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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Oglethorpe Lodge No. 1, I. O. O.
F.; Catholic Library' Association; Savannah
Cadets; Chatham Assembly No. 136, R. S. G. F.
Special Notices - A Card, Isaac Meyer: Lots
For Sale. Rowland A My*rs; Meeting of Friends
of Independent Pre'.byteri in Church To-Day at
Butler's Pharmacy; At a Majority of breakfast
Tables. J. J. Roily. Importer and Specialist.
Amusements— Base Hall Between Chatham
Artillery and Georgia Hussars' Nines Post
poned Till Friday.
EDrcATioN-kL—St. John's Academy, Alexan
dria, Va,
Mother Shiptox's Flour—Henry Solomon <£
Bon.
Legal Notices— Application for Exemption
of Personalty.
CaitiP Column advertisements —Ho
Wanted; Enpl)yment Wantei; For Rent; For
Bai ; Lost; Personal; Misc*lianeo’.is.
SAVANNAH OF TO-DAY.
The Morning Yew* Annual Trade Review—
A Few I’olnteri in ftelation Thereto.
The "Morning News’ Annual Trade lie
view, containing a complete and compre
hensive statement of the business of Savan
nah, will be issued early iu September.
The year ending Sept. 1. 18S9, will be a
mem Table one ii the hi itory of Savannah,
and the Morning News proposes to give
the widest publicity to what Savannah has
done, is doing, and proposes to do iu the
near future. There is no better way in
which the outside world can be informed of
what is going on in a community than
through the columns of its newspapers.
The Morning News in its forthcoming
Trade Review will show by facts and
figures that Savannah is one of the most
progressive and healthy cities in the union,
and that her citiz n, judging from what
they have done during the last year, are
fully alive to the great ess of her future.
They have proven by the various local im
provements they have made, and by the
active interest they have manifested iu
railroads projected for her benefit, that
they are not afraid to invest their money
within her limits. They have demonstrate 1
beyond all doubt that they have confide ce
In her great natural advantages, and that
they believe that her deep water harb r
asid her great railroad systems will, in a
few years, make her the greatest seaport
city in the south.
The Morning News will, in its Trade
Review, present to the world “Savannah ol
to-day,” in a resume of what has hereto
fore appeared in its columns. The review
will be in such 6hape that, at a
glance, it will be seen what has
been accomplished during the year.
The Trade Review will contain articles
showing the bu iness of the city during the
year and present indisputable facts whicli
promise a steadily increasing prosperity.
It will establish the fact that there is no
healthier city in the south and none more
pleasant in which to live and do business
either in summer or winter. It will
prove by figures that Savannah is
without a rival on the South Atlantic
coast, and that by their acts her citizens
show that they are satisfied that she is
only at the beginning of her commercial
greatness.
The Trade Review will be printed in the
usual form, and will be a newspaper which
those who feel a pride in their city will
take pleasure iu sending to their friends.
It will afford business men an opportun
ity of saying something about their business
and themselves. It is hoped that in size, as
well as in other respects, it will sur ass
every previous edition. That, however,
depends entirely upon the orders it re
ceives from advertisers.
It is desired to distribute 53,000 copios,
and that number will be distributed, if the
response of the business men is as prompt
and liberal as rre have reason to believe tt
will be.
Orders for advertising or for copies of
the paper can lie banded in at the business
office, or, if desired, they will be called for
by the canvassers.
It looks as if Nevada would have to drop
back Into a territorial condition soon. She
is getting too poor to support a state gov
ernment.
Laura Wolford, who was known as the
colored giantess, died in Lafayette, Ind.,
the other day. She weighed 994},' pounds,
according to rop rts. The fraction was
probably given to show that the statement
of her weight was absolutely correct.
Tampa's Future.
It begins to look as if Tampa, Fla., wui’.d
be a great port at no very distant da Sue j
has some energeti -and wide-awake citizens
who have mag .ifl re it schemes in view for
utilizing her advant iges. These schemes
are feasible, and the p-ospect is that th- y
will be carried out successfully.
The Morning News called attention j
some days ag >to the preseac f a delega- ;
tion of Chicago merchant -in Tampa. The '
purpose of the delegati >n was to examine
Tampa harbor with the view of making |
Tampa the terminal p int f r vessel-, en
gaged in trade between this country and
i 'entral aud Scuta America and West
India.
The harbor was found to be fully up to the
descriptions of it. It will n>w accommo
date vessels drawing twenty-six fee of
water, and the dredging and other improve
ments contemplated will give a ehn i el
from the sea to Tampa's wharves ,! birty
five feet in and pth. No greater depth thau
that would be needed to accommodate the
largest ships afloat.
The members of the Ciiicago delegation ,
which w s composed of lea ling business
men of that city who represented the boar 1
of trade and the produce, lumber a id c m
rnerctal exchanges, have, since their return
home, given their impressions of what they
saw to their local journals. Th-y were not
only pleased but astonished. They did not
expect to see such a thriving place as
Tainpa, and di 1 not know t.iat there was
such a magnificent harbor on the Gulf
coast as that of Tampa. They intend to
urge their respective exchanges ti indorse
and push t e scheme* which Tampa’s enter
prising citizens have in view.
There are roa-ons for thinking that
Tampa has a great future. With the help
of Chicago she can g-t from congress an
appropriation sufficient to make her harb ir
one of the finest in the woild. She will
hare pretty direct rai road communication
with Chicag >, and, tnerefore, with ail the
great cities of the west and northwest.
The trade --be p r o oses t > open with Cen
tral and South America and West India
will reach enormou- proportions if properly
bandied T-e iruit trade is, in itself, a
great one, and fruit from Central America
can be oirried to the western cu.es by way
of Tampa at least six days sooner than by
way of New York.
H ithin a very few years Tampa has
grown from a village of about 300 inhabi
tants to a town of Lo,uoo or 12,030. She
wul soon have one of the finest h i eis in tno
world, and her cigar factories are already
famous. She certainly has a bright future.
Georgia's bruit Crop.
Probably there never was before such a
largo fruit crop in Georgia as there is this
year. It is certain that there has not been
one as large in many years. About all
kinds of fruit grown iu the state —and
Georgia produces quite a variety of them—
are abu da.it. The peach, apple and pear
trees are literally borne down, and in some
so tio is it is feared that the damage to
them, on account of broken limbs, will be
considerable. If a strong w ind sh uld pass
through those sectious just now, many
trees probably would be ruiued. The grape
crop also is an immense one.
Not only is fruit abundant, but it is ex
collor.t in quality. As it is a healthful arti
cle of food, and ns the people are not likely
under the circumstances to eat any except
thebest.theresult.no doubt, will bo that
health will be promoted. The family that
can have well ripened and sound peac les
and pears at breakfast aid goo 1 me!ms at
dinner will not have much use for m edi
cine.
Tno shipment of fruits from the state has
been pretty heavy. The people of other
states are onjoying tlio luscious poaches,
pears and melons of Georgia, and our owp
people are being pecuniarily benefited.
Many of the fru.t growers and farmers are
drying their apples and peaches, a id they
expect to realizo considerable profits from
dried fruit next fall.
Mr. Thoebe, who contested ox-Speakar
Carlisle’s seat in congress a few years ago,
has been trying to get the Harrison admin
istration to give him an office, b it t ius far
it has given him nothing but the cold sh ad
der. He applied for several positions, com
ing down a uotch or two in his aspirations
with each application, and each time the
President sat upon him. Now he wants to
be sergeant-at-arms of the House. He
poses as the labor candidate for that office.
It is probable that the republicans haven’t
as much love for him as they professed t >
have when they were usiug him to irritate
Mr. Carlisle.
Congressman 8. 8. Cox was asked the
other day whom the democrats would nom
inate f r Pres.dent iu U 92. He said; “I
know about as much about it as any oody,
and Ido I’t know much.” This shows that
Mr. Cox is a wise man. If he hid been on ■
of those people who think they know •vo y
tbing that lias happe lod and that will hap
pen, ho would have settled the matter in a
knowing, off-handed sort of way, so far a*
it could be settled that wav; but Mr. Cox
knows that a g iod many things may hap
pen in the political world before 1832. Mr.
Cox himself may be the nominee.
Speaking of the proposed excursi i t of
Georgia farmers to the west, the Chicago
Tribune says: “The representative Georgia
farmers will meet with a hearty welcom >
at the hands of their western brethren, and
most unquestionably their visit will be a
profitable one to them, not alone in laying
tho foundations of fraternal good feeli g,
but in the suggestions of now ideas and
methods in their mutual field of industry.”
The Georgia farmers will probably come
home impressed with the idea that their
great mistake has been in depending so
largely upon western corn cribs.
It is a dull day at the pension bureau in
Washington when Corporal Tanner does
not receive notice iu some form or slia-e
from his superiors in office that he isn’t
running the pension business as ho should.
The President and Secretary Noble are
aware that the people don’t approve of
Tannerism in the pension badness. Neither
ni l insist upon Tanner resigning, however.
They hope to satisfy the public by repri
manding him every now and then. Tanner
is a failure.
Some of the esteem <1 northern republi
can newspapers are still protesting beca ive
a woman resigned er position iu the Atlanta
postoffice rather than work side by side
with a colored man. As that little inci
dent occurred in tho south, the northern
republican editors feel free to say that the
white woman ac.od wrongly.
The republican organs are wondering
why Kentucky went so solidly democratic
last week. Perhaps the Ke itucky demo
crats wanted to indorse Senator Blackburn
for pulliag Senator Chandler’s ear.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1889.
Truth About the Sioux Lands.
The impressi :i has leeii given out that
the lads of the Sioux reservation, which
the government has just acquired, are
marvelously r.ch a'd well adapted for agri
culture. T.e chairman of the c muiission
which secured the c mseut of tne Indians to
sell these lands says that this impression is
incorrect. The section of country which
the government ha< acquired is about as
large as the state of New Jersey. The
gr ater part of it is fit o ly for grazing pur
poses. ih re are some good tarmi nr lands.
There are large areas, however, which are
arid, and are not fit for much of anything
unless irrigated.
There will be no speculation in these
lands. Only actual settlers can acquire
them. The land gam' 1-rs are ruled out,
and it is ag <1 tin g they are. Actual
settlers eugnt to be able to get h mesteads
at groun .-fl i >r prices.
The climate of the newly acquired terri
tory’ is not what might he caked superb.
The Jess said about it the better. In July
last there were days whei the thermometer
stood at 110’ in the s ale. In the winter
the mercury drops out of sigat, and doesn't
make its appearance until along t ivvard
spriug.
Itam cannot be depended upon to come
when needed. Iu some years it appears
only at intervals of several months. Of
course, agriculture cannot thrive under
those conditions.
Home-seekers, instead of going west
should seek the south. In tho south good
lands can b ■ had at low prices. lathe
south alsj there is established s >ciety.
Everywhoie there aro schools and churchc3.
The climate is good and the rainfall can be
depended upon. Why, then, should home
seekers go to the arid plains of tho west
wnere they are scorched in summer and
frozen iu win er.
Hewitt and tho Exposition.
Hon. Abra an Hewitt returned to New
York from Europe a iay or two ago, and
the reporters who talked with him say th t
he was so aggressive that they were led to
think that he had been trying the effec of
I)r. Bvown-Sequard’s life giving tonic.
Mr. Hewitt was asked about the proposed
1892 exposition, as ho has had a great and al
to do with expositions, and has made a
pretty careful study of the Paris exposi
tion.
He said it ought to be decided at o ico
whether we propose to have an international
exposition or only one of the three Americas.
He th tight it would be a groat mistake to
attempt an international exposition in vie w
of the fact that the Republican party
is in the ascendency aud believes in
build.ng a wall arou id tie country, as it
were, in the shape of a high protective tar.ff
to koe i foreign goods out of our market.
Ii IS7II there was a prospact that tho
tariff ould soon bo reduced, and foreig i
exhibitors flocked to our exposition tba
year with the hope that in the ve y near
future their goods could be sold in this
country. They will have no such hope at
the 1893 exposition.
It is true that the present tariff is against
an interna ional exposition, but it is quite
safe to say that if the exposition is made
national in its character foreign exhibitors
will be well represen ed in it.
The three Americas could get up a very
fine exposition, but it would not command
so much attention as one in which all thi
nations participated. Mr. Hewitt is a
member of one of the committees to have
tne exposition located at Now York, and ho
can be depended upon to work just as hard
for it as if he knew tho tariff would be re
duced before the date fixed for it.
The Smoking Habit Among Women.
Bomo time ago the question whether
or not women snoul 1 smoke was discussed
in the newspapers by some of the eadi.ig
literary people of tho country. Tho gen
eral opinion seemed to be that they should
not. No woman can enhance her charms,
nor can s :e improve her health, by smok
ing. There is something repulsive about
the spectacio of a woman with a cigarette
between her lips, and no really refined no
would deliberately contract the smoking
habit.
Tho question in some parts of thee win
try is, “Do the women smoke?’’ It is dis
cussed by a Norwich, (Con i.,) correspond
ent of tao New York Nun, a id it is decided
affirmatively, so far as several cities in that
and other states aro concerned, on tho testi
mony of women themselves. The rather
startling revelation is made that in Nor
wich, Hartford, Bridgeport, Meriden aad
Waterburv aad other cities may society
worn in smoke not only cigarettes, but
cigars also, and that sorneti nes a scho >1
girl may be seen on her way to school puff
ing away at a cigarette. If tie facts with
regard to this h ibit among wo me l eouid be
ascertained, they would probably create a
decided sensation. They cauaot be ascer
tained, however, because most women who
smoke do so secretly. Tuey may defend
tho habit, but they are very careful not to
let it be known that it is one which they
have contracted.
It won’t do to say that women have as
much right as men to smoke. While they
have the right iu one sense, it is a right of
which they should not avail themselves.
They also have the right to ride a horse
astride, or to walk into a barroom and take
a driuk, but it would not ba womanly for
them to do so.
The habit of sm >king is growing among
women in this country, aud its most rapid
growth is in fashionable circles, where cul
ture and refinement are said to rule. This
doesn’t speak very well for the culture and
refinement of society, and the sooner a
cheek is put upon it the better.
One of Mr-. Harrison’s intimate friends
is represented as having said that Mrs. Har
rison would probably be unable to undergo
the exactions of the next social season in
Washington. Mrs. Harrison has not been
well since she went to the w hite house, and
she has worked very hard to put the man
sion in condition to suit her ideas of house
keeping. Perhaps, however, her summer
recreation will restore her to good health.
Messrs. Butler, Wood a nl Cneuey, repre
senting tho Southern F miners’ Alliance,
will to-day confer with a committee ap
pointed by the Nev Yo"k Cotton Ex
ctiange. The c inference will take place in
New York, and the questi >n u ider consid
eration is whether or not th > exchange snail
indorse cotton aggiag. Tho farmers seem
to be in earnest in their opposition to the
use of juto bagging.
The twelfth annual me-ting of the Amer
ican Bar Association will be held in Chicago
Aug. 28, 29 aud 30. Among the pacers to
lie read is one by Mr. Walter il. Hill, of
M con, on “l’he Federal Judicial System.”
Col. George A. Mercer, of this city, is a
member of the executive committee of the
associati >n. Tho attending members will
be entertained in excellent style in Chicago.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Geonriar. in Dagger.
From the Boston Ol>>be ( [Mm.)
X Georgia man claims Vj have kiiled the sea
serpent. He ousr.it r > be killed himself.
I) <es ho r.saiize that Lis W 1 if h * really dit it>
has poi*ed volumes of xxi stones ?
Why Vanamak r a*a* Turned Down.
From the SL Louis Republic ( Den.)
In his controversy with Dr. Norvin Green of
the Western Union Telegraph Company. John
Wanamaker has been oadiy worsted, not h -
cui.se telegraph rat**i are 1 av enougn, but be
cause Mr. Wanamak r . *? not know what bo
ia talking about, whils Dr Green and ies.
An Explanation in Order.
From lhr Pittedurrj pot (Drm.)
How doa* it come if the policy of the Cleve
land ad Ministration i 1 t-m matter of batik de
)*ostrs wan one of illegality a id corruption—the
latter implied in the assertion about pet hanks—
hw cones it. that Seer-tar.' Win lorn has not
hiiiv uainiained tie leposits. but increased
to ra from the amount deposited when he took
office on Marcn 4*
Belongs to tho element” Himself.
From tka Vo York World (D^m.)
An office-subsidized journal dealt out some
sycophantic taffy to President Harrison in tbe
assurance t at “the great masses of tne people
are thoro igbly with him in his
manly battle against the !>al ele
ments-' io his pa ty. The Preaid n:
L certainly in nee lof consolation for th • thor
ough thrashing which the “nad elements" gave
him in the recent t iumph ->f the Manone ma
cnin - in Virginia, the Pit kin and Warmoth gang
in Louisian i and the Quay cohorts in Pennsyl
vania.
BRIGHT BIT 6.
Old jokes may raise a laugh at times, but
jokers who are sage
Make new ones, for they' know that jokes are
always badinage. — Omaha World-Herald.
Incompatible— Sniggles- Well, my motto is,
' L ve and lei live."
a doctor. Ti me.
In a Nutshell. —“ Popularity is evanescent,'*
say's a philosopher. It is indeed. Just see how
quickly the popularity of a popular subscrip
tion dies out. —Boston Courier.
•l enes Got a n**w job. did you say? Yearly
salary, 1 suppose?
Grubbs—Weil, I work by the weak.
Jcnks—Wnat you doing?
Grubbs Tending hospital patients. —Kearney
(A eb. ) Enterprise.
Ni"Ki.eby—That's a strange pair of scales
you have there. I suppose tney are of the Am
bu ca ie kind.
Grocer—Ambuscade? What is that?
Nicnleby —Why, they lie in .veignt, as it were.
—Lawrence American.
A granddaughter of one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence is to star
theatrically next season. Saould the daughter
of one of th • •'signers*' resolve to go on the
stage next season, she will doubtless choose the
baliet.—Ao; ristoum Herald.
Hard to Please.—“ Won’t you let mo have a
few cents tiil to-morrow, Charlie ?"
“Yes; here is a dine."
“Something larger, please."
‘ Certainly; hand back the dime and take
this t;vo-c nt piece."— Sew York Sun.
Oy Forbidden Ground.—“l have an excellent
steel trap for sale. Do you want to buy one?"
"Have you a trap for sale? How did you
happen to strike it ?"
“In the dark. You see, I was so busy hunting
for mu k.melons that 1 didn't see it."—.Veto
York Sun.
Steward (in a dining car)—One dollar, please.
Have you had any extras?
Hungry Guest—No. no, not exactly (brighten
ing up>—Say, yea, I have, too.
Steward—What was it?
Hungry Guest—An extra poor meal.— New
York J ruth.
Overheard at a party.—He—Do you read
the current fiction o' the day.
She—N->t very extensively, I am ashamed to
say. However, 1 did wade tnrough "Rooert
E.semere" and I intend to read this “Pigs iu
Clover" whic.i everybody is taluing about.— St.
James' Gazette.
Mrs. Squatter— l saw Bridget Ann in
the strata to-day. Small nade of a Solomon to
tell she's your dawter!
Mrs. Goathili—They do say she's the very pic
ture oi me.
Mrs. Squatter—And true for'em but what
need ve care so long as the poor thing has her
health?— Puck.
A candidate met Uncle Mose on Austin ave
nue and said to hi 11: “Be sure and co.ne to the
ward melting to-night, and bring ail your
neikrhh >rs with you.”
“You kin jess bet dey will come erlong wif
me, or I stay at home myse'f. Dar wouldn’t be
a chicken ief ’ iu my coop ef I wuz to go to <te
ward meetin’ an’ led deni naoers at home.’’—
'Texas Siftings.
PERSONAL.
Rev. William Ambler, a prominent Episco
palian oler ryman of Virginia, is going to Japan
as a missionary.
Boston proposes to erect statues of heroic
size in bronze to the memory of Admiral Far
ragut and (lens. Grant and Sheridan, the last
mentioned.to be equestrian.
It is not generally known that Mr. Gladstone
lias only i Uree fingers on his left hand, ihe
index finger was shot off forty-seven years ago
by au accident in the hunting field.
President Carnot of France is a literary
man hv inheritance and habit, lie has written
a good deal of poetry which lias never appeared
in print. Parisian publishers have tempted
him in vain.
Mayor Fitler of Philad iphia is much an
noyed because the President will not vlsi, him
at Elberton. Fitler feels that his little presi
dential boom at Chicago gave Harrison his
present office.
lladje Hasskin Ghooli Khan met with avery
cold reception from the shah. The latter has
sustained so many atlacss from the newspaper*
that he has no sympathy with the late ambas
sador's sensitiveness.
It is lira !l n that the Russian mission will
be filled after President Harrison’s return to
"'asbi g:on from flar Harbor. Senator Haw
ley of Connecticut is the onlv name mentioned
in connection with the position.
“Teddy” Roosevelt, who, sines he became a
civil service commissioner, lias neen generally
called Theodore, has got his gun and starlet
for the wild and woolly west. He expects to
bring back another supply of improbable bear
stories.
The Sultan or Turkey maintains 474 car
riages which incur an expense of 2.300,0tX! francs
a year. Most of these ca riages are of French
make. A lew made in Turkey show cleverness
ill construction. The Sultan personally has
nerd for only about four of the vehicles re
ferred to.
Ivan Stepanopp. of Tobolsk, Siberia, is mak
ing au extensive tour of this country. Hewasat
one time governor of one of the Siberiau provin
c s. After resigning this position be made a large
fortune in business. He is about 5 feet 9 inches
in bight, and weighs 150 pounds. He tells many
startling tains of life in Siberian prisons.
Mrs, Mai’o Howe Elliott ami Mrs. Florence
Howe Hail nave undertaken to write a full ac
count of the life and education of their father's
denf, dumb anl blind pupil, the late Laura D.
Bridgman. They will be v. ry glad to receiv i
any letters or papers relating to tho subject.
All documents should be seut to Mrs. Hail,
Scotch Plains. N. J. She will preserve them
carefully and re: urn them to the senders.
The hocsk occupied by Minister Whitelaw
Reid in Paris was originally the home of the
Count de Grammont. When Mr, Reid took the
house the large entrance hail was filled with
Egyi.tian antiquities, principally mummies.
Th ■ effect oft: ese latter was exceedingly de
pressing, so that Mr. Keid had them all packed
away, and the walls that had been lined with
departed Pharaohs were hung with brocateile
of a crimson ground, and figured with a desigu
in deep yellow.
The couNThv home of Charles A Dana is an
island called Dosoris on the north shor of Long
Island. The island consists of forty-five acres
under a high state ■ f cultivation, hein- one im
mense garden. The pasture and forage lands
are on the mainland A sea wall, over whic i
hang festoons of vines, runs around the entire
island. The house is an old one, but it is large
and comfortable, aud surrounded by vine-cov
ered piazzas. A perfect lawn in front runs
down to the sound, glimpses of which are to be
caught between tbe trees,
Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhcll Martin is
now living at Hyde park. Loudon. The En
glish newspapers say that it is a st range coinci
dence tnai ter husuatid is descended in a
straight line from Mrs. Dandridge. the mother
of Martha Washington. Guo flritis i journal
remarks: “Not leva strange is the fact tuat the
grassnopper has bees tbe emblem of the Mar
tins for more than 300 years; and the onlv place
this emblem is seen in America is over Faneuil
bali. in fliwton. Mass,—tbe cradle of liliei-tv in
America." Cau it be that this is English
humor®
The body is more sus eptible to benefit
from Hood’s Sarsaparilla now than at auy
other season. Therefore take it now.
TRY IT.
They Say a Mosquito Can’t Let Go
While You Hoid Your Breath.
From the Washington Star.
Three or four m?n were sitting on the piazza
of a seasiie cottage, smoking. It was evening.
The stars were as thick in the sky as freckles
on a red headed girl's face. The w aves came
in on the beach with a swi-h-swash-swosh just
as th*y have done ever since the second day of
th*- creation.
More piercing than the song of the waves
were the n*tes, and more multitudinous than
* . iof stm the number of the mosqui
toes that haunted that piazza, and every one of
them was "looking for blood.” Tne men had
ceased smoking for fun. They now puffed their
cigars o keep the mosquitoes away.
"Something funny about mosquitoes," said
one. rather absent mindedly,
“V as, rather," was the drawling reply.
“Funny how much blood it takes to fill one of
them up "
“No. but honest, now; do you know that if
a m*-qinto'd get his bill down into your hand
he can t pull it out wnile you hold your
breath?”
“Don't believe it."
“It *8 true, howev r, for I have tried it."
“bet you the cigars a mosquito can take his
bill out at any time he wants to do it. and we
will try it right here. Is it a go?' 1
"It is, and Til let th-un try."
A lamp was lighted, the cigars put out, and
all waited. In less than a mute a mosquito
had placed himself on Tom's hand and begun
operations.
“Now." said Tom, and r aced the forefinger
of his other hand down ewse to the mosquito.
It did not budge. He placed his nail against
the abdomen of the insect and whirled it around.
Still it remained fixed.
“You can do it every time." said Tom, as he
killed the mosquito and drew a long breath.
It is a fact. Go and to* it.
A Baby Hand.
From the Chicago Journal.
‘ Big time to-night," drummers said,
As to supper they sat them down:
“To-morrow's Sunday, and now's our chance
To illuminate the town."
“Gooil" cries Bill Barnes, the jolliest—
The favorite of ail:
"Yes; let's lorget our trouble now
And hold high carnival."
The supper done, the mail arrives;
Each iiihii his letters scanning,
W ith fresh quotations —up or down—
His busy brain is cramming.
But Bill—why what's came over him-
Why turned so quick about?
He :;ays, just as his pards start forth,
“I guess I won’t go out."
His letter bore no written word.
No pray er from vice t . flee:
Oniy a traciug of a hand- -
A baby hand—of three. *
hat picture comes before his mind—
What does his memory paint?
A baby at her mother's kn *e-
His little white-robed saint.
What cares a man for ridicule
Who wins a victory grand?
Bill slept iu peace, tug brow was smoothed
By a sha iowy little hand.
Naught like the weak things of this world
The power of sin withstands:
No shield between man's soul and wrong
Like a little baby hand
How Two Dover Girls Paid a Bet
From the Philadelphia Record.
Dover Del., Aug. 3.—A couple of Dover's
leading belles crated a sensation in this staid
old capital tne other evening by trundling a
well-known butcher of sporting proclivities
down tne entire length of the principal thor
oughfare in a wh> el narrow. The young ladies
were talking one day ab> ut some of the |*eculiar
; bets that ha t been made on the base bali
ground that afternoon, when the butcher came
along and joined in the conversation.
Alter insinuating that a lady never paid her
wagers if she lost, he bet that there was a lei
ier awaiting him at the post fifice, stipulating
that if there was the ladies were to convey him
to the depot, five blocks away, in a grocer's
wheelbarrow, while if he lost he was to treat to
ice cream. The young ladies accepted the bet
.ind the ;rio visited the post office. Tho letter
wa ® there, it took the girls just about five
minutes io borrow th * shabbiest-looking wheel
barrow in town, and in a trice they had it be
f ore the postoffice, wnere by this time quite a
crowd hid assembled.
The butcher tried hard to beg off, but willing
hands dumped him in the w. eelbarroiv, and
one of the maidens seized the handies. Off
they went at a rapid gate without regard to the
rider's bodily comfort. Hundreds of persons
gat here* to see the shew, but it was the
butcher, and not the girls, who felt out o
place. 1 e ore they had gone a square be had
offered to buy taem everything from a quart
<>f ice cream to a silk dress apiece if they would
let up.
.Never had such an interesting procession
paraded Dover's streets. The girls trundled
the wheelbarrow right up to *ie depot doors,
and there, in the presence of an admiring
crowd, they dumped their irate and half-dead
victim on the sidewalk.
Fighting far Principle.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Men sometimes fight for principle, but oftener
for interest. The Scotchman may not mind
sis'li ling or giving away money, but he will ex
act the iasi bawbee of his due. There were two
farmers once met to settle an account. The
amount was about £SO, but there was an odd
penny’.
"Weel, hero's the money, and I'm muckle
obieeged tae ye."
"Thank ye. "I'm thinkin' that's no richt,
th"’.”
"What’s no richt.”
“There’s a penny here ye owe me,”
" i'nat's o' nae consequence,”
"I'm thinkin’ it is.”
"Weel, i’ll no pay"t."
"Weel, ye wull pay't,”
“I'll no.”
And so the dispute went on till they fell to
blows and had a regular set-to. A friend cam
up and separated them, but the man who
claimed the money was badly scratched.
"What’s the matter ?”
"It's a penny."
''That's a' right,” said the injured man, "I'll
say nae niair ab ot the penny. I wild na mind
the lickiu . but that and un penny'll cost me sax
teen pence in strikin' plnister.”
The blood Cure ior Baldness.
thorn the Kansas City Times.
In a letter received yesterday bv T L<r. ill Mar
bury, residing at tile corner of Independence
aveuue and Locust street, this citv, is related an
incident which is indeed marvelous, and, c om
ing directly as it does, is beyond all doubt true
Tne letter is from Frank Marbury, a cousin of
l)r. Marbury, who is just recovering fr-un a
frig itful experience in tbe Johnstown lioo I
For seven long hours he battled with the waters
for his life. Eve y hour seemed a day, but at
last he was rescued several miles from the place
where th- hotel bad stood.
Tue strange part of t ie story is vet to come
Mr, Marbury is 38 years of age, and for twelve
years he had been entirely bald, an! the top of
nis head Lad become Quite popular with the
flies as a summer resort. He had used the
wonderful hair restoratives people read about
in th hopes of starting the hair, but all to no
purpose: it refused to grow. Two days after
the flood he noticed a downy substance all oyer
tue hithvrto baid head. As time passed the
down became hair, which grow remarkably
fas:, aud now has reached the length of one
inch all over Ms head.
Girls Reared in Cages.
From the Baltimore American.
United States Consul Griffin, stationed at
Sydney. N. S. W„ tells of a remarkable custom
ot the inhabitants of New Britain, as follows:
"The inhabitants, it is said by Wallace, have a
peculiar custom of c 'Mining llieir girls in cages
until they are old enough to lie married. This
custom is said to be peculiar to the people of
New Britain. The cages are made of the palm
tree, and the girls are put into them when 2 or
3 years of ace. Tho Rev. George Brown estab
lished a Wesleyan mission in New Britain in
187 b, and I learn from him that tuese cages are
built inside of the houses and that the girls are
never allowed to leave the houses under any
circumstances. The houses are eioselv iaced in
wit h a sort of wicker work made of reeds.
Ventilation under the circumstances is rendered
difficult. The girls are said to grow up strong
and healthful in spite of th -se disadvantages.”
A Great Advantage.
From the Merchant Traveler.
“What's tho good of a Ashing club?” asked a
traveling mau of a friend, ''it's all rigut to go
fishing it you want to, but why can t you and a
few of your friends go ahead aud fish?"
“it's plain that you don't see the advantages
of thorough organization. Now, when we go
fishing we have a complete understanding under
the constitution and by-laws."
"Ah!”
"Yes, and you can bet that when we get back
from a trip every man of us tells exactly the
same story,”
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mitchell Bros, of Cadillac, Mich., thought
tbe water in their cistern had a peculiar odor
and th**y investigated, findmg an alligator four
feet long, which had probably escaped fio.ii a
traveling show.
In Hartford, Van Euren county, Mich., a
barn was destroyed by ligntning last woek. and
to prove that “lightning doesn’t strike twice in
th * same place," it is asserted th t four build
ings on the identical spot have been demolished
by the fluid.
Jeremiah Wiltox. of Lebanon. Conn., is 90
years old. his wife 73, and both are well. Mrs
Wilcox .s spryer than her husband. One day
last week she slipped the bad of a six-quart tin
pail ov*r her arm. climbed the family cherry
tree to tbe top of it, an i picked the measure
full of cherries. She didn't need a ladder. Mrs.
Wilcox descended, went into the hou*e. and
made a cuerry pie in quick time.
A year ago Ira Mar saw’s house, near Caro.
Mich was struck by I.gaining and sounewnai
damaged. Since that time Mrs. Marsaw has
refused to livo in t.ue house, and she persuaded
rhe family to move out. Last week shi deserted
house was again strucand ia such a manner
us to make it probable that, if it had been occu
pied. somebody would have b?e * hurt. Mrs.
Marsaw now says. “I told you so."
A party of tamper*? at Moosic lake, near Car
bondale, had heard of a bear in their vicinity,
but didn't credit the story. But when they saw
t he bear coming directly toward them the oth-*r
evening there was a c immotino. Lewis Comp
ton. the crack marksman of tne party, seized
h s rifle, and when the animal roared upon its
hanneues. sent a bullet into its b >dy that put an
end to bruin's career in short order.
Two colored men named Young and Garrett
have induced 911 colored men to locate upon
government land in Oklahoma, taking I GO acres
each, or 145,700 acres in all. They have laid out
a town site near the center of the c-lony. T ie
name of the town is Lincoln, located on tbe
north bank of thaCimaorrn river,and is destined
to be the county seat, as t ey have five town
ships and are in the majority ten to one.
Thibet is the only known country on earth
not open to missions. It has an area of 750,000
square miles. The greatest leu .in from east iu
west is 1,5J0 mil 's, and the popu ation is esti
mated at b, 000,000. 1: is tbe stronghold of
Buddhism. L assa, the capital. Is tie “Rome"
°f the Buddhists, and the Da ai Lama is the
Buddhist pone. H • is supreme in both tein
p.ral a.d spiritual things. One monastery
about 5,000 Buddhist priests, and there arc
about CO.OOO in the country. Thibet is virgin
sod for missions. The country is tributary to
China.
The only person on record who did not have
to wait for his turn in a barber shop was Scipi •
Africanus, f .-r it was in the year 300 B. C. that
tbe Romans commenc'd shaving. and,
according to Pliny, Scip was the first of the
Romans to submit to the razor. Alexander the
Great had a 1 of his soldiers shaved to prevent
tlie enemy from catching them by the beard.
Peter the Great, after returning from one of his
tours, issued an edict ordering ac mpuLory
observance m relation to the beard, lie taxed
the hirsute appendage, an 1 aft -rward ordered
all those he found bearded to have the hair
plucked out with pincers or shaven with a blunt
razor.
Several Troy merchants are conducting a
novel sign war. They seem to vie with each
other n seeing who cau put up a sign that will
most obstruct his neighbor's view. A few days
ago one merchant piled up a large number of
boxes aud baskets almost in front of his neigh
bur's window. The other merchant then put
up a sign extending the wholi length of his
window and extending out from it about three
f eet. The other merchant, not to be outdon*.
put up a board partition between tho tw.
stores Friday morning before daylight, which
is about twenty-five f**et high and at least four
feet wide. Wnile it shuts out his neighor's vie >
in one direction, it abstructs his own from the
other.
At Newington. Conn., the other day, a black
spider bad a curious adventure. The matron
of a family lay down on her lounge and sl *pt.
The spider crawled over her. Along her side
lie crept, up her cheek, around to th ? side of
her head, then he climbed on the rim of her ear
and gazed down into the aural water. It was
a spacious one aud he went in. Then the lady
got up with a shriek and a bound. The family
ran to her aid. Sue told them that something*,
a fly possibly, was walking about in her head.
They prepared a p ut of warm soap suds and
poured most of it down her back and some of
it into her ear. Thereupon th* black spider
rushed out. wet. astonishel, but as lively as
ever. He leaned to the floor and got into his
hole in the padding of the lounge.
X remarkable and very disastrous plague to
stock is now raging in Daviess county, Indiana.
During the past few weeks, a number of farmers
in various parts of that county have lost some
of their finest horses. An invest gation as to
the cause of tho strange occurre ces brought
to light what seems an incredulous state ot
affairs, but has proved an ah* due fact. It wa*
found that ticks are actually killing horses
whic i the pe ts attack in great swarms, aid’
sucA the blood from the animal until it :s help
less, and is relieved of its sufferings by death
Kxa lunations show that the pests eat the.r way
throng . the hide into th-* flesh. It is thought
the ticks were brought by the Texas ponies,
which have been sold there in large numbers in
the past few months. The ticks att ck cows
but do not seem to have the same effect as oil
horses.
Must persons, in thinking of Millet, associate
his life with Barbizon. In this village, close to
the forest of Fontainebleau, he lived for twenty
years. It was there that he painted his master
pieces; there that lie died. And yet there is an
other village in France far less known, but per
haps of equal importance to any student of t ie
peasant painter s career. Just as Rapoael
though he worked in Rome, is forever associated
with Urbino; just as Titian, though he palate i
f. r long years in Venice, is scarcely to be
named without a menii n of L’adore s > the
ai tist who in our time has acquired a fame as
wide, perhaps, a* anv urtisi of this century
though he painted at Barbizon, was a native of
Gruchy, a Norman village, and bv the life and
atmosphere of that distant corner of France
was mainly inspired to the memorable work he
was able to achieve.
Thomas B. Wai.mai.et of Dallas. Tex., is sanj
guine, reports the New York Tribune , of the
usefulness of a scheme to protect Coney Islan I's
beaches from the sea, by using oil let free from
pipes along toe shore 150 feet seaward, during
storms. He says that proper experiments wifi
demonstrate successful results, adding- “I have
given much thought to this subject durine the
l>ast few months, and I should not be niucn
surprised to see such an experimeut made soon
in tne harbor of Galveston, fly he application
of the i ight kind of oil the hignest waves c m be
checked, and thus harbor protection, the un
loading of vessels iu midocean, the protection of
lighthouses and light vessels in open roadste ds
may be effected by the use of oil. x a pn in ac-’
cord with the theory of the hvdrograohic
bureau that crude petroleum will give good re
sults in smoothing heavy seas, but its useful
n -ss iu this direction decreases in proportion to
the degree to which it has been refined.”
A PAYMASTER in the United States Navy gives
an exchange the following account of the “red
tape” that must be gone through ih making
purchases for a man of-war: Supposing that a
l*iper of tacks iB wanted on board a United
States ship on a fore gu station, the -following
is the routine actually required under general
order No. 48: Four requisitions are unade out
which are signed as follows: (officer making the
requisition four times: captain, eight;, pay mas
ter eight, and admiral four. Aids are sent out
to five nierohants, which are signed by par
officer five tunes: merchants bidding, five: ac
ceptance of bid, payinas crone. Bids are then
made out in auintuplicate, and nre sign-d
by the captain five times; paymaster, ten
senior officer of the board of in-peetioii, five’
and person receiving tho money, five. A rep u t
is attached by tbe senior officer of the board of
survey in duplicate, two signatuies, aud the
officer who has made the requisition signs a re
ceipt on tbe bill five times, whin it is complete,
with more than half a hundred signatures.
A Writer in the the New York Times says
that the wearing of mourning garments is
sometimes carried to excess, and he cites a
case. He was riding in a Sixth avenue L. train
when a party of three got aboard— 3 young
widow and her two children, one a girl ot four
and the other a babe in arms. “The giri. whose
liair was so golden that it seemed as though
the sun was streaming through it, had not a
touch of color about her except that which
came frum her hair and bright blue eyes. Her
dressvas of black cashmere, with a heavy
drapery of crape, and she wore a black hat,
also trimmed with crape. Even the little pm
that fastened her sombre dress at the throat
was of jet, and she carried a black-bordered
handkerchief. The dim ix was reached, how
ever, in ihe clotning ot the babe in arms, a
swaddling robe of unrelieved black crape, the
little head covered with a baby's cap of tne
same material. The effect was positively
ghastly, a id there was a sigh of relief when the
widow and her two little ones left tne car.”
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