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4 CjtcsllonittijfJctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY. AUGUST 22, 188 7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Moakikc* Nkws is published every day ia fhe year, ami is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own Re count, at 25 cents a week. $1 00 a month, $3 00 tor she months ancl $lO 00 for one year. Th rt Mormss News, by mail , one month. $1 (X); three months, $2 50; six muntlyf, s•> 00; one year. $lO Oil. The Morning News, by moil, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months. |2 00; six months, $4 00 one ' ear. $3 00. The Morning News, Tri-Wwkly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tues<];iys, Thurv days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, op mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent l>y mail at risk of senders Letters and telegrams should bo addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Oa.” Advertising rates mad* khown on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—DeKnlb Lodge No. 0, I. O. O. F.; Calantlie Lodge No. 23, K. P.; Hilton Lodge No. 2, F. A. M. Special Notices--Paris Green, Etc., Wm. M. Bird £ 00.. Charleston, 8. C. Steamship Schedules—-Ocean Steamship Cos.; General Transatlantic Cos. Railroad Schedule—Central Railroad. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost: Miscellaneous. Educational— Miss Randolph's School, 1214 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Mil. Publications -Town Topics. ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION —OF THE— Savannah Morning Nows —AND THE - Savannah Weekly News, —TO BE - ON SEPTEMBER 3d, 1887. 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 helps to make up its wealth and that contributes to its prosperity. The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and the different branches of the 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 buying copies of the Horkikp News Annual Special Edition and sending them to their friends and corres]>on 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 prograss tho 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 be mailed, thoroughly covering the territory tributary to Savannah. Advertisers will find this Special Edition of great value, and space in its columns can bo ob tained upon application to the Business Office. Enough of the 000 l wave reached here yes ter day to save the reputation of the signal service. A little more of it, however, wouldn’t have l>eru objectionable. The owners of the Thistle expect not only to win the America’s inp, but to carry home ■with them a good deal of Yankee money. If they don’t want to carry homo empty pocket-books they will bo wise if they exer cise considerable caution ill making their bets. The New York Republicans pretend to be very much eluted over the prospect that the United Lalior party in that State will draw its strength mainly from the Democratic party. Thoy will hardly be so happy after tho Prohibitionists get tlieir ticket in the field. Past Assistant Surgeon Crawford, of Washington’, D. C., evidently forgot all about the Edmunds law when he too wurmly sought the love of the pretty Eva White. As lie has been given a year in jail, ho will have plenty of time to become thoroughly acquainted with it, so ns to be able to avoid violating it when ho gets his freedom. Representative Felton, of Bartow, in strongly opposed to the sale of the State load. He proposes to show when the proper time corns that by leasing the road the State debt can bo paid sooner than by sell ing it in accordance with the provisions of the Dean bill. There is naturally a very general desire to six.- how he figures out this result. In Indiana the statesmen have been so busy looking after Federal office* that they have neglected the State’s financial afTuirs. The State treasury is empty, and creditors are clamoring for their cash. And yet, the “Tall Sycamore of the Wabash" lately boasted that there lmd been a "clean sweep” in that State. The treasury has been pretty thoroughly elcanod out. Those who have been invited to the con stitutional centennial celebration, ut Phila delphia, Sept. IS, by the Centennial Com mission, are making a mistake if they ex pect their expenses will be paid, if they ac cept the invitation. With a few exceptions, they must liear their own expenses. They are not to be both honored with an invita tion and treated to n free lunch. .Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, who has been writing a series of articles to the Bal timore Manufacturer's Keeorrt, says, in the current number of that publication, that in order for tbo South to have jx'rma nent prosperity its agricultural, commer cial and manufacturing resources must be harmoniously developed. There is certainly a very strong effort being made at the pres ent time to develop all of thorn. Some of the New York papers liave given considerable prominenco to the shipment of 10,000 tons of Hawaiian sugar to New York by way of Cape Horn. The sugar men of that city are uinused over this. One of them remarked a day or two ugo that this Hawaiian shipment had no more effect on the Now York sugar market tlioii a drop of rain on a ton acre lot. In view of the fact that New York annually imports 700,000 tons, the remark was not a very exaggerated OH Ives’ Assets and Liabilities. The statement of t.he assets and liabilities of Ives &. Cos., of Now York, which was pub lished in our dispatches yesterday, appears to make a very good showing for tho insol v ent firm, but unfortunately it will not bear close examination. The liabilities are some thing over 8111,000,000, and the face value of the assets only 834,000,(X)0. It is stated, however, that with few exceptions the secu rities which make up tho nssots, are not worth anywhere near their face valuo, and, besides, a very considerable' part of thorn is in the jxissession of President (larrett of tho Haiti more and Ohio railroad, who received them whoa he gave Ives an option on that road. Tlio impression appears to bo that when the business of tho firm is wound up, not much more than half of its liabilities will be liquidated. It seems marvelous that a young man, not more than 2*l years of age. who a few years ago was a clerk in a lrook publishing house, should have been able in no short a time, withoiit any assistance other than that which ho secured by his own efforts, to col lect such an enormous amount of assets and incur such vast liabilities. That Ives has monumental cheek, iron nerves, and an abundance of brains there can bo no doubt. Had lie been successful in his Baltimore and Ohio ileal ho would have boon called a great financier. His scheme* failed, and by Wall street he is now considered to be a trickster and an adventurer whoso proper place is in tho penitentiary. There certainly is very little if anything that is admirable in Ives’ character. He began his Wall street career with tho inten tion of making a great fortune without re gard to the means to he employed to ac complish his purpose. Kovorul transactions in the early part of his career were of a character to bring him into disrepute with those of the Wall street men who pretend to employ only honest business methods, but as he seemed to bo successful his short comings were overlooked, and lie was per mitted to associate on terms of familiarity with men whose business records were, so far as the world knew, clean. It is believed that there arc many men in the great ockuereial cities, engaged in vast enterprises, who are not more honest than Ives is. Now and then the country is startlqd by accounts of crooked transactions involving men who had always enjoyed unßpotted reputations. Harper, who wrecked Ihe Fidelity National Bank at Cincinnati a few weeks ago, in trying to carry through a big wheat deal, was thought to be an hon est man until it was discovered that he hud cleaned out tho bank. Two of the bonanza kings, Flood and Maekav, tried to corner the California whoat market a few weeks ago, and it is alleged that, they used the deposits of tho Bank of Nevada for that purpose. It is also stated that if it had not been for their ability to obtain “loans" the chances wore that the bank would have been wrecked, and thousands of poor people would have lost ovory dollar they had. The whoat cor ner was a failure and, if reports are correct, the two chief promoters of it lost about 80,000,000. Society should turn a cold shoulder to men like. Ivo3, Harper and others. The only difference between them and such men ns Ferdinand Ward and Bankor Fish, who are now wearing striped suite, is that they are a little more clover in evading tho con sequences of their misdeeds. Whisky and Murder. At Harrison, 0., a few days ago great ex citement prevailed on account of tho prompt fulfillment of a prophecy made by a minis ter of tho gospel. It seoms that Harrison had been agitated on tho subject of prohibi tion, and that in the course of a sermon the Rev. Creighton Wonos warned his hearers that murder would upon emphasize the ne cessity of abolishing the liquor traffic. On Tuesday following the prophecy Clifford Woeks, aged 30, shot and killed John Pratt, agod 50, the hoad of a family of six chil dren. Pratt was drunk. Early in tho morning he went to a saloon kept by Weeks, and provoked a quarrel. In the course of it Pratt knocked Weeks down. He then left, but sixin returned, and threatened to kill Weeks. The latter warned his drunken as sailant to leave, but to no purpose. I*ratt advanced, brandishing his fist and cursing. Weeks drew a pistol, aimod it at Prutt, and fired. The latter contined to advance. Two more shots wore fired, and then, covered with blood, Pratt tried to tlee, but fell to the floor dead. Weeks surrendered himself to the Sheriff. This case is typical of many that hnvo occurred in this country, and, unfortu nately, of many that are likely to occur. The minister’s prophecy was a safe one. In any city in which the liquor traffic is al lowed, a similar one might bo made, from time to time, with absolute certainty of the fulfillment. Much has recently boon said by the public journals of Georgia against the dangerous practice of carrying concealed weapons; but, with equal justice, much might also be said against the crazing intoxi cant which too often causes men to use the pistol or tho knife to take human life. It is true that Weeks killed Prutt in but tho liquor sold by Weeks to Pratt was what caused the latter to provoke a quarrel. Whenever murder occurs as the result of the use of an irttoxicant, a large part of the responsibility for tho crime rests upon the liquor traffic. A large part also rests u|k)u the community which tolerates the traffic. Uijtil the truffle is restrained murdor may bo exjiootod to be common. Richard Hunt, a preacher, is in jail nt Nashville, charged with stealing n cow. Preacher Hunt stole the cow, sold her for sls. and with the money began a revival. He had converted about o dozen people when the constable carried him to jail. The question which is now agitating a portion of tho people of Nashville is this: Would it havo been belter for Hunt to have remained honest, and these converts to have continued in danger of being lost, than for him to have committed the sin of theft in order to save them! Doubtless Hunt thinks that it would have been tetter for him not to have bothered with the cow. Air brakes are wonderfully satisfactory except in great emergencies, and then they sometimes apjiear to get stubborn and refuse to work. Thoir failure several times lately to respond to the demands upon them, has resulted in disastrous accidents. Steam brake* in addition to air brakes are pow suggested. Suggestions are always plenti ful whenever there is an opening for them. A farmer in New York has advertised himself qs a splendid subject for the fool killer. He refused to pay more than 3c. for a 6c. cigar, which he purchasisl on credit. His creditor called him into a Justice's court, and ho paid, not only tho additional 3c., but also the costs and a fee of 35 to his lawyer. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1887. Give Them Their Own Medicine. A case is reported from Mississippi which may be suggestive to certain classes in Georgia. A man calling himself “Doctor Portland” traveled through several counties in that State duping the negroes. Ho sold a medicine which he declared would not only cure any disease, but which, when taken according to directions, would prevent sick ness and cause life to lie prolonged beyond 100 years. He found many purchasers, and his profits were enormous. It is said that at the end of every week during more than two ( months lie sent to a bank in New Or leans at least $l,OOO. Of course, his medicine was a quack nos trum and it utterly failed to do what lie said it would do. Although ids dupes close ly followed directions, they continued to lie subject to sickness, and quite a large num ber of them died. Following the course generally pursued by men of his stamp, ho remained only a few days in a given com munity, thus avoiding a reckoning with the ignorant creatures he had defrauded. Among the dupes who purchased some of “Dr. Portland’s” medicine was a negro who panted for revonge. As soon as his physi cal condition would permit he followed the quack, determined to exposo and punish him. After a weary tramp through three counties the negro found the object of his pursuit in a small town, standing upon a dry goods ixix, in the middlo of tho street, selling medicine and pocketing silver dol lars. Forcing his way through the crowd to a spot near “Dr. Portland,” tho negro told how he had been duped and an nounced his intention to have revenge. Tho quack tried to escape, but the crowd sur roundod him, pulled him off tho box, re turn'd him of his money, and compelled him to drink a quart of his own medicine. The nauseous dose almost killed him, but after two works’ violent sickness he recovered to sneak away. Attention has been often called to the quacks who ply their trade in Georgia. Tho Morning News has suggested that tho General Assembly should enact a law to keep them out of the State. Perhaps, how ever, if the Mississippi plan should be put into execution, there would bo no necessity for the General Assembly to interfere. Few quacks would dare to invade Georgia if they knew that they would bo compelled to take their own medicine. A Strong Argument. Increased interest has boon given the pro hibition eoiitest in Tennessee by an occur rence which must attract attention in all parts of the country. Four hundred and one convicts confined in tho main prison at Nashville have issued, over their own signa tures, an appeal to tho people of the State to work for the adoption of the prohibitory amendment to the constitution. The nppeal states that three-fourths of the prisoners of the State were made crimi nals by tho use of intoxicating liquors, and then closes as follows: “Wearing the garb of disgrace, being dis honored and counted unworthy to mingle with tho people of our State, we yet have the same love for our wives, the same devo tion to our mothers, the same affection for our sisters, and for their sake, and for the sake of our children, wo appeal to you to unite as one man and free the State from a curse created by the hands of men discoun tenanced by the law of God.” If this action upon tho part of the con victs had been the result of solicitation from those interested in tho temperance cause it would still have been worthy of serious con sideration. But it was not. Tho Rev. N. W. Utley, the chaplain of the prison, certifies at the bottom of the list of names signed to the appeal that it was prepared by the con victs themselves and as a voluntary act on their part. • It is difficult to concoive of a stronger ar gument in favor of the suppression of the liquor traffic. Here are 401 coijvicts, each of whom knows by experience what a maker of criminals the traffic is, each with nothing to gain from the State by favoring tho prohibitory amendment, who declare that throe-fourths of all the prisoners in the State were induced to commit crime by tlio influence of intoxicants, and who unite in urging tho people to banish liquor from the State. The effect cannot bo otherwise thaii favorable to the earnest citizens of Tennes see, who are working in the int Test of the temiierauco cause; for this appoal of the convicts is a temperance argument that cannot be refuted. Senator Reagan, of Texas, is still talking about the prohibition defeat in that State. 11l a communication to the Now York Yoicr, speaking of tho defeat, he says: “Undoubt edly a majority of the native Americans and of the Democrats of Texas have voted for prohibition. Our defeat was caused largely by great sums of money sent hi re from other States by tho manufacturers of and dealers in whisky and beer, to pay speakers, to control newspapers and for gen eral campaign purposes. Tho Prohibition ist* have hail the advantage in the discus sions and have given the public informa tiion which I think will make this a prohi bition State in tho near future. And I think the prohibitionists will continue the strug gle as a non-partisan issue.” Well, it may lie that Texas will lie a prohibition State in tho near future, but it is evident that a good many Prohibition converts must he made first. The Senator is wiso in insisting that the prohibition issue shall lie kept froe from partisan politics. Mr. Bayloss \V. Hanna, our Miuister to the Argentine Republic, was in Washing ton on Friday, and gave the correspondent* nil enthusiastic talk about Buenos Ayres. He thinks that this country should take steps at once to secure a large part of the trade of the Argentine Republic. He ad vocates the establishment at once of a line of steamships between New York and Buenos Aj’rcs, and says t.liat the Argentine Republic will give 8125,000 a year to help support such a line. Of course. Minister Hamm means that Congress should grant a subsidv to such a line, but it is not probablo that it will do anything of the kind. It would be wiser to amend * tho navigation laws so as to permit the purchase of ships by American merchants where they can be purchased cheapest. If that should lie done it would not Is 1 long liefore a steamship line would bo established lietween New York and Buenos Ayres. The fruit rrop prevaricator is giving Jte Mulhatton a sharp race for the champion ship. Hl* reports of the condition of the peach crop of Maryland and lidawaro are calculated to leave the impression that there will not be enough peaches in these two States this season to satisfy the demands of the lovers of poach brandy. Report! that are relied upon, however, leavo the impres sion that Delaware and Maryland will fur nish more peaches this year than tho mar ket cau absorb with uroflt to the Kroner*. CURRENT COMMENT. Etiquette is Welcome to It. From the Norristown Herald (Dem .) An exchange asks: “Does etiquette demand a vest on a not day?” If it does it can have ours. A Needed Reform Not Considered. From the New York Herald lDem.) Tho American liar Association has concluded its session at Saratoga. It discussed various reforms in the law. but did not even consider a great reform in the profession rendered neces sary by the rascally doings of unscrupulous lawyers. “Hardly Ever.” From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.) Senator Stanford, placing his hand upon his heart, says that he "never corrupted nor at tempted to corrupt any member of the Legisla ture or any memJier of Congress, or any public official, or authorized any agent to do so.’’ And be ho, startled out of her maidenly propriety, and striking an attitude ala Pinafore, exclaims: “What: never?" They Como High. From the Albany, -V. Y., Express (Dem). Let us have no more new wine in old bottles, no more good patches wasted on old garments. Secretary Whitney's recent decision not to allow extensive repairs to be made upon the old bulks of the navy commends itself. The five new ves sels now under way or projected represent a far more satisfactory way of expending the funds at the disposal of the Navy Department. New ships, and ships that will not disgrace the flag they fly, are what we need. They come high, but we must have them. BRIGHT BITS. In a week's time the earth travels over 11,000,- 000 square miles. Fortunately there are no wooden bridges on the line.— Norwich Bulletin. “Two knots an hour isn't such bad time fora clergyman." smilingly said the minister to him telf. Just after lie had united the second couple. - Merchant Traveler. A mtti.e girl, wasn't far wrong when she told iter Sunday school teacher, in answer to the question, “What is the worst thing about money?" that it was “ 'cause we ain’t got any." We can all say that —Nashville American. Every picknieker hates With a hatred intense The man who put up The barbed wire fence. IVashinyton Critic. “Does Grimes drink?” inquired Smithers. “Nothing intoxicating,” responded Thomp son. “How does that come?” “Why, the boys have got tired buying it for him, I guess.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. That fellow Rafter was here again. He wanted to know if I could sett Is that bill of his for building my new house. I told him that be couldn’t ex|iect me to lie as prompt as the house; that Jicgan to settle in less than a week after we moved into it.”— -Boston Transcript. A witty lawyer, many of whose sayings are famous, said to a friend: “Did you hear that (a lawyer w r ho had always been devious) had turned State’s evi dence?” “How' is that?” said the other. “He has been converted and joined the church.”— Boston Herald. “Yes," said he, wearily. “I’m tired out, and I need a vacation. I’m going to take a rest.” “That’s right,” said his partner, cheerfully. “You have been working hard and you do need a rest. Where do you think you'll go to?" “Go to?’’ asked the other iu mild surprise. “Go to? I’m going to stay at home. I said I was going to have a rest, didn’t I?"— Somerville Journal. Indignant Mistress—Bridget, what do you mean by serving such water for breakfast? It’s not ice water. New Servant (who was recommended as being of a saving turn)—Shor n 'tis ice wather, mum, and it’s myself was afther savin’ it from last night’s supper, not wantin’ fur to whaste so much, mum, and then the oice companies chargin' such robbin’ loike prices.— Elmira Gazette. “Mother,” said the 5-year-old demon just as Mrs. Oldboy was preparing to leave home on a six week's visit, “what’s become of the fur you used to wear last winter?” “Locked up, Willie; why?” “Say, has wings growed on it?” “No; why do you ask such silly questions?" “ ’Cause I heard pep say this morning he would make the fur fly while you are away.” The trunks were at once unpacked, and the look that eume into Mrs. Oldboy’s face made the clock strike 31.— Nebraska State Journal. Omaha Man—l have come as a committe of one, Mr. President, to advise you to include Omaha in your Western trip. The President—Yes, I suppose Omaha is the greatest metropolis of the West with with 200,000,000. “Not at all, Mr. President, we don’t brag about our size or our prospects." “Eh?” “Omaha is simply a pretty town moving along with the current of affairs.” “What?" “We don’t expect to out strip New York next year nor London the year after, and we are not selling suburban lots at SI,OOO a foot, and what’s more we don’t expect to.” “Dan’l! Dan’l! for heavan’s sake send for a watchman. Here’s a lunatic.”— Omaha News. PERSONAL. A monument to the memory of President Har rison is to be erected in Cincinnati. Daniel Douoheßty is going to visit Guernsey and Jersey, the English Channel islands. Oen. TchEßNatieht. it is said, will succeed M. Katkoff as editor of tho Moscow Gazette. CT.otscs says that he finds nothing in European capitals to equal the comforts he en joys in New York. lowa statistics show that t)53 women own farms in that State. Of the number only 18 are carrying mortgagee. The Shah of Tcrsia is gradually losing his hoarlug. Two ear trumpets have been ordered by his physician from Paris. The Emperor of Brazil not only planted a tree in the grounds of M. Flammarion, the French astronomer, but dug the hole to contain the tree. Mas. Floyd of Boston has invented a water proof bonnet, which is handsome and dressy enough for almost any occasion, and is abso lutely impervious to water. Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, at a com pllmentarv dinner at his residence, received a plate of gold coin amounting to SI,OOO from the clergy of Vincennes diocese. It is said that Queen Kapiolani’s English has been much improved by her recent tour. Kuln kaua considers her tongue Sandwich about as usual in its strength and piquancy. Senator Frye says that during his trip abroad lie found few satisfactory meals and beds. He Blinks the English people decidedly lacking In the essentials of eating and sleeping. Prince Bismarck will celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of his assumption of the offices of Prussian foreign minister and Prussian prime minister on Sept. 33, and Oct. 8 respectively. Cot-NTEss Casa Miranda, of Madrid, a ven erabk- lady of Mil years, the mother of Christine Nilsson’s husband, has been seized with conges tion of the brain and is not expected to live. And now It is said that Senator Klddleberger wants to tight a duel with Judge Newman. Kid dlelierger seems to hen good deal more fitted by nature for breaking the laws thau for making them. Bplva Lockwood says if Mrs. Cleveland will consent to head the woman's ticket next year, she will receive a monster vote. Jlrs. Cleve land properly accepts the suggestion as a bit of humor. Chahi.es Di’dley Warner is of tho opinion that two-thirds nf the men of to-day would rather lie Jay Gould than James Russell Lowell And probably nearly all inon would rather lie George Gould than either one of them. Rnv. Dn Twitcbell, of Hartford. Conn., has a largo family of children. Growing tiril of se lecting Dames, he dubbed bis tenth child “Ten nr,” a name as euphonious as it is significant, since then he has had two more children, but has not given them numerical names. James Ashley if. thought to tie the coming railroad man of the country. He is only 30 years old. and resides In Detroit, yet he controls two roads and holds a controlling interest in several others. He is ot present engages! in pushing lines through Northern Michigan. Charles Sumner's private secretary, Arnold B Johnson, speaks of the great statesman's sweet tooth in a current magazine article. Sunnier was especially fond of chocolate cream*, and held that as long as be could eat candy Ills digestion was in good order He never smoked, and never tasted of whisky but once. • Mrs. Cleveland has grown very brown at Marion Her complex ton ts one which ts im proved by* coat of tail, and sis* Dow looks like a Spanish beauty. The name' Donna Frances,” which was given her by her friends at Wells College, has fallowed her to her present abiding place, undevim the country folk about Marion oU her bv that romantic title. SHE, TOO, COULD SHINE. The Way in Which the San Francisco Millionaire’s Wife Does Thines. From the Carton (.Vet;.) Appeal. A few days ago a lady from San Francisco, who had a very solid hank account, went to Lake Tahoe on a pleasure trip with her daugh ter. She concluded that she would have a good time, and accordingly took along some plain, serviceable clothes and no jewelry. When she struck one of the fashionable resorts she found herself in the midst of a lot of people making a vulgar display of clothes and diamonds, and eve.ry time she turned around she was the sub ject of the most unmerciful snubbing. She was put off in an obscure corner to eat. and not one of the fashionable guests conde scended to show her the slightest civility. The lady bit her lips fora few days, took in the situation and with true feminine instinct de cided on revenge, isle- driipjied a line below, and presently there were deposited at the hotel twelve Saratoga trunks, waybllled to her ad dress. She ami her daughter retired to their rooms, and that evening came down to the din ing-room in a hlaze of lace and diamonds that took everybody's breath away. No such gor geous or tasty toilets bad ever liewildered the guests at that hotel before. It bliuded the eve to look at the pair ns they quietly entered the room. The steward, after recovering his poise, rushed forward ami pulled out tw o chairs from the most fashionable table in the hotel. She shook her head and replied: "The old table will do," and went to tbe obscure corner, where she bad eaten all the time. Tbe utmost consternation spread through the dining-room, and the low hum of voices rose to a fashionable buzz as they warmly discussed tbe situation. Wasn't it awful? They had been snubbing a woman and her daughter all the week who could outdress them all. In the evening they attempted to hedge, but couldn’t to any considerable extent. Tbe dudes tried Jo shine up to the girl, but she wouldn't have it, and those who tried to scrape an acquaintance w ith the mother found it like trying to run a tunnel into an iceberg, For a while she Hashed like a comet through that hotel into a constant change of ravishing toilets, each mope costly and bewildering than the others, until, like the kings who pedestrianized in Macbeth, they threatened to stretch out till the crack of doom. ' At the end of the week, it was learned from the chambermaid that she had only gone through half of her immense Saratogas. There were several women there who had displayed at least a dozen different toilets, and they felt that they would just die if beat theju record. Hut she kppt right on, and when she was three ahead of their score they packed up and left. One by one she vanquisher! the leaders, and the rank and file capitulated, displajing the rarest generalship imaginable. If Mrs. appeared in any special color to make a spread in the morning, she adopted that color at once, only in a dress that eclipsed the other as the sun outshines the dog star. She was the absolute John Sullivan of the toilet ring, nnd knocked out all who had the te merity to stand before her. The last of her op ponents was a red-faced, vulgarly dressed woman from San Francisco, whose llashy toilets had attracted general attention and admira tion from persons .ignorant of harmony and color. Whatever dress this woman donned in the morning the fashionable Nemesis was on her trail with a color that literally killed the other. The heretofore cock of the walk was un able to stand her defeat, and, packing her trunks, started home. The army of snobs was routed, and one by one dropped out of sigbt. They just settled up and quit. Then tbe quiet little lady resumed her plain clothes, put ou an old straw hat with her daughter, aud went Ashing. As the last gang left, she absolutely had the coolness to be down at the wharf fishing In an old calico dress, cot ton gloves and a straw- hat. The landlord considered that she literally cleaned his place out, and she thinks she had an awful lot or fun. PHOTOGRAPHED ON HIS FOREHEAD A Bolt of Lightning Imprints a Cat’s Silhouette on a Farmer’s Brow. A dispatch from Hillsdale, Mich., to the Phila delphia Acres says: A heavy storm passed over Fayette township last night. While it was in progress Amos J. Biggs, a trustworthy farmer, went into his back yard to frighten away some fighting cate, bo intent were they on extermi nating one another as to allow Farmer Biggs to approach within a few feet of them. At the same instant there was a crash, and an electric bolt struck a wood pile, scattering it, and stiff ened the cate iu an intense rigor mortis. Aside from a prickly sensation and sudden, but not severe contraction of the muscles. Mr. Biggs experienced uo unpleasant effects. When Biggs returned to the house his wife took one look at him and fainted. On recovering she ex claimed: “Oh, Amos, the devil basset his mark on you!’’ whereupon Biggs looked in the glass and saw the image of a eat photographed in sil houtte upon his broad forehead. All efforts to wash it off were unavailing. The Rattlesnake’s Awful Eye. From Forest and Stream. Never seeing a snake charm a bird or animal, I concluded it, was a negro superstition or fancy, devoid of fact. So I continued to think till a few days ago. when a farmer friend of mine, living four miles south of Abilene, told me what he had lately witnessed. He said he was riding along on the prairie and saw a prairie dog within a few feet of him. which refused to scam per to his hole, as prairie dogs usually do when approached by man; on the contrary, ’he sat as if transfixed to the spot, though making a con stant nervous, shuddering motion, as if anxious to get away. My friend thought this was strange, and while considering the spectacle he presently saw a large rattlesnake coiled up under some bushes, his head uplifted, about six or seven feet from the dog, which still heeded him not, but looked steadily ujion the snake. He dismouted, took the dog by the heud and thrust him off, when the snake, which had up to that moment remained quiet, immediately swelled with rage mid began sounding his rattles Tile prairiedog for sometime seemed bemunbed,hnrd ly capable of motion, but grew better and finally got into liis hole. My friend then killed the rat tler. Now, was this a case of charming? If not, what was it? My friend who told me this is named .John Irving McClure, a farmer, well known to me, a good and truthful man. I now give it up that snakes do indeed charm, or so paralyze birds and little animals with terror, when they can catch their eye, that they become hMpless and motlonless.'almost as good as dead. What says the scientists! And none who is familiar with the eyes of rattlesnakes it does not lyvm unreasonable that they should have such power. If you will examine the eye of one when he is cold in death, you will perceive that it lias an extremely malignant and terrible expression. When he is alive and excited, 1 know of nothing in all nature of so dreadful appearance as the eye of the rattlesuake. Tt is enough to strike not only birds and little animals, but men with night mare. 1 have on several occasions examined them closely wuh strong glasses, and feci with all force what I state, and I will tell you that there arc few men on the face of the earth who can look upon an angered rattlesnake through a good glass- bringing him apparently within a foot or two of tlio eye—and stand it more than a moment. She and He. From Figaro. When the young debutante gels sight of a lieau. She scarcely can peep thro’ the leaves of her fan. Her heart doth so flutter, her cheeks do so glow. As she asks all a trembling: ‘Who is the man?” Twenty doth bring her to years of discretion; No longer sb blushes, but changes her plan; With thoughts of the jiocket, the place, the pro fession. She questions the circle with; “What is the man?” At thirty, each day the thought doth appal hor, That hour by hour her roses grow wan; Her circle of lovers grow smaller and smaller— She duns each deceiver with: “Which is the man?” Forty changes her tune, and she grows roman tic— -1 teems it charming to sin;[ter as much as she can; Haunts watering places, streams the Atlantic; For the query of life now-is: “Where is the iiian?” The Little Francs. From the Few York Sun. Mr F. K. Willard, the Wall street broker, in speaking viviterday of the announcement that Bankers J. mV W. So!,glean had ordered “half a million, and perhaps one million, francs” to Is- shipped to New York, sc: i it reminded him of the rk’b nobleman who sent his son, armed with a carte blanche letter of credit, to mnke the grand tour of the continent. The young mail's drafts on bis papa astonished the l’aris bankers, and they notified pepo that Ins son "hat! Already drawn a million and trusted it w its all right.” t'upu wax puzzled ami replied: “If you mean tny son bos draitn a million pounds you may stop his credit; but If you mean that lie hue drawn a million ttf those and little fmnea, you can let bun have ns many of them os ho wants. ” For travelers It if a ■eosaslty. Tbe genuine Brown's Ginger. Frederiok Brown. Philadel phia. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The newest freak of fashion is to have the dress, hat, gloves, boots and stockings of the same color ax the lady’s hair. There were 7,558 photographers in the United States in 1870, and 9,090 in 1880. There are now about 11.000 persons engaged In the photograph ing business In this country. It is said to cost about SB,OOO for a family to spend the season at Ncw’ixirt —$3,000 for a cot tage, 5i, 500 for horses. $1,500 for servants and marketing, and $2,000 for clothes. An Ann Aiibor man has cut off bis moustache, because he thought it hoodooed the Detroit base ball team. He didn’t care so much about the team, but he did want to win those little bets. Babneoat Point. N. J.. is being washed away by the sea so rapidly that tbe lighthouse is in danger, and will have to lie removed. During the last ten weeks the sea has cut in over 800 feet. At Hagerstown, Md., on Wednesday, a couple are reported to have been married in one min ute's time. They arrived on the 8:15 train, and were united by a clergyman in waiting, who left ou the 8:18 train to continue a trip he was making. Boston seems to be the paradise for female stock gamblers. At one of the bucket shops patronized by the fair sex, over a hundred ladies can lie seen daily gesticulating wildly, with cheer, sob or laugh, as the case may be, and oc casionally also fainting—the last resort of lovely woman. The Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State says: “A band of Shoshones arrived here a few days ago with several hundred dollars for the pur pose of engaging in a gambling bout with the Plates. Usually the Shoshones take away more money than they bring with them, but this time the rule was reversed and they lost all their coin and blankets.” A queer museum the Queen's Jubilee presents form in the Throne Room at Windsor; a car riage rug from the women of Heligoland: an olive-wood eross from the British residents of Jerusalem; boots, shoes and slippers from the people of Stafford; felt hats, Turkish bath towels, twine, nope, collars and cuffs, calicoes, tobacco, marmalade’ and an almost infinite variety of the products of the kingdom. A London druggist, who was putting up a prescription lately, by the aid of liis assistant, was handl'd by the latter prussic acid for some simple drug. The patient died two hours after taking some of the compound. A report of the outcome is in the London Times of Aug. 5: ‘ Tbe jury returned a verdict of death bymisadven’ taro, hut strongly censured tbe druggist and his assistant, who were admonished by the Coroner.” The oldest settlers of Orangeville, I. TANARUS., were recently surprised by the reappearance of “Big Mary,” an Indian squaw, who, in the White Bird fight ten years ago, bore an active part. She was very ililigeut in cutting the throats of wounded soldiers who fell in that action. She accompanied the hostiles all throughout the war, anti was sent to Indian Territory with the other Indians, but finally returned with Joseph’s band to the Colville reservation. A mad dog attacked Mrs. Henry Biekle near Louisville, and William Eichen, a young newly landed German employed by Biekle, went to her rescue and strangled the brute, but not be fore his hands and arms hd been badly bitten. As soon as Biekle learned that the dog was mad, and that Eichen might have tho hydrophobia, he promptly discharged the young man who had saved his wife’s life, and the poor fellow, without money or friends, was admitted to the hospital. An Ogdensburg newspaper says that some of the citizens of the Fourth ward of that town have for some time been annoyed by their cows coming home at night without the usual amount of milk. They watched their cows in hopes of discovering the offender, and they were success ful, for they saw a strange dog approach one of the cows and rub up against her legs. The cow put her foot back, when the dog sat upon his haunches and sucked her dry. He was as fat as a seal from the milk he had been taking. It is toed of Charles Stuart Calverley, who wrote “Fly Leaves,” that when a student at Cambridge he was a frequent visitor at the dean's lodge. One evening when he was there the children's bedtime came, and they said “Good night.” One little miss, about 5 years of age, kissed her father and mother, and was leaving the room, when her mother said: “Why! my dear, are you not going to kiss Mr. Calver ley?’' “No, mamma, Mr. Calverley doesn’t want to kiss me." “How do you know he doesn’t?" ' Because, mamma, whenever he meets us walking, at the back of tbe colleges, he always kisses ilurse, but he never kisses me.” One of the most prodigious engineering proj ects now on the tapis is that for tunneling tho Rocky Mountains under Tray's Peak, which rises uo less than 14,441 feet above the level of the sea. It is stated that at 1,441 feet below the peak, by tunnelling from east to west for 25.000 feet, direct communication could be opened t>e tween the valleys on the Atlantic slope nnd those on the Pacific side. This would shorten the distance between Denver, in Colorado, and Salt Lake City, in Utah, and consequently the distance between the Missouri river, say at St. . Louis, and San Francisco, nearly 300 miles, and there would be little more required in tbe way of ascending or descending or tunnelling moun tains. Part of the work has already been ac complished. Ernest Legouve, the author of “Adrienne Lecouvreur,” is still, at the age of 80, one of the best readers and causeurs of Paris. Like Auber, he has scarcely ever left tbe French capital, and he boasts of possessing, in addition to France and Paris, a third “fatherland"—bis house. He 'till inhabits the stone house in which he was bora, and his study is the one in which his father worked The elder Legouve, who wrote some now forgotten dramas, had also been a member of the French Academy, be died when Ernest was 5 years old, and the child was present when hi3 father’s successor in the academy, Alexn rider Duval, delivered his eulogy. Sixteen years later Ernest Legouve again witnessed, in the same seat, a meeting of the academy, this time as the successfu competitor for a prize for the best poem on "The Invention of the Art of Print ing.” “The father of Volapulc, or its ‘inventor,’ as he calls himself,” says a writer In the Leipsic ill nitrite Zeitung , “is the former Catholic priest Johann Martin Sehleyer, born July 18, 1881, at Oberlunda, in the Grand Duchy of Ba den, a man of fiery intellect, emotional temper ament and childlike heart. Eight years ago, while spending a sleepless night, thinking very intently upon the ’misery and hard lot of man kind,’ he gradually evolved his system of the world language Volapuk (“vol” lieing derived from the English world and “puk” from speak), which exists to this very (lav, fur reforming criticasters have not succeeded in inducing him to •change his grammar in any rescect. It is true, however, that he has quietly and gradually changed some of the verbal forms and incorpo rated them, without specially alluding to them, in tho new edition of nis vocabulary.” A German lady, who recently was admitted into the presence of the Khedive's wife, de scribes her in tbe Vienna Xeue Freic Presse as follows: “She is still young, at most 24 to 28 years old, and has an extremely charming face. Her whole upjiearaiicc would lie Switching were she not an lortantul and, therefore, young as she is, already too stout to be perfectly beau tiful according to European notions. .She has large clurk eyes, with long heavy eyelashes, a dazzling complexion to which art has con tributed nothing and the loveliest little mouth and teeth. Her neck and arms, as well as her small fat hands, glittered with diamonds, and her dark, fashionably arranged hair was en circled with wreaths of precious stones, aud yet somehow her toilet seemed not overladen Oil the left side of her white surab dress, whose long trail was completely covered with rich lnoo, she wore a broehe of fresh orange leaves and white roses, and below it a miniature of the Khedive set in diamonds; on a little table lay her golden tabatiere with tbe signature of Abdul Aziz in diamonds and a large fly flap of ostrich feathers, whose handle glittered and sparkled with the slightest motion-’’ TiiK citizens of Charlottetown, P. K. 1., are greatly chagrined over the publication of the fact that an execution hns been issued against that city. year a policeman arrested John Griffiths, n respectable citizen, for non-payment of 83c. tax on personal property. (frifHths paid bis real estate and poll tax, but resisted pay ment of the 88c. on the ground that he din not owe it. The policeman handcuffed nnd jailed Griffiths, who soon after brought action against, the city for false arrest, and got u verdict for SSOO damages. The city appealed to the full bench of Hupreine Court Judges, but failed to quash the verdict. Being beaten at every point, the oily officials neglected to respond to Urlffliflix' request for liuymeot. The latter issued an execution for $747, the amount of ver dict and costs. This brought Mayor Havflund. who is also an ex-Govetnor of the Island, to lus senses, and be immediately signed the chock for the amount, but the Sheriff demanded bis fees iu connection with serving the execution. This Mayor Havlland refuand to pay, whereupon Griffiths declined to accept tbe city’s check. Griffiths says Im-Is going to have lils'potuid of flesh, and unless the eit.v pays every cent ho will size and sell the lire engines and appa r&tua. 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