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4 Cljffftorningllftos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. Sl’VnW. .M’l.V Hi. INS 7. Registered at the J'ost Offlcv in Savannah. Morning News is jhiMlnlhM every day In (Jj,, nml is si'ni'il wilstTiU’is in the rily, by newsdealers and run iris, on tlo'ir own a*’ count, at li* cents a week. $1 no a month, $5 00 for six moot lih and #lO 00 tor one year. The 'lniiMso News, by mad, one month, $1 at; three months, J-' 5o; six months, $5 >; one vesir, $lO 00. The Morning Nkws. by mail, six times n week (Without Sunday issue), three months, $S 00; six months. *1 <> one year. s 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesrlays, Thors days and Saturlays, three months, $1 ~5; six months. $3 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year, 00. The Weesly News, by mad, one year. 81 35. Subscriptions |iavalde in advanee. 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The Morning- News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded hy tlie earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 35c. a week, $1 for a month or |3 50 for three months, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may he changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should Ik l taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desiro 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. When Liszt was a youth he practiced on a “dumb piano.” Unhappily for mankind, dumb pianos are no longer used. Dr. McGiynn can very well alTord to re gard himself as the second Galileo. There is no Inquisition in these days to force him to recant his theories. It is expected that Jacob Sharp will be in Sing Sing a week from yesterday. His lawyers are trying to get the court to let him off with a line of $5,000, but they won’t succeed. Swill milk kills more children in New York than any other agency. Some of the vendors of the sjtuff ought to be hung as n warning to the others to give up their nefarious trade. An Irishman named Barry is coming to this country to exhibit his taleut in throw ing a hammer. What this country wants is visitors from abroad who come to wield the hammer in driving nails. There are a great many persons who live beyond 100 years of age. A week or so ago Peter Barlow, who took part in the Ameri can revolution under Gen. Washington, died in Demerara, aged 130 years. It isn’t likely that many members of the General Assembly will refuse to take n re cess every Saturday until the following Monday as long as their railroad passes con tinue to be recognized by conductors. It is stated that lust year the jtoople of Berlin ate 1,000,000 geese. If it woro possi ble for them to gobble up human geese as rapidly the people of Berlin would com mand good salaries in all parts of the world. The young man whose best girl asks him to treat her to ice cream now excuses him elf vi | on the ground that he is afraid of tyrotoxioon. and the excuse is readily ac cepted. It is sometimes a good thing to know how to use big words. It seems to be pretty generally agreed among the Knights of Ijabor in Philadel phia that General Master Workman Pow derly will resign some time during the present yoar. He doesn't like the way some of bis lieutenants criticise him. A New Jersey man died suddenly the Other day from the effects of two glasses of ice-cold lager beer taken on an empty stomach. Heeding the warning, his neigh bors have resolved not to patronize beer saloons that fail to provide free lunches. The powder supply of the United States is *t a low ebb. The guns at the forte uo longer celebrate the rising and the setting of the sun, and foreign vessels entering United Stabs harbors are no longer saluted. This state of affairs is not creditable to the coun try- General Master Workman Powderly ad vises the Knights of Labor to boycott men who speculate in wheat, and declares that there are greater rogues in Wall street than in the temple of old. The General Master Workman seems disposed to run the entire country. The Thistle is preparing to cross the At lantic to enter the race for the America's cup. She now flies thirteen flags to indi cate the yumbor of .'aces she has won. It is hardly probable that she will over fly a fourteenth at the expense of American yachtsmen. The Boston girl, it is raid, never allows herself to be photographed without her spectacles. To do so is not considered modest, and would cause her to be cut by her acquaintances. It is fortunate that the Boston variety of modesty is unknown else where in the country. The rooster hatched from one of the eggs found in the basket of the unknown mur lerod girl whose body was found near Hall way, N. J., last March, has grown to large *ize. Its name is “Mystery.” The owner will not take less than $1)00 for it. A singu lar thing about the rooster is thut its leath ers are perfectly black. A Reformatory School Needed. A vigorous effort will 1* made during the present session of the Legislature to secure the enactment of a law establishing a State reformatory school. There are two bills which provide for such a school, mid if neither of them is found to be wholly satis factory they will doubtless form the basis for one that will Ihj satisfactory. As the authors of lioth of them aim to accomplish alsmt the same thing, it is not probable that either will insist U(>on his bill to the extent of endangering the passage of any other measure of the same character. One of the pending bills provides that all women, girls, boys under 15 years of age, imbeciles and discrepit convicts now in the camps, or who may be sentenced to tin; pen itentiary in the future, shall Is; inmates of tin; school. The other bill provides that the same classes of convicts shall lie sent to the school, but does not admit to it any of the convicts who have lieen sent to the camps. It is probable that the lessees will oppose any bill that deprives them of convicts who are valuable as laborers, and as they are not without influence it will require vigor ous effort to get the Legislature to agree to uuy bill. The chief objection that will be urged against the school is the expense of maintaining it, and that objec tion will have a great (leal of weight with a very largo percentage of the members. Experience hns shown that measures of real merit stand very little Chance of favorable consideration if they promise to increase in the least the rate of taxation. While it is right that extrava gance should lie discouraged, them aro things that should be done even if they im pose a little heavier burden upon the people. Without going into the merits of the con vict system, it will not be denied that it is wrong from every point of view to huddle together in the camps men and women, and to expose boys and girlsjto the influence of hardened and degfaded criminals. The associations in the camps must necessarily bo bad, and it is about impossible for youthful convicts who may not be thoroughly bud to remain in the camps for any length of time without sinking to lower depths of degradation and immorality. These young conviets when released not only return to their evil prac tices, but become active agents in corrupt ing others. The question which every leg islator ought to ask himself is this: Has the State, for economical or any other reasons, the right to pursuo a policy that makes it impossible for a youth who has been guilty of one serious offense to ever become an honest, man and a law-abiding citizen* The State has no such right, and yet its convict system is based upon the assumption thut it has. But isjtliere anything saved by making youthful convicts confirmed criminals? I iocs it not cost more to keep them, and others whom they corrupt, within the bounds of tlie law than it would to maintain a school for their reformation? Tim convict system will doubtless be pretr ty thoroughly discussed at the present ses sion. There is not much probability that another system will lie substituted for it, un|Mipular as it is, because of the difficulty of deciding upon another tliat promises to give better satisfaction, but if the system is not abandoned it ought at least to be modi fied to the extent of making some provision for reforming youthful convicts. The Gov ernor had something to say on this subject at the regular session, and it may bo that he will present it again at this session. He is as well informed probably as any inau in the State of the evils of the present wny of dealing with the youthful convicts, and he should not hesitate to use his influence in favor of a reform. Bulgaria’s Now Prince. Bulgaria bus now a very fair prospect of soon having a ruler. According to our <lis patches, Prince Ferdinand, of RnxeCohurg- Gotha, Ims announced his willingness to ac cept that rather difficult and dangerous position, und his purpose to begin the dis charge of the duties pertaining to it as soon as tho Porte approves of the action of tho Sobranje in electing hini and tho great powers recognize it as satisfactory to them. Prince Ferdinand is twenty-seven years of age and is a young man of excellent edu cation and fine ability. Of course Austrian influence is supporting him, hut that is not the only support ho will have. Ho may reasonably expect the sympathy of Ger many, England and Italy. He is an Aus trian Prince and a Hungarian magnate. He is therefore in harmonious relations with tho elements which are hostile to Russia’s plans and policy. Being a memlier of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha he can at least, reasonably depend upon tho moral support of Germany, and his connection with the royal family of Kngland insures him of a certain amount of assistance from that country if he should nets! it. In fuct, he is quite closely connected with all the semi royal families of Europe, and is, therefore, pretty well lilted so fur as influence is con cerned for the place lie proposes to occupy. Of eouiso lie will meet with the decided opposition of Hussia, but that, will not inter fere with the acceptance of the honor con ferred upon him if most of the other powers of Europe show him the good will that lie has u right to expect, Hussia doubtless will try to prevent him from occupying tlio throne, but tho measures she will take to effect that object may not be at once appar ent. She w ill not bo content to remain a dis interested spectator of the efforts to thwart her policy. The statement is made that it will lie a long, cold day before Dr. McGlynn is again invited to Chicago to air liis theories before the Knights of L-ilwr. It seems that Dis trict Assembly 'l4, liefore which he lectured recently, thought a golden harvest would lie reaped. Instead, however, the lecture cost the assembly SI.OOO. Some of the mem bers nro very angry, and denounce tho heavy expenditure as a "damnable waste” of their hard-earned assessments. Dr. Mc- Ulynu was evidently trying to abolish his own poverty while he was in Chicago. John Hoey, of Jamaica, L. 1., has earned an unenviable repututlon. A few days ago Miss Margaret Setnars, a young lady whom he bad been courting, married I’. 11. Cas sidy, Auditor of the New York, Wood haven ami Hoekawny railroad. Hoey sent her a bill for expenditures—ieo cream, buggy rides, dinners, etc.—during his court ship of her. Cassidy promptly sent him a check for s'-“00. The young ladies of that town will doubtless hoycott Hoey, for a man so mean spirited deserves punishment. Recent events go to show that the color line is more marked in tho North than it is in the Bouth. For instance, there are places of public amusement in tho North to which no negro is admitted, whether he agrees to “sit by himself” or not. In the South there u always room for the negro at such places. TIIE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 10, ISB7. Hunting Wives and Husbands. A young man who has spent the last six summer* at some resort, either in the mountains or by the sea, gives an interest ing account of his experience. He says that be hod two objects in view. One was recu peration, and the other was the selection of a wife. Ho admits that ho was successful in the first, hut confesses failure in the second. The jieople who frequent summer resorts, according to this young man, are divided into two classes. One is composed of per sons who have tile means to live at ease and enjoy whatever pleasures may surround them. The other is composed of persons wlioaro hunting wives or husbands for them selves or for their children. The latter is by far the larger class. Fathers and mothers work hard all the year in order to make and save enough to give their daughters the means to pose as heiresses at the resorts; while the men who seek wives use whatever surplus is left front t heir salaries after pay ing living expenses during the year. Asa rule these “summer heiresses,” as they are railed at the resorts, and the impecunious wife-hunters are pitted against each other during their first season. They are quite often mutually deceived, but if they escape such a fate when first they make the round of the resorts, they learn to know each other too well in succeeding seasons to lie caught. The idea is to marry somebody with money. Considering how eager is the hunt for rich wives or rich husbands at the resorts, it is strange that the hunters meet with so little success. The young man with whose expe rience we are dealing says that the reason is that the rich people at the resorts are very prudent and are quick to detect fortune hunters. This view of the matter suggests that it would lie hotter for the fortune hunt ers to stay at home. People who do not visit the resorts aro perhaps happier than those who do. They arc neither seeking fortunes nor are they avoiding those who are. In the matter of marriage it is always better to choose life partners at homo, for there is then much less danger of making a mistake that may cause life-long unhappiness. A Rascal and His Wicked Partner. Another rascal has been caught robbing the government at Washington. He has been in the employment of the government only about two years, and the bad part of his naturo has been developed during that time. Like Harper, the bank wrecker of Cincin nati, ho seems to have had a wicked partner who led him into doing wrongful acts. According to his confession he was an honest man when lie was appointed to a place in the Treasury Department, and would havo remained lionost, if his partner, to whom he owed money, had not goaded him into the performance of dishonest acts to get the money with which to liquidate his debt. It is rather remarkable that a man as in telligent as this clerk is reported to bo should not have seen that the discovery of his dishonest practices was certain to bo made sooner or later. He secured only about $B,OOO, and his career has come to an end. It is doubtful if ho can avoid spending a few years in the penitentiary. It is impossible to keep dishonest men out of the public service. The wonder is thut there are not more who secure places in it. The civil service reform system of making appointments is cot tain to improve the ser vice in all respects. Indeed, a great im provement is already noticeable. It is ap parent, however, that those who have the handling of public money, or are in a posi tion to rob the Treasury, should be more closely watched than they are. It is grati fying that the administ ration makes public very quickly the short comings of the gov ernment employes. Republican adminis trations kept such things quiet whenever they could. The Democrats administration is not afraid for the people to know all that is done by their servants. An Acknowledgment That Will Not be Made. Some days ago the Philadelphia North American, an ably edited Republican jour nal, said: “Until every influential citizen of the South acknowledges that the war against the Union was wrong there can bo no real fraternization.’’ If this paper is correct in what it says, there will be no “real fraternization” for a very long time. The South is loyal to the Union and is earn estly and sincerely working for tho pro motion of the welfare of the wholo country, but she is not going to got on her knees, de clare that she believes that the lost cause whas a wrong cause and ask forgiveness, and sho feels sure that those whom she fought in tho field will ask nothing of the sort of her. The Republican leaders, however, are in sisting that the South must admit that she was in the wrong and that there cannot las entire harmony until she does, not because they hope to get such acknow lodgment, but to bold the Northern people in the ranks of the Republican party. The Shermans, and Forakers and men of that stripe ore insist ing that sectional issues shall tie kept alive until the Mouth shows signs of reiientanco be cause it is a matter of business with them, but tho great mass of the Northern jieople aro not insisting upon anything of that kind. If the Republican leaders conduct their next national campaign upon sectional is sues, as they now seem inclined to do, their defeat will be so overwhelming that they will never want to wave the “bloody shirt” again. The Now York Star is authority for tho statement that tho expenses incurred at Gettysburg by Mrs. Pickett were defrayed by tho members of the Philadelphia brigade. It seems that Pickett’s division voted to pay the expenses, but the members were nt once notified by the brigade that Mrs. Pickett was considered ns their guest, and that they deemed it an honor to act as host to tho lady whose presence on tho battlefield had added so much to the pleasure of the reunion. The members of the brigade are as gallant in pouce as they were in wnr. Because Congressman Blount, of the Sixth Georgia district, favors building n new White House some of tho protectionist organs are charging him with extrarvagance. His long ami honorable record in Congress refutes the silly charge. The truth is, tho protectionist organs do not liko Congress man Blount’s well-known low tariff views, and hence seek to injure him by declaring that he wishes to waste tho public money. Subterfuge instead of argument is tho stock in trade of the protectionist organs. Every county in Georgia ought to be rep resented at the approaching fairs in Atlanta and Macon. Theindicationspointtoalarge number of visitors from the North and West to both, and no reasonable means should bo neglected to make a favorable impression upon them. There is plonty of room in Georgia for Northoru und Western settlers. CURRENT COMMENT. Rectitude, Courage and Candor. From the Sere York Star litem.) No honest and intelligent human being can read the President’s letter in which he recalls the promise to visit St. Louis without an ac knowledgment of the perfect rectitude of his purpose and the striking courage and candor of his method. Dignified and Patriotic. From the .Ye tv York Times (Rep.) The dignified and patriotic letter of the Presi dent withdrawing his aerqilaur" of the invita tion to visit St. bouts during the encampment there of the Grand Army of the K.‘public is cal culated to make that organization ashamed of the conduct of some of its conspicuous mem bers. Why it Commands No Respect. From the Sew York Evening Post (I fid.) A few years after the war the Grand Army was almost wrecked by being converted into a sort of annex of the Republican political ma chine. Subsequently it was restored to a non partisan basis, but during the last year or two it has lieen rapidly drifting into the former atti tude. Meaning of the St. Louis Perplexity. From the Sew York Herald (Tad.) What, then, is the meaning of the perplexity w-hlch conies from St. Louis? In the last anal ysis it is caused by a few disgruntled Jacobin politicians who are envious of Democratic suc cess It is a gross and indecent exhibition of partisan dog ill the-mungerism, of the most con temptible spirit of demagogy that has lieen seen since the close of the war. It calls itself patriot ism, but it uses the national flag as a convenient, disguise to hide its real motives as it steals to ward the national treasury. It cries country, but it means office. It stands in the market place, and like the fool Pharisee of old thanks Gist that it is not as other men are, not even as this poor Democrat who is not enough of a politician to he dishonest. And all the while under its waistcoat its false heart beats loudly for a chance to get at the perquisites of power. BRIGHT BITS. Ik ever you noted four suffering men— Us four tramps is them. If ever four objects your purse should o-pen— Us four tramps is them. We’ve had nothing to eat since we cannot tell when. And we haven't a prospect of dining again; Oh, if ever men needed a meal now and then— Us four tramps is them. If ever men traveled through muck and through mire— Us four tramps is them. If ever men wore a most wretched attire— Us four I ramps is them. There's not the least thing about us to admire, Our beauty is not of the, kind to inspire; Oh, if ever four men were in misery dire— Us four tramps is them. Now if ever you hear of four men of good parts— Us four tramps Is them. Or if you hear of four poor broken hearts — Us four tramps is them. So don’t be deceived by each story that starts. Let nobody fool you with wiles anil with arts; Remember just this, we have no counterparts— Us four tramps is them. —Charleston Enterprise. Tuz difference between a poor base ball player and black measles is that one strikes out and the other strikes in.— Philadelphia Call. Winks—l can’t see with these glasses. Optician—Ah! ah No. 2's! You are very nearsighted, sir. Try No. l's. Winks -Yes, No. 1 suits me exactly. I can see beautifully. Hut I say, what can Ido when I fail to see through No. IV Optician Y'ou’ll have to get a poodle, sir.— Toum Topics , Speculator (enthusiastically) I tell you, gentlemen, there is wealth in the Great Argent mining country. Rock fairly glistens with silver. Returned Miner—l can testify to that. There is a fortune there, gentlemen. Speculator—Have you been prospecting in that locality? Returned Miner—Yes: just come back. I left my fortune there.— Binyhamptou Republican. Little Helen, 8 year-old, cut her thumb; she kept very quiet alxiut it until it began to bleed, then she screamed: “O mamma, mamma! come quick, the gravy's all a running out!" -Our little Walter manufactures the most convenient riartieiples for the occasion, whenever an uucer ain verli gets in his way. This morning he was obliged to pick up a large number of but tons which he had carelessly upset from their basket, i}nd after the task was done he jumped up and said cheerfully: "Papa, now I’ve got 'em all puck up '."—"High Ciuiir Philosophy" in Babyhood. Omaha Reai, Estate Agent (in charge of a lot-selling pienicV-Now, gentlemen, we are on the ground, and you can't any of ytiu get away until the 1 rain goes. Crowd Don't w ant to. "And the tram don’t leave until sunsst." “Who can's?" “I suppose you heard the brass band I brought along playing a little on the train?" [Groans and hisses ] “Now, gentlemen, the sale will start up and all I’ve got to say is you’ve got to bid lively or I'll start that band to playing again. ’ '—Omaha World. The writer, while waiting in the office of the Associated bureau of Chanties in London, took up a large volume containing the proceedings of the Social Science Convention. In the list of correnspoding members he read, “David Dud ley Field. Rhode Island, N. Y.” Calling the at tention of the society to it, he said: “Here is an error," With a blank look the Secretary said, “Oh, yes!" He was then informed that Rhode Island was not a part of New York. “No," said he. “but it was placed there be cause it was next to New Y'orlc” On being told that the important State of Oonmvticut separated the t wo, he hail nothing further to say - Christian AdiHicate. PERSONAL. Rev. Phillips Brooks is beiug lionized in London. ARCHBisnop Laeasbida, of Mexico, is to re elve the red hat. Tm: late Samuel Cousins, the groat English engraver, left an estate valued at about $750,000. Jay Gould does not smoke. He vents his tendency in this direction to smoking the other fellows. The Earl of Dudley, who will ho of age next year, is one of the greatest matrimonial catches In the worljl Lord Tennyson is now visiting points of in t crest on the \\ elsh coast. lie says ho has laid down his pen for awhile. Philip D. Armour has presented his recently graduated son with a check for $1,000,000 and taken him into i>artnership. Charles Wynpham, the London comedian, is going to Berlin to play David Garrick in Gar man, he having mastered the language. The thre** sons of Hiram Powers live in Flor entine villas. They call themselves re pec t ively the Successor, ihc 8011 and the Pupil of Powers. Editor Frank Hatton says: “Sam Jones're ligion has lieeu cooked too fast. It is burnt. Jt is Ix ginning to smell badlv. He should disin fect It.” W. Clark ltrssKLL.the celebrated novelist is not an Englishman, although he is a citizen of Great Britain. He was l>oni lu New York forty-three yearn ago. Berry Wall, the king of the dudes, is at E resent dressing for the benefit of visitors at *mg Branch 11** is, in fact, the heaviest swell on the const at present, Mark Twain's service in jiassing the contribu tion plate in the church he attends in Hartford Is the subject of more jokes than Mark ought to bo made responsible for, at second-hand. Qr i:icn Victoria is in ecstasies over anew parasol which has just lieen made for her by a noted Ixmdon establishment. It is made of cream-colored satin, covered with fine Brussels lace, with a carved ivory handle. Kino Otto of Bavaria is crazy on the subject of shooting people. Every day hois allowed to take a gun containing a blank cartridge and fire at a man who is purposely skulking among the trees 011 the grounds of the Xymphenburg enlace. The man falls as If killed, and the mad K ing’s desire is appeased for the day. Yon Phon Lee, the Chinese graduate in the Yale class of 1887, is short, slender and bright* eyed. Ho wears spectacles. The people of New Haven have made a great, deal of the clever C’olestinl, and he showed his gratitude by mar ryiug an Kim City belle Dr. CTmuneey M Do pew- referred to him as “an orator before whom Senator Kvarts and 1 must look to our laurels.” Prince Batthyany gave n splendid garden party in honor of the Queen s jubilee to l/juo guests at Komi end Castle in Hungary. The royal standard was hoisted and saluted by fifty gum. The park was dotted over wit h embroid ered Turkish tents, n to .VX) years old. and the flags of all uations. The extensive grounds And buildings were illuminated in the evening hv more than 90,000 lights, and the spectacle was magnificent. The almost royal hospitality of the Prince uuulo u great impression. Rescued Its Offspring. From the New York Evening Sun. While Uncle Rufus Hatch was visiting a friend in Park avenue the other day he saw a remarka ble scene. An old sparrow had routed one of its young from the nest and was teaching it to 11/. The little bird dropped upon the flags close to the building and itopped into a corner. The mother was giving it a piece of her mind, when a gaunt cat stole softly across the street ami flanked the old bird. Site had just time to dart through the railing and save herself. The little bird was left oi *.iobiug in the corner awaiting almost certain death. The cat had not seen it, although the fledgling was not more than fifteen inches from its nose. A turn of the cal *s head and the little fellow would have been gone. The mother was just equal to the emergency. She alighted outside the railing within three fi*et or the cat. She fluttered ner wings and “peeped" as though in great pain. Sparrows flew to her from all directions. They seemed to take in the situation at a glance. They raised such bedlam that the neighbors rushed to the windows to see what was going on. Meanwhile the cat stood like a statue gazing upon the sparrows just out of reach. Its yel low eyes gfapeed fife. Its tail stood out like a ramrod. Suddenly the mother darted through the railing and alighted a the very tip of the feline's full. Like a Mash the cat turned and sprang fur the bird. Hut the bird was located about three seductive feet ahead. Another spring, and the bird again came down three feet nwav. The cat was thus inveigled to the front of the house, the army of sparrows following and diverting its attention, while the mother re turned and hustled the offspring away, admin istering a sound drubbing interspersed with wholesome advice and warning. “All of which,” sa3 f s Uncle Rufus, “shows that there is a tid* in the affairs of cats which, taken at the llood, leads on to a good break fast; and that a bird under the nose is worth fifty on the sidewalk.' 1 Fifty Carloads of Toothpicks. The Portland (Me.) Pness has the following: “Are you are aware of the extent of the tooth pick business in Maine?” The questioner was Mr. J. C. Bridgman, who represents the Nation al Toothpick Association. “That seems to tie a {wettjr big name for small business, suppose you think,” he continued, “but you will )>e surprised When I tell you that our association have contracted for enough toot hpicks to be made in Maine the com ing year to loud a train of fifty cars with noth ing but toothpicks. We shall take out of Maine before next mine five thousand million tooth picks. A pretty fair sized wood i"t, you see, will be slit up to go into the mouths and vest pockets of millions of Ameri cans. Maine furnishes the larger portion of all the toothpicks used in the country. Our as sociation controls the trade. It is something like the Standard Oil Trust, the Cotton Seed Oil Trust and the lately formed Rubber Trust. It regulates the price and output of toothpicks as the big trusts regulate the prices and output of oil or rubber goods. We have not adopted the name Tooth Pick Trust yet, however. We have a mill at Belmont, X, Y.; Harbor Springs. Mich., and Foil du I.ne. Wis. Besides these all our mills are in Maine: One at Strong, one at Farmington, one at Canton and two at Dixfleld. There is a small mill at Mechanic Falls, also, but It has not joined our association, lu Massa chusetts. also, there is one small mill not in the association. So you see Maine is the great cen tre of the industry of toothpick making. The Season for Bleaching'. From the New York Evening Sun. “This is the season of the year when society bloods begin to bleach,” said a Delmonico lounger the other evening. “Champagne cock tails. and Burgundy, and dinners settled with Cognac have produced, in the course of winter events, the usual crop of swelled veins and Ver million noses. Nov. the boiling out process is at hand. A peep into IVlmouicos in toe crowded hours of tne evening will show a change in the bacchanalian programme. All the prigs in a certain set have entered into a solemn compact to abjure strong alcohols for for the hot months, ami lavish their affections, young and old, on light frivolous decoctions like the genial Sau terne or mild Moselle, or the subdued claret cob bler. A suit of clothes or a money equivalent is generally the penalty for violation. “This is quite the proper caper nowadays among the bloods. By the way, if a fellow in tends to go into the business of a professional swell, he must change off his drinks with the reasons just the same as Ills clothes. “I’m no unglocmaniac, but those Britishers have this thing down to a science. The result is they live longer anti have more fun. I know some fellows that make it a rale to give their insides a complete rest on liquor so many days out of the thirty in each month. Got to do it if you expect to keep up with the procession any length of time. You can't run the same old variety show in your stomach all the year round with out wearing out the machiue.” Even Teachers Err Sometimes. From the Boston Transcript. A teacher whose school is not far from the Hub took the lfttbofjune as a fit occasion to tell the pupils the story of Waterloo. At the conclusion of the narative sheasked in the famil iar school teacher manner: “And now children, do you know what his sol diers called the Dyke of Wellington?” There was silence in the schools tom. One boy seemed to have an insane desire to say that the Duke didn’t cart' what the soldiers called him so long as they didn't call him late to dinner, but suppressed the impulse. Tne school teacher then explained, “The Duke of Wellington's soldiers called him Old Blucher!” Score one against the school teachers and in favor of the children. The second example cited by the Listener's friend in the narration w ith variations of the familiar story of Hannibal and the elephant. “Hannibal,” said the schoolmaster, “was cross ing the Alps, when he noticed an elephant push ing a cannon. The animal was very tired, and the driver rebuked him. called him lazy. The elephant, as if determined to show that it was weakness, not unwillingness, that made him un able to accomplish his task, gave one gigantic push against the cannon, which enabled it to surmount the obstruction which had impeded its progress. Then, after darting a reproachful glance at its driver, the elephant dropped dead.” Cannons In Hannibal's time’ A Woman’s No. From the San Francisco Wasp. She had a parcel, small and round, One lovely afternoon last summer; I offered, as in duty bound. To take It from her. She thanked me with a gracious smile. As sweet as rosy lips could make it; It was so small't was not worth while To let me take it. Again 1 offered as hefnre Of that slight burden to relieve her: She'd rather not: “Pray say no more I" ’Twould really grieve him. I ceased to plead; she seemed content; The thing was small and neatly corded. And so along our way we went To where she boarded. But when upon the stoop she stood, And ere our las! adieus were uttered, She eyed me in a roguish mood. And softly muttered, As swung the door to let her through, Anil left me there all unresisting: “I don't think very much of you For uot insisting.” Only Suggested the Death. FYom the Sail Franci*co Chronicle. Law is a very queer thing. Sometimes sug gestion of a tiling is enough, nod other times even absolute proof is n** go 1 1 Now when man dies while a snit;is penning, the attorney on his sideean procure a |KMtponcmnt hv pay ing he's dead. Tliat. is how sensible people would put it, but the law colls it ‘ suggestfng 1 111' death of the plnlntifT or defendant. ' An attor ney some time ago was making that common tight against justice by postponement taeties. He had about got to the end of his tether awl he felt very blue about it. It seemed inevitable that the case must be tried. He was on hand when the case was culled. A bright idea occur red to him. He got up and said: "May it please the court, I suggest the death of the defendant and ask an adjournment for two weeks." “Granted." When the ease came upagaln there was a row The attorney wascolled up. “What did you mean, sir," asked the court, “by saying that the defendant was dead, when he is here in court alive and well?" “I did not say be was dead, may it please your bonqr. 1 merely took the law for it, which provides that counsel may suggest tho death of the defendant. 1 sug gested it.” She Read His Mind. FYom the San FYaneiteo Chronicle. I know a lady who never dreams of judging her husband by his talk. That is not to !• relied upon, hot she knows all Ids moods by what ho does, and how he behaves. Now, ttio other day lie bought a piece of property, and she was tell ing a lady friend. “He lmnght It without looking at it, don't you know?" "That 's not very business like.” "You don't, know my husband. He was all right." "How much did bo give for It?” “I don't know; hut he went up and looked at It and 1 know It was a bargain.” "If he didn't tell you how do you know?" “I know it. was a bargain, for ho never swore once all that night.'' ITEMS OF INTEREST. The discovery that Chinese-made cigars are being sold in Truckee, A.T , has started another lively anti-Chinese crusade there. Tun: attempt to abolish the garrote in Spain and substitute the gallows has proved a failure. It was contended that it took too long to hang a man, thereby allowing him to live longer than the law contemplated. Tiie second international meeting on the sub ject of the abuse of alcoholic drinks will he held at Zurich on September u and 10 next. I rof. Forel of the University of Zurich, is at the head of the Committee of Organization. Trie largest timing-fork probably ever made any w’here is the one recently manufactured at Hanau for the Physiological Institute at Lcipsic- It weighs over t wen tv-seven kilos., and gives fourteen double oscillations a second. A committee is being organized in Geneva to arrange for a celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, and each of the United States is to be invited to send representatives to the cele bration. The United States owns about $75,000,000 worth of buildings, and has not a cent of insur ance on any of them. Most of them are prac tically fire proof. The government believes that it is strong enough to curry its own insurance. The Astors and some of the other large real estate owners in New York act on the same policy. Asa case of simple justice to an humble citi zen the New York World gives place to this per sonal card: “Please would you correct that mis take you made of the dancing on P. Diver's excursion? The gentleman that danced with Mrs. Barry was not Billy Barry; it was Billy McGonagle, the champion Irish iig dancer of America. Billy McGonagle.” Uncle Tom Cady, of Champaign, 111., planted a quantity of popcorn several days ago. He waited anxiously to see the sprouts appear above ground, but they came not. He examined a number of hills and to his astonishment he found'that each grain had popped out into a ffakey white mass. The transformation was as complete as though a corn-popper had been used. Max Weil is the richest Jew in New York, his figure being estimated at $8,000,000. Follow ing him art* forty other millionaires of the same race. The Hebrew capital in the Cotton Ex change is over $0,000,000. and of city real estate they hold at least $100,000,000. An estimate of tin* annual transactions of the wholesale trade of New York done by Hebrews put the figures at $£03,000,000. It was supposed that the flagship Cumberland when she was sunk by the Merrimac had $lOO,OOO in coin in her safe for the payment of the fleet. Many attempts have been made to recover the safe, and as much as $60,000 have been expended in the effort, it is said. Irately a New Haven wrecker succeeded in raising the safe, hut on opening it only $49 in coin were found. The pa per money it may have contained had dissolved or disappeared. Two Scotch fishwives in London were talking about the jubilee the other da} r . “Eh, wumman,” said one to the other, “can ye tell me what a jubilee is, for I hear a 1 the folk spakln 1 aboot it?' 1 “Ou, ay,” replied the other, “I can tell ye that; ye s**e, when a man and a wumrnan has been niarrit for five and twenty year, that's a siller waddin 1 ; and when they've been inarrit for fifty year that's a gouden waddin 1 ; but w hen the man is deed, that's a jubilee!” What sort of men have the missionary socie ties been sending out to convert the heathen of Siam? Mrs. writes from Bangkok: “Dear Reverend Missionary Board, pray do not send out any more w-ine-bibbing, cigar-smoking missionaries. There is bad example enough in nil these lands from the ungodly men of Chris tian lands wjio are in government employ and engaged in business. Let Christian mission aries ne so free from all these things that no poor soul or body can bo injured by following their example,” Thf. royal poetess, the Queen of Roumania, or “Carmen Sylva,” to use her literary pseudonym, has sent a characteristic jubilee present to Queen Victoria. She some time ago translated Queen Victoria's “Journal" into the Roumanian* language, and has now published a cheap and abridged “people's editioa” of the work, with a number of elucidations explanatory of English ami Scottish topography and customs, so as to make the book more interesting to its Bast European readers. A magnificently print ed and bound copy of this little work lias been sent by the royal Roumanian translator to the royal English author, accompanied by a grace ful letter. A romantic marriage occurred at the Meth odist Episcopal parsonage in Edwarilsville, 111., the other day. The contracting parties were Prof. James O. Duncan, of Vandalia, 111., a widower, and Mrs. Lillie W. Carroll, a widow and teacher in Springfield, 111., formerly of Vandalia. The marriage is a culmination of a scries of coincidences in the life of the wedded pair. The Rev. J. B. Thompson, who performed the ceremony, officiated in the same capacity at Prof. Duncan's first marriage, and also at Mrs. Carroll's first marriage, and preached the fu neral sermon upon the death of Prof. Duncan's wife, and was called upon to perform the last rites at the funeral of Mrs. Carroll's former hus band. It was this strange fatality of circum stances which induced the couple to seek again the services of Mr. Thompson. “Poisonous perambulators,” says the British Medical Journal , “are probably one of the least suspected of dangers, yet, nevertheless, one which experience lias shown to exist, and, therefore, one against which the parents of a family would do well to he on their guard. A ease is recorded this week of a child, aged 4 months, who, on its return after being out under a hot sun, was seized w ith sickness and vomit ing, the vomited matter being a green-colored fluid. From inquiries made by the medical man it was elicited that the child had been seen to suck a green strap of the perambulator, and the true cause of the mischief was at once sus pected. namely, arsenic poisoning. An analyti cal examination of the strap confirmed this view, arsenic l>eing found to ho present in great abundance. In spite of all that medical aid could effect, the child gradually sank from ex haustion.” “Not often is there such a gathering of royal personages as formed the Queen's dinner party last night,” says the St. James' Gazette. “Five majesties, six heirs to thrones, four imperial highnesses, forty-six royal highnesses, three grand dural highnesses, seven serene highnesses and five highnesses appear In the list. But the relationships which the list embraces, and the population and territory the rulers of which it represents, arc still mor ■ extraordinary. Al most every reigning family in Europe is repro seated, the exceptions l'dag the royal family of Holland, some of the German princelets, and the rulers of the Balkan States. But it was also In a very real sense a family party. for the im perial and royal personages surrounding the Queen were her sons, her daughters, her sons nnd daughters-in-law, her grandchildren, and, indeed, representatives of almost all varieties of kinship appropriate to her age, save one." Tut: death is announced of Francis B. Evans, a Welshman, who was for many years well known in San Francisco ns “the blind pencil seller" on Kearney street. Ills affliction was caused by n steel splinter lodging in his eye while engaged years ago as an onglneor in one of the Comstock mines. After losing his sight lie in • fired with zeal (o accomplish something beneficial to himself and others similarly situ nted. nnd liegan an imitation for the establish ment of an Industrial Home for the Adult Blind, He brought the subject before the legislature nnd personnllv advocated the measure before that body with so much force and eloquence a* to carry ft. The manner In which the home was managed was, however, a sore disappointment to him. and. hv wav of protest, ho resolutely and to the Inst refus'd to partake of tire benefits ft was intended to provide. Blind nnd helpless lie threw himself upon the charity of the public anil some of the painful details of his struggles with poverty and darkness have found their way into print. AVmtv one considers the mighty Interests In volved In the pilot system of New York harbor alone. Mint annually hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions In property In a large, noteworthy sense are at the stake of these men’s sobriety, proficiency and bravery; and that not one In a thnnsn?id in New York or nnv where else seem to hove tile slightest knowoldge of such men or service: the diversity of our tremendous every day maritime, commercial and social Interests and the indifference of the average human to any nnrtlcnlar class of tollers Is most Impressively Illustrated. Then, are to day 11 of these New York harbor pilots. Rv law two more, or 183 nil told, are allowed Of this numlier 133 are under the control of the New York Bean! of pilot Commissioners, and SO under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey honril. Of the (.Hot Isints themselves. New York pilots own 22 and New Jersey pilots 7; and the powers of these boards, the regulations of pilot sendee and daily w ork and lives of the men are practi cally identical. 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