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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1888.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Notice to Citizens of Public Meet
ing; Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 231, F. and
A. M ; The Southern Mutual Loan Association;
Savannah Cadets; DuGuesclin Division No. 1,
U. R, K. of P.
Special Notices—As to Crew of Austrian
Bark Marie; Potatoes, Land Plaster. Etc..
Kavanaugh & Brennan: As to Bills Against
British Steamship Eglantine: The “Pouchong
Party” Continued This Evening.
Steamship Schedule—Baltimore Steamship
Company.
Davis Bros.' Piano Club—Mr. J. G. Robertson
the Lucky Man.
Auction Sa^s—Administrator's Sale. Guard
ian's Sale, by I. D. Laßoche A Son; Sale Con
tinued, by J. McLaughlin & Son; Valuable
Property, by C. H Dorsett.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Miscellaneous.
When the presidential bee gels in a man’s
bonnet, somehow or other it hardly ever
gets out. Republican statesmen, who were
defeated candidates for the presidential
nomination this year, are represented
already as laying their pipes for 1822. Hope
springs eternal in these human breasts.
Mr. Henry George has set sail for
America. It was hoped that England would
induce him to remain there, but England
does not seem to have appreciated her
opportunity. Probably Mr. George will
bring to this country a lot of English
money to help along the Anti-Poverty So
ciety.
The condition of the young Emperor of
Germany is becoming such as to cause con
siderable anxiety among his people. He
suffers violently from an affection of the
ears, and frequently, it is said, he walks
his room nearly all night in pain. Germany
may have to bury another emperor in a
very few years.
One of the republican organs prints a
double-leaded wccial from Indianapolis
that Gen. Har.-ison is greatly annoyed at
the reports th-> he has offered cabinet posi
tions to different men. But why should he
be annoyed! Doesn’t he know that the
public is going to gossip about his probable
choice of a cabinet, and that all sorts of
rumors will be circulated!
The example set by Georgia this year of
exhibiting her products in different parts
of the country seems to have impressed
California favorably. That state is going
to fill a car with her varied products and
make exhibits in the east. No doubt a
strong effort will be made to induce winter
travelers to go there, but the winter trav
elers would find it to their advantage to go
to Florida.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depew and Senator
Ingalls deny that they circulated any of the
vile slanders concerning Mr. Cleveland’s
domestic life. They were charged by Mrs.
Whitney with having done so. Their lan
guage will strike the public as being alto
gether too strong, considering it was a
woman of Mrs. Whitney’s high standing
who made the charges. Perhaps Secretary
Whitney will have something to say about
it.
The fact that Mr. Cleveland received a
popular majority of about 100,000 irritates
some of the republican organs, and tboy are
figuring on what the vote would have been
“if purged of fraud.” One of them says
Gen. Hnrrison would have received 142,000
popular majority. That, however, is not
true. If the election had been purged of
fraud, Mr. Cleveland would have received
a much greater popular majority, and ho
would have received a majority of the
electoral votes.
The custom of giving presents Christmas
is a good deal overworked. It is a beautiful
and appropriate custom, but people have
V een led to an extreme in following it. One
of the Boston newspapers remarks: “The
Christmas present era is upon us, and
already some people are beginning to hold
back in their grocery bills, doctors’ bills
and other bills in order to meet the demands
on them for these annual gifts. There are
some who go in debt for their presents, and
who do well if they get them paid for dur
ing the year.”
The latest republican yarn is that the
President did not refer to civil service re
form in his message I ecause, according to
his statement, he is a democrat, and to have
done so would have been to set himself
above his party, which did not refer to the
subject In its platform. The improbability
of that yarn is quite apparent. Mr. Cleve
land would not have made such a state
ment, liecause he and Svery other well in
formed person knows that the democratic
platform indorsed civil service ief> mi. Tho
republicans may hear t from Mr. Cleveland
this week.
Ohio’s White Cap3
The good people of Ohio, who, if they
are to be judged by what their governor
and some of their newspapers siy, devote
more of their time to criticising affairs in
the south than to the consideration of
matters which immediately concern them
selves, are at present greatly annoyed by a
secret organization in the midst of them
known as the White Caps. T4lh organisa
tion undertakes to d ; scharge the duties
which properly belong to the officers of the
law and the courts. The members of it,
when on duty, wear white masks, and if
the stories of their doings are true, the most
of them ought to be in the penitentiary.
They undertake to regulate the conduct
of their neighbors by punishing those ac
cused of crimes and immoralties of one
kind and another. As the accused parties
are never heard in tbe.r own defease, the
White Caps have au opportunity to vent
their spite upon these they dislike or to
t-eat in a cruel and inhuman manner those
agairnt whom they have a grudge. A
great many honest and law-abiding people
have been taken from their homes at night,
and whipped and otherwise maltreated,
and others have been threatened with
death and ordered to leave the state.
In view of this condition of affairs, what
becomes of the claim which the Ohio people
make to superior virtue, intelligence and
r spect for the law? Would it not be more
advisable for them to re-establish the reign
of law in their own state before undertak
ing to regulate affairs in the south? What
is their bloody shirt orator and irrepressi
ble governor, the celebrated Fire Alarm
Koraber. doing that he doet not suppress
the White Caps? Is he so engrassed with
his attacks upon the south that he has not
time to give his own people the protection
to which they are entitled?
When the Ku Klux organizations in the
south were attracting so much attention,
the Ohio statesmen and the Ohio press were
fierce in their abuse of the south. There
was, however, a great deal more excuse for
the Ku Klux than there is for the White
Caps. If the Forakers and Shermans will
look a little closer at the evils which are to
be found close to their own homes, they
will not see so much to criticise and con
demn in the south.
It is 1 noticeable that the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, once one of the fiercest
of the bloody shirt organs, speaks more
fairly and justly of the south now. The
reason is said to be that the Cincinnati
merchants have informed that paper that
they were tired of the abuse heaped upon
the southern people by it, and that they
would refuse to support it if its course
were not changed. They pointed out that
the southern people were their customers,
but that the south was beginning
to carry her trade elsewhere because
she was opposed to having commercial rela
tions with those from whom she received
continued abuse.
If the Ohio people will be honest with
themselves, and consent to see themselvos-as
others see them, they will have to admit
that their own position is not so impreg
nable that they can afford to throw stones
at other people.
Where Reform ia Needed.
The city surveyor’s office ought to be re
organized. The city surveyor should be
known as the city engineer, and he should
be given the authority and made to shoul
der the responsibilities which belong to that
position. Savannah is no longer a small
country town. She is a large and growing
eity, and should be dealt w.th as such.
The present aldermen should create the
office of city engineer and abolish that of
surveyor, and they should clearly define
thejurisdiction of the new office. They cau
do this better than new aldermen unac
quainted with the management of munici
pal affairs. They have the necessary
knowledge, and, doubtless, the necessary
business ability.
The city engineer should have charge of
all public improvements, and all matters
relating to drainage and sanitation. Hi
should have competent assistants, and
should be authorized to employ the men
needed for his work.
There is no particular fault to be found
with those who remove the garbage or
those who direct the street and lane im
provements. Indeed, the present chair
man of the streets and lanes has done such
good service as to win general praise, but
it is by no means certain that a competent
man will succeed him. The chances are
that an incompetent one will fill the posi
tion about as often as a competent one, and
it isn’t an easy matter to get rid of an in
competent one during his term of office.
An incompetent engineer, however, cau be
got rid of at any time.
The engineer should not be at the beck
and call of any committee or any member
of it. He should be responsible only to tbo
whole council, and his term of office should
depend upon his efficiency and attention
to his duties.
A competent engineer, having good busi
ness qualities, could save the city a great
deal of money. He would not hire men
for political reasons, and he would see ta it
that his employes earned their money. He
would conduct the city's work on business
principles. If he didn’t he would bo noti
fied that hi 6 resignation was wanted
No alderman having a business to attend
to can give as much time to the city’s busi
ness as is now required of the chairman of the
streets and lanes committee, and he ought
not to be expected to. He gets no pay for
his sorvicos, and it is reasonable that he
shouldn’t feel it incumbent on him to devote
the greater part of his time in watching the
city's interests.
Let us have at once the reform suggested.
Let an engineer’s office bo established, and
let us see if, with such an office, properly
organized, the city cannot get more work
for the money expended than she has ever
yet succeodod in gotting.
The governorship of Illinois may be a
very desirable office in some respects, but
Gov. Oglesby hasn’t found it altogether a
ploasant one. When the Hayir.arket bomb
throwers of Chicago were on trial, and
while the applications for commutation of
their sentences were being considered, he re
ceived numerous threatening letters. Since
the recent conviction of Hronuck, he has re
ceived many others of the same sort —most
of them from Chicago, but some from the
east. Probably ho will be glad when his
term of oflioo expires. Private Joseph
Kifer will then enter with conflicting emo
tions upon the work of reading threatening
letters. _
Hecretary Whitney went to New York the
i other day without designating a person to
i act for him in his absence. In eons iquunce,
i the navy department was without u head
I for a few days. Probably the secretary
was pre|iring it for the condition of affairs
likely to exist when a republican secretary
I is appointed.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1888.
The House Drainage System.
The city council has adopted a house
drainage system, and to-morrow night it
will decide in what sections of the city the
work of putting down the drainage pipes
shall begin. There is not much doubt,
however, that the sections east of East
Broad street, known as Old Fort, and west
of West Broad street, known as Yamacraw
and Robertsville, will first be given the
becefit of the system. These localities are
regarded ns the danger points, and it will
be deemed advisable, probably, to afford
them protection at the earliest possible
moment.
The system adopted is one devised by Col.
Winn, the city surveyor, after inspecting
the house-drainage systems of several cities.
It has been submitted to a number of local
engineers, and, it is understood, is regarded
by them as satisfactory. It will require
about twenty-eight miles of pipe, and
will cost in the vicinity of $350,-
000. In this estimate ample al
lowances are made for unforeseen
expenses,so that there is no probability that
the cost will be greater than the sum named.
The sewage from Yarn a craw and Roberts
ville will be emptied into the river, and
that from all the rest of the city will be
carried eventually to Timber Landing creek.
For the present, however, that of the sec
tion east of East Broad street will be drained
into Bilbo canal.
It is probable that the system will not be
applied to the whole city this season, be
cause of the inability to meet the necessary
expense. The effort will be to complete the
system in the sections east of East Broad
street and west of West Broad street
this season, and in the main portion of the
city next season.
The disposition of the council is to meet
the expense of the system out of the general
taxes. If paving improvements are sus
pended for a couple of years, this cau be
done with onlv a slight increase in the rate
of taxation. There is no doubt a very con
siderable number of taxpayers who would
favor such an increase in the rate of
taxation as would insure the completion
of the system this season. They argue that
the system, being a protection against dis
ease, cannot be completed too soon. It cost
the city nearly $2'),000 to guard against the
fever at Jacksonville this year, aud an
epidemic of fever here would cost the city
many times as much a? a house drainage
system.
There are no doubt many who think that
the existing law, which provides that prop
erty adjacent to the sewer pipes shall bear
two-thirds of the cost of the system and the
city the balance, ought to be taken ad
vantage of. If it were, the system could be
completed this season, aud property owners
would not feel much poorer. The great
majority of them would scarcely miss the
amount they would be taxed. Indeed, it is
doubtful if they would be required to pay
much more than if a direct tax
were levied to do the work this season.
The council has not finally decided how the
cost of the system shall be met, and it may
give the plan of assessing adjacent property
further and more serious consideration.
While there will be regret if the council
decides not to do the entire work this
season, there will tea feeling of satisfac
tion that a drainage system has been
decided upon, and that the work upon it is
to be b-gun at once.
The Philadelphia Press has been compar
ing the appropriations for education made
by some southern states with those made
by some northern states. Those of Georgia
and Minnesota are compared as follows:
‘‘Another comparison fully as striking is
that between Georgia and Minnesota.
Georgia had double the population of Min
nesota in 1880, and still has at least 500,000
more people; but although it is known as
the richest state in the south, its educational
fund during the last school year was oniy
$480,008 54, or about 87 cents for each
child of school age. This looks lamentably
inadequate by the side of the $3,000,000
Minnnesota spends. The city of Mi meau
olis alone, with one-tenth of the people
Georgia has, devoted more money to its
schools than the whole state of Geo’-gia.”
The Georgia legislature ought to make
haste to increas* the public school fund of
this state. Georgia can’t retain the name
of the empire state of the south very long
unless she doe better in this line.
Bill Nye has met Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of
Virginia, and the governor has conquered
him. While in Richmond, the other day,
Col. Nye and Poet Riley called at the gov
ernor’s mansion. “Gov. Lee,” he says,
“was deeply impressed with us, but he con
trolled it first rate. Wo tried to make him
ftnel perfectly easy with us. and I think he
did. Ho Is thoroughly democratic, and he
doesn’t care who knows it. The id.a that he
is governor of Virginia does not seem to
make his clothes pinch him under the arms
or keep him awake l ights, as it does some
governors. Sometimes he gets half way
through his breakfast before he thinks
about it.” Very likely the governor’s
opinion of Col. Nye was equally compli
mentary.
Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, is one of the
democratic congressmen whoso seat will
be contested. His maj rity was 8,500, but
bis opponent, encouraged by the evident
determination of republicans to obtain a
good working majority regardless of justice
and facts, has announced his intention of
making a contest on the ground that Mr.
Ptielan was eleetod by fraud. Mr. Phelan
says that if there is a contest, he will show
up the republicans of his district in a some
what unfavorable light, and he is just about
the man to do it
Henator Quay’s reward for conducting
the republican campaign successfully prom
ises to bo something more than glory. Some
of his political admirers in East Tennessee
have sent him a team of blooded horses,
arid, since the present-giving practioo has
been inaugurated in that direction, perhaps
the senator will soon have a very substantial
reward. It is probable also that Gen. Dud
ley will be rewarded for the assistance ho
give Senator Quay—he may study the po
litical situation from behind prison bars.
Congressmen who failed to get a renorn
ination or a re-election have been talking
to a reporter lately about public life. They
agree pretty generally that congress is no
place for poor men, that only the wealthy
can be successful there. History does not
hear out this assertion, but the belief in it
ought to afford some consolation to the
statesmen who will remain at horns.
A Washington young lady walked into a
big safe the other day in an office where she
was employed, aud someone, in pass
ing, closed the door. Bhe remained
a prisoner for several hours, and when,
quite by chance, she was at last liberated,
she was found to be nearly suffurated. 11 Is
worthy of note, however, that her hair
didn't turn white.
CURRBNT COMMENT.
Punish Them.
Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.)
The men who have been corrupting our elec
t inns should be punish ed. no matter to what
party they belong: and the higher theirstand
ing in the political organizations, the more
severe their punishment should be.
Will He Commit Suicide?.
From the Boston Herald tlnd.)
Col. Dudley announces t hat he has some dyna
mite in bis pocket all ready for use when tte
Ho-sier democrats g* - after him. He doesn't
say whether he is meditating suicide or murder.
Probably he will perpetrate one as soon as
the other. He won t scare anybody out in
Indiana.
The South Not Responsible For It.
Prom the Xashville American {Dem. )
Harpers Weekly wants southern newspapers
to quit using the word "southern'’ in discussing
the political situation. Mr. Curtis points his
advice in the wrong direction. It is not the
south nor is it southern newspapers which are
to blame for this sort of thing. It is a pity that
southern newspapers have to talk especially
about the south in discussing federal questions.
For Foraker’s Long Ears.
Prom the Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
The officious, brutal, wife beating White Caps
having found so much tolerance in Indiana are
seeking to extend their missionary work in
Ohio. If Gov. Foraker is anxious to win en
during credit for his administration he will
stamp out these White Caps with sn iron heel.
Their outrages, committed under cover of dark
less and in the name of social purity, are a dis
grace to the nation. Indiana doesn't seem to
mind a little guerrida war of this sort, but we
look for better things from Ohio.
BRIGHT BITS.
No wonder the goat is an unreliable animal; a
diet of circus posters would destroy the spirit
of truth in any creature.— Puck.
When a bald-headed man removes his hat to
salute a lady it does not remind ore of s leaf
less branch, although it's a naked bow.— Bing
hamton Sepublican.
YorNG Wife fat a ball >—You are improving
wonderfully as a dancer. Don't you remember
how you used to tear my dresses ?
Young Husband—Y-e-s; I wasn't buying'em
then. — Philadelphia Record.
Smith—You say the speculation has proved a
failure?
Jones--A total failure.
Smith—l thought you said there was a fortune
in it.
Jones fwith a groan)—So there is. Mine is in
it.— Boston Courier.
Mrs. Hashcroft—That new boarder need not
try to make me think he is a bachelor. He's
either married or a widower.
Billings—How can you tell?
Mrs. Hashcroft—He always turns his back to
me when he opens his pocketbook to settle.—
Terre Haute Express.
Tailor—Why is it that you don't pay for that
suit? I have called here repeatedly, and all I
can get out of you is promises.”
Young Actor—Well, you know all the papers
call me a promising young comedian.
Tailor—Y’es, but promises are not perform
ances.
Young Actor—Well, come up to the theater
any night, and you will see my performance.—
Mmerico.
“John.'* said she, “Do you think you could
spare me— —”
"Spare you?'' he interrupted her to cry.
“Spare you? Great guns. Sarah, what has put
such ideas in your head? You don't mean to say
you are thinking of dying and leaving me deso
late? Of course I can't spare you. You are my
life, my whole existence.” said he, fervently,
and the poor woman didn't have the nerve to
add the concluding words of her sentence,
which, if concluded, would have been a request
for $5. — Terre Haute Express.
A rather goo l joke was told the Rustler the
other day concerning the late local option move
ment at Independence. Both sides had a chal
lenge comnafttee at the polls, to see that no
fraudulent Totes wefe run !n. A workingman
with Celt ip features offered his vote. An “op
tionisfeommitteemau challenged his vote. The
Celt was sworn to truthfully answer the ques
tions put to him. “How long have you resided
in this state?”
“About two years.”
“How long have you been in Independence?"
“Nearly a year.”
“Have you ever taken out naturalization pa
pers’"
"No sir.”
“Police, take this man into custody for at
tempting to cast a fraudule vote.’
An indictment was next in order, so it was
thought best to ascertain the exact nationality
of the prisoner before it was drawn. He was
asked: “O taw hat country are you a native?”
He answCTcd: “Massachusetts.”— Kansas City
Journal.
PERSONAL.
The baby king of Spain is to be presented
with a silver rattle box by United States
Minister Belmont upon the latter s arrival at
Madrid.
The venerable Duchess of Cambridge hag
rallied wonderfully, and bids fair to live a long
lime yet. She has willed the whole of her large
fortune to the Tecks.
Janf. Hading was disappointed because
divorces cannot be purchased in Chicago for
5 francs or 10 francs apiece. She wanted to
take one back to Paris with her.
The freedom of the city of London has been
conferred upon Prince George of Wales. If he
does not differ greatly from his ancestors he
will take advantage of the privilege.
The Spanish mission, to which Perry Bel
mont has recently been appointed, pays sl2 000
a year. There are only four missions that
have a greater salary attached—Great Britain,
Germany, France and Russia, which pay
$17,000 each.
Gomez, the Brazilian composer, who wrote the
opera of “II Guarany,” produced with success
some years aro at tho Royal Italian Opera in
London, has now another work ready for pro
duction. in which the Emperor of Brazil is said
to take the dee|>est personal interest.
Gen. Boulanger, it is known, receives large
subscriptions of money from many different
quarters, but most persons will be surprised to
learn, as is declare-1 in the London journals,
that he has received SBO,OOO from admirers,
compatriots of course, in the United States.
Romulus Law-on of Allensville, N. f\, is evi
dently au expensive guest to have to dinner. He
has a record of having devoured at one meal a
quarter of mutton, two half-grown chickens, a
pound of bac on, five herrings, a loaf of corn
bread, eighteen biscuits and a pound of candy.
John Charlton, M. P.. William Coe and
Archibald Blue, members of the Canadian min
ing commission, have left Toronto for Wash
ington, where they will speod some time in
vestigating the mining laws of the different
states. They will make a report of their work
to their government.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has imposed a
heavy tax on all books and printed matter pass
ing through his dominions, which will destroy
the lucrative book trade between India and
CentraKAsia He desired to cueck the eireula
tion of treasonable proclamations which Isbak
Khan spread at the beginning of his rebellion,
and has probably succeeded in his intent.
Mr. Chamberlain's two preceding wives were
both Keuricks, one the daughter of Archibald
Keurick, the second a daughter of Timothy
Keurick. The first Mrs. Chamberlain only sur
vived her marriage two years, and tlm second
died after seven years of matrimonial felicity.
When Mr. Cliamberlain first married he was 25
years old; on bis second marriage, in 1858, he
was 38.
Phil Daly, the gombler. who got his great
start in life bv winning SIOO,OOO on Grover Cleve
land's election in ISB4, is said to have bet the
same way this year, though he settled his bets
with a loss of only about $12,000. It is said that
in the four years just passed lie has increased
his wealth to about $250,000. He is one of
those sporting men that neither drink, smoke
nor chew.
Bavr George A lured Townsend: “Mention
of Gen. Harrison having mado an F.nghsh-born
citizen his private secretary, reminds me that
Vice President Mi >rton also has a Brit iah secre
tary who has been in this country ten or more
years—Mr. Coyney. Like Gen. Harrison, Mr.
Morton took his man out of a newspaper office
Oddly enough, he took Ms out of the Now York
Herald office, where Coyney had been a re
porter and general writer, always distinguished
for his courtesy, genuine good feeling and fel
lowship.”
Prince Henry, brother of the German em
peror, cut a tine figure during his recent visit to
Copenhagen. A correspondent conttasls him
wit h the Russian heir apparent, who was also
present, and says: "Prince Henry ia very fair,
with smooth hair, clear eyes, tall and broad
chested. Dressed in his glittering naval uni
form, decoruted with the violet ribbon of the
Order of tile Elephant, he looks like a gladsome
It,ure or light. Tje c/arovltoti is the ex ict op
posite of the Teuton sador prince. Graceful, of
medium heig.it, with almond shaped eyes, a
pale, dark completion, and id os < cut hair,
black as ink. he appears almost t o serious in
h a simple uniform, although ue can be ex
tremely pie isant and amiable if he becomes in
terested in a subject of conversation.”
An Aged Employe.
Fifty-seven years ago, through the personal
influence of Daniel Webster, Isaac Basatt was
was appointed a page 1a tne United States Sen
ate. The same Isaac Bassatt is in the em
ploy of the Senate to-day. his term of service
haring been unbroken The 'Ciptain,” as he
is genially and generally designated, received
many congratulations on his official birthday.
He is still work ng on his '‘reminiscences,” but
he will not publish them until bis sixtieth anni
versary rolls around. The Captain is also en
gaged in preparing for the celebration of his
golden wedding, w hich is due on Dec. 27.
A Strange World.
From the Boston Courier.
Smith—Strange things happen in this world
sometimes—things that you cannot understand.
Jones—That's so.
Smith—Now, there's Brown. I met him yes
terday ar.d asked him to lend me $5. and what
do you think he said?
Jones—He said ‘ No.”
Smith—No, he didn't. He said he didn't know
me well enough to do that.
Jones—Well, what's strange in that?
Smith—That's not the strange part of the
matter; this is it. I met Green about half an
hour ago and asked him to lend me $5, and what
do you think he said?
Jones—He said “No.”
Smith—No: he said he knew me too well for
that. There's the strangeness of the thing.
One said be didn't know me well enough and the
other said he knew me too well. Funny world,
ain’t it?
A Big Little Invention.
From the yew York Tribune.
One of the biggest little inventions of recent
date is the slotted sewing machine needle, a
patent for which was taken out a short time
ago by a woman 70 years 6f age. It does entirely
away with the old process of threading by
twisting the end of the thread to a fine point
and thrusting it in’ at the needle's eye until by
some chance it happens to strike the mark.
This new invention in domestic economy has a
beveled slot In one side of the eye through
which the thread slips as easily as a nickel
drops into the slot of a weighing machine or
lung tester. A blind old gran imother need not
have the slightest difficulty in sewing now
Nothing could be simpler than the slottedneedle
and all who see it wonder why it was not
thought of years and years ago. ' The inventor
told me tlie other day that it cost $30,003 to
make the experiments which resulted in produc
ing precisely the kind of slot which, while
readily admitting the thread to the eye. pre
vents it at the same time from slipping out in
the operation in sewing. What a boon this will
be to our mothers and wives may be easily
realized when it is understood that one sewing
machine company alone in New Jersey turns
out every month over 2,000,000 needles.
Their Wedding Journey.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The sun never shone upon a lovelier morning
than that which ushered in the wedding day of
Billiger McSwat and Lobelia Grubb.
Far away in the dreamy distance stretched a
landscape that seemed to tremble and vibrate
in the mellow haze of the golden October day as
if the unseen spirits that inhabit the air were
beating it with fairy wings in the irrepressible
exuberance of overflowing life and joy.
(Copyright. All rights reserved.)
Billiger and Lobelia McSwat had just started
on their wedding journey.
Animated by the sincere and laudable purpose
of affording no indication in their manner, ap
parel. or Ilenavior. that they were taking such
a trip, Billiger wore a suit of new black broad
cloth. with a lavender necktie, and Lobelia was
attired in a silk dress of a delicate lilac tint,
with no conspicious ornaments except a large
solitary ring on one of the fingers of her left
hand, and a few orange blossoms modestly and
becomingly arranged in her Parisian traveling
hat. They sat on the luxurious cushion of a
palace car, Billiger's arm resting carelessly on
the back of the seat occupied by his lovely
bride, and Lobelia leaning toward Billiger in
the easy, tender, confiding manner of a mother
in Israel going with her aged companion to an
Old Settlers’ meeting, or the secretary of a
Young Ladies' Society for the Dissemination of
Useful Knowledge accompanying an elder
brotberon a shopping expedition.
“Billiger,” faltered the bride, turning her
beautiful eyes trustingly to his, “nobody would
suspect that we are—that we have just been—
that we are on our—do you think ?”
"Certainly not, Lobelia,’’ affirmed Billiger.
with great positiveness, as he smiled fondly and
reassuringly upon her.
"They think we are brother and sister, Billi
ger, or at least that we are old married."
“Chestnuts;” exclaimed a voice.
The young husband turned fiercely around to
see who had spoken.
It was the train boy, an innocent lad of 17
summers, on whose face was a look of such
chlldlixe simplicity that Billiger's hasty sus
picions were at once allayed.
The Porter's Disappointment.
From the yew York World.
When Gen. Harrison was leaving the car he
thanked the porter.— lndianapolis Dispatch.
The birds had settled back to rest on Indiana's
plains,
The sportsman had pulled down his vest, so full
of travel stains;
The Hoosier hayseeds had gone homo with relics
of cake and pie—
The plate the President ate on, and the glass he
had drained of rye—
The special car bad sped away to Indianapolis,
The hunt was o'er, and not a single thing had
gone amiss,
When the porter of the Bleeping car cocked up
his weather eye
And began to think of the fee he’d get, and the
house and lot he'd buy.
“A Congressman.” be said, “Is good for a
measly (lime, I trow,
A Judge fees me a quarter, and a Colonel as
much. I know;
A Senator fees fifty cents, which is only a mod
erate fee,
But wnat in the name of a National Bank ought
a I'resident to give mo?
I guess he'll give me a sawbuck, or a double X,
perhaps,
It would not be patriotic for him to do less than
other chaps,
And a gambler, fresh from Frisco, gave me an
eugle, just
For polishing off his bpots and cleaning his coat,
Which was(ull of ’dust"
0
"I’ll put it in the saving's bank—no, I’ll buy h
city lot,
Or maybe I can double it in a ripping old Jack
pot;
I’ll buy my girl a sealskin, and I'll sport a dia
mond ring;
Oh. tho Porter that carried Harrison must
have a special fling
He sat and mused till the train slowed up and
passed the depot tanks.
And when the President shook his hand and
murmured cordial "thanks."
And got off the car and was driven home, he
looked at his dusky palm.
And a torrent of warm, low language gave his
wounded spirit bairn;
The Old Game Cock was Astonished.
From the Popular Science hlonthlq.
An amusing test of the difference of disposi
tion in barnyard fowls may lie made by placing
a piece of looking-glass against the trunk of a
large tree and laying a train of corn in front of
it. Some hens will discover what they nil take
for a now arrival with mild curiosity, and
merely look at it intently, peril a [is peering
around behind the tree, and then walk quietly
away.
Others peek the grass angrily and insist upon
fighting, while a few nervous females show
much tlie same noisy excitement ibat seizes
upon most hens when they spy a snake. We
tried the valiaut old autocrat of the farmyard
with this trick, and he was at once roused to
fury. Propping his head when some ten feet in
front of tlie glass ho began the cautious ad
vance by iiarallels which every ouo familiar
with ;>< ml try has seen before a fight. But, of
course, ho soon lost hit enemy by moving too
far to on side. After crowing fiercely and look
ing around uneasily for a few moments he re
turned to the tram of corn and almost instantly
saw tho strange cock nearer thau ever. More
stealthy approach, another failure to keep sight
of the foe. and greater excitement, and a third
time he liegan to oat, only to be startled by tho
hostile presc£e nearer than ever.
At last ho worked right up to tho glass and
braced himself for the shock of combat, the
counterfeit, of course, following his orery
movement with ominous celerity. There was
one fierce peck at the angry head in the glass
and then a crash as our infuriated champion
hurb-d himself against his likeness, breaking
the glass into a hundred fragments.
The mingling of astonishment, rage and
triumph in this bird’s appearance as he whirled
about, startled at the cracking noise and lie
wildered at the total disappearance of his
enemy, was comical to behold. Then he rushed
around behind the big pear tree, evidently
thinking that the cowardly stranger might bo
hidden there. Not finding him the victor
strutted about, too excited to eat. aud crowed
long and loud over his unprecedented triumph
The other cock was entirely wiped out of exist
Slice, and our old fighter, who would crow do
fiantly In our anus whenever be fooud himself
being earned off the premises, knowing from
experience that a set to was coming, could
scarcely credit his senses.
Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appe
tizer, of exquisite flavor, is used all over the
world. Dr. J. G.B. Siegert & Sons, sole
manufacturers.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ernest Geyer. better known as "Gen. Tom
Pouce, ' a dwarf, who had been exhibited in
Europe and America, died of cld aga on Tues
day, at Cleveland, O.
Tbe largest continuous sleeping car service
in the world is that on the Santa Fa system,
which runs through sleepers from San Diego,
Cal., to Chicago, a distance of 2.311 miles.
A Maine woman has secured a divorce from
her husband on the ground of desertion,
alleging that he went to temperance meetings
six days during the week aud on Sunday went
to church.
While a girl in Bridgeport, Conn., was jump
ing rope she became exhausted, and falling
through a cellar window, had her eyes so
severely cut by the broken glass that her sight
was totally destroyed.
An Ohio family, while at dinner on Wednes
day, were surprised to see walking in their old
cat. which several weeks before they sent to a
town ten miles distant. It is supposed that
“tabby” walked home.
Measles rages in Limestone. Me., more than
150 persons, including many adults, being down
with it. Chicken-pox is also prevalent. Schools
are closed, and communication with other
towns has been almost entirely cut off. The
physicians are unable to answer all calls, and
medical aid from abroad will probably be sum
moned.
According to the Vossiche Zeitung, of Berlin,
ex-Em press Frederick took with her to England
six large trunks filled with precious articles left
by Emperor Frederick. The Prince of Wales
will receive the emperor’s chronometer, and
Queen Victoria the desk used by him from the
beginning of his illness. Each member of the
English royal family will also receive a me
morial of the deceased monarch.
A wagon, bearing mine supplies, slipped into
a rut near Nigger Wells, A. TANARUS., and the driver
unloaded by the wayside 1750 pounds of giant
powder. After the teamster had gone with the
balance of his load another came in sight, and.
seeing a coyote curiously examining the bojees
piled by the roadside, took a shot at the animal.
The bullet struck the giant powder, and people
for ten miles around thougnt there was a fear
ful earthquake.
John Wilson, a carpenter, while demolishing
a house at Black Point, near Seabright. N. J.,
found a wasps' nest and knocked it down. The
nest fell on his neck, and several of the wasps,
which were benumbed with cold, went down
his back. The heat from his body soon warmed
them and the insects began an attack. With
tbe assistance of a fellow workman. Wilson
tore the clothing from his back, not, however,
before he was terribly stung.
A gentleman who lives in Cheshire. England,
having discovered proofs that someone made
a nocturnal practice of scaling the wa , divid
ing bis garden from the next, devised an ar
rangement of strong iron wires with a view to
catch the culprit. The very next night he
heard an uproar in the garden and found his
neighbor, a most respectable elderly gentleman,
snare iin the noose, ihdd to say, the intruder
could not say how he got there, but believed
that he must have done it in his sleep. He was
released on promising to give up sleep-walking
for the future.
There apjiears to be a great diversity of
tastes among the crowned female heads of
Europe with respect to ornaments of dress.
The Dowager Empress Augusta bad a great
weakness for diamonds, and on state occasions
appeared in a flood of light. Pearls seem to
have held the first place in the estimation of
Empress Frederick, while sapphires are the
favorite gems of her royal mother, who is also
credited with a passion for India shawls. The
Empress of Russia delights in a combination of
turquoises and pearls, while emeralds and pea; Is
divide the favor of Empress Elizabeth of Aus
tria. Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has made a
collection of exquisite iaces. The Grand
Duchess of Baden, the daughter of Emperor
William j., is said to prize flowers above all
jewels.
“Lf, Temps” tells a loathly tale of the Ger
man Emperor's visit to Naples. The King of
Italy, the German emperor and the Italian
prime minister were on a vessel together,
watching tho naval review. The emperor was
in high spirits. Those of the minister flagged.
“You seem out of sorts,” said William to him.
in French, he being ignorant of Italian: "Sea
sick, eh!" “No, sir,” answered C'rispi; “only a
toothache. But it issuchan exasperating one. ”
"Is it a hollow tooth?" "Yes, sir.” "Well, then,
stuff it with wadding dipped in brandy." "But
where find the wadding?' An amiable and con
descending idea flashed across the imperial brain.
He took some wadding out of his own sick ear,
and banded it to C'rispi. who bowed to the
ground, went to the buffet to soak it in brandy,
and tnea Slopped the hollow tooth.
Antoine de Choudens, the bead of the well
known Barisian music publishing firm, who re
cently died, owed the commencement of his
prosperity, according to the St. James Gazette ,
to his oonrage in undertaking the publication
of Gounod's''Faust." The o; era fell perfeedy
flat upon the ears of the Parisians, as did "Car
men' some years later; none of tlie big publish
ers could he got to so much as to look at the
score, and at last, in sheer despair, Gounod
took it to Choudens, who was then a simple
music seller, and had never before embarked in
a publishing speculation of any magnitude.
Choudens had just S4OO in the world at the time,
and he offered it to Gounod, who was only too
glad to accept it. The venture proved remuner
ative beyond all expectation. Choudens netted
close on to £IOO.OOO oy “Faust" in nis lifetime,
and tl e copyrigh' r inks among the most valua
ble assets of his estate.
A correspondent who recently visited Sen
ator Beck found him improving in health,
though with little hope of entire restoration.
“Absolute rest and quiet," be writes. ‘‘wag the
order of his doctors, and hard as it is for him,
after lus active and laborious life, to submit to
the direction, he does so with the indomitable
will and determination which have marked his
pursuit of everything he has undertaken in life.
His last prodigious work on the tariff report,
that immediately precipitated his sickne.-s.
stands alone in its strength and force, tiie cli
max effort of as long and uninterupted a period
of health and mental vigor as falls to the lot of
man to enjoy. He submits to his enforced idle
ness with grudging grace, but loses no oppor
tunity the doctor and his condition permit for
active employment. Just now he is devoting
himself to the supervision of the building of an
ice house, with about as lively interest as his
large prudence and caution will permit, while
subiectiug himself to direction as to his
health."
Thk Deutsche Handels-Archiv, the official
commercial publication of ttermany. in a re
cent issue discusses the reasons for the small
consumption of tea in that country, and comes
to the conclusion that the enormous retail
price is the real cause. It thinks that tbe spread
of tea drinking in the country is greatly lo be
desired; but that this is impossible as long as
the retail dealers persevere in charging the
present excessive prices, it instances the es
la 1 lishments in the West End of London, where
"the average price for tea of medium quality is
1 shilling 0 pence |ier pound, including the
heavy English duty of li pence per pound, and
the finer sorts may be obtained at 2 shillings,
while in Germany the retail prices begin at 3
shillings a [sound for the poorest qualities, an l
go up to 9 shillings. For German retail dealers
it would seem that the large and universal fall
in the prices of tea in the last twenty years has
never existed: yet in England the tea that wns
2 shillings 0 pence a pound in 1306 was 2 shill
ings lij pence in 1370, aud is now 1 shilling 0
pence a pound.
On January 1, 1889, the law requiring elec
trical executions in New York goes into effect,
but until Wednesday, when experiments were
made at Mr. Edison's laboratory, at Orange, re
lates the New York Times, the amount and
character of current required to make death
certain and instantaneous hail not been deter
mined. The experiments were conducted by
Harold P. Brown, an electrical engineer, nod
two calves and a horse were shocked to death.
The first victim a calf, weighing 12-m, pounds,
was cut on tho forehead aud on the spine behind
tlie forehead, and sponge covered plates, moist
ened in a solution of sulphate of zinc, were
fastened in place. The resistance of the animal
was 3.20 U ohms. An alternating current of
’OO volte was applied for thirty seconds and the
animal was killed instantly. H was at once
dissected by lira Ingram and Bleyer, but the
brain, heart and lungs were found to be in nor
ma! condition, and the meat wns pronounced fit
for food. One metal plate carrying the current
touched tbe hair of the forehead and slightly
burned it. but otherwise there were no external
indications of injury. The second calf weighed
M 5 pounds, and hud a resistance of l.St'OnhniH
The deadly alternating curreut at TOO volts pres
sure was applied for five seconds, and produced
instant death. Ahorse weighing 1,230 pounds
was next killed by passing tbe alternating cur
rent at 700 volt* from one fore leg to the other,
The resist nee or this animal wa 11,000 ohms.
The sxperiinents proved the alternating current
to be the most deadly force known to science,
and that less than half the pressure used in
New York city for electric ligating by this sys
tem is sufficient to cause instant death.
“ 'Brown's Bronchial Troches' are excellent
for tbe relief of Hoarseness or Sore Throat.
They are exceedingly effective."— Christian I
W m id, London, Kng. J
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