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SAVANNAH OF TO-DAY.
The Morning News' Annual Trade Review—
A Fen Pointers In Relation Thereto.
The Morning News’ Annual Trade Re
view, containing a complete and compre
hensive statement of the business of Savan
nah, will be issued Fr.dav, Sept. 6.
The year ending Sept. 1, 1889, will be a
memorable one ii the history of Savannah,
and the Morning News proposes to give
the widest publicity to what Savannah has
done, is doing, and proposes to do In 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 iu its forthcoming
Trade Review will show by facts and
figures that Savannah is one of the most
progressive aud healthy cities In the union,
and that her citizms, judgirg 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 tiiey 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 demonstrated
beyond all doubt that they have oonfide ico
in her great natural advantages, and that
they believe that her deep water harbor
and 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 shape that, at a
glance, it will be soen what has
been accomplished during the year.
The Trade Review will contain articles
showing the bu-iuess of the city during the
year and present indisputable facts which
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 livo 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
*how 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 in sending to their friends.
It will afford business me i 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
•very previous edition. That, however,
depends entirely upon the orders it re
ceives from advertisers.
It is desired to distribute 50,000 copies,
and that number will tie distributed, if the
response of tha business men is as prompt
and liberal as we have reason to believe it
will be.
Orders for advertising or for copies of
the paper cau be haudod in at the business
office, or, if desired, they will be called for
by the can vaster*. -
The republican clubs of the Third Mary
land district cannot be justly accused of
want of candor. They declared in co ven
tion the other dav that thewere opoosed
to civil service refor n, which they c larac
terized as a syste n by w iich the maj >rity
of appointments were awards! to young
men fresh from Bch ols a id colleges, while
active, intelligent, educated at ideierving
meu of their own party were barred out o t
ac ount of age, or failed to answer
foolish questions not per tine it to the serv
ice in wuich they were seeking employ
ment.
Ex-Secretary Whitney Attacked.
It is a well-known fact ihat Sir. Whit
ney, when Secretary of the Navy, did more
toward building the new navy than
any of his predecessors in the navy de
partment. When he went out of office he
was able to show good results f r the money
he had spent. This condition of aff is was
a severe reflection upon Robson. Cba idler
and other republican secretaries, who had
wasted millions of doll trs of the public
money and had nothing to show for it.
The republican press and politicians are
now engaged in a i effort to smirch Secre
tary Whitney’s reputation. Tiiey point to
the battleship Texas, now in course of con
struction at the Norfolk navy yard, and
sav that she is certain to be a failure. It is
true that the p ans for this vess-1 were pur
eba ed by Secretary Whi ney from an
English shipbuildi ig firm. The best naval
constructors in this country approved them
when they were received, and the Texas
was ordered to be built in accordance with
them.
Lately the question whether the plans are
correct has been raised. By some of the
officers of the navy it is maintained that if
the Texas is built in accordance with them
she will not float —that, in fact, she will be
a waterlogged vessel.
Some of the republican politicians insist
that the buil ling of the vessel shall go on.
If she turns out to be all right, they say,
there will he nothing to be sail, but if she
proves to be a failure, the Republican party
will be in a position to point t > her as a
specimen of the work of a democratic ad
ministration. Already the republican
newspapers are beginning to declare that it
was exceedingly unfortunate for Mr. Whit
ney that his friends had so much to say in
praise of him on his retirement from the
navy.
Why was it unfortunate? Mr. Whitney
deserved all the praise he received. He ad
ministered the navy dsuar m nt econo ui
caliy and faithfully. How can the failure
of the Texas, if she proves to be a failure,
be charged against him? He purchased
plans for the Texas which the naval con
structors said were admirable. If any mis
take was made Mr. Whitney did not make
it, and the country will not hoi 1 him respon
sible for it. Before any more work is done
on the Texas it stiould be satisfactorily de
termined whether or not the plans are all
right.
Col. Shepard’s Mistake.
Col. Elliott F. Shepard of New York, is
quoted as having made some denunciatory
remarks about “southern brigadiers” the
other day in an interview. Among other
things, he is represented as having said that
all of the “southern bri iadiers” were still
disloyal, and that they were only aw liting
a favorable opportunity to make war again
upon the uniou.
The colonel is a little off his base, so to
speak. A big majority of the “southern
brigadiers” may bo at this moment plotting
again t the government. They may have
laid away, for use at an opportune time,
stacks of arms and stores of ammunition,
and Col. Shepa-d may be j istifled in living
in mortal fear that they will pop a cap when
be is least expecting it, but a few of
them are certainly loyal.
Gen. Mahono, of Virginia, was nominated
the other day by the republicans for gov
ernor of his state. He is one of the “south
ern brigadiers,” ho used to be a democrat,
and now he is as flatfooted a republican as
Col. Shepard him-elf. Does the colonel
mean to say that Gen. Mahone is disloyal?
Of course not. Another “southern briga
dier,” Gen. Chalmers, Is the republican can
didate for governor of Mississippi. The
oolonel’s charge of disloyalty canuo , there
fore. apply to Gen. Chalmers, and it is
quite certain that it cannot apply to Gen.
Longstreet, of Geo: gia, who went over to
the republicans soon after the war.
Probably what the colonel meant to say
was that the “southern brigadiers” who
are democrats are disloyal. He should be
more guarded in his speech, remembering
that, according to the republican way of
thinking, all of the sins of a “southern
brigadier” are wiped out when he becomes
a republican.
For some days Mr. Eben Appleton, of
New York, aud many citizens of Baltimore,
have been in a state of excitement over the
refusal of Mr. Appleton to lend to Bilti
more the flag which fl iated over Fort
McHenry in the bombardment of 1814. In
a few days Baltimore will hold a celebra
tion commemorative of the battle of North
Point and the bombardment of Fort
McHenry, and Mr. Appleton was asked for
the loan of tha flag, whic.l, by the way,
cannot, be said to belong to Mr. Appleton,
hut to the government. Upon his refusal
to accede to the request, a committee went
to Washington, and prevailed upon tho
Acting Secretary of War to write to him,
suggesting the propriety of the loan. Still
Mr. Appleton refused, and he managed to
got in a few words of sarcasm about the
Baltimore celebration. It will strike the
general public that Mr. Appleton isn’t
justified in his course. He seems to be a
narrow-minded, soured and unaccommodat
ing person.
Clark and Jones, the colored editors of
the Selma (Ala.) Independent, who 1 -ft
Selma a week or two ago o l qccount of tho
indignation caused by intemperate articles
written by them for the Independ
ent, and who were reported
to have been lynched in Mis
sissippi, have fou id their way to Pittsburg,
Pa., where they are being encouraged by
republican politicians to make some very
wild sta ements concerning the treatment
of colored people in the south. These poli
ticla is are sorry, no doubt, that Clark and
Jones were not lynched, as the Republican
party would then have bee t furnished with
something to talk about," but they swal
-1 wed their disappointment aid proceeded
to do the next best taiag, in their e,ti na
tion. i hat is, they got Clark aud J nes to
furnish the public with a few bloody shirt
stories.
It is now stated confidently that Mary
Ann D'nnelly, who wai stabbed with
a dagger the ot or day by M s. Rob rt Ray
Hamilton, at Atlantic City, will recover.
Since the disgraceful affair, the newspapers
have been trying to fin-1 out Mrs. Ha nil
ton’s maiden name, aud they have suc
ceeded. She was Eva S:eeie, of Wilinot,
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and her
parents were poor people of the lower class.
She began her career of shame when she
was 17 years old, and quite a number of
men have been victimized bv her. The
more that is pnuted in conuocti >u with the
affair the more naus -ati ng it becomes.
| Senator Chandler sailed fo Europe Satur
day to get re*te i. For several years he has
done bar i w ork at tue crank of the south-
I ern outrage machine.
THE MORNING NEWS; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1880.
Candid and Evasive.
Am mg the speakers whom tne republi -
can n iti via! committee has sent into the
Third Louisiana district to try and re.cu e
Mr. Minor, the republican candidate, from
impending defeat, is Congressman Rowell,
of I Lnois. Mr. Rowell arrived in New
O rleans the other day, and wa* at once ap
proac bed by anew spaper reporter for an
interview. Mr. Rowell did not say a great
deal, but w hat he said was significant.
Am ong the first questions that the re
p rter asked him w ere w hether he thought
that the co lured people were capable of de
cidin g intelligently who should tie elected
to office, and whether they stiould dominate
the white people when in the maj rity. Mr.
Roweh’s only answer was that these were
very serious questions. To the question
w hether a majority of 0010- ed voters in the
north w ould be allowed to control the
whites, he also made au evasive answer.
He said tha t there was no district in the
north where the colored, people were in
the majority, ad if there should be
in the future, he could not say what would
be done. When asked if in the north the
Col red people were cheerfully allowed to
exercise all of their legal rights, lie
answered that as a general thing they were,
but that in so ne parts of the north there
was very great prejudice against them. At
this point a brother of the republican can
didate called Mr. Ro-veil away. He evi
dently thought that the Illinois congress
man was a little too candid.
Probably whe i he begins making speeches
Mr. Rowell will talk differently. He may
even declare that there are no race distinc
tions in the north, except iu purely social
matte: s, but if he does he will do so with
mental reservations. The fact is, race
prejudice is str >ng in the north, and if the
white people of t.iat section were confronted
with the conditions which exist in the south,
they wouldsh iw it in a much more marked
manner thun it is shown in the south.
Trouble at Long Branch.
Christian science is the absorbing subject
of conversation at Long Branch. Almost
everybody there is discussing it, and the
Christian scientists, led by Mrs. Stetson, an
evangelist, have gained many followers, a
number of whom are among the mo.t
wealthy and fashionable of the summer
residents. Mrs. Stetson is energetically as
sistedin her work by Mrs.Cha ifrau.a widow,
who professes to have effected some won
derful cure* by Christian science methods.
Ignorant, as well as many well-educated,
people, have gone wild, so to speak, over
her work, and they talk of little else.
Physicians, however, say that several
deaths have occurred from following Mrs.
Chanfrau’s advice, and that these deaths
could have baen prevented by proper medi
cal treatment. Mrs. Chanfrau is pos-esied
of a considerable amount of wordly goods,
is in the social swim, dresses elegantly, has
an attractive face, and is a fine conversa
tionalist, and these things have helped her
to gain converts amo g the people with
whom she mingles sociallv.
The eccentricities of Mrs. Plunkett, the
New York woman who a fotv months ago
deserted her husband and married a Mr.
Worthington, because, she said, he was her
affinity, are supposed to have something to
do with the popularity of Christian science
at Long Branch. Mrs. Stetson and Vlrs.
Chanfrau repudiate the doctrine of affinity,
but, according to report, that doctrine has
found favor with some of the married
people at Long Branch who believe that
their wives or husbands, as the case may
be, are not their affinities. Some accounts
of curious actions on the part of these
people have been printed, and it is the opin
ion of many who are not infa uated with
the alleged science that this heresy, which
is nothi ig more nor less than free love, is
undermining homes. If these accou ts are
correct, it may very well be believed that
such is the case. The christiau scientists at
Long Branch will soon find out that public
sentiment does not approve of the practices
which are the outgrowth of the affinity
doctrine.
Stop This Sort of Thing-.
A New York newspaper remarked re
cently that a man in this country might
have almost a t many legal wives as there
are states in the union. This, of course,
was putting the case too strongly, but as a
matter of fact a man ntay have more than
one legal wife. That is to say, a man may
have sevo al legal wives provided each lives
in a different state.
The lack of uniformity in the divorce
laws of the different states is responsible
for this. Thus, New York courts grant di
vorces upon one ground only, that of infi
delity, but t o divorce laws of Illinois aud
some other states are very elastic. A citi
zen of New York may marry in that state,
aud in a short while he may quarrel with
his wife, and she may go to that divorce
center, Chicago, take up her residence
there, and obtain a divorce upon the ground
of iucompatloility of temperament. He
may then go to the state where his wife
obtained her divorce, and may marry an
other woman, and in Illinois this woman
would be his legal wife, but iu New York,
where incompatibility of temperament is
not recognized as a ground for divorce, the
woman wh om he first married would be his
legal wife.
The newspapers have been for some time
trying to briug about uniformity in the
divorce laws of the states, and the proba
bility is that they will eventually succeed.
This uniformity should be secured by limit
ing, in the different states, the causes for
divorce. Divorces are too easily obtaiued.
Trivial things, that should be overlo ked
stjd forgotten, are seized upon by people
who are tired of tne bonds of matrimony,
and are successfully urged in some of the
states as just ground for divorce. If the
legislatures of the different states refu>e to
take the necessary action to secure uni
formity, the ge ieral government should
take hold of the matter and bring order out
of chaos.
Newport doesn’t propose to be outdone
by other summer resorts i,i the way of sen
sation. Recently Long Branch has bjen
scandalized by the alleged actions of Chris
tian scientists, Saratoga by tho develop
ments in a divorce case, and Atlanta City
by the Hamiltou-Donnelly affair. Newport
awoke to the co ivict on that it was time
she was doing something to attract public
attention, so she started tho report tha Mr.
W. K. Vanderbilt, who is spending tho
season there, had di-chargod his SIO,OOO
French c -ok. It will hardly be denied that
Newport is on top.
Slugger Sullivau’s resolution to abstain
from drinking did not hold out. He painted
Boston towu red the other day, and no offi
cer da-ed arre*t him. It canno, be because
the Bostonians admire 8 illivan’s cul ure
j that they don’t cause his arrest. They must
• fear his fist.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Good Policy.
Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer (DemA
The democratic policy is to enforce fru
gality in pu lie expanse and abolish unneces
sary taxation.
It Seems to Get There.
From the Baltimore American (Rep.)
That American exhibit in Paris is not what
it ought to be, but it seems to be capturing a
large number of medals and honors.
One Was Enough.
From the Boston Globe (Dem.)
Cloud hurts are a climatic specialty in the
Carolina.* this year, and their frequency is
alarming the natives. We have had only one
in Boston this summer, but we are satisfied.
Tanner’s So-Called Indorsement.
From the New York Star I Dem. )
Tanner secured a qualified indorse pent at
Milwaukee as part of the arrangement by which
Gen. Alger became co mnander-in-chief of the
grand army. In civic politics such a transac
tion would be styled a "deal;" hut in the pen
sion agency politics, to the s-mce of which
vet-ran organizations seem to be now in danger
of being perverted, some finer name may be
found for it. It is gratifying to know that a
strong and outsp ken onposition to the ap
proval of lawless administration was exhibited
in the debate that preceded the adoption of the
ill judged resolution, and was successful in
modifying its tone.
BitlGi Biro.
Late hours tell on a man, but he doesn't
seem to care as long as they don't tell his wife.
Yonkers Statesman.
It would seem that when seamen get tired of
ship's faro they woul 1 try to gather some ocean
currents. — Binghamton Republican.
The man who kicked a collector out of
his tflee remarked that if he couldn't foot his
bills one way he would anotner.—A'e aeu
Entei prise.
That the hen isahypocrite is proved by the
fact that she uses her bill to smell with. If that
is not a Peck-sniffiau trait what is it?— Harper's
Bazar.
Mr. Slicktung—Mias Sharp, if I w-ere to turn
to a stone what g m do you think I would be?
Miss Sharp—Probably an oil stone.— Jewelers'
n’eektj.
“There is an art of pulling on gloves,” says a
fashion paper. Come to think of it, you have to
get your hand in. as it were, in putting on a
glove properly. —Boston Courier.
Witt lie a man supposed to bo loaded is being
examined he cannot be dischar el; but the
moment the charge is withdrawn he imme
diately goes off.— Baltimore American.
HADN’t A Chance to Form an Opinion.—Mrs.
Gadabout—What kind of neighbors are those
who have moved next door to you?
Mrs. Ke,venous—l don’t know. They haven’t
had a washout on the line yet .—Boston Courier
Second Sight—Genial Host—Pathrick, me
blioy, you've had uuoite enough to dhrink.
Take me ad voice; wb-n you get to the to. i of
the street ye’ll see two cabs; take the first be
cause, begorra, there's only one!—tunny
Folks.
Stern Parent—Young man, I am ashamed of
you; and yon a sou of mine. You ought to have
a keeper ov r you.
Son Make it a barkeeper, governor, and I’ll
go you. —Kearney Enteronse.
Joblot—See here, Isaacs, I thought you said
you would warrant these trousers to wear.
Isaacs—So I did
Jobiet—Well, look at them. I’ve only worn
them two weeks and you can s-e through the
cloth.
Isaacs—l warranted them to wear, didn’t I?
Joblot—Of course you did.
Isaacs—Vull, ain't dey worn? Wot’s tie
madder mit you?— Chicago American.
“This seems like a sweet dream,” he raptur
ously remarked as he lingered with her at the
door Htop.
‘‘lt doesn't seem like a dream to me,’’ she re
plied, ‘‘for a dream soon vanishes, you know "
He vanished. —Akron Te'tegram.
Doctor—How would you like some animal
food?
luvalid—Animal food? Well. I don't care
for any hay or i guess if i could
worry down a little rye I'd feel better.— Tex as
Siftings.
"Stephrn." said the colonel, speaking to an
old negro who had come out to cut the grass in
the yard. “I am told that you intend to give
your son a good education."
"Dat’s whut 1 does, sail. I knows whut it is
ter struggle erlong widout Tamin', an’ I is
'termined dat mv son shan't travel b'arfoot
ober tie same Hint -rock road dat 1 did."
"A noble resolution, Stephen. There is some
thing beautiful in the uncultivated mind that
nas a reverence for knowledge. Js your boy
learning rapidly?"
"Ez fast ez er boss kin trot, sah. W'y last
week he writ er letter ter his aunt dat libes mo’
de I twenty miles frum yere, an' att -r while he
gwiue write ter his udder auut dat libes fifty
miles erway."
"Why iocsn't he write to her now?"
"< >h, he kairft write so fur yit. He ken write
twenty miles fii-at-rate. but I t de him not ter
try ter write fifty inTes till he got stronger wid
hi; p?*n. But he gwiue ter git dar, i tell you.
\S ou t be mo'n er year fo' dat boy ken set down
at one ee id o’ de guberment au’ write er letter
cl'ar to de udder eend."— Artansaw Traveler.
i ERSON AL.
John H. Parnell of Georgia, eldest brother
of the home rule leader, sailed for Queenstown
T iiesday,
Capt. Henry Crawford, who recently died in
Philadelphia, was the wealthiest steamboat
owner in Pennsylvania.
Alfheu D. Rothschild has been entertaining
a small party of diplomatists, including Sir
Julian Pauncefote, at Hattou Hall, England.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is devoting herself
almost entirely to prose writing. She says that,
the nervous strain of composing poetry is too
great.
Lord Charles Beresford is authority for
the saying that the guns of the transatlantic
liner Teutonic could have sunk Nelson’s whole
fleet in half an hour.
The debut of Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., will
not take place as soon as expected. She is
lying seriously ill with inflammatory rheuma
tism at the residence of Mrs. 0. A. Doreinus in
New York.
Mr. Arkell, proprietor of Judge, and Russell
Harrison's partner, is described as a little
chubby man. with a round face and a round
head, and a mind that calculates with lightning
like rapidity.
Claus Sereckels. who has just returned from
Europe, is iu Pniladelphia. where he will have
his big refinery in operation by October. He
contemplates an annual output of ijOO.OtW tons
of refined sugaf.
Prof-. Max Muller, in a recent lecture at Ox
ford, England, on “The Science of Language,"
expressed the opinion that if language were
ta en away man would be lower than the dumb
animals ot the field and forest.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor is expected to visit his
friends in Nottaway county, Virginia, before
returning to New York from the \V hite Sul
phur. His father. Rev. Theodoric’ Pryor, al
though SO years old, is still active iu the min
istry.
Sir Edwin Arnold, the English poet of
“Light of Asia” fame, who will be a guest of
the president qf Harvard for a whi e during his
sojourn iu this country, will have his long-de
sired wish fulfilled of studying life at an Ameri
can university.
Gen. Mahone of Virginia is the son of a tavern
ke-|>er. He walked barefooted to Richmond to
secure the governor’s aid to enter tile Virginia
Military institute. While there he eas twitted
with being a “poverty pupil." He was a major
general at 30; refused to accept a house offered
to him by Virginians at the close of the war.
Secretary Halford can take no action in re
gard to the use, by a cigar tte firm, of a p ioto
grap i purporting to be that o; his dauguter,
Jeannette. Tue picture is not Mss Halford’s,
but is evidently an idealistic head to which tne
tobacconists have cleverly affixed the name
“Miss Halford,” leaving it to be inferred
that it is meant for the Private Secretary's
daughter.
Justice L. Q. C. Lamar. Judge Emory Speer,
Rev. l>r. Me Josh, ex-C mgr ssman Van Voorliis
of Rochester, Col. M. Ricnards Ruckle aud oth
ers of prominence are In attendance at the an
imal convention of hay fever sufferers at 8.-tli
lebem, N. H. President Lockwood, iu his open
ing address, estimates the number of profes
sional sneezers m the United States at 200.000.
The oldest member of the association is Dr.
Edward Townsend of Philadelphia. He is 84
years old.
It is curious, says tho San Francisco Alta,
how the name David runs through the principal
incidents in the fife of the late ex Judge Terry.
He was named David aid he killed David C.
Broderick in a duel, i tne of Broderick’s seconds
was uav dD. Colton, and the duel was witnessed
by David .1. Brewer, United St ites circuit judge
o. tne Eight judicial district of Illinois. Terry
was killed by David Nazlo. and Josi ice Field’s
father and one of his brothers were baptized
David.
Beecham’s Bills act like magic on a
weak stomach.
Bound to Bea Failure.
From the Chicago Tribune.
"Mr. Slasher," inquired the managing editor.
‘‘How did you like the play at the Thespian last
night?"
‘‘lt's a beautiful play." said the dramatic
critic enthusiastically. “It is full of lofty senti
ment and elevated thought. In fact, there is
not an impure idea, suggestion or situation in
the whole production from first to last."
“How long is the play to run?"
‘The engage iient is tor three months."
‘Mr. Sharpy," casually suggested the man
aging editor to the business manager half an
hour later, "It will be well, perhaps, for you to
collect ali advertising bills prornptlv everv
wpek from the proprietor of the Thesipian. He's
going to lose like thunder on the play he's run
ning now."
Encouraging His Ambition.
From the Merchant Traveler.
"So, young man,*' said the painter, as he
daul)ed a streak of sky on the canvas, "you
want to be an artist, do you?"
"Yes, Sir."
"Can you learn to live on crackers and cheese
on some days and on nothing at other times?"
I don't know; I never tried"
“Can you work from 6 o'clock in the morning
till 6 o'clock at night, and never get tired and
stop to rest?"
"I don’t know. I—l must say it's doubtful."
"Could you refuse an offer to paint artistic
sign-t for a brewery or cigarette firm, and go on
fighting starvation at short range with the soft
end of a nrush?"
"I’erriaps I might."
"Well, you think it over, and if you feel
certain of it, come around and I’ll see what you
can do in the way of painting."
His Opinion Infal ible.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Dr. Dolus (at a consultation)—Well, gentle
men, my opinion is tuat the patient cannot live
a week.
[l)r. Sawbones, Dr. Squills, Dr. Occiput, and
Dr. Pancreas concide.]
Dr. Shingle (a recent accession to the local
meuieal talent)—Gentlemen. I beg leave to dif
fer. The patient will recover. His ailment is
imaginary. There is nothing really the matter
with him.
Dr Bolus (arrogantly)—You certainly do not
expect to convince us of the correctness of
your opinion, sir!
Dr. Shingle—No, sir. probably not. Yet vou
will pardon me for saving that I was a pension
agent for twenty years before I became a doc
tor, and
Dr. Uolus (with deep conviction)—Gentlemen,
if he can’t see any disease iu the patieut it isn't
there!
[ Dr. Sawbones, Dr. Squills, Dr. Occiput, and
Dr. Pancreas again eoi c de.]
What Defeated Him.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Ex-Congressman Ford of Michigan tells a
New York reporter how he came to be defeated
for congress:
"I made a speech," he said, "to a big gather
ing of I lollanders, of whom there are a good
many in my district, in talking of the political
issues I got oft this: ‘The democratic party
kno.vs no north or south, no east or west, but it
does know* the people at large.'
" ‘Vut’s dot Mister Ford mean by der beoples
at large?" inquired one of the muddled Hol
landers of Tim Tarsuey, the ex-congressman
who defeated Kosvrell i. Horr, lately appointed
consu. to Valparaiso, utter the meeting.
"‘ *\ hy, said I'arsney. ‘Air. Ford means
•he people at large, the Dutch who took Hol
land.'
" ;Ish dot so?’ said the angry Hollander, who
realized that Tarsney was enjoj’iug a joke at
his expens e. ‘Veil, der beoples at large vill
dook clot Mr. Ford by der eleedtiou yust like der
Dutch dook Holland,'
"I never knew that the Hollander Tarsney
had joked with had voted against me until
two weeks after the election, when, encoun
tering him upon the street, I said to him: T
say, Nicholas, what the devil heat me in this
district?’
"Nic.tolas looked at mo quizzically and then
said: ‘Oh, I guess you vhas know, too many
beoples at large like dot tamn Tim Tarsney.’ “
Willing to Teat It.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Long had they sat in the gloaming, listening
to the soft music of the coolmg breeze that
stirred the leaves of the noble elm whose shape
ly branches stretched above them.
"Laura," said the young man, as he crushed
the young life out of a winged insect whose at
tention© had bored him considerably, **l saw a
statement in a paper to-day thit if you hold
your breath wdien a mosquito is biting you it
can t draw its bill out, and you can kill it in the
act.
“Horrore!" exclaimed the gentle girl, as she
shuddered and drew her fleecy wrap closer
a out her lovely form. “The idea. Golire •of
letting a mosquito sting you long enou -li to
| out such a thing! I could never endure
“And that reminds me.” continued George as
he made a wild jab at the bac; of his necu and
closed the earthly career of one more confiding
insect, “of another statement I saiv in the same
paper—that people alwa.s hold their breath
wt.en they— er—when they kiss.’’
A silence followed more eloquent than the
softly spoken words of the young man. It
was broken at last by the voice of the lovely
Laur t. J
“George,” she said. In low, quickly uttered
willmg-to-test-it-in-the-interest-of-science ac
cents. “I feel a mosquito biting me!”
The wind sighed faintly in the tree tops, the
voice ot the katydid rasped the patient air, the
stars glimmered and twinkled in the blue
ethereal firmament, and at the end of nearly
three-quarters of a minute that misguided mos
quito perished miserably.
Tom Corwin’s Repartee.
From the San Francisco Argonaut.
Thomas Corwin—Tom Corwin, he was almost
always called—was famo is for his power of
quick repartee. He was witty, and his wit was
always at his tongue’s end. “There go sum ■of
your constituents, Corwin,” said John C Cal
houn, pointing to a drove of Ohio mules ”
“Yes,” said C >rwin, gravely, “they are going
down south to teach school.” Iri one of his
political campaigns. Gov. Brough was pitted
against Corwin. In the course of his speech tha
governor said: “Gentleme i, mr honored opoo
neut himself, while he preaches encouragement
of home industry, has a carriage at home which
ho got in England—had it shipped across the
ocean to him. How is that for supporting home
industry and labor?” When Corwin's turn
came, he began slowly and in a stammering
confused manner, as if he felt himself in a verv
embarrassing predicament. “Well, gentle
men,” he said, “you have heard what my
friend, Mr, Brough, has to sav of my carriage
I plead guilty to the charges, and have only
two things to say in my defense. The first, is
that the carriage came to'me from an English
ancestor as an heirloom, and I had to take it
the second is. that 1 have not used it for seven
years, aud it has been standing in my back yard
ail that time, and the chickens have couv rted
it into aro >st. Now, gentlemen, that is all the
defense I have to offer; hut before I go on with
what I have to say upon the topics before us I
should like to ask how Brough happens to know
anything about my carric e unless he has been
visiting my chiokeu roost?”
The Fisher.
From the German of Goethe.
The water rushed, the water sighed,
A fish r sat thereby
And watched his augle on the tide
With ffhoughtful, patient eye.
And as he sits and as tie waits
The flood's broad bosom parts
And thence—her garb iu damp-hung plaits
The river-spirit starts.
She sang to him, she spoke to him:
■What! woul Ist t.iou so illude
\\ ith human skill a id cunning grim
My harmless finny brood?
Ah! couldst thou see how well it is
W.th them so cool below,
Down woul Ist t ou come to share their bliss
And joy’s real meaning know.”
"The son and moon both end their rat*
Within the sea’s cairn deeps;
And how iu time with fairer face,
Each from its caverns leaps.
Draws not thy heart the glassy stream—
Its clear-blue mirrored shy—
And wouldst tuou not here like to dream
While worlds and ages die ?”
The water rushed, the water sighed
The w ives his feet caressed— ’
He feels as t ough a new-won bride
Lay on his longing breast.
She sa ig to him. she sp ke to him
His form passed from the shore,’
He sa.ik i eneath the river grim
And came to life no more.
He never had a chance to tell
Of that eventful day
Of all the mighty fish he caught—
. Of those that got away.
But, if such were each fisher’s fate
K How much of Fancy’s range ’
Mankind would lose in wondrous talcs
Botu picturesque and strange.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are at the present time no less than
six members of the English House of Commons
who have passed sO years.
Charles Bolmer of St. Louis, has a violin
made in 1630. His father bought it for S4O,
and Mr. Bolmer has refused to sell it for
$3,000.
Mbs. Thomas Pelton, of Washington, Me., is
such an enthusiastic flsherwoman that, although
in her 76th year, she landed 176 speckled trout
this season herself.
The seals that frequent the Maine coast are
easily ta nel. The mate of a coasting schooner
has one that follows him like a dog and is
allowed to take a bath in the sea whenever he
likes, with no fear of his escaping. ,
Two young people were caught kissing the
other day in New York by a jealous old maid,
who had the pair promptly arrestel. When
br ught before tne magistrate ne could find
nothing in the code forbidding the action aud
quickly discharged the prisoners.
A Vinalhaven (Me.) Boy couldn't be induced
to go to the dentist and have five ugly teeth
pulled until somebody thought of offering him
a base hail. Then he fairly jumped for the den
tist's shop and went through the operation
without gas.
The Chicago commercial travelers, 4,000 in
number, have agreed to take $500,000 worth of
stock of the Chicago-Columbus Exposition
u ompan v, and to attempt to sell some of the
stock of the company to every customer that
they meet on their travels.
The and cision of the supreme court of lowa
that liquors sent to that state cannot be confis
cated in their original packages has had a great
effect upon the liquor traffic. Traveling agents
of enterprising Chicago liquor houses ply up
and down the state in all directions taking
orders for their merchandise.
The Austrian Government, which controls
the tobacco trade, made a great financial loss
by raising the price of cigars. In Vienna alone
35,030,000 fewer cigars have been sold, with a
corresponding increase in the consumption of
cigarettes and pipes. In all the loss amounted
to 710,000 florins.
A wicked practical joker at South Bay, L. 1.,
lias been amusing himself lately by throwing a
large rubber doll from a wharf into the water
in the hope of getting people to go to the
rescue of the supposed drowning infant.
A number of volunteer life savers have been
already caught by the trick and swear to get
even with the originator of it.
A Chinese newspaper has been investigating
the origin of foot cramping by Chinese women.
The practice is of very ancient date. Some
affirm that it arose in the time of the Five
Dynasties—that is, iu the tenth century, A. D.
Jao Niang, the mistress of Li Yu, t e last em
peror of these dynasties, tied up her feet with
silk into the shaoe of the crescent moon, and all
the other beauties of the time imitat and her.
The literature of previous dynasties does not
allude to the custom.
The death of Mrs. William Reed Lewis, wife
of the American consul at Tangier, Morocco,
recalls a romantic story. Consul Lewis was
disinherited by his father for his marriage with
his late wife. She was the daughter or Ben
jamin F I mane, a comic recitationist. Francis
Lewis, father of the consul, had no objection
to the giri, but disliked her fat ier’s occupation.
Y oung Lewis married her and struggled against
p verty for a long time. At last he obtained a
position on the Pennsylvania railroad, and was
finally offered a consulship by Secretary Bay
ard. His wife was a direct descendant of Ben
jamin Franklin.
“Few people know that more apple whisky is
manufactured in Orange county. New York,
than in all the counties in the United States
combined,” said a liquor deal-r as he took a
glass of milk, “but such is the truth, for thou
sands of gallons are made annually in that
county, and sent broadcast over this country
and Canada. Comparatively few persons know
the taste of pure apple whisky. A liking for it
comes oiuy after tne most, assiduous cultivation,
When the caste is finally contracted apple
whisky may be t iken with as much pleasure,
and will with a lesser quantity produce as ‘big’’
a head' and as much exhilaration as auy known
s, iritous liquor. 1 would rather drink it than
any liquor the bartender at the Hoffman house
could set before me,” ho concluded, “but I like
milk best.”
According to the recent computation of a
German scientist a snail, in one second moves
.0015 meter, a man walking, 1.25 meters; a man
on snowshoes 2.95, the swiftest river 4, a bal
loon in a calm 6.4, a sprinter 7.1, fly 7 6 fast
steamboat 8.5, fresh breeze 10. torpedo' boat
11.5, very fast skater 1t.6, running race horse
12.0, mountain torrent 14.3, express train 16.7
ocean wave 21.8, carrier pigeon 27, swallow 67,'
heavy cyclone 116, sound 337, an equatorial
pomt 463, cannon ball 500. In a second the
moon moves 1 kilometer, explosion of gun cot
ton 5.8 kilometres, sun 7.6, tnrius 15.4, the earth
29.5, shooting star, on the average, 40; Hailey’s
comet near the sun 393. storm on the sun 402
cable current 4,u00, telegraphic current 11 69i)’
induction current 18,400, lignt 300,0 X, discharge
ot Leyden jar ou cupper wire 1.7 milimeters
through 463,500.
S late lias been found very effect ive in var -
o us kinds of ornamental work, but a Dover
(Me.) genius is furnishing new illustrations of
its possibilities in this line. He has just com
pleted a clocii sot in an elaborately ornamented
case 21 inches wide, 27 inches high and 6 inches
deep, all except the movements of which is
made of slate. The face is slate, lined with red
satin. Tha hands and ft ures are aiso of the
same material overlaid with gold leaf At the
moment of striking, and at the end of every
half hour a musical attachment is set in motion
and plays a lively air. Upon the front or open
ing is represented an alcove or arched recess
in which Father Time may be seen reclining
With his scythe and g.ass in hand. In the rail
and forming part of it, near the top on the right
in l left, are angelic figu.es, while the whole is
surmounted by a harp. The front corners of
the base show two human forms, and in the
rear are two deer. Birds rest upon the rail or
fesie ■ at the front.
What used to be Ward McAllister's house on
Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth
avenue, New York, is now no longer a social or
a b isiness landmark. Its demolition, to make
room tor a semi-public structure, is complete
and it is evident from the dismantled area that
the chief of the 400 had a good deal bigger home
than its frontage ever gave a casual observer
reason to believe. Now that the McAllister
mansion is gone, that particular McAllister
mansion at least, it does no harm to say that
the attempts to in.ade it by the special artists
of illustrated society journals and Sunday news
papers were many and varied and ingenious to
a degree, and their continued failure mav be
ascribed only to the unflagging vigilance of the
colored Cerebrus in the front hall. A champagne
agent once offered the sable “Slav ;y" SSO to let
him get a peep ut Mr. McAllister’s ’wine cellar
but to no avail. Had the agent’s sueciul brand
been there, tha fact would have been known the
next day to every newspaper office ia town.
Thomas Hull, Jr., the 15-year-old son of
Thomas Hull of Vinegar Hill, six miles from
Galena, 111., is one of the most remarkable fast
ers on record. One year ag o last April the boy
was taken ve ry ill with spinal meningitis. By
careful medical treatment his life was saved
but he was left a paralytic by the disease So
complete w as the paralysis that oven the tongue
was unable to perform its functions, every mus
cle of his body being paralyzed. It was thought
at the time that he could exist but a snort tiVne
in such a helpless condition, hut as time wears
on he appears to groif but very little -<eaker
and death is apuarently far off. But the strang'-
est part of it is that file should be maintained
so long on the food to which he has been re
stricted. The muscles of the tongue and throat
being paralyzed, it is impossible for him to
swa.low, and every ounce of food which he has
received these sixteen mouths has been con -
ve ed to the gullet by means of a quill. In this
manner small allowances of milk, whisky
gi uel and juices of fruits have been administered
to him daily.
Prof. Tyndall upon one occasion was to de
liver a lecture iu a certain town, and on the day
in question visited the lecture hall during the
afternoon, as lecturers usually do, to make
various arrangements. The place, of course
was empty, no one was present save the care:
taker, who was busy over his dusting at the far
end of the hall. Happening to look up from his
work, however, the caretaker was surprised to
see the learned professor assiduously vaulting
backward and forward over his table, for Some
seeming incomprehensible reason. The ex
planation of t ,is little performance was quite
simple, and was forthcoming during the course
of the lecture in the evening, wusn, chancing—
by accident, of course—to knock over some of
his paraphernalia, the agiie professor, amid ap
preciative applause, lightly leaped over the
table and a < ligntly bouuded back again. There ’s
nothing like being prepared for these little acci
dents. As Sydney .Smith aid, some of his best
impromptus took him years to prepare.
No matter how advanced in life.
Good teeth in either man or wife
Or maid are a rich prizo;
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