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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Georgia Hussars: Commercial
Guano Company.
Spec: ai. Notices—As to Bills Against the Brit
ish Steamship Wimbledon; As to Crew of Brit
ish Steamship Hawarder.; As to Closing Store,
Oollat Bros.
Steamship Schedule— Baltimore Steamship
Company.
Pianos and Organs— L. &B.S.M. H.
Cheap Coh en Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; For Sale;
stolen; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sales— Continued Sale of Groceries
by D. R. Kennedy
To the Public—W. J. Burton.
Savannah Steam Laundry— M. Prager
For Doboy, etc— Steamer Pope Catlin.
The reassuring reports as to the condition
of the Crown Prince of Germany by his
physicians do not seem to be worth much.
It is not unlikely that the aged Emperor will
outlive his oldest son.
Gen. Pryor and Capt. Black, counsel
for the Anarchists, exprejs the utmost con
fidence in getting their case before the
United States Supreme Court. Lawyers on
the other side are just as confident that they
will not. Lawyers, like doctors, disagree,
but for a different reason—they are paid
for it.
The report of General Secretary Litch
man, of the Knights of Labor, it is said, will
show a decrease in membership of the order
from 1,000,000 to a little over 500,000 in the
last year. This decrease is in large measure
due to numerous ill-ad vised and unsuccess
ful strikes. Wisdom learned from expe
rience may put the order on the up-grade
again.
Jay Gould has caused to be announced on
Wall street that on account of threatened
ossification of the heart be is about to go to
Europe for an indefinite stay, but Wall
street will not believe him. It knows his
heart has lung been as hard os bone, without
apparent effect upon his health, and believes
he is preparing some plan to scoop his
enemies. Wall street is probably right.
The friends of Rector Glazebrook in Geor
gia must have read the evidence brought
out against him in the recent investigation
at Durham, Mass., with great sorrow.
Though they may believe in his innocence,
the evidence is of such a character as must
cripple his usefulness as a clergyman. Dur
ing his stay in Georgia Mr. Glazebrook was
one of the most honored and beloved minis
ters of his denomination.
At a Maryland fair a marriage ceremony
was performed on the grounds, and the
good-looking and good-natured bride per
mitted the minister and several gentlemen
to give her congratulatory kisses. Imagine
their sensations when they discovered that
they had saluted the office boy of one of
their number. They would no doubt have
rather kissed a horse, and ought to sue the
responsible party for damages. No jury
would deny them.
The Supreme Court of New York has
decided thut the annulment of the charter
of the Broadway Surface Railroad Com
pany only destroyed the company; it did
not destroy its estate, of which the fran
chise to operate a railroad on Broadway
was a part. This decision was necessary to
protect creditors of the company. It seems
there is no way to prevent the building of
a road against which a large majority of
the people protest.
If Henry George doesn’t get a rousing
big vote for Secretary of State he will be
the most disappointed politician New York
ever saw. Ho has been met by large
audiences at every api>ointment, and now
expresses a “fear - ’ that he may be elected.
But he is probably unduly excited. His
doctrines are new, he is himself an interest
ing person, and men were attracted prin
cijially by curiosity in attending his meet
ings. Comparatively few will indorse his
radical opinions at the ballot box.
The Arizona Star, published away off
ou the edge of civilization, seems to keep
up with the drift of public opinion. In ad
vocating the nomination of Gen. Miles by
the Republicans for President, it says he is
the only man who can “make a respectable
race against Cleveland. ” It wants its party
to escape a disgraceful rout, and periiajM
Gen. Miles could do as much to prevent it as
anyone. He would be a stronger candidate
than the leaders of the party, each weak
ened by the jealousy of the others.
Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
has again been talking for publication
about the South, which he calls the “K 1
Dorado of the future.” Mr. Kelley is, per
haps, the foremost defender of the protec
tive tariff, to the effect* of which the South
owes a great deal of her poverty, but he is
doing his best to help her in his own wav,
and his efforts "vill probably prove effective
to a certain deg roe. Hut he is a more effec
tive ageut for the Republican irty in the
Southern iron region* than for the Southern
boom in the North.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of the Anarchist,
Is not the delimit hater of everything repre
senting law and order that she was when
lecturing about the country a few mouths
ago. She is now quiet and subdued, end
wlicn before the Police Court in Chicago a
day or two since for distributing Parsons’
address on the street* in violation of a city
oadinance, her demeanor and words were so
iwthetic that tears came to the eyes of the
police officers who have most cause to hate
her husband Hhe, jtcrhui**. only begins u>
rmlia* that he stands in the shallow of the
gallows, and that her own violent
harangue* have made the execution of his
MMileta • more 'wiaix
The-Grand Army of the Republic.
The Grand Army of the Republic parades
through the streets of St. 1 aiuls to-day.
The city has made preparations to welcome
it? visitors in such a manner that they can
not doubt its heartiness. Miles of streets
are handsomely decorated and triumphal
arches have been erected across the road
ways along which the veterans will march.
Everything will be done to show honor to
the defenders of the Union in a State of
which the preponderating sentiment during
the war was probably against the cause for
which they fought.
The number of veterans present at the
Grand Encampment will, in all likelihood,
exceed that on any former occasion, and
for certain reasons the meeting will be of
greater importance than any of its prede
cessors.
The society ls nominally non-partisan, but
of late months there have been manifesta
tions of hostility to the present administra
tion on the part of both officers and men
that lead to the belief that if it ever had
that character it has lost it. The Presi -
dent’s order in relation to the captured Con
federate battle-flags was made the occasion
of the coarsest abuse of him by men who
stand high in the councils of the so
ciety. It was with something
like amazement that Southern people
hoard this outbreak. They were perfectly
indifferent whether the government kept
the flags, destroyed them or returned them,
and they could not understand why so much
value was attached to them. They now
begin to see that the incident was seized
upon to vent the anger aroused by other
actions of the President, and to make polit
ical capital for the Republican party.
The President showed by his numerous
vetoes of unworthy private pension bills,
and of the dependent pension bill, that in
his opinion the government had gone as far
as it should in extending aid to those who
had served in its armies. That aid was al
ready on a scale never before ap
proached in magnitude by any
nation, the pensioners numbering in
the neighborhood of 500,000, and the money
appropriated for their benefit amounting to
about $75,01X1,000 a year. But this enor
mous sum, almost as much as the great ar
my of Germany costs, does not satisfy the
appetite of the old soldiers, which grows
sharper in proportion as it is fed, and there
seems to be a disposition among them to
make their organization the means of fright
ening the politicians into granting any de
mands, however extravagant. The policy
to which the administration is committed
has made them its enemies.
A great majority of the army posts
which have taken action on the
question have demanded the passage
of the dependent pension bill, and a
resolution to that effect will doubtless be
put before the convention in St. Louis. It
may be that even larger demands will be
made. A convention of ex-prisoners was
held in Chicago last week, and a bill was
prepared for introduction in Congress pro
viding that all those confined in Confeder
ate prisons ninety days shall receive a
quarter of the full pension, 130 days one
half, 270 days three-quarters, and beyond
that a full pension. The bill also allows
each prisoner $2 for every day he was in
captivity. Drafts of the bill were sent to
every Grand Army post in the country, and
a committee appointed to submit the meas
ure to the Grand Encampment for Its in
dorsement. A resolution demands the pas
sage of this bill by Congress in the “name
of loyalty and patriotism.”
The manner in which the society deals
with this and kindred propositions at Bt.
Louis will fix its character and purposes in
the minds of the people. If it determine to
become a closely organized machine to ex
tort pensions, as certain things have indi
cated, it will be a source of real danger. It
will find ready allies in those interested in
keeping up or increasing the pres
ent rate of taxation, who will,
under the pretense of gratitude
to old soldiers, serve their own private in
terests. The surplus will be speedily got
ten rid of, and a hole cut in the bottom of
the Treasury’s strong box so large that the
most industrious efforts of the customs col
lectors cannot keep it full.
The South has a peculiar interest in this
question. She is poor, while the other sec
tions of the country aro rich. Yet she pays
a very largo proportion of the taxes. Of
the immense amount paid out in pensions,
practically none comes back to her. This
is one of the jwnalties of defeat, and there
has been no complaint heretofore that the
burden it imposed was heavy, but it can
easily he made so heavy that it will be
crushing.
It is to be hoped that the result of the
meeting at St. Louis will be to put the
Grand Army hack in the j>osition it ought
to occupy—a society for the preservation of
the patriotic memories of the war and the
stimulation of patriotic sentiments among
the young.
Mr. Powderly’s plan of reorganization of
the Knights of Labor, an outline of which
was recently printed, is not meeting with
general favor among members of the order.
While it removes what lias heretofore been
one of the chief causes of discord, by allow
ing the formation of trade assemblies, ob
jection is made that members of such assem
blies will be doubly taxed, while the
assemblies themselves will have no repre
sentation in the General Assembly of the
order. What with the opposition of the
Socialist element to Mr. Rowderly and the
struggle over the details of the now consti
tution, the Minneapolis convention is likely
to have a stormy session. It is believed,
however, that the conservative element is
largely in the majority, and will save the
order from wreck.
Tlie Paris correspondent of tho Chicago
Tribune gives anew story of tlie great
wheat sjH-culation in Kan Francisco which
ended so disastrously for the Nevada Bank.
The gist of it is that Gen. Boulanger, late
War Minister of France, was a partner of
Mackny in the speculation, his part of the
programme being to cause au advance in
the price of wheat by bringing about a
great war scare after Mackay had cornered
tlie market. The story is probably apocry
phal. Gamblers do desperate things, but a
responsible Minister would hardly run tho
risk of plunging his country into a bloody
war, imperiling even it* existence, for the
suke of pecuniary gain, however great.
Prince Bismarck has just celebrated tbe
twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to
the premiership of the Prussian kingdom.
Few statesmen can look back over a career
so eminently successful as has been his. He
lias suffered few checks and no defeats in
diplomacy or war. lie has made the em
pire he consolidated the greatest military
power Of the world, but lie ha* embittered
its relations with it- neighbor* aud will
leave it, should his career and soon, a logo, y
wf wars yet tube 1 ought.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1887.
THE GREAT YACHT RACE TO-DAY.
Something About the Thistle and the
Volunteer
The first race of the Scotch yacht Thistle
and the American yacht 'Volunteer for the
America’s cup comes off to-Jay. A great deal
of interest in the match has been manifested
in all parts of the country, and the follow
ing information concerning the yachts and
their designers may prove of general
interest:
The Thistle was conceived in secret,
shaped in secret, and launched in a shroud.
She has been the cause of more fanciful
sketching and more conjectural writing
than the Flying Dutchman’s ghostly craft.
There is no international copyright in
yachts; and her designer wished to enjoy a
monopoly of his own originality. There is
nothing else afloat that exactly resembles
tiie Thistle. But Mr. Watson did not cur
tain his ideal from possible American imi
tators only. He wished to screen it from
the whole world, and even more particularly
from British rivals.
As she sits on the water it is easy to see
that she is a trim and handsome boat
Tbet-e is a good shear, the lines running in a
graceful sweep from knightheods to taffrail.
She is said to sit very low in the water, but
the yachting editor of the London Sports
man measured her least freeboard, and
found it 4 feet 6 inches, which is not low.
The fact is, probably, that being long and
beautifully modelled, she does hot show how
high she is, for it is likely that she is as
long asthe full estimate of 105 feet. Amer
icans will hope that the Sportsman male
no error, and that her bow, as some say it
is, is very high out of water, for a high
bow is not a good bow in working to wind
ward.
The mast of the Thistleis stepped well
forward. It will Is; remembered that the
Genestas was stepped so that it appeared to
be exactly in the middle of the deck. Judg
ing from the rake of the Thistle’s stern post
and the cutting away of her bow, it is said
that her keel is very short and that the bal
last is carried abaft the mast, or pretty near
where a sloop's centreboard would be.
Under the water her sides rise up with a
gradual sweep out, and are not straight up
and down like those of the Galatea. Her
cross section is said to be very like that of the
Vandaura, built by the same designer. Her
bows do not flare out, however, as Watson’s
earlier boats did, the beams forward rising
very straight on each side. It will thus
happen that when she plunges down over a
heavy swell with her nose rooting up the
foam, the water will offer little if any more
resistance than when she is on a level keel.
She will split her way through the waves
instead of crushing them out of the way.
Her counter, too, is much larger than the
Genesta’s showing how sho fines away aft.
beneath the water.
Of the construction of the hull we know
that it is done as well as Scotch workmen
can do it. There is a collision bulkhead for
ward, and there arc partial bulkheads
abreast the rigging and wherever excep
tional strength ls needed. There are extra
keelsons and frames, too. The has very
little rail.
Her spars are very lofty. As she floated
beside the Genesta it was noticed that her
truck was from 15 to 18 feet above that of
the craft that was defeated here. Her de
signer, Mr. Watson, found that the New
York Yacht Club rules did not tax sail area
very much, and took advantage of this de
fect by building a boat that could carry on.
Her boom is said to be 4>£ feet longer than
the Mayflower’s, and 2>£ feet longer than
the Volunteer’s. With the enormous hoist
which the photograph indicates, she must
carry a mainsail that will make her sailors
sweat, and it may make the owners of the
Yankee sloops sweat too. Her spars are of
Oregon pine.
The following table gives the known di
mensions of the three crack British cutters
and the two American sloops:
Wafer Line. Beam. Depth.
Ft. In. Ft. In. Ft. In.
Thistle 80.40 20.00 14. 1
Irex 87.00 15. 1 11. 3
Genesta 85. 0 15.00 11. !)
Mayflower 85. 8 23. 0 9. 0
Volunteer 85.10 ‘23. 2 10.00
The figures show that the Thistle must
have an enormous displacement, but her
record in the season’s races on the other side
shows that great displacement is not incom
patible with speed.
Mr. G. L. Watson, whose masterpiete the
Thistle is, has been making fly irs ever since
he began designing yachts. His first boat,
like the Boston eatlioat, the first venture of
Mr. Burgess, was a winner. Mr. Watson
had set up shop as a naval architect in 1874.
At that time the Pearl, a flve-tonner, had
carried the whip at lier truck so long that
no one dared to make a match with her.
Mr. Watson turned out the Clothilda. Her
owner, proud of his first yacht auu fearless,
as all new yachtsmen arc apt to be. accepted
the Pearl’s standing challenge, which had
for a long time humiliated the owners of
small yachts off the British coast. To the
astonishment of all the Clothilde
boat the Pearl easily. The Vril
and the Freka followed the Clothilde
from Mr. W a (son’s loft, and proved to lie
winners as the Clothikle had been. The
Madge first introduced Mr. Watson to
American yachtsmen by coming over here
and whipping everything she met. Tho
Vandaura, tlie Marjorie, and tho yawl
Wendur were able to s(x>ak for him before
the new wonder, the Thistle, was lau tied led.
Mr. Watson is a writer as well as a designer,
and by his contributions to technical
journals has done much to teach British
yachtsmen that when determining the ton
nage of a vessel it is more nearly accurate
to measure her depth with a (ape lino than
to estimate her depth by calling it one half
of her width. Mr. Watson is well known
in his own country also as a designer of
steam yachts mid merehunt vessels.
Tho Thistle’s iron work, when she wns in
the dry ihx'k, looked much neater and ap
peared to be better thau that of the Volun
teer's, but upon closer inspection it was
plainly seen that there was a covering of
some kind over the hull, forming a sort of
skin as it were. Upon examination along
the water-line of the yacht some fractures in
this skin or shell, covering the iron work
were observed, showing not only the rivets
and joints formed by adjacent plates, but
that this cement, as (.'apt, Barr called it.
was quite thick; something like a sixteenth
of an inch or more.
It is evidently a secret preparation and
something new. in our waters, as yachts
heretofore have generally had a covering
merely of copper or of some good anti-fric
tion paint for their wet surface, or possibly
some pot lead, which is generally applied
just before a race by our yachtsmen. This
new application is to lessen tlie yacht’s fric
tional resistance, as the fraction, which of
late lias been found to be enormous, de
pends upon tlie surface and sjieed of the
vessel.
The Volunteer was launched at the ship
yard o* Pusey & Jones, in Wilmington,
Del, early in the morning on June an, Al
though an untimely hour, there wa* a crowd
of several hundred on hand to see her take
tho water, showing the interest the public
take in the new sloop. Uer length is lUli
feet over all, ami her depth is 10 feet 4
inches. Her width is 23 fWt a indies, anil
tier length on the water lino 85 feet 9 inches.
Klio draws aisout 10 feet <*f water.
The new sloop vuries a good deal more
from tlie model of the Mayflower than these
figures indicate. The keel is more like a
rocker than that of the Mayflower, rising
gradually from a [sunt just abaft her
'■outre to the stern post, and rising very
rapidly forward to the stem. In other
words, her forefoot is cut away more thau
the Mayflower's. Although not quite so
wide over all as the Mayflower, tin* now
sloop was d'**ignsd to b * more stable, her
width at tlie water line being quits
a* great a* that of the older sloop,
while her depth is greater, and, in
consequents* ,f having tier tiullii*'. ad
in her low down kis-1, her ■ •••idi-w of gravity
i* lower. Her innst is set well uft. differing
hi (Ids parWi-tilnr considerably from the
Thistle it is said. Tb<* Vohnitoer has mom
free boxed limn the Msyllower, but, i m (Jan.
Pains cal 'ad public etteotloa list year to
the r laidl ijf effect of Irts'lsiurd o.i a v edit
sailing isooo-Umiioi, uu one uiud fuai that
the Volunteer Is too h’gb. The lower
[rt of the Volunteer’s hull is leaner than
the Mayflower’s. She is cut away in the
gar boards, as the shipbuilders say, by which
they mean that the lower part of the letter
V. which may represent the outline of a
cross section, is hollowed out very much. In
fact, her keel projects down so straight and
deep from the flaring part of the hull that
she would prove a very weather ly boat
without any centreboard.
Gen. Charles J. Paine, the owner of the
Volunteer, has, by his patriotism and liber
ality in defending the America’s cup, won
a world-wide reputation. He is commonly
spoken of as the greatest of American
yachtsmen. Certainly no one has done so
much to earn the regard of American gen
tlemen sailors and gentlemen sportsmen
generally.
When the first of the ro-ent efforts to cap
ture the America’s cup was made by the
Genesta’s challenge. Gen. Paine was a lib
eral contributor to the fund with which the
Puritan was built. He had had a good deal
of experience in racing on the yacht Hal
cyon, with which he won many victories,
and bis judgment contributed much to the
success of the Puritan. But the General
was satisfied that a greater yacht than the
Halcyon could be built, and so was Mr.
Burgess, Between the two the plans of
the Mayflower were evolved, and their
faith was justified by her superior sailing
qualities.
Gen. Paine is a typical Yankee, though
not of the kind of Yankees that one sees in
caricatures. He is a Boston lawyer by pro
fession. He Is a graduate of Harvard. He
won his title of General during the late
war, having been promoted through
various grades to the rank of Major-Gen
eral. He is quiet and reserved in his man
ner and plain in his dress, wholly avoiding
the gaudy displays affected by many aina
teur sailors.
While ether designers of yachts have
many friends and supporters who are ready
to back them with orders, and in con
troversy, in the mind of the American pub
lic generally Mr. E lward Burgees is the
leading yacht modeler of the world. It will
be conceded abroad that he is the leading
designer of America. If one may judge
from the reports received regarding tiie
betting on the international races there
is a good deal of doubt even among British
yachtmon as to his position when compared
with Mr. Watson. They are not bucking
Watson over there so enthusiastically as
they wore before they heard from Mr.
Burgees’ last work—the Volunteer.
Mr. Burgess had the good fortune to be a
resident of Boston, the home at present of
the most liberal yacht builders of the coun
try. He first attracted the attention of
yachtsmen there by designing a cat boat
that ran away out of sight from every other
cat boat in the harbor. In consequence of
her success he was engaged by Mr. Forbes,
the owner of the Puritan, and his associates,
to design a boat to compete with the Pris
cilla, which was then building, for the honor
of defending the America’s cup. Yachts
men remember with pleasure the interest
the new white sloop created in 1885. But
even when she had won first place there
were not a few who spoke of her as a lucky
hit, and to perfect his reputation Mr. Bur
gess hail to design a lietter one. He did this
the next year to the satisfaction of every
body save a few nan Guns of other boats
and designers. The Mayflower was un
doubtedly the best yacht afloat last year.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Must be Free from Saloon Influence.
From the Few York World (Dem.)
The Democratic party cannot afford even to
seem to be subservient to the liquor interest.
The increase of intemperance by the unneces
sary multiplication and imperfect regulation ol
drinking places is as great an evil socially and
morally as the influence of the salocn is politi
cally when it becomes a potent factor in party
management.
The Mail Service Should be in Private
Hands.
FVmn the .Vein York World (Dem.)
The only serious mistake made by the framers
of our constitution was in permitting the Fed
eral government to control even the mails. We
might or we might not have a cheaper mail
service were letters carried by private compa-’
nies working in co-operation with tin- railroads;
but we should certainly have a much swifter ser
vice. Were mails carried by postal companies,
it would not take two or three days to get a let
ter from New York to Chicago It would more
likely have been long since shot through a pueu
matic tube, a postal pipe line, with such expedi
tion that an answer could be received on the
day of mailing.
BRIGHT BITS.
Thf. Framingham Gazette gives currency to
the rather apocryphal story that Revivalist Sam
Jones has lieen offered $5,000 a night for a
course of lectures. And yet there are people
who will go on serving the devil at starvation
wages when the service of God brings such fat
stipem.*.— Marlborough Time .
Some Lincoln gentlemen have disagreed as to
the rel ative merits of their babies, and will sub
mit the matter to arbitration. The umpire of a
base liall game will begin to think that he leads
a secure and iieaeeful life when he sees the refer.s'
of this baby show dodging the parents whose
babies got left.— Lincoln Journal.
I wish things was shared out evenor," said
a Cincinnati boy. watching the colored man at
the house opposite washing the sidewalk. His
fond mamma was about to command his sym
path.v with the poor workingmen when’ he
astonished her by adding with emphasis: “Then
we could have a colored man and a hose!”—
The Epoch.
REon.An Customer (disposed to be facetious)
—-Unoss you will have to trust me for the paper
until t j-niorrow.
Clerk—Oh, that's all right, sir.
Customer Hut suppose I was killed between
now aud to-morrow?
Clerk—Well, the loss would not be much, sir.
—Philadelphia Sens.
“All I’ve got to say about the paper is that
the editor is getting terribly dull,” said an old
suliscriher.
"You think the editor is getting dull, do you?”
rejoined the occupant of the splint-bottomed
editorial chair.
"Yes, sir. ! do, most emphatietl'y."
"Well, I'll call up the next scissors grinder
that conics along.”— Merchant Traveler.
Youno Simukins (who is spending his week’s
vacation at a Saratoga hotel)—Waiter, for the
fourth time will you bring me that
Walter Sav. mistah, 1 hain t got no time ter
fool wid you—‘deed I hain t. It's gettill' mighty
late in de season, an' every minute's ob walne
ter me. Ise got all 1 kin do ter tend ter my cash
customers. Now don't bodder me no more an'
I'll be ’sponsible fer yer week’s board.— Tid-
Vita.
A heave VAKHTun full of suds slipped off a
Hester street tire escape tne other afternoon
mid lauded, contents mid all. on the shoulder of
a passing stranger. He picked himself up,
pulled his trousers away from his skin to keep
them from sticking, and remarked to a police
man: "That uin’t so much of a hailstone, but
durned f I ever see 'em come single afore.”
"Where are you from?" asked the odirer
"Brule City, Dakota." was the reply. -Tid
Hits.
"Dio von hear my sermon yesterday?" asked
a Uncom clergyman of one of his congregation.
“No; I'm sorry to say that I didn't go to
church yesterday. What was your sermon
about?"
" Atsmt Joseph going down into Egypt to buy
corn.”
“Well, that may lie all right as a text, but if
Joseph had read the official crop report he’d
have gone to Nebraska for corn”— Sebraska
Stair Journal.
A shrewd and kindly old gentleman, who is
an acute observer of lire, and who phrases the
results of his observation* unil r-Ihs-i ions with
a good deal of mrson -*s, w as recently e insulted
by the anxious mother of one spoiled baby, in
relation to works on pai-entul discipline.
"Can you tell me," she said, "any real good
treatise lor bringing up children? I want the
verv liest."
"The iiest that I know," the old gentleman re
plied succinctly, “Im a family of six." Huston
Courier.
“What’s ihe nationality of t bein'" said a tall
woman with a determined eye. um she isdnied
her lurasol at I lie elephants 111 tbe circus shell
recently cxudiiUsi at Sioux Falls
"Aincmi, mum," replied the man in at ten
dance.
"Awful light colorej for coining from Africa,
is*' ms to me." continued tlie determine*! e)<*d
woman And sec here, y*in in* 1 tell Ilie own
it* of ibis sbnw I Inti I ssv I flunk lliey'iegig a
inl (lily p*N*r kg of camels ail of cm single
humped e a* -■*is otp* When I ,n** !hJv. cash fur
myseli aud 01 ??, lot tbe e illdnsi u> gel it, 1
us.* t i see lollVs biiiiip*i ■ aud leas ban rob
ts'd off of ‘mu round in spots! You >ipt hull ciu
n eat I buy hno.ro hell
PERSONAL.
Ex-Congressman Morrison says the strength
of President Cleveland is constantly growing.
Miss Murfree, the novelist, is staying in
Boston, and is moreover engaged upon a long
novel.
I)r. Johnson once acknowledged that he never
read Milton through until he waa obliged to do
so in compiling his dictionary.
Ex-Gov.Waij.er, of Conr.e 'ticut, is not coming
home from London this month, as anticipated,
but has postponed his trip "until October.
Bessfjier's steel patents have brought him
in $5,385,000 in royalties, besides what he has
realised from sales" of the metal, and his part
ners in the business have made fortunes.
Robert Downing, the actor, is an educated
athlete, and so is his manager, Joseph H. Mack.
They have Inth lieen in practice all summer at
Downing’s Pawtucket summer residence.
Civil Service I Vjmission f.kJObi-rly informed
a Western friend recently that he is
thoroughly sick and tired of politics and
place, and intends to resign and retire to pri
vate life.
Mas. Cleveland never drinks ehami>agne or
any kind of wine. She always drinks apolTinaris
water when at dinner where there is wine. In
fact, she seldom drinks any kind of water except
apollinaris.
The latest spiritualistic wonder is a Mrs. Por
ter, of Cincinnati. She becomes a first-rate me
dium only when blindfolded. Then she Ls ena
bled to tell a subject all abodt his past and pres
ent, and make predictions for the future.
Gov Thayer, of Nebraska, is visiting friends
in Bellingham, Mass. The present is the occa
sion of Gov. Thayer’s first Eastern visit in
twenty years. He went West at the close of the
war a poor young man and now returns a dis
tinguished and honored one.
C'oNsri. Baker reports to the State Depart
ment that Terra del Fuego contains valuable
farming lands, forests and mineral deposits.
The natives are athletic and comparatively in
telligent. The Argentine government is prepar
ing to colonize and develop the islands.
A telegram to the Baltimore American, from
Norfolk, says: ”Itis staled, upon what seems to
lie good authority, that ex-Gov. Jarvis, of North
Carolina, our .Minister to Brazil, w ill soon resign
his position and return home. It is surmised
that he will take an active part in the political
canvass next year, having in view the position of
United States Senator, to succeed Senator Ran
som.
Justice Benjamin D. Magruder, who deliv
ered the opinion of the Supreme Court of Illi
nois, in the Anarchists’ case, and has thereby
linked his name with one of the greatest cases
of history, is e. Memphis, Tenn., man. He went
to Chicago about the beginning of the war. and
has risen by force of modest merit, untiring in
dustry and great ability to the highest honors
in his profession
Near Invermark, on laird Dalhousie’s estate,
a fountain was some years ago erected to com
memorate a visit iiu to the place by the Queen.
It bears this ineription, in gold letters. ’’Rest,
stranger, on this lovely scene, ami drink and
pray lor Scotland’s Queen—Victoria.” A High
lander was shocked one morning to read the
following addenda, traced in a bold hand, sug
gestive of the London tourist, immediately un
derneath theorigiual: “We'll pray for Queen
Victoria here, but go and dritiU her health in
beer.”
Her Bathing- Dress.
From the Judge.
’Twas not in love with her I fell,
Although I know I liked her well
And thought her costumes very swell,
And bounds stunning.
'Twas that delicious bathing dress
That wrapped her form in fond caress.
And clung about her loveliness
With careful cunning!
’Twas such a charming, clue affair,
With satin knottiugs here and there,
And glimpses swift of laces rare,
In damp confusion:
A symphony in bright maroon,
Begun so slow, and stopped so soon,
A sweet 6ong to a perfect tune—
A dream illusion.
Her white arms gleamed beneath the lace.
Her wind-tossed curls blew ’round her face,
While folded in the foam’s embrace
She looked upon me.
Her laughing eyes were shining bright,
Her dimpled hands were flashing white,
And, mid the breakers left and right,
She smiled and won me!
I helped her o’er the shell-strewn sand.
Across the yielding, wave-fiecked strand,
And pressed her dripping dimpled hand;
She tried to scold me!
An effort bold at last 1 made.
While sea-foam on her tresses played—
-1 whispered, “Is it tailor made?”
And so she told me!
A Ride Down a Flume.
From the Chico {Cal.) Enterprise.
A. G. Mason left the mills at 12 o'clock yester
day on a raft in the flume for a ride to Chico
He expected to make the trip in three and a half
hours, but met with several thrilling mishaps
that delayed him until after dark and effectually
cured him for a ratt ride to Chico. The ride for
the first fifteen miles was novel and grand—
scenery as magnificent as any in the Sierra Ne
vadan But when the raft struck the deep
canons ami mountain gorges, with the flume
stretched along looking like a silvery thread
from the bottom, the ride began to take on dan
gers, for the lumber that had been shipned in
the morning was here met with, and the
real trouble commenced. In one of the
deep cuts the V-box ran on to a board,
up-ending the ratt and throwing Bert
high in the air. In falling he grasped a small
board naile 1 to the flume and hung suspended
fifty feet from the bottom of the canon. Bert,
having tot one ami. found himself in a danger
ous position, and, to add to his horror, the board
he was hanging to began to break. About
twenty feet below him was a small platform
between the joists, so, just ns the board gave
way, Bert swung out, let go his hold aud dropped.
He struck tin* platform, but the rebound threw
him thirty feet to the bottom of the canon,
striking on his shoulder and the side of his face.
He was stunned for a moment, but when he
cmne to he hurried down the flume and caught
the raft. When twelve miles from Chico he
was again thrown, but this time be struck in tne
flume, with a narrow escape from drowning. Ilis
hat was lost and he was wet through As soon
as he got out Bert concluded that he did not
want any more raft riding, and walked the re
maining twelve miles to town, arriving at 7:30
o’clock.
The Conductor Was a Bad Man.
From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Three toughs and a big Newfoundland dog
were knocked out by a Fifth avenue street car
driver yesterday in less time than it took Sulli
van to whip Baddy Ryan. The only spec
tators were are a car full of w mien, who were
too badly scared to be interested iu the tight.
At the foot of Soho street the rowdies stopped
the car and wanted to pile themselves and the
dog on the front platform, but the driver said
that there was not room for so many beasts
there, and refused to permit the dog to stav
unless 10c. was paid for iis fare. .Just then the
conductor said something from the rear end of
the car that the fellows did not like, whereupon
they and the Newfoundland ,dog got off and
went around to the rear platform to talk busi
ness with him. lie was ready for them.
•'You can't put that dog in this car at any
price." said the conductor.
"Wliat der yer soy, Kouuy?" said the burliest
nifiian, eooly getting upon the car anil drag
ging the dog after him, while the other two
toughs got on the other step. The conductor
quietly csmntod three for b!v objectionable pas
sengers to get off. They glared and swore at
him. Then lie hit, the biggest, one in t te neck
with Ids left flat, and that individual turned two
somersaults and alighted on the broad of liis
back on the pavement Then the second tough
got it in the mouth, and he tumbled off. Tue
third one fell off from fright, and the dog was
kicked off. Then the car moved on the same as
usual, and the conductor remarked to the old
lady silting in the rear *of the car that the day
wa rather hot for September weather, aud
hoped that the mosquitoes would soon be killed
by the frost.
Success of the Fair Insured.
From the Ihnghamton fiepubliran.
President of Association- I think our agricul
tural fair will is* an iinpnssvletited success this
year The out look was never so favorable.
Horny bunded Yeoman But com Is lilt by
the frost, wheat struck by the blight, there ain't
no punktiiK, no potatoes to spe ic of, sps*k is
diseased and everylssly Is clean discouraged
.My dear air. you don't understand the sitna
lion These [l ilies can never interfere vt Ith the
success of an agricultural fair
"Welds* not, 'Kipdre 'nicy used to thirty
years ago, howsoinever "
Ah. y**,; a slow age that, old fellow Hut we
know u trick worth two of our grandfathers'.
tfl I leil you the fair will be an unbounded
Mi* ttHh *'
"Is feme you know, of courts; but w lust's to
make ft sor‘
I have just received notice that throe candl
'late, fin 1 Governor wN Is* there never* i soilt
dates for the Assembly, four with Prestdenthtl
lew* in tdeir hats, thirteen would Is* t ’*argrwss
Lieu I* *, le> a couple of doaen mini Me rigger s
so sj iny of faro dealers, e**sp fshirs sub wheels
irf fortune without and. Oh. Ith te.und to tie a
glorious so* xwas "
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
One of Germany's famoip military hands will
soon make a tour of Englaid.
Mrs. John W. Mackay is having a cloak made
from the breasts of birds of paradise. These
cost 30 shillings each, and a nut 500 birds will
be necessary.
A statue of the Swiss naturalist De Saussure,
who was the first to ascend Mont Blanc, was un
veiled at Chamouuix on Aug. 43, the 100th anni
vei-sary of that event.
Two women at Beaver Creek, Ore., became
incensed at a neighbor and caught his two dogs
and saturated thorn with coal oil and then set
the oil on fire, literally roasting them alive.
James Murphy, of Louisville, Ky., was ar
rested the other day for an offense that is sel
dom committed, even by the most depraved—
that of 1 (eating his wife with his wooden leg.
The Japanese have a legend that fish are the
embodiment of the souls of naval officers, and
thp African negroes believe that magicians as
sume the sbaix! of fish and come to their nets to
work evil.
Last year Warsaw University contained 1,110
students. 174 of these beiug Jews. This year
there are 1,450 students, tut the recent law re
duces the number of Jews to 10 per cent, of the
totAi, or 145.
The libretto of Auber’s opera, “La Reine d’un
Sour,’’ which is no longer performed, has within
the last few years been appropriated by three
other operatic composers, Ignaz. Brail, Kremser
and Forster.
Dexter IVilcox, of Union City, Mich., owns a
cucumber vine that Ls sixty-five feet long, bears
several cucumbers from three to four and a half
feet long, and doesn’t seem to be half through
growing yet.
Strkwberhies are said to be particularly
wholesome as a corrective of the condition pro
duced by malarial disease. The white of an egg
contains as much food as twelve pounds of
strawberries.
The Suez canal cost less than $100,000,000.
Two hundred and seventy-five millions of dol
lars has been expended upon the Panama canal,
and the prospect is that the project will have to
be abandoned.
The bouse in which Payne attempted to mur
der Secretary Seward at the time of Lincoln's
assassination Ls now offered for sale It has
long been used us the headquarters of the com
missary-general.
T. E. Rudd was placed under a $2,000 bond at
Martin, Tenn., recently, to answer the charge of
assaulting Miss Adams. The examination of
the accused was held in the opera house, and sc.
admission was charged.
The first bread was made by the Greeks, and
the first windmills by the Saracens. Turnpikes
were originated in 1487, the sum of one penny
having to be paid for each wagon passing
through a certain manor.
Gen. George A. Sheridan, who is how making
a livelihood lecturing on Col. Ingersoll, once had
a bank account which showed S7SO,(XX) of favor
able balance. He put $400,000 in Chicago real
estate and lost it by the great fire.
A farmer near Harrisburg, Pa., raised thirty
two watermelons this year and he has had to
shoot salt into the legs of *iven different boys to
keep the melons at home. His lawyers’ fees
and court costs have been $406 up to date.
“Joe" Andrews, the San Francisco diamond
collector, wears a $15,000 cluster of diamonds on
hLs necktie, surrounding a $15,000 opal. He
wears a $15,000 single diamond un h:s finger,
and in his pocket he carries the finest opal in
the world, for which he has refused Sla.Ouo.
In the middle of August there were in the
eighty hotels of the Swiss Canton of Orisons
about 5,500 foreigners, of whom 4,500 were Ger
mans, 1.050 Englishmen, 710 Italians, 400 French
men. 370 Americans, 240 Austrians and 1(10 in
habitants of other continents. The number of
Swiss guests was 1,200.
A series of revival meetings in Franklin
county, Arkansas, have been broken up by a big
panther that has taken to prowling in the
neighborhood after dark. What put an entire
stop to the good work was the finding ofaman's
shoe near one of the brute s haunts and a piece
of a shirt hanging in the fork of a neighboring
tree.
While a trainload of excursionists from Los
Angeles, Cal., was spending the day at Port
Fallona a swordfish, fifteen foot long, ventured
within the line of breakers and was thrown up
on the sand. Within a few minutes the excur
sionists had carved up the big dish with their
pocket-knives, and they all carried a supply of
swordfish steak back to town with them.
According to the Berlin Tagliche Rundschau.
bills of fare date from the Diet of Katisboii, in
1541, when the Duke of Brunswick astonished
his neighbor at the table. Count Hugo de Mont
■fort. by frequently consulting a long list, on
which the cook had enumerated “all tne dishes
and viands for the benefit of his Highness, so
that be might regulate l.is appetite and save it
for the best courses.”
The result of the survey and test census of
India are that the area of the peninsula of Hin
doostan is 1,382,524 square miles and the popu
lation 453,891.821. Although immense tracts of
country are annually cultivated, according to
the most recent survey 10.00.),000 acres of land
suitable for cull i vat ion. have not as yet beeu
plowed. At the same time 120,000,000 of acres
are returned as waste land.
According to Mr Holyoke the outlook of the
industrial class fifty years ago was as dreary as
Siberia. Food was scarce. The English race
was thin. Ever girls had an ill-favored look—
liecause underfed. In a few years after the re
peal of the coni laws every I.OpO.COJ of adult
persons in England weighed 12,000 tons heavier
than they did before the repeal, and the yonng
people had grown ten times comelier than they
were.
The North Bucks Liberal Brotherhood has be
gun the attempt of co-operative farming. Sev
enty-two acres belonging to Kir Harry Verney,
have been leased at lit shillings per acre, and,
after being cut up into small lots, sold at auc
tion to the members, the excess of price over 19
shillings to go to the general fund. Each ten
ant farms his own lot, and the co-operative fea
ture consists in the ownership in common of
implements, horses, barns, aud thrashing-floors.
German papers relate, that the singer, Marie
Fullo, who recently died in St. Petersburg, left
diamonds valued at 1-jO.OOO f. to the eld st
son of the Czar. She stated in her wilt that she
selected him because she had received Ihe
diamonds from a near relative of his. and knew
of no one better entitled to them than tie heir
presumptive of the Russian Crown. It is said
that the young Grand Duke Nicholas intends
to turn the diamonds over to several religious
institutions.
The other evening George Trumpler's little
boy at Little Rock. Ark., less than 3 years of
age, went to his mother and asked her if he
could kill a biig that was out in the hall. Mrs.
Triimpler, supposing the bug to boa roach,
gave the little man permission to kill it. He
ran out, picked up some rocks, and did kill it,
but his mother was horrifled when the little
hero walked iu holding by the leg a huge taran
tula: Before getting the rocks the child had
several t imes picked the spider up and thrown
it against the floor.
The disaster of the Opera Comtque and the
recent appalling calamity at Exeter, have
awakened the authorities throughout Italy to
the necessity of providing for the safety of the
theatre-going public. At (tenon the Prefect or
dered some alterations to be at once executed
iu the two principal theatre*, and two others
wen* Hosed The authorities at Florence have
issued an order that within a year all theatres
must be illuminated by electric light. At Bo
logna, Paduu, and other places, similar precau
tions have been taken.
They are digging for foundations of the ele
vated railroad on the made ground at the foot
of Fulton street. Brooklyn. Just in front of
the Annex ferry house is a hole which has his
toricnl interest At a depth of two feet a brick
pavement was reached, resting immediately
u|ioii a layer of cobble-stones. This was the
grade of Fulton ntreet at that point twenty
three years ago. when turn table, were used bo
I reverse the street curs. Four feet below the
j surface is a pavement of rough round stones,
) /ui l Inin wHh iii iiM* fifty ytNirs when the <>|<i
l mump Urn taftltetl Hi,,re. Kiftlit fwt down In
d W|; black Mtrafum. niiowfutf the hitch water
I mark of the old lauding used iu colonial times.
Peter ne Ynmo served on the jury that eon-
I vl‘‘l***l the County ('oininlHElmiers In Chicago a
; tew Week* ago. Before he was drawn to serve
on this Jury In* wan s lorekee|**r In one of the
dims, m Bolin,n Aft -r the (rial he found mi
other man in Ins old place si the shop*, n d lie
was assigned to a less lucrative place ||e „■>. ,
In* has been shifted from on** place to HIM It leer
always going lower, until In* ha Uveti coniisdlcij i
Pi quit tlie sliolM, and lie luc* asked Htale *, I
tunn y Griunell f*, assl-d Into to , inl y I
I inetil |MI Vising says he does not charge the I
i.m.ver# Ml He company with two lug anything
Pi *li. with bis pour luck, tail In* says liail 2
***** <'*l Wm la* nX,great 1
misuse tu not aat mug by voting p. au- 1
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