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TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1888.
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fix TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—The Southern Mutual loan Asso
ciation; Ancient Landmark lodge No. 221, K.
and A. M.; Chatham Gun Club.
Special notices —Chatham Real Estate and
Tmprovement Cos.; C. M. Whitman, Graduate
Optician; Hams, L. W. Stern; To the Blackball
Banks. Tug Cynthia; Steamer Seminole for
Beaufort, Etc.
Amusement— Base Ball, Savannah vs. Au
gusta.
Summer Resorts a: o Hotels —Watauga Hotel
and Cottages, Blowing Rock, N. C.; Suwannee
(Sulphur Springs, Suwannee, Fla.
Legal Sales—Chatham Sheriff’s Sales.
Pure Maple Sugar A. M. AO. W. West.
Prospecting Mineral Property—Diamond
Brill, Atlanta. Ga.
Just Received—Lovell & Lit timore.
Medical —Brou's Injection.
Auction Sales -Guardian's Sales, by La-
Boche A Mei.aupiilin; Handsome Furniture, by
J. McLaughlin & Son; Trustees Sale, Tybeo
Island Property, Sundries, by I. 11. Laßoche A
Son; Furniture, Etc, by Barton Bros.; Groceries,
Dry Goods, Etc., by R. H. Tutem; Administra
tor's Sale of I sits by C. H. Dorset t.
Summer Bargains—L. A B. S. M. H.
Tannhauser Beer Bergner & Engel Brew
ing Cos., Philadelphia.
Seed Rice—W. G. Morrell.
Too Busy—Byck Bros.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Miscellaneous.
Secretary Endicott’s son, Henry, is not
yet an object of chanty, and it is not likely
that he will be. He invested $485,000 the
other day in St. Paul real estate, and drew
a single check on a Boston bank for that
amount.
Senator Edmunds must be a very vindic
tive sort of man if it is true,as stated in yes
terday’s dispatches, that he is trying to de
lay Mr. Puller’s confirmation because the
President did not appoint Minister Phelps
at his (Edmunds’) request.
That hail storm in India, in which hun
dreds of people were killed and the stones
weighed something like two pounds, is quite
anew kink in destructive elements, and will
take its place along with earthquakes and
cyclones. What is this world coming to,
anyhow?
It has been stated that Mr. Ccnkling left
*io will, but Judge Shipman found one in
looking over his papers the other day. Its
date is 1867, and it will be offered for pro
bate this week. Wo may now see if Mr.
Conkling was enough of a lawyer to make a
■will that cannot bo broken.
The Chicago Anarchists also have a Me
morial day, and they celebrated it last week.
On May 4, their surviving organ, the Ar
beiter Zeitung, was devoted .to a memorial
of the occasion, two years earlier, when the
Haymarket bomb was thrown. This is a
ort of travesty on Memorial days.
Congressman Korney represents a coal
end iron district in Alabama, and has here
tofore voted with Mr. Randall on the tariff,
but be told a Chicago Aries correspondent
the other day that he would vote for the
Mills bill. While tho bill does not suit him
in every particular, lie regards it of the
highest importance tliat some measure
should be passed to reduce the surplus, and
is willing to abandon some of his theories
in order that this may lie done. Mr.
Korney is a man of sense.
The Boston Globe calls Gun. Banks the
“perpetual candidate,” and says ho will
hardly get back to Congress. Thero are
several candidates in liis district, it says,
■who can beat him, and one of them will bo
nominated. It is said that Gen. Banks lias
belonged to more parties and held more
offices than any other mau in Massachusetts.
Bis office holding experience, however,
seems to have whetted his apjietite, and at
a ripe old age he is as thirsty for. public pap
s he was forty years ago.
The Nashville American wired Col. Mc-
Clure, of the Philadelphia Times, tor
authentic information about the alleged
agreement of Mr, Blaine to accept a
renommalion, and received this reply;
“Blaine's friends are undoubtedly assured
by him that he will not decline if nominated.”
A good many leading Republicans, such as
Chairman Jones, Editor Reid and Stephen
B. Elkins, say there is nothing in tho
report sent to the Times, but Col. McClure
certainly talks like a man who knows
whereof ho speaks.
The Kentucky Legislature adjourned the
other day, but before it did so a member of
the beuate, Mr. Berry, introduced a resolu
tion requesting the Governor to pardon ex-
Tieasurer Tate, in order that lie might re
turn to the .State and assist in straighten
ing out the affairs of the office recently held
b) him. This was quite a remarkable reso
lution, and it met the fate It deserved—an
almost unanimous opposition vote. It is
stianga that it should have received the
E vei* any one besides the author.
What is Their Object?
There are a few Democrats in Georgia
who do not favor a reduction of the tariff,
and who do not approve of Mr. Cleveland’s
tariff message, but who say they want Mr.
Cleveland renominated. Some of them ap
pear to be anxious to be delegates to the St.
Louis convention, and they protend to lie
afraid that if that honor is not conceded to
them there will be a want of harmony in
the party in tho State.
There is no occasion for anxiety about
harmony in the party. The party isn’t
going to split into two factions if the few
who do not agree with the tariff reform
policy of the President are not represented
in tho delegation to the national conven
tion. Indeed, thero are not enough of those
who oppose that jiolicy to make a faction.
About all the county mass meetings at
which delegates to tho Atlanta convention
were chosen not only demandod Mr.
Cleveland’s renominatiou, but also indorsed
his tariff message. If the expressions of
these meetings meant anything, there is no
room in the Democratic party in this State
for any faction hostile to tariff reduction.
But why are these gentlemen who do not
agree with Mr. Cleveland's tariff policy, but
who say they want him renominated, so
anxious to be delegates to the national con
vention? Do they want to help to make a
tariff reduction platform? Thoy say they
are opposed to tariff reduction and doubt
the wisdom of adopting a platform which
indorses Mr. Cleveland’s tariff message.
Under tho circumstances it is difficult to
understand why thoy want to assist in repre
senting tiie State at St. Louis. Is it the
honor they seek? That is not very great—
not great enough to justify them in talking
of the possibility of factions in the party if
they are not honored as they desire.
Do they not hope that if they get into the
national convention as delegates they will
be able to assist others of their way of
thinking, whom they may find there, in de
manding a tariff plank in harmony with
their views? If that is their purpose, it
would certainly be unwise to let them into
the convention, because they would intro
duce a great deal more discord into the
convention and the campaign than could
possibly be produced in the party by keep
ing them out.
If all they want is tho honor of being
delegates, and if they will favor tho
adoption of a resolution by the convention
binding the delegation not only to favor
Mr. Cleveland’s renomi nation, but, also, to
nsist upon the indorsement of his tariff
message in the national platform, thero is
no very sti ong reason why one or two of
them should not have what they want. It
will please them anil hurt nobody, but un
less such a resolution is adopted no one
should bo selected as a delegate who is not
in favor of reducing tlie tariff in accord
ance with the President’s message.
A Probable Vice President.
The Democratic candidate for Vice Presi
dent will probably be an Indiana mau.
Indiana is one of the doubtful States, and
her fifteen electoral votes are needed by the
Democratic party. This fact has been
recognized in every convention for the last
ten or fifteen years, by the nomination of
an Indiana man for second place, and there
seems to be nofrijfcibt that the State will
present her climtiKTiefore the St. Louis con
vention. Two of her prominent citizens,
Senator and Gov. Gray, are men
tioned as probable Candidates, and at this
time the iudi&tiuus are that Gov. Gray
will lie agreed upon. It is interesting,
therefore, to know something about him.
He is 60 years old, and a lawyer by pro
fession. He received a common school edu
cation, after which he entered upon tho
study of law, but his means being limited
he temporarily relinquished his chosen pro
fession and became a dry goods clerk, in
which capacity his strict integrity and close
application to business were rewarded with
a partnership in the firm, and subsequently
he became sole proprietor. He then began
the practice of law, and was very success
ful in it. His first political office, tliut of
State Senator, was conferred upon him in
18t>8, and in 1870 ho declined the appoint
of Consul to St. Thomas, West Indies. Ho
was at one timo a candidate for Congress,
but was defeated, and tn 1876 was nomi
nated for Lieutenant on the
ticket with “Blue Jeans” Williams, and re
nominated in 1880, both times by acclama
tion. In 1881 he was tho caucus nominee
of the Democrats for United States Sena
tor, and in 1884 he was elected
Governor. He is a man of
dignified demeanor, courteous to
those with whom he comes in contaot, and
invariably leaves the impression of being
affable and siucere. He is able and honest,
and a strong pnrtizan, believing that to
the victors belong the spoils.
Gov. Gray is undoubtedly working for an
indorsement from his State for Vice-Presi
dent, and his popularity witli his i**oplo is
very great. Would he make an available
candidate? To put the question in another
shape, could he carry Indiana? Very likely
he could. Tho people thero seem to have
the utmost confidence in him, and they
have shown their willingness to confer upon
him the highest office in their gift. The
only objection that can be urged against
him is that he was a Republican up to 187a,
when he was sent as a delegate to the con
vention that nominated Horace Greeley for
President Since that time ho has affiliated
with tho Democrats, being as earnest and
active as he lmd been as a Republican. His
change of politics was certainly creditable
to him, showing, as it did, that he could not
indorse the practices of the Republicans. If
Indiana can find no fault with him on that
score, there is little reason why others
should.
In tho minds of many people Senator
Ingalls failed to justify his recent attack on
Gens. Hancock nnd McClellan. Mr. E.
English, of Philadelphia, who is a Republi
can and an ox-Union soldier, writes to the
Tress of that city that he protests against
the scandalous remarks of Mr. Ingalls,
whether they were intended to refer to tho
distinguished generals Os soldiors or as citi
zen*. Mr. English regards the second attack
as being as malicious and uncalled for as the
first, anu he Is right. The Kansas Senator
did not have tho manliness to make a
straightforward confession of his error, but
offered an explanation that did not explain,
and then proceeded to attack again the
momories of the men who were leading the
fight while ho stayed behind to guard ben
roosts.
One of the Fox sisters, who thirty years
ago astonished the world with their seances,
was before a New York Justico tho other
day, charged with failing to take proper
enro of her children. Her name is Mrs.
Kate Fox Jenckin, and her husband was an
eminent English barrister. Of late she has
lieen given to intemperate habits, and has
neglected her children.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1888.
Mr. Blanchard’s Bayous.
Tho New York Times is a persistent op
ponent of the river and harbor bill, but it
must be admitted that its opposition is not
wholly without reason. In Sunday’s issue
it calls attention to some of tho
appropriations in the bill for Loui
siana, Mr. Blanchard’s State. Mr. Blan
chard, being chairman of tho River and
Harbor Committee, it was to lie expected
that he would favor his State, but it was not
expected that he would deal with the little
bayous in it as if they wore “grout national
highwaysof commorco,”and with a harbor
like Savannah, which accommodates com
merce to the amount of $100,000,000, as if it
were only a ditch.
Tho Times calls attention to the number
of appropriations for the rivers and bayous
of Louisiana, and points out that they cover
two pages of the river and harbor bill. For
Bayou Plaquonline, for instance, SIOO,OOO is
appropriated, SIO,OOO more than for Savan
nah harbor, and of wiiat importance to
commerce is that bayou? In 1884 a pre
liminary examination of it was made, and
the engineer in his report made this state
ment:
Beginning about 300 yards below its
connection with the Mississippi, the bed of
the stream is nearly dry and thickly
strewn with cypress saw logs for a distance
of five miles to Darden’s Bend. From there,
down four miles further, to the mouth of
Grosso Tote, there is sufficient width and
depth of water, but it is covered with ex
tensive rafts of saw logs. The same may be
said of tho remaining two or three miles to
Upper Grand river. Bayou Plaquemine has
been given up entirely to tho lumbermen,
who have already stored it with a supply of
logs sufficient to last them for several years;
and, as this is the only interest to be served,
there is no need of any improvement w hat
ever.
Bayou Terrebonne also gets an appropria
tion, and in 1886, two years ago, tho engi
neer in charge of government work in that
locality reported that “the greater portion
of the bayou above Houma is a bayou only
in name, parts of it being dry nnd other
}arts being only a drainage, ditch." It
seems that at the point of operations the
bayou is only 11 feet wide. Lieut. Crosby
also reported that a boat drawing as much
as 18 inches of water could not navigate
the bayou at Houma. He also said that be
yond Bayou Cane the Terrebonne was vir
tually dry, and that near Thibodeaux tho
led of the stream was so continually dry
that rushes would not grow in it.
And yet Mr. Blanchard appears to think
that these little bayous are of more irn por
tanco than a groat harbor like that of
Savannah. They may be to him, but are
his interests to bo considered before those
of commerce? W ill Congressmen be sus
tained in appropriating the public money
so as to advance their political fortunes,
while great public works, which affect
hundreds of thousands of people and mil
lions of dollars of capital, are almost
neglected? Is it not a reflection upon
Congress that tho Savannah harbor, which
accomodates the greatest commerce on the
South Atlantic coast, has to have its ob
structions removed at the expense of steam
ship owners? If Mr. Blanchard and his
committee had studied the needs of tlie
great harbors of the country a little more
closely, and legislated in accordance with
their requirements, less fault would be
found with their bill.
An Atlanta correspondent, who evidently
is not as well informed as he ought to be,
sent a dispatch from that city a day or two
ago in which he predicted that the Prohi
bitionists would capture the Democratic
convention which meets there on Wednes
day. He says: “The State Temperance As
sociation meets tho day before the Demo
cratic Convention in Atlanta, and probably
a majority of the first convention are also
members of the second. It is the purpose of
the State Temperance Association to pro
claim in favor of constitutional and statu
tory prohibition. They will place this upon
high moral grounds, which cannot bo sot
aside for party exigencies. When the
Democratic Convention is called to order,
it will find itself in the hands
of these same men, who will seek to commit
it to the same course. They hope to bo
strong enough to control the convention, in
which event they will instruct tho delegates
to St. Louis to oppose to the bitter end tho
adoption of the usual anti-sumptuary reso
lution in the Democratic national platform.
This will force the question on its merits
before tho national convention and compel
it to take sides one way or tho ether.”
This sort of stuff may be interesting where
tho truth respecting the part that the tem
perance question is playing in polities in
Georgia is not known, hut in this State it
will hardly bo given a second thought. It
has too little foundation to he entitled to
serious consideration. Tho correspondent
witli whom it originated ought to take a
few lessons from Joe Mulhatton.
The Now York Evening Ifihst thinks the
bloody shirt policy which Senators Sher
man and Chandler are advocating had
something to do with the action of the
Georgia Democrats on the tariff. It says;
“The continued threats by leading Republi
cans to resume tho policy of Federal inter
ference in the affairs of Southern States in
case their party is restored to power has
made the men who have hitherto voted tile
Democratic ticket in Georgia, and who
really disagree radically on tho tariff issue,
again solid.” In this the Post is mistaken.
Tho bloody shirt policy may cause Demo
cratic factions to unite in elections, Lift the
action of the party in Georgia iu regard to
the tariff was due to an overwhelming sen
timent iu favor of tariff reform—a senti
ment which a handful of protectionists
could not stand out against, and into which
Senator Chandler’s threats did not enter.
Judge Benjamin Morse, of Michigan, is
the late t man mentioned for Vice Presi
dent on the Democratic ticket, and his
friends are said to be hard at work for him.
He defeated Judge Cooley l>y a large ma
jority iu the last election for Chief Justice
of his State, and tho Michiganders— those
of the Democratic way of thinking—pro
fess to believe ho could put tho State in
the Democratic coluinu next fall. What
could ho do to strengthen tho ticket iu New
York aud Indiana?
Just os the United Stat es begins to talk
about presenting a statuo to France, it is
announced that the Bartholdi statue needs
more money, and Mr. Spaulding, tho
Treasurer of tho American Committee, is
in Washington, trying to got Congress to
appropriate s.‘>o,ooo to complete the arches
and stairway at the pedestal. Here is a
chance for the New York World to render
further service for the statue.
It will be observed that Wisconsin has
put Gov. Rusk in the field as a Presidential
candidate. This gives Rusk eleven votes in
tho convention, aud he will lack only 401 of
a nomination. Rusk’s chances are decidedly
good—that is, bis chances of not getting tho
401.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Will Ingalls Denounce the Legion?
from the Louisville Courier-Journal. (Dem)
A son of Gen. McClellan has just been made
a member of the Loyal Legion. Will Mr. In
galls now make another speech?
Republican Politics.
Prom the New York Herald ( Ind.)
The Republicans declared in their platform
that tariff revision is a very good thing. The
Democrats agreed with them and started in to
make it. whereupon the Republicans instantly
declared that tariff revision is a very bad thing.
Such is politics.
Collins for Chairman.
Prom the Boston Herald (Ind.)
It seems to be settled that Congressman
Collins is to preside over the Democratic Na
tional Convention at Bt. Louis. This is a com
pliment to the Democracy of Massachusetts,
and it is a pretty good bid for the Irish vote
also. But, better than all that, it secures an
eloquent and experienced presiding officer, who
will be fully equal to the occasion.
The Two Parties.
From the Boston Globe (Dem.)
Tlie Democratic party to-day is generated by
youDg men, aud its rank and file is made up of
the blight and progressive men of the nation.
Not so with the Republican party. All its
leuders. with a few notable exceptions, are old
men whose careers belong to the past, and who
see for themselves only the grave in the near
future. Read the roster of the two parties, and
look in at the conventions and clubs.
BRIGHT BITS.
The Man with an Only Son—What kind of
scholars do you turn out at this institution?
Principal— Those who won’t study. -New
Haven News.
Healing Power—Flossie (aged 4)—Bobby,
why do they call ministers doctors?
Bobby (a lad of considerable information) —
’Cos they moke folks better. The Epoch.
Mr. Crankley— So you do not believe in our
mind-cure. Dr. Pillsbury?
Dr. P.—Well, yes, sometimes, provided the
patient is sent to a good asylum iu time.— Town
Topics.
Miss Gushinoton—l think Mr. Shapely is a
perfect Appolo!
Mr. Sneerley -He would be if his tailors re
plevied all tlie clothes he hasn't paid for.—
Town Topics.
The fiieak who writes and eats with his feet
is proud of the flexibility of his big toe. He
says it has earned as much money by its
writings as ever Harriet Beecher-Stowe did.—
New York Tribune.
Mistress (at breakfast) Bridget, I told you
to always bake the potatoes, not fry them.
Bridget—Yis, mum; but it’s not mesilf that
can ate baked potatys sivm mornins in the
wake. New York Sun.
Ex boarding house keeper (at Heaven’s
gate)—May I come in?
St. Peter—l’m afraid the children would
annoy you; the place without children is over
there to the left. —- Omaha World.
It is the fashion now for the world to sneer at
John L. Sullivan and Boston’s worship of him;
but it must be remembered there is but one
John L. in the world, aud the world cannot be
too thankful for it.— New Orleans Picayune.
“Bobby,” cautioned his mother, “the Bishop
is to dine witli us to day, nnd you must be very
quiet at the table. I w ant him to think that you
are a good little boy.”
Very much impressed, Bobby ate his dinner
in sileii e until his plate needed replenishing.
“Pa,” he said, devoutly, “w ill you give me
some more string beans, for of such is the king
dom of heaven?”— The Epoch. -
Study of Objects -Professor—How many legs
have insects?
Candidate—Sixty-five per cent, of insects have
nave no logs at all, 11 per cent, have one, 14 per
cent, two or three, 10 per oent. four and five,
hut none six.
Professor—How in the world did you get this
answer?
Candidate—By carefully examining the col
lection belonging to the university.
Blatter.
Lincoln Man—Yes, I have just returned from
abroad. What a magniflcent city St. Petersburg
is.
Kansas City man—They say it is.
“But when yon approach it you must traverse
miles and miles of bleak, desolate land without
a sign of dwellings.”
“And no stakes*”
“Stakes* No.”
“What in thunder are the real estate men
doing?” —Lincoln Journal.
PERSONAL.
Dr. J. C. Arm's widow is reported to be
worth $25,000,000.
Harcka, Empress of Japan, will visit Amer
ica next winter, traveling in state with a dozen
maids of honor, numberless officials and every
incident of luxury.
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, formerly
Mayor of Liverpool, has offered to give £250,000
toward building a cathedral in that city.
Miss Ward, daughter of Gen. Rodway C.
Ward, of Brooklyn, is to be married to a nephew
of Gen. von Billow, of the German army. The
young man is a Lieutenant of Guards.
Carter Harrison writes from India to say
that the water in that country is positively uu
drinkahle, and malicious editors who don't
know “Our Carter” are inquiring how he knows.
The Prince of Wales wears a billycock hat
smokes a short pipe, aud drives about in a
hired carriage when at Cannes or Nice and cuts
everybody who attempts to treat him as a
prince.
Mrs. Qi-incy A. Shaw, of Boston, a daughter
of Louie Agassiz, has for eight vears supported
free kindergartens in the poorest quarters of
Bostdn and Cambridge, at a personal expense
of $50,000.
Gen. Sherman calls attention to the fact that
George Washington, when he died, was a Lieu
tenant General, and, consequently, there never
have been in this country but two Generals—
Grant and Sherman.
Gen. ArorsT V. Kautz, the famous cavalry
leader of the war, has struck it rich in the
Northwest. In IHBO he bought lots in Tacoma
for $25 each, for which he was recently offered
and refused $2,000 apiece.
Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen years
and most of her fortune to prison reform. She
has established twenty-two libraries in the
prisons of different States and found employ
ment for 0,000 ex-convicts.
Prof. Herrmann, the prestidigitateur, has re
ceived several letters from spiritualistic and
mesmeric charlatans begging him not to expose
their jugglery, and offering him large sums of
money if he will keep quiet,
Alexander Graham Bell, of telephone fame,
may still be spoken of as a young man, for he
has only recently turned his 40th year. Twenty
five years ago ho was a poor boy in Edinburgh.
He came to this country in 18?2.
Archduchess Valerik, the youngest daughter
of the Emperor of Austria, is to be betrothed
to her cousin, the Archduke Francis, the eldest
son of the Archduke Charles, who is the pre
sumptive heir to the throne, as the Crown
Prince has no son.
Mrs. Langtry has again rented the cottage
which she occupied at Long Branch last sum
mer. She will go there immediately after her
season's tour is ended. She contemplates giv
ing a week of midsummer theatricals along the
shore, beginning at Long Branch and ending at
Atlautlc City.
Rev. George Barnes, the famous evangelist
from the mountains of Kentucky, is a man of
striking appearance. He is now 6i)years old,
is fully six ioet tall, aud his straight, vigorous
form shows no sign of the stoop that comes
from age. His face shows strength of charac
ter aud earnestness In every line.
Two of the best known bank presidents of St,
Paul married women with Indian blood in their
veins, and the children of these unions are
among the most esteemed people of the city.
Such marriages were not uncommon in the
Northwest in the pioneer days, before whito
women began to come to the frontier.
The Archduke Charles Louis, of Austria,
passed through Paris recently on his way to
Madrid, traveling in strict incognito ss Count von
Roddeusheim. The Archduke is believed to be
charged with a special mission to the Queen
Regent Christiant. the object of which is to
bring about a reconciliation between the Span
isli government and Don Carlos.
The daily life of Alexander Dtimas is a model
of regularity. He is out of bed by 6:1)0 in sum
mer and not later t han 7 in winter. His first
breakfast consists solely of a glass of milk,
Mild the second, which occurs at 111 'OIL is a very
Plain meal.* lit* dines at 7. and is usually in
lied by 10. Every day he takes a walk of some
length. All his w ork is done before 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
The years dutch all alike, and Queen Victoria
has fallen into the habit of taking little "cat
naps” in her chair, even w hen visitors are pres
ent. At such times the royal lady goes through
the saute routine followed by the most humble
of her subjects. Her head falls a little forward,
swaying slightly from side to side; then she sits
bolt upright, opens her eyes very wide and as
sumes an appearance of great intelligence anil
alertness.
He Changed the Subject.
From the Boston Courier.
Husband looking up from his paper—What
asses men can make of themselves’
Wife—What is the matter now dear?
H.—l am looking at the love letters In this
breach of promise ease.
W. —Are tliev interesting?
H.— Interesting; They are absolutely sicken
ing. nar this: “My dear ducky!” My lovey.
dovey!” Ha! ha! ha!
W. (demurely)—l does sound rather foolish,
doesn’t it?
H. (with a burst of laughter)—Foolish. Idiotic
you mean. It's the worst rot imaginable. To
think that any man in his senses could write
such stuff as this: “I.send you a million of kisses
mv goosie. poosie, sweety, iieety?” ha! ha! ha!
W.—Perhaps he loved her when he wrote
those letters?
H.—Suppose he did, is that any excuse for
writing such rot?
W.—Yes, it should be. Here are some letters
I found to-day when looking over my old relics
—relics of courtship. They are very foolish,
but very precious to me, 1 assure you. They
are your letters. One of them begins: “My
ownest own preciouest little ducky darling,
my—”
H. (hastily!—By the way, my love, I saw a
very handsome bonnet in the window of Mrs.
Fussandfeather to-day. If you will come out
with me to-morrow, and take a look at it—
well, if it suits you, you can have it.
W. (sweetly)—Thank you, dearest. Shall I
read you this letter?
lI.—No, I have an engagement. Some other
time I will hear it.
The Beautiful Girls.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Oh the girls, the beautiful girls!
With lauguing eyes and teeth of pearls;
How they bewitch us by day and by night.
Causing our hearts to beat with delight;
Pleasing,
Teasing,
Charming creatures!
Bewitching smile brightening their features;
How can they deceive us, as oftimes they do.
With soft glowing words and eyes of bright
blue!
How dearly we prize the beautiful girls.
Far above rubies, diamonds or pearls!
How delightful we feel whenever we meet
The pretty loved ones on the busy street.
Walking,
Talking,
Smiling so sweet.
Pressed in dresses made exquisitely neat I
But it beats the < >ld Harry what a price
We mou have to pay for those dresses so nice.
Oh, the girls, the beautiful girls!
How we love to finger their dancing curls;
How we love to see roses fresh and fair.
Bloom on their cheeks while Love nestles
there;
Cooing,
Wooing,
Evening hours away,
Little dreaming of the coming day.
Kissing is nice and squeezing is sport —
Who wouldn’t be a member of Cupid’s Court?
A Minister’s Nerve.
Pr. P. J. Burrell, besides being a masterly
pulpit orator, is a man of nerve and determina
tion. Soon after he left Yale College, according
to the Minneapolis Star, he was placed in charge
of a very tough mission at Five. Points, New
York. The boys were bad and mischievous.
The new teacuer bore with their tricks and
meanness as long as possible. In desperation,
he went to his work oue Sunday, determined to
have order or light. The meeting was opened,
the singing began, a prayer was offered, and
Mr. Burrell stood watching the ring-leader of
tiie rascals. He caught aim in the act and
stopped the devotions and said:
“Pan, come and sit hero on the rostrum.”
Pan laughed in his face and said he would not
do it. The reverend gentlemen reached over,
took his man by the coat collar and landed him
in the desired spot very suddenly. The boy was
one of the worst in the mission, and he planted
his teeth In Mr. B. ’s leg. Despite the pain, the
latter was bound to be master of the situation,
and took his pupil Into the vestibule. Locking
the door he said:
“Now, Pan. either you have got to lick me or
I’ll lick you.”
They went at it and pounded away at a fero
cious rate. The Yale man had been a mem
ber of the reserve crew at college and was in
good athieiic condition. He worsted the bois
terous pupil, who gave up three times, and as
many times the pupil went at him again. At
lost the cry was ’enough.” Taking Pau back
to the school room he said in the presence of
all:
“Pan, can I whip you?”
“Yes," whined Pan, “you can lick me."
There was no more trouble in that mission.
Can’t About Face in a Bustle.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A certain military gentleman of this city has
undertaken a contract which is going to cause
him some exercise of patience before he gets
through with it. Exactly how he became in
volved cannot be stated, but the supposition is
that he was overpersuaded. It seems that in
a certain well-known private school for young
ladies the idea has taken hold that some sort of
military training would be beneficial, and Capt.
Blank was engaged to teach them. He has al
ready given several lessons. There are some
sixty young ladies to be taught, and the system
proposed embraces what is known as
‘'setting up" exercises, and the “school
of the soldier,’’ according to Upton,
as it is considered that proficiency in
these exercises conduces greatly to grace of
carriage and figure. But the Captain had not
gone far before he struck a snag, so to speak.
[e found that the female soldiers could not
move with freedom on account of their mode of
dreS'ing, and when it came to teaching the
facings they could not do them. Neither could
the instructor tell whether they had correct po
sit ions "heels on a line" and all that—because
he couldn’t see their feet. So he called a coun
cil of war with the teachers.
"Now," said the Captain, "it is this way; I
must see their feet, and I suggest that they
wear short skirts." "Very well,” responded
the principal; ’‘they’ll do that. llov,-short do
you think they ought to bey" "The shorter the
better; but say not below the shoe tops.” "All
right.” “And, if you’ll allow me,” continued
the Captain, "I would suggest a slight change
in their—well, you know— in fact, they can’t do
the facings with bustles on, you see. I suggest
that tho ladies wear only such garments as are
necessary; you see what lam driving at, don’t
you*’’
Of course, the principal saw, and promised to
use efforts to have the recruits properly attired
for drill next time.
Politeness the Foundation of a Fortune.
Paris tetter in the Jewelers' Review.
"About forty-five years ago," said M. Linze
ler, "I had a small jewelry store in a side street
off one of the principal boulevards. Business
diil not prosper. Sales were little or nothing.
My small savings vanished, and I was tortured
with the thought of debts that I had no means
of liquidating. One day I was seated by my
nearly empty showcase, in despair at the situ
ation, and in doubt whether to close up nty
store and go out of business entirely, for I had
not made a sale iu five days, when a stranger
to me, an Englishman, entered the shop aud
said:
"I have lost the swivel from my watch chain,
can you sell me one?”
"Certainly, sir; I will replace it for you,’ I
said, leaving my seat with alacrity. The mat
ter In itself seemed of slight importance, but
in its consequences it was highly important.
What if 1 had no more swivels iu stock, I
thought? Opening my box I found two, which,
unfortunately, were too small. One of the last
gold watches left in my case had a chain at
tached. and seizing this with my pincers, I took
off the swivel and fitted it on to the English
man’s chain. It was an exact fit.
‘•’How much is the watch and chain?’ asked
the stranger.
“I stated the price.
“ ’Put on one of those small swivels that
wouldn’t fit my chain,’ he continued, ’and I will
take it.’
‘Tutting the watch into his pocket, the Eng
lishman turned to me, and, in a foreign accent
that made it all the more impressive, said these
words, which 1 have not forgotten from that
day to this:
" ‘The jewelers of the great boulevard are not
obliging. They have no time to attend to the
small wants of a customer. They may be resid
ing the paper, perhaps, and will not disturb
themselves to sell a swivel. At the three or
four stores which 1 have just visited 1 have
failed to find a swivel, although 1 am anxious
to make a call and need one greatly. You were
more obliging tnan your competitors and put
yourself to some trouble to accommodate me,
aud for that reason 1 have bought a watch that
1 didn’t need. My daughter is to be married
soon, and you shall furnish tho trousseau."
"A few days afterward I received a letter
from him requesting me to call at his hotel,
where a cordial reception and an order for a
trousseau costing vm.OOOf. awaited me. This
stroke of good fortune left mo a cash capital of
dO.OOOf. after liquidating all my debts. Not
withstanding the warning of the Englishman, 1
moved up onto one of the fashionable boule
vards, and had him and all Ids friunds for
customers. But as a matter of principle, hoth
myself and my sons have ever shown a willing
ness to oblige our customers in the smkllest
matter. This has been the cornerstone of my
fortune. ”
Thesis was an old proverb which said that
promises were like piecrusts, but the modern
cooks have conspired to wipe out the similitude
and cripple tins proverb for practical use
iimahauUm Leader.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A New Yore snake dealer says that he has
sold 1,000 snakes this season, ranging in prices
from SSO to S2OO each.
It is said by an eminent physician that half of
the supposed mad dogs have nothing the matter
with them but the toothache.
At Douglas, Kan., the other day, in sinking
the well for the sugar works at that place, a
strata of live frogs was struck at 50 feet..
At present there are over 1,000,000 people out
of employment in the United States. In New
York alone there are 67,000 men and 50,000
women w ho are idle.
Dealers in hard work furnishings say that
sycamore wood is rapidly coming into use. It
“works" well, makes an excellent finish, and is
much cheaper than birch, maple or oak.
Miss Laura Webster, of Santa Clara county,
California, is awakening from a nine months’
trance, during which time the only nourishment
she received was forced down her throat.
The word Birmingham, socommon in naming
towns and cities, is compounded of three words,
which together mean “the hill which is the
home of the broom," a small English tree.
One of the luckiest real estate investments
ever made in Chicago was that of J. R. Saxe,
who paid S3OO a few years ago for a lot in the
south part of the city that is now worth $30,000.
Chicago has had seven of the national con
ventions of the two great political parties, Cin
cinnati four, Philadelphia two. and St. Louis
two. New York. Baltimore and Charleston ,7avo
had one each. *
Qen. Boulanger reiterates his exclamation
at the recent speech ho made prior to his elec
tion: “If I wished for war I should beM mad
man ; if I did not prepare for it I should be a
worthless wretch.”
A Kansas shoolma’am has introduced anew
feature in her school. When one of the girls
misses a word the boy who spells it gets per
mission to kiss her. Asa result the boys are
improving rapidly.
An Indiana lawyer, who has been looking
up the matter a little, finds that there are 800
dead laws on the statute bookH of that State,
every one of which can be taken advantage of
by a smart lawyer.
It is said that the Chinese remedy for small
pox is to make the patient beat a drum. If he
can do it he is all right. Formerly they used to
heat the patient to cure him, but civilization
progresses even in China.
A sham convent has jnst been discovered in
Paris, and an artful alleged Mother Superior,
two ex-nuns, and forty-six girls who partici
pated in the swindle by posing as nuns have
been locked up to await trial.
The introduction of American watches into
England has.reduced the number of gold cases
marked at the London assay office from 34.844
in 1876 to 20.416 in 1886, and of silver cases from
110,394 in 1876 to 95,708 in 1886.
The day the Emperor died there were sent on
from the Berlin telegraph office 29,878 messages,
aggregating 799,926 words. On the following
day this record was beaten with 36,615 mes
sages, aggregating 1,115,551 words.
It is said that the expiration of the copyright
on many of Carlisle’s works is to result in the
republication of many magazine articles which
he would never allow to he reprinted, but, which
have been unearthed in the library of the Brit
ish Museum.
In the Paris prison of detention recently a
person, committed as a man, 54 years old, after
being locked, up was found to be a woman. It
was found that she had put on male clothes
twenty years before, and had worn them ever
since without being discovered
A correspondent of the London Standard
says that the Russian Nihilists, having failed to
make the desired impression upon the peasants,
have for the past few ytars devoted their at
tention chiefly to the army and navy, and with
startling success. It is .iusp-cted that if Russia
becomes engaged in another war the Revolu
tionists will not permit her triumph. "If our
armies emerge victorious from a coming war,"
say the Liberals, “the abomination of desola
tion will be inaugurated in our country and will
last indefinitely.”
A schoolmistress In Maine, being poor, was
content to sport a lover who was not rich him
self, though lie was given to speculation in a
small wav. To show his good will, he invested
a few dollars a few years ago in someone or
two townships of California desert and made a
deed of the same to his lady love. A boom
came and the lady sold her land for $256,000,
and she immediately ®nt the sack to the young
man, saying she did not wish to marry a mere
fortune-hunter. She suspected that the young
man loved her for her wealth only.
Three years ago Bernard Liebowitz, a young
Russian Jew, appeared in New Haven with a
boot-blacking kit and liegan business. He sold
newspapers in the morning, blacked boots in
the afternoon, and attended school in the even
ing. After awhile he established a paper route
an l secured enough regular customers to en
able him to gc to day school. He worked so
hard and was so ambitious that he got more
than usual aid from his teachers and made
great progress, and Rabbi Keeberg became in
terested in the boy, who now, through his help,
has entered an academy at Cincinnati, and will
study for the Hebrew Church.
At the Casino, in Montpellier, Franco, a
singer pleased a party of young cavalry officers
so that one of them flung on the stage a bunch
of violets that he had in his hand. She smi ed
and bowed and, picking them up, stuck them in
her corsage, which so pleased the young soldier
that be sent his cap after the flowers. The
singer misinterpreted his enthusiasm, became
indignant, sulked, pouted, and left the stage
with a gesture intended to ridicule the one who
had offended her. The audience began to storm
and refused to be comforted, even when the
manager made the orchestra play ‘ Returning
from the Review.” Finally the gendarmes had
to be called in to clear the theater, and prevent
a violent avenging of the jnsult the singer had
offered to the uniform.
Interesting facts concerning ancient cities:
Nineveh was 15 miles long, 8 wide and 40 miles
around, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick
enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon
was 50 miles within the walls, which were 87
feet thick and 350 bigH, with 100 brazen gates
The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet
to the support of the roof. It was 100 years in
building. The largest of the pyramids is 461
feet high, and 053 on the sides; its base covers
11 acres. The stones are about 30 feet in length,
and the layers are 380. It employed 33,000 men
in building. The labyrinth, in Egypt, contains
300 chambers and 2.30 halls. Thebes, in Egypt.,
presents ruins 27 miles around. Athens was 25
miles around, and contained 250,00 citizens and
400,000 slaves. The Temple of Delphos was so
rich in donations that it was plundered of $3OO
000, and Nero carried away from it 200 statues
The walls of Rome were 13 miles around.
In a Maine village a housewife whose reputa
tion is of thrift, and whose wits are as keen as
the razor’s edge, issued cards not long ago, it is
said, for an afternoon party at her home, term
ing it a "whang." A “whang" is an unknown
term in that vicinity, although they had heard
it applied iu a metaphoric, or symbolic, or hy
iierbolic, sen-,e many times to the country julji
lee of various kinds. The good ladles who wore
summoned didn't know what to do or liow to
dress, but they went just the same, full of curi
osity and in their most stunning toilets. The
hour was early, viz; 1 p. m.. when the larger
part of them started, lists were even against
the field that it was a quilting bee; 1 to 8 that
It was a nig bee, and even against the field that
it was an ordinary parly. W hen they get there
they found the house in disorder and everybody
scrubbing for dear life. A "whang is a house
cleaning party, and some of the ladies are
sorry that they didn’t dress accordingly.
A census of dogs was takon in France a short
time ago, and already a contingent of these in
telligent animals has been sent for training to
the Fifty-third regiment, in garrison at Mont
pellier. TJie experiment which is being made
in the discipline of the dog for military pur
poses is attracting notice in the south of France,
but so far no advance has been effected beyond
mere preliminaries. As yet tin* now recruits
have not become accustomed to their masters
and when they are marched out with the corps
each is led by a soldier, to whom its carets
specially intrusted. The party walk immedi
ately behind the band, but it is remarked that
the dogs have not quite overcome the tempta
tion to hark whenever the trumpet blares and
the beat at the drum is hoard. Now and then
one is halted and then let loose to rejoin th
main body, but on no account are the dogs
allowed out of barracks except on these oc
casions. They are to he trained to distinguish
a soldier from a civilian, aud, when their edu
cation is complete, they will be expected to un
derstand to the fullest extonj the meaning of
the words esprit fie corps. The authorities have
been spared the trouble of determining the cut
and color of the uniforms which they would
wear, nature having rendered such artificial dis
tinctions superfluous, but each dog has been
supplied with a collar bearing the number of
the regiment, and with a belt to wnich two
pockets in leather are affixed for the reception
of notes, orders, dispatches and other military-
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50 dozen Gentlemen’s Unlaundried Shirts,
from 15)6 to 17 inches, slightly soiled bodies,
made out of Utica Shirting, Bosoms and Bands
Richardson's 2100 Linen; the best $1 shirt in this
citv. We will close out the lot at 75c. each.
We will continue the sale of our colored Surah
Silks worth $1 a yard, for this week at 85c. a
yard. Handsome silk novelties and buttons to
match; all our new shades.
1 case Shear Colored Figured India Linens at
12)£c.; worth 25c.
In Our Hosiery Department
we are showing elP’ellent value in Ladies',
Misses’ and Children's Unbleached, Black and
Colored Hose; Gentlemen’s English, Balbriggan
and Lisle Thread Half Hose in unbleached and
colored.
Corset Department.
In this department we are exhibiting an un
usually large assortment of all the popular
brands of Corsets, special amongst them being
Thomson's Glove-Fitting in four different quali
ties—R. & G’s, C. P. ala Sirene. Tampico and
Coralines,
Misses' Corsets in all sizes at 50c.
Thomson's and R. & G.’s Nursing and Venti
lating Corsets.
A full line of FRENCH Woven Corsets, in all
sizes, from 75c. to $2 a pair.
One lot of Fine French Finished Satteens at
25c. a yard; new designs and shades.
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