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Mr. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, says
that the southern republicans are satisfied
with the administration. There must be an
office in sight for Clayton.
Mr. Brady, t f Virginia,was “harmonized”
'with an office, bat it is not thought that
enough offices will fall to Virgi ia to “har
monize” all of the other anti-Mahone re
publicans.
Mr. Russell Harrison’s Helena. Mont.,
newspaper has ope te 1 lire uno t Congress
man “Sunset” Cox. It is quite natural that
republicans should fear Mr. Cox’s influence
in Montana.
"The State Papers of Grover Cleveland,"
edited by Col. D. 8. Lamont, will soon be
published. They will afford instructive
reading fir y <ung men, aud old men, too,
for that matter.
If Tanner gets out of the pension office,
he will have to be kicked out, and if he is
lacked out, the gr ind army is going to
raise a row. Tanner’s chances for remain
ing are no: bad.
Postmaster General Wanamaker will
aow discover that the best interests of civi.
fierviee refo m demand that he sh ill put
republicans in the Virginia post-offices as
quickly as possible.
It is a very dull day in anarchist circles
In Ne'v Yo k when s ‘me anarchist does not
irise up and denounce Herr Most as a traitor
fio the cause. The probability is that Most
does not merit the denunciation. It would
be to his credit if he did.
Chairmau Huston, of the republican state
committee of Indiana, says that he is get
ting the machinery in that state ready for
the electiou of 1893. It is to be i ferred
from t is that Mr. Huston is arrangiug for
Mr. Dudley to repeat the block of five aci.
The woman who nursed the late Gen.
Hancock when he was a baby died a few
days ago in Sharon. Pa. Her name was
Mary R iberts, and at the time of her death
■he was 90 years old. Sue had never been
inside a p.tstoffice, and had never been on a
railroad train.
It turns out that Aeronaut Hogan did
not make bis air voyage in Mr. Campbell’s
air ship, but in an iuve turn of his own.
He used the balloon part only of Campbell’s
invention. The other part is in a storage
warehouse i.i New York. Nob >dy seems
to know where Aeronaut Hogan is.
Senator Johnson is after the would-be
train wreckers. He is going to introduce
into the legislature a bill to make toe pen
alty of an attempt to wreck a train a life
sentence in the penitentiary. The penalty
is now ten years, but when someone is
killed in a wreck it is the same as that for
murder. No punishment that will be pre
scribed for attempts to wreck trains will
be too severe.
It is charged that one of the jurors in the
McQuade boodle case bribed by
McQuade men, and District Attorney Fel
lows says that it was re.uarkab.e how some
of the witnesses, upon w hose testimony he
deponded to convict the boodior, forgot
things when they were put on the stand.
Perhaps they, too, were bribed. A boodle
alderman ought to have enough money to
pay for an acquittal.
Tanner to be Inveetigated.
The administration has been forced to
take uotiCAi of the reckless and wasteful way
In which the demagogue at trie head of the
pensio i bureau is distributi .g the public
money. Our dispatches t.-ii-i morning state
that acommitt e uas been app intrd to ex
amine the pension cases w r.ich have been
rer-ited by him, for the purpose of fi uliug
out whether or not the pension laws have
been violated.
It is si merely to be hoped that the com
mittee will not make a whitewashing re
port. There is to > m ch at sake for a
report of that kind. The country is thor
oughly arcu ed over Cos nrni-sioner Tanner’s
methods of administering the great trust
confided to bis care, and will be satisfied
with nothing less than the truth.
It was quite generally believe 1, when he
was appointed commissioner of pensions,
that he was unfit for the position. He
hasn’t sufficient ability to discharge its
duties properly. It is doubtful if he has
any business capacity whatever. There is
nothing that gives him s > much satisfaoti in
as the sound of his own voice, and before
his appointment he was regarded as a
blatherskite.
Ever since he has been at the hoad of the
pension bureau he has been a source of an
noyance and trouble to the administration.
Boast ul, vain and emp y-heaied he has
done more foolish talking than anybody
else connected with the administration. He
has acted as if lie thought that the govern
ment could not exist w.thout him, and he
has seemed to thin* that he was c oseu to
solve the i-urplus problem for his party.
It must be admitted that he ha, been
reiki' g enormous st lies toward solving
that problorn. It was slated iu our ilis
patc es a day or twoago that the itnpressio i
in Washington was that if he were permit
ted to continue to carry out his policy of
rerating pensions he would not o dy get rid
of the surplus before the end of his term,
but, would impose obligations up in
the government equal to the national debt.
From the reports which have been pub
lished it appears that Tanner’s employes,
with his consent, have been filling their
pockets at a lively rate. T.iey made a prec
edent for reratiug by increasing Senator
pe is.on, dating the increase
from the egimdng of the origi lal pension.
By this moans they put s4,oooin a lu'up ioto
the senator’s pocket, a id then they set about
filling their own p ickets. They rerated tiiei r
pension* and succeeded iu grabbing very
handsome sums.
Some of the republican journals have at
tempted to defeud the commissioner. Tney
have had uphill work. It will be interest
ing to see what they say of the Preside it’s
action ordering an investigation of the
pension officer. Perhaps they will condemn
the President and nsser„ that he has permit
ted himself to bes aroil by the democratic
and mugwump j urnils. If they do they
will not have the support of the public.
Even the better class of republicans don’t
want to see the public rnonoy recklessly
squandered. They have sense enough to
snow that their parly will be hilil rest) msi
ble for eve y dol.ar that is not wisely spout.
The Preside t would have dismisiel fan
ner long ago, probabl v, if ho had n t been
afraid of Tanner’s in flue rice with the grand
army. It is not imprnbaolethat the investi
gation he has ordered is intended to furnish
him with reas ns for getting rid of his dem
agogical pension commissi mer. If it Is,
the chances are that there will be anew
pension coiimi,isi mer in a short time.
Mahone’a Ambition.
Gen. Mahone seems to bo running the Re
publican party of Virginia to suit nimself.
He is the boss of the party, and, although
he is not very popular, ho is able to main
tain his position by his tact, shre nines* and
skill as a political leader. It has been
stated several time* that ho was dead, p>
iitieally, but each time the statement has
proven to be incorrect, He manages to
come to the front again after each defeat,
and the chances are that he will continue
to do so as lo ig as he is in poli.ics. He is
one "f those sort of men who do not kuow
when they are whipped.
Ho wants to be governor, and it looks
now as if he would get the nomination of
his party. He has overcome a great deal
of the opposition to himself, and lias suc
ceeded in being recognized as the frie id of
the administration, and in getti ig the
recognition if tae n itio al republican com
mittee. He has silenced Bra lv with au
office, and he is distributing the federal
patronage so as to make himself frie ids.
He may succeed in getting tho guberna
torial nomination of his party, bu there
miiy be a good many republicans who will
resent the way he gets it. Tne fact that
the administration ami the national repub
lican committee in erfered in his behalf
may help him in the convention, but it will
be rather remarkable if it does not hurt
him at the polls. The people don’t like na
tional interference in state elections, and
may undertako to prove to Mahona that
they don’t.
But even if Mahone is nominated for gov
ernor and is supported by both f.ictio is of
his party he will stand a very p ior chance
of being elected. The Democratic par; v
has a grip on Virgini t that Maiio ,e cannot
break, and it will name the next go.ernor.
Mr. Asa C. Hill, of Texas, has found that
he made a mistake in parading his kinship
to the late Benjamin H. Hill. He is a re
publican, and during the war he was a
union man. In appl. ing for the consulship
at Acapulco, he stated these things, and did
not forget to let it be known that Ben HUi
was his cousin. The Acapulco consulship
was given to someone eLe. Mr. Hill
then applied for the c mauls lip at Paso del
Norte, but that, ton, was gve 1 1 > someone
else. He ventured to inquire why his claims
to office were tguo ed, and soma one is sai l
to have told him confidentially that it was
because he was related to Ben Hill. Mr.
Blaine has never forgotten how Hill raked
him over he coals.
Is Edwin Gould, second son of Jay Gould,
marriei? Has iled on the City of Paris
for Europe the other day, aud under his
name on the passenger list was that of
“Mrs. Gould.” Tho Gould family is not in
New York just now, but a newspaper man
managed to see George Gould, who sai 1
that so far os he kuow his brother was not
married. This did not quiet suspicion, and
a great many pe rnio believe that “Eddie”
is really married. They say that Goo ge
was married very suddenly and quietly
himself, and that it seems to run iu tho
Uould family to have sudden and quiet
marriages.
Tnere was a big scare at Castle Garden
the other daAn immigrant was taken
wit i an eruptive disease, and tne rumor
was at once spread that she bad small pox.
A physician was sent for in a hurry, an 1
after he had made au examination he said
that it was a severe case of measles.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1889.
The Ba!t Trust.
Trusts are multiplying rapidly. Every
few days anew one is formed. The advan
tages which traits possess for robbing the
peop e are getting t> be well underslo <d.
Not long ag > sugar was selling at a very j
reasonable price. A sugar trust a>
formed and tue price of sugar almost im
mediately was advanced about two cents a
pound. The sugar refiners siy that the in
creased price of sugar is due to a short
sugar crop. It is not ge lerally believed
that such is the case. It is believed, how
ever, that the sugar trust is buying im
tne i-e quantities of raw sugar which it is
storing.
A day or two ago a great salt trust was
form -d at Albany, N. Y. It includes about
all the salt producers in this country and
Canada. The bulk of the money invested
in it belongs to English capital sts. The
trust is capitalized at $15,000,000. Salt
works are purchased at much more than
their value aud paid for in trust stock. In
cases in which works are not purchased the
pr duct of such works is contracted for at
so much per barrel. The trust, which is
known as the North American Salt Com
pany, pr poses to pay dividends of 30 per
cent, cn its stock.
Of course the price of salt will be in
ure sod. Out of tile pockets of the people
will coine the mousy that will enable the
trust to pay the enormous dividend which
it promises. The people will suffer, but the
rich men who own the salt trust will rap
idly grow richer.
The shares of the sugar trust are now
selling above par, and it is expected t iat
the shares in the salt trust will also com
mand a premium. But it would not be at
all surprising if many of those
who purchase either sugar or sail
trust certificates will find themselves
heavy losers before long. It is
pretty certain that a war is going to be
waged on trusts in congress, state legisla
lures and in the courts. The probability is
that the trusts will get the worst of it.
W iiat then will be t e value of the certifi
cates? They will be almost worlhle s. Those
who get into the irusts on the grou id fl ior,
however, will doubtless make a great deal
of money be;ore the truss fall into decay.
Those who are on the ground floor
own the sugar m 11s, salt works, etc.,
and if the Irusts go to pieces they will still
have their original property, Bueh will
not be the ca e of outsiders who buy the
stock.
The writers who are making efforts to
show that trusts are good things for the
people are either ignorant or intentionally
misstate the truth. The cheapness of kero
sene is frequently cite l to show what a
great benefit the Standard Oil trust is to
the people. Who can say that kerosene
would not be cheaper if there were no coal
oil trust?
The cotton planters are making progress
in their fight against the cotton bagging
trust. There is uot much doubt that
progress will be made in the war that has
been inaugurated, or that will be inaugu
rated, against other kinds of tiusts. The
people are patient, but there is a limit to
their patience.
The Nicaragua Canal.
The Nicaragua Caual Company isn’t
making a great daal of noise, but the re
ports from Greytown indicate that a good
deal of work is being done on ttie canal
It is stated that tho number of men now
employed is 700, and that it will be greatly
incr. used s soon as a large force can be
used advantageously. Many of the
laborers are Jamaica is, who were em
ployed on the Panama cinal, but they do
not give as much s itisfaction as the N’cara
guans. Comparatively few Nicaraguans
can bo obtained, however, because the
country is so sparsely p ipulated.
Tho principal work that is being done
now is preliminary to the employment of
steam dredges. The dredges cannot be
used until a protecting breakwater has
been constructed. Tue health of the
engineers and laborers is good. It is re
ported that there a e only fif.een persons i
the h spital. This condition of affairs
would seem to indicate that Nicaragua is a
muc.i healthier locality than the isthmus oi
Pan una.
The promoters of the Nicaragua canal
seem to be confident of success. It woul
not be at all remarkaole if the caual were
ready for bu iness before anything more is
done on the Pan unal canal.
Mrs. J. Ritner Kemp, of Youngstown,O.,
was very rnucj surprised the other day, and
she had cause to be. She received an invi
tation to attend the marriage of her hus
b nd to a young lady living in New York
She nad not been living with her husban
for some time, but he had not obtained a
divorce, so far as she knew. Sne did noth
ing to prevent the marriage, however, and
tho ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Mr. Evarts, to whom the contracting pa -
ties dec.ared that, while they had been
married before, they were then widower
and widow, respectively. Mr. J. Ritner
Kemp will be sent to tne penitentiary for
bigamy, if he gets what he deserves.
The Washington Herald insists that Mr.
B 1 line has concluded to resign in October
It says that he has fixed up m that month s
as to give tne President time to select his
successor. It says further that the most
perfect harmony exists between Mr. Blaine
and the President, aud tnat the only reason
why Mr. Blaine will resign is ill health
Mr. Blai e may be going to resign, and if
he does be may siy ill health was the rea
son, but it will be difficult to convince a
great many people that the real reason was
not the frequency with which tae President
snubbed him.
Some time ago Mr. W. B. Tate, of
Grainger county, Tennessee, announced
tuat he would give one-fifth of his fortune
to maimed ex-coufede.ate soldiers in Eas.
Tonne-sot 1 , Mr. Tate is a bacnelor, and he
had succeeded in accumulating about
SIOO,OOO. Tne distributi >n took place a
few days ago, and forty one-legged ana
one-ai med soldiers received SSOO each. No
doubt Mr. Tate is satisfied, and the soldiers
are grateful.
Avery quiet game of base ball was
played in Jersey City, the other day. In
stead of vel is and cheers, there were whis
pers, aud pantomime took the place of noisy
instructions to base runners. The game
was being played on Sunday. The next
mor ing the players wore marched to the
police court, aud were fined $1 each.
Tue counsel for the defendants in the case
brought by Miss Mary Mowatt, of New
York, to recaver property valued at $300,-
000, say that Mis- Mo * ait ma lea division
of the property without being thre iteued,
and that she did so voluntarily. They thiuk
| she must have lost her miud. The case
| will be a very interesting one.
CUBR2NT COMMENT.
Intended for the Legislature.
Frr*n the Philadelphia Inquire-, (Rep.)
Tb<* capitol of Georgia wa-n’t bu It for pur
pc*** of danci g, but tne state will have, just
reason to be pr Hid if nothin* worse than danc
ing ewer goes on tnere. It will be exceptionally
and conspicuously fortunate.
Getting Tired of It.
From the Sathville American (Dem.)
We wish the learne I doctors would quit find
ing the seeds of death in all the comforts and
pleasures of ife. Ju*t so soon aa mankind has
f und something that is good to eat, p easant to
drink or comfort&ole t > wear, some able doctor
immediately discovers that it is fatal to health.
How Protection Protects.
From the New York World (Dem.)
Fix hundred girls employed in the highly pro
tected silk industry of i'aterson, N. J.. have
struck on account of a reduction in their wage*,
already almost down to the starvation point. To
these and many thou >an4s of otners the tariff
appears to afford protection only to manufac
turers in making paupers of the honest people
of this country wno are obliged to work for
wages.
Doesn't Deserve sympathy.
From the Philadelphia Time*(lnd.)
There is no possible excuse for any man of
ordinary intelligence r**ing fle*2ced by confi
dence men, and the true explanation in nine
cases out of ten is in ttie faci that th -y nre 100
m an to pay lor a daily newspaper. The same
ignorant reed that prevents a rew peopl * from
spending one cent a day for a live daily news
paper maxes them ready victims of c mfl ionce
RfiarKß wi.o always appeal to the gree 1 of those
t ley select for tiieir practices, and it i.; always
combined ignorance and meanness that make
them easy prey for vi I.tins.
BttlOHT Bl id.
A True Lover's Qi aickel. -He—Come now,
let’s kiss and make up.
She—No, sir; I w n't.
He W 11, let s kiss anyhow.
(They make up.)— Somerville Journal.
Seedy- 100 kino individual approaching busy
merchant Wnl you be kind enough, sir, to give
a Door fellow a lift?
M‘*rc lant —Certainly; James, show the gentle
man to tne elevator. —Philadelphia Press.
Not the Same Tiiino.— C— Did I understand
you to -ay that Kiiroin was going to join the
church?
I) No, I didn’t say that precisely. What I
and and say was that from now on he would be re
garded as an ex pounder. Tea:us Siftings.
“Yes, Mr. Baker loves me more than he used
to, Mrs. Parker.”
“Indeed. What leads you to think so, Mrs.
Baker?”
"Why, the dear fellow ha* discharged the
handsomest servant-girl in the house. .Vem
York ib un.
He Did the Best He Could.—Why do you
poison yourself *ithtbat vile stuff? asked the
pnunoitiomsi of the tra . p.
“T a use, its the best Ikm afford. You don't
expect a poor workin’ man to b.* a-blowiu’ his
sed again cnampagne cocktails, do y q*"—Terre
Uau.e Express.
The recording secretary of (he missionary soci
etygen* rally manages to say wbat he has to say
so that his language will not l>e miscoustru *d;
but when, at a meeting of the Woman s For
eign Missionary Society at East Orange. N. J.,
hist wee*, h said that “taousands of ga.lons of
rum go into Africa for every missionary wno is
sent tnere,’’ o.ie of the sisters of that society
whispered to another: “Katlur a lirge all w
-ance of liquor for those missionaries. ’ ’ — Chris
tian Advocate.
Delays Are Dangerous.— Mrs. Du Ille—John,
my dressmaker arrived to-day. and I must have
the mat rials to-morrow.
Mr. Du ille.--Eh? What? You said you had
written to her not to coine until next iiontb.
Mrs. Du llle—Yes, I did, but she never got the
letter.
Mr. Du Ille—(clasping his hand to his pocket
book)—Woman! This is a plot—a vile plot! If
you had really wanted her to stay away you
would have nanded t at letter to the postman
yourself. You won dn t have given it to me to
mail.— Aieto York Weekly.
There is a smart little boy of the Listener's
acquiinta ce wb#so memory is a good deal like
uis trousers pocket -a receptacle for ail sorts of
od.is aud euas, which are retained wita no -ittle
pertinacity, but in more or less picturesque dis
order. Things pD up now and then iu an odd
way. The other uig&t this little boy undertook
to say his prayers before guing to bed. lie
began all right—
‘ Now 1 lav me down to sleep,
1 pray t ie Cord my soul to keep;
It I should —”
Here he got stuck” for a moment, and seemed
to be groping around for rhe remainder of the
in *. And then, all at once, he steamed
ahead:
“If l should chance to fall below
Demostue. es or Cicero,
I pray the Lord my soul to take!”
—Boston Transcript .
t ER-Li L.
Secretary Noble’s house in Washington, the
old Tiffany mansion, is one of tho most luxuri
ously furnished houses in the city. It contains,
among other interesting things, a valuable col
lection of and sit armor.
Sam Waii Kks is said to be the richest China
man in the e .st. Ho lives ill Boston and can
draw up a check for sr>o,ooj any day, which at
least one b ink will honor. He made his money
as a dealer in imported Chinese staples.
The formal announcement is ra id * of the en
gagement of Miss r lorine .Arnold, dau .htcr of
Ed win W. Arnold of New York, to Alfred Solig
man, of the celebrated banking firm, and son of
Joseph Seligmau. The marriage will take place
uext wiufcer.
Owing to th* rather unappreciative manner
in which Ignatius Donnelly's political aqura
tions have been sat up n. that gentleman con
templates leaving Minn-sola and perhaps
taking up a residence in New Yorc. He uopes
\ o to benefit himself professionally by such
a step.
William H. English is reported to have said
recently “Before the war I owned a great deal
of real estate in ? as.ni gion, but when it looked
is if the confedera es might destroy the city l
sold it ail. lam sorry now that I didn't hang
mto it. If i had I should have been a rich man
by this time.
A combination has been formed of 6uch book
firms a the Ha pers, Lipplncotts, I). Appleton
A Cos., Porter & Coates, Bison. Blake nan <4
0., A. S. Bar es Cos., and well-Known west
ern houses, which has agreed to abolish agents
*uga,od in tne sciiool-oook trade. One firm
al ne spent SIOO,O 0 per annum for its agents’
suiaries.
Lieut. M. A. Stambor of the Rrussian navy,
was thrown off an elevated train in New York
b cuise he p rsistel in smoking. Ba oi
Roman, the ltuss a i consul, threatens to make
chin s livel for the insult to Lieut. Stambor,
who is his guest. Stambor is on his way to San
c ’ * ioin a Russian war vessel bound
for Patagonia.
.y Mi iH of Indiana wants a pension be
cause exposure to the neat iu Virginia cam
paigns duriug the war caused his nair to fail
out. and baldness not only injures his personal
app *arauc# but causes him a great deal of dis
comfort and iistres<. .ur. S nitu’s petition ao
pears to be incomplete, in that it fails to men
t ion that he is a Is: > a chronic suffer., r from corns,
chilblains a id gumboils.
George Aimed Townsend has discovered at
Nantes, France, a genuine American ne to
named Sam Anderson, who is the chief of a
wineshop and cafe c autant. Samis a native
of South Carolina, lie went to Europe with
Jarrett & Pa iner’s “Uncle Tom” combination,
and while in France married a French widow,
tne proprietor of a drin - mg shop in Rennes, an i
afterward removed to Nantes. Sam is disgusted
with the Gallic u itiou, and is anxious to gut
back to New York.
Francis Browning Owen, a nephew 0 f
Robert Browning, the poet, has lived iu Detroit,
inch., for some years. He is a lawyer, and has
written vers-s showing some ability. Recently
ne has been going to pieo. s ver rapidly from
drink. T.tree months ago, he was sent to the
nouse of correction for a petty cri tie. Since his
rele ise be has avoided liquor and has been at
tending a series of religious revivals. He nw
announces that he has been converted, and will
abandon the law to be .mine an evangelist. On
Sunday eveni ig he preached a fiery sermon.
A writer in Murray's Magazine who is a tory
says that ladies, when they visit the House of
tom no ns, don't cart* to see any one but Mr.
Gladstone: “Tuat tall man.’ I have sail, ‘is Mr.
Raises, the postmaster geuerui’—no display of
emotion. That elderly gentleman, with white
hair and beard,' I have continued, “is Mr. rhiid
ers'—no sign. ‘ And that youngest mac in the
corner seat, feeling for his mustache,' l have
sometimes added, ‘is Lord R&ndolpn Churchill'
light shiver But wue.i i have bee a able to
say. ‘There, that is Mr. Gladstone; that old gen
tleman looking this way, with his hand to his
ear listening so attentively to the member ad
dressing the House, wno is Mr. Timothy Heaiy,
of wn >m you may have heard,'tue beautiful be
ing I inform at ouce briguL*ns up and exclaims,
•Is it really! llow nice! Tnank you ao much.’”
Two givat enemie-.—d i’s Sarsaparilla
aud impure bl *od. Tue latter is utterly de
feated by tne pecular medicine.
Charles XIL and the Bomb.
From Harper's Magazine.
As Charles XII. of Sweden was dictating a
letter to ms secretary during the siece of Stral
sund. a bombfel! through the roof into the next
too n in tbe l ouse where th*y were sitting. Tbe
terrified secretary let the p*n drop from his
hand.
“What is the matter?” quoth the king.
“The bomb, sir** ” cried the secretary.
“Ah' never mind the bomb; it will gooff
present lv.”
And it did.
A Sudden Fail in Value.
From the Epoch.
Stranzer—Have you any choice lot* on hand?
Igmd >wner—Yes, sir; yes. ir, something fine!
The nicest L*ts tnat ever laid outdoors! Txiere
are two; all improvements, convenient to car*,
clear title, etc They are choice, but I will
make them flrteen hundred for cash.
S ranzer—Well, I'm not buying; I'm making
asses meui*- did you say fLteeu hundred each
for these lots?
landowner nastily)—No, oh, no, for the two!
Stranger- Any more choice lots?
Landowner—That's all; just about sold out.
A Tete-a-Tete interrupted.
From the Detroit Free Press.
A Henry street girl and a Cass avenue young
man were standing on a corner at the inter
section of two streets the other night waning
for a car
“You never looked as well in your life before,
Clara,” said the young man in a tender ton*
H*i spoil© low aud onlv for the ear of his com
panion. but immediately a loud voice re
sponded:
“Rats!”
The youth felt highly insulted, and turned
round to chastise the t arty who bad spoken,
but the girl soothed hirn and sa‘ i it wasn't
meant for them, au I he calmed down.
“Tnat car isn’t in sight yet,” he said. “Tell
me you love me, Clara, as much as I—”
“Ou, pshaw!” cried the unseen party.
“I'll brain him,” shouted the angered lover,
brandishing hi* cane.
“You’re a rascal,” called a hoarse voice, and
as a piece of cracker fell on the lov *r‘s hea l he
look 'd up and saw the Vendome parrot ia her
cage abovo. They take the other corner now.
Rata!
The Drummer's Ruse.
From the Bangor Commercial.
A short time ago a drummer from abroad
called at a Bangor livery stable and wanted a
double team for a ten days' trip into the coun
try. and the stable man refused to let him one
on the ground that he was a at rang r, There
was much discussion over the matter, and
Anally the drummer said:
“What is your team worth?”
"Four hundred and fifty dollars,” was the re
ply-
“lf I pay you that sum for it. will you buy it
bacA again when I return?'’ asked the cus
tomer, and upon receiving an afiir native reply,
he promptly nut up the cash Ten days later
ho returned, and driving into the stable he
alighted and entered the office, saying, “Well,
here is your t arn, and now I want my money
bae
The sum was passed to him and he turned and
was leaving the place when the livery man
called out, “Look here, aren't you going to
settle for that team?”
“For what team?” asked the drummer iu a
surprised tone.
“For the one you just brought back.”
“Well, now,” d.awied the drummer, “you
aren't fool enough to think that I would pay
anybody for tue use of my owu property, are
you?” and he suook the dust of tho place from
his feet.
The * erica Mu
She was the belle of the summer hotel,
Had lovers and beaux and m etendants galore;
Was a heartless coquette, quite tne queen of
of he set,
Who with nine proposals still wanted one
more.
It was late in the season, which may be the
reason
She deigned to devote her attention to me,
“I was poky,” she knew, “but then I would do
Weil enough to break last summer's record,”
said she.
So night after night she kept forcing the fight,
Till my friends gave me up as an enfant
pe du.
“Poor fellow!” “Too bad,” “He's the tenth
fiui*,” they said,
For nobody dreamed I was planning a coup.
Once, though, when I sighed and looked pensive
and tired.
To load her to fancy I loved h r alone.
The glo w in h r cheek almost led rae to speak.
In a wild sudden hope that she might be my
own, *
Ah! she played a great game, and I scarcely
could bl .me
The ve iest cynic for losing his head.
Yet the thought—“the tenth dunce”—oh! it
nerved me at ouce.
I am going to-morrow,” I carelessly said.
She gave me a quick start—it was exquisite art—
“And shall 1 not see you again, Mr. Snaw?”
“Well. I Lardly see how,' * responded, “and
now
Don't you think we had better call this game
a draw?”
A crimson, swift flush swept her cheeks with a
rush
And a flood of hot tears filled her beautiful
eyes.
For a moment a qneeu in the sc >rn of her mien,
She then lightly laughed in contempt and sur
prise.
“And you!— you'” she said, “I am fitly repaid
That 1 wasted a thought on a creature so
base.”
And then, goddess-eyed, she turned in her pride.
To join a now grou ; > with her old,easy grace.
“I triumphed?” you say. Well, perhaps—in a
way.
She set out to jilt, an i was jilted instead.
“Have I seen her again?” No. never since then,
But I'd give my rigat hand to unsay what I
said.
A clever Cat.
From the Boston Transcript.
Over at the West End tnere lives a colored
family which ia noted for possessing a breed of
cats which it seems to have a mon >poly of—re
markably intelligent animals theyar , if not
always sieeK an l handsome. Not lo.:g ago a lady
on Beacon hill, who was in need of a servant,
aud to whom a daughter ot this colored hou-e
--n Id had b en recommended, called one evening
at the htt e touse up a i alley where the people
uved. A stout black woman came to tue doo
“Dos Fiiza Orange blossom live here?” the
lady asked.
tfes, sue do, ma'am; but she ain’t in jes’ dis
minute,” said the stout colored woman. “But
ef you’ll step in I'll sen* out arter her.”
She h and the way in an i seate • the lady in the
living i oun of the house. There were several
cats preseat, one of which, a scrawny out alert
looking Maltese with green eyes, rubbed up
amiably and inquiringly against the visitor's
dress.
**i ou come 'way from dar, you Malty'!” ex
claimed the colored woman to tue cat. “You
uyah me? Now you goober t’ de euu'ch and
/it 'Lizy an' bring her home. You go fetcu
Li/.y !*’ she repeated, holding the door open.
The cat, a ter sidling and wavering on the
threshold a moment, as cats always do in ur-
to too obedient, disappeared
through the door.
“Will—win tne cat bring your daughter?” the
lady asked in astonishment.
“Laws bless ye, ni •'am, you wait an' see,”
said the colored woman.
borne un .ores w*ut uy, and the lady began
to uiiiiK t.iat the mission was quite a failure,
“Ci ’td ■ l iv lied h• c nfedera e, “it
when the aoos opened and a colored girl came in
with the Maltese cat at her he Is. Tne girl had
qardly got in when ahe broke out:
“Mam ny, did you send that 'ar Malty to
fetch me?”
“Oo se l did.”
*Wal'now, I'm tired o' havin'dat cat fol
lerin' me up wuer-ver 1 go. Seems like I can't
go nowhere but you send ner after m_*! Dere I
wus in le pra’r me tin' sittin' quiet in de pew,
listenin' to Matildy Johnson relatin' her 'speri
ences wid grace, an' ail't ouce in walks Uat cat
right up de aisle, and begins mewin'aud yuw
iiu’at de pew door! Oh, dey wus all lookin'
andlaug.nu' and nothin' fer me ter and >, o' co'se.
butter went rigiit out. I hope ye'il ’souse me,
ma'am, but I reckon you wouldn't like ter bo
fotched home way f'o n de pra'r meetin' by a
screechin' Maltese oat. neither!”
The visitor could not help inwardly reckoning
that she wouldn't. But her ad mi rati n for the
cat was so great that she made a point after
ward to get ouo of her kittens. The anima ,
however, was a great disappointment. .Not
that he seemed to be lacking particular in in
telligence—he was intelligent enough only the
contrary to get himsdf lodged and fed and
petted without rendering any return whatsoever,
lie sits in ih? window pretty near tue entire
day, watching the panorama ou the street
with evident interest, and never appearing
to dream ior a moment that he has auy social
duties.
All scurf and tartar disappear
From mouth and teeth, though dark and dry;
And all becomes fresh, pure and clear,
If we but SOZODONT apply.
Tnat magic wash—all now confess
Gives to the mouth new loveliness.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
An advertisement in a London paper offers
“to pay a fair price for second-hand tooth
brushes and cast-off old teeth.”
Inside a ring found recently in Great Barring- ;
ton. Mass., was this in cription: “Rev. Mr. H. !
Leavitt, O. 8.. 9 Oct., 1761, .£ 42.”
At Wick ford, R. L, one dav last week it !
raine l small toads for half an hour, much to
the confusion and disgust of the inhabitants.
The growing scarcity of whalebone is tempt
ing many an old whaling skipper to leave his
fireside to again try his luck in the Arctic
regions.
Annie Perkins, of Cleveland, wears boys*
clothes, subsists on oatmeal, and sells papers
for a living. She is 30 years of age and a
poetess
Guthrie, Oklahoma, with its suburbs, now
has 15,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight news
papers. thirty-seven lumber yards and hundreds
of store*.
Orders have been received at the Portsmouth
navy yard to put the historic frigate Cos lgtitu
tion in condition to be towed to the Washington
navy yard.
Parnell is reported to be suffering from in
somnia. He has changed his room a half dozen
times in consequence without being able to
gain much relief.
At Lexington, Ky., a lawsuit that was begun
in ISII has just been settled. It related to a
land claim, and the sum in dispute was origi
nally about $5,000.
A Decatur (Mich.) shoemaker evaded the fire
limits ordinance by constructing a shop on
wheels, and it now reposes serenely within the
proscribed territory.
Frank St aad of Louisville was attacked by a
350-pound blacx bear in that city and nearly
torn to pieces. The animal was a pet and be
longed to bis neighoor.
Hypnotism is now frequently empioyed at the
Hotel Di u Hospital in Paris to facilitate surg
ical operations. One woman, hypnotiz and against
her will, savin - that she preferred chloroform,
chatted gayiy during a long aud daD b erous op
eration.
A sea turtle 10 feet long, 5 feet wide and
weighing 1,000 pounds, was caught recently in a
trap off South Harwich, Cape Cod. Tuis mon
ster is estimated .o be fully 200 years old. As it
stands tue distance between its fore flippers is
over 10 feet.
Brooklyn may be a slow and uninteresting
town, but 2,9J5 building permits, involving a
cost of $15,629,736, bave been issued for tne first
six months <f this year, to 2,117, at $12,761,418,
for the same period last year. Evidently some
body lives there.
Lightning struck the house of Col. L. N.
Edwards of Oxford, Me., knocking a kerosene
lamp into a thousand pieces and taking a metal
cl v fro n the wall of the room and hurling it
under the colonel s bed. Notniug else in the
house was disturbed.
Fifty nine persons attempted suicide in Ber
lin during June—more than ever before iu one
month. One boy, 20 women and 38 men made
up the number. Twen.y-two sought death in
the water, 14 b/ hanging, 12 through bull ts, 5
by poisoning, and 2 by jumping from windows.
The news comes from the University of
Pa iua that Trof. Gr&venigo bus succeeded in
grafting the cornea of a twirndoor fowl on the
eye of a human subject. The operation is
spoken of as most successful, the transplanted
cornea being transparent, glossy and convex.
>" he as is .-aid there is a new hope lor many
blind people.
Buffalo moths and carpet bugs are making
housewives weary along the Hudson river. The
havoc wrought by these pests during the past
few weeks has been extensive. In Rensselaer
county and elsewhere, the carpet bugs are said
to be so veracious that they actually, in some
instances, have eaten off the cords by which
mirrors aud pictures were suspended.
The celebrated Kong mountains of Africa are
about to follow the Mountains of the Moon,
which have been expunged from the maps.
These mountains wert? supposed to be stretched
across Africa for 10° of longitude about 200
miles norm of the Gulf of Guinea. Capt. Bing *r,
who has now returned from nearly a two years'
exploration in tne almost unknown regions
north of the Gulf of Guinea, says there is no
such range as tho Kong mountains.
According to an English newspaper, the 380
banks in the United Kingdom report £900,000,
000 as the sum of the depo its iiaole to call. It
is estimated that at least a fifth of this amount
will never be claimed by tne owners or their
representatives. Many persons there, as u this
e mntry, deposit money without intimation of
the fact to others, and then dis ppear from the
scene. Th * English banks earn a large revenue
from notes burned, lost at sea. or otherwise de
stroyed.
It is gratifying in these days of contested
wills to notice one marked exception to the
general habit. Joshua Jones, of New York,
left an estate which realized $7,840,000 in n al
estate and various sorts and kin is of securities.
H * died six e m months a.o. The estate h n
been turned into money, realizing $8 000,000
instead of $6,000,000, as was estimated, aud has
been divided am ng an enormous multitude of
relatives, and the executors now ask a decree
of disenarge by the surrogate.
The congress of the Three Americas, which
will meet in Washington in the autumn, is at
trading a good deal of attention in England
an lon the cintinent. The state department
has sent out circulars, explaining the purposes
of the meeting, far and wide. These circulars
stale in substa ce that it is proposed by a c >u
gross of representatives of all the American
governments to improve commercial relations
i>etween the different countries, to establish a
system of arbitration ii international disputes
and to adopt a uniform mon tary system.
Mrs. Baker of Richford, Vt., went into her
dining-room the otner day, and discovered a
snake coiled snugly under the table. She
naturally objected to a boarder of that sort,
and, securing a kettle of boding wa*er, pro
ceeded to persuade the snake to leave. When
she approachrd, his snakeship rebel ed against
the hot w ater treatme t. and made ready to
spring upon her. But Moa Baker, noting the
sunk s ope i mouth. gave*hmi a generous dose
ot the kettle's contents and scalded him to
death.
An interesting table exhibited at the Paris
exposition shows the relative civilization of the
several countries from the postottlce standpoint,
by showing the number oi letters per capita
passing through them. Great Britain leads
with 4>* per head. Australia is next with 35 aad
Switzerland with 30. Tne United States, Ger
many and Holland have 20 and Belgium leads
them at 25. kphe other countries of Europe
gra iuady descend iu tne scale till the z ro
mark is almost reached in Russia, which reports
only two letters a year per head.
Arthur Elmer Hatch, who recently grad
uated from Bates' College, in Maine, has been
blind since childhood. If is lessons were learned
bv the aid of his mot her and his fellow' students.
His mother read his Engli h studies to hini
until he had them firmly fixed in his memory,
aud nis Latin and Greek he learned with the
assistance of the other buys. When his turn
came to recite, instead of reading the text from
the book himself, the teacuer would read a
passage and he would then translate aud give
its grammatical co.-struction. Geometry ne
mastered by means of a cushion, upon which
he outlined the propositions w’ith pins and
twine.
At the recent meeting of the American Phil
osophical ‘Association iu Easton, J. H. Hall
narrated some legends from a Syriac manu
script received from Persia a few weeks ago.
The manuscript contains an account of Moses'
col oquy with the Lord on Mount Sinai; of tue
letter which Ml from heaven upon tue hands of
Aluenasias, patriarch of Great Rome t which in
documents of this sort means Constantinople or
Byzan ium), ab ?ut the year 740 A. D.; of Christ
finding the skull of Arsenins, king of Egypt,
making it talk and tell ail his experiences in
deat ~ ami going down to Gehenna. It con
cludes with Const raising Arsenius to life and
pre cribing a course of t ight years' good con
duct to lit him for heaven.
People who attended the weekly market in
Contances, France, some days ago wore sur
prised to see a peasant woman offeriug for sale
a horse, which was tariffed at 4 shillings. The
same woman was selling a dog, for which she
demanded £2O. They thought she must be
mad aud told her so. “Be that as it may,” she
said, “the man wrho wants to have the horse for
4 shillings, must first take the dog at £2o.’’ A
purchaser eventually secured the two. and
afterward would have tue explanation. It
transpired that tho deceased husband of the
artful peasant woman had instructed her in his
will to sell his dog an i his horse. The price of
the dog was to be hers, and that of the horse
she was to pay over to his family.
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