davis and the Captured Flags. From the New York World (Dem.) Jefferson Davis pronounces tho ‘-flag’’ letter purporting to have been written by him a for gery. Indeed, his views are precisely the reverse of those expressed in the spurious letter. The Union troops, lie says, were all mustered into the Federal service; the States, as such, had no troops in the war, and consequently all military stores and trophies captured became the\ prop erty of the general government and subject to the control of Congress only. Mr. Davis does not seem to care a Confederate dollar whether the flags go back to the South or are retained in Washington. BRIGHT BITS. Few men ever injured themselves in their efforts to get away from an office that was seek ing them. —Poston Courier. “And how are you getting along with your vocal studies, Miss Mabel?" "Very well, I think my future success is as sured." t „ j “And what leads think so?” “The papers alluded to me as ‘the gifted young soprano.’ " — Boston Courier. A true word spoken in jest: “Yes, madam," said the tramp, “in better days I used to prac tice at the bur.” “And now,” responded the lady, “I suppose you are satisfied to work the growler." But the tramp considered it no subject for jest and passed along.— Pittsburg Dispatch. “I am sorry to disappoint you.” wrote a lady in another State to the Lewiston School Bonn! several months ago regarding her acceptance of a nroffered situation in a Lewiston school, "hut i bave found a situation which I trust will be more congenial to my taste." The other day. in glancing over a newspaper, one of the board read, with a pleasant surprise, the announce ment of the young lady's marriage.— Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Omaha Mam—Are those pug dogs intelligent? Omaha lady (proud owner of a pug)—Oh, their intelligence is almost, human. “I am surprised to hear that.” “I can’t begin to tell you how much the dear little fellows know. Mercy me! Jane! Jane! Where are you?” Jane (a servant)—Here. mum. “Run out as fast as you can and bring the dog in. It’s raining.”— Omaha World. Two’s Company.— Mr. Gray (who has brought Miss Deane to the ball) —I am awfully sorry to say, Miss Deane, that it is raining quite hard now. I have tried in vain to get a carriage, and am afraid that we shall have to do the best we can with a small umbrella. Miss Deane—What,! both of us under one little umbrella! Ob. what fun! (To other man) Don’t you think so Mr. Brow-n: I |Mr. Brown, (somewhat sadly)—Yes, fun for you two.” — Harper's Bazar. James T. Fields was a noted teller of stories. In the “authors’ parlor” of the old store of Ticknor & Fields he was sure of congenial bearers, and almost equally sure that any clever thing would be Hate of wideand speedy circula tion. It may lie. therefore, that the following story- has appeared in print, hut if it has. it is good enough to be told over again. A young American, Mr. Fields used to say, w-ho imbibed Anglomania while in London, reached Boston on the night of July 3. His sleep was disturbed by the sounds common on the night before tiie Fourth, and he came down to the family break fast table in n state of very English irritation. “Maivthah,” he asked, “why the precipitate explosion of pyrotechnics in the night, this most deucedly inharmonious sounding of horns and that sort of thing? Those blahsted bells jangled so that I couldn’t sleep at all, don’t eher’know!” “Why, John, it’s the Fourth of July.” “The aw—Fourth of July? Yaas, lam aware that it’s the fourth day of the current month, Mawthah! but—aw- what of that;”—Boston Transcript. PERSONAL. The editor of the Sherman (Tex.) Register bears the remarkably cheerful name of Cash Surplus. Probably the smallest man in the country is Rees Wittier, of Plymouth, Pa. He is 34 s ears, weighs fifty-eight pounds and is three feet high. President Oilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, will this summer revisit his old home in California, and probably go up to Alaska for a short time. Dr. Swan M. Burnett, the husband of Frances Hodgson Burnett, is keeping bachelor's hall in Washington, Dr. Burnett is a native of Ten nessee, a man of ability and artistic tastes. The wives of Secretary Whitney and Post master General Vilas have left the national capi tal for the season. Mrs. Whitney will go to Lenox; Mrs. Vilas to her home in Wisconsin. Inspector General Baird and Col. Hasbrook, commandant Of carets at West Point, have been detailed to visit; France in September for the purpose of witnessing the fall manoeuvres of the French army. James R. Randall, of the Anniston Hot Blent, thinks Appomattox has lieen avenged be cause a half dozen Virginians have recently in vaded the matrimonial North and carried off rich heiresses for brides. John Boyle O’Reilly, the poet, has a beau tiful wife. A plaster bust, life size, by John Donoghue, the Boston sculptor, and sent to New York for (lerpetuation in bronze, has been ex hibited to a favored few. A mono the graduates at the Academy of the Visitation, Washington, on whom diplomas were conferred by Cardinal Gibbous, were a daughter of Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, and one of Con gressman Randall, of Philadelphia. The late Gen. A. C. Gordon, of Alabama, was in his boyhood captured by Indians and held a prisoner for several months. During that time he learned their language, and in after years made good u.so of this knowledge in trading with thorn. It is said in Cincinnati that the financial col lapse of E. L. Harper, of the Fidelity Bank, is the outcome of a plan for revenge made by Phil Armour, of Chicago, who was severely injured some years ago in a "deal” in which Harper dis played great treachery. Joseph Hoeino Kastle, of Lexington, Kv., who won the scholorship at Johns Hopkins University last year in chemistry, lias this year taken the fellowship in the same study, which carries with it an award of SSOO in gold, with fees paid for next year. Queen Isabella of Spain was recently told that her younger sister, the Duchess of Mont ponsier, looked older than her majesty, where upon she exclaimed: "Then she ought to he happy, for she has wanted to be the eider sister her whole life long, and now, at least, she ap pears to lie so." It was an interesting circumstance that while the mob outside was clamoring for his blood, the Rev. Dr. Courtney, chief speaker at the jubilee banquet in Faneuil Hall, Boston, was eloquently pleading the very cause the rioters professed attachment to. Tlte Pilot declares that it was "the address of a gentleman and a conscientious mail. With large and noble patriotism toward England, he rcmeinliered t he afflictions of Ireland and the dreadful exaspera tions of her people.” Gen. Albert Pike, poet, soldier and Grand Commander of the Southernjurlsdlctionof Free Masons, lives, at the age of 77, in retirement at Washington. I). C. He Is tall, robust and hand some. lie spends ills time in his library trails lating the Sanscrit hooks of Veda. Gen. Pike lias translated seventeen volumes of a thousand pages each. None of them have yet been printed. The General Is an accomplished lin guist and as well acquainted with modern lan guages as with ancient. Lord Mayor Him.livan, of Dublin, declined an invitation to attend the Queen’s Jubilee, beeause he preferred to be somewhere else. The some where else was in the presiding officer s chair at a meeting of the Irish Leagueln Dublin, and .in his speech the Lord Mayor said: “Oil Jubilee day, at this crisis and this moment, we pledge ourselves anew to the Irish natioual cause and declare our readiness and determination to stand by that cause, despite whatever this tyrannical Tory government tuuy have In store lor us.” A $40,000 JOKE. A Little Transaction in Options That a Jury Couldn’t See.. The New York Herald has tho following dis patch from Richmond, Va.: “Sam Rosenbaum's joke was a pretty good one on Tom Seddon.” This was the current comment on the result of a suit in the Circuit Court among the stock brokers here yesterday. Samuel Rosenhaum and Thomas A. Seddon, of this city, on their way to New York, March 11, 1886, had achat about Richmond and Danville railroad stock. Seddon was of the. opinion that the stock, which was then selling at 80, would go to 250 per share. Rosenbaum said: “You won’t bet money on iti” Then there was a proposition made, which, being something in the nature of a bet and illegal, was declared off. Both the gentlemen were ready to back their opinions with cash, and Seddon then proposed, and it was stipulated, that Rosenbaum should sell him (Seddon) 250 shares of Richmond and Danville stock at 96 tier share at any time within three years, at Sed don's option. A note of the agreement was made by both gentlemen, and two others who were with them on the train, and it was fully understood that Rosenbaum was to deliver to Seddon 250 shares of the stock at 90 at any time he might call for it within the specified period, During the following month of July, Yvhen the Richmond and Danville stock had reached the figure of about 150 per share, Seddon tendered Rosenbaum $24,000, the value of 250 shares at the stipulated price. Rosenbaum refused to deliver, and said it was all a joke. Seddon, who couldn't see the joke, brought suit in the Circuit Court for $40,000 damages for breach of contract. The case was heard by a jury, which agreed with Rosenbaum that it was a joke, aud rendered a decision in his favor. Seddon will now appeal. What Will Reach Mr. Cleveland from Kansas City. From the Kansas City Journal. Mr. George R. Barse, the artist who has been entrusted with the preparation of the Cleveland invitation, has been making studies during the past week of the various allegorical figures which will be drawn to accompany the invita tion. Enough has already been said to give a fair idea of what the invitation will be. Mr. Barse has now selected the composition af illus trations for Kansas City, the Indian Territory, Colorado, Texas and Nehraska. The figure for New Mexico has not yet been fully conceived, though Mr. Barse has an idea in his mind which he will doubtless develop and accept as the final figure. Missouri has been t hought of, but that, too, is not settled upon definitely. The concep tion of the figure for the Indian Territory is particularly fine and wholly original and ideal istic. An Indian maiden is shown reclining, tier head resting upon the bosom of a nurse, who, half poised, supports the maiden with one hand, while the other hand bolds a laurel wreath. The nurse whispers in the Indian maiden’s ear of what the future holds in store for her when she shall have become civilized. The figure for Kansas City represents a muse sitting on a hemisphere. The States of the Union are seen, and the muse, with the finger pointing to Kan sas City as the centre of the hemisphere. The picture for Texas represents a maiden leaning against the State's seal. Her left hand shades her eyes as she looks Eastward toward Kansas City, and a single star, emblematic of the State, flashes on her forhead. The picture for Colo rado represents Vulcan sitting on an anvil, his hand resting on a hammer. Minerals are scat tered about. The figure representing Kansas, the Sunflower State, is the goddess Ceres. Upon her right arm she holds a sheaf of golden wheat; her right hand holds uplifted a sun flower. These, as yet, are but studies. Mr. Barse will begin this week the final composition for the water colors that are to accompany the invitation. After all these pictures will be fin ished, the invitation will be left in Barse’s art store for a few days, to be looked at. The com mittee having in charge the securing of sfigna tures have met with much success. The num ber of signatures already secured are nearly 15,- 000. Two Labor Stories. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Carroll D. Wright, the chief of the National Bureau, is looked up to as a mentor by all the others, and was again chosen president. His experience during a perils 1 of sixteen years in the statistical field of Massachusetts has gained for him more than a national reputation, and his reports are found upon the desks of every industrial establishment of Massachusetts. He is now a man of 45, of splendid physique, and delights in listening to and telling good jokes. His latest is how an impending strike in a shoe factory of Lynn, Mass., was averted. A laster was discharged for incompetency; the union would not allow it. The employer had to yield, but he did it in his own way. He inserted an advertisement in the paper for a Knight of La bor laster. “Are you a good laster?” “Yes, sir.” “Can you unlast too?” “Of course, sir,” said the astonished applicant. “Then, go to work,” said the employer, “at unlasting every pair of boots this man here is lasting,” Another story Mr. Wright delights in is this: A certain manufacturer, employing no more than a dozen men, who happened to be all Englishmen, one day hired an Irishman, who was a first-class hand at the work. The English men felt sore and appointed one of their num ber as a "kicking committee.” Said the em ployer: “ Why is it that you fellows don’t kick against Irish employers?” “Oh, well, that is different,” said the com mittee. “Well, then,” said the manufacturer, “I shall take the Irishman into partnership to-morrow.” A Queer Bathing Suit. From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal. A few evenings since Mr. Jellerson, who keeps the saloon at Glenbrook, was out bathing in the lake, when, suddenly, something wrapped about him like a wet blanket. He was close to shore and got there pretty lively. When he climbed up the wharf the blanket, as it appeared to be, was all wrapped about him in a queer way. He rushed into the rear of the saloon, where there was a light, and was horrified to discover that the thing which was wrapped around him was alive. It held on with a terrible suction and re quired several men to get it off. A scientist who was stopping at the hotel pro nounced it an Elactys cacynthius, or what is vulgarly known as the blanket fish. It frequents the waters of the polar seas, and is only occa sionally found in fresh water, except deep, cold lakes, and generally stays near the bottom. It is sometimes found in the Pacific Ocean as low as the 35th parallel. It wraps around its victim, and. bv impeding the motions of its limbs' causes it to drown. It is dark brown in color, with block specks, and weighs nliout twenty-five pounds. When stretched out upon the wharf it was about 6 feet long by 5 broad, aud not over 1 inch thick. It was an object of curiosity all day and is now on exhibition in the saloon. Mr. Emery, the stage driver, says he saw Jel lerson when he came out or the water, and thought, he was wrapped up in a blanket. This is the first ever caught in this section of tho world. First Love. From the New York Sun. I cannot tell, I do not knOYv, Alt ho’ for hours I often ponder Whether ’tis bliss, or whether woe? This mystic, subtle, foreign wonder That haunts my soul, and tills my mind, My sacred moments e’en invading; Its ev'ry thought or wisn entwined It seems immutable, uufading. A painful, sense, It came os if i^Mspiration, And as it lines intense This univw^^^Ktipimtion. Like see saw i lien despair— n-ations, Perturb my Joy or cure, Alternate hSEexaltations. And Yvould I, if remove This strange, inexplicable |Mission? I cannot answer, till 1 prove The problem I but my brain cloth fashion; And. tho’ forever I should ponder— Whether ’tis bliss, or whether woe— Until my senses reel nnd wander, I cannot tell, I do not knotv. Clever Dick. From the Boston Transcript. The Listener has heard from the lips of an esteemed friend, who is the head of an import ant Boston firm, and a inan who cannot tell a lie, this story of u cat's Intelligence. which rather surpasses anything of the kind he has heard lately: . "You are acquainted with our cat Dick? Yes? A big fellow, you know, whose size and dignity attract people's attention. Ho is always at the atore, up stairs or down. Well, the other dny a friend was In, anil its we were conversing, about midway of the basement, where the scales stand, the cat passed along, 'well, well: what a eat!’ my friend exclaimed, ‘how much does he weigh?’ ‘l’m sure I don't know,’said I Dick looked up at this, paused an instant, and then delilierately walked over to the scales und mounted the platform. We Meat over und weighed him. Both of us thought that the per formance was accidental; but to make sure, after the cat hail gone to tiie further end of the store, I called out to him: 'Dick, come and get on the scales und Is- weighed.' Whereupon Dick trav eled solemnly buck, mounted the scales, and waited to be weighed. He under an od that first remark, and the second, too, m well us we did," ITEMS OF INTEREST. Seventy years ago Henry Gildemeister, a German, enlisted as a volunteer in the Hanseatic Legion, a free corps of 3,000 men attached to the Northern army under the command of tho Crown Prince of SYveden. Gildemeister now lives in Bunker Hill. 111., and is 93 years old, and recent news from his native country leads him to think that he is the only survivor of the fa mous 3,000. A man in Salt Lake City took some clothes that had been used about a patient afflicted with diptberia and threYV them over a chicken coop the other evening to air. When the family came to look into the coop the next morning all of its inmates were found dead. Tne dead fowls had black marks on their throats in each instance. And a whole brood of young chicks perished in the same way. In the strawberry regions of Now Jersey a cigar box is nailed on a tree close to the road side in front of every farmhouse. It is placed there to receive tho latest quotations for fruit. These quotations are telegraphed from the lead ing cities three times a day. and are distributed by messengers mounted on bicycles. The fruit grower determines by the quotations whether e will ship his day’s picking. A chicken thief has recently been arrested at Xenia, 0., who seems to be at the head of his profession. He operated with a two-horse cov ered spring wagon, and Yvas always careful to do his stealing out of his county. It is known that his profits ran as high as SIOO per week for several months. He would drive to the scene of his depredations in the night, and would some times capture as many as 300 fOYvl. Experiments are believed to show that aseptol, or orthopenot-sulphate, is destined to take the place of carbolic acid as a disinfectant and antiseptic. It is a syrupy, brown fluid of aromatic odor, and soluble in alcohol, glycerine and water, and is not irritating in as strong as 10 per cent, solution. As an ant iseptic it is said to equal earbolic acid, Yvhile possessing also the advantage of pleasanter odor, more solubility, etc. This remarkably pleasing horse story comes from Inyo, Cal.: A load of hay was put in a yard near a stable. A horse vvas loose in the yard, two others being tied in the stable, the door of Yvhich was open. After eating a few bites of the hay the loose horse appeared to re member that his companions were debarred from the feast. He took large mouthfuls, carried it into the stable and placed it before tho other horses. Paper doors are coming into use, and, as compared with those of wood, possess the ad vantage of neither shrinking, swelling, cracktog or warping. It is formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and moulded into panels, and glazed together with glue and potash, and then rolled through heavy rollings. After being covered with a waterproof coating and then with one that is fireproof, it is painted, varnish ed, and hung in the usual way. A charming and unique friendship is said to have sprung up between a young German and a young Frenchman in South Holyoke, Mass. Neither gan speak the language of the other, and both are ignorant of the English language. Under ordinary circumstances these young men would be life-long strangers, but fate has thrown them together as roommates in a boarding house, and. although unable to converse other than by gestures, there has sprung up between them a friendship of more than ordinary warmth. That wing of the Dunkard Church known as the Old Order has been holding its annual ses sion in Canton, O. The adherents of this wing are \'ery conservative, and their piode of wor ship is exceedingly crude. They eat what is known as the Passover, Yvhich is composed of soup made of beef. They have large bowls, out of which six or eight will eat at once. After the feast these Dunkards indulge in what they term the holy kiss—man kissing man and woman kissing woman. Then the men wash one another's feet and the women go through the same ceremony among themselves, after which preaching goes on. Iny’ENTor John W. Keelv, who has been giv ing exhibitions of what, he calls his sympathetic etheric motor during the past Yveek in Philadel phia, has been so bothered by the questions of puzzled spectators that be has prepared a printed statement, in which he says that he is now graduating his engine, and Is at work on the fifth octaY'e. His system, he says, is founder on sympathetic vibration, in w r hich there is neither pressure nor exhaustion, and all the power Is generated, the engines run and the can non fired through a mine. When the present process of adjustment shall tie completed, and Yvhen he shall be protected by patents, Keelv says that he will give an explanation of his power, a knowledge of Yvhich can be more easily acquired than that necessary for the operation of a steam engine. Poor Daniel Pratt! What a solemnly and un consciously funny man he was as he slung his incomprehensible words and ideas at the heads of the irreverent college hoys. Much he stood from these same boys, but once in a while he resented their chaffing with a dignity that yvos almost pathetic. The Waterbury American tells how some Yale boys once got him into a student’s room to “have fun” with him, and while he speechified they all smoked, blowing out as heavy clouds as they were able until the room Yvas thick. The old man struggled man fully to go on, but his voice grew husky, he choked and coughed a little as the smoke pene trated his throat, and then drawing himself up with mildly resentful dignity be said: "Gentle men, your orator is not a ham,” and fled to the open air. If King Kalakaua were to interview the editors who are talking about disturbances in the Sand wich Islands he Yvould very likely ask them to what part of the world they referred. When the King was in this country a few years ago the Mayor of Chicago, in a moment of aberra tion, introduced him to the. Board of Trate as the King of the Cannibal Islands. Kalakaua thought this was a tolerably good joke, but any attempts to make him known as the King of the Sandwich Islands always tended to ruffle the royal temper. When Capt. Cook discovered the Hawaiian group he attached to it the name of an English peer. A number of the names Cook gave to islands he discovered have been re placed on the maps by the prettier and more appropriate native names. Hawaii takes its name from the largest island in the group. The natives recognize no other name for the group, and Kalakaua is officially known to other governments only as the King of Hawaii. Prof. Baynes was conversing with one of his oldest and most intimate friends only tYvo days before his sudden death, when he happened to remark that he had made complete arrange ments, both as to subjects and writers, to the last word of the “Encyclopedia,” and that down to the letter S was noYv in print, and on the eve of publication. He accepted the editorship of the new “Encyclopaedia Britannica” fourteen years ago, and it was a work of immense labor and anxiety. He laid down the “lines” of the new edition, selected the subjects for fresh treatment, and the special writers on science, art, literature, philosophy, etc.; and the fact that the new edition lias been a brilliant success is the best testimony to the editor’s wide knowl edge, rare discernment, comprehensive sympa thy, and, above all, his tact and temper. There was a vast amount of correspondence day by day, and during his annual visits to l/indon, he was much occupied in personal interviews with the new contributors. By the time the under taking was fairly on its legs the health of tho professor again broke down, and he then found a most capable assistant in Prof. Robertson Smith, who had previously written the article "Bible” at the invitation of the editor. A new story is told of Ouida, the novelist, in connection with her visit to London recently. She, as every one knoYvs, is very eccentric, aud has as many whims as an opera singer. She has been in the habit of stopping at the langhum Hotel when in Isinflon, and went there upon her last visit. She stayed along for some time, her bill being presented weekly, as is the custom here. She paid no attention to It, and it finally reached the amount of £250. One day she took her maid and pet dog and went for a walk. When she came in she found her room locked and tho key gone. She flew to the office in a great temper and demanded of tho clerk the rea son of the Insult. There were a number of men standing about, but she jiaki no attention to them. The clerk quietly told her that her bill had been presented several times and they did not feel like allowing it to get anv larger. If she paid her bill her room would be unlocked. At this Ouida went into a perfect passion, saying she did not know why she ever si aved at that hotel. They were the most Inartistic people she had ever heard of. She had no business in stopping at a hotel the proprietor of which would allow such a looking church as the one opposite to stand facing him for so many years She continued this style of criticism for soimi time, nnd then asked the clerk to call a cab t hat she might lea\-o the house forever. She then discovered she had no change to pay a cabman so she passed a £6O note over to the clerk, say ing she wished he would change it so that she could pay her cabman when she should dismiss him. The clerk calmly took the note aud placed It in a drawer in his desk and locked it up. This left Ouida without a jjeuny. Then she again Is-gan discussing the inartistic spirit ofthe proprietor, also saying that it was a great ad vantage to the hotel to have a lady of her posi tion iu it, but she failed to impress the clerk and she finally took her maid and dog and walked off, aud ielt Lomluu vvituin a day or two. 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