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4 C|e||Jflrnins Betas Morning New? Building Savannah, Ga. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1888. " ~~ — 22. ■ - - Registered at the P'*t Office in SarannoA The Morning Xr> is published every day in the year, sod is served to subscribers n the nty st 85 cents a week, ft 00 a month. $5 00 (or six months and $!0 00 (or one year The Morning Nns. try mail, one month, ft 00; three months, $2 50; slx months, $5 00 ; one year, f!0(W. The Mousing News. by mail, six times s week (Without Sunday issuei three months, f2 00; six months. 94 00; one year. $ 00. The Mormino News. Tri weekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months, #2 80; one year $5 00. The Sunday News, by mail, one rear. 52 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by yostai order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sect by mail at risk of sender*. Letters and telegrams should oe addressed “Morn iso Nuts." Savannah, Ua. Advertising rate* made known on application. The Morning News is on file at the (ollowine places, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained; NEW YORK CITY— J H. Bates, 38 Park Row. ft. P. Rowell & Cos., 10 Spruce street. W. W. Sharp & Cos.. 21 Park Row Frank Kiernan <6 Cos., 152 Broadway. Dacchy & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson, 35 Park Row John F. Phillips A Cos.. 29 Park Row. American Newspaper Public berA Association, 1(M Temple Court. PHILADELPHIA- N. W. Ater ft Son, Time* Building. BOSTON— S R. Niles, *56 Washington street. Pettenoill & Cos., 10 State street. CHICAGO— Leap A Thomas, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI— Edwin Aldes Company, C 6 West Fourth street NEW HAVEN— The H P Hubbard Company, 25 Elm street. ST. LOUIS— Nelson Chesmas & Cos., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA- Mornixo News Bureau, Whitehall street. MACON— Daily Telegraph Oefice, 597 Mulberry street. JACKSONVILLE— Morning News Bureau. Room 1 Ely Block. 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 MEDICAL I ftilth l • CAUTION. 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