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4 f|e periling lottos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 18ST^ Registered at the Post Office in Savannah. Morning News is published every day in •be year, and is served to subscribers in the city , by newsdealers and earners, on their own ac count, at 25 cents a week. $i 00 a month, $5 00 for six months and $lO 00 for one year. •Hie Norm no News, by mail, one month. $1 00: three months, $2 50; six months, $o 00. ere year. $lO QO. The Morning News, by mat?, six times a week (without Sunday issue), three months, $2 00; six mouths, $d 00 one year, $H 00. The Morning News, Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The Son-day News, by mail, one year. 52 no. The Weekly News, by matt, one year, *1 -5. Subscriptions pavablr in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Tins paper is kept on file and advertising rates may be ascertained at the office of the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' Association, 104 Temple Court, New York City. Letters and telegrams Rhould bo addressed ‘‘Morning News. Savannah, Ga " Advertising rates made known on applleatio INDEX ~TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meeting —Catholic Library Association. Special Notices— Chatham County Election Notice; To the Members of Wesley Methodist Church, Mrs. J. K. P. Carr: Turkeys, John Lyons Cos.; Turkeys, L. Putzel; Felt Hats at Jau don’s. Amusements—Marie Prescott and R. D Mc lesnat the Theatre; Pool Tournament, Chas. Kolsborn & Bro. Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos. Auction Sales— Cotton Screws, Property on the White Bluff Shell Road, by L D. Laßoche's Pons; the Butler Plantation, Sundries, by J. Mc- Laughlin & Son; Groceries, Stoves, etc., by C. H. Dorsett. Christmas Magazines— At Estill's News De pot. Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous. Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works—Edward D. White & Cos. Publications —A New Book of Stories, by Joel Chandler Harris. Jacksonville, Fla., is all torn up over the charter muddle. If Legislatures made fewer mistakes the people would growl less about paying the expenses of them. It is alleged that Don M. Dickinson hopes to land himself in the United States Senate, and expects that his friend, Mr. Vilas, will reach the Vice Presidency about the same time. For so young a man Mr. Dickinson has great hopes and expectations. The Prohibitionists having decided to hold their convention during the first week in June, will likely be the first party in the field next year. They will not, however, head the column in the matter of returns, which is, after all, the chief consideration. The New York Star asserts that the party of engineers which left that city on Wednes day on the Hondo to make a final survey of the canal route across Nicaragua, intend to survey a canal route across the Isthmus of Panama. What the Star is mostly in need of is an editor. An effort is being made to secure the ap pointment of Judge Cooley to the vacant seat on the United States Supreme bench, but it will hardly succeed. Judge Cooley is a very fine lawyer and jurist, but he is needed on the Interstate Commission, and Mr. Lamar will, doubtless, deal out sound law from the bench. Amos Cummings, one of the Congressmen from New York city, and a frequent con tributor to the columns of the Morning News, proposes to write a weekly letter from the national capital. If he will only tel) all he finds out respecting the weaknesses of his brother Congressmen, his letter will be spicy and in great demand. A citizen of Baltimore has prepared a bill to be submitted to the next Maryland Leg islature, making it obligatory on every qualified citizen to vote at every general election, under penalty of a fine of $5 and costs. It would be interesting to know whether this bill is Supported by the reform element in Baltimore or the ring crowd. The Georgia Company is now ready for business with two lawyers to see that it doesn’t get into trouble. There is some de sire to see what the stock of the new com pany will be held at on the market. If it can be sold at 30c. on the dollar the mem bers of the syndicate will make a good thing out of their purchase of the Georgia Central railroad stock. Assistant District Attorney Fellows says that he was somewhat surprised at the de cision of the Court of Appeals in the Sharp case. A good many other lawyers were. It seems that the evidence which was im properly admitted in the trial court was very carefully considered in the District Attorney’s office before it was offei-ed, and the conclusion was reached that it was legal evidence. It is believed that there is enough evidenoe to convict Sharp without that which the Court of Appeals says is inad missible, and Mr. Fellows says that Sharp will be tried again next month. It is doubt ful if another verdict is ever obtained against him. It is stated that the commission which has spent several months and many thousands of dollars investigating the affairs of the Pacific railroads cannot agree upon a report. The chairman of the commission is ex-Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania. It is said that it is his wish to force the roads to a rigid ac txmnting and an immediate settlement with the government, and that the other two members of the commission want to let bygones be bygones and to fund the indebtedness of the roads to the government into long-time bonds bearing a low rate of interest. There isn’t much doubt that the railroads will come out ahead, whatever the result may be. The government stands a very poor chance of getting all that the Pacific roads owe it. Col. Nicholas Smith, who married Horace Greeley’s daughter and failed to provide for her, has long been called the handsomest man in the world, but not until recently has be put his personal beauty to practical pur pose. He charged a Brooklyn man who is 07 years old, and who married a 19-year-old Kentucky belle, SIBO for acting as his groomsman, and claims that his (Smith’s) services were worth the money, presumably inasmuch as his fine appearance greatly en hanced the interest of the occasion. Does this open tip anew industry in this country ? The chief impediment would be that there are not many men who would be willing to hire professionals for the purpose at SIBO apiece, though, perhaps, as in the case of Col. Smith, the price would be made de pendent on the amount of beauty possessed by the professional. Rivor and Harbor Appropriations. Representative Norwood, in an interview in the Morning News yesterday, states that in his opinion the appropntion for Savannah harbor in the next river and har bor bill will be larger than the last one, but that it will not be twice as large. Ho gives two reasons for this opinion. One is that the Democrats will be as economical as possible in making appropriations this win ter, because they want, to go before the j>eop!e in the next Presidential campaign with a record for economy, and the other is that the members from districts which re ceive very little direct benefit from the river and harbor bill will oppose it with the hope of making political capital for them selves. There is no doubt o great deal of truth in what Mr. Norwood says, but the friends in Congress of rivers anil harbors ought to be able to do more for the great public in terests which they represent than what he seems to think they can. It requires very persistent and skillful work to get anything from Congress, and that is the kind of work which the jieople who are interested in rivers and harbors expect from their repre sentatives. The last river and harbor bill did not be come a law, as Mr. Norwood points out, through the failure to get it to the Presi dent in time for his signature. If the friends of the bill had been a little more, energetic it might not have failed, although it is difficult to place the blame just where it belongs. The failure of the bill, however, has resulted in an immense amount of dam age to river and harbor improvements. It will take a very large part of the next river and harbor appropriations to restore these improvements to the condition in which they were when work on them ceased for want of money to continue it. The Democratic party may want to have a record for economy, but it will find it dif ficult to convince the country that it is economy to permit public improvements to be abandoned for a year or more, although the Treasury is so full of money tnat it is a problem to know what to do with it. If the Treasury were empty, the country poor, and taxes high, the people would not grumble if their rivers and harbors, upon which to a large extent their commerce depends, were not improved as fast as they would like to have them, but they have no sympathy with denmgogisin—for it is demagogism to lock up hundreds of millions of dollars in the Treasury, and let public works go to ruin and great commercial interests suffer for no other reason than to ire* able to say that the expenses of running the government have been small. Economy does not consist in small expenditures, but in spending money judiciously, and getting all that can be obtained for it. If Savannah harbor does not get more than double the amount it received in the last river and harbor bill, work on the im provements to secure either the twenty-two foot or the twenty-eight foot channel will not proceed very rapid!y. In fact, the amount which Mr. Norwood thinks the harbor will get in the next bill will not be more than enough to complete the improve ment for the twenty-two foot channel. The people interested directly in the im provement of rivers and harbors are alto gether too timid iu making known to Con gress their wishes. If they were a little more aggressive and persistent more atten tion would be paid to their wants and wishes. President Grevy’s Resignation. I’ijpsident Grevy resigned yesterday and it is safe to say that a great many of those who were prominent in forcing him to re sign will be sorry for their action before another President is elected. It will require both wisdom and moderation to guide France safely out of the troubles in which she is at present involved, and French politicians and statesmen, how ever much ability they may possess, are not noted for moderation. Some of the factions of the Republicans seized upon the Wilson scandal to compel President Grevy to resign. They alleged that it was neces sary to purify the government, though it was apparent to those who studied the situation that they were controlled by an altogether different motive. The question who shall succeed M. Grevy is a very serious one. No one of the factions of the Republicans is strong enough to elect his successor. There will have to be combinations and compromises, and these will cause delay, and delay is full of danger. The republic has enemies, and strong ones. Avery strong element in the Chambers would like to see the republic overthrown, and doubtless its secret agents are already at work. The people are greatly excited, and it will be difficult to enforce the law against the mobs which are liable to gather at any hour. M. do Freycinet was the favorite in the second ballot taken yesterday, but he may not be able to secure the necessary ma jority. It is believed that the elec tion of either M. Ferry or M. do Frey cinet would give great satisfaction in Ger many, but it is far from certain that either of them could insure to France a stable government. M. Grevy is 74 years old. When he was 35 he vvas elected Vice President of the National Assembly and member of the Par liamentary Committee of Justice. When Na poleon 111. became Emperor he retired to private life. In 1868 he was the acknowl edged leader of the French bar, and was elected to the National Assembly. In 1876 lie was elected Presi dent of the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1879 he was chosen President of the Republic, to succeed Marshal Mac Million. In 1885 he was re-elected for another term of seven years. He has had a busy and rather remarkable career. While not a brilliant man, he is an able one, and was a much safor President than his successor is likely to be. The Boston Journal, a Republican paper, perhaps inadvertently paid u glowing tribute to the Democratic administration the other day when it expressed its satisfaction with “the running of factories of all kinds on fuM time,’’ the “immense volume of general business,” “increased railway earnings,” good reports from the chief trade centres, and “no menacing or disturbing influences in the money or stock markets.” A book-keeper in a New York wire fac tory has merely to glance at broadsides of figures, row after row. to declare the result instantly. He doesn’t know how he does it, which is about the only part of the story the public will believe. The New York Republicans gave every encouragement to the lalior movement in the hope that it would capture Democratic votes. The Tribune patted Henry George and Dr. McGlynn on the back, and wished them God-speed. TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1887. No Tariff Measure Framed. It is about certain that the Democratic leaders have done nothing toward giving shape to a measure for reducing the tariff. They have undoubtedly discussed the tariff question from all possible standpoints, and have agreed that a reduction in the reve nues must be made. They have also found out that the Republicans will oppose reduc tion unless they are permitted to dictate the terms upon which they will consent to it. As Republican dictation is not on the Demo cratic programme the hostility of the Re publican side of Congress to any tariff measure which the Democrats may propose, may be looked for. The question of the most importance is this: How many Democrats dan Sir. Ran dall carry with him to the Republican side when the fight for tariff reduction begins? It is admitted, of course, that Mr. Raudall will be found in his old position so far as the tariff is concerned. If he cannot in fluence any’ Democrats to join him his al liance with the Republicans will not be suffi cient to obstruct tariff reform legislation. Home of the protection Democrats a few days ago expressed the opinion that they had been making a mistake in opposing a reduction of the tariff, and that their record on that question in this Congress would be quite different from that of previous Con gresses. If they do not again change their minds, a tariff reform measure will be car ried with their aid. Mr. Carlisle will 1* re-elected Speaker, and on him will devolve the responsibility of dealing with Mr. Randall. He will cer tainly refuse to attempt to discipline Mr. Randall, unless ho becomes thoroughly sat isfic'd that the good of the party requires him to do so. He refuses, however, to talk about Mr. Randall’s case, or to express an opinion with regard to the proper course that should be adopted with regard to him. He thinks that if he is elected Speaker, it will lie time enough then to decide upon his course with respect to Mr. Randaii. His position is undoubtedly the right one. If he should not be elected Speaker, it would be embarrassing for him to know that he had acted as if he were certain to be elected. Attention has been quite widely drawn to the statement that Mr. Carlisle, in the last Congress, did not announce the committees until a month after the meeting of Con gress. Mr. Carlisle explains the delay satis factorily. If he becomes Speaker of the present Congress he will bo ready to an nounce the committees in a very little w hile after Congress meets. If Mr. Randall will consent to act with his party on the tariff question it is about certain that he will be made Chairman of the Appropria tions Committee again. A Burdensome Decision. There are a-good many cranks in Wash ington, and all of them are not outside of the departments of the government. One of them is in the Post Office Department, and he has rendered a decision that is giving a great deal of trouble to business men in all parts of the country. The decision in ques tion changes the rules relating to the trans mission of second, third, and fourth-class matter through the mails. According to it matter of these classes which contains labels and business cards, or any other printed in* structions, directions or advertisements, ex cept the simple name and address of the parties for whom it is intended, cannot legally pass through the mails. Asa consequence a great deal that is now received through the mails looks as if it had met with a misfortune of some sort, the objectionable cards or labels having been either scratched out or covered with paper pasted over them. The words “attorney,” “printer,” “grocer,” etc., and also cuts of buildings are forced into hiding by the new order. The decision wifi cost business men who have on hand large quantities of envelopes and wrappers, which have cards and pictorial illustrations upon them, a very large sura. It is quite safe to say that stationery that will have to be destroyed will amount to many liun dreds of thousands of dollars. If the objectionable printing and illustrations are marked out or covered the stationery can still be used, but what busi ness man will care to send letters and papers through the mails in coverings which look as if they had been gathered from the sweepings of his office f It is to be regretted that it is stated that Georgia is the home of the author of this unjust construction of the postal laws—a construction that is productive of great loss and annoyance. The Philadelphia Ledger complains that 15,000 children are unalile to enter the schools in that city owing to lack of room, and says that they ought to lie provided for even if it involves an increase of taxation. The Record throws some light on the sub ject when it says that the Board of Educa tion asked for $‘237,000 for repair and altera tion of school buildings, but the Finance Committee of the Council cut down the allowance to $120,000. “This,” says the Record, “is the usual see-saw which has re sulted in the deplorable inefficiency that keeps children out of school for lack of room, and by imperfect sanitation sickens others who go to school.” Philadelphia seems to be in sad plight with regard to her schools. If the Council is afraid to take steps look ing to an increase of revenue, it might try the experiment of reducing expenses in other departments of the city goyernmejit.' A Pensacola man, M. P. Hickey, a friend of Senator Jones, is in Detroit and is trying to get the Senator to return to Florida. If lie continues stubborn, it is said that legal proceedings will be begun to have him declared insane. There are doctors rea y, it is alleged, to give the proper certificates that he is not in his right mind. The Sena tor says that if his friends will let him alone he will complete the business which brought him to Detroit within a year, aud that then he will quietly leave the city. The New York World calls attention to the fact that there are in New York and Brooklyn thirty-six opportunities for a fire panic every Sunday. The Boarl of Fire Underwriters publishes a list of that num ber of churches that are liable to be burned down at any time ou account of defective heating apparatus. This is a matter for gravo consideration. Church-goers are quite as mnch entitled to protection as theatre-goers, and if the matter stands as described by the board, it cannot be too soon remedied. A Republican exchange says: “If the 1,200 Republicans who were waiting to cast their ballots in Norfolk, Va., when the polls closed there last month, had been allowed to vote, that 426 Democratic majority in the Statu would have been turned into a Republican majority of 774.” Procrastina tion is a very bad thing. If 10,000 voters had been left waiting when the polls closed, the result would not have been diffeiou.* CURRENT COMMENT. Probably True. From the Baltimore Herald (Rep.) Jake Sharp will Dever be convicted again. Under the rulings of the New York Supreme Court he is as good as acquitted now. Lamar’s Tact. From the Philadelohia Record !Dem.) Secretary Lamar's report is full of tact in that it completely answers ex-Land Commissioner Sparks without seeming to answer him. The Transposition of Two Vowels. From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) Property holders in some parts of Texas are complaining of rhe taxes. This is one of the vicissitudes of living in a State where the mere transposition of two vowels makes taxes out of Texas. An Independent Opinion. From the Sew York Herald (Tnd.) A correspondent discusses in the Commercial Advertiser some of the reasons why baldheaded men are bald. He omits, however, tbe main reason, which is that they have no hair on the top of their heads. BRIGHT BITS. Should pigs that run at large on the streets be considered public pen shuuners J— Cleveland Sun. “The Canadian papers are calling Mr. Cham berlain a Jonah He ought theu to lie able to get on the inside of this tUh question. —Boston Post. Gkrster has lost her voice, sure enough, but if it is ever found it will be easy to identify it. There is no other of the same pattern.—Phila delphia Press. “1 see the dude has got into the latest edition of Weiister’s Dictionary.” “Has he ? Well, hurry, then, and slam the covers down " — Ch icago Sews. The Brooklyn Ragle claims that President Cleveland will live iu Brooklyn. We violate no confidence iu stating that Mr. Cleveland will live for five years longer in Washington.—De troit Free Press. Hakdbhips or Housekeeping—l'm going to leave, mum! “What for ? lam sure I have done all the work myself, in order to keep a girl.” “Well, mum, ther work's not done to suit me:"—Puck. Start-lino.—He (rapturously)— And now that's all settled darling. What kind of an engage ment ring would you like? She—Oh, gold this time. I hope, dearest, I'm quite sick of wearing imitation engagement rings. Tableau! -Punch. Omaha Wife— What under the sun are you doing? Husband -Trying to tie this string around my finger. ‘'Why, I did not ask you to do any errand.” “No. This string is to remind me that I have nothing to remember to-day.— Omaha World. Hvphocondriac— l am feeling very blue this morning. Doctor—What's the matter? “Every time I feel my nose it hurts me.” “But you are not obliged to tee! your nose.” “But how can I tell whether it hurts unless I feel it.”— brum the German, in Texas Siftings. “So you are to be married?” “Yes. and to the nicest girl in the world! Char ley, she's worth a million!” “You don't say so! Harry, I congratulate you, old boy!” “Yes, she'sworth a million of such girls as one sees in society.” “Oh,” Charley murmurs as he goes off: “Poor devil, how I pity him '."—Boston Tran script. “Now, Bobby,” said his mother, “you are tired and sleepy. So say your prayers and jump into bed.” “Ma,” remarked Bobby, as he assumed the devotional attitude, “if it wasn't for one thing, I don't b’lieve I’d say any prayers to-night.” “What is it, Bobby?” “I wouldn't like to go to bed without asking God to take care of my rabbits.”— Texas Siftings. Such an affable man! I was glad we had met. For he made a short hour most pleasant; He spoke in a way I shall never forget On questions concerning the present. His opinions they suited my own to a TANARUS; I regretted that hour's brief durance. Then my coat by the button he took, and, said he: “Are you carrying any insurance?” —Puck. First Wood Sawyer—This 'er is a hard, hard world, no chance for employment at all. How I’d like to knock off and go duck hunting like I did when 1 was a boy. Second Wood Sawyer—You must be crazy. “Crazy because I want to go duck hunting?” “Clean daft. In Maryland, where I just came from, duck hunting is a regular trade, and men are mid so much a head for all they kill. I have been a duck hunter for six years.” ‘' What on earth arc ve doin' out here?” “I came here to saw wood for a Pest.”— Omaha World. PERSONAL. Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, cost the British taxpayers $3,250 for his "Garter.” Hon. B. F. Shively, of Indiana, said to be the youngest member of the House of Representa tives, is for a government telegraph. Millionaire Carnegie advises young busi ness men to shun three things. First, liquor drinking; second, speculation; third, endorsa tion. Ex-Land Commissioner Sparks’ friends are in doubt whether to vindicate him by running him as a candidate for Congress or for Gov ernor of Illinois. The House of Representatives to assemble in Washington next Monday will, for the first time since reconstruction times, be without a single colored member. A Republican editor writes to the St. Paul Pioneer Press that the quarrel over division in Dakota may lead to the election of a Democratic delegate to Congress next year. The President of the French Republic has the exclusive right of the shooting in the Marly Forest, near Paris. Grevy's last bag contained seven roebuck, 230 pheasants, forty rabbits and one rat. When Miss Adelaide Detchon returns to America, prettily blushing under a giant load of Old World honors, she "'ill live chiefly at her old home at Hartford, Conn., whore her father is a well known physician. The most youthful prisoner in the peniten tiary at Chester, 111.. is a little child who was born there tw o months ago. her parents being behind the bars for arson. When their sentence expires she will lx nearly a grown woman. S. O. llackley, of Anderson, Ky„ an old soldier, preserves os a relic of war times a little paper of quinine which a doctor gave him on the battle-field of Camden, N. C , twenty-four years ago, when the precious drug was worth SSOO an ounce. Hon. B. F. Jones, Chairman of the Republi can National Committee, in an interview that appears in Wednesday's Pittsburg Commercial. Gazette, says that he does not lielieve Mr. Blaine entertains the slightest desire or intention to be nominated for the Presidency next year. Mr. Jones said he did not wish to be considered as making a definitive or authoritative statement; but he itased his conclusions upon what Mr. Blaine had voluntarily said to him w hen he was his guest a year ago, at the time he came to Pittsburg in the Beaver campaign. Mr. Blaine had stated substantially the same views the dav before he sailed for Europe in conversation with Mr. Jones at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The case of Riddleberger, who looms up as of importance to them again, is giving the Re publicans more annoyance than they are willing to confess. He is a strange man, given at times to an individual lino of action, and more than ever ail OJiect of apprehension to his party as sociates, since his final break with Mahone. There is probably no warrant for the talk that he is likely to ally himself with the Democrats during the remainder of his term. But that he w ill exercise any power he may tind himself in possession of, to the discomfiture of certain of his Republican associates in the Senate, may with entire safety lie assumed. He likes neither Mr. F.dmimds nor Mr. Sherman, aud this leads to the conclusion that Mr. Ingalls will continue to till the Vice President's chair. How Mr. In galls. with bis taste and talent for a wrangle, has managed as he has done, to escape a col lision with the Virginia Senator is one of the strangest of things. Gen, Spinola, of New York city, will have a new story to tell among his colleagues at the national capital. In the closing days of the last local campaign Gen. Spinola addressed his fellow citizens' at Second avenue and Twenty forth streot from a truck, on tbe merits of the respect ive candidates on the local tickets. Speak iug of the candidates for District Attorney he said; “The United Democratic candidate for District Attorney is John R. Fellows. He is a life-long Democrat, has had nearly twenty years experience in the District Attorney's office. Is a close student, has a well equip;*-,! and analyt ical niiml for criminal law and its application. You should all vote for such a candidate. Whom Lave the Republicans placed against him? Nicoll. the tailor. Would you vote against such a man ns Fellows for Nicoll, the tailor, and a cheap Bowery tailor at that?” One half the audience saw the point made by the Tammany wag, and the other naif believed what he said. The result watt the Kama. WM. JONES AND MRS CLEVELAND. A Peace Man is Struck with Admira tion of the President's Wife. Boston, Not. 29.—William Jones, Secretary of the Peace Society, is a member of the peace delegation which is now in this coun try. He called on Mrs. Cleveland a few days ago with a letter of introduction from Miss Frances E Willard, and this is what he says in a letter to a friend in this city about the inter view: "My reception waa most gratifying. There is a charm of manner, a perfect simplicity, and w inning smile which place you quite at ease at once with ‘the queen of tiO.OOO.OW of free peo ple.’ She alluded to Miss Willard as a dear friend of hers, with whose work she is much in sympathy. When I told her that, on Miss Wil lard’s invitation, it was my intention to ad dress at Nashville, Tenn., the National Con vention of women on the subject of peace and good will, and hoped I might be permitted to say there that tho highest lady in the land was in sympathy wilh their great obiects, the promotion of temperance and of peace, she assured me of her earnest sympathy with them in their labors. She also evinced great interest in some brief allusions to my own personal experiences, in times of peace and of war, in Europe, in stancing herself the condition to which the peasantry of Italy are reduced by war taxation, as observed by herself during her sojourn there. My promise to send her my pamphlet of ‘ltaly and Militarism,’ was responded to with pleasure. Throughout the interview Mrs. Cleveland im pressed me as being a woman of noble aspira tions, far above the mere love of position or of display. Her sympathy with suffering evinced in tier feeling allusions to Nashville aud tho South, where I was going, in reference to which she oliserved. ‘There you will find they know something of war in its reality,’ showed an earnest desire on her part for the establishment of righteous and humane national relations in place of the miseries of war. The position of influence she occupies, I ventured gently to re mind her, afforded a vantage ground for speak ing a fitting word in season which might prove of incalculable bles-ingto her own people and to the world at large. ’ ” A Marvelous Canary Bird. Fro::: fAe Portland (Oe.) Aetna It was recently learned that George Horn, tie veteran drummer, who served as a musician with Gen. Sberraan during the recent un pleasantness. liad a wonderful canary bird, and a reporter called at bis residence to see and hear it. Tl)o proud owner of the feathered musician conducted the reporter to a sunny room, where the bird was confined in a small cage. Mr. Horn at once began to whistle the old German waits tune, "Buy a Broom." After listening a moment, the canary, who seemed a little shy and bashful before a stranger, exe cuted two bars of the pleasant old tune and then stopped as though nervous. ”1 guess he is diffident about performing be fore anyone with whom he is not acquainted," said Mr. Horn, "and we will therefore retire to the next room. ” After the room occupied by the bird was vacated Mr. Horn again whistled "Buy a Broom," and the bashful bird heal’d it and re peated four bars as distinctly and clearly as though it was played on a cornet or piccolo by a skilled musician. The only halt he made was on the last note. This portion of the tune was repeated several times to the delight of the listeners by the miniature musician. “The bird," said Mr. Horn, "is twelve months old. and it has taken about nine months to teach him to sing what you have just heard. My little 10-year-oTd daughter, Ella, and myself teach him by means of this instrument." It was a xylophone which Mr. Horn pointed to, and he seized the sticks and rendered finely several airs on it for the edification of his visitors. Continuing, Mr. Horn said: "The bird sings in the key of D and goes up one note above the high C, It takes a good singer to reach this same note, and I believe Adelina Patti and the great Jenny Lind are the only ones I ever heard who could do so with ease. I have been a drum mer with bauds and orchestras all my life and know whereof I speak. I think the reason the bird falters on the last note is because it is too low for the register of his voice." Was It a Plesiosaurus ? Prom the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Siorx City, la., Nov. 22.—While workmen were engaged in digging a cistern at the farm of Mr. D. H. Talbot, just outside the city limits, on Saturday, they came across a mass of strange-looking bones at a depth of about three feet from the surface. They gathered up about a patent bucketfull before the thought occurred to them to have the discovery investigated. Mr Talbot, whose 1 fe is entirely devoted at present t i scientific research, was notified by telephone, and yesterday went out to the farm in company withj. C. Hoskins, the representative of the Sioux City Scientific Association. A thorough exhumation and careful examination was made. The gentlemen had the remains laid in their respective places as nearly as possible, which showed that the remains were those of some kind of an animal of the reptile species. Mr. Hoskins states that in his judgment it was a plesiosaurus, a reptile of the cretaceous period. This specimen was about 20 feet long, being a very large ope. He said that during the cre taceous age the plesiosaurus was an inhabitant of this country, which was then nothing more than a huge swamp. They lived by prey. It is unfortunate the workmen broke the bead of thp remains of this animal. However, a part of the jaw was secured. This contains the teeth, which are about 1 inch to ! % inches long. They are coated black, and still reiain the gloss. Mr. Hoskins says that the animal must have died while in a fight, as the neck bones show that the neck was broken. The remains were found in a side hill, which properly would make it a depth of about 300 feet below the surface of the earth. Women in the Sleeping Car. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. It is one of the inscrutable mysteries of life why the slowest and most "pernickity’’ and most selfish of women generally obtains pos session of the dressing room first, and holds it until the patience of every other woman in the car is about exhausted. Regardless of the com fort of others she washes, and pow ders, and puts up her hair, and lets out her bangs and brushes her teeth, and manicures her nails, and arranges her collar and cuffs, and all the rest of it with the calm deliberation of one who has nothing to do but loaf, and the whole day tie fore her to do it, while her suffering sisters are waiting—waiting with unkempt hair, and grow ing ire, her painful and selfish slowness. From all these, and the many minor miseries of a sleeping car, women pray to be delivered— though, by the way, they should do something more effective than praying. If nothing better could be devised in the way of accommodations, one great improvement could be easily put iuto practice, and that is to have a car for women to themselves. That alone would reduce the dis agreeables of night travel very considerably, Sixty Thousand Useless Words. From the Buffalo Courier. “There is no man living," said a public school teacher the other day, "that knows every one of t he 75,000 words in Webster'sUuabridged Diction ary, nor half, nor a third of them. Nor is there a man that could defiue them If he were asked. Shakespeare, who had the richest vocabulary used by any Englishman, employed ouly 10,000 words. Milton could pick out from 8,000, but the average man, a graduate from one of the great universities, rarely has a vocabulary of more than 3,000 or 4,000 words. Right here in Buffalo there are Americans born and bred who contrive to express all their wants and opinions in 3XI words, and in the rural districts the knowledge of 150 or 200 words is sufficient to carry a nian through the world. So the una bridged dictionary is cluttered up with 00,000 or more technical or obsolete words that you never hear in ordinary conversation or see in or dinary books aud newspapers. A Ten Thousand-Dollar Watch. From the New Orleans News. The death of -Mr. Alfred Denison removes a well known figure from London society. He was a younger brother of the celebrated George Anthony Denison, Archdeacon of Taunton, aud of Mr Speaker Denison, afterward Viscount Oossington. Laxly Oossington presented her brother-in-law with SIO,OOO for certain services. This money Mr. Denison invested in •sumptuous watch. Avery musical repeater of the best workmanship was inclosed in a gold case liter ally studded with jewels, and each jewel a picked stone. The watch chain had a succession of black pearls, and ik- signet was a scarahieus. The worst of this costly whim was that the owner scarcely dared w ear the watch for fear of being robbed In the street, and could not leave it at nome for fear of a burglary. The Small Boy In High Clover. From, the New York Evening Sun. We’re livin' on the topped shelf. We've everythin* from goose to grouse, I haiu’t been licked for most a week, ’Cause we’ve got comp’ny’t our house. When we’re alone my ms is strict. An’ makes me Keep as still's a mouse, But now I make a heap o’ noise. 'Cause we’ve comp’ny’t our house. We've peach preserves an’ pumpkin pie. An" jelly cakes three times a day, An’ I’m havin' such a bully time 1 wish't our comp'ny come to stay. Perhaps Anthony Comstock will soon bring his guns to bear on the wearers of undressed luds. —Fruvidenec Evening TtArgrum. ITEMS OF INTEREST. North ebn capitalists are reported to be ne gotiating for the purchase of Wallop's Island, on the northeastern coast of Accomau county, Virginia, where they propose to erect a number of pleasure houses. Field hands in China are paid sl2 per annum, with food, straw shoes and free shaving. It costs about $4 per year for clothes. A great deal of Chinese land is divided up iuto farms of one-sixth of an acre. A Nashville business summary says building in and around that city is very brisk. Plansand contracts for new buildings for next year are plentiful. News from surrounding towns within thirty miles show that there is givat industrial activity. Recorder McCord, of the Probata Court in Cincinnati, says that as a rule women are less selfish than men. He comes to this conclusion after reading 100 old wills. In which he found many oases where the husband made provision to cut off tbe widow's supplies in case she re married ; and In his whole experience he has read but one will of a married woman wherein any such stipulation was made respecting her husband. John L. Murry, of Westport, Conu., now a veteran of 87 years, is a tailor, aud remembers well when he sat as a journeyman at the same table with Andrew Johnson, w ho, he says, was not a good tailor, although he did become President of the Cnited States. Mr. Murry relates with appreciation his experience in that city in 1844. He was drawn on a jury, and lost so much time that he afterward joined the ' olunteer Fire Department to escape jury duty. Soon afterward occurred the great Broad street fire, at which he received injuries that laid him up for sixteen months. The Buffalo Express says that this is the way a countryman explained to a friend the use of the new police patrol boxes of that city: “You see,” he said, "the people in town here want a po liceman sometimes, and, by gol I whenever they did want one, or if there was a fight goto’ on anywhere, the pol'cemen would all run away and hide 'cause they don't want to arrest any body. So they put these little iron boxes on the corners and they put a policeman in each one of them, so that he can’t run away, and then the town folks all carry a key to the box is, and can go aud find a policeman whenever they want one.” There was some interesting testimony about partridges in a Hartford, Conn., court the other day when H. H. Hewitt was charged with sell ing partridges that had been snared. One of the exhibits was a bird that had no signs of shot about it, but had a mark about its neck just such as a snare would make. One of the witnesses swore that partridges died in a queer way. He was out the other day and fired at two birds, each of which was brought in by his dog, but had no shot marks. Tbe birds fell when he fired. Whether they were scared to death he did not know. There was also testimony that partridges were accustomed to dash themselves against trees and break their necks or die of the concussion. One gunner testified that when his dog brought in a wounded bird, he (the gunner) killed it by biting its neck. This evidence was apparently intended to account for the ring round the neck of the bird in court. The result of the testimony was that Mr. Hewitt was dis charged, the State not being able to beat that sort of swearing. They conduct their religion on business princi ples in Chicago, according to this story of a par son there: “I was in the office of one of my parishioners.” said he. "He was a fair type of the Chicago Christian, and I broached to him the subject of a revival. He ran over his calen dar with his pencil for several weeks ahead, and then answered that I couldn’t coimt on him un til after Dec. 1. He said he had to have his stove put up in about a week. Then he had to have anew winter overcoat, and about the mid dle of November he had to go to the opera. He said all this in a cool, business-like way, and with no intention of being funny, for he has no humor in him. I thought it was time for me to appear in the role of missionary, and I said to him, ‘But the Spirit says dow.’ ‘I can’t help it,’ ho replied petulantly. ‘The Spirit must un derstand the rales of commercial comity, aud give me at least three days of grace.’ I don’t think he meant any levity or play on the word; but I confess that I was stumped!” Edward Wilmot Blyden is perhaps the ablest negro in the world. He can read the Koran in Arabic, the Bible in Hebrew, Homer in Greek, Virgil in Latin, Shakespeare in English, and Dante in Italian. Though a native of the island of St. Thomas, he was brought up in Monrovia, Liberia, and there, by his unusual literary ability, he has attracted attention to himself as the champion of a negro civilization that shall be coterminous with the limits of the Dark Con tinent. Blyden controverts the idea of Win wood Read that the natives in Africa will dis appear before the whites, as the Indians did in America. The climate will save them, and, in - Steal] of being destroyed by the Europeans, they will be civilized by the efforts now being made to open Africa to commerce and settle ment. To Blyden the Anglo-Saxon is hard of heart and strong of will, while the negro is the child of love and suffering. Blyden is a com plete Know-Nothing, and his cry is “Africa for the Africans.” He is likely to have few to op pose him in this matter, for not even the chil dren of Africans raised in America can be in duced to remain there if they have the means to get away. The death of the Jewish poet, Kmma Laz arus, takes from Hebrew and American liter ature one who was not more devoted to the Interests of her race than she was com petent to take a high rank among the female poets of the country. She has been cutoff in the middle of her career, with her best work yet to be done; but what she has already accomplished, both in prose and verse, en titles her to high distinction. The Jewish Messenger says of her: “It is rarely that a writer combines such vigorous and masterful prose with such glowing and exquisite verse. Her literary work was always clear-cut, and in her impetuous mood each stirring phrase se ‘rued coined from her soul.” She was as mod. st as she was gifted, as eutbusiastic for humanity as She was for her race, and Jews and Christians alike deeply and sincerely mourn her loss as one who blended the best elements so perfectly in her life that she delighted and spiritually up lifted all who knew her. Her first volume was published in her 17th year, and her translations and her original work were of a very high order. It would lie well if her writings could be brought together in a complete form. They are worthy of such treatment. The first statue of the poet Longfellow will be erected in his birthplace, Portland, Me. The sculptor to whom the commission was given by a memorial association formed in Portland soon after the poet s death, was Mr. Franklin Sim mons, a native of Maine, who, unfortunately for his art, has elect ed to spend the greater part of his professional life in Italy. The clay model which has Just been finished in Rome, will be put in bronze within the next six months, and the statue wall probably be unveiled in Portland in the late spring. An account of the statue in a very eulogistic vein, wiiich recently appeared in the Paris American Register, contains the following: “The poet is represented in a sitting attitude, the light arm resting in an easy position on the back of a richly carved and ornamented chair, while the other is thrown carelessly forward on his lap, and loosely holding a mass of manuscript. The ample folds of the cloak falling from t he shoul ders sweep nrouud and cover the knees in a manner that is at once natural and graceful as an example of artistic composition. The space bemsath the chair is broken by some st ray vol umes that serve alike to fill a vacancy and to form a suggestive adjunct of a minor nature The head, leonine almost in the flowing locks so characteristic of the man, is inclined slightly forward in a thoughtful way. and is expressive of modest and dignified Intellectuality as its B revailing sentiment. The height of the figure standing, would be 10 feet, and the pedestal upon which it is to rest is to be 11 feet in eleva tion.” The movement to restore the Old Brick church at Sroithfield, Va., which is supposed to be the oldest church iu Virginia, has been suc cessful, and the restoration is nearly complete. This church was built in 1035. and was occupied continuously for two centuries. Among other contributions to the, restoration were 2,000 bricks which had formed the walls of the Bav church, which, though of later date, was asso ciated with tiie Old Brick church. These bricks have passed through several hands since thev were torn from the Bay church, having served most of their time in a fanner's kitchen, while part of them stood for a while as the walls of a burying ground. Now they strengthen the walls of the restored Old Brick Church. The I™ .s Jl i ßt J’ ,u on rest red edifice are. the fourth set. The first, put on in 1032 remained till 1787-10S years; In 1737 the second set was put on and remained until 1821 (81 yearsl when new ones were substituted for them.’ These remained until the present summer, when they were removed, the church root having fallen m. There will lie twenty-one stained glass memorial windows In the church. 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