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4 ChcMlonungMchis Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, ang is sensed to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 DO a month, s•' 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month. $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail , six tirnesga week (without Sunday i .sue), three monlls, $2 00; six months, $4 00 one year, $8 00. The Morning News, Tri Weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thuns days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 The Sunday News, bu mail, one year. $2 00.^ Tlie Weekly News, try mail , one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance, ltpniit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. IPO TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices —Notice, John F. Carpenter, Paper Hanger; For Sale, Jackson & Whatley; Townsend Says Pon’t lie a Clam. Beaitipcl Woons — L. & 11. S. M. H. Sweepino Reductions— A. R. Altmayer ,t Cos. Educational— Monroe Female College, For syth, Ga. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Personal; Miscellaneous. Hotels— The Bristol. New York. Corsets— The Watch Spring. Proorammk ok Bargains KOR This Week Eckstein's. Almost Incredible— Gray & O’llrien. Artists, Pbokessionai. and Amateur—Davis 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. 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