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4 C|tponting lottos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1087. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count, at 85 cents a week. Si 00 a month, $5 00 lor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six ttmes a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, $2 00; six months. $4 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, thr*e months, $1 25; six months. $2 50: one* year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail , one year. $2 00 _ The Weekly News, by mail , one year, $1 85. Subscriptions payable In advance. Remit by |>ostal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advert ising rates tnay be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Tefmple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah. Oa." Advertising rates made known on application. Index to' new advertisements. Meeti NOß—Savannah Typographical Union, • Ne. 183; Workingmen's Union. Special Notices- Madame Ohastenet's Select Girls’School; Bills Against British Brigantine Edina; Dr. Geo. C. Hummel’s Removal. Auction and General Commission Merchants —Marshall & Molded Opening of the Fall Season, 1887—Krous koff's Millinery House. Cheap Column Advertisements Employ ment Wanted; For Rent; Lost; Boarding; Found: Miscellaneous. Timothy Hay—P. R. Kennedy. Potatoes —C. M. Gilbert A Cos. Educational— School for Boys, Oglethoriie Barracks. Sell Lowest— Lovell & Lattimore. Our Stationery Department— L. & B. S. M. H. Auction Sales— Furniture, by J. McLaughlin & Son; New Furniture, Stoves, etc, by D. R. Kennedy. Having wrecked various railroads and telegraphs, Jay Gould is to now try his hand on a steamship line. He has gaiuod control of the Pacific Mail. The fight among the New Jersey Demo crats may interest and amuse themselves, but to Democrats of other States, who care nothing about their local squabbles, it is not at all amusing. New Jersey Democrats have no strength to waste. The record made by the courts in New York and Chicago of late is enough to in spire hope for the future of the country in the most despondent. Everything is not bad when a millionaire like Sharp cannot save himself from a felon’s cell. Robert Garrett is said to be in high spirits and to “feel himself the coming win ner.” What he expects to win is not stated, but he had better stay in Europe and let railroad management alone. He is about the most conspicuous failure in that busi ness developed in recent years. The last man named as the probable Re publican candidate for President is Senator elect Hiscock. His boom so far is very small, being confined to the county of his residence, but it may grow. Republicans who believe in luck may remember that their last successful candidate had just been elected to the Senate. Attempts by women to smugglo finery through the New York cus nm house were never so numerous, or else the customs ser vice is much better than it ever was. The seizures of laces, silks, etc., sometimes amount to as much as SB,OOO or SIO,OOO in a single day. Collector Magone is evidently attending strictly to business. The Old Brick Church in Boston paid the Harvard church SI,OOO for the release of Rev. Mr. Emerson, father of the great es sayist, from his contract with it. How does this compare with the SIO,OOO paid by Boston for the base ball player Kelly? Really, Boston seems to be about on a level with the rest of this wicked world. Queen Victoria is said to be suffering from such a depression of spirits, approach ing morbid melancholia, that she can bear the society of only one person, u favorite maid of honor. If the Queen's mind should become unbalanced, as did her grand father’s, another troublesome element would be added to the politics of England, already so chaotic. The New York Herald is displaying its spite in a way not very creditable to it. Scattered over its editorial page are para graphs advocating for Vice President Bal lard Smith, the representative of the World who wrote the famous interview with the President two weeks ago. The Herald, is too great a ixiper to display its jealousy of a rival in this way. Secretary Fairchild has not decided upon the Treasury's policy after Oct. 8, the date when the offer to purchase $11,000,000- of bonds expires. It is probable, however, that even should the time lie oxtended no great amount of bonds will lie tendered. The knowledge that the government stands ready to help in a crisis seems to be all that is necessary to make money plenty. The Philadelphia syndicate to manu facture gas for fuel has succeeded in pur chasing one of the existing ga-s plants and will begin business as soon as possible. It is now announced that by the new process 00,000 feet of gas can lie obtained cheaply from one ton of coal or coal dust. As the djust can be obtained almost for the cost of hauling it, the discovery is one of vast im portance. Kieman'x Wall Street Summary of Sept. 36, says: “Money brokers say funds are easier. The railroad companies, in cluding the Illinois Central, St. Paul, Northwestern and Union Pacific, are loan ing round sums on the street.” This is not | the first appearance of railroad companies i in the money markets in the capacity of I lenders, but it illustrates the closeness with which their business must be run nowadays to make dividends. Every means of profit must be utilized. A report by the appraisers of th assets of the wrecked Columbian Bank, of Phil ! adelphia, shows that a very large part j of the worthless [iaj>er was given ! by officers and directors for loan to themselves, some of it being noml | pally secured by stock of the hank itself, when they must have known that it was sb j aoltitoiy worthless. It was merely s dishoii : •st trick to save themselves from losing , west they had paid for the stock ; and like all other dishonest tricks, ought to b# put) tebod by a fan iu in tits penitentiary. The State Road. The Iyouisvillo and Nashville railroad owns a majority of the shares of the West ern and Atlantic Railroad Company, the lessees of the State road. The President of that company, Senator Brown, is said to be only a dummy stockholder, the one-eighth of n share standing on the books in his name really belonging to other parties. He there fore has no other interest in the lease than the salary which is paid him for his services. The salary is a large one, but it cannot be doubted that he is worth all of it to his associates. No other man could fill his place so well. It is probable that he has learned a good deal about railroad management since he was elected President of the road, as a man of his deal - mind and close observation could not fail to do; but it has been in another field than the management of the railroad’s business affairs that his services have been of most value. He has had to manage politicians and spoilsmen, and possibly some newspapers, and nothing but his steady hand and shrewd judgment has saved the lease from hostile legislation, or, perhaps, from abrogation. It has been as a politician rather than as a business man, that he has earned his salary. Senator Brown is a great power in Geor gia, and the manner in which his power will lie exercised in closing up the existing contract between the State and the lessees is a matter of great interest to the people. Personally, perhaps, he cares very little whether the State road is sold or not, but he will not be true to his record, nor to his duty, iierhaps, if he does not get every cent out of the State Treasury that he can in the payment for betterments and other claims for the benefit of the lessees. If the State road is sold, and the proba bility is that it will be, there ought to lie lively competition between the great South- ern lines for it. It is certainly to the State’s interest that there should be. It is not to be presumed that any astute legislators will propose to rule out certain bidders, as was the case in the sale of the old Macon and Brunswick. The wisdom learned from experience in that transaction will probably lead to an unani mous endeavor to secure all the competition possible between those who desire to buy the State’s property. The Louisville anil Nashville, which has for so long a time controlled the State road, and with which Senator Brown may be said to lie identified, will in all probability be one of the most eager bidders for the road should it be sold. On the determination by the Louisville and Nashville directors of the question whether a sale of the State road would be advan tageous to them, it is fair to infer, depends in a considerable degree the decision of the question whether it shall be sold. Those di rectors may decide that their treasury is not in condition to make such a purchase, or that they would stand a better chance for a profitable arrangement if the road were to be again leased. To whatever decision they may come, if Senator Brown gives them his political influence, it will probably settle the fate of the State road. The Senator’s influence is not omnipotent, of course, but past events have shown that if he goes earnestly to work, either in favor of or in opposition to the proposi tion to sell the property, it will prove a deciding factor. Senator Brown is one of the best living exponents of practical poli tics, and would probably see nothing wrong in such use of the power given him by a clear head, a great fortune, and the opjmr tunities of a long and singularly successful political career. If a sale is decided upon, however, it is to be hoped that a clear field will be made for all who want the property. In that event other interests may prove strong enough to wrest the prize from those which now con trol it. The Palatka (Fla.) Hews complains be cause tie Savannah Morning News reprints without credit in its State news columns small items taken from its exchanges. It is the policy of the Morning News to thoroughly cover the happenings in its territory, and to that end it picks up news matter wherever it can find it. Once news matter is circulated in the prints it becomes public property. It does not require great genius to oompilo the class of matter reprinted from the Palatka News, and that its items should tie altered to suit the columns of this paper, and used, would not worry any writer save one who liko the mountain labors, to bring forth a mouse. Exchanges help themselves to the matter in the columns of the News with out credit, a few alterations making it pos sible foi them G> run the matter in letter journalistic style than they could do by using the clumsy credit line. They are welcome hi do so, and the Morning News will pursue the same policy when it istoits convenience, and enables it to present its matter in more readable shape. The movement among liquor men to pro tect t heir business by organization has taken. a now form in Pennsylvania. The whole sale dealers have formed an association and are using the boycott Hs a means of forcing those who do not wish to do so to join it. A large assessment will lie paid by each mem lie.-, and though the purjiose for which the fund will be used is not declared, it is thought it will lie put where it will do the most good in preventing legislation hostile to the liquor interests. The field ojien to women grows larger. Miss P turbo W. Couzins has just been ap pointed United States Marshal of the St. Ijouis district, to succeed her deceased father. The appointment was made by Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, and is only nd interim, but it ostab lishos a precedent of which the women suf fragists will no doubt be proud. Miss Couzins seems to havo lioeu the person best suited for the place, having practically hod charge of her father’s office for some time. The movement inaugurated at. Gettys burg, when the Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett’s Division met for the second time, to erect a monument, ou that field to Ameri can heroism, has not lx>en allowed to stop. A considerable sum lias been contributed for the purpose and committees ap|Miintrd to carry the idea into effect. When ereobsi it will bo the most notable of the many monuments on the field, even though it should be the smallest. The oft-repealed story that at the famous Oak View conferences the out lines of a tariff bill were agreed upon, is now dented. The real purpose of the conferences wsc t lut the Pnsidsnt might have the ml vice of the leaders of his party in the preparation of the clause in his niumag.- In reference to the reduction of taxation, lie wishes to go as far ia bis renoui msudstio us as ha can with propriety, but the duty of framing tbs law rests with Congress. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1887. Improve the Streets. I The season is now at hand when improve ments can lie made in thiscity without being hampered by the jieculiar regulations of our sanitary system. , If any public or pri vate improvements are in contemplation, now is the time to get them into shape. There is one question of public interest that the people are unanimous upon, and that is the necessity of better thorough fares. Some well devised system of paving the streets should be speedily settled upon to meet this popular demand. But few jieoplo in Bavannah keep vehicles for their private use, because there is no pleasure iu sitting in a carriage drawn by straining horses through deep waste* of sand. It is the very opposite of pleasant; it is painful. For this reason our people prefer dependence on street cars or the few public vehicles. But if the streets were properly paved there would be a large increase in the number of horses and carriages kept by our citizens for their own pleasure, and thus the revenues of the city would benefit by the addition of a con siderable amount of property subject to taxation at a high rate. The Morning News has so often re ferred to the subject of street paving, that in recurring to It again it runs a risk of be ing tedious. Its excuse is the importance it attaches to the subject. It was the Morn ing News which suggested the widening of sidewalks, that the sand area of the streets might bo reduced. The plan was accepted, and years ago an ordinance to carry it into effect was passed by the City Council. Where the plan has Ixsen tried, it has done much good. The Morning News also advocated the Broughton street asphalt pavement, and after a very tough light had the pleasure of seeing that street paved for a part of its length. That the result has justified its advocacy of the project will hardly be denied liy any one. Some weeks ago it was suggested, as a means of lessening the sand area, and there fore the cost of paving, that grass plats lie made on the sides or in the middle of cer tain streets. This plan has been adopted with great success in some of the Northern and Western citios, and we might, profit by their experience. The streets of no city in the Union are bet ter adapted to such a plan of improvement than those of Savannah, and if it is carried into effect intelligently it will change dis figuring wastes of sand to trim lawns of grass that will add greatly to the city’s beauty and attractiveness. What is wanted is a system of paving that will be complete and which at the same time will not bear too heavily on tax able values, and the plan above referred to seems to meet those conditions. Alderman Thomas has the confidence of the community, and has done well as far as he has gone; but he is capable of doing a great deal more, and the jieople want him to do it. He and his colleagues need not hesi tate in the matter of public improvements, especially in the matter of bettering our thoroughfares, of which every citizen sees the necessity. There will be but little if any objection,from any quarter, to wise ex lienditures to that end. Making the city attractive in appearance and comfortable to live in is the best way to add to its material wealth, by increasing its jiopulation. The people who would be attracted to Savannah by the kind of im provements suggested would be of the very class which would add most to the prosper ity of people already here—namely, people of means, accustomed to the comforts and convoniencies of Northern cities, who de sire to escape the rigors of the winters of that region. Cotton in Japan. United States Consul Jaruigan has made an interesting report on the growth and manufacture of cotton in Japan. From his statement it appears that the industry is by no means anew one, its introduction ante dating the discovery of America by several hundred years, though it was subsequently abandoned and not again resumed until the sixteenth century. The cotton plant is said to have been brought to Japan originally from India, and like the staple now grown in that country, the Japanese production is much inferior to American cotton. The amount produced, however, is con siderable —134,688,300 pounds in 1884, the last year for which a report is made. This is a smaller amount than was raised several years ago by many million pounds. The importation of cotton from China, however, is very large, amount ing to five times as much as is produced at home. There are in the country about twenty prosperous spinning mills, and iheir number is increasing. The cotton of Japan and China lieing entirely consumed at home, they are not often referred to as cotton growing countries. It will be seen, how ever, that their production is considerable. A correspondent suggests in another col umn that the troublesome convict question tie settled by putting the men to work in State-owned quarries. The idea is perhaps a good one. At any rate, it is worth putting before the people for them to think ab jut. There.are two points, however, which our correspondent seems to have overlooked. '6)io contracts of the IS late with the lessees uro still in full force, and should the Chatta nooga property be sold its proceeds must be applied to the debt. Mr. Kennedy, who is trying to have Rev. Mr. Warren sent back to England because he came to this country under contract to preach at the Holy Trinity church, New York, seems to bo in earnest. He has em ployed a lawyer, a-id will push the case be fore the United States courts. He will not succeed iu sending Mr. Warren back, but he may succeed in attracting attention to a law which does very little good, and may be used to work great hardships. Tho strictest quarantine, according to the New York view of the matter, doesn’t seoni to amount to much. It now turns out that an Italian fruit vender from Brooklyn has visited the cholera stricken steamer Alesia twice every day, returning after every trip to his store in a crowded section of the city. Such carelessness os this may cost thousands ui jieople their lives, and should lie severely punished. The matron of a church home for little children in New York has discovered anew way to keep them quiet and save herself trouble. It is to make the children stupidly An investigating committee found several in that condition lying on the floor. The woman can hardly is- punished severely enough to expiute tier crime. I'lieuuiatle tuts* am the latest fail of •rchlUN'fai. Now they are mainly used for stusilmg letters and |*|M*rs to the iqiper stories, but stem we shall have them j*r fi'G| to the extent of doing away with the •isvslar. CURRENT COMMENT. The South Can Spare the Missionaries Needed. FVom the Boston J'ranseript (Rev). Ohio is pretty good missionary ground yet for those who insist that colored anil white children should lie taught together in public schools. A Valuable Suggestion. Prom the Chicago News ( Dem ). The national government intends to make an analysis of the various kinds of beer manu factured in this country. If it could also gather up living specimens representing the effect of each variety of the brewers' product on con sumers it would have something really valuable for comparison and study. Grant and Lincoln as Candidates. Prom the ftoston Globe (Bern). However much the people may reverence the names of Lincoln and Grant, the general ver diet will lie that their sons must take their chances for popular favors on rheir personal merits alone, as did Iheir fathers. Trie level headed genius of Democracy cannot be led far with reflected light, the mere inheritance of a lustrous name. BRIGHT BITS. They strolled along through the wood together, A manly youth and a maiden fair, Gathering leaves, in the autumn weather, Tinted with colors most rich and rare. He said; "You are much like the autumn leaves. With your cheeks of red and your hair of gold: And your heart, the frost that the leaf receives Ere its hues are seen, for your heart is cold." The maiden answered: "It may be so; You’ve known me long and, perhaps, know best. But the frozen leaf soon thaws, you know, After ’tis gathered and properly pressed.” —Boston Courier. Sam Jones told the Baltimore people that they were a "silly crowd,” and they paid him $l5O a night and proved the statement true.—Hartford Post. Chicaoo consumes 10,000 pies every day for breakfast. This Is the only kind of "early piety” known in that city .—Burlington Free Press. There is likely to be another Insurrection at the Maine State College The limit of one piece of pie. has been set at the boarding-house.— Lewistim (Me) Journal. Pat—Moike, th’ tells me as yez have quit worrukin’ in the powder factory. Was it too dangerous? Mike -Dangerous? AVell.be gob! T believe if I had worruked there till now I’d be’n dead a year ago.— Life. English waiter (contemplating emigration) to American tourist—And ’ave you any otel tips over there? American (enthasiastically)—Hotel tips? You bet! You should just see a cyclone tipping a Western hotel.—Boston Courier. Peddler—l'd like to show my stock of laces, ribbons, and—” Domestic —Dont’ want none o’ y’r truck. Peddler—l did not expect to sell to you, maduui; you have plenty of time for shopping. The one I wish to see is the lady. Domestic—Come in. I ll Ink at 'em .-Tid-Bits. Cause of Emotion— Omaha Man -The paper says seven brides in different parts of the coun try have died of excitement and emotion at the altar. Wife—Shouldn’t wonder. It is remarkable that so many women live through the ceremony. "I don’t see why they shouldn’t.” “Humph! That shows all you know about dresses.’— Omaha World. A little girl, daughter of a well-known com mercial traveler of the city, was walking down street with her mother. She left her mother’s side and went out some distance from the edge of the sidewalk, walking along in danger of be ing run over. “Come back," said the mother. “You should walk on the sidewalk." “No,” said the little one, "I’m going out on the road like my papa.”— Toronto Globe. “My boy,” said an aged tailor to his son, a young man who was about to go West to make his fortune, “I have given you a good start along the seam of life. It depends on you to keep at it with A strong and even stitch. And don’t forget to fasten off your work with a knot at the end of the suam.” That youth never forgot his father's admonition. He was hanged in Arizona three years afterward for stealing a horse.— Chicago Tribune. Very Fair.—“ How are the times, Uncle Jerry ?” he asked of an old colored whitewasher on the market yesterday. "Very fa’r. Sir—very t'a’r.” "Then your Business is rushing, eh?" “Seems to be, sail. My wife has aimed ober fo’ dollars at washin’ dis week, an’ de chill’en has picked up a suit of clothes an’ a basket of vittles. 1 can’t complain, sah—can't com plain.”—Detro.t Free Press. PERSONAL. The Queen of Sweden is slowly dying.* Her majesty is !i'l years of age. Mr. Phelps,4he American Minister, is visit ing Lord Aberdeen at Haddo House. Wilson Barrett's lease of the Globe Theatre, London, is for a period of seven years. Wayne MacVeaqh was n passenger on the steamer Umbria, which discharged her comple ment safely in New York on Saturday. A ribald Paris correspondent cables to the New York World that Sarah Bernhardt has written a play called "The Pin,” in which she is to appear in the title role. Sidney Morsf.. the Boston sculptor, who has been at work for several weeks on a a statuette of President Cleveland, lias just completed the model and has had the first cast made. Buck Tayloh. the King of the Cowboys, has sufficiently recovered from his late accident to ride again, much to the delight of the Hon William Cody and his aristocratic London friends. Manuel Barriant and wife, of Matamoras, 111., recently celebrated the eightieth anniver sary of their wedding day. The husband is in the best of health at lOi), and his wife enjoys the same blessing at 90. The Vanderbilt holdings of United States bonds, the brokers say, are all registered 1 per cents, and amount to $40,000,00!). The late William II Vanderbilt s original purchase was $50,000,000 worth at par. Prince Charles of Sweden, the third son of the King, is one of the handsomest men in Europe lie is a manly fellow as well, a daring horseman, highly accoriiphshed, and an author of vigorous and polished style. Mrs. Cleveland is reported as saying that she would never sit for a photograph again while she remained mistress of the White lloina* Some of ttie prints used as tobacco sign'mre said to be the cause of her taking this resolution. Gen. Lucies I’. Fairchild, thocommander-in chief of me Grand Army of the Republic, will lie presented with a valuable diamond souvenir at the reunion in St. Louis. The presentation will lie made by the new commander to be se lected at the meeting. Prince Christian Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria, la undoubtedly the best cricketer that the British royal family has hitherto produced, and lie was quite deserving of his place iu the I Zingari eleven that played the "Gentlemen" at Scarborough during last week. Horace Allen, a grand-nephew of Ethan A1 len, and a mall HI years old. has just arrived iu Albany from his home in Delaware, O. This does not seem to be an extraordinary fact until one understands that he made the journey of H7S miles on foot and pushing a wheelbarrow. Senator Vance didn't go to Europe with the other globe-trotters. Not lieing able to afford such a trip he went straight to his borne at the foot of the Great Black mountain in North Carolina sud remained there ever since. Dur ing the summer he ha* kept his feuees in repair and learned to play at least a dozen new airs on the violin. Francis Joseph, Enqieror of Austria and King of Hungary, tins more royal titles than any other Eu, o)iean sovereign. Hr is King of seven countries or provinces, grand Prince of one, Prince or Margrave of several others ami Archduke, Grand Duke and Duke of half a dozen more. F Marion Crawford, the novelist and poet of Philadelphia's recent centennial, is a man of many aocomplisliuientN besides his lirerary gifts, lie is a goml musician, being able 10 ac company Ids own songs on either piano or guitar lie Is a rare linguist and an athlete of acknowledged power. The Sultan of Morocco is a tall man of about 4?> years of age. In complexion he is very dark, black blood allowing Itself very plainly in Ills thick lljm, thougn tnis iUsw not preiimt his tiring an exceedingly handsome man His lace Is thin and took* worn. He wears a black beard and inousiachii ami dresses entirely In white Max • i’Kell's real name ia Paul Blouet He wear* a single rvegl las and ia a lypi. nl French loan. 41* y-urs old, a lininette. with bright Hjan. has eyes and a llieljr engaging mauuei lie J 1 “Is s England bv a French standard: (sit al Juifamid" 7 '' m> **** vlaa.ll j Love and Misery. From the Paris Morning News. Avery sad ending tor two young lives is re ported. M. Julian P , a lieutenant of hussars, fell in love with a young girl. As she had not the regulation dowry, he could not marry her and hold the commission. He left the army and married. The young couple came to Paris, j and the husband obtained a situation at 150?. per month. Together they struggled on, till the poor young wife fell ill. The monthly pittance would not pay for the food and medicines necessary for her. The husband got into debt, and his credit was stopped. Finally he found himself confronted with the alternative of see ing iiis beloved wife die of starvation, or of stealing the milk that alone could keep her alive. He stole the milk. Arrested, and taken liefore a police magistrate, the latter had pity on him and let him go. He returned to his wife's bedside, only in time to receive her last sigh. He determined not to survive her, and in a few moments lay dead by her side, having blown out his brains. A Queer Colorado Wedding’. From the teadvtlte Democrat. On the arrival of the Salt Lake express at Salida an aged-looking man of dissipated, ap pearance, accompanied by a handsome young woman, stepped from the train, and, repairing to the Monte Christo hotel, requested that a minister lie summoned, as they desired to lie married. This was complied with, and soon the twain were made one. The newly married wife retired to the privacy of the chamber which had been assigned the couple. Not so, however, with the husband. II proceeded to iill up on whisky. On returning to the hotel the man actually forgot thatbe had lieen married. He went up Into the parlor and sank into a drtmkeu slum ber sofa, entirely forgetting that his young wife was in an agonizing suspense on ac count of his not returning. Next morning when she learned the true state of affairs she paid the hotel bill anil left the town in disgust, before her lately made husband was awake. Horace Greeley’s Humor. From Rare Bits. Mr. Greeley's humor was of a peculiar sort, but it was allied to genius. One evening an as sociate editor of the Tribune accosted him as he came into his desk with some such question as this: • “Dldn t you know, Mr. Greeley, that you made a dreadful blunder In one of your statistical editorials this morning?'' “No; how was it?" said Mr. Greeley. “Why, you said something about Heidsick and champagne? Don’t you know Heidsick is champagne?” “Well," said Mr. Greeley quietly; “I am the only editor of this paper that could make that mistake.” On another occasion a person who wished to have a little fun at the expense of his consis tency said, in a group where Mr. Greeley was standing: “Mr. Greeley and I. gentlemen, are old friends. We have drunk a great deal of brandy and wa ter together.” “Yes,” said Mr. Greeley, “that is true enough. Y’ou drank the brandy and I drank the water.” Eire from Ice. From the British Journal of Photography. The London correspondent of te Moniteur rle la Photographic, writes to that journal that in the middle of the winter that has just elapsed, a student made a lens of ice, with which he lit the pipes of some of the skaters on the Serpen tine by means of the solar rays—an experiment, he says, which was first performed in the polar regions hy I)r. Scoresby, to the great astonish ment of the sailors, for they did not understand why the ice did not freeze the beams of the sun. We may remark that Prof. Tyndall at times would set fire at the Royal Institution to a little heap of gunpowder with rays from the electric arc concentrated upon the powder by means of a lens of ice. His explanation was that although ice absorbs rays of certain wave lengths, and is gradually melted thereby, other waves it does not absorb, and these latter produce the heating effect at the focus of the lens. It Is wholly a question of the relative motions of the molecules of frozen water and the motions of the waves of light: when there is discord between the two the discordant waves pass through the ice without absorption. A Queer Story from Japan. Naqaski tetter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is a little stir in medical circles here that may make Nagaski known to all the world in this connection, and Pasteur and the hypno tizing Parisian will find themselves deposed as lions in medical society for a young peasant woman from a village near here who has anew theory and cure for rheumatism Many of those short-tempered people who have had rheumatism in tneir knees and gout in their toes have declared that the sensation was as if something were gnawing at their muscles, and this Japanese woman says that it is in reality that. Rheumatism, ac cording to her, is a growth of small parasites finder the skin, a smull insect that gnaws and bites and causes the untold misery and all the twinges of that ailment. She has had for one of her patients here a grizzled and skeptical sea captain, and as sea captains may always be believed,except about the sea ser pent, his case ought to settle it. The mariner was completely laid up with hts ailing knees, and the Japanese woman was sent for. She claimed to see the move ment of the parasites under the skin, ordered foot baths of bran and hot rice brandy and came another day with a little steel hook and niptxxl small white insects out by the dozen. By the stories it must be a large white flea, for one of them when brought out to the surface made a spring and was lost to sight. One of the bystauders felt a sting and the next had a sore place on his arm. and cutting into it was found that the rheumatism bug was there, burrowing like a tick. The regular practitioners are still sceptical about the new theory of rheumatism. They put one of the Insects under a microscope and decided that, by its organism, it never could have lived under the surface of the skin away from the air, and that she must have carried ft under her finger nail and produced it at the proper moment. To this the sea captain enters vigorous denial. He says that she has taken the insects from his knees and ankles by the hundreds now, and that all have been killed in his sight, and that he is growing better and can feel the relief after each treatment. Aaron Burr’s Wooing. From Harper's for October. Front the commandant’s quarters on West chester Height The blue hills of Romapo lie in full sight; On their slope gleam the gables that shield his heart’s queen; But the redcoats are wary—the Hudson's be tween. Through the camp runs a jest: “There's no moon --'twill ne dark; ’Tis odds little Aaron will go on a spark!” And tl.e toast of the troopers is: “Pickets, lie low. And good luck to the Colonel and Widow Fre vost!” Eight miles to the river he gallops his steed, Lays him bound in the barge, bids his escort make speed, Loose their swords, sit athwart, through the fleet reach yon shore. Not a word—not a plash of the thick-muffled oar! Once across, once again in the seat and away - Five leagues are soon over when love has the say; And “Old Put” and his rider a bridle-path know To the. Hermitage manor of Madame Prevost. Lightly done! but he halts In the grove’s deep est glade, Ties his horse to a birch, trims his cue, slings his blade, Wipes the dust and the dew from his smooth, handsome face With the kerchief she broidered and bordered in lace; Then slips through the box-rows and tans at the boll. Sees the glint of a waxllgbt, a hand white and small, And the door Is unbarred by herself all aglow Half in smiles, half In tears—Theodosia Prevost. Alack for the soldier that's buried and gone! What's a volley above him, a wreath on his stone, Compared with sweet Ufe and a wife for one’s view Like this dame, ripe and warm in her India fichu? She chides bar bold lover, yet holds him more dear, For the daring that brings him a night-rider here; British gallants by day through her doors come and go, But a Yankee's the winner of Then Prevost. Where's the widow or maid withs mouth to be kissed, - When Burr comes a wooing, that long would resist? 1 lights and wine on ths boaufet, the shutters nil fast, And “Old Put” st mips In vsln till an hour has flown post - • But an hour for eight leagues must be covered ere tie, y; Isrigle Aaron “Let Washington frown as be mgy. When be hears of me mitt In a raid <• the ?, i lie'll t'dglvs 101* night's try*! wllht te Widow HpvfH” benvoo CtaUMMe-A brunt**. 1 ITEMS OF INTEREST. A farmer drove into Charlotte, Mich., the other day with a load of 120,160 eggs. t The first idea of electricity was given by the friction of two globes of quicksilver in the year 1017. Three new mouths. or blow holes, have ap peared in the side of the volcano Cebornco in Jalisco, Mex. Hutchinson, Kan., has a man of many occu pations. He is a real estate man, a professional burglar and sings in a church choir. Eight cars for the State railroad of Chili are being about finished in a Springfield (Mass), establishment. They are drawing-room coaches, luxuriously fitted, and will cost $12,- (JOi) each. Peter Mclntyre, a sprinter of San Francisco, was badly burned in a tire at Central Park last May. One hundred and sixty friends volun teered skin for grafting purposes. Mclntyre is getting well. The people of Siberia buy their milk frozen, and for convenience it is allowed to freeze about a stick, which comes as a handle to carry it by. The milkman may leave one chunk or two chunks, as the case may be, at the house of his customers. Puget Sound fishermen £ave organized a branch of the Columbia River Fishermen's Union at Seattle. There were thirty-five In dians, twenty-three Greeks and Italians, and one Chinaman who wished to join, and all were admitted except the latter. Young men clad in the garments formerly worn by students have been numerous in the streets of Osaka, Japan, lately They lecture in out-of-the-way corners, and even crowded streets when no constables are at band, upon political subjects, and frequently urge the doc trine that "official salaries are the lite-blood of the people." A suit over a rooster that cost the defeated party SSOO, was decided at Hackensack, N. J., the other day. The plaintiff and defendant were both butchers. James Stuart accused John May, Jr., of killing a valuable gamecock owned by Stuart. Stuart lost tue case, but declares he will appeal. If he does another SSOO will be added to the cost of the dead rooster. With the aid of science even the desert of the Sahara is becoming inhabitable and colonization is encouraged. The Lower Sahara is an im mense basin of artesian waters, and the French are forming fresh oases with skill and success, so that the number of cultivated tracts is in creasing rapidly. After a period of thirty years, forty-three oasA have 13,(XW inhabitants, 120,- 000 trees between one and seven years old, and 100,000 fruit trees. A farmer in Hamilton, Van Buren county, Mich., is the owner of a pig which does duty about the premises as a night watchman. It spends its time in patrolling the barn and door yards at night, and thievery has been unkuown since it began its vigils. It does not hesitate to attack a stranger, ami even succeeded in put ting a lot of neighbors to flight as they were making a descent upon the house iu the shape of a surprise party the other eveniug. • The kingdom of Saxony is richer in railroads than any other G- r nan State, containing 165 metres of track on every square kilometre of ground, as against 64 in Prussia, 67 in Bavaria, 74 in Wurtemberg, 86 in Baden, 100 in Hesse, 105 in Saxe-Aitenburg, 106 in Anhalt, 88 in Saxe- Weimar, etc. Saxony enjoys also the distinc tion ot being the most saving of all German countries, 40 out of every 100 inhabitants being depositors in savings banks. In Prussia the proportion is 14 in 100, ill Bavaria 8 in 100. Work on the tunnel under the Hudson, which is to connect New York and Jersey City, is pro gressing slowly. Want of funds lias prevented its completion at the anticipated date, but it is constantly increasing its length, and the meet ing of the sections seventy teet beneath the sur face of the river is sure to be accomplished in the not very remote future. Two tunnels are iu fact being constructed side by side, one of which has been extended a distance of 2,100 feet, the other 630 feet. The daily average of progress made at a heading is 3J4 feet. The Burnet and Palace Hotels of Cincinnati were cleverly swindled out of considerable money a few days ago. The swindler’s ruse was to call up the clerks of these hotels by tele phone, and by feigning the voices of prominent ooarders, request the payment upon what seemed to be express packages sent in by a messenger boy In every case the money was paid without hesitation. Some of the other Hotels declined to advance the alleged charges, but held the bundles, which, upon being opened, contained nothing but sawdust and other rub bish. The Oroville Mercury vouches for the follow ing: Charles Sadowski has a curiosity in the shape of a half-grown lemon. It was picked by one of his little children from a tree in his yard on Pine street, The lemon almost perfectly represents a hand with a trail inclosed in it. The thumb aud index finger look very natural and protrude free from the imaginary ball, while the remaining three fingers press tne ball firmly iu the palm of the hand, which tapers gracefully into an almost perfect wrist. At first sight one would believe t hat the whole had been molded in wax. Adulteration of flour by means of potato flour may be detected by m-ans of acids. Take a spoonful and pour upon it a little nitric acid; if the flour he of wheat it will change to an orange yellow; if wholly of potato flour the color would not be altered, but the flour formed into a tenacious jelly; if, therefore, the Hour lie adulterated with potato flour, it will not be dif ficult to decide. Again, take a spoonful of the Hour aid pour upon it a little muriatic acid; if the flot r ue of pure wheat it will be changed to a deep > inlet color, without odor; but if potato flour be mixed in it, it will then have an odor Uke that of rushes. A man of Fort McDowell, Ari., found a hollow stonq ‘.V/i inches in diameter. On breaking it he found a frog's skeleton. Shortly afterward he found some birds carrying mud to a cliff and depositing it in holes that they had dug in the side of the cliff. He went to" the top of the cliff and climired down to one of the holos, ex pecting to find the nest of the peculiar bird, but instead he found a globular stone contain ing a decayed lizard. He found thousands of insects intomhed alive in the hanks. Why they put the animals in the balls is a mystery, for after the mud dries it is so hard that it requires considerable force to break them. A regular gang of manufacturers of spuri ous archselogicai articles has recently been con victed in the Canton of Neufchatel, whose scholars had long complained of the frauds practiced on hunters for relics of pile-dwellings. One of the accused had invented the “hom age" for the benefit of an enthusiastic antiqua rian, and dug out for him a number of skill fully prepared articles of horn. Another fraud consisted in forging the signature of the Cura tor of the Archaeological Museum of Neuf chatel, and testifying thereby to the genuine ness ot a shield. The forgers were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from two duys to half a year. A resident of Plymouth, Mass., protects his grain-vines from thieves in a novel manner. The supports are of wood, hut the cross pieces are of wires insulated from the ground and con nected with an induction coil capable of deliv ering a heavy spark through an inch of air. The other pole ol the coil is connected with the ground, Six good-sized bichromate of potash cells furnish electro-motive force for the coil. Short wires bunging among the vines are se cured to the large wires, and when any one “monkeys' with the grapevine while the bat tery Is connected the neighborhood is apt to hear from him. It works every time, and nooue comes for a second dose. The Calcutta Englishman calls attention to a remarkable decline in the popularity oft! e great Rath Jattro, or Car festival, at the Jug gernaut temple in t trlssa. That the number of visitors this year should show a large decrease might have been expected, owing to the recent loss of two pilgrim steamers and to the common wltef Mint the loss of tbe thitti ha* I ire dlet-d It appears, however, that although the falling off is more marked this year, it has lieen going on steudily tor some years past. The re ligious enthusiasm of the crowd is said in bo also dlsapi tearing. There is no l inger a wild rush for the car, in which the idol is dragged from the temple to a country house and hack again, and on several occasion* it has been nec- j essar.v to hire coolies to perform the work Thk intereat taken by women in Kymnaiulu **ercl*e in dally Krowlnff in Knffland. At ail of th<- fcyiniiUMiunm 'bar.- areapeclal inntnntoraf.ir woman. Tim value of tbin InatrurUoa ban Ihmmi abown in two iiiataniww during ttm week. Tbr wlfa of a prominent londmi ai lilete, who ia bar aalflii I rain Ink. waa walking on the atairn of Highbury hint lon the other night to taka the tram Kha wua alone. U waa It o'clock in the evridug A loilf drunken man name down iif atalra, put hi- arm n round h*T welat and tiled to kina u<f She wrenched hrim-U fro* from bin ftaiji, tom off her fallow kid flm* fimiit Itrr right band, ami I ban atrtr-k out ntrnlgbt from the aboilili-r bilt'.uk lb" ruffian brftveeu tie* eye and knocking him down aoiiu! ffftnnn ataiw, Ini'llv ahakiug blbl and thoroughly wuvnaa non Irvin tilgku baking powder. ( —VUIAs WEI pePRICfs CREAM JakikJ NIWDEf* perfect mao^ Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes tor more than a quarter of a century It is used by the United States Government In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful Dr Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. DRY GOODS, ETC. special' AHHIIIM! OPENING OF Fall and Winter Goods AT Will & Dim’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. ON MONDAY - MORNING We will exhibit the latest novelties in Foreign and Domestic Dress Goods, Black and Colored Silks, Blaok Cashmeres and Silk Warp Henriettas, Black Nun’s Veiling, Suitable for Mourning Veils. Mourning Goods a Specialty. English Crapes and Crape Veils, Embroideries and Laces. Housekeepers’ Goods Irish Table Damasks, Napkins and Towels of the best manufacture, ana selected especially with a view to durability. Counterpanes and Tahle Spreads. Cotton Sheetings, Shirtings and Pillow Casings in all the best brands. • Hosiery, Glove*, Handkerchiefs—Regularly made French and English Hosiery for ladies and children, Balbriggan Hosiery, Gentlemen’s and Boys’ Half Hose, Ladies’ Black Silk Hosiery, Kid Gloves. ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Linen Handker chiefs in a great variety of fancy prints, aud full lines ofhemmed-stitched and plain hem med White Handkerchiefs. Gentlemen's Laundried and Unlaundried Shirts, Bays’ Shirts, Gentlemen’s Collars and Cuffs, Ladies’ Collars and Cuffs. Corsets—lmported and Domestic, in great variety, and in the most graceful and health approved shapes. Vests—Ladies’, Gentlemen's and Children's Vests in fall and winter weights. Parasols-The latest novelties in Plain and Trimmed Parasols. Orders—All orders carefully and promptly executed, and the same care and attention given to the smallest os to the largest commis sion. Samples sent free of charge, and goods guaranteed to be fully up to the quality shown in sample. Sole agent for McCALL'S CELEBRATED BAZAR GLOVE-FITTING PATTERNS. Any pattern sent post free on receipt of price aud measure. CROHAN k DOONER. HAVING RETURNED FROM MAKING FALL PURCHASES 1 WILL OFFER New and Desirable Goods FOR THE Fall Season FROM THIS DAY. I call special attention to my stock of Black Goods And invite an inspection. J. P. GERMAINE, 132 Broughton street, next to Furber’s. 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