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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1887.
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Mkrtings—Georgia Hussars.
Special Notices - An Exhibition of Bakins
Qualities of Hooker's Self-rising Buckwheat: as
to Crews of the British Steamships Coromila,
Ashdeii. Lykus and John Dixon; as to Bills
against British Steamships Sutherland, Reso
lute, Ashfleld, Ixia and Napier, and German
Bark Elena.
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ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; Fur Sale;
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Tenn.
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Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos.
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The Independent Democrats in Maryland
are few, but they are very noisy.
The Missouri Republican of Tuesday wins
a fine specimen of Western journalistic en
terprise. It contained over 400 small, but
well executed, portraits of prominent mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The English Unionists are showing their
true character. They are now angry with
Balfour because he is not applying the
coercion law in Ireland vigorously enough.
Claiming to be Liberals, they are showing a
more cruel and intolerant spirit than their
Tory allies.
Work on the groat bridge across the
Hudson at Poughkeepsie is going on active
ly, and it will be completed as soon as possi
ble. As an engineering work it will com
pare with the greatest in the country, and
will doubtless have considerable influence on
New England railways.
The Senate Committee on Rules has
agreed to recommend that the Legislature
adjourn Oct. ‘JO. At that time the ad
journed term will have lasted about four
months, and no doubt hundreds of bills will
be left unacted upon. Home means ought
to be devised to expedite business.
The great land boom in Southern Califor
Uia seems to he in danger of a collapse. Be
tween *40,000,000 and *50,000,000 are due on
land notes between now and Jan. 1., and
some of the speculators are becoming fright
ened. The result may lie widespread disas
ter, from which it will take many years to
recover. Booms are dangerous things.
A reporter undertook to interview ex-
Henators Platt and Miller, the Republican
bosses of New York, the other day on the
labor question, but they refused to say a
word. The strength of the Labor party is
unknown yet, and they are waiting, to ex
press an opinion, till they can do so with
some degree of safety for their future
prospects.
After ten days of energetic canvassing
16,U00 signatures have been obtained in Chi
cago to the petitions in behalf of executive
clemency tow ard the Anarchists. This is a
great number, considering the crime of
which the men are guilty, but it proves
nothing. A man can commit no crime so
heinous as to shut him off from the sympa
thy of a certain class of sentimental people.
Rev. Dr. Bliss, who was nominated by
the Labor party for Lieutenant Governor of
Massachusetts, has declined to run. His
principal reason soems to be that he does
not believe in strikes and other means now
employed by organized labor, and wants the
government to undertake the job of making
every man comfortable, with little work to
do and plenty to eat. He had better join
Henry George.
The Finance Committee of the Senate has
Unanimously agreed to rejiort adversely the
bill recently passed by the House to sepa
rate the inspection of oils and fertilizers and
change the manner of paying injectors.
It was intended to increase the efficiency of
the service and save to the State alxmt #lO,-
000 now paid to inspectors, hut it is preba
ble that a disagreement of the two houses
will cause the hill to fail.
Tho Knights of Labor officials, when em
ployers, do not seem to get along with their
workmen any bettor than do others. Ex
tensive alterations were made in the head
quarters building in Philadelphia, und the
carpenter who did the work ehargos that
an attempt is being made to swindle him
out of more than half the sutn due him.
He he* begun suit to recover the amount
claimed. Why is the matter not settled by
arbitration l
A dispatch in another column announces
that Col. A. R. Lamar, Into of tho Macon
Telegraph, will, for u time, retire from
journalistic life. No man on the Georgia
press has, by hard aud persistent lulior,
tuoro futly earned the pleasures of idleness,
If there be any for a man of so active
mind. Every one who knows him must
hope that before long, with completely re
stored health and vigor, he will re enter the
profession ho has so long adorned.
Tho Union Veterans' Union, a sort of
rival of the Grand Army of the Republic,
bs just held its national encampment at
Cleveland, O. Its bill for |x>pularlty with
the soldiers is a resolution asking flint Oou
gr*.n add to all invalid pension* one cent
a month for every ilay's service from enlist
ment to discharge. The effect of this
would bo to double many |*<mh>u. This
iatnit another step in the munii mi tb
I res airy which mnut to be determined
upon by the veteran* of tho wai all over
Uw North aud W<t
The Carrying Trade.
Some of the Northern papers are paying
considerable attention just at this time to
the njpid decrease of the American mer
chant marine and to discussion of proposed
plans to. make it again profitable to build
and sail ships. Some of tho figures given
are interesting, and certainly prove that if
no change of conditions occurs soon there
will bo no American vessel engaged in
the for-ign trade. In 1856 American ves
sels carried 75 per cent, of all our imports
and exports. At tho present time only 14
per cent, of the foreign commerce of the
United States is carried in American ships.
From 1851 to 18IW, 07 per cent, of the ton
nage entering our ports from abroad was
American built. At tho present time not
more than 14 per cent of the tonnage enter
ing from foreign countries boars the
American flag. Just before the war
the tonnage of the United States
had reached its greatest development. It
footed up, in 1801, 5,530,813 tons, while
Great Britain, our chief competitor, had
the y ear liefore some 5,710,008 tons. In 1885
the tonnage of the United States was 4,265,-
084, while that of Great Britain was 9,000,-
000. It is only by virtue of our annually
increasing coast, river and lake trade that
we are able to show the 4,000,000 odd ton
nage just mentioned, as our vessels in the
foreign trade show, according to the re
turns for 1880, an aggregate of only 1,088,-
041, and eVen this is a startling decrease,
when compared with previous years.
Of seagoing steamers of iron build, 100
hms aud over, the United States owned, in
1886, 205 vessels, with a gross tonnage of
327,362; Great Britain had 5,346 vessels,
gross tonnage 4,058,751; tho French had 503
vessels, tonnage 401,655; the Germans 555
vessels, tonnage 400,031; the Norwegians
207 vessels; the Spaniards 369 vessels; and
the Swedish 310 vessels. Of the total sea
going tonnage of the world, 52 per cent, is
iron built; of United States seagoing ton
nage, only 15 j>er cent, is iron built; while
in Great Britain the proportion of iron in
the total tonnage is 86 per cent. In France,
iron built ships form 77 per cent, of the total
tonnage; in Germany they form 55 per
cent.; and, notwithstanding the fact that
Norway and Sweden are wood-producing
countries, about one-half of their total ton
nage is iron built. In Italy 77 per oent. of
the seagoing tonnage is constructed of iron,
although the peninsula is rich in timber
suitable for ship building.
These figures show that the outlook for
American ship builders and shipping is
gloomy. For the improvement of this state
of things there is no lack of suggested
remedies, hut when analyzed they all
amount to the same thing—reliof of ship
builders and ship owners from the burdens
imposed on the rest of the community by
giving them bounces to offset the tariff
taxes. It is a great misfortune that the
country should have lost its carrying trade,
but the conditions which destroyed it would
tend to make the once great commercial
marine unprofitable were it yet in existence.
The country has practically nothing for ex
port except agricultural products, and tho
great hulk of these is shipiied to that coun
try which can build ships and sail them
cheapest. Its competition would be very
hard to overcome.
The principal value to us of American
built and American sailed ships, in addition
to the employment afforded mechanics,
would bo tho aid they would give in devel
oping our foreigu commerce. But if other
conditions render that development impos
sible what is the use of |iaying millions to a
comiiarativcly small class? The lxiunty
might he sufficient to induce the building of
a small navy, hut it could not have a
healthy growth when it depended for existr
enoe, not on its earnings, hut on the dona
tions of a Congress liable to change its pol
icy every year or two.
As for the earnings of steamships in the
foreign carrying trade, even under the most
favorable conditions, they ure probably less
now than the capital and labor interested in
them can earn in other branches of business
in the United States. If they do not con
duce to tho general welfare of other lines of
business, therefore, it is not the part of wis
dom to encourage men to build them. It is
true that they might he made to aid in
developing our foreign trade hy making the
bounties paid them big enough to pay the
freight on tho g'xxis sold to foreigners, and
even a part of their cast, but the jieople do
not want the trade on such conditions--it
would ho too costly. If they pay for tho
goods they ought to use them, and not the
foreigners.
There is one thing, however, that can he
said of tho bounty system—it would
make a longer division of the protec
tion boodle, and if the principle were ex
tended far enough every man who is taxed
might get his money hack, less the cost of
collection. A Goorgia paper not long ago
advocated the payment of a bounty to every
man who raised a horse or ljiulo. If, ac
cepting the precedent sot hy paying a bounty
to ship builders, this were done, next year
another subject for special petting could lie
added, and another mid another, until
finally, when everybody else has been pro
vided for—if he has not starved to death in
tho meantime —tho jioor man who raises
<-orn and cotton may lie received
among the elect. The system would
then he complete, but its weak i'int is that,
as protection and bounty paving are the
same thing, when every man is protected he
swaps dollars from one of his own pockets
to another, which involves a good deal of
worry and loss of time, without any profit.
Under the present system the protected
man swaps dollars from his noighl-or’s
pocket to liis pwn, which ho no doubt finds
a very satisfactory process.
The glassworkers of the Pittsburg district,
who are said to be the best paid workmen
in the United Stales, but who have been on
a strike for some time, seem to Isi well sup
plied with money. They fear that workmen
will be brought from Europe to take the
places they left, and propose to raise n fund
of $.10,000 to pay lawyers to prevent the
landing of glassworkcrs under the contract
labor law. The strike will probably boa
long and stubborn one, under the circum
stances.
The application of a highly Vesiiectnble
colored man for membership in a Grand
Army |sst in B aton was recently rejected,
for no reason other than his color. In com
menting on this the Boston flrral,l admits
that tho race prejudice exists in that city os i
well an in the South, ami Is ashamed of the
fai t. But it ought not to ho ashamed. It
is not a matter of much iiiomeut In Boston,
where there are up few negroes; but tu tins
part at the country tills same race prejudice
is the bent !io|mj fur the preservation of our
civilisation
Paris alone Is asld to consume I'.st.ixri.OU) |
of oysters in the eight months that lire soa- .
sou hurts.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1887.
The Insurance Bill.
Hie hill to regulate the insurance busi
-1 ness in this State, now under consideration
I hy the Legislature, if adopted in its present
j shape, may do a great deal of harm. In its
| original form, as introduced, it is
i said to have lieen drafted hy
Comptroller General Wright, who is, ex
officio, the State Insurance Commissioner,
and in that form met the genera! approval
of the insurance men of the State. But it
was not ul lowed to retain that form. In
the Senate, at the suggestion of
Mr. Dean, who represents the Rome dis
j trict, it was amended by tho addition of
j section 24, and on account of this aniend-
I ruent much opposition is being manifested
hy people whom it will affect. It provides
j “that whenever it shall be made plainly to
j appear by competent proofs to the Commis
j sioner of Insurance that any insuraneecom
pany licensed to do business in this State
has entered into any contract, agreement,
pool or other arrangement with any other
insurance company or companies licensed
to do business in this State for the purpose
of, or that may have the effect to prevent
or lessen free competition in the business of
insurance in this State, thereupon said Com
missioner shall revoke tho license of such
company or companies, and the same shall
not lie re-issued until the President or chief
officer shall file an affidavit with said Com
missioner stating that all such contracts,
agreements, pools or other arrangements
have been annulled and made void.”
This section is objected to hy insurance
companies because it virtually abolishes the
Southern Tariff Association. In tho argu
ments before the Finance Committee of the
House it was shown that tho losses both to
the companies and the assured had been less,
by reason of the safeguards required by the
association. It was also shown that in
stead of the association making in
surance dearer, it had, by equalizing
rates and providing greater protection
against the spreading of fires, reduced its
cost. While the passage of the bill con
taining this objectionable feature would
make the association illegal in this State, it
is claimed that it could not prevent the
practice, in a surreptitious way and de
prived of its best features, of the system it
was inaugurated to enforce, as the com
panies could have a secret understanding
and instruct their agents accordingly.
One of the strongest arguments against
the interpolation of section 24 into the bill
as proposed hy Comptroller Wright is the
effect which it would probably have upon
local or State insurance companies. With
out such a combination as the Tariff As
sociation, in spite of any secret agreement
which might be entered into, a war of rates
at some time would be almost certain. In
such a war th 9 home companies
would he ruined, as with their lim
ited resources, compared with those
of the great foreign companies, they would
be utterly unable to compete for busi
ness. Such a war would be a local
one, and the business of our home
companies is almost entirely local, while
that of their competitors covers the whole
country. This fact, leaving out tho question
of relative resources, would alone decide
the fight against the home com
panies. Savannah’s new veuture, the Sa
vannah Fire and Marine Insurance Com
pany, in which our citizens have invested
#200,000, would Ixi seriously affected in such
a fight, as would also the old and reliable
Southern Mutual of Athens, and the com
panies in Columbus, Macon and Atlanta.
To injure these companies would be to
cripple a very important factor in the politi
cal economy of the State, without any cora
pensating benefit whatever. They retain at
home a large amount of tho capital and
earnings of the people which would other
wise go abroad.
It would lxi well fur the legislature to con
sider these objections to tho Dean amend
ment, and pass the bill as proposed by the
Comptroller General. Mr. Wright is the
officer intrusted by law with the manage
ment of tho insurance business of the State
and is familiar with its needs. If experience
shall prove that his judgment was in any
respect faulty the next Legislature can
make the necessary changes in the law.
The New York Platform.
The probability of Democratic success in
New York is increased hy the action of the
purty convention at Saratoga. Tho men it
put in nomination ure goal and popular,
and tho declaration of principles satisfac
tory. On the most important ques
tions before the people the plnt
fonn is so worded as to leave no room for a
double interpretation. Thore is none of the
shuffling that indicates divided councils and
presages defeat. It is a platform intended
to be understaxi. The declaration nsto the
tariff demands that tho reduction ojPtaxes
shall commence with those on raw materials
and the necessaries of life. This is in conso
nance with the long-established policy of
the party, with the wishes of a vast majori
ty of its members and with tho public utter
ances of the administration.
If the bold and honest position taken by
the New York Democrats lonils to victory
in that State this fall, as there is every
reason to believe it will, if will have a great
influence in consolidating the party all over
the country for an aggressive campaign
next year, which will end in the election of
a Democratic President. •
It now seems that, all of the convicted
Chicago boixllers will lx- released in a few
days. It has been discovered that a bill was
hurriedly and mysteriously pushed through
the Legislature in July n>|x'aling the law
under which the niou were indicted and
convicted. McGarigle can return from
Canada, mid the county will probably have
to refund the large fines imposed upon some
of tho criminals. It ix extraordinary that
neither the lawyers for the State nor for the
defense discovered during the trial that the
law hn<l Ixx'ii repealed, especially as it is in- j
timated that this was done to benefit tho !
prisoners. It will he u groat outrage on
justice if these thieves escape punishment,
hut it will Ixi even a more serious matter if
it shall lie shown that their friends were
strong enough, or wily enough, to induce
the Legislature to aid in their escape. An |
investigation should he made.
Joshua lasNcll, born on Bussell's Island,
Islesliorough, lie., is over U!i years old, and
his wife is over 110. The old gentleman is of
French descent, and wits n soldier m the
war of IKIM, for which he gets a (musion of
h a month. He has n full set of teeth, all
sound, while his grandson, who is a man
grown, hasn’t a single tooth in his hand.
Boys in Brooklyn who play “hookey"
from the public schools are *up|N**sl to he
hsiked after by the Bureau of Attendance,
which cost* the city ll\uOo siimudly, Imt
which the Presiduut of tile Board of Kduoa
tioii declares fari'lcal. An effort is to he
ina'te to olsdish the larrvau, ami have its
work done I>J tue police.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Sort of Fight Which Wins.
From the St. Louis Republican (Dem .)
Both in Massachusetts and Ohio Democrats
are making a fight to win squarely on Demo
cratic principle*, without shuffling or evasion.
In ninety-nine cases out .if ino, this kind of a
fight to win means a winning fight.
Effect of a Pardon of the Anarchists
From the Sew York Times (Rep.)
To pardon these men. or even to commute the
.just sentence that has Ixx-u passed upon them,
would vastly weaken the effect of the vindica
tion of the law aud give encouragement to fa
natics and bloody-minded conspirators to resort
to deadly weapons and dynamite in the future.
Democratic Prospects in New York.
From the New York World I Dem.)
Tile lurmonious union of Tammany Hall and
the County Democracy in *his city, the hearty
co-operation of the friends of Gov. Hill and the
continued support of the Mugwumps are sources
of encouragement to the administration. Noth
ing hut the labor cloud darkens til - horizon.
And that will, in all probability, continue until
next year. If the Democrats can carry the
State this year under this leadership and these
conditions, they may reasonably hope to do so
next year. That they propose to make the tist
will lend an added interest to the result.
BRIGHT BITS.
She Knew Him
She sat boside me at the play
In all her girlish loveliness.
While in the box across the way
A dowager in gorgeous dress
Sat while the diamonds glittered bright,
On wrinkled neck and shoulders bare;
“Ah, were those gems my own," I cried,
“I’d find for them a place more fair.”
“Sweetheart," I whispered, “need I tell
Where I would have those gems repose’”
She faltered not (she knew me well),
"Why, with your uncle, I suppose!”
-Chicago Tribune.
This world would be a very great world if it
were not so wasteful of its money. —Louisville
Courier-Journal.
“Pa,” said little Harold to his paternal parent
after that individual had been reading an ar
urticie on “Superstition” to his family. “Pa,
does death always follow the howl of a dog?”
“No, darling,’’ replied Backstruttle, ‘ some
times it is the oootjack."—Judy.
“Doctor,” he inquired, “what kind of a man
is your neighbor, Smith?”
‘I don't think much of him," replied the doc
tor, dubiously, "or fcis family either.”
“Do they annoy you?"
“Annoy me? No.' But I've been located in
this town for three years and none of them have
been sick yet."— New York Sun.
“Don’t you think autumn with its bountiful
display of fruits and crops is the finest season
of the year, Farmer Robinson?" queried the city
guest. “Why the trees are loaded and the
ground fairly covered with golden fruit,”
“Yes, Miss, there are more pesky little cider
apples than I know what to do with ft’s a hard
outlook for a Prohibitionist like myself.”—
Hartford Post.
A little East Boston girl whose mother had
entertained her the other day with the enumera-,
tion of table delicacies, particularly mentioning
quail on toast as one of t lie* most desirable or
dishes, was surprised by the little one a day or
two after, when, the child in response to the
query as to what she would like for dinner,
promptly replied: “Oh, mamma, I want some
whale on toast ."—Boston Budget.
The Amenities of Politics.—Grey—l just met
Stewart; he is in excellent health and spirits.
Brown (desirous of election to the Council)—
Glad to heart it. Stewart is an able fellow and
an old friend of mire.
Grey—He told me he was to run for Council
this fall, and had a good chance for the nomina
tion.
Brown —Why, the fellow is a fool and should
be an i.unate of an idiotic.asylum.— Boston
Budget.
In a fWnch village Sunday-school: “What is
God?”
“I give it up, milieu I'ciire."
“Such ignorance is unpardonable. Do you
know at least on what day our Lord died?”
“Didn't even know he'd been sick!”
“What?”
“Well, you see, I can’t,afford to take newspa
pers, and I never hbarmothing of what's going
on !"—Paris Charivari.
There is oftentimes: a Silver lining to t®e
blackest clouds, ahd some good is always pres
ent in the most jADe&poqtcd places. Who can
describe the joy rtfLclL.'Jilla one lx*ing when,
after hearing nothing for weeks but port and
starboard, akitnrtyik dishes and racing ma
chines, outpointing an I outfooting, and ail that
sort of jargon, omws Suddenly asked by a mildly
inaimered man: ■'What is all this talk about the
Thistle aiul Volunteer? Is it some new move on
the stock market, or only another of those po
litical rumors!’’— Boston Transcript.
Pholi.y Did you hear about that bank smash
up yesterday, Gauge? Cashier ran away with
the funds.
Gauge—Cqmmjm occurrence: I don't pay any
attention to such"reports auy more.
“J tell you, if a man has got any surplus cash
nowadays, it stands him in hand to put it where
lie knows it will stay. By the way, can you let
me have a ten this morning?”
•'Really, dear buy, you offer me such excellent
a dvice about putting money where I know it
“.ill stay, ttiat lam almost sorry I have no sur
— lus funds." Binghamton Republican.
PERSONAL.
George BancikMT, the historian, will be 87
Oct. 4.
The sages of New York say that voung King
don Gould can now put his great toe in his little
mouth.
Milt O. Barlow, the imprisoned minstrel,
was once private secretary to the famous Georgo
D. Prentice,
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that English
people ure taller, stouter anu healthier than
New Englanders.
Mns. Hvohes-Hallett, nee Emily Schaum
burg, proposes, like Lady Dilke, to stick to her
husband through it all.
Sunset Cox's book. “Isles of the Princes,”
has just issued. His “Diversions of a Diplomat,"
will appear in November.
Senator Blair insists that his educational
Dill is the only measure to save the Republican
party from defeat next year.
The Sultan of Turkey proposes to visit Lon
don and Berlin in order to have personal inter
views with Queeu Victoria und tho Emperor
William.
ComtANDKn-iN-CuiEE Fairchild, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has stopped smoking,
after having lieen addicted to the habit from
young manhood.
Miss Octavia Hill, of Boston, recently enter
tained nil her tenants, to the number of 700 or
B<>o. Miss Hill will be remembered os the pioneer
in house-tenement reform.
A Frenchman is said to be writing a book
which will show that the bard of Avon was of
French descent, and his name was originally
Jacques Pierre, or in plain English John Peter.
Tim richest man in Vermont is Col. Estey, of
Bn.ttloboro, lie is worth at the present
moment $.1,500,000, all made in trade. He never
speculated a dollar in auy of the pet stocks or
bonds.
Miss Lvov Ridden is the latest (tress reformer.
She hails Horn Detroit, and says that the gown
for women is mi insignia or serfdom. She
favors cither trousers or Knickerbockers for the
fair sex.
Hamcei. Adams Turner is living in South Seit
unto. .Muss., at the age of mi. He remembers
Kbeuezer Webb, who died in the first year of
this century, and who had talked with the chil
dren of those who came over in the May
dower.
On days when Alfred do Cordova, the New
York broker, doesn't want to leave Ids com
fortable home near North branch. N J., carrier
pigeons, sent out by his clerks, bring him hourly
limitations. Tho distance is 48 miles, but. the
binls never get lost .
The wife of lYof. George F. Holmes, of the
University of Virginia, died, after a lingering
illness at ('burtnttosville, Vn., on Monday. She
Mas a sister of John 8. Floyd, wlio was Governor
of Georgia and decretory of Wur under
President Buchanan.
Mr Mvnai.i,, the 1/mdon photographer, whose
new method of coloring photographs luvserented
A decided stir in the seleiitltte world, received
his training as an cx|ieriniental and analytical
chemist In this country prior to Ins willing in
Ismddii, forty years ago.
Man. tUi'MKi. Ktii.i.waoon, of Flushing, claims
to Is- Hie , |,lel w oniaii on I ring Island Hlie Inis
Just celebrated her I'fed Inrilidny surrounded by
■endants to even the llflh general lon. Threes
nnarter,i of a century ago the fume of Mrs
Millw'igrn s is auty extended us Isr South as
Baltimore
■I M. lUinsr, once fsioous as the wit of the I
liunhiiry AVmv. has faded from the humorous j
world and is now an odor in a dally r|-aled |
domestic tragedy , His wile Is insane mul de i
mauds his eyiire allenliuu lie inuet dress her I
aud arrange her hair, and *(lirl to sjl her '
wants Hhe Is like a (fluid, sud lie gives her all |
lil t jlfixHldo, Uss tici slMill'iu 1 lie devutiou 1
Is iiv 1 1 tied as sotneUiurg hoi cut.
Queer Origin of Cuff Buttons.
Front Notes arid Queries.
Persons of observant turns of mind have no
ticed two or three buttons on the cuffs of mili
tary coats, but few know the origin and reason
of this custom. They vere first worn by sol
diers in the English army. The first uniform
coats of the English army had no buttons on the
cuffs, and the soidiei s used to draw the cuffs of
their coat across their nose and mouth on every
occasion when a pocket handkerchief or napkin
might have been called into requisition. Asa
mutter of course the cuff became shiny and
defaced. Punishment and reprimand were
tried, but they did not stop this habit, and at
lust, a hoard of officers met, and they suggested
the buttons on the sleeve, which was adopted.
They were first worn on top the sleeve, hut they
have moved backward as the handkerchief has
moved forward.
He Was Too Good for Anything.
Firm the San Francisco Chronicle.
He was not at all like other men. He never
swore, he never gambled, he never drank. He
went to church, and would not read even ‘ She."
He was a good young man, and his entire fam
ily looked up to him. He was always correct in
his language, and he never got excited. But
one day he took his beloved to a hose ball match;
she sat beside him and overheard all the other
men using slang and vulgar language, and she
felt proud of i.er beau. He was very much in
terested in the game, and got more so all the
time: at last it came a critical moment in the
match, all the bases were crowded, and there
came a chance for the third man to make the
home plate. The fool did not see it. He never
mover!. There was a thrill of suspense through
the crowd. The. young man was gazing in in
tense interest. The crowd was silent hut ex
cited, and in the thrilling quiet the young mail
got up, and yelled at the man on third base:
“You fool! Conxe in', for—- ’s sake I”
The girl got up when the shock had passed
away, and said she guessed she'd go home. The
same old Adam in him as in everybody else!
I Had Never Loved Like This.
By l,ilia Cahot Perry.
Sad is iny sleeping and sadder yet my waking;
I hear thy sorrows in my heart, more mine
than are my own;
All the sweet dreaming of youth and joy for
saking,
I've learned to know that life for me holds but
thy grief alone.
Thou bid’st me not to love thee, since loving
brings such sorrow;
As well forbid the ttowei-s to grow, fed by the
gentle rain:
If to-day I left thee, 1 should return to morrow.
Asking hut this—to be with thee and share thy
every pain.
A thistle down, light floating, is love that springs
in gladness,
When laughing eyes and rosy lips challenge
the careless kiss;
But iu my heart s core rooted is this love that
grew iu sadness;
Had I first known thee happy I had never
loved like this.
Demise of the Talking Canary.
From the Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph.
When we saw poor Billy fall over Friday
morning, September 9, and, after a few strug
gles, lie quiet in death, u-e felt as if his mistress
and ourselves had lost a little loving friend, who
by his winning ways and affection For his mis
tress, demonstrated on every occasion for the
past few years, tiad brought himself as near to
our hearts as any living tiling not gifted with
full powers of speech could possibly do. And
yet he did speak, calling persistently “Mary,”
or "Come here, Mary," when me wanted food,
water, or the bathing dish, aud more quietly but
affectionately “Mary" when we entered the
room and she was not present. This call was
particularly noticeable wheu she was absent for
several weeks. He would often, as we entered
the room late at night, rouse up and sing a few
notes very softly as if to welcome us. When at
tacked with rheumatic gout, as a medical friend
says, we felt as if we ought to put an end to his
sufferings; but we had not the heart to release
him. The bird was about 9 years old, and a
cross with the linnet, which we are told by the
host authorities, is more readily educated than
the pure canary.
They Understood English.
From Galinani's Messenger.
For the benefit of many Americans who, be
cause they do net speak French, imagine that
no one in Paris understands English but them
selves, here are portraits of myself and wife as
sketched by two youug ladies from the States
who sat opposite us the other day in an omni
bus at Versailles;
"She would be really pretty if her nose wasn't
such a narrow escape from a pug, wouldn’t
she?"
“Yes, she would so. Isn't she stylish? I de
clare if her dress isn't made on the same model
as the one I have ordered-at Pommeroy’s!”
“How do you suppose she ever could marry
that i page sitting beside her? They seem so
fond of each other, too.”
/“Oh, the Lord only knows. I expect he had
money or a title. But, goodness alive, I wouldn’t
marry such a chimpanzee if he were covered
with diamonds and was a—”
Here the omnibus stopped, and, as I helped
my wife to alight. I said in as Addisonian
English as I could command:
“My darling, 1 have never regretted that you
brought all t lie money into the family so much
as I do this minute.”
As we walked laughingly away, I took a
glimpse of those young Philadelphia ladies out
of the corner of my eye, and I don't think I
ever saw anybody look cheaper.. It kept them
busy dodging us through the grounds that
afternoon, and I rather incline to the belief that
they srioUed their own pleasure by their own
little tongues.
They Had Got Used, to Babies.
From the Chicago Tribune.
“Say,” said a woman, wearing a faded yellow
dress, as she came out of a Western Dakota
house which stood near the road, as we drove
up, “you didn’t see no young 'unsdown the road,
I reckon?"
“No."
“Couple o'mine missin'again, I guess," and
she surveyed a good sized flock who were play
iug around the house. "Or, hold oil, I guess
there ain't either. ' She began singing them out
with her fingers, saying: “One, two, three
stand still, y ou brats, till I count you!—four, five
—come back here, Ophelia, till yer counted
—six. seven, eight, an’ two at school makes ten.
ail’ the baby is 'leven, on' two oufn the field is
thirteen. All right, stranger, they're all here. I
'lowed two or three o' ’em had lit out, but the
census is correct 1”
"You have a large family, madam.”
"Lawk*. family till you can’t rest! An' say.
do you know what's a fact, gen'l'mcn, whefl the
fust one, Sheridan—he's out’n the field now,
shuckin’ corn now—when he was a baity what
d'ye thiuk me and the old man used to do to
him y"
“(live It up.”
"Used to wake him up to see him laugh! Yes,
sir: regular thing every time he went to sleep'
Sometimes one big fool of us and sometimes the
other would sneak up and chuck him under the
chin an'say: • Wake up, oo tootsv wootsy. and
Hugh oo < unnin' 'ittlc laugh for do papa"
Didn't never wake up any ot the other twelve?
Well, not hardly, stranger—^we known powerful
sight inor'ii we did. Here, Washington, quit
lull-tin' yer little sister, or I'll give you a
switchin' you'll remember till ver a hundred
years old!"
An Accommodating’ Railroad.
From the Middlehurg UV. Y.) Journal.
Several days ago a stranger made bis appear
ance at the Union Depot and asked Officer Hut
ton how long before the Grand River Valley
train would go out.
"In about twenty minutes,” was the reply.
'Then I'll have time to get a drink, won’t I?”
"You will.”
"That's good. 1 always prefer to travel on a
stilt horn of whisky."
He returned in live minutes, wiping his mouth
on tlie lioek of his hand, and asked:
"Hus my train gone yet?"
“No. sir; you still have fourteen minutes to
j spare."
"Th t s good; I guess I'll go haek for a little
| brandy."
When lie again returned he felt in good spirits
| and, ascertaining that he still had six minutes
i to spare, lie said:
"Now. that 's what I call liberal, and I'll lay in
one more drink."
The last one proved more than he could bear
up under, and lie was not seen again for three
hours. Then he came round with a wabble In
his gait and an uncertain look in his eyes, and
asked:
"iSliay, what time does that Gran' River Val
ley train go mitt"
"In about four hours."
"KV hours' Why. that'll give me time to get
drunk agin; inns' 'comiuodatlu' railroad I ever
saw, eh *'
"Yea."
"Hliay! I doan' want to liemean Ge'n tell :
>r Hii|-rlnleiid/nt lie needn't wail fur me any j
cause'tmay delay others lie's ashen
tleniaii, lie la, an* I in u shcntleuian, 1 am, twit
when a rhisitleuian holds a train lor me iikm*
half a day | can't holloas on him any longer!
i<h> ,do you ever cry wh.-n you gel shrunk I
do, and If you've no jaejiahuna I'll cry nos "
No otiJai'Uoiia Mug ma le, its cried
in traskdl.'ig uaa a fow drops of iirown's Olu
irer In itm wslrryou drink, f iodarkifc Brown I
rhiladclidda. la * I
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An average human pulse at infancy is 140 per
minute; at 2 years, 100; from 16 to 19, 80; at
manhood, 70; old age, 00.
The most remarkable echo known is that in
the castle of Simonetta, two miles from Milan.
It reports the sound of a pistol sixty times.
Hei.ena, M. TANARUS., claims to lie the richest city of
its size in the United States. The actual capital
employed in establishments in the city is $lO,-
003,000.
The highest denomination of United States
legal tender notes is §IO,OOO No bills of the
value of SIOO,OOO have ever been issued in this
country.
A coroner's jury in Preston. Conn., found
that Nathaniel Eldrodge “came to his death
from heart disease, precipitated by his being
choked." -
A new railroad is to be built in equatorial
Africa, crossing the continent from Loanda,
Lower Guinea, to some Portuguese port in
Mozambique.
An albino squirrel was captured at Cameron,
Barron county, Wis, which, though of the red
squirrel species, is pure white, not a colored
hair appearing.
The bicycle law of Oregon requires bicyle
riders to stop 100 yards from any person going
in the opposite direction with a team and re
main stationary until that team has passed.
The largest belt ever made in New England
will be exhibited at the Mechanics’ fair, in Bos
ton. It is three ply, 4 feet wide. 120 feet long,
weighs 1,3< 0 pounds, and 100 hides v/ore used tn
making it.
A handsome HOUSEHOLD edition of the entire
works of Dickens has been commenced by Messrs.
Cohen Brothers, of Arnheim and Nimeguen,
under the title of “Geillustreerde Worken van
Charles Dickens voor bet Huisgezin."
A favorite Carolina dish is new sugar-beet
pudding. The beets are boiled tender, but cut into
dice mixed with a custard of milk and eggs,
seasoned with pepper and sail, baked in a pud
ding dish and served as a hot vegetable.
Quicklime is the liest thing imaginable to save
books from the ili-effects of damp. A small
vessel full of lime placed near a book case is
better than a blazing (ire for this purpose.
The lime must lie changed every two or three
days.
The widow Alta Arnold is the Nina Van Zandt,
of Council Bluffs, la. She has recently married
an ex-drum ma jor who is under sentence for five
years for theft. The contracting parties
clasped hands through the bars when the knot
was tied.
Switzerland can put a well-equipped army of
200,000 men on (he frontiers in ten days. This
means that, about 7 per cent, of the population
of this little republic of 8,1X10,000 people are pre
pared at an hour's notice to spring to arms in
its defense.
At a recent bull fight in Coahuilla, Mex„ the
captain of the bull fighters undertook to kill tl e
hull while seated in a chair. Either the man
made a mistake in taking his position or the
animal swerved from his course after beginning
his charge, for the captain was struck under the
chin by one of the bull’s horns and died in a
few moments.
Honey will be high this year. The three lead
ing honey producing States,’lllinois, Wisconsin
and Michigan, have absolutely no honey at all,
and in many parts of these States the bees are
being fed on sugar to keep them from starv
ing. Last year California sent honey to the
East by the carload; this year they have scarcely
enough for home consumption.
In a sandpit near Omaha two enormous teeth
have been dug up. The naturalist who tells the
story of their discovery says that they must
have belonged to some animal that was at least
“six times as large as the modern elephant,”
and that ate timber as a steady diet. Maybe
the existence of such an animal account! for
the vast prairies of the West, and that he
starved to death when the supply of timber
gave out.
It is well understood that a cold sensation
reaches consciousness more rapidly t han one of
warmth. The exact time required to perceive
each has lately lieen measured by Dr. Gold
schneider, of Berlin. Contact with a cold paint
was felt on the face after 31.5, on the anil after
18, on the abdomen after 22 and on the knee
after 25 hundredths of a second. From a hot
point the sensation was felt on the same surface
after 19, 27, 02 and 79 hundredths of a second,
respectively. This great time difference has an
important bearing on the theory of skin sensa
tions.
The Duke of St. Albans receives £965 per
year as Master of the hawks, £2OO for four fal
conqfs, £6OO for provision of hawks, and
£lB2 10s. for pigeons, hens, and other meats.
The office was given by James 11. to the
ancestors of the Duke, and the fumily has kept
it ever since. The Marquis of Downshire fills
the post, to which active duties were no doubt
formerly attached, of constable of the Fort of
Hillsborough, County Down. The salary of the
constable is a mere trifle, 3s 4d per diem, hut he
also receives an allowance of £lB2 10s per
annum in order to provide the amp'e number of
twenty wardens at Od per diem each.
The Otoe Indians and many whites about Red
Rock, the Otoe agency in Idaho Territory, are
mourning for Sunnatonna, a chief and police
man, who recently died. Sunnatonna was a
clean and tasteful Indian. He had a pleasant
face and a smile for every one. The clerk had
given him a pair of alligator slippers in exchange
for a pair of moccasins. Stnmatonna’s wife had
made him a dressing gown out of curtain
calico, and with these signs of civilzation and
witli his cleanly habits and genial disposition
Sunnatonna was b -loved by more than the wife
whom he left to mourn for him, and he will be
missed by others than his immediate kinsfolk.
There is a strong feeling against the Protest
ants in the City of Mexico. The Catholic Bishcp
of that place has forbidden his people, nnder
pain of excommunication, to sell any of the nec
essary articles or tools for their buildings cr
other establishments to Protestants, or persons
of auy other sect; to give them persoaal help,
such as that given by masons, blacksmiths, car
penters, etc.; to advise them or favor any of
their undertakings. It is equally forbidden to
send boys or girls to their schools; to receive the
pamphlets or hooks which they distribute; to
treat with them on religion,even though it be to
combat them,without the express permission of
the Bishop ;to attend their ceremonies of worship
and visit their e-tublishmeuts, though it be
merely from curiosity.
Engineer Tom Conlon of the Peoria, Decatur
and Evansville, who was pulling the passen
ger train that barely escaped being wrecked
at Mount Pulaski a few days ago, has had
four or five narrow escapes lately. Near
Warrensburg a year ago he struck a box car
that had lieen blown across the traclt and threw
it a considerable distance, but the engine held
the track. A few months after he struck au
immense tree that, had been blown across the
track during a storm. No damage resulted ex
cept stoving-in the front of the engine. Again
he ran over a rail from which two feet had been
broken out, but the train went over safely at
the rate of forty miles an hour. On another oc
casion he fell through a high bridge with his en
gine and twenty cars, but escaped serious in
jury.
An intelligent and practical builder states it
as the result of his experience and observation
that mortar iu the interior walls, especially if it
lie what is called “rich" mortar, is liable never
to harden, but to retain its soft consistency
even for centuries; but this can only lie the case
where the interior of the wall is hermetically
sealed against the external air, which method
both arrests evaporation and shuts off the
chemical operation of the atmosphere. The
fact lias lieen stated that in England, not long
ago, an architect dug into a stone wall an years
old mid of considerable thickness, and took
from between the stones a puaiitity of mortar
as soft as it must have been the day the wall
was built, and discoveries of the same character
have been made In other places, it is also
slated that the possibility of such un occur
renec may lie tested in a very easy way. name
ly, by putting some rich mortar into a glnss
blit tie ami hermetically M-oJmg it the foot
lieing that it will never become any harder than
I when it was put into it.
M Usual Mathiru, <*icf engineer of the
French railway du Midi, from oliservations on
the ooMtunption of the wood ties on French
railways, has found that their duration depends
upon several factors, among which are ihe
material employed, the climate, the ground anil
the ballasting < >.ik the., not plot aired last
foil Keen yi-ars; when cre.s.ote.l eighteen years
< reosoteii lieeeli lies last from eight to ten
years; .took-.tod tic* of pines of the I,unde*
twelve years; IH-etiared with siilpl.ato of Conner'
fr.Mii eight Ui twelve yearn. While, ft* between
w.ssl and the MiilMiitutlon of metal for it m
fuv.sa. slleking Pi w.ssl, lie ailniiis
tliat th.* sijlisti.utlou of steel f.M* Iron is so m.
isirtai.t matter, and that our of ms nrliidual
ineoiivenuMi.sis of the inelallo lies want of
sol silty to the f. 'Pit s may Is. nhvtsird t.y care
(>.l sltehts.il .luring the Aral two years Whl.-ti
will llnuo- the mils and ttu* nl.wii.fs solid Me
Ulkr Ues in wild Is- mails heavier than they am
f U > etMSiee.l The; b.i lew,, told, m
Us* 'surmini.g of lost, .si fi,7.s. kilem.-ter* t 4
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