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4 Cl] cHlorningn cius Morning News Building, Savannah, G?. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER *5, 1887. Registered at the Post Office tn Savannah. ISeXoßimio News is published every day in the year, ami is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at S& cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by ..tail, one month, fl 00: three months, $2 SO; six months, $5 00; one year. $lO 00. The Morning New*. t>y mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue 1, three months, $2 00; six mouths. $4 00 one year. 00. The Morning News. Tri-Weekly. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays. thr*e months, $1 six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00 The Sunday News, by mad. one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail , one year. $1 35. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by l>ostal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent hr mail at risk of seeders. This paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court. New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed •‘Morning News. Savannah, Cia.'* Adveitisinp: rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Notices —Home Again, H, G. Ganaltl; Notice. B. Roth well: Miss T. M. Wards School: To the Public. Ccliat Bros ; Townsend is a Can didate for Work. Imported Robes. Etc — At Eckstein's Educational— School for Boys, John A. C’rowther. Principal. New Goods—A. R. Altmayer A Cos. Men's axd Boys' Clothino— Menken A Abra hams Read Carefi li.i —Marshall A McLeod. Reed Oats. Etc. W. D. Simkins A Cos. Fashionable Clothing— B. H. Levy A Bro. Notice op Dissolution. Etc.— Mendel A Bro ('heapColumn Advertisements— Help Want ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Board; Personal; Miscellaneous. A New Departure— H. A. Dumas. Rargains— At Platshek's. Floral Exhibit- Savannah Floral and Art Association. Back in the Old Stand— Edward Lovell A Sons. Mixed Picki.es—Davis Bros. New Goons—Schreiner's Music House. Desirable Goods— J. P. Germaine. Being asked if he favored prohibition, Gen. Butler answered that he was willing to “swear off" if everybody else would. The General is nothing if not diplomatic. Mr. Huntington says he never put any thing in a letter in his life of which he was ashamed, except bad spelling and bad gram mar. This is not the first instance of a man being proud of his sins and ashamed of his weakness. Gen. Butler thinks the principal part of the revenue ought to be raised by a tax on incomes. If a law to that effect were passed, the hardest thing in America to find would be an income. The increase in the number of poor men would lie frightful. The Republican papers during the last few days huve had a great deal to say about the danger of a panic in the money market. How, since the Secretary of the Treasury lias taken measures to' prevent such a panic, some of them are calling him the cat’s paw of Wall street. They are hard to satisfy. Henry George is no more apt to capture Democratic voters than Republican,anil the Republican papers and politicians of New York, who are doing everything they can to aid hipi. may find out too late that they have helped strengthen a dangerous politi cal delusion, without even temporary ad vantage to themselves. It shows a proper state of public feeling in Philadelphia that there is no opposition to the re-election of four Judges, whoso terms will soon expire. They have made fine records, and though all Republicans, their nomination will be indorsed by the Democrats. This action will speak as well for the Democrats as for the Judges. It is now said that Foraker expressed the opinion before he went to Philadelphia that he would be snubbed by the President and his wife. He was not, though he deserved to be; but he is so hard up for a campaign issue that he allows his friends to misrepre sent what occurred.' His conduct is even beneath the level of his former meanness. Announcement is made of the approach ing marriage of Senator Hawley, who is getting to be quite an old man now, to Miss Edith Hornor, of Philadelphia. Miss Hor nor is described as a very superior lady and' a professional nurse, having served in the English hospital corps during the Zulu and Egyptian campaigns. The approp riateneas of the match is generally commented upon. Mr. Randall is out in Illinois, associating with the revenue reform Democrats of that region, particularly of the Iroquois Club. He has an opportunity to learn a groat many things while out West, and as he is an observant man, he may come home in a tractable state of mind as to reduction in the tariff. He will learn among other things that there are a great mauy Democrats out side of Pennsylvania. Prohibition, or some other influence, is causing Americans to drink less whisky. The figures of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue show that the quantity distillod has gradually declined for several years, the decrease last year amounting to about 4,000,000 gallons. The consumption of beer, however, has increased, which is perhaps explained by the fact that it is mostly drunk in large towns, few of which are affected by prohibition laws. The threatened suit over the will of the eccentric Peruvian Savilla, who recently died in New York, has iieen averted, and his relatives and the city, not the lawyers, Will get lii.s money. The money willed to the city is to bo used in founding an institution for the care and edu cation of indigent children, and amounts to about $.500,000. Such an institution will have a great field for usefulness, and New York is to lie congratulated that a settle ment of the disputed will lias been reached, which will insure the speedy erection of the building. Fred Douglass lias teturnod from Europe and when he reached his borne in Washing ton was given u reception at wli ich 2,000 colored people were present. One of the speakers advocated Lincoln aud Douglass as Uie pro|>er names for the Republican Presidential ticket next year. Douglass is one of the distinguished men of that party, and but for th? reason that the Republicans are not honest In disclaiming any preju dice against negroes, he would stand a fail t hanes of the nuiuinatson for Vice Preei den*. If he should lie nominated ho would b*- deflated Am mauy itepnblioaus would tvfuae to vote (or hint a* would Democrats i ttbder similar cuvuiustoncc* The Plea For the Anarchists. The petitions to Gov. Oglesby for a par don or a commutation of the sentence of the Anarchists have now received many thousand signatures, and others are being aided every day. It is a matter of conm.oi. knowledge that, under ordinary circum stances, a petition is worth little as evidence of the opinions or wishes of its.signers. This fact has lieen made the subject of many amusing newspaper stories, which illustrate the good-natured carelessness with which most men when requested to do so will affix their names to papers of this character. But these petitions in favor of the An archists are not surrounded by ortlinary circu instances, they are extraordinary, and the signatures probably represent more nearly thau usual the sentiment of the signet's. The offense for which these men are con demned to death stands alone in the crimi nal history of America, and its peculiar features, instead of palliating its enormity, as sympathizers with them contend, really aggravate it. They are condemned for a suc cessful conspiracy to murder,but murder was only an incident—the real conspiracy was against the State. It was a deliberate at tempt to turn over to the mercies of a fu rious mob, for pillage and rapine, one of the largest cities of the country. The claim that the conspirators were less culpable be cause they attacked the existing order of society and considered themselves fighting for the good of the people, shows a strange confusion of mind in the man who makes it as to the relative duties of the citizen and the State. By thosame method of reason ing any crime against established authority could be excused if its author pretended to have a political object. Tho point about the efforts to secure a pardon for these murderers which im presses the thoughtful observer, however, is the exteilt to which their friends have suc ceeded in convincing laboring men that the condemned felons are representatives of their class, and are about to die as martyrs in their cause. That they have met with such success is evident from the action of several labor societies, representing thou sands of workingmen, who have adspted resolutions condemning the manner of the trial and its result as unjust, They have also contributed money to aid in the defense. If these demonstra tions of sympathy were confined to foreigners, who come to this country thoroughly embittered toward all govern ment by the hard couditions under which they lived in Europe, they would, perbajis, mean very little. But it seems they are not so confined. Many Americans have joined in the movement, and it is made significant by their doing so. Does it indicate that as our society grows older and richer it is dividing off into sharply defined classes, a member of either of which will think of himself rather as one of his order than as a citizen of the country? This ig unfortunate if it be true. If there is any man in the community whose interests would be more injured than another’s by the success of the Anarchists’ schemes, he is the workingman. He cannot be prosperous without tho steady employ ment which orderly government renders possible. Even the fear of disorde. will les sen his chance to sell his labo profitably, and an actual outbreak of large proportions would make it impossible. This being true. and the purpose of the Anarchists being to throw the whole country into confusion and disorder, the claim that Spies and his comrades are the champions of labor is preposterous— they are peculiarly labor’s enemies. It is to lie hoped that Gov Oglesby will be strong enough to ignore the clamor that is being raisod around him, and that in re viewing the case ho will consider only the good of society and the evidence iu the case. The Situation iu Ireland. The determination of the British govern ment to suppress by force of arms, if neces sary, the ugitatiou so long carried on in Ireland, naturally attracts a great deal of attention in this country. Emigrants from Ireland and the descendants of emi grants form a very large part of our population, and from thateieinent have arisen many of the men who have figured most largely and most honorably in our public life. These facts account in part for the sympathy manifested for Ireland in tho long struggle with English oppres sion, and which has now reached an acute stage. But they do not account, for it wholly. Another reason for that sympathy is that Americans see that the struggle in Ireland is for the prin ciple of home rule which they recognized as among their own ehiofest blessings, and for a form and spirit of government modeled on and inspired by their own. It is nominally a fight against excessive rents, in tiie first place, and for the control of exclusively Irish affairs by the Irish people; but it is really an attempt to abolish the last remnants of feudalism and give every man the chance in the world to which his industry and good conduct entitle him. It is a question of the people’s inherent rights against the peculiar privileges with which certain classes have been invested. The position in which the British govern ment finds itself is a very trying one. It represents the conservative, landowning and aristocratic classes of England, who naturally feel that concessions which will weaken tiie same classes in Ireland will react on themselves. They also feel that the Protestant coionv in the north of Ireland has never become thoroughly a pari, of the Irish nation, and tiiat it would be oppressed if home rule were granted. This l'ear is probably unfounded, but it has weight, uo doubt, with mauy voters. On the other hand tho government must be aware that the course it is pursuing, so much opposed as it is to modern ideas of government, is strengthening tiie cause of Ireland among Englishmen, who see in that uniiappy country a suppression of popular rights which they would not tol erate for a moment if practised toward themselves. The result of recent elections seems to indicate that tho verdict of the last general election will be reversed ut the next, and that, by tho aid of English votes, Ireland will be given all tho liberty necessary to her i>eaceful anil prosperous development. The recent affair at Mlteliellstown, and the harsh treatment of Lrish leaders, cannot hut aid in the revul sion of feeling in England against coercion timt will tiring ultout tho acceptance of Mr. Gladstone’s programme. The latest argument use 1 in favor of par doning the condemned Chicago Anarchists is that if they are haugod til nr friends will sack the city in revenge. The law would lie a contemptible lh tig if it were only ex ecute! when there was no pi Host against It• decrees fro ii tb” criminals whom it af farted It is the criminate who should be afraid, not tin law-abiding. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.5, 1887. A Language Common to All. It is no doubt true that the bars put up by differences in language have had a greater effect thau any other cause in keep ing distinct from each other the nations of the world. Discussion would probably develop differences of opinion as to whether this division into separate peoples has ad vanced or retarded - civilization, but the question would be purely a speculative oue, as since history liegan the division has ex isted. It is true, however, that to a very great degree a man’s sympathy is confined to those jxwpie of the world who speak his own language; that knowledge and useful arts have not spread among all people so quickly as they would lmd there been a world’s speech, and that the absence of this speech has contributed to those nationnl antipa thies which periodically break out in bloody wars. Whether the energies which have l>een aroused by national rivalries and the necessity for national defense have achieved results for good to counterbalance these evils is an open question. What brings up the subject at this time is the frequent appearance in the newspa pers of references to the latest at tempt to popularize such an universal lan guage. It is the invention of Prof. Johann Martin Sphleyer, of Baden, Germany, and is called ‘‘Volapuk.” It is said to bo based on English, as the language spoken by the greatest number of civilized people. to be absolutely regular, and therefore easy to acquire. Its vocabu lary, though not yet large, is capable of expressing almost any thought, and the scheme of the language is such that when the need for anew word arises it can be readily supplied. Another feature is that all sounds are omitted which the people of any European nation find difficult to pro nounce—such as the German “eh,” the French nasal “n,” and the English “w.” Withal, the language is described as sono rous and pleasing to tho ear. Prof. Schleyer’s is not the first attempt to construct a language tie novo w hich would become universal, but it seems to have at tracted more attention than any previous effort. Volapuk is said to have already been acquired by hundreds, if not thousands, of persons in Europe, and several news papers are printed in it, principally in Ger many. Meetings have been held of those interested, and a sustained effort may pos sibly be made to extend its use. But it will be wasted labor. When one thinks of the history of languages he must consider the attempt absurd. Men learn a language for the business of life, and those who are acquainted with more than one, except in rare cases, have been forced by their necessities or interests to undergo th labor of acquisition. Even when one people has been thoroughly subjugated by another, aud the conquerors settled down among the conquered, their language has not been lost. Volapuk will prove an admirable toy to amuse idle people, hut, however commend able the idea in which it originated, it cannot come into general use. The Danger of Cholera. The arrival of a cholera-infected vessel at the New York quarantine station will quicken into fear the uneasiness long felt lest this dread disease should again effect a lodgment on our shores. It lias done so more than once, and claimed many thousand victims. In the last two or three years it has visited France, Spain, Italy, Egypt and the Mediterranean islands. It is a contagious disease, and spreads along rivers aud highways of travel. The strictest quarantine and sanitary meas ures are necessary on its approach, and even these have sometimes failed to stay its progress. They are, however, the best means which can be used, and cities in this country which are at ail exposed should resort to them in time. The New York authorities will doubtless do all that is necessary to prevent the spread of infec tion from the Alesia’s passengers, but the danger will recur with the arrival of every vessel from Mediterranean ports. Too great vigilance cannot be exercised. Tiie Chicago Tribune speaks of the “dis courtesy,” “Lai breeding,” “weakness” and “female spite” of “Madame Cleveland” in administering a “malicious cut” to Foraker because of his “stalwart and manly defense of the Hags.” It takes an immense amount of partisan prejudice to enable a man to honestly apply such epithets as the above to a lady of the character an l position of Mrs. Cleveland, especially after reading the state ment of Committeeman Simmons, himself a Republican, who deuied that the incident complained of occurred. But the Republi cans are desperately anxious to save Foraker from the effects of his folly. Lieut. Zalinski’s success in blowing a schooner into splinters a few duys ago with his new dynamite gun was so complete that suspicious Republicans are uovv saying he had practiced for weeks to get the exact range of the vessel, and that the Secretary of the Navy is in collusion with him to udvance the interests of the gun company. Tho Lieutenant indignantly denies lioth ac cusations. His accusers evidently think the Navy Department is run on the same prin ciples it was when the head of it was a Re publican, but they are mistaken. Janies Hunter, a prominent business man and brother of the Treasurer of Philadel phia, whose forgery of the names of numer ous friends to business pa|ior created a grent sensation several months ago, has been traced to Mexico. His family now admit having had knowledge of his where abouts all the time. It is not stated why he preferred Mexico to Canada, where ho could have entered a much larger and more dis tinguished social circle. The attempt to evade the Maine law by importing liquors anti selling them in the original packages will probably fail, as it ought to do. A matt in Augusta has just lieen convicted of “maintaining a common nuisance” who was carrying on tho busi ness. The case will be carried to the Federal courts, but they will hardly interfere with the State’s attempt to carry out its laws by a strained interpretation of the Federal revenue laws. The case will be watched with interest. A group of oil brokers standing near the entrance of the smoking room of the Ex change in Oil City, were much agitated the other afternoon when a black snake drop )h*l down among them, and several' wore quite sure, for un instant, that they “had 'em." The snake was real, and had escaped from the private collection of a huloou keeper. The iiale of the French crown jewels is said to have netted a I newt ♦l.’ssi.isio The historical heirloom- remaining iiiwoold. ami remind for the Je>uvrn Museum, arcntid to Ui worth nearly doubts that suu*. CURRENT COMMENT. What the People Want. From the Boston Globe (Dem .) Progressive Democracy is what the people want, and they are looking to the Democratic party for' it. Union with the Socialists Would be Fatal. From the Vric York Graphic (Dem.) It looks some as if the McGlynn-George party would fall to pieces of internal dissensions and its own weight; and if it makes the slightest fu sion with the Socialists its destruction will be a mutter of a very short time. There is not a Fair Division. From the St. Louis Republican (Dem.) The chronic labor discontent In the Eastern centres of protected industries tells its own story. Labor does not get its share of the trib ute exacted in its name and for its benefit. It passes into the protected employers’ hands and there it remains. BRIGHT BITS. Ticket Agent—Sonny, how old are yer? Fifteen-year old boy Where do yer mean? On thor railroad or ter home* —.Judge. Colleges do the best they can for young men. They teach them what to think and how to think it. They furnish everything the young man needs, except brains. The time of the year s approaching when we will not look upon the inventor of the gauze undershirt with the same reverential respect that we did a few weeks ago. -Detroit Free Press. Now they are forming a “beef pool,” in the West. With this hint to guide them the dairy men certainly ought to bet up u milk pool sooit. They would probably put too much water in it. however.—Cleveland Lender. Proud Mother (haughtily)—You allowed your self to he won altogether too easily, Edith! Edith—l suppose I did. But as Albert is rather bashful aud lam nearing 30, I thought it only proper to make it as easy as possible for him.— Harper's Bazar. Miss Racivif.kf. Oh, uncle, which is the best horse in this race? Uncle- -Oh, the one that wins, my dear. Miss Racimore—Then we’ll have a bet, and I’ll have the best horse. My size is five and three quarters.- Judge Daughter (watching Die seagulls) -Do the seagulls accompany us all the way across, mamma? Mother—l know two of them that do, my dear your father and your uncle James. They are down below now playing poker with strangers. —Beta York Sun. A Prof. Crocker has taught a horse to sit down on his haunches without lying, “a feat which is said never to have been accomplished before.” Man still has the bulge on the horse, however. The former can sit down without lying, or be can lie without sitting down, or he can sit down and lie at the same time.— A’rtrrt'*- town Herald. Wife-What are some of the requirements necessary to make a successful poker player, my dear! Husband (thoughtfully) Well, a tnan must be cool, calculating, crafty, deceitful, selfish, sly and have a touch of meanness in his dis position. Wife (shocked) 1 shouldn't think you would care to piay with such people. Husband—Oh, 1 most always win.—Pttcfc. “Are you well acquainted with Mr. Rigsby?" "Quite well. He is employed in the same of fice with me.” “I think he is such an interesting young man. lie is alwas so melancholy. He surely must have suffered some great disappoitmeut.” “Yes, he has." “Oh, how romantic. How was it?” “Why lie expected a raise of salary on the Ist and didn't get it.”—,V ebraska State Journal. There was a difficulty among the singers, and, it being rumored as a settled fact that the choir would not sing a note on the next Sab- Isitii. the minuter c mimenced morning wor ship by giving out tir hymn of Watts', “Come Ye Who Love the -Lord.” After reading it through, he looked up very emphatically at the choir and said: "You will begin at the second verse; ‘Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our Lord.' ” They saug the hymn.— Musical Herald. All Arranged. Omaha Dame i reading) — An Albany watchmaker, to whom a watch that had been.dropped overboar l on a fishing excur sion was taken, found that some of the works were so badly rusted th.it they were useless. If. said he, you had dropped your watch in oil as soon as you took it out of the water, or. bet ter yet, had dropped it into alcohol or any kind of strong liquor, it would have cost you nothing but the cleaning. Husband (musingly)—Well.well! Never though; of it. “Never thought of wKat dear?” ‘ You know (hat during the fishing trip I am going to take 1 might get excited while pulling in a big fish and upset the boat." “You can swim?” "Yes, hittniv watch would get wet.” “So it w ould.” "Yes. I'll just take a jug of strong liquor along to drop it into."— Omaha World, PERSONAL. St. Louts is going to have a bronze statue of Bryan Mullanphy, the philanthropist of that city. Frank Jakes, the ex-bandit, is to close his corner grocery in Texas and become a salesman fur an Atlautu house. A translation of Daudet's “Sappho"—a story not hitherto welcomed by English readers—is at last to appear in this country. Minnie Palmer is about to return to her native land. Stu will appear in a brand new play and SOO,OOO worth of fresh diamonds. ltr. Hon. W. 11. Smith will be elevated to the peerage during the Parliamentary recess. He will, it is said, take the title of Baron Smith. Edmund Dwvkr Gray, M. P., for Dublin, editor and proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, will leave on Sept. 20 to make a tour of America. W. K. Vanderbilt, the Duke of Norfolk and Lady C'oliu Campbell were recently noticed as the occupants of a restaurant table at Buxton, Eng. Mrs. Henry Chambers, of New Albany, Ind.. lias fallen hir to one third interest in the Featk erlugill cusllii, in Spain, worth in pord money si,duu,ouo. M. Waiters, the Belgian artist, is alwmt to marry a Print- -ss de Cuirnay. and the King of ihe Belgians is going to give the husband the title of Huron. “Pittsburg Phil,” who lias become one of the leading plungers on the American turf, is a Istyish looking young man of 21. His name is George E. Smith, David Kirk claims to have discovered Duncan S. Karus, t iie funner Butler county oil king and founder of Karos ('ity, keeping" a saloon at Florence, Colorado. Billy Florence used to say that ho could re tuemlicr titty different instances when men had set up $5 worth of wine for him iu Older to get a dollar pass into the theatre. Thk late Mrs. Anna Paul Hendricks of Madi son, la., was the wife of the first Govemoro!' that hf ate. He was atone time United States Senator, and she rude to Washington on horse back with him and sat by his side in Congress. An old school house at Dwight’s Crossing, in Massachusetts, was burned by an incendiary on Tuesday. It had been a place of historic inter est from the fact that the late Henry Ward Beecher preach**! his first sermon in it while at tending Amherst College. (ieoKui: Renault, grandson of the late Clem ence Deiuionico, wid >w of Lorenzo Delnionico, -•I New York, applied for letters of administrs tion upon lus grind mother's estate. Alene Renault, the dauguter of Mrs. Delmonico, has renounced all churn r<> letters of administration, and they will U* granted jointly to the pen tioner an* 1 Marie Miege. The personalty is val Ue* I at $35,000. Mic hael Katkokk. the great Russian editor, only a few months iiefore ids death wrote these unkind things of France: “Away w ith a nation that does not U iieve in the Almighty, a nation ineap.hle of defending it seif, and which sur renders to an enemy in hundreds of thousands. The Frenchmen ot the present lay are a do praved body The priNient Frenchman U con: jtosed of nothing hut words." Dn. Mork?a Mackbkeir has earned the knighthood c mftrrad upon him for his service in attending fhe Crown Prince of Hermany H* was nearly made ill by his work on the ease, and once while he was engaged in clearing foul matter from the throat of his patient the latter, through nertoiis pain, hit him *avag*lv in the finger lie feared |sioiinif at first from this bite, hut no s tloiih result* Lavs so far resulted. Lii.i.ik Dkvkmacx Bi-wak was on hand at Phils *h lpli.a as usual, and placed in th* Praai 1* tit's hand a proles! Iroiu the National Woman * Huf fmge Ahh.m-iiiikhi a <airut "the unjust mterpte t lit loti of the ( oosUtot ion " The |*a j<ei reminds I fie Tniilti||f. (lie Uuvernor* and other FadersJ and Kfite oflleiaL Dial one half of the peopin who otey the lm of (tie I'ulUd Mate* ale Uli f*> I) dw* tat all phi*or |Mit In the body p.dut* j *’*• Whs midst of i'm* pMiii# and glories <if H U | •*** elation," says the pr-aeot, wo men *j# cot y unlouhors. vUimsm and uuraprc—uUd. 1 UN IQUE HOSPITALITY. A Boston Woman Who Compelled a Caller to Take a Bath. From the Providence Journal. Mrs. Y. is a brilliant Boston woman of abun dant executive ability, shrewd wit, and delight ful hospitality. The exigencies of her hus band's business led to the beeping up of an establishment in the West, where Mrs. Y. passes some months of the year, and where she enter tains a great many people. One day there was brought tb Mrs. Y. the oard of an English gen tleman, accompanied by a letter of introduc tion from friends of the Y’s abroad. The host ess went down stairs and greeted the guest cordially. ‘•We are so accustomed to travelers here,” she said, "that we know just w hat to do with them. We expect everybody to arrive travel stained and exhausted, and' we let everybody take a bath the first thing. I spoke to the ser vant before coming down, and everything is all ready.” “But,” stammered the stranger, "I cannot think of putting you to so much trouble. I-—” "Oh, I know just how you feci,” interrupted Mrs. Y. "A bath is the only thing that restores me to my normal condition when I've been traveling, and you have come right through from Boston.” The guest demurred, but Mrs. Y. was too executive, and too truly hospitable to allow his scruples to prevent the carrying out of her kindly intent. The Englishman was shown tip stairs to the bath room'where it is to be pre sumed he combined with the progress of his toilet, reflections upon the originality and prac ticality of American hospitality. In due time the guest descended again to the pai lor, where Mrs. Y. awaited him. "I hois; you found everything to your mind,” she said. "Oh yes,” he replied. “I have had a delightful bath; and now I must bid you good afternoon, as 1 have to catch a train." “What?” cried his hostess aghast. “You are not going?” “Unfortunately 1 must. 1 only stopped over a train to call on you.” “Mercy!" she exclauied, in dismay. “I thought you had come to remain. Aou cer tainly cannot go away when I haven’t seen you at all?” “I really must," was the reply, but I assure you I have had a most refreshing bath, and I shall always remember, with sincere pleasure, your unique hospitality.” The story was too good to keep, and Mrs. Y. told it at her own expense, greatly to the entertainment of her friends, who declared that this fashion of entertaining callers was one which deserved to be widely introduced, as it would solve many a perplexing question of the proper method of disposing of guests who were not easy to amuse. NO BLOODLESS DUEL THIS. A Kentucky Joke that was Very Ser ious to George Schroll. From the Pouisxille. Courier-Journal. George Schroll and Peter Rohs, who work at Senr. & Bro.’s brewery, ate next-door neigh bors. Owing to some trouble which arose be tween their families some time since t hey had some words, and the hard feeling grew harder on Scbroll’s part. Someone conceived the idea of a sham duel, and the practical jokers, taking Rohs into their confidence, proceeded to carry it out- Rolls sent a challenge, which was accepted bv Schroll, and the seconds were appointed from among the jokers to arrange details. Double-barrelled breech loading shotguns were selected as the weapons, and the place and time decided upon. All concerned except Schroll knew that only blank shells would be used, but he took it all in dead earnest. He made his will and spent much of his time in discussing the approaching event. Before adjourning to the ground a litter was obtained, as was also a bottle of bullock's blood. Accompanied by t he seconds and about twen ty friends, who went to see the fun. they re paired to the grounds. The distance was marked off and the guns loaded with the blank shells. The word to fire was given, and two reports rang out simultaneously. Schroll of course, stood unharmed, hut was horrified to see Rohs drop to the ground. The second immediately ran to Rohs’ side and poured the blood con tained in the bottle over his breast. Schroll started to run, but was captured and taken to the spot where Rohs lay apparently lifeless, and weltering in his blood. Schroll howled at the deed he supposed he had com mitted, and begged to lie allowed to leave. His fears were allayed somewhat by the witnesses, who told him he could not be punished. liecause it was a duel, but would have to submit to ar rest. He was then hustled off and paroled before a policeman, who was acquainted with the na ture of the joke, and Rons remained in hiding, so that Schroll would think him dead. Schroll’s first knowledge that the affair vras a practical joke will probably l>e when he sees this paper. Gambling Stories. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “This is my forty-seventh summer in Sarato f;a," said a Wilmington gentleman who had just ost s3’? at roule; te in the club, "and the tamest in the lot for gamblers. Why, I saw John Mor rissey aDd Ben Wood play a faro game in (S3 all night. Everybody else had gone. The town clock Ix'gan to strike fl, and Morrissey stopped shuffling the cards and counted. 'One, two,three, four, five, six! This is my last deal., Wood looked up at him with tears in his eyes.although he was $125,000 ahead of the game, and asked: ‘John do you think it’s fair to beat a poor fellow like me this way? "The next day I came across Morrissey on the old United States piazza and asked him Who the greatest gambler in the world was. ‘Ben Wood,’ he answered." “Oh, yes,” said Albert Spencer, "t at was thirty years ago, but what would you think now if you should see a man het $40,001 on the turn of a card in baccarat? Krank Huntoon didtlmt not two months ago in New York at the Carlton Club. Why, they play there for the biggest stakes in the world. Yes. ho beau them all. and he’s a tine looking fellow, too; stands six feet four inches, with muscles like an athlete, bright blue eyes, brow n hair, and the graces of a Chesterfield. But you should see him on a lark! My, but he makes things move. He fills the ]jockets of his overcoat with silver, and throws it broadcast like a farmer sowing his grain. I saw him one night in Koster & Bial s. on Twenty-third street, treat 500 fellows to champagne, and the next day he told me that after paying for 200 bottles he received another bill for 108, said to hat e been opened the same night I’ve seen him yield to Bacchus, and throw his money at the waiters us though it were corn and they chickens,” When asked about European gambling, Spell ■ cer said: "Oh, I have seen every type. But there goes a gentleman," pointing to ex-Sheriff O'Brien, of New York, "whose brothel- Larry broke the bank at Baden Baden twine in one evening. In 1873, the last year gambling was allow ed in tier many, Baden Baden was us full of people as Saratoga is now. Larry was a good chap; big hearted and brave, ready to give the last cent to any one who needed it more than he. A child could lead him. hut a bully or fighter found him a demon to deal with. When I saw him at the German Spa he may have beeu 23, but looked 7. I shall never forget the look M. Blanck gave him when he was pointed out as the American who wanted to play an unlimited game against the bauk. The stiin the bank put up was $20,000, with Slid the limit. O'Brien told Gen. Van Alen’s son, now living at New port, that he wanted to bet without limit, and to tell the French fellow so. Van Alen explained the case, and presented let fry. The game com menced, and in half an hour O'Brien broke the bank, bis bets being $5,000 each. Lurry rolled the $20,000 winnings into his pocket, and for ull of fifteen minutes the proprietor sat staring at him. At the end of thut time another $20,000 liank wus announced by the dealer, and at it Larry bueked. It succumbed to his luck in less time than the first had been won. M. Blanch was dumbfounded, ami when lie emphatically refused to open another unlimited game, the big crowd left the house, and for many days Larry was the lion of the town, as no such luck had been known since a Russian, years before, had broke up the place.’’ A Visit From the Sen Far from the loud sea lieaches Where he goes fishing and crying. Here in the inland garden Why is the sea-gull flying? Here art* no fish to dive for; Here is the corn anil the lea; Here are the green trees rustling Hie away home to seal Fresh is the river water Arul quiet among the rushes; This is no home for the sea-gull. But for the rooks aud thrushes. I’itv the bird that has wanderedl Pity th* sailor ashore! Hurry him home to the ocean, let blui come here no morn! High on tin* nee cliff ledges Tlie white gulls are (moping and erylng, Here among rooks and I'Sies Why is the sea gull flying' - ltosKßi Ijn is Krevsxso*. A mu, on the piopisal to adopt the Free Urban Act In York. Kuglaud. was taken re eeutly the restiii Is-lag ii. 016 for amt t.HJ against, showing a majority against of S|? A |>ii was isitMi la I*l. wht- thars was s majority of l.tMi agoluat I pea-is of gVOnn which had baen aui>*crti>4 toward* a free library, wiU aow be ivttuuod tv the subscriber*. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Hemiy Ward Beecher’s statte is to be i placed in a park not far from Plymouth church, 1 m Brooklyn. The pay of a bull-fighter is good. Fraseuelo gets $40,000 for killing his Spanish bulls in the j Colon arena this winter. The first advertisements known of in England were in the shape of small bills affixed to the doors of St. Paul’s Church. The first Italian lady who sung in public in England was Francesca Margherita de l’Epine, who appeared in various operas in 1093. Carriages were first introduced into Eng land in 1380. and were for a long time used only for the conveyance of the sick and of ladies. Twelve hundred birds of different kinds dashed themselves against the light of Cape Ray lighthouse, near St. John, N. F„ Sept. 17, and were killed. A California newspaper has suspended, and its owner gives as a reason that the real estate boom has robbed him of his entire staff, in cluding the office boy. Sunset Cox says the utter idleness in which the ladies of the Turkish harem are pictured as passing their lives has ceased, and habits of in dustry huve invaded the harem. After the poultry house of Willis Perryman, near Boune Terre, Mo , had been nearly depop ulated, he tried rat poison, and found the next day in his hennery a dead bull snake of enor mous size. The first striking clock was imported into Europe by the Persians about the year A. D. 800. It was brought as a present to Charlemagne from Abdella. King of Persia, by two monks of Jerusalem. The centennial of the actual establishment of our national government in New York occurs in April, 1889. It will soon be in order for New York to call upon the country for subscriptions to celebrate it. Vienna has granted to the neice of Mozart, who is penniless, the princely pension of $1 25 a menth. Evidently the country thinks a great deal of her. and is afraid she' will emigrate if she gets a bigger allowance. When lightning struck Baxter Vaughan, of Strother, Mo., it cut a hole like a bullet hole in his hat, ran around the rim, then down his back clear to his heels, tearing off in its entire course a narrow strip of skin, and yet Mr. Vaughan lives to tell his strange experience. Two men were captured at Albuquerque, N. M., recently, who were traveling over the coun try with a two-horse wagon, carrying a com plete counterfeiting outfit, and sowing spurious gold and silver coins wherever they went. The counterfeit S2O gold pieces bear the date of 1860. An apple tree on the farm of Capt. T. ,T. Williamson, in Pleasants county, Va., which has borne fruit for a number of years, has never been known to blossom. This year the tree is again full of fine large apples, the strangest thing about which is that the fruit has neither core nor seed. Writing recently from the Oratory, Birming ham, to the editor of the Cambrian, Swansea, Cardinal Newman said of his famous hymn, “Lead, Kinaly Light," that it consists of three, not four stanzas: and that the fourth stanza is not authentic, but an unwarranted addendum by another pen. There lires in Troy. Mo., a little girl about 8 years old whose head is almost an iron gray, and it is steadily and perceptibly growing grayer, and the present indications are that long before she reaches womanhood her once raven black hait will have become snow white. Fright caused the change in c olor. A tall eight-day clock, formerly belonging to Commodore Vanderbilt’s grandmother, is now owned by Mr. Cross, of Waverly, R. I. Old Mrs. A anderbiit used it as a savings bank, and took from it SIOO to start young Cornelius in business. That money was the foundation of the \ anderbiit millions. Mr. Cross married a daughter of the Commodore, and the old clock was a share of the homestead furniture. Uncle Peter Sarchett, aged 87 years, of Brazil, Ini., was much suprised a day or two ago to find his sight fully restored to what it was in his prime. In the infirmities of age he had lost it to such an extent as to lie unable to read unless the type was large and distinct, but on thejdav referred to he found himself able to read from the smallest type with ease. He is physically a fine example of temperate life and happy age. Da. John Vansant of the United States Marine Hospital at St. Louis claims to be the first to have taken photographs by the light of fireflies. He placed twelve fireflies in a three ounce bottle, covering its mouth with fine white bobinet. The average duration of the flash of pach insect was half a second, and the lumin ous area on the abdomen was about one-eighth of an inch square. The time of exposure was fifty flashes. In some parts of California the Indians gather a certain poisonous plant in great quantities and throw it into a pool or brook where they know there are trout. Then they whip the water with branches until the jnice of the plant exudes. The result is that large numbers of trout be come stupefied and come to the surface, where they are easily captured. Such a proceeding as that is calculated to make the hair of the en thusiastic arnrier stand on end. The centennial of Huntingdon county, Penn sylvania, was celebrated on Sept. 20; the borough of York wiii honor the 100th year of its incorporation oil the 23d and 2ith. and Sus quehanna county will in October celebrate the centennial anniversary of the first white settler in the territory of that courty. York became a borough three days before Huntingdon count - was organized, and York had the honor of being the capital of the nation from 1777 to 1178. In Kentucky, a few days since, a young woman died, and when her father sought to secure bur ial for her no undertaker in the county would give his services, ulthougli payment was ten dered in advance. The reason of the refusal was that the husband of the dead woman, who had been married but three months, had not, paid a debt of $73 incurred in the burial of a pre vious wife, and the Undertakers’ Protective As sociation said that the bill must lie paid before any or its members would take charge of the remains. Dr. Holur, the African explorer, after being plundered by savage tribes, has arrived in Eng land with ins collection. This collection—a wreck only of what was gathered by the indus trious explorer—fills 117 cases. In t there are 002 skins of quadrupeds ready for stuffing, of which 70 are of animals as large as the koodoo— an antelope heavier than the red deer; of birds there are 2,221 specimens, of insects 27.00(1. in cluding 21,000 beetles and 3.000 moths and bu‘- terflles. There are are also fi,so specimen.. of plants. There are 1.000 recorded observations in meteorology, and more than that number of the measurements of elevations. ANew York photographer prints a circular containing the following advice: “When a lady sitting for a picture would compose her mouth to serene character, she should, just before en tering the room, say 'Bosom' and beep the ex pression into which the mouth subsides. If, on the other hand, she wishes to assume a distin guished ami somewhat noble hearing she should say, ‘Brush,’ the result of which is infallible if she wishes to make her mouth look small, she must say Flip,’ but if the mouth bo already too small and needs enlarging, she must say •Cabbage.’ If she wishes to look mournful, she must say -Kerchunk;' if resigned, she must for cibly ejaculate ’.S eat.'" A writer about messenger boys, in the Boston Punt, who does not believe that “the limit of their talent has yet been reached,’’ tells the fol lowing story: "I met one the other day lugging a big-eyed and very much astonished baby, evi dently not a family connection of his, which, on questioning the hoy, 1 learned he was to deliver at a certain bAise not far distant. For him this was all in the regular line of his business, and he went about It in a solemnly practical wrv that was quite admirable. Ido not think he loitered with this burden on his hands As for the parent who Intrusti and the baby to this meth od of carriage, he or she must have a confidence In the security of the messenger service that is nothing less than heroic. Yet I do not doubt that the baby got there safe.’’ The lost reliable census returns, those of IHW) and IMH!, show only four cities in Kuro|ie ami one in America with over 1.(XV),000 Inhabitants', They are: London. t.TM.W!; Paris, X.M'.i 0: • Berlin, 1,1 ,JKV); Vienna I.lOH.H*i7 and New York. 1,4*i..V.i. Besides these there are lour cities in Asia Canton, Toklo. 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