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Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga.
SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, 1887.
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Bros.
ss!& Reward— Walter McCathern.
Peace reigns in the General Assembly.
Shame for the row that occurred last week
ought also to reign.
President Cleveland will hardly come
to Georgia and not. visit Savniinnh. In
this city he would be a guest, not ail attrac
tion to draw crowds to a fair.
Jacob Sharp, the prince of New York’s
boodlers, is still ill, but it is believed that
he will eventually recover. There seems to
be no probability that he will escape the
penitentiary.
The following from the Houston (Tex.)
Post is applicable to Georgia as well as to
Texas: “All men should be made to oliey
the law alike. There should ho no privi
leged classes.”
Prince Devawangse, of Hinm, made the
children of the Randall Island, New York,
Nursery happy the other day. After a visit
to the institution he purchased several hun
dred toys, which he sent to them.
It is said that the single town of Rodditch,
in England turns out ‘J0,000,000 tish-hooks
every week. No more tish are caught now
than formerly, however, lmt the number
and size of fish stories seem to tie on the in
crease.
The approach of Heptember suggests that
with the fall revival of business the “booms”
will begin to multiply. It is to lie hoped
that their foundations will lie more substan
tial than those of the ones that flourished
last winter.
Some of the Prohibitionists and nnti-Pro
hibitionists in Texas are boycotting each
other. This is one of the unfortunate re
suits of the late contest in that State, which
was more like a political light than a tem
perance crusade.
Winking at crime causes crime. Mon who
betray trusts should lie punished. If they
are not, other men will imitate them with
impunity, expecting also to escape punish
ment. Let the laws be enforced without re
spect to persons.
“Emotional insanity” is the plea by which
many a murderer has escaped punishment.
In future those who are afflicted with “emo
tional insanity” should bo placed where a
return of the affliction will not give them
the opportunity to take life a second time.
Birmingham estimates her population nt
50,000, Montgomery estimates hers at 10,000
and Chattanooga estimates hers at 31,000.
When the census taker again goes on his
rounds he will reduce the estimates to fig
ures somewhat like these: Birmingham,
10,000; Montgomery, 30,000; Chattanooga,
15,000.
It is understood that the members of the
Salvation Army in Atlanta will have
the poem entitled “Rest,” written by the
lion. W. C. Glenn, of the county of Whit
field, set to music. They will use it us n
dirge. To increase the poem’s gloomy
solemnity they will doubtless be sure to have
the music include a bass drum obligato.
In a recent letter describing her routine
of vacation life Fanny Davenport, the ac
tress, said: “My hah* combed lsick from my
brow, a large straw hat, a colored apron—
this completes my costume. ” Such a very
scanty costume ought to be cool, but Fanny
must have a great deal of trouble trying to
prevent people from taking her for Eve.
The artist employed by the New York
Star to illustrate tie fearful railroad acci
dent in Illinois evidently drew largely upon
his imagination. He pictured a number of
cars in a river with helpless passengers float
ing about wildly struggling to escape
drowning. The bridge at which the accident
occurred was only fifteen feet long and
spanned a dry ditch.
Portland. Me., conics to the foro with a
cat story a little ahead of others like it, to
which the Morning News has from time to
time called attention. In that city, the
other day, the police arrested Mary Brown,
known as the “Quoenof tho Cats.” She was
found surrounded by cats, thirteen bring in
one room, and 100 or more about her house.
She begged hard not to lx> separated from
her pets. She is believed to lie insane.
Mr Michael L. Woods, of Alabama, de
clares that Secretary Lamar is not to bo
appointed to the vacancy on the bench of
the United States Supreme Court, but that
Judge Edward W. Pottus, of Alabama, is to
be the fortunate man. Mr. Woods said to
the Wasliiiigton correspondent of tho Now
York IJernld the other day: “You can say
without fear of contradiction that the
President considers Lamar his chief coun
sellor, and on that account he will not give
him up. I am of tho opinion that Judge
Pettus will receive the appointment, and he
is a man who will lie a credit to the State
and bench, and prove once more President
Cleveland’s good Judgment In the matter of
selections for responsible positions.” Mr.
Woods may lie oorrcct, but the signs don't
look that way.
Divine Healing on l ong Island.
Accounts of physical healing by divine
interposition appear quite frequently in the
public prints. Some of them are very in
teresting, but it. is doubtful if many accept
them as true—that is, that the alleged cure
was a divine act. The latest ease of divine
healing that has attracted wide attention is
that of M iss Carrie Webb, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., the history of which was published in
the Morning News a day or two ago.
Miss Webb is the sister of the Rev. Thomas
M. Webb, who is pastor of a church at
Northport, L. I. She had been sick, ac
cording to her statement, for seven years,
and for part of that period her sufferings
were such that it was feared that she would
lose her mind. She knew that her brother
believed in divine healing, and she hail heard
that several remarkable cures had been ef
fected under his direction. She determined
to place herself under his and she went
to Northport for that purpose. She quickly
became convinced that if she had the neces
sary faith she could be cured. A service
was held iu the parsonage. The Rev.
George H. Cleveland assisted her brother in
conducting it. She was anointed with oil
and an hour or two was spent in prayer.
Miss Webb says that she was completely
cured, and she is now at her home in Brook
lyn, an apparently' healthy woman.
Miss Webb does not disclose the nature of
the disease from which she suffered, although
she say's that the doctors, after attending
her for six years, gave her case upas a hop 1
less one. It may be that she lias stated all
the facts correctly, and that she went to
Northport a very sick woman and returned
to Brooklyn in good health, but it doesn t
follow that she was cured by divine inter
position. It may he that her disease was
one that only needed for its cure a change
of scene, and just such a mental effort as
she made in the Northport parsonage when
she brought herself to believe that if she
hail faith divine power would be exercised
in her behalf.
There are doubtless many people suffering
from physical ailments, the nature of which
they know little or not hing, who would be
quickly restored to health if they would
cultivate u cheerful and hopeful condition
of mind. The mind lias a wonderful influ
ence on the body. This every physician
understands, and he makes use of the fact in
his practice. Indeed, he sometimes places
more dependence upon it than he does upon
his medicines. Until there is satisfactory
evidence to the contrary the great majority
of those who have taken an interest in Miss
Webb’s'case will believe that her alleged
cure was wholly due to a mental operation.
Invalids are being sent constantly by their
physicians to different parts of the world.
Climate is not the only thing that is sought
by' change. It is intended in many cases
that the mind shall lie relieved from cares
and have rest. As the mind recovers its
healthy tone, the body becomes stronger
and throws off the disease wiiich has been
depriving it of its vitality.
While there are undoubtedly many things
which are beyond human comprehension, it
is pretty safe to say that it would not be
diflicult to give satisfactory reasons for the
cure, in any of the alleged faith cure cases
which find their way into news(iapers, with
out attributing it to divine interposition.
The Chatsworth Disaster.
At first thought it does not appear that
the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Company is responsible for the terrible acci
dent which occurred on its road on last
Thursday night. It seems, however, that
the authorities have determined to make a
thorough investigation of it, and if the com
pany were guilty of any negligence the fact
w'ill doubtless be made apparent. As there
will, in all probability, bo large claims for
damages the chances are that the investiga
tion will be very thorough.
Accidents cannot, lie entirely avoided even
upon the best equipped and best managed
roads, but tile number of them can be
greatly lessened by the exercise of great
care and by using only the best materials
and adopting the latest miprovements in
the construction of railrm*-. There have
been several other accidents within the last
year or so in which the loss of life was
heavy, and every one of them has lieen
followed by a (Bipolar demand for legisla
tion calculated to increase the burdens of
railroads. The Tolodo, Peoria and Western
road would have saved hundreds of thou
sands of dollars probably if it had long ago
replaced the wooden bridge at Chatsworth
with an iron one. The fact cannot be
overlooked, however, that the expenditures
of railroad companies are limited by their
incomes. There are few, if any, roads in
the country which could afford to make all
their bridges of stone or iron at once. They
replace their wooden structures with those
of more durable material as they are able.
The oldest and most prosperous roads still
have some wooden bridges. Tho cost of
bridges of stone and iron is so enormous
that even they have not yet been able to
abolish wooden bridges entirely.
The tendency of legislation is to require
additional safeguards against accidents, and
at the same time to cut down the incomes
of railroads by reducing their rates. It is
apparent that while a few roads can stand
this sort of legislation the majority cannot.
If the public is given all the protection and
every comfort which science can suggest
the public must pay the bill.
Whit Do They Want?
A memorial against the Glenn bill, signed
by n large number of colored men has Ixhmi
sent to the upjxr branch of the Legislature.
Tho National Colored Press Association,
which met in Ixmisville, Ky., a day or two
ago, adopted a resolution denouncing the
bill in the strongest terms. What do these tail
ored men wuntf Do they want mixed schools?
Do they feel outraged Ix'causo the Glenn
bill makes it nil offense for colored or white
teachers to teach mixed schools? In what
respect is the colored p-nple treated differ
ently from white people? Tho colored
people claim that they want their children
eduentixl in schools of their own color, and
they insisl upon having their schools taught
by colored teachers. They now have what
they want. Do they wish it understood
that they are not satisfied with their own
color, and hope the time will come when it
will undergo a change? Unless this is their
position it is difficult to understand why
they arc making such an outcry ngniiist
the Glenn bill. If that bill should become
n law it is not probable that, any colored
teachers would violate it. If it were vio
lated at all it would in all probability ls> by
white people, and yet tho white people of
Georgia are not raising a howl against the
bill.
Several young ladies of Cincinnati are re
ported to have made money by tho recent
advances in tobacco. Their gain is a loss to
the young men of Cincinuati, for an ad
vance in tohaeco takes a good many extra
dollars from the pockets o£ consumers, •** ‘
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1887
Trees the Remedy.
A gentleman now nearly 70 years old
writes to the Morning News on the sub
ject of tho recent floods that caused so much
destruction in this State. He says that
when he was a boy the water courses were
periodically overflowed, but that very little
damage was done. The floods did not then
extend as far into the country as they do
now, and they subsided much more quickly.
His observations through a long series of
years have convinced him that the reason
why tho floods of the present are greater
and more destructive than those of tho
past is because the trees that once
lined the banks of the streams have,
in large measure, been cut away. He in
stances a creek which flows through a tract
of land owned by him. When ho was a boy
that creek was a bold stream, amply aide to
carry off the rains without serious injury to
crops and bridges. As he grew older the
trees on the banks, almost from the source
to the mouth, were gradually cut away.
Tho rains washed the dirt from the neigh
boring fields into the lied of the creek,
eventually filling it. To-day, in ordinary
weather, the water is very shallow, and
during periods of drought it almost entirely
dries up. When there are heavy rains the
crock is unable to carry off the water rap
idly enough, and the result is that disastrous
overflows take place, greatly injuring crops
and bridges.
It is generally conceded that the theory
of this gentlemun is correct. The removal
of tho trees along the water courses gives
the rains easy opportunity to wash
the dirt from the fields into the beds, thus
making them shallow. Therefore, when
the rains are uncommonly heavy and pro
longed, the water spreads out over the adja
cent country instead of flowing out. to the
sen.
To remedy the trouble recently cxiieri
enood with floods and eventually to prevent
its repetition two things must lx; done: Tho
trees still standing on the banks of our
streams must lie let alone and in the
denuded places young trees must be planted.
U •less this remedy is adopted it will
cease to be profitable to cultivate some of
the most fertile lands in the country—the
lowlands along the streams.
Within a comparatively few years a large
part of the forest of the valley of tho Ha van
nah river lias been removed, and the de
structiveness of the floods of the river has
increased in proportion to the removal of
tlie forests. If the removal of the forests
continues and the lands are left bare will
not rice planting along the Savannah river
soon have to be abandoned!
Society at Seaside Resorts.
If the statements made by certain news
paper correspondents are true, society at
some of the seaside resorts in this country
is sadly in need of reform. It is said that
the costumes worn in the surf are of a kind
to make modesty a virtue conspicuous by
its absence. Not only is this the case, but
it is said that a rage foi-dieing photographed
in improper costumes has seised upon many
young women, and that parents offer no
objections.
It is unfortunately true that the immo
rality, real or imaginary, at the resorts in
question has an evil influence far beyond
the limits of such places. For this the cor
respondents and the newspapers that
publish their letters are to blame. Tho
young ami inoxjierienood elsewhpre are led
to engage in practices almost certain to re
sult in injury to their morals. They
think there can be no harm in
doing what is unblushingly done by
persons supposed to be reputable at
places regarded as uliove anything low or
vulgar, especially when the descriptions of
wlmt is done contain no word of condemna
tion. Several times within the recent past
photographers remote from seaside resorts
have been arrested for displaying pictures
of young women not properly dressed.
These arrests have caused unhappy scandals,
disgracing the foolish originals of the pic
tures, nnd bringing sorrow and shame to
parents and family connections.
If society at the seaside resorts is really
what the correspondents declare it to be,
reputable people should keep away from
such places. This course would soon cause
the hotel men aud the legal authorities, if
there be any of the latter, to compel a rigid
observance of tho proprieties It is prolia
bie, however, that the correspondents have
to some extent drawn upon their imagina
tions. If they have they have been guilty
of a wrong not easily atoned for. In any
event, the newspapers that publish the let
ters are guilty of an outrage upon decency.
The pass system accommodates a good
many people in England. It used to accom
modate a good many in this country, but
since the passage of the interstate com
merce law it is understood to be limited to
members of Congress and Rtatc Legisla
tures. Mr. T. C. Crawford, o con-espondent
of the New York World, writing from Lon
don says: "I have found upon investigation
that the English railways have to bear the
onerous task in the way of furnishing free
transportation to prominent individuals
and officials, as did the railroads in the
United States before the passage of the in
terstate commerce bill. I was told bv a
railroad official the other day that all of the
royalties travel free, and that they expect
in addition special coaches. The visiting
royalties have also been furnished free
transportation, and in many instances spe
cial trains. This pass system mußt be very
expensive. Coming up from Portsmouth
the other day I got a seat on the sj u via I
train assigned to the members of the Hou c o
of Peers. These peers had with them in
numerable relatives, and 1 noticed at one of
the stations where the guard came along to
take up the tickets that he looked very
much surprised when I gave him one. It
was apparently the only ticket taken up by
him on the train. Every ]>eer and peeress
and every per and peeress in prospvt and
every peer's and peeress's relatives had
jmsses.” A rather curious feature of the
above extract is that which makes the guard
appear surprised when receiving a ticket
from the correspondent. Does this corre
spondent of the World not only travel like
a lord, but also look like one? He intimates
as much.
This from Henry George: “Wo recognize
the fact that Dr. McOlynn is still a priest,
and he will not lie nominated fornnv public
office. You may say that if Dr. McGlynn
were nominated ho would not accept.” Not
long ago Dr. McGlynn was disjiosed to re
joice that freedom from priestly duties
would iierhaps permit him to hold nfll"e. It
is probable, however, that at that time he
had not consulted with Henry George and
received bis orders.
If the Awful railroad accident in Illinois
was the result of a conspiracy among
thieves the most terrible punishment con
ceivable would be too good for them.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Mahone Properly Pictured.
From the New York World (Dem.)
Mahone is the embodiment of the very worst
features of partisan boss-ship and demagogy.
He achieve/! political success by the unscrupul
ous use of methods ami means which hara loucr
been hateful to the people. The re-election or
such an unprincipled machine politician as
Mahone to the United States Senate would lie. a
reproach to the Old Dominion aud a disgrace to
the Republican party of the nation.
The True Policy for the Negro.
From the New York Evening Sun (Ind.)
We should think that naturally the black men
would loin with the white men in favor of th**se
anti-mixed marriage laws, and set their energies
to work to elevate and improve the black race,
not by attempting to make it white, but by edu
and developing it as they find it. That
is the true policy for the colored men, and it is
the only way iri which the disadvantages under
which they suffer now can ever be removed.
They Will Have to* Grin and Bear.
From the Galveston News {Dem.)
There is great indignation throughout the
Northern press over the proposed passage of a
bill in Georgia making it j>enal to teach white
and block children in the same school. But no
one hears of any excitement in Georgia, qnd so
far Georgia retains the authority to pass laws
governing its schools. The passage or the pro
posed bill may be an outrage, but it i*> one that
the aforesaid press will have to grin and bear.
Evictions in America.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Mr. Blaine is said to lie anxious to witness a
‘ real Irish eviction,*' and surely the British
government ought to get. up one for the delecta
tion of such a distinguished stranger. But did
Mr. Blaine ever consider thqt by traversing his
native State he could evictions as barbarous
as any which ever disgraced British rule in Ire
land evictions for which he and liis party are
responsible in their blind worship of that fetich
which they have sot up under the name of Pro
tection to American Industries!
BRIGHT BITS.
Precocious Youngster, in house where there
is a telephohe in constant use, finishing her
prayer: “ aud make me a good little girl.
Amen! Good-bye, Oh Lord; O. K.”— New York
Tribune.
Pastor Thomas! I font you think your pa
rents would feel very sore if they knew you
were fishing on the Sabbath?
Thomas-*-Yes, sir; hut not half as sore as I'd
feel if they found it out. Judge.
Tenderfoot I wonder what Buck, the Terror,
will do when he beam what I)*acou Goode said
about him last night.
Westerner Is Beacon Goode a small man?
“No, a big mnn."
“Buck won't do anything.”— Omaha World.
Little Girl (at the opera for the first time)—
“Mamina, what are those women doing with
their feet V 3 '
Mother Don't ask so many questions.
Little girl—Mamma, are they trying to catch
flies with their feet?
Mother—No; dudes.— Texas Sif tinge.
In a crowd somewhat like that at an old Vir
ginia District Association a preacher was shak
ing hands and inviting all to feel at home, when,
presently, he asked a white cravat brother:
“Ain't you a preacher ?" He replied slowly and
hesitatingly: “No. not exactly: hut I am a clerk
in a family grocery*”— Richmond Religious
He mid.
Editor — l should think your reporters would
have sense enough not to fill up with beer before
writing such weather as this especially.
Local Editor They don't touch anything
stronger than lemonade while on duty.
“Nonsense. The man who wrote this article
was as drunk as a boiled owl.*’
“That sir, is a )mrtion of the report of a dis
cussion at the Concord School of Philosophy."
“Oh!"— Omaha World.
People who most relish gossip take a very
different view of it whim it is directed against
one’s own imputation. “What an extremely
candid,person Mrs. Higgins is," said Mrs. Rob
inson. **Soe how she exposed those Simkinses
and Wilkiuses."
“Yes,*' said Mrs. Jones, “but hut if you could
have heal’d what she said about you yesterday."
“About me?"
“Yesabout you. 11 “Well, I never! The idea
ot her talking about me! I won't "believe an
other word she nays."—Youth's Companion.
Anxious Stranger— Say, I want a job of um
piring the rest of the season.
Base Ball Magnate- Now, don’t try to be fun
ny, young felfoy.
‘ But Pro not trying to be funny."
“It's a good thing for you, because there ain't
anything humorous obont chestnutsany more."
“I'm in earnest about this thing, I am."
“Oh, don't bother me."
“But see here; I mean business."
“Why. young fellow, you don't know'what
you’re asking for. You don't know when you’re
well off."
“Oh, yes, I do."
“What your racket, anyhow'?’’
“Why, I want to get broke in a little. I*in
going to be married this fall, and my girl's
mother will probably live with us."- Pittsburg
Dispatch.
When street chaff is good-natured I find that
.1 always laugh. ! used to ride on the tops of
'buses when visiting Ijondon largely to get a
flavor of it. and if our friend Mr. Howells would
do so he would recognize that I>iekens is life
itself in all minor matters and characters. I
remember of being almost startled with a thrill
of recollection when I heard a 'bus driver lean
over to draw l at an angry boy who was un
mercifully beating a most provoking little gray
donkey: “Ah, would he kill his fader would
lie kill his fader?" The hoy was positively
speechless with mge, and in his spluttering en
deavors to launch a return shot actually staid his
"li p. My amusement, however, was destined
to havy a counterpoise, for five minutes later I
was getting a tremendous dressing down from
the same driver lwauso I put my mhddy boots
on the clean seat by his side. Neither my high
lint nor my dignified deportment saved me, anti
i came to the conclusion that the driver's wit,
though sharp, lacked reverence. Boston Post.
PERSONAL.
The income of Archbishop Corrigan is esti
mated at SIO,OOO a year.
Robert Browning is about starting on a two
months' tour Un-ougb Switzerland.
Marie Antoinette's favorite pearl necklace
is now to lie seen for sale in a Berlin jewelry
store.
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
wears a valuable bloodstone ring as llis only
oraainent.
Attorney General Garland is at Hominy
Hill. Ark., making preparations for an extended
lisping excursion on the Ouachita.
Owing to the serious illness of the King of
Holland there is a tr -sh commotion about the
succession. Tho ex-Graud Duko of Hesse is a
candidate.
roiiKUOt’NCzrw is the uncompromising name
of the man who will probably succeed the late
Editor Kntkoff as the leader of the liussian
Panslavists.
The name of Admiral Harwood, who lies
buried at Marlon, Mass . Mrs. Cleveland's pres
old abiding olaco, was oil tho navy register
from iS;S to INHS.
lb'CK Taylor, King of the Cowboys, has left
the London Hospital, to whic h he was taken
after breaking his thigh at the Wild West Show,
and will resume his duties in the arena.
Miss Chestnut is the name of one of the
most lieantiful belles at Atlantic City. The
name is in no way appropriate, and she ought
to be able to change It before the soasi u is over.
Prank I,awi.kh, the Lnbor leader, of Chicago,
wears a diamond ring, diamond studs and dia
mond :,lv\o buttons. In tact, ho makes Ihe
electric lights fool little as he pass"* through a
hotel corridor.
John O, Whittier, who was at the Seuter
House. Like Winnepesuukee, at tho time it was
burned a few days ago. withstood ttie excite
ment and shod: of the tire very well for a man
in feeble health and SO years of age.
Dcrino Gov. Hill's stav at Pelleport. L. 1.. he
went huthing in a .'sir. suit, and captured all the
fanners he met t>v asking about tue crops, hut
committed the uniiardomvble blunre r of re
fusing to dance with several pretty girls, who
laid conventionalities aside and asked him to
waltz.
Tin: will of the lute Catharine Dunliar. of
Milwaukee, who died in France last April, gives
$7,000 to the church to secure perjietual masses
for the repose of the souls of her uiisliand, chil
dren and un-self. The Dunbars were tho dis
coverers of the famous Ilethosda Springs at
Waukesha.
Sir Ashley Eden, whose death is re|iored
from England, was n distinguished civil officer
in Hritisli India, llis brilliant red hair earned
him the sobriquet, of "Rufus Paradise," under
which name lie was o.ten criticised in the
Aliglo lndian press, lie was a son of the late
Lord Auckland, Bishop of Hath and Wells.
Joseph Tomi-son Is to conduct an *ploring
party from tin- Eust const of Africa to Like
chad, which as yet has never been visited. A
good delll of the country be jiosicd through
will he familiar to Mr. Tompson, whose I took
"Through Masai umd" describes what will be
the first part of his journey on this occasion.
HONESTY RICHEY REWARDED.
How a Large-Hearted Woman Appre
ciated the Return of Her Money.
From the New York Tribune.
“I think I've found the most generous woman
in New York,' 1 said a Maiden Lane diamond
merchant to a friend in the Astor Houne rotunda
yesterday.
“Proceed with your story." replied the other,
resting his elbow on the polished bar.
“Ted, my little office boy,' 1 the merchant con
tinued, ••found a lady’s pockctbook the other
day. It contained about $1(K) iu cash and several
valuable nnper*— valuable to the owner, I mean.
He picked it up near the door of my store, but
as no one saw him do it he could easily have
kept the money without any one being aware of
the fact. It must have been quite a temptation
to the little chap, for he only earns $2 50 a week
and his folks are very poor. But *he brought
it right in to me like a little man. I watched the
papers but it was not advertised. Several days
passed and 1 had begun to think of giving the
book back to the Under, when I learned from a
friend that a wealthy lady customer of mine
who lives in Fifth avenue "had suffered a loss of
that kind. I sent Ted up with the purse. Sure
enough it was hers. When he had explained
how he found it she became demonstrative over
the honest way he had acted. She patted his
head and declared that it did her good to know
that there really was one honest boy in New
York. ‘You'll not go unrewarded, either,'she
added. ‘Just come with me.' He went with
her into an adjoining room and then what do
you suppose she gave him as a reward!"
“Qh $lO, perhaps," returned the friend.
The diamond man smiled. “The reward she
gave him," he added, ‘ was a big piece of
huckleberry pie—simply that and nothing
more."
Rant on the Stage.
From Texas Siftings.
The rant of the stage is a thing that can never
bo done away with, we suppose, although it is
not indulged in to the extent that it once was.
There is room for improvement still, however.
We were speaking to a friend the other day,
respecting the merits of a “celebrated trage
dian," when he had occasion to comment on
i the rant of the stage -the loud mouthing, the
outrageous gesture, the furious rolling of the
eyes, the stride, swords that rattle in the hilt,
and all the pomp and circumstance of the mod
ern dramu.
Fancy this style carried into veal life. On be
ing introduced to a lady you would say, throw
ing yourself into a splendid attitude:
“Most, gracious madam?, on my knees I greet
thee," impressively placing your right hand on
your heart.
To a creditor who would not pay ’ Fraudulent
knave! payest thou me not? By yonder sun that
blazeth in the zenith, thee will I sue, and thou
shalfc see thy impious name darning the streets
on posters huge!"
At dinner ‘‘Now, by my soul and my highest
hopes, those beans are royal. Were I Jupiter,
beans should grace each royal banquet. What,
ho! waiter, bring hither more beans."
To your wife Madam, beware thou dos't ex
cite me not: else being too hot with wrath. I do
myself some liarm. A needle here, a button on
my shirt -and see it instantly performed. Do
it! Nor leave the task to me."
To your butcher ‘Thou ensanguined destroy
er of bovines, send me some mutton and some
beef; and, mark you! let it lie tenderer than
love and sweeter than the bees' rare burden. I
would dine to-day."
To a Friend- ’Excuse a rash intrusion on
your grace, but hast thou in tby vest pocket a
port on of that plant, ranked by the botanist
among the genus nicotiana?" or, “Most noble
friend, wilt thou take with me some strong
libationy Thou lookest dull to-day; 'twill cheer
thy sinking heart."
Reply—“O, noble soul! alas, not all the wine
of Bacchanalian revels could ease the sorrow
here here! (Left breast struck several tiihes.)
Oh, what a fool and arrant knave am I, the very
sport of fortune."
This is scarcely more ridiculous than three
quarters of the stage nonsense.
He Tackled the Wrong Customer.
From Carl Pretzel's National.
He was a consumptive-looking tramp, and
you wouldn’t have guessed that he had eaten a
square meal in three months.
He plodded bi> weary way languidly into Chi
cago this morning, and had just struck the out
skirts, down Bridgeport way. when he encoun
tered a long, lean, lank, cadaverous-looking in
dividual, attired in a priestly rolie and a starched
standing collar, his back bent in the most hum
ble and devoted manner, tackling a log of hick
ory, firmly clasped to a saw horse, which he
was essaying to Break up into kindling wood.
The tramp stood for a minute, amazed, trans
fixed to the spot, as it seemed. Finally he gave
vent to his surprise, and his pent up indignation
burst forth like a flow' of water through a hole
in a mill dam under a lake pressure of fifty
feet.
“Well, now', I swan to gracious, ef you ain't a
poorty sort of a man to be a Bible teacher, ar.'
lead the blind out of the ditch, an' help to ele
vate the poor! You're the stingiest cuss I've
seen since I've left Ohio! You wouldn’t give a
man a job to save him from going to the poor
house nor keep his everlastin' soul out of per
dition. But you'll go into your pulpit next Sun
day . and you'll leg for money for them African
heathens, when you'd let one of your own flesh
and blood like myself starve for the bare reces
sities of life."
And the clerical looking chap caught that
tramp by the throat, jammed his first down his
musical throat, knocked out all his teeth, flat
toned his nose past recognition, and put both of
bis blood shot eyes into mourning for sixty days
or during the war.
The minister had gone away on a vacation of
three days to Highland Park, and the 'cutler
had donned the clerical robes and was masquer
ading as “a meek and devout follower of the
Lamb."
A Flower that Catches Flies.
From the New York Times.
The annual plant and flower show of Peter
Henderson & Cos., at 85 and 37 Cortlandt street,
attracted a goodly crowd of ladies yesterday,
and all day long tnc exhibition ball resounded
with little “ohs!" and “ahs!" of delight. The
gladiolus plants came in for the lion's share of
the admiration. There were some 3,000 or 4,000
varieties of this flower, the finest of which were
the “Isaac Buchanan," yellow flower; the “Nes
tor." apricot color; the “Siueusis," rose red.
and the “Lord Byron." crimson and white.
Other assorted cut flowers on exhibition
were geraniums, heliotropes, dahlias, and
a curious flower known as the cruel plant,
which belongs to the climbing species, ami is an
insect catcher. Its petals are white, and it is
about the size of an apple blossom, w hich it
somewhat .resembles, its interior formation is
such that the proboscis or’ any insect, searching
for the flower's honey, once inserted, cannot lie
withdrawn, and the harder the insect struggles
the tighter it is held. One of the plants on
view held captive a butterfly, which, unless re
leased, will be held till it starves t y death. It
will then dry up and l** blown away by the
wind Besides the flowers there were samples
of many varieties of vegetables. Eight monster
tomatoes, weighing eleven and a half pounds,
were exhibit *d. besides a cluster of “cherry*
tomatoes. Tiie exhibition will last through to
day and to morrow’, and then the flowers-w ill l>e
distributed among the different hospitals of this
city.
“Forget Him?”
From TM Bits.
“Forget him? I?" the maiden said.
And fondly smiling, shook her head.
“Forget tho bouquet, bud ami ro**\
Of Maivsehal Neils and Jacqueminots,
With which this most artistic youth
Has wooed me a whole mont”, forsooth?
These ait* not tokens I forget.
And deep within my heart are set."
“Forget him?" All the dainty words
He's used comparing me to birds?
An I saying how the lilies sigh
As I, ’morn graceful, |>m>v them by'?
And how the tints tipou my cheek
Pure thought* within iny heart bespeak?
'Tis true I've heard the same before,
But what we like will boar encore.
“Forget him* With the perfect tio
To his cravat? And clothes that lie
Without a wrinkle suHi a form!
And eyeglass, that are ts the storm
Of commonplace impertinence?
And eye* of languid cl >qu.oc?
Am! sweet moustache, that, drooping low
Yet cannot hide his red lips' how?"
“Ah! never, never.' Till I see
A youth who owns more wealth than he."
He Finally Recognized Her.
Ft-vm a London fatter.
Quite the lutes: story at tin - exi>ei>so of th"
roval family i.s good enough to true. If it is
not. The itioidiou occurred at Aldershot u few
minute* before the arrival of the Queen. The
Prince of Wales hail Just descended from his
i"■'—. wtp ins eyed audi sight of Mat
tractive woman, who wan vainly looking for t he
iwth to tuko h’r to one of the stands. Ale
pcoaching her, the Prince volunteered his as
ristanoe uml put her in, the right way. A* he
was moving ofT the lady sj.hl: •‘Thank you,
your high maw.'’ The Prince, slightty fascinated
ivrhajw. hesitated a moment, and then asked to
whom he had haul the plcvtsure or renderittir the
slight service. “To Maiiume Kahimine,'' replied
the fair stranger: your highness surely heard
something of me about the time when I married
vour brother in law, the (fraud Duke of lie&ae:”
Tableau.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The latest fad in Michigan is to wear a small
thermometer for a breastpin.
The “Yankeries” in London, which were at
first regarded as a failure, are now quite as
thronged as the “Colonies” were in their prune.
In California surplus apricots are to be made
into wine. Experiment shows that they make
richly liavored wine, clear and effervescent as
the best champagne.
The height of the cathedral now building at
Tattle Rock, Ark., will be 231 feet to the top of
the spire, overtopping the Bunker Hill monu
ment by eleven feet.
Mrs. A. Carrier, of Duplaines, Mich, has
achieved notoriety by climbing a tree and hiv
ing a refractory swarm of lt seems like
a tough story, but the bees didn't sling her.
Some mischievous boys at Temple, Tex., paint
ed a sharp horned cow's horn red and hung an
old hat on it, which created a sensation in that
part of the city until all the kids were hunted
up by their mothers.
A Jamaica negro who lately arrived at San
Francisco is seven feet five inches high, and the
development of liis body is in proportion to his
height. He is said to le spoiling for a tight,
ana to have whipped all who stood before him
in Calcutta.
A pony owned by W. 11. Ellis, of Blooming
ton, N. Y.. carries the children to school in the
morning, trots home all by itself, is hitched up
in the afternoon and started off to school,
where it waits until school is dismissed, when it
takes the children home,
At the farm of Griffith Bros., in the town of
Mount Pleasant, Wis., the hub of a heavily
laden lumber wagon struck a gate post-, and the
friction was so great that it set tire t ' • po.->t.
The gate was burned up, and also grass tor sev
eral yards in the locality.
It is generally supposed that the honor of
knighthood is eagerly sought after, but it is
said t hat more than one Canadian lias been com
pelled to accept knighthood through the pres
sure of the female members of his family.
Similar honors are frequently declined in Eng
land.
The Concord, (Cal.) Sun says: They tell a
queer story of a Justice of the Peace in the
western portion of the Contra Costa county,
whose daughter recently asked him what he
meant to give her for a birthday present. He
was just dozing, but he grunted out: ’’Ten dol
lars or ten days.”
A Woodland (Cal.) widow, age 65, insists upon
marrying a young and good-looking Canadian,
age 28. She is worth $lOO,OOO. He drinks.
Woodland is scandalized. The young man has
been arrested charged with “felony.” It is sup
posed that the crime he is guilty of is “stealing
a woman.” The latest dispatches from Wood
land state, “great excitement prevails in this
city.”
The first elephant on exhibition in New Eng
land, and said to have been the first in the Uni
ted States, was killed at Alfred. Me., in the year
1817, about one mile west from the village, in a
piece of woods near the Round pond, so called,
on the old park road leading to Dover, N. H. it
is said several citizens have in contemplation
the erection of a monument or tablet on the
spot where he was killed.
A man weighing 154 pounds contains 07' pounds
of oxygen, the volume of which, at ordinary
temperature, would exceed 980 cubic feet. The
hydrogen is much less in quantity, there being
less than fifteen pounds, but which, in u free
state, would occupy a volume of 2,Boocubic feet.
The three other gases are nitrogen, nearly four
pounds, chlorine, about twenty-six ounces, and
fluorine three and a quarter ounces.
Jasper Caler has at bis Novelty Cottage near
Fabyan's one of the rarest animals ever seen in
the White Mountains. It is a white porcupine.
It is said to be as uncommon a creature as a
white blackbird, and Mr. Caler says he never
heard of but one other. This is a large speci
men, weighing probably twenty-five pounds.
It is entirely white, and is docile ard intelligent,
so tame as to eat from its master's hand. The
owner has refused large offers for him.
The latest Austrian army regulations provide
that of the officers of the general staff and of
certain branches of the commissariat one half
may marry: of the other army officers three
fourths must remain bachelors. Any Lieutenant
or Captain, in order to obtain permission to
marry at all, must prove himself possessed of
an income, other than his salary, of 1,000 florins,
and a staff officer of 800 florins. To these fig
ures must be added 50 per cent, in case of offi
cers under 30 years of age.
Tom Parratt ran into Lou Coulter during a
game of ball in Portland, Ore., and smashed his
nose. Coulter suffered for several days and
then went with his club out of town. At Besttle
he and Timmons, the pitcher, slept together,
and the latter, while dreaming of pitching,
threw out one arm and struck Coulter a very
bard cl )w on the sore nose. Coulter was ren
dered unconscious and remained so for several
hours. He wib have to have an operation per
formed on the unfortunate organ.
The biggest bell in the world has been hung
in Cologne Cathedral, and christened “Glori
osa” by the Archbishop with great ceremony.
This “kaisergloeke” (Emperor’s belli is Emper
or William's gift, and is cast from twenty two
French cannon captured in the Franco-Prussian
war. It bears the German arms and two in
scriptions. One, in Latin, expresses the Emper
or's gratitude for the divine mercy in granting
him victory: the other, in German, declares, “1
am the Emperor *s hell, and I proclaim his
glory. I fill a saftred post, and pray heaven to
grant peace and prosperity to the German Em
pire.
Tak lively Dakota Sell is responsible for
bringing out this picture of Western life: “The
wedding of Frank Mnxie and Misc Buckie Birch
er,” says one of the Hell's Territorial exchanges,
“which we announced last week, has not yet
taken place, owing to the fact that the
groom is too busily engaged in a poker game at
the Silver Star club rooms. The Rev. Harts
horn, who was to perform the ceremony, and
who went to inform Mr. Moxie that the c< m
pany was waiting, also got interested and took
a hand. As we go to press we learn that the
reverend gent leman is kicking like an elephant
because there is a limit to the game.”
Lord Charles Berekford, whose undignified
conduct at the Jubilee review of the British
Navy has caused so much comment, has a
knack of getting himself into trouble through
breaches of discipline. During the Egyptian
war of 1882 he appeared in Lord Wolseley'a
camp, near Ismalia, and as then* were strict
orders that no officers on half pay should l>e
permitted to accompany the t root is on active
service, Ix>rd Charles was ordered to leave the
camp. He went back to lstualia and tele
graphed to Gordon Bennett, iu Paris, offering
his services as special correspondent for the
Herald. The General Mas furious and refused
absolutely to let him accompany the troops.
The Milan iTenn.) Exchange says: On lost
Saturday evening, at about sundown, on the
Sterling Johnson place, two and a half miles
southeast of Milan, six navels were tteen to fly
down into the yard of Mr.-,. Wood, a widow.
It seems that Sirs. Wood was very low with
sickness, and several ladles were present at
tending to the waul • of til- sicb. when a nni.sin
the yard attracted their attention. Upon look
ing out of the window they saw an angel, and
in a moment more it was joined : y five others.
They were there only for a few'minutes uii
took their flight, riving straight up until leaf to
view. They, with the exception of w ings. Were
in the f inn and shape of man, with clear-cut
nnd Ituely formed fee. - ores, end were clothed in
garments of pure and spotless w hite, while a
halo of heavenly-light encircled their heads.
The above was told to ns ns the truth, and etui
1)0 vouched for by the la ii s who were In attend
ance upon Mrs. Wood, lie that a-; it may, it has
created considerable excitement in that neigh
borhood.
SATcnnay last, on the farm of I). F. Clark,
eight miles cast of Owensboro, Ky.. the owner
noticed a small cloud arise slowly from the
southwest, and when dir -et'y over a two-acre
lot, am yards from Ids residence, it seemed to
stop and. without any warning, gave forth
flashes of llljilning and p":tls of thunder and
with the stn shining bright and e\< dlngiy h it'
rain and hail from tie- s i/> ■ of part ridge eggs to
that of goo ic eggs fell in torrents for a iwri-wl
of about thirty minutest. At the end of that
time tiie cloud was eompletely exli.-visted. Not
a vestige n,is left to show where the rain and
hall had come from. He went to s>- • the result
nnd found that a barn standing rm the iot had a
jMirtion of the roof lenten in and the floor
covered with ice from one to three inches deep
A hole dug !U the side of an elevation and uhout
ti feet below tin* surrounding am-face for the
protection of potatoes and other vegetables
during the winter contain and three to four inches
of ice. tie* water that fell with it having escaped
through a pits* at the bottom of the hole The
largest port ion of the show er seemed to have
fallen immediately over the barn
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