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4 CljcMcntingllctos Morning News Building, Savannah. Ga. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, issi. FegisUn'cd at the Post Office in Stivavnuh. The Mohmnc Nkws is published ovrry <!ay in rhf year, ami is served to subscribers in thr city, by newsdealers and earners, on their own a • count, at. 25 cents a week, £1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO oo f'o*' one ye u\ The Morning Nk.ws, by mail, one month, a>: throe months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail. six times n week (without Sunday issue), three months, 00; six months. $ J 00 one year, $8 t'o. The Mousing News. Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday s, Thu - days and Saturdays, three uiontii*. $1 2>; *>ix months. $2 50; one year. $5 0(). The SfND.vv Nkws, by nun I, one year. _ The Weekia* Nrws, by mail, on** year. $1 25. Subscription;* parable in advance, liemit hy postal order, checu. or registered letter. Cur rency sent, by mail at risk of senders. Ix tters and telegrams should he “Mornino News, Savannah, ta." Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings Pulaski Lonti Association; The Merchants and Mechanics Loan Association; Golden Rule Lodge No. IS. I. O. O. F.; Working men’s Renevolent Association. Special Notices—Notice. Mrs. C. Mueller; Al guernes Deutsche Volksfest. Notice—Oil Piiiltings, Engravings, Ktc., L. & B. S. M. H. Steamship Sellfcit.ks- Ocean Steamship Cos.; Baltimore Steamship Cos. Hi:atk:is. Ere -Isivell & Lattimore. Auction and General Commission Mer chants -Marshall .V Mcl-eod. Cheap Column Ahvertisements— For Kent.; For hale; Lost; Found; Employment Wanted; Miscellaneous. Auction Bales -Unclaimed Freight S. F A W Rv ,by I. D T-aßoche’s Sons; Groceries, Etc., by J. McLaughlin ,Y Bon. Publication—The Daily Sun, Charleston, S. C. Eastern Hay, Etc.—W. D. Blinking & Cos. . Dialogue poii a Private Family.—Davis Bros. j ! The way to make the laws respected is to enforce them. The man who will determine whnt a “full crop” is should have a gold medal. The Georgia negro seems determined to lie an “issue.’ lie wants more attention than . his importance warrants. The “cold day in August” promised by the Signal Service Bureau seems to have de termined to skip Georgia. Perhaps a cold Say in December was meant. It is hint'd that the members of the Gen eral Assembly want the President to see them in session. It is also hinted that they are likely to gratify themselves. It is stated that a farmers’ club in Middle Georgia has for a motto: “Politics be .” An amendment should bo adopted so that the motto will read: “Politicians be If Noah were a citizen of Georgia just now he would doubtless boast that he had seen “a bigger flood,”, but the people who live along the water courses would hardly believe him. The courts of this country are not an un mixed blessing. They often move too slowly, and, as paradoxical as it may seem, they sometimes defeat justice iustead of upholding it. It becomes more apparent every day that the <h orgiu plan for abating the liquor evil is the best. Local option affords each county the means of enforcing the will of its people on the question. There are people who sympathize with Mrs. Cleveland on account of the annoying publicity given to her nets. Some of the stuff printed about iter is doubtless as dis tressing to her ns it is nauseating to the public. Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s recent experiences in Scotland are likely to make him love America more than ever. The land o’ cakes is not as pleasant for ono who believes in republican institutions ns is tho “land of the free.” _______ At the beginning of each term of some courts jn this country it would be well to read to tho lawyers the oath they took when they were licensed to practice. There are lawyers who either forget or willfully ig nore that oath. The bonanza king, J. C. Flood, of San Francisco, is said to he dying. The other bonanza king, John Mackay, is not dying, buthe is seriously afflicted. The money ho recently lust in the wlwat market amounted, it is said, to #(1,001,000. Prince Ferdinand must find time to hang heavy on his hau ls, or ho would hardly go through tho farce of accepting tho Bul garian throne ono day only to abdicate: it the next. Muiuble-the-peg would he n safer amusement for t'uo Prince. It is better to hang the man who murder ed another than to save his neck through a mistaken septimeut, and thus give license to some other man to take a human life. The sentiment which permits such a thing is really worse than mistaken—it is crimi nal. Michael Davitt has tho courage of his con victions. He declares that tho Irish people ore too fond of shout ing, and that deeds, not words, are needed. Nevertheless, agi tation combined with patience will lie more likely than deeds of violence to gain justieo for the Irish people. The peaceable citizens of every commu nity in this State should unite to see that the laws are rigidly enforced. Human life is hold too cheaply. There should bo no more temporizing with criminals, and pub lic sentiment should compel judicial and executive officers to discharge their duties promptly and faithfully. The New York Herald publishes editorial opinions on the Glenn bill upninst the co- B.iucntion of tho races from the Morning News, tho Atlanta Constitution, the Macon 7'etegraph and the Augusta Chronicle. The opinions, of course, ure favorable to the bill. They will doubtless convince the Her ald's mulera that Georgia means to manage her own affairs, tho on tire Republican purty of the country to tho contrary not withstanding. Tho New York World prints a letter from Hon. Jefferson Davis in relation to tho story of his proposed assassination during the war at the hands of a convict liberated from tho Pennsylvania penitentiary by Gov. Curtin. Nothing new i developed by tho letter, except, that Gov. Curtin did re lease u convict upon what ho supposed to be u request from the United Slates govern ment) and that Mr. Davis i ' i v* hud ruuson to fear assuosinaUan. Fairchild’s Civil Service Views. Secretary Fairchild’s views relative to civil service reform, which appeared in the Baltimore Snn a day or two ago, are excit iug considerable comment. The anti-civil service reform journals pretend that * hey are different from those expressed by tho President at the lieginning of his adminis tration, though they may lie in harmony with the civil service reform policy of tho President at the present time. Tho efforts of the enemies of civil service reform to defeat it are aggressive and lief sis tent. There are a few Democratic jour nals which improvo every opportunity to attack the reform, but it is noticeable that about all of them are hostile to Mr. Cleve land. The Republican journals do not have so much to say ugainst the reform as they do against tho President for bis alleged failure to carry out the civil service policy which |ie announced when he was inaugu rated. They want to make the people be lieve that ho has not been true to bis promises. Asa matter of fact Secretary Fairchild’s views arc not inconsistent with the policy which the President has’ always pursued with respect to the civil service. He says he is in favor of a practical, not a sent imen tal reform. By that, ho means that he is in favor of doing all that it is possible to do to improve the civil service. He believes that important officials who have some in fluence in shaping tho character of the ad ministration ought to lie of tho same politi cal faith as the administration, and that in filling the minor places fitness alone should bo considered. The President never said that he meant to retain Republicans in tho principal offices if they hud good records. Neither did he say that lie would turn them out, or appoint only Democrats to succeed t hem when their terms of office /expired. What be did promise to do was to enforce tho civil ser vice reform law in letter and spirit, and that lie has done. He has done even more than that: he has retained in office a great many Republicans simply because they are qualified for their positions. It was not ex pected that ho would make no changes in offices which do not corno within the juris diction of the civil service law. The occu pants of the most important of tho offices have it in their power to help to make tho administration a success, or they can do much toward making it a failure. It is important, therefore, that they should have the same political principles as the party in power. Mr. George William Curtis, who said in his Newport address that ho was disappoint ed in the President’s civil service reform is a sentimental civil service reformer. It would be impossible to put his theories into practice in the present state of public senti ment. It is a question whether the time will ever come when it will bo advisablo to adopt them in their entirety. Fitness and not political affiliations should control tho appointments of minor officials. Fitness has controlled these appointments under this administration. Tho people are satisfied with the President’s course with regard to civil service reform, and if they are satisfied he can afford to disregard the criticisms of the sentimental reformers on tho one hand and the howls of the spoilsmen on tho other. Canal and Ship Railway Bcliemes. A company to build the ship railway across the Isthmus of Tohuaptepoc, which was projected by tho late Capt. Rads, wits organized recently, and the announcement is made that tho great undertaking will be gin nt an early day. It is further announced that no aid will bo asked from Congress. This last announcement is very gratifying, because if help from Congress were de- IRUided upon tho railway might not be built very soon. This appears to be an auspicious time to boom the ship railway scheme. Tho Nica ragua route scheme doesn't appear to be making any progress, and tho French people are getting tired of put ting up money for do Lesseps’ Panama canal Indeed, it is not to be wondered at that they arc beginning to lie suspicious of the success of that enterprise. They have already invested in it #.'134,000,000, but of that amount only #309,500,000 has gono into the treasury of the company. The balance was spent, in securing the loans. The lowest estimate of the cost of the work is now $000,000,000, with a chance that the canal will never Ik> completed. The annual in terest charge will be $54,000,000 which the canal will luivo to earn before any dividends can lie paid. Tho prospect of tho French men getting their money bark is not a very promising one. The Hon. Frank 11. Hurd announces that ho intends t<i take an active part in the Ohio campaign. Regarding the |x>liticnl outlook in that State, ho says: “The tariff jilapk in tho Democratic platform is an honest declaration of principle's, and one upon which every friend of tariff reform, can stand. Tho Sherman indorsement amounts to very little and will have no goi and • -ITect so far as the Senat or is concerned. If it lias any effect, at all it will be to insure u divided delegation to the national conven tion, und os Sherman luis already shown his hand his opponents will bo able to exactly measure his strength before tho real contest comes.” Senator Sherman and his Presidential prospects are of but little importance to the Ohio Democrats. The tiling for them to do is to work with all thoir might for supremacy in their State. Every prominent Ohio Democrat should follow Mr. Hurd's example, and take an active part in the campaign. Two months ago ox-Gov. Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, was pardoned out of a Northern penitentiary. At tbo time it was said that lie was dying. Since then his health must have improved, for it. is miuoutie.xl that, he Ims written a book of 1,400 pages on reconstruc tion and prison reform. He relates his own prison experience at some length, In order, ho says, “that 1 might add my individual efforts to those which others are making towards explaining the subject of prison re form.” The ex-Govomor uml ox-convict ought to dedicate his book to H. I’>. Hayes. Tho latter, in addition to raising chickens, takes considerable interest in prison re form. Dr. McGlynn says that he is opposed to Socialism. Ho declares that this country wants po foreign Socialism, hut, that it wauta more of American individualism. Dr. MoUlynu sometimes says a sensible thing iu spite of the source from which ho draws inspiration. A a rule, however, ho is most effective %hfii he is silent. The North lias tired of summer, nnd is preparing to grumble at winter weather. On August 7, at WellsviUo, N. Y., a white frost covered tho ground, and the thcrmoui uU-T i cgutomi about 40' übo\e zero. THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1887. Pennsylvania to Fall into Lino. Home of the leading Democrats of Penn sylvania, intend to make an effort to have tho next Democratic Stale Convention of that State adopt a tariff plank similar to that lately adopted by tlio Democrats of Ohio. Of course they will be opposed by Mr. Randall and his friends, but they are confi dent that they can overcome all the opposition tho Randall taction can offer. The sentiment in favor of a reduction of the tariff lias been growing steadily in Pennsylvania for several years, and it is be lieved to be strong enough now to insure a declaration in the platform of the Demo cratic party there favorable to tariff reform. The workingmen are beginning to see that while their material condition does not im prove, the great iron and coal companies, aided by a high protective tariff, divide immense profits. The tariff plank in the platform adopted by tho Virginia Democrats last week does not meet with much favor from Democrats outside of that State. At least nine-tenths of the members of the Demo cratic party favor a reduction of tho tariff rather than a repeal of the internal revenue laws, and it is somewhat surprising, there fore, that the Democrats of Virginia should have taken a position on the tariff that is more in harmony with that of the Repub lican party than of tlioir own. Tho more tho tariff question is discussed tho more clearly is it seen that the proposi tion to make whisky and tobacco free and to retain the tax on the necessaries of life is in favor of the rich monopolies and against the interests of tho workingmen. If Vir ginia Democrats side with the Republicans on the tariff question simply because to baceo'is cultivated in tlioir State, they need not bo surprised if there should lie a luck of enthusiasm in their ranks or if they should be in danger of losing control of the Ktntc. The tariff is a great issue between the Democratic and Republican parties. The Democrats of Ohio have just fallen into line with their party in most of the other States on this issue, and there is a prospect that Pennsylvania will do the same tiling. It seems rutlier strange, therefore, that Vir ginia should have taken the course ou the tariff that she lias. Mr. Ives’ Careor. If the story is true that Mr. Ives, the young man who has caused so much talk in Wall street by his connection with tho Bal timore and Ohio railroad deal, lias offered to turn over all his property to his creditors it they will pay his debts and give him $400,- 000 in cash, it shows that Ills misfortunes have not deprived him of any of his monu mental cheek. If the reports of his affairs are correct his assets arc much less than his liabilities. No doubt he would like to get out of the tangle into which he has got him self with a handsome fortune in his pocket. The thing that threatens to make him trouble, however, is tho unsatisfactory con dition of tho treasury of the Cincinnati, Dayton and Hamilton railroad. It is al leged that #.",000,000 in stock and money, that ought to bo there, cannot bo found. Probably Mr. Ives can tell what lius become of it. Ho is certainly expected to do so. It is stated that the liabilities of his firm amount to $12,000,000. Wall street must have had considerable confidence in him to have loaned him money to that extent, not withstanding tho fact that it is claimed that his reputation for honesty is rather shady. It is renuirkable, to say the least of it, that men of cheek and brains, who lack capital, succeed in gaining the confidence of Wall street. Ferdinand Ward, who wrecked tho Marine Bank of Now York, and who is now in the p mitent.iary, is much tho same sort of a man that Ives appears to he. There is no reason for saying yet that Mr. Ives’ career will end in tho same way that Ward’s did, but if soino of liis transactions are not sat isfactorily explained it would not be at all surprising if un effort were made to send him to keep Ward’s company. Mon like Ives and Ward cause distrust in business qjrcles. They tiro schentors whose aim is to get money without much regard to the means they employ in getting it. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Bcboonmaker has been talking for the bono lltof tho country at large. Ho said to a newspaper man at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., the other day: “Neither 1 nor my associates will see you in Washington until late in September. lam going to the Adirondacks to nxil off, and expect to see Commissioner Walker up there in a short time. Wo will all meet again at Rutland, Vt., on Sept. 1, and then go to Chicago, where wo will make quite a stay. There is to ho a great number of cases brought before us there. We go to Mahomet, instead of bringing him to the mountain, as there are a great many witnesses to lx> heard, and tho outlay to the various people interested would be very large for transportation. Again, I think it very wise for us all to visit tho principal sect ions of the country. We get tho atmos phere of the section us wo could in no other way. Tliis was proved to mo by our trip through the South.” Commissioner Schoon nuikcr is doubtless right as to tho wisdom of the commission’s plans. In the meantime, while lie and his associates are cooling off, there are some very important questions remaining unsettle:!. Tho Washington correspondent of the Al bany, N. Y., Journal say* that Secretary Lamar is getting ready for his appointment to the United Slates Supremo bench. Ho has issued instructions to all tho bureau chiefs in his department to have their re ports ready to hand to him by Sept. 1. It is not usual to have these reports ready be fore the latter part of October or early in November, as the Secretaries are not in the habit of submitting their abstracts to tho President much before Nov. 15. The Su promo Court assembles on the tint Monday in October, which will enable Secretary Lamar to give an account, of his official stewardship in the Cabinet for the year be fore hazarding the batteries of the Senate on his wr y to the Supreme Court bench. From whnt is known it is believed that he will get his appointment soon after tho court Con- Mini's. Many ixvipli) will doubt the propriety of tho Governor's private secretary having anything to do with the eases of criminals who have been, r,r who will lx\ arnygned before the courts of the State. It i* not itn prolmblo that tbo Governor may have to pas* upon the same cases, and that his sec retary wifi have to assist him. The Gov ernor’s private secretory ought to hove no business outside of the executive ofllco, ex cept such as concerns his own private affairs. _ _____ Many of tho technicalities of the laws should !> swept away. The technicalities of the criminal laws have saved t<x> many criminals from malted punishment. CURRENT COMMENT. Thoy Run Against Them. From the Missouri Republican. (Deni.) Mr. Blaine is advised by Galignani's Messen ger that be can win the’sympathy of Scotch men most effectually by visiting the Southern States and lieing as e irdial there as he is in Scot land. Oalignoni's does not understand tliaf Re publican candidates run against tho Southern Males, not in them. Foraker an a Sucking Dove. From the Washington Star (Ind.) Gov. Foraker joins his imitation to that of other prominent citizens of Ohio, urging the President to pay a visit to their State. Its tone is less vigorous than that of bis dispatch about llie battle flags. The Governor doubtless wants to show that, on occasion, he can roar you as gently as any sucking dove. Tuttle and Fairchild’s Boomerang. From the Few York Herald (Ind.) Tuttle and Fairchild have not received invita tions to visit different parts of the country and bring their political assets Tuttle, a cotton bale and his military record, and Fairchild, a large assortment of palsies— with them. They have subsided, anil the little boom which they fondly nourished has turned out a boom-erang. They Withhold the Facts. From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.) These ignorant or reckless partisan critics withhold the facts that the free school system of every reconstructed State. excepting Virginia, was enacted by Kepunllcan Legislatures or by Republican votes in t raining and adopting State constitutions; nnd in the cases of Louisiana. Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Caro lina. a majority of tho legislators who enacted tii" free school laws were colored men. In every instance where colored legislators controlled the legislation inaugurating free schools in the South, they distinctly provided forfseparate schools for the white and colored races. They did it because both races preferred it, and be cause it assured the more hearty co-operation of both in maintaining universal education. BRIGHT BITS. The only time when a woman doesn't object to having it said that she got her foot into it is when she is trying on a No. -L. slipper. — Bur lington Free Press. A Philadelphia publisher says the revised Bible has “fallen fiat.'' This is lucky for the Bible. A book Hint falls Hat is less liable to sustain injury than when it falls on the edges or on ouo corner. Xnrnstoirii Herald. On, for a thousand pounds of snow, In which to make a lied, While others swelter in the glow Of sunbeams fiery red. Washington Hatchet. “How does it happen that there are so many old maids among the school teachers?" asks ah inquirer. Well, it is just jiossible that a girl who has taught school is afraid to marry. Siie knows just what sort of cubs most men were when they were young .—Omaha Daily World. Miss Colpcasii Do you know, Mr. Guffau. that pa remarked brutally the other day that lie was only going to dress me one more sea son. Young Outran-Deah me. Miss Coldcash! how 1 should like to -aw—see you two yeahs fwom now.— Town Topics. A middle-aged man at tile beach, whose wife thought the water too cold for bathing that day, encouraged her in a novel wav. “No, Manor,” he said, pointing to some iron water pipes that entered the waves near where he stood; “don’t you see? They're mimin' hot water into the ocean an’ heatin’ her up.”— Boston Globe. Now it Is the candy sweet Gets shoved on to a back seat And lies sad and forgotten in its case. For the soda fountaiu biz, With its cool, refreshing fizz. Rakes in all the dimes and nickles in the place. , — Dansville, Breeze. A Disingenuous Hack.—Airs fash tied (dis sembling, having engaged a conveyance by the hour)—You must come over and take a drive with me, my dear Airs. Censer. Our new car riage is awful roomy. Mrs. Censer (glancing at the carriage lamp, not to lie bamboozled)—Yes, I noticed that it's built for a number.— Tid Bils. “I give thee aw), I can no more,” The shoemaker said ho; “The bench and tools are all my storey You may as well lake me. My sole is in my business, I Shall stick unto the last. And when I peg my latest, sigh Shall be hand-sewed and fast.” —New York Morn ing Journal. Romance and Reality. Eastern Alan—So you are one of those writers who demoralize the youth of (he country with dime novels, eh? Western Author—Do-moralize the youth? “Yes, sir. Thousands of Eastern boys have been so carried away with those tales that they have run off from home, gone to the West to fight Indians, and—dear only knows what has become of them.” “My dear sir, they have done no harm. You will fina most of them earning an honest liv ing ns waiters in hash-houses.”— Omaha World. A comical incident was observed at Congress Spring Park a night or two ago. There was a very large attendance, and the concert was par ticularly fine. For a wonder a couple of vigorous dogs had eluded the watchfulness of the gute keepers and were enjoying the freedom of the parade ground. They were not long in finding each other out and were on thi ■ best of terms. It may have been that Gartland’s music “sooth ed their savage breasts” into unwonted quiet. As soon as it ceased, however, and a vigorous clapping of hands began by wav of applause, the two animals flew at each other w ith great fury and hail as earnest a light as if they had been enemies front puppyhood The dogs had mistaken the applause as a “sick ’em” from respective champions, and they fought it out on that basis.— Saratoyian. PERSONAL. Mayor Francis A. O'Keefe, of Limerick, will visit this country in September. Senator Wade Hampton has been catching salmon and getting sun burned iu Canada fora couple of weeks. It has been Intimated that. Prince-elect Ferdi nand, of Rulgaria, will marry tho Archduchess Valerie, of Austria. After Jules Verne has finished his novel of the civil war he should try his hand nt a muga sine article on the battle of Gettysburg. JointANN Alost, the Anarchist leader; Is making a mint of money by his monthly publi cation, which ig called The International Lib rary. Oufen Victoria is going to institute? an order of literary merit, consisting of twenty knights, fifty knights' companions and one hundred com panions. RonniT IjOuih Stevenson is again seriously HI r.t Bournemouth. There is some fear that lie will never be strong enough to make his con templated American journey. Mai. Gen. Baird, Inspector General of the Oni'ed States army, sailed for Europe Satur day. commissioned by the President to watch tile maniuuvres of tho various armies abroad. Rev Phillips Brooks fairly takes the breath of droning English church-goers by his rapid delivery. The Queen bus “commanded” the distinguished American divine to appear before her at Windsor. It appears that Congressman Phelan, of Mem phis. Is not. aft r all, the youngest member of the Fiftieth Congress. Congressman Shively, of Indiana, was born iu March, 1557, a year later than Mr Phelan. Bm Gkohok O. Trevelyan had his watch stolen on Friday night after the political meet ing whle'i he aililrcsso lln the Bridgeton Divi sion of Glasgow, which he is contesting on be half of the Gladstonians. Benator-e Liter Daniel, of Virginia, will add another to the list ot fmie toon in the Senate, lie uses crutches owing to a misshapen limb. Respite iiis tlis ibility. however, lie served In the late war as Adjutant General of Ewell's division It has been some time since tlie American public has heard anything about Louise Michel, the famous Parisian agitator. It seems she hn: been devoting herself to literary work, and will soon publish a volume of poems entitled ”Les OccanHimt's." Few people know anything uljout Marion. Muss., where Mrs. Clrwland is now located. The place lias boon described, however, ill a well-known novel. Henry James, in "The Bos te lians. " makes liso Ilf a village culled "Marmi on" as a huekgrouud for Certain inuiortant in cidents 111 Ills story. In a visit, to It. \V. (older, of the Century, at. Marion, Mr. Janies received (he inspiration w hich led to bis descriptions of "Marmloty a "little straggling loosely clus tered town." Misa Rom: Elizabeth Cleveland has some of her brother's prejudice neatest newspapers. Bite writes to the editor or a Maine magaziuo that she has not given iid literary work for periodicals, she up s she has been au associate editor with Mrs. Lamb Sims' June 1 on the Magazine of Antrriran History To the Maine editor she turner mys: "The untruthful and InvontlviMiewspapertare at fault and not your self My work in Mrs. Reed’s school for the next year is that of an associate, not assist int, and Is In connection with uiy historical work m Mcacrai.” FUNNIEST OF FAMILIES. All Chronic Lauffhors from the Old Folks Down to the Bable3. Writing from Now York a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch makes record of Jersey oddity thus: Jersey's laughing family reside in a large, substantial house not far from tho Delaware river, in Hunterdon county. The father and sons are farmers and prosperous and well-to-do. The entire family are chronic laughers, having an affection of the muscles of tho mouth and throat tliat compels them to give vent to ap parent merriment at stated intervals. The malady first appeared in the father about a dozen years ago. He was seated at the dinner table one day in the spring of the year, eating steadily nnd not engaging in any of the conver sation. Suddenly, without ant cause, he burst into a loud lit of laughter, so extremely different from his accustomed laugh that alt were at tracted by it at once. Peai after peal of what squirted like the heartiest kind of fun came from him, and nothing would avail to prevent it. The father continued laughing until about sundown, when he suddenly stopped and fell on the floor, completely prostrated. It continued, recurring each day shortly after noon and in the night about 8 o'clock, anti has ever since. The trouble was very regular in its coming anti going, and occassionatly broke forth at un looked-for seasons. Once tho old tnan was taken in church, just when the minister was ex horting his hearers in the most solemn strains, and spoiled the effect of the discourse lieside disturbing the equilibrium of the clergyman. Another time he was found by one of the neigh bors along the road, lying beneath a bag of flour, laughiiigata terrific rate. He has been ta ken while driving home from the mill, and the suddenness of the sounds frightened the horse, causing it to run away and dump the man and part of his load out in the road. For eighteen months the father was the only one of the household afflicted with the malady. Several of them had complained from time to time of an inclination to loin the father in tho laugh, but none of them did so until nearly two years after he was taken. When Susie the youngest child suddenly burst into a similar tit during one of her father’s attacks. From that time on she has laughed at about the same hours her fat her does. Olio by one the remaining members fell victims to the strange complaint until two years ago there was but one left free, and that was Charles, the eldest son. His long exemption led him to believe lie would escape the malady. But he was mistaken, and it is said he had his first attack while proposing for the hand of a girl at Wilkesbarre, Fa. So frightened was the maiden by Charles' queer behavior that she ran from the room, and it was weeks liefore the proper explanation could induce her to see him again. She is now one of thy family, and, escaping the malady, never minds the hideous chorus of laughter which twice a day' resounds through the house. Several grandchildren have been horn, and in all but one instance they were taken soon after birth with stated attacks at the same hour as their parents. Of course they do not laugh as the older ones do, hut they crow and express all the signs of baby glee twice a day. and never cry while in that state. If the disease con tinues in the new generation the laughing family may ultimately become a laughing village. YACCO SHAVES HERSELF. A Monkey That is Rapidly Adding to Her Stock of Accomplishments. From the New York World. Adolphe Beyer, of No. 19 Fulton street, Brook lyn, has a monkey which, though young and comparatively untutored, is learning a thing or two. Yacco was bought from a ship carpenter who brought her from Brazil six months ago. Mr. Beyer has allowed her the run of the sheds and back yard. When the warm weather came Yacco elected to live on the sloping roof of the shed and watch the movements of the men as they came into tho vurd. Al ter a while she could imitate a drunken man to perfection, even to the hiccoughing and the leaning against the wall with closed eyes. A few days ago someone throw a piece of a broken mirror to Yacco, and she clutched it and ran with it to the highest ]><lint her chain would permit her to reach, where she examined it she does everything. Bhe was not long in seeing her own sweet face, much to her surprise. She then sat on her haunches, held the bit of glass between her fore paws and glanced cautiously over it at the back in the ex pectation of seeing another monkey, but she •lid not. She did this several times, and at length, judging from the ray of intelligence that swept across her expressive countenance, realized the truth. She held on to the mirror like grim death, however, and gazed at herself every snare moment. These who know Yacco assert that there is a kind of proud, intellectual look on her face not observable there before the looking-glass came into her possession. On Saturday she surpassed herself. She had, through a window, been watching her master shave himself. When he was through she re tired to a quiet corner of her shod, procured a piece of hoop, rubbed her face with the back of a feather, and then calmly began shaving tier self. When discovered Mr Boyer says her face was suffused with a blush, which, however, he admits may have arisen from the friction caused by the scraping process. A OAT STEALING A RIDE. Finding a Seat on the Truck Frames of a Fast Train. A dispatch from Kingston, N. Y., to the New Ycrk Tribune says: There was a passenger on the Saratoga and Catskill Mountain West Shore train for Saratoga lust night who traveled with out ticket or pass. The conductor bad entirely overlooked him until the train rolled into the union depot here, and even then he would have escaped the vigilant eyes of the ticket puncher but for the discovery of a peering trainmen It was a sleek and well-fed out and he was sitting quietly curled up on one side of the truck frames of n baggage coach. Some of the trainmen thinking to have a little sport drove the animal down from his pereh. but he quickly jumped to his place again and would not h ave it. He went off with the train to Saratoga. It is be lieved he belonged to some person on the train, whom he had followed from homo, concealing himself amoug the baggage, resolving to join bis mistress on her summer vacation trip. An effort to find the owner of the faithful cat was being mode when the train left here. Min© Shtyort. I haf’ a friend, more faithful der vas none, He sbtiek to mo. no matter vat I done; He nefer slmeak off by un odder shtreet. As of he was afraid he got to treat. Dot friend he vas von of der noble sort; Dot vas mine shaggy dawg. I call him Shport. Dot friend of me vas’ujvayu youst so proud As of I vas der biggest in der crow and. He nefer take offense nt vat I say. But alvays turn mine shcoldings into blay, Uud of I efer sthrike him, den his eye Look youst so sad as of he gone to cry. Und of it efer happen dot I get In troubles, vhy, lie shilck much closer yet, Und of 1 say: “Good dawg, mine line old Shport." He feel so proud und happy as a lord. Oft, ven I rest me by some shady tree, He conio und lay Ids het oopou my knee; Of he could only shpeak. 1 know lie say: “Now, don't you fear; I keep all harm avay.” Und ven I sometimes far avay must roam, Und haf to leaf mine trusty Shport at home He vas so glad to sis* me after vhile, It seem to hie der dawg vas von big shmile I told you it vas “gar l;ci" use to talk, Der vas no friend so fait'fu) as a dawg, He nefer "sour" on you, mark mine vord. Dot vns der reason vhy I lof mine Shport." Emile PicxriAKUT (“Mentor.") Tho Innocent Youth and the Wicked Driver. From the New York Tribune. Isaac Jahrouski, a youthful and innocent ven der of .V. neckties, was standing at Ptirkuvoiuio and Fifty-ninth street, w ben the driver of a bob tail car stopped his bom* in front of the youth and exclaimed: "llelloa, let's look nt your tics." Isiac was delighted, and as he quickly stcpiicd out to the ear, visions of profit on a sc. tie floated through hi< deluded brain. "Dees is von lovely necktie—so cheep,” he said in tones of deep admiration, as with a smile lie hold out a muddy looking specimen for Inspection. The driver look il. crammed ii into bis iioeket und remarked wickedly as a grin spread over bis face: "Thanks, awfully." Then “Geotap!" lie exclaimed sharply to Uhl horse, and before tho astonished Isaac could collect his wita, not to ■speak of his 5e., the car*was half a I-lock away. “vere ees dot ruouey'" screamed Isaac ns the dread night mure ivemed to Isieome a horrible reality, and be realized that be and not his wares had been “sold." But the “moneys” came not. neither did tbe driver re-turn, anil as the car vuntstied In ihr distance Isaac remarked with an air of deep conviction, net altogether unwarranted by his recent experience: ‘T vas von fool.” A pain In the bowels, from whatever cause, may be relieved by Fred. Brown's Jamaica Gin ger. Philadelphia, io*B. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Nearly 75 per cent, of tho inmates of the New York City Insane Hospital are foreign bom, ilio Superintendent states. The Athletics of Bergen Po:nt, N. J., played a game of base Iwill at that place a day or two ago with a nine composed of well known theatrical people, who appeared in costume. Twenty young men competed last week at Westfield, Mass., for a West Point cadetship, and the examining surgeon was compelled to rejected ten of them on account of *'tobacco heart,’’ brought on by cigarette smoking. Tiie Islo of Man steamer Queen Victoria is claimed by her admirers across the water to be Iho fastest steam vessel in the world. She re cently ran from Greenock to Liverpool in nine hour;, averaging a speed of 26.62 miles an hour. A portion of the trip was made in,the teeth of a gale of wind. The Conservatory the organ of tho colored folks of Chicago, has this to say about the Mc- Garigle episode: “So you let McQorigle g**t away, did you? I ’noweu it, leastways I ’spec ed it. You all was too particular ‘bout bis health an* his high toned ways, ff ho had been a col ored man put in jail for grabbla’ a stray chfcken they’d dun put him in a cHI and forgot he was there. This way makin’ fish out o’ one man an’ dog meat out o’ ’nother ain’t right." The latest fasting girl reported is Lulu Grim, of Cumberland county, N. U. Lula is J 9 years old, and until Juno 7 was robust. On that day she declared that sho could not and would not swallow anything. Since that day nothing, not even a drop of water, passed her lips until July 2t'. the fifty second day of her long abstinence. She then took a tablespoonful of chicken broth. Her emaciation is not extreme after her long fast, and she does not seem to suffer from its effects. Two bears chased a West Grcenleaf (Mich.) man. He climbed a tree which was too small for the bears' grasp, but they hung around the neighborhood for five hours, while the man, who had been to school and could read and write and make a speech and vote, remained aloft because he was afraid to come down. At the end of that time his wife came over tbe same route, and, upon meeting the bears, flapped her apron like she was driving chickens out of the garden, and they ran away. New government envelopes, it is stated, are to be issued about Sept. 10. The 10. envelope will he blue in color, the 2e. green, the 4c. car mine, the sc. Milori blue, the 10*;. chocolate, the 30c. Bismarck brown, and the 90c. pnrple. The 10c., 30c. and flOc. stamps will not be changed. The dies for the new designs have been com pleted. It is not probable that any of the old will bo issued after this month, enough being made from now on to supply the interval from Sept. 1 to Sept. 10. Hon. J. F. Casanova, of Philadelphia, was sitting in his office reading, when he heard a sharp click, and felt something enter his right eye. On examination he found that a small scale of glass had burst from his eyeglasses. Going to a barber’s shop, he had a stream of water injected forcibly, by means of a rubber tube, under tbe eyelid', with the effect of wash ing out the sliver of glass, which was about the size and shape of a shad's scale. No harm was done to the eye whatever. A short time before the accident the frame of the eyeglasses had been tightened. The interesting statement is made in the last municipal reports of the corporation of Chel sea, near London, that, contrary to what has generally been assumed in the relations of oc cupation and health, the sewermen of that place show marvelous health and vitality, not withstanding they spend seven hours daily in the sewers, often in cramped up positions, dealing with offensive -and dangerous matter. One of the sewermen, who is now pensioned off, is R 6 years ok!, and was a sewerman for more than twenty-eight years: another, who is yet at work, is 74, and has followed this occupation more than thirty years. A stranger applied fqr work at slating on a new house in Newark, N. J., a few days age, and w*as given a job with another man. The two men were working near the hole where the chimney was to be placed, when tho stranger suddenly disappeared while hij companion’s hack was turned. The latter looked from the edge of the roof to the ground, but could see nothing. He then peered down the chimney hole and could see the man lying in the cellar. He had fallen through a hole sixty feet to the ground. He was insensible when picked up, and was revived with some brandy. An hour afterward the stranger dragged himself to a street car and was earned away. None of the workmen knew tho man. T. C. Crawford writes from London to the New York World that the paper with the largest income in England is the Daily Tele graph. Its circulation is nearly 300,000, aud its net profits are $1,500,000. It has n reserve fund of 30,000,000. Tlio London Times has only a iout 60,000 circulation. Its net income is about $750,000. The Standard has 210,000 cir culation. and clears about as much as- the Times. The circulation of the Daily News is put at 100,000, and its profits at $500,000 a year. Tin* Graphic and the Illustrat'd Loudon News each clear more Ilian ssoo.o9oannually. Lloyd's Weekly is worth $350,000 a year to the pro prietor. None of the London papers are any thing like as enterprising as the great dailies in t he United States. Mrs. Beecher has finally agreed to write a series of articles for publication in the weekly papers of this country and Canada. The arti cles will lie devoted mainly to social topic?, ranging from marriage and divorce to the dress and care of children, and thence on to society in general, education, and the domestic duties of women. It is officially stated that Mrs. Beecher’s purpose in writing these papers is not a money-making one, us the insurance upon iter husband'slife, added to their savings, has placed her beyond th<* reach of want. Since tho great preacher’s death, however, the lady has iiad little or no occupation, and as idleuess lends ..only to brooding in her case, she has wisely de cided to go to work. She is now at the home of her son-in law in Stamford, but will return to Brooklyn in the fall. The young King of Spain, says the Pall Mall Gazette writer, was one year old on June 18. The Tailor’s Guild of Madrid respectfully asked permission of Queen Christiana to present his juvenile Majesty with his first uniform. The Queen regent cheerfully gave her assent, aud now the tailors are busy cut ting out and sewing, out of the finest cloth manufactured, tho small est uniform that was probably ever made for a monarch. It is elaborately trimmed with real gold lace and much ornamented. The question of rank arose and was submitted to the Queen. On his first birthday the King, who was enrolled in the army from his birth, was to be promoted. In the Spanish army the officers wear the insig nia of rank on the sleeve, hence it was necessary for the tailors to know his degree of rank. The Queen’s decision has not yet been made known. A tiny sword, a veritable baby sword, with a hilt of gold that is said to be a masterpiece of the jeweller’s art, goes with this remarkable uniform. Istehestino STATISTICS relating to the new insurance law in Massachusetts prohibiting life insurance companies from discriminating be tween white and colored people in rates have been prepared by the insurance commissioner and summarized by the Springfield Republican. They show that nn.ro c lore.l women than men live to he (to and 100, and more women die than men. With the whites, however, the men don't have as good a show. For, whether they are married or single, more of them die than women: but strangely enough, more widows die than widowers. Thus a woman is much surer of life while single or married than a man. but in widowhood she must surrender any such phy sical siuieriority. How regardless both widow ers and widows are of these statistical con clusions can bo seen in the fact that widowers ar" much more prone to marry (ban widows, A curious thing is that more colored people die from hums than from any oilier form of neei dent. Few of them commit suleldp and few be conie insanb. One white man in every 484 goes crazy, and one of the colored race in every I ff!*. The Sacramento Her publishes a lively letter from a Washington oorros|>nndent, who snvs: "I met the wife of a Western Congressman in the Corcoran (biliary here yesterday. While she does not by any means represent a typo of Washington women, she yet combines so many traits that are found among them dial she Is in u certain sense representative. She seems to bo in a sort of transition stale in every particular not only an to mental eharaclerisl ies, hut even in her att ire and maimer. She had on a bonnet that reached the furthest extreme of fashion, a pair of thiclt-soleil and awkward hoots that could only have l>oen made by a buck-country cobbler. and her attire vns an indescribably odd collection of various styles and fashions. Immediately beneath the new-fashioned bonnet she had an old-fasbioimd bang. Her eyes were bright, her color perfect. and she talked with an enjoyment of one who was upder a perpetual spell of excitement In summing ini her attire I should place it some what ns follows: Shoes. Keokuk; bonnet. Peris; cloth Jacket. London: gown, Washington: mas sive gold chain. Chicago: parasol. Now York; girdle. Vienna: accent.. London. lowa. Paris, Illinois, New York. New Knglnntl. tlerme.nv South Carolina and Ireland. That those wear ing elements will shortly iovohc a dashing rep ivaeutatiie American uoiutin is luo result to bo looked luu.” ...... BAKING POWDER. WEIG&p-v, Used by the United States Government. En dorsad by the heads of the Great Universities m the Strongest, Purest and most Heal tifful. Dr Price’s the < nly Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Bold only ff Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. BT. LOI'IS, ZOXWEISB CREAM. 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