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4 Cl)t!Horniiuißttos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga, SATURDAY. AVGUST 1 ft. ISS7. Registered at the Post Ofits' in Savannah. '~ Thr Morning News is published every day in fhe year and is served to sul#cril>ers in the city, bv riewsdeiders and can lers. on their own ac count at cents a week. Si 00 a month, J 5 00 for six months and Sin 00 for one year. The Morning News, hu mail, one month, fl 00; thr.'e months, S-* 50; six months, $5 (.*>, one rear. SlO 00. Tlie Morning News, la/ mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), throe months •2 00; six months. ~d 00 one year. ?' 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday s Tliur davs and "Saturdays, three months, Jl 05; six months. $2 60: one year, jo 00. The SvMiAV News, by mail, one year. ® 00. _ The Weekly News, by mail, one year. ?1 25. Subscriptions pavablr in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter, Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders letters and teleerams should bo addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Da." Advertisin/T rates made known on application Index to new advertisements. Special Notices Rase Rail. Amateurs vs Plurnix; Excursion to Augusta via Central Railroad To-night; to Stockholders Jasper Mutual loan Association. Steamship ScHEDCi.r Ocean Steamship Cos. Residence for Rent or Sale—Henry Blttn. For the Asking 1,. &B. S. M. H Cotton Seed Wanted The Southern Cotton Oil Cos. Cheap Colcmn Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; lost; Miscellaneous Legal Notices To liebtors and Creditors, Wm. P. Hardee, Administrator Arabelle V. Sweat, Decease,!. Pianos—Schreiner's Music House. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION -OF THE- Savannah Morning News —AND THE Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE Ih&lEI) OX SEPTEMBER 3d, JSH7. The Annual Special Edition of the Daily and Weekly News will be issued Sept. 3. It will contain a complete and comprehensive review of the trade of the city for the past year, and will show the progress the city has made in everything that heljw to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and the different branches of tlie city's wholesale trade will be so presented as to give a clear idea of the city's business for the year ending Sept. 1. The business men of Savannah cannot make a better investment than by Inlying copies of the JfoßXixo Nfws Annual Special Edition and sending them to their friends and correspon dents. A newspaper like this Special Edition, containing an accurate account of the business of this city, is the best advertisement of the energy- and activity of the people of Savannah. Every citizen, whether ho is a capitalist, mer chant, manufacturer, mechanic ora man of leis ure. should feel a pride in the progress the city is making, and in presenting to the world the Inducements which it offers to those who are seeking homes in the South. This Special Edition will be sent to all sub scribers of the Daily and Weekly News, and a large number of extra copies will bo mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Bavannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and space in its columns can lie ob tained upon application to the Business Office. The convict population of the United States is said to number (‘4JS4O. It would be greatly increased if every criminal had his just dues. The ladies who crowded the House gal leries in the eapitol at Atlanta during the Felton-Simmons wrangle doubtless wished they had stayed at home. The wrangle verged close upon the indecent at- times. A Western newspaper has tho motto: “Our aim is to fear God, tell the truth alid make money.” If the editor is at all like Chicago editors he may make money, but he will not succeed in the other two parts of bis aim. On Aug. 10 Mr. A. S. Abell, the founder and senior proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, completed his Mist year. Mr. Abell’s oltl age is crowned with one of the greatest of all blessings, the respect and affection of those by whom he is surrounded. The statement is made that within the last year Mi' George I. Sc rev has added to his collection pictures valued at $250,000. He has entirely recovered his fortune. His friends in Georgia will be glad to know that he is no longer financially embarrassed. The Baltimore American joins in the ef fort to extend the fame of the Hon. W. C. Glenn, of the county of Whitfield. Refer ring to the honorable gentleman's poem en titled “Rest,” the American says: “We would advise the poet to eat less water melon.” Senor Zuniga, a Mexican Wiggins, who predicted that a disastrous earthquake would occur on August 10, has had to fits? in order to avoid rough treatment. The earthquake did not materialise. Benor Zuniga and all his tribe aro nuisances that should receive no attention. Mnhonc and his Republican allies in Vir ginia have decided that a Republican con vention in that State will not lx* necessary. The Republican Ktute Central Committee will issue an address and then trust to Mahone’s schemes to get control of the Legislature. A bitter disappointment is in store for Mahone and his satellites. The colored editors at their I/iuisviile convention seem to have been in the mood to denounce nearly everybody and almost everything. They apixxmd not to know how to make friends: or, if they did know how to make them, they seemed not to care to do so. The oolorod editors would find con cilitation a more profitable policy than de nunciation. The Atlanta .Journal says: “It is pain ful to learn that Col. Light, of the Salva tion Army, plucked in elussic Athens only one ‘brand from tlie burning.’ Tho single convert went with him to pastures green in Savannah.” If the Colonel and his convert started to Savannah they must have gotten lost on the way, for they have not yet ar rived. That is, the jxaceful calm ot the night in this neighborhood has not yet been broken by the dismal tonus of a religious Utu> drum. Building Up the Navy. Secretary Whitney’s management of the : Navy Deportment commands the respect | even of his political opponent-. No Ro : publican newspaper pretends that in huild | ing the new navy ho is governed by any j tiling but the purest motives and the strict !i st business principles. Bids are invited for I tlie new vessels as fast as the government is I ready to give out the contracts for them, and the bids which are received contain no | hint of jobbery. They are made by re sponsible men who understand that all will be treat-sl alike, and that no favoritism will he shown on account of politics or anything else. This is all very different from the con dition of affairs which existed when Mr. Robeson and Mr. Chandler were •at the head of the Navy Department. These two men, during their respective administrations of the de partment, spent many millions of the pub lic money, but neither of them left anything in the shape of naval vessel*, which showed what they had done with the money which had passed through their hands. Indeed, there was always about the Navy Depart ment while they were at the head of it a suspicion that there was a lobby somewhere about, and that contracts could only lie obtained through its help. Old vessels were repaired at art enormous cost, and when all that could tic done upon them hail lieen done they were generally unfit for sea. If there was not dishonesty there was at least extravagance which came so near dis honesty as to be scarcely distinguishable from it. A fen days ago bids were opened at the Navy Department for three new cruisers and two gunboats. Merabersof the bidding firms were present and everything was done inanopon and straightforward way. Every body was satisfied, lieoause it was evident that everybody was justly treated. Tlie bids covered all the vessels, but the one for the cruiser Newark will hardly lie ao cepteil, as it was not based upon the plans furnished by the Navy Department, but by the bidders, who agret-d to give a guarantee that they would build a vessel that would answer the government’s requirements and give satisfaction. Gradually the new navy is taking shape. If Mr. Whitney remains at the head of the department a few years more, or if he is succeeded at the end of his term by an honest and thoroughly capable man, it will not be long lie fore we shall have a navy of which we shall have reason to be proud. Judge Endicott’s Horses. Some of the Republican journals are try ing to amuse their readers at the expense of Judge Endieott, the Secretary of War. Judge Endieott wanted a pair of horses be cause the pair his predecessor, Mr. Lincoln, left him were worn out. He notified Col. Batehelder to purchase a pair, and he told him that while he did not want expensive horses he was particular about their color. He wanted bay horses, though why he pre fers bay to black, or white or gray horses ho did not say. Doubtless ho has a very good reason for his preference. The horses were purchased and the voucher forwarded to the accounting officer of the Treasury. That official promptly refused to pass it. because money appropriated by Con gress for army transportation cannot be legally used in purchasing horses for the Secretary of War. The cost of tbo horses was #SOO, and doubtless they are very handsome animals. If Judge Endieott keeps them he will have to pay for them himself. Congress, how ever, may reimburse him for the outlay, liecause Judge Endieott regards them ns lielonging to the government and not to himself. This little incident shows how careful Democratic officials are in distributing the people's money. Doubtless Judge Endioott’s predecessor had no trouble in having tho vouchers for horses for his use paid, although the law that is in force now is the same that his been in force for years. Judge Hndicott has not complained that he has been un justly treated. He is willing t.o abide by the law. Precedent led him to believe that tho course bo adopted was the right one. When he found that it wasn’t, he simply re gretted that he luid not examined the law instead of following a Republican prece dent. Republican precedents are bad things to follow if one desires to go straight. Col. Canaday, Sergeant-at-arms of tho United States Senate, went to Moptreal the other day to have a conference with Sena tor Sherman. He was accompanied by John Lynch, tho mahogany-colored indi vidual who beat Geti. Powell Clayton for temporary chairman of the last Republican National Convention. Lynch is a power among theeolored Republicans of the South, and has an especially strong hold in the State of Mississippi. It is said that Col. Canaday and Lynch wanted Senator Sher man to furnish money enough to buy up the Mississippi delegation to the Republican Nn tional Convention next year. It is also said that Senator Sherman agreed to furnish whatever amount might be deemed neees sary. Mr. Blaine would do well to come home and open his barrel. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: “Georgians are still men of honor. On Sunday two prominent citizens of At lunta resorted to revolvers in the discussion of a grievance, anil one killed the other. It is not probable that he will be severely punished.” The Advertiser seems to lie un able to print the truth where Georgia is concerned. The prominent citizen who was killtsl itt Atlanta lost his life while acting as a peacemaker. The man that, killed him was not a citizen of Atlanta. The Utica, N. Y., Observer says: “Mr. Fennimorc Cooper King, our colored fellow townsman, is contemplating a trip to Wash ington. A Mr. King once started for 8a vannah, Go., with only 2.V. hi his pocket awl got there with .‘lsc. left, no doubt he call go to Washington if ho wants to.” As a rule men of Mr. King’s color incroa-e their capital by traveling. They have no fuith in tho saying that a rolling stone gathers no moss. William Carson, deputy sheriff of Conejos county, Colorado, and well known through out tho West as tho eldest sou of the great path-finder, Kit Carson, was murdered on Thursday of last week by a man named Virgil. Many who have read of the ex ploits of Kit Carson with deep interest will regret that his son has been overtaken by such a fate. A school teacher at Chestnut Mound, Tettn., lias been notified that he cannot teach in that community because he favors prohibition. A b)xly of armed men have taken possession of tho school house and threaten to kill him if he tries to enter. In cidents like this aro always an aid to the wolnbitiou causa TITF. MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST I?,. 1887. A Resolution Which Caused Surprise. The resolution of the City Council op posing tiie course of the county in the old cemetery matter was doubtless something of a surprise to the County Commissioners and tlie public. The impression all along has been that it made no difference whether tho city or the county got ]tot-session of the cemetery provided steps were at once taken to improve it. The improvement of tha place is what the public wants. Doubtless the county does not want to get into a controversy with the city over tho question of which has the right to the pos session of the cemetery. Tlie city has boon trying for years to get possession of it, and has not succeeded. The county had the his tory of the cemetery looked up, and reached tho conclusion that the title to it rests in the .State, It concluded, therefore, to ask tho State for it. If the title docs not rest in the State, then the State will not undertake to give the county a title. But there should not l>e any wrangling between the city anti county concerning the cemetery, liecause that will still further tie lay its improvement. If tho city objects to the bill which the county has hail intro duced into the Legislature with regard to it, let the city mid county authorities have a conference with the view of reaching a basis for harmonious action. A little mis understanding now may result in complica tions which will keep tho cemetery in its present condition for ten years or more. If tho city wants a part, of the ground for a city hall it ought to have no difficulty in getting it. There is room enough for a court house, city hall, and even for a church, if it shall appear that the claim of Christ church is a valid one. In fact, the old cemetery will accommodate all of these buildings, and there will lx? room enough for armory sites for which several military organizations are now look ing. . The suggestion that a memorial tomh be erected in some part of tlje cemetery, in which to place the bodies which may !x found there, appears to have allayed what ever opposition there was to the improve ment of the place. It is to lie regretted, therefore, that the city proposes to antQgo nize tho county in its ofTort to make the cemetery a place of beauty. It ought to welcome any chance to get rid of such an unsightly blotch oir the fair faco of the city. Sure of tho Mugwumps. In the current number of Harper's Weekly Mr. George \V illiatu Curtis has something to say about his address at the Newport meeting of the National Civil Ser vice Reform League last week, and also about the resolution which the league adopted. Rethinks that tho criticisms on his ad dress and the resolution which have ap pears! in the Republican press are not sup ported by the facts. While tho league is dissatisfied with the President’s civil service reform record, it is not ready to abandon him. It looks upon him as certain to be a candidate for a second term, and as between him and other probable candidates tlie leaguo will support him, because it regards him as very much more tho friend of civil service reform than any one of them. This is a sort of a confession that the President has really acted honestly and squarely with the [teople and has kept all the promises that he made to them, and it is an ndmisssion that it is about impossible for the President to put into practical operation the civil service notions which are enter tained by reformers of the George William Curtis type, tM course Mr. Curtis does not say this in so many words, hut it is a legiti mate inference front what he d.xjs say. It is evident that Mr. Cleveland will have the support of the Mugwumps for a second term. The Constitutional Centennial Commis sion announces the following outline of the principal ceremonies at Philadelphia on Sept. 15, lti and 17: Oil the loth a proces sional industrial display will take place, and the Governor of Pennsylvania will hold a public reception in honor of the Governors of tho States and Territories present at the celebration. On the Pith a military parade and review will occur. It is extteetod that from 12,000 to 15,000 State troops will take part, aided by tho Governors and their staffs and detachments from the United States army and navy. In tho evening of tho same day a reception in honpr of the President of tho United States will lie held. On the 17t.h special services of commemora tion will ho held, at which tho President will preside. The oration w.ll be pronotincd by Justice Miller, of tho United States Su preme Court. There will also be a poem, national hymns and vocal and instrumental music. Gov. Gordon will attend the cele bration. He has requested the members of his staff to accompany hint, and it is proba ble that all of them will do so. Ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, is rapidly degenerating into n condition not far re moved from idiocy. Ho objects to preachers voting with either tho Democratic or the Republican party, and places the responsi liility for the evils of the liquor traffic at tho door of the church. At Mountain Park, near Wilkexbarre, Pa., the other day, he saitl that if preachers, deacons and members of the church did not vote for the continu ance of the traffic by casting their ballots for the candidates of one or the other of the old parties it would be stnmptsl out within a year. He held that no man who professed to be a follower of Christ could, if lie acted according to his professions, vote with any other party than the Prohibition party. Ex-Gov. St. John dot's the temperance cause more injury titan good by such utterances, and confirms the impression that he hop's to become President with the aid of the Prohibition party. There is not entire satisfaction with tho Atlantic cable anti swift European steamers. A yo.ing Frenchman. Lieutenant Mallet, of tho French balloon Society .says that within the next twelve months the Atlnntie ocean will bo crossed by French bulloonists. Mr. Mallet is quite a young man, not more than 2(1 or 28 years of age, a capable aeronaut and a thorough enthusiast on matters con nected with tho construction of balloons. It was he, says the Paris correspondent of tho Philadelphia I'cess, who designed the Ho rila,on which Capt. Jovis, Guy do Mautias stint and a party of journalists and himself went down from Paris to Heyst, a little Belgian town, last week. Lieutenant Mal let says that he expx'ts to start from this country for Europe in a balloon sometime between October and January next, with tho hope of making tho journey in about, thirty-five hours. Of the 2.i0 captains in the regular army ; lllfi are more than 45 years old. The other 57 will likelv be thrice 45 years old before being promoted. CURRENT COMMENT. The South Against the Republican Party. fYowi the Xric York Evening Post (Ind.) He must. Ik* very simple who wipposes that a party with nrh a record up to August, IW, can by any invisible device attract the votes of Southern States in November, 1888. Three Booms. From the Missouri Republican (Dent.) The Sherman boom has gone to Alaska and the Blaine boom to Ireland, but the Cleveland boom is staying right lien* in our midst, where it properly belongs, reaching for a low-hanging l>erfiirnmon with a high reaching pole. This Is Our Country. From the Richmond Dispatch (Dem. We trust that the Northern people will soon learn that the Southern Confederacy is defunct —‘‘died on the field of honor” -and that there is no more probability of anew Southern con federacy than there is of a confederacy between Virginia and the Northwestern States. This is our country. Separate Schools North and South. From the Washington Post (Dem.) Attention is called to the fact that Conuncti out did not abolish separate schools for white and colored children until 1835, that not until IKV) was the sei>arate school system done away with in Maaftacnuset tand not until 1887 in Ohio. It may lie added that if there were as many negro children in these Status in proportion to white children os in the District of Columbia Virginia or Georgia, separate schools would have continued to t his day. BRIGHT BITS. An Ohio tame crow has lived to pass his thir ty second birthday Funny that some of the politicians didn't eat him long ago.— Detroit Ever Press. It is probably untrue that Jay Gould clips off his coupons with a lawn mower. He keeps hjs bonds in a water main and the coupons float off into a tank. -Springfield Union. Girr in Nebraska a man invented anew flv trap a blanket saturated with coal oil which he hung np in his house and burned after it was full of (Jies. Now he's trying to find the house. Buffalo Express. Shf. —Are 3*oll going to the picnic on Tuesday, Georg* ? He Oh, yea. She (with feeble hulifferenee)—Alone. George. He—No; I shall take an umbrella.— Puck. Our little May For want of breath. Was called away All gourd to death. Duluth Paragrnpher. Politiciak— lf you people don't like the can didates we why don't you attend the primaries and shape things t.o suit >*ourselves? Citizen—l can't afford it. “Did you ever try?" “Yes. three times, and had m3’ pocket, picked each time."— -Omaha World. A reporter was chatting with half a dozen Wall street men yesterday, and was accosted by a tramp who wanted anything from a cent to a house and lot. Tin* reporter gave him a dime to get rid of him. Tlie tramp was all thanks and consideration, and, putting on his Sunday gratitude. In* said <as conferring a boon): “You're a brick boss. This is my beat, and I'll strike you every time I see you/’ —New York Sun. Mrs. Wii.liam Thomas, of Pendleton avenue, gave birth to twins ten days ago which will In* classed as among the wonders of infantile his tory. When born, tin* united weight of the twins was hardly three pounds. One of the babies was particularly small: in fact, so dimin utive that it was predicted that it could not live. The prediction proved time, and it died last week. The larger twin was seen yesterday wrapped in cotton hatting and a shawl, and with those appendages it weighs two pounds. Tho* visitor was somewhat staggered by the father s asking: “Whom does it look like?"— Springfield Union. Thf. removal of the old drug store at Norwich calls out this anecdote of Dr. Daniel, the senior partner in the first firm that did business n profitable one. t<*o. in the place: A sharp old lady called at the shop on** day with a prescrip tion. When the doctor had prepared tne same she inquired* “Wimt shall T pay?" He replied: “Three and sixpence" “Now. doctor,'* said the lady, "do be liberal, abate the <xld and let me par the even." “I will, with pleasure," he replied. "Then as three is odd nnd six- is even," said the Indy, “here is a sixpence and that set ties it .'* “That is too bad," groaned the doctor, "but I have this to console me: I have made fourpence halfpenny out of you as it is."— Worcester Spy. In a home on St Charles street, overlooking a lovely rose garden, there swings a parrot; near b3* is the cage of a ycung mocking bird. The other evening such a flood of melody burst from the throat of the mocking bird that polly was quite overcome. “Ani I," thought he. “to be cast entirely in the shade by this youngster who, in his first song, bids fair to he a very marvel among birds? Oh no, oh no! I'll shut him up," And thereupon the parrot raised his croaking voice ami sang, “Prerty Polly Hopkins, how do you do to-day?" ov< r ami over, each time grow ing louder. until he completely silenced the young singer, who has not since dared to sing a note before his less musical, but more confident companion. —New Orleans Picayune. PERSONAL. President Cleveland writes to his wife every day. Hon. Grottos D. Wise, of Virginia, is travel ing in California. Mrs. Langtry's 7.000 acres of California land cost her just SIOO,OOO. Mme. Nevada Palmer has gone to Ems to re main until September. Daniel Canary, the famous bicycle rider, of Meridan, Conn., is lying ill at Madrid, Spain. Comsioqpre Nrrr, who rivaled Tom Thumb as a dwarf some years ago. is selling tickets for a dime museum in Boston. Tun late Francis Gardner, long at the hsad of the Boston Latin*>chool, used to say that “the only satisfaction in life is in being as saucy as you please." Pom Pf.pho paid much attention to the Pas teur Institute in Paris with a view of founding a branch of it in Brazil, where mad dogs abound. George Baer, a Pittsburg mill hand, has in vented a device for drawing the coke ovens which is expected to perform the work of twenty men. It is believed in that the health of the German Emperor is really much worse than is known, and that reports of its true condition are suppressed for reasons of state. Moses Fraley. the St. Louis speculator, is reported to have made $900,000 in Wall street since June 10. He calls a purchase of 3,000 shares of railway stock “a little fl3*er." Senator Mahone's frilled sleeves are orna m-ntH with gold buttons as large as silver half debars; a large cameo ring adorns his left hand and a diamond Hashes through his long thin beard. Manvel Barriant nnd wife of Matamoras, Mux.. re*ently celebrated the eightieth anniver sary of their wedding. Tho husband is hale and heart v at 102, while his wife enjo3*s good health at 90. Has Col. Torn Ochiltree a double? His pres one* at Saratoga. l*ong Branch, Caj>e May and Coney Island was announced on the same day last week. Perhaps the return of the red sun sets hail something to do with this. “No man," says Mr. Buskin in one of his latest essays, "should marry tinder four and twenty; no girl under eighteen." And he adds that the young man should choose his bride "as he would choose his destiny, with range of choice from earth to heaven." J. I'. Caldwell, who receives a large salary for start ing races at Jerome Park, Monmouth Park and ShiNpshe id Bay, is a man nearly (k) years of age, but lie is in splendid physical con dition. He is as agile as a boy, ana his lung power is tremendous. The lift* of a starter seems to lx* a healthful one. In their personal habits Gov. Hill and Roscoe Conkling have various points of resemblance. They seldom touch liquor in any form; they are not fond of tobacco: they cat sparingly, think dtoply. and sleep well. Both arc in fine ph>*si eal condition, and mv able to perform a groat deal of work iu the hottest kind of weather. Sarah Bernhardt is said to have shocked her dear Paris hv emphatically declaring: “I can not play any more in Paris. You Parisians are too |k*oi\ 1 like butter on my bread. So I will have to return to America." Her pet tiger, which she is pleased to call an Algerian blnok cat, haa lieen fined 100 francs for disturbing neighboring families. Oex. Miles well deserves the sword to be pre sented to lum by the inhabitants of Arizona Ter ritory on the anttiverairy of the surrender of Oeronimo. He is to-day the most popular man in Arizona, and justly so. The difficulties which confronted him when he undertook the task of freeing that Territory of hostile Apaches will never 1' understood outside of tlie district most interested in the result. His success has en dcared him to the )>eople of Arizona, who for the first time in years are free from apprehen sions of lndig.ll outbreaks. A Wish. Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine. How fair, how pure. how lovely. How like a rase thou art, I ga/e at thoe and sadness Softly invades my heart. I fee! like gently placing My hands upon thy hair, Praying that God may keep thee So lovely, pure and fair. K. K. He Gave Himself Away. From the San Francisco Chronicle. She would never have been sure if he had not given it away himself. He lmd been spending his vacation at a camp up in the country. She knew there had been several camps there, and some very pretty girls were alleged to have U*eu seen in the neighborhood. She suspect ed. Girls always suspect. They always say they never would l>e so wanting in proper pride as to sus pect, but they do an the same. He had come hack and, of course, he went up to her. They sat on the sofa. The first thing that struck her was that he sat closer up than usual, and when he put bis arm aiound tier it lapped clean over on the same side. *\be didn't like that, hut when he looked into her eyes and said: “My dearest darling, how thin you have grown!"she rose up and left the room. It dawned upon him as he stumbled down the front steps that the stout girl in the woods wasn't the same at all. Crime Must Be Punished. From the Detroit Free Press. "I want to report a burglary at our house," said a little chap not over 7 years old as he en tered the Central station the other day. “Where do you live?" "No. Congress street." "So there was a burglary?" “Yes, sir -an awful burglary." "Well, how was it?" "Why, I went to bod last night and 1 had 3c. in my pocket. 1 never woke up once. This morning when I felt in my pocket one o’ them cents was gone. It was a big one w ith a hole in it. Some burglar must have got it," "Why <to you think so?" " 'Cause pa didn't take it, and ma didn't take it. and it must have been a burglar. Please catch him. sir, and if you want any reward I'll give you the cent. It's against the law to burglar anybody, and I shall have him sent to State prison.” A Necklace of Human Fingers. A Washington dispatch to the New York World says: A curious and interesting relic of Indian barbarism was received at the War De partment a few days ago. It consisted of a necklace of human fingers. Originally there were eleven fingers, strung together atter the manner of necklaces of bears’ claws, but three of them had been lost. The ghastly adornment was captured in an attack on the Northern Cheyennes is 1876. and each finder represented a lire taken by the owner, the big medicine man of th * t ribe. The fingers had been preserved by opening the skin, removing the bones, scraping away all tissues and fatty substances, replacing the bones and subjecting the skin to some tan ning process. The necklace was sent to West Point by C&pt. Bourke, who is engaged in pre paring historical matter relating to the Indians. It was brought from West Point here to be re produced in papier made* at the Smithsonian Institution. Tim scientists there are quite en thusiastic over it, regarding it as a precious specimen of the barbarous habits of the Indians who are fast disappearing. War Department officials, however, look upon it with disgust whenever they are able to summon up sufficient hardihood to take a peep at it. Millionaire Crocker’s Revenge. (!. 11. Pitch in the August Cosmopolitan. It i.s Mr. Crocker* custom to ride home from the railroad offices in Sau Francisco in the democratic street car. Any one who sees him leaning his weary face on his large gold-headed cane would take him for a deacon or a philan thropist, so benevolent is his expression and so immaculate his clerical looking uecktie; but the obserfer would bo greatly mistaken. Crocker has the reputation Or the most merciless of all the millionaires. Some idea of his char acter may be gained from this incident: When he bought the block on which his present resi denee is built the owner of one lot. a stubborn German, at first refused to sell. When his avarice became excited by the millionaire’s in tent eagerness to buy, he gradually increased bis price after each successive offer. Finally < 'rocker became enraged and swore a mighty *>ath that never while he lived would he buy that property. So he built a huge fence, 25 feet high, around the house and lot of the German The latter soon had to remove his house, and the fence, somewhat reduced in height, still re mains to mark the millionaire’s wrath, although the German has been in his grave for several years. Crocker is regarded as worth $30,000,000, of which much is in real estate. Ke Didn’t Enjoy Sea Bathing. From the New York Evening .Sun. An old man with very thin legs, t hin hair and long gray beard emerged from an Asbury Park bathhouse at Fourth avenue bust evening and looked sorrowfully toward Europe. The bathing suit did not fit him by many degrees, and besides it was torn in the back. The old man hesitated for a moment as he observed that the beach loungers were taking him in. He appeared to be entirely alone. From a general survey and his physique one would select him for a deacon in the Baptist church or treasurer of some Sunday school who had escaped with the funds. After looking sadly at the sea, which rolled a healthy swell the sands, he went toward the wafer’s edge at a funeral pace. He folded liis arms and looked some more at the sea, gauging with his gray eye the distance reached by the swell as it came in. It was quite clear to those who watched him that he had never been in the ocean before. “G > on.” shouted one of the dudes, who lay in the sind reading n seaside novel. “Go on; the water won’t hurt you.” The "U man took courage and stepped down to tin* lift* line. He grabbed it with both hands, in came a swell and tickled his hare feet. Fie jtanped to avoid getting his feet wet, but the -alt water had caught him. He danced around a moment on ihe wet sand, as the waves reced ed, and took another step toward Europe. He still bar! hold of the line with one hand. He was about to take another step eastward, when i good round swell came in and knocked both feet from under him. When he came down he lug a hole in the sand, and slid along seaward as the wave went out. Think ng he was gone, he gave one whoop. Hopped over on his stomach, and made for shore <*n all fours like a crab. He did not stop run ning on his hands and knees until he had reached the dry sand. Then he got on his feel and dug sand for his bat h house. He didn’t stop for anything. H** hurriedly threw on his clothes, and walked briskly away, saying not a word to anybody. He will go home and dis courage sea bathing. How a Bottle of Champagne was Won. Narn.4(i ANSETT I*IER, Aug. G.—“l'll l*?t you a bottle she hasn't.” says Mr. Ilrauder Mat tin* ws. ‘Til l>ct you a bottle she has,” says Mr. George Jessop. The Ki<l is sent to ascertain. The Kid is a human roll of butter. 10 years old and painfully curious concerning everything in the heavens above, the earth beneath, and the waters under the earth. Mr. Jessop, in an omnge and black suit, thereupon lies placidly back upon the wet bench, brushing a hot and impertinent sunbeam from his arid but intellectual poll. Mr. Mat thews thoughtfully writes a witticism in the sand, using as a pencil the most intelligent of his dexter toes The momentous question —one which was then agitating the entire crowd of spectators—is whet tier or not a certain New York belle has stockings on She is promenading up the beach with a moist young capitalist. She is entirely in dripping white, with a white poke bonnet. The young woman is evidently one to whom notoriety does not mean anguish. As she stands still, with several soaking admirers about her. the light falls on her symmetrical legs and fe t, and they seem absolutely bare. The kid, wno has dep u rfcu at full .speed, stops when near her. He approaches her cautiously, as if stalking an antelope with great care: but she is not shy. He gets so close that it is clear that he intends to ho sure of the facts. But he turns and conies thoughtfully away. The Kid is palpably disappointed. ‘ H is she got any on?'* asks Mr. Matthews. “Ye-es,” he says, in disgust. The Kid is old beyond his years. Whereupon Mr. Mathews confesses the bottle of ehrunpagne. and Mr. Jessop foreshortening himself with great artist inability, becomes iiolhiug but a huge pair of feet outlined against the face of the curving roller into which he dives. The most persistent bat hers here are two old people, who must Ixj marly 70. They are man and wife. She weai*s a gray cap and pantal. t tes that make her legs entirely presumptive. First, he teaches, her to s\G:n. holding his wrinkled old hand under grandma’s short chin. Then she • lo**H likewise for him. It i< truly the blind leading the blind, but they are happy, and al ways the 1 1.- 1 to come out. Ye derdny she was teaching him to float. She was so interested as j he l in on bs buck, and she supported him with her.hand at his fifth vertebra, ti.ai she did not ! notice a. fg roller oomlug. It tumbled her owr i on top of him. and for some minutes those two j people were two venerable and eccentric gyui- j luists. They were terrtoly mixe 1 up. but they i fiuuljy got straightened out. Everybody hopes that they may learn to swim, they lire so earn est about it. Their remaining years aref few, hut it does not seem possible that the grim reaper, however ripe the g<nin may be, will per mit himself to disturb a task that, lx at once so uuaiul. so amusing, and so pathetic. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The toboggan slide has been introduced at a bathing resort at Bridgeport, Conn. It carries bathers out a long distance iu the water with out exertion on their part. A Texas actress has had the following from Matthew, ii 10, placed at the head of her an nouncement bills: “And behold, when they saw the star they rejoiced greatly." The Conrad family, of Perryville, Mo., have lived a good many years between them all. David R is 77, Elizabeth 75. Jacob 73. William 71. < ’laria 60, George 67, Mary M. 65; total, 407. The family are all in good health. A clerk in the Treasury Department. Wash ington, salary $1,600. has joined the few that resign rather than becoming an exception to the other part of the proverb, on account of the unwholesome condition of the apartment in which he was employed. Two insane persons, occupying the same cell, were cured by a shrewd physician in a curious way. Each of the unfortunate men was pri vately intrusted with the care of the other, and was made to believe that, while he himself was regarded as mentally sound, the other was not. By the constant and active use of their mental faculties in this work both were eventually re stored and discharged as sane. The Ameer of Afghanistan is not a desirable patient, if a story in an Indian journal may Ye trusted. Irately he was very ill with a boil at the back of his neck, and his doctor prescribed some lotion to bring the !>oil to a head. Naturally the pain was temporarily increased, and Ab durrahman was so enraged with his doctor that he sent for him the first thing in the morning and had him beheaded on the spot. A Washington man tells of a quarrel between tween two negro boys. The larger boy, with great volubility, was applying every sort of abusive epithet. The younger boy, leaning against a fence and steadily regarding the speaker with a sullen scowl, waited for a halt, at last it came. “Is you done?" “Yes I is done." Then slowly and cooly the younger said: “All dem tings you said I is, you is deni.” They have had the jubilee fever very strong in New Zealand. The Herald of that colony, contains abundant evident** of the fact. Here is on* advertisement: "Wanted—Two Jubilee 1 tdies went two Jubilee husbands. Apply 25 Queen street." Here is another: "Wanted— Jubilee wives, husbands, housemaids, waitresses, housekeepers, barmaids aud general servants can he had for the asking. A. McLeod, 25 Queen street.” According to the latest review of the bureau of statistics, the foreigners who landed on our shores for the three months ending March 31 hailed from fifty-three different countries, be sides eight little strangers who were horn at sea. Every country in Europe is represented, aud delegations came from Armenia, India, Japan, Egypt. South Africa, most of the South Ameri can countries, the West Indies, the Azores, Aus tralia, Hawaii and Micronesia. An Albany newspaper says that there are families in that town who have got the art of keeping up appearances reduced to a science. When they want to make their neighbors think that they have gone into the country they are not content with the old plan of shutting the front blinds and living in the hack of the house. They leave their newspapers on the front piaz za. apparently neglected; but they take tnem in at night and road them, at the same time supplying the piazza with old papers for the next day s masquerade. Dr. Cyrus Edson reminds us in the Epoch that it]is best to wear dark clothing in the sum mer. "The black," he says, "absorbs heat when it is in the sun's rays. On the other hand, the heat will pass out through the black tex tures rapidly so Unit the radiation of the heat from the body would l>e much freer in a person clothe*! in black than white. This statement is forcibly illustrated by the whitecoats of animals who live in the* Arctic regions. They are clothed-that way for the reason that the color holds the bodily heat, and does not allow it to radiate as rapidly as black." Queen Margaret of Italy is very anxious not to appear too youthful. At the beginning of the summer she asked King Humbert whether she was not grow ing too old to wear her favorite style of dress—white muslin. "That point 1 needs consideration," replied the King Nothing more was said on the suojoct for several weeks, but one morning the King's Chamberlain entered the Queen's apartments announcing that he brought the royal answer to Queen Margaret's inquiry. The answer consisted of a huge trunk containing six elaborate white muslin dresses from Paris. The convict 3d Commissioners of Cook county, 111 . made a stir when they entered the prison. Fred Hagerman, 16 years of age, had the honor of occupying a cell in the same row with the "hoodlers.” His face beamed with pleasure when he saw the famous gentlemen moving in to keep him company for the night. "What are you in for?" he was asked. “Burglary" i rat her proudly). "How long did you got ?" (sympathetically). "A year" (in a dignified tne). “What did you steal?" "I only got three boxes of cigars.” replied the young pris oner, evidently somewhat embarrassed. “But," brightening up, "I didn't have no go and show*." Boston has just receive 1 from Africa the largest gorilla ever landed in this country. His name is Jack, and ho is 5 feet in height when standing erect, and measures 7 feet from th * end of one outstretched hand to tho other. 1 e weighs about 125 pounds and exhibits enormous strength, compared with which that of man seems like a child's. He arrived in a large box made of planking inches thick, and when being removed from the ship ho tore large splinters from tho hardwood planks with as much ease as a child would break a twig. The hair, which is very coarse and from 2 to 4 inch s in length, is of a gro nish-gray color, and on ill • hack, logs and arms incline* to a black. His shoulder* an* immense. Tho expression of the face, which is black, is scowling. The eyes are small sunken in the head, and the lips large and thin. Mme. de Valrayre, a well known Parisian lady. has addressed the following petition to the French Chamber of Deputies! ‘ Messieurs: In all the accidents of human life, whether on sea or land, woman, in consequence of the dress she is obliged to wear, is predestined to become a victim. The catastrophes, fatal or otherwise, wnich result from this cause are of daily occur rence. The mere thought of the unfortunate beings thus prevented from escaping from the flames of the Opera Comique must suffice to prove that it is not only urgent, but also logical and human, to abolish tin* old routine law which prohibits women from wearing masculine attire. This sort of custom, whatever may Ik* said to the contrary ,is just as decent as the present fashion of female garments. It has also the ad vantage of being more healthy In the name of f ho'M* who are not slaves to frivolity or luxury. I humbly pray you to pass a law enacting full and entire liberty in the matter of women's dress. Such a law would benefit thousands, and do no harm to anybody.” Dan Emmett, the man who wrote Dixie, is still living in Chicago, lie is, as people who keep posted on theatrical matter may remem ber, one of the founders of minstrelsy iu this country. He is an accomplished fiddler and a natural musician. He is Also a good citizen, which means, of course, that he favors law and order. Once* when Luther Latliu M ils was a prose utor he found Dan Emmett before him as a possible juror, “1 didn't know nl the time,” said Mr. Mills, “that he was a negro minstrel, but that in itself would have be *n ao bar. But 1 liked Ins face and the shape of his head. After asking him a few (mentions I was satisfied with him, and, the de ense making n > objection, lo was accented. The jury was out several hours and finally returned a verdict of guilty. Some tinv* after I made an inquiry as to the’ cause of the delay and was astonished to learn that Dan Emmett was the cause. He was about the only ore* of the jury who voted ‘guilty’ on the first ballot. The others, or nearly ail were against him; but they were won over by Dan Emmett's logic. The next time T saw Dan I complimented him on his staving qualities, and remarked inci dentally that I had heard that he was a great fiddler. His reply was; “Come down to the house some time and I'll fiddle for you. 1 ” One of the most prodigious engineering proj ects now on the tapis is that for tunneling the Rocky Mountains under Tray's Peak, which rises no less than 14,441 feet above the level of the *. It is stated that at 4,111 feet below the peak, by tunneling from east to west for it,ooo feet (lireet, communication could lie opened 'be tween the valleys ou the Atlantic slope anil those on the Pacific side. This would shorten the dis tance between Denver, in Colorado, and Salt bike City, in Utah, and consequently the dis tance between the Missouri river, slay at St Louts and San Fr ancisco, nearly :soo miles, nmi there would Is- little more required in the way of ascending or descending or tunneling moun tains. Part of the work has already been ae ootnnlisbed. The country from the Missouri to tlie toot of the Rockies rises gradually in rolling prairie until an elevation is reached of 0,200 feet above the sea level. The Hookies themselves rise at various places to a hoitrht exceeding *l,. 000 feet. l lf the twenty most famous |,as.se only seven an- below lO.Otki feet, while five aru upward of IV.OUO nmi one Is IS.OOu feet. The point fmm which It is proposed totunjiel is sixty miles due west from Denver, and. although one of the very highest tteaks. It Is by far the nar rowest in the great backbone of the American continual. BAKING POWDER. 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