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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings —Hebrew Benevolent Society; An
cient Order of Hibernians.
Special Notices—Last Notice State and
County Taxes, 1887; as to Bills Against British
Steamship Elsie; as to Steamship Lake Nepigon;
as to Bids for Furnishing pity Badges.
Avcnox Sale - Mules, by J. McLaughlin &
Son.
Turkeys axd Chickexs—John Lyons & Cos.
Holiday <>.■**—L. A8.8.M. H.
Christmas Goods— Wm. G. Cooper.
To the Public—lß. KrouskolT's Mammoth Mil
iioery House.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Kale; Found; Lost; Photographic; Miscella
neous. #
Secretary Whitney, Gov. Taylor, of Ten
nessee, and Hon Frank Hurd, of Ohio, are
among those who are claimed to have ex
pressed themselves in favor of holding the
Democratic National Convention in New
x
Mr. Randall is not engaged in aiding tbo
Republicans in placing themselves in op|K>-
Kition to tariff reform. What ho is trying
to do is to prevent the Democrats from lift
ing unnecessary taxation from the people’s
■liouMqrs.
It in thought in Washington that if the
Georgia delegation in Congress will unite
in recommending Col. Chits. C. Jones, of
.Augusta, for the Mexican mission, his
chances for appointment will he good. The
del' gation could not unite upon a better
man.
The representatives of the Republican
clubs of the country, now assembled in
New York, will probably chat soijie light
on the choice of that party for President,
but the choice of the people will lie indi
cated later on, and it will not lie that ex
pressed by the Republicans.
M. Carnot is the youngest of the four
Presidents which tho French republic has
Lad during its sixteen years of existence.
M. Thiers was 74 when elected, Gen. Mac
Mahon 6ft, M. Gravy 04, and M. Carnot 50.
If he only proves to be the best as well as
the youngest the French people will have
cause for rejoicing.
Boston is making a bid for the Democratic
Convention, but she has too much jesthet-
Icism to make a very strong effort for it.
It would not be good form to appear mix
ious. If Boston should get it, what in the
world would she do when the assembled
representatives of the Democracy gave way
to a little enthusiasm?
The regular proposition to abolish secret
sessions in the tSenate has again been mudu.
It doesn’t apiioar as if there were such a
thing as a secret session, for the business
transacted in those sessions is in substance
telegraphed by reporters to all parts of the
country. There is always somebody to give
an accurate account of what was said and
dono.
Don Piatt, who used to be prominent in
Washington newspaper circles, is not over
powered with the responsibilities of his gov
ernment position, which is that of post
muster in an Ohio village, at a salary of SlO
a year. Col. Piatt, however, Ir said to own
the prettiest house in Ohio, and the time
that he doesn’t devote to liis post ofHee is
partly occupied in writing tariff articles. *
W. p v . Crerner, a member of the English
Parliament, in a speech before the Conven
tion of the Federation of Labor in Balti
more on Wednesday, expressed surpriso
that there were so few workingmen in Con
gress. Before coming to this country be
thought that at least 100 Congressmen were
laboring men. Lawyers and millionaires
appear to have a monopoly of the places in
Congress. The lawyers doubtless think they
have to work pretty hard for what they get,
and the millionaires ai-e certain that it re
quires a good deal of time aud labor to keep
what they have got.
Seeking a Popular Candidate
There are indications that the faction in
| the Republican party that is opposed to
! nominating Mr. Blaine again is growing
j stronger. The number of prominent Re
publicans who openly express doubts of his
ability to lead his party to success in 1888
jis steadily increasing. They say, and with
truth, that he has done nothing since his de
! feat in 1884 to increase his popularity, and
j that as a matter of fact he is not more pop
ular now tlian lie was then. The Republi
| can jiarty has no new issue, and the country
is not dissatisfied with Mr. Cleveland's a 1
ministration. What chance, therefore, thev
ask, has Mr. Blaine of being elected if he is
nominated.
The Republican party must depend for
success upon the popularity of its candidate.
Mr. Blaine's popularity, it has been shown,
is not sufficient. Has the Republican party
any other candidate whose popularity is
greater than that of Blaine's? Home of the
anti-Blaineites say yes, and they name
Sheridan, the General of the army.
But are they not mistaken? It is true
that Gen. Sheridan is a sort of popular hero
in the North, but it is not generally be
lieved by his admirers that he has the qual
ities it is necessary that a President shall
possess. He is a soldier and nothing else.
He would lie at a loss to know how to deal
with the many complicated and important
qmwtions of statesmanship which would be
forced upon his attention as President.
The people want a man for President who
would not be the mere creature of any
clique of politicians who might succeed in
getting his confidence. Even many good
Republicans would think twice lief ore voting
for Gen. Sheridan for fear that he would be
led into doings things which would be hurt
ful to the business interests of the country.
Those who think of Gen. Sheridan as a
Presidential candidate do so not because
they think he would make a good
President, but because they think
he is sufficiently popular to be
elected. Personal popularity, however,
unaccomj<anied by other qualities which are
deemed necessary, is not sufficient to insure
a Presidential candidate’s election. It is
doubtful if Gen. Sheridan could poll as big
a vote as Mr. Blaine and it Ls certain that
he is far from being as well equipped for the
discharge of the duties of the Presidential
office as Mr. Blaine.
There are influences at work which may
produce very marked changes in Republi
can sentiment with respect to Mr. Blaine
within the next two or three months, but as
yet his chances of getting the nomination,
in comparison with those of auv other can
didate, are about as ten to one.
Labor Organizations.
The Knights of Labor appear to be losing
their grip. Their General Master Work
man, Mr. Powderly, is very ill at his old
home in Scranton, Pa, and his enemies are
sowing the seeds of dissension in the order.
Charges have been present* "that there has
been a misuse of the funds of the order to
the extent of several thousands of dollars,
and it looks as if there would have to be an
investigation. There may be nothing in
them, and they may be simply trumpe lup
by men who are scheming to oust the Pow
derly faction and get control of the order.
It is certain that there is a growing indiffer
ence in acme localities to the welfare of the
order among the Knights, and that large
numbers of them have ceased to have any
active connection with it.
In the meantime the organization known
as tbe Federation of Imlxir, whose repre
sentatives are now holding a convention
in Baltimore, is growing stronger daily.
It has some featur s which commend them
selves to skilled workers as well as laborers,
and it is conducted on a much more liberal
and economical basis. Trades unions are
fostered and secret instructions and circu
lars are not countenanced. The assessment
does not amount to more than a cent a
week for each member, and even that is
not regularly collected. The Federation of
Labor is becoming, if it is not already,
the leading labor organization of the coun
try-
The Colleges and the Tariff.
The President’s message pleases the col
lege presidents. The World has solicited
opinions from a number of them, and the
great majority of those who have responded
praise it. Asa rule college presidents and
professors do not believe in protection.
Their teachings are against it, because the
theory of it cannot be logically sustained
President Eliot, of Harvard College, says
that the message “is sound ecoiv mically,
sagacious politically and thoroughly pa
triotic.” President Barnard, of Columbia
college, says that it is “a
stntosmanlike document which is
destined to stand as a landmark
in our political history.” He also says that
ho does not know “whether more to admire
the profound wisdom of its views or the
compact logic with which they are en
forced.” President Mcßryde, of tho Uni
versity of South Carolina, says that “it has
struck the key note of practical tariff re
form.” President London, of Union Col
lege, says that tho President is right “in de
manding that the tax on tobacco and
whi ky be retained.” President Bascorn, of
Williams College, says that "it is wise and
timely,” and Prof. Caldwell, of Cornell
University, says that he indorses the Presi
dent’s views and recommendations. These
are sufficient to show that the sentiment of
the colleges is strongly in favor of the Presi
dent’s position on the tariff, and if the col
leges favor it is it not safe to say that tho
educated sentiment of tho country favors it?
Since it is evident that tbe labor vote will
return to the Democrats next year, the Re
publicans have discovered that the George
movement was a very smell affair, anyhow.
A good deal of significance is to bo attached
to tho following, from the Philadelphia
Press: “If it is true, as Henry George
asserts, that somebody has been misrepre
senting his political party, it should teach
him not to leave his jiarty lying around
loose. It Isn’t so big but that he could carry
it with him in his trousers’pocket.” This
ls not the way tho IVess talked a little while
ago, and it is not the way the New York
Tribune talked.
The latest phase of ex-Senator Jones’ un
fortunate case is that he hits been requested
to leave by to-day the home of Detectivo
O'Neil, where he was said to have been
taken to keep him from the hotel corridors,
and that his continued refusal to do any
thing to aid himself has exhausted the
patience of his friends. It seems difficult to
get at the true status of Senator Jones’ case,
but in its best light it is a deplorable one.
Irving Hall, one of New York's jwlitical
organizations, was reported the other day
to have disbanded, but the rumor was with
out foundation in fact. It might as well
have been true, so far as any apparent good
that Irving Hall u doing is concerned.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1887.
Keely’s New Force.
There are a good many Keeiy motor stock
holders in different ports of the country
whose admiration for Mr. Keely's genius has
doubtless become less demonstrative since
he announced that he was not now try
ing to utilize his "etheric" and “vaporic”
forces, but was getting in his work on
“vibratoryfsympathy.” It is doubtful if
any more people can be found to invest
money in Mr. Keely's inventions.
Mr. Keeiy may not know much about
either new or old forces, but he understands
human nature quite well. He pretended to
have a secret which was worth millions. He
declared that he had discovered a force
which would become the motive power of
the world, that it could be generated with
out expense, and that the only trouble he
had was getting it under control. Hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of people gave up their
money willingjy to help him got the mastery
of the alleged marvelous force. Some were
afraid that all tbe stock would be taken be
fore they got what they wanted of it. The
secrecy that was maintained seemed to fasci
nate them. Of course they expected to be
compensated. Their dreams doubtless were
disturbed by thoughts of the millions of
money which would fill their coffers when
success should crown Keely’s efforts.
They were never tired of telling of
the strong generators and other
machintA which the great alleged inventor
had constructed to control tbe wonderful
force. After ten years of trial the patience
of the stockholders was exhausted. No
more believers in the discovery could lie
found, the treasury of the Keeiy company
became empty, and then Mr. Keeiy an
nounced that he had abandoned the effort
to control the force and was working at
something that had sympathy in it. If
there are any who sympathize with him in
the direction which his genius has now
taken he would be glad, doubtless, if they
would show it by taking some shares of
stock.
1820, 1823, or 1825?
There is some discussion in the public
prints respecting the age of Mr. Lamar, Sec
retary of the Interior. It grows out of tbe
assertion of some of the Republican papers
that he is too old to be appointed a Justice
of the United States Supreme Court. The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that Lan
man’s Dictionary of Congress gives the year
of Mr. Lamar’s birth as 1830. It further
asserts that the information upon which
this statement was based was obtained
from Mr. Lamar when he entered
Congress in 1857. Ben: Perley Poore, in
theCongressiona! Directory which was issued
in 1873, the year Mr. Lamar re-entered Con
gress, gives the year of Mr. Lamar’s birth
as 1835. To an inquiry of the Morning
News, a very old and highly respected citi
zen of Putnam county, this State, who
knows all about Mr. Lamar’s family,writes:
“L. Q. C. Lamar was born in 1823, at the
house of John Lamar, his grandfather. The
house is the old family liomestead,
and is two and one-half miles
from Dennis station. His grandfather
died Aug. 3, 1833, and L, Q. C. Lamar was
then only 10. years old. It was the first
funeral that he ever attended. His grand
father at the time of his death was 04 years
old.”
If there are still doubts about the year of
Mr. Umar's birth they could be removed
by an appeal to Mr. Lamar or by a glance
at the old family Bible.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s remark that
the South has found out her mistake in sup
posing that slavery was necessary to her
civilization causes the New York Herald to
say: “Such remarks by ex-Confederate
soldiers have a tendency to dampen the
ardor of men like Foraker and Blaine. The
thought that the Southerners are glad now
that they didn’t succeed is a! most as dis
agreeable as seasickness to the bloody shirt
brigade.” It would be impossible to find in
the South any large number of former
slave-owners who would lie willing to re
establish slavery. If the question of re
establishing it were put to a vote its oppo
nents would carry the election by an over
whelming majority. The late Judge War
ner, of the Georgia Supreme Court, used to
say: “You have never yet heard me say I
was glad slavery was abolished, and you
never will.” It is believed that he kept his
word, but he was not in accord with the
spirit of tho times. The Judge was not a
native Georgian, but he was a fine jurist.
He came from some Northern or Western
State.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, has intro
duced a bill providing for the repeal of that
section of the Revised Statutes which reads
“no person who has served in any capacity
in the military, naval or civil service of the
so-called Confederate States, or of either of
the States in insurrection during the lute
rebellion, shall be appointed to any position
in the army of the United States.” It is
high time for this law to be repealed, and it
is not very creditable that it has been al
lowed to remain in force up to this time.
Aside from its injustice, it is very curiously
worded. The use of the word “Confederate”
is all the evidence wo have showing that it
is not the great and glorious “rebellion” of
1775-81 that is referred to.
The lately appointed Postmaster General,
Mr. Dickinson, is not only a terror to people
who don’t want to pay their debts, but he is
also a terror to Republicans who have
already held office quite long enough under
a Democratic administration. The New
York Tribune, is authority for the
assertion that under his administra
tion the “offensive partisan,” who is a Re
publican, will stand a much better chance
of being kicked out than the “offensive
partisan” who is a Democrat. Mr. Dickin
son has some qualities that fit him for a
Democratic Postmaster General.
There is danger in the green postage
stamp. A woman who was employed in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing died
a day or two ago in Washington from tho
effects of poison in tho ink used in printing
greenbacks. The green ink used in printing
greenbacks is the same as the ink used in
printing the 2 cent green postage stamp.
It would be advisable to dampen the muci
lage on the gi een stamps some other way,
than by placing the stamps on the tongue.
“The scenes of shame and degradation
around tho police station in this city make
one wonder how long this senseless farce of
prohibition is to be tolerated,” says the
Pawtucket (R. I.) Record. This is the regu
lation anti-prohibition howl, with a little
more than the usual amount of desperation
mixed with it. The Record man wants to
be able to get his drinks with more regu
larity and without doing so much dodging
around after them.
The third and fourth class postmasters,
now in session in Washington, will have an
opport unity of shaking tho hand of a ttiut
cittss President.
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Noise Startled Him.
From the Richmond Die;iatrh (Deni.)
If Gen. Mahones hearing is at all acme he has
doubtless by this time beard himself drop.
Wants the Explanation Explained.
From the Philadelphia Prett (Rep.)
Gen. Roswell Pettibone Flower has explained
his position on the tariff. Now. as soon as he
explains his explanltion we shall know just
where Mr. Flower stands.
The Great Funeral Procession.
From the New York Herald (Ind.)
The Republican National Convention to be
hel i at Chicago. Ls it* Well, Chicago has a
good nose for sensations, and has secured the
HQM funeral procession of tue century.
Already Largely Represented.
From the Chicago Nercs (Derr,.)
If the delegates sent to Congress from No
Man's Land wore to be admitted to a seat in
that body there would soon come another knock
on the door, and in would step a duly accredited
delegate elected by those mysterious people
dwelling in Parts Unknown.
Knows How to "Regulate.”
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.)
William E. Chandler has proposed a bill to
regulate Congressional elections in South Caro
lina, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana. He
may be considered something of au expert with
regard to elections in Southern States by those
who recall some of the details regarding the
national election of 1876.
BRIGHT BITS.
She (to George who is taking her out for a
ride and whose horse has balked)—Don't be an
noyed, George; have patience and he will move
on presently.
He—Patience, my dear! Why, I am paying
to- this measly animal by the hour. —New Folk
Sun.
She— And you don't like big dogs, Mr. De
Garmo*
He—No, I can't say I have very much love for
them.
She—But they have such large hearts.
He—lt isn't their hearts I object to; it’s their
mouths.—Pack.
A young man who lobked as if he might have
come straight from East St Louis stood in front
of a harbor shop on Dearborn street yesterday
morning and slowly spelled out the words of a
sign: "‘Loots blacked inside.” “Gosh! "he ex
claimed, “what's the use of blackin' boots on
the inside. ” —Chicago Tribune.
Getting Around the Law—A hotel porter,
after carrying a gentleman's trunks to his room,
puts out his hand in a manner which left no
doubt iti the traveler's mind as to the former's
intentions. “I thought the rules of this hotel
forbade your accepting tips.” "Yes, but there
is no rule against your giving any."—Paris Fig.
aro.
Ax old woman unable to read, on receiving a
letter from an absent son. asked a friend to read
it to her. The writing was so bad that the
friend, hardly able to make it out, read stam
meringly: "Dear mot—mother, I—ta—take"—
w hereupon the old woman cried out, gleefully:
“It’s from dear Jamie, sure enough. He always
stuttered!"— New York Ledger.
Landlady (who has been reading the morning
Paper)— “AH tbe European {lowers congratulate
ranee on having safely passed the crisis, ex
cept Turkey. Turkey has about disappeared
from the politics of Europe."
Old Boarder—•'Humph: It has entirely disap
peared from your table, ma'm. Haven't seen
one for years ."—Texas Siftings.
In the \Va*ting room—First Gentleman in
Waiting—ln the pictures of Father Time he is
always represented as a nude old party. He
should have a cloak and a long train.
Second Gentleman In Waiting—Well?
Fir-t Gentleman —And the train should be con
structed of a locomotive and passenger cars.
These are always behind Time.— Bulletin.
Robinson—That's a fine dog you have,
Dumley, Do you want to sell him ?
Dumley—l’ll sell him for $.50.
Robinson—Ls he intelligent ?
Dumley (with emphasis)--Intelligent t Why
that dog knows as much as I do.
Rooms! >nYou don't say soj Well, I'll give
you 25c. for him, Domlev.— New York Sun.
“Yes," he said, "I retired from business six
months ago. I had made an ample fortune in
the hardware line, and I thought that I had
earned rest and—"
Just then a messenger boy opened the door,
and said: “St. Paul off five points.”
"Great Scott!" shouted the retired business
man. "Another ten thousand gone.”—Fuck.
A Work or Charity -Fond Mother—Emily,
what hare you in that basket! 1
“Oj, some flowers, and jellies and sweetmeats
and things."
"Are you going on a charitable mission, like a
good Christian girl? If so, you might call at
Williamson's house, where all the members of
the family are sick and destitute, and they are
very worthy people.”
“Oh. no, I'm not going there. I want to take
a few little presents to the murderer up at the
jail. He is such an exquisitely interesting young
man.” —Lincoln Journal.
PERSONAL.
Thf, salary of Mr. Spencer as President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is $25,000
a year.
Charles Carroll, of Maryland, and his bride.
Historian Bancroft's granddaughter, will sail
for Europe in a few days.
The {minting of Gen. Sheridan, given by Mr.
O. W. ChlUls to West Point, has been placed on
view l at the War Department in Washington.
Miss Kate Field has been delighting the Cali
fornians with her literary and musical enter
tainments. She will spend Christmas in the
East.
Congressman Scott spent $50,000 in enter
taining last season in Washington, and lie pro
poses to drop a similar amount this season. He
deserves well of his caterer.
Mr. I.abouchkre graciously remarks that the
royal family of England treat the ex-Empress
Eugenie kindly only because they hope to be re
membered largely in her will.
There are nine Harvard graduates in the
Fiftieth Congress. They are Senators Hoar and
Pasco and Representatives Hayden, Long, Perry,
Adorns, Lodge, Burnett and Belmont.
Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope will spend
the winter at Rome, and return to England in
the early summer. He has not spent a winter
nortli of tho Alps for nearly forty years.
Oliver O. Boutwell, of Troy, N. Y., is DO
rears of age and is actively engaged in business,
He is as vigorous as a man in the prime of life.
He jumps off a street-car with the agility of a
boy.
Prof. Tyndall says be agrees with Mr. Froude
in thinking that to men of the requisite quali
ties, which include sympathy, justice ana iron
firmness, it would bo an easy task to govern
Ireland.
Mims Grace Matthews, daughter of Justice
Stanley Matthews, will spend the winter at
Princeton, N. J., keeping house for her brother,
who is preparing to enter the ministry of the
Presbyterian church.
The weather throughout the country lias
resolutely refused to he predicted, so to speak,
this season. Gen. Greely is, naturally, very
much annoyed. He should obtain writs to make
every delinquent cold wave show cause why it
did not arrive on time.
The authorship of the poem “If I Should Die
To-Night," attributed to Mr. Beecher for years,
has heen traced to Miss Belle E. Smith, a former
student, and at present a teacher at Tabor Col
lege, at Tabor, la. It first appeared in the Chris
tian Union, June 8, 1873.
George Francis Train is editing the fly sheet
of The Weekly Record, of Sussex, N. B. He
shows the same economy in the use of the
definite article anil the same fondness for a star
cato style of expression which have heretofore
marked his journalistic efforts.
Congressman Martin, of Texas, who succeeds
Senator Reagan in the House, is uncompromis
ing in his opposition to the civil service law,
"It’s a humbug.” he declares. “I believe in the
doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils."
Mr. Martin is tho man who blew out the gas in
his hotel room.
Louis Judson Swinburne, of Albany, who
died the other day at Colorado Springs, during
his freshman year at Yale wrote an essay on
“William Hlark's Novels," which Mr. Black, in
n personal letter to the young man. declared to
lie i lie most Just and discriminating analysis of
his works that had been printed.
Elihu Vedder. whose work is sometimes
siKiken of as t he liest imagine! ive art of modern
times, has a brow and eves like those of Haw
thorne, though the artist is fair while the
romancer was dark. Tbe forehead is broad and
thoughtful, the eyes are intelligent, frank und
kindly, hut the mouth and chin are those of a
very matter-of-fact man,
M. Clemenceau, now a prominent figure in
French politics, resided in New York for years
immediately after our civil war. M. Clemeheeau
taught French ina school at Greenwich. Conn.,
und after obtaining the consent of his father in
France, who was a man of means, he married
one of his pupil*. Miss Mary E. Clenimer, the
ceremony o, fn< performed by Mr, A. Oakey I
Hall, the Mayor of New York. |
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S LIFE SAVED
An Attempt to Kill Him at His In
auguration Frustrated.
From the IVashinyton Post.
The sudden death of Oapt. S. S. Blackford has
called to mind the incident of the second in
admiration of President Lincoln, when the
Captain, who was then a member of the Capitol
police force, probably saved the President's life.
It was just as the Presidential party passed to
the platform in front of the Capitol.
The line of the police was a double one. and
solid, and as those were critical days and there
had been rumors of attempts to attack the
President, the strictest orders had been issued
that no one shoald be allowed to pass out of the
east door of the rotunda except those rightfully
in the procession. After a portion of the pro
cession hail passed out. a man who behaved in
a very excited manner brok" through the line of
police near the door an t rushed for the plat
form. Mr. Blackford sprang from his place and
seized the man, and, in spite of his desperate
struggles to escape and his declarat ion that he
had a right to go upon the platform, held him
until the doors were closed. Then others came
to his assistance, and the man was put outside
the lines. The remainder of the procession
then passed out and the inauguration took place
without interruption.
Very little was thought of the incident until
after the assassination of Lincoln, when the de
scriptions of John Wilkes Booth that were pub
lished led Mr Blackford to suspect that the man
whom he had stopped on inauguration day was
no other than Booth himself. Further inquiry
proved that Booth had been seen in the crowd
in the rotunda on that day. and the description
given by those who witnessed Mr. Blackford’s
seizure of him completed the identification.
Subsequent disclosures led to the belief that
it was Booth's intention to shoot President Lin
coln while taking the oath of office or delivering
his inaugural, and that he was only frustrated
by the bravery and promptness to act of Mr.
Blackford.
STRAWBERRIES sl2 A QUART.
Delicacies to Adorn a Rich Man’s Table
at dis Christmas Dinner.
“If a man has plenty of money he can have
with his Christmas dinner all the midsummer
fruits.”
This was said to a reporter of the New York
Mail and Exjiress recently by an up town fruit
merchant. “Next week,” he continued, "if you
will step into our store and forget that this is
the month of December, you will think it
summer time and that you have made a mis
take in putting on your overcoat. One fruit we
have now is strawberries. They are hothouse
grown, of course, but very fine. They sell at
sl2 a quart. It seems almost like eating money,
does it not > We shall be able to sell all we can
buy at Christmas. Another delicacy is hothouse
grapes. The Barbrosa grapes are in the market
now. They sell for $4 a pound. Next month
ths black Hamburgs come in. They will be
worth $5 a pound.
“Hothouse tomatoes sell for $1 a pound. Cu
cumbers, also hothouse grown, are worth 50c.
each. California peaches are selling at $2 a
dozer. Some choice pears for the holiday fes
tivities are worth $3 a dozen. Asparagus can be
bought for s]|a smail bunch. Tangerine and
mandarin aranges sell at $1 25 a dozen. Grape
fruit is worth $1 a dozen, plums are selling at
$1 50 a dozen.
“Christmas is the time for nuts. The variety
in the market now is very large. Filiberts are
selling at 75c. a pound. Pecan nuts, polished,
arc worth 40c. a pound. Hickory nuts and En
glish walnuts are plentiful. Of the Spanish
nuts the Barcelona is the most popular at this
season; they sell at 50c a pound. Brazil nuts
are also in demand. The leechee, a Chinese
nut, is selling at $1 25 a pound.”
Washing the Children.
From the Arkansan’ Traveler.
The girl was washed without the least trouble.
When called by her mother, she put her doll on
a chair and submitted herself to the operation.
Not a word of complaint escaped her, and upon
being released, her bright face beaming with
the glow of good humor, she took up her doll
and resumed her play.
"Come here, Tom," said the mother.
“Oh, wait till I untangle this old string.”
“No, come right now.’
“Can't you wait a minit?”
“You had plenty of time to untangle your
string while I was w ashing Alice.”
“It wasn’t tangled then.”
“Well, come on, and you can untangle it after
I have washed you. Come on, I tell you. What
are you looking forf”
“My pi&ce ofiron. ’
“You don’t want that rusty thing.”
“Yes I do, it’s my gun.” ,
“Come on here, I tell you. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself. Alice didn’t do that way.
If I eome after you I’ll make you move. What
are you trying to do now!”
“Puttin my horseshoe in my box.”
“Throw-that old horseshoe down, you good
for nothing thing. Come here to me, sir.”
“You’ll Kurt me.”
“No, I won't."
“And won’t you rub hard?”
“No.”
“That old-water’s cold."
“No, it isn’t. It’s as warm and nice as it can
be.”
"It’ll take too long.”
“No, it won’t take but a few minutes,”
He approached his mother and she took him
on her lap.
“What are you trying to do?” she asked.
“Wanter git down a minit. Want to put my
can in the box.”
"Never mind that old oyster can. You are
making as many preparations as if you were
going on a long journey.”
“What’s a journey?”
“A trip.”
King Faro.
From the Galveston News,
A teacheryn the Sunday school
Had tau ght her scholars few
The truth which scholars ought to kn
Who read the Bible through.
But on the day herein set down
Anew one had come in—
A little lad, with keen bright eyes,
And innocent of sin.
The teacher asked them all around
Such questions as she thought
Would tit their minds and bring abou
The object that she sought.
They knew of Adam and his sin,
Of Paul and Peter, too,
Of Jacob, Joseph, David, Saul,
And him his brother slew.
And then the teacher asked her class
If any one could tell,
Who Pharoah was. “Of Course,” she said,
“You know that very well.”
But, strange to say, no hand arose,
And silence, with a blow,
Had struck the class and not a one
The answer seemed to know.
At last the new boy's hand went up—
“ Well, who was Pharoab, la' 1 ?”
The teacher smiled - the new boy said:
“ ’Twas him that busted dad!”
He Had Never Heard This Story.
From the New York Herald.
That picturesque personality, Brain Stoker,
gives an amusing comment upon his efforts to
attract an audience to hear him speak about
President Lincoln. Bram was there, and we be
lieve Henry Irving was in the seats. But there
was no audience.
New York is a queer place. The laws, cus
toms, whims of cities do not apply here.
Some years ago Brick Pomeroy printed
a sulphurous newspajier out West, con
signing the soul of Lincoln every Saturday
morning to eternal lire. Brick printed a good
many papers and earned heaps of money.
Finally he thought he would come to New York,
and one of his triends sought the advice of the
late Horace Greeley as to the propriety of the
move.
“Well,” said Greeley, “Brick makes money
because he lives in Wisconsin, among those red
hot Democrats who like to be told every week
that old Abe is roasting in eternal tires. 'But if
he comes to New York lie will find that not one
man in a thousand cares whether Abe is roast
ingor not."
Brick came to New York, and the result justi
fied Mr Greeley's judgment. Brain Stoker
probably never hoard this story.
The Washington Season.
f'rom the Epoch.
The “social season” at the White House will
begin on New Year’s day. When it has begun
it will be a brief one, for Ash Wednesday will
close it, and that will crowd all the elaborate re
ceptions and dinners into about six weeks. As
there age three great receptions and as many
dinners, Mrs. Cleveland will be obliged to take
part in at least one formal “affair” once
a week. If this does not prove too
fatiguing she will resume her Saturday
afternoon receptions to the public, and the
country will again have opyiortuDities to read
about the frantic struggles of 6,000 or fi.ooo
women to Dass the doors, shake Mrs. Cleve
land's hand and get safely out again iu the
space of two hours. It is a formidable under
taking, and everybody here knows it. But
even iu Washington there are women who de
clare that, having had the experience, having
suffered irremediable damage to clothing, sub
mitted to rude treatment from policemen and
ruder language from “ladies” in the crowd as
eager as themselves, they will venture it again
at the first chance. i
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Rev. G. W. Field, of Bangor, went to
Belfast, Me., recently to attend the funeral of
a domestic who had been iu the families of his
father and brother for a period of eighty years.
A noval SIGHT witnessed near Mount Vernon,
Me., last weekwas that of a men mowing on the
ice. A portii >n of his farm is in swamp land,
which is too wet to mow in summer, but by
wuiting until it freezes lie is enabled to harvest a
large crop of hay from it.
A tree that was cut down in the Little
Shookum valley, near Whatcan, W. T-, yielded
35.000 feet of lumber, which, at $7 50 per 1.000.
makes the tree worth $202. The Whatcan
Reveille s iys;h.it the timber lands in the county
will average ten such t rees to an acre.
While us iso stove blacking on her kitchen
range the other day, Mrs. Margaret Twibcll, of
Montpelier, Ind., got a small quantity of the
polish in a cut on her hand, blood poisoning
ensued, the hand swelled to great size, and it
is thought that it will be necessary to ampu
tate it.
The city of Lecompton, Kan., which thirty
years ago was one of the most promising towns
in.the West, is to-day a striking example of a
"busted boom.” Town lots that sold readily for
SI,OOO each in 1854 cannot now be disposed of at
SSO, and the $500,000 State House then under
way is now a mass of mins.
The French Academy, by its recent annual
flistribution of “prizes of merit,” has proclaimed
Jean Adolphe Delannoy, a Calais pilot, the most
heroic of Frenchmen. He Jias risked his life
twenty-one times in saving shipwreckisl crews,
and is loaded with medals. He also wears the
cross of the Legion of Honor.
The first President's message telegraphed
West was delivered by James K. Polk. The
operator took forty-eight hours to perform the
task. It was On that occasion that the Phila
delphia operator was so delighted in reaching
the signature that he added: “God and Liber
ty,” and the papers printed it so.
John Sheetz, of Reading, Pa., brought suit
before the Aldermen to recover 10c. from a man
named Wentzei. The case grew out of a dispute
about the value of an appie butter jar, which
Sheetz declared to be worth 10c., while in Went
zel's opinion it was worth only Be. The Aider
men gave judgment in favor of Sheetz for 10c.
and heavy costs.
Dave Johnson and Dawlin Sassinet, of Eliza
beth City, N. C., had a grudge against Albin
Satchwell, a neighbor, and, arming themselves,
they went out to meet him. Encountering him
on the street, they drew a line in the mud across
the road and dared him to step over it. Satch
well walked coolly on over the line and was shot
down in his tracks.
Aunt Hattie North, who recently died in
Troy, Kan., was thought by those who knew her
best to lie fully 117 years old. She was a colored
woman, and remembered living in St. Louis
when the city was a French trailing ]>ost, with
very few houses. She often relatedincidents
that occurred a full century ago, and, as she
never knew how to read, it was thought that
she spoke from actual experience.
JabezHubd. a hermit near Clinton, had not
changed his clothing or taken a bath for years
until the health authorities descended upon his
filthy hut the other day for the purpose of
cleaning it. Once inside the door they laid
hands on Jabez, stripped him of his clothes,
gave him a thorough scrubbing at the pump
and dressed him in anew suit. His brother
threatens to sue the authorities for malicious
trespass.
St. Paul draws her water supply from con
tiguous lakes, whereas Minneapolis gets hers
from the Mississippi river. Gen. Washburn
claims that ultimately ftiese cities must draw
their water supply from Lake Superior, 100
miles away, but liigli enough to admit of a
ready-flow The undertaking would not be as
great as it would appear to be upon first
thought, and has been deemed entirely feasible
by competent engineers. %
A gentleman living a short distance from
Little Brown Creek, N. C., now comes to the
front with the startling proposition that par
tridges are an unfailing preventive of chills and
fever. He says that he knows not of a single
man, or a single member of any family, who
has been attacked with chills when partridges
have entered liberally into the diet of the house
hold. He has inquired, but can find nobody
who knows an exception to the rule.
A Peoria, 111., girl who went to a ball the
other evening wearing a pair of new shoes, soon
found herself in such agony that she went to the
dressing room between dances and took them
off. She hud hardly removed the shoes before
her feet puffed up to such an astonishing size
as to make it impossible to put the shoes on
again. No others being obtainable, she was
forced to pass the remainder of the evening
without dancing, and eventually to go home in
her stocking feet.
Dr. Junker, of London, has received several
letters from Emin Bey, the latest being dated
Feb. 27. The negroes had murdered Grescke,
the agent of the the Hamburg ivory firm of
Mayer, and had burned the town of Wadelai,
only fifteen huts remaining. Everything in the
place was destroyed except arms and ammuni
tion and some corn. Emin hoped to be able to re
build the town in two months. The Lado and
Nuggi stations had also been burned Emin
reports, hewever, that he had gained the friend
ship of several chiefs.
The female compositors in a Boston job
printing office refused to set type from the
manuscript of Rev. Justin D. Fulton’s latest
book on the affairs of the Roman Catholic
Church. Their reason was “that the text was
grossly indecent and immoral.” The firm sus
tained its employes, and the reverend author
threatens to bring suit for damages. Should
this man succeed in getting his Ixiok published,
the public cannot do better than let it alone.
This is a noteworthy instance of the good that
can he done by women who cultivate some use
ful industry and do their missionary work as
occasion offers.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in prenatal
influence. She says she was made a poet before
she was bom by her mother’s devotion to
“Lalla Rookh” at that period. She also lie
lieves in min ors, and never [lasses one without
looking into it. She says it is not vanity, but
for reassurance that no disaster has overtaken
bustle, plume or collar since her last meeting
with herself. She always lias a mirror before
her when writing. When she is brought up into
a corner in composition, her swnl upward
glance invariably falls on the little ptush
framed reflection of herself, and immediately
the idea, rhyme, word or title is speared upon
her impatient pen. She always writes in a
rocker, lower from the table than ordinary
writers.
Last Saturday Mrs. Langtry entered an East
Twentieth street furniture store in New York.
She moved about among the different articles of
furniture and finally came to a rocking chair.
Its chaste lines and general air of comfort satis
fied even her fastidious taste, and after gazing
upon it for a few moments she ordered it sent
to his Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales.
The chair which his royal highness is expected
to occupy a few times before ascending the
throne, is built after style of the old rockers
used in this country ISO years ago. It is of
solid mahogany, very strongly built aud
broad. In fact, it is large enough for two
For fear the mahogany seat might not be soft
enough for his highness, the Lilv had some
beautiful ruby plush cushions made. There only
remained one thing more to do, and the chair
would le fit for a prospective king. The msthetic
tastes of l oyalty must he satisfied and for this
purpose the chair was plentifully decorated
with ribbons of dark navy blue, that lining the
royal color The natural supposition would be
that this was intended for a Christmas present
but srtch is not the fact. It is meant as a re
membrance of the Prince's birthday, which was
Nov. U). Why Mrs. Langtry is so late in send
ing tier offering no otto seems to know. For this
slight testimonial of her lasting regard the Lily
paid seventy-live of her hard earned American
dollars
Lieut. Gen. Sheiuuan is the only famous
commander of the late war who has not caught
fever. He has published little or
nothing of his recollections of the war. and has
discouraged others from doing so. His idea is
that war recollections at twenty years ran
are not worth much, that history bad better oe
made out of contemporary i-ecorils and reports.
He does all that he can to have these preserved
and prepared for the use of the future historian.
He carefully kept the originals or copies of tali
letters, telegrams, orders, and so forth, sent or
received by him during the war. Some of these
were destroyed in the Chicago fire. But he
does not regret this so much as he might, be
cause it was the cause of his making a “find"
of greater value than all his documents put
together. When he came on to Washington,
having determined to replace his lost treasures
with copies if he could do no better, he was told
that he might And in the attic of the White
House some of the telegrams that President
Lincoln had sent He weut up there himself,
and by delving and digging got out of a mass of
stuff a very large number of President Uncoln’s
war telegrams, addressed not only to him lint
to all the other Federal Generals. He had them
removed at once to a safe place, and they ha- e
been well cared for since. Tito future historian
or the war will have Gen. Sheridan to thank for
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