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4 C|f Morning fUtos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1887. Registered at the Pott Office ' .SaranimA The Morning News is published every day in the year, and is served to subscribers in the rite, by newsdealers mi l carriers. on their own ac count, at 05 cents a w eek $1 (V> a month, $c 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, b y moil, one month. *1 00; thits' months, $2 50; six months, $5 CO; one year. $lO 00 The Morning Nfwr. hp moil, six time* a week (without Sunday issue!, three months, *2 00; six month* $4 03 one year. J- on. The Morning News. Tri weekly. Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. *2 50: one yre.r $S 03. The Sunday News, bp ami!, one year. *2 00 The Weekly News, by mad. one rear. $1 25 Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cun reoev sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on tile and advertising rates may lie ascertainel at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Oourt, New York City. letters end telegrams should be addressed “Vonn:\t. News. Savannah. Ga." Adveiiismi: rates made known on application Index to new advertisements 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. Cheap Column Advertisements. —Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Kent; Fur Sale; Boarding: Personal; Miscellaneous. Show Casks—Terry Show Case Cos., Nashville, Tenn. Fok Doboy, etc —Steamer Pope Catlin. Boots, Shows, etc —Byck Bros. Auction Safes -Elegant Furniture, by J. Me Laughlin & Son; A Desirable Residence, and Store, and Furniture, etc . by C. H. Porsett; Crockery, Furniture.etc by Marshall & McLeod; Closing Sale, by D. R, Kennedy Steamship Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos. Pianos and Organs—L. &B.S.M. H. 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. 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