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4 Clte|ponung|lcto3 Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. THFBSDAY. KOVMBTO 24, 1887. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. The Morning News is published every day in the year, and to served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and can ters, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 U 0 for six months and >lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, Iru mail , one month, $1 00; three months, $2 50; six months, $0 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, hy matt, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months. $4 U 0 one vear. $8 00. The Morning News. Tri-tVeekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Ihurs days and Saturdays, three mouths, $1 25; six months. $2 00; one year. $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one y T ear, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. This paper to kept on file and advert ising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers’ Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should he addressed "Morning News. Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings —St. Patrick's T. A. B. Society; Zer uhbabel l.odge No. 15, F. & A. M. Special Notices —Savannah Rifle Association; as to Closing of S-. F. and W. Ry. ; Turkey for Lunch at Graham's; For Clerk of Superior Court, Jas. K. P. Carr; Notice, John Derst: Schreiner, the Importer, Opens a Second Toy Store; As to Crew of Swedish Bark Olof Gins; Oyster Roast at Byers’. Thunderbolt. Amusements— Templeton Ojiera Company at the Theatre. Legal Notice— As to Demands Against Es tate. Thanksgiving Schedule—Coast Lino Rail road. Thanksgiving at Thunderbolt— M. J. Doyle, Proprietor Thunderbolt Park Course. Pianos, Organs, Tuning and Repairing— Davis Bros. Eleoant Styles of Fine Furniture— A. J. Miller & Cos. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost or Stolen; Miscellaneous. Hotels— Pulaski House. Savannah, Ga. The Importer —Schreiner, 140 Congress street. Thanksgiving —L. & B. S. M. 11. Liquors, Etc.—A. H. Champion. Eleven women, who voted in the reoent elections in New York State will be prose cuted. The composition of juries in Jacksonville does not appear to be satisfactory to all the cit izens in that city. M. Wilson will rank with Mitkiewicz and Kissane when the French Chamber of Depu ties gets through with him. It is probable that the wounds received in the prohibition fight at Atlanta will not heal for many a day after the election. Reforc you eat your Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie, remember the poor. If you do you will have a better appetite for your dinner. According to representatives of the Yale Hiul Princeton college foot ball teams, the best college athletes are Christians, and their favorite game a sort of a muscular Christianity. The assertion that Cardinal Mazzella had officially examined and approved the works of Henry George on behalf of the Catholic church has been denied authoritatively by that official, who adds that he has not ex amined them. The two convict companies who were re cently fined $2,500 each, for violations of the law relating to convicts, have, it seems, concluded to furnish the money within the time mentioned by the Governor. They are not anxious to lose their contracts. The statement in the New York Sun that Allen Thorndike Rice had won $250,000 from Pierre Lorillard at the Union Club in a game of cards again calls public attention to the greatest objection to “club life” so popular in the North. Although “gam bling” is prohibited in all first class clubs, it is nevertheless a well-known fact that big stakes are played for nightly in every New York club, and that thousands of dollars change hands over card tables at a single •itting. In an article on the “Church and Circus” P. T. Barnurn recalls the fact that fifty-one years ago at Lenox, Mass., he had an expe rience similar to that of Emma Abbott, yet he doubts whether that lady was justified in arising in church and defending the stage against the attack of the preacher. But Barnum consoles himself with the assurance that both the church and the circus are bet ter to-day than they wore fifty years ago the church has gained in liberality, the cir cus in morality. The gray-haired Danish author, P. C. Binding, who was found dead in his bed in New York Saturday, was at one time quite n noted man. He came to this country to establish a branch of a Danish church, of which he was an ordained minister, but fail ing in this he devoted himself to literary work and for a while was professor of Scan dinavian languages in Columbia College, New York. He also devoted much time to translating Danish works, and many of his productions are considered masterly efforts. The “express war” will undoubtedly re sult in the organization of an “express trust,’’and the entire business of the country will be placed under the absolute control of an executive committee, or board of some kind. This would mean an advance in rates, largely increased profits and a pleas ant time generally for the express men. What is the objection to organizing a soci ety of trusts? The sugar trust, the lumber trust, the rubber trust, the petro leum trust, the coal combination, the Bes semer Steel Association, the Standard Oil Company, and many other powerful mon opolies would undoubtedly gladly enter an association of trusts. Mr. Parnell, th j Irish leader, in an inter view in London, is quoted as saying: “Re specting the general situation, I may say that in my judgment a more feeble or inert government never held the reins in Ireland. They are teaching Irishmen a most disas trous lesson by their bungling incapacity, teaching that the law may be successfully defied.” In support of this statement Mr. Parnell calls attention to the fact that the coercive measures which the government is attempting to enforce are being successfully defied by thousands of members of the sup pressed branches of the leaguo and by every Nationalist newspaper editor in Ireland. The offenses against the coercion act, he points out, have increased one hundred fold under the present “firm and resolute” policy which tbq Tories claim to be carrying into •Iteration inTrolaad. A Financial and Mental Wreck. | The story of the mental and financial ! condition of ex-Senator Jones, of Florida, j which appears in our dispatches this morn i ing, is a sad one, and will carry sorrow to many hearts in Florida and other parts of the country where he has friends. If it were not for the kindness of a friend, to whom he rendered a special service when he was honored and prosperous, he would be a beglJkr upon the streets of Detroit. He is a mental wreck, and unable to take care of himself. Hud it been known when he de serted his seat in the United States Senate many months ago, and went to Detroit, that he was suffering from a mental trouble, the jokes which subsequently appeared in the newspapers concerning him and his affairs would never have been written. He had a big heart, which responded promptly to the call of suffering. He made friends wherever he went, for it was liis nature to be gentle and kind. If he had enemies they were not of his making. Only those who envied his success could have harliored bitter feelings with regard to him. The honors which came to him (lid not make him vain and unapproachable, nor did ambition make him indifferent to those social amenities which contribute so much to human happiness. When Senator Jones went to Detroit it was understood that he was in pursuit of a wealthy lady whom he desired to marry. It was stated that his attentions were not agreeable to her, and the fact that he re fused to cease pressing his suit was the oc casion of innumerable witieisms at his ex pense. It was not thought at first that his mind was diseased, but later on the impres sion became strong that he was not mental ly sound. The disposition to ridicule him, then gave place to a feeling of pity, and deep regret was felt that a career that promised so much should be ending so sadly. Whatever Senator Jones accomplished in life was due to his own unaided exertions. He started in life as a mechanic and pursued his trade while he read law. His success at the bar was due probably more to his natural ability and his excellent judgment than to his knowledge of the law. Ho reach ed the United States Senate through a com bination of circumstances that may never occur in any State again. Although his election to that high position was something of an accident, he proved himself to be well able to fill it, and while he may not have stood in the front rank of Senators, his place was not far from it. Those w'ho knew him well, and recall the hearty, kindly voice and manner with which he greeted his friends and acquaintances, will read the an nouncement that he is a lunatic and beggar with sorrow. Darien’s Quarantine. The Board of Health of Darien decided some days ago, not to continue quarantine at their port during the w-inter season. Quarantine will doubtless be established again on May 1, of next year. In the mean time about the only protection Darien will have against the introduction of infectious and contagious diseases, will be that af forded by the pilots, who are instructed not tq bring into that port any vessel from a lo cality where infectious or contagious dis eases prevail if the vessel have sickness on board. No port physician will be employed at Doboy, but if there is need of one there at rny time, one will be sent from Darien to perforin such duties as may be required of him. The Board of Health of Darien was not, it seems, a unit in removing all quarantine re strictions except such as can be enforced through the pilots, and it is a question whether the board’s action is wise. Cholera is prevailing,in Europe and there is doubt less yellow fever and small-pox at some of the ports with which Darien has commer cial relations. If Darien should have the misfortune to have two or three cases of a disease re garded as infectious or contagious within her limits before the season for regular quarantine begins, quarantine would doubt less be established against her very promptly. Cold weather is not much protection against cholera, and it should be guarded against about as carefully in winter as in summer. The expense of keeping a quarantine officer at Doboy until next May would not be a great deal, but the loss which Darien would suffer would be very considerable if she should be quarantined. Gambling in the Clubs. Two big scandals in New York, in which prominent society men are interested, have been before the public during the last week. They are the story that Allen Thorndyke Rice won from Pierre Lorillard $250,000 at a game of poker in the Union Club rooms and the expulsion of Col. Gebhard from the New York Club. Both of those scandals bring prominently liefore the public tl e fact that gambling is indulged in to a great extent at club houses. Both Mr. 11(1*0 and Mr. Lorillard deny the accuracy of the story with which their names have been connected. The row in the New York club which led to the expulsion of Col. Gebhard was caus< and by the statement of the Colonel that anoth er member of the club bad “cheated at a game of cards.” The gentleman thus ac cused, who was, by the way, one of the most influential members of the club, caused the reconsideration of a bill of Col. Geb bard’s against the club. The Secretary of the club was instructed to requast that gen tleman to refund part of the money paid him, as the bill was pronounced unjust. The squabble was carried into the courts and kicked out again, and finally the Colonel caused the arrest of the Secretary on the charge of blackmail. The charge, however, was dismissed and the contest was brought to a closo by the expulsion of Col. Gebhard from the club. The evil influence which such scandals huvo will long lie felt by every club in the city of New York. At the funeral of John J. Breslin, the Irish patriot, in New York, there was a noteworthy incident that may prove very important to the supporters of the Irish cause in this country. Leaders of both fac tions of the Clan-ua-Gael, the Irish revolu tionary party, met on this occasion and over the grave of the dead patriot the first steps toward a reconciliation and a reor ganization of the divided society were taken. It will be remembered that after the last Presidential campaign it was charged that the funds of the order had been used in supporting Blaine, and a large faction of the association withdrew. Repre sentatives of the kicking element are now examining the matter carefully, and it is announced that the differences will shortly be amicably settled. If women could vote at the election in Atlanta Saturday, prohibition would be carried by a rousing majority. It is prob able that it will be carried anyhow. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1887. Rlorida’s Prospects. Several Philadelphia capitalists, among them Hamilton Disston, John L. Hill and Daniel McClurth, are at present in South Florida looking after tin* large interests they have there, and preparing to make other in vestments. They have started anew town on Lake Tohopekaligo, and their expressed intentions is to spend a great deal of money improving it. Mr. Disston. in the course of a conversa tion about Florida a day or two ago, said that ho had every reason to think that the number of tourists ami immigrants who would seek the State this season would be very large. He knew, he said, that a great many Philadelphia people intended to make the State a visit this winter, and he had in formation that justified the statement that hundreds of Pennsylvanians are preparing to make their homes there. There is no particular reason to think that Florida is losing her popularity. The real estate craze in California, that for a year or two has drawn so many people to that State, is about over, and attention will, in all probability, be more strongly turned toward Florida in the near future than ever before. There is a growing impression that Flori da is to be a great sugar-producing State. Those who have experimented there with sugar have met with very encouraging results. A sugar mill has been erected at Kissimmee at a cost of over SIOO,OOO, and others will be built as soon as there is a demand for them. The State has hundreds of thousands of acres which are suitable for sugar culture, and which doubtless will in a few years be utilized for that purpose. The Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jackson ville and the opening of the magnificent new hotel at St. Augustine will draw into the State an unusual number of visitors be tween now and April uext. The climate and other attractions will induce many of them to make their homes there. Florida may look for a boom this winter that will be as great as any she has ever known. Barnum and His Lobs. Mr. Barnum takes his loss philosophically. Although 77 years of age, he talks about making it good next season and having a more complete show than ever before by March 1 as confidently as if he were a man of only middle age. He says that his wife read him the first telegram about the fire at about 2 a. m., and that notwithstanding the fact that property of his to the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars was being destroyed, he went to sleep at once, just as if nothing at all were happening which con cerned him. The reason of his indifference, he explained, was that he had already been burned out so many times that a fire was an old thing to him, and did not affect him any more than one of the old circus jokes which his clowns are in the habit of telling. Mr. Barnum has suffered a good many losses by fire. He estimates that as much as a million dollars worth of his property, not covered by insurance, has been turned into smoke and ashes at one time and another. The loss by the fire on Sunday night was between SIOO,OOO and $125,000, and the insurance was less than SIOO,OOO. Mr. Barnum was exceedingly careful to give the reporters who called upon him full particulars of the fire and also of his plans for the future. He knows the value of ad vertising, and the notoriety which this last fire has given him will help him wonderfully in making up his losses. He is not a poor man, however, by any means. He counts his wealth by millions. Without touching his private fortune he can have a better show by next spring than the one that was partly destroyed Sunday night. It is said that Buffalo Bill has made more money with his Wild West show than ever Mr. Barnum made as and showman in the same length of time. That may be true, but Buffalo Bill stumbled, as it were, on his good fortune, while Mr. Barnum, throughout his long and varied career, has displayed in his business talent that is al most genius. Dr. Parker, of England, who has been traveling through this country delivering lectures, and who delivered the eulogy on Mr. Beecher a few weeks ago, has made up his mind to return to London without seeing the whole country. Speaking of his ex periences in this country to a St. Paul, Minn., newspaper man, he said; “I find that my constitution is utterly inadequate to the strain upon the system of these interminable jour neys, the hour after hour in a sleeper, the vast distances, the endless succession of cities which have sprung up as if they had been set down upon the pldin in the night by genii. These appall me and weigh upon my spirit to ( that degree that J am w orn out. lam appalled, amazed, oppressed by this wonderful country. I could have no conception of its extent. Then there is the utter disregard of the value of money which a foreigner finds here. It seems to me that one of your dollars is no more than one of our shillings. If I should lie offered £ls for a letter in England I should think that some one were playing a joke on me, but here for one letter someone offers me $;!00.” And yet there are well informed people in Eng land who have an idea that this country is not much bigger than their own tight little island. Dr. Parker is now in a position to furnish such people some very interesting information about the United States. The discussion in regard to the prosecu tion of art dealers is growing more interest ing day by day. Anthony Comstock has done much in tho interest of morality, and has also at times failed to take proper steps toward the suppression of vice where his in terference wouldfeavebeen of great benefit. For instance, if Anthony would devote his attention to the distribution of vile photo graphs as an advertisement for cigarettes and prosecute those who distribute them he would l suppressing vice, but it is ques tionable if he is advancing the morality of the people of this country by prosecuting picture dealers for selling works of art. The indecency of a picture does not depeud upon the lack of drapery, but tho suggestions to which the work gives rise. Mr. Jones Hamilton and Mr. Eubank, who are charged with the murder of the prohibition editor, Gambril, at Jackson, Miss., have been trying for many weeks to get released from jail on bail. There is plenty of money to pay lawyers, but the Mississippi judges have made uptheir minds that the two men shall remain in confine ment until a jury passes upon the indict ment which has been found against them. The judges are doubtless right. “She” was wonderfully popular as a story, but it has been a great failure on the stage. Perhaps the dramatization of the story is not good, or perhaps it was not put on the stage in an attractive shajie. Whatever the trouble was everybody who had any thing to do with it lost money. CURRENT COMMENT. Sound Reasoning. From the Boston Globe (Dent.l Blaine domiuates Tom Platt, Tom Platt domi nates New York Republicans, and the Demoe racy has just dominated the Republican party in New York. Which is why President Cleve land will dominate the White House for another four years, if he lives, beginning March 4, 1889. A Good Crack at Mr. Froude. From the New York Sun (Deni.) James Anthony Froude, falsifier of hjstory and worshiper of brute force, is pleased to think that a military or quasi-military rule is what Ireland needs. .Mr. Froude is a very clever writer, but the trouble with him is, he is living in Strongbow’s or Strafford’s time and not in the nineteenth century. An Old Story. From the Neio York W orld ( Dem.) The sinking of the Scholten is hut the repeti tion of an old story The familiar features were all there: Running incautiously in a fog, a fail ure on one of the ves-els to display proper lights, a crash in the dark, terror among passengers and no discipline for the crew, useless lifeboats, acts of heroism, marvellous escapes, a long death list. Will it be the usual verdict of “no body to blame?” Not Hankering After Pardon. From the Boston Traveler (Rep). Even George William Curtis finds it difficult to forgive Grover Cleveland for his letter urging the election of John R. Fellows. But has Mr. G. W. Curtis seriously asked himself ivhether it may not be just possible that Mr. Cleveland does not care a continental whether he has his for giveness or not? It looks as if the mugwump orange having been sucked dry, the administra tion has no further use for it. BRIGHT BITB. If Anthony Comstock bas anything to say about it, the angels will have to wear jerseys and divided skirls.—Philadelphia P, ess. A cowboy who puts up at a hotel for the first time never blows out the gas. He simply shouts off the top of the jet with his revolver. N. B.— But he gets there just the sain e.—Hotel Mail. The fact that a man’s brain grows lighter as he grows older is considered a curious thing. His brain is supposed by the cummunity to be the lightest wheu he is about 20 years old— Detroit Free Press. The kind of a political party that this coun try needs most is one embracing a plank which prohibits candidates giving away cigars that cost less than sc. each, or three for a dime.— Duluth Paragrapher. People who are troubled with a scarcity of brown paper when they want to do up a bundle may realize the cause better when they learn that more than 3,000,000 cigars are made in this country every month.— Somerville Journal. “Confound it,” muttered Shakespeare's ghost as it flitted through Ignatius Donnelly’s aim-tum, “why couldn't they have stirred up all this discussion about Bacon and rae while I was a theatrical manager t"—Merchant Traveler, Young Mb Waldo (to Miss Breezy)—What a soft, beautiful complexion your friend Miss Wabash has, Miss Breezy. Miss Breezy—Yes, and don’t you think, Mr. Waldo, that it is even more so on one side than on the other?— Mew York Sun. Traveler—ls there any hotel in this place ? Native Boy—Naw. “Where do strangers And board and lodging?" “Ttiinno. Maybe old Sal’ll give you a bite. “What’s the name of this settlement, any how ?" “This ’ere place is called “The Belle City of the Plains. "—Omaha World. Don Atenogknes complains bitterly of the conduct of his son. He relates at length to an old friend all the young man’s escapades. "Yen should speak to him with firmness to call him to his dut)says the friend. "But he pays not the least attention to what I say. He listens only to the advice of fools. I wish you would talk to him."— Mexican Fun. Wavback man—All this talk about the benefits of high bernes is nonsense. What I want to see in Nebraska is prohibition. Omaha man—lt can tbe enforced. “No matter. I’ll never rest until we get pro hibition.” “Are you a temperance orator?” “Well, no. I keep the only drug store at Rnm Crossing, "—Omaha World. “Yes, sir,” went on Prof. X to a gentleman to whom lie had recently been introduced. “I have given some attention to the study of human nature, and 1 rarely fail to read a'face correctly. Now, there is a lady,” he continued, pointing across the room, “the lines of whose countenance are as clear to me as type. The chin shows firmness of disposition, amounting to obstinacy, the sharp, poiuted nose a vicious temperament, the large mouth volubility, the eyes a dryness of soul, the” “Wonderful, professor, wonderful.” “Yon know something of the lady, then?” said the professor. “Yes, a little; she’s my wife "—Epoch. The shades of night w ere falling fast, When through our sinctum sanctum passed A youth half clad in snow and ice, Who scorned the placard’s bold device— SHUT THE DOOR! The pressman in the cellar dim At midnight dark ills ..overed him. Our chief the elevator shaft Himself had opened to the draught, Nor heeded there the legend trim— Shut the door! There in the gloom all cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful he lay; AVhile far above the legend shone, Close by the sanctum telephone— Shut the door! —Macon Telegraph. PERSONAL. ■loskph CnAVHK.nt.AiN has been married twice, and is now a widower. Secretary and Mas. Lamar will go to Macon for the Christmas holidays. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is one of the most successful Grangers iu Congress. The Maharajah of Barado has spent $200,000 in various stores during his three weeks’ stay iu Laris. Charles Dickens while in Illinois will visit the grave of his brother Jeffrey, who is buried at Moline. A best of Mr. Parnell, the gift of a Mr. Cant well to Gov. Hill, bos been placed in the Exeeu tive Mansion at Albany. Viscount Kabayama, Admiral of the Japa nese Navy, with bis staff, has gone to Newport to examine our war ships. A severe CRITIC says that Mrs James Brown Potter's hands are "knuckly, almost rawboued. They are reddish-brown in color, too.” Cornelius Coughlin died at Grand Rapids, Mich., a few days ago, at the age of 101 years. 11l- was a tailor, and followed his trade to the day of his death. Roswell P. Flower has Iteon quite ill for some days, but his friends say that he is now re covering and will engineer his perennial boom again next year. Secretary Lamar says tho first three books he remembered reading in his childhood are ■ Franklin's Autobiography,” ‘'Rodin's His tory," and “Plutarch's Lives.” The family of John K. Scott, of Roaring Creek, W. Va„ consisting of himself, his wife, and eight sons, weigh collectively 2,138 pounds—an average of nearly 244 pounds each. Pboe. Drummond, the bright young Scotch man who has lieen making a visit to some of I he leading American colleges, says that to him their most remarkable feature is "their Chris tian tone,” Mils. Cleveland has a number of old college friends as guests at the White House this week. They are Miss Kingsford, of Oswego; Miss Severance, of Cleveland, and Miss Alexander, of Bridgeport. Mrs. Mart A. Livermore, the only woman who was on the floor of the convention which first nominated Lincoln, on Sunday severed all relations with the Republican party in a public speech in New York. eneeforth," she said “my party shall be that which stands for woman suffrage and prohibition.” Harry Oliver, of Pittsburg, the great iron master of the American Birmingham, started a clerk of the humblest type, grew to be head of one of the greatest iron houses of the world, came within a vote of being United States Sena tor, failed for a million, then paid it off and is again prosperous, though he is not 45 yeum old. Col. IV, H. Youno, of anywhere and every where. hut principally of the lobbies and cafes of Washington, is one of the picturesque rem nants of the war. Every one in the capital knows the Colonel. He has a claim against the government. Most people that hang around the Treasury and Congress as persistently as Mr Young, are in the same category, but the Col onel has written a big hook about his demand. He wants SIOO,OOO. and to confess the truth, he wants it badly. He raised a regiment in Ken tucky for the army and paid all the expenses himself. He was evidently richer then than he is to-day. The regiment disappeared some where among the Pennsylvania troops when it got into the field, and the Colonel has spent, all the years since In hunting where It went to and urging the payment of bis SIIXI,OOO. A Bad Bet to Lose. From the Philadelphia Press. A rather singular bet was made in this city on the night liefore election. No money was wagered, hut it was agreed that the winner should he privileged at any time within twelve months to'eall upon the loser at any time, night or day, and in any place, and proclaim in a loud tone: “I own this man. He dare not deny it. I possess a secret about his life that puts him completely in my power, lie dare not refuse to do anything I tell him. To prove my assertion I will order him to treat every one within sound of my voice to champagne.” Imagine the situation should this be sprung upon the unfor tunate loser in a crowded cafe, or at a business meeting, or at a banquet! It was mutually agreed that no matter how offensive the tone or manner might be Ibe loser dare not resent it. The manner in which the gentleman who got on the wrong side of the fence avoids the gen twman who got on the light side in crowded places is amusing, to say the least. He has been living In dread since election day. A Rude Awakening. Fom the Journal of Education. She had a face surpassing fair; All men admired her beauty rare: And I? Well, I adored her, nothing less; To be with her was happiness Three ply. Of course she knew; Bhe was not blind; She saw my plight , and she was kind And good; For when I asked her if she’d wed A chap like ine, she blushed, and said She Would. Oh, then the summer quickly flew Till the time came to say adieu One night.. She promised w hen I went away That every single blessed day She’d write. But her first letter drove me mad Almost, with wild despair, for sad To tell. This lovely maid, for whom I yearned So lovingly, had never learned To spell. He Had a Corner on Monkeys. From the Gazette du Midi. A merchant in Marseilles once wrote to a cor respondent on the coast of Africa asking him to send him at his convenience two or three monkeys of the rarest and mo t valuable spe cies. As cbance would have it. the merchant, in stating the number wrote the ou (or) between the figures 2 and 3 with a very small o and a diminutive u. How great events may issue from small causes will appear from the sequel. A few months passed over, when at last a mes senger was sent from the harbor to inform the merchant that his menagerie had landed. “My menagerie!” was the astonished reply. “Yes, a menagerie; in fact, a whole cargo of monkeys has come for you.” The merchant could not believe the man until a letter was delivered to him from his friend in Africa, a person of the most scurupulous exactness,injwhich he gravely apologized for his having been unab e, notwith standing all his efforts, to procure more than 160 monkeys, instead of 203 as ordered, but promised to forward the remainder as soon as possible. Imagine the feelings|of the merchant on going down to the port to convice himself with his own eyes of the existence of his 160 monkeys, which were all comfortably housed and which grinned at him through the bars of their cages. It was one of those moments in a life-time when a man hardly knows whether to laugh or to weep. Hard to Kill. From the Philadelphia Times. Sturdy Chief Justice John Marshall seems to have a sturdy lot of descendauts. One of them, also John Marshall, owns a farm in Virginia, with a wett-equipped saw mill on a creek. He got down in the buffi-sa w pit not long ago to fix a loose screw. Suddenly be felt something moving behind him, and he threw' Lis arm up aud felt the saw cut right through above the el bow, almost from skin to akin. Raising his head he struck the saw, which cut a groove right through his hair, over his forehead and face and down into his throat. When he was taken out his face was one mass of bleeding flesh. They laid him on the grass and brought a surgeon. While the latter was running across the fields to the spot where the men bad left Marshall he heard ms voice saying, as well as the wounds would permit: “Shove this stuff away from my eye. so that I can see whether it’s hurt.” They did “shove the stuff” away from his eye as care fully as possible, and he gave them one ghastly glance and then murmured: “It's all right; I ran see." It took the surgeon au hour and a half to dress all his wounds. He endured the pain with perfect composure Within a month tie was out again as well as ever. Someone was telling one of the old darkies on the place, while “Marster John” was still in bed, what a narrow escape he had had from death. “Huh!” said the darkey, “take heap more thau that to kill Marse John. Why, If you wanted to kill Marse John, you’d have to cut his head off—and then hide the head.” White House Life. Washington SjyeciaJ. There is no reason why a President should live any differently from other people, but it is noue the less uatural the general public should be curious about every detail of the day’s rou tine at the White House. A reporter of the Washington Critic has undertaken to meet this curiosity bv gathering some interesting facts about the White House daily menu. He reports some amusing facts, among them the singular circumstance that the dinner is generally made up of six courses, but does not take more than an hour. Of breakfast, he says t hat it is served at the White House at 0 o'clock on week days and a half hour later on Sundays. It is a big meal with the President and a hearty founda tion for the day. Generally the menu covers a half dozen dishes. Luncheon is served promptly at 1:80, and if there is a guest, at 'i o'clock. It is a midday meal to all intents and purposes, but little time is wasted in it* discussion. The menu one day lately, a fair sample of the average, was a pair of pheasants, sweetbreads, Saratoga chips, cold ham,chocolate cake and cream, and milk and tea. Dinner is usually served in about six courses, w ith all the necompanianients of flowers and lighted candles. The President drinks wine at dinner, but very sparingly. Mrs Cleveland does not touch a drop stronger than apollinaris at table. Mrs. Cleveland is reported as having some old fashioned notions about Sunday, wanting the servants' work for that day lessened as much as possible. She always has a cold lunch and has it served up in the quickest and simplest way, so that the servants can have a long afternoon and evening to themselves. Usually they dine on Sundays at Oak View. All summer the cooks employed have been two colored women, the head cook, of course, ail expert. This week the French chef came back for the winter sea son. Mrs. Cleveland is greatly liked by her house servants because of ber friendly and gracious manners. Down to the least she has always the cheery salutation when she meets them anywhere in the house. Gen. Sparks' Career. From the Philadelphia Record. Washington, D. C.. Nov. 19.—Nothing in the General Laud Office became Commissioner Sparks like his leaving it. He whs the proverbial March—coming in like a lion and going out. like a lamb. He is a born*tighter, strong willed, disputatious, pugnacious. A tall, large-boned man, with a large head, a good deal of silvery gray hair and beard, and a pair of gold-rimmed eye-glasses which used to come tumbling off when liis long arms began to revolve in the midst of some excited speech in the House of Representatives. He was Chairman of the Com mittee on Military Affairs during the latter part of his term, partly because of lUh being a titular ’•General,'' but largely because he was a natural soldier. As chairman of that committee he fought many terrible battles on the floor with much eloquence and gesticulation—“a cross be tween a wind-mill and a war-dance" —always coming out with great satisfaction to himself. His most famous encounter was with James 11. Weaver, of lowa, candidate of the Greenbackers for President, and still a member of the House. In the midst of an overheated delsOe Sparks called Weaver a liar, or Weaver called Sparks one, I've forgotten which. JCaeh advanced toward the other with threatening fists and the desperate appeal “Let me get at him!” But a dozen Republicans held Weaver, while a dozen Democrat* held Sparks 40 feet away, and would not let them go until (hey were comparatively cool, although they still begged to be allowed to “get at him," and George Wash ington Jones, a Texas Greenbacker. stand ing on the seat of his chair, shouted: “Oh, let them have it out.’! Mr. Sparks was not extinguished when he was immersed in the Coiumissionship of the General Land Office. He was just the same. He fought the railways, the settlers, the minor officials of the govern ment, and even his official superiors. He was a subordinate, yet he acted as though he had been supreme. The First Comptroller of the Treas ury, who sometimes arrogates to himself greater powers than are vested in the United Stales Supreme Court, could not have been morn aspiring of authority. Of course there could be but one end to such a course, no matter how much good a man might do along the wav. Sparks will not suffer. He is well to do. ite could not have taken the office at all otherwise for it only pays $4,000 a year. He say , his ex perience in it cost hi)n just SIO,OOO more than his salary. He will stay here this winter to see how his successor shall come out. ITEMS OP INTERE3T. Fried mice for whooping cough once formed a very popular treatment in Ragland, and in some clistricts do still. An enthusiastic Memphis citizen who shook hands with the President declares that he will never wash his hands again. The venerable Simon Cameron takes great pride in his cattle. His pres_-nt particular pet is a steer that girths over eight feet and weighs 2,100 pounds. A man was instantly killed near Lowell, Mass., recently, while walking on a railroad track upon returning from a cemetery, where he had goi.e to arrange for his w ife’s funeral. Counterfeit postal cards have been discov ered in Pittsburg which are so skilfully executed that their detection is very difficult. This is the first attempt to put spurious postal cards in cir culation. At Lexington, Miss., the men have no chance with the women. Miss Dixie Cole is the express agent. M ss Emily Wright is the postmistress, and Miss Mollie Hoskins has charge of the tele graph office. Five silver dimes were recently sent the Reading (Mich.) Telephone on a postal card. The pieces were placed in looped slips cut into the card and held there by a thread which crossed the loops. A. P. Foss saw a live chicken floating and struggling in the canal at Suncook, N. H., and pulled it out. Attached to its leg was a pickerel weighing over two pounds, which had grabbed the, chicken’s leg In such a way that it could not let go. On his whaling cruise just ended Capt. Bauldry, of the steam w haler Orea, San Fran cisco, killed thirty-five whales, stowed twenty eight (all he had room for), and brought into port 2,800 barrels of oil and 48.000 pounds of bone—the largest catch on record, and valued at about $266,880. John Haclston, a watchman at Shropshire Iron works, near Wellington, lost his life while going his rounds carrying a lighted torch. Pass ing a tank of oil, be tripped and fell into it. The torch ignited the oil and he was in a lake of fire. He died shortly after being rescued. The build ing was destroyed. Paper bedclothes are made at a factory in New Jersey. They are doubled sheets of manila paper, strengthened with twine, and valuable by reason of the peculiar properties of paper as a non-conductor of heat . They have a warmth preserving power far out of proportion to their thickness and weight. An old Roman fireplace, with the ashes and chimney well preserved, was unearthed at the market place. Mayence, recently. The pipes were earthenware, and fitted exactly into one another. A monumental stone bearing the in scription, “Leg XIII., G. E. M.,” found close by, was nearly 22 inches long by nearly 12 inches 1 broad. At a church entertainment in Washington recently, boxes of luncheon were sold to the young men, and in each box was the card of some young woman who was present. The pur chasers were supposed not to know what names were in the boxes they bought, and each was expected to share his luncheon with the girl whose name he found in the box. Telegraphic communication will shortly be gin betweeu Russia and France. All dispatches at present come through Germany, and have recently been tampered with at Berlin. Russia, in the case of a war between Germany and Austria, would be entirely cut off from tele graphic communication with the remainder of Europe. Prof. Max Muller has been requested by his highness the Maharajah of Vizianagram to publish anew edition of the sacred book of the Brahmans, the Rig Veda, with the commentary of Sayanaebarya. The Maharajah will bear the whole expense, and the book is to be printed at Oxford University Press. The first edition has been out of print for some time. It consisted of six quarto volumes. James Robinson created a sensation at the railroad station in Erie, Pa., on Friday, by superintending the removal, of his aged and in valid mother to the poorhouse. In spite of her piteous enteaties to be spared the humiliation of being cast into the pauper’s den, and the curses of the men who stood around, he ha ‘ his mother loaded on the ambulance and taken to the poorhouse. Antwerp promises in the future to be again a great art centre. It has to-day one of the finest art schools in Europe. The town is so quiet and so clean and so healthful that students would certainly be able to do more work here than in the crowded quarters of Paris. The modern Belgian art ists I think are belter than the modern Frenchmen. They have equal skill and technique aud put more ideas and brains into their pictures. Some highly respected citizens of St Cloud, Minn., in 1808, annoyed by the sarcastic and bit ter sayings published in Mrs. Jane Grey Hwiss holni’s St Cloud Visitor , revenged themselves by throwing all her type into the river. Re cently the ancient printing material was found near the mouth of a canal. Mrs. Swissholm died last year, and it is suggested as an ap propriate thing to mould tde type into some suitable emblem and place it at her grave. Philadelphia merchants who employ a large number of young ladies in their stores have begun to realize that it pays to study their comforts and interests. In one large dry goods house there is a relief fund, to which all fines, etc., are paid over, while the young ladies enjoy the privilege of a completely furnished and comfortably fitted room for meals, etc., with coffee furnished by the firm to supplement the meals brought from home. The system was in augurated in London Douses twenty years ago and has been found to work admirably. Some of the animals of Japan are quite dif ferent from the same species whieh are seen in America. The cats, for instance, have the short est kinds of tails or else none at all. Being de prived of this usual plaything, they are very sol emn pussies. An American once took one of these tailless cats to San Francisco as a curios ity. and it utterly refused companionship with the long tailed feline specimens there; but. find ing a cat whose tail had been cut off by acci dent. the two became friendly at once. Japan ese dogs are almost destitute of noses, haviug the nostrils set directly in the head. The smaller the nose the more valuable the breed. Even San Francisco stopped to look at a cow boy who proudly walked its streets the other day. The Argonaut says that he was fully 6 feet 6 inches in height, broad shouldered, bronzed, and wore a small black moustache, while two large gray eyes seemed to take in all the admiring glances shot at lii:n by the crowd of well dressed ladies who passed by. He wore >a paire of Wellington boots, into whieh were thrust the legs of a pair of tight-fitting gray pantaloons. A mauve-colored woolen shirt dis played several diamonds in the front, and a blue silk tie encircled his throat. On his head was a stiff white hut, with a brim fully 12 inches broad. The story comes from Milton, Mass., that a widow there who owned a beautiful house leased It to a Boston woman, to he used as a summer boarding house. Guests arrived, and the season opened prosperously, but soon it was whispered that the house was haunted. The servants be came demoralized, the guests became ui eisv, and the landlady herself smw a white and misty form fluting through the hails She was about to give up the lease when the owner arrived and said that she wanted to see the ghost, too. Sim watched for it. and sure enough it appeared; but the watcher, instead of fleeing in terror tackled tffe sheeted form and disclosed a neigh bor who had vainly tried to buy the property and took this way to bring the house into disre pute and also into the market. Frederick the Great had sound ideas on the forestry question, judging from this proclama tion, said to have been issued in 1708: “We de termined that in all the lands subject unto us all young married persons, al the time of their marriage, should plant at least twelve trees at some convenient spot, six being fruit trees and six being oak trees, As we And. to our great 'iispleasure, that this order has not been obedi ently observed, we now further ordain and de cree that this shall be done before the marriage, and that until it is done the parish clergy of our lam Is shall not join any person in wedlock: and to the end that we have a satisfactory assurance that this our edict is oarrie 1 out, we require all T>astors to send in a full specification of all mar riages celebrated in their parishes.” It is found practicable, at last, to make the waste of pine saw mills available for paper pulp. In reducing the wood to pulp bi-sulphate of lime bas been used, this powerful chemical acting on the fibre ouly when heated; heretofore only lead-lined boilers would resist its action these, however, being costly and hard to keepiti repair. More recently there has been discov ered in Germany a kind of brick lining for boil ers, which serves the purpose in question. The wood, sawed in small piecej, is digested with the bi-sulplintr in large boilers lined with this brick, heat being supplied through lead steam I pipes, nothing further being ueetssary ex rent, thorough washing of the fibre. The bi-sulphate I is made ou the spot, by passing sulphurous vapor t hroogh pprous limestone kept thoroughly BA KI NO I*o AV DK K. CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of 'ome.s for more than a quarter of a century. It is 'sed by the United States Government. In dorsed by the heads of the Great Universities as he Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr 'rice’s the only Baking Powder that does noi ontain Ammonia, lame or Alum. Sold only in ana PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. YORK. CHTf.ro. ST. LOTUS A. R. ALTMAYER A CO? ’ ilfflijerACo, Public Benefactors. Observer E. A. Hanner, of the U. S. Sig nal Service, says there is every indication of cold weather for next week. This means a big demand for Boys’ Clothing, Blankets, Wraps, Cloaks, etc., etc. The house that can show the most reliable value in these goods is the one that’s going to sell the big gest share of ’em. Try us. You take no chances. We are here for success and to stay. Here’s a few hummers for you to gaze on, only a few of the thousand in vincible bargains to be found in this the largest establishment of its kind in the South. Blankets are our hobby; here’s one from 150 bargains in this department: 100 Pairs 6 1-2 lb. White All Wool 12-4 Blankets, Conceded by Wholesale Dealers to be Cheap at $0 50; We’ll Sell 100 Pairs This Week for $4 a Pair. Purchase a pair; you’ll need ’em; then step to counter directly opposite and ex amine sample of 100 Dozen Ladies’ All Wool Dndemsts, Guaranteed Medicated Wool Scarlet, were Considered Cheap Last Week at $1 50; This Week We’ll Run ’em at $l. You MUST have a Muff! Well, here’s 1,000 elegant Black Fur ones we’re running off at 50c.; $2 50 is their value. How are you off for Wraps! Didn’t get one of the 75 we sold last week ! Well, here’s a chance: $25. $35 and $4O Imported Plush Satin-lined Short Wraps have TAKEN A TUMBLE for this week only to $l7 08. Two bales " -avy Canton Flannel was sel ling last week at 10c.; this week’s price tike. Come and see the quotations in our pet department (Dress Goods); see the unap proachable bargains on centre Dress Goods counter. The small fry will now stand aghast and cry “a bait, a bait,” acting on the principle "that “good wine needs no bush.” We respectfully solicit an inspection of the above and ask you to kindly be tha judge as to the genuineness of these invin cible bargains. A. l ALTMAYER k CO. Broughton and Bull Sts. MEDICAL. M’s Pills Regulate The Bowels Costivenens deraiiKen the whole ay* •m and begets diseases, sueh as Sick Headache, ijyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Disease? Bilious Colic, Malaria, etc. fntt’s Fills produce rcjfulor habit o. toil) and good digestion, withoa obicb, no one can enjoy good healta Sold Evervwhere. A BOON to MEN tffitFAKET^AK^MKeAYED.OI^^SS SEXUALLY bom EARLY VICE or LATER EVIW nmy be ionnd In IhoKew and FRENCH HOSPITAL REMEDIES. A QUICK and LASTING CURE (pamraateed. SEVERE ANI EVEN HOPELESS CASK solicited. SEALER BOOK, full pvUabn. [*•+ Letter or office advice free* Board of Physician* CIVIALE AGENCY. 174 FULTON BT.. NEW YORK-, ftTise tsiren tns led t the sajes of that claes of remedial, and hai fivea almost universal saasfac- OV "iIt;APHYBRO Sfff Jl}3SZJt3%g tie loading Medi dnasoftheoildoa.. A. L. SMIIH. Bradford, ft. Sold by Druggist* FOOD PRODUCTS. test Citj Ills. am making an extra quality of OBITS ami MEAL, and can recommend it to the trade as superior to any in this market. Would M pleased to give special prices on application- We have on hand a choice lot of EMITf SACKS, which we are selling cheap. BOND, HAYNES & ELTON