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MOXBAT. JUNE IT. 1888.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—DeKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.:
Hibernian Society; Railroad Loan Association.
Special Notices—To the Patrons of the
Burglar Alarm Company; Peaches with Cream
at Heidt's; Notice, R. E. Cobb, Superintendent
Savannah and Tybee Railway.
Auction Sales— Bay Mare, Refrigerator, etc.,
by C. H. Dorsett.
Steamship Schedule—General Transatlantic
Company.
Railroad Schedule—Coast Line Railroad.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; EmploymenttWanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Atlantic steamer Seale ran against
an iceberg the other night while on her way
from Southampton to New York, and it is
a wonder serious damage to her, if not loss
of vessel and passengers, was not the result.
The iceberg was a very large one, and it
was in the track of other transatlantic
steamers.
The Third Assistant Postmaster General
has not yet taken steps to change the color
of the pale green postage stamps, and very
few people care whether he does or not. If
he would use his influence to stop the
appointment of postal agents of different
shades of green be would win the gratitude
of the people.
Woolf oik’s chances of acquittal aro not at
all bright. The evidence given by Jailor
Birdsong, of Macon, the other day, that ho
heard Woolfolk pray to be forgiven for
murdering his father, “the only thing he re
gretted,” was very damaging to the prison
er’s cause; the prayer being a virtual ad
mission of guilt.
President Harrison is said to dislike Gen.
Mahone personally, but to ba very desirous
of obtaining his support in 1892. There
fore, he put aside his disliko temporarily,
and chose him as the dispenser of Virginia
patronage. This is about the only reason
able explanation of his recognition of Ma
hone, and it reflects no credit upon him.
The Xew York Tribune is at it again. It
says: “One interesting changs must be
noted in the relations of Mr. Cleveland and
Gov. Hill. So long as the former was in
office, a pretense of friendliness was kept
up, but now thi* seems to be abandoned.”
Of course the Tribune knows that there has
been no change in the relations between
Mr. Cleveland and Gov. Hill, and that
those relations were always friendly. Why
should a newspaper let itself down in this
way l
Gen. Alger is represented as having said
that he never had declared himself a presi
dential candidate for 1892, and that the state
ment that he had was silly democratic talk.
The statement was certainly published in
republican newspapers, and there is an im
pression that it was published iu them first.
Furthermore, there are very good reasons
for believing that the republican newspa
pers represented Gen. Alger correctly. It
is generally known that the buzz of the
presidential bee is very sweet music to his
ear.
It' is said that Attorney General Miller
snubbed some of the Indianapolis negroes
the other day, and',they were not democrats,
either. He wouldn’t see them when they
asked to be allowed to call upon him. He
said that no doubt they wanted to talk
about the offices, and that “he and the
President” were already giving as much
attention to this class of business as they
conveniently oould. Why should not “he
and the President” talk with the colored
people about the offices? Both of them
would be at their law offices in Indianapolis
but for the colored vote.
Miss Hannah McDaniels, of Elizabeth X.
J., enjoys the distinction of having refused
a German baron because she preferred an
American gentleman. She made a narrow
escape, however. She loved a Brooklynite,
but while she was in Switz3rland she met
the Baron von Beust, who became devoted
to her. She consented to marry him, but
when she returned to Elizabeth she con
cluded to marry the man she loved, even if
he didn’t have a title. If she will refrain
from impressing upon her husband that she
oould have married a baron no doubt her
married life will be a haopy one.
The Rev. William Eaton Howard was in
the witness box the other day, in the case
against some of those connected with the
electric sugar refining company, and he
gave some racy testimony. He admitted
having purchased barrels of refined sugar,
which was run through crusher and seives
for spectators, who were deceived into be
lieving that it had been refined by the
electrical method, and he said that the job
was put up by Cotterill to fool the stock
holders. Cotterill was described by the ex
parsou as one who could “euchre” almost
anybody, and from the testimony he cer
tainly seems to have been familiar with
trickery.
An Interesting Contest Promised.
There is a great deal of interest in Louisi
ana in the election for congressman, soon to
occur in the Third congressional district of
that state. The interest is not confined to
Louisiana. The republican majority in
Congress is a very small one—only three-r
aad the republicans intend to make an
extraordinary effort to elect a republican
from the Third Louisiana district.
Mr. Edward J. Gay, who represented that
district, and who died a few days ago, was
a democrat and a very stanch one. He was
the first democrat elected to congress from
that district for many years. He bad the
satisfaction of defeating ex-Senator Kellogg,
who is the chief of the republican bosses of
Louisiana.
It is thought that Mr. Kellogg will be a
candidate again. The republicans are
urging him to accept the position, not be
cause he is particularly popular iu the dis
trict, but because he is rich, and they think
he will furnish the money necessary to get
the colored voters to vote the republican
ticket.
There is an immense colored vote in the
district, but the colored people have not
been taking much interest in politics within
the last few years. They have not found
that their condition was better under re
publican than democratic rule, and they
have become to a certain extent indifferent
about voting. The late Congressman
Gay got a very large percentage of
treir votes because, having several large
sugar plantations in different parts of the
district, he was known either personally or
by reputation to a great many of their
leaders. Being a man of large wealth, it is
probable that he adopted every legitimate
method to get them to the polls. The con
test is going to be an interesting one. If
the campaign of the democrats is properly
managed, however, it is probable that a
democrat will be elected.
Mineral Products in 1888.
The report of Mr. David T. Day, of the
United States Geological Survey, for 1888,,
will be issued soon, and from advance
sheets of that part of it relating to minerals
it is learned that the total value of min
erals produced in the country last year was
$591,659,931, Mr. Day’s report for 1887
showed the value of minerals produced
that year to be $642,284,235, which was a
considerable increase over 18S6. The in
crease of 1888 over the preceding year was,
therefore, about $50,000.
The statistics relating to those minerals
in which thl people of the south are par
ticularly interested aro as follows: In 1888
6,489,733 tons of pig iron wore made, valued
at the furnace at $107,000,000. This was an
increase over 1887 of 73,590 tons in quan
tity, but, owing to the fall in the price, a
decrease in valuo of $14,035,800. There was
a docrease over 1887 in quantity of 439,631
tons and in value of $14,811,000 in steel of
all kinds produced. The entire gold produc t
was valued at $33,175,000, an increase of
about $75,000 over the preceding
year. The silver product was in
creased 4,515,327 ounces in quautity
over 1887. In manganese ores the proiuct
was 25,500 tons, a falling off from 1887 of
about 9,000 tons. The total production of
all kinds of commercial coal was 142,037,-
735 tons, of the value at the mines of
$204,221,990 —an increase ovor 1887 in
quantity of 18,022,480 tons, and in value of
$30,635,994. The coke product was 8,527,560
tons, an increase over 18S7 of about 1,000,000
tons. There was a falling off from 1887 in
quantity of phosphate rock produced of
about 45,000 tons, but the value of the
product was slightly increased. The pro
duction of marls in South Carolina and
Florida is increasing. The total mart pro
duction was al>out 600,001 tons, valued at
about $300,000. The quantity of mineral
water sold was 9,638,568 gallons, valued at
#1,709.302, an increase over 1887 of more
than 1,000,000 gallons in quantity and of
about $500,000 in value.
Several colored 'people were asked the
other day what thoy thought about the ap
pointment of Mr. Parsons, the leader of the
white man’s republioao party in the south.
J. Miltou Turner said: “I am only a negro.
I have no right to an opinion.” W. A.
Pledger, of Georgia, said: “I will be frank
with you; there are uearly 1,000,000 colored
people in my state—Georgia—and in mv
opinion it would bo beneficial for the negro
to divide politically. If the President, as
is said, is giving the colored brother cold
pie, it is in order to produce a division, to
the end that there may be a seatiment pro
duced which will secure him his rights before
the courts and at the ballot-box in the south.
But so long as the organizations in the
states are controlled by republicans who
have gone through the fire, it will be hard
to give the same into the hands of an ele
ment that has heretofore fought us. Mr.
Parsons’ appointment means, as I see it, the
bringing into the party anew element that
has never taken part in republican politics,
though he himself is an old-line republican.”
It seems from this that some of the colored
people are finding out that the Republican
party has no other 'use for them than to
get the benefit of their votes.
Mr. Bayard has not had the mournful
pleasure of reading liis own obituary, but
he has just read an account of his alleged
marriage to Miss Clymer—a marriage
which has not yet taken place. It seems
that a report gained circulation in Wash
ington the other day that it would occur at
a certain time and place, and one of the
Washington newspapers was taken in by
the report. The Washington press, as a
general thing, is not noted for enterprise,
but this particular newspaper must now be
placed upon the list of those which are too
enterprising. It had to go to press at about
the hour set by rumor for the marriage,
but that did not deter iu from printing a
full description of the ceremony. Even the
dress of the bride was described in detail.
Mr. Bayard was in Wilmington when he
read this account. He was a good deal as
tonished, but he decided that the most
sensible thing to do was to have a good
laugh over it.
The Shah of Persia is having a good time
on his third visit to Europe. He should
come to America an l see how the descend -
ants of royal blood in this country treat
such persons as shahs and kings. Our
President prides himself on having royal
blood in bis veius; his sou Russell has ap
propriated a title, that of prince, or at least
it has been bestowed upon him after a
fashion, and there are many thousands of
blooming Americans who think a good
American ancestry is not good enough for
them, and who, therefore, have gotten
somebody to fix up for them a family tree,
in which the names of lords, princes and
kings occur indiscriminately. People like
these would show nim what flunkyism is,
and everybody else would treat him with
ail the respect he deserved.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1889.
The Prevention of Consumption.
It is now well known that consumption
is caused by germs, called tubercle bacillus,
getting into the system. This fact was
established by Robert Koch in 1882, and it
has been confirmed so frequently since
that no intelligent person disputes it. Until
late years, consumption, which causes more
deaths in this country than any other
disease, was little understood by physicians
and scientists, but the discovery of Robert
Koch marked the beginning of anew line
of research with regard to it, and it is
probable that in tim? it will be so well un
derstood that, if it is not made to yield to
treatment, it will at least become much
less general because of precautionary
measures taken against it.
Not long ago the board of health of New
York requested Drs. Prudden, Biggs and
Loomis, of that city, to prepare a paper
upon consumption. The paper hasj just
been made public, and it contains state
ments which, apparently, areof great value.
These gentlemen say that the disease is not
directly inherited, but is contagious, being
in nearly every instance caused by the re
ceiving into the body of the germs from
other persons afflicted with it, or by trans
mission through the milk or the flesh of
beasts. When the germs find their way
into the body, they multiply greatly, if the
conditions are favorable, and produce tu
bercles which have a tendency to become
soft, the discharges from which contain
germs that cause the spread of the disease.
The germs thrown off by expectoration do
not grow outside of the human body,
but they retain their vitality and virulence
for a long time even after having become
thoroughly dried. Experiments have shown
that the dust collected from hospitals, asy
lums and private houses where the disease
existed produced consumption in animals
by inoculation, and, on the other band, that
dust collected from places where the disease
did not ex.st did not have that effect. Re
garding the prevalent belief that the dis
ease is directly inherited, the report says:
“The frequent occurrence of several cases
of consumption in a family is to be ex
plained, not on the supposition that the dis
ease • itself has been inherited, but that it
has beeD produce ! after birth by transmis
sion directly from some affected individual.
Where the parents are affected the children
from the earliest moments of life are ex
posed to the disease under the most favor
able conditions for its transmission, for not
only is the dust of the house likely to con
tain the bacilli, but the relationship also
between parents and children, especially
between the mother and child, is of that
closo and intimate nature especially favor
able for the transmission by direct con
tact.”
The measures suggested to prevent the
spread of the disease are as follows: First,
the security of the public against tubercu
lar meat and milk is to be attained by a
system of rigid official inspection of cattle,
or by thoroughly cooking the meat and by
boiling the milk. It is estimated that among
stall-fed cows 20 per cent, or 30 per cent,
are sometimes found to be affected by con
sumption; second, by the dissemination
among the people of the knowledge that
every tubercular person may be a source of
uctual danger to his associates if the dis
charges from the lungs are not immediately
destroyed or rendered harmless; and third,
by the careful disinfection of rooms and
hospital wards that aro occupied or have
been occupied by phthisical patients.
A New Mausoleum Plan.
Mausoleums have been acceptable and
fashionable as receptacles for the dead since
300 or 400 years before the Christian Era,
when the body of King Mausolus was de
posited iu a mausoleum that was one of the
seven wonders of the world, but they ai e
so costly that only the wealthy can afford
to build them. A movement is on foot in
New York, however, which, if it succeeds,
will place them within reach of persons cf
moderate means. In a lecture in that city
the other night, Rev. Charles R. Treat, of
the Church of the Archangel, outlined the
proposed plan, and stated its advantages
both from the standpoint of economy and
sanitation.
It is proposed to erect a large structure,
not siruply for the remains of one per-on,
nor of those of a family, but containing
about 40,000 sepulchral spaces for as many
bodies. This structure will be erected by,
and under the control of, a company, which
will not only keep it in a condition satisfac
tory to those who pay for the privilege of
placing the remains of their relatives in it,
but will introduce new features in sepul
ture, and will place a guard over the bodies.
The advantages claimed for the new method
of entombment are that it is eminently
sanitary, the gases and fluids of the body
being vaporized and rendered innocuous,
and putrefaction being prevented; it pre
serves the form and features of the dead
for an indefinite length of time; it works
no harm to the living, either in the air, the
earth or the water; it puts grave robbery
out of the question; it makes premature
interment impossible, and it enables be
reaved friends to know that the
bodies of their dead receive the best care
that the skill of man can devise. The pro
posed system was approved by the late Dr.
A. Y. P. Garnett, who declared that the
principle involved was one of scientific ac
curacy reduced to a prac ical fact, and by
Dr. Charles Pardeo and Prof. Rudolph YVitt
haus, who were so thoroughly convinced of
the utility and the sanitary value of it that
they identified themselves with the com
pany organized for the construction of the
mausoleums. Its feasibility is said to have
been demonstrated also to the satisfaction of
other scientists and sanitarians.
The few democratic newspapers which
were disguntled on account of Col. Brice’s
election as chairman of the democratic na
tional committee make no bones of bring
ing all kinds of charges against him. One
of them said the other day that his busi
ness connection with ex-Senator Piatt,
a republican, would influence him in his
political duties. Col. Brice thought it
proper to notice this charge, and he said:
“In the first place, I have no parte: ship,
and never had with ’Tom’ Platt. He is an
old friend of mine and was one of my
cilents when I practiced law. The only
business relation I have had with him since
was that for a time I had an i iterest in the
United States Express Company, cf which
he is president, but six months or a year
ago I sold out the bulk of tny stock, and I
have had practically no interest in the com
pany since that lime.” That settled it. An
other falsehood will now be in order.
The Hon. Dan Lockwood feels encour
aged with respect to democratic prospects
for 1892. He says the party is iu splendid
shape, and that he has no doubt it will win.
If it should, in ail probability Col. Lock
wood would again s.ep into a comfortable
govei nment, position, and he would deserve
his good luck. i
CURRENT COMMENT.
An Encouraging Sign.
From the New York Evening Poet ( Ind.)
Both as a sign of the development of thrift,
and as a promoter of tne habit, the rise of the
savings bank system in the south is heartily to
be welcomed.
Will be a Big Industry.
From the Memphis Avalanche ( Dent.)
It is not unlikely that Florida will produce a
large quantity of sugar in the nert few years.
The soil requires considerable fertilization, but
the quality of the product is of the highest
grade.
Who Said Anything About Receding?
From the Washington Post (Rep.)
Mr. Cleveland's letter accepting an honorary
membership in the Maryland Tariff Reform
makes it very clear that he still holds
to his tdvanced position on the tariff question,
and that the Democratic party cannot recede
from that position without an abandonment of
its principles and traditions.
Must Be Tired of “ Protection.”
From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.)
Mr. Harrison should ask Mr. Clarkson how it
is that republican Norwich, where the demo
cratic postmaster was so promptly “fired,” has
gone democratic, especially as Norwich is in a
great manufacturing state. At the close of
Mr. Harrison's term Mr. Clargson may not be
half so great a man as he is now.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Modest Maid.
Young Loqhinvar came down from the west,
By affection deep incited,
To claim the maiden most mod-est,
To whom his troth was plighted.
“Oh, Mary mine l My matchless maid!
You know I love you madly.
And I have built a home,” he said,
“Which needs your presence sadly.”
“ Tis but a modest little nest
The rooms are two in number,
One room to cook in, one lor rest—
All built of undressed lumber."
“Why John?” cried sb -. Her burning face
She hid upon his breast.
“How can one build a modest place
With lumber all undressed?”
—Terra Haute Express.
Miss Gotham—l adore traveling. Were you
ever in Greece, Miss Loin?
-liiss Loin (of Cincinnati) —No, I never was;
but papa was in that Lard Trust, you know
Minneapolis Tribune.
Mrs. Kawler—Does your husband ever con
descend to hold the baby?
Mrs. Stayathome—Oh, yes! Every Wednes
day and Saturday evening, while I run the lawn
mower.— Lawrence A merican.
Angry Subscriber to Editor—l’m mad all
the way through, an' I want my paper stopped.
“Yes, sir; do you want to pay what you
owe?”
"No; I ain’t mad enough for that.”— Phoenix
(Ari.) Hera.d.
Mns. Blinkers—Well, did you go to the doc
tor to see about that bee sting on little Johnny?
Mr. Blinkers—Yes. He said we should put
mud on it. He charged me $2 for the prescrip
tion, but he gave me the mud for nothing.—
New York Weekly.
Now, just as soon as this country can convince
Canada that we have a right to cathc fish any
where on earth, and that she has no right to
catch seals except on her own coast, we shall be
at peace with all the world and prepared to
take a heap of comfort.— Detroit Free Press.
Bostonian—Many prominent New Yorkers
going to Europe this season?
New Yorker—Yes, the steamers are crowded
with prominent New Yorkers.
“That’s what I expected when the Canadians
threatened to extradite defaulters in the fut
ure.”—Texas Siftings.
Jones—Down on change they say that Row
land's going to seed. Nice fellow, lam deue
edly sorry.
brnitn—So am I Jones, but it’s not his fault
Jones—No? Why not?
Smith—He’s just' written a book on “Howto
Look Neat.”— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Why a West Point Resignation was Re
quested.—Lieutenant —Don’t you know enough
to salute your saperiop officer?
New Sentry—l did, sir.
Lieutenant—i failed to see you.
New Sentry—Just as you came along I said
“Ah, there!” but I guess you didn't hear me.—
Judge.
Tkachxh—‘Benjamin, how many times must I
tell you riot to snap your fingers ? Now put
down your hand and keep still. I sbail hear
what you have to say presently. [Five minutes
later.] Now. then, Benjamin, what is it that
you w anted to say ?
Benjamin—There was a tramp in the hall a
while ago, and L saw him go off with your gold
headed parasol.— New York Sun.
Freddy I fawncy you feel pwetty dweadful
ovah the deatii of youah auntie.
’Gustus—Ya-as. I will have my new mourn
ing to-morrow; have something entirely new in
the way of mourning, y’know.
Freddy—Ted a fellah, do.
'Gustus—Little band of crape around my
cigarettes.
Freddy—Gad! I wish some of my welatives
would expiah. Dashed if I don't try it.—
Drake's Magazine.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Smith, who teaches laundry work at
Forsyth college, England, also writes novels,
contributes origiual recipes to Truth, and is her
own dressmaker.
Rev. Peter Havermans of Troy, N, Y., last
week celebrated the 60th anniversary of his
ordination as a priest—a length of service that
is claimed to outrauk any other in the Roman
Catholic church is this country.
Jules Tavernier, the well-known artist who
at times illustrated the Graphic, Harper's
Weekly aril] other journals, died of alcoholism
last month in the Sandwich Islands, where he
had been living for some years past.
The sultan will hereafter keep cool while sit
ting in state, as a system of fans, worked by a
shaft from the rear, can be set in motion when
be desires. The power behind the throne will
be a muscular Turk, who turns the crank.
John Astor, who is the husband of the poor
woman who committed suicide in a New York
tenement house on Sunday on account of their
extreme poverty, is a eigarmaker by trade, but
nevertheless claimed to be a cousin of the
miUUonaire Astors.
Engineer Burke of the British man-of-war
Calliope, the only vessel which escaped from
Apia Harbor during the great storm there, has
been | romoted to be fleet engineer as a reward
for bis services iu enabling the vessel to steam
out of the harbor.
Ex-Speaker Randall’s health is improving.
He is still in Washington, but in a short time
w ill go to the country in Pennsylvania and re
main there for the summer. He is in good
spirits and says he is satisfied that after his rest
he will re: urn to Washington in the best condi
tion for lus legislative labors.
Mil Pheylan, a wealthy Michigan farmer, has
sued his wife for divorce because he has discov
ered that instead of being the natural possessor
of a beautiful head of blonde hair, his wife is
as “bald as bald can tie." He saw her one
time hang her golden t esses over the back of a
chair, and he at once left her.
Richard Henry Stoddart, the poet, is ex
tremely democratic ii his tastes and habits. A
friend recently found him between noon and 1
o'clock p. m. sitting in an elevator eating a dish
of Irish stew with the elevator man. Stoddart
took the attendant to his home one day and
introduced him as “the man with whom I
sometimes dine.”
Five Indians recently appeared as witnesses
in a land ca-o at Los Angeles, Cal., one of
whom, Juan Sabera, claimed to be 120 years
old, aud said he was 12 years of age when the
San Gabriel mission was founded. Another one
of the quintet was Juan Calmila. whose years
numbered 115. The other members of the group
were Francisco Apache. 105; Ramon Largo, 104,
a id Harahisjo Cabojon. who was a mere boy of
80.
The ambassadors to Germany from the Sul
tan of Mandara have had a lively time in Ber
lin. Bismarck gave t em a pleasant reception
at Wilhelmstrasse palace. He presented the
dusky diplomats with bracelets, and in return
they gave him a magnificent spear sent to him
by their sultan. After indulging iu wine and
beer the negroes executed a war dance in the
prince's parlor. They broke several pieces of
furniture, but were readily forgiven, ihey
were muoti impressed by the stature of Bis
marck. who towered above their tallest repre
sentative.
The Duke of Portland is the luckiest man in
England. When he was born the chances
against his ever holding his present title were
very great But ho became a peer very early
in life and his income is sufficient to Keep a
whole multitude of wolves from the door. His
racing stable consists of only sixteen horses,
but ha lias won the Derby two years in succes
sion. and this season lie will probably carry off
the leading 3 and 4-year-old events. He is as
fortunate iu love as in other ways aud is madly
devoted to six feet of handsome English girl
hood.
For a Disordered Liver try Beech
ax’s Pills.
He Knew the Signs.
From the Detroit Free Preix.
An &g*nt wbo bad made & study of human
nature stopped at a gate on Second avenue the
other day and asked of a small boy digging
plantains oat of the grass:
“Bub, is your mother homer*
“Yes, 6ir."
‘ Changed hired girl* within a week?"
“No, sir.”
“Hous 3 cleaning all done?*’
“Yes. sir."
“Got her new spring bonnet?"
“She has. * 1
“Children well?"
“Ye:*, sir."
“Father go away good-natured this morn
ing?"
“He did."
“Then I guess I’ll ring the bell and try to sell
her a picture."
She took two and asked him to call in a day
or two with a $7 family Bible.
She Wanted a Man.
From the Boston Courier.
“I promise you one thing," said the beautiful
maiden as she hung to his coat lapel, “I promise
you this, that when I am your wife I shall study
your comfort."
“You will, my darling?"
“Ah! won’t 1!"
“And in what way, my sweetheart?"
“Well, I'll never bake bread myself, but al
wav* i?t it from the bake house."
“Glorious!"
“but in return for that—"
“Yes?"
“And for all my wifely love—"
“Yes?"
“And that I shall seek to promote your com
fort in everything—”
“Yes?"
“You will give up your clubs and your asso
ciates who keep you out late at night and de
vote all your attention to me, cherish me, love
me as you love me now, think me as sweet and
beautiful as you think me now—you will do all
that?"
“By Jove, I will!"
“Then. George, I reject you."
“What!"
“Yes, I reject you. I want to marry a man,
not an angel. 1 *
Nothing: More to he Said.
From the New York Tribune.
The colonels and the majors, as they sit in the
lobbies of the hotels waiting for what is going
to “turn up," amuse themselves by telling
stories which sometimes tost one’s credulity.
A man from the west, who would like to be
appointed Czar of Russia, but will take any
thing he can get. was relating the habits of a
wonderful animal known in Mexico as the track
rat, which receives its name from the fact that
though it steals everything it finds, it always
deposits something in the place of what it
takes.
“It is a most wonderful little animal," said
the major in conclusion, “a very interesting
little beast, and you should see its hole. Filled
t<> the brim with things, every sort and descrip
tion, enough to make a curio collector wild with
envy."
“Now," said a listening colonel, very delib
erately, “if you have told tne truth about the
habits of that rat, you have told a lie about
his hole," auil he cocked his bead on one side to
note the effect of his words.
The Mexican major jumped from his seat,
aud with rage iu his voice said: “Sir, sir,"
his hand from force of habit seeking a back
pocket.
“Yes. sir!" said the colonel, “if you have told
the truth about that rat, you have told a
lie about his hole. How iu the devil could his
hole be filled with curios if he only deposits one
article at a time and always removes something
iu the place of the one he leaves? According to
your own statement, major, there could be only
one article in the hole."
The major subsided.
A Clever English Rascal.
From the New York Sun.
The cleverness of an English rascal has ex
cited the envy of all the rascals in Paris, who,
with typical Parisian egotism, have long
claimed to be the cleverest rascals in the world.
The English rascal in question was a profes
sional London pickpocxet. Shortly before the
French exposition opened, he bought a small
hotel in Paris on the installment plan. The
purchase price of the hotel was 60,000 fraucs,
and the first and only installment which the
Englishman paid was 2,000 francs. The
Englishman bought a few pieces of cheap
English furniture for his new house, equipped
an Engii h bar, aud then advertised for and
wide for English boarders during the exposi
tion. His prices were so low that he soon tilled
his house. Every one of his lowers was warned
by a placard over his bed that the land
lord w./Uid not be responsible for the loss of
any valuables which had not been deposited in
the hotel safe. Of course the safe deposits in
creased with the popularity of the hotel, and
both reached high-water mark two days before
the second installmment of 2.000 francs on the
purchase price of the hotel fell due. There was
then 35,000 francs’ worth of British jewelry and
bank notes in the safe. The pickpocket land
lord stole every sou of it. He concealed his
plunder in his quarters in another part of Paris,
dyed his hair, suaved his beard, put on a French
suit of clothes, and began picking pockets at
the exposition. He was caught by the police
with his hand in the pocket of an English mem
ber of parliament, and was locked up. A police
investigation led to a revelation of his history
and the recovery of the jewelry and money
which had been given to him for safe keeping.
Katie’s Answer.
Och! me Katie's a rogue, it iz tbrue.
But her eyes, like the skies, are so blue.
An’ her dimples so swate,
An’ her ankles so n tte—
Shure, she dazed an' she bothered me, too.
Till one morrnn’ we wiut fur a ride.
Whin demure as a bri ie, by me side,
Like a darlint, she sat,
Wui tne wickedest hat
’Neath a purty girl's chin iyer tied.
An’ me heart, arrah, thin, how it batel
Fur me Kate looked so temptiu’ an' swate,
Wid cheeks like the roses
An' all the red posies
Ye ’ud see in her gardin' so nate.
But I sat just as mute as the dead.
Till she said, wid a toss uv her head,
‘‘lf I’d known that to-day
Ye’u nave nothin’ to say.
I'd have gone wid me cousin instade.”
Thin I flit mesilf grow very bowld,
Fur I knew she'd not scold. If I towld
Uv the love at me heart.
That 'ud niver depart
Though Hived to be wrinkled an' owld.
An’ I said. “If I dared to do so,
I’d lit go uv this baste, an’ I’d throw
Both me arms rouu’ yer waist,
An’ be stalin’ a taste
Uv thim lips that are cuaxin’ me so.”
Thin she blushed a more illigant red.
As she said, widout raisin’ her head.
An' her eyes lookin’ down
'Neath their lashes so brown,
“ ’Ud yer like me to dhrive, Misther Ted?”
A DiSerent Point of View.
From the Washington Post.
One morning Opie P. Head, of the Arkansaw
Traveler , came into the Chicago Press Club
rooms, where a number of the members were
seated chatting. Opia did not take part in the
conversation, but sat by one of the open win
dows smoking his huge pipe and evidently
thiuking profoundly.
“Something on your mind, Opie?” asked one
of the boys.
“Yes. My butcher is on my mind, and he’s
the biggest outcuer you ever saw. if X didn't
have a ponderous mind 1 never could hold that
butcher on it. Look at me,” said he, standing
up at full hight. showing a form more than six
feet tail, and massive in its proportions. “Look
at me, I’m a pretty big man myself, but, sir, as
I came by that butcher shop this morning the
butcher was standing out in front, and I walked
right between his legs. Toe top of my head
wasn’t as high an his instep. I should have had
to reach up to unlatch his shoe."
"How much do you owe your butcher, Opie?”
asked James W. iicott, the president of the
club and business manager of the Herald.
"A hundred and twenty dollars, sir,” said Mr.
Read.
That afternoon Mr. Scott sent a check for
$l5O to Opie, saying it was au advance on a
story he wished him to write for the Herald.
The next morning, when Opie strode into the
club, somebody asked:
• ‘Has your butcher grown any since yester
day?”
"Grown! No, sir. This morning I walked
into his place with $l5O in gold clinking and
jingling in my pocket.
“ ‘Where’s that butcher?’ I asked.
“ 'Here I am,’ said a faint, timid, little voice
that seemed to come up from the cellar.
“ ‘Where?’ said I.
‘“Here; right here by your left foot. Don't
move or you’ll step on me.’
“I got down on my hands and knees and ex
amined a speck on the floor. It was the
butcher.”
tootnra the Invalid.
A few drops of JoOZODONT mixed with
water, and placed in the mouth of the
invalid, will refresh him. It aromatizes
what else would be dry and uncomfortable,
and gives infinite pleasure, and incites appe
tite. ~ No nurse should neglect SQZODONT.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Order of Railway Conductors has de
cided to build a national home somewhere in
lowa, the prize going to the town offering the
best inducements. Davenport, Burlington,
bioux City, Clinton, Council Bluffs and Cres
ton are candidtates. The edifice is to cost $250,-
Capt. “Jake" Vanderbilt, only surviving
brother of Commodore Vanderbilt, visits New
York every day by a morning boat from St.
George (Staten Island) and returns in time for a
spin behind his trotter, “Boston Boy." Though
? ve s ye&rs old Capt. Vanderbilt is said to
look much younger and to be as hale as thougn
only half that age.
This story comes from Boston: A lady op
posed to corporal punishment visited a school,
not in a fashionable part of the city, just as a
boy was being flogged. Before going away she
? l ° cu *P r ß, and asked him to come
and see her on a certain evening, promising to
make it pieasant for him. At the appointed
hour a boy. dressed in his best, came, and for
fhhour aud more the lady and her daugther
Jaid themselves out to amuse him. Then the
lady began to speak of the importance of good
behavior and obedience to rules, when the boy
interrupted her: “Oh, I ain’t that feller! He
gi me 10 cents to come iostider him."
The steamship Nanticoke left Baltimore on
March 13 for Caratasco with a load of emi
grants. After discharging there she loaded
three weeks ago, at Ruatan. a cargo of bananas
and cocoanuts and a few plantains. They left
Kuatau with fifty-seven tons of English coal,
supposed to be sufficient for ten or twelve days 1
f u * " -^ me rican coal it required but five
to five and a half tons a dav, whereas with this
English coal they consumed from nine to nine
and a haif tons. The captain, discovering that
his coal would not hold out to reach Mobile,
started for the Dry Tortugas. They were then
Ibs miles west of ihat point when the coal gave
out. Bulkheads, life preservers, mattresses, old
rope, oils, varnishes, five bales of oakum, the
roof of the cabin and hatches were each in turn
used in making steam. Finally, by using 3,000
cocoanuts, they were enabled to reach Dry
Tortugas.
A correspondent writing to a Paris cotem
porary from Montrichard, in the department of
Loir-et-Cher, says: “A learned monkey named
Bertram was deeply attached to its owner, who,
among other tricks, had taught It to fire a
pistol while galloping on the back of a dog.
The master of the animal, it seems, lately met
with certain domestic troubles, and. in a de
jected frame of mind a few* days ago, he sent a
bullet through his head, death being instan
tane^ us - The monkey was present at the
death of his master, and probably took in
every particular. In any case, when a doctor
was called in to see if life was extiuct in the
man, he was astonished to find himself in
presence of a double suicide, the monkey's
bony being stretched beside that of his master,
with the revolver clasped between its fingers.
It is seated that the animal picked up the pistol
after his master had blown out his brains, and
imitated what he had just seen done, sending a
bullet through his head precisely as the man
had done.
The Indianapolis News has now taken up the
cudgels against tight check reins, saying in a
recent issue: “Some people appear to try to
make their horses look as much like camels as
possible, for while a horse's neck is naturally
arched and the nose pointed downward, they
check him up to such an extent that his nose
points straight out and his eyes are so placed
tuat he cannot see the ground on which he is
traveling. This is surely not only inhuman, but
ridiculous. The many horse owners do not even
take the trouble to uncheck their horses while
they are standing, for you may see the
poor animals hitched outside churches
or business houses with the check
rein as tight as possible, while
they are trying to find relief by swaying their
heads Irom side to side. If any one doubts the
suffering a horse is subjected to let him try it
on hirnself—allow' someone to tie his head
back so that he appears to be star-gazing, and
remain in that position say for fifteen minutes;
that will be enough to convince any one. Tne
use of check-lines in England (in a milder
form than many used here now) was thought so
inhuman that some years ago the Royal Society
for tne Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pro
cured the enactment of a law prohibiting them,
aud they are now entirely out of use. Such a
law w'ould be unnecessary if there were not so
many people who are not intentionally but
so thoughtlessly cruel to dumb animals."
The April number of the Volapuk paper, pub
ashed at Constant by Schleyer, the inventor
the proposed universal iaaguage, records the
end of the first ten years of the existence of the
language, the publication of the hundredth
number of the paper, aud the issuance of the
thousandth diploma to teachers of the lan
guage. Schleyer says, editorially: “I look
back on these first ten years of Volapuk with
iniogled feelings. First, with great joy over the
remarkable spread of Volapuk on the whole
earth, and because of the beautiful literature of
our youug universal language of only ten years 1
growth; but, s cond, alsj with a touch of sad
ness, because these very years have been years
of hard work, years of deprivation, of sick
ness, of tribulations, of poverty, of strifes,
of scorn—few. indeed, will believe the hard-
ships I have endured." The language
whose invention caused Schleyer to be de
rided as a _ crank, has of late grown
remarkably in favor even among the
English speaking peoples, who have been re
pelled by certain peculiarities of Yolapuk, espe
cially certain difficulties in pronunciation, and
who have been the last of the leading civilized
nations to take up its study and use with earn
estness. English Volapuk dictionaries and hand
books have recently been published, Volapnk
newspapers are printed in this country, and
books of translations into Volapuk aupearfrom
time to time. The latest publication of this
character is a translation of the Proverbs of
Solomon into the universal language, aud the
words of the Man of Wisdom now address them
selves to the Volapukist, whether he be a China
man or an American. The advantages of a sim
ple, common language, by means of which the
whole world may communicate, without, how
ever, the surrender of any of the existing lan
guages, are so obvious that the general use for
international communication of Volapuk, or a
modified Volapuk, or a suostitute of some sort
for Schleyer’s language, is among the strong
probabilities of the future.
The Italian emigrants who come into the
New York port give very little trouble to the
customs officers. Once in a while there is a row
kicked up on the contract labor question when
a dozen or score of bootblacks are brought in
and it appears that they have been brought
over here in opposition to the law. But there
probably never has b en seen at Castle Garden
such a case as that which recently troubled the
customs officers at Boston. One morning not
long ago a steamship landed a number of
Neapolitan artists consigned to one Sig. Petro
Grossi. They were e. parcel or interesting girls,
who gave the names of Nellie Roccameo, Agnes
Fay, Jane Flanuagau aud Eliza Wright. Tuere
were also two men, Gaetano Frarierser
Guglielrni and Saverio Zanetto. Neliie Roc
eameo said that she was born in Brighton, Eng
land, and that before embarking on tbe Scythia,
the steamer that brought her over, she turned’
tue crank of a baud organ and took in pennies on
Lon. lon streets. Agnes Eay claimed that she
was a native of London, and that she bad been
a waller in a restaurant. Whtle there she
mat Grossi, who volunteered to pay her passage
upou the understanding that when she arrived
in this country she would pay him back. Jane
Hannagan told a bolder story. She said her
mother gave her £5, and that she had paid her
own passage. Eliza Wright was on tbe pas
senger list under the name of Antonio Veutro.
It is generally a man who wears that name, aud
she said Lho reasou why she took that title was
that a man for whom she had worked as an
organ grinder was gping to sail on tne ship, but
missed his connections. So she came in his
stead. Tne fu my part of it was that in this
party of consigned emigrants four hand organs
were found. It was difficult to tell exactly who
owned them, and it was suspected that Grossi
.imself had paid for them oa the other side,
and was endeavoring to get them in hero free
of duty by making it appear that they be
longed to the party of artists. The charge was
made against Grossi that he had violated
the Foreign contract labor law, as the
several women and men had agree i that on
their arrival here t :ey would sign a contract to
work for him at grinding tne organs, and frdm
their wages let hint deduct the cost of their
passage. Deputy Collector Fiske, who had
cha. ge of tne case, had an idea that Grossi had
avoided the restrictions of the law by not
formally making the contract abroad, but he
discovered a decision of Solicitor General Hep
burn by which Gro-si might be held liable. Mr.
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necessary, in order to constitute a violation of
the alien contract law, that the contract should
be made in the foreign count y rrom which the
laborer came. He said that the contract, if
made after the laborers had come here, would
be unlawful. The point consists in the makiug
of the agreement previous to the actual im
portation or migration. Proceedings were
started against Grossi. In the mean time the
four hand organs, valued at S4OO, have been
forfeited to the government.
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