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r ' ©if IHttrniudHf Ids o <Z>-' Morning News Building Savannah. Ga. •*1 M)\\. JAXYJ.' i. Registered at the Poet < Snrannak. The Morn pin New* i *he<l ev< i v day in the vear. and is served 1 cribers m the city, hy newsdealers and c . on iheir count, at ar> cents a v I ma nn'iitn, fa (W for si* months and } r one year. The Mokvino Ng mud, ■ no month, ft 00; three month- : months, f.> 00; cne year, flO 00. The Morning > " mart, six tlmee a week (without P ' "nee months. *2 00: si* month- me year. W 00. The Mornino Tri-Weelly, Mondays. Wednesdays an ?*• or Ti •lya, Thurs days and Sate hree months, fl Jo, six months. S5O - r s■■ • „ The Sunday -V mod, on* year. $2 00 The Wmi h onß 3 r * r $> - 1 Knbacrintli hie in advance. Kemlt. by pwtalorSS or registered letter. Cur rency sent l *t risk of senders. Thi pan- .on file and advertising rates wav be a* 1“' theotnce of the Ameri ean New /•uhlishers’ Association, 104 Temple < w York city. J-etter. legrams should be addressed ‘•Mor.NI • ~ Savannah, Ga." Adreo tea mad- known on application Tl.e aing News In the City. On er Jan. 1, 1888, the Morning N*v' oegin, on its own account, the Cit\ ary of its Daily Morning Issue. The v. f Delivery will be in charge of a competent Sujieriutendent, and will be un der the direct supervision of the Business Office. The delivery in those parts of the City distant from the Publication Office will be made by wagon, and thus place the paper in the hands of subscribers at the earliest moment after leaving the press. The City Delivery of the Morning News will be as efficient as m: ney and experience can make it, and nothing will be left undone to have the service unexceptional. None but competent carriers will to employed, and every attention will be given to make the delivery satisfactory to the readers of the Morning News in whatever part of the City they may reside. The terms for the Daily, delivered every day, in any part of the City, are as follows: For one week 25c For two weeks 50c For one month $ 1 00 For three mouths 2 50 For nix months 5 00 For twelve months 10 00 All subscriptions payable in advance, and no paper will be delivered beyond the time paid for. Special attention will be given to Weekly and Monthly Subscriptions, and ■nhsoribers can make arrangements, if they desire, to pay subscriptions at their resi dences, avoiding the inconvenience of call ing at the Business Office. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SrsciAi. Notices— Reserved Seat Diagram Mendelssohn Concerts; Fancy Work; The National Bank of Savannah; Knights of Pythias Hall Association: Merchants’ National Bank; Leaders from Townsend; As to Bells of Inde pendent Presbyterian Church; Savannah Bank and Trust. Company; As to Marietta and North Georgia Railroad Coupons; As to dosing* of City Offices; Notices Southern Bank of the State of Georgia; Notice of Dissolution, Hunt & Owens; Turn Over a New Leaf, Strauss Print ing Company; New Year's at Thundertolt. A Fftw Things We Want Strauss Bros. Announcement JBBB Eckstein's. Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry—Theus Bros. Mammoth Sale or Remnants—A. R. Altmayer & Cos. Wanted—Agents for the Great Southern Por trait Cos. Bargains and Drives—At Dumas'. Chickerino Plano-Fortks L. A B. S. M. 11. Amusements—Katie Putnam at the Theatre. 1888, Haitv New Year -1,. A B. S. M. H. Lost IN the Rush—B. H. Levy A Bro. Knabe Pianos— Davis Bros. Our Prices Talk—Emil A. Schwarz. Press Goods, Etc.—David Weistoin. Musical Instruments Schreiner s Music House Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; FBr Bale; Personal; Board; Strayed; Lost; Miscel laneous. Be sure you write it 1888. The South’s industrial advancement in 1887 presents a proud record. During 1888 it can and will to made marvelous. The place in the Congressional Record where Senator Jones’ Washington address ought to to given is still left blank. Mr. Jay Hubbell, if nominated by his party for Congress, won’t to able to assess many government employes for campaign purposes. The White House is said to be grievously infested with rats. This is a good omen for Mr. Cleveland. Hats always desert a V ing ship. mu sixty g,. Carlisle is still at work on the license tx. . . . . An exir, ami ls reported to be having loniay for thja tilling the unimportant charged with L ut places. Broadwater Dee. • officers while fortunate as few Kt Rin > . m) . hi ™ in P? Uti< ; the postmaster at WillY a,u * health, and county, South Carolina, wher-in-law. era I hundred dollars in mol, has absconded. The post ir elopements hands of his bondsmen. contiguous The Governor has ordered all . . . . meat* at the eapitol closed on Jl™ 1 ** ' ell public business suspended,for Ne ' rr etna day will to generally observed here. The receipts at the State Treasury t were $40,000. n Columbus Chapters. Columbus, Ga., Dee. Ml.— Heal 1 ransfers here for December amounted to marly $25,000. .Judge Brooks issued fifty marriage li censes this month. While the afternoon passenger train on the (teorgia Midland road was leaving the Union depot a pair of trucks under one of ♦he passenger coaches jumped the track. No damage was done, and only' a few minutes delay resulted. Cocoa’s Tragedy. Titusville, Fla., Dec. Ml.-Thomas Hardee, who was shot by William Fowler at Cocoa Thursday, survives and may re cover. He fully exonerates Fowler and de clines to prosecute him. Fowler has been released from jail and has returned to Cocoa to uml ergo a preliminary trial by a Magis trate. Judge Mershoii is his counsel and will defend him in the event of an indict ment, which is not probable. Dr. Pierre’s “Favorite Prescription” is not extolled as a • ‘cure-allbut admirably fulness a singleness of purpose, toing a mint {jotent specific m those chronic weaknesses peculiar to woftmu. The Reading Strike *he refusal of the Knights of totwir eni ployed on the Heading Railroad to obey the second older to strike is pretty good evi dence that they did not think that the first call was a reasonable one. They obeyed the first call, but were glad of the opportunity to resume work. They would have otoyed the second call doubtless if t hey had be lieved there was good cause for doing so. The original cause of the trouble was the refusal of the Reading Company to allow the Knights of Labor to dictate to it in a matter which related to the way it should conduct its business. The Knight* want ed the company to refuse ’to handle the freights of a firm which employed men who were not Knights of Labor, and who received less wages than the Knights thought the firm ought to pay. The Read ing company said that it was not its busi ness to dictate to its shippers. It simply proposed to handle all the freight con signed It) it. The Knights undertook to force the company to comply w.th its de mands and failed. The Reading strike directs attention strongly to the report of Commissioner Car roll D. Wright, the head of the Labor Bureau. In this report, a synopsis of which was published In the Morning News on Friday, a good many matters of general in terest are touched upon. Toe conclusion to to drawn from it is that strikes do not pay, and that they should to avoided to as great an extent as possible. Mr. Wright, for instance, shows that within the last six years wage workers have lost about $00,000,(XJ0 in strikes and lock-outs, and that during the same period the loss to employers has been about $115,000,000. The damage suffered hy wage earners, therefore, was very nearly double that suffered by wage-payers. Tfi&aLsntge loss to wage-earners is about $10,0Bp(OO a year, and to strikers it is about s4m each. It is apparent from these figures that to make up this loss strikes must to generally successful, and the Increase in wages secured must to very considerable. Asa matter of fact, however, not one half of the strikes are successful, and of those which are classed as such many are not, so to the extent of obtaining every thing for which the strike was inaugurated. A careful study of strikes shows that they are often ill-advised and badly managed. The men who are recognized as leaders are frequently unfit for the positions they occu py, and there is disaster whore there might to success. As already stated the Reading men were called out not on their own account, but on account of jiei'sous not employed by tho Reading Company. Commissioner Wright, in his report, points out that only about one-fifth of the strikes that are on record was the result of grievances or demands of those engaged in them. Fully four-fifths were ordered for the purpose of assisting a few Knights with whom the great body of the strikers had no acquaintance, and about the justness of whose cause they knew absolutely nothing. These figures seem to indicate that the workingmen and women of the whole country cannot to handled in one organiza tion so that all can be benefited. The grad ual disintegration of the Knights of Labor justifies the inference that the members of that organization are beginning to think that the projier plan for maintaining the rights of workingmen has not yet been de vised. The Reading men would have* made a great mistake if they had otoyed the second order to striko. Thousands of competent men were ready to take their places, and they and their families would have been left in midwinter without the necessaries of life, and with no immediate prospect of earning the means with which to procure them Social Questions In Washington. It is said that the question of precedence at the New Year’s reception at tho White House to-morrow was settled at a Cabinet meeting. It seems that the President was called on to settle it. Of course if Mrs. Bayard were living she would stand next to Mrs. Cleveland during the reception. Ever since her death, however, there has been a faction that has insisted that the wife of the Secretary of the Treasury should rank next to Mrs. Cleveland on all official occasions. The Secretary of State, however, has an opinion of his own at,out the matter. He claims that his daughter is entitled to the place which would belong to his wife, and he has always succeeded in having his claim recognized. Tho late Miss Catherine Bayard, when her mother was unable to leave her home, represented her on great occasions at the White House, and it is understood that Miss Anne Frances Bayard will stand above Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Endicott aud all the other Cabinet ladies to-morrow. These social questions are quite exten sively discussed in Washington, and in some circles there they are the leading topic of conversation. They offer a big field for gossip and discussion, and there are those who glean the field pretty thoroughly. A few of the Republican papers are try ing to make a little political capital against the President by asserting that young ladies entering society in Washington have adopted the fashion of being “presented at court,” as they term it. In other words they do not consider that they are fully “out” until they have been presented to Mrs. Cleveland. if there is such a fashion the President is not responsible for it, and as it seems to please the girls and doesn't hurt anybody, why shouldn’t they to permitted to amuse themselves by fol lowing the harmless fashion? They will soon get tired of it. One of the brightest sectional organs in the country * s veI T much excited because of a rumor that Congressman Springer pro poses to slice Texas into four Democratic Well, isn't Texas big enough for >ur States? However, it is not probable it such a division will bo made yet jile, although the people of that State, it id, have the power to so divide it, as i„jtJ admitting Texas into the Union hem and that four States might be carved necteu each of which would be entitled to Darien without consideration from any tory to on Territories, office. • ~ (;, char' be C.tuzens, who lor a time held Richardi, uftar it had been vacated by with iSo), ,f j ler father, of United States St Louis, has only had her ap|M>- cdge of linf? office whetted by the expe mitted ttuinouuces that she will at the present ii, indc|iendent candidate r of Missouri, on a Prohibition . (iss Couzens is not likely to be as to wort)* 00 muoll °ltloe-holdhlK the unsusptorchouse, who succeeds to the with positi o( Missouri, is an ardent pro bo punisher p was an <t reared on a cone their si biR youug nia nhood taught inu. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY I, 1888. Troubled by Prohibition. It is said that Speaker Carlisle is meeting with a great deal of difficulty in making up the committee which has jurisdiction of the liquor traffic. There does not appear to be any anxiety to serve upon it. The indi cations are that the prohibition question is going to to a troublesome one in Congress tins winter. Prominent Prohibitionists from all parts of the country are preparing to urge Congress to abolish the liquor evil in the District of Columbia, and in nil the other parts of the country of which it has jurisdiction. It can to readily seen that, they have it in their power to place n good ninny Congressmen in a very uncomfort able position. In more than half, |ierliaps two-thirds, of the Congressional districts there is a strong prohibition element. In the great majority of them there has, as yet, been no effort to make prohibition an issue in Congressional elections. But if prohibition were to become a leading ques tion in Congress it would become an issue in Congressional campaigns, and Congres sional candidates would have to take a posi tion for or against it. The aim will to to keep it from toing dis cussed in Congress. Tho easiest way to ac complish that is for the Speaker to make up the committee, to which all hills on the sub ject of tho liquor traffic will to referred, so that it will smother all such bills, or if it reports any one of them it will do so at so late a day in the session that discussion of it will to impossible. No member wants to serve on such a com mittee. The Prohibitionists would make life a burden to him. They would give him no refct unless he promised to vote to report a prohibition bill favorably and promptly. If he dodged the responsibility, or took a position against prohibition they would attack him in the public prints, and make all the Prohibitionists in his district hostile to him. If the prohibition question gets before Congress it will not to very earnestly dis cussed except by a few avowed Prohibition ists, and if a vote on* it should to reached absentees would to more numerous than the voters. The Republicans are particularly afraid of tho prohibition issue. It threatens to divide their partv into two factions. Some of their leaders think their party should put a prohibition plank in their national plat form. One Republican Senator has intro duced a prohibition bill, and another is go ing about the country making prohibition speeches, and there are a good many South ern Congressmen who don’t want prohibi tion to become a political issue in their sec tion. They will do what they can to pre vent it from becoming so. It is one of the things which give Congressmen from all parts of the country trouble. Convicted, But Not Guilty. In one of the specials sent out from Wash ington there is a curious and an interesting story of the conviction of two young Ten nesseeans for passing counterfeit money. They are applicant* for a pardon, and the President is expected to make them happy early this year, if he has not already done so. According to the story told to the Presi dent, the truth of which is vouched for by men of' character and prominence, two young farmers purchased a piece of land in one of the Tennessee count its an.' 1 began to prepare it for planting. It had once been owned by a miser, who had the reputation of making counterfeit coins. One day one of the brothers, while plowing a piece of his land near his house, displaced a large rock with his plow. He was surprised to see sev eral bright coins lying on the ground near it. Calling his brother from the house they began an investigation, and were gratified to find, when they had further displaced the rock, between S4OO and SSOO in coin, which they supposed to to gold. The money was wrapped in an old newspaper which con tained President Polk's inaugural ad dress. They had no doubt about the genuiness of the money, and they spent a very considerable part of it in paying their debts. A few of the coins found their way into the local bank, and there toing some doubt whether they were good or not, they were sent to the mint at New Orleans. They came back with the word “counter feit” stamped upon them. The brothers at once redeemed all the coins they could find. In the courso of a few months, however, some of those which they lmd not redeemed came back to the town, and it was believed that they were putt ing fresh counterfeits into circulation. They were arrested, convicted and sent to the Albanj' penitentiary. They have been there six months, and they want to get back to their Tennessee farm. Is their story a true one? If it is it is rather remarkable that they should have been convicted. They did not intentionally violate Jthe law. Perhaps they could not explain satisfactorily liow tho counterfeit coins got into circulation second time. The fact that men of good repute say that their story is true is so much in their favor that the President may make this a happy new year for them by granting them a pardon. The Secretary of the Siik Association of America asserts that the United States can never engage in seri-culture until a skilled mechanic can be hired for 50c. a day. As silk manufacturers, he suys, we can hope with good reason to, be great, but os silk growers, never, and we shall have to con tent ourselves with manufacturing into merchantable fabrics the raw silk produced by other countries. Italy and France to gether, lie says, produce a fourth of the silk crop of the world, China another fourth, and Japan the balance. Senators Mitchell, Davis, Reagan, Pasco, Mauderson, Faulkner, Yoorheos and Dawes are said to to averse to riding behind a white horse, fearing the act will be fol lowed by ill-luck. In other words, they are superstitious. Senator Evarts will with impunity utter a sentence as long as the chain in a Waterbury watch, but he dis likes seeing the moon over the left shoul der. Ignorance and superstition are said to go hand in hand, but nobody ever accused these men of toing ignorant. It now transpires that the district repre sented in Congress by the late Mr. Moffatt is not so strongly Republican os was sup posed. A Republican majority that for merly reached 8,000 or 10,000 dwindled down in 1886 to 2,000. If the Democrats carry the district at the coining election each party in the House will have nineteen State delegations. From all accounts, Judge Turpie does not enjoy the distinction of being a United States Senator. He says he would much rntlier to at home, .in the practice of his profession and the uninterrupted enjoyment of his books. Ex-Senator * Ben Harrison 1 would, doubtless, to willing to relieve him. CURRENT COMMENT. Why He Got No Present. From the Chicago Tribune , (Rep.) Uncle sam (erumblinjcly>—Where i my new year's I'd like to know? Mien Columbia (innocently) -I would have j?ot you something nice if you hadn't kept your wurplus locked up ho tightly 1 couldn't get at it. Another Ticket Suggested. From the St. Louis Republican ( Dem .) While the Republican brethren are laboring to bring forth a Presidential ticket, it is rather Ktrauge that this baa not been suggested: For President, Secor Robeson, of New Jersey; for Vice President, William P. Kellogg, of Louis iaua. Platform: The rascals must be vindi cated. The Numbers Increasing. From the Baltimore Herald {Dem.) The number of women who throw red popper and vitriol in the eyes of men is alarmingly on the increase. On the other hand, we are forced to admit that the number of men who are in the habit of caressing women with pot lids, pokers, boot-heels ana butcher knives gives no sign of diminishing. I. is|lntentinos Were Good. From the Chicago Fetes (Dem.) The Boston Herald says: ‘ A beautiful girl is the most thing in creation." It the Herald will take the trouble to find a girl of that description and call her a “thing” to her face, it will wish that its admiration had l>een bestowed on some inanimate object like a crooked rainbow or a red, red sunset. BRIGHT BITS. Nervous lady passenger (in train, after pass ing a temporary bridge) Thank good tuns, we are now on terra flrma ! Facet ions gentleman - Yes., ma'am; less terror and more llrmer.— Manufacturlng Gazette. An anti Prohibitionist who picked up a v'ork on temperance threw down the book with a curse before he had read a page. But it was not the first time u volume, of water was damned. —Norristown Herald. In Germany a marriage license cannot be legally granted to a person addicted to the liquor habit. The theory is, presumably, that a man ought to cure himself of one bad habit before he goes astray in another direction.— Somerville. Journal. “I Hi PFOHK you find times pretty hard,” said a kind hearted old lady to a tramp, ‘ and often don’t get enough to eat >'* ‘ It s worse than that, mum." was the candid reply, “in these days it is hard to get enough to drink, let alone to eat."— Judge. Old man (calling down the stairs to daughter) —Clara! Daughter—Yee. |>apa? Old man Ask that young man in the parlor which he prefers for breakfast, inilk rolls or Vienna bread.- Sew York Sun. He (making a long call)* What a very odd looking clock, Miss Smith Is it an heirloom? She (suppressing a yawn* -O, no; it is a re cent purchase of papa's. He a pendhant for such things. 1 was about to call your at tention to it.— Chicago Tribune. Young man (to waiter)—What have you got, waiter? Waiter Anythin' an' everythin'. Young mail Well, give me some nightingales* tongues on toast. Waiter (after a short absence) Sorry, boss, but the cook says as what the toast is all out.— New York Sun. A number of young people recently decided to put wedding cake under their pillows at night, and we are informed that they dreamed of the following: 1, of her grandmother; *J, of a snake swallowing a man; 3, of an elephant skipping a rope: l, of a runaway team: f>. of a railroad acci dent; G, ot a murder: 7, of a fight between male cats. Atchison Globe. “It cannnot be otherwise." he muttered, hoarsely: you must be mine. You and 1 could not avoid it if we would, and let us thank the fates that our union w ill be cemented by love. You could never have been another man's wife. There is a destiny hanging over you " “Oh. George, she gasped convulsively, “brush it away please do!' '—Merchant Trav eler. “Mamma, what's hereditary?” asked Bobby, laboriously tripping over the syllables of the long word. “Why, it is-anything you get from your father or me," ivphed the mother, a little puz "led for a definition suited to his years. Silence for two minutes. “Then, lna," he asked, “is spankin' heredi tary?"—Aetc York Star. PERSONAL. Congressman Ira Davenport's bride is rap idly becoming a social leader in Washington. Mrs. Sloane, daughter of W. H. Vanderbilt, of New York, will lie one of the New Year’s day guests in Washington, and will be entertained by Mrs. Whitney. King Tamasus, of Samoa, and King Kalakaua, of Hawaii, begin to think it would have t>een money in their pockets if they had been born in a more humble rank of life. Robert Dorrs Stevenson is an admirer of Wagner’s music. He says it "calls your soul to your ears, and tills you with a kind of desperate foreboding, half pain, half joy.” It is reported that a blizzard recently pre vented a lecture of Thomas Nast in a Dakota town. The report must be false. No matter how hard it storms Nast can always draw well, you know. Walt Whitman's iiealth is better this win ter than it has been for fifteen years. He is liv ing quietly at Camden, N. J., and though sev enty years old. he has not lost much of his old time enthusiasm. Historian Bancroft says that it would tie presumptuous for a man of 88 to attempt a his tory of President Polk and his times, a work which he lias been asked to undertake. Mr. Bancroft, however, passes his time in studies which a much younger man would hesitate to undergo. A sewing machine of solid silver and enriched with sapphires was recently received by the Empress of Russia It was a present from the Society for Promoting the Use of Russian Mate rials. The Czarma has taken great interest in this organization. Her enthusiasm, however, will not cause her to use thesewing machine in all probability. Engineer Kitthiiige. inventor of the cantile ver bridge, is living in Hartford, Conn., in hand some style His wife is a native of that city. Mr. Kittridge’s success as an inventor has made him rich. He began life in au humble way, but by energy and ability has gained a high place in tile civil engineering nrofession. He is a tall, fine Kicking man, and he has traveled exten sively in this country and Europe. Cor.. George P. Bissell, of Hartford, Conn., spent last summer in Japan. The mast remark able feature of that country, he says, lies in the faet that its language contains no profane or blasphemous words. "I can readily under stand," he remarks, "why the practice of liar; kart' is so common in Japan. When a man is abused or loses his collar button, and is mad all the wav through, so mad that liis very soul boils within him. if at such time he is the victim of a language which will not let him vent ins rage even in 'darn it' or ‘bv thunder.' why then I can readily see how suicide might be a soothing re lief.’’ E. 0. Knight, of Philadelphia, is one of the wealthiest men in the Quaker City. He is Presi dent of three railroads, and is prominently con nected with many important enterprises, lie was once a boy in a grocery store on the banks of the Delaware river and received 8l a week for his services. His first knowledge of the value of money was derived in a curious way. One day when the Delaware was ice-bound a man m attempting to cross the river broke through the ice and was in imminent peril of his life. Young Knight urged two boatmen to go to the drown ing man's assistance. They refused. He ap pealed to their humanity in vain Finally lie offered them a dollar apiece to save th ■ strug gling unfortunate. They accepted the offer and saved the man's life. When Congressman Allen, of Massachusetts, goes out to lecture on Indians again in Hie cld Bay State, there will be any number of states men watching around to see that tie does not play pranks on them. Mr. Allen is the talented young member from the Iz>well district, lie was a member of the Indian Affairs Committee in the last House. He got thoroughly w orked up over tlie wrongs of poor Lo. When he was invited by his colleague, Congressman William Whiting, to deliver a lecture for some church benefit at Holyoke, he consented and prepared to lecture on in iian affairs, which he decided to illustrate by stereoscopic views. The lecture was a success, ami Congressman Whiting, who sat in the front row to point it with applause at the proper moments, was greatly elated with it, when the last of a series of representations of Indian chiefs was Hashed from th-magic lan tern on the screen. It was the picture of a group of warriors, painted for the fray, with feat iters and plumes waving, and armed for battle. Thera was a familiar look on one of Ihe faces. It was scarcely a moment before the audience as well as the astonished Mr. Whiting had discovered that Mr. Allen haildoftlv uc serted Mr. Whiting's face as one of the group Thera was roiltid after round of applause ami the joke was regarded as the best of the season Mr. Whiting has secured jiassesaion of the phm togrnph and locked it up for fear tils admiring constituents mlßht desire to have it duplicated ITEMS OF INTEREST. The assignee* of a suspended Missouri bank found only a solitary nickel in the vaults when they assembled to count the cash assets. John L. Sullivan could peruse carefully the newspapers of his native land without ever finding nis name printed inaccurately. hat better test of fame could there be? Is answer to an examination question a high school scholar of Auburn, Me., wrote: ‘ Anglo- Saxon was the first man who wrote the alpha bet. He wrote it in Greek first, then came to America and taught it to the nation." A Los Angeles, Cal., woman, who w*as ad dieted to smoking cigarettes in bed, went to sleep with one in her mouth, dropped it, and set her clothes on fire. She w.us burned horribly, and was dead when the flames were extin guished The average annual wages received in the German sewing machine factories are: Men, $l7B , women, SB3. The price of flour, meat, potatoes, groceries, fuel and light is as high, and in most cases higher, in Germany than in this country. One of the promising trotters of Texas is Dude H., with a record of 2:27. He is a black broncho, and was formerly used in herding cat tle. and is a converted pacer. The cowboy that rode him saw that occasionally he trotted well, so he had him trained. At a recent meeting of learned men in Berlin it was said, as a fact, that when a bee has filled his cell w ith honey and has completed the lid he adds a drop of formic acid, wnich from the jmhhoii bag connected with the sling. To do this, he perforates the lid with his sting. The acid preserves the honey. A Philadelphia architect who had two plates of glass, each fourteen by sixteen feet, made by a Pittsburg manufacturer, is said to have direct ed the latter to send them by river to New Or leans, and thence to Philadelphia by sea, as the dimensions of the plates prevent their Iwing brought by rail, on account of the tunnels along the route. A Detroit police officer, < apt. Burger, asked one of the female Salvationists who ma nipulates a tambourine at the meetings with startling acoustic effect a question the other evening and received a pretty pat answers "Did you ever know a level headed person to join the Salvation Army?" “Well," said the woman, “cranks have souls." After Jan. 1 Messrs. Harper & Brothers will cease the publication of the series known as the Franklin Square Library, in the broadside form They will not give up the publication of !>ooks at cheap prices, but experience, they sav, has demonstrated that the public taste demands a better quality of book, something of a more permanent as well as sightly form. Half a century ago (’apt. Jonathan Greene was the most skillful gambler in the United States. He is now a resident of Philadelphia, and claims to be the only man living who was in the liaitle of San Jacinto in 1836. ( 'apt. Greene renounced gambling forty-five years ago, wrote four liooks against that vice, and now he asks for alms in consideration of his having refrained from w inning a fortune at cards. The scientific activity of the age is shown in the fact that the twelve principal chemical so cieties of the world have an aggregate member ship of over 8,000, nearly all of these members being active contributors to the advancement of chemical science, and publishing their results mostly in i>eriodicals especially devoted to such subjects. Excluding transactions of so cieties aud journals of physics and pharmacy, these chemical periodicals issue annually about 20,00(1 pages. The interesting fact is stated that so inde structible by w r ear or decay is the African teak wood that vessels Iwilt of it have lasted 100 years, to be then only broken up because of their poor sailing qualities from faulty models. The wood, in fact, is one of the most remarkable known, on account of its very great weight, hardness, aud durability, its weight varying from forty-two to fifty-two pounds j**r cubic foot; it works easily, but on account of the large quantity of-si lex contained in it the tools employed are quickly worn away. It al o con tains an oil w hich prevents spikes and other iron work with which it is in contact from rusting. In the recent National Convention of Barbers at Buffalo the question of substituting some other sign for the red-and-w hite striped barber pole was discussed, and it has been engaging the attention of gentlemen of the tonsorial pro fession ever since. It is said that in early times barbers served the public in the capacity of sur geons also, and that the pole symbolized an arm wound with ribbon previous to the letting of blood. It was George 11. of England, who de creed that henceforth the trade of the barber should be "foreign to and independent of the practice of surgery." Despite the fact that the striped pole is the symbol of blood-letting, it. seems to be the opinion of conservative barbers generally that no other sign would be so effective. One of Robson’s Jokes. From the Sew York Sun. A good story is told of lAiwrence Barrett's earnestness under the most amusing surround ings. Edwin Booth met Hobson and Crane on Washington street, in Boston, and asked them Inwv the fishing was at Cooasset, where they and Barrett lived curing the summer. "There are plenty of fish there." said Robson, "but they seem to prefer a tragic death. They won't bite at comic hooks. Crane and I can t get any of them, but I^awrence Barrett sits alongside us in the yacht and fairly hauls them in. They seem to lie around and wait for him to come." "Well," replied Booth, "I'm a tragedian myself ; I guess I can get a mess." And with that they went down and tried the fishing, but caught not a solitary fin. As they landed at the Cohasset pier Barrett drove by in his splendid and stately turnout. “Any fish?" said he. "None," said Robson. "They are all out there nosing around for Mr. Barrett's dignified sinker." “My G—d, Mr. Robson, 1 , answered Mr. Booth’s future manager, with much disgust, "can't you ever be serious about anything?" A Joke on n Trustee. From the Xrjr York Sun. A recent Vassar graduate was relating some of her experiences as housekeeper during the illness of her mother, and was commenting upon the indisposition of servant girls in the United States to black the boots of the men of the family In households in England, she said, where there is only one hired girl, the polishing of the men’s shoes is accepted by her as one of her duties. Then another Vassal' girl recalled the time when a number of her classmates helped to shine the boots of a gentleman visit ing at the college. He was and is still a trustee of Vassal-. He occupied one of the guest cham bers. and when he went to bed he left his shoes outside the door as if he were in a hotel, pome of the girls who were tip at an early hour saw the boots, and thought it would be a good joke to do the bootblack act themselves. They did, and when they returned the shoes they stuck in each a handsome bouquet of flowers. The trus tee was half abashed anti altogether surprised when lie realized liow he bad been honored. Tradition -though this occurred but a little while ago tells his name as that of Benson J. bossing, the historian. She Married a Scholar. From the Yankee Hlade. Oh, she said she'd never many any Tom and Dick and Harry, She’d wed some famous scientist of learning and renown; But her Tom was quite commercial, and of Agassiz and Hersehel He was as ignorant, she said, as any circus clown. So she gave poor Tom the mitten, and as meek as any Kitten He went to making money and forgot his wild despair; Forgot, 1 say; at any rate he hastened to de generate Inm a sordid husiuess man, a trifling mil- But she wed a scientific, and his tastes were quite terrific For various kinds of insects and for toads and other game: And instead of plaques and pictures, rattle snakes aud bon constrictors He’d take into his sitting room to ornament the same. Asa zealous decorator he preferred an alligator To a statue of Minerva or a bust of Henry Clay; And you ought to hear him talk awhile of his bouncing baby crocodile That he played with in his parlor just to while the time away; And his cobra dicapello, a very charming fel low-. Through his dressing room aud bedroom used to nonchalantly drift: And an elephant's proboscis and two young rhi noceroses He presented to his children as a fitting Christmas gift. But be sold his wife's piano to buy ipecacuanha To feed his hippopotamus to ease his stomach aches. And a shark ate up his baby, for you know bow hungry they he, And lie went amt pawned his overcoat to feed ha rattlesnakes. BAKING POWDER, I CREAM its superior excellence proven in millions of ones for more than a quarter of a cenh rj. It i by the United States Government; Iu creed by the heads of the Great Universities af ae Strongest. Purest and most Healthful l>r rice’s the only Baking Powder that dots not ontain Ammonia. Lime or Aium. Sold duly in ans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. ; vmr VORK. CHICAGO. ST. !qi’!S A. R. ALTMAYER A CO. Uiltarffi 1/ “C ENT EM E l{l | MAM MOTH KID GLOVES. SALK OF 3-Butloo Tub - 99 c. -p, 5-Button Tan $1 23. j A MU‘lll I0 5-Button Black II 59. . .ttjlllllClll ID A. R. ALTMAYER & CO. will closeout this week in one GRAND SALE all the Rem nants that have accumulated in the past six months, consist ing of Remnants of Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, Etc., Remnants of Black and Colored DRESS GOODS, Remnants of Black and Colored SILKS and SATINS REMNANTS OF Domestics, Linens, Etc. The Remnant* will be dis played on the Bargain Coun ter in centre ai.de and marked in plain figures, and wc guar antee that the price asked is GO per cent, less than first cost. Sale will commence at 8 a. m. MONDAY. Wishing you all the compli ments of the season, we remain Respectfully Yours, iHliMer&Cn. SHOES. • NO MAN CAN UNDERSTAND THE PRO gress which has been made in Shoe manu facturing until he lias worn trpair of the James Means’ $4 Shoes, and thus compared them with the Shoes heretofore sold for twice the money. % You cannot afford to do without them. R3* JAMES MEANS’ I^t^SHOES. ,A*k fbr the .Tames S H- BEST Alcana $2 Shoe for Boy a fc^iTigSiiiii =i>ll MADE. Shoe* from our celebrated factory are sold by the best retailers t hrougbout the l nited States, and we w ill place them easily within your reach in anv State or Territory if yon w ill send ns a }K>stal card. JAMES MEANS & CO., 41 Lincoln street.. Boston, Mass. Full lines of the above Shoes for sale by A. S. NICHOLS, 128 Broughton street. Savannah. DRY GOODS* Bargains.! DUMAS. 1 Drives. 0 ' 1 POSITIVE reduction in UNDERWEAR. Indies’, Gents' and Children's Merino Un derwear at bottom prices to cl*>se out stock. Sanitary Underwear, worth at Si Suit. Cashmere Hose and Half Hot*e 25c. r> kr. pair. Drive in Indies'. Gent*'and Children’s Gloves. 50 dozen iu Black ami (,’olor‘d, worth double, 25c. pair. Black and Colored Shetland Shawls and Scarfs $1 and up. Umbrellas, full line Silk Gloria, Gingham. Si aud up. Corsets, elegant assortment, 35c. and up. Try our 50c. Corset. Whip* and Colored Embroideries sc. yard up; fine value. Tooth, Hair, Nail and Clothes Bnishos 24c. each. Oxydized Ornaments, attractive line, 25c.*and up. ladies’ White Mull Ties, full assortment, 25c. up. All Wool Jerseys, full assortment, $1 and up. Bantams in Ladies', Gents’ and Misses' Hose 10c. pair up. Full assortment Ladies’ Cellars and Cuffs, cheap. In fact,, we are full of bargains; come and see. Remember the place, LaFAR'S OLD STAND. H. A. DUMAS, BULL STiULKX. BOYS' ( J.OTlf IVG, r ARI’FTS. FTC Daniel Hogan. boys' limit Y¥7E will plae* an sale on MONDAY MORN* > f ING 500 a handsome Boys’ Suits as ran be found south onNew York. Prices of ta ilor made and perfect-fitting suits are for better grades $6 00, Si 60, $8 50, 50 and $9 50. Also a large variety, fully 500, just as durable, but not as fine, an the following prices: $1 75, $2 25, $2 50, $3, $6 50, *4, $1 50 and $5. SPECIAL SALE OF Tapestry and Ingram Carpets DURING THE ENSUING WEEK. One lot Tapestry Carpets at 650. per yard. One lot 3-I J ly All Wool Carpets at 85c. per yard. One lot All Wool Extra Supers at 60c. per yard. One lot Ingrain < 'arpets at 55c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 50c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at .10c. per yard. One lot Ingrain Carpets at 2-.%e. per yard. 500 Smyrna Rugs RANGING PRICE FROM 85c. Each to $lO. Canton Matting, 100 rolls fresh Canton Matting, ra price from 20e. to 50c. per yard. Special Bargains Will also be found in the following goods during this week: Silk>. Satins, Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Lace Curtains and Curtain Goods, Flannels, Blankets. Bed Comforts. Underwear. Hosiery, Gloves. Corsets, Ladies’ and Gents' - bilk Umbrellas, etc., etc. Daniel Hogan. | PORTRAITS. if DM' inYTL’Ii AurJlo Mill LI), r |''HE Great Southern Portrait Company, of Savannah, Ga., whose work, copying and enlarging small pictures in oil, water color, India ink, - paste lie and crayon, is pronounced superior, want agents to solicit business in every town and city in all this Southern country. Enclose stamp for reply. Life-Size Crayon for Sis. L. B. DAVIS, Secretary and Manager, 42 and 44 Bull Street, Care Davis Bros. INSURANCE. The Savannah Fire ami Marino Insurance Company. run nr capital - $200,000. HOME OFFICE, No. 97 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, - GEOROIA. WIIJJAJb GARRARD President. LEWIS KAYTON Vice President. W. H. DANIEL Secretary. 4 DIRECTORS: Herman Myers, Georoe J. Baldwin. John L. IDmmood, Andrew Hanley. J. B. Duckworth, I. G. Haas. Samuel Meinhard, L. Kayton. J. H. Kstio, David Wells. C. R. Woods. W. H. Daniel. Willliaw Garrard. HARDWARE. EDWARD LOVELL 4 SONS, DEALERS IN I’arker and. Colt’s Breech Loading G uns. Brass and I’aper Shells. Hunting Coats, etc. Chamberlin Loaded Shells. 11 ATS. f) UST 11 k'X jx -GENUINE— B. STETSON SOFT HATS Reduced to $2.00- More of Earl A Wilt* >n collar* ai $ : 00 per doas. or 00 cents apiece. Wllil, SELL STOCK IN BULK. Store to Rent and Fixtures for Sale. BELSINGER, til Whitaker Street. GRAIN AND HAY . CORN EYES,^ A Car-Load just arrived. Send in Your Order. Also, BRAN, PEAS, HAY, CORN AND OATS. T. I. DAVIS & CO., 171 BAY STREET.