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4 Cljc|Honiing|lflcs Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. W K DNTsDAVsNOV EMBER 80,1987. Fegi frier ed at the Post Of ice in Scnvm nah. New® to published every dy fn rbe year, and is served to subscribers in the city, l y newsdealers and can ieni, on their own ac count, at 25 cents n week. $1 00 a month, $5 u) lor six months and $lO 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail , one month, f J 00; three months, $3 SU; six months, $5 00; me year. $lO 00. The Mornino News, tv mail, six times a week (without Sunday issue!, three mouths, f*2 00; six months. $4 <X) one year. 00. The Morning Newp, Tri-Weekly. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tours davs and ‘Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six The Su.vday News, by mail , one year, f:2'On. The Weekly News by mail, one year, fl 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 tile and advertising rates may oe ascertained at the office of ’i.e Ameri can Newspaper Publisher*' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News. Savannah, Oa.'* Advertising rates made known on application. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—o olden Rule Lodge No. 12. I. O. O. F.; St. Andrew's Society; Workingmen's Be nevolent Association. Special Notices—To Shippers to Orion, Fla. : Basket Tea by the Young Ladies of Trinity Sunday School on Friday Afternoon anclN ight. Amusements —Haverly's Minstrels; John F. Ward, at the Theatre. To Contractors -Edw J. Thomas, County Engineer. Schooner for Sale—F. 0. Bell. Savannah, On. Bins for a Bridge—John It. Dillon. Clerk C. C. C. Cheap Column Advertisements—TTelp Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent: For Sale; Lost: Miscellaneous. Proposals for Paving—John E. Howard, City Surveyor. Novelties in Silver, Jewelry. Etc.— Thetis Bros. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos. Something Novel—Lovell Lattimore. Auction Sale—Executors' Sale, b3* C. H. Dor sett. Opening To-Day—L. B. S. M. H. Barman paid very well for that last ad vertisement, but it may l>o a profitable in vestment ________ The man on the next seat in the railroad car is still wondering why, in all sorts of weather, the woman in front persists in keeping the window up. The renewed rumors of trouble between the President and his Cabinet are no doubt groundless. Mr. Cleveland has gotten along remarkably w-ell with his Cabinet. Jersey City has a Mayor named Cleve land. Of course he expects to be Gov ernor and then President. Why should he not be, if he does his duty and is a Demo crat? Senator Evarts ‘‘does not hesitate to pre dict a Republican victory in New' Yprk next year.” Predictions cost nothing. Sup pose the Senator put his convictions in dol lars and cents. It looks as if Most would have to spend a few months in the penitentiary. lie will learn after awhile that the bloodthirsty talk in which he indulges is not appreciated in this country. Roscoe Conkling is again reported as say ing that he will never re-enter polities. When Mr. Conkling kicked himself out of the Republican party, that organization lost one of its ablest and most honest mem bers. It is predicted that the approaching ses sion of Congress will be a red-hot one. Nobody will care how hot it becomes pro vided the sort of legislation the country needs is the result of the heated condition. The statement is made that $1,000,000 worth of chewing gum is used every year by the American girl. As the manufacture of this gum is an infant industry, ought it not to be protected? What has Mr. Randall to say on this question?” Senator Blackburn says that the next Democratic candidate for Vico President will come from Illinois, and that his name will begin with aB. The Senator undoubt wily has a very friendly feeling for the gen tleman who is at the bead of the Pension off.ee. The esteemed Atlanta Constitution says: If the Savannah News is so fond of prohibition in \tlanta. why doesn't it start a campaign in Savannah? The spectacle which our esteemed con temporary presented during 'the contest in Atlanta deters us. Has the war on Mr. Randall begun? Sen ator Blackburn, of Kentucky, says that he “is a blot on the Democratic party.” It must be admitted that the blot is a pretty big one, and the Kentucky Senator would do the country and his i>arty a real service , by causing it to disappear, or to change into a tariff reform light. Senator Reagan says that if the Inter state Commerce Commissioners continue to make such wild rulings with respect to tho extent of their own powers he shall intro- into Congress a few amendments, which will act as a sort of curb on them. The Commissioners will do well to keep an eye on the Senator, as he means just what he says. It is said that Mr. Mills, of Texas, will be the chairman of tho Ways and Means Com mittee. This statement may be true, but it is safe to say that Mr. Carlisle has not yet decided anything with regard to the chair manship of that or any other committee. Mr. Mills is a very good man, but has he just the qualifications which tho leader of the House needs? Hardly. It is stated that ex-Henator Jones’ mental trouble is due to the fact that he was not advanced to the position which he wanted on the Judiciary Committee of the Senate Doubtless there will be a good many other reasons alleged before the real cause of the Senator’s trouble is discovered. If he could be induced to return to Florida and resume the practice of the law he would be all right in a little vvVle. It will not be an easy matter, however, to got him away from Detroit. Jn the event of Secrotary Lamar's ap pointment to the Supreme Lcnch, there need be no apprehension as to his confirma tion by the Senate. Mr. Lamar is known by all of the Senators, having been associated with most of them during his long political life, and he is very apt to have made a forcible and favorable impres sion upon them. What is known as Sena torial courtesy would preclude Mr. Lamar’s rejection, even if there should be objections to the appointment The Colored Vote at Atlanta. The testimony of Atlanta Prohibitionists is that the colored people defeated prohibi tion in that city. A few of them were on the side of prohibition, and seemed to bo earnest in behalf of that cause, but the vast ! majority of them were a tainst it. There were lietween .",000 and 4,000 colored voters j registered, and it is estimated that not more \ than 500 of that number voted for prohibi tion. As prohibition was defeated by about j 1,106 votes it is evident that the colored j people are largely responsible for the re-in- I treduction of barrooms into Atl mto. if one half of the colored voters had support'd | prohibition victory would have been with j tho Prohibitionists. It is worthy of notice that in both Texas and Tennessee, two States in which an attempt was made within the last three or four months to prohibit the sale of intoxica ting liquors by constitutional amendment, the colored people allied themselves with the advocates of whisky. Why is it that the colored people in this temperance matter are found acting against their own interests? Is it because they do not know any better, or is it because they cannot resist the influences which are brought to bear upon them in behalf of whisky? It can hardly be that there is a fairly intelligent colored voter in this or any other State whp does not know that whisky does more than anything else to prevent the colored people from rising above their present moral and material condition. As long as they continue to spend their earnings for whisky they will remain poor, and will con tribute to the prisons a very large per centage of the inmates of those institutions. The colored ministers could not do a wiser thing than to use their influence against whisky. They should make prohibition the text of many of their sermons. The fact that the colored vote was almost wholly against prohibition in Atlanta shows that tho whito people of that city are largely in favor of it. An analy sis of the total vote would doubtless prove that those who represent at least two thirds of the city’s wealth and intelligence believe that the city would be much more prosperous without drain shops than with them. What folly it is then to assert that during the last two years prohibition has been a hindrance to Atlanta! Jacob Sharp’s Improved Prospects. Jacob Sharp, of New York city, is not to go to the penitentiary yet awhile. The probabilities are that he will never go there as a convict. The Court of Appeals has declared that there were fatal mistakes committed during his trial, and the verdict has been set aside. The thousands of dol lars which were spent to secure his convic tion wore virtually wasted. The court says that he is to have anew trial, but is it probable that he will be again convicted? Will the District Attorney’s office be as earnest, enthusiastic and untir ing in its efforts to convict him as it was in tho first trial? The prosecuting officers will bo inclined to think that it is useless to waste time in trying to send to the peniten tiary a man who has a million of dollars to defend himself with. The court does not say that the great briber of the boodle Aldermen is not guilty of the charges brought against him. It simply says that certain evidence should not have been admitted. The Supreme Court said that the admission of this evidence was proper. A higher court holds that both of the fower courts were in error. Of course, the courts must be upheld and respoct for them maintained, but when differences between judges operate to defeat justice, the public inind is not al ways wholly free from a feeling that the courts are not as perfect ns they should lie. Sharp’s lawyers, who were rather severely criticised for making what was regarded during the trial as a rather lame defense for their client, will now receive the apprecia tion to which they are doubtless entitled. Their ease was a bad one, and they knew that they had very little chance to get a verdict in their favor. They expected to do their fine work in the higher courts, and tho result shows that they did it exceedingly well. Their client will soon be out on bail, and the chances are that he will never again darken the doors of a jail. Senator Hiscock, it is said, has no very peculiar love for Ohioans, and will not participate in the movement to put Sher man forward in 1888. The fact is the Sena tor's own bonnet contains a small Presiden tial bee. and he very naturally objects to booming Sherman. The New York Times says that tho Senator “is represented by his friends as being exceedingly sensitive over the result of the recent State election, and savagely wroth at the criticisms now heaped upon his man agement of the campaign. He had figured out a bare majority of 1,000 for the ticket, and the State Committee had notified its correspondents in the counties throughout the State to watch the count with extreme vigilance. The idea of being snowed under by 17,000 votes had never occurred to him. What aggravates him beyond endurance is to find in almost every issue of the New York Tribune, to whose circulation the State Committee, acting under the sugges tion, contributed not a little during the canvass, a communication or an interview with somebody or other outside the State who rails at the management of the cam paign and sneers at its cowardice. Many of these critics are Ohio men, and the growing contempt which the Senator has of Ohioans in general is said to include the friends of John Sherman in particular. Mr. Hiscock will not part icipate in tho collection of Shennan delegates next spring, nor will he give any countenance to the Sherman can vass for tho Presidency. ” Some curious phenomena are appearing in the section of country between Summer ville and Charleston, which was so greatly disturbed by the earthquake shock of Aug. 31, 1880. There are many deep pits on the margin of which have been thrown up pure white sand, such as is seen only on tho seashore. On this sand has sprung up a dense growth of sea plants. It is evident that the seeds from which these plants have sprung have been ejected from great depths, where they have doubtless been buried many centuries without losing their ger minating powers. Some of the Washington correspondents are sending o.st dispatches containing what they pretend will bo the general tenor of the President’s message. Their guess work is neither interesting nor valuable. It is astonishing that there are journals which will print such stuff. The talk that Mr. Randall holds the posi tion of “dictator ” is regarded as all bosh at Washington. He holds the position of ob structor, and he holds that because of his alliance with the Republicans on the tariff quesUtu. TIIE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER .10, 1887. The City Assessment. It will soon be time for the City Assessors I to make another assessment, and some ! matters connected with the method of assessing property are receiving tho atten tion of the Aldermen. One of these matters is the oath of the assessors. It seems that it does not require their, to assess property according to its value. It only prohibits them from making any discrimination be tween taxpayers. There is a pretty general belief that assess ments heretofore have not been quite fair. There has been no intention to favor any one, but there is not much doubt that some property has been assessed too high and other property too low. It is somewhat diffi cult for assessors to get at the actual market value of property, aud if previous assess ments are accepted as a basis for anew assessment there is sure to be some very serious errors, because the value of property in different sections of the city is constantly changing. It would not be easy to devise a system of assessing property that would place all taxpayers upon an equal footing, and give satisfaction to everybody. If the assessors are men of good judgment and are familiar with the value of prftierty in the city, they would probably come nearer doing what is fair and just by respecting each piece of property and assessing it at what they think its market value is. It is complained that in previous assess ments there have been wide differences in the valuations of property in the same neighborhood where there were no sufficient reasons for such differences. A building that was showy and an ornament to the city, for instance, w r as assessed for more than one which was less attractive in appearance but which commanded a higher rent. This certainly was not right. The market value of real property is determined by the rent it will command, and its assessed value should be based U|>n its market value. There is no intention to blame the asses sors, who doubtless aim to do the best they can under the assessment system by w’hich they are guided in their work. The ques tion how assessments shall be made, is not determined by the assessors, but by the City Council, and it is a source of satisfac tion that some of the Councilmen are now giving the assessment business their atten tion, A question which is receiving some at tention is this: Shall property t>e assessed at its full market value or at a percentage of its market value? If the latter what shall the percentage be? A low valuation of course means a high rate of taxation while a high valuation means a compara tively low rate of taxation. Just so much money has to be raised whether the rate is a high or a low one, but a low rate is the more attractive, is more likely to bring capital to the city, and is less likely to result in discriminations in favor of anybody'. If it is understood that property is to be assessed at its market value the only thing the assessors will have to do is to find out that value, and anybody who takes the trouble to look over the assess ments, and is acquainted with the value of property, can quickly determine whether or not any favo: itism has been shown. There is one drawback to a low rate of taxation, howeve". It is that State taxes will be levied upon the basis of the city as sessment. This would be all right if through out the State property were assessed at its market value. It is a notorious fact, how ever, that it isn’t. Why, therefore, should this city pay more taxes to the State in pro portion to its property than other portions of the State ? It is apparent, therefore, that the City Council, in settling upon a system of assess ment, has a task to perform that is not wholly free from difficulties. The assessors should be given a rule to guide them in their work, and it should be a rule that would insure a fair assessment. Chicago as a Literary Center. A two column article in a recent issue of the Chicago Tribune, on the literary ac complishments of that city is a curiosity. It assorts that “of the 500 standard works necessary to form a library, every one is published here, with as fine printing, bind ing and artistic work as are done anywhere in the world." This is the first intimation we have had that a certain number of works were necessary to form a library, and it is also news that there are 500 stand ard works that must be found in overy col lection of books before such collec tion can lie properly considered to be a library. The article fails to state whose list of 500 books has been accepted as those necessary for a library, such as it describes. It mentions, however, that “Chicago surpasses all other cities in the number of juvenile works manufactured, but does uot publish a single Bible.” This is indeed a sad state of affairs, and the Bible and tract society should immediately estab lish n Bible manufactory in that enterpris ing town. But the Tribune consoles itself by the fact that “Chicago publishers have sold over 1,000,000 copies of George AV. Peek’s humorous works, over one-half of which were copies of ‘The Brnl Boy,'” and “of Bi 1 Nye’s works they have sold between 800,000 and 400,000.” There is another cause for joy in the fact that “the most exciting work of modern times, ‘The Great Crypto gram,’ by Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota ” is being published in that city. Referring to Chicago’s authors, the article says: “There are some who by right are Chicago’s property—such as Gen. U. 8. Grant, who wrote the work which is the best example of simple style in literature ever produced; Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who made many suc cesses here, and others.” It would appear from the article that “Bill Nye” and George W. Peck are considered standard authors, and that their books rank above the Bible as a literary work in the estimation of the “progressive” citizens of the metropolis of tho West. Various methods have been introduced for the accomplishment of nocturnal pho tography, and some of the most beautiful landscape view's taken at night by tho light of the full moon have been produced in France, the time of exposure of the plate being one hour; the clearness of the photo graph is described as being wonderful, and, except for the lights in tho buildings and on the bridges, and their reflection in tho water, the picture could hardly be distin guished from one taken in the daytime. Another photographer obtains very excel lent v’ows of his library at night by ordi nary gas light; in this case tho time of ex posure was only thirty minutes, au achieve ment somewhat remarkable, in view of the fact that the old-fashioned wet collodion plates were almost outirely unaffected by the light from such a sourco. It is not every English clergyman who can fill Mr. Beecher's pulpit, us the Rev. Mr. Parker uus reason to know. CURRENT COMMENT. How to Become a Discoverer. From the. Boston Globe. If a man really desires to discover how popu lar lie is as a sjieaker, let him charge 50c. admis sion. In a Different Atmosphere. Pom the Philadelphia Record (Pern.) John Most's followers may, like Bottom the Weaver, play the lion at their meetings, but when they come into court they “roar you just as gently as any sucking dove." A Balking Randall. From the Richmond Slate (Deni.) Mr. Carlisle, it is said, has named his new span of Site horses Carlisle and Randall. Unless l hey puli together better than their distinguished namesakes, we w ould not care to ride behind that team. A Rather Startling Suggestion. From the Memphis Avalanche (Deni.) Church-going pe. pie const! uto a large pro portion of the population of every city in the country. They have it in their power to double, treble or quadruple the number of theatres, and in that way to dictate, to a large extent, the character of plays which may be presented. Ho Whistles to Keep His Courage Up. From the. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.) The negroes in the South, as shown by the detailed vote by counties in Virginia, are slowly but ste dily abandoning the Republican party. Democratic happiness over this fact, however, is marred by the other fact that for every black man who leaves the Republicans two white men join them. BRIGHT BITS. If it were true that “time tries ail things” there would be no use for courts.— Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph, There is no better cure for dyspepsia than the knowledge that i here is nothing to cat in the house.— Boston Courier. “Blessed are the piece-makers." said the small boy when he dropped a costly porcelain ornament.— Texas Siftings. It is HorEn that Messrs. Angell, Putnam, Topper and Chamberlain will not adjourn with out passing oil the long-mooted question, “Does the codfish salt the ocean, or tho ocean salt the codfish ?"—Chicago Fcics. Paweijw—So Skinner tt Grinder have gono uml -r ? Jawkins—So I’ve heard. Dawkins—What caused their fall? Jawkins—They lost their balance—in the bank.—Lout'll Citizen. The force of habit is always strong. A Balti more young man who was calling on a street car conductor's daughter says that the father wandered in at a rather later hour, and, open ing the door, mechanically exclaimed, “Sit close, please?”— Baltimore American. There is a smart man traveling through the West and making a fortune out of book-ped dling. He has bound a lot of back numbers of the New York Directory in red morocco, and labeled them "Home Truths About Real Peo ple.” Tbe book sells on its title. —Puck. A New Haven Happening- Miss Templefaim (to Maj. Korcher, a war veteran) —Oh, here comes Mr. Sapps! You will excuse me, won’t you. if I give the next waltz to him? He made a wonderful record in the cane rush yesterday, and we can’t make too much of him;"— Puck. Angelina asks for a definition of volubility. Volubility, Angelina, dear, is the distinguishing feature of a horse-car driver when he is thirteen minutes behind schedule time on his supper trip and an over loaded coal team breaks down just in front of him on the rail.—Somerville Journal. Counsel (to witness, the father of a family)— AVhy are you so certain. Mr. Smith, that the event occurred on such a date? May you not be mistaken? Witness—lmpossible, sir. It was the day I didn’t have to buy any of my children a pair of shoes. — New York Sun. The art of swimming is taught at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to prevent the marines from drowning when they venture out to sea in our old war ships. A sailor who can swim in an ironclad bathing suit and carry a dynamite cannon on his back, can get the job of defending our coast by applying to the Secretary-Tit; the Navy. —Areola (III.) Record. “Pass me the butter, Charles," she said. She had been a widow, she had married again, and they, too, had gone to Washington to begin the honeymoon. “My name is George,” he said, coldly and with discriminating emphasis. “X know it, George," she replied; “you must excuse me. I was misled. It is the same but ter.”—Puck. PERSONAL. Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, sails for Rome from New York this week. Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts, carries life insur ance to the amount of $125,000. Ex-President Hayes is fond of referring to the framers of the constitution as “Our Fathers.” Charles Dickens, Jr., is looking forward to a dinner in Chicago on Christmas day with Henry Irving. Robert Manchester Is perhaps the oldest song and dance man on the American stage. He i worth more than $50,000. Senator Saclsbcry, it is again reported, will short ly be married to a Southern girl. The Sen ator lias passed the three score mark. Thf. Duke of Marlborough, before sailing for Europivon Saturday, purchased several dozen views of various objects of interest in New York. According to the most reliable statistics, 155 of 314 colleges pronounce by the Roman method, 144 by the English method and 34 by the conti nental. The students of the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts represent almost every State in the American union, besides a very liberal repre sentation from the dominion of Canada. Miss Rose Cleveland’s salary as teacher in the high-class school for young ladies in New York is said to be higher t ban that paid to any American woman except the stars on the stage. Charles Dickens, the younger, was overcome by the grandeur of Niagara Falls. Ho said, as he gazed upon the cataract: “Why, this is something awful. My father, in his "American Notes," speaks of Niagara as a place of peace and rest. I don't see what he could have been thinking about. Peace aud rest! Why, to me it is one of abject terror." Jamf.s Russell Lowell has purchased for a summer resilience an aliandoned little rod house on a decayed farm at Asbfield, Mass., where he has a magnificent view of that mountainous country. He has no near neighbors, hut in a distant part of the town are George William Curtis and Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, the author of the’ last life of Thomas Carlyle —two congenial friends. Count Henri de Ruot.z, whose death has been recorded, began life with an income of SIO,OOO a year; devoted himself first to musical comiiosition, in which he achieved some success, and afterward to scientific and mechanical ex periments, in whicli he invented the galvanic plating process, anticipated Bessemer in steel casting, and produced other novelties, and died at the ago of 82 with hardly a dollar in the world. Clavs Spreckels is traveling about California making converts to his theory that beet-sugar eau be made in that State to a sufficient amount to supply the country. He has prepared a lec ture on beet-sugar culture which tie delivers free of charge. The Sandwich Island newspapers ridicule Spreckels' project, but his energy and wealth are feared at Honolulu. The great question in Kalakaua’a kingdom is will his beet sugar beat Hawaii? A crank called on Secretary Lamar last week and demanded a million acres of land in the West to establish anew "land of CanaAn.” where the followers of the “Unborn Lamb” could worship in peace far from civilization's vices. He said he was the high priest of the new order. Mr. Lamar informed him that the unreliable Indian is still a feature of the far West, and that the vices of civilization are pre ferable to the cutting effects of the tomahawk and scalping-knife. The first woman to attend the sessions of the Interstate Commerce Commission was present every day last week. She is the handsome and brilliant daughter of George Rice, the Marietta oil man who is making such a strong fight against the whole power of the Standard Oil Comjiany. Miss Rice know sas much about the points at issue as her father. She takes charge of part of ttie papers, watches the proceedings closely, and now- and then makes suggestions to her father's counsel, John Randolph Tucker. .Judge Loomis and Mr. Follett. Mrs. Paras Stevens’ version of the Mackay- I >n tter-Stevens imbroglio is not quite like the two that have already been published. "Would you like to know why we quarreled?” she asked. "Well, it is this. I begged aud implored Mrs. Potter not to go on the stage, but she would. ‘My dear, - 1 said, ‘you are clever, you have great ability; your talents, though, are for the draw ing room, and there you will always shine. Don't go on the stage.’ It was no use. " She was 'bound tc go on. and my continued intercession made her angry. and that caused the uuuncl. ” CONVERSATION AT THE SOIREE. A Buffalo Man entertains a Rochester Girl. From the Buffalo Courier. Mr. Thikhed donned anew pair of $9 striped trousers Inst evening and attended a soiree on North street. Within an hour he was intro duced to a young iad.v from Rochester, and he at once entered into an animated conversation with her. “I’ve heard a good deal about Rochester,” said .Mr. Thikhed, “but I'vo never been there.” “Oh, you ought to go. I'm sure you’d like it. Buffalo doesn't compare with it. You don't seo the bustie here that you do in Rochester." “Dear me! How runny," said Mr. Thikhed. “Is it made of wire ?” “Wire?” “Yeah. When you sit on it does it fold up?” “Why, goodness gracious me, what are you talking about?” "The hustle! The bustle! Is it the Langtry or the Potter hustle?" “Why,l didn't speak about any bustle!” “I beg your pardon,” said Mr. Thikhed earn estly, “You said there was a bustle in Roch ester." ‘•Why, I didn't mean an article of dress," said the young lady, blushing violently. “I meant that Rochester was lively, wide awake, pushing, you know.” “Whatdoes it push?” “Why, nothing really” "What, does it push for, then?" “I mean it's not slow. It goes rightahead.” “On the canal or the railroad?" “What ?’’ "Does it walk or ride a bicycle?" “What?" “Rochester.” “Why, what a ridiculous question." “You said it went rightahead. How does it get over the ground?” “Why, we put, up houses." “At auction? " “No, no, we build them.” “Oh, ves, now I see. How funny.” “You've never seen Powers block, of course?” said the young lady. “No,” answered Mr. Thikhed, “but I’d like to see him do it, very much.” The young lady looked puzzled. “What does he block, anyhow?” continued Mr. Thikhed. “Why, he doesn't block anything. Powers is beautful. Why, I was simply carried away the first time I visited the art gallery." "Who took you?" “My friend, .Mr. Smith." “Did he carry you in his arms?" “Carry me in his arms!" “Yes, did he find you pretty heavy?” “Why, he never carried me." “Who did?" “Nobody." “You said somebody carried you away." “I didn’t.” “Excuse me; you said you were carried away when yoli saw- the pictures." “Oh, good gracious 1 I meant I was delighted. Can't you understand anything ?" “But you'ie so vague." said Mr. Thikhed. “Well, you know the Geaesse river." "Jenny who ?” “Genessee: Genessee river, same as your Gen essee here, you know ?” “We haven't got any Genessee river here” “No, but you have a hotel, haven’t you ?” "Is your Gemtssee river like our hotel ?” “No, no, but the names are alike. The river runs right through the town.” “Why does it run ? Can’t it catch a car ?" “Oh, dear, no. How could it ?’’ "Don't know. Any nice girls there ?” “Lovely, and they throw smiles at you.” “Schooners or ponies ?” “What ?” “Lager or weiss beer? What kind of smiles are they when they can throw them at you? Do they throw 'em across the street ?” “Oh. dear, yes.” “Don’t they spill? How' the dickens can they do it?” “Spill? I don’t understand you.” “Why, the smiles, you know.” “How can they spill?” “It there was a saloon here I’d show you.” “A saloon? What has that to do with smiles!” Mr. Thikhed smiled pitifully, and shook his head. "Everything, everything,” said he. "Well, really, Mr. Thikhed," said the Roch ester young woman, “I fear we don’t under stand each other. Really, when you talk about smiles being spilt I can’t comprehend you." “I'm sorry," said Mr. Thikhed, "but I can’t make my meaning plainer without a saloon,” and he sauntered out into the conservatory and looked at the harper tune his lay or lay a tune, whichever it is. The Sick Child. From the Boston Transcript. child. O mother, lay your hand upon my brow! O mother, mother, where am I now? Why is the room so gaunt and great? Why am I lying awake so late? MOTHER. Fear not at all, the night is still; Nothing is here that means you ill— Nothing but lamps the whole town through, And never a child awake but you. child. Mother, mother, speak low in my ear, Some of the things are so great and near* Some are so small and far away I have a fear that I cannot say. What have I done, and what do I fear. And why are you crying, mother dear j MOTHER. Out in the city the sounds begin; Thank the kind God, the carts come in! An hour or two more and God is so kind The day shall be blue in the window blind; Then shall my child go sweetly asleep And dream of the birds and the hills of sheep. —Robert Louis Stevenson. Gambling on the Decline in Missouri. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There has been a marked change in the last twenty years in public feeling as regards gamb ling. St. Louis was a great gambling town then, and at any of the big games, the politicians and statesmen could be found in abundance. In Washington between 1864 and 18081 believe t here was more gambling done than ever was at the old German resorts. Faro was the game, and one could see assembled at the table Senators, Congressmen, foreign Ministers, members of the Cabinet and distinguished men from every part of the Union. I saw there one night the Collector of the Port of a Northern city lose SIOO,OOO inside of four hours, and a gentleman from St. Louis that night got tip from the table winner by $85,000. He went back and dropped that and $6,000 more the next night. Nowadays no man of any prominence at all would dare enter a gambling house, and if he did would not want anybody to know it. They gambled then as they drink now, and were reckoned as gentle men notwithstanding. Musicians Require Constant Practice. From the New York Morning Journal. The manner in which players of wind instru ments keep their lip muscles hardened often ex cites curiosity. This is only attained by constant practice, and the more perfectly a performer plays, the more practice is needed to keep him up to the mark. Many performers on wind instru ments, and especially cornet ists, frequently lose control over the muscles of their mouths and are affected by what is known as the “frozen lips."’ In this case the lip sometimes swells to an enormous size, and in many instances the performer is obliged to take temporary rest from playing. Too much smoking is also bad for the lips, as it makes them dry and feverish. While the use of too much liquor would, of course, lie bail for any performer, yet when used in moderation it sometimes lias" a beneficial effect upon the playing. This is especially tme when a very heavy programme is rendered. A Remarkable Prayer. From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The Hon. Frank Shinn, who was the Repub lican nominee for State Seuator in this District, is the son of the Rev. Shinn, who made the fa mous prayer in the lowa Legislature, In the early days when that body convened at low’a City. At that time the issues in this State were federal money against wild cat batiks and pro hibition. The Rev. Shinn was called upon to open the House with prayer one morning, and did so in the following language: “Oh, God, bless the young and growing State of lowa. Bless her Reprereeentativee, Senators and chief officers. Give us a sound currency, pure w-nter and an undefiied religion, for Christ's sake. Amen.” It has been many years since the prayer was delivered, and yet. for its remark able conciseness, pungency and power, it lias never been equaled by a public prayer since. Reminded by His Youngster. From the Louisville Courier. Journal. A physician told a good joke on himself to an appreciative audience at the jail: “At my house,” he said, “I make it a point to ask a blessing before each meal. There is a sharp, hright-oyed little feliow -a member of our family—who has just reached the age of 7. He takes particular note of everything tnnt happens, and often makes quaint remarks. Well, on the occasion to which I refer, we sat down to supper, and. as usual. I said grace. My mind lieing very much engrossed with other thoughts, I forgot that I had observed my religi ous custom, and repeatedlhe invocation. Quick as the 'amen' had rolled from mv lips the second time, this bright hopeful of mine looked up and said: •Ding-a-ling a-ling; chestnut*, papa.' It is unnecessary to add that I fully un derstood him.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. The official record in the cases of the Chi cago Anarchists contained about 2,000,000 words. A young society man of Keokuk, la., won a wager made in jest by eating thirty-six bananas at a sitting. Berlin has a technical high shool, built by the city at a cost of $1,800,000, and maintained at a cost of $190,000. Queen Victoria sent $225 to Mrs. James Lees, of Goole, who was injured by the explosion of fireworks during the jubilee celebrations. John W. Young, Brigham Young's oldest son, is said to be a successful business man and a shrewd builder of railroads in Utah Territory. He has only three wives, A negro dropped dead of heart disease while playing “craps" at Pine Bluff, Ark., last week. The body was removed and the game proceeded as if nothing unusual had occurred. A farmer who resides within four miles of Lincoln, Logan county. 111., had never heard of the Uaymarket riot, nor the trial of the An archists, ud to the day of the execution. The first translation into English of a Hebrew novel will shortly appear. France first discov ered that then? were Hebrew novels worth translating, and has had them for some years. The Alaskan Indian is pre-eminently the dudo of his race. He is always clad in handsome furs or blankets, and carries a walking-stick which is often a beautiful specimen of elaborate carv ing. The man who blows the comet in a rural brass band down in Maine is six feet and ten inches tall, and the band is looking for a drum major that won’t look like a midget prancing in front of him. Mosquitoes in China have a very poisonous sting. In a Tientsin hospital there were at one time last summer a man with an abscess in his face and another with blood poisoning from the bite of the insects. Two families occupying the same house, in Wallingford, Conn., fought long and bitterly until the woman on the first floor burned feath ers and cayenne pepper. Then the woman on the second floor capitulated and moved out. Onf thousand two hundred and forty divorces were granted in France in 1885, the first year of the existence of the divorce law- in France. The last twelve months produce 488 Parisians di vorced, the most being hi the rich quarters. The proper thing in neckwear among the swells of San Antonto, Tex., is a scarf made of rattlesnake skin, with a pin composed of the snake’s rattles. The skins are prepared by a Texan, who has a snake ranebe near the city. A Secretaire which cost $175,090 was sold for $3,000, and this was a specimen of the sac rifice in the sale of the late King of Bavaria's goods and chattels. No monument has been raised to his memory. Tw o planks with a cross upon them mark the spot where the King was drowned. A boy employed in a foundry at Smith's Falls, Canada, filled with powder and iron filings a gas pipe, eighteen inches long, and then ap plied a match and caused an explosion which startled the community, shattered windows, damaged neighboring buildings, and shook the boy out of his situation. An exhibition of objects of art—paintings, sculptures, jewelry, bronzes, china, carvings, etc.—formerly the property of the late King Louis 11. of Bavaria, and comprising 2,000 num bers and representing a value of nearly a mil lion marks, will be exhibited in Stuttgart by Councillor Ehni. It is supposed that it will be offered tor sale wholly. , The sadden application of the air brakes in stopping a freight train at Fresno, Cal., caused a number of passengers who were in the caboose to be badly shaken up. One in the lookout bouse was thrown through the window and had his side injured; another had his nose broken and another an arm hurt. Several others were bruised, but none seriously. Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, owes the Czar such a grudge for his continued antago nism that he is stated to have cleared out of the palace at Sofia every single portrait of Ale an uers 1. and 11., which had been placed there in days of Russo-Bulgariau friendship. Further, all Russian books in the pubiic offices have been suppressed and replaced by- Austrian or Polish In Germany the average duration of the life of gardeners, mariners and fishermen is given as 58 years; butchers, 54 years; carpenters and bricklayers, 49 years; shoemakers and tailors, 44 years; compositors and lithographers. 41 years, and laborers, 32 years. Of the professions the average lifetime of clergymen is 67 years; teachers. 57 years; lawyers, 54 years, and phy sicians, 49 years. Extensive preparations are being made by the Presbyterian Board of Indian schools to educate the Indians of Arizona. At Tucson they are building an SB,OOO school house. Fifty acres of land have been bought on the Santa Cruz river, where the young Indians will be instruct ed in farming, and another building to cost $6,000 will soon l* erected, where 150 pupils can be accomodated. The Postmaster of Hirwain, Eng., who re fused to marry a widow aged 84, to whom he was engaged, on account of an exhibition of her temper shortly before proceeding to the church, was early in the morning a few days afterward taken in a brougham by the villagers to the church, where he met his bride brought in the same manner, and the knot was tied. They were then drawn home, accompanied by a large crowd. A magnificent gift has been made to the Natural History museum, South Kensington, by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsey. The late Marquess of Tweddale had perhaps the finest private col lection of birds in Great Britain, and had in ad dition a very valuable ornithological library. This collection and the library were bequeathed to Capt. Ramsey, who has now assigned the whole to the nation, together with many rare ornithological specimens obtained by himself in the far East. The value of this present is £15,000. A very singular incident was noted in connec tion with a recent mill fire in Carlton, Mich. The building was burning fiercely, but the big engine which drove the machinery continued to run all through the blaze, and by that means was saved from destruction, though there was not a wall standing on either side of it when the fire had finished. The pmnpspwere also running and had kept the boiler supplied, so there could be no explosion. It was a peculiar spectacle to see the engine driving away at a slashing speed in the midst of the flames, but the motion some how saved it from fire. All the rest of the ma chinery was a total loss. Among the customs peculiar to wedding occa sions the ring and bride cake seems to be of the most remote antiquity, the latter being a modern improvement on the heathen practice of using a cake of wheat or barley at a marriage. The presenting of gifts to the bride is also of very old origin, the favorite present in the middle ages being a pot of butter, which was brought forward as soon as the happy couple veturhed home from church, and winch was supposed to presage plenty and an abundance of good things. Other bridal gifts peculiar to the olden time were scarfs end laces, and, what is stranger still, a pair of knives, which it was the fashion for women to wear sheathed and suspended from their girdles. Thu original Dr. Faustus has been com memorated recently with great ceremony at his asserted birthplace, the little village of Knit tlingen, in Wurtemberg. This year was the quatereentenarv of Faust's birth, and also the tercentenary of the first, publication devoted to his memory, the first sketch of the life of the famous sorcerer having appeared at Frankfort on-Main in 1687. Knittlingen tradition merely relates that I)r. Faustus utilized his magic powers to gain a livelihood during his student days. Thus he acquired an equivocal reputa tion, and subsequently lived up to it till he perish* dof violencd. Popular opinion immedi ately declared that such a magician could not die in ordinary human fashion, and so the legend spread that Faust had been carried off by his master, the devil. The famous tiara from the Parisian clergy and faithful laity is the great attractiou at the Pope's jubilee. It is made of hand-embroid ered cloth of silver, on which rest the triple crowns, composed of 600 jewels—emeralds sap phires. rubies, and diamonds, Th’ pendants are jeweled and embroidered with the panel arms, each terminating with three golden tas sels. The tiara is contained in a gorgeous white leather casket, adorued with enamel plaques ornamented with the arms ami seals of the givers Gifts from tne Orleans family are espe cially handsome, the most interesting however being a silver statuette of Joan of Are the work of Prinress Mario of Orleans, now Princess Waldemar. Among all these gorgeous offer ings a touching contrast isnfforiled by the hum ble contributions from poor Catholics Thus one sends a supply of night lights, and a poor old woman and her crippled daughter offer a woolen petticoat. Go to the Theatre Friday and hear the story of the little white lioae. BAKING POWDER. CREAM Its superior excellence proven in millions of mines tor more than a quarter of a century. It is sed by the L?nited States Government. In- T-rsed by the heads of the Great Universities as he Strongest. Purest and most Healthful. Dr. rice's tiie only Baking Powder that does not ' mtain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in a us. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. FEW YORK. CHIrARO. ST. LOTUS. A. R, ALTAI AYER <fc CO. 7~~r We^ A. R. ALTMAIER A (0., overstock run lic e ’ w c needroom Benefactors, to show ou r im mense stock of Holiday Goods. Will low prices move ’em? We’ll try. Here’s one chance in a life time; $13,000 worth of Boys' 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. Boys’ Cassimere Suits (knee pants), sizes 4-13, $2 75; were $5 60. $7 50 Cheviot Suits down to $3 75. Visit us. You’ll buy Boys’ Clothing whether you need ’em or not. sl2 Combination Robes this week for $5 50. $25 ditto for $lO. S4O Combination Robes for sl9 48. 1,300 pairs Ladies’ Beauti ful Kid, pebble and straight goat, $3. Button Boots this week for $1 98. Phenomenal values. Visit us this week, it will pay you, and especially visit our second floor. One of the many inducements on this floor is 1 lot Ladies’ Very Nobby Striped and Checked Englis’h Walking Jackets, with satin lined hood A. R. ALTMAVER & CO., ? i very styl . , J BROUGHTON ish, this week, $5; bull positively worth SB. ~ ZONWEISS CREAM. m— ii n PTwirTM—fc ZONWIIM QRUH FOR THE TEETH F* made from New Material*, contains noAcM< Card arit, or injurious matter It is Pure, Kef-ixed. Perfect. Nothing Like It Ever Known. From Senator Ootgcshall.—•TtakcpleM urp in recommending Zonwelfa on account ox it* efficacy and purity.” From Mrs. Gen. T.oran’s Dentist* Hr. JR. Carroll, Washington, D. C.—“l have had Zon welss analyzed. If is the most perfect denti frice I have ever seen.” From Hon. rims. P. Johnson. Ex. JJ* Gov. of JVIo.-”Zomveißß cleanses thr teeth thor oughly. Is delicate, convenient, very pleasant,and leaves no after taate. Sold bt all dblogistb. Price, 35 cents. Joumson & Johnson, 23 Cedar St., N. Y. Wmmmmantm immti mwi'r For gale by LIPPMAN BROS., Lippman’i Block, Savannah. _ SEED OATS. Rust Proof Oafs,. Seed Rye, APPLES. POTATOES, ONIONS, CABBAGES, And all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS By every steamer. 25 Cars Oats, 25 Cars Hay, 50 Cars Corn. GRITS, MEAL, CORN EYE BEAN. P EA& and feed of all kinds. 155 BAY STREET. Warehouse in 8., F. A W. R'y Yard. T. P. BOND & CO.