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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Myrtle Lodge No. 1663, G. U. O. F.,
and Other Lodges; Myrtle Division No. 350,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Special Notices— Letter from the New York
College of Music to Messrs. Chickering & Sons:
The Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Co.’s Divi
dend; Gallery Tickets to G. O. P. Full Dress
Ball; Savannah Academy Roll of Honor; Will
Open Monday, Davis Bros.; Hang Your Clothes
on My Line, Townsend; Strauss Printing Co.’s
Card; Christmas Races Postponed to New-
Year's Day.
What’ll Yor Have? —B. H. Levy fit Bro.
Facts— A S. Cohen.
Monday, Dec. 26—L. &B.S.M. H.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Miscellaneous.
Holiday Goods— A. R. Altmayer & Cos.
Amusements— AX’hristruas Cantata at Masonic
Temple; “Shadows of a great City” at the The
at re.
Hay, Grain, Etc.— W. D. Simkins and Cos.
Bargains— At Gray & O’Brien’s.
•Tust Read— Belsinger’s.
Yesterday’s weather could bo classed
among the raw materials.
The numerous friends of the Pope have
presented him with 50,000 bottles of cham
pagne. But for his religious principles, the
Pope could make big profits by establishing
a wine room.
The number of Congressmen who went
home for the Christmas holidays was much
smaller than in former years. The reason
Is that free passes have been abolished. A
very excellent reason, is it not?
The Republicans in speaking of the slen
der Democratic majority in Indiana in
1884, say 6,500 is easily wiped out The
Indiana majority is not half as slender as
Sarah Bernhardt, who “gets there” every
time.
Gov. Larrabee, of lowa, is engaged in a
still hunt for votes to oust Sir. Wilson from
the United States Senate. The Legislature
convents in January, and the Senatorial
situation is said to to considerably compli
cated. ________________ *
The Keely Brewing Company of Chicago
is in no wise connected with the Keely
Motor Company, but it proposes to cause
trouble by refusing to buy barley grown in
prohibition States, and the Motor Company
has long been browing trouble in some of
the same States by refusing to disclose its
secret.
The esteemed New York World prints
the statement that Senator John Sherman
has retired from the race for the Republican
homination for President. This is a very
uplikely story. Mr. Sherman never retires
until he is beaten, and he never knows he is
beaten until somebody else walks off with
the nomination.
The hotel keepers and the proprietors of
public boarding bouses of Branch county,
Michigan, have adopted a novel method of
fighting prohibition. They have signed an
agreement to close their houses, in case pro
hibition is adopted there. This would be a
very good thing for the Prohibitionists who
want to get into the hotel business.
Speaking of J. Warren Keifer, ox.
Speaker of the House, the Cincinnati (O.)
Enquirer says: “Gen. Keifer is one of tho
most able and erudite of Ohio’s public men.
He is an honor to Springfield, 0., and that
city honors him as her most gifted son.”
Keifer’s greatness is confined to Springfield,
0., and the Enquirer office, and may be
represented by a 0.
The bloody shirt organs have an idea that
the best way to enjoy Christmas is to abuse
Mr. Lamar. They are rubbing their hands
in ghoulish glee over what they call the
prospect of his defeat, but their laughter
will be turned into a very ghastly smile
when a half dozen Republican Senators
repudiate the bloody garment and vo*e for
*u able and honest man.
Christmas.
Christmas is the merriest, happiest day of
all the year in all Christian countries, and
it ought to be. Of all the holidays it is the
one that brings tho purest thoughts and the
highest pleasures. The aim of all is to give
happiness to others, and in doing so they in
crease their own happiness. Christmas is
the children’s day. They think of it from
one year’s end to the other. They know
about it as soon as they know anything.
In every household, whether it be the abode
of poverty or of wealth, “Santa Claus” is a
familiar name.
A distinguished divine of New York
lately proposed to abolish “Santa Claus,”
but his reasons for doing so are njt good
ones. The world couldn’t get along without
him. He is a favorite not alone with chil
dren. The middlo-aged and those who have
almost finished the journey of life welcome
with glad hearts the gifts which, we agroe
in admitting, he distributes. The gifts are
not prized for their value, but as an evi
dence that we are remembered and that
there- are hearts in which there are
kindly thoughts of us. Without
friends and without loved ones the
world would have few attractions.
What wor;hless things would wealth and
the prizes of genius and courage be if there
were none with whom we cared to share
them or to whom we desired to give pleasure
by means of them ?
Christinas makes old hearts young and
young hearts glad. It draws parents nearer
their children and strengthens children’s
love for their parents. It binds together
more closely the family circle and breaks
down the barriers which have been raised
in the struggle for riches, glory, success or
the attainment of purely selfish ends. Let us
be thankful, then, fora holiday that means
so much to us, and let us enjoy it, forgetting
the trials of yesterday and shutting out tho
shadow of the dull cares of to-morrow.
And while we are enjoying ourselves let us
not forget that there may be those whose
Christmas may be made brighter
by a little help from our well-filled larders.
“Charity is an eternal debt,” and it is well
to pay some of it at this joyous season,
when payment is easier and more liberal.
The consciousness of having done a good
deed will help to round out the pleasures of
the day.
Mr. Lamar’s Nomination.
The statement comes from Macon that
Secretary Lamar will make his home in
that city if his nomination as Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court is not con
firmed. This is doubtless nothing but a
rumor, and it is pretty certain that it is not
based upon anything that Mr. Lamar has
said. There is no good reason for thinking
that his nomination will be rejected. The
President doubtless took good care to find
out the sentiment of the Scuate before he
nominated him. If he had not been as
sured that the nomination would be con
firmed he would not have sent his name to
the Senate. He would have kept him in
the Cabinet where, no doubt, he would
like to have him stay.
Enough Republican Senators will vote
for Mr. Lamar’s nomination to insure its
confirmation. Doubtless that is understood.
What the Repnblicans are aiming to do is
to make as much political capital out of the
nomination as they can. They may even
ha ve a fierce debate over it. When they
have had their talk, however, the nomina
tion will go through all right,.
There is a silly story afloat that the
Supreme Court is atious evenly divided
on the great telephone case of Draw
baugh vs. * Bell, and that it is de
sirable that Mr. Lamar should not go
on the bench until that case is dis
jiosed of as he took some official action wit
regard to it as Secretary of the Interior. If
he were to become a member of the court
at once he would take no part in that case.
It has been argued, and perhaps the decision
is already written. Doubtless other foolish
stories will be circulated before the nomina
tion is disposed of.
Ex-Secretary Manning's Death.
Ex-Secretary Manning, whose death is
announced in our dispatches this morning,
was in the prime of life, being only 56 years
of age. Overwork and the confinement
which his arduous duties as Secretary of tho
Treasury imposed upon him brought on
paralysis, from which he never fully
recovered.
He was a man of splendid physique and
fine mental endowments. The pari which
he played in the political affairs of New
York and of the nation was a prominent
one. For years he was one of the most con
spicuous leaders of the Democratic party of
the Empire State. He was trusted and re
lied upon, and few men enjoyed to a greater
extent the confidence of his party.
To his shrewd management Mr. Cleveland
largely owed his nomination for President.
He impressed upon the party that its suc
cess required that it should carry Now
York, and he made it clear that no Demo
crat’s chance of carrying it was so great as
that of Mr. Cleveland.
Mr.Cloveland fully recognized his obliga
tion to Mr. Manning, and depended largely
upon his advice and counsel. It was the
impression that Mr. Manning did not care
to enter the Cabinet, but Mr. Cleveland in
sisted upon having him there, and ho would
have remained tliere, doubtless, if his health
had permitted.
Mr. Manning’s administration of the
Treasury Department was a very able one.
He handled the financial affairs of the
nation in a way that commanded the re
spect and confidence of the entire country.
The announcement of his determination to
leave the Cabinet was heard with general
regret. Expressions of sorrow for his death
will not be confined to his own State.
The Washington correspondents have told
almost everything worth knowing about
the personnel of the present Congress, but
this item was saved for the last, probably
because it was among the best: Judge Ly
man, who represents an lowa district, bus
heretofore been known as the ugliest man in
Congress, and he was proud of tho distinc
tion, because he hoped to become noted by
reason of it, but since the new memliers have
come in his hopes have been shattered. Mr.
Johnston, of the Buncoml>e district of
North Carolina, not only has every element
of ugliness possessed by tho Judge, but has
got the advantage of being cross-eyed.
Judge Lyman is loth to yield the palm to
Mr. Johnston, but reluctantly confesses that
his prospects for retaining it are not bright.
Mr. Beck has gone to Kentucky to look
after his fences. The Legislature convenes
Dec. 31, and his opponents pretend to be
lieve that he will have a hard time getting
back to the Senate. When Dr. Standiford
died, the only opposition to Mr. Beck of
any consequence perished with him. The
sturdy old Scotchman would have buc
[ needed himself ovon if Dr. StAudiforl hud
I lived.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1887.
Mr. Barry’s Spectacles.
Mr. Thomas B. Barry, a prominent offi
cer of the Knights of Labor, has just re
turned to Philadelphia from a trip through
Virginia, North and South Carolina and
Geoigia, and he lias given some of the im
pressions of his trip to a Philadelphia news
paper. It would be interesting to know
what kind of spectacles Mr. Barry n ears.
They must be very bad spectacles since they
do not permit him to see things as they are.
It may be that Mr. Barry things
as they really are even with the aid of tho
best of spectacles. There are men afflicted
in that way. It is charitable to suppose,
however, that Mr. Barry sees things wrong
ly because of a defect in his spectacles and
n t because of any mental defect.
He says that a Southerner who toils with
his hands is looked down upon. It wonld
be interesting to know with what class of
people he was associated in this section. As
a man of his calibre would feel like a fish
out of water with the slums and outcasts of
society, and as such information he gives
can bo obtained by observation among no
other class, probably he consulted
the advance sheets of Mr. Ingalls’ historical
novel, or delved into the riches of Mr,
Blaine’s memoirs. “My first work,” he
says, “brought ine to Virginia, where
I learned that to be colored is to be a
negro.” If Mr. Barry had consulted such
negroes as Minister Taylor he would have
learned that there are no colored men in
this country, unless they be Indians, and
that the negroes are beginning to regard the
meaningless term, “colored people,” as one
of reproach. Mr. Barry can impart his
knowledge on this subject to tbo encyclopae
dia-makers, who will recognize in it a piece
of newly-found information. “Every where I
went,” he continues, “I heard from the peo
ple, white and black, the most horrible sto
ries of intimidatiou at elections.” This is
tho same old story that has been revamped
by Republican emissaries in the South for
the last quarter century, and Mr. Barry de
serves no particular credit for proclaiming
it anew. Can it be possible that ho is an
emissary of the bloody shirt leaders of the
Republican party and that his Southern
trip was id their interest?
There are several othor choice bits which
Mr. Barry has given to the public,
but the above are sufficient to show
that it will be wiser for him to attend to
labor questions, and let those relating to
politics alone.
Another of Bullock’s Interviews.
The latest interview with ex-Gov. Rufus
B. Bullock, who is very loquacious lately, is
dated from Atlanta, and published in the
New York Graphic. Gov. Bullock mod
estly hints that his opinions are not of much
importance, as he has not been prominently
identified with any political party since be
resigned the governorship of Georgia. He
speaks of the resignation in a manner im
plying the voluntary laying down of oner
ous public burdens that required more of bis
time than iie could conveniently give, and
the allusion to that tragic act must bring
a broad sm le to the lips of Georgians who
have not forgotten how lie held on to the
office as long as he possibly could, and re
linquished it not from choice, but from
necessity. The people of this Slate are will
ing to regard Gov. Bullock with a consider
able degree of toleration, since, the events in
which he figured so prominently are long
past, and they appreciate the grim humor
that pervades the reference to his resigns tion.
Gov. Bullock’s career in Georgia has been
full of stirring eventr. It is not believed
that he was elected Governor of the State.
A majority of the votes were cast for Gen.
Gordon, hut a master of political intrigue
boldly carried out the scheme of seating
Bullock, whose administration was marked
by some of the most stujieiidous happenings
in th > history of the State, and whose con
duct to the last was that of one possessing
pluck, boldness an ; determination.. Subse
quently he was a potent’ factor in At
lanta’s growth, and his work for that, city
suggests the idea that he repented of his
sins against Georgia, and was trying to
atone for them by giving bis energies to the
building up of her capitol city.
Gov. Bullock repeats tho statement made
a week or two ago that he no longer regards
ex-President Hayes as the only man whom
the Republicans can elect next year. Mr.
Hayes, he says, has assured him bv letter
that he does not want to become the Repub
lican candidate, and Gov. Bullock now
thinks that any man wiiods nominated on a
protection platform will be elected. Very
likely he sees that liis assertion that Mr.
Hayes was the only Republican who could
be elected amounted to a virtual admission
of Republican defeat, as it is plain tliat Mr.
Hayes cannot lie nominat 'd, so he makes
the President’s message the pretext for a
change of opinion. Gov. Bullock's par
tiality for Mr. Hayes was quite natural, in
asmuch as both he and tho ex-President
climbed into office by the grace of a return
ing board. His opinion that Mr. Hayes
could again be elected shows that he does
not know how the people regard men who
have accepted offices to which they were
not elected, and the entire interview bears
evideuco of his long retirement from active
politics.
Charlio Ross has appeared again, this
time in Louisville. This one is a tall boy,
about 19 years old, and suffers from con
sumption. He says he was taken first to
Boston, then sent back to Philadelphia,
where he was placed under the charge of an
old woman, who put him in dresses and
made him play girl. When the police be
came troublesome he was removed to St.
Louis, where he remained three years, aud
where his abductors, two meu notorious in
police circles and known as “Big” Bill
Adlers and George Schneider, taught him
to become an export rogue and pickpocket.
He professes to have reformed #nd to be now
a member of the Salvation Army. The
Louisville police have their doubts concern
ing his representations, and are keepiug
him under surveillance until an officer
arrives from Cincinnati, where it is thought
he is wanted for some offense against the
law. A book containing the alleged ex
ploits and adventures of every Charlie Ross
who has turned up in the last ten or fifteen
years would sell like a dime novel or a his
tory of Slugger Sullivan’s life. Here is a
golden opportunity for Mr. Edgar Fawcett.
The supposed discovery by Dr. Prudden
that bacteria in ice germinate typhoid
fever calls attention to the extensive
and widespread use of ice in this
country. It is not improbable that
the custom of putting it in almost every
thing that is consumed on the tuble causes a
large amount of sickness and many deaths.
Aside from the bacteria there is danger to
health in the too free use of ioe in beverages,
drinking water and eatables, and if Dr.
Pmdden’s discovery reduces to any very
appreciable extent the amount used, it will
nut him in the light of a public benefactor.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Saving Work and Breakage.
From the Few Orleans Feins ( Item .)
It is proposed to abolish dish wasting. The
idea is to make paper dishes so cheap that one
cam afford to throw them away after each meal.
They can be made as pretty as china, as strong
as desired, and will be noiseless and not liable
to break.
No Name for It.
From the fit. Louis Republican (Pern.)
The New York Tribune says that “magnificent
results have lieeu aeeoniDlisned under protection
in the United States." "Undoubtedly. Look at
the magnificent supply of millionaires and pau
pers. and the noble army of trusts. Magnificent
is no name for it.
When Fcraker Opens His Mouth for
Blaine.
From the Few York Herald ( hid.)
They have found anew mammoth cave on the
shores of Like Erie. It is said to rival the one
in Kentucky. Well, just wait until next year
and you'll see a mammoth cave in comparison
with which these two are nothing but rabbit
burrows.
Be Careful How You Fool With This.
From the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
The success that has attended the introduction
of the word omnisciolistical into the language
by the editor of the New York Sun has embold
ened him to make another effort and the result
is “omnigriorant." This is not so good as the
other. While not necessarily pseudomorphous
in its ground plan ami general design, there is
evident in its elaboration a sort of inhannonic
ousticity, as it were—a vague architectonicao
pbonosity or lack of euphonicorthographicality
that will prevent its general adoption by a crit
ical public.
BRIGHT BITS.
Ie Christmas came every day in the year we
could soon get rid of our Treasury surplus.—
Boston Post.
Rejoice when your Christmas turkey makes
a brave fight for life. The bravest are "the ten
derest. you know.— Texas Siftings.
Hear the merry merchant's cry,
“Ho, the pretty ladies
Come to see and not to buy!
Doesn’t it beat Hades?" —Life.
Customer (in the resturant)—“The last time I
was here, waiter, I found a hair in tny soup.
Are you sure this is all right?"’
Waiter (confidently)—“Yes, sah, I done took
rim all out."—Epoch.
A petrified sandwich was dug up near Swan
Creek, 111., the other day. They put it with the
collection at the railroad station and the pur
chaser said it was the tenderest sandwich he
had ever bought at that place. —Judge.
“I knew a man once who never told a lie.”
“Who was he?”
“A Chicago drummer.”
“Nonsense."
"He used to tel! two at a time." — Town
Topics.
“I have a girl.” says a Jerseyman, “that’s so
modest she wouldn't even learn improper trac
tions in school.”
"My girl is more modest than that," retorted
another, "she always goes into the next room
to change her miad.’ Boston Budget.
If Edison perfects his phonograph the young
men of the coming generation won't dare to go
courting Sunday night for fear that one of the
instruments may be concealed in the parlor. It
would be difficult to ovoreoine the evidence of
the phonograph in a breach of promise trial.—
Boston Globe.
Ttalio dk Counte—So you will not be mv wife,
eh? Do you forget zat I am an Italian Count?
Young American—Oh. no: I do not forget
that you are an Italian Count ; but 1 do know
that I was never brought up to make a dozen
shirts for thirty cents and do the washing for a
large family.— Judge.
Two friends met in the Omaha depot the
other day, one from Chicago and the other
from Los Angeles. "Where are you going?”
asked the latter, "Going to Los Angeles to
spend the winter. And you?” “I’m going to
spend the winter in Chicago,” said the Los An
geles man.— Tr.rus Siftings,
“Do you intend to try housekeeping?” asked
the traveling man of another, as they were dis
cussing their plans.
"O, yes, will try it. We’ve got the place and
there are only fifteen or twenty payments due,
and a couple of outside mortgages on it. but we
stall nevertheless do our best to keep the
house.”— Merchant Traveler.
Bunco man (to strauger)—Aren’t you Mr.
Smith of SrnithviUe?
Stranger—No. sir, My name is Pressure of
Philadelphia. lam forming a stock company
to raise funds to develop the new and wonderful
phenomenon which has been unfolded to my
friend, Mr. Keel but by this lime the bunco
man was blocks away.— Yew York Sun.
PERSONAL.
The Emperess Eugenie has recovered her
heali h, and now talks abont a tour in the Holy
Laud.
Gillic k Wickwire is the peculiar name of the
newly-appointed postmaster at Colchester,
Conn.
Gov Stevenson, of Nevada, is reported to
have disposed of his property iu California, for
$1,500,000.
Mrs Mackay presented the new Countess
Cairns, who is a Jewess by birth with a diamond
and ruby aigrette brooch.
The Duke of Newcastle will w inter in Flori
da, and pay a Hying visit to Philadelphia. He is
young, unmarried and has a cork leg.
Prince Bismarck has an elder brother, who
has been Under Prefect of Mingard since 1811,
and is about io retire, aged seventy-seven.
Senator John Sherman pax’s taxes on prop
erty in Washington which is assessed at $112,000.
It may be noted that the Sherman family origin
ally came from Connecticut.
The Parisians have at length unveiled a mon
tltnent to Edmond About. The inveterate pun
ster, who, of course, does not admire the French
language, says this is About right.
Ex-Gov. Alger is said to have made from
$5,000,000 to $6,000,000 in Michigan pine lands.
When lie went to Detroit to practice law at the
close of the war he was almost penniless.
The valuable Stinneekr scholarship at Prince
ton has been aw arded to Robert Sch ci. of
Heading. Pa., class of 1890. The scholarship is
worth $1,590, aud is good for three years.
Ben Butler has not sent in hisb ill yet to the
Chicago Anarchists, lawyer Tucker wants
SSOO, und his bill is still unsettled. All the
money has been spent giving the martyrs fu
nerals.
Smith and Kilratn intend to have themselves
photographed in t heir present bruised condition.
Patent medicine proprietors who are looking
for a picture to be entitled "Before taking,"
would do well to ltear this in mind.
Senator Ev.uits claims that fair weather on
election day. 1884, would have resulted in a tri
umph for Mr. lilaine. The man who depends on
sunshine for an election to the Presidency of
the United States is not likely to reign in the
White House.
Ex-Absemblyman James Haooerty, who is
dead, at the age of 53, was one of the wits of
the lower House at Albany, N. Y. 3Vhen he rose
to speak the Assemblymen al ways listened to
him. Although not eloquent, his speeches wen
always pithy and contained some original
phrase or thought. He was eccentric but po|>-
ular.
The address delivered by Henry Broodrib Ir
ving before the Contemporary Club, of Phila
delphia, the other day was a second-hand affair
It was substantially the same address delivered
at Oxford some time ago. But even a second
hand address on play uetors may have contem
poraneous interest in a Philadelphia Contempo
rary Club.
Miss Laura Bridgman, the blind, deaf and
dumb inmate of the Perkins’ Institution for the
Blind in Boston, gave a reception Wednesday to
her friends to mark the fiftieth year of her resi
dence in that institution, as well as the fifty*
eighth anniversary of her birth. She enjoyed
the music, the addresses of the guests and the
presence of those she knew, after her own
fashion, and expressed her approval of the re
marks by clapping her hands. Dr. Howe, her
teacher, thougn long since dead, has left behind
him a living monument to his earnest and
laborious work of educating this afflicted
woman, who, it should Is- said, does not consider
anybody a friend who calls her unfortunate.
Bram Stoker, manager for Henry Irving, is
the sort of man who makes ,’rieuds readily He
is tall aud breezy, with a wonderful fund of
small talk, and a good big budget of solid talk
behind it. He has the rare faculty of remem
bering names of persons introduced to him, es
poeially if they have a kind word to say of Mr.
Irving, for whom his admiration and friendship
are unbounded. When he started for England
after Mr. Irving's last visit to America. Mr
Stoker sent little cards with happy farewell
notes written on them to each of his numerous
acquaintances. At one time and another Mr.
Stoker has written muuh newspaper matter. He
is an Irishman and enjoyed the advantages of
collegiate education, lie was what is called uu
Inspector of Petty Sessions in Ireland before
h - went to Eng and and fell th with Mr. Irving.
Among his other accomplishments It is said that
be cun write fine sonnets-
ANALYSIS OF A TEAR.
Thing’s Which Make a Dewdrop Upon
a Woman’s Cheek.
From the London Quern.
The principal element in the composition of a
tear, as may readily lie supposed, is water. The
other elements are salt, soda, phosphate of lime,
phosphate of soda and mucus, each in small
proportions. A dried tear seen through a mi
croscope of good average power presents a pe
culiar appearance. The water, after evapora
tion, leaves behind it the saline ingredients,
which amalgamate and form thenise ves into
lengthened cross lines, and look like a number
of minute fish bones. The tears are secreted m
what are called the "lachrymal glands," situ
ated over the eyeball ami underneath the lid.
The contents of these glands are carried along
and under the inner surface of the eyelids by
means of six or seven very tine channels, and
are discharged a little above the cartilage sup
porting the lid.
The discharge of tears from the lachrymal
glands is not occasional and aecidental. as is
commonly supposed, but continuous. It goes
on both day and ui 'ht—though If-' abundantly
at night- - through the “conduits,” and spreads
equally over the surface of the pupil, in virtue
of the incessant movement of the lids. After
serving its mirpose, the (low is carried away by
two little drains, situated in that corner of each
eye nearest the nose - into which they run- and
called the ’ lachrymal points.” The. usefulness
of this quiet (Tow of tears, to both men and
beasts, is manifest. There is such an immense
quantity of line dust floating iu the air and con
stantly getting into the eyes, that, but for it,
they would soon become choked. Wry little is
requisite to keep the ball free, and when some
obnoxious substance—smoke, an insect or the
like that affects the nerves—does make its
way in, an increased flow is poured out to sweep
it away.
They Ought to Have Sprung Up.
From the Chicago Tribune.
One evening while we were making a neigh
borly call at a Nebraska settler’s bouse near
where we were camped for the night Briar es
sayed some music on a cabinet orgau in one cor
ner of the room, but found that when be pressed
down a key it usually stayed down au l ooutiu
ued to sound t hat particular note. This tended
to mar some of the finer effects, especially iu
the staccato passages.
“Some of (hem bus’nesses seem to stick down
when you hit 'em, don’t they?” said the setr
tier s wife.
"They do seem to stick a little,” Briar ad
mitted.
“ 'Taint the way for ’em to act, is it v” contin
ued the woman.
"No; they ought to spring back up,” replied
Briar.
“1 knowed they bad all the timel Bennerv,"
she said, turning to her husband, “this feller
says they ought to jump back up ev’ry time,
same's I said, an’ 1 b’lievo you knowed it all the
time, too.' You see," she exclaimed, “I’d been
dingin’ at him to git me an organ for a long
time, an’ the other day he brought this old sec
on'-hand thing home. I tried it, an’ says I:
’Hennery, these keys don’t flop back up like
they orter.’ *W’y, says he, a-rubbiu’ bis hands
an’smilin’awful nice to try to smooth it over;
‘that’s all right—they ain’t intended to —this is
one of them new kind or organs—got a
patent onto it. When you play a key. w'ys
she’s played an’ you don’t have do more trouble
with it. S’poseu you hit B, or E sharp, or K—
there you got 'em' they keep playin’ long's you
pump—needn’t to worry no more ’bout B. nor,
l„ nor K. When you get ’em all jabbed down
your piece is done au’ you can pry ’em up an’
start agin. It saves work an’ is right in the
same suit with other labor-savm’ machinery. I
knowed it wan't so then an’ I know it all the
more now, an' I tell you, Hennery, you can jes’
pack that o and thing back au’ git me a good one
or I’ll sell a cow an’ git one myself I Jes’ take
your choice remember that I’m all riled up
an’ you know when a McAskill gits her dander
up something’s got to come 1"
Snowflake.).
How they fly all through the air,
Merrily;
Making glad the wood and glen,
Cheerily.
Now they dance along the way,
Glancing o’er the frozen bay,
Feathery flakes athwart the cold, clear day
Swiftly on the schoolboy slides
Laughingly;
Bright his eye, and his cheek glows
Rosily.
Now his hapy, joyous glance
Doth the old and young entrance,
Tis the day for childhood’s sweet romance.
Hoary age is creeping on
Passively:
Slowly now he picks his way
Carefully.
How the snowflakes dance and freak,
O’er his sad and careworn cheek.
Caring not that he is old and weak.
Now the wild, free dance is o’er,
Finally;
Each pearl flake assumes her place
t iracefully;
TUI they everywhere have hurl’d
Fleecy snow robes O’er the world,
Where deep night has ’round her silence furl'd.
Mabel Hayden.
A New Joke by Our Own uvarts.
From, the Philadelphia Kecord.
Speaking of George Washington always re
minds me of that good story of how Kvarts told
Lord Coleridge when they were at 51 ount Ver
non the legend of Washington throwing a dol
lar across the Rappahannock. “But,” objected
Coleridge, "the Rappahannock’s a broad
stream.” “Yes,” retorted Evans, “but you
must remember that a dollar went further in
those days.” At a dinner party not long ago
Kvarts was chaffed a tittle about the many
stories attributed to him by the newspapers,
and incidentally this one was prai sed as his best.
"Oh,” said Kvarts modestly, “J don’t say all
the good things that are, credited to me. Every
now and then some anonymous newspaper
paragrapher says a wittier thing than any of
us. Now, what I might have said to Jx>rd Cole
ridge w.is that it was not so strange that George
Washington threw a dollar across a river since
he i lirew a sovereign across the sea.” That was
certainly as bright as the other. Yet Kvarts
begins to snow the effects of his seventy years.
He repeats himself. He has got off that witty
remark originally presented to the ('lover Club,
that like some other gnat enterprises he lacked
terminal facilities, liah a dozen times. lam
afraid he will never be President.
Nationality in Beards.
From the Poston Advertiser.
An observant friend who had been examining
a collection of faces representing a large num
ber of the public men in the United States,
made the following general conclusions in re
gard to national types in the cutting of the
beard, which contain more than a grain of
truth “The simple moustache, with the rest
of the face clean shaven, is the prevailing
American type,” he said. "The old time Yankee
chin whisker, like that of the traditional Uncle
Sam, is no longer the national cut. In the same
way the old French type of the imperial, or
heavy moustache and long goatee, has given
way in Fiance to the present tv|>e of a eloso cut
full beard, trimmed to double points on the
chili. The German anil Russian national types
are heavy full beards parted at the middle of
the chtn. The English tyne is a small, short
cropped moustache, with small square side
growths. The general South European type of
Spain or Italy is either an entirely clear-shaven
face or else a very small moustache and goatee
crowded close about the month.”
When Girls Should Look Out.
From the Buffalo Courier.
“I wish you’d tell me of anything in the
world,” said the young man that boards on
South Division street, “that is worse t han the
stiff brimmed hats worn by the men of this gen
eration."
“What fault have you to find with the stiff
hat ?” asked the Arounder.
“Well, there’s one fault that out-villainies all
the rest, and that is the difficulty a fellow en
counters in trying to kiss a girl with a stiff
brimmed hat on. You make a sally and w-ben
within two inches of the goal your hat brim
strikes Clarissa on the forehead and stops you.
Nine times out of ten your hat is knocked off,
and falls on the [Kirch with a great racket,
which makes you ridiculous. A fellow that lias
liecu caught so once or twice always takes care
to set his hat on the back of his head before try
ing to kiss a girl, and then he has some chance.
When a girl sees her companion” push his hat to
the back of his head she needs to be on her
guard. He is bent on mischief. ”
Chicago’s Transient Shoe Trade.
From the Chicago Mail.
A boot and shoe man on State st reet begged to
remind me that the story about the large feet
of Chicago women, if it ever had any truth in
it, was as hare of fact now as a last year’s bird
nest. “It is a noticeable thing,” he said, “that
we sell more small sizes t .an ever. I have been
iu the trade for many years, and It Is a rare
thing for us to sell a larger size than three. I
called my partner’s attention to this, and he
said that maybe the big footed ones wore buying
elsewhere. Then I thought I would make some
inquiry among ray fellow-dealers, and they all
told me that they had noticed the same thing.
No. 2 D last is about the average Ido not at
tempt to ex plain it, but I know it is-a fact.”
Miss Hzi.es C. Smith, daughter of exOov.
Smith of Vermont, has taken the degree of M.
P (master of pies) in the St. Albans Cooking
‘■oUe.-e.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ranchmen near Mangus, N. M., are trying to
catch a big bear that has already killed over 200
goats and thus far eludes all pursuers.
A Mexican banquet may consist of t hirty two
courses, or of nothing but hard-boiled eggs. It
is a country where the customs are classic and
the eggs reasonably fresh.
A Michigan man thinks that by draining cer
tain Tennessee bog lands he can make a fortune
raising celery. He has just bought 1,000 acres
near C'hattauooga for this purpose.
A London association of performers on wind
instruments is giving concerts at which only
such instruments are used. The highest
classical music is attacked fearlessly.
A Bellajre (Mich.) man whose cow died sud
denly conducted a post mortem examination
and found a darning-needle in her heart. He is
looking for the party who darned the cow.
Annus Nelson, aged ß, lived in a little Den
mark village and liei' aunt lives in Montague,
Mich. Annie wanted to go to her aunt, and
so her friends started her off alone, aud she
has just arrived.
A bio buck stood on a Michigan railroad track
the other night so interested in watcliing the glare
of the head l.ght of an approaching locomotive
that ho never stirred until he was knocked off
the track aud killed.
An Italian at Mansfield, 0., wore a pair of
very tight shoes two days. The result was in
juries to his feet that were followed by gan
grene, so that he has had his toes and oilier
parts of his feet amputated in order to save his
A flock of about 100 crows passing over
Cuinminsville, 0., were attacked the other af
noon by thrice their number of English spar
rows who completely routed the big birds Sev
eral crows were disabled, and one was found
with both eyes pecked out,
Says the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise: Halleck
is the coldest place on the line of the Central
Pacific. It is a terror to railroad men. At that
point a current of air comes down from the
north through a series of valleys—a sort of
trough that extends up into Arctic regions.
A mortgage dated 1840, which affects the title
of one-sixth of the real estate of Shamokin,
Pa., has been found. It is for $42,000, and has
never beeu paid. The Sheriff of Northumber
land county notifies the proprietors of the
property affected that the property will be sold
Dec, 30.
The Times of India says that a general order
is about to be issued by the Commander-in
chief directing that cavalry, like infantry, shall
henceforth cheer when charging. It is sug
gested that when Colonels give out their com
mands on other matters, soldiers might also be
permitted to express their approval by a “hear;
hear!"
A Boston Highlands Sunday school class was
told by the teacher to find out all it could about
Solomon and relate it on the next Sunday.
When Sunday came the teacher said to the
brightest boy in the class: "Well, Andrew, of
whom did I ask you to give a succinct account
to-day?" “Sullivau,” answered Andrew, with
great interest.
It is proper to warn art collectors against
purchasing any Rembrandts, Dimers, or Ra
phaels which may stray into the market at
present. Anew scientific process of copying is
said to have been applied to the pictures in the
Esterhazy gallery at l’esth, with startling re
sults, and tne fact has become a subject of in
vestigation by the Hungarian Congress.
The colored children at Oxford, 0.. have al
ways had public schools separate from the w hite
children's schools, but this year they refused to
attend them aud iusis ed upon going to tbo
same schools that the white children attended.
They were refused admission and brought an
action against the school authorities, which has
just been decided in favor of the negroes.
Auckland. New Zealand, Is a lively and en
terprising city of 70,000 inhabitants. It is situ
ated near the crater of a large extinct volcano,
w hich, according to scientists, may reasume ac
tive operations at any moment. The Auckland
ers, however, are not terrified at the prospect,
and. it) fact, are going to cement the bottom of
the crater and use it as a reservoir for their
water supply.
While Ida Gephart was tieing married at,
Mount Pleasant, N. Y., her mother with a scream
fell to the floor of the church unconscious. Then
Ida tlopjied into the arms of the groom. The
minister wasn’t to be deterred by a little thing
like that, and kept on with the service until it
was finished. Tnen Ida’s mother was picked up
and restored to consciousness, aud Ida herself
came around all right.
A driving wheel of a locomotive that was
drawing a passenger train buret recently near
Milford, Pa. One piece whizzed past the fire
man's head and passed, screaming like a shell
from a cannon, through the baggage car. the
smoking car, and a passenger coach without
doing injury to any person on the train. The
train was running at the rate of forty miles an
hour wheu the accident occurred.
Levi Campbell, of Kingsbury, Me., set a bear
trap and a bear got into it. He dragged the
trap a good distance, until it was caught in a
log. Then Levi came up and struck the bear
with au ax. The animal turned suddenly,
wrenched the trap loose, grabbed Levi, and w as
in a fair way to make an end of him wheu his
dog pitched iu and attracted the bear’s attention
until Levi could drag himself away.
Two little fellows, Sammy and Willie Bald
win aged 11 and 12 respectively, walked from
Kearney, Mo,, recently to St. Joseph, Mo., to
see their mother in the insane asylum, whom
they had not seen for six years. They were
afraid to ask their father to let them go, ami
walked the entire hundred miles. A constable
went after them and found them willing to re
turn, as they had been successful in their mis
sion.
Dec. 5 a Wyandotte (Kan.) boy was leading
along the street an old white horse that had
served many years at the front end of a street
car. Every cable car that came alone and stop
p'd near the ancient equine caused him to jump
m front of it, and only by force could the poor
old Roziuante, be induced to change his position;
aud when the. car glided On he appeared greatly
puzzled as to where the motive power was ob
tained.
Os an island in the Penobscot river, twelve
miles ahove Bangor, live the remnant of the
once great tribe of Tarratine Indians. They
are civilized, and most of them prosperous. At
a recent wedding of two of them the bride wore
a robe of “delicate blue brocade satin, trimmed
with cream Spanish lace and cream satin rib
-1) ns,” and one of the guests wore a “peacock,
blue surah silk and satin, with overdress of
Oriental lace.”
Since the recent imprisonment for life of Mrs.
Martha Crockett of Swanville, Me., for the al
leged murder of her husband, rumors have been
atioat, that she is innocent, it is suid that a
neighbor sprinkled Pans green on some apples,
with the intention of making a thief ill. After
some time he disposed of the apples, without
carefully removing the poison. An animal that
was fed with them died, and it is said that some
of them, fried, caused the death of Mr. Crock
ett. It is said that the man who used the Paris
green said that Mrs. Crockett was innocent, but
he has not the courage to tell the whole truth.
A Philadelphia family, living near the
Church of St. Alphonsus, own a very brig; t
parrot. Every evening the bells of the church
ring the “Angelus,” and recently one of the
little girls of the family was taught to recite
the appropriate prayer at the sound of the
bells. The parrot watched her carefully, and
the other evening, at the first sound of the
chimes, dropped to the bottom of the cage, put
down his head, and said the first few words of
the nrayer. He has kept this up ever since, and
is adding other words of the pl ayer ns the little
girl teaones them to him.
A qi'KEK mioht was seen the other day in front
of the Charles street jail in Boston. The head
quarters of the city paving department, con
sisting of an office two and a half stories In
height, the stable and repairing buildings, two
stories each, were taken up bodily and shipped
down the river a distance of fully one mile to
enable the eommissioneis of tlie new Charles
river embankment enterprise to proceed with
their work. The largest structure. -11 by At feet
In size, was divided into three sections as neutlv
as though cut by a big cheese knife, and each
settion was placed by means of rollers on a
scow or barge. When the barges w ere being
towed down the liver their queer freight made
them look like the pictures of Noah's ark.
At a trial in Jeffersonville, Ind., before a Jus
tice, John Wahl admit ted t hat he had struck 51m.
Seidler, the defendant, but pleaded in Justifica
tion that his accuser was a witch. Through
friendship, he says, he watched the house of
Jacob Sorg, a neighbor who had been placed
trader the influence of evil spirits by Mrs.
Seidler. Realizing the good that would result
from the invocation of the divine power, he
drew the croiwand wrote the “Father, Son and
Holy Ghost” ou Borg's gate. Some time after
ward the alleged witch sought io enter, when
the power of the sign knocked her down and
pummeled her. The woman in the ease insists,
however, that it was Wahl s big lists that did the
pommeling. All the parties inter sted in the
-Tat seetu to be believers in witchcraft.
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