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4 ®k|florningllclMS Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1887. Register'd at the Pott Office in Savannah. *~The Morning News is published every day in the year, ami is served to subscribers in the city, hy newsdealers ami carriei-s. on their own ac count at 25 cents a week, $1 t>' month, $5 (XI for six months ami $lO (X) for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, $) 00: three months, $2 30; six months, $5 00; rne year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, S3 00: six months. $4 00 one. year, $s 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 OS; six months. $0 50: one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, bu mail , one year. $0 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. *1 05 Subscriptions payable ir. advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency Beni a* mail at, risk of senders. This pap* . kep* on file and advertising rates may be aaoervtwed at h > ofl'ce of the Ameri can Newspape- Publishers Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed "Morning News, Savannah, -'ia.” Advertising rates made known on applicatio INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—lie Kalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.; Workingmen's Benevolent Association; Col anthe Lodge No. 25. K. of P. Special Notices.--As to Crew of British Steamship Watlington; As to Bills against Brit ish Steamship Albania; Kindergarten; Miss Cunningham. Steamship Schedci.e— Ocean Steamship Cos.: General Transatlantic Cos Amusements—“A Heorine in Rags'' at the Theatre. Furniture and Carpet Emporium— A. J. Miller Sa Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements-Help Want ed; For Sale; Miscellaneous. Henry George is speaking at agricultural fairs in New York, and the fanners cheer his speeches lustily. Most Now York farmers are Republicans. Madame Otto Goldscmidt, whom Ameri cans of a generation ago went almost crazy Over as Jenny Lind, is said to be in almost a dying condition. She has lived long enough to see herself almost forgotten. It is Mr. Huntington’s opinion that a great many Anarchists and Socialists are in pub lic office, and that they want to rob him. Mr. Huntington, probably, counts a great inany things as hisown which others do not. In the large cities cable cars are gradually taking the place of horse cal's. The system is being rapidly extended in Philadelphia. Where a large business Is done, both time expense are saved by the use of cables rather than horses. Parsons, the condemned Anarchist, in his last communication with the outside world, says that if he lives he is bound to bill the State. He is making it as hard for Gov. Oglesby to show him mere/ as possi ble. His foreign comrades* re much more tractable. Anew play by Mark Twain, a sort of sequel to that in which Col. Sellers so long made people laugh, has been produced in New York. It is not very kindly received by the press, one of the newspapers being cruel enough to say that it is like the ex planation of a joke. Ben Butler says that though the Confed erates threw tons of bombs at him he is asked to embrace them. The General must have misunderstood the invitation. We are convinced that there is not a single Southern white man who wants to lean against his prominent bosom. The ranks of naval officers are very much crowded, and the government ought to jump at the opportunity of thinning them out a little by dismissing from the service the young fellows who have been distin guishing themselves by their antics while drunk around Washington lately. Henry George is very anxious to make a joint campaign tour with Gov. Hill, but ho will have to forego his desire. Gov. Hill is too shrewd a politician to lend importance to the land theorist by meeting him. Mr. George will have to rely on his own resources. Which seem to bo considerable, for at tracting attention. Dr. McGlynn was the first martyr in the cause of land confiscation. It has proved a liieasant sort of martyrdom, which (jays in fame and dollars. Observing this from afar, the Rev. Hugh Pentecost has determined to be the second. It looks now as if he will buve his desire, as the members of his church ift Newark are rebelling against his devo tion of time and energy to the Henry George campaign, and are likely to turn him out. The imposture of Mrs. Ford, whose story ef having lost three children, whom she fninutely described, at' Jersey City, was pointed all over the country, is certainly one of the most remarkable on record. It Items to be proved by the newspapers that the woman never had any children, but the luan whom sh accuses of having stolen them is still in jail. 'Hie woman is proba bly a lunatic, but it is hard that her delu sion should cost an innocent man so dearly. As the time draws near for the Minneapo lis Convention it becomes more probable that Mr. Powderly will be indorsed by a very large majority of the 250 delegates. The opposition manifested to him is confined ni ftiest entirely to the large cities where the (Socialists are strong. He has no use for them or their doctrines, and they naturally want to get rid of him. In the opinion of the public, as well as of the Knights of I/ibor, Mr. Powderly is better suited for tho place he holds than any man in the order. The announcement that the Macon Tele graph will hereafter lie n hearty supporter of the Democratic policy represented by the President and Mr. Carlisle will be hailed pleasure by a majority of the people among whom it is published, and of Georgia generally. The Democrats of the fcitate aro for Cleveland and reve nue reform. The success of the Telegraph in the face of this sentiment has been re markable. Tho conduct of the pa]>er has heeu peculiarly aggressive and able, com pelling respect and ‘admiration, even from those who scouted the economic theories hich it lias been its princi|ial business to advocate and defend. In the retirement of Maj. Hanson and Col. Lamar the Georgia press loses two of its strongest writers, The readers of the Telegraph ire fortunate in that the faille pen of Mr. Edwards will still minister la their delight, and Mr. Edwards is lucky id (giving an opportunity to plaster the wound lie has indicted by hi* vigorous swinging of lie protection club during the last lew years. Not every man gets such a chance to retrieve hie pm* l **!*"*. Sectional Issues. Of the hatred once existing between the North and South, grow ing out of the war and the long political contest preceding it, hardly a vestige remains. In this part of the country at least it would tie hard to find a man who would not be ashamed to acknowledge that any paid of it remained in him. On the frequent public occasions when v eterans of the old armies which op posed each other in the field have met, the display of friendliness has been almost as great as if they had been comrades of one army. This is all well and proper. It in dicates the. state of feeling which really ex ists, and is therefore honest. At the reunion of the blue and gray which took place last week at Evansville, Ind.. the feeling manifested was the same which has so often been shown whensnialler numbers of the old combatants met. The men were no longer enemies, but friends. A number of distinguished officers of both the Federal and Confederate armies were present and letters were read from others, in reply to invitations to take part in the reunion. Two of these letters, one from Gen. Gordon and the other from Senator Cul- j lorn, were printed in the last issue of the Morning News, and it is to the contrasting sentiment of these letters that attention is directed. Gen. Gordon writes in the hearty, enthusiastic strain which is natural to him. There is nothing, in his esteem, so much to be desired as a complete reunion of tiie once warring elements, and that they be welded together into a “com mon brotherhood as sacred as truth and as enduring as time.” Senator Cnlloni does not write in this strain. He remembers that he is a Repub lican office-holder, and that his party yet relies’upon the old sectional feeling as the main source of its strength. He is careful to use the term “rebel” in his opening sen tence, when the managers of the reunion, some of them as faithful Federal soldiers as himself, had avoided doing so. The men to whom the epithet was applied were probably not offended, because it has so long been misused that it has lost its meaning. The Senator then goes on in a guarded and qualified way to express his approbation of movements to make our nation a union of hearts and of hands, as well as of States— provided it can be done without sacrificing any principle for which the Union armies fought, and with a proper display of grati tude toward Union veterans*. Nobody can object to the Senator’s provisos. Southern people no longer believe they have a right to hold slaves, nor that their States can secede from the Union for any cause. They know that these questions were settled irre vocably- by the war. They are satisfied with the settlement, and would not change it if they could. So much for the principles for which the Union soldiers fought. As for gratitudp to those soldiers, it cannot bo said that Southern jieople enter tain any great amount of it. Really, it can hardly be expected under the circum stances. But they do not cherish any en mity toward them, and recognizing the fact that a great deal of gratitude and cash were due them from the nation for the, thorough performance of a very big job, in lieu of the gratitude, they helped to vote them the most liberal pensions the world ever knew of. The old soldiers were proba bly satisfied with the cash. Beiug again a part of the nation, ex Confederates were willing to hear their share of its burdens, whether they got any of the benefits of the money voted away or not. In view of tbeso facts it must be painful to patriotic Republicans who really- love their whole country and not merely a part of it, to be forced by party exigencies to maintain a strained attitude of suspicion and to be constantly- making preparations to lieat off an enemy when there is no enemy The bitterness between the old combatants, as has been said, lias almost disappeared, but the Republicans, by diligent endeavors, have kept alive enough suspicion in the North of all things Southern to be of very considerable influence on elec tion days. They have, however, been obliged to pay a heavy price for this ele ment of strength. It has made their party-in ideas, as in locality, a sectional party. It can be fairly said that when tho average Re publican says National lie means Northern, while ill the mouth of a Democrat tho word retains its proper meaning. The State’s Railroad Property. Tiie special committee of the Legislature appointed to investigate the property of the State road has made a very full report. The facts which it ascertained, and the recommendations it bases upon them, are very interesting. The nine acres owned by tiie State in Chattanooga and Chickamauga are estimated to he worth $1,050,000, ami upon this property the lessees of the State road have paid taxes to the amount of S9O, (idO 55. The committee recommends that the land in Chattanooga be divided into small lots and sold, and in the event it is not considered wise to sell the road, that it be leased for a jieriod of fifty years. Another recommendation is that a competent commission be appointed to make an inventory of the property of the road. Those are tho more important points of the report. As to the wisdom of the last recommen dation there can hardly be any question. A trustworthy inventory will lie absolutely necessary when tiie final settlement with the lessees is made, and it should lie made by agents of the State's selection, without any great loss of time. If the estimated value of the real estate in Chattanooga can be realized, such part of it as is not necessary for the uses of the road should be sold. The value put upon it is large, and it is not probable that much more would bo obtained by waitiug longer. The State is not ill tho land speculating business, and if the property is non-produc tive and useless to her it hud better bo sold aud t he proceeds applied to the debt. The recommendation that in certain events a lease fpr fifty years be entered into is probably made with the idea thut a better price can be obtained if the contract lie for so long a poriod than would lx- possible for a shorter time. This idea is no doubt well founded. A long lease would also more completely remove a disturbing element from [tolitics, if the property should be well managed aud the lent promptly paid. The Legislature has manifested a disposi tion to shift u|Kin its successor the duty of dealing with the important question of dis [Mising by sale or lease of tiie Htato's rail road property, and is |M-rhaps justified in its hesitancy by the fact that there has been no op|M>rttliiity for the |ieoplu to declare ••heir views <>u tiie subject. YYe are inclined to believe that if the question I* thoroughly diwuksod lief on* the people they will decide to sell the mail, il a price sullicienl to extin guish the Blttte * debt can bu obtallied for It THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2t>, 1887. Trade ■with Central America. In the last number of consular reports is a short article on the trade anti resources of Salvador, written by Mr. DuPre, United States Consul at Kan Salvador. The general tone of the article is hopeful, and the writer seems to think a trado valuable to the United States may in the future be devel oped in the exchange of machinery and cot ton manufactures for sugar, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, etc. These productions are very cheap in Salvador. Mr. DuPre fluds, however, that the com merce of the country is now almost wholly in the hands of tho English and Ger mans. and he gives the reasons in very few lines. American goods, though much bet ter than English or German, are so much higher that they- cannot compete with them for the custom of people who are poor, and with whom ready money is scarce. They must buy what they can pay for. In addi tion to this, and of equal importance, is the fact that the articles which Salvador has for export all enter England without paying duty, while at every American custom house most of them are taxed heavily. This works against the American merchant. In spite of these disadvantages, San Fran cisco merchants are endeavoring to estab lish a trade with Salvador, and to somo ex tent have succeeded, a largo part of the coffee crop of that country coming to San Francisco for a market. Tiie trade of the Central and South American countries belongs naturally to the United States These countries, rich in natural resources, have not advanced in prosperity as fast as they should, mainly tie cause they have had no settled governments. But they are improving in this respect, and before many years their trade will be very valuable. It will be our own fault if wo dam up the natural channels of commerce aud permit Europe to furnish tho iron for the railroads which will be built, the imple ments for an improved agriculture, and all of the thousand and one articles which will be demanded by a pooplo beginning anew career. Dynamite and Ironclads. On the day of Lieut. Zalinski’s successful public test of the [lowers of his pneumatic dynamite gun there was launched in Eng land the greatest war vessel yet built. She displaces almost 12,000 tons of water, is banded with nearly two feet of steel, and her armament will be proportionately powerful. It will be a singular coincidence if it shall hereafter prove that the greatest war ship ever constructed went into the water on the very day of the first actual ex periment with the instrument which is to make her useless. That the dynamite gun may make the ironclad useless Is by no means improbable. Its present range is only aliout a mile and a half, but improvement will no doubt speedi ly double that. Twenty-five years ago the effective range of the powder gun was less than four miles, while now a shell can be thrown eight or nine. In firing at so small an object as a ship, however, at anything like the extreme range of her guns, a vessel might exhaust the contents of her shot room without hitting her, and prob ably would do so. For this reason a vessel armed with dynamite guns, with a range much less than the powder guns of an ad versary, would be at little disadvantage for that reason, if she were swift and strongly armored, and the superior destructive jiower of her shells at a shorter distance might decide the battle in her favor. An enterprise is reported from Philadel phia which may have far-reaching results. A company has been organizod to buy out one of the gas companies which is now sup plying the city, for the purpose of putting in operation a newly discovered procoss by which gas can be furnished for all manu facturing and heating purposes at one-half tho cost of coal. It has already been tried at the works of Disston & Sons, at Tacony, and the fact demonstrated that gas can lie produced at the cost narnec. If the claims of the company prove to be well founded their process must lead V at changes in luauy industries. The - t advantage Pittsburg enjoys in the posses ion of natural gas will not then ln insurmountable by com petition in other citiec. Though they have no chance to elect them, the Republicans of New York city are putting out full local tickets, with the purpose of trading with the George party. All their energies will lio devoted to electing their candidates for State offices, with the hope of weakening the prestige of the na tional administration, so as to defeat tho renominatiou of Mr. Cleveland, if possible It seems to be a settled thing that Mr. Blaine can get the Republican nomination if he wants it, and it may be that his con sent to make tho race again depends upon who his opponent will be. He probably does not want to try conclusions again with his successful rival. “Bleeding Kansas” contends valiantly for the theory of negro equality, hut only insists that it shall be put in practice in Georgia. Negro children have been refused admission into the white schools nt Fort Scott, and a break-down of the public school system is fear<l in consequence of an attempt by the negroes to enforce their legal rights. Per haps tho best way to cure the extreme nc grophilists of their folly would be to ex port a few thousand of the colored brethren to each of their towns. These might, either convert the extremists or absorb them. The head of the Socialistic Labor party in Chicago says that within two weeks be tween seventy and eighty unions or assem blies of workingmen will have joined the party, with a voting strength of several thousand. Chicago is tho chief gathering place of tho dangerous foreign agitators who have of late years flocked to this coun try, and it will be a matter of congratula tion if they separate themselves from the old political [mnios. Within either party their influence was jiernicious: outside of them they will have none. Now York soems to bo the only place where a man runs no considerable risk in failiug for millions with no assets worth sgiealcing of. E. H. Wh**cler, the New Ha ven iron manufacturer, whose failure created something like consternation in that, city about two weeks ugo, has lieeu arrested and put under heavy bonds for obtaining money under false pretenses. 11l spite of Ills former high character, he is said to stand u fair chance to serve a term in the penitentiary. It looks mere and more as if the late lick of money in New York wus entirely artifl cill. The Treasury has paid out only a few millions, yet money is reported ™,y on Wall street It was a lock of oonfidmee, not a lick of funds, aud, jierimps. some of tiie bear k|tf<riil*lor on the fito'k Exchange could gauss how iku scare cuwv about. CURRENT COMMENT. Where Responsibility for the Surplus Rests. F Vow the Poston Globe (Pern.) By a stupendous act of folly, if not of collu sion with the money kings of Wall street, the Republican financiers of the refunding days at tached to the new bonds an utterly needless guaranty that they should not be redeemed for twenty years. It is this guaranty that now stands in the government's way. But for this toe Treasury could relieve the stringency of the money market at once by merely calling bonds aud redeeming them at j>ar without premium or interest for a single day after the payment. Get Rid of the Surplus. Prom the Mew York World I item.) It would be a good thing if interest-saving bond purchases could exhaust all the surplus in the Treasury U-f.iee the meeting of Congress, w hether in special or in regular session. If a largo surplus shall be found when Oongre*s meets, that body wHI lie inundated with bills to spend it. Pensions to everybody, river and har bor '‘improvements'' without number, national aid to schools, obsolete coast defenses, and a thousand other schemes for relieving “an over flowing Treasury" will pour in from every quar ter. BRIGHT BITS. The names of the members of the new Bul garian Cabinet are published, and they are com p ised almost exclusively of consonants.— Pruvi deuce Journal. The highest ambition of some people seems to (n- to make themselves disagreeable, as for instance, the man who asks you what time it is when he knows you have your watch pawned.— Lincoln Journal. Fixjrrie.—No, dear, it was not an editor who wrote that beautiful gem, beginning “Come read to me a poem. Some simple und heartfelt lay.” We don't know who wrote it, but it was .not an editor.— Nashville American. A Tennessee 5-year-old was taken by his mother to witness a hop at a hotel for the first time in his life. Noticing an elderly musician plaj-ing on a harp the youngster looked up into his mother's face, saying, “Mamma, is that David ?” There is no sadder sight than to see a fond mother who has spent $5,000 to fit out a freckle faced girl for the summer resorts during the match-making season, packing her daughter’s dresses away in camphor and sprinkling the finery with tears of disappointment.— Boston Globe. Mr. Waldo (to Miss Breezy)—ls there much excitement in Chicago, Miss Breezy, over the Bac >n-Shakespeare controversy? Miss Breezy- Oh, yes. a great deal. We Chi cago people, Mr. Waldo, of course, all think that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare.— Sew York Sun. “The convict lease system is a great question before the people of Georgia now.” observed the Judge. “In fact. I may say it is the most important question.” "Yes,” replied tiie Major, “it's queer too, that the lease question should become the greatest.” Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. “Good gracious :” exclaimed a lady visitor to the sporting editor's room, us, with terror in her eyes, she made a dart for tiie door; “is there murder going on outside?” "Be calm, inadame,” said the sporting editor with a gentle smile, “it is nothing. It is only the religions editor swearing over his proofs.— Poston Courier. He Wanted Proof -Female: I s-s-see th-th that y-y-vou ad v-v-vertise f-f-for a s-s-stutter ing female. Newspaper Clerk Yes, ma'am. Female—W-w-well, I s-s-stutter. Newspaper Clerk Well, ma'am, I can't take your won! for it; fill out this blank affidavit, please.— Tid-Pits. Bagley—lt is passing strange how so many words get twisted from their original meaning. For instance, “let” used to mean "hinder.” Mrs. Bagley —I have a better example. “Col lect'' used to mean "to gather." Bagley (surprised)—That’s what it means now. Mis. Bagley (positively)—No, it doesn't. Ask the garbage collector —Philadelphia Call. A fellow who is considered soft, speaking the other day of the many inventions which have been made by the present generation, exultingly wound up with: "For my part, 1 believe every generation grows wiser; for there’s my father, he knew’d rnore’n my grandfather, and I believe 1 know more than my fafher did.” “My d-air sir,” remarked a bystander, “what a fool Jour grandfather must have been.”— Peoria Transcript, A passenger got off the sleeper the other night, entered the restaurant, clutched a chick en aud began eating. After throwing down a bill to settle for it he said. “Raise chickens here?” Sleepy attendant -Yes: drummers, ministers and railroad men forty cents: farmers and country-trading people sixty cents; dude aud pleasure tourists from sixty cents upward. The customer settled under the 40c. classifi cation.—.NVi ra login n. PERSONAL. Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is said to be worth over $30,000,000. I)R John H. Douglass, who was Gen Grant’-: physician until bis death, has lost his practice through continued ill-health aud is in straitened circumstances. Captain James Goddard, who took the first company of Union troops into Virginia after the State seceded, died at Georgetown, D. C., on Wednesday. Lillie Devbreux Blake's daughter, a pretty young woman in her twenties, is in training to lake tier mother's place as a reformer after the latter wearies or dies. President Grevy says of the Comte de Paris' manifesto: "It is a well-w ritten, historic thesis, it is thoroughly academic, but it contains not a particle of danger to the republic." Mrs. William Astor will not open her town house in New York this season, it is said, be cause the social duties imposed upon her there are too onerous for her to discharge. An lowa girl who was voted the handsomest lady in the country fainted away three times in succession when the Joyful news was brought to her. A different man caught her each time. Five young laoies of Flainfield. N. J., are on a pedestrian tour of the Catskills They started in August and have walked 300 miles in four weeks. If had weather sets in they will return home by rail. Seven hundred girls of the Louisville Woolen mills are on a strike owing to the dis charge of a favorite foreman. They say they will remain out until Christmas if ineir man is not reinstated. Pp.ince Eugen. youngest soipof the King of Sweden, is now 20 years old. He is the artist of the royal Swedish family, and has studied |iaint ing in Paris under the guidance of famous French masters. Mrs. Gun. Grant is contemplating a long visit to Leavenworth. Kan., the latter part of the present month. She has a sister in thut city whom she lias not visited for several years. The health of Mrs. Grant is very good. Hannibal Hamlin, the only living ex-Vice President of the United States, will travel all the way from Maine to Missouri to attend the Grand Army of the Republic encampment. Mr. llamlin has just completed his 78th year. -Senator Farwell, of Illinois, is developing considerable strength as a possible candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1888. The Senator is a successful Chicago mer chant of the old school and is worth $3,.i00,(100. Chancellor Sims, of Syracuse University, ex pects to have the new library building there finished within a vear and "Sidy to reecho the Von Ranks library. It will lie entirely fire-proof and contain room for 130,OK) volumes. The young Due d'Orleans, eldest son of the Comte de Paris, will arrive nt Sun Francisco In the spring and make u tour through the United States. The Duke is now 18 years of age and almost abnormally fat. His profile and puffy checks greatly resemble portraits of Louis XVI. Second Assistant Secretary Aiikk. of (he State llepaitnieiil. may succeed Gov. Porter, re signed. Mr Adee is a young man with a ster llng record, although his tendencies uiv some v i,.it RepubUoM If Searetary Bund ia par Hutted to promote Mr. Adee, it is said he will do so with pleasure. “The social arts by which great masses of people mav he moved and won,' says the Phila dolphin Heat and (lad,) “Dave avMMtly been studied mid uuL-U rod by President Cleveland people of Philadelphia have proudly recog nized ill the Chief Mnglstrale of the uuliou u true type of the American gentleman.' < i. Davis, a wealthy fanner, on Tuesday even ing fell usteep In his wagon while driving from NaMlcokn. Pn ,lo Ids home. IDs head dropped on the side of the wagon, and In turning a cornel' I lie wheel caught his head aud severed It trotn Ills Issiy Tin- to fives continued ou their homeward journey with the headles*body Nam cel UottttotON, ul indiiuiuioitl*. I* said to be the oldool living native of Indiana Hi* |t*i • ellta were lYiumvlv Guam, who moved lo Ken lie ky after lin revolution. In wlittdi id* father fianfOl gallant ly, gong ii.*>-|ie-m|y <„ m*- I loose*" Male w l*ere a** waa born In 17PM He ( in •Igoid hi with, a-1 #* ***** 'vetile se. MbsKsio Philosophy of the Rejected. Sir John Suckling. “Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale* Will, w en looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? “Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, whv so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do’t? Prithee, why so mute? “Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move; This cannot take her: If of herself she will not love Nothing can maico her: The d—l take her.” Tbfe Spider’s Fatal Mistake. Front the Albany Journal. A small garden spider had spun his web in a corner where a perpendicular column and a horizontal rail met, and from the ambush of a hidden crack awaited his dipterous prey. A handsome yellow wasp passing that way espied the graceful trap and made for it. Setting his feet lightly on two or three of the meshes, he started up a great buzzing, which shook the web from end to end. The watchful spider ran out a little way, stretched forth a delicate foot to make sure of the location of the supposed lly, and then rushed for it, alighting on the wasp with a gleeful jump and no doubt a grin of hide ous triumph. But Mr. Spider had reckoned without his ho? t. Like a flash of lightning the wasp’s six nimble legs closed upon him, the graceful body bent, nearly double, and once, twice, thrice, again and again, the sharp sting pierced the luckless spider. As his struggles grew fainter and finally ceased, the wasp, with a spring, disentangled himself from the silken net and bore away his spidery victim in triumph. Han Yu and the Alligators. From the North China Herald. The legend of St. Patrick banishing the ver min from Ireland has its analogue in China, ac cording to M. Fauvel. In the works of llau Weri-kung, who flourished something more than 1,000 yean? ago, it is mentioned that a states man called Han Yu was banished to Kuangtung ami appointed Governor of the semi-barbarous district of Chao Chou. When he arrived there the people complained to him that ttieir flocks and nerds were being destroyed and themselves ruined by the ravages of a quality of alligators, Ngo, which lived in a lake not far from Cliao yang-hwei. Han Yu went to the lake and ordered a pig and sheep to be thrown to the Ngo, and when they were assembled ho made them a speech and said: "Under former rulers you have been allow ed to remain here, but under the reign of our virtuous emperor you can not lie tolerated and you must leave his empire. At the south of this place is an immense sea, in which fishes as large as whales, as well as those as small as shrimps and sprats, can live in peace. You can easily go there in a dav, but I give you from three to seven days to go. If after that period you are still found here, I shall be compelled to bring w ith me some good archers with strong bows and poisoned arrows and declare against you a merciless war,” In the afternoon of that day a violent storm arose, with thunder and lightning, which lasted some days, driving the waters sixty li eastward, so that the lake be came dry and no alligators hare ever been seen there since. On the native maps of the Canton province a small lake is marked 110 miles west of Chao Chou, which is still called Ngo hu, i. e., Alliga tors' Lake, English View of the American Father From the Life. The American father has not yet reached that point of civilization which recognizes the need of settlements. He prefers keeping his cash in bis own hands for speculation or investment, and although he will sometimes give a hand some allowance, he seldom will guarantee even that. There is a well-known English nobleman who married the daughter of a New York stock broker, and had a valuable house in that city settled on his wife, which for a while gave a rental of £2,000 a year. But values fluctuate greatly in all new countries, and the house in question greatly depreciated before long. Again, f remember the younger son of a peer, who had the happiness to win the affection of the beau tiful daughter of another New York stock broker, but who was deterred from matrimony for a long time, because although I‘the old man' • offered a handsome allowance, he wouldn’t ac tually make a settlement. As "the old man" wasagre>t speculator, his would-be son-in-law apprehended that a regular "bust up" might not improbably supervene and leave him with a wife accustomed to si>end £I.OOO a year on her dress unendowed, He represented this strongly, but in vain. The fact is, that the American grudges tying up money indefinitely at a low rate of interest. He will often give his daughter a house, furnish it. and send her a handsome check when a child is born, but he holds that a man ought to keep his wife A young lady’s splendid dress at a watering-place and her parents' brave show ihere an- no sort of criterion of his disposition to "shell out” to a son-in law Very few of tne American girls who have married Englishmen have had fortunes, while many have had next to nothing. A Horse Jockey’s Reasons for Pulling a Horse in a Place. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. The truth of the old adage, “Give a dog a bad name and you might as well hang him at once,” has never been better illustrated than in a race. Several years ago Nick Becker. now the owner of Glen Fisher, Hottentot. Leland. and others, was ruled off the track at Louisville for the put iug of his horse Mcßowling in a race over tha. track, and the reputation that he then acquired has since stuck to hint “like a bmder.” There are even some people nowadays mean enough to say that Nick isn't as straight os a string, but o course that's ail a mistake, and his horses run in and out for the reason that you can't always get the same sort of oats to feed them with. This spring, as Col. >l. Lewis Clark was enter taining a party of turf reporters in the cozy little club house at Louisville. he told the follow ing story on Nick in connection with the Mcßowling affair. After explaining how Mc- Bowling was nulled, he said: "I called Nick into the stand and the first question that I asked him was: “ 'Now, Nick, tell me the truth, how much did you get for pulling Mcßowling*' “.'Veil, Col. Clark, you van a goot frent of mine. If I vin 1 only get tree huntert tollar, ef I lose I get trie: huntert mid fefty. Vat could I do? Say, vat vould you do?’ “The last question was almost too much for me,” said the Colonel, “and I nearly laughed out in bis face." After Nick had been ruled off he said to an ac quaintance: “Mine frient, dis ees a funny country, ferry Milton Young he pull a horse and he got money enough by dot to buy a pig stock farm by Cyn thianu. Nick Becker he pull a horse and off goes his hat off. by shimminy. I don't like dot, ain't it?” Mra. Swellby’s Fly Party. From the Boston Transcriot. There is nothing like a woman's ready ir.ge nuity to conquer a social dilemma The Bwellbys, who belong to the most elegant circle out at Brookshury, lately completed their new house, and proposed to celebrate their return from the seaside and t heir occupancy of their new man sion by a little house-warming party not a grand reception, of course, widen would have been quite out of the question at this season - but a cheery little dancing party to some of their friends and nearly all of their neighbors, including some js-ople who scarcely belong to the grand monde of Brookshury,* and could hardly have been Invited to a grand reception given by such fashionable people as the Swell bys, but whom it was well enough to conciliate by a little social attention. There was delay in the putting of the finishing touches upon‘the house, as there always is, and the important de tail of oiling and waxing the floors of the parlors was unfortunately left to the last moment. It wns completed only the very day of the party. And what was the Swellhys' horror, on entering MM room late in the afternoon, to find that, nl though the ap)>earanee of t hese magnificent apartments was everything that could be de sired, it was impossible to walk in them without sticking to the floor! Mrs. Sweliby was in despair. “Dancing will be utterly impossible,” said she. "What can we do?" She took another excursion over the sticky floor. Presently she begun to skip about witii u peculiar movement, wave her (winds up ami down, and buzz loudly lietween her teeth. "Positively," she said, laughing, “tjie only way I can get off it Is to fly and buzz. Huzz-z-z! Buzz z z' Suddenly she stopped short In the middle of her prank, dapping her hands with glee. ”1 have it t I have III" said she. “I should think you had." said look ing grimly from the threshold; "hut what is ItP “A happy thought. We'll have a flv party, It's an entirely original Idea N'olssly ever thought of It liefore, and it will lie capital fun We can easily fit out each of the guests with a pair of improvised gains* wings, and these par lor floors will lie Ihe sticky fly paper The nov elty of the thing will make It go immensely." The listener was not there, hoi he hears on all hands that Ilia Mweflliy's fly party waa (be moat successful even! ever lioowii In Prisikshury. “I lie to trII thr truth '* • “Yea." Inter, opted an acquaintance, “but you ore a very boil shot f A tm/'t lAetny Churcli. for l ravelera It Isa tie I steel ty Ili gstiulna thoiiua Ginger. Fredas a h isioau, lluiadsi ptaia. KM*. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Some new umbrella handles have iu them a match box. Fifty thousand; elephants a year go to make our piano keys. The London postmen have petitioned the Postmaster-General to be called “letter car riers." Anew opera house at Pittsburg has a pair of opera glasses attached to each parquet chair by a gilt chain. The French war iialloou is made in four sec tions, so that a bullet may go through it with out dropping it. One of the attractions of Sacramento, Cal, is a mummy show—the remains of |>eople of the Aztec race, it is supposed. Tp.e Grangers in New Jersey arc niakiug an effort to have the legal rate of interest in that State reduced to 5 per cent. Twenty-seven privates of a Posen regiment have lieen attacked with trichiniasis from eating raw pork. The German commissariat is poor. The Punjaub promises to be the richest prov ince of India. Petroleum has been discovered in Rawalpindi, coal in Peshawur, and gold in ivi:lii. up in the Himalayas. Next May there will be an exhibition of the work of Berlin apprentices in all the principal industries, aud of the pupils iu the various tech nical and trade schools of Berlin. The seagulls don’t budge from the marine target at which the artillery school at Fortress Monroe plays in regulation practice. The offen sive weapons are big smoothbores. Paul I)u Chailuj has gone to St. Petersburg to study some bronze ornaments lately found on the Baltic, supposed to belong to the Vikings, about whom M. Du C'haillu is au authority. It is said that hawks are frequently seen fly ing southward on the approach of winter, but are never seen on the return flight, though found again in the North when the w inter is past. Cremation has so grown in favor in Berlin that a crematorium is to be built in the principal c metery. Hitherto Berliners desiring to cre mate their dead have been obliged to go to Gotha. A Michigan veteran of the civil war pos sesses a relic in the shape of an army biscuit that was served in the way of rations in 1805. It is a less ghastly relic than a bone and is just as hard. An electrical lamp appears to have been iu vented which will burn for twelve hours, with the light of two and a half candles, at a cost of one penny. It has to be charged every twenty live days. George Dining committed burglary in Ken tucky the other day, and in less than a week he was captured, was at once indicted, tried, con victed and sentenced, anil the licit day was dining in the penitentiary. An immense new locomotive has been built for the heavy Nyack (New York) express train on the Northern railroad, but it is so long that neither the turn table at Jersey City nor Nyack wiii turn it, and consequently it cannot be used. Two young men of Garden Plain, Kan., fought with slungshots in church to determine which should escort a young woman to her home. One of them had his skull fractured and he died. The minister and his with suffered slight inju ries. Mrs. Eagles, an elderly woman of Campbell county, Va., expressed the wish shortly before her death that her gold watch be buried wit li her. The wish was carried out, and within a week the grave was opened in the night aud the watch stolen, While Sir Salar Jung, who is a Mussulman, was visiting Droitwich for the baths he cele brated the Mohammedan festival of Zoha. The ceremony was’merely the slaughter of a goat by his owu hands. The flesh was distributed among the English poor. A coyote in Walla Walla was attacked by an immense hawk that hit him fair on the back of the bead. The coyote would duck his head, then make a snap at the hawk, but could not reach it. and at the end of twenty minutes was literally peckfed to death. Woman Suffrage does not appear to increase in popularity in Boston, where women can vote at school elections if they desire to do so. In that city the total number of registe red female voters in 18S5 was 2,238, in IBSB it fell to 1,103, and this year it has dropped to 403. James Merritt, residing near Schenectady, held his revolver in his hand, and, remarking that it contained his last cartridge, asked what he should do with it. He had scarcely asked the question when the weapeon was discharged, aud inflicted a wound of which Merritt died. According to the latest returns of foreigners residing in Japan, there are 59-t Americans. 1143 Germans, 198 Frenchmen, and 1,433 English men. Of foreigners in government employ, there are 37 Germain-, 17 Americans, 8 French men, 8 Italians, 6 Dutchmen and 03 Englishmen. Tpe real estate boom in Kansas is likely to take a back seat on account of the salt boom. Kingman has found a vein of it beneath her. Ellsworth has discovered 155 feet of it, said to be of the. very finest quality, and Wichita has organized a company with SIOO,OOO to prepare the article for use. At a locomotive works in Schenectady, N. Y.. recently, a workman was injured. Two physi cians who attended him said one of his legs was broken. After he had spent a week in bed. a third doctor removed the bandages, and told him he ought tc be going about his business, as nothing was the matter with his leg, an opinion that proved correct. A tract of 1,655 acres, embracing Wilmurt Lake and part of Big Kock Lake, in Herkimer county, has been bougut for $ >O,OOO. and a club probably will lie organized with a membership of about twenty to own the property. Wilmuit liake is 3,800 feet nliove the level of the sea, is fed by springs, and is counted one of the best lakes in the Adirondack region for fly fishing fer speckled trout. Henry Clews is one of the big Wall street men who hasn't tumbled into the fashion of owning a big steam yacht During the summer he went to Newport every Friday night, too. He says the Pilgrim with its bridal chandler is good enough for him. In fact, some of the Wall street men speak of the Pilgrim as Mr. Clews’ yacht, and add that where other yachts cost their owners SIB,OOO a summer, Mr. Clews big yacht only costs him $lB a trip. The letters and memoirs of Mme. Saint Hu bert}-, which were recently discovered in the shop of a Paris antiquary, are soon to be pub lished. Mme. Saint-Huberty was one of the most famous Paris actresses and beauties of the last century. Napoleon 1. addressed to her as artillery Lieutenant the only verses he ever made in his Lie. Her end was very sad. She married the Count d'Entraigues, who soon be come insane, and was murdered, together with him, by one of her servants. All telegraph operators boast of the grad ual as of their business, und dream of someday being great or rich. Among the men who be gun by bundling the key are Andrew Carnegie- Theodore N. Vail, of the Bell Telephone Com pany; Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, and ex (iov Cornell, of New York; W. .1. Johnston, the pub lisher; E. H. 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