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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,"
Meetings—Magnolia Encampment No. 1, 1.0.
O. F.; Qoldeu Rije Lodge No. 12, I. 0.0. F.;
The Equitable Loan and Building Association.
Auction Sale Fine Furniture, Etc., by C. H.
Dorset t.
Official —Notice to Tailors.
Educational —Methodist College, Gainesville,
Ga.
Stoddart's Ten Cent Library, Etc.—L. &■ B.
6. M. H.
Copartnership Notice--Menken & Abrahams.
Armstrong Brace Armstrong M'f'g Cos.
Pianos—L. A B. S. M. H.
Cheap Column Advertisements- Help Want
ed; For Kent; Reward; Miscellaneous.
Legal Notice—Application to Sell Real Es
tate.
It might be well for the doctors while in
Washington to visit the “Potomac flats.”
Pity ’tis, ’tis true that Ilev. Talmage, in
order to make a good showing of queens, had
to emasculate the verse from which he
chose his text.
The Philadelphia Press says the Glenn
bill is a test of the tone and character of
Georgia civilization. Georgia people are
willing to accept it as a test.
The Socialists of New York are beginning
to learn something of American politics.
At their meeting Sunday they wildly
cheered an allusion to the American flag.
Ives flushed his game too soon, or he might
have become the great magnate of the Bal
timore and Ohio and added another bay
window to the mansion in his sister’s name.
The Anti-Poverty party is appealing for
campaign funds. This was the burden of
their griefs at the Sunday night meeting in
New York. George and, McGlynn both
spoke, but only $164 were collected.
President Cleveland will very largely in
crease his acquaintance this month and
next. On Sept. 15 he begins circulating
with the Pennsylvanians, and next mouth
he will visit Georgia and the West.
The Russian bear has risen so much in
Importance in European politics within the
last year or two that ha now sits erect upon
his haunches and catches the sweetmeats
which other European nations toss to him.
The failure to organize the whisky ring
in Germany has smoked Bismarck out as a
partner in a distillery. There is little dan
ger of prohibition making much progress
in that country during the life of the Chan
cellor.
The entente cordiale can he said to Ik)
flowing placidly between Turkey and France.
The Sultan has presented the French Am
bassador with a gold snuff box. The Turk
may be expected to sneeze whenever the
Frenchman takes snuff.
The election of a Supreme Court Judge
is exciting more interest in the Legislature
than anything else at present. Is the leg
islature sure that the best man to l>e ob
tained for the place is to be found among
those who are pressing their claims so vig
orously?
A New Yorker by the name of DeMit
liiexwioz has one half of the exclusive right
to construct telephone lines in China for
fifty years, but the ’phone cannot be ex
pected to operate well with such a cumber
some medley of letters and sounds as DeMit
kiexwicz.
A French diplomat at Berlin says tliat
Germany is anxious for jieace, for the
reason that the Emperor and Crown Prince
arc very sick men. Hardly any one doubts
Germany’s pacific purposes, for better
reasons than that given. She has nothing
to revenge and could gain little by war.
A movement has been started among the
British residents of Chicago, who number
about 5,000 men, to prepare to take part in
future political contests by becoming
American citizens. If their vote were
thrown solidly with either party it would
frequently carry victory with it in local
elections.
Ex-Gov. Pattison, who is mentioned as
the probable successor of Mr. Lamar as
Secretary of the Interior if the latter is
made a Justice of the Supreme Court, has
always lM>rne a reputation of being a good
young man. If he is a man of striking
ability ho has always succeeded in keeping
the fact from the public.
The Press congratulates itself that its Sun
day circulation is larger than that of any
other Philadelphia pai>er, but doesn't men
tion the singular fact that in the bead centre
of Pennsylvania protection politics the
Record, a tariff reform journal, reaches
during the week about twice as many read
ers as does the high tariff Press.
Judge Simmons’ home ]wiper says that he
Is unfit for the vacant place on the Supreme
bench. The liar of the city in which he
lives says he is fit. A question is thus pre
sented which the legislature ought to in
quire into before the election takes place.
Gi eat care ought to be taken not to make
a mistake in selecting a man to fill so im
portant an office as a Supreme Court Judge
ship.
Mr. McManes, who is a Republican
leader in Philadelphia politics, has been
kind enough to say tha* “taking every
thing into consideration” lie has decided to
let the people “determine for themselves
who shall lie nominated'' for tbo office of
Sheriff. Mr. McMaues deserves praise for
his magnanimity. The people should take
advantage <>f tlieir emarnqiation .to get rid
of a bos#> talks with such a calm air of
pfoprtetonih i p
What the Democratic Party Must Do
It is stated in the dispatches sent out
from Washington that Mr. Carlisle and sev
eral other Democratic leaders are having
conferences with the President and the Sec
retary of the Treasury for the purfiose of
outlining a tariff measure to be introduced
into the House soon after the meeting of
Congress. It is impossible to say whether
or not there is any truth in this statement.
It is no doubt true that Mr. Carlisle is spend
ing a good deal of time with the President,
and that Secretary Fairchild, who, it was
thought, had gone to New York for a
month’s vacation, is back again in Washing
ton, but tile tariff may not be the subject
that is occupying the attention of either the
President, Mr. Carlisle or Mr. Fairchild.
A day or two ago it was an
nounced that Mr. Carlisle and
other tariff reformers would agree
to a repeal of the tobacco tax provided the
protection Democrats would consent to a
very considerable reduction in the tariff.
It is doubtful if there was any authority for
an announcement, of that kind, and it is
also doubtful if there has been any sort of
understanding among the tariff reform
Democrats as to what course they will pur
sue next winter on the tariff isssue.
There is only one tariff reform Con
gressman who talks frankly on the
tariff question, and he is Representative
Mills, of Texas. Mr. Mills thinks
that the Democratic party lias wasted
enough time with Mr. Randall, and
tkat the only thing to be done now is to
make it so unpleasant for him in the
Democratic party that ho will leave it. He
feels satisfied Mr. Kandall does not intend
to abandon the position on the tariff that he
lias always occupied, and, thenefore, he
thinks that it is a grave mistake for the
party to longer recognize him as one of its
leaders, or even as one of its members.
It will hardly be denied that Mr. Mills
lias common sense on his side. Mr. Randall
is entitled to his opinions, but if he cannot
act, with his party on the greatest, question
before the country he ought not to want,
and he ought not to be permitted, to
obstruct his party in its effort to carry out
its policy with regard to that question.
It is certain that the Democratic party
has got to reduce the revenues at the next
session of Congress, and it will either have
to get rid of Mr. Randal) ami carry out its
own well-settled policy in making
the reduction or, if it keeps Mr. Randall, it
will have to abandon its policy and accept
Mr. Randall’s. It can take its choice, but
if it abandon its policy it will also aban
don its claim to the confidence of the
people.
It, is time that Mr. Randall made a slight
concession at the Pennsylvania Democratic
convention a few days ago. but it was so
slight that it was not worth mentioning.
Indeed, it is doubtful if he thinks he made
any concession. He interprets the to riff
plank of the platform that was adopted
one way while the faction opposed to him
interprets it another.
The Democratic leaders must make up
their minds what course they are going to
pursue before Congress meets. If the
House doesn’t pass a tariff reduction meas
ure-one that will relieve the Treasury of
its surplus—the Democratic party will have
a pretty hard time to elect the next Presi
dent, even with Mr. Cleveland as its can
didate.
The Medical Congress.
The proceedings of the International
Medical Congress at, Washington promise
to be full of interest. The attendance is
very large, and there appears to be an
earnest desire to make the meeting, in every
respect, worthy of the great profession it
represents and the distinguished men who
are taking part in it.
There will be a great many papers read,
all of which, doubtless, will lie of a very
high order of merit. Some of them will
deal with subjects which are of general in
terest, while others will command only the
attention of members of the mediral profes
sion. The volume which these papers will
make can hardly fail to he a valuable one.
It will contain accounts of the latest discov
eries which have been made in surgery and
medicine, and the results of the experience
and observation, in diseases that are not
clearly understood, of men who are eminent
specialists in their profession.
New discoveries are being made in medical
science all the time, hut the field for investi
gation is so immense that, it may be said t o he
limitless. Tlie workers in this field have
always been among the ablest of their age,
and they will continue to he. There
is no nobler profession than that, of medi
cine, and no more exacting one. Those
who would win either fame or fortune in it
must give their whole time to it. It calls
for the highest powers which man possesses,
and it rewards those well who prove them
selves capable and faithful.
Doubtless the foreigners present will
gathor some impressions from American
physicians which will lie exceedingly in
teresting to them, and the physicians of this
country will pick up some valuable sug
gestions from tho foreigners. The congress,
from whatever point it is viewed, is in
teresting and attractive, and is certain to
have a very beneficial effect upon the medi
cal profession.
Mr. Randall’s debts incurred at Allen
town are being paid with great promptitude.
Twelve of his followers have in the last
week lieeft appointed to places in the Phila
delphia mint. Mr. Randall is certainly n
hold politician. It will he seen he has used
the Federal patronage to defeat the policy
of the President and of tho great majority
of his own party. It might he advisable for
the President to interfere with Mr. Ran
dall's method of opposing the policy of the
administration.
The New York Tribune has discovered
that the business men of the country have
no confidence in the national administra
tion, and that trade lias been timid and un
certain on Hint account for thirty months.
It gained this information from the “head
of a prominent dry goods firm,” but evi
dently put no faith in his statement, as the
article is healed, “A Hopeful Trade Out
look-Activity AM Along the Line.”
A court of inquiry has exonerated Capt.
Selfridge, who was suspended from com
mand of the Omulia nnd scut home, liecausc
shells fired from his vessel during target
practice on the coast of Japan killed and
wounded a large number Of Japanese. It is
hard to reconcile the action of tho court
with the aivount* of tho accident recently
printed, which certainly indicated careless
ness of the grossest kind.
It is said that the Baltimore and Ohio
•pent $'20,000,00(1 in trying to got to New
York and didn’t gel there. It, is not to lie
wondered nt that Mr. Garrett was anxious
to have tlie management of tho road trails
furred to someone els*
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. IRB7.
Improve the Streets.
A question that is asked about as often as
any other in this city is, “What is the pros
pect for the improvement of the unpaved
streets'” This question is particularly
prominent in the public mind during dry
weather when the wind is high. Then
the flying sand makes a walk along tho un
paved streets anything but pleasant.
Doubtless, the Aldermen would like some
body to suggest some way, within the limits
of the city’s means, to improve the streets.
A good many suggestions have been made,
but for some reason or other they have failed
to meet with approval. Some required too
great an expenditure of money, and others
promised no permanent l>eneflt. There ap
pears to tie some ground for saying, however,
that the Aldermen do not apply themselves
to thesolutiou of tho street paving problem
with the energy and determination that in
spire confidence in their success.
Some of the streets are paved, and the
last piece of paving that was done—that on
Broughton street—gives great satisfaction.
It would l>e a grand thing for the city if all
the principal streets were paved with
asphalt,. Some day they will be, probably,
but in the meantime something ought to be
done to protect citizens against the foul dust
and sand with which every passing vehicle
fills the air.
There is one thing that the city can do
that will, to some extent, remedy the dust
evil, and will at the same time tend to re
duce the cost of paving when the city gats
ready to make that improvement, and that
is to limit the sand area of the unpavod
streets. On South Broad street, for instance,
the grass plat in the centre could, at a very
small expense, tie considerably widened,
leaving only a narrow roadway on either
side of it. The grass plat could be so im
proved as to increase the attractiveness of
the street. A grass plat could be
made in the centre of Liberty street
and also in other wide streets
such as Jones, Gwinnett and Gaston. There
are are other streets, such as St. Julian and
President, which could be male more
pleasant for the residents upon them by re
ducing the width of I heir roadway This
could be done by cutting off a narrow strip
on either side and making a gl ass plat of it.
Bull street could Vs* treated in this way at,
a very small cost, but with vast benefit
to its attractiveness. It would not
be necessary to use costly curbing. The
same sort of material that was used in
making the walks in the Park extension
would answer for the present. There would
be no need for skilled labor. Under the
direction of the City Engineer the men who
are now employed upon the streets could do
all the work, and when it was done the cost
of keeping the streets in repair would be
much less than at present. In fact, it is
probable that the amount that would be
saved in one year would be almost equal to
the cost of making the improvements sug
gested. The amount expended upon the
streets now is very large, and nobody is
able to see that they are improved in any
way. Of course if nothing were done upon
them it would soon become apparent that
the money appropriated for their repair is
not wholly wasted, but there is a lurking
suspicion in the public mind that some of
the money spent upon the streets could be
used to good advantage in making perma
nent improvements. The practice of shov
elling sand from places to which the wind
returns it within a few hours, has probably
cost the city a sum sufficient to pave half
the streets with asphalt.
If the plan suggested of attaching a part
of the roadway of the streets to the side
walks were adopted the paring problem
would be considerably simplified. The
sjiace to be part'd would be greatly reduced,
and, of course, the cost of paring would be
correspondingly reduced. The opposition
to paring that is now met with from prop
erty owners would almost wholly disappear.
They could afford to meet their share of the
expenses of paring a street, and, in most in
stances, would meet it gladly.
Let the City Council hare an estimate
made of the cost of carrying out, on the
principal streets, the plan above outlined.
It will be found that the cost will not be
great. Let us hare a season of earnest anil
intelligent work on the streets, and when
the improvements are completed the house
keeper will be gratified because less sand
will get into her house to ruin her furniture,
the pedestrians will be thaukful because
they can walk the streets with more enjoy
ment and the owners of teams will be hap
pier because it will not cost them so much
to keep their stock in good condition.
The supporters of Gov. McEnery, in
Louisiana, must lie in a very intolerant
frame of mind. In several instances the
courts have been called upon for injunc
tions to prevent the publication in certain
newspapers of editorials in favor of ex-Gov.
Niclioils' candidacy. The last instance oc
cured a few days ago, when a minority of
the stockholders of the Ascension Democrat
wanted its advocacy of Nicholls stopped, on
the ground that the charter of the company
provided for the publication of a Demo
cratic newspaper. That such heat should
be evolved in a preliminary canvass indi
cates a schism in the party which may en
danger Democratic ascendancy in the
State. _
A special from Capon Springs, Va., says
an attache of a South American legation
in Washington and the son of a prominent
Western Congressman fought a bloody bat
tle with naked fists, u few days since, to
settle a question growing out of their
rivalry for the favor of a young lady. If
the lady should refuse to receive the atten
tion of either of them she would serve them
as they deserved. They had no right to
bring her info notoriety by a slugging
match.
Politicians are somewhat disquieted by
the coming convention of the so-called
American party in Philadelphia. They fear
the party is more extensively organized
than has been thought, and are anxious to
know its platform of principles, that they
may judge of its relative effect on the old
parties. If it should follow in the footsteps
of the old Know Nothing party, it would
have no chance of suci'oss itself, but might
add to the uncertainty of the political
situation.
The North Atlantic squadron, having
done what it could to render the season at
liar Harbor a successful one, is now per
forming like duty nt Newport. A sham
lialtle was fought Friday in the harbor,
greatly to the entertainimait of the Duke of
Marlliorough, and hundred* of other
Utter*.
The principal sjieakor at the Socialist
meeting in New York Sunday denounced
Henry George as a “fanatic,” and at the
same time said he was honest. Outsiders in
their estimate of the character of Herr
Most'* red flag gang are less complimentary
—they omit tile last assertion
CUfiRENT COMMENT.
The Tobacco Tax.
From the A'eui York Timm (Rep.)
To remove th tobacco tax is simply to throw
away some S'HifltW.OOO of revenue, without ap
preciably benefiting the taxpayer.
Protectionist Bather Than Democrat.
From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
If Randall and those who believe in the Dem
ocratic National platform, that distinctly de
mands the protection of the wages of labor, are
not Democrats, then the House to meet in De
cember next is n*tl)emoeratie, and the accep
tance of Representative Mills' theory of party
action woulo prov* it with such emphasis that
even -Mr. Mills wodd understand it.
Foraker Has No Chance.
From the St. Istuis Pout-Dispatch (Ind).
It Is to cast a slur upon the moral sense of the
nation to say that Foraker can ever in-come a
formidable candidate for ti e Presidency. His
chance of getting tie Republican nomination is
a different thing altogether, and something
which Republicans must determine for them
selves. Fortunately, the Presidency is not
within the grasp of a small-brained blather
skite quivering,' with ".he "jim-jams" of sectional
hate.
They Have Only Old Issues.
From the Washington Post (Dem.)
Democrats may expect, for they certainly
will hear, the taunU of Republicans who will
insist that their opponents are unable to meet
them in a discussion of the old and well-worn is
sues; but what of it? Sensible people know that
the chief reason for their eagerness to go hack
twenty years for principles and issues is their
unwillingness to go he.ore the country on the
many questions ot interest, not only to those
who were living during the war, but to at least
a million men who were born since Appomattox
and will vote next year.
BRIGHT BITS.
Hihkd Man—Gosh; I’ve been stung by a wasp.
Farmer—Why don't you swear?
Hired Man—Because the female wasp is the
only one that stings, and von don't catch me
swearing in the presence of a female.—Burling
ton Free Press.
It takes the crimps out of a society girl's hair
to see the distinguished Count she has been des
perately flirting with at a seaside resort, snip
ping around the bead of a Boston merchant and
urging a reluctant customer to "have a sea
foam.”— Boston Globe.
“So you've lost your week's salary playing
poker?”
"Yes.''
“You should have heeded Solomon's advice.”
1 tried to, but got mixed and went to my
ante.' Washington Critic.
The oyster is a most delicious R tide of diet,
If you have never eaten one you'd better go and
try it.
An Retie day it is. indeed, and very R-ctic, too,
When yt u can K gue any girl out of an oyster
stew. -Columbus Dispatch.
“I want to go to Albany, Mr. Depew. Will you
pass me on your road?'
"Certainly. You walk up as far as Spuyten
Duyvil, or somewhere along there, and stand
there till our train comes along, and we'll
pass you like a streak of lightning, I’ll warrant
you.”— Yonkers Gazette.
“What is your favorite flower, Mr. Hayseed?”
asked Miss Lilybud.
"The tuber rows, marm, the tuber rows,” said
the good old man. lor it was he, shouldering his
hoe and marching down to the potato patch.
This might be considered a pun de terrible. Ex
cuse my French Burdette.
“Tommy,” said a New Mexico lady, addressing
her son. "you shouldn't make so free with the
gentleman. You never saw him before.”
“Yessum, 1 have. He's the man that shot
pap.”
"Oh, is he? T thought he was a stranger. Go
back and talk to him if you want to.”—Arkan
san Traveler.
“Gvbbins, what's the reason the mosquitoes
bite you so persistently and don't touch me
atall?”
“Well, I don't know, Johnson, but it seems to
me when a man gets so far gone that even a
mosquito won't have anything to do with him.
it's high time he reformed and took a bath."—
Dansville Breeze.
The little folks have some ideas which are
practical, if they don't aiWiy.s apply to me
chanical inverittbns of “grown ups.” An up
town youngster wss delighted with a present of
a toy telephone, but a little puzzled before he
tried it. “You can't fcoi me,'' he said tip.his
father. “Nobody can tala through that. Thebe's
no hole in the string.”— Hart ford Post.
A room man who was about to enter a drink
ing saloon suddenly stopped, and with a set
look upon his face walked rapidly away. “Sir,”
said an old gentleman who had observed his
movements, "you fill my heart with joy. Y'ou
have resolved never to enter that accursed place
again?”
"I won't at present, at least, sir," responded
the youth, “you see, it suddenly occurred to me
that I owe the proprietor 75c.”— Tid-Bits.
Maid the prize steer to the phenomenal pump
’mi at the country fair: "\Ye are very popu
lar.”
Yes," said the pumpkin, with a sigh, ‘ but
we are also good to eat.’’
"I hadn't thought of that," said the steer, be
ginning to chew his companion; “thank you,
very much.”
Tuis beautiful fable teaches that the New
York Republicans see a great deal to admire in
the party of Henry George.— Ch icagd Mews,
PERSONAL.
Gladstone drinks a glass of old ale at lunch
and two glasses of old port at dinner.
Dr. Parker thinks it a terrible sacrilege
! hat the remains of Mr. Beecher are not yet bur
ied.
President Grew, of France, was SO years old
on Aesr. 11. He received 1,000 telegrams of con
gratulation.
The Duke of Westminster is brother-in-law to
his own daughter, his second wife’s brother hav
ing married his daughter.
The Duke of Norfolk is emerging from the
seclusion he maintained after the death of the
young Duchess, lie is now touring in Scotland
with Lord Harris, the cricketer.
Prof. A due, of Washington, Prof. Young, of
Princeton, and Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard, are
attending the meeting of the British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science, at Man
chester, Eng.
Jane Oshkosh, a granddaughter of the cele
brated chief after whom the Wisconsin city was
named, is to have a monument erected in the
cemetery near Kyshena. The deceased was a
i'atholic, and the testimonial to her memory is
the work of her Indian friends.
Princess Clqtilde has just finished a mantle
•she has embroidered for the Pope at her seat at
Moncalieri. The mantle, which is of white satin
embroidered with golden dowers, will be sent to
ths approaching exhibition to be held at the
Vatican on the occasion of the Pope’s jubilee.
Capt. George F. Price, of the Fifth United
States Cavalry, is anxious to learn the where
abouts of Private K. W. liceth, fori£>rly of the
same regiment, whom he desires to present with
a $9,0110 farm in Kansas, ('apt. Price was severe
ly wounded in a tight with the Sioux Indians in
1876, and Private lieeth retcaed him at the
fKiril of his own life.
Mr. Parnell’s latest affectation in the way of
dress is a brown round hat of a light and un
parliamentary tint. The Irish leader not long
ago elect rifled the House by a display of some
extremely striking Irish tweeds of a light hue,
that were in contrast to his usual rather shabby
appearance. Mr. Parnell, however, makes up
in jewelry for this defect.
Mmk. Demurest, the well known modiste and
publisher of New York, keeps up a handsome
country place near Saratoga. The bouse
and grounds comprise the old Curtis homestead
where Mine, liemorest was born. She is a
daughter of Zohulon Curtis, and cornea of a
family famous for its longevity. Mine. Demo
rest was a milliner in her girlhood, and located
at Schuylerville. N y. Later in lire she came
to New York, * here she has risen to the very
front rank in her profession.
Alphonsf. Daudet. who spends the summer
at his country seat, (’hamprosay, near Paris, is
report**! to suffer greatly from nervousness and
insomnia. He has withdrawn almost com
pletely from the society of his friends and leeks
to forget Ids suffer n;s ita redouble 1 work. He
has thn*e new books under way a novel, “L'lin
inortel," which is intended as a hitter satire on
the Academy; au idyllic story called “Ma Pa
roisee," and an autobiographic work entitled
‘‘Ma Dotileur,” in whi *h he will depict the dis
appointments of his literary career.
Mas. S. Eoh.emton. who returned recently
to the Argentine Republic, is one of sixteen
women teachers who went from this country
about foui yean ago at tha urgent reqi*
the Argentine Minister of Education, and were
placed in charge of public schools in the several
provtuoss Tha fact that all ware Prot
causa I thrfln to b* regarded with none* suspicion
at first in a country where the Kornau Catholic
is the prevalent as well os the Stab* religion;
but it hm>ii came to lie understood that their
touching was purely secular, and the schools are
well attended by all classes Mrs. Ecrineton
speaks with enthusiasm of the sue <*** of their
t'diicMioiuil work, and of the generous treat
men i tin* North American teachers received
from the government
What Will be the Resuit?
Customer (to tailor)-Do you make the new
style of dre*-s coat, to distinguish &
gentleman from a waiterr
Tailor -Yes. sir.
Customer- I believe you may take my meas
un*.
Tailor (takizig his
have the pleasure of sending the coat, sir?
Customer—The Hoffman.
Tailor-You are a guest there. I suppose, sir?
Customer—No. I'm one of the wakers.
The Hon. Roscoe Conkling Surprised.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
The hour was late, but Roscoe Conkling sat in
his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel examining
a pile of paper*} that lay on the table in front of
him. Someone mpped at the door. The states
man frowned, went to the door, opened it a few
inches, peered out, and seeing a man said:
“You must excuse me. sir.”
‘ Is this Mr. Conkling?” the man asked.
“Yes, but you must excuse me."
“That's all right, but I haven't anything to
say."
“Hold on,” said the man. as Mr. Conkling at
tempted to shut the door. “You don’t know
who I am. You doubtless taka me for a re
porter."
“Yes" the statesman admitted.
“Well. I'm not. Pin a robber and I want your
money.”
“A robber 1" exclaimed the,great lawyer as a
smile broke out and ran all over his fame. “Come
in. ' throwing open the door “You must par
don my mistake.”
Dueling Between Women in France.
Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph.
Dueling among women threatens to come into
vogue in Paris, and the old practice of demol
ishin : chiguons. tearin r off hats or bonnets,
and leaving the imprint of nails in faces when
quarrels are to be a ljusted, will soon probably
he discarded for more summ ry means of ob
taining sitisfaction. Yesterday two well
dressed women came face to face with each
other in the Rue I amen**** Savart. and bystand
< rs were surprised to hear them suddenly begin
to objurgate one another in a vociferous maimer
worthy of the Mme. Angota of the Central
Mark. t. Public interest in the spectacle was,
however, more deeply aroused when one of the
scolds pulled a revolver from some mysterious
part of her bodice and leveled it at her adver
sary. The adversary fumbled about for her
weapon of defense, but before she bad time to
present it a bullet wh stled near her ears, and
she fainted away in a m 'nn°r hardly worthy of
,an amazon. The assailant, a Mme. Oelestine,
was seized by the on-lookers and disarmed,
while her unlucky rival w;.s carried insensi
ble. but uninjured, to an adjacent pharmacen
tieal establishment.
A Seaside Flirtation.
Samvel Min turn Peck in the Century.
With sorrow in her eyes of bine.
With trembling hands she slowly penned it—
The little parting billetdoixx
That conscience told her now should end it.
Those tete-a tete along the shore,
Those gypsy in gs with fern-filled baskets,
Must join tue dear delights of yore
And only live in memory’s casket.
There never was a heart like Jack's;
He told his passion in his glances,
She sealed her note with scented wax,
But could not drown her dismal fancies.
When he should read his suit denied,
So long tue theme of idle gazers,
She pictured him a suicide,
And shuddered at the thought of razors!
At last she slept—but not till dawn
Had blossomed through the ocoan vapors,
Jack conned her missive with a yawn
When he had read the morning papers*.
He gave his beard a languid twirl.
And murmured as he sat a-smoking;
“Tear-stained—by Jove!—poor little girl
I thought she knew that 1 was joking!”
How a Russian Became Rich.
From the London Figaro.
Avery wealthy, probably the wealthiest,
member of the Russian colony in Paris is M.
Andre Ivanhoff Krohn, who ms just returned
to the French capital with the intention of end
ing his lays there. The story of how he has
made his large fortune is somewhat interesting.
During one of the hottest summers in the reign
of Nicholas 1., when the inhabitants of St. Pe
tersburg were dying off like flies, M. Krohn, who
was then a youiig man, pointed out in the jour
nals of the day the undoubted cause. The
Neva, he stated, from which the citizens draw
their supply of water for drinking and cooking,
is also the sewer into which the drains of the city
are emptied. Nicholas, igporant despot though
he was, saw the point of the citizen's statement,
and at once gave orders for the necessary works
to b * carried out at any cost for keeping the sup
ply of drinking water pure. An association was
immediately formed, but though it commenced
its task With vigor, it soon had to stop in Uu*
face of engineering difficulties that it seemed
not even the will of the Czar himself could over
come. What they were I need not explain, but
at all events, soon after the association had ad
mitted its failure, M. Andre Krohn came again
upon the scene, and buying up at a nominal
price the scrip which the failure of the associa
tion had thrown upon the market, formed anew
company, which, thanks to hi# indomitable en
ergy. accomplished the necessary works. The
Kmperor. foi* the first time in his* reign, decor
ated a man who wag really nothing but a
roturier , and the impress herself wrote him an
autograph letter of thanks in the names of the
children of St. Petersburg, for it was especially
among them that the mortality had been most
terrible.
The Two Babies in the Hospital.
From the St. James' Gazette.
Another painful story cornea from Paris.
Two children in a hospital, it is said, were mis
taken for each other, one child which died being
buried oy the wrong parents and the surviving
one l>eing offered to a mother who found it was
not her own. The children were suffering from
scarlatina, and no visitors were allowed to see
them. Mine. Duhamel, a concierge, sent her
boy. 1 ye u s old. to the hospital, and after two
months had notice that he was convalescent,
and might be taken home. She sent a neighbor,
who. however, did not recognize the child and
declined to take him. Three days later a nurse
took the child to Mine. Duhamel. hut there
was a mutual absence of recognition. Ulti
mately the hospital authorities admitted that,
the tickets must have.been misplaced, and that
Mine. PubamePs child had died twelve days
after admission. Meanwhile the other parents,
named Molera, believed their child to be dead,
and had borne the expenses of the funeral. The
two children, who were of the same age, but
differed in color of the eyes and hair, at first oc
cupied adjoining beds. After some days the
doctor ordered l>oth to be transferred to another
ward. The nurse who transferred them placed
the ticket of one child on the other's bed-head.
When, therefore, the Duhamel child died, notice
was sent to M. Molero, the father of the other
child, and he saw the corpse. He now states
that he failed to identify it, but it does not ap
pear that he then expressed any doubts. When
informed seven weeks later that his child was
possibly still ahvc, and asked whether he could
identify it by any mark, he stated that there
was a mole spot on the back. There was, how
ever, no need for any external sign, for on his
going to the hospital the child sprang into his
arms. The nurse who misplaced the tickets has
been dismissed.
Protecting Watches from Electricity.
From the New York Sim.
“The electric railroads are magnetizing a
great many watches,” said a jeweler. “The
watches become as thoroughly magnetized as
though brought within the ramgeof a dynamo.
Here are three watches seat to me from Scran
ton, Pa., to Is* demagnetized. The jeweler that
sent them said he had thirty-live in the same
condition."
“Can they be made to resist the influence of
the electricity?” ventured a reporter.
“<lb, vc . If we put in a shield made for the
purpose they art* all right. This is the vmy it
works.”
The jeweler took an ordinary watch coyer,
put a steel pen in it. au<l moved a magnet on
the outside of the cover. The pen followed the
movement* of the magnet He <iid the Mine
with n pea in one of the rtttffle, but the magnet
was powerless,
“In some of the finer watches we put a double
shield,” he continued, “and a plate over the
dial. We protected u watch for Vice President
C. E. Chmnock, of the Edison company. He
used It two years while superintendent in their
place in Pearl street, and walked between two
l>ig dynamos with it without the watch being
disturbed. Thive* dynamos are the largest in
the world—lso horse power each—and each will
lift 4,000 pounds. They took an umbrella right
awas from ntt
“Has there been any particular disturbance
of watches this sununerV'
“It bus leeii very great The electrical con
dition of t he atmosphere this season has doubled
the business in mainsprings. Mon* mainsprings
have been broken than has ever been known be
fore Nearly •1! to** wet oh— taken in for re
pairs this season have bad broken mainsprings.”
“Is the effect of the daotrio railways gen
eral'”
‘Every watch carried on an elective railway
will la* magnetized unless It has a shield Every
lever on an ordinary engine I* a magnet of itself
by reason of tin* earths indue!lV.* forty*. Many
railroad companies require their rnjjliiw*™ and
conductorsto hum tlirlr walches protected by
shield* Much of tbe trouble of watches lielng
out of linn* resulting In accidents la due to this
trnrai 1
For cramp* and colics. Tin* original brown's
Ginger. Frederick Brown, Philadelphia, IKS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The aura to be raised by taxes in New York
city this year is $31,803,174.
Anew bridge across the Tiber at Rome is to
be named in honor of Garibaldi.
It is stated that smelting works to be erected
at Tacoma, W. TANARUS., will be the largest in the
United States.
The Seattle (W. TANARUS.) Intelligencer states that a
two-year-old colt swam six miles across a lake
near there lately.
A rooster that will crow when commanded
to do so by its owner, amuses Carpentersville,
Warren county, N. J.
A California girl was recently cured by
faith. I 'lit on the way home from church her
horse ran away, and she is now worse than ever.
It is reported from Tilsit that the emigration
of Russian Jews to America has set in with re
newed vigor. Large trains pass Tilsit weekly
on their way to Bremen and Hamburg.
Europe’s annual expenditure for armies and
fleets is $3,837,500,000. The national debts in
curred by war aggregate $24,113,057,635, on
which $1.0011,000,000 is annually paid out for
interest.
Aunty Maria Kennedy has just died near
Com went ville, Ind. She was born 102 years
ago. was a negro, and her descendants are three
children, twenty grandchildren, and thirty-nine
great-grandchildren.
When a native in China is bitten by a mad
dog, and symptoms of hydrophobia present
themselves, the poor fellow is, according to cus
tom in such cases, chained up by his hands
and feet till death puts an end to his suffer
ings.
Miss Mabel Trupp, of Ovid, N. Y., was much
surprised the other day, as she was breaking
eggs w ith which to make cake, when from one
of them popped a lively little serpent six inches
long, axiu as large as a good-sized steel knitting
needle.
In a Pittsburg theatre, the other night, a
citizen arose in his seat and violently hurled a
potato at a dude who was examining his (the
citizen’s) wife through an opera glass: and
thereupon three or four hundred persons vigor
ously applauded the husband.
Rev. Georoe R. Rogers, of Brooks’ station,
Ky., though 96 years old, frequently rides his
horse to Louisville and back, a distance of
twenty-six miles, and he still preaches and mar
ries folks. He served throughout the war of
1812. and draws a pension for that service.
An Oceana county (Mich.) veteran got SI,OOO
in pension money recently, gave his wife S3OO
worth of toggery, bought a house and lot for
SSOO and deeded it, to her, and yet she w asn’t
satist.ed. so she sold the house for SSOO, and,
taking the money, skipped out with another
man.
In Cape Colony, South Africa, a shepherd
drove a flock of 1,430 ewes up to a small build
ing, in which he took refuge front a thunder
storm. As the sheep crowded around the build
ing it was struck by lightning, and 790 of them
killed outright. The shepherd escaped with a
severe shock.
Therb are two church bells at Messilla, Mex.,
that are valuable. They were cast in 1775, and
it is said that just before the easting was made
at least $1,(’00 worth of gold and silver jewelry
was dropped into the molten mass of metal by
the devout, who thought thus to propitiate their
patron saints. The bells are to be melted and
the precious metals recovered.
When Farragut’s squadron was before New
Orleans one of the powder boys saw a shell drop
dangerously near the magazine. The fuse was
burning furiously, but the boy picked up the
shell and tossed it overboard. This was Oscar
Peck. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn., and he
has just received, in consideration of his lira very,
back pension money amounting to $4,220.
About 30,000,000 acres of the best lands in
Allen county, Kansas, upon which fine improve
ments have been made, and which have been
settled fifteen years, are claimed by the Mis
souri, Kansas and Texas railroad under grant
from the government. The present occupants
of the land have organized a Set tler's Protect
ive Association, and hired able attorneys to rep
resent them.
A South Fdorida town has a young lady post
mistress. She complained to an inspector that
stamps were bought from her and then letters
mailed on the train, thus robbing her of the fee
for cancellation. Ling did she revolve various
schemes to prevent this, and finally she can
celled the stamps when sold, and as they w ere
good nowhere else tbe letters bearing them
were dropped in at her office.
S. V. French, the New York city politician,
made a queer catch in Montauk Bay the other
day. What he hauled up was a long black fish
that weighed over four pounds. The peculiarity
about it was that its head was flat, and cor
rugated like the soul of a tenuis shoe. It proved
to be a specimen of the “remora.” By means
of this flat head it dabs itself against the side of
a shark or other large fish and sticks there, and
thus makes its voyages into the deep waters.
lIABiTrAL visitors to the White Mountains
cannot, remarks a correspondent of the New
York Times , fail to note the growing tendency
of the guests to spend their outings in cottages.
Every great hotel lias suites of private cottages
which are rented for the season to wealthy
families. Cottage life affords a delightful op
portunity for rest and quiet, and at the same
time the adjacent bustle and excitement that
obtain at large hotels can be shared in at
pleasure.
While J. H. Robbins was in the mountains
near Granite Creek, Ore., he heard someone
groaning, and upon investigation found Gran
ville Clark, an old placer miner, buried to his
ears by the caving or an open cut He had been
in thiscritieul condition eight hours, and tons of
bowlders, rocks, and dirt imprisoned him One
large rock rested lightly on his shoulder, being
mainly supported by the earth. If this rock
had settled another inch his head would have
been crushed.
The stock farms of William M. Singerly, of
the Philadelphia Record, are situated about
twenty miles from Philadelphia, on the banks
of the Wissahickon, For fifteen years Mr. Sin
gerly has been jierfecting this magnificent
ranch, and is now the Holstein cattle king of
Pennsylvania. Blooded stock of all kinds is to
be found on the place. Under Jason Sexton,
the manager, the farms and stock have b m im
proving every year until at last the ranch is a
perfect model of its kind.
The Berlin Hofnachrichten announces offi
cially: "Some time ago domestic, as well as
foreign journals stated that Prof. Mackenzie
had received about 54,000 marks for the treat,-
m< n! of the Crown Prince, a statement w hich
was here and elsewhere variously commented
upon. We are authentii aly informed that the
sum of 54,000 marks covers only the two trips
from and to England of the British physician.
The fee itself is by no means included In it, ami
is left to the discretion of their Royal High
nesses.”
New Yorkers dare not dine on the toothsome
bobolink if the following slip from the Sun be
true: "There are thousands of melancholy
looking reed-birds hanging on the reeds along
the shores of the Delaware that are eating
themselves fat for no purpose, as far as New
Yorkers are concerned. The Audubon Society,
now 88,000 strong, had a law passed in this state
more than a year ago depriving <q leu res here of
this delicious little bird. An attempt was mace
during the last session of tbe legislature at
Albany to have the law rescinded, but to no ef
fect. The law remains unchanged.”
Jeffrey Wilson, who died near Mechanics
burg. 0., a few days ago, was born a slave in
Virginia in 1773. and had entered on his 115th
year when he died. He was a slave for ninety
two years. He had two wives. By the first he
baoMte tbe father of eight children,
whom arc living, the average of 1 heir ages be
ing 80 years, the eldest, being 87 and the young
est 79 years. By his second wife he had nine
children, six of whom are living, their average
age being 52 years, the eldest being 58 and the
youngest 41. He had seventy-six grandchildren,
thirteen great grandchildren, and one great
great grandchild, his offspring extending
through four generations, there being 108 souls.
In his veins flowed the blood of three races—
white, negro anil Imliau-aud to this fact is at
tributed his longevity.
A young lady, whose home Is on Grand Isle,
La., has been making a collection of the bright
plumaged birds foufld on the island, whose hab
itat, beyond question, is somewhere in the
tropics. The theory Is that them* birds have
been blown out iuto the Gulf during the preval
ence of gales and wafted upon the Louisiana
shore. It is doubtful If so lieaiiliriil a colleetion
of birds could Is* made at any other point in tbe
country than that of wnloh we speak. A Isix
containing fourteen specimens which wen*
trappisl and prepared for mounting by this
young lady, revealed when opened a most gof
Keuiis spectacle, the colors ranging from the
lightest scarlet a scarlet le-sidc which that of
the eunlliiiil or rod bird seems quite dull—down
to the palest of pink* and blue*. Some of the
specimens wes* ot the loveliest shade of yellow
one f them plumaged lu black atulyelluw
akin to the oriole
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DRY GOODS, ETC.
Exceptional Reductions
IN
Summer Goods
AT
tola 4 Diier's,
SUCCESSORS TO
B. F. McKenna & Cos.,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS.
\V T E will close ouf the remainder of our stock
V ? of these fine goods, formerly sold at 18a
a yard, now reduced to 1244 c.
25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu
lar price 12b/:. a yard; now 844 c.
75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at 344 c.
50 pieces Wide Width Lawns, regular price
10c a yard; now 6(4c.
One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regula rice
15c. and 17c. a yard; now 1244 c.
tine lot of Dress Ginghams, choice
regular price 12>4e. a yard; now 10c.
36 Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled,
formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out
at $1 85 each.
Hosiery and Underwear.
100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Hose,
regular price 1244 c.; now 9c. a pair.
A mixed lot of Misses’ Fine English Hose,
Ribbed, Plain and Silk Clocked, regular price of
these goods from 25c. to 50e. We will close the
lot out at 17c. a pair.
50 dozen Ladies’ Gauze Undervests, regular
prices 25c. and 35c.; now 19c. each.
35 dozen Ladies' extra fine quality Gauze Un
dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c.
We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low
price of 47c. each.
Qnr $1 llnlanudried Shirts Reduced to 90c.
75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re
inforced back and bosoms, the best $1 Shirt
manufactured In order to reduce our largo
stock we will offer them at 90c. each.
ORPHAN .A- DOONER.
SHOES.
Ask your Retailer for the ORIGINAL $3 SHOE.
Beware of Imitations.
None Genuine unless bearing the Stamp
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who wear it will tell you the reason if you ask
them. For sale by
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