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4 Clrc||lorningJlctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY. JULY 8. 1887. Registeivd at the Post Office in Samnnah. The Morning Nkwb is puhlifthM every day in fhe year, and is served In sul>serilw*rs in Uic city , by newsdealers and carriers, r.n their own ac count, at 25 rents n week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 f<r one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months. $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, ly mail, six limes a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $* 00. The Morning News, Tri-w**kly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, thne months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year, $5 00 The Sunday News, t/y mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, l>y mail, one year. $1 95. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or regisU*rHl letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, tla." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Evergreen Cemetery of Ilona ven turi*. Speci at. Notices—Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Cos Grand Sunday Excursion to Beaufort— St tamer Pope Gatlin. Cheap Column Advertisements For Rent; For Sale; Ixi-st; Summer Resorts; Miscellaneous Railroad Schedule—City and Suburban Railway. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Desirable Property for Sale —B K. Mims or .John Cooper Summer Resorts— The Sweet Water Park Hotel, at Salt Springs, Ga. Auction Sales— Sundries, by I. D. Laßoche's Sons. The Morning- News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Mousing News forwarded by the earliest fust mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for throe montlis, cush invariably in ud vanoe- The address may lie changed ils often as desired. In directing a change care should tie taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while uway Ihould leave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will he given to make this summer service sat isfactory aud to forward papers by the most direct and quickest, routes. When New Yorkers have nothing else to do they talk of building another monument. Talk is cheap, hut monuments cost money. Nobody knows better than the politician that it will novor do to trust the man who says: “I w r ill not be a candidate for re election." The statement is made that a girl in Wis consin has horns on her forehead. If it be true, she ought to have no difficulty in hook ing beaux. Boston’s champion base ball club lost two games on the Fourth of July. The Bos tonians are beginning to think that Kelly is not quite as big a man as Huliivan. If the buildings of the State University need repairs they should have them as quickly as possible. There is no economy in letting the State's property go to ruin. In Chattanooga the other day, Mr. Oliver King and Miss Hattie Bryson were married standing on platform scales in a store. Per haps scales never before held such a weight of bliss. At San Luis Potosi, Mex., two American girls have been licensed as telegraph opera tors. They will be something more than a seven days’ wonder to the people of that sleepy country. The General Assembly has already been askoil to charter more railroads. Is there a scheme on foot to speculate in such charters! If there is, the General Assembly ought to nip it in the bud. A good indication of the prosperity of the country is found in the fact that the St. Paul is the only railroad of any consequence that reports u decrease in earnings for tho last week in June. Why a young man will leave his home ou the farm, where he has plenty and is his own master, ami come to the city to slave in a dry goods store at si!o a month, is one of the unsolved problems. Ex-Gov. Bullock is in the North posing as a humorist Ho tells the newspapers that the Republicans ought to nominate Ruther ford B. Hayes for the Presidency. The ex- Governor's humor is extremely funny. The members of the General Assembly seeui to be unanimous on at least one sub ieet, and that is that the summer session trill be a long one. It remains to bo seen Whether the results will justify a long ses sion. Alabama is looking forward to a revival of her booms in the fall, when the present fine crop prospects are realized. In (leorgia crop prospects arc are also fine, and if they are realized all classes of business ought to prosper. In Brooklyn, last week, the sun was mur derous in its work. The number of deaths was 520, nearly double the number for the corresponding wqpk lust year. The number of victims under 5 years of age was :isi>. People who live in the country huvo reason to congratulate themselves in view of this fearful record of mortality in a city. The Washington Post thinks that “the oldest books on record would seem to bo volumes of water,” and the Boston Post declares that “volumes of sound cun claim an earlier origin than volumes of water." Volumes of wind are more ancient still, and, what is more, are likely to last us long as the Congressional Record continues to lx- pub lished for the benefit of aspiring statesmen, A momber of the Grand Army of the Re public said in Cincinnati, the other day: “The Democratic members of tho Grand Army of the Republic would do well not to go to Bt. Louis in October if they don’t want, their feelings hurt" If this particular lnomlier is authority, there seems to be a de termination to make the Grand Army of the Republic a Republican political ma chine. This country is soon to ho honored with the presence of more royalty, but this timo it is royulty at, second hand. His Ilovul Highness Princ# Devomongs Varoprakar will sail from London for Now York in a few days 11,. j R a brother of tho King of Hium. whom he represented at Queou Vlc " J u, *Uoo. He is a gentleman of color, ot the hue to which the U. A. R. The President and the Grand Army. The letter of the President to the Mnyor ! of Bt. Louis, recalling his acceptance of the invitation of the citizens of that city to be present there in October during the encamp ment of the Grand Ai iny of the Republic, can hardly fail to create something of a sen sation throughout tho country. That the chief executive of the nation, a Northern man, is prevented from visiting one of the large cities of the Union by 'hostile expres sions of ex-Union soldiers, indicates a very remarkable condition of affairs. There are some, doubtless, who will con demn the President for declining to go to St. Louis, but the great majority of the people, after reading his letter carefully, and considering it in all its bearings, will admit that the course ho bus adopted is the right one. If he cannot feel assured of such a reception as the President is entitled to it is clearly his duty to remain away. It would lx* a great scandal, that would cause shame and indignation in this country and might not be without its direct in foreign countries, for him to lie hooted at and greeted with opprobrious epithets by those who once formed a part of the Union armies. It is probable that he would lx> in no danger of attacks upon his life, but who can say with any absolute certainty that he would not. In a great gather ing, such as there will lie at Bt. Louis, there aro always violent and reckless i>ersons who need only a little* encouragement, to do some desperate deed, and, from the tone of some of the recent utterances of not a few members of the Grand Army, there is reason to think that such encouragement would not be wanting. This hostility of the Grand Army to the President must be regarded as very remark able ill view of the fact that no One of liis predecessors was more popular than he is, if, indeed, any one of them was so popular. Even extreme Republicans do not hesitate to say that he is sincere and honest, and that, ho is giving the country a very able, economical and satisfactory ad ministration. How is it then that he has incurred the bitter enmity of tho members of the Grand Army i In their eyes he is guilty of two offenses. He vetoed tho de pendent |iension bill, which was passed by the last < ’ongress, and he signed the order for the return of the battle flags. It is safe to say that the vast majority of the people approved of his veto of that bill. Some of the ablest of the Republican organs openly commended it. The sentiment, was then, and is now, that the pension burden is heavy enough, and that existing laws pro vide pensions for all who are deserving of them. The pension claim agents at Wash ington, however, are determined to have an other chance ut the Treasury, and they have worked up a strong sentiment in the Grand Army posts in favor of another pen sion hill which will call for hundreds of mil lions more of the public money. The order relative to the battleflags was a matter of very smull importance. Tho Presi dent had no other object in view when he signed it than the strengthening of the fra ternal feeling between the sections. When he found that there was opposition to it, and that he hail exceeded his authority, he cheer fully rescinded it. There has been no time since tho close of tho war when the President could not have visited the South with perfect safety and the assurance of courteous treatment. If President Grant had come to any Southern city during the darkest (lays of the recon struction period, when Federal buyonets were upholding the corrupt carpetbag gov eraments, he would have witnessed no signs of disrespect. There would have been no display of enthusiasm, but a due regard for his great office would have booen exhibited. It is u question which will arrest the at tention of thinking tnen whether the Grand Army of the Republic promises good to the country. It is largely composed of sincere and patriotic men, hut there are those in it who seem determined to use it for political purposes. That it influences national legis lation there is no doubt, and that it now aims to coerce the President into disre garding his oath of office there is every rea son to believe. If it had been suggested a decade ago that this Grand Army organiza tion would, by Its hostilo attitude, prevent the Chief Magistrate of the nation from visiting one of the groat cities of the coun try the suggestion would have been received with incredulity. And yet, that very thing has hnp}N-ned. What may he expected in the future from this Grand Army organiza tion f The Governor’s Special Message. In the special message which the Governor sent to the Legislature yesterday several im portant subjects are dealt with. The two most iuqiortant ones, however, are the West ern and Atlantic Railroad lease, and the ne cessity for a Commission of Pardons. The Governor punts out that while tho lease of the Western and Atlantic will not expire until after the mooting of the next Legislature, it will expire before there will be time for that Legislature to de termine upon the proper course to pursue with regard to it. He thinks, therefore, that the present Legisla ture ought to decide what shall be done with the road at tho expiration of tho least*. His view is the correct one. That tho Governor ought to have assist ance in considering the applications for partlbns, reprieves aud commutations of sentences there is no doubt. When Gov. Gordon ernno into office he found GOO of such applications awaiting action. If he had given his whole time to considering them lie could uot have disposed of all of them inside of several months. Filed with these applications arc letters, rceominenda tnuis and statements of errors or new evi dence. To go through those docu ments conscientiously takes a great deal of time* and requires an immense amount of work—more ill fact thun tho Governor can give to them and attend to ids other duties. All the applications ought to bo attended to promptly. If a person who is resting under the sentence of n court be innocent be is entitled to his freedom ut the earliest possible moment. There ought, therefore, to be a commission to dispose of these ap plications, and if tho Legislature looks at tho matter in tho right light it will agree that there ought to bo. Senator Morgan seems alrady to have brought tho little clique of protectionists in Alabama to their senses. They are not now claiming that “protection principles are about to capture tho State.” Senator Morgan has reason and justice on his side, and the silence of the protectionists is there fore not to bo wondered at. When President Cleveland visits Georgia it is expected that he will remain several days. It is to bo hoped that he will find time to visit all the leuding cities of tho State. Savannah would give him an old-fashioned Southern welcome. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1887. The Rice Market. Borne days ago the Morning News pub lished a statement respecting the rice mar ket of this city which tended to put Dan Talmage’s Sons & Cos., of Now York, in the position Of trying to bear it. They replied, denying the statement so far as it referred to them. It seems that at New Orleans as well as here there is complaint of Dan Tal mago’s Sons & Cos., and the Produce Ex change of that city has published a circular showing statistical inaccu racies in the rice reports of that firm. The New Orleans States, com menting on the showing made by the Produce Exchange, says: “The injury suf fered by our rice trade through the medium of false reports for a number of seasons past has resulted almost exclusively from the efforts of one firm—that of Dan Tutelage's Sons & Cos., of Now York. Through its connection in this city, it has been enabled to manufacture reports of crops, stocks and conditions, always favorable to its position in tho market, which were scattered broad cast through tho interior, and printed in such papers ns the New York Shipping hist and tho American Grocer to tho ma terial injury of the heavy planting interests in this State and the trade of our city.” We do not want to do Dan Tutelage’s Hons & Cos. or any other dealer in idee an injury, but we would like at all times to have only the truth, as near as it can be obtained, published. One of the things to which exception was taken here Was the publication about the middle of June of a statement in the .Journal of Commerce, that the weevil and worm had appeared in Southern rico. This statement Dan Tutelage’s Sons & Cos., en dorsed. The Board of Trade here author ized a statement to lie made that the rice in this market was free from the weevil and the worm. Of the offer to publish the source of Dan Talmage’s Sons & Co’s., informa tion, respecting tho uppearance of the weevil and worm, no notice was ever taken. Tlie inference, therefore, that the informa tion came from no reliable source, and that the report about the weevil and worm was ] nit out for speculative purposes, was justi fiable. Southern rice dealers and planters are beginning to look after the interests of their own market, and it is well that they are, for if they do not protect it, it will he manip ulated for speculative purposes by those whose only interest is to make it serve their purposes. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says that Col. William It. Morrison, of Illinois, has already tired of the monotony of his interstate commerce duties. Ua finds them dull and not at all to his taste. Ho misses the excitement and hustle of political life. A dose friend of Col. Morrison's is quoted as saying that it is the latter’s intention to re-enter politics next year. Ho has decided lieyond all question to contest for his old seat in Con gress in 1888. He believes, further, that he can be elected. lie says it was not his auti protoction principles that defeated him in 1 soul. It was the apathy of certain Demo crats in his dist rict who were dissatisfied on account of the distribution of patronage. Those men stayed away from tho polls and allowed the eloction to go by default . Since theii they have seen tho error of their politi cal way, and have assured the Colonel that in the event of his making tho race ugain they will give him an enthusiastic support. Tho Colonel believes in the sincerity of these promises, and feels confident of carrying his district next year by a round majority. Col. Morrison is a sound Democrat , and the country would bo benefited by his presence iu Congress. In reply to the notice of excommunica tion, Dr. McGlynn says: “My case is pretty near the same as that of Galileo, and I will not give up my ideas. I will never recall what I have said. I deny tho right of the Roman Catholic church to prohibit me to teach my principles and land theories. I have not taught any doctrine against the rules of the church. I am to-day just as good a Catholic as the Pope himself, I be hove in all the teachings aud sacraments of the church, but I do not believe that the Pope lias any right to prohibit the teachings of my land theories. The church has not only in my case interfered a great deal with my proper and inalienable rights, but in a good many other cases, as for example, in tho septeunato question in the Gorman Reichstag and in the special mission of Mgrs. l’ersico and Uauldi in Ireland, though there are plenty of good and reliable prelates hi the Irish church that are perfectly able to give tho information.” It seems that if the doctor does not desire to figure as the second Luther he has an ambition to bo regarded as the second Galileo. E. L. Harper, the dishonest Vice Presi dent of the defunct Fidelity Bank, of Cin cinnati, has found at least one friend. His name is John L. McDonough, and ho is con fined in the Longview Insano Asylum. He once traveled for Harper. Learning of his old employer's trouble and his inability to give the $2i)0,000 bond required, caused his insanity to take a peculiar form. He imagines that he is worth $ti00,0:)0,0iK), gmd he talks of nothing but “Poor Harper I Poor Harp er!” He walks aliout his cell saying: “Well, l won’t go hack on my old employ er, I’ll go on his bond. Here, Mr. Judge, put down my name, I’ll sign tho bond. I don’t care how big it is.” The wages of Harper’s sin is worse than death. He is deserted by all his friends but one, and that one is a helpless lunatic. According to the New York Star, when the cablegram from Home announcing the excommunication of Dr. McGlynn was shown to Henry George ho said it was the most outrageous piece of interference in American polities, and that Dr. McGlynn would never buck down from liis position: that it would not budge the Catholics of New York; that the Holy See was seeking to regain its temporal power; that the Pope had power to excommunicato delinquents only, and that Dr, McGlynn would live and die a Catholic and a priest of tho Catholic church, the excommunication of Rome to the contrary notwithstanding. George talks tvs if he mount to usurp the powers of the Pope. The average Republican organ is so con stituted that it cannot he fair, and it isn't often that it can bo truthful. R(>ferring to the recent decision of tho Atlanta Board of Education to employ none but negro teachers for negro schools, one of tho organs doelures that Atlanta will allow no uogro teachers in her white schools. How many negro teachers aro allowed in white schools anywhere else in tho country : Dr. E. S. Standlford, of Louisville* an ex-Cougrcssman and an ex-President of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, has just married for tho third time. Although an old man, tho doctor had no desire to be an ex-husband. CURRENT COMMENT. Whore the Man Seeks tho Offlco. From, the Boston Glohe (Beni.) In this way many of the Southern States I choose their Governors. It is not the Massu ! chusetts plan, but its exclusion from Guberna ; toriul politics of the don't-want the-place, and let-the-ortlcc seek-lliciiiun cunt, ami of sneak ing tactics generally, as well as its exclusion from the Governorship of unrepresentative men, are strong polnls in Its favor. Mr. Cable’s New Work. From the Washington Past (l)em.) George Vi. (fable is about to settle down as a Bible class teacher in Boston, liis Southern friends will wish him success In his new role, and will not complain if lie sees (it never to leave it. There Is no particular room in it, however, for exaggeration nr romance, a strict regard for its requirements compelling a some what conscientious adherence to the exact truth. Georgia’s Colonial Records. Prom the Poston Advertiser (Rep.) For it would indeed be a mockery for Geor gians to talk with honest enthusiasm of the Commonwealth which they delight in, and yet to permit papers of such historical value to be exposed to injury while waiting for the legisla ture to embody them in a convenient and lasting form. These manuscript volumes so long as they remain thus imperilled are a protest against a declaration of affection for a State, which is not accompanied by u generous care for the State records. Now York United. From the Boston Herald (Bid.) The opponents of President Cleveland's nomi nation as the candidate of the Democratic party have about thrown up the sponge in New York, and Gov. Hill, who is a shrewd politician, ami has, therefore, never sought the position for himself, is said to be in full agreement on the point It is fortunate for Mr. Charles A. Dana that this intelligence will find him in Europe. In connection with the protracted hot weather it would have been too much for him here. There still remains to him the privilege of prophesying Mr. Cleveland's defeat, however, in which role, it will be remembered, he much dis tinguished himself three years ago. BRIGHT BITS. We haven't any kings aud queens in this coun try. We have bosses. —Syracuse Herald. Bystander Doctor, what do you think of this man's injuries? Doctor Humph! Two of them are undoubt edly fatal, but as for the rest of them time alone can toll.— Texas Siftings. “Life has been for me a succession of sad blows, said Mr. Breather “Ah!" said the new pastor, sympathetically. “Yes, indeed,” replied the parishioner ‘l've had the asthma twenty-two years."— Burdette. “There's some cloud resting on Squander. Every lime I meet him he is gloomier than be fore. He must owe a lot of money.” ' That isn’t what troubles him, though. It's because he can't owe any more."— Town Topics. A German was passing along Broadway the other day when one end of an overhanging sign came loose and struck him on the head. “Oh, I’m dead,” exclaimed the man: but when he found he was still alive he added, “If dot had kilt me I would heff sued the owner.”— JSyack Journal. The Houston Age does not appear pleased at the fact that Galveston got aw ay with the grand prize in the baby show at Houston. It says: ‘‘One of the judges, with not a hair between the summit of his cranium and heaven, insisted that a baby at 0 months old ought to have a luxuriant head of hair.” —Galveston Pews. Mistress—Nora. I would like to have you wear this cap. Nora' O'Dowrl—A cap is it? A cap you're wantin' me to wear? One uv thirn things foike a doily shtuck on the top uv me head! Share the nixt thing you'd be axin’ me to be coachman for the baby; I'd as lave lie drivin' a pig to the market wid a rope to his leg as to do the loikes o' that."—Harper's Bazar. Recently, a Boston lady who is visiting a friend at a pleasant town not far from Augusta, had occasion to drive to the capital city in quest of some thin stockings, which would enable her to break iu a tiair of new' shoes. Entering a store she asked for stockings and then inquired casually: "Have you any chiropodists here?” "No, ma'am,'* replied the clerk regretfully, “but I can show you some very nice ones in lisle thread and balbriggan." She bought —Lems ton (Me. ) Journal. Poet, reading a newsiiaper—On the wall of the house where Shakespeare lived a tablet has been placed. Friend—O, yes, it frequently happens that a tablet marks the room where a great poet lived. Poet, sighing—l hope that somebody will do as much tor me when I am dead and gone. Friend—l've no doubt of it. Poet—Do you really think so? Friend— Indeed I do. Poet—And what inscription do you suppose there will be on the tablet ? Friend—Room to Rent.— Texas Siftings. He sings of the light Of the light of love That shines in his lady's eyes, A light as bright As the light above That gladdens the summer skies. If the eyes of my love Such a light displayed, On the earth I’d know no cares; But they don't by Jove, She’s a Boston maid And a jiair of goggles wears. Boston Courier. PERSONAL. Bi-fealo Bn.t, is just 40 years of age. Pixev says actors who please the women are successful Robert Garrett has postponed his trip to Europe ill color to perfect certain railroad "deals." Mr. Parnell docs not improve in health, and it is now said that he is suffering from cancer of tbu stomach. Rev. Hron O. Pentecost, the new Georgite apostle, says: "There is not much use trusting God when a few- men own the earth.” Word comes of the death of Gabriel Sylvester Chouteau, of St Louis, second son of the founder of that city. He was its years old, J. W. Lonolby, Attorney General of Nova Scotia, iB an ardent advocate of a commer cial union of the Dominion and the United States. Sarah Bernhardt is said to have had sufficient faith in the future of Chicago to invest $18,500 in real estate in that city during ber recent engage meut there. The anti-Beecher faction in Plymouth church prououui e the minor that Mrs. Stowe's sou is to succeed Mr. Beecher "a delightful little bit of rot," whutever that may be. The New York Herald says Gen. Fairchild has been running his palsy factory night and day with the hope of throwing curses around promiscuously. Now they are a drug ou the market. Rev. E. Walpole Warren, the new- rector of Holy Trinity, New York, who lias been "called" from England, is the son of the author of "Tea Thousand a Year," the legal novelwhich caused such a sensation some years ago. Miss Alice Freeman. President of Wellesley College, has received 580 applications from young womeu w ishing to enter Wellesley next year. There are omy ltK) places possible at present. Miss Freeman will only lie absent one week during the summer from the college. Miss Van Zandt charged $BO each for the tickets to the private concert she gave in Paris for the benefit of the Opera Comique lire suf ferers That is the highest price ever paid for admission fo a concert in Paris, but enough peo ple paid It to crowd the large rooms. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has joined fhe band of royal authors While visiting Mahudia she went to the summit of thejieak called in her honor. Elizabethon Hohe, and was on the spot inspired to write a poem on the smallness and vanity of earthly dignities.. The Bishop of Ossory, who has composed a hymn for file Queen's jubilee, won a prize for a poem ou the Queen's accession in 183?. It Is told that on that occasion, eager to learn the result of his effort, he rushed Into the presence of the dons without his cap and gown, for which breach of discipline he was lined at the very moment of hearing of his triumph. Mrs. James Brown Potter has beeu drawing good houses at the Gaiety Theatre since the first nigh' of her second engagement in London. In spite of the weakness of the play, the audiences have Us'n enthusiastic The merits and demerits of her acting are warmly discussed in London society, (.'lenient Scott Is most fluttering tn his nralso of her ability, if the plucky woman could but tlud a suitable plav, she might win very great success. One of Gen. Grant s best answers to any ques tion wusbls reply to William M. Evarts. who, In speaking about Mr Beecher, asked: "Why is it, General, that a little fault in a clergyman at tracts more notice than a great fault lii an ordl nury man?" "Perhaps, said the General, thought fully, "it is for the same reason that a slight shadow paaaslug over the pure snow is more readily seen than a river of dirt ou the black earth?" HE PAINTED A SPARROW. The Ittt3caliy Trick of a Small Boy In Cleveland. From the Cleveland Press. Alas: how oft, oven in the everyday walks of life, do men chase what appears to be the bright sunbeam of success, only to find in the end that they have been hustling after an ignis fatuus with spring bottom pants and a turned paper collar, or, mayhap, a book agent with an in gn >wiug book' This gloomy fact was well illus trated on St. Clair street the other day. On that thoroughfare lives a small boy whose d< twn ward career would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of a toboggan slide. He Is said to have expressed a iirrn conviction in favor of open saloons on Sunday, and has 4.000 freckles, each one more prominent than trie other. The large freckles appear to be tied on, and hang from his unwiped nasal organ anti cheek bones noth singly and in clusters. Besides his firm conviction ana freckles he also had a sparrow, and thereby hangs a tale. It would have been more of a tail If the sparrow had been older and the boy hadn't pulled most of it out. The boy only seemed to have one redeeming trait about him. He had an artistic streak in his composition. But even this seemed misguided and perverted. He painted the sparrow a bright yellow, and allowed it to hop into the street. A little girl caught sight of it and gave the alarm. Then the freckle-faced boy laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, and he fell off a picket fence to see seven men, nineteen boys, two old maids and a water spaniel chase what they sup posed to be a valuable canary bird up and down the street and through the busy marts of trade. The crowd gradually increased, and when the sparrow sought, in the catch basin at the street corner, that cessation from worldly troubles and eternal rest and repost* which must come to all sooner or later, hundreds crowded around, and nine policemen rushed pensplringly up to find out what was the matter. A fate seems to send a man to tackle every emergency, so in this case she sent a youthful hero who paled not before the perils oi the catch basin and the sewer, but, putting aside ail fear and his black ing box, went bravely to the rescue. A muffled shout of triumph came from the catch basin, and the strong, youthful arms aud still stronger odor soon brought the rescued to view. Tenderly he threw the little drowned sparrow in the gutter and boisterously he wiped the mud and yellow paint off his hands on the green sward. Then he simply remarked "rats" and slided down the street softly whistling‘‘Maid of Athens, get your haircut, haircut,” while the crowd said never a word as it tiptoed in seven teen different directions to fill suddenly remem bered business engagements, but in each indi vidual breast there sprung up a wild, almost un controllable yearning to firmly embrace the boy who painted that sparrow yellow, and then kick his vertebra) up through the top of his cranium. KISSED HER IN THE CORRIDOR. Capitol Guide Popham’s Misconduct Under the Great Dome. Washington Letter in Baltimore Sun. The recent rumors of the misconduct of Cap itol Guide Popham led to action by the authori ties, and yesterday morning Mr. John Popham, Jr., was confronted at the architect's office of the capitol by Miss Blanche Wakefield, of An nandale, Va., who alleges that while guiding her through the capitol he kissed her in one of the corridors. Mr. Popham denied the accusa tion, and Architect Clark and Sergeaut-at-Arms Leedom sat in judgment on the mutter. The investigation was involved at t.he cutset with another matter. It appeared that Miss Wake field's father had made application on Friday night to the Guide Popham for S6O, and that Popham had given Wakefield a bogus cheek. Miss Wakefield, with indignation, denied any knowledge of this transaction, and her father declared that he desired to avoid publicity, as he understood his daughter's pic ture would be put in the Police Gazette , and he asked Popham for st>o as a loan, because he wanted to visit his dying mother in Ohio aud hod no money. Miss Wakefield testified that she, with Miss Minnie Thome, of Piscataway, Md., visited the capitol a short time ago. ami that Guides Popham and Boden earae forward to conduct them. She went with Popham and Miss Thorne with Boden. Mr. Popham says the girl said: "Let’s draw straws to see which one we'll take.” Afterward she and Popham be came separated from the other two. and Pop ham suddenly clasped her in his arms and kissed her. She drew away from him indignantly, and soon afterward left the capitol with Miss Thorne. The investigation was adjourned in order to procure the attendance of Miss Thome and get ner testimony. Dainty but Dangerous. From the Somerville Journal. Her enchanting little boot From beneath her jaunty suit Ventured out. That she knew its witching charm, Without meaning any harm, Who could doubt? Just a single little glance Filled my life with wild romance— I w : as caught! Sparkling eyes and soft, brown hair Her s was just the beauty rare I had sought. So I wooed the charming maid, First enchanted as I said, By her boot. Now, alas: I’m well aware Boots and tempers seldom are Built to suit. For our friendship ripened fast, And, before a year was past, We were wed. Now both boots and other things Recklessly she often slings At my head! The Girl and the Girdle. 4 From the Argonaut. The girdle has grown to be a monstrous fad with the girls. This morning, in an elevated car. I found myself beside an acquaintance who has some pretense to sociul position. Her slim figure was encircled by a huge silver girdle, from one side of which dangled forty-six little chains. At the end of every chain was a trinket. We fell to talking about them and I looked them over, while she chatted aliout the history of every one. There were fourteen Roman coins, a laleli key, penholder ease, vinaigrette, skating meilul, but tonhook, glovc-buttoner. silver address tablet, tiny silver bonbon box, a corkscrew, a miniature cimeter, a chatelaine watch, a small oxidized iron parasol which when opened became a fan. a bullet with which she had killed a bear ou her brother's ranch, a card case, a lock of hair in a locket, two miniatures -one of Herbert Kelcey with a drooping moustache and the other of Os mond Tearle with his eyes turned heavenivurd - a chain purse, a compass, a small paper-cutter, a dozen odd trinkets of every conceivable shape, and a double-barrelled dog whistle. "Where did you collect them all?" I asked. “Everywhere," said she, with a shrug. “Don't you find them troublesome?" “Ob, no; they're vastly useful." "How so?" "They supply subjects of conversation to men who are a little stupid in the morning," she said, sweetly. Mrs. Langtry and Her Investments. From the Halt Ijnke Herald. The Jersey Lily and her faithful attendant, Freddy Gehhard, were riding around town yes terday in an open barouche, the observed of' ail observers. Mr tlobhard looked as calm and proprietory as if he had beeu Mr. Langtry him self. Ou Tuesday afternoon, the Lily, accompanied by her business manager, called at the otiice of Lynch St Kelsey to make some inquiries about real estate lu this city, the Lily, with her pro verbial shrewdness, having perceived the sij;uh of the boom in the air. Yesterday she looked at one or two properties with llr. Lynch, look notes, and promised to correspond further re garding them. J. K. Gillespie, hearing of the Lily’s leaning toward a Salt Like Investment, waited on her, and showed her and her mana ger a piece of property on West Temple street, with which they appeared much struck, and the bargain was finally struck at the depot just be fore the Langtry car rolled out for the West. (lilies pie says he cannot give the location of the property or the price at present, as the money was not paid over, but he regards it as finally settled and expects to close the matter up by mall. Women Who Play with the Weed. From the Albany Journal. Th." French housekeeper delights in her after dinner 'cigarette.'' The aenora of Barcelona loves in the evening to wrap her black orr|>e around ber bead, and while gently putting tier long tolxicco cigarette oast heari-thnlling glances from her balcony above the walks at the wights below. While the German fran Is fond of her cigarette, or even cigar, and the Kussiun wife is not far behind her in her enjovment of tin- weed, and even the Jupanese, Chinese, Tar tar, Dutch and Soudanese wives all like to let tobacco smoke curl from their pretty mouths toward, the sky, the Italian signora is, perhaiw, the most passionate fond of the long, thin cigar of the country called the "Virginia. It is no uncommon tjight of n summer evening to seen (Sil ty of ladies sitting in some cool terrace over looking the sea on the campagna. while the mu sic of their velvety language keeps time to the soft splashing of the sea against the rocky shore, and send rings'of smoke f roni their fra grant cheroots. "An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure." Use Brown's Ginger. Frederick Drown, Philadelphia, HSK. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Fifty beeves and 100 lambs were roasted and eaten at the barbecue of the National Butchers’ Association at Chicago last week. Albert Stookey, of Pulaski, Pa., although 72 years of age, recently planted four and seven eighths acres of ground with one pair of horses in two days. A nriovE of hoos at Rockton, 111., attacked a little son of Fanner Truman, and would have devoured him if the father and others had not come to his aid. Georoe Weaver, of Astoria, 111., struck an old fox with a bullet so hard that it dropped the rabbit it -vas carrying and both- loped out of sight before Ueorge could load again. A Vermont boy learned to make cider brandy in his mother's teapot from the information concerning the “physiological effects of alcohol” contained in one of his obligatory textbooks. By order of the supervisors, the historic “Band Lot” in San Francisco is to be planted *n peace ful clover. Kearney, the terror, now keeps an intelligence oHiee for cooks and washerwomen. Many American ladles in Loudon are said to be unable to find ready made shoes there small enough to fit them, the average of the American being greatly below the average English foot in size. A committee of the Connecticut Legislature investigated certain charges against a member aud reported: “While we lielieve every charge to be true, we don't want the fact published to the world, and we therefore exonerate him.” Eli Spotted Bear, a full-blood Sioux Indian, has been drawn as a juror for the next term of the Hughes County Hi. TANARUS.) District Court. It is said he cannot understand or speak the English language. The Judge will probably excuse him. An “ad" notice in a French provincial paper— “ln order to put an end to certain injurious ru mors, M. Untel desires to inform the public that ho is not the M. Untel of this city who was recently sentenced to death and exe cuted.” Mr. W. J. Ashlock caught a catfish the other day in his net, near Baylies’ Island, Miss., which weighed 130 pounds. It was cut up into steaks and sold iu the market the next morning. This is one of the largest fish ever caught in that vicinity. There was a heavy fall of black rain on the Welsh coast lately. The showers had the effect of making the grass and the plowed fields quite dark and black in places. The most plausible theory for the phenomenon is that the showers came from the jieat bogs in the South of Ireland. The Sacramento Record-Union reports that C. H. Orr, a prominent young lawyer of South Carolina, is in Marysville, Cal., as a representa tive of a colony of South Carolina people, hav ing from SBOU to SIO,OOO each, and comprising many fwhilies. who have resolved to remove to California and have commissioned Mr. Orr to locate them. An amusing incident occurred recently in London at Buffalo Bill's show. Mr. Justice Lopez was strolling about the Indian village aud fell in with a papoose, aged 8 years, who promptly lassoed him round the neck with a rope ami refused to let him go. Loud was the laughter of all who beheld the Judge bound by an Indian baby. There is a man in New York who owes his life to his taste for beer. He was employed in razing the old building near Tompkins market, the one which came down of itself Monday afternoon, and becoming scared, or dry. or both, said: “I'll bet this wall is going to fall." left the building, went across the way to get a drink of beer, and the collapse came. It is noticed as a rather curious coincidence that during the present month a bedroom in a gentleman's residence on Franklin street, Balti more, has been occupied successively by three young ladies, two of whom were grand-nieces In the third generation, respectively of George Washington and John Marshall. and the third a direct descendant in the same degree of Thomas Jefferson. Last Sunday Stacy Clock found a bald eagle's nest in a tall oak upon the lake shore near Woodchuck creek, Michigan, and resolved to capture the young ones. It was about eighty feet to the nest, but he shinned up there and got three young birds about 7 weeks old. They are but partly covered with feathers, vet Mr. Clock says they measure nearly six feet across the wings. The growth of water works in this country in the last five years is something phenomenal, ob serves. Public Opinion. Up to the year 1880 the total number of water works in cities and towns in the United States was 556; front that time to the end of 1886 there were 623 new works built and put in operation, being sixty seven in excess of all built previously, and they are being built this your faster than ever. In Japan stairways are almost unknown. Hence, when Japanese come to this country and are lodged in boarding-houses their apartments are generally in the third or fourth story. To reach their rooms they are compelled at first to go up very cautiously and with the aid of the balustrade. Some do not even hesitate to go up cat-fashion, on all fours, from step to step. The trouble is that they have not learned to balance the body so as to ascend and descend as we do. A lecturer, who was getting along eloquently on the subject of “Mental Liberty,” at Akiab, Cal., some nights ago, suddenly had his remarks interrupted by one of his listeners, who, rising, denounced the speaker and threw a lighted lamp at his head. The lump struck the chan delier, broke it, put out the gas and. missing the head of the lecturer, passed through a win dow and exploded in the yard below. There was much excitement and a miraculous escape of the audience from injury. A strange story comes from Krasna, in Russia. A man named Leslie, descendant of an Englishman, the family of the Lords Leslie, who settled in Russia in the sixteenth century, lately received notice that the elder branch of the family tad become extinct, and that he was the heir to a fortune of £10.000,000 aud a peerage. Mr. Leslie does not desire to sit in the House of Lords, anil would prefer to realize the fortune and continue to reside in Russia. English law yers are taking steps to obtain authorization to sell the property. Harvey Whitehead and Fraxk Fullmer, of Williamsport, Pa., were trout fishing on a creek in Sullivan county. They saw a mink come out of the water on the opposite side of the stream, just below them. It had a big trout in its mouth. When it drew itself out on the shore the fisherman hegan shouting at it. This fright ened the mink aud it dropped the trout and dis appeared. The fishermen secured the fish. It was still alive and uninjured by the mink’s teeth. It was twenty inches long aud weighed two and a half pounds. Young women with a fancy for novel writing are warned by an English court case in which it came out that lady Constance Howard, daughter of the Ear! of Winchilsea, has written three novels-“ Mated With a Clown. ” "Mollis Darling,” and “Only a Village Maiden"—and by her own confession, has made only £2O out of them, or something less than 45s a volume. The very titles, one would imagine, should be worth more than that. “Mated With a Clown'' is good, and "Mollie Darling" is an inspiration Miss Broughton might envy. Dn. Talmaoe says: “I once occupied the novel position of sitting in a pew* in uiy own church listening to a minister preaching to my own con gregation one of my own sermons. No, not from notes. It had lieen memorized, and I don't imagine that the brother knew whose sermon lie was repeating. Sermons go the rounds some times without name and are taken up aud preached iu that way. My w ife listened to one of my sermons preached verbatim. The Presi dent of the Wesleyan conference of Australia in formed me a couple of years ago that a minister had been dismissed from the conference for preaching one of my sermons not, because it was a sermon of mine, hut because he had claimed it as one of his own." Anknt the fiftieth anniversary of her acces sion it may be observed t ha* the "style Royal" of Queen Victoria differs greatly from that of any of her predecessors; and this, too, without regarding Lord Deaconsfield’s magniloquent ad dition "Empress of Indin. ’’ William the Con queror called himself simply "Rex Anglorum" and William Rufus only translated this into "/Englelandes King." Stephen took the Con queror's title and added- "Dux Norinamiorum" and Henry 11. made it "Rex Anglia*-. Dux Nor nmnniue et Aquitaniae.'' John lirst added “D.unit,ns Illberniae'und Henry 111. proclaimed himself "Rex Franelae." Bluff King Hal of course, was the fii-st “Defender of the Faith " and took unto himself almost us many tit D-k as wives, viz : "Angliae Franelae et * Hihernlur Rex, Fidei Defensor, et In terra Eccb-slue An glicunueet Hiheruiae Supremuin Caput. ' i(is illustrious daughter, Elizabeth, set the example of a plain English style as Queen of Engiaml France and Ireland. Defender of the Faith" and Ikt successor. James I . merely Inserted the name of Scotland and changed the gender Queen Ann > first used tin- title "Great licit m," instead of England and Scotland. In the Geor gian Era there was a partial relapse into Igititj as “Urittuuhvum Ilex." And Hnally the exact style of the present sovereign is ••( if the United Kingdom of Great Britain mid Ireland Queen- Defender uf Lho 1-'at Liu linn-veas ul 1 BAKING POWDER. M pSSSN A C' n ! special I jfiwm Now IMOST PERFECT MADS T>ed bv the United States Government. 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