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4 C!jc|Horning|lctos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. TrESDAT, SOVEMBEB 29. 18S7. Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. ThaMMinm News is published every day ia the year, ami is served to subscribers in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on tbeir own ac count, at IS cents a week, $1 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 tor one year. The Morning N kwk, by mail, one month, $1 00; three months, 82 50; six months, $5 00; one year, $lO 00. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six months, $1 00 one year. $8 00. The Morning News, Tri-Weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday’s, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, 25; six months, $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Sunday N ews, by mail , one year. $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year, $i 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent bv mail at risk of senders. This paper is kept on file and advert ising rates may Is- ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, Savannah, Ga.” Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings— Myrtle Lodge No. 1,663, G. U. O. of O. F.; Savannah Cadets. Special Notices—As to Bills against British Steamship Coningsbv; Renting of Pews in In dependent Presbyterian Church. Steamship Schedule— Baltimore Steamship Company. Fob Blitfton, Port Royal, Etc.— Steamer Pope Catlin. Official— Renting of Stalls in City Market. Direct Importation—At Schreiner's. House, Sign and Ornamental Painting— T. E. Rrougbton & Bro. Heaters— Cornwell & Chipman. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Strayed or Stolen; Lost; Board; Personal; Mis cellaneous. It is authoritatively announced that Col. Robert Ingersoll has no more cancer in his throat than he has religion in his heart. It is predicted that the fall of the Salis bury government in England is not far off. There would certainly be no tears shed iu Ireland if the prediction were to come true to-morrow. What does this sudden silence respecting the title of the barracks lot mean I Has the attorney for the government reported favor ably upon it, and is the new post office to be located on the barracks lot? Columbus hopes to have railroad connec tion with Brunswick and Albany within a year. She is to be congratulated in her good fortune. The more railroads entering a town the greater its prosperity. Mr. Murat Halstead’s sectional howl is heard through the Forum for December. It is a pity that every forum in the land isn't closed to him until he can talk like a sane man. Henry George received just 1,088 votes more at the November election for Secre tary of State of New York than he received for Mayor of New York city in the spring. Can he still be thinking of forming a national party? Ex-Congressman Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, says that the talk that the Senate may refuse to confirm the nomination of Mr. Lamar, if the President nominates him for the vacant place on the Supreme bench, is all rot. And there is no doubt that Mr. Tucker is about right. The impression appears to prevail in Washington that the Blair educational bill has no chance of being adopted ithin the next two years. The fact is, the chance that the bill will ever be passed does not ap pear to be as good now as it was when it was first introduced into Congress. Presence of mind in the face of suddenly discovered danger is a gift which few women possess, as was illustrated at Macon Saturday when an alarm of fire was given in a theatre filled with women and children. The panic that followed the cry was fright ful, but fortunately no one was injured. The closing scenes in the great go-as-you please contest at Philadelphia lost week were of such a character as to create a bad impression on the spectators. The spectacle of an old man limping about the track, a physical wreck, is not particularly edify ing. There is altogether too much brutality connected with progressive sporting con tests these days to make them popular with intelligent men. Jay Gould has been interviewed at Mar seillos, and has complained bitterly of the high railroad fares charged on the other side. The little man says the results of the fall elections, as he reads them, indicate that < lleveland will be re-nominated and elected. “What we want is a business administra tion and permanence,” said Mr. Gould, speaking for the business men, and he thinks the Country has had a good adminis tration under Mr. Cleveland. The C-onserva.ives in England are be coming alarmed at tne growing strength of the protection sentiment among certain classes in that country. The farmers waut to put 10s. or 12s. duty on wheat, and if this is done, of course, the price of bread will advance. At present a large propor tion of the inhabitants of all the large cities in the kingdom are clamoring for bread, and English statesmen have lieen trying to find some way to relieve their wants, but at present the problem is getting more com plicated. That Mr. Powderly is still the head and front of the Knights of Labor is evident from recent developments in the manage ment of the affairs of the order. The kick ers and soreheads will have to take back seats, it appears, and recognize Mr. Pow derly’s authority. Employers throughout the country will feel more confidence In the order, now that Mr. Powderly’s authority has been established, for he has always recognized the- fact that capital has some claims, a fact that the ordinary walking delegate, puffed up with temporary author ity, seldom realizes. One old colored man exclaimed, as lie watched the struggle between the Prohibi tionists and anti-Prohibitionists for the votes of the colored people at Atlanta last Saturday. “Bless de Lawd, I'se lived to see the cullud folks as good as do whites.” This evidence of happiness on the part; of the old colored mau, and the announcement of one distinguished anti-Prohibitionist thut he loved a certain Prohibitionist like a brother, indicate that tho struggle for prohibition in Atlanta was productive of a good deal of good feeling—something that is rather un common iu heated election contest*. Arbor Day. The Governor has appointed next Fri ; day as Arbor day. It ought to be observed throughout the State. It will be observed in many of the towns, but if the people could lie brought to see the importance of I tree planting it would be observed in all of I them. Even the farmei’s could make Ar | bor day a very profitable one to themselves by devoting the whole of it to the planting of trees. If they don’t care for shade trees they might plant fruit and nut-bearing trees. The time is not very distant when throughout all this part of Georgia the finest kinds of pears, cherries, Japanese per simmons, peaches and other fruits will be grown. Why not begin tho planting of fruit trees, such as will thrive in this section, at once? If the farmers will plant fruit trees about their premises where they will answer as ornaments, provide shade, and at the same time produce fruit they will not regret it. But Arbor day is es|iecially set apart for tho planting of shade trees. The purpose is to turn the attention of the people to tree planting, not only because of the material benefits to he derived from trees, but, also, because of the good effect which their beau ty has upon those who are taught to appre ciate it. Every town in this or any other State which is adorned with shade trees is proud of them, and its citizens never miss an opportunity to refer to them in terms of appreciation. In homes which are shaded by grand old trees there is certain to be refinement, and, as a rule, happiness; and in well shaded towns the homes always appear to be more attractive than those in which no attention is paid to the cultivation of trees and flowers. Of course, there are hundreds of thou sands of acres of virgin forests in this State, and it will lie years before the bail effects of the destruction of the forests are percepti bly felt, but the time is coming when, if the planting of trees is wholly neglected, droughts and floods will take the place of the regular rains with which the State is blessed. The great plains of the West which, a few years ago, were almost bare, are lieing gradually beautified with trees. The farm houses are surrounded with them, and the roadways leading to them are adorned with them. Groves are being planted, and they not only add greatly to the beauty of the country, but they afford grateful protection to cattle from the blazing sun of summer and the death-dealing blizzard of winter. Let next Friday be distinguished in this State for the number of trees planted. The Nicaragua Canal Scheme. The steamer Hondo will sail to-morrow from New York with the survey expedition of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Com pany. The expedition will land at Grey town and at once begin the work of making the final surveys of the Nicaragua inter oceanic canal route. This expedition shows several things. First, that capitalists have put money in this Nicaragua canal scheme; second, that those who have put their money in it are satisfied that it can be made a success, and third, that they are confident that M. de Lesseps’ Panama canal will prove to lie a failure for the want of means to carry it to completion. The Nicaragua Canal Company has re ceived from the government of Nicaragua some very’ important concessions, for which it has agreed to give a monev consideration. These concessions were confirmed by the Nicaraguan Legislature a few months ago, so that now the enterprise is undertaken with nothing apparently to obstruct it. The route of the proposed canal is 169.8 miles in length, of which 129 miles are river and lake, nnd there will be forty miles of canal. It is estimated that to open the canal from Greytown, on the At'antic, to Brito, on the Pacific, will cost $64,0(16.197. If it costs double that amount it will prob ably pay a good dividend upon the money invested in it. Of course there will have to be locks. Lake Nicaragua, through which the route runs the greater part of the way, is 110 feet above the mean level of the sea. The locks on either side of the lake will lx? sufficiently commodious to accommodate the largest steamers now used in ocean navigation. The forty miles of canal will have an average depth of about SO feet, and its bottom #vidth will vary from SO to 120 feet. It is expected that the canal will be opened for business in 1892, and that at that time the tonnage which will seek passage through it will yield, at the rates charged by the Suez canal, the magnificent sum of $16,20->,- 535 per annum. It is seldom, however, that the estimates of the income of such enter prises are not too high. The action of the Board of Trade of Chi cago, the Stock Exchange of New York, and other large gambling institutions throughout the country endeavoring to crush out their weak rivals, the bucket shops, is attracting much attention, and it appeal’s to be the general wish that success shall crown their efforts. Tho latest de velopment in the fight, hewever, is the at titude of retaliation assumed by the prose cuted bucket shop keepers who have decided to apply the law to the members of the more pretentious concerns and break them UP- The announcement that Mr. Gladstone is coming to this country for two months, and that an “advance agent'’ is making ar rangements for him sounds rather fishy. Nothing would give a large class of Ameri cans greater delight than to see the “grand old man” anil extend hint a warm recep tion, but it is hardly probably that their wish will lie realized. Elizabeth, N. J., is mourning over tho failure of Owen Sullivan, a partner in the Rising Sun Brewing Company. In the re cent. coal strike Mr. Sullivan pitied the pov erty of the coal-handlers and their families, so lie spent about $13,000 for groceries and sold them on trust to the coal-handlers. Ho has not got his money back, and his failure is owing to this fact. If tho next Republican national conven tion isn’t held in Philadelphia it will not be because the Pennsylvania Republican politi cians didn’t use their utmost efforts in behalf of that city. The corruption that marks the Republican politics of Philadel phia would seem to justify tho conclusion that the Republican convention would foci at home there. International arbitration is receiving a big boom just now It is to bo hoped that the time is not far distant when ail nations will recognize the wisdom of settling their disputes in this manner. The question, what is to become of the World's affidavit maker? is of much more importance in New York just now than the question whether there is a state of proba tion ufter death. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1887. Our Advertisers. i The advertising columns of the Morning News show conclusively that Savannah’s business men are progressive and enterpris ! mg. They not only advertise liberally, but they show excellent judgment In the- com position of their advertisements. About every ’advertisement indicates that the ad vertiser understands nnd appreciates the value of a well written announcement of the character of his business anti the induce ments he has to offer to the public. His aim appears to lie to kindle in the public mind a kintily interest in his business, as well as to make known the quality and prices of his wares. The advertising in the Morning News is as varied as the business of the city. It in cludes the card of the broker or professional man, which, in a simple and dignified wav, calls the attention of every possible client to him; the more pretentious advertisement of the dealer in dry goods or groceries, or in articles which are needed in the various trades and occupations, all sot forth in choice language and in an attractive shape; the clean cut advertisement of the mechanic who offers his services, or of the manufacturer who presents the articles of his production to those whose wants lead them toward him; the caterer to those who have money to spend for articles intended only for adorn ment, or to gratify the taste for tho beauti ful or for the amusement of children; in fact, the columns of the Morning News include advertisements from about all who are in any way engaged in supplying the wants of people, whether they are rich or poor. All these advertisements are signs point ing out to purchasers where they should go to buy what their necessities or inclina tions demand. They are often the rhetoric rather than the logic of business. They sug gest wants and lead people to make pur chases, at the same time directing their at tention to the places where they can get what they desire. Advertising also makes that immense sum which is daily circulating through the hands of the masses flow more freely and rapidly. Liberal advertising is a sure sign of a healthy and active business community. It is for the purpose of calling attention to the evidences of the enterprise and pros perity of Savannah as presented in the pages of the Morning News that this arti cle is written. Savannah’s merchants, professional men and mechanics may well feel a pride in their city as it appears to the thousands who read its newspaper. Pioneers of Anarchy. Mr. Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts, who was one of the most prominent of those who were engaged in making Kansas a free State several years before the civil war. by sending immigrants and arms to Kansas from the free States, has written a rather remarkable letter to tho New York Sun, iu which he points out that William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Philips and John Brown arc largely responsible for whatever there is of anarchism in this country. It is quite true that the Anarchists pre tend to regard John Brown as a hero and a martyr, and that they refer to him fre quently in their meetings iu terms of high est praise In fact they indorse every word that Wendell Phillips ever said of him, and lately they have found satisfaction In speak ing of him as an Anarchist, and in holding liis memory in the same respect as they do the memories of the Anarchists who died on the scaffold at Chicago. Eli Thayer knew John Brown very well. The picture which he draws of him shows that if Brown was the kind of a man the Anarchists admire, they are much worse than they have been generally believed to bo. Of John Brown Mr. Thayer says: It is no wonder, then, that the Anarchists of to-day acknowledge their rightful- king, and sing at their nocturnal conventions John Brown songs. This is the most appro priate commentary we have yet had upon the character of Garrison and Phillips, “martyr and saint.” Their eulogies found echoes in feeble pulpit utterances nnd oc casionally in public lectures. In this way the deadly virus of anarchy infected and poisoned public sentiment. But what did John Brown do? In Kansas he dragged from their beds at midnight three men and two boys and hacked them in pieces with two-edged cleavers, in such way that the massacre was reported to be the work of wild Indians. If any butcher in Now York city should hack and slash to death his own hogs and steers as John Brown hacked and slashed to death these men and boys in Kansas, ho would lie ar rested and imprisoned without delay. After this Brown slew an unarmed, inof fensive farmer iu Missouri In his murder ous raid at Harper's Ferry, the first man he slew was a negro engaged in the discharge of his duty at the freight station there. To the above should lie adtled the robbing of stores iu Kansas, the stealing of horses, tho invasion of Missouri, and the stealing of about $4,000 worth of oxen, mules, wagons, harness, ard such valuable and portable property as he could find. He was a merci less and most unscrupulous jayhawker. There are a good many men in New Eng land who still reverence the name of John Brown, and who think that Phillips and Garrison were tho greatest men of their day. Assuming that Mr. Thayer’s view of them is the correct one, those who have been accustomed to eulogize them will feel less inclined to do so now, perhaps. Those who were loudest in praise of them as Abolitionists can have no respect for them as pioneers of anarchy. Edward Haitian, of Toronto, Canada, is no longer champion of the world. He was defeated at Australia Saturday by William Beach for the third time in us many years. Hanian was once a great oarsman, probably the greatest the world has ever seen, but he has had his day nnd run his course. The cause of liis sudden downfall is attributed to lack of care. Hanlon's success brought hint monev as well as glory and his place in Toronto bay is visited by thousands of strangers every day during the summer season, and in fact contains a fortune for its owner. But Hanian, like many others, could not stand prosperity, and instead of sticking to bard work ami sutistantial food he indulged in bumming, it is said, ami the life of dissipation he led has had its effects upon his system. His collection of prizes at Hanlnn’s Island in Toronto hay, on many of which is inscribed his name ami the word "champion,” will have little interest for him now, nnd it may be that his recent numerous defeat* will have a tendency to lesson the public desire to see them. The present outlook is that by the time the Now York papers get through discuss ing the question whether or not the Presi dent requested his famous Fellows letter to be withheld from publication it will be time to eat Christmas dinner. It is alleged that high license is to be a great issue in the Presidential campaign in New York. This seems to bo such a recent discovery that it will probably require six months or more to determine whether or uot it is genuine. CURRENT COMMENT. Republican Dark Horses. Front the New York Herald (Ind.) Ex-Senator Miller and Mr. Morion may he re garded for the present as dark horses. There is a growing conviction in Republican circles ihat Mr, Hiscock would be a ’’good enough” candidate. Henry George’s Opportunity. From, the Philadelphia Times (Ind.) Now that Henry George has been knocked out of polities, the thing for him to do is to take up a tract of land in the West and form a colony on the basis of full land value taxation, so that every body can see how the scheme works. Imposing on Good Nature. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Ind.) As long as the Weather Bureau was merely an ornamental humbug, useful chiefly as a means of reducing the surplus, it was tolerated; but when its predictions of fair weather lure vessels to destruct ion in the storms of the great lakes it needs thorough overhauling. A bad weather service is worse than none at all. The Democrats and the Tariff. From the New York Tribune (Rep.) The Democratic party would deserve more credit for honesty than it now deserves, if it would have the manhood for once to meet the tariff question squarely. The country would have reason to rejoice If tho administration Democrats would turn .Mr. Randall out of his position, hold a Democratic caucus, place under the ban of executive displeasure all liemocratic members whs refuse to obey its decisions, pre sent an honest tariff reduction bill, and go to the country on that issue. The tricksters dare not to do anything so manly. BRIGHT BITS. Anthony Comstock will soon insist upon it that only dressed beef shall appear in the mar ket.— Bouton Post. ‘•Yes,” said the landlady, sadly, "appearances are deceitful, but disappearances are still more 80." —Burlington Free Press. The Vasxar serenade is “Oum, O gum with me.” The girl in the window says: "I choose, and will go."— S'eiv Orleans Picayune. Some Difference — First Speculator—Did he fall in with your scheme? Second Speculator—No, he tumbled to it.— Tid-Bits. Hartford Boy—l say, Tommy, let’s go chest nutting. Tommy—All right, where will we go? “Up Farmington avenue, near Mark Twain's. We can get a big bag full up there.”—New York Star. "And so your sister really said last night that she thought I was a little tlaisy, did she. Bobby?" asked Featherly. striving to hide his exultation. “Yes," responded Bobby, “and pa said that ho shouldn't be surprised, as he had often seen you a little dazy himself.— Epoch. (Jus (who has been making an evening call>— What a very cold and distant girl Miss Waldo is, Jack. When i bade her good night she only gave me three lingers. I actually had a chill. Jack—And what did you do, Gus? Gus—l stopped on my way home two or three times and got three lingers more— New York Sun. Servant— Mr. .1. L. Sullivan, of Boston, is in the reception room. Minister Phelps—Of Boston, did you say? Servant—Yes, sir. Phelps—Then show the gentleman in at once. Sullivan (entering with his hat on the back of his head)—Hello, Stuff! I’d like to take a fall out of you.— Mew York Star. “Why does the poor man pay so much more for his coal and wood than the rich?” asked a lecturer on economy. We didn't know that he invariably did. We know of one poor man. cer tainly, who last winter culled his kindling wood from" his neighbors' fences and lifted his coal from their bins while men slept, and if the mil lionaire monopolist can sail any closer to the wind than that he is entitled to the cup.—Bur dette. The Trouble— Reflect those eyes despair? Speak they of secret sorrow? Those seem'd lines of care Grief 's vesture surely borrow. That thin hand ou the breast Feels a heart that's broke— He simply misses from his vest That watch he put in soak. —Lowell Citizen. Have you s"en Father O'C'.illahan? Do you know bow dignified and how benign he is? If you don't know him, imagine the good priest, and imagine him stopping, m a moment of large benevolence, to lay his hand in blessing upon the head of a little child. Presently he felt in his pocket for a cent, and found only dollars and fives: “I am sorry," said he; “I was going to give you a penny, but I have none.” Up into "his face looked the little child, and said, with the tone of sympathy and pity which a child of wealth could never feel nor utter: “Hain’t you tvorkin’ nowy"—Boston Record, PERSONAL. Robert Garrett will soon reach San Fran cisco, and from there he will go either to Mexico or Japan. William Gladstone, who recently died at Lawrence, was a second cousin of the English statesman of that name. Prince Oscar, the second son of the King of Sweden, is studying painting at the Paris Acade mic under the name of Oscarson. Yino Lee, a Chinese laundryman. of Hart ford, Conn . has decided, at Evangelist Moody’s urgent invitation, to enter the Mount Herinon school and prepare for the ministry. The Earl of Craven has set a fashion in Phila delphia. He has lieen smoking a brierwood pipe in that impressionable city, and the Philadelphia Anglomaniacs have adopted the habit. Ambroise Thomas has nearly completed a piece for the stage of a novel character called “The Tempest," pantomimic ballet, which, however, will be accompanied by chorus as well as orchestra. Senator Edmunds and his daughter ride horse back every afternoon through the country lanes about Washington. The Senator is not only a good rider, but he is a good judge of horseflesh as well. Queen Victoria keeps always in her private apartment a statuette of the lamented John Brown, which goes wherever the Queen herself travels. Its usual place is on her private writ ing desk. Lee Hall, who commanded the famous Texas Rangers organized by the Governor of the Lone Star State to put down lawlessness, is a tall man', with auburn hair, a tawny moustache and steel-blue eyes. Ellen Tf.bry has a great many friends among her own sex, but she makes no secret of the fact that she prefers the society of men to that of women. IShe considers men better conversa tionalists than women. Cardinal Pellegrini, who died in Paris re cently in his 76th year, stood fifth in the list of Cardinal Deacons and was the last Cardinal created by Pius IX, in 1877. He was a leading member of many ecclesiastical congregations and Protector of the Brotherhood of Jesus at St. Elena. Harry Oelrichs, the millionaire cowboy, who has been leading a wild life on his cattle ranch in Dakota, is now in New York, under the care of his physician. Mr. Oeliichs's athletic train ing ami remarkable physique have led him to believe that his constitution could stand more than that, of most men, but he put it to too se vere a test. Mrs. James Brown Potter's favorite flowers are violets and she would rather wear black than any color as to the matter of gowns. Mrs. Potter is studying J-'.vadne, which will be pro duced during herwour. She should make an ideal Evadne, and it is hard to imagine any thing more lovely than she would be in Evadne's classic drapery. Miss Adelk Grant is thtiß described bv one who has seen her taking a constitutional on" Con necticut, avenue, Washington: "She is a tall, straight, stylish girl, perfectly dressed, with small, well-cut features and a cream-white com plexion. Her expression is composed and her carriage haughty. She knows all her strong point*, appreciates her beauty, money and social prestige at home and abroad, and proposos to make the most of them.” Hon. Matt W. Ransom, Senator from North Carolina, has lieen in his present official place since 1872. He is one of the shrewdest old pol iticians of that body, and pays more attention to the cultivation of his acquaintance among the farmers and grangers of his State titan he does to making long speeches in Washington. In fact he never does make a speech, but if there is a place vacant iu any of the departments, the way old Matt hurries around to gather it in for one of his constituents lias won for him the title of t lie champion office-grabber. He is ou his way back to the national capital and has stopped in New York to change his clothes. He has to do this because when in Washington the Senator is one of the best dressed ana charm ingly veteran flirts on the floor .of the chamber, but when he goes back to North Carolina he returns by way of Now York, ga hers up the old bntternut suit he leaves on deposit there, and giving a careless farmer twist to his mioollared flannel shirt returns to the bosom of his ordinary constituents. The Football Christians. From the Boston Courier. What, lost an eye, a leg, an arm, And of your nose liereft, For veterans, sir, my heart is warm, Let’s shake the hand that's left. A comrade I am proud to see. A comrade of the war. Pray tell me, sir. are you like me. One of the G. A. R. ? I never joined tbe G. A. R., The stranger thus began, And I became not in the war A mutilated man. He drew his form erect with pride, And flushed his visage pale As in exulting tones he cried, I used to kick with Yale. Fair Bean-Eat ers Cultivating Muscle. From the Boston Post. The newspaper writers throughout the coun try who delight in scoffing at what they con sider a prevalent type of Boston girl, whose most salieut feature is her eye-glass, might be pleased to know that brains are set below brawn and muscle in certain cliques in Boston, and among its most fashionable maidens there are those whose boudoirs are decorated with sym bols and signs of a hearty interest in not alone the graceful game of lawn tennis, but that of wider national reputation, base ball. Lest such a revelation may fall with too great a shock upon the sensibilities of the paragrapher. it is only fair to say that the Ladies' Base Bail Club is not an institution of nature's growth, as it came to life only du-itng the past summer sea son, when readings and concerts and even lawn tennis pulled on the ambitious and over-stimu lated intellect# of these fashionable girls. This is only one of many giddy things that the Bos ton girl is rapahle of, and once relieve her from the yoke of intellectual reputation and she is as jolly as any Knickerbocker damsel. Bohemian Music. From the Few York Journal. A little Frenchman with a black bottle, and a wandering Italian minstrel with auffSolian harp stopped in front of French's Hotel. The Italian played the harp in the regulation iron steamboat style, but although he banged at it as if it were a banjo, you could scarcely hear it for the me lodious strains of an unmistakable piccolo. The Frenchman, however, had no piccolo. He was whistling. The “Marseillaise,a bit of the "Barber of Seville," and other tunes issued from his pliant lips, and then he stood on his head on the bottle and whistled the “Star Spangled Ban ner.” Pennies and buttons and matches rutt led into his cap because he had whistled so well. The Freuchman said that he learned to whistle as the birds learn to sing. He was born in Rouen, and had whistled all over the world for twenty-five years. He had been in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and En gland. He was able to whistle fifty different pieces, including several whole operas, but of all tunes he liked best to whistle the “Marseil laise.” He believed that he had whistled it fully 40,000 times. Two years ago he landed in the United Stut--s. People in this country didn't appreciate cultivated and artistic whistling, and often he had to whistle all day lor a dollar. He had to whistle for every cent he got. He was able to whistle five hours without stopping, and often had done it. A British Opinion of Sullivan. Philadelphia Bulletin's London Letter. Sullivan is a disappointment. Perhaps it is that we are accustomed to a higher class of fighting person, a more finished lot than those wno affect “the fancy" are accustomed to on your side of the Atlantic. It may be that our expectations were extravagant. I cannot say. An animal w-ith splendid points is J. L. Sullivan. I never saw a more superb torso; nevermore muscular arms. But when back, chest, arms and towering stature are extolled, the critic of bone and muscle must become—well, critical. Sullivan has the most indifferent pair of legs I ever saw- upon the body of a gladiator. The clever people—the people wno know all about the art and practise of le hoxe are not enamored of Sullivan's style. In fact, Smith's reputation advanced 100 percent., by sheer forceof contrast, as before Sullivan was half through his round with Ash ton, "No form, no form.” was the remark that was repeatedly made. Neither attitude nor "weaving" met with the approval of good judges. “IVhat a lot of luck he must have had to knock his man out with that kind of stuff;” I beard an old Corinthian say. It is the opinion of the majority of the experts that he has one "swashing blow" and one only that entitles him to be considered a big fighter, and that is his right. Everything, in their view, will depend on his getting that home. Concerning the man’s tremendous power of hitting-his brute strength —they say nothing. It speaks for itseif. It is as a boxer, as a scientific exemplar of the noble art, that judges of the same pronounce hint a disappointment. Flowers for Actresses. From the PhiladelfAia Times. There isn’t a night at some of the theatres that a messenger boy doesn’t carry a big bou quet to the box office for some actress. The bouquets range in price from $2 to 820. Men who have no acquaintance with the actress go to the theatre, become smitten with her, and the next night rush into a florist's and commit the folly of buying her flowers. Men usually send their cards and address attached to the bouquet, Some send letters begging the acquaintance of the actress. The different methods of present ing floral tributes to favorite actresses and singers is curious to remark. In the old davs they were thrown upon the stage at the feet of the favored artiste and came directly from the hand of the donor. Occasionally the card of the giver was attached to the floral tribute. Nowadays it is the custom to hand the floral trib utes over the footlights. This is done by the ushers, and as the usher marches down the centre isle with the floral design everybody in the audience knows what is going to happen long before the presentation. The usher crouch >s behind the leader of the orchestra and waits for his opportunity. Generally the actress knows what is going to happen, and frequently the sight, of the flowers upsets her, spoils the effect of the scene and mars the artistic result of the act. To a good many theatre goers the pre sentation over the footlights is annoying, and old play-goers have been heard to remark that they hoped the old way of throwing the tributes on the stage w-outd again become popular, be lieving that tbe tribute appears more spontane ous and therefore more natural. Prominent Southerners in New York. From the Vetr York Graphic. Ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, is a guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He belongs to a generation of politicians that flourished in reconstruction days and finished their public career when the Freedman's Bureau and similar institutions went to pieces. Mr. Bullock, how ever, has one very conspicuous advantage over most of those who were in official life just after the war. He is rich, and nearly all the others are poor. He did not give ail his time to poli tics, but kept his eye on some good railroad property in Georgia, and had the sense to secure it He is a man who is always doing something extraordinary and unlooked for. His last suc cessful attempt to attract public attention was when he declared in a published interview that the next Republican National Convention should nominate Rutherford B Hayes. Senator Mat C. Butler, of South Carolina, is at the New York Hotel. He is one of the best fellows from the Southern States in the Senate, and deservedly very popular. He was looked upon at first as a good deal of a tire-eater, and it was a mistake, for when he left his right leg at Brandy Station in June, 1863, fighting for the Confederacy, and waited for the war to end, he had grown to be one of the most sensible and conservative of tlie politicians of bis State. When he was first elected to the Senate tea years ago his prospects of admission to the chamber were not over bright, because of the alleged irregularities surrounding the election in his State. His rejection would have been polit ical destruction to him, and be owes his admis sion to the sturdy, unfailing friendship of Sena tor Don Cameron, whose vote and influence opened the doors of the Senate to him. Congressman George T. Barnes, of Augusta, Oa., is on his way back to Washington, He is a bluff, hearty, laughter-loving member and rich enough to have a hobby. He developed it during last session, and it was a mild mania for collecting the queer letters of which every Con gressman receives more or less. Mr. Barnes took with him hack to Georgia a couple of hun dred epistles wqich he has been having illus trated by Mat O'Brien, the artist, and when he his secured enough of the kind of letteis he seeks they will be published in book form. As Mr. Barnes is the very personification of humor and good nature, he may he trusted to make some entertaining selections from Congressional correspondence. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Baltimore, is another singular pharocter who dropped Into the New York Hotel last night. Heisaflerv Southerner, who was born and reared at Frederick, Md. He took (he Southern side when the war broke out, and was a dashing officer of the Confederacy. He settled in Rich mond after the war. got mixed up in one or two duels ami finally settled iu Baltimore, where hi is now a prominent lawyer and politician. He is a spiendid tvne of the Southerner. Bennet H. Young, of Louisville, Ky., is an other interesting character of New York life to day. He was the leader of the Confederate squad that captured St. Albans, Vt., during the war and levied contributions upon ita citizens Think of a man with ten men actually capturing a city of 20,000 people, and at one time during the melee had at least 3.000 penned up in tbe public sauaro. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It ts reported that a being with a face that is half man and half dog lives near Oil City, and goes upon all fours. Isaac Holmes, of Tyler county, West Virgin ia, recently sold a lot of railroad ties which were cut and hewn forty years ago. Floyd Toft, a young giant of Westville, Vt,, is eight years old and weighs 125 pounds. He is as strong as an ox, and can easily shoulder two bushels of corn. The receipts of the Brooklyn bridge on Mon day aggregated 88.310 32, the largest sum taken in on any one day since the structure was thrown open to the public. Veteran Chesley Heal, of Searsmont, Me., has just had his 108tb birthday. He lives with a young wife of 60, and has but two weaknesses, one for tobacco and the other for telling yarns about the war of 1812, in which he fought. The new comet recently discovered by the astronomers is said to be now visible to the naked eye and may be found iu the evening in the northwest sky. The comet is moving east ward, is large and bright, and promises to be come more brilliant in a few weeks. William Halpin was convicted in Jersey City last Friday of illegal voting. He said that he had supposed that lie had been born in this country trill someone told him that Ireland was his birthplace. Under the impression that nat uralization was unnecessary he had been regis tered as a citizen and voted. A twelve-pound cannon shot was foun I im bedded seventeen inches deep in an oak tree in the suburbs of Franklin, Tent’-. It was evi dently fired from a Federal cannon during the bloody battle twenty-three years ago, as it en tered the tree ou the side next the town. The fibers of oak are still attached to the ball and are nearly as hard as the iron itself. The new Maine law forbidding children less than 12 years of age to work in the mills, and requiring that all between the ages oft 2 and 15 shall have at least sixteen weeks’ schooling each year, has increased the attendance at the schools remarkably. It has also increased the age of small children remarkably, as the mill superin tendents find wheii they take the ages of opera tives. Margie Blanchard, of Holling Point, New foundland, is a fine chunk of a child. When she was five months old she was large enough to sit at the table and eat tbe same food that lier parents ate. Now, at the age of 5 years, sbe measures forty-eight inches around the waist, weighs 170 pounds and wears stockings as large at the ankles as 10 cent salt bags. Withal she is a very active and playful child. As two well-diggers were sinking a well on a farm in Washington Township, Ringgold county, lowa, at the depth of 14 feet they began to find white walnuts, well preserved, of which they took out about half a bushel. A t the depth of 16 feet they found a log of wood and a pair of deer's horns The horns were quite soft when first taken out of the ground, but became hard when exposed to the air. The well was dug in a timber country, but one peculiar feature of the case is that there is nol a white walnut or but ternut tree in the county. The Grand Trunk and Fitchburg railroads and the New York Central and the Boston and Albany roads are being put through a competi tive examination by John P. Squire, the big Bos ton pork man. Until recently the first named roads carried all the stock, but now the business is divided between the two systems, and the one that makes the fastest record in shipping stock will have tbe whole business. Squire's cars are run as express freight, and all other freight trains are .-ide tracked to allow them to pass. A careful record of each day’s transfers is kept. Teddy "Wick, an expert barber in London, re cently undertook to shave fifty persons in sixty minutes for a wager of $75 a side. He is said to have actually shaved seventy-seven in three seconds less than an hour, thus easily winniug the stakes. He shaved twenty-one in the first fifteen minutes, fourteen in the second quarter-hour, nineteen in the third, and twenty three in the last fourteen minutes and fifty three seconds. Since this performance J. Kil bride of the same city has offered to back him self to beat the performance of Wick for a gold or silver medal. Mr. Stallings, of Mineral county, West Vir ginia, was riding along the pike on his way borne on Thursday, when he saw a wild turkey run across the road in front of him. pursued by two large eagles, which caught their game in the brush not 20 yards distant. Stallings sprang from his horse, and with a stick drove off the eagles and captured the bird, which was still alive, but stripped almost nude of its feathers. The eagles appeared to be ravenous, as they flew only a few yards distant and alighted in a tree, where they remained until Mr. Stallings rode off with their prey. It isn’t always safe to play jokes on watch men. Some smart young New Haven men thought they would have fun with private watchman Wilcox. One told him that suspic ious men were around so he rot out his revolver and sat down outside the building. Two sus piciously acting men came along, and one of them, after a moment's conversation with Wil cox snatched the revolver and ran. That's where he made a mistake, for the watchman had a shotgun by the side of him and he drove a load of shot into the runner's legs, bringing him to a halt in a hurry. Then he was recog nized as one of the young men who thought it would be a big joke to disarm the watchman. The doctors haven’t picked all the shot out of his legs yet. One of the most singular features in the scen ery of the Territory of Idaho is the occurrence of dark, rocky chasms, into which large streams and creeks suddenly disappear and are never more seen. These hssures are old lava channels, produced by the outside of the molten mass cooling and forming a tube, which, on the fiery stream Incoming exhausted, has been left empty, while the roof of the lava duct, having at some point fallen in, presents there the open ing into which the river plunges and is lost. At one place along the banks of the Snake one of these rivers reappears, gushing from a cleft high up in the basaltic walls, where it leaps a cataract into the torrent below. Where this stream has its origin, or at what point it is sw allowed up, is utterly unknown, though it is believed that its sources are a long way up in the north country. Some time ago Luther F. Brooks, a diamond merchant, bought a petrified fish in Oregon of a man who had just brought it down from the mountains. The finder said it came out of a ledge on top of the mountain near Portland, about 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. At the time Mr. Brooks purchased it the tail of the fish could alone be seen, hut he set to work re moving the rock that covered the remainder of the object. He labored carefully and slowly for several hours a day for six weeks, and was re warded by obtaining a fine specimen of petri fied fish, about 17}4 inches long and 6 inches through the widest or thickest part. The out lines of the tail are complete, and the small rib bones are as distinct as though they had just been placed there. The upper and lower fins are also plainly seen, and the head has retained its shape, while the vertebral column is clearly defined. The stone proper is of a light grayish tint, forming an excellent relief or background for the dark color of the fish. Among the interesting objects now on exhibi tion in the Texas S’ate Fair at Dallas is a large terolite or meteoric stone which was found in the country of the Comanche Indians in 1858 by Prof. A. R. Roesler, then State Geologist of Texas. The Indians knew- from tradition that had come down to them from an extremely early period that this was a “thunder stone” which had fallen from the skies, and they re garded it with great reverence anci wonder and were accustomed to visit it, where it lay partial ly buried in the earth, to whet their knives and arrow points upon its sides, believing that their weapons thereby acquired some celestial or magic powers. An analysis of its composition made by l)r. \V. Kiddle, chemist of the Geologi cal Survey, shows it to consist in parts: Iron 88,78; nickel, 10.78; cobalt, 10.54, and the remainder bronzite, which contains silica alumina, protoxide of iron, protox de of man ganese, and tract's of magnesia, "soda, potash ami chromium. The stone ic extremely hard and takes a fine polish. Thebe is a dog in a Philadelphia cigar store who has more intelligence than the average messenger boy and whose traits lay the district boy in the shade. He belongs to Billy Porter the well known ex-clown. The dog answers to the name of Jumbo. Whenever any of the salesmen or clerks employed in the numerous stores on the south side of Chestnut street wants a cigar or a piece of tobacco he will stand in the store door and hold tip a piece of money and immediately Jumbo knows w hat, is wanted and starts off on a rush for the money Re ceiving his order he returns and deposits the money before Billy and asks for his cigar or tobacco, which ever it may be. If i, be a cigar that is wanted he will refuse to take tobacco and vice versa. If he delivers a cigar and the purchaser says, “Juin, I haven't a match,” he will start back for one and w on’t give ud till he gets one and delivers it. He will make pur chases for anybody in the entire block from Eighth to Ninth streets and has never been known to carry the wrong article nor the wrong change. a See Ward as “Higgins” and laugh, Thea tro Friday. BAKING POWDE R. WE/oSr^ CREAM Its superior excellence proven in million* of omesfot more than a quarter of a century It is Rod bv the United States Government. In. nrsed by the heads of the Great Universities as •le Strongest. Purest and moßt Healthful. I)r 'rice’s the only Baking Powder that does not ontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in ans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NEW YORK. CHI' SCO. ST. LOUTS A. R. ALTAI AYER CO. A. R. ALTMAYEMCft, PUBLIC B E NEFACTORS. mense stock of Holiday Goods. Will low prices move ’em 0 We’ll try. Here’s one chance in a life time; $13,000 worth of Bovs’ Tailor-made Clothing to select from. 5,000 genuine bargains in this department. Boys' Tweed Suits (knee pants), sizes 4-13, were $3, we’ll sell this week for $1 50. 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